The Saturday Evening Post From April 1 1922 To June 24 1922

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a { SeliMonte If you like it really FRESH- If your taste demands only the very choicest aspar- agus —if nothing satishes you but that fragile tender- ness and exquisite flavor which are found only in asparagus fresh-cut —and if you want this rare deli- cacy all year round—bear in mind that it is always available to you in various sized cans under the Dez Monte Brand. For Det Mowte Asparagus is fresh in the truest sense of the word. Grown in California's finest aspar- agus beds —cut just as it peeps above the ground and canned immediately, before the fiber toughens or the flavor vanishes — it comes to your table just as tender and delicious as if you cooked it fresh from your own garden. It is the very choicest asparagus, cooked ready to serve, in season or out of season,— whenever you want it—in hundreds of tempting ways. Remember this when ordering Det Mowte Asparagus is packed and graded as to thickness of circumference of the apears or stalks—and each size 1s shown on the label, as Giant, Colossal, Mammoth, where extra large spears are wanted, and Large, Medium and Small where a greater number of portrons is necessary. The quality, however, is al- ways the same—as the uniform tenderness and delicacy of fla- wor so characteristic of Dex Morte are not affected by the size of spear, CALIFORNIA PACKING CORPORATION if Panes, California BRAND ge i QUALITY y QUALITY 77 vi. Hil SEND Por THIS Recpe Boox For many deSgheful FEW WD ta nervy De hiowrm Auparapet, an wel Mi the mune patos varbeties of canned Fruity tnd weperahiey packed asder the Den MowTt Brand, tend toy copy ef Dew Moora Reelpet of Pawne'* Jy oo. tals G4 pages of prectical repay aad soppy ans for mak ing every-day? Mest sce, temps 7) and fiealthfed, Ec is free. Adddvey Depertnient E, California Packing Corperstion, San Fran. rhode, Culihern.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 1 “Mobely wall deny that every additional mile of good nods «will serve ta diminish the immense costs of lis tribucion andl transpor- tation—that mean, erica w Ere cx pens whieh doubles the price ol virtually everything wie buy,” Cottier’: H eelety. the Winter do to Your Roads? the annual Spring road program possible. In many cases inte mires of soppy the old macadam or gravel can be util- a season of discomfort ized as the foundation for a trathe-proof Tarvia top, | Thmughout the country, there ATe still Wie shicnalel like tu tell YOU Tore about founds of such comumuntties. Per- the many uses of Tarvia, its case of Sh ior Bone of them. Perhaps the application and its economy as a main- poture at the top of the page is typical tenance material for hard-surfaced roads ‘une roads in your locality. and pavements of every type. A letter ; addressed to our nearest ofhee will bring Ni ick at the Tarvia Roads shown you facts, figures and pictures. ‘be tight. These roads are water- ; sel and yroatprDol, Neither the Special Service Department a wr inter nor the thaws of In order to bring the facts before taxpayers as sore erce Center, Hanear: Mass. ave any effect Ut Peon them. well as road auth orities, The Barrett Company Treated with " Parcia-B™ since 046 ' ighwa are firm, smooth, clust- has organize a Spect Hil Service Department pe Se Fee Te era ees all the year round. which keeps up te the minute on all read probs j ’ . : lems. Tt you will wrine to the nearest office i OMITMLty—any community —can regarding road conelitions. o problems in VcMir | i roads, T iey are compara- vicinity, the matter will have the prompt atten | in first cost, and are so much clon of experienced -enginerrs, ams, absense nomical Fe free for the BRIE Ii VOL WANT cei Pet, O¥er 2 term oO years and feter Sauces, rhis Department fat [1 eresicls ving makes a more extensive assist you. a eer ee mrt tyr ere Vravk.Riockigad Cake Rood, Veo Yierk " Farsia- 4" PA Lifestrated doableir a'e- scripirue af the varias larvae teeetareitr ws! Pit ‘ fe gente ‘ade een regis aaa I For Road Construction fe bli deiirest oP L\ Repair and Maintenance Se = — = el ms fm 4 PhiladsIphis = Beeton St Louie Clevebured Cincinnatl Petsteray Pera Ureans = Winmingliam Koss City BL Unimea reel Tallas Syrecuan Sale Lobe City Figs cme sana Trelgih ALilwae kee nor Wrehingicn whine Livi. Lebanon “ ry ee Columbia Richitinnsl Liteake Th thli-Tertia linatertli lEnffatn Jacksonville Hecate Laenver Hteuhey e MMeTT ; TE COMPANY, ‘Limited: Montreal Tororta Wienlpex Vancouver a. fot, i, A, Matifae, N.S

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lo Ivory Ssap comes in a convenient ize and form for every purpose Smal! Cate For toilet, bath, nursery, shampoo, fine laundry. Can be divided in two for ine dividual tailer ui, Large Gake Especially for laundry use. Also preferred by many for the bath, feery aay Piabes Especially forthe washbowl wash. Ing of dehcate garments. Sample package free on request to Division 23-1, Thee, of Home Reonamics, The Preeter & Gamble a, Company, Cit clonatl, Obia. THE EOPLE of refinement have much the same ideas no matter where they live. It is not surpris- ing, therefore, to find Ivory Soap all over this country in homes where good taste and good sense prevail —from the most luxurious house- holds to the simplest. No better soap can be made, be- cause Ivory includes every one of the seven essentials that soap can have. Its abundant lather cleanses thoroughly, It is so pure and mild that it cannot harm anything it IVORY SOAP . SATURDAY EVENING POST im]. . 994% PURE iT riots fP aeeer sop comer oni Twit tie pira—ane Peary touches. It rinses so completely and easily that the first dash of clear water carries away soap and dirt and leaves the skin feeling smooth and soft. It is white raat Waprnk, therefore pleasant to use, For econ- omy and convenience ‘it floats”. For all these reasons Ivory is nat only ideal for the toilet, the daily bath, the shampoo and the nursery, but is also completely satisfactory for fine laundry and for all house- work where soap comes in contact with the skin. “i prif

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Peblished Weekly The Curtis Publishing Company 5 epee FL BR turtt Freeident oe Vee tes Hert oral Tre ase tae ee real Dilan bea de tere 6 cen Bod, Adereg Dhewre te Tt a er _pedrece Square, Philedel phim (andes © Yrenetts Stree Oe ecel Corde a _— Se THE COPY " Pele, do Ronde ‘tome fad THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Founded A’D'1728 Sy Benj. Franklin Coprright, (922, oy The Curtis Poblishiag Campany in ihe Uniied Siete: anal Greer Beinn Tide Regitrerd in U.S. Patent Offiew end in Fereign Countries PAILADELPAIA, PA., APRIL 1, 1922 George Horace Lorimer ERBITOR Churchill Williams. FS. Bigelew, ACH Neall. Anhur Meheogh, T. B.Costoin Associate Editers Entered as Second-tClews Hatter, Nowember 14, LS 7h et the Poot Odlice of Phaledelphis, Under the Act of Merch &. 1879 Auldibonal Petes as Secomd-Cloom Meter a Celitahnie, Abe, ot Deece bars Ulbnole wl Chicega, Uiknote, andl ao lindionepelia, Lod. Entered os Serond-Cless Matier at che Post-Office De periment Oiiwes, Cameda $2.00 THE YEAR Number 40 Mare Loy the Wert, Borboris, Abounding, Beautiful. Purely 1 Coald Meon Fo Warm te Any Mon ‘eta ute dtsae! More and more! Mune ee lity families," the plnmate, thiddlsaged, portiy, dark i ee . x athicis Trung. Stoted at the door of the hi ning ae time made ber home. She Te Ore, ¥ : "i ; f I tthe trad which lay like an écru ribbon thrown down acres the hive oS, DeSrered lye - B® Ree ai, heyend by } i ie FEEVEFTRATE SG ae ana the timbersgrown bluits of the Alisswuri. EE tee geet oF eh his Lenn af harness-marked horses bo continue Cel eager Pee racked Thole of the litele strenm near which the camp was pitched until, ie Bay ae «Chey bepan burving their muszies and blowing into the water in i; ee id gh iit stood, & giro ng und full man of perhaps forty-five yeura, al “he if ay eee-matted, inwny beard, His yor was the loos dress of the fe lois ‘stem lads three-quarters of century age, A darmer he must thee era pment SA es iA the pecie the very front of the American civilization, now be called Te rnad could be seen a double furrow of jet-black glistening att the : Peo gram and ite spangling flowers, first browsing of the plow on By Emerson Hough yw. i. H., virgin soil, Tt might have been the opening of a farm. But ifsa, why the crude bivouse? Why the gear oftravelera? Why the massed arklike wagons, the seores of morning fires lifting lazy blue wreut hes of smoke mpi the morning mists? The truth wie that lome Wingate, parler and lan qtiert cm. the front, out of the very suppression af esercy, hud been trying his pluw in the direst furrows heyond the Missouri in the preat vewrof i458, Four hundred other mewreby plows alilte were avid for the soil aw Oreron: as witness this long line of neweromers, Inte ot the frontier rendexvous. “Tt'a the Liberty wagons from down river, subd the campmaster at length.“ Misseurt movers ane getilers fren lower Ubinas, [t's tine. We con't lie here much longer waiting for Missouri or [linois, ctther, ‘The gress is up." “Well, we'd huve toe wait for Molly te end hor spring term, teaching in Clay School, in Liberty,” rejoined hia wife, “elee why'd we semel her there toe graduate? Twelve dlollura a month, cash meney, aint to be smersed at." “Nor noris two thousand miles of trail between here and Qregon, before snow, to be sneezed at, either. If Molly ain't with those wagons [ll send Jil over for her to-day. . FoOEANER

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4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POS1 4 If I'm going to be captain I can't hold the people bere on the river any longer, with May alrewty begun.” “She'll be here te-day," asserted his wife. “She sald she would. Be- slides, L think that's her riding a little one aide the road naw, Wot that I know who all is with her. One young man—two, Well"—with maternal pride—" Molly aint never lacked for nes | “But look at the wagons come!" she added. “All the country's golng West this apring, it certainly seems like.” It was the spring gathering of the weat-bound wagon trains, stretching from old Independence to Westport Landing, the spot where that very year the new name of Kansas City was heard anvong the emigranta as the placerof the jumpeofl. It waa now an howr by aun, a8 these Western peaple would have said, and the low- lying valley mista had not yet fully risen, a0 that the atmosphere fora great picture did not lack, Tt waa a great picture, a stirring panorama of an earlier day, which now unfolded. Slow, swaying, stately, the ox teams came on, a4 though impelled by and not compelling the feet of white canvas sails. The teams did not hasten, did not abate thelr speed, but moved in an wnagitated advance that gave the massed column something irresisti- bly epochal in look. The train, foreshortened to the watchers ot the ren- deevow, had a well-apaced formation—twoinly wagons, thirty, forty, forty-seven—os Jese Wingate mentally counted them, There were autriders: there wore clumps df driven cattle, Along the flanks walked tall men, whe flung over the low-headed cattle on admeanitery lash whee keen report presently could be heard, still faint and far off. A dull dist cloud arose, softening the outlines af the proirk: shilpa, The broad gestures of arm and trunk, the monotonous soothing of commands to the sophisti- euted kine as yet remained vague, so thet still it was properly a pleture done on a vast cunvas—that of the frontier In “8; a pleture of might, af inevitablenees, Even the sober souls of these wniters roan bo it, felt some thrill they themselves had narver analyzed. A boy of twenty, tall, blond, tousled, rode up from the grave bork of the encampment of the Wingate family. “You, ded?" said his father, “Hide on cut and see if Molly's there,"" “Bure she is! commented the youth, finding a plug in shin of his jenns, “That's her. Two fellers, like OSLIAL. “Bam Woodhull, of course,” said the mother, still hand over eye, “He hung around all winter, telling how him and Colonel! Doniphan whipped all Mexico and won the wor. If Molly ain't in a wagon of her own, it ain't his fault, anyways! UU rest aeeured it's acemint of Molly's going aut to Oregon that he's going too! Well’ And aguln ahe wpaid, “Welll™ "Who's the wher fellow, though?" demanded Jed, “| con't place him this for,” Jease Wingate landed over his bem bo-his sin and aheppel out Inte the open road: nooved his hat in an impatient signal, half of woléome, hall of command, Tt appurently was observed, To thelr surprise it was the wiidentified rider whe now Het spur to hie horse and: came on ato gallon aheni Othetrain. Herode curelesaly well, ahorn he TRPMAN. Tho more than a few minutes he could he seen as ruther a gallant fpure of the border cavalier border just then more martial than it had been hetfore 46 and We days ot “Fifty-four Forty or Fight.” wom Wisgore A shrewd man might have guessed this young mun—le was no more than twenty-eight—to have got some mili- tary air on a border opposite to that of Oregon; the far Southwest, where Taylor and Scott and the less known Doniphan and many another fighting man had been adding certain thou- satis of leagues to the sail of this republic, He rode a compact, short- coupled, cat-hammed steed, coal black and with a dashing forelock reaching almost to his red nostrilsa—a horse never neared on the fat Missourl- corn lands, Neither did this heavy emieoasec saddle with its silver cancha dec- orations then seem famillur so far north: nor yet the thin braided-leather bridle with ita hair frontlet band and ita mighty bit; for again the great spurs with jingling rowel bells. This rider's mount und trapplogs spoke the far and new Southwest, just then coming inte cur national ken. The young man himeell, however, was upon the face of his appearance: nething of the swashbuckler, True, in his cloge-cut leather trousers, his neat boots, his tidy gloves, his rather jaunty broad black hat of felted leaver, he made a somewhat ratlish figure of a mun as be role up, welghe on his under thigh, sidewise, and bond on bis horse's quar. ters, carelessly; bewt his clean-cut, unsmiling fentures, his direct and grave look owt of dark eyes, apoke him a gen- tleman of his day and place, and no mere spectacular pretender asuming a virtue though le had it not. He swung easily out of aacddle, his right hand on the tall, broad Spanish horn, aa easily a8 though rising from oa thalr at presence of a lady, and removed his beaver to this frontier woman before he secosted her husband. His bridle he flung down over his horse's hewd, which seem- ingly anchored the animal, spite of tts loud whinnying challenge to these near-by stolid creatures which showed herness rubs and not whitened saddle hairs, “Good morning, madam,” said he in a pleasant, quiet voice, “Good morning, sir, You are Mr. and Mrs. Jiu Wingate, [ believe, Your daughter yonder told me you wero,” "That's my name,” said Jesse Wingate, eying the news comer suapiciously, but advancing with ungloved hand. “You're from the Liberty train? "Yea, sit, Aly name is Banlon— William Banton. You may not know me. My family were Kentuckians belore my father cane out to Franklin. | sterted wp in the law at old Liberty town yonder net so long ago, but I've been away a@ grewt deal.“ "The law, ch? Jesse Wingate again looked disap- proval of the young man’s rather pronouncedly newt turn- out, “Then you're not going West?" “Oh, yes, Dam, if you please, sir, I've done ttle olen all my life, Two years ago T roarched with all the others, with Doniphan, for Mexico. Well, the war's over, and the Erent y's likely signed. T thought it high time to mareh hack home. But yeu knew how it is- trail's in my blood now, Wingute nado, ingly went on: the lone Lean testtle deen.” The young man smil- "To want ta see fava Tt ba "VJ Wigst Mie ate Wor Ne Liter, ve Jfay Ware Pou ae," fold Baaloe., "itr Nor My Jerblag* In Oregon. What with new tithes and the Li} of fighting men cast in together out yond ought to be as much law out there as her think? So I'm going to seek my fortune in ¢ It's too close and tame inbere mow, im") a bit more obviously and deprecatingly—* yonder caballad of our neighbors, with a bun and Indiana wagons. They call me Col, Will It is not right—I was no more than Will Bs under Doniphan. Lam not that new," A change, a shadow came over his face. He as though it were tangible, “So I'm at your service, sir. They tell me - elected captain of the Oregon. train. I wanted with you if I might, sir. [ Know we're lnte- have been in last night, Drede in te explain we pull in just beside you, on this water?" Molly Wingate, an whom the distinguished the stranger, his easy manner and his courte falled to leave their impression, answered belo bund: “You certainly can, Major Banion.” “Mister Banion, please.” “Well then, Mister Banion. The waterand¢ The day's young. Drive in and light down. Yo saw our daughter—I know you did, for that's he The young man eclored under his brome of denly shy. atau said he, “The fact is I ant Ayah spring at Clay Seminary, where she taught, 25 yourall were moving West this spring —said thi lust day, She asked if she might ride out with o to the rendezvous. Well ——" F ; “That's a fine horse you got there," Interrupt Jed Wingate. “SpanishT™ id Yes, gic." wwii? ‘9 “Oh, no, not now: only of rather good spit. | if you like, Gallop back, if you'd like to try him, my people to come on and park in here. Td likew so with Mr. Wingate.” With a certain difficulty, yet insistent, Jel ov the deep suddle, sitting the restive, sara enough withal, and soon wa off at a fest pets trail, They saw him pull up at the head ofthe ane motion, wide armed, to the riders, the train tn at all. F sia He joined the two equestrian Ggures on rie and the young man whom his mother bail 3 thei Woodhull, They could see him shaking sci ts a curvet or a0 to show off his newly barrens as “He takes well to riding, your son,” said Be tre approvingly, ae “Ho's heen crazy tia get Weat,'" paeented lis “Wants to get among the buffalo,” eg “Wo all.do," said Will Hanis, “None gh this generation back; none now in Miseutl. Tes His eye gleamed. ii “That's Sam Woodhull along,” resumed Ml gate, “He was with Doniphan,” a eg pow Banion spoke so shortly that the greed damts ; sought-for duugliter, loalged at hin ocenly. aw oy oly BT “He Lived ut Liberty toa, [ye known Molly "3 him." , 5 P = Ls Fe it “os T suddenly amd with vigor, “She kaon lt WEY) 1 Soy cho 0, suid Tanion, “He waa i 9 es captain and wopetarit, payment | querterre® taatvcs aid Limrherrnieslite ne thiecheel, = insitive too [708 ie hart 1 LIS Hae it qeaer] mother! a pin) whos talk of the seettleaerit mow for neste Chat The Frurnor af the «lure a! Maly Afallir, as her father abwaysealed br i from her cet ter— mow oan were ly have aca ce cle-riizatele Yenhcsiiinn lo bee oof any Be ple ws a | ticngh 7 I nia ceyort # PMLTR! .* hed doubted mere renin of a sre al : bap a | three gdvane figuures—the gid, Woounil, »

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yay and raced over the remaining few hun- cmitg op abreast, laughing in the glee of pened by the feel of good horseflesh under i breath of a Vital morning air, fog of Will Banion scarce gave a look to his ej teed. He was first with a hand to Molly je prang lightly down, anticipating her other doll, who frowned, none too well plensed, poche wholly de foe Bs of youth and its a Pa whet wonder tng C10 Oregon, never in all their toilin hy » Teer in Et = be ee their reverence for the gentlemen ond Fle. eppraiee ancestors east of the Blue thro) bee eee, ation —Lelt that it belonged to Sensei Ta at bln it, progress, advanen those thi nee a 2 8 tht vapse ambitions. af twire two bondred ths 1 — “a AI tee at the border af sur unknown PE gn sre all Americans—seeond, third, fourth Se eae de Wild, ineouth, mde, unlettered, Oe sop aad gt tne the less there stood among ithe MUN eomne se flower of that culture for Pe + lot which they fought, for toy hac, ventured yet again, hee tN "5 tomy ise were these ben young men whose ee V (sllowed Molly Wingate in hot IP eae hd Sening thus far brenkfastless, for the a ea tay. tag Wiens on to the rendezvous Dea, "e Rieu of fre, young Woodhull, planter mentioned by Molly's mother as open suitor, himself wt first sight had not seemed so ill a figure, either, Tall, sinewy, well clad for the place and day, even tore foppish than Banton in boot and glove, he would have passed well among the damsels of any courthouse tay. The saddle and bridle of his mount also were a trace to the elegant, and the horse itself, a classy chestnut that showed Blue Grass blood, even then hed cost a pretty penny somewhere, that was sure, Sam Woodhull, now moving with a half dozen wagons of his own out ta Qregon, was reputed well-todo: repaoted alsa to be well skilled at cards, at weapons and at women. ancient os male and fernule, That Banton had known Woodhull in the field in Mexico he already had let slip. What bed been the cause of his sudden pulling up of his etarting tongue? Would be have ayrken too much of that acquaintance? Perhopa a closer look at the loose Lipa, the high cheeks, the narrow, close-set oyes of young Woolbull, his rather assertive alr, his alight, indefinuble swagger, his slouch ip standing, might have confirmed some skeplic dispersed to analysis who would have guessed him les: than strong of soul and character. For the mast part, such skeptica lacked. By this time the lust belated unit of the Oregon caravan was at hand, The fewtures of the dusty drivera could be seen, Unlike Wingate, the newly chosen master of the train, who hail horses and mulet about him, the young leader, Honlon, captained only ox teuma. They came now, slow footed, steady, low hewiled, irresistible, indori- table, the sume locomotive power that carried the hordes of Asia into Eastern Europe long ogo. And as in the days of that invasion the conquerors carried their households, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 5 their flocks and herds with them, ao now did these hall- savage Saxon folk have with them their all. Lean boys, brown, barefooted girls flanked the trail with iven atock, Chickens chucked in coopa at wagon side. ncounted children thrust out tousled heads from the openings of the canvas covers. Doge beneath, jostling the tar buckets, barked in hostile salutation. Women in slatted aunbonnets turned impassive gaze from the high front seats, back of which, ewung to the bows by leather loope, hung the inevitable family rifle in each wagon. And now, at the tail gate of every wagon, lashed fast for its last long journey, hung also the family plow, lt was ‘45, and the grass was up, (mn te Oregon! The ark of our eovenant with progress wasn peeing out, Almost it might have been sald to have held every living thing, llke that other urk af old. Banlon hastened to one side, where a grassy level beyond the litte atream still offered atance. He riled a hand in gesture to the right. A sudden note of command came into hia voice, lingering from late military days. “By the right and left flank—wheel! March!" With obvious training, the wagons broke apart, alternating right and loft, until two long columns were formed. Each of these advanced, curving out, then drawing in, until a long ellipao, clased ot frant and rear, was formed methodically and without break or flow, It woa the barricade of the Plains, the moving fortress of our soldiers af fortune, golig West, across the Plains, actos the Rockies, across the deserts that lay be yord. They did not know all these dangers, but they thua were ready for any that might come. ““Look,' motherf" Molly Wingate pointed with kindling eye to the ¥ wagon maneuver, “We ‘at foe tea bat trained them all day yea- ersctory of Lhe beat terday, and long before. i TS. eatyeide? Perfect!" save bad ‘bern Her gaze mayhop i coet ie Erne when, sought the tall figure of a ma trl, und ful. the young commander, i ras barely’ desiry ehosen by older men above : rch sett caraghter, his fellow townsman, Sam nite Woodhull, as cuptain of mf The a the Liberty train, But he 8 frmeshirhilLng now had other duties in — th each his own wagon group. rial dil 7 MY Censed now the strain- Ths meh of ign ——— ing creak of gear and came pit ede “Waal a Pretty Heres You Hace, Majer," tke Jaid, “Waeat'e Als Kame rattle of yokes os the pins tote af th ah tra : wert lone. Cattle: guards the Hagel Seuth, never lost in two generations west of Townsmen accorded him first place with Molly Wingate, appeared and drove the work animals apart to grase. Te ruth a’ tettained about the OLE girl now, = 06 the bemuty from eost af the river, until Will Banien came Women clombered down from wien scabs, Sober-faced nivia nn thave clued above her purents, They, back from the wears, children gathered their eth: arms full of wood for the Tae ind tury into Indiana, from Indiana inte Sinee then bad bern another manner of war, that as belated breakfast fires; boys came down for water at the slteam, The weat-hoond paused at the Missouri, as onee they had pousd wt the Don. A ovolee orce, of some young man back among the wigone busy at bis work, paraphrasing an ante-bellum air: Ohh, trent, Sapeasttiah, Bon!) you ory fer ome! Iie goin” oud fo Oregon, With my bongo on my nee! ir ORE than two thousand men, women and children waited on the Missouri for the green fully to tinge the grasses of the prairies farther weet. The waning town of Independence bad quadrupled its population in thirty daya. Boata discharged their customary weatern cargo at the newer landing on the river, not far above that town; but it all was not enough. Men of Upper Missouri and (Continued on Page 82)

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6 THE SATURDAY EVENINS POST THE EOPLE who have any thme te hill are usually filled with o deep and intense desire to kill Lt in sore spot far removed from their usgal bounte. This desire ia not ao much due te their wish to aveid making a mesa around the bouse as ib is to the peculiar mental chsession knewn to the French as homesickness for elsewhere, French society has been afflicted for years with a passionate desire to be somewhere thatit ien"t, A Parisian with time te kill aims to move up to the clear, cold air af the mountains, where he can kill bots of tt. When he geta to the mountaine it suddenky occurs to him tht: posites he might find a little more time to Kill at the sea- shore, where the eye may roam at will across the boundless and unobstructed waves. So be moves to the seashore and at once begins to suspect that in Paris one can find more weapons with which to cause time bo die a lingering und horrible death. So he moves hack to Faris, where be ones more hunts restieasly for other means to kill time. He has the homesiekness for elsowhere, The English, too, have it to a marked degre, All Englishmen who have incomes larger than two hundred guiness a year own-tea baskets with which they go off to distant heaths or popular woods on bank holidays and week-ends for the purpose of killing time and burying it with the appropriate funeral exercises, They are constantly running up to the moors for a bit of rough shooting, or over to Switzerland to ski a bit, or of toa country hous fora bit of punting or Scotch drinking, or down to Brighton fors week-end. An English week-cnd inaadly misnamed, inasmuch as tt usunlky consiets of Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, with a bit of Thursday and Toeeday thrown in for gocel HbeAare, (M1 late yeara the American people have been growing increasingly proficient at time killing. Forty years apo the average American, confronted with a little extra time, didn’t know what to do with it. Usually he took it into the front parlor and eat around on haireloth furniture with it, amd became eo pick of it that he never wanted to pee tts face again. If he felt within him the primitive urge to take it somewhere and kill it be hesitated to do so because the roads were bad, automobiles hadn't heen mvented, and the Bouth was only re- garded as the. place where the Civil War. started. Distances Were great, Few people cared to travel, hecause it was generally believed that a person whe abeented himself from business more than one working day out of every five years was a loose, dangerous and depraved character, One of the most exciting things to do forty years ago was to put on a-striped flannel coat and play croquet on the front bien, Towday, however, America has caught the perma i homesickness for elaewhere from the French and English. Florida haa been reelainied from the swamps wd the Indians, the amall autometdile hos heen put within the meang of atevedores, cooks, stcond-stary workers and moderately successful story wribers, a gall trousera may be worn in Western towns without causing the wearer to be shot, A rood ia curse! floontly by an autermeabilisé if it it sufficionth: bad te get his ‘wheel epokes muddy, The business man who can’t knock off work for two or three manths a year is regarded pityingly aa being either a back rimber, § sin para poor man. All these things being so, Americans with Gime to kill can take it farther from home and. kill it with more thoroughness than any other people on earth. They go inte their time killing with more energy than do Europeans, The European is-usually content ta do his time killing within three hundred miles of home. The American le never content unless he can travel from fifteeo hundred to three thousand miles, and wind up with an orgy of thme killing that would make a priftxsional executioner lowk by comparison like the presiient of a Dorens society, The Land of Big Hotels T 15 in Florida that the American time killer may be - found in all his glory; and the largest, most perfect and most brilliantly colored specimens are to be found at Palm Beach, It is at Palm Beach that one finds the very rare ¥ariéty measuring twenty minutes from tip te tip. One can best understand why it is that winter-bound Northerners select Florida as the scene of thelr time killing by following in their footsteps and boarding a Florida- bound night tralnina Northern city during a heavy blizzard, Pea Ree A oMeo Forker With @ Pmall Income Broke fata Society With a Crack ood Married a Widow With @ Fertose Taof Aept o Coupie of facomesTae Experts Working a Afosih Eock Foor Early the next morning, when one disentangle: the bidelothes from his mock pnd elevates the trick shade of the sleeping-car windew after the usual severe strugebe, ome finds that the enow has nearly disappeared. The eye is weariod by the flat. plaing of North Carolina, relies only bar negra shanties and scrub plies. By afternaan North Carding has merged into South Curoling. The flatness continges with uthbeunded én thusiaam: but there & ne snow, ind the air is milder, The pines are market with peeullar herringbone gashes, whence flows turpentine, the painter's delight, Ping odors varwely reminiscent of tur soup, sheep dip and cold remedies float through the half- cme windows, Later that evening, a8 one returns to the dining car to recover the hat which one has forgotten in the exeltement of tipping tie waiter, ane heare frequent shrill frog choruses from the pools beside the tracks. By midnight one is ringing frantically for the porter to tear himaelf fram bis slumber among the shees in the smoking compartment and start the eleciclc fans. One's rest is troubled by the heat and the inerewsing shrillness of the frig chomeses, On the second morning the rising sun discloses a limitless expanse of flatness, dotted with occasional palm trees and covered with a scrubby growth of near-palms or palmettos. The sun is hot and red. A black nbbon of asphalt road parallels the railroad; and at intervals along it appear flocka of flivvera nesting drowsily among the palms and apr TIME-KILLER By Kenneth L. Roberts the tin-can tourists. There is plent ing white sand, and plenty of stagna The air ia full of swallows, and an a pelican flops languidly alongside t gazing pesalmistlenlly at the passengers. | éler perspires lightly and marvels at the thatit was only night before last when hes a plece of ice and got half a peck of amow i back of hia neck. He remembers that it i and glorious country—a fact which his ec tion of the doings of Congress had cause forget. Oecasionally the train flashes past Litt sitting hotly in the sun and sand amon orange and grapelruit trees, This ia Flor the land looks as though it were wort ten dollars an acre—juat at it has alway until someone develops it and begins to gel ner lots at a modest five thousand collars Around breakfast thme—a mere thirty-s since the train enverged from ita Northern and snowdrifta—the train crosees pn shin strip af blue water and comes to rest beside that seems, of first glance, to bbe at least te Jong. [it stretches off so far inte the distar people up at the other end appear to be bul In reality if is only about half a mile bor only about five hundred times lorger tk Mowsam House, at Kennebunk, Maine, (On the station platform are women il skirts, gauzy waists and diamond bracelets, men in white trousers dash up and down ti form on bieyveles, The air is aolt and balmy tres atreteh aff into the distance in every tlon, Wheel chairs, propelled by dignified-| negrocs who sit on bicycle seata directly the chairs and pedal vigorously, move hith yon in astately manner, Through the paln one cabches glimpaes of white yachts rid anchor on the blue water. The Industry at Palm Baack A weam chulr stops at the edge of thes platform. Init are seated a dignified g man in white Aannels, snd a gracious lady ini skirt and 9 sweater covered with meat ligl effects in red, green and orange gigzape. (ne ders whether this can be J, Pierpont Astort Charley Schwab. Then one hears the gr lady whisper excitedhy to the dignified gentle “To you suppose that’s Charky Schwab Pierpont Astorbilt over there?” and hear dignified gentleman reply in a hoarse under “Shut up or they'll think we're hoabe!” This is Palen Beach, the very center of thes timekilling industry. Palm Beach is 2 long, row trip of land which iz from mainland by a long, narrow body af water 1 as Lake Worth, and by a sudden inereas inf expenses. On the mainland side of Lake Wer the rising young city of West Palm Beach, ¥ one is not afraid—as he usually ia in Palm Bea to offer a storekeeper or m newabay a nickel should regard it as some strange, unknown foe coin. West Palm Beach is full of ordinary peorie are unacquainted with wheel chains and think noclis walking two or three blocks, or even ns couch ua hall a if the neceasity arises. They frequently get along for! at a time without spending more than two dollars eighty-ive cents a day. : ; West Palm Beach has the same sort of climate Pulm Heach has, but the air of the place is samen di ent. At Palm Beach one has the feeling that be i bree’! the very same air that the world’s greatest burst seeiety peaple are breathing, whereas over in Wet iteach one doesn't know or care who has been bre! the air, That is why so many people find the Pale Be climate very invipormting, but alwragra feel that the com of West Palm Beach leaves them a little weak aed Falm Beach, then, is a long, narrow strip af eel the ocean on one side and Lake Worth on the ote. a largest hotel, which has room for thirtesn hanced pat gueata at any one time, but which only get all ie hundred of them for about a month out of the yet" on Lake Worth; while the nemt Inrgest hotel # di across the narrow strip of land, fromting on the = between are golf links, and roadways edged vil and avenues of towering, feathery, bhulshgreen Aa" pines, and aimple little cottages that cvaldn't have cent more than forty or fifty thousand dollars. ice also m Tuamber of modest little sharks that rig *

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 7 ‘ioe genes beck balf a million or ao, and clubhouses suiting paviionsand more palms and broad whiteroad- red pet white flannel ond women in diamonds pee perbemery apd clinging gowns—and more palms. jee ereyting there is an odor of money. Every dos feows a freighted with its rich, fragrant, musky pen ind every person that one encounters on the street cutete lsbby seems to be about to apend a lot of it or yw wat Glshed spending a lot of it. cow people seem to like the odor and some don't seem 5 cm mach for ft. Some, im fact, seem from their crass to think that this money odor has a great deal . ereg with emoldering rubber or asnfetida, “"y eprmion that Palm Beach is bound to make on ey weromet is one of general discomfort, Everybody ger to be staring critically at everybody else—due, of weve tw the fact that almost everybody hopes or geet that ererybedy else may prove to be Charley jer © Percy Rockefeller or Vincent Astor or one of dow ormnitent sockety people who part their names in pe ciddle. Pups vhoenber and leave the hotel dining rooms don"t ene new what to de with their hands. They pretend oc eharming eee of manner, ws though conscios eo dleeuceeeen them, The people at the tables can’t iF, tee rps aff the people at ether tubles. The hetel aes un engested before lunch and after dinner with sews wha have oo interes! in any scenery except that ate ober people are wearing. Although the beach at fus Sect Bacy miles in length, all the bathers, near- thes af latherwatchers cram themselves each noon cooler quar yards of beach and wateh one another ke a pathering of brite. Penledawdie dong the palm-fringed avenues and stare cre getter blankly and questioningly. Peaple sit self- eocmy 4 wheel chairs and look searchingly at people oeter wheel chats. Bicyclists wheel languidhy along os vite toads and gare intently at eereae. “Are you Charley cov?" ach eve seme to ask srry. “Je you me of the Rocke cen! doy yom any beet" Ps Bech @ the heaven of the ie. inaome parts od the world it tank i popular esteem until it is heb tia a conveyer of telegraph ep ied aa inetrument for the re- ura of son fom children’s knees, bet by Pal Beach it shares with the i cur te honor of being the Sarit af weath and beauty, fooryene on Wheels PLATS of tieyees are parked be- ub PRY Sobel entree. Hropd 2 Griese sidewalks ane neerved far etacduhed chairs. The pedos- aL ete fot on Every doen oa screk, and ia more than apt, if is nS have his coat driven eee Bese tnto hia Pal wheel of a bievele, a by ig J’ ate bigele costume, Bew- — 2 aeplsts wear anything — a firere own, flowing eos ae beg capes, and the most baie eg geen, Large num- ae ee Ee bieyeling while Wir by le so that the gen- ‘Mwpewtal similar to that ~_ ey ballet made up sa messenyer mn. ieee ers oe frequenthy sees ne en etirs spectacle of laste learning to ride. On 8 fide to side, collapsing by cle wie, instructor with reg, ett of a Cabifornia | Hedonic al least two hours red negro chair sont Seton, = Sve the chair along. hy and the alternate Ether chair Totion which fell sigs rman the cerpant, Teo ‘ng Pen cccnicered ts wat bythe most sagacions ta nis ed Palm Beachers, It is their belief that the persons whe ride for three houra run 4 grave risk of overexerting themselves. The chair chauffeurs, in addition to possessing tireless legs, are usually supplied with a vast fund of knowledge. This ta most desirable: for many visitors speak to no one except the hotel clerks, the news-stand girls, the waiters and their wheel-chair chauffeur during their entire stay. It. frequently happens that their chair chauffeur ia their only guide, philosopher and friend; so the chauffeurs find it very valuable te be fairly familiar with all Palm Beach witates, to have a comprehensive grasp of the flora and fauna of the South, and to be conversant with all financial and social matters appertaining to the old-timer. They have also found that a frank exposition of their own philosophical meditations on men and things will seme= Limes arouse the interest and sthoulate the generosity of their charges. “What sort of ducks are thoae, George?" usually brings the intelligent anawer: “Those ain't ne eort, suk. ‘Those is just ducks.” A query as to whether a wheel choir ia harder to posh with one of two people in it hrowght the reply that there wasn't no difference. But to push an empty one ia the hardest. Yes, suht! Must be becauae no money is being made. Yeu, auh! There are many lonely ren and wamen at Palm Beach who almost cry with gratitude when somebody speaks to them. They are like many congressmen, who are big people at home, but of less account in Washington than a head porter, Out of all the people who flock to Pale Beach to epend large amounts of money and bask im the soothing rays that emanate from the socially prominent, ninety per cent might be compared to very amiall potatoes in a two-hundred-acre lot. Even the majority of the people whose nsimes are names to conjure with in Palm Beach society can't be found in the pages of Who's Wha, The majority of men who pay the bills at the big hotels are forced to struggle hard ta kill time when they have finished their golf playing for the day. Favormous numbers Je Far ae the Female Coatlageat at Paolm Beach fe Concerned, on Economic Confers a2e Hass": a Chased With Fock Bly Powe os PAat Mrs. Harold Bagas Fails Fore of them seem to spend moet of their spare time sitting dole- fully around hotel lobbies and expecting telegrama that never come. Tf you fall into conversation with any man in any Palm Beach hotel lobby he invariably explains his in- activity by gaying that he ia expecting a telegram. Next to expecting telegrams the most popular Palm Beach time killer seems to consist of wondering what day of the week it is. Sneak up behind any two important- looking men who seem te be discussing affairs of moment, and the chances are ten te one that you will hear the following weighty conversation: "Is to-day Tuesday or Wednesday? [sort of lose track down here.” Today? Why, to-day's Wedneaday, No; hold on! [t's Thursday, isn't it?" “Wo, I don’t think so, [ think it’s either Tuesday or Wednesday. Still, [ don't know; it might be Thursday." "Wo, [ don"t beliewe it's Thursday. | was oxpecting o telegram on Tuesday, and it would have bad to come before Thorsday, © guess it's Wednesday." “Vex, [ pues itis. [ thought for awhile it was Tuesday." “Oh, [don't bellewe [t's Tursday." “Wo, 0 gues it's Wedresday oll right. That telegram ought ta be here by new, Haw long are you staying here?" “T doen't knew. I'm expecting a telegram, and F ean't tell till it gets here." The Reign of Hookless Dresses AVING reached a comparatively ripe intimacy by this time, it is almost inevitable that one of them should advance one of the thousand statistical questions thet are a0 frequently encountered at Palm Beach, such as" Did you ever atop to think how many nulls it took to build this hotel?" A few seconds leter both of them have produce envelopes and are fering bully, Men who have traveled thousands of miles for the pur- pose of killing time at Palm Béoach will frequently argue for twe or three hours and figure all over the hacks af eight or ten envelopes and a couple of golf aeores in an at- tempt to decide whether or not the Value of all the diamond bracelets in Palm Beach would be sufficient to secure economic control of Russia. Neweomers to Palm Beach, knowing that Anverica's greatest financiers lock there during the season, frequently make the mistake of thinking that two men knitting their brows over a lot of figures are probably two great money kings working up a echeme to corner the nation’s hoperep. In reality they are two ordinary citizens killing a little time by choking tt to death with use- less atutistics, Compared with the goud old days when dresses hooked up the beck in such an intricate [nshian that one needed bye prints, dingramsand charts inorder ta hook up a dress properly, there is practicolly oo dress changing nt Palm Beoch nivwacnys, In the old days the womenfalle spent at lowst forty per cent of their waking hours thanging their clothes, They changed their clothes whenever the wind changed. ‘They changed their clathes every the a train come in. They couldn't eat or po out in a wheel choir or put on a élring of bewls of take a drink without changing their clothes. Their menfolk were kept constantly busy hooking them up the back. Today things are different. Dresses Te longer hook up the back with their erstwhile wholehearteiness. Careful and competent observers state that many present-day dressea are safely attached ta the human frame by aa few as three hooks, all of which can be reached without dislorating sm arm or displacing any vertebra, and that an equal number af dresses are merely slid on over the head and worn just as they full, without any further for- mulity. A grenk many women at Palm Beach wear anily two costuners each day—one for morning and after- noon, and one for evening, Not so muLny Fears wi 1 Wwonmuin who wore only two dresses inoone day at Palm Beach would huve been pegurded ws mentally unbalanced or disgustingly pauperized. The real snappy dressers, however, get tn and out of three costumes a day; while it is not at all unusual te find (Continaed on Page 56!

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4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST wf pr The Axiom of Peter Bell Ivc AWN came rediy up behind the white pile of the Public Library. When he first opened his eyes he saw it gilding the pinnacles and parapets and the less pleasing water tanks and chimneva of the skyscrapers over toward Times Square. His head rolled back on bis arm then and he stared straight up through the seruggly little city trees into an upbelievably roey zenith; finally twisting around for a view of the east. His neck was uncomfortably stiff, and his knees creaked. His back ached as well, There was, surprisingly, mystery in Forty-second Street, ft would be amusing to try painting if in this unearthly light. Tricky, becouse the effecta changed so swiftly. Though his knack at making quick aketches in color would help; and the one gift he knew he had was a painter's memory. He regretted now that he hadn't kept his lug- geet with him, eel and colors and parcel of sketch boards, Very powibly they'd have been stolen while he lent. Though, for that matter, it was o question whether he'd ever set them aguin Ly wily. Or his suiteasr, Fit fully be fele in his pocket for the thirty-eight cents be knew was there, wed as ruefully jingled it in kis hand. It was jood for a broakfinat. His guze rested on the Uhrary butting. Wher, he oxked himeel!, couldn't these enormous manus ments be deetgned in same innately American feeling? Couldn't there ben AMmercnn spirit in architer- ture—something perhaps solider, more sweeping than the Colarial? Why, always, always, the Grecian and the Roman? That huge ruil- way terminal he had observed. in hy the afternoon waa nothing on earth : But atepreduction af the Baths of Caracalla. Why not the Temple af Karnak? Or the Mosque of St, Sophia? Or the Taj Mahal? He turned back and considered the skyscrapers. They embodied, perhaps, these towering eymbols af a greatly brusque civilization, the perfect answer to hie question. They had, at least, evolved. Tt waa as if the lawhee push of America here om Manhattan Island had beaped out of the Hard rock, high, high! .They were frank enough, with their hard, straight lines, the carven stone in front only, leaving the vost surlaces of the alde- walls in, britk or rough tile, and the thousanis of office windows, that were lethered, mearly every one, . with “advertising matter, The lavely dawn light waa sprending ealthy downward now, reflecting molten gold from all thase windows. Lt was rather stirring to sit here in the gray dusk of the littl: park and pase ot over the grimy stricture of the Elevated—already trucks wire hanging along benegth it— inte thet infty epleadar, And the electric signa must have been blazing gayly all night, At least he seemed to have innu- mut ralle little ball memories of them at different fimes when he lid found himself squirming wneom- fortably on the banch. Certainly the Elevated trains had mever stopped. While he'was in that eurlous half-awake condi- tion, hours on end, they had seemed one after another to run, roaring and grinding, right through his brain, A good many other vagrants were scattered about on the benches, many of them still asleep, Flotsam of the pulsing, tireless city. They didn't matter. Come to think of it, he didn't matter himself, His eyes filled and he buried his face on his arm. Ten minutes later he was jingling the coins again. Brenkfast seemed important, He hadn't dined. One of a all-night restaurants. “Dm kissing my things good-by," he mused bitterly; but added, Tore youthfully, “After all, may as well start clean.” ‘And clean it would be when the thirty-eight cents wae font. He decided to limit breakfast to twenty-five cents, buy a paper, and leave eleven centa for that start. Briskly, then, he marched out of the park. But an hour vitey he was back with bis puper, which he opened to the wari nds. That seemed to be how you started clean. At leo! Ot was the only way he could think of, FELUITRATED By SAMUEL MERWIN FOROELLER BY ARTHUR DB. The New York that calls itael! New York waa not vet awoke, but the strects were already roaring \ curb-full of traffic, and the side- walle were crowded with hurry- ing, jostling men and women— 4 young men and women, all \¥ nervously intent. ] \" Another hour passed, Atall figure of aman care wan- deving not unaminhly through the park, taking in the early-morning perform= ance af the hurrying city throigh thiek curved lenges set in a heavy Tila Bench “Mol Of, Ma f MWimarlf Joplag apectacke frame of gold, Our-young man glancing up over his paper noted the spectacles, You didn't ser gold frames much any more. And then his quick eyes took in the rest of the rather quaint figure. The man was very tall indeed, all of six feet and three or four inches, and thin. Extremely thin, a severely spare person, clad in an out- moded rusty cutaway coat bound about the edges with fraying braid, gray trowsera that surely had not been presaed for a long time and that were fringed at the bot- tom, a etringy tie in which, however, was stuck a remark- able scarab set in old gold, ane finally a derby hat that had doubtless been black in ite earlier years bul was mow rusty like that old-fashioned eoat. The face was spare, ke the figure, clean=sshaven, of w acholarly cast, even attractive. You felt, despite the odd ecatume, authariiy there, and, less detinitely perhapa, a degree of forse. At West there was a fullness of outline, a slight bulge outward of the profile from. the nome to the chin, euch as is usually found in the aggressive, Aghting i! ~! “Nal i hee || “De Few Mina Sharing Mor mi Adee’ ole Fouag Waa Foauad it See Cay aad type of man, that contrasted strangely reflective eyes and with the huge bald the head that came inte evidence whi moved that derby and passed a har across the spatious forehead. Our voung man caught himself sta hurried|y lowered his eyes to these want But he felt the SITange FMErSOn Pair voice romurked, a ¥olee that was austere! tive, like the face, and very pitch, “ Doyou mind sharing this Oh, nol Not at al young man found himself saying er uslthL. ri eyo begin the day early,” man continued, “Todo, mi enjoy the walk uptown in the earl ing. And it interests me to ait an poor devils whe have had no oth to sleep but these benches." “Talept on this one last nig murkel the young man. “Indeed!” There was surpres ders voice, And the young mar that hia face and bat and ebothir being serutinized ewiftly. WOUr (se ean't be the s these vagrants,” “Why mot I land than a month ago from My peoney had about ru and [ auppose I thou would be poesible ta beegt ing right off bere in New But it wasn’t possible,” The tall man though aver, and finally rema “That's nonsense, of cour “Tt isn't anything 0 sort!" ; “T beg your pardon! Ye ¥OUNE,. good-looking en comfortably enough dre you speak with bret enough —T gee no Tea08 you shouldn't pick up at any reasonable thing you ® “That's easy fo fay. “Ti's eusy to do, Maturally I'm aul degree of cleverness, In New York t vit be clover, MiaugcToask, what is your bine al etl “| was supposed to be a promuing / painter." . “I'm! That's bad, of course, The Ame are not an artistic people. Gh, they can * mentarily interested im celebrated masterprtt of the past—intersating examples of the iu accumulated and sanctified publicity but the not interested in discovering fresh pearl. like it as they like their opera and their Ih ture —semethitig eafely foreign” , “That's exactly the conclusion T've out And thut's why it ban’t nonsense tomay that — “Pardon me again, but it is noneensr mee leet. Dineunt only that painting & 2 moe dif road thun others, A mam ean have what be ee ws cjuiehly ask he wants it.” “But, geewhiz m “Tt is only necesarit that the want be real. t it ammount to a profound desire Te mmvest be st enaaygh te cule firm and elrive him te active. "How about these jour devils on the beche “Ef you eould paychounalyze them | think 704 rt find that each of them has been possessed wilh 2 mastering desire either for women et for aleehol- perk for leisure. And you'd find that every one lee a= his goal. Of the three, leisure is by far te attain, because it must be combined with on st atrong desire, in the first instanee for money. 4 ai ing is ao disastrous in most cnsest asa coefuane it Mind you, I am not. referring to the dein a MP : have been told he ought ta have, not to the vere fe echooling and reading, if any, but to the sants thal i his roarrow.” sn about He paused, apparently lost for the moment in’ * as if hia own words had served as a gpeitgtowrd © : mind from which he leaped out Late urs ate philosophic speculation. — “The young man a cigarette bet fret 2 epi pocket, hesitatingly opened it, ralind that oly hi cigarette waa left, finally and ructully plied & A al

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| THE SATURDAY EVENING POST a ind aa be lighted it the prom thought came for the ip bis ile that matches, too, cost money ik untenpy crowd up there" —this strange eeating with a bony hand an Elevated train phen to be roaring and grinding by on its way te arogs errarta ol lower Munhattan, jammed witha biples cast of human beings —"il vou could fie tote of thelr heads abd look in you'd find half ied with that fatal confusion of wants, The erin WATE Tet", brut they also want Teputation or careers a women and automobiles, and dem add the final hopeless complication of a eke for kome and children. ‘The young women is euch, and want it with ow barkuric intensity mee parce any one af the men with fear if he gent fk, which fortunately he doesn't." ghout the other balf'?*' wuld te the unfortunates without strong opos. s.mailly, parcege. A passing desire te stand iinet eshitdtionism. The people without it une Sy people what we think wf as niee people, the stint dere and therefore without persona hope, fel the (ithe! qualities there. They should lenwe fru coe ond etablish themselves In healthy Be Botes | wos saying, money —just money—is thing = the work.” fey ithet. Theealest thing in the world, Or per- [gies wy, 5 New York, nowadays. Every beady ert heaps of it any number of times any day. fee ee king up and around for sonething feedst iad tumbding over a little." iol ean tarned abruptly and gazed down at him ead ine suthenty that was almost a. little fet at” be eked, “do you want?" — Why, | suppeee | rf Pra!" Pid" —bb eps lowered, studied the seamed concrete Me wil, Hogered forlornly on his dusty shoes as he of how soot they'd be shined opain— "TE suppose fe te be own at a palinter." Pleeyou mre that’s what you want?” Pid—warwalellow con be of arypthing. You sew, 4 i; - + T gave up college te study here, Aad then [had two sear amd a halfin Paris. (ot a pleture inte the Salon this yeoar—Womanin Blue, I theught that would moan some- thing —even here in New York.” The tall man moved his head firmly in the -nepative. "Thnew—now, "ye been around to all the big dealers and to some of the catablished painters, even to art editors af THALES, Nha, 18 doesent mean a thing.” “OP course you can become known 18 1 painter, if that's really what you want. "Wee bat when?” "Oh —surely hy tosmorraw,” For the fret time the thought came to the young man thnk this sirange perscn heside him might not te wholly zane. A.ncl his expression met unnaturally changed wrth this changing current of thought. This the older man evidenthy noted, for he pursed bis lips, sat puzing intently ut the Elevated structure, muttered with wotauech of tm publenee “t's all to abisurd !""—arned then, in his ruther wb rupl wi, roe. “Cane!” be-all. rir WoA SPIRIT that was in part the mewkness af defrost and di part the sporting Inatinet of youth the younger man followed him. They ascended the steps by the Public Library and walked out on the terrace that commands the broad side- walk and the swiftly flowing traffic streams of Filth Awve- nue. Here they stead, clase by the parnpet, silent in o roaring world, the older mun gating out an the endless moving picture in his curiously relective way, the younper glancing now up at him, now moodily clown. “Painting. el?" mused the stranger woud, “That com- plicates it! That complicates it! We'll have to think ubrut that.” And then, “What's your sare?" "Cage," “Caae? Nothing in that.. What's the rest of fhe" “William FF." “What's the Fl" "Frank." “Worse and worse, vou out of whale eloth. " Ames.” “Em! Ther mother’s?” ‘UT Hana,” [see F shall have to manufacture Mother's maiden pane? is oo “Por the love of heaven, can’t we fil any color here? You must have a paternal graundinether, Her none!" “Wh, yes—she cane from a Souther Huguenot farnily," “The name?" "Daren" “There! At last you're giving mea little something ta build-on. New mind you, we're not speaking of fan! That's a growth. But just beetming known, Publicity, eh? Aquitk aubsthtute for fame. Vee, money's the ensiest thing. bork at them—look at allof them! He wuved that skinny hand toward the swelling stream of sogth-bound traffic. “Por an hour anda half it'll keep up. All very important people — personages — whirling downtown to give opens to the crowd we saw aver onthe Elevated! Limau- sims! EP wish D wanted a limousine. [°d hase it before the end of the week. Soa easy! Look at the men in ‘em— the faces. Look at that one! This one! All taking themselves eeriqusiy! Silly little men! Think of having the stupidity te he as complacent as that! And it takes years te build such faces.” “Look here!" This from the VCR GP NEAL, riMiting, “How would you get a limousine before the end of the week?" “Never mind now, Darien! Tet isn’t bad. Walt—I'ti pubting it together? Where are your painting things?" “Over tn the Grand Central Station, I checked then alter I tal to leave the hoarding place. That waa euber- day.” His voice wavered at the ignaminiows memory, “Giek them. Bring them here, The library's open naw. Thove my own work toule, But Dam going to give you an hour ot say tine.” *T=you gee, ill take twenty cents to pet them out. Two parcels. [t's the second day.” “Tlow much have yout" * Bleven cents," "Hm! Wit! Letime think? That lat—you might be no shipping clerk, a broker, anything! Even o tam-e'- shanter world My dear bow, you're undertaking ar extremely chifficute thing.” “| thaughet you said it was easy." “Easy wher you underatiod, ‘That's all ther be in the werki—understanding, And you haven't pot it, Not yer. You even think me-crazy. The fact 6, I'm perhaps the only sane mun in New Vork ot this moment.” He waved aguin toward the opparently endless flow of linpousines.

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a, 10 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Look at them! Are there that many really able men in New York? Certainly not! They're just the men with direct, clear wants, They wanted limousines, and went through all hell to get them. They're the hard devils. Unsecrupulous, Money stull, The folks with humanity in them—decency—are all over there on the Elevated. But listen! What I'm trying to make you understand is that no William F, Coase, tn a gray suit and a four-dollor straw hat, could possibly be aceepted by New Yorkers os a painter, Cant you grasp that? [e's asking too much af them. They havent the imagination. And in the second Mace, always remember that theyre not interested in painters in the first place.” “Tut, really then, what's the use of “That's why you've got to rench them. through the medium of entertainment. IT tell you they're children — silly little chiletren, molded by the sensational newspapers, apiritually guided by Tammany Hall, umused by the spihhter burted finally in poace by the undertakers who Wi comic advertising, All they osk—all they bade: how to msk—is that you supply the eolar and atmos- phere they doen't know how to erent: for themselves, Go eee your painting things, Here's—let's set—a ten-dollor bill —— “But how can I ever ——" “You'll soon be able to pay it buck. Better take the street car: T prize my working time, And—woh, yes, step inte the hat shop at the station and buy a wide-brimmed aoft thing—something in velvet or plush—aomething you can pull down romantically on one side—and rub it in the gubter—emudge it—age it." The young man hesitated, ““T'll wait right bene," added the amuzing stranger, Young Mr. Willlam F. Case, overwhelmed, hurried away. And the thin mun in the rusty cut-away coal—an odd, old-world]y figure—atood by the marble parapet and gazed quizzically dawn at that rushing tralfle, now and again indulging in an frente smile at eome more than esm- monly conspleucus vehicle, until he caught sight af a hurrying figure in a comfortably shapeless gray suit and a Fomantically soft brown hot, a breathless young fellow who carcled a folded easel and a collapsible steal tied ta- gether under one arm, a purcel am canvases on boards under the other, and a hig calor box of wood in one hand, And he noted with approval that the collapsible stool was attached to something very like a folding umbrella. “Now,” he eomeunded, me moving his rusty derby hut and aquaring his immense deme of thought to the morning sun, “Bet Wp Wour ease] and paint me, I'm giving you the best part of an hour.” “But an hour! My ward! Tt “I'm agauming that you're clever. If you're mot, I'm afrale Tean't help you. New Yorkers care nothing about laborious hoen- esty! They'd think it worth— oh, gt the outside, fifteen to thirty dollars a week, And they'd assume long hours. What they want is new tricks. Toya! [fntil you've learned that, and all it means, you haven't ao much ni dingneacd your problem. And don"t worry about your art. A little amusement won't hurt you any. Too much overlabor- ing in all the ris Taw adaye any- way. Neotenough fun. That's the mischief of tradition. And you must keep it clearly in mind that though the degre of civili- sation actually attalned any- where ln the world is putheticeally low the state of your New Yorker is lower still. If general civilization be regarded as, say, point fourteen on a eeale of one hundred, vour New Yorker would stand at about point eleven.” “Why an borne?" “Because he leans back on the material greatness of his city, merges his identity in it, fan- cies himself greater because of his relationship to it. Every thormughpoing New Yorker ia an interesting case of arrested de velopment. Any self-reliant contin, mow, would atand at about polnt seventeen on our acole, All that iain your favor, alnece nobody in New York will ever know whether your work is good or bad. They'll only Know whether or not it's talked about. Children! Ob, the real painters would know, bat nobody pays any attention te them. The critica are the clamoroue ones, and they have no way of finding out, They can only apecialize—a few in overpraise, afew in overnbuse, the rest in straddling. Aman, with practice, tin beenne expert at straddling. All set? Go ahead!" For with a rising flush and an intent expresaion about the rather boyish eyes young Mr. William F. Case was fairly leaping at his task: seated on the little threelegged atool wader the old sun-bleached once bu umbrella that appeared In some amusingly automatic way to be attached to ft; the big rectangular palette comfortably settled about an accustomed thumb; eluater of brushes and greasy old rug fitting into familiar places among his fingers; the dusty new hat pushed carelessly back on a wellshaped head. He had taken the dare. Swiftly the colors apurted from the tubes and coiled prettily inte place on the palette, And almeet fretantly the erowd formed—a curious, silent crowd, that edped and shoved only a little, But it grew, epreading far back over the terrace, mounting in that reapect(ul way the marble parapet, even forming an averflow on the sidewalk beneath, and spreading there. Finally a mountainous policeman walked aver from the earner and elbowed through that part of the crowd that was by now blocking the walk. For a moment he studied the tall man with the scholarly bald head who stood im- movable and was somehow, [a aplte of the rusty outmeded clothing, a gure af impreseive dignity, and then glanced down at the presentment of that fine head that was taking shape With amazing awiftres under the deft hand of the young mun in gray, Hie eyes even lighted a very little, The young mun surely knew his job. The fever of wark was upon him, Net a hundred peering pallecmen could have stuyed that fascinatingly swift hand. And indeed when the officer, falling buck on a sense of his pieecit ice, waked, in a ¥olee that was at once graf and eonhdential, “How mach Jonger’s this going to take?" the artist replied, with the eager impaticne: of an absorbed child, “Only a llttle: while," and painted on, The tall man spoke then, very quietly: “He tells me he is painting a lot of the city types, TD imagine he'll be out “If You Thiak You're Reading My AMfiad From My Bookshelves —I'm Afraid Fou're Far Off the Track" Apri there on the corner after some of you before t much older." The policeman turned away at that, and sai people on the sidewalk, “Here, move alorig, a len Move along now! Can't you see you're blocking: _ walk? Move along now! Step along!" But the artist was wholly lost in the fever oes work, ani heard none of this. ir ERY good," was the tall man's comment hand, he regarded the finished portrait, ** Wl indeed." And the crowd behind him murmured ii ment with his judgment. “You have a eplritec eolor. Really, I'm not sure you haven't quite a Al you have technic. All first-rate, Now we'll begris “Begin? The artist looked up in surprise, “Certain.” The tall man put om his hat, be | and spoke in a guarded volee: “This was only o had te try you out, Stand up, if you don't rabid, Now take a good look out there at the eormer, IF s1/ is the moat crowded corner in the world—Fifth und Forty-second Street. The most. comspieucy for you would be, I should sny—h'm—here or thi town side, right in the middle of the crowing, bete lines of traffic, and out beyond the sidewalk line, they don't allaw left turning here, and there's alo opin spas at that point. 0 want to see the wh brello planted right there." “Do you expect me bo point Filth Avenue? hour?" “Certainly not, You'd have to have a permit, don't care to take the time to get one.” ‘Well, then, what ——" "Please listen. There are four or five traifie offi the erossing, not equnting the man in the tewer, those four or five will be in command. He'll wmdoe! have chevrons on his sleeve or a gold shield or sor tinguishing mark. Faint him.” "TR mean—just po up and —" "Exactly, Painthim. Better paint him twiee a him acopy. I want you to be there about two hoa “Buk do you mean Chat [ am—" “And remember just you've pot to treat New indulgently. Never ex never apologize, never ri ysl amile and do at you | If anybody asks your nur it's Durien—nothing more ing ele. If they ask you're from, say Paris. simile, Andwarkon. Ame to my room, if you will kind, at twelve, T shall terested to hear whet yor have to report, | have gin my plan to work at the |) this morning, And by the you'd better carry this g where it can be seen." “But look here, Mr, — “Mr. Ivor, what if th ealle my bho?” “TH you are so much a ginning to understand ma should perceive by this that ic isn’t a bluff,” “But what if be doesn itourway? ‘Calls forthe» ancl lands me in the statio "Then," said Mr, [vor ¢ “onint the sergeant at his d "Oh!" breathed young Case; and again, “Oh!” “Ahl You are, perhaps ginning to understand?" "T—I think ao” He grinning a littl now, “Then there la no possil of their atopping you. No ean atop you.” “That's certainly a —— “Towill leave yoo now. 4 my lees.” And b&b William F. Case could a again the stranger was gomH The card read, “Mr. J Bell Ivor," with an addre the West Forties. F H* FOUND the plac AL twelve, It was one of a of old brick houses ina dowr heel neighborhood, A slat ‘Continued on Page 08

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Mr. Lloyd George, His Character ama Career—By Francis W. Hirst EE parts of the DC sited State—on the Pacific Const, pine Middle Wrest, in ee Eegiend, N. ote, Peonsylvanio Vergata — I have ee during my lost me. —Aggust,1921,to trary, 1522—a wah iewelier interest B-csh polttios than, ec iefon. And ee he eke interest haw usnated In per- eal corosity about I: Lhawd Geange. coe he comeetiqutes = Siyphet and mast mantie peak in our nities! landscape, =i post aa the gran- eur and charm of hia es beeved Welsh tees often de est on the clopdsand mts that hide their EIR, Bo the ineon= etic Of hie pest, =» ortabiltty of he recent, and the temmiabty of fore Ging his future sur- mow the fret Celtic ‘ie Minister of ihted withanatirar ve belo of mystery. Thee & not only chversal curiosity as > i chatacter but abo a good deal of admiration for ft ettraordinary resourcefulness and versatility he has sig ar in the last few years. Mr, Lloyd George is the y beeding statesman who has held office continuously coe the war. He bas been a cabinet minister ever since Deerber, 205! [must admit, however, that [ was a little surprised, fring one evening in the Faculty Club of a famous Enst- im university, to hear one of the professors present declare Pesan ait of convineed eertalnty: “Mr. Lloyd George is ihe greatest of living statesmen."’ Nor was he at all pleased uth a proposal to amend the statement by substituting ~ seererest.” of “omeet artful for “greatest,” Vy own reluctance te conmeede greatness to the type of ctuternanship in which Mr. Lloyd George excels may be ccmryed by an analogy. Let us suppede that a passenger tems gader the command of Captain Lloyd George is everteed to sail from London for New York, (mn that nae — which corresponds with the pledges isued at Ue preeral election of December, 1918—a number of pas- eo are booked, The ship atarte according ta progrum, fo our a few hours Captain Lloyd George calls bie “em together emi persuades them that they will have iiss weather if they change their course to Rio. Later on oeter change of weather and plan ocewrs, and Melbourne eafftouteed as the port of destination, Getting Into the Limelight Gone of the passengers mutiny, but Captain George ot eal ites the majority by anargumentof this kind. “ You =n” ee saya, “that I'm net taking you to the prom- ‘blot Bot isn't it better to be alive in Melbourne than ceeds New York? The first duty of a captain is to keep vebipafioa:.“* In this paroble you have, [ think, the beat etcration Mr. Lloyd George's friends can adduce for the Teal sameraloe he has turned since the outbreak of io 2 Auguat, 1914. ioother defense frequently offered by Liberal Coalitionist opted of Mr. Lloyd George against the attacks of the [) Souendent Liberals is that their leader can find a prece- evt on Mr. Asquith's war administration fer every in- lnagetient af Liberal principles, Did not Mr. Asquith ce away the fretrode couse by the Paris Resolutions ex, by the enactment of three or four high protectionist Ge ot meter Guts, wallches, cinema filma, and ao on? Lad be cot—for the first time in English history—pasa ee oe oe, ee Pe ee, ee = Marrhal Fock, David Lloyd George and Aristide Heiaad of Cisqgeers, Rachiagiomahlee, “Where the Wor War Fan" conscription; and did he not devise the Defence of the Realm Act—nicknamed “Dora"—which will always serve unscrupulous statesmen as a model for destroying" personal liberty, freedorn of business and freedom of speech in those few democracies where the citizen is protected by law against bureaucratic tyranny? These are deadly queations for thoae English Liberals whose only alternative to Mr. Lloyd George ia Mr. Asquith or Viscount Grey, And if it be added that Mr. Asquith and Lord Grey were responsible for the secret diplomacy which preceded the war, and are now advocates of a military alliance with France, it will be obvious that the real Liber- alism—which we associate with such names as Cobden, Mill, Bright, Gladstone, Campbell-Bannerman, Lord Mor- ley and the late Lord Bryce—the Liberalism which seeks to establish peace and good will among nations, interna- tional arbitration, disarmament, individual liberty and free trade—has litele or nething to hype for in a Grey- Ascpulth combingtien, Whether elther Mr. Asquith or Sir Edward Grey or Mr. Lhd George felt any qualms about betraying fren trode and other Liberal cnuses | do not Know, Some think that Mr. Lleawd George's character hos changed in office, and that be has developed from an evangelist into an op: portunist. [ venture te think that it is mot sa much bla éeharacter as his poliey—ar palltical strategy—thut has ehunged with the clreumstances, Born in a poor home in a moewntulnows district of Woles the boy lost his father at an early are, but woe brought up and elucated by an uncle, for whom Air. Lloyd George always cherished a warm affection. The uncle was of course a Radieal. The boy wae too clever for the farm. He was quick-witted and eloquent. He might have beon trained for the ministry, but in the end it was decided that he should become a acliciter. He aoon distinguihed him- self in the minor law courts of Wales, and on the political platform, as a ¢ehampion of the «mall tenant farmer— uavally a Nonecontormist—and agricultural laborer against the ald ‘Tory Anglican society and the English or Anglicized landlords: His emerrence as a brilliant orator and de bater both in Welsh and in English eoineided with the enfranchiseneent of the agricultural laborer, Thia tool effect at the general election of 1435, when Mr. Gladatone, a convert to Home Rule, asked for a majority large enough te deal with the problem of Irish government. Theagrarian feud was pretty bitter, and almoet coincided in Wales with the feud between Welsh nonconformity—the free churches, aa they . were called—and the Church of England. Broadly speaking, those who attended the Anglican churches in Wales were Con- servatives or Tories, though of course there were a few like Mr, Gladstone who were strong churchmen ss well as Liberals in polittes. Those who attended the fren churches —Calvinistic Mothodists, Baptists, Primitive Methodists, Independonts, or Coan gregationalists, andacon—werenearly all of them Liberals oF Radleals: and as they algo gpoke Welsh for the most purt they were inelined ta bee Welh Nationalists. Mr. Lloyd George, to wae a vulgar ex- Presaion, went the whole hog. He took up Mr. Chamberlain's Radical Program, is- sued fin E83 or 1884 by Joseph Chamber- lain, John Morley and others. Hedemanded the disestablishment and disendawment of the Anglican Church in Wales: he sought te undermine the power of landlordism, and to introduce emall holdings; be wanted temperance reform, including local option, which means the right of a district to prohibit the retail sale of intoxtesting liquers, and 80 to putan end to public houses and saloons: finally, he wis in favor of encouraging the Welsh language, Welsh music, Welsh poetry, and of reviving a Welsh nationality, Opposition to fhe Boer War FTERa time his own ambition and local favor found him asent in Parliament. He came to London and estab- lished himself there as a solicitor, But the law was only o second preference, His interests were ecntered in politicos and Parliament; there he fought for the Welsh Radical cause with an when prambsling enthusiasm which made him rather chnoxious ta old-fashioned Liberals and good party men, whe long remembered bow his critics of the Welsh Establishment bill, brought fn by Mr. Aseulth as Home Secretary in the lust year of Lord Rosebery’s adminiatra- tion, hastened the fall of that unfortunate and distracted government. Tt fell in the summer of 1895. Four years later, after the Jameson Fiaid, when Mr. Chamberlain and Sir A. Milner involved Great Hritain and the empire in a war with the two Boer republics, Me. Lloyd George, following Mr. John Morley and Mr. Brece and other distinguished Liberals, threw himeelf vigorously into the fray as an opponent of the war, He denounced it a8 an unrighteous and im- pecialistic attack upon the independence of two amall re- publics, undertaken in the interests of the Hand mine owners and oof “the Kaffir circus""—as the gold-mine sec- tion of the stock exchange waa colloquially called. Some members of the Chamberlain family were connected with Kynochs—a firm which manufactured explosives. Mr. Lloyd George said bitterly, “The British Empire has to expand in order that the Chamberlain family may con- tract.” His opposition to the war infuriated the Imperialists and Militcrista. He was teld by the Liberal Imperialists Lard Rosebery, Sir Edward Grey, Mr. Asquith, and their frienda—that he was ruining hia career as a Liberal poli- tician, and that he would mot be admitted into the mixt Rosebery administration unlese he modified his attitude, Ar. Lloyd George, however, had the courage of his con: victions, Poesibly le felt that the majority of the Libern! entitued on Doge #4)

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12 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Man With the Metal Fa« By Richard Washburn Child oY 4 Tr OU do not suppose [ wanted i this thing dane?" i assumed it. The proposal was not mine.” “You ought to knowit & not like - me to get into this kind of thing.” She listened tothe cold hard voice of this supreme egos, resting her magic-working finger tips on the other edge of his desk and calmly studying him with frank deep-bloe eyPA, “You wouldn't come to my slu- dio,” she said lightly, "And I do nok think TP would have considered working in the offier of any other man." “Then why in mine? Beenuse f offered to pay whatever you sled?" "No. Not at all. [ wanted to do your head.” “Well! Well!" Hewasimpationt; hewss pleased. “Is this to be done for your pos- sisaton't" shit auked. “No—my mother,” Her face lighted imperceptibly. “She wanted tt Pride, mother's pride. And as she hos never mule up ber mind to leave the old bome und come on to New York—well, you understand. A present.” “T think I da." Haslam began te rustle the papers in ddlrawer. He was through with this preliminary conversation with. her. -Beatrice Wheaton had heard of him that he could show the end of his interest in anyone, even in the cake of distinguished high cormemis- slonere of the Allies who had wanted to thake him a superpurchasing agent during the war; M. Haslam at thirty-eight closed interviews as a King closes them, dismizsing one or many of his subjects, He now had cloaed this interview. Nevertheless, when he looked up after several minutea ahe waa till there gazing at him. He was not skilled in women's facea; he did not often. look inte them, and certainly ht tever looked into them as on Jools at the contour of a country which beckons exploration. Hesnw onlya young woman, not tall, whose: eyte were of the clearest penotrat- ing quality, so that at once they im presed one as being the center of her personality. Sha: wos mrt a glorious henuby, but an eternity af graced health appeared toe flaw owt from her like a kine of golden aura Her bulr, perhaps, gave that suggestion. Same long- Aoutihed sadness half covered with o certain bitterness of expression was disclosed about her mouth, “Well Well? “T think they are wrong,” she sald. ad Wheat" The ticker on his desk interrupted! her anawer. He seized the narrow tupe, gluncing at the little blue figures hungry. She wonderad how this hunger could grow so keen. What would he do with more money? At thirty-five he had armassed his fortune, Speculatar, promoter, man- ager—keen, resourceful, famed. How could he make so much obeisance te a little tape when the sea around Capri was 20 blue, the night cries of Wuchang ao stimulating ta the imagination, the laughter of children on the filthy streets of the Fast Side ao compromising of Bternity? "Who te wrong?" ia They," "They?" "Those who have spoken of your appearance.” “Yes, yes. What do you meant" “T think there are two depths in your face, Mr. Haslam. Lam looking for the deeper.” He glared at her sternly, “Lam not used to looking at myself very much,” he said in a chilled volee, “The lost wapuper man or magazine reporter ar whoever tL was sald this of me." He picked wp ow clipping and read: “‘Haslam hes one initial, M. Dt is snid in the biographical sketches that M. stands for Manfred, bot no one eolls him Manfred, and he signs only M. His most intimate friends call him Em. FEEVITRA TED BF . ws 4 t 4) - i} 1 “ater, Molam, May I Bree Down Deed ot Foor Feet if Fou're Hot the Living Image Right Hou of Taat TAing on the Maneet rt It is said that only two persons take that familiarity. One ia his mother, and the other a barber in Nolan, Illinois, whe used te go to school with Haslam and licked him in a fight." He read this pussage and then waved his long fingers. “That's not the pert," he said. “Here. Yea. ‘Haslam has a face like ugateware. He is handsome, virile, and curries o fine dignitied head. It ia a head of bronze, When anyone goes to an art gallery one may be impressed by a bronze bust, but one does not go to an art Museum to make an impression on such a head. Haslam. is like a thing of stone or metal; he may or may not make an impression on you, but you certainly never may hope to make one on him—and see it. He is unmarried. He has a oettal face,"" He paused with a smile of satisfaction. He aaid, “That is all 1 know—what they say. Are you gure you care as much as you did?" “Toa work on you? Yes." “Where ia your studio, Misa Wheaton?" “WhyT" She looked back at him steadily. "Tam mot eure this ia the beat place to make a portrait.” He paused, looking around his spacious and severe office, vit may be that my mother had something ta do with it,” He spoke almost timidly. “She has been a remark uble woman, Same day — “Same day—you will tell me? When you come for a sitting?" “You would not consider it a pretty atory—vyou." z “Tt affected your expression?” “No doubt. Doesn't one's expression grow out of ex- perience and training?" a pe He looked at her a tessn with amervous gesture ah the lower part of er frau whirl of her sable etole. “T thought you would ci mouth," he said, ame lawup eold, merciless way. And yet aa his eyes tu ward ler aa she went owt o menta later he was wore ee ead looked at ber so mo waa onlyawoman. He h, looked like that at mirigy w all his Wife. The ream, gathering winter dusk, ites ce the faint sounds of steaari bling in the harbor, appear warmer. Perhaps it wis hearer, after all these yrs within. He pushed aside 3 his personal selling orders sa out calling any of his secret wrote on hip ealemdar “* ‘Tl! at four” and then stared ou sudden onslaught upon th glass of swirling moist snow That snow was late, Spri lingered, and came mow in tr ous blts interrupted by cc sleet, as if winter retrenti hacking wway snarling and is it went. When Haslam her studio building ond | limousine with the muffled + the door below, he seated wentup in theclevatorthator luxurious corridor the wester dows threw abundance of sunlight. He did net pause to look ak the molst clay figures, the ens table with its piles af sketches water eolor before anatehir hated out of the warmth of he saving quite abruptly, “IT oj tell you the story I promised, not a story; it & just—facts. es, abe gal, offering bi elganetbes, “Never amoke,” he said, down und looking up at the expo of sbeylight, “My father weet away someche, He left my mother, He stepped ta enile ernica the expression on the gitl's fas “ Thave no delicacy of narrat he sald. “I om not a talke merely state the fact. You were interested the other Yes. Now ltellyou. My father went away with a ro distinguished woman. What she aan in him 1 do know. He left our town, and afterward I was born." Misa Wheaton aroae, went to an alnvost shapeleas | a pliable clay covered with aweated drop of water, caressed it as if offering it temptation to become ¥ Haslam watched her hands and the whiteness of her | where the sleeves fell back from her bare and quite bi tiful ares, “The truth is that my father and his performance Thy making.” She modeled on and said vaguely, “How!” “The effect on amy mother,” he replied. "I would be telling vou this if T had not mentloned lt ipadverter the other day. I don't know anything about prenz inftuence, but I know nine-tenthe of a man's or vome destiny is made before they are sever year, My meat never learned ta hate my father, She will de think he was trapped. But she hated the woman. She hated women. She had no merey on women, She thought ne of them was ever straight or true. She eves will go to! prave hating herself because she is a woman. Natura enough, I abeorbed that hate.” ; Beatrice waa not ao young that ale had not acai poise, The mere struggle to attain the position in hers to which she had climbed gave her a full measure ol n ture self-balance, and something also of power over othe Her lips parted slowly. “TL know what you are going to my," Haslem o claimed, “You are going to say that [ de pot lok aby) with hate,” “Not at all,” he replied. what I waa going to say," “But sev i Aoe't matt

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| THE SATURDAY EVENING POST = Tt is possible to love women—in a sense—lightly—and cos hate them profoundly,” he said. = knew. be - Asd you will not forget?” he asked anxiously, See chook ber bead with a smile, She anid, “In another = oes poo willl ie telling me that eu Le dangerous to rT wetore.” Ge Oe oot leugh; he only replied os if to pairaue his Temagret, = said my father mode my succes Shearnhedaguin. “Isthe key tosucces, hateal women?" “jt eliminate: a great deal—a great deal of diversion. 4 eer con bee himself in only one thing. Lf he does it ina someon be better keep away [rom Wall Street." = Rh here, as your eulogist said, you obtain a metal face." Se refosed to recognize the banter and said soberly, =| keve concentrated.” “0 suocessT” a ' she aopped her work now and even wiped one little Soper with ber sculptor’s apron ao that she could throw terk strands of red-gold hair which had e‘rayed forward toward ber forehead. “T wonder how siccessful you are?” she said as if to “te goooeefol asomy mether ever hoped, She taught =e bow. The best service I could render, she anid, was ‘co oe to be succesful, Monoy docs more than anything «<. [anyone stood betworn me und success that person sceht te be stepped over, around or on." By book —or crook,”’ Bentrice suggested, “Tee newer bad to play any other way than square." ”“ Merciless, however?” she suggested. TSe't Was fo priswer,. he nodded and went to work ance more, poring great fees and breaking great bumps of the plastic material seay. They fell with dull thumps into the pall at her feet, ecd then the purr of the eatlike city rose up fram the streets cod from the open space: af the qeck woth tte hare trees, and en- = “ered the stodio with the false sacm kumary of the spring alr. ‘Soe and then she stopped to owt 2t Hashim, whe, with o cowl, tutmed the pages of an anehe trctoral journal, ~ There io you livetT" ew ced at bot. © Whore" toe adel "My pert =eet—Beeker—my man. Two teephones. Private wire to Chi- eye. Arefricerator that makes "5 (88 artificial ice Get the j-ttere?™ “Your den?" she inquired in atone which he believed waa Er tKIneg. He face Gt wp with a smile at wholly pleasing. “Yea, you ov thinking it-is a kind of wolf's =. iiwould please my mother to bear that, She learned to ‘wirve that we are all wolvea— spealy women, I"m not ao hypnosis 1, too, am a wall,” “T have known wolves be- fore” ehe said ine voice almost “Em. “Especially one,” he said, in- LiPoELing his speculations, “Probably sometime age be did Esl ge you warning, I do." She showed her utter SUFprise afd be lagghed. “Tt was that lek aeaed your mouth,” be mid “Women only get thatfrem aime single — disillusionment." “| have oot been disillu- sone she cald quietly. There Tel a farm, tender quallty in her race be bad not heard be- fon “@hen Tam disillusioned Tekal be quite ready to die. He boked about at the ex. sogte of her work. “No.” gad he at laet, golng ‘att iato the architectural mag- ame, “Ede not think you have t= dallasioned. You could rot muke these plaster girls ao lula! fy, these bronze men ae la eagernesa for living. But [ de oot wpeak with authority that, [ksow the market. I ome the Street. 0 kenow the euf ind all hia tricks. That's eally about al] [ know," “laoader whether you know paell, M. Haslam," she said. she He ureae, yawned and stared al her. His face, its long nose, iia high brow, its cold eyes, ita firm mouth—all were like metal. “An uppolatment.” be sald. “Enough today. Day alter to-morrow, eh?" He took his hat in his brisk man- ner and with the rapid motions of his well-preserved, boun, strong body, his quick legs, hie active arms. “You are no wolf," ale geld, “si wolf dees not live on fear.” “You think TD live on fear?" “Perhapa.” He went out without replying, Just a if it were nothing of consequence to deny of te affirm. The next sitting brought no reference to ‘the con venea- tion of the first. He only said when he come in, “One has to look at you several tinves to be sure you're beautiful." Beatrice may have considered that it was impolitic to reply to this. She made no answer ag she took the wet eloth from the head of clay. “So you've been working!" he exclaimed. “While I was not here, What a memory! It looks a lot like me now!" He saw staring back into his own face the roughly modeled face of a man of iron will, somewhat cruel, with eraft and cunning around the eyes, and a firm, inflexible, silent mouth, “Tal he said, eyes!" He came near, holding out his hand. When she took it he turned her fingers over, examined the fair pink skin and put his other palm over them, *“WellT" he said, “T anderstand," she replied. “Ton ane met in love with goyone?” he asked. “Wa,” she sald. “What an amazing mon you are! So sure of yourself," “OF myaelf—yes, Of any other—no." She did not pull ber hond away, "You have eves, Beatrice Wheaton,

TAere War a Ware, Teader Goality ta Ber Foice Be Nad Not Weard Before, Dirtifustoned I Shot! be QGalte Ready te Ble" “Fes Foam 13 “Lam direct," he said. “I tell you that there are two relations a sensible man can have toward a woman, One is that she is a piece of property. He parades her as a pos- seasion, She is his. He hangs jewele on her, The other is Chat she is a thrilling amusement. He takes her in his arma. He is tender, He is kind. He grows thred. The first isn bad investment for a man; the second a bad one far 1 woman,” “And that is all?" “Absolutely, My mother says —"™ The expression of complete impatience and Intolerance which passed across her face as he mentioned his mother uppesrad to excite him. “What do you care what my mother taught me to be Heve!” he exclaimed. “What's that to yout Why do you resent it? What interest have you in me? I'm a wolf— a man with a metal feree,” “M. Haslam," she said in a voice which lacked all sure- ness, all poise, “Mi. Hoslom"—ns if some magic was in that mine. He leaned nearer to her, He said, “You didn't take your hand away. I'm net an oracle, But I know we all have our hungers. Sometimes I foel things like that, just the way I feel the market—just the way I feel the result of a big industrial deal. You have your hungers. You can pretend to be a masterful young woman with standing, income, independence. Nevertheless, for tenderness you would give a great deal." She was silent, “Tt would be the sane if someone elee—not me —ecame and held your hands warmly between his own,” She shook her head and said, “That is something of a eruelty."" "To youl” he asked. ; "No," ahe said. “Por the moment 1 was thinking that th was mot fair to you,” He loft her then and walked about, thinking, Some- thing in his perplexed scowl caused her to go te the clay and tew:h the plastic forehead boldly with her twe thumbs, pressing hastily and nervously a new contour. “Tar not lacking tn a eertuin kind of tenderness,” be suid wt last. She did net answer, “Tio you ever take Ayers in Wall Street?" be inquired sud= deniyv. “If you with to do so I emul ——" She interrupted sharply then, butinalow voice. “Why should I take the thing you call flyers in Wall Street?” she asked. “I have no particular wee for meney. I think I have more than I de. serve already, and certainly more than I want,” “For God's sake!" he ex- claimed spontaneously. “What do you work for, then?” "To make your likeness tell the truth.” "To the world? Or me?" he naked ns if expecting an answer, The sun's raya were coming in then in a shaft of light which fellfulluponherhead. He stood looking in simiration at the hrilianer with which her rich colle of heir cought this light and with startled wonder at the drape of emotion upon her cheeks, “Perhaps,” he said under hia hreath, with the suggestion of oe who feels he has awakened enuiment, and having said this to himself besat up more prowdly like a great king and with an implacable look upon his fare, “When [owas eight I was taught the lives of great, stern men,” he gald, “Poinstakingly taught. That was when softness and weakness were taken wut of me, T can tell you.” “Were they? “shesald aleent= raided ly, “Certainly, “he replied. Cops tainly. FE For the rest of the time he remained thinking, staring far away, o@ when ut his desk he often Planned his moves on the exchange aod in the industrial workd., Qeensionally he could see her at her work, a Agure of whole some well-being, the activity af (Cantinued on Page 34)

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ii THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Apréif : L’Alouette, or Silken Vengeane By GEORGE KIBBE TURNER FEE uf FR AWTE BD N MONDAY morning, November seventh, a tall, dark, elegantly dressed man—quite evidently a stranger from some metropolitnn district —stopped before a wide, attractive shaw window on the main street ofa well-knewn Pennsylvania city. He stopped, set down the handsome traveling ease he was carrying, and gazed deeply into the window, He had done this for several minutes —staring in every nook and corner with sharp attention—when suddenly, as if under the impulse of an emetion he could not control, he lifted up both arms at once and shook bath fists together toward the window with a hoarse and ugly wath. “They're all alike, by ——" he sald, “T'd like to kill the whole of them.” A passer-by, noting his surroundings, would have been at a loss properly to explain his unusual conduct. efore him ag he said these threatening words, inside the high whitelighted window, five lovely, dinphanously clad fe- male figures gazed back at him in cold and sypercilinius beauty. Banks of pure and fluffy white shone on either side: single garments lay upon casual furniture—each in= dividually displayed with all the tender loveliness of some rare exotic bloom, And in the extreme background an unobtrusively and artisticolly arranged sign onnagnere what every eq alrendy seen: Undies of Distinetion, This was all apparently that wes in the windew to which the stranger, now lowering his fists, wis again hoarsely und profanely speating, "There isn't one of them, by ——" he said, “that won't lie to you! Deceive you!" And as he spoke these words, in sheer anger he spat upon the sidewalk, But now, his violence somewhat subsiding, he stropglec quite evidently to recover his self-contrel, “Well, here goers!" he sid at last, “We'll have it out with him!" Placing @ curefully set smile upan bis fevtures, rearrang- ing his modish and jountily tied tie, he took wp his travels ing case from the sidewall: beside him with o gesture of determination and disgust. And the lovely lodbes tn their underwear gazed at him with delicate disapproval as he passed away and out of sight beneath the yreat gilded sign which announced: MM. W. Praether & Co. He had searcely entered the main door when down the center aisle he saw the thin back, high ears and slightly kena liege of the man he was stcking. “Geod morning, Mr. Dunder," he said, The smal! thin man with the singularly heavy mustache turned sharply, with the quick, Jerky movement which often marks the easily irritated, “Gead martin’, sir-r-r," be said in a curt Scotch accent and a yvelee which in every way confirmed his first appear- ance of irritation. ‘“Nioww what ean | de for yout" "T want to talk tajy¢ou— just a minute,” anid his visitor, “Well! gald the other, standing waiting mow in the manner of aman whee is irritated, knows he is irritated, and knows he always has a perfect right to be irritnted when he wants to. The face of the stranger flushed suddenty ond richly, “T want to ask you o fair question, that’s all," he said. a YF To Wv F f iW RG ris “Fg be a Lee to Fe, Be Off With Fe— Feu and Far Fiougtierl"* “Tha sooner ye oak it the quicker ye'll be dane!" sald the other in the welkknown provestdal speech ‘of the Seateh, "sk i!" be sald in the high valce of the easily irritated, A Bush of intense and angervernable emotion lit in the face of the man before him. His cyes stored back, hard, ughy and uncompromising. With one hand he pointed in the direction from which he had come. “What have you done with my Alouette?" asked the stranger in loud, clear, unmistakable tomes, “Teo ye know who ye're talking ta, Mr. Eldder?" in- quired the manoof wham this add question was osked, “"T do, yes," suid Mr, Kidder firmly, oVe're talking ta the junior partner of this house!" the ather stated with a prolonged and impressive stare, "T'm talking to the man whe made an agreement with me—three agreements! And I'm asking him a fuir ques tion: What about my Alouette?" “our Alowette?" replied the other, with real or feigned Surprise. “os, sit, That camisole [ sold you bere to weeks ago—for a special!" “This a Monday morning,” sald the junior partner in a very positive vole. “You Hot Nim There," Ne Wor foylag, “Till F Get Them Ready. Glow Dim o Litile More Air if Sa Needs fet “All right," assented Mir, Kidder. “Say it ia!" “This is Monday morning,” repeated the easily irrita junior partner, slepping Lo one side of the aisle. “I oh no time bo skitter on with ye upon yer Alowettea [" “Lat me ask you this first," said Mer. Kidder, black his progress against the counter and a high pile of gi hums. “Haven’t I given you in the past three mon three specials?" “If ye hove, what then?” responded the other tartly “First that neck speciulty—La Bubette—that I ga you gin price to retail at one dollar,” The junior partner stood silent, “Tid you sell it at one dollar—or one thirty-five?" Bat the other still refused to answer, “That was three months aga! Two montha ago, ont next trip, did T let vou have a good thing In knickers —c A-1 fancy La Regina knickers, in topegrade heavy eat ata price to let you sell them at five dellars fat? Did y sell them at five dollars with o rowel ills ay, the was © agreed? Or did you put them out t $6.%—with window display at all? ‘And now this time | come along and give you @ pri on this latest thing of curs—this L’Alouette. You agre ing to put it out aso special at two dollars or $198, At you ta give me alse go good full display at your wint opening.” Mr, Dundee now lifted up his eves and his musiache ; if about to speak—but did not yet do so, “Naw did | get my window diaplay, or dida't 17" aake Mr. Kidder, “Did you sell it at two dollars fat—or a ¥OU putting: it ogt the Way they tell me down the stree at F2.487" “Tf we are, what then?" said the junior partner, speal ing at last, but with a question rather than an anewer. Ared if that's the ense,”” asked Mr, Ridder, “is it fa! for you te write in te my heoas that the goods I sell you can’ he moved?" But again the other answered merely with snothe question, “Hove ye hod yer say?" he inquired with an unchang ing face, “Becnuse if ye hove,” he said, and shot a dead! lance from over his singularly heavy mustache, “he off!" “Is that the way you talk, Mr. Dundee?" ssid thi other, "Be off with yel Off my premises!" replied the othe: with shrill and rising fury. “You and yer Alogetles anc ver La Reginas and yer Rabettes!" “Man to man!” endeavored Mr. Kidder for the last time. But now he stopped. For the junior partner, 9th one last and venomous glanee, had turned open hb beel and walked away. Mr. Kidder stom! watching the counter comer #hich he finally rownded, clenching and unclenching his hinds,

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THE SATURDAY =T wish to God I was nich!” @ saad then, half audibly, with iabeecet passionate fervor, “1 ee | hed about amillion dollars! t aly fore ee I'd —— presen great human ee. which has been in the eas af eo many under similar ireametances, he slightly eaocotbed his hair and tir, passed =. ated farmed inte another aisle acing toward the entrance to ers chem, attractive soprano 11.7. u yemdeuray up he saw the (speaker, a slight, vivacious irae, carefully and modishly breed, beside a display of silken pursmenits at one comer of the ladies'-underwear department: Well, hew are youT I haven't seen you for a dog's ie.” she anid, showing her excoodingly white tenth and feacding out with unfeigned cordinlity her ge suse hand. which Mr, Kidder grasped heartily, “Well, how's Luella?” he exclaimed, his face lighting © erth an unassumed pleasure. “How's the girl?" For she was an oid acquaintaner of his, and a good freed im the trade. Luella B, Smith, ber name was—the peetant beper in the ladies*-underwear department. ‘Look! What were you muttering ubout all by your ome, coming down the aisle?" she uosked brightly, roctinuing ther mutual inquiries. “(, me? (1h, nothing,” sald Mr. Kidder, his gloomy eeet-minded manner suddenly returning. “Sol ‘Wihat was it?" she Mir. Eidder, warmed by the bright s-mpathy in her voice, dightly rearranged the jeweled pin in his the. “Leck,” be asked her—half amiling and half serbous ot ente—“ did vou ever wish you had a million dollars?" “(Did I ever wish I had a million dollara? Why, oer- tamly I have,” said Misa Luella B. Smith, in the quick, erent, Gvely voice which was evidently characterlstle of ter, “Dent everybody —sametime?" “TF wow Ihe tt,"" asked Mr. Kidder, going on with his yeestioning, “what would be the first thing you'd do?" ~ Tae first?" she asked, reflecting. “Ven “Ob, I don't know, I'm eure. Do you?" “Ld. Yeu!" guid Mr. Kidder very definitely. "bat * "Td mukce this my last trip," eaid Mr. Kidder, “You would!” said Misa Smith, in evident admi- ration. “T would. Yea! said Mr. Kidder, his emotions ending, a men's often do, under the admiring erupathy of woman. “And [* d do just too things,” be outineed buursthls. “with halfofthem! I"dshow them ap fire And then ["d smash them! Pers sculy!™ ind be weet om, under the emotional stimulus of er ettertien to tell his troubles with hie mestom- em—the retailers who got all the cuts they could of of tim and his hows, refused to give the public ‘se hemeit of them, and then complalmed they cagdn't move his goods! “Td show them all up,” exclalmed Mr. Kidder, “ond then Ud gmaah ther !™ “Well Eave to be looking out for you," sald Mae South, with a suggestive look, “one of these “What do you mean?" “Ten when you get your money finally. And yo come around emashing w—on that last trip?" “Whot'sall this? “sshed Mr. Kidder, studying her. “Peds"t I bear somewhere,” she eaid, leaning for- ward er her counter, “that your folks had all kinds of money 7" “What! My follcs!" said Mr. Kidder in apparent aur- “ils eeele—or something—one of thease big men in the ‘np bosimes, Orso somebody told me!" said Miss Srerth “iS, km! That's not my uncle—that's my great- ce” gid Mr, Kidder, now sitting down himaelf on a sutorner's oteol and leaning forward over the counter to tae to ber, "Om my mother's side, e's owt on the Pest Comet, at Los Angeles, I haven't seen him for as. A fet chance I'd hove of getting anything from om.” “They told me that you were named after him," “Ye. And every male child in three generations in my ‘any—and a good share of the females! The way they trp do," explained Mr. Kidder, “with the only man in prr- ‘eet Oreceed,' Hae Stated, “and Come Dip to the Office. Otarr Ateore Comfortably There" the family that's got money. There must be forty, at the amallest count, by this time. He hates them all— but out of the whole forty he probably hates me worst!" “Why? For what reason?" said Miss Smith, her inter- eat ividently still unabated, “T changed the name, for one reason,” replied Mr, Kidder, not unmindful of her attention, “I mever use anything but the initial for the frst name, Justin!" he galid, giving Gb. “Life is hard enough on the read without tralling that hick name all aver the map!" “And yet LT should think "began Miss Smith. ““T'll do this,” Mr, Kidder interrupted her humorously: “TH sell vou my chance for one dollar.” “Your grent-wnele!" said Miss Srilth, ati] muslrig. “He must bea pretty old man! And suppees ——" “Well, ['ll tell you,” Mr. Kidder interrupted again, jollying er. “Tit ever dees eeme trae [ll tell you now just what I'll dol" And he went on, naming dates and places, elaborating armusingly on his theme; while she, on her part, EVENING POST 15 leaning with her elbows upon the counter and her bead quite close to his, listened with the half pleased, half whirnsien! smile of one rehearsing an old and favorite daydream, “The minute my nilllon comea—that'a what I'll fo, said Mar, Kidder, summarizing—his emotions and imagination continually quickening wader her evident enjoyment of thelr common dream. “Tl ge out and show them up—my cus- tomers —Lhe kind that are making a mesa of retailing gools all over the country. Same Vil drop there! Some I'll emash—person- ally! You've no idea how they treat you! [t's worse than you get it here—yourself— working for Uvem£" And Miss Smith nodded appreciatively. “Sond the first place [ll atep,” continued Mr. Kidder, going on with his mutually plowing imagination, “will be right here." And a9 he stated this his hearer not unnaturally a raed her head and eyes to te look around. — “And the firat one,” con- tinued Mr. Kidder—not jooking at her directly for the moment he did not wheerve the curious dazed expression which had sud- denly come upon his hearer’s face—“'the first one I show up right will be right here—when [ talk te old Hoot Mon your skinny litthe friend, Alexunder Andrew Donde!" Interested in his theme he did not yet nvte the strained, fixed, almost carven expression in the fare across the eounter. “And what I tell him will be plenty—and real good for his hairy ald Seoteh soul!" Miss Luelln B. Smith moved slightly from ane foot to the other, but still na sound came from her lips te warn him, “And after that,” sald Mfr. Kldder, jallytiag her—all his old lightness and bueyaney of manner coming back to him We Con Curse £och * ge he elalserated that old familar favertte dream of theira— “Tl tell vou what we'll de. T° eorme in ard get you—and you put an your hat and coat and we'll be of—on our trip around the world! To the Orient first!" he continwed imaginatively. "Free, independent, rleh] We'll be off to Honolulu, shape fing our fingers at the whole bunch, making + our positively last appearance, our last tripl™ His. imagina- tion soaring, still absorbed in what (Cantinwed ont Page #4) Tero of the Wooaday Strollers of the GamrChewing Sec Stepped Before the Theo Windows With aa Eepresion of Dirting® Surerice

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18 THE SATURDAY EVENING (OUR TOWN TO-MORROW POST April Grasddad Seldom Found 2 beoel Piece of Lend Upon Which to Eatabifel a Cley * ; | ‘they nave pr: you may not know your own city. They have probably begun altering it already, or - are planning to do eo, If mot, it doesn't greatly matter, because certain forces at work will compel fur- reaching changes nutomatically, To-morrow your city will have wide boulevards cut through its narrow streets, These will accommodate four, six and eight lines of traffic. They will start at the center and run miles out inte the country. Thousands of buildings willbe torn down. Sharp street corners will be rounded off and the circle and crescent tuke the place of the checkerboard. Did your city fathers, years ogo, lay out a downtown boulevard or two with a strip of parkway in the center? That beauty spot will be necded for traffic, Hut better benuty spots wall appear miles from the downtown section. Blume and tenements will disappear too, There will be a general grading up of ving standards and an equalization of real-estate values. When you drive a ear the traffic cop will no longer be nhle te bawl you out, for he will dizappear fram street crossings, guiding traffle by electric signals [rom a point where he can see everything but say nothing—that is, if he detsn"t disappear altogether. For there will be double decked street crogalngs at congested points. And trafhe at ordinary street crossings will be apeeded up by diffused lighting which killa the shadows that now make them dangerdus, When vou go for a walk it will be a far eafer and more earnfortable form af exercise than to-day, for the bulk of sutemoblle traffie will either be transferred to elevated reads for autonvobiles alone, or disappear into automobile subways. The trolley cara will disappear underground or be re- placed by motor omnibuses, which are not only more flexi- tHe than the trolley, dodging in and out of traffic, but are mare flexible in routing. Elimination of tracks and central power planta will give desirable economies in investment and. operation. forting Out the Traffic OUR city will be linked with others all over the state and country by great trunk motor highways, with lighted trate signals and perhape traffic officers. Much of the moter travel between cities will be out of sight, on sep- arate highways that do not enter the towns at. all, but skirt them. There will probably be separate freight highways for moter trucking, both in the cities and between them, And though these far-reaching changes will cost hun- dreds of millions of dollars, improved property values will come near paying for them in many cases if they are conbed owt tn the right way—and the sooner the better, These changes, far from being dreams, have moetly begun taking shape ajrendy, in this city or that. The automoltvle is at the battom of it all, With the number of cars increasing to one for each two to nine fumilies in different cities, our cities have developed street trafic comparable with high blood pressure. Loess than iwonty years aga New York established its first traffie- contral system, adapting the methods of London, The By James H. Collins simple waye wo the policeman’'s hand to move a few cara across Fifth Avenue at Forty-second Street in New York has new developed loto a system of moving ther In wnits af five and ten blocks by electric signal, and atill they do nok move fast enough, When a new system for moving nutomoliles in blocks of ten in New Work's theatrical district was installed the firat night, a single misunder- standing of signals jammed five blocks of automobiles together in a jiffy, interlocked and at a standstill. Street accidents are steadily increasing through the grawth in automobile traffic and [ts entanglement with pedestrians and slower vehicles, “Say, that thing'll never be practien I" exclaimed a New Yorker when he fret saw a horseless carriage. "Why, a man has te go ahead of it with a red flag!" Within five yeurs he waa driving an autamoalile himself, When horses and pedestrians became accustomed to the automobile the man with the red flag was no longer neers: sary. But toelay he is again walking ahewd, figuratively, as the traffic policeman. They have put him in towers, with red, green and yellow electric lights, ond made other ingeniaus improvements, but be bs fundamentally wrong. “Speed limits on the autemeble are a paradox," says a New York tradejournal publisher whe has glyen much study te the traffie problem. “The automobile fe designed to run fast. That is its whole function, attraction and serie. Limit it, and you lage all its benefits. Speed Limite and traffic contral have become neceeary because we have not yet learned to sepirate the automobile from slower traffic, and give it highways af its own," The first railroads ran through city streets and across eountry roads at the sume level, Growth in railronds themselves, and the horse traffic which they stimulated, eHused many accidents and necessitated the slawing diovan of spends, Only when hoisted alawe other traffie and Riven their own right of way were the full poesibtlithe: of fast passenger and freight travel realized. To-day, like the iron horse, the gasoline horse needa its awn right of way, nat only in clties but between therm. Few of eur cithes were really planned —for the mest part they just happened—and even the best city plans of our fathers ancl grandfathers have been oubrrawn. The cowpath origin of city streets is familiar and armies ing. People delight in ite absurdities, getilng lost in Bos ton's old watertront maze, and verilving the fact that Pearl Street, in lower New York, crosses Broadway twloe. When first settled, Sao Paulo, Brasil—now the Fitts- burgh of South America—was surrounded by hostile Indians, with one friendly tribe headed by Chief Tebyriga. He brought his tribe inte the settlement and built a line of tablns, living there for its protection. Tebyyrriga and his people and the cabins have long disappeared, but the line upon which they stood is now the city's chief street, the Rua Sao Bento, The original street, shaped not unlike a fishhook, is surrounded by a maze of narrow, jumbled, broken alleys that made Sao Paulo probably the complicated elty in the world, yet a perfectly sati tery walking-distance city to those whe knew way about—until the automobile came. Granddad seldom found a perfectly level plece of upon Which to establish a city with roam to grow i direction#, aa in Lendon or Los Angeles. His layout usually gaverned by water, as the old lady discerned 1 she expressed surprise that large bodles of water almost always found mear important cithes. Water ta portation was about all granddad had, so he plebed ov faland like New York or a promontory like Hosten, Ag his tewn site was often complicated by hills, a9 In FP burgh or San Francises. Towns of Three Kinds COWPATH town was often most convenient for get about, so long as it was kept within walking dista and goods were delivered by wheelbarrow, When it larger the cowpath section was extended on a checkerte plan providing for growth, but usually with streets toes 1 row for present-day traffic, and with fur teo few parks breathing places if the job was done several generuti ago. Tf pranddad was very farsighted be laid down a co bination of echeekerbourd and turnpike, ws in Washing and Indianapolis, the tarmpikes radiating lke the spec of a wheel, providing lines of growth, and alse highway: which farmers could bring in food fram the surround country. Tn general there are only these three kinds of town eawpath, checkerboard and cartwheel. A cowpath to tends to congestion at the center rather than heal grow hat the radius, and mukes dandy slams. Thecherk board town grows fester, The cartwheel town grows Mnat of all, and moet evenly ond henlthily. For tha nemsor has been found profitable to cot expensive cartwh boulevards inte old cowpath citties—Buaron Hatsama epent two hundred and fifty million dollam doing in Paris, and London spent forty million cutting Kingsuw from the Strand te Helborn through « mss of dives a rabbit warrens. Dt has even eeen found profitable to je bills and All wp bellows to facilitate growth. Right in, center af Rie de Janeiro there is a three-husdred-fooy populated chiefly by goats and wash ladies, with ayy, monastery at the tap. Its total valuation is prohab],- than that of one good lot on the splendid Avenicly , Branco, from which one could almoat hit a goat wyss stone. Just before the war, it is said, a German syndipg offered to remove this hill free of charge, torsing acres of central business property over to the city. [, hill happens to be dirt instead of granite, a rarity in R de Janeiro, and the syndiente was to make fe progt | filling in a hollow elsewhere and selling the lind. Looking back now, we seo that gronddad wu often fy gighted in his town planning. But he Incked informatin When he laid out 2 checkerboard extension abv cowpay New York a hundred years ago, his scheme wis excellen Everything came to New York by water then. Shing tic {Continaed on Page Mot)

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* YE 3 wacs born in the hotel business, or right next door wi. We ined in a bigsummer resort. My earliest are of tourists and race horses. My (receries to feed the tourists, and hay to feed bonis Maturelly | grew up to believe that great suc- Se Sere only through inning a hotel or running —— Ti waen't so cosy to pick up a race horse for ete, ee Pf pot 2 job as errand boy in a hotel. .— 9 0 eae born foo close to the races to have any meabect them. At the age of twelve it had dawned ee ee that oll the money won at the track was spent in : | Even the losers had to poy. Nothing could T would be w hotel man and get the money ‘what T hove been trying to do for thirty Teg theory was quite correct, but I found ae wee required in the perfection of detaila poe could be caught in rolls, There were a p that had to be learned, slong pretty well in years, for example, redized what it meant for a puest to walk in Set ete eine hands with the proprietor say, “Well, dy feels good to get back home.” re hotel proprietors who don't realize what ‘ieday. Some of them never even see this E They have an idea that if 0 customer regi Got and pays his bill everything is perfectly Simgee Tirmay be all right, at that. Hut the fellow who mes On talking about home will come back—and bring Ge fends. The other may not. | geet mp first real lesson as to what was required of a eed) heet ina rather odd way. I wos on a month's faestien from my job as night manager of one of the old ew York hotels, and had started South. (eer train wae beld up by a wreck at ep litth town some= gee in Rentocky. We had tostay over all night, Being comes i wandered over the town, There wos o little ete —the Commercal House, of course, The rates were ro dollacs = day, room and meals, #4 Secret Worth Learning ig WAS im the fall and a big stove heated the main ofes. Around this men sat discussing the news of the fsy. The proprieter’s wile, off to one side In a rocking- esas, was knitting, Twas tokd that I ecb get a room—the only ane left— 20 did't mind putting up with os few litle inconveniences, As Ll regietered the lady noticed that I was from New To “De yoo know Mr. Sheppard, of your city?" she asleed. fie sil farm machinery. CHten stays over Sunday.” | bal to dimit that IT did net iknow >. Sheppard, but [had sense enough fot to Legh at the question. “7. Daigh pou did," shesaid, “Wo of bie very mech. [ve been hoping t & would come along. We are sanving i ort King for him. He's crazy aboot nei chicken, and T havea coop full of —> broilers that I'm fatten 2g mn.” H “[ ee them, misellf,"" I | suid, eciling. } Ob Be yom? And do you Eke bet bierolta split open avd oowered with the gravy? That. “ake explained, nathotng my glace at a framed photo- wrape back of the desk, “la =; daugtter, She watudy ing tomir la NewYork. Mr. Shep part bas ican ber since ahe waa a oy little girl: used to cong ber some little souvenir ham te ty every time he 2. [ fend copeelf asking all wsoyt the family and the tres, feeling aa if I had copped in on some old Trineala, [teat this aid lady, who, it wer]. really ran the (Com- ueTca! Lease, that. I waa in the betel business in Mew Yor, She waa evidently im- roa] “Web so many people coming and golng I suppose ru ere made a lot of interesting friends,” she said. vot wae rather an odd way of looking at the hotel suse, | thought to myself, After I had sald good THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By a Hotel Man night and had gone to my room TI pondered over that for along time. I hed not thought of expressing it that way before. The next morning a negro boy knocked on my door to wake me up. “The ole missus thought moa’ lackly you'd want a cup af coffee "fore you got up," he said, “an' I fetched it. Sha say a lot of New York gemmun Jacks it dat way “fore breStus,"" I did like it that way, though I never knew it before. Tt wasn't very good coffee, but ifwas warm and made ma feel good, When I got downstaira I found that the lady actually had fried a chicken for my brea!:fast, a thing I had never aeen before in my life. In New York chicken was a dinner dish, I liked it though. There were no fancy aire and mot much service in the dining room, but the thought of criticism did not cross my mind. In fact I felt exactly as if [ were in somebody's home, It was all new stuff to me, I went to the desk to poy my bill and say good-by, "Qh, there isn"t any charge," said the lady. “You one a hotel man. All hotel peaple are qur gests." “And some day," I declared, after getting aver my as- tonishment, “you are going to be mine, [ hapet* "Maybe, when I go te visit my daughter." When I got back on that train and we hed pulled out I knew that [was a hundred per cent better hotel man than [ had ever been in my life. [ eould have shown that woman many things about business systema and perfee- tion of service, but she had shown me something that no HGcency expert ever dreamed of. As a matter of fact that woman hod glven me the secret to my later success in tle hotel harsinest—a success, I may add, that 2 not small financially. Since that time T have managed o few of the bizgest hétels in Ameriea, T now asalet in runalag a chaln of them. T hove catered to working men, to bul men and ta royalty, T find that they all like exactly the same thing that [liked dawn there at the little old Commercial House. T don't mean to say that T had never had any previous inkling of what the personal touch means in running a hotel, but this visit gave me my first demonstration of what real hominess means. After leaving the summer resort in which I waa born my first job wat cashier in the restaurant of a historle New York hotel—we called them cafés in those days. Aly desk was in a corner of the old bar, where tables were arranged along the walls to serve meals to mem reost of whom were politicians and what we called sports, There | came to know alot of famous characters, and I made a pointe knowing them well, Theman- ager had noticed my familiarity with the names of the patrons and one day he gave me the job os night clerk, Later I got te be night manager, Ul newer forget the arrival there cent night of a man who registered There War o Liddle Note! —the Commercial Hoon, of Courre, é ead a Bly ftece Mected the Mole Office i7 GENIAL HOST from Texas, He wore a big pearl-gray sombrero apd a funny kind of necktie. Across his veat hung a huge watch chain with a nugget of gold aga watch charm. I assigned him te Ream #15. [remember the man and the room number as well as if it was . T guesa it wus the peculiar clothes ond hat that impressed me. It was his first visit to New York. Two years later the Texan came back to our hotel. It wns his second visit, it developed. I shook handa with him and called him by name. Naturally he thought I knew hia name from looking at the register, but I would have known it anyway. “Well, Mr. Potter," I said to him, “if you like, I think scm giv you the anme room you had when you were here Ore, Hesaid nothing, but looked at ma as if he thought I waa erazy—or tricky, “Take the gentleman te Room 316," I directed the boy. T cannet explain it, boat I remembered the number dis- tinelly. [ might have missed it on others, but the former visit of this mun had impressed me, An hour later the Texan came down to the deak, "Say," be said, “that's the dog-gonedest thing I ever heard of in my life, That is the same room that I had be- fore, and T haven"t been in New York for two years,” “T lena Dt wa," T eaid_ “Well, that beats all! That's one I'll sho tell the fellows about when I get home, Sounds like sleight-of-hand, don't itt" Personal Hospitality E DID tell the boys too, During the next few years we bod a steady trade from that part of Texas. The devil of it wos that every one of them dared me to remember hla roam number, Often [ had to do some stalling until T could check ups litth, Bot we all used to joke and have a good time laughing if [ happened to be caught. Profiting by my trip through Kentucky, I was making them feel at home, That idea of personal hospitality got to be a life study with me. Strangely enough, just as I thought I had it down pretty pat [t has risen up to be my most besetting problem, Tf anyone can tell me right now how an ultra- modern hatel, heuskhg ane or two thousand people a night, ean make each of those men und women feol like one of the family he will be a genuine benefactor, Though Lam in the thick of tt and maging to hold my awn, this mad competition in the building of enormous hotels sort of saddens me, It ls changing ther running of a hotel from an art toa busivesa, We ever eall it operating a hotel, The innkeeper of old was a personality, an important factor ia any community. He was a public host and tho reputation af the town often depended upon hls hesp- tality, It dees yet in small tows, To-day the proprietar of one of the great metropolitan hotels is nothing neers than the president of a great stock company, lis success belng rated ba the regularity ond cite of dividends. He rroiplet just as well have his office in Wall Street, Tf be ever sees his patrores it is at some big pullic dinner. Rerely does he meet them In the lobby and tell them that he will cey te give them thelr old rooms. Nor can he find oat Uf they like fried chicken with split biveulta and gravy. These hundreds af vieltors find little of which te complain, hut they wander a9 almlesaly and aa in- personally around the lobbies aa if they were in the Grand Central Statlon. No ilgiteclerk has the time or theapportunity to tell them what ia going on in town and what haa happened since they were Chere before. [don't know how it can be helped. If this auperdreadnought building craze keepa on, the hotels are going to run away from the people, I'm afraid— unless the peaple take a notion to run away first.. Often when I walk from my private office to the i and look down on theimposing lobby filled with this throng of guests, unknown te each other and ta me, I think of that little Com- mercial House back in Ken- tucky. One a hospitable tav- ern; the other a convention hall, Often I wonder if the old lady is still there and if Mr. Shep- pard ever came back, (Continued on Page 42) ft Was ia the Fall

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18 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST A prit THE GOOD UNCLE cof heribboned borses and befrilled children, showed at ite best upon that apring morning: a timid generosity of sun shone upon its young preen, the white of ite marble and the mirrora of its pools: and there wasn a tinkle of chikiren’s woboes and the joyoes- ese of their reves ment, And here, through the gontle and profi pag eantry of it alli went Maurice Bertholot, moving: as in an aimless snunter, his hands tlasped behind him, his cane slant- lei ubder his aren, iis face composed atid: inexpresedve, “Tieaal” mur- mune! one white and-blue-linen nurse toe another wh he passed, “Volt un inoe- aiet = pradimeni coin! at foemi Their eyes fol- lowed hia tall apare figure with real appreciation, He wae one of those perfect products of life who are the bloom. upon the social surface of Faris, complete both inwardly ahd autwardly- from the seul te the it of the cont—to sptisly tte exigencies and its taste, At forty, or therenbout, he had yet the figure and the carringe of the wthlete: there was a sophisticated Tas bery at glace in his every movement: ond his fuce, demurely handsome, wos keen xithout being sharp, and asclfepoascased without arrogance. His aceoutenment— black tie, dark gray gloves, gray felt hot with o deep Wack band—was more than merely quiet: it was even a littl: natheewhly somber in that bonbenmicre of wo Paris Playground, But one felt, on viewing bim, that there must be n ren for that: it must be right or he would not be wearing Tk, His saunter bravght him about a bend in the way; he caught his hands from behind his back to ralse his hat to a ludy who was coming towards him, “Good morning!" he greeted, with the cordial litthesmile he had. “You are dating your footing?" She smiled back and give him ber hand, “Yieng!" she exclaimed, “You here? No, [ have dene my footing. And you—you were meditating, T suppose." “Tet may bef" He accepted her lithe gesture of invitation and turned to strall wt her side, Nurses watehing In the offing smiled meuningly; they knew an assignation when they saw one, they considered: but nurses can be wrong os easily as other jurles. The two chatted a while trivially as they went; but Madame de Leyle glanced from time te time at her com- panion consideringly: she had not missed the somber mabe in his effect. “The voice is the yoice of a bachelor," she ventured ot last, in reply to some small jest of his; “but the costume ls the costume of a widower, There is nothing wrong I hope, Maurice.” He turned his face towards her, yet smiling with that manner of achooled courtesy which wos implicit tn him; but for an testant or two his eyes were grave and pained, "T have lost a relative,” Ine said. "ou would searcely have feared."" "Oh, I am sorry,” Nat He wna nodded. “Yes, be said, “lt was my uncle," She frowned thoughtfully and stole another glance at him. Insenalbly they had slowed in thelr stroll; they came to a stop beside a marble basin whose surface was vet strewn with the dead leaves of last year's water lilles, "Lam very sorry indeed!" she avid, Te Pare Monceaus, that dainty pleasance "she said. “Who was it, Maurice? PEELUITRATE DS By Perceval Gibbon BF JA4MWES AT "Ty Wow Gelng Doors po Leok at the Tea.'’ fale Maortee, “That, oad the Wine Wheo 0 le Red, are the Qaly Tainge to Look Upon Mere" "You are kind,” hereplied quietly, "He was practically iny only relative: he wea very good to me always, But, you know, [ had not seen him for years,” He had one smartly shed [oot on the low parapet of the hasin and leaned forward, staring for a while at the water, She had Ieisure-te survey him again, in profile, the keen quale lines of tha face, its breeding, its humor and tts ratroint: ond ones more her delicate blond brows knithed in thought. She was a woman of the perfect age, some- where between twenty-seven and thirty-two, slim, nearly as toll os he, and brilliantly fair, with that shining quality of fairness which gives to face and neck the effect of gelden flush, Before she married the French military attaché at Washington sho had been Irma Beelden; sho had been a widow since the great battles around Verdun; and there were moments yet, plenty of them, when the vivid American fires flnshed through the social armor af the Purisicnne, "Tell mo something more, Maurice," she said, “You see—we ve been friends. Just whitdoes this mean tayo? He rose upright and dropped hus foot from the parnpet. His uncle had been o wealthy shipbuilder and shipowner; the allowance he conferred upon Maurice had been the Jntter’s entire livelihood—and Irma de Leyle krew that. Muurien, his place in a fastidious world, his undeninble taste in pietures, in furniture, in frocks, in all the apparatus wf elegunce—these were a mere by-product of the daily work in the old-fashioned, brbg-inftested wheres in Mur= weiiles, She had not seen and therefore could not remem- ber, aa he had been doing all the morning, the figure of the Old merchant prince, prc of girth, uprogr bes af vober, wWhite-beardeld and bald but swarthy yet, Aumboyant as the South which bore him and made him—leboring hap- pily, living with gusto, and merely exuding Maurice, his position and his opportunithe: ws a man exudes aweat from hits leds. “Tell me,” inaizted Madame de Leyle gently. "You remenmiber—Lknow! Let uwewalk back and you can tell ma about it.” They moved away ogain, side by side. eked. Onee more be smiled at her, sand frunes," be replicd, She stared. “Ten thousand franes—a yeart" “Well? she “He has left me ten thow- PRES TOW He shook his head. “No, he said, “*] thousand a year, hut ten thisand — po polage! It is ome quarter's installment Wd allowance. And—he eased to sno made: it ap that he ar all simceri is Very pF him! The nO PeLBOT 1 should lea anything. hia wife’a m rea llar—hiz wife"s; and since ma again, and id @ BOM ¢€ second = =oma you know, really; it wa af him te les anything: always goed a} But," ob Wadd armas cla “after all years! Stil aon, YOUR it of course will ——" She consi apeak befor Amusement lit im his. foes “Shall I : nsk hin? *" he gested, haldlir eyes with Shull Tapp him: ‘Sines succes bi father's we succeed nlc paresite'? E twelve years younger than 1; «dn you think siazh an af would move him?” She flushed faintly, “What will you do, then?" His shoulder moved in # restrained little shrug. something, sssurediy, I do not think I shall be red to the husks, exactly. You must wot think nor look, you were in the presence of a tragedy." Tou have many iriends,” she said slowly. “Muny,” be agreed. Many good friends, thaok Gx They wilked for a while in silence, He seemed & reflecting, with a grave gladness, upon his last words, the thought of Irma de Layle touched the mutter in b from another angle, Eis good friends incladed many | af wealth and influence: there would be no dificult) finding him a dignified and comfortable employmest: | even go, the Maurice Eortholet she knew, that com mate work of deliente art and generous Nature, must shattered. An office, hours of rowtine, days abstrac from the life of ewer at mo profit, bo the lite of labor! had ¢alled hirself a parasite, but Irma lew wealtl parasites than he with less of his gift for beautifying: rile. To harness him now would be a kind of murder. “You have rather startled me," she said preentli-. don't know what tosny for the moment. But lam horri distressed, Maurtee 1" He turned ta her at ance with a quick, spontuse gayety of nermonstrance. He was about to laugh arid et her from her concern for him and his fortunes. Buy face showed real palin and sympathy, and hefdl seriou immediate compliunce wlth ber mood. “But you must met be distressed," he said. “To ype net nave told you, but you claimed a rightteknow, I granted your right—I would never deny it. And bagi that, please believe I would have said nothing.” She did not answer, and he went on upon s lighter pr “And really, there is nothing to distress you! Voyogs T am not a hero; I should hate to be ome! When one expelled fram one niche one finds another=net? Ad fy tunately saints are so scarce that there areadeays vara niches!" He rattled on and she listened unsmiling, watehi; him. There had been a time when their freadly intima, had tended to ripen into something more, but at the tin she had shrank from it. And he, with hissagear edral ness and a tact that seemed to her the exeenee of kindne ahd consideration, had forthwith fallen beck to hi: pos tion of familiar end endearing friendship, [t wus in tb

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST if feecblities that she had declined that lay the right of fia he heed epoken. “Pee pet do anything hurriedly," she sold. eum aboot the.” "You must not, indesd!" he smiled. “I will do all the cic. In fact, I am going away temorrey to find iniing space.” - ik bere are you gung?” *Y on would net know it," he told ber, “Tt wo little eoce on the Breton coast=—Le Robain they call it. Twenty =e. an inn of sorts, an occasional Englishman on a Sean belidey, a few stray artists, and for the rest, dull (pen rocks, dull green country, and a sea that snarls when e doe mot sob and always sche when it dors not snarl. (ee cucet think there; there is nothing else to do.” “Le Bohain," she repeated, "T will write—perhups ! isd ge T must go. Ay car is on the avenue.” They walked thither, saying littl, But when she was eaced in the car, while the chauffeur awaited the order to ewe om, she leaned forward suddenly to the window, and the gobd-and-rose of ber face appeared stddenly as in a trace. = Macrice [™ “What. then? he asked. *Vieuriee, you have told mo everything? All that wes S Four mind when you came to the Pare to mect met" Be eed “Touré! he admitted in the swordamun’s scree. “I did cometo meet you. And [have told you all.” Wel —ber ewes searched his face in valn—“ perhaps { will erite,” she said, and aank back in her seat aa the peat car ehd away, He met a friend upon the bovlevard and they lunched together. “The friend was andious, of course, for the news ct the wnele's will was already abroad, and there came duly the question: “And what will you do?" Uscorer was ready for it: be had practiced his answer. *! =eure Fou,” * reported his lunch companion te other "Sends that afternoon, “I weure you, he mocks himself a the matter. He oot bis ease. So, either the inele made ©. 2 hendacme allowance in his Hfhetlme: or the cousin has deciored himself willing ta continue the allowance; or ——" Be shrogged and did not complete the aentence. His beazers shrag¢ed likewikee: they understood the third "T mitst They Came te 2 Jip Beeldé & Marble Bosia Whore Sorfoce Por Pet Sareea iA the Dead Leaves of Lost Feors Pater Litter, ulternative so completely ond unanimously that none ever spolee the word “murriage.” Even alone in his rooms that afternoon, with no eye to murk him, Maurice Bertholet did not relax his compocure, They were charming rooms. Muaurier's home fitted him os arcurately and beeomingly os his clathes. His five or six pictures, his five or six luundred books, bis two or three bronzes, his china, his rugs, bis furniture—the choice of them ane their arrangement were as charactoristic of him os his smile or his eplgrams, As he sat with his cigar in his smoking room he looked about him, taking in the sum and detall and sleniiicance of his environment, Tt would remain his for aspect of days that he could number on his fingers, He made no movement or grimace of anger or regret. His mind was made up; his purpose was like a binding document, completed, signed and made effective, filed away tn hs clear and steudy brain, not tbo be amended or tampered with. His life, the anly life for which he wes equipped, was at an end. Then it was time for death, He had selected death os the lewst of the evils among which he might choose, and it remained only te enel up in deeney. The alngle inn at Le Robain—an old straggling stane farmhouse converted to hoapitable uses—is aeeustonwed to urtita and economical touriata:; it ean even rie to the exploring of strayed motorist and the oc occasional weulher= bound yachtaman. But It wos all too frankly puzzled and awed by M. Maurice Bertholet, of Paris, It gave him o vast bedroom with a tangle of beams crisscross om its celling and a curtaimed bed that lovked like a traveling theater and amelled like a cireus. Theinon had been sworn at for that in its time; but M. Bertholet only smiled delight- edly and delightfully and murmured words of praise. He unlocked a auitease and set forth tollet gear of ivory ane silver, pajamas and a dressing gown of silk, and descended later te the tabled'hote dinner in the likeness of one who has Just come out of a comfortable bandbox, There were already a couple af elderly artists in resl~ dence; they, with M. Bertholet and a lanky, didident English youth in hairy tweed clothes, had the long table ta themeelves. The youth had the place opposite te him, and zeveral times Maurice marked hisehy eyes nervously recan- noitering him. He smiled inwardly: there had never been a time when he suffered from that lack of address and. self-possession, and Lt struck him now as childlike and-pa- thetic. Ge was in the mood to be gentle with all munkiad. He looked up and caught the youth staring. The latter dropped his eyes at ones and reddened hotly. “An Englishman, is it not?” inquired Maurkee plese antly in English, “Ye-yed, air,” heaitated the boy. He eould net have been more than twenty-one, “You are an early visitor to Brittany,” went on Mau rica, “Eapecially to Le Robain. Do you stay here long?" The lad explained eagerly. Plainly be had been miser- sae aly till now, and was famished for want of talk and company. "WA fellow in our office” had told him about Trittany, and he had never been out of England before, “So pe eon as I could get away from the office I etarted of, But I haven"t seen much yet. Still, it's better than the offien,”* Maurice nelded, with a full sense that what Le Robain held for him, too, was better than the office. me a easily beliove it, he said. “You will be sorry ta EG “Aho! The youth laughed nervously. "But I'm not going back te it—not ever. I'm my own master now, No mort olfice far mae," iy Really!" “You see"—the boy was gluttonous for a listener—"‘on my twenty-first birthday I came in for my money. My father wanted me to keep on at the office ——" “Then your father is still alive? [t was not his money?" "Oh, Lord, nol’ The boy Inughed. "I'm richer than him now. Tt was on uncle of mine—Unelo C » My mother's brather—that left it te me." Maurice poured himself a glass af wine and drank it slowly. He relapsed inte French for one instant, ‘Titers! he said, and be resumed bis English forthwith. “I, tos, had a good wnaele.” he remarked, looking at the youth with aatile, “Like you, 1 am thetson of my uncle, Two of us, and we meet at Le Robain. Dt isos impossible as oe bs bro." The young fellow gaped uncomprehendingly. “ Did— did your uncle leave you money?" he asked etupladliy. "He did.” replied Maurice. “You have no monopoly tn that kind of unele. He left me all T have. And like you, it (Continued on Page #3) ee ar “Fam Fery ferry Iadeed!" She Jated

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20 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April: The Print of My Remembranc By AUGUSTUS THOMAS -cnescmrass Cherokee, however, careful of course to let nobed overhear me, I gave it-all the insinuation a man cou! any phrase of whose meaning be wae etill a bit wnes I repeated ft while on the little bwekskin pong so ms forget it. Am old Indian fighter at the post with w got friendly couldn't translate it, Friday night I ree to take a chonce, "Two equiws were buying suger grocery, The big storckeoper was speaking Chero them. After they left I got nearthe door, because are things a pretty girl can aay to astranger with propriety than the stranger can claim in saying to a general grocer with whiskers and a flanne arid iL RUE. [ said, “Mr. Brown, will you translate a sen in Cherokee for met" “Certainly.” I eun see him now thiily wiping out the big scoop on the scales with asoiled towel. Th | hud gone down, Chutaideitwasdark. Hew: I repented the speech just aa the girl had nouwneed ib to net, but without the teeth-an huginess or nny coctttishness, af coura didnt want him te plead my impertinent ner as an additional excuse for violence. | As I finished and he shook the sugar en Women unchaperoned are the sai wna an important figure in the field of world over, She wasn't bold an nathonal polities. Lesa than three yeara before he had been defeated by Mr, Cleve- land by a very narrow margin. Thestate of New York had been lost te Blainve bya little more than one thousand votes. Shortly preceding the election the Reverend Doctor Bur- chard, a member of a committee of wisiting ministers, had made an address in which he spoke of the opposition to Blaine asa perty of rum, Romanism and rebellion. This phrase, unnoticed by Blaine at the time, and unchallenged or uncorrected until tt reached the public, had undoubtedly plicnoted at lenst the five hundred and off votes in the state of New York upon which the election turned, Tut the (ro years and more between that time and May of JEBT hod in the public mind relieved Blaine of any responslbility for this utterance, and in a spirit of fairness there was a diaposition over the country to give another chance to this gallant candidate. That he should be dangerously ill at an out-ol-the-way military post in the southwest territory waa of interest. Fort Gibson is nine miles from the little rail- road aiding and telegraph office of Gibson, In- structed by The World to go to thie place from Kansas, where [I had been reporting the state elections, I found it necessary to make two round trips between the station and thefort each day, a total of thirty-six miles, on a little cow pony hired for the service. Along the trail the: grace and apring flowers were showing profusely, The ride was pleasant, amd during the week's stay im the quiet place it was agreeable in the saddle to think over the offer by the generis citizens of Leavenworth, under a total misippre- hension on their part, to give mo an, altermocn newspaper. ‘The prospect offered immensurahle poe sibilities to a man of thirty, not unfamiliar with peoli- tica and in thorough sympathy with the people of the [ THE apring of 1887 James G. Blaine from the towel We said: "Oh, yes, that m “The Lord ia my shaphernd: [shall not wa The Perfect Breakfast THe next day Mr. Blaine was sufficientl: covered for me to leave him to local rep Getting back to Kanasa City I met by appointr cur old advance man, Frank Hamilton. Ham was the owner of a weekly paper recently started, c section, But to aecept the Kansas City Mi the offer would mean He was also the om the abandonment of a of a lease of a prop long-desired assoria- tion with the theater, [twas sa difficult choice, On one side was a property established and in the hand; on the other, a dream. Disturbing TH GIBSON town, besides the station house, a dinky shed, at once paasenger and freight depot, there were exactly two houses. One af then wreeccupbed on tts firat Alcor by a small penerall qrocery stare and post alfice, with Ewo family rooms above, The set ond red frame of four rodma sheltered a squaw man and hia full- tlood Cherokee wife, besides three or four amall children, and his handsome half-breed duughter, aged eight- een, There was ne hotel, no boarding house. In the squay- man's house I shared ae ground floor room with a great Dane watchdog. Before my coming he had hac the bedtohimecli, Hewns a Particular deg, and during my week there never prea fully reconciled to my using half of the bed, over in the night too vigorously he growled, but perhapa becane: I stopped promptly each time at his first growl he never bit moe The window was open. There was no lock on the door. Two or three times cach night. at irregular intervals the dog auddenly bounded through the window with terrifying barks, and, as [ judged by their diminuendo, regulated some dictant intrusion into what he held to be the home district of that wide prairie. After a while he would come BSPYSCHT §F 81 PE Jolie Warkewe of Reraliad grumbling back and re- sume his place on our bed, and likoan English tourist turn arcund and over aa much as he liked, Each morning | washed my face and: hands in a tin basin on a betich outside the kitchen and combed my hair by the help af what reflection [ could get in the window glass of the open door, while the C her- okee half-breed daughter aeked me how I liked my Peg That hali-breed girl was one of the prettiest, beat- mannered, best-educated girls I had seen aoywhere, She was home at that eea- son iseeause the female seminary at Tahlequah had temporarily been put oat of commission by 2 fire. She had a senior high-school knaadedge of English literature ane tte Lecompanying studies of that grade, and she spo- cialized in French, CM the Indian mother I had only an wecasional glimpse. The white father was busy with his planting, To was the only person at table for twenty-one meals, and this dusky beauty stood opposite me at each meal and talked down at me on all subjects wherein my dependence was upon books, About Wednesday she started in ta improve my mind, There was a phrase in the Cherokee tongue that she wanted me to learn, I got it perfectly, although I forgot it yeara ago; but IT shall never forget her roguish eyes, or the perfect teeth aa she armiled in ite repetitions. Peer Fao TL DLL John Beem Robert Taber as Romac Tf I turned theater to be caller Warder Grand © Howe. He ofere give me one-half ir eat in both if T wi help him in their n npement and would eline the Leavenw: afer. [returned te Lauis, closed my r tlana with The F Diepateh, left it : and contrary to the ydee of roy father, + thought the Leav worth opportunity 1 the greater, jolr Hamilton in his ent prises. As editor and | owner of his pape had a drawing acco of thirty dollars a we partly commuted i n room and dinners Harmllton’s hon Breakfast and lune got outside, Ear Ha iltan's advice, and | lowing his sturdy 4 ample, gy break: was unvormly a cup eoflee anda quartay 2 tien of pie, Thad he that certain real jr lectuals in parts of England tad pie ¥ tbreakfast—apple pip, thaught—but Hamil: explained that with ite crust, its fruit and its meat, mis pie had all that the human system required. [ often - called the story of the dyspeptic gentleman sho to th main, “Pou can't eat our cake mane have & too,” repli that he could do just that: and te my own fevlingof poem sion the generous aleoholie content of the mins pie in the lecality and time added the vag: feeling ofa bavquet th Hight before and a surviving arome of popularity. The Kunaas Clty Mirror was an eight-page ple of somwhat Langer shent than Tim Satvmay Evian: Post, Four pages of what is called patent inde came ¢.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST aready printed with matter about equally divided cewen inferior fiction and national advertisements not Gel devoid of that element. The four outside pages Chet each week with original and selected matter, and ee SSustrations. I had an editorial column and o dra- che denartment. IT was more interested in the latter, @ local sews, wherever possible, was manipalated to for= ied the apera-bouse enterprise. The dramatic notes and ep gare preference to the attractions that wo had eacged for and others that we haped to get. ke ce editor of the paper I met many old thentrical = who came as members of the companies that vis- et Een City while the Warder Grond Opera House ew ceong bolt. [ also made new acquaintances, Among ioe the moet laesting and agreeable owas that with Edwin Looe Bogle, since aothor of The Squaw Man and other ec. bat then playing juveniles with Booth and Barrett. ele’: plyy-writing Inclination waa a strong bond between 5 and we. Race City was organizing a great exposition. Presi- ec: Ctereland ame to the town with hia bride for a visit —=> days, during which municipal activities—public epoen, a grand ball and the like—made auch demand oc the local papers that [ was called in to help the aters of the Kansas City Times, and began in that two- iF eigugement a valued acquaintance with the author, well WM. Pield. brother of Eugene Field. T= opening attraction of the Warder Grand was to be evk’s repertoire by Booth and Barrett under the man- pecent of Arthur B, Chase, They were to play six nights oi THO matings, and were to receive a guaranteed share (conse themed dollars a performance, a minimum total hegentyour thousand dollars, Fach man was « favorite | Eames City; Booth was a popular idol, The Warder wand waa to be a gomi-size house, We had plenty of ebieity. Prices were more than doubled. There was no sen to dogbt returns far in exeesa of the twenty-four » ean on the week, and Mr. Hamilton hod no difficulty giving the bond that Manager Chase rigpulreed Theres ince] foe. Saving Barrett and Booth > THE summer waned and waned, and es the thentrical =aeon came upon ws, ft grew painfully evident thet the rey bo wos not going to be completed in time for the feet) amd Barrett opening in November. L. M. Crawford, ec hed eg chain of theater through Kanass towns, offered = tale the contract of Hamilton's hands, as |te terma per- cued @ to be amigned. Butin his mind Hamilton saw a epleted opere howe, and no logic availed against that resa. A week before the date the sale opened at the teste wn Wbrary, and every seat wee promptly aubecribed. Bt the opera house itself waa a shell, There waan't a carb i The e277 ts ot oem- cleted: it had no eo. There wasn't pooh of arenes. Tis eepenter in ange af the stage Tel a youngsier ues, bet one of i I cage me rhatia? in. the wud. Clande Ha- rm. Heprommed co be ready wath ‘ie cages, inet fore : a Le (Epc tity of opening witha eecery or comment. Hom ctom bed felt mare ' berg oble to rert mffielent emery ‘rom the ibe] boat, ist ft fo inp inde ty pet any. On the Thor day celere the qecmg | went to = Logie and ee- amed the dire latres of cur en- ‘7 oto 6M. Poe Pope how Hostlten and ‘und beth his aun vi) begtage car ied Of Scenery all- ‘meted og freight “kl We reached Lise City Sun- S) hence and Lowresce Horreti had the seenery on the stage Monday morning. But there wae still no roof. One stub- born beam that awung from the overhanging derricks was atill to be put in place. The Booth-Barrett company called for rehearsal, walked about the cold stage in their fur coats and looked through to the threatening sky that showed abowe the entire au- ditorium. This auditorium was empty except for some men who were filling it with tem- porary camp stools in rows, The rehearsal was disrmizeel, and as a matter of form the ein pauny reported tn the eve~ ning: but during the after- nie a anwvsaborn hal fallen, and at night there wasan inch af snow on the streets and much inside the theater; no roof on. the Warder Grand Opera Howse, and na heat. Harnilton and I, two Craig brothers who were interested in the enterpriae, o slenog- rupher and two men from the Mirror office met the arriving patrons and explained the poet ponement of the perform ance until thefollowing night. There Waa a good deal of grumbling then und.a great deal of confusion at the tieket office the next day, Druring that Tuesday, however, Hamilton got some tarpaulins put over the rool and broweht four large ewhion stoves inte the theater. These stowes were set up in the private boses with pipes leading to the nearest outlets and kept ned hot dur- ing the day. At noon Mr. Booth and Afr. Barrett, with their fur collars tured up, were on the stage again looking at the atill-forbidding conditions, Aa there waa no other aaistant who knew anything about moving scenery, I waa in a auit of overalls to help Hagen on the stage. One green hand trying to take a wing across the back of the stage got it wabbling on ite forefoot and then let go of it as it started to fall. If it were to drop flat-sided it would come down easiby as a kite falla, and without much dam- age: but edpewize, and dropping aaa knife blade, it had lethal possibilities, There was no time to talk. I jumped at the two stars whose backs were toward this menace, pushed them violently apart, just as the scene fell between Julia Morlowe os Juliet ME 7 Ldwin Hoeth in Nomfet 21 them striking the stuge whore they hud been standing, aplit- ting the wood of ite tydinch. tiles. Mr. Barrett, In real tra- gedian fashion, sald indig- nantly, “Dan't put your hands on me, fellow t"* Mr. Booth lifted his gaze from the broken scene ond said, “Thank you." Twaa pretty hot at the Bar- rett rebuke, and told Hagen, who waa aleo eross about ft, that it would make a falr story for the Saturday Mir- ror. That night during one of the intermissions Mr. Har- rett thanked me for pushing him out of the way, explained that he waa very nervous and his irritable remark involun- tary, I had no difficulty in believing this. The whole plexua of events was trying on everybody, A Wintry Macheth 1D yeerey the day there had been a conference be- tween the stars, their man- ager anc athorneys on one hand, and on the other hand Hamilton, his bondsmen and their attorneys. This conference resulted in a decision to stand by the guaranty and ta open with Macheth., There was no dressing room in which anybody could have with safety disrobed, nnd no ordinary theatrical costume would have kept aut the freezing bemperature of the building, To shut out drafts the stage was boxed es a baronial hall with a set celling. Mr. Booth wore his heaviest costume, a robe io which ordinarily he ployed. Richelimy. Barrett a8 Maeduil wore a long quilted gown which had served in Francesca da Rimini. Minna Gole as Lady Macheth hed anne equally warm and equally incongruous attire, After the firet act of the play the audience, that had been freezing in their wrape—the men retaining net only overcoats but hate—began to move toward the bores where the ennnen stoves were. Those alrewly near these furnaces mode way and perishing ladies row by row approached the heat, Men atood in the outer circle stamping their feet, After two or three minutes of this there was a general readjustment of camp thaira, moving from their alignments towards these thermal centers that suggested Bitnam Wood on ita road to Dun- alae. Some prudent or habitial gentie- men had brought flasks with them. Others went te the nearest places of supply, and the close of the inter- mission tork on a convivial even if precautionary color, The great- est enthusiusm of the night —nat excepting Afr. Booth's reception =waa for o line which perhapea in all the previous history of Maoc= beth had never cull ed far more than a giggle. In the third aoehe of Act Twa the Porter, rowed from his slumber ly the knocking at the gute, save, “Tut this place ia too cold for hell.” This was greeted with a laugh and successive rooms a applause, and then recurrent ripples aa the fCantlinwed on Page 45)

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22 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A‘'D! 1728 FUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANLA, U7. S.A. GEORG HORACE LORIMER. EDITOR Five Gran te Copy From All Newedeslees, Bly Salkerelprion, To aha nine Soviet god Pome, Cote and Mexico, EA the Year. Hemit be U.S. Money Onder. Eapress Moocr Order, Check a by Dhl, payable In Wt, &. Fiala, To Catede By Sabeeriptien, Fie ke Vee, Slagle Cages, Ten Cane — Ta ilan or VL. 4. Funda. Foreign Sulecriptiasa; Por Coaomlea in the Pow! Union. Sebscripdona, SL. ihe eer Bemiteences to be by Liralt om o bank in the U.S. payee VU, Bi Werein, PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 1, 19oo The Great Delusion E af the oldest, most seductive and fatal delusions which mankind has suffered from is the belief that prosperity can be created by increasing the supply of moneys. In only alighthy altered dress this ancient and exploded fraud is finding loigment in many minds and preparing the way for inevitable disillusionment, Mast people instinetively welcome an incrensed supply of money, So arducus is the struggle of the individual to add to his own holdings of the luere that there ls something almost unconscious in the mental process which regards as beneficial to the people as a whole that which is eagerly desired by each person for himself. Money is the general expression of purchasing power and aymbolizes all other forms of wealth. ‘Thus it often assumes an exaggerated importance in the public mind, ond there le confusion of cause and effect. People think a community is poor be- couse there is ao litth money, when in truth the lack af money is duce to the exmmunity's being poor, When prices are rising and profits easily made no one complaing otther os to the amount or the character of money. But when prictt huve fallen and the farmer or merchant con noe longer sell nto profit o hundred bushels of wheat or a gross of felt hots, 2 demand arises for the en- largement and extension of the function of money to tuke enre of busitves which is waiting to be done, When a great part of the civilleed world has collapsed, or almost col- lapsed, politically, industrially, socially and financially, it wild seem as if only the slow interaction of many forces and the healing process of time could work a correction, Rut there are always thow who believe there is a short cut back of forward ta Eden, and to them the cheap money delusion makes a powerful appeal, But in this country at lenst there can be ne substantial nidition to the supply of money without a radical depur- ture from the gold basis or standard of currency. There- fore those who believe that a lack of money is preventing higher prices for products and holding the country back from ite normal development must first of all batter away at the gold standard. They hold that money is such be- raise the Government certifies it, becwiae it bears the government say-so or fat. Ane if they are right money might as well be anything. [et maght as well be bused on sutomebiles, on mertion-picture filma or kiownptt hours. But this conception af money is fundamentally wrong. Through the experience of the agea nations have learned THE SATURDAY EVENING POST that money backed by gold, or ultimately redeemable in geld, has been vulunble, and moet other kinds of money worthleas. Gold has been acceptable in itself, intrinsically, sine: the dawn of history, It is the ultimate real money becuse tte volue i deeply rooted [mn the established ways of mankind. There hes never been a time when paper money was regarded sa good except onky as long as people had confidence that the isquing government or bank could and would Lf called wpon redeem it in gold. Paper money, government fiat money, may do all the work for a time, but as a great student of the subject has said, “It does so wlth a constant prospect of backsliding. Whether there ts enough of it, or too much, or too little, is always a matter in the discretion of the government for the time being.” But for any one country the value of gold is not within the control of whim or flat at all. Its interna- tional acceptance gives It a basis on which the currency system of the country can rest securely. Bue it is argued that money should have a broader base and be aecured by auch great forma of wealth os land oF productive energy or potential producing power, France once tried lauing money upoo lund, the paper being knawn as gnats, socalled becnuac of the lands that had heon aseigned to secure them, At firet only a small quantity Wee Put out, and it wae said that no more would be issued. “Those French bawes of paper rested not merely ‘on the will of o free people," hat of go&third af the entire landed property of France; on the very choicest of real property in city and eountry—the confiscated eatates of the Church and of the fugitive aristecracy—and on the power to use the paper thus issued in purchasing this neal property ot very low prices,"* wrote a famous historian. Yet this money declined in value osits quantity was added to, until the final result was utter ruin, It is astounding in view of the present condition of Europe that anyone should even suggest, as the way bo make everybody prosperous inthis country, an increase in the supply of money. [f it were not for the American dolinr, based as it is on gold, there would be very little af firmness and stability remaining to-day in the currencies: af the world. One of the prime couses of agricultural de= pression in this country is the inability of Europe to buy because of the disorganized exchanges, which in turn finds an important explanation in their debased currencies, The whole world has been upeet by the worthlessness of depreciated European currencies, But it is snid that @ rich, strong country like this cantot be compared with Europe in ite present plight. Hut why not, if it adopts the gare open rom! to destroetion? The fundamental diffleulty with the depreciated paper cur- rencies Of France in John Law's day and again during the French Revolution, in the American Colonies during our own Flevelution, in the Confederate States, and in the Central and Eastern European countries of to-day, wos and is that from the very nature of such currency systems there is oo logien! stopping place. The difficulty is that ance having started to take drugs as a stimulus the dose must be constantly increseed. Just why should we hove more self-control if we start taking the sume sort of dape? No government has ever started on the road to depre- ciated paper currency except with the argument that it was strong and wise enough to try the experinvent reason- ably, mixlerately and without overdoing it, Yet history shows there hos bean na stopping place shart af either general collapse or the repudiation of the money tteell, Always the first elect haa been to stimulate business, Naturally. But the meaction from this artificial exhilarw- tion has been so sevens that another and larger dose of the drag was required, One means euggested for paying o soldiers’ bonus ia the Printing of additional currency, and this method has been defrnded on the ground that itwould stimulate prosperity. To keep up the atiovulus it would be necessary bo print currency for every desired ohpnect, and the Inst stage of the patient would be Itke the finish of every drug addict. But the most pitifully tragic part of the cheap-money delusion is that the chief benefielaries are supposed to be the farmers, luborera and athers who are nat connected with Wall Street or with the greedy moneyed interests. Long ago Daniel Webster said, “Of all the contrivances Aprit i, ! for cheating the luboring classes, none has been more.e tive than that which deladea them with paper moon The depreciated paper currencies of Europe have east laboring classes of that continent more in suffering 4 than the wor itself, Although wages have mounte unheard-of figures they are leas in purchasing power i they were before the war under the gold standard. When the farmer or business man la led to beliewe his troubles: are chbefly due to a lack of money he ma merely the victim of an ignorant or dishonest drea and fanatic. But be may embrace such views becaus has been unable to secure froru the banka what he reg as sufficient and legithmate credit. There are profit among banks, just as among other merchants. ut on other hand there are thirty thousand banks in the coun most of them owned by local people In ne way conme with Wall Street or the moneyed interest. There i much competition in banking as in any other industry laborers or farmers or business men do not like the ser af existing banks they are at liberty to form new one Indeed many new banks are formed every year. field is wide open. [tis an old, old story, that of the en prising and senbitious person who complains of the ban] until one fine day he etarta a bank of hia own. Then aces the other side, and realizes that a bank 4 organi not only to make loans te ambithouws but often reckless 1 Irveserra nts Laer borrowers, but axists also for the Purperse protecting the deposits of the people who have intrus their savings to ite care, But far too many people have a vague idea that if a the Government engaged in banking such hard ond ni cesary restrictions upon the unlimited extension of crm exuld by an unexplained miracle be done away with. Th one proposal is that every postmaster be empowered make lawns, and a United States senator has aanounc that the proper banking system is one that would provi credit to all people on ternma of equality. Obviously t! eagiest way to bring this about, the simplest machinery f the purpose, would be an igawe of currency secured by lar ar by productive enemg, or by the undeveloped wealth Alaska, or by waterfalls, or by the potential power in tl atom, in the tides and in the sun. Such a method of extending credit would seem to be ver eheap, for it carries no interest change, But if eredit &? be supplied ta all the people on terms of equality, where the line to be drawn? Does it not mean thet every bo rower will determine the amount of his own requirement: If all the Government has to do te isgue money is put fT stamp of approval upon energy and power and undeve oped neicurces, Why can it not make everyone rich all 4 wner? Certainly that i absolately logical and nest deduction. Alas, the Government cannot create value, wealtl cupital, credit, by a mere flat. Tt is mot superior bo th renopnieed laws which porern the slow pronss of peck Tmulgting savings, Ome of the grewtest of our stateamo has said that the Government did mot have a sing] dollar to give anyone which it did-not take from someon elae—a statement which should be posted up in a conspicu aus place in every city, town and village in the land, The Government cannot start with nothing and accu mWlate something, except by taxing its citizens, The ide that enedit can be made available to everybody boils dow to the belief that every man should be Ue sale Judge of hi awn credit, which in turn means thet be has the right t uae other people's money when and as much as he please Now of course there is nothing to prevent the Govern ment from supplying puper nreney baged on auch unlim ited ancurity as power or energy, if the peaple decree tha itheso, Fut that's just exactly the trouble! Such srurits ia unlimited, and people ason cease to value what 2 unlim ited in quantity. Consider the air, sunlight and sesery Why cet make them the hase for currency? Thev have thy advantage of boing plontifal. But alas, there's the rub, The simple fact, so eoeily over. looked, ia that the value of money dapends, among oper ronsiderations, WEREL ite being limited in quantity, if only that basic economie law could be repealed by Congress or y constitutional amendment, then how happy ana prospercag we should be!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE COAL MINERS’ CASE the bituminous coal operntors in refusing to meet with them in a joint conference for the purpose of negotiat- i=y a mew wage agreement to take the place of the agree roent that expired on March 41, this year. The operators were in honor bound to meet with the miners, and their re ‘nl to meet was a direct, flagrant violation of the solemn qgreement which miners and operators, by command of the Goverment, signed in New York on March 41, 1920. Sot all the operators were guilty of this violation of struct, howewer, The refusal to meet with the miners cus confined to that element among the operators that sopears to be determined to destroy the coal miners’ union Ff pomibhe, or at beast to weaken its protective foe. 4t their international convention, held in Cleveland in September, 1919, the United Mine Workers adopted a set of demands that was to be presented te the operators at the joint conference. The wage agreement then in exlst- ences wie to expire when the war wos ended. The miners ineietied that the war was over. They set the first day of Nowember, 1919, as the date for the expiration of the existing agreement. They isswed a call for the operators to peert with them in joint conference at Buffalo on Sep- tespher trentyfourth to work out a new agreement. [t was unfortunate that the demands formulated at the Cleveland convention were so worded as to convey to the public an erronesus idea of what the minere meant when they declaréd for a six-hour workday and a five-day week. What the miners needed at that time was a first- class rity editor to edit their copy before it went a tothe public, But they TM BERS of the United Mine Workers of America MM: unable to understand the amazing action of By Ellis Searles Editor United Mine Workers’ journal did not have one, and the demands went forth in such form as to place the miners in a false light. The oper- atora hopped on this demand and, by the skillful use of propaganda, induced the public te believe that the miners were asking for more pay for leas work, In fact, the miners were asking nothing of the kind. What they were demanding wos a rensonable assyrance that they would have the eppertunity to work steadily six hours a day and five days a week throughout the year, inatead af eight hours a day, six days a week only a part of the time, Fruitless Conferences HEN they assembled for the conference at Auffala iY the operators flatly refused to deal with the miners. They said the miners’ scale committee was hog-thed with instructions and that it had na authority to accept anything less than the full demands of the Cleveland convention. They said they could net and would not grant those de- mands, and that therefore it was useless to undertake to negotiate. The operators insisted, also, that the war waa not over, and that it would not be over until peace was proclaimed by the President. Because of these chimerical objections the Buffalo conference broke up. But another eall was sent aut, [ora meeting in Philadelphia, and miners and operators reassembled in that city. The operatars still maintained thelr stonewall attitude of refusing to mre tinte, and that joint meeting also dissolved. Officials of the United Mine Workers Baued o coll foro general strike of bituminous mine workers to take place on the first of November, Ap proximately 451,000 men re- siniied tu that eall by laying town their toole- and suspending work. The Government went tnt the Federal court of Judge Ander. son, ot DidianapeMia, and atialned THE OFFICE SEFIL 23 a mandatory injunction agalnat the Unlted Mine Workers, commanding the officials of the union te reeall and cancel the strike order. They cheyed this injunction, but the men did not return to work. The strike continued for six weeks, with practically the entire bituminous industry tied up in organized fields. Tt was then that President Wilson appointed the Eltuminous Coal Commission to settle the controversy, This commission held exhaustive hearings at Washing- ton, beginning in January, 1920, and in March it handed down its award granting to the miners an increase in wapes of approximately 27 per cent, President Wilson directed the miners and operators to hold a joint confer- ence and write the award of the commission, unchanged and in full, into a contract. This joint meeting was held in New York, and on March 31, 1920, the contract wos signed, Thus the coal operators signed an agreement not only with the miners but with the Government, and when they violated it they flouted the dignity und authority of the Government. In addition to the wward of the enm- mission the miner and operators agreed to and inserted in that contract a provision reading as follows: Resolved, that an interatate joint conference be held prior to April 1, 1222: the time and place for halding such meeting fa referred to a committee of two operabora and two members fram each state herein repreaented together with the Interna- tienal officers of the United Mine Workers of Americo. : That clause was just at binding ws any other part of the agreement. Hut, even though they signed it, the operators. refed to live up to ft. President Lewis issued a call for @ joint meeting wf operators and minors to be held in Pitts- burgh, January 6, 1922, to select a time and place for the joint interstate conference that was provided for in that agremmant, but the operators of Ohio and Pennaylvania blantly refused to attend the Pittsburgh meeting. Their refazal to meet constituted a barefaced case of contract violation which BLP prises amd disappointed the miners. The relied of the operators to nttend the Pittsburgh meet= ing wis the firat step in what afterward developed inte a delibernte aiterpt on thé part of powerful coal som panies, (Continged oa Page ta!)

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24 New Triumphs NE genial morning a lew days later the sun O shone in aerosa the deak of Baird while he talked te Merton Gill of the new piece, [twas a sun of fairest promise. Mr. Gill's late work was again lavishly commended, and confidence waa expressed that he would surpass himself in the drama alortly to be produced. Mr. Baird epoke in enthusiastic terma of this, de elaring that if it did not prove to be a Enock-out, a clenn-up pleture, then he, Jeff! Baird, could safely he enllida Chinaman. And during the time that would elapae before shooting on the new piece could begin he apecified a certain study in which he wished his actor to engage. “You've watched the Edgar Wayne pictures, haven't yout" “Yea, [ve geen a number of them.” “Like his work—that honest-country-boy-loving- his-mother-and-littl-sister stull, wearing overalls and tousled hair in the firet part, and coming out in eity clothes and eight-dollar neckties ot the last, with his hair slicked back same asa seal?" "Oh, yea, Liikeit. He'sfine. Hehasa great appeal.” “Good! That's the kind of a part you're going to get in this new piece. Lots of managers in my place would say, "No, he's a capable young chap and has plenty of talent, but he lacks the experience to play an Edgar Wayne part.’ That's what a lot of these wisenbelnvers would say, Butme—noteo. D belleve you can get away wlth thi part, and I'm golng to give you your chance.” “T'm sure T don't know how to thank you, Mr. Baird, and I'll try to give you the very best that is in me.” “T'm gure of that, my boy; you needn't tell me, But now—what I want. you to do while you got thia lay-off between pieces, chase out and watch all the Edgar Wayne pictures you can find. There was one up on the Boulevard. last week I'd like you to watch halfadosentimes, Itmay beat anather house down this way, or tt may be aut in one of the suburbs. Dll have someone outside cn! up and find where it is teday, and they'll It you know, It's called Happy Homestead, or something snappy like that, and if kind of suggests no layout for this new piece of mine, aoe whol [ mean? Lt") sapyest things be you. “Edgar and his mother ane little sieter live on this farm, ond Edgar mixes in with a awell dome down at the aummer hotel, anda villain tries te get his old mother’s farm and another villain tukes his little sister off up to the wicked city, and Edgar has more trouble than would patch hell a mile, eee? But it all comes right in the end, and the eity girl falla for him when she sees him in his steppl t clothes, “Tt'a a pretty little thing, but to my way of thinking it lacks strength; not enough punch te it, Bo we're sort of building up on that general idea, only we'll put in the pep that this piece locks. If [ don’t miss my guess, you'll be able to show Wayne a few things about serious acting, especially after you've etudied his methods a little bit in this piece." “Well, i you think I can do it ——" began Merton, then broke off in ahawer toa sudden thaught. “Will my mother be the same actress that played it before, the one that mopped all the time?" "You, the same actress, but a different sort of mother. She—she's more enterprising; she's a sort of chemist, im a way, and pute up preserves and jellies for the hotel. She never touches a mop in the whole plee, and dresses neat fram sturt to finigh.”" “And does the crosa-eyed man play in ik? Sometimes, in seenes wlth him, I'd get the idea I woesn't really doing my aie es, yes, D koow." Baird waved a sympathetic hand, “ Poor old Jack. He's trying hard ta da something worth while, but he's ployed in those cheup comedy things so long it's sert of bard for him to get aut of it and play serious stuff, if you know what [ menn.” “DT know what you mean,” said Merton, “And he's boon with me so long I kind of hate to dis charge him. You see, on aceount of those eyes of his it THE SATURDAY EVENING POST MERTON OF THE By Harry Leon Wilsom FEEVSFTRAATE DL a F HEN EF AA ELEF CH “Pinch His Cheek Once Aare, Lota, Moat, Were i ion, Look Op aad Offer Nero Bertie of oe Preserors™ would be hard for him to pet a job as a serious actor, ac I did think I'd give him another part in this piece if you didn't object, just to sort of work him into the worthwhile things... He's ao eager for the chance. [t was quite pathetic how grateful he looked when I teld him I'd try him once more in one of the better and finer things. And a promise ia a promise, “Still, Merton, you're the man [ must suit in this cast, and if you say the word I'll tell Jack he must go, though IT know what a blow it will be to him." “Oh, mo, Bir. Baird!" Merton interrupted fervently, "T wouldn't think of such a thing! Let the poor fellow have a chance to learn something better than the buffoon- ery he's been doing. I'll do everything I can to help him. I think it is very pathetic, his wanting to do the better things: it's fine of him, And maybe some day be could save Up enough to have a gol surgeon fix hia eyes right, It might be done, you know,” “Now that’s nice af you, my boy. It's kind and gener- ous, Not every actor of your talent would want Jack work- ing in the same scene with him. And perhaps, a8 you say, some day he can save up enough from his wages to have his eves fined. [ll mention it to him, And this reminds me, speaking of the cost, there's another member whe might bother some of these fussy actors. She's the girl who'll take the part of your city sweetheart, Asa matter of fact, she isn’t exactly the type [I'd have picked for the part, be- cause she's rather a large, hearty girl, if you know what I mean. IT could have found a lot who were better Lookers; but the poor thing has a bedridden father and mother and Aoril i, ie MOVIES a litth crippled brother and a little sister that is very well, and she's working hard te send them to acthool—I mean the children pot her puremts; Laaw the chanee te do her a good turno, and I hs: you'll fee! that you can work hormeoniously with F [ know I'm teo darned human te be in this busines Hair’ looked aside te coneenl his emotion, “Tm sure, Mr. Baird, I'l get along fine with young: Lady, and T think it's fine of you to give th people jobs when you could get better folke."* “Well, well, we'll say ne mare about that,” repl Baird gruffly, as one who hed again hidden hia t impressionable heart, “Now ask the outer office where that Wayne & is to-day and catch it as often ms 4 feel you're getting any of the Fidj Wayne stuff, We'll call you up wk work Evyins," He suw the Edger Wayne film, touching story in which the tim difident country boy triumphed on diticulthes and won the love of 2 Pu New York soclety girl, meantime pu tecting hia mother fram the insulti sneers of the hile rich and being ma to subler Lntenaely bay the Bp pre moral wreek of his dear little sists Whom a rlehseoundrel had lured ta t great elty with false promises that Would make a fine lady of her, New before had le studied the acthng meth of Wayne with a definite alm in vie Now he watched until be bimeelf b cane the awkward country boy. He was prime with the Wayne manner, the appealing ingen ousness, the simple embarrass ta, the manl regard fordheold mother, Then ward came thi Baird was ready for him in the new piece. This drama waa etrikingly like the Wayr piece he had watched, af least in ita beginning Baird, in hia striving for the better thing seared at first to have copied his model almoe too faithfully, Not only was Merton to be th awkward country boy in the litth: hillside farm house but his mother and sister were like th other mother and sister. Stall, be began to observe differences, “The lit He sister —pluyed by the Montague girl—was: simple farm maiden as in the other piece, bu the mother was mone enerpetic, She had silver hair und wore a ment black dress, with a whit lace collar and a comes breech wt her neck, ane sht embraced ber mien tearfully al frequent inter vuls, wo had the other mother: but she currice on in her kiteben an aetive business in canning frults and putting up jellies, which, sold to thi rleh people at the hotel, would awell the litth fund that must be saved to pay the mortgage Also in the present piece the country boy wai to became a great inventor, and this was differ. ent. Merton felt that this was a good towel, il gave him dignity. He appeared ready for work on the morning designated He was now able to make up himsell, and he dressed in the eountry-bey costume that had been provided, Tt waa per- hape fot so attractive a coetume as Edgar Wayne had worn, consisting of leoseitting overalls that came well above his waist and were fastened by straps that went over the shoulders: but, a8 Baird remarked, the contrast would be greater when he dressed in rich city clothes at the last, His hair, too, was no longer the slicked-back hair of Parmalee, but was tousled in country disorder, For much of the action of the new piece they would require an outside location, but there were some interiors to be shot on the lot. He forgot the ill-fitting overalls when shown. his attie laboratory where, as an ambitious young inventor, sustained by the unfaltering trust of mother ane sister, le would perfect certain mechanical devices that would bring him fame, fortune and the love of a pore New York seciety girl, Tt was a humble little room containing a worklbench that Weld his toola and a table littered with drawings aver which he bent until late hours of the night. Ag this table, simple, unaffected, deeply earnest, he was shown as the dreaming young inventor, perplexed af mo ments, then with brightening tyes making some neil] ehange in the drawings. He felt in thea: scenes thet he wag revealing a world af personality, And he must struggle to give a sincere interpretation in later sernes that would require more action. He would show Baird that he hed not watched Edgar Wayne without profit, (Continued on Page 26)

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26 (Continugd from Boge 24) Another Interior was of the nect living room of the humble home. Here were scenes of happy family life with the little sister and the fond old mother, The Montague girl was a charming pleture in her simple print dress ond sunbonnet, beneath which hung her braid of golden hair, The mother was a eweet old dear, dressed, as Baird hed promised, in neat black, with the bit af lace and ald- fashioned brooch at her throat. She early confided to Merton that she waa glad her part was not to be a mopping part. In that case she would have had to wear knee pads, whereas now she was merely, ahe said, to be a tired busi- TheSS WOOTEN, Still another interior was of her kitchen, where she busily carried on her fruit-canning activities. Pots boiled on the stove and glass jars were filled with her product. (ne of tho pots, Merton noticed—the largest—had a tightly clased top from which a slender tube of copper wenk across one corner of the little room ta where it coiled ina bucket filled with water, whence it discharged its con= tents inte bottles. : This, it seemed, was his mother's improved frape juice, a cooling drink te tempt the jaded palates of the city folk up at the big hotel, The laboratory of the young inventor was abundantly filmed while the earnest country boy dreamed hopefully above his drawings or tinkered at metal devives on the workbench. The kitchen in whieh he mother toiled was repeatedly shot, including claseupa of the old mother's ingenious contrivances—especially of the closed boiler with its coil of capper tubing—by which she waa helping to save the humble home, And ascent in the neat living room with ite old-fashioned furniture made it all too clear that every effort would be required to save the little home. The cruel money lender, a lawyer with mean-looking whiskers, confronted the three shrinking inmates to warn them that be must have his money by a certain day or out they would go into the stretta, The old mother wept at this, and the earnest boy tock her in his arms, The little sister, terrified by the man's rough words, algo flew to thie shelter, and thus he defied THE SATURDAY EVENING POST the intruder, calm, fearless, dignified, The money would be paid, and the intruder would now please remember that until the day named this little home wos their very own, The scoundrel left with o final menacing wove of his gnarled hand; left the group facing ruin unless the inven- tion could be perfected, unless mother could sell an extraor- dinary quantity of fruit or improved grape julee to the city folk, ar, indeed, wolesa the little sister eould do some thing wonderful. She, it now seemed, was confident ahe alao could help, Shestood apart fram them and prettily promised tedo some thing wonderful. She asked them to remember that ale waa no longer a mere girl, but a woman with a woman's determination, They both patted the little thing encour- agingly on the back. The interiors now possible on the Holden lot having been finished, they motored each day to a remote edge of the city where outside Iorations had been found for the hum- ble farmbouse and the grand hotel, The farmhouse waa exeellenthy chosen, Merton thought, being the neat, unpre= tentiogs abode of honest, hard-working people; but the hotel, some distance of, was not ao grand, he thought, an Raird’s new play seemed to demand. It was plainly a hotel, a wooden structure with baleonles: but it seemed hardly te afferd thes: attractiona that would draw the wealthier element from New York. He forbore ta warn Baird of this, however, fearing to discourage a manager who was honestly atriving for the aerloua in photo dranma. His first exterior scene saw him, with the help of mother and little sister, loading the one poor moter car which the family possessed with mother's products, These were then driven to the hotel. The Montague girl drove the car, and scenes of this in motion were shot from a car that pre- ceded them. They arrived before the hotel; Merton was directed to take from the car an iron weight attached to a rape and running to a connection forward on the hood. He was to throw the weight to the ground, plainly with the notion that he would thus prevent the cor from ronning awoy. The simple device was in fact almilar to that used, at Coshwiler’s airict orders, on the delivery wagon back In “ipril Ff, ?o Simabury, for Goshwiler had believed that Dexter wer run away if antethered. But of course it was mbsu Morton saw, bo anchor a moter ear in such a manner, » he was somewhat taken aback when Baird directed t om. “Te's all right," Balrd assured him. “You're a sim country boy, and don't know any better, so do it plus setious, You'll be smart encugh before the show's on tro ahead, get aut, grab the weight, throw it down a don't loak at it again, aa if you did thisevery time. "The it! You're not being funny; justa hick like Wayne ¥ at firat.’" He performed the action, still with some slight m giving. Followed acenes of brother and giater offering mothe wares to the city folk idling on the porch of the hoi Each bearing a basket, they were caught submitting ¢ jellies and jams. The brother was laughed at, ew sneered at, by the supercilioes rich, the handsam: gowned women and the dissipated-looking men. Neo ec appeared to wish his jellies, The litth: sister had better luck. The women turn fram her, but the men gathered about her and bought c the stock, She went to the ear for more and the men f lowed ber. To Merton, who watched these scenes, t dramutist's [intention waa plain. These men did not rea! care for jellies and Jame; they were attracted by the wil reas beauty of the little country girl, And they we Plainly the sort of men whose attentions could mean 7 good to such aa ahe, Left on the porch, he was now directed to approach distinguished-looking old gentleman, probably a bank and a power in Wall Street, who read his morning pauper Timidly he stood before this person, thrusting forward h basket. The old gentleman glanced up in annoyance ar brutally rebuffed the country boy with an angry flour of the paper he read, "You're hurt by this trevtment,” called Baird, “an almost discournged. ‘You look back over your shoulder 1 where sister is doing a good busines with her atoll, an (Centicoed on Poge 24! oe oe FA Slemly the Nee Fork Peclete Ciel @eereeched the Coch of the Safferer, Tenderty She Reached Dewe te fafold Wie

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST F people have ever shown cha it it is the Hupmobile they want, they have shown it conclusively during the recent past. While buying in all lines was matert- ally reduced from its normal scale, Hupmobile sales registered a re- markable ‘vitality and volume. The truth 1s that they increased over any similar period in our history— and that increase 1s now reaching even larger proportions. These facts are worthy of record, because they signify again that in times when people really seek out sound value for their money, they turn instinctively to that which 1s lnown to be good.

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28 (Continued fram Page 76) you ase the old mother back in her kitchen, working her fingers to the bome—we'll have a flash of that, see?—and you try again. Take out that bottle in the corner of the basket; uncork it. The old man looks up—he's smelled something. You hold the bottle toward him and you're saying s0+and-a0, eHamd-ao, a-and-so, ‘Oh, mister, if you knew how hard my poor old mother works to make this stull! Won't vou please take a little taste of her improved grape juice and see if you don't want to buy a few shillings’ worth’ —e0+and-so, ac-and-80, so+-amd-so—see what I mean? That's it, look pleading. Think how the littl home de- pends on it!" ‘ The old gentleman, firat a0 rode, consented to taste the improved grape juice. He put the bottle to hia lips and tilted it. A camera waa brought up to record closely the look of pleased astonishment that now enlivened his face. He arcee to his feet, tilted the bottle again, this time drink- ing abundantly. He smacked his lips with relish, glanced furtively at the group of wamen in the background, caught the country boy by a sleave and drew him farther along the porch, “He's telling you what fine stuff this grape juice is,” explained Baird, “saying your mother must bea wonderful old Lady, and bell drop over ta ment her. In the meantime he wanteyou tobring him all this grape juice she has, He'll take it;-she can name her own price. He hands you a ten- dollar bill for the bottle he hos and for another in the bas- ket—that's it, give it to bim, The rest of the bottles are jams or something, You want him to take them, but be pushes them back. He's saying he wants the improved grape jules of nothing. He shows a big wad of bills to prove he eon poy for tt. You look glad now—the litth hame may be saved after all." The scene wos shot. -Aerton felt that he had corried it ac eeptably. He had shown the diffident pleading of the country boy that his mother’s product ahould be at lest tasted, his frank rejoicing when the old gentleman approved of it. He was not ao well satisfied with the work of the Montague girl az his innocent littl sister. In her sale of mother's jellies to the city men, in her seceptance of their attentions, she appeared to be just the least bit bold. It acemed almost as if she wished to attract their notice, He besi- tated to admit it, for he pro foundly estecmedl the girl, but there were even momenta when, in technical language, she scemed to vamp these creatures who thronged abowe ber to pro fess for ber jama and fellier an interest he was sure they did not feel, He wondered if Baird had made it plain to her that she was a very innocent little coun- try girl who should be unpleas- antl affected by these advances. The seene be watched shot where the little sister ‘climbed back into the meotor car, beered at by the four New York cluk- men, he thought especially dis- tasteful! Starely the akirt-of her print dress was already short enough! She need not hove lifted it under this evil regard as she put her foot up to the step, Tt was on the porch of the hotel, too, that be had bbe first scene with the New York soclety girl whose hand he waa to wih. She proved to be the daughter of the old gentleman who liked the improved grape juice, As Baird had intimated, she was a large girl; not only was she tall and stoutly built hut she was somewhat heavy of face, Baird's heort must hove been touched, indeid, when he eoneented to employ her. Merton temem- bered her bedridden father and mother, the tthe crippled brother, the ttle sister who waa nlse [ra pHMeT health, and resolved to make their scones together as cay for her wa he could. At their first encounter sho appeared in ma mannish coat and riding breeches, though she THE SATURDAY EVENING POST looked every Inch a woman in this attire. “She sees you, and it's a case of love at fret aight on her part," explained Baird. “You love her, too, only you're a bashful country bey and can’t show it the way ehe can. Try outa little firat scene now." Merton stood, his basket on hia arm, as the girl ap proached him, “Look down!" ealled Balrd, and Merton lowered his gaze under the ardent regard of the soclal butterily. She tossed away her cigarette and came nearer. Then she mischievously pinched his cheeks as the New York men had pinehed hie little sister's. Having done this, she Placed her hand beneath his chin and raised his face to hers. “Now look up at her," called Baird. “But she frightens you. Remember your country raising. You never saw a acciety girl before. That's it—look frightened while she's admiring you in that bold way. Now turn a little and look down again. Pinch his cheek once more, Lulu. Now, Merton, look up and emile, but kind of scared—you're still afraid of her—and offer her a bottle of ma'‘s preserves. Step back a little as you do it, because you're kind of alarmed about what she might donext, That'sfine! Good work, bath of youl” He was glad for the girl's sake that Baird had approved the work of both. He had been afraid sho was overdoing the New York society manner in the boldness of ber advances to him, but of course Baird would know, His conscience hurt him @ little when the Montague girl added her praist. “Kid, you certainly stepped nent and looked nice in that love seene," she tald him, He would have liked to praise her own worl, bat could not bring bimself to, Perhaps she would grow more shrink Ing ancl modest os the drama progressed. fimals, Daaffecied, Deeply Earnest, Se Was Tiowas oe the Dreaming Fouag Faorater. Tac Secnet That He Wor Revtalag a Port of Pereoaality April 1, 19 A part of the play now developed as he had forescer would, In that the city men at the hotel pursued the lit sister to her own doorstep with attentions that she sho. have found unwelcome. But she still behaved In a way could wet approve. She seemed determined ta meet t city men halfway, “Tm to be the sunlight are of thie hovel," sheannounc when the city men came, one at a time, to shower gi upon the littl: wild rose. Plainly she wos destioec] to the victim of a brute’s treachery. Swiltly it became apparent that she must pay dea for her toc-ready acceptance of these favors, One af another the four city meen, whoae very appearance WoL have been sufficient warning to moat girls, endeasored lure her up to the great city, where they promiaed to mia alady of her, It wae a situation notoriously involving cds ger to the simple country girl, yet not even her moth frowned wpon it. The mother, indeed, frankly urged the child to let all these kind gentlenven make,a lady of her. The broth should have warned her in this extremity; but the broth was net permitted any sharein theae scence, Only MTerts Gill, in his proper person, seemed to feel the little girl w all too cordially inviting trouble, He became confused ultimately by reason of the scen not being taken consecutively. It appeared that the litt sister actually left her humble home at the insistence + one of the villaing, yet she did not, apparently, creep bas months later broken in body and soul, As nearly os | could gather, sho wae back the next day. And it almo: seemed ns if lnter, nt brief intervals, she allowed herself t start for the great city with each of the other three scour drels who were bent pon her destruction, Hit ales sh appeored ta return safely waned t bring large sums of money wit, which to delight the eld meother It wes purcling to Merton He deelded at last—he did no like to ak the Montague girl that Baird had tried the sar seeme four times, and woul choose the beat of these for hiz draria. Brother and sister madu further tripa to the hotel witl their offerings, only the siete now took jama and jellies ex- clusively, which she sold to the male guesta, while the brother took only the improved grape juice, which the rich old New Yorker bought and generously paid for. _ There were other ecenea at the hotel between the country bay and the heavy-laced New York soclety girl, in which the latter woannardent wooer, Cner sive wos made to snatch a kiss from him as hesteod by her, his basket eb hisarm, He struggled in her @mbrace, then turned to flee. She was shown looking after him, laughing, carelessly slapping one leg with her riding crop. “You're still timid,” Baird told him. "You can hardly be- lieve that you have won herlove." In some following scenes at the littl: farmbouae it became impossible for him longer to doubt this, for the girl frankly tald her love as she lingered with him at the gabe, “She's ono of thes new women,” said Baird, “She's living her own life. ‘You listen — lta wonderful that this great love should have come to you. Let us see the great joy dawnlug in your face. Dream your eyes at her.” He endeavored to do this, The New York girl became mor# ardent. She put an arm about him, drew him to her. Slowly, almost in the manner of Harold Parmalee, as it seemed to him, she bent down and imprinted a long kiss upon his lips. He had been somewhat difficult to re hearse in this scene, bat Baird made it all plain. He was still the bashful country boy, though now he would be awakened by love, The girl drew him from the gate to her walting awtemohile. (Contineasd an Poge 73) Me Feit la

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FIRESTONE CORDS Oat Pile? maha in Fierce Conds =e ares fo fee hegh pended! vf et eel ere Oli eddie re feet mere ae Pop ed eed ig coe er a a ee! muferemd am fa ceo of behing aetiere va! ee ws a dranpen com ee hele may enol mabe = ,. fr ed Le ib: fh. His ix 8, SahIA HE Firestone organization, justly proud TS ita record and its product, is keenly aware of the importance of the human factor in tire-building, The Firestone worker is constantly reminded that Most Miles per Dollar is the Firestone standard. As he enters the main entrance of the factories he sees this message emblazoned on the com- pany’s bulletin board: $11.65 RP og 3h owaten sic res-ihe! dace die bedtdie oad puddic an Dida year oe euicznding dee voto Adi nis pecus buying 4 coset ee: Te Fit is our job to see. Didhas ne name Maintaining Mileage Leadership Firestone always means to the car owner Most Miles per Dollar “It is our job to see that the name the most miles for his money.” It is this determination to give greatest value that keeps Firestone quality improv- ing while prices are lowered. With Firestone mileage greater than ever before, Firestone prices now being uoted by dealers were never more favor- able to the car owner. caged Oly ae ‘pag x 136 ervakid 4 Pa fare, met pia in ae ip — ar ta 98 eae Prices @his lore i oh 2 frenirkally Ai we fy ruallty ans a ae bey Firearone eric

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40 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April t, #9: European Statesmanship and the Question of Nationalities tion of nationalities has played in influencing the course of the political history of aver since the French Revolution, it is desirable to establish as precise a definition as possible of the meaning of mach terme as “nationality” and “nationalism.” Procision in the use of these terms is desirable in order to mont such vague and sweeping assertions as, for instances, that na- Hionalism is the cause of wares and perpetuates the evils of war in time of pene, assertions which, although true in a menmure, leave it to be implied that, nationalism being the real source of the evils of war, salvation should be sought in tis. opposite — internationalism. What then is nationalism? I think it could bo best de- fined in the words of the New International Encyclopedia as “a modern historical tendency boving for its obpoct. the organization in well-knit politicnl stntes of populations naturally bound together by thes of natlonality "—na- thonaliny itwelf betng conceived as including community of Language, traditions, morals, religian and, in a braad senge, culture. But this is net the only poeble conception af nationality as the the which holds together populations in well-defined states. In internatlonal law this somewhat vague term is ueed atrietly as denoting merely the external eondition of belonging by birth or nationalization to a nation of sovereign atate. In this senae nationality, al- though it may, does mot necessarily imply community of language, traditions, religion or culture. Indeed, in the majority of the great states of Europe auch an entire com- munity haa been and atill is eonspicucusly absent. The community which bas held and still holds together the heterogeneous national or racial elements in auch states, ia a community of, in a broad sense, economic and political interests, either voluntarily assumed, aa, for instance, in the Swiss Confederation, or imposed by the development af political events which in the course of history hava determined the confines of political organisms known as states or nations, [: ATTEMPTING to trace the part that the ques 4a Outgrowth of the FrencA Revolution HUS the term “nationality” aa used in international law could denote membership in a mation or state iteelf composed of several nationalities—confederated as in Switzerland, or united as in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; or in France under the monarchy as well ns now under the republic: or elee composed of ane deminant and several subordinate pationalitics, as in the Empire of Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia ond in the Otbaman Empire; af of tee deminant and several sib- ordinate nationallths, as lately in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy under the régime of dualiam. On the other hand, a nationality no longer recognized as such by inter- nathonal law, such as the Polish’ n nationality, since the passing of the Independent Elngdom of Poland, although for more than a century divided in lta alleglance among three different states and in apite of all eflorte at denationaliza- tion practiced on it by the governments of Husata and Prussia, and to some extent also by that of Austria, has never, in the consciousness of mankind, lost its character a6 a distinet nationality, Then again there were nationalities een linguwally, culturally united, but not recognized as such by tnter- national law—euch as the Germans and Italians occupying territories divided into a2 number of separate interna- tionally recognized states, some of them even, as in Italy, ruled over by alien dynasties, such as Lombardy, Tus- eany, Modena, Parma and Naples; so that, until the creation of the German Empire and the Kingdom of [taly, the very words “Germany” and “Italy” were but gtagraphical tirms denotlng certain territories: inhabited hy peoples of German or Italian race. Ag a matter of fact, before the great political upheaval af the French Revolution the idea of statehood, the senti- ment of state autonomy and loyalty to state and ruling dynasty, had been entirely overshadowing the idea of nationality. In ita modern form, therefore, nationaliam as a tendency toward the independence and unlimited sovereignty of nationalities, dates from and is an out- growth of the French Revolution. It might, indeed, beaaid that before the revolution Great Britain and Franee were really national states, inasmuch a thelr political organiza- tien was coterminous with their national culture; but their, a0 to apeak, uneonselow natlonaliam had mot aa- sumed the character of a conscious force, Conacious nationgliam developed in France in her etroggle with hoe tile ecalitions, and Napoleon, with a great atateaman's By BARON ROSEN Former 4mbassador From Auasia to the United States perspleacity, did not fail to recognize ite value as a driving force and to make it subservient to his plana of revolution- izing the political configuration of Europe. The idea was subsequently taken up by German and Italian atatearmen, thinkers and poets, and resulted in a movement the vicissitudes and strugglea of which provided material for the history of the greater part of the nine teenth century, culminating at last in the formation of the German Empire and the Kingdom of Italy, Dt will be readily granted that in these cases nationalism has proved net only a powerful driving foree but also a beneficent one, inasmuch as it has been instrumental in terminating chaotic condithens of multifarious particularistic and often conflicting interests by the creation of great unified pallti- cul nad ea TeMic organisms under the shelter of which the two natlons reached a degree of material prosperity, let @one an international status that otherwise would have been unattainable. This much will have ta be placed te the eredit of na- Honalism, for it stands to remson that under the condi- Hons—whatever the luture may have in store for w— of mxlern civilizatlon, with ite cologaal development of industry and international trade, the absorption of mu- reercus amall independent political antities, with their individual customs barriera and obetructiona to the free- dom af communications and trade, by larger political and economic organisms, euch as the leading modern states, can only inure to the advantage of all civilized mankind. But nationaliam, however laudable and waeful as a ten- dency aiming at the organization of large national states, has alec not infrequently; developed a tendency toward oppression of minor subject. or dependent nationalities included in the confines of wech states, Similar tendencies are the more difficult to withstand and to combat, an they are often fnapired bat sincere albeit rrilagiticled patriotiaen when not masquerading under ite convenient cloak. Of the difficulties in the way of combating them the author of this article in entitled to apeak from personal experlence. The dangerous character of policies pursued aa an outflow of such tendencies to which he hag repeatedly had ceeusion to eall attention from the tribune of the Rugslan Legislative Assersbly, of which he waa a member, has been sufficiently demonstrated by the history of a recent post. In the guise of militant, forcibly imposed, ao to apeak, cultural Patriction, nationsliem—intended to be a powerful meang of unification—waa bound by a natural reaction to become a ono lee powerful element of latent disunion, awaiting only a favorable turn wf eventa in order to produce open digruption. All the four Continental empirea that have been pursuing similar policies have passed throggh the Fam experience, In the cases of the Austro-Flungorian Monarchy and the Gttoman Empire it has meant their total collapsn. Tn the coses of Rusia ond Germany it haa brought about their partial dismemberment— permanent if definitely mequiesced in, or, otherwise, a fruitful source of perenolal conflicts in the future. Nationalism in the Nineteenthé Century T WOULD, however, be hardly just to lay the blame for Policies inspired by militant natlonaliam entirely at the door af the governing bodies of the countriea concerned. The notural insthnoet of self-interest would be sufficient to prompt rulers everywhere te endeavor to conciliate sub- ject national minorities, 20.28 to make sure of their loyalty, rather than to foster discontent among them and te pro mote hostility between them and the dominant nationality in the atate. Nor could rulers, however ineompabant, be quite unconscious of the dangerous character of militant nationaliam as a guiding principle of government and a deliberately cheaen policy, The adoption and practice of auch policies must be attributed not so much to the pure blind incompetence of rulera as to their weak-knoed sub- aervieney to what they held to be the patriotic demand of aHcoled public opinion—that is to any, af the clamor of prejudices, ambitions and passions entertained by a small minority of nonproducers, intellectuals, writers, thinkers and professional and amateur politicians, but in which the real people, the bulk of the nation, the workers and producers, have no share until their passions are stirred by propaganda, that curse of modern society, There ia, moreover, another aide to nationaliz If sili sae aiming at the organization im la tical states of populations homogeneous im | Snes culture and race, even at the cost of auppr Bion of oppression of emall distinct nationalities, mm be considered as a substantially constructive fore, tionaliam in emaller subject or dapendent nationaliti with ite claims te what is now called self-determinatix is apt to become a mainly destructive force, beneficent somee cases, the reverse in others, In the first category must be placed the national mia ment in Greece originating in the beginning of the mit teenth century, which, fostered and sided by Fouss Great Tritain and France, culminated in the establis ment of the indopendent Kingdom of Greece, altho the numerous populations of Greek natlonality, snttled other parts of the Ottoman Empire, had te remain und Turkish rule. Likewise nathonolism in the Balkans, whi awakened somewhat later ond led to a serkes of revolts sulting in the evtublishment of various autonomies, un ion 1878, after the victorious campalgn undertaken by Ru ala for the liberation of Bulgaria, the independence Rumania, Serbia and Montenegro was recognized und the Treaty of Berlin. Alao the severance of the union b tween Sweden and Norway and the resulting eatablis ment of a separate Kingdom of Norway may be regards a8 an outgrowth of the nationalistic mowement whic awayed the minds of the paoples of Europe in the mim teenth cenbury. Troublesome National Fragments ERHAPS even the creation in 1914 of an independen Albania might be included i in this enumeration, althoug in this case, instead of arising out of op apontanomes Popul movement the condition af independence was imposed b- the diplomacy of the Great Powers a8 a specimen of th specious ond sometimes ludieraualy unworkable device to which it fs prone to resort when at a lows how to reac! rational selutions of tickliah questions and to disentangl knotty situation. To the sume clas of national movements, deserving i thelr aims, may be asalgned the national movements i Foland, Finland and the Slav countries under the Auatro Hungarian Monarchy, which remained unsuccessful unti the great upheaval of the World War. if now we turn to national movements whose destruc tive fores, directed againgt higher elementa of civilization has been the reverse of beneficent, we have, for instance the national movements in India and Egypt, Then ther were before the World War cases where nations havin achieved unification hava had to leave part of thei nationala under alien rule, Examples of national frag ments left under alien domination have been the Italian apenking populations in the Trentine, Ietrla and Dalmatiz under Awstrla-Hungury; the populations of Serblan atocl in Bienia and Herzegovina: and, until the Balkan War the Greek, Serbian and Bulgarian populations in Mace donia and Thrace under Turkeh rule. In all thes eageg pational Irredentist movements have been con ducted in such unredeemed territories with a view te their annexation to the parent atates representing the national unity. As a consequence, in order to reart agains! similar Irredentist moyverents, net unnatarally deeme: dangerous to the aeeurity of the states halding under theli away euch unredeemed territories, their governments havi been. Pursuing policies of forcible assimilation which eoulc but aggravate the spirit of revolt latent among the popula- tiona of these berritories. Apart fram the revolutionary ntrupgeyles. and ware trace able te and created direetly by Irredentiat agitation and movernents, natlonalism, alming at the unification o/ theretofore disunited nations, a9 in the cases of Germany and Italy, bad to resort to foreign wars in order to reach the full realization of ite ideals. It is therefore met unrea- sonable to maintain that nationaliam bas been the chiel cause of military conflicts in Europe in the nineternth century, a it has been one of the main contnibutery cause al the outbreak of the late World War. But it must be awned that although nationalism wart the direet cause of three of the wars among the Great Powers of Europe in the last century its sims—that of wilting in great political and economic nationnl orgunizma disunited particularistic politica] entities, ond that of carving out of the moribund body of a decaying emplre auch ag Turkey and calling to life a number af young ard (Continued en Pager 35)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (hart ot Recommendations CAbkerrind Edizion! How to Read the Chart: ss Baie correct predas of Gargoyle Mobelail for enguae lubrecaten a both pau and com- metcial cars ate specified in the Chan below, A means Gargeyle Mobil “AP Bi rmraria Gargoyle hbobaloi] eA E mieatd Gurgeyle Mobdhal =E" Arc meant Gargople Mictdboil Auctec Wher diferent grates arg eecomumeeded for wammer god winter ioc, Bt wieder recommendabens ahould be follkewed dering the entire period when ireceing temperatures may be axperscncesd The mecommendapoes for peominent make of omgines wed it many cate aire lisned scparabely Sor convenience. The Chint of Recommendations Sompuled by the Vacuum Of] Company's Board of Awcomenve Exgneen, and rrpreennibe oar prfesinnal adwice om. eure! guidodtale lubrcaon Maus OF AL TOMOILIS AND MOTE TELCES ae a Ale i egree F Te ad Aimdbidat Toe Ab Char Med Atirvbur ied (EE A Ty cis Ciower Gaal saieer ik Peaacar i Bader heres [7 hii vet AUF tinker [Lawl a | 4 Davitcel 4 pr Theirs Arr purr Pines Fe a | Ay A | ch A, A, A amis lee Milane lire Chaeyrete fH lt : Af Cri dtc eeiel eel Fol nc A ie a jive | a A fire | A fen | yal APAy ALA eM Me ood cell etal belt ell pend ae Peasy haste + pap ADA A AAPA ood Hh ed eae rg ee eed eg ea eed erg ered s Piegigr Flow at TH 7 oes : = ‘i ee ‘i ae bé 9 = ft t(tlettis Pin) e : Fou Wier! Derra AJA A) ATA AD aA) AD AD A j Fomis ALA AlalalaAy al ala] A ’m prepared for the Worst | )))))/)/): : z 7 Hichodtesl|AlA)AlAlAlAlAlaAlAalA Al Catia bleeds Apa) A pet | a Pie re A pee a A =i cha i [ AR i Ax i Aer ru ne pes ‘ O 1”? wy ane La ae La Ks a fee | fae] Ge : j ; Grane fey A phaa | } ! os «€ we me a uart oy V1 wT tim ted | | Hate eat sts , S Dba A | i L lies Seper d mba - j 3 ‘ ‘ wire Super kad nn Mar [Aan T LEAST co% of all serious engine you will see the real concn y of this few Heerohte & fa | a | os ae i troubles are traceable to the careless cents difference after you observe the operat. sara So 4 fie a + a ain ral Harpe request—“ Give me a quart of oil, ing results, Le i ing) an fue an ri Lire J F ji - Likes i You can’t dodge this fact. + ‘ paar theta : Bs ; Not a gasoline by-product Mina a fan | There is a wide gulf between the average es i , ‘ tlteed wy vy | : - > ; oy E het reating oils on the market are rim. “AP “pick-up” ol and margoyle Mobiloil. ine out of ten lubricating oils on the mi blake Aba i Thee of simply by-products m the manufacture of gasoline, eek ane We suggest you ask for Gargoyle Mobilail, é , 1 tabkoil 3 | ree ed eae ie ‘ " ee aes: 2 Bea aarpovle Whotilol ts aaron be preduet, Figermal ph rl} ee ed bemg particular to specify the correct grace ai Set oF Mit ahaa ein" re ea ea ars iB AN as eats perce et 4 ye Pk al aya fing your car. le Is pi oduced by lubrication special iis who are Pomme gt at ala : 5 recegrnized the world over as leaders in lubncating Payee An Ayal How the Right oil saves money practice, Carey le Mobiloil is manufactured from Dene wen Ho 4 z 4 . 1: . : aye . ey Pet | Hl * ve Ce Ld Many motorists expect entirely tec hirthe crude oils chosen for their fdrtcating qualities—net Bay Reichs yd * ; : : ee . : a Nase A ban | A from their lubrication. for their gasoline content. Tt is manufactured ihackr AP al A & A a] A The grade of Gargoyle Mobiloil specified — by processes designed to bring aut the highest 7 a 1 Pint Mean wae pn oe ; . ‘ ee il ca ' — oat! roa for vor car feeds adequately to every friction ihe Poe value—not the prentest POLLO elgre ot Cled 7 ik Es A | a 1 2 re LBL Conboy bedi Lie pre t. It protects. It seals the piston rings gasoline, Ernst i r : = ; - : : Temelii ry aguInst blow-by of asoline arid power—tt his ts one oof the essential reasons for the | Vion rei #2 | a} = AB hb (Mireles Mire (ape faves gasoline. It cuts down operating superiority of Crarpoyle Mobilail, roubles. And you will be sur- — at your greater freedom mom carbon. Yes: Gargoyle Mobile costs afew cents more per gallon. Ir te" more fo manufacture. But the red (argeyle. Mobiloil Make the chart your guide oe few Pork (kao Ogio; amen Chirag Fhilsdteipbis Jelialt Pittlaagh Seek: Lodisnopote Misnecw polis fotliula Elee Abetsice Thallae Eocsgs Clip, kan, Whee OF eebra] » 1 Dire ile bale Ln Prominent Makes of Engines Tersir Med )-141 8 Pt A Ais “7 i Warning! [ery tbe aristedl by SCE SEE Piaiive | ook ¢ Fi rhe CC 3 aner for the CCpr- rect tare Wedafad! (nor Mobile) and: bor I | ar Sou MA al ~~ =

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Cattivwed from Poge 30! vgerte: national states—it must be owned that these po @ tineteenth-century nationalism were making for nal amore pages af the world, The mech could not be suid of the new nationalism and fi aime, such a were born aod developed in the World Wor ond recelved the meal of approval in the treaties of veruales, St. Germain and Sevres, The realization of ‘pa vine ineheded the complete disintegration of Awstrin- Iggey. & once great and powerful economic organism, ai ie divigion inte several small, independent, particu- wtatie political entities, financially insolvent ond econom- cally tmound because abruptly torn from thelr age-long gommie interdependence. They further Ineluded the pet damemberment of the two other great empires and ihecerving, out of the writhing body of one of them tes! to temporary paralysis, of a chain of independent == auch gs Esthonia, Latvia, Lithwania, ao far exist- the clouds, ac-called Ukrania, (reorgia, Armenia, and #0 on, "That the welosion of all these fantastic republics should larngiven intense satisfaction to the foreign and domestic emis of Rosia, as a symptom holding out the hope of a delsitive disintegration and passing of a once great and eeetal empire, hated on account of ita political and tara! beckwardoess as well as feared on account af its ieund potential although overrated power, is not to be waded af Nor is it unnatural that the numerous nvglationery nobodies, some of whom for years had been working for the undoing and ruin of their comman country, ibe now be prowd of the hardly ever hoped for oppor- tmntty of masquerading os statesmen, ministers, and so on, ip ther respective newborn or exhumed national states, Set would seem hardly credible that any one of them wd have any faith in the permanency of a state of Gita which te every Russian petrict appears te be a adage sig htimare. on TAe Rise and Fall af Nations TCOULD, however, hardly be questioned that the de- atructive, do to epeak, centrifugal aims of the new oo ional were the natural reaction agninst the eenterolistic, lercitdy maimilating aims of the ald militant nationalism ihe Coded to, a Pumoed by the policies of the three enpre in regard to their subject populations of various rove und nationalities. From this paint of view it may saaulty be contended that the governments of the icee empires have been pursuing a particwdarly il-wdvised, cliiowly oppresaive and in ita efecte—aos regards Sou und Austria-Hungary —truly suicidal polley. But etheother hand it must be conceded that on account of the peogrepkie oonfiguration and peculiar ethnagraphic rotdiuens of Eastern Europe—that i# to say, of the peater part of the European continent—the stateaman- eip ef the Continental empires has had to deal with very cnet and intricate problema, the sclution of which weeeted dificulties which were, perhaps, not sufficiently siaed by public opinion in Weatern countries with their ssnyect, lingually, culturally and racially more home row populations, It may even be doubted whether rey mitional and satisfactory sotutions of these problema ~aa Telly hate been found unless it had been possible to todtate entirely from their consideration the elements of certs tational animosities and of best of power and Seiution on one side, and of separatistic tendencies and Siing for indepencence on the other. i te eourse of history the while expanse of territory facteg irom the Baltic dawn tothe Mediterranean had berm the abode of many races and nationalities, dis- Mead acd intermingled in auch a way ws to render their “Petes and organization in homogeneous national eta aid well-defined states a matter not only of ex- ee SSculty but in some cases of downright impossihil- y. Is these conditions the only way to bring order out of ool Wi for pome dominant race or races to gather about “am tht others, perhape less gifted with the state-building eo, dod to organize with these divers elementa firmly Stn bed fates, each under one dominant nationality. Tat wa the way the immanent logic of things pointed out “St ccame of history, and that waa the part Nature rae to have assigned to the Teuton, the Magyar and eGrat Rosign branch of the Slav race, That their Sos wa dor not to the wixdom and foresight of their oem butaokely to the constructive genius of imperial nen ay be granted, as well ox that it was the unwisdom 20 intompetenee of these rulers that brought on the ‘Tal, luanfahle collapse of the proud edifices that had ‘chutedigenturies. It was healthy nationalism that had “stat aed maintained the three empires; and it was iia pon rliet—Pan-Oermanic and Pan-Slavie na- caliem—that. brought about thelr downfall and ruin. ‘ow that the catastrophe is upon the world it might be woth while to examine briefly what it wax that centuries Si bait op and four yeara of war and three years of ied teace have destroyed. Imay be forgiven if I begin with my own country, the “20 which cannot be indifferent to the rest. of the work. T shall endeavor ta speak of it without giving way to frel= ings which every loyal aon of this his awn country, ven if tinuble te share, will readily understund. Before the war Fuasla wea a country that occupied about the seventh port of the surface of the inhabited glebe, with a population of between one hundred and seventy and ont hundred and elghty million human betngs dwelling in ite confines in peace and plenty and in the enfoyment of complete security of life and property under a system of government which, although condemned as backward by public opinion in more advanced countries, responded in the fullest meagure to the real needs of the overwhelming toajority of the people in their actual state of cultural development. Her finances were in good order, her credit was excellent and unquestioned. Her public debt was large but not out of proportion to the size of her territory, her population and her natural reaources, She had never in all her history defaulted any payment due her creditors. During the Crimean War, when the preateat part of her foreign indebtedmess was held by Eng- land, her enemy, she never interrupted the servicer of the interest of her debt to her English creditors. Russia was justly considered to be in a large measure the granary of Europe. Her young industry was developing with giant strides; her trade was flourishing and ropre- sented a large share of the world's trade, In short, the Russian of the recent past, and, let us hope, of the not remote future, was, and is undoubtedly going to be aguin, a most important element in the general proaperity of civilized mankind, and her temporary eclipes leaves a vold whith nothing can fill Even her former outlying de- pendencies, Poland and Finland, will nat be Lixngy in realiz- ing that their close connection with the Russlan Enipire offered advuntnges in an economic sense for the lows of which newly resovercd political independence will hardly he oble te compensate. As for the new independent repol- lies of Esthonda, Latvln ond Lithuania, whose economic life is obviduely eo closely entwined with that of their Husasian hinterland—nhot te menthon Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and so on—they are all artificial creations favored and patronized ky temporary political interests and seam to he destined to last only until the support that enabled them to set up for themselves shall have been withdrawn, The awakening of the apirit of nationalism in these populations of various races has undoubtedly been due in ne anual] measure to a reaction againet the forcible Russifi- eation by meana of which our bureaucracy, under the inspiration of militant Slavephilism and ultranationaliam which had become influential toward the end of the reign of Alexander II, thought it posible to weld them closer to the Russian people. It was naturally hastened by the war and came to a head as soon as the defeat of our arms and the revolution had destroyed the state. It wna, moreover, unquestionably in harmony with the general trend in human affairs, of which Doctor Slosson, in recent address ot Columbia University, justly nid: ‘The general trend of the times is towards particularzation in policies, aclenes, art anel philosophy, In intapnatbomel affaira we see the bromk-up of ompires and the multiplication of small notions, Languages are resobred inte their constituent dialects. and o nk tongues are revived. Racial divisiona are em- phasic! and ecaggerated, Whether European civilization is going to be benefited by the introduction into the family of European nations of independent political entities in the shape of very small nations apeaking such exotic languages as Esthonlan, Lettish or Lithunonian is o question T shull nat attempt to discuss. [Tt seems to ot, however, to be a very striking fact that at the vere same time when all the really im- portant activities of the civillzxed world—industry, trade, finance, with thelr world-wide network of interdependent interesta—show an ever more decided trend toward unity — the only salvation, Indeed, of the modern world—that at this very time an exactly opposite trend ahould prevail in political affaira. Tt might be interesting to determine how far what is still called statesmanship is answerable for this atrange phenomenon, which, by the way, bodes no goced for the future peace of the world, The Austro-Hungarian Break-Lip NOTHER victim of nationalism has been the Austro- & Hungarian Monarchy, and a tragic victim ot that, for it has suffered not partial dismemberment, like Hussin and Germany, but a complete break-up equivalent te wnnihilo- tion, When I soy it hos been a victim of nationalism | mean tt in a double senae—of dominant nationalism, with its injidicigus oppression from above, ond af revolu- onary nationnliam from below, Its break-up had been lang expected and been discussed unofficially and clin- deatinely sang all thoae who hod fpecki tions af the Fleh heritage aod were waiting for the doce of lta poasessor. Ago recently appeared article in the London Fortnightly Review has fe: Within the frontiers it was the case to a greater or les extent al all the netiona which inhakbloed the reonarchy, all of which were either speculating on the creation of mational states of their oon—for instance tho Magyara, Coecha, Poles, Cronta, ag Slovenes and Serbe—or longing to be united with those of the aa face beyond the bearder—for Enatance the Germans, Fuumaniana, Itolisea sed Rutheniaes (krainiana). In discussing the dogma of nationality the author of the article culls it a regular Pandora's box which, anos opened, scattered its contents throughout the world, causing un- ret, strife and dextruction on every side, and he considers it the more dan os G6 hes something so specious aboot ff as to be able te hypnotize not enly the moses, whe are easily carried oway, but even educated minds. Tn this respect the author's opinion colneldes entirely With that expressed by former Secretary of State Lansing an Page $7 of his book on the Peace Negotiations, when, regarding the principle of the self-determination of nationalities, he writes: Tha phrase la bpm aaaee wilh hdyne mite, Te will patac heap whith con naver be I fear, coat thousands of fives. In the end it in = to ih dhiserest ited. What o calamity chal the phrade sas ever abiered! What rijsery if will cotise! The avther of the above-guoted article concedes, how- ever, that as reguriis Austria-Hungary the realization of the national principle did indeed seem to be a necessity, ao a4 at last te produce onder and peace by segregating the quarreling nations within separate boundaries: but he call attention at the same time to the fact that insuper- able difficulties stood in the way of a partition which should be both just and productive of peace, and that fate itself had woven the nations of the monarchy 80 inextricably together that in places it was absolutely impossible to separate then from one another: and in support of this contention he points to the case of Hungary, where out of sixty-three counties there are eearcely three or four in which more than one nation is not bo be found and where, mareover, the majorities are ao small and the minorities. ao large that for this reason alone the determination of » national boundary was impossible, He also points out that whereas the Hapsburg Monarchy ms adjudged unworthy to exist berwuse it contained many nations, on its ruin was erected o political body—Czecho- Slovakin—which is nothing more or bess than a pew small. scale edittan of despised Austria, containing no leas. than Hix hatlons, and thus, from the point of view of the na thonal principle, hod equally litele right to exist. It should akeo be kept In mind that each hol! of the dauble mon- archy, Hungary a well ws Austria, represented an im- portant and powerful economic arganiam uncer the shelter of which ita aubpeet nationalities profited no lew than the dominant ane from the obvious advantage of being part of such an organiam. TAe OGuilcok for Germany HETHER the newly created states will find ecoanarnle aalvation in independent statehood the future will show. One thing, however, is certain, and that is that the deatruction of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, once a powerful organiam with welloonducted finances and firmly established credit, the reaulting financial chaoa and ruin, the substitution for this solid seanamic and political unit of a number of amall independent states, each with its own custome barriers and obstructions to communications and trade, and beginning the life of indepondent statehood under a formidable load of debtand hopelessly irredeemable Paper currency — cannot preset bly be helpfal in prometing the economic recuperation of the European world. As for Germany, the application te her of the principle of nationalities has had a less destructive effect. Indewd, by the elimination from her bedy polite of Alsace. Lorraine, Marth Schleswig and Posen, she has become o compact, strictly national state, a condition the alvan- tugs of which may perhapa compensate her for the loss of territory implied. In any case, of all the victima of the World War, Germany is the moet likely to achieve in a measurably near future a fair degree of financial and econonue recuperation, provided no inaurmountable ob- staches are placed in her way, a condition dependent on polities] considerations to which I shall have to refer farther on. Hugsia, in her state of temporary paralysis under the tyranny of a demented fanatic, ¥ho has in the name of a Utopian doctrine of communism systematically ruined beyond redemption in a messurably near future the whole economic structure and proapenty af the oountry, hea been, next to the Austre+Hungarian Monarchy, the grent- eat sufferer fram the application of the doctrine of the solf-determination of nationalities by the creation of the above-mentioned chain of independent republics encircling her in the west ancl south. Tt must be owned, however, that-Wnt alone the severance of her union with Foland and Finland, which was to hove been foreseen wea resule of the World Wor—Pusda hos been for less disnst resly affected by the creation of these more or less eplermerul independencies than by the usurpation and still-eontinulng detention of parwer by Bolshevism in the quisn af » dies tatorchip of the proletariat, which has turned the esontry inte a wilderness of primitive burharism, a prison, @ lunatic wei'lum, nnd a slag hterlors. What the passing of Fuussin as go civilized state hoz meant ou o blow to the

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Jim Henry's Column An Interesting Theory You may have porced during the past year, at the hortom of my column, this little phrase, ““Mennen Talcum for Men—it doesn’t shaw.” An advertising expert gave me the theory. He said that if a man secs a simple, true statement about an article repeated often enough, he is bound to believe it in the end and buy. There muse be something in it, for our sales on Mennen Taleum for Men have increased not quite 100%. [ don't understand such things myself. Advertising gets more mys- terlous to me every a> For ex- ample, | am going to devote this whole column to telling you about our Taleum for Men. When I get through, you will know how good it is and how necessary to after-shaving and after-bathing comfort, and you will fully intend to buy a box at. once. Yet [ may have to keep reminding you for months, before you try it. It ts unfortunate for men that tal- cum was used first on babies, and second, on noses. I suppose if soap had started as a beautifer, most men would still be too proud to use it. Now, Talcum is simply a skin soother and protector. It supplies a fairy, gauze-lke film which covers sensitive skin and protects it from wind, sun and the friction of clothing. After shaving, your pores are open and your skin 1s sensityve, especially so where a collar rubs against your neck, Taleum protects it. of course, Talcum makes your face feel smooth and silky, buc that is unim- portant, except to the amorous, Mennen Taleum for Men is a reg- ular male powder, made and mildly perfumed exclusively for men. Being neutral in tone, it doesn’t show when used after shaving. A Talcum shower after your bach will make you feel coal and loose for hours, Of course, If you are one of these big fellows who chafe and get all raw in hot weather, you need Kora-Konia, but for general, everyday, all over comfort, try Mennen Talcum for Men. The druggist round the corner sells it. (ennee Solenson} THE Mennen Company Newaan, PL USA, THE SATURDAY coherence and stability of the economic structure of the world docs not seem to have been fully realized as yet. On the whole, it ean hardly be quts= toned, IT should think, that the practical application af the princi of the aelf- determination of nationalities has played sad havoc with the economic interests of the world, and represents, therefore, a de cided in the history of civilization. _ But the Seslening of the spirit of na- tionalism in an acute form, coincident with the outbreak of the World War, has af- fected mankind alae in anather way: The growing Intensity of the feelings the war engendered the longer it lasted has had w marked effect on the peyeheley not only af the popular masses in the belligerent. emuntriea but also of their leaders, amd therefore could not but influence the ulti- mate outcome of the war by standing in the way of a settlement which might have held out to a distracted world a better hape of real an et peace, remember, at the time when the whale world waa anxiously awalting the final condlusion af peace, expressing In a letter to a friend the pretty ape felt a that “statesmanship had seemingly i to take a back seat since peychol Vv WES trumps": towhich my friend He a in the terse and concise language which he knows how to handle with t and trenchant eect: “You ore righ, peyeholagy is trumps, but moses psychology is the devil.” And, alas, there are not yet perceptible any convincing symptome of an abatement of the influence of this kind of paychology. Asamore or less legitimate weapon of war- fare the doctrine of the self-determination af nationalities was seized upon by the Allies in order to undermine and destroy one of the enemy powers, and Incidentally favored obviaualy with a view to weaken still further a former ally rendered helpless by revolution but nevertheless feared be THE ta foree the miners to etrike on April first. It cannot be construed otherwise, because they knew as well as anyone that unless a new wage ament was reached before that date them. would refuse longer to work. They could not be expected to continue dig- ging coal without knowing what their wages were to be and under what conditions they were to labor, Al situation serious to the miner and to the coal-consuming public wos thus brought about, Dt was serious to the miner becuse he felt that he was being driven inte a strike which he did not want, It was serious to the public because a atrike would mein sloppage of production and, possibly, a coal shortage, It was the same ald trick that has been worked many times by coal operatars, ‘They had millions of tona of unsold eoal on hand, and forcing 2 strike and a cessation of production they would then be in position to demand any old price for their coal on hand, and clean up @nonmeus prodites, Tet bes been choo bee fore, and ft was evident that they propo to de it again. The public's etbook was to be gouged, provided the eoal op- eratore. could succeed in forcing a strike of co] miners, | There is just one way to negotiate o wage agrenment between miners and op- &fatord, and that ia for the baa arate bo meet in a jelnt conference, sit down at a table, In good falth threth out their differ. enced and eame te an understanding, This is the plan that haa been followed ever since L698 by the minera and operators af the Central Competitive Field, with the exception of 1919, and it is worthy of note that in every single instunce where this policy has been followed an agreement etn reicheld, The anly reason the plan fallel to work in 191% was because the operitord Fefuael te enter a conference Knowing this, the miners this year were eanfident that a joint conference would bring a new agreement and avert a strike, The miners donot wantastrike. Presicont. Lawis has made this point clear in every possible way and on every occasion. He suid in his speeches and in his interviews that the miners would do every hanorable thing that they could porsihly do to avoid a strike, and if a strike come it weld be due wholly ta the indefensible violation of their written agreement by the operators and their refusal to confer with the miners. Tt has bong been a favorite indoor sport EVENING POST one of the Allies a3 a possible future menace to India and by another as a potential ally of Germany in the future. That the Uni States never was mixed up in similar deal. ings of European diplamoacy, ond openly press sons hat theepoliatlonanddiamem- ernment of temporarily defenseless Russia, will ever be remembered with profound titude by a resurrected nation when the our of her delivery shall have struck. Were it not that war hypnosis, and the tendency to Jook in wartime upon all bie exclusively from the point of view af temporary eéxigencies of strategy, are apt to blind people's minds to consider- atlons that otherwias would appear olvinws enough, the dublous wiedom, in their own interest and eapecially in that of France, af the policy of the Allies in regard te the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy might have bern realized by them before it was toa late, [twas notin vain that Talleyrand, the greatest of French diplomats of the last century, held that if Austria had not exi ahe would have had te be invented. But Allied diplomacy could ase in Austria noth- ing but Germany's strongest ally, and waa therefore bent on her destruction. From the strategic point of view the policy of favoring the elements making for the dia- integration of the Austro-Hungarian Mon- arehy wis entirely ritional and, moreover, justiied by its success,. Nor was it from the moral of view at of view—if such a point d be applied te the business of Wal—ahy more oF sc bess reprehendble than the financing by Japan of our revelu- tionaries at the time of the Ruseo-Japanese War, or the financing by Ge y of the Bolsheviks, But the stateamanship of the Allies dots not seem to have soph to reflect what ultimate consequences the com- pe destruction of the Austro-Hungarian onarchy might possibly lead to. Thus the accomplished dismemberment af the man- nrchy and the segregation of its component April f, 89: parte were bownd to leave ite origitial m cleus, Austria proper, witha German pop lation af barely some six milliona arch capital one of the largest cities in Erure in @ position financially, economica olitieally aut strategically aD Uns @ ei cure that it will presumably compel to seek salvation either in @ reconstructi in some form of the former Austrian #1: or in union with Germany, both combi tiona being obviously unacceptable ta 1 Allies, and more especially the latber, a: would imply a considerable accretion territory and. pomilation, and conamyuen of power, bo Serge : sad ot paramount, ne n € 1 workd—if modern clvilination is to #8 vive—ia ji peace, real pea This is a truth ao obviews that no ome ¥ be found reckless enough to deny it. E the war spirit is not dead yet. It ia 5 abroad in places is still fostered propo i. here is in Europe Lyi Soeee incendiary and explosive munter enough to couse the smoldering fires jealousy, of hatred and of revenge to bu into flanve anew at any tha. re is tt latent, camouflaged, but none the lesa and bitter conflict of interesta between t two leading powers of Europe, one simi at the economic recuperation of Germar the other at its prevention, In the pri ence of this equilibrium of contendi forces the balance of power is held | America, and will be held by her as loo a4 she stands aloof and refralne from taki sides, America is at prevent the greate power on earth. She wields the bigge of big sticks, for she holds the strings the purse. Hor word is law, At the coun: table of nations, whatever the place a signed to her by international etiquette, = is in the peaition of being able pan aa did that Peenaaty Seoteh chie tain, “The head of the table la where Ti MacGregor aite!"" COAL MINERS’ CASE (Continved from Page 23) of the union busters among the coal op- erator to charge the United Mine Workers aw America with violathona of contract. They loee no opportunity to flaunt in the face of the minera’ union every alngle in- stance where=miners have indulged in a local strike in violation of their agreement with their employers. But these same op- erators always avoid telling the public that the officials of the union uillige those contract-vidlating miners for their con= duet. It waa. not long ago that 12,000 minera in [lineis ole | in a wildcat strike that was a direct violation of their agreement with the operaters, and aa a matter of discipline the international of- ficials granted blanket authority for the revocation of the charters of twenty-seven local unions for taking part in the strike, Vielatlons of Contract And within the last few months the charter of the entire district was revoked, the district officers removed from office, the chartera of eighty-one local unions revoked and their entire membership, inchading the district officers, expelled from the union becuse they pulled of unlawful strikes and refused to put the min beck at work when they were ordered to do so by the international organization ane the international convention of the United Mine Workers. At the time of the great eneral strike in 1919, thousands of mem- ra of the union in Tennessee, Kentucky, Colorado and the Southwest were directed to remain at work because their contracts with their employers hal not expired, ‘hen these coal operas url their charges of contract violation against the miner they do it for the purpase of putting the miners in bad with the publle and turn- ing Public sentiment againat them. And yet, here we found them violating and i noring their own written contract, whie they sieved in ink, in which they agresd to meet with the miners te negotiate a wage agreement and maintain peace in the coul- mining industry, [bk was a stringe ond weitd performance, to suy the lewst, and the miners felt that it was a case to which the public should turn tts attention, Immerliately following the reeent eon- vention af the United Mine Workers, held at Indlanapois, and at which the present demands were formulated, the operntors invited attention te the fact that the miners worn again demanding the six-hour day ar five-day week, and they set up this d mand as one of their smoke sereens behi which they might take refuge in their r fusal to meet with the miners. Eve person with a grain of horse sense kno that this demand for a six-hour day and hh id wk Tienes nothing theca: cluy Possibly the six-hour may come som time, but the time for it is met ripe. The same convention that adapted tl demand for the six-hour day and the fly day week aleo did something else. It er ated a policy committee, consisting of 1: members, with full and complete authoril in dealing with the crisis from the monet that the convention adjourned, The co vention placed in the hands of that peoliy committee blanket jurisdiction aver tl entire matter, Here is what the conventic adopted on that eubject: For the purpose of meeting in o proctien! ar constructive way all unforeseen emergenci whibeh may arige, a pelley CORUM bist, corps of the scale committee af the Central repre se tive Field, threo representatives fram ¢ c the outlying districts, members of the intern tional executive board and the internation era, ls authorized jo take auch action for cl protection of our beat intercets os circumstance may orien, and te advise the membership: pet unexpected developments which may arae ar whith cannot now he foreseen. Broader or more abealute authority col hardly be conferred upon any committe than that which is contained in that part rach. This action by the convention ch iL an tfeclive safety valwe with whie to avert any threatened explosion on th firstol April, Thue the convention remove the objection offered by the operators @ Buffalo, in 1919, that the miners committe had no puthority to negetiate upon af other basis than the full demands a adopted by the convention. The demands thet were formulated b the United Mine Workers af America 9 the recent Undianapolis convention prove to be a disappoivtment te the bitumine operator, who insisted for many week beforehand that the miners would demuer a large increase in their w No suc increase waa asked for, On the other hunt the miners demanded a continuance of th present basic wage rates, In the Centri Competitive Field the baste rate of pay fa digging cal ia $108 p=er Lae, and the bel ‘Continord an Page 38!

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This Register has opened a new field for economy in business | S ALMOST EVERY BUSI- NESS—big or little —factory or THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page 34) wage for day labor & $7.50 per day, This may aound to some like a high price to pay for day labor, but $7.60 a day rat efi- able a man to earn a living for himself and | his family unless he haa reasonably steady employment. Solt-coal mine workers sv- eraged only approximately 125 days’ work lin the entire yeor of 1921, If every man | cured $7.00 a diy for every day worked in | that yveur it would make the ave inn | farnings $847.80 per man, This is than | $30 a menth, and approximately $18 a | week. This income would not be sufficient to enable a man to keep hia family on a decent American standard of living. But atatistica based on reports gathered by the | United Mine Workers from the presidents af the various mining districts indicate that the average eurmings for the year were arin S70 per min. * Miners’ Annual Earnings Here is what some of these reports shew: PrersavncH Disteict— Average number of duys worked in the Pittsburgh District for the year 1821 was 124, or 40 per cent of full time, average daily earnings, based upon the defense fund collected by the dis trict organization, were $6.2) per day, Average earnings for the year 1921 were approximately $763 per man. Onto—Average number of days worked in the year 192] was L183. Average earn- ings for the year were $550 per man. 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Servint ha Lenders | Stuck Records Dn vaitiapses Piece Work Recon Pubs freer Revciiing Chalets Bills ofl Lovlling Fagor Heceipia Par litrry Receias AL rete et pr C0 pee fe Dheparionend Ueilers Krqasr Celera, hipkey inet Reverak Flotel Package Receipts Debepleoniv: MMirs=2ures, eleeraphic Mi sagri Write liter any hott met ltl alas errors eliminated | September G0, 1921, aa 145 days, while included the last three months of 190, which was exceptionally good, The same threw months 192] wis a very poor work Liao — Figures for the year 1921 are not yet available, The last report pule lished waa for the year ending June ‘0, 1920. This report showed that all the Oe of that atate operated an average of AYE. WESTEnH KeEXtucKY—=—The mines oper- ated and the miners worked approcimately 180 days in the yeur 1821, ‘The average RTs curmings per man for the year were about 230 a month. Out of his pries GLrn= ings the miner must pay for hie powder, eupplles, blackemithing, toala, and ao forth, Which reduces hia pet income te a much lower figure, Weat VinginiA— The approximate numni- her of days worked by miners in the New River District in 1821 was about 80, Aver- nee earnings were aleout S540) per man. Hundreds of miners got only from 14 te 26 days’ work during the entire year, ENNESSEE—Approaimately one-third of the tetal number of miners worked one third of the time during the vear, and when nee worked they averaged 2105 a month. he Central Competitive Field—com- aaed of the Pittsburgh District, Ohio, ndiana and Tlinois—is the largest bitg- minous coal producing held in the world, le employs in the THEE borkhonl! of 200,000 union mine workers and its wutput in ner= mal times bs about 2AM tone a year. Therefore it is fair to aeeume that the ures from the Central Competitive Field Afford an index to conditions in the other fiélda of the country. Certainly no one will contend that the eanl miner meade too mach money lost year, when his tote) enrnings aver about B70, or even BUST 40, wh in spite of this pitiful showing the United Mine Workers’ convention declared for a con- tinuance of the present acale. The miners said they were willing to take this chance. There is no assurance that they will have Tmore steady employment during the next twoeyeur period than they have bad in the last two years, hut ren tbat their faith | te a hope for a revival of business and in- | duaery that would afford steadier work and | & better opportunity to earn a decent living. Prof, William F. Ogburn, of Columbia University, made a study of the cost of living of bituminous mine warkers in min- ing communities, Doctor Ogkurn's study, ) at prices prevailing in December, 1921, showed that wn annual wage of PLATO necessary in onler ta support an average family of man, wife and three dependent thildren in health and decency and with a minimum amount of comfort; and, af course, toe this must be added something for savings, EVENING POST Irreg lar employment is the greatest evil of the Ps industry, No in= dustry can be healthy in which the workers are anor uy. ae 60) na of full time. Su ty of employment results in Eometrie waste not only to the employe but to the consuming public; for the patblic is compelled to pay the bills waste and all, In un address at the annual convention of the American Mining Con= al Chicago, in Chebober, 1921, aiMer EE tis Smith, directar of the United States Geological Gurvey, gaid: “Our salt coal lusiness has per: become the caaale example of irregular employment, for the average bituminous mine in the United States can expect to run only about 215 days in the cr Mr. Smith quote Eugene McAuliffe as estimating the coat to the nation of irregular employment in the soft cond induztry at £600 000000 nonually. When mines are idle thelr overhead ex- penee gon on just the same, and the mine owners add thia ex iW idle days to the Selling price of coal produced on operating days, Thus the public must pay for al this unsteadiness of the industry, Under nar Lions wit CoMioaw approxi= mately HIOMKIO000 tens of soft coul an- nually. Thi means that there is a tax of a dollar a ton on all this eoal that the ewn- sumer must pay because of irregularity of operation. Why net squeeee out this waste and save this dollar a ton? Tt cannot be suid that the miner is respon- sible for this waste. He suffers from an un- steady income. He wants to work full time. In fact, he must work full time if he is to make a decent living. But watil some plan ia developed that will stabilize the industry this enormous waste will continue, the miner will still have irregular empliyment, and the consuming public will pay this tax for tile days und idle eupital, Irregularity of Operation Capital invested in the coal induwatry in estimated by the United States Census as $1,908,652,455, and it is said that to be profitable it should yield at least 12 per cent, ar $226,000,000 annually, If during the past thirty yeurs the mines have been idle approximately one-third of the time, the minimum coat to the public for idle capital in the industry, for which the public pays in purchasing coal, has been by the meet conservative estimate $76,000,000 annually. Probably $100,000,000 would be nearer the truth, Even in # normal year, when production reached 500,000,000 tons, this would make an increased cost at the mine @f 12 cente o too, und on the boasts of Inst year’s production, 20 cents a ton, Ibis estimated that the productive capac- ity af the mines now in operation is 700,- OO tons, and the annual requirements for aolt coal do net exceed HMMM) tong. The coal required could be produced with $760,000,008 less capital outlay, But the waste in the industry because of imeguiurity af wperation and employment and the waste through overcapltalizwtion and overinvestiment, though adding to the burden which the coal consumer must curry, are not the only iteme that enter inte the rape of the consumer's pocketbook. When the average citizen buys a few tons ef coal and finds the price outrageously high he is quite likely to complain to the retail dealer and ask the reason for the high price, And in moat cases the dealer t the irate citizen that the trouble is largely due to the high wages paid to miners, This is a conmen alibi for the dealer, But the fact is the miner is the least te blame of all the factors of price. J. Do A., Marrow, vier president of the National Coal Association, of which organization two-thirds of the bituminaus aperators. of the country are members, tevtihed before the [nterstabe Commerce Commission a few weeks age that the average retail selling fiet af bituminous coal throughowt the Jnited States in Oetaber, 1921, waa £1041 a ton. He testified, further, that the labor cost in the production of coal waa F172 2 ton. The total production ost, he sid, inchoding the lubor oost, was £2.91, In other words, the mine workers received $1972 os their pay for producing a ton of con) that anid wt retail for £10.41, The miner & not responsible for the high coat of coal te the consumer, It ia incon. celvable that the publle would ask or ex- pees the miner to agree to a reduction in in Wages When it learns these facta, Ever if the miner were to accept a reduction in hit wages, where is there any assurance that the reduction would be passed along April f, 19 to the consumer? The. public must jo élaewhere to find out why and how $38.44 added to the price of cool after it leas the hands. of the miner, There ig a ou somewhere, but the miner does not et t mariey, Every time an increw is given bo t miners the price of coal b booted to a sorb the inerease, Tt is interesting bo rec that when the anthracite minera obtain un increase in 1920 the anthracite operate udded a dollar a ton to their selling price anticipation of the increase, and later acdc another dollar te the price to nbeorks & increase that was grunbed, Newspaper dispatches say farmers Kansas an other Theron — are bear ing earn for fuel. aay It is cheaper burn carn than eoal, because of the hi; price of conl, due to the enormaua wag paid to the miners. But it should be 1 membered that this is not. the first time t farmers burned corn in Kansas, They the same thing as far back as 1897, whe the miners were working for starvatic wages. They burned corn then, just ae thi are burning corm now, not became of hig conl prices but because corn is worth pra tically nothing in the market. It ia mot ti high price of coal that troublea the farme Te is the low price of his corn. The miners feel that they are much mi Understood mu Misrepresar Low They have been subjected to the charg spread broadesst by propaganda of unict busting operators, that the United Mir Workers of America is a red radical imatit. tion that has mo thought for the welfau of the nation. This charge is untrue an itis resented by the miners, [tis trae the there apt radicals in the union, many « them. It well be expected that ther would be radicals among the 500,000 mere hers of the union. But there would also b radicals among 600,000 bankers, farmer: doctors, lawyers or men of any other trad ar profession. ‘Therefore this vast grou of coml miners is not different in its cosme politan make-up from any other group o similar size, But the tadical clement is mo in contre! of the union. The leaders of th union ae dafeand-sane conservative me and they have fought radicalism year is and year out. When the district officers o the union in the Alberta, Canada, distric me active in the one-big-union move ment two years ago President Lawis clit not hesitate to peveke the district choarte and throw the entire district out of the union. He afterward reorganized the dis trict and eliminated the troublemaker from menberahip. What the Miners Want The miners hold that they are good American citizens, with the sume kind ol putrnotiqm and loyalty in their hearte that existe among other Americans. Eighty t members of the United Mine Workers of America laid down their pick: amd put on the uniform of Unele Sam in the World War. They fought to save civili- zution with the same fervor as other men, and with equal bravery. Rlore than ‘BoM members of the United Mine Workers of Ameticn mode the supreme sacrifice by giving up their lives in that war. The hall million members of the union bought many millions of dollars’ worth of Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps. They contritited millions of dollars of their earnings to the Red Cross, the Salva- tion Army, the Knights of Columbus, and to every other wur-rellef agency. They — the appeal to give till it hurts, ‘hen the success of the war depended upon an adequate supply of fuel for the manufacture and tra tion of supplies to the struggling armies of democracy in France, the American conl miners. dug eal as they never dug before. Voluntarily they suspended muny af thelr most cherished tiles of employment in order that they might do thelr full bit. They produced 577,000,000 tons of soft con) in the year 1918, breaking all records, and the wor was won, It is mot fair to raise the ery of radicalism against such men, or is it fair te charge them with o luck of interest in the public wellore or the safety of the mation, Now, what de the miners want? They want at employment unier proper working conditions and ot a decent rate of wages, so they may carn enough ta maintain their families on a real American standard of living. That tells their whole story. Surely the great American public will see to it that they get a square deal.

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| = Preent Boeition Wu oeee 7 i a THE SATURDAY THE MAN WITH THE METAL FACE health, : the geben § glow that came from her as if a gentle light in her were shedding its Taye. wl the outer world. At the moment of his me going he was quite frank, cay ania, "Towould like to toke you in my o Shir shook her head, denying him that privilege. “To wonder whether To am letting too mutch af life ship by." he aked, just a if he held a deciding vote on ab af direc- tora, and he wiped his perplexed forehead with his palm. “Of course,” she said. "But it would hardly do to be ao precipitate “Why not?” he replied. I'm a homely man, 1 confess it." “Do vad think of me?" “Wher I sar T want to take vou in rit arms? Certainly. You are a lonely woman, after all.’ Something in these words appeared wilh her, There waa a finality in this pronounce- ment, Ulastam had a t yoire— plensant oat decisive, Like his face, his voice could be metallic, but it was not al- ways so. Now it was sympathetic and warm, but like the voiee of a wise fudge Ernest reluctantly a final sentence, he might have gone on believing that she was nota lonely woman if Haslam had mot spoken so clen se with such an obvious declaration of truth as one who says, “It is a pleut. “Ts do mot neve what te muke of you," ehe replied in a yoiee neither fim ner much above a whisper. He looked at her with painstaking care— her figure, Wer face, her hands. nce he amiled. THe saw her lean back against the shelf of piloster caste peer wearily and hing her hure ee be th r rough surface of the weil ms no gave her pleasure. “Well, that Ey all," “he ssmicl berusqaels. “'That'a the fact. Some tlay when you feel like doing it you will come and put your arms about me. You hear what I say? There's no coneeit in that. [ am not con- ceitod about that kind of thing, Beatrice. Tet is use we are the particular ies wet happen te Ee, I will never speak of iwgrain. a = At the door, turning, he glanced back at the ¢elay bust in the center of the atudio. “You've put a lot of good hard character into that face,” he said, praising her. “'Yus, hard!" he said with w click, and shut the door softly. rhaps al she could hear ringing in her enra wie that volee of his, saying without bravado and yet without doubt: "Y will come and put your arms about me,” Perhaps events contributed something ta the Lokal Haslam jc jumped aut of bi limousine, 2 luter, ‘There was an ure eee ret yo Pr on the curbstone; a skidding truck had crackel out a plese af the granite on a slippery day in winter. The nick waa sufficient to turn his foot: he could hear the bone in his foot yield as ane can hear the ing of a pi “And now you can have me as a helpless pe "he wrote her from the private vital. “Pour days have gone, bot I'll ve alwaya ene sg Ae en You ot anfabd t Il waa restless in your studic., Hereyou can catch me halfstrapped into an armchair, detesting the odors of ether drifting nati the corridors and every- thing and everybody, but completely ao captive—a one hundred e@At sitter, She moved her model inte the sittin room ie his aiden ra ane miners an young oetore in and whispered. “T's @ won Ful morth light,” abe said. "They anid you Bent in hope flowers," he =. pointing. “Did yout | “Ye shvubdn’ t have done it." | a Hine — eurprised her aa much as ene he had ever eaid. He pelied: ecaise I don"t like te have that kind of | thine done for me.” “T do mot sec why it is very important ane way or the other,” she said. “TI really wie net vers sorry for Tag Certainly Teo on account of a yone broken Haslam Jooked up quickly, ‘detecting pear in her meuning net completely chviows fram her words. After that he drew back inte that peculiar silence whe had walled wand masked him in the SeeOns in the studia which had followed his second visit there.

EVENING POST (Contiaaed fram Page 1a} The window of the room looked owt over a comer lot held for speculative purposes, where the shouts of boys in epring baseball games were a daily menace to the peace of the hoapital. Now the April rain waa fall- ing eoftly. The patches of grass sprang inte vivid green and the diamond, worn by running fret, was marked out in pretty brown, Tt held his gaze as he meditated and she worked in a feverish mood of erentivents, sig My ras!" he exclaimed at the end, Lo She cane back from the washbasin with hands clean and pink from cold water und hard rubbing with the towel, but she fell into a chair, a little limp. “You've worked too hard," he said. “You look wen ar " And lonely?" she rented. “T suppoae yeu" re eing to say T look lonely?" “T wasn't. But you do. Vea, you do, That's a fact. Sitting there in that racking= chair with your haunds folded gd some- thing in your face. You look a if all your sures and all that goes with it hadn't given you what you seek." “Tt doesn't iin that to anyone," ale said. "Dione tte" The building was very quiet. They could hear some distunt elevator the floor with the click of its safety batch r= sounding down the hard white corridors, Haglan was still eturing at her os if her query had dramed away some vitality and left him empty and cold. "You should get used to it, Ern,"" she said with a nervous laugh. Bhe head felt the hand of Destiny bs ud fine sbonkiars, ane. hd Pog . ahe alghed oe wit resignat got up an came to his ehair, where he was leaning back among the pillows. “ou were tight,” she weot on. “You <r igi ne is absurd. to fee it.” Tw wit is Vague « om she put her arms about him tenderly and allowed him to take her head in the curve of his palm and bend it softly down until her cheek was sharing the warmth of his, Afterward she often thought how much this caress was like that of a brother and sister rather than one expressing the mood lovers. “T did not know then that your kissea wold ever be ony different,” she said some days after he at hecie to go to his offices in the great downtown. “A brother on crutches would hardly ever be devoted enough to come every after- hoon, even when ‘ad occasion was a sitting for a portrait,” he replied, "think we tin newer ho a ‘return to any brothers ee atlonakip. It is rather too ate.” Eeatrice stared at bir with a little fick- ering of fear on her face, "In any case ft is unwise te look ahead," went on, “es, lerarie," He nodded. “We are i least I ar Aart A * have this period eel cell. All that I ont yO, Se atrite, it ta ef truth about me. Look at that face of mine ns it has d under your fingers, a i ask is that you should count upon m exactly the man you have cortraned. Yau ave shown me the real faet of my ap- pearance. A mirror will never do it. You may have flattered me, but I see onl single purpose in thet face—the face of metal. see all that I om and a little aomething of what I would like ta be, On the whole | de net think any woman could hope te play much of a part in the life of a Tian Whoee face is like that.” “To understand.” she said, “Come here and pat your arms arcund oe, Tami cold," He laughed as he re “Let's call it a day," he said, using a characteristic phrase. “The thing i is almnat done. Knock off work and eame foro ride in the country—the park, the Bronx, the Heights, and out into the great outdoors of Weetehester ag they call it in the real- estate folders.” “And find an inn?” “Yes, and find an inn—aor a farmhouse where thev'l] fry a chicken for us." “Wait ‘till T get a wrap behind this Screen, He paced up and down, his hands clasped hehind his back, @ Gettle like Napoleon on tht Bellerophon, April 1,19 i] 1 how farmhouses always atr| ood like an fon, and ings abes home cooking ow good wa far! houses," she said from behind the wall her impre dressing room. He laughed and picked up her fur ste ing his nose in it, seeking for that yo ‘ticular garoma which was hers. Py to make “Hurry! he said suddenly, **Let*s 9 away. This bust of me is vibe rm a ahs atare, [ ean't get a smile gut of at. | laoks Like my boas." “ Perla it will be," she replied. “FP! haps it will." “Don's rush cut,” he sald, holding «© his arms, “Come here, You're mice you're the nicest thing in o very refit world,”* Always i wos like that; always mm or finable mingling of jay avd swiness; alae the strange similarity te lavera whe : condemned ta die and have only a lit! apan in which to live ane love, The end was quite inevitable, It «as when wt Eteatrice sat across the tall from Hasan at Goriat's, where the ceili; pan re ett tiny imitation stars anc t! ecbric can om the tables shed wo rays upon the living beauty of a Waniey sentiont hands. Haslam thought that Beatrice’s ane trembled as they moved slightly the sily and porcelain before her. “Well!” he gaked, and bending a lit lower looked! up info | her face, He usu kvew my when she had sonthing: ‘bo to him: often be su her by geki before her thought had taken full shay ree shee said. “T haven't said thiate vou, [waa we ing, But now there is nothing for ee tale “Co on. ““The portrait of you is dane, tomorrow to be cnet.” “Th bronze?" “Well, what of that? Tt had to bee chor sometime,” , I "TL have, failed with it, T cannot do whe He chuckled, aes far aie than ever bape any sculptor could show un: body. & vid sane Expose, [dl bert ah Aud it's the interpretation of mi t ‘a the wonder of it." She shook her head. She said, «yy mi. “Woll, it's done,” he asserted, “I wi not sure, | knew it would be done some time. [ suspected it was about over." The “over™ made her elas hi hands awidenly in a tense grip of her finger one upon the other. “To-snarow—to-morrow is Satundas I'll send the clay over to Bonelli, who dos my custings, And then in the afternon I ge tl to play." hesitated a moment before ick Le cur } & “ "Fou ought te play. But now the west era warm, Why don"t you get out of th city? To wish I could, Why don't you ¢ to seme place by the sea? Didn't some body tell me you had a bungalow am etudio or Ttalian villa ar aamething wt Pip Harbart" He eould hear her breath quicken, an avelded looki es Ae staring eyes. “Mo.” said “Tf you mean that eoald with ae course To cannot.” She had known all the time that he hac intended on end, and she had. fvemmed that he hal fixed its date. Far t if was pibsk what he would do; it was just what @ mar whose face waa like the one she had mice! fled would da. Ha had told her what he would do, He had warned her. Heknew,asshe knew, that, she waa only a fool to turn white like this with in and shock, cruel thing would be ta in, he said, closing his ‘ips inte a thin line. He was right about that too. “Crel te you,” he added. She noel “Will you take me to the studio now?" she said, “There is a moon, We evn throw open all the windows.” “Mo,” he said firmly, to the door and aay night, Fewtrice.”'| * After all." ahe gaid at last, “it will bea) great wound. It ia my own fault.” “We have a right to our own lives,” he sab. ““T have to go on with mine, Even the diversion of this epring has cut down 'Caatinard aon Page #0! “Twill take yer

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THE SATURDAY pecan oy en mie t may Punnenes i ené's ane thing for me— one love. It i the Street, the dear old Street." A He smiled, eatiaied, and added jocosely, “Where they call me the man with the metal face." “Ho tonight ——" she "Yea, i anything is to be aaa int" She drew back a little, as one who has received i frontal hlevw, “T understand," ‘she replied atlast. “You have been quite fair quite eondistentand— | yea— generous, Em." | “For heaven's sake don't tell me what's in your heart!” he exclaimed with fervor. “Don't let's go inte that.” a “Favor bo me. Thank you. And con I | doone for you, Bentrice?" | She did not answer. | “| said —_" | "T heard you," she replied softly. "I was thinking of what you said. “A favor? Ps “What? “Well, when do you intend sendin; aul portrait in bronze Lo oir mother’ there any hurry?" “No. No hurry. Why?" L te rl = - : ral BL, ; = : “The laver I was going to ask you is a queer one, All I ask is that you keep the - | bronze, when it comes to you, for a manth, Protects While Nature Heals The germ-proof film Which New-Skin forms Is al protection while nature dives the healing. Little hurts need prompt attention, just cleanse the injured place and apply New-Skin as di- rected. The New-Skin ‘hlm"’ if Washable and incon- spicuous, It never ‘'gets in the w ay, lt is so Hexible that a coating on a knuckle or pout does not interfere with freedom of motion. * Never Neglect e Breaéina the SA. NEWERES COMPANY Sew Vek Twernncn Lond _ Put it on your mantel in your library. Cn the desk, Or that Sheraton table in your bedroom benenth the blie ak curtain. You've teld me aleut your poeseseionas. You would never take me there, That is your characteristic caution. But take my portrait there." “Bleas my stars!” "Well, will vou?" “Tis mad! What o strange girl you were, She winced bit managed te say, “Will mut Certainly." ” Prcmribeoe! For thirty dayal" “promise.” She put her cold nervous fingers over hia ealin hands, "Oh, Em," she said, “DT wonder if yon | will ever know how much better 1 knew | vou than you knew yourself!" | She, too, had now spoken in the past bene, j | Haslam reflected afterward that it was | an extraordinary promise he had made to her. He laughed aa he thought of the con- verzation he had overheard on the last day he had been in the hospital, io of the young doctors, an interne, and 1. nF nurse with the clear blue of childhood si in her eves a ing into his sittin, meet kmowi wae Libere. t thd beaen ming. iat ay fallen and the doctor had lit o match and held it up before the clay face of the bust. A in he oow)d pep the y young woman slip her hand inte the doctor's and again hear her voice saying, “Tt is certainly art. But ar ought to be glad, Dor, that you do not k like thot." dertor had said, weak": she had answered. strong — horribly 1" The seulptresa now had exacted a pram- ise from him te keep the east close to bim— to live with it, She would show him the truth about himself. Well, that was ab- surd, becnuse the truth about himaclf wos Pleasing to him. He laughed and tald his valet to Unpack the buat and put it any- where he liked, Thi had been done when Haslam re turned from the theater that same eventing. He did not see it at first. He threw his avercoat over a chair back, drank a full gloss of water, poured out of the silver bottle, and then furusd toward the fire- place as one who, through o winter, finds comfort i in cami home to fined ern- bers wil glowing ak, on the hearth. however, the warm weather had a "The hearth waa quite black and wept clean. Indeed the window was open, 8o 6that the China-silk curtains danced about like ghosts. Far away the inter- mittent flares of a blast furnace yellowed and reckdoned on + wr le black of the city night. fut a b had come aver the metropolis; on on hear his wate theking tn his awn pocket. He raised his oan Helle he sald. There it waa above the hearth! The Italian mantel of carved marble held up the dark bronze, and the wall behind with ite chill tint of French gray gave ita outline } eenphsis, “Te tent aa No, EVENING POST Haslam was somewhat astonished that hand bronze could appear quite as flexible and living ap it now did. For a moment he stared back into the immobile eyea of the rait, filled with a strange sense that , ton, was a thing of metal, that they were alike, and two bronze faces looki into each other's cold mysteries, He smi as he went nearer tweaked the hard smooth nos: with his thumb and one Long finger in a familiar gesture ol di ee, “Goed." he said. “She lad skill!" He wondered where she was now and whether she had left the city. Hut that was a closed book, as he phrased it. He would he a fool te peep into its pages again. She would suffer fora while, That was not his fault, She could have read his face, She did rend it. Here it was—the proof in aewurate bronze. Furthermore, he bod put her on netics, She had said as i oe that he had been completely fair. had been! The book been oe i cold blood, Where she was now waa no longer any business of his, He had been generous to take this stand, Continuing the dreum life of their lay, ws het calles! it, would not have hurt hirn; it eould have cut deeper scars inte her. He looked into the abe Ta ee ne countenance of the bronze with inereasing sntisfaction, It would please his mother. No sentiment. Here was decision, oneness af purpose. If saints are ever to be made from extreme devotees of practical, gainful, reanute, Weta premising ruthless: deter- Thination, here was the face of a saint. Some day there would be the canonization af some Saint of the Street, some Saint af Big Business or of the Exchange. And the one of the saint would have a face like Liss Haslam bea tied Az he luug el he thought he Feri the face of bronze relax a little, as if it, too, would laugh. The room was alent, aa if the progress of time had ceased a monvent;: there was a lush, a2 if a hush had come just before this lifeless buat broke inte raucous laughter, Hut there waa no sound, na Juugh, net even a full smile, It might have been the way the light fell, Haslam's impression wae any that the bron |i had relaxed a little, that for a moment the eyes ol the thing had become fled with a moment A tenderness. He felt a5 if for a moment he hed been booking inte the face of someone wivo had for him a little amuse ment and a little pity, o litth: tenderness und a lithe contem He looked at his watch and yew ned. No ont knew os he knew how regularly he ate, how negularly he went to » bow regularly the dic did SUCCYERINE, He gave the impress driving foree which would amigas alll regularity into bits. But now it was half post twelve and he always went to bed at twelve, He had been standing there locking into this metal face of his, tite unconscious of the of time. he yawn cume to a sudden end ax he felt the surprise of his forgetfulness. he next day he lowked at the ivwst in the full sunlight. Then it was that he be eame convinced that Beatrice had changed something in it alnee he had seen the model, The difference between the clay and the bronze could not account for this change. On the first glance the thing wus exuctly as it had been. There were the teataias! unchanged. ‘They were not lacking in whatever regulur hanisome modeling he emuld find in his awn face, They ati pressed in cold hard metal the character which they had expressed when the voun tactor and the THE Turse hac upon them. The head, bent forward a little aggressively, was the samt head of a lean gerwerful creature of prey. Something of the hawk and the wal was till there as always. He nedded with aszurance, A moment later We returned to look at the thing again. He stood with his hat in his hand ready to @o out, and as he stood his own face filled with dowbt and plex- ity. Somehow the obvious first met at this bronze face did not disclose all, After ont looked, some trick of light and shadow or of expression softened everything. As if the bronze were translucent, ane could imaging that under its surface there was hulf hidden » better portrait of the man. The imagination perhaps brought atras tender amiles to corners of the mowt am the corners af the otherwise stern re- lentless eyes, Flickers of warmth ran be- neath the adamantine surface. It was as if the seulptress had done one likeness and then covered it with a thin vwereer of some other likeness. April 1, 19% “T'm not so sure.” said Haslam to | valet, whe beld overcoat, stick and plo What. ches OU think of it, Becker?’ “dl eouldn't say, sir. It's very good, # af you, and yer it looks one way seme tin and one way at other times. Quite o« sir! Twas examining of it all day yesterd alter unpacking, air. It's like an act sir—I mean to aay—who haa put on z I mean to say—a part, or expression, si Haslam felt some impatience about tl bronze. He would have liked to pack it and send it on to his mother. He F prone to keep ita month, and by Fl am even a broker's nod was rigidly int as A grim igen Men bigt Gri anid atrang @hnough eould afford ta tr honor a4 a luxury worth having. This v his way of expressing it, and he liked | eynical note in his expression of sormeth virtuous which might, in fact, have lhe his natural instinct to maintain. othing much had ever puzzled Hasla The tof this bronze face troubled h iticrensing|y. Sometimes he imagined thin lips wert about to part and tell h someth. ty vital importanes, “They mes spoke. ' ey never would, and it appecur nonsensical for them te appear ola ready to disclose, when they never won! Sametimes he could se2 curious appr gneea of tenderness in the leatures. wus as if there were two modeled count nances in this one piece of metal. One, lute at night, after staring in the face of metal during a moment whi It ex in subtle vagueness a whe set o qualities he hud ulwoys boasted we Trot his, he walked quickly into his bat! room, turned on the light above the sku ing Mirror ard stared inte the refleeciec aff i: own fleah and blood, half perpleme: wer. “Nao id he, "there's nothing in m face like that. Not a thing. It was a accident. She knew me pretty well, Tt just an aecklent of the materi nic He wondered what she had dane ta fo get their days together. She had raised an trouble, no scene, She took everythin patiently. Perhape she had auifered. a was too bad, Could not be helped. Arn yet it was too bad. He half closed his eyes Just then os he straightened up he though suddenly he had seen the expression of th bronze face in the murror. Dt was eur fleeting lovk. But there was now only tle reflection of Haslam's own countenance— the one he had known always. In that time he had one of his t vie ei. For two years there had been | duel in the Street between Hoslum onc Bugeom, the operater in the market fo ture large bank presidents whe were playin, rogue ant as apeculatora. Haslam hac considerable contempt for bank president: who played the market apart from thi ring of their own directors, As for Raseom the feud was an old one, Bascom had re negel a promise anet, and Haslam hat nearly bed his creditera come down ot him a3 a result of Hageom. He had tolx Bascom that he would break him some day The day had come. Partly by accident i had come, it 7a ust. od Ere hurr that Haslan hed a client who held two hundred thou sand in Housoon’s had diseountec it into Haslam's wen dave befor Bascom was caught ina bear movement or eteel, Haslam knew what to do now—the thumbscrews. "Curious thing," er Haslam's chirt bookkeeper. “They live right heer tas it Montelur. His wife was a fl by pore for years, but the nioment she foun baby waa cornbkrg —— te in life,” said Haslam. “Well, it will outhalance any of the pair of this failure,” Johnson auserted. “The two of them are like nuts about the youn ster, | hope this ey “t be a aheck to her," PP Wes i pe The ineleesne F rwodica ri "What's the matter, Mr. Haslam? You look ao The head of the WEY’. “Ade? I look are Ae is fect. “How the house had jumped | toh devil 0 you meant just your expresalon. won- dered Mik yiu'd changed your mila about closing Bascom out, That's all, sir. Haslam sat down, “Yes, | had,” be said wearily. “I'm o fool te doit. I'm going to let Buseim pull through.” cae He walked over to the tape, whistling softly, “D can't imagine pay Gairts this,” he said, “Perhapa we don't know ourselves, after all.’ (Continued on Page 42)

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42 Seattle “Center of the Charmed Land” Mi Agi THIS YEAR'S Vacation a real vaca- thon—right next ta Nature's heart. Come to the Charmed Lane. Feast your mind and your Wweart and your soul on the supreme masterpiece of divine handhi- work—snow-clad mountains hanging in the aky and reflected in the crystal depths of beautiful mecuntain sy Pa, Saas | andl tuinbling waterlalls—serent inland seas framed with snow peaks and the greenery of primeval forests, Fish, hike, élimb, moter, Eavlocogeprain,, ski, CAGE, ‘swim, rail, goll— or just rest. Ewery= Elite is lene, the greatest out-of-deora couit- try and absolutely the best out-of-core climate iin the world. Come by train or motor, Six transoonti- rental railroads, with special summer rares, and the a foad and a wonderland en | route for the motorist, AMerimum femperatnre Seattle, degrees. Send for "The Charmed Lond" boobler hom, aed conte direct to the Chanuber's tourist bureau, POS Third Alpenne. Seattle Chamber | of £82 /— HG | changes faces, sir. ) where one may be known, may Commerce | #1 Arctic Bhlg. Seattle morning. THE SATURDAY (Continesd from Poge 40) “Well, it's all right with me," Johnson replied, “Butthat'awhatTsasd, [thought T could tell by your faee.” t night when Haslam went home he re his valet, Becker, moving about the study as if te create the impression of being onrapies by eternal labors of gervice. ok here, Becker," he said. “ What about that bust? I had it made for my mother, Do you think it will dot" Wel, ald me pene “4 lips. ee Bald: “Well, epeaking very frank, eir, I thought it did you a favor, sir, When I first saw it t Shougt it had a live the better of you, But the last weele or so, sir, I'm bet- ie impressed, sir, Somehow its face has char edd, air. mine?" “Your face changed, air?" “Tt might.” “Yes, it might. Sometimes sorrow Sometimes it's being bonely and deserted, sir. I don't believe you've had these crosses to bear—ever," Biter replied, “Perhaps not, Perhaps ve got ‘em coming bo me, Perhaps I've had em and didn't know it. Perhaps ‘ an had a lot of things I didn't know I've a PF He stood smiling rather affectionately at old Becker until the latter in complete astonishment blurted out: There, sir! If honk could see yourself now, sir! Mr. Has- may T drop down dead at your feet if EVENING POST you're nok the living i that thing on the mantel! Pipe Harbor is just inside a point covered with scrub pines. At the end are treacher- i. rocks umidor the swash of low tide, but were known by the chart and reckoned re oy the skipper as he pulled the moma of Huslam‘s lean white trout-shaped abeam yacht inte the cove. The er came down over the sige ie with a pt of blocs and tackle, echoing the rock and pine wall af shore, ie anigkeanack of carlocks sounded aa the master was beeLnige Towed under the full sunlight aeroas the waters whipped into shimmering ailver by the brisk summer morning's wind. Where the point curves into the maiz. shore fields of grasses, still filled with white eplashes of daisy blossoms, rose from the yellow bewch toward the crouching group i little weathered buildings ef the top af the knoll. Twa old trees, which from o cdis- tance appear like elma, lean toward each other over the bungalow and the studlo Fight now of like two old friends. The landing place la a little chaky pier where a ory rides fratfully an i: painter, Haslam walkecl up the narrow winding path through the perfumed fields, and when almcet at top he stepped and wiped the perspiration from his forehead. So he wos standing hatless when she came out the door of the studin. He waved to her. April f, #9 “Come on down here,” he called. Amoment of hesitathon ended by Beate moving forward Boars noburally, wa it 1 had expected him for many days, but i firat words ahe sabi dis Ted that illusi She ald tn a trembling voiee: ““T rer ae T should ever see you again, E gone hack ta my work—my we ery erie th ther th h “"T gueces there are o ings,"” he se holding me his hand. "Yos,” she said. "Is that your a boat?" "shes pointed toward the saa. He naeded. “Let's ait down here" He waa ti te think af werda to - her why le cit pede hack. He drew closer, ao that, sitting, leaning on th palms preased upon the cool foliage of clover, they could look as with m sin viewpoint, above the tops of high meodd over the wide stretches of desce! Ing fe fields, i: SERS tee and 1 binge islue Suddent *righiened, she exclaimed horror, “ idn't core back becca you were thinking of me?” "No," he said. “I'm mee ae spoke that. came be uece ‘ "Then CLAS oOrever LL WH to," she ite turning her Lips arena h “Wt course." aad Haslam, “Ot coun That's what I wanted to say to you. i | laughed. “I want to sit for you forev« I want you to make mea new face." YE GENIAL HOST In a city like New York these immense hotels became necessary. It is the only lat Maladie A ariel ocipitr len i of i) ever-growing stream visitors, ever i intimate, homelike atmosphere has isa A visitors have been in New York a while [ notice a tendency on their part to move to sopghtan In fact, alarge num- erp af mate in of the big in. time being converted inte family hotels The glamour Die perp attracts temporarily, but if a longing ta get inte places be a person- ality a guest in the true sense of the word, allowing what waa ried as my success in running several different Tousen giving them atmosphere snd eolor, I ras a part of sor pa ie the hag organizations that opernte—mind you, aperate—chaine of magnificent hotels. The aulary woul nENe fap dalled me iifteen years ago. t so busy directing the financial afin and making reports that will show profit that I haven't the time toe mingle with the people and know them. I have selected managers who were trained aa I was, and they are deving ag well as one could expect. Our hotela are perfectly appointed and have developed service and conven- iences to the nest di e, but the thing is too big, too unwieldy for that intimate personal touch that pies old-timers miss. difference between pr hotel pal aces anid the littl: ploces where the pro- prieter considered himself a personal hoet i very much the same as the diference be tween the old accommexlation train that stopped at every little town long enough for a a irenebhae. and the great limited express that fits through, leaving nething but o elouwd of dust to mark ite pamage, Personal Recognition Ido not resliv know the nares of all our guests, and neither does our manager, but wit hove ingeniaus enough to make them think we know them. The fact that they enjoy this apparent distinetion would seem to be enough, but it ien't. I enjoyed really knowing everybody, There was sin- cere sentiment init, Most of the poy of ran- ning # botel has been taken fram me. Tet makes me downright unhappy when [ have a chance te think abaut ik. T am pot eure that 7 was first, bute I wos eettalnly among the fret te adapt the aya tem for a big hotel by which we can make each guest feel that he or she is personally known. I started it out om the Coast, The first prominent person te call atten- tion to it was an author who came out there to write up our city ina magazine. He was J accompanied by on artist, now o famous iNustrator. The pair arrived wt night and the authar aéked to be called at eight oelock the next (Continaed from Page fF) “Good morning, Mr, Smith,” was the pleasant arecting 0 af the tele phone a artritee at that hour tis eight o ‘load. o you wish breakfast in your ream of will you eee geal ponded as cheer] e writer res 14 ¥ . His surprise at being Sadramed bu igi own name, he told me mn Hetaet y Wid bm feel gonad all morning. It sort of fst. ered him to diseover that her was known i out there. ter in the day he met Mr. Jones, the artist, “and waa inelined ta be o little boastful. “This is what I call a wise town," the writer anmouneed. “Have only been here twelve hours and the telephone operator knew who To owas when she callecl me at eight rr 'elack, Pratty fool, cht" "Tl say it's fob,” aia ‘the urlisk, sruil= ing. “She aleo knew mi Paying ‘for Pleasant Voloes Not only were Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones called by their names, but so was every other guest in the hotel, Alao they wero epeben toina pleasant voice, T had seen to that. A telephone operatet may be ever ao proficient, but she won't ll the bill in one of my hotela if she hasn't a pleasant, cheery voice, An insolent tome by a telephone girl wil do lots more damage to a hobel than I was in a big Eastern hotel once with a muandfacturer, a wealthy bachelor, We occupied a double room. He called over the hone, aeking the operator if she would ave a bottle of mineral water and some ice sent wp. After a wait of half an hour he called again to know what was the trouble. “If you wank anythi like that whyn't 30u "Service" _Did't you know ia Wao first-class hote The mere ae af that response event that my friend d packed Up 3 and left the hotel, The ineident spoiled his trip. Rather than make the day mare unpleasant he did not report the girl Tn my hotel an operator like that would have been discharged immediately, not ac much for the one mistake as for the tone of her voice. In fact. sho would never have been engaged. A girl may learn better than to doa thing like that » second time, but a cheery voter cannot be acquired av ‘trnight. Tt must be natural, [t is a qualification to employment with my organi- Siler. Ming iin een ta get jobs in other concerns because of an inaalent inflection in their volees. Above the telephone awitchboard in the main office we had a rack placed. Over each room number there was a email slot for a card. The moment a guest registered acard bearing his or her name in printed letters was placed in the alot corresponding to his or her rage. We mode li a point to Was so in- set that every employe on the floor as ww aa the operator looked at that rack befo answering a call. “Ls there anything else I can do for yu now, Mr. Smith?" t the bell boy would a; after making the new guest comfortab! Mr. Smith would be pleased. Later in the day the baggage wow come up from the station. The porter, b fore bas ng 1a, Lehane stop out of the el water and glance at the rack. “our trunk is here, Mr. Smith," | would annoinee at the door. “Shall bring it in new?" In thre the many Mr. Smiths may har learned that this knowledge of names wi simply a part of the machinery, but the liked it just the same. IT had a keen and intelligent. how manager out there. In feet, he i with n now, From morning until night he han mered inta ev jet fag et from the ports to the night el the necessity of makir people feel that they were known and thy they were at home, his manager had avery clever metho af mating ts known in the dining roan expecially o cba were at all important. € course he could not get them all. On on occasion the president of one of the Weer em railrogds—call him Davis, for short- stopped at our hotel and h ad his wife wit hiss, He hed been chere te but alway, alone. The Delighted Mr. Dacts The howe manager, looking over the co list, discovered that Mr, Davis would ae ape at aight o'clock —most peaple da, by t way So he waited around the elevate ing until the puest had come down anc with wile, was headed for the dinin re Walking rapidly ahead of the couple, vend thc head ead waiter oni w his manager Shoes Me Davis, rallrond presi ent, nnd his wile," and went right ol without turning his head. “Gece mm , Me. Davis,” greeted th: head walter. a Be. Davis,” he ring aie thi ¥, is Pre & particu wet ¥y would like to ut? Perhaps you would tik the commer, over there by the flowers." “Why, isn't that remarkable? "said Mrs Davis te her husband. “How did that mar kena my name?" Sadeceke “Well,” declared Mr. Davis with just 2 touch of vanity, “he knew you were wit me, didn't he? Who else could you be? ot Course, oortainly. But. isn't it re markable—his memory?" For a moment Mr. Davis was really proud af the impression he had creat ust then the house manager came up a if he had aeen the couple for the firat time and pulled almost the sume thing. (Ceatinged an Poge #4)

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It can then be weed in the sprin and fall, when only a litele hear is . making it unnecessary to atart che furnace or boiler, Un very cold weather the Crow Gasteam radiators can be used exactly Gke any ordinary steam or hot water radiators, Architects Specify Them Many architects specify Crow Gastric radiators an every heating job—frequently as the gole means of heat in the building and sometimes in conjunction with other syaterms. Crow Gastreas is Aexible—you can have one or many radiators—and you can have heat exactly when and where fete Wart it. A Clow representative will be glad to tell you all aboot Crow Gasrkan dicn fl nig and show Tol @ her of the people in your vi- iE cLaity who are nso at. Send fier flee (Gushtegem cirfalog Jawee BO Ciow St ews femered (iptced: 54S. Frankia Sir et Chicngo Sales Offices Everywhere 1 oF one of the THE SATURDAY iss Me Dialer to tha Yar bed is Mr. Davis, by way. ere: up from section boss bo railroad president. Suddenly his old-fashioned hard sense come noha he half hlapered to the zm he whi to the manager a2 they walked down the alale between tables, “you ng rascal, that's all the bunk—that knowing us so well.” Then le eal "But I'm damned if it ain't good an er Now there is quite a lot of difference betwenn artina eal amt Gallbe and web ally being genial and polite, Employes who really do not mean it, but are ply out orders, often overplay their hands. ‘Their acting becomes offensive, We have to hunt out that kind and get rid of them. ; The (act that a head waiter has to resort to subterfuge to be sure of 2 n’s name, though, dees net mean that he is net natu- rally well mannered, He makes blunders j ooemionally that are very emb A major of cavalry, accompanied by a ng lady, got verr pant one day use the bead waiter ressod him as = te penta He took the man's honest mH for an impertinent attempt at flattery, and I had te apologize for it. Though the ayreae nerican traveler ai intes service that is pleasant and ite he usually despises the sycophant. é would even prefer the rough and blun- dering servant to the ohsequious one. To amiotth wot all these get ae and get ther- ough coiperation we etl have meetings every lew days, attended by all the em- Ployes who come in direct contact with the pucsta. Everyone from the chief of the hops to the cashiers and clerks is privi- and encouraged to make sipgestions. & usually makes a litte tolk wt these ccudeviesines: painting aut problema and diffleulties—posalbly mistakea—that have come to his attention. He gives his own views on how to avercome them, When he is through if anyone has thought af a nearer cut to the same result he apeatos right oot aml is given attention, main advantage of this system is that even the mast humble employe under- stands very clearly what we are driving at, the hotel policy. It was at one of these meetings out in San Francisco that a discussion brought out, in simple sentence, 2 thought that I had never been able to formulate, Tt expresses the basic principle of running a hotel uccesafully, whether it be a ttle tan Fh palaces Useful Suggestions One of the bookkeepers, I believe, bad mie the suggestion thot we could add consideribke to the ineeme of the hous: by treatallingy ices for sale of tooth. brushes, razors, shaving soap, curling irana aT it's all right," I agreed Vie da at's Lal ~ ad e ter- tainly need the income, but I'm afraid there's ad that too much of that sort of thing might give the place the stmos- phere of a department store rather than that of a tem: a. Tt was my idea, and still is, that patrons would prefer Pavine & higher rate for sere fee to being achemes. I tried to convey to thowe aa- aembled the thought that questa alwa like to feel that they are visiting friencda; that our job was to give them that sense o heme comfort, not expresa this very clearly, itdeveloned. Atany rate, one man there was able to it much better. “"Eacuse me, gir,” apoke up the head rier, a venerable-looking man whose indly, dignified air was somewhat con- tradictory to his station—contradictory, I mean, to the way the general public expects aw head porter to look, “Excuse me, sir," he repeated, rlelng, “but aa T understand It you mean toe say that when a guest comes to this hotel he should be treated just aa Sere Sera Ee te came to your B Fe "You are getting it,” I urged him on. “Ing + words," he wanton, “all we've got te do & remember whet our mothers taught wa about showing hoapitallty when the preacher or any other visitor came to ray all night—then do the same thing ere? _ The old porter had put the whole idea into a single sontence—a thing I had vainly tried to do for years, What he ssid there ig what I consider the whole basic principle of Fulnning o hotel, so far as making puests feal comforiabe. EVENING POST The financial end ia another matter. That can be dene by @ little supervision and eficlency experta—men wheee work requires more application to figurea ond r than to imagination. had typewritten copies of the old porter’s expression made, and gave one to each employe of the hotel, including the cooks, waiters and the bartenders, There was something about that thought of fixing around and polishing up your man- jnera for the visiting preacher—the home that one dota not easily fa aay days later one ol md eaianta came to me with a suggestion. "Boss," he said, “when a gentleman comes to your home and is a3 to syand the night you renrally offer him a suit of rf pajamas, don"t you?" wT told him that waa trus, I saw he bed the Pad of some gomd ides. “Well, air," he went on, “there waa a gentleman who came in last night after midnight. I tock him to his room and he asked me if I could buy him a auit of jamas. He had no be But it wns so late fT couldn't find a place apen. Now T was thinking how would it be to fix upa place Ihe that eo that a man could get athe boy had the makings of a dand a of a Hid- tion, all right, but he was on the Grice tack, He was thinking of a convenience for selling pajames. Pride in the House inting with that suggestion, though, eee fee a innovation in hotel service. We made it posible for every , Man of woman, who came without age, to be supplied with nightdress, comb and brush. toothbrosh—all without charge, Buck of it were the words of the old porter, that we should treat guesta at the hotel just as our mothers or fathers would treat an overnight visitor te our hone. Lidon't know if others had thought of this before, but [ beliove it was original with our hotel. We supplied the night housekeeper with Seated: sanitary pac ae sontabaiig ey i at a Peron w are: sa pn comfortable for the sight: one made up for women and one for men. There was no extra charge for this. A guest who used the emergency package was simply asked to notify the maid next morn- ing. "She would have the night clothes fresh! laundered and the hairbrush ateril ready for the next guest caught without b 7 That has proved one of the moat appre- ciated innovations in modern hotela. You should have seen the looks of incredulity and then pl surprise when unprepared guests were offered thee packnpos, Mont af the big hotels have that as part af their seryvilee nowy, Another device that still please: the ladies ja the electric slot alongelde the dreseing tables for heating curling irona. The constant thought for comfort and the constant attention to details on the part of our organization made that hotel a great sucesa, A staff like that would make any en ae a cuceeee, The eotirdinated ort. of all hands made our place a sort of individual institution, mot just a place where a man could get a place to sleep and a meal, ad will notion that every distinctive hotel in the country hos a sini with thot kind of epirit. I got the credit, af course, but that earnest group of employes really deserved it. Pride of employes is what givea a hotel distinctive atmosphere. There is a hotel in Norfolk, Virginia, for instance, where every person from the bell boy to the moan- ager will eagerly invite & guest ta go und look at the kitchen before he is there alx hours. They are so proud of ite reputation in spotlessness that they want every boly O Bee it, Qur bell boys used to want everybody ta take one of those emergency packages con- taining nightdress whether they needed it or not—tuntil the nenvelty of it wore off, T am now managing one of the biggest hotels ia the world—one where I newer pet a@ chanee to knew any ‘a nae or to understand personal pecu ties, Moat of work ia supervising departesents, stopping leks in finances, and seeing that Toy wee rl See pant ar rotit and a passible dividend to stockholders. The amount of executive labor is enormous. I am more of a financier than what the April 1,19 papers ued to call “Ye Genial Host”. term I always liked. It means somethi In the actual dispensation of hospital T must depend upon my house manag He has been with me for years, knows bet than anybody else how much I miss | romance and sentiment of being a real be Don"t get the impression that any ho can be rin by a set of clever rules a tricka. Jt must have a unit aplrit—an Bot de corps—ihat cevehiee in those p tiewlar surrowndings. California ideas m not go in Boston, and New York ideas or not goin Philadelphia or New Orleans, . Taaphereand color will not transplant eas _ In the first place questa are not all al in temperament, cannot be treated in - same way in the same hotel, Some like fined, un enous comfort: others | show—whaet they eall service and fixin There ia a certain class of to pay excessive prices aie ATG ECVE, ey want toe sensation, new to them, of feelin oxtravagent, We had much of that duri great 9 ding ern following the end the war. Tmight add that we are mot hi much ef it now. hen again we have genteel people, Ways accustomed to refinement, who «4 not afford to pay exorbitant rates, and the same time they cannot be content in atmosphere thaé is tawdry and coarec, ‘TT. tlass of people—aristecrata nature, eall them—ts usually easy to ; Th rarely make complainte, Not long ago we had a breezy guest, 2 dently newly rich, who engaged a suite rooms at twenty-five dollars a day—be room, sitting room and bath. ian he said to the floor manager 2 f¢ hours . IT don't see where you get c te soak a fellow twenty-five boeka for th layout, I've pot just as good a bathroo aa thia at home." “Aren't your rooms comfortable ™ aske the manager, a very diplomatic young ma had wanted to say something el oun. “Oh, sure, admitted the guest, “but had a metion you were going to sho on something wew—knock my eve out." Undesirable Guests The next morning the manager had 3 anormeus vase of brightly colored flowe placed in the man’s rom and sent up couple of novelty smoking stunds for t} altting room. The window draperies wei nade a little more gaudy, and the guest wi much better pleased. Tt is sometimes very diffieult to allorcal these guests so that their presence will ne jar on each other, No matter bow hard the hotel managi Tent mag to separate the rooms un deaden sound so that no one wall know th kind of persen occupying the adjoinin eulte there is something in the alr that wi in Hime tell. Let one objectionable perso escape the eagle eye of the house detectivi and in twenty-four hours nearly ever goat on the floor will know jt. I don’ now why, but somehow they do. Is i what those north-woods alot writers cf moccasin telepathy? Nathing hurts a hetel ga quiekly an ao permanently a knowledge that it ha housed persons of queationable character The beat of hotels do this sometimes wn knowingly, None af the best ones woulk do it intentionally, Often T have been asked how we are alli to determine the character of questa whon we have never seen before. [t is dome br what T might call a cumulation of observa tion. Every hotel has one or more men a unusual memories who are lao expert stu saber human pookieelgt nd aT a ty gies wrong. Feven show alip, it 8 posiide that the clerk or the bel boy will mote something to arquse sus picion. My floor man gaye he can tell usually bs the exaggerated mannerisms of these fe. They are likely to be overcordial ar overexacting, for effect, Of course if there is the slightest doubt the clerk regretfully a alias the quest that there are no roan i Some very serious mistakes haw been made in ejecting pueate from hotela, heuvy damage suite resulting. Seger refined sag Rais aha trouble in thia regard as fa general lieved. People whose character would mat stand. the test aa aruledo not find a quict, genteel atmoephere congenial. ‘Cantinged on Page 6)

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Deep Stuff Now, just why do people bay Cid Hampshire Bond? Saye A: “To impress the man te whom you're writing. To miake him think you're as good, and your goods are as gol, as the paper you write on,” But says Be “Not ao. who boy Old Hampshire Bond aren't that sort of folks, “They doen't People consciously care a hang abowt it- presatons—they just naturally want the beat, They aren't always thinks ing about knocking somebody's eye cut. ‘They buy fine things because the things are fing," A: “All wrong, old Tan, Scenery counts like the dickens in a i & i getting business, Act the part ancl voll land the orders," GB: “Some ondera, perhaps—but you'll) never sell my crowed any- “Amit te thing by telling them they ought to wear gol clothes, or shave ewery day, or use Old Hampshire Bond just becagar it gas.” Now, this is getting pretty deep, We lean teward B's point of view, ae confess—but perhaps that's be- cause B flatters our vaaity. What de vou think? For the best ten answers on each aide orecetved before May 70, 1922, we will perescne a S100 box of Old Hampshire Gand semi- business stathomery, with envelopes to match, neatly eagraved with your name and your home or biesi- ness address. To ferry et athe eerire ue a Inter oe thie hater, a matter eiier if icine 2 fin oo pel, wy ad ae eeple parked af Od Mampshiry Bena. = You can complete High School Course fi 2 Years thie almpilfied LAA ade dt ben per, Mrs gi cnqelreenieta eevaie eho Petre | ane che bediog preteen, Thea are fue ps cole par ical oie ae dee hed joer Pree Aaliecie, bere for LODAY, | AMERICAN SCHOOL Teapt. Hb? Drege) Ave. & @3th Ot, CHTICAGG The Licker Cuts Mailing Costs Cher fae fidion dhe marclage wader wets 7 bay fogett ot beck of fap Envelope cartheTer Jee Mike] eee cen heewibng. CONTERIZNT LHD ECOMPRICLL All-retal sicker) ploied, waierprecied. EH- 5 bru enedera GE prariny falp, Shiveagis dealkis, - $500 "me pam ticks @ J. CONTIN €O, Agrian., Mich, THE SATURDAY (Continwed from Page dd) The one thing reaponsible for practically all modern conveniences in big hotels is the telephone. It made the mammoth hotel possible, Without the telephone in each room we equld not cofrdinate the efforts of our big organizations, Tt weuld be im pna- sible to keep in touch with such a ince number of puesta, We could not know the nam nor eould we k oureelyes in- for a4 te their wishes. In other words, the big chain hotels of today would be out of the age The heat. device they had ee - small hotels of the old daya for spend crwall BETVie® Was tp uiton on the with the litth eard of directions: wee for the mald; twice for ioe Shine reat thmes for towels, and so on. member? At one of our anngal conventions one of the big hetel men, brought up a a country boy, told this story: ‘Tl never forget when I first came into this botel,"* he bd “Te wus the first hotel Thad eversleptin, On the wall of my room I noticed the batten and the sign which read, “Push twice for ice water." I was a little scared and lonesome, but I couldn't resist the po gee af secing how that thing worked, So I pushed the button bedes nnd stood there for ten minutes, kold- ing the pitcher under it, waiting for the water be atart running.” Personally I don't believe a word of that but it went good with all the maocorn hatal men gathered there te disctiss improve mirnbs, In my references to the gigantle hotels I have had Hew York in min For that reason I have neat gone into the restaurant feature. There ia very little to choose be tween firat-clase New York hotels in the matter of food. They are all g about the same, The question of cuisine is notso much 2 problem for the visitor a4. in the smaller cities, where it bs aometinves dificult te find a goad place to eat. The restaurant department of New York hotels ia getting more and more detached from the rooming, Our only concern 1a to offer the beat food and servier so that patrona will be induced to ding in the hatel where they are stopping. We have very few hnieriean Dien hetela, you know, where Fomn and meals are covered by one charge, That, by the way, is another thing that has. EVENING POST taken away much of the old-fashioned feel- ing of hominess, ont visitors to New York like to go out at night and try the various restaurants which spect ie in certain kinds of cooking, They are captivated by stories of quaint little restaurants that aome friend has teld them about seeretly. It la a tralt al New Yorkers to learn of some little French, Spanish or Italian eating place that no one seem to know about, and keep it all to themachves. As soon os their friends ail fine it out they hunt up anether, The lure of these places is, after all, their individual and familylike atemoaphere, Everybody likes. coainesa. Right now the pressure on hotela Ast accommodations ia relaxing, due te the eral business depression. eople are fi it too expensive to travel, Personally | have always believed that the rates for rooms are too bigh, but with the high coat of operation and the payment of interest on money borrowed for aiding, T don't see how they can be avoided. Operating a hotel in New York on the present big scale is quite diferent from run- ning one in a smaller city, The financial ayabem is wery complex, n the medhiom-sizel ciky there ane nadally about two good hotels, with limited capacty. The main ualification of a hotel keeper there is the ability ta know peaple— to discriminate between them in the matter of tastes. Some men who like to consider them- selves of the mtrictly Artal erp | imagine that every Sane WiLy. They have an teat chats eg want things done according te rule and meagure— strictly business. That kind of hotel keaper won't get along very well, even Seough be he has the best intentions in the He bos none of that peculiar in- euitcn that goes to make up Ye Genial oat For instance, I know of one of these ruffe-browed iruslness fellows who tock avert a historic old tavern out in the tourist section of Colorado. His guests ranged from millionaires looking for quiet recres- tion, to those whooping parties who come in Abreers looking far noise and exciterment. One af the wealthy neodest puesta, a quiet old fellow whe had loved the country ainee his boyhood, sug to the proprietor one day that he would like to throw away April 1, 125 the menu card and have one of those olcl- fashioned fish-and-gume dinners preparec a carn “That can be done," anid the brisk, busi- neike peopriebor, “but it will cot roa twenty-five or thirty dollars, Fh alone— well, they must be freadh caught, and tht orem ge ss ind,” sighed th t "Well, never mind,” the ques “T suppose this will de.” With no imagination or intuition the hotel man had killed his guest's boyish im-. aon The very thing be did not want ‘tc now about wes the east, An aeqitiiniane:, leatoing of this, tried, ‘bo eet the proprietor rig Ehe, induce him to be nore tact He didn 't get the idea at _ “What's a fellow going to dot" the prietor remarked argumentatively, " ae was a crowd came in here lost week and raised o terrible kick beenuse [ aeceed som sclul venison Chat was Hea cents mare than the price on the old bil. The aesls way I can do ia give ‘em the prices and Jet ‘em figure it out for themselves." This man had no sense of discrimination as didn’t know the arene, in people uerely be. proved ao failure, he Se Fi anged han nin in thre months. Down in Deluware there ia a hor thot I cornelder a real hotel, net a pretentious one, at that. Ona train coming from there one night were an old gentleman of wealth and distinction, a French officer and an expert machanic, in conversation. ATI were proising that hotel, Nobody but a student of human noture could have pleased al] three af thease men. new wit that the service te each of them had been given. with a different touch. That hotel man knew people. I would like te make one megenticn te hundreds of hotel keepers who are try- to make a success in the smaller cities in the tourist resorts: Den't apend your whole time studying business systema, Waste must pre= vented, of course. You must know where you. stand every day, but you ean hire gol men to figure that out. Spend your time stucyine. ple. Whatever may be their walk in life, make them feel at home. Think about wirt that old Remember the ald Commercial Flows, In my opinion thet will pay bigger divi- denis than the nlftiest card-index system in the world THE PRINT OF MY REMEMBRANCE audience waited and congealed. The handler ones sted through the whole play, but the pied half empty when the play was half i rodgh the balance of the week condi- tions were improved, but it was weeks be fore the house wes a finished theater. The total receipta on the week were eleven theusand dollara short of the company's promised share. The manager of Booth and Barrett ihe san Be ae upon Hamil. ton's bondsmen for their guaranty, and our weekly Mirror, with its editorial anid dra- matic department, went inte the general liqquidatian. One happening during that editorial inewmbeney that closed in auch sumenary fashion ia worth telling aa a coincidence. The business men of Leavenworth had wished to have something written bout their section thet would call attention to it and yet not look like on advertisement. I wrote a stery which they approved and which carried the facta, vet which ReeTed to be a bit af Smarts fiction. Under an arrangement at regular apace ) rates it had been printed in the New York World, and that paper had sent me a gen- eTaus commission of something aver a hun- died dollara. Ohne October ay a yung; min brought ta me a pen manuscript which he wished to sell. I promised ta read it, although [ told him the Kansas City Mirror was Tot lacing fiction. After a fortnight he came again. Ashamed of my neglect, [read the story as he sat there. 0 was pre- masons by whit | thought wes iis epsy inbrod wetter, As EF pew on T said to myself, “If To had to tute that case that's the way | should like toe write [t."' Another paragraph and I sald, “Well, that's the was T did write ir.”* [looked hurriedly through the seript and asked the young man if he was the author of the story, He sail he was. He was not u large person, and behind my desk were (Contineed fram Page 2f! toe com poaltors standing at thelr eoses and another working on the stone. Soa I felt COMTRpeOUE endugh to eay to the ynung man, ou're pw liar!" aprang bo to his feet with fine indigna- dha my A mara ctarinaticn anal added: “That atery inted on Sun- day, May 1, 1587, rtd the ? hiew York World, under the titleol A Leavenworth Romance.” The fellow was so astonished that he could only gasp an sssent, I said, “If you will go home to the paner from which you copied this you'll nel my initinls, G, T., at the bottem of that sta He g ate "Vo" ond went out, dased at the mischance which had made him bring ta an obacure person aitting in a Western afflee a yarn he had copied verbatim from an Eastern daily, only to discover that he had placed the stelen article in the hands of its author, There were ninety million other citizens of the United States. Of course the lines of communication on thie little planet of elght thousand miles diameter must cecasionally intersect at polnta that seem supremely significant; and it may be that we should wonder at the abeence rather than the occasional pong of a coincidence, But as they ave their interest, | would like to jump nhewil and tell thewnly other cpap ha one that is in my own experience, and produced a lay coiled The Other Girl in 150g with Lionel Barrymore at the Criterion Theater in New York. It waa in three acts. Effective ending of the second art depended upon the involuntary laugh- ter of a parson, prompted by a wink from a prize hghter who was in the room with him, On the opening night the effect fell short, [ hed te lenve the next day on the steamer Kroanland for Paris. Walking the deck of this boat four or five dags later 1 still teled ta analyze my failure pt thot point. It aeeurred te me thut certain busi- nes between membera of wo group on the oppoaite side of the stage bad made a stronger arpee to the attention of the audience the quiet minister and prise fighter on their aide had made, and I mentally kickedl myself for my stupidity in not ciscovering this, I went at ones to the wireless room and sent the following tele gtum to Mir. Charles Frohman: “Have the kid toweh the purson before the wink.” Mr. Frohman rehearses this business. The action attracted the attention of the audience, whe thereupon saw the wink which was the provocation for the laugh- ter and ull that [ had hoped for wae eeAbout a month later Mr. Bainbridge Colby waa dining with the Thomeases in erry r apartment in the Latin Quarter, He This strange thing happened: On ‘ ey steamer Cedric, when IT waa ervssing last month on my way to London, I was in the wireless room, We were a day out from New York, A message was relayed from the Kroonland. The operator was Italian and a little uncertain with Einglish, and he asked me if] thought the neseage could be correct. [twas from you te Mr. Froliman, and read: "Have the kid touch the parean before the wink.” IT told the operator it was all right and he transmitted it ta New York.” Aside from Mr, Frohman and the mem- bers of the company, Sr. Colby waa the only person on earth who could hove given that anawer to that operator out of the Atlantic. Wander With our failure to get the com gare an the opening of the ra house in a share wae rand, the lease of the oa which I had been promi forfeited, and with a winter fairly set in I waa ina city where I was almost a stranger, and again without a jot, Friends have asked why in this emergent situation | did mot try to recover and pick (Continued on Poge 48)

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WH: ING I THE SATURDAY EVENING POST DOES FOR THE A Simple, Easy Way to Make Your Hair Beautiful E beauty of your hair depends is perfecely clean it will be soft and ney in the water, and the entire mass, even squeak when you pull it through your uped the care you give it. Shampooing it properly is always “ae most importane thing. [rs the shampocing which brings out de real life and lustre, natural wave and a, and makes your haar soft, fresh ea lomant. When your hair is dry, dull and heavy, ides, stiff and gummy, and the strands cog tigether, and it feels harsh and dis- upecats to the touch, tt 1s because your boa not been shampooed properly. ten vour hair heen shampoos a cerly, and is rxwroughly clean, rt will be glossy, cock and bouhe, delightfully fresh ming, aofe aia a ae While rear haar rut have frequent easily, each separate hair Asating alo ad regular washin : keep at beauriful, tno stand the ‘and eect of Bree ded which ts com Cie picniy of father. Aue if ra thorauge fy aad Srirkty with the fronger fips. Zou in ordinary cape. The free alkali soon dries the scalp, cuces the hair britthe amd ruins 1. Thit is why discriminating women eemhere now use Mulsified Cocoanut (Hh Sampo, This clear, pure and en- ret geaeiess product soph possibly tere, and it dees mot dry the scal cute the hair britthe, mo matter nae He tom use It, [ing want to see how really beautiful u tas a anake your hair look, just follow na sample method : A Simple, Easy Method tat put two or three teaspoonfuls d Ab&cied in a cup or glass with a twarmowater, Then wet the hair eiiecs with clear warm water. Four Se Mubched evenly over the hair and “At thimaghly all over the sealp, and rr = d¢ the entire length, down to the Ta of bt Pair, Two or three teaspoonfuls will make # arstdance of rich, creamy lather. Is satmid be rubbed in thoraagrhty and naa Wet the finger tips, so as to loosen the dandruff ancl small particles of cust apc dire thar stick to the sealp. After rubbing in the rich, creamy Mulsified lather, rinse the hair anc sealp thereaghly— always using clear, fresh, warm water. deteg Vile Then use another Sa TA application af Mul- ‘ad fer fhe sifted, again work- Tifton alky ing up a lather and Te Abe ashe sibhitie it in briskly aa before, ‘ey waters are usually sufficient for wiry the hair, but sometimes the *, i iecesary. ‘scan easily tell, for when the hair a Makes your hair soft and silky— bright, fresh look- ing and luxuriant. WATKINS MUISIFIED JW.5, PAT. OFF, COCOANUT COCOANUT OIL SHAMPOO in the water, the strands will fall 2 ca while wet, will feel loose, fluffy and Ii to the touch and be so clean it will fairly Hiiggz THe aL woo t dae eh he o fingers. Rinse the Hair Thoroughly HIS is very important. After the final washing, the hair and scalp should be ringed in at least cwo chan " of good warm water and followed wit rinsing in cold water. When you have rinsed the hair thor- oughly, wring it as dry as you can: finish » by rubbing tt with a towel, shaking | it and fluffing ir until it is dry. Then give it a good brushing. After a shea AmMpoo you wi find che baie wall dry quickly and evenly and have the aop- pearance of being much thicker and heavier than it is. f you want to ie 5 be. remem. for your beau- tiful, well-kept hair, make it a rule to set hen theronghlly tlean, wet Aatr fairfvsguraks sehen you purl if Mirena your fingers, a certain day each week for a Mulsifed Cocoanut Ohl Sham- poo. This regular weekly shampooing will keep the scalp soft and the hair fine and silky, bright, ical looking and fluffy, Wavy and easy to manage—and it will be noticed and admired by everyone, You can get Mulsified at any drug Store oF toilet goods Courter, anywhere in the world. A 4ounce bottle should last a Childs utiful HILDBREN should be taughe, early in life, that proper care at the hair is essential, The hair and scalp showld be kepe perfectly clean te in- aure a healthy, wis- orous scalp and a fine, thick, heavy head of hair. Get your children into the habit of shampooing their hair reqularly once a week. A boy's hair bret nig short, sham- pacing takes but a fF ben the fair irairy four minutes. For afingys erode fa goad either a boy ora girl, thorouga brushing. simply meister thie hair with warm water, pour on a litele Mulsified and rab vigorously with the opsof thefingers. This wall stimulate the scalp, make an albun- dance of rich, creamy teehee and cleanse the hair thoroughly. Tt takes only a few seconds to nmse it all cut when thrash, You will be surprised how this regular weekly shampooing with Mulsified will improve the appearance of the hair, are you will be teaching your child a habit that will be appreciated in after-lite, for a luxuriant head of hair is something every man and woman feels mighty Proud uf.

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(‘Centingrad fram Poge 48) sitieafier al Mayor Nealy and his banker sepctes to inctall me in ownership and Hrection of the Leavenworth Standard. ett ot T remember it the thought did not rion, Ty ideas were so definitely urped fe og eg to the aaa Tpanpt. act that I was subsequently eemafal in that field, one might with ap- nsf mage same arnimadversions Tt i wt stage-stroe By in esas itor hve (bales wishtoact. Playing was | fo the ultimate acquirement of “greg and ihn wer while mow, E rac ah arite may he per- ethic af who, aunt the wishes of his : feels a call to follow his pri- at sixty years of bait Emerson F oe he “Tremendous, fares ‘whith we eall native bias . , - through. all the =) the years and keeps the constant to the same pursuits as in * Neatly twen i ocala ' sede same areal: | ashore world, each ‘ea great fable, dramatically tetearsed before him If you man he toms his eyes from his po hg end pore or fasber to com you Bay. have done speaking he returns ie iusic,"* hie music is his self- SmHoet important function in ca ak ers rong iret § Utpeer tunity Ppan er RS a8 the artist on i eee ares Paper, the Kansas and from there went aa the to the Miseoori Republican en came along about thia time interview concerning Th ir. No fiemertaey muther could Te tae inion than ae the play. But asa star to felt thet ft would 2 8 ety commer’ te hie Une tom which he heen ‘during the Ontire gecond srt, iedome to rewrite it a0 that he af +" that section. But though Spar was out of a second nek 4 Wee Very muc mt gs pra aice. In my stubborn insini- PScript a8 written at that time 5 far os theatrical preepects still stranded in St. Louis, le ineident for me during ketGme is that I then made my first ont — tei Col, Henry Watleracn. — es rine, tn ose, Tek fi THE SATURDAY The paper wanted @ picture of him. Marae Henry dide’t care to sit for u sketch, but when Deaw him two daye later he was very complimentary about the ave | had made from memory after mi talk with him. Asa stunt that caused our mutual acquaintanes have more than ones repeated it since that time. I worked ete adlily on the from the end of 1887 until August of TH8m. The time was filled with interesting experi- ences; few of them, howeve Tr eTtinent to my Career ae om pluseright, although mv duties aa artist threw me now und then inte touch with events that were dramatic. In the mind of a playwright it made a grisly front seene to be called cut of bed at two o'clock in the morning and driven hastily tothe levee, amd with ih & light fram one mn taken fram the side of the hack that had conveyed him there to sit astride the benely of some murdered Toustabout and get a memorandum sketch that would transier to a chalk plate in time for the morning etition. I SWLE El eae it was Th ChaZRerace i] en- dicwoey of the dramatic element in any ppening that lent zest to my good-by to epublican and to the newspaper bnusi- ness, Charles Knapp, the proprietor of the paper, was a oman liked by all the employes. the Rivancenent. Anew proprietor who came to ws thet summer with revolutionary ideas, none of which I recal il as su baaquenthy justified, wos Ms. Charles Jones, # small, emphatic, laconic person, with ox- traordinary fide whiskera and an entire ubsinee of the personality that appeals ta the Western product. He changed the honored name of the Missour; Republican to the &t. Louis Republic and sturted in upon his campaign of ecommmy and retrenchment. When he reached the art department he instructed the cy editor te tell me that my thirty dollars « week hed been cut to twenty-five. The information came the afternoon of a day which brought a letter from Will Smythe stnting that Ancl Damey i ened me the poet len of bunts: muni ager in the season soon toe begin, with a young actress whom he hoped to establish as aetar. The mum of this young person was Julia Mar- lowe, and Barney ar nil others who had seen her had a high opinion of her ability and a firm belief in her future. [owas therefore able to say to the city editor that instead of submitting to n cut of five dollars I would demand a ralee of fifteen if | stayed on the paper. This did not indicate a wish to remain, ut ws the work on the paper had. grown the management had engaged os assistant TAe Jecred Alame fa Fae Anfodia, Texas Republican | Frank O'Neill, the editor, wasa | Brornobed reporter who had deserved his | PUBL EVENING POST 49 PUBLIC 2&4 LEDGER CONSTANCE DREXEL at Washin for the Public edger News Service Yes women want News Not mere romances and thrills. Not news embroidered with the “feminine touch”. Not patronizing lectures on the duties of citizenship. But straight news, about the big current ‘events which touch the lives of women and the future of their children. Miss Drexel is at Washington to get that kind of news—the kind that male corre- spondents don’t cover. She was one of the first American women to get into the war, serving as a nurse ina French military hospital. Soon after, she became a correspondent. She covered the Peace Conference at Paris, and later the International Congress of Women at Zurich. She knows news. She knows the woman's angle. That is why many newspapers publish her despatches, by arrangement with the Ledger Syndicate. ake een . Af pour club Al hotel pewastands Find out whether there is a news- paper in your city which publishes Miss xel's ashin on news for women, by arrangement with the Ledger Syndicate.

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St. Lends ~seee ) agement of a awimming school THE SATURDAY in the art department a young drafteaman from the Washington University by the name of Paul Connoyer, and I felt that a Parthian demand for an increase of an would operate os a defense agninsk any aulk upon Paul, Conneyer took over the department when I lelt and they got forme man to help him, He later came to New York, where as 0 painter of landscapes and stroct scenes he took high tunk HLIELENTLgE artiats. At that time the &t. Louis Hasehall Club, owned by Chris You der Abe, was under the porsonal management of George Mun- son. Nlunson was a free lance, ready to tf meat anything, and in his experience, Which ran from fewapaper work to man- re had mick and were friends. Munson had a Pullman car with twenty-four berths init which wag leaving in two days for New York with the ball club. Three of these berths were un- occupied, He gave me my choice of them, and 0 left St, Louis the oabensible histerian af that party. Railroad fare and Pullman to New York in those days totaled about thirty dollars, It exactly bridged the gap from journalism to m ment, a my duties begun when trehearsala did. In that old ball club Thad several friends. One still in the public eve was Charles A. Comistay, or as he was called then Commy. He was playing firat base an actingascaptaineltheteam. Arlie Latham, Tobably the greatest tum maker in the istory of professional baseball, was on third. Yenurs after Lathum had ceased to Play ball he waa engaged as a coach be- cause of his ability to entertain grand stand and bleachers, This was a natural gift with Latham, and its exercise was irresistibly es tok dha The Harrighurg station on the Peanaylvania Railroad is incloaed at its west end by an iron fence about nine fest high, 50 ting its tracks and plut- forma from the streets, That same fenee, or one dimilar, was there in the summer of LASS. Chur train made the usual five min- utes" stop, Men were stretching their | under the sheds of the station. Outside this tron fence a citizen of Harrishurg, with an old-faghianed set of whiskers, was pasa- ing. Latham screamed at him, and then as nearly as he could vocally reproduce the noise be dramnatized a tornacs, theatrically implying in the slang of the day that the nrind waa blowing. The Foung Playwright The owner of the whiskers was of Celtie ofigin. He turned upon Latham and looked helplessly slong the fence for some gateway by which he could rench him, None was there, Latham, thus protected, | the tron bara of the fence, went along a , section of it like a caged chimpanzee, vie- lently shaking the bars and erent all the time the whizzing noise that had so angered this inoffensive citizen. Through the man's anger there shot a more in- telligent gleam and he started to run for the brick station house itsel?, Latham made a dash for the train, which fortu- nately pulled out os the belligerent citizen: burst past the tleket taker and into the inclosure, A witness of the whole per- arecanece eiiatit Weis called Latham'‘s attack Unwarran hoodumisrm, but it waan't that; it waa simple exuberance of animal epirits, and very much the kind of vitality that when the offering is more a matter of onality than of intellect finds. market in the theater. Latham himself had a suc- ceashul eit later in vaudeville, after which he came back to the ball field as a. conch, For men whe are trying te write for the theater and are impatient at the unaveid- able delays it is worth while to take stock ol my first arrival as a man in New York. T had in my trunk two lon plays and five or ix short ones. T was thirty-ane years of age anc had had an intimate aeccqunint= ance and relationship with the theater nearly all my life, had Played many years as an amateur, three or four years ag the occasional member of a repertoire com-= pany in the legitimate, and had more than a year of consecutive traveling with a com- pany in which [ had an interest. I had ured four playa that F hod written, had two veurs in a bom office and had shared fora few full eoinutes the lease of a. theater, while never losing sight of dra- matic nuthorship as objective, I had re- fused to rewrite a play for so promising an ex ft as Mr. Sothern. And yet, in order to keep in touch with the business and do something that would occasionally EVENING POST put me at the prelucing center, I found myaell in a forty-dollar jab te count tickets se Bh young actress upon her first trip asa star. In the thirty-three years that have passed since that date my observation has built up the opinion that the American play- wright docs not generally make better healway, There have been one or two brilliant exceptions; but as a rule the Public is net interested in a man who has written from books, and to write from life ie that some time should be spent in living tt, Uf there ig somewhat in thot statement that is depressing it is more than offset by the fact that hardly anything happens te & man or woman during this pronation Ary: whit that is not directh: or niirectly serviceable in the playhouse. he ak is fish that cones ta that pond. Julia alowe, our you star, had layed ms aochild. Asa young lady she bod fi carefully coach In @ number of parta by Ada Dow, who shortly after the season of which I write betame the wife of the present veteran actor, Frank Currier. Miss Marlowe culled Miss Dow Aunt Ada, CH the several parta in which she wae pre- pared Miaa Marlowe had been seen only iin arthenia, in which she unquestionably excelled any actress that her generation remembered, Col, Robert G. Ingersoll hod seen her performance In thie part, and had been moved te write a letter of such high praise that Mr. Barney had sought and olvtained his permission to have it reproduced on hia lange printing, Barney aa advance agent had vislbed St. Louis twice while I waa at Pope's. My engage ment was the outeome partly of the ac- quaintance then made, He had with him a3 adviser an advance man, Fred Stingan, who had conducted more than one tour for Mme. Helena Modjeska, Julia Marloue's Early Successes Stinson was very wise in the matter of arranging legitimate repertoire and in get- Ling public attention for a female star, Harney had been a newspaper man; §tin= son was himself a writer with an ambition todo plays, So the association of us three men wis at the start an agreeable one, Except to get the names of the company and told the salary that each was to receive, it waan't necessary for either Bar- ney or Stinson to loge any time om my theatrical education, With all the duties of this position [ was fumiliar, In St. Lauis T had with Barner to the critica and more than once helped him on his publicity. Notwithstanding that fact, and knowing my job, [ was compli- mented when Barmey asked me to partici- pate in the council of policy with him and Stinson. There was a hiteh about the matter to @o upon the firet three-sheet. Bamey and Stinson were comparing adjec- tives to describe the supporking company, and for ome reason or another hesitating over all the trite descriptions. “Splendid, “exellent,” “distinguished,” “adequate,” had each some recommending and some objectionable feature, Ha ning to know that in certain sec- tions of the country there had been some i over Mary Anderson's revisiting her od territory with = company that waa exclusively Englich, [ suggested dismissin all thelr adjectives by using the wo “American.” This eo caught the faney of both men that they used it not only to deseribe their company but to deacribe their etar. here was on implication. of rivalry alot it: but fine as Mary Ander= aon had been, Barney had a etar who would stand comparison, however invited. All the ports thot Miss Marlowes played that year I had seen played by other actresses. In nearly all the cine I had pla some part myself, I felt qualifled to form an opinion met only of Miss Mar- lowe's work but of the business which Miss Dew had devised for the other members of the company, and to which she held them with an inflexibility relaxed only when the opinian of some exqpunlly experienced Person, stich at Charles Harroner Mary Shaw, con- vinced her of ita value. Julia Marlowe had every requisite for suincess in star parts on the stage that a girl could need—youth and health, with their attractiveness: facial and physical beauty: stature, poise carriage, voloe diction, proper pronunciation, mobile expression, definite graceful gesture and competent, well- shaped, responsive hands, Her men equipment included gayety, hospitality for humor, self-reliance, ready emotions under April f, i935 fair control, a capacity for attention, OC; great value was that her beauty of fa: wre of the kind that the stage enhaner Tt is net unusual for a parlor beauty to | lest in a atuge frome: but Marlowe's fe tures were of a ecale that fitted that larg canvas, This harmonious ampleness . feature, the bone structure underlying | wis one foundation of her voier, then ; now the best woman's speaking vwoler the American or English atage. I ho heard Charlotte Thompeaon and others The Hunchback, but none who by shies warlely and charm of tone lifted from m dincrity and made memorable such lines 4 “T've seen the enow upon a level with tk hedge, zat there was Master Walter.” _ Ago agua meeting admiring calle in ber hotel parlor or behind the soemes, ur even on the railway traina with the con Pony, there was about the girl a dight sel consciousness, & willingness to look to Aw Ada for naral Supeport, that was mal tenprert hi girlish; but on the stage that mear-timidl was transmuted into an archneas qui! devoid of embarrassment. This archne hovered ove “very layful line and inhal: tion —perha tishalation especially. as ig halation is the tide of what the Seot calle the come-hither influence, In thoes curly days, watched by her str diaus support, 1b was a question how muc af her effect waa the girl herself and ho much the imprint of her instructress. Soar there were who thought that a servile iim jtation and obedience were the full dept af the pogaegaion., And in that first yer this belief waa en ed somewhat bb Mise Dow's watehtulnesa in the wings an frequent criticul comment right after goene. For myself, however, nok onpria ticed in estimating auch work, and with th hetter vantage of seeing all from the fron there was evident an exuberant personalit of Marlowe's own, a personality thinkin and implying and conveying a most witching overlay around alt the set an stuclied ineas of the teacher. NMobedy aver saw oon of off the stage could put int two words the challenge and the retres the winsomeness, the temptation ancl th clean innocence that Marlowe, aa she sata he Ig near Orlando, put into the word da id me" _ Company of Notables During that period Misa Julia was moe jealously guarded, No sefiorita had eve BsanTper eet duenna, and | thought the that the balouny and the Porest of Arde were both gainers because of that back ground of repression. ; What a national possession a generatio has in such awoman os Marlowe! What ehange could be wrought on our nations apeech if one such exponent might be | every great center where the girla of Arner ica could come under her repeated spell. Hestles Stinson, ns playwright, ther were in that {iret Muarlawe company Mar: Shaw, Edward MeWade, Albert rit; and Dolson Mitchell, all interested in play writing, mm all still prominently before th public. Miss Shaw and Bruning were wis in the maxing of the art. MeWade anc Mitchell subsequently became skilled ar: sueceastul. Mary Shaw was easily the in tellectual center of that thewtric Furmatly nat anly concerning things of the theate but literature in general. Miss Shaw hae heen a echool teacher before she became a1 actress, but had mot served at it so bony that she in any way tired of giving in formation. She had alaa been the leadin vi bos for Modjeska, which equipped he with many of the traditions of her chose profession, bat better yet, as far os he companions in the Marlowe company were concerned, gave her a fund of anecdot that nade that season a joy. Mary's par pe hero pte le nie ed Mauric RITE. not i aa ai that time—did not meet him until nearly : year later; but when we did meet [ fel pretty intimately informed of his profes F otal and private career through the sborie of this generous biographer, Albert Bruning is among the prominent layers of New York at the present tine evious ta that Marlowe engagement! Bruning had played Shakspere in German winning considerable praise in the part ol Hamlet, and in that excellent and Amer- ican company he was a notable actor, In Romes and Juliet he played the part of Tybalt. As attractive as Juliet was, and a magnetic as Tuber was in Foomeo, and az Barron was in the part of Mereutio, when (Continaed of Page 52)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 5l There is double economy in using Pet Milk. Pet is better milk for less money, and Pet gives you creamy richness at the price of milk. As cream for coffee, Pet is fine. For cooking, add an equal part of water and you have pure, sweet, full-cream cow’s milk richer than the legal standard for bottled milk. Pet is Milk at its Best Try Pet and know its economy, con- venience and quality. Your grocer can supply you. Two sizes—tall and small. Send for free book of Pet Recipes, to The Helvetia Company, General Offices, St. Louis—Originators of the Evaporated Milk Industry. Try this recipe RICE PubpING. ' cup rice; 1 cup Per Milk; ta cups water; te cup auger, hy cop almonds: [ reaspoon sale; i Snes. Wah fice and eeok in dilused milk in dewhle- boiler uncil render; add sugar, salt, yolks of eggs well beaten, and whites of cges beaten stil, Place almonds, blanched and aplir, OF. the heetpon oF a well beuttereed meld, pour in rice mixture; bake in a toderate oven waned fit. Turn cut on serving dish.

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Theatergoers of the last year or two will remember the fine impression he made as Polonius to Walter Hampden's Hamlet. The first time we put up Romeo and Juliet, I think in Washington City, the compiny was short one member for its long mat. An acter who was expected fram New York to play Benvolio missed the train that would have let him arrive in time for the performance. [t was too late to change the bill, and at Miss Dow's suggestian | agreed to goon for the port if we could find a costume, One member lent me a pair of tighta, another a pair of shoes, and so on. I definitely remember that Frank Currier furnished the doublet, He was a slighter man than I, but by dint of compression I got into his garment, Benvolio’s most im catch Mercutio when he falla wounded hy Tybalt in thelr duel. The scene went re- mathably well up to this point, but when sturdy Charley Barron, wounded, dropped into my arms, this tight doublet. af Currier's split up the ‘back like o roasted chestnut, and with a ripping noise that defied n leet by any tn the audience. 1 daulbt if ercatio ever got so good a mit office ia ta the death af laugh. harles Barron. hac supported the great- eat actors in the American theater, He was i beads of the old Boston Museum stock hod been at times a star himself. He wae an acceptable Ingomar, a good Mer- cutio, a fine Master Walter and an excel- lent Malvelio, Few actors of his day, and none of the present, had better diction on the stage: but in private discourse he was singularly uneven, af times almost inaudi- ble, Tt omused the other hd in ae = pany ta notes and see which a them had Funierstacd most of some speech of Barron's as he stood with a group on the street corner or at the atage door, mum- bling 28 he mouthed his tebaceo pipe and emitting now and then some staccato ex- Plosive that served of a@ step poston caranten the maze of his uninte ficthte rit Stout Billy Owen, another Modjeaka strength in any legitimate company. When he played Sir Toby and Frank Currier was , with Barron's io, Taber's Duke, and youn: MeWede— the beat double Misa Mar ever had to her Viola—playin Sebastian, with Mary Shaw and Emma Hinckley in her other women riles, the public was offered about as good a cast of actors as Americn peta at any time, The Handy Moving Van Robert Taber, our Jeadi Tan, been a Sargent pupil ane 2 learned his } business with Modjeska and Charles Cogh- lan. When he had been with Modjeska the leading man had been Maurice Barrymore, and eomaciously or ences ony ‘aber’ leads ching arlowe ar ly followed Ba Tt must be sa at he could mot have fe icind a better ene] Taber came of fine family. His sister, who sur- vives him, i the wife of Henrw Holt, the publisher, He had hod o edurntion and fine assoclates. While [ was with the Marlowe company he was my nearest friend among its members. Taber liked a acai laugh, but hia bent was essentially is happiest hours were after the a Pe Misa bad bahia et am anal a na while ali himself and me—perha eg it l that was really Tnacatag ‘nhllaadeley not doubt it now but for eerie oft ae 6 Laxghter, When Rob and I were alone he talked mitch af the atur for whom in that first season he protested positive dislike and fortified hia feeling by mung minwbe fault- findings. I was sone fourteen yeurs older than the girl and a good half dozen older than Rob, The phrase “protective color- ing" was then not yet invented, but I waa hot astonihed some two years later to read af the Taber-Marlowe marriage. We were to leave Trenton one morni for some place farther south where we had a guaranty—and needed it. The only train that would make our connection left wt ten o'clock in the morning. Misa Marlowe, Mit Dow, their maid, Frank Currier and myself, who were to go to the station in the curring, met in the hotel lobby at the proper time. After a wait of a minute or had EVENING POST two, when the carriage didn't appear, wi telephoned the liveryman, who said that the arder had been far the same hour in the evering, which was abeurd, His ng wasn't ready and there waan't thie ta get Lt. Currier and I gathered up the baggage and our mixed quintet went to the street. Wo passenger seat was in sight any- where, To mise the guaranty in that next town meant disaster, I sto ia Aman whe was driving a covered mil ig oe After loss of much precious time he declined to consider the proposition that I made, We moved on te the commer, hoping to find ane more willing. On the aide street at the in- tersection atood two large furniture vang with pictures of Geo Washington on their sides and large their munity dee long or short hauls wit furniture, drivers were in sight, but a shout inte the saloon on the corner pro duced ane. I asked him what he would charge to take the five of us te the atation, about a mille away. He said two dollars. I promised him five if he got there in four minutes, Ho got onte his box, Currier and T threw the luggage in over the lowered helped the two lodics the maid in after climbed in ourselves. [t was almost a straight run to the statlon. Certain ob- staclea in the street necessitated our cross— ing the car tracks once or twice, in which maneuvers the greatest living Juliet rico- cheted between the thin mattresses that lined the two aides of the van. atters rape Where Stout Could be Bought As we neared the station we saw one of our company pleading with a nervous con- ductor who was running his left thumb aver the hew al of his watch after the manner railroad men, Currier and I whistled shrilly, the actor aaw us and ex@lained to the conductor. A minute later we swung tail end te the railroad track like an emergency ambulance and the day was saved as Curner cried, “Out, you hag- gage!" The train was rocking under way ms woe bib doen the a ee meats, the sympathetic company al questions toa the agltated ladles, Currier, the first man comin Plained, still in mock heroics, ‘ drag ber on & hurdle thither.” How often the human mind accepts intel- lectually a fact long before ever dramatic- ally or emotionally aexpuiring it, Thereafter for the much-omused Marlowe the angry Capulet had a magnified reality when he scolded the cringing Juliet: Thank me no thonkings, aor proud me ne alter, ex- @ had to prods, Bal fettle your fine joindae "gotnatl Thireday mer!, To go wi Paris fo Soin Pefer’s church, Or J will drag dkee om a hurdle thither, Chul, you greeneaickrcss carrion! Gaal, you baggage! In the theater, as far back as I remem- ber, when salartes were paid the old petors called it the ghost walking. Our firet old man wae a youngish actor named Jimmy Cooper. At that time it was customa tis y salaries Tuesday night, One Tu awever, the monry had te be conserved to move the company. As I neared the d of Cooper's dressing romm on mi way hack. slage te watched wlth hopeful eves my eamning. When on the return trip I again passed him without leaving the pay enve- ope I heard him quote in melancholy bone Horatio's lime: Bri, eoce ther, the morning cock creo lowed; And af dhe sound if shrank in hadle wicty, And ranteh'd from our sight, The aver man must abv envy the wiellatneked rueacry al the’ cultivated pio What a delightful element in the Tight talk of John Drew, for example, are the pat quotations that sparkle through it from its -eannegbe backing. Arial Rare preclained on the bills as presenting Marlowe, had bualnesa ability. Stalk had genius. There came a time in the association of these two fac tora when success impaired Barney's sense a proportion. The persons who felt the consequence of this misconception most were Stinson and if, who had been on nna a frion u ersten with him. an OWE, & gi oT wee. 1 u through the other two months anaded finigh the season if it hadn't been for a trick hat. The American theater was less a buai- ness and more of an inetitution thirty-three April 1, 19: years ago, and Marlowe's audiences in d cities wore the nearest in formality to tho af the grand o Therefore in the citi her business staff dressed. I had @ fur ec lar and this accordion hat aa [ ateod at ¢ door, One form of Barney's solicitude f the star was to carry to her dreasing-roc door a bottle of Guinness etout. This ri istration didn't oecur often, and when did Miss awe didn’t like the tonic. ( the first n aur second angagement Philadeiphs ie the lobby Wis fille jwith My Lowe's Loon) admirers. In one group were Colonel MeClure, publisher, two of hia friends. Barr who was tossing a silyer quarter in hand, at a break in their conference call to me at the door, “Thomas, Thomas} Ordinarily we apeke to ench other b first names, In the wUrEuH dings err to and under allk hat the pererniera "Thomas!" had an und. pinata With worne dimpiny ent withe ving his friends, Barney extended t quarter and said, “I want to get a beat: af stowt for — "Marlowe I heard m: meat fanswering, I’ am eeean ih Philadelphi Mr, Barney, but if [ w you L'd try a Colonel MeClure and his friends laugh The day I got back te St. Loula out o! job again i called on John Norton at t nd. He waa talking to John — who had formerly man Mre. D, Bowers and was then handling the thoug’ reader, Washington are E Buhop Norton said to Riteh “Wher. her your man!" It was Tuesday. Laci who was ha ing & week's engagement in St. Louis Exposition Hall, had to open the followi ay in Minneapolis, and his advan aan had left him without notice, I we that evening to see Bishop's work. [et w astonishing, ane aa I came to be more wv more familiar with itafterward itmadeup mea prafiound impression. It pansion be desevibed at length: but aa I am to write here only that which aff bel ay tr isha tall bubtwostor SigTincaine a & pectl imr power, In o articles not included in these remembranc I hope to write speclal and extend accounts af paychie phenomena. 5B I explain my wish for brevity if mot nm achievement of it here, 1 4f Cleaver Thought Reader The Bishop experiment thet impres me most that first night was his find while blindfolded an article carried fro, the stage and hidden somewhere in th vast audience, To do this the volunte who had hidden hg article down o sii niske wos makin second trip from t! stage behind = an who wees eagerly dra ging him. The volunteer, determined give no help to the blindfolded telepathic was not only hanging back but was lookis at the ceiling of framed glass in a refusal indicate in any manner the location sough Near the hiding place halted, as alter a fretful wiver taal te the audien. and eried: “This man la not sean with conditions, He is not thinking of ti lace where this article is hidden, All th: “ from his mind is a picture af sk: lights.” In w spirit of fairness the nudien- hurat inte a round of applause, regardir that reading by Bishop as more revealir than the finding of the article, which im: diately folk Cn Wednesday cong 4 was ill, Hitch and 1 sat by his bed for qur intervie 1 engaged to leave town thet day as h wilvaece mon. DT teck with me nothing be some newspaper clippings. There wasn't sheet of paper or a single lithograph or a thing of the uaual equipment of the ma ahead, Ordinarily for a visiting attracts in a city like Minneapolis the advertisin paper is on the walls on Thursday morniry The advertisements are in the newspaper and such ayo A the dramatic men ar willing te accord the agent has already ber partly used. None of these favorable co) ditions was mine. I have had occasion to say before that | wish | might write some of thease storce without letting everybody know what devil of a fellow lam. Hut the experienc Lam about to tell would lose whateve value it has if [ depressed it below the leve af simple statement. [ teld it ance in New York tn the middle 90's, when aa 4 more o less arriving playwright [ was the guest a an organization of theatrical business men predominantly advance agents, numbering Centinued on Page F4!

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THE SATURDAY Puffed Rice The Bubble Grains On This Dish Mothers and children agree No other cereal food in existence compares with Puffed Grains, as you know. Children revel in them—grains puffed to bubbles, & tines normal size. As flimsy as snowflakes, as Havory as nuts Perhaps ewery child would pick outa Puffed Carain if offere the choice of all cereal foods known, But this is the mother's side Bi aad fend Pufted Grainne To mothers whe knew— millions of them are the teleal foro af erwin: fad. They ue whale prains, supply ine whole-pranti noération. Every food cell is explivbed, ao cipestson-ia mode cay and camplete. There are It needed elements in whent Puffed Wheat makes them all availalle ® Made from Prof. Anderson's procsa—the only process bv which all celle ore broken, Crver 1M) million stesun explosions are cused in ewery kernel Let children eat all they will Puffed Rice Socam-exploded grains. Puffed Wheat Pufferl to & times normal size. Puffed Wheat in Milk Toasted whole-wheat bubbles the supreme supper igh, and that his arrival was EVENING POST (Continoed from Poge #2) about two hundred, Their tuking it an qualifying for honorary membership is the rmieet expert rating [ ean quate ta justify my belief that it ia worth telling. At &t. Paul, a half hour before my ar rival at Minneapolis, about eleven o'clock on Thursday morning, [ got a Minneapolis pane in order to see what opposition ishop would have in that city. The front page was covered with sensational accounts of preparations for a double hanging to occur the next day, and extended reprints of stories of the erlme, the trial, and futile efforts for rehearing and for executive clem- ency. Two hove named Barrett, Supleyed by street railway, had been convi af the murder of a passenger at a terminus of thé line. One claimed to be innocent; the teatimony of his brother supported him. Tt waa plain that in regular course Friday's paper would be Glled with this same kind of news, and that it would be Saturday or Sunday before the papers would print any- thing Front Bao ps pea of atten- tion. ‘The possi istraction was the sacaationnl lie caine To be noticed at all we would have to get on the band wagon: have to go with the hanging and not agalnat it. A in Mitheapelis, T had a enh driver take me to the principal evening paper. L asked the city editor if there was anything new in the matter of the Barrett ove. e said, “Nothing.” Would he print any news concerning them? If tt was news, yes, I said I hed » letter to the governor af the state from Washington Irving Bishop, the thought reader, asking him to postpone the exeru- tion af the boy claiming to be innocent until Bishop could reach Minneapolia on Sunday, when he would agree to read the mind af the young man, Tetinact. the crima and define the boy's nssorintion with it. The editer asked for the letter, Searching through my pocketa, ] was unuble to fine it. Beare ree my bag also failing to pre- duce it, I told him that it must be in my trunk, but that having originally written it [ could accurately reword it, Getting Publicity When the afternoon paper appeared its Peak Dene uneiess ® ere inn Beate Sent Re gine ng, “Hope for the Barrett Boys! ae | Reader Washington Irving B Asks a Stay of Execution.” And then fol- lowed more descriptive lines, sealing down to the written intraduction and a copy of the letter [ had composed; alsa the impor= tant fact that Bishop waa te arrive Sun : reparatery ta week's engagement at the theater. That afternoon all Minneapolis had the informa- tion, I went to the jail, explained my call to the captain of the police, was permitted to eee the twa boye, and convinced them maey had littl: to loge in permitting this ex- periment by Bishop. — I wish to say here that my confidence was based upon the fact that Bishop in Portlancd hod made a similar visit to a crim- inal’s cell and dramatized his crime, Eeoth boys were glad to sign what [ set deen for them, which for purposes of brevity and dramatic value read simply; "We are will- ing to wait.” ' fhen I reached the office after leaving their cell in ne we T was confronted by a dignified, martial-looking man whoas soon as the captain indicated me opened fine, He knew the object of my call; thought I should be ashamed of myself for trying te play upon the hopes of these two in order to pet publicity fora showman. | was able quite truthia y ita dhieny this as sole: purpose, because I had then and till have a belief that Bishop would have made good on a teat. But the attorney inter- rupted with a loud " Rot! that you are not talking now te two poor, igno- rant hoy, but to an attorney at law,” Tanid: “General, my knowledge ol yon aa an abterney is confined ta the reeords of this cose, As both your clienta are con- demned te death, you must excuse me far not being impressed." The two or three reporters followed me to the door in order to get the line right for the morning he From the jail I went to the Capitol in St. Paul and handed a copy of the letter to April t, #92 the governor, told him of the Portland ex ment and diated upon Bishop's ability e was considerate and noneommittal. The & ine edition of Hie Gore pers ¢ ll reports a ve told and when the Barrett boys were hang some two houra alter these early ecdlition extras issued inning with the statemen that the drop had fallen at eight minute alter six, In thes extra editions the pre posal and appeal of Bishop, the scenes 4 the jail and the governor's declination Wer included, The matter had been telegraph te St. Louis alas, becawee [ rece a WIF from Ritchie: “Good work. Your salary is one bun dred dollars,” This was a lift of twenty-five. ishop arrived on time and we had aendational apening. The other syarrpla that T wish te repor of Bishop's work is worth while, aa 4m! attempt ta off ger it that ng im Wes York resulted in his death. We pla at night in Jefferson City, Missouri, Hon David R. Francis, recently United State ambassador to Russia, was then governor Mike Fanning, already referred to, wae hi secretary. The ror, who wes unabl to come to the theater, sent an invitation to Bishop, Ritehle and me to take supper a the mansion. Besides the five men named there was present only the governor's sister Miss Francis. After supper, when the orvernor ate ns nh peagpecne ee ighop asked him to go nlone to his librars and aelect a werd fram any book, Whee the governor returned we all followed hin again Inte the lib Bishop went ip an otdinary walk to the proper bookcase took without hesitation the prapes book—there were perhaps two thousanc in the room—opened this heavy law vol- ume, turned wikhons fasltation to the page, went down the page, pul Pia Anger Upon a certain word. } Governor Francia said, “That's it TH! Wl proseing scold tit whole proceeding occu little more time than I have taken in its dictation. A few days th itchia, Bishop and I went to New York, Bishop and J, Levy, the great cornetiat, had met and agreed upon a jolnt tour for the following eAeOE. techie and [ were to be equally intercated. It looked like a business Proposition. The Sunday night alter our arrival in New York Bishop was a guest at a Lambs Club Gambol. He repeatecij this exhibition that I have described. c ter J. A. [rwin, a member, came in after midnight, waa akeptical about what he had heard, urged Blahop to repeat that teat or ati a one aimilar, and although Bishop, atl been caut inst overwork of this kind by hi aise he ted it successfully and te inte a eptle Lie 4 Producing Venture On Broadway the next day a man said, | “Your star is sick at the Lambs.” I found Bishop in a little hall bedroom on an iron eot, w he had been for | twelye hour, a tiny eleetrle battery buzz- | ing away with one wet electrode over his | heart and the other in his right hand. He | was Unconscious. Two doctors sat srmGking | in the adjoining room, tired with their wate of the night, [looked at the handsome face | of Bishop and eat beside him for some min- bes, Although he was to every appearance dead ad raclemnity suddenly camecver hig face. I stepped to the doorway. _ "T think there's a change in your patient, doctors,"* They came into the room and aaid at once, He's dene," In half an hour T waa on the way ta Philadelphia to break the news to his wile. Five houra later 1 was back in New York with Mrs. Bishop. : With Bishop deod, 1 was agoin out of work, this time in New York. Will Smythe wre alee there, and aur ie phat bagether with the fact that Maurice Barrymore, who had just closed a highly succesful engagement in Captain Swift at the Madi- ST a Theater, was lt to under= take a summer performance of The Burglar, embarked us all upon the production of my first four-nct play in the bout. Editer’s Mote= This te the seventh of « aceies of articles by Me. 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prowiinesi soclety carp followers stagger- ng in and out of as many as five six daily costumes. Now they ever do it will ever renin a mystery to us imple writers and oatmeal manufucturers aod mattress makers from the buckwheat belt. Every morning directly after breakfast the hotel lebbies fill ap th women who want to talk nhowt drew. The Palm Beach dailies and weeklies cater to their pitiable weakness by spectalizing on thrilling information of this nature, So far aa the female contingent at Palm Beach is concerned, an economic con ference in Europe or a presidential utter ance on the bonus haso't a chance in the world with such big news og what Mra. Harald Hayne Wh wore at the Beach Chib last night. . Chitside, the warm sun may be beating dawn upon golden sands and an szure sen, the wind rustling softly through pa pains, and the bland air thrilling to Lockicnan murmur af the wheel-chair hoes ws the paint out ga million-dollar cottage, with caustic comments on the helght af the wall. Yet the dress ferrets ait on with bated breaths in the cool gloom of the hotel lob biea while the papers inform their enthralled readers that: : “Vory smart was the slabe-calored strictly tailored suit worn by Mrs, Aurelio Van- dersouse, Jr, wt a recent Painetana honch- eon. Her hat waa of a tone of straw perfectly harmonizing with the suit and bore on flat bow of tomate wire for trimming. e Hon. Mra. D. Dryer Flobyer's suit was fashioned of an imported bed-ticking fabric guiltless of any emi ment. Her chapeau wns ashi the sane fabric. Mra, J. Eaten Swank ware a el irigt gpawe af fromagedebrle erépe in a light hellotrope shade, fashioned in a one-plece atyle, with flowing sleeves and uneven hem, whose folds one gracefully to the tall, slender Weare That's the stuff ta Fre te the fr Beach Eattalion of Dre La they eat. it alive. They are veritable cheastiants for it. The Democracy of the Beach Act half past eleven every morning, athm- ulated by the early-morning talk ‘ dreaa, all the fominine population of Palm Beach, accompanied by all obtsinable male ea courts, at out from their hotels and homes in wheel chairs for their daily pilgrimage to the beach. The beach is not prized by Palm Beach visitors because of ite bathing facilities, but Seagate of the perfect spirit of camaraderie democracy which reigns there, A Philadelvina Biddle is just a vt as not to come dang and accidentally rub damp send an a South Bend Smith. Anything may happen. A Vanderbilt may ask you what time it is. There is no distinction on the beach itself between the people who emi- grated from Montana ks Fifth Avenue back in ‘Ol and the people wha emigrated fram Oiewsn to Houston Street beck in '9!, Both of them bave the same funny knobs on Chelr knees, The beach ia the only place in Palin Beach where everviedy has an equal chance: and there everybody uses the same ocean and sits around in the samesand in almost hope- Jess confusion. hings are so Gon that Hf one leans back carelessly ane himaell by aticking his hand down [nh the sand, the chanoes are excellent that a couple ladies from Kansas City or Boston will come staggering along with their eyes fixed raptly on Mr. B, Gridley Bunn or Mra, thre 5. Throwtte antl shear off teo or ee of one's fingers. with their French The only A lal of the beach which any- boaly consi worth using is the portion directly in front of the Casino, which ia a lange, gorgtous, white plaster bathhouse with an outdoor swimming pool and polite attendants whe are aly appearing pt inepportune teiments an ing patrons to do things which they ben aR much bet ter alone—such, for le, a8 removing a towel from a hook or I ing a brugh and eomb froma shelf. This ia not undue offi- cigusness on the part of the attendants. They got that way from associating with puests who were used to being valeted, Muny people garted in elaborate dresses stand an the terrace in front of the Casing and stare down at the people on the beach, while the people on the beach stare up at them, On chaira on the beach there are THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE TIME-KILLERS (Costiaoued from Page 7) many other elaborate pred Fghoad women who examine everyone cloaely and are closely examined by everront in a monner that verges on the impolite, Moat of them act like rude children, but none of them point. Deon in front of the entire mob stand large numbers of professional ph hers who keep a careful lookout for exciting cos tumes and prominent faces, and constantly snap little: groups of laughing people who eae Lge minty in ing Iegen apATines over | ike: ” Fur Fram Nowhere Enowed a Boeciety Group on the Pale Beach Happy from Taft te right—J. Edge Smuah, Mra. B. Goodwin gen the Hon. Mra. Clarilbeel Custard, I inken Ogle, Misa Patricia awaddle, Behind the feet at the right— Peevish, Jr." Every little ‘while the reand prety wi find somone who is rie gerbe an SEE aut being too much overwel hp drewed: and when they do ath she out on an uneceupled section of beach and arrange her in a poaition of unetudied ease and [graceful carelessness, and shoot half & dozen pictures of her admiring the dis- bats b horizon with = guy, unaffected, girlish rerything on the bench is so simple and natural and wholesome that ane can’t help but like it. Then, too, one never peta that afensive, salty, seaweedy ofor of ocean that one ige0 apt to pet on the New England omast, owing to the ocean odora being cam- ee Seeceneine by the rare and paw- ch perfumes that are worn b many elements of Palm auch sieci one clogs his eyes he might think that be wae at a fum show and that some body had kicked over all the bottles, Palm Beach ia not exactly what one would call a Prode‘s Paradise, but a prude can feel mare at ease on the beach at Polm Boach than at any other resort in Florida. This ia thee to the fact that wemen ore net allowed pear on the beach with any portion af the leg uneaverad. A policeman la statloned on the beach to see that this rule is enforced, pita there ip t rejoicing pe i, the Loe peu,» o—like all prudes ¢ a world—=sometimes soe evil w there ¢ is none, gd pass blindly bay the evils that everyone except themselves con see, This rule has brought abowt one great benefit In that it has ented Hium-= bera of ill-advised and otherwise charming etylish atouta from rolling down their bath- ing steckings and exposing too much knee. any Tule that dove gtats a Tule—and ix rally agrend are are more rE gists at Palm Beach than at any = GF resort an éarth. Life on a Hundred 2 Day When the bathing howr haa passed inte history the merry bathers and clothes wear- ers forth =" search of lunch, The oreli- nary man h visitora ent their luneh at ther hebele, This act almost sub matically etamps them as buckwhents, or suckers, of people wha aren't amiart. A buckwheat is a coarse, rude, bar- haric person who is addicted to the secret and loathsome vices of eating buckwheat sons for breakfast and not spending money rec y A threeday sucker is a person who stayy only afew daya at Palm Beach. As o time killer he is not regarded with any respect. He travels ao far to kill time that he hasn't any time left to kill when he gets there. This is met regarded as smart. Anyone who stayn less than two weeks is not viewed with faver b people wha stay a month or more, and whe knaw hw important smurt- nessia. Tf one wishes to have the respect of the cigar-counter clerks and the mail Jerks and the head waiters and other Palm Beach people who--aa the ultra-retined advertise Tents say—matter, one must above all things be smart. You might aa well be dead ot Palm Beach os not bo smart, Certain things are smart and certain things are not smart, It & ‘smart, for ex- ange: for a man te go without a hat. It is emart to tide a Meyele. Any artlele of ferninine wearing apparel that is essentially t is smart to speak of a useless 18 Seart. thing as smart. [t is not at ali smart to tell a Palm Beacher thot you would gladly die exnbowel him when you hear him use thr word “amart” for the fiftieth time. None of the big Palm Beaeh hotels rents Toons without meale, One must hase pay Lor for hig menage well, Two people at moat hotela pay a minimum rate of about thine five dollars a day for the two—which is about the amount from which the same peaple pr have, bin wl any af big ew ate themselyes sak or Chicago or Boston ar Washington obels iby the time they had finished ng for ood. But if one wishes to be smart at Palm Beach one muatn’t lunch of dine at the hotel where one's meala are included on hia bill. It is very buckwheat to do such a th eek: uncouth, very hick and very rou not, ina ward, smart. That is w y the desirable Palm Beach habitwés, at the height of the seasce fined it difficult toapend leas than a hundred, dallars riche par day. One can’t Indu ula ts nee or keep many wh roe anoint; but if ome is wanttiohiy asell and content toe be only moderately amart one can get along fairhy well for a hundred dollars a day. On Belang Imart The truly smart person strives always to pay for two monls where one would nor- rally be for. He strives to poy for one that he eate and for one that boty eats. If one is ving at a big hotel, one— to be smart —should make an efort te lunch or dine at another one or at the Country Club or at the Beach Club or at the Ever- glodes Club, or at one of the cottages, It is ry fascinating system, and is based on the farntliar sochety theory thet the more une- less a thing is the amarter it is. One of the amartest—in asoclety senae— of all the persons that come to Palm Beach if A man who never eats at the hotel where he lives, and who keeps a flock of twelve wheelchairs always in attendance on him. Day and y night his twelve wheel chairs are waikin im and his friends. ¥ BFE weed a Siler teheger but it is very dmart ta keep ther walting: trightfhully amnart. The head walters in the restaurants be come very proficient at distinguishing those whe gre smart from those whe are not smart, In the dining eae of the la hotel there so orm ah obese if Bs Ln is known as the dead who ait between the entrance a * people line have been carefully Jooked over by the head waiter and put in the amart clase. But the le who are put on the kitchen side of dead line are dubs and buck~ whoots in the judgment of the head waiter, Once peaple ore put below the dead line they rurely have w chance ta come up for air, but are doomed te stay down aman the other buckwheata for the remainder o their visit. The smartest thing at Palm Beach ia the Everglades Club. The Everglades Chib ia soo smart that it almost gives itself a pain, Tt has only a few over four hundred mem= iene, but these four hundred include names that make o seclety editor's scalp tingle, and contre ao much money and jewels that the mere mention of them is enough to make any normal burglar tremble all over. The Everglades Club building was started in the summer of 1918 by Paris Singer, who tn weolthy society man, as a heapitel for convalescent officers, The war was Over, however, before the building was ever yWaed as a hospital: and it immediately oc- curred, to the amartest of the Falm Beach colony that the building was exactly the thing to use for a smart club whore really smart peaple could go awny by themselves and be too exclusive for words, The proposition waa put up to Paria Singer, who aaw the foree of it; and that's how the Everglades Club started. The initiation fee and yearly duea might be ex- pected to be about aa large as the national dhe, pa in pelt oe er amount tio some thing) ike one hun Wars initiation fer and fifty dollure pearly dues, The club kos built a very smart and abtroctive upart- ment hese within a stone's throw of the April i, 19: parent building, and init dub members oy rent smell but sovart apartments for a me twenty-five hundred dollars a season—a: re are several Maine summer rest where one pays as much and gets mo roo for hia meaney. The chub has its own golf links and tent courts: and it haa a restaurant whose ch could ensily enter a cheffing contest wit the loading Parisian chefs, with an excella: chane: to win the diamond-studded skill or the seventeen-jeweled epg-beater. It fixed belief that if ald MA" rh Marguer ojavented Filet of Sole Marguery, we ME he Jed inte the dining ream a alt the Eve gladea Club and placed where he could Joa out through the palma to the placid wate of Lake Worth, and handed a platter Famraae ad Aine te ia my fined belief. ¥, that old M oct Mae cery would p A ee Eolg in tik kee and cry like ea te think that he eould hove doubla his fertune if he sould have started) servi: pompano that way thirty years age The interior fixtures af the Eves Lind: Glob are of the proper sort to go with suc food, The walls are hung with sixteent! bic te ae 3 and the dining roor waineeo with onk from the interior of Spanleh mastery. There wos some tg! at one thove of cosering the wall of one rom with silver plates made by flattening tt silver cocktail shakers of the chub mennober This was never done, however: amd it probable that the members found oth: uses for their shakers. Te would be idle to attempt to eatimal with any becilhacy the amount of mane represented by the members of the Eve gladea Club. If they were ed the could easily dig up one billion dollw among them. The Old Guard While we are spenking in billions insten af in mere beggurly millions it might b ayy ate te Mentlan that the most x tu Im Beach estimators figure that th thirteen hundred guests who fill the Roy youeians Hotel at the height of the seasca in ane room and carefully om mje would yield wt lest two billie The Country Club is another smart plac at which to lunch or dine. There is n Teataurant in Europe, ta my knowbedmg that ta able to proluce a better dinner tha Palm Beach Country Club, especial! if one Jenves it, us the saying goes, t ned is the bend walle are eam in conjunction with a che named Marlus, whe thherited moat af bi rene] from a gilted relative in the sout of France, and who spends a large part ¢ his time when not cooking in fearing the somebody will solve the recipes, The chix object of the Countoy Club is to provide ratrent apc the buckwhents an the threeday. su ckera, who usually brea’ for the golf inks immediately on arrive Consequently the links which are open ¢ the buckwheats are apt to beeame ao con ted that if one doecan't stick rigidly i is Place in the golf procession he is mor than apt to et a cutp le vt etl balsa ih side of the ced ane then have to stan aside for two houra while o bong parode Oo Hers and mewr-galfers hacks ite way [as im. So the amart golfera go te the Coun ie Club. It is there that one finds th d Guard of Palm Beach. The Old Guard is a hidebound organiza tion of ardent goto who know all th intimate onal scandal about practical: tholla r that hos changed hance ii or Aiaatica sievce the Dteh purchases ebanee Island from the Dndiare fo twenty-lour dollars, and threw in enougl Tum to provide magnifloent hang-overs fo. the famulies of the original owners. One rust have bean a resident of Pali Beach for five years before he is allawed ti jain the a Guard, the gt Bh being thar unless a golfer has lived the five year: he is not thoroughly conversant with thi essential features of Palm Bench gosalp ant will be apt te interrupt a calm and quiet me of golf to ask whe the G, Daley Snuabbles are golng ta marry when thes have divorced each other, az aome athe equally irrelevant and unnecessary question The business of being smart and appear ing at the proper places at the proper haul ja merely the aecepbed method of killing (Contineed on Page 60)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 57 3Q-Year Teeth in a 70-Year Body Why shouldn’t our teeth last as long as our bodies? HY should our teeth begin to go just as our bodies are in their prime? Is it natural or unnarural to lose the reeth? Farly, uncivilized men and women had ‘eeth that stayed firm and sound for a life. time, Skulls of primi- tive men and heads of mummies show strong teeth little affected by time. The hard, uncooked foods and the rugged lives of our ancestors kept the teeth clean and the saliva always alka- The modern ten- dency of teeth is to ache, decay, and require attention long before the rest of the body has gone inte decline. Soft, cooked foods weaken the teeth by denying them exercise. In addition, tiny rartiches of this food left in the mouth break wp and form an acid condition that attacks the structure of the teeth and causes decay, line. Most people have “Acid-Mouth” Iris said that as many as nineteen out of ceery rwenry people have “ Acid-Mouth." dod if it is true that “Acid-Mouth” is the def cause of early tooth-decay, we can ruly understand why so many persons ime thetr teeth. LEHN & FINK, Inc. 3 Greeewieh Street, New York Ast pour Druggist for the Pebeco Tooth Arush— {' cleams every part of every tooth Cio Apes: Harold F. Ritchie & CC ¥, LL a, 76 MeCanl Brrees, a pas Quite probably you have “ Acid- Mouth," for if only one person in every rwencty 1s free from this condition, your chances of having “ Acid-Mouth”™ are nineteen to one, To counteract the destructive work of “Acid-Mouth" is one of the purposes for which Pebeco Tooth Paste is made—and the reason why thousands of men and women use Pebeco night and morning. How Pebeco checks “Acid-Mouth" Pebeco counteracts ““Acid-Mouth" by stimulating the flow of natural alkaline saliva, which is Nature's We TL mouth-wash, and the most effective means of neutralizing mouth acids. But nor for chart reason alone ts Pebeco a good tooth paste. Like thousands of other users, you will like Pebeen for several reasons: First, because it keeps the teeth clean and healthy. Second, because it counteracts the destructive work of “Acid-Mouth.” Third, because it elimi- nates cn ¥ bad Taste thar may exist in the mouth. Fourth, because it gives ta the mouth a sense of refreshing cleanliness. And from the first to the last squeeze, Pebeco rolls out of the tube fresh and creamy—none is wasted, How to tell if you have “Acid-Mouth" First, send for Litraus Test Papers and big trial tube of Pebeco We will send you these necessary materials to demonstrate to you how Pebeco acts. Moisten a blue Litmus Test Paper on your tongue. If it turns pink, that indi- cates an acid condition in your mouth. Brush your teeth with Pebeco and make another test. The paper will not change color, thus demonstrating how Pebeco helps to coun- teract “ Acid-Mouth.” Fill in the coupon ‘now, enclose ten cents and mail to us at once. The Litmus Test Papers and big trial tube of Pebeco will be sent you immediately. EE LEMN & FINK, Nc 614 Greeowich Sirect, New Vork Enechosed find |Ooenia, for which please seni me rear Lites Treat Paper anil large trial tube of Pebeeon Harnc Sirert acd Ho Caty oor Tiwi Bigte

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Aipril f, (92 Oy) ly =] emat Heated aa is - uae 2 — : —— Novding As a wealth of well-groome Nothing so beautiful and nothing more easily attained —if you know how. Satiny, silky, glossy hair is the re- ward of intelligent care. Follow the suggestions we give you here and prove it. Begin by learning how to sham- poo, for this is all-important. The first step is a bottle of Palmolive Shampoo, the blend of palm and olive oils. Use as directed and watch results. First is the wonderful softness you have never before experienced after w. harsh dryness and derfully silky in te: Most important, you every trace of scurt doesn’t get these res palm and olive oils, covered 3,000 years — a Olive oil possesses softening qualities which neutralize the drying effects of washing. Palm oil contributes body, richness and lasting qual- ities. In combination they produce a thick, mild, profuse, penetrating lather which softens the scalp and reaches every root and hair cell. This lather loosens the dandruff scales, dis- lodges and dissolves them, leaving the scalp and hair free to function healthfully. The Greatest Benefit This thorough removal of dandruff, which doctors call seborrhea, is most necessary, aseven the accumulationon healthyscalps injures hair. The dry, oilyscales clog the roots of the hair, preventing proper nutrition. Soon the hair be- gins to fall out. The blend of palm and olive oils you get in Palmolive softens and penetrates thescales, loosening the cap-like accumulation. hhampee pian hes Bphiy jagn [ep ono # BH unld the eeerrlupe Pittee ketad Then ube handfuls of dBi _— “i lengis eri io come #™ ~ iter horsugidy in sarm pie ee) TOS hae finisher: pepe Sey cn Tem washingd ere aber tulety oo a pale ikoaoaghs shampra. Pheer Os be | ag. ‘eT CONTENTS 4 FL og. aLconol sl EFPALMOLIVE CUMrAnY = Mile widisee, WW, AL Copyrigia ii]—The Pelee fe, pike Olive Oil for G/oss—Palm O Gentle nm the scalp, le clean. Hair s dry, harsh a soothing oil We will bottle of Pal Write a post me the free poo” and six come to you a valuable be treatments v it grow. Ac THE Manujfactrr PALMOL SHAM PO The Blend of Palm and Olive C

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ul is none of the usual sss, Your hair is won- cautiful satiny gloss. thtully cleansed from Ordinary shampooing ne from the action of soothing cleansers dis- Egypt. chness into the tissue of fully purged and Palmolive is never blending of these gnay and silky. Free mm a ij-cent trial bo, free, if vou will t Jus ay, “Send Palmolive Sham- pd address, Ie will 1, accompanied by ivr simple home your har and help = or al LUMPANY oe wy Take Remitey sf THE SATURDAY EVENING POST fA: oo (] =i

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SALESMANSHIP! SNLIG-SEAT tables fitted with plate glass shewcaee bop faut attrac. tive merchandise right under the wait oy. customers éyes, Many ¢xtra aakes are made through well arranged eligpilay - Scoider Drug On,, Neoton foun, wriirs, SSG Agiteg. SUG-REAT dciz ia on for iro! rewie, we one conpinced that tev Atal 2h) ddperticieg polos, os fhe sroblis coms fms admiey en aed Frid oho! Jbeir Ofiearaars." A SYUG-SEAT pet occapied hy four people mourn only gg Safe coh: ef flier eq_ecr, This gives nt feast 30%) more seat hing Capecity ba: yaar gait. SMM HEATS Gt gach with black of white Carrara glass topes, pollahed hari) weenl foe, ord deploy bape, Oe Bei ge duntciafors CATALOG ON REQUEST Waka. od oo tuamel boda The SNUG~SEAT G af w4merics 735 Herron Ave,, Pittsburgh, Pa. Davis Can-Server EVAPORATED ADD CONDESSED MILK Served Pore to the Last Drag! Abaetteree— oer bed ind comdensed milkteheeleaner, beter wag — in aie Daria Can= Gercrr, Mil pours as from regular piocher—mowasie, No icky, Gnenitary can to at- tract Hint and indecti. (Cart in gulecnatkally perforated and completely bidder in the band= some nickeled arrver. The Devt Can-ivrave prosects health, iseagyboclean, and takes Larpe-sed con — 265 more etanemital ghana omall cana, fort ome of ibres daisky nigkeled scrreré today. Pilec, Ja ge, ar- PPent Peapadd, Alpragcive afer pe wgence. WW nbe. Deavia ee Ree ereaeroneion Kaine ini dinid tab ee Tira peri MAKES LUXURIANT FLOWERS | Rich Flowers Easily Yours A litte HVE eel PLA TLIFE ALT 5 rich. jen - rl rs foe Saeed renia diner’. ak yore wmibe PAW Ki. YER ea oy he. Tey. 2 viper, [Emeis Teed yor OWN business, ‘sboiesaing Chern line. Hera Chewing Crate, Costy- Alinta, ete. Adireiive packages, Eccclusive proqeoalthon HELMET PRGDUCTS FACTORY. (Cimtiomaci. Chie BOSS half-idiatic ira | | thirty dol | Pele of a aociolly promiient Pulm Reacher | dety. Lf be hod attemp | taken of a astray dish | So he was soon accepted aa beln THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page 66! time with Palm Beachera; but with many others is a8 serious as the death af » near eave Palm Beach is well aprinkled slpage nn el who sre determined to brenk into agen Eich wha have atlected Pal af the place ta drive the iaeine: bese neeults ean' be obtained th greater apecd, with lesa expense and with more noise than in any other section of the country. A ng man with a amall income broke into piciaty with a crash and nok ag vee lotta ge “preter widow with a strang an eociety and a fortune that keeps a couple of ineome-tax experts working a month each year. 'He explained bls tem to a friend of mine with the ar half-childish and eas that may frequently in the up crust of so to break in by way of New York, he said, he would have apent all hia money on dinsera and lunch- encoun ) cons, and about aa much notice would hare lea as would be prunes at a ban- quet. But by coming to Palm Beach and getting on the right side of the society te re porters he was able to give one fair-sized and comparatively inexpensive luncheon and have the news telegraphed inumediately to the New York papers. By doing this a couple of times a season he was able to repays all the aes which he cape York: and it was npparcot be all New York newspaper readers that he waa making a seclety aplash at Palm Beach. ee ee teat prominent, W pon out the richest thing in sight, rarried it and stopped worrying. Many people at Palm Beach feel that they must have press agents to keep them in the Umelight. There ls one enterprising Palm Beach pres. ot who supplies the newepapers with palpi tating items about soven oF eight social climbers, and whose earnings from this source are suid to be over ayeur. When one been taken of his g dalng something fearfully original, like giv- a dinner to all her frienda’ dogs, one may know that she has been hiring a press agent = fill her mind with original and valuable a, Armor-Plate Flasks the Pen: Beach. mond i la al wea: ready ba : money for ari that mithciantly interesting. iy oer to faeili- tate the parting, some of the country's leading costumers end nog merchants and hat and have moved their branch storea inte the hotel lebbies, so that the can separate themselves from their money with a minimum of exer- tion, There in one Palm ch window that in known rT the Alibi Window, tis full of fama dante and diamond foraeom ¢ and almple little ten-thousand- dollar rings: and Palen Beach theory is that some of the shop's best customers are menwho have been raising ¥hat iseemewhat loosely known as the dickens, As is well eatin gine nt keep ea ishgledeietine m™ can [reqien mip it qi patting wife a ditemehite sel in pata. ight, "whee the a the shop is ocked up, all ‘the Tewely i remove orth the window and rep with a large flock of frosted silver cocktail shakers whose ap- pearance alone is warranted to give even a prohibition-enforeement a -E wm thirst, This speetache ls focudarly anid te make the chaerver kunt W flaky and get him- self nicely boiled, and possibly to make him fall ao low aa to speak a etfully of the society leaders, lowing day he buys pewelry to ae hineeit with his wile, Large, curved pocket Haske, two af which would make fine protective armor for the entire upper part of the if worn on opposite sides, are popular at Palm Beach, as isn a new trick cane that unscrews at a joint and reveals a long slender bottle three-quarter of an inch in diameter and two feet long. There la a great deal of fire water in sight at Palm Beach at all hours of the day and. night; and the débutante who cant ab gorb eight cocktaila without raising her woice or falling over the chairs is regarded ne being handicap by some sort of in- pois weakries, One. of of the most fre Bench Bachna personage: at Palm fat man who can—npcrord. te ‘ea ae rit Pnade for him by his ndl- ea Sua thirty-five cocktails at one EVENING POST withowt blinking. The price of whisky etarta down around forty felicia in the summertime and works gradually upward wntil at the height of the Seon ont Es paging From seventy bo one hundred dollars a case for it. The building boom that has struck Palm Beach in the last five years is claimed by meet of the loose claimers and enthitsiastic drinkers to be due te prohhtae as A heat. THATY have erected by per- sons. of th and social prominence in thoes five years; and the prevalent archi- tectural ides for a simple little Palm Beach eok seems to bea Spanish rg pbb apie of a nin Bbatian of 8 & Court of Jewels at a suecesaful World's To hear the drinkers tell it, Chem: hoses have been built so that the owners could have a place in which to drink without being watched or hurried or made to feel uncomfortable, This may bo possible; but. if Gt is, the howse builders are the only ones who havent felt free to drink when and where they chose, ray | The Nuts in the Grove The truth of the matter unquestionably is that the pe ple who built oases liked tbe place and the climate, and so built in order ta enjoy them more therughly than they could be enjoyed in a hotel room. After one has spent a fatiguing afternoan pricing wiutey Aasks, or being pushed along avenues of palma and ‘Adstrwleaa nes itt & wheel chair, or indulging in a lit e abemily br ahd Seoteh ifectan or satis other equally arduous pursuit, the amart thing te do is to go to the Coconut Grove and par- hicipate ina little tea and dancing. he Coronut consists of a large and beautiful grove of coconut trees sur- rounding a pollched dane: Aoor, All the coconuts have been removed from the trees, owing to their well-known habit a falling off unexpectedly and. pene bea ning any- one who my be lingering th them. Thus the only Mew a the grove are the ones who come there to dance, The Coconut Grove etarts doing ‘business at half past five every afternoon in the bright aunlight; but ina few minutes the trople Tight closes down just as advertised in all books on the South Seas. By a little aitey Rix nck: the oe aay ilu- mination comes from strin eloctric- light bulbs string through the ps palms and from the ofeasional flare of a match os some distinguished social but tries. to peas out how much whisky he hes eft in his SLater:i in the evening the amart thing to do is to go over to what is fo known ae the Reach Club, but universall ken of as proche =. As trains from he Ree enter the Palm Beach Station the onerous bulk of the Royal Poinciana Hotel stretches out at the right of the train. On the left af the train, directly opposite the station and eq close to the train that the traveler eould tes even a lightwelght biscuit on ite roof from the car window, la a long, low, white frame building with a large revolving ven- tilator in one enc, This s Bradley's Palm Beach's oldest, most celebruted and moat popular chari- table inatitution——charitable, bernie it amuste people who have more than they know what to do with ta get rid of a part of it in a quiet and eminently respect- able way, ; Every large resort in the world thet cabers to woalthy peale tha mbling In Europe the municipalities rin them, recognizing the fact that all people af means who are on a& holiday are bound to ble, At America’s resorts the bling ouses are usually concealed; E they exist none the less; and usually, beeause of the: that surrounds them, they ane lurkin: iknes for troublesome agerega- tions of trimmers, bloodeuckers and eroa of various sorts, Bradley's is diferent. [tis run eseclu- sively for the wealthy Northern patrons of Palm Beach, Everybody who goes there eon afford to inae one heavily: ond a list of the names of the people whe play there every night would read Ike a list of America's leading celebrithes, social lights and millionaires. A crook would get along about as well in Bradley's as an icicle would get along in the a of Mount Vesuvius, Anybody in Palm Beach, from the nine chair dae the p olicemen, can sup inquirer with all the standard ie ig ea Club aleries, uaially starting with the ane about the man whe Lost six thousand dollars in one April t,19 evening and left Palm Beach hurriedly 1 next morning. A few esr ae later cre of 4 Bradley brothers was visited by a you worn, Who was obviowly in great ¢ tree. Her ii were red and ewollen o she was sob sang tvaly. She 1 plained that her hushand had lost six tha sand dollars the night before, that 1 money didn't belong to him, andl that 1 lee could get the money back for h he would have te go te prison, Sa Brac gave back the aix thousand dollara af telling the young wotnan te tell her hn band never in to set foot in the Ben Club, A few daye afterward the same m [up in the Beach Club and booger play. Bradley summoned him to his off and asked him how he dared to do suct thing alter his loases had been returned his wile, “What do you mean?" asked the mua “I'm not married." “Then you didn't leave town bec you were ruined?" gale! EHraclley. “Fou bet I didm't!*' said the man. went down to Long Key fishing with 9 Dusit Tees partner, who came down he with me," A womnmn in an talleeap roam. h heard the two men tal ‘ore their ic parture, and had pices co on the mone asitia. Then there la the story about the wi who used toe extract uncashed chips fro ber husband's clothes whenever he play at Bradley's, who cashed them in f twenty-five thousand dollars without h en knowing that he had boat an ‘ing. Then there was the one about the pe theman who cleaned ap seventy thouusar dollurs inane — It is hint at all wnusu to see one of steel men or cil me placing fine ine ie oe in chipes ain tt at each turn of the wheel ane dro ping fifteen or twenty thousand dollars alf an hour, Wo Lelsure Class Pau nine o'clock ven nigh Brediews ‘a is go crowded that ane rv raat fight his way from table te table. matter where one threw a brick in tt meemblage it would be certnin to hit millionaire and carom agninst two othe millionaires before falling box the Ace Until midnight there ware wstally mo women than men engaged in oleerving th idinayncrasies of the little ivory ball; am the hold-up man who su in. holdin up the clientele of the Beach Club at elewe o'clock at night would have no difficulty « wilin picking up mt least ten million dollan worth of loot in jewelry alone, Many of th ween wear theiratrings of pearlain dewbl and triple loops ao that they won't trip o them when they walk, most of ther seam to think that they may get rhewma ism if the don't wear at least five dio bracelets on their left wrisbs, One venily sees these ladies rollin: ae the Lake Trail at midnight in whee aire with a quarter million or «a half mil lion dollars’ worth of jewels sparkling 1! the moonlight. They are et aut takin; the gir, so that they can go le te thi purty which they just left i a thei activities sb age oe Bling Sa Thes dance and play slip a is omck tails into themselves and exchange ligh persiflage until four and five and six o'cloc! 1m marning., They grow stronger and stron as the season gtows older, until toward the enc th ay be found going in bathing in thei ballowns at dawn ancl incdulping i cdr tireless activities, If a tough, hardy [ndiar scout or Alpine mountain clim Ered be fallew them for three days he'd drop in his tracks with fathewe. Such is life among the time killers ol Palm Beach. They go there to kill time, and they are diligent at it, Old man Plu- tarch states that “Dionysius the elder, being asked whether he wes at leisure, re- plied * God forbid that it should ever befall me! The Palm Beach time killers operate on the same penne. The last thing in the world that they e je leisure, and the person whe angaes that Palm Beach is fre- gueniod mt the leisure class is suffering ception, They have differ- age WHY bier kill ing time, Some of them tulk vt to denth and some of them it te denth, and some of them smother it with money. No thaw gete by them: they kill it all; and however they choose to do ir, th ig the hardest working people in the world,

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Lower Towa had driven in herds of oxen, horses, mules; but there were not enough ie these, Rumors care that o hundred me weld take the Platte thie year via the Counell Bluffs, up the Missourl; others would jain on from St. Joand Leavenworth. March had come, when the wild turkey obbled and strutted reaplendent in the oreat lands, April had passed, and the wild fowl had gone north. May, and the upland plovers now were nesting all across the prairies, But daily bed more wagons come, and neighbors had waited for peteahors, vaniy at the great rendexvous. cr trom, seatterel up and down = re kae "M bega , ipa sp eongested en nh to One an- other, families became acquainted, the — sifting a shifting in social values Enota and groups began to talk of some sort of aeeepted government for the common goo. now were at the elge of the law. 0 society did not @xlat this side of the provisional government of Oregon, devised aa a rode fieevadi during the joint occupancy of that wast region with Great Britain—an atrangement terminated not longer than two years before. There must be soma sort bated and leadership between caer ing of wear oioe ta ne rill F petty tica Jesse ae had some four daya ago been chosen r the thankless task of train captain. Though that office had eamall authority and less means of enforcin its COMMands, none the less the train r must be i man at eget , Tesourer and decision, Thee: er arrivals who prac! by his tra a camp of forty-odd one from Sangamon aountry of Tilia sald that Wingate seemed to know the business of the trail. His affaira ran smoothly, he was well equipped and seemed aman of means. Some asid he had three thousand in gold at the bottom of his cargo. Moreover— this appeared important among the Northern element, at thet time predominant in the rendesvousi—he was not a Calhoun Sesesh, or even a Benton Demeéerat, but an out-and-out, antislavery, free-soil man. And the rovisional conati- meg of Oregon, devised by thinking men af two put apres had said that Oregon a se free soil forever, ready there were mutterings in 1345 af ie cue conflict which geet rm Pecan Sringieids tee in Tank ye wyer pri in the ae cearrio country—Lincoln, his name was: then little known—two years ago had predicted ns inevitable, In a personne! up of bold souls from both sides the Ohio, politica eould not be avoided even on the trail; nor were these men the sort te avoid pali- tics, Sometimes at thelr camp fire, after the caravan election, Wingate, his wife and their son Jed would compare motes, in a day when personal politica and national phy meant more than they do today, Listen, son ingate one time con- clude rat tk that talk of a railroad across this country ta Oregon is allly, af course, But it's all going to be one country. The talk is that the treaty with Mexico must ive us a slice of land from Texas to the ‘acific, and a big one—all e it taken for as sake of sla Not so —that's free. forever, This tik of oplitting this. Side and South, don't with ih “T anies didn't divide it, Burr equddn't dn eit. The Mississippi haan't divided it, or the Missouri, so rest aaaured the Ohio can’t. No, nor the Rockies can't! A railroad? No, of course not, But all the sae, & awocal wigon road from free soil to free soil—I reckon that was my plat. form, like enough. It made me captain." “Wo, "twagn't that, Jesse," hie wife. “That ain't what put you in for train captain, It was your blamed impatience. Some of them Lower [oway men, them that first nominated ¥ou fa the train meeting — town ere wet you éall it, they scen where you'd lowing along here just to keep your hand in. One of them aaye to me, ‘Plowing, hey? Can't wait? a that's what Wwe Te Rong 0 out for, ain't it— plow?" says he, ‘That's the clean quill” says he, So they ‘lected you, Jess, And the Lard ha’ merey on your eeu Now the arrival of so large a new con tingent aa this af the Liberty train under young Banion made some sort of cloction ratification n 80 that Win- gate felt it incumbent to call the head men April i, Por of the late comers into ar errene if fo no better than reasons of courtesy. Eli dispatched his son Jed o the oye see to ask se athencdanie of Banion, W and uch of bis SS usin os he eer i Sune at jy ab-any eelting hour. Word came bach rty men would join the Win ne cet aid around eleven of tha’ morning, at which time the hour of thi jum eould be sat, nr Pe Ee me trate ot ibe iret eacan train littl: time, indeed, remai Fo days, in some instances for weeks, tha unita of the train had lain here on the border, and the men were lng reetless Some had come a t miles and mow were keen to start out for more than tee thousand miles additional. The sing wins up, The men rpg Indiana, Ohio Towa, Missouri, Kentucky, Ar kansas fret bed of the lenzh, All along the crooked river front, om both sides stan Via ber ni to the river Land- ing at Westport, t ing caravan lay encamped, bina te ear Now, on hp last days of the rendexyous, a sort of fata pelned the multitude. The sound a fire was like thut of a cpr fae hia rifle. Singing and ahouting went on whene. meone freah from the Mexican War had brought a drum, another a bugle. Without inatruc- tions these began to sound their summons: and continued all day long, at such times ms the ‘onmers. could spare from drink. Indians of the friendly ene man was aight Utes, Kawa, i—come in to looked on in "wonder at the revel of the whites. The straggling atreet of each of the nearby river towne was full of miaaaed wagona. The treble line of white tops, end to and, lay like a wast a t, curving, head to the West. Rivalry for the head of the column began. The stemdi.uf the bugle set a thousand uncodrdinated wheels spas- modically in motion. zation, sy"s- tem were as yet unknown in this rude and dominant democracy. Need was therefore for this final meeting in the interest of law, order and authority. Already some wagons had broken camp and moved on out into aja pci cba road, which lay sand en omni an glades of above vale of the Pig Each wanted to be £i i mo ain Wished te take the ‘iat of his nelghber, Ww te brought up all these matters at the n meeting of some three score mer who assembled under the treea of his own encampment at eleven of the last morning. Most of the men he knew. Banion uncb- tusirely took a seat well to the rear of b pepo on their heels or bolled full length on the grasa. After the fashion of the [mmemorial American town meeting, the beginning of all our government, Wingate called the meeting to order and stated ite a. He then set forth his own ideas of the best manner for handling the trail work. His plan, as he explained, was one long earlier ected In the eonvoya of the ald Santa Fé Trail. The wagons were to travel in Clow order. Four parallel columns, separated by mot toa great spaces, were to be maintained as much as possible, more eapeciniby toward nightfall. POH thes, the the outer tea were to w in together when camp was made, the aioe two to angle out, WOE lapping wagon, front and rear, thus making an oblong corral of the wagons, into which, through a gap, the work oxen were to be driven every night after they hod fed. The tents and fires were to be outside of the corral unless in case of an Indian alarm, when the corral would represent a fortress. The transport animals were te be hole bled each night. A guard, posted entirely around the corral and camp, was to be put out each night. Ewch man ond each boy above fourteen was to be subject to guard duty under the ancient common law of the Plaing, and from this duty no man might hope excuse unless actually too Ul to walk: nor could any man offer to procure any substitute for himself. The watchea were to be set as eight, each to stand guard one-quarter part of alternate nighta, so that each man would get every other t un- disturbed. There were to be Leutenants, one for each of the four parallel divisions of the fContinasd on Pope 64)!

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Part bili ta ended his exposition and for approval it was obvious tet ror of theses ations met with disfavor at the start. The democracy of the \ train was one in which #ach man wanted his own way. Leaning head to head. apenk- | ing low, men grumbled at all this fuss and | feathera and atull. Some of these were friends and backers in the late elar ion, | Nettled by their silence, or by their mur- | tured comments, Wingate artes again. | “Well, you have heard my plan, men," said he. "The Santa Fé men worked i B UP, | and used for year, Be soi at got through dhe? ; ane | aoa better way, and one | that's ee more experience back of it, I'd | like ta him get up and say ao." Silence for a time greeted this also. The Looked comfortably one to the other, It was all right ta me," he. “He's a new friend of mine—I never saw him till two three howra ago—but I know about him. What he eave about the Santa Fé fashion I know for true. As some of ow, I was out that way, up the Arkansas, with Doniphan, for the Stara and Stripes. Talk about ele irl a en got to have a ragulae we everything iin a eT Seer seen spelen hie at Soneieare enlisting of war. There’ — a sort of preliminary election of : Bort of skating down and shaping up. I “wasn't here when Cap'n Wingate was elected—our wagons were some lote— but speak fle our men, I'd move to ratify his c means to ratify his Lepubtions: I'm wondering if I don't get a second for that?" Some of the bewhiskered men who sat about him stirred, but cast their eyes toward their oem captain, young Banion. whose function as their spokesman by his: defeated rival, ps fow of them aus the argumentum od hominem—or rather ad ferminam—in Woodhull’s epeceh. Banion alone knew thia favor-currying when he eaw it, and knew well enough the real reason. Tt waa Molly! Rivals indeed they were, these two, and in more ways than one. But Banion held his until one quiet father of a panlly 5 sian © “T reckon ourown train we elected in com we didn't et in ‘with the big train, had ought to aay what he thinks aba it all.” “T'm glad to second Mr. Woodhull's motion to throw our vote and our arain: Fs for C: aptain Wingate and the big train,” he. “We'll bees Bie captaincy, won twel"" The node ia aeeoclates now showed macnt, and Wingate needed no mare con- firmation “Tn general, too, I would ae Captain eee a reo a, ew ie: “Surely—go on." Wingate half rose. “Well then, I'd like to point owt that we've gol twice aa far to go aa the Santa Fé traders, and over a very different country—more dangerous, Jeas known, satin to travel. We've many times more ng than any Santa Fé train ever had, an we've hundreds of pope easels along. at means a sweeping aff every stop, and grasa we've pith red the train stops. esides our own call on grass, [ know there'll be five thousand Mormona at least on the trail ahead of us this eapring— they've eroased the river [rom here to the Bluis, and they're out on the Platte right now. We take what grass they leave us. "What I'm trying to ak, captain, is this: We might have to into smaller detachments now and again. We could not ay nlways keep alignment in four *And, then we'd be open to any Indian attackt interrupted W hull, “ie might have to ‘cn ‘ht arnt af the time, yea," rejoined Banion; “but we'll | have to Saat al all the time, and we'll have to graze our stock all the time, On that one basie condition our safety resta—prase and plenty of it. We're on a long journey. But might I make a EVENING POST "You see, gentlemen,” he added, amil- ing, “I was with Doniphan alo. We a goed many things. For instance, I'd rather see each horse on a thirty-foot picket rope, anchored safe each night, than to trust to any hobbles, A homesick horse con travel miles, hobbled, in mo night. Horses are a lot of trouble, “Now, [ sen that about a quarter of our pear i including ie aera Winguie, haye and mules and not ox transport, I wish they all could trade for oxen before they etart. Owen last longer and fare better, They are easier to herd. They can be used for food in the hard flrat out in Oregon. The Indians don't oxen— they like buffalo better—but they'll take any elvanice to run off horses or even mules. If they do, that means your women and ehRaren ars on haa You know the story af the Donner + Emre foot, in the sre. y died ce: pee than died, just this aide of California Men of owas, Of [linoia, Ohio, Indiana, began to nod to one another, approving the words of this young man. “He talks sense," said a voice aloud. PIP os a m talking woe et I Age inn gravely but this is the time ar aoe leing. I'm for throwing in with the Wings train, a [ve But will Captain Wingate let me add even Mt Por etinen, © weil wiggle "For nee, I we ought to hawe a tg of all our nel, ach man ought to be required to give his own name and late residence, and the names of all in his party. He should be ob] to show that his wagon is in good ition gh foes ale cn ge nee awe an stock, Each ts ht to be venuired to curry anyhow ata al rawhide, and the usual tools of the farm and the trail, 28 well as proper weapons and abundance of armimunition . “No man ought to be allowed to start with this taravan with less supplies, for each mouth “ih hia wagon, than one hundred One hundred oA Nias or even rene hed better—there ia les and ne ai AE nest half as much of bacon, brenty pounds ? coffer, Gfty of sugar would not be too a ly own belief. About double the pra rata of the Santa Fé caravans is little enough, and those whose transport power will let them carry mare supplles ought to start full loaded, for no man can tell the actual duration of this journey, or vital food may be needed before we (get across One eo may Tee to help another.” in joined in the outspoken and Banion, encouraged, io howe ne nek that we cd af f this, went on: "Gore other things, men, sined aaked each man to apenk freely. hunters, but home makers. Each ball suppose, haa a plow and seed for the first crop. We nag FPR too, to find owt all our blacksmiths, for I promise you we'll need them. We ought to have a half dozen forges: and as many anvila, and @ let af irons for the wagons. "T suppose, too, you've located all your doctors; aleo all your preachers—you needn't camp them all together. | aonally I believe in Sunday reat and Sun- day servieoss. We're toking church and state and home and law wong with us, day by day, men, and we're not Just trappers und entrar. The fur trace" ‘S gpiemt. “T even think we ought to find out our musicans—it's good to have a bugler if you can. And at night, when the people ‘re chi arid. igen TUES 6s fod to a rm prull & : bearded men who listened nodded ye in. “About schools, pea other trains that went out, the A egates in 1643, the Dongen of 1846 ash ra, beleys, Bad irs ai with hours ea et Do you think I'm right about all this? Tm gure [ don"t want Captain Wingate to be offended. I'm not dividing his power. I'm onl ing to stiffer it." Woodhal srw, a sneer on his face, but go hand pushed him down. ists einielie stood before him. “ Right you are, Willl” said he. “Ye've mn old Id head, an' we kin trust hit. Ef hit wran't Cap! n Wingate is more older than you, an” already done elected, I'd be for chooein’ ye fer ‘no this here hull train Hight new. Seein" hit's the way hit is, I move we vote to do what Will Banion has said is iitten, An' I move we-una throw in with the big train, with Jess Wingate for enp'n. An’ D move we allow one more day Mpril 3, 1, to git in an’ fixin’s, an ir lowes an’ mules an” omens, an’ then | start day atter to-morrow mornin’ wh the Je blows. Then hooray ler Oth Those were cheers and gals as though alter finished business, whi erected this. Jess Wingate, sormiwl cbbcinerp =e chagrined over the forwy oo as young man, of whom he ney hae lil thet very morning, pul peefunetoey a or so, makood and all 8o forth. But # f they remembered was tha appointed as on-column Sam Woodhull, of HM : Caleb an Ohio man of substance; Simon Hall, Indians merchant: and a farmer 4 of Kelacy, from Kentucky. To Will the trainmester the moat diffi and ig preg task of the train, the taincy of the cow column; that is the leadership of the boys and el a families were obliged to drive the stock of the train. There were sullen mutteri over this the Li column, Men whispered thi would notfollow Woelhull. As for Banio he made no complaint, but smiled a shook hands with Wi eand all his lie tenants and declared his cen beryraul tay iit that of his men: then left for hia own Litt adventure of a half dozen wagons which | wag Ereighiine aut to Laramie—baca flour sugar, for the most part: ead wagon driven by a neighbor or a meighbor son. Among thes already arose o murmurs of discontent over the way th own contingent had treated. Hanic had to mend a tial split before t first wheel had rolled wertward up the ss The men of the meeting among thelr neighbor and families, = oke with more seriquaness than hithert (he rifle firing ended, the hilarity lessen that afternoon. In the old times the kee bostmen bound west storted out singin The pack-train men of the fur trade wer shouting and shooting, and the eanfide: hilarity of the Santa Fé wagon caravar was a proverb. But now, here in the gree Oregon train, matters were quite othe wise, There were women and childre glong. An unsmiling gravity marked the all. When the dusty velvet of the prairi night settled on almost the lost day of th rendervous. th ught a general feeling « ety, drend, uneasiness, four. Now, it deed, and at last, all these realized wha was the thing that they had undertaken, To add yet more te the natural appre hengions of men and women embarking a so stuppodous an adventure, all manne Tumors now continually trom on company to another. [t wus said that fiv thousand Mormons, armed to the teeth had crossed the river at St. Joseph and wer lying in walt on the Platte, determined ti take revenge for the tlona they hav suffered in Missouri and Illinois. Anothe story said that the Kaw Indiana, hitherty i by, | banded together for robber; sida aa waiting for the train t appeat mare papular story had i ta oe of several Englishmen hac hurried Phan of the trail to exelte all the savages to waylay and destroy the cara- vans, thus to wreak the vengeance of Eng: land apes the Yankees for the los of Much unrest arose over reports hu to trace, to the effect that it was al. a mistake about m1; tin reality if was a truly horrible country, unfit faa human aecupancy, and sure ta prove the ve of ne ape y enough to survive the orrora of the trail, which never yet had been truthfully reported, Some returned travelers from the West beyond the Rock ies, who were hanging about the landing al the river, mace it all woree hy relating w al pu ried to be actual experiences, “It you ever get through to Oregon," they aitd. “you'll be ten veara older thar you are now. Your hair will ba white, bul *rhe Cron The t Dipper showed clear ond close that night, as if one might almost pick of by hand the familiar store of the truveler's constellation. Over count: less brilliant points of besser light enameled the night mantle, matching the many camp of the great gathering. The wind blew goft and low. hton the prairie is al- ways atlemn, and to-night the tense anx- jety, the strained anticipation of more than two thousand souls invoked a brood= ing pow d which it seemed eyen the sort must ff Mt ominous lifted his woire in a larg, Becton how! which made mothers put fCtontingsd on Page of)

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(Centiaged from Page 64! out their a to their sare. Pie anawer ropes in i crag a hig quavering ey, wild pill heya , the voice of the Far Weet. iF ‘lo notes of oa bugle, high and clear, sang reveiile at daan, ee came hur- med activities: of thor who had delayed The streets of the two frontier settlements were packed with ox tewms, horses, wapons, rattle driven through. The frontier stores were stripped of their last supplics. One eeore day, and then on to Oregon! Wingate broke his own camp early in the morning and mowed out to the open aoa try west of the lnndins, maling & hires at what werulel bo the head a he tram. He had asked his four lieutenants to him there. Hall, Price and Kelaey in with atrageling wagone to forn the nuclewees of their columns; but the peg wore on and the Missourians, now aeder Woodhull, dca i yet broken park. Wingate igh sas cole ey ee at the edge of affairs human appre- benons began to assert themselves, ¢s- voore' A amome the womenfolk. Even oly Wingate gave way to doubt und fears. Her hoshand caught her, apron to sitting om the wagon tongue at ten * morning, With her pota and puns What?" be exclaimed. BE Si not cab? aven"t you as much courage me thee Mormon women on ahead ? Serie @ them pushing carta, I've heard.” “They done it for religion, Jess, Oregon ain't no ion for me.” “Yet it music for o man's ears, u : cicsh I've heard it all for the last wo yrs. What happened to the Donnera two pears back? ‘Are four years ago it waa the ‘brplegutes left home in old Missouri to met te Oregon. Who will ever know whee their bomes are laid? Look at our bed we left—rich—black and rich aa any em the world. What corn, what wheat— why, everything well in [linais!™ Yea and cholera below ws wining O46 tw people, and the trouble over 8 boking working up the river more and more, and the sun blazing in the summer, skis in the wintertime we freee!" “Well, aa for food, we never saw any vert of Kentucky with half so much rasa. We had no —— at all there, and where we left hall one any gobbling time. aio nm rocsbed not four miles besos, In the woods along the river even & LT soak: Kill coons and squirrels, all ed oed—no mead for us to eat rabbita, fie the Mormons. Que chicken yard was Ehy milk across. The young oner'd be frmg by reasting-ear time—and im fall the ee wat black with oh arid geese, Froargh es to ae we had; and our land openings Molly teaching the school et reve th dollars a month cash for it, er Jed earting hia blacksmith trade before he ‘a mightern. How could we ae more? What better will we doin Greg “You abways throw the wee Santos on Oregon, Molly." “Tt eo far t™ : “How do we know it ia far? We know met aod women have cromed, ond we mew the land is rich. Wheat grows fifty tebe to the acre, the trees are big a9 the goreos meeting bowers, the fish run by siliom in the streams. Yet the winters ae litth snow. Aman can lve there and om eave at ah life. “—and the frontier now apoke a im—“this country is too old, too long ete’. My father killed his elle and his Sele, too, in Kentucky: but that was lore my day. IT want the buffalo. [ fare to ae the Plains, Molly. What real can doer notT aS Wingate threw her apron over her The Oregon fever has witched you, “she exclaimed between dry sobs. wie wus silent for a the. Range ought to grow in Oregon,” he said af Laut. “Yea, bot does it?" “| sever heard it didn't. The soil ia net, and pou can file on six hundred and - farty sera. There's your donation clalm, fect tines bigger than any land you can teen here. We sold out ot ten dollars an nery’s made, and always hea ben n made, across the United States." : THE SATURDAY “Huh! You talk like a land apeculater your own sell?" “Well, if it ain"t the movers make a country, what does? Lf we don't settle Oregon, how Jong'll we hold it? Tle ehers went through to Oregon with ores, Like as not even the Applegates got their wagons acros:. Like enough they ee through, I want te see the eountry efore it gets too late for a good chance, Molly. First ports tard nay, apr rol ll be getting searce out West, tou, | Wat gelling scarcer on the rebel We ought Ps prec our children aa good a chance aa we had ourselwea.” "Ae poet. aochance! Elaven"t they had aa good a chance as we ever had? Didn't aur land more’a thribble, from a dollar and a quarter? It may thribble again, time they're old as we ore maw.” “That's a long time bo wait." "Tes a long time to live a lifetime, but every bod y's got te Live it." She atend, looking at him, "Look at all the good land right in here! Hore we at walnut and hickory and onk— warkds We got saseafras and pawpow and hazel ‘icant We get all the hickory nuta and na we like any fall. The wild Plums is better'n any in Kentucky; and ws for grapes, they're hig 4s your thumb, and aie fey the eh Wait ei A gee the plum and grape je enuld make this fall" “Women—always thinking of putting up jell" “But we got every herb here we need — boneset dod sasaafras and Tnjun physic and bark for the fever. There ain’: nothing you ran Tame we ain't gol right here or on the Sangamon, yet you talk of taking care of our children. uh! We've moved five times since we wea married. Now just as we got into a pom! country, where a women could dry rig and put uP jell, and where a man could why, you "pnp out ta Grgosl Y aw, Wingate, Pee in a blame aight better be Ge to than her hy Yau talk like you had te settle Oregon!" “Well, huven't I got to? Somehow it seema a man ain't ma ing up his own mind when he moves West. Pap moved twice in Kentwr onet in “Tennessee, and then over bo Ciusourl, after you and me was married and moved up inte Indiana, before we moved Co into Tllinois. He said to me—and TE know it for the truth—he coukin® t hardly te “tall who it was or what it was hitched up the team. But first thing he knew, there the old wagon stood, front of the house, cover all on, plow hanging on behind, tar bucket under the wagon, andcogand all. All he bad toda, pap sald, was just to climb up on the front seat and epeak to the team, Moy maw she climb up on the seat with him, Then they moved on Wot. You ler, Melly. My maw, salar tlimb up on the frant seat —— His wife asuddenly turned to him, the teara still in her ewes. “Yea, and Jesse Wingate—nnd you vane it—your wile's as got a woman aA maw! When the wagon was a saneinte, cover on, and you on the front seat, i climb up by you, Jess, same as J always have and always will. Haven't T always? You know that. But it's harder on women, moving la. y care more for a house that’s rain-tight in a storm. "T know you did, Molly," said her hues. bund soterly. "DT suppose To can pack my Jells in a box and put in the wagon, anyways.” She was a her eyes. yes, Lreckon so. And then a few dried earn will go mighty well on ae ory ‘thing”—she turned on him in wifely fury—"“you shan't keop me from taking my burenu and my six chairs all the way across! No, nor my garden seeds, all I favel. Noa, nor yet my rose rocks that I'm taking along. We got to have a home Jess—we got to have a home! There's Tee anal Molly coming on. oy heres Moll now?" suddenly aaked her musta: ‘d ought to be helping yoy cet new.” "1h, back at the camp, I s'proee— har and Jed too. I told her to pick @ mess of dandelion greens and bring over. Larking around with them ave fellows, like enough, Huh! a have less time. Jed haa to ride herd, Molly's got to take eure af that team ol ‘hig mules, and drive ‘em all day in the light wagon too, reckon if she doea that, and teaches night achool right along, she won't be feeling #0 guy.” EVENING POST “They tell me folks bas got married ed geross,"" she added, “not te ovention Une bork we had said, up on the Puen: two yeurs back, there was a weed: ding andl & birth and a bury ela im dni train, al inside of one hour, and all beste mM one mile, That's Oregon |" “Well, L reckon it's life, sin’ it?" re jeined her husband. “One thing, I'm nat een to have Moll toe much notion to that young fellow Banian—him they said was a leader of ee Liberty Wagon, Huh, he ain't lender n “ou like Sam Wes atall better for Molly, Jess? *" "Bome ways. He falls in alone with my ideas, He ain't so apt to make trouble on the road. He sided dn with me right along at the lagt meetin ng.’ "He done that? Well, his father wis a sheriff once, and his unele, Judge Henry Db. Showalter, he got inte Congress. Politica! But some folks suid the Hanions was the best family. Kentucky, they was. Weil, comes to siding in, Jess, [ reckon it's Molly herself ll count more in that than either o them ar cither o' us. She's eighteen past. Another year and whe" ll be a odd mutic If there's a wedding golng across ——" “There won't be,” sald her husband shortly. “If there is it won't be her and no William Banian, I'm saying that." TIME the younger persone pe- ferred to in the fran dicen of Wingate and his wife were occupying selves in their own fashion their {ins fers da camp. Molly, her basket full of dandeli len louvres, wna reluctant to lenve the shade of the grove by the stream, and Jed had busi- ness with the team af’ great mules that Molly was to drive on the trail, As for the Liberty train, ite oval re mained unbroken, the men and women sit- ting in the shade of the wagons. Their tting had been dane so carefully that little now remained for attention on the last day, but the substantial men of the con- tingent seemed far from enger to be on their way. Groups here aad there spoke in mono. syllables, sulieely They wanted to join the great train, voted to do so: but the cavalier deposing of their chosen man Banion—whe before them all at the meet= ing had ehown himaelf fit to lead — aul the cool appointment of Woodhull in his place had on reflection seemed ta them quite boo high-handed a propesition. ‘They gaid ao FoW. “Where's Woodhull now?" demanded the bearded man who had championed Banion. “1 sea Will out rounding up his cows, but Sam Woodhull ain't turned ny hand to heat up te pullin west o° town with the others.” amniled another, “Sam “That's easy,” Woodhull is where he's arene going tho ingate yrirl. be—hanging around the He's over at their camp ear "Well, [ dunno's I blame him so much for that, neither. And he kin atay there fer all o' me. Fer one, [wen't foller no Wood hull, least o° all Sam Woodhull, soldier ar no soldier. I'll pull owt when I git ready, and tomorrow mornin” ip soon enmeugh fer me. Wekin jine on then, if so's we like” Someone turned on his elbow, nodded aver ghoulder. They heard hoof beats. Banion came uD fresh from his new work on the herd, THe asked for Wonrdhull, and learning his whereabouts trotted aero the intervening glade, “That's shore a hoes he rides,” said one man. : ; “An go shore man a-fidin'’ of him," nilded another. “He may ride front o' the train an' not back o” hit, even yet.” Molly Wingate sat on the grasa in the litth: grave, curling a chuin dandelion stema. Wear by Sam Woodhull, in his best, lay on the award regarding her avidly, a dull fire in his dark eyes, He was sp eTuLT of the girl aa to be almost un- fit for aught else, Por weeks he had kept clage te her. Not that Molly seemed over- mach te notice or anecarage him. Onis, woman fashion, she ill liked to send away any attentive male. Just now she wit unemey. She guessed that if it were nat for the presence of her brother Jed near by this man would declare himeelf unmis- tokably. It the safety of numbers made her main eoncern, pPerhapa that waa what made polly es Wingate s eye light up when she ood Will Banion's hore er ohine in the litthe etream. She aprang to her feet, waving a hand gayly. Dike your FORD li of the Putt-Miss Cl its Lasy-this Book kk = The Ford engine ia so cumy ane ropsecd that meal ¢ ngine tra natal fis 1 niiehimkiaean.: "" Miastigd. lard stearic hack Giring, elugeiadi power—aod oily troubles bhame!) be Ford engine. are cose liv fli “Gimiag—aad corrected by Red StarTime: FOR FORD CARS TRUCKS 24D TRACTOR el. 4 i] each, feromparably fine in qaelity The low price la possible becatise Red Share a ingle onruey lente: be our dod factory. Cosetruc la shanctasel afl time-proved. 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Price lw. boaklet gd evi abet FALE TRIAL OG AMEEIOAN EOGCH MAGHETO OOMPORATION | Ben baad Bem bee rightwood, Mase nen. 1 at | Honor Holle of War Weterana, Fisting Tokeas | Plime eth Gl mt tile FR ASCES HOPE TS (0 3 Fink awe. Brees. 78, Maw Fark THE SATURDAY “ih, so there you are!" ne exclaimed, "To was wondering if you'd ie over before Jed and 0 left for ike, prairie, Father and mother have moved on out weet of town. We're all ready for the jump-olf, Are you? “Yea, tomorrow by sun," said Bunion, swinging out of sod e and for tting any crane ha inight have: had. “Then it's om on oe aded to Woodhull, wha little mare than noticed him. Molly adyanced to where Banion’s horse steml, nodding and pawing restively ag wae hia wont. She - hig nose, patted his seweat-soaked nee “OW hit a ty horse you have, majar,”" she Saat ah thie ‘as his name? | him Pronta," amiled Banion. ape means sudden.” "He tite the anne “What? You ride h “We surely, I'd aed to. IT can ride anything. That funny saddle would do— aee how bi; py ae good as the oe of a lady's snd os, but the ra le “ts ig pat my foot in between the flapa above the etirrup., Help me up, sir?” “T'd rather not,” Molly pouted ia Stingy t" “But no worn ever rade that horse— nat Gani Men bution. I don"t know what he’ di dao. rec L ride him?" wae one to fnd aut." led, approa ing, joined the conver- water “T rid him,” said he. “He's a goer all right, but he ain’t mean.” “T don't know whether he would be bad oF net with @ Lady," Banion still argued. “Those Spanish horses are always wild. Repti reticy do gel over ik. Weete"ve gol to a ride “OV on think I'm not a rider? I'll ride him now to show you! I'm not afraid of horses. “That's right,” broke in Sam Woodhull. “But, Misa ly, I wouldn't tackle that horse if T was you. Take mine.” “But Twill! I've not been hormeboack for aomonth, We've all mt to Fide or drive or wilk a thousand I can ride him, man saddle and all, Talp me up, sir?”* Banion walked to the horse, which Aung inst him, rubbing a aoft muzzle up ste pian “He seeme gentle,” said he. “I've pretty well topped him off this morning. I you're sure —— “Help me up, one of you" Tt waa Woodhull who aprang te her caught her up under the arma and lifted her fully gracious weight to the saddle. Her left foot by fortune found the cleft in the stirrup fender, her right leg awung | around the tall horn, hastily concealed by a clatch at her skirt even os she grasped the henvy knotted reing, Tt was then too late. She must ride. Banion caught at a cheek strap as he saw Woodhull’s act, and the horse was the safer for an instant, But in terror of anger at hia unusual burden, with ene skirt and no grip on his flanks & animal | reared and broke away Lipo them all, instant and he was plunaing acres the | stream for the open glade, hia head low. He did net ie easay the short, stilf- ‘ingped action of the typical bucker, but made long, reaching, low-headed plunges, seeking his own f om in that way, per- hape hall fn some equine wonder of his own. None the leas the wrenching of the girl's back, the leverage on her flexed kner, un- , were unmistakable, The horse reared nea and yet aguln, high, striking out a8 she checked him. He Was getting in a fury now, for his rider still Was in place. en with ane savage side wise of his head after another he EVENING POST lunged ela we ti fat Habe ae fencing iE or the ape ralrie lovked like a ibolt f whieh with 2 a horse of in epirit and stamina ant but one thing, oo matter how long nyt, Tt all happentd in a flash. Banion caught at the rein too late, ran alter—too alow, of course, The girl waa silent, shaken, but still riding. No footman could aid her new, With a leap, Ranion was in the saddle of Woodhull's which had been left at hand, ite bridle down. He drove in the apure and headed across the flat at the tap speed af the fast and iad chestout—no match, perhaps, for the ack Sranland were the latter once extended eee iu the angle of the two. ee A OS Ore ee ae silt to her mount or in appeal for gi In sooth she was too frightened to de sa. But she heard the rush af hoofs and the high call of Banion's voice back of her: a rUcinae Pronte! Yien' aquil™ ie a marvel it was, ond show. ing eyed anchipaf man and horse on the trall: but suddenly the mad black ceased his plunging. Turning, he trotted whinny- ing as though for ae obedient to his master's command, me heref An instant and Banien had nhs check strap. Another and he was off, with Molly Win- gate, in a white dead faint, in his arms. ty now ofhers had seen the affair from their places in the wagon pak. Men and women came hurrying. Hanion laid the ib down, seught to raise her head, drove ‘k the tend horses, ran with his hat to the strenm for water. By that time Woodhull had jolned him, in advance of the peaple from the park. you, by ia yOu. men ot thou my ridin pale without m hes Furoke out, “If she. ain't Tan heat "Gananes wild horse— you “nad the gall —— Will Banion's self-restraint at last was gone, He made one answer, voicing all his acquaintance with Sam Woodhull, all his opinion of him, all hie future attitude in meee to him. ¢ dropped his hat to the ground cau it off ane wet glove, and wit handed struck the cuff of it ve ha hard across Sam Woodhull's face, ¥E TREES were dragoon revolvers in the holsters at Woodhull's saddle. He made a rush for a pip Thee te the crack of the blow had bee tee! a that ade ieareet men thought a shot bi awHE an was his leap, it wae nr weit encugh, The long, lean hand of the bearded Missourian gripped his wrist even ox caught at a pee gtip. He turned a livid face bo gaze inte a cold and amall blue eye, "No ye don't, Bam!" said the other, who was first of those who came up running. Even as a lank woman steeped ta raise the head of Molly Wingate the sinewy arm back of the hand whirled Woodhull arcaund so that be faced Banton, whe had not made: a move. “Will ain't got no weepan, an’ ye knew it,” went on the same cool voice. “What yo mein—s murder, besides that?" He nodded ed toward the girl, By now the crowd surged between the men, volees rose. "He strack me!" broke out Woodhull. “Let me go! Hestrack me!" — "T know he did,” said the intervener. “T heard it. I don't know why. But whether it waa over the girl or not, we ain't goin’ to see this other feller shot down till we know moreabout hit. Yeean mect —" He turned an eye to Banton. “OO couree, aay thee." Banion was dra on his glove. The woman had lifted Molly, straightened her clothing. April }, 19%: “ALL blood!" said ane, ‘That snd horn! What made her ride that cond ! The ‘Spanish, horse stood facin now, ears forward, his eyes How through his forelork not so much fn ane a in curioxity., The men hustled the te, atta ot Lata apart. Listen, Sam," went an the tall Mis sourian, still with his grip on Woodhull’, wrist, ‘e'll see ye both fair, Ye've go to ght now, in course—that's the law, an I ain't learned it in the fur trade of ne | Raekies fer nethin’, ner have ae herein the settlements, But I'll tell ric = thing. Sam Woodhull, ef ye make one mow afore we-une tell ye how an' when to male hit, ['U drop ye, ahore's my name's Bill Jack son. Ye got to wait, both on ye. We'r startin” out, an’ we kain't start out like mob. Take yer time.” “Any time, any Bite a = ale , Banio simply. “Ho main can awd you gentlemen Aloe fer ti boldly inquired the man who had a cribedl himself as Bill Jackson, one of thy fur brigadera of the Rocky Mountain Com i aman with a reputation of his owt in Plains and mountain adventures of hunt ing, trading and scouting. “Hit's yar ch'ree oo wen T reckon, Wal. I reckor he chalk yoru-all."" "T don't tae He'd have no chanee o an even break with wie with any sort o weapon, and he knows that.” Jackson cast free hia man and rurminater over a chew af plug. “it's over a gal," said he at length ak aaa ain't usual; but secin’ a k atween mein beeause ane’: . dulcker shot than another, but because he's may like oper of somethin that, ana rd nuckle and skull sui ye ‘tea roosters, best man win and ua ti see hit fairt Hit's one of ye fer the gal like enough. But net right now. Wait til we're on the trail and clean o” the law, | heern there's a sherifl hangin’ toand ven sonue'rs. “T'll fight him any way he likes, or any war you say," said Banion, “It's mot my Bae I onl alappet him because hy shined cur iee at he ought to hav rere Yea, | rode hia hore. ir IT hadn' that girl would have been killed. It's no: his fault she wasn't. I didn't want her te ride: that horace," “T don't reckon hit's so much iL matte about a hoes as hit is about a " re marked Bill Jackson sagely. “ Ye'll hatter fight. Well then, Sern AS hit"s about 5 . knuckle wn* skull, ts that He east a glance around group a other fighting men of a border day, They nodded gravely, bat with glittering yes, “Well then, gentlemen"—and now he stood free of Woodhull—"“ye both give word ye'll make no break till we tell ye? rit oa | two-three days aut?" “Soits mt, id Woodhull savagely “Tl Seat his neek for him." “Any time that suits the gentleman tc break my neck will please me," said Will Banion indifferently. when, friends. Just now I've got ta look alter my cows. [1 Beers in oe Our master might very well look after his wagons.” “That sounds!" commented Jackson, “That sounds! Sam, git an about yer business, er ye kwin't travel in the Liberty train nohow! An’ don't ye make neo break, in the dark especial, fer we kin track ye canywheres. Ye'll Gi ight fair fer onee — an’ yell Gght!™ Hy ee the eon Spurn about these ACERS get een Telax, to spread, wane “had Molly in hand as her eyes opened. Jed came up at = Ain with the mule team and the a‘ wagon from the grove, and they got the girl into the seat ere (Continued of Page 70)

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Their clamorings were etilled the a Hew and sterner ¥oice— the notes of the bugle summoning sleepers aS thir ak Dn te tte the duties of the first & line from wateh to eekct, ot the alns eonmumand, “Cateh up Fae “oe Tt was morning of the mp. ede fires began at the wagon messes of family bivouses, Men, boys, barefooted girls want out into the dew-wet grass to round up the tranapert stock, A vast con= fusion, a melley of unskilled endenyor marked the hour. But after an hour's wait, adjusted to the situation, the next order passed down the line: "Rellout! Rollout!" And now the march to Orepon was at lost began! ‘The first dust cut by an ox hoof wos set in motion by the whip crack of a barefoeted baa in jeans who ne dream that he one day would rank high in the councils of his state, at the iy of an ocean which no prairie boy ever had en- visioned, The eompass finger of the trail, leading out from the timber groves, pointed into a sen of green along the vulley of the Kaw, The grasa, not yet tall enough fully to Tipple aa it would a half month later, ateod waving over the black-burned on nd which the semicivilized Indians had left the fall before. Flowers dotted it, sometimes white like bate of oll ivory on the wuet. ru of apindrift—the pink verbena, the wild indiga, the larkapur and the wild gern- ral all woven Into a wondrous spangled At times also appeared the shy en of the sweet wild rose, lovellest flower of the prairie, ‘Tall rosinaeedis began to thrust up runkly, banks of sunflowers pres pured to fling their yellow banners miles wide. The opulent, inviting land lay in o ceaseless succession af easy undulations, | atretching away illimitably to far horizana, “in such exchanging pictures of grace andl charm as raised the admiration of even these simple falk toa pitch bordering upon exaltation.” Here lay the West, barbaric, alseunding, beautiful. Surely it could mean no harm ‘bo any man. The men lacked experience in column travel, the animals were unruly. The train formation —clumaily trying to conform to the orders of Wingate to travel in four parallel colummna—soon Jost order, At times the wagons halted to re-lorm. The leaders galloped back and forth, exhorting, adjuring and restoring little ny little a certain system. But they dealt with inde= pendent men. On alead the landacnpe seemed so wholly free of danger that to iomost of these the road to the Far Weat offered no more than a pdeasure jaunt. | Wingate and his immediate stds were well worn when at miclafternoom they fifteen miles out fram Weatpart, “What in Iell poling for?” demanded Sar ui riding up fram his own column, far at t +e rear, and aceasting the train lender, ‘We cin go five miles further, anyhow, and maybe ten. We'll never get across this wy. This is the very way we will get aeroas,” Tejoined Wingate. “While I'm captain I'l say when to start and stop, But I"ve been counting on yet Woodhull, te throw in with me ancl help get things shook down.” “Well, it lowks to me you're purty brash nea weal," commented another voirr, Bull Jackson came and stowd at the captain's fo Bon 1 surlily, side, He had not been far from Wowlhull alldayiong. “Ye're a nacherl damned fool, Sam W ull," said he, "Who ected ve fer troin copinin, amd when was tt did? If ye don't like the way this truin's run po on ahead and make a train o yer own, ef that’s way ye feel. Pull on out te-night. WT can't eealle ee { “Tcan"t really keep any man from going back or going abead,” replied Wingate, “Tut [ve been counting on Woowlhull to hold thee Liberty wagons together, Any pinear knows that o littl: party takes “Since when did yeu eome a plains- nian?” geofled the malcontent, for once forgetting his policy of in or-turrving with Wingate in his own surly discontent. Ele hod not bern able tespenk to Molly all day, Heri’ t,t “Well, if he aln't a plaingman yet he be, and I'm one Fight now, Sam podhe Jorkson squarely in front of superior, “I say he's talking Benge | min that aln't got noe genase. [owas ¥ Doniphan too. We found ways, hult' His straight gaze outironted the ot Who turned and rode back, But that + St oo We men, rl ay instigatatd of roue hull, their leader, to the h Phim fire with a joint a plaint. They demanded places at the h of the column, lee mutiny amd yu ahead together. They sald good nm teams ought not to take the dust of o “What, do you say, men?’ asked train captain of his aids helplessly. 5 in favor of letting them go front. The others nodded silenth- looking ane another significantly, Already clit and factions were beginnin Woodhull, however, had too much stake to risk any open friction with captain of the train. His own seat at oor” fire was dear to him, for it brow Minin; clase to the Wingate wa ‘Ons, AN rate ae elae—aol Mo y Wing: That : lady did nat speak ta him day, cloae the tilt of her « wagon early after the evening meal ; denied herself to all, As for Banion, he was miles back, canp with his own wagons, which Wo hull had abandoned, and on duty & night with the euttle guarnd—m herdsan and not a leader of men now. He lim was mely enough when he ted his ci behind his saddle and rode his black fhe out into the shadows. He had no kno edge of the fact that the old mount mun, Ja n, wrapped in his blanket, ¢ night instituted aso itary watch ail his or 2 hundreds of camp fires of the ac tered train, stretched out over five mile grove and glade at the end of the first 1 epophees day, lowered, glowed and fad They were one day aut to Oregon, 1 weary withal. Soon the individual encoun ments were silent aave for the champ equgh af tethered animals, or the whin howl of coyotes, prowling in. At the 4! Sun encampment, last of the train, that heading the prest eotile drove, | hardy frontier aetilers, as was their wo anon fallawed the aun to rest. The night wore, ineredibly slow to t novice wateh for the fret time now drafi under the prairie law. The eky was fu pink and the shadows lighter when = denly the dark was streaked by a Ansh fire und the silence broken by the ere of a border rifle. Then agnin ond ag came the heavier bark of a dragoan rev ver, of the sort just then becoming kne along the Western marches. The camp went into confusion, W anion, just riding in to take his own | lated turn in his ee almnet fun of the tall form of Bill Jackson, rifle in har “What was it, man?" demanded Bant "You shooting at a mule?" “Noa a man, whispered the other, “| Tan this way. Reckon I must have mise It's hard to draw chown inter a hindsight the dark, and I pest chunecexst it with t pistal. He waa pinnin' hard." “Whe was he—some thief?" "Like enough. He was crawlin’ | he run vors wagon. I halted him wo it TM. “You doen't know who he was?" “Wo. [lace his tracks, come day’. i of to bed. I'l] set cut a vebiles, iy. When dawn cane, before he had vig his long vigil, Jackson was bendin fogtmarks inthe motster portions af t fame “Tall man, young and tracked chean he muttered te himself. “Paney bool with rather litth heels. Shame [ dat milsaed bien 2" But he aald nothing to Banton or anya else. It was the twentieth time Bill Jac aon, one of Sublette'’s men and a nephew one of his partners, hod croseed the Plain und the long hand pleased him best. | tietitubted his own government for the mi art, and had thrown in with this tru ecause that beat auited his book, since tl old pack trains of the fur trade were no no mare, For himself, he planned sett ment in Raster Oregon, 9 cmuntry hes one had eet in am imeaver days, dozen Eastern wet lemme hu held ine To os thon the army Li had been tea dull, even with Doniphan. “T must be gittin’ old,” he muttered | himself as he turned to a brepkfast nn “Missed—at seventy yard!" (To BE CONTINGE |

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST MERTON OF THE MOVIES (Caatinwed fram Page 7) Hee che overcame his last reluctance and sduced him to enter, She followed ond drove ragadly off, I: wa only now that Baird Jet him into the very beart of the drama. “To ae.” he told Merten, “you've exiched these city folks; you've wanted ar ie for Hf, ao in a moment of waknest you've gone up to town with this | to have a look at the place, and.it sort a wok keld of you. In fact you hit up jotea pace fora while; but at last you go a —— “The blight of Broadway," murmented Veton, wondering if there could be a ett ene. HE . Bald Baird. “And you get to “cng of the poor old mother and little eee back here at home, working away to vag of the mortgage, and you decide to sam. You get back on a stormy night; od mowand wind: you're pretty weak. Ee lahow you sort of fainting as you reach se door. Tou hawe no overcoat or hat, and yor dty suit is practically ruined. You pia geat chance for some good acting BE a alter you get inside to face ov los DTT be the atrongest thing you've Sobel far." [tod idee’ a op unity far atrong wo. He could see that. He stayed late vit Baird and his staff one night and the paige’ retum to the door of the lit soe wis het in a blinding anowsterm- lan warmly congratulated the mechanics oe enitved the storm, and was highly eimeutic over the acting of the hero. Torugh the wintry blast he staggered, half ite, to the door, where he eol- uel The light eaught the Siony on his eee. He lay a moment, half fainting, te quche op a feeble hand to thir keob | <r coor, wu one of the annoyances inddent ta ce wt that be could not po on in at that ramet to finish hia tacene, But thia —e done back on the lot, and the scene ote be secured until the next day. eo more be became the pitiful victim lupeel ety, sewing. back to the home Ex ca wintry night. It wes Christ- so Ere, be sow learned. He pushed o oe hot af the Utthe heme and ata in. «at the feet of his old mother. The aaa to support him to the sola. He teva, emaciated, his face an agony of cecunet, ws he mutely p forgive= =a lor bs Sgt. Eidd mother had risen, had seemed eet to émirace him, but then had drawn tol fey up and palnted command- a7 iie door. The pr ished cov t this reuse, fell weakly back upon Stomach with a cry of despair, The little itt teed a pillow under his head and ‘sped with the mother, A long time é dhe semai obdurate, but at last cre Then she, boo, came to fall upon # cen belo the wreck who had re el we er, ‘i cany rehearsals were required for Set dificult though it was, Merton =. Sd eed his opportunity. His study iipey ions in the film course wns = re The seoneé closed with the Sate of the little sister, Resolutely Vg the ight of gore ferce determina- — baton hat and wraps, apoke words (eto the stricken mother and son Ete ost inte the night. The anow "es cat she opined the door, end Work!" said Baird to Merton, ~Yedes't bear from, thot lithe: lit then LMel pea Seodel" ah aoene were shot in, the same tont, which seemed ta bering the Meade, While the returned prod- Bcluyen the couch, nursed by the T'4 mother, the sister returned in “say wah the New York society girl, "ei mesed aghast at the wreck of him she Stet wed. Slowly she op h woof the sufferer, erly she Ss den to infeld him. In some man- “the Merton could nat divine, the Fi ol bern reunited. Mew York girl was followed by her “= -i wield seem they had bath come eres ‘otl—and the father, after giving “tir for more of mother's grape juice, Sesed the son's patents, Two of them "Seamed over with delight, and wt once lary as huge roll of bills far a tenth, “owt 1 them, g man who held — ie “Sat ond who had counted upon driving the family into the streeta this stormy Christmas Eve. He waa overs whelmed with confusion when his maohey wus paid from an ample hoard, and alu shamefaced out inte the night, It could be seen that Christmas Day would dawn bright and ha for the little group, 0 Merton's eye there wae but ome dis. cord in this finale. He = Ena that he “he fe man was playing the part hotel clerk at the neighboring resort, but he had watehed few scenes in which the poor fellow acted; and he surely bad not known that this man waa the little sister's future husband. Tt was with real dismay that he averted his gaze from the embrace that oor between these two ae the clerk entered the now happy home. — Qne other detail puzzled him. This was the bundle to which he bad clung as he | blindly plunged through the storm. He had Bl fercely to it alter entering the litth: room, claaping it to hla breast even as he sank at his mother's feet In physical exhaustion and mental anguish to implore Plasel haitie Nisan te bay; ree anriee a e him as he Want on the couch. He supposed pele and to contain one of his patents; a question ta Baird proved him to be cerrect, “Sure,” said Baird, “that's one of your patente 2" bes Bae still wished the ae sister had not n to mg tt hotel clerk, ms mae i And another detail lingered in his mem- ory to bother him, The actress playing hi mother was woot to smoke ci mot i in acting. He had known of it, But he now seemed to , in the Kouta last scene of reconciliation, that she tually turned, He ha this was not ao. It would mean a retake, and Baird would be justly annoyed by the old mother's core lesa PBaS, EVI Of farah Nevada Montague pl hist were aix long weeks doing the new plece. The weeks seemed long to Mer- ton Gill because there were so many hours, even days, of enforced idleness, To pass an entire day, bis face atif with the make-up, without once confronting a carmera in ac- tion seemed to him a waste of his own time and a waste of Baird's money. Yet this a peared to be one of the unavoidable - thes Incurred by those who engaged in the art of the phote drama. Time was needed to create that world of painted shad Bu) awilt, 90 nicely consecutlve when prichide Fey but so incoherent, ao brokenly ineonse- quent, so meaningless in the : How little on audience could suspect the vexatious delays ensuing between, say, a knock at a dear and the admission of a ¥iitor to a neat litthe home where a fond old mother waa trying ta off a mort- gage with the help of her little ones, How could an audience divine that a wait of two hours had been caused because a polished city villain bad forgotten his spate? Or that other waits been caused by other forgotten trifles, while an expensive of artists lounged about in bored apathy, or amoked, gosuped, bantered? Yet 0 one ever seemed bo express con- cern about these waite, Rarely were their causes known, ex by some frenzied as sistant director, and he, alter a little, wauld cease to be frenzied and fall to loading with the others, Morton Gill's education in hia chosen art was progressing, He came to loaf with the unconcern, the vacuous bore- dom, the practiced nonchalance of more Seasoned artiats. Sometimes when exteriors were being taken the sky would averclowd and the sun be denied them fora day. The Mon girl would then ask Merton how he liked Sunny Cafeteria. Knowing thia to be a jesting term that would stand for Sunny | California, he never failed to laugh. The girl kept rather closely by bim dur- ing these periods of waiting. She seemed to ahow little interest in ether members of the company, and her association with them, Merton noted, was marked by a cer= tain restraint. 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74 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST day while the ao ttle eountry alster turned a series handaprings and cart wheels that evoked sincere applause from the four New York villaing who had been thus solacing their ennui. But oftener she would sit with Merton on the back seat of one of the wating automo hiles. She notonly bept herself rnther aloof from other members ef ther ape ay but she curiously seemed ta bring it about that Merton himself should have littl contact with them, dlally did she seem to hover between him and the punpen feminine members, Among thoee imper- sonating guests at the hotel were several young waren of rare beauty with whom he would have been not unwilling te fraternize in that easy comradeship which seemed to mark studio life, These were far more allur- ing than the New York society girl who | wooed him and who had secured the part / solely through Baird's aympathy for her bec Jeoreiniepc ia rayed and charmingl ey Were aF and eha ¥ ‘mannered in the scenes he watched, and moreover they not too subtly betrayed a Pleasant conacloumess of his existence, But the Montague girl noticeably monopolized > him when a better acquaintance with the 3 | beauties might have come about. She | rather brazenly seemed to be guarding him. ' She was always there, | ‘This very apparent solicitude af hera left him feeling pleasantly important, despite the social contacts it deprived him af. He wondered if the Montague girl could be ealous, and cautiously one day, as they “London Bridge is falling down, i jaling . led in the motor ear, he sounded ber. Fall down, 1 own, | “Those girls in the hotel scenea—T sup- London e Ly falling doumn | pe en (ba all nice gitls of good family, irest lady" | He casually observed. My faire ry | “Huh?” demanded Miss Montague, en- gauged with a pence! at the moment in I Its new! | aehsittesle gett. ) eure, Rhey all come fram Ole = fn [ families— Virginia and Indiana and those ; AlS NEW: | places.” She tightened her lipa before the the litte mirror she held and renewed their scarlet. Then she spoke more melt . "Bure, kid, those girls are all right enough. | They work like dogs and do the best they (can when they gin't got jobs. I'm strang & for ‘em. But then ['m_2 wise old trouper, understand things. You don’t. You're I the real country wild rose of this piece. [t's a good thing you gol me to nde herd on you. You! too lnmecent to be turned bones of a comedy lot “Listen, hoy" —ahe turned a sober face to him—“'the straight lota are pretty fairly decent, but get tha: A comedy lot ia the tougheat place this side of the bad one— any comed = a gaa "But this isn’t a comedy lot. Mr, Baird sea small apartment~summer cottage ~ | ,,,18#\ bs sysrted her tace briety, but ean Lp agi now turned to him again. not for you. You wouldn't last | if met this bunch would have taught you a let found the words meaningless. They merely bit of pretense, the beautiful young women who came from a : . ge ) isn't doing comedies any more, and these Something new in player pianos for the reizirmmoteris xan Stcoys bungalow~or veranda the better things but he's sel tag eta of — . hig old people. They're all right for me, but if ust perfected- after years of experi- | sv tev wanil ot tates bm f : i mentation by Story E& Glark~in cai in- ing ther banc would If it hadn't been for strument only four feet two inches high ‘uj-"Feir one ting los beter tin with all the wonderful tone of the Story | ier: ia*cching’ around n'a Chinese « Glark instruments of st size EE ied ta rua caantig ne Bh ¥ ; . suggested to him a anowy winter acene of ts a gem and youll want to buy it when | $3. Cas was innocent eaulpass ‘you see it! Mail in the coupon below | _ trecr'tpoared not to have heart this “Instruments of finest quality since 1857" | coming the ome, “you ran Go murder = : a you Ww up the blood. Remember that." Priced within reach of every home He did not again refer even vaguely to * fine old Southern homes. The Montague The Story & Glark Piano Gompany, | tse ic wiles tn. Chicago haps while they ate renee bro het teas a New York Hrook Philed«elshi ghee, she would tell hire erself, His Be cs ab shied Pitteburyh Detroit old troubling visions of his wonder woman, Pec ai ce ee oe eee ra can oO ee of Beulah Baxter the daring, had welbnigh | Story # Glark Piano Gompany—sis-217 Sa. Wabash Ave, Ghicago, IIL faded; but now and then they would recur as if from long habit, and he would question Wi telaice hia Maia ay your PI secs cs es smaaingunaciensccmcc’ | | the girl about her life as a Spanll., feria Street | ““Yeuh, [ could see that Baxter business Hon regarding Miniature’ “feet ----.....--. CRORE ES eee Renee cn mens I | was a blew to you, kid, You'd kind of | Player Piano City nee Rhy woe u gains en I} worshiped ber, hadn't you?" Bd fat beac ped al a SO SRS ea eS Se (ere wee erly ee SOR pemnmae| “Well, [—yos, in a sort of way," in thetr idle momenta—and he watched one‘ April |, 4 “Of course you did; it was very nis ou.” She reached aver to pat kis ha "Mother understands just bow you | watching the filma back there in ia berry.” He had quit teeing to correct fe a baie Branly raped hb Sive | itupoen Coos asa working compo of both names, and he weainky com accept it, “And I know just how - fele"—again she patted! his hand—"“t hight when you found me doing her sty “Le did kind of upset me” “Cure it would! But you ought ta hk known that all these peaple use dow when they can—rmen and women bath, not only saves “em work but even wl they could do the stull if they had to— thet ain't so often—Tt saves "em wm broken bones and holding up & big pro tion two or three months, mat busi that would be! So when you set a won ora man either, that looks like they're ing something t someone else could You can bet semeene else in doling it. WV would you expext? Would you exper high-priced star to go out and break his “And at that most of the doubles men, even for the women stars, like K Caraon always carries one who used to | circus acrobat. Ble couldn't hardly do of the things vou sea her doing, but w old Dan gets on her blond transforma and a few of her clothes he's ber to the in a long shot, or even in mediums, i kits hin map covered, “Yeah, most of the doublera have ti men. F'll hand that to myself. I"m al the only girl that's been doing it, and th out with me hereafter, I fuess, the we seem to be making good with Jeff. Mas after this [ won't have to de stunts, om of course Se ce Biull, probly, 4 row of fips or something light. Anjtl heayy comes up=-me for a double of awn. She glanced sidewise at her liste aye you won't like me any more, | had, after you find out I'm using a dal He had listened attentively, absorbs her talk, and seemed startled by this foreseen finish, He turned anxious eye her. Jt oeeurred to him for the first 1 that he did not wish the Montague gi do dangerous things any more. ‘Eay," he ssid quickly, amazed at own discovery, “I wish you'd quit di all those—stunts, do you call “em?” i hi ear eran siti ere werd thost puzzling lig & her ws he met them. He was con! “Well, you might get hort.” ee oh" “You might killed sometime, an wouldn't make least difference to n your using a double. I'd like you just Aare " “T ape: it wouldn"t be the way it with Baxter when you found it out,” “Noe; you—you're different, I d wank you to get killed,” he added ra blankly. He oes still amazed at this covery, All right, kid, I won't," she rep bart re “T'll like you Just aa much,” he ay assured her, “no matter how many dow ou have.” “Well, you'll be having doubles you sooner oF later—and [ll like you too,” She reached over to his band, but time she held it, He returned her sta clasp, He hod not liked to think of hating mung el chaps by a fall int uarry when the cable gave way— the camera men would probably keep turning ! “Tve alwaya been funny about mu ae creme rely spoke again, still gripping hand. “Lord knows I've seen enough o kinds, bad and good, but I've always ! kind of afraid even of the good ones, A We might not think it, but I guess i'm natural-born shy—man shy, anyway,” He glowed with a confession of his ¢ "You know, I'm that way bop—pirl « Tfelt aefal awkward when I had to kice in the other pee, To never did really — He floundered a moment, but was F ently blurting out the meager detal that early amour with Edwina May Pul He stopped his recital in a sudden pe fear thet the girl would make fun of | He was immensely relbeved when ahe me renewed) Chet strength od the handclasp. “T know, That's the way with me, course I can put over the acting stulf, ¢ varnping, but I'm afraid of men off st: Say, would you believe it, I ain't ever bot one beau! That was Bert Stacy. © old Bert! He was loteaolder thanme; ab (Costiqued on Page 77!

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Pees’ tis from Page Fa) thirty, [ pocet. ne was white all through, Tau roy a kind of remind me af him, Sort of a feckless dub he was, too: kind af tonet anf awhward—you know. He was the one got me doing stunts, He waan't gvaid of anything. Didn't know it waa even in the dictionary. That old scout would go out night or ony and break every- thing bat his contract was twelve when | iret knew him, and he hud me doing rwrsaers in notime, | caught onto the other af pretty good. I wasn't afraid, either, G say that for myself, First I waa afraid show kim | was afraid, but pretty soon I saat afraid at all. We pulled off a lot of sthofl for diferent eople. And of course [ pot to be a big girl, uni three years ago, when I was eighteen, Beert Bert wanted us to be married, and I a Lmight as well. He was the only hadn't bern afraid of. So we got engaged. | was still kind of afrnid to marry gepone, but being engaged was all right. 1 now we'd got along together, too, but thes be got bis wath » motorcycle. “Kind of fanny. He'd do anything on that gechicee. He'd jump clean over an aut aed be'd leap a thirty=foot ditch and he was all set to pull a mew one for Jeff Bart when it happened. Jeff wus going o have him Fide his motorcycle through o phatecleen window, The set was lruilt and erenthing feady, and then the merry old sam: don't shine for three days. ry reamg Bert would go over to the lot and wait wound inthe fog. And this third day, whes jl qt too late in the afternoon to shears, even the sun did show, he says to eee, ‘C'mon, hop up and lee‘s take a ride deren othe beach.” So Tl hop to the back som ard af we start, and on a ninety rule boulevard what does Bert do but i aes? Tt was an ice waaon that fina ty iaeepel wover. | was only shook up and he ond there, tut Bert was That's the funny part. He'd i me Che boglevard, but back on the feed have rode through that pate-gines widow wrthout a scratch. And just be Seam the sun didn't shine that day | waan"t eager” ay more, Bert was kind of like eam? old sea captain that comes hack to cere giter risking his life on the orean eal ends of storms and falls inte a duck goed and gets drowned." She wat a long time, staring out over the a-decage, still holding his hand. Instde te eae before Che farmhouse three of the Sew York villains were again en iti vite sports, but she seemed oblivious fines, At last she turned to him again vita Mumining smile, “Bet [ eas dead in love once belore: tats bow | know what afiRLL felt obeut fame. He was the preacher whene we used “pte church He was a goed one, Pa oped alot ef his etull that he uses to this ay tw happens to get a preacher part. sn wae the lovelest mane Nat mo On fark, with wonderful ae an wound hes voice would go oll through ‘=. [bed an awful cose on him. I was weve, aod all week I used to think how li we him the next Sunday. Say, when Capt there and he'd be working—doing sagt woul — —be"d have me in kind of a ze ‘anetimes after the Fe a scene he'd se down right ante t sotene amd. ‘ule hands with people. I'd almost. keel fer id bed these me. a be afraid he hod afmid he wouldn't. If he said Ved bow ia the litthe lady this morn- “ql wouldn't have a speck of voice to mee tim. I'd just tremble all over, I “Oem Ud got a job workin’ for him # ets, blacking Tis shoes or fetehing his Tatu and things. “Tau the real thin at, right. T tised ) abe 4 pray the way he - making the ork ta her me do a ¢ eater bit Or aor Sarg wk him. He had! ve going all right. ind fo ust "a" been just that way abet fore, Sune you mare! When sou found © re mated and used a double and weything, itwas like I'd found this preacher "antg hop or using a double in his pulpit : eg gat lacki ae Se wa still again, locking back upon ‘ol tenedous epiaode, si hibe that's about the way I felt," he “limady hie affair with Mrs. Rosenblat eral a bing ow his childhesl. He was tebng, rather, Lf the preacher could ao Mae the perfect agar the gil wag “peturing him. It would not have teaed bin to learn that this refulgen, “(watully used a double in his big THE SATURDAY scenes, of had been bobuvior at old moments, Probably, after all, he had been just » preacher, “Uncle & ae Sylvan ‘eiter used to want me to be ii her, he aald with appurent ir- relevance, “eveo If he waa his own worst enemy." He added presently, as the girl remained silent, “IT alwaye say my prayers at night.” He felt vaguely that this might raise him ta the place of the other who had been adored, He was now wishing to be thought well of by this girl, She was arcused [rom | her musing by his confession. | “You do? Now jan’t that just like you! T'd have bet you did that. Well, kimep cen, son. It's good stuff, I guess." Her serious mood seemed to have passed, Sher wos presently exchanging tart repartee with the New York villains, who had perched in a row on the fenee to be funny about that long age hg holding of bunds | in the moter car. She was quite unem- barrassed, however, ag she Ebi eel the: hand with a final pat and sl ri bo the ground over the side of the car. “Cet busy, there!" sheordered. “Where's your understander? Where's your top meinter?' She hed become a circus ring- madter, “Three up and a fell for yours!" she commanded. The three villaina aligned themselves on the lawn. One climbed to the shoulders of the other and a third found footing on the They balanced there, presently to jean forward from the summit. The girl Played upon an imaginary snare drum with a guttural, throaty imitation of its roll, mitmanating in the boom of a bass drum ws the tower toppled ta earth. Ita units, completing their turn with somersaults, again. stend in line, bowing and arnirking rd acknowledgments for imagined ap- HUE, The girl, a moment later, was turning handsprings. Merton had never known thet actor were ao versatile, Tt was an astounding profession, he thought, remern- ae his own tration «ard that he had filled out at the Holden office. His age, height, weight, hair, eyes, and his chest and waist measures; these had been specified, aid then he had been obliged to write the short “No after ride, drive, swim, Aeitig tawcite “Ho” after * Ride?t* even in the artistically photographed pre ence of Huck Benaon on horseback! Yet in spite of these disabilities he was now a successful actor at am enormous sulary, Baird was already saying that he would soon aye a contract for him to sign at a still larger figure. Seemingly it was a profesabon in which could rise even if you were pot able te turn handsprings, or were nore oF lesa terrified by horas and deep water and dance music. And the Montague girl, who he now fer- vently hoped would not be killed while | doubling for Mra. Rosenblatt, was a pus | sling creature. He thought his hand must still be warm from her infalding of it, even when work waa resumed and saw her, with sunbonnet pushed back, stand wt the gate of the litthe farmhouse and behave in an utterly brazen manner toward one of the New York clubmen. She who had just | confided ta him that she was afraid of men | was now practically daring an undoubted | scoundrel to lure ber up te the great city | and muoke a ledy of her, And she had been | afraid of all but a clergyman and a stunt actor! Hewondered interested]y if shewere = W Merton Gill. She had seemed not. Ser OE= =e a. 22 ben On another day of long waits they ate their lunch from the ekenoa hex on the steps of the Gttle home and discussed stage Thames, “Tl gues we better con that Clifford Armytage ataff,” ashe teld him a she seri se munched a sandwich. “We don't it. That's out. Merton Gill is a lot hetter name.” She had asad “we quite as if it were a community name, “Well, if you think so ——" he bh regretfully, for Cliffard Armytage acl seemed so superior to the indistinction of Merten Gul. Still, the girl was wise In her trade, “Gore, t's a lot better,” ghe went on. | “That Clifford Anmnytage—aay, it reminds me of just another auch feckless dub as you | are that acted with us one time when we all trouped in a rep show, playing East Lynne and such things. Ile was just as wise as you are, and when he joined out at Kunsns City they gave him a whale beak of the piece instead of just his sides, He wus a quick study, at thneé, only he learned everybody's part as well as his own, and guilty of mere human | EVENING POST f | M@ssi Ose ar Pe The Letter You Might Have Written OF covese you thoughr of writing—rou even thewahe of what you would say. And haw your prompt little note of congratulation woull have been appreciate, But you didn't wrire. People whe haven't personal stationery nearly always “forget to write. The ones whe always remember to write have paper and en. velopes Wy it tend, Sock : ats See what a choice you have from which to select something that will exactly express your taste. Three finishes—linen, bond, and ripple. Eight sizes and aryles of envelopes, from square to long-narrow with novelty Aap. Sheets cut to fit. See this stationery at dru Stores, stationers, and department stores. The price is 35 ta 7§ cents. 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And he waa like you in another way, because his real name wae Eddie Duffy, and the lovely stage name he’ ‘d picked out was Clyde Maltravers.” “Woll, Clifford Armytage is out then," Merten ‘announced, Briere that he had now buried a part of self in a grave where ah Hose the wonder wort already lay interned. Still he was conscious of a certain relief. The stage "Ttain"t as if you hed a name like mine,” | name had been bothersonse. 1) the girl went on. “I simply had to have ee wonderod what her own name wag. He had never bears her called an og anything but but he aie and undignified ht the question he had looked fell, my honest-te-God name is Sarah Seven Montague: Sarah for ma and Nevada for Rene, where mia had to atop off for me—ehe waa out of the ai oi ta two weeke—and if you ever tell a sou the law on you. That was a fine Why He abuse a helpless baby, wasn't it?" “Tut cong is al gis L like Sarah." “To r patted his hand. “AML n “ht en but ft's only for your Bn tase. “Of course the Nevada "—he hesitated — “Tt dopa sound kind of like a legaon or something. Hut I think Fou Sarah—I mean when we're alone.” “Wall, that's more than ma ever docs, and you bet it'll ae a into my press notiees, Eat - ahead if you want to," “Twill, Sarnh. [It sounds more like a true woman than Fi Flips." “ Blew the child's heart!" she murmured, and reached arom the lunch bee to pat his hand agai “Voie a ca reat little patter, Sarah," be observed with one of his infrequent at- tempts at humor. On still another gerd while they idled bebween scenes, she talked to him abut salaries and contracts, again with her im- morbant air of mothering imi. “After this pietune,”” she tald him, “Jeff wae golng to sew you up with a long oe exHitract, robab at a hundred an TE, But I've told hima Plain I won't Binled | for it. No five-year contract, and net any contract at that figure. Maybe three years at two hundred and fifty; I haven't de- aided yet. Ll wait and see—she broke af te regurdd him with that old puzzling light tay back | in her eyes—" wait ates jet ki eb over in these two pieces, know you'll go big, and so dors Jef. We've caught you i the Fushes enough toe know that. And Jeffs a good fellow, but naturally bell get you for as little aa he can. Fe knows all about money ever if he don’t keep Yom Kippur. So I'm watching over you, son—I'm your man- ager, see? And [’ve told him so, plain. He AnOWws he'll haye ta give ya just what you're worth. Of course he's entithed to eonealderation for digging you up and iad veloping you, but a three-year contract will pay him out for that. ‘Trust mother." “Todo,” be told her, “I'd be helpless without you, It kind of seares me to think of motting all that money. I won't know whut bo do with it," “Twill, You always listen to me, and you Won't be camping on the lat any more, And don't shoot dice with these roughnecks on the lat." “IT don’t be- "T won't,” he asauwned her, lieve in garobling.” He wondered about Sarah's own salary, and was surprised te leare that it was naw double his own. It was surprising, because her raping wh senmed not ao important to the panet Ls “It seems like a bot of money for what yet have to do,” he said. here,” she smiled warmly, “didn't I alwi iyyssay you were a natural-born trouper? jak all ikis a bot af money for me; but, wou TT we bel pred Jeit dope mut both of these Aprit 1, iy pene. I'm not so bad at gags—T mean th ind of stuff he needs in these soriog dramas. This big scene of yours, where yo pect to off to the city and come back a wreck o, hristmas Eve—that's mine. I doped j out after the piece was started—after [', had a good look at the truck driver tha piers nonile you.” rack driver? Tt appeared that Mix eg wan eval applying this ter; to the New Yark societ sty air wht in privat life was burdened with an ailing famil, He explainel now that Mr. Bair here me comaldered her ideal for the part, but ha chosen her out of kindness. Again thes flickered far back in her eyes those ligh that baffled him. There waa incredulity j her look, but she seemed to master it. “But I think it waa wonderful of you he continued, “to write that beautl!: scone, Tt'sa atrong scene, Sarah. I didn knew you could write toa, It's as god : anything Tessie Kearns ever did, and she whitten & lat af strong scenes." Misa Mont seemed fo struggle wit some wnidentified emathon. After au lan puzzling gaze she suddenly said, “ Meric Gill, you come right here with all th make-sip on and give mother a good | Astonishingly to himself, he did go fn tk full ight of a under the eyes af o: of the New York villains who had been pr tending that he walked a tight rope — the vard. After le had kiseed the girl sl seized him by both arma and shook him. “T'd cought te have been wing my aa face in that aeene," she sald. en sl patted his shoulder and told him that | WHS & Food poy The preten “eh tight-rope walker he paused to apply “Your act’ ‘sa Hop ing, bo,” said BM Montague, “Work fast." Then she ara widressed the good - “Wait till sous watched that scene belore you thank me, she said shortly. “But it's a strong acene,"” he insisted. "Yes," she o ; it's strong.” He told her of the other imstance » Baird's kindness of heart. "You know, [wea a little afraid of pla: ing scenes with the crosseyed man, bi Mr. Baird anid he was syne BO ret oF serious work, ao [ wouldn't have b charged. Hut shouldn't you think, mo — up and have Lae cyan wireig ghiened ced he get a ver . The girl seem pain alae I eonficting emotions, but mastered them aay, “IT don't know exactly what it is, b T guess he draws down about twelve filty weak," “Only twelve dollars and fifty cents wel: hae “Twelve hundred and fifty," said tl girl firmly, “Twelve hundred and fifty dollars week!" This was monstrous, incredily " But then, whyrin the world doen't he ha his. eyes ——" Misa Montague drew him to her wi both her cnpable arms. on bey, my boy! she murmured, a is painted forehead she ae pe ng of dep reverence, “Run along at play," she ordered. “You're getting me i nerves. Forthwith she rovel to the center of yard where the theht- walker still dangered his life above the heada of a va aude, She joined him. She became a perform on the slack wire, With a parasol ta bi su her, she ran to the center of an ima inary wire that swayed perilously, and # aWwUng ey oe. Ther MAintaining 2 IM canous bolaaer: en she sped buck safety at the wire's ond, threw dawn h paranss, caught the handkerchief thrown er by the first performer and dainti towched ler face with it, breathing deep the while, and bowing. He thought Sarah waa a atrange child “One minute one thing and the next mi ute something ele," EVIT Mise Montague (res Her Owen fac Woe on the pines dragged to an en In these latter days the earnest vou lending man suffered spells af concern f his emplo cr. He was afraid that M Baird, in hie effort to struggle out ot slough of low comedy, waa not going ta wholly successful. He had begun to na that the actors employed for this purpa were not invariably serious even when © (Continued on Poge #1)

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[tentinged fram Page 78) cameras turd, or, if serious, sete, ert from the earnestness of their sfriv- oy for the worthwhile drama, to be a shade ete, They were often, he felt, over- enpiutic in their methods. Stil sess, he 1 Germ, actors. Che nid aay tell what they meant. it was at these times that he ly voted be might be allowed te view the sess. He not only wished to assure hin af foe Baird’ 6 eake that the piece would be soeptebly serious, but he wished, with a iteseniy curiosity, to view his own act- “~mteereen. It oeturred toe him that te bad bem acting a long time without o (iepat of himeclf, But Baird had been sqlaly frm in this matter, and the dauague girl had sided with hir. It was pst, they ne for o elbkey grec, rata a to a t alfeet his mead iat this had crystallized; make fe atetmcloos, artificial Howes obliged to believe that these well- coer of tis knew beet, He must not ew? & Boreen success that seemed ms- eed. He tried to be content with this equ Hot always the misgivings would stam He mowld not be really content oxi be had watehed his own triumph. cot this woke he so securely his privi mt sot ren Baird could demy it, for the sr piece in which he worked wha iat to beabown. He looked forward to ha [om thowind the end of the pieture that ip climacy with the Montague girl prew too pant whene, returning late from loca- Some studia, they would dine together. ‘Hurry und get un son, she mud ay; “you can take an actress out to Loner somtimes they would patronize the deere on the bet, but altener, in a spirit (aieotare, they would search out exctic rian. A picture might follow, after aie’ br street. car he would eacort her to oe Moetague hoome in a reevote flat region jd aln-ined avenues sparsely set with new poe , Sw would disquiet him at these tires by serq that she pay her share of the Pipes. and ahe proved to have oo menn ctfor petty finance, for abe remem veer fen deen to the street-car fares. feet Merton (ill she seemed very much (ad, eee she stepped [rom the cimein der tade She would stare into shop Endres gunderingly, and never failed to etoe the most ehildich delight when they retice! to dine at an suahilanineat other van a coleteria. Uti when they walted fora car afber tee daipationa he suffered a not wnpbeas- eign at sight of a large worded adver- —— uimg the back of a bench on ait. “tea Fornish the Girt, We Furnish the Home.” semeered the bench to him above oe ume of an enberp any credpeuna E cer in Hime to bite iteel! deeply inte his amor, Nemuneit would be abeurd, but stra “aps, he i lg cp had happened. e meted if the girl wna ae afraid of him sa loser men. She seemed not to be, but amakin't tell mach about her, She had cater, bet that been quite wablnay it fi be pi = Se fresemne of thn ped : hen be ; LB re her door now Ar utes after the ect sitimental of perha hard, a narhaie rata Fong — see atthe shove ehop it et on one icighke that she Fay wile’ Herr oie with Morten ned Sua might fo: get you on thas tele em ete boned,“ teu. they boespak gis ti einai, of maybe [ ec allie Ain" theme sis-fiyraresl Laz Anpeles nic bersthe benittT When Vou San jremaething, it svanda like Coe ar, Twas going to ask you Ms nogked n bogely miss of earnest | cabbage, a dag OU come emt 2 Ssnarne bagi f you? sie] moching dne-cooked up that will Se Gk) wade, Yeu can come Sw met Shen ee get in fran work” thy i Shatin the following wight he a “SET eveping with the Nlon- a Are Montague! Tad), Emad, cooked nets oy-ele, and had done it we ji: t. Montague offered at the wide i Cheers of amateur distillation ancl 1 Firs he anim bay recomimendecl fi geist, While the riusss tinsidly cots. criog Bond Enet the igthtess WE EWTI- TTL erent, ib develsnek thar the THE SATURDAY col in his product by the | d crafteman was notshared by | “Keep off it,” me warned, and gre to i her father, “Say, lis n, pa, have a i That boy's pot ta revi ‘teemorres. ina “So be it, my ehild,” replied Mr. Man- ve With a visible etifening af maser. | Vivester Montague ia not the man to | urge strong drink upon the reluctant or the overcautioua, I shall drink my apfrilif confidence peapaabia bis duugh hog alone,” “Co toe it, old pippin!” rejoined his daughter as she vankshed hed ta the kitehen, “SG0L, a lithe dash of liquor at this howr," tontinwed the lat sugpestively when they were alone, stayed "pr Merton wished the girl had Fhape just a few drops.” resin ¥, my a hae precisely, A mere He poured the mere dram and his guest | drank, It wasn ecolorlesa fiery stuff with an elusive teste of metal, Merton con- trived on oxpression of phere under the | wes ghunee of his host. ‘Ab, D knew pou would relish it! I faney Teould amaze you fT told yoo how recently it waa made. Now here"'—he grasped an- other bottle purposefully—"“is something a full ten dave older, It has evelopee quite a bouquet. Just a drop — The great arectounly yet firmly wWwaVeO a negation. Thanks,” he avid, “but I want to enjoy the last. It—it has so much flavor.’ | “Tt baa: ft has indeed! I'll not | you, of course. Later miuest see the simple mechanism by which I work these | wonders. Alone, then, I drink to you.” Air, Montague alone drank a two other fruite of his blown before the ladica appeared with dinner, He was clean-shaven mow, and his fine face glowed with hospitality az he carved roast chickens. The talk was of the ehop: ol what Mr. Montague seornfully called grind shows when his daughter led it, and of the legitimate hall chow when be reguined the jeadership, He believed that moving pictures had sounded the knell of true dramaticart, and suid soin many Ways, He tied te imagine the sensations of Lawrence Barrett or Louis James could they beheld Sylvester Montague, whem beth these pentiensen had prochaine) te le no mean artist, enacting the role of a har. | room rowdy five days on end by reclining | upon & aawdust floor with hia back sup ported by a spirits barrel, The suppositi- hows comments of the two placed upon thee motion-ucture industry the black guilt of | having chegraded a sterling artist to the | level of a pee mintehank. “They were frankly disgusted at the apertache, and thelr a Sin igre thoxighit if as well that they had met actually lived to Witness it—even the happier phases of this sqecalled art in which @ mere chit of a girl might carn a living wage by falling down- stairs for a star, or the he-doil whippersnapper—Merton Gill flinched in eplte of himael!—could name his own salary for merely possescing a dimpled chin. Fur- | ther, an artist in the so-called art received | hia p ent as if he had delivered groceries | at one's back door “Tou, I believe" * the speaker addresasd is guest “are at present o = pay roll; but there are others, your o =~ Possibly i your betLers, though fda not say that —" | “Vom better moti" raaariend hia dinagh= | ter, only to be ignored, H '"—— othera who must wor a day ancl | at the eloge of fit recelye a ali aper em- blazoned ‘Talent Pay Clec Ais ow nore effectively could they cheapen the good word “tilent’? snd at the foot of this alip | WOU are to sign, before receiving the Pittanes you have eurned, 2 Fesranelit to the | public rx ibition, for the ‘PIT Poe of trade or advertising, of the Ieainea te whieh you may have posed. Eould tridewnen de svend to a lower level, I ask el “T'll have one for twelve-ti ty bienorrow | night,” said Mrs. Montague, not too dis | maliy. “Tl got te dog duchess at a recep | tion, and IT hoyr my feet don't hurt me Fi Siac at tld dears! Frets’ soe fon ul can both p aur parte,” ehir their daughter. ik yo suing to give me a con- tract, and then you can forever for all I care. Only I know you won't, and you know you won't, Both of you'd act for nothing if you couldn't do it for money, What's ie wee of pretending t” Pa ea c AL he right; she TL [ots right,"" ed Mr. Montague sally. : cao rp the Llies were agnin im the Kitehen, Mr. Montague, after miggesting | Ln. eee ee EVENING POST ae “Ihe Winthrop’— You never pay more for Berkey & Gay qualiey—often less—than for makes of unknown worth, As striking evidence of this, foremost furniture. stores invite you to see this Puritan dining suite. In it is reflected the spirit of the May- flower, The sturdy honesty, the simplicity, the insistence upon genuine gockiness that characterized the Puritan home. Native oak, typical of the period, ts the wom) used—embellished with walnut anid fancy ash burls, Mfouldinis, carvings, anc turnings are softly fashioned by handel. Mellow coloring suggests generations of loving usage. During April, “The Winthrop” is fearured ina nation-wide quality demonstration, Its special value creates a buying opporruniry Che Arockures, deeriing "The Nitra ard otter Berkey Ef Gay Furniss, together cn aun of iéaren deaier, sewk eer request, Benker A Gay Foerasittone Compan 410 Monroe Avenue Crand Rapids, Michigan Seae Perk Aaolrrarie Shotoro, BO Mer ¢0n8 Aree | ee ee BERKEY & GAY ‘Furniture A Demonstration Value 2. = of rare rrEcrest, ee Phin etetio rk im inert bowery Markey Sia erorien. Tt is ber Piet tee ere Pied er laying cmd hile praSe euep aires ——— eS eS ee ee | | -=T- a =

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Then, after lighting his pipe, he identi- fied various framed pee raplea that #4- livered the walls of the little room. Many of them were of himeelf at an earlier age. “My dear mother-in-law,” he said, point- ing to another. “A sterling artist, anel in her time an ornament of the speaking mage. T was on tour when her last days came. She idolized me. and passed away with mv nan on her lips. Eler last request wes that Am pot ph of me shicrbal toe ; laced in her p hefore it went to ite final resting- plaice. j He paused, his emotion threatening to overcome him. Presently he brushed a» hand across hia eyes and continued: “I dis eoverod later that they had picked out the Tost wretched of all my photographs—an atrocious thing I had supposed waa de strayed. Can you imagine it?" Apparently it was but the entranee of hia daughter that suved him from an alfect- ing collupse. His daughter removed the reordef ohn MeCullough's ravings, sniffed al it and put a fox trot in its place, “He's got to leam to dance," she ex plained, laying hands pen the pct, “Dancing—danelng!" murmured Mr. Montague, a8 Hf the very word recalled aad Tecra. “You forget all about your feet," re | marked the girl as they paused, senying to the rhythm, “Remember the feet— they're important in a dance. Mow!" But tt was hard to remember hia feet. or, | when he did recall them, to relate their movements even distantly to the music. | When this had died despairingly the girl | manager, nearly murdered | wings? | gettul,” said Mr. Montague, RUrve her goupil with friendly that doubting eyes. “Say, pa, doo't he remind you of some one? member that squirrel that joined out with us one time in the rep show and left East Lanne tint in the middle of the third act while he went down and an= nounced the next night's ee ane that his name was Eddie Dufly and he called himself Clyde Maltravers?"™ "Ing way ina way,” agremd Mr. Mon- tague diam ly. “A certain lack of finish in the manner, perhape." “Remember how Charley Dickman, the im for it in the Neat that Charley didn't have a right to. Well, thie bey dances like Eddie Dufly would have danced.” “He was wideniably awkward and for- f "Well do I recall a later might. ¢ played Under the Gaslight, Charley feured to trust him with o purt, ao he kept the young man off slage to help with the train noise when the dewn express should dash across, But even in this humbirstation he proved inefficient. When the train camé on he become con- fused, seized the caconut shella instead of the sandpaper, and our train that night entered to the sound of a galloping horse, The effect must have boon "beri to the Mince. Indewt, Tiny af them seemed to consider it luclicrous. Charley Dickman confidesd inmelater. “Syl,my boy," says he, “this bird Duffy haa cau my firat gray hairs.” Tt was little wonder that he per- bed young Duliy bo abandon the dara. He was a cdever dancer, but not meant for the higher planes of our art. Wow our young friend here"—he pointed to the perspiting Merton Gil{"deeen't even germ aide bo mutter a simples dance step, [ might say that he seems to out-[uily Druffly, for Draffy could dance." “He'll make the grade yet,” replied his daughter grimly, and ogain the musle sunied. Allerton Gl eantinged unconscious of his feet, or, remembering them, became den to the music, Hut the giel boightened with Lanudden thought when west they rested, | mobail!” she announced, “We'll have about two huedced feet of this for the next picture—vou trying to dance just the way you been doing with me. tf you don't elpes £ a good hand Tl eat my next pay CAME. That bessscns consed. Bho seemed mo longer to think tt desiratie that ber pupil sheuld April i, s become proficient in the modern atepa. was puzzled by her decision. Why sly ane af Huird’s serious plays nerd gn a whe forgot hia feet in a dance? ~ There were more seclal evenings ot Montague home. Twice the gathering enlarged by other members of the eolony, @ supper was served and p pil for inconsiderable stakes. In gare of chance the Montague girl to be conservative, not to aay pie tk was Made to sufler genuinely when Mae Cuil cis nifed. a reckiess spirit im the apt That he amameed winnings of min eight centa one night did not reaasure She pointed out that he might easily | lost this sam. She was, indesd, being a mother ta defenseless gis It was after this g bling session that she demanded to ber ap what he was doing with hie sa’ lis careless hazarding of poker chips cused her toe be fearful of his gen money sense, Merton Gill had, indeed, been mech He was mow, he felt, actually one of Hollywood set, He wonde how Ti sirns would rd his progress, It was a gay life, Merton felt. Am for the Montague girl's questions ane ings about his money, he would showr Ho had, of course, discharged hia det her in the first two weeks of hia work Boird, New he would show ber tha really thought of money. He would her a gift whose presentation ahead & a certain great occasion, It should a on the eve of his screen début, and w fittingly testify his gratitude, For the after all, had made him what he wos, the firat piece wae close te lta prem Already he had seen advance notices fa newspapers, "The piece was called Hi on Fire, and in it, so the notices anid comedy manager hod at lost romlizer ambition long nourished. He had a aomething new and aomething bigs « thing dom in a big way. The Mont ee see that the leading mam done so much toe insure the succes Bainl's siriving for the worthwhile di waa net wnforgetful af her favors and tinusus sclicitude. He thought first of a ring, but aco blank brick wall of the jewelry shop he elected to patronize was an enormous in white: he House af Lucky Wed Rings. This staring announcemeni alarmed him that he not only aband the plan for a& ring—any sort of ring = be misconstrued, aiw—but in a of caution chose another establishmer— ao gutspoken. If it kept welding n= all it was derently reticent about and it did keep a profusion of other kets about which o possible recipient ¢ entertain n@ false notions. Wrist wut for example, No one could find subt hidden meanings in a wrist wateh. He choge a bauble that littered pre on its black silk bracelet, and waa shocked in the lenst when t by engaging galesman that ita price w zum for which in the old cays Gash heal demande] a goml ten weeks of life. Inaeed, if seemert rather cheap ta when he remembered the event it w ctlebrate, Stl, it wae a pleasing to fle did not book cheap. "Do you warrant it ta keep pom! tin ha sternly demandes, The salesman beeame diplomatic, an @ect of genial man-te-man frank “Wall, I guess vou sine I both eva = women's bracelet watches are.” He sn a superiag masculine amile that drew customer within the informed brotherk “Now here, there's a platinum little ¢ that coaie seven hundred and fifty this one you like will keep just as as that one that costs six hundred mn Whit could be fairer than that?” 4 All right," suid the customer, take: at." During the remaining formalities tending the purchase the saleiman, serving that he dealt with a telerant af the world, became even franker. “CH course no one,” he remoarked pp antly while touching the purchase chaste bed of white satin, “gor preeta Why bracelet watches to keep time—not the women.” “Want em for looks,” avid the custa Von ya hit it? You've hit iF" claimed the sulesman delightedly, os if tusbamer had expertly probed the hen a world-old mystery. [TO BE CONCLUDED |

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| i a ae — ee ey oe rae a a rey A ere ee : Fe — [ak abt oe = a te eet = a ilo fot —— S a 2 es * aera Bie ak ae “F ti oe aoa THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Only Motor Cars Which Embody Lincoln Standards of Precision Manufacture The things which give true greatness to the LINCOLN are things not easily discerned by the casual observer, but they are things which become increasingly evident as time goes on. The eye alone cannot detect, for example, whether a certain part is accurate to the one-thousandth of an inch or only to the one-hundredth part, yet an error so slight asa half a thousandth, in some operation essentially so accurate, would determine whether that part be destined to early destruction or to many years’ unfailing service. And that difference of a half a thousandth of an inch is equal only to a fifth the thickness of a hair. In the Linco.tw there are more than 5,000 mechanical operations which are not permitted to deviate from a mean standard to exceed the one-thousandth of an inch; more than 1,200 operations in which that deviation is not permitted to exceed a half of one one-thousandth; and more than 300 in which it is not permitted to exceed the quarter of one one-thou- sandth. There are operations on eight parts in which even that fine limit is reduced. Tt would be possible to produce an ap- parent counterpart of the Liwcoin car, like it in every detail so far as could be detected by the eye alone, and that counterpart could be marketed profitably at half the Liwcoin’s selling figures. But the seeming counterpart would not be a Lincoin in its character, because the very elements which largely constitute that character would be lacking. Differences in standards of precision largely determine differences in production costs. Lixcotn standards of precision neces- sarily mean greater cost of manufacture, but the dollars so invested pay handsome dividends to the owner of the car. _ These dividends express themselves in the more charming action of the Lracotn, in the way it rides and drives, and guides and glides, and coasts and climbs; in the way it moves, and acts, and feels. They express themselves in its greater stamina and longer life, and in the more . dependable, more constant and more con- aistent service enjoyed by Lincoin owners. LELAND-BUILT LINCOLN MOTOR COMPANY TETRGOT, Sale ee, BAA

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Ask for FREE PROOF that You can Hear the tiny voices of children and the Sermon and Music of Church Services Twenty Pras ipo, we acloqitect the policy af uri Taj evcry one whee 19 hardeotshearifye Eo Brat the Aonusrionn in the home or che offices, aenad Farnilior surroundings for ten davs, with the privikege of returning it at the end af that persod. ‘Chis to le cntingly ateur expense with carrying changes paid, arad reqwubring mo abeposit or other lagation. The practice has continued without ranaton, because we realmee that there are rare cases of ieafness (perhepa two our of (ON) which no sti- ficial and, mo marcer how effiesen it mar be, can possthly redewe, Hounclreds of thawsancds have token advantage of this offer to prove fuse what ic would de for them personally, ancl the results have warranted #2 continu- anor of this practice, Lawyers and physicians have testified that only with the Accusticon can ther canting in their profrasiuns— Prominent members of boards of directors frankly admit that it is casential te their participating properly if direcnars' Meetings Mothers have written thar without it they would have been weable to Keow that ther children under. aaa | checir marherdy Ci PE CERO ital advier; aftal wen lel even have been deprived af the joy of hearing their hitlke ones” Voices. Permit ae to again orgently invare you or any af your fnends who are hard-ot-hearing, po request 10 Days’ FREE TRIAL of the 1922 Acousticon No Deposit—No Expense—No Obligation Int additios to the Ferious cypea of pormble Acousticons for personal use, the Church Acoustivom has been quieely working irs way po hagh faver in the churches of very dienorcunaiean throupheud the country, until et i now inedalled in ever Pwo ¢hertanil, This equipment has enabled many co bear and partiapate Charch servaces for the hest dime in many years, bo ther pratheation and ta ihr irl aracdiad chucrete’s profit, Here, again, the sant generows selling policy is practiced, for we furnish che cquigment tn oany ¢harch angewbere in the Linigec! States for tempers installation and free ertal dor foeecka, Nut a cent of expense i invodved, emcepe the nominal cose of having a local elecrrician face che parce and run the wires. Any electrical worker can do chis semple work in a dew hours, (ine Pascor lias wrieten: “From che poane of view of the deaf person, ic is a godsend, We have many persons in his conprepgatinn wha omakl mat hear stall, hot, wath ¢her Anweatioon, they riew hear perfecely ane ane delipben! with de. ladeed, are ee greeetil foe tt thar ghee have offered po hear the expense of ins bur cur Board hea caken pleaeare in funmishong ac tree." Let No One Convince You but Yourself We honesrly beliewe thar the 1922 Acousricos is che eeose efficient hearing devier oltain able; thar our consetent aed eapert efert bas woccerideal in Reepeng at a hitle im advance of any ents fekl, ancl ee ante, cheat et shall cuntinuc ta be ao. LE, however, voy learn uf annther ihatrumenk whisk prunes os gine or beteer feaults, gek For ele same) beer rial elag than we: er, and COMPAS thet Peo 1 Sour oA home. We shall be ere happy fu diac you Chome the one @bich suirs your indmidnal meecds best, arel return the other, Lea neo one convinco: wou bat verre, : Please remember, Rerarever, chat che haste primceples ef the Arsescicon, as well as ins refinements, are fully peebeehed hy patents; sme othe whae Woo howe Erte! in the last, sere] for your Free trial ed the 1422 Acwastioon today anid learn, without cost, or Gblipasion, whether 1 oanll bear sulin pear particular needs. DICTOGRAPH PRODUCTS CORPORATION 1395 Candler Bldg., 220 West 42d St. New York City Branch offies in pelecipal cities, Ask fer addiresser. April t,t | _ L’ALOUETTE, OR SILKEN | VENGEANCE (Continaed fram Page 75! he was saying, Mr. Kidder did not even yet ' notlee the expression of dumb and dreadful ny on the fer peross the counter, | "We'll be off!" he cried Uehtly. “We'll | be off! " wult, Gond-bay, We're aff fo Honolulu!” quoted Mr, Kidder, inserting in his remark, as is often done by orators, a bit of favorite Ver. “Ott Qe our last tip!) With war mil- lian! Of ——" he anid, mow looking up | and observing for the first time the face of | his companion. : “ie | “Ye'll not hove to wait for thot!" said a new, high and tetally unexpected voice | behind him, “Ye'll net hove to walt for million—to enjoy the pleasures of yer last wnd final trip!" suid a alow, bitter and exoeedinghy Scotch voles. “ Not ofter what T'll be writin’ yer house this afternoon!” Turning marphy, Mr, Kidder now ob- served the eaaily irritated junior partner appearing from behind the corer of the hangin G nluy of ladies’ underwear at the counters end, behind which he bad appar- ently been concealed. "Not after I've written to them—ta my old friend, Mr. Laughlin—yer bos in yer sules department! Ye'll hove to walt no more when I write and explain te him yer full intentions. ‘Yer full intentional” con- tinued Mr. Dundee, carrying on the burden af the conversation entirely alone. “Yer plans and specifications for yer last trip— and the gude ‘twill na daubt do yer ir-T-Tr. “Ver conversations aleo," regumed Wir. Dundes, continuing to round owt bis theme | and outlining his prospective letter to Mr. Kidder’s superlar more sige Ee bi yer employers. And yer observations on their ceustomers— the retallera of this lend — what doge and wore than dogs they are! And ver philanderin's with their employes also," he said, and stop for breath white both his hearers preserved a stony ilence. “Tn seesiness hours!’ On Monday mornin!" he continued for good measure. “"Todl] be a lsson ta ye—and all auch cattle like ye! Se now be off with yel™ he called to the #tlll silent Mr, Ricker, “Be off with ye—you and yer Aloucttes! * And you, yeh i he satel, mere burn ing the flow of his irritation toward his assiatant buyer. “Get to yer work—with- out more ado! Or yell follow ofter him!” “This young Jady ——" began Mr, Kidder. “The least said the sooner mended,” re- plied Mr. Dundee, “This voung lady had nothing what- ever —=-" attempted Mr. Kidder once in. “The devil's a poor ativorcate for his cliente!" aald the junior partner, Grasping the situation, with a look at ‘lis Sth s back, which was now turned to Kim, Mr. Kidder started slowly toward the door, the ewaly irritated partner ob- serving him closely. ; aoe ‘“Gend-by ta ye," be said with intense ing. “And all hoppiness—on yer last trigh! To these words re anaes made na reply, passing directly aut of the entrance a Foe, Nevertheless, al] that day they were never gheent from hia mined. [t was u dark, melancholy, unsucersstul doy. He returned early to the Grund Cecilental Hotel, where he wie stopping, and sank down into one of the strong chaire in ther lakibey. Pas The Inst trip! said Als. Kidder, wiping his foreland. His faculties were dulled, his speech wos thick. His mind tefused te pecpll the exact detaila of his conversation with Mie Luella B, Smith, which Mr. Drndee had averhenrd., “The lust trip! repeated Mr. Kidder huskily, and reeumedl the contemplation af his conversation and his rebeagranl of bis dream—that fond, foolish, fatwous dream, that favorite fatry tale of so mony to-day af what woukd happen to their employers, tustemers and other business enenties if they only had a million dollara! He sat silent, staring, drumming upon his chair um. Then suddenly he laughed a caustic, tntter long. E : im “| ean fall back,” he said with a gha mockery of mirth, “upon my million!" Life had never seemed darker to than at this moment! And now rising heavily from his ¢ he asked the hotel clerk for his key. ““Waortiiniy, siz,” said the hotel el “Certainly, Mr. Kidder, And here! letter for you, sir." Tt was a letter redirected from his bh addres in New York: a business le evidently, with a typewritten addy Opening it and reading it Mr. Kidder g a omsa#iden inarticulate ory, and aln direpped it from his fingers, abeing it agwin, he real as follows: Lie ANGELES, Clif. October 2B, 192 Ma. Justin Coatsworti Rint, ii —— Street, pe eet ' if ipleaant duty te Font: If evar me form yoo of the death of your uncle, Bir. Tm Cheteworth, which took face in this cif his apartments in the El Splendinec Herta tho 2eth of thie month, By his will, now in our poasesalon, hia p erty — whith is estimated as somewhat in cia oe millbon dollare—paases to you a nomeaake ond ace heir. Will you kindy communicate with uw your early convenience your wishes jin mutter? Assuring you of aur dealze to serve you 7 every facility at our commund, ¥e are, Your ohedient serrantn, Srappoa & Fotken, Atk’ ya at La rrr OLDING this letter in hie hand Kidder sat jn his room in the rE Oerdental Hotel, staring ut the wull, 4 veruing from thme to time with the sti radiator. "Tt ign't truel I don't believe itt” said to it for the thousandth time. “WY all Chose others!" 1 Yet there it was in black and wk right in bis own hands, “From his cog torneys,” gald Mr. Kidder, rereading B And now at last a new expression to grow upon his face, replacing the and happier confusion that had been a. harder, sterner, more confident loo “ doralif that'aeo,” he and, and sats thinking heavily, while the new xpress ) continweuly upon hia face—— ™ look a confidence and power—“'why ~ do it now? Bight mew! Epfore [ be-— teen!” he rensoned half aloud. Ee thought now, tensely, without coum "No: that won'tdo. Not" lee gabd sew times, shaking his bead at the radiator, But gradualiy hia thinking Hike po . From time te time a sub cruel smile grew upon his lips; and g deny with an at ation of delight sprang upon is feet. “L Alouette!" he cried, and la alowd. “I'll show the world!" be cri the radiator ina tone of active and ff cious gayety. ‘ Ard now after o litth: further they he teak and opened! a small mernorand beok from his vest pocket, walked aca the room and asked for a number on telephone, Having secured it be asked the questi¢ “Ts Miss Smith there? Will you let speak to her? “You know whe this is, don't yout" inguired then in that low, confident secret tone so often used by young on experianced in talking with members of opposite sex aver the telephone. “List hae'd you come out with him?" "Qh, all right, finally!" replied the we of Nie: Sanith. “Tm gure glad of that,” responded ] Kiider. "Tt wasnt what you'el call an ey € exactly,” suid Misa Sauth’s voice, givin short wutline of it. “The old crook!" said Mr. Kidder at closing, in his low, sympathetic, alm crooning telephone vores “T certainty sorry for sturting it! Bay, lizten," he aa alighthy changing the conversation, want toe wk yb & question—about wy know-whoe! Look, if he sbeays prowl around the store? Tan't he ever hack th in his own office?” “He ia—certain tines." * Alone?" (Continued en Page 87)

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Be | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 1, Ff [ei | ANNOUNCEMENT pertsmen will be glad toknow less expensive ones, offer acom- which for half a century has Mthat there ig now a complete plete range for all fresh water studied and satisfied the require- line of Winchester fishing tackle. fishing ments of sportsmen, qi here are 140 styles and sites @LA god assortment of spoon There are 4000 Winchester of Winchester rods, including and plue baits; lines, sinkers, ard Stores in the Lnited States which haribo arid stecl ily rods, bani otheraccessories, roundsout 'imn- ai ll We dina hester Toi kle arid other ress, and bait casting rods, chester fishermen's equipment. new products, Look for chissignon qi inchester reels, including Litis sufhcient to sayof che qual- the window: The Winchester Stare. single, double arid quadmiple Pitas iby af these proklucts that they @] Ask vLE. The Write stet More It tion, from the highest erade jew- bear the name “Winchester”, and your neighborhood for a pocket eled-bearing types to the simpler, aremade hythesamecorganization -catalog om Wine hesrer cockle, WINCHESTER BRUPEATING ARMS CO, NEW HAVEN, CONN, | rooLs POCR ET AN D Kt T | GUNS : Db AM MUN LT Ton:

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pwttned fram Poge #4) ‘He's alone there noontimes,” said Miss tnith, “almost albways— = there looking at for the far depart “The fur depertacane?® rs repeated Wr. inla th then: are aut for een be looks out for it. That's night owt e frent of loa private office!" “Way over there?" stated Mr. Kidder. “At ont aide? Back of that second show rodew?™ “That's right. Where they've got our odersear displayed," said Miss Smith, eirming him. “ Why?" io And vou say bes there all alone noon- rw? “Hea, yes. Almost always; but why?” Ob, nothing.” You arent golng to start anything egg?” gale) the Volo of Miss Smith a mk eudegsly, “You aren't t going in there > beat pr Up oF anything “Oe Nothing like hat replied . Eider. ~ Bapcman if you cht “(0h om,” s papeniel Mr. Kidder, with a ehomncal on in bia voles. “I'm en a change in the diry-poods Wiat change?" asked the voice of Miss Ses sharply. : : 4 peat change. An innovation. A ae Gerk-doen ay I'm going bo shart B Tee custom. te grin to have a real omg ey ye] ey ait wine peduced poo. I'm going to tell the truth for once in the shoe owe: of thia nation,” said M: Bidder somewhat oraborical “Ge es Tell mel" she as struck ‘tans by a certain grim tone underlying be ig cearenthy light words, ict with this partial explanation she lozod che rout content herer For now Mir FP cgenlbone pood-by pres finally hung a it bet “Ther 'gone nice litte girl. I'll do sorme- tog lor her some day!" said Mr. Kidder, brakes kz hair and looking over hia nee my the miro.

Horag done this he put on his het and carted below to the lobby of the hotel, eum be stepped up briskly te ok o quaten af the night elerk. The sight porter personally?" said the rap ark, pointing. “You'll find him in gg mal his directio Passi back ralicney A, ng ss che ovinging door, Mr. Kidder oj tee in the severe. hattered and siirokel dose-emelling that led from ine erway to the service elevator, and in tht peace of the night porter—a tall, berry punched man in overalls, with a sae eoplexion that gave the BP Pearance { poe bt on strength—al a tne abparmal t Lo a me Ge under the electric lights L rget." sald the might porter, ex- —= tee bi carefully before he placed [Sh rowers pocket. “Shoot! What = 7a want?" fcc Me Etdder told him briefly in a cae kis miion. i owe past the man for you," said the i porter, spitting to one side very aesedy, “For ary igus bucks he'd Kidder, gi od the first time 6 in the Heathcote Peniten- “th that right?” said Mr. Kidder with Wt He's probably out here in the . = a fargg Di snidl then ht porter, apf eng e whistled ahrilly into the te gikor, me a large head and shoul. a above the raised plattorm wma whith tke busses discharged thelr “rack a thr level of the floor on which itr. Kite and the night porter were stand- ~<a a short_eanverstion their = ap something of thar ry on, Mr. Kinder felt, ofa bed on on its Sef |S 25 ecearun. go tuck larger man, Mr. Kidder watt, than wren the Large, soft 7s anhealthy- = night porter, but quite differant, Pm Fil fave you pinks er" Ou Sal peo Bi “ta Frame it ‘ar heer Don't let them shouatrs he left thee alone Se bare aed bartered service hall, and ©* Eideer tamed to impart his == wand fal into the face of his possi le ees Who had now removed his derby “ood watching him, bis extremely THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 87 short upper lip wtill withdrawn over his amall widely spaced teeth, ot his pleased Ener of the wlght porters parting eat He had one of the largest frames and without dowbt the raundest head that Mr. Kidder had ever geen, and a hand like a small shovel, “Sit down, chief," he said, pushing Mr. Kidder ronan with it upon the narrow oaken bench of the night porter before the servien tlevater, “Shoot it, What's on your chest?" He had a small, round, somewhat bia shot eye in his exceed ¥ round head, moist, outatanding, shin ning wader lip a a highly sorneniet brow, sanrevine the mickarg ha 2 w doubtiul, puzzled, but al- t won his ready ferority Mr. Kidder noted un- Pasig evidences of one of the courser | types of alcobalic liquors, “Goon, chbef," he urged in a heartiness always bordering on a threat. “Set it owt! What is it?” “You're married—are Kidder finally in a somewhat hesitant voice. The strong and criminal friend of the hight porter looked up at these words as if more thin usally suspicious, and looked down when satisfied they were asked in entire good faith. “Ina kind of way Tam!" he said, “Yes, Tam,” said the friend of the night porter, deciding to speak definitely at last. NT tell you why I asked id 'T you why I asked you," said Mr. Eidder And looking wbout he now related his Propoeal in low tones—the effect of patient, wary and always painful ‘ht markin always deeper corrugations in forehead across from him as he did so, When Mr. Kidder had completed ne is hearer was still silent, a ently still aecupied with the alow of his thought. “What la it?"* aa Mr, Kidder Gnally. “As far aa I go," he ar like a man before a Etenthg problem, “what the hell do I care?” “pure, said Mr, Kidder encouragingly. “T'll take a clears tei man, Up to the chair!" snid the dinghy rowumd- headed muan roudly, staring far ahend, still thinking, wit ast audible crunching of the jaws. “T got that,” gaid Mr. Kidder, “the minute I saw you!" “But I kind of hate to drag the old woman into this!" continued the friend of the night porter who had been so often in the patients. But finally Mr. Kidder fined it up with ' TARING out the o door of this private office Mir. Dundee, the easily irritated junior partner, gazed out upon the fur department, now, during the noon hour, empty even. af its ‘tte dew remaining at- tendants, and thought with regret and irritation af the busy scenes that would have been going on there even at this time two, three or four yeara before. As he watched, his eye suddenly grew Tight and sharp and reminiscent at the night of two heavy figures—male and fe- ale—wan serie: St on cautiously and fur- tively inte linr surroundings, It seemed at firat impossible; but Mr. Drn- dee, staring anxiously, gaw that lt was true, "What can Ido for you, madam?" aaid Mr. Drhndee AuETTInE out of his offices, rubbin his deferential | hands, “Ta here where they keep the furs?" asked the extremely large woman, looking around. “Tt is, madam, yes. Yeu," said Mr. Dundes, with inerensag arnlability "The real good ones?" asked the giant- eas in the rusty cloth coat, looking at the ere af pendent garments on their ‘the finest in this part of the country, roa‘am,” suid the junior partner, “There's no collection west af “Bring them on then!" interrupted the round-headed giant with the corrugated i speaking finally. “Let's have a ook “Yea, sir, Yea, madam!" said the ex- tremely affable junior partner with a gay thing ti Hoe what will it be? Some thing like this? We want ‘something gaod, under= stand!" said the Tike, eRe ning it with warn and stubby fingers, “W We aot eur money right here wlth us te poy ein (Cottiened on Page #9)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Hotels Statler Buffalo - Cleveland - Detroit - St. Louis Keeping You Happy at Meal-Time ape M. STATLER—being one of o series of embodying instructions to Statler employees. HE way you're served by your waiter and his helper (called a “bus boy") can make or mar your meal. The best of food, perfectly prepared, actually tastes better if it is properly served, by someone interested in the service, than it otherwise can. That’s why we are always emphasizing to our waiters that our reputation is in their hands. A waiter who is careless or forgetful or negligent or slovenly can take all the good taste out of the food he serves you, and most of the pleasure out of your meal. We won't have that kind of waiters. In a first-class hotel you pay for first-class service, as well as for first-class food. You're entitled to it, and your waiter knows it. It is with those facts in mind that we issue to the waiters and bus boys in our hotels instructions like those you see in the columns below: April |, Instructions to Waiters and Bus Boys in the Statler-Operated Hotels a HE waiter who has ability to - people has something that is v luable to Bice aten'tag “Tf you haven't that ability, or if you don"t habitually make the most of it, you are not only earning less than a good waiter should, but you are, at the same time, hurting our reputation. “When we say that our guests must be satisied with the treatment they get in our dining rooms, as well as with the food ne ay we menn that they must be €0. If you can't please the person you are serving, get your captain on the job. “We don't want anybody to leave one of our restaurants feeling thal, minor an- and you ought to want him to be glad to come back fo you, See that he does. “Remember that good service is never fussy, but is always interested and watch- ful and careful. “Take care of the diner and the tip will take care of itself. You can’t keep most from tipping when they have had good, and intelligent service; but people are learning to proportion their tips to the quality of service they get. “No waiter can stay with us who does rd thank our guests for whatever tips peas? ee him. The best walters say as - ial a thank-you for a small tip as for a large one—and they find it a good thing to kee “pon doing, A business stands or falls by what its policies are, and how they are carried out; the Codes explain our policies fully. “Courtesy to all guests, under all cir- cumstances, is an obligation of yours and of everybody's who works in these hotels —and so is courtesy to your fellow- employees. “Whatever has been your practice, in other places where you have worked, we have our own way of doing things and our own way of serving ple. It will pay you to things our way instead of some other way. Your detailed instructions about how to serve a meal, how to wait on a party, and so on, will give you many hints; study them.” novances marred his meal; and that's the way you ought to feel, We want him to “You must follow the instructions in wey feel that he will be glad to come back to we— ce The Statler Service Codes to the letter. A mere Hoel Sather | 1100 rons, 1600 baths) i onw bulking at Befimio—io open ie the apring ed 192%) MMi more rooms will be aaldied! Later. ote ics Pennsylvanile Opp. Pennsylvania Terminal, New York, (The Largest Hotel in the Wor

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‘Teitaeed fear Page &f! “Bow much is that one?" asked the seocie giant close beside her. “Four hundred dollars." “Say, book—is that the beat you've pot ethie dump? aeked the giant in tones of ee suffering from an almost nauseating eas al anger and insult. “eh, es gad Na, at, ae the Junbor ertoer Wit grateful LUT Dl APR, ft a too to be true, railing back to the happier, brighter pty = the fur trade, Ga om. Get them out then. Drag Sern gt! mad the eanly cuba (miant a the busy, Ingrutiatin oae une — “Let's see tl the beat. 'T ae shee met plieas;"* said the Thos way. w a foie partner, maleate busily in bis aad, With a happiness he had not felt before in two years; and he led them over to the teritery of the thogsand-dollar sa upward—in the farther corner the department. The fort of the giants vad heavily der een erro the empt how incl gs Mr. bom, We ing me toe lange ng garment—"t gp 0 foe Alaska seal, for twelve—mno, She: bumdred dollars! Fifteen—yeal"’ ed Mr. Dundee, looking at the secret e-of con the tag again. “Fifteen hun- <0 — aoe this the best they is in the whole niace’ “ aeoed the giant, crowding on him fee bebied, with one large hand upon the jek ae ~The very beat?" inquired the giantess, eeveoning him on the other side. “The tery best, sir! Yea, madam!" said Wr Dundes, looking up sharply inte the teat evagely serious fares we him, “Euceot, of course, sable. Thee fees of the giants, especially of the errguted-browed male—setared down sus- pescy and menacingly over him. “The very best—encept for sable! The very — ies! ‘Ths let Pty act = Mr. rear ae rigeg eideniy, partially enveloped in the pommect, with his mouth and the ere portion of Kis face below his eyes eos eccey covered by the male giant's base Tie Gmale giant stepped aside with o cot f ewiey et her mate. “To on be Fang aioe now," be told woe, “Well take care of this!" _ hee one tering his strained eves Mr. Tromim, the junior partner, saw emergi tra tod podisd the circular exhibite of fo where it apparently been waiting, te fhe ond elegans dressed figure of itr Miter, Beem epparenth carrying some paste ord pcurds ehich he had in his hand— i= =4 peat euch of is used for rolling = “a ep Teg bed kim = there," he wae saying me geet, “HT get them ready. Give Set fie more air if he needs it,"" ho == Segetially. “He'll promise to ee Wont yout” he inquired of =e, the junior partner, prom-

is. “a 1 even. i minutes afterwards that tygaretie smokers and fe moon hour observed Hon OG Ten arranging a Sete manikin among thoar Gein the display of ladies’ fe bandecme accond alow ~Fraether & Co. Bevidently skilled men: they fy and sharply; and in a ep mort — thoy had eom- ee of settin cal 2 ihe pear of the window, and s=f ig Sy short strings about and ope wee a: EF placards, for the time meg Set with their backs toward the up and fastening Tin and more elegantly dreamed ee mide; the one in charge— et. ee it, A man of anuaual size we clearly most eeential to ae Peron. Stnew Geure, which seemed ci # Binge eealskin enat, in Slee al the rear, actting to one ell and delentely clothed in the foreground of the Ge euler workman finally pave Ge leper, who whisked the atin fr cat from the now image, ar be |

ihmtppeared almost. simultane ie window—leaving th —— — — ihe new ser hep. pa, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ow WeAre Increasing Hi Our eh & As they did this two of the noonday strollers of the gum-chewing sex 3 before the show window with an expression. af distinct surprise upon their faces. For they now observed oo ey first time that the new and central 4 had a ang arl heavy mustache maiko was rtly Surana by a white ng around the back of the neck. “My Gawd," gald the larger triangular-headed one of the two. you look at that!" At her exclamation othera stopped. with similar outeries of interest. This figure with the mustache and the bandage about ite mouth, which appeared in the center of the group of other figures dieplaying * underwenr, on ite cheat, they now read, a placard marked in large lettera L Alouette, which waa fas- tened = Appeeny on a silken camisole of aprica This placard, however, they goon under- stood, could not be meant to be the name ot the figure itself, for not only was there a marked under this title, making L'Aloustte-—$1. 99: but undernenth it, hangi peta to the knees, © secord ; ae Le rg ina — 4.99, wan ‘satened evidently to pair af hknickerboekera ied sisi ile satin, while above a gimillar ama placard, marked La Babette—$1.00, WES Bp par- ently secured and swung from a small fiufty novelty of sky-blue tulle which orna- mented the low neck—which in turn in the ut of ths furment su Led ening dress. Hare arma and low black socks with manhigh shoes and garters completed the cietume. “What's the idea, hub? What's idea?" hurriedly asked a tall rege young man with a cigarette, of the larger find more “Would toc] al first two observera—struggling meanwhile to bold his place in the gathering, jostling “How would I know?" she replied to him, now remming ber gum-chewin n hed & ber gu £ agni And now, watching instead of guestion- ng Ing, both read half audibly with their Lipa the larger placards which appeared about the new figure—three in all, That at the left announced simply— what all eyes had already soon: Undies of The oe to at the right stated generously: Toke this all home—tfor $7.98 But the entire meaning at ‘the three was not conveyed until the reading of the lang: eat and moat conapicuous of all the plac: ards, displayed above the figure's bead, whieh said: At Inst! The deter rf America I! A real genuine mark i "Look!" said the larger, more trian haired blonde at the window, now clutch- ing ees arm. “Ita eyes are mot only that, but mow it wae claimed by geveral that they heard it making low but inarticulate sounds—though this could not be certain in the general and increasing confusion. But at this tme—werd no doubt havin spne into the store—the door in the back indow Tae een to open and new fig- uns came In—several figures of employes, who were at once seen tobe tl in releasing the rth oar from bonds with which it seamed ta lashed to a long, heavy pole and to the back of the window. Almost immediately when this was com- pn the figure re started leaping actively up Where fs hel Where are they?" ox- claimed the recently released lay figure. And bursting dave sti flaming and incan- deacent blaap dieaa of appear- aie h it tomeed ok sharD| fram the rear of the show window and darted down the aisles of the store like some mad wild thing entirely bereft of its senses. Those whom it lar- sought were apparently nok in sight, for it | Ww } 8 HH stopped now Lacliest'-inderyenr counter to shout out loudly at the smartly dressed selervaidet ae) woman behind it: "Where ore “Where are ey" repeated Misa Lu- ella B. Smith, shrinking back in alarm. “Bring them out, ye huasy!"" “Bring out who?" she asked in reply. “Ter confederstes! Yer confederates!" exclalmed the easily irritated junior part: ner. “The ones that browght about this dashed diabolleal outrage." And now locking about be saw bebind him @ abort fat , the : re of his venir ner, ol M, We head of ether & (o., ebiss mouth waa | pet covered with his hand.

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Note These Startling Sales Results of These Firms who tried it FREE 1. * We did 2, more business in 1921 than in 1920 in spite ie i JE, pncedeciing. Achinesaograph circulars and catalogs lauely 7 sponsible, We are using direct advertising exclusively this year.” —Trmopore Same, Vice Pres Sametls Bhoe Co,, St. Loule, Ma "How any merchant can afford to be without the Addressagraph ia beyond me. Ours ia of imestima- ble value in covering our territory for 60 miles around with letters and salea notices,” —Cnanues Hawes, Merchant, Sabetha, ins, “We soldi more merchandise in 1921 than the year before— over $500,000in a 5000 town. We did it by keeping a continual stream of Addressograph-ed lettera and circulars going into the mails. —Freo Mame, Pres, Mann's Dep't Stare, Devil's Lake, North Dakota, 4. “Weare doubling our Addreato- graph-ed aivertising in 1222, because gur 63%) increase in sales in 1921 over 1920 is largel trace: able to this form of sales aot! M. Jawwson, Viee-Pres., Mend-Jonson Ca., Evansville, indiana. GewT Oiors, (00 7H, Tam erent. Chicags Factories: Chitago, Brooklyn, Losdon Sales Of cea gol Service Starlane Dovteon— —Buffaio—tCte Detreie— ingenpadl haw vork—ten Francisco, and Sf other principal cities. Compe Feed Oiien, 60 WF, Fret Se, Tore: ¥eoooure¢—Montres!—Wianlpeg

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THE SATURDAY “What are you blitherin’ at? inquired the junior pasar hastity—with the em- Phas on the “ “T waan't b thoring. " gald the senior partner evasively. “I waa coughi ; = wee are ye coughing at: tent asked the easily irrita Annee partner. And in absence of immediate anewer he buret forth agaln in wild, frank, free, inean- desseenit am which the ane of a. great varbety ong cities —in= eluding that of A eee Fe partner—were freely and inextricably intermingled. “And you too—you too— if ve want to he was saying, when the senior partner in terrupted him That will be about all for that," anid the senior partner erisply. “Get dreased,"” he stated to him coldly, “and come up te the office. We can curse each other more com-= Mat eee tid tii tii ing heartily din me, ear ving Ran of the re Mr. Hidder, fuetantly ing crowd, waa walking od toe his hotel by aor cg having Jong dismi his com “T anly wish I ads teal ver th country. To « man I eoldt’’ he waa to himoelf. "What a booet—what a saying | boost it would give the retail business of | this country !"" But of course he saw this would be im- posible, considering the quickness with which the mews thia one experiment would no doubt reach his home office. So he now busied himself with the considera- ton of a strong and dignified Jetter of ) resignation to be sent in in time at least to Le ee eT eee ee ce ee ee ———————E————EeEEE———————— EEE ————————— eee reach his house simultaneously with the report = last activity with one of their custome Still considering this, he posed upstairs to his own room. The framing of his letter—to contain bath the dignity and pe pep pat pal haired bo give it—Wwas a more ficult and ricus task than he af first realized: ee wien ih ae dinnertime Semele se un eer . Laying it as fh pro naeded downatitia Aael And now ag Li crapoedl the hotel desk, lees beck af i — say fine dim e of a single letter in bos with bia os number, It was a better, he saw when he received. it, with the now familiar postmark of Los Angeles, Opening it with agitated be read as follows: Loe ANGELES, CALIF. Oetober 25, 1921, Mi, Justin Guivancets Kioben, 10% —— Street New York, N.Y, Dear Str: Owing to a regrettable error wore notified bay lotter yeaterday, the 28t aethe ‘of ur inheritance of the fortune of Mr, Justin hataworth, deceased, This announcement, we regret a take Sriginating i a cone tnlon by a stenoerapher of reses af peo persons with RAMes— your o@n end one other. The other Mr. Justin Chatsworth Kidder, who, [aeons wes aeoclated with your unele in his business, is the recipiont, it sow ape of his fortune; while the mention of your nate la merely incidental gsi: fraen, the fact that the decedent tock occasion to apenk with reprobation of your iad ging | at it. These exactly identical names with rt ad- treaaea being the only two whieh w in the document, you will readily appreciate how 8 mistake in this matter was 7 —though mndwt unloriunate, iterating our regreta for this error, and trusting it bas not inconvenienced you to ony Seriogs depres, We are, Your obedient serranta, Spnieia & Pitkin, Attys, at Law, ¥ X 4:30 O'CLOCK, after the cou in the room underneath had complained the office the second time of his tramp- a, Mr. Kidder finally went to bed, ne after some hour or ao, into a heavy an ‘exhausted slee , did not wake until nine o'clock, when we aroused Mie a start by the rattling of hia telephone EVENING POST “This is M. W. Praether & Co. speak- Ing—Mr. Praether's office!" said the voice on the telephone—a woice which Mr. Kidder thenaght at first ta be that of Miss Smith “Yess,” said Mr. Kidder's atill heavy Ten ‘nt apeaking for Mr. Praether. Could pe cee and call on him at hia officer at "T could—yes,"" said Mr. Kidder, now thoroughly awake. “Wery well, he will look for you," said the woman's yoiee at the phone, closing the conversstion. Mr. Bie still acre hut dazed, won hurri if it ecubd have Tha Miss Smith who had been talk- ing—or, a8 more like Siete ane of the atenographera with a ch high, attractive SOT RHO vale. no he arrived at the office of Mr. Prasther, the bead of the firm, he thought that he heard eard again, from the antercom, the sound of the voice and laughter of Miss Smith, together with that af the hend af the fimm—or old M. W., os he was more called—in the inner office. But is he belleved later to be a mistake, for when he was taken in at last he found the latter alone and without am Hon of Prejoralir in ph face—and on the his office firmly elomed. “et rp " gald old MM. fAy. He was a short, heavy, amooth-faced old man, Who looked usually like a good- humered toad with a bald head, But just née there wis po humor apparent either in his Witte round eye or in his wolee. “sit down," he aald briefly to Mr. Kid- der, who did so without unnecessary de- may waiting for the ex =n gat you in here for a burp ge!" aie fixing his amall but obeery- ane upon ‘him steadily, ks Het air,” said Mr. Kidder, swallowing, and slightly lifting his shoulders. “Our junior portner, Mr. Dundee, hos this morning withdrawn from our firm,” stated Mr. ther now—and waited. But Mr. Eidder said nothing—but re siete motionless, silent and rooted ta his chair. the cose,’ continued the "gn L have bo get ot and look for buyera— —several of them—tfor the vari- os which ha formerly han- And now Mr. Kidder's lips moved slowly but did mot yet articulate. “Men of enterprise and pep and initia- thre! Men who are willing to stand up and take the gaff for eh they think—no matter who's against them!" continwed Mr. Frocther. And oow ao slight murmur came from Mr. Kidder’s lipa. ‘No matter who's inst them," re peated Mr. Praether. “Up to and includ- ae me if! Thal Eee and ele ee , will stand hit against mel regret ber 7 wre atand rm “Vos, sir,’ said Mr. Kidder’s voice now rather sharply, “Will you come with wi? And try it?" ie ulred old MM. W., looking him through through with hia little Byes, Tamed the departmenta he would give him, and Mei Rogey i replied Mr. agit with a t moisture in his eye. i and they a the details. wand ae na a oad old M. W., rising and stretching dat hin old fat hand to shake hands with him, “Lf you'll go out into that next room—through that door thare— you ‘ll find your assistant—the head sn bl the Jadies'-underwear Lment Smith. You know her, hare Je ag “T eertalnily do," stumbling into the next otto, still art; pril fi Look,” he said finally, when they alone Se an on ke sure they eouldn’t bay "He blarw up, nates all! Finally!" Miss Smith. Cpndoe mean?" ; Kidder, watch filling aut For ahe seemed bad eecibed Aa, "Yea," said Luella B. Smith; “ did always—with all the reat of us tiie time it was old MM. W, himself! * “Oh, abd Mr. Kidder, secing th thon more intelligently and com sively than before, and then =r - the old man sent for me about m “T = ‘bi was,” said ae B. Smith, with as fuzh of admiration on ber ‘face. ht | him that he found. one person ‘final! couldn't pick on. e picked on one waa G00 much for and Pai aint tl” sald Mr. agian boing now appearing om c “I cortainiy did!" Peplied Mins Sr decided manner * And what'd he. he do?" just the w “He ba ta Tuughing,’ Luella B ee Laos laug than oa "Fe's one fine saab zeae said Mr. K bub marrer "affirmed Miss Smith. “E ete T' love to hear him laugh. But Waa another a , in thus["" "What?" Mr. Kidder. — He's wanted ta ere rid of tha pts right al t he couldn’ ted ‘And this thing did it for So ncidentally fixed you up all right Mr. Kidder said nothing for the ma “Vow were bucky." ““T-waa—more waya than one," gai. Eidder. And she looked at him, his was 80 kind of haus "What—what's the idea?” asleed ou B Smith, for he wad trying to tal and. "You know what you did for me was asking. iol No, +e" Yeu went bo the front for me—I it! Or this wouldn't have happ—. sald J. ghemadibhis Kidder "Oh, f & itf" reapanded Miss be “Do. oe vent I think about ha ,oru ng her more realized. "aT think you areall to the .: “Do abt mean that —or are " Wigs Smith started saying a half serious, half Fe cor gre “Tl craggy Hh Bak sponded “Not now!" = said, pulling ber onto, But just ap soon as | prowe make good on this jab—anyhow !” “Come on," said Misa Luella B. ractically. “We've got to start els “Do you know what I bhik iesbout | insisted Mr. Kidder wi sivencss, “I'd vather’ t ee alon iit have a million dollars gerne ‘Come on then,” always more he time we travel by aicle they went down toret start the plans iy putting the la suid the wor 1é TA. underwear department on the map “We'll colobrate— Fight at the a said Mr. Kidder, “We'll show thee one regular mark-lown ake. A reel ine one! We'll make them buy." “Bure! We'll have all the old wm men,” reaponded Miss Luella B.S i wit She py, laughing look, “in here k is for their wives [""

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THE SATURDAY THE GOOD UNCLES (Comtinaed from Page 18) hacen of my incl that [am here. One saped eequnintance in diae and warged this meeting for us. [ wonder haw at unde Hkhes my uncle!" The pouth grinned. He conceived he was stting the measure of his vis-i-vis—a rich joamety French gentleman, a nobleman wea count. He talked and listened alg nant the meal, and when cvewards Maurice strolled forth from the —5 dear, cigar in mouth, to the rough road fat dipped to the littl harbor, his dinner pon Thade oreasion to join him. - | mame | T to look at the sea,” ae Magic “That, and the wine when ca Ted, are the only things to look upon ie And there are times phen it is =p They passed among the sullen-fronted Zone beg spam and so down to the little con of stone revetment that sloped to the eeanbourging tide. To each side of it, swipe two hundred yards apart, a saneree atm of harbor wall ran seaward, toleaty, for no anchor could hold on that ron bettom im the great d-nanning evel and cag of the seas, Maurice led the way out wo the eastern arm, and the rising wind lifted feathers of apray that “=I thelr facet ms they leaned against it, ell?" said Maurice os they cume toa along the wall. ET he young fellow did not under- end “Look, my friend!"" Maurice waved hia agar at the seaward distances. “These aro che waves that Britannia rules. What do yuu think of your subjectaT"™ lt was something more than dusk by THe, them, pr enice in their chan- cor, (baa t black swells ronred shore- wards \ gigantic bowlders coscadin down a mountain aide, They came out . the “yt Sa and to east and weet, nel, there stretched away ye range the white af -tumblin be pan the cousteise rock barrier rittany. “Shouldn't care to fall in just now," aald the Tati. “Notwant to meet your uncle?" laughed Maurice, “Slow I, when I was twenty-five, T ewe that for a bet. That is my one — —swimming! Don't you “Well"—the youth hesitated—"T've erie te course—ao little. Swimming baths searide—that kind of thing. But Sidr Fetogal ou'd call a swimmer. I say, it's aut here, ism"E tT" pear, mnd went hack, Maurice mide gn early excuse and retired te hia bedroom. He had reconmoitered his ground; Le Rebain had justified his memories of it. hot for an instant did he folter in his pare, The jah oe was ordained to be cont femained only to stage it ao. that acandal pee ae ro paresis so that Irma de Leyle ould mot bes hocked and irgttewd, It was to be an accident; his ‘atkage and his belongings would remain obey were; he would write to a friend im Paria raking an appointment for thot week; he would lenwe his pocketbook wi his money ina drawer of the dressing table. And the lad he had met at dinner should becom ya or him to the harbor and witness the storie amd the fall inte the water. He could count, he thought, on him te run yelling for help: and meantime he, the frong ewimmer, the practical companion a the waves, would strike seawards, away rom the compulaiona of life, to the final infinite mercy of the great wabers. Acd Irma would never know. At any tate dhe would meyer knit her den brows in perplesity at AM. Hertholet, the club Uctetary; Al. Bert holet, the agent on com- Twaelon for art dealers and merchants of itique: or M. tholet, making the mut of a charity salary in a sinecure. The yourg Englishman enjoyed a day of iheer charm the following Maurice jolved kim at breakfast. and took him for a walk, lanched with him and lounged with him thresphout the afternoon. He had a that he must pay in al for ee Mervice he wat ahout to exact, and he ga hime! trouble ta be utterly delightful. 7 neatted w dreashing eu pllnaesit: sea sir one ya he ike as they sat in the pale thereon male in. liek inn ‘Tn ek a “ia’ proud of Kl" be added hist yi “but yor do make me wonder how we ever won | aberlog."" | Maurice raised his hut in salute, smiling, “You ought to be ambasadar to France," he said lightly. The evening came up squally, and when after dinner they set forth upon their stroll toe the hurbor t they wort raincents. Mau- rice, a3 usual, had his cigar. He wos satia- | fied with himself: there had not been one tragic word to cite against him, mot one nrtcbeuld bea splendid eight to-night,’ “Trahould bea splen t ton he said. “ Britannia's eu 4 sight se Once, when I was here before, Lee aan | drive straight on the rocks under the win- dows of the village and melt-—literally dis- aolve into her elemente—while | watched. And of the bodies that came ashore, not a | single one was recognizable. Ah, here | we ore They had rounded a row of cottages to the top of the hard, and law chron } of the sea awelled at them as through a trumpet. was a sliver of moon alaft with raveled cloud scud pouring secroes it, and beth! tamé shooting to their fect up t ni a rotten ny to go Gut on that t,” abivered the wal orice night, eaiowa said Mau- rice, “Boot don"t come if you don't feel like "aba ey me weather fnrtlentaib, bes a narticulate, bat. followed at bis hel, Hut for the need of a witness for Irma‘'s sake he would have spared him. He had come te the point | when the thing must be done, and it wos too late to tinker with his plans The great rollers Fowiing in along the channel li the af the wall, and M08 An eep awirl af water foamed acTosa it, ‘Theapray drove like ahet and the wind balled and throst like a wrestler. | ane the point at which they | had at the previonws evening Maurice had to shout to make himself heard, “Not pervous, | hope?" He caught but one word—" beastly "—of the ya the wind whip the sound from the lads lips, He looked about him at that tremendous theater of vast forces and Pret voices in which be was to be an weber. he terrifying pam p of night and chaos were to be his. is resolution was perfert. Now was the time. He moved to step nearer the edpe as though te intrepid over. twas the instant chosen for aeci- dent by the frenkish Fate that had brought the two wnele sons her at Le Foobein. As Maurice mov the Jad made to move alter me a hand outstretched ta draw him back, The slightly cambered top of the wall wus shiny as a half-tide rock, and when be shifted his feet he sat down with a stunning jolt. His feet shot forward and took Muuriee at the back of the ankles, driving them from under him. Ere he knew What was happening he was overboard, and a t. smocth-bosomed, silver-creeted rode r reached up to his falling body, gath- ered. nim | inata dog eatchesa thrown bisewit, and Sucked Alen : “Te is done, then!" waa hissingle thought as thewater churned him under and shouted He thought he touched the rocky bottom of the channel; mere instinct and unbreakable bablt held his breath for him; and, raincoat and all, he shot u wards and found his face in the air on the reverse ala ho grent wave. Cheer him was the side of the wall and he could gee the edge of it againet the sky. He had, perhaps, five seconds in which to eee that und the contorted figure that poised and swayed over him pig brink, with tossing arms of anguish and a aomething in allits attitude that suggested it was scream- ing. And in the last two of theese five see ends Lb oe | ta wave and sway: a hand came atilly forvard, poluting at his face. The boy had seen him, And ere the next | WAVE | fed him Maurice had a strange | view of the figure on the wall as it gathered iteelf Lo the conventional pioesbure = diver, hands joined ancl armscutstretched, awayed lorward and cama plunging down bo him. He felt the other's bocly collide with his own, desperate hands clawed over, pol a it raincoat ani tore a double hak of itaway. Then it was borne off, | and he was free to go his path again. 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He struck out and got the ether by the collar just as another roller tumbled dewn upon them, There was none to time or mark the bag. De of that struggle. There was nothing avor of the two men in the water, 9 ola that offered itself, save the fact that cach sen na it lifted them and then whelmed them bore them a littl: newer the hard. The boy struggled feebly throughout; striv- ing for the drowning man's ey eee the high impulse that had nerved him to dive to the aid of. Maurice had peices + teice Maurice had ta let him go and pe eover him. The waters beat the reason from him; nothing remained bat the will; he did mat remember afterwards how men with life lines battled forth and dragped them ty the stones of the slope. He re called only lanterna and voices and rough hands that worked upon his wrists to Joceen his grip oon the boy, and then the sting of brandy in his throat and the birth puins of returning life. It was when he lav in bed in the inn— dosed with the frightful French conception of that Tere medicine, ten, med Sortified with brandy—that the lnwandnes af the matter was plain to him. He sat up to give it voloe. : : “He has spoiled Le Robain for me! One cannot fallin twier, Confound him and bis for of an uncle! But his struggle—and the brandy per- haps—had numbed him. Serious thought | must be for the myorTuny The innkeeper und his family and a delegation of a a bors, tiptoeing inte his roam, found bh | sleeping profoundly, inelegantly even, for he wae anoring hea. thfully. “Ola rude geilerd!"" was their verdict, He awoke to a aan of balm. The wind had gone down, and beyond the ahadaw of April a the house the road and the village he with sunlight, while heyond, tlhe bright and chafed like o heast bente submission, The innkeeper in person—a sea—e person, amvelling of fish—vwas at hia beescl with his coffee. There were a couple of, tors on the tray. LI The inner ger wo avid to Oe question, to prescribe: but Maurie: torn open the frat of the letbers. “Presently, presently,” he sac im naahtte and ms the host withdrew, meen he rea Maurice: [ have thought. Come toc i T want Vou. Have 1 the L? a | The second letter was never opened. FE ten minutes later a tall figurein a silk cle” ing gown entered the room of the other *)) thn of the night's adventure and fouwnel t1) hera = ne up against hia pillows eat! an I Well, my preserver!"* greeted Miaauur | al taking a seat on the foot of t “Don't!” The boy reddened paso ica “Tt knocked you in, and you sua. ae rtes laughed. aurles it “Hoah!" he gald. “Thank our inctterfe ing ald uncles for that. Butl ought te fe yer. that there i jig one thing I learnec froi| you lest might." bi aig blushed again. “Don't rotf! he gal wah. ‘put I did, "aald Maurice. “Wou se I knew yOu Were no swimmer, and tho were afraid of the water. Hut whe ta dived all the same, T learned one thin af value." “What? Maurice teok him by the hand. learned how it was that you English ‘ww Waterloo!" MR. LLOYD GEORGE, HIS CHARACTER AND CHREER (Contiaced from Poge J!) | Party were with him, and be knew that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal leader in the Howse of Commons, sympa- thized with the opposition ta the war, He wit denounced asa proBoer by the Daily Mail, recently established by Mr. Alfred Harmsworth, am of ont occasion at Birmingham, Mir, Pashto et city, he with ificuley eeaped in policeman's clothes from an infuriated ji mob. I remember hearing him call the Boers “the Liberal Forwards," nor tun there be any doubt that their obstinate und pes longed reslatance made our people sic the war: and alter its aa in 1902, Mr. Balfour's rhneent bir dovenlell Mr, Joseph Chumberlat nh "erie to divert the attention of the country from the bad trade and unemployment—which as usual followed war—hy propcsing tani reform, on the plea that the trade depression was due not te the war but to free teade. There were Still oll folk who knew about the com lawe; and a peticy which meant dearer food, dearer boots and dearer clothing did nik nppoecl to the electors, So lar favor began to gather round &ir Henry Campiell-Bannerman, Mr, John Morley, Mr. Bryow, Mc. Llaye George, and other Liberals who had made themselves con- apicuous by opposition to the war. At last, in the late autumn of 1905, Mr. Balfour resigned: and, te the bitter dinag mintenent "the Liberal Imperialiste, the ing sent for Sir Flenry Campbell- Bannerman, “OC. TL after seme dificulty formed a cobinet, with Mr. Liovd George as presldent of the Board of Trade, and | then appealed to the country, which re | turned the Labernls with am enenmeus majority over all other parties. tT. Lloyd Georce remained president of the Board of Trade where he showed bis inkerests principally in Lalor questions, such as pensions for the workmen—until the untimely death of Sir Henry Camphe l= Bannerman In [S08. Mr, Asquith becom- ing Premier left the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer vucwnt, and the anti- | Tenperisliet members of the eabinet insisted that it should be filled by Mr. Lloyd Gea erie that hia whole influence mould be thrown nl oe and agaimet the expansion of armame At first Mr. Lloyd George fulfilled their expectations and made a strong fight—os I have reason to know, for | wae in hls confidence at the thme—againest the pol- iey—1205—aol laying down eight dread- noughts; but finolly he gave way on the understanding that large sume of money should be found at the sane time for social Purposes as Well, This resulted in wh=t.ee. called the pacgis' 7 Budget, The fans. 55 went wll over LP op I happened abour’ that time ta Madrid and met Mr ole Spanikh Prime Minister, Te puta = questions to me ubout Mr, Lori George's budget. Lt wus the ane Englbb question that! interested linn. The hater aa Bu aut Caneae marked the highest point in Mr. “Ss OITPET AS o political Radical’ and acetal reformer. | remember at the tine publishing an article in which I = ik ought to be called mot “The People's Budget“ but “The Asmor- plate FH pa i "98 the superlaxes were required to pay for the superdreadnoughts, Tt was, however, characteristic of Mr. Lie d George's handling of public money, af his conception of the duties of a chanesiioe af the exchequer, that be should think his controversy wilh his Liberal [me perialigt colleagues in the eabinet— Asquith, Grev and Haldane—well settled by an agreement that the inerease of expenditure on armaments should be bal: anced Tait a equiv dent incre on panes and other social reforms. To Mer. Lloyd George public thrift was an old-faakioned doctrine, mw obsolete as mid-Vietorian art. The idea of allowing money to froctify in the pockets of the people did not appeal to him. He preferred to tax and i tia Tt ia only during the last year that victories of antiwaste candidates over his own supporters at the elections huve let him to adopt the of “Peace and fe trenehiment.” And this after ordering foul Super Hoods and sending Mr. Halfaur—a lifelong enthusiast for armamentes—to represent Great Britain at the Washington conference. Froe trade, the third plank of the nee Conlition Laberul platform, is as sudacdou aa fefrenchment, for it follows the passing of the key industries and Anti-Dumplig Bill by which Mr. Lloyd George's govern- ment has obtained power to impose thou- sunids of proceetive duties pnd bo destroy (Centinged of Poge #7)

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ia emer Page Sal ot eypstem of free trade which gave Eng- ai proeperity and Mir. Lloyd George The People’s Budget contained several a land taxes modeled on the theories of ry i were oy & an to irritate the House af oe aod to divert poy attention Tun opp et as bares Ls ay eet know. The ra ly etved o@ a red rua ty the errs -or backwoodsmen and diehards, “Ve Lovd George called them—in the astof Lords, and mo provoked the second exbet that if made the grave mistake af ming aut t bodget. The Liberal [sTimnt win two erpal elections ike a year — 1910—ane legislation limit- gt Lents" veto was passed, For this “ueph My, md George secured a full ane Mf eredit. © became the principal of detestation among the Ieisured asi acl the idol of the North Countt whak. How anxious some of his ial opponents were to compass his ait was muanif: during the Marconi wey. But in spite of appearances the eat 1310 to 1914 were a period al tranal- ion, Which iustrates Mr, Llovd George's eoeption of Liberaliem. He doe not aecate the Liberal creed with any prin- sis or formulas. It ia in his hands a vices mixture of jingoism and socializm, hei sags varying in amounts accord. at s popular taste. So, ms icalism ease weaker after the death of Sir H. ‘unphell- Bannerman, and the grip of Im- sar em og the Liheral arty machine ben ame Hronger,, Mr LJ owed George teak to ippear i (henewrblsal a eharvinie socr and August, 1914, he sesh i il 43 majority af the cabinet —a neutrality can ontll the Germans in lum. From that time until Me Lined and iowa ast pe ee a ie " ened the panopiy a Tak 7 ed a for liberty, then a quest for the knock-out blow. After that utter- a —which preceded by a few weeks the ull of Mr. Asquith —some of the Welsh Rudicus to munmur, David, they aid, ‘ted changed with Goliath. This feeling hag Spread rapidly, and at least Sall the Chapel vote im Wales is said to be cely to be cost against Liberal Conlition -andidates at the Seek ection. Unless the i are aa in Wales and Great Britain oy for Likera!: Coalitionists, Mr. Lloyd Ceurge will have a mere handful of sup. porters in the next Parliament Barbed Satire In the fet two years of the war Mr, Loyd did not add to his reputation athe os Chancellor of the Exchequer or wu Munition Minister, His recruiting eee, however, appeenled to religious efictim. and, he had a good deal te do with pple oe conscription. His advocacy qo opthion as a democratic measure ar tities the difference between a Femocit Who likes equality, even with store and a Liberal who puta personal [ft was om this issue that Sir Iota 8 Simon lat the cabinet early in 1916. (if Wr. Loyd George's conduct of the wer ater he Fike ime Minister, at teed of 1916, | cam"t pretend to speak with any authority, Amd who shall decide bcos dottors—or military eriti~es—dis- Dara the war Mr. Leo, a Tory M. F., pteented the nation with a beautiful Sotise Keen aw C7 hequers, in Buckine ere, for the Premier's residence. He ha hid ove been rewarded with a perrage—he is tow ele! Lord Lee of Fareham, and was s Brith delegate at Washingion—and n ai Th the inte as Firat Fd of the ASniralty, The explanation of these . letoeats may he sought perhapa in Ue pd George's belie t t the war was karts Cheguers, About eighteen months after the armistice S hewepaper reporter visited Thyquen, Mr, Liovd George was there ted took him row » Winding up with a Sit to" the room where the war wot won.” Thereafter a scoffer penned the following: Tet Room Warne THE War Was Won _ Tee is the room where the war was Afr, Lloyd George tom reporter al eT, Th aime of those inhe son te wear ri ff numerous mid glorigua: Sampo ot proprintor ; Siatermen, dipdaonaatiat i Thongh net a single asl A dniler, won gictorious. THE SATURDAY EVENING Bet now 0 guide con ahoo the roon Jn wittel (he war wae ion : At Chequers, where tke distant hors Sh rf tic by de i aint yor mi OY him arkoae geniva won lie fi Should incredulity premne To dowll jhe sory of lhe room, ira, pilgrim, climb the marble sic, An upon dhe very choir Oh snich he acl, wheat from ofor There flaaked the f that won fhe sur. To-day, however, Mr. Lloyd Gearge's Triends are more anxious to show that he is capable of winning the peace and of reduc= ing the burdens of war tuxmtion, The ques- tion who won the war la ne longer an B at leetiona. Mr, Lloyd George's friends, however, still insist that the war was wan by Mer. Lloyd George's genius in perceiving the mecesaity for ualty of command, and in in- reap! on the transfer to Marshal Foch of the annrent command of the Allied armies in the last year of the war. Others attrib- ute this masterpiece of policy’ to Lord Milner. Mr, Lioyd George's critics, on the other hand, say that he prolonged the war, and ¥ nearly Jost at by transferring troope from the Western Front—whic was vital—to the Asiatic Front, which wos aeecondary theater. (thers again think that the war waa won beeause the United States came in, or because Germany was exhausted and the German people were encourngred by President Wilsan® speeches, and especially by his Fourteen Folnta, to Tevolt against their own government, The Platform of igid In any case it is worth noting that Mr. Lloyd George, fram the time when he became Prime Minister down to therarmistion, never repeated his kneck-out-blow formula, His epecches were liberal in tone aa regard- ing the settlement, though his peace Bro gtum was much less definite and much if He did, | apeciic than President Wilean‘s. however, say that the Allies must treat the enemy wery much better after they had vinguished them than the Germans had treated the French in 1871, or than the Gerais treated the Russians at the lew, of Brest-Litovek, This, I quite be was Mr. Lloyd George's intention; but unfortunately after hes armistioe the elec- tioneerer superseded the statesman. In- stead of concentrating if iat ies on the task of making, with all e specd, a ; reasonale and riractiontla peace, Which would have enabled Europe to settle down, Mr. Lloyd George determined to follow o bud example set by Mr. Phneabae, lain, whom he seem to have taken as hile model, After the British poor had occu- ied Pretoria ans melt ee arent) wan the Boer War, in 1900, Ma nin insieted on igh ey to the coun siti so there was khaki election, w ch returned the Unionists bo power with a thumping ma- jority. ‘The precedent and the temptation were toa much for Mr. Liayd George. He could not resist such an opportunity of se curing a new lense of power by appealing for the voles of his countrymen a8 the who won Che war. This general election—the coupon elec tion—hed fatal consequences, as anyone nylinintel with the books af Mr. John Maynard Keynes and other writera who have described the pence of Versailles must be well aware, POST 1d English Wax Given Away ! A can of Old English Wax will he given BWay With every Old English Waser Polisher, This new tine and labor-saving devier bneh apn cl the wax are pal ‘ahaa rhe fieor, [ea a great* im- min / At the thine of the election cumpalgn, in | November, 1918, Mer. Lievd George talked like a statesman: but as politics became better he fell more and more under the in fluence of the yellow pres and of unserupu- lous political agents. At last, just before . ne day, he adopted the simple pro “Tf you return me ta power I will iy "head the Euiser after a fair trial in London! (2) make the Germans pay the whole eost of the war: (2) make reat Britaic a place fit for herons to live in.” The esc gra were ina wild state of excite- | ment, hesaline the hidesus nightmare of the war had just been remeved, The aver- age voter was ant inclined to think, and a fenst clisreputabble Porliament—of shard. faced men whe had made money out of the war" and wanted tithse—wasa elected in | consequence. Alost of the coupon cancli« dates were sbaapiitl enmigh to heliewe or wicked enough to pretend that they re- garded Mr. Lloyd Ceorge’s Mn a8 ret merely just but practicable, Sa Mr, Ll George swept the country and pe mained Prime Minister, with practically MOVEMCAE OFEr any wesghted wush, because with jt yu can pol ar irat fia well one S Was the flower bestdes, of ie ehealy As Funning | carpet- | sweeper. lt lasts a lidesime. If voor dealer can't supply you, take advantage of -oiar ahortctime offer, Just mail | the ecupos below; Easy as Running a Carpet-Sweeper! The Old English Waxer-Polisher both applies the wax and polishes the floor You can both wax. and palish floors with the Ola Engl ish Wavxer-Polisher shown here. It's the new, easy way. A soft cloth will do, bue the Wasxer-Polisher is much «easier and quicker. Ir SAVC8 Wik, DOO. Lifetime finish. (4d Enelish Wax brings out a soft, velvery lustre niet enhances the hatural heaucy of the grain of the wood. Once waxed, the finish loses o htetine gin] grows more bequti ful wieh ag lt wall wee shew heel-marks Ain | sepate hes ane then Ta ich up: riaaW the plices moar use that's all vt nel to a Yau needn't wart days ta use the fan; vou cart walk oon a Waxed Hoor ae oer, Very inexpensive. There's more hard, high-grade, imported wax in Old English "Wax, so it goes farther, lasts | Jonger, and costs what fo one-ird of most other fin- ishes, [eis the ideal Alor Gotan for any Jace Mme, however sim ple magnificent, Try just one cin of Old Enghst Wax. See for yourself the beauty rT gives all yerur floars—whether they're unfinished hardwood or watednice lL, varnished of shellaced as well furniture fal a cub for Asahi Book as your wormbwork ind The A. 8. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST the same cabinet but a new House of Com- mons, haps be would have liked to forget and disregard the pled he had given; but neither the new Pa ent nar the yellow press would allow him to forget them, and for a long time he was dog be kis promises to sare the Kaiser to | male repuy the cost of the war. After the election the fierce feeling of exultation and the bitter passions gen- ornted during the war began to subside, | oe. political lave cooled, aod Mr. Lloyd Let ‘a popnlarity wanel. Fortunately for Hier re wae plenty of employment ‘for more than a year after the armistice. Nearly all the factories in Great Britain were working full time. Wie men shook | thelr bemda a at the inilation and at the fic- titious prosperity and the insane extrowa- ) ganee of the government, But the wise are always in a smull flnerity: Bo o Mr. Lloyd ares and hig colleagues proceeded as merrily as if there were noe war dnbt, ond as if the war taxntion did net matber, But after a while trade declined and voices began to be raised in all parts of the eauntry asking why the cestrictions and regulations imposed under Dora during the wir were not removed; why tena of mil- lions of money were being w in & new War Apmis Russian communism, tens of milliana mare in fighting the Araba in Mesopotamia amd Palestine; why there Was 80 Much procrastination over the paaee treaties: why coulition government conlinded: why tleal principles should net come out cold storage, and why Mr. Lievd George did not now revert to the party system. He still called himself a Liberal, Why, then, did he alt in the cabinet with Con- servativa colleagues whom te had bitter denounced Karena his political life, an bey whom he had n aa bitterly execrated in the recent Marconi affair? What good could come of a coalition government com- of men political Ponciples were contrary and eontradictery— Free Traders and FProtectionists, Home Rulers Bibi | Unionists; men who supparted teniper and men who were devoted to the li interesta; militarista and ty the liquor believers In a state church and disestab- lizhera; land reformers and danilorda? How could a cabinet so com =a politica) mosaic Under a polit 4 eon—tmaintain the ordinary standarda af Pulitical honesty T Winning the Peace These biting erlticiema came partly from the Labor Party and from the Indepencont Liberals —or Wee Frees—but oles from ald. fashioned Torles, who could not forget The People's Budget and the land campaign the Marcohi scandal and the radical aperches which hod infuriated them in pre war days. The answer given by ae Lioyd Gearga and his principal ca Curzon, Mr. Bonar Law, "Birkenhead, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, and athers—was that the time had not yet come to revert to | party strife, that the nation had not yet Teagred the full fruita of vietory. “We have won the wart We must now win the peace. Union is still necessary in order to solve the ™man problems which have been left behind by the war.” Besides, they added, the old Mnciples and bathe cries, or slogans, toh ane ad divided the poriies, were oo lon applicuble, The country was aasured t Pe any differences which arose in the cabinet on questions af policy did mot follow the old party lines ond that the cabinet wos quite harmonious. It was known, for instance, that Mr. Lloyd George wag apposed to Mr. Churchill's policy in Russia, and areas grad Te haa Gotan relly of supporting h Air. my Gurge a po ol #u thing the Greeks in their terntortal eras upon Turkey. And it may, 1 think, be ARE that so far neither Liberals

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“ April if, recwlectians mw thelr ald prime | Pes differences. are reminded «af thu erities. Tt is ived that Protect measures hav been Biber wit SHER, or at least with geal, Ses mbers of the cabinet like r. and Sir Alfred Mand, while | Sep ke Lord Curzon, Lord Birkenhead Me Bonar Law have frequently, inert tel Liberal statements om such: quuzes: Ireland or Central Europe, As to Ireland, the policy off rep against the Sinn Peiners was rrbed oe a “Liberal™ Minister, Slr Harmar Gs wood, - And Ledge that Lond Birken! once hotiesE of Unionists, has moat te bring about peace with Irelar a basis amounting to practical inde ence, Mr. Lloyd George's positiom ie Fz precarioua. Wea one thinks him wery on hia . Forhe pnotthe acce leader either of the Liberal or of the 4 servative Party. He i faced with the popularity of the war, which at ome ‘ made him a popular hero, 4 Born Fighter There is a general revolt against the | den of taxation, which people commect v the extravagance of Mr. Lloyd George. in by nature liberally ond even lavis generous with other people's money. chief strength is weakness of Asquith, Lord Rebert Cecil, Lord Grey a other ible alternatives, Mr. Asauil record on war, Dera, conserlption, pret tion, apd so on, ia Mr. Lloyd Georg trump card, T have already said that in the mow of his henchmen Mr, George eg knows 29 “the man who won / wor.” By more critical admirers he described as the artful dodger, the change uribat, the hinder, or the wierd. Bitter Torkes, who have never fi we him, call him the Welsh atborney, {arconi Georga, or the Limehouse dem Bogue, “he a leader his best quality, or at a rate the quality ha has served him he at ee moments in his career, is politic and parliamentary courage—not the stent persistent courage of the martyr or of man consistent to ideals, but a readiness | fight or run risks. He has not the int bay be alacity | Mr. Winston Churchill, but be has far mo cour t has been said that M riod il has neither Pr ean ae ces t that Mr Bore prejudices, Another difference betwer phate two spellbinders is that Mr, Lioy George obtaing most of his informatio bar listening, while Mr. Churchill acquire his by reading. Mr. Lloyd George is an ex cellent and witty conversatia t. Me Churchill & brilliant at tec poaicl * Macaulay, whose occasional Hashes silence were much relished. Mr. Churchil spends o great deal of time in pointing ple tinea Ge writing for the newspapers. Mfr nue doea neither. Politics ano political tuk are his business and hit recreation. He & surrounded by new paper proprietora and journalista; and it only in hia family circle or with ofd friends amang the Welsh hills that be occasionally drops polities. is tastes are eimple, his pleasures are convivial, his wit ia spontaneous and un- artificial, ‘if also, perhaps, unrefined, Hut a joke, a4 Bishop Btubbs ance used to say, aed a& readera of Aristophanes may agree, is essentially vulgar. As to the claim that be is os geal aa Pitt, the plot who westhered the aterm, be cae he won the war, we may, perhaps, admit it. Pitt did not weather the storm; mand ae the war wotld not have been wan if it had not been prolonged Mr. Llowl George has at least as good a chance with history as Pitt, And there are chapters and incidents in Mr. Llayd George's lite whic ii <erres to every clase of political thinker.

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100 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April F lal co A ee hose repairs 5 wont be expensive firgrer Mogrd franr- wary bp pal a cormfrats obte hom of few re fr aifar. lnke oles are gare y ae fe Vara FDeaew 27" foaral Yo Wir | | } il | =| 1 k =" Santee, dale ‘i we Nalf-ffairhed garcgea ‘ Oe we compte ey Hi madre Heoeer fered = fo re eerer. as formes o dimgy initia? felo o demlafed, lpetle OT if you use genuine Beaver Board. The cost of Beaver Boarding 1s surprisingly low, yet the results are as permanent as they are good looking. You can nail the big panels over old plaster or directly to joists and studding as easily as you would in hnishing up new interiors. Either way you can counton ajobthat's eminently satisfactory. For Beaver Board walls and ceilings can’t crack or fall. Genuine Beaver Board is knotless, flawless manufactured lumber, made from the long, tough fibers of white spruce logs. Each panel is sized by our patented Sealtite process, which makes a perfect painting surface. Nail up the panels, paint, if you care to decorate, add the finishing wood strips and the job is complete. It’s quick, clean work, with little saw- ing and practically no waste. ‘There's none of the muss or litter that goes along with ordinary repair work. So, don't postpone needed repairs or remodeling work because you fear the trouble or expense. Your local carpenter or lumber dealer will gladly estimate the cost of the Beaver Board- Ing you want todo, See about it today. Or, send our Builders’ Service De- partment in Buffalo a rough sketch, piving dimensions, locating doors and windows and specifying the type of room, and our expert designers will prepare finished plans at no cost or obligation to you. THE BEAVER BOARD COMPANIES Administration titers, Bulfalo, 6. Vo; Thorold, Gint., Canada; London, Eng. fiterrint Koles (Eee at Sew York, Atlenta, Buffalo, Chicage ond Kaneas City, Adote aff, be sure you nse genuine Beaver Board. Look for the Beaver Qwality trademark om the back of each panel, ff és there for your protection. Insist upon seeing if. BEAVER BOARD FOR BETTER WALLS & CEILINGS W

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THE SATURDAY YOUR TOWN TO-MORROW Coatnuwed from Boge Ie) @ at decks on the riverfronts. The logical S=ng wae to provide easy communication terse: the river fronts, and soa system ol Sanv chose streets was land out. Granddad scald met forsee omnibuses developin te hese cars, horse cars into trolley and feeraterd, wand the tbo and tenm of trote tere inte the bereicia cP So he did nat proche geh great morth-and-south ave roe. the desperate need of New York Dedey. ~ Char famoly & land this tion," end an elderly New Yorker, “Father made cesta mney as a merchant, and tried co provide for us by investments in real eats, He had the utmoet faith in the ooeth and foture of the city, But he cootel in the wrong direction. When we sere children mother used to take us to Central Park by ferry, ap the East River co Snxtieth Street, and then across on a bore car. Most of the travel was by ferry, on the rivers. Father could not see how the upper Teaches of Manhattan Island could ever be brought within reasonable toe and co bance oe of wee se ne ape ne spss had to grow. He t would grow by ferry. Teaching out to Long taba he rvested most of his money over there, He did not foresee the devoted railroad, which made growth possible uptawn— indeed, for reo or three years after the Third Avenue L was open Je were afraid to ride on i. That @ why [ om o real-extate man; had he invested uptown [ would be a mil- liongire?™ Toway we have better information than previous genetations upon which to plan othe for the future. But we are not using i pet to eon advantage Here and there tomtbedy with vision has begun remapping ates Be | highways, but thé public in gen- eral has stil] te cwtch the idea. So we are dealing with city difficulties piecemeal. [n- eead of solving them in a broad way we are letting them hustle us, ‘Traffic begins to tanghe at a certain corner, We pot a policeman at that corner to straighten traffic ost. The tangle spreacs up and cown os traffic We put more polleemen oo more corset, then Lift them inte towers and or- gunk contrel im unite of five or ten blocks, Then slow traffic gets Sangle up with Fast tificand we begin controlling pedestriana oe well ot vehicles. Is Detroit a ayvetenm of synchronized con- tel covering about six blocks at the most congested center was recently odopted, with a tower and syatem of lights giving tafe policemen at other corners uniform coninal ge This straightened aut the atomobile trafic splendidly, but without entra of people croming the streets motor tofie ws slowed down. So a aystem of bell apnals for pedestrians had tobe added, But in a or two, at most, growth of both vehicular and pedestrian traffic at rich points will outetrip the system, and etl le realize that something ey new in the way of city streets : wed provide for the needs of to-morrow, we stall continue struggling with the difficulty thats ight on tep of ua, aml not making ouch headway at that. Injustice to tha Motor Straight thinking about the automobile comes pretty near being the keynote to the prokeem. The word “pleasure” has cost the auto noble induetry many millions of dollars. At first, too expensive to bo within reach of anybedy but the rich, the automobile we ged chiefly for necreation. Even when ioeame within the reach af the average landy, carrying the farmer, the doctor, the weeman and rural mon obeut their work, the pleasure iden persieted. It is tert responsible for Unele Sam's war tax which puts automobiles in the same class moommeticn, It keeps alive a certain thoughtless prequdiee against the gasoline toners, use muny a sermon to be freiciel against extravagance. Worst of al, the pleasure fallacy clouds the public i Ey In PearTanging our cites, ov highways and our lives to utilize the cia me ik zeay Stayt iis “Lam thinking about buying a tour az, What is the price of that one?” a aranges will aek to-morrow on Gasoline “Do you Live in a rented house or an gaertment?" the salesman will ask in turn. * Apartment—but what has that got to do with it? Whatis the horse power of that | ear?" “How much rent do you pay?™ the salesman Will persist. "ine hundred dollars a month. Is this a four or 9 six?" “Have you ever thought of owning your | own home? "T don't like that rebin's-egg blue—it won't stand up to the same “How many perons in your family?" "Sayl" the customer exclaima impa- tiently, “Am T giving you an income-tax statement or trying be buy an automobile?" “You are trying to buy an automedbile,” is the reply, “and [am tring te determine whether you can afford this car.” “Afford it! DoT look as though I didn't le the price’? What is the pice oan Wa Pr "One thousand and forty-five dollars, including freight, and you look worth that much to me. in several colors. It is o four, ond a good one, But we are not selling automebiles any more.” in & PF Cour; Mfore Work Than Pleasure “oo you mean to say that I can't get a “ Cartainiy, we have pot ‘em right in ateck and you can drive one hime with you if you want to, But we want to fit you with ttunsportintion—not just sell an auto- mobile. There la a bot of milenge in this car— here from twenty-hve to one hundred thousand miles in the next five yeurs. Maybe you have not thought of tranaportation as something you consume every day like food or fuel, but that is the way we look atit now. Some of the milenge in this car might offset your rent, cut your bills, increase your earning capac- grocer ity. sorta of e come in, looking for automebiles, amd we sell them five - ten years’ supply of transportation. What they do with it is surprising. By talkin about Pleasure ears and thinking of ie Tides we automobile fellows have got our merchandise in the same class ae dlamands, pertumery and luxuries generally. But transportation iso necessity, 2 we have discovered the atable character of our merchandise and are trying to sell it for what it really is." poet-curd investigation hy the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, through a questionnaire card 2ent to autem owners arougaaut fen: representative tutes, ciscl facts astonishing even to the automobile men themeclves, Names of motor ownera were taken fram the license | lists of California, Towa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Texas, Virginiaand Wyeming. Theowner's | cecupation, annual mileage, amount af mileage used for business and for recreation, | inden tae to supplement trod- ley, fail and other transportation—or os a substitute where these were lacking—were the points covered. Replies came In by the thousands, Farmers, doctors, sasles- men, lawyers, cantractars, real-estate and insurance men were found ta be the best | customers of the industry, According to these replies, 90 per cent of automobiles are more or leas for business travel; 0 per oent of mileage la business travel, ond | 4 per cent in the cage of the farmer's au- tomobile; 34 por cent of the mileage is a substitute for tralley and railroad, or travel where these are not available: 37 per cent | of automobile owners reported that their cara improved their living conditions, and | fi) per cent reported inc Hhciency in | business through the ownership of an au'to- mehle—in the case of the farmer, 68 per cent. All sorts of interesting personal stories: wore scribbled on the margins of cards in wildition te andwers Lo the formal questions. One doctor would report that his car had made it possible to see four times as man patients, and another that it had made it passe for him to extend his practice inte an wilicining district where there was mo dactor at all. Saleamen said they not only Visited three times aa many customers but eould alsa live at home instead ok pypeneten three-quarters of their time in trond an . Busines men work in cities, but live in the suburbs or own and operate a farm, While people In village and country hard service. Can I get | Sure, you con have this car EVENING POST Od me Florsheim Shoe. LLthat you hear about Florsheim Shoes — 1 | their good looks, perfect H | fit, long endurance—is || fully verifed by the genu- ine satisfaction you receive when you wear them. $10-$11-312 Bookie: “Styhee of the Thee" oo egos | Fleraheim Law Shaws ave Sheleree Lined onl t Prep hep At tke atekle ddl ob the pal, | THE FLORSHEIM SHOE CO. 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WESTINGHOUSE BATTERIES 17 Service Sap eee are pray bo dulbll che Walia 4G = gnbee, of fo nent Weninghoiiae Agen: fan for Ube ‘latier moe in your gaa, (a, ery umes! ew f Leaning ank?es are dangerous IF your ankles lean either inward or ourwatd as you walk or stand, heed the warning, for you have Acel distortion which may cause serious foor trouble. "bo ot A weakened heel bone, giving down under the w of the body, forces other bones of the intricate structure out of place—foor weariness and pain are but signals of impending danger. The most progressive shoe deal- ers employ ome of more expercs whe have studied the widest and know hew to qorrper fone roubles by the Wizard Lighrtone Sestem. “isk your dealer if he can peovide you with this serv- icc, Tf nor, phone Tel-U- here Bureau or write us and we will tell you where you can pet relict. i: aed Lightfowe Ce, 1763 Lower Se, Sr. Lonsie, Men hb Bch Awe. Rlew York Cunard Me, Line rp Wizare) 8 ONTO SY This condition con be corrected by placing in the shoe a pliable leather device ao formed as to counreracy the abnormal wnden- cies of yourfoor, By this Wizard Lightfoot System fallen arches, callouses, leaning heels and other foor teeibles are sscccasfully corrected withur pair oor hiss comfort. Flelief is imemediare. CORE rede EVENING POST are able, through the awtamebile, to-do busingss in the city. Builders are able ta Aupervise twier as many contracts, bankers | get out among their depositers and bp- come meyuuinted with their enterprises | and needs. Ministers see thelr parishion- | ers oftener, wage earnera hold better jobs | because able to travel by automobile. re duce their rent by living in the count pie | food coats and add ta revenue by til ing i mece of land. Farmers cultivate Inereased acTeape and sometimes two separate farms by using the automobile te get around, haul produce ta marie. eliminating teams and | ee op roerhiney gol in Ba par nietor trips for re a peste and find markets for food prod- dicts which would otherwise go to waste. Another Interesting side light upon the wae of the automebile for erie and business rather than recreation is shown im some fi recently gathered by a corporation that an the distribution of automa- biles, juiries among automobile dealers indicate K gE neaghy half the automebiles. in, Ehis eountry are paid for in install ments, ranging from nine months to a yen. Farmers lend all war purchasers in this respect, ro cent of new paasenger cars bought by by them being paid for in that way, BE per cent of the used passenger cars, 40 per eent of the new rotor tracks, and 57 per cent of used motor tracks, Automobiles are commonly pictured in use for pleasure purposes—pienic parties, fishing, theater, social functions. It would be nearer thetr trge uses if they were shown carrying the doctor, farmer, county agent, contractor and aalesman about thelr work. | Ag long as -core are pictured as toya rather than tools. automobile men con thank themselves for the damage "pbs ure" does their industry. _ The automobile is not the only influence in bringing about changes in our cities, Street-rallway traflic is growing faster than population inmostafourcities. New York's subway and elevated systema are now carrying ane billion a pesmongers yearly, and two hundred ff Lion more commuters are cared to aod fram the suburbs. Trans- porttion is so much an everyday necessity to elty dwellers that the avernge family's trolley bill runs from aeventy-five toa hun- dred dollars yearly. In the effort to build its way out of tts trafic difficulties New York City is running subway and elevated lines out [nte cabbage patehes that will atimately be suburbs, and haa a twenty- five-year rapid-tronsit building program with a capacity of five billion passengers yearly, the estimated needs of a city of nine million people, Outgroun Surface Roads There is nothing difficult in figuring the growth oof aither mutoemobiles or rapid transit curing the mext five or ten yeurs, That can be plotted in fairly accurate curves according to growth the past ten years, The chief difficulty is getting con- ception of their bigness, and the far-reaching changes that must be made to prepare for chem Mere streets become impossible for han- ding all the traffic there is te be. Peeple begin to gee that, and provide for the future nlong two general lines first, sorting cut the different Kinds of trafhe; and second, oviding new channels for “the different inds, Street cars, automebiles, motor trucks, horse vehicles anal pedestrinns rast: be ae parated and given their own right-of. way where none can hamper of endanger the others. Already the disappearance af the surface street car has been predircbed in New York Clty—it is going underground and overhead to sweh an extent that out of the two and a half billion odd pemengerm carried in and wround the reap al mst year, les than one-third traveled in surface cara, With an actual decrease in the number of passengers in the most congested section, KManhattun. But if every surface cor in Manhattan disappeared to-morrow there would atill be in almost intolerable congestion of puta mobiles and pedestrians. For this the solu. tian in New York, and probably in a few other American cities, is to separate the aubomobiles, too, and get them averhend or underground. New York has made a he finn ilng tn both ecinertions, A larger Pirdepaur= tion of its auton trallie fe now running ap Fourth Avenue, climbing an incline ta rench Pork Avenue, around a concourse at Grand Central Station, and continuing up | eure Avenue, which is almost exclusively | given over ta automobile traffic, th April F, not elevated. And a heginnin nd automobile travel has starting a veblcular tunnel b&b ew York and New Jersey, This 3 four tubes on two levels and will be tH automobiles, motortrucks und horse: Two suggestions for stra oUF growing traie troubles in and the country have been advocated for same years b Swetland, one of the auta leading publishers, First, an elevated road for awterg which would lift them above other! abd enable them to travel at the qpeeis, Such a highway in Wear “ky a is needed from City Hall north th Lafayette Street. and Fourth Awern necting with Park Avenue. There weal ramps at frequent intervala by which iene eouled reach or leave the rea rl gi Nothing but passenger aul ilea would be allowed upon a ana ual Tove gt speeds of thirtyr miib hour or more, It would be a noisele: vated road, and could unquestionah made lighter and more sightly thar ted reads upan which trains = The number of pass re by mutorng in New York City la copatantly imere and problems of getting up and down during the rush hours are becoming and more Hives with an alarming: ime in accidents. New York now has one mebile to each cight families, Chicaga to every seven families, St. Louis on three families, and Detroit is rapidly! preaching the millennial state where e family has its automobile, the present 7 being ome car for exch 7.74 pbrsonms. Plans for Detroit and Baltimor The second suggestion is that speci automobile highway be built between al cities, a0 located that they do net pa through the important streets of towna a villages en route. Most towns now hay their own local traffic problems and day gers, and to add intercity motor traffic t them is wrohg—it amounts to the sam thing my Fanning ra railrond earn th their etreets connecting high will ultimately have to be provi bo ba motor trafic around the outskirts of com miinitie: and eliminate rai and eroeaings. In many sections the tradhe al ready points to double highways, separat ing trafic in each direction, or the moto truck fram the mutemob hile, Elevate roadways are now belng discussed in Hal timore and Detroit. Elevated street eros ings art already needed at the mast cangested points in many of our cities, None has as yet been planned, hot the idea offers some interesting possibilities, Apart from the im: inte speeding up of motor traflie by eliminating Cross currents at con gested corners and separating pedevtrians from vehicles, such two-tech street crossings might double the number of desirable shep locations at potntain cities where the great eat number of peaple pass and where abo are in greatest demand. Stores choca built underneath the elevated crossi ao that instead of eight blocks of desiraile shops there would. be simteen. In some cases automobile highways can be provided by widening thoroughfares and psoyiding new ones at street level, Detroit one af the moat thorough plans in this ite erty fathers laid “s . direction. Years a wut a great boulevard encircling the city, at a time when it ran through fen and unde veloped suburbs, They thought it would preside for all time, remombering that they din mind only a speedway for the dog eart and team of trotters. Je does Be vide ~ pereel for present-day automo travel, oner reached, Elot streets in be tween this boulevard and the center of the elty are a marrow crigseresa mare through which travel is becoming ever more difficult and dangerous, So the new city plan calls for an inner ring of wide which Will be cut through street and buildings, oe eee dgc the outer boulevard another ring ea be laid down in the fields, hevyond that again s#ill another when it ia needed; once started, with foreérhn the scheme can be endleasl rogreSeL ve Detroit is also planning to broaden some of the connecting thoroughfares and cut olf the sharp corners at street cmetogs, These were all very well for horse and pedestrian travel, bat the automobile de mands curves instead of corners. Li was in Detroit that » study of street aechdents disclosed the interesting fact that (Continued on Pope Ji)

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THE SATURDAY a oe In ha eal pre “le we che = prow 2 aqeeTionives ak « WE Pec. THAT YOUR PROTECTION MAY BRE MADE GLT J fF |] tl, We gait ba on ir Leet jul mt, and imprinted BB sis] COMPLETE , lake be Geral than dimple manning : | wae Bvt tie & thee, the trade name RUE CERSET. Claims fo duplication of oer ro proces are arid. #8 that they were prt ucts of RU IBBE RSET Aal tftacmmmen, Confoemg inv ant pout RF our : COMP: ANY — me” uaa 4 a the teas anil nels frads fans are Freceniner nly Founna. ; Ais I hcuctil ur is allah F-1 SIMUL ARE I \ a A I IDENT TY! = INDUSTRIAL wadely aa sie a fer by nee ar SEEM in be made somewhat like a Fl BBE REET, GETS fT! CAL i _ KEW ARK, NEW see u S.A TORONTO and GRAVENHUBST, CAN Wand after you have asked for RUBBERSET BRUSHES bynameN | look for THIS trade mark-find it- SPELL IT OUT!/- R-U-B-B-E-R-S-E-T forinno other way canyvou ALWAYS BE SURE of" getting the GENUINE RUBBERSET you asked for! From the time we made THE WORLD'S FIRST BRUSH which could safely be used in any compound in which a bristle brush might properly be asked to serve, we have stnven to put into every brush of our making | [THE BEST Tedaw, nn brush is an RUREERSET. Fas m pea a Te UY are 5 t amply ASKS Ae a PRU TREERS 1 ‘ brogh, at 1 eH INI DS like RUBBERSET, fot oe olf MOT ACCEPT ONLY THE GENUINE. Should you fee ta enc of fhaae rare pla Cem ib fiere RURBERSETS ore ot obtannoble, fell ina, mat ae im! gladly arrange fa fawe poor wants srppiied, RUBBERSET COMPANY RUBBERSET COMPANY, Ltd. EVENING POST Thea for either the professional or the “occasional” painter they leave no bristles on the job!- every bristle _ gripped EVERLASTINGLY in hard rubber! ~they cant come out!! of the family that has produced the Woricd's Stoned $harte Brush.” thas Eve Pcs vad Wend TelletinLineG LT ee ILILIOLILILE GEL IGE te a Cag 2 APET ; Le! noth Brush. of quality in both matenals and waorkmanship. nt hip geetection lurks this abd MOT be cra td od a br nina. lt “Fy. pereot whe ude nome thea LOOKS like BL BRERSET, be Ur, FACTORIES

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104 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST aps Noemae Roce we I} ! see em bumped every day “Here's the place to pick ‘em out—the wise ones and the other kind. Seems like some fellows never learn—always sliding and bumping and backing up; making everybody sore. Take it in heavy traffic, like | have here at this corner, You can spot the man who's got the good brakes. When | give ‘em the signal he knows he can Stop werme?o. . . 4 Silver edge Raybestos is the thing to use. Gora = little bus myself, and [know . . . . Df more people'd insist on # Raybestos when the brakes are lined, I'd have less trouble on this a job... . Cost more? Sure—but what's a few cents compared with safety and I'm here to keep folks from gettin’ hore.” Raybestos mav he a litle higher in price, yet so much depends an the brakes that careful owners cheerfully pay the cifference in order to be certain as to brake lintng service and quality. BRAKE SERVICE FA Lyin Tats sign aver the door of a garege or he pair shop indicates not oly the respon. sibility of the shop dinplaving it, bat Branches: Detrt, 2671 Woodward Avenue San Francisco, &p4 Pose § asrures better drake service fo the owner. THE RAYBESTOS' COMPANY Factories Bridgeport, Conn. Peterborough, Ont., Canada Chicago, 103 South Michigan Avenue Washington, 9.0. 16+ Cedumbran Building

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 105 Contes fram Page [G2} rent item twenty-five dollars monthly, and cghest percentage of them ocecurred turns it into an investment. There is a es cask. Children especially were hurt further saving in trolley and railroad fares, ecestat that time. Playinginthestreets, The family garden cuts grocery bills, It @ ran cut in the excitement of their probably costa him aix hundred dollara a ces and were struck by automoabilists r to own an automeobile—a liberal al- io the dim [ight did not see them in lowancr for gasoline, tires, repairs, interest he fo tern or stop, This led to some and depreciation. Hut half of that is saved eresting safety-first teaching in schools. dives in rent, his income has been in- Leven were taught something about the , his family ia itt J in a more eeciive coloring of animala—white fur healthful and congenial neighborhood. He cast atic snows and brown feathers in is getting so much more out of life that the jeod wood. [pon this was based the car isan asset, nota liability, and muming oe) suggestion of wearing something that half his riding chargeable to pleas- co when playing in the streets in the ure, it costs him less than one dollar a day. 2g, Of Sven Carrying a newspaper— ‘hen families are measured for guscline evar which have decreased the number transportation, using such dimensions as es scodents, ; these—honv-ownlng versus rent, increased Fat better street lighting, eapecially at working ability and carning power, better oer, 6 the real solution, say those who th, more recreation and the like—suto- oe studied this question. The familiaor mobile ownership by people of moderate = ight saeper over the center of a means le ne mystery at all. Even for wage net coming is not only inadequate but earners, with low-priced and used care eeptive. Tt gives dangerous contrasts of available, the automobile ia not an extrava- b= iedehadow. Approaching, the motor- ganee, Cithes reconmstrwebed on the lwsis of Pe eye is first dazzled by glare, and then an aytamolbile for ew fori will make gaso What Do You Do With Your Evenings? Your tomorrows begin today. Tomorrow will bea better day; your work will seem lighter, your mind happier, if tonight through wholesome amusement you find the relaxation both tired brain and tired body-need. a Gof by the top of his car. Several it possible to profit byt me horse in ipteds are needed before the eye becomes just this way. ; ested to the change, while half as many In the country far-reaching changes are bring him tothe danger point. In alee under way, cbref interval a pedestrian might atep Miotat-tradi: tranapurtakion waa reaorted e the curh and be practically invisible. to during the war to supplement our over- bb bet one lighting difficulty that en- loaded railroads, A committer of autame- es life in both elty and country, and = bile men began planning routes for army vmedy is more light at danger points, motor trucks. They discovered that our eeluly diffused to show up everything country roads, even good ones, are still Fioout glare, shadew or fluctuation. laid out pretty much on a buggy-distance fre of the problems touching the pecket- husis, satistucbory enough a generation ago enk of every person in our citiestistoopen for the average trip of six to eight miles = mabertan areas that lack railroad ond between farm and town, but entirely in muley transportation so that gasoline will adequate for intercity traffic by automobile reSeve housing apereage: Building high- and motor truck. rays to the outskirts is mot difficult, but This was almost the firat suggestion that cowsle looms up at the other end of the we needed something better. pite the | yea ice in the form of downtown traffle con- phisehrend be) lar interest. in poe ronda. P A I H E wstion Mr. Subbubs builds a house ten the public Io a comprehensive pleture cules from the city limits, and travela by of what ip neeled, and ia thinking, appro ; Exchange, Inc. The greatest entertainers of the world,—novelists, dramatists, art- ists—have been brought to you by the motion picture. Keep fit and happy by regular attendanece“at a good motion picture theatre-in your neighborhood. motor, This is quite practicable for many priating and working piecemeal, abe employwes, The ten of twelve miles. {rant bit house to the edge of the congested Highway Engineering danrict ig covered in twiceas many minutes, : Ther it takes aa much longer to creep “The limiting factor in the use of the istea¢h two miles of congested downtown automobile ia highways," says an enginoer ' rire: to his factory or office. The cities of en ingovernment investigations in this : : - iemorra® Will have to speedup that finsl field, “Ask moet people what they consider | = 2 two mile and probably provide parking the limiting factor in highways, and they |* ; : ‘arilites of some sort at their centers, ao willeay,‘ Why, money!” But there is plenty tfomcbiles may be used by owners who of money for pr ektteed highways. We Goethe own, When thatis dane, slums spend hundreds of millions every year. I'll wil decreage in the cities, just as isolation tell you the real limiting factor: It is men | a tecreasing in the country through what trained to plan and build highways on o | ttactomohile men call the socializing in- scale in keeping with the enormous growth | foc of the gasoline horse, which is coming in mobor traffic. | ja | Automobiles have been sold in the post prepecly pot adie creer the United | argely on appearance, speed and similar tates who could lay out a rational system | cease appeals, When they are sold aa of highways, Plenty of engineers can build | Vampertation, and this socializing and good ronds, but we lack creative designers equaliting influence has a chaneetowork,n of highway syatems. Only three or [our ectoin mystery will be cleared up—that colleges in United States have real etpteeed inthe familiarapeculation, “How highway-construction courses, One of our | © fn Seth afford an automebilet™ first taska-is to put highway engineering | | into the imagination of the young fetlow Secondary Benefits | ing to coll dd in- | cing to college, aa a carer and u4 on in- oe in. interesting mew technical field." | _A moment ago we were listening to 4 The president of a ble tire corporation 1 | Gaseline Row conversation between a pro- recently donated one hundred and thirty | § rectivemotor purchaseraundangutemobile thousand dollars to build an ideal mile of mieman. Let that prospective purchaser highway, Engineers were left to settle mith a bank cashier, salary five thou- technical questions, euch aa materials, and dollirs a year, living ina city apart- foundation, location, width, adaptability to ment, paying one hundred dollars a month present and future traffic. The question feat. He buys a car for one thousand orate ye aroet, “Whoet ia the ideal dular. For the first six montha it is used clefly bor recreation. ‘Then plessure riding legica to pall, the novelty wears off—a laniliar story. But Smith finds his car undy in petting about on business errands, Tepito nowadays seldom come into a fork themeelves unless something wuusual trlegs them, like the negotiation of a loan, Boatlee banking is dame for them hy emphyes. Smith knows a good many l:pmctors within walking distance in the Geniown section, but others out in the ‘uttery and shipping districts are largely trea to him, Owning a tar, he can often highway?" Whereupon suggestions were rahe eee engineers all over the United States, In technicalitics, opinion Was batu- rally diversified; when It la built this ideal mile of highway may be a composite affair, with different sections built in diferent way, eombining an experiment station with w demonstratian. But on one point there seemed to be gen- eral agreement, with decided anxiety that it, be ae Lechner peackat at be the acer LE Doe oO Gil TOW fi PES PR in the comunity where ik na built. Benefit te folka living along improved high- When Hot Days Come HEN —you will enjoy the care-free comfort hidden in the cool, shaded spots of the open. Go prepared for restful relaxa- tion—equipped with “Gold Medal" Folding Furniture. Medal" is comfortable—and it's built for outdoor use. Light in fete out to some factory or warehouse ways, the engineers maintain, is as big a hen a important business transnction factor as benefit to people using the im- comet Up, ited of writing or telephoning. proved highway. t improved rants ite beging to get acquainted, picks up in- increase property values is an old story. formation useful im paw ing on loans, a= People are sometimes astonished, however, rahi aoe rapier ascti arquaintunce, When rowl improvemenia affect state of lareing cotimeel, the offer of special service. mind and raise paychological values. Chan Saith’s car makes him worth more to the dirt road past Peter Tumbledown's | tht bank, and before be has had itm year farm to macadam, concrete ar even good | the back responds with an intresseinsa - gravel, and brafic increases, More peagele: Fotbemore, Smith finds that he can Fe past Peter Tumbledown's place, Peter bty.a suburban hows twelve miles out himself! goss to town oftener, When a fo werenty-five hundred dollars, paying picket fell out of his fence in the dirt-road wenty-tive dollars month. This cuts his days, probably he let it lie, But now he weight, compact when folded, casy anc convenient to carry wher- ever you go. Time tested—thirty years of world wide use has proved its rugged durability. ASE for the Genuine “" Gold Medol."" INSEST om it, Reltable dealers have it or con getdt for seg, The some ond trode mork ore om every piece, Cofalog on reqeest. Geld Medal Camp Furniture Mie. Co. 1706 Packard Ave, Recioe, Wie, U3. A. for AY votre males Gf fae fetfiap Jareiure

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Rents" — and testimonials eovering pears af service L. SONNEBORN SONS, Inc. Ti Pearl Street New Work The Points Where Most Roofs Leak =-| Pieahinga - - Sa aT oy lSinli clolea= = Joints, F Yours without cost—a month of wonderful shaving free the keenest biucle you ever usel—Twinplexed. Any ‘Twinples dealer will rive vol, weely coi compliments, a new Gillette or Durham Duplex blade ve smoothest shave vou ever had. A month of stropping—a monch ot shaving comfort are vours for the askine Test the wornderhul “rhe Twinples insures. A hundred velver shaves from one blade, Many men cer ive hundred Vake rhe Covel PST hue hea fio WaT dealer, abiel ingke vour shaving and eour sie velvet ae 2 al stropped far cantore ECO =a 7 i el a ee es eS ee ee — = ——— + E TN Se - em ee ee Se fixes the fence, palntae it, paints his howe, cleans unsightly odds and ends out of the barnyard, and responds to the higher pay- ! chological valuation. The moet skillful technical planning for the improvement of our cities and intercity: highw will not get wery fur unless it is backed by understanding and good will on | the partof the public. Sosay the men who are awake to these now needs, — “Have they gata good plan?" asked one engineer of another who had just investi- ted the Riis ea work of a Middle Pestern caby's planning SHMmission, “Yes, [ think [e's alpewt as sound and far-reaching aa any Tye looked inte. “Have they got public opinion? Are the peaple out there interested —well informed—behind the scheme?" “They took care of that at the atart by establishing an information bureau as soon aa the engineers head resalis of public in- tere." This is sound method, When engineers are set at work mocappine a an aie WuYs, ting ready to spend millions dois in aidenine tharoughtares, demal- ishing buildings, constructing subways and elevated highways, arrangements should be made for keeping ne pubic informed. There are many unsolved tough technical noted in euch projecta, Even an art as old ne poad building still lacks whole series of expenments tashow what renliy hogeyernes to thoroughly familiar materials under differ- ent traific, climates and conditions. Hut the engineers will work these technical mat- ters out. The Joh of putting the facture inte the popular imagination is greater, Wery often the technical man himself pis only park of the picture, A certain sistem «ity mecds wie improvements, The mayor appointed a commission to deal with thie ty When the members fret came together the city engineer exhibited a complete plan, showing docks, a big wares howe for freight, and ample railroad tidings to link up ehip and shore tranaper- tation. He was something of 2 squarehead temperamentally, and seemed to regard his plan as final. One member of the commission wae an engineer with considerable experience in mater transportation. “You have provided for expansion?” he shiggesbed. “Wh, certainly,” said tho city engineer. “When this warehouse is outgTown you ean just duplicate it, adding another unit, and extend your sidings,” Looking Into the Future “Within ten year." commented the transport engineer tactfully, “40 per cent af the wnte ae freight of this city will he hawlecd to and from tie harbor by mater truck. How about that?” The city engineer hesitated a moment, “Well, there is a road running down ta the harbar," he said finally: “How wide a road?" Several newspaper men head come to re port this first meeting of the harbor com. mission. They auddeniy became attentive, Seo did the mayor, who flushed a little. “Tins that ordinance been. yet, Charley? he wked, turning to his secre- kary. No? Well, when that goes through the harbor road will be forty feet wide." Tha teporters made notes on thia addi- tonal item of farsighted planning, and the aS cs switched Lo ather matters. be When the session ended and the reporters had gone, however, the transport engineer wiked the city engineer; “Wouldn't it be jist as easy to make that road sixty feet wide?" “T think we ought ta make it eights feet!" anicl the city engineer emphutically; he had got the bigness of the picture, People have a way of thinking of per- Tee in connection with erties aud high- wiys, They are partial to mantimental brulldiniges and permanent strects and roads, Until the public gets a conception of our cities nnd highways ws living, growing or- gunisins, Chey are likely to be ten te twenty vears behind trafic, housing and other ele mente of growth, Tosk. is iui ly the first thing people think about —the man in the street wonders where all the money ia coming fran to pay for these new boulevards, elevated mater wis; trunk rans between cities, Given further information—not el ag bade but real informatiaon—coet takes a secondary flace in his thinking. For the benethta out- weigh cost, ane there are cases where euch improvements more than poy their awn way, Apri’ ff Buenos Ales probably gives om cheapest taxicab ride tebe found ams an varth, and alae the most heir-re Fares start at fifty centavos, mor about tyenty-tw0 cents, and that Sur one almost any rexsonable distamece i business district, ‘Taxienb chauffeurs like the wind through the narrow, on streets, and stop deadin a hands ber at each corner where another webhis crossing ahead of them, Excitemne great, but accidents seem to be few. This skill grows out of the citw i Buenos Aires was originally an old Sp theckerbourd town with shart blocks narrow atreets, To get anywhere i automobile it is necessary to speed bet streets, und stop instantly ot ewers | sireet where the other fel has the: of way, Opening the Checkerboard Motor traffic soon made it mecesear do something about congestion im Eu Aires, so firsta broad boulevard was pels to connect the capltel and the peressicl palare. Thegovernment ht just ems nd to lay out the splendid Awen ich Mayo, with the outcome that porog owners on either alde reaped the beretit increased valuationa—though there was COUPE, & Corresponding revenue ta the a in increased taxes. Profiting by this less the government planned a larger schem heulevards to open up the old Spar checkerboard, It laid out a diamond-sh system, with each corner ending in m pla cutting the oldaquareblackseatly corner making hurd af flatiron lota and bri ing every part of the ¢ ted sect within o few blocks of a wide avenue. stead of condemning and purchasing jr the width of land needed for thie ayvetem “diagomales,” as itis called, thre times | width was condemned, the aty dermal ing bwileings and eelling the lmprowed la on either side at its higher value to pay f the improvement. Another interesting instance where su improvenenta are made to pay their wi ia found in the coming use of marine sien lighta on country highways, Virtually amounts to putting lighthouses on the hi ‘3. Many thousands of unattends lighthouses are new in operation all ov the world, fram the rou waterd | Alaslca und Cape Hom to the steering ligh af the Panama Canal. The unattende lighthouse is illuminated with acety ler gas, # supply sufficient for one or tro year being held in @ tank, so that yearly wisil for recharging keep the light going. Duar CFOS Crossings, curves and grades hay no marked on our highways ever sinc the automobile made lt necessary. Some thes the signa are put up highway: officials, but more generally they are fi nanesd and installed bi automobile onzaril mations, or take the form of advertisement, for automobile easentials. Country big. ways are atill inadequately marked. Signs are moet uniform. They wear out. They sire not visible at night, theirchief shoricaming A marine signal for road purpose, Mirning nine months before it needa recharging, bas now Exern developed. Many stale pawery- ments ire about to lnstall them oc a large écale, with standardization, and the idea has met with approval in many other states, However, there is a difficulty —the cost, MMaintenanee is cheap enough, but installation of two signals at one dangerous eroesing calls far an investment of sever hundred collars ia investment, it hos been found, can be met by combining an advertising privilege with the signal, and within a few yenrs they will undoubtedly be flashing everywhere along the route of the motor tourist, and will cost the com- munity lithe or nothing, But even though the direct cost of each improvements Funs inte millions of dollars, either ie city or country, the indirect tot ig nothing. For increased property valua- tions, with more revenue from taxes, take cure of that, Renlesxtate values rin not only along the line of the meadern motor way but far back in the adjoiming streeta and sections, and out at the edges of the city, where extensions are ma ible. Your town to-morrow will pay the bill gute matically out of taxes because the proper that wields revenue will be more wreessile, asnful and profitable, and there will be a great deal more of tt. Aod there ls every incentive Lo make improvements now while the property to be condemned is more renzonable in value—postpone the ici boemarrow and the coat may be prohibitive,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 107 Correctness at aster-tide OOD taste and personality are truly expressed in the selection of jewelry. Personal adorn- ment that befits each occasion is a mark of good breeding. per = “ ie eS - Jewelry, wisely chosen, isas proper after many years have passed as it is today. Regardless of money cost, its bea uty is steadfast, its sentiment is enduring, and its intrinsic worth never dims. Your jeweler, with an offering ot hundreds of inexpensive articles, will be glad to guide you in your sclection. fit Four feweler ~ e, Be Dour Gift (Counselor bIAMON DS += PEARLS + FPRECIOUS STONES - JEWELRY + WATCHES «© CLOCKS «© SPTLVERWARE

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THE SATURDAY HE AXIOM OF PETER BELL IVOR (Comtinged fram Poge 10) be deo aent him up three fights to o of atthe poomea. The rear door opened kreck, gl Mr. Peter Bell Ivor bade = er. 2 Toor wae small, housing an old pine 8 o burrem with = cracked mirror, anol Lut washstand, a cupboard in which lew dishes could be seen between the ‘tains of burlap, a shaky card table that -wared to be on the punt of collapsing der the weight of a dosen or more heavy femmes Plbed hit of miss about a heap of fe, and two caneseated chairs. Two the walls were lined to the eciling with eke on pine shelves. The single window we a prespect of other back windows an ey fre escapes, all crowded with milk athe, jars, boxes and bedding, clothes ws so close together that they seemed to terlace, and eo gaunt old Chinese Ailan- as growing up somehow through the net- ok —Uhat pdentical Tree of Heaven which, = ie celestial fellow, the laundryman, wrsher In back yards aid dingy by wayn. We mig Mr. Case eet dawn et adr tae by the door and advan Father gly into the room, thrusting hia hands eo his peckets as be looked about him mb ise frank curiosity of the young, An W@omepebot etuck in the mirror [rame ikht be eye, and bending over he made st the thin figure of Mr. [vor standing be me what appeared to be a Pariian café. Then he cried aloud, “Why, say! ‘There's be old Café d'Harcourt! But those girls ave such funny hata!" “That Mecture was taken in 1896," re= marion’ Mr. Ivor in his drier tone. “1 was Sadying at the Sorixenme at that time. In hal I went to Berlin: in 4 to Bonn. ior, Lee" "| =a. born to Bhat following June." Indeed?" There waa a pause: then Mr. Ivor re aa ked with great di ity and not a little a Fal 2 f d-worldly charm, “I have ass that (a would join me at bincheon.” “Th bevy, on sawfully nice! | ——" The fusti teft Case's check, eect Pd sorts pad a Sethe toast fl “Tn all this excite- ten that [ve only peal soir 3h since yesterday "Excellent! Just make yourself aa com- ‘orale 22 YOu Cal. ind swifthy he went to work, setting out plates and cys on the barenu, Botti cfs to drip in a two-story tin . Pro toon 4 and milk from a ama ‘in ick tao cad | making an omelet in a chafing dish. paung tman’s raved acer the 7 dea were cowded in on the shelves Saniing and crosswise, Many were in Frost, nay pcsiole seik Ttulinn, sume In what op 2 Arabic bife Samekrit, and a titi nian i ‘Latin ve Greek. The Seat ne gnc ceta tat Tere as well; and, t, the Fumdan. [twae polyglot collection indeed, Macy of the works were of a philosophical ature, others philological ard historical. fut there was. much human matter as well—the plays of Schnitzler, Hauptmann val Sedermann, a puyoualy fat Wustrutedd Yoield, the pove ia of Fritz Reuter, mitered works of Balzac, France, Sainte Baive, Hacine, La Fontaine's Fables, Saint= Sena s Memuirs, Philippe de Corn lives: a (anhber of fine editions of the Elizabethan dnamatis, too, with Chaucer, and some wertly lettered volumes of manuscript— early Anglo-Saxce, perhupa. Prowling om, te Analects of Confucius, the Koran in jarulle! translation, works on Buddhism, ote Mongols, on Dravidian riper Hoe ed aso tow of the German philosophers Sum Hast to Haeckel, that seemed fairly tite aimed out from their shelf like a bat+ fery_of bag pans, “Uf you think you're reading my mind Troms cay bees ves "— it was the deep Pine at ite moet irenie—"* I fi alraid you're lat of the track, That iem't even an index ‘o oy beginnings, I've weed libraries for forty yeard, Ard mee T study from the life. Wi) you come, jbesuss'T* (her omelet and eae and bakery rolls L ant made hie repo “Ti certainly via toll aut, Afr, Ivor," “Tt bad to work owt. “That head cope ia my friend for life, Be’ got bie copy. Cane out etty well. Yeo, | was eo excitedl, Ho's trying to “ik up something he can dy for me, I tek Ae wante one of his little girl. sted at it, but didnt quite like to ok wight. * Might dao ac dol to do vt far him.” “That's what I thought, a& soon a " He stopped. “Hut where are the other pictures—his and ming?" “Oh, the man fram the Evening Barth haa them." In his eagerness to ent and talk at ones, he failed to cheerve the hint of a smile that hovered about Iyor's mouth, “He swore he wouldn"t mah them, One af the cope helped us pul them in a tux with him. And, geewhis, but we had fun ‘with the crowd! Once or ‘twice there I thought they were going to ae me under, 1 CD pS WET Woe “So the Evening Farth has the siory?" “Oh, four or five other papers hud men there, ton, but the Earth man got the pic- tures. He was first. The others all snap Photographs. Then there waa o fellow t Bays he semis Letters to the oalzaF town Papers ——" At last he aay that hovering emile, and paused, ; “Well,” waked Lyar, smiling broadly now, “are you atisfied?* “Whi, of course. Yes. bat ——" “Whence the! bug"? Yousaid you wanted to be known oso pointer, [sand we could tho Eb ty tomorrow. Here youd Ire irl in all the evening papera, in the f= town correapondence, two plebures be M4 Teproaduced today in the Evening Eart! that hudn't been ao much as thought of when we began talking this macriing." “T know, but —— "Bot whatt™ “The pluin truth is, it hasn't brought me I “ANE, ere I mean, here I am, still broke, still indebted to you Tor my things, for ety Geet mewl, far —— “But that's all so simple!" *Towish | could see how. It's true you've brought me this astonishing puldicity, my name in the papers and all, but just how ta turn that inte an income that I could ——™ “Lat me give vou a littl: more af the omelet, jin pel a yom can Peach the colfee bet ber yoursell ! Now we are confusing things. Dt is quite rita being known a8 a painter nay het mean iene | diate inoume, It's sure to result in orders or opportunities of some sort, but [ grant that you might have to be putient. Though bel are sure to be ways of getting B *“Dan't vabollds erates mel Tt isn't that “Please listen! T prefer to think with some senae of order. Sup T aecept your new position. Now, mind you, in so critical uo sibiation aa this we must be careful, above all, to limit our wants. That's where the most deserving persons go wroeng—oh, so wrong! Wanting more than one thing at Bh time, Suppo we say that we were mis taken. You merely misread your awn wunt. It was not—not immediately—to be known as a painter, Not atall, Tt was te ripped capital enough to suppert you while are bnailding SOUP Pare me a puinber. iiaiad word, what you really want ia money." “Oh, aay now! |. —" “Plouse! Leave it at that, Your want bs rire}. Money now, money down. Very ond! How shall we get money today? haere by oir where it is. Doesn't that ld et, age tours, but Uh, a hing me a completely all muy Chat. — “Excellent! My present impression ts that you paint better and mare rapidly when off your than when on them. Let's see—how where ls the money? For- tunately T think we may be able te work this gut without retracing any steps, Let's see, Do you happen to ace where Joka C. Heming's office is?" The young man pasped aloud, For Mr, Ivor, in this cosual tone, hal uttered the tame of Che mest famaus private banker in the world. “Tt'h in Wall Street, near the Stock Ex- change.” Ivor was talking on, evenly, “I don't knw much about that part of town. ay doen't interest me, But of course the 2c pa thing ia to hop on the Subway and own there, We'll find a telephone di- rs story somiew heore ate bok up the correct gddrese."' William F, wes storin incredulows, fuintly hopeful, bew lidered. "Just wait while I get into another suit, if you don't mind. Bankers have quaint no tions about the importance of clothing,” EVENING POST Tn Providence, RL- z erpeln fa inate teerrt af fa farce pearls, me forpe isersoy (haber lier tee! Altay equipment : letter? You have often said that. There is a oe fil- ing system lor your office. Let us tell you about it. BAKER-VAWTER COMPANY Serer olfers inf] Cities - Generel offers Benson Harker, Mich. 7s Gade = Pela Ghee ff. 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Factory a THE WHITE COMPANY Cleveland Years of Knowing H o w ee... rer | soever. | problem, And yot the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST And promptly he changed into another and newer costume—ol which the coat, inevitab ‘ iE suseereiieel waa ma block cut —that apparently completed bia robe, When he was fully buttoned in he still looked aaa unworldly, but neat. “All fight,” be anid chow fully, * OMmMe ston Adding, with cine ne ted touch of boyishnese—a boyishnesa that perhape finally and completely explained Peter Bell Iver—"“ New York is aur oyster! bei Fal proceed to a it! By the w there is an ua ‘in all Pes tof basie trut shores: of romantic aeakane D'Artagnan. had to have whut he wanted, The world was Monte Cristo's. Yes, romance ia true if only it go far La ig Young Mr. William F. Case, in a daze, wert with him —easel, color box, umbrella and all. FI Seat tell you how mueh T appreci- you'rs ——""—-" Thus he an, ¥, when they were fnirly snated in the ayy, when train. “Wot at all!" Me. Iver broke in. “Nat at all! The experiment has a certain value for me, One d stop ot nothing in arriving in actual practice at any canfirmn- tion of his general conclusions. I have ale ready made certain notes covering the littl a MICE Oe the morn I shall make ers eas that of this afternoon, As a Peele of may lifelong sn ao-called civilization | haye concluded, as [ have al- ready intimated, that that civilization is as in @ moet rudimentary Stale; thot the depeiel race, indeed, cannot yet be regarded aa civilized at all, The a strengthened this conclusion strongly. The news: nid fresh conbrmation day. Meme my obeervation tends the sume way— touching om the bitterness commonly ob- served in business competition, the preva- lence af trickery and serruption in com- merce, polities and government, the blind intolerance of religious reformers, prohlisi- tionists plaborleaders, manufacturers, miLlita- rints, soclaliets. security holders, anarchists and bankers. For example, it ia plainly grotesque that ao exsentially prronpernis a nation as our own—probably t proapereals in a! known gehirbbab ean ave ony Unemployment or poverty what- the ants have solved that bliely recorded views af this Mr. John ©. Heming, whem Even weate now presalng inte our personal serv= ire, opposing any really effective solution of the huge tnempoyment problem that unquestionably exists, border on the fero- aa It is really quite extraordinary, As nearly af To can read the eubeonsciaus thought behind the spoken word, he really woul Hl like to have most of the laboring clase. shot ateunrise. Hut ws that raises the ques- tion of whe would then do the work, and how—a question he can only beg—he is re- duced to the weunl vague phrases about the law of supply wd che aa plied to the labor problem. Add te defending the lib- erty of the individual and the sacred law af contract, (Clich’s, And, of course, to chat- ter about resiboring confidence, and thot sort of thing; meaning, naturally, confi= dence In his own group. It would be, of CMTE, A erent luxury to enjoy at one time the wealth and the confidence of all one's fellow atizens. Delightful! And then, not= urally"—thia was added in an absent- minded tone—“he believes in a certain amount af private charlie: Waturally,"" “It's like hearing a lectore," thought young Mr. Case, staring nervously aut through the car window af the crowded local train they were at the moment qver- taking and passing. A pretty girl in a red fox boa looked demurely at him through the windews, She nearly smiled, and fora mncaant his thoughts wandered romanti- only. “You are doubtless asking yourself," Mr. Tver resumed, “the precise application af these somewhat rambling observations ta your own acutely personal problem, The fact is, I] have reduced my gen- eral obeervatlons to an axiom: That any reasonably civilized individual should be able to use and mald this childliln world as he chones:, Study af the men whe have succeeded in such efforta adda confirmation. Fartheularly each cheap adventurers aa Napoleon, Julius Casar and Captain Kidd, Our truet student of the human ecrentire ta date wes Mr. Barnum, The thing, br- deed, to one who has not thoughtfully con- sidered it, is astonishing. This afternoon, for example, it will only be nectar for you to bear in mind that bankers are fully 83 gimpleminded as policemen. Mlore ao, yori i indeed, betillise § points of contact with natural hum And you must slo keep itin mind tlh want money. You offer a decent ei qua, your art, but you want money average young man would allows bint foo! that he was suis something: ext aring. Then wuld open his om the thought that Mr. "Homing ‘2 Wants conflict with his own: and then he be lost, But you will remember thi Hemming’ a winks are boo eS = ern you ln the elightest fray concern yourself only mite Woot your ee want of money. You will be g@ood—-hu but adamantine, You will be simp: rien, from Paris, who does cise | yr cia priate it in a lil are Ls ou will readily seo, it would mea teed ized ta d ds tele k diseayobbe rs matter ia net quite clear te me 3e amount you ahowld charge for your + ortraits, But I have thought tha undred and fifty dollars each mougeht i gues ato price as any. re “Too hundred and if{——"" “Considering that you can doa ome hour, Remember you mustn't appear cheap, and you mustn't ap bo Wu do them. Df these bankers see that sa amilingly pick up a thouzand or fro day they will be foreed te respect They "ll weleome fou ae to the mianner | Their minds couldn't receive auch a fa any other way—wouldn't know how Te found a cigar store within the sho of Trinkty Church, and leaked wip the dress of John C. Heming & Co. Tt is ha likely that as much as once before wi three decades had anyone found it na sary in that immediate ion to look that particular address. Had ar formed a few of the curb brokers w ae number of several buondred crowded awithed over in Bread Street, tha teholarly looking man and an attrac young artist were at the moment doing thing it is reasonable to believe that Eiread Street and some port of Wall Si would shortly have been loud in pverrimé Far @ ¥ in the world knew all ab John C, Homing, Hows ta New York a the world what the Hank af England wee Landon and the world. It was threaugh t and his strongtaced younger partmers t are Tailway systems and the bugest of ustrial trusts and emall nations and ba; nations were financed and relunded a mo ed, Strings of dependent har have waetly radiated in every direction from that i pressive as Mr. [vor waa Nght; ¢ money wiks Aa they walked quietly down Wall Stra Mr. Ivor said, “It will be weremary for 1 to adapt my conduct in a measure to tl human plane. You will paint t doorman. There will surely be sored there, prebably an old retainer of the es pany, Paint him. Purely becaise he inte eats you as a type. No ome, you see, cy westhon the artist's choice of his subjec here he is supreme. For that work we will accept no fee. Tt will be enough, think, ta offer the man a photegraph of tf picture. And if other employes or olfles: should want such photographa, itwold b better togive them freely. You canafford 3 be kind. And certainly you eineot alfer to accept amall gums. For any other wor. that Mr. Hocing or his pasociates mai! insist on your doing—ond for whatever nmimber you may have the time and th: lndination te da— ue Will iniat, of course on Tull Payment. ws Bagh dprcd hr pani tha! wry, anc they must hov all, onee we are in there, you mast a, riviai own way. Pay no attention to anythin, I ma Set : a tisk “Wha-whak are ing todo?" asked the younger man freathleatly, though his eyet were alight again and his color high. hey shood before the maasive stone build- ing, engl Wall Street surged, jostling, about "y havent t the Fernotest idea." replied ase Ivor calmly, "Come, These bankers peyery comfortably early hours.” eer he bed the wea fin ‘the stom steps into the massive building, pausing, how- ever, on the top step to remark, by way of final wdmonition, * And post resem ber—they are ehildren,”* Pir RK. 1VOR stood in respectful dignity by a desk that bore the name of one of Mr, Heming’s purtners, a neme known wherever the pever ol Armereas money was felt. Mr. Ivor was, indeed, probably (Conmtinwed aon Page II)

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Tan Meeed From Page 20) me of wery few adult residents of New ee met e the wha aon with the special pales badge Sm iy to asking very kindly where he might mere some advice ina certain matter. saving the borish, dutifully smiling artist eratentiy to wait near the door, It = be inaccurate to pieture Mr. war as in anything but a state of marked — etcitement. Thisinwardly. The eetward man might have been that perfect momaly. a@ college president who didn't mnt money. But he was sensitively aware teat > poughiy was he putting his axiom or Humor by to the test. Ina number of ways the teat might go wrong. The boy sight mequal to it, for one thing. Prove wu ded Mr, [wor eh the actentist's aversion =m. inconclusive perimentation. “De you iaeue letters of credit?’ he ned. The partner etudied him with the pene- trating eye of the man who @ subtly aware that be must be very penetrating indeed: then smiled indulgently. “So,” he replied, as indulgenthy. “* Ne. ‘iourown banker will do that for you." But as be uttered the last two words practmatiion and indulgence her left his cetlenano®, and for a bref moment be became ce anprotessional aw te ity downright sorprise e Was staring di- rectly past his caller tewsrd the door Mir. Ivor turned, et ge eed aid i arias impatiently, said under hia breath, heavens!" is it?" ssked the partner rather “Ob, it's only Durien, He's just back ram Paris, He's ls ble," ee almeady the easel was up, and the hoy was irting color gayly about his colerue, while the doorman stood before tm. stiAy endeavoring to look exactly as the doorman of the most important private bank in America ought to look. The partoer, as Mr. [vor easily read him, ‘wae caught between rae a strong ans of form anda wholly human curiosity, Fuorthenpore, he wasn't cure what attita be abould seme towourtl that naume— Durien. Waa ita name he ooght toe know? Or were these men disguised rela? He waa ured of bree and properly mo, though somewhat confused as to just whet degree of dia bobllea! onpssition to confidence made a otherwise white mun red. On the other land. be prided himself on his quick judg- met of men; certainly oo simpler, honetter soul ever wande inte = bank than the man before him. Om still another hand, if we ma, a ee hime ae collector of old paintings old pectures, known by everyone to be Well” be remarked, “really! Of course we can hardly —— So that i young Du- nen! But what is he up toT Here?" “He sper to be oheessed with the idea @f gathering city types—quick portrait tketches, But be can't seem to renliae that he's oe longer in Parts, W hy, Chis morning he wet op his white umbrella in the middle af tke Filth Avenue trafiic—at Forty-second Street {™ “You dent mean to sny that the palioe lowed 37° The partner waa trying to fede hie interest behind a guarded manner, hut withegt complete success, Air. [vor laughed frankly, nodding. Ani there could be mo queetion that the brown ees behind the thick lenses met the care- folly veled gaze of the parteer with a sense @f equality, Ina way, this was o relief to THE SATURDAY the partner, He met ao few men whe could | leok at him rather than up to him. A part- nership in John C, Heming & Co. made one such a personage. The thing, even with its BMazcin repeat bess, eolld be a burden at tirnes., Hirmanly it was mot altegether an- pleasant te Wnbend a lithe. “He got around that little difficulty" — thus Mr. Iver—“by doing a portrait af the head policeman on the eroesing. Made two of him within twe hours, and gave him one. He owna Filth Avenwe now,' “Well, well!” observed the Fin rising, he melded, © Let's see w Oo “tf fou don't mind—just a minute!" said Mr. Ivor, reverting to his suppased errand, "You'll undera my nsking wheo Lexplain that I'm a scholur, aod very aeldom come Inte contact with these mat- ters. Is it still necesaary to have a passport to leave Mew York for Europe?" “Wh, yea!" With which, and a eeurtenus enough amile, the partner came cut from | behind hia mahogany railing. | Rete pen entered at that moment, and | y from desk to desk, laying: a eecaaee ape each. wee a brief fi q may," Mr. [vor ited up the paper, then laug afin. “Sure a 1 he sald, and ached, “The young ey ye The partner looked down at the pa tner. aut bees There on the first page was a phot pr of the white umbrolla in the mi e Fifth Avenue traffic: another of the amili Durlen, hat at a rakish angle, palette at brushes in hand; and a reproduction of the painting of Office O'Hare The partner walked with dignity over to si door and stood bellind the painter, ab- ping the astonishing epeed and firmness with aretha Eonar wae Tale ane dined, He even muttered approbution os the bh began to model out. Two or three other im ive gentlemen ap es whom he quietly “inoltoned to stan z It was Mr. Iver who ‘it in on this little scene. “Tm sorry, Durien,” he sald, “but I a can't wait, If you're iree, angund ook meup and have a cop of cader."* hed he strode owt, The young man, startled, looked up, and for the first time became aware of the dig- nified group behind him. “Oh! he cried softly, engagingly. “I dant belleve [ Really, nt Bauch & per fect head to paint that 1——" He caught himeelf and chuckled confidingly. "Tt's all right," said our partner, turning with an air of proprietorship ta the athera— “wary interesting! Go right ahead!" Fir EE-WHIZ!" said Durien, and giggled like a child at the end a a Weary and bay ae Hews Christmas. “Loo nad the door, put Caen his Chinas, an. tat over the bed, turning his poche inside out. portraits—seyen hundred and | "Three fifty dollars! In cash! In good old rock- bottemed, eoppe per-ribbed cewsh! Gee, but I'm a wreck!" And the happy artiat a himself on the bel, heediless of the ban notes littered there. Mr. Ivor, with a alight contraction of the brows, lighted the alcohol stove and set the coffer meacniee over it. ret of the purtmers cone to-day Twa more and old John C. himself = morrow moming—there's another seven hundred and fifty, Gosh! Wow! Holy | cots! ae | to be Inte, Mr. Ivar, but Wow! And in the afternoon they" re taking i a tS ge At Cansesbrork, Oregoa oo EVENING POST MONARCH Coffee i el Wanted! Reid, Murdoch & Co, internationally known as Coffee Importers and Pood Manwlacturers, announce —on their 70th anniversary—a btarther expansion in the opening of a new Eastern plant with headquarters in New York, Splendid Opportunity for Retail Clerks EP yo une one of dhe best retail grocers im your comaeunisy and can silvasce ae higher in pear prrachl pasition, (he annotincement offers an uoneul chan: bo Make o worth-wedk connection where you will enioy a wide field of endeavor and a splendid opportunity for aruwit. We want capabk, dinhitiois, coe ppetic ealrieen in Lhe following cies: Ma liee Pippi f Rivafe Palaed New Wend Peasovirosia Adoryleud Ao. Coren Aaj ke. Hailing. Proerehace ‘ghana Bethea Comer ied Sabeville Bearer Be aie tne. et | Hinghasnen Jobesienn Faelilk Th kam Tadd aed Pusce “bet Hee brady Sulpbeny c!bartniae Calais Woevenhy Schacecracy Cieemabene Vasa toan Pyar Fra! 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Tlicer tien, our execulives ard depertingnt Geiser eerved a6 apprenticeship in retall arocery smores, We want NMP more tie thems in ie East, Preference will be given to mem with record’ of rate im retadl stores, of under 39 years of dee. Referrers sequited [rom Peer ne em: Hoyt. Only Sp plows Hide In person will be considered. 14 yon area “onmer.” pee forward ta future with erewt pecseilulbbizes, coinon and eee we, We aber sliipoong mv Work Blow Bas. REID, MURDOCH & CO. 682 Third Avenue (Husk Terminal) Brooklyn, N.Y. Would You Too Like Extra Money Every Month? | pes R the past two years Mr. Charles Morrill, a busy gro- cery salesman in an lowa town, has hadextramoney every month for easy Spare-time work. And he ia just one of scores of part- time subscription representatives: of The Saturday Evening Post, The Ladies Horne Journal and Tire Country Gentleman who pleasantly and easily make their epare hours pay. Today there i auch a desirable, profitable part time for, if you prefer, full tire) position waiting for you! You don"t need expenence to qualify for it: we will train you and - equip you. We offer cash commissions and bonuses from the very start. The coupon below will bring full details, including our big free booklet descop- tive of the plan. Send it in todpy. =----CLIP HERE IF YOU WANT MORE MONEY----=3 The Curtis Publishing Company, 612 Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pennaylvanis Gentlemen: Please send! oe full details about your offer bo subscoiptian repreecdnta- tives, Tassume no obligation in making this request. HAME STREET TOWN STATE | 8 If you don": want te mintllats your copy of Tie Post, | list a @ postal cata inateudl.

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Li4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST HOSIERY ¢ for MEN ) ask by name for hosiery shows discrimination. To go just one step further and ask for Shawknit Hosiery shows good judgment as well. It is the buy word of the well groomed, SHAW STOCKING CO Aol, Atiaas. WANTED! Salaried Field Managers LEAN-CUT men with sales ability will be em- ployed to build up our subscription force in assigned territory. Specialry salesmen, teachers or ministers with sales training, insurance salesmen, high-grade subscription representatives, circulation managers and assistants: Here may be your oppor- tunity to make a permanent connection in a position paying expense allowances in addition to straight salary ranging from 335 to $100 weekly according to your ability. Permanent Positions With a Future SSIGNMENTS must soon be made in the following territories: New England States; North Atlantic States; Central, Middle Western and Southwestern States—as far west as the Rockies. Travel- ing, preferably in your own cat, within limited radivus dir- ing the week will be essencial. Surecy bond will be required, Send complete information in your own handwriting, stating age, education and business experience. Enclose best recent photograph. Give territorial preference. State fully whar qualifications you possess to warrant your selec- tion fora responsible position of this nature, Mail applica- tion at once to THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 609 [NDEPENDENCE SQUARE, FHILADELFHIA, PENNSYLVANIA PURCISHOURS OF The Saterday Evening Post The Ledies’ Home Journal The Country Gentleman nee across te the Steck Exchan Want. me to do the members of a lun club. 1 teld om [ really couldn't po on forever with these little sketches, but they per- eiaded me. Gosh! Wow Over the coffee he n arked: in more rr tonal mood, “We've said nothing about a basis of division, Mr. Iver. I don"t know what. Anything you decide would of course ault me, If a Stfaight fifty-fifty arrange ment. “My share,” eal his host with oom- manding authority, “is the ten dollars I loaned you this morning.” “But, good Lord ——" “You will forgive me if I have to say that my interest in these experiments haa been wholly seientifie, my life would por= hape be happier if [ eould limit my wants toa anything ao simple as money. is will forgive me for explaining that I aha be able te offer you yee cere i my time. I have expended a deal of ners energy today. There | on be a amull pen= alty to pay for that. You'll admit that what you might call my theary has stood the best oe have prue it ta. Vory good ! If mt any time you meet with new problems the solving of which would in aoe fresh way sirengthen that theory, you will confer a favar consulting me, "Par th T call it an axiom, because it seema such to my own thought, it will not meet with general scientific acceptance until if hes been buttressed about with in- numerable succesful experiments, and ™*— his voice shook a little, like that of a man who has been. under a severe strain—*‘and neo failures. The memory of him that lingered moet eee among the sanfaned ind exit rant thoughts la had pebiessab ases in a taxicab amd waa rolling camlorta an elt, apprepri- ately toward Delmonico's, WR IL picture of shabby loneliness—a gaunt, stooping gure in a doorway, with a background of the dingy litth: roam and the books, and beyond the windew the smooth! curving branches of the ailanthus tree and the littered, rusty fire eacapes, saying, in a deep volee that pulsed with emotion, “You ask what my ane preal want can be, [ will tell vou, Lt is thought. The moat dificult performance in the world—perhape unattainable to all but two or three in as many centuries, Thought! The one thing, alter all, that is William F. Case, after , Apraet Fp not wanted, este not in this Lar jazz and the hap God, the ha ending! Mot in this lund tha that ist rule od 5 ae and the boot re its teachers lees than ite url) that still tolerates that gro ue t' called Congress! To this terrible looerd a. am T doomed, while a hundred million e fox-trot past. But I shall net sta :-Eme pet hungry enough and Il ahall ke what to da—let hunger Pa Want I shall take as [ choose, lawlully, Imig at their simplicity.” William F, ee pulled down one of © iohiiog, ease and put his feet wp, chuckied defensively, becouse the pict brought a sensation somewhot worse ttl to his high mood, Queerold bird! Tec less a bit mad. Though he did check And that about boat! ing ware died hit nail on the head. Now, forinstance:, of e in hia life, he should be allowed a cock and, say, a bottle of Nuits, Seven Ihiand and fifty bucks, bones or simoleona 2 Wyre And more to-morrow! He'd howe theo peo it with a basket All you had todo waste go where 1 money wis! Tt oecurred te him that in his ais ern he had forgotten to smuke, sixerette. now from the gold case he A baught on the way upbown. wie a pretty girl moving sinwou along the walk in what he het of w et i ag hr e | ee happen to look, there'd be girls enough! Time encugh f them after dinner. If on Juliette could | wished over from the Bouleva Mon pernoasse! Great little old rota New Worl Already he could feel it pulsing i in his weir If only the crowd at Lavenue’s dow him now! Queer ald bird! But—— The ta mwung inte Fifth Avenue, He could aee th low structure that was Delmonies’s, A ser sation akin to purring set in pleasant! somewhere bebween bis cnt 4 and hi throat, would be nice. And a soup and a —cenviar, too—ond g aslad ani a souffé and coffee: and—oh, for a drink) Perhaps—perhapa, il he whiepered km ingly to the waiter and slipped bien tightly folded bank note, perhaps thi walter could tell bim of a place, For that was one af the five oraix thing he wanted most. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (More Than Two Milllon aad a Quarter Weekly) 1S folly protected by copyright and oothing that appeara in it may be reprinted, either wholly or in part, without special permission. The tac of our article or quotations from them for advertising promotions and stockselling achemes la never authorized, Table of Contents April 1,1922 Cover Design by W, H. DD, Koerner SHORT STORIES The Axiom of Peter Bell yor— Samuel! Merwin The Man With the Metal Face—Aichord Washburn Child L'Alouette, or Silken Vengeance—Gearge Kibbe Turner The Good Uncles—Parccval Gibbon ARTICLES The Time: Killerss—Kenneth L. Roberts Mr. Licyd George, His Character and Career— Prarie Ww, Nirat a oie S Your Town Toe-monow—fames H, Colla : Ye Genial Hoat—Fy « Hote! Man The Print of My Remembrance Augueiua Thomas ; The Coal Miners’ Cose— Eira Searles European Statesmonship and the Question of Nationalities Baran Rosen . J0 SERLALS. The Covered Wagon (In cight parts|—Emerson Hough. . Merton of the Mooies (Ninth port)—Harry Leon Wilson . . DEPARTMENTS. Editorial A REQUEST FOR CHANGE OF ADDRESS must reach us at beast thirty days before the date of the issue with which it is te take effect, Duplicate copies cannot be sent to replace those wredelivered Uerough fallure to send such odvance motes, Be sure to give your ofd oddreas as well os the new one.

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There is There is Pye aa —e—E SEE Sa —T CLs ee er na = er tn in i i a aii alin, i on ma aa tet te 7. Se L ) R.XLHorrsuor lo. .vNekers eS THE SATURDAY EVENING POST a HEATON last to fit your foot a B5e&ATON style to suit_your taste There is a BZACON price to fit your purse HE style of shoe that you select is the consummation of perhaps weeks of drafting and-planning by the Beacon staff of designers. A little higher toe on the one last, a trifle less curve here and a little more there; a few more stitches somewhere else; all of these details contribute to the authority of Beacon style. Yet style is but one of the factors by which Beacon Shoes have attained their present place. Capable New England shoemen, possessing a rare skill that is both inherited and acquired, insure the quality from which public confidence is engendered, We are as Proud of the Prices as we are of the Shoes The 1922 Beacon prices are a comfort to all who have been seeking the good pre-war standards of price and quality. The 1922 Beacon variety is of especial interest. At the price that suits your purse you will find the last that fits your foot and the style that suits your taste. Beacon Shoes for Spring: $5 to $8 1 4 TE GTC MEW ene heat Cf PAT AMES ORT r A E fiber dipetitiich! parr thede cal mip cy ee CS i ag aa i gl i aaa — Ga cer “hae tage a ee Se or ee ee a TH —— a Se -, i a na at a a r “ Bt ia ia tr yi Le re ——— Ee MANCHESTER, New HAMPsHiRe |

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116 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST One day’s shipments of packinghouse products from swift & Company's Chicago plants, September 14, 19.31 Each few represents one carlond Reprodoced from Swift & Company's (927 Year Book. Oneday'sshipments from our plants in Chicago, the largest live stock mar- ket, give some idea of the marketing service that we perform. The map shows the widespread distribution of the 182 carloads that were shipped on this one day. Most of these cars moved to eastern markets in the United States: but shipments were also destined for five foreign countries. These cars carried not only meat, eggs, butter, and poultry, but some were loaded with soap, hides, fertilizer, and other packinghouse products. Since the meat supply is so far from the principal consuming centers, and A day’s work in meat distribution since fresh meat must be sold within a week or two, the work of distribution to distant markets must go on con- tinuously. Otherwise people every- where would not have a never-failing supply of lamb, beef, “Premium” Ham and Bacon, ‘ Silverleaf" Brand Pure Lard, ete. Ability to furnish this service in localities hundreds of miles from our plant, at minimum cost and proft, 15 our reason for existing. Our profit over a period of ten years has averaged only about one quarter of a cent per pound—less than a nickel a week for the average family which buys only Swift meat. swift & Company, U.S.A. Founded If64 A nation-wide organization owned by more than 45,000 shareholders April |

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== oe The new Haynes 55 Coupelet is a smart, three-pas- cenger, enclosed coach with a body design which is conservatively and artistically individual. In it the Haynes engineers and designers have once more pio- neered the way. Finished and appointed with all the luxury and taste- fulness of the larger Haynes closed cars, and the utility characteristic of all Haynes cars, it especially meets the needs of the man or woman who requires a practical, serviceable enclosed car of medium price. The riding qualities of the new Haynes 55 Coupelet are appreciably evident because of the perfect body balance. One fifty-twe-inch seat trimmed in hand-buffed leather accommodates the three passengers THe Harnes Auromosre Company, Kohomo, Indiana + 1893: ae STRENGTH + POWER + COMFORT P.O BR. PACTORY THE HAYNES |S AMERICA'S FIRST CAR: al my r COUPELET and eliminates the staggered seat which has occasioned objections. The smart carriage effect is enhanced by the criangular-shaped windows, Exterior cowl lights, a spacious luggage compartment, and other fully modern touches combine its completeness. Roof, cowl and windshield ventilation prowide interior comfort in any weather, An indirect dome light, the improved Haynes instrument board, with the “push-button starter,” and other refinements add attractiveness to the interior Compact, light, with a istinch wheel base, sturdy chassis, equipped with the famous Haynes-built, laght ex motor, the § Haynes 99 Coupelet appeals alike to the pro- fessional man and to the woman of social activi tics. The production of the mew Haynes 55 Coupelet wall be limited. We recommend that you make VOUr Teservation now at your mearest Haynes showroom, * Exronr Oreice: 1915 Broadway, New York City, UL 5. A. 1 eet? be To An. [a

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COLGATE'S SAFE AND EFFICIENT Most people call a doctor for pneumonia. They don’t depend on “cure-alls.” So with pyorrhea—see your dentist if you fear it. Don’t depend on a dentifrice. Colgate’s cleans the teeth—the right way—keeps them sound between times of visits to your dentist. Colgate’s is safe. That is why more dentists recommend Colgate’s than any other dentifrice. COLGATE & Co. Est. 1506 NEW YORK Large size fubes Trath in advertising implies honesty in manufact at your favorife store $<

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THE SATUR} EVENING f A Teal Le ot" Ray, APR =U y9ay Farl Derr Biggers—Perceval Gibbon—Dorothy DeJagers—Maryse Rutledge Hugh MacNair Kahler—Princess Cantacuzéne—Joseph Hergesheimer

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Ts = THE SATURDAY EVENING POST al INSIDE view of a cont araped oma form fo aoa or Me Redon Pina — foadsome, refined, rick The Mc Bedwin Finish The handsomest Finish ever devised for the inside of a gentleman’s coat No wonder you young men everywhere are delighted with our McBedwin Finish. lt gives you an inside finish to your coat as beautiful as the outside. It completes the garment. Outrivals silk, Outlasts any lining. Holds its handsome appearance for the life of the coat. Yet it costs you nothing extra. Adler Collegian dealers everywhere are showing this McBedwin Finish. Tf you do not know our dealer in your town, we will gladly send his name and address. | Adie Collegian Clothes are aff anol for iewg irar, Silb-arirne arcuus Add ‘hein Bree atyde. hauls abruak fo percent pirekera. | Made by DAVID ADLER & SONS COMPANY +: Milwaukee Makers of stylish GOOD clothes since 1849 ADLER COLLEGIAN CLOTHES Smart styles for every man of 17 to’7o

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April §, | tailored like a man’s OU'LL like the rich fabrics; the expert tailoring You'll like the style; simple but distinctive lines You'll like the moderate prices Send for the booklet showing womens coats and knicker suits for spring; we'll tell you where you can get them, too —if you dont-already know Hart Schaffner & Marx Chicago New York

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. Published Weekly ‘The Curtis Publishing Company Crpeua B.A Cartis, President — hk me eobemghen. Wise Peesidient ane] Teer iri Fo %. Celliine Central Business Homeger Wialvee DB. Poller. Secrets Wiihem Berd, Adverriising Directar Independence Square, Philadelphia Leedas. &, Henietm Sareet Coreen! Garden, WC 4c THE CoPr 7 We, fre Cael THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Founded A’D' 1728 Sy Benj. Franklin Caoprrighe fs. 4 The Curtis Publighing Compesy in the Unlted S4etes aed Greet Beltakn Title Registered in U. & eats Oifice and kn Foreign Counties PHILADELPHIA, P.A., APRIL &, 1922 George Horace Lorimer LDITOR Churchill Williames, FS. Bigelow, ALE Beall, Arthur Bic Meogl, T. B.Cosiein, Associate Editors Entered a: Secomd-Cless Mater, Nu ewme lier 1, LETS at Ue Peet CIT com et Pile li le, Vader the Act ef Hench i, Ibo Addiienal Entry os Second-Class Maier wi Columbas. Ohio, at Decetur. Minos si Chicege. Wlinals eral ot Undiamepolis. Id. Eedjered oe Second-Class Hainer at the Powt- Office Department. Chews, Canode. $2.00 FP rcwcrinin Number 41 UCKET SHOPS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM 8y Richard D. Wyckoff OW the bucket shops first came to be known bey that name finanelal history does net clearly show. The legend rune that the bucket shop dealt in amall lote of grain; presumably tradera who could not handle [000 or 10,M0 bushels of wheat or corn made a practice of dealing with what would now be known aa didelot brokers, and for the want of a better term these brokers, who probably executed oder for 1000 and up, or “by the bucket," were known as bucket shape. The origin of the term is of emall moment, but the buckel-shop situation hes, for the time being, risen to great importance in the finanelal and eeowomic life of the nothon, When I first came into Wall Street, thirty-three years ago, the bucket ahope were of an mtirely different sort, Having taken the precaution ta begin operations in short panta Thad not so much to lose as some other people. My twenty-dollara-month salary would cot permit me bo engage in anything so reckless os a ten-share trade in a bucket shop. Lote of my fellow clerks, telephone boys, bookkeepors and others, were usually long or ibort of something in the way of stecks wo took o keen interes inthe flock of extablishinenta eotering in New Street, with a few of the more prominent on Broadway. Bucket shope of "88 vintage, if you looked at them in one way, were schools of peculation where many of the leading traders of tealay cut their wisdom teeth, for there pou sould bay or sell, at the price last appearing an the quotation board, any stock on the fat. The man behind the counter would take your twentyedollar bill, make an entry an i big sheet, and you could close the trade out whenever you liked, at a profit or lows, withoul ceremany or explanation, and without urging on the part of the house, But if your two-dallar-persihone margin was wiped out by a decline of $1.75 in the price of the atbock you had purchased—the other twenty-five cents per share covering comumieion— then a mere pencil line across the traneaction on the sheet would end the matter. This system had ite advantages, You were mot inveigled into dealing in large bots, You could choise your own stock, your own price and time for baying and selling: you could venture twenty dallas in the pursuit of an elusive Afty or hundred dollars, and if you could keep at it long enough you would begin to acquire some of the pried ples of successful speculation. Thus did a number of the biggest traders on the New York Stock Exchange get their start and estaldish themselves in a feld where towlay the operations ol a few of them combined frequently will run in excess of 100,000 shares in a single Stock Exchange session, “The bucket shop of the old days was a product of the times. Trading in such places was on a pluin gumbling basis, for there were fow means by which the trader might learn how trading and investing might be done intelligently and selentifieally. With such operations in most cases, 10,00) times fulrer to the trader than the 1922- model bucket shop, things ran along that. way for many years, punctuated by oncasional failures, The chief tendency toward crookednesa was displayed in the voluntary closing up Wosuch houses whenever the money began to be paid out ton rapidly, This is one early habit which bucket shops never have overcome; bot as moat of the peeple who dealt with them in former years ventured on)yaarall sures nobody in purticular was Injured. THE OLD O82KEN AUCKET FHOP

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4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST About a degen or fifteen years ago, however, the authari- Lies bepan to get after the bucket shops, and for the time being moat of them were put out of business, Then there began to appear what were known ns partial-puyment houses, met af which were nod members of any exchange. They woulel bay for your account smal] amounts of stocks or buls wpoo payiment of a fret installment and an agree ment to pay a dowen or twenty more at regular monthly intervals, You remember that series in THE SATURDAY EVENING Post a few years ago, in which a former con- fidence moan confessed that many of the crooks were moving into the partialpaymerit busines? “Chis, in the ma jority of cases, meant that they were opening bucket shops under the prevalling style; but this does nat mean that all partial-payrnent houses are bucket shops, Bucketeers are Very keen paychologiats, Their ewecess is based on knowledpe of weaknesses in human nature, and they alwass keep their car te the ground. Be it known thet any Eckel shay, whether traveling in plain clothes or under a disguise, is simply a place where you cetensibly buy or sell, or where you place orders to buy or sell stocks, The shop, which if suppesed te execute YOUF OPders on Some exchange, takes the position that if YOU lose neoney they make th, and vice versa. This is the theory on which the bucket shop operates: That the public, which in most cases is simply guessing ar gambling, will in the lang run bose more than is made; hence the bucket chop will continue te de business so lone 18 Fone nioney comes in than it is obliged te pay out. But if, a5 frequently happens, the public gets on the right side of the market and hegine ta pull down tts profits, the hucket shop simply closes its doors and the newspapers aay “Another brokerage house hos failed" These who conduct bucket shops loak upon your check when it comes in as their profit, Not being members of any exchange they are obliged to pay exchange tembers the requilar commission on both the buying and the selling sides, so thet there is no profit in the operation, They nivel, therefare, deprnel pment what their customers leon or what they swindle them out of in order toe make any money at all; and ae bucketeers are notoriously free spenders, both in the minning of their businesses: and in their awn persona] expensed, the money must come in pretty fast in order to Keep them from failing. Many of them draw the money svt and conmeen] it aa it comes in, leaving oly enough be pay expenses and make a showing, In some inetances the orders mny actually he exeryted, anc then the shares you purchase are resold for the account a the house, which ia practically the same us if they had nok made the purchage at all. In other cages, as in former years, they make entries on a sheet of in a book. Then there are thase who write the trades on their cuffs. Some af them don"t wear cuffs. Raids on Liberty Bond Owners HE bucket shop is just a9 anxious to keep up to the pre- vailingstyle as any well-iressed woman. Pashionsin the hucket-shop field are regulated by the lawa on the Federal and state stutute books, energy of the officials supposed to enforce them, alse the regulations af the Stock Bachange and the activities of ita pollee committer, Hut there is another nore dominating factar—the psychology of the public, A year or two ago swarms of investors were mt- tracted to the oil fields: hence every bucket shop ond fy-by-night coneern had its own oil promotions. Dasring the war there were war hobies of various sorte, midwifed tofit the public taste for that kind of “securities,” The partial-paytmient plage of the bucket shop reached iis grovtest popularity from about 1912 te 1919, which lutter yeur marked the top of the boom. Growing out af it was a new form of bucket shop originating in the wld- fashioned carpetbag game which the buneo stepper used to work when the farmer came to town. Tt seemed that the partial-payment fleld becanve overcrowded with crooks, muny of whom were driven out of other state: and into New York by the blue-sky laws intended for the protec: tion of investors, for though there were certain of these liwaon the New York statute hooks, they had never been anything but dead letters. Two big factors contributed toward making the war period and the after situations up te 1919 the easiest pick- ing the bucket shops ever had, for it was then that they completely abandoned the taking af the public's money with sugar tongs and went after it with steam shovels, In order to aecomplish this the most hixuriously fur- aished main offices and branches were opened, und adver= tiking was conducted on a large eeale. People who did nat know the differener between a bucket shop and a legiti- mate howe were misled by appearances; and as the New York Stock Exchange restricts the scope of the adver- tising done by ite neembers, the buclet shops, being free to wee any size and atyle of advertisements they liked, serured a very great advantage. The public had all these billions of dollara which they had saved and put inte Liberty Bonds. Coupons only came along about every so often, and represented a very small return, a8 the bucketeers potted ovt to holders, saying, “Put this into Invisible Of) Company shares and you will make 20, 30 and 40 per cent.on your money in- stead of the miverable fow per cent you get on your govern= ment bonds.” [t was easy for the smooth-talking sales- men to induce peaple to convert thetr few Liberties inte hundreds and thousands of shares of nightly engraved certificates representing oil and other “investments.” Never before had the public possessed ao much money all at omer, amd had tt in such readily negotiable shape, Naturally when, for the first tine, 15,000,000 new invest- or are mided te the 5,00)0M) somewhat experienced in the ownership and the handling of stocks and bonds, there are bound to be many among them who do not appreciate the relative values of thi and that security. To oll intents ind purposes engraved certificates look very much alike, nnd behind the eteck or bond is merely the mental pleture painted by the one whe is selling it, In marketing Liberty Bonds, Unele Sam adopted the partial-payment plan; ulso the methel of going alter security buyers in orgunized squads. The bucket-shop keepers and crogked stack promaters wert quick tu ser the point, They also organized squads af security soles min operating in nearly every state in the Union, highly trained, working on a liberal commission basis, keyed wp by ginger tikes ond enthused by frequent conferences und canventions after the manner wf any efficient and legitimate sues organizathon. Buckat-Shop Plants and Methods S ASMOERE screen bucketeers berun to offer in their afivettiaements and circular high-class bonds and other securities on the partal-payment plan, thus giving the impression that they were investment-security dealers and thereby yuining the confidence of their wiekims, As soon a&@ the latter paid for their securities: the beds or atocks were forwarded, wid net long thensafter they were invited ta put up these securities aa collateral for the purchase of certain mining, oil or other stocks which were either being pramoted hy the bucket shop or the market for which was under their control. Sooner or later such stocks would be matipolatedd te a lew price, the ecprity Wipedl out, and in many cases the stock cdlsapgeared from the list and had no market value. About that time there began to develop another faetor which has had much to do with the auccess of the 1922- madel byucketeer-—the war of the telephone net only for local ek for very and many longeclistines entls, ‘Their saleamen frequently found difficulty in getting into the private office of a praspect. So the telephone, which ia a demand draft upon everybody's attention, was called inte uae, Hows of telephones began to appear in the inner offices of the bucket shops, A group of young men were carefully trained in the telephone cunvass, They well rach take a telephone book, open ib wt rundom, start call- ing the first number they cunve to, and right on down the column, skipping na one. In an offices in the building where a bucket shop formerly held forth there were, dur- ing the receiver's sale, about twenty of thea telephana connectians, obviously put there for no other purpeme, each with space emeugh fer one man to eperiic. The bucket shop of the ‘30's and “W's generally was. cun- fined to one large room with a blackbourd, a few rows of chains, a partition, and a couple of windows behind which the order clerk and bookkeeper worked, and nothing much alee: but the modern bucket shop hes evolved into on establishment mocupying the entire space in a whole balld- ing whieh it owns, employing lnurcdlneds of clerks, leasing thousands of milks of private telegraph wires, having branch offices in a close cities, mailing departments that isue 100,01) to SOU0K market letters per week, a corps af serviee men, statisticians, stenopgraphers and typists, a buttery of autematic ty pewriting muchines, sss af telephones, a squad of traveling salesmen, a newspaper- publicity department, and other equipment, making them in Soe canes larger than the biggest legitimate brokerage tiouses that are represented on the New York Stock Exchange. In principle it ig a vast awinedltneg orgunizaliot, for it ia designed to attract thi public, thes to extract ite money, Such eoeerns are the outgrowth of the investing and trading tendencies of the American people, stimulated be a high degree by playing on their cuyiclity. The bucket-shop evil is ILPAPHLIEE Llee ura of the Ammer- ican people te the extent of hundred of millions of dollars every year, The liabilities in recent failures, arnounting te 220,000,000, are but a flea bite te the amount which the thirty-odd concerns which have recently failed in New York had in their possesion during the hoight of the recent boom, or at the bow fennt of the decline af 1921. These various forms af crooked dealings meached such aostoage that if they had been permitted to grav and develop aa they lave during recent years they were likely seriously to injure the economic life of the nation. In November of last year [ therefore decided to print the facts about the bucket-shop evil in my publication, and this exposure was immediately taken up by newspapers and other periodicals all over the country, Then began the “i pril &, 14 run on the bucket shops which resulted in withdraws accurities and cash at sucha heavy rate that the bueketa Were IN TY Gases forced to close their doors. As tbs written failures are running from three to six a day, J amall amount of assets in proportion to lisbilities in ina of these failures had a cumulative effect upon the qub, mind, and suspicion was aroused against many additin: concerns; and rightly so, because the later faihares had anything. been just os spectacular in proportion to th mie, and more aod more rotten conditions are being q tlased, It about time something was done about this aituari« Something is being done, and something more is going be done, For the beneit of the uninitiated it might be wel] ¢ mete point out the different kinds of houses that are doi: busines: in securities, not only in New York but in Bosts Philadelphia, Chicago, and other large ame semall cirj : throughout the country, New York Stock Exchange howaes are those whi, through one or more of their partners hold membership o/ the New York Stock Exchange. ‘These memberships en: clase ta £90,000, are limited to 1100 in number, and » quire lange finuncial resourees in addition. Ta order that firm ray eninge in the brokerage business on the Ned York Steck Exchange a capital of from $100,000 ta ma millions is required, according to the valume of the bus tress. Ownership of a seat--it is only standing rowm- represtots the right te do brokerage busines on rh primary security market of the United States, for most d the Wading railroad, industrial, public-wtility, mining! petroleum: and other miscellaneous securities are dealt ij there, and its markets are looked wpon aa the standard! for this ewuntry, The Consolidated Stock Exchange of New York is wial it known as a eecondary market. Dealings on that doa are in the same securities as those bought ane wold on the Now York Steck Exchange, and prices on the Consolidate¢ floor are powered bey those on the big Machange, Originally this was a petroleum exchange. In the lust century during the early excitement of the trading In all, certifi. cates for that commodity were dealt in just like share ol stock, amd any inerease of decrease in the oil aupply of demand was reflected in the market price af the certificates, When that lind of trading died wut, or wns delihersiely killed, the Crnsalidated Exchange began te cater mor ta thase wha wished to deal in small lote of stocks, because in former yeare the New York Stock Exchange members rarely would take orders for less than LOO shares, excel for outright purchase, and a0 0 market in ten, teeny, thirty and fifty shore bots beyan to grow up in the Con siliinted Exchange. [t was a very thin marker, but the small trader waa attracted on the ground that he esuld trade aecively in fractional lots, Odd-sLot Transactions EMBERSHIP on the Consolidated Exchange coull iL about twenty years ago, have heen bought for a lew hunered dollars, but in recent yeara the price has risen ta severul thousand dollars, Some of the reasons why may be inferred from the recent fnilures of many houses holding memberships on the Consalidated, many of whoee asaecta in the final showdown proved to be a low percentage of the linbilities, In other words, they were bucket shops, and their Exchange memberships were used to disguise thee real character. The New York Curb Market is that which formerly com stituted an interesting group of brokers who assemble from curb te curb in Broad Street, just below Exchange Place, Recently it became properly organised, anid & housed under its own roof just back of Trinity Chureh. When its trading was conducted in the street many burst shops operated there; but with the rearganization of ts exchange n considerable part, but not all, af this element has been eliminated. ats Though partial-payment howses which ant advertied as such are comparatively few among members af the New York Stock Exchange, nearly all members of 106 beard execute orders in lots of Jess than 100 shore FS estimated that the odd-lot transactions which do pet ar peor on the tape and are therefore not included in the total trading reported In the newspapers would add 4 te 60 per cent to this total if they were recurded; thet Fi if 1,000,000 shares af rounel lots are dealt in in a #°6* seagion it would indicate that the total dransactions Fe ietween La dHI0 and 1,400,000) shares. One of the leading houses, which formerly made 7° cialty of the partial-payrment plan, writes that ther ee for abandoning advertising for such accounts w= © there appeared to be no difference between @ Pa” : payment account and one which was being co ss margin, both being subject to margin enlls in thane decline in the market. To use their owm expressiot, fee! that the term Partial Payment has in many — dene more harm than good, encouraging promiacss® gélvertising hy irresponsible brokers, whose anly inteat™ ‘Continued on Page ¢#!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Where Fhe?" Ne leashed. "' Who Abed Vou te Burr fae Pe Moadiing Their, Did § Foy Fee Woo Fired >" HE curtain descended, bloctiny wat from Aids aren’ tired gaze the terrace of Airs. Alorti- mer Ven Reypan’s villa ot Nice, und the row Se mectunical qmiles back of which lurked tin te und principals of One Might inJume. For coment he wolbed while the finale echoed and eaway in the fer comers of the theater. Then ‘fbed bis baton, his men tock a deep breath, die andther instant they were off together on e otieate effort to implant the song hit of ‘poe forever in the memory af Albany, body wmmnig sound and faced the suditerium, where the er of seats furnished octive competition, The cus- eon were moving slowly wp the aisles, well pleased with eresing’s diversion, forgetiul for the moment of the ‘uary storm outeide. Many of them, Andy noted, bumming the song hit, Pretty solt for the composer, aught Andy, computing royaltics in his mind, His erie btewme absent-minded, cosual, Then be saw a ort. heavy figure ine fur coal, with a soft hat pulled bow ec heer, moving down the side aisle bo the stage, and roms though an electrical current had invaded him. ‘Le your toes, bey," he hissed. “The old man's in toe!’ And even the composer would have been el with their rendition of his song hit then. ie the other side of the curtain the stage crew were wily wreeking Mrs, Van Reypan’s happy bome und qeiting Lon a track that steod in the snow at the alley = From the principale” dreging rowme came the let of punning water, and on the iron staire that led bh synded the click of silver alippers as the Cinderellas Phe chon mended, unhooking in the hack as they run, Svdderhy come the leeoming call of Micklesan, the beter: “Everybody on stage! Chorus and principals, ras!" Le an arctic blast the summons swept the region of Wong, freezing them all where they stood. And iby hesitated, poised, tense, the same vision Aashed begt every mind! The old man! He had been in be’ Caly theet nights ago, in Poughkespsie, he hod fped-hy to them at length, had assured them that he fe cor awe them again until the following Monday, in lee But this was one of his anchent tricks, « part of By Earl Derr Biggers FELUITR #TE arF tC. B, his joyous game, creeping into the theater when no one suapecbed, making notes on the performance ws he crouched io the shadows at the rear, then swooping down on them with the light of battle in his eye. They straggled to the stage, the girla clutching their gowns at the back and shivering, the men in shirt sleeves, edlaries, And there against the curtain stood the figure they dreaded ta see, inscrutable in the shadow of his hat, warm in the embrace of his fine fur comt, und with « sheaf of nrtes clatehed in his hand. Thirty years in the busines, in dove with it still; life offered him nothing mow so glorious ae momenta like this, when be ateod there and saw them tremble before him, stood secure in his power, looked into their eyes and saw fear and the reluctant reapect of the weak for the «trong. “Everybody here, Mickleson?" he wanted to know, “T thethink so, sir, Yea, Mr. Wellman, we're all here, air, We didn’t expect to see you, sir. (Quite a surprise, ha, ha, ha.” A ghastly attempt at mirth. "First of all, Mickleson, [ think the performance tas sagged, Damnahly, And we open in Boston—a metro- politan audience—Monday night, I humbly suggest that we meet ut the thevter in Boston to-morrow evening at elght—Sunday evening, that is. Agreeable?"™ “Perfectly,” said Mickleson. “D'ta sorry you think we've let down. It seemed to me ——* “T made a few motes,” cut in the old man. “I've Ioet the order—but never mind.” He selected one of his slips af paper—the black spot for somebody. “Miss Davis!” “Vex, sir.” “Your first entrance—you speek Loo soe, I mentioned that before.” I belleve Weil WOM “Oh —J "in sare. wir, | moyned ten,” "'Tduh! Yours Counle Hevessury, lgakeuunler,. million, af leat Lh lena tere give Jiro Tie beget rane that tuble, He the way, Jimmy, that suit af yours in Act Two, You're playing a young millionaire, Is the smart get golng in for polished elbows on thelr drese coats? I don't get albeout much—l'in asking for information.” “Why, eir—you passed that suit at the dress rehearsal, [t's brand new,"" “Kame suit you wore when you worked for nue five years ago. Tepetted it by that wrinkle: under the left shoulder, No shabby milllonalms in my company, i you please. Order a new outit Monday morning!" “Yeves, gir, said Jimmy. His face aedden|y conterted over an unpleasant problem in mental arithmetic. "Sir. Jamies f"" The old man was warming to his werk, Mr. Jumiesen stepped forwurd, o wilted collur and wo soiled white tie clutched tn his nervous hand. He was the old man's pet aversion jn the compari. “Well, [ got it, and I got tt good," he remarked alter= wards philosephically. Following Jamicson the others were called forward one by one, hewrd a few of thelr many blentishes tlated, sank hick humiliated and angry. “Young ladies of the ensemble,” said the old man at last, Sixteen faces of varying loveliness looked anxiously up into his, “Young ladies, 1 don't get the words of the opening chorus. Mickleson—how many thoes must | speuk oof this? 7 puy a clever young man neal money bo write words for this music—at least, I thought he waa clever until he began to work for me." He cast a fishy eve about the stage: an author would have been a tasty tithit to finish of on, but none was in aight, ““T pay for words, Tsay, and I don't hear them, We'll take that up ugain to-morrow night. What I want to sak Iw is—there wis one yung wenn ——" His eye searched quickly among the sixteen faces and eaite to pest on the loveliest of therm all, an oval face with

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i THE big wisthal eyes under a carchess mass.of fluffy light-brown hair. Pe pointed one fat finger, Vou 0 he anid ino vobee of deearn, She faced him bravely, but Aushed a bot under her makeup. “Mise Llewelyn," sald the always helpful Miicklesan, “Aliss Llewelyn,” repeated the ahd man. “Gh, yes— I remember you now. Found you reading a nowel by Conrad one day at rehearsal. Maybe your stige work is eutting in on your studies. Maybe that's why it anneys you so. Or perhops the lines of the pleee bore you" “Sho, sir,” said the girl, while Andy Owen, awalting his turn in the rewr rew, stirred resentfully. “Well, you lovked bored to-night. dead I pay you to amile—understand that. Damn it, when you're on my stage you amile.” “T'll remember, sir,” she said, and made a courageous eflort to carry out his order then and there, “Wow ll remember it or gee out! What's the matter with you gicls nowadays? Thirty yeure I'v been in this Me " His business manager appeared at that meorment with news of great portent—a statement of the night's necelpte, He and the old man retired a bit from the crowd and engaged in an animated conversation. ‘Time passed, the blast. from the open door inte the alley enme sharper than ever, the gitls shivered in their light evening powne, the old man drew his fur cont closer abet his elibbiy (rach. “Say—is he golng to keep us here all night?" The Llewelyn gifl turned anxiously to the tall, willowy blonde who stood near her. “To got a train ta cateh at twelve, T telegraphed ma I was coming.” “A lot br cares about that,” said the blonde, “Mir. Mickleson.” the girl whis- pered, “I got a train at twelve, Couldn't I ga now?" “No, 1D, no!” cried Mickleson, horrified. “He hasn't dismissed us. Don" moe,” Tt was an argument now between the old man and his ald—the ges- tured indicated that. It was always an argunvent after the introductory Temarks, The minutes dragged |b. “Sav, Andy,” whispered the Llew= elyn girl, “what time you got?" He chewed her his watch; half past eleven. “Geel she said: “and I telegraphed ma T was coming.” “You watch your step, Ellen,” rsd Andy, “He's sore at you any- ter Pe She looked toward the old man, stom! staring ut his brood Jboek, warmly protected fram the breese, and a sudden intense bitterness against him came into leer heart. Was she his chattel, his slave, she uked herself, repeating a line from a picture she had recently seen, No ohe was watehing her, her step strayed inte the wings, softly she climbed the iron stairs, gaining speed asshe went, Inanother moment ale wus in the deserted dressing room, hastily removing the make-up, donning a littl: dress of blue serge, lacing up her high patent leathers, etruggling inte her meur-seal cont. The old man finally sulstued his opponent and turned again te his notes, “Just one thing more— Mr, Jamieson. How do you proncunce the word ‘execheguer"T™ “Why—er—its cochequer, isn't it? On the first s¥lluble, Or am [ wrong?" “On the second when T wert to school,” replied the old nan. “But things change —of course," He had an Wneasy feeling about that Lewellyn girl: aumehow he hadn't humiliated her enough. She annayed him with her youth and her vitality, her superior manner as she looked him inthe eye. "Forhaps cur young atudent can tell ws," he sneered. “Our highbrow chorus girl, Misa Llewelyn.” He anueht for wer, amazed. “Where's Miss Llewelyn?" “She had a train to cateh," sald the terrified, Micklesan. “She muat have beat it.” “Did you tell her she could go?” “Oh, no, sir—I wouldn't dream of doing that: withowl your permission.” “You mean te tell oe she dehberately wolked away? Mickleson, where la the discipline in this company?" With no efort at all he was working himself into a fury. One of the least of his creatures had flouted his authority, ane of his litte pawns hacl rolled off the board. “Get this girl! Bring her here! Get her, I tell you 2" She walked on the stage at that moment, a straw suil- cose Int her hand, a saucy little hat of erimson on ber bead, an air about her that was fuel to the old man's flame. Not. “Fl Was Dore fa a Jiveet Like Tals," Ellen Salad Suddenty, “dw Foie fii Lior Tiere * “Calling me?" whe asked. “I'm sorry T had to ron away, but I'd promised to spend a few hours at home. My mother's expecting me. What was tb you wanted ?"* The ald man stoml staring down inte ber calea eyes, and they further infuriated him. His lips moved, but no words came: he wae too enraged to speak. At that moment Mickheson came forward: his nerves on edge, his jocgement leat, he thought it was up to him te assert his authority then and there, It was an unfortunate inspiration so far aa he was concerned, but itseved Ellen Llewelyn her ich, “You're fred!" cried Mickleson. “You're out. Walking off like that without our permisston,"" The old man found his voice then, und on the Inetant he transferred his anger to pour Micklexson, He waa like that: noone ever knew which way he would spring, “What's that?" ke snarled. “Who asked you to butt in? I'm handling this. Did I say she was fired? You— you lazy hound—I'm sick of you. No authority over them.” “But T thought "cried Mickleson, appalled. “Wower! “Thut's a lie! You never thought." He turned to the company. “You're dismissed, ladies and gentle men. You can go. You, too, my dear young lady, I excuse you, You've had no one here to teach you—no one to make you understand that when [ call a company conte the stage nobody leaves until [say sa, [t's not your fonalt, Miss Lewelyn, Go home to ur mother, bot pe member this—the call to-morrow ight is for eight o'clock, and one minute late means your job. Now, Mickleson, [1 talk tao you, Where the hell did you learn your basiness ?" SATURDAY EVENING POST af pril He as at Mickleion’s throat, but the company stop to hear; they scattered gratefully to the wing Llewelyn, triumphant, hurried toward the etnpe di “0h, Lil, she called to one of the githe, ‘get at twoat the Oecidental, [f the piece geta over we'll upurtment, So long. See you Later.” “Get wine to Ellen's new comt,”* amid a. languid sh “Alecw! Aleow!"™ “We all know you're a cat, cdearie,” Lil reeling “Whar advertioe i17' “Thanks, Lil, Elen said, overhearing, and fied | wiley. Close at her heels come Andy Cowen, pulling h cout over the evening clothes that were compulsory conductor of the orchestra, even on the ros. “Give me the bag," he said. “You've pot sixtes utes, [t's some ruc." “Don't you bether, Aids," she tol “"Tt'anobother. Think I want to hang back there till the old man’s red eyr lig me und he jumps? Say—why you room with Lily pgemin 7“ “Why mac?" "Well, you kiew what happened last She's the laziest thing ever. Lying in ba you petting the breakfast and waiting « land and foot, Want that all OVER agai “Sure Todo" sald Ellen. “Sil’s ail Andy. Besides—she'a had a good ede She ean talk like a lady when she wands learned a lat from her.” “Oh, Teen. Well, ycou"re too deep ferns Reading highbrow books, and al! Ghat at thought at first you wae bluffing: Just ty groh somebody with it." "You thaught wrong, Andy." “Yes, [gues Pdid., Yor really mean it, you? But what ure you miming for, anyh Her voice seemed far wway in the stom don't know,” she anid. ““I[—I poe Ip ambitious, Andy. TI want to get somes To be somebody —onyhody—anyhody 4 while, That aln"t—isn"t any crime.” “Of course mot,” Andy answered, “] stirrings, too, sometimes, Id like to a ren] good song—catchy, vou Know—make of money. But this highhrow stulf—boo whit the hell doe: talk matter? Gramma al] that?" They were at the foot of Albany's famom now, and the wind waa mo longer so bitter: Before them loomed the hig station. Theyt in—five minutes to spare, “Gob your thebet?" Auwdy asked, “Sure,” ahe nodded, “I came down bought it before the matinée, [ gues train's ready." They stood together beside the track, in o little grow sn yw-flecked travelers. Ellen's heart sank. “Oh, Andy—I'm ashanved of myself." she wailed. “| I don’t want to po.” “Why mot?" j “Tt always gives ma the willie, 0 forget how dear is, and then E go bock—and remember. When I+ litthe—all those years” saa "Nonsense!" gaid Andy, “It's home, ain't it? See in Boston to-morrow night. Whatever you do, dor late." The train roared up. “So long, Ellen said, “Ie awtul good of you—eumning down through this s hope your feet didn’t eet wel. Se long, Andy.” He helped her aboard. She turned on the plato & fuuaght a glimpse of bis round earnest face smiling ap at thraugh the atorm. The train jolted out of Albany, stopped again nT and then began ibs Journey inbe the even more mancry shires. The day coach was cold und smelly, nosy with : snoves of Choa who slept. Her short skirt and silk stad ings seemed to invite the blast, so she doubled her feet | under her on the green plush seat. A good-looking young brakeman, caught by the cbs of the face beneath the very red bat—the ale dant item of her costume —paused in the aisle by her side glanced at her ticket, 2 “Marth Readtield,’” he ventured. “Live thee? “Qh, no," she said, “Fifth Avenue, if you're evel New York." “I'm in North Readfeld a good deal,” be totd b “T'd be pleased to meet you." ‘i “So would [—if anybody ever introduced a “Wow! Well, it's a bad night,” “Tet sure is—for you." ii He went. on down the alsle and left her to her Lara North Readfield again —that tawdry town améd the eT of the hills, River Street. Ma would be waiting op. ah mi. She really ought to come home oftener, forms * Shedoged off, The next thing she knew, the ie man waa shaking her, “Come out of it,’ he said. “9 pulling into Fifth Avenue, North Readtfield, | me

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST She sat up, glanced at the cheap litth: watch on her cet. A quarter of two, “Oh, thanks," she sail. He picked up the straw suitcase and led the way to the lan: “1 didn't mean no harm, what I sald," he told her. +h cu gets lonesome—you know." sure," she smiled. “Anybody would get lonesome cov ap bere. That's all right." “Maybe T could come and see you, than?" “Slo can't be done, Pm moving om at naan to- rocrew — I mean tema}. I got te gue to Howton. I'm in a pusical show.” = Gree 2" he cried. “An actress!" Thanks,” laughed Ellen. “Not many'd say ao." She stepped off into the anow, A [aint light Aickered e the window of the little brick stmtion, At the for end a@ che platform she saw what looked like a taxi. She went jean to inguin. ‘Serry—I was waiting for somebody," explained the imver. Le alighted from his car, 9 great muffled figure, “T ain't piaxi. Say—noebody else got off, did they?" “ didin’t see any heady," “That's fire, Get a man out in the middle of the but newer mind. FU give you a lift, Where you Q ing? = It ehn’t far,” she suiel, “Hope in,” he directed. He went up front and began to crank. She heard the ee pom af the engine and her heart thrilled gratefully. They began to climb a hill between two rows of shabby Lele business blocks—Mein Street, North Readdield, (en peered eagerly through the snow, saw the lights af eall-night hunch peor, located the music etore where she fed started on her grand career, Main Street's business eiites stopped abruptly, and they crossed an iron bedge over a fregen river. Then on post the mills, black ie dreary, the mills where North Readfield tolled from dies to dark. Ellen's companion said nothing; evidently at two In te morning his vitality ron low, He turned sharply inte citrate and slowed down, for the car found the going i Om either aide were mean little houses, thelr porches egeng, their paint amemory: heuses that seemed disse bir and proud of it. “Say—erery place is the same,” be announced. feet pou li have to jeoint owt 13," He spirits lower than ever, Ellen stared bhopelossly tack “I—I don't know aa I can.” she sald. “TD min’e ee here for two years myself.” Then she uw a lightina tidew on abead. “That might be ma,” ahe added. “Humber 1 River Sereet." “I “Tails Tinto, Mo, Feo te Thew'i Meother Train ae hm, Fee « Cfeaer Call, fat Bok fe. 2 tray ae Shaw, io" He slowed dewn aa they cumé alreast of the light, The dear of the house opened and a dumpy litte woman aboad there, staring at thee. “It's ma," aaid Ellen Llewelyn, “She walted up." She searched in her purse, found a eoiled dollur bill. "Here—I wish you'd take this.” “Nothing doing,” be laughed. (rood night,” He was gone before she could thank him, She turned andl man toward the woman on the porch. In another aecond ale had cast the atraw suitcase dawn on the snowy atepe, and she and ma were in each other's arma. "Ellen! Ellen! bel years you been away, amen you fer two yes “There, theme, ma," " sobbed the girl, about anyhow?" “Conv in, Ellen. It's terrible cold," ain't it?’ They went into the house—into the parlor, so called. “What a pretty coat,” the alder woman said, “You better loep it an, Tt pin't any too warm here,” “Well, ma, you got my telegram, didn’t you?" “Th come this afternoon. T wanted the rest should wait up fer you, but—well, you know how they are.” “That's all right, ma. You're the one [ want to see.” "And [ want to see you, Ellen. You bern away tow long. Don*t do it again.” “Ho, ma. T won't." “Tt's cold in bere, aln"t it, Ellen? I didn't dare put ne more cool on the fire. They's only about a bushel basket: in the cellar, to last over Sumas." “Why dan’: vou get some more?" “(b, well—whae you bern doing, Ellen? Tell me about yoxirsell, ” “T suppotee the coal man's shut dewn of ua?" “Yea; and the buteher, he's hounding ws. Oh, Elen— I didn't mean to atart in on my troubles before you wos hardly through the door." She drew her woolen wrapper closer about her plamp figure, and the round little face under the wisps of pray hair looked suddenly tragle. “Things get harder all the time, "ghe said. “T send you all I can, ma," Ellen told her. neariy all T make, traveling round.” ae | know-—you're a good girl, Ellen, Hut your pa— seems like he gets worse. [ thought maybe this here prohibition would make things easler, but he gete it sumewhere, and he pov ten thoes what he weed te. Awful stuf! too—it'll kill him yet.” "What Wit does?" said the girl hitterls. * Eien vou mustn't tlk that way.” “How ghout Dave? Can't he belp?" 4 He's—he's wild, Ellen, Loating half the thae. Dm worrled about him, Aid Afatetl oul te all hours at the movies—thinking ghowt mothin® but fellows and. clothes. [ with you'd talk to her, Ellen. Vm worried ghout ber tem”! She pat ber arma about the “T ain't in the business, T ain't “What you ering "Tt tales i 7 stim figure of her daughter. “You're all I got, Ellen," she suid, “You're what [ lean on—in my mind. Thinkin" wbout you—it keeps me main’. i “Slow, now, ma—you're eryin' again” “'Seuge me, Ellen. Ut aint no way to welcome you hare, is ity But T been aettin’ here sincere puowent to bed at eight, on" things got preyin’ on my mind. There—L'm all right now. [ wanted your pa shirule sleep dawn here, ao you could sloop with me—but he wouldn't. So I feed you up asert of bed fe this old chair.” “That'll be fine, ma. It's nearly morning anyhow," "Toemorrow night 1° make one of "em give up fer you," the wonian said, and Ellen turned away ber face, How could she tell her mother she must go on at meon’? (h, well, that could walt ull the morning, the brighter morn- ing. She began to unluce her sloes. “Silk stockings?” her mother said. eatch your death,” "T haven"t yet," the girl lagghed, “I'm all right, ma, Don't you fret about me, Vil just take off may shoes ond my dress, wid slip on my old kloan." Her mother came forward and helped with the faaten- ings of the blue serge, ““Land aakes, Ellen!" she cried as it fell to the floor, “Is that all you got on undernenth? You'll be in your grave first thing you knaw,"" "Wakeup, ma, You're a million yeura behind the times, This is what they're all wearlag in the city." “T's hard to belleve, Hind of pretty, though. Silk, too, ain't they?” “TE they ain't Deen atung.” She tool a fimey droasing gown from her suitcase and putiton. “Now, ma, you run of te bed, And inthe moarntneg we'll have one grand visit." “T got to beck you in an’ explain this bel I fixed. It'll be all tight if you dent move round much." She waited while Elen arranged ber hair. “Seema like you're prettier than ever, Ellen," she said. “Get prettier all the time, T got you ta be proud of, whatever else [ got." "Woy got grandfather ten," said Ellen suddenly. She pointed to a rather hideous crayon portrait that hung over a battered sofa, Old David Evans had long slice pase on, lut etil] he emiled down rather grimly on the most ambitious of his descendants, A sebolar, David Evana, whe had risen from the eolligries to be pastor of a dissenting chapel in the old days in Wales. (Continoed on Poge 38) “In winter! You'll

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; THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April &,f TRAVELER’S REPOSI HE thought, curious anc unexpected, T[Tenict had come to Jalan Heronbar lin= gered in his mind: tt was this—that the mountings, Che exunty, af Greenstrem were very pretty. They were, fore than that. ted with Peace; and the name of the village on the West Virginia border he so wten pasa came into his mmory, Traveler's Repose. The words re- peated themselves, ane seemed, of their sound, to All him with a sense of reat, He wasaitting. alone a8 Usual now, at ewesing, in the marry partied al his house, EHefore hiro rocky pasture deseended to a rou set against deep spruce womls; but at his left, past the corner of the dwelling, there Wee db valley hae with distance, and mountuln on mountain, range on range, beyond, Tt was, in auldition te everything élse, June; the day had een hot butthe dusk wes cool, fragrant, a gradunl decrease of light und an inereasing wl the pene, the prettiness, he had disrovered. The wnexpectednesa af this lay in the fact that the mountains had beeo familiar ta him siner birth: they were his moountains, Greenstrean ws his county: and only now, at thirty-four, had ® grown conscious of it all. The reason for it, he decikied, was the three yeors during the war he had spent an the level sundiness of New Jerney. Throughout the fighting Jalan had, at hame, in- structed men in the eriv- ing of army trucks. A hard fate for him, for a Heronbar. The troce of a smile waa perce plille on hia thin lips. Well, that Waa over, and he was in Oreenstresm afain—he had boon back three yeurs-- impress with the quiet aed beauty af his surroundings. Jt seemed to him to be a place apart from all the tumultuous reat af the world, the last, probably, where peace wos an actuality, The mountain ranges oom- pletely closed it in, there were no railways, and the roads, for automobiles, no mare than fair. All at ence he wished that ther: were no roads communicating with the places. outside. This was even atranger than his new senso of beauty, and he examined it with a slow thoughtfulness, What did he mean? That really was clear enough: be wanted bo keep Grecnskreamn separate front the bitterness and struggle almost everywhere tearing men irom happy and good dives. It looked as though he were getting re- ligion, and the shadowy amile returned to his lips, A Heronbar religioga! ‘They would laugh at him in the store; hut in fairness to that humorous company he was obliged to admit that they would hove laughed at him, but not now, The war, even such service as he had aceomplished, had changed that. The Heronbars of the past were dead: he waa the last of man, woman oF child alive; and the old fear aid hatred of his family had died, ita Hace in the county taken by an attitude of pride toward ¢ local and heroic legend. A place wf pence, a refuge, green ond fruttiul in the sum- mer, white and immaculate in winter. Tt wasn't needful to go out af that section of country for a living: many men living within twenty miles of him had never been forty By Joseph FEEUATAATE o a F She Come Slowly O04 Alone, Goer the Bagged Poth, Through the Broben Care millet from home. The women, Jalan told himself, could still spin, and though the hunting was largely ruined the valley had many herds of cattle, gracing aml grains. He went over this possibility minutely, thinking of it as a fan- tustic scheme for Ue paseing of an idle hour; but the aspeet af funtaay receded. A land without fighting, That he had come to detest. The Heroankars had lived by it: yea, and by murder. The gun ploy of u raid on the distilling apparatus quietly oeeupying the Heronbar pur- lor alone had resulted in the death of his father rather than of any one or two or three of the revenue force. That hol happened eleven yearaage, Jalan ho been awoy, over the state line: his brother had escaped from awindew, bo be killed the following monlh on a freight train’ and their nother and a great-aunt, Clristia, did not long survive the general disaster. Jalan, solitary in the house, except [or the period of bis service, variously cecupiod in the blue grast or higher woods, had dwelt ypon the violent aspects of his early life, turning them over and over; with the result that before he bed gone te hi remote participation in the war he hed been doubtful of it. He hodn’t been wholly a part of the pleasure with which the county had seen him, a Heronbar, depart a uphold their prestige af ronbeotlousness, Hergesheimer 5, ROERkRWN ER When he had come back from the mm oneu smallness of his participation, fj grinding oficiuliam and discontent and bh jealousies, his Inelination had setilecd in hard, a hard but all appoition. Inawayt he eauldin"t understy SOMOrOLws tags of the M Teatament, the pes commanding wtteran of Christ, came back & hia conaciousttes, lac with o passionate real and fores., When y lashed ot it, Jalan Hen har thought, it was wro to po out and kill peop tosmashthem withstor and bullets or pot ths with guses, People es lind, that was if, oJ aane. No one could ¢ around that Sentens: the Bible against killin It seemed to him th from om preeties! stan point the Bible might | a good ibook to foil Yet the influence of i meomeary on Aim was fi practical: it was more ll a regimental band play ing in the distanes, f away but eomilng neare Tt stirred him: this hatre of war, of all trowive an misunderstanding stire him. Jalan Heronbarwaste to show the werld hee hellishly wrong hatre and envyand malicewere how they destroyed life made hhapydness impo sible, He eouldn"t hop to de that, of eourse; bei fir Te about hin, tn Genet streany? ‘The valley hd slipped from view, DUR wes erg men tee dainat a fading radiances, were -stilliame dent, darkly reengees bell oat Jelena i j sounded sand oe stopped, social stopped, Iower doe little breesa, thircagh the before be felt ie Ince, sprang Up i urotnatie. from the atid | freshly strippal Tore tannery on South Fim Here, for a hundred miles or =, q ir reason, hap pieea aa | with wamall attention, possible, What, in the pursuit of his fantastic iden, wat | necessary? Almost nothing, with the exceplion af & ‘ enforcement. a: The people of Greenstream seldom went oat wat | world and back; they either stayed in thelr home) went away without returning. Some of the young a | tended achoola out of the county; that would be discow- aged —Jalon didn't see a prolongél schooling & 4 necessity —but what was absolutely imperative was tobe the world away. That was it! The treachery and evill destructive pushin everywhere elae raging must bbe bas from (areenatream. rad This, with its suggestion of fore, of tyranny eves. TH! a look of disagreeing with the main direction of bis enn fulnesa: yet, he decided, it waa unavoidable. Bost tint would be lost—what was loosely called progress—betl couldn't be helped, Infinitely more would be made sce The local interesta were simple; after lang years af pre hibition political jealousies had mostly expired: anit itself had become less and less important. [nde bine occurred to his speculative mind was that polities mig i be reanimated; it might be brought back to its old sectirs tate, to the condition he had heard of from very ali mea when it wos a government of localities ie lted ina

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“THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | 9 me another and self-dependent, self-reliant. Washington feely aed grown vague and unsatisfactory, far away; chile (Greeratream wae near, immediate and lovely. lie bad sat eo long, loet in his project, that if he intended wwe Eumeline he'd have to go at once, without supper, Be diel met certainly want te see ber; ond he weot inte bbe empty, dark bowser to bis room by the kitchen. Jalan fed tried a bed in the kitchen und, though it was con- menient, on his return from the army be had moved, One a the surprising things that had occurred to bim was a eveloped preference for an utmost neatness, [t wos as if thee care he had always lavished om bis guns had been fxtended to inchode everything which concerned him. The wrray of pans, dishet and cooking utensils on a dresser was in a rigid and immaculate order; the frying pan had its exuct place, and if it were disarranged Jalan was un- romfortable until it was correctly disposed. The knives and forks must be laid in an unvarying manner, the txrush brow heaning at its own angle in a corner. This habit af exartitede had grown upon him. He derided it, tried to break it, but a feeling stronger than his will—if, for eomple, be had carelessly dropped his clothes on a choir— trapped him cat of bed to put everything stragght. Jalan Heronbar scrubbed his face with soapsuds strong of bee, he wet and broshed his hair and put on o shirt with a cular, a necktie and a freshsahined pair of shoes. Then te eolked through the kitchen to the space in back of the house. It was like a ridge leading directly away, with the cand falling steeply on either side. The Heronhar house om on a Midge: everywhere about tt, exoept for the rinacl wad spruce forest, the land dropped into bottoms with ecky streams and close trees; there woe cireing horizon iccken with mountains and rifta, with small bolated wirhes af grazing, score in the valleya and some against de peake; but with ne other signs of humanity. — The sweep of mountains was almost hidden; evening was twancing more rapidly, but Jalan was infinitely swifter, (fe drove a bettered but entirely sound automobile with o omg Eniwledpe and muethless skill through the rocks af his front peature; and turning to the right on the road he went boldly up a long turning ascent and, over the divide, went down like a silently falling bowlder, At sharp bends, the outside unguarded and overhanging hundreds of feet of tree tops and sharp rocks, be kept so clase to the exposed edge that the wheela sent umull showers af sbotnes into space, Jalan met—as wmtal, he thaught—a car on the wort turn of all, at the worst moment. It wae coming up as determinedly az he was thleeing down; buat, already far out, there was no need for him to awing dangerously setces the road: in an instant, after the crash of minor ogyposed sounds, be vr lt alone. In a valley Ieroer, more cultivated thun any visihle from bis fields he posed the etore, waving vaguely bo o famillar group of men and boys gathered on the worn benches of the porch, and then he turmed again. He drove throughadark, perpetually damp wood and came out at the gate to Emeline (trahaem’s fnther’s place, There wea a ford to crows, the gate to open, and he followed a rude track about w gentle rise bo the fenee which separntedd the house with ita flowers and cut grass from the paging. The family, be knew, would be on the portics, facing the road over which he had just come; they would have seen. him, heard him closing the gate and he was expected, Jalan walked, therefore, abogt the house without the formality of ao aondunerment at the proper door, ‘This in itself was notable; simply for the fact thot he woe o Hetronbar striding seeurely through the property of Elias Orsaham. The Grahame had always been as admirable and duecesful, as highhy placed, as the Heronbara were doubt- ful. Not many years past Jalan would not have been allowed to come inside Figs" fences; if be hua! tried, ex wep under the meet formal and reeagniged conditions, 3 death would hove revulted. The Heronbars had been, in reality, outlawed from the community of Creenstream. Now, however, he was walking freely over their yard, gure of an acceptable weloome, By thie tine it waa certain aa well that they knew he was coming for Emeline, Julan found them os he had expected: Eltns, a small man inshirt sleeves ond eminently serviceable suspenders, amaking a highly vurnished brier pipe: his whe resting in 4 capacious chair alter the labor of supper; Ellery, their aon, a vigorous and mature boy, silent aa usual; ond Emeline, She amiled her greeting from a step and u porch column, and added nothing to the impetus Jalan's coming had given to the conversation.” She had on a white dres, hesaw, there was some pink ribbon at her waist and on her hair; aod she looked ws young wt—na anybody, She wasn't really so young us that. Foneline was thirty: but it was that, be thought, which so moved bis beurt, Jn Greenstreain girls and women were only ornamental when they were very young, no more than filteen or aixteen, and then only in the hours between their duties in the house and dairy, They married at onew, after a few dances, a short courtship, and retired definitely to an existence of witllity. That was, Hearly all af them did. Somehow Emeline seemed to escape the peneral fate, She had meet miauried at the time coneidered approprinte: aud as u reeult of that she served at the dinner table; she wus never seated until her father and Ellery amd any visitors had wll they could possilly desire, A great part of her time was spent in the kitchen in the preserving and canning and curing seasons; and she was a great deal alone with the linen und cleaning and incidental nursing. Yet Jalan insisted almost defiantly to himself, ahe wus as young as any, She had a kind of gentle nicenes, a delicute glaw in her cheeks and eyes, for which he tirelessly watched. Her subjection to ber father was whole= hearted: she aecepted her position without even being aware of iL; and still she had a hunter, a quaint understanding unl private independence, at which Jalan happily marveled. He knew that she was glad to see him this evening, that she always hud a welcome for him; and he was conscious af what thi might, probably did, mean, They would pet married, There wos no hurry: he felt that she knew of his understanding; some day this summer they would speuk of it, and be would go to Elias Graham, There would now bo no serious diffiealty there—a Heranbar marrying 2 Grahwm—for the reason that Elias, sound beneath a eantrudictoary temper, realized that he, Jalan, would take care of Eeveline: be would be o good husband. 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10 THE AVERA America women buy 48 per cent of all drug supplica, 46 per cent of all hardwore and hese furnishings, 98 per cent of all dry goods, and even eleven per cent of men’s clothing?" Allan Cabot Straun, of the Elkins Advertising Agency, dramatically offered theae facta to Bert Voigt, the copy chiel, Beever looked up. “Pears like they've turned merchandising into a female order house," was his comment; but the casual tome, curl ously eTMLEh, Bugpeesbed thet the clipping would ner change his destiny to any extent. Tut notso with Straun, Upon him the effect was star- ting, He wos, you ae, the atatistlelan of the Elkinaagency. When it was nesemary, for instance, to Know the per capita consumption af mustache cups in Athens, Georgia, or the poesible mileage of chariot wheels in Athens, Greece, he could plot an ogive curve on paper in leas time than it takes the lady in the advertisement to pour builing water over her dining tuble, Now the statistical mind is usually grounded on an expertnesa In putting two and two together; and thie reminder that the feminine sex controls so much of the purchas- ing power struck him a8 a stuggeringly suggestive situa- tion. For if one could get the keynete—or shall we say the Ellen Keynote?—to her pay chology, chart her reactions and diagram her motivations, wouldn't one have a preat score of succesful advertising? An newer, tot, to son inexplicable advertizing failures? It seemed ao; yet Straun'’s difficulty was that he knew very litth: about women, his mother having dird in his infancy, and subsequent rélations with girls having been unquestionably sketchy. Thi was largely due to a shyness rather hard to explain, since he Was an uncommonly attractive young man. In the first place, handsomr. Clear reddish-brown eyes focused behind horn-rimimed foggles in the heen ease of one who looks concrete facts in the face; above, a brand brow sug festing © capacious storage house for a catalogued intelli- gence, andl notched near the left | temple by a cowlick that sput- j tered reddish-brown hair like a sticky finger. Nice hands ane a good chin, and a general im- pression of well-ordered habits, well-organized activities and well-governed inatincta—a life, in short, ron by schedule, not subject tochange without metioe, Yet perhapa this supgeats an exemplary character rather than an attractive personality; so in repudiation Mr. Valet fs paged. “Straun?” Beevee would have said, “Wow, be'ssee! First of all, be stands for class—what the English lady novelists would call ‘thoughtfully valeted'—and bis man- ners all match, But he's a nice kid. And principles! Say, Chat lad*s as sepunre os thet dern little notebook he carries, and as white aa his linen.” Which proves it's stil] possible to be admirable and yet likable, Certainly you would have credited him with a popularity rich in opportunities for understanding the gentler sex. But the fact remains that women were not merely an unknown quantity but a master mystery, ag complicated to him ws the trade-mark laws, Haw, then, was he te identify the avernge woman? Even after an intensive research inte his memory his aecurnulated con- ceptions resulted merely thus in his notebook: Tun Avmagnh Wosran fal Adda eripta to hor bette ‘Bi Uses bhirpin tbr shai tata i fel Is afrnid of mice, And immedintely, of couras, he sow the inadequacy of this test, Qether universals must be found, but how? Ako! The world's authoritles on woman! Surely, in the multiple eatimoates enumerated by Apuleius through Havelork Ellis, Shaw and Welnknger must be some common denominator B: JOVE, Beevee, did you know that in THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By Dorothy DeJagers FELUITRATEDS AY CHARLES DO, MITCMELL Her @roand All Afiernocos. of Mashers in This Here Berg. wrt for the colonel’s lady und Judy O'Grady. Wet so diverse are the opinions of the sons of Adam about the daughters wf Eve that it took a month to find the unanimity te per amit this entry: fol The average woman is Dlogieal, fb) The average woman is emotional rather than corebiral, fe) The average wornan & intersted in concrete rather thon abstract, , ft) The average woman is intrigued by personalities rather than principles. i fe} The average woman hos o good memory, accuracy in dotaila, (0) The average woman thinks inductively. This, you see, looked pretty comprehensive; the next atep was te find some lady manifesting these aymptame, then mike = thorough study of her inferential and prefer- entind peculiarities. But finding her—that was the real problem. The analyst's sovial and business contacts with the opposite sex were too casual and incoherent to permit any apeedy identification, Moreover, the conventions naturally taleord any direct methels-—at lenst for Stroun! Had it been Beeves he would have halted some promising prospect with “Tell me frankly, girlie, are vou an logical sheperaon with a gomd memery wha thinks inductively about personalities in an emotional way?" “Soe Here! Thda Posag Lady Telle We Foor Seen Toggin' Now, We're Making a Cléedaoup April #, 1% - E WOMAN But you can't do this when you're one of 4 Boston Strauns. So it began to look 2s if the os nomic world would have to roll along without a psychological diacloaure of the average Eve. Then, one dy In Pebruory be ond Beevee went to New Jersey on bus ness. After a conference with their elient, the statist, cag tomake afew nates, retired toahotel, promising to mec. th copy chief at four. The writin roam tooled deserted whan h tntered, and not watil he ka seuted himself mt one of thos two-passenper desks did ih beeome aware of another por reapondent secroe. Withay particular notice, however, b j oe drew out the inevitable nore | > book and set to work, Ther . suddenly a point overlooks during the conference spocdsy him, forgetful of his papers tothe phone just outside: go it was on his return that by classified hia neighbor as ; young woman, Now what he should baw nobed wae a Poocklile presi. ness of a smartly gpowned flap por wha could have posed fg ny magazine cover and dow bled the circulation of the periodical and that of its post amemic nike neaders. At beset he should hare recogmiancl in her tie salient principles: of fom pedlyartising, for ale Was certainly a young thing constructed to attract fnvorahie attention, to velop interest and perhaps induce action. Yet neglatering nothing of this he stared musiagly acres the peacock feather im ter terru-cotts hat, lost in though wleout dealer demand wad co- BINer consumption, Then, suddenly, his interrst wae flagged. The young woman having ostensibly fir- ished her letter inclowd it in an envelope, Chen withdrew it for a hasty addendum. Aba! A postaeript! Temsely Straun leaned forward, Next he saw her pick up a music roll and, after a frowning sbringele with a perverse lock, extract a wire hairpin! Another frown; then aaigh of relief aa the flap flew open. Eby this time Stracn was staring with compelling expectuney; yel whensbe ree wid sauntered toa plane inthe corner the dictates of a Boston breeding defected his gaze t his notebook, Almost imme diately he turned at her saquedl, “' A mouse! "and found her on the piano stowl, bwe tiny sitde terracotta boots lifted ina teo-fowt clearance of terra. fircna. Ordinarily, of course, be would have sprang to the d+ fense of helplesa womanhood; but thia disturbing pl nomenon in the law of probabilities had reduced him to helplessness for the moment, To find, you see, a subject reacting to the average-woman test within the course ol five minutes could but prove that the gods af chance occasionally slippust something over on Sir Francie Galton. A blow, of course, ta a statistician: yet he rullied aulfi- cently te hurry after the terrm-cotta figure that auddenly shipped out the deer, Almest mechanically he followed the peacock feather through winding avenwes te a department store, Here he hesitated. It took the urge of scientific ewriosity to pul him across this no man’s land, but finally he enter pursued hia quarry back to where a gilt sign —Adpater identified an elderly warty gentleman behind a mahogen’ railing, There was, fortunately, a masculine eourter jus acroas, and ao the purchase of 4 cravat enabled oar ansly= to cover the transaction behind the rail. ‘i It seemed that the girl had purchased a pair of st stockings, which proved, she bubbled, “the cowardly FH that make a hit on you and then run.” Sho had won

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST tl et fire minutes, too, Critically the adjuster exam- them aud modded im justice: to her complaint. Would ive un exchenge? No. A refund, please. Very well, nisi Pen get in action but was suddenly halted by gy sixty-five? But the stockings soll now for four give J wt fe the other admitted, but reminded madam that the fear price had bern but four sixty-live. tot if theyre worth four eighty-five at the time of es, them of course four eighty-five ia my refund.” the necktie counter a young man, reminded that the ie woman is iogical, smiled exultantly, but the y ome, obviously bess intrigued by feminine traits, wed ax she went on: “When did the price increase?" i after bis curt “February first!" came a triumphant “tht De waa on January thirtieth, at half post two, the rum appeared.” emai thir anglyst, reminded that the average es hos a good memory, accuracy in details, per- et kimeeelf another emile, ) ourse, in the end she had to gecept the purchase wand as she turned from the refund desk it wos with (se coneruus sigh that Straun echoed it. Poor little ¢! Despite the terra-cobta ensemble suggesting Paris bs, that twenty cents doubtless meant much to her. ee, fancy bis surprise to see her drop a two-dollar bill be basket of an old news woman near the entrunee. the acnompanying smile of compassion this the re ei that the average womun is emotional rather than teal and surpree ceded te positive awel And when, be later on, her rejection of ff Crom solicitation eorrobo- dhe average eroman's intereat peonalittes rather than prin- is, Straun knew that he had adios — the composite feminine fete consumer, a Gul whom would miuttonize in- tee probhem! For w hdnrks be strog- do ecth i so dee niely that cen pely did he notice (Ege POA derly dart to the ay ew polierman at the iv met croming. A he mesh a eallaquy, Bet Ho gritty voice li ited him: see here! Thia oog lady tela ove os heen taggin’ her rend a afiternogn.. ie, wee meking a lac-up of mashers ith here bore, n— Maaherat™* sav) Vee quiv= ed ewel-bred rage. "This & an outraygue ! lim Abn Straun, of ‘ew York, and ——"" Ais": aothin" in fr fel Ble ff yeu" re hex Straw, af New- ox. Tias here mauh- © has pot ko etop ft" [netinetiwel y from tomed bo the the toed aloe, ft a hall nile on her = checued hia ap yal. Then, paoic- iicrten, he saw a wond knotting wat] them, and a Mes oepalee of flight welenly propelled t= inte the nemanest toreag. Inatanta- i oa however, 4 ‘ly tnd. plarked eae inte §=phe ” Thong you'd vi 7, eT Youse Perch me!" Tehonened nothing else. to do, ao of the darted, Srgp and the officer walked a jew feed ind ofthe impious peacock feather,

Tt seeme hardly mecessary to describe the humiliation of a young man whoeee gentility had never beon questioned by the lifted eyebrows of Mrs, Grundy, bet wlane the arm of the law, The poor dear's indignation berwne something enveloplig and suffocating. He would aue the «ity for twenty ive thousand. Wo! Nothing less than fifty thau- sand could compensate for euch mental anguish. As for the New Jersey Delilah whe had so Samsonized him—well, Echoponhauer was right, Women! Bah! Creatures of triviality ond ragwery whose vintly permitted naught saver a personal interpretation of all experlenee. And this silly thing had thought his pursuit motivated by admiration! Well, she'd soon find out! By this time they had reached the courthouse, and in Room 20, after the girl's disappearance inta an ante room, the culprit wus led before the judge, an oldish gentle- man of jocular rotundities, With suppressed emotion Straun gave his real name and business, and an acknowl elpment that he had followed the defendant from the hotel to the point of interference, Whi? Ah, that was simple! Becnuse—boesuse —— Suddenly he faltered. After all, was the explanation plausible te any save the merchandising mind? Moreover, he suw iis comedy temptations for the reportorial pen. Manhattan Masher in Search of Average Woman, Pursues New Jersey Nymph, He heard the offiee guffaws and the inevitable kidding which would laugh all the dignity out of hiture researches. Nao, he could not explain; 20 instend be demanded, with what he considered razor-edged irony, “Bo it's agalnat the law te walk behind a young woman. when you have made no pos- sible overtures to her? “Tot acct criminal, hart unlucky, wher the lacy tn ihe cise happen to be wearing a peacock feather.” The judge and the defendant twinkled at euch other before the former’s query: Abie vou ever heen arnestek before? “Certainly pot! !" with indignation. “Well, then, because this is vour first offen ini therm you dont look like a typical timsier" = ig- HOrifige Straun's flare—" TU re- ert town Uns ILL eR pT This yveung “Hotter Lim Thon Fear, By Good Mon, Haoe Felt the Effects of My Foto! Chore" woman '"—smulling over at the disturbing influence in the berra-oothe auit, now present —"ia one of our most pubblice spirited witizens, und T shall parole you to her, You will repuck tu her anee a week for three months, swearing: on your word af boner ae gentleman, and —whem —an gdver- ting man, to a blameless interval." At this fantastle procedure Straun could net repress on ironic amile; but his limited knowledge of the ways uf Etlackstone avbered him. No doubt the entrance of women inte politic: expressed itself in just such topsay-turvied judicature. And ah! Ah! Wasn't it, wfter oll, the fune- tlondags of a Providence kindly disposed towurd statisti- elanea? Of course! He would werk himgell inte the shallow creature's good graces; then coolly and scientifieally turn her into copy} “Very welll” His voice vibrated with the exultation af un tndustrial revolutionist, anc his hand trembled in eae riviee o. boe signer gome blbolie peper anal acmepbed the card of inetroctions from Misa Theodora Whipple, Thus it happened that the following Friday evening Allon Straun waa conducted by a liveried servant bite a warmly tinted living room in = most impressive New Jersey home. Here a fire flung lozenges of light over Jacobean carvings, gleaming enamels, bronzes and tipstrica, It was not in the least like that interior advertised over the comforting slogan Terms to Suit: inetead, a pluce af rich harmonies and rare discriminations, the beat pwasilde expression of tha acquisitive inetimet, and obviously financed by an afluene: beyond the dreams of bootleggera, Then in a monvent his probation olfieer entered, “Ah, Mir. Straun! How nice of you to call," she aetu- ally bad the nerve to say, and as he took the indiesied chair he glowered forbaidingly. Then in the conversational trivialia that ensued, as she restleasly Aashed from divan to plane bench, he tried to formulate some comprehensive impression of her. Her eyes, he wae forced to achimit, wene yeumeal: elongated, richly lashed ones that glawed vivbdly, startlingly blue, in B eariall oliyetinted face uf inte nce eX presal vers, Tethers tive ta every thought and emotion. Amd, by Jove, what a tiny tittle thing she was! Indeed, ag she jumped to the arm af a chair, swinging her is erubatile feet, she looked like a child. A spoihal clild. For behind her informal apontameties, her self-sciured naturalness, Straun divined a eeckeround of uoeritical indulgence. If You Dan*t Sep What You Want, Ask Por 10! had patently ever been her slogan, andl lif: had always een served with the Jubel Satisfaction Gusruntecd. “Well, and how have your sidewalk manners been. this week?" she discarded a discussion of the weather to ask. “OR <a flush seeped up tu Steaun's cowlick—"you iton't roally think [owas trying te dirt with yout" “Andwhy wit? Nobler lives than yours, my good man, hiewe felt the effects of my fatal charm.” “That may be, he weerded courteously, “but——" A gesture of futillty dianieed his defense: then with o sigh: "I aoe it’s im- presibls bo sonyvines you Pm nat ao masher,” “Oh, T admalt yeu don't look like w moral leper.’ She, too, sighed, pisaibly at the deplorable de- ceptivences of an honest face, “To glance at wou one would say you were a sensible, seriqus- minded youn mun, the sort whe belongs to the civie-purity league anda buikding- and-loun asec i= tion.” Now Stenun did belong to a builalings- and-Ioan association: not very reprehen- sible, you will can- cole, Ywet strangely enkigh, Straun Wit as flaridly unstrung a? if he'd been we cise of defaulting with the B. L, A.'s funds when she wernt ont “Tn other wards, you look like a per- son with the fear of Gad and the police in his heart.” Then down she roe slippecdintothe chair, = (Continued on Page fia)

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o THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i pril The Nemesis of the Scree Bee ee es Parents ore Carcltan: Bot I Certainty Bo Net Bellevs the More Rowpectable Producers ore Golag te Satagoalae Crippeciiie EMESIS, who became in N lnter days the goddess of proportion, was, from the first, prevecupied with the just. distribution of lock, When she acaumed the task of retribution it was for immoderate good fortune. The moving-pleture kings need not have expected to have it all their own way forever, for the whole human spectocle boars witness that Nemesis is no more quiescent now than she was when the Greek mind invented her, The success of moving pictures has heen phenomenal—to use aicheap word; in an incredibly small number of years they have got a strangle hold on all but the remetest human communities. Now in certain interesting and amusing ways Nemesis ia beginning to show her hand. I speak necessarily as a rank outsider, But no one who reuds the newspapers can be unuware that forces are gath- ering which are inimical to motion-picture production and to public Interest, as far as the public interest is con- cerned with the film. And public Enterest—oven if mot yours of mine—is ee much enncerned with the film that the censorship question dors affect ue all. You ar I may not depend on the movbes for amusement, but we eannel be unaware of cur fellow tewnsmen who do. Censorship has never affected the apoken drama in America very much: which gives an edge to the voice of the motion-pieture pro- ducer who complains that he is censored far beyond the requirements af Broadway. But I wonder if the motion- picture producer has perceived the real cream of the jest namely, that he is being threvtened with censorship only because he hus had such a howling success, Nemesis, in ather words, Main Jireet and the Movples rPoeEe would be no sense in state censorship of the spoken drama in Nevada; no point in the good ladies af Crippaville, Alabama—I invent the name—getting bo- gether to deelde whether or not they should permit a traveling traupe to present Gloete or Mire. Warren's Pro fesxion in the Crippeville Music Hall, Presumably the citizens of Nevada, and certainly the good ladies of Cripps- ville, realize that neither Ghosts nor Mrs. Warren's Pra- feesion concerns them practically. They must find other outlets for the reforming instinet. But those who have willed—and brought it shout—that Crippaville, Alabama, shall be provided with daily movies must expect the ladiet of Crippsville to have an opinion. Doubtless at first they thought that Crippeville would be content to poy its modest entrance: fee and do ite little part te fill their coffers, They reckoned without human nature—or Nemesis, Anyhow, the censorship question is very much with us. Hardly a day passes that some minister of the goegel or some public-apirited layman is not quoted in the news. papers Lo the effect thet motion pictures should be strictly FEEUSTTARwWTFl oF By Katharine Fullerton Gerould 5 o fp ce wf a F censured, that uncensored films are deleterious to public morals, that the ¢hildren of the land are menaced, and so on. The metion-pieture magnates point in vpin to the plays and the books that get by without incurring formal protest. For the audiences of even the moat popular play are restricted in numbers; the reader. of even the most pope war book also, Neither the spoken drama nor literature reaches the millions that are reached by any succesaful film. Therefore the film is everybody's business. It pene- trates the whole fabric of American life, As its sponsors have always wished it bo do. Now the question concerning censorship is a question that for reasonable beings is alauys unswered in just one way! There ought not to be a censorship, Laws ext already to take care of any apectacle that menwces public morals, Public opinion itself will take care of anything eeri- ously sherking, for na mannger can afford to shock seri- ously the community from which he makes his living, Fut it—if you like to think of New York as jeculiarly cor- rupt—that wo play may get by on Hroadway that would be howled down elsewhere, The New York manager may have to think only of New York, but the motion-pieture producer has to think of Crippeville, The big metropolitan pilaces may charge you two dollars and a half or three dollars to ser a superfilm, but the producer cannot get back the price of bis million-dollar production from the clientele of those palaces. He gets it back, in the last anal- yais, from Crippaville; in quarters and half dollars, not in bank notes. By and large, the peaple who apend two or three dollars to see a show do not spend tt to sep a motion picture, ‘The producer must have his oor to the ground; eck be must Jean it to the paving af Main Street, nok te the asphalt of Fifth Avenue. Tt can be contended that the output of the studice is curiquely fluid, and hard to put one's finger on: that by the time enlightened public opinion has caused an objectionable film to be withdrawn in one town the sanve film has already corrupted the audiences of a thousand less enlightened centers: that you may perhaps count on the ladies of Crippsville, Alabama, to keep Crippeville, Alabuma, safe, hut that there are Crippevilles in forty-seven other states, and that perhaps the ladies of those other towns cannot be counted on, Nothing, accarding to that argument, will serve but official censorship. The answer to that argument is not an impassioned defense of the morals of all Crippsvilles: the answer is the mere statement that never in history hes censorship worked properly, Censorship, as practleed in modern socictios, serves neither morals sor art, Consors are never—even when they are not appointed for obecure political reasans—fit for their job. No one who is fit for the job isn ever willing to bea The things that get by absurd as the things ét held up, and vice vera sorship, properly manag MATHS an inimense store of knowbedpe, long exper literature and art, extremely wise judgment, entire: prejudion, wo a prodoand acquaintunce with huma chology. In all these gifts profesional reformer are notoriously lacking. This & not the place to enter discussion of the reforming inetinet; but it might t in passing that, more than mast contemporary typ reformers ery out to be paychoanalysed, zg Yr tt # Everybody's Buslness UST we then, dating without censors, allow ow dren to be corrupted? ia the next query to be! suppose, The real answer te that ls, of course, thets ane omare the plaice for children than the theaber is tht for them, or than the files of the avernge newspapet if wou will pardon the heeution —the place for them. people wha talk censorship would, instead, talk ondir to the effect that ne child showld be allowed to moving-picture theater unless accompanied by sn ble adult, or even ordinances to the effect. thet ch should be barres| from all movies not especially eonetr for them, there would he more peaint in it, Hut [da that would be to the taste of the producers, wey mort to the taste of the censorship wddicts, Tt would fe former beraues they want the whole family at the and it would offend the latter because they ano much out to protect the children as desirous of sete Ov OPM bens prevuil over the parenta' opinion — over everyone's opinion, Being a parent myself L incline to believe thal # atupid parent haa uwerally a keener sens of what willed his child than any board of censors likely te be cari in any state, Parents are careless; but lf they were? ahecked I fancy you could caunt on them, were they! selves present, to take their children out. [may le, # that { have too much faith in producers: bat I certait! not beliewe that the more reapectaile ones are a antagonize Crippeville if they can help it. The ef af ctnsurship have, obviously, # larw oqileiian of cut Benry, uhd think that the average man OF womes be trusted to turn down an immoral show. oth Seill, you ure not going te silence easily any oF a based, whether rightly or wrongly, on the rari children. The movie magnates wanted the ee or to go to the movies; they have got the whole fami) A and they are paying for their success. Someone aes kick up a row becwuse, as we have said, with the family there the movies became everybody's buen i Thatter of pluilslic interest. [Tf the reformer havt & {Continued on Page 17!

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( Jl iz G the GREAT gulf has formed between the country and the town, a gulf eo wide and so deep as L eflectually to separate the two, and it must er be filled up or bridged over before anything a final revival of business is posable. Unbes this see senn the farmer will be forced back into the self- icing system of ploneer days, city investments will be ed Lorgely unprofitable, and a considerable proportion ke town will go bungry from Jack of employment, lor nearly two years now exceedingly law prices have @ for farm products, while for a portion af the time § standard commodities as wool and hides have had no feet value whatever. On the other hand, every possible teoce has been exerted to maintain city prices at war ak, and with so much success that no reasonable ratio revista between what the farmer has to sell ond wha, le normal conditions, be would expect to buy. In the entiow tears hawe greatly Inereased and, taken all in the farmer is out of the markets except for barest AL this is bad enough for the farmer, but when operating fell force it will be infinitely worse for the city. The scet has already suffered the most of his share of the Bealty, but the elty has yet to feel the consequences of bonpomible situation. We have closed our eyes toe the dectly obvious long enough, and the time has come to pb predicting that in spite of these discrepancies pros- fy 6 just around the corner, Instead, it is the business thoughtful men everwhere to address themeeclves to gins: of devising means of doing business on the level. i> it ib economically im- guble to maintain widely erent price levels, one for foountry and anether for town, and still expect ie the tere will continue te poasines with each other, ering. a8 We all do, that fecever business senses to eceedtable it will die out. fee former bes been deflated Fcatural ces following a fat war. The rest of the etd most sooner or later ieept the inevitable with ie test grace possible, anel eertcaien the better for rerybods—unless, indeed, @ wel to repeat the experi- sent ef Rugsaia in trying on a “otal aeale to get sored ‘= for quothhing. in Kira Tey the thoughtful mon- Li farmer consider the vetua! fects in the case ane wr oa meaning. A fre days ago @ cartoon ape sears! depicting a eet of bel- iaeeiwith a pair of ehoes in ene pas aod thirty-three eel af corm in the other, eth Ceele Sam and the lures lonking on, seratehing ‘ler heads The story told Ceeriy tire to-day, and the meating of it is evident when we remember that it took an rye aoe of ground to rev ihe corn, that an acre ‘pound sa little over two oie fetaquare, and that the average farm consists of i bundred and sixty such com, each supposed to be a arsund one hundred nd ity dellars. There are leas than twa es of leather in these iho and the stock off libdbes un Whleh they were made tu a ag on the alaughters tum curket lat year at ten sth gy peued. ‘This peeeana tal the eandard) eormmid= jhimsothpething om the Se. | dead animal is not inthakiming to-day on any lee gp Amerkas yet it will BECORATSAFONW nage TH SATURDAY EVENING POST 13 Sr JAMES i. take the full year's produce of an aere of land to buy a pair of shoes of corresponding grade; that is to say, while shoes differ in price, so do lands in yielding power, but it will take the full produce of an aero of three-hundred- dollar land te buy a really good patr of shoes or boots. Woolen bed blankets retail. at Glteen to eighteen dollars the palr, though made up when wool had no established market price. Even had it enjoyed a normal price the discrepancy i wide when six pounds of wool is held at wighteen dollars with no processing beyond spinning and weaving—nev cutting, no moking up, no lining, no buttons, nm buttanholes, no trimming—just plain weave going straight from the loom to the consumer. How did the acorn become the oak ao quickly? We do net weigh watches and compare their coat with sheet brass and plain pig iron, ner do we compare directly the fashionable costume with the value of raw silk in the epcoan. But we are tnelined to weigh up blankets and make some such comparison, taking os a beads the theece that has been a year in growing upon the back of a live animal needing constant care, and that waa shorn and shipped at large outlay of actual cash. commonest Kind of rugs are costing five to ten dollars a yard, or two and three times whet they enst when wool was worth ralsing, A very ordinary bedroom rug CRANE ‘By E. DAVENPORT (aiicip scene matte not even a good rag, and the cheaper ones are hardly worth wecepting as gifts. That is what leads the farmer to live on bare floore these days, and the effect of it will be felt a a backwater all the way back to the looma, the stock investovents and the pay envelopes. It takes ben acres of wheat to buy a comfortable bed with its owtiit of linen and coverings an common springs, and with ne period furniture or unusual fitting, at that. Of courdé It con be done cheaper, and perforce le done chenper, but the effects will be felt in good time all along the Line. Whether we like it or not, these ore the comparisons which the farmer ia making and ia forced to make when determining a basis on which he can do business with the town; what be can afford to buy gind what he must pet along without; how fur, in other words, he con play the gume according to the present rules, Add-in this it must not be forgotten that the farmer constitutes a full third of our population, and a good buying third, at that, when conditions are favornhle, Wages In Terma of Produce HE farmer oust do all this beeause his income is lirnitee! by what he can produce upon his land and what he ean get for it in the open markets of the world. He hone way, fortunately, whereby he can force the world to buy at his prices, whatever may be said to the contrary aod however temporarily auerseful others may seem to be in this aitempt to secure apectal ad- Vantage and thereby get aamething for nothing. Tt nave tilees o full were of onts te pay for one day's work ofa mechante, and even so he often refuses: to work at all without a helper. The farmer must buy his Land, fence it, drain it, plow, sow, cultivate, reap, poy bases ariel run rick of seno4—all against the workman with bare hands, contributing meither to capital, toola nor taxea, and, even so, pay him the full product of an ucre of oats, fertility thrown in, for one days work in building the former's houses, barns or machinery. [t requires a hall acre of the best Americon lind when put to growling either one of our two most expensive eropsa—corm and wheat—crops that cannot be raised for nore than one year out of three without expen- aive fertilization, to pay for fewer hours of actual service than the farmer has besbowed upon the cultivation of the land wlone and after disre- garding seed, implementa, fertilizer, interest and taxes. Even this does not tell the whole story as between the country and the town, The average farm consiate of al- moat exactly one hundred ani sixty acres, with aome twenty acres of nontillable land. The means thut the mechanle with bis bare hands can get, at current rates, the entire produce of the average farm for about a hundred and seventy-five days’ work ao your, The facts stand sub- stantially a8 follows: wens But Wheat oo... 4. K ED ri 3 | a rae: - rit |S renee |, | ih fo) th Jrasture.2 :.... HP 1G) ii This makes no accounting Jor the clover, because it will all he enneemed by the (Contineed on Page &7)

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XCEPT for a alight lift of his lower eyo= lids there wus no change in the placid coun- tenance of Sherif Dan Mackenzio when Deputy Sim Cole stepped the litte tin cor befare the jull steps. The sherilf’s ehirt-leeved elbows continued to rest comfortably on hia knees. A thin, hurrying wiep of smoke roee fromthe charred bowl af hie pipe, the only sign of activity he presented, He observed that. the radintar of the cur steamed fretfully after the engine ceased to throb. Somebow it reminded him. af Sim himaell, bustling up the path behind a reluctant, shufhing negro, Mackenzie's eve ahilted to the black face, “What you bern up to, Dall? Never thought we'd see you here,” Cole answered abruptly, while the numbed wits of his captive manifestly groped for speech. “Running a still down on Macklin's Branch,” he ex- plained, “Caught him working up a freah lot of mash,” Mackenzic continued to regard the prisoner, "What'd you want to go and do that for, DUT Hight after court day too. Now we got to keep the jail open till next term." Cole urged the man up the atepea past the sherilf. “ro on, there!" Mackenzie got deliberately to his feet and fallawed them je toward the dear af the cell room ct the end of the short, narrow corridor, He unlocked it und swung it inward. The prisoner hung back, awed by the formidable bare of the cages lining the wall about the central apace which hell the sheet-iron stove, Cole thrust him forward impatiently and he stumbled, “Tou aio” goin’ lock mein ane o' them, Mist’ Cole?" Mackenzie answered. “Reckon we can leave you have the whole jail a apell, Dil.” Me unlocked one of the cells as he spoke, “Wou can lay dawn on the bunk in here when you wane bo.” Cole made an faint sound in his throat, an impatient “Fetter lock him up, sherlif, or he'll dig owt on us. Mackenzie shook his bead. “Ges he'll be safe till we need him, Sim.” He turned to the negra, “You'll like it in here, Dill, soun's you get used te it.’ He straightened and run a proprictury eye about the room. “It's a right pretty alll, inside." Again Cole made the impatient, wordless sound. The sheriff gestured toward the door and followed him past it. As he closed it after him with a twiteh of his wrist one of the hinges whined softly, He stopped short and unlocked it, moving it gently back wand forth till he located the noise, While Cole stood by he fetebed an oll con and dealt fnith- fully with the squeak, “Take a heap of pains on the old wreck, sheriff.” Cole chuckiod thinly, "Give her a good push and she'd fall down on us.” “Getting old," conceded Mackenzie gently, “but it's a Fight pretty jailyet, Sim," He straightened slowly, 2 bond at the amall of his back. “Ain’t bad ow break owt of it.” Cole shrugped. “Cool reason why! Ain't had anybody inside exceptin’ beotleggin' niggers.” His tone changed. “Like to aign up for this job, sheriff? Got time to cash my vieucher this evening Uf we burry.” He gononed as he produced the printed forms. “Good thing they don't quilt: this still running on wa." Mackenzie adjusted steel-rimmed spectacles and Jabori- ously inseribed the documents. He watched the deputy's brisk departure toward the dingy courthouse up the road, arc again the lower lids of his eyes lifted a little behind the lenses, He glanced at the little car and shook his head as

a. THE SATURDAY EVENING PP OST ipril i By HUGH MA, AIR RAH LE fF £ £L UU F ¥F BR # FT E B There Waee Tight Silence, The Barred of the Gan Leooled, Woeered, Grepoed, Macktanie Wogged Fit Head Taareving!y he turned away. Tires were changing, even in Tyre, and Sheriff Mackenzie confronted a queer inability te change with them. He walked around the jail, iaspecting it dublously, see- ing it for the moment with Sim Cole's alien eye—the dis- mal sag of the Foot Ine, where the foundation had settled: the jagged profile of the corner, where crumbled bricks left gapa like missing teeth, Playing out, he thought, playing out like Hewitt County itself, now that the timber was gone, Not mach like the spick new jail up in Cray, where they were up-boedate enough for bond bauer. Cale was always talking about Cray County. “Reckon if he was te see a man get his head cut of down our way he'd claim he'd seen it dane prettier up in Cray County,” said Mackenzie ta the jail wall, He felt himaell frowning, and wont back inside, Jail always frightened negro at firsk. He talked a while to DH Coomber through the barred door, and gave him a hund of tobacco and some matches, Dill wasn't a bad negro. Stoll running had never seemed exactly criminal taShertif Mackenzie, pred since he'd hed Stim Cale for demity there had been “times when the cutlander’s coper ashluity hod seenved closer to illegality than the forbidden traffic itaelf. Cole was briskly businesslike about it, ealeulut- ing his fees in advance and collecting them promptly, bragging wt the store an court days over Ebe list of his cases, Muckenzle knew that Sie lod his eye on his place—was mak- ing ready to oppose him one of these days, He saw Dill fed before he wert to bis own supper nk the hotel, where Sim held forth contented|y concerning the chase and capture, He felt a slight in the tone, as if Sim meant to reflect on his chief in these boast- ings. Instead of sitting a While on the hotel porch after the meal he went back te the jail at ones, “Through a broken pane he could henr a cheerfully melancholy ehant: Alin’ gat me wak fo di-ied-0 + Adn’ gal eo place le (okie Tt soothed him. He was glad that Dill was getting used ta it sa peste Same of these country negracs took jail pretty bard at first.

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0 T ferda le Aeon ["" cL # BK He ast on @ inp, sno! lbtening w eneringr this and = tured He and (ola in the living ters in the front 6 building, sawing them rent and sparing eninty a jailers: age keep. When he heard coming the sharif poel his ploe and went if He discovered Aw didn't want to liste Bim to-night. Bp eadldn't help hearing deputy's fing! speech t Breck, who'd walle with him. “Tt's all right's long’a nothing bre anybody c'n be sheriff when there’ oo) ifn’ to de. Hut it takes 1 whole man it takes anybody at wll. lip im Cray Coe hy, now Mackenzie went back to put out the lamp in the « dor. One of these days—queer, how a fellow got to te like the ful wos home, oF HERE was almost a crowd about the pineboard bi hy the time Cole's steaming Sivver palled thraogh sondy ruts of the lane, Mackenzie knew the fwors— po from the littl: farma in the bottema between the sti ridges, drawn away from their work by the excites They greeted him with nods as be climbed out, and he; that thelr ever moved at anee te Cale, as if the deg were in command, He went inte the house, where ak of women surrounded Letty Maecrloumen. The talk stop instantly, He felt a9 if the motion of thelr eyes urged toward the clased doar of the bedroom. Letty stood up. He saw that she was taking it hand, way woren of her hill breed were apt to—in a silence straight lipa and bitter eves; eyes which seemed to already looking at another dewth—the death that pe ie furnbled for speech and found none. That stooy k slleneed his exmmiserations in advance. He knew 4 Letty wanted him te say, But it was Sim Cole whose it, enterd ne heavy wef oben beh ind him, "We'll get em, Mrs. Mecrimmen."* Mackenzie saw her face tighten queerly. She woe thinking about Joe, lying beyond that doar, but about! thet who had killed him. He nodded. Letty kad esa down fram the hills. Up there they didn’t throw apo over theirheais pmilery. She tald the ster x ajuk tog bina tlt vobee, as af Gt were a tele of oth pe le. Tt woe ta 0 ‘ols that she tald it, gnera Mackenzie, He could Haten, letting the wor lift the pictures before him instead of aabieg she questions when the narrative strayed. [twas ulroost as if he had seem and teard da himself—the yelp of the hoonds under the bre the creak of wheels in the send, Ji at the door in his nightshirt cha lenging the men out there in t dark and getting no anawer, 4 oud hep the sleepy whimper ( the children and Letty's hand vet: Htilling them while Jie dremel. th persistent elamer af th hounds under the dor “Too wea holding ot for a better price,” sik Letty in that even, list tone. “He carried « little clown to the ware lwuse at Randall sv they give him a dala sixty mverage an it. We made pretty tobarcoch year—the buyer bel high for it. Joe, he aimed te bold theme! of it-a spell longer though, and it [ewcrkey he folks tulked some. We made.a pity crop-=<they wes twelve hundred pounds ca the floor.”*

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 15 Cole cut in with a curt question, bul Mackenzie seemed past that heap of gold-colored leaf under the mobtened lonxet im the barn, the toil it had coat Joe and his wife ed the chikdren te get it out of the sandy soil. the nigitta J cereding fine in the curing barn, the daya oat grading and cing and the one year he could remaimber when growers suid stand back in the warehowers und wuteh the buyers eft for the crop, fight for it with prices that seemed serecibhe. (f course it wouldn't have been that way if meet emers hadn't failed to make a crop. It was only be ise there waen't enough to go round that the buyera i) kad to drop their friendly scheme of standing together od seramble desperately for what they could get. He had ward envied talk of Joe Mactimmon’s luck himself. Two Eopand dollars, maybe, for a single year's work! Like sexing up mowey in the road! Generally a little grower eas lucky if be brought home encugh from the warehouse w settle with the store and pay for his guano, ‘We never igured anybody'd take and steal it.” Mackencle nodded. They'd got used to thinking that ti- bacco wasn't Valuable enough tosteal, Only this year —— “They waa three wagona out by the barn when went ont—[ could we the men lond- iteum. [twasn't right dark. I wanted Joe should tuk: his gun, but te ron oat. [got the gun and went dite him, Some- my Sung out we iozid pt back in the howe and arpquiet, but Joe ae ken PUTIN aright for ‘em ind teethree of ‘am shot. TO seen him drop and carted to akong, tit the gon tonk ind jammed on me ud they ketched ce when | went tore Took and ted me ap and lisisked loading. Ween they was poe Tsung oot aod Little Jie hee vene and turned mhoe, Joe wes rad by then.” Mackenzie wron= dered why be kept sting all. the tafe of the gun ‘oh, the dim ies egpaitet the log baka, the lite boy creeping ort i the dark to it the bound woman, Cole was teding to bugi- be inlead of imes't Ged me up doe lee ‘em again. They was all hill folks—I knowed by ther talk—and I heard the splash when they forded the bse too, The tracks is there right now," “They'd ought to be a long waye back in the bills by “TH we'd known aooner we might've git up with ‘em in the car.” “Not on that road." She shook her head, “Ain't no at could go up there through the fords. 1 got word down stew quick's T eould." “Well po after em anyway," announced Cole, “There's etragh here for a pose, and we can follow the wagon Faria, I feckoon,” Without waiting for the sheriff's consent he stepped to the dour and announced the plan to the men grouped ut tee step. The sheriff, following, read approval in the ntriitten fares. Four or five rifles leaned aguinst the rall—they had come expecting this, sume af them, He Wetdered at kimaelf for a queer teluctaner, Ten or fiftenp far age he would have sworn them in and led them on rch Som suddenly be discovered fed back from the prospect thase with a joyous excitement and no regrets, that be had changed, that he ‘reing ep into. thoee hills across the county line meant a The mountain men wouldn't wait to be ferreted out of hiding before they sleowed their teeth. Agu! Mar- kenzie guessed fairly accurately wt the kbentity of the thieves who had killed Macrimmon=the Hayfleld boys must have beon in the gang, along with Sid MeKane and the rast, [twas the first time they'd chosen ta come doen on chia aide af their hilla—the mining towns on the other funk offered better sport as a rule—but he Knew than by evil repute., They'd expect purauit and arrange for it—an ambush where the posse wouldn't have a chance. It waa strange that he should stop to thik about that, Tn the old timber days he'd have been in the saddle long before now, with the thud of the hoofs behind him in bis ents. And now he stood in the doorway and thought at empty afddles, thought of bringing back a few dead meen to the cabine in the cool hollows. It waa bad enough to have one young widow with a pair of children to support, Of course he could pick bays who hadn't families to think about, but there was something worse in the thought of bringing back thease young bodles to sundy graves behind Bethesda Church than in the proapect of killing grown meen and fathers, “How many fetched guna?" Cole was asking. “) Get the Gon and Wet after Him, Somebody fang Oot We Sdould Ci Sack in the Howse, Bot Jor Be Eee’ Jteronging Siratgie for ‘am aad TworTaéres of ‘em Shot" There was aastir in the group as men moved towand the weapine at the wall. Machenzie heard hie yoiece, like the voice of a atranger, checking the movement. “T ain't ready for a posse yet a while, Sim. You and me better look inta this first. We're paid far it. Time enough to ask for help when we ooeed it.” Cole half turned, incredulows, very faintly apprehensive. “Tou aim to mo up there alone, sheriff?" “You and me—-if anybody goes, It's our job, aint it?" "Flom foolishness—the twon! us! We'd a heap better stay right bere without we toke eneugh —" “Tn galng aut to the barn," sal Macken. “They wae bound to leave tracks, We got to do a sight more than just ketch some men, Sim. We got to prove they done it.” He moved away, followed irresolutely by the others, The loose earth about the barn had been troddon by to muny feet that oerning te hold out any chine wf kbenthfy- ing the prints, Mackengie went Inalde, where planks bad tree dadd on the earth as a makeshift floor for Joe Miacrim- mons atered leaf. They were hare now except for a few scattered hands which had fallen from the aticka aa the thieves had lifted these to their wagons. A few strips of sacking, stitched together to make a covering, lay on the growid: ages af an old cotton blinked, tort aerosa, acill felt damp to the sheriff's fingers aa le lifted it. “Guess they carried the rest of the blankets with 'em," he wid aloud, “Somebody in that crowd must know a little about keeping tobacco in good order,” He felt og dowbt in the silenes which onswened hirn, They'd begun to wonder; Sim Cole's scheme agreed with their ides whout o wheriif's duty, He alidn’t blame them: it wae only ginee he'd seen Letty Maerinmimnon's face fost now that he'd felt diferently himself. He picked op one of the fallen hands—a bundle of long golden leaves wrapped stema together by another, drawn tight and smooth about them, forming a conveniont handle, [t waa pretty to baceo, and Joe knew how to grade and tle too. No wander the buyers had bid his piles to reeerd tipures If they were all like this. Mechanically he fingered the texture of the leaves, lifted them to his nose, eamanthed them again, “feckon that's all we can do bere, Sim.” He spoke slowly. If they pot the notion that Dan Muckenzie wos afraid to lead them up inte the hill paths—he besi- tated. “Sort of like to keep a few hands of this myself," he anid aloud. “Running low down to the jail.” He gathered the scattered remnants of the raid inte the strap of blankee wt he apoke, still emnscious of an ap- Praising silence akiagt him. “All right, Sim. We might’s well get started." He stopped at the house to pay Letty for the to- haeco be earried. She took the maney silently. “You going al- ter ‘em, sheriff?’ Sim Cole gave the question the force of a chal lenge. Mackenzie turned away with- outanswering. He heard a muttering behind him as he walked ta the ear, carrying kis bundle awkwardly before him, They'd talk. He guessed that Sim Cale would help them, He felt the justice of their tacit re- proach. Hi couldnt expect them te wnder= atand that kis queer unwilling- ee to strike into the hills waa on their account and net his awn. It oecurred to bic duddenly that lie must be pectirnge old—too old for his job, A sheriff : oughtn’t to be de- terred in his duty by such considerations. He wus turning aoft — afraid of spilling blood. Sim Cole Cole started the engine and climbed to the driver's seat aver the edge of the car. At the fork he threw out the eluteh and yelled, above the clatter of the racing motor, “Which way?" Mackenzie jerked his hand in the direction of the county anak, He saw Cole's jue tighten ane his lips lift falntly at their corners, “T thought you wasn't alming to go up there after 'em.” Muckenaie said nething. But the lower lids of his eyes roge unital they nearly hid lia pupils and hes face became more placid, They were in sight of tha courthouse when he spoke gently; “Sim, you ain‘t sutished with how I'm handling this eae. Figure you could do it better, maybe." Cole shrugged, keeping his eyes on the road. “Heard some talk't you was fixing to run against me thia primary.” He waited for another shrug. “Just wanted te say't they won't be no hard feeling if you cdo, I been sheriff 9 right good while, Most thes itt ain't a bad job for an old man, Sim—not in a quiet county like Hewitt anyways, Maybe I'm wrong. If you figure you (Coatinwed an Page [48)

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iG THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 8, 1 Winter Life in the Czar’s Capita: By Princess Cantacuzéne, Countess Spéransky, mée Grant OVE of St. Pe. i teraburg was in my heart always. After the firat eis months of my married life 1 felt thoroughly at homme in tha ben tiful city, and from that time on each senscn clrew me cleser to bt atl gave me @ com- fleter understand - img of ths inclividu= lity. While aur bow was Stil too seal for serigua lessons we lingered in the country through the bite woeks of our mutumn S&a- son, Then, with yeara, the time came for school or tutors for our little folka, 7 returned te the copital ky the middle af Sep- tember with them alter this while mar husband made his hunting trips with his chief, the Grand Duke Nicholas, Evenrone complained of the northern autumn climate, said it woe grey, damp and cokl. But though Iwas led to fear the dullness of the sky, and the supposed lonesome life of a deserted town, I waasoon coneoled by my experience, and the charm of our city in its quiet moods appealed to me exceedingly, Once the house and the children were settled I was free to look about and choose my own occupations, asat no other time of the year Teould. Esen the se. tling of the household and the laying out of the children’s programa offered io great trouble; for there were devoted servants and capable gorcern- PaaS perfectly: trained, who had for years man- age thes: things pnd who were keen te make a success Of their various dit hes. 4 Russten Skyscraper’s Fate ITH aweh effective aid it was easy to settle down to a comfortable rowtine in @ frome prepared beforehand to receive ws, | had only to puta few things, which were my treasures, into their glass cnaea, to add a touch here and there, changing about the books and small souvenire on tables, filling jars with fragrant flowers or placing our furnishings where they could give meet com: fort, ‘This done ond the house functioning, there weet always o few daya of delightful shopping, which the chOdren enjoyed vastly and which gave me, at well aa large friendly audiences which gathered about us in the shops, great pleasure. When we came fram the country my youngsters were as brown as berries, and hud rosy checks aod deep clear eyes which attracted everyone at onee. Great talkers, they were, however, well ptannered and showing foul breeding, holding themselves very straight and mov- ing gracefully. They were interested in everybody and everything, and of course asked innumerable questions, which the managers of various shops seemed delighted to BOmSwer. St. Petersburg shops before the war were admirable as to the merchandise they contained, but were in aspect semi-Oriental, aemi-feudal—altogetier homelike, patri- archal and attractive. One chatted over the wares and the children's fittings with owners and employes in most eucdial symputhy, everyone giving valuable advies and amistance to faverite clients, Even old nurse and Chippy the dog come on these expeditions and completed our tribal aspect. Americans shopping would have been dis- mayed by the uncomfortable lack of space and cur waste of time, but Russiane liked their country's wave and pot a great denl out of even the smallest of their duties in bualness of this kind. They didn't much emre to be modernized, After I had been married ome years an American company came and SST COFIMIGHT AY CSDEERECO £GSCREeoS0, SEE TORE CITT The Cearlaa ond the Kmpress of Germoay Driving da Peiarhof Pork, Abovpe—Tahe Fmpearict Winter Poloce, St. Peteroborg built # small-sized skyseruper on St. Petersburg's main street. About ten stories high it was, and constructed in the beat offiee-building style, with low ceilings and as many rooms fitted in as cubic space would allaw. Everything wis hygienic, there were express elevators, rubber carpets, mosaic floors and steam heaters, The Russians watehed this building riae, looked at the granite blocks of which it was built, then gazed on the mellow-tinted stueco facades which surrounded the grim monster of stone and steel, and they shrupmed their shoulders. With the intention. of granting impartial justice to this modern invader they woited to see it finished before passing pjudment an the new idea it represented. Feudal Russia had patience and time Lo give a verdict slowly. So when the puscling edifice waa ready and ita doors open, the populace of the town came within and gazed. They sniffed the rubbery fra- prance, tried the lifts up and dawn. They looked down upon the world from the highest altitudes, and then said, and repeated with emphasis, “Tt is ugly." Neither color nor shupe nor proportions pleased, and as the building had no beauty nor een harmonious charm [t waa condemned once and forall, and oes left bargely to the we of forelgnera, = Through ¢ autumn IT had le rete dio the rou af the antiquar and pick up dea tative old fur ture, brocmdes a ao of. Peddie and agents h; been going aba in the proving allsummer., The had pauthere many bowel of which could | used. Two ec three delight! bazaars for ar Liques @xXistec Thee were sti more Oriental an interesting tha the larger slope and a thriviz isin wos don in the tiny equer booths elosed fi Trom the ecole which framed th central open mear ket place. Inthes were preserved thi traditions of the older assarea of Moscow, Ele and even of Byzantium, My litth people wer always ready ty go bo one place more when ou Orrands Werk over, 50a candy shop and ths French: pastry temptations tnded our day always, Tie Charm of the Tea Hour NCE the children’s leagona began they were tied down bo their dutiea and could give ma their companionship only a short time each day, T penerally hed aix or eight weeks thea of com- parative sulitude, before my boshand returned from hia hunting expeditions. The quiet of the capital-all through the autumn waa very attrac tive, St. Petershurg offered many peasabilities of theabers of Oper, where I could always gu With one ar another of my frlends ameng the dipbormate of Russians: Also Cheigtinas gifts mit be bought and packed, and I took time to read aa well as to pre puere: mre dresses for the seas, Best of all habits in Chose digs wos the sociable hour when people om like! gathered ahowt o ten table, to chat and Wear ther tae] ye 2 Naw fen hove I found much btimulating and interesting groups to elt with, The talk drifted alarct, touching & great variety of aul yecks, guy or seriqua, by turn, The meas wit cor eloypuence wus scintillating: the women were always responsive, clever, warme! Tikae few as all sorta of things of mone or lise Importance poling on in the world were passed in review and commented on—politics, religion, the latest books, our own experiences or theoriea. A light ancl gentle touch the Russian hod in disco sion, a certain childish, primitive simplicity of attitude, with rich variety of neod., Never small, ar cynical, or hitter, never afraid, they took aur American point of view on many matters, and somewhat of the American ways, Tthought, The Tussians loved Kipling, Mark Twain, and a number of other wuthors who typify our taste, Bocas they had more time te live aad te enjoy, they learned mach af the poetry of Russia by heart, and conperation we frequently interspersed with quotationa from the best of forcign and notional literature. I very ruch enjoyed must und in the genial atmosphere everyone seemed to CHOMM.. One discovered suddenly that the autumn had slipped into a [rightfully cold winter, with deep sow covering the city ina beautiful white garb, over which gay little sleighe moved rapidly. These were as typieal of Ruseia a was their backgroaund—low and deep, with oa backs to ther arabs, so one must sit straight after holding to the fat driv: or’s belt for lack of 9 better means to steadiness, The vet podded dimensions of one's conchmun, seated on a parrov bench élightly rrised but ware close in front of bis ee ployer, protected one from the wind and the fine powdered

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 17 ehich covered both sleigh and man, Sa much waa feta part af one's furnishings und comfort that to dt tehind was hung a small carriage clock, where it beeen wilh em It wierthe baat degree of armartness. gisewe stallness of the sleigh and the huge propoer- A tee driver made for an extreme elegance, and all tormed In envy as we sped up the quay. fart teeter mace the sport exciting and the little ut: dashed about at breakneck speed, even around es. At crossings, always the driver gave w deep shout ening, and Che peedestrians seattered like leaves before md The in spite of the fact that there invariably eltobta domen ar more youngsters about, whe were rearving long flat baskets of provisions balanced on heads or were dragging bundles and baskets on tiny . The latter were never properly under control aa they d slong at the end of a long rope behind their small =. Though all these impedimenta mace the streets ak to navigate, the eoachmen were admirably adroit aricg, and everyone waa used to crowds and seeming sand kad developed alertness of both eve ancl ear. The Season of Merrymaking WEROW the diserder was only apparent. Tt pave us ie Uriental note T found in ao many Russian habits, cade the streets of St, Petersburg and Moscow first ime to (home of Cairo in their crowd psychology. I aca dues for their moiy disputes, which didn’t niin reality, and for the optimism, gayety, excibirment etidish omfusion, which never bed to accidents, it cel. ooreven to discamifort. The furs and velveta on deg tobe, which to be smart must hang hiscuricaly mover the sleighs with beavy tassels trailing in the e, the nets which draped our horses and trailed alsa, teeing pumengers and drivers from the hard snow fed up hy rapid steeds, the neds ond blues and greens of om, velvete and nets, the harness studded with tiny last dite of metal mailheads, the beauty of the high- pling fest horses, the rich and brilliant plumes of hate petty heads—sl] helped the picture. faddenly frantic signals come from the police to clear ) way dows the street's center, and then as officers rome itd in saltite. a par- wayependid sleigh swept eg with bores, neta and araman all perfection. wing the probes in place, e+ dood on a small plat- re Guilt an the pew of the Mpegs a Tost magnifioent ene @ manhend. Some (itt tare in height, with J otie beard worn pavtri- ‘ful luhien, dressed in o ancy Giles of agphilre fue and gold, with bonives id catnip on belt ard feet ubieh gletened in the ve. preud of hire! waa oa Tt Cegeck. Froud of i fete) rare and devoted ities Gree for years to the lusty charming wornan wills be pete eyes and emile, the ld fellow waa. She ant rapped 1 ables, with wo cy iG walling at her ald, Long ply ox she bent to eh and leh, bowing to her ihe. The populace sun- 3 on outed alter the picturesque whee THA pleased, alec ; it os, The Em press ther was greatly admired iy lor cite of her capital, To seneene aid to ber, “ce ber return from a trip rad, that St. Petersburg Se Spry tose Her Majesty Se Ete with entho- tain," Indeed I'm glad to see *. Peterbarg, 0 lowe it all. “treets and billings smd * herds: even the trom ond thelt one ane ale ore ie, and 7 mise “her 1 go away," ite Empras: Mother al- Ler | Flavell ubaut Fy great “saToeg the people, visited "Tal and arboola, drove ‘wt Gughters’ homes, and “eofter 6 Hashing mote of "Fo tbeafternoos pageant, “2 or on the Newskkil. Sometimes [ felt as if all this was a fairy tale with its background of apurkling ice ond ita beautiful buildings, with the soft morthern lighting of clear sun and blue sky, the bright colors and intensity of life A wonderful flower of civilization, this capital of the Czars, lost aniong the snows, showing ta the onlaaker the best the braina and Juxury of Russia could supply. Along the river's north bank the great constructive work of empire stood typified hy the bourse, the university, the museums and the acad- emy of fine urts which stood there. Abung the aouthernn quay the vast pulace's facades lay in a glorious row, and the frozen river spread between, asleep in winter garb— covernal pith a network of roads, Over these men skated, pushing passengers in chairs, or drove in quaint native drowhkies, or even were carried back and forth in modern tramcars, whose raila were lat each year wero the ice, From late November antil the end of Mareh they carried human freight in perfect safety. Here and there an ica palace stood, with a guy skating rink beside it, and hands played where ter hb drew the crowds af merrymukers. Farther aut on the river there were cumpanics of silidiers moving along with extraordi- Hary cleverness on skis, while in eome quiet spot was an jee quarry, from which great cryetal blocks Gike squne Trine jewels were being cut, fomecled on aleds, one or two blocks to @ench loud, and dragged by sturdy native horses, with Iebeles élinging ta their heads and bodies, up the steep em- hankments and to the joo venders of the town. Far beyond all this stretched Russin, of which this cupital ciby wee but eo small o port. The great plains and woods were full of mystery stil, of legend andl of poetry, with a dilent people, millions of their kind, waiting there to express themeaeles when the Gime should strike for them tospeak. Grent mass of Russia dors munt still, but strong. ‘a welch OOP iga ie LOO 2 Gene, ae Ce Le Cathedral of Jolat Jaaao, Jt, Peterburg, the Largest Church in Rusala Inside the palaces the copital’s enciety led an immensely pleasant life, It begun each year with the first ceremony at the court on St. Nicholas' Guay—the sixth of December by the Orthodox calendar. Oh this feuat of bis potro saint the Emperor received the officials of bids court, wid the imperial family gathered aaa rule about him. Heners and nominations were bestowed on various eubjecta, aod decorations offered, Altogether it wus one of the moat typleal of Russian feasts, Thea came the Christmas season, an informal time When children claimed their dues, whether they were imperial children or thove of the peasant cles. Parents gave themarlvea up to the joys of shopping and of gay tree parties, whore all the members of each family were brought together, os if it were still the era oof old tribal custom, Old and young come to these partics, and [knew of none more enjoyable in old Russia's colendar thun were thease immense peunions. Ta eur own vonnection, for instance, between Dererber twenty-fourth und January firel, we. \ | a ee Ta The Neoivil Preupekt, Principal Sreeei af fa It, Pefersfurg wot in full oreay—my husband ane 1, three children, the governess aod ure —te a brie at the Dowager Princess’, toe one al my hroathersineluw's, another af mi siskerein law's, wed ane eechoal Lhe houses of bao or Uiree distant relations. Dn our awa turn they all came to us, twenty or thirty strong, ane ad we had euch received: same. srmall- galt wn the other trees speach of our gmivests Folie inn (HITS & porn widressed bo hil or her. ‘Tne Chrishmes apeclal foods and the het chovo- late qui charmpagie were served out to is parents while the young people danced ime lave about or were given-aimpler refresh- Tents, alyave with their brtors and govern eerste dirtet and superintend them, whilt a lot of nurses supervised Le ponies anil femil- ing of ia puesta. Tree-Trimming Parties \ TE ALWAYS had one partiowarhy pretty fiurty. On the evening preerding our Christmas celebrution twelve or liftert of dtr inthoate frieads were askel be to wy it- formal caer, and alterpwards they helped ua trim our tree, The Bak Donanee tulked at Chat party made one Wee aguin, ane ble work gecomplished was wonderful. Russiwn Len ptramentod laste oespondel bosch ub cull. Sameqn® wie appotited) iat thé bewd deeurntor, the others worked ander is super u {iresit moan lal Ttendeace with innenese enthibeda yaantit iva olf PRelty lem hips Mit on cmany trays cue tales. aod) obully charming reeults a ei pra! git «fl genial JURE ind) livkelter, Che venr the aiteet was ull iin white anel sibvis Towaer ib wie il reek lver, and ane Gt wot ull pakd erally the multicoliced ornaments went on (Cantinwed on Poge al) ingl pranqy=

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18. JSiraage Nem The Pere, have had it all planned. An hour after he left the hotel these expensive new trunks and a valise were delivered with a note from: him telling ber to paek and be rendy when be qume buck in the afternoon. Ready for what, ehe would like te know! He hed gone away, ehe remembered now, ln a suspiciously funty mead. She had imagined him eenducting their latest friend, Mr, Ballings, of Billings Cracker Company, on a sociable tour among the Paris bars, She had even considered meet- ing them at the Chatham for a eoeltail, Only the thogght at Aire. Billings, whe was aheurdly old-feshlarned, deterred her. No use in antagonizing Mra. Billings. And then these new trunks had been plamped dewn on her. She might as well pack. Nothing could be worse than this hotel, But how she hated tranks! They were the aym- bel of her life; of being bumped and jostled around in foreign laonds—up in the world, down in the world, Never know lng. These trunks had an inselent lack. They were over= large, black and sleek, marked too conspicuously in red with Hal's crest. People asked indiscrest questions about erests, (N course Hal was a Brassington-Welsh. Years ago—wast it only ten?—she had thought that a mag- nificent name, Anita Moffett, from Stamford—Anita Brassington-Webh, The sight of her luncheon tray on the ink-apatted tuble- eloth made her sick. Nothing so loathsome ae dead epen congealed in their glue, and violet stains of ein ordinaire on a conrse mussed napkin. Ring for the maid? No bell in theroom., What could you expect for ten franceaaday? The Billingses paid four hundred franes for their suite in the Hatel St. James. Could the Billin have found out any thing? The famillar fear erept priekling from hed to knees. Pool she wa, to worry, Bad for the Uitte lines that webbed her eyes: bad for the disciplined curve of ber Ups, Besides, she could never care again in quite the same way since that time in Florence when Mra. Lucas, her mother's. frient. had found out. I [ii never aid a thing that muerncing, and yet he mugst “THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BIG GAME FEEUSF TARA TE Apri By MARYSE RUTLED( BF J a Af £ AT. PRET Jad With a Kind of Fearniag, gad Feat Nappy Wiih Nal Moachored There Heride Near a She didn't want to think of it. But as she turned from the glassy new trunks she caught sight of the battered oli trank and valise huddled tn acorner of the roam, Their smudped labels iovked st her knowingly. Uh, those libels! Hecerds of fvun days, of prosperous days: of ugly momenta ni frontiers: of tekligh laterviews with English eonmnils during the war. Florence. There it was—Pension dell’- Arne, a emeaned pinkish-and-black label, torn at the edge where she had tried to pull it of. Hal had behaved himself sinee then, or very nearly so. He had picked up Jitthe things hare ani there, Wo ewurse. One had to live semehow. But he had kept clear of men like Crawford, She shivered when she thought of Craw- ford. Qh, Crawford javl laid his trap well to cateh Hal and that beast of a Mante, selling fake stuff from the Palazzo Montefiechio. If Crawford hadn't fallen in lowe with Edith Lueas, and if Edith and Mra. Lucas hadn't pleacleal with him te let Hal of, Hal would have been dowe for. Put in prison, perhaps. he thought of that at night, and often in her dreams she beard Mra. Lucene" kind, distressed voles, “Anita, Fou must eaoe home with ws. You must come home te your dear mother before it's too late,” How nearly she had gone back; back to Stamford, to the women house with the porch and maple tren; te ber mother, whe all these years had belteved ber happy; to the neighbors, who would have pitied her. And what would have become of Hal? Better not think of it. Better pack. She went to and fro with amtall, anxious stepa, a plump, greenish-gold little woman in a bhoe quiltel wrapper pinned up with safety ins te prevent it from touching the dusty parquet Aoor, Chilled sir oozed through the leaky windows. The fires Hace was bearded up and papered over with the same pink ns the wolk—n punk: whieh at tlnes reminded her unplensanth: af her complexion. Aguineat this surfwce of wilted brightness the furniture hunched itll with a false cory air—a ecrall-topped ward- robe, a brass bed, a nicked white washstand. You were meant to feel at home here. Reckless young Beaux Arte men who feared neither calda nor rheumatinn a geetible food, gave to the place what she Suppo student ntmeephere. Mire. Billings thought tt 1 1 Ing wiv romantic bo live sround the carner from th Arta, Cheap, to any ense. a Hal never could have banigtit her thea new ele i with the money he lad-won at the race, if he ha paying expensive hotel bilks, : Well, she owned.a low decent things now. Notion fill the trunks, though. Wherever had he got the mot buy such luparape? Had she forgotton anything’! Her evening gown of black chiffon trimmed with sequins. took it from the wardrobe. Not ab seductive in thes gray light ofa Paris November. Look at that now—24 hanging on by a thread. She had been careles hadn't kept her things up. Now the valise, There wasn't very much to poi Hal's spotted dressing gown—be hardly ever be things for himself; hi whisky bottle standing of washatand; the hairbrushes. She should have washed hairbrushes, but with the amount of hot water ene § the mornings, washing anything but one’s twee and bi sormd an extravagance, She slipped on her black serge suit with the ernbngdh pockets. Her neck was too short for these fashionable! collars. ‘The loase bax effect of the jacket suited though. The great point was to move and act as if were thin, C4 course she might go through afew eat in the mornings, but bending and twisting about mol bad for the liver, Tt made ber disey when she toed The bells of Saint Germain rang tarnished silver 2% one, twa, Uires, She went to the windew. Everything! dank and gray. Sweating pores of the city exuded o that drained the color of passers-by. Nott like the att! prance of Italy, where flowers melted im the air and th wae song everywhere, Weill, she had hated that emt Sounds here were harsh, melancholy. She listened to aquawking of horns, the rumble of motor buses por down the narrow Tue Bonaparte. Why didnt Fle! est

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST People dribbled past the bluish house fronta: A motor a bored Lady leaning back on upholstered cushions; feivery wagon; a tall man stepping importantly, mot it a boy with a haslet; two tania. At lost bere he Wi, mul time, Cee taxi wes empty; Hal sat in the other, military of mlder, very plewerd with himeeclf, a she could tell by P sngte of Ma hat. No bad news then. That second taxi et be for the trunks. The coolness of Hal taking for inied —— He looked upand waved. She ran tothe door, opened it. « beard bim heavy on the stairs, briskly marching up e ‘all, =| thought you were naver coming, Hal. What sre — Ne bent to kia her. He gmelt of gin, cologne and cigars, ) tad been with Billings then. He had also been te the rier, and be had bought himaclf a pair of pearl-gray ees to match his fedlors. “Evervthing ready? Good old girl. yaa. It's a surprise." He waa going toe be mysterious. She knew that deep tone ! te. a breastwork against attach behind which he mitted, red and hearty. She looked at him severely as, nie bright show of energy, be laid his het, stick and los on the table mest to the gruesome luncheon tray, ed code businesibve toward the trunks. Vers much reared, ke waa, in admiring his crest. “fut, Bal, why are we leaving Paris? Have the Bill- oes wked oe anywhere?” Ske might hawe caret of that before. A mobor trip, etm through N cr, Cannes, Monte Carlo. White 2202, ence, the, blue of Southern sens. Slo, the Bilingszes hadn't invited them unywhere. In as, they weren't leaving Paris, Now was she datiafied? He sowed around the trunks, fussing with the locks. Sot leaving Pavia? Hal, you'd better tell me.” “Look her, Ntt2, I havent time, You leave it all to ce” Hewes fiembling now in the lower compartment of oe wardrobe trunk, where, wrapped in Daily Mails, were oer viopers, kis pumps, a heavy pair of boots, “Hal, what are you doing?" 1s wea just like his to upeeteverything, Good gracious, thar toe gmdting! Where was her hot? Hal fung a moldeing. dgaretie etub on the floor, She picked it up, teeel it dows with her thumb cn the edge of the egg Havent time to Mate. Another stab wilted in a pool of water on the wash- atand, She stomd before the mirror. If he wouldn't tell her, why, he wouldn't. Powder her nose, anyway. You eauldn’t APC thing in thie light. Her bijees weuba chapped, She ran a finger over them, fbecked off dried particles of skin; drew a held red wing. leaning forward, her elbow steadied on the wikhetand shelf. How much should they give the bone? Five francs was plenty. “Hal, Wave five france for the maid on the tray, will you?" Ter toque needed brushing, and she had packed the brushes, Black velvet showed very speck of dust. Newer mind: drape ber vell over it. You could do wnything with lave vells. Tf only she knew where they were going! ‘Teese surprises of Hal's! Such a noise! She whirled around. He was hammering the brass trimmings of the trunk with one of his heavy boots, which he hod unpacked. “Ae you emaay?” She dew to seize his arm. “Let go, Nita I know what I'm doing.” down at her, flushed and determined. new. Tes breaking them in.” “Breaking them ——"" She.stared at him. He stood there, brandishing his shoo in mid-air, his mouth pouting under the bristh: of his mus- teche, Tt wis tee ubsurd! Ehé begun to laugh. He joined jn at Of relleved at her manner of taking it, but while he roared and rumbled over his own performance he banged away like a man with a purpose, He had some ideo in hia head, and be wasn’t going to tell her. “That's enough now,” She spoke sharply, If he was up to anything queer she wild relishes bo go thraugh with ik, She told him aa. “He protested with a virtwous, olfended alr. Everything wae all right; powl-tively all right. Didn't she trust him? “T wish to heaven I could!" No use losing her temper. The trunks were ready, He went to the window, called to the chouffmars. Well, she should be wecustemed by now to these sudden shifts. Funny about hotel rooms, how they ewat off pri- vacies and tock on others, A chang? of linen and towels, a superficial sweeping and airing, and they were ready for the next strangers. A few stray hairpins on the table, a slice of green soup drowning inn soap bowl, an empty battle of Hal's halr tonic, dead cigarette stubs, o rusty pen wlih He peered “They're too dain 1p whith only yesterday she had written her monthly clheer- ful letter to her mother: the discarded old trunk and valise —just casteofl etud, And that was all to tell of their Passage, The chauffeurs, reeking af sour wine, created in. Hal culled from the hall, “Coming, Nita?" She pulled the veil loceely over ler face. “Yes, I'm coming.” ir E Major and Mra, Brassington-Welsh on the Champa Elyeées, looking aa if they apent their lives riding up the great highways of the world at the fashionoble hour, [kt vas ull very well to start out this way af the glamorous hour before twilight, when Paris lay soft under haze, and the bridwe:, the rediening chestnut trees, the statues and gardens were Wended in gray and rose. But where would they be that night? She asked Hal once mere, He wagged his head with a cunning, triumphant look, The Bond Point. Everyone wes going to tea some where. People in beautiful motors, people on feat; smart young waren with police dogs, dapper old men with ned rosettes in their buttonholes. Ease and pleasure in the air. She relaxed dreamily, What did it matter where they went gatheyrollodonandon? Polished shop windows, polished metors forsale, She thought of huge shaggy chrysanthe- mums, of a wood fire, of silver teapots. Hal sprawled ieside her, stroking his mustache with a gray-gloved hand and staring ahead at the Are de Tri- omphe, which straddled the sunset. Claridge’s Hotel —the Carlton —swing around # corner. These French chauffeurs were the most. reckless! Here and there lights fowered like pale jonquils. A block huiry man stood on the Avenie Marceau holding a cluster of red and green balloons. Pari swam ina roay mist. You only had to let yourself go, “By the way, old girl, got any money?" He said it casually, aa if it didn’t matter whether she had or not. “Have you?" But she fumbled in her porse, a hondred-frunc note, some Of those new brass coins that lorked like gold, a wilted filty-centime bill mended with a strip of stamp paper. He peered over ber shoulder. “Lend me the handred.” Lend it te him? A quaint way of putting it. He teok it, eacked his hot more boldly aver o slightly bloodshot eye and shifted to a brisker pose. {Centinugd on Poge F27) F 2 ts

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20 ‘ ‘THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April Al MAN OF PRINCIPL. T THE head of hie table in his official house the governor of the prison had his back to the wide windew, but young Mr, Ducane, af the Home Office, seabed opposite te him, could see pas him the sunlight upon a lawn cropped like a eonviet's head, upon trees and bushes grim rather than trim in their disci- pline af form and spacing, upon all that felon-tilled garden which waa like a tide of jail life trespassing upon the shores af freedom. “Jolly quarters you've got here,” be remarked os the corpefeced manservant filled his glass, The governor nodded corelessly, He woe a gray, spare mah whe had come to the prison service after a career in the army. Only the governor's other guest, the black-bearded chaplain, looked wp oddly at Mr, Duecane's choice of an ueljoctive, “Do don't remember the cose we have been epecking aleouit." Ie sold thoughtfully, unwilling to let the talk stray. “TL know the man, of course. I suppose he will receive some compensation from the government?" “Woll, yea,” said Mr. Ducane, “Thut hes ben decicled upon. igh, really, ft is not cosy bo ser what ather yvordict ond sentence were poeaible upon the evidence. Witnesses ta the murder, recovery and identification of the body—everything complete! Only the Home Secre- tary"s aversion to the death penalty brought abet the reprieve, Nowadays the main would certainly be hanged,” “And then there would be a murder," murmured the chaplain. Calonel Dane, the governor, apoke unex- pectediy in his tired, faded voice. “Ought to be hanged anyhow,” he said. " Dangerous brute. Twelve yeure and two floggings haven't tanved him. It's like setting a man-eating tiger at lib- erty,” The chaplain frowned. “Twelve years and two flogrings,” he repented. “De you know that the only words I have been able to get out of him since [ have been here— the only phrose [I howe heard him wtter—are: ‘TL never done it: [ never done it!’ And te think that, through a death sentence, twelve years and two floggings, it was true all the time!" He turned to Mr. Dareare. “You have been reading up the case?" he sug- gested, The livid butler had set their collercu pe al their elbows. fir. Du- cane completed the lighting of his cigar, pushed his chair back nnd crossed his well-clud le. He was a nent blond young man with a pronocle and a little pet of a mustache; his accent was Oxford; and already the mask of the bureaucrat, of him whe las authority without power, was hardening on his face, “Vee "* he answered. “That duty—er—de- volved uponime, It ap peared that this man Hacker and his vietim— ah! his supposed vie- tim—Smee, had been partners in a smuggling venture, (Opium, you know, for gale to the Chinese in Limehouse and thereabouts! Both men wer sailors from FELUFTRA TIO By Perceval Gibbon Ao WF aT BF EH J. time to time, Tiver thieves at intervals, and well known to the police, Thergugh bad lots, in short, Well, they dis agreed as to the division of the syils in their last trans- action and Hocker concelved that hls purtner was cheating him ofa sum of twelve pounds. There were many quurrels and many violent acenes; Smee had been golng bo fear of his life for dava when the final encounter came; and he turned around one evening at a touch on the shoulder to find Hacker standing aver him. “Tt was their vaires and the noise of the struggle that brought witnesses swarming about them, Tt was an ob scene place, a festering alley end giving on a derelict whurl; there had been other murders there, Bath men had knives; they grappled and hacked in that infected gloom before a delighted audience. Hacker was roaring and Smee was mastly screaming. The ond came when he uttered ong special stream—‘like a women "avin" ‘er throat cut,” suid ane witness—and tore locee, The alley before him was bloeked: he turned and fled out on the wharl, with Hacker at his heels. The spectators followed: they eaw the final collision, Hacker's murderous thrust—the coup de grdee—saw Smee vanish over the wharf edge and heard the splash of his body striking the water, Thirty weeks later the body turned seconds later the police were on them and ws urresbed red. handed —literally red-hande rr Up. The ehapluin pursed his lips. "Three weel identifieation was atill possible?" Mr. Dueane nedded. “Oh, quite,” he replied. er—in regard to features, and so forth, of ours Hacker bimeelf had marked it pretty clearly, deo knowl Ab any rate, plenty of people «Lied iden Hacker's own slory Bins that his lost blowr ual mis that Smee had stepped too far back und fallen. 1} believed that, of course.” “Except Hacker," suggested the chaplain. Mr. Ducane émiled politely. “Except, of Hacker,” he agreed, “He was sentenced to death, , you know, his sentener was wWterwards commutes] ti servitude for life. And now, twelve yeurs after totally unlumentel Smee turns up, alive, health modestly proeperoua, with an account of himself tha’ the most searching investigation. "THe makes it clear that that last etab of Hacke miss, that be did step back and tumble overboard thet once there he wisely poddled his way ashore unc wharf and made himeelf searce. Next day he atowe sell away on ah outward-bound ship: he had actual known of Hacker's arrest and his own supposed deat only returned te this country te claim some smal! ir ance—=a house and shop, 1 believe, which have comet “Doth Mew Med Holess; Thoy Greepled in That Safected Cheam Baford a Delighted Madiaace™ Digitize by the death und lacy of a melation. | his discovery ani Floitation ba son porter, the roaral p. for Hacker ond con sutton from the gu ment. And there have ic! Tt neste incredible, but | things do happen, qe The gover quenched his cigeri dregs of hia colire, "No business to pen," he said, “f pensation? What For wh murderers ae on a wander? For attempts toescape? endless watchfal and care an the pal everybody around | You send us wild te to be tamed acd | safe: then you rel ‘em and muke “a present of eash, 1 I've ordered his irc be taken off: you can hit in my otfice wh ever you like.” “Dm neady wien: are, oolonel,"agreed! Direwne, “FIL come, too, fy don't mind,’ sald chaplain, '“f want hear whether bell sonbething other that never dane it,” Shall through the howe | ward theaeries of beck and bolted dare th communicated with t great poison, AD t dwelling was hindss in the colonel’s 7 formal and aoldier atvle, Upon the wal wore the heads and hor of ivensts whieh he fl hunted down and & cuted, and trophies | shizhds and spears spoils of letile ware an of Little: peoples tobe and cure! af fenedion Thence threagh ie plated portals the {Confaued on Page lll = a wo

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 21 THE COVERED WAGON Fi MERE were more than two thousand aoulk [‘ the great caravan which reached over miles al epringy turf and fat creek lands. There ee ore than a thousand children, more than o endred babes im aroma, more wa afte marriageable maids emed by avid awaing. There ere bold souls and weak, strong am and weak, heavy loads od light lamda, neighbor groupa of qoteraet of kindred blood or imdred apirita. Tie rink and file had reasons seoughforshilting. There were cacore af Helens driving rugons—reasons in plenty for be futility of all attempts to etorct a8 afbitrary rule of march. Human equations, oman tlements would shake themeelves down inte place, wlenilly. The great caravan iheredore wo scantily leas than a ssbble for the first three or foot hynowt. The four columns were whandoned the first half Gy. The booed knit organiza- tos piled on in a broken- fated wave, ten, fifteen, tersty miles a clay, the home ndé-nmuk men how at the front: fartothe rear, heading only the pou rolumn, came the lank men d Liberty, trudging alongside ther swaying ox teams, with many a Genetenous “Gee therhew! Git along thar, ye Burk an’ Star] io soon they weed Ge fork where the read taDregon left the trail to Santa Fe topped the divide that held toe back from the greater valley af the Kaw. hoon al the fifth day brought then tothe awollen flood of the iter gieam, gt the croscing emt as Papin’s Ferry. Here the wmicivilized Indians and tratert tad a cingle rude ferry- bata anew operated im part te ettleg poles, in port by the power ol the siremm against rose, The noneommilttal In- dam would give Ho eounsel ag leiag, They had ferry hire pe, Word passed that thes were other fords a few cis hglerap. A general in- Goon exited, and pow the San ben te pile up on the nagh bank of the river, lost Et the afternoon the emmt, Jackson, came riding tock o te Kerd where Banion meetwork, jerking wp his horse a se (enone frame of mind. “Will,” said be, “leave the ton it now an" come on up abead. We need ye." “What's up?” demanded Banion. “Anything worse?" “Yer The old fool's had a row over the ferryboat. Hrd take toro weeks to git us all over that way, anyhow, dry declared for fordin’ the hull outfit, lock, stock an’ sare Tome a few dollars, he's a goin” to lost a lot of ‘ean’ drowned a lot o” women an” bables—that's whut fSipen'tode. Someo’ us called a halt and stood out fer touted. We want you to come on up, Woodkull's there," he added, “Ele sides with the old mat, 0 course. He rid an the sume seat with that gal all Sy now, Lord knows what he done or said. Ain't tt nigh about time mow, major?" Its nigh about time,” said Will Banion quietly. They tode side by side, past more than a mile of the corre wagons, now almost end to end, the columns con- ouwlly lodieg up, At the bank of the river, at the ferry ‘ad they found a group of Alty men. The ranks opened @ Paring and Jackson approached, but Banion made ne PRS to Jain a council to which he had pot been blibden, Atal down civilized Indiana of the Kawa, owners of “anton of the ferry, sat in a stolid line across the head the sow at Ite landing stage, looking neither to the hos nor the left and awaiting the white men'a pleasure, Eision rede down te them. By Emerson Hough FELUITRATES Br fF Hm B&B Taking the Dircotien of the Carcke Herd, tke Drove From Camp o Ae of Teo They understood but would not answer, “Chit of the way!” he eriedd, and rode struight at them, They scattered, He spurred hia horse, the block Spaniard, over the sLage aml on the deck of the seow, drove him Its full length, enacting; eet the apucs hard at the farther end and plunged deliberately of into the awilt, muddy atream, The horse gank out wf sight below the roily surface. They saw the rider go dawn tu his armpits; saw him swing olf saddle, upetrewm. “The gallant horse headed for the center of the heavy current, but hia master soon turned him downstream and inshore, A hundred yards down they landed on a bar and seram- bled up the bank, Banian rode to the circle and sat dripping. We had hraight not speech bub action, mot theory but fucts, and he had not spoken uw word, His eyes covered the eouncil rapidly, resting on the figure of Sam Woodhull, squatting on his heels. As though to answer the challenge of his gaze, the latter rose, “Gentlemen,” said he, “I'm not, mysell, governed by any mete spirit of bravado, [t's swimming water, yea— any fool knows that, outside of yor ce, What [ de yr is that we con't afford ta waste time here fooling with that boat. We've got toswim lt. I agree with you, Wingate. This river's been forded by the traina for years, and I don't see as we need be any more chicken-hearted than those othera that went through last year and earlier, KOERRMVERER This is the old fur-trader croasing; the Mormeane crossed bere, and so can we," Silence met his werds. ‘The alder men looked at theewolles stream, turned te the horeweman who had proved it, “What does Majer Banion say?" spoke up a volee, "Wothing!" waa Banion's reply, “Tm notin your coun- cil, am FT" “You ore, as much as any man here," spoke up Culeh Price, and Hall and Helaey added yeatothat. “Getdowr. Come in.” anion threw hia rein to Jackson and stepped inta the ring, bowing to Jesse Wingate, who cat ag presiding officer. “Of eourse we want to hear what Mr. Banion hae to say,” said he, “He's proved part of the question right now, I've always henrd it's fording, purt way,at Pupin’s Ferry, It cden't lock it mow." "The river's high, Mir. Win- gate,” said Banion. “Tf vou ask me, ld rather ferry than ford, Udeend the women and children over by thishaot, Weean make gome more out of the wiayow bowea, Tf they lewk we cuit cover them with hides. The suwimill wt the mission has same lumber. Let's knock together another boat ortwo. I'd rather be safe than sorry, gentlemen; and beliewe me, ale'a heavy water yonder,” “I've never seed the Kaw so full," asserted Jackson, ‘an’ I've crewed her twenty Lines in spring flood. Do what ye like, you-all—ole Miksoury's as to take her slow an’ keer- ful." “Half of you Liberty men ore & lwech of damned cowards!" aneered Woodhull There waa silence. voiow broke it. “T take it, that moana me?" said Will Hanion. “Tt does mean WMO, if yr want te take it that way,"’ ne joined his enemy, “I don't believe in one or two timid men holding up a whoalp train.” “Never mind about holding up the train— we're nok stop. ping acy man from crossing Tight now. What I have in mind new is ta ask you, do you classify me as a coward just be- niet | eunsel prodence hore tT" “You're the one is holding back." “Answer me! Do you call that to met" “I do answer you, and I de eall it to you then!” fared Woodhull. “T tell you, you're a liar, and you know it, Sam Wood- hull! And if it plensea your friends and ming, ['d like ty hove the order now made on unfinished busines," Not all prevent knew what this meant, for only a few knew of the affair at the rendezvous, the Missourians having held their coungel in the broken and extended train, where men might travel for days and not mert, But Woodhull knew, and sprang to his feet, hand on re= volver, Hanion’s hand was likewise employed wt his wet aaiddle holater, to which he sprang, and perhaps then one man would have been killed but for Bill Jackson. “Make one move an' I drop yel" he called to Woodhull, We've give ver proriiae,” "All right then, I'l keep it,” growled Woodhull. 'o'd better! Now listen! Do ye ser that tall entting- wood tree o half mile dawn—the one with the flat um- breller top, like a cypress? We kin? Well, in half a hour bbe thar wlth three o' yore friends, na more. I'll be thar with my man an’ three o° his, so more, an’ Tl be one o them three, I allow our meanin’ ia to see hit far. Ad’ | allow that what has been unfinished business ain't goin’ to be uniinished came aandogyn, “Doss this suit ye, Will?" An iey

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22 Banter Ieraag to Wis Pet faddfe Hetarer “Tt's our promise, Odficers didn't usually fight ie way, but you said it must be sa, and we both agreed, now.” “You other folks all stay back,” said Bill Jackson grimly, “This here ia a little matter that wa Missourians is goin’ to settle in our own way and in our own camp. It ain't none o° you-uns’ business, It's plenty a” OUTE. Men started to their fect aver all the river front, The Indians rose, walked down the bank covertly. ad per The word passed quickly. It was a day of personal encounters. "This was an aaemblage in large part of fight- ing men. But some sense of decency led the partisane to hurry away, out of sight and hearing of the womenfolk, The bell-tap cottonwood stood in a litth: space which had been on dueling ground for thirty years, The gress was firm and even for a distance of Afty yords in any diree- tion, and the light at that hour favered neither rman. For Banion, who was prompt, Jackson brought with him twomen, One themwasa planter by the name of Dillon, the other none less than stout Caleb Price, one of Wingabe’s chosen cuoptains. “Tl net see this made a thing of polities,” said he, "Tren Northern, but I like the way that young man hos acted. He hasn't had a fair deal from the officers of this train, He's going to have a fair deal now." “We allow he will,” said Dillon grimly. He was fully armed, and so were all the seconds. For Woodhull showed the Kontuckian, Kelsey, young Jor Wingate—the latter by Woodhull’s can urgent request— and the other train captain, Hall, So in ite way the per- sonal quarrel of these two hotheads did in a way involve the entire train, “Strip yore man, commanded the tall mountaineer. “We're teady, It's go tll one hollers enough; fa'r stand up. heel on* toe, no battin® er gougin’, Pust man ber break them rules gita shet., Is that yore understundin’, pentle- meen?" “How we pet it, yeo,"" assented Kelsey. “See youentorce hit then, fer we're a-goin' to," coneluded Jacks, He stepped back. From the opposite sides the two untagonists stepyeed forward, There was no ring, ther waa no timekeeper, no single umpire, There were na rounds, no duration set. Tt was mean to man, for cause the moat ancient and moat bitter of all causes—sex, rx ETWEEN the two stalwart men who fronted one an- other, stripped to trousers ancl shoes, there was nat so much to choose. Woodhull perhaps had the better of it by afew pounds in weight, and foraooth looked less slauchy out of his clathea than in them. His was the long and sinewy type af muscle, He was in hard condition. Banton, two years younger than. his rival, himself waa round and slender, thin of flank, o teeee sqeurer ona fuller @ shoulder, His arms showed easily rippling bands of muscles, hia boy was hard in the natural viger of youth and life in the open air, His eye waa fixed all the thme on his opponent, He did rot speak or turn aide, bot walked on in, There were no preliminaries, there was na delay, Ina flazh the Saxon ordeal of combat was joined. The two fighters met in a rush. At the center of the fighting apace they hung, body to body, in a whirling mélé:, Neither bad much skill in real boxing, und sueh fashion of fight was unknown in that region, the offensive being the main thing and defense Temalning incidental, The thud of fist on face, the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST diaealoration thet rose under the savage blows, the blood that oozed and scattered, proved that the fighting blood of both thes: mad creatures was up, so that they felt no pain, even as they knew no fear. In thelr firet fly, aa witnesses would have termed it, there was no advantage to either, and both came out well marked. In the combat of the time and place there were ho rules, no periods, no resting times. Qinee they were digpatehed to it, the fight. woe the affair of the Aghters, with no more than a very Uolted number of restrictions as to fouls. They met and broke, bloody, gasping, ones, twice, a dogen times. Banion waa ighting slowly, carefully. “Dll make it tree, if you dare!" panted Wood- hull at length. They broke apart oner more by mutual need of breath. He meant he wenld har nothing; he wengld go back to the days of Boone and Kenton and Girty, when hair, eye, any part of the body was fair alm. “You can't dare me!" rejoined Will Banion. “It's as my secs sav.” Young del Wingatr, suddenly pale, ston bey and raised ne protest. Beloy's face was stony colm. The small eye of Hall narrowed, bot he too held to Che etiquette of non: interference in this matter of man and mun, thiugh whut had passed here was a deadly thing. Mutilation. death might mow ensue, and not mere defeat. But they all wuited for the other side, “Ale ye game, Will?" demanded Jackson at longth. “T don't fear him, aagyway he comes,” replied Will Banion. “I don't like it, but all of this was forced on me.” “The hell it was!" exclaimed Kelaey. “DT heared ye call my man 2 liar.” " An’ he called my mana coward!" cut in Jackeon., “Tie a coward,” sneered Woodhull, panting, ‘or he'd ant Ricker now, He's afraid [0 take his eye out, damn mi" Will Banton turned to his friends. “Are we gentlemen at allt" said ve. & hundred years?" *., “Shall we go back a Fo April &, 1 “If your man’s afraid we claim the fight!" exctai . “Breast yore bird!" “So he it then!” said Will Banion. “ Don't. wink Jaecheon! I don"t fear him and I think To ean beat | It's free! TI bar nothing, nor can he! Get baek 1" Weadhull rushed first in the next assault, contficen his skill in rough-and-tumble. He felt at hia throat horizontal arm af his enemy. Hoe caught away the = in his own hand, but sustained a heavy blow at the : of his head. The defense of his niverary angered hin blind rage. He forget everything but comtact, mua} cloaed andl taught his antagonlat in the brown grip of ame. The battle at once resolved itself into the wrest and battering match of the frontier, Amel it was h Each might kill or maim if ao he could, The wrestling grips of the fronticramen were few ; primitive, efficient when applied by mastvers; mond athoolbay but studied all the hole a matter of religi in a time when physical prowesa waa the moet aalrmira quality a man might have. Each fighter tried the forward jerk andl trip wh sumetines would de with an opponent not much sf ill hat this primer work gat results for neither. Dhani evaded und swung inte a hip lock, so swift that Woe hull deft the ground. But bie insthict gave lair be with one hand at his enemy's collar. He spread aide | feet and cast his weight aside, ao that he came standir alter all. He well knew that a man must keep his fe Woe to him who fell when it all wos free! His own ripce wos a smikelilo: glide clos: into his untagonist'’s ans, awift thrust of bls leg between the other's—the prapevir which sometimes served Uf done swiftly. Tt was done awiftly, but it did not serve. The oth spread his legs, leaned against him, and in a flash car back in the dreaded crotch lock of the frontier, which son men boasted no one could escape at their hands, Wea hull wns flung fair, but he broke wide and rose eid raske back and joined agnin, grappling: so that they stood om mare bely to body, punting, red, aavage as any animal The seconds all were on their feet, scarce breathing. They pushed in sheer test, and ea found the other's stark strength. Vi Banion’s breath still came even, b oye betokened mo anxiety of the te Beth were bloody mow, clothing an all, Then ina flush the senhes bor against Ue Challeng db Ped rome. Bation eaught hi untagonist by th wrist, anc eeith ao finzh atooped, tori his own- back a (iret bog Eh sorte. all hl oY Google

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THE SATURDAY poower bik own shoulder, slightly dso that the elbow joint waa in peril v that the pain must be intense, Le self the jiujitteu holds, discovered eishenthy perhaps at that instant; cly @ mew held for the wrestling lof the frontier. ralboll’s seconds saw the look of f° me a woe on his face, saw him wince, saw mithe, sae him rise on his toes. Then, a Suchden squatting heave, Banion ves full lemeth in front of him, upon ex! Before be had time to move he trem him, pinning him down. A cate from «ix observers, an ofdinary fall a wan might have d. might haveescaped, Hut Woodd- wd planned his own undoing when d called it free. Eyeless men, waually Tm, im this day brought up talk of eedent end horrible warlare of a past ation, when destruction of the ad- cy sae the one purposr and any @ called fair when it was free. ithe eeronda of both men raised ne | ohen they saw the bal of Will ons thumbs preseed against the up- whit edge of his enemy's eyes. 2 you say enough?” panted the gras Svciel Sha Relea man beneath. fon I the best man? Can I whip you?” demanded the pabowe him, in the formula prescribed. Ge on—do it! Pull out bia evel" commanded Bill aon savagely. “He culled it free to you! But don't it the wietor sprang free, etood, dashed the blood fram mo eyes, wavered on his feet. he hands of his fallen foe were across lila eyes. Hull ia his men ran in, stooped and drew them away the geeror eteclaimed: Pa not! 1 tell you I wont maim you, free or no free! trope a Woodbell knew his eyes were spared, whatever might the pain of the sore nerves along the socket bone. te rose to his koeees, to his feet, his face ghastly im his 0 wudden sense of defeat, the worse for his vietor's qnanimity, Wosuech it might be called. Humilivtion pworse than pain, He stagpered, sobbing. "lL wor't take nothing fora gift fram you!" But now the men stood between them, like ond like, mai dei Wingate pushed back his man. ive done!" said he, “You shan"t fight no more with Fran that let you up. You" re whipped, and by your mowerd it'd have been worse!“ Be boreelf handed Will Hanten hes cogk, “(yo peta pall of water," be sald to Kelsey, ond the iter departed, Banien stepped apart, battered and pale beneath his ff woes, “1 dcn’t want to fight him this way," said be, “I lele i beeps eo be con see mer again, [f so he wants, I'll et him way. | hope be won't rae beck," “Vou fool!” safe old Bill Jackson, druwing Hanion to mek. “Do ve know what you're suyin'? While he moore’ thar | seen the bottoms o° his boots. Right bey they wes, with smallish heels! That skunk'll kill yeinthedark, Will, Ye'd oro hey put out'n both his treo eves!" fie Beard Me Cali aad Wo Commded, But vo Arm Reached Dera to Mere, deer ip —aend cee Wor Gelag Gawodrd “Mabe Gur More an’ f Hiroe Fel" Me Called . po Waoeddiali, “Fe oe dee Pee Prdivedin *' A. sudden sound made them all turn. Cume crackling of down brush, the seream ola Woon's Volce. At Lhe side of the prowl tree stood a figure that had mo right there, They tured, mute. Tt was Molly Wingate who faced them all now, turning from one blomiy, naked figure to the other, She saw Sam Woodhull standing, his hands still at his face; caught some sens aut af Jackson's words, averhenrd os she came into the clearing. “oul” ghe blazed at Will Banion. man's eves! You bratel™ “You'd put out = OLLY WINGATE looked from one to the other of the group of silent, shomelaced men, Puzeled, she turned agoin te the vietor in the savage combat. ao" OL ys Will Banion caught up hia clothing, turned away. “You are right!” said be. “I howe been a brute! Gomi-by |" An instant later Molly found herself alone with the exception of her brather. “Ton, Jed, what wes this?" she demanded. Jed tock a deep and heartfelt chew of plug. “Well, it was a little argument between them two,” he said finally, “Like enough a littl jealousy, like, you know —over place j in the ane or something. This here wos for men. You'd ne business here." But it waa a shane!" “T reckon ao,” “Who started thist’’ "Both of them, All we was here for was to sen fair, Men got to fight sometimes,” “Bat not like animuls, not worse than suvigres “Well, it wos right savage, some of the tire, ais." “They said —abot evey—oh |" The girl shivered, her hands at ber own eyes, "Wea, they called it free, Anybody «lac, Bam Wren hull’d be sors! endvigh- right aw. “other man throwed him chain md tid him down, but be let him op... He didn't never hurt Sans eyea, only I ineberd his henela little, He hae, wright, ae alictwt,- Ie EVENING POST Za bud to be settled and [t was settled, fair and more‘n fnir, a him.” “But, Jed —the eternal female now—"then, which one reilly ww hilpipaedd? = “Will Banton did, ain't Pteld you? You insulted him, uot ies gone, Having come tn here where you wean'l no ways waited, Trechon the bet thing you cun dois to po back bb your own Wagon and stay there. What with riding horses you hadn't ought, and seeing fighta when you don't know a damned thing about nothing, [reckon you've made trowble about enuugh. Come on!"* “Price,” said Bill Jackson ta the grave and silent man who walked with him toward the wagon trait be yond the dueling ground, “this #et- thes bit. Us Missoury wagons won't go oon under no sech mun ae Barn Woodhull. We didn't no ways eleck him—he was appinted. Mostly, elected ia better'n app inted, An" I anen afore now, mo man can hold his place on the trad) woless‘n he's fitter, We'll eleck Will Banion our eap'n, an" sou fellera kin go te bell. What us fellets started out to do waa to po te Oregon,” “But that'll mean the split!" “Shore hit will! Hit is split right how. But thar's encugh o° the Lib- erty wagons to go through without ne help. We kin whip all the rest o' this train, give we mend si let alone a firw Injuns now ant “'Taenight, * he peceded: eel] head wp the river, an "leave you fellers the boat an" all o" Papin’s Ferry to git acrost the way you want. Tlhur hain't he manner a” nan, outit, river or redskin that Ole Missoury kain't lick, take ‘en aa they come, them to name the holts an’ the rulea. We done showed you-all that. We're goin’ ta show you some more. So good-by." He held out his han, “We helped see far, an’ ye're a far man, ah" we'll miss ve. Ef ye git In need o help come tous, Ole Missoury won't need no help.” “Wall, Woodhull's one af you Missourians,” remarked Price. “es, but he ain't bred true, Majer Banion is, It was ma that made him fight knuckle an’ skull an' not with werpons. He didn't want ter, but [ had a reason, I'm content an’ aooth jest the way ehe lies, Ef Will never gees the gal agin abe ain't wath the seein’, “Ye'll find Col, William EHunion ot the head of his own train, He's fitten, an" he's faut an" proved bit." =F OLLY WINGATE knelt by her cooking fire the fol- lowing marning, her husband meantime awalting the morning meal impatiently, AlN along the medley of crowded wagons rose confuemd sounds af activity at hundred similar firesides, “Where's Little Molly?" demanded Wingate. “We got to be wp and coming,” “Her ond Jed bs off after the cattle. Well, you heard the news lust night. You've got to get eomeone elee to run the herd. If each family drives ita own loose stock every- thing’ll be all mixed up. The Liberty outfit pulled on hy nt dawn, Woll, any weys they left us the sawmill and the hant. “Sam Woodhull, he's anslous to get on ahead of the Afisourlane,” she added. “He save he'll take the boat anyhow, and not poy them Kaws any such hold-up price like they aalk."" “AML T gat to say is, | wish we wert across," grumbled Wingate, steaping to the bacan apicder, “Huh! So doe I—me and my bureau aod my dena. Yeo, alter you've fussed around a while you men'll maybe come to the sane conclusion your head cow guard hud; you'll be making more boats and doing less swimming. T'm sorry he «quit us," “Tt's the girl,” said her husband sententiqusly, Yes, But '"—armillog grimly—" one forse don't make w parting.” “She's gare a3 promised Sam Wocedlhull, Molly, and you kreow that." “Before he got whipped by Colonel Hanisan.” “Colonel! Fine business for an officer! Woodhall tld moe be tripped and this other man wes on top af him anil nigh gouged out his two eyes. Aged he told me other train's. things tow. Hanion'’s a tralter, tosplit the train, We can spare all such." “Can wel" rejoined bie whe. “Tsort af thought -——" “Never tind what vou thought. He's one wf the an- ruly, servigerous sort; cant tuke orders, and a iroahle always. We'll show that outfit. Uve ordered three (Continued an Page fiz!

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24 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Apri MERTON OF THE MOVIE xVINT E HAD now but to oeait his great moment. The final seenes of the new piece were shot. Again be was resting between pictures, As the date for showing the first plece drew near he was puzzled to notice that both Bnird and the Montague girl curiowdly avoided any mention of it. Several times he referred to it in thelr presence, but they seemed resolutely denf to his “Well, I see the big show opens Monday He wondered if there could besome recondite bit wo acreen etiquette which lee wae infringing. /-ckors were superstitious, he knew, Perhaps it boded had lack to talk of a forth- coming production. Baird and the girl not only ignored his references to Hearta on Fire but they left Baird looking curiously seetetive and the Mon- tage girl looking euriowly frightened. It. perplexed him. Ones he was emitter with a quick fear that his wen work in this serious drama had not met the expectations af the man- aper. Hawever, in this he nust be wrong, for Baird mot only continued cordial bart, as the girl had prophesied, he urged upon hi new acter the signing af a long- time contract. The Mon- tague girl had ingiated upom heing present at this inter- view alter forbidding Mer- ton to put ‘his nome to any contract of which she did Tok Approne, "I told Jef right out that I waa protecting you,” aheaaid, “Heunderstanda he's got te be reasonable.” [t appeared, os Chey sat nheut Batre's desk in the Buckeye Offiee, that she had been right. Baird aul mitted rather gracefully, after but alight demur, ta the terma which Misa Mon= tague imposed in behalf of her protégé, Under her ap- proving oye Merton Gill affixed his name to a contract by which Balrd was to pay him a salary of teo hondred and filty dollars a week for three yeura. It. seemed an incredible sum. As he blotted his 2ignature he was conacious oa sudden pity for the manager. The Montague girl had been hard—hard as nails, he thought— and Baird, a victim to his own good nature, would prob ably Jose a great deal of money. He resolved never to pres his advantage over aman who had been caught in a» weak moment. “I just want to say, Mr, Baird,” he began, “that you needn't be afraid 1° hold you to this paper if you find it's too mach money te pay me, T wouldn't have taken it at all if ft hadn't been for her." He pointed an ulmost pecus- ing finger at the girl. Baird grinned; the girl patted his hand. Even at thee grave moments she was still a potter, "That's oll ight, son,” she said sonthingly. “Jes got all the best-of it; and Jeff knows it, too, don"t you, Jef?" “Well.” Baird considered, “if his work keeps up I'm net getting any the worst of it.’ “You said it! You know very well what birds will be looking for this boy next week, and what money they'll have fn their mitts.” “Maybe, sald Baird, “Well, you got the best of it, and you deserve to have, I ain't ever denied that, have I? You've corned the best of it the way you've handled him. AL I'm bere for, I didn't want you to have too much the best of it, see? I think 0 treated you well," "Yor"re all right, Flips.” “Well, everything's jake then?” FLLEVITARATE DO ar By Harry Leon Wilson HEWRF = Se “Dide'i fou Peeples Face That I Faro What I feuld Be aad Whai I Coulda" Boe F** “Everything's jake with me.” “Allright! And about his work keeping up—-trust your old friend and well-wisher, And say, Joi" —ber eyes glearmed reminiscently—‘you ain't caught bim dancing yet. Well, juat wait, that's all.” “We'll put on a fox trot in the next pleture that will eure hog the footage.” As this dialogue progressed Merton had felt more and more like a child in the presence of grave and knowing chicrs. They had sermed to forget him, to forget that the amazing contract just signed bore his name. He thought the Montague girl was taking a grevt deal upon herself, Her face, he noted, when ale had etated terms to Baird, wae the face ehe wore when risking a small bet at poker ona winning hand. She seemed ald indeed. But be knew how he was going to make her feel younger. In his pocket wis a gift of rare beauty, even if you couldn't safely run railway troins by it, And pretty things instantly made a child of jer. Baird ahook hands with him warmly at parting. "It'll be a week yet before we start on the new piece. Have a goad time, (h, yes, and drop around some time nextweek if there's any little thing you want to talk over— er maybe con't understand." He wondered if this were a veiled reference to the piece about to be shown. Certainly nothing more definite was pald about it, Yet it was a thing that must be of mo- Monkeus interest to the manager, and the manager must know that it would be thrilling to the weber. He left with the Montague girl, who hod berome sudl- denly grave and qulet, Rut outside the Holden lot, with one of Chose quick transitions he had so often remarked in her, she helghtened with a desperate sort of gayety. RwWLEITG H “Tl tell you what!" she exclaimed. straight downtown—it'll he six bay the 4, there—and have the best dinner that no buy; lobster and chicken and vanilla and chocolate « everything, right restaurant — none tray stulf—and [ pay for it all by You got a right that contract. / be gay, and all i people that's eat restaurant ll thin eduple=ze pPromin actors. Hoew obs She danced at his “Well have so heamended. “Cine thick ones that cc sixty cents. Sixi just fer the coup, peated, putting a the contract thain ened one side of f “Well, just fi onee,” she agree mbght be for the fas “Nothing like tf ataured her “Jig spend more yout that's my motto.” They watted for bound car, sitting on the bench that outapoben in its tion. "You Furnish tl We Furnish the | lt shouted, He put his back several of these bolt and felt of the b watch in his pockel “Well, i& might lust tow for me,” | the piel. “TT feel as if T mij most any time. health's broaking under the strain. kind of a fever com right this minute.” “Maybe you sha go crue, “ex EU should. 1 make me better.” They boarded th and reached the rea taurant. Side by side on a seat that ran along the wal sat at o boble for two and the dinner was ordered. “Ruin yoursell if you want to," said the garl as be included celery and olives in the menu, “Go on and prunes, too, for all Deare, I'm reckless. Maybe I'l have anether dinner, the way this fever's coming on. my band,” Under the table she wormed her hand inte his od it there until fool carve. “De my eyes look feverigh?™ she asked, “Wot ao very,” he nssured her, covering an alarm bi felt for the firat time. She did indeed nppear to be feverish, aad the anz# her manner Increased as the meal progressed. It devel quickly that she had but scant appetite for the c food now being served, She could only taste bits bere there, Her plates were removed with their delicarh most intact, ip Eetveen eourses her hand would seek hi, gripes ns if in some nameless dread, He become warrled about her state; his mn app sulferedd. Once she said, as her hot hand clung to his: “1k where you'll be to-moarraw night™—her valoe prewo0 ful, deapaizing—“and | know perfeetly well it's ort making you to slay away." He let this pase, Could it be that the girl was at babbling in deliriuesT : “And all the time,” she presently went on, “17 be sick abed, picking at the covers, blue araund thet That'll bo me, while you're off te your old mothe pot the socalled art of the motlon picture," ahe canis with a careful imitation of her father’s mancer.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST etmed to determine whether she were serious of jeat- You newer could tell about this girl. Whatever it it made him uneasy. Outside, ho wished to take her ein gs tazteab, but she would not hear te this, Gell wee the town car, Gaston, she announced with a af ber old manner ot she waved to an oncoming i cor. oring the long ride that followed she waa silent but es, tapping ber foot, shifting in her seat, darting her jabout. The ome thing she did steadily was to clutch unTT, cring the walk from the ear to the Mantague hows trict indulged in her Uitte dance step, even as she gtothearm; but each time she seemed to think better and resumed a steady pace, her head down. The w= wes dark, theut speaking, she unlocked the door and drew into the litthe parlor, Stand night on that spot," she ordered with a Gnal of Kis shoulder, and made her way to the dining room cod, where she turned of a single light that faintly cined the roam in which he waited. She came back to , moved the =mall cloth hat, tossed it te a chair and od him sihent]y. The faght from: the other room shone weroas her eyes and voled them to him shadewy and mysterious. Her foce teliname ominous control. At last ahe looked away = bim and began in a strained voice: “If anything ren bo ne ——"" He thought it time to end this nonsense, She might feverish, but it could be nothing so serious es she was rrating. He elutehed the gift. “Sarah,” he said lightly, “I got a litth something for a—ee what | mean?" He thrust the package into her weakly yielding hands. we codied it in the dusk, turning it over and over. Then ne word to him she took it te the dining room, where der the light she opened it, He heard a smothered camation that seemed mare of dismay than the delight expeclel, though he saw that abe wos holding the wich againet her wrist, She came back to the duak of the clor, beginning on the way one of her little skipping dance stepa, which ahe quickly suppressed, She waa re- Placing the wateh on its splendid couch of satin and closing the box. “T never sow euch a mano!" she exelaired with an irri- tation that he felt to be artificial. “Alter all you've been through I should think you'd have learned the value of money, Anyway, it's too benutiful forme, And anyway’, I couldn't take it—not tonight, anyway, And any- rLy —— Her voier had aequired a huskiness in this speech that now left her incoherent, amd the ght revenue a wetness in her eyes. She dabbed at them with a handkerchief. ““Of evurse you can take it tonight,” he said in maxter- ful tones, “alter all you've done for me." “Now you listen!" she began. “You don't know all I've dane for you. You don’t know me at all, Suppose something cume oul aboot oe that you didn't think I'd ‘a been guilty of. You can't ever tell about people in this business, You. don"t know mee at all—not one litthe bib. I might "s' done lots of things that would turn you against me. I tell you you got to wait and find out about things, T haven't the nerve to tell you, bat you'll find aut scan enough, —_—" ‘ . The expert in photo pluys suffered a sudden illumina- tlon. “This was a scene he sould identify: a scene in which the woman trembled upon the verge of revealing to the man certain sinister detaila of her past, spurred thereto by a scoundrel who blackmailed her, Undoubtedly, from her words, he sow her panic-stricken by the threntened exposure of some dreadful complication in her own past, Certainly she was sulfering. “And [ don't eare if thie fever does carry me off," she weet oo. “I know you could never feel the same toward me after you found out -—_" Again she waa dabhing at her eyes, thia tire with the sleeve of ber jacket, A suffering woman stood before him. She who had always shown herself ao competent to meet trouble with lnughing looks was being overthrown by this normeles herror. Suddenly be knew thot to him it didn't matter go very much what crime she had been guilty of, “T don't care what you've done,” he aaid, his own voice husky. She continued to weep. He felt. himself grow hat, 25 “Listen here, kid—he now epoke with more than a touch of the bully in his tone—" stop this nonsense, You— you come here and give moa good big kiss—see what. I muran 7" i She locked wp wt him from wet eyes, and amazing!) through her agony ele grinned. “You win!" she aaid, and came to kb. He was now the masterful one. He took her protect- . ingly in his arms, He kissed her, hut with no trace of the Pormule: technic.. His sereen experience might never have been. Tt was more like the dead days of Edwina May Pulver. “iow you atop it," he soathedl—“‘all this nonsense!" Hie cheek was against here and his armas still held her. “What do I care what you've done in your past—what do T care? And listen here, kid"’—there was again the nari of Che bully in his veice —"don't you ever do any more of those stuata—see what | mean? None of thot falling off street cure or houses or anything. Do you hear?" He felt that he was being masterful indeed. He had awept her off her feet. Prohabhy now she would weep violently and sob out her confession. But a moment later he was reflecting, 2s be had so many times before reflected, that you never could tell wbowt the girl, In his embrace ahe had become astoundingly culm. ‘That emothonal eriis threatening to beat down all her rewerves had auddenly passed], She reached up and almost meditatively pushed back the hair from his forehead, regarding bim with eyes that were still shadowed but dry. Then she gave him o quick Little hug snd danced away. Jt was no time for dancing, he thought. “New you alt down,” ahe ordered. She was almost gay again, yet with a nervous, desperate gayety that would at moments die to a brooding solemnity, “And listen,” she began when he had seated himself in bewilder- ment at her audden change of mood, “You'll be aff to your ald motion picture tomorrow night, and I'll be here sick in bed ——" ; "TL awren't go if you don't want me to," be pot in quickly. “That's no good; you'd have to go sometime. The quicker the better, I guess. I'll go myself sometime, if (Continoad of Page POT) He War Begianing to Feel Coafured. A feare of Laat, of Paaic, fete Aim

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26 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A‘D! 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE SOUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, U, B.A. GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR Five (ents ihe Copp Freee All Meesdenliers, By Sebecrpiian: Tu the Dini Satie ad ota, fuk god Meals, Ee die Wear Pluareis by LoS Meaey Order, Eegress Money Order, Check of bp Deol, pepe ee LS (Pestatiad. Tio Cattidd — Ay Sobeplpthin, Pi Mthe Vead, Single Cogled, Tee Orne Canadian or t! & Funda Foreign Sebecripiione' For Counce In he Pom! Cates. Sabecrieione, im@iihe Veer, Remtitecres fe bee bp Delt ono bees tn eke fl, 8, pepe In Wo Pattie. PHILADELPHLA, APRIL 4, 1922 aaa Loans and Reparations MERDLANS who are inelined to become bripatient PY with the diferencea between the Brith and the French in the settlement of reparations would do well to analyze the divergent viewpolnts displayed os thee teo peoples gaze upon the disorganized world. The British point of view is that of the trader, the French that of 5 réalier, Great Hrituin hes manwlactured a great deal for foreign markets, many of ber families have drawn income from foreign investments, But the foreign marketa of her manufacturers and the distant investments of her families rovaived about and were associated with trade. France also fad many investments abroad. But French forvign investments represented home savings sent abroad, while Erith foreign investments were rather earnings made abroad, The French peasant placed savings in the honda of bankers who loaned it in foreign fields. British families gent sone to undertake enterprees in the moet distant purte of the world. The Britisher led his money overseas inte all lands; the Frenchman never follawed his, There fore the Eritisher is able to visualize business conditions in foreign emuntries, the Frenchman not. The one under- stands the Processes of international economics, the other kaa only the resulta in pet income. This explnina why the French find it so hard te understand the difficulties of Germany in payment of reparations, the British compre bend i more easily, Men loarn more from experience than by precept. The year 1921 brought hard facta home to the inhabitants af the Unite Kingdom. Manufacturing has been greatly depres, mining disorganized, trade at low level, ship- ping unprofitable, unemployment widespread, and destitu- hion profound, Toevery man, voman and child these were the wisible signa of the reaction of conditions in the world upon aifgirs at home. France had ne eweh experiences in [2i, She had a good wheat crop, coal became plentiful, tourists florked with gold dellarg, the areas of devastation were being rapidly restored, and weemployment was of negligihle proportions, Little lias happened, outside of higher taxes and unbalanced budgets, to indicute to the French the conditions in the world at large. The insular- ig Of France, in the economic sense, has afforded her pretection. Great Britain has the experience, France has the precept. Naturally the French lag in undorstanding, And the people of the United States? We hove been spared mcet of the experiences of Great Britain; and no THE SATURDAY EVENING POST outside voice has been able to enjoin the precept on us. We shall have to bearn that the European problem of reparation ia of the same kind aa the question af payment of interallied indebted. Analyses of German produc: thon and trade indicate that ale cannot puy the amounts exacted in the ultimutum of London, The sume kind of analyabs will indicnte that France and Italy cannot pay their obligations to Great Britain and the United States within the time set in the refunding act. Funding nego tintions must now be under way, and Americans must become prepared to understand the factors invalyed. Ane primary we must learn to apply the same economic crite= rig to the two kinds of debte—loans and reparations. Government Price: Fixing Again BILL now before the Committee on Agriculture of the Senite would, U enacted, retatablish minimum prices an basic agricultural products. Number One hard wheat would carry the price of one and a half dollars a bushel: and Number Two corn, eighty-five centa a bushel at Chi- cago: unwashed wool, fifty-five cents a pound at Hoston or St. Lewis; and middling cotton, eighteens centa a pound at New Orleana. Canada has decontrolled prices, Austrolin has no an- nounced provision te conthiue control after the marketing of the present crop, Argenthia hos abolished contral, One boy one the countries of Europe are setting trade free. By the time the crops of grain and cotton and clip of wool to which the prices of the bill would be applicable are on the market, these products will probably be free in trade anel Price everywhere in the world. At the moment when the world will have cast off the shackles of governmentally fixed prices we are to reassure them. And we were to have fess government in busines! Waving aside all considerations a9 bo the effects of such a law upon producers and conaumers in this country, what would be thought of it in Europe? Is it a menaure ier the direction of amity and peace? It would be regarded ag nothing le than an attempted kald-up of disorganized Europe, an exploitation. Posathly if we led the way alll aurplus-produciing eountrles would join the world corner in hecesaries. Tt is bile ba soy this would not be directed at the foreign trade, Would we make this assurance effective by agrecing to sell our surplus at the world priceT CM all the causes of war, outside of crazy monarchists, fanatic nationalists and demeaning politicians, dizerimi- hating trade restrictions have been the most buneful, Do we Want to start a trade war with the world? Moonshine HE following extract is w guid axpmple of the prevail- ing ignorance regarding actual conditions on the farm. It appeared recently in the financial columns of one of our most widely read cosmopolitan papers: Low prices for agricultural products hove brought alent. ala a great reduction im the cost of production, an ochievarment whith will eventually increase the farmer's profita beyond even those of the extravagant wartime deys Te would be difficult indeed to frame an expression further from the facta. Exeept for farm wages, which have dropped alightly In recent weeks, nothing has yet hap- pened that hag brought about “a grevt reduction in the cost of production" of farm commodities, exeept such forced cconarnles ws will necessarily reduer the yield. But the world in general & not interested in redwerd food supply—quite the contrary. This is one bard fect, wheres the vision seen by this optimistic prophet of “eventunlly increasing the farmer’s profits beyond even those of the extravagant wartime days" but the most dangerous branch af sophistry withal. is not only mere moonshine The Farmer and the Partridge EOPLE whose occupation ia other than farming might aa Well realize now, for they will have te do go later, that the farmer is actively resentful of the fact that he has been so much more completely deflated than other elements in the national process of wealth production, The products which be has to aell have gone the limit on the downward peut plunge; bot there are other prices anc protike., wae saluries and wages, Which he fools are artificially h Relief for the farmer Would come in ameasure ity, structure of prices and wagea could be more even thoroughly shaken down. But fundamentally thea, bea greater demand for his produce, That im turn d Upon export trade and international finanee, both ot involwe numerous complicated questions and the problem of workd recovery. Organization om the | the farmer might help to remove these obatacles, bu is no short cut back te Eden. Specifically, organization accomplishes: mext to n when it conaiste of the citizen's reliance upon the vaguely to do something for him which can best complished by himself. Thecomparatlvefailure of pai istic atate experiments in North Dakota, when cont With the sucess of cofiperative self-help on the p agricultural producers on the Pacific Cost, is a striking object lesson than is contained tn all the bo speeches ever written on economics, A family of partridges had bean jiving all summe field of grain, until ane day a little partridge aatd mother, “1 heard the farmer tell his son and the har mow this field teday, Hadn't we better move?” “Oh, mo, met yet, EF gees,” said the old partridge. A few days later the littl partridge again warn mother that it bad overheard the farmer tell his he to mow the field. But the eld bird was atill inate Finally one day the little partridge told Ite moth having heard the farmer say, “LD 'm going to mow the to-day ouyself,"* “That's quite a different matter," “Wie will move st onee,” said thir ama A Foolish Indictment AIR PLAY hes never been a universal character of the attacks upon the prevailing standards of spoken drama and of the daily press. A curious yet exe ingly popular indictment against both is that they } been commercialized, and the word is mouthed as implied something shameful of unclean. Now there t inherent reason why we should not dieplay ordinary ¢ mon senae in dealing with the common things of life; yet ne one can escape the conclusion that in a ¢ propection of cases the hablival uplifters, though of men of honest convictions and high cultivation, are lacking in this saving grace. No man with the amallest capuctty for clear thing TeaHy belioves that either stage or press hos been sudde or even recently commercialized. Will Shakspere’s Gli Theater was a business proposition, Tt represented invested capital of a gifted actor-manager who mad yield the best return he was able, The early newspap were established either as ayoewed money-making eat prises or ag organa for shaping political opinion. Is th eagaenitiols they are tedday what they were centuries 4 with the difference that tinve has given the press a | livelier senge of public obligation than at first existed. The production of plays and the publication of sew papers are two of the most hazardous enterprises in whi capital ls commonly employed. At bottom both are eith legitimate undertakings entitled to returns projwrtion to the rlks aaaumed or they are vicious corrupler morals that ought te be ruthlessly suppressed for the com mon good. To charge contemptwously that ther w commerciaiized ia merely to make faces at them, There are, to be sure, supersensitive souls whos wha natures revolt aod whoee nostrils quiver aa if beet by a evil odor at the overe mention of commercialism; bet the are not they who do the world’s work. Men of breeds contacts with life know that anything useful or desirabl whether it a telephone or a talking machine, b oo successfully commercialized when [t ls exploited by ms! high character and ability who are fully alive to ibe unwritten obligations te thelr customers and to the poo azawhole. Bothstage and press have thelr ahorteomne but they will never be raised to higher ethical leves mere reiteration of the ailly charge that producers and pod lishera are oot in business for their health.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 27 -ommon Honesty of Speech WHAT BUSINESS NEEDS AND IS GETTING T THIS time, when schemes for the reorgani- | zation and revolution of industry find such L ready meceptance, if may not be omilaa to efora moment to see whether such o simple was truthtelling is coming to play any substantial part eines About ten years ago bttle group of men began enall way to insist that statements mode in advertise should conform to the unadorned standards of truth. co this bes grown a movement not only of national tance but one whoee activities are quietly and unoh- ively permeating the entire business life of the country. ‘be men in this movement have Little interest in theories ietmctions, They start from the assumption that ines has only two arms or branches—production and tketing: and that by fur the greatest percentage of ‘geting dome throwgh the power of advertiaing. It ia ales foree through which American industry diatrib- sit products, and unless advertising be truthful the le inibustrial structure rests upon o shaky foundation. fhe are some people who dislike and object to all rertiaing, but that is very much like objecting te banks, tomobies and railroads, or even to steam and elec- oty. Advertising has become the common salesman of botines, whether one likes itornot, Itdoea more than iqeeds. [tia the representative and voice of business, iding, creating and retaining public confidence in busi- mineiotions or destructively tearing it down, The Basis of Confidence “SSTITLTIONS stand of fall largely according to | whether people believe in them. Heliel, or confidence, jtum depends upon Whether performance equares with romiet, with the statementia made, with the spoken and cited wod. Husines: ia always judged by its worst wt, no catter how amall the percentage may be, Thos iho at in closest towch with the subject aay that mot nota Soper cent of business men le-about their nebo mrepresmnt and exaggerate thelr value; and tai gst more than 3 per cent do so intentionally, But nen ths enall proportion can rot the foundations of the Loam cinacture and poison publie trust in ite soundness a apn this dimple elementary bik Jeememic philosophy that the move mei fo truth in advertising, or for tetier Domi iess —to TorhGions the Pie Al ries itider we it gor — bashers baile. Dt talkies eo learning of the wtook to understand he praople involved. There is nothing: aone- Pitted of contra iit! at stake, mo waging of pros. ame oat [t i not a sub Pe. for detate, for Ce of pesearch- Viet whiec haste ‘Wo des, hit the de= erubiity of truthtell- ag 3, ] think, Te besd Pietally admitted ta * il eteeplinn, “tint, only has the mab a right te de- Sutd That business haeeroe tell the eo," saya ote of the “THRiters of the Wittant, “but the A Price Togs, Letede By Albert FREUS TRA TE oO ood Grater tentifpiag Marke are Aameooed, oni ao Number of Biffereane Lecal atherit|e: are Arbed for Their Ofiniog of jee Fedew W. advertiser hos o right te demand that his advertising bo beliewed, What mon, efter he bod purchased a home in o restricted residence neighborhood, would mot jell loudly at the depreciation in the valae of his property if some fellow purchased o parcel of land near him for an undesir- able purpose? “Then why in the name of common sense do business men whose sucess depends entirely on wheat the public thinks of them accept as advertising neighbors in any publication, some indecent piece of medical copy, some lying piece of financlal eopy or any other kind of improper copy that casts a shadow over every word they say about their own legitimate business? Advertlaing is a saleamnon which all business menue. Why then should decent men be preyed upon? If one misuses it the others sulfer. It is ws if two competitors hired a salesman in common and one bribed him to injure the other's business." Immediately following the onnual convention of the Associated Advertising Clubsin 19110 Nutional Vigilance Committee was appointed to put inte effect o declaration of principles which the convention hed adopted, The essence Of this declaration read as follows: “We believe in truth, the corner stone of all honorable and successful busines, . . . We believe there should be no double Roa F standard of morality involving buyer and seller." Naturally the mere appointment of a committee did Bot at once or automatically make all business truthful Atwood Ro HW The activities of the committee met with consider- able opposition and the first effect upon the busi- nésa world could hurdly be described os startling or pirvolutionary, Indeed it scarcely created a ripple. ‘The workers did not know their righta or privileges, had but meager financinl support, and noone knew whether they were big enough to undertake a movement involving such tremendous business power and direet it conetruc- tively, But the activities of the committee have grown and developed, until now it eoiperabes with thirty local better-bugivesa bureue or commizaions in eclthes Lhrough- out the country, and is conaldering the extension of ita work to England, South America and Australia, Correction of Abuses N&, probably scores, of thousands of cones of the min we orabuse of advertising have been hundind by the cammuttes or the local bureaus or the two in eotiperation, Though a few of these cases have been of sensational char- acter the majority have been petty in themselves, almost halraplitting at times, But the cumulative effort upon the business life of many communities of the sum total of eases acttlod has boen very great. The barometer of business ethics has slowly risen, for naturally the moral influence of the mopping-up process gradually spreads, Fram tho experience of thousands of cases standards of practice are gradually emerging. Uihand it might seem os Hf the application of truth standards to the marketing of goods might be a work of extraordinary difficulty. But thousands of cases are found to fall inte a few classifica- tions, and thus it becomes possible to build up fairly simple methods of procedure, Naturally then the question arises of how well fitted are the local bureaiea ond the maitional committer to corm- fiat thear evils, In form at least each better-husiness. bureau an Oshoot of a local advertising club or gasoc.i- tion, just ne the National Vigilance Committee is a part of the Associated Advertising Clihs, The bureaus ore not ipected to take copnizance of industrial and commercial nhuaes that involye no question of aalvertiaing. T'lius neither the nathwwal comwunlttee mor a becal bureau is or cin be expected to express an opinion wpon the vale or But opinions are con: “Linthy expres bo Che conteiutiog members, woerbl of Lav eHtmente. to the newspapers at to the public wt large refarding The legitimacy of dhegitimacy of the ailvertinbip by means which storks and other The fict t, of course, thut. very little in the way of merchan- ise of stocks in corporations can pass from seller to huyer without some form af md- vortising, and the possibility af ex. aggeration, mis- representation and fraud. But though nominally and technically canm- nected with the lecal advertising clubs, the better business bureaus SEC LLL ane sealed, OF Oomnmissions really represent (Contingaddl of Page 73)

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26 a twliter, A state of af- faire had preeented itself with which the town waa in na wise equipped to cope, Tt eculd only gasp and waggle its heads and ask if the’ wa'n't no law te pervent slch goln's-an. Tt was all on geceunt of that short-haired wife of the young Peters fellow who hol bought the sawenill, Undoubtedly Veronica had been and dane it! She was appearing daily in the sight of all Checkerberry clad in knickerbockers and high laced shoes! “Selectmen ought to take some notice, seema a though,” suid Mr. Rreeee to Mr, Horning. “Them pants of hern haln’t but one step away from tighte,"" said Mr. Horning, pursing his thin lips. “Brazen, Teall it," said Mr, Breese, “Um—mebby the Ladies" Aid could do suthin—kind af fetch presure bo hear.” Mr. Breece shook his head. “"Tain't a think te be discuseed with wimmin. Wouldn't wnt to mention it even be my wife” “TL finger the preacher could Kind of take it up in a discourse, mebby, without givin’ the ladies offens,"" "Cner,” said Mr, Broces reminiscontly, "I was te Huston, and a feller took me te a the-nyter. Sich a spectucle I never see! Moreh fifty-sixty young. girls *"thout. enough clothe ante "em to dress a chiny dell! J sat there, Horning, ateelin’ all the tine like a surprise party’d come and keetchedl me takin’ 9 bath." “Er—dressed he her?" “OF as — weiss |" “How, wied?” asid Mr. Horning, drawing elaser and presenting hia best ear. “Horning, said Breece, pesuming his most inipremive deaconly manner, “that there was @ apdaode in my life I huin*t godin’ te drag out inte the light of day fer no man. Every feller sowe sore wild oats." “There she goed!" said Horning, and both gentlemen suspenied conversation to stare at Veronica's trim figure us she tripped lithely down the rand toward the mill lot where building operations wore progressing, She was very slight and young and graceful, a picture of lovely youth to warm the coldest heart, Besides beeing extremely sensible wear for a young woman whoee activ- ities included the dutiea: of a building inspector and a timber cruiser, her knickerbockers were undoubtedly be- enning. She wore them unconsciously, Tf she realized any portion of the exeltement they were arousing in Checherberry she was fadifferent to it, Veronico had a wai @ deckling what was best and then of proceeding to do it regardless. “If T had a daughter,” said Mr. Horning, "I calc late I'd send her away or suthin.” ““T'll venture," said Areeee, “the's some low thet makes her liable to arfest.” Veronica did not even notes Breese anid Horning as ahe passed: her mind waa very much occupied, First, there Ore: RBERRY was in “Srasen, I Cadi i" Said Mr. Breeces WIMMIN IS FEREEO@grTeR wat .£& Oo THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By Clarence Budington Kelland a F 4 RTA oY R were the alterations being made in the sawmill to fit it for the manufacture of woodenware products: secand, there woe the matter of purchasing timber, ane lastly was the quettion of a home. Veronica was distinetly; tired af living in the hotel. "“T want a house with rooms in it," she told Ted. “I want closets and floors and ceilings. I want to eat where I can’t hear traveling men brag. Another month in this hotel and 1'll bast." “Go get you a house,” ae said pramptly, “Thober comes firat," she satel, “We're all set for tivber. There are Wileox's holdings. He'll all to the company of give us a shunipage contract.” " Fine—for insurance,” she said. “Lut hie town is fourtenn miles away. You sate. it would cost seven or eight thousand dollane to build o log-hauber rowd te it, [t's a long haul Df we eould pick up a picem of timber not aver five tiles away it would save half the cost of the road, and probably more than half the hauling cost. What we save would be tore than enough to buy my house.” "Tye looked pretty thoroughly,” Ted said, “and I dan‘*t know of un available piece of tin’ bor ps clome pa thot,” "But there's wnnvwiluble timber,” she sald, “What pool is unavailable timber?" “Lesson One in the Timber Buyer's Correepondence Course: If a piece of timber is unavailable there's u reason,” She wageled a finger at him, “Cateh the reason, skin tt, hat ite pelt on the fenee. ‘The timber then becomes uvalluble and the elowda poll by." “You've pot your mind setan that ten-thousand-aere tract oof thee ald maid," ‘Known locally,” said Veronica, “as the Old Afaid Tract. Whe?" my hushend anks with luted breath. Two Pease: [t ta virgin timber ond ft WireeeieT iw mM isowned by the most pron virgin in the state." “dnd willkeep on being by ber untilahe gets to b gin angel."* “Mobby, mebby,” said Veronica, imitmting the of the vielnage. “That waa se until [ got to wanti “Tf you can grab that tract, honey, TO buy you a ¢ jingus with a diamond in it to hang around your ne “Mean it?" if You het ["' “And [may go ahead?" “Pull spood, with the brakes tled back.** “Start huilding your road," she said, mand went ait on a pile of spruce elght-by-cighta ta think it on The Old Maid Tract, ao called, was a piece of 1 eNvering some ten thousand sere, an oasis in that. | chopped desert, No liumberman’s ax hed ever ae tree, 0 saw had ever sung its-song through all the] and brendth of it. Tt was splendid timber— pine, # hemlock, beech, birah and maple. Only dive lies town, bordering a stream ao that the eoft wooed np driven to the mill, and so cloge that the hardwood ¢ could net be driven, was moet accessible bor road. | hut one drawhack: Tt was owned by a maiden lady Kiss Bede Stifter, Teputed bo despise m recnctline @ and Miss Hede Stifter refused steadfastly to bargain tombe, relewse, alien or convey any Fight, title or dy therein to anybody whomacever. Gaming that piece of timber was a eort of hobby Mise Stiffler. She was famous for it, and as her pee stubbornness incremeed okie gs highly spreiniized pride inky fusal fo nyand the treet 2 eel alleamwet. Nobody knew wha Intendad doing wit hut eve rybody knew she intended nek d ‘Cottinoed o- Page Fo) B RO WH a a aaa! Pose Fit a Tere a ie ee! ye Fad PE “Dm —Mebiy the Lodies Ade Cootd Oo futhia — Kind of Fetch Preveore to Beor"*

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MM) iCoitinued from Page 28!) with it, Veronica had been made acquainted with no leas thin six historic instances in which Miss Stiffer had rng her refusal to sell lyr chasing the potontiql purchaser off the premises with a horaewhip. Tt may there- fore le surmised that Veronica's project was one present. in iW obstacles. If Veronica ever let grass grow under her feet it waa when the market wos good for hay, Misa Bede Stutfer, she found, lived an a little form about a mile beyond the out- skirts if Checkerberry, und directly after dinner Veronica wilked owt in that direction. She bad net the least bea whut sort of Peron ele was to encounter, for it had not seemed ailvisable to make any but the moat discreet inquiries, Her netion, gathered fram various sources, wae that Aliss Stiffer was a typical old maid, doubtless tall, flit-chested, thineshgired. (he usually thinks of apliesters ao, atl diseavers the reallty to be quite otherwise. Tt waa decidedly otlper- wise in this in- SLM: B, When Veronica came to the rural math box with the name Stiffler stent Lend upon ite lid she paises and: booked ower the fence with son apprehen- shin, Shar saw a neat white farm house, well-kept cutbenildings of monet size, gril woman chopping wood. The nen wore leather hoeota, overalls and oaierby hat which seemed to neve partlei- pated in a rail- ronil disaster, He swung his wx with extracrdll- nary skill, -and erunted each time the hit en= countered the block. Verontea opened the gate and stepped in. Ae the elock of the luteh the chopper turret and glowered. “T wander,” sid Veranien,** if [ ewuld hove wo drink of water The chopper rested his ax on the ground and ditared, turning his head first one wny and then the ather, Then he spoke in o hoarse wiice which sounded like a whiper amplified to the sixth jeuwer. “Danged if you hain't a girl!” he said. “Tye alwayve been considered te be," sold Veronica. "Thy golly, you ‘n! me le the only sensible woren in this chageyonme Lown! Come in and set while I make a drawin' of tea. What say Ser Tame wae?" Veronica told her. “And your name is Stitfler, is it net? mul] ben," “Hede Suffers my Harrie and old maid & my station. ms ther set in the kitehen.” She puta teapot on the stave aril reached down a grimy clay pipe from oshelf, "Smoke?" “Tee never even smoked elparet test." “Hol! Shih hope not?” She removed her derby and displayed a shingled head, over which ele passed her palm with manifest pleasure, “How'd ye come to tike to pants?" “T found them ensier to work in."* “You're the play aetress that's married to the feller that deoaelit the mill." “Onolw Tt not an actress. I'ma business woman, Used to beg stenographer,” “Tuh! Might ‘a knewed it was gabble, Beots bell how folles. gos tit this wenden ouuntry! Say. them kind of paris pure look a osight handier'n these foppy overalls. Whirl se git ‘em 7!" Veronies tald her, Dim If 1 wos to draw a map of my legs d'ye diver LE venalal grit soame built for me?" Di dst lod te attend to it far yao," T saw it on the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Bow that's right clever of you. . . . How's the mill comin’ along?" . " First-rate, We'll be turning aver in another wixty ayn “Heard how you bamboozled Breece and Danby and them, Bet that was your doin'. Men hain't a ghost of a chancet when wimmin git to work,” “My husband ——" began Veronica, but Mise Stiffer interrupted her. “A sure! Ye hoin't been married long enough to find out your husband's nathin’ but human, But I know. Can't fool me. You're the braing of the firm. Plain as the nose on gay face," “Tt was clear Miss Stiffer had no vanity, for the moze upon her face wos extremely distinct, She regarded Veronica shrewdly for o moment. “Walk way aut here jest fer a drink of water?" she asked, iT ae FS Mies Sefer Looked in the Cian. JAe Jiretched Her Martutar Neck Forward With the Cortare of o Betficont Colickhen “Twas just taking a walk." “Uh-huh, Folks as busy as you be gen'ally wastes time takin’ walks, Jest start in by pertendin’ [ got aa many brains ns you have, and we'll git to be right friendly— mebby." “Tn sure you hove more brains than 7." "Tm pot. But I got enough te look out for Number One—you kin bet your bottom dollar on that. No, you come troipsin® aut bere to kind of look around and soe what chance there waa of gittin' holt of my timber, Can't fool me. Ane if “twa'n't for them ponta of yourn you'd "a" went away quicher'n you come." “Well?” said Veronica, smiling. “T won't sell, by eracky! That's flat!" “Nat at yaur ows price?" “Money won't buy it, Got to be a hobby with me. Don't need money, and I kind of like to irritate folks by hangin’ on, Guess I hain't lost nothin’ by it. Timber's goin’ up Ltt year.” "Fut “Money haln't no godd to me. Jeet kind of let your eyea rove over me. See anythin’ about me money could improve? Couldn't be done, by goah! T'nn built for doin" jest what I'm doin’, and nothin’ else, Kin ye imagine me wearin’ one of them short-at-bath-ond dresses and a string of pearls and ridin’ about in oe of them expensive core with a feller te drive it? T can’t. Nape, I got all [ want, and what I got is what I'm entitled to." "You could travel.” "Travel, fiddleaticks! If I went traipsin’ around the world the populations thereef would turn out to watch me like Lwas a circus perade. Guess T know what I look like!" -the house you can see yourself j “fpril #4 “I'll bet you don't," said Veronica, “Right now 1 out.and chop thet nile of wood for you if you've a mirr if, “Mirror? Whoo! There's my mirror!" Miss Sci polnted to a framed plece of glass some six inches aq. Which leaned negligently against the wall. Tt was crac and a fair portion of the what-d'yeeall-it or the back peeled off. When one looked in it he aaw ma refectior thoroughly waved and corrugated that a powerful im: notion was required to detert any human likeness, haln't lowked in that siner lus" Christmas,"" said 4X Scffler. “H'm," aaid Veronica. “T don't care a pln whethe get your timber or ot, but it's my plain duty ta teach 5 how to have some fun. I'll bet vou never had any fun." “Tye chased us many as seven men oifn this place w a ahotgun,” said Miss Suler, “Amd you don't know what eamfort is," sald Weronii “Comfort the Dewey Wiad god,”" saad Mi Stiffler su elnetly. VY @FoOonic are, “T"m mac obliged for th teu— and for ne shooi rig ree wom with @ q@un,” sh sued. “Come Bg in, saicl Mise Siirtte heartily. “Oh, may [ I'd jowe to, lonesome here The Women it town dow seen te hike me." ie in oO, wouldn't,” Misa Stirtter.’ “And ao elf likes to have SONU Won shat ean be friends with.” Veronica managed to lend very young anid pitiful. '* Them Ladies" Aid wim- min dant get much store by mee," Misa Stifl- ler remarked dryly, “They hold agin pourits aid pipes. ‘You and me seems to agra on pants, and mebby [ kin COEF ye tothe reat. Seems like I'd take ple In a mite of comp'ny once in a while You jest run out to visit whenever you feel like it.” * Thank yo and—thank you” Veronica sald. She walked back ta the village more raptily than she had strolled away from it. Nor diel she go ta the mill, but climbed the stairs to her room anel wrote ne less than three letters, putting a great deal of time and thought on each one. These she posted. Four days later a large packing box arrived by expres. and a couple of smaller pastebvard containers by parce poet. The pasteboard boxes she tock to her room. The large wooden box was eet on the atution plutform. [nthe morning Veronice hired a light wagon, and loading the ba upon it drove from Checkerberry in the direction of Ted Selifer's farm. She did not wear her kenickerbockers today, but a mest becoming tailored suit, and ber pet dat and her most enticing footwear. But then Veronie lied a knack of looking desirable in whatever she ware, Miss Stiffler was repairing the benhouse, Veronicd waved to her and jumped down from the wagon. “The come way aut to wsk a favor," she said, “So long's it ain't to marry your wnebe that's left 4 widower, I cale"late I kin manage it," sail Misa Stiller heartily, “Ka, I just want you to take core of something for ir Yau See, Ted and I haven't a leis, and mi jaluce bo pal things. This is a wedding present, and ['d hate to harit get broken. Besides, it would be bad fuck. [t's a chen flaca.” “Sounds kind of underhanded. What's one of theal” A mirror. [wander if you ve groom where [can sdsad il for a while." (Confinwed on Page 32! a a I ee ee

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a2 (Caatinwed from Poge 30) "Tobe sure. Put it any place. Lotaof room. Fetch it right in.” It was a heavy box, but Veronica and Misa Stiffler carried it to the door, ““h, Jet's take the box off, Io wnont to see it--and it won't clutter things up so much,"’ Veroniem said, Misa Stifter performed the carpentry and etood looking disdainfully at the long glasa suspended between its supports, "Now whatever doce a body want of a glass as long aa that? Yo kin see the hull of ye init, ean"t ye? I'll be dogs goned! Huin't it bad enough to see jest a piece of yourself ata time?" Nevertheless Miza Stiffler stool before the glass and regarded herself. She epread her hands and wiggled her fingers to prove to herself it was really her reflection. She remowed her derby and regarded her shingled head, “Um —— I'm about es enticin’ as I figgered I was," she sald. “Set while I draw ye a cup of tea.’ Presonthy she poured the tea. “Itwas them feet of mine caught my eye," he aid. “Don't remember ever to have noticed ‘em before, They're ample—ample.” "Tt's the boots,” said Veronica, “TIT don’t think your feet ore really larger than ming.”"| She became Machiavel- tian, “Lrt's measure them, Where's a piece of paper? I'D take off my shoe and outline my foot with «2 pencil, ond vou do the same, You'll see thes.” “Kind of a childiah gare,” said Miss Stiffler, but ashe did not refuse, When Veronica returned to the village she carried with her a map of Misa Stiffler's foot—which had bean one object af her visit. She wos not a young person to hasten matter unduly or te arouse suspicion by lavishing atten- tions. Therefore it was a full week before ele visited Miss Stiffler again. Since her first visit no mention had been made af timber—nor would there be if Voroniea could steer the conversation away fram thot subject. Her hushand joked her about her undertaking, but she teld kim sething of her progresa, or Lf she kod mode progress—encept once. “TET were you,” ahe said, “I'd be seeing alot the right of way for your hauler rand to the Ghd Maid Tract.” “Vou don't menn you're going to get EE? oe amd She shrugged her shoulders, “What does ele gayT" he asked, “Gaye aha won't sell for money, marbles, love or tunes on & Diane,” said Verontes, “Then why the right of way?" = Because," mich Verdniea, “Samer ana woown—but wo clay pape is enly a smoke.” “That's Kipling, isn't it?" “Tt'a good aound business judgment.” Veronica said. Cn her next visit te Miss Stiffler, Veronica carried a number of packnges: and a weight of apprehension, She hitched her horse and went in, looking like a Christmas Day portman. “Gereechin” bobevta!" exclaimed Misa Stiffer at ‘sight of her. “What's them? Why didn't ve feteh a drayi” “T seem alwayve to be asking favors,” said Veronica, “7 gota garret, Store ‘em up there. It's dry." "T don't want to store these, I—well, the truth is, I want to make a prevent to an aunt of mine, and [ want te ie sure" “Sune of what—that she's got room in Wer house for it?” “Wo—that there's roagm in the present for my aunt, Tt's 8 dreas and shoes ond a kat ond things. She—she's just about your size. I'd say you and she were almost twins." Miss Bede Stifler eyed Veronica a moment, then waged her masculine bead. “Dunno Tgee clenn through you," she said dubiously, “T just want you to try them on. DT know they'll fit her, with minor alterations, if they fit you." “Cw gawe!l" gaid Misa Stiffler acornfullsy, ““Te's just a try-on, Won't take but a minute, please!” ; “Well, seein” ‘a it’s you. Tut I hain't had on a corset: siner the year of the PonsAmerican in Buffalo, Cole"inte Y kan held my breath long enough be git through with it." “Please put an everything. Dll walt, T've shoes and atockings—a complete outiit.” Bede stamped into her bedroom, her whole trure re- fleeting the searn she felt toward women who decked themectyes in finery to the neglect of woodpiles and clay pipes. Prom the ream isseed sorts and exclumations abd words not usually found in the vocabulary of a spinster of fifty yeara, “Say,” she aid finally, “if you want to git me buckled up in this consarned harness you got to git your feat in the middle of my back and haul on the eurcingle."' Presently, with the help of Veronica, Miss Stifter emerged. The alteration in her appenranc: wes So aaz- ing ns to make one slispiect the day of miracles had returned or that ane of those onbelievable metamorphoses gravely narrated by Montaigne had taken place. Her girth had been diminighed by o corset: her feet had beta reduced to thelr lawest common denominator by Oh, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST z well-made shoes. The skirts alone destroyed Misa Bede Stifler, abolished her, and subatituted quite anether person, The hat, one cunningly constructed to conceal her lack of hair, made the disguise perfect, Veronica's oyes fleamed na sho led Miss Stiffler to the center of the rom and pretended to examine her with meticulous eye. By gradual and skillful maneuvering she placed the spinster before the cheval glast and turned ber auddenly ao she faced her reflection. Miss Stiffer looked in the glass. She stretched her muscular neck forward with the gesture of a bellicoan chicken, If she had possessed neck feathers they would have radfed—and she atoredd, “Wty Gawd!" she exclaimed. “Ts that there met" “CH course.” “T'll be jiggered!" said Miss Stiffer, and continued to stare. “For heaven's sake, pull down the blinds! I don't feel respectable, If anybody was to see me! They dd think what I think," said Veronica. “Which is what?” “That you look very nice, indeed; that lavender becomes you. You haven't any ideal Why, you're really handsome!" "Sot till somebody slices off a honk of this here nose,"* anid Miss Seiffler, indicating the feature with a broad foreGnger, “to say nothin’ af the wort on my chin. Here—lemme git it off. D'rs atifitin'.” "Oh, if the Ladies" Aid could only see you now! You'd knock their eyes out! They'd die with jealousy! There isn't a woman in Cheeckerberry who is as well dressed as you art at this minute—the cata!" “Dunne’s that gets me much bet up. Here, gimme o hand with these here hitchin’ dinguses."" At that inetant Veronica Petera did something she had never done before in her healthy career. Ehefsinted. She did it very well, inderd, and frightened Miss Stiffer almost inte fits. Miss Sciifer was oot acoustomed to women who fainted. Presently Veronica recovered enough to spenk, "Oh, help me to the earclage! You'll have te drive ma home.” "You lay right where you be." “Tho air will revive me. Please! I want to be in my own room, (rh, I'm afraid I'm going again!" “Not in this house, you holin“e!" sak Miss Stffer, and ehe lifted Veronica in her brawny arms anil carried her out to the bugey, depositing her on the seat with a bump. “You drive for home, young woman |" "T—enn't. You'll have to drive,” “Wel Drive into Checkerborry in this here regalia! Not much, Mary Ana! Folka ‘ud think I was eockeloram af sone new lodge" Veronica cloged her eyes and gluimped gently over on the seat, Miss Stiffier uttered a good stout damn and scrambled over the wheel. She jerked the reing from be hind the whip socket and shouted at the horse, “T b'lieve ia bela’ neighborly," she said savagely, “bot this comes ecloat to askin' the corpse for the loan of its casket |" . On the road Veronica wae able to eollect her senses enough te open her eyes and to gaze elyiy at her com- panion's set, forbidding expression, As they entered town the girl had te bite her lip to held back her lagghter as she observed how Miss Stiffler tried to hide under ber hat. They come te a stop in front of the hotel, and fortune perched on the bannera of Veronica Petera, for at that very instant Airs, Danby and Mrs, Alton turned the earner. Veronica allowed Miss Stiffier to help her alight. Once her feet were on the sidewalk, she seemed to recover with astounding suddenness. She spoke to the passing ladies. "Good afternoon, Mrs. Alton. How do you do, Mra, Danby?" They paused, curiasity-driven. “T'm sure you know Mie Stier, Of course you do.” The women stared, paralvaed by astonishment. “Bede Stiffer!” gasped Mira. Alton. 'Whateyer-=wherever—merciful heavens?” breathed Mrs. Donhy. “Wea it's me, b'ypoakd" said Mita Stifler belligerent. “Take alook! Don't be backward—take twol Goin’ toa maaquerade dance, I be. Tm s'poaed to represent a dum Tool, Bet PU take the pret "Why—why"'— Mrs, Danby Wil AO flabbergasted she was for one ot o loss for words—"why, you look etylish!" “Why mot, I'd like to know?" Mize Stitler said sav- agely. “Lf I got to be a fool like the reat of you wiramin I'm gain’ te be a better fool, Style, huh! What d"ye know about style? If I sit my dander up I'l! ahow vo style pith noenguéal EY" htrs. Alten, always afrald of Mia Stifler, spoke with endeavor to placate, “Tieally, vou look lovely, Bede.” “Lovely! To think I'd come to a day when a body would dast say sich a word to my face!" "T didn’t think it was possible,” said Mrs. Danby acidly. "Thidn't, ch? Fosible! Say, you cat, the’ hain‘t nothin’ you kin do that T cant multiply by seven with my hands Gel behind my back! Kind of lagk down on April #, Bede Stiffier, don't ye? "Cause she's independent o and wears ber owl parits. Sich as you look dawn on, me! Why, I got brains where you got grease epots | musclos whore you hain't even got tallow! (Go long; your busines ‘fore I get pervish andsmachk ye both a abel" She turoel suddenly to Veronica. “Now Io the mesa you got me into, consarn ye! Come under gome'ered. I feel like Twas cought takin" a bath, Wo: feel half ao darn foolish if I was. [ got suthin to »; She dragged Veronica inte the hotel and wre ta her 5 where she showed her ungently on the bec. “Who be these bere duds fer?" she demanded. “My aunt,” said Veronica, "They hain't!" said Bede Stifter. “What? “They're for me! What'd they coat? Qhulek! Wo mea inta this here pickle, and by golly youll help gi out! These here trappin’s is mine! What ‘d they cc “But—my auat. [ proambsed ——" “Drat your aunt! How much?" Voronita anawered reluctantly. “The dree—it was a hundred and twentar dollars. corset was thirty, The shoes were cighteen-fifts. stockings—silk—wereseven-filty. Thehat was forty-m Miss Stifler's jaw was dropping by inches, amd her « bulging owt. “What? she said hoarsely, “Just simple littl: things—inexpensive,"" awid Veron “Why, dog-pone you, the” hain't a worn de Aaa fo epenods a hunderd dollars in four years for all her clothe “That's why they lovk as they lonk—and why you lr now ao they're all jealous." “T got the money, b'goah, even if ‘twas bein’ soved barry me, Pm goin’ straight to the bank after fr." She stumped te the door, where she turned to glare Veronica. “The bell of it &,"' ghe said, “that noo I've got to upg let my hair grow!" That evening alter supper Veronjen sald to ber h "Ted, you're a cruel husband. You're always forkid mat to do things.” “Now what milk bucket have I kicked over?” |) "Wl Beato trip. Here I want to run down to the ay and you, jealous of my youth and bemuty and inexperine refuse to allow me tego alone—and you're too busy toga. “Yea, yea, goon,” applauded Teed. "And then you tell me [ can go—if I can pet some ofc woman to go along when you know [ don't know an older woman. It's an autelght refusal, If I'd known th kind of man you are before [ married you!" “Tt'a too late now, When did [ do this refualag?" "Just mow.” "And T mean it?" “You were almost harsh,” “Unlovely brute, ain't 17 "You ain't," said Veronica, “and ouch obliged to you, air, How about that right of way?" “I'm moving. But F can"t do anything definite an keep it under cover," “Then don't do abything—till you pot the supplement report of your correspondent. Heplying to your leterd even date, I have the pleasure te gay—and ao forth.” "How long will you be in Boston?" Ted asked vith anxinty, “I can't spare you long,” “Tt you break a honeymoon into enough pisces, wht long spaces between, it covers more married life," sald Veronies, She waited two full days before ahe visited Migs Srifle agnio. This timo she walked, so sho would have more tine to perfect her appenrance, AU the way out she mobbed ber eyed, abd every now ahd then she tweoked her nox. [t wae painful but effective. When she opened the white washed gate ehe looked aa if she had been crying for ear Tt was most ronlistie—oven more so because her nose hurt so.she was oble ta shed ren) tears. Tt was not without trepidation she entered the yard. unl it was with positive fear she saw Miss Stifiler at the eu pile—reverted to pants, derby hat and dowblebitted a: “TI hope you're nob angry with me," she mld ina mid voles, Nilss Stier turned and glared. “Angry? Huh! [ could skin ye alive! She regan Veronica's eyes and nose, and scowled. “What sia 7 anyhow, all eniffied up? Who's been doin’ what to yer “My heh-hushand,” said Veronica with a stifled s, “Drat the men! Winemin will marry ‘em, spite al experlence teaches. What's he been up to—beatic’ pe!” “He won't let me go to Boston. And ['ve pot tog Beaton, because there are things I want te do in Bosee, and F con't do them anywhere eleo, and there's a0 a why [ can't go to Heston ff I want to, only he sy — “Huh! A bedy'd Uhink he'd throwed you cut of boot and home!" “Tt—it's the principle of ft," sald Veronica. uPat be should have the right to refuse to let ewe do things! [¢ like to show him! But Tean't. [f—if there eu orly scr ‘Coatawed oa Page 48)

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a4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April A Keep to the Right=Don’t Shove RECKON [ am one of the few living men who personally beard Barnum make the etatemnt that there ia a sucker born every minute. Knowing old P.'T. as I did, 1 aim alao one of the Jew who will disnwte that atateneont. He dated on pulling anappy lines for ad- Verlisemont, regardless of the meaning. Barnum described people who take a day of to spend a dollar or so for some foolish amusement as suckers. They are na such thing. ‘They ane the wise guys of this notion. And if they were suckers his Agures are wrong, There is more than one born every minute. Tam old enough to sho you what a eucker really is, It has been sixty-five years gioece | squirmed my towhend through a crowd in the public square out in Missourl te see my first Indian medicine show. A long-haired man stem on the back of a faney-painted wagon delivering an impressive lecture and doing tricka with a ball, He was called Doctor Lightfoct. Ey his side stood a Kickapou Indinn made up exactly like the one parsatore Indian in our town that we kida shied away from after dark. To me that reskin brave represented everything brave and daring. At the end of the big talk the doctor demonstrated the sbalbdity of the Indian, hia mystic power over palo, by driving a hatpin through hia wrist. It waa a long time before I knew that waa a trick pln, but I ean still feel the thrill of wonder, actual wor- ship, that I had for the brave unflinching Kickapoo. In bre than six montha, incidentally, I wus slapped fn the jaw for asking a peqular Cheyenne brave if he was a Kickapoo, I didn't know that i¢ was the name fara trick Indian. Deetor Lightloot next exhibited many Indian medi- élniea, the healing secret of which oo palelace could ever hope te know, He even had an elixir that would take the kinks out of a darky’s hair, With it he could alag pull teeth without a trace of pain. “Wio in this crowd has an aching tooth?" he inquired. “Woe will remove it without a touch of pain, free of charge, Have we a patient?” The other kids knew that I had been fooling with a loose tooth at school the day before. They all locked in my di- reetion. I could feel the burning eyes of the showman focused on my freckled face. Nervousdy I lifted my bend to my jaw, “Shi” he exelalmed. “Here ie a lad who has suffered and whe has the courage of faith. He will suffer no more, Step right up, young man, that this assemblage may look upon yo and learn.” = 4 Here With a Toothache WAS in the public eye and it gave me a shaky thrill, 1 felt myself dipping inte fame, When the Kickapoo took me by thr arm I was resigned to martyrdom. No boy in my town had enjoyed the distinction of being lifted into o wagon by a peal live wild Inallan, “Are there others?" inquired the goml doctor, twhrling the bottle while I twisted at my panta leg. There were no others. With trembling fingers I indicated the tooth. Quickly he seabbed my gum with some ill-arnelling etuf, talking allthe while. Inserting a thumb and finger in my month, equally il smelling, he clamped dewn on the teath and gave it a yank just as the Kickapoo began beating his tombom. My ery could not be beard. Of equine it hurt! But de you think lwould stand in the presence of that crowd and that Indian and say ao? Never! I felt quite a here. The boys looked at me in open envy a little later when Doctor Lightfoot placed me on a seat af honor in the wagon and started a parade around the square, throwing out pennies to scrambling boys, white and black. ‘This was the life for me. [ would be a medicine showrnan. From the Indian [ lewrned that the docter needed a ively bey. That night 0 packed up my litle dads ond ran away fram home, joining the doctor at the next town. The folks found me and brought me back home. But 1 didn't stay long. I hed bern stung with show virus, A week later [ ran away from home again, beat my way to St. Lauwis ahd jolned an with w circus. It was mot unusual in those days for eltctus people to pick wp boy tramps and work them. Aga hypnotic pubject for the sideshew ballyhoo—the boy who gets rigid —1 was admitted te the Gite circle. For ‘inty yeurs I hove remained a regular. I have been em- ployed in every branch of the show business, except the By AN OLD SHOWMAN theater. For the last twenty years I have been tied up entirely im oubioor amusements—the pack idea—the real show notion to-day. It has grown while others hove dwindled. The medicine shaw bos gone out of business and the many clrewes are combining ta make a fast stand against these eccalled ata- eye thonary amusements. f I have paced the seventy-year = mark, bat find myself earning a living exactly as I did fifty years ago. Loogk-= ing back over thee Wits] T reeall dozens af prominent cltigens, wealthy now, who as chil- dren stood listening to my ballyhoo with mouths open. They still come, but in the reeantlime they go right ahead building the nation, doing things, while I have stood in the ean place with the sume old stulf and amused thim. I have not progressed, and there are scores just like me. Whe are the suckers? Barnum might have meant there is a baby born every minute bo po in the show business, Still, there ia some aatis- faction for ao old fellow to know thot be has eirried water te refresh the real workmen, even if he havin t done mith of the patlon's building. I made an openlng—ballyhoo lecture cutside—for a freak show not 20 long ago. “This wayl Thia wayl Keep to the right—don't shove!" the barkers began aa 1 finished, As the aowd followed me past tho ticket sellers ft aceurred to me that [ had mude exactly the sume apiel, word for word, that I had waed in front of the old Musée in LATd, ad it wae just ay good. This thought struck deeper when I halted my assemblage at the cage of a freak who actually had been on Barnum’s pay roll when IT woe na boy barker, “This, ladies and gentlemen, is the most remorkoble creature thet bos pureed science for a half century," 1 opened op—it wes the samme old spiel. “Whether be be man oF beast our moat learned scholara have been unable to agree. He asema to uoderstand and will respond to the name of #it—naturally, a contraction of the oft-repeated expression “what is it?’ This puzzling, scienordefying creature was discovered,” and so on. Old Zit stood up. The aged darks, wearing bis brown hairy sult, his queer, cone-shaped head tupped with a small tuft of gray hair, had gone through this for fifty years, The crowd looked at him for a few moments, thrilled—at Irast satiafied—and moved on to tha next stand. Zit barked the required number of gutturul snarls and grants, resumed his sewt and regarded the crowd philosophically. Ag the procession moved on I stopped and spoke to the id fellow about the way things were breaking, and ao on. We have known each other since boyhood. “They are wearin’ them skirts tev abort,” observed this acienoe=defying creature, thoughtfaliy regarding some pass ing Women, “It's hurtin’ the show business, all right.” He spled two old women just then viewing him through the bare of his cage and suddenly emitted a frightful “O-f-f-f-2ang-o-oog |" “Think aa?" [ inquired when the women had gone and the snarl had aubelided. “Sure, he said, “From now on one of them dancin": girl leg shows won't draw a dime, FT woultin"’t put ‘nether nickel in one" He wat right too, Tights and the wormen's-form exhibita are the deadest things tn the show business. [t's no longer aehow. People won"teven lift their eye- brows wt a live silhouette of Venus, The thimmy killed the henehy-koochy a long time age. The point [ am petting at is that the procession is always moving alowg past folks like me and 4it. It geta bigger and bigger all the time, but the only change in in the style of dreas, ‘That's the only thange that is ever necessnry in the ahows. The fundamental principles have never changed ane iota. The old Indian Taedicing show in «a new dress would knooek “om dead today. [am going to try out Punch and Judy in shart skirts next season, The plonsure-secking public doesn’t want to think and doen't in- tend to. our shows Beriousl;, bu pike — Tt is gur ery sora that amuses them. If for one mome atarted to kid cur own attractions crowds would fall away from our ticket winduioss the tide going out, On the day of that old ballyhoo forthe freak sho; at at Coney Island—two hundred thousand people come oul for a day's romp. You don't suppose they any particular attraction In mind when they stoourte home, do you? No, it is merely the une For a chang tonic—that draws them. That's where we've pot | thoughtfal entertainments like the theater. The sian of that crowd was not exceptional. The that every nice day during the season. L imagine a portionate number are going out to amusm@ment part other parte of the country, Of course, Coney Island the natural advantage of a beach as a drawing card, the other crowds have got ta go somewhere. They : tuke a day off and apend money just to get mau around and laughed at—anything just to be out. Coney Island is the daddy of all aommer amuse parks. In America it & the model, It waa not built design. Tt erew up by degrees to salinfy this foeread demand for recreation. Coney Island is not the outen of a scheme for real-estate speculation. Like Tipe, simply growed up, and looks it. In other cities symdicat have financed amusement parks, street faire, and so ¢ copied after Coney, but few of them have the same cat free, hodgepodge Savor at the doddy. Sell, they anew the purpose, and most of them pay dividends. Coney fsfand Feeis and Figures VERYBODY runs his own show at Coney Island, oo devil take the hindmost, There is no head. No knows what it earna in profits, The woother alone decide the size of the crowd. The season runs one hundred ani twenty days, of which one hundred are considered remlk working days. The average crowd [a two hundred thom sand a good day, That can be depended on. At presal the show shacks, boghtly painted buildings, the ki lighted inclosureas, eating places, games, bathhouse what not represent on investment of ten million dollar. A bueiness nian rubbed his eves the other night whe | tald him that very few of these gaudy loulldings were cre ered by fire insurance. Ten million dollars could be wed out in o single night at Coney. But nobody seema toca and they all take a chance. They have to. We dickered With a eampany last winter, and the rate they demanded for fire protection was 15 por cent of the grogs receipts That, of course, was prohibitive, I mention these figures Jwet be give you an idea of the extent of one of the country’s bigipest industries, Wf it ca bt called an industry, The more I see of thee eords 2 search of foolishness the more [ look upon it ag a pubbe utility. [ am not good ot stutistica, because T don't lie them. If Fou are interested, though, jlask go cal to the SEnMBeMment park near your town, figure IE ap and pool! get a pretty good general idea. One thing that will strike a business man la what a be contributor the amusement park ia ta the nation’s rereaue. You pay one ont every time you enter a side show. Right now T am working for a syndicate tha ennthikes group of shows [np a separate inclasure wt Coney [slind. Last season we pold in war tax a Little over one hundred thousand dallara—that is, we tumed lt aver: the public paid it. snd we ar not a tenth of Coney Island! This, too, is in addition to the prop erty tars and license fees that go bo the city aod state of Mew York. We have figured that on the avenge avery man, Woman and chill who ase out for s day apends ome dollar—te hundred thousand dollara a day. To save my life T don’t know wher that money goes. Very few showmet get tleh. I gavess all that mosey pet gete stirred up and elreulates arcurd that everybody thinks be jx havieg 4 good time, Tt ia the sentimental side of the art business that geta me. I have lived my life in ft: have keown mod loved te people. E guess [will dle in it, Pmake my one hundred dollars a week as belt hee lecturer in summer and manage get along by earning abeout half thal much in winter, Good spiclem are tard toe get and alwayn in demand. (Caniinued on Paya 7!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Pentinadd from Page 34) Ll Grst knew Coney Island when a young man in years ai od and hardened in experience, I was nearly forty fore | becorne a real part of it. Coney Island, you know, Te TOD hea filled with shows, gare, rides and general arrakh stu. Originally tt was jost a place where the poor eople went for surf bathing. There & no finer natural “ach in the world. The feature of Coney Island In those early dave was the tiny froth joints, dance halk and bathhouse. There rere no shows. A froth joint was a beer saloon that sold be bathers large mugs containing mora froth than beer. \atorally it was a pretty tough place. Thesn froth joints, ie the Way, were responsible for the bad name Coney had athe old dave. Tt required little capital ta se one, bot a fellow had ta be pretty gody with hia fists. All a man needed waa pick oot a plot of sand. On this he would irock together # shack made mostly of iFfreood and other stuff that beach comb- gs could plek up. He then paid a license @ thirty dellars and was ready to begin Peete. 4a the number of froth joints increased the keepers added hot-log atanis aa an at- faction. Gradually other eatmg places wert started with a more diversified mona, To this day, though, the hot dog with a roll acd mustard i¢ the trakemark of Coney Lind. To go there without eating frank- fartera ia Tea trip. The sucess of these early ventures mat- aaiy suggested amusements of a more in- marent nature—something for the children, 7 be Gel Wet & merry go-round. We called them flying jennies at first. Fifty years ago Tiders were grabbing for the brass ring vot ge they do today. Incdentally, show people have never been able to beat the fying jenny for a regular staple source of income, Very meeontly some fellow has Improved on the old merry- gerogid, or carrousel, as he calls it, by a mechanism which thakes the painted horses aattun lly reece, Tt is quite: a hit. ‘The four rowa of horses start even, but a robert action in the works causes gore to go faster than the others. This cannot be governed by the operator, and ther is no way of determining the winner in advance. Even grown-ups ride for hours on this device to bet on thee fatorite micants. This sew kind of merry-go-round hnasn"t got around ver far yet, but it will Up in Canada, where I first saw coe, ik wae & knock-out. In the FO's our circus had been closed on account of a lawant and we were laying of in New York. Several of thet freaks snd afew of the fancy acta went with me out to Coney Esland for a lark. The hot dog and the froth were thot eprpeeanl Near one of the bathhouses we noticed a mitt joint. It ened to be doing a flourishing business. A mitt joint, in cast You are not familiar with shew talk, ie a fortune tie atest where palma are read. Cincuses alwave carried grat jotnt, It is sure-fire atull, And a funny thing about thom palm readers is that most of thom ure sineere in the bebe! that they can actually tell fortunes. Of course, ed hare toring in eome fake etuil for the baliyhoo, but they'd eet mighty sore if told they were faking on the palma. Qurpalm woman gave the high sign te this mitt woman. She ted ua that business waa wonderful, That gave re anetion, Why not get together all our frenks and open upfortke sommer? Woe had the layout, printed convasos for the outside flush and everything. The license fee wag nal] in these days. Wher Bailyhoo Had Jome Zip TE BECIDED on a freak chow because it is almoet fuilare-proaf. It ia the staple line of the trade. Other atiractions come and go, but a pol freak: show is just as good teday aa it was when Barnum cleaned up with ane in his Od cowie. [am spleling for one now, The freake are prictically the same: the line of stuil [ am talking to the public is exactly the same ag I used in 1870; and the cred th bigger, The matn change that old 21t has noticed, il have shown, is in the dress styles of the spectators, We oped up as w codiperative concern, each freak cottthibuling sf much ta cover the overhead. It was a go ime the furp. Later, temperament developed among ny feake and [ got possession of the whole ahow, paying thers anlarh Belews me, T could make a good opening in thoae days. [had a ballyhoo with some zip to it. In these days show pegle lowe a lot of the old drawing stuff by trying te be lin quict—ndined, of whatever they eall it. feaermed with a buggy whip and walked up and downa ruined platiorm, back of which huge canvases were stretched, depicting in vivid colors the makes in the jungle, the lion umer wither tern half off, the teochended bay, the liv. eg peeleton, the fat woman, the dwarfs and the will man of Bornes tearing a tleer apart. I wauld deliver an im- preasive ballyhoo in front of each startling canvas, slap- Ping it continuously with my bugey whip. That attracted people from a distance, At the finish I would give the last sag a couple of whacks that made it crack like pistol shots. “That's the way she looks, gentel I'd ery. "You'll find them on the inside just as they ore represented on the canvas! Step right up and the gentlemanly usher will eecort you to palate of vantage l"" Now I claim that was—and is—good atufl, The boggy whip was particularly effective, We also had an ostrich in that show. As twilight ap- proached one night I discovered a very effective line and used tk for yeora. “Remember, remember, ladies and gentlemen, the cond of the evoning ia the time to see the ostrich and mark his many pecu-ll-ar-itlew!"* Just why that should get "em I don’t know, but it did. The line seemed to strike their bump of humor, or something. I used to hear boys mimicking me as they want out. I'd put all thot stuff back in to-day if I waa net working far a salary and they didn't have such crazy notions about this ao-called refined business, The old-fashioned ballyhoo is the thing. I might have made a lot of money out of that freak show, but a company of big showmen bought the property for a ayndicate attraction. Due to a love affair my people became disloyal and the now outfit engage moet af my attractions right from under my Thee. The palm reader became engaged to the wild man from Borneo. They deckled to marry and settle down right there, because it seemed like home, Following this dis afection, it belng vere het, the fat woman decided sha would prefer not to nove, The upshet of it was the whole oothit quit me. Every tinve T have got hokd of a littl show af my own something like that happened. Iam too old ta try tt again. With the building of show placea Coney Island grew up like a mushroom, The idea of group attractions that could have a permanent location spread all aver tho country, Performers wert delighted at the poaslbility of not having to travel. This departure from the old circus idea kept growing wotil it reached a commanding height at the Chi cago World's Fair, There people saw for the firat time the Ferris wheel, the shoot-the-chutes and scores of riding games, The scenic roilway come o little Inter, I believe, None of those thingy, you see, were posable with a travels ing show. Also the bles established a definite place for amuaerient seekers to go inatead of waiting for aomething to come along. They quickly formed the habit. The Chicago World's Fair, the enormous auecess of the Midway, os the atreot wea coiled, hai a tremendous effect on the show business throughout the country. It was really a revolution, On a emall eeale the Miiwoy wos eomed at state and county fairs. Then came the street fair. And I want to tell you those atreet fairs were a mighty irritating thorn in the side of the cireus business ton, It never bes fully recovered. Qur circus run inte several of these street fairs and carnivals down South and eulfered heavily in the competi- thon, partleularly the side show. Those carnival people got ante the trick of running a street fair for a week or two for the banefit of some local charify—on percentage. In that way they escaped the hoavy licenses, There was nme such oscape for the circus. We wore soaked good src plonty. Ta ote [ttle town in Tennessee, I think [bk WH, they charged us Gwe hundred dollara a day Ileernse. We simply couldn't buck the oumpetition. We had to learn the dates of theac carnivals and arrange our routes so aa to duck them. T still wanted to have a show of my own, so F decided the chance was in geting together ao street-falr outhit. That surely was the coming business, I liked that idea of the charity concerna mot only paying the licenses but getting out and working for the show, It seemed easy pickings. The circus season finally ended, and with the aid of some rebellioun sido-show performers and fronks we gob together an outht, We did well ot first, but as usual T had lost the show in teva seasons for ane reason and another. But we did a lat af things in those two years that they are doing in all regulated parks today. Among other things we cis- ecrered the real possibilities in Bosco, the smoke eater, You know=-he ents ‘em aliva! There has never bon a better single attraction than that. He woe just os good as the Kickapoo Indian in the old medicineshow outhta. Just why peaple wil] floek around a pit to eee a dirty, wild-looking darky bite the heads off garter snakes I have never been able to figure out, But they did and they do, The morbidity in human beings {pa herd thing to understand. In my travels abroad T have noted with interest that when: there lb a leper hos pital ft in one of the maln attractions to tourists, People aT stom bo pet foacinated with the sight of these poor unfortu- nates and go there day after day. This morbidity, un- doubtedly, is what makes the freak show a eleady drawing attraction. Thave been berated by some people for maklig a Uving out of exhibiting the mizfortunes of the poor freaks. It doves seam a hard thing, but when I see the happiness and contentment of these people [ feel that I am doing right. Tt enables them to carn @ living and be independent, Many of them own thelr own homes and farms. If they were not exhibited they would be a public charge—s nuisance, Moat of them could rot earn a Living. ‘Thore are times, though, when I feel a deep compagaion for them fn having to display their deformities [or money. I would ie to have somebody solve this thing for me-—put me Fight. T gat on to Boses in an unexpected way. Snadon antes, by the way, are alwajge named Hoses. Doras wltting iin one of qur atreet-fair ticket wagons one dlay when @ negro man came up and asked to see me. He wanted a job, “T kin bite the heads off'n garter snakes, boas,"" he ex- plained, “an’ I kin bite ‘em olf better’n that follow I seen at the ofher carnival what calls hisaelf Boseo,”* T was interested, We nesled a couple of attractions to fl out the show. The apahot of it waa T engaged this new Boaen for two dollara a day and hia eats. He thought that alot of money. Sa did 1—for an experiment, Bosco—He Eats “Em Alive! E PAINTED our Bosco up with dwubs of tar, lamp black and a little red here and there. We then pot him a wig with tangled hair, the ends sticking out like a mop. Boseo's costume war made up of two old eclath sacks, ane with holes for the arms and the other for the legs, A smnkeskin belt tied the loose ends around his waist. A heavy ion cull was fastened around his right ankle, to which we ottached a heavy clanking thaln, The other end we fastened toa post driven in the foor of the pit. When we got through Bosco was a terrible sight. You can tell the world he locked ferocious! Wo advertised for garter anakes, offering free admission te every boy who came with one, any size, Tt was down South in the spring and in three days we had more sanokes thin we could wae. New don't think that waa a fake, Boseo actually bit the heada off those litth: anakes right in the presence of morbid people who crowded around at ten cents to see him doit. At intervals Bosco would go wild, tug at his chains, throw handfuls ef straw and dirt in the alr and then snap a snake's head off to vent his rage. The very firet day Bogen did fifteen dollara. After we had installed a good spieler—bally hoo barker—he could be depended upon to draw twenty dollars a day. For tan yoars no strect fair or carnival was completo without 2 Boseo. Next to him aaa staple article wan the man whe would get hypnotised and be buried alive for six days, People were permitted to peep down a square hole at him for five cents week daya and ten cents on Saturdays and Sundays. The good people of those little cities seemed to enjoy that immensely, At every performance some would inquire tla buried! subjnet ever failed to come to at the end of hinsix days. There were many ways of fuking an exit for the subject during off hewrs, but I knew one man, a firm believer in hypnosis, actually te go through with it, Beginning with our early experimonta in the street (airs and the big group syndicates at Coney Island, the aumiemner amusement park attractions—now a cdistinet branch of the show business —pradually divided themselves inte four distinct classes, They are so divided todlay—treak shows, games and rides, aniial acts and spectacles, Under the general heading of freak shows we include auch familiar thinga as East Indian falirs, sleight of hand, feats of strength, pnd so on. They even Inchide such attractions as the baby ineuhater and the glam blowers, The games ond rides tube In everything from Japanese ball rolling to the Perris wheel, the scenic railway and the merry-go-round. Shooting galleries, pony riding and cone ringing alzo come under this hoad, Spectacles take fm all outside shows Ihe the outdoor circus, balloon aecetnoslens, high divera and other things that are put on free to ballyhoo the crowd inside, I say Tree, but there are always special seata that can be hod in cage one is tired, One is generally tired. People as a Tule don"t like free things, They think there is g trick in it, and there usually is. They came out to spend their money and they are going to dait. Not even a shown can staod in their way. During the war the Government erected a battleship in . one of the public squares in New York made of wood and canvas, Tt was an exact replica of @ man-o"-war, even to interior fittings, The kiea, of cmirse, waa to ereourage enlistovents in the: Nawy. After the armistlee this battle chip was prewnted to one of the big Coney Island eom- panies, provided they would pay for ita removal, It was accepted, but that man-o'-war turned out be be an expen- sive present. [t sost thirty thousand dollars te cut it up (Comtinerd of Page 37)

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38 Ask Your — | EVE RYB O DY°S B U. S I WN. IG S NI By FLOYD W. PARSONS “How Can Protect Check I Carry in My Pocket?” Tell him, “I can’t carry a protective machine in m cket with my chee Dak What happens if one of my checks ts ‘raised’ (fraudulently altered to read an amount larger than orginally written)?” li banker provides you with Super-Safety Insured Checks he will answer, “You don't need to carry a protective device. You are positively pro- tected against loss by Insurance.” He will give you a vest-pocket certih- cate of insurance for $1000, protect- ing you against loss through fraudulent alteration of checles. Vi your banker cannot accommodate you with this powitive protection, write as lorthe name of one iv your locality who sill beigled co de ps. $1000.00 of check fnauronce oroinat froudalent alfteraiioann. ttuwd aithoot charge, covers cock weer againet foo, The Bankers Supply Company Hee The Lorgeaf Sflonufecturers of fark Checks in cE YO cHIcace DENVER ATLANTA DES MOUNICS 54M FRANCISCO Copyright 1921. by The Bonkers Sapply Co. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Offica fhort Cuts de other day I ran weross a regular office- one that migkt property be called B next year’s model. A look round revealed that though the methods and equipment wert extrenvely practi eal the place might be viewed, sO far as offices go, i a prophecy of to-morrow. Labor-saving equipment alone in this office has reduced the per- Soumeel mare that one-half, The new man ager, who revolu- tionized this particular bupi- pees in less than Lao years, started out with a full recognition of the fact that office Worker cannot be handled ip pre- cisely the same TMmunner as fac- lary emp Hearing this in mind he COMET his work by selling his efi- ciency methods te the office workers in advuner of their formal adeption. The cam- paign of education was devigned ta shaw | the office force that better fobs and higher wages reait from the incressed use of automatic devices, His directors were made to Understand that in most cose it is downright foolishness to quibble over the firet coat of any machine that will save human labor, He further explained that before amether decade has Tma= chines Will be wed te do all the laborious work in offices, just as they now do in shops, The first move of the manager on tikin hold waa to eliminate the overlapping of jobs. In doing this he secured from each employe a list of that person's dutics. Study waa then given to these reports, and changes were made ao that now no two people do the eame thing or even parts of the same thing, provided that particular job con be hand more effectively and economically aa a unit task. Two or three times each day there was a rush period whens niomber of offer boys were beget quite busy, During ether hours of the day then were fewer errands to be done, and the bowa were mot busy. Department heads were | asked to submit lists of small jobs that the boys might do, and aa a result of this in- aun the different departments were ne lieved of numerous small tasks and the vulue of the errund boys was increased, An effort was Lo dave materials as | well aa time, Wastebaskets were banished fram all departments where they were not absolutely necesmary, As a result there ia lens Waste of paper, and a reduction in the logges of valuable bettera and data which heretofore had been swept from desks seci- dently. AU betterhends and corbon shorts apolled in typing, instead of belng thrown away are kept for inepection by the head of the stenographic department, To further ecomomy ib is requined thot short better= hende—half sheets—be used for brief let- ters. Unless there is some good reason for net doing so the rule is to use the back of each sob lage ahead for the curbon copy af the reply. This conserves time in fing, and saves second sheeta as well, Carbon puper is protected fram exposure to the nir, and rubber bands ane kept away from light, | Allinkwells are covered at night to prevent evaporation, ami holders for pencils are | Usual) so that short lengths of pencil muy bre utilized, This of course lengthens the life af each pencil. Immediate attention was given te the elimination of eyestrain and fatigue from inadequate office illumination, Since clerks and typiate wee their eves continucualy for close work the lighting should be diffused, st that all shadows are climinated. This result can be obtained only by a system ol indirect lighting, in which the light sources, are hidden, the illumination being obtained Evy means of secondary reflection from the ceiling. Measurements showed that previ- ous to the change in lighting, the office force worked with leas than three foot- candies of Hlumination, The present in- tenalty of light is fourteen foot-eandles, and es there is no glare or condition of over- ighting, Under the old system there was a multiplicity of unsightly droplights, the cost of wiring was highs, and there waa ad ditional expense for wiring each time the position of a desk was shifted. Mow the whole office, which occupies pearly half no city black, if uniformly 1 hted. There is practically no breakage of lampe and the new plain permite the use of larger roi Which are more efficient than smaller sizes. The ceilings were palnted a pure white, and the surface was given 2 fist or mat finish, the walls were made a soft pole- olive green with aslightly yellow cost. The upper part of the wall was of a lighter tint than the lower portion. While working conditions and mechanical equipment ware belie given close attention the human element problem waa also studied, Each worker's ition was made definite und his goal visibke, Instewd of de- pending on the gece af periodical salary increases to stimulate productive effort the new manger established a poli of having frequent heart-to-heart talles wit all department heads, and requiring them to do the same thing with their suborsdi- nates, Tb is a company Tule thnt each letter and office memorandum ehall be signed by an executive reonally—rat Tubber-stamped. Personal notes fram the boas are generally appreciated by those under him, Such o plan stimulate: giel- will ane has a value that pays many tines over for the time and effort involved, Tt ts also the policy of the management to paw real money to employes for suggestions that can be wtillzed to save the company time, labor or material. Whenever a sug- pesiion is secepbed and put inte practice an announcement to that effect is posted on the bulletin board, the amount of the award is given, amd the name of the employe stnted, A bref description of the new plan orédevice is ulsoinchided, This encourages other employes to go and do likewise, The manager believes in working accord- ing to a schedule, and hes sect an example for his coworkers by adopting a plan by Which definite joba must be attended ta at regular intervals, He keeps a different card for ev job, und each contains the ezential facts and figures relating to that Ai prit 3,1 particular w The eards kept in a ticl and & cert number ecards — usu one for each hour of the doa came up for tention #; morning. All desks in the o re? Arranges that the w Paes es ft straight line {) inception toc pletron, AN ty Writers a equipped with aminti device computer whi) records the zur ber of strak made by the t sts. Tie car pensation of t) operators isd termined br | qumntite @ quality aL the work. Jnferce municating tek phones save th time af employ in runbing fea desk ta desk ¢ fram one depari ment to ancthe Roller stools reduce the effort and fatigy af filing clerks when placing letters in low drawers, Each desk a mapa ee which ie especially designed for insertioa? thedeak drawer. This tray has ten compari ments, which are useful for clasaifying puri articles as pencils, clips, erasers and po The company requires employes: to os fountain pens because of the time saved. Every employe who has a desk # quired to keep correspondence of all bead out of aight. It ig a rule of the compan that each man shall start with a clean des every morning. On each desk a book fh with twelve compartments, all se Labeled. The first mail is always dis of before the next one is touched, Onecon partment or pocket holds incoming mal Other pockets are labeled To be Signal, Ready for Dictation, Urgent Matte, Matters Pending, Conference Matters, acd xr GEL, Here area number of other ides [ picks upin my visit ta this meoedel office: A loos Jeaf system is usually far superior to al lant entalling the use of beund books fith the former scheme fresh accounts a new data con be added quickly, and ad recoris con be easily remowed and ram ferred ta a binder, With the use of ma chines in postin, and doing other ofict work tho tr osc-leaf syeterm is actually 4 necemity. Dt also effects a material sevisg in pape= for in using a bound book #8 never possible to tell precisely how mic apace should be allowed for any particube account or series of entries. The coat of envelopes. for handling inter tmenl communications whieh demand pelmey & eliminated iy supplying employe Ft pads of the various forma that wre used fir senled messages. Ewch shert or form bas one edge gummed, and in addition ther are dotted lines to show how the fom lo be folded, ao that the gurmmed end can be sealed and the form will become ils ie envelope, In order to avaid the ember raeement and delays caused through eet ing out letters with ilegitde signatures & & ailvisable ta have Ehe sbenographer yp write Ehe mume of the dictated in fell, ant later the handwritten signatare is ad It is a good plan te change the cube af th ink in the stump pods each year. The wll save time and prevent recent levters [rat belng placed in old files, : Much trouble is caused by mistakes that secur through oral orders. One alu for the problem is to have the pemot #H receives the oral onder write it dawa au diately apes: triiente bier ant ag ia sent to the person issding ' first curbon is sent bo the file, afd the second earbon ia retained by the reine! (Caatinwed on Page 4,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “ge , aa ij Gare hey BRLESS Alf that the name implies APRIL The certainty of performance, the long and uninterrupted service for which the Peerless is particularly noted, tell the buyer of today what he most wants to know—the value that is built into the car. Such things foretell what he will be getting from his cara year,or five years,after he buys. They imply not only the lasting satisfaction which the Peerless owner enjoys, but they also attest profound engineering and manu- facturing skill, and shop practices which assure the quality to make a motor car in- vestment worth while. When a car embodies unusual engineering 1922 achievement; when it is the product of economical manufacturing; when it yields the unbroken service which Peerless owners prize so highly, can more conclusive evi- dence of value be supplied? Yet, to find an approximation of the qual- ities which give the Peerless its high stand- ing among fine automobiles, it is necessary to seek cars in a higher price-range. The buying public today appreciates these things—how keenly, is afhrmed by the growing new interest in the Peerless, and the feeling that, under Mr. Collins’ direc- tion, still better and greater things are to be expected from it, THEGQBDORE F., MacMAH LS Seven Baweryger Tawedng Cor, $2000) Fawr Passenger Roadie, $2790, Fear Passenger Coupé, 29900; roux Passenger Sedan, $830; Seven Pauragee Sedan, (9°90; Seen Paseager Srdan-dameuer, BO; OO BL Cfewelroa! The Peerless Motor Car Company has been acquired and is beimg operated by R. H, Collins and his associates PS

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40 SLIPOVA CLOTHES *- CHILDREN Pretty Creepers for Active Tots No wender Mothera of omall, lively children like “SLIPOVA Creepers”. They are so neat—so profity—eo free from frills, The Creepers, like all “SLIPOYVA Clothes for Childran,"" ire mada of ttandard Fabrica. Thay wear well and wash per: | fectly—fast colors. They have double seame where grenter atrength is neces aary, There's no skimping of cloth or finish. Wher you recognize the shure quality af these "SLIPOVA Clothes far Children” you'll find it hard torealizethat ovost of them eel] for not over $l. THE “SUPOVA" FLABEL 15 PROOF OF UNUSU ASI OUALITY AND LOWER PRICE Wo pour dewler dosnt carr them, write to Dept, B, McCawley & Co., lnc. A, We, S. Bite. | Baltimore, held. Sales OF Filce 284 Chaorch Sa Pew Work (ig | well to go a step further and stam THE SATURDAY (Continaed from Page 34! of thearder. It often happens that orders from outside are acknowledged in such a way that the company must aceept them even when the saetit icpartment on fn vesn= tigation recommends that goods shall pot be shipped. Trouble on thia score is avoided by saying: “Thanks for your order of June thirtieth, It n given attention and netice of aceeptaner will follow in dius eourse," Another scheme that sometimes saves trouble ls that of keeping envelopes righ a hours. Frequently letters come in with the name of the town or state writ- ten illegibly or tau Aten ae ll. Often there are legal reasons why a company would like te know the day or hour a letter was mailed. Though these cases do not occur often they are usually of much importance when they do happen, In adopting sucha plan it is on envelope the hour and minute at whieh It is received. In practically all large offices a material | saving msulte from the centralization of all shtnographic work, This avo miike pista” time, for each operator can be transferred immediately from one job to another. Steck work of minor importance con always be kept on for typists bo doinglack hours. [tis also posible in this acheme to furnish any officer or employe a high-grade typist for work that entaila ex- perience and core, Tt is further true that with a centralized! department the work bs of higher grade, for the output super- vised and errors corrected by the of the department, In sucha plan wages and aivancement can be more nearly on individual merit, When the typists of a company are distributed through the vari- ous departments there are generally wide variations in wage recommendations, and gs a result dissntisfwction arises, In su a plan a typist of only mediacre ability, working lor a liberal boas, is likely to re ceive a higher compensation than a more pre acsetit worker serving an official who leet penerous., Te this office the automatic devices are the last word in mechanical ingenuity. One machine classifies a. cot cea Sorat anel flicks out the cords according to the buying powers of the Individual, sex, territary, quantity and quality of purchases, and sa on. Two typewriters used in transcribing tabulations are equipped with a traveling indicater which shows by its positlen when the typlat omite a letter or figure. All the typing machines have robber roller gripa attached to the roller knobs, This protects the typists’ fingers and diverts the struin from the finger tips. An electric letter opener makes it posible for one person ta do the work formerly done by five. It is not unusual for the machine to open five hundred letters a mlnute, Another appliances feeds envelopes inte typing machines with such speed that the average typist using | the device is able to increase her production five hundred envelopes a day, mincha- hlem takes out the addressed envelope and places the one to be addressed in the proper position for the first stroke of the keys. Even the reference books in the eom- ty de library are held by book rests uippal with automatic attachments which turn on electric lights when the books are opened, Closing a book cute off the current, The credit department looked more like a well-ordered machine shop than a clerical office. In the past, when hand methods wert employed, a typist or bookkeeper did well to head five hundred statements in an eight-hour day. Now one addresaing ma- chine will ensily head a thousand state- ments in htt minutes, and ther work ja done without error, Getting statements inte the hands of customers on the fireat of the month instead of several days later effects a real saving by epteding up the settlement of accounta, A ealewlar ar muchine wits, subtracts, multiplies and divides. First it totals the orders: then it proves the ex- tensions and additions on the typed bills: next bt adda the gules and distributes them by ledgers, by departments, by lines and ly saleamen; and finally it proves the post. ings on account=s-recnivable ledpers, adds and balinees the wecounts debit and credit, strikes the individual balances: and takes of trialbalances. A check-writing machine praiects the company againat ¢ args in the amount of a check of changes in the mime of the payee, The manufacturer of the device issues a policy marine the user agninst [raud. A typin machine that handles orders and bills Ey the hundred, making eight or more copies of cach shest, EVENING POST has an attachment that automatically pluses the carbons between the 4 Bald the manager: “By using these auta- mathe devices in our office we are able te reduce to a simple mechanical process. all figure work known to pencil and pad. This conserves the brain power of awe beatin esss: for important constructive work which ne quires thoughtful analysis. Nothing killa ambition more quickly than the never- ending routine of mental dridgery in on old-fashioned office." Financing a Business ‘0 celebrated doctors of business finance were discussing thelr recent ex- pertenees in prescribing remedial treat- ments for sic ried gnderertaen They were apreed that much of cur present industrial trouble has revwlted from munulac= turers and retailers giving frat attention to finance rather than te production and mer- chandising. Some of the observations of these experts will doubtless interest and heneht many exceutives who are searching for ways out of present busines difficulties. All ee one and atore own- ers must ine first of all whether they are going to be manufacturers and merchants or bankers and speculators, The only difference between the manager of a bank and the manager of a manufacturing concern that extends credit over long peri- ols is that the manufacturer lends gocis instead of meney, [tis perfectly proper for a company operating factories te decide on a policy of extending long credits, but it is neceesary for the management of such a concern to understand fully that it is going inte the cay business and that ete ete sequence the company must organize jis finances erect fink The banking phasea of a business must never be confused with the produetion operntions, In recent years hundreds of manufactur- ing companies became imbued with the idea that the speculative side of manu- facturing was mort profitable than the fabricating nod selling ends of the busines: Many executives staked the futures of their companies on their ability to purchase raw matetiala at low prices and later sell these materials in the form of finished articles wt high prices, A lorge percentage of thes executives gave very little atten- tion to the conversion processes in the fac- tory, and much attention to guessing the course of raw-material prices, This plan worker! all right in @ rising murket, but it left many companies with heavy Inven- tories when the market turned, Unfortu- nately most of the business speculators re fused to tuke their losses carly in the decline, and this fooligh action caused the extension of loana in many cases to the breaking paint, The business depression of 1921 has taught many old lessons and added some new ones. It le unwise te try to maintain prices by curtailing production. Such a plan only further depresses raw-material rices ancl makes it harder for the manu- ‘weburer to pet out whole. A lorgeinventory in looked upon as an evidence of apecula- tion when the tide turns unfavorably and prices ri . Itshould be looked upon in precisel the same way, ond regarded with put a3 littl: faver, when prices are rising. fhen an exerutive accumulates large aup- plies of raw materials or other ¢ and makes: money in the epereon: he is anid to \oe foraigh Bul the fact remnins that whether he makes money or lases money he is 4 apeculator all the same. A profitable Wienme bo poesing markets is pleasant, but it coe: not add te the virtue of a dan- erous busliness puactine. Business specu- fation is all right when It goes by that name, but it is all wrong when it 6 called manufacturing. Tt iaas difficult for a bues- nest mun who speculetess: in raw materi to keep dus bh in a Girne of series enver- gency as it it for the speculator in the stock market. However, in the case of the latter, usualhy he alone suffers, while in the cue of the manufacturer his mistakes in gléaing offen bring misery to a whole Commun. The present time is a period when buai- nes men should give more attention ta production methods in mine, mill ond ee ee a Pree oad Aipril 8,. factory, and devote lesa thowgint. \o banking departments of their compa Skill in manufacturing und merchand is much more to be desired toewhoy » skill in borrowing money. The iden money produces foods is am age-old fall The truth is that goods produce mone; goes without suying that firme im bus if important, but the time i# coming uv the ability to apply effective and econ eal production methods in the operatic a business will be a far greater assert manager than ability to devise way Taise an ever-increasing supply of ca The efficient manager met wr the thi ence between fixed capital and worl capital, He must know that though olten necessary bo borrow money bo find operationa it ia unwise ane i Ou borrow to moet depletion of fix cup Many companies that are in trouble ; reguiné more scientific management ral than more money. best way to crease coats and incertae prodietion 4 wiopt better methods for routing: work 5 handling Inbor, One big company rece was wi the rocks of failure by t efficient work of a committer of ayeten timers known as a planning bord, reatmingement of the machinery in the co pany's various plants brought a saving 20 per cent in production costs, while ¢ fismisaal of superituous executives who li: been kept busy getting out of ome another way coused a further saving of neant, per eent in overhead expenses. A. rece anal vais hy @ wWorld-famoes firm of stati ticians showed that far ment bse fuilures are caused by incompetence tha by lack of capital, Sound estimates ; costa were shown to be the foundation « succesalul bininess. Every business mun should undersias that gains and loges in business mor tn eyeles, Many failures resul from executives foolishly assuming the their companies” suceess hos been dy wholly to the efflclency of their mange ment, whereas, in fact, they have bee carried forward by an expanding cyck Two men may hove equal ability and ye one Hay start in business at the commence ment of a period of inflation and grew rich while the other may go into business at the start of a time of contraction and fail, The only sound plan is to work with the ide that large prodita during a cyele of expan sion, Will be at least partly counterbalanced by large losses during a subsequent time of depression, Wise managers pregame for lean years by building up an reserve. Never estimate gains as complete und said befare the end da cycle Every business man should prepare a Lt and strictly adhere to the program eal Sore Eee ete other way to cot tral plant an Hipment expenditures properly, The wnall ap lat run ahiiald nob overlook the fact that bank credit ca: often be obtained through the use ofa life inaurance polley, When the individual's nanve is good such a policy made ost toa bunk ta cover the amount af bor: rowed may prove a deciding factor in cor summating a n, Fieports prepared for bankers should not be great . but on ce ete ee ae contain important detas Th egoti a LH is advisalde to prepare ed arated in the banker an éstimated future balance: shet with the current balance sheet. The cor poration's future position is of as mon interest to the lending bank aa is the prs ent poaltion of the borrower, Some eat- cerns ow aseunee Chiat money foradvertigicg ig expended to purchase goodwill, and ine the courts have declared goudwill te & pronessy it follows that advertising 4an asset ane run. be used ns af for credit. In the tases of many corporations tod the need af money is only a symptom, hilt the basic ailment is faulty manages. Though it ia dealrable that businisd exec tives should be familiar with fusdamental financial principles it is more necesiry that they shawd clearly understand rélathon of inereased turnover to me prot, Wide margina of profit bwite cet petition. It is better to turn the capilal #! i company three times a vear, een Un making 7 per cent promt on gales, than lo turn the capital only omer and makel cent on the single turnover, What msl American firma need at present is net mere money buat oa better sajea effort. Ap i provement in selling methods mean increase in turnover and o resulting ped tion in production costa and overtes! charges. a

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 41 resn from the factory We have always guaran- teed the quality of TUX- EDO—now we guarantee its condition when it reaches you. > SPECiALy PREP 6 Guaranteed by ‘A a ae Jobwce Read the little booklet INCORPORATES attached to every tin— =which means that if you don't like TUXEDO The story of FRESH lobacco you can get your money back from the dealer. TUXEDO.

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42 EN who understand the distinction be- tween authentic style and temporary fads buy Stetsons, Not only because a Stetson looks so well, bur because it looks well so long. There is a. sarees sbour chia Srerecm aciff Bot that becotie alinoe every man aluher for ince of scmi-dormal weer, You will find ibis other al yout Seetson haerer's, Scring aod warm sane ching onda Sepa ace hat Hike the one shown here, Fine blocking. ab- solute style and! Sacteon quadicy A pl yeu a neal alividend we puud inert - mene STETSON HATS STYLED FOR YOUNG MEN THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE POETS’ CORNER After Drought CROSS fhe killa J sow tiem come A To sure the famisked grain, reatrerl feo long delingwed- he ragged hosta of nein. Tkhetr foyomela were slaniin Aguimal fhe darkened F fa the Ihender'a tes When fhe fee renks marched by. They stormed into dhe valley. Hark! Thal soomd of eileer feet! The land eried deliverance, And, ah, dee rein was swrel! They sweypl dkrough duaty Aighwopa, for Beyond the wide, parched plain; And ereryoue leaned oul te greet The toitered fools of rain, —Charlea Hinson Tourer, fummer in England NW ENGLAND, tn summer, the aby ia Fer ue, Agul the grass growe greener (eas oy where J keow, The low thatghed roofs, elie ond oak and yew Shine in the sun, and the crimson rosee Ohh, summertime iu England, with anf deya, Avil "English gi Fla and Eagliak lads in Jrogrant Surrey ona i gat ite fo Wincheater. The hills were a And i] suit riners winding, like ribdare, jar cmap s f = bile rich grain ord the boyroara And the g the ft hedged gluten (browgh be feng, poss ha Oh, summertime in Eager, wilh the aca war orer— How aronalerful the Comlerticry bella ane? fhe cloner | The oe spoke fame: the old hones "Tha a in Emgtona sith fhe pom TLE hi ce J poseed fhem, of, f dof the ie war But I then Hana Uf ba le whe would nal eee ugein this El. Far pe as in Englead ia glorious and And tke hallpkocks laugh, and the poppy in ifs heed, fe il lorelier wow, f eeormler? Are the garde nore fair? . A girl looka up of tke sky os | poza; And! bauer ahr iy thinking of somebody there, Who loeed rolling mendes and (lick English grase. Of}, sommerline ia England —ay eyes ore rery din — Su isaniitee or fier again, buf werermore for him! a harles Haneon Toone, fn the Garden yp ee o sump garde Thal overlooks fhe eea, eee all aronsad with hodlyhocks vd pinks for company; And pal ATE rosea one ry Boer wrealke for memory. No diela in tke garden: The aun hed 2, And only wild bees’ locmuming, Whea April winds ore fakes court af all tke mines It lokea aneed fo blow. AE, RS ie rat pre that lotfers bede of dafere beep Peete iroth with daiviee, And alin peluwios weep Aecowar tke prim anayeirogona Hore baled them rem (heir sleep, A potk where night mothe whitely, Againal the bhuir of aheicere, Go sintering Ikram tie duit! te lost souls of the Aqwera ; And rae dance dkeir re All throagh the wilaf-lung houra, The pall we fowad ond folloned iat abd ia ky ee, tk bad" microphylla Vere whifenin Ooo the 1eMen, Taide! wilh pedo, fie hiltes fay qeureon, sua With while sfare sown ike sowslaies Across fhe sade stien bine, —_—, Jipril &, Ani or ouwer | brent and fortng toe, Ww ba Oi een ae traped from hearen | To sadden me ana you 7 For sever by the borcera, Where rove dreant ane div, Shall you and f go wondering enema danilight avty, Like ghoste from on! poome forely qeor Too since for memory, And mere in the garden Sieoll ave dace wolk exgeris, In aad or aunty wealher, Ia aonahine of in rater, To gefher rug for brater eearta rracemary for parr. —Mary Lanter (Magridrr, Ballade of Old Ladies (ee 3 pone on a jombarey, fl dreawed wp like bwertly-wie; Her akiris ore juat below der ere, Her heculy thal neolly deme Jf clmos! fools her da ler's soit, Wik face ao fered he dare mat sraile, aE aenbe cmd frelf ay" fen- Old Ladies hare gone out of ef pyle, fn ofher epochs Miss Ann Tig Had on tke shelf been held aecoy, Too lowe, neglected, prim and mel To doo ing erecpt creche, She leads the Younger Sel to-woy, And leads it fuat abou! a mile, She's daring, debonair and pay Old Lodies kore gone oul of atpte. The dodo end the matron old, The dinagaur and ancient maid, Afen‘s eyes atoll nevermare behold; | Their memory begine fo fade, 2 All womes. oer are in enor grads, Enewloy the some sortorial guile, ’ Are poung rd powth fully arrayed | Old Lodiee hase gowe out of style, f' erneot Suvef sixty, Prince, and sweel sizer Ajfect one fashion ana one wile, Abad Uke are wry to perk and preve Old Fodies fee gowe aul af elple. ~Thomos Lomar Hiner.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST your building inspector your conscience Do you dare to be without an Asbestos Roof ? VEN if you must think about price, only fire-proof, as we all know, but, as it has small bearing on this ques- not so many of us know, it is also rot- ton. Asbestos Roofing is not expensive. proof. So that an Asbestos Roofing never For instance, Johns-Manville Flexstone needs painting or refinishing or any pro- Asbestos Shingles (slate-surfaced), which tective measures as do roofings of less are designed for the average home, cost enduring organic materials. but a quarter-cent more per shingle Finally, if you let your conscience de- than the ordinary rag-felt composition cide, it will surely agree that you cannot )sk 5. your tire-chief es. give less than the protection of Asbestos And what do you get for this extra to your home or to any structure on quarter-cent? which your welfare or prosperity depend. A fire-chief will tell you that you get So, on all counts, fire protection, perma- fre-safety—a virtue that is common to nence, low up-keep cost, you find Johns- all Johns-Manville Ashestes Roofings, Manville Asbestos the logical choice. either in shingle or roll form. Thousands There is a Johns-Manville Asbestos of doubters on this point have been con- Roofing, either in shingle or roll form, vinecd by the famous Johns-Manville for every type of building. (See chart on blew-torch test and bythe factthatthese right.) In eve ry case the cost is low when roohings are given highest ratings by you consider the protection provided, Underwriters’ Laboratories, Inc. JOHNS-MANVILLE Inc. A building inspector will tell you that “sen Avenue at 41st Street, New York City Araertee in de) Loerge Cifies you pet Permantce, for Asbestos is not Fot Catiadu: Camadian foboa-henville Co. Lid, Toro JOHNS-MANVILLE Asbestos Roofing What Type of Asbestos Roofing? This chart will help you decide Kite’ of Huilding phages de er aad rand or Trade aie Slate surfieed mall pf poling or alringtes Firestone fell oe ghert sma! lacking Plez#lone mal or green nate aorlaced|) poll fina or eben hes, Fiat eal pes be ehingkes Deeriings 2 ey i rel, beng oe ary a . Stacilerel ae Li serllitgps Teigid gabeed on exira Ehirk—red, BT ae ahityies hrewn, gis or | hberded —= x High midbestin 15,20) ypwinis shing bea Johns Manel ie 4h ply penelly Aebea tire Titepede ring [Eoating oe [aide -ixgs Honfirg | RihrissAi neti | Hoilt-ape TMewvil reg Factores, absefis and mills—moniter and ha Wilioth rucfe* all bavileling:* Thailt-tp rooting se | seared icon Fey tres Corrugabed mebestire | Johnie dle oeiile hu ildings fexvfiner eh aber Corriuga bed Askest ies godurd condi thes" | pehforcemend Rining Sheltie [rnit inygs ners ie Ptracure or conden- sacicey ecopell i diatei" uilds| + pel Corrugated) moljenat oe c fel 1fnet steal ib " Iniustsial heildings eall for expert advice A peoling expert ia ataileble at all Johne-Manvalle Branclire. PULA mar | ics

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STONE Rim Parts BOLTS LUGS NUTS — Dealers: Gel Niu Disgiay Siero PRES fr onderiag ay waenione! of fone iat Parla. cee! Lah iat Fre with Larger ebeoPhmrict. woh Agk jako The Ne SIGNAL of Rim Service ...for YOUR car Now, it's as easy and convenient to equip your car with right rim parts as it is to take on gasoline. Locate the nearest store that sells Stone Rim Parts. Look for the Stone Display Board or Cabinet. There you'll find the parts you need for your car—lugs, bolts, nuts—right in size and shape—perfect in fit. Carry Extra Stone Rim Parts 6 lugs, 6 bolta, 6 nuts =—fe to 40c each Don’t take a chance. Take along extra Stone Fim Parts as insur- ance against rim mishaps, dangers and delays. Stone oversize lugs take up wear space, fit finmly and tightly. All Stone Parts are galvanized malleable iron—tough and strong to stand the strain of steady service. Only Stone Parts GUARANTEED —accept no substitute. through jobbers. Dealers supphed STONE finerchanged bir RIMS Tire chonging ia 2 uick, cosy job on oe = lalerchange- able Pica, No legac parts, Mo hinged jaints, Toterchange with @O'. of off demountable fies, Dealers: Your job- er will supply you. The Stone Manufacturing Company 1302 5. Michigan Ave., Chirago (35 Woneper Seteed, Mew York (ity fib Higgins Bidg., Las Angetes, Calif, ti? Poel Telegraph Bhdg., Son Frasclace, Cali. __TTTTT_ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April &,\ BUCKET SHOPS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM nowadays is to peliewe the poblic of their money. Such expect that sometime before the expiration of the pment the stock bought by the client will have sa de- clined in the market pric: that it can be purchased at a profie to the broker. “Tn the event that this is not true, their neectios is to induce the chent to purchase additional stock on partial payments, wing the steck paid fer as collateral, in the hope that before these payments are com- Burg either or both may be covered at a EH Nevertheless, there are a number of im portant New York Steck Exchange firma. which de avery substantial and legitimate business in fractional lots of stock —loss than De shares on the partial-payment plan, and nothing in what i stated ein dhauid be taken as contrary to that aaser- tion. Tt ia therefore not necessary for any ane who wishes to deal in odd lots to go élaewhere than ta members of the New York Steck Exchange. That institution, hy the way, haa promised te give more consiticration te those who deal in small lots, Then there are what are known as corte splandenta, cansitting of brokerage firma aperating in other cities, connected with New York houses by private wire. These concerns stand on their own tesponsibilitey, but from reading their signs ane weauld think that they were controlled of backed by the houses whom they claim to he their ew York correspondents, Last night I met a broker from a town in New York State who was a creditor to the extent of $60,000 on the books of a Consolidated louse which recently fatlest, His clients in the home town hail per- fect confidence in him, and he had suffi- tlent confidence in the Mew York broker to leave all that equity there; but when the New York house fabled he did nat eee how be eould da anythi ut make an asigament. Thid ahows that in dealing with an out-of-town broker who ts not a member of any exchange there & a double risk —that of his foilure, asd that of the fulure of the main house, Investment Through Banks iranch offices of New York Stock Ex- change of Conselkdated Ea liises curry the responsiility of the maim organi- zations, There are many al vantages la dealing directly with a New York Stack Exchange hause of ites branch office; of with a mem- ber af the Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit or other Stock Exchange: of you can have your securities purchased and sold ine your aan bank, trust company or bank ing house, Small investors ancl thoes whe are not thoroughly familiar with the Wall Street ropes should have no hesitation in employing their banking institutions for this purpose, Any bank or thost company with whom you deal will be glad to pure chase sxuind wocks and bonds, either out- right of with the waderstanding that you. are to Pay part at the time of purchase anc more at certain intervals later on. Thowgh this does not duplicate the pera resent plan ft aincunte te the same thing. Further- more, your hank is always glud tio see you making Investment perches und ihus sirengthening your financial rescurces, It helpe your credit and there ia a strong element of safety about it, which certainly ia aheent wher deewlitay with buckelerrs, Your bank will also take care of the certif- icates for you, make sure they are in proper form, collect the dividends gad crelth your account; ond when you deciche ta sell you have only to give the bank written instructions to that efert and the praseeds will be credited te your aceougt., Caving Lo these naany advantages Che murn- ber securliy buyers who wre dealin thraugh their tasking institution an pagking houses is inecressdnge sieudidy, To Che inexperienced aeetion of the pub lic nearly all brokerage houses look mike. It i o fact peculiar toa the business that nt cannot judge hy appearances, either of the offiee, the sign, the sige or style of the equipment; for the bucket shop, in attempting to coneeal jte rea] character, disguises itself asa legitimate house, In “ome canes these outhte haae began haei= nea on just about enough capital to furnish an @ifice and do some advertising. ‘The money that they hove thereafter gathered in, altheugh iL belorpes to thetr chernts, is (Coitinned from Page @ eonsidered as the capital or the bank roll al the hheuse. paently an atbempl was made by a crook who called an investor by telephone to urge her to buy a certain seourity, He said thet if she would give him the arder he would send a boy around for the ¢heck. are a lithe suspicious, and, tracing the call, found that jt came from a public telephone booth; that the so-called broker was net only unknown but had ne office! A bucket shop may have a great deal in cash and secoritics in the bank and in the safredeport bem, but that does not make it solvent. ‘The test la: How would It biqui- date? It has been itively cenvonstrated in the failures of late--which ocurred mosth? after clients forred the hauses. con= tinually te pay out—that generally tere ba net enough te go around in the final show- down, Take the case of one firm which recently failed with liahslities of $1 G00, The petition atatecd that assets amauntel to F1S0,000, but the attorney for the firm says that this is a gross underestimate, and thak they will probably amount to £500 000; hut even at that, there ig a firm which had $1,000,000 of the public's money which it was apparently unable ta pay, Or t caso of another hoysr, which failed for 000,00. Dts so-called aaaets, largely stocks owned by customers, were dhsothed in salaries, which alone exceeded $1,000) 480 a year, ane other ex which brought the tetal wp te eal $7 Oh 000, MMueb of ft was gambled away in the grain market, Teetineny belore the special commissioner in this case developed the fact that the business hed been robbed from the inside. “Salaries of the highest uments were paid, expense bills of tre- mendoushy large figures were sent in and O.K'd.” The man who bad charge of the salaries and expenses recelved $12 40H a year himeelf, vet had nothing te aay about the ren the business, Funds which were sent in be customers in payment of stocks thal were never delivered were used up in ex e amounts were withdrawn from the firm. before it (oiled. Is it not pmazing that in this enlightened age out banking institutions shou: be hell under close supervision by the state and shh sie page pat any Eg knot or Harry i permit CET n ta Wall Street, open an office, and handle millions of the pulblie's money—in cases much more than some of the banks? Bro- kerage coaneerna of both legitimate ani ilegitimat: character are really fiducie ries—that ia, they orcugay potions of trust. Their money ie not in the public's hands, but the public's money is in their haris, Therefore nat only Stack Fechonpge butetate and Feber sopservision ehavalel be in actual contre] of their operations, The OGesire to Take a Chance Wo degitimate foodie should fail beewuse wil tte clients withdraw their cash, stocky and bonds; ite capital should he intact, with deductions for any optruling his which it might have aistadived or plus wns pewite which might bave wecrue, “The wide discrepancy between asaets pre liw- bilities in pecedl flunes haa proved bey ioril godoubt that Chest houses were either pre- viowd)y inaalvernt or had drawn cut money and concealed it eo that they would tot have to poy oul what they hhacl wequired in recent years of peroegeerity. ltis a common lmpressian in Wall Street that the public conaista of ewery person excel the on whe ia rewling the tlem or listening too a tunvernation in whith ibe public is relerped to. The fart is thot every- one who depls in securities, a. hether for invesinvent or for Lreding profits, forns 2 grain im thut great roma known on the Anverican investment public. Although among the few there in con- sidderattle thirst for investment kKnowledpe, the waat migerity of the public is sail in the Dark Ages in this reapect. Many let ters that. | receive show that the writers lovk upon the buying and selling of shocks ss more of lew of a gambling operation, They write, “The very wealthy pevple oan teu bonds, tart with ourlimited resources " anywhere from #1 to $50,000—"'we feel mre: like tuking « chunee on something,” Ace itis this desire te take a chanee whieh leads so many of them inta the bonds of the ucketoers, Investment involves the placing of mo mclae for Lneome,. yenculeation Teg the use of intelligent foresight for thie poae of tuaking a profit from market fly ations. On the other hand, gambling is employment af funda without the wa intelligent foresight. That is the atti f moet peaple when they enter the maz Having no intimate kKnowled od business of investment or spoeculatian even of gambling in stocks, the public tends ite large furry ear, a8 Elbert Mubl would say, to the first suggestion wl comes to tt sounding plausible, Give = a public oodles of meeney os it hos had « ing the past few yeara, then turn a gan erooks lonae on it, and one carn ree a aed what havoc will resiua[t., The aVeTEgt trader is governs by | eovetions—cupdity and fear, His de for gain leads him to take chanhees, and fear of loss induces him te wenture just small an amount as heen uy be te fi when he a“ to make some money in t market. en be unbelta: hia ewpidi knows mo bounds. He neglecta dex jc business or profession in order ta deve his time to the murket, Although one the first principles in auccesafal = ait is the limiting of loge and Letting profi ran, he generally reverses this mule, tal small prota and letting his fom ra pinning & hope an the latter in full coq dence that though these trades are runalr against him the price will recover ged | will peé owt al a prodit eventually. Juggling Penny Stecke The bucketeer takes full advantage there ve hurnon tendencies. He proaches ‘proapect with the offer t carry a large line of shocks on a small mai Fin. Some months before the failure of pTmer mem ber of a New Yark Const dated Exchange house, an employe of tha firm called one of my men and offered t buy 1000 shares of stock selling at some thing under twenty dollars per share on: margin al $400. The proapect of earryisy such a large line on such a amall amet money would ap io many Ir th did not iovoew their business, bat in th coer all the solicitar got out of it was chee "ul grin. What he wanted to do we to make a bork entry of the proper transaction and then, when the stack de clined theeeeighths of a dollar yer share croas it out and pocket the $4), Ef alte that trade wos made he eculd indir che intended chent te deposit more m wuld eventually have procured fer hie self, by some of the ways which 7 sill describe, the balance aa well gs the onginl deposit, He would have followed the well: knewn eonfidencemon method of boildiog Up an aeeounk, and then, lm the parlance af the bucket shopa, send it to the cesar ef'n—-a process whieh | will also desotibe The public likes to buy a whole lot a shurie—o bikie blaek—ol lew-proed sic dealt in on the Curb at centa per share, becioee it is figured that in coe of a Tee the peroentign of protic will Ise very large: hh ae ce elocks eel lie below a cedlar pet abare are woolh very little, aed as the me jority of these imsves wre j led pround by one moor bucket aluepe se thd serch buyers rventunlly will be wiped aut, cae con reae- ily understand how the public, in dealing the penny stocks, plays inte the hands 2 thane poiruless. ‘Tuke a man who ly net shares of such stock wt sinty centa, an te recommendation foand ima markt lectet whicn bas been sent to GM) (MK other ot tomer ar ptokpects, and out of wc erin aba Sidlenn for £00000 shares of thet cheap siatyvedt atock., When thes or are received the sboek, which may be lee one of the firm's awn worthless ptr motion, kk run up to seventy-five cel. and all or mast af the orders are filed that theure, the price being mor o les fie titious, Atter this is clone the geriee of the slivk is worked down Lo sixty cents or fly wenta, ad all those who are carrying 1 af promptly culled for margin, 1! ther ang il purchases were made gt serenity Liv rents, und the stock is mow at the leh dollur mark, that i a shrinkage of 85 mer cent, or about the ameunt which & required #aA margin ley hots that =r euch “securities,” Hut the tewiness of the bucket maps? daly partially in these low-priced Carb (Continned on Page 4)

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THE SATURDAY What is it in the Packard Twin-Six that has aroused in its owners an allegiance thatany other car seems powerless to disturb? The fundamental cause is of course the unchang- ing excellence of Twin-Six performance, but there are many other reasons than this. If you will think a moment you will realize that you have never seen a Twin-Six body that was anything but tight and sound and plumb. You will recall, again, that almost never have you seen a dilapidated Twin-Six fender, nor a Packard wheel but ran staunchly and true. PACKARD MOTOR CAR EVENING POST Twin-Sixes that have years of service and tens of thousands of miles behind them still hold the deep lustre of their enamel and paint. Their doors “chuck” solidly shut; their controls work smoothly and softly; every item of equip- ment serves and looks as when new. The rugged structure of the car—the great frame and the stout axles—remains rigid, silent and secure, seemingly immune even to abuse. Such qualities as these in the Twin-Six underlie its increasing popularity, and continually rein- force the leadership this fine car enjoys. COMPAN ¥ DETROIT Motor Cars amu Motor Tricks The Twin-Six touring, $3450 at Decroir The Single-Six touring, $2950 at Detroit PACKARD ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS ONE

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Calas ituen Peel dike dig i ir Aim o ir a! a Afieftidd Falidcanlor | he ima | ono hurry about the Beth Have you Spring in your feet? RE your feet joyous and preachy fur a brisk walk through the fresh, spring sunshine, or are they coippled and sick with carns amd other facet ills? Do you know that at last pou can get a smart, trim shoe that is At for tainty feet ane yet does tet champ and oclistort the bones? It's che Modified Educator, AC shee thar “lets the feet grow as they should.” Wet is stylish and in good taste, This shoe is a boon to women who areon their feet alot, yet do mot like li SECnice appearance to comfort. See the Mecitied Educater. Note is gmicelul lines and then realize that rhis scbteae: CU meyer couse tout inisery. Wt's the shoe you have been luwking for. Your hagl TEL-U-AVHERE Bu- reau Will give vow the aaarme al the licurest Educator dealer, \Weite for Hew Bowes Afade Pran- free Peet "—Tfull of uimusiical feast it- furtnativa. RICE & HUTCHINS, Inc. 14 High St, Bodom, Mass. FOR WOMEN THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page 44! stocks. Big plays for the public's money are made in New York Stock Exchange securitics, moet of the so-called big fellows among the bucketeera—thatis, those who do not bother with small fryy—will not jook at an account which contains an snaty of less than $000, That they can- wider as worth going alter. You perha, are a business man, a lawyer or a doctor in a city or town within a day's train ride of New Tork, You occasionally dealin stocks, hut do not claim to be am expert, You have a leaning toward it, however, and when in your dally pa sou Robe ain attractivetooking ad in which E. M. Fillem & Co. offer te send you a Special Analysis af Pethiehem Stee showing sama af its poeatbllithes, you promptly spend a two cent stamp and thereby let yourself in fer alot of trouble. You do net know Fillem & Co., never heard of them, but the adver- tisement locks good and the stock is one that appeals ho . You have read a great deal about Mr. Schwab, and you feel that if they paint the picture in the right enlors pik could be persuaded to berome ane of his bitsiness partners by purchasing azar Ca.2 | some shares of Bethlehem. Before ee hours have you receive a telegram from Fillem “Trying to get you longetistance phone. Gall New ark operator: ‘ery Leuportant." Simultaneously, perhaps, you are informed by the telephone operater that New York is calling. You judge from this that it must Fhant of they wauld mot apend $41.00 for a few minutes’ conversation with you. Cetting inte connection you find » suave young man at the other end of the phone, with a sincere anid hasty deslre to al service to you. His firm has received your request for a circular on Bethlehem Steel, and they are sending it, “There is m Steel—tt ie ln an exeellent position and will wndeubt- edly rise," but what he called you up about was something that would not wait. In fact—and here he grows very confidential — his frm has an nies to accumulate th) shares of Studebaker, and he called you in order to give you an opportunity to aboard before the fireworks start. n= fortunately there waa some delay in hie getting the phone connection, and in order to make sure that you were mot omitted he has bought 200 Studebaker for you at 8. Tt is now selling at Go, so that without your having put up a cent thus far he has nade an actual profit for you. Tf you will just forward a small amount of margin— nothing like the mmount probably ne uired iby sour local brokera—he will see that the stock is carried for you. @ Look Into the Kitchen You forward a check for $1000, which, he , will carry 200 shares, and the next day he calls you up again and says thet Studebaker is getting along wonderfully: that they are picking up the stock and expect it will sell at £126 a share in short order, Have you any more money which might be used in making this wonderful elean-up? You have. You send $2000 more and buy another 4) shares. Perhapa one or two more telephone calls may be used to ascertain whether you have any more available money for margin. Tf nat, the final call coutaings a very offhand request— oh, very offhand! In fact, he just happened to remember it before he hung up. ‘The PLS. is thie: “Hy the way, To expeet they will rush Studebaker up very fast to- morrow afternoon, and if vou want me to close that out at what T have reason to beliewe will be the highest price of the day, just droge roe a line authorizing the firm ta accept orders [rom ove for your aecount and will attend to that little mat- ter for you. ‘Then I will send you a fut EVENING POST check and yo0 will be thousands of dollars tte the E ae You write the letter authorizing bir to do the trick. Ina day or two you find that rust only bet your Studebaker been cloacd aut at the lowest price af the day's session, but that vou have been put Jong of 1000 Mexican Petroleum at $125, and sold out at $120. You did not realize that in giving him such a letter you practically placed in lila Inanads a powel af atterney to act for you—gave him authority to trade for your acomint and risk at his own diseretion— made it possible for him to send you to the tleaner’s, For the transactions which re- alt in the wiping out of the in yoru have gent him, and leave you $1000 in debt, are duly recorded on purchase and sales slips with the name of the buyer and the seller in ewch case, except thet if you were alle to go behind the scenes you would find that the vital trades which reeulted in such large and swift loses were fictitinus trungactions, anl the broker with whom these trades were made did not actually buy fram or eell te your broker this unftor- tunate Mexican Petroleum, but he was merely paid a fee of fifty cents ar one dollar per hundred shares {or permal re his. name to be used in this fraudulent trade, Aow Four Goose is Cooked I realize that in thus taking the pulblic into the kitchen and showing them how some af their mealsare cooked [ am apoilin their nppetibe for certain dishes. hak just what I hope to de. And I shall exert urther efforts along this line until by one means or another I assist in inducing the Amerienn ale to use commen sense in their security-market transactions. T feel sure that you, reader, would mot intrust $500 to a stranger who rushed up te your offie: of your home and on one excuse or another tried ta induce you to let hire have the money in order that he might buy any other kind of goods, com- modity or piece of pro for your ace ening and risk. You d not de this with anyone but perhaps one af your moat intimate friends, As for mere acquaint- ances, you would never consider such an action foe @ moment. hy, then, ahold ops put your good American dollara into that go with a voice over the tele phone—a man whom you have never seen, working for a firm that you do nat know and never heard of until you saw their advertisement? Legitimate stock-brokerage houses do Tot go agen extremes, a8 DBR Rectan Urge You to open an wccount of te put your neney in thal hana: they do not solicit and would not accept discretionary me thority fram you, for thay realize that it is not only a questionable practice but if per- slated in would lead to expulsion from the New York Steck Exchange if they were represented thereon, . You cannot butt inte the inner cireles of Wall Street by long-distance telephone, But this is only one means of interesting you. There is the subtle correspondence, with its suggestions that you buy this or that. There are the telegrams which come along at frequent intervals, urging you ta make your first venture, And Last, but not least, there ia the traveling saleuman, who just happened to be owt thia way and seared in to make your personal ac- quaintance. He also ia a very smooth- talking gentleman, knows all about the market, tells you what o fine house he ia working for, names some of the big trane- actions they have had, assures you that their operations are for some of the Hist financiers and that their confidential re lntions with eminent houses are of the very Personal acquaintance goes a long way? you feel that Wf the house i anything like its representative you would like to beat. Alpril &, dea) there, and perhaps you permit saleaman to carry away swith him 4 ¢ for your first deposit, Why not take the same precautio: you do in your general business tray tions? Tf you are a manufacturer are are selling a line of to m house foi firat time you have your credit men them up. You procure comumercial-ugy reports, you request your bank te ing of its New York romepondent, WO the buyer for numerous trade referer And otherwiae aatiafyy wourself thy you sell him the goods your will eventu eh YOU money, When it comes to deg i étecks, why throw all these comservg business methods ta the winds? ‘The nothing peculiar about a bro hi whirh entities it to more con fidener than would give to a commercial orguanizatir You are venturing in a business of wi yeu know little or nething. Would yuu that in manufacturing of merchandisi Is tt nat better to venture inn timodly fret. with very amall amounta of mo that you can afford to lose? Should rear sare web oof brains thet guides you to 6 ress in your own field be employed for y Protection and profitin the field of finan I believe that it should, ancl that is my jeet in showing how the bucketeers of |! ure able te part you fram your mowes, » you owe it to yourself to learn someth about brokers amd secuntics before you in. It tf o business in whieh the wrete moet powerful, moat influential, as well the shrewdeat among the real fimanciera not find it so easy to make ead fo fe money: henoe your siccess depends upon whit someone tella you or claims to able to tell you about the business, but, in every other field of endeavor, it depen upon the knowledge which you ma your own and turn to your ows purpos Symptoms of Bucketeeriag Investment information is available fre the beat channels; it is invaluable to you) your present business or profession. Tt especially necessary to you in your lt years, chiring which such o t percen lay of Agvericans find themaelyes in a depen @nt position. In other words, financial ir dependence issomething that can be studie amt finally attained any man sai enough to make a living elsewhere; my word of warning & that in his perme of this form of knowledge be should not b guided by the pseudophilanthropists koow in Wall Street as buckebeera. T have shown in the foremoing some of ways in which bucket shaps may be olen tified and avoided; By the : 1. Frantic efforts to secure your bea Heda, Filless of expense, 2. unechausen-like stories which Lhey bell you in order to induce you fot a. Smell amount of money whieh ty require in comparison with that exacbed oy legitimate New York Stock Exchange houses. 4. Corporations with which they ar tentifed and whose stocks they are trying to sell you, h. Representations that they have prev cushy bought for you a lot of stock whic ul ; shows @ profit. 6. ‘Thelr request for authority te trede far your account. 7, Ineucing you to deposit your breseet holdings in order to purchase gdditional aback, f. Representations that the arm i or erating far pools ar insiders. ‘There are a pumber of other earnmine of the bucket shop, whieh I will endeavor te explain in another article; also, whet rett- ediea I have proposed for the present sll tion, and what steps the stock exchange, the state and Federal authorities are talon toward its elimination.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST WILLYS-KNIGHT At a low new price of 91375 fio. &. Toledo Anew, delightful motoring experience awaits thousands who are now able to own and enjoy the brilliant flexi- bility and luxury which has long made the Willys-Knight car a favorite with people of greater means. OU now can own a car whose life is measured by scores and even hundreds of thousands of miles, with coach and chassis built extra strong and extra quiet to avoid even those minor noises which the quiet Willys-Knight Motor would accentuate and make intolerable. You can free yourself from the annoy- Touring Car, now $1375 Roadster, naw $1550 ance of motor repairs and adjustments; from valve grinding and from noise. You can enjoy the surprising econ- omy which only a Willys-Knight owner knows, for the Willys-Knight car combines its peculiarly low upkeep economies with the largest known gasoline mileage of any car of its power and weight. Coupe, now $1875 Sedan, nou $2005 Witty: Overcanp, Inc. Toledo, Ohio + Canadian Factory, Willys-Overland, Led, West Toronto, Ontario, Canada The Willys-Knight Motor Improves With Use

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THE of Motor Car Use For the windshield and windows in your motor car no other kind of glass | ; can take the place of plate glass. It gives clarity of vision that nothing else can val. For it never deceives the eye or | a \ For Every Kind ery car, large or small, open or | glass means certainty and i , beauty of appearance, and the firm kAgwledge that you are seeing things as they are and never dis- torted by waves and : the view. People cover their dining-tables with | plate glass protection because plateglass | | is smooth, level, sag-free. For the same reasons, you need it for replacements when accidents hreak the glass in 4 motor car. Puate Guass Man uractunens of Americal Nothing Else: Genuine PLATE Ghat S| ur | anybouly that hos, ea | SATURDAY EVENING POST April A) Sense and Nonsems« The Strong Silent Man ya. » heavily builg, with deep-set eyes, 2 prominent hs and slow but deliberate of speech. bert: you have the typleal strong allent man, to look at. The impressions he makes on you are subtle. You can tell he has an iron will and | & relentless duternlusticn to get what be ae te ly a eioraeey lee in ms wey. obe the tig tly com law | born fighter i ia in hie ar But he would give up his life for his friend, without even telling his wife about it beforehand, He fa # aa a Tock in a at strength of the strong silent man is hia weakness; he has an enorme respect for women, and a heart that melts at the aight of w weeping child, Before you are aware of it you are weav- ing a story round him. He 1s obviously a wobed son; but it is possible that until he bas learned to understand his wife or, rather, she haa learned te understand him, he would make an overbearing hus- band, Consider the beetling brows, But there isa pathetic wistfulness wbowt the strong silent man. He will marry late and, until then, lead a lonely life, in spite of his many friends. His greatest wish is to spend the winter evenings sitting by the nothracite stave, wabching his wile darn his socks. He enormous holes in them. But it is sone time before he finds a fitting partner, and so this wish is destined » remain unfulfilled until he is a Broactis ig middle & And if be alate elo militaloe and tind himself darning her etaek- ings instead—that is to say, if he should muy @ alronger of more tallative ween But, of course, be never makes intaloes, That ia the story you will weave round. the strong silent man, Bhat you will dis- eaver if you get to know him better that things are not wholly what they seem. The silence that has so intrigued your imagina- tion is only one of his many moods, At imes he unbends, When that happens he not only talka but jubbers. You immediately loae the Ulusian of his rental strength, and though he appears oa dongs Compa e newer takes any ex- ercaa nes that illusion, you Te adjust your ideas, and begin te find that he ia both clumay and stupid. You had endowed him with qualitees he doesn't irls that distort | posses. He io neither strong nor silent, He is w big stilt! Firhing a la Grand! Caron T THE Grand Cafon in Arizona it ever been the custorm of the: fF Harvey Company toemploy am officini preiemiaaes Tomancer whoae duty it j ang about and stuff the visiting Eas tourist with weird wild yarns te match weird wild surroundings, For years ptinelpal entertainer was am ancient tleman with long white whiskera wi fictions were almost as minjeatic awe-inspiring ns the cafion itself, La another aspirant haa tuned up im the son of a venerable retired prospector, he ia giving the incumbent 2 close race first honors. The newcomer has n natural sense drama. He knows how to inwsest his tlona with effective byplay ame bite of Ic color. Firat he murmurs, “ Excuse, pleas then he squirts a stream of tabaceo | re] inte space, rueniy his apology, tugs ati ends of his | drooping mustache, gi the cowboy hite helt and ie peaalr unfold a dream tale. Here is a qanint bit of folklore which unloaded the other day upon a guiled group af visitors from the Atlantic Ss board. One of the party asked him whet there was any agains, Gath ith vias turbid, yelh Colorado River, w could 5 foaming over its rapida a ee mule bel: them at the bottom of the cafion. "Oh, yee," he said. “But I "low I about the only man in Arizony who kee how to ketch them fish, Them fish is p tullar, samme aa everything lee ba thie pa ao oArizony. One curious thing abv them. fish is that they always swim bac Waris, “Why de they do that?” inquired one: the audience, “To keep the mud from gittin’ in the eyes. Blut it's easy enough to ketch ‘en you kena how, Them tish is all plum crazy aver eatin’ tobacco; ao whee | ab to go flehin' I take a club and a ten-ce ping af eatin’ tobacco and I go down toitt ottom of the eafion and I pick me out nice sho] place where [ can soe the fbi they eame awinumio” upetream tall firt then T take my pocket knife and I cut th Plug up inte litthe pieces, and [ wade oo aways And spreml the bait on the wale ‘The fishes grub it and go dawn to the bo tam and start chewin', Purty soon the get to hankerin” to apit. Not even a can spit under water, ao when they con ta the tr ap te apit Eo haul off with oy club anal hit | em over the heads." WIMMIN IS WIMMIN (Continued from Page 32) woman gaing I amie po Wong, und he endldin't aay @ word ied th hike I waa looked after." “Um Serve him right. Hoston, eb? ain't never been to Boeton., Dunno Long ways off. Some woman, nh? These hush ais hell on boseln” their wives. Like to give one of ‘eam his soMme-upparice,”” “You—you don't mean you'll go to Boston with met™ “What's that’ Whut's thuit? Wha t in tunket said anythin’ about me goin’ to Boston, et’ "Fut ae I ae ht that was what you meant. And didn't, und I'm diss apyadinted." 1 said Misa Stiller harshly, "I'll smack ye! Sure's Woe gaks- Pil up and smack ye good! And why shouldn't T go ta Bogten af T want to? Tell me that! Gata right in Boeton, [ eale'late. No reason in the world for gain’, envin’ and exeeptin’ Leachin' your hushand o beeen, belle," ) When‘ ll we go?" "To-morrow," said Veronten promptly. [tl pay all YOULL BX Pelnaed. “Like the mischief you will] Now I've dug inte that burial fund, [ might’s well git Mata the. ‘bottom of it. Yau eome inte the DAL Ini ‘the little parlor Veronica saw the cheval glass draped in old newspapers, Chuite evidently it had worried Aiss Stiffler, and she had wboted the menoce of ) it. The glase was completely hidden. ) 3 en Jeune Tl have to wear that dog-gone | dria." she said, “Hate tel Wear and teat! To git tempted inte sich foolishness jest byspite! Couldn't afford sich clothes mene'n a Fabbit kin wford a monkey's tail.” “But you're rich," said Veronica. “1 ean afford anything you want.” "Whol Mo? Rich, mothin'! Keeps me or payin” taxes, get five hunderd ollars a year, free and clear, [I'm dec mighty well.” next evening at sever o'clock Vers ica and the revised and expurgated Mis Stiffler took the sleeper ta Boston, Whe they arrived Veronica took her compaction in a taxi to the meet ornate and expessie hotel the city. afforded and peewred adjoir ing rooms which blared with luwury. Mea Siuller was aMnewhat oppressed and elect. “If you want anything," Veronica aie. “just ring that bell, They'll bring re anything in the world you mek for." ‘Honest? And thes hot water realy to run all the time. And them men 92! fetch my meals up and feed "em to me if wink ‘emt Oh, my gosh! Euin't it silly! Me bein’ waited an dhwet hadn't eever hide hand Lifted fer mein my lifel Reed's. IT call itt" Veronica wanted Miss Stiffier to sally forth with her to see the sights, but Mis ter hol other views “T'm payin’ seven dallara a day fer OF here root, and, b'jimg, I cale‘late toe my money's wath! Mebby this ultersice Tl go owe anal jum prac, but this ears T hain’t gain’ to etl, I'm a-goie t waited ari. She was as good as her worl. Whet Veronica returned at twalve ockek =e discovered from a grinning tll be = (Continued on Page o7

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST PAIGE THE MOST ‘BEAUTIFUL CAR IN AMWERICA 7. - Why You Can Buy a Paige for ‘1465 Since the introduction of the New Series 6-44 Touring Car at the reduced price of $1465 we have been frequently asked: “How is it possible to manufacture a five-passenger six cylinder car of such superb quality at such a low figure?’ There is but one answer: Automotive experience and manufacturing and financial resources. The New Series model represents the accumulated ex- perience of Paige engineers to date. It is their last word in terms of modern designing and economical production. Consequently this car, with its 50-horse- power engine and its 119-inch wheel- base, is a highly refined and perfected product from the workshop of men who have spent years in the development of high grade six cylinder cars at the low- est possible price. The same reason—experience combined with resources—makes the 6-44 of today at $1465 a vastly better car than the 6-44 at its original price of $1965. It is logically the popular favorite because never before has it been possible to buy so much luxurious and economical mo- toring for so little money. New 6-44 owners throughout the country are proving these statements to their own satisfaction in daily service. In the hands of these owners the car is ¢iv- ing practical demonstrations of its rare performing abilities and sound, sturdy constitution. When speed and power are demanded they have them at instant command, while acceleration from 5 to 25 miles an hour in 9 seconds flat gives them the mastery of every traffic complication. Is it to be wondered, therefore, that the 6-44 at $1465 is one of the fastest selling light sixes on the market today? The New 6-44 Prices 6-44 Touring, 5-Passenger - - - §1465 6-44 Sport Type, 4-Passenger - - 1595 6-44 Roadster, 3-Passenger- - - 1465 6-44 Sedan, 5-Passenmper - - - §2245 6-44 Coupé, 4-Passemper - - - 1995 AW Prices F. 0. 8. Factory, Tax Exiro Gord tires standard equipm@enr on dl iodely ~~ ~~ = eee ee

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ithe Mises ZA TER LA T oe E K ALMOND BAR Crisp, Meaty Almonds and the Zay-Tek Blend of Chocolate The same luscious chocolate you get in the big red tubes of Zay-Tek Eatmors is used in zay-Tek Almond Bars. It's the chocolate blended to suit the American taste. Zay-Tek Almond Bars are smooth as velvet and full of crisp, meaty almonds, selected for their rich flavor. Days of mixing the blended chocolate give it that delicious, creamy quality that dis- tinguishes all Zay-Tek Chocolate Products. You have to taste a Zay-Tek Almond Bar to realize how good this combination of blended chocolate and fine almonds really is. Try one today. Ask for a Zay-Tek Almond Bar at the nearest candy counter. Its appetizing goodness will delight you. PENNSYLVANIA CHOCOLATE COMPANY Pittsburgh, Fenna., U. 5. A. y fe any 7 _ ALMOND BAR | SWEET i! eo | _e ee MIL K CHOCOLATE SATURDAY EVENING POST f (Cantinued fram Page #4! was just leaving the roam that Misa Stiffler’s bell had Taian constanthy tiviey all the morning. She had been availing her- self of service, A. procession of boys hal heen ascending to lewrn that she wanted Lee water and pots of tea and a clay i fam a bag of gunedrope and a paper, and items af warying character and difficulty. Hor imagination was nenr the point of exhats= tian, She was dispatching the current bell boy for a box of twelve-gauge shotgun Shella. When these came her orgy of service would be at an end for utter inability to think of anything else te send for, “T sort of like it." she aaid. “Dune but what Livin’ like this part of the time would be kind of distractin’.” “Why not do it?” said Veronica. And | then quickly, “We ane going to a matinds this afternoon and to the theater to-night.” “There hain't nothin’ I won't give one wuirl to," said Miss Stier. For the first time Miss Stiffler saw the inside of a playhouse, nor was she in | beast shocked iy the costumes of the show gire, She was hugely amused, and enber- | tained quite two rows of the audience by her audible beriorks and hearty laughter, Next morning Veronica took her shop- ping. | s hak i to buy a few little things,” she anid, : went for them to the most ex- elusive and expensive store in the city. “You tilght aa well amuse yourself look- ing at some dresses while I pick out what I want," she said: and before Miss Stiller knew whut was happening she woe in the hands af two expert paychologista, hired at reasonable salaries to emerciae “leur mes- meric powers upon the women of the vicinage. A worn in sich a» department is 28 helpless as a rabbit in a conetrletor's cure. Mise Stiffler was to discover she belonged to the sisterhood. ; “T don’t want to boy a dum thing,” she said, “T'nt jest anuwsin’ mamelf,"* " Certainly, certainly,” gaid the blond hypnotist; “and now suppose you slip this on and ser how it fowks," “Vou're wuastin’ time," said Miss Seigler: but the haprogks waa at work, and she allowed hersell to be hooked into the gown. Afterward she allowed herself to ep ineased in a sult, and other gowns und suits until she waa quite bewildered and altagether under the power of the hypnotista. Veron- ica Temained aheent, “This suit," explained the lady par thologist, “la of course imported. There is not another in America.’ “You menm ib wouldn't be possible for one of the Ladies” Aid to mateh jet “Utterly Impossible, In this suit you can be confident of being the boat dressed woman in your town” --and so on and =o forth und in addition. “T'd kind of like to show them eotsa a thing or two,” Misa Stiller kept repeating to herself, And then Veronica appeared, “Wink? Sebected nothing yett Here, Jeb me help Blok This HUGE, nave —il's wonderful, Yea, you'd better take that.” “How tauch?" cemanded Misa Stiffler, but her question was promptly submerged and drowned. “Ard this afternoon dress. You simply can't get along without that,” Miss £tifler sut ti inp under the hypnotic eyes. She felt the impending culamity, birt wud Powerless bo avert it, Whithr was she drifting? And how much was the drift going to cost? And how ever would she play or it? She wae adroithy waltel to the Lingerie department and te the millinery depurt- mento to the hosiery depuarbrient und be the shoe department. “But I got a pair of aioe," she pro Leste, “TP you're going to show the Ladies’ Aid you'll need ut least half a degen pura.” a it Gawd!" gaid Misa Stier breatl- ya It was dusk when they eme fram the | wtore, Alias Stiffer had no iden whol ashe had purchased, or for how muck she was liable in dollare and centea. Om the con- | trary! She was dazed and dazzled, Sonve- thing had aenakened in her. What was this thing that orase inside und demanded and urged her on te auch idiocy? She did not know, but she knew ahe could not escape She rather fancied she was going | from i, CULEY. The next day or so never did return te her diatinetly. Veronica adroltly shawed | her the kingdomea of the earth and the | comforts and pleasures to be obtained | therein; and with the skill of a master she April 6,7, pointed CUE constantly; how they 1 obtainal’s by Miss Stitler. : Sic He ¥, She said, “with an ineoma! nay, ten thousand a year, a Bie aon like sroureelt can live like a queen in a fh at “Ten thousand what a yearl Toots “You could havea room in an apartm, hotel and all the series wou want | stay a4 long as you liked, “Phink how t d sound to the Ladies" Aid when 1 cont home! “Bede Stier lives in one thease hotela in Eoeton, am never has lift her hand.” That's what they'd = And they'd aay, "Look at her clothes a everything] And she owns her own au eyed ay they'd go crasy w ia Hu i “But the beat of it would be the pm ae and comfort vou would get out ife, You're entitled to be happy and ta waited on, and not to have to chop ye own food and ——" “Would I have to smoke cigarettes?" “OM course mot!" Miss Stier sighed. “Newer could fet myself ta de it." she said, Then her purchases arrived with t hills attached, and she knew an hour nic. They come to a total that bow eraver, [t waa mare money than handled in a year. oe 7 Ne pee andl ri it!" she ax: >. come|es of gettin" into ONL hy. She Veronica coldly. “This here ourdoin’s. Not but what I dene my par was darn fon enough ta be bambouze into ik, Huh! Ten thousand a yey iris pI She went into her room and slammed eh door, Veronica zat dawn on the bed, pali tires, purering with anwety, for she koe well the crucial moment had arrived, A hour pasasl—two hours, Then Misa Sul fler burst open the door and stamped ta point just before Veronica. “Blume you," she said, “wou got m inte this here mast, and you got to git m out! You got me all het up to buy the dum fool riggin’s and to git mysell wale on, and het baths and silk shimmics om sich. Now what ye goin’ bo do about Ib T agree with ye, T'on entitled to as good the neat, and I've worked my share, am I'm entitled to be worked fer, But bowl . Wh, mal begun id paused ie )——" Veronica n, an : meee makes are move. “TH tell ye low I'm a-poin” to git if. saicl Miss Stiffer., ‘I'm goin" to sell thal dratted timber of mine and be fick. Br gosh, Tm a-goln' to have as pood's they pa the rest of my life! And you got to help me oul, You got to find somebady to bay it off of me." “T—T'll try,” said Veronica, “TT wir my hushand right away. He'll Know sorte way ta cl it. What ia it—whal & & worth?" “Aly father puid eighty-six centa an sect for it, and he said that was a dar pool price them days, I hain’ mo idew what itll fetch now. ved ied cut, ond if pn Hl peat G right 10 sell. Alton offe me filteen dollara an acre." “Its worth more than that," sud 4) eranien, : “You bet your batter dollar it is? [t's virgin. Tell ye what! A thousand dollars a month ‘wd ber alent right—waoulin'l it! —to live on - “Phut"'s & per cent of two hunderd thousand dallara. Gil me that and 1‘ sell." “TL wire,” said Veronica, - wiht was unawered, nil whe shim the yellow slip to Miss Stifter: Officer accepted, Allow Mila Sthifler to dr whatever ahr needs to bind the bargain. Bede Stifler regarded the tel with eyes which had grown shrewd. She turned from it ta Veronica and peered at ber. “Lim Young worn, you dose cal dap You come itaver me, Seen fe eauld t from. the start.” tf “T did want the timber awfully badly, said Veronica; “but, honestly, | want you to get something owt of life wo. | did! 1 couldn't bear to see you living thet way when you could just as well——_ | “____ live like a stuffed peacock, Unt Where you was wiser'n moat, my dear, 92 in wearin’ them litthe knee pants of your It give you understandin'. You knowed al the thive that it didn't matter a darn wal she had on, but that a woman was alee a woman. Wimmin is wimmin, (0, gosh, but hain"t wimmin wimemin!"

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Sl W hy Ford Owners Should UseThis Special Spark Plug The Standard Spark ‘Plug af the Morid Spring terminal clip permits wire fo be instantly de- foched and re-connected while mofor is running. Fa- ciiifates festing spark plug and coi/l, No nut to be un- Screwed ar lost " Most engine trouble comes from worn-out or incorrectly designed spark plugs. If your car starts hard, don't run the éattery ? ry a 7 3 dow, fit misses and splutters, don's d/ame aif the trouble on the carburetor and piston rings. Probably all you need is a set of the new special AC 1075 Spark Plugs for Fords. Every Ford owner knows the faults of ordi- nary spark plugs, and AC 1075 is spe- cially designed to put an end to all the old = / \ annoyances. f I | ACG 1075 for Fords was designed by the same experts who have designed and made for \ years the AC Plugs used by most builders of | costly cars. \ ——— a Put a complete set of these plugs in your Ford engine and see how much the per- formance will be improved. lf your Ford dealer will not supply you, you can obtain these plugs from any other good dealer, No matter what car you drive, your engine 1s handicapped by old, worn-out or incor- rectly designed plugs. There is an AC Spark Plug specially desioned for your car. Bu New electrode design & Spee 7 eee ed ¥ # y forms a natural drain spark plugs by name. Ask for and be sure 80 that no oi! can lodge ; A ae. in shark gap you get AC's, AC Spark Plag Company, FLINT, Aticérgan se | ' Pal Me Unk, Fab PA DEE, Chie Ptenie Proton Patented CARBON PROOF porcelain. Saw tooth edges attain Fo. pi sen eat to burn oil deposits thus affer- ing effective resistance fo carbon Unacrew this bushing : and Mug comes apart. | Only one gasket need, Notice compact porce- fom fo withstand hard lrrice

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52 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April #, 1 CANADIAN PACIFIC ‘Empress’ Express Route to Europe _— ‘| « ~ Empress cif Srapleantl' : t a Vin Quebec and the St. Lawrence Only Four Days on Atlantic to CHERBOURG—SOUTHAMPTON—HAMBURG Montreal, the largest inland port in the Id French ate P 0 me wotld, with its historic Chateau Ramezay and alluring side trips, webec, the “Gibraltar of America, with it Citadel, ins Plaine af Abraham and memories of Wolfe and Monccalm, with irs old- werd French quaintneas ond charm, and palatial Chateau Frontenac. The voyage down the river —the broad highway craveled by La Salle, Cartier anc Champlain, pioneering adventurers fron the old world==with the beauties of primeval fore and rocky cliffs on cither hand, che shores dowred with cheiving hamlets amd bey CoA, The th the broad cepaher of the (aulf af St. Lawrence, past Ariel: costl, the Magdalens, (ape Brecon bland and Newtoundland oa the open sea, A Fresh-Water An “ioland voyage" followed by four - ; glorious days om the Aclantic, A freah- Salt-Water Journey water, salt-water journey on board one of the large finely appointed “Empress” liners from Quebe bo (Cherbourg, Sourhampron and Hamburg. ae a of The “Empress of Prone” will be joined this it Spring by che Pu ie “Enapenesa of Sana ltricl .** phe largest liner on rhe St. Lawrence roure, Th new queen Of the Canadian service is a magnificent vil- beurrnling wessel of 25,037 gross tons with every appoinement for che comfort of the traveler, Twelve public rooms, imcloding regally decorated ballroom, musi¢-room, snoking-rooms, and palm garden All the “Empress” ttand-Achintié linets have large well-ventilated sTaReETOOHTS, anal service Aral cutiaine do aatiedy the meet oxpecricndecd travelers. Everything (Canadian Pacitic standard— none becrer, One-Class The Canadian Pacihe alee offers a splendid one- class service berween Mloneresl and Queber ore Liverpool, Glasgow, Southampton and Anewerp. Bridging Two Oceans— ree Canadian Pacific ta the = 3 world's jrentesr transportation Linking Four Continents system. With 19,500 miles of rail- way it teaches practically every part of Canada and many parts of the United Starea, dns crans-Aclancle and teana-Pacilic epearnghip setvices link America with Europe, Asia, the Orient and Auspralia For rates and fill information about your ocean and rail trips, Ask the CANADIAN PACIFIC Apply mo Genenal Agents ar Mutlarims Obs ce ee ee = fo, rofavity Se. Derroit, Mich. . Pambon, Wiggs, 2. 2. 4. 44 Beyletren Se. Las Angeles, Cal Tawala, WY). es - » + 160 Pearl Ss. Minneapolis, bier. (Kicage, Ll. ; seis sce 4) os “Dis artborm Se, Moncreal, Gun... (oieec banal, 400 Walnue Se. New Yoouk, ROY. . Cleveland, @, ... . - » Dd Peeapect Ave, 12 Greewold Sr Pacekes Fils dee ae etae oa Se a: gt oh vn 5 “as Bo, Spring =. Portland, Gee. aa pace we ; Wi Second Ave, 50. San Framclaro, (Cal, . -0. - oe ee ris Mare ce ~ +» 140 Se, Jere Sr, Seattle, Wah, 2 a Sec Ae. ‘Madues Awe. ad deh St. Sa. Lewalt, Ma. ee ee ta oO Leeeee Canadian Pacific Offices AM Over the World

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THE SATURDAY KEEP TO THE RIGHT—DON’T SHOVE! (Continued from Poge 37} SCTIOnS, transport it to the island by wamboat, rebuild it and repaint it. But =a an imposing-looking attractian. AS an unusual sop to the pleasure seekers Then Wa gheclutely free. ‘Ta the aa mahment of the owners the battleship Sa complete flivwer. Nobody would Fe it. Finally it occurred to one of the aoagers that the fault was in the free brn iseior. This proved to be correct. He put ina fewstuffedanimals,some naval MVERTS. 4 couple of automatic pianos and ro ¥ lecturers. The admission fee was ced at eleven cents, incliding war tax, and wy packed the ship. They ane packing it wry day now, The attractions that I have classifed are eK engaged by the season at a fixed sum. ach show ia an individual unit, usually etking with others to make op a group. hese groupe or ayndicates have become eeeary, due to the inability of a single Erection to find a loration all its own, A wo 8th what he thinks a good attraction peies to a park of established reputation fspace, He either pays a lump eum for mital or works on percentage. The man ihe Tums his attraction on a percentage ae is called a concessionaire, The man me Pays a fined amount and gets all that rean make is a privilegee. It i pretty werd to get a concession unless you have a bow known to be sure-fire, The chance- eae are provilegees. : 5 Beet privilegees sometimes cleon up, ery much to the diseomfiture af the gudicate-park manager. It is very hard for b= faod what will not. Heis very eagy obout king chanees. It is a thing nobody can igpure out. 4 young fellow came to our office one tay with what he climed wes a sure “an tp “It's a pane of blowing up balloons,” he sid. at which the manager gave me a look ait o@f the comer of he eve. We both hough? him another nut, “Tes gunme fire.” he imeisted, “ Didn't you ver eee the excitement and suspense in a tes face when he ia blowing up a te balloon, the thrill he gets for fear it will iaret?™ “I'm afraid there's nothing ——" “Ob, don"t say that!" insisted the young man. “It's a winner. I've pot a wireless ipparitus that apite and aputtera for the hallivhes, Then I have a fat scene like wn aviation fad. (mn this [ have a dozen or more toy balloons deflated and lying on “he miniature feld."" “Say, oy ov. ['maatul busy, Now" “So, wait! In front where the spectator tons | hove twelve small wheels like steering wheels—one for each balloon. By turning these wheels air ia pumped inte the falloens and they gradually inflate. Eut if you turn the wheel too fast the pump sont work, Df it is turned too slow you des't get the air in fast enough." Fun With the Pig Slide “Well, what's the answer?” the mano- get impatiently demanded. “Why, a counte of trends pay ten cents ‘ack for a wheel They atart pumping up the balloons. The one that bursts his bal- con fret wins. To a triph: winner we give Pres, The fellow wos almost chased out of the office, The next woring he was back again with hls pet idea. # manager ‘finally agreed to give him a location for the season lor twenty-five hundred dollars cash. He flanked i right dewn, It turned out to be one ol the best-paying games in the park, | bave seen men and women stand there end spend as much as five dollars just for the thrill of bursting the little balloon, Tote ft always a nervous scream of ex- ctement from the girla ae it pope. The first day this young man took in ome fended and ninety dollars, = This year he will be a concemionaire—if be ante to be, Asother fellow came along one with what be ep peeps ae in realaway deeappeinted. Tut be wouldn't frees. He is now making good money. Tor pig stide is @ ball-throwing game. lite, a thrower hite the bullseye in a certain a little pig ia relensed from a cage enced showman to tell what will above, and with feet spread out, jumps on a wide just like those you have for the thildren, At the end of the slide the little eiquealer iti in the nir and lights on a mattress. He then runs like the dickens to get back under the curtain. Wo didn’t believe this at first. But we were quickly convinced, That man is a pig trainer by trade. He knows the way a pig thinks and he says a pig never loees o notion once he peta it. The funny thing about this game is that the litle piga love to take the slide, It ia the cute way they do it that delights chiltiren and old folke alike, There are twelve pigs in a row of small eagea on @ platlorm above the curs tain. They squeal for the chance wi sliding. The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals thought this was = violation and | called at the pig elide one morning, They | got there during reheareal. The man was training new pigs. Dy a funny kink in a pis’s bruin he just naturally has to have la alide, Dori the off hours they were slid. voluntarily. The inventor of the iden showed the committe: how he trained them, As the pigs run back under the eurtain they are allowed a pull at the nip- ple of a nursing bottle, T soon know that to get milk they must take o slide. Cnee they have been trained—it takes pop aloes days—the nursing battle is dis- The committee not. only approved ther game but atayed there for an bour to watch the littl: porkers" acta’ like amall boys. It ly is inacinating. — ' The man invented this combination ani- mal set and ball-throwing game at Venice, California. He tellg me he trails as muni aso thosand pigs @ season. Popular Stand «bys | You never can tell who ia a nut and who isn't. suppose at first they thought the | man who invented the sconic railway crazy. I know we thought the inventor of the Ferrls wheel a bug, Those thi are mo longer novel. They are ataple. “In fact all riding ed are good, sound stuff. Some times they get too dangerous and have to | be closed for fear of damage suits. Tho pune will always take a ce. Lt hos een nepesary for some companies to take | out liability insurance on these thrilling rides to keep fram going breke. The rate is very high. My scenic-roilway neighbor pa eighty centa on the hundred dollars t year for protection against damage suits. <A few years ago Oe GOLCerH AT Coney had to face one hundred and forty- eight damage suits as a result of accidents— had te go out of busines, But the game: are pete sale now. | The patronage at the riding games in- creases every year, An old scenic railway thet bes been running twelve Years pad a bigger profit last season than it did at the beginning. The trick in making money at the rough games sch as the human rou- lette wheel, the slide, witching waves, cave of the winds, and so on, is to mike part of the spectators entertain the others. Many baits Siete in to watch the customers more than the Coa ; One fellow thought up the brilliant iden of giving each girl a demine clown suit to keep from ruining her clothes on the more daring devices for fun. They could these on right over their dresses and then take all the rough chances they wished, It woe a popular move, The place was | crowiled ta see the show. I've seen girle | there from all walks of life, Members of New York's smart set are not at all un- usual, acting os clowns. This idea, in addition ta working as a drawing card, developed an unexpected source of profit. A deposit of fifty conte was required for the clown dresses, though no charge was made for their use. Eighty per cent of the revelera drop their deen inom right where they take them of and won't bother about going back for the fifty-cent posit, Now that's what I call pretty good chow | hussines, he customers pay for ailmnis- sion foreach individual game and then pay | an additional fifty cents for the privilege af acting as entertainers for the rest af the Bpectators. EVENING

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54 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 4, h there is really little that is new These halls sre toodark and gloomy ‘ia in principle, 7a ee: many many novel improve: number af people to sit There and ¢ | metits on old For instance, th aeda pop. They had rather be outsidsy have recently revived interest ln the Though T am only sewenty-five, 1’ wheel by a new trick. They have just siseiewt ft Inte that the ner show erected one in Coney Island that not only don't look open mens if To was one of t} | gots round but takes dips, That came They are beginning to regard te as a about in a funny way. Asmall delicatessen of patriarch, and I can feel it—keenly dealer in New Vork ork had been working for Theae newly hatched promoters call years on the old perpetual-motion gag. He hard-boiled, becouse they aay I am als thous ht he had van it it in a ied eda aoiffing ab their crentive ideas. Believe | medal. He showed it te a that he sid ot gpd a Hight to aniff. tht man got so interesbed that he seld out do you think of a ayndicate } bis stare to go inte ths en terpriee Allthe telling me the other night how he money waa sunk of course . signee - atti by conceiving the The inventor had an idea that | using ao that a | an eccentric axle, wm sort of com t, he ot fours "te goes Bick from one withowt sya could cause a sharp dip when the wheel ing money at the other, ewen though he | reached the apex of ite revolutlon. This paid a general sdmission for all T | dip, he believed, would give the big wheel “We pulled the trick," he seid prow fresh impetus and cause it to keep going “by putting in reserved seq iy wrod. attractions that t were SUP posed to "That's nav Perpe ual motion,” aselen- free. They could sew ‘em all right, bo tist told him. t that dip is quite a was o tough job, They fell for the ey trick if helped slong with engine power. It dime everj crack." aught to give a thrill," Now that was certainly grood for a an inventor was distournaged at first, tuk It is i the idea on whieh Aer the groceryman saw a fighting chance toget made his old place a puccess in the “7 hia rioney back. He made a canvass of all I worked forhim thease clown. He hb the storekeepors that he knew, His appeal ome, he said, because my comedy wee ci was so strong that little investors kicked in aad I didn't fing in so mang saloon ¢ from five hundred to a thousand dollara vertisements. apiece until a company had been formed with In the old days, you know, clowns us a capital of one hundred thousand doltars. od cor on ng. “i've just come in Societal i the corner, where [ got t Fixing the Damage beat drink of whisky that ever man down: % é . let. When | see whisky like that 1 wi After two years of dickering and dis- eo a giraffe. It would taste good far Faeeeeeisalle it got c location cet arctet half hour,” or something likse that, P. ; I nH thel wheal tas passed hy the board a didn't like that Kind of stuff. napection, You should have been there to loating see the first test! The little stockholders as cules went crazy with delight when they sow the Barnum had decided to put in a ca ewikhe dip down abd up again abd then thiwows show, aa he called it. Om the revolye evenly when the big wheel reached floor wasa freale outtit. The crowd, ina a certain point in ita revolution. The paid general admission for ‘everythi ae Se iw tite LEGG 7 ih = : 5 G wrecked a Jap's ball-ralling outfit—you instal lead the first cal im the work! know, the kind where wooden balls are The idea of the calllope canon fromm poh ) . 4 §)| | eccentric axle had done the trick, _ twenty-five centi—would be herded tet eee a ae, ' as 2 | 2 Be ellcaesnen tony sill tet we ona aires on the next floor dawn, They ene . : | history as discoverer of ual metion; see it through a crack and they could ab | buat he has he belo the little gro- see plenty of reserved seats for anoth d ] ] | cies suid ciel = catesern dealers ate are going to Lape At sy shankar. below et by \ CU] ij |) get their money buck— sume thing, and so on, ‘ore gelling oy le new ar ove y d re There is not the slightest danger i in that they had been niched for a two-dollar not H d : A| | here and young peo rng eet ek ee I waz entitled to | In fact I have never known of a sniff at this bright young man? ostess es len | wheel peeident. Then they came to me ones in a whl | pam a saab muny Bow Hos and owls ae mee abu re enter : a oe going broke. I may have not my that has and attemp N EW ae hie ement in silver design awn shout the principle of prohibition as to fe entonisk mc geo E “sted they will tne is the exquisite Wallace “Hostess.” a huw, but id ot to admit that it isthe a chance ons a hig money, Tt make Bo So distinetive, so graceful, so irreproach- biggest thing that hat happened for the me laugh. men are pliers ir ably correct is this pattern hati it promises show business since I joined that medicine this day and ime ae a a Ee oe th mee S aktcns hie seroin show out in Missouri. If was the drinking In 1859 and 1560, a5 a sma PCO TNE TCH e te ‘]| | aod carousing that made Coney Island a worked foro gigantic fonting eeu is ad the year, | | tough place. We are free from that now, Missleaippl Hiver, What co you koe : me ws : j | i | The crowds have incressed noticeably and about that? A company was a ad Because this design is the embodiment of much easier to handle, The better class Pails an enormous barge with a regulit gracious beauty and refinement, because . of people cont out bow without, the old a, reserved seats, gallery and evtry- gai Petia A cag ek ae ENE | running into rowdviem. Accidents thing, It had peeating ie s-tales al theve aE PE ee a 8 re " | | Hap eo rare that we don't even ‘fc on thousand. It was called the Floating Palex tality into silverplate, it is called the : “At! | bar in a oe show ; i miion dollats. an taper chore * Hostess.” it 1s 80 We ade by i | nm Beeon my age TI am fre pale million ars, ak was some money i ana And a : ; si ‘igs made by | called in ta settle some dispute betwee thoae days the boya would think! ano: siiver craftsmen chat it 1s guar- in alowman and a patron, In the old drinking it Sint tose anteed without time limit, : dn Larbitrated many funny squabbles, that circus Airing we manufactured out! "ll never forget a drunk who practically for lighting pope We asa WW hue =n the ‘a allooe Cam apPay Peace ntly fond 1c at gible to reliece ita prices, ahi heaut nig or i a and Alamo pat: og _ | | ralled into ae holes that are numbered, a few flourishes on the steamboat whisile, teluded in the revision, The drflowin a > i| | the ge ing upon the largest which always notified poople that the ar re fiw in elton gi 1 7 number olnta, firmly believe my cus boat was com Ciasinenas kinetics SEs aslar ass im je) | presence piesa that Jap from commit- We had eur ooh aa ailvance ‘ee ad- Dessert Spoons ASS ae ‘| | ting murder, His place, as usual, was vertising the nircun just ha th do to-day. sasrtt Een f 2K ge i decornted with an expensive array of hang- We made regular stops at the landings am! te “4 F q ing thing plates, tea seb, idols, chandeliers, ave in old-fashioned two-ring show wiLi isa t | | | amd ao on. : all the trimmings. To show you that ¥ 17 f j fy The drunk had just come in from a whirl knew something im those days, we bad « , ot | Bi) | at tha African dodger, where baseballs are clown who zat in a big tub and floated n ; os) i ‘I | thrown ata darky's head sticking through around in the water drawn by eight ele "cranes, in Borh Harware and beiLhiws : f Th) | a hole. He bought a dozen balls from the in ribbon harness. From this tub the chest re, ao thar complete dinner and tea services may 7a te | Jap. ‘Phinking it the same kind of game, he would give the ballyhoo to draw the crosd ee cletained.: Tt offers intumeralile sigeestiets lear x ae a]! | began throwing the wooden balls at the down to the water's edge and we well = painted plates, teapots, dolls or Gt bao herd them on bourel, kell is aldeactine ret ‘ee t that wits suspended over the rolling That show wae a tremendous sores Kiar: alsul Host pas By i You can imagine how pear that Jap come and, I believe, would pay today 7 ee ul ye bat i to having apoplexy and how far the disas- body had nerve enough to tackle it, Hare 105 BO WALLACE i) ter had gone before the drunk could get the ey “n idea inte kis head that he was mot havin @ floating cireua was jut out ofl brszi- Bas se re arg = Fine at ate ate aman he — hy fe vil ee We bes landed = 3 ta Po ey Ae BEEN oh arbitrator i- ew Orleans, our last atop, whea var ac as a ps: “Fe | age at three hundred dollars, the drank declared. The authorities immediael) agrecing to pay hulf cosh, He gave a note seized our boat and ordered us ell mt a for the hakanes: the countey. The cirews boat wo Wee The people whe have eulfered asa result aceroas the river and turned ee of prohibition are the motion-plcture halla None of your smart young fellows hu where pdimission was free but patrona sat game enough to revive it. at litth: tables eating sandwic or hot Now if you think me an old hard-boe dogs and drinking beer while the picture with nothing to back wp my sedis jut pel Tan. The profit of course was in the gales, that in your pipe and smoke it.

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58 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April #1 ay f ti i r RATS cel | - i My H ai ibe a) Wit a ears Y Pips a i thing of beauty’ . . + most modern range” That a range may be “‘a thing af beauty’ as wellas of utility is demon- strated by this modern achievement in ranere de sin, ltssmoat hsurface of porcelain 1s casily kept immaculate. Compact and well propor- tioned, it occupies small space. And the grace and beauty of its appear- ance are reflected in its exceptional efliciency in cooking and baking. ftoas “The Range of Simplicity and Thrift,” 9 The equipment includes Baking and Roasting Gven, famous for its Simplicity, Economy, Beauty and Pastry Oven, Broiler, Warming Closet, Self- Starter {. OM Pactness. See insert number two—a mere for ‘Cras, (ras Kindler for Coal, PWISE of the Wirt changes complete Is fram (oa cor : ; P Wood to Gas. No parts to take gut: me dampers 5 Keeps kitchen cool in summer, warm In winter ro operate, Automaric. Unsere qumber one shows Economical, WaLStes Ma Tue = Das worry about Cras Washable, Sanicary, Univie Porcelain finish, made Shortage. Ac all good dealers in plain, mickel or in: Paacocls Ble or Peat! Grey; durable, unbreak: able, Insert number three shows Pastry Oven, NEW VORE PITTS BURG Suna Natural Pork Ti, Made in Canada under the nme “ aeTM Pe EX be SbCl s—lLondon porcelain finish—cash or terms. Dealer's name and illustrated booklet on request. CRIBBEN & SEXTON COMPANY, 600-800 N. Sacramento Blvd., Chicago, III. ee af Cl eipial Siew. Renprrand Furnaces ND SAN FRANCO TESVER Pasenned is Unies! Staves ond Canada COMBINATION RAN G E Gas and Coal or Wood

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE GULF IMPOSSIBLE 57 _ (Continued from Page 17) animals of the farm, with no he wander the city thought that all the for the teams, When this iz the world had gone on etrike when the farmers és om the average farm, with nothing shook their heads and stayed at home. 5 haar by Lpkeep, taxes and interest The little towne met it directly ancl ynder- va ment, it is high time for every= ftom it, but the at cities a thowanel the Teac to gal what la really ineant miles away have hard y ym berun to com- leaders of organized labor boast they will surrender none of the ad wptages that were gained during the time when the raat tel was in distress of war t and aes crow o the wall for ita very rehenc that @ sizable comer stone has ten pulled out of the wery foundation of thelr business, for the effect in spreading to enterprise of every kind, even to that fartheat remote from actual farmin nder ‘these conditions a mechanic with invested! pnd no risk can lie still pall the time and make the tull gros in- pe of i average farmer operating a tit-man farm, not to mention the vost mms thet lie below the average and that Pac 14 a make a living for themselves and ‘families if balf our land is not to be de A miners” strike is threatened now be= Se, gBeoordin to the be nt Mus “average miner geta “only $7 a day for a hundred and eighty-two days in the peer.” Yet this is $165 more than the venter’s half af the average farm of a hun- amd sixty acres, even if every acre Tere in wheat or corn, Which ia impossible: ml the renter must provide teams and and extra labor, for a bonded and — ia more than a oneman farnn. top of this diflerence, the miner gets coal and light cheaper than does the femme, and carries: no tisk whatever in the ELT The farmer's troubles began suddenly in day, 1920—almost two year ago—when aces of farm products ek auk af uagat abmost overnight, and lozk in a ase ore money than it would take much-talked-of soldiers’ bonw, suddenky confronted with world following the Great War, with ; jon against low prices save in- “uttom ef the currency, Which no sane (arrer weulc advocate with Furape’s ex- art are his eyes, ind against which, f forcemmtady, our financiére ston) of a oie wall. ‘In the meantime everybody talked about. Lhe mend of hewered price levels, but at the came time did eve rihing possible bo main= tao high prices in hi own particular field, eith the pesult that in moet lines there waa lor many months no perceptible change, god m some eommetiteess the proce getu- al ally ners winder thet Trresistibie pressure ‘am below. Th combination foresl the farmer aut { the retail markets except for the harest erences, and the country, called it o buyers’ strike, There was no general buy- evs aunike, far then, and even untill now, inet af the people whe have money or can cet tt are buying everything thot is loose at both, ends. inate | The Buyers’ Strike But the farmer was effectually out of tht markets. He eould not buy a self binder and give half an acre of wheat for every day's work of the mechanle that nade it, ao he made the old one do awhile longer. Hoe eould not carry cate enmugh on fe bak ioe buy a new necktie, eo lee tied tie bandanna around hia neck and went ahead. He eould not burn dead animals without skinning and wtill pay ten to Tour- LEE a pair for shoe of twenty for boots, 20 he nalled on tape and went with- art relrconaay Thar yA mre andl apne ae at probthitive prices for the you i people. so he divide) the Poet up supply mith them, and both got along. He could out way fur coats for his family at ten to tirenky BCres of corn apiecee-only laborers guid afford these luxuries—so he turned op be enllar and whipped his eran bia showldera to keep them warn. With thirty-fivescent sor he eauld not pay the ve dollars and board demanded by huakters, go he bogged down the crop ond ve grain to starving Europe. Tre American farmer isa good liver and popesive when he con afford it, but he ia a fart master alsa in the gentle art of getting along when hard conditions come away, Soa like other peaple, he pro- coded to dig in; and without analyzing it hid happened, the people of the town riled if @ haers" strike, without stopping boraie that one-third of the buying roe af the eountry had been anldenly ad efertually paral Follawing close upon the so-called buy- era’ strike came the somewhat ai jlecala discharge of employes and the sudden Tealization that we had a national problem of unemployment on our hands. 2 pul- lie in alarm called o country-wide eonfor- ence ami labor leaders cucgeled their brains for devires to make every china | ‘ible. support as many laborers as were ever drawn toxing the land for the relief of unemployment, Tt did ot seem te oeeur bo meet people to connect this problem of unemployment with the pull that had es hetween the country and the town; and yet how eould We expect ta lose a third of our best cus- tomers for manufactured goods without the results being felt not only in reduced profits in business but in unemployment a3 well? The stream of gools quickly dama up when a third of the rt be milan at home, und manwiacturermnust aut down production ar go hankrope, en forced out af the markets, feveling Down Inevliable Hack of every farmer, or beside him, is a laborer making tools, machinery, clathing, building materials, furniture, autormeolslles ancl what mot for the farmer ond his family. | Aa larg as the farmer con buy these things the inborer will have a job, for the fanmer is a good buyer, But when price levels berome such that the farmer quita buying, | then that particular lahacer is cut ofp job, and he must either go hungry or else com pate with other laborera in making goods for peagle other than farmers, and thereiy farce others mut af their jabs or else foree that pertlon af the public which is still in He markets to support two men for one job, And that is what has happened now. Hence the larga proportion retro ment and the «tall pt oe opartion of overmahned industries that han upon the neck of irda 3 prosperity iy like dead weights upon t ect of a drowning man. And this condition will continue until this gulf between the country and the town is in some way closed up. It requires no argument to show that an Iimmtdiate whject to be attnined is to get the farmer ieack inte our morkets, neither the manufacturer, the tradesman nor the city Inborer can afford to lose, for any eonsiderible tome, this third of their patronage, The one absolute condition is unlfermity af price levela and the total abandonment of the idea of sdvantage. Advantage means that the under dog must ultimately give up. ‘This is strategy in war, but it suicide in business, Bither the price of farm commodities must rac or ¢ the value of monufae- tunel goods and the ecet of labor and transportation must come down, for the connection must in sane way be made if heat business is to he reestablished, With European conditions what they are, with thousands of American laborers out of employment, and with nearly every statainrd job overmanned until eapitaligzed enterprist ts lowded ta the es, it iz enly a fool af a knave w + would talk about anything like a aignifieant Frise in the prices of farmers’ commodities. The only solution is in liveing down, not in Ernoring the situation by mere talk abowt leveling up. We have walked on stilts long enough. Now we must walk on solid greund and give over that age-old game of trying toe get something for nothing. The world lives upon foods, not upan money, Gur civilization rests upon ade quate food, upon sufieient clothing, upon comfortable shelter and wpon tae to heat our homes und drive the machinery af manufacture and transportation, The farmer haa produced the fool in abundance, and if goes at whatever price Hence the | unemployment; ane it is just alout in pro | ortion to the ratio at which the fanmer has | Dollar se 1t for FYRAC Spark PLUGS We have arranged with Fyrac dealers to present you with a certificate worth §1 on the purchase of a set of Fyrac Spark Plugs for your car. lin (Caseaida hk To get best results from any motor, we A Tipe for have always recommended that Fyrac be to introduce Fyrac, in sets, to you. You wouldn't match six men in a race, and weight down four or five with iron. Why handicap your motor by using ordinary one-point plugs in four or five of the cylinders? Your motor | should run wadformly in every cylinder to get best results! When you buy Fyrac, you are | | used im every cylinder. We make this offer | | buying a big new idea in spark plug performance—One Inch Firing Surface. Instead of a single spark, Fyrac produces a vol- ume of hot, fat sparks along its entire Inch of firing surface, igniting al! the fuel vapor and giving each explosion its maxi- mum power. You will get new smoothness, new pep, new power and more miles per gallon when you use Fyrac in every cylinder! Go to the nearest Fyrac dealer. Ask him to dem- onstrate One Inch Firing Surface. Ask him, too, to show you our certificate worth $1 on the purchase of a set of Fyracs. FYRAC MANUPACTURING CQ., Rockford, NI. Coiadien Adidrwat: CAMPBELL AGEN CIES BD Richmond Bldg., Toro, Canada | There Goo Pyroe Plog for ceery motor bedi 2 your dealer caneot swaps you, werife ua

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Look for the world trade mark onthe ue Sl = you buy pi 3 A the GENUINE = Eat Scale 5165 $1820 for the 1000 Ib, size Boab P.O, ib, Pacnory HEW YORK CHICAGO Became and Lafayeie Ses, 700 So, Wabash Ave And Forry Onher Principal Cities in che LI §: ANE 500 Lb, Size fed itoue Yow al Ff ! haa beakers SCALES the nore} is willing to pay, in full accord pie e fundamental economic laws of siets in the face of these conditions capi- tal in many branches is seeking an aseur- aner af profit. regardless of what enterprise can poy. This is notably true in railroad- ing. and the siarani eed: ioe af railroad caipltaliste waa no xmall element in putting: the farmer where he is to-day. Besides all thie—and what # of even greater importance in the long run—thoae who makeooar clothing, then who build our heuses, theae who dig our coal those who man our distribution ens— are al] posseaed of the fiction that high hee and short hours ean be freed upon the w ein lh son way the Ons en oes be avoided The reault is that clothing is too costly for even theae who made it out of wool that diet nok epey the farmer the cost of pro duction, We are largely homeless because the builders refuse to work for a wage that cither capital or the farmer can pay or to doen ina day so that they themselves can buy the rewlts of their own labor, The consequence & that rents are pro hibitive and families are homeless, while the building trade is practically destroyed mechanics are haunting the streets for ocd fobs at unskilled labor, Our mines are double manned, and miners are asking the Government to save them from starvation at the very time when the cost of coul has clased muny factories and thrown other labarers out of employment, while a general strike is threatened among the minera to fores a continuance of present conditions, In short, the litthe that we do accomplish if at the expense of fearful imroads upon the et aig of the country. In the mean- tirke the farmer is driven more and more out of the markets and more und more hack upon his own resource, tending to make permanent what ought to be merely a temporary condition in the early stapes of reconstriction. Much is suid just now about the revival im apricultural business, due to the fact that wheat went up four of five centa a bushel the other gas and lambs a cent or two. Both settled 7 imroedintely, arr ire apaaawing up and down. The real | revival, so far as there is any, comes from | Chee fact “that Hanlty hea Pep ineanity April 8,1 In thowl=8nds of minds, and the w farmers are buying machinery aed stock cheap of their own neighbors being forced out of busines: —in making money off those of own kind ad win fey force of circumalancs eee. irom. clan to floaters ite or what they con get, t other clement of stability Ves in aie that thinking farmers have given and expectation that sanity will 1 vade the ranks of organized dabor w the economic fallacy of ata Im busin is further demonstrated, Amd they hh: settled down te the policy of doing the b they can under the circumstance: ui their partners in business are willing to p duce tn tangible go 5, or render in hon service, the full canbralenne of whut t} are getti from the farm. Until th there will no ren) revival in busine because not until then will all idea of ; vantage be abandoned, Adwantage mee not production af wealth burt transfer fre ane to another. The farmer connot prewent tie adie tage that is against him now, but he e large vent its operation, amd that) what he is forced todo by remaining fa out of the markets until price levels permit him to reéfnber on a busines basis Labor will have te abandon ite of fores to compel high wages and wr production Meal will have to give o Live neincible ot muaraatect teed income at wh ever cust, and both must abandon the od device of paging it on to the consumer the farmer has largely slipped from. un this impending avalanche mnie is getti upon solid business nd, such af i wl mere and mare the ulthmate eonsum ia the capitalist and the laborer. Hoth these warring clements, epi an labor, will have to get upon & economic bask before t can again healthy business with the farmer. He dug in until thew warring factors bw settled their quarrels, or if not settled have agreed to do business upon a eral which he can meet and upon which he we live, Both capital and labor must pr more for the outlay before they rench equa Aicency with the farmer, and net unt then can the producer af our foodstul reenter the general markets of the country or business substaitially revive, TROUPING WITH ELLEN | “Poor grandfather!” said the mother. “DLocky he didn’t lve to see me pow. But 1 wish he could have seen you, Ellen. In- “Say, he'd ae Me in the chorus!” Ellen | gaat | “Hed be ple tou know vou wasn't satisfied with—this.” The older woman made an aimless re about the shabby litte: room. “Well, are you ready? Crawl in, and I'll pin the covers town you." Her red cha hands busted themaelves over her favorite child. “It's good to have you home, Ellen,” she said, and kissed her. Then she blew aut the oil lamp. “Good t, Ellen. I'll tell them et ain't to vou early in the morning “But, ma ——" Ellen ane: Now, in the dark, ehe thought she had courage enough to mention the briefneas of her 0 But she hadn't. “LT want to get op early,” she ended lnmely, "We'll see obowt thet, “her mother re- lied. The stalra ereaked beneath her eave, tired tread. For a few moments Ellen Liewelyn lay awake, The sound of homme masculine snoring dnfted down from the floor above uel ¢ through the tiny house. A solt white light from the anawhound outdoors came in through the one window and re- vealed to her again the poverty of the room where she lay It was sigan a shock, this coming home, this renlization of the surroundings. from which she escnped: Main Street and the music etore; the mille, whenee came the few soiled dollara on Saturday: River Street: this house; her family, It made gil her ambitions seem so impossible of achievement, al] her «forte to learn from Lil and others and from books, to make aamething of herself, appear eo hopeless, What was the use? No, nal a clenched her fists beneath the worn bedel tlie, She would learn, she would go on, somebord; | in the end? noe in this tiny row she rr - i=J itentinwecd from Page 7! took the oath anew, A clack in the kiteber atruck three, The sound of snoring fainter and {ninter still, She fell le From his place over the tattered soly pastor of the dissenting chapel locked down on herapprovingly. He was nothing bute erayon portrait purchased from # freh| oUNg agent on icy installment plan— e managed it Wee Ellen opened her eyes mother was bending over her and Little room wes bright with monshine. “T didn't like to wake you, dearie,”' older woman dald. ‘Hut it's nine o'elocl, an’ Dave an’ your pa want to read ther panes in here, They been walla’ the itehen floor lke caged animus." “Nine o'clock!" Ellen sat. up quickly. “Ma, you hadn't ought to let me — ow | “What's the matter, Ellen?" | “Moy neck. Stuf as a board,” “There! You wasn't comfortable bere. sew vc ieauech t be.” lcaithogi “Whey, vea [ was, ma. pt i Cop. Qoly E guess EC didn’t arrange my neck like : oueLE to have before 1 ‘Laropped off " She up ia her lacy neglignée, an ineosegre | eaeks lovely figure for 13 River Paired. | “Mice an’ warm here now,” | “TT was in an’ ficed che stove at half par SEVER. You never heard oe. (h—heres your pa an’ the children.” | Evan basa ioe a stocky, slouching m= with a thick black beard, camo in. Alle him came Dave, col 1; & 4 Sunday paper under hig arm. Thea Mabe, flashy, overdressed in ber cheap finery, determined to show her sister that she, tot was a woman of the world, “Well, Ellen,’ said her father, lle kissed her, then stood staring at her ¥t hia dull, expressionless eyes. “How oe you? “T'm fine, pa. How are your” "T ain't fe good,” (Continaed on Page &!

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ee | peter Page 58! ~ Hells. kid," Dave with an wiry ki “The prid } of U the family. Say, folks, get next to the lingerie.” Still the cut-up,” amiled Ellen, “Hello, Minted. You’ re iookin “Thanks, gald MM Her envious, omer btoe soe in every detail of her Dave drew a clondercane-secated ricki orth the chair ap to the window and drew forth e section of Boston Parting section took out a cheap elgar and lighted it Ee Evi- tly, “role pcg bi gaat ce cerned, he had done "Say—where do I dress?” Ellen wanted ant right up to my room,” her mutha ena: "It's preety oe cold, but I naa rear finn water { fer ¥ Coc — to the inten an’ Woes poe tak you a bite of ikfast. You'll need i dinner ain't till “Onet™ said Dave thr the emake of his cigar. ae mn he a we hare tc wait tll one? I'ma hungry now. Oh, T aee— New York manners. Ain't we the awella ‘today 2" Ellen turned sly ge to he mother. “Mal got bad news hen I sent Pe matctneag till Mon- man—the boas— er bany pot night, and he called a ntonight. So [—I—got to leave here at ten twelve," vet" Her mother's She saxk into a chair. “Say, hats good joke on no long, Dave was fiving round wild last after your telegram come. Gettin’ nit for Sunday ssc tilt ne rahe hed for a8 aaa eT" She te comb the town for the | from New York. Det up none ar ne Nothing Nh had heoregrhy ei ic Keg. gol posit Ellen. An’ now you're ng before ee Elen glanced at her mother’s face, then quickly away again, “A damn good joke,” Dave insisted. “Give ws some more of the white ment, ma.” “Shut up, can’t you?’ Ellen cried in : tone she had not used sinen her last wisi home “Where's my pocketbook?" ‘ine found it on the table, ‘hak out a timetable. “Wait pil aeiieers Fort there's another . 2-30— gets to Boston at 740. It'na dese all, but Tl risk it I'll stay to dinner, ma.” “That's nice, Ellen,” her mother sald, “T ain't got anything special, but I like to hore you here, You go right upstnira; TU bring up. the hot water. Dave, you ght carry her suitcase “That's all right, ma. It ain't heavy." Igri —— up to the cold where fears a Washatand with bowl and peeber, 2 horrible chromo on the wall— nothing more. Her mother came panting afte ber with m tenkettle of boiling water, filled the basin. “There's more if you want it,"" abe sald, “TT go an’ get your breakfast ready," Alone in the room Elen stared abowt her, Seay beck dares the hey sce ond & an tin row of sees Hee shacks ragged children were makin man, and a memory of her own dashed back toher. Without Seeing: a she eat on the edge of the bed and cried, but , keeping a cautious eye on the nor. Finally she reoe, bathed her faee and hands, put on the litthe blue serge dress. It waeemart; it had an sir—and only sixteen dollars at a sale on Fifth Avenue. Her eirita revived. She opened her hook, counted out the amount of her fare to Boston, put aside a few dollars besides. “I an some from Lil," she thought, The balance, fourteen dollars, she put in Th the kitchen ma had an orange, cutmeal, coffee. Mabel came in and sat at the table with her while ma busied herself with the chicken and rattled the drafts of te i ge Idheed the stove. “He's hing, Mabel?" Ellen ashed. "How would it be?” Mabel wanted to ino. oe he mndll Sight okra: aay: A neue uve you bave a psd thist—fel- aye you. he dows, picture ah ee ee tald wou oa. that: did she? She's aivays beefing, Wants mo to come home THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 61 pe is igi the day I gat t = pode pues ¥ oO mo through I'm entitled toa little pleasure,” “4 litth»—aure,” anid Ellen, * Rut every night—all the time ——'‘ “You got a nerve!" eried Mabel hotly. “T notice sci ne ukaye here an’ wel me Eni, ” ot out. You wert fo New York, Vou t didn" stick in this ote like T got to, You maak bere See ets hare a tifne, dancing ing on gina pile seeing the world, an" meeting lota eat | fellows, An’ We come home one ev for fifteen minutes an’ try to | = two Vears me what 18 oi ge Mabel," Ellen rt 'm no F a a gald. “Hush men hie “When I pet i answered Mabel, The bitter onvy in ber ‘heart u =: on “Tt ain't bats A i got fe paths Nice clothes, a hrecets ak ig a time clock.” ng now, Mabel," her mother anid, to work or de gratin wh eta. | eee said i oon au if "t “You nm, thant ain satisfied, Ma do eehbethin about bt if £ could,” Mabel stalked inte the parlor. “Tt ain't no use, Ellen,” ber mother said, "She won't listen. Don't you a ae ied way trying to do anything here, oie; reached lnio i ole oe duced the fourteen dodl You need coal an “things. Dion ‘tet a air of them know you got it. “Can you spare all thia, Ellen? Tt will a lamily. am keep a lithe hid or | om the we cred alla at | ll Mttle more. [Il try." “TDhon't you atint vole, tat What nai belongs toe you sy 3 eft her mother and wont into the ay Hue tt H i iF it fight! sca the room, went up- he i suitcase for a hoary with dread of the part rung from es v¥ a e ng from St eins Greer be spent the o 2 in sing helping with the dinner, setting the table— which rege ig the cen of the rooun— ronding. Butter plates, for wired oiglt Acted the butter , pre tended he "t know what they were far, oteated he would have to leave the table things got any more elegant. He didn't awever; he om, mest. Ellen's wrist math} kept her alive to the ait et any pai five minutes past two she ie ay ~ Broke non long ator of hr tot ers, | ell, ma, [ hate to eat and run. Her mother's stricken face appalled her. “Ts it time, Ellen?" “I'm afraid eo, You het Be it with | us wolking wimmin. She ht to be, ther would — L A sav aley, If only her ma’ follow the lead! ae see an’ Deve go to the etation | with Ma was on her feet, all energy. “Til at here an’ do pao dishes. Now, | | & lien do take care of ro's | her coat? Mabel, get E m's coat,” | 4 wad a great bustle, Dave and pa | seeking thelr overcoata, Mabel running up with Ellen's belongings. Out of the corner | of her eye she saw that ma was bearing up “Now, Ellen—you're not te stay away ao lang again.” “No, ma, I ik age Pa and Dave on ch, waiting scuenlanths alter thelr ge gorging—and then | ' read the Bible, I: oll, lime, alkalis, esc, Resists the Weather and the Wear OVER FLOR — the protective covering in liquid form —atands the hand conditions decks, etc., are subjected to aa admirably as om Aoors, It dries: quickly, forming a tile-like surface, resistant to weather, water, Frequent washings and rough wage do mot injure i. Roverrion ia-extensively ied on wood or cement Aoars of hoes, clubs, garages, theatres, cic. 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2 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 8, 19% e | ma limp in her slender arma, sobbing, sob- bing. "Ellen— dan” é forget me—chme inn real town heme—came home." Ellen Llewelyn sank down om & prope “Yea,ma. [ gottorh—imlsathe train. chair, “ree,” she said, “I'm all in, Good-by, ma dear.” She pushed her mother away almost rudely and was out on the porch, then back for another kiss. Then aut again, ber cheeks wet, her eyes dim. “Look out fer that last etep—the board's rotted away," pA warned, She never sow the step, but last night until three —— “You better get to bed,"’ LAL advised ous, I've a date for supper myself if friend hasn't bent it. “ Ellen rose, and they went to the stagy door, Shetek up herauitcase. Out int a fying leap and was out on t alley a prope honed oung THAR in al hurrying alter Dave and pa, and sidewalk fur cout came suddenly to her hand to the dumpy little figure on the “Great Scott, Lill’ he hacky ““'Thowght ch, ‘Then the comer wos turned,and ma you were never comin leat to sight. “Blame it on the old man,"* Lal told him. “Pa—you ought to make it easier for “Simon Legree, we work for, Say, Jack, her," she said, catching up. you're a good aport. I never dreamed you'd “What kin I do?" he wanted to nov, wait, Oh—want to intreadace my friend, They hurried an, her tearadrying in the Ellen Llewelyn." | dunahine, “Nice name," gall the sowing man. At the station she learned that the train "Nice girl, too—I can see that, ewen in the was fitter minutes late, and her heart dark, low are you sunk, Her job seemed so very important “Dead and beiod, " sighed Ellen, "The "he inquired, with to her now. 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Ane with ma needing her help, The train pulled into Huntington Avenue Station wt ten minutes past elght, and she knew that all waa over. The old man never failed ta keep aie promi in a matber of this sort, Sha deba whether she should go to the theater at all; it could only mean a hu- muliating scene. Still—there was just a chance—the old man might drop deed ina fit of apoplexy before he could pronounce r doom, She squandered one of her precious dol- lara on a taxi ae bey 8: eit ava had reached the alley ‘to the stage dear af the theater. As a * umped out and seized her hii a atocky little figure loomed up in ler "Andy! What's ned?" “Pot Choll's aale, Ellen, get in there on the stage! It ain't dresa— — fo on past a8 you are. "ll give you five minutes, “Whit de you mean— you'll give me five minutes?" “T knew you wasn't here, a0 1 haven't showed up myself yet, They can't start without me, fhe od mans out front eall- Ing my doetstore sone pretty rotten mhamed, but he's forgot all about yeu, He'll never ae yo va lute, ae "Oh, Andy —you darling! “Thanks. Five minutes,” “Three will do” She dashed down the alley and through the stage daar, throwing her suitcase inte Another instant and she strolled lazily on the stage and took her place for the Fs chorus, “OW hata youl heen? demanded the haraaed Mickleaon. “Standing round waiting,” she smiled. “Why don"t westart? [t's nearly $:30," From out in the dark auditor! um mine the shrill ery of the old man: “You fell asleep? The hell you say! DoT pay you to sleep? Eight o'clock, eight o'clock I meant. Look at it, I aay! yn 1 “Yes, sir—I'm iit aaa ALPEN Tame Andy's & rmibsiesal pevegee are scarce, and oe knew it. He elimbed into the orchestra pit and lifted his baton, "All right, bogs," he smiled, “Let's The boys Ae ne back and put o great deal af spirit inte the firat bars of the apen- ing chorus, Jt was a pleasure to drown out the remarks the old mon still felt calles upon te make, Tk mu rir ‘ALL right,” said the old man at last. The time was 1:30, For five terrible hours he had kept them wt it, stoppin them, demounelng them, atarthng then oll stopping them again. But now his own remarkable vitality was exhausted; he was Willing ta call it a rebeorsal, “All right. Look at that watch! no enthusiasm. — “Sure, she said—" any ether time. Net this evening—this morning, I mean. Little old hay for. mine.’ Ellen para abe Lil aavinined “Well, dearie, you Fun long. TU be with you in no time. Tia, ta.” Lil and her friend disappeared into the calm dark of the alley. As Ellen turned toward ber hotel the inevitable Andy fell into step beside her. “Cone again on the suitemee,"’ he o7- mere. “ EHLy, jee —yau mist tired," he lights of an all-night luneh reom— sy to the sign, Dan's place—fell across their path, " ‘ant to call on Das for a cup of colton?" Andy Hate eb gam “Thanks. Nat to-night. T had @ sand wich on the train.” "Have a good visit with the folks?” “Pretty shor. But it was fine to a co aguin. ndly— —I don"t know how | tah ever cu you "Thank me for ante Fie eon know well enough. Not sho up Hpi tL LT came—risking your jo ut you did thank me, en. a thanked me plenty." “When was that?" “When you said that about my beng a darling. Was that on the level, kid "You know it was.” T were wt the door of her hotel, He bit and on her arm. “Then it was the news [ ever heard, Ellen. I gue you krow = right how I feel." ona ae —I'm so tlred. I'll have to aa night mow." tee I understand.” tha labby, and he the suitcase over io o sleepy bell boy. “Well, pleasant dreama!" She got her key and as the smelly little elavator mscend candied she caught one final lim: af hia honest, adoring face, He aved her, she knew, and one of these dayg he would blurt it out. She must be pre pared, Bleepily, as she undressed, she thought himover. How different he was from many of the mean she mot round the show shop. He wos decent, he pursued none of the itla with the idea of doublecrossing them nthe end, On the level, Andy; steady, dependake. , always there when she needed tm. But Ab, that waalt—but. So far as she could gee he had absolutely no intention of ever being more than he wos today. He dreamed at times af writing a pogular ag but that was only a dream, He never get round toit, he was tom pone, too contented, ton—yes, even too laz She saw herself wile, a tiny at bn Harlem, theatrical papers on the table, Sunday afternoon, a walk on the drive, a stop ot a delicatieuen to get the au sume of aah ang in, Andy with bis off, dealing the cards, Working and Bush, a goad fellow while he had it; then, occ sionally, bul times, no job, nat a penny saved; worry and recriminations. The yeara pusaing, Andy gettin ha ie and dull, standing sti “Tight where wil always been, waving his batan wre Tete perhaps, but standing still while the great worl went on. “Sot for mine,” she said finmly as ehe crawled into bed. Her clecision taken she wasted dt ip time in thought. She slept, and Lil, toeing in an hour later, wos sud of amused at her own coution. (Centinerd on Poge €5) They went into

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Caittwed from Poge 62) ‘Cannon wouldn't wake ber,” said Li, ed threw ber shoes nolsily acros the room. It eas noon on Monday when Ellen eoke, twenty again, and ready for life. be aw tro slim white arms stretched cami Lil's bed toward the grimy ceiling, nd heard the last ol a Vawn. “Here tht ane again, Fre called, ea oe ap Si Five TROT ‘sang Lal,“ Eapect ily n winter—and " asben, Ugh! Sometimes, dearie, I “ial Rat : gay and joined the Pain sack: ceoneel “No, YOR doa" t,”" said Ellen. ‘Wal it's = a life, this is, Say, OF t window and turn — Atta girl!" Elles: from ex nce that this very teak was up to Lil would lie ore all. day wether than foe It. So she orred att instructions. Then, in her ee edge of Lil's “Saeed terry t—that guy in the far goat." she ventor “Teck Prentice? Dearie, he's a prince. “ot many of them would wait until ero eM. jest for the privilege of feeding a eorking girl. But be's a gentleman, ack e A Harvard graduate, dearie, with a nice lith bend business all his own.” Honest?" suid Ellon, wide eyed, “Well, he’s kept out of jail at any rate," Li smiled. She had listened to this joke ver four hundred times ina show, and had nating well got the hang of it. “4nd I'm for nT" m for him ater They went to Dan's place for luneh. The proptetor himself was behind the desk. is old friend, he grented them ¢fusively, hoa’ the shaw?” he wanted te know. tev liked ua in Albany," Lil told him. Chet men thing. Dan replied. ell, ‘Tl be there ta look you over, Gat recon the ale, frent row. I hope dae Te gol” He rather fancied himself In the rile of dramatic critic, and indeed his ses were much more eager femaats by show people pen were those he newa= vet TevIeW Pe River one Ellen took a brisk stroll throogh the Public anne, She went Lone, the very idem being repulsive to Lil, Sher that she tried a picture show, It wos tt a deck when she returned to the hotel. Lil was waiting, dressed like something in a Ihion magazine. “Hurry op, honey!" she eried. “Get inbe your bet. Jack Fe phoned—we're in- vied to dinner, He's on the way, and he's aa friend—a sort of o highbrow, he “4 highbrow?" asked Ellen. “= gr erigie Aar he Lise up at the deh. Get that, gs to o deh. (Come etal Pr: i coat—T'll foro hair. T want you to look your best. yes guy may, be a live one, even if his does bulge. We'll se him over rT yiow, You never can tell. , Ellen."* “What—what'll [ wear?" aald Hen, Bhatever she wore she locked remark- ay meet. and youthful whon she and Lil emerged from the elevator twenty minutes liter, Jack Prentice came forward to greet them, all pep and ginger, for he belonged ta ttat school of business men. With him was a tall, rather tid young man, His face wo thin and arutecratic, hie alr blond, hin blue eyes kindly. “Git,” cried Mr, Prentice, “meet my Inend, Tony Winterslip, Anthony blaine dip, no other. The pride of Hack B emanin| out inte the world, taking a little Pat the flask of life," We. W interslip ap somewhat em- ‘artuased af this form of intraduction. He meiled in a friendly way, and alicolke hares, Happy ta meet you, I'm sure," he sald. “Be geile with him, girls,” went on te inepresible Frenthee. ‘Ie isn't often ‘we eacapen from the monastery, This ia a hyp edventure iy, his unaccustomed feet, path one pine ot Sraooth hia The adventurl noyed eee it ke poisy friend, avd thay a alll Jef the htel for the narrow sidewalk of Boyls- tw Street, Lal and Jack went on ahead ai fel in beaide the tall blond af you to bother,” waa yak ew ! ae cod ee af to say. Why=it tan’ t any bother,” Merd in 9 mur Lome, Ther weet hee that faint wa tos ol w lisp — may be caught min sum the lips of Boston's best, He ; wen rather wonderful, and Eten iedatup “him inowe, Her owe would have been he an- THE SATURDAY EVENING POST increased a thowsandfold had she been | more familiar with Boston and the mukie tame of Winterslip. Winterslip feet had — antes the first to tread these winding interslip brains had helped to mae thee town the au fool then anv are Great statesmen, men, grew educators hung lor ae on shi branches of that family tree, For m than a century Winterslip aunts head looked coldly on the world fram behind purple panes on Beacon Street Today the Winteralip farnlly had sort af tapered down to Tony. He was the end of it all, the ultimate Winterslip. in the ref splendor of the jeast, a quiet rather bookish Young Buan. Haug distant most people thought him. The daughters of the elect, walking of an after: Ton along the promenade at the rear of the cignibed homes on Beacon Street, would see him out in the middle of the Charles, rowing along determinedly in his ale ah el. And when thy met him later at a dance it seerned that half the « ehllly river was still between them. That was Tony. | He had allowed Jack Prentice to dm him forth on this adventure, but already E seemed allly and futile to him. However, he was not the sort to lat little Ellen Lewalyn aot that. we east about in his mind for some remark that would come ithin the narrow limita of her compre hension. “It's rather a pleasant night—for February,” he sai “Tt's a fine ‘night, " Ellen agreed. ment there nthe pga lighted dining room of the best hotel Lil and Jack carried hinge alone along ak i ) Poot, with oeemaional Ellen. Tony Winteralip sald little. peed had the detached ar that the may have shown toward the beggar maid—eagly in their acquaintunee:. “Wake up!" said Jack Prentice ax the dinner was drawing toward a close. “Blow a little life, Tony. You're out among ‘om, boy! You know, if it wasnt for me"— he turned to the girla—“he'd be slitting in the club ee: thi minute reading acme hp epee omed b At it all the time. Bad or “He and oe tar make ke 8 ond pair," Lal "Can't pry her loose when she gets hold of a book. I trail along with yeu, 3 ge What's the use of it, I want bo ; You can read books when you're eigot She a * Winterslip was looking at Ellen ith a anew interest, “You like to read?” No | he inquired. She blushed, “Why—yer—I'm sort of | fond of it. They all salen fun of ree, Lut | ou can a lot that way.” | "What dio oa read?! An hing can peb. [ve fend Tost of Conrek T was interested in him because ila ae oe ee nae to Be ag omand the first thing anyb new, he was writlng it fine, hed con By field—I think he's great. ia I've tried Wells.” Jack Prantica threw up his hands, “Ye “he eried. “Listen to the chit: cur affinity, Tony, that's what al is “So it seems,” laughed Tony, blushed. When he dured he raised hia kel oguin inte Ellen's face, telling the truth, he wondered. He rather suspected she was not; it seemed a ruse to gain hisinterest. Poor Ellen, most of them he that. But on the way to the theater he re solved to find out. “Where do you get these books you rea read?" # asked, "Tt's nol so enay," * ake told him. “I join iy at town, But the when ‘T's a long time in a town ut they don't have the kind I like beat—and those coat o jot," “What kind do you like?" “Biograplies—when I can I like to read about real people—noat dust characters somebody hag tho thought up. like to find cut how they mache good, ee how they did things—and all. They turned into the alley, "I"m rather fond of biography myself," said Tony Wankaralls P And | T happen to have quite a library. I wonder if you'd care to have me you gome of may books “I sure would, Pa take good care of them H All right,"" he amiled. “Tt's @ promise, Til drop round some night with an armful." They paused at the & door. 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Men are walking into their favorite haberdasher’s everywhere and saying one word— Hatchway. Boys are saying to their mothers, **That’s the suit for me."” Nobody wants to be caught with a button. It's a time-losing game. The HATCHWAY NO-BUTTON UNION SUIT has not a button, frone or back. Seep inta the legs, slip your arms through the arm holes and you're in. Vice versa and you're out in less time than it takes to tell about its Comfort that conforms to the lines of your figure. Absoluce beady freedom and freedom from all an- noyance, trouble and inconvenience of last buttons, torn buttonholes and re- patr bothers, FULD & HATCH KNITTING CO. ALBANY York Knitting Mils, Lid, KEW VCR Teron, Canale, Qicensed Mfunefacierers of Shere dines for Camacla a “That'll be great,” Ellen told him, “Good-by—the whistle's blowing. I—I a oe had a dandy time.” "So did 0," Tony Winterslip answered. | “Good-by.”” Heand Prentice walked away “Cad, said Mr. Winter- | dip suddenly, “that little girl's a wonder.” " Aneew type to nee," responded Prentice. “A render, pretty aa the devil though, You natioed that, didn't ee noticed that," oid Tony Win: tersli Ellen and Lil ran gayly up the Lron stairs. Tt may have beer the climb, but Ellen's heart was beating wildly. tn the dressing room of the leading man, where he had the ivilege of a hook, Mr. Andy Owen was ng up his overcoat. He bent low be- fore a tolrror lined with telegrama, slicked hia hair, atraightened hia, white tie. “he informed his reflection in the glasa, One Bight in June appeared to meet Boston’s intellectual exceptionally nig and ora the old man lined them up want after the performance he wae if : m of kindly affability that was a revelation te those who had never worked Tor him before, His sheaf of notes waa surprisingly thin, and he let them go with the intimation that th they would play the seaaon aut in Howton, reserving Broadway Tor the fall, Ellen was, a5 usual, the frat of the girls ready for the street, and when she care down. the wtairs Andy wis wailing for her, His serious face was aadly out of tune with “Never even saw me," the joyous atmosphere stage on the first night of a hit. “ Dan't atop for LO," he urged. “Come over to Dan's place. I want to talk to you."" Dan, his red face glowing with amiles, them as they come in. “You got a nock-out,”” he said, “You're fn for a nin. Lenjoyed every minute of it.” “Oh, well—wnit for the papers," anid And glumby. "Papers, i” anawered Dan, offended. “rT say you're over. That's enough, ain’t it?™ Andy led the way ta a table in the farthest corner wand banded over a rather aoled little bil of fare.“ Wliat'll you have?" he inquired. ] jaa bem sandwich and a glasa of milk," Ellen told him, “That'll be enough for me." "VYeah—I should think it would. Had a good dinner, didn’t you?" “What if Ddid? [e's noe affair of yours.” “Tt ain't, hey? Well, suppose | make it my affair?" Here’ 8 the waiter, Andy, Gee, you're cross to-night,” Andy ae othe onder and remained silent until the walter moved away. “Who was your tall friend in the overcoat?" he ago He jel as Winterslip,” smiled Ellen brightly Nhe fellaw too. IT always cid Tike men, Andy, Amd as for the over- eoat, what do you expect in weather like this—a Falm Peach mit? “Don't try to kid me” “And don’t you try to call me. What atrings vou got on me, Id like to know— sitting there and taking that tane.” Andy his head. “I know," he sald; “I'm all wrong. Excuse me, Ellen. But—but—I' m pretty =foing—= but ou with that guy sort ‘or a minute I waa wild ‘ou still act pretty wild to me," ahe EEE) but she regarded him with o new intereal, He leoned closer. “Look here, Ellen, I just been drifting along, but mow I" mm going to put all my cards on the table, 1 gum you know how f I'm crazy about ou—ever eines you walked into Bryant Hall for rehearsals last December —— Let Rages I ait om om of thes four ushers m ofernn i} Here au.” Hering? Say, t ve fine! td uf eee ne Ellen. That's what I should aa have obods's got any claim onime, I send my mother twenty a week, but opt- side af fn free, Tadn't much on and [ don't read your books and never ean, but I make fair money and I'll take good ei of you, And I'm—I'm wild about =hemest Tam. 7 don't know how to 4 it pretty, bevt T mean it, kid." mit soiled apron of the waiter suddenly appeared beside them. Quick service was Dan's boast. Their ple choice vidnds come bebo een ihe on the table. | The walter ambled off. April &, 9 ae Said ham—and That pe ein imp "7 brought thease, Never mid “Ok, an yoursandwich! Eixeuse 7 Ellen—but I'm Waiting. What you got say? Will you have me, Ellen? She looked peroas into his kindly, earns face and saw in his eyes & fire she had new espe » Athi, not unpleasant, tans and down her spine, seul you apt he pleaded. No, Andy," she said gently. cy nat? Oh—I Suppose the lity f think that tall guy- ——" “ Don't. silly. Andy! I newer saw h before toni “Oh, well, mld Andy bitterly, "I mig have known. I'm all ight just to ha round and carry your grip, but that's g Cood ald Andy—the bone heal, L car talk like a sehool-teacher.* “Honsenee, Andy. Talk diaeen"t mutts [t's—it's more a talk—there'sa som thin wrong with ‘at's wrong ‘with me? "* he demande reely. e oo satisfied, That's the whol "You're satisied with this," not? Tm making good mane on, I know—you want to marry the Pres dent, orsomeboly. God knows what you'r aiming wt, Mobody she troupes wie yor ean move fast enough to sult you. Alway going on—to what? Tellme that, me Elen nibbled thoughtiully at ber sand wich. “Thot day you bean ta anes we—in New York," she "sou p aver for ua the beginning af a wale. 7 little snatch of a fox trot, Things you'd started—but never finish Why don’ you finkth them, Andy?" “Obh—T'm busy. ve got a let to ab on, “Tsay you have, You got to leave me inafew minutes and play pinochle with the gang for about five houra. Then, wher you up bemorrow around moon, there'll be the morning paper te read, Eby the time you get that attendel ta the evening paper il be out. Then a nap, then dinner, then the show—and then the Fang again. Ane a you're gettin nowhere,” don't see it. I'm making enough to live on. The way [ look at it B, maybe sometime I'll get round to composing, maybe nat, ‘or the present, miss director ain’: any too ‘Mp ntiful, and I'm pretty aure af werk. I gheuld worry.” es, Andy—you should,” "You make mae tired.’ He drank mudihd iy from his coffee cop, “This is all a bluf anyhew. Lf you cared anythin about me you'd take me, and that 4 be that, Oh, I'm not blind, You met a i = fellow to-night, and now your head’: ne Anything can happen. Why 7. or little old Andy when there's 2 sa af GigEer fish?" —that'a not fnir."* ard you've made a fool of me—the first girl who could aay that, if it's eA Seominghe a oom Ra I'm through. [ we Sieay an he ham and Eten eat for along moment staring at witha etrange light in her eyes, “"Crot a pencil, Andy?" she asked su den No musical directar is ever without pene, and be handed his over without 4 word. Ellen picked up Dan's bill of fare tela Ta aoe fpaper that hadlive pe he seat intle haaeity vis a Ber oo Tne back. She finished and folded the paper. Andy ratings aieaihedl albece ba dy maintained a dign a he waa atill Old Dependable, He produced an envelope with the name of an Albany hetel in corner, Ellen peut the bill of fare inside and sealed the flap. Thea she ingseribed her own name on the oatede and handed back the pencil. "Finished, Andy?" she asked, Hego ered tip the checks and followed her to Oe “Dan, I want to leave this with you" Ellen snid, She aver the enve *Juat put it in a safe place until I call it. It's—it"s a bet." ‘Sore, said Dan. “ITU do that Many’s the stakes I held in the old der when my cash + eto) uw the long mirror. But times is changed.” He nized: “High stakes, Ellent” be ste A Seem high to me," she She and Andy went owt ito th the aye They walked slowly along. was hurt, hia heart heavy. Di things he might aay to her Anshed om {Continued on Page os!

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(Ceased from Page 6) & mind, but no word mat te Hie: i, Boor of ber ih aie Well, good ni rht. Ellen” he he aaid. ory oe think I'm no good,” : — I never sai that,” “Il OS sau meent, it though. uke a hint. Good- “1, Aumela:," ahe ae with a little sob in er throat. In her room she asked herself if she had ome the fight thing. Poor Andy, There cement Many do fine ad he, Per tut suddenly through her mind flashed a dotore of the house in North Readfeld, f Evan Liewelyn, slouching through life, hf thess, devaid of ambition, beaten before @ began, “Not for mine," she thought qin, And after she had turned off the ight and Lay in bed she seemed to gee in iter flas the erayon portrait. of the ieuenting pastor. Nothing could stop him. de went on. Ve 1 can The Tu papers happily confirmed Dan's Acta on Leo aie Hi ht Ih June, and then the girls went to bunch next day they aw long e of customers at the box uwllce af the theater, Thus encournged they seen the afternoon locating u furnished gertment "They found what they wanted Te] Beacon Hill, and arranged te move in fet 4] rey Could PRrepLre ML (their meals themeelyes—or rather, Ellen cwuld—anal thus save precbousd dollars. On Tumeday night after the show Andy iroen was nowhere to be seen. Lil hed land another long-lost friend ready pnd willing ta buy. Ellen went alone across: the Common and ate a forlorn litthe aupper in The apartment. Pec upstage? Tt made lite cam saat o All h the Welt mutinén shar toad to cateh his eye, but failed By night, irwrever, his easy good-nature had pe- comed, and after the show ho was waiting inside the stage door, “he aaid. “Found wn apartment aed “Sore. Mowed yesterday,” she told him. ints you been, Andy? 7 missed you.” Did you— honeutt Wel—I been aart a boy. Come on over to Dan's plore." The door opened, and Anthony Winter- alin epped inside. He had a number af banks uader his am, and he stood blinking ahest him with the air of a loat soul, “[ beg your pardon,” he said. “I'm flor bees rl boking —— (fh, there you are! Gad, whut lurk.” “Hello,” said Ellen. it a didn't for- et. About the books, I “No, indeed—why shenia: 1 3 aay, con't we i mut for a bit yh supper?" “fore.” wai Ellen. I'm all ready, Well, Andy, see yrou later." The door dammed in Andy's face and be wu left there, his anger slowly riging. He waamild man by nature and the thoughts of homicide that surged inte his heart aamel him. Jimmy Gray, the juvenile, mn blithely down the stairs. “Hello, Andy,” nnn rouod to my place for a poker sea “Oh, go to the devil!" Andy cried, and Tuihed into the a He stalked aa: toward bis hotel. “God, what buck,” he wai throagh his teeth, in a sickeningly feted manner. “Tsay, can’ Lb We po sone wort for a bit of supper?’ So was the kind of creature zie fell for, He walked along, the rte gir apes | bitter ri by mouth. ry ‘nowled own lnmtetions weighed) bin oe: Wie had he to offer? This new fellow of Ellen's was rt ges prosperous and cultivated at Andy put it, Why shouldn't a en peer him to Andy Gwen, the demon Abert eockle player, the graduate of Tin Pan He eeybered the fl of his hte and walked ay up to the desk. “Say eben” he began, “I"m nba and kave it “ hg to rent a into my room , Eau ha _ Why, no, I pues not the clerk. In 5 tae aati Serena vrais of the house Hie pa, Andy. Only you can't play it at iy lite houra. Not after the theater," “Mornings,” explained Andy. “Thaot's Tere ee aint ee i ings!" repeat clerk, # laogted |oadly, “Say, [ never knew you [i] 7 up arr bee een, zs _pald Andy grimly, “ati bo t othonn Wen ie alvat ckddeca as rel hither a bt Vile tat et inte Ellen's yielet eyes, THE SATURDAY "These two volumes,” ne said, “will tell all aboot Charles 14 wos an Engl ish statesman, a seereranle ra, They: re thrilling aaanovel, And I brought yon this Life of Queen Vietoria—and the collections af the Eumpress Eaegénie. “That's fin iy i Ellen, ber eves aparkling. ‘'E lowe to read alsa “royalt les, and all that kind," ia au do? er “Sure. [t's like [ told you—[ don't books just ta puss the time. I want to find out how things are done Ly people wha know, So that if my chance ever Petar" he “Vou re ssrabbitaiie: aren't yout" asked, “Of course. Aren'tyoul Sayv—-what do you do for a living, anyhow?" He laughed, “Well, it inn" necmsuiry bor do very much. I'm a lawyer, in a sort af way—I manage our estate, and a few others. Fut the truth is, my ancestors worked so hard that there's. nothing murh left for me te do." "Oh—T aes, You got nowhere to go You're there, But me— =I got the whole distance still to travel.” “To envy you,” he suid, “T don't see it, whe sighed. “Why, it's a 50m dalcdl—I f ther exact words, but the idea was, the fu iss pet ao much § in wrriy Leg as im making the jou “Uh huh—I bet he'd arrived when le anid it." She was silent for a manent, porclering this mew point af view, “I guess our people were pretty fhumaus round oaton, she aabd present “Soitaams. Some af them mate laws, and some founded schools, and some preached SETI, Aly grent-graundfather Wid. dh bishop." “Honest? My grandfather too—he was aominister, (ndy that was in Wales. He weg omincr to start with, but that didn't stop him—he read and itud jel. et a his. pleture in the purlor at line. Eve ed him, maeaya. Just before he if was moved to another—parish, I guess you eull tt—ond when the people he ae preach to heard he was dead five miles over a rough road aay lee! eald day, and five miles back, carrving him home te his own churchyard. You wouldn't citeh people in this country doing that." “Na, I should say mot." He smiled! at her kindly. “He must have been a fine MTT, thst grandfather a oyours.” Blood will be: . looking inte her uae verious face, “And he sort of ex- plains you, doeaa't hel [ mean your desire to go on—to strike out for something ter ab better, BN gil ten ae All I ie yh wt a ing « a me. ow cinta not saticied—I never have been. I'm only trouping now, but I'm maowing on. And I mean to Tina! ‘ “That's fine,” said Tony ipl. "You atick te that. And shisceat Fou bee a hand stretched out to help you—you take it, re ee hand He ned across the hand is there," Ellen iment her eye, hands," she said softly, * IVE weeks . five Saturday nights with wg groes reported by the ore and the old man correspondingly be Pile Liew waa py, too, for never before her kc Ate fo made such rapid strides, Evidenth Tony Winter- slip had been in earnest about thot = stretched out te help, and he was proving it almost daily. When the weather was fine he took her in his ear about the surrounding country- side, where it seemed ewory ather hogs a histery ard a tablet of brome bo recall it. On stormy days there waa the Museum of Art oF ass [a Hall, and there was alao Tony to talk on painting or sculpture or mush — human tuk, lighted olways by bis rather bashful burner. Once he teok her aercas the bridge to Cambridge, and walked with her through the grounds a the university where Win- béralipe had studied or taught far a couple af centuries. He pointed out a few af elubs, and the windows of the room where he had lived his senior year. He introduced to her several handsome ai flapping uretics, bed her inte o drug stere for a. bea and greeted the clerk as one beloved whom he had long been separated. Elles, through wide eyes, looked owt on a world as new as Mars, At rere intervals there wT gat Tales EVENING POST Here is a real peece of appetite news: Delicious ice cream, ices and aherbets flavored with genuine Ward's Orange-Crush—alao the companion flavors, LemontCrush and Lime+Crush—are now beir made in nearly every principal city and tewn inthe United States and Canada by one exclusively licensed ice cream manufacturer. These are the same flavors, espe- cially pre for frozen. prod- ucts, which have made the drinks, Orange-Crush, Lemon-Crush and Lime-Crush, the largest sell- ing citrus-flavored beverages in the world. In some places special bricks of varying combinations will be featured. In other places, the “Crush” flavored ice cream, ices Serve and ices and for free booker, ™ py agree nationally Orange-CRUSH | ice cream, ices and sherbets ice cream dealer for t the licensed bee cream manufacturer nearest you, Sena How Orange-€ :; lee Cream Manufacrurers: abour exclusive righrs. Prepared by Che (Geruch Our., bn Cunda: Ceonprtruah (n., Limined, Wirnnigee and sherbets will be obtainable in bulk. Watch for sins and local newspaper announcements im your Commienity, Although this is the first national announcement, frozen products made with these flavors have been sold in an. ever-increasing number of places during the past three years. Perhaps you are al- ready acquainted with them. If mot, you have a treat in store for you. The same first-quality ingredi- ents weed tn preparing the Crush” drinks are used in the “Crush” ice cream flavors, Fruit oils and juicea from oranges, lemons or imes are delicately compounded by the exclusive Ward Process with U.S. certified food color and cane sugar. Purity is scru lously spray ‘ie enjoy chese differengly flavored ice creams, aha fi verily this year, Ask any real em. Write us for the name + Es Kase," Wrire for information (Chicaps, 1. 5. AL

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70 THE SATURDAY NEVER GETS ON YOUR NERVES) OU men who know the wonderful blend of the new Girard know also that it is a bigger, | better smoke than ever! And—for less money. Smokers who are not yet acquainted with the | new Girard have a treat coming. Step up to the next cigar-counter, and | learn the shortest road | to smoke- contentment. | insist on Girards. 10° and up 15c¢ size now 2 for 75e¢ Other prices reduced in proportion Girwd BROKERS 5% inch perfeero ; Formerly [5c NOY 2 for 28c ANTONIO ROIG & LANGSDORF Established $1 years PHILADELPHIA GIRARD Americas Foremost Cigar | 4 | fram Andy Charen \ celebrated vernal slush. | have dared that journey, but ahe was still Take no detours— EVENING POST flashed through her mind a vision of 12 River Street, af the grimy sullen procession oe to the malls at dawn. night, on the stage, ahe played her littl: part, took the requisite number of stops, smiled her best smile, though her mind wot &eewhere. here was @ Tan named Andy—Andy Owen, the fall name— aman she had once known well, but he wos a stranger now, Eight times a week she saw him there in the pit, his baton raised, his rownd kindly face aglow with enthusiasm for his job. No sign passed between them. When they meét io the wings he said bello, she an- awered: that wae all. There was much poe sip back stage of the rich Ellen had eaptured, but noone ever heard a comment On a Saturday night early in April, Ellen and Tony Winteralip were walking home to her apartment after the show. For a long tine the strects and sidewalks af the town had been cavered with packed dry snow, and Ellen had ventured down to the theater at noon in a palr of flimsy pumps, Stnee then, ever, @ Sidden warm turn had come in the weather, and now they sloshed along through an ocean of Poston's Ellen should never tao much in awe of Tony to protest, and as for him, he was too grand ond lofty ever to notice anyone's foo ; “It's great, isn’t it?" he asked. “1 mean, this warm night, and the stars, and all. [tell you, Ellen, spring is on the way." "7 puess it is." she . ST bore it too, Always makes me feel so full of pep— energy, Limean, Seems like there's nothing so big [ couldn't de it. Don't you feel that way, Tony?" “Youbet [de Ive hardly missed a day on the river this winter, and it's kept me ip fine trim—but I'm getting tired of it. Not long Haw, though—tenma out at Longe wood, and golf." “But—that wasn't what I meant." She hesitated; it had bern a matter long on her mind, tut she wos timid about mentioning it,“ Deon't atau fee ad like ta at and—and accomplish something, ‘TanyT Something big—have everybody talking about you?" “Heaven forbid!’ he laughed. “Sounds scandalous. Net in my line at all." “But, Torny—yvou knew 80 much—such a fine education, Are you getting any- where? [ don’t want to be rude ——" “T see what you mean. Success, eh? Na, Ellen, the idea doten't appeal. Kat in this crude, bromidic country. “The emuntry suits oe all right,” she said warmly, “Of course—ol course But what I mean—oh, well, you'd hardly understand. To get out, mingle with the mob—no, thanks; the rewurds aren't worth ik, really, Not over here. Now, in Faris—or almost anvwhere abroad ——" He went on to expound his viewpoint. Ellen listened, derpin thought. This was a new side to Tony. At the door he teok her hand: ““Gonod night, Ellen, Look here—you're shivering. ‘re you cold?’ THe glanced down at her feet. “Oh, by gud— wi . f never noticed. IT say, I am a fool. ['m frightfull - BOrTy.” “5 all Fight,” Ellen aswired him, “I don"t mind. “You hurry upstaire and get inte a hot bath," he eaid. “T'm afraid you've caught cold—pnd it's all my fault. rood night." | 1G night," she answered. He left her and walked down Beacon Hill, thinking about ber. It was a tough job, for, a3 always, he didn't know what to think, Mever before had he been inter- ested in a girl. Hut he waa interested in this one—decidedly, Her ambitious mind oping aleniys to find the heat, her eager eet restless to climb, her slim figure and delicate lovely face. She was a wonder, and he liked her immensely, But should he ga further—he, a Winterslip? Her bock- ground was impossible, her possibilities infinite, He weighed things. pro and con. This side and that, Granted—but on the other hand He belonged to an old New England family, and he was a lawyer. ae that sort ever reach a decision on any- Ing S The hat bath availed little, and Ellen's teeth were chattering when ahe erept be- tween the cold sheets. When Lil came in a monvent later she was so weary she pre- tended to be asleep, She slept little that night, however, and in the morning her wae a furnace and her head pounding. April &,\ For @ Week she was too save Lil and the trained nurse wha mi. ulously @ppeared from the dim distans the other room. Too ill to worry when, job, her salary, ma, her responsibilit Which was just aa well, for when the of her came to the old man be cela, counted her owt, “Sick, ch? That means rehearse ured Pand gend to New York ts new girl, Well, the new girl stays. Wi Llewelyn gets better tell her for me sl aut. Damnit, t ‘reget To considera for mée—none at all, pretty penny cost me—railroad fare and all." “Yea, sir, said Mickleson. He thon of the old man's millions, and smiled. At the end of a week Ellen began to better—and te worry. "See here, Lil," whispered, “what's the ides of the nur T can't afford ——" “Don't fret," said Li. “The nurse ee with a card on her—Anthony Winterslj enmpiments,” ; “Qh—I can't take her! [ mean, I da want him ta ——" b an my child! iar nee talker fi ont you worry —pet well. OU wk p that lad is eild akenat you, and he mes buginess. You're lucky, honey, and [ glad of it, but jealous a ain. Seonts I it can't meet a man whe has the word “marr in his bright lexicon, I thought Hh Jack Prentice—but let that poss." In the bare sitting room beyond, El: heard from time to time the kindly voir of her litthe warll—Mickleson, pant from the staira, the shrill laugh of one of ¢! irla. “Hin [ smoke in here. Say, it wor urt ber, will it?" Andy—Andy Owe “Just put “em ina vase by her —her mind whe gent ‘em. And the smooth-ev tones of Tony Wisteralip: “How i a teday? You know, I'm all broken ap on this. It's fwult, realy." On the third Sunday the nurse a nounced that she could see one or too: her friends, and Andy Chen was the first’ call. He entered the bedroom bearing orist’s box, und his anxious eyes sough Ellen's face. As he stool looking down y fees expression browght a lump inte be iL “Hello, Ellen." “Hello, Andy. 7 beer abel.” Kaen Bay ete have. You're better now though, ain't you?" Toots, Andy." “Bay—that's the bert neos since th armistice. Here—he stool the bor o flowers against a table—"1 brought these.' “Tsee you did, [saw all the others ya brought too. What's the idea, Andy? Go a nhouse somerheret™ “Quit your kittding. Say, Ellen—I gol great news for you. The old man neatly passed out.” “What do you mean—be mearhy died?" “Yeah—vou ain't the only one that's heen sick, Happened 2 week ago—] aw the whole thing. “Those thin-Legged chairs — you knew, the ones the ald man bought special—well, a stage hand dropped one al ‘em and broke it. ‘The old man saw hie. He started for hia like a wolf hound —you know ——" “T know,” said Ellen. “T looked to see murder, Hut when the old mon put a this fellow his face went all any ane # pitehed forward on the . We carried him into a dressing room and sent for adoector, and after a while they took him te his hotel. Heart went back oo him, the doctor sald. Must have bees right at the Sera Fates, where he eould hear the an ITE. “"Tann S Ellen said, "Too bad, nothing! It's the best thing that ever happened in the histary of show business, It's changed his whole charerter. I guess he got to thinking—anyhow, he's 2 weet and gentle ainee Re ecime hark he's breaking everybody's heart. Thouga there's plenty that aay they wish the thing ai struck him in his cradle.” Ellen laughed, “But the reason I'm telling yoo all this,” Andy continued—"T goes poo didn't know he canned you when be heard you was sick?" “He did!" she cried, her face cloutlines. “Wait a minute, When he shooed up the other day after this epell I figured it wa time to reopen the whole case, So] send te him: “How about Miss Llewelyn? She: bees pretty stele! Ard he anya: “Too bad. I'm sorry for anybody that's sick,’ He took hold ofimy apm anid bed mve to the ber office, Jenkina was sitting there, “Mii, save the old man," just give Andy Llewelyn’ (Continued on Page 72! ill te een

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Ta Storing Summer’s Luscious Flavors AXLADDIN'S magic lamp brought him a garden of jewelled fruit. Your Aladdin sauce pot, flaring dipper and colander will help you have fruits, berries and vegetables worth their weight in gems next winter. So prepare by starting your Aladdin canning set mow. ALADDIN Aluminum : afl supers = ste CLEVELAND KEW tes ati SE ae OU Stoves Ovens and Tiras DG, Enameled Stee] |* Three essentials of a canning set are the enameled stecl sauce pot, faring dipper and aluminum colander shown here. Each is scientifically shaped, moulded throughout with smooth rounded come|nrs and possesses other exclusive Aladdin conveniences. The red Aladdin label identifies the enameled stecl and the Aladdin quality mark the aluminum. At foremost hardware, housefurnishing and department atores, ALADDIN Set Now ) agreed, THE SATURDAY (Continued from Poge 7a) silary for the tine she's been out. And, her whore se cmt Eat andi che her sy sea Pori she comes et and in he meantime ns ] just put i here on the table, Ellen. eran “Better not handbe it yourself—germs on it. “Oh, alas Be Si just showal ‘There's goo in etd oly. Even the old man. “Laoke that way. But I'm glad you don't have to nearly kill most of ‘em to i i path ] teful And ‘in| nly to you, Andy, Seems like your tusane ta me—they ne pow a and. era [ didn't do anything, kid. I just. bie ee him his dut and he done it." Ady — you're a darling." "Don't that, Elen," he pleaded. “Unless un niess you From the room beyoge cane the voice of poghery Ye oe ne er. ms a moment, ped +!" He came inte the ali Thats bedracim. “Ellen, child, you're better, “T'm all Splenald ["" right. Just pretending t to be bbe dick. Like Fl pt to be waited an, Qh-—excuse me. Mr. Win- terlip, shake hands with Mr, Owen." ti Mr. eee graciously can with is. arequest, They exc aroha! turned again to Ellen ‘Arhey a ant t let me see before, | as eee been all righ t that nurse ——" Ellen began in 2 whis at about her?" asked Tony, humor- ously whispering too, “Isn't she a good one But I can’t let you ——" “Now, look here,” said T out lowd: “whe was to blame for this hard hock? Who walked you homme fn slippers through a mushy night? 1 eee ae cursed myself for it a thousand ti “Tt wasn't your Fault," Ellen told him. “T ought to have known better.” "Tt waa my fault,” he insiated, “And in the circumstances, anything I ean do for you—well, I mean todo it, And I'd like to Bee anyone stap me, Whieh reminds me —" He ealled the nurse, who come and stood in the doorw: Liss Llewelyn ba 7" he saked, women considered, “Well, that would aepene on where you wanted to more her, * Prociaely,” He turned to Ellen. “*T'ya thought it over, ond this isn't the beat place in the world for you while you're convalescing. I talked te mother sand she wanks you fs come and see us. I'd take et out in a Gosed car,” he added to the oO, in that eaae T should say about Wednesday, " the woman told him “Oh, no, Tony, I can't,” aald Ellen. hen ina | back to work this week. Andy dite, aad a waiti ee enema! cure notable. ‘you spend this week with us. We've got a big place over in Brockline—gi ¥E YOO a room where the aun comes in all Bi POOR with an open fire and all Po doer Cath tead. Country air. That's what you nerd. Don" t you think so, Air,—er— Mr. " How S000 cnn "Owen," said aaid Andy. He stood w bravely amillng. “You're right, Mr.—a er—you're Lite ae ea Tee The country’s i fine place— Bald ao.” He Ways turned to Elle “Tt's a great idea,” he aaidl, ou go—like he wants you to. It's the best thing you can do." "Well—just for a few days,’ Ellen ¥ LLEN sat of Tony's side in the big limousine. Outalde, the immuoculite apartment houses of sedate Brookline were flashing lay, “Ch, Toryw—I aughtn't to have come!" “Nonsense! Why matt “Well, for one thing—I haven't got the clothes." “Rotl You're an invalid, Ellen. You oun dress that part all right, Besides, we don't think about clothes out at our shack. It's the people inside them." She smiled at him side from under the crimson hat, How kind he was. He stepped on the gus, the apartments gave way bo open country, where hatisns stood in groves af bare, gaunt trees, They turned in between ban at atone posts. Up a neat drive borde by white birches the cur sped, and came to a stop before a beautiful colonial doorway that had been Pictured in all th: architectural magazines al the country, EVENING POST “Here we are,” cried Tony gayly. “Out yOu A Gukler opened] the.doar, teak Ellen's suitcase, “Justa minute,” Tony told ber. “Mother! he called, "Oh, moather— where are you!" He went through a door at the right. Ellen gummoned all her assurance as she stood in the big white hall that ran through the house and opened on a terrace at t rear. “Tony's mother must not guess that she had never been in a homé like this before, Nor must the butler, who stood there with the straw suitcase held like a hand grenade at his side, Tony reappeared with his mother, « tall, smiling, gractous Lady, young for her yen. “This is Ellen,” he sai The woman held out her hand and gazed with interest at the curious guest whom the impetuous Tony had forced u her, “How are you, my dear?" ahe asked. “I hope you're feeling stronger.” *I feel fine, thanks," Ellen answered, "Bat I—I'm afrald I'm making a lot of : trouble. I didn't want to bother you." “Not at all. Tony feels responsible for cur illness, you know. It's really very lod anit ti enme: it shows you forgive him, and takes a great load off his motnd." “Oh,” said Elten, amd looked at Tory's mother in awe, How unerringly she said just the ri - thing, and how easily. ony"s mat ty ai at her in kindly fashion. She wat ally a very fine woman, calm, Serene, pre pared for whatever the fates might send. it fa hia life had she refused Tony gacthhigcana there had been no inclination to be shocked at his rather quaint request that she open ar oors to Ellen Llewelyn— a chorus girl. boing be tars before the thing would have beer possible, But the world had changed, and Tony's mother remained young encugh to change with it. Hesicest, she wos rather curios to mect this girl who had caught Tony's fancy, “We hope you'll stay with us until you're quite well enough to go hack to your—your posatian,” ‘she said. “ Wharton will shew HM to room and I'll send ahneone up to help you" *_her eye fell on the suites, and word “unpack wos instantly abandoned—"to help you in any a a fn Jed the way Upstairs and belt Ellen alone in her room. The bright glory of it took her breath away, She stacu taking it all in—the gray paneled walls, the curtains of taffeie lu wiripesd in Tmauve anal ashes of roves, the old-rose brocade an the furniture, the aoft taupe rug. Through four t windows the late afternoon aun came ooling in. A fire was blazing in the grate and—yea—there were shelves filled with ex ivelooking books. he sat down, o litth weak, a litile breathless, This was what she had been aiming for ever sincr she could remember, this waa the room of her dreams, Always before it had been shadowy and unreal, but from this moment on it would be clear to the Last detuil. “Tm glad T came," she eso She went to = wadow ene terrace at the rear, with atepa aeetled dow toa pool and, beyond, a miniature forest. of gloriqus tress, Suddenly it sermed that she giood in her mother’s room at ME River Street, locked out on dreary shacks, on ragged children playing in the snow. She turned back to the room, half expecting aie ie Che blue-wnl- ee rma, and bowl. She gave a fittoes “Tt ae Bhe said. A maid knocked, but Ellon sent her away. Heyond an o door glewmed o white bath. She unpacked her bag, put an the little afternoon dress that must serve also for the evening, What next’ She sat for a the before the fire, She wondered if she should go downstaira alone, or whether she must wait for someone to come and lead her. Herold assuraner begun be come back, an intense euriasity seized her; abe went into the hall, down the stairs. Dusk was falling as she came into a huge dtwwing-roam, 1 slige setting upan Which her timkl entrance seemed to make no impression, A little oki woman with snow=white hair under a lace cap was sit- ting before the fire, She rose when she saw fi. “Hello, my dear," she said, “I'm glad bo see vou. Come over here arc sit dows.” ah joined sty before the fire. Tony's ndmother,” explained the old lady, She had a thin, eager face and ta eyrea that twinkled humorously. April #,49% “Yea—you Te old. ee stould have quite i frightf rightfully I hung an. Don't kaw a re yaa ‘hut No use wha except ane oort of link from the age that is past to the that ja waiting before. Hut there—you Hot a Harvard man, are you?" “No—of course not," smiled Ellen, somewhat miyatifed. “Thon't mind me Weird sens, ai humor, but the bust I've got. Hear you" " been ill—well, this is a splendid Since recuperate, Nothing ever happens, Dull ara tt * backwater, my child. Life goes ring by, somewhere beyond. We get the echoes after it has passed, Plemilnds me. Wharton '—she turned to the servant who was drawing the curtains—“‘has my Tbrit comet" he ang wered, “pena tor ht," the old Lady oe ia fo t ces y= She 3 saw that the girl's plained to Ellen. VES werd On B it above the fireplace, “Ab. vea—ecan't very well escape him, can mith he bishep. Demd thee sixty eur, ut still they bend the knee before him— those Winterslipa “Why —aren Mf you a Winteralip? Ellen “" Bilens ¥oU, not I'm alirosks, Married inte this family fifty yeura ago, but I"ve kept my own identity, thank: henven, Wasn't much to keep, but Thung on, Weil my dear—we're quite sti ip oFer your array, yes An “oe ramml heart" "ME ‘your ike _jiving. No man's creature, that so “Tt sure—it cert “Choeod for Hing uk ['d struck put for nial ‘hin I was young. Have more to look hack on now, Woul n't have done though. Scandalous in those days. Well, times have changed, and I'm glad af ie." She patted Ellen's Inns Hope you" I stay for a tine," sealed and ee dure wa. We're dull—duill as dishwater Hearts of gold, however." The servant came in handed her a neatly folded newapaper, “Ah, at last!" she ried. “Here's the echo. All nicely Tacdulated., attuned to my delicate eur, Now, where ure my Elasses—I had them when you Cama! Ellen “reseusd them im a corncr of the sofa. “* Yo said Tony's ri mother, “I don't rentiy-nesd Phare: t horn forssd on me. Want to make me loo old, these peaple do. But if any of ion should tell yao T ewn't read on word withoot them, they lie, my dear.’ She spread oat her paper, “Just make yourself at home, Ellen, know your ane, YOu Bee, Just pretend fou Live bere." “My home'sa—quite diferent from this™ Ellen smiled. “Ah, yit—nuve exciting, Lexpect. W some falls ore bern lucky, Fair warmer, ‘That's good. Revalution in Cer tral America. I"m glad to know thin changing somewhere, ae keeps me oi Ellen turned to a table on whire books and magazhves—dark brown zines devoid of illustrations, intl Blender radical weeklies, She se ss mf the latter, In various parts of the quiet roam lampa were glowing benewth shad.s of orange-gold tafleta, great chaira waited invitingly under each. Just faney—eore than one pluce where a person could read! She made her choice, and wes soon deep i in the rather startling discovery that, Anerica Was erase and uncivilized. It was a strange place to find this out, here in this peaceful, sre sy ly. ar I cane fh present “Ey a all right?" he wanted to "Ted meet grandmother? “Yea, To met ber," Ellen smiled, “1 think she's wonderful.” “Dron't Let her fool you, Tony kaughed, “She's a profane, diacontented old worn, He x. company for the innocent OTe old Jady put down her and winked at Ellen. é “ Poor "Tony," ahe said ‘ot the Winterslip disposition, Can't ri himself.’ She resucved her reading. ‘ony, Ellen said, “I think your mothers fine. So—so kind. And this hause—it's lovely, and so homelilee too.' “You sit that you get well then. Bot not too fast. We mustn't let you soon, Must we, mother?” he wi Alte. Winterelip came tn. “Wot too goon,” she anerwened with her kindly nl Dinner a marvel of cal pre sion, with fartin in his glory. Elles was (Cantinaed on Page 75)

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| | Fist 8 ore ee ef ad ee, ee ang ew figs far chopelle So a | aeday do herp dows di mod of sain ang. ¥ “a T oa ay + i "as if * lee oer =i Taye SO Hi eS ae ee ee eae SS hnston’s i I Tks if od cree a | Jodanoe oir 4 toe the fail, dint ed chocmiais counting gelicl is fherathruiér af aff Poe Chee hea, : lL I ——————EooOO OE ee EEE iva =. ro Th ee: ee eh | 1 = eT =. : — a ee ee =F =. -_-—--— =a = rs Die —his gift compliments her good taste and proves his own good judgment A’ admires a young man for inferring that the Johnston candy is her favorite—che gift is not oly a subtle tribute to her good taste, but the evi- dence of his own. Tt sugpests that only the finest is worthy to be offered at her shrine. It shows that he mows the best—which is equally important. Chocolates differ preatly. Johnston's wet noted for the extra thick, mich thorolate coating. This coating tats more than the center. Hence takers are tempted to thin it. We make our own chocolate. Thus we control its quality. We we only the finest of the 110 grades @ coma bean, from which chocolate tad Every process gets the utmost mtm and care. The longer chocolate is whipped, the better it becomes. Ours is worked four times as long as the average. This ouluples costs by four. But that is the price of 4 APPRECIATED CHOCOLATES perfection. A Johnston chocolate must be the finest that can be made. To insure purity and exquisite flavor, we make our own syrups. Also our cream fondant—the inside everywhere. Lf any dealer can't supply you, send us the coupon. Let her choase the kinds she likes best The Johnston (Choice Box contains 22 kinds of candies, Tt also cuntiing a boaokler showing haw these 12 kinds are assorted In Goother favoring Johnston bowes, Each plece in the Choice Box ia plainly identified by nome. Give her the Johnston Choice Bax and let her select her favorite combinations. At good stores ‘a arr "a 1 ' —_—_—_ ee This is noe @ pound box, but a special Jnproeducnery assoeetmert— a2 kinds—of our finest chocodanes and ogheer confections. SS ee ee of chocolate creams. We use nothing but the rarest Cuban cane sugar—finer than ordinary table sugar. We accept only whole nuts and fruits—never culls or broken nut meats Thus we are sure of luscious fruit centers. Hence our nut centers are full-flavored and tasty. Wie buy nothing already made up. We make every: thing ourselves. All our chocolates are dipped and packed in rooms where the air is washed, For over 73, years we have been making fine candy. Many of our most famous recipes are nearly that old. Inall this time we have never compromised onquality. Now we ask you to try Johnston's for yourself, should you not already know them. Once you have tasted Johnaton’s, no others will satisfy. Note our introductory offer. JOHNSTON'S Milwaukee MAIL TO JOHNSTON'S, MILWAUKEE Enclased find $1, for which send me a Johnsten Choice Box. a i a Street No. — a Onaggist's Name.

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i THE SATURDAY EVENING POST : April #190 wa | Per a ss BB vertrenes for instance, in making good smoking tobacco FOLKS, Time can be either a good servant or a hard master, dependin’ on its use. THERE'S tobacco, for instance. You can’t crowd Nature when the tobacco’s growin’ an’ you can’t rush Time when the tobacco’s agein’. 50 WE take that good ole Burley that npened slowly in the Kentucky sun and we store it in wooden hogsheads for fwo years. Time makes it mild an’ sweet as notAing else can. PUTTIN’ quick-sand in the hour-glass won't shorten the day's work, an’ quick methods won't mellow tobacco. Stick to Velvet, the aged in the wood pipe tobacco. Vetwol for Me 1972, Locnert & Mike

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Co hia esi Pag? 72) aning to The gr _ Sates brichy. a and her talk, as a e told Lal wa os good as iter dimmer they had coffee in the ring-room, and more talk, and then yy BE the pisno, Then every bod book a Cond chose a lamp and a i; race, perfect peace. A log fell in the last, sending up & shower of irtonm Ap at once, ars log was oped to jis proper position, the servant = os he hod come. A — _ rang somewhere in the dis- silenced. Sidealy E Exllen stirred restlesdy, her d strayed from her book. Qut in the a great elock chimed the hour of eight. thoughts winders te the theater: ahe the girls straggling in, demanding their L chmnbingg the iron stalrs. She was in dmesing room, heard the babel of voices. m, down in the wings, the last notes af overture beyond the curtain, Mickleaon ae ete te to ae ee a ae on. She ut it Lenya sted and said bt. Grandmother beech sedges thrust a volume inte her hands, ap md it,” ugel “Teaches you to pla vet, | need a partner. Want a pantie rand then—got to have it. Keepe me promive] and went to her wonder- room. A single lamp with a roaeand- uve shade glowed by the head of her {, the covers were turned back invitingly. vhad never dreamed that life could smoothly. fihen she awoke in the morning it was ing on with never a ripple. A maid Jed down at her and announced that her th eat ready. The breakfast table etood as food of sunshine, | ‘one amiled amd eplemant. Tony ran off to his office, the re With Tony*s mother Ellen made no prog- etowerd intimacy, but by noon she and t gandmother were old friends. They ied poquet er, went for a drive ber bene Another evening, cut from the on ‘ore, and then te Say morning Ellen went to the lephone and roca oa car ic A. “hdl Andy. Did I wake you?” she len ta that youT Say—how are “Sy, the Andy, 1 can compla _ can" na “That's good. Getting better?" "['mall right, Andy. et How's the show? Vhat's the newa?" "E alovely. Sold out Mon igtt how's that fora hit? Of eer 2 rol you. “Te Por, Tt What I called up to ey=] wh you'd tell Mickleson to expect ve tact next Thuraday night.” “Th . Sr het Are you rey Met Teed tiaape in: Prise, One- aght manda.” “That's the talk! eed paver apacty ter the dhe. What be tthe stage door. Gee, I'll be glad to the date of her dep Foure fhaed she better. Three more days alipped by, i as eee eters, calm, uneventful, morning she announced the ite of her ure. Her hostess re- evel the awe philosophically, but Tony ra ganar wore loud in their pre io however, was firm. Tih ae er head a Dayan ary right along. It rin tbefair not to yo hack just as soon | ea "ka morming Ellen and the Tay, ered round the piquet , jes fa Proaghtful. Sudden, ln=Typ t og u Widens, te lie of a hand, ehe spoke: a you must heave. Have a gored “Wondei* gaid Ellen. tem, I you did. We all enjoy ‘ce Me, I'd like a week in the ta up my heels, amoking Tie” laughed. “Tut [ was here I? Dull here. Dull no dish. ‘Wel ererfthing is aort of peaceful ane Elles admitted. THE SATURDAY "Exactly, I've been wondering—how would you like th as a steady diet? ike a. bridge brtween your life and this—chilly trip across —like sip ta eat er March. Still, wld make it d ¥, You" re that sert. But what would find when you landed? dope erie his. " She waved a thin ald the quiet roam. “Great race once, the Winberslipa. I'm a Brooks Tmy= self, but [ say it—wonderful men. Even the bishop, stuffy ge al but—ehat did at— of petened out riod Tony lovely boy—last of the parts and a pretty poor imitation. Only a think he's—he's very niet,” smi len. “Good word for him—nice. Colorless and inefecktive, He'll end like his Unele Charlie, Charhe flits nbout—Santa Bor- bara, Palm Beach, the Riviera, the White Hountaina—like a fly on a hot griddle, el going somewhere, hunting SOE , doesn't know what. There's more ln ite, th eomfort, pretty chalra, soft ear- There's. knowing where you're go- Ingman moving rf ht,” Ellen said. =F Rie Yr ah t Think it over, Stagnation. You couldn't stand it. bee re Sestnai eantgiat Tonic ue what are you walting for? It's an At ieee ‘clack thet sikentscods ETA sald good-by and Tony drove ber back to the elty in his Wttle racing cor, with her feet resting on the straw aultease, The April air brought eclor to her cheeks and made her lev than he had ever seen her before: the warmth of her ahoulder nat his thrilled him aa few Winteralips had been thrilled te date. A reckless mond came upon him. “They're mighty fond of you—mother and nilmother both," he said. “ But ne mder. Who wouldn't bet” He turned and looked at her. April was urging him on. Ellen's heart #tood still; she was no het, but she knew what was i ey were in a shabby street hack of a big factory, a street where the houses: were the same, unpainted, sagging, sad parcdies of home. "T was born in a street like this," Ellen ning on a gate, "That ba wnt ud, Laying in mud,” et went on, “that sa Fo have been Leen Years mA shiver passed own ia Winteralip’s fastidious epine. After all, there waa time yet, time to consider, time to weigh. Early environment—he read about it—it content 5 Pee His whole life—he mustn't Tony. Cautious by inheritance, by training. (ine of those lost souls who see "Glad to get back to work?’ he in= ired. quired, “T've had a wonderful time.” Ellen emited st him pityingly. "But I'll be pretty glad to get back,” When he stopped his racer before the door of the apartment Ellen reached into her pocketbook and took aut a roll of bills, “Tony—I want you to tnke this.” “Nongense, What is it?" “It's the money you paid the nurse, I had Lil find out how mach it was." "Couldn't Thinks af it, Ellen." “But 1 owe you for—so many things. I'd rather me wis Te aaa} in it, it Tony.” “Hoot!” He lenped out and or suitense into the hall, “I'll leave you here, Ellen." “Tony —phease ta taken jet" “Don't be silly, Ellen," rae wish you would, [gue you know ow, —herw T foel. You've been ap kind. ret Nothing ak all,"" Tony sald. “T'll call you up in & aay or Ewa.” The door banged behind him. She went upstairs. The apartment wis deserted—a note from Lil pinned to o porbive, “Weloome home, honey. See you mt the theaber.”" She smiled happily, sat. down at the little desk, took pen acl . “Dear T shut wrote. The i finished, she folded the money carefully, put it inside, kuor- rowed one of Lil's stampa. Then she went UY downstalm, the fat letter in her The dressing room was nhlaze with FA the girls were screeching rowne her. * dachess—you bork ta the ald life? What's the good werd with the four hundred?" EVENING POST Lil, greatly excited, was hooking her in the back, From somewhere outside came the voice of Mickleson : “Girla—for God'ssake! Whereareyou?" They clattered down the iron stairs and on the stage, Ellen took her old position for the rise of the curtain. Out front the last addres notes af the overture resounded like a battle song. She shook her skirts, made sure of the pins in her hat—smi She mustn"t forget to smile, The curtain rose on a clatter of seats, ushers racing down the aisles, expectant faces, Out there in the dark a new audience, @ mew | adventure. Life was whirling on, The line of girke amine mayiy do siti to the lights, nd there Andy lig the baton in his hand, ami hi up at her agin. ae sal opposite pete in the bright din= ing roam of the most favored for parties. T had a pe table near the orchestra. er cheeks were flushed with the jay af comlog back te her litthe world, her dear world, the theater. In her ears rang a buzz of giddy talk, the tinkle of Bilver and china, the melodious lilt of o fox trot. Movement, color, excitement— wie a life be without these things’? on. =e pet, excorted by 6 contig Sone ae car ro] abeeriioas wat He beside her. ‘'H a, Llewelyn. Glad to see you back, Den't leave ws again.” He passed on to his favorite tuble in a corner. What did I tell you?” Andy laughed. “Little Sunshine—that's what we bir "On answered Every- pois ‘s Saban that I'm ao happy — getting | ac “Honest, Ellen? Happler than you wos out there in the country fee Se ee at happened "That's t ay, What out there, anyhow?" ce “Not a dog-goned thing, Andy. Mot | | one.’ "Well, af course—it waa the country. But what did you do with Ltt" "YT read, Andy. Take it from me, I've been through enough books to last me twenty years. I don't want to read seat life any more—I want to live it," “You've come to the right shop then, Ellen. The pieatess: » Always something whine tit the truth? ah laughed. it the " she The minutes , amd she told herself it was the happiest night of her life. How comfortable ta be with Andy, someone who talked her language, ipo who knew her world. t him serenely ani the white ta Felotin His face waa shining WL pleasure and exeitement. Really And wasn't bad-looking, not bad- looking at all, oy one? told me what ing, Andy,” she said present was sick—and before, “Me? Oh—I'va nothing bo report, nt You summed me up ones, = you Fight, [ quem, Just drifting al oni. Cards all n hte slexp all day, That's me: ' She smil at him, “A ¥, you're a bad she sald, here was tenderness in her smile, and nffection, The ee was pl bg now, a. sweet abd ae peerage Be oh SURES a Tone, TOT erinoling. Her eyes bl ag at Andy, Dear eee thel fares he had done for her—what waa this talk of hie getting busy, easing good? Waa she a slave driver oF a WoRMAn Life with Andy—she considered it. Why, it would be wonderful—eolor, excitement, A eheerful littl flat in Harlem, zs with hia collar of, Genling times now and then, but you pot - to expert that in the show business, And Ane a good-nature, she knew, would never er, She leaned across the table. The music was ae a gentle climax; it seemed to pull at her very heartstrings. “Say, listen, Andy—if you still want me—I'm willing.” She framed the sentence in her mind. She i “Bay, listen, Andy at's that they're ninying?” Andy eutin. “A new One On The. “Me too,” she answered. “But isn't it beautifal, Andy?" “Honest —do you think so?" he cried, 'Ceatinued on Page FF! WATERSIDE SUEDE-LIKE Toms of Waterside “Soede-Like™ hold first place in feminine favor. They're so chic and trim! So youthful and becoming! So fascinat= ing in thelr colorings and eo everlactingly du. rable. Adelighthulrange Tama of Warerside “Suede-Like™ are sold at good stores every: where. Be sure the Tam you select has the Waterside “Suede. Like" label. Lf your dealer dora mot carry the genulne Waterside “Sucde-Like", send ws his name and $2.00 and we will see that you are supplied. State color preferred. The penwine is stamped igs ESE aa MiSs — How ett &Hockmeyer. Go Makers af WATERSIDE (ORDUROGOYS AND VELVETEENS i eis Ara wutpares tyii4 ope ra tL ae

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76 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ; April &, -Warn-0-Meter WN ~~ ~ 2ewaring Light ay seen Day?’Night F YOU are an experienced driver there's no need to tell you of the disastrous effects of engine overheating. You know how quickly it results in loss of power and pick-up. Keep your car out of the shop. Awoid over- heating, Don't depend upon steam from the radiatorto warn you, Steam may pass unnoticed, especially at night. You can't possibly overlook the Warn-Q-Meter's bright red warning light. At a normal motor temperature a green light appears in the Warn-O-Meter. Should the motor begin to overheat the green changes to pink and to a brilliant red, unless necessary ' I precautions are taken. The Warn-O-Meter =i eer th takes the motor’s temperature from the motor {ii} F | ahaa itself. Not from the water in the radiator. ; i ht \ i a A beautiful addition to the car. The glowing fniwaee | ee vIn FRET EB Ro light, atop radiator or fender, attracts admiring AW attention. In the non-indicating side may be ff | placed a special insignia, car name-plate, mono- iyi ban lodge emblem or trade-mark illuminated The Deloss Model, in beaarifal all- | “ 14s : The Diskast Diixiah: bo benifal si: 1a y the light within the instrument. Se EE fore nicks : ‘Oa, rit ie Moilel foe, Petst Cina, stration es iH \ Particularly good looking is the Warn-O-Meter to the Standard Model, in $10.00, jit mounted on a Stewart Hinged Radiator Cap as pictured The Peotogos Hinged Hadistor Cap, Pek teat : imi i in all-nickel Gish, in priced at $6.00. fii below. The hinged top eliminates unscrewing the oe a Secncde tase weil: eile at caer tain all fll radiator. Can be secured on radiator so that neither ondoring: ' , (| cap nor Warn-O-Meter can work loose nor be stolen. STEWART-WARNER SPEEDOMETER COR'N I | CHICAGO, LIB. AL | | PRODUCTS USED ON 7 MILLION CARS MC!

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'‘Contiaand from Page Fe) A huge figure towered above them. Slien heated up into the face of the old nan. furiouw, contorted, terrible with ger. “Damn it, Andy!" he eried. “What lows this mean? | eur musle, ce 2 Tey rou gee money—an lees PE Iban thbout where any fool can eteal [t. It's an SO ragre, ee vou're to blame! T held you res peal “You better cool off,” Andy remarked gently. “The last time [ saw you this way was just before we called the doctor.” The old man sank into a chair and mopped his damp forehead. “You're reht,” he admitted. “I must cut that out. T most be calm. Tam. But, Anely—miy boy— this ies vg in,” Andy ex- plained. Te Ft rm then eee note, It waa joat once—T[ arranged it as a eurpriae for Elen. You don't muted that." “Oh, wery well." The old man‘s hard features softened. “You're taking a chance, but T mappese you gure it's warth it. I wanted to speak to you, Andy. Barton's libretto came t —it"s great atuff— only don't tell him T said so. | wired him marie we oould make fe de, with fixing. You and I better get together toe morrce asd fit your numbers in. [ve got a New York theater for Labor Da snd I want to open about the middle a gust. re “ Ande!" cried Ellen. wet he talk= ne abt 7" “Why—don't you know?" The old fan stared at her. “Haan't he teld you? Cur young — i is a rising young composer. ear—he's comin (f course his stuff's" pretty crude yet,” the added rpms Mies it shows promise," He ocd up. sure and cet year script bark, Andy.”’ he advised. wouldn't crust that leader, He worked for me once.” He went back to his table. “Andy—is this what you've been up ta?” ‘s eyes were shining. “How did you like that waltz, kid? You mid it was beautiful. Do you ‘think a1— honest? "Oh, Andy,” she answered aetna “Tt just fa Just seemed to get me." it's 8 little thing I've had in my five Years oF more. “Els eens trembled. Fora moment she ro eee She stared at him—at the carried that lovely melody for pape She thought of Tony Winter- Hip, stting at the Symphony, discoursing on the history of music. Educated, polished, apetleman, uneble if his life depended on tio write a single bar of Andy's waltz or a else that was beautiful and new. ma ann doing Ar show for the old y?" Ellen me “af mre am, You see, aomething said —it muigut have been you— pot roe ing. Sol had a piano moved Sto my room, and I started in on it— mitings, I worked out a lot. of stuff L'd fet fuming ower for years. Then I went tothe old man—it was just alter his bad wel—and he pretended the stuff was rot- ten, butt he was i in, an awful hurry to sign me op for a show." *] i rt you, Andy. I guess after thaw isten bo fawte “All my dresums for you, Andy—they're. coming true, “You're gol to be a big van in the show shop. Won't you have THE SATURDAY EVENING POST exciting times—firat nighta be fe in the pit, directing your owh aeore, 6 you'll over to oo, and da im revue there, ‘hen boon to Parks ——' “To Czecho-Slovakia if you say so," ered Andy. “Only—only, do I have to go alone, Ellen?” All his soul was in that question, She looked [nto bis eyes, considering. If only ahe had told him that she was ready to take him before the news of his success caméalong, takehimashe was! But now— it was too late now. She hed never been ao fond of flim as she wies to-night, but wouldn't he think her mercen und cal- | eulating if she told him eo? moment, of course. But some d ne the thought would come to apt ay the check, Andy," she said, * ‘and | let" ey Be Poor Andy! “"yh, I se,"* he mail. Ellen, I"ve made a good fight, but I couldn't Gory I guese. T'm not in his cloes—I] don't trail with his kind at all, I—I wish wor “ Andy—please—hurry," she sa While he was waiting for his al the | orchestra leader came up with the seript of his waltz. ‘It's great stuff, Andy!" said. “Congratulations. If anybody malts roe [ll aay you've got the goods.” “Phanber” answered Andy grimly. He put the Sie aan hia poeket, “Tt doesn't sad now ey were OUL in he street. “Cheer up, an Ellen said. verything I wrote—it waa for you,” he told her. “Tm proud of that, Andy. And you'll write even bi abut," “Waybe. 1 don't know.” At a corner she took Bim by the arm. “We're not going hore juat yet," alee sald. “T want to drop in at Dan's place firat.” “ Dan's place Great Seott, Ellen! You atill hungry?! “Tt looks that way, doean't it?" she an- ewered. Dan was on duty. “Say, listen, Dan,” Ellen began. “Some time ago I left an a ope with you. A bet. My name waa on i “Sane,” he said. “Here are.” “Much obliged, Dan. anne on, Andy. She led the dazed Andy back inte the alley, and halted him in the light that streamed from Dan's window. She handed him the aaa "Tt's for you,” she said, “Open i He took out the soiled bit of paper. ae ae] “Well, you happiness, kid, All the luck in the | po "Dan's Place, Bill of Fare. February 21," | he read, “Grape fruit ——- "On the other side," Ellen explained, "Oh, | remember now, over, "Dear Andy: I'm making a bat with myself. I'm betting if I you goo and mad you'll wake up and deliver. Oh, A don't disappaint me, because I’m terri ibly fond of you, and I'm afraid il have to take you whether zon land or ae He thrust the per into his nara "hecried, turned to her, "Ellen!" “Now you Andy." ‘i deem vdarling. wvand just when I thought | "Not a Faisal she told him. “I hea A mixed up with that bunch, nee awe’ t stirred since the | Anty. i and that was cee YORTs aD, t you and me—you and I, Andy— cereal going oF. Juntet on fhe Cofumbin Bier, Ore gen He turned it | | “Comfort at every point —from neck to knee’ :: yi didn't somebody make an athletic union suit like Topkis long ago? It has every- thing I've been hunting for years! “Look at the long, wide legs! You can walk all day in Topkis without ever feeling a pinch or a pull. Hangs loose from your shoulders, scarcely touching your body. Big, roomy armholes. Crotch never gapes or binds, “Fits exactly right—no bageginess; no clumsy belt, The man who designed Topkis knew something about the human body. “And listen—Topkis lets your skin breathe. Keeps you full of pep. Wo stuffy feeling. “Quality? Walue? Feel that fabric. Look at the workman- ship. Seams firmly stitched; but- tons puton tostay. Where could you get anything like it for a dollar except in Topkis?” Only the best nainsook and other high-grade fabrics are used in Topkis Athletic Underwear. Pre-shrunk full size guaranteed. But get your size—38 if your coat is a 38, and so on. No good dealer will ask more than a dollar for the Topkis Men's Union Suit — although many will tell you it's worth more. Men's Union Suits, $1.00. Men's Shirts and Drawers, 7c per garment. 75c for Boys’ Union Suits, Girls’ Bloomer Union Suits, and Children's Waist Union Suits. Auk jor TOPKTS Undrracar. Look for the Topsie label. Wwstrated hoabler tells seuderwear facts you ought to krow. Wrrise for free copy. TOPKIS BROTHERS COMPANY, Wilmington, Delaware General Soles CMicen: 19) Aroadway, Kew York Ciny at ll =" a

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78 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Non-Porous Cooking Utensils — Beautiful— Healthful Just as the whiteness of ermine is empha- sized by the rich black tipe—juse as senking beauey is broughe our ina pale gown touched af with dark velwer—eso the blue-grey of Neco Reval Granite Enameled Ware en- haneca the beaury af the white kitchen, On a white range, on the white porcelain topalehe work table; ar the marbleswhiee sinks in the white cabiner— beautiful blucgrey meoe- the Neeco Royal Ware harmonizes handsamely, | It breaka the monotony of all-white, Te deqorates and yaers charaeter to the whine kinchen- Sesco Revel Ware its admirably in the eolor scheme of any kitchen. Tt alway harmonizes, en eee Besides the attractive appearance of the glossy, mottled blue-crey = — mms, suriace,NescoRoyalWare "| | hasbeautyotdesign,Ench * # utensil is artistically fash. + _ 1 _+ ionedd, of trong, durable, - lasting materials, a el oie The baseof NeseoRoval ioed Ware ig of preset steel— - ‘ heavy, Shapely—on the ; : surface of which pure melted granite—the hardese of rock—is Howed and baked into the Very Pore, The Neaeo prey granite gives to the ware a hard, porcelainslike surface, comscqucntly very durable and long lasting. Ut is srieach one even, free from pin-holes. Each utensil is cacefully inspected, Saver Al Food Values and Flavors Because Neaco Royal Ware 6 non-porous and mon-absorbint; because of ite flint-hard, glassy surface, contact of food with meral ig absolutely prevented, All food elemenes, ea. pecially the precious, health-giving mineral properties, are retained. None are lost through absarpricn, Neseo Royal Ware deca not discolor. Fool particles cannet ponetrace areal ledge in the granite surface, ‘Therefore, odora of foods never cling to the wtensil, Tedious scouring or apecial boiling out are unnecessary, o 242 Nesco Reval Ware ia food-acid- proof, There is no puasible chance of chemicalization which impairs the flavors nods, Thar ia why Neseo Royal Ware should be used in che cooking and canning of fruits, | For the aake of the health of the family the | wie housewile and cook achects Nesoo Roval Ware. Trenables her top re berter- | cooked, betrer-flavered dishes with all food Valucs trenained. Hear is conducted through the heavy steel base evenly and quickly. irresistible To The Economical Fg ‘Used Every Day for Months - wissttiact’ == ST Gives a Perfect Blue Flame deatas coral. It is not unusual for a Nesco Rockweave Wick to give months of unvarying service. Housewives have learned to expect this depend- able service from it whether it is new or months old, With the Nesco Perfect Burner, this durable wick produces a perfect blue flame close under the utensil. It gives an odorless, smokeless heat best suited for all cooking. It is ready to be lighted at a moment's notice without pre-heating or generating. Housewife The heusewile is at once impressed with the The Nesco Perfect Oil Cook Stove has so that anyone can afford it. See this stove economy of Nesco Royal Ware gained favor as much with the city as the at progressive hardware, house furnishing or lent lve dupe ak ane erica, country housewife because of its beauty, con- department stores. There you will find the After that, foe jeune res venience and low operating cost. As a Nesco Royal Granite Enameled Ware which daily proof of che coomary of summertime cook stove it has been particu- has been used by housewives for over forty the ware—it is so durable, larly appreciated. You will want ta own a years, Also, the Nesco Perfect Oil Heater mbar a heb eg fc Neseo Perfect Ohl Cook Stove and it is priced and the Nesco Perfect Water Heater. : grandd hters. Age and daily Send for free dootier of '"Taroty Pieked Recipes,” by Ades. Simon Kander, anthor of The Settlement Cook service are not evide by dents and dis- Aook. atdiress Notioval Enameling Gf Stomping Co., Jac. advertising Depe., Ser. DO Mfthoates, 1 ra. coloration. ety, imeadinahate in| NATIONAL ENAMELING & STAMPING CO., Inc. year it amounts to many hours. Only water : aay p 7 - aed mild soap are ete Neneedo expen- ST. LOUIS GRANITE CITY, ILL. NEW YORK MILWALREE ahve cleaners, no lishing, HE special boaling | BALTIMORE CHICAGO NEW ORLEANS PHILADELPHIA out toecleanse. Elimination of these irritating and disagreeable methods helps to keep the housewife's hands smooth, white and lovely and her good spirits unrated, Free Recipe Book Z al UUrerisila for every pur rigy be obrained) - a ‘ In Segoo Hoyal Ware. Hotels, hosptroks, gra j cers, meac deolers,— nfl . i fied equipment im this AT, line. [cr the home, oa ead and special uses in the St, a home, there are Mescu . Royal Ware utensils in all chapes one sines. An atrractivedescriprve folkler and a handy O) JI lat ] recipe book wall be gent upon red@est. Addcdmeas: National Fnomeling & el Co, Inc:, Advertiing Dept, Sec, DO, Milwaukee, Wis. —

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ie entire business interest of the cammu- ny. Their boards of directors are chosen om four main g Evans te leading retail ors, the industries, the banking and uincal community, and apis ni ipers, heir power to handle ciees upan te wide extent of iheliya reeation and. flations, and upon the willingness of con- en in many branches of business to con- bute mot onty meney bat information and aiabarnveas At first sight it is a curious and striking uct’ that ery organizations, which tn heir erat and even oow in he tech- teal conmectiona resent only the idea. od force of advert Eq. are: i to do for aeiness what business: cannot co for itself. ibviowsly ar is only one part of sine, and dei dfshocts af the chee ner clubs have been able to rush where most powerful organizations I producers have 2 te tread. 2 oad be says yu thet a Ape om twenty-three ng fhe when in- wtyaten proves that most of oo bearings For te or ornare: and nat ‘or movable parts, it oght adem as if the local retail or jewelers’ association or the state 4 rational eweltrs’ assmciation whould him. If a man who hiraself a dentiet says that all dental work is rendered entlredly by him, when irae ape thing is impossible, why enged the dental asso- eation of the eounty or mate run him out? The trade and profes- fon] aasockations da in LenS instances drive cut the more obvious Froads and fake fakers. But inrt os ty of room for ootsid)e ctrizilabions lee the hetter-business bureaus, for a reason which i it simple if not al- vious to & re who hes never bid to give the subject thogght, If one concern tics: another in the same line of busi- vas, oreven if the charge is brought by an manchtion, it if sa easy to insinuate that jalony is the actuating motive. “( curse the state jewelers’ assncia- on is me," the man who is nine lake watehes, use they know Len selling better goods than their mem- bem are, for bess money." In the same way the painless dentist yee that the dental association is com- raed of members who are jealous of his all He insinuates that are hi priced, old tine and hidebound, A similar igeeent is made by the crooked stock ira who is criticized by legitimate tres There is nothing he likes better tus ctticam from such a source, for it eubla kim to point to the Wall Street in- teresta, who a says are trying to destroy hom. He the under dog who la being wtaeled by the | big fellow. Methods Employed Of curse the faker's argument is largely bank, but it serves his purpose. He always rapitalions the attempt of vata. busi- baa Lo make him ecm girly. He is ibways looking for a aati quarrel with hgitimate business, and is dignified by its utentlon, A remarkable illustration of this sieve lo by a case of t moter who sent a representative to a small bat legitimate broker and induced the to make m statement criticizing the Promoter's financial reports. He then wrote a letter to the broker demanding a retraction, but the letter was written merely to build Op correspondence upon which to bat erastional advertising, This litte trick really gave the pro- moter his start, for hae he wos able ta OOTHe oo with a ieee headed Wall It F hapcenad that the fm rece wou ve Thode no diference if he neral @ pro THE SATURDAY EVENING POST COMMON HONESTY OF SPEECH (Continaed from Page 27! The ad oter was later given a jail sen- t mot. until after he had sold ean million dollura of practically wen les stock to nearly seventy thousand innocent persons, For he the preju- dice that exists inst Wall Street and cleverly renlized that he could make ao strong appeal with the unthinking Investor by connecting up in his advertising man operating in the finanelal field, wit Wall Street, He waa able to get right down to the dear public with a false but very =e - , Substantlally like this: wonder why Wall Street is Plas ti ot will tell you, For yoora down in Wall Street they have had o litthe inner circle, a JTealubla Com, Leoke Mack the Dome and when any great at ples came out of the Weat with o money idea this litthe inser circle financed fe by puttieg in o few bun dred dollar each, and from this investment they realized millions, 1, however, knowing that you had a fow hundred dollars to invest, ‘erred to go to you in financing my com pany, aed bogie ou the opportunity to make the millions bd this for the ve selfish rea son Ehat you would net only be able to finance my company but that your interest. would can- Unue perpetually aod ald and oasiet nein aelllng eara in your territory when the company gets to production. for that resson Wall Street is after me, but T have observed that boys de not throw eticks into ‘Wal Steet t and T arm complimented that Wall Street sees the future al this bua reais as cloarly as Taea it, Now T hove their secret and [ am cl thi a company which will rival ond per drive them out of busines, and the only Pe ching they are sore about & that 1 know ee have got one bundred dollara and I arm goin give you the chance to put it in aad get ric ea they want it thoamsel yes. Then af course he told how one hundred doliara originally invested in the Standard Ol Company or the Ford Motor Compan; ls now worth several hundred thousan dollars, and how in his company the dear public instead of Wall Street would make the fortunes, : Now, the National Vigilance Committee and the local better-business bureaus not represent any one branch of business, whether brokers, bankers, jewelers or den= tists. They represent wivertising, the eom- mon instrument of all business, ‘Therefore they cannot be accused of jealousy or of a competitive motive, Their sole interest is advertising, and they are in the closest ible touch with = every farm and neh, seme forty in all—n cee aie: srianeationg. posters movin tures, direct mail and the like, No Thee organizations can eo effectively detect PIF thie Alanalee's Wife Weare ihe Warking Girl Wants «ae Aetdcie Tahoe eevee tlie ts Misuise ae abuse, They can take a i ee ay ested Ba far Bs mil oie e ind concemed, whith is dlifficu t for the Had to capital= tae to Kis own inenefit, The question may be waked why any- thing like a seriou: diversion from truth in advertlaing slatements should not res ceive the attention of the legal authorities ical aitict attorneys, state and Federal peep agen and the like. But the work af auch fe authorities is rrandled’ by whereas Oe bulk of the cases han the National Vigilance Committee and ae better-business bureaus is dispeeed of through means of educational propaganda suggestion and mea SuasION. There are three aep- arate methewiea em- pare to bring about onesty of statement, The first is buggestion, the second is public- ity, and the third is Prose cutie I The inst is rarely resorted bir. Oot of teo thousand five hiindred onus handled in one elty, anly eight required prose cution. fully ee he cert ate if ara emplo and cou th gener: educational work, will accomplish. It ap- plies to the business man who is fagitinates, who is building for the future and who Toolines Cig the value of a good name, If some- thin a cue in his business he is su iy gi gl be told about it and tries ca erankiia recurrenot. ‘The bocn! burenu his attention to the misstuternent, poe that it ia sure he desires to cooperate in the bureau's elforta to make the elty's wilvertising ma truthful aa possible. A newly nized automoble-tire firm nilopted a trade name very similar ta that of a house of long atanding. The business ee eda of the concern was appesled ta, it to abandon the trade name of ite old eompetiter in the interests. of fairness. It is often found that where one concern encroaches upon the trade name of another it ia aufficient to point out that the gomdwill of both competiters will be jeopardized. Thousands of cases of this aort are settled yearly, and whore the erring concern readily complies with su ions no publicity results and the file is closed. _ Publicity is almost os deadly as prosect- tion, ‘1 ds of copies of a bulletin sent to ReNape Dare throughout the cawntry for publication ia a deme that eke sh quires titton. Publicity is menatly to ines oem who are ll so who want to be considered as honorable as the beat, but whe attempt te put some er revery time they get a chance, ere is but one thing ft da with this of man when we have definitely es- shed his policy," saya Richard H. Lee, director counsel of the national committee, “and that is to tell other business men of hia methods." Some time ago the National Vigilance Committee on request took up the matter af determining to whom credit should be given for first manufacturing a product et ue now in common use and of ex- Atte importance. It had been committee to adjust the con- bee two competing concerns without eer publicity. the investigation was still on it earned that both concerns contemplated running advertisements, each claiming that the committee had decided for its ciai Both companies were called upon to ex plain, and both promised not to run the advertising, Cases for Prosecution One of the companies kept its promise, while | the other not only broke its word but used the truth emblem of the committee, which mo private concern is ever permitted under any circumatianestoemploy, Whaere= upon the committee jasued the newspapers rev stance, mentoning ies by name and untalaige thia epee pl ciation: “The committes da foreed to take nd attitude that the X Company or lta re sentatives, aa the case may be, ln pu ing these advertisements, have been E a breach of faith and a violat whe c onfidenos, They have sought to their relations with this committee in pir od their “the ony not to do so, and have Aauntesd prea be rig emblem of the rei the yr of their ! ace of an express seit and in bold indiffer- — to ordinary standards of ca. Prosecution is used only when the committee or local bureaus are certain they are dealing with an absolutely Uegitimate inter- eat, “with the fellow whe hes no sear tiga sfc fhe hobiet profit on an honest wet, whe cares nothing about the bullding of goodwill, who has ne interest in other individuals eonnected with his industry, who, if he were not en in Wak ad vertis- ing, would probably be picking ng banks or » bu seuttling shi The sooner he removed from business gener- ally the better it is for everyone conmerned. His liveli con slats af defrauding the public, and of course he has no business future.” "Two men are pleked up on the street, drunk,” says Mr, Lee. “They go to the same police atation in the same wagon and aecupy similar cella. But one is an amateur and the other is a profeaaional. The firat is sufficiently puni by being shamed, by the ion which is cast upon hir- self, his rome f and his friends. t there fs only one thing to consider in the pro- fessional's cass, the ae loners of society. You connot appeal to his sense of fairness ar honar, All you. can do is to lock him wp a8 long os possible,” Of course there are always persons who fear the disturbing and bly devtraetive effects apon business in general of any vig- orous attack upon commercial dishonesty. It might as well be said that a city bp is infested with burglars should ons Mee lotic the doors of Heo aos invite the thieves to help macives. It cer- tainly cannot be proved that confidence in thesis has been ore by the pine advertising movement athy an tailed bulletins were issued by the national committe, describing the two biggest frauda in the sale ir automobile atoe one of them probably the biggest financial fraud in the histery of the country—and theae bulletina did not in the least influence the sale of legitimate motor stocks. Indeed, though the two frauds in queation were put a stop to, largely by this poy and by the efforts committee, I am very much afraid they have not prevented the aale of other dubious motor stocks. When the first of the bulletins was issued brokers and promoters of legitimate motor stocks were much distur They said it would destroy confidencein all moter stocks, but the committee decided that it wasaolely acation af method. On the Sunda ng the publication of the bulletin the 'Centlnued of Poger 87!

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82 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST To All Gasoline Buyers Much Can Be Said of the Fry Guarantee Visible Pump —hbut suffice is to state that it is a pump which every maker, seller and buyer of gasoline can always depend upon to give full measure under all circumstances. Learn to recognize this PuarE py and patroniae the That who AVS Oe. Fry Le irersd ies F iii Loe Poa a myerodwd br Uawerienty Guarantee Liquid Measure Company Rochester, Penneylvania these experts | $60 coats for $25." Inv lead (Continued fyi re} ae ing mews rs of country fifty t cueind dollace of advertising of the worthless. motor stock, but the Sun fol- lowing the receipt of the bulletin no legiti- newspaper would accept ita copy. Finally the promoters were ‘ht to trial and sent to prison, but reputable moter catocks continued to sell aa uaual. The vast majority of all cases handled by the national committee or the local bu- reals, ever, have to do with misrepre sentation of merchandise. Complainta come from both consumers and competitors, and the bureaus make independent investiga- tione on thelr own account. In several cities a regular shopping service is main- tained, detailed reports made to the bureau and to the heads of the stores, not onky concerning the price and quality of merchandise but a8 te the t nal ap pearance, cleanliness, knowl Ee, COuUrLeEy | and attentivencss of the salespeople, (ten the bureaus man to cutise a shake-up between the ed is firm, whe formulates its policy, and the subordinates, who do not Pri eae it inte efleet os constructively “Geese ‘depends upon the lee ism, experience and jud tof the stiretiry or manager, Host af ilies are men under thirty-five, About half ore lawyers, and among the reat are men who have had advertising, newspaper or mer- chandising experien ce. They can accomplish little, however, un= less they are willing to coliperate with other busines: onganizations and with the local authorithes:, In some casea this co operation has been carried to a point where the secretaries have been appointed apecial representatives of the state tion or bluceky commniaalons ar of the Tocal attor- neys’ offices. Though local methods differ in detail the more common re ip sufficiently standardised, especially per- haps in regard to wornen's and men's elothing, shoes, furniture, musical instru- ments and certain other classe: of articles, to be described briefly. If it is suspected that there has been mis- tation in the advertising of a lot of BULLS, one is purchased for cash by a buyer whe course is unknown to the store, All price tags, labels and. other identliying Marks are ren |, and a nurnber iret local authorities are asked for their inion of ite value. Care ia taken that are not told the price at which the sult waa advertised, Common Deceptions Lf the average price arrived at shows a material discrepancy from the value as rep- resented, executives of the stare are at once interviewed, They navel seme the find- ings withoutdemur. But if they object, the sult is Sent to a bureau in a neg boring city for similar atody. Frequently pinta ubjected to chemical analyala to deter- mine the percentage af wool, So many forma of riaatatement and de- ion are empleo that it ia almost impossible to classify, much leaa deseribe, them all in the apace of an article, A minor but common form of deception eon- sists in exaggerating the number of artheles on sale. A store advertised tires at five dollars below the jeculer pire. price. The state- ment was fotaned true, but only ane sine was Pe og ere ia an- ather very common misleading statement: tion proves that ina given Iot two or thres comts of the higher value are selling at twenty-five dollars, kt that th the great majority are worth twenty-five dollars and no more, The bureau have frequently warned espana acai oe pic? aay erie eariall lots as if t hey ap to the gen- eral run of goods. The public has a right, it is held, to believe ‘that all gizea in any given article where eizea are involved are obtainable unless the contrary is distinctly and unequivocally stated. Another minor but common form of de- ception isthe misleading use of cuts or illustrations. An advertisement should show on its face whether the accompanying illustration is intended to picture thes “po advertised oe naar AD © Fee to which they prions hias ee “ot children's wagons in advertisements some tintes look large enough for big but when parents come to buy they find the Wagons are too anal] for any except little tots. , The better-business bureaus have taken up many cases of the failure of furniture April ¥, 4 and musica) instrumenta ‘to corlorm iustrations, A library table is advert at thirty-five dollars, and a cut is shew, a table which upon inquiry 1s lound to} standard article alle so at one hundred 1 twenty-five dollars erchantea sarevely, ust shandardized illustrationa furnisi them by manufacturers, regardless of w they have in stock, and. mee. ol occur in this way, Another mee abuse which the bure constant hting is the effort LisEru pl Bh mer ts to convey the preion that they have somehow eli nated wholesalers and are therefore sel po at lower cost than their competit ch Phrases aa “retall dothing at wh sale _pricea”" and “direct from factory you" are op a8 constituting wn psec hg Such phrases convey the eee not on tthe wholesaler bh done away with but that even re expenses themaelyea are eliminated. T of course is abeurd as long as the goods sold out of a retail store, The bureaus have even taken except to the statement of a = dotting manuf peflleg is advertised “no retail profit,” the ground that as long aa the mani! Livies maintained retail stores and sales his expenses would not admit of much lov Prices than the prevailing level. Extravagant Claims A mille epee sige hah “We ree our herds, th Egiing Mareen costing no more.” But it f Shane ia ing when the local bureau discover that the aernreny Poeluced only cig hundred gallona of milk a day and a four thousand, The element of unfair competition | volved in the use of superlatives and cla which cannot be sustained requires co stant attention: “I sell more made measure garments than all other tailor the city combined, and [ buy and sell fea woolens than all the tailora in the ci assortment in the city." " store in the city twice the size dala much business,” “This article is the bi - ae on earth and has no compe Largest auto house in ti Middle West."” “Save half on your cloth poe: It isa fact.” “Our book on accom at #2 [ls worth more then any high ege course up to $150." “Tf an in the elt plicate our work $3.55 at than #6 and $7 a pair, brir aa back aut get yo st nf Patel ft @ highest Prices used artic i Rise 3 threa or four taker de era advertine it Bae Way. The better-businesa bureaus have eon pelled merchanta to dizeontinwe the use: these and many aimilar atatements, for th simple reason that they are elther unin or cannot be proved. In the case of th shoes it was found that the same make wa on sale in other stores in the aame city fe about three dollars, and & much better she could be found in other stores for six an seven dollars, store that advertise Wy t values in the Northwest” wi asked to discontinue the statement, on t ground. that the determination of vala resta with the | public rather the with the advertiser himself, A dealer wh advertised ‘$200,000 of shoes to be solda once” waa found to have only sixty pale A man who claimed to have the lange shoe store in the city, when questioned at whether he referred to the area covered wariety or amount of ateck carried, rolom of business or number of aaleapeople, hex no answer. One concern advertled “te thousand overcoats just arrived from om awn tailoring eatablishmenta,” but it wi found te be oniy one of twelve etores star ing in a single factory's production. Ever such words as “best" and “finest” ar often objected pa on the Seg that they unfairly injure other mere There seoma to be literally na rao and in ulty of trite " “Liberty Hon par Sl i rrereeiry ment made by ome stare, ag ba ga find | you must we your Liberty LIE ire cecece ont let a ra get it a you far a song, don’ tose on it ay her Make on it by camming to wa," Investigation proved that a prea if ete ee dollars or more in ponds wal before Li Bonds would near —a perfectly fair arrangement, bat not mentioned in vartisemant, In the same way a music store offered to sl (Coatanaed on Page 85!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BS

2 == wre | JER of ike SEY SEREAL 900 e FeaKs Can) Standing Invitation ™ to Delightful Breakfasts QO you Know how good corn flakes can really be? ‘There is a treat ready whenever you decide to “learn the Jersey Difference.”

Great structures are devoted to producing the favorite corn flake of millions and new buildings are growing out of the appe- 1 sen your mrocer; and Tm go- Will Read This tizing goodness which is the particular koa es ll ye sun de Serer =" appeal of Jersey Corn Flakes. cgeiainaticipeal grat dlenioce Poitdicks onl mewepapera." believe the story of snot ae i a de in It’s mighty satisfying to find nothing but large, wholesome flakes, appealingly fla- vored, so uniformly good and so crisp in milk—reason enough for their growing popularity. Jersey Corn Flakes stand alone, inviting you to many delightful breakfasts — and most satisfying betwixt-meal lunches,

fo of a beer (Cheer ene hoinedied’ pbeuimil <0 aml recommend | a Com Filabea hee fambers onc sare multiply ‘im Pollen faate "the Jersey Difference."

‘The sooner you keave Jerry Com Flakes on your akhelice ee aa will bee = to t from, t Appeal this Gila delightful, ready to-cat Teme are tikie, the favor gnirancs i he sour an ecfoble feodoce * ales the qyanll = qimliy of Your Grecer can stppiy you, [ Ve “Learn the JERSEY Di; ference!” JERSEY CEREAL FOOD COMPANY CEREAL, PA. MILWAUKEE, W135. Also Manufacturers of JERSEY ROLLED OATS and JERSEY PANCAKE FLOUR

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THE SaTURDAY EVENING POST This is the “Neglected Inch” —the inch between the furniture and the floor JOUR divan weighs approximately one hundred and fifty pounds, Without casters or on the wrong kind of casters, your efforts to move it must be doubled. When casters refuse to swivel, but drag broadside across the floor, no wonder the end of a house-cleaning day finds tired muscles and wrenched and aching back—results of needless over-work and over-exertion—the penalty of the Neglected Inch. And your furniture undergoes the same strain as your muscles. Your wasted strength, when the casters stick, pushes the top of the divan away from the legs, loosening screws, bolts and joinings. Rickety and wob- bly furniture—also the penalty of the Neglected Inch. ggirk foompany, Urétgepert, (onn What is the Penalty for Neglecting that Inch? Now is a good time to check the number of “ Neg- lected Inches” in your home. And when you have found the many places where casters are needed, go to your dealer, tell him in detail about the furniture— whether it is light, medium or heavy in weight—and about the floor or floor covering on which it stands. He can give you or get you just the right Bassick Casters to meet any service conditions—casters which swivel and roll easy and freely—which eliminate the ‘Neglected Inch” from your home. To save your energy as well as to protect your furniture and floors, hold a caster inspection day. In the future, whenever you buy furniture, look to the easters and make sure they bear the name, “ Bassick.” -Bassick Casters THE BASSICK COMPANY BRIDGEPORT, CONN, aril 4,

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(Cantinged from PF az) we best grade of talking machines without down, but f | to mention the Ss ong ie: Clik Sete tod publ tor Th » be + in store oF in wh One man advertised hia eatablish- ent os being “The Main Store," a rather ite mosing statement in view of the fact that | waa the one he had. Fake fre “gamiple”” stores, the old alizg-out game, and aocalled army and avy stores, a large part of whose stock aerr any commection with either ranch of the service—all receive constant ttention fram the bureaus, I: & very common for men who are sught in untruths to argue that their ad- ating is basically or technically true. i store add “Beat brooms fatarday only, at 65c," x wis found. that ve bought for aiety-five oenta, His inten- tong Taay have been af the beat, but the tiatement waa capable of misinterpreta- don. The real question af course is what the pebble thinks an advertigement means, and the better-business bureaga work for rl ol that is incapable of being mis orders! Nearly all the bureaus have fought the ep of residential oa A a dealer advertions in the ee ndch rexidential address to create the im bat be or she is selling out persona aan beeauae of ines, misfortune or the neces uty of moving away. p dealers concen trate on musical fnatruments and furniture, ‘but occasionally spe handle furs, Often Foils eri these gyp dealers at much higher in legitimate stares, ot ba, ail sp hasers are led to expect sgh the prchas bargains. A typleal case is a of an were man in the Narthweat who bought 2 cow [rom what he suppoeed to be alumer on the representation that it eitwoaid pee five gallons of milkaday. But it gave only ive quarts, and the pretended farmer coos! of course to be a professional dealer mm the poorest grade of cattle. A regular ‘oan company advertised "Why don't you batow oney from me? Private party.” prea eubonted with the i leg iets “private party’ the presen adartaren gr could think k of no excuse arent that he did not investigate his civets at their places of employment. His erplanation did not go. (he fl the more serious forms of com- mercal miswepresentation has te do with tht gilt of peecnds, oF articles. On trot of the large number of rebuilt or ia tire —_ which athe rug ep all over the country—many than without financial reaponsibility or arp repwiation—the vigilance committer Shey aapecial bulletin, entitled Enr- cars of Deception in the Advertising of Cct-Rate Automobile Tires, Substitutes Sold as Genuine Ther is of course no objection to recon= trcted tire aa such, The makers of these —_ serve a need and promote a ering of material that oth atid a wate. Hut unfortunately much the nivertisong of this class of goods has con- veyed the impresalon, to the sorrow of in- cotent purchasers, that the tires are a Pet bargain. Such expressions aa “Tire ‘aynics. 65 per cent off. Standard are played up, and the word “re frestrected gp "reconstruction "ia printed iz na? all (ype A tire that is offered than usual is He oid rot serious and baffling truth-in-ady m aie Nae Gen with ia the use of maaeuding tude nomes, The attempt to Te ain iy Wat) reader that substitutes and imita- tote of well-known. Sertnomn rapensive articles are “Se Peal, he pa ae , is 2 common ae ea who have given the aubject realise what @ cancerous powth tht has become in our industrial ud commercial body. I do not think it is pamhit to taggerate the extent to which 2 bot lirge a section of American business serely trades upon, cheaply imitates and nant capitalizes the work of other busi- hilisttutes and imitations have impor- natant Yaluable uses, and add to the trtort asd well-being of millions. Often THE SATURDAY Ehey resent the most brilliant concep- fiona inventive penius. reazon for giving them dishonest and de ceptive names. I am no authority on fur Pasa for all I know dyed rabbit may be aa warm and beautiful as seal, but that is no reason for calling it French peal or seal or any other kind of seal. It ia rabbit, not seal, Tt may be ble even to manufacture a fabric cut of wool or cotton or even from fiber waste which looks and feela like seal and wears as well. All hail to the inventive genius yee devises ae an article, but all scorn for tha page cage » timid d and servile mind that can k of no mame for it except to combine a geographical name with the word “seal,” when the fabric in anakion ia aay unrtlnted to either! reds, perha: fe thousands, af pine detdy compoaition, fiber and syn- thetic articles of tremendous wsefulness, but if they continue ta multiply and eon tinue to parade stu dly as something which they are not, will threaten the ethical basia of our imstitutlons. It is im- ible here to mention all these articles, ut probably the worst sufferer by the general practice which I have in mind bs wool, Now there can be ne doubt about the usefulness of cotton. Tt ia probably of more benefit to the human race than either wool or silk or perhaps than the two com- bined. Why then in common decency and honesty must it be made eo constantly to parade os w n many CASOS the better-buginesa bu- | a that were advertised | mnsaljrads, ally. a have had iv ae al ie to oot Fe =f ner the presence of avery am centage of wool amd a large percentage a cotton, In all much cases the advertiser is urged te change his co vy bo read “aon! amd cotton mized" or Mit quarters cotton and one-quarter wool." Deceptive Trode Names It ia unfortunate also that trade terms have not de differently and mare ly for what are commonly known as artificial silka. Of course silk ia made only from the cocoon of the silkworm, and it is a thousand pities that the marveloua prod- ucts of cotton and various fibers, pulps and other substances which are given a gloss and sheen to make therm look like alk can nok universally receive suitable, descriptive and distinctive names which place then squarely on their own merits. Nor isit any tnbute to American busineas geniua to connect some geographical name with the were ibe ene i trade name for an ordi- nary line on goods, Leather also suffers aeverely at the hanes of its imitators. Leather is akin of an animal, tanned or dreased, and it cannot beat any atretch of i ination consist of a composition or manufactured fabric. In many cities the better-business bureaus have objected to the advertisement of moleskin leather or muleakin leather, Thia material, so the burewus insist, should be toasmoleskin fabric; not as leather. In the same way objection has con- stantly been made to the combination with fanciful of hie names such os "Preneh" an arisian" of the old, fa- riliar terms, ivery, shell, amber, jade ane coral, in the advertising of composition roducta known as pyroxylin plastic goods. [the word “ivory” is used, truth requires a qualifying adjective like i eompositier. = hen it comes to fura there seems no ee to the use of fanciful names. The fur of common animals, such as rabbita, dogs, dent and muskrats, goes by more reaplen- ent names, such as sealine, Baltic aeal, French seal, Australian eal. and the like. The National Vigilance Committee has heen inveriaating severnl useful and whale= some artificial fool compositions which are mide os substitutes for highly popular natural products which are growing in- eteasingly scarce. The committee takes the poeiion that these substitutes are so use and important that no business ad- vantage is to be galned and much ethical advantage lot by exaggerating their simi- may te the natural course the ect, deed la inci ete barely, Ie fine Der Wr ihe rigs mbiening things th trade names. People like at look better than they ord or have any right to IDES at. the price. Tf the millionalne’s wile wears a sealskin cont. that costs. several thousand dollars the working girl wants an article that looks much the same ot a small frac- ton of the price. So she is given rabbit's But that ia no | | EVENING POST WINCHESTE BE MAR >+SKATES- E want you to own a pair of Winchester skates. speed, action and hard service. They are good skates designed for 4 The frame is supported by a bridge girder that The ball-bearing rolls are light-running and especially strengthens and stiffens the whole skate. Set hardened to give long wear on asphalt and con- wry crete. Wie have had all sorts of boys skating ears . £ ‘oat continuously for days on these skates over rough Pie : faa pavements. to test them out thoroughly before a offering them to you, We believe they are right, and want you to own @ pair. @ There are 4000 stores in the United Stores which sell “Winchester Skates and the other new produces. Look for this sign on the window: “The Winchester Store.” WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS Co. NEW HAVER, CONR, KITCHEN CUTLERY TOOLS Pauw hk ET AL is LF FLASHLIGHTS »- GUNNS AND AMMUNITION | uN : SRATES P FISHISG TACKLE Or ea Seay Bie Sip

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CHOCOLATES Wade For Candy Lovers feath’s Tray Hew Oherelafes A achecion ol the very chokes chapelaies made by the (Beoth Candy Aiwitersy every piece proce “Tie Hee.* Bounce of Lore- Food, WEN if we deserved ir, we couldn't expect everyone to buy Booth's Checolates; yet for 27 years we have been striving to make the Finest Choco lates, with the strictest attention to every detail. During these years a favorable public opinion has been cre- ated by the quality of the Chocolates, Just buy a box of Booth’ 5 Chocolates. Why? Well, one reason is we use in aur Chocolates fresh cream received daily from the Booth Dairy Farms. If you like that Rich Milk Chocolate, tou yaboxof Rooth's Butter Chocolates. They have met with dW Ola where. Tf you, pre ‘fer the Good Old Dark Smooth Vanilla Chocolate, sit | down by a box of Booth’s Esther | Chocolates, the box with the Rose Design, and enjoy real quality. Booth's Billy Package mects the pres- ent-day demand for a popular-priced assortment of fine chocolates at a dollar a pound. Our many other packages, beautiful in (este, contain assortments of che most delicious flavers and combinations, Look for the name, Booth’s Chocolates. If unable to obrain Booth’s Chocolates from your dealer, send jue sane and aikdress amd we will supply you by mail ieenlle prices: “Truc Blue Chocolates, 20 oz. 20M, Hutter Chocolates, | 1b., $1.50; Baier Chocolates, I lb. $0253 Billy Chocolates, 1 | lb., LAO. Oeher sizes in proportion, Good Dealers: Write today for Information regarding our apeciul agency proposition, — Wilfrid L Booth, Elmira, New York, upon receipt of the | THE SATURDAY akin, and to satisfy her pride and waniby the dealer calla it Australian seal. In other words the public is just at dishonest with itself as any class of dealers is with it. The retailer says that goods are mis- branded when they come to him, and that the elimination of deceptive names should be reached at ite source. But an the other hand the retailer can strictly state the truth In his own advertising. The faet is that trade nares can be made te conform with trade facts only by the combined efforts of the manufacturer and retailer. Unless they combine te de it the firat thing they know Congress will pass sone “truth in fabric’ law which will com the stamping on all manufactured articles of the exact nature of the materials. Man- ufacturers have fought auch legizlation, but it will certainly come unless the abuse of trade names is discontinued. Already, however, a number of aeanate s Dare. have been abandoned or : peeerly ualified by makers, importers, jobbers and retail- ers, owing partly to the activities of the truth-in-advertising workers. Comparative Prices Unceasing effort is made also to induce new concerns to adept distinctive names, oo trade-marks and slogans, rather han merely imitute those of older and Hope successful competitors, The point iz constantly made by the truth-in-ad yertlsing workers that it takes brains ta market goods in an original way, and that even te tell the truth interestingly requires brain. “Why not show that you have some braing?" ia the way they put it. Prom the point of view He local merchan- dising the misuse of comparative price advertizing and the abuse invelved in com- parative value advertising also call for unceasing attention. Unlike the use of substitutes and imitations, this practice in- volves only the retail merchant, but it is so common and so widely employed by busi- ness men of standing that improve- ment is very difficult to secure. Few women monpe really understand just what is involved in comparative prices and yaolues, and t ore misleading im- reasions are easily conveyed, “Skirts $10, Ormer price He. * Now this statement may be trae, but i an 8 a rent ze ult t aalean from what the read probably there the skirt did 1 did actualy el at bwenty-five dollars a jeer 8 ago, a little later for, aay, twenty dollar and still later far fifteen aollase, Now it is offered for ten dollars. There is no objectlon to menthoning former prices if—and this if is im- portant—the date of the farmer prices ia mentioned. If the akirt sold for twenty- five dollara a few weeks ago instead of a year ago, and is now selling at ten dollars it is probably a tremendous ain. But because it sold at teenty-five dollars a year oitmay not bea bargain at ten dollars ak all now, because of changing price levels and changing styles. In other words it ia a question whether the merchant is justified in using the prices at which articles sold six months or a r ago il there have been intervening reductions, Inthe case cited, if the advertisement. had rom, “Skirts $10, former price $15," it would have been truthful in the strictest sen But the possibilities sHmieatiinant and deception ire much greater when merchants deal with values rather than with prices. A fur dewler was convicted a few year ago on the charge of advertising a one hundred and twenty-five dollar seal coat for thirty dollars, when its actual valve was found ta be precisely thirty dollars. h this case the court said: “A eoat with a& valuation of thirty dollars was never manufactured to retail at one hundred and twenty-five dollara. The people, through the legislature, struck out against persons EVENING POST who vietimnize them through such commer cial frauds as this.” Naturally, reputable merchants do not make such re tations, and few cases that involve ee ten of comparative values are ever raw enough to take into court But the evil is none the less great. “Suite $46, $50 values.” What docs this mean? The suit may have had a value of fifty dollars gix months or a year ago, and may be wholly out of style to-day. Is it fair then to any that the article haa a value of a dollars now? number of the better-business bureaus have attempted to enforce a rule that com- panties values in advertising should be ased on the price at which the same article is being sold in three or more other stores in the same city at the same time. y take the position that a representa- tion ‘ol value or nae which is other than the current value is deceptive on its face, If in the case cited it is found that three or four other stores in the same city are selling the sarne suit for about thirty-five dollars, then the position is taken that by no stretch of imagination can it be deseri is a ay “dollar value. Of curse if the merchant said “Suite $95, were considered to worth 3h) last s te a this Bed which is now out was all the rage," there could be ne posable objection, A number of store: have greatly medi- fied the comparative feature in thelr adver= tining. Humbert ot tem no longer mention ormer prices or values, except to say “Reduced,” “Under the ee “ Better quasity than uaually offered at this peice," and other reasonable statements of aieollar character. Many merchanta feel that com- parisons are necessary to stimulate bus ness, but on the other hand the stere whieh advertises that a suit which is selli at thirty-five dollars to-day was pri valued at fifty dollars six months ora ae age is more likely to be suspected of having profiteere! in the first place than the one which avoids such comparisons. Perhaps the most striking accomplish- ment of a number of the bureaus has beer to induce merchants to correct or retract misstatements publicly, In Tolede six large stores have agreed to publigh eerreetions of any error called to their attention by tho Jocal bureau, the ST wrentint tn | a le definite space in # ype in ir eWwEpaper advertising. Some of these corrections have been trivial, but fo the opinion of _ Toledo bureau each one tends to strengthen the confidence af the reading public in the honesty of business. Published Corrections pales bn the other bureaus has taken a blished correctlom, slatenpent: nit the practice were carried far enough it would, we believe, ruin consumer con- fidence in advertising. There ia a human element in producing copy, and conse quently it is impossible entirely to avoid er- rors or false statements, They sgt ine moet cise made by mistake, We, the believe this system is a apy | peed oe the purpose of our work, and if it was it would be impossible to o be ik i practically by any commission in the eMnery. Lt is admitted of course that the ee of inducing reputable concerns to patil. aah & a. tractions is in lta experimental ane. 5s sonally, neering i a mene min, leaving it possible all forma of spanblng tomy wile, a iden retraction would increase my con- dence in a store immensely, expecially i if revious dealinga with it age actory. “Why, here ia an homest store," I ahould say. "They have the cour- age of their convictions, If they are willing to admit they are wrong now amd then they must be pretty decent most of the time. Herd hp he psy termined my, OF ithe log sold ind feeds, perhaps hogs, erro the on of firat woman whom, queatio: On the subject was She is a housewife, the mistress and lias a ae family, had plenty of ais aS plenty iyi “Of course it would increase my a6) dence to see a published said in reply to my question; "but. the very few women believe the advertising stores aoymay: What differenoe does a cx, rection make? If] & into a. ebore and whists selling at $1.98 with a big sign ; them showing the figure $4.98 T turn to my mother or whoever elae ia bets me and say with a laugh, “OM course thi are not $4.98 waiste; they are too eles for that, But they are worth $1.98 a: [think I will buy @ couple of them." are a few siores,"" she adde “which tell the truth. The sales mt K's a sales: and do you know why it is th [ buy so many clothes for the children 2's? Tt is because they alvertise in lor type, “Three-quarters cotton mmned or “Miy hess, women! Leocclaime|d., “ eally acknowledge, that this moveme: whieh you are obliged if the sg ig buy are worth whi Hed elaim that they are worth mare." eonelude traction would be an excellent thing as Not only do the workers in this mow alr competition that it cannot mee Through typographical errora in quarter weal,"* is Just this lack of belief and confidence the bulk of advertising which you so cyr Tam writing about is toring to combat, is the deception of th very system b to discount whi aE read that they are trying to alboylrs! si for them it is just as deceitful | sincin ks: if net in degree, for the rere cir “Oh, if that is the case,” she “then [ should think that a published n matter of course." Leaders in the Movement ene believe that they are constructive helping honest business by relieving it fro concerns ane often protects fram unreasonable customers #8 ste advertizing, goods are not antrenean fered at abcurdly low prices, a ea fs burenus undertake in these casea guade customers to withdraw tele de manda for such goods. Perhaps the moet active leaders in th truth-in-advertising movement have bea Merle Sidener, an advertising man in In dianapolis, who was formerly chairman o the national committer and whoee devote voluntary efforts did so much to get th movement under way, and Richard H Lee, formerly a lawyer in Cleveland ans until recently the director counsel of ths committee, and the man to whose fearless ness the country awe the elimination o many of lta worst financial frauds, Activel associated with these two have been H Hd Kenner, who Lately succeeded Mr. Lee a director, and W. P. Green. Rapid and widespread aa the growth ol the movement has been, there are still a few large cities which have auccessfully SCH Philadelphia has Bava | organ- ized, Boston is organizing, and it is ex- that New York wil ‘shortly follow. ut there are @ few other large cities in which the movement is badly needed, and also unlikely to develop in the immediate future because af the character of the mows papers . There are papers which seem to ve no pense af responsibility te the pubs lic, and, unlike the leading papers of the country, regard themselves aa nothing but billboards. It & impossible te operate or even organize a better-buainess bureau un- less the majority of the newspapers ina city are fairly clean pel willing to emiperate cy with the forces of

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 87 THE SPIRIT THAT LENDS GENIUS TO THE TOUCH OF A GUILDSMAN’S HAND ERHAPS you have seen in the mu- SS ee ee. a 22 seums of Europe or America, or pic- > gE : os Si tured insome old book, fine examples ] ——— | - which still exist of the work of the ancient Guild of Watchmakers. Hi Scattered in tiny hamlets in the moun- inous districts of Switzerland, without machines to aid vem, these men produced watches so fine that their fame pread throughout all Europeand lasted evenuntil today. Something more than skill and a lifetime of experi- nce enabled these old guildsmen to win for their work be admiration of the world. Dominating their thoughts, guiding their hands as hey worked, was the Guild Spirit. Under that spirit no nan thought of his work asa task but as.an art. No man wsdriven. Noman thoughttogivelessthanthe bestthat wz in him, for the honor of himself and of the Guild. Under that spirit the guildsman’s hand took on the ouch of genius. Inthe Gruen Guild of Watchmakers thar spirit lives wan today, and under it descendants of these medi- eval masters labor through unhurried hours to produce these modern masterpieces of the watchmaker's art. To this, more than to anything else, we attribute that prestige which Gruen Watches now enjoy, for it would soem that here Hies deep in every man, no matter what hi work, a knowledge that every really fine thing he ett did was dene in that spirit, and that he naturally utords, therefore, to Gruen Watches a degree of ex- elence which has set chem quite apart. You may see Gruen Watches at che best jewelry stores in sch communir, to which their sale is confined. Look for the Grea Service Emblem displayed by all Chartered Agencies. Preis $25 to $750; with diamonds from $100 Fo $6,000 GLEN WATCHMARERS GUILD, Time Hill, Cincinnati, U.5.A. Canadian Branch, Toronto Aaners in the art of watchmaking sfc 1574 weanch legieally thin. be ima Verchin prea it in a Crem [SSS = Na, ai—i8ka, pelid gare, is aald, en povel, Fe3 Guild Including the original and genuine “VERITHIN" model OTE foray Wark ¢ :

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In the fall he was to become purt owner heh built of conerete, in Green- Dia haven the enmaedny aad froen the TOUntain; BT Eowiine and he would be the most devoted feouple. He waa obliged to add, Bont be cas miraculous that ahe could care tin: abe was oo gentle, quiet and yet firm, and delicate. Her hands in spite of their bors wereslight, with thin fingers; fushed with beat in the kitchen, ahe was atill not octidy, with hair orderly and soft, her eveoping apron crisply blue. She didn’t sem Hrong; oace, t him with the delight of ber confidence, she had confessed ufeadacke to him. But the facta contra- dicted any Weakness. Her voice waa al- wis low, Y with a epee! saa h that was at com appreciative and inattentive. There was 50 much, it seca to say, for ber to attend to, to make right. Wire Graham alternated with her hus- band 0 acaversation to which Jalan con- rphated tthe: his thoughts were divided temeen Emeline and his project’ of peace. Phe Grham, as though conscious of the jatter, had something to say about p on wit leely achisited try the hy E ia if arguty. Nomaber of the sick, who ini the cid would uncowbtedly have died coder treatment, had been sent to the b ogatal bey ord i mountains at Stenton. Jalan ao aspitnl at home, but Else did't ehink it cculd be supported. lege umene he ancued, a2 rg io lgely unneosry 7 e, dai oid Au yer eadioeticket Elias Graham ae sak ead, nea and it seemed te Jalan Emeline made him o signal f caution. Flies ars “Progress,” Elia rogue But Jalan wo fallen into w silent con- 6) mee af Emeline, She was like the chy Ingman of a fowery bunk in spring, tke the eri hee Ssirtuma, punt and clear wot cool, and not ewaily found, She pas- cessed. exactly what he wanted the eDonky af cae and expres ving back one We was obsessed be the putes af 4 place of rest held against. ul the 4 the world. At first it had seed atish: B but he began te see that ihe ime of Greeneireum would go over the whatword: the world would be influenced haeened by it, People would cone to find ut bow sech a haven lad cheridgs uray fall of eveulation and Gopa: Acy aspect of the fantastic hud vun- eet itaemel concrete, imminent, now; emot beg bt ahowt, Tnattentive te the fad, the lurching clatter of the automo= pauade select Lanes bomen anately, Dor cunty of anqaillty, of a Garden of the Lord, ar dha be wae serious but happy: al he al bia life waa fil eh _ eit ieew that but for Emeline bis life tod been + and now it was that no nor, He i this were a eall, ane deded that d question it wws. A call ‘w Ste alan har, What a dispens- tom a mepeye! He wm happy, permeated by inner en, ee ether than gay, he the inspiration that had envel- oped hime forbade lightness, He hod never, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST TRAVELER'S REPOSE though, been exactly light: witked, but mot the other. Neither was his undertaking, with which there could be no compromise, no half meagures, St hin tke: attitude of Elisa Graham showed that. He'd have to out into the mountains and lonely , to the single cabling and evaselny settlements on swift stream’, and—ap preach peace for Greenstream. Jalan waa certain that in the end he could fire others with hie determination. It would be like a sermon, & Kind of Sermon on the Mount, “When he began the following day at the owing day at store he spoke tentatively, and the the gather- ing, Waiting for the West” Virginia mail, lise tened to hin of not, a9 they felt inclined. “Ever aince I got back," he began, “Tve been looking around aa if it all was new here, a if Thad never seen it before, and it's—it's beautiful. We get weed to it, Ae ge And we oughtn't to. Greengtream's ad i and peaceful life: we have everything we want ——" At this he was interrupted by a coricerted demand of who had. Enenpens turned to the store and gald that alnee they were living in a eould Peterton, please, air, give him a palr of good shoes. Tt was evident that Peterton eouldn"t: but it waa | that Jalan intendéd th. Ask Jalan, the direction was offered. Jalan gazed around with a troubled brow. No one, it appeared, accepted what he sald sericualy. “T mean it,” he proclaimed ina resonant volee: “we have got to bring gool will this land a retreat from wickedness. ee ee what 1 did, and my experience was be @ part, alittle part, of what went on. I tell you the world is full of hatred and envy and malice; mo one is filled or satisfied: it's ikea quick- sand sucking men down to death. But here we can stand firm, we have rock: we ean put evil outside the ranges. Why Tt won't take any trouble at all, and it will chan hardly anything, What we have to do is only to keep together, to be fair with each other, to be patient and tell the truth. That's all," he added wistfully. “If we'd just think a littl it would be easy. Like mare a barn in the old days—every- ia ona ido, a number agreed, waa good; they were older men. ‘The YONGE Were no more than amused: aud, but in a pleasant the they beget begged Jalan to Bet up aguln etill in his parlor—like the old daya, echoed him. a tyou see what it must bring you?" to went on. “Can't you tell whee han- eaty pee Obes Christianity—would mean? No ood nor killings; we'd keep that. aw A us; we wouldn't let any in. We'd let almost nothing in. Why should we arin we have so much qur- stlves? We have fruit and cattle and corn nnd wutor, wood for fires: we've a printing by What do-we need from. the work ik it is? Nothing.” Jalan Heronbar stopped, lagked at the mon before him. One wns ordering coffer nt the counter: another getting his mail: two were lenving., It would be hard, but he'd de it, bring them in splte of them aeleed the Dlesainiges j in hit heurt. The West Virglnin coallwas approaching and he wie (Condinued fram Pope #! deserted: no one but the st giperat eal with the locked government sack, "Jalan," he called, “ato s minute, ‘That achere af yours, it sou right good can ee that you've atwdbed it aut, "aan Heranhbar turned back “Tf the ari to be chee I'll hey: with | it. We get up 7 ape ~Crebiatreas for Greenstream! I'll tell you confidential that sinee the autermobiles have run inte Stenton, them and the mail-order a big meade here ain't what it was, not by meadow, here"—his huond was on Jalan's shoulder—“as [ understand it, you want to hold everybxdly here at home. Well, if rou. tam influenes them, if [ aee ik on mo ka, I'll allow you—in ve per = alan charged with fervor, with Wie 50 w ervor, wit the excitement of having announced his BLpreme purpose, that at iret he missed the storekesper'sintention. When it grew clear to him his face was grim. A bitterly mnt Tesentnent cc his brain: but he hela it in subjection. Jalan conquered his re sentmerit. “T don't aim to make out of [t,"" he ox patent bem . “It's different from hat. [t came over me suddenly, altting on the porch last night, the ev and the mountains were so pretty." word aoa bat tien. a "So grand, Oh as aul BEL "AT ought ma here could be like chit sat The other was puzzled almost to the point of aera ai es “LE you" 8 rch thie improvement, © he commen ean't be with you on that, Let me give one a little advice: go soft with Elias Graham ar you'll make a muss of it with Emeline, Elias is great on improving the county, Why, it's him, to son extent, through his brother, North, who's bringing a moving- pleture company right here to make a mountain story and show the world Gireen- ttream scenery, He's boon keaping it quiet, afraid it would came bo avthing, but I hear it's fined for agarn-as posalbbe,” Jalan gave that but littl thought; he was too much a in his undertaking to be concerned by the fact—he saw it aa remote—of a moving-picture company, His aegis hia conviction, increased ” el himeckf entirely to it, The county to its furthest limita prow fa- miliar with his insistent hope, sitally he waa met with humor; Heronbar's Paradise becume o phrst atioched to Aig tireless efforts. Often. ae ree ate contradic di ch at af Dractical Fil was produced show the foll y of his acheme, A few aren lang % OUR: and a preacher or lwo ng with hin. He stopped men on the steep roads, on ook, in r Saiborveditliog, on horses or droving cattle. To them all he proclaimed the peace to be settled on them, At the Grehams'. however, he had so far said Sarvenrl The storekeeper's warn ing , Was sound, And aa hed not yet opened the subject of Jalan's project. June had become July, and July was half gone when, sitting through the evening on the Graham porch, Jalan cronbar was aware that Elias was aleeut to speak, He cought a quick, Aattering glance of gear from Emeline, a suppl eation for him giot, AB thee father deliberate nid aside 2 chat’ il this, Jalan,” he teenies what's @ is FE henr your trying to Pin up the county?" ian explained, “Nansen! Elina asserted: hia brown cheeks already durker with opposition. “Yau want to choke down progress, that's what it ameunts to. How con you keep the world, a8 you say, outf Who wants to? Wa Treckon, with any p ty worth eonadde , With interests, © want en- lightenment and education and improve- rent. Why they tell mea you want the women to go back eplnning; you want us to have mal anaes and such. You don't take young folks inte eomsicdern= tion. I'd like to see you get Ellery, here, inte clothes hia mother made for him." “There ign"t any enlightenment to be got from the world," Jalan aid; “it's only to be found in your heart, in a guiet heart like the mountains around as, Amd what doea the education come to? Dissatisfac- tion and doubt. Nobody believes anything any more, nobody has anything to tle to that won't corrupt and erumble in their hands, Or, perhaps, they have parts, little bits, of so much that they have nothing right." “Stuf!” Elias Grabam interrupted. * Ani, this improvernent,” the other con- tinued: “what gould ia it against what it costa? Tan't content, happiness, better? You asked me why [ rode up on a horee this evening. Well, it's better riding a horae than driving the way IT did, from here to there and mething between, You can’t see anything in an automobile, you can't think slow enough ar fully.” “Then there won't be any automobiles in this—thia Herankur's Puruiise,”” Elias snorted angrily. "You" a a plumb foal, that's whut, | always suid tald Eme- line over and over—you lived plone tou much, [t'a the Heronkar blool in you fhowing back apatrean T like you, Jalan: wn On apeealkis our good, That's tuk © right — Ee = “a ef you ati In (Cantiftowad on Page 92) The Diepetor Dteugk Nie Pwlfly oe ide Tide oF oe Som, dnd Jaton Tromibled Rach, ie Thock of Comcuetion, ged Polo PF ified Air APourk Ve Iwoyed Freon

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Drink Mixer Tremendous quantity production permits 4 Now ‘185 Mur startling price reduction rm phe big a io. 2 Dring dlfiver. [rite for booklet. Was $29.50 name rink dlfiver. [rite for booklet et nil HAMILTON BEACH MBG. CO., Racine, Wisconsin SATURDAY EVENING POST (Coatinaed from Page 85} "peaking for her. I'll admit te you that often when you were coming here I — break your neck on the mountain. hat ain't ¢ Migs but it's natural. I managed te et aver that, though; I waa | almost agrees is to you when this came up. “T waited, thinking you'd come back to your senses, but you haven't, and Il why" finished with what's in my mind. | ha became so exasperated that tee stut- | tered, his face grew crimeon—"what'll | happen to the garage, tell me that—what?" | He paused, but for the moment Jalan made Ino reply, “T sort of thought the county | was playing a joke me ba it's mot; | ines are worse than I ; yOu are a | john '” Jalan tase; but he freed Emeline and not | hor fathor. “Emeline,” widressed her gravely, |. = ‘woth buwe ye Bere I tee and how your father answered. It scema to me you know how we both feel, I didn® : think it would come in this way; [hoped it would be hap- pier, but [ don't see a chalee, ive. gat ba aon Until Greenstream onderstanda, till it agrees with me—tlor itself, I waa happ enough before, reckoning about your it's for the others, Emeline, you must believe vai Well, will you join with me? Will me, Emelinet™ She amiled confidently at him, and was rising fram the step n Elias Graham thrast himself vielently between them. “Tl answer for her!" he almost shouted. “T'll tell you about that. She won't! Do you think Tl have my daughter, Emeline Graham, living in rags in a backwoods cabin with the last crazy member of the Heronbar family? Do you? Not while Ellery and meare alive. [ wae against you at the first and I'm stronger against every- thing about you mow. “Will you, Emeline?” Jalan said again, "Nal" Elina sho “Emeline,” Julan Heronbar said ARAN, Elias Grubarm suddenly lost all teoce of his excitement, his eves were nerrowedl, his gaze was hurd and level, “I told you last ‘and for all tiew." His voice waa thin. “Mr. Graham," Jalan protested, enn- fused, “I can't fight with you. There was | to be no more fighting here, nor pileun- [:Sereeanelngs that mustn't be. Not ever again | ae can dodge it," Graham replied oT jan’ t right for you to answer in | Emeline's place," Tulane ve protested. “You oughtn't to hold her in like that. She must: have a chance to speak out. I won't take it from you." Elias step back. “Tell him, Eme= line,” be said briefly. She gazed at her father, and, meeting no assuraner there, half raised her arms to her mather, sitting still and cowed in the gicom, ; “Tell him, Emeline,” the cold, sharp voion repoated, Then Emeline advanced a step toward Jalan, She moved forward but then she a widely opened and dark or of her face, is “she aud, “Jalan,” Whatever her resolution of s of action, had been, it failed, The ail nee that possessed her waa alive with suffering, with an inner wrenching agon and atriugele. “Don't worry, Emeline," Jalan said resently, slowly sounding the words one one. “Emeline, dont worry. I know how it is, how it has always been—and a ¥. He turned sharply away and retraced , the equrae by the corner of the , over | the cut grass, to the iron fence where his horse was tied. The horse's hoofs made no noise crossing the pasture; but on the hard piece of road below, the steel shoes rang out. They could hear them from the porch, Jalan nares ldap igh arp sath to them going along, going ou er life, Flooded with pity for her, governed os | she was by her father, he had no atom of | 4 emnation in his mind. Tt had always, with the Gruhoms in Greenstrenm, been like that, Erieline wos o girl, but she eo Be it girl hid vette e WH o vey. ou ovely wat ve cputeé fr nee 6 a He had Jost: her! This ants to hin with the sheck of an unexpected bullet; Jalan swayed as though fram the sheck of an

ewrtl | actual deem blow, Eroeline had been taben from his life, No apparent change took place in a Jalan his Lites, pureait an object as lose to | his heart. as. Emeline, continued unbroken, Mori! WHS More Beis He rent rine ith ie, his wolce bad a noticed, ha dra 42 was all. fis anes, Fawn away f place, furrounding ¢ shines anal wore ke, he had get i pera in parables, ‘Ten tion he ha rowed, a hummer ceptibly touched, st least, with ser consideration, fais faded; the valley <f, a, Gapes 2 clearings on the moun oe "used fo him: men listens nm they were not busy, wh. eo, him throw h the Inte summer evenings, ee asa kind of preacher dr ta tha good of the world, | treated with Jalan was presse the houses and lon aiar cabina to stay whatever meal might be following, for bi young at ies 1: posed e young at times sharply op but moathy they held him to be hand And this concerted attitude of a kiy inattention was more dificult, obdugr than an aggresive opposition. He felt! he was thought of a5 a character, pea and admiratie and local, hut nothing tr Before his doar, with a stat. hickory ¢ eanted back against the howse, he do upon hie task, A new phase ira the pest days had fastened upon his awredlor: he eame angry at the stupidity. ame blind about him. His outreachings hand, » were, wae filled with gold, gold that mi be had for the asking; but nobody wan kal it seemed, could realize that ir | there. Still, he wasn't digeouraged: the fir his desire hadn't alackened: he would 9 harder, never linger on the road, [ail argument. His attention to the orcer his house had grown mechanical: th WETE OMliBSLOns, iver and plates ie ah This he mo longer noticed; litthe of all that be had once ‘fully » H weighed. His guns had been brok his F deliberately spoiled, the lex’ bullets melted, Jalan Heronhar would nothing, and when be heard a shot in orin a jirple buckwhent stubble would force a way through the underbn and remonstrate with whoever held | gun. Sometimes jt would be an ald me quivering with indignation wt Jalan’s int ference; sometinves it waa a grinning bv ora man, a friend of Jalan's, who wo Lene hin to share in a stew of boiled BF he regard with ete he waa treat left him Increasingly alone. People, began fo se, were superstitious ale him. Th were reluctant to open a casi conversat with him: the children w often frightened at his approach and ran familiar and saving interiors, This at fi disturbed him, then he failed to notice th too. His resentment at the county, found, increased; from begging them accept his gift of peace he changed af rising scarn. In this, as weil, | was freely indulged; he had a ho sensation of trying to grasp the water al ewift-Aowi stb of hoping to dam with his if and fingers, What he ox es pe peel lity he held out, was ne actual i exizted, like a cty on a ne beg before his eves. Gut be mi by the fact that he could show to no one—to ne one, that was, but a rai ald man with his sight already dim to tk world and filled with inner ¥iaiona. Twice satel , he had seen Emeline: ong descending insecure stepa fram th store plu Lon te the read. There wer others, idle and curious, around, and so h had te at the crossing until she ha gone, Then on an upper road, riding hi mare, Emeline and Elia rele an automobile, They were bat! going slowly, and she emiled at him. ani said good evening, but Elias hadn't tarne his head, Emeline! Beautiful and fre tand tender. He had never blame er, Perhaps Elias was right, and hi Jalan's, was no life for her to share, An other partner had been secured for the garage sabi the Pika ne Heronbar had worked the rocky ani ever murcesaf ally genes which belonged to that family pe i Wel [MME There wouldn’ t be: proper food for Emeline in the house. That with, for, her he might have given his present intention didn’ “E gecur to him; such a cow wee in inipoaesishy, Jalan and his pra, were inseparable, one Tt wae a endl. rete for Emeline became a deep and impersonal admiration, a con suming senee of her perfection, Sitting ia the dusk it seemed that ehe had mo real existence, that she had never lived, but was a dream, a Vision of perfection. It wasn't likely that gentleness like hera bad a place (Caititjued on Page 85)

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(Continued from Page 92) horn ane vuln co lan vo ‘imagined her—tho lightin fool sweet voice brus Si it, the warming of her eves, [what she thought of his nyt val heard about him. jen we s was. crackod-brained, Fag ts ofit? Jalan had 4 himself ak = the ane erat prevail arith her, but the were enormously against ‘hi. if ste were firm, Emeline wus some conalal ratgl her her puIT tions ol ity. 5 had eben eer it might all Fote t; but she was thirty over: s — the service of her farafly for mires long while, And then he to bs oF tear her delicacy of A wank Age ntl eg te bring back to her She had seen in them on | J at ‘bis passion to keap Green- eet fe bitter unhappiness he certain that ho was TOL d, belief ‘ if "tee it didn't Prove its ab- ‘ fad eee and then the esiry. E hesitated over that word - et ooce crange and familiar to him. sSupon the old , in his hope; ie Baamitd for feature—the tefl» jaw,- A le i iecetly oped relative had told j re iad ‘bolt ; ewes a child, blue like the aSestland, qaen of intense resenl- re bad tempers, alternating sobriety sobriety and a colder u were ciel, even Pra, oe i men, ane jserupalous- - fF, really—with women. A had tin erratically through bs eu forced ta eotichide, a, the last, bent on a aort of that nobel) warntel, him how, txcept Emeline, peed fie determination: but . that his father would have i te father would have ‘i hopefulness and understoad. fore closer than any mati ines cosy ga ois his mare. ing. he de- lope to the road. A ee was Burcharged with the : i The moon mountains to the east; mer of silvery light, no than a*cohweb hung vt Ea tae Bites up the ca tibeing haf re ehed hands in an the salvation of Heia, where Jalan had pone Lhe fell sick, and was de- fara 4 room of ain informal ‘bed to the heroic . When he rede : was still wenk— iif fall in the air, i turned: bright ‘there waa a haze, a. At his home he f peeenn ol eupper, “aft “aan into a deep late the following mort- ind pelreshed, and determined 1 “horder of Greenstream llowr| tek base of a range; i oe me through the He fesse, occasional pros if was all pastoral, quiet, & beyond a spur, he came Et] incomprehensible crowd = ee a startled; and is Mamory, a sub- cusses Tedlcativn, told hi cot that here wa hy ieture company whose Seag ty Cnetream he bol been told “a i 6a he paver 4 Elise Graham, rive tothe wide of the road was an a tet Hed with wn incomprehensible aha Jolan sow large squares ‘i beiliant silver surface that, when . Her THE SATURDAY they caught the sunlight, flang out bars of intolorably bright inns; there were bevel esc baskets ps of materials, cover- ings ane clothes; square, leather enrrying cuss, tripods, lumber; a hundred objects, familiar andl unfarniliar. Beyond the truck wire sirung out wutemebiles, hee three, Jot of them, And before the ol rigged cabins of Sim Levering, ae ab abet pet aa: were what oe te aborate camerns, atten vitaged Then, in the ci by shar great um a, fringest and striped he FA and white. Jalan Herenbar's instinctive feelin antagonktic, He had been eurpri ul- ways an uncomfortable sensation, and his deep sense of privacy had been livaded, the secretiveness of the mountains had been broken inte. Then a frank curiceity took the place of these, and he urged the mare on. Atoneside of the cameras a man under a broad pea pital hat was isuing ordera from a comfortable folding chair, a group was on Sim's porch—they belonged to the moving picture—and beyond that there was a circle of silent, intent mountain peo- ple—women with babies, children fretful and mee girls and awinars souk 5 in rough clothes, and everwhe ay tin communicative men. ey mmided va- ricwsly to Jalan, calling others’ attention to his presence, They seemed all to be intent upon him, as they were writing far sotaething he might say or do, rous individual with his Saraee te pole tome uk Teaet Jesh fi ie in Heronbar with a tin bucket of drinking waters J He nodded, friendly, and Jalan. ae- knowledged his ere te went on cure- fully until he wie at er girl sitting squarely in the m road. She Jalan saw, 2 an imitation of the back-mountain dress: except for that, homerel, ste ena Wale sesenianes is ie, WORE. Ww a haem iia aaingle hard black line; her hair, with coppery glints in the Sun, Was att short at the lobes of her PHTH! and ber legs were thrust out with a careless. disregard for exposure that no girl of Greenstream could have atbempt She Was painting ler face, her kneca was a wooden box filled with thick colored pencils and ¢ stained rags, powders and white and dar greases; t e opened lid of the box held a mirror; and after she had made an applice- tion to her cheeks she critically oxamined the reflected result, Oy, rather, she alter- nately painted ber face and smoked at a cigarette deposited in busy moments on the arm Weil," she said, finally meeting Jalan‘s interrogation, “I'm here; you ate me, Tt isn't the result of mountain The man w wai hid dominated the activities rose and o ched. His gaze was rapid, sharp, an i voice, though pleasant enough, abru “Good om tm Bet | ddrenaed ae Heronbar, ™ I'm ell Spannard, and I making oll icture in four coun We ‘all hope you'll like it” He studied Jalan r. “Look here,” he added; “I've tried making these actors look like moun- taineers till Ts ‘m sick, and it won't, except with the best, come off. You're the best that’ ral ve seen, an ie "would ‘2 you w come iia he ae Tt fen't hard and you'd w ‘ Thank " Jalan replied: “but I'm “The other hecike fn shortly. “LT know you are busy—tfor this country. The truth ia you don't know what being b Means, ot ae what I it cote mg you well, You are rea E wenty dollars Fadil Wha you work, and that. won't be. leas ten days. Prab- ably, if this cursed haze doesn't lift, more." There is something else I must do," ae shar " Nothing,” after pay.” here," w much?" The demand had Jalan tald him; “I'm not He hesitated, “LT want peace The girl turned from her painting with an amation of mingled wonder and SSomeenna A die anea, Banding beside apperen interest in gure on homage, "A religious crank,” he said, but not offensively, Then he turned to the cabin. "Not like that!" he shouted, filled with o sudden energy. “Cut, Heitler. ‘That's out. Marple, 1 went over this with you twire EVENING POST fae mon mpornunee we Hine aL pita ee i on your Tl id and me eat script? You hate and ear this man nen Bes threatening your daughter, and y re making up your mind to kill him, “To "chase him; can you get that? [t's murder, even in the moun= tuins, Now , again: quick, there's the sun. Camera!" Spread tefore Jelon Heronber exaggeration that made it dagbly tame wis a vivid show i — 4 odie tested, fought sie ig Tr and preven whi riers fi wETE smears of raitnced ang the explosions af powder, wetual cried ane hooree, deaper- abe Lreathin Beyond this loud ‘ugliness the side of the mountain, the distant sedt- ened peaks, the gleam of shining water, were prettier, grander than ever before. An impulee ewept over him to foree the mare up the slope of the bank and break Up amash the spell of evil on Sim Lever- ing’s cabin. The force of his anger must rete it all away—the pnt og cameras and uinbrella, the gaudy woman with me d face; he winile: still that grating directing voice, “Watch where you're ¢ "an eas perated camera man warned hic. “You'll upset us, Keep out of the picture anyhow; of the loth" Jalan gazed curiously at him; but he waa thinking more of himself, of the Heronbar blood. Why, he hadn't even o piatol, noth- ing but a thin willow switch. Still, that. could rave a welt, Jalan saw just where it would lic, from above the right eye down and across the mouth. But that was in the past: it was the old Jalan. What con- fronted him, he realized, was too solid to be dismissed with a wave of the hancl, a sien tence of bwo, however burning. There was, in reality, gies he could do now, He wen the valley with o pinched oeth rigs somber eyes, losing every dist sound but the stream following che» He had now in place of wa offort without specie time or ger fon tiate nod disturbing problem, Whiat he hoe Planned to ram. Greensbreum. come into it in a specially evil form. Jalon saw at onoe the & moving picture all about him. The talk at the store, along the roads, was devoted ta it; work was neglected, houses empty, and an increas number of spectators fled the rocky about Sim Levering's eabin. Jalan stayed away [rom the actual o tion of the pleture, undecided in his ultimate attitude toward it; but he was Palit Fite ae bla informed of ite pe the fights was bed ‘ta Mya the in ‘ings, and the actions of the girl with the abort red hair and palnted cheeks. ss the aurrounding idleness grew there were dia- covered fresh sources of mountain whisky the fighting was not confined to the picture: there was an encounter in the village which promiaed to be geriqus. Jalan Heronbar was often asked what he intended to do about this invasion of hia ae af quietand peace, Such questions eed sharply on be and t had . a miggestion of mockery, caus told, was his chance te bar the world from Heronbar’s Paradise. Yot this didnt bother him; it was all too serious in Jalan‘s mind to t the mere irritation of asxsnulted g He couldn't sit his way clear, he d hire over and over, At the sume time he waa again con- that his fr wad stirring, an in nation fired by t the resolution net te overthrown by any assault. He began to think of the moaving-picture company a8 a direct and mysterious challenge to him: it had been sent, he told sto try him, to teat the strength, the reality of his con- viction. Nothing waa secured, saved, by wi ing publicly against it; that he ad ot not even tried. The temper of the county was wholly opposed to him; there was an end- lees satisfied speculation on the beneficial results to be expected from a broadest showing of the natural benuties of Green- stream. The state rood probabl pres be widened a nd made safe, a large up in the village. Jalan's opposition to every phose of this deepened; he began to see a perceptible enmity to him, toward what he represented, through the high val ; and hie rit, always Eiteherahy. a respond noone would help him bo Hey is imal away he'd doitwithout assistance, aeverely, forever and at once. 85 It was nom, ao Oetober keen with sunlight, and the cameras, he knew, would be. clic Ee records of murderous crime. Hiding toward Sim Levering's, al- iaiiae ak the leer tons at Ee raed ‘ore arrival, he still had mo plan, nothing but the determination to seatter the assaulting force. He was conscious of nothing in de- tail, the ohm world was ont in pro- found mental the, mare single=footodl without guid guidance, In reality ried Wis 5 little I gr pig gre renee ely t at he had had no brenk: reg no dinner, In another instant the familiar and hate- fu] operation was spread before him. The laden truck was drawn to one side, the automobiles were strung along the sha a Lots group of actors standing beside one, screens of silver foil were shiftin their blazing reflections; under the striped umbrella the cameras were seb up, c and ready, Jalan heard the incisive voice af the direetar, whe waa himself hidden in a small gathering within Sim's fenee, Sitting with a ribbon of amoke rising fram her cigarette waa the Be with her face livid, unnatural, frees Jalan awung ie the earth and se- cured the mare, with a half hiteh inatine- tively safle and loose, toa sapling. Then he went forward through the gate to the mad. The ecene on the porch was the one be had already witnessed in part—a slouching figure in the doorway, with another, a towering menace, tormenting him with a bestial insinuation. "Got in it!” the director shouted. “This man is chrvetaniog cur daughter, he's mining your ate! hate! hate! Think of the ehacin af ‘ade Tha ae with lead, with a dose of hot bes it! Camera! Slowly now ——" Tolan moved out to the little patch of trodden grass lying : COMETS ae the porch, a instantly a score of f excited cursos brat upon him! The director flinging himself forward yelled, “Cut! ae at mule apciled yt He shoved wan a out of the re, and ‘Thomas Meéckins, the sheriff, a hand on Jalan's shoulder. The direetor wae focked with etrain and ex- maperesing ; dane my best with you ve been he —— iy. “You have wr soa ai d ith hi eup my colnd to put up wit anyt n but when 4@ man supposed to hing: senses walks in on me Li terepian I evatd smagh hie!” The murmur which had at firat swept aroind the contention died. The mountain e, drawn nearer on the hill, were as mootionbess a9 the rocks. “An decent,” the director raced on, “would see that I hada chance: they'd support me; and I'm going to ask the crowd here to do just that, to see that I get a square deal | and & goed picture with- out interference.” “You'll have ta step," Jalan told him. “All this you're doing—it's wrong. It belongs to ¢ the black past. It can’t go on— ah te the crazy man," the director hotly announeed. “In this county going to let a but. a bu ald up oa twoehundr stone operat an for its pwn good T is it? Beenuse if if is T won't. [ don't on a help, a he informed ‘the needn't finger your te on,” Jalan re oie ated hart ean t ily; "“t'a wrong, wi You must atop." “T must?” The director was sarcastic. “Tl go back ta my concern and tell them that I brought a company aa far as this and then couldn't make the picture. ‘The story waa all wrong,’ I'llesy to them, Like that, "Tt was wicked, A moron out of the back told me so,"" The two stood alone; those who had been. as them bad fallen Seat te fees : Jalan saw nothing cl ; even before him wes blurred; the voice opposing aes to come from a distance. His anger, his fia annate bitterness was Tike little tongues of flam “This must be o place st peace," he ex- pienet with ati lips; “without lies and rm — green ml fur pict hk here," the “The onl way to other told him, “is afar trouble. Get out while can, quick? I'm not afraid of you: the aherilf ean't help me now,” “You must be driven hie Meta a plague af locusts, for this is the wilclerness of (rod (Coatineed ao Poge 26 |

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OTTO EISENLOHR & BROS., INC. ih. rt PUTT ET, 4, ~ EVENING POST (Continwed fren Poge 93) You must go out with your blood and ruin —— The director struck him swiftly on the side-of the jaw, and Jalan stumbled back, He swav from the ake of COnCUESLOT, ond pain filled his mouth, But almost ireetauertly, curiously, he suw thé peaple, the slopes, the stream, with o minute exact= neat, with the Muaton that be was Razin with eyes ool Laing The lures al passion that had touched hin burst inte on annihi- lating blaze. “Wau would have itl** by c cried to every one alrit bin. “Ane you" he barnieh bo the director—" this is how it's done.” Jalan plucked the sheriff's revolver from its lenther and shot instantaneously, He wast over the fence, on hie loosenéd mune, before the echo of the shet had diel frown the hill. The clatter of the hoofs under Tal wit far in advance of any pureult coming out of the turmoil be had left. He carefully shut the door of the stable, thrusting the wooden peg through the husp, | | and approached his house fram the back. The day waslading, the western aky showed a Tim of red; on his left the ground fell away almost aa steeply an a well. Cutting down and actos it was the dry pecky cav- eto WM astream. The odor of burning leaves was clear, Jalan's mind was a confused irnage of what had occurred, what he had done. Hewaa quiet, but breathing sharply; and he was Alootied with sadness. “Travel- ers Repose” He said the words with a sense of having been heffled, betrayed. As if further to mock him he ‘found that he still had the sherill's pistol, Tt had beon the-result of a total mis understanding, a mistake phot his mean= ing. Traveler's. Repose! And then his lool hed rolned him; the Heronbar blood. He had never, sinte he was a child, been iit in the face, TE was all wrong, & mistake, Then a darker mood settled over hima: from the first this had been forced on him. Whit, except derision, had he been olfered in return for the gift he hod tried to bing Greenstream? Nothing. The words fn front of the house were slumber. ous, the road empty. But it wouldn't be empty long: they weuld come for hie aoom. ‘The disturbing feeling of beln honted already fastened on him: onl mechanically he examined the cartridge chamber of the pistol—five left, That was all he had. Such things of his own had heen destroyed Jor montha, Well, they wanted it, and they had got it, In the middie of the vicious fav. the pretended murder, the thing itself had fallen on them. There was no place of pence, none was possible, It had been a dream, coming, as [has Graham had anid, from his inving so much alone. What hac the clirector, the whole ¢ olny, called him? Wars it efeckadls briined? Tt was in- anne, then, to think. of «a land free from hatred, It was anc. must alwaya be every= where, His fa ond ale alily dirke rir: he had been unable to avald the fate of the Heronbars. Had from the beginning, He had teled to be good. That word d had a ehildish sound. This had been foreed on him, and now he woulin't try to avoid it. Jalan didn't want to live; he didn't want the humilia- tion of being dragged to jail, the long or short process of trial, The bitterness for ao long stoned against his family, which for a little hod slept, would sweep the county, They could come uy bo the house and take him, weer the pistal was gmpty. Ther emild throw him inte the earth, the inst Heronbar, true to his name, true to the past. He wus deaperitely sorry for what had happened so entirely against hia intention, This puzzled him, How eouldl it have oe curred, how could it have turned aut like this? He had planned a paradise here, Heronbar's Paradise, where there should be no more teare: and be, Jalan, had helped to turn it into a bell, 1ere was a meving cloud of dust where, tuming up the muuntain, the road was visible fora fifth. It was-an automobile, and it abopped at the far corer of the Fleronbar tind. Two men, the sheriil amd the sborekeeper, udivanced steadily up tc ward the howses, Jalan admired the tm; far ikwasan acta colrage. Theyadrew nearer ancl pearer: and then jt was evident they suw him shunding in his deorwnuy. The shenift cnet: “Will yo come with ti, geet?" “Wo, lw sheuwtedl back, ferocously mocked by the word—whieh he hud made le owl — peace, Atari §, ova only the sheriit mam te, what what's im my That'll he be = Still they: hesitated, “Tis the 1. like this,” the offieer nddeel ane -ptoreleepar Made a tentath for tha I! do, Ambler," Jalan "The , consulted for a moment, a the a verti waved gh gram. Jabun.” After that, about the howse, it = qebet. Dusk again threatened, bu it gathered Jalin saw an oe ae of men reach the lawer field and ae out. They wouldn't rush the house, ut least until after dark. "Ih WeTE cerned mow with posting a elrele of gu nbaut him. They might pmother him a emncerted fire, but that wae expres ad uncertain. Forawhile a large nu of men. were visible, and then they pr cally all disappeared; there were trac amoke from cigarettes, the gleam alo rifle barrel; a coat with a decided at the oot of a lumberjack from Hunting moved, Jalan Heronbar wanted to go for and explain, mot. im erto Bawe him that was an impossibility; but he wi ahove evervthing to be understand wanted! them to know that what he tried was for their good. This was i ak and conquered by a ing few ig favapenes, of implacable bermper, an knowledge thik f6 was the tradition of housn to be held nt Lny pete abpratinst VRAD, What finally was takings place im i+ fitting? it was os though the house its ite memories, hod eolled him back from - ions and ho pe. He had pl laced a chair jue saithin apencd dear, where he waa largely 5 tected without leting the widest pre field of vision. A hall went through howe to the back: that door, toa, 1 agen; but Ibe had locked the lower shutt an either aide. He coultn't be taken. A ih mov up from the road, however, brought 4 tensely to his feet; and then Ie saw tha was a woman. Jalan realized that it Emeline, She came slowly on alone, a the rugged path, through the broken gu to the fenee immediately around the how and up toa the portico, Jalan,” she called in her low voice, “Yor, Emelins.” He moved forwn “You oughtn't to have comve,”” he went gently, “Tt was brave and kind of ye Emeline; but it will do mo good; you have to go back, [won't let them grt me Against this she mounted the steps at came wer ps the uneven bo “Jalan, she said w again. Steacily, with a whole face, she pat h artis around his neck, and his wel forward on her shoulder. eg a long hireal they were motionless, silent “Tim nat goling back, Jalan, * che call “T came te stay with you for as long i poeatbbe Lent it queer—T had ta, tried to stop me, but I lbed. I aaid I wool bring ou out to them," She laughesl. “They think he's dying, Jalan; but, = it at trange, T don't mind, e had ta you, to bea part of you." He looked steadily, deeply “Tt will be bac fora little," | Am & part of it with ” she re cated, "I'd rather be wit ee for a VOUT, Jalan, than in heaven forever.” “You should go back, Emeline," But us he said this be held her in thi Tigitl circle of his seme, The darkness is crise, “They won't raid wntil he dies," Ereelise eaid; “they made that up, And, J Che stream bel that cubs down to the busts tom. They're not watehing that; noon, they thought, culled get through it. Could they, could wet" In the past, he replied, Herenbors had escaped that way. E cae if we can we will try ib," she de cided. Not amovernent sounded fron withov; the night thickened. Jalan felt her heed against his check. It waa time to go, se said. Out of the back door they inet away from the corner of the house, into the steep black cleft, It was dangers, be whispered, already below her, feeling fora foothold: Then they began their paindel deseent into the darkiess and insecurity | world Where [oo, By Pepose for. ita travelers, wie on ihusbon, inte her ie i ee

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST MERTON OF THE MOVIES peer get over this disease that’s coming on me. Anyway og, and then if you ever see me again you can give me io" She quickly came to put the watch back in his ods Ves, yes, take it. I won't have it till you give to me again—if I'm still alive.” She held wp repulsing ed. “Now we've had one grand littl evening, and Dlet you go.” She went to stand by the door, He arose and stood y her. “All this nonsense!" he grumbled. “I=I won't stand ri—see what I mean?" Very masterfully again he put parmsabout her. “Say,"" he demanded, “are you afraid Ime like you said you'd always been afraid of men?” “Ye. Lam. I'm afraid of you a whole lot. I don't sow bow yroa'll takoe it.’* “Take what?” “(Oe snything—anything you're going te get." “Well, you don't seem toe be afraid of me." “Lam. more than anyone.” “Well, Sarah, you needn't be, no matter what you've cot. You fist forget it and give me a good big ——" *['m glad used my own face in this scene,” murmured uk Down at the corner, waiting for his car, he paced back ad forth in front of the bench with ita terse message "fou Fernah the Girl, We Furnish the House." Sarah me afuncy Little girl, with all that nonsense about sorme- bg he would find out. What did he care if she'd done eneting—forgery, murder, anything? Be paused in his atride and addressed the vacant bench: “Wel, ve done my part." xIx “Fiog Reeis—SO00 Laughs" | esiyieearats to him the next morning that he might fave taken too lightly Sarah's forebodings of illness, Rerewing her curious be- et, be thought it poeai- ble that she might, indeed, be fn for something seriou, fot 2 midday telephone all tthe Montague home boot! eeuranees from the meter that qubeted this her, Sarah complained of wet feeling well and was pry ogends quiet day at tow. But Mis, Montague ra crtain it was nothing em, No, che had no soeriture; no fever at all. a wu just having a spell C inking abowt things, wa grachy like, She bitten grouchy to both te parent. Probably be aa dhe wasn't working. Ss, che wid che wouldn't cme tithe telephone, She —— Waldshewasin a bed soft 1 wy aed eight pass out any \ JF a? cut. But that was just w Gidding, Tt was kind +i. Gite call up. He Tih lo Worry, ie continued to worry, ‘omer, until the nearness 2 semen début drove iti the hock of hia mind. Undoubtedly it waa just tow, amd in the meantime that long-baffled wish Um tell ina serlows drama was about to be gratified ket meaure. He was glad, indeed, that the girl had ‘teignsted that she be with him on this tremendous whist, He knw that he wanted to be quite alone, “lucy inthe crowd, free to enjoy his own acting without ‘Se beat pretense of indifference, The of course, were another matter. He had “then of hin approaching début and they were making ceuntolit, They would attend, though he would not Swt them. Mr. Patterson in his black suit, his wife *etety raiment, would sit downstairs and would doubt- *sipphiud their lodger; but he would be remote from “et ina dar corner of the topmost gullery, he first “oaght, ler Hearts on Fire was to be ahown In one of the tient theaters where a prominent member of its al boul eee himself, ‘is ted told the Pattersons a little about the story. It ‘Sete pathetic in spots, be said, but it all came right ade and there were some good Western scenes. “St tht Pattersons gaid he must be very good in it he “oa time! quite unable to achieve the light fashion of “al and protestation that would have become him, He ‘erly said that he had struggled to give the world some- “oy better and finer, (Continued from Page 25) For a moment he wos mowed to confess that Mrs. Pat- tersen, in the course wf his struggles, had come close to losing ten dollors, but he mastered this wild impulse. Some day, after afew more triumphs, he might laughingly confide it to ber, The day waa long. Slothfully it dragged houra that seemed endless acroes the company of glowing dreams thot he captained. He was enrly at the theater, first of enrly camer, and entered quickly, forgoing even o look at the huge Lithographs in front that would perhaps show his very self in some gripping scene of the drama. With an empty auditorium to choose from, he compromised on a balcony seat. Down below would doubtless be other mem- bera of the company, perhaps Baird hineself, and he did nok wish to be ree . He must be alone with his triumph, And the loftier gal- lery would be too fur away, The house filled slowly, People saun- tered to their seats os if the oecasion were ordinary, and even when the seats were occupied and the orches- tru had played there ensued the annoying de- lays of an educational film and a travelogue. Upon this young actor's memory would be for- ever seared the Infar- rhitian that, the eanper ee] Jaya fiftern million ffs ut onn me wel that the inhabitants of Upper Eurma have quaint native pastimes, These things would stay with him, but they were “We Tioagit Foo Wor Jat a Begloner, aad Sere Fou Get the Biggest Port in tae Pleture unimportant. Even the prodigal fecundity of the conger €el Jeft him eold. He gripped the arma of his seat when the cast of Hearts on Fire was flung to the sereen. He caught his own name instantly, and was puzzled: “Clifford Armytige—By Himself," Someone had bungled that, but fe motter, Then at one: he was secing that first scene of his, As a popular screen idol he breakfasted in his apartment, served by o valet who was a hero worshiper, He waa momentarily disquicted by the frank adoration of the cros-eyed man in this part, While acting the scene, he remembered now, he had not always been able to ob- aerve hia valet. There were momenta when he seerned overemphatic. The valet was laughed at. The watcher's sympathy went out to Baird, who must be seeing his sétlows effort taken too lightly. There come the scene where he looked at the photagraph album, Ewt now his turning of the pages wos interspersed with close-ups of the portraits he regarded so admiringly, And these astonishingly proved to be the enlarged stills of Clifford Armytage, the art studies of Lowell Hardy, It was purzling. On the screen he capably beamed the fond- eat admiration, almost reverent in its intensity—and there would appear the still of Merton bidding on emotional farewell to his bores. The very novelty of it held him for a monvent—(Gashwiler'a Dexter aetually on the seremn! He was aroused by the hearty lwughter of an immense audience. “Tt's Parmalee,"” announeed a hoarse neighbor on his fight. “He's imitvtin® Harold! Say, the kid's clever!" The laughter continued during the album seene. He thought of Baird, somewhere in that audience, euflering because his play was made fun of. He wished he could remind him that scenes were to follow which would surely not be taken lightly. He was feeling that at least his etrong likeness to Parmalee had been instantly admitted. They were laughing, 28 the Montague jit] had layyhed that first morning, because the resemblance wos so striking. But now, on the screen, after the actor's long fond look at himself, came the words, “The Only Man He Ever Loved.” Laughter again. The watcher felt himself grow hot. Had Baird been betrayed by one of his stall? The scene with the letters followed— clothes basketa of letters. His own work, as he opened afew from the top, wie all that he could have wished. He wie finely Harald Parmuiles, and again the hoarse melghbor whispered, “Ain't he got Parmalee dead, though? “Poor sllly little girla!" the screen exclaimed, and the audience beeume neiss. Undoubtedly it was a tribute to his perfection in the Parmalee manner. But he was glad that now there would come some acting at which noone could lau. There was the delicatessen shop, the eariest young cashier and his poor old mother who mopped. He aaw himself embrace her and murmur words of encouragement, but incredibly there were giggles from the audience, doubtless from base souls who were im- pervious toa patlees, : The giggles coalesced to a general laugh when the poor old mother, again mopping on the floor, was soon bo say, “I hate these mopping mothers, You get took with housemaid’s knew in the first reel," Again he was seized with a fear that one of Baird's stat? had been clumay with sub tithes. His eyes flew to his oom serious face when the Billy words had gane. The drama moved. In- deel the action of the Fiadows wos awifter than he supproscd it would be. The dizaolute gon of the proprietor eame on to dust the wares and to elicit a laugh when he performed a bit of business that hod escaped Merton ot the time, Against the wire sereen that covered the largest cheese an the counter he placed a placard, “ Dangerous! Do Not Annoy!" Probably Baird had not known of this clowning. And there came another subtitle that would dismay Baird when the serious young bookkeeper enacted hia scene with the proprietor’s lovely daughter, for she was made to say, “You love above your station. Ours is One Hundred Twenty-fith Street: pou get off at Fifty-ninth.” He was beginning to feel confused. A sense of loss, of panie, amete him. His own port was the intensely serious thing he hed played, but in seme subtle way ewen that waa helng made funny. He could not rush to embrace his ald mother without exciting loughter, The robbery of the safe was effected bey the dissolute san, the father broke in upan the love scene, discovered the loss of his money and accused an innocent man. Merton felt that he here acted auperbly. His long look at the girl for whom he was making the supreme sacrifice brought tears to his own eyes, but still the withes audience sickened, Uneoleerved by the others, the old mother now told ber son the whereabouts of the stolen money, and he saw him- stlf steure: the puper seek ef bills from the lee box. He detected the half-guilty look of which be had apoken to Baird, Then he read bis own ineredible speech: “IT better take this cool million. It might get that poor lad inty troulsle!* (Continued an Poge 10d) Ame

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NN a !!). 2!) 2 !:.:.00 —— = | sad THE SaTURDAY EVENING POST (Continued from Page 101! Again the piece had been burt by a wrong subtitle. But perhape the audience laughed because it had been accustomed dbs at Baird's productions. Perhaps it not realized that he was now at- tempting one of the worthwhile things. This reasoning was refuted aa he watched what occurred after he had made his escape. His flight was discovered, policemen entered, a rapid search behind counters en- sued, In the course of this the wire screen over the bi cheese was knocked off the counter, chetse leaped to the floor, and the searchers; including the policemen, fied in panic through the front door. The Montague girl, the last to escape, was scen to announce, "The big cheese is lonet! [t's eating all the litthe ones!" A bond of intrepid firemen, protected by masks and a with axes, Tushed in, terrific struggle ensued. The delicatessen shop wha Writ And through it all the ald mother continued te mop the floor, Marton Gill, whe had first. grown hot, was now cold. Jey drops wer on his chilled brow. How had Hearts.on Fire gone wrong? : ‘They were now in the great open spaces of the Come All Ye Dance Hall, And there was the young actor in his Buck Benson costume, protecting his mother from the brutality of a Mexican, getting his man later b firing direetly inka mirror—Buird hacl eaidl it would come right in the expoaure, but it hadn't. Amd the witless cocked! He saw his 3 gle with the debeetive, With a real Lapis oe hue Prana bis opp t be thé wrouiid, then hu m hi aad far inte the te to be impaled upon the antlers of an elk’s head suspended back of the bar, He saw himaelf lightly dust his sleeves alter this feat, and turn aside with the words, “That's one lodge he can jain." Then followed a scene he had not been allowed to witress. There swung Marcel the detective, played toa emphatically by the man. An antier point sis- ded bir by the atat of his trousers. He ne limply a moment, then took from his eta saw with which he reached up to contrive his release, He sawed through the anther and fell. He tried to stand erect, but appeared to find this impossible. A sul- tithe announced, He had put a permanent wave in Marcel." This base fooling had been continuously blown upon by galea of stupid laughter. But not did Merton Gill know the woret. & Merrniment ished through his most affecting bit, the farewell to his old pal outside—how could they have loughed at a simple bit of pathos like that? <3 him doin’ Buck Benson" urged the hoarse neighbor gleefully. “You got to hand it to that kid! Say, who is he, any- way" Followed the thrillin leap from a second story window to the back of the waiting pal. The leap began thrillingly, but not onby was it shown that the ecaping man had donned a coat and a false mustache in eter pig i - fall mg std oe eat Tm owly, wery slowly, clambering into the suddlie! They had used bere, be saw, ont of thoan slow camerms that stemed to suspend all action, a eracl devier in this instance, And for his actunl CRC ENE, when he rode the hors i camer tinge at a safe walk, they hacl weed another camera that fv the effect of intense epead. The old horse had woilked, but with an alr of ewiftress that quel the audience intense delight. Entered Marcel the detective in another acene Merton had not watched. He emerged from the dance hall te confront a horse that remained there, an aged coun- terpart of the horse Merton had ridden off, Marcel stared intently inte the beast's face, whereupon it reared and plunged as if terri- fied by the spectacle of the cross-eyed man. Merton recalled the horse in the village that had seemed to act so intelligently. Probably a pach had stimulated the present scone, The detective thereupon turned aside, hastily donned his false mus- tache and Sherlock Holmes cap, and the decei now permitted him toa mount, He, too, walkecl off to the necro mancy of o lens that multiplied his pace a thousandfold, and the wudience rocked in its seats, One horse still remained before the dance hall, The old mother emerged. With one anguished look after the detective, alve gathered up her disreputable skirta and left phe platlonm ina flying leap te land in the le. There was no trickery about the ori! diy, speed asE Whick ber horse, belabored _ J eL P PAG], ealloped in purest oS tae o ors, subg fulonnd | Nghe hes wate her dear neg leave the old flat. Now, must go Ot over the hill and tnop the afl, side of it!” There Waa the sensational capbure lasso of the detective. But the captor b not known that as he dragged his quarry the "sand the latter had somehern 1. himself of a sign which he la walked in with, a sign reading, “‘Join i fool Roads Movement?’’ or that 1 faithful old mother had ridden up ta depe her inverted mop pail over his fad. Merton Gill had twice started te lea He wanted to leave, But each time found himself chained there by the e¢ fascination of this monstrous parody. remained to learn that the Montague , had come out to the great open spaces lead a band of train robbers from | Q. T. Ranch. | : He saw her ride beside a train and « her lasso over the stack of the locomoti Hosaw hor pony settle back on its haunch while the rope grew taut anc the train p forced to a halt. He saw the passeng lined up by the Ms liu and made to p with their valunbles, Later, wher bund returned to the ranch with t booty, he saw the deetolute brother, af the trenzure wis divided, winning i da to the family coffers with hla dice. He the stricken father rit golf on blevele in grotenyue imitation of a er hs atl, go ineredible the revealme he had pot yet, in the firet shack of eemed ta conaider Baird in any way blame. Baird had somehow been decew by his actors. Yet a startling suspici was forming amid his mental flurries, auzplcion that bloomed ta certainty wh he saw himself the ever-patient victim the genuine hidalgo spurs. Baird had said wanted the elaaey merely for use in determining how the ag could be mastered, yet here they we Merton Gill caught the apura in und growth and caught them in his own cha arising from each fall with a look of pen: determination that appealed st the throng of lack-wits. They shricked each of his failures, even when he ran’, reet his pictured sweetheart and fell hea ong. They found the comedy almost » bearable when af Baird's direction he & herun to toe in as he walked, And he hi fallen clumsily again even when he flew that last glad rendezvous. where the wore irised out in a love triumphant, w the old mother moppect a large rock int, background, — : An se te clos=up of this rock + vemed her tearful face as she cleaned tl granite surface, Above her Jooned inted exhortation to Ler Wizard Spun Hs" And of this pathetic old creature] had been made ta say, even aa he cheap. the beloved in bis arms: “ Remember, al it my mother! IF will net desert ber ao just be at T am rich and grand!" At luet he was free. Arid applause thi. wis long aod sincere he pained his feet an pushed a way out, His hoarse neighh wut saying, “Who is the kid, anyway Ain't hea weorder?"™ He pulled his hat dawn, dreading that E might be recognized and befor these eladlow fools, He froze with th horror of what he had been unable to loo away from. The ignominy of it! And now after these spurs, he knew full well the Baird had betrayed him. As the word ehaped in hie mund a monstrous echo ¢ them reverberated through its cavern- the Montague girl had also betrayed him He was lucid now and burned with mem ories of her uneasiness the night befan She had been suffering acutely fram re! morse: she had sought to cover it will pleas of physical illness, At the moment hi was conscious of no feeling toward her sav, wonder that she could 20 coolly have playe him false, But the thing was not ol questioned, She—and Buird—had made fool of him! F Ag he left the theater, the crowd about in commented approvingly on the ple ure, "Who's this new comedian?” he heard a voice inquire, But “Ain't he oa woe der?” seemed to be the sole reply. l He flushed darkly, So they thought him a comedian! Well, Baird wouldn't think fo—not after to-morrow. Te posed out- side the theater now to study the lithe* graph in colors, There he hurled Marcel to: 'Continged on Page fo7)

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'Centinoed from Poge 104! 2 antles of the ell. The announce went eas, “Hearts on Fire! A Jel Baird ‘amet Fire Reels— SIM) Laughs." Baird. he sneecringly reflected, had kept uth with hi patrons if neat with ane af his stars. But how he hod profane the sun- t gloria of the great opin West and ita file drama! And the spurs, at he had =sirices the Lrsuapertl ng WiLrér, had tod cut! The horror of it, blinding, desc sting! He bad as good os stolen that money ceeelf, taking i out to the great open feces to spend in a barroom. Baird's ericws effort had turned aut to be a wild, seoneeqiuent farrage of the moet requlave It was over for Merton Gil. The golden eel was broken, the silver cord wus weed. Tomorrow he would tear up faird's eonttuet and hurl the pieces in Jaird's face. Aste the Montague gil, that keeeiving jade waa hopeless. ‘Kever agralti sald be trust her. In & ee daze of resentment he carded a car for the journey hame, A rroup seated near him atl laughed abaut Hearts on Fire. hee. thought he'd kill me with those “declared an otherwise sanely behav- itag "young woman. “That hurt, embar- reed took on his face every time he'd st up! ; He cowered in hia seat, and he remem berad another ordeal be must probably fect when he reached honve. He hoped the Patteranns would be in bed, and walked up and down before the gate when he saw the house ctl alight. But the light atayed, and at test he nerved himself for a poaaible encounter, He let himself in aaftly, «till hoping be could gain his room undis- ecorered: but Mrs. Patterson framed her- ei in the lighted door af the living roam od beame exclamatory at alght of him. ind he whe had thought to atand before then peophe in shame to receive thelr aon. corners noe perceived that his trial would te of another but hardly leas distressing ext. For somehow, so dense were these good folks, that he must seem to be net Sepiaeed with his own Amazingly they congratulate fing with reminiscent laughter. “And you mever bold us you was one of them funny comedians!" chided Mra. Pat- terson, “We thought you was just a beginner, and here you Fit the biggest part in the picture! Say, the way you acted when you'd pick hile up after them snin threw wou—l'll wake up in the night Litghing at that!" “Sed the way he kept his face oo sraght when them other funny ones was. eating their CL EHETS all around him!" ob- evel Afr. Patterson. “Yes, wasn't it wonderful, Jed, the way ewer bet on, leeeping bis fuce as serious wd he'd been im @ serceus play?" s “T lke to fell off my patil F added Mr. aleison. “Tell you something, rnb Arrytage,”” tage Mrs. Patterson with a aunddenty erigus manner of her own: “I neyor been se! te fatter folks te their faces unless Lieéit it from the bottem of my heart—1 wet heen that kind: when I tell la person tict-and-uch about themaclwiess they con take it for the truth’s own tnith: so yon = ire TH* a ae lots af times in Eat to-night when wins owen 3 aban thee Saif The Young wchor waa regarding her Srungels; seemingly he wished to acknowl. ge tha compliment, but could fad no fuitaole words, Tes, Fou Can blush and he@rn find haw," ftom his critic, “but anyone lovowe mel tell you To mean it when FT talk thot wiy~ yes, sir, funnier than the crossed Ban himmself!! Aly, I gues the neighbera'll aking aoon's they thid aut we gat sorme- ‘ieee ‘Ormanece. him, strug- we important aa you be la dur spare hom—and, Mr. Armitage, [ want you to five pate signed photograph of yourself, if Himenpn at last, dizzy from the mael- ‘tem of conflicting | ematlona that had sutt and awirtled him. It had been im- M@ihla not te appear, and somehow difhi- oe cot to feel, gratified under thie heart- praise. He had been bound to Appear rieaaed but incredulous, even when she winced him superior, at thoes, ta the Teed mati—though the word she had ced was “funnier.” Betrayed by bia (rlends, stricken, dea tel in a panic of despair, he had yet Hered gl & hear that he had been THE SATURDAY funny. He flew te the sanctity of bis room. Not again could be bear te be teld thet the acting which bad been his soul's high vision, was a thing for merriment. He paced his room a leng Line, @ restbess defenseless victim ta recurrent visiona @ hia shame. Implacably they returned to torbaré him. Peel after reel of the ignoble atull, spawned by the miscreant, Baird flashed sore him: a world of buss ook ows ia which he had been the arch offender, in anal Ln he tried fo moke clear to h just why his own rg should Five canisaead ralrth. Sure Ly It hal been serious; be had given the best thet was in him. And the grag ndlings hac gullawed | Perhaps it was a puzze he could never Solve. nd now he first thought of the new fece. This threw him inte fresh panic, ‘hat awful thin with his high and serious acting, would he have been made to do in that? Patiently one bay cent, he went over the goenes in which he bad appeared. Dazed, conhited, his recollection could helng ta him little that was ambiguous in them. Hut alsa he had played aroun Hearts on Fire with lithe suspicion of its low intentions. He went te bed ut lost, though te toss another hour in fruitless: effort bo solve this pine and to free his eyes of thee flashing lamies of the night, Ever an ILgain ws he seemed to become compesenl, free at last af torménting ¥ilaians, ao omere subtitle would flash in hia brain, ws where the old mother, when he had first pumihed her insulter, was made hy the screen to call aut, “Kick him on the kneecap taal" But the darkness relreshed his tired eyes and sleep at last brought him a mercifu autlet from a world in which you eould act your beat and still be funnier than the eroas-eyerl man. He awakened Jeng post bie usual hour, and occupied his first conscious moments in convincing himself that the seandal of the nitht before had not been a bod dream. The shock waa a little dulled now: he began absurdly to remember the com- ments of these who had appeared te enjoy the unworthy entertainment. Undouht- edly many people had mentioned him with warm approval. But such praise waa surely nothing ta take comfort from. ne was called owt of this retrospection by knock on his door, It proved to be Patterson, bearing a tray. "Mrs. P, thought that you being up sa late last night mebbe would like a cup of coffee and a bite of something before you went out. The man's manner was newly respectful. In this house, at least, Merton Gill was SGOT, He thanked his host, and consumed the eolier and toa with a novel sense of im- portance. pike, § Was UAprece- clon tind, Men Pee ad, indeed, been sincert. And searcely hud he finished dressing when Mr. Patterson was again at the doar. “A gentleman downstairs to see you, Mr. Armytage. He says his name is Wal+ berg, but you don't know him. Ho suys it's a husiness matter.” y Very well, Tl tee chown." AL business matter? He had no business matters with By One exexget Buird, He was amitten with a quick and quite Ulogieal fear. Perhaps he aC] ave to tear up that contract and hurl it in the foce af the Tmanaper who hael betrayed him. Perhaps the manager himself wou di do the tenring. sie 4@ Baird, after seeing the pirture, ad decided that Merten Gill rtvulel He oo Instantly he felt retenthul. Hadn't he given the best that wu in hip? Waa it hia fault if other aetora had turned inte force one of the worthwhile things’? He wert to meet Me. Walberg with this resentment still se warm that bus greetin of the etrange gentleman waa prulf and short. The caller, an alert, besinesslike min, @ime at obee te his paint. He waa, it proved, not the representative of a possibly repenting Baird. He was, on the contrary, representing a rival producer. He ex- tended hia card—the Bigart Comedios. “T got your address from the Halden office, Mr. Armytage. T guess [ routed you aut of bad, eh? Well, it's like thia: If you aln'’t sewed up with Baird yet the Bigart people would like to talk a little business to you. How about itt" “ Busines?" Mer. Armitage fulrly explicted this. He wit unhappy ond puzzled. and in conse ser unamlalle, harshness," ¢onfinmed Air. Wal- berg “Sr: understand you just fnlahed EVENING POST “nother fivereeler for the Buckeye outfit, bat how about sone stull for uw now? We tao give you as good a company as that one last night, are a good line of comedy. We got a Fae min thatalmply never gets to the eel his abring. He's dopit ng aut same thing right naw that coal fit sau like a Jave—anl, aay, th would be i grand iden to inde & specialize § in bag pur net of curs. Thut gol over hi. if again. An ark ke million Luaghs." Mir. Armytape eyed Mr. Weal ba: rg calelly, Even Mr, Walberg felt an extensive aren of art gibt sat ‘hima in. “T wouldn't think of it!" snid the actor, still griaftly. i “To you mean that you can’t come bo the Bigurt at all on any propesitian?™ Po id what I nic, confirmed Br. At ‘ald three hundred and fifty a week mre yo said Mr, Armytage, though he niin d ‘twice before achieving it. r. Walberg repurted to his people that this ‘Arava lad was ane hard-teiled prepoeithon, He'd seen Lots of ‘em in hia time, but this bird was a wander, Yet Mr. Armytage was not really so panne of nature os the Bigart emissary theught him, He had begun the inter- view with a smoldering resentovent clue ter a miBapprehension; he hae beeen au taped hy a suggestion that the spurs be again put te their revolting wie: and he had been stunned by an olfer of three bundred and ei dollare a week. That was all. eTe was a new angle to the puzzles that distracted him. He was met onl praised the witless but he had been found d& sirable by certain discerning overlords af filmdom. What could be the secret of a talent that cane people, after viewing it hat once, to make reckless offers’? And another thing —why had he allowed Baird ta sew him up? The Alontague girl ugaln oceupled the foreground of hi troubled musings. She, with her airs of wise importance, had helped to sew him up. She was a witless thing, after all, and falee of nature, He would have matters out with her this very day. But first he must confront Baird in ascene of scorn and Teprobation., On the car he became aware that far back in remote caverns of his mind there ran now a teasing memory of some book on the shelves of the Simsbury ag library. He was sure it was not a book he had rend. It was merely a tithe that hid itself, Only this had ever interested him, and it but momentarily. Somuch he knew. A book's tithe had lodged in his mind, remained there, and was mow curiously stirring in some direct relatian to hia Prien’ per Plexities, ; But it kept its a averted. He cauld not read it, Vagu he identified: the fameless book with ay Oe Kearne: he could not divine how, beenuse it was not her book, and he had never aeen it except on the library shelf. The nameless book ralatently danced before him. He was glad of thin. It k him at momenta from thinking of the loathly Bal wei The Trogic Comedian ENETRATING the Holden Jot, he waa rilicved to find that he created na gen ceptible sensation, People did not halt to int derisive fingers at him; he had half eared they would, As he approached the office building he wag almost certain he saw Eaird turn in ahead of him. Yet when he entered the outer room of the Buckeye eompiny the young woman there looked up from her typewriter to tell him that Mer. Baird was not in. Bhe waa a seriou-oyed young woman of gosineere manner; ahe apoke with a clear eprtointy of tone. Mir. Baird was not only aut but be would not be in for several days. His phiyslelin had ordered him to a sani- tarium. The young woman resumed her typing: she did not agaln glance up. The caller Hemel to consider waiting on a chanee that she had been misinformed. He was now sure he had seen Baird enter the ullding, and the daar to his private office waa Gosed. The caller idled outside the Falling, abeently regarding stills of past Bac heey atrecities that had been hung upon the walls af the office by someone sath Fimiltive tastes in decoration. He ax dohadny @ direct chalienge of the young woman's veracity. Few | | work thet in be goad for a I? What would she say Wf tald that the caller meant to walt right thers wotil Mr, Baird showld eonvalesce? He managed Born fipaprralad ing aide glances at her ns she bent over her mach sy She seemed to believe that he had alrewd pom. Then he did g bo. [et was no good talking that way to ik git. If it hacl been a man now —— “You tell Mr, Enired that Mr. Gill's got to ace him ws soon ma penesible about some= thing important," he directed from the open chin, The young worn rated ber seriows tyes to his ind nodded. She resumed her work. The door closed. Upon its closing the door of Baird's private ofan agen ruc isa Lasse] yr to a crack that sufficed for the speaking volet al ery maderate plich to issue, ek Alice Montague an the phone,” directed the voice, The door again closed noiselessly, Ee yond it Mr. Huird was presently speaking in low, sweel bones. “Lo, sister! Listen! That squirrel just boiled in here, and To ducked him. 1 told the girl [ wran't to be in unless he was laughing all over, and he wasn't Sou the Jenst little thing that was vt bath Tar laurhing. See what © mean t's up to Ehing i OW Tow, You sturterd it, und you ye got to finish it. Uwe trisec out, Get me?" Om the barges outside the rebuled Merton Grill planced at his awn natty wrist watch, hought with seme of the later Pages of his shumet. It wea the luneheon hour: me= thanically he made his weil Lis the cafeteria. He haw! ceased to rehearse the speech that jl dougbtier Baird would now have been hearing. Instead, he was roughly drafting the one that Sarah Nevada Monta tie could mot long evade. Even on her d dying hed she wold bee Sir pel led te ligben. The orator with bent head mumbled oa he wilked. He atill mumbled as he indicated a ¢cholve of fowls at the cafeteria emuinter, and He eentinuel to be thus absorbed as he found a tale near the center of the rim. He arranged his chosen assortment ia vianda. "You led me an, that's what you did!" he continued te the abeent culprit. “Led me on bo make a laughingstock of myself, that's what you did! Made a fool that's what you did!" “All the ame T can’t helps thinking he's a harm to the industry,” came the crisp tonea of Henshaw from an adjoining table. The rehearsing orator glanced up to discover that the director and the sunnay- faced brown-and-pray man he called gov- ermor were snking above the plates of their finished luncheon, “T wouldn't worry too much,” suggested the cheerful governor, “Hut sen what he does! He takes the ond old relinhle, sure-fire stull and makes un of it! Tf admit it's funny to start with, but what'll rae to us if the picture public ever finds that outT Ww hat'll we do then for drama—alter they've learned to laugh at the old staf?" “Tush, tush, my boy!" The governor waver a halfchusuriued ciuacette uneil its fell. “Never fear! Do won think o thousand Jeff Eainis could make the deture public laugh wt the ald stuf when t's played atralyht? They laughed last hight, yea: but net so moth at the really fine burlesque; they gulfawed nt the slap- stick stull that went with it. Baird’s shrewd. He knows if he played straight burlesque he'd never make a dallar, ao notice how he'll give a bit af atraight that is genuine art, then a bit of slap atick that anyone can get. The slap stick is what carries the show. Heal burleaque is eriti- chm, my boy; sonvetinves the very high- browest gort. Tt demands sophistication, a pretty high intelligence in the man that ete it, “All right. Now ental ied picture pub- lic=—twenty million people every day: nat the same ones every day, but with the same average cranial index,w ich is low for all but about seven out of every hundred. That's natural, beeauas there aren't tyenty million people in the world with tuste or real intel: igence—probably not ten millions. Well, you take this twenty-million bunch that we sell to every day, and suppose they saw that lovely thing last night, don't you know they'd all be back to-night to see a real mopping mother with a real son falsely accused of |erime—sure they'd be back, their heads Hoody but unbrowed. [en't worry! That reliable field marshol, old Cren- eTul okurn, leads an unbeatable any.” Merton Gill had listened to tha bejrir- Hing of this harangut, but was now ai yas (Continued on Page 7fo)

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1 1908, The POA Gee & Co .Chevelond. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The worst dir’ is in your ru notonit This is one of four important reasons Apel ava why the Royal Electric Cleaner is the machine that will permanently satisfy you In selecting a vacuum cleaner, you should consider four things chiefly: how well it cleans —etficiency; how long it serves—durabiliry; how easy it is to use —simplicity; howclean it is inoperatian—sanitation. As to cleaning efficiency, remember that the worst dirt is im your rug—not on it. Deep down in the fabric is the germ-breeding, unsanitary dirt; and much of it is fnely divided grit that gradually “cuts” the fibre of your rugs. The jar-of-water laboratory test shows how much of this dirt there is in com- parison to the surface litter. How Royal's scientific suction gets the embedded dirt To take out all of the gritty, germ-laden dirt embed- ded in your rugs, a cleaner must, we believe, do three things, It must produce a powerful suction, It must create a uniform suction all along the nozzle. And the nozzle must be adjusted “directly” to the rug surface. You will find the Royal meets these three needs. The suction is not only powerful but actually im- creases slightly with wae. Because of scientific design, fully patented, the Royal creates an amazingly um form suction along the entire 14-inch nozzle length. And with the patented Royal adjustment Screw, the powerful uniform suction is applied “directly” to the rug surface. Yet the Royal cannot harm the finest fabric. It can be used every day without fear of the slightest injury, even to finest oriental rugs. Built to fast a lifetime So simply and sturdily built is the Royal that it will last a lifetime with ordinary care. For so many years Areal! om. werk ihre peared with o98 enperime=ial orspev ct ertect £be Bepal eciemirh- daly dhsigaes! and pow: waned neve. The wir, garraimg cher dt wink 2, mie) nie ite he up: uheve ar ne oth iusiiona ro imrdy it. will it lighten your housework that its actual cos distributed over those years, is extremely Jou Remember, true economy and thrife lie in the pur chase of articles of real value rather than at low pri And with such mechanical precision is the Rova designed and built that it is practically trouble-proaf Anybody can use it after one explanation — thi Royal Man will show you. So easy fo use! The Royal weighs scarcely 1) pounds and is easy v use, not only because of this lightness, but al« because it requires few strokes over the rug; th: Royal cleans quickly. The patented Royal moggle is designed so that m1 will go easily into corners and under furniture. Anc the trigger-switch on the handle of the Royal ave stooping to turn the current on or off, The Revi will newer tire you. Sanitary Cleanliness Unel the embedded dirt is taken out of your sug: they may look clean—bue they are not sanitary. The worst dirt, the unhealthful, dangerous dirt —large uantities of it—is still in the rug to be beaten into the air at every footstep. The Royal leaves your rugs not only surface: cleaned, but sanitary, And the Royal tteelf is sani tary in operation. When you are through cleaning with the Royal, all the dirt is in the bag; none remains in or on any part of the machine te fall aut again upon the floor. The Foyul hl Ball produces maximum leer tihosece hon meet el aie partic nn on dur err no) the mor cic aa remd down anit the rg de ducked! up — aved Alp air pacar oe im mt powerful fore finda Site? Pugs. ciiricn! tet, Clean eBy

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THE SATURDAY ie a ae fae SUREACE DIRE — i aS ee EMBEDDED DIRT Mrs. Hannah Adolphus, 1318 Clay Ave, Bronx, N.Y., thought that her rugs were clean. And they were— = geen ordinary cleaning methods could make them, | — In 5 minutes —112 pounds of dirt From 2 “‘clean"’ rugs! “I purchased a Royal Electric Cleaner today, and | was surprised and amazed to find that after the Royal had been run ¢ minutes over my 6 by o and & by to Axminster rugs, it had removed 115 saidarvlied dirt!" Practically all of this dirt was embed unsanitary dirt that ordinary cleaning methods had failed to remove! Cleans the whole house from cellar to attic With che convenient Royal attachments you can clean the whole house quickly, easily, thoroughly; upholstered furniture, drapes, hardwood and cement floors, linoleum, walls, mattresses, even furnaces. The Royal is more than a rug cleaner. It is a complete cleaning plant that relieves you of the hardest part of your housekecping tasks. Let the Royal Man call Arrange with the Royal Man to clean a rug in your some—Wwithout obligation to you. If your electrical Gealer or department store dees not handle the Royal, write us and we'll arrange to have one of your rugs cleaned without cost or obligation to you. Tue P.A. Geer Company, Cleveland, Ohio Mantifactired in Canada by Conrinental Electric Co, Limited, Toronsa, Canada Nooa fenkght reals meboldel Far, pe Er Tag oF marry ae, ded feng? Our ro Okt Bab Ld, ine-aeormg dint — mg oO Chita adit. Rorpol's Poor aetien peti if al er tage. EVENING POST DHYy pe aheacs how preucHan the waned lel diva, da well athe arsine Litter Much af the embrdcled dint is Ure gel dafaripas bo rage Much of it is uncaninies aval hades iat germs, Meme phot the opal noe enty packs wp all derfier lie? dur semerall af che ee beled’ Tha the THE ROYAL MAN The Royal Han i mained in manera ol howitelearing ond con show you many in reese libotaiaving methods of cleaning Wihour ok anon pour part, he will be ghd co clean a mig for pow ene bet fou pedo for yours? the wonmh of ihe Royal q . The F. A, Geier Company expecks every Boopal Man te be courtmce, considera, and retver insletene in his deaings with you. You nerd never a Keowul Pian foro dhemenstemtian in your home La Paeceieeity everr commumnice chene bb a Puce Man connected with « reliable reril stoere heaped lice electrical ipplinncts who will felnate fo eek ait be glad ta caplin the aqperonay of che new theaning method, Vf fou do pot know where po peach kim, orice us and We will sec that you ae pet dn tpeuck wich Kim. DEALERS; The aeleahly Patnil Fran CAE mruty de hcl by progemive dikes / OPA a uful igune. U're for corel ce ir infoer ABTAIL REPRESENTATIVES: There mt LUTTE : Micro! huarscéer aid ahlirs mah oa Ty 6f Fiscal Bebe feequire of phe eS Fosal dealer obo opeaage bi your iy. 104 Klectric Cleaner Air Alone!

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110 The First Dish of bubble grains Puffed by Prof. A. P. Anderson That great day, when Prof. Anderson found a way to polled grains, brought a new cereal era to millions, Tt offered yeur chilklren whole wheat and whole rice with every Food cell exploded. Tt made whole graine wholly cligestibbe, fund it made these grains food confections—the most enticing grain fools inexisthenee, So opuntiess children have been wor tea karger whole-grain cliet. 125 million steam explosions There are over 125 million fool cells in a grain of wheat, They must be broken te digear, Prof. Andermon sealed the grains m guns, then rolled them for an hour in fearful leat The bot of moisture in each food cell was thus changed to steam. When be shot the guns, that steam exploded, Cher 125 million explosions occurred im every kernel, Thus digestion was made easy and complete, All the 14 elements were nowhe availihbe as fond, The grains Wen puiiTedl ta bubbies, & times mermal sexe. Each grain heescaure a tidbit, dimsy as a snowilake. And the heat gave a mutelike taste. Thus whole grains wore made delightful. _ New you whe believe in whole-grain diet can serve whole grains in thie ical form, and make then welcome dainties. Puffed Wheat Puffed Rice The Goest breakfast dainty ever served, Also mix in every dish ol fruit. Dose with melted bartter fer afterss:hool clelights. Float it eye ry bowl af milk. Tt farms a practically complete find, with every element fitted te digest, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 7 {(Contineed from Page MOF) | devouring food, He thowent this so-called governor was too much like Baird. “Weill, governor, | hope you're right. | But that was pretty keen stuff last night. That first bit won't do Parmalee any goo, and that Bock Benson stull—you can't tell me that a litthe more of that wouldn't make Benson look around for a mew play.” “But I do tell you just that. It won't hurt’ Parmaler a bit; and Benson can go on Bensoning to the end of time—to b money. You keep forgetting this tyenty- million audience. Go autand buy a pleture ) magazine and read lt through, just to re mind you. They want hokum and pay Tor it, Even this thing of Baird's, with all the saving slapatick, aver the heada of a good af them. Ill make a bet with you now, anything you name, that it won't two-thirds aa much as Benson's next gatern, and in that they'll ery their @ out when he kissee his horse good-by. See if they don't! Or aee if they don't bawl at the next old gray-haired mother with a mop and a leading juvenile son that gets " "Why if hokum they don't “Why, if you give em hokum they don even demand acting! Look-at our own star, Mercer. You know as well as I do that she not only can't act but she's merely la beautiful moron. Ina world where right prevailed she'd be crowned queen of the marond without question. Shea may have ) an idea that two and two make four, but , if ao it's only beceuse she believes every thing she hears, And look at the mail she | a Every last. one of the twenty million written to tell her what a noble actress | she is. She even believes that! | “Baird can keep on with the burlesque | fasta Bile i debe pct robe } thdy have to pay for it, expecially if be those high-priced people. I'll bet that one new man of hia sets him bock aeven bon | dred and fifty a week, The Lord knows he's worth every cent of it. My boy, tell | me, did you ever in all your life see a lave ' lier Imitathon of a perfectly rothen wetor? I There's an artiat for you! oi3 he, any= way? Where'd he come from?" ertan Gill again listened; he waa merely affecting to busy himself with a fork. It was good acting. “To don"t koew," replied Henshaw. “"Sonve af the crowd last night said he waa just an extra that Baird aug on the lot ere, and on the subject of burlesque they alao said Baird was having him do some Edgar Wayne stud in @ new one.” “Fine! The governor beamed. “Can't ee sot him as the honest, likable country boy? T bet he'll be good to his ald mother in this one, too, and the best of the city slickersin theend. For heaven's sake don't let me mise it! This kid lest night handed Tmt Laughs that were better tha: — eee ne menth's vocation for this old eorcass of mine. You say he was Jost on extra?” “That's what T beard dust night, Any way, he's all you say he it 28 om artist. Where do you suppose he got it? Do you euppoae be's just the eaxual tas that come along from thme te time! Accu why didn't he stay straight instead of playin hore with the ga traditions of our art? That's what. trouled me aa I watched him. Even in that wild business with the apure he was the artist 2 second, He must have tricked thoae falls, but I couldn't cateh him atit. Why should such a man tie up with Baird?" “Ask me something hard. I'd eay that this bird had been tried out in serious etull and couldn't make he genie That's the way he strock te, rebably he ore thowght that he could play Hamlet—one of those boys. Didn't you get the neal pathos he'd turn on now and then? He wetually had me kind of teary a couple of tones, But I could see he'd alan make me laugh my head off ang time he showed in a straight piece. | To begin with, look at that low-comedly face of his. And then—soredthing pe- ctuliar=even while he's imitating a bul aeter you feel somehow that it isnt gl ims tation, It's art, | grant you, but you feel that he'd still bea beck actor Wf he'd tried Le imitnlt: a porwl ap. I suppose somehow he fotind aut his limits and decided te be what God made him. Does that answer you? It ie wre weling plus, ad uf that isn"é Che has in this cose | miss my guess.” “Wl suppoot ye're nght—-—something like that. And, of course, the real pathos is there. It has to be. There never was a great comedian without it, and this one is great. [ admit that, und J admit all you say about our pudience. I suppose we ert 64 can't EVE? con ty twenty million. ye, day PICUIes that make any demand an human Ilelieence, Put couldn't we acne thing better ta ome million—er 5 thousand?" The g0vernor drapped his. cigarette into the of his eofhee. “We might," be said, “if we were dowed. Assit, to make pletures we nm mike money. To make money wre tonst to the mob, aed the mob reaches full py til blawm at the age af fifteen. It w buy pletures the average child can't fii course the art bin ita infamey," mithed Henshaw, discarding his own cy rethe. “Gure is the Peter Pan of the arts,“ naunced the governor wo he rose. “The Peter Pan of the arta?" “Yes: T trust you reeall the outstand biological [reakishness of Peter,” “QGhI" replied Henshaw. When Merton Gill dared to glance uv morent later the men were miatehing er at the counter, When they had gone | he left « hali-eaten meal, and presen tight have been observed on a sw ral ” street car. He mumbled aa blankly surveyed palm-bordered build sites along the way. He was aan hearsing a tense scene with the Montag girl. Inactor parlance, ho wees giving hi eelf all the best of it. But thes were » lines, And he was no longer eluded the title of that book he remembered on t library shelf at Simsbury. Sitting in t cafeteria listening to strange talk, by cruel memories, it had faushed upnir ? vision with the stark definition of screen subtithe, He rang the Montague bell tice bei he heard o faint summons ta enter, 1 parler couch, ander blankets i reached ins Blamed head, lay Sarah. was pole ond seemed tesulfer, She greet him ine feeble volee, lids fluttering overt fires of that mysterlous feyer buraing fi back in ber ae “Hullo, kid,” he begun brightly. “Her your watch.” Her doubting glance hovered over bh a8 he smiled down at her. "You giving it to mee , Merten? She seemed unable te conquer a stuf tee ena ‘ ““Of course I'm glying it to you What'd you think T waa going to ior She etill aurveyed him with little velle glances, alive but unrevealing, “You look so bright you give me Kile: eyed, she said. She managed a wan amil at this. "Take it,” he insisted, extending th ehage, “Of emurse it won't keep Wein nien time, but itll look on you. She appeared to be gaining on her m eTmztulity, but a vestige of tt remained. “T won't touch it!" she declared witt more spirit than could have been expected from the perishing. “T won't toueh it til you give moe good big kiss!" “Sure,” he said, and leaned dows te bere hee pule cheek with his lips, He waa cheerfully basinesslike in this ceremony. “Wot tll you ce it right," she peralated, He knelt betide the couch and did it Fight. He lingered with a hand upon her pale brew, “What you afrald of " he demanded. “Tou, ahe said; but now she again brought the watch to view, holding it away from her, stodying Ita glitter from varias angles. At Lust turned her eyes up to hia, “Weil?” well? hie repeated cally. “Wh, step if" Again ther was met ene than the moribund ure wort to maniicst. There waa even a vigorous Impa- tience im her tone as she went an: “Vos know well enough what 1 was afraid uf. And vou know well enough what | want w hear right now, Shoot, cant you?” He shot, He stood up, backed away from the couch ta where be could regard its stricken aerupant und shot gnyiy: Will it'll be a geod heson to pou aout ma, Ehts thing of Mur thinking 1 waa foaled abont that piece, [ s'pcet you aed Bain aud Gb oer yu all dhe tire, right domi to the wery last, that | thought he ee cong: @ ier ries play. Hebo!" He leughed gibingly, Tt was a momsterful laugh "eerie slay. with no ocpoe-cped mu ioing fuony stull all through! t thought jt was serious, did 1? Wes, P didi" Agam the dry, scornful iaugh oof sipererity. * Detdin"t ere renee knarw that | knew what To could oa ama what T couldn't do? | showle howe chesght that little thing (Contiawed on Page J13)

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= Adding a new convenience THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The pleasure and charm of making toast at the table are greatly enhanced by this Ha 2iort Flipflop, which turns the toast. When one side is browned as you like it, just flick the grid down and up, your bread is automatically turned, with the other side atoasting. Yes, it's as easy as that. And there are other reasons why using Flipilop will afford you added pleasure— Most in their windows. = he one need touch the bread. — cost of operation is trivial, as a cent makes toast for several, it is very handsome in design and finish, with no springs to gct out of order Flipfop turns it automatically makes crispy towst, moist inside, of toasted clear through, us you prefer handy hitth: push-button switch makes it easy to turn current on or off attach be any lamp socket—for luncheon on the pan h—or in the sick: recom stores that sell electrical conveniences have this henracly table servant Others will be glad to get it for you from the factory. Marton Table Stove Metenly or themidmght” snack," 7) but to do practical hot-weather ecoking for several rigelut eet the tabhe Bak ee boils—broils Fries—atews. quickly Three aluminum pans and set of egg cups. Aak to mor this steve, Marion fron Perfected through Lary! Years al Crema Fae Lise, Vou wll fared realy deairabde Freak Lines, a5 ~attached stand —substantial plug —coal handle —hot ironing surlace — fully guaranteed, Ake to Ber then fel Aric, Rutenber Electric Company, Marion, Indiana Marion Radiator Che penetrating heat rayamalke this heater Al Pp rian gle eleedive, | its bg! Gar- ried dream rocgm te roam, Attaches to any lamp socket; Es pecially useful in bath +— foam an alter che pie furnace Eine ie crit oo —————— a (ook for a sfore where Fijotop (i working dn die iio, Thi wandesful ditile secant is alpays ready fo do your biding— — my time, dey or night —anyurhere there isan elecinic igi! socket. ff geea indo action fraefantly, doo! ing he kine! of foal you bead (ike, au feng as wanted Ala turna Ue fewaal Jor yen, af a slight touch, Con you afford do ate wcities! fa eager (iffle reneand (hol ewerks ao ery cheaply Loot for a eae meinatou iit > i Ny . a/ ep

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112 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THADE MARE tells you: “Don’t monkey with the carburetor. It’s ignition trouble.” Previously it has been hard enough even for an expert to discover some kinds of ignition trouble. The average man couldn't. Wow either or both can find ignition faults almost instantly, and with no more fuss or dirt than signing a name. Nothing could be simpler to use than the Westinghouse Ignition Tester— Spark-C. You don't turn a screw, dis- connect a wire—or anything to find out whether or not every plug is firing properly. yy sf £ Sees all LP Krows all i, Tells all nn —! about your ignition ‘i Bl ny fz my ) Ea& il aaa Pr Ez | in the United States if = el All you have to do Place the point of Spark-C on the spark plug connection, and in the little window of Spark-C you can read, as plainly as if written, what is happening in the cylinder. Dirty plugs, points worn down, gap too large or too small—if there is trouble with the plug, Spark-C tells you. And if there is anything the matter in the wiring or in the distributor, coil, or magneto, Spark-C finds it for you. If you have a car or a motor-boat, Spark-C should be used for periodical testings and for emergencies. It is useful for anyone who has an clectric-spark, internal combustion en- gine of any kind. Spark-C records high-tension current from dry cells, storage battery, or magneto. Spark-C is a fine, sensitive electrical instrument—yet it is made to stand a lifetime of use. There is nothing in it to use up or wear out. It is made by Westinghouse—that name guarantees quality. Ask your dealer for Spark-C. If he has no stock, place your order with him for a “* Westinghouse—Spark-C.” WESTINGHOUSE LAMP COMPANY Executive Offices: 165 Broadway, New York fMarrict Sales Offices in Atlante Clevelancl Kansas City New Orleans Seattle Boston Columbia Loa Angeles New York Syracuse Buffalo Dallas Memphis Philodelphia et Chicago Davenport Milwaukee Pittsburgh st, Louis Cincinnati) Detroit Minneapolis San Francis Washington Westinshouse Apri 6.

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EVENING POST THE SATURDAY (CcVatinaed from Page 110) dof ecurned to you all the time. dnt wi a" poe T elt Stara tl got a low-comedy face and ca t ro make the ein a seriou plece? Of eouree To knew I got real pathoa— & how T turned it on a couplea times in it prece Last night—but even when I'm Ttating @& bad actor you can see it ain't acting. “You'd see acon enough I was a dector if I teed to imitate a good one. ets yo" d see that ney : ber Didn't u and Baird even a’ *d fownd cut * limits and dei to be what God cant me to be? “Bat I got the pathos all right, and you a't name one great comedian that don't ei pathos more'n he needs anything else. fetther's got you right here, and ahe ain't ever going to let you go—nevrer going to ee wee patting hia head i hythm with Was putt a Fly t her rocking aa aha | soothed him. There waa silence lor another inter- val. Then she began to croon a song above him as she rocked, though the lyric was plainly an improvisation: | "Tid be have his poor old mother going | for a minute? Yes, he did. He had her ong for a minute—for a minute. Yes, be a“ er going good for a roinute. fut, ba he won't ever fool her very long et | long—net very long. because he his dear old mother very long, ary lang, and he can bet on that, bet on that, so he can, bet a a Tot of money on that, & just has to have it—and I gotit. I got that, that!” ting plus—that's what I got. 1 knew it ait" oe cieatae had grown still again, but she jhe time, and a whole lot of other lie net relax ives} infolding BITTE, wit night. Wou could hear flty sae "he suiel wt Lat, ‘em talking about it when I came out of “Well, honey a | “Yo bane thage benches where we wait | for the core?" | “De Il know then!" The imperative inference was that abe clidd we theater, saving I was an artist and all ke that: aod a certain Los Angeles society onan that you can bet never says things © don't mean, she told me she saw lots of | sec im his beers that [ was funnier than “T looked at the etare yenterday, The | 7 man that ever lived. Bign down there says, “Himebaugh's Dig- | Sind what happens this morning?" ni fied Systern of Deferred Paymenta."" lands in porkets he swaggered to and fre Yes, yea, | know." ext the orach, . I saw another good place—it “Well, nothing happens this morning ox- saya, “The House of Lucky Rings"—you ept people coming around tosign meupfor know— riage hee hundred and fifty a week, Cne of em _U know! That's all right." mad natan hour ago—he's a big prolucer, “Well, "he threw off aa Sra eas got to sothat Baird ought to be paying me his feet. She stood ee even hundred and fifty a week, because | “Well, all right!" she said slowly. ecned every cent of tt. CM course I didn't They were both constrained now. Both | rant to may anything the other day, with affected an ease that neither felt. yoo pretending te know so much about seemed to be conceded without worda that | euntrects and all thot—I fest thought [I'd they must very lightly skirt the ed mt | | Lowe jer Cha pee- tite, im color, poster ite, in the fending men's stones af YOu Cemeieniny thle auth, haeewer you see dhe power, yoni ieill final the best in shirts le rou gO On, Seeing you were so smart— Merton Gill's screen art.. They ta eed | apne] what you told me to. Hut I lore | should have held of—woith this Hornberger coming over from the Bigurt whe | wes hardly out of bed, and saya will three bomdred fifty a week interest me and promising he'll give me a chance to do that spat act again that waa the hit of the "He broke aff, comecious suddenly that the girl kad long been holding a maat peculiar ear rigidly upen him. She had at firet nactowed ber right eye upon him at a caleuw- ating angle as she listened; but for a long Te tow the eyes had been widened to long time yvolubly of other things: of the ifl's ilineas, fram which she now seemed 1 most happily te have recovered: of whether she was afraid of him—she professed still to be; of the new watch, whose beauties The new shirts for well-dressed men are now on show Better-class furnishers all over the country er Ee awesaat all he waa about to go, a he stom gt the door while the girl re adjusted his cravat, smoothed his hair and | alministered m final this mewplicable stare e] t of hidde soem ed t needed, t he broke | ie p ee ee Saver so ak huly throu ths avec whisk are displaying Emery Spring styles _shestopped his speech, made ilatease both had ing about a certain by the incest. a eaught and hed be by it to a lor HIS 18 Emery Shirt Week — Lal - meet know,” he said, "I happened to When purchasing your Easter woe tian he had meant to permit. eulé now read meanings. That ninfilch= oy bok ineurred by his smooth boasting ru tilling blend of pity and af wonder, you know, do you," she de minded, “that wou look just enough too such lke Harold Parmalee so that you're foeny? Tmean,”” she amended, seeing him on, “that you look the way Parmalee would look if he had brains?” He faltered now, but made a desperate efor to teeover his balance, “Aed besides, what difference does it eae! If'we made good pictures we'd have on ‘#n toa mob. And what's a mob? is Piotig years old and nothing but or something like that, like Mate Mercer that wouldn't know how much ae two times two if the neighbors ida get it to her" Amn be had run down under that look, is he stopped the girl on the couch, who had lain sas the Tlankets to her ork, capi: threw them o#ide and sat wu Priingly ~ wae not garbed in sick- ud wyare. to be fully A lictteg moment she sat thus, riding tis wall with that slow look, anb bewirge Mcherishing. His eyes fell ut Inst. “Merton!” he heard her whisper. He looked up, but she did not speak. “he prey gave a little coe nod of the tad and ofened her arma to him. Again ' ort beside her while the motheri cm infolded him. A hand pulled his hea be et breast and held it there. Thus she moms sh the hand gliding up to hair, Without words she cher- sd ti thus a Jong time. The gentle o sing pack and forth continued, te—it's like that other time you nd free," on bluster had gone. He waa not gure ia voire, Even these few words had we hand He did not try more. “| , there, there!’ she whispered. tall right, gtonythiig’ gall right. Your pee the title of a book this morning: ing of the look, he i | 9s book I used et cen eh blie library wt It wasn't one I ever read. Mu ben Pansie Kearns read it. Any- way, she had a poem she liked a it written by the same She used to read me SALTO parts of it. But I never read the use the tith: sounded kind of wi ike there couldn't be any auch thing. had just a plain mame: it was _Juucile but the book by the same led The Trogic Comedians. You wrouldn’ t think there could be a tragic comedian, would you?—but look]at me!" She locked wt him with that elusive, re- mete flickering bue yes, but she only said: “Be sure comie take 1m oat a inner, Tonight I can eat. And don't ‘orget your overcaa sn cae go inte Himebaugh's till [con go you, One minute after he had gone the Mon- tague girl was at the telephone. “Hello! Mr. Buird, please, Is this Mr. Bairat wets Jef, everything's jake, Tne ocr thing was protty we bb acliad re. First he begun to blulf He'd got an earful from someone probably over on the lot. He put it over.on me fora rilnute too, But he dieln"t lowt good, And he waa awful broke up when the ened came, Bless bis heart! But you bet I kissed the hurt place and made it well, How about hina ee ma again. When hi can saa except he's right A fl got, ere he was some hearthroke and some mad and BoTe get Up on aecount of things he hears about himself. IT guess le's that still, except I mended the heartbreak. I can't quite make hit out—he's like a book where you can't guess what's coming in the next chapter, so you keep on read I can see we ain't ever going to talk muec about it— not if we live together thirty years. What's that? Yeoh. Didn't I tell you he waa always getting me, somehow? Well, now I'm completely got. Yeah, We're gonna do an altar walk. What? Ob, right | And listen—cdon't | looked forward to everywhere by TIVE who value COrTectnicss itu every detail of dress, They have come to depend upon this event for authentic intormation as to what is proper in shirts. Discriminating men have learned that Emery Shirt styles are always distinctive, always original. 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Their showing of the new shirts, in all of the handsome new fabrics for Spring, is complete, $2, $2.50, $3 and up. It there is no Emery dealer near you, we will see that you are served, om receipt of money-order ard name of your dealer. Mention neck-band size, sleeve-length and color preferences. Wi. M. Steppacher & Bro., Inc., Makers of Emery Shirts, Phil- adelphia. Slane ple. Mekcbun-ral ® And Shirt Week April 6 to 13

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United States Rubber Company ae 7 ‘ ro Sa iat “sara 6 ” Raynsters REO. U8, BAT. OFF A COMPLETE LINE OF RAINCOATS—- 4 type for every need EVENING POST away! Say, honest, Jeff, [ll never have in cusy mindte again while he's out of my sight. Helpless? You sald it! Thanks, Jel, [ know that, old man. Good-hy." waE Onodrd and Upward Ar THE first showing of the Buckeye company's new five-reel comedy— Five Reels, 3M) Laughs—entitled Brewing Trog- ble, two important members of its cast occupied baleony sents, and one of them throughout the piece quite brazenly ap- plawied the sereen art of her hushand, named in the play “Chester Sap, a simple country beng, "T don’t care who seeq me," she would reply ever and again to his whispered pro The new piece proved to be a rather broadly stressed burlesque of the type of picture drama that has done so much to endear the personality of Edgar Wayne bo his public, Tt was accorded a hearty re- ception, There was nothing to which it might be compared save the company's previo Hearts on Fire, anal it spemed to m felt that the present offering hacl sure edo ewen that masterpiece of satire, The Gills, above referred to, watched the unwinding cellulouwl with vusthy different emotions. Airs, Gill was heurty in her enjoyment, as has been inediented. Her husband, mupernicially, wae net displeased. But beneath that surface af m iaipK aroval, beneath even the lock of bored ndifference he now and then managed, there still ran a complication of emotions, mot the least of which waa honest bewilder- ment. People laughed, ao it must be funny. And it was pond to be known as an artist of worth, even if the effecta of your art were unintended. It waa no shock to him to learn now that the mechanical appliance in his sereen mother's kitchen was a still, that the grape juice the honest country boy purveyed to the rich New Yorker had been improved in Fank defiance of a constitutional arend- ment. Even during the filming of the piece he had suspected that the little sister, so engagingly played by the present Mrs, Gill, was being tea bold. With alight surprise, therefore, as the drama unfolded, he saw that she hod in the most. brazen manner in- Vited the attentions of the city villaing, — She had, in truth, been onky too eager to be lured to the great city with all ita pit- falls, pnd had bidden the old horte farewell in her simple country way while each of the villains in turn nveaitedd in hia moter cor, What Merton had mot been priviloged to watch were the later devel ments of this villainy. For just beyond the little haumlet at a lonely in the pond wach of the motor core hed bern stopped by a croweeyed gentleman looking much like the clerk in the hotel, save that he was pro- fusely bewhiskened and bore side arms ino menacing feshion, _ Declaring thut no seoundrel could take his little daughter from him, he deprived the villains af their valuables, aa that for a time at least hey should not bring other unsuspecting girls ta grief, As a tarthes precaution he compelled them to abanden their motor ears, in which he drove of with the rewewed daughter, He was later seen to sell the curs at a wajeide euruse, wre after dividing the spoils with his daughter to hall a sulsurban trolley, upon which thay bath returned to the home nest, where the little girl would again languish at the pate, a prey togny designing city man who might puss. ee ee rose beauty, her longing for petty clothes and city wave, aod yet so copally protected by this opportune father who appeared to foresee the moment of her flights, He learned without tremor that anor the triumphs of his fk el ha bern a machine for making tem-=dollar bills, at which the New York capitalist had ex- clainved that the state rights for Lowa alone would bring one hundred thousand dollars, Ever more remunerative, it would seem, had been hia other potent—the folding hoomerang. The manager of the largest boomerang factory in Austrulia stood read bo purehinee this devtes for ten million tale And there was a fing view of the little home after prosperity had come to bis in- mates, so long threntened with ruin. A sign over the door rewd, “We Olde Fash- joned Gifte Shoppe," and under it, flaunted to the wayside, waa the severely simple | trade device af a high boot. She seemed so defenseless in her wilid-— April 8.1, These things be now Knew were ‘.n, expected mong the deft infamiea oi Buckey? °Omedy, But the present pi held in 8f0re for him a complicatanm, ty, despite his already rleh ex ence of Bu eye methods, caused him distresaing peri: heat and cold while he wateed Vie credible unfolding. Early in the piece, indeed, he had be to suspect in the luring of hia little sb a grotesque parallel to the bold advar mate him by the New York soclety ; He at once feared some such interpreta when he saw himself coy and em ne before her downright attack, and he ° certain this was intended when he bet himself embraced by this reckless ym woman who behaved in the manner of sereen idols during the last dozen feet of last reel. But how could he have auaperc the lengths to which a perverted spirit satire would lead the Buckeye director? Por now he s red throsagh the bli ing anew, a bundle clasped’ to his bre He fell half fninting at the door of the home. He groped for the knob and at gered in to kneel ut his mother’s feet, A she sternly repulsed him, a finger point: bo the still dior. Unitliewably the sereen meow miade f aay: "He wears no ring! Back to the enc with “em beth! Throw ‘em Way Dio East!" And Baird had said the bundle wou contain one of his patente! Mrs. Gill had watched thie seene wil tense absorption, When the mother's inc heart had relented she turned fo 4+ hissed : "You dear thing, that waa a beautif piece of work! You're set now. Th cinches your future. Only, dearest, neve never, never let it show on your face th aie think it's funny! That's all pial ve to be afraid of in your work.” “T won't,” he said stoutly, He shivered—or did he shudder?—an quickly reached to take her hand. It waa ample and direct movement, yet somebe it richly had pene of wistful ing “Mother understands,” she whisperce “Only remember, you mustn't seem t think it's funny." “Twon't,” he ssid again. But in his ion heurt hestubbornly cried,“ Idon't, Idon't!' Some six months later that representa tive magazine, Silver Screenings, embla aned upon its front cover a promise that p the succeeding mumber would sppear i weely luetrated interdew by Agget listened with that fising young screen silat Merton Gill, The promise was kept. The interview wandered amid plotagruphic reprode: thane of the luxurious. al awed bung low, set among palms and climbing Toes, the actor and hia wife in their high-powered Foadeter—Airs, Gill at the wheel: the acter in his coetunee of chapa and sombre, rul- ing a cigarette; the actor in evering dress the actor in his famous seene of the Christ- mas Eve return in Brewing Trouble; the atter regaining hia feet in hi equally famous scene of the malignant spurs; the actor and his young wale on the lawn before the bungalow, and the young vile, aproned, in her kitchen, earnestly busy with spoon and mixing baw. “Tt it perhaps not generally lows wrote Miss Blivens, “that the honor of having diseovered this latest luminary in the stellar firmament should be credited lo Direstor Howard Hinshaw of the Viet foress, Indeed, [ hed not known this 2 self, until the day T casually mentioned the Gills in his preenes, 1 lingered on pat ul Island Love, ut present being filmed by this muster of the gnsperken drama, havig but ao mement sine left that dainty little TAIEMI EE Quastr of the celluloid ikyrmty, Murwl Mercer Seated with her in ih tina bijou bewdeie of her leangulow de ing room on the great Halden tat, its walk lined with the works of her favente nuthors—for one never finds this soulfel litth: girl far from the books that baw developed her mentally, as the art of the screen haa develuped her emotionally—she had referred me to the director when ! sought further detaila of her forthcoming great production, an idyl of ishand romance and adventure. And presently when | bed secured from him the information [ neece concerning this unique little drama of the great South Seas, D chanced to mestion my approaching encounter with the young suf the Buckeye forces, an enovonter te whieh I looked forward with aese dieu. (Continued on Page 7)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST A. FASHION HAT suitor or husband has not paced in despair up and down the library, choleric under the proddings of his collar, while his lady fair preened before her mirror? Even in the Elizabethan days, it is written, the knight was in his doublet and hose long before his lady appeared ready for the ball. But procrastination is the pre- rogative of woman. She knows What she is about, It takes time tu make an invulnerable toilette. Yet, while there is probably no item of feminine apparel which comes in for as close scrutiny as stockings, there are still, otherwise faultlessly dressed women who give apparently little thought to the stlection of their hosiery. Women whe would never think uf passing a mirror without adjustiny a hat, tucking a straying lock in AT TR SAD. CR REE fuk : (eT tTis SS _— L place or administering a few. deft pats with friend powder-puff, trip serenely down the street with stock- ing seams running woefully askew. And what is more unsightly than a crooked seam? Will some women never learn they can be forever rid of this dire misfortune by buying Burson Hose? Burson stockings, as you are prob- ably aware, are fashioned inthe knit- ting su that they conform perfectly tu the graceful contour of the leg and ankle, and they have no seams to twist and pull awry. Years ago, befure the wonderful Burson looms were invented, stock- ing manufacturers hit upon the ides of putting seams in stockings to inake a poorly shaped article fit a little better. Even today, sume ordi- nary seamless stuckings, with just as BURSO! Fashion ed OSC 115 Se ae HINT FOR WOMEN ~ [atalie lorvis leg, are made. to imitate real tash- ioned hose by sewing a mock seam up the back. It is ditheule to detect this until after the stockings are laundered, when they lose their pressed-in shape. “To avoid the risk of getting stack- ings which are not permanently shaped you should buy Burson, be- cause the fashioning or shaping is plainly visible. Burson stockings are fashioned perfectly on the loom. ‘Vhey have no ungainly seams to annoy the eye or turture the feet. Once you have worn Burson [am sure you will agree with me that they are not only more stylish but that they are extremely comfortable, many needles to the ankle as the | CoMPANY TiLinwots Burson Kwerrrine Rock FORD, SPhars Fikes ast HeaTHees

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iCoantinaed frem Page iT) ‘Mr. Henshaw, pausing in his task of cling certain changes in an interior of gland bot, reesured me. “You need meno fear about your meeting with Gill," mad. “¥ ow will find him quitesimple and iiected, an artist and yetaanely human.’ was now that be revealed his own part the launching of ie ung star. “I icy rh i= met mown,” he con- ged, “that to me should the honer af ving dieeovered Gill. It ia a fact, how- o He appeored a an extra one mornin the cabaret scene we used in Mis eerr's tremendows hit, the Blight of caiway. Instantly, a8 you may spr ec, | wae struck y the eeipiarinnes finction of his lace oat bearing. In that ved composed of average extra pecple he sel cut to my eye as one made for big ings. After only a moment's chat with mi. gave him a seat at the edge of the meing foor and used him most effectively portraying the basic idea of this pre undiv stirring drama in which Miss ssiibal is to achieve one of her brightest map “"Wateh that fer today; you will aorcer young Gill in many of the clase fe where, under my mee he rae 4 ut the pay chological, the symbolic—if I ay ase the term —values of the nk ides nderqving Gur story. Even in these bits ereveled the fine artistry which he ha ce demonstrated more broadly under — director. coe “"To my lasting tL the piece wae ben too far along Hage 8 him a more im- ortant part, though I intended ta offer i, something £ in our next Po for Warnel Mereer—you may recall pad success in Father’ 8 Wife —bat T ; ew never able to find the chap again. nade inquiries, af course, and felt a ally eoal sense of los when I could get no race oo him I knew then, as well as [ inow now, that he was destined for emi- rence in our world af painted shadows. You say imagine my chagrin later when IT leaned that another director was to reap the rewards of a discove = own." “od ao,” continued Blivens, “it was with the Henshaw words still in my ear tat | first came into the presence of Merton Gill, fedine that he would— sa he dionce finely did — but me at my cee, Sonple, unfected, modest, he is one whom, comm has ace pork on the bog where [ presently found him—pluying patol a titled rowé in the Bg So ee cmety, to be called, one hears, Nearly swethearta or Something—and later in lomo but homelike nest which the raune star has provided for his bride of o lm Sottha—she was Flips Montague, one reals, daughter of a long line of thentrical Fol éuting back to days of the Metierd gan drama— be proved. to be fined otpiled and surprisingly uundilee the iil. cgv deal mime of the 5 afer constella- bon. Indeed, one cannot but be struck at core by the d velo of seriqweness under lying the inns surface drollery. His ces @ humor must be tremendous, and selon in the briefest flashes of hia whim- wal manne can one divine it. “let wi talk only of my work,’ he oe ‘Only that can interest my And so, very seriowaly, we talked j ee ave you ever thought of playing ‘no parte?’ [ ake. “He debated a moment, his face righdly et nearrutable to my lance. Then he ake intone od tho whintaleally appeal- ane that somehow are acutely ela ret pathos. “Serious parts this comely face of mine!" he reaponded. ind my query had been anawered. Yet he ‘No, I shall never play Homlet. [ na oye a gon! imitation of a bad actor, i doubtless I should give a very bad Sito ef a pod ome." "HY mili, jieaciewre!” [remarked to heel The man with a few simple strokes THE SATURDAY EVENING POST of the brush had limned me his portrait. | And I was struck again with that pathetic appeal in face and voiee as he spoke ao confidingly. After all, is mot pure pathos the hallmark of great comedy? We laugh, but more poignantly because our hearts are tugged at. Amd here was a master of the note pathetic. “Who that has reared over the Gill struggle with the dreadful spurs was not even at the climax of his merriment sym- pathetically aware of his earnest persist- ence, the pained sincerity of his repeated etrivings, the genuine anguish distorting hia face as he senses the everlasting futility af his efforts? Who that rocked wit laughter at the fox-trot lesson in Object Alimony could be impervious te the facial above those incompotent, disobedi- ent, heedless feet? “Here was honest endeavor, an almost prayerful determination, in and again thwarted by feet that recked not of here or even of bare mechanics) accura Those feet, so apparently aimless, so lit under control, were the most. “BERLOY STEEL PRODUCTS =the pride of pat: erage in fhe cqrafi —aramplify the character, eeperi. ence and gercice of fices devoted fo con- striction grog rene aad excellence perha mirthful feet. that ever scored failure | in the | dance. But the face, conscious their clumsiness, WHS a mask of fine tragedy. “Such is the combination, it soem bo ma, that pea uced the artistry now so nerally applauded, an artistry that pa aps igen ita full Aloweri in tha powerful hit toward the clot of Brew reving | Troubhi—the return of the erring rt wit hiss caf appeal so markedly that for the moment one almost at ars | wildly absurd burlesque of whieh it formed the joyous yet truly emotional apex. spoke of this. “"Troe burbesqwe is, after all, the h _ eriticiam, don't you think?’ he “Doesn't it make demands which nei sophisticated audienee can meet? Tan rather highbrow ecriticamT’ And I saw that he had thought deeply about his art. "Tt la because of this,” he went on, “that we must resort to ao much of the slapstick atull in our comedies. For, after all, our picture audience, twenty mullion people a —surely one can make no great demands upon their intelligence.” He considered a moment, seemi lost in memories af his work. "I dare . he concluded, ‘there are not twenty million people of taste and real intelligence in the whole world." "Yet it must not be thought that this yang ee would play the cynic. He is superbly the optimist, though now again he atruck a note of almost whimsical pessi- mism. "OY course our art is in ite infancy." He waited for my nod of agreement, then dryly added, ‘We must, I think, consider it the Peter Pan of the arts, And I dare say you recall the outstanding biological freak- ishness of Peter.’ But a smile—that slow, almost puzzled smile of his—accompanied the words, “*You might,’ he told me at parting, ‘call comedian," And again [saw that this actor is set apart from the run of his brethren Thi an i uncanny ait tor for intr He hos ruthlessly onal hi He knows, ar he Sl it, ‘abet Gel meant him to be!" Was here, per- chance, a hint of poor Cyrene “T left after some brief reference to his devoted young wile, who, in studio or heme, is never far frees his side, ““Tt ta true that | have struggled ond sacrifeed to give the public somethin ieetter and finer,” he told me then; ‘but owe my real success all to her.’ He took the young wife's hand in both his own and eat simply, unaffected|y, raised i tu hia cheek, where he held tt a morent, with that dreamy, remembering light in his eves, “TD think that’s all,’ be aaid at bast. on the instant of my going he checked me once more, “No, itisn't, elther.” He bright. ened. “TL want you te tell your readers that this litth: woman ia more than my wife — she la my beat pal. and | may also adel, my severest critic, (THE EMI A MAN OF PRINCIPLE (Cottiquaed fram Page 20) tehed the first vast hallway of pe main “Sheth ee corridor rece recedicd HAL L, feng over them in ¢ ule pillery ke sorne cliff dwelling A gtd Se cote and seoured iron joined them- ‘oH that harsh architecture where the ee waa dim and timid like a prisoned The chaplain yas ranged amell itt Clean air should taste Mr. Ducane, new os yot to prisons, lowked about him with intelligent inberest. pet besice him “Ite couldn't be and yet —do Weer “Smell it?" cleaner or more pth rept twelve years af that smell, think?" | or OPES Prevents atcukn: lope fire, Flattened stran ¥ urip , Mites Steel Filing Cabinets eefeod. “Secisontal ond vertical sections, and Transfer Units SYMBOL OF PROGRESS A Proof of Value The most valuable asset that any business can sess isn to have its name re as the assurance of a value which needs no further proof. 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He was a thiel and a rogue, you say; but isn't there a. kind of stu honesty about his re- fusal to submit tamely to injustice? I stage there is, I have hopes for Hacker at «The governor returned. “They're bring- ing him along.” hesaid, “Better sit down, Ducane, I'm sending him to the infirmary for the night,” A heavy measured fect sounded on the tone withow "Come in!" ordered the or. Two warders entered and saluted, [o- tween them, wt as a clown in his priaan dress contrast with ther nent uniforms, came the man who wea to ree ceive the King’s nano far the crime he had not comemnitbed. Mr. Ducane looked at him eurtualy, He was not entlrely without hathon, and here was a man about to be ra from the dead, ee bt frig in pare eae gang had di th agony and “This patie eaid tke ce governor to the convict, “is from the Home Secre He has some news for you. Listen to him!" The man's vcame dully round a tested in. mere jence upon Mir, Ducane. “Well, Hacker,” a that gentleman, “T have to tell you that some new facta have come to light in your eage,"" He cou ; he hed a notion that it im to break the news, and he was uncertain how to proceed, ever done it! said the conviet Ne, “said Mr, Ducane, Ppa Pel ae a jury of your peers—thought you did, We know how that they were wrong. There was a terrible miatake, and I am here to put it right."" The convict continued to look at him. url time,” went on “Vou have hed a hurd Mr. Ducane; “but it is finished now, Smee hae turned up, alive and well, and toe morrow you will be set finer," Hacker frowned falntly as though in an effort af thought. finally owes me twelve pounds," he said ally. Mr. Ducane emiled, “I don't think you will be able to get that," he said kindly, Like one who looks at a darkened house and sees a light within carcled awifthy past. a blank window, so he saw a sudden mo mentary shine af more than mere life in the man aeyes. “Won't IT" said Hacker, “But the government owes you some. thing.” said Mr. Ducane. “When you get to London you tiust call at Seothind Yard and they will tell you what te do." He looked at the governor. “I think that is all," he me The EOVvernOr nodded. “Take him to the infirmary,” he ordered curtly. The warders laid hands upon him und ; him away. EW * suid the governor, and sighed, “There's your innocent martyr, Mr. Du. cant. Pity I can't show you tne warder blinded in one eye, nor the other one half crippled by a kick in the groin. Mir, Hurk- ers work, you know, Endearing little traits he's got, hasnt he, padre?" "LT think so, certainly,” anawered the chaplain withoit smiling. “I shudder te think of myself in hes place—innocent lke him, but without his fierce courage ond endurance! IP should have submitted, have act the seal of my acquiescence on a fright- ful, souldestroyving injustice. But he—he'd & to the stake or the rack sooner: he'd i¢ of do murder for the right in as far as , be sees it and knows it. Perhaps some day = pci &4 a salvation: will capture him a. sky hiM! then you'll see the apostle af unas The EOvernor laughed witha. ~ and rose from his desk, **1 (wish you'd | Jack the Ripper,” he said, * I" TM SUPE ye have loved him, Come on; let's bs taste of all thie out of our mouths." "T like the taste," said the chapl “I'm going to the indiren Lo Be ey more of it. Good moon, Kr. Duca He found Hacker seated on a bed, w hia shoes off and the doctor atanding bei him. The latter turned hie round, che face upon the new arrival. “Come in, padre!" he called. “I'm F in" the partin' guest. A clearette ap rink is what I was suggesting. ‘To-morr this time," he said to Hacker, “you'll in London. Got any frienda there?” “There'll be Emee, sir," Hacker 5 “Ohare tiger ae unis, “e dees !** orGood said the doctor cheerily, i departed to fetch the doped drin The government was newer called uy for the payment of the six hundred pam which it had decided to grant to Willi Hacker in compensation for hia death s tenet, hit twelwe years af servile his two floggings, his innumerable les enaltios, his gruesome labor and hia sense of wrong, Hacker had dece that the twenty pounds which the gover: hod been authorized to advance to § on leaving wee a better recompense th the hundreds to be gained by showing hi self at Scotland Yard. He vanished, the fore, inte the jungles of London, te waterside wilderness, to the Inbyrinthi fastnesees where the Orient battens on f vices af the Gecident. And. of course, with twenty pounda his pocket he found friends, [et was in ex pany with one of these that he first « countered Smee, The bar of the public house where ¢ meeting took place was a reeking jam shabby humanity under its flarin » Saques gah | as jets. Hacker—he was ing ba I to useful name of Smith for t time being—leaned with his friend af vantage point at the end of the bar w drank and looked about hit at beixuy The friend, known te his friends aa Yow perp incy alean person of alsout thirty: | was doing the honors of the neighborhe to the loss sophisticated Smith. He mentioned celebrities in the eos before the bar—a bookmaker, a sport barge skipper, and the like, “ An’ ‘im over there—that fat ‘un ll the soft ‘at! Got money, 'e "as, Went a on the quiat to foreign parts, and a fell mii ‘ung for murderin” of *im," Young Izzy loughel in a way he bat with lipe: barely | and a sound lik an indrwen hiss. “Tell yer somethin’ about ‘im! be gait “Just before he disappears, me =r ral brother— yer knew my brother M He went on with his ‘tale, but stacheres nok Listening, He was looking over ti companions head at the man who ha iensen. polnted out te kim. Patter than ¢ old, burned with South African suns, wear ing the clothes and amoking the cigar o pr eeuertia —it wa Sree! Smee, who owes twelve pounda. The voice of Young Izzy beat upon br ears: that man about town was approach ing the climax of his narrative. “and there 'e waa, alttin® in the road oin' through his pockets an’ sereechin’ ‘et Fin robbed, An’ there was ua, other side the street, laughin’ at ‘im. Twelve quid we ‘ad orf 'im—twelve golden soveresgee wrap Up ina bit o" paper. An’ w'at & you think o that?" Hacker etared at him, slowly eompre hending. “You downed "im and robbed ‘im a twelve pounds?’ he asked. He seemed incredulous, and Young Izzy laughed again. “omen, his name is!” said Hacker, "He was Ty mate! An’ me thinkin’ —" He broke off and Young Izzy stepped beck aghast from his furious face. " at was my money, ye thievin"® seine—an" I'm goin’ to ‘ave Lt! Get oat o° this; I'll find yer wen I'm ready!" Young Tzzy went—backwards and in haste. As the door swung behind him Hacker crushed his way throwgh the throng to where Smee stood, all wnron- aciaus of his approach, “Hulla, "Arye" greeted Hacker. "Thon't you knew me—Bill "Acker?" aft ght a hearty hand. “"Member the time we MeL

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BIG GAME (Continued from Page IP) Here we are, Listen now, Nita, you ve everything to me.” The way he said that made ber nervous. cir forward, jooking ahead. The ji turned into ome of ciscan hieal expen= petrects, dine w op before o stone house of ‘det windows and carvings over a whe ck door, Why, this wasn't o hotel! ‘Wart bere for me," fal sprung out, ran the bell, She sat sing up at the shapely fo om The door opened a carck, A little man wed Riapiciously around the elge. Hal's qiders mowed in sclfeaseured advance. 2door opened wider on a vesthule, She © Hal and the With man in animated fa, outlined against while sie Hal a oot his wallet, showed something that hed Gke a card, put buck his wallet, slid hand in bis pocket, w petauresl to be shak- E handle with the little man, ‘ow ‘he Durmerl, bhowkeling the doorway. Bers seemed to march forward and give fp ocders. “lovtita bore, Nita? Monsiewr Raton rer got the Puwtname’ tel i. | Mwai negiemeastray. Beastly aervios, ian"tit?T™ Mondeur Ratan? A telegram? The givams? Her face twisted into seme kine 1 dietie expression. “Dear me! Reale!" tal gave her notime. “Well, now we're ee eed better spend the night, anywar. That aay, Nite?" “he gaid nothing. Wo fog cot foligers, Ce eogoge de vain af menue.” Fal turned to the ate man, who flapped his shoulders ancl wicds and stared sharply at the trunks in the second taxi, Soshe kad come from London, had she? wh why bawlin't sho insisted that Hal toll we wtat it woe all abowt, He wos ot the taj door, helpin her out, He leaned clos, bin Jase eenet, familiar. “T's a right. Til explpin later, Come on, Ni There ssperusdl really nothing ¢lar to da, Tie Raton peraon bowed from the thresh- oda men Htth: man with eyes like nvilumetic, adding up. Hal, at her elbow, gerrel hee . She ea in a ange hall, The chauffeurs, fanped onder the trunks, brushed past, sheer! op a circular etalrease of white curtle, Mongleur Raton, apldery, beading teway, A meat fat woman of pickin aur- how beled, gaping from a deorway. Hal oo to het in a lowd, assured voice. This ro Metame Raton, no doubt? His prog the Putnam, had ao often spoken oe. ‘iat were they doing here, and who um tee Putname? The name sounded acy familiar. ial drew her into a sim of soft ghodows, Damask portitres cet behiad them. Heenapped ona light. Miata beatiful room! She clutched his oui, Sang about at the creamy tints, the smuk, the tapestries, the old gilded ape and minors in which she saw re Served a ttele woman in black with very red ye. 8 tal blurryref Tan, “ti whis , Whos: house is this?" “Lors for the present. Be back in aw moment” He nodded und grinned, left ber there, Of course it was fantastic. A host or “Stes would presently appear with nipped Pare annoyance al being se intru andl =a by unweleome guests, She tiptoe re the goundlew Aube curpect wulrhing the door while she fingers rote, od leather-bwnd books On a at anportry table ston! the photo. Bagh fa YOU worn in a silyer frame, Wher had she seen that face before? A Prited pine Toad forward from a corner ‘et room lite a sleek animal waiting Lo a Staked, She longed to touch the keys. - el "MTL a VF Nits." tal ‘vial voice startled her. He stood edoor, seniling at her. She followed “on tiroagh the hall, up the stairs, inte o ohndvhite toom of rosewood and we. There wat a chaise longue heaped SS emitnidered cishiona, a bed, canapied os fettouned. The tranks showed up big os hinek agaisat the light carpet. oii, what does this mean?" She de- 7 ali j wis oat from. under light, fat- A feger to his lips, he tiptoed to the daar, Te time ower the keyhole, Foi | Mie there. Good. He turned “22h engaging air of candor. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Phew! [ don't mind telling you, old dear, that | wasn't sure we’ pet iE, y Oh, dear, she might have known thut sonvetbipg was wrong. Her head felt hot. In that steumsheated roam tarpor gained on her, Hal wus looking at her brightly as il he expected her to put hia on the back wind aay “Clever bevy f She took off her velvet toque, which presed on her hot head, ran her fingers through moist, clinging hair, Well, now that he had got in, a he put it, she wanted to know how they were poling to get out. “Better tell meeverything, Hal. Whoare these Putname? What about that telegram that mever arcived? I ean't understand why you have to do these things.” She li at him with hard, bitter eyes, “Really, Hal, if you've got ua inte another | mes I'll never forgive you." | She would always forgive him. He | kivew it. "The Putname?l You remember them, Nita,” he began in a chatty voice, But he wasn't so confident as he had been down- stairs, “Here, old girl, you lock fred, Do lie down.” He fussed about her, led her to the chaise longue, propped cushions be- Hind her back, She wasn't going to be though, “I'm waiting to “Well, now don"t you remember that night we had supper at the Eléphant Rouge? The Putnams sat next tous. Nice chap, Putnam. He and | hed o long talk," Thear people! The woman in the silver frome was Mra. Putnam, of course. But they didn't know the Futnams, Hal had picked the man up thet night “Why, Hal, we only saw them once, They were leaving for London or India or somewhere the next day." “Precisely. He dropped a thick lid OVET Bn eye, jiggled from heel io toe with a litth: seezaw motion, He aetecd os if with extraordinary tn telligernion she had csuoed aTiddle, But che wasnt goang to help him out, eo he had ta continue, “They were leaving for Lowlon, You see you do me member, my dear, And then they're going of to India for a bit—big-egame bunting. Putnam wanted to rent his howse. Poll me all abet it. You weren't listening.” “You don't mean to tell me that we're renting this house from the Putnam?” Her voice rose shrill, worried. She alid fer- | ward to the ede of the chaise langue, her | ee nae ne the suey “Well, you might , it amounts to) that.” He fished’ for Is clgarette case, | lighted a ciarette, “Amounts to what? For heaven's sake, Hal, don't throw matehes on this carpec.” Oh, he was exasperating! "De the FPut- | names know we're taking their house? She had him there. OF course they didn't know. Mra. Putnam would never reat her | house to strangers. She remembered now the supper as through a mist of lights and music, A gay Hace, the Eléphant Rouge. | Major Brussington-Welsh in a jovial vein, | throsting cigars, champagne, anecdotes on | anew acquaintance. The Putnam woman | huuin"t liked it, Her cool ennui had been wafted like a thin deaft from o distant eourer over her too sociable husband's blond head, reaching Hal, who hadn't felt it, reaching Nita, who had, She taxed him again. “Hol, they don’t knew?" How could they know when they were in Lancdon, he blustered, But he mennt to writt Putra, of ewurse, Afuke ft oll right with him. A matter of business. If she wuld anly listen -—— “T'm Lextaermicige, Hal, please don"t throw aves on the faor here, This tant o hotel,” He went through BL elaborate show of putting oul his ciyerette in a af ripe re- selves benida the led, Naw, then, he could explain the whole affair quite simply. Nhen he wea expluining anything he ulwivs walked up und down aa if he were am the deck of o ship thut rolled a bit. It meeled all his wtlbention to keep his balance. She watched him, “Tt wos like this.” he said. “Billings | whe thinking of opening a Paris branch Biscuits Hillings, Good idea, wasn't it? Have to find the right man, though, ta direet the thing, That about Major | Tirossington-Weluh? Just the man for it!" He stoml 2 moment beaming upon her, twirling his nvustache, t off like that, | ear, Hal," From headquarters in Pittsburgh, the United Engineering and Foundry Company directs the production of seven busy plants. More than §,000 material bills must be pre- ach year and from 10 to 25 copies of each are necessary. slight error may cost fhousands of dollars. Nine printed forms are used. With the old-fashioned carbon paper method the codt was $4.35 per 100 copies. Errors were frequent. Three years ago they put Ditto on the job. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April &.1y ie Back in tho salon among thas, ‘ns. things. Mal smoked bis cigar; she lit “EY ow iook rippl ight, old "a ook ripping to-night, a" She drifted to the plano. She fisd played for years. Hal lounged over to } side, She tileed her head to senile os ek Good old Hal! Her fingers moved siy' touching the keys. Try simple melodi A false note, never mind. a's tart 5 not eritiecal He nedded, and humimed o of ture. Strange how she felt, saad with a kind yearning, and yet happy with Hal anchor there beside her. He and she hadn't be like this for a long time. Why couldn't always be like this? “T say, trot us out something a ] gayer, Nita.” One of those jazz tunes, he meant. & tried. Jangled «a syncopated chord, b somehow it didn't go hore, She was gro ing sentimental. She thought of 4h “Oh, Hal, has he said anything te yout" She had alw hoped for something like this, Wha, Wit were true it would be the moet wenderful He potted her on the shoulder, Well, nothing was settled. Nothing ever could have been settled if they had stayed in that bensth hole of a hotel. What Billings winked af evures wis a man with a solid hackyround, a man with a clever little worn who cmuld entertain. Billings knew the value of anelul prestige; no fool, Bill- ings. He would ex “Hut, Hal, we don't know anyone to entertain. And this house—we have ne right bere." “Now, Nita, we got in, didn't wet I tell you L'il ix it up with Putnam. Onee I'm appointed director af an office here, you and Iwill have the finestlittl position ever.” Suppose he were telling the truth? Sup e could pay the Putnams later? Thy shouldn't he? 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How could we ever make it right with the Putnam “You leave that all to me.” He looked so strong and sure of himself, as if se thing wore settled, The keys jingled as he bent over the trunks, Give Hal his chance. It wouldn't do any harm to stay on here for a little while, [m- agine waking up in this levety room after that horrid little hotel; after all the hotels! "Hal, don"t unpack our old things, The Ratons will think ——" "Think what, my dear girl?" But he knew what she meant. “Any ob jections ta my taking aut my dinner jacket? Madame al, | Raton is fixing us up e bite here” ‘Let me i i Ely wie too showy, SS ee “Lae 4 You're missing ae thing.” ‘Yes, they had better dreas. She woud wear her black satin. The sequin Take a warm bath mat in thet beautiful white bathroom. What was Hal doing now? “Por goodness’ snke, don't take out that awful dressing gown! You can't wear that here." He stool im his shirt sleeves, his hair rumpled. “What d'you want me to wear then to-morrow for breakfast?" "Oh, I don't know. Your mauve pa- Jamas are all right. Lock the tranks again.” She fluttered to the closet, hung up her black oe her sequin gown. The hangers were padded and smelt of sachet. There were dozens of them, “Nita, where's the whisky?" shouted fram the bathroom. “You're not going to drink that horrid stull nowt" “Just a amack. I"ye got a glace here, Alust havecaught.a bit of chill driving up.” Get him his beastly bottle, "You can't leave it out, Hal. Hide it in the clothes hamper. Do rinse the glass,” “Oh, hell, Nita, what's the matter with you!" Gramblings and rumblings from the bathroom. The black satin did very well. Just the note for a quiet evening. ¢ chiffon in the neck needed changing. Sho must get some tomorrow. You never got tired of block antin, “Nita, what say if we get the Billings up here after dinner?T Hal stood wilmiring: hornself in the mirrar, She didn’t want the Tillingses to-night. She and Hal sat alone in the large tapes tried dining roam. The round table waa like mu glassy pool in which tose-colored lights were aefthy reflected, A simple din- ner indeed! FPhensant, eeidive salad, Arie cheese aod o tert, Chablis that glearned topaz in their glasses. Her amile lifted her face into radiance. She moved her ahoul- ders and wrista daintily, talked In a low olite voles, coneful of what she said. ton might uncerstand English, Raton nearly spoiled everything. His little eyes added up and added up as he padded about the table He was, like a amiall aly anitnal, sniffing things aut. Sle Wished lee wouldn't apolovize eo much. He apologized bernuse monsbeur and madame had put their wilver away. He apologized for the dinner, Mudarne Eaten presented leer excuses. [it was true that in her tine she bad been cook in very great lnoises, [t wouldn't do to be tise enthusiastic. Hal overdid ft, she theuaht. She must Wart him mot to be too fonuliar with this Ratan person, Smile upon him with a thade wf comdeseension., Ves, everything Was quite delirions, Uf eoure it was ua Hal ' { ; kere! miather, of the days when she used to tz her piano lessons, How she hated to stud She had looked differently then—a live giddy girl, never listening to anjrone. Hal was good to her. He wns good to he rn H*s was bringing Billings back th afternoon, She waited for them int] silom. If it hadn't been for the Fte¢ons, az Putnam ghosts in. the ait— very snipe ghosts, at that—she might huawe spent pleasant day alone in the hows Shee ka sent Hal off becwuse she wanted tto be glon But from the moment she beft her roam bf Ratons sneaked after her, If she went gy stairs one of them munayged to be there: she went downstairs she bumped ints tH other one. Tt was either Mauclume Rate wheezing from a scramble up the bae sinirs, pretending te straighten rugs fn wide lery overlooking the hall, ar it wi Klonsieur Rabon pottering about the dintn room. Wau would have theaght they verted her bo stenl something; ta pick th Iealks of the cellar ond linen closet or t secrebe in the simple: folds of her blousr en skirt any af the small rare ornaments tha might Aappes te tuke her faney. heir busy innecent manner didn't de otive her, “Did madame ring? “Woah madame like ony help unpacking he trunks?" “Bio, mo, Chank gu. Qaaite all right thank you." Madame Raton had a jpulpous cater pillar smile that seemed to craw] awa when pa dg a you weren't looking. Fa a fat woman she moved with a treacheron apecd, silent a8 a Japanese. Monsen Haton's shoes squeaked. If this waa the way they teak care of thi house, no wonder there waa dust every. where. She knew how a house should be kept up. There were handsome houses in Stamford, Mra. Lucas’, for instance, with all that old colonial stuff in it: and her owe mother's house, which wasn't ao grant but which shone bright and epeckdees, Those Ratons caught her dusting with her handkerchief the old réffectoire table in the hall. They didn't like it, of cours Monsieur Raton venomously apologimed “Tf we had known that mongieur and madame were coming we should have hed the house in order. It is regrettable that the telegram from Monsieur Putnam did Tok arrive,” Wh, ves, the telegram! Better speak aiitiy ond amile. “We are very eomfori: able, thank you.” Naw she had shut herself in the salon. But she couldn't close out the Putnama. She felt them everywhere—in the subdued atrangement of rich objects, in poe surfaces. in damask and high gilced. ceil- ings. She moved the photograph of Mra Putnam ton darker corner. Hateful, those slender-neckedl anemic women! She could imagine Airs. Putnum in a beagown rereiv- Ing, ~uels, Well, she didn't have a tea- gown, and answay Eillings mever took tea. Should she change inte the black satin asd pretend un early dinner? Those Paton were prowling arouid outside, Stay as ahe was rather than bump inte them again. If only Hal had settled things with Ba Ings! A desert job was the sobvtien. She mist TELAT scrmehivw. Billings amined hers thos lari, whiteefaced men had more red blood in then. That wos the doorbell, She heard Hal's winie®, foal aril hearty, She hurried forward. Haul hudei'd settled anything, excepl prkhobly bills for aeceral rounds of drinks (Continged an @age fee!

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THE SATURDAY (Continaed from Page 22) One look at him was enough. Not a care in the world. He brought with bim the warm, here of enfés, the generous own greeting to ee room. Mrs. Billings was well, 7 Bo glad af Sane : lel the think of their new quarters? bask: # great. Beats any hotel I've ever He had a trick of half closing his eal bbr la His large white on of dboce vely Ge ken Ta Lonked. at lee: Eke wate abe aed cal on the black satin, “That's what [ve boen beet toinng hie all day. Finest house in Paris, bolster- ously putin. “Nothing lke it. Your own home. EN best litth woman in the world walting for you. Nothing too fine for her, You'll have ne admit that, ald man.” A bit throaty, ne ey he sald that. Billings admi that nothing was too fine for her. Ag if om springs his eyes opened wide, Intensely alive, intensely blue. Her Upe could take on a lowely, an allur- ing curve. Not in the morning, of course, but in this light. She amiled with a tilting motion of head, a loosening of the little clutching lines around her eyes, “Well, if we're to stay in Paria it's nicer to have a house, "Very neatly hinted, she thought. “Better come to the States, major, and bring the missis."" Billings strodk about, his hands in his pockets, bending to squint atan ornament. The room seemed to make him reatless, He sank finally into a tupes- tried armchair, “Take a house here. That's the way to Hal thrust out his chest, straddling a flowered "Meet the right people. that sort of thing. E though. If we were in Engler Hie. be staying with us in Baabeincton ll. Finest She got near enough to him to lay a hand on his arm. Pretty picture. Little green- eyed woman smiling up at her big, good- natured husband. Her finger tips ~~ in, pinched, “Ouch, Nita! What the devil —— “Poor old dear, your neuritis zai?” He knew perfectly well what she meant. He ond his Hrassington Hall! Some day someon would one of these vague invitations, Then what? “Hal, perhaps Mr. Billings would like a highball ?*" romain sirof hoeptiality he busied oat a prom atr of hospital istled aa Billings, deep in eaatlenind chair, was staring at her nee Well, she wasn't aahamed of them, especially in these acess apg flippera. Hut if ahe were rs, Billings ele wouldn't trust aman with an eye like that. The way he looked at warner in restaurants! His idea of Paris, peeeat Better be a little careful. Hight, ut not too igang 4 like a child wi th a new toy,” she said indulgently, “So full of enthusiasrn. He's that way about everything. Don't you think enthusiasm ia valuable in Iusl- nea, Mr. Billinga?™ “Sure.” He looked at her curiously, aun a leg over hie knee. She had ta go on now. She sat down near him, not too near, epoke in an inti- od ——"

mate confiding manner. “D"you know, I'm very ambl for Hal." She shouldn't sound too rp. You big men aren't the | only onea who want er.” Say that | light tly with a little laugh, “Give Hal a nee to Piake good an % "Hasn't he made good?" Quite another Hees this. Blue eyes boring through Fr. That was a mistake, "Of course,” hast- ly. “But you know how it is. Hal's had ao many offera slnee the war. He wanta to find just the right thing, something with a future. He'd Il ke to be here in Paris for a while, anyway." “Tron't blame him.” Billings, prepa | genial, lifted himself with one of his bria

movernents from his chair: strolled toward her, a a wonderful little sales woman,"" he said. Now what did he mean by, that? “Look here, Mr. Billings, ["m not —— “That's all right. Everyone eile things, don"t they?" She didn't like his tone. Keep her hands Wished atill in her lap, keep her feat still. “Bells or buys—at bargain priees,” she FF her cheeks didn't feel ao hot. | Tetorted. x EVENING POST How he laughed, the insolent creature! But he stopped short, amooth as a high- ered machine. ‘I'm always ready to ook over a bargain,” said he. “Perhaps you don't know, Mr. Billings. Ws took thia house because Hal tells me that —_—" “Here we are! Here we are!" Hal had te blunder in, followed Raton, who peered Inquisitively at Billings from be- tween the necks af bottlea on a tray he carried. He set the tray down, sidled out, Tee clinked im tall glasses. Hal the jovial host presided over the tray. ms. Wee nipale, old girl?” "No, thank you. Hal, I was just saying to Mr. ‘Billings that that you'd be the very per- gon to “Leak out! Sorry!" Hal tipped over a ae "d ti that bottle on yore Saad on and on, filling the room. Very amusing, no doubt, those old stories af his. Bill laughed, The smell of whisky and cigar armoke coarsened the air. For some reason Hal didn't want her to interfere, You never knew with Hal what he wanted. But this time she wouldn't atand any nonsense, Suddenly she hated their voicea, hated their faces, hated the wey ney lownged around smoking and rinking "Nita, wake up, old thing.” Hal stood ruddily over her. “Billings suggests that we make a night of it. Stop at his hotel for Mra. B. We'll dine at the Eliphant Rupe. & “Tm a little tired.” She meant him to see that she wasn't pleased. "Come on, Mes. Welsh," Billings urmed. Heatly Te to be called irs. Welsh. "Te a sport, Nita.” They stood on each side of her, tall men, red and white, She wasn't ening to be left alone alll qraning. “Oh right. I'll have to eas, though.” “Gaod girl. Hal, expansive, atted her on the back. "Like to see the mere Billings, while we're waiting for ita? She'd wear her sequin gown. Didn't matter if the mon weren"t in dress clothes, Mrs. Billings would look dowdy of course, All the better, ce AS there ever such a nuisance! In the qyuin Sonik at mit . ha which brought out erecta ie Fs ts in her eyes, she had deliberately i herself ip to the accasion. In spite of Hal's irresponsible behavior he meant that very night to conx Billings into cogs that he would open a Paris branch for his biscuits. ow here she was, waiting for Mra, Billings in the drearily rich atmosphere of the Billi private salon, from whose windows she could gas, f for distraction on the handsome proportions of the Place Vendime. The tao men hed gone eles they said, to order dinner. They had gone on, in reality, to aca waiting for anyone who was notin their festive mood. Mrs, Billings hadn't liked sha fetched to make a night of it. Mar gre n't liked her not iking it, and had told her soa in the curt tones of @ man accustomed ta command. Anita couldn't pel, in her oon invested brightness, serving aa i contrast to the bleached Be OEE Fillings" wile, Hardly tactful of him, though, to point out Mrs. Prassington-Welsh 2 an example of liweli- ness to be followed. She wasn't so sure that Mrs. Hillings emildn’t have answered hack, precipitating the damestic crisis that had hung for a moment, unexploded, in the gir, But Mra, Billings had only looked at her husband with those Mey brown eyes of hers, and said she go. She had been dressing now for over half an hour, Heavens, what chanees that woman Wasted! All those dethes and nothing fit to wear; all those jewela and ale never wore then. Wonder what ake could be coin there! Ne harm in tiptoelng to the and listening. There came a faint sound that she revegnized. She knocked gently, opened the deer, Mrs. Billings lay on the bel, face down- wards, a limp slender figure in a plain comet cover and starched tleoat. ere were clothes on the floor, clathes on ehairs: the contents of boxes and closets littered about; a jewel cose open on the dresing table, Mra. Billings was aria S Btrange to sow gnather woman en. Should she tiptoe owey again? Eillings’ fault, this. Erites men were, April &.%, Mr®- Bitings titted her head. Sk a hate . be aspen Hike this. ive a headache. I don't thi on—~" She flopped back on the Of course it wasn't any of her bu The evening would be more auccesaf evnTy ent of view without Mrs. But it would be rather beast] now, There had been nights, she hered, when, lying beside Fal im the in clarkcness of hotels, she had cried ; Mrs. Billings was crying. And a something to cry about tow. “Don't you think it might do you gon she said a little formally. Mra. Billings tried a moment for cont "T can't—oh, I can't!” Very well then, she couldn't. 4 couldn't force her to go. "Can I get you anything? Perhop headache powder." "Tt isn't the headache. I"m ashamed myself for acting this way. Wire. Welsh I could only you understand. J pact hy kind of woman to break down o Fl A fF She got up from the bed with a nme movement, smoothing back bonge etran of hair. After all, women had a rotten Aard of of iit in this world. here, Mra. Billings, I gia let Anything that my hushand said "Tt ign"t his fault, its mine.” M Billings faced her, suddenly animaty "For years he's worked with an idea coming over here for a real ho never wanted te come, You're an Age ican, aren't you, Mra. Welsh? Perhaps» ans then, what itis to feel homesick." es, she knew. But Mra. Billings sa ge ete sooner or later, and find her how er friends, her charities; whereas she well, that was another story, “T don't want to be gelfish,”” My prea continued with asigh, “But wh that Mr. Billings wants to spend ear over here it's almost more than I< Fr. It seems to me such a waste wh you have a home of your own and reapa sibilities, don't you think so, Mrs, Wels I tell my husband that, and he says [spe everything for him.” It was a being were alone wil Mra. Billings and hearing her talk like th Wonder if ya was any decent powder ¢ the dreasing ta “A pear Shanks quickly." That was tri enough consolation, “Did you know, Mrs. Welsh, that [= Mr. Billings’ secretary before we married! Mrs. Dillings stood very intense is ribbonless corset cover and crumpled whit petticoat. “Yes, for six = . It aheorbing work. Mr. Billings is an al aorbing man. He depended on m= And he expects the same efficiency fromm in this kind of life as T ewald give him in of business relations, But you so, [ ean’ I hee the training.” : =; qqaite: a et of trainin to i up with Pillings. oY o you let him absorb you?" 3h Ou a little impatient. ! to'clock, and theae men wailing a the Eléphant Rouge. She wes bungry ae ee eucle be furious. "T don’t know whether you can under stand, Mrs. Welsh. You're so sure of your self socially, ao gay and brilliant. My ppg thinks you're the chevorest waar ro met," "she could smile at that, A glance tn thi mirror howe ae a an ree eg hat nde which the amile gles a red stitch If she were clever heer bet ‘attending t her dinner and business af the Eléphant Ftauge this moment, Mrs. Billings moved nervously to and fro, came toward her to clasp her hand. “7 feel [ need a friend. I Oh, Mire Welsh, what shall do? [haven't told yoo everything. He leaves me alane so evorh of the time. I just ait here and wonder where he is, and when he comet back b's irritatsle and erttical, I dosn't know whet to do.” sh beri Eee feed ress.” & woes begin: sie aie Rive Mra. Bilin. leek a fright in everyth ving 1 put om, “Tou huawe no right ta | a if De her pow to shake her up a lit. “ wank to plense our husband ——" “To gee that. Mra. Billings was yl soltly again, “Tt's this life here. He never ta care for such things. “Don't you believe it. They alwaye oi when they get a chanee. You're lucky women, Mra, Eilings. You i ant (Confinwed of Page IP?) |

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(Continued from Page 24) hoe s friendship game bod into ‘Billings wEe seacite aut patna ri] _ Why, t thought—oh, 1 dant t your head back, Nita. Pangh. : geet happy. But met horry. Will you let me advisn ibout your get-up to-night? I think oe Te ake she: teat Educating this smartly dressed, at a f EZ Toman oj i it most certainly discover and use her attractions on an evening when she, needed to charm a. Billings flushed a becoming rose “You're wonderful.” wus 1 ing to be wonderful! She briskly to the clothes closets. Heav- where had the woman found all these me expensive gowns! Two closets a full, mot to mention the stuff lit- |arcund the room. How you w oat of all these things ! fay | ew that one—the red velvet?” Ye that!’ Mrs. Billings raised her ) Lrg es tbo reach the dress, “['ye J a Isnt it a littl too com is wan't ‘hart to be eonepicugus.” the whole way, ow ‘d _ fy gold faseel a | a a silly gould tassel, 2 large Ge want. “Con I have that fe eament 2 cee on thet blue dress fais And 7 can have a needle and i Eliiegs hovered over her, flushed, ws I ring for my maid? I ge wall, If Mrs. Billings only what familiar work it ran nipping. mine, fixing over. she nevor peat hat abe'd be doi anythin like fer anther woman. ped ey Secu Cneedle Sunt chine co lise frm. Now, then, sit down and I'll do your Ei: me car lever thank you?" ci spa brown pate chat sont epee ihe facich orve's: red to-morpoe, Fon ‘henight draw it ive that low, rather good brow, B " 5 i ower the ears, su gle it tight in the &. Her fegers mo A large ies dull cosa > tha ecg 1 Now rier, rage for the Lipa. "Do you think my husband will like me make up this way Tt" "Rather nice women rouge their lips, a know,” , but aa “U> pearls are in the safe downstairs.” Ch ste wes oie! “Never min culd my they would do! Fascinating if =pphore earrings, a sapphire brooch, PL Ping “Thee rs are," A ong minor gave back a tall rig Eat in _=pple red velvet: lipa fet, cley brown hair folded in a casqua =e ry ‘oll head, The younr woman ie The telephone. Mrs. Billings, before the be pl no attention ta it. Of course it Boa That you, Nita? What the devil ia the Ber? Why don't you and Mrs. B. come lee?” wt, toning, Hal."" There, now, in her rye tore her sleeve. No time to mend PS¢eather, She aaw herself in mir- fier to Mire Billings. Perhapa if she lied her hat a bit it would be smarter. fogs kata, adver all, made one dum py Not So were miting at tobe, though. eall I wear a hat?" Mrs, Fillings was keg cot mare Ms, oan you are.” She felt tired and heey. Perhaps ghe had better take firs in that sleeve, os gpg th eo —- righe, isn't itt" aes Up & maegniicent fur. “Md right? ch, yes, Mather” Thera Re in to whet oo: woman could be er ae ete te ernictci 1 f can yer — ul T am. Palo tired, Mrs. Welsh. It's my fault, erg yeu leon your ain ner. a “Tiel? I'm never tired.” Why, if | ——" Stop THE SATURDAY ant, pny back in the limousine that alighted and through street after pole all lighted gay. Pibgist cults, people mov ng Demy were gain The Eléphant hoe. Hal's and Bill- expressions when they saw hin. iwi ate c lite plism san, made her way to the table where the two men No chance of getting anything out of Billi this night. He ant there, his free turned toward wife like a powerful limelight in which she ered with 1 — ing animation. al, in mood, rumbled out compliments, fT tnd never seen. Mrs. Billings look so well. That gown she had on was an ly ripping. “Nita, dear, we aie bo something like it. a ‘a the ores ee I always tell Nita ——" be you're about fed ean boys she said E you ar—eh, sapphires and 9 senlakin co ies That held him him. "gut Oh, well, WH in this Liiva ite the dione ee dee gi at Pommery? Yes, k you. cocmlie Was ler lips aw ig ioe curled, curled A Little-over a rk ago she and Hal had been sitting at the small table ite, where now sat a fleshy old satyr go bling his food. He thought che was staring a him, and leered with piggish oyes, tainted: young bg tar in black miles rh ge sr te ord able pone aan se sipping liqueurs at the Vutnares baa had tha that eventful ni oats S beakgrcaa sume red elephant af loons floating in aiceeeing air; sume excited fae, faces, hu ds hold Lddirage glasses, cups, cigurettes. Maleen couples seesa ei Strange how Lie went. If Hal hadn't ora up Putnam that night, where would now? Back in the Where youl they be re: little hobel, touaarow? Bil Mrs. Billings smiled ey Not a bad sort, Mra. Billings, Hal was bragging. She ‘knew that tone. Better look ate him, His loosened tongue wagged like a bell. “Remember when we were here iat, ae The Putnam —— “The Putnam!" from Mr. and Mm. Billings. “The Gerald Putnoms?" Oh, if she could only reach Hal's foot! Make him laok at her. What did he have to go mae drag in the Putnamea for! Change aul + a at her. all. "Hi da you recieni bee the last tlie we s jean they re playing? Makes me want i: ee there any- thing more fascinating than these new jazz tunes?” Fingers on. table, tapping the st Mrs. Hrassington- 7 fight very ; green ner it j tea green eyes greener, "Eh? The Blues? Yee—oh, yea!” Hal looked aa if she had waked him up in the middle of the night. pe eee Be ee een of curs, eat he a ? Someone told ua he was in Paris. like to see him Pe to ig ee “'iGpoge las ter big &. Nice chap. Don't care rch for iets wife." “T wish we could have seen him,” Mrs. Billings said in a lively voice. She kept tasting the red on her lips like a child eating ee to come into the office all the time. He and I got on famously. You never knew, Bart, but he tried to get = sper ir from you when his left im That was coir half a glass of champa did to her! Billings didn’t like it. You eould eee was annoyed, the w. thrust tat that jaw of his. Hal grew fussy, purplish akivat tho cheeks: accepted a ci lit it, and on an artificial gust of cheer launched on gr Sere offer, Weurs. mates “Liqueare, No use to worry. But if Billi aver heard now that house beal to Putnam he would think it Wists didn’t tiles it; didn't lice it one little bit. She felt as if someone had slid a small chunk of ice down her back. They were going on to a musical revue, then tosupper. Mrs. Billings nestled up to in the motor. Oh, I'm having such a good time, and it's all your doing, Mra. Welsh. Will you come shopping with me to-morrow? ‘You'll il tell me what to get, won't you?" EVENING POST Vex, abe would psa Yes, it waa fun, wes "e it? dhe ad these parties. | iets didn't dance: ite game leg, you ae oly inddocoat the wey Billings fied yely in with his wife, Wish the Putnam name hadn't come up. You never knew what might happen. What o rotten evening! ¥ Tes Billingses were coming to dinner. Hal never should have invited them to the house, with the Ratons in such o poisonous temper and everything going wrong. It was all very well to have by Billings and his wife toget couldn't wedge them apart since ‘he seen py wife in that red velvet gown, Tho ms money sued ber, and the roe she m & Shopping every day. Gowns, lingerie, hats. And the coiffeurs, Manicures, mast swarming about, You wouldn't know Mrs. Billings. But po could see how, when once she fF mind ” a thing, she could carry it through, ‘Yes, she was cortainly efficient, and really quite o decent sort. No end Gratetal too. In on giving dear oy cooneata: “With ha backgrnind of orely presen i B rou he house and all, aceepting theao things dnt imply bumilintion. "That lace morn- ing cap, for aan. matched the lace and rosebuds in the bedroom, and matt Bie tis inet alippers went with Bs uilted b per 0 Of course the lack lace ellle's and ah or from Thee Viannet were a bit too much. But it wasn’t ae if she were touking commissions from dresamakers and modistes for showing Mra, Teen eos are She might have just well oe Fgeear i vile temper all week, stalking about with that mottled bloodshot look be a when he wos worried. She eodldn't help it if he were worried, Tt was his own tinue, She told bir so. He hadn't written Putnam. At least he wouldn't say he had, and he wouldn't eonfes: he hadn't, And, aa for belng director of ony Parks branch, it waa another of those hewitt dreame of sa Probably Billings had en “Sone o a Faria bran Think Bi me Hlacuita would go here, “sk Hal had seen it all -_ If era ig rae it to her, she might, thnengh Mrs. Billings, work something aut, No hope of reaching Hillings direct any more. Meanwhile the Ratons had drained Hol dry. She knew, because while he was tak- ing his bath she had examined the contents of his wallet. Legolas in priest, i was, And only setae Raton, he had bad une in Hal's Raton a bli Tat. tat h aly hal ull. Nor was it pleasant for her n after cursing Ha French and English with a little Arable thrown in, had stayed out with Billings the entire day, coming back to announce this dinner for the following evening, ul a mood that she had suddenly cheerful? He seemed to think it & huge joke when she told him that she had seen Haton eneaking oot of the corner wath office late yesterday afternoon. What wah he doing there she be hg "Don't your eT rl,” Hal had suid. ; = But she was bothering. Here waa the dinner. Hal had hired a man to wait on the table; had ordered flowers, wine, etcryillar walle ceed ore tet Raton's caterpillar emile cra over the prepara- tions, spoiling the roses in their vases, the damask table cover, the crystal and ail which Hal had somehow wheedled out af the closets. Just showing that the Ratona must have had the keys all the time. She distrusted to their eagerness ease, She distrusted Raton's igs which — ca butter smeared over a wery sharp well she fected ee boat that ernie: slowly sweeping the staira in the black Ince teagown, her hair waved and eailed high in the new fashion Mra, Billings’ ceoiffeur had taught her. came down, brushed and scrub smelling of eau de He did know how to wear evening . 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128 Te cuiamatioally fald the Gar faa! orem ar a Preteter mi ined femperdfiure, api asf the Garhnd Oven Heat Pegularoyr. On the contra! deal are indti- cated dhe proper cocking fem- peratures for farrous Sale. The addiftrnal east ma arrall, and if fakes up no entra room This new Gas Fange illustrated at the right ie finiahed in beou- tify! clean enamel, ff i also made fn pletn Aninh, Both fayger of amaliee fo &ooouN- Motare every are dcitchen # This Garand Combination Range as Geaigoed far tha amaill fama Khitehen. Fow change if info an perenne i, or cos! range, arn pe a fewer. I? haw four mo atl and tee oles for coal ther modded oon be hed in odifter- ent aizeg un full enamel! or plain finial. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April | GARLAN The reasons why Garland Ranges are used in more than 4,000,000 homes throughout America are strong and definite. Garland, and Garland alone, controls the right to use, and does use, certain principles of design, which enable it to cook and bake much better, with less fuel. These same exclusive Garland features, make Garland Ranges the choice of 80 per cent of our hotels and restau- rants and are constantly making new friends for Garland everywhere in America today. if you do not Anow the name of the noarest Garland dealer, or if you Rave any heating or cooking problems, write direct to us because there ia a Garland heating and cooking device for every purpose. The Michigan Stove Company, Detroit, Michigan Makers of the Famous Garland Line of Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces, and Pipeless Furnaces, for Coal, Wood, Gas, and Electricity

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(Comte freee Poge [37 | Tt wee nm rele when dinner woe L oY she bad money, how she ff. entertain always this way. in bhark lace, presiding over elver end papery; smiling at smiling at Hal, who mi sclld'and iim; smiling at Mrs. Billings, an effort to be gay, roee from table to saunter across oe the walon Mra. Aillings clacped fm ane whispered, “I dan't know [ehall do without you." hoot me? Are you going away?" an startled that 7 raised her n't Want Mrs, Billings to go shan T orecily think you = Mrs. Billings began. me in with the genial air of a mained well. “Mary, dear, the fe to shew you those miniatures pg you about." fine hesitated a moment, but So berfrom the salon, Ehe went. Pence down, amiling, his eves ) Bren the pearls in his glosy A y, contented, “You Sere US one great little dinner,” ; away?" Seat abruptiy, and let her eyes med green at him under the hang- ster lamp of the hall. : raed ‘i amused, loughed. what did Mary mean?" came heavily out with codfen = Hal came cut with w box of - oe if ree Her nese felt How qquict a Turn on tho light. She fo stay here wway from them ull. Seed Mary Billings meant? , going away or Hal hadn't oa + AF fon the door. It wns Raton. i, og hia mean [little aka bere? hed to lookat him. He'd been eile knew perfectly well that Hal eur is not here.” Her tone dis- . d ferther inte the room, fi Chotel wants his money eee 0's three hundred francs," *, » 7 f; fi —_ | fey inpossibbe 1" she said sharply: Pelenaf ap. Better be careful: avoid = fe @raddled in front of her, his thin fe lee like hairpins, hia beady eyoa ez ap. "ihre hondred franca,” he repeated, I eived doser, hia voice all oily and fotk: “pol mirax fire roteonmavle, mat dome. Che peul fowjours § arranger." fetter give kim the money. She didn't fe it. foo wil have to speak to may his fe Ske turned away: didn't want ta Eat him. i. wairred behind her like on angry mt “Ab, ees! comme ca! But it shall jae ike this. | know what I lena‘. Toely the blood didn't nish so to. her foe!’ Se tied bo answer quietly: Go know nothing. & shall tell my hus- i af thik, and to-morrow af Semarow!” He fairly danced In Glol ber, his toice thin and shrill, rizing. fT who have risked losing my place, Sires it will be too late. | have ——" Boged abruptly. fit ceatare had played them some fs tick, Yesterday—the post office. take had warned Hal! And now per- Siem too late. She must find out, ‘Mewlewr Raton, calm yoursell, If we Troy —_" le went again, higher, ehrilier. “My Awa right. You have not even three Geared frances. Vowles-pous que ie pans mai? ER, bien." Ho thrust his i litte fore close to hers, “You are eg, in spite of your fine trunks and Ger You doe not belong bere. You tim" ‘iy | come in, Nita?" Es Hilings ston! there in the door, few at Auten as if he were 0 spot at her fi ittooks tall woman in a gold dress ees to look that wary. Pls-= fdpeted, mu thee, Ard. dheaked ard i it aaor, THE SATURDAY Had she better explain? Wo, never ex. h. But how much had Mary Billings ? She must say something. “All Fresch servants are alike. They think they can rob you. They ——™ “He waa drunk, wasn't het” ‘lary Billings moved quietly to the dressing table, There you were now! Sup she had started explaining, getti | mixed up when it was ao simple, course he wis drunk. But she wished her fingers wouldn't | tremble as she opened the drossing-table drawer, got out fresh cotton for her friend, took off the erystal lid of the powder box. Dear ree, this d never do. Her face showed blotchy under the powder. Little eg her eyes ms 5 eget caches, td sagged a2 Corners. Billi over her shoulder, was heifieatedd. emaoth and young. Not so young either. | Possibly thirty, But when a woman has nothing to worry her —— ; : _ Embarrassing, this silence. M Rill- ings broke it suddenly: “Nita, do you know that your husband has been called to London within a few days on a very im- portant busines: matter, and that he ex- pita you to spend the winter there with | She found nothing to say. Nothing. Must have looked like on imbecile, staring. “Well, L think you should know." Mrs. Billings cume nearer, put a hand on her an. “He asked us not to tell you, but I think it's all wrong the way men treat women—not telling them anything, He winked ta 2 pat you, he said, until last menverit. he knew yesterday and be tame Nght to Bert about it. We were on tee glad, of course, to take the house his harubs."" : : “Take this house? You're taking this neh, j couldn't take this hb J ‘, they *b this house! Hal had so right ta — “Yea, we're maitetane it for the winter. Nita, you don't mind? If there's anything I can do I wish you'd tell me.” “No, there's nothing.” strained. Her voice wie Tt was inconceivable that Hal should do this thing. He must have thought it up zines, Teeny, that business in Londen and all. How could he, how could he! "T'm glad it’s all rig sip But Mra. Billings as she moved toward the door didn’t sound os if it were all right. Call her back. Nouse, What could you tell her? Better let her and Billi & away, and then have it out with Hal. h, yea, she would have it out with Hal. They had reached the bead of the stnira, What was Raton doing there in the hall? The doors of the salon were closed. Wasn't that a taxi outside? Yes, it stopped, and Raton slid forward toward the vestibule “Writ a moment, Mary, = They were still on the top atepa. Billings turned. A key pera pine in the front door, She could see the hall, the vestibule, The front dior opened. hen ns Billings, light on her feet, Lown. "Mr. Putnam! Wherever did you ——" Well, now they were in for it. Raton ra pled, af oe What could she a Uupataira stuira’ Her knees would j moved. She must get toe Hal, must warn Hal. Creep a step down. She heard Putnam's voice, unfamiliar: ene Billings! Where on earth? I t iF ee Slip down the last steps. If only they didn't ase her] Putnam steod, slender and blond in his dark traveling suit. That little beast of a Raton hovering in the back ground touched his arm. He looked up, ecognixed her. : The salon door opened noisily. Hal blew full tilt into the hall, a large cigar in his mouth, There was nothing she could do now, nothing. You really had to admire Hal. For a second he stone clam to the floor. Then he braced himself with an upward heave of his shoulders and bere down, a bit too red and hearty, "By Jove, iit tan't Putnam! Well, well, old chap, this is a surprise! Bane yor i telegram yesterday. Just come in here a moment and [ll explain.” He teok the bland your man by the elbow and tried ta tow him inte the dining Tie. You could see that Putnam didn’t know quite what to de. And then Billings | ive way if she EVENING POST “And they said it wasn’t good enough A salesman and an advertising man met in a Harr- ford hotel. “T went down to Glastonbu said the salesman, “to show the J Company a sample of a certain oi] that they use in ir shay p. It was the best I carried. Very high grade. Practicaily edidie. dnd they said tt wasn't good erough! Whatdo you know about that?" “T know a lot,” said the advertising man. “I know how finicky they are about the stuff they put into their soap, Good enough to cat. That's their their shaving soap. motto,” “Not good enough” unless it's the best that can be gotten, whether it forms a lange or a small part of the soap. That's the way Williams’ Shaving made. 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140 THE satTuRDAY A Quality Battery ates hg Berit _— thinl—s Tew wa ard of eervice for tbe Dasbery nam be osu Bria bicoum, Ge Petia a WESTINGHOUSE N building Westinghouse Batteries the dominant objective is to give you the most efficient and dependable performance it is pos- sible to get out of an automobile battery. Westinghouse quality is evident, not merely in the superiority of some one feature, but in the excellence of the entire assembly. From grid to special shock-absorbing U-shaped gasket every detail must justify your faith in the name WESTINGHOUSE. One quality of battery—the sehen ‘build. " Osrer- size” construction. Reasonably Biy priced ‘antec folded fair iob any Westinghous: Berv 2 of place of WESTINGHOUSE UNION BATTERY GO., Swissvale, Pa. BATTERIES There’sa well-groomed look about a Tom Wye Knit Jacket that makes You Want one, Tt is well shaped and keeps its shape. Shoulder seam is reinforced to prevent sapging, Buttonholes are strong, and pock- ets always hug closely. scotch heather or plain colors, At men’s wear or sporting goais stores, Loot fer the Tag AP ye late! TOM WWE, Incorporated Winchendoamn, fase. Sinko the “It's a Tom Wye’ |: EVENING POST appeared, hurried forward, es most shook Putnam's hand ee Hal would only keap quict! Seine now Putnam might say something that would bring it all owt, or Billings might. But Hal had to go on a Paine Shoat tebe grim and letters. der than anyone until finally Putnam moved toward the dining room, with Hal prancing after him, inviting him te haves drink in his own hows. Raton wanted to follow, didn't dare, [t was worth while just to see his face an he snenked away. “Exeiet us a moment, Bert,” Putnam anid, She didn’t like the sudden businesslike clip to his voire, He wasn't going to let Hal (Yh, sh must do something. Mary Billings—she could help. She was the only on: “Mary, [ must speak to you alone for a She reall plendid, the w took her ae te es the arm and oe rt, deur, wit for ws, ut ae the devil? tl B gong sare Not ensy to handle B nae. The door closed on him, ae came back, Tell her the teuth—or neurly the truth, “Putnam didn't know we were here Mary. Haul meant to write him, He didn! t mean when he sublet the hows to you— Putnam wanted to rent his house, you sex And Hal—I never knew until to-night that he—I thought we could p “Let me understand. "Fertneen didn't know you were in his house?" “Wao, he didn't. Hal taaght your ae band would give him a yo gir il ad a decent background, And then we eould have pald. But naw he ——" The words were Cwlated and bitter, It wasn't so oy to explain. ‘bh the Mining Fount, Goo Hats velee grew louder and er, @k= plaiting. “You poor dear! Mary Billings’ arms went around her, “T ught there was something wrong, upe wt I couldn't understand.” She didn't bagel riustnt” vt Cry, “Hal really doesn't mean to Every ray he sald made ft worse, | moment." will lings spoke tt “I'm afrald Ll try and manage hina 3 ae Mr. fae, i up and pack what you can. I'll send your husband to you. I'm afraid “TL hawe to get im out quietly, Gaod-by, Nita. I"m She had lost her frend. Women like Mr. Billings mi -e ', but they never could ai me » it couldn't be helped. H the atalra, Nita," Many] ga called from below, "Bert lent your husband a little samething yesterday. Keep {t from me.” Oh, dear, Hal had borrowed again. No time to think of it now. Where waa the Valisel In the closet. it out: | what she could. dae Hal Peer Mary Billin ow sorry they had looked! And then she had turned Bway. A cautious noise outside, Hal stepped inte the room. “Why did you mix the Billings woman up in this?" he said venily: ol omld have fixed everythin — Ti He equldn't al anything. He had got the worst rot it, she could sen, The April j littl, velng were all swollen in his fy ton the room, cursing Putras, Couldn't get much in the suit, Hal's suit, handkerchiets~ COuldn’t find anything. Bhe ran ts fumbling in closets and drawers. ten for pom” Hal pratt is By Tag n for you," pu g han shoulders. She saw his face, fal poor: &) old sorry face. "Lo execat & o— ‘Yeu, ha tuiaie to. No time now, There were tears in her eyes. (hy look at the room, at the chalse lon little ine soft lace hed. Never to sleep there any mor “Nits, I'm sory. If that dan Raton hadn't ——" n-Welshea ti ploeis the stairs, hk carrying a shiny hiy From the salon came voices, Maury ae in @ cmap woice like a 1 You shall not, Bert. Mr. Putra must listen tome. I promised her — The dining-room door opened pattered forward, Madame Raton | back, ‘I'll wring bh for hit!" She got him by his coat, pull “Hal, for my sake f" las sounded it the salon a one getting Up, Pushing a chair. Tk door at Last. Shea Lit, It shat! behind them. Tt waa cold. Hol stalleed ahead + ing, a shoulder saggi suzzinig under the wr mirie She na along, her ak ng to keep up the pace, The li the long elim Piss ate like war ehe wae leaving. She looked back Hal eta te hail w taxi, helped “Grand Hotel," le sald to the chaut “Hal, we can't afford — In the dusk of the cab she felt hin beside her, He fumbled in his post suddenly he began to chuckle, ltwa ti ce bulgi he bil t wae his w wil "Hal, what _ aie He took it away from ber, “Twenty thowand franes, old dea bad—what?" Under the slanting ma street lamp ashe saw him expand “You can eall it my co ian,” h “Billings gave it to me yesterday. to tell you. It's @ month's rest, a earned it." That was what Mary Billings had by a@ little loan. Twenty thousand | The price af a friend. jWaen't it stealing out in the ee a ae sand? She threw back head apd la The laughter had little hooks on it little hooks caught in her throat, tor “WNital” Hal gripped ber arm. But she had to go on | ii dear—oh, dear—how funny! black trunks left behind, and iy gown, and—yea, ehe had forgotie toothbrushes. The Ratons" faces. T thousand franes for dressing Mary B gE ok Ted velvet gown, It ort to laugh like this, Lights! f, broke inte Iocse dancing a tnxi drew up in front = the hobe an her Luighter left her OTE, 1 Tm, i Le, ORE, OT ge eT, hae, bbc Lobe Af chenatd, Cincher National Pork, Moatona

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The “Caterpillar’s"* field of usefulness is by no means limited to the lighter jobs, There isa “Caterpillar’™* of size and capacity for every need, On form or ranch, in the mining, off and lumber industries, for snow removal and other cavic work—wherever power and endurance are af a premium, the “Caterpiliar’’* has no real competitor THE SATURDAY EVENING POST In the “Caterpillar’’* T-35, Holt brings to industry and to agriculture a small compact tractor embodying the same dependable qualities found in the larger ‘‘Caterpillars.""* Simple in de- sign, economical in operation, light in weight, yet with enduring strength and generous power, it clearly reflects the years of Holt experience in every field of tractor service. The T-35 fits in with the road mak- ing and road maintenance programs of every city, town, county, and township. Its range of speeds, short- turning, and ability to operate in any weather or soil, gives it definite and pronounced advantages over teams or other methods of road-dragging and patrol maintenance, in pulling grad- ers, levelers, scrapers, and other road tools. For quickly and economically For the Lighter Jobs handling the lighter jobs, road con- tractors, engineers, and industrial users find the ‘T-35 invaluable. For the farmer, the T-35 fills the need fora long-lived easily operated engine, able under all conditions, to plow, seed, and harvest, do hauling and belt work at a lower cost than can be done by any other method. In orchard and vineyard for subsoiling, discing and cultivating, operating in close quarters, the usefulness of the T-35 is practically unlimited. Our motion picture, ““The Nation's Road-Maker,"' shows “‘Caterpillars’’* in actual operation, and we will gladly arrange an exhibition at your conven- ience. Write for a copy of catalog describing the T-35, or a copy of our booklet, ‘Caterpillar Performance." R *There is but one “Caterpillar —Holt builds it, The name was originated by this Company, and is our exclusive trade-mark registered in the U. S. Patent Office and in practically ever country of the world. Jnfringements will be prosecuted, THE HOLT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Ine. PEORTA, ILL. STOCKTON, CALIF, Export Division: 46 Church St., New York the world and service stations all over us. 4 eat on OLT PEORIA. ILL STOCKTON. CALIF. Branches

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l| | Hammers Pore) i \ | pa che ts ag ie THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Here's the hatchet you want to buy” T'S a Plumb—the kind the mechanics buy,” says the hardware man, “It’s drop forged from one solid bar of Plumb special analysis tool steel, hardened, toughened and tempered to give it ‘Double Life." It will take care of your odd jobs for years—until you lend or lose it. “Don't min chances with an ordinary hatchet that may break just when you need it most.” The Plumb Hatchet holds its edge. The bit is tapered for fast cutting; the full striking face makes nail driving easy. Try the “hang” and “feel.” You automati- cally grip the hand-comfort handle at the point of greatest power. You find the weight where you want it—the perfect balance saves your strength. The mahoganized, springy, air-dried hickory handle is pleasant to the touch and pleasing to the eye. It stays clean. The black, hand-forged finish protects the head from rust. Your hardware merchant wants you to have good tools. Take his advice: let your new hatchet be a Plumb. Carpenters insist “They're worth more.”’ Price $1.60 (except in Far West and in Canada) FAYETTE R. PLUMB, Inc., Philadelphia, U.S. A. Pecteriecs, Philadelphia ond St. Louis Established 1456 Foreign Branches and Representatives, Sydney _ Wretlinggbun Melberurce Brishone Muacila Johanneskarg 50 Paulo Montevideo Sastoge Burction Aitew Files Sledges Axes > — The Plumb Ball Pein Hammer dengned by mechanics for mcchanics. Eye Placedoff center, weight balanced in the striking face to give force and accuracy to the bow, Longer eye for greater leverage ancl strength, Cone shaped bell—to spread rivets, not mash them. Comfort grip handle. The favorite of good mechanics everywhere. iechinists” Ball Pein (14% Ib) 8 Aubombebi inate’ Bhal) Pein § 18 (Hacept ia For Wet andl Canela) Ca Aya,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE AVERAGE WOMAN Ll eninge Ber feo bark, tubes. "Fhe 6 btwe eves norrowed inte slits of glean- bie, with radiating spokes of musce Wing from the outer corners—an PrLgag- eximkle of flesh actos the bridge of ber & Ase pictorial achievement it featured feniable » but a a device for mak-

Ly man feel perfectly at home it menally. ‘The still ruddy frown the hen inte the murmurous fire was one; 80 ominous that bending with sirupy meehness: were in the advertizing i in": E you! How did you come wi i Pr senaidccs bromling silence ed to the hive friendliness of her and suddenty found himself expant- | into autobiography. It seemed he bad ried his way through Harvard after the uth of his father and the collapse of his pectationas with college ambitions that 4 enannebled in other directions than ail- tting. Immediately after graduution, ver, & following preumonia 4 stethosco reapirations which de ded yn ded aspirations and Weatert one, Elkins, a friend of his a a 4, hu bef mn aud pundled him off to the mmer’s Colorade fanch. When hg year ter. hie neurned, bronzed and brawny, to e Fast, bee identification with the Elkins - hag seemed the inevitable thing. gee!" Infinite pity anftened the phrase, got punta into your job, But 4 gre E you take up steam fitting or Heard marking or something by corre- posdenee tT" ‘My dear young lady," Straun informed & ceply, “Ll consider advertising the reatest power of the age, fraught with ro- moc and adventure. It is the literature Ceupply and demand. It ia——" or me!" An upheld hand halted ‘| know that oration by heart, having "Chicago cousin im the profesh. The rou abe though, that you advertisers nk yu can tuke any darn old thing, rt it ine dros box, and serve. While jeer ais prove you know nothing wt all at Babout what you're talking about,” “For instance T° — with invitational ea- mary eS Wel, the other day in w soap adverte- Gert leew a portrait of the furnily wash, pes a petticoot —ho, ha!—hung up by the iiberl."* See homsewifels: ecorn fluted in this that frase beet no time in finding out how it ee be euapenided- Her information, werfeemed valid, based on domestic- tion garnered from. expert

COPE: 2 s Soap picture showed intlay-night tub, and even Sshe again contributed, elicited further clu Straun faltered, Al- 1 In VWieborin reticence ie realistic tendency fentured fe: hence this rapid prog: gots to pblutionary inti: a cence that dictated the sub jit, Still, it wnt ce of ain evening well out the note bouk on his

Boh be hung up hy parce of can funnel through it. me not take a bath with her # he found her inn lope i of even more spir- [Prom mockery to meth to horse sense, from —she skipped with such : feted ateerticine. be statlc Bet of averting iy. however, his challen uel fet till a eonacientious : ee orn pepenclite: “é t Was PEE PepHeTe “"Oh, how = vim 6 howe to take the joy out o i ‘morming I started out, full of Amon and pep, and whats the : Tae? A cheerful reminder that i feo tty of us land in the poorhouse {1 tet. ving account at that particular ort ed an after the forelock fel pa ged ube! o- ah —"" he bene d forwurd eo gud- the wiry forelock Apring over "Doesn't that inapire you to (tontinaed fren Pais IDs * Abeqlutibiy not. L store oy unearned increment at the Second National, be- cauze ——"" She furnished a perfectly good feminine reason. Thus another entry was posits for aur investigator on his way As. wom. patronizes bank where sacdios writin reson is ceey (Author's note): ey aurroundinga, if mudfi- cendy cheerfal, can create on illusion that money oflly aint che poot of all evil. With the third Friday came the convic- tion that the probation officer was a five-toct fiend. For half an hour ahe embroidered the theme of mashing and mashers, anc with jabbing audacities pricked Straun‘s sense of personal cignity into complete collapse. Atdirst he had tried te reasan her an seTiouaness, but the athempt merely to stimulate her impertinence; 30 finally he lapaod, and resentful, into silence, Itwas then she seated herself onthe tdge of the table before the fire, bending toward. him with a mocking smile, “Of what aro you thinking of?" Sho ad- dressed him ram all ier ebutharslty, just as if ahe ‘dl known him all her life, “Oh, nothing in particular.” The re- sponse come stiffly, ina tone asking her bin remember, please, he hod known Wer Wut a ehort time. 2 “Well, you've evidently gat something on your mind”"—a riper smile half shut- tered the blue eyes—" besides that lack of hair that just won't lie flat on the brush.” Automatically his hand flew to his head, and at her reaponsive glee hig scowl deepened. But suddenly he shrugged his shoulders. After all, wating: any attention to her? She meant mot but copy, and this reflection accounted for’ the subsequent deformation of the truth, "To be frank,” he said, “1 was just both- ering about a certain business quirk, A certain manufacturer conceived the idea of ig rsh clothespin, . idea, set; more easily made and paced, ut somehow it wouldn't sell." ae T wonder why?" nine she so bered, her small face in puck oy omar to the problem: then she ol her hands, “Oh, of course!" ep finte reason culled from a cumping experience ir, laundry activities. And it was so plausibly utiliturian that Straun laugh el. “Oh, and another reine. Aanap fastener wie recently launched with an impressive uiverting campaign, It proved, mpEAr enthy, an. equate article; yee it, too, tosell, How —" “Probably becauae—" She imme diately tendered her version of a eatiefac- coy: aHiap faabener. inte the notebook that night went two more entries: fa! Tha av. wom. pute clothes pan in mouth while ha up laundry. Square-headed va- riety uncomfortable, (by Th The av, wom, demands an fastener that distinctly clicks when closing The neat Friday his hoetesa waa away before the phonograph when he ente foe Halting her hu ai the syncopation she gree hin. gayly with: “Doesn't that tune go right to your instep?" Straun amiled. “Not exactly. You see, I don’t dance!" "You don't dance?—incredulously, “Why, you poor thing! But never mind, I'll teach you to think with your feet in one besscon."* “Oh, not now, pease The analyse’ seahas ofthe fitnase ot things rejected such m suggestion from a - tian officer, But already she had kicked naide the migs, and when ahe beld owt her arms he fre orce submitted. And somehow in the next half hour he managed to put his het foot forward fn apices unoccupied by her so suceeafully that it evoked a final “Great! One more leagon, and you'll be a eon gone how that a knowledge of foes to show that a know a the paint af contact and moter eee ife ray be applied in other spheres he fanned herself with w sides advertising. "Whew!" handkerchief framed in Duchess lace. "Come over here on Madame Réeamier, and eaol aff.” “We ame Riécamber?" he questioned. "Vea, Mr Straun.” Demurely she patted the Fiace beside her invitationally. fiment to FE “Lees” He grinned as he sank besa her on a couch structurally related te the chunise-| echool of relaxation. ‘Named after the divan in David's picture of the madame, 1 presume," “Guvageu it the firet time,’ she twin- kled a¢ oom. “You see, I'm starting a movement against the ananymosity of the householkt gods, so I name everything. That" —nocding toward a cabinet of bijoux actos: the room—“ia Little Jack Hormer, Tt always stands in the corner, you know, then che angel bed grann brought me oe Belgium i is of course Macdult ‘Lay on, Macdulf" Thue WES fl deadline commerce between them, during which Straun put his wathetic O. K. WpRon the corrugated effect that aimiisement ed peross her nose. “Then, T supe he contributed, “that the phono crap is John Alden." John Alden?" A paceman tary Pucker of perplexity cleared with a gurgle: “Ch, it ke for itself. That's too alick! Here!" ith a carucoling movement she spun to the bell. ** Let's christen him now." And so, ufter a servant had supplied water, Straun, the ip analyst of the Elking Adv ertising entered 2zest- Tully inte the hesineas af are Hocking a dro ‘i water over a muhogany surface, whi Puckish priestess solani nly chanted: "Th the name of His Master's rs Voice 1 christen thee John Alden!" Another session, then, on Madame Ré- comier, during which she teld him a little of her life. She had been under the guard- ianship of a grandmether since her moth- er's death some ten years earlier, She had one married brother living in Bultimore, and a pet of a father. She had gone toa traveling school alroad before the darn old war; and then she had meant to be an OPtre singer z ann: only she hadn't ony voiet and belonged to the Presbyterian. ehurch, Anyway, you know how one’s family is or are, whichever it is! Then followed an intimate exchange of Heeeranicat, and 8 Straun found this aver: e women, with her endless ingenulties of charm, her quick nerves and imagination so persuasive and provocative that mot until his rooms did he realize that it was a wasted evening as fur as advertising wae eoncernned. And yet, wasit? Wasn't there a meaty, suggestive paychology in her habit of chris- tening the hausehole ? Vaguely he recal feminine applications human attributes to their belongings—bhis aunt's faithful umbrella, his secretary's comfort- able hand bag, his waitress’ temperamental wrist watch, He remembered, too, a friend who, having taken chew feminine nobions and boxed them attractively, with a bit of paint, hoetry and aname— Dolly Dumpling, for example—had turned aver profits not te be sneezed at, even in polden-red districts, All af which signified that woman's de mand for the personal expressed itself even in her property sense. Possibly it ace counted for certain modern Vercisin tendencies; but in it Straun aw capabill ties for even richer expression. Certainly it would prove of value to the unim er tive merchandiser who called a sp spur, Tt was the wiext Frid. our analyst met his Miss le on Fifth Avenue, tadiant in a new kolinsky coat, She was on a shopping spree, it seemed, and he might tag her into several shops without fear of arrest if he cared to, [nd he? A chance to witness wt first hand the merchant Ge mechanics of the average EE hcilbl he smiled, ond suber quently ead thar exchunge of a thou. sand or go for articles ranging from w huir net to a jade lovallitre, [et proved moet illuminating. In analyzing her preferences, through adraltly casual questions, he gar- nered enough material te fll eight pages of netebook. Yet something more personal than gratitude dictated his invitation ta dinner: and when, later, they sat before her fire and toasted marel ows his de- light in the curve of her cheek seenved dil- ferent from that tendered to agive curves or latting paper. “Hut see here,” you are thinking, mara nnallows supposed to be mor ‘cir. ehnvent for sidewalk weaknesses? And haven't thease seasiona between an ostensi- ble masher and hia sented rather lantaatie afternoon that @ aspects?" robation. officer pre- | 133 pecig AAIT A CKETS Thai ee

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She made him read her favar- ite hook, Alice in Wonderland; and he, mind you, read Emerson te her. Through himake becanvwe acquainted with Beethaven; through her he rediscovered Gilbert and Sullivan. Then as spring approached they | ventured into Long Island picnics, usually | Under the chaperonage of her trim roadster, | Paul Revere—who had a record himself, in midnight rides, you Now and then, however, they were accompanied by Granny, a tiny gracious lady of the Wat- tea 5 of grandmotherhood. Naturally in this new intimacy he was ruthlessly ; but now it meant piquancy, not pique. He had, you see, be come rather expert in hundling the 2ippy ke. Certainly under her influence his somnolent play instinct awakened with | BSUrprising spontaneltios, At the office he quoted Stephen Leacock, and practiced new fox-trot stepe on the way to the water Yet, however interesting this hs to the student of character, ita value r gible in revolutionizing business. ‘And sad port fs that Strauwn's attibede fet toward the average wornan precluded any wee of hia copy. No, he simply couldn't do na The advertising business could ge ta— the jabberwocky, before he'd turn her per- ity into publicity. This decision had fully crystallized when he found one evening seated on the arm of a chair in which sat—the jocular gentleman of the courthouse. ie ip ae ke “This a ipple, my paternal parent. But I forget’ Magtth mpish glee—"you two have met before.” Straun ma to absolve the orthodox amenities gracefully, but later, as the other turned to leave, there daughter and father a wicked conspira- tional wink; and abruptly the analyst etifl- ened im outraged signify "So" —he confronted his eb Hera sanat me othe light way di met’ Lay the ds Oo init tukiausey, which incl luded acquaintance with Granny raat the Bultimore brother, this omission was informed with the darkest collusion. “IT thought you knew, old stupid !"— with ining Unconeern, "Then my knew probation was just a fremeup; ys you knew Twas no masher,” agi nbsolutibely {" j ni ot were willing to subject me to the ‘ni tation of being dragged through | the streeta by a policeman just to exercise your pecullar sense of humor!" Even new the memory of that ignominy stippled his brow with perspiration. The enormuty of it! What if Beevee had seen! What UW Elking had heard! What if the Tews pa pers. —— “Wh, not exactly," he heard her gurgled enjoyment of the situation. “But no man Ways a follows Hyaber all afternoon with- aut Liking the lady's Iack hair orsonerthing, T just gave you an opportunity you were too splrelesa to make for yourself, "Fess Up. You were frenzied to speak be me, weren't youl” Blithely she tripped to Little Tack Hor- ner, and selecting an anticyee ivory fan un-= furled it aeroes her face, Over its tep her arched brows challenged o deninl of her charm; her eyes gleamed un invitat/on to further climactle Houses, An pt April #6 this “vite confidence in her attract ae Confidence to which exergy com, d@ doubtiesly ministered, there cim Strawn an unaccountable impulse to wa her. of him Sa eepaTe, made this diff Twice he easy speech, and failed; then a triumpk twjnlile ign him, Yes, was itn: to speak to you,’ quoted ina dry statistical voice; “nak tie! you siruck me a8 an extraordin ee a bas but you gave signs of bein verage woman.” “Chen beginning » the clipping he told her eve hing, endi "Ta this plain to you or shall —— “Oh, quite!" She tried to cissemble hurt in her voice with the flippancy = no more, man. Your Planation ia Eke lin ment —pencirates w out rubbing it in For a moment she wilted: then draz her five feet te a Bruonhild impressiver her eyes flashed thunder and lightning, "Sq" — witheringly — ““you thou you'd pick my birdlike brain to nein ’ ee your darned advertising, ch? care know what you are bie Her epee in a sardonic twirl, “* For ‘re ed, hard-boiled trout! Get pat af i Mg Get out of my sight!" here was nothing else ta do, so Ste went out into the night, with bla borde seek ae thoughts ape ee in general and the ee in lactigtorat Teally awful thoughts a8 you d hesitate to tell your ih friend. Once in his rooms, off came his coat a out came his notebook. By three sar) wit finished, the paper destined to lutionize in ogi entitled The Av Woman at the Wltimate Consumer. his fourntaln pen the rather ineonel data of his notebook broadened into a prenaive erossetetion of woran’s yehology., The concrete ena perp ye into significant general tenden Yet curiously enough, when be read | paper that Tuesday to the advert club he saw it was the clothespin pa them to thelr seats: and the oneg <a go fastened their att - Ab Georee, pace Gada a a competitive agency, m afters “that paper convinces me there's thing to this paychology stuf, Yoo" given us concrete facts to get our teeth Later there were many other indicatis that the article had created a definite # yet after the first flush of gratificatica t author sank into an emotional murk, pu ticularly noticeable on tate on Ean. The tru wine that nee proved halt a ‘Teddy’ widy was right. F ht. eerie friendahin patil es to Mr. Emerson, ah uncorhmerciabest of human relations # hia indignation toward her siete ral sumed in his own sense of guilt: and time wore on, his hunger to see her ints preted itself as the natural i = social sinner to “tale a wh apology for aes a half-hearted ira A month dl ‘Ato L hy, amd be could stan it no longer, A box of yellow roses was di pasted with the plea—could ho com pam eapelay Carat answer: Yes, Wei at 8:32, i cord it twas 621 win he raced up th + an peared, viv loved in white chiffon. oe 1" She struck a dramatic po Dorr aay & word : It is Mr, Sniffkins, Seattle! never forget rl Lape

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Coatinaed from Poge [54! ia, Pol at, oe ono. ow, I'm a fale, so bel beers wast false testimony, Henee, riingty and therefore, spare me the ogy.” She aank inte the softnesses of rae Récamber,, Straun relaxed al Fe Quem’ For several moments she dat him sodemnly, “You came inte #e ata peyeho-illogical moment.” An- r long pause. “When I cut school a rears ogo [ iy in with some # ialists, here in Manhattan, Our were beset with olive pits and gin, dy gin, The girks were all sweet young a Ftanding with jazzy feet, where the oy Brook and the Green River meet,’ the men”"—with a reminiscent frown— ceanticurfew cuties with nothing much ve the collar except a BTLpiE serene were e long time dend. , after a le [fell in love with one af hone F ioc Lift seemed just one rosy blur, f—unel —he turn yellow on me, [ ad hie ethica was or were— whichever tt a brow! that the only thing a perfect twouldn't do was aplt on the sidewalk, iottle his grandmother.” te anlle with which ehe halted was the seeking one, but Btraun sensed it was wek fot a smarting scar. “You poor child.” he murmured, and ced a hand which snuggled inte his own Then | aaw he measured up te the rest om, leaw, if T may be perfectly Frank- ae that you can’ get loose on one of es without rattling all over. { dckenedl of the whole gang, and waa oisg my farewell that in the hotel, 0 exidenly,”. she sighed, “I glanced al yu) rou levked ao darn de- whit and senail’ in those horn-rimmed mbtields that my faith in men revived.” flee Straun permitted himeell a pressure temuggiing hand, which was lightly re- rel, os she pursued: “Course it's a mn thing to say about anvbody, bat you mals wholesome, so different from or an— whichever it fs that other bunch i wel] wanted Eft in my life, as an ‘dete maybe. And when I found that ipping saw a chance to start something, vl | fintzhed it, too, by. posh?" fe—do—y on eel” ‘—withagogeled axial nerechulity —“ that—you—er—you i i. “Kheluttbly. 0 felt somehow, Alum“ — tedet note seeped inta Lhe soft sopranc— 7 were tht sort who could save me from Ls elf! —— ‘Te my dew," was the inadequate ox- Belg the analyst" 8 tattooing pulses; at be i rade move toward her ane be ote knew if he we in his wre, “Kee me, angel man," she requested, ek diet be had filled the order satishfac- oly iew away to ak: “And now, where ave going to get married?" “fet married 1" —a little weakly. “Certainly, You Love me, dan't you?" “thong preet, Idol" And In it was the Sarg cuvicion af a man who has long sre rg pads to propose just 03 soon B— “And you “TD adoee yoo forever and ever,” she mee tem gravely: then, atidreasing ii Frets “prot abave therm, whiapered arnill- nly.“ Hens papers please copy.” Strawn te Pating idiotically aa she ended, “Aa i rue —"eventually, why Fiat “t voried frown sprang between the “Sasha eyes then ag the inven- wed the hicuries about them. ™ Dearest, fake 9 fait salary, but not nearly enough hovarint the hfe you've been used to,” he nF partied. We must wait, I'm “ud, ontil T get an incresae," “Mo” =with the serenity of one whose Celte have aver been ultimatuma— Lf. idsitnow, | like the present style in trl ee aod they may change any Hetdes, we don’t necd much to start : hea littl: apartment the sige : Then C3 Granny will give me : ~ Sa uguniy asd we enn fill in with Saba The of arniture. that's tagged: Terie FAW: ag ba, $4.9 “Tithe Foung man fooeigted with a hug Ce i lender” Yon Little mental mast,” ‘oe che neumed: “Then, Ul do the “Ste Ttold you ['d taken a course in “enti aden, and if ] do say so as Set T ean shake a pretty mean skillet, “Ht tt some milk from conten cown, At ake hena and honey from bliss- oe fan compose French pastry THE SATURDAY EVENING “Dire. no other _ 4 Rational thinking, of course, became | more and more difficult in close proximity | to euch persussiveness, ao at last Straun | rae and, pacing in front of John Alden, hands in pockets, tried to retistablish his ald acquaintance with the fournesa of two ani two. French pastry! Ah, that sym- bolized the whole Htuat n! Her life been all French pustry, and though the froth of her personality was al ia He ‘tem- as dept ita preservation w recom {rar réaponaibillties and the re. striclians attendant upon the dab realities of existenae, Moreover, he loved the meringue of her too much to see it crusted over with exdden eexnonmies. Now to vou who married on fifteen. and achieved the French-pastry tou saving auap wrappers, this will sound. like foolishness, But Steaun, it seemed, had eartled over into this age of marital oo partnerships archaic ideals of the | provider—a sentimental h Fon the days when feminine shouldera were so airping that the oe ane burdens alipped off. Hi t when he dra inte a near-by chair dy was instant a ite arm, wed. with the first playful tw of the rebellious forelock reason wos ruinously wu He forgot the French-pastry af his Pay envelope; he forgot everything in the bliss of being engaged to not an averige Woman, Please understand, but the most wonderful little girl in the world. Jt was not until after the good-night ir- Televancies were over that he connected u with reality sufficiently to promise: “I'll see Elkins about an increase to-morrow.” But that gentleman, a vepetarian whoee conservatiem extended far beyond dietetica, blasted this hapa over his nut loaf the next day atlunch, Good Lord! Didn't Straun know what present conditions were? A Taise was simply out of ue question tT When things opened up—well, he'd see, Of course the lowers spirits dropped with a thud, and as be sought his rooma that Tight his haart was ms vy as-—inferen- tinlly—Teldy's first pests: Fiercely he applied himself to sordid problemas of adidi- tion and subtraction, but ju the res ashe might, the tartal efern yf insisted that his salary could not insure a happy future hd ret era with kolinsky conta, liveri and trim rowdsters tn her pust. And ah, Hl he hated te tell her! veg the next evening she met the sad “Tt gh right anyway, Alum," sooth- ingly, “Ll teld the family weeks ago I meant to propueae, und re they‘d furned awhile they sleuthed out eo history: finding, of course, that you're the sult on the earth as well 8 the apple ‘of my She tiptoed up te kise t torelock i adherence. when I told dad you'd accepted me the old lovie said he'd buy us a bungalow on Long leland, ao the children would have a yard to play in, and give us an allowance until you got te be president of the chamber af commerce or some thing.” a, Teddy, I couldn't accept It." Hie gentleness wae ateeled with an inflexible | obduracy. “I"ve seen too many marriages fail that way. They both get a set af f Values, The man loses the incentive te get the beat out of himeelf; the gir] loges iden- tification with the man’s probleme and interests, Instead of growing together they prow apart.” Somehow he anticipated a stormy pra test or tinkling disdain, but instead, the long blue eves clouded with the fear of a child who's seen a ghost. “Grow apart! Oh, Alum, we can’t let that happen.” Fiercely she clung to him, | then after a ieee pause: “Probably you're right. now 8 Much mare than Tor me—whichever tt ia—but, oh" — with sudden vehemence =" [ve got to have you! You're the only person that can make aay ang out of a flighty filbert like me BE thither “You dear, divine thing.” Straun bent to kiss her reverently, “It's mighty hard, but we'll have to be patient, Business is bound to pick wp soon; then Elkins, I know, will COMM ACTOS. So" -he sighed dolorously—-““we must wait.” Thus began weeks of waiting, durin which Straun iio tnken to the bosom af | the small dernily whos collective hearts hent in unified piloration of the tiny Teddy, Straun saw that hed she elected te marry a Chinese laundryman their acceptance mcaild hivebeeninevitable; and his modesty ponies hha their incressin | Senin sere gratitude for escape from t ti mifrollicnes, Yet this friendliness favored | A x * = od 7 a 4 a POST Lay One 25c package makes 80 glasses OOTBEER from Hires Household Extract Ask is easy to make. It is pure and delicious— fragrant with the blend of sixteen roots, herbs, barke and berries. Bottl: according to the simple directions printed on the package. Use good corks or ask your grocer for Hires Patent Bottle Stoppers. for HIRES HOUSEHOLD .EXTRACT If your dealer cannot supply you send 25 cents and we will send, postpaid, package direct. Or send $2.80 for carton of one dozen. 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Established 1832 COTRELL & LEONARD, DANBURY, CONN, | i — SATURDAY ) waa lookin caiman | for me, | idecds of yours, Mister ta the proposition merely | grunt. Net watll i | tlan to make a fool offer like that; alter all, he hinted in veiled circumlocu- thon, wasn't it te his beneficence at a time ) acute EVENING POST life so pleasantly that not until June did dy's growing resticasness reflect itsell in his own dissatisfaction with the afmusz qve, Amd then ane day the gods grinned, He was lunching at the Advertising Club, when Buell entered ancl joined him. The first half hour was wholly absorbed in the latter's homage te the Averuge Womun paper, Then ns the authar Fost bo po he Was harltesd with * ‘See here, old muon, I know you're in strong with the Elkins people, but if you ever think of changin remember, aes a ten-thousand job wailt- ing at qur shop." he unalyat gasped. Ten thaueand! That mewnt orange blossoms and little Teddy. Ut meant enough of the Prereli pustry of life to newrish w lowe as robust as thera. Not that bis stanumered “Thanks aw- fully: Tl think bt over” meant bdentifica- then with a competitive concern, but surely this indarsement of value, aince lusimesa up, would induce Elking to meet the offer, Yet that vegetarian gave a fishy eye and a time did he grow yell was in a posi- but articulate. Of course, of p collapse and financial helpless- ness that Straun owed his life? To be mre, there was little sentiment in business now- adaye, but he still kidded himeelf that there (was such w thing 2s loyalty still left in the world. Now Straun knew it was taking advan- ofa situation. From his earnings he repaid every cent entailed in that Colorade sojourn; yet this fort bot wll its weight under the pressure of Elkins” ws sumption that he had saved his life. The vigor of his short-lived expectations showed him now how much the girl meant to him; and his anguish in their collupse became so that the next day when he met her for lunch the need for solace dictated a can- | fession. Nuturally enough, his ethieal deli- | cacies infuriated her, “Do you mean to aay y¥ turn down this offer just roe this hy Be Elkins let you graze on his ranch for a ear?" * Straun'’s answer was checked by the en- trounce of thig here Elkins. Seeing his analyst he care to their tuble and was pre sented to Mise Whipple; then, meaningly, “My fiancee,” Alter a casual glance at her and some generalities le p on: but hia appearance seenved ta madden the young woman. She flashed fram scorn to bitter- nest and a final accusation that Straun's objections had all been alibis anyway. He Tar perce really cared, and so forth, and so art Naturally this evoked a passionate dis- Claimer, built around the I-eould-not-lowe- thee-dear-so-much-loyed-I-net-honor-neore theme. Of course he adored her mere than. all the world, and so forth, and so forth. "Well, then'’—primly, a3 she drew on a number-five glave—" you're ment darn noble I couldn't live up to these Alpine et oo it's ub ! to Teddy to store the old hope chest a | flutter out of your life,"" You mean "he enught her wrist tensely—""you wank to break our engage= mente” “Absolutthly! Granny leaves Sunday for joc New Harnpehire place, andl 1° ROD with "she pac te lower her vel over Byte thet prophesied an imminent wet spell, “Of course if you come bo your sensed andl | accept this offer, all right. ‘Otherwize I don't want to see you again.” It goes without saying that he tried every angurment known to Romeo and Sir Francis Galton: but nothing melted her. Then followed weeks in which fifty-seven warieties of pangs competed for ascendancy in his crushed heart. Life degenerated into a product of ashes and Dead Sea fruit, of which he became the ultimate consumer. [t. seemed purposeless, meaningless, a8 ironic asan anthracite advertisement in the nether regions. And all this time warlare between instinet and conscience raged: so that even prewar pleasures became taarkedalown val- wes, Emerson, chess, Beethoven no longer pleased; two and two mo more made four, but o five-foot figure of unforgetable dear- Ness, Mpril 8, Then a peychological change deve in his relations with his employer. constraint between them, one which 5 tried to i nore out of existance, in 1 hagan fired Hr expression in aeelives air nism und fwulttinding, The ratio be the manufachuring anc elie Camille Cough Drop wassimply abeur for the lust chart, it loolced| goss Gf Pt had tramed by quija under the cambrol of Dota m. Salt conichoumoan and ewer sel Padi showed in the analyst's work; yet hi recution of Elkins’ antageniam was mut disturbed him After all, he hel jacrilicad the elaj lave to the ‘obligations of frimradahip, 1 find this suuring on him was reall much, Human endurunce had uo reached the saturation point. He gr ritable and embittered: so rouech se even Beever noted it. “What alle sau, old hoxs'T"* he rallic malcontent. “You've been groin locking like a creat betweer the 4 gladiator and a bird who's just paid h come tax." So Straun confided Elking” reaectix the Buell offer, and hissubsequent host "Sure!" Beevee anoried. ‘“ Thar’ old man's game—to squecse every dra of us at the lowest price per quart pos You were a chump not to quit.” And later corroborations of this tow tribute did make the temptation ta nm almost overpowering. But at the tha of a violent disru ption of an inhe friendship, through his initiative, ani developed conscience always rebelled, it was better to suffer in silence 1 Elkins’ accumulative antagonism et nated in a more or less honorable discha Bo he continued to suffer, _ Then one day while in the filing reom joining his employer's office he overhies canversition about himself, ending ' a casual churacterization of the mast 1 derful girl in the world, It was this which evoked the clenched fist, the por ing pulses al other physialogicnl ackn ents of the superinsult, Blind stumbled te his dexk, Teo minutes lat resignation wis hanced toe the efiee boy tamedivte delivery, Then to the pl where, ineredihle enough, he instantly his party. “Mr, Buell? . oo + Allan Strawn spe Lage. sos 2 2 te position till 1p . Gol! Sign @ contract the frst? ., . . Fine!" Yet wa slow train carried him tah Hampshire that afternoon he we- fur fh happy. A thousand daubts wesaibel h Would she see him? Could sive see hi Perhaps she waa dead! Maybe she ' married! What if that anticurfew boun had —— © Lord! But at five o'clock, in the prim littles tion, the voice over the phone assured } that she and Paul Revere would pick § up in five minutes. And when, Later, saw down the road the metcorlike Rash Paul his misgivings merged in a prinn thankfulness that there were ne traffic in_ that part of New Hampshire. On | ride back he incoherently reported bis : eeptance of the Buell offer, which, a! they were settled in the viny arbor in | Whipple garage, resulted achiviiees which the vertising fralern well recognize ws a class of traraarti mule withaut conscious decision, Yet after a while Teddy disengage! In self to gaye “But, Alurn, to what dor owe your dechaionh to? You! haven't yet i me What made you resign.” “h—er—-momathing I overheard.” toak a Lists moment to ceneel his rele tance. Elkins wis apecking of my ¢ agement, and someone T couldn't identi abked what sort of a girl you were. Al then—and then”—the eyes behind tl horn-timimed goggles burned with rem cent resentment—""he said something Bo belittling I could stand it no longer. wit.” “What did he say?" Mow the butter hands were clenched. “He said, ‘Oh, nothing out of the od nary that I could BE. Just. the svete woman, I sappoce," “Oh, angel man!" Teddy gurglil at held out her arme, and then was forme whut might be termed an interlocking di Tecbotaie,

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eor beset mised maaeet, ull the tree dec down and toys and other gilts nded it. Then the artists would come rom their stepladders or ecramble up wit knees, tired and dilapidated, but wily satiated after a long evening of firty work. ; faculty of Russians te do a amall th euch delight, simplicity and serious jon oheays seemed to me one of their « charme. ‘That and their lave of o, 1 never could have brought up wee rollicking offspring had it not or the good advice and aid of all the ed gunta and uncles, who knew these people well and were adored by tier. Somehow in cur Russian life ship had a more intimate and greater ence: than it has usually elsewhere pworkl, and there seemed more tinve mpanionship as well, Long hours of eee always possible as one sat in the ihernoon or through the evening, with inevilable tem and cigarettes being od abvout gy, intelligent conversation there was eevery sort of subject came up and bandied with tnconscious brilliancy. tally in the society of old Russin one the game pensation ws one hat plyni= Been one & bred has been thorcughly cael and & exactly ft. The whale at- jbere of a Russian party, whether large « intimate arcle, seemed full of con om and aectionate understanding, of eaturr, free from. all antry ane © gob there was invariably good brecd- ech no pretengions or mannerisms bo it in the lemet. “This, with sparkling ped sperits, charity and kindliness, fe up a society difficult te ie wee. and of the moat compelling at- con toall foreigners who had the good ito be Included in our circle. The Sooereigns Receive Tub the tint of the vear and the levee i at wort the season began in dead west ind pockety became the serous. ines four young women's lives, When Scene wert in town, before the mlapemese War occurred, the Em- m ted murt on New Year's morning drecerd in person the good wishes of teopeis, These, like hersolf, were el typical national costumes. eucdu-Findoroyna’s perfect features, éSeuutlfal oval of ber face, her classic it isd soulders and her regal corriage meee adipted to the gorgeausness and fetta all she had to wear and the Czar= 2) o8hine were of legendary splendor. (tte ge he for extravagunoer in com gown Of hate frend Paris, her no- otaponded te the possibilities of ancient faery, Herlove for beautiful brocwdes, fet laces, for rich embroideries of and other precious stones, for fura ie ict jewels, led her to create for her- = cotbes uiicent almost beyond roel, Ste thed, I think, occasions when ‘e Wore court dies. It auited the Em- fet nulser heavy fhyure and she was Hremey well but to carry off the massive cexegital, High kosheik bead- warn log lace veil, slashed sleeves that oi tie foot, an umderdress of metal and 28 etittudered. with overdress and Re thal wate! even her strength, became si Sitttinnes it was all cloth of gold, tool @ boade, with always wide atte of priceless dark sables, Over ‘a -jrwel, tow upon row, Her Maj- Fi wre abvt her neck pearls and dis- Bends of most startling size, and they Meitows os her dress, covering her as Wes tackling buckber. 4 Pal Schemes and the rich ladics “TER Gd their isest to follow this eat thn they represented the .. Tht with oben real creative talent, oe wh supplies to draw on for ““ "ete, and were forced therefore le Sy wsbitions which might otherwise do werd to soar. Here and there hor foler halls some original note in , SS atone the gowns altractod eee vat a train of turquoise e itat sheaves of Easter lilies tak, 210 Cheba arr] aolt willce upon it: and Ether was a train where the “ay epodeced the tall of a proud "= THE SATURDAY EVENING POST WINTER LIFE IN THE CZAR’S CAPITAL (Coatinwed from Page fF) peacock in ita natural coloring. There were | very Varied patterns and many lovely old brocades. In the immense halls of the Wine ter Palace enough floor apace existed to apread out all the traina, and the ladies of | our court could preen themselves and show off their fine feathers beautifully an Now Year's morning. The men meantime were being received in other halla by the Emperor, who tn the midst of his courtiera and officials of his army amd navy always apparently felt on apr af shymess. Yet he made his round the diplomatie circle gathered in one hall, and found some short phrase or ques tion to address to each head of mission in that line, He did the same among the Hussians, During the daye that followed, the talk of the town bore much on the great fune- that of the New Year's reception, und | always itshowed the reactions of those wie | took part toward the central figures in | these picturesque scenes. “Toward the Em- preaa there wae uorewrved admiration for er great beauty, me mention of Her Maj- eaty otherwise at all, About the Emperor | there was much talle ws to what he did and said and how he did and suicl it, of how he Lovked, the charm of his expression, of how hard it waa for him te de his share in any society program, A mixture of awe for the head of the church and state, of sympathy and a desire to aid the shy man, and a real regret that by his official rile Hie Majesty was always forced to do these things which were so againgt his simple bourgeos tastes. Tam sure when New Year's Day was quite ower the Sovercigna drew a deep breath in sheer relief, but their guesta of the morning kept 2 warm feeling in their hearte for thee who ruled them, and who were to many of their guests really their Little White | Father and the father’s fairylike consort. Aa soon ws pewple left the Winter Palace - rasate usa about be? ek fA Ginny ale or broughams, which atop and emptied their occupants at the grand- ducal palaces. We all were obliged to in- scribe our names upon the | : left in their anterooms by the members of the imperial family. This was the equivalent of a call on royalty and the scribbling of One's hate wast an excellent excuse for a few roomenta of pleat cunversabion and the exchange of a compliment or two with other visitors. About six weeks of quite mad payety followed thia opening of the senson, It was only in old days, before the war with Japan, that the Sovereigns played ang part in all this and gave their share of entertainments, Then the Winter Palace wos often open, Their Majesties arranged tu have at lemst One great party each week. Court Eniertainments A large court ball—for three thousund people, whe didn’t avercrowd— n the series, Four smaller balle followed, where | about four hundred waa the limit of the guests, Then came the dinner dance which wound up carnival week and was saill smaller and verv informal. To the firet bull every bureaucrat and army and navy officer of colonel's rank of over had the ght and duty to go and take his wife The category of @ueste for the second va- niety wf party was made up of the court functionaries, the imperial guards, aociety and diplomats; and these were very attrac- tive balls, where half those who were pres- ent looked on, while the younger element danced. 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TR saTURDAY EVENING POST | rearog of estates, palaces and jewela for cir backgraund. Ut is true I never heard & Russian say, nor saw him es any thi inspired by sna ness, AL were jodpe hy their personal merits and not by any a ittering thing which belonged to their rames, Nothing could change the verdict hor society's point af view, once taken, Some of those best liked and mast invited in society lived in small, cheap homes and. hed but shabby clothes, yet everyone went to their apartments with as much enthu- siasm us to the largest palace's fine fftes. Tt was the same with the diplomats whoa came to Russia, They were toa few official parties, and were examined at these culmly enough, If their pencaalities a tracted, they found Guat taken inte seciety's intimate nls f they didn't make good when they were thus ial these foreigners might stay for yeuns wceredited to our rout, vet beth o mat- way of entertainment, they could not over= ecm she 6 clicw: agu inst them. Puzzled and defen in thetr efforts they would call aur society rigs sat indifferent, never dreaming they had heen looked aver and found wanting, sue nO one was taking the trouble to be rode, Simply that partleular outsider didn't exist, no one eye, thought of hin af him seh and he would never real d the same appor= tunity others ot ae i made real sLICCERS.. Late hours were the rule in Fossin. Men and wormen liked sitting up, and we were aaked to supper at midnight more fre wently than to dine at eight o'clock, The ane eculd slit inden over their Wineglase or cup of black ee, Listeriingr to gypay music or merely talking. It was Pleasant never to be resthes nor to see ik a Time was without vale, ariel sap Ong a8 the company was congentul, as some foscheaer gaid, a matter of spending one's night in sleep became pure els dan ides, easy to discard. Polltiesl work was done at night, cabinet meetings were held and even bosines: wae transacted across a table in sone restaurant. Ffaoofing tha Professor Another curious and agreeable tralt of Russian society life waa the democratic way peaple mixed, Some dimple self-made man, were he sympathetic, waa included at ance, and might become the center of all gatherings in which he took a part. This was so of a number of our cabinet ministers, Springing from the peasantry or the small rgecis class, they gained interest or anoreral: always were they genuine and interesting personally, The poet notable example of this waa Krivachine, the Min- ister of Agriculture for years. Of humble origin, born with great brains, with charm af dignified manner, he was a favored ) guest always everywhere: and there were many others who were of his fine type in aur capital, There was mo drunkennesa in society: never once in the nearly twenty years I lived in Russia did I meet a man at dinner or ata ball who had had too much to drink. Tt was not spoken of or discussed, but simply did not exist, Wine waa served everywhere plentifully: in all houses old port or sherry with biscuits stond on a amaller table near our tea tables of an after- noon; and those who did not like tea sipped their wine in comfort. Red wine and white were served at all meals, cham- pagie at every dinner or supper, and as much as anyone cared for, It was a matter af proper train bint, hew much one drank, Crend taste left each individual to decide when to stop, but all the hospitable wealth af ulenhel made no apparent trouble, Noa man almved at drinking too much any more than at overeating, and no watching of the younpetera ly anxiaus hosts or hestexmy wis ever necewmuary in St, Petersburg. Among the peasunts and the working people vodku wis considered a necessity nse oof the eold, and was used eon atantly. There was much hard drinking of a Saturday night or on a holiday; and in the streets then one saw thoae who hol hol ten much, sitting about, talking, embrace: ing, aliging or wandering home in zigeses: but hardly ever were they fighting or | aealdin one another, | At te regiments, when th officers con gregated wt their mess for lunches, dinners ar suppera on the femet day of their patron | falnt, or met to celebrate some Webory over their rival comrades in the field of aport, April or when invited the officers friendly regiment, the wine flows t long hewre and toast aft wae drunk. [t was well known th Tegimental parties were of fixed ha traditions, and they were put ina: by themselves. Occasionally some ry leaked out in apite of di hat, not often: and though variow ladies then shook their heads in di this or that youngater's prank, 1 fathers unders and condor, wives smiled amiahly and found « occupations for themeelyes on the « wf such entertainments. One delightful aneedote was a me of some youngsters wha, be time in Russia, between high at champagne had gotten beyond t in the wee small hours of morning their barracks they had rung up phone the imperial observatory 1 copital, <A weary mam on dul unewered their call was told to Professor —— by orders from the quarters, and to request the profi report wt the instrument at once, the sleepy voice of the scientist over the wine asking for orders, and se has was carried back: “* We w a sefious question of you, sir. With what do you habitually fered th Bear?" Profesor ——"s reply i corded, but within a few days he ae to the F CETUEHEPET, "By hice in tum young ie severely Triad neldent mode these who origin famous, and people long after woul to ff in connection with any —a¥ party, aaking if eurtosityr iadn’t aclentlic matters? Aut one nev occaaion bo wonder if the man sti one at dinner or dancing with one a was In eondithen; for in society o wure of safety, and no man dran wenen present, save in the priva cakinel particulier, where the wome coneenting purties to the beaut. Dilnnera at court, wt the embassies great hous, were pleasant ways of ing together old and young Im groupe than at the entertainments were set for later in the night, and earmival seaeon there wis never ane free and hardly ever one witheut | pees to follow one another. Nor icted, however: and one of the attractive tralts in the Russian cour was the declared intention af each | ta go te others’ entertainments, and te draw ta away from @ rival" Each in turn did her best to amu attract, and the general aminhility a 3 sale He ates pare. Ther erfully pers wT sn aewers and foed a milral were the magnificent homes, wliich the proper frames for such gay gathe Indescribable Magnificenc One would like te deseribe in deta people and their jewels, the splenc their dresses, the brilliant convers and the greatness of many names i traditions and the history of their One would like to tell of the art tres collected about these men and wor the marbles, paintings, carvings, br: porcelains, and the TRAY precious ol worked by old) masters’ hands, the staircases and the sumptuous halls retainers devoted. to eae house, § old in service there and jealous of an house's reputation. The fact of the m is, ane must have seen it to quite reali this, Russia's magnifieenes ard hose ared deseription anc were above parison, Legendary in size pnd quality, be through centuries, this bloom of ip! civilization was swept away before winds of war and revolution, An agm suffering occurred which drew oo 0 and thee people showed heraam sui few in the world's history have ever sb and prove to-day a faith which will | into the far future. To rebuild with lib pi spirit a new Russia on the mi the old feudal one, which had outlive time, and te refuse te ery for mercy & fine Husaian’s ambition wherever be vives, Somethmes it ie dificult to bel that the old [Lfe is a closed chapter and so meng milliana af aur people have off or been killed in the past sever 7 while their land has been blighted ap constructive effort ar the results of © f been destroyed, (Contineed on Page |44)

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It is not hard to get the change your heart desires; to enjoy delightful entertain- ment, wholesome relaxation, There is a good motion pic- ture theatre near you, fur- nishing clean amusement at a modest price. Visit it tonight! PATHE Exchange, Inc. |Contiaged from Paoye IfZ, Even ao, though, Hueeia ie the richest auintry in the world io naturul rexcuirees, etd in its peoplt, too, fir tt haw in site al famine, war and pestileies, the largest population of all white iutions, wd thie nation’s birth rate remains high. [ta spirit, too, is flue, for faith and hape and charity toward all mankind ore shawn. Suc traits as the above make for survival and for conatructive fores whatever comes, Between balls and dinners at court there was another form of entertainment, which was one Her Majesty the Exnpress Alexan- dra particularly tiked, Tk was the theater; and about onee a weelk a performance af opera, av or ballet was commanded in Che tin jewel of a plu hese which the Winter Palace held, The stage with its settings wre perfection, as were the decorathons in the pretty auditorium, and it held only a sural pertion af the members of the court, since nothing wae ever allowed to be crowded of unenefortable. “Coammand" to one of these performances were greatly sought und hoped for, A thing which struck foreigners very much [no awe society of St. Petersburg was that the Russian never talked of money. If he had it he epent lavishly on others and on himself; did his charity and entertainireg in quite regardless style, sent to the Crimes for fruits and te the Volga for caviar, to the Riviera for his fewers, elaewhere still further to gratify a whim, bat with undail- ing tact the price of all thie luxury was never mentioned, moteven thought of. The gold was there to be used where needed; and that was all, If one was quite poor it didn't matter, one had just as good a time und no reqqembility, mo sordid or secbhish thought ar worl disturbed the degance of lives full of refined comfort, without thought al catentation. | delighted in this trait, for it was so very unusual in our day fn other lands, Cpern-handed charity was theirs in word and deel, a warm and cordial welcome to those whe came among them was offered whether it wus to the self-made man who had worked his why from peasant bed rock, or whether (t was to a foreigner married into the charnmel eirele. Provided their personality pleased, they were asked for nothing more, Among tlhe many Ametican girla married ta Russians not one that [con recall hacl any mewey, and all were very happy, I think, in thelr wlopted homes, Carsivel Week The season drew on to its carnival week, gal the pertles grew later und later, payer anil guier, a4 they follawed one another A British diplomat ance saicl te me, “' Dear- ing the season DT never feel [we had 4 suc- waful evening wotll in elasing the door of my car about five in the ed hl wre after the third party, our footman saya bo nee, “Where next, sir?" There were costume balla, bole d ies, and plain balls or these with seme fenture such ga a gay quadrille in fancy dress to open with. For Christiana of the Russian Orthodox Church, Lent begins always ono Monday, therefore aut carnival lasts for o complete week, and in old days it piled up pleasure upon pleasure for the poy young set oof the imperial eourt The special carnival dish, hint, was exten twice a day. A oblint is a rather thick batter cake, heavier than wr pancake god fried in butter, In heavy amall pound metal pana, Served sizzling im the pane, these cakes were delicious, especially when covered | with drawn butter, fresh exviar, smoked Salman or aourerecam. Such combination of excellent things would have been a reg] problem to any digestion but that of a Slay, but with him it seemed nothing worth mentioning to put pway five or aix of the hepyy tikes and their attendant mixtures as a mere beginning of a meal. To de kt eke sev days wos & test, vet a mum- her of pepple To knew had much better records thin five or six! [ was teld atories of cotiivel welebrutions in Moseow, in earlier days, when men traced with one \ another, and eensidered it proper bo swrl- | SLE. low of minny Mince as it took to beeild ip from one's plavtes ipen the table, op leanin tower Che top of which should reach to on BALD POEL ores chin! [ have never hue Op portunity te verify this interesting slate= inent, however, and tt may werll bee a bettie ugyerabed, Qn the last day of the carnival o dinner, followed by a eotillon, was given wt emurt, Te leeterd only tall midnight and tt eneberd the in many wos it was much the Aipril 2 most wonderful fete of tha whol None whe di not dunce were ticle certain members of the in prerial fart wash party of kul two boiareedredd a or three hundred guesta wlll tuslecl; wu puratively young people, hiaarrelacy amartly dreased, They were chert their beat jewels und the Tens aided the picture, whike the wea background was more thera warth 3 a gathering. alectric fight was putall ower the I age for that one night, ancl a6 we =o great tables, eating the best food the chefs could produce, we were feastin tally on our surroundings. So he were the things that one was diet from one's ordinary plasires, and in wonder, (ld men ancl women Rembrandt's brish watched ua from walls, and there just beyond were be from France, always young im their p and paint, There were alscr Leewutie tributed by Reynolds, Gainshorough number of other Finglish masters, 4 mention our own Russians” work, ra which was in the Alexander TTT Miu Emperors, Empresses, favorites ara men of centuries long past presided our gauyety, andl oa grand array of t ures, such as no other dining: halle tr al world [RISRISS, stow about. It had t many millions wisely spent to collec the beautiful thirygs. welled oOrmatrte from the sovereigns of Asia given to grent Catharine, others offered FElizal or Peter crowded thase belonging: to ol of their line. There were things made pulient, chewer fingers in all parts of worl ~ porcelains, enamels, the fines embrotlerics, weavings and arms, tabi watk and ancent furniture, all rare pie which meant years of effort in ald daysa which in thelr way seened aa perfect a jnuintings. The Lnassuming Crar Rich magnificence of background we o tulnly bad for cur feasting, though it» with some difficulty one singled out t maln objects meriting admiration. Eva thing was so perfect, and the owner of it) Waa Bo Unconscious, ao litthe geaware of | great power or lis creat treasutTes ms % moved ahout or sat shyly down among} guests. Never, even among all the sgh seers whe by day paneote, throtigh museurn, had aaimpler or more rabest ma walked in thase halls than the Czar of a the Russias, Nicholas 11. 1 often lookeds him anc wilered how he could be ae b was, Completely unassuming, never didh say anything that would bhawe lel thos wha talhed with His Majesty bo infer tha any af this grandeur pelaneed ta Kim, o even that he wae connected distantly witl nl the stute ubowt him. Sometimes om felt tempted te sperulate aa to whethe invent else in all the world could he a detached from the attributes of the positior he aceupiedl a was our eevereign. He hea heen kept exceptionally young both in be education and in his family life by the dominating old autocrat anc giant Agese- der T10, who had made all Europe treme through the years he reigned, Then the eon, left with a great ond upen he shoulders, found it impresiide to follow m his father’s footsteps, He didn’t need & want much fer himself. Ao menbest bear geois in his hubita, seriqusly he was terested in what his ministers reported lo him, intelligently he questioned them, ar honestly he tried to mike decisiona on te information given. He lated the pou ned cerenieny, yet went through it witht complaint, suppressing what be eoult, & cuping when there was a chanee left ope. For the rest, f escape was not to be Pe accepted his destiny and had an expreahe ef bored patience or resignation, alm! sadness, which came over his quiet fas Sometimes one saw real longing spring inte his eves, as seme young atherr p My a laughing woman with her ai apron fu arm, Everyone felt sarry for His Majesty a his own partie, The Empresa was g erally absolutely silent amd ber bewatil:! maskowore a cold. tense lack, the hard fips ful w hitter curl as she watelved thedaa's or heard the lauehine of her puesta, Tee left constantly for the Eorupresa Mfother © attike a mete af cheerful hospitality 2 welcome. She waa always beautifel dreaed whenever she appeared, and 5° musical laugh ard ceful mescet ul everyone at ease, The balls and cnr to which she went were the brighter irl?

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+ Imagine some young officer find- : Her Majesty knew-all about his soration amd thought he deserved young woman, who had made her =o at home, being told acre a table and before a number of neta- What a pretty gown! I Jove that ule apd the roses with the black in artist's work, not ao dress- i Of eourse both the captain and rg matron were forever after Her ya adoring subjects, eso also with the older men and : some tinket or jewel, an absence ness « as an excuse for a few oe words and 2 sweet smile, These fegianee and held it. permanently, yong the poor and humble it was the Tre sufferer in some charity hospi- = her attention and he told his woes wht wre mot only sympathetic in but when things were in her power BIE, this was always tome in a maternal way. A most humnn lady 1 example to all, both in her hay ny ed when trial mume. Even ta the sugh exile, bad health, poverty and od age coming on, Her Majesty's sever fails te attract te her such as acreagthening, and her whole thought thea abut her and for Russia. Her in Foka’s tebirth and the country's » glory temaina steadfast. All who racound her lowe her if poeeible more ‘dark days than they did in her youth ramps. But in the happy tines e the war the was in ber element at me hike the Hermitage dinner and the that followed, She would sit in the joy hall with no thought of fatigue an i aa dascers of, gathering an intimate pote would talk ond laugh in sone ict comerof the reception suites. face in the palace which | thought t bevel: Seem win tier garden built just be taliroom, and the Empress Mother \itelten as her metrent to sit in with her ip. Really one had the impression of gc treported te the tropics. There egret palma and fers with splendid ming Bowera te add their fragrance, iin great wuilers were singing hape wood tasemed a bit of fairyland where ‘put weary of dancing might wander. ee wee lew who left the ballroom, how- ffor id om moved about one missed on the dancing but the beautiful ren Gren out to every guest. [t waa fa doral igure this ball ended. There fe delicious bonqueta from the imperial enioue—vicleta, mires, jonquils, rem and bliee-ol-the-valley in large, cmt bunches, They aeemed miracles fragrant beauty, especially if one qumtoal the climate outside, with emow foe and bliczards enveloping the filal. A ferlous Undertaking So the semeon wae concluded, and then ihe usual intensity the gayest of the “hie fined toward higher things, ancl tubuml the saving of their souls with real Chute. “We are doing our devotions a Wil sno one for a time,” waa the union gin for many on attrackive race's nee from their usual ints, Anil “doing devolions”” was m fs ima ondetiaking. Dt meant werk of eon fart losting—ihat ts, of limited food, and melo that fahenoked with oll anal yeyuetas tet, 1h meant ten or three hours of chuteh ercecaily, and these were the nost alr mi of all the services on the chure crit Findly Friday, the fifth doy, Suit Lhe dewetions to the point where Ten relieved a penibent's soul. This Bere bet, pinta tallbed and the aobersnlty # fatrarchal worship left. that particular weetold, ot to return again for a whole terng Lent nome of the embassies gave Pei tal diewers, and there was music Porta and at concerts as well as in “2 born. 1 apems to me ol] Russians oer leew were musical, te some ‘wt at best, and that they could con- “Sit alms, when called on for it, to the Menta qict evening gathering. We “i Ritr sich evenings in our own home, "et ttahk amateurs were able to sing ty fer lon if their program con- i tel-lnown songs every member SS idence joined in, At the opera * Grbeoe it was wonderful to see the rae Lk night ae ee a Tn EL nan, _ ¥ their favorite aired the pople's applause was deafen- “pd drach mot. the whole audience THE SATURDAY EVENING would rise and make a terrible racket, eall- ing madly the artist's name and renew- ing their handclapping. And the siuesrs reaponded cordinliy, Many a time I've looked about me with surprise as some ane of the capital's best artists asked whut was | wanted, and then sang some simple old folk song or a gay modern air to plense an audience so excited by its hero warship that it could hardly stund quietly to lieten. T don't beliewe Lever saw Borstions excited anything but music—and T liked then the better for their single exception to an unpublished Ima. faster ended our winker festivities with a last splendid celebration, the most typical in all the Orthodox church vear, Generally at Easter St. Petersburg atill wears lia soft white garments of enow, and the beautiful architecture takes on am added mystery, to which the deep night aky above gives only farther attraction. It wis far from dark along the thoroughfares of our old capital on Faster night, however. Wide as the etreets were, the crowds which moved along them filled them completely, hut one could in spite of this see that every- one wore his best clothes and felt plensed and kindly, for there was mo spe, & On the houses there were ev here electric decorations. Great stars or brilliant crowns or the imperial arms and monogram, mae in small bulbs, shone out like diamonds, and Janterns and red bunting nided in the effect of general festivity. ¢ lampe to gether with the are lights of the street shawerl lange Processbons of carri et, sleigh and pedevtrinns to wdvantage, | Reone were all well worth examination, ever shall [ forget our throngs, the neat, proa- percus aspect of which was immensely striking. Easter Customs Contentment and shining cleanliness reigned, for in no phase is the gentle Rus- Bian ao typical as in hie religion or hia hoepltality. Easter is the time above all when these two elementa combine to put our Hation at its best. Seven weeks of fasting, af penance and of prayer, when fol lowed sincerely, prepared him to appreciate the deep joy which Easter means to a primitive and faithful Christian. At the end of Holy Week, having confessed, he was abeolved, of course, and took communion: then on the Saturday, late, the Possian baths all over town hed done their work, and best clothes—civilian or unilorm—had been withdrawn from their wrappings and donned to celebrate, With everything at home burnished and decorated, the whole family was finally ready to wander out, lnden with the dishes which must be sanctified at church. Such quaint bundles these made, Held in white or in embroidered cloths which were @ riot af poy color, there were round platiers piled high with brilliant red, green, purple, blue and yellow CE. hard-boiled. Were held by the futher of a family, and the mother wes curving the Paskke, of cheese with raisins in ft. along and brought the family Kowlileh, a Children trotted | round cake a ith itiat to the Easter feati- | dis val. On each must always be a great flawer of brilliant pink or red tisswe paper. Seamelimes one small platter held all the modest repast of an individual or of a poor family. but some extra [ood was always ob- tulnable, and iE Was alraya as ly and cheer- ful looking a3 the face above the platter was HETETE. Threading their way along the great | Nevskil Prospekt the vast crowds parted here and there to let sleigha, court equi- pages and motora pass, and the latter moved slower than usual, for it would have heen a crime te upset one of the preciaus bundles in the concourse. Smiling eyes turned to look atone. [twas imposible not te samila: back and exchange weword of greeting, andl truly that night, at trast, all men were brothers in their happiness. Chot at one end of the Newskit Prospekt wee the mon astery of Bk Alexander Nirskii, tron squint of Ehe ‘af city, anil there in the anetent church the service would lnedude the singing of w choir called the mast won- deriul in Freda —not a mean reputation in ao land where all the inhabitants have a genius forsong. At the opposite end af the stroret the itcent raat of baildings visible included the Winter Palace, the Admiralty and the Cathedral of Saint Isaac. The lutter’s gold dome gliztened ini reflections agunst the dark ba a aky, for on the four corners of the edifice flamed up great torches held by bronze groups of ee eee POST 145 Fon dem identity Collar folders by dhe Cae data! lrodtnierl on fhe bork, MWen- fine “lek ae ho yor Phofograsber ond Gy teil! Emon thot rom cheviee Joi heed Ae cae glee So [Poorest fc ni ropplricy Iaistriag ot one races by a srifetiome Piotograpbrr, Mother Wants Your Photograph 0, sons far away, and daughters, too! Remember your mother on Mothers’ Day. Send her your photograph; a good one, the best you can get. Let it speak for you on this day of gratitude. Go to a professional photographer. He records person- ality. By light and shadow, by masterly blending of paper anid chernicals, he produces that other “you which never grows od. 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Lined with rare murbles and semiprecious stones, their splendid colors gleamed, reflecting bal thousands of tiny tapera held hy bumble worshipers, It was to Saint Isaac's that the diplo- muts went for their midnight mass at Easter, The women in light gowna and the men in gold-laced uniforms looked very fir indeed in such a rich frame. Hallway up the Nevskii the Cathedral of Qur Lady of Kazan was also packed with people, and their clothes and plattera divided one’s attention with the gold decorations of the church itself. This Madonna with the Christehild in her arms was an icom much revered und cared for, Had she not escaped the hunds of the Tartar enemy and floated n the Volga's waters? ghe not ranted many miracles to such as sought Oo them of ber in true faith? On Easter night the tapers twinkled by the hundred in the candleholders all about her, and guve full vulue to this icon's strange beauty. One guaped with wonder at the masses of jewels pulled up os thank offerings by the deve at this shrine, The mass of huminity extended forth from the altar acreen out inte the church, aed it overflowed inte the colonnades, even to the littl: park outside. This was so of all the churches and chapels in the capital, however. Around Suint [sane's the great aiyjuare was filled to capacity, and in the smaller churches and the private: chapels of various ministries of pulaces the roams beyond the actual church Spice were fillet also with well-dressed crowds, whoa came to join in celebrating the Resurrection with the inhabitants of each house, At a few minutes to midnight long weasions formed: Bishops and priests, lencons abd choir boys, with all the others whe composed the Russian church officin- om. They moved out among the people carrying banners and erases, ineense ont tapers, and aa the clock struck midnight a ehant af triumph rose announcing that the Christ waa risen tosave all men {rom ain and punishment. Louder and louder in ita full plore epee the news, and new tapers int and burned, adding more light and enor to the lovely seenea and glorious sounds, One of the hours well worth living was this midnight time of a Rusaian Easter, one of the hours whose fine meern- ores dinger when the splendor of a whole nation nda in aderation of the beat the world has known. High and humble over the whole land then gravely embraced and kissed three times, announcing to owe another in brotherly afleetion, “Christ ia risen,” and answering, “Verily be ig risen!" Following the church ceremony came the happy feasting, full of touching incident. Every conunander of a regiment or af a equadron kissed three times each soldier under his command. Every owner of a Palace kissed each mujik in his employ, April and soitwas through all society : or cuba, ay women friends and I, like » and | followed the quaint old cus Stchanged pretty jeweled or enam or oother litth gilts mp proprimte to won, ln our lame kitchen shoe table with the traditional dishes | and ta every servant im the how allotted a dozen epee and purt of a ig or mutton and harn, togeth cba and Aouwlitch im due propor share af beer or wine, of which our: genercus supplies prepared, waa aided. Then asum of money was the household servitors by ws for t] party; afd this wadao in every ho any patriarchal sellreapect in old Great pride was taken beth by t| and by our simple servitor puests in their table heavily laden amd beat ok upon. When an Faster feast plentiful te transport to chureh it nearest roa who tame to ws to b fool and scatter holy water on it, y ceremony in itself was charmingly and touching in its symbolism, A of the Grand Ducal palaces the ret in holiday clothes, stood about th room, where long tables were Auta oy cure for them, the priest walk down blessing their provisions, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess with all their suites and friends lowkir My hushand and [ went first te ew regimental church always, and it wosan the soldiers our comrade officers their farnitlies that the earliest mone thong und embraces were excha i from the puschal feast at the command quarters we sullied forth into the Mu Fiabe night te visit other homes, thos the friends we knew ond loved the be In all these poloces both Servants og owners Peceied ts with open arma ated t classic salututians, Dt always imprest tet immensely to think that in the Cear cupital the night wis spent this way | anne two million citizens, while out dant in the land one hundred and eighty mills Huasians did the same things, believe with a cleseg faith that Christ had gives bi lile to eave them, and that he wes hea again and all was well with this great work of ours. Russia at prayer and Russia fee ing and believing was a wonderful sgt, Those whe know the Hussinns best oft think of them thus. They feel that ates the Sally hist the oe i “a gn Fs | ao eruell: & at bast bp their own weight of rotlenn the: real Russians" spirit will again rise high woe the destruction and death of this ghastly period, The nation will live egain, aot oe will pray and feast in samewhat the old way aed will say te other patios in brotherly faith and love, “Christ & ree for all of ua once moore. And aa one lode about at civilization one wonders what vil those others reply te them. How will they explain some of theie wards and setiog during Russia's time of agonyt INSIDE (Continacd from Page 15) can do this job better, whayn't you talk up ard tell folks so? Kind of used to voting for me; you want to beat me you better cumpaign some," He could see the pe at the edge of Cole's eye. He nod cb seins and patted the wet cloth of the bundle on his knees, “Sim, 1 ain't koing up in the hills after those bays. Itdon’t look like good sense to me to kill a lot of decent folks on the chance of hanging a few bad ones, We ain't going to bring Joe Muacrimmon back alive to matter how many we hang any- WOVe. Cole risked a quick side glance at him, "Tou mean vou sim to leave "om alone not dow thing?" : “Comes to something like that, maybe.” “ress t's time sonwbody rum agauret vou then,” Mackenzie nodded, “That's what I'm saying, ain't it? You go ahead, Sim. Talk to folks. Kind of gat in the habit of voting for me, like I sand. But vou got plenty to tell "em now," “Aim to,"" spiel Cale, ir N MACKENZIE could feel the thing in the air as he gingerly brought the panting car toaestand in the bloat of shadow hasta # the warehouse, It reminded him of the queer way he eoulal feel the coolness of his theeka when he dipped into one of the deep hollows where the cold air settled avi hung like water in a pool, Sim Cole bed been talking, he knew. But it us strange Lo meet so many eyed without friendliness in them, He answered mods and. words in kind, a faint taste aa of bitterness an hislipe They'd known hin all thelr lives, thesemer, and they judged him mow aa they might have judged a stranger. He turned in at the driveway where the carta entered to woload. Tt wa atill early, and the narrow lane was full af @ from which men were lifting sthes on wiih the hands of tobaceo were spitted like mut ton on ao ramrod, The warehouse negroei alipped the leaf deftly off, piled it ix nat circular heapa on the flat wicker tray, wheeled thea to the big seals, where the weigher marked cach with the po name and the number of pounds. Ar ranged in long rows on the cement foot, the full trays left narrow aisles, throw which men strolled or loitered bere aol there to inspect a particular Io, Md ackensie imitated their procedure cor eriaus of cavert, curious stares behind him He come face to face with the propeigie, Len Gunton, # plamp, amoohsanv ve eran, whoa thick hair seemed (Cootinead on Page Mi)

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etn. WS, ey i] 32 Cubiber Cal Aalemalia Pala Send for bookfer, “Romine of ot Cole,” ptveing into. y rat 1 iL “y i a ing details of the history of “The World's Right Arm. Cole's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co., Hartford, Conn. ’ re Pacific Comet Repromnéative, Pail. B, Beleoet, 717 Maerker St. Sam Frocciace, Col EVENING POST (Continued from Page 16) white against the clear color of his kin. Ganton's eyes dwelton Mackenzie's frankly a8 they shook hands, "Dan, what's this they're saying? Birr Cole was down last week ——" "Sim he ain't right pleased with hew I"m handling this Macrimmon case. He figures I'd tte take a poese up in those hile and shoot it out with the Rayfield boys." Ganton's evea half shut. “Whyn't you leave Sim doit, Dan? He ean have my share without fighting for it." “Seems like a pity to waste t Text sheriff, don"t it?” Mackenzie spss gravely. “Whonver goesup there's apt to bring back lead in him. And TI reckon the Rayfields ain't hankering to come down our side in.” Ganton looked sober. "That's all’t freta me, Dan. I Te they will come back if this talk gets up to ‘om. The way tobacco's selling this year it's good stuff to steal, and they's aplenty of it where a man can getit. I ain't easy nights when I figure how much money liys on the floor right here." . Mackenzie shook his head. “Heckon they ain't apt to bother you, Len, Where'd they carry the leaf to sell it | if they did? Can't freight it over them hill roads to Kentucky, can And it's burley market oyer there anyways.” Ganton was silent a moment; his eyes narrowed. Mackenzie fired him. He had known Len Gunton for fifty years, “I come right near taking a stub and wearing Sim down for his chat, Don, Rechon, mayhe, you'd just aseqon didn't." "Hate to have him spoiled, Len, He's right nan Sim is." “One t ing—primary's gelling close, Dan. You aln't aiming to get ee " Rilnd of used te being sheriff; for a fact. Alwaya figured it waa a good business for an old rman, Len, Maybe it aln't, Sim'd make a mighty boay sheriff." He straightened and glanced around. "T pot a parcel out in the car, Len. You Thine if Tsetitin the office? Hate to lose tt." “Fetch it in, Dan.” Ganton etudled kim keenly. "Shake your sleewe, You know L ain't talking." . “Mothing in it but an arm, Len.” Mackenzie walked away. His shoulders felt straighter and lighter, and the level, doubting glances between narrowed lids ditin't trouble him now. He might have counted on Len Ganton allalong. He lifted a package from the floor of the car and carried it inside, Kit Harney obligingly stowerl it in the big sale. When Machenzie emerged to the main floor the day's gelling hard nT. Ganton's voice echoed a aing- song of figures from the far end, where a queue of buyers stool between the rows of trays, Mackenzie could tell that the bidding was brisk, He felt a sort of savage lrasure in this. A kind of hatred seized im agninst these aliens and the more alien companies they represented; even local min, acting as buyers, senmed outlanders now. Let Cem claw each other fll th bled! Tt meant money for the lean, stoo : silent men who looked on ond listened — toney that would bring » bit of comfort Inte the seattered houses in the hollows, send children ta school in shoes this winter, eet driven farmers free of their dete slavery for a season. It drew him. He moved to ward the group, listened te the bidding. Somehow a bit of money above their bore needs had alrea ch these men. They stood straighter: there was less of the submiseive, pussled look In their eyes. Some af them even dared to reject the bids made for their offerings, high as they were in comparison te the prices of other years. Ganton lifted a hand from a high-piled tray, began a brisk patter of praise, started the bidding vith his own offer of a dollar a found. Mackenzie saw aman lean forward, aman who stood well apart from the group at the tray. Dis Fiance rested on the face below the faded, limp-rimmed felt hat, a face masked by a shadow across the thin, broken nose. ‘The sheriff turned away ab- ruptly, In the office, where Kit Harney was feverishly making out checks against the sules reports brought to him, he apolo- giged for interraptiiig. tock his parcel from the eafe and furnbled with the string, He curried iL quiside without opening it. The singletile procession hud moved on to another lot, Mackenzie sountered just it-la the triaes which had just been knocked down. The broken-nosed min hed come up now to pow the sales tickets. Macken- zie joined him, lifted a hand from the heap, noted the figure the leaf had fetched, April 4, re h eos FF <u ett aif tebaceo, sir, he i The man nodded @vithout turning. a doer pa ead Pama 2 Slee tyin - Pek grade it your : Again fl nod answered him. har | imitated the gesture, ie voice wa: gentle. got good soil, air. 4 “Reehon sou at's your place’ é tian jerked an arm vaguel;, kenzie aranped chee with a erp quubeborvenses. is free honed came fro sagging pocket and arevolver barrel pi against the flannel shirt. “Stand right atill," he said. His lifted sharply. "Oh, Len, step over away! Like a little expert advice fr: you gentlemen." The man in front of him etiilened «, Mackenzie could get lean, long muse taut under the shirt. He pressed th muzzle tighter against the ribs. "Stand right still." Without moving his eyes from the of the man's head he could see the ¢ thering sbout him in the narrow an Ganton stood heside Hint. "What's wrong, Dan?" "You take and open this parcel, Lea pot a notion they's some of this same abeed inside it.” He had no share in the absorbed cory ison which followed, He kept his attent| singly on the motionless mim at bails gu mouth, while Guntan and the bape g liberated. They took it soberly, compa ing the marked samples with the tohas in the trayve for color and weight gad They were at one albout it. "T'd almosl swear te it.”" said Gante slowly. Mackenzle nodded. "Waybe you all can't swear to the lal but how abowt the tylng? This man ee he graded and tied this Int himaell, Fete sone Loose leaf and leave him show us bor he dome it. It looks to me like these be hands was tied by the same man's tet what's in my parcel.” A volunteer fetehed a handful of loom leaves and thrust them at the prisone, He fumbled with them chumaily, dropped them on the ere "T never said I tied this lot myeell, | hired nigras to do that," Mackenzie nodded, “You didn't say where your place wai at when I you, Maybe you'd tel a now." “Over in Bethune Township,” the ma oop gibly. “Along the Big Branch.” “Who owns next to yout” Thert was an instant of hesitation ant then names, A mon on the fringe of the roa broke in harshly. “Tolive aver on the Tig Branch, The ain't ne folks named Hunter in the bor ship, nor MeNab, neither, Ho's lyn, aa May be th vd lute! “Afoybe they moved Gn tight Lote." anid Muckenzie mildly, “We win't @ te hurry, gentlemen. e got tinoe to find out. Somebody laughed, “Better bang blir while we got him. le never made no tolaero—tliat's Jee Mactin- mons leaf, gure enough, 1 pot a mpe cut to the wagor.” Mackenzie dropped his free kind on he priconwer's ehoulder. “Reckon we'll go naw, you and rer. They's too much mean chat here, States able to do ite own hanging mostly." He thrust the man through between the trays and followed him. Fora moment te felt the indecision of the crowd, He ine how litthe ther needed to beeome a mel. Ganton's voice lifted behind him “No hanging, genticmen. We sint m Ways Sure yet." < Mackenzie beekoned to him with esi wise motion of his head, ond the ware houseman stepped aver the trays to hissile “T want you should save them marke samples I fetehel over, Len, And pick wt adew hands off the tray he Teas bag a0 mark them go's some of the buyer cin ewear te them, And they's o piece of ol blanket [ had wrapped urcund them hint, Len—save that too. I aot up to dee's the day be was ahet.’ He eddreed the prisoner: “Where's weur beam)" The man cursed him in a whisper, Hr nivldext. ; “Lan, yee can ena find which one's he Miuybe hee figured it wie safe to comedows here with the rest of Joe's Idaaket to erp his tobaees, Tf be did yer pee’, they's wit ness can swear to that, | better ns

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fait, the way things stand. They'll bane im oF mt yet if the bh lonket"s there, Adm ath mut his check to Letiy, and email £ up to her, will yout take two-three with you, Dan, (e's m geeod ways back to Tyre.” I can make oot to carry him there.” ‘feckersie jerked his heavy old handcuffs “ca his pocket and snapped them an the Bu worries. “He gin’— olicring no trouble" The waowd followed them to the car, {| & Peotential menace, Mackenzie seated = aptive and scrambled past him to the wieeel. He paused to lash the handcuff fast cd the tepsupport. Somebody tugped oblig- (= ety wt the crank and the engine barked b= Pitedally through the broken muffler, He cows aeray with o sudden jerk, followed by @ Sthageyling cheer. [t was late in the after a whem he turned the i of the cell a oF «on his man, but no word had passed learteresen then. “fake voll comfortable’s we can," he uid cheerfully. “"Te's a right pretty jail, iT IF , ACKENZIE netded Rp provingly cwer M his plate. Sim had his wite alsout Hirn anyway, [t must have been an ugly jolt to cotme back to town after a day of still hunt- isa mong the branches anc hear that one af the Raytield gang wus in the jail, but oo "d never mess it to look ot Sim or hear him talk. He acted aa if the news ticklel him. He made a ceremony of hie hand- shuske, There was even in his tone the note of benevolent conderension with which a an might praise o smart boy for a clever “Wish I'd pone along with you myself irestead of chasing stills all day," he was saying. “Like tove been there with you. Wanted a hand in this job.” Mackenzie broke a fresh slab of corn bread, He met Cole's glinee and held it a moment before he answered, “You dene your share, Sim, Reckon I got to pean for my luck. Folke tell me you apread that chat about me just like yoo meantit. Whole county bo sad coe rif may te i'm gettin mo any foe ie iob, Lesh neve 27 bt CUED. iar] sab | it clear up in the hills, just is He saw Cole's jaw sag and shut again, saw the eves turn Dank and narrow with understanding. Sim wasright quick-witted. He eould follow a lead like this. “Hated to do it, sheriff, but it looks like it-worked. The Raytields wouldn't never've had the nerve toe curry that teobaceo down to Handall warehouse without they fig- ured it was plumb aafe,”" He sent a swilt glance about the table Mackenzie followed it. Sim wanted to make sure that the others understood. Ha saw his way out, thanks to Mackenzie"s maumpiion that he had only spread his slanders aa a trick, The sheriff wutrched him recover his normal aspect. His ques tions about the arrest found an edged tone, the brisk, crisp manner of authority. “Was the feller lone?" Sdackengie raised his brows. “(Cue ao, Sim, Didn't aoe nabody with him anyways." There wae & “To Mean to you wink sure?" Alackenzie shook his head. “I was right busy, Sim. You see, they was some talk about o ro o, and 7 judged T better get him safe in jail quick's T could, Might've been somebody with him. [ ain‘t mre. Cole drew a deep breath, Again his glance = araund the circle af faces. “Well, Tam, mighty near. They must've been two anyways, The gang wouldn't leave one man come down to get that money." He beat his fist on the cloth, “Sherif, yoo leltone ol "em get away, sures you're born! I wish I'd gone along! We'd got both of "em!" Mackenzie pushed back his chair. “Reckon I better get back to the jail, Sim, (Ohnly Clay Dhepgin on guard noe, You come over when you get through Supper. ole straightenesl. “Sheriff, we got to get ready for trouble, Whoever was with that feller must be back home by now, and they're bound to come down here to buwet him out'n that crazy il! Might try it tonight; they could get ‘out ere emp encugh, We pot te get help right qdick, oF @lse""—he got to his foe ex- dtediy— "Tl tell you, you and me can run th feller over to Cray to-night! They won't bust nobody out'n that jaill' Mackenzie shook his howd. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Curses it ain't ws bac as thet, Sim. You | i they CHE, und i} | it don't look right senile to take lim wut | Reckon we won't | ff nad EME Corl stud ‘ert a of the road to-night. bother "em over in Cray yet a while,” He did not wait for the answer, but as he the Some oom. berry he could ay fey # akg Cae Bich and in nnd an ‘hot he bh pllecese: hier ray ee an Font af shin a At the jail be dismissed the day guard and went in to make eure of his prisoners. The formidable presence of the white man. in the next cell had reduced Dill Coomber to an uneasy silence. Mackenzie s fore the coor a moment, and then unlocked it, beckoning. Dill shuflbed out, his eyes showing white. Machkenee led him cloae te ae open dew af the cell room before he a “Dill, how far do you reckon you could travel before daylight?" Dall shifted en wide mse + ‘ “As far os (they: is she'd, su needs fs room! Mackenzie jerked his hand toward the door and Dill seemed to melt into the dusk of the corridor beyond it. The sheriff fi- lowed him slowly, giving the big door a twitch ashe passed it, Lt swung home with a solid jur behind him, He could heor the double click of the spring bolts in the frome. He turned and studied it, pleased by the solid-steel aecurity it offered. He lighted the lamp in the hall and came back to the door, testing it by trying to shake the rine cies Sim Cole found him thus | onga “Shortt, we got to. de something. They're bound te come after him, and they'll came quick... They ain't going to walt till we can carry him over to a real one without we get help to stand "em. off,” Mackenzie suryeyod = gravely. “Think you sated ene give ‘em the natlon T wouldn't Aibte Hikes The deputy’ ‘2 mouth o and shut, “T—it don"t matter what [eaid, They'd come anyways, aod they'll come shooting. We could get help—they's Bix-eighit goo men. right around here ———" “Pu aying taxes to hire their ghiting far ‘ern, aii Mackenzpe: alawly. "Sden, cmy be ‘you're right ubowet roe getting old. Tt dom"t look right senalble te me to take aod kill two-three good men over one omery feller, You and me draw pay for resking it. That's different. But they ain't mo enll for Bill Fraser to do it, of Bruce Alec Dow or Neil Horton ——* ale made a gesture of impatienas, “What could the two of wi do that wi? They'd settle us quick!" aybe, But that wouldn't get ‘em inside, wonld it?" Mackenzie patted the heavy door, “How they going to bust through that?" ole laughed. “Think it would atop ‘om? Dade : opens lnwarda! All they'd need would good-sized log. Four-five of 'em could aie that door down with one slam!" His voice dropped, “Le's get the car and take him over to Cray to-naght- that's the best way, sherif, ‘They'd never get him over there,” Mackenzle shook his bead. “Reckon we'll keep him here, Sim. Maybe they won't come for him: muybe you and me can stand ‘em off if they de.” “Tt's plumb crazy!” Cole's voice lifted angrily, “You might’s well take and shoot er yourself ! They'll geek us bothf “Maybe not, Sim. You figure it ain't fight for me to make you stay?" ““They's ho sense to it! DT ain"t scared to fight—gueea you know that—but this, why, they just ain": no sense to it{" “You don't have to stay, Sim, if that's how you feel." Cole drew in his breath noisil fee t have to stay! What’ i folks sm if [ lit out, the way things stands? How" ‘ad it look?" "I got another job for you, Sim. Nobody won't talk if you carry out orders, That Thill Coomber nigra he tevk and sneaked past me when the door was open and 9% clean away.” Cale looked startled. “You take the ear and see if you den't ketch him on the railroad bridge. Withowt he finds a ski be con steal he'll likely go to cross on the trestle, You can get there long afore he elors,"' He could see relief in Cole's eves, “1 I got to de it if OU say sr, gherit." “That's right! Hetter start! Dl he's a-traveling every minute you and me's talking.” Cole hoeattated., and me to do jail like Cray | County's got. They'll get him out'n this | A DIFFERENT CHOCOLATE TASTE The distinctive flavor of the chocolate coating on Apollo pieces is the result of expert blending of the choicest cocoa beans. No chocolate confection, re- gardless of its other ingredients, can hold a high place in the public’s favor if the coating is indifferently made. 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And as his work progresses he is laying the foundation ofa permanent business that will poy bigger profes year after pear. wheeher you wish to work on a lange scale or merely forward the orders of our friends and neighbwrs, we have a iberal cash offer co make you. Leet us tell you about it— pou assume no ebli- gation in doing so. CLIP AND MAIL* The Curtis Publishing Company 619 Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvanta Gentlemen: Please tell me what you offer for part-time and full-time work. 1 sume ne obligation in asking, Name Town Street or BF, D. State "Tf you caeher mor to Oat wor corey ot The Post, iat & pode cad inwead of tho coupon. J any danger of an uttack, EVENING POST “How going to handle "em if they come? You can't fight that crowd single harbed,"* “Maybe they won't come, Sim. Any- wrys You're aut'n it. You got orders to go keteh Dill Coomber, Might stop down at the store and aayso. Don't want it to look de Menage al obey dd. “Bieta a and « ‘ achenzie watehed him crank the at ain turn it [nite the road. He filled his pipe and sat on the etepa. It waa very atill; there wasn't even a wind to atir the dead leaves which elur to the oaks. He could hear the putter o Cole's car for a long tine, till it dulled to a remote, adie! Peedateaty like the sourid aoa big bee. ter a weary wait he saw the lights go out in the windows of hotel and store, and presently caught a glint of the lamp in Broce MeDow's house farther down the road, He nodded approving ly at thia. Bruce was going to bed. ere wouldn't be any promiscuous fighting in front of the jail to-night. Mackenme guessed that Sim Cole must have made them be- lieve down at the stare that there wasn't 5 He'd have to make it leek decent for him to go off after a negligible bootlegger, leaving the jail guar bey one old man, He must have lover it or Bruce would have fetched his rifle and come to help. He was the only one who liked a row for its own sake. The other men would have answered a sum- mone willingly enough, but they wouldn't look for trouble unuskel. Mackenzie stretched his thin anms and stomd up, He was going to be ullawedl to diewl with the lae would get situation alone, Nobody hurt if he bungled it. : He went inside and studied the heavy dooraf the cell room. Cole was right. Open- ing inward, it wouldn't resist a boettering= ram very long. And there was uw pile of six-by-six pine timbers just across the road. He rubbed his chin doubtfully, He had a sort of affection for that big door; it al- ways seemed to redeem the shabbiness af the building's outward aepect. It would be a pity if it should be battered out of ahupe. He dt his bead and fumbled for hia key ring. Wf he unlocked it now and left it ajar they wouldn't harm it. He swung it open carefully, No use in damaging the county's property without purpose or need, Again he lighted hia pipe and sat on the steps, waiting. The time dragged. He was lad when a hound lifted a mournful chant ar out in the serub wots. There was a sort of companionship in the aound. It must be one of MeCallum's, he guessed, loruting the noise, Silence again, and long minutes. Perhaps they weren't coming after all, It must be well past midnight. He started up at a faint rumble, Hoofs on the plank brid aver the branch—any minute new. His hand went to his ‘ket. and came away empty. He'd left gun inside, He sat down again, his elbows on his knees. He did not change this posture when a rush of hoofbeats sounded in the Froud and a thin, hard voice hailed him: “Stick ‘em up and keep "em upl" "Evening, gentlemen. Reckon you got mein a jam. My gun's inside.” He apoke levelly. A man slid to the ound before him and a revolver covered im. He eould see them cleariy now —omnnt them—six men and seven horses, He could even recognize the nearest, from descrip | thon, as Sil MicKane, "Gimme the keys."" “Right in my pocket, Sid. Gress ee Ip yourself so vou won't think I'm going after & gun." Ttorm af Sante Deminges City, Wares Coming Oeer the Wreck of te U0, 2. Mey April #, i fe : ‘ Fey tone and tumed deliberately ao his oka wus in easy Peach, The cro Ved up as McKane sehaed the rifle: “Go in and get him, Hub. I'll y here. Tt looks funny—even by whar say." He pestu mendecingly wit gun. “Tf they’s any monkey business get it first, Mackenzie" : Mackenzie wagred his heme. “Nobody here ony me and the man se for, Step right in and help a ae egy The others hurried poet him inte building. He could hear the rattle of keys aa they tried them: on the cell by the low-pltehed valces which cursed and steadily as they worked. Pr Hub Hayfield emerged. “Which key opens that there owl, 4 kengzie?" The sheriff furnbled with the ring. “This here's the one, but it's » lock. You got to tease it a mite."* | "Fetch him in and make him open! Sid. I plumb wore out my fingers on fool thing.” “Now that ain't uging me right, Mackenzie apohe quickly, “""you-all ha ought to make medothat. It's bad ene the way folks'll talk anywagss. For ¢ easy open that door without me, refusal seemed to determine M Kane. ; “Go on in,” he ordered. Nev" mind about folks talkin’, Mackenzie. Ti here gun’ll hurt a heap worse,” The sheriff lifted his shoulders. “Reckon I aint got much choice, Sid} He followed Rayfield into the Bly feeling the ungentle pressure of McKanej fun against his spine. Ensice the cell row tated te stumble, and fell sprawling MecKane's feet, He reached out helple and bis fingers cought the grating of & main door, by which he pulled himsell pax fully erect, admonished by harsh warnings from MecKune, “Kind of jarred me, Sid," he said, hang- ing ta the doer, “Ain't so apray's UT werd io be." He turned toward the group at the far end af the room, his hand still on thegrating, Ag le let go he straightened his arn sharply, There was a thud and a double eliek a the door shut. McKane whirled. “You done that a-purpose, Mackenzie!" The sheriff straightened slowly. “Sid, maybe Letty Maerimmon aln't going toswear toallofl you, but [ reckoe that wouldn't matter a heap if you waa to ale me. [left the key to this here door ban on a nail by my bed, out front. 4 ee be right here when Sim Cole gets ac Fr ‘There waa a tight silence. The barrel of the gun leveled, wavered, dropped. Mac kenzie waged his head approvingly. "That's good sense, Sid. Heckon yo must be getting old same as me, Doe heard I was played out, didn't youl Sin Cole he claims I'm too old to fight. Mayle you all heard it up there, Sim's right, id. LD gotse old 1 got to figure how to mis trouble ‘stead of hunting for it.” He surveyed the slack-jawed grogp b+ ab peta ; "Sa me o heap of work by come down like this. Maybe you-all heard whil Sim Cole says about this here jail too— figured you could take und bust her wile open like ha claire.” He paused to send ae ete en eve around, the enge-lined walls, “Sort of sorry-looking outside {rs fect, but it's right pretey, ain't [t—Inside?"

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Ist award $500.00 for the most practical list THE saTuRDAY 00 cash prizes second most practical list third . >) vz next ten most practical lists Het twenty next fi Ke next nmexe 100 ia da a aa iq ta “4 da 1 Send us pour lists of uses of the 2 in 1 Shoe Polishes, either black, tan, oxblood, or brown paste, white cake er whire quid, and black liquid. Writ on one aide of pa te colors, ALL liste oust be mailed before Seprember Ist, 1922, an to become our Property. Address: F. F. DALLEY GOMPANY OF NEW YORK, Inc, 27? Military Road per only. List uses according (Prize Faler! BUFFALO, N.Y. Baring the Scandals Long Hidden by Vests LL winter long many a man's vest has been charitably hiding a scan- dal — charitably concealing an ancient and tired-out or faded and frazzled belt. Or maybe one that's joltingly discordant in eolor—that doesn't harmo- nize with the suit. ‘Time for shucking the shield- ing vestis about here. All such disreputable or erring belts will soon be bared to public view —unless their owners take thought. And take time to buy a new one. Pays to pick a Marathon — the big step ahead in belts. Strap made of Flecrde. Out- looks and outlasts calfhide or cowhide or any other hide that ever came from any animal, The fine finish doesn’t scuff or fray off—and doesn't scar up from backling. The color doesn't fade or wear diem — se forpregrated fhreugl amd through, And you can cash it=it dries os soft and pliable and -pleosing as mew. ‘The only Jae bela that provides for a quick and easy antidote agacnet o belt's notural tendency to endl from daily bondling. Asplendid strap plusaaplendid buckle =the fomous Marathon Giant Grip— hundsome,bandy, practical dependable, Instantly adjusted to fest the right suug- eras for complete comfort and for com- plete surences ot keeping your trousers up. And holds with agripthatmeverslips. T most god stores that sell men's and boys* things. Choice of widths, clevice of finishes, choice of four correct evors—Alock for oflerésoit; Cordooen for o Aree suit; Grey for o Light suit; and White for o Wie suit or White Trousers. Why not get a setof two, three or four=a color for euch sont? Ineluding yaar golf oer tennis. tos. CAB for the Marathons Renner trademark = @ linle precau- tion that gesures brig satislacticm, MARATHON WASHABLE FLEXYDE * BELTS * aaa , 1 eacls Made by Marathon, (eyabega Falls, Ghia Also makers of Mlarathom Washable Fheapde Gall Haga and other Fleayde Products, Canadian Feerery —Hreekvelle, Graario ] on the north bank, each family assortin | declared, The lan | creasing ' life to the always changing scene. Hdl EVENING POST aT par il THE COVERED WAGORT (Continued fram Page 22) mare acows built and the seams ealked in the wagon boxen.” Surely enoweh, the Bandon plan of erces- ing, after all, was carried out, and anes the river dropped a foot meantime, the | attempt to ford en masse was abandoned. Little by little the wagon parks gathered its cwn guxkds and joining in the gener: BPE gal pel, Nothing was seen af the Missouri ool- umn but. Tumor said they were ferrvin slowly, with one boat and their doubl wagon boxes, over which they had riwilenrd hides. Woodhull was keen to get on north ahewd of this body, He hod personal rep sons for that. Nowe too well pleased at the gmiles with which his explanntions of his bruised faee were neceived, he made w sud- den resolution to tuke ow band af his own l immediate metghbors and adherents and get on ahead of the Alis sourtuns. He based his teeiaion, as he ans neuneed it, on the neces sity of a scouting party Lo locate grass and water, Moat af the men who jained him were single men, of the more restless sort. There were no fam iY We with them. ey declared their in- tention of traveling: faust and light wotl they got amon Be a Lm t ln advance Pee ain caravan, which had net yet completed the crosing of the Kaw, "Roll out! Hosww-ol] out!” came the mournful command at last, ance more clown the line, Tt fell on the enre of some who were unwilling to chey. The caravan waa disintegrating at the start. The gloom cust the Jon delay at the ford had now ved itself in certain instances inte fear amounting half to panic. Some companies of neigh bors aaid the entire truin should natn tor the military escort; others declared they would not go farther west, but would turn back and settle here, where the soll was so poud. Still others sald they all should lle | here, aD ee erica and water, until | further w came from the Platte Vulley train and until they had more fully decided what to da. In spite of all the officers could do, the general advance was abrung out aver two or three miles. The rapld loss in order, these premature divislona of the train, augured il! s1ough. The natural discomforta of the trail now alsa began to have their effect. i A ae || oof green-headed fies and flying ants assailed | them by day, and at night the mosquiters | made an affliction well-nigh insufferable. | The women and children could not sleep, | | the horses grouned all night under the clouds of tormentors which gathered on | them. Early as it was, the sun at tinves | blazed with intolerable fervor, of again the heat broke in savage storms of thunder, hail and rain, All the elements, all the \ circumstances seemed in league to warn them back before tt was too late, for indeed they were not yel more than on the thresh= ald of the Plons. The spring rains left the ground soft in laces, so Chit in creek vallove stretches of catduroy exmetimet had to be lsid down, The high waters made even the lesser fords difficult and cangercws, und all knew that between them and the Platte ron severdl atrarige and capricious nvers, muking in general to the southeast and mecessprily transected Ly the great road te Oregon, They still were in the eastern part of what ip now the state of Kansas, one of the most beautiful and exuberanthy rich por tiona of the country, a8 all early travelers lay in a surcession of timber-lined valleys and open prairie ridges, Groves of walnut, oak, hickory, elm, ash at first were frequent, slowly changing, | farther west, to larger proportions of pup \ lar, willow and cottonwood, | dogword passed te make room for seater. | ing. thickets of wild plum. ¥ The white Wild tulips, ow oor W broken colora: the campan- ula, the wild honeyauckle, luplnes—net yet | quite in bloom—the sweetbrier and in- quantities af the wild roe gave Coptaia Weod ball eof every sort was una pee hkals dant—deer ond lurkey in =@erh thousands of grouse on the Iilla, wa af snl pe and plower, aViey |, nmurmnhber green parrakeeta then so mune ron that latitude. The stresms aibeou game fish. All Nature wos Gay a eros, Mien and women mboled at eo Tich and beautiful’a lured ying None had seen a country more au; attractive. Emotions of ben clerness Tress, alag came to many, I oetal; not vet shaken off. This streamed oo af nerves, combined with the trai ships, produced the physical irritation is inevitable in all amuteyr pionee Confusions, discordance:, arising o° most Coiling circumstances, grew Lunt. lunes, incivility, wrangling mame in ns happened in so many other earlic vars. In the Bat excitement of the i catch-up, air hetlowing word ru of the aitle @vadi oke, more seal eas friendly aco dation now apps and men met wei speaking, ewer this on the rowel. The idea of frer allel columns hal since beers dliisray They broke forma and at timed the CaLVEn, COVerLg depressions and ¢ nences of the pra wound along inale+ detuchments, eact which hourly grew n surly and mere ir pendent, Ovwerdri oxen now began to de By the time the prairies p Were rea: more than a seore of axen had died. T were repeating tral hdetery aa recorded the travelers of that day. Peraonal and Eenully prohienie nla mi divigians more natu Many suffe from ague; fevers were very common. old woman post seventy dbed one might 2 was burled by the wayside the next d Ten days etic the ert tia oor bear parents moving out to Orepon. ene Ww numbers of young children, many of thi in anna, Who became ill. For one or ath cause, wagons continually were clroppi out. Tt was difficult for same wagon keep up, the unseasoned oxen showing ¢ tress under loads too heavy for their It was by no means a solid and compa army, after all, this weet-bound wave the first men with plows, All these thin sat heavily on the soul of Jease Wingai who daily grew more morose and grim. As the train advanced banda of antelc began to appear, The stri prairie ¢ peers gave place to the vil of eon teas barking prairie dogs, curious to tl eves. of the newcomers, At night the how ing and snarling of gray wolves mow mal regular additions to the coyote chorus an the voices of the owls and whippoorwil! Little by little, day by day, civilization wt passing, the need for organization daily came more urgent. Yet the original cn van had split practically into three division within a hundred and fifty miles from th ump-olT, although the bulk of the trait tng to Wingrate's company amd begun b shake down, at least into m port of toe Hnoce. Granted pool weather, as other traveler hud written, lt was indeed impossible to evade the sense of exhilaration in the bold free life. AE evening encampreent the acene wis one worthy of any artist of all the warld. The oblong of the wagon part. the white tents, the many fires, made a spretacht of marvelous charm and power. Perhaps within sight, at one time, unter guard for the evening feed on the fest found _ there would be two thousand vend of cattle. In the wagon Village men. women and children would be engaged # though at home. There was little idles in the train, and indeed there was mech gravity and devoutness in the personel. At one fireside the young men might be roaring “Hd Grimes is dead, that good ol man,” or “Oh, then, Susannah: but guise a6 likely close at hand some family group would be beard in sacred hymns. Asrang?

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Glerelaned, Ohiv Bt Tse Nubere- Flavored ‘Smoke — FREE Ta fae td oe rresiabio—=thin aH duheord vom, Pow eit aeuor beam | madera, V dom ria AATORE at cH om —o8 dom, oc deton. fi oe tag nrc malar fring ; a few ae PORT Dare fete nisin yen bea penorem belo FEE =e fhe fod eke ie 1 eae poe mereep Lore te ‘Ser whecker pot Sand a cold medion or baaey LN Sno, KY, Smoking i Weare Tabateo ) are made, po THE SATURDAY envisagement it all made, in a strange en= vironment, a new atmosphere, here on the threalold of the wilderness,* air J heme wilderneas, cloae at hand, soon wan make itself felt, Wingate’s outriders moved out before noon of ane day, intencd= ing to locate camp at the ford of the Big Vermilion. Four miles in advance they unexpected|y met the scout of the polargir column, Bill Jackson, who had possed ther Wingate train by a cut-off of his own on a solitary ride ahead for sake of information. He waa at a gallop now, and what he said sent them all back at full speed to the head of the Wingate column. : Jackson, riding ahead, came up with his hand raised for a halt. “My God, cap'n, stop the train!” he ealled. “Hit won't do for the women and children to see what's on ahead yan!” “What's up—where?” demanded Win- gate. “Cn three mile, on the water where they enmped night afore last. There they are— ten men, and the rest's gone. Woodhull's wagons, but he ain't there, Wagons burned, mules standin” with errers in them, rest all dend but afew. Hits the Pawnees!"" The column leaders all galloped forward, seeing firet what later most of the entire train saw—the abominable phenomena of Indian warfare on the Plains, Seatteread over a quarter of a mile, where the wagons had stood not grouped and per- hapa not guarded, lay heaps of wreckage beste heaps of ashes. One by one the corpses were picked out, here, there, over more than a mile of ground. ‘Th fought, yes, but fought each his own losing individual battle after what had been a might BUTprise, he swollen and blackened features of the dead men stared up, mutilated as sav- ages alone mark the fallen. Two were staked out, hand and foot, and ashes lay near them, upon them. Arrows stood up between the riba of the dead men, driven through and down into the ground. A cezen mules, as Jackson had said, drooped with low heads and hanging ears, arrow shafts gatanding out of their pounches, waiting for death to end their agony. “Fingh them, Jackson." Wingate handed the hunter his own re- volver, aignaling [or Kelsey and Hall te do the same. The methodical cracking of the hand ares began to end the suffering of the animals. They searched for scraps of clothing to cover the faces of the dead, the bodies of some dead. They motioned the WoORLEM anid. children back when the head of the train rame Jackson beckoned the leaders to. the aide cof one wagon, partly barned, " gaid he, pointing. Along etick, once a whipstock, rose from the front of the wagon bed. Dt had been sharpened and thrust under the wrist skin of a human haed—a dried hand, not of a white man but of a red. A hali-corroded bracelet of per still clung to the wrist, “Tf I read signa right, that's eta commented Bill Jackson. “But how do you explain it?" queried Hall. “Why should they do that? And how could they in eo close a fight?" “They couldn't,” said Jackson. “That hand's a day and a half elder than these killings. It's Sam Woodhull's wagon. Well, the Pawnees like enough counted coup on the man that awung that hand for a sign, even if hit wasn't one o” their oh Peop " Listen, men,” he concluded, “hit was Woodhull’s fault. We met some friend- lest—Kaws—from the ssa, and they was meournin’. A half dozen o' them fol- lered Woodhull owt above the ferry when ‘Auto's Note—In dealing with times ttera of a century 220, a writer oust rely in port on tradition, but much more on Che conten written word, The author azka leniency for lack ef apecifie emalit to aeorea of earlier writera, ATL the frat explorera— Pilko Long, Lewia and Clark, ete.; the ntundard historinne—Parkman, Trvi » @te.s—ull the | ebronichea of the early fur trade; all the qaonece records of eariy Orepon—lhese come as mailer af course in any Peadings on our great Western treks, Un adeition are the etl] more waeful per- ] —— id deca Weatern traveleraal that ail rien aa dese Api Jd Spates Jocl Palmer, niet Bryant, William Kelly, many others who eet down chapter ana were: as they went across the continent. From such os these, for sake of verity, free and offen alraost literal quetadiona that as far aa posible ee may ihe atmoephere of a dey pow gone and sep t Weatern country o4 it really waa at that time. EVENING POST lle ok nr told him he hadn't te ce them for their boat, waked him for mare nts. He got mac, so they say, and shot down one o° tern ‘and stuck. wp his hand—fer o warn n', so he eal “The Kaws didn't do this killin’. This hand of Paownees wos away down below their range. The Kaws said they was comin’ fer a peace council, to git the Kawa an' (itos to ruise aguinst wi whites, comin’ ork se murs, wikhs Pp wa and womenfolka— they savvy. Well, the Kaws has showed the _ Pawnee, The Fawnees has showed iYen,” said the deep voice of Caleb Frice property owner aod head of wo fame ily; I they" vt showed ut that Sam Wood- hull was not fit bo trust. There's one mar that is." “Do you wank him along with your ans?" demanded Jackson. He turned ‘bo ee: “We 1" sald the train captain after a sian, we are striking the Indian country our whines an’ ine ve ve Shall T bring w all bere wt th Py a this evenin' ?" “To ocan't keep you from coming on Lif the road you want te. [ll wet akc VOL. “Allrighe! We'll not park with ve then, But we'll be on the same water. Hit's my own Fault we split. will.” He nedded te the blackened rulna, to the grim dead hand pointing to the sky, left | where it was by the superstitious blood Th ra. Wingate turned away and led the wa train a half mile up the atream, piteb oe camp above the ford where the massacre had eeeurred. The duties of the slay and the appelnted sevtons were completed. Silence and sadness fell on the encampment. Jackson, the seout of the Missouri eflumn, #till ingered for some sort of word with Molly Wingate. Sore odds and ends af brugh jay about. Of the latter Molly began casting a handful on the fire and eovering it against the wind with her shawl, which at times she quickly removed. As a result the confined emoke arose at more or less well-defined intervals, in separate Puffs or clouds. “Tf ye want to know how to give the emake gignal right and er, Misa Molly," said he at length, quietly, “I'll learn ye how," The girl looked up at him. “Well, I don't know much about it." "This way: Hit takes two to do hit best. You eateh holt two corners o” the shawl now. Hist it on a stick In the middle. Draw it down all over the fire. Let her simmer under some green stuf, Now! Lift her clean off ee o's mot ter break the amoke ball. em go up? That's how.” He locked at the girl keenly under hia ushy gray brows. “That's the Injun signal fer “Enemy in the country.’ &§'poee you ever wan ta skenal, say to white folks, ‘Friend in the country,” you might remember—three short pulls an” one long one. That might bring up a friend. Sech a-signal can be seed a long ways.” Molly flushed to the eyes. “What do vou meant" “Nathing at all, any more’n you da.” Jackson rose and left her, erril E alternoeon wore on, much oceupied with duties connected with the sad acenes Gf the tragedy. No word came of Woodhull or of teo others who could not he identified as among the victimes at the death camp. No word, either, came from the Missourians, and ao cowed or dulled were most of the men of the caravan that a not venture far, even to undertake ng out alter the survivors of the massacre, In sheer indecision the great aggregation of wagons, piled up slong the stream, lay apathetic, and mo order came for the advance. Jed and hia cow drive the cattle back into the ridges for better grazing, for the valley and adj rps country, Which had not been burr by the Indiana the preceding fall, held : lower matting of heavy dry grass through which the green grass of springtinee ap- peared only in parser and more amothered growth. 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THE saTURDAY EVENING POST Mally Wi te, now assured that the | Pawnees nO longer were in the vicinity, ventured out for pasturage with her team of mules, which she had kept tethered Sees to her own wagon, She now rapidly wis arte 3 a good fronticraworan and _dhoughttul ol her locomotive power, Tak- tae : direction of the cattle herd, she drave from camp o mile or two, resolving to hebble and watch her mules while they grazed close to the cattle guarda, She was alone. Around ber, untouched by any civilization, Iny a wild, free world. ‘The ceaseless wind of the prairie awept the grass down into a continuous undulating surface, silver crested, » wave always pass ing, never past. The sky ih unspeakably fresh and blue, with its light cl , darker toward. far horizon of the un- bounded, unbroken expanse a sierastie levels and low hills. eater thee: the teeming bird life of th + ine he Eskimea ployer in vast bands circled and a their nesting p Came also af a emp ts jas the giant ete curlews wheeled in vast aérial sien with their eager cries, "'Curloe! Curler! Curleo!"—the wildest cry of the d prairies. Aguin, from some un undiscoverable place, came the liquid, ing, miysberiqaus note of the nesting wt "plover, awerl ond clean a9 pure ite h ue. Now und again a band of antelope swept ghostlike across a ridge. <A great gray wolf sabend epee tucusly ner on a hillorks, org rtinety at the strange te woman, new come ‘It bs the wilderness, rude, d vat aweet. Who shall say what thoughts the Patil wilderness of spring carried to the a young woman beautifial and ripe floes heart as sweet and melting as (or w the hidden plover telling her mate of happiness? Surely a strange spell, of youth and all this fren world of things nning, fell an the seul of Molly Win- igh She sat and dreamed, ber hands idle, ams empty, ber beating. pulses full, her heart full of a maid’ 4 ey |e ow Jong she sat alone, miles apart, an tinnotiesd figure, she herself could not have suid — peeps eh sun ale past zenith— when, mtv ao by eae ague feeling of her own, Tia noticed the vyiiaani tibia of hor feed= ing « Piacn milan: hobbled and side-lined as Jed hed shown her, turned face to the with, down the valley, stunding for a time studious and uncertain ra than alarmed. Then, their great ears pointed, ae ane uneasy; stirred, stamped, came back agai to their position, gazing steadily in the on cae direction. , The ancient desert instinct of the wild ass, brought down through thwurled pon- erations, never hac been lost te them. They had foreknowledge of danger long before horses or human beings could suspect it, Danger! What waa it? Something park Mally spreng-t6 her fewt. A ban of antelope, running, had paused a hundred irteedteted op gazing back. Danger—yes; what? The girl ran te the crest of the nearest hillock and loeked back. Een as ahe diel ao, 6 seemed that she caught touch of the great want of abpreMerneie spreading awilthy aver the lan Far off, low lying like a pale blue eleued was a faint line of something that see to alter in look, te mowe, to rise and fall, to advance—down the wind. She never had seen it, but knew what it must be—the prairie Are! Vast numbers of prairie grouse came by, hurtling through the silence, alighting, etrutting with high heads, fearlessly close. Gry creatures came hopping, halting or running fully extencded—the prairie hares, fleeing far ahead. Band after band of antelope came on, running emsily, but look- ing back. A heavy line of large birds, black to the eve, £ on laboriously, alighted, and ran onward with incredible epee oe wild turkeys, facing the terrar. ame alaa broken bands of white-tniled deer, easy, elastic, bounding irregularly, looking back at the miles-wide cloud, which now and then apunun, black as ink toward | theaky, but always flattened and came on- ward with the wind. : Danger? Yes! Worse than Indians, for yonder were the cattle; there Iayv the parked train, two hundred wagons, with | the household goods that meant their life | savings and their future hope in far-off | Oregon. Women were there, anc children — | women with babes that could not walk. True, the water lay close, but it was narrow and deep and offered no salvation sani j ical new coming on the wings of wind. That the prairte fire would find in this strip fuel to carry tt even at this green aea- aon Of the grasa the wily Pawnees had known, This was cheaper than assault by arms. They would wither and seatter the white mation here! Worse than need warriors was yorder broken undulating line of the prairie fire. Instinct told the white girl, gave her the fame terror a8 that which ee all these fleeing creatures. But what eould she do? This waa an elemental, gigantie wrath, and she but a frightened girl. She guessed rather than reasoned what it mean whon yonder line came closer, when it would sweep down, roaring, over the wagon train. The mules began to bray, to plunge, teo wise to undertake flight. She would at least anve them. She would mount one and ride with the alarm for the The wise animals let her come clase, did not plunge, knew that she meant help, allowed her trembling hands to loose one end of the hobble strape, but no more. Ag sion as cach mule got its feet it whirled und was away. No chance to hold one of them now, and if she had mounted a hobbled animal it had meant nothing. But she saw them go toward the stream, toward the camp. She must ran that way herself. Tt was so far! There was a faint smell of smoke and a mysterious low humming in the air. Was it ton Inte? A swift, absurd, wholly ao memory came to her from the day. Yea, it would be no more than a pra but she would send it out blindly Big Cibo ie ed Same instinct — Molly ran to her ‘abe donee wi nette, pushed in under the white tilt w her pallet hed railed, ber little lunder stored about. ‘Bumbling she found er sulph hur matches. She would build her signal Tt was, wt least, all that oe meee da. Tt might at least alarm the ew Trembling, she looked aba hands breaking off yp oe of tall dry weed stems, a ta of wild thorn and fragments of a ie thicket in the newrest shallow coulee. She ran to ber hillock, stooped and broke a dozen matches, knowing too little of finemaking in the wind. But at last she caught a wisp of dry grass, a few dry stema—others, the bits af wild plum branches. She shielded her ni blaze with her frock, looking back over her shoulder, where the black curtain was ris- ing taller. New and then, even in the blaze af full day, ared, dull gleam rae aed passer swiftly. The entire country was tire. Fuel? Yea: and a wind. The humming in the air grew, the seent of fire came plainly. The peat nase around their nesta and circled, erving pitequdly. The scattered hares becamn reat body of moving £ gray. like eau finge bleta on the ati] undulating waves of green and allver, passing but not yet —s00n now to pass. The girl, her hands arrested, her arma out in her terror, etood trying to remem- ber. Yes, it waa three short pulls and a long pillar. She caught her shawl from her shoulder, stooped, spread it with both hands, drove in her stiffest bough for a partial support, cast in under the edge, timidly, green grass enough to make smoke, she hoped. An instant and she aprang op, drawing the shawl] awiltly aside, the next moment jealously cutting through the smoke with a alde aweep af the covering. Tt worked] The cut-off eolumn rose, bent over in.a little detached cloud. Again, with a quick flirt, eager eyed, and agin the dn tached irregular ball! A third Aine daily rose, and now cost on dry grives 1 riven Brday a till ah tall and moving pillar oe oul abe had made her prayer. She could dona more. With vague craving for any manner af refuge, she crawled te her | wigon seat and covered her eyes. She | knew thot the wagon truin wos warned— they now would mend bart little warning, for the menace waa written all across | world, She sat she knew not how long, but until she became conscious of a Senn in the | air, The line of fire had come astonishingly soon, she rensoned. But she forget that. 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155 chap—and well he might! THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Of Course You Have Spare Hours To Sell! HARLES PIFER imagined he was a pretty busy He is a student in the University of Illinois, and to help pay his way through college he works eight hours a day in the University Pnhnting Office. There is no exaggeration in his statement: “ Thave but a short time tode- vote to your work each day. Some days I can't solicit at all—I haven't time.” Yet, in his very first month as our subscription representative, we paid him $29.30 extra for his spare time. Even if you are busy eight or ten hours of every day, you can still find a few minutes to spare—and those few min- utes are worth money to you. Let Us Buy Them For Cash A a subscription representa- tive of The Saturday Eve- ning Post, The Ladies’ Home fournaland The Country Gen- tleman, you have an opportu- nity to pick up extra money at all hours of the day—whenever you have a spare moment to tell your neighbors, friends and others that you are ready to take arders for these three popular publica- tions. You need not neglect your regular work—this profitisextra; itis clear gain. You will be sur- prised at the ease with which an inexperienced beginner can gather anders in odd moments that would otherwise be wasted. Let us tell you about TOUR profit opportunity. But this & only—someone may say— ‘what all men and woneen in the public eye une subjected to—the plitician, the gen eral, the society leader. Of course iL is the priee of all publicity, Bit these other people enjoy, by comparison, an ephernerul prominence. he politician ia released after the campalen i over; the general dlides inte obseurity in peacetimes: the society leader lad (a the public only on stated occasions. Whereas this other pub- licity never etopa. There i not a day in the year when a given movie star is not being beheld of thousands. The real actor has periods of retirement and reat, when ope forget about him. He can go to urope or betake himself to rural solitude, So can the movie star, in the flesh; but his alter ego, the self that the public knows, never withdraws from the public gaze, never rests, never, as long as he is pro- fessionally successful, has a holiday of ob livion, Miotern inventions are uncanny, indeed. No opera singer can refuse to sin ao lang as Chere is ona phonograph oe of his voice existent in the land, No moving- picture acter con refuse a public appenr- ance so long ws there is a demand for a file in which he hee acted. Whether he is agleep or awake, has married a wife or gone on a journey, he ls there, being seen aint considercd " agers ae seer fat ia greatest activity perpetually reliv and reproduced. From eleven A.M. to eleven P.M. three hundred and sixty-five days in the year his alfer ego ip on the job somewhere; he is never out of sight, and therefore never out of mind. By Geor Eliot's definition he would seem already to have achieved immortality. There is no other publicity like this in our modern times. Presumably the stars desire pre- cisely this success: certainly their mana- gere want it for them, But how they could have expected, un- der these conditions, to be let alone, one dope not see. Nor should they have fors gotten that the more you are admired by the public the more resolutely the public never authorized. I pril invades your privacy. If it has pa to ee you it feels that you: hawe nm peas, to the enteat of iow s licket, ita property. No “* pow | comimonalty aprean? going Do ei reforming appetite fur long. efo we have hinted, never go after arn ney walt until their strolee can tacular, and can affect wast mu eB The tiny or obscure minoritys, r how vicious, ia practically always t them. They haul withnets, the fish with rods. When your ria Crippsville yours, gentlemen of th you were simply asking for this come upon you. lt is, I hope, needles to say 7 article ts in no sense a defense: of li nob even an expression of peersor ion, exeopt as one is always willin oneelf on record as being mgrainet and self-defeating censorship im @ That, I take it, 4 a duty ey gent n. Hoth you mriel I, Oi would like, on fence ponciples, aeured that only desent Plime w shown, and that Hollywood coomdu self better than Spoon Hiver. 5B is not the point. T have simply invi to consider with me an ancient Lay sponsors of the motion picture hav aged to make movies every bawdy "se b1. Even now some of ua do not take magnitude of that triumph. But wh have once taken it in you are boa look for Nemesis round the corner never fails to keep an appointment, s this one she was positively a little ow It would seem that mon who make i higiness to appeal to millions of | hearts might have investigated the h heart o litth more exhaustively. Or might get themeelyes the rv ment of izing that they had pulled it off too waladly well not to o the attention of that power which, Creak tins, hes never = for as broken run of luck. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 158 amatized Facts out of ‘The “Days ‘Work No. 13 The meet day they stew in the engine we oof che grear Sourch Works of the L. Case Corn pany. “The temperature oatide is 2p de- ree? tol the Plone Engincer, “anil Vii] —, pence Ere the cmarral board, my outpomg her warer i iyo depres. Vent rea wed ig through aver oomile of tcued mains, through thirty mikes of bearing cols, anal through Fo ,000 square fet oof caat-inon radiarion, the wirer comes hack tome at 1a3degrecn” ind competitors thought they were losing money “ene hundred automobile dealers are expecting a night letter from me ing the price of our car has been cut 16%," said the President, fixing Consulting Engineer with his steel-pray eyes. “heve shown you a 7%, saving withowt counting increased labor effi- nov, came back the Production Manager. “Se far, so good; the only other tdea you propose is to remodel the old ating system,” snapped the President. “I'll grant you half the coal ving you claim, but whart does if amount to per care cao “['m talking increased labor output, not coal savings ——" “Chrput, iddlesticks; it's only on a few zero days that the plant is really somdortable.”" “That's where so many manufacturers miss a bet," replied the Consulting nomeet, “They think workmen are only affected when their fingers are umh with cold.” Uke a fash the Production Manager cutin with: "There's just one right tem- ‘source at which labor unconsciously and without effort works at top speed.” Oh, T know all thar," said the President, testily, “but an automobile ‘unt int a hospital, Keeping acres of plant space always at the right TRpeTature 18 a pp diream |" ee “Come up to Racine with me tonight and I'll HS a heating system that's a drean of piping.” * = Ll c The next day they stood in the engine room of the great South Works tthe 91, Cage Company, illustrated above. TOMATIC SPRINKLER SYSTEMS — INDUSTRIAL PIPING ‘Your kind, their kind, every kind of Piping When she fre stares “The temperature outside is 29 degrees," said the Plant Engineer, “anal you see, pointing to the control board, “my outgoing hot water is 140 degrees. After traveling through over a mile of welded mains, through thirty miles of heating coils, and through 75,000 square feet of cast-iron radiation, the water comes back ta me at 123 degrees.” Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! An impolite telephone interrupted him, He an- awered, then paused to tum a valve shghtly. “Somebody kicking for more heat, ch?" quizzed the visiting President, with a sly wink at che others. “Oh, no,” was the quiet reply. “That was just our regular half-hour report from the Weather Bureau, It's three degrees colder outside than it was at ten o'clock, [ just turned in enough exhaust steam to meet that drop “Exhause steam!" exclaimed the President. “That means hear for nothing. Had I] known our proposed system would utilize exhaust steam, | would have granted the enormous coal saving claimed. “One question more, about the control and the workman's efhaency: Isn't there something peculiar to this plant that makes so remarkable a showing?" “No,” replied the Consulting Engineer, “The working of the system is due to the exactness of the engineering; the excellence of the construction work; and the intelligence of the operating engincer. Take my word on the calculations and the Grinnell Company's guarantee of performance.” + * « @ Send for our booklet, “Five Factors in Heating Costs.” Address Grinnell Co., Inc., 702 West Exchange 5t., Providence, RK. 1 NELL _.. INDUSTRIAL PIPING take it apr moth GRINNELL COMPANY

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SATURDAY EVENING POST aw prif ts Do you use the frying kettle as much as the fryingp aM: Cheese Fragers af defightfia substitute for meat—siricily oege- farian when fried in Crisce, Ki pos eheese, grand my, teueprerite! mesurd i cupéul i 3 | pagpriics Ja Gipeal waft silted 7 hte Cre read cromba 1 cupful milk Hi obrageeontul salt 1 eee beaten liche (1) een, milk, salt sified bread crambe, Crisco) ‘Conk tethers, cmitnhn, ehikon lint dod Me Gere beet whee, stray conmamilp, weil the chere ia orld aad the mistunr fo ethic) pete Add ie Leaten cde ited i mitt fimie go eee die od each aie ge wnll gine noo dpe ofl there- qeaftcn of ani’, et die ina gon ed behing waier, ond rook Ins melee oren for abet Gleen minincs, dial mista, aoe cet ® tebe sirige-therr-quartccs cf an inch wede aon the brith of a ingen, Rll lh ornate, lip io been ace Cine eig@ily wiih milk, rall aygais, in crumbs, ged dry in Creow which tus bern berated unte # breed a crumb ol bredd is 4 eeconda g drain ce Fieger, whee borane. dea ipcrr fhe betiie. thei ve eet paper. Serer et nes wills bere died ao Geer gerade ald oa peel rai, Why does amoking fat moke fried foods hard ta digest? Kneering the frisein why pou ebodhd of shewhl oof do errin Hinge i wha gin ore in goking, Jem the epee “whe at i brother ot the culinary at dren der A of Couding" The wg igie coulboeek aire by Jape Mice eae Ht, founder ol ihe Destin Cecking Selma cedar ot Apeeea's facie! giavkery Magione, One 10D poe od rele, origiaal recipes, cookery tiw phils, obi of wel an raw, ae) meiociiemes in ble tone diel ee ing. foond i ble aed pod ond Wheoraned |m cular, OT you could buy ili beck in 2 bearer, i ook cot af be TE We @ill pend Wem ret cap ler andy Dr, oo prope ol ye ne ir. abdicate sovieei B44, ep of |koner Koonce, The Procicr ood tasmnair ioam- fond, Ceatenarl, Chie. T,EW women do. Most of them con- sider deep frying an expensive, disagree- able, difficult way to cook, and decp fried foods unappetizing and hard to digest. Just the reverse is true. The trouble is with the fat—not the kettle. A frying kettle used with the right fat consumes less fat than a frying pan, cooks withour smoke or odor, and enables the housekeeper to prepare easily many delicious, digestible dishes thar no other method can produce, To be satisfactory for decp frying a fat THIS have the following qualities : It must be odorless and tasteless and must not smoke at frying heat. It must give up its heat quickly so as to form a protecting erust on the food, thus preventing the food OW course; you tan use Crisco for all Maar ceMMCL ig The delicacy ane ricl - nis that-imuke if a sariafacrry for frying are che qualities that vou nee in eske baking ant pastes moking. Crise te ahd in sanitary, ddust.proaf cone af 1, 3, 6, and 9 pounds, net weight, Cheaper per pend in che larger sizes. Never sold in bulk. fram absorbing an excess of fat. It should be a vegetable product so as to digest tasily. Professional cooks and experienced house- keepers say that Crisco is the ideal medium for deep frying because it has all these qual- ities, and because it simply has to be strained after using and it 1s ready to use again. It absarhs no taste fram anything cooked in it and gives none to the food it cooks. Moreaver, it is strictly vegetable; simply the pure, white, solid cream produced by hardening edible vegetable oil, If you want to serve foods thar are different the frying kettle ts Your preatest help. Get the cookbook offered at the left and you will have the simple rules thar will enable vou to do deep frying as easily as ordinary boli rage ancl atcwini. Get Crisco from YOU grecer and you will have che «eal fat, RISCO for frying -For Shortenin (4 Cake Marcin £4 Nee Ata

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i poinins DHE SATURDAY (sie cnce AAW Seal) Acthur Mcliieogh, |. i TB. Costin) Associate Editers = EVENING POST 22:25 F L879 atibe Fest Ofice ot Fhiladelphis, - ie Under the Act of March Sd, 1S7To Additienal Eniry as Second-Clas Maier t [ 1 _ = T i wt Cclumbas. Ohio, 9! Decetuc. Ellineas. ot _ Founded A’D'1728 Sy Benj. Franklin Choicngir Ulisse atu fedlenapalin Toa zi Emered as Seconal-C less th Copyrghy, Me hy Tha Curtis Publishing Compensv iim the Unlied Siete and Great Briisin Ro oafies ert Fe Tile Reglerred in US, Pasnew Cifioe and ln Foreign Couniries Het pdalag PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL 15,1922 $2.00 THE.YEan Number 42 = “Thea, Caro Aflo,"" Ske Retorted Gayly, “I Nose Not Altogether Lost the Power te Surprle Foo" MONG New Yorkers it ie reeognized that the a oppodite seat. And though this renunelation implied in changing aenaons do not firet announce them- B all’ if S$ t f him nothing of the ground hog's gift of prophecy, the elves from almanacs, nor in precocious items J Wl l Gl i re € weather in New York this morning bad seemed to give Upon menus, nor yet among the growing things re bonignant einction to the act. It was a day for open al Riverside Drive ond Central Pork. The first signa ceree eee ai Sa a i windows, The windows of his limousine had been open make themmelves apparent on the treclem, grassles reaches of that hard-paved highway as he drove home from the station, yet he had felt the weight of his winter overcoat exteniing from the Walder! tothe Flac, And to-day, though it was but mid-February uncomlortably. Entering his apartment he found the windows open there; for Ito, actordisg to the ealenclar, the dense and animated crowds upon Fifth Avenue, the hia servant, had-seen to thet, The curtains swayed gently in a soft breve; o pattern af tarightening Cetunes wort by women and exhibited in windows, and a bursting golden fappled sunshine, alltinge through them, wavered over the fixed pattern of the library mmething in the air proclaimed the apring. tug, aod from the streets ten foors below Aoated up to him a medley of wounds blending To Hicherd Parriah the miracle waa the more wonderlul becouse he had pot seen it into a net altogether inhurmenicus symphony. come to pam. Dt had burst upon him, a thing atcomplished , on his return this marning He hed not telephoned te Alice until after bathing, and looking through his from a biel trip. to Chicago. Only a week ago he had left New York plunged in its necumulated mail: nee did the thought strike him that in the year and a half af their siessble winter; slush swimming in the streets and a solution of slush swimming in the those eomrmbeshin this was the first time the telephoning, on his return after an absence beary atmosphere ahve them, mized with the gasequa breath af eiushiing meator crs. fro New York, had been thus postponed. That, however, was the fact, In the eourse Cheap bad been as bad or worse. The weather there, coupled with what Parrish of the year he had made four of these short business trips. After the firat two he had regarded. an a provinelal tnxi BET viet, had forced him toa tlhe puree af wm pir ol telemboned ber from the station. Least time fe had eome hone heltore telephoning. This rubber —Lhbnyes abominable alike ta his bachelor fastidiqousneas and ta hia feeling as iw tire he had net telephoned until he was ready to stort dawn to fis idflice. yosrg iad active man in the late thirties that rubbers properly belonged to the equipment Then he had departed for Wall Street wearing for the first time this season a light of Garey avercout and aaott gray hat, ¢ rrying w winghes cane, Th ¥in the Street had heen one ef mere routine, The market wot dull. At the elast he had come uptown ona leisurely Elevated train in preference te the swifter Subway, and descending af Thirty-third Strect had walked the remaining distance on Filth Avenue, Then and iwet mow had beer falling yerterday in Chicaga, He had worn the rubbers ta the fin, bot once in his Pullman had quickly slipped them off, and in expression of their permanant dismissal from his Wife had pushed them far inte the recess umder the be

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4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST then only had he felt entirely at home gyain, for itis oot until he has walked Fifth Avenue that the returned New Yorker feels certain of hit reinsintement, Now, sevted in the library of his apart- ment, with the late sun shining through the weet windows like a rose-colored enbcium in the theater, his thoughts were onthe Aven and what had happened there. Not only had he seen the spring emphaticully eon- Broeed but his walk was flumined ly a cir- cumaiince the adventurous flavor of whieh secre to him exeuisitely suited to the senson, nod left him filed with a strange restlessness, The restless was more than merely verbal, There was contrition in it; and be= cause the contrition fad te do with Alico Meldrum, Parrish felt now, 2s the hme when beomust go to ber drew neur, an obseure sense of annoyance with her, When a man is about: to wound the feelings of a tender-henried and adaring aromian bet ds likely bo fred w little bit annoyed with her, In a sense, he refleetel, Alice would have no right to feel hurt. He lad mide ne definite engagement with her for this evening. Yosterday, before depart- ing fram Chirnga, he had wired her that he was start= ing. This morning he had telephoned that he waa baek and would be in te soe her late in the afternoon. Specifically that waa all. But the trouble was thatct the time of tolophoning ha had plunned to take her out ta dinner, and bad known that she would understand it ao. There lay his difi- culty. So many things were wider- stood between them in that way. Of course it was met his fault that his plans werechanged. When he telephoned to Alice, how could he have foreseon that in tha glory of the afternoon he would meet Larry Merrick proudly escorting the gorgeous Rita Coventry, or that Larry would stop and present bini—for the purpose, Parrish sus of exhibiting his privilege of addresing the singer by her first name? By a happy chanee the meeting had aceurred in front of Yoshioka's, which led to the discovery that Rita and he had a kindred interest in Japanese prints. But even so, who could have anticipated that on what was evidently an impulse the prima donna would invite him te a dinner party at her house that night? Of eourse he had oecepted. Really there had been nothing ta prevent his doing so, and an opportunity to knew Hita Caventry did not present itself every day. Besides, there were her prints—she hod promised to show him some Utamures and Toyokunis. Even Alice, in whom he hod ineculeated a certain interest in Japanese prints, ws aware that he was particularly fond of the works of thoae two artists, Surely, under the circumstances, ahe could spare him. For more than ten years he had admired Coventry, knowing her only through the press, through gossip, thregh her yoiee and through his opera glosses, At the time of her sersntional début in Paris he bod heard her sing Clree at the Opéra Combque, and one day in the sume seuaon had seen her lunching at Larue’s. She had eaten heartily, laughed heartily, gestured heartily with ber hands, arma and shoulders. That was as near aa he had ever been te her until this afternoon, The elderly man who had sat across from her atthertablewasmanifestly not the king with whom her name was linleed by gossip, Tt was her father, so his waiter had informed him, The stery was that her father had been a postman in Hochester, New York. Taoor three years later, after abe had captunsd Landon, Parrish heard ber there, and since she had keit Covent Garden abd become the adored of New York opera goers, he hacl heard her in many parts. Season alter season he hod listened and cheerved without detecting any change in her save that her figure, displayed in certain of her réles with such striking generosity, hacl with the passing yenrs becorne Lf possible more perfect, Her back was famous. In it was revealed the strength which enabled her to give such energy to her performances. Newberry the sculptor said that a back like Coventry's, reproduced in marie, would look ted anatomical. “Tit's the life, the motion, that makes it ge fine," Parrish once heard nideelare. Life! Thatwaalt. She fairly flashed with life. ing more so, “TY Heoe te Blagg Pik Some Freilends of Larry Meveick's, F Dida't Kaeo Unt! Tals @fternson, It's ac Dinner Porty"" She had been dressed this afternoon as one felt 2 benuti-« ful opera singer ought to dress. Her costume wes ubterly unlike that of other fashionable women; she was, so to say, elegantly noticeable. The gown of gray eloth with black beaid in unexpected places, and a ekirt rather short, some- how looked Hussian, though perhapa that auggestion was. rather the effect of her dark and lustrous furs; her rather emall black hot hod 2 hedge of black feathers depending fram the brim in such o way os purtinily to concenl the oyrs—but only partially, Glimpalng them through the fringe of feathers as through heavy Lice, he had been eon scious of an impulse to bend over and look directly at them. But that had not been necessary, for presently she had thrown back her head and let him see ber evea. That was when she invited him to dinner. It had seemed to him that an agreeable vibration was act going between them when theiroyes met, and heeven fancied he detected w little note of challenge in her look asshe gave the invilatian—something dushing, like the gevture of a cavalier flinging a gauntlet. This Pleasant and stimulating pieture in his mind waa dispersed abruptly by the striking of the grandfather's elock. Five, His car would be waiting, and by going at once to Alice's he could spend two hours with her before coming hame to dresa for dinner, That would not satisfy her, but it ought to help a littl. Going down in the elevator he began te think of the explanution hewould make. She would oot reproach him— there was nething of that in their relationship—lbut she would feel hurt, and though pride would make her try to conceal her feelings, she was too artless to be able to con- ceal them, especially from him. How he knew her! And all in less than two years, Of course she was sensitive, Very likely she wos berom-= That was not unnaturol, To a man an attachment such os theirs, running along ws their had run along, pltusantly but without a definite objective, was am apreeaile thing. Dt gavea man a deep interest without toa much responsiblity. But toa woman, however much she might at fret endeaver to deceive herself into a belief in equality between the sexes, such a relationship could mot bring permanent contentment, In the beginning he hud | ae “Fp rit tried to point that out te her; butehe had show long strain, very strange, he thought, im m2 Worms temperament, and had professed herself satish things as they were, "Thence: they had drifted. He had tried dens to be co née. Had he not, for exc ple, ber twee from during the pous busy th ough been? Tittle ati of that Ieirael plez st When at bor tphoned herever ing. Ofte Ihe Si flowers. For hen day last year | Lak giver her a har a lamp, and at (chr a a Chinesat rug f living roam of her ment, She had twenly=six when } met her, arid iim ML weild be tarenty- Already he fad f at flexiblo-linked | lets of platinum, se squared diamonds, nnd enstly —and stocks gone afssal toe the devil tea! “Park AVYentue, said to hs «hauls he got inte his car. Then suddenly, the first time, his t focused sharply on fact that somehow it hed come b urttretood between his chouffeur hinwelf thot PorkAvenwe meatal diddtress. Habit. He hod become o habit with & und ehe a habit with him. It was habit that m herexpect to dine with him tenight. When he. hoon away he always took her out to dinner on the nigh his neturn, Morexver, they dined together three or f thies a week, now at a restaurant, pow at her apertea octuaionally ot-his, On Thursdege and Sundays he alm always took her toa restnurant, beeagse her maid wasi on those evenings—ond thin wos Thureday, Their habits were so fixed that others understood the the elevator men in the building in whieh ahe lived, | instance, Parrish knew them as well as le knew those his own building. He even tipped them. They nev announced him by telephone, but took him zight up Alice's floor, Nor had he to mention the number of t floor. All that wes un Also it was understood that one long and two sho pressure: on the doorbell button was his ring. Alice maid, Otilia, did net answer the doorbell when she hear that ring, for it was wndersteod that Alice herself Iiked tol him in. Parrish thought well of Otillia, though be som times found himself wishing she would treat him more & ealler and less as a member of the household. As his car stopped before the tall apartment buildis where Alice lived, Parrish was ware of a feeling al rete lion against all this mass of understanding. “You've been away, alr," said big Henary, the dear man. “Yea, yes," Parrish replied, and hastened across th sidewalk. “Back again, Me. Parrish?" said Michael, the eevetor man, And os the cor ascended, “Unusually fine wealher we're having for this time of year,” “Vos, fine," Parrish was wishing that he knew somo other tenant of the building in order thot be might astonish Michael by getting off at any floor other than the seventh—the eee old seventh, At Alice's door he allowed his feeling of pt versity te triumph, Pe pressed the button only onre. Bat even st, it was Alier, net Otilia, whe answered, iF HE wns toll, deep bosomed, galdon hazed, with delicute skin which, when she flushed, as she did cov on seeing him, mule him think of an evenisg gown te aumetine wore—a pown in which a glow ol ceria sone faintly through a sheer fine drapery of creamy satin. “Deki “Hello, Alice,” He entered the little hall, “Why, you Tang anky ane!" Then after a moment, ox he crew away frm her acd slipped out of his overcoat, Ot0Na appeared. “Oh, it's Me. Parrish!" she exclaimed, surprbed and 4 little confused. “You didn't recognize my ring, eh?" He wae eile, "No, sir.” Shoe turned back toward the kitchen. There's one thing (tillia doesn't understand at 1 rate,” he thaught to himself with o certain saticactios,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 5 talking bis coat and hat and hanging them inacloset fined arms with him and led him to the living w didn't you ring the way you always do?" she “*7T thought it must be you, but IT ——" “alee it's apring,” he anewered. at Ihe that te do with it?” ° Starts anew in thespring. Everything is new, even » LT ring your bell," .- L Peatted his cheek. He sat down in an upholstered ‘ts chair—and she perched upon the arm. ad you think of me while you were away? she asked. int T write you twice? Didn't [ wire?" S. 3 0u were a good boy." Shestraked back a lock of i. “Bhat did you think of me often?" [ course, of course.” Then aa though to dismis: the be ached, “* What have you been doing with yourself?" erste looking for something to do in my spare time,” a ou haven't found anything?" ment 24 a question, lothimg I liked. You don't take much stock in my mnting, do you, Dick?" £ vou needed a job you'd get anc,” tes. But as money bent particularly 0 consideration, t you think IT ought te wait for something I'd like?" L think wea'd be Beer with some rd tn do.” Dustanything?" Ferhaps not, It was a6 much a “Riecause," she ft on, “1 did hove i oneday. Clara bo I went around a acted in a re = ion did? What ft that in your pat" *"*Clara knew A who dd it. We erught dt wouldn't rt te try it. They #d us in crowd enee. twasrather im, just for once, ut the Lights are ard on your ej, al hey home pa you ralting around do- ng nothing for hewra it a time, and some of the people are terribly queer. I shoulén’t like thie Thornes, “[ understood ches [ went away that you were think- ing of'talchnge wp dire designing" “[aked Madame DuCharme about it. tht says the field is oorawded. Ang= way, I don"t be- flere [ sketch well sigh “Hate you theaght of anything ee" “Veo. I went wend to a eriche and inquired, but they didn't need any help with the thiidres—jost an dice worker,” “Teal —_" “T'd rather work wih children, That tm my whole idea ib . ot for aomen ie Lets "t enougs to fl] a per eons lle, "That's just the paint," “Not a man's, perhaps,” she answered, He sow his opportunity. “But, eey dear girl, it's not good for you to have ne autside interest. It's mot fair to yourself. We can't be together every evening, even when [am in New York, Take this evening, for instance, When I telephoned this morning Twas expecting to take you out to dinney, but os things have turned out DF shan't be able to." Her eyes, which hed bern on him, turned to the reg, “Tm sary,” she said, drooping. "Soom. Hit it can’t be hel pied T have te dine with some friends of Larry Merrick's. I didn't know until this afternoon, It's a dinner purty. Tf T didn't go it would throw thing all out of joint. They have some fine Japa- nese prints they've been wanting me to see," “T guppowe wou couldn't see them any other time,” She was atill looking down. “Wot very well, They're going away.” “Maybe you'll be able to come in later in the evening,” she supgestecd, "Tm afraid mot. ['m invited for eight; thot menns we won'e be at table until 4:50 orse. And afterwards there'll ie the prints to see. T don't expect to get away much before mbidnight. For heaven's sake, Alice, don't look like that! You make me feel like a brute.” “Tr aorry. You're anything but a brute, help being disappointed.” I couldn't She Continued Colmly te Tora the Peiate, Commeatiag Upon Them os Ske Want long “But I ought to be able to go out to dinner and look at sone printe without your making a tragedy of it." There was a Blight note of irritation in his tone, “T know it. Dt was just for a minute, You've been away, and I was expecting —— But I"m all over it mow." She smiled as though to offer proof, “Tt was selfigh of mea, and you're never selfish with ma. Twant you te go to night and have oe fine time." “That's a dear girl," he approved. Then he added, “Fut dant any I'm unselfish." “Bul you are, You've always done everything I wanted,” “Not always." ‘ e “Yea, you have" “What about Blenkinswood?T' he reminded her, Some- how it aalved his consclenee to remind her of something he had refused her in the past. “That's different,” she said. “You had your point of view about it and IT had mine, but it waa for you to deride!” Becoming interested in the topic itself, he forgot his remeon for having brought it up. “Well, said be, “now that you lool back, don"t you ser that I waa ight?" “T gee that it waa for you te decide," she mopeated, evading a direet answer. “Yer but be honest with yourself—waan't IU right?" “T"'ve never been able to gee," che sala alter a Mmoment's. hesitation,“why you couldn't have taken me to Blenkinaswood if you'd really Wan bi “hood Lord!" be exelaimed. ‘I theught you had stopped talking about ft because you'd come around tomy pointel view.” “Ho, she an- awered: “I stapped becaune Dsaw it was annoyingyou to hear what I thought. [t's your Place. If you want to forget about it ——" “And I do," he putin with a roeful litth: chuckle, He did want ta forget about Hlentk- inswood., That old houge in Virginia weighed upon hia conscience like a neglected poor rela- Hon, With its mort- gaged acres it had come to him os on inheritance —as the decay of the proud colonial family whose name his mother ae a maiden had been ‘the last to bear, He had paid off the mortgage, spent Bone Heoney In put- ting the place in better condition, brought te New York the portraits, the mahogany and such old silhyervard an the Yankee sol: ders had net found, and ineatalled a farmer to Fun the Plantation onshares. The farm had never paid, For a dozen yeara he had sent annually a to cover re pairs and replenish- ments, yot euch year there was-a deficit. In all that thme he had gone down there (Continued on Page 88)

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8 THE SaTURDAY EVENING POST UP IN THE By Floyd W. Parsons W: HAVE heard a lot abowt the various agea through which eivi- lization has passed. Centuries ago there was the Stone Age, and in later times people have talked of the ages of stenm, steel and olbectricity. Now we have come to a thme which might be termed the Age af Air, for out of the earth's atmosphere and the ether that liet in and beyond it are coming wonders that amaze ws and veritable miracles we do not understand. In years gone by our attention was chiefly given over to thoughts concerning land and water; now we find that the air must be reckoned with and considered ns something more than a mere mixture af oxygen and nitragen which we must breathe in order to live, The airplane haa converted the air into a highway of travel; the skill of the chemist has tranaformed the earth's atmosphere inte an infinite starchouse of usofal elements of grent commercial value; ond radia has made space a wonderful medium of eammuni- cation. Tt would be difficult to predict in just what way we ahall profit most from our use of the air. The nitrogen we shall get from it in ever-increasing quantities will enrich our farms, greatly increasing the productivity of the soil, The oxygen of the oir is alpendy belong used in auch large quantitles that important industries and arta, like welding, are based on ita constant production, The cost of producing oxygen has been reduced from twenty cent a cubic foot, in 1906, to one sent ul pre ent, amd yet we have hardly commenced toe produce and use oxygen as we should in our industrial life. One blast furnace turning out 500 tons of iron a day requires five times as much oxygen tn its operation each twenty- four hours a8 la produced daily by all the oxygen planta in the country, The useful properties of oxygen have been known bo scientists for more than a century, but because of the magnitude of the project the development of a great oxygen-producing industry has been retarded. What the future holds for us along this line of dewelapment is difficult to imagine. Perhaps some day, due to the slight difference in the rather of denaity of oxygen and nitragen, fb may be possible te employ centrifugal force to stratify alr inte layera of increasing oxygen content toward the outer edge of the rotating mass. Again, there is the possibility that we may hit upon same cheap substance pasessing oxygen-absorption = propertics similar to thoae possessed by the blood. Theoretically speaking, oxygen should be produced from the air wt about 1 per cent of the coat of producing it by the electrolysis of water, Even if we fail to realize these dreams we have gone far enough in thie line of scientific endeavor to make it certain that in the near future we shall witnest the production af oxygen at a much lower price than is possible today, and then the practice of medicine, chemistry, steel making, gas manufacture ond other pursuite will be wholky revolutionized. But oxygen and nitrogen are not the only clerments in the air, although they compose oo per cent ofit. In addition we find the rare gases, argon, helium, neon, krypton and xenon, all of which may one day become useful elements. Argon, the moat common of the rare gases, ia now weed to fill electric bulbs, for it has been found that the efficiency af incandescent lanipe ia increased by filling them with an inert gat instead of making them vacuous, and argon, as well as the four other rare gases, is absolutely inert, Not only dors argon increase the brilliancy of the Lamy but it lengthens the life of the laments. The ist af argon fe électrie bulbs lust yoor saved the nation about 260MM) (ahW. =n. = ort uae ane o #lir No Longer Free ELIUM la being uaed to inflate dirigiblea and observa- tlon balloons. A few years ago it coat $1700 to pet a cubic foot of helium out of the air; to-day this gas is being produced for ten cents a cuble foot, Neon is being used by afew lamp makers te produce cloctric bulbs and tubes that give off a beautiful orange-pink glow, Keypton and xenon are present in the gir in such small quantities thet little ia known of them. However, if it were not for krypton there could be no aurora borealis, At any rate, sclener how pone along far enough in its investigations of the atmoa= Phere to prove beyond dowbt that the air i o storehouse of clementa of untold commercial vale. ATS er id Pre , i bate c OS Pe The Radio Trassmditer Gets Eoervthiag But the Imiie: Abert — Linteaing to aa Evening Concert by Radle At present we are deriving only a few of the possible benefits that will result from a proper utilization of the air. The wir brake bes been one of the most, useful inventions of man, and has been the chief governing factor in the develapment of railroad transpertation. Air power is alsa used in palnting surfaces, salvaging sunken ships, conveying and handling materials, cleaning the fronts of city buildings with a sand blast, pleking cetten with vacuum machines, coating surfaces with cement, boring, drilling and tamping, and in other operations too numerous. to mention, Often we have heard the expression “free as the air.” hut since the wivent af the wirplune nnd roitio the mir be fo longer free, Slowly bot surely the advances of eclence are rendering iL heesaary for the nations of the eurth to exerche pontral over the alr. The development of aérial travel is already presenting problema requiring legislative action. It is perfectly obvious that there must be inter- national laws regulating the travel of aircraft from one country to another. Furthermore, atrial nav tigation in the future will be chaotic unless it is carried on in system atic fashion. ‘There will have to he speciiod lanes of travel and prescribed clivations for vurious types and claw: of alr machines, Fast-moving planes will spear along at certain elevations, while the heavier and slower freight- earrying craft will move at other bevels designated for them. All of which & Intended to create a wholesome reapect for the alr, and lead the reader's thought to the important prif f AA 2: fact that the air certainly is no tree. We may breathe it os often generously as we please, but we h right to use it as a durmping pli unhealthy fumes, smoke ard ame alr has beeome an asset of Wome importance to clvilizatiom, but its depends on a general acceptance truth that the earth's a trioaspher become public property which can; polluted by the individual te sat personal whim, or selfishhyr weed for ure or profit by the fow to the Ineo ienet of the many, Radio Audlences E newest wrinkle of the air i radio, and here we have a@& mew ma a new industry, in fact, the future of w depends entirely upon a careful aya atic national contral of the use ol atmosphere, Most businesses lo government meddling, but radio cw exist without it, The value of the w art. of wireless communication is four on the proper control af the origin length of the electrical waves that imparted te the air, or rather the the et by the radio apparatus. Just as one ¥ singing or speaking may be drowned by a hubbub of other voices, so the ra wires of @ sO0g or speck hewe theirs fulness dextroyed and are made ww telligible by other wireless waves broadcast at rand without any observance of preserlbed rules or acheda Radio las a wonderful future, but in a Llirsited fie Tts usefulness depends om the settlement of proble that business men and legislators have never belli considered. Everybody cannot use the air to advert seme special line of business or popularize some pi Ueidar hobby: eo iE is @ question an bo what will be fe mitted and what will be barred. Who will bear the cx of broadcasting the various features of news, educati and entertainment? Before long the radio audience the United States will be the largest audience that be reached by anyone instantly and simultaneously, it perfectly plain that the air cannot be sold to.@ individual or corporation for so many dolinrs, to any way and for any purpose the ae a desi Advertising matter In papers and magazines is ; by the post-office authorities, So far as possible mo oa is permitted to use the mails to deceive the public. Lilt wise radio must be regulated ta prevent its misuse, Hadio is not mew, for ik was pretty generally ance stow by electrical folks twenty years ago. But unl the wutomobile and the telophone, ita develapment hue come all at wnee rather than gradually, In bee thar six months appresdimately BO) rodia-receaver eu have been gold in the Unbted States, The fact that for more than a dozen years the public generally saw wey little im radio except an ageney for intereonmmunia- tion, is responsible for the alow development of the art. Lots of people for years have carried a mental picture ol 4 day when busy individuals would carry a litth portable radlaphene about with them and use it te talk to their offices, their homes of friends whenever occasion ance. Far transoceanie communication radia has an inderesting future, but for universal intercommuntention bere at heme it is out of the question. One person may use it to talk te a multitude, but the multitude can't talk back. Fertoe the chief of police of a great city might arrange to talk o the members of his force, but the stalwarts on duty would not be able te reply, The moment one or two large corporations interested jn the manufacture of radio apparatus bit upon the plan of popularizing wireless communication by sstablishice broadcasting stations and sending news, market report, sermons, bedtinve etorlea and coneerta through the ether, Iree to any and all who have an apparatus and cree listen in, the new industry, for such it is, jumped ahead in amazing fashion. Upward of S000 newspngers in ths country at the present tine print the regular radio pie gram [mn eaeh issue. The press hos found that rediy he opened op a new and fertile field which provides peoftabl advertising: so papers of all kinds and classes live ber quick and willing to foster the growth of the Iedant isda try. The telephone and cable companies have been Bt fighted enough ta understand that radio will increas ther business by widening rather than curtailing the wes of the phone and the cable, and these corporations havo vies wireless as an ally rather than a competitor. In the logical

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 7 of things it is altogether likely that our big telephone any will beecome the most interested user of radio anc entre’ principal brondcaster. Age fook ahead to the evening before the next presl- election, which takes place in 12d. By that time Goubthess will be an organized business, and likely s what will happen: Arrangements will be made with Cephoane company by the chairmen of the national uttecs of the leading political parties to have their clive presidential candidutes addres the people of =2ttom in final cumpaign speeches which will be de- don = prearranged time echedule during the evening. cardidates will talk into a telephone apparatus, and wonees will be carried by wire to the ten or a dozen ‘emeting stations belonging to the telephone company eented throughout the country in such a way that town and hamlet in every state will be able to hear arguments of the presidential nominess, The one company of course will charge a tidy sum for Tyg the job of broadcasting, and the campoign mann- will momsider the service cheap at the proce asked, Ware Should Pay for Broadcasting? HTS t what must happen to the radio business: Wire i= servicer will have to be paid for by those who use jest as advertising is paid for by those who buy space in newspapers and magazines. At the present time the fe companies that are bearing the expense of brond- fling news, music, educational and other features ore jpreceely the same peaition that the manufacturers of fnegraphs would be if they were satiafed with selling Bir instruments and then giving away records free of morge to all the owners of their machines. The present rangement ix not satisfactory and will not be lasting, theoogh it is not an easy guess to determine just what med of scheme can be substituted for the present plan, feweady there have been all kinds of suggestions for shift- Ge = pert of the expense of radio browdcusting to the peaple Iho have wireless outiita and who therefore enjoy the ereetite of the service, None of the proposals, however, pear to be sufficiently practical to justify mention. As eorsequence this phase of the problem remains a puzzle “hick will tax the wits of radio leaders for some time to fee fe will set be diffeule to find people ready nnd willing DP cemetruct broadcasting stations and hear the expense of applying artists to amuse the public; in fact, almest any we of the great metropolitan newspapers would jump at | ee Ce ee ee the chance of undertaking such work, Hut any newn- paper or ether organizatbon of individual that would at- tempt to carn out such a Plan very naturally would expect to profit directly or indirectly from the venture, so that euch an arrangement of course && impossible and would be bitterly assailed by the competitors of an indi- vidual or comeern that might make the attempt. Government forces, led hy Secretary Hoover, are fol- lowing the rapid develop- ments in radio without par- tinlity, and with an oye to ounserving the full benefits of the new art for the whole public. Mr. Hoover sees no future for radio if we at- tempt to uae it for promiscu- cus intercommunication. It is his idew that the wireless telephone has one definite field, which is for the spread af certain predetermined ma- terial of public interest, from central stations. The matter sent out must consist almost entirely of features that are of importance te large groupe at the same time, He holds the opinion that the number af sending stations must be definitely limited, and that the hig problem is te determine who will do the browdeasting and what will be his purpose. Owen Young, chairman of the board of the Hadlo Cor- poration of America, appeared to be moat interested in the use fs wireless for transoceanic communication. He be lieves wireless will be a great improvement on our present eable service. Talking by radio at the rate of 100 words a minute is eertain of accomplishment, while ib is quite pesible we may attain a apeed of 400 or more words a minute through the we of the wireless. Already radia stationa of considerable strength have been established in Norway, Poland, Bweden and other Flagiag [aie a Radie Transmlerer da a Wireless Broadeaniag Jiaiios “ eountries, and Mr. Young believes that the natives of ‘all these countries living in the United States will se the radio to a large extent. Natives of Europe now liv. ing in America do not ise the cable very often, but when wireless rates to Eu- rope have bean redueed to a livel as low as the telephone and telegraph rates now 1 for communicating from New York to Chicago the European element in tho United State; will come mence to talk to the folks back home, and a substan- tial volume of business will remual t. Possibilities IRTHERMORE, radio Will not put the cable out of business, any more than the telephone displaced the tele- graph. Radio will draw the nations of the world closer together, and as a revolt the cable lines will profit ma- « terially, for there are certain kinds of communications that must be transmitbed with absolute gecuracy and with secrecy, and in such wark the cable will find its proper field, Accarding te Mr, Young the various governments must contrel the ether that carries the wireless waves, but not the stations. Radio offers the greatest opportunity ever presented for the ea- tablishument.of an immense newsexchange. The educational possibilities are unlimited. The real masters among us will be able te talk to the multitude. Then, going te the other extreme, it will be enay for the housewife to listen in ato certain time in the morning and find out In a few minutes just whieh of the big ators are holding sales that day and what bargaing are offered. The basic principle on which wireless must be conducted is that it must be (Continued on Page 14) fe ee ee | faterioe af @ Ereadcomlag Siatfen ai Rowelle Part, Mew Yer. Cortalas furreuad tha Roos co Beads AH Fouad, Thde Sration Both Reoeloer and Senda ao bed ab el a:

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8 THe SATURDAY EVENING POST Miprit 1s The Darned Little Bolshewi! for it spills out of the approved shortestary pattern through a dezen litth: holes: Tis viewpoint is criminally agile; bath malty and sedate sequence are missing: there is no cli- max: abd it poaseases no aement of suspense. However, I will give it the dynamic beginning recommended boy text- hooks and night-schoal teachers of fiction writing in order to clutch the readers In- terest imumedintely. It follows: My husband is a ma- nhiae. That is really dynamic: For he is a golf maniac. And when he saw Mrs, Eongor Ellington Stevenson glide down our drive way in her electric one Raturday morning his maniacal manner fell upon him. We had arisen early—and stealthily, that we might cacape any de mands of our four mead- erm olfspriig, whowere sleeping Late after their Friday-night movirc privileges. Now allwns lost, My hushund spat fieree words UPC Erbe. ** Now what the dewil has ahe come for? I'm not going to wait a minute, Elizabeth" — my name is Betty when he is normal—"“ not a minute! J won't have my day spoiled on accwunt of that leop- ardess.”" “Why, John! What an Unepeakable thing to "Lier ia not a technically told tale, “Nosuchthing. And she shan*t eome over here and prey on me, 1h tell you that! Ibe gin to feel like a potate bug the minute she locks me over with her devilish eyes. The bays say she's enten every- thing human out of Stevenson till he isn't fit tolive, Now are you going ta play golf with me or send her on her way rejabelng? ae T never play golf, but John insists that I keep up my record a8 an aleo ran, and [ appreciate it; ao T saggested meekly that he go cut and manage the cenemonies, at. which suggestion he gestured dangerously with hia new mashie and departed toward the kitchen. “TU not go near her! She never comes bere, and you krave it, while she wants you to do a favor for her. Listen to her! Let's sneak out the back way and let her ring her head off." Mre. Bangor Ellington Stevenson—herenfter culled Ann—had remained in her electric and was regally ringing for my appearance, It's true, Ann does rather patronize me, but she con be relied on for generous contributiona to my charities, With this virtue in mind [ sent John on, happily grumbling to be rid of mae, and went out to grect Ann, whe always wants my undivided time and attention whenever she favors me with her presener; at which times T am invariably prepared to hear that she is miserably unhappy and wishes she were dead. I never knew of Ann discussing her affaire with anyone except myself, and gas- sip regarded her as a reserved, haughty woman, entirely satisfied with her wealth and beauty. And though never once had she asked me not to repeat her confidences, and though Tam far from immune to the lure of gossip, T had never betrayed her secrets, She haa oa strange paver of cummunding fidelity. But on this particular morning she surprised me inte silence by remarking calmly that she was on her way EiuvugsrrTrk @#TEe 6 ay LUCY STONE TERRILL a F A EWR EF The Reds Beaded Catia Pot Per Shaking, Teladiiang Lite Aree Aboot Her Wain oad Borroeed Her Face in the Toft Orey Breer to adopt a baby. Silence is so unusual with me thot it alarmed her, “Don't tell me you haven't any babies heft!" I continwed to stare at her, Though Ann and [ were girls together, ahe locked ao young and ao very pretty, sitting there against her velvet cushions, that she seemed to have gathered nothing fram the yeors except the hard- ness of her eyes. “Of course we've got bablos—sends of ‘em, Eut, Ann, a baby is too seriows: a thing te take up for a fed. If you want one why don"t you have one of your own?” Bhe yawned, “Weell, [I think the season's petting a trifle advanced, don't you? Besides, Hang has left me. You meedn'teamile, He has, He left for England yesterday, and I'm going te break in a baby while I"m getting my divorce papers in shape. Evelyn Hill is having a perfectly wonderful time with the baby she tock, and so is Hilde gurde. Yesterday Evelyn broke up a bridge game to chase heme ane personally mash up steamed apple for her baby." “There are tines that babies aren't amusing,” I said. very firmly. "I'm afraid we haven't any babies for you to take to play with.” "To play with? What do you mean? Evelyn looks like a trained nurse on adeath ease, Bout tt must be interesting op she wouldn't be ao keen about it. However, I'm not going te sit here aed be lectured, I thought perhaps you'd drive aver bo the heme ond choose one forme. You'll knew il their hens are a gol shape, and everything.” RaELEtrIct # Imaghne wanting someone el chose a baby for you! Rut the 1 tunity to advise is amagrnet that me relentlessly into stramgre and 5 wars happy situs eo] hurried und hat and) wreenmt wit! [wo perishing to mire nbout Ha but instheacd IT obese tactfullye that mci not the oniy esse for motherhood, ached Arun if she sure she wreould my fou mother. “No, ["m mot s sure thet Fo will," replied! cul mala, . there mare lots motherly look women in the dey ment stores. I'Tl aneiflhave to, W shall [ take, a boy girl?" Having two of 4 Tuam notify rs ht 9 | Besides," I told “we don"t make babies to order at home. The ones ju probably want, becs they're the pretti are Mexicans Indians." “Well, I prefe pretty one, but Em | ing to get ome of po kind this morning & have to take a He tentet. Perhaps | take two, Bangs go tearing of to Engl to drag hame o lot ma tlogs bo nppreest hima with, and I"ve made my hind to drag hor afew things myself | spend his alimeny a Ugh, how drunk sn horriile be was—th braeemustt #* This was an ol- formula, so I mere remarked brusquely “Oh, you'll be all ove this in a few day Ann, Then what wil you do with the bahy’ You can’t just threw il in the wastebasket, you know, I con't wee why on earth vou won't admit that you love your hushand. [t's no disgram” “Far a long tine I didn’t think I did. Tt was just like acquiring a taste for garlic. At firet it’s unbearable, but it's forced on you long enough you met ao the salad tastes like chips without it.” To my great surprise her lipa trembled over the tart words, and feeling that it would be as bewildering to ser tears fall from those granite-gray eves of hers as to whines nnimal cookies tumbling from stare [ sasd hastily and with my best severity, “Well, for heaven's sake, Ann, telegraph Bangor to come back aod have an end to bt. [can't bet you adopt one of cur babies just for a rldleulouws whim.” Ann atopped her electric in the middle of the tralfis utterly disregardful of the fiveton truck just behind &. whose driver regretfully avoided squashing us by the profanest hair's breadth. “Eetiy, can"t vou at least sinvulate intelligence? I am mvt divercing Bang. We is divorcing me, Nothing cood bring him back. He kos made up his mind. He teld me it had taken him fourteen years and nine months to male up hia mind te be rid of me—we've been married fifteen years, you knaw—and e's constitutionally wmabk © change his mind. I've never known him to, ome, S08 can be responsible for either of two things, for my adopting a baby or fer my returning straight hore and arranging myself with Aowers in my fo Idied hands," T sald nothing, and we continued on our way bored te home—just as she had kneen we would. Ann wa funn for her facetious threata, but ahe wae even more famous he ber gruesome habit of carrying them out. One does ect

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 8 y eyes and auburn hair, straight as an A , for nothing. She probably knew, with cold satis- that [ was reflecting on that day of our girlhood Sbe had threatened to jump off the veranda roof if sved on going to school and leaving her. I insisted, ump she did. a. =o strange is the law governing perverse people, 8 I who suffered during her weeks of convalescence Ann enjoyed her vacation from school, £ i= 2 horrible ee to love a man," she finally | amazing ir ment, ‘es. ien"t itt [ agreed inanely, feeling guilty toward i fawe me a sharp glance and smiled scornfully. Wet. a liar you are, etty! For heaven's sake don't ‘eome 60 far gone that you hove to agree with me IT be people who haven't courage to ay what they Well, I'm obliged to agree that it's a mistake to love thing with your kind of lowe," I was irritated into Fing- “You take everything and give nothing. I've— ewer heard you called a leopardess,” fer Lie quickly conquered their tremor, She looked as iionhess ae a calle lily, “My admirers fatter me then, ty. Deo put them right. I'm common eat. | get my gee im a corner and amuse myeelf—until—I—kill—ic. en—well, I'm not amused any longer, but I can’t stop I've killed it, to save my soul.” * Ann, what are you talking about?" "Tm talking shout my kind of love! I must talk about De you mind?” fm all our acquaintance Ann had never before men- eed love in any relation to herself. [ shivered with snarl “CH course you know why I married Bang,” she began eally. ™“Gertainly.” I strove to be equally cool. “For his Pah ey. ,™ Ane he knew it tom” “Why of course. | imagine you never let him forget it." “*"Thank you, Betty, You're so helpful, No, T never did. eovered my own shame for having sold myself with a rvten of contempt for his having bought me." “Bot, Ann, Ide think be loved you!" aus R 4 A "Yes. Poor thing—he couldn’t help himself. He told moe the day he left that God hod wished me on him os a cure. That's just what I've been all my life—a cure." “Why—why, Ann"—my pleasant curloslty was rap- idly changing to acute discamfort—"“why, Ann, I don't think you need blame yourself for Bangor's—ah ——" “Say it, Hetty! My Lord! Why be afraid of words? His drunkenness and gambling and other unpleasant habits. Well, I am to blame for them,” she went on in the same uninfected yoice, "Dio you remember what fits of temper [ used to have as a girl?” I romem "My whole aneiried life has just been one long tantrum, [ was determined to break Bang’s phlogmatic oeeepi- anet of my beastly nature. You know how lt used ‘ter bet cian Thad a apell? The only thing that appeased me was to finally tear up a frock I moat liked or to break or ruin something I was really terribly fond of. I never eould atop until I'd made myself miserable. Then IT was catisfied. Weell, I worked for fifteen years to break Bang—to make him whine. Well, I did it." I said nothing. I was thinking of what John had snid about her having eaten everything human out of ane of the kindest men in the world. [ was even regretting that T eould never tell kim all this because of Ann's pecullor power of commanding secrecy. "He hates being eo homely," he waa saying; “you ean't imagine how sensitive he ia about it. He simply worshipa beauty. When I realized it I used to pretend he was reel ag me, I made fun of the way he looks,” "Why, Ann “Oh, D did. . marver bet bins forget how bitterly [ was paying for my bargain. [ve been horritle, I am horrible, But he would pot admit that I hurt him. He couldn't do a thing because, just as he sald, his love wos a corse: Of equrge he finally began drinking and gambling and—and the usual things that men do. Then I'd act human for a day or two—just to enjoy his remorse, But now, you gee, I've finally done it. ['ve leet him, gone too far—and I'm cured. Now that I've made him whine. Oh, he was drunk, wretchedly drunk, but he was beaten. Why, now naw — now Bhe finally stopped saying “mow,” and the word seemed to hang accusingly in the alr around our heads. The thought Ay aga overalls. - - of big, homely, phlegmatic Bangor Stevenson, whining and broken, made me fool sick. ‘Betty, he—he sven eried—terribly!" he said fi a whiiper, Uneonselously she hal expressed the spirit of thumph, even in her horrified confession. “Qh, Ang, for heaven's sake have the deceney to keep it to yourgelf f"" T burat out. Immediately I was ashamed of myself, secing her flushed cheeks go quickly white, "T'm sorry,” she said stiffly, F The silener befweon us grew as tangible as a curtain of Task. “VYau—you think I'm gloating over it, don't youl" she saldl at let with evident effart. "You are," [ said. "T don't want to," ahe sald slmply, with auch utter bewilderment and misery of herself that I was awept clean of all my disapproval. I always cry when I want moat notte. SoD began reluctantly to indulge myself. "Great heavens, I"m not worth your tears, you nice ald thing," she helped me brusquely to recover myself, “Don't you really think a hubyt is a qood iden?" She sat there, still looking as tranquil and undisturbed aa a stately calla lily, of whieh she constantly reminded me, dnd [ tried valiantly ta affect ber own composure. “For you, perhaps. But babies don't stand treatment like youra very well, You can't sew a baby together like a dress, onee you've torn it up.” She amiled af me companionably. “How comforting you are when you say what you think! But I've alwaye had a forling I wouldn't mistrent a baby, Then—you see, there's another reason. I'm going ta make up to it for every beartly thing [ve ever dont ta Bang. I'm going te make it the happiest thing that ever lived on earth, Tam! Truly I am, Betty." She gearched my face for any doubts of the matter, but at the moment I had none. "Well, we'll try to pick out a good sturdy child," I said hopefully, keenly relieved that at last we were driving up to the home, = \ Sines the morning was Saturday the children were acat- tered shout the prounds under the seraggly eucalyptus trees—a motley little crowd of gingham aprons and faded (Cattiaved on Page $30) “lam Ugly Face, Fou're Peefeciy Algat, Mad i's Muah Worse to be Ogiy Inside Thom Outside

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HE late Paul Arin- [son creator of sryoral croak plays, gd a picbiresque racon- fteur, anee Inid down this fundamental truth: A sucker is a sucker from birth to the eérack of doom! “And.” be added with an emphatic blow of his fist on the table, “in all beetory there has never heen one cured.” “To amplify this Mr. Armatrong explained that o sucker may be mlucated to the point where he bs no longer A howh, bwt at heart he is ever a sucker, ie sare to fall. at 0 welleaimed shot, This learned discourse was delivered elght YOuTe Aga at a supper in Chieags, following the prembire of a crook play. In the party were a reformed gunman and a man whe had spent moet of hie lifein pool roomiand bucket shops, Mr. Armstrong's consulting experta on sucker technic. They nodded cage approval. This principle, so clearly outlined by the playwright then, was con in a Manner neoat positive, if not sw amusing, to the sume backet-shop man o few weeks ogo in New York. Llesked him up, This tiree, he explained, the shots had been too well aimed, The casualties among suckers were ao great that the bucket shops fell with them. In the crash the expert was rousted out of hia jab, “Paul had it right," he said, “but he didn't go far enough, A man who makes a living trimming suckers is often a sucker himself through inoculation. I went for every cent of my salary trying to beat the game in our own bucket shop, Task you, is there any excuse for a guy llhe that? ‘Yes, sir, ‘to the crack of deen’ i right." We went te dinner at a littl: French restaurant that he might list and check up his experiences for presentation to suckers, or potential suckers, in the hope of effecting at least on or tao cures, “But it won't work,” he protested. ‘I'm willing, but people who read what I have to say will take the angle that To am the aucker and that they are wise, That's exactly what perpetuates a sucker." ime Like Mindreading : ate of fortune fell right into our lap. I assure you this isnot fiction. At the big table a young man, apparently Prench ar Alsatinn, sat opposite us. He listened with undiaguised attention to what we were saying about atecks, bonds and the recent failures, He was bursting with desire to say something. Finally he asked for the salt. and pepper, an obvious move to get inte the eonver- sation—se obvious as ta be funny. The young man appeared to be around twenty-five, His dark brown oyes flashed enthusisam and youthful tagerness to unload some important information. The hucket-shop man kicked me under the table. Then he nked the etranger what he hac found goo! on the menu card. The boy—he really was a boy—leaped at thie bait, His slight accent proved him to be Alsatian. “So you gentlemen are interested in stecka?" he asked. "I'm sure you are, and that you are men of understanding. IT hove the most Interesting proposition, the greatest opportunity To knew af to-day. You will appreciate it.” “And it's no secret?" encouraged the expert, eying him shrewelly. “Ch, not at all. Dt is the Great Interlocking Tire." Withawt hesitution he began spenking his pleee, a letter-perfect deseription of this tire, and how [t was bound to revolutionize the market. His boyish enthusiuam, hia sheolute alneerity and innocence caused the lines in my friend's face to soften. Ta, SATURDAY

BPECORATIONS EVENING Tv eed - <a (Dis ro ) By Bozeman Bulger oor & GY GQRERAIEY "That company failed twieo, didn't it?" he asked kindly. "7 did hear gormething abowt that—out in Pliteburgh," the boy admitted, “but this is entirely diferent. The company has been reerganized and the tire made by a new proves, You see, the threads are woven in an absolutely new way like this.” He illustrated with his interlocked fingers; also with a diagram on the tablecloth. "You alo have a good proposition in a rapid-fire com- bination tool, haven't you? asked the expert. "Yea. And you knew that?" “And ff a follow wanted to, you could let him in on 2 company just organized to manufacture a new kind of gas burner for kitchen stoves?" “Why, yea—good thing, too," admitted the surprised youth. “Did you ever get any tralning at one of those schools that can make ten-thousand-dollar business men out of college students in a month?" The young Alsatian nodded agreement with this, looking ut his questioner in wee, “T wouldn't be surprised,” went on the bucket-shop man, “Uf ane of your relatives or nenrest friends gaye you vour Grat order, didn't he?" “My unele,”" he said. “The man who owns this nevtau- rank,” The boy began to fidget, to lose his assurance. These questions from an utter stranger were so unerring as to make him nervous. “Wall, san, let me tell you something. Go back to your busines: instructor and ask him te try you out on same standard stocks or bonds, and te give you the numes of some investors of financial standing, See what he'll say." The freth-laid stock salesman went away, puszled amd uncomfortable. That, my companion informed me, i one of the newest wrinkles in working off hard stocks on the unwary, of ex- ploring and opening up virgin fields of auckers, " Before we get down to business let me tell you some- thing,” he said, “There are numbers of stock sharps run- ning acheols of instruction for young salesmen, with no other neal purpose than to plac: their bad stulf. They wee these students by elever advertising, polnting out that these prospective ten-thowsand-dollar men can earn while they learn. Now isn't that natural sweker bait? “When enough students have been secured they are given a few nights of intensive training on how to ape prouch possible customers. In time the young men get anxious to try these things out in practice. Then it hap pens. They are given two or three tough-selling stocks of concerns desperate to raise some cash, “Naturally the boy wants to make a showing, so he gots toa member of bis family or someone who has a personal POST

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interst jin his future give bim a ster 7 rélative or friend tak few shore: of the 3p juat to enedix rl Then other friends § eend him along. W thot stage has fe Trached the inetriactor ginizes his studentad eum prbitive ints bo enesurage rivalry. Family perk the epirit of contest, andsoon, dig up others to he Ina short while a big lot of the deadwood fies he Hildadet on encouraging frends aond-telatiwes. Th names get on the sucker lists and they ane we Launched on a sucker career, In the the boy go hack to college of maybe ame real work, “And the worst of it is, those relatives will go for yenrs refusing to believe that they"ve been gyppe They think they used good judgment. No aucker ev aidmitted that his or her judgment waa bad. Listen, be said, leaning over the table, "if T were to tip off th old Alsatian that his stock certifientes were worth f more than cigarette coupons it's » bondred to one be’ put us out of his restaurant.” We tork no chances. The expert began arranging bl data, occasionally looking up te ask how far he could g with this and that. When it was all arranged ready fa dictation he suddenly wrote something across the top a his: motes. “Say, hoohaerved, "there's nousein putting my name ot this beeause it woulin"t meananything. Alllaskisthat ye put this at the top—and I'm telling you it's the real dope.” Bo we agreed to let it go just ws lt lay: iy a SucKER HIMSELF To be a real sucker is a gift. It's got te be born ina fellow. He may improve and he may get worse, bet @ sucker can’t be cured, Don't you remember that off fellow who invented so many of the automobile appliance that he made millions? Well, I can tell you where be now. He & sitting right out in the hall of one of the buildings is New York, at o little desk. After that olf man made the millions and finally had time to think over his early tendencies he put so much money inte bunk stocks and fake achemes that his boys put him owt of the office and made him sit in the hall. The sona have gut millions, but the old boy is fat broke, fen Who Never Learn HE ald gentleman, one of the great inventors, la a sucker to the manner born, Though he hos the ability to make millions simply by business methods I honetly believe he'd rather be out there in that hall, broke, thas lose the pleasure of buying up trick stocks and going into fake schemes. That's one idea that commons peamle don’t seem to get, A sucker likes to be a secker, and any time you try te cure him he'll fight back. I hope you won't think I"m stringing you or trying to be fread. I'm not. That oll man simply got worn aut inventirg things, and wanted to pet some natural enjoyment by being a sucker. I think I know suckers. I know them so well and heve worked with them ao long that I have to change jobssom times to keap from joining up with them myself, Never be afraid of anybody exaggerating about a sucker. They can't do it, Hight in my pocket, for instaner, [ havea letter from no man wherw [ regard as the champion aucket of all times, He is 2 stake entry—no selling plate, He writes, placing an erder in the bucket shop wher / worked, for a few s'ares of new oil stock: Genllemen: So far T have invested in pied Mh Fight 0 stocks, aod mot ne of thom has made go But f'n ail game. Put me dew for two hundred shares of thi em.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST I! &£ te my mind wire the all-around championship. @ been soaked twenty-four times this fellow is willing © another chance, just to show he's game! ‘marted out as a telegraph operator in a racetrack oom. IT later got to be a tout. After that I landed £3 Ofsrator in a bucket shop owt West. From that busted inte what is known os a producer—one who Oo Cat and produce suckers, All stock peddlers, by ay. are known as produce. + Deneket shop gets but 2small percentage of the pen- oehker output. The stock peddler lands the biggest amd the race tracks come next. It is imposible to estimate the number of auckera who get bold gh to step right out in Wall Street. They are usually eeled enough to be open game. It is the little igno- Aellow with something sewed up in the toe of his whe is shet out of season, mt really the croel feature of sucker trimming. I Fminded figuring out ways ond means for taking one w® big, rich, wise guys. A long time ago I drew the at selling stock in a patent stove lifter to a poor old te who had but five hundred dollars in the world. tan who did take that old couple is now doing time, hee ean convicted until that old couple had put upa tin his defense. im the complaint of a lawyer friend of that old couple ExXTert investigator was put on the trail of the salesman | bis mew company. They were forced to disgarge and kee restitution of the five hundred dollars. But do you bik these old people were grateful? Not on your life! ho werk after the money hod been returned that slick pchacer called on the couple again. He pointed out to fom that he was a mortyr; that a rich concern was trying web him and his stockholders of their profits. The old im and his wife promptly loaned this crook the five hun- fel dollars to aid in his defense. There have been many rallar cases, some very recent. When fhe Stars Picked a Loser peace trimming a sucker ina bucket chop is a sort of sport, pecially the know-it-all fellows, I sould pever Bt ping as a producer, Either my sense of pity or sense [ benor always stopped me, It's something to have Set mech conscience anyway, One day [ was sent out with a crack salesman to see if couldnt learn the business, He took me too little shock {a bowse way up in the Bronx, then outside of New York ety. A truck farmer and his wife lived there, paying ibout twenty-five dollars a month rent. Both of them rere over sixty-five years old, Tat in the little stiff parlor while my friend went into the kitehen to talk to the old lody and ber husband, He was selling atock in a new-fangled gas burner for cooking etoves, “T have heard of your buslwes ability,” he said to them, “and I can see that you both know what sound investment means, You are interested in practleal things — things that save people time and money. Right?” Both agreed with him. With a let of similar patter he produced his burner, tttiehed ft fo the gus stave and showed them how it worked. Apparently it gave more heat with half the amount of gaa. He convinced them that everybody in te world would simply have to buy one of theae burners. The upshot of tt was he took twelve hundred dollars from that old couple, giving therm for it some faney-looking ateck certificates. That was all the money they had. "You are a pretty tough guy,” IT said to him as we walked away. “I've seen the time when I could laugh at the squawk of a roce-track sucker, but that stops me. That cleans them, and they are both well over sixty," “Well, what of it?" he came back at me. “Tt may be tough, but if I didn't take them somebody elae would. Why not met" “All right, you take them," I aaid. “But I'll be no pro ducer. How much of that ia your bit?" “My end of the twelve hundred ought to be about three hundres! dollars," Think of what a chance that poor old couple had! Even the salesman had one-fourth of their money already, The first bait at which any sucker bites is the chance of getting in on the ground fhoar, They'll jump at the chance of trinuning another sucker, And thet spirit & not limited te Pror or ignorant people. Neat at all. Some of the choicest fish are caught right out of the eddies about the big Wall Street pool. The rich and haughty will fall just as ensily as the poor and humble, You see, a sucker to the manner born is a sucker always, He is likely ta bob up in ary surroundings. Just a few weeks before the big smash of brokerage howesa—many of them bucket shops—in New York, a member of our firm called up the wile of a rich fnaneler. She was entertaining some friends with whom she was interested in studying paychic phenomena, This suave talker had heard of the woman's unusual knowledge of copper production, hessid. She was pleased. He also knew of her interest in the paychic stuff, and eastally mentioned it. Finally he suggested that if she were really Interested in the capper business he know of a concern Whose stock had net yet been Listed, It would be poasible for him te allot her a block of stack before it waa put on the market. "T will consult the stars to-night,” she declared in all seTiousness, “and will let you know to-merrow.”" I don't know what happened in the skies that night, but the stars certainly ran true to form—for us. This workin invested thirty thousand dollara in trick copper stock. She left strict orders that under no circumstances ota her husband te know the state of ber account with the That stock on the curt would probably bring 2 thousand dollars, Aaa matter of fact it is worth nothing, Selll the stars put the woman right, and nobody's golng to tell her that her judgment is bad. No, indesd. I'll bet my hat right now that woman will chip in to help the company out of a hole before the end of six months. The main thing that starts o sucker and makes him stick is an urshakabbr belief in the correctness of his or her judgment. If a loser, he sotisfies himself that conditions went wrong tempararily—never his judgment, For that resaon he fipures that things are bownd te right them- selves, and when they do it will be a good laugh on hie friends who were timid about going in. His sound judg- ment must finally prevail. (Hten I have been asked what it is that makes a sucker come back for more. The person who asks that should remember, in the first place, that a sucker never believes that he has been trimmed. Hin vanity precludes a thought of that. If his steck goes down rupiiby he jumps in and buys mor because he regard it wa chanes: bo get a sure thing cheaper. Wher It does rise, as his judgment has sa clearly pointed out, his profita will be all the greater. For instance, if a sucker buys one hundred shares of oll stock for one hundred dollars and it drops toe twenty-five ethis 2 share—why, ther toa chance to bay a sure thing for twenty-tive dollars when a few days before it coat him one hundred. Inthe drop he has made seventy-five dollars according to his mysterious way of thinking. Simple enough, if you can be that satisfied with your judgment, isn’t it? Remember, the impelling motive of 2 sucker always is to get something for nothing, We wipe them out on bucket-ehop margins, and all that, hut they are right back again. There is almply mo wee try- ing to cure them. Every one of them has read or has had a chance to read of how bucket shopa are run. Hut do they heed this? I should say not. They think the fellow who wrote the warning was either badly informed or had some ulterior motive. He can’t trick them that way! There isn’t enough room in this periedical to list the vurious schemes and tricks of bucket shops, and [am not gaing ta attempt it: In fact it & often impossible nown- lays te draw the line between a bucket shop and a regular, legitimate brokerage house. A bucket shop be not o bucket shop until caught with the goods. Sometimes they actually execute their orders and sometimes they don't. And they con trim you even if they do execute the orders and have everything perfectly; propor on their books. Where Did Your Money Go? BUCKET shop is very similar to a hand book at the Fact track. Sometimes the man, feeling sure thot your hore cannot win, will hold the bet and make the money himself. If there be any doubt he will place it with some real bookmaker and take his commission. When these men hold too many beta and the long shote win they simply go emesh. They cannot settle, So it is with the bucket shop. Tt t no trick at all to dope up the books so us to fool an inspeetor, = * But here is the peo: Any time when you see where a brokerage house has failed just take a look at the liabilities and the asseta. Always the liabilithes are for in exeess, Of course they are, or there wouldn't have been a fallure, Then think a moment. If theas houses actually executed their orders on a commission basis, what did they do with ll this money of customers that is shown in the amount of linbilities? The answer is obvious. They did not exe- cute their orders, bat gambled with your money. Or mayle they simply split it up and went South with it. Folks try te make too moch mystery out of this Wall Street business, and that's what appeals to suckers, A eoncern is either on the level or it isn't, that's all. Fer- sonally I"ve newer worked for one that waa on the level. I've knocked around this old country a lot. I'm willing to make the crack right here that there isn't a 100,000 population city in the United Statea that hasn"t a bucket in operation this very minute, On a strict commis- sion basis I doubt if they could pay their employes and the rent. Just caleulate the number of daily orders in any one wf those clthes and see how it comes out. Take this as a tip: Any concern thet yill toe o stack order for legitimate or standard atuff for less than five hun- dred dollars should be given the once-over, They may not get you, but petit larceny is bound to break out some- where along the line, Except for the fact that he was bern that way, a sucker is not entitled to an awful lot of sympathy. In any emall city there is no necessity for him to go toa brokerage house or bucket shop. If he really wants to invest in some sound aerurity he ean place his ander through his bank (Continued on Page lo)

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12 y THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By MAXIMILIAN wires. Ff # # TAPE To night had come on bleak and dark: it was raining—athin pelt- ing downpour; and as Nat Truax left the brokerage office and walked up New Street into Wall the clack on Trinity's spire strick, clanging the hour with sledgelike strokes. Five o'clock! Tt was at five o'clock, and on @ night just euch as this, he re- membered, that for the last time he had gone up Wall Street with Harvey Nash, the trader: and he stopped short, the rain beating on his up- turned face while he stared dawn the narrow, dimly lighted slope, A little strect with a church at one end and the tiver at the other, someone has called it, but what he thought of that is another matter. In the old days Fred's Place, the saloon, was round the turn in Broad Street: and night after night in those bygone times he'd stepped lke this and waited till Harvey Nash came lurching up the nul. “Huh!" he grunted to himaell. A tough bird, wise and as hard as nails, was Nat Truax's reputation; but as be atom at the curb, staring in- tently into the dark, the rain dripping from his clothes, the men at the brokerage offices where hedeallt would have werdered had they seen him. Twenty yeara had gone sines that hight, the time he'd last taken his partner home: and in Wall Street twenty years is a lifetime, anage. It wag, in fact, only when some old=tinv broker or trader saw him drifting by that the other mon wos remembered. “There goes Harvey Nash's old pal,” they'd say. Then, thelr memories quickened, they'd tell of the time Northern Pacific waa cornered—the Nipper panic—recounting how on that night long alter the market's close Harvey Nash had been carried out of the back room of a brokerage office, limp, insensible, He wot a tape reader, Lt seerme— one of the few, too, that for all the brag and talk Wall Street has ever known: and having read the signs from the tape he had played Nipper all the way up fram the low, raking down a fortune meanwhile; but be had cracked in doing it. A man whe lives high, drinks herd and wears a nuniber eighteen collar must be wary of exciterment like that; and on the third day, when Nipper touched 1000, a stroke of apoplexy stretched him on the floor beastie the tecker. Tt might as well buve laid out Nat Truax too. Harvey Nash, at any rake, wis the one who'd had al] the luck read the tape and knocked down the killings for the twa; and a yeur oreo later, but for a chance, the help another trader gave him at the eleventh hour, Nat Troax would have been on the rocka—cleaned out, broke. Joe Cart- right, it happened, was the trader; and there you are aguin! He wos then a new hand to the Street—a young man hardly more thana boy; and for atime, like Nash, he too, had relled ft high. Curtright, though, long had dis= appeared—gone with Nash and the reat of them; and of the old bygone crowd Nat Truax alone wasleft, Tt wes little wonder men thought him harah, a hard as naile. In Wall Street, as he could have told you, it's every man for himself, A gust, knifeedged in its piercing sharpness, boomed ‘town the slope from Broadway; and he swore softly as the Wied sewrched through his clothes. The night before, in the lodging uptown where be roomed, Nat Trunx hadn't slept. A woman in the next room was ill of something; and through the night she had temued und tulked incessantly, Acchild, too, was with her—a boy; and hour after hour he, too, had clattered alaut, his voice ahrill at he apoke with the woman on the bed. That waan't all, however. If Nat Truax hadn't alept there waa more than what went on at the lodging house to keep him wakeful; and aa the gust passed and he braced himself againet it he looked back over his shoulder, his mocking myes roaming along the FEE@G iT R WT EF OB oF “Deak at Me, D' yeu Arn Cartighit, Leak at Ate tt Ha Took Gae ef Her Hands le His. Heart" He Ordered, length of New Street, up which he just had eoame. In one of the buildings dawn the block a light was shining from a plea tis=gr] ase window an an ap feer floor: and be stared at it intently. Nat Triax was on the rocks now. The place was the brokerage office of Rooker, Burke & Co., an odd-lat shop: and that afternoon, just before the market's close, the firm had sold out his account. The crowd thronging past toward the Subway and the Lo stared curiously at the grim harsh-faced figure standing there in the darkness nnd the wet. “Damn! Damn!" he sak. It was a deal in oll—Mex Pete—thot hed dome it. On a sudden bulge uolooked for by bim he had seen his scant handful of dollars dizaclve like anaw on the desert's sands. That was nothing new though. It was only that he had pawned and sold the last of his available poeses- sions toe margin the ten-share lot, “Damn! Damn!" He did not stand there long, though, gazing up at the lighted window, A gust again came booming down the lope; and when it hod gone, with his head shrank down between his shawlders he turned nied BpHedd up the hill toward Broadway. A moment later, still hurrying awiftly, he was lost to view in the darkness. Back in the brokerage office— Rooker, Burke & Co."s— Buck Rooker, the firm's head partner, waa smoking a last cigar for the day when the door of the back room opened, April is FOST £ MW EF A DE -= FF F and Becks, the minggper of th tamers' department, put im his “Say,” gaid Beeka, his face ; “that bird, Nat Truax, was bac! aminuteago. You ought to hay him, Buck.” “That eo?" inquired Hooke: thought you gave him the gat afternoon "So | did," answered Geeks, * that's not what I mean. He wa here in the customers” room just and what do you think he waa di He waa reeling up all the tape i) ticker basket." The cigar Rooker was rolling in his jaws came to a sudden hal: end cocked up like an astonisher clamation point, “He war d whatT™ ejaculated. Buele.. “Rolling it up," repeated Be “gtuffing it into his inside poe When I asked him what he was di he tld me toe go to hell."" "Well, ll be dished !"" ejaculs Hooker, “Must be goimg nuts, “Nuts, [ guess," returned Bia He had seen many queer thing his downtown experience, but | was the first time he'd ever know customer bo come back te the off and roll up the tape for @ sauver They often came back, true; heft was UsLAlly just to put up a squeal kick. He said as much, im fact, | face puxzlod, Meanwhile, a long way now [ny Hooker, Burke & Co.'s, Mat Tro waa still hurrylig. IF TENTY years. Thelodging how was over near the Twenty-thy Street ferries; but it was not alwa in a dim, dingy neighborhood like th that Nat Truax hed dwelt, Eas em: and. Ly go had been the rul with him too; the plan of moet ¢ those whe get their money that way and fn the days when he, too, ho rolled it high the best had mot bee any too got. The man, however was not thinking of that as he belt th Latation at the corner and sped dowt the wet, shadowy side street. It bad beer RRS, Be lifetime, singe he'd had out of the life be bed any thrill o pleasure. Year in and year out Nat Trot had kept on dabbling in the market; yet the lust for it, or, for that matte’, any liking even, he long bad lost. The Street he hated. Most of all be hated the brokerage offices where he dawdled day alter day, gaping at the queetation boord with tts rows af change ing figures, The air, too, of easy, glib good-fellowahp that was the atmosphere of these places slekened and di- heartened him: and [t was litth wonder the others thoaght him hareh, hard as nails. A single purpose was all that kept him going. It waa the hope, the longing for a stroke of luck, just one, that would let him leave the Street fr coed, The old story—that. A last strike, a final killing: The brokerage offices are filled with men like Nat Treat Feverishhy he keqrt on playing the market; beat the oh sensation he got from it now was fear. It waa the terret that some day the market would clean him out, leave him penniless. Only Nat Troax—le, or at any rate, the me like him—could tell you the sweating terror of that fer. However, though the market that day had chkaned hin out, Beaks and Buck Rooker would have marveled hed they seen him. As he neared the lodging house bis pact quickened. He was almost running ws he reached ibe door The room he oecupied was at the top floor, back. [twa like the house itself—dingy, dawn at the heels, its fursie- lng warn and threadbare. Here, however, for the pot years Nat Truax had made hie home. “The Wall Set gentleman " was the term he went by in the place. Theothet tenante, rrangienta for the moet part, the flotenm and jetsan of the city, came and went; but with these he never minglal The harsh, grim face they saw gave little invitator b closer acquaintance, in fact: and they went their siyaud

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THE SATURDAY EVENING ®. each herding littl and caring lea about the ft was only when some among them grew too or annoying that the top-floor lodger made himself m to them. The night before was a sample. Hour hour the woman in the next room had kept him ess; and when be first heard the noise he bod rapped ly om the wall. It wos queer The noise bac broken out again; and he had laln and latened Unpretesting. Hut never mind now about that. ing wp the steps he put the key inte the latch and t open the street door. fet of flat, tepid air greeted him as heatepped into the Owerhead a single gas jet was burning dimly, but tbe years he had dwelt there he needed no light to wien up the stairs. He had just closed the atrest door, peer, and turned, when be was conscious of a figare— ba, Sather — at the other end of the hall, The bogement p were there; and the woman, the lodging's alatternly ant, was peering at him over the rail. Where's Mrs. Mangin?™ he demanded. irs. Mfangin was the landlady. (© peetairs,"” answered the servant: and when the lodger bed “Where upstairs?" she answered sulkily, “She's in room mext to yourn." ‘he man’s face, at the reply, twitched = into ten aeoowl, and he stared, his ‘Bay! he snapped, his yolce a snarl. ghee turning ‘i woman out, ian't shet™ The servant didn't know. She mumbled something or er in reply, but Nat Truax didn't wait to hear it. The me] still working in his eyes, he turned and stamped on “way up the stairs. The house was silent, As he reached the top floor where Sawed be could bear a murmur of voices though; and at ff stairbead be halted, his bead cocked, listening, It was 7 fora moment, however. The voices died away aa if in e room they'd heard him: and unlocking the door he fepepedl iraide and shut it. Theo fumbling on the mantel B be found a mateh he struck it and lit the gaa burner merbead. His hat he putona chair, [ft was acaking from the rain, ped po, too, wos his coat; bot the cont be did not remove. rom its inside pocket he drew a folded newspaper. This e iid upon the center table, after which he deew from fother pocket the tape he had flehed that afternoan at Ate Eyer Slope, Fat Treee Tried tt Agata. Rooker, Burke & Co."s. There were yards and yards of it, all wound eprefully into a rall, This, too, he put upon the or ‘sae he went to the door ond turned the key. in the lack. The procession of drob,slatternly servants thet come and went at the lodging house often had wondered what went on bebind the closed door of the tep-floor roam. Mrs. Mangin alee. Tt, too, was an old story though. Tt was at old and as trite a the story af any dabbler like Nat Triax; any of the sort that haunt the odd-lot shops and other brokerage houses, honing for one last strike, a killing. The newspaper on the table was an evening issue; its financial page spread double-banked columns of that day's quota- tions in the market. With these and a pencil to sid him, night after night for years now Nat Truax had sot there, striving to selve the riddle of his failure. The mistakes, the false steps he'd made he could eee; but how and why he made them he never had been able to discayer. Here in the room when he played the market like this he almost always won. He eould, for example, take a fietitious amaunt—a few hundred dollars, say—and in effigy run it into a fortune. Trade after trade came his way. Downtown, though, let him try it on, and what hap- pened? Scanning the tape and vitally sure he was right, downtown be would plunge his dollars on the owbeome, only to find he'd gona wrong again. Nash had had the trick, ‘The tape he'd been able to rend, with uncanny preschtnee foreewsting nearly every turn: but though again and again in those bygone days Nash had trled te teach him the knack, that subtle extra sense, Nat Truax never had been able to grasp it. Tonight, however, he waated no time in his wsual futile, footlesa endeavor, the effort to find where he had failed. Once he had locked the door behind him he hurried back to the table, His cont he took off as he came. It was dripping from the rain; his shoulders, too, were sonked, but though he shook with a momentary chill be gave no heed te that. With the same feverish activity he had shown os be sped on his way uptown he drew up a chair, seated himself, and apreading the wet garment on his knees he took a penknife fram his pocket. Swiftly he began to rip out the lining in the breast. « <A last strike, a final killing! Tosday was the culmina- tion—the end, rather, of his effort, The market that day had cleaned him out of last; but though it had, the

“Thom Ate, for God's tobe, Noroey!'* We Said, POST 14 calamity had not left him penniless; not yet, at any rate, Nat Truaz in his fears, his ap naion, had seen to that: and working swifth:, feverishly, he lnid open the soggy dripping lining of the cont. Sewed to the cloth with clumsy stitching wns a small fat packet: and fram this, too, he cut the wrapping. It was a packet of bille—ten of them, Each of the Wille was for one hundred dollare: a thousand dollars. He had for years kept them by him like this. When one coat wore out he sewed ther in the next. That was why in the brokerage offices where he dealt he had almost always looked ao dingy and unkempt, his clothes wrinkled, never ironed; as if he'd slept in them. Even when he'd had fore time a ‘little run of luck, and money was coming to him at somet broker's, it wos the same. (ne might ask of cours why be had not put the thoushnd dollars in a bank, laid jt away there in safety, He knew himself too well, that's all, He knew the temptation, the blind hope that aWwiys every dabbler while he still has a dollar left. A check is too eaay to write. Had he been cought by the market, called to make good his margins, with the money in the bank and a check book in his pocket, he was sure to a certainty he'd succumb to the temptation, the dabhbler’s usual deluding hope, that the next turn would peooap his losses. But if this he'd resisted and he hac the money yet, what now? Rising slowly Nat Traax crossed the floor, the money in his hand, tll he enme to the wall of the room adjoining. Then, his ear Laid to the plaster, he atood there listening. A low murmur caret to him. ~The voice of Mra. Mangin, the lodging howse keeper, he could detect, and he could hear, too, the higher, shriller tone of the child, the boy, as he replied to her. Then came another sound, low yet penetrating. It was the rambling, incoherent voice of the wornan Lying on her sick bed. As the man listening at the wall heard it a scowl twitched his heavy brows together. He beard ft again. Another-of thase small sordid trag- tdies to which the lodging house was no stranger mani- festly was taking place in the room next door, but hig Interest. in it was not clear, The scowl, the anarl bared his teeth. That week downtown In the brokerage office he had eat with a scowl like that, staring at the quotation board. Something was doing in the market —all the signa showed that; bot when he'd made his. pues and played it he'd (Contiaeed on Page at) “Few Mat, Cid Mat, Who's Aabiag Pout *

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14 Tie SATURDAY EVENING POST April ia, THE LIBERTY OF THE JAZ) Thrre one two kinda of lawyers—the one who knows the low find the one who knows the judge. —J0aEPH H. CHOATE. There is o third kind of lnwyer—the one that knows his fellow man. —EFPHEATM TTT. NE of those breezy, back-slapping fellows; javelin- QO collar type, you know, or thought he was: feather in his hatband; tartan silk neckerchief; cigarette with his initinla; cont cat in at the tenth vertebra; hand in giowe with the bead waiters; a masher, a dasher, a-wise one, a devil, exeept when it came time to poy the cherls; tulked steretively out af the corner of his mouth about all the big fdlows—Chaorlie Schwakh and Charlie Hughes, Sam Untermyer and Sam Hernard, Irv Cobb and Herb Hoover, Nick Butler and War- ren: the kind that calls his stenographer “slater,” but alwaye writes to a girl on the machine and sigma hia name that way: Known in belles-lettrea os a paper sport: @ mean one; T, Otis Crabb, his name. He had foogled everything trom the time he wore kilt skirts —sold books, bonds, hardware, soft staff, real estate, automebiles, every thing except himself’ out of Lowell, Massachusetts, vin Fall River te Columbus Cir- cle: up to 1914 had worn a kaiserceque mustache: alter that a little atenciled one like the headlights on a EB. BR. T. local; this not his lift story, but merely an episode, tut tt shart, about his fifty filth year he met a rich widow —another mean one— called her “sister.” They landed each other—easy nbomey | Mrs. T. Otis Crabb, née Peterman, would have had you know that she was of nnok ber sphere. Really shor wae very much like Cris, al- though she had always hai what ehe called position, die to the circumetance that Father Peterman had reached New York in 1370 instead of 1910, when all one had to do was to buy aswamp lot and hold itto beeame a millionaire. Lucrotia was his only child, but oven to his peequdieed eye she lacked that incdescrib- nhble thing ealled charm. Time sped and she still dlungled, a withering pippin on what the bord calls the virgin tree. Her father and mother died, leaving her a fortune outright. Suitors came, but turned away. At last old Admiral Buck was putin command af the Brooklyn Navy Yard—seeventy- one, his eyes bad, but his taste for wine atill good, So Lucretia became Mrs. Admiral Buck. Since she gained somewhat hy being both married and official, her position hecame stranger than ever, Then the admiral, having been retired by a grateful country, quickly drank himself to death, kenving the Widew Buck with not much in her life exeept bridge, Her setond blooming aynechronked with the jaz era. She tilght just as well have married her dancing teacher, but aa it happened she ran into T. Otis at ath! demaret; thought him a dashing fellow, She had alwawa wanted a dashing hughauned,amd now she had one—gave him three thousand a year pin money. On their return from the honeymoon at Miami he developed infhoonza, had to give up work and lost all interest in girth control, After 2 month or so he geton Loeretio’s nerves, sitting around the house and do- ing nothing but take the litth: white dog aut in the after- nvon. Also, with returning health he began to get a bit shittikh. So she bought an interest for him in Smith, Murphy & Waeervogel to get him out of the way. After a while T, Otis didn't mind, particularly im the eumimer when Laecretia was out of town, although he always ran down to Atlantic City fram Friday afternocan until Monday—liked the bathing. The rest of the time be devoted to his young-man-ahout-town complex, As he was prayehnired and ilty-ive, it came high. It cost a great den) of money—more than he got either from Lucretia or out of his share in Smith, Murphy & Wasservogel. Hewaa a good spenier—overdrawn at both banks, His only friend was & dasher like himself, another of those rosy syoung—old beve you see on the billboards ogling a cigarette, a bachelor—Algie Foadick, known on the Rialto as Forzy. They hunted in the game leash, All rmmer lang be and Algie polled it on the roof gardens, at By Arthur Train ILLUSTRATED OF ARTHUR WiLiiaAaT BROWN rd Boke to Brae ond Gooner Him, Sura Him ia Choline ond Boll Mim ia Gir" Long Beach and at Coney, and Lucretia let him use her runabout—the litte yellow one with red wheels you always mt dL Broadway, It kept him quiet. He wos a pour thing, but her own, Nat nice peaple—any of them, That & how the accident happened, the worst in years— T, Otis driving the yellow runabout back from Coney after ashore dinner with Algie and a couple of girl friends. He had had a litth too much clam broth and thought be'd show "em what the little bus would do. i R. TUTT,” said Tutt, hopping in over the threahald from the outer office like a belated rebin, “may 1 disturb you for a moment?" The old lawyer turned from the window through which he had been contemplating the Syrian wosh fluttering from the roofs of the nether tenement houses. "Totti," suid Mr. Tutt, “you may.” “T want to kill a man!" said Tutt. “Dear, deari” anawered hia elderly partner. one?T* “At the present writing, only one, But beliewe me, at that, hell's too good for him!" “You surprise me, Tutt!" exclaimed Mr. Tutt, reach- ing down inte the recesses of his desk for a decrepit bottle and pouring out a glass of amber=colored lignid. “Have some Malt Extract?” "Wo, thanks,” replied Tutt, “To never drank until prohibition, and samehow | can’t seem to pet used te it.” "TL confess it is hard to break the habite of wo lifetime," agreed his partner, nheorbling the contents of the tumbler: after which, having replaced the bottle, he seated himeell in his swivel chair, leaned back, eroeaed his bong legs upon his desk, Ut a stogy and locked his hands behind his heod—his. customary office attitude—while Tutt started an all-tebwece cigarette aa a sort of back fire and sank into the chalr reyerved for paying clients. “You remember Wallace Barrington, began Tutt— “that young accountant we did some business for? His wife died two year ago, and he’s been looking after his old mother and four children ever since, Firm paid bim “Only Pe Tt he ft fifty-five hundred a-vear—pretty good; baat his wilt ness ull his savings. They lived over im Flat somewhere near the Coney Island Houlevsord."" “Well? inguired Mr, Twtt, exhaling a cloud of p gas, “Well.” echoed Tutt, “he wos walking home fro overtime job the other night und a drunken bounder m ing back from Coney with purty af women Fam him i and amashed him up. He's done for Wheel char a life, T guess. Earning capacity entirely pone. Noi for it but te and the children t orphanage and the mother to mr folks' heme,” ‘What's the brutes mare?” manded Mr. Tutt, all attention. oT tie don He's a banker hundred thous; dollars! *" “Wont do a good. He says | broke, Threategw we do sue, to through ban ruptey,"* “Whose moi waa it?" “His wife's.” 48h ber “Can't! She@ out of town, at lantie City, a) aweare he was uel the car without & "Rotten luck, f Crabb’s wife is wari n couple of million "T asked her if al would do somethiz for the Barringtom ahd she laughed i face. “! Me?” she say "What have I pot f do with it? [ wasn’ in the car!” "* But,” TF said, “i WES Yer cur thal broke Darrington's back, and your drunken husband wa driving it, Haven't you any heart?" “At that she FILTig Ik bell and the butler threw me out,” “The female af the species!"' muttered Mr. Tutt, “Won't either of ‘em pay anything?" “Crabb offered nee five hundred dollare for a complete Feleaae, A good nerve! What?" “Where's Barrington?" "In the charity ward at Bellevue.” Mr, Tutt brought his feet down with » bang, and bis tall frame shot toward the ceiling like an avenging jack-in-the iran suddenly rebensesd. “Where is this cur, Crabb?" he shouted. “Hight over in his officee—amoking a perfecto paid for by Mrs. Crabb. Saye he's sorry, but hasn't any money al hisown. She underwriter him—all right; but if abe kee hirn she ought to be responsible for the damage he does!" “Paor Barrington! Dll go over and see him at once,” said Mr. Tutt, “Meantime just you call up this Crab animal and inform him that unless he sidles over here with twenty thoussind dollars by te=moerrow morning at ten o'clock we'll bring suit aguinst him and his wile for one hundred thagsund, and that it's golog to cost them exactli five thousand mare for every week he helda back. Meat time tell Barrington's mother to send ua the bills for the rent and household expenses. Tt ian't exactly ethical for ue to pay ‘em, but what's a little ethics when an old woman and four children are starving? Eh, Tutt? Did pou sy you wanted to killa man? I'd like to draw ond qearte him, burn him in chains and bedl himiin oil! ['dl [ce gently to peel off his epidermis and shake sult and pepper on hi queyering subeaticle! I'd like—I'd like ——" He steod quaking with rage, bis fist shaking is midat. “QUeper-ht" he roared. “And, by heck, I will!" nr HERE are two kinds of lawyers," anid Jospb F. Choate—“the one who knows the law and the oof who knows the judge,” But this eynieally jocular aphorism is true only ine general sense. It is not enough for a lawyer to knew ether Letina! |i) tocweaertt

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ee oF the judge, or even both. To succeed in his elon he must above all ele know his fellow mon. In atter quality Ephraim Tutt excelled, Inevitably he bis man, whether the latter were a mean-spirited corm ant. a Weak or timid jursman, or an uncertain or lying ses. The best thing he did was to look up the law; the to study thd characteristics, temperament and rela- higes of the various dramalia persowr Involved in any amd be was accustomed to illustrate this great iple of practice by a certain litigation whieh much to bee's surprise had resulted favorably to the defense fee see but sufficient reason that the only witness for son plainant—who had a perfectly good cose—owed ’efemdant’s lawyer twenty-five dollars, © osed to say that it was as important te know what ey men cowed or what women they were in love with oo be able te quote the Statute af Frouds or the Fil- th Amendment. By this we do not intend to intimate t Ade. Tutt ever resorted ta improper means te win his Sets, but only that he placed a proper value upon the alle? human element in every case. The law might be rely against him, and eo might the facta: but that er disturbed his equanimity so long as there was a jury 2 appended to: and he believed that the chief require- ots for the legal career were a good digestion and a stout roof lege. In a word, he was a practical man, Po bim every case that came into the offices of Tutt & fi presented a comerete trinngular problem, standing on own bettom, and exposing three sides, on ane of which i leeeribed “What are the facts?" on another “What's © law?" and on the third “What then?” And Mr. Tutt, Eangrencus stogy protruding from his mouth, his hands must beneath his cont tails, would saunter contempla- ely around said problem, viewing each side in turn, but massing inevitably before the last, where, if the truth must & lemon, the question of what the law or the facts actually tere played asmall part, There is more than one way to BY a legal cat, and Tutt & Tutt's job was to find the best farthed of executing every such feline that wandered into beef office, Both Tutts enjoyed the low os a science and fe Lighted In it as acraft, Jovfully uniting schemes and craft © asctentifie craltiness in which [Inevitably a pleasant dime was had by all—except their opponents. They loved their arofeasion for its own sake, apart from the fact that they armed their living hy it; bot they cared for it rather upon is pragmatic than upon its academic side, Mr. Asron T, Lefkovitsky, on the other hand, though glen a legal pragmatist, was the kind of lawyer who mis- takenty thought he knew both the law and the jodge, and everything else. Like seeks like, A smafi-Aleck cllent & ape to engage w smort-Abeck lawyer, much at men are said, out of personal varity. ho Ranh BW Onben who dn gene ral resemble them. Thos it waa natural that T. Otis should have retained Aaron T. to de- fend the daumage sutts brought on behalf of the Barrington aguinst him and his wife. It we sien notural thot alice Aaron bad blustered shed for several months, loudly as- sering that Tutt & Fy Tutt could never pet a verdict againat hia cients, the several juries interestod hold hawe soaked damages. This unlogked-for nation might have resulted in @ loss of tautual comfi- Genes baud gb pal Geen lor the fact that T. Owes wques tion iby padgment proof, Nevertheless, one ibadow still stalked tehied hima by day id hovered above te bed at oight—bl ohility toarrest and mpricmment for tet default of paying the padgment. Tos ewer old Bir, Tett still had con- realed epon bin lami won, and both 'T, ‘nh and Aaron ‘T. irew that be would seers make we of it, the faet Iseling tout he hed served whiten notiee upon them that unless someone should pay that filty thousand in full, with interest, coats and dishuraements added there- unte, within Gve days he propoeed to cast Mir, Crableinte durance vile, which, aa it happened, would be just when Mir. Crabb desired to take her departure te Atlante City for the summer. ss the lady did not want to go without het husband, and wanted neither to pay the aforesaid fifty thousand dollara nor to have it publicly known that T. Otis was visiting the warden of the city prison, she immediately and in some distress telephoned ta the Hon. Aaron T. Lefkovitsky, who stood not upon the order of his coming. Henee there were assembled on a certain June evening, in the gilt drawing-room af the golden suite of the rococo aportment house upon Riverside Drive overlooking the Hudson where dwelt the Crabhe—the lady herself, the Henerable Aaron, her dashing apouse, and Algie Foedick, his friend. “Well, Mr. Lefhovitaky," ale was saying, “what kind of a mesa have you got ua into now, seang an Theenicoaee, and my husband threatened with jail?" Mr. Lefkovitsky received the brondside ‘good-naturedly: “Jail! quoth he nonchalantly. “‘A good joke, that is!" “Joke!” repeated Mra. Crabb in dudgean. “It may be a joke bo you, but a nie® thing for me to hove if in oll the papers fst as I'm going away for the summer! I'd almost rather pay the Afty thousand dollars and be done with it!" “Not much you won't!" asserted the lawyer grandly. “And your husband won't go to jail, either: that is, really go te jail. All he has to dois to give a bond for the amount of the judgment, and under the law he gets the liberties of the jail. At the end of six months the bond is automatically discharged and that's the end of ft, Nobody noed ever know he's even been arrested.” He nodded his glossy black head sagely, “Tdon'tunderstand!" declared Mrs. Crabb suspiciously, for she was suspicious of all men, ber only experience with the sex having been with the odmiral and T. Oth, “Piret you say he'll hove to go te jail, and then that he won't have to go te jail! What sort of bunk is that?” “A Miee Thlag for Me to Maes it in al the Papers Jat ae Pm Going @oy for the Sommer? Pd Aieort Rother Pag the Fifty Tasaednal Bolfers ** | pondered Airs: Crabb, 15 Thay eall if going to jail, but practically he can go’ anywhere he chooses,” said Lefkovitsky. “The jail limite in New York County are New York County itself!" “Tou oveat Obes can live right here in this apartment and still be in jail?" ele demanded foerelulinualy. “That's it!" “T told you he waa a smart lawyer, mamma," murmured Mr. Crabb. . “Don't you call me mamma,” she retorted, “or go to jail you ehall!" As between Mrs. Crabb and fail, leas hardened men 1é well have chosen the latter. “All he bas to do is to get a responsible party to go surety on his bond that he won't go outside the jail limits—Mr. Fosdick con act as sarety, And thon be stays Fight here, and sleeps ot home,”" “That's a funny sort of law!" ventured Mr, Fosdick. “How do you know the sheriff would accept me os @ surety onthe bond? I haven't a cent of my own!" “Tell have to accept you if you put up the right sort of security,” announced Mr. Lefkovitaky with authority. "Tut where shall [ get it?" “Mrs. Crabb can Joan it to you,” suggested the at- torney. “She merely deposits fifty bonds, or an equivalent amount Lin any good securities conyveniont to her, and at the end af six months, when Mr, Crabb is released and the bond f& discharged, she gets them back." “Are you sure [ wil?" ake insisted doubefully, "Abaolutely! TU ahoew you the law Ef you want to ser it, Your hushand just gives bond and walks around New York for six months and then it’s all over. He can't be arrested aguin.”” ~ usest way to save fifty thousand dollars I ever heard of!" beamed Forzy, “Ain't it grand to be a lawyert" “But suppose © Eine wis some slip-up? What would happen ta the money?" Mes, Crabb inquired, “I'm a bit leery af this law stuff." Mr. Lefkoviteky smiled with condesernsion, “There won't be any alip-wp.” “But if there should bet" “CW course, “if the bond waa forfeited the seewritics wold be used te satiety the judgment." "You mein the Barringtons would get our—I mean ry —maney 7" "TE the hand was forfeited, yea," he replied rather ira patiently: ("Hut tt wouldn't be forfeited. There's mot a chanee in the world. As [ tell VOU, LT wie has sesured the liberties of the juil eon gu anywhere he wants in New York County. That's why I say that being arrested for debe is a poke" “Tf that's all being anrested pmounts to," “why have any jatl limite at all? The only thing I don't lke about | it is that Oris can’t eame down to Atlantic City over the weekends.” The Honorable Asron looked knowing. “hny be. 1 eould fix that too,” he ad- mittech mercdesctly. “Well, what do you think about that?” eficulated Fozzy, "Oh, if WORL csrk brightened the Ina. “Listen, “auid Lefhovltaky, helping bim- self toon cigur out of the ailver box at hia eli on the sii fas ait. “D'll tell you suiietling. Very few lawyers know it, cither, When aman's arrested for debt and locked up—as when he int able te elvn ii bond to remain in= aide the jail lirita— the sheri? becomes peraonally reapor- sible for him; and if the debtor escopes the sheriff is liable to the ereciter in clum- ages. But—and here’a what most peanle aren't wise to—if the debtor voluntarily returns before the creditor cin begin an action fer damages by serv- ing his summons and complaint on the eherlif the law says that any harm that hae been done by his. eecape has been wn done by hia return, and that the action no longer lies. Get me" (Cantiauved on Page P46) i Phehsaeres Riu f2oaeele ATT Oy tahoe Bel ry F ——

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1G THE SATURDAY EVENING POST yori Fs The Print of My Remembrarzc THE early summer of 1839, finding myself in New York and unemployed, - I was glad to accept the offer of Mr. Williara G. Smythe, who had aseociated hime with another young manager named Charles Matthews, to produce a four-act play, The Burglar, which I had built up from the aketech Editha's Burglar, Maurice Barrymore had juat closed his engagement at — the Madison Square The- ater in a suecesstul run of Haddon Chambers’ Aus- tralian play, Captain Swift, Barrymore at that time wae not only the matings idol but was the favorite leading man of most of the theater-poing men of Hew York, My first nveet- ing with him, in fact my first identifying sight of him, was in an offic: on the stcond floor of a con- verted dwelling on Brow: way wear Thirty-first Street, where Smythe and Matthews had desk room. Will Smythe introduced 1. Ag this amiling, kean= eyed, handsome, athletic fallow shook hands with me and looked me over nn critically us I was regarding him be said, “Soame- whit of a husky, eh?" and, still holding my rigit hand, jubbed in playful burlesque ponderousness at my ribs with bis left. As Linstinetively stopped him headded, "Know something about that, do yout’ | have seen boys of ten begin acquaintance in simuar pretense, That meeting ch i the intercourse between us that covered the next twelve years or more—the last of hig active life, He had on army of friends, but that during that final period L wos the nearest to him L believe none infermed will dispute. During that time he played in six pleces of mine, The Burglar, A Man of the World, Heckless Temple, Alabama, Colonel Carter and New Blood, his parta in all but the first two being written for lain. Emma ¥,.theridaa Maurice Barrymore Offstage NEVER eaw Harry Montague, but | have seen numerous portraits of him, AL the other papular idols of the American theater from 1580 to 1900 T saw In [Orson Barrymore Bik eaally the finest-lockling nnd best-carried man of them all. His features were in drawing almost identical with those of his aon Jack, with the diferenee that for Jack's poetical expression aed Gber the father had the challenge and the sturdi- ness of a Greek gladiator. Physically he was five feet éleven inehea tall, with a shoulder breadth secentu- ated by the smallness of his bead, and weighed about ome hundred and seven ty pounds. In romantic com tume of in evening dress on the alae he bod the orice of a panther, On the street or in the club ar coffer. house he was negligent and lowngy and deplorabdy inedif- ferent to his attire. In the theater a queen could be proud of his graceful attention, Outside, a prize fighter or a safe blower was of absorbing interest to him unless some eavant was about to drscuss classical literature or French PORLAICE. At that time the stationers’ anc jewelers’ windows dis- played silver frames cantaining photographs of him us Captain Swift ino dress suit, standing in a conservatory, holding in his hands @ saucerand demi-tisse from which his attention bad just been sharply distracted, Some observer, Wilton Lackaye, I think, sald nat long ago that Barrymore In tranarnitting his traits had delinitely sepa- rated two personal amd principal characteristics. The teacup quality he had bequeathed ta Jack and the prise fighting excellence had gone to Lionel, There is enaurh truth in the comment te justify it; althoweh beth the baya are much more protean than it suggests, Mentally Barrymore wos capable of interest in the mast abstr questions, but as fares I was qualified to judge he did not care to seem profound. He was vastly more amused in surfaces, but to the depth that facts and theories, forces, events and expression in wll forma: ¢lid fa hina his was the quickest, most alert, the most the wittiest aod mast graceful intelligence that By AUGUSTUS THOMAS Chivee, deacribing ta me a fight between a pet mongoose that he owned and a eat, he said, “AML yOu saw Whe an acrobatic cat and a hale at mongoose," The line could have been paraphrased to deserthe soy He fin ceparter in which [ever heard Barry himself take port. And yet I never liearl him speak a ling that lefe a eenr, It is hard te quote some of them and convey this conviction, but kis amile and manner, true dechiurations of his intent, tiade the most acid apeteches armialle, I was delighted, of course, to have him chosen for the lead in my firat big play in the East. These young managers were consbierate of my wishes in getting the entire east, Other prominent artists en- fuged were Emma ¥, Shettdan, who had been playing loading business for Richard Mansfield; Sydney Drew, then in bbs early tanec, but nlreacly a fnvorile as a comedian —he had been featured in a play Afaericen Farremaere af Cilette'’s and was regarded as starring material by more than one manager; John T. Sullivan, preaminent leading man for secone business: and Gladys Rankin, the beautiful daughter of McKee Bankin, [wont ante the eon pany toa play the old man and te wniler- study Rarrymore Be the part of the burglar, W. illbe Sey EMO, later the generul stage mot ager for Charles, Frohman, wast engaged to rehearse the play. Mr. Seymour was ain xpencenced . producer; as a matter of fact, hud been — in the theater all his life. having gone on ; aa a child with Edwin Forrest In. Metanvens. The managers had little money and were stak- ing wll on our trial in Boston. As a matter of economy the organization was taken there by the Full River beat. Nobody in the company had any important meoncy. Salaries at that time were mot what they are ta-day, The longest on that list was Barrymore's at two hundred dollars. On the polatial Plymouth at the dinner table we sat down somewhat a family group. Barrymore took the head of the table, with Miss Sheridan to hia left, The reat of the eampany atrung afore on the There arose somehow a jpretende pute over the honor of ordering for Migs Sheridan. Drew said, “We'll toss for it," A cobs of sugar was marked on ita six sicles [i ordinary die and given to Sydney for the first thro Wis an anxiqua mament, the comedy of it irmepress his temperament, nnd as he shook the egbe dm hie han looked at the ether derisive men before throwing he “Flirh man oaet” Hanyamere hod te remind Him thi stake wor the honer of ordering dinner for a lady Sirdney's line had revealed the situation. Before al finished throwing, Joe Holland, who was with an company on the same boat, noticing the hilarity o party, joined us and wanted to know what the gum was for. Sydney, who had lost, told him it was clinne the entire party. Barry added, "A large stake_"* Joe threw and lost, and after the order was given, b also inn aetor’s summer, Madea touramong the mem of his own company, borrowing for the prospective When the checks came Earymore paid forall the dint But Sydney's line of “High man out" passed into company's quotmEions, and on all ceesaions waa uses exclude unyhody from polite of generous enterprises, Our rehearsals were jn Boston. Knowing how ma depended upon the result of the venture, I was ee clally watchful, trying to detach myself and fool the presentation objectively, aa a critic in the thea T could see nothing but success, As a touchst for my estimate I had of course the rather full s ord of the little play which waa now the third act the hig one, Naturally the story mounted to th and the fourth act, which was a logical sequence, 4 not aeem to drop, Sittieg Up for the Papers UR first nightwas not more short of its endeavor effects than mest first nights are. The nervousna af men and women Ina new play ig auch that ata fir performance they never give their beat interpretatia At this opening the ealla were sufficient, the applaa und laughter were great. Behind the curtain » thought we had a guecess, The thing that chilled was the failure of the inexperienced management t any ao. They had bern in toueh with the men fron the papers, and we felt that they reflected the opinia of those men. Mist actors bare @ light: dinner around alx o'eloed and a supper when the work is over, That night # licston we nen were all tee excited to think of guinj to ied even at the actor's hour. Four of us, Barry: more, Drew, John Sullivan and 1, decided to sat up tot the morning papers. We were joined by dear oki Gen. George Sheridan, the silver-tongued Fie- publican spellbinder, father of our leading lady, Pe hed been with us during cor four weels' préparation. ‘The impression upon asenaitiveauthert may mislead me, but aa I remember the morning papers they hed ver ‘ little ta comfort anyone. Barry- i, more’s indignation amd revert were magnificent, He consigned gl) the critics to the howwors, and was dispeaed to send the audience with them. His finishing line as heslapped me encouragingly on theshoul der as daylight wa breaking through the window eas, “He- tan, my boy! Why pay any &- tention toit? Whatisit? A city af Afalvalias.”” Sharing my finest faith In the piece, trying to analyze and weigh thee ments of guccess against everytileg in the other scale, he-was sympathel- cally bracing ™me up. Sydney Drew, who lacked Barrymore’ — ability te da this, but who had an equal amif pie Tr, Cenk bce t ‘ ‘nde Po geo will, broke i in by saying, “Now Leas I've been | in tao many first nights His brother-in-law said playfully, “ You have, Me Dee, you have,” and pushed him out of the conferens, Sydney, with hia comedy smile and a gesture of recs ery, added, “Well, I'm a wonder." “Tou do yourseL! an injustios— you're a fread," Baty added, and returned to lilting my soggy spirit. Two of three managers had come down te Bete 4 ae Our opening, among them Joaeph Grisnmver, at that tree rary nf EE - ee | al

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 17 site actor on the °c Comet, where he arTing jointly with eawtiful sand tal- i wife Phebe i tee the play. That idl disappeared at . mao ef the perform wae an whhappy ry im the mind af erent. I wos eg on the old Clark's ‘. a place for men At siz a.m. I edinte bed im anoon i upper floor with a fst right angle to fom eO8ccupied by fhe. The weather ‘arm, the transoms topen. Dwaawaked at nine o'clock by fthews calling upon gibe. Through the mi tranmscamne TI could «© the dejected con- Bec between the two Tistets. A. bell bow knocked at ape Matthews took From Grsemer! Each fers toed to pos to the Geer the painful duty of pocmg below to interview lem. Matthews finally eat. After a considerable terval [ heard his fens come quickly to goythe’s door, a sharp rap, an entrance and his excited Gre os bee peeorted to his partner, “ Why, be still wants it!" Further sleep waa imposlble to me, 1 dressed quickly, fd as soon a T could do an diplomatically confirmed the fearing of the report. Later [ saw Grismer hinwell. With the ease of the veteran he had dismissed the unfa- vorable notices. He had seen the play: he had watched tts effect upon the audience. He saw himeelf in the part. et ee ee ad Eitftiaen Baooeil fuccess Despite the Critics | Bevan never forget his hearty laugh or the strong widierly face as be said, "Why, my boy, it'll make o fortome for everybody !"* That was a herd Tuesday for me. The day before I wold have bet upon my ability te brace up under any editions, Butwheo I found Smythe and Matthews dis- counting sileo Griamer's optimistic opinion and aceeptanee, id regarding both ss peculiar to his isolated territory ad his personal needs, I was a demoralized author. One thing that hurt me much was what I thought injustice important pres comments. In the first act of the play fy burglar was a man in refined surroundings, speaking food Engliah: in the third act he wos tilking thief JATEON, [had believed that subtly effective, beewuse in my railroad aperience T had seen educate! men quickly aiopt the ugrmmmatioal and slangy apeech of the man on a box eu, Mr. Clapp, then the principal eritle af Rotton, cited this departure as a mark of my imnstinty. The opinion marked only hia own metperioner with actual life in that stratum wdenvironment. Two or three days later same GLher paper teak issue with him upon the point, bet on that Tuesday I was submerged by that wed other objections equally valuches. During a walk alone in the afternoon I fond myself looking into a shop window with ny accurate consciousness of my aurroundings op recollection of how D had aequired them. It ve only a dased minute of two before objects [4 inte their proper colegories and I was able get my bearings, but the lapse alarmed me, ‘half block farther on I met Many Shaw, whore home waa Heston, Mary had seen the play und waa. enihumastic in her approval of it and of the work of the company. This, however, was io met gnimportant in the presence of the lapae if comedournesst I had just been through. In irightened fwehbon IF teld her of it, Mary put back her bead and with her con- tagioua laugh of these early days, said, “'Creod cdtuhioned billows, my boy, nothing more.” Mury"a diagneeis was correct, ho Baton engagement was for two wemlcs, The business showed such healthy signs that we = were rgrettul that it was not fora longer period On Wednesday wter the tmati- néo Woealey Rosenquese, mingging the Madison Squart Theater for A, M. Pulmflr, prt posed toSmipthe and Matthews that the plece be breaneht te Now York for as long 8 time as it would hold opin the summer, Ilis terms were for the theater bo take ooch weel the first two thousand dollars. Tt was af couret jeetsl- ble to play to Bighy Bell much less than this on the gross, aod for the management alae to be etueh for salaries and advertising. As they hesitated Barrymore aaid, “Take it! If the money doesn’t come in you'll owe me nothing, and I think I can answer for moat of the campy, This decuded the managers. fis they started to thank Barry more he interrupted them; “i'm Norris and EM, Hetload la “labama"™ ‘Char lex EL. not doing it on your aeeount. This ia for Thomas." ° The New York open- ing was m@ night of al- moat equal anxiety to thut of Boston. As one of the cast I hod only the actor's biased apin- jon as to how the play was going. I was heart. ened during the frst in- termission by a visit of the comedian, Louis Harrison, who came to my dressing room with a misange from Bronson Howard, commending the workmanship of the act just finished; and when the play was over Harrison came again to Barrymore's roam ond Tine to bring us good news and to give hisown opinion—by no means an unskilled one—that we hod the beat melo- drama offered in New York since The Two Orphans, Broneon Howard waa then in New York with his production af Shen- andoah at the Star ‘Theater, whene ita grot SUCCESS Was so substan. tially the beginning of Charles Frohman's fors tunes, Other attractions runhing nt that time were Rosina Vokes with her litte company at Daly"a in repertoire, including My Milliner’s Bill, The Rough Diamond and His "Art Was True to Poul, Maude Adama was making ler firat hit at the old Bijou Theater in Hoyt’s A Midnight Bell: Frans Wilson was playing The Golah at the Broadway; Sothern was re hearsing Lord Chomley by Belasco and De Mille to go on af the Lyewum on Fourth Avenue, the beatiful litteseeceond- story theater managed at that Gime by Daniel Frohman and supported by a clientele second only to Daly's. The Mec Caull Opera Company, with Digby Bell as principal come. dian, was in the midst of a run at Palmer's; Lilian Russell was playing The Brigands ut the Casino; Ferncliffe, by Wiliam Haworth, waa at the Union Square, and Helon Barry had in rehearsal Love and Liberty to follow, Dens man Thompson was in the midst of his popularity with The (lel Homestead at the Academy. Wat Geng asi 4 Beginner's Royalty HE BURGLAR wee a success in New York, and after ita firsk year on the road played with two and sometimes three companies throughout the country almost continu- ously for the next ten years. I report this to record » fact which may be useful to other writers, When I wos in §t, Lowis Will Smythe had written to say that forty dollars a week was a fair royalty for a four-act play by a beginner. In his oan inexperience he had consulted Howard P. Taylor, then somewhat in the public eye as a dramatist. That royulty was agreed upon. I wasaure that Smythe hed been misinformed, but the terma were adhered to, The lowest royalty that beginner of a play worthy of production should have revelved would have been 6 por cent of the gros receipta, amounting on The Burglar's average businesa to more than ten times forty dollars. Smarting under what I felt to be the injustice of the arrangement, and yet declining to ask anything not in the contract, after the first fow weeks I sold my rights for twenty- five hundred dollars, The pince did, as Griamer hull » make small fortunes for all owners associated with ik. When The Burglar went ony for its first season, however, Ite royalty of forty dollars o week waa my total income. I doen't know what decree of fate led te such a general agreement upon this figure aa my Value, bot with eertain obligations in the West economy waa essential. Smuythe relinquished a aecond-atory front roan at 205 Wet Twenty-filth Street, over a parlor that was occupied by an Italian who gave a table d'héite dinner for thirty-five centa with a pint of red wine thrown in, That was the din- ner te which T treated Barrymore and asked him if it wasn't w fine offering for the money. (Continaed on Poge 127)

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18 ; THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 15 THE REAL STOR‘ By WALLACE IRWIN W ORDER to shield myzeli against those careful readers who gloat over the inaccuracies of the hard-working fictionist, let me begin by saving that [ know little more about newspapers than what the average eltizen learns ot breakfast. And I never, never rend the Nee York Rugle, because I do not care to have oplalons furnished me by a semersault= ing juggler turning world niws into a comic song. Many of the facta herein contained I got from the thin hard lipa of Misa Cissy Ragnell, that able spinster whose temporary col. lapse out of the society page of the Bugle and into a reat- cure sanitamium cried havoc in the office and brought forth the dogs of war and love, Mr. Trask, who has been recently promoted fram city editor to managing editor of the ever-strident Bugle, was in a state of high tension one late fall afternoon in the year 1921, Insufficient it was to Mr. Trask that the affnirs of Mexico, Ireland and Russia should be performing, three Flings at a time, under the personal man- agement of Mr. Trask, who looked like Napoleon and, like the First Consul, wns limitless: in his ambition. The aaci- ety page was on Mr. Trask's mind during the comparatively calm hours of after- TOON, He had never ap- proved of the lavely amateur, Misa (Cor- lens, in the sortinal editorahip of that im- portant department, But what was he tado? Cisey Ragnell had, aa I have said, collapsed. Miss Carles, child of an illustrious family newly impoverished, had done very well aa an occasional con- tributer of sprightly items, Cissy Ragnell, moaning on her pillow less than a month before, had insisted that Miss Corlesa knew Manhattan society down to the slightest glove button. That no doubt she did, but-—— “Dead from the neck up!" growled Mr. Trask. A fortnight before he had given Mist Corless up, eli- torially speaking; be had demoted her to the post of space writer and tuken the society page under hia own change. Behald, then, the aparting department af the New York Bugle, where Mr, Hadley (Hrick) Minor sat that afternoon, hia brilliant plnee-nez tilted to a scholarly angle. He was an averagedized, average-looking man whoee rough com- plexion suggested fresh sandpapering; you would scarcely have recognized in him the nimble-legged Minor whe onen held the intercollegiate record for the mile, Indeed, as he lenned rather fussily, making marginal notes with a fne- printed pen, you might have put him down af a young profesor perfecting a monograph on South American fauna. As a matter of fact he was giving the finishing touches to a prophetic utterance which would soon be ayn- dicated under the title Big League Dope. Occasionally be would look up, ag for inapiration, at an enlargement of Jack Dempeey's fighting face, whieh hung in a frame over his desk: then he would steal a glance through a half-open door where he could see Julie Corless" willowy back as she bent over the work to which a malign fate had called ber, How like fury he loved her, and how he wished be could help her out of the long. Oeeupylng the third corner in this trlangle—a trinngle af willa—Julie Corless uttered a little moan and prayed for extinetlon, She was oe lovely pleture of despair, her creamy neck framed in a cobwebby collar, leer slim body ineased iin one of the simple street. coatumea which anybody can wear—if ehe knows how. At this instant she bad ber character on the witness stand and was subjecting it to a harsh croes-examination. In the process she had said several things which should have been ruled out of court, “Are you weak,” she had asked, “or are you just stupid? Certainky you have rushed in where ongela fear to tread. You're a field marshal all fELUITEATED BY FEFEFE £. BENSON "Fm Jere f Pare Cancel Few fafferiag,’* Die Tat fafiiy, “ew Conk ! Hava Keowee? Pidvare Teel de ™ awollen up with hia importance and going into battle with- out any plan of campaign, You never really knew any- thing about life,"" She groaned again, and Brick Minar, seated in his cell, would have come to her had she net with an impatient geture come to him. Her pole oval foes, with its clear Seatch-gray eyes aod beautiful, rather heavy eyebrows, was filled wlth anguish as ehe stood beside his deak and laid dewn an untidy bundle of paper. “Brick, [ can't do it!" she wailed. “Mr. Trask insists on yellow articles. I hate the horrid things!" “And you've faced the music like a soldier," he grinned consclingly, “Sit dawn, wan't you, Julie?” He had alid into the habit of calling her by her first name, and she had never resented ib, “T'm too busy. I can't do anything [ want to," she lamented. “T'vr ok ta go into the art department and lack over these trashy illustrations, (th, Brick, please tell me what to do with the stuff!" She whisked out of the room ana left her eanfidant to the unpleasant duty of eritieiam. The manuseript—ita popes unnumbered, after the manner of journalistle arna- teursa—embodied a dignified, rather dull article on Mrs. Hassett-Cromer’s fal masque, He had read the article half through and had picked it up in order to straighten out its crumpled pages when another and disconcerting matter come to his notice, [twas a cheap yellow post card which Autéered out of the mess to the floor, Brick Minor, by instinet a gentleman, was no epy, but the misbehavior af his eyes was involuntary as he translated a scribbled line of French: + » bo endure aay iting: t for the suke of thy bewoty, oh, erucl and unattainable! And the signature below was “Del Argo"! How to love is to be jealous, and a pang shot through Brick Minor's heart as he tiptoed inbo Misa Coriess’ office and Jaid the ecard among her papers. He would not, at Ionst, hive herembarrassed by the knowledge that he knew, Mr. Trask poked his Napoleonic head inte the door and almost enught the sporting editor in hig aly act. “Miss Corleas around?” he asked sharply. "She's past stepped into the art room," responded Brick, ™ Here I am Julie quietly, ing back hy y Minor's office, od Oh," Bald Trask, and ha indicated th; chose fo hey with her. Here parted at the “Afias Cork began Mr. T fluttering a long ley proof bet his short fingers he gave her ag Intended for kb ress, "“Bhéy eal The Little Birds is all right—aor} it goea—init I] ¥ou, you han been mn thie ¢ very Jevreg,”" “Wau mead net Interesting asked Julie. “Well, ju | at this." He plo a short finger o wiy down the 4 umn and rea "Mr, ond Mj Ribbel-Standash 1 remidiiiny wt Newport thiafall.' si that's rather bald.” “Te'a what people who know f Tibbel-Standishea want te knee declared Julia defensively. There's my pint!" Mir, ‘Trask grinned. “We'rea runhing the aeclety page for society, Get that out ofy head. We've built this page up inte one of the most pop lar features in the paper. W by? Becnuse we've gives tf people who aren't in society their own ides ef what esse looks like, You don't expect a servant gif] or a i driver—the sort of people we rely on for cireulaiion—tl satisfied with the bore statement that Mr. and Mr Ribbel-Stundish are remaining in Newport. They eat! know how many thousands a year Mrs. Pibbel-Siesdal epends on perfume, and why Mr. Ribbol-Stands’ mo drunk and kicked his butler, and why the butler left with out claiming damages. Our readers demand to know th worst, within reason. If people want said solemn Ue about society they read some other paper. (ur policy classy jazz, pep, romance. That's why we're festwiy Lady Sombrey’s Sin next ta your column. Thera knack-ou in every installment.” “Ta other werds," drawled Julie, recalling an andes proverb on yellow journalism, “when the dog bites theman it en't news. When the man bites the dog it i” “Keep that in mind and you won't geo far wrong i thi office,” said Mr. Trask, “But you've got to have emg’ facts about the dog to protect ue. Mow what [ wat at of you is bigger feature stories—aome good divorce. anappy facts about visiting noblemen, some wild sal abowt what's going on behind the acenea in Pork AveaX. Pep and yet more pep—that's our motte,” That Jule Corless did nat brash the papers off ber dest and resign on the spot wes a tribute te early tramng. Pep and yet more pep! She saw the abeominable motto er blazoned on the Bugle's yellow flag. She hed gone il the work with the high ideal of giving a celtured tor Y the paper. : And heavens, how she had wanted the money wihetit to buy the pretty fragile clothea which meant more tha warmth and life to her! Raging with equal tury at herself, fate and the maura editor, Julie reached out blindly for Del Argo'sfervid pet card. All day, in her desperation, she had been plannics te do an audacious thing. Why not? The mie Spuntard waa no longer a romance to her, In his veheth nous one-sided correspondence he had fonbhed ap material for a aprightly biography. She found the card among her papers and was air glancing over ita ardent French when a rit-tet a hop as the knock of conectenee sounded wpom ber deer. "Come in!” she called, making haste te conceal the damaging evidence, In the doorway she beheld the quiet fastidious mi! Torty wheeae somewhat auburn cast waa be oy een the sporting sobriquet of “Brick.” She wo gad de = had come, though she could tell him mothing orth ile = ernie

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The horse follows the cart, Jonah swallows the whale, the (Chirirtions torture Nero,” he began quite solemnly. You've been listening,” Julie accused him, How eciuld I help i? Ar, Trosk has a nose Lone which tes ike a (Cremona violin.” Brick,” she told him deeperately, “there's no use try- to make anything out of me. Just give me up and let resign. : Eighteen years ago I sald the same thing,” Brick cor gered her “DT waa a trifle young, I think, though mint realize what was the matter with me. Then the E. cone to me and teld me te put more whoop into my agraphs or I'd have to quit. And, behold, how I have oopaecd “Your payge is tremendously vulgar,” she informed him ‘A a smile. ‘Tent it!’ he exclaimed, complimented. “A great deal the glang which you gbhar—and my deporteoent la the agiest in samerica, I beliewe—I invented myself. It's eg de fase, most of it, The Bugle’s sporting page haa curacter all its awn. Chur cartoons, our prizefight na and our column of baseball potter ao absolutely scthronine that not one line of really good igleh ever slips in.” He paid this with one of his quizzical o&s which always left Julie in doubt as te hether he was joking or in earnest. “Aren"E sou too good for this sort of ting?” asked she. “Am 17" he responded, and his eyes wrinkled “With your education and fine mind you ieghit be i great lawyer or—or o master af iaglah. To degrade one's standards like bis Bentirely too easy."" “Dieabuse yourself of that idea,” he said eieasly, ““Itteck five years of the hardest hinking and keenest analysis to work my age op into what it now is. Take slang ioxe. In order to equip myself for the wort | approached slang from a purely otellectial angle. Much of the current: dang of today comes from my invention,” Jule Corlees looked up and smiled. What waa wrong with Brick Minar? “Al this, I suppose,” she sald urchliy, “p becwuee | eek to resign before they turn me into a aocial gunman.” “Tl you live in Foom you must do aa the Kom‘uns do,” he persisted: then with his quer puckering smile: “I think you're might i wanting to resign.” He had risen and was standing over her. At that itetant she hod the thought that Brick Miner, theugh far from handsome, wa ot of the most attractive men she had ever known. “T=<1 know I shall have to,” she ip- formed him, tering to keep her voiee steady, “Tm nota poor min, Julie,” he was pay ng. “lve made money in business of my oe. I'm not going te be here much lower, and —aumal there’ sone thing I've yot tw tell you esteod silent for an instant, and Julie's impreionable heart turned over cre he wid: "When you leave thia office about all thit'sever given it charm goes with you." “Uh! [t's ao nice of vou ta—" she fetan tritely enowgh. She had undergone in nay proposals of marriage not to derstand what was imminent, “Tn set a good mateh—whot you would @liged match, But [‘vesanved for years aod T've never mide a poor investment.” He stopped abruptly while she sat look- ng wide-eyed inte his interesting, troubled fratuns, Ee felt no curprise. It seemed quate catural that the man whoae eompan- omnis she had enjoyed during these un- mventions] weeks should have burat forth ioths romantic avowal, And Julie was hataing if not romantic, But the avowal LE) franglo at the whim of its puther. “What the devil am I saying?" he berthed eapping his fingers impatiently as Ge riabed out of the office,

a LUE CORLESS went home to dinner, stinging with the memory of a rebuke . ied giowieg with the memory ofa proposal. liad Brick Minor brought it to a definite eition dhe felt almest sure that aneer the foe of inpukee che would have aeeeptesd tin toregret it afterward. For Julie was “Sit aay maid te win, aa Mrs. Corlens und thee seven years since ber daughter had bien ofa marrogeable age. Self-willed, her dlaeouraged elders called her, littl: guessing how deeply a living share in one storybook romance had influenced her girlish heart. Had you accused her of being something of a anob ahe would have fumed indignantly; yet the taste of a noble tithe charms the feminine heart, even in these days of tumbled thrones. Journeying homeward by Subway, Julie's inner mind argued the ethics of this case, while Julie's cuter mind exhausted iteclf in its quarrel with Mr, Trask, Several times she decided to resign, just os whe should have dane; Then she considered Brick Minor’s advier to the effect that she should quit: and belng all feminine, hene: partly perverse, she determined to atay in the office and fight it aut. Pep and yet more pep] How she loathed that detestable pbrase, haunting her like a strain from some cheap popular song | She got off at her station in the early thirties and walked over to Madison Avenue, where ina high-stooped Victorian house that had ones been a private residence the Corlesses maintained a flat with p modest show of the grand style

Mow Long Fée Sie There Playlag the Ridiculous Game of Everio Eye fhe Fanr Dae 1 that had characterized them before the crash. Julie mounted the walnut stairs and entered, taser her mother, looking cool and handsome in a dinner frock of half mourn- ing a8 ehe aat crocheting wonder a reading lamp. “hy dear, how tired you lgok!" exclaimed Mrs. Corless, giving one of her calm Kisses. “T hope you're oot over doing on that dreadful paper." To call the Bugle a dreadful paper was but a part of Mrs. Corloss" creed, ¥r ve had rather a busy day," said Julie. “How bot you are!" the mother cried, holding one of Julie's bands against her cool cheek, “And now do hurry, dewrest; Monsieur Duval is coming to dinner. He's just up from Washington, I've laid out your gray dinner frock— almost everything's at the cleaner’s, And dearest ——" By the clear look in her mother's gray eyes Julie knew that something was coming. “—___ dearest, why do you keep that foolish Spantard's letters Lying abowt where anyone con read them? They don't mean anything to you, and if someone who undor stands French should pick them up—think how they might misconstrue —— "Oh, mother!" eried Julie, and whisked out of the room. Julie was no sooner in her bedroom than she saw the foolish Spaniard's letters, an obese bundle on the glassy top of her drees- ing table. ss she dressed for dinner her eyes raved more than anen toward the dog- gare oneaided correspondence which had wrought euch hayoe in the soul of a girl ripe for romance yet not eufliciently mature to understand love. When Julie was juat owt of school she had gone touring France with a Mrs. Mapes, a widow qualified for tutar and chaperon. It was one of those educational pugrimages which young ladies of Julie's tla so often undergo without appreciable damage. In ander to live in intimacy with what Mre. Mapes called “atmosphere” they had taken quarters in an exchasive pensen—moetly devoted ta wealthy Amer. ican and English touriata—in a handsome atreet not far from the Luxembourg Garden, : One morning in May—what better atart for a tale of romantic adventurel—pretty Miss (orloss, slender aa a lily and pink aa a rose, dutifully followed the guidance of her ticus chaperon to the Laxem- bourg Gallery. Jule, being very much alive, waa in ho model for eextasles over the paint dauba and chisel acare of geniuses. Tt waa a divine day in Paris and as Julle wandered from romanticiet ta i sionist, in the back of her busy little brain she was aching to be out in the aun, joy- riding in one of those lanky little river boats that scuttle under the Pont Neui dewn the Seine, or redlingr in w. crazy open fiacre along the Chumpa Elysées, or sipping something pinkish boader the awning of an open-alr restaurant in the Hols, where the tablecloths were pink, where ewane were wont to play in the crystal pond, and slim chasseurs, removing silyern helmets with horsehair plumes, lolled in their chairs, loezing aminbly like illustrations out of Saurire, “What a day forlave!" sighed Julie, who tranglated the novels of the younger Dumas too well for Mir. Mapes’ liking. Amd it wos almost upon that thought that romance: had come te ber in a fash of eyes. Mra, Mapes had discovered a pea-preen impressionist, and while the dutiful chap- eron wes enjoying her ecstasy the restless girl wenped to the foyer, where, casting lack-luster eyes from wonder to wonder, she apled what caught her maiden foney, Jewels! Tn the upper compartment of a high glasa cabinet which eto! between aisles, the treasure of a queen lay haughtily on ita welvet cushion. It was a wreath of dia- moms and emeralds, and the placard ex- plained that this coronet had been worn by Empress ona historic occasion. Female-wise the young girl viewed the gem-wrought wreath quite personally, sean- hing ft from tvery angle ws she would a aweetapring hat. How would itlook on her own head, ber hair cunningly arranged to be made perfect by that flashing foliage? It rut be heavenly, thought ake, to be a quee with lapidaries and goldamiths vying to please and —— 2. =

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20 At the instant there flashed out at her through twa layers of plate glass a gleam more vivid than that of any diamend on the reveal wreath, A poie of remarkable, luminous, soul-searching, somber, romantic black eyes! Julie's heart stood still, No poetic anthology could have conthined words bo tell her more distinetly that thoes eyes were for her, socking her out, appealing, adoring. In that crowded moment she had little time to study the min behind and surrau ning those eyes. Sher had only an inpression of a distinguished figure in a morning coat, He seemed rather young, she thought; but the rest of her impression was buried in the hypreth beawty of hia eyes. Tt wae a May morning, a8 [have said: alao it was Paris, and Julie was eighteen. Haw long she etood there playing the ridiculous game of eyo-toecye she never knew, Finally the apparition behind the showense mude a move, which caused the girl a frantic impulse te esp. As she turned she ran abmost into the arma of Mires. Mapes, who wis panting out her horror and ensting suspicious eyes toward the tall young man behind the jewel cabinet. Now if such an adventure fad befallen tulie Corless in New York—at the Metropolitan Museum, say, or the Public Library—she might have put the intruder dawn na nn of those haisome and venemnous insects whom the eommon calla masher. hut | must again repeat the mys- the formula, May, Poris and eighteen, in order that the drift of her springtime thoughts may net be misunderstood. The flaah of these magnificent «yea, competing auceess- fully with garlande of crown jewels, haunted her waking hours. The gilent, momentary meeting had come as the stimulating reaction ahe had craved, That afternoon when Julie was going out the concierge at the door smuggled a note into her hand. He did it skillfully. Mot until the dressing hour did she dare break the seal A coronet, embossed in blue, met her eyes, und below, seribbledt flercely, a though wlth the point of a bay- onet, the passionate avowal, which she trinelated from ita yerlect French: Afadenniselie: T poaed through the glass and saw your beauty. The elit che newt for Lied eater ery ude, wherever pou a, PF F i i aim fr a rane which wert MeekTe nad ee ae fak to pee poi AL Once [that offends your sense of propriety. Bat Jor me say thal T ean ier a coponel more precious than that you gazed upon teeday. Permit me to coll on your paresta of guardian that [ mag ieake my offer for your bond. Eternally, derotedly, Den ARGO. Julie wes mt first indignane, then amused, then capei- vated. There had been something so boyish in thase won- derful dark eyes woolng her through the glass of the royal jewel ense! Apparently ber impetwous lover had bribed the concierge for her name, She dreamed over thie until after dinner; then she acted as a good girl zhould, and showed the note to Mrs. Mapes, who was properly horri- fled. Nates came to Julie every day after that—sometimes there would be lwo—smuggled tn by the cautious hand of the coicherge, who was a Swiss, Del Argo's words, glowlng from the dull red of live coala to the blue heat of a blast furnace, revenled that lave in his case Was 8 progressive disease, She did net show these lntters ta Mra. Mapes. There ia no doubt that fine words make fine feelings; and Julie became oo charmed by Del Arga’s beautiful wooing French that she came to imagine his volee, repeating the phrases over and aver, Between protestations af uneying lowe he furnished biographical data. His father was richer than an Inca. Young Del Argo was a ewordaman of repute and hac fought many duelz, Once he implored ao poetically for her photegraph that Julie yielded to a crany impulse. She wrete to an mitre he mentioned in Boulevard Haspail. It was a diserect schoolgirl letter, penned at midnight: but she peste a photographer's where ber picture could be ound. In these dhs Julle's sense of homer wes undeveloped. Otherwise she surely would have laughed at Del Argo's frenzies. One miserable morning she pesped out of the window, to eee a young man in a handsome red rungbout sitting quite unsheltered under the drizzling rain. He hed equipped himself with a waterproof coat and aporting cap, but be allowed the moisture te rill down bis back and gave no heed. His attitude was in keeping with the weather. Once le looked up, and Julie, afraid he had spied her out, popped back behind the curtains, An hour later Mra. Mapes came in to report: “That aiily impoetor has been sitting aut there, wet to the akin, al morning. He has a cout of arms oa big as a teakettle on the side of his car, and I think somebody ought to re- port him to the police. This thing will hove to stop!" And atop it did within a very few days. What sattlod Del Argo's case, go fer as Julie wae coneerned, was a fran- tic appeal, written on a cheap post card and sent to her by peeamalique, Tt wowed again undying love, threatened suicide, proposed marriage, and ended in an avalanche of verbal flowers. Mrs. Mapes got the postal, read it, and whe frantle at the man's abominable effrontery. Forth- v'h she declared that they would move at once. She THE saTURDAY EVENING POST acted upon the impulse; but the tranefer of sic took them three days, as a matter of fact. On the very afternoon that their baggage was being shipped te the opposite bank of the Seine, Del Argo's [nat despairing wall arrived, postmarked Biarrite: Mademoiselle: Nenrais pllrsuce the unhappy lover. I must fly from the vengeance which pacar me, te hee envi cede have red chia ateake beeeauae [ baer teo rereh, pemeriher that. I beor the penalty of whot 7 hare done, for your ma oe, with- out complaint arremere, If there is pity in yur heart, meter ber ime. Your forsaken, De. Agen, "T thought he was dishonest, "sot Mrs, Mapes, “but now I believe he's anly They went to England shortly after that, Mir. Mapes eongratulating herself upon escape from a nuisance, Julie fled with girlish sighs. It was the last they heard of him, dave for & strap of gossip that carve to Misa Corleas’ sharp ear in the agtumn, when they were returning to America. win Englishwoman, well versed in Continental seandal, was chatting with Mrs, Mapes bebeeen deck chairs: “Oh, Del Argo? You know him then? The Maurquls del Argo a “There seems te be an adventurer using the mame.” “Probably, He would be. . . . Agrestiamily. .. . Wealthy and very close te the throne. Young Raphael del Argo. . . . Why, he's the grentest eatch in Spain!" air ULIE GORLESS, agel twenty-five, stood before hor mirror putting the finishing touches to her toilet. For the frac tha In seven yeara ahe realized how musical- comic that romance had been. Ever sinee morning, when she had taken the flowery post card with the idea of weay- ing it inte an article for the Hugle, she had viewed her girlish indiscretion with a new cynicism. In the reaction she would have burned the bundle of sentimental letters had she not become possessed with 2 dering iden, The impertinent, passionate post cored lay where she hod restored |i, at the top of the heap, ane ere she went to dinner she glanced sancastically over the opening Lines of the lyric: ooo « to endure anything for the soke of thy beauty, oh, cruel and unattainable: . . Then came to her memory the words of Mr. Trask: "Pep and yet more pep,” Inspiration overwhelmed her, Why not? She glanced guilty at the bole of Dhol Argo correspondence, Then she wen bo dinner. She was inattentive to the charming elderly Monsieur Duval, even though hespoke with more than weal sprighili= ne on European politics, Her own ax was grinding, gtinding under her ailky hair. Toward dessert she looked up and ssked, apropos of nothing: "Ts thera more than one Marquis del Argo in Spain?” "Hot yes, mademotselle,” replied the knowing French- man, “Jt is a very noble house, but there are many of that title, The fumily of Del Argo, by royul patent grantei by Philip lV, may confer the thle af murgils upon all sons." Coffee waa searcely over when Julle excused herself on the plea of untinished office work. Her temples were throbbing with generic fever as ehe locked the door of her ronm, unpacked her portable typewriter and began busily ticking: “Now York thinks she has set a pace for the world dur- ing the reign of slam-bang dance music. Now let mo breathe a word into Mademoiselle Gotham's enr- “A newer, faster, wilder pace is going ta be set. why? "Cause af Spain! "Marquis del Argo—ever heard of him?—is coming to town, Marquis del Argo of the romantic disposition, that has set Paris by the eara, Madrid on its toes, “He & young. He can't be more than twenty-seven. lie is wealthy beyond the dreams of Goleanda, His faom- Uy, very near royal, is close to the royal house af Spain. He's unmarried. Look ta your laurels, girls! Danee with him, glary ln his eyes, whheh ane sale to be the meet beau tiful in Europe, And, for heaven's suke, hove him tell you his sporting adventure: in the mad, glad town of Biarritz. Do you glory in the code duello? Then tease him to "fess up, for Raphael is a dangerous man with the sword. “When he takes his suite at the Hotel Merlinbilt— which will be right soon—New York society will be in competition ———* Julie Corless paused, shifted the ribbon of ber typewriter and glaneed over the pile of letters for further sensatlonal fnets shout the Marquis del Argo, facts that would intro duce pep and yet more pep. It was after ten o'clock when she called for a messenger to carry her copy in haste to the office, “Chinese Ir ARLY in the afternoon of the mext day Mr. Trask, beaming with satisfaction, came out of hia den and walked over to the society editor's cage for the purpose of wi prill 13, } apologizing, In his short finger he held a clipping £ that morning's Bugle. "A knock-out!" he chuckled. "Thank you,” aaid Julie faintly. IT had wour idea." “Now slam this stuff at them, hot off the griddle, you'll have all America asking who wou are.” “Heaven forbid!" was Julie's inmer prayer. Hut pein aloud, “I think | can give you a great deal more that." “Fine! Follow this up when that spigotty De 4 copes to town. Get all the stuff about his doings in hi York.” A eautious look came inte his keen Letlo eyes as asked, “This ix all veribed, | suppeme f° Julia hesitated, frightened at peasible consequenc then she stiffened proudly in her chair and eworded: “} information came in personal letters,"" “That aught to satiafy a jury," he grinned. Through the half-open door she could hear Brick § hors typewriter Heking merrily. She wished he Woy come in and help her, but he gave no heel. “T've got an item for your department,’ went on 4 Trask. “Et seeme that Harry Leek, the tennis champiy is going into the movies. Of course I"d rather you'd tack this in the style of that Del Argo article ™ “T suppose [ could,” said she. Human vanity sa weak thing, and Julie was blossomis vider the sun of Habtery. “Cod. He's atopplrg at the Merlinhilt, We've phon him." Brick Minor did not look up os she possed his doar, Hf scholarhy features, slanted toward the keys of his top writer, supgested intellectual concentration; a bew a was riting in the pugilistic world, At the Merlinbilt, Julio Corless found Harry Leek eve more aceeeible: than she hed anticipated. But as a ped through the handsome Lavebayr she encountered Me Hamsey Burgataller, the manager, with whom abe had ha a speaking acquaintance for years, Julin’s father, up to few months before his death, had been an important stock holder in the Merlinbilt. “Good altemmoon, Misa Corless. Cot a niet Hem fo you," he twinklod. “Mind stepping round to my office!" She was no sooner inside the mahogany-walled con partment and seated by his desk than he wheeled is hi chalr and said beamingly: “Crpeak them that wou hed oo your page—that urticle about Marquis del Argo. Eul gay! You've certainly got o nese for news, Know more about my hotel than [ de, by Geangef" Apparently he waa nurging the best jole in the work. Julie struggled te return hia smile and to falter out sone thing to the effect that she was learning her busines. Vague misgivings tickled her heartatrings. How in the workd," resumed Mr, Burgstaller, “did you get onto that?" “Gel onto what?” she asked, “This Del Arge's coming, and all the rest." Julie turned fn her chair and faced him blankly. "Te tell you the truth, Misa Corless, I thought I diner about all the big arrivalain New York. And here, an hoor before | saw your article, comes this.” He reached into a pigeonhole and brought out a seo of paper. [it-was a telegram, and Julie saa the typearties words through a mist at first. Then she read: Beyond, MN. J. Reserve large eulte for Marquis del Argo for oelock today. G, L, Joven ““Bevond, New Jersey!" Mfr. Buarpstaller titteced "Afarvelous place for a noble Spanish grandee tobe an ing from.” Julie drew a deep breath before she supgpested, “He might be an impostar,”* “Well, T thought of that,” said Mr. Burgataller, “Bul when 0 read your article I came to the coneluaion ps wouldn't stand for the story unless the mun was ell ight. Aut ‘Beyond, New Jersey"! “The marguis & a little eccentric,” Julie temperized Her mind was not concerned with Epyond, New Jessy. She was glancing nervously at the dlal of her wrist watch Which indicated three minutes after four, “Have you reserved the rooms for him?" she manazgel to ask. “Wp to ten minutes after four,” replied Mr, Bargsiele. 4 Hohe doesn’t shee up bey then D' koeoe the belegrae ian‘t seriags." Julie reae, her mind coneenitrated on one object PSC pe “Won't you slick round?" invited the kindly mange “Thank you, Mr. Burgstaller, I'd like to—really. IT have to be getting back." “Might be a apry interview for you," he urged. “He's rather a young devil —— “He isn't very old,” she informed hie idistically, a all Gat ran out of the place, When she came to the revolving glass doo feeding 4 the strect her flight was interrupted by the etrine anverul porters Inden with luggage. She bet then br ad (Contiaaed on Page 62! “TI thought Ps

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST TrHE COVERED By Emerson Hough xI¥ T WAS the wind!" Will Banion exclaimed. “It was the sky, the warth! It wos fire! Edon"t know what it fe) Lewear it wasnot I who did it! Don't forgive moa, fidont blame me. Molly! Molly! “Tt bad to be sometime,” he went on, slnee abe still mwewsy from him. “What chance have [ had towak you eore now? Tt's little [ have to offer but my love." “What do you meon? It will never be at any time!" eid Molly Wingate slowly, ber hand touching his no ie “What do you yourself mean?” [fe turned to her in gooyofaoul “You will not let me repent? You will not ive ie aoe eort of chanee?" “So, she sald celdly. "You have hed chance enough oes gentleman—as much as you had when you were in Nene with other women. But Major William Banion fuiied the regimental accounts. I Enow that too. I fint=[ eogldn"t believe it cil mow." Heremamed dumb under this. Ehe went on mercilesaly. “Oh, yes, Captain Woodhull teld us. Yes, he showed us the very vouchers. My father beliewed it of you, but I sie New Ide, Oh, fine! And you an officer of our my!" She blated out at him new, her temper rising. “Chance? What more chance did you need? Mo won- der you couldn't love a girl—any other way than this, It wuld have to be sometime, you say. What do you mean? That I'd ever marry a thief?" bull be could mot apeak. The fire marks showed livid igitst a paling cheek, “Yea, ] know you saved me— twice, the time at much risk," ne roned the girl. “* Did you want pay men? You'd —you'd is “Oh? Oh! Ohi" itwy bis volee that now broke in. He could notepeak at all begrond the irhmation ander torture, “Ldidn't beliewe that story about you.” she added after a long thme. “lut yoo are not what you looked, ht what T thought you were. So Nal yon say must be sometime is tavét going to be mt all." “Dit he tell you that about me?" Gratded Will Banian savagely. “Weodbull—did be say thatt" —“Tharetold wou, yea. My father ‘ter, No wonder he didn't trust ive. How could he?” mred now ag though to leave the Tage, but be raised a hand. “Wait!" said be, “Look yonder! You'd VG tine now bo reach camp.” Gi the high country a great prairie fire us- Ly or quite often was followed by o heavy rainstorm. ‘hat Banion now indicated was the approach of yet ootber of the eple phenomena of the prolrles, as rupld, a= swatial and ag merciless aa the fire itaell. ‘tthe western horizon a low dark bank of clouds lay ‘mils, piled, serrated, steadily rising opposite to the “are of the wind that had driven the fire. Along it more ed more tiibly played almost. incessant sheet lightning, “swith ripping zigeag flamea. A hush had fallen clowe Hand foe now even the frightened breeze of evening had fel Nowand then, at first doubtful, then unmistakable The Tioor War Chic FELUSTRAT ED c “Noo, Men, Come Oa" Cotfed Gar Baaioa, “ite Tage home 51" and continuous, came the mutter and rumble and. at length the steady roll of thunder, They lay full in the course of one of the tremendous storms of the high country, and as the cloud bank rose ancl tame an swiftly, spreading its Aunking wings eo that nothing might escape, the spectecke wes terrifying almost ad much as that of the fire, for, unprotected os they were, they could make no eounter battle against the storm. The air grew supercharged with electricity. It dripped, literally, from the barrel of Hanion's pistol when he took it from ite holster to carry it to the wagon, He fastened the reins of his horse to a wheel and hastened with other work, A pair of trail ropes lay in the wagon, He netted them over the wagon top and lashed the ends to the wheola to make the top securer, working rapidly, eyes on the advancing storm. There come a pulf, then a gust of wind. The sky black- ened. The storm caught the wagon trali fret. There was no interval at all between the rip of the Iehtning and the crash of thunder ag it rolled down on the clustered wagons. The electricity at times came not ina sheet ora ragged balt but in a ball of fire, low down, close to the ground, exploding with giant detonations, Then came the rain, with a blan- keting mash of level wind, sweeping any the last vestige of the wastrel fires of the emigrant encampment, An Inatant and every human being in the train, moat of them i defended by their clothing, waa drenched by the icy food. One moment and the batter- ing of hail made climax of it all. The groaning animals plunged and fell at their picket ropes, or broke and fled inte the apen, The remaining cattle caught terrer, and since there was me corral, most of the eows and oxen [> gtumpeded down the wind. The canvas of the covered wagons made ill] defense. Many of them were stripped off, others leaked like sieves, Mothers ant huddled in their calicoeas, bending over their tow-shirted young, some of them babes in arms, The single jeans garments of the boys gave them na camfort, Under the wagons and corks, wrapped in blankets or patched quilts whose colors dripped, they crawled and sub as the air grew strangely chill Only wreekage remained when they saw the storm muttering tts way acrosa the pralrles, having done what it could in [ta elemental wrath to bar the road to the white mun. ' As for Banion and Molly, they eat [t out in the light wagon, the girl wrapped in blankets, Banion much of the time out in the storm, awinging on the ropes to keep the Zl arF YF. if. o, KROERR NW EE wagon fram overturning. He had no ap- parent fear, His calm asauaged her own new terror, In spite of her bitter arraign- ment, she was glad that he was here, though he hardly spoke to her at all. "Look!" he exclaimed at last, drawing back the flap of the wagon cover. “Look at the rainbow!" Over the cloud banks of the western sky there indeed now wie flung the bow of promise, But this titanic land did all things gigantically, This was no mere prismatic arch bridging the clouds, The colors all were there, yes, and Of an wnepenkable brillinner and individual distinctness in the seale; but they lay like a vost polnted mist, a mural of gone celestial artist flung en masse against the curtain of the night. The entlre western sky, miles on untold miles, wasalire. All the opals of the universe were melted and cast inte a tremendous picture painted by the Great Spirit of the Plaina. . "Oh, wonderful!” exclaimed the girl, “It might be the eelestinl city in the desert, promised by the Mormon prophet!" “It may be so ta them. May it likewise be so to us. Blesud be the name of the Lord God of Hosts!" said Will Hanian, She looked at him suddenly, strangely. What sort of man wie he, after all, so full of strange contradictlons—a gavage, & eriminal, yet reverent and devout? “Come,” le said, “we can get back now, and you mist ge. They will think you are lost." He stepped te the aaddle of his shivering horse and drew off the poncho, which he had spread above the animal instead of using it himeclf. Hewns wet to the bone, With apology he cost the waterproof over Molly's shoulders, sine: she now had discarded her blankets, He led the way, his horse following them, They walked in silence fn the deep twilight which began to creep across the blackened lind. All through the stonm he had searcely spoken to her, and be apoke but rarely mow, He was no more than guide, But a8 she approached safety Molly Wingate began to reflect how much ele really owed this man, He had been a pillar of strength, elementally fit to combat all the ale- ments, else she had perished. : "Writ [" Bhe had halted at the point of the inst hill which lay between them and the wagens. ‘They could hear the wail- ing of the children cleae at hand. He turned inquiringly, She handed back the pore. “To am all right new, You're wet, you're tired, you're burned to pieces, Won't you come on in?" “Not to-night!" But still she hesitated. In her mind there were going on soo a processes she could not have predicted an hour earlier. "T ought to thank you,” she said. “1 dea thank you." His utter silence made it hurd for ber. He could see her hestintion, which made it hurd for him, eoveting slght of her always, loath to leave her. Now a sudden wave of something, a directness and frankness: bern in aome way in this new world apart from elvilization, like a wind-blawn Mame, irresponsible and irresistible, ewept over Molly Wingate's soul os ewiltly, as unpremeditatedly as it had over his. She was a young woman fit for love, disposed for love, at the age for love,

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ae Now, to her horror, the clasp of this man's arm, oven when repelled in memory, returned, remained in memory] She was frightened that it still remoined—trightened at her own great corioueness, “Aloot—that"—he knew what she meant—"T don't want you to think anything but the truth of me. If you have deceived people, I don"t want to deceive you." “What do vou mean?" *Albnat—that!" ‘ "You said it could never be,” "We. TE it could 1 would not ber stopping here nowy to say so me He stepped claser, frowndng: “What la it you are saying then—that a man's a worse brute when he goes mad, os | did? oF “Texpect not," said Molly Wingate queerly. "Tt is very far out here. It's some other world, I believe. And I suppose men have kissed girl, I suppose no girl ever was mar- ried who was not ever kissed.” “Whit are you saying?” "T said | wanted you to know the truth about a woman—about me, That's just be- cause it's not ever going to be between us. It can't be, because of that other matter in Mexion, Df it had not been for that, TD aap poe after a time Iwouldn"t have minded what you 1 did back there, I might have kissed you. It 2 must be terrible to fool as you feel now, so wshamed. But after all ——"* "Tt wos criminal!" he broke out, “But even criminals are laved by women, They follow them to fail, to the gullows, They don't mind what the man ia—they love him, they forgive him. They stand by him to the very ende “Wea, suppose many a girl loves a man ehe knows she never con marry. Usually she mar- i Be li else, But kissing! Thut'’s ter- r a “Yee. But you will not let me make it splendid and net terrible. You say Ib never ean be—that meana we've got ta part. Well, how can I forget?" “Tdoo't suppose you can. I don"t suppose that—that [ enn?" “What are you going te say? Don't! Oh, plonse dan’e!" But shi still went on, strangely, not in the least un- derstanding her own swift change of mood, her own intent with him, vis-a-vis, here In the wilderness, “While we were walking down here just haw," suid she, “somehow it all began te seem net so wrong. It anly seemed to stay wrong for you te have deceived me about yourself—what you really were—when you wert in the Army. I could maybe forgive you wp to that for, for you did—for men are—well, men. But about that ather—you knew all the time we couldn’t — couldn't ever—I'd never marry a thief," The great and wietful regret of her volee wes a thing not ta be escaped. She stood, a very aplendid figure, clean and marvelous of heart oa abe was begrimed and be- drapgled of body now, her great vital force not aboted by what she hod gone through. She spread her hands just apart and looked at him in what she herself felt was to be the last meeting of their lives; in which she could afford to reveal all her soul for anee toe a man, and then go about a worn's business of living a life fed on the husks of love given er by aome other maz. He knew that he had seen ont more miracle, But, chastened now, he could, he must, keep down his own eager arms. He heard her speak onee more, her voice like some melancholy bell of veapers of a golden evening: "Oh, Will Banion, how could you take away a girl's heart ond leave her miserable all her life?" The ery literally broke from ber, Et seemed in her own ears the sudden yolee of some other woman speaking — anme unaccountable, strange woman whom she never had seen or Knows in ‘all her life. “Your—heart?' he whispered, now close to her in the dusk, “You were not—you did not—you —" But he choked. She nodded, not brazenly or crudely or coarsely, not oven bravely, but in utter simplicity. For the time she was wholly free of woman eaquetry, It was as though the elements had left her also elemental. Her words now were of the earth, the alr, the fire, the floods af life. "Yeo," she aaid, “I will tell you now, beeause of what vou have donefor me, Df you gave me life, why shouldn't I give you love—if ao T could?" “Lovel Give me lovet" “Yea! I believe [ waa going to love you, until now, although [had promised him—you know—Captain Woods hull, Ob, you eee, [ understand a Little of what ib wes bo you—what made yo—" She spoke dleconnected|y, “1 believe—I believe I'd not have cared. I believe I could follow a man to the gallows. Now I will not, because you THE saATURDAY EVENING POST didn't tell me you were a thief. I ean't trust you. But [I'll kiss you ance for good-by. I'm gorry. I'm ao sorry.” Being a man, he never fathomed her mind at all, But being & man, alowly, gently he took her in his arms, drew her tight. Long, long it waa till their lips met—and long then. But he heard her whisper “Good-by," saw her frank tears, felt heralowly, alittle bya little, drawaway from him. “Qood-by,"shesaid, “Good-by. I would nat dare, any more, ever again. Oh, Will Banion,why “did you take away my heart? I had butane!" "Tris mine!" he cried savagely. “No other man in all the world shall ewer have ft, Molly !"" Thut she now was @ome. He did not know how long he stood alone, his head bowed on lia sad- alle. The ravcous howl of a great gray wolf neor by spelled out the lone some tragedy of his fu= ture life for him. Chalnt and sweet philesepher, and feold aa she but now had been in one great and final “F Call Oece of ‘em Blast Fore Hide =—Jhe's o Ure. Fae Other de Fouager aa" Pertice, imparting of her real self, Molly Wingate was only a wet, weary and bedraggled maid when at length she entered the desolate encampment which stood for home. Shoe found ler mother sitting on a box wrder a crude awning, and cast herself on her knees, her head on that ample bosom that she had known os haven in her childhood, She wept mow like o litele child. “'Te's bod!" sald stout Mins. Wingate, nak kenerwringe. “But you're back and alive. It looks like we're wrecked and everything low, and we come nigh about getting all burned up, but you're back alive to your mal Now, pow!" That night Molly turned on a sodden pallet which she had made down beside her mother in the great wagon. But alept ill, Over and over to her lipa rose the snmie quest "Oh, Will Bunion, Will Banion, why did you take ownay my henrt?’ ee HE great wagon train of [E48 lay banked along the Vermilion in utter and abject confushon. Organization there now was none. But for Banion's work with the back fires the entire train would have been wiped out. The effects of the storm were hot ao capable of evasion, Sodden, wretched, miserable, chilled, their gooda impaired, their cattle atampeded, all sense of pregarious self-reliance gone, two hundred wagons were no more than two hundred indi- vidual units of discontent and despair. So far as could be prophesiod on facts apparent, the journey out ta Oregon had ended! in disaster almost before it was well begun. Bearded men at smoking fires looked at one another in silence, ar would not look at all. Elan, monale, eaprit de Corp were gone whterly. Steuwt Culeb Price walked down the wagon lines, passing four scone men shaking In thelr native agues, pot yet eon- quered. Waren, pale, gaunt, grim, looked at him from limp sunkonneta whose stays had been half dissolved, io Cell Her Deag Ferre Eyes" Al peril is, i Children whimpered. Even the doge, curled nose to under the wagons, growled surly. But Caleb Price fr; at last the wagon of the bugler who had been at the, and shook him out. “Sound, man!" said Caleb Price. “Play up Susannah! Then sound the assembly. We've got to] a meting.” They did havea meeting. Jesse Wingate scented my nid remoined awpy, “There's no ust talking, men,” said Caleb Price, ust trying to fool curelves. We're almost dome, the + things ape. I like Jase Wt teas well aos any man |» knew, but Jess Wingate’s not the man. What shall! we di He turned to Hall, but Hall shook his head: to Kel but Keleey only laughed. “T could pet a dozen wagons through, mag be," said "Here's two hundred, Woodhull's the man, but Wi hull's gome—lost, I reckon, or maybe killed and Iylng ; somewhore on these prairie. You take it, Cale." Price considered for a time, “No” sald he at length. “It's no time for one of us take on whit may be dome better by somone else, beca eur worn al children are at stake. The wery best mar hohe toe goed for tis job, and the more experience he h the better, The man who thinks fastest and clearest at ¢ right time is the man we want, and the man we'd follow the only man. Who'll he be?" “Oh, I'l acmit Panton had the best ides of crossing tf Kaw," said Kelsey, “He got his own people over, toa “Yes, and they're together now ten miles below g And Molly Wingute—she wos caught out with fer tea by the fire anys. fb wes Banion who started the bad firing. That soved his train and ours. Ideas that come lite art no good, We need some man with the right ide wt the right time.” “You think it's Hanion?” Hall epoke. “T do think it's Banion, I dea’ see how it-can be anyone else,” “Woodhull'd never stand for it! “He isn't here “Wingate won't, “He'll have to." The chief of mutincers, a grin a6 bearded man, waited forathns "This is a meeting of the train,” said he. “In our government tig majority rules, Is there any mo tion on this?" Silence. Then rose Hall, of Okie, slowly, a solid man, with thre wigans of his own, “T've ben ogainst the Missouri outht,” said he. “They're: a wid hunch, with no order or discipline to them. They're not all fre soilera, even if they're going ost to Oregon. But if one man op handle them, he can handke o. An army man with a Western 4- perience—whe'll it be nlesa it & thelr man? So, Mister Chairmas, T move for a conumittes of three yourself to be one, to ride down and ask the Miseounscs to join on again, all under Major Banion." “T'll have to second that,” said a voice. Price mwa dozen tiords, “You've heard it, men,” said be, “Allin favor rise up." They stood, with not many exceptions —rongh~did, hard-headed, hard-handed men of the nation's wan pure, and Price looked ther over soberly, “You see the vate, men," said he. “T wish Je tad eome, but he didn’t. Who'll be the men te ride doen! Wingate?" “He wouldn't go," said Kelsey, ““He'a got somethite againat Eanion; says he's net right on his war reconl- something ——"" “He's right on his train record this far,” commental Prices, “We're not electing a Sabbath-schoal saperinient: ant new, but a train captain who'll make thee vq cover twelve miles a day, average, “Hall, you and Kelsey saddle up and ride down wth me. We'll see what we can do. One thing sure, somethin has got to be done, or we might as well tum back. for ome, [mn met used te that," They did saddle and ride—to find the Missouri lum coming up with intention of pitching below, st the vey seane of the massacre, which was on the use! Ig Ver milion ford, steep-banked on either side, bet vith hal bottom Ahead of tha train rode two men at a walk, the set, Jackson, and the man they sought, They spied him ate man on the black Spanish horse, found him « pele wl tired young mon, who apparently lad alept aa il aa they themselves. But in straight and manful fashion they ed ld their errand. The pale face of Will Banion fuahed, even with the iu scorch marks got in the prairie fire the day belora te considered.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST eatlemen,”’ he said alter a time, “you don't know you art asking of me. Tt would be painful for me to that work on now,” t's painful for us to see our property loet and our fam- mt afoot,” rejoined Caleb Price. “It's not pleasant me to do this. But it's no question, Majer Hanion, iyeu or I find patnfal or pleasant, The question is on romen and children, You know that very well." {dev know it—ye, But you have other men. Where's dull T" Wedon't know. Wethink the Pawnees got him among others," lackeon”” —Banion turned to his eompanion—" we've to make a look-around for him. He's probably across river somewherg,"* Like enough,” rejoined the scout. “But the first thing r al us folks to git acrost the river too, Let him go to ‘We want you, major," suid Hall quietly, und even wey nowldbedd, What ahall I do, Jackson?" demanded Hunton, ‘Fly inter hit, Will,” replied that worthy. “ Lessteays, p hit on long enough ae's to git them acrost and help git fo cittl together, Ye couldn't git Wingate to work fe ye no ways. Ebut mebbe so we can show ‘em fer a perso how Old Missoury gits acrost a country, Uh- nt” Again Bonion considered, pondering many things of deh noor of these knew anything at all, At longth he ew eside with the men of the main train. “Perk our wagons here, Bill," he said, “See that they evel parked too. Get out your guards, I'll go up and evhat wecan do. We'll all eros here. Hove your men tallthe trail ropes oat and lay ina lot of dry cottonwood g@ Well fave to raft some of the stuff over, Bee if ees any wild grapevines along the bottoms, They'll ap bold the logs. Seo long.” He turned, and with the instinct of authority rode just bal length ahead of the others on the return. Jesse Wingate, o sullen and discredited Achilles, held to ip tect. and Molly did as much, her stowt-hearted and of-mindéd mother being the main souwret of Wingate ew Banion kept aa for away from ther as possible, but iad Jed sent for. “Jed,” gaid be, ““firat thing. you get your boys together ed patter the cattle, Most of them went downstream eth the wind. The hobbled stuff didn't come back down the trail and toust ba below there too, The cows wouldn't mean the higeiver ona nen. If there's rough country, with any shelter, they'd like enough begin to mill—it might be five miles, ten—I can’t guess, You ga find out. “Now, you others, first thing, get your families all out in the sun. Spread out the bedelothes and got them dried, Build fires and cook your best right away—have the peaple ont, Get that bugle going and play something fast—Sateet Hour of Prayer & for evening, not now. Give "em reveille, anid then the cavalry charge. Play Susannah, “Tim going te ride the edge of the burning to look for lose stock. You others get a meal into these people— coffee, quinine, more oofee. Then hook up all the teama you can and move down to the ford. We'll be on the Platte and among the buffalo in a week or ten days. Nothing can stop us. All you need is just a little more coffer = a lithe mare system, and then a good deal more of bath. “Now's a fine time for this train to shake into place, he added. “You, Price, take your men and go down the lines, Tell your kinfolle ond families and friends ond neighbors bo make bunds and hang tagether, Let "em draw cots for place If they like, but stek where they go. We enn't tell how the grass will be on ahead, and we may have to break the train inte sections on the Platte; but we'll break it ourselves, and mot see it fall apart or fight apart. So?" He wheeled and went away ata trot, All be had given them was the one thing they lacked. The Wingate wagons eume in groups and halted at the river bank, where the work af rafting and wagon boating wenk methodically forward. Seores of tndividual craft, tipsy and risky, ted of three logs lished together, ungled netosa noid landed far below. Horemen swam across with lines wed larger rafte were steadied fore and alt with ropes subbed around tree trunks on either bank. Onee started, the resourceful pioneer found a dozen ways to skin his cat, ag one man phrased it, and presently the falling waters permitted swimming and fording the stack, It all seemed ridiculously simple and ridiculously cheerful, Toward evening a grent jangling of bells and shouting of young captains announced the coming of a great band of the stampeded livestock—eattle, mules und horses mixed, Afar come the voice of Jed Wingate singing, “Qh, then, Susannah,” and urging Susannah te have no eoneert. But Banton, aloo! and mores, made hia bed that night apart even from his own traln. He had not seen Wit- gate—did not see him till the next day, noon, when he rade up and saluted the former leader, who sat on hia own wagon seat and not in saddle, iP a “My people are all across, Mr. Wingate," he said, “and the last of your wagons will be over by dark and straight- end out, I'm parked a mile ahead.” "You are parked? [ thought you were lected —by my Jate friendsa—teo lead this whole train.” He spoke bitterly and with a certain contempt that made Hanlon colar, “Ne. We can travel apart, thoagh clase. Do you want to go abead, or shall [7" “Ag you like, The courntey’s free.” “T's not free for some things, Mr. Wingate,” rejoined the younger man hotly, “You can lead or not, aa you like; but I'l not train up with a man who thinks of me aa you dn, After this think what you like, but don't speak any “What do you mean by that?" “Tou Know very well, You've believed another man's word aboot my personal choracter, [t's gone far enough and too far.” “The other man is not here. He ean't face you." "Ho, not mow. But if he's on earth he'll face me some time.” Unable to control himself further, Banion wheeled and galloped away to his own train. "You ask if we're to join in with the Yankees,” he flared out to Jackson, “Nol We'll camp apart and train apart, | won't go on with them." “Well,” suid the seout, “1 didn"t never think we would er believe ye could: net till they git in trouble agin, er till a certain light. Winget andl mules throws in with uA, huh?" “You'll say no more of that, Jackson! But one thing: you and [ have got to ride and see if we can get any trace of Woodhull." “Like looking fer a needle in a haystack, an" a damn bad needle at that,” was the old man's comment. EFI N TO the Platte! The buffalo!" New cheer seemed ta come to the hearte of the emigrants now, and they forgot bickering. The main train ground grimly ahead, getting back, if not all its egotism, at least more and more of bts self-reliainee Hy eaurbesy, Wingate etill rode uheond, though orders come now from a joint council of his leaders, since Banion would not take charge. 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a4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST peril 13, THE GOLDEN EGG ful woman, too, no doubt— Paul Schmer hated to getup inthe morning. Indeed, at the moment when our ators opens, if you could have looked into his room while he was yet asleep you would have seen that bis face was curled inte an expresdon of discontent aa if, though slumbering still, he was already subconsciously dreading the moment when the glarm clock under the head of his bed would begin ite shrill command. Tt wast a emall room—the room of a young man who had come to New York to find those golden egea which are presently hatched into moter cars, and trips back home in fur-lined conte, and beautl- ful wives, and names in the papers, and similar sundry ttems—and for the benefit of those who may be thinking of following Paul's ex- ample it might be well to describe a litte more closely the reom in whieh our hero sleepa—drenming perhaps of his search for the golden Shes. In size, then, it didn’t difler a great deal from those stately apart= Tents, six fert deep ond six feet lang. to which we shall all make our last great move. Against one of the walls waa a white iron cot of such exceeding narrowness that te sleep an it was the equivalent of an eiuecation in tight-rape bolane- ing, and to toss upon it wos one of those acrobatic foats, generally attempted to the accompaniment of a erescending roll of drurss, in which the sens and daughters of ri are popularly supposed to exert. At the head of the bed was a chiffonler—auch as are generally seen on the sidewalk in front of the secondhand furniture shops; at the foot of the bed was a trunk with a pair of trousers draped over it: and hung on the walls were three pictures—the firat a photograph of a geothefaced woman; the second a black-and-white lithograph of a lien with a fine pair of Galways on his noble old phiz; and the third a copy of one of Degas’ ballet girls, poised on her tor and looking enraptured. Mother, lion and dancing thisthedown—perhaps from these you can begin to get a line on the discontented sleeper whe is still doing the balancing act on his iron ent. And now, for the benefit af those young men who con seq onby a few odd miles of landscape from their bedroom windows and who are thinking of going to the city te pet a wider vieion of life, we might do worse than describe the view from Paul's window. The firat thing that met the eye wad a line of staggering clothes posts, each about aa long a2 a telegraph pole. To these poste, by means of pulleys, a network of lines was attached; and when these lines werent freighted with fmmily washea boo numerous to mention and too mysterious to entalogue, they were nearly always sporting drying dishclaths and mmocinted articles, Beyond these poles and lines were the backs of the houses an the next block—and that was the view whieh Paul enjoyed from the only window in all New York which he could call hia own. “ Rerr-rer-rr-rl" suddenly shrilled the alarm clock under the bed. With a movenvent of his arm which betekened practice Paul reached under and ahut off the lever; and then, as though to demonstrate the superiority of mankind over the other animals, he started the day by drawing one of those long sighs with which the sens of Adam too frequently greet the dawn, * Looks Ile rain,” he thought, ond reluctantly swinging het feet out upon the hoor he picked up his shoes. They were typleal shoes of a typical clerk—that is to aay, they looked amart on top but weren't very staunch beneath. “They'll leak if it doea rain,” he told himael!, pushing his finger againat the hole in the goles, “but they've pot to last a couple of months yet. I wonder if those old rubbers are any good.” His look of discontent growing, he opened the trunk at the foot of the bed and began rummaging among the [« many @ greater man—and many a wonder- FLEVITRATE D “Fea, Foo Con Leck," We Seemed fo Joy, By George Weston oF AUBERT

ona I Kaoew Hew te Take Core of Meri" contents. Oh neckties, old collare, old waistcoats, a aloe boo full of old letters and photographs, empty pipe cages, old shirts that had not yet bean thrown away—every young main who has gone to the city to sek his fortune will know most of the items which that trunk contained. And near the bottom of it he came te a book, From Coun- ty Clerk ta Merchant Prne:, a book which made him forget the rubbers and brought a look to his face, half tender and hall sad—the same expression which sometimes comes to an older man when he happena to find a bundle of old letters in a neglected drawer of his deak. Paul carried the book to the bed with him, and aa he turned its well-ramembered pages a sheet of paper fell out—=a memorandum which he had written on the day before he loft North Eranderville—in the daya when the confidence of youth was strong as steel within him ond dizeontent had net yet curled bis lip. “Time-Table,” the paper was headed, and underneath were the following paragraphs: May 1, 1913. Tam leaving for New York. May 1, 104, i ktulreas und I pe ee my hard work, faithfulness ond ben welll rawardott. Bioy 1, 1916, ‘ this time I a Heb worked myself up to & reeponsible yoai on in the firre, May i, 191 By this time I shall have saved omaugh to go into business for meyeelf. May 1, 1420, Firmly fatablished in my oom business. Moy 1, 1921. Busigees doubled alnes thls tine last pear, Paul glanced up at the calendar by the side of his chif= fonter. [twas May 6, 1921—five days alter the date when hit busines should have dowbled slnee this thove last year. For a tive he sat quietly—mourning a little, perhaps, over that confident young man who on May 1, 1019, had been leaving for New York—accompanied by the invisible figure of Hope—the world a football for his feet, and every kick a goal. “Hotten!" he finally told himzelf in a low woice aa he contrasted his leaky shoes to that last-quoted entry in the time-table. “And yet—it all seemed easy enough then, ‘as position, were TATA EY “Tet Tat Fousg Lady's Walking Fite Me, I could have sworn T could do it—just the =; theas other men did it in the Merchant Py Another thought came to him—a thought whicl been rankling in bis mind more and more often | pest few months: ""T guess have to be slicker nowndaj5 you did then. (Got te have o Got to be a smooth aortic know how to get away will Me—I've been working like ah at the office, thinking that wa; Tight way te get along—and al time Old Man Weatherley's py ably boon laughing at me and p ing meforafool, What I ough do is to have a talk with him find out where I stand, Alito is nerve, and I've got to ip Bometime,” Half an hour later, when he the house, the rain had cavercd sidewalk with a atippled film wh aoon demonstrated the theory capillary attraction by finding way through the holea in his ahe “Just what IT enid,” he himsell, a ferling tile fatality & ing posession of him, “Tong T'll have the toothache again, a toe-morray ——" He made a wry grimace—one those sour expressions whisk pan times darken the faces of tha who have been unsuccessful in thy search for the golden eggs; and you had been walking behind hi then, blessed with the gift of did ing things unseen, you might hn perceived that instead af being a cunopanied by Hope—stanry-<p and clad in white—anether inv ible figure waa now walking aoe with ita hand on Paul's ahewlder- aclever-looking old gentleman wt a suepicion of a bern on hus fom head—s elever-looking gentheo whe ia sometimes known as dl Gooseberry, and who limps jot i little as be walls, a E WAS a magnifieent buildiyg= the Bryce Building, in which Pad Sohmer worked—with a mam = trance like something fram the Arabian Nights, gomest in marble and gilt, and illuminated from chandelier thal might have reminded you of inverted Christmas irs, with golden boughs instead of evergroen, and every bread a glory of frosted light, Indeed, when Paul had first set foot in that evtrane, eight years before our story opens, he hod regarded bite self as being of last on the highroad te fortune. But onthe morning to which he had now arrived there wu noma feeling in him as he strode toward the elevators. Instead, le waa nursing one of those dark moods which seem & settle upon the children of men at times—a mool d disillusion such as comes to the young when Santa Clie no longer lives and there are no raisins im the puddisg—a mood of disenchantment sach os comes to the old when love begins to lose its charm and rheumatism bs etileg in the kmews, The ther clerks had already arrived and Paul grected them with gloomy curtness as he made his way t li deak. Eight years before, when he had first aeated hime! i thataame desk determined to learn the export busines: et A to Z, be wouldn't have changed places with rite, potentate or any other peraon, but on the moming Fh gue story opens he slammed up his rall-top ete though he would like ta break it, amd mutter “Dott you!" beneath his breath when one of the drawers wells’ open as quickly as he wished, For a thee besat arcing? his papers and preparing bis work for the day, half galt ing the door for Mr. Weatherby to make hia appeann, half listening to the conversation that was going on ara hin. “T see Pete Finley and Bat Yonaon fought a drv bt night,” ssid one of the bookheepers. “Sure they did," said another. “What do you thisk! They'll get another match now and make trice w me money, A couple of wise guys. You don't s\pesa they're fighting for their health, do you?” 6 bee a __ aurea

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | wonder how much they get when they fight.” Aboot five thousand each.” fot bad for half an hour's work.” TU tell the workd it ien't.” It wouldn't be so bad if they got it all," said the book wt, “but the matchmaker’s a wise guy, too, and he gets dice or he wouldn't sign them up. And the m (his—often gets half of it—and what's left, there's eally a lawyer walting to slap an attachment on it— ancther Lawyer has to be hired to pry the attachment Serves ‘em right if it's a crooked game." Where do you get that stuff? Tell me something that toooked nowadays." ‘You've said something,” said the stenographer, who i dusting her mechine, “Last two weeks [ve been ming with a girl who works for one of the big theatrical suptewn—and any! The things ahe tella me!" dehind his desk Paul shortly nodded his head. ‘Craty —crazy—everything's crazy nowadays," he mut- ed to himself. Touring his first years at the office he had never allowed ot sort of conversation to sink into his mind, but had prded ft aa the claptrap of those who didn't deserve res, only parth: meant and not to be tuken seriously. at lateby, and esxpenrially after his bare Vaart in the service Vian, be, boo, wos beginning to wonder whether, with jew rare exceptions, everything and everybody weren't ooked—whether all the qualities mentioned in the Mer- want Prince had not become cheolete, like writing lensi- ex letters in longhand, or taking o trip to Buffalo by ay of the Erie Canal. “Star honést—andetay poor.’ “Work hard anc see what et you.” “Save your money—the wise guy likes to ake itt way from you in chunks,” Buch were the gem fohilonky which were beginning to adorn hia thoughts, lo for the Merchant Prince etuff, hadn't he tried it out or over eight yeura? And what ad it brought him ? Paul ehuffied Kia damp feet inde the desk and for the sec- od Ge that day be called bir F Ha fond. “Tm getting on for thirty,” be thoght. “And pretty soon ‘Ube getting on for forty. ‘Yes, und | might as well be serving tine in jall a8 fooling along the way l'm doing Taw." ld stories that ho had heard vary began to stir in his reney. There was one about a Beton merchant who, on @ races statement, had simulta- onus borrowed fifty thousand dolls from ten different barks, each bank thinking it was the cay one that was toaking the fou. And then, of course, with ta half million dollars safely wlted away, the wise man from tee Eat had gone bankrupt, acd bad never had to worry ay fore. There was another Uvatatank cashier who started on vacation with a clean mil- fist della in his zultease, and hal settled his case out. of court for peven banded and fifty thou- urd, Then there was the pra unten officer who had accepted 6 Snbe of eighty-five thousand tolirs and had reigned hia portion the next morning, Slick work and gaft. Hold up your ‘ureda and deliver! The Mer- chat Prinee had become a Pirate afd the papers were full of his renying-on. Building=material nandacturers were robbing the fbr right and left; ahipa that fas cost a fortune were being rind favored companies for a © Gousends: the prohibition Gi were a joke; importers vere dodging the customs. “Atd that's oo dream," thetght Pwal, pushing his papers und] Uming to stare out ithenin, “Old Man Weather. “Fadeing it right along. Nearly cl the tof we've been getting “7 & undervaleed, Blot he Sot pring to take it out of me = Yonger. T've been unebere Yalsed long enough, Just os "Ol a he comes in Pm going Wevikehim foraraise, Might ae Well be dead and buried us sticking arcand here forever for eighteen dollars a week," ! In the hall outeide a quick step was heard —a step which stemmed to say “Look out; lr going to eateh you! "*—aned simultaneously the office grew silent, except for the tippity- tap-tap of Miss Metwire's busy typewriter, The door opened and the senior member of the firm strode through the railing gate wlth a gruff “Good morning.” The next moment he had vanished inte his private office and Puul found his heart beating faster at the task before him. “Darned if I'll pat it off," he sucdenly told himeelf. “T've put it of too long alrendy, I'll get him now before he calls Miss McGuire in: and the sooner I start the sooner it's aver." Rising grimly frota hia chair he made hia way te the door af S. J.'a private office and raised his knuckbes te the panel. “Rap-rop-rap!" he sounded; and ogain more loudly, *Rap-rap-rap!" “Camel” erled a volee inside. Paul hesitated a moment, and then drawing a full breath he threw back his shoulders and passed through the swinging dear, ai T WAS characterlatie of old S. J. that after a glance at Paul he should continue his perusal of the morning mail, alitting open an envelope with an air of irritation and reading the letter inside as though he despised it. “Mir. Weatherby," began Paul, “I'd like to have a talk with you for a few minutes,” “WellT' demanded the older man, attacking the next envelope with his paperknife, "Tt's cight years now since [ started to wark here; and I'd like te know If I"ve given satisfaction.” Old &. J. looked weary, a9 though he recognized the prelude of a very old tune, *1'Tl tell WO Deter thing quick enough," hesnid. “If A hadn't given antistuction you wouldn't be here now." = They Were of Taielr Sench Ooerioekiag the Bioer Fhen He Fliaatiy Tard Wer a4 “When I first came here you sald my advancement depended entirely upon my own efforta, I've worked hard—yes, and faithfully, and well, On foreign-mail nights I've alten been at the office till after ten o'clock. When Savage was slek for over three months I did his work as well as my own. T've never been a clock wateher—nor a time killer—nor a knocker, I've been a worker —yea, and n hard worker—buat alter eight years, it seers to me well, dit seems to me that I ought to know where I e#tand.” “How Leng do you aay youve been here?" “Eight years.”" "Including your two years in the Army?" ia Vos, sir," “Mmm. That makes six yeara—not eight. Do you ever aD to think that I kept your job opin for you while you Were away?" “ns, sar.” “Mmm, Give ne eredit for that. And now let me tell you something: If you have o better job in mind —as I muppoae you have, talking to me like this—I ean fill your desk a dozen times tomorrow for less money than I'm paying you now. This is a competitive world that we live in: I have te cainpete, and so must you.” At that he seized upon another envelope and slit ita gizzard open with a whish of his knife that had something fierer alent it. “De you mean ta say, then,” said Paul, stammering a little, hia lipa suddenly feeling dry and unwieldy, “do you mean to say, then, that—that there's no further chanee of getting on here?" “So far as that's concerned,” aaid old S. J., making a note on the letter he was reading, “you'll have to draw your own conclusions, Any advaner of splary at the pres ent time ia abeolutely out of the question. Tell Miss Metruire ta come in. That's all the time I can give you,” Paul went back to his desk as though to the roll of muffied drum, his feet feeling wetter than ever, and hia future looming up bike a eon- stant succession of rainy days and leaky shoes and hopes de. ferred to make the heart grow sick. “The old thief!" he muttered to himself at last. “TD belie we it now—-every word they aay abeut him. Anybody who would do a trick like that—string a kid along for eight yeara—nand then practically tell hint to go to the deri] ——"* Nursing his resentment le slowly get about his day's work. The afternoon before he had prepared the papers covering ah export shipment of machinery from a Milwauker firm, in whose favor the foreign purchaser had wsued a letter of credit. Paul nia gathered these papera to gether—the steamship bills of lading, insurance eertifiewtes, in- voices and drafta—and pinning them to the letter of credit be took the documents to the bank which handled the firm's export business. Five minutes later the foreign-exchange clerk pusleed through the wicket a check for thirty-seven thousand dollars, druwn te the onder of the Mile waukee manufactur. "Thirty-seven thouzand dol- lars!"" thought Paul; and - newrly a minute later: “Df that waa only mine!" When he returned to the office he had a heightened color, and almost hurriedly he gave the eheck to the bookkeeper bo be forwarded to Milwaukee. “Thirty-seven — thousand — dollars," he presently found him- acl repenting, and then catching himself with w start he pot his mind back on hia work, his eare growilg Warmer every moment. Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thirf—there are few men living, and thos: few probally touched with deafness, who haven't heard the whisper of Old Goceeberry in their time, re OWAHRD noon the rain stopped and the afternoon developed into one of those (Continued of Page Fa!

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2h THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A‘'D' 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY EY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, U. S.h. GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR Five Geom the Moga Fem AG] Mewadealere. By Sukaceipriog: Tin ther Lnited Seabees and Fosermsions, Cube amet Menkes, BL the Veer, Hemi by I. 3, Meee) Ohdew, Lagireaa Moaey Orde, Check oe by Drak, payable In Ci, 3. Foo. To Caonede—fy Suobecription, LM ihe Year. Single Copies, Ten Crni— Tanadian ce E!. &. Pindia Foreige Suhecriptiona: For Comatries Ga the Pontal Lint. Sheed phere, 2 he Yeu, Bereteneces be be by Crh on oe beak io the 8. poveble la. LD, B, Tuite, PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 143, 1922 A Chance for the So-Goes HE Hoosiers say that every man lo Indiana is a poli- tictan, aod since the Nineteenth Anvendment they probably include every woman alao. They uaed to claim, too, that “As Indiana goes, ao goee the Union,” which Pleased the Hoosiers and waa not unduly annoying to any section of the public save the politiciana of the other ambitious barometer atates, of which there were several, In any event, Indiana maintained a rather consistent agora poitical reputation for a considerable time, and certainly pevlitica waa, and is, a lavorite yoration, avorca- tion, pastime, emplayment, diversion and practice of a large percentage of the population, There always is some polities stirring in Indiana. The candidates begin their campaigns early and continue them aver long stretches of time. The Hoosiers like to hear reHiticnl speeches, and are keen to discuss political isswes, As soon as one election ia over candidates secking for votes at forthcauming elections begin their rounds, and there never is » moment when the cities ond the rural districts are not entertainingly besieged by members of all parties who desire the frequent suffrages of the people. Consequently the people of Indiana are a politically well= informed people—far better informed than the people af New York, say, where polities is neither so intensive nor so interesting—aned to a large degre: eelect their candi: dates and decide their elections on the basis of political knowledge rather than because of political enthusjasms. Fundamentally the real Indianlans—the authentic Hoos slera—the men and women of the country aa distinguished from the allens and the hyphenates—the Americans— have a keenly intelligent comprehension of national polit. ical affairs and tendencies and an active interest therein. Hence all other Americans of similar comprehension and interest are watching with deep concern the progress of the campaign now being made in Indiana ley Albert J. Beveridge for the nomination for United States senator, and with strong confidence that the voters of Indiana will take this opportunity ta return Mr. Beveridge to the Senate, not alone because such action will be of advantage to Indiana but because it will be a distinet national, American service as well, There ia ho greater menace te the security and perpe- tuity of American institutions than the continwed dete Tictation of the United States Senate ln character, in ability and in political integrity that has eeurred during the past THE sa@TURDAY EVENING POST twenty years. It has degenerated from ita former high capacity of cheek upon and balance for the political ex- travagances and maladministrations of the Lower Hayse of Congress toa body now even more demagogic than thot Lower House. It i now weak in leadership, faltering and inconclusive In purpose, swayed by blind partisanship, obstructionist, opportunist, raucous with the cries of self. seeking demagogues, and unable even ta carry out its own feeble policies without interminable and futile dis. . cussion and the injection of all sorts of influenced compro: mise and capitulation to vutside influences, The only policy of its majority ia expediency, and the only plan of ita minority is to impede. The quality of the Senate's membership has so deteriarated fram its eorlicr rostera that now one-third, ot irast, of the nomes on the roll-call are names that designate individuals whe would add little weight to the deliberations of any average board of county supervisors, The Senote of the United States should ber, ond was, the great, determining, abl: aod serapuloun legistutive foram af this country, It is now the rostrum of little politiclans and the breeding place af litele polities. It requires but a glance at the list of the Senate's membership of twenty yeurs ago, say, and at that af toalay, and the most curual knowledge of the capabilities and character of the prea- ent sctnatom to make proof of that assertion; that, and the daily reeard of the Senate's proceedings. Wherefore the people of Indiana are fortunate in this present primary campaign for the selection of an Indiana senator. They have an opportunity to do the country a service, and themselves as well, by returning to the Senate Albert J. Beveridge, who not only has a record of twelve years of able and exceptional service in that Senate to commend him, both te Indiana and toe the nation, buat in the time that bas elapsed since his frat senatorial service ended has grown greater in stature and ability. He & an orator with a background and a per- epective; a historian and a biographer with a wide and accurate knowledge of our Government, its functlonings, its necessities and its capabilities: a man af independent thought and determined action; of character, courage and experience, This & a chanee for the Hoosier e-goes, It ls quite posible that if Indiana shows the way by going for Bever- idge otheratates may follow thatexcellent political example in the selection of their senaterial candidates te the great national service of bringing the United States Senate back to ite former status of real and patriotic statesmanship. Land Settlement for Veterans NE of the sections ff the Delayed Compensation Bill makes provision for purchase of land for weterans desirous of ontering on agricultural pursuits, Such a pro- posal receives everywhere toral support, becnus every atate, even the oldest on the Atlantic Coast, desires land aettlers—=to take up new land or reelaim abandened land, Tao city folk the proposition sounds easy, but to farmers it has the earmarks of a prometion scheme. Jt is agreed that the new settler must have @ better start than the earlier homesteader; but just bow much @ belber stark and how supported by the Government is not made clear, What we propose to de Australia bos been doing for three years. The experiences with land settlement by veterans in that cruntry ought to yield palate of guidance for us. The several states of Australia conduct the enterprises, but the Commonwealth contributes funds a4 well as the states, The original Soldiers Repatriation Act established a Repatriation Department for purposes of adiministra- tion. The returned soldier is entitled to elect one of several options for land settlement. Each approved settler is granted 210M) — £05 as working capital, £476 for resump- tions and expenses incidental to settlement. Land is avail- able under five different tenures, or combinations of them, The application ia passed on in more than a perfunctory, red-tape manner, Every effort is made to it the applicant to his land, a0 that he will stick, The following formes of tenure are available: 1. The lease, in perpetuity, of a homestead farm. The bolder must reside on the farm for five years. He pays a April 14,1 tental equal to 2): per cent of an gonounced vajua subject to reapproisement every twenty Years. The re the first five years may be paid in specified improves 2. Lease of a plece of Crown Land, extending forty. veers. The holder must reside on the land five years, rental ia 1) per cent of land value, reappraisement « fifteen yeara; the rental of the first year is payabl imprevenents, 3. Purchase of fund. Payment on appraised cup value is to ie made in fifteen equal annual installoe with interest wt 2)y per cent. 4. Suburban holdings, either with lease in perpetuin under gale. Settler muat reside on the holding five ye the terms of rental or purchase are like those stated aby 5. Settlement purchase, especially for extablishmen: ead peradivn land colonies like thease at Dirham end [5 in California. These are for diversified agriculture or special cropa. More than 160),000 acres were set apart ae available these several projects. There ia a long waiting list, des the beat efforta of the administrative board, During: firat year of operations more than 15,000 soldier » aettled on the land. In order fully to evaluate this accomplishment we om recall the conditions in Australion agriculture since { war. A new settler of the usual limited means would t have bern able to weather the stenm of deflation of pei Cm the other hand, the country is still in the extracti state, inderd really a frontier stute, There is still a ehoire of lone. We have litth: homestead land left untaken. New on for opening as homestends scarcely exit. Leases on dl forest reserves or other public domain would represents experiment, The opening of further irrigation tracts faa the problems of high costa of reclamation. For the Ge eroment to purchase lund now Ln private ownership i farms for soldier would slmply mean te make them fra halders withoul caplial for operation, Clearly the tod tions for the undertaking are much more favarabl: | Australia than here, And the population there still pe srssacs strongly the paycholegy of frontier exploitation almost extinct here. Tf returned soldiera ‘are te march i the van af a back-te-thefarm movernent the oedertakia will demand better organization than is te be experts fram politicians anxlow: for the veteran vote, The Little Tax Slackers OHODY knows and nobody cam eatimate, es roughly, how many million dollars are acinualir to the Government through the failure of the smaller tay dodgers to fle incometax returns, The Treasury Departs ment ia araply equipped for the detection and prosecul! af big delinquents. Rich men have found tax dodgny a hazardous aport, but the Wttle fellaws ope protected their very ohacurity. Under the present procedure nohody exespt Gown ment officials isin a position te know who has filed cetera and who has not. The privacy surrounding income matters moses it possible for millions af persons woe ecoive taxable incames te evade with impunity even {iv small payments to which they ure liable; and it eaanot be doubted that many avail themselves of the defect ol ihe system to the limit. It ia common knowledge that ther are many parts of the country, particularly rural distelts where very few persons even think of paying an ines! and where only the richest offenders are brought te bat There is a simple remedy for exlating conditions, an sey way te step millions of little leaks. If the Secretary of th ‘Treasury would cause local lista of ineome-ter payed be printed and ta le generally displayed in eourthowr. post offices and other Federal premises, or poblsbel & local newspapers, the effect would be immediate at! atriking. Such lists would be eagerly conned end studed Unless human nature should suddenty and radically ele the dackera would be ahown up in shart order; for namie who bas met a common obligation foels kindly toward be neighbors who have repudiated it, Absence from the ft weald put every tax dodger on the defensive. It weed k less painful to come clean than to ran the ganilet o neighbors’ eyes. This plan is worth a trial, Added incocee wad be vastly greater than the expense that woulel be ineive?.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST [HE SUN-HUNT By Kenneth L. Roberts “JHE manner in which modern migra- L ions are stimulated & pretty much the same all over the world. A ident of Poland, having no money [no job, borrows enough money ma telative In America to bor the trip. Having made it utites back pityingly to his mds in Poland. “Why,” he wis bis letter, “should you iy in Poland? It is a rotten i. Borrow some money and me over here quick. The place fel of rich suckers who will buy hing youshow them. All the Amer- is have money. Come quickly before mebody geta all of it away from them.” Agsson azit becomes known that Americn in c&er advantages which Europe docsn’t sees the European is filled with a passionate desire to upture a few of them. Philosophera who have made a wal study of human motives and emotions have em= alned the philosophy of migrations in a few phrases, each a Distance lends enchantment" and “ They all look good rhen they're far weray. These phrases are true; but the Ling that lends the greatest amount of enchantment toa firtant piece of real estate is a letter from Cousin Walt or Friend Herbert saying, “You ought to see the fish we catch down bere, A full-course dinner coats only seventy-five ent. Don't mise thia next year.” The Northern States in the past few years have de veloped a new type of migrant. Instead of being hot on the tl af any sort of coin, currency or legal tender, an is thimedern European immigrant, and instead of being in search of politics! of re= ligious freedom, as weno many European immi- granta during the post @ Camp of the Ridge of Tompo Any. fa a Tiaetaa Tema, Lemon tity, ear Miami century, the modern migrant is after warm weather during the winter months. He is a sun-hunter, He is sick af four months of snow and ice, He is heartily tired of cold feet, numb tars, red flannel wnder= wear, rheumatism, stiff neck, cool bills, coughs, colds, influenza, drafts, mittens, ear tubs, snow shovels, shaking down the furnace, carrying outashes, and falling down on an icy sidewalk and spraining his back. It gives him a prolonged pain to wear his overshors and a muffler, and to have to thaw out the radiator of his automobile every two or throe days. The bane of his existence & altting around the house for four months waiting for April to come along and unstiffen his joints. He wants sun and Iota of it. Tf he must spend four months doing nothing he prefers to spend ft amid the Spanish moss and the palm trees, bearkening dreamily to the cheerful twittering of the dickey birds and to the atir- ring thuds of the coconuts, oranges and grapefruit as they fall heavily to the ground, In the big hotels in Palm Beach, Miami, Ormond, Daytona, 5t. Augustine and other Florida resorts are the time-killers, with their jewel lariate and their acres of white trousers, with their flask-trimmed ten dances and ther hard-boiled social aspirations and their refined gume- bling houses und aT RS their trick whisky canes. The sun, to the thme-killers, is not of the utmost importance. If they were unable to change their clothes several times a day they would feel ill at eas; Wf they were unable ta be charged a little matter of forty dollars.a-day fora double room and bath they would feol that they were being slighted in some way; if they couldn't have the knowledge that they were inhaling the same air that was being inhaled by the leading millionaires and society pots they would feel cheated. Not so the sun-hunter, The sun-hunter knows the value of adellar, He usually knows the value of a nickel also, Tt is said that before he relinquishes his hold on a twenty- five=cent piece he gives it a farewell aqueeze of such violence that the exgle on it frequently emits a shrill scream of anguish. This statement, I believe, is a groes exaggeration. The fact remains, however, that one never finds the sun- hunter throwing his money around in the loose apasmodie manner that always characterizes the genuine time-killer I have been describing, And the sun-hunter wants just two things—aun and air. He knows nothing about Charlie Schwab or Harry Payne Whitney, and he would take no interest whatever in them unless they got between him and the sun. Clothes mean nothing in his life. The male sun-hunter is osually garbed im dark trousers which hang loosely on his legs like the trousers always inflicted on sculptured statesmen by sculptors of the Horace Greeley period. He may or he may net wear a cont, depending entirely on hia whim of the moment; bat be almost in- variably affects the old-fashioned gallus, or suspender. He will be found in thia garh on Sunday morning, when fishing for yollowtails.on the edge of a creek with a bamboo pele; be will be found in it on Wednesday iternoon, when visiting the movies: pod be will be found in it on Fri dny evening, when engaged in an exciting = game of ewebre with a pair of brother and (Coitinened an Page 6! a a a kat j wail af Pie i Note the Siriag of Ged fenesers, Pergeast Maloes, Greiats gad Pethomiadls Leaaiag @ gainer the Hackoof the Piiooer

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28 T! THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Iz UPRISING GENERATION April is, } The Adventure of the Missing Chaperon T LAST | haven past! Of course the A family have made an awful row about it, and | had to work hard getting it, and now Resamond—that's my elder sister — says [t's only a technical past, when you come to look into it carefully, But at any rate [ve got ie now, and, though I was rather frightened at the time, tt was fearfully exciting and I think a women simply has to have an interesting past to attract any real attention, Look at Helen of Troy and Cleopatra and=—oh, well, anybody! And be- sides all thet, with thia great literary talent of mine, [ want some day te write ome of those thrill- ing memoirs that get you so much trauble and money at the same time, because of telling such alot of knowing things about the best people, and all that! And if one is bo get together enough material, why, one ought te etart one's past in plenty of time, if you know what IT menn. CH cours | am eighteen, and thet is rather lite, Ist stil! | feel T have at any rate made a good beginning. This past of my very own etarted after my quarrel with Ted Stonewall, Ted isan early in- discretion of mine, and it is few prac- tically impossible for me to shake him. Vory romantic for him, but a perfect bore forthe woman tohave a oan hang around like that after one's tired of him-—eh what? And [ got through with Ted simply mons age, We met when | was young, aomere child with no discrimination, and while the family were not so watchful shout whom [gottoknow. He came to our country house with the boy who wis delivering groceries and I happened to be on the back fence eating a hot cake | had coaxed fram the chef. Iwasa mere flapper at the time and of course could navt ber expectid to know my own mine. Ted gave me an apple and that started it all. [was very much in love with him for a while and used to seo a lot of him every summer when we came back to Roesemere. | didn’t meet him in town partly because Misa Speare makes that sort of thing ao unnecessarily difficu’t, and partly -hecause Ted's fnther, who wes combined Conl, Wood and Insure ance, lived in Roeemere Village all the Veur around. The day I put up my hair for the first time without mother telling me to put it down again Ted kissed me—out in the atchard, because mother didn't eneour- age his coming around to the front door, Democracy simply means nothing to mather if the democrat uses bad gram- mar, Ted didn't, but bis parents prob- ably did, and that waa enough for Mrs. Edward Torrington. I wasn't exactly forbidden to seo Ted: mother waa far too wise for that! But T wasmone or bess on my honor nat te, and thiswasalessday. Sal sav him. And after that kiss he became alimply impossible! “['m going ta marry you one day, Pet Torrington!” he said in his heavy wey. “I"m going in business with father in the spring, and [ll make good! [ll marry you—you needn"t laugh, young lady!" Wasn't that quaint? I waa terribly intrigued by it, lat remembor l wes a mere child of seventeen at the time. T hadnt come out, and | was [earfully ignorant, And by the nest summer Fo was really living—having a perfectly dizzy time, Rosamond being mercifully married out of my way, and of courae [ wasn't going to have Ted hulking around and criticizing me in his ridiculous, old-fagy fashion. T was fond of him, of course, for auld lang syne, and all that, but I didn't want him scLring everybody elec off, and his idess about women were simply antique! The crisia came one afternoon when he showed up in a flivver— in a flivwer, mind you!—and asked me to go to ride with him init, twas a brand«new shining cracker box and it seems the amusing infant had bought tt with his first earnings. “No, I wen't go, thanks," sald I. “Net im that rat trap. I'm too slim to ride comfortably in it, Ted." We were standing on the terrace, where we could com- | an excellent view of the shining fivver. Ted frowned 1 cigarette, te hive “TE Troghie Feu to Lease Me fen) f By Nina Wilcox Putmam fLLUITRATEOS BY — HAF PILTON PREITORN Pm Fed Ca Wik Fear Wid +Fictorion Tomes prot fe" “Sie down, won't you?" [ suggested, “Tl ring for a drinkt"™ “Wo, thanks!" said Ted shortly. Then he burst owt, “"T don't like to sep you drink, Pet! It's all wrong—I don't ive & who says no! Your mother aught to stop youl" “hother,”’ said Tanavely, “ls playing bridge over at the Slesens'. She won't be home for hours. Do change your Thind." "Nol" anid he both. “Your doing it behind her back makes it all the worse, Pet! My mother wouldn't allow such a thing! Honestly, dear—I wish you'd cut it out. “Don't bea prune, Ted," said [. “sed don't call me dear, either, I teld vou that was all off!" "Woo can't cut the dear out as fares ['m coneernod! said Ted firmly. “TD love you, and although it's no news to you, | may add T intend to marry you. And | have every tight to protest.” “You have nothing of the kind because you're not!" I flashed back at him. “You give me the periahin” blues, ald thing! I'm quite capable of taking care of myself!" “That's just where you're dead wrong!" suicl Ted very earnestly, “You think you're as wise a the Sphing, when as a matter of fact you're as innocent as a kitten. ‘Girls seem toa have gone crazy nowadays. What most of you need is a good old-fashioned spanking bring you back te your aenses! Afy moi never acted like that when ahe was a; I'd like to bet; no, nor yours, either!" “Huot they probably put alot ower, Just the sare, thing!" [anapped. “Don'tever doubt it! The only ference is that they did it on the alyf** “Tidon"t believe that fora moment!" ssid Ted, “y like te ketel yoursell that everyborly has always done sume sort of thing. You'll be sorry some day." “Tl risk it," said IT coldly. “And wntil that fatal bi falla, Mr, Theodore Stonewall, ['U trouble you te leave: along! T'm fed up with your mid-Vietorian tommyrot “Tt isn’t tammyrat, dear,” said Ted, coming over 9 trying to take my hands. “It isn’t rot—really, & Decency is never old-fashioned, whatever y may think,” “Ted, vou bore me to tears," I replied languid “The workd has changed and it's left you bebir that's all. Stop being a silly, dai" “All right.” he sighed helplessly. “(Com on. hop in the fiv and [ll be good. Please! frp peach of an engine—the best of ite tribe f"* “Nol” said 1. “I"m “Whot" demanded Ted, fealous a il] “Pat [ve heard some talk. It's not Gran \iewinger, [ hope?" “What ifitisT’ Teaid, “Can't leven make date without your permission?" Not with a murried man—ryperal one with the sort of reputation Messing haa!” said Ted. “Pet, don't be a low You can't do that sert of thing and g away with tt indefinitely, by gosh! Th lite you lead is all wrong! | mean crowd that hangs around the country cub It's not normall Take that diamond oy they're pluying for mow, for instant Think of a dinmond-mounted tennis cup Pough! They ean't even do athlete wliclesamely !"" “Ted, you talk from the depths of the camphor chest,” [said, and 1 resent yer tone,” And indeed [did resent it! ‘Ted's bois ing the pack which had been yelping d the heels of we poor budaall season marked the limit as far asl was concerned. Asi a girl didn’t have to have some experience, some knowledge of life! Mother's attitude Teould endure. IT could manage her, b cause she would have died rather thea have me left out of things or be differs from the ather girls in the crowd. “Ted Stonewall, that'll be about 21!" Il eaid, exasperated. “Tam pertecly a- pable of running my own life without ay help from you! I'l see whom I choos and go where | wish, and [ do not wish to ride in that tin pan of yours, After this 1 never ride in it] I'm through!" “But Dm sot through with yoo!" said Ted with that clumsy, ridiculous serve nesoof his. “E's not through with yoo Tut ['ll stuy away now, until you send for me. Youwes bluff! And when you're through pulling chestnuts cuts the fire and finding they are too het to eat—ohy, ring BF a up! “Ted Stonewall, you tnsulting thing!"* I cried, But the sound of my voles was drowned in the nar ol the flivver as Ted jumped in and started down the driv way. Thoroughly riled, but somehow not quite as gay a! aught toe have been over Ted's very bourgeois departer, I went op bo my room anid sat down in front of sy dren table, still awfully wrathy as 1 prettied up and selected hat. But I did not concern myself with that ridicalee Ted very long. Naot much! Instead I concerned myself with making my gei-aray unebtrusively before mother came home. Because thougt mother is awfully good form and fairly intelligent in om milnor things such as cultural subjects, ahe and] am wld sympathy on many vital matters, and she has the me unreasonable way of drawing the line in places aber 4 line has no more reason than if it were ina cobist drawice. For instance, she thinks it's all right for G. . Third tol on me for hours all alone in our own Grawing-rom, © even out on the porch at night; but she woulds't can of letting me motor with Gran Moessinger, And ott (Continged en Page 20!

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a0 (Continued from Poge 28 with him was just exactly slat cet aka dn: abd I had te hurry in order ta get out of the house before she could Teluse me permission to go. When I was dreeaed I must confess my appearance gave me a good deal of satisfaction. I'd had a permanent wave two days before and it made my bobbed hair look simply delicious, And I had just that world-weary look which I think is so fascinating in a woman. I was too intrigued for words, because this was the first time [ had ever bern out alone with Granny Messinger, and I didn’t want him to take me for a child. He was waiting in the little lane outslde the gate with his Calby-Droit roadster, and looking almply tap-hale. Oh, Ido think older men are so attractive! There is something finished-looking about them that is perfectly fascinating, provided they don’t look too finished, if you know what I mean. Gron head this look, combined with a charming figure, gloriously well groomed, soft litth mustache, patent-leather hair, ond that poise which positively none of the kids can show, I guess that it only comes with experience, secret experience, “Cheers, old dear!" said I as he reached out a hand and drew me aboard. “I had a time getting owt!" Of course that wasn't quite true, but I had to be inter- esting right off the bat with a man like Gran. “The deuce you say!" said he. “I came directly from town. Look here—d'you mind if we keep along the back rons? No use rushing into the crowd on the beach and Jetting them start any Maltese remarks, ch?" q Rig ht!" said T. “One can't do the meet innocent sort af ching without making talk, can one?" And T looked at him owt of the corner of my eye, “Innocent?” aaid Gran. “Innocent? Pet, your inmo- cence appalle mel" And he laughed in the wickedest way. It simply gave me shivers of delight, snd then we started cruising off through the heavenly piny beck roads, that are eo lovely on cur part of Long Island, and [ settled down to enjay miself thoroughly, You see, Ted was tight when he aald that Gran Mes singer had a fearfully bed reputation. But that didn't prevent his being chairman of the house committee at the elab, and of course received everywhere, and all that, f Tersacd on Him Furloarty, Poatiag With Fear oad Aager, ond Mall Crviag Wits Nervoomese aa THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Naturally all the debs were mad about him, and I knew, for instance, that Sylvia Glenning and Tot , my best friends, would simply die of envy if they could aee me now! They were awfully keen about him, too, and we three had rehashed him pretty thoroughly more than once, and supposed a lot of things about him that couldn't be pub- lished. And here I was, secretly motoring with him, all alone out in the woods! [t was absolutely too dizzy for words! Hut how was | to keep him interested and amused? That was an awful question. You see, it was the firat time we had really talked. Wo'd danced a lot, for he had cut in on me no end for several weeks, But you know how that is, You just chatter when you todddle, But owt here in the air with nothing to occupy one but the view, it was appalling! [had to say something inter- eating ond say it quickly, Gran was the type of mon who throws the whole burden of entertaining on the woman. He sits back and dares you ta amuse him. But help? Not heavily! So it was up to oe. [thought rapidly for a moment, and then decided to con- fess my sing. Of course T hadn't any eins, so 1 was obliged to invent some. But that was all the better; I wasn't hampered in my recital by mere facts. Also there was no back kick to imaginary slips, or so, poor fish that I was, I thought at the time, For a starter [ registered world-weariness and turned great troubled eyes to his in a combined come-on and an [-know-you-will-be-symputhetic look which was perfectly safe as long aa he kept on delving. I wanted him te drive, for I wasa‘t looking for a petting party, “Gran, [ gaid, “I'm dreadfully of my feed to-day! Dren't you think I'm showing my age terribly?" "T do," said he. “You look all of eighteen, Pet. What ails yout" "My conscience," said I, “DT must cut out the sort of life I'm leading, Granny, or [ll be in hot water the firat thing you know, E'm ruining my life, old thing!" “Well, what elae is there to da with one's life?” said Gran in bis deliciously cynical way. “That is, if one wants any fun out of it. What's your favorite vice now, Pet?" “Gambling,” I said molly, beeause: that was the worst thing [ could think of offhand. “Gran, I'm a born

April ii gambler and I always los—yet I can’t stop mise fearfully in debt!" “The deuce you say!" said Gran, his smile var Up to now he bad not been taking mut very seriou T sould see that this hit him. "By Jove, that's awfull™ "Yes, isn't it?" said [sighing contentedly at my But Gran of course took ie for deep melancholy, “. dare to tell my family—I simply don't dare!** < “Tsay, look here—how much?” sald he. “Wor om “Oh, nol" said I hastily, “I couldn't dream of, thing. It's two thousand dollas—about." “Phew!” said Gran with a long whistle.

oe ial Ba ane going strong for a baby!" “Pm nota baby!" T said. “Iwish I were! Gamt a Vice with me, Gran, that’s all! Sometimes I feel ar years old!" “You're a wise litthe duck," said Gran seriously, “ here, though, you are a good sport. A girl should es herself—get a lot out of Ife. What To mean—experi and all that. [like you because you're auch @ enexy But two thousand dollarain the hole! IT aay, better hb clean it up. Let me do it, eh what?" Wasn't that too excitingflorwords? Being offered m to pay my gambling debts by a married man! I wasst thrilled to tears! [sat there congratulating mysely laying o mental bet that neither Sylvia mor Tot ¢ equal that foronexperionee! [could see them writhe envy when I told ubout it—if [ decidedd to fell, M while the plot was thickening. Gran had taken one | aff the wheel and throws his arm about the seat hay my shoulders, My heart began te beat violently with excitement of the game, but [ wasn't a bit afraid. Ih T could handle bir. And just think—what a wand item to tuck away for my past! "Oh, nol Nothing doing, Gran!" I said, but ow and looking down so that he wouldn't be sure wheth really meant it or not. You know—old stuff. 1 by got to the place where it was my cue to jump off the with the villain in full porsuit—and land safely below w gut breaking n single bone in my head! Hut wes warming up. Grun waa driving slowly and the road: {Continaed of Poge I3)}

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a2 4 UP STAGE AND DOW) By Charles Collins PRESTON whould go on the stage, ao she went. There Wis nd neason why, once on it, she should In these matters, aa [Nason was no reason why Mab Maody have succeeded, but she did. well aa in some other things, Mab was a surprising young person. There waa, for ex- ample, no valid cause for her to detest Harvey Norris, who taught her the A BOC of acting—and all of that de serves to be explained. The name Mab, mark you, is not short for Mabel; if it were, thes things might not have happened. It belongs to Marve, the queen of the fairies, whe, being of Pe origin, is an 2x fluential mirth, and antes) ably put in a word for the girl who waa baptized for ber. Mab Moody, at any rate, made her début into the theater without any of the struggles and pangs which are belioved to attend that process, She merely declared her intention, the enchanted land opened ita stage door be- fore her and, lke a lucky fairy child, she calmly walked in and teek out citizenship papers. Her firat make-up box, borrowed from Harney Norris, the stage manger, whom she afterward Jearned to despise, had a rabbit's foot in it, and jt was ah effielent talisman. The gilt of beauty had no share in the magle which manipulated these events, for Mab, in the daye of her novithute, waa not a etartling creature to look at. She was a little dumpling of eighteon years, round and soft asa fat kitten, a true roly-poly of a girl, five feet high with no woistline: and the way she did her hair was apparently patterned after a daguerreae type of her grandmother. Although too young to have a discernible profile she certainly bad eyes, large, brown and gentle, with tremendous lashes which she knew how to flutter effectively; and her amile had a slant te it that was both dralland lovable. Her voice was merely a sweet, timerous whisper, Such was Mab, an odd child, with fat armé and Jega and delleate hands and feet, when ahe first felt the call toa career among the beauties and the beasts behind the footlights, Mab's home waa in [inapolis, where her father manu- factured plows on an impressive scale; and that city was enough of a capital to support the kind of resident thentri- eal company which is known as summer stock, For three seasons of a year [inapelis had to content iteclf with the miscellany of the Broadway booking offices, transient troupes in aplit-week engagements: boat from June ta August it could eall itself a producing center and a con- tribwter te the uplift of the stage. Windser Morton's Repertory Company would then settle down there, to warm over an old play or try out a new one every week, much to the excitement of the local chapter of the Drama League. And Mab, as beeame the heiress of one of the best families in Tllinapolis, kept in close touch with this cultural movement. When she discovered that Windsor Morton occasionally recruited native daughters into his company for temporary servic In Ineanapledaus charactera—chiofly for the sake of thelr advertbing value and willingness to accept mberae- stople salaries—the great idea buret upon her. To be among Windsor Morton's immortals for a week or twa, bo get ber picture in the papers before she was a débutante, would be a thrilling kind of lark. It was not ambition that stirred within her, but the senge of adventure. She went inte action immediately, and with an excellent instinet for strategy. Inetead of mentioning the matter to her father and mother, and thus submitting to the vems- tions of a family conference, she took her scheme to a bachelor uncle who had invested In real estate. One of the things he happened to own was the theater where Windsor Morton pitched his tent of dreama every summer. This uncle had a habit of spoiling Mab, so in less then no time he had written a letter to Mr. Morton, who upon reading it FLLEU STRATED THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Br J4MEr aM. Per, . Mad Weren'i he Ceilee Perfectly Dear?™ “Many Thanke fer Pour Wire Cort Wight » 2 Wase'i Eowrythliag Wondaerfel? . . moved with equal celerity. The next day after the letter was written Mab Moody waa engaged by telephone ond called for rehearsal. The important Mr. Morton himself did the telephoning, and his volee aa lt came over the wire wae. like frankincense and nard. The way of Mab's golng on the stage was the way of o Princesa entering inte her loyal kingdom. Nothing eould have been done more easily. Even her father, strangely enough, did not object, for he was convinced that Windsor Morton and all his works, having been indoraed by the united women's clubs of Illinapolia, were thoroughly re epectable. And he waa as nearly right as any man ever is. What parta Mab Moody acted with the Windsor Morton Repertory Company, to the astonishment and admiration of her relatives, neighbors and playmates, are a completely negligible matter, She was oot revealed, as the curtain rost, in maid's costume, dusting off the furniture of the drawing-room—center door fancy set—and expounding the plot in conference with the butler and the eook; and nelther did she appear in page's costume to announce to bis lordship that the carrlage waits without. Such things aa these are no longer done in the drama, although the comic weeklies are atill printing jokea about them. But these two classic examples will serve ae eymbola to indicate the nature of her apprenticeship, Although her Photograph was duly printed in the [linapolis Gazette, three columns wide, her ports could have been written on the back of a postage stamp. She ranged from the almost total obscurity of a super- numerary to deserving humility in bits, In parts she thought she could play with brilliance and cenviction— eaptivating young women of the world who drift across ballrooms with exquisite grace, radiant of wit and ae quetry—she discovered that she was moat at aea. Being a society girl in Dlinapolia and in Lady Windermere's Fan were, it seemed, not so much alike as she had believed. But in sketches of outlandish types—peasanta, hoydens, tombegs, slatterns and gamins—that were supposed to give comic relief to the scene, she was mot so bad; and occasionally when her lines had true humor in them she experienced the comedionne's bliss of evoking lnughter. But whether she sucegeded in giving some idea of the iprif 15,1 playwright's exerescene on the performance, Windsor § bon, & canny man, kept her in the casts » alter week, for he needed the few extra do] the drew te the box office the reprieves of rental p ment he could wheedle couse of Miab, out of easy-going unele. Amd th as she rehearsed for 5 week's Play im the morn and appeared in the curn bill evenings and matis! Mab grew in experience a knowledge. She began tof mary brckeaalonal and actre Her technical educa waa chiefly im the hands Harvey Norris, the uta manager and character m of the company. Whi Windsor Morton posed gray fully, discussing moods, pz chological subtleties, light ar shade, and all that sort) thing, and tried to imitz Belaseo in his devotion tei ewitehboord, if was Harve Norris, his subordinate, wh did moat of the heavy deta work of rehearsing, He ha patience and good mature; } knew exactly what he wante and how te impart that know! edge: and he inducted Mal into all the mysteries—tron the beading of eyelashes how to prteh her yoire an thy there was some chance of it belng heard in the back sw- in a quiet, dominating, kindy way that filled her with ae and @ kind of aby, tremulon gratitude. Thia wae a sew emation to Ker, for like must of the emancipated chilean af this epoch whe hod never learned reapect for authority and experioner af home. Having ot last found an ede and superior being to worship, she surrendered to the mood with eavtasys,. Harvey Norris was, she proclaimed overnwher, tle most wonderful of men, To her parents, her friends, ler awalnsa—whoae number had inereased greatly alms she took to the stage—and to her aasotiates in the coupary, she confided the great news: Mr. Norris was wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! He was the wizard of atege dime tora and the nonparell of actors, according to Muti almost incoherent raptures. He was wise, he was kind, ke was clever, he waa eweet, he was strong, he was gifted be was—in short, he was wonderful. She never went so lir as to declare that he was handsome, for it wea obvicu that he was not; but as if in defense of the blunt home ness that made hima character actor instead of a kadrg man, she often expressed an aversion, almost amouting te abhorrence, to good lool in the oppoaite sex, fhe pet sively detected in Harvey a faint resemblance te be favorite here of histery, Abraham Lincoln, In other words, Mab's first times on any stage Fe accompanied by a typical happening—a terrific crush ona male colleague. This is often unfortunate, but ab 8 has been hinted was born lucky, so the Fates swarded her Harvey Norré and permitted her to think she worshiped the master rath than adored the man. Mab refused to admit to berself that sbe was in lov She had experienced the tender pastion in oscasoml spasm, fron the age of ten enward, and it kad meer beer like this, Harvey Norris was a self-contained kind of felbw eo no Theapian flash and glitter about him, He evold not le called young, although he was youngish; but the difference in age between him and Mab waa not so vast ot lit completely paternal attitude toward her sugpesed. He accepted her frank adoration with the equanimity olaler school principal hardened to the marshmalloy teniem= of green girls, He pretended not to be flattered by theit const which she burned in his honor, and seemed Hid! her soft stricken glances, Altogether he bebaved aif be wore the safest kind of actor upon whom Mab mht wee her first devotion, She was apparently in no more dispt (Continerd on Page 34)

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a4 (Centinued fram Page 32! of drastic consequences than if ahe had been smitten with a secret infatuation for a cholemasber. Nevertheless he liked her immensely, and more than that. If he had been completely indifferent to her exiat- ence, xcept as a raw amateur te be taught certain paces and gestures in order to humor the caprice of Windsor Morton, he would not heave given so much attention to her at rehearsals, The zeal with which he worked over her wus more than professional ethics demanded, Stock- campuny stage direction is careless of ragged edges, but Harvey waa thorough when ho come to Mab, He never permitted her te fumble and guces her way through a port, and often called her for ten minutes of apectal eoaching before the reat of the company canve yawning in to de their moming's chores, Ir HE did not see much of him outside the thenter, Stock means hard work and long hours, and ite prac- titioners have no ppportunities for the gay and adventur- us recrentions that are, in the feverish imaginations of laymen, the inevitable concomitant of life on the stage. This is particularly trot in a city like Dlinapolis, where the Windsor Mortons, in their one good hour of freedom after the show, had difficulty in finding a decent café open for the satisfaction of their midnight appetites, The night life of [inapolis waa seattered beyond the horizon among o fhnge af ginister road hows; and although the jazz boya and jazzabela of [itinapolla might visit these raral slums in thelr automobiles, they were taboo to the Wladser Mortons, who had to behave acearding to the highest ideale of the older pillara of local society. Small eity ateck ina moral institution, and watches ita step with vigilance. For social relaxation there were the leading woman's tens, held on the stage every Friday afternoon after the back of the week's work had boon broken. These were aimost public functions, attended by matings maids who had been dased with the glamour of the great lady, under the chaperonage of their fond and fussy mammas, who wleo dearly loved a chance ta have a cup af orange pekoow with an actress. The other members of the company, par- ewlarly the noble-browed leading man and the dapper juvenile, were expected to attend, to help in the enter- talnevent of the customers: and Windsor Morton was always on hand to talk pontifically about modern ten- denciea in the drama. Mab never missed one of these chatter parties, and enjoyed them hugely, in ber dual role as a member of both sets, [linapolitans and Windsor Mortons; but she abaya come away with ao lump of dis appointment in her throat, For Hurvey Norris was never there, Bhe wantel to know why, and the leading woman an- swered her, with a beaging smile, to the effect that Harvey was net a Lacie" man and hated so- ety, Sle at last grew bald enough to ¢ehallenge him an the subject, ‘fT brought mamma to Kliss Wayne's tea this afternoon," she re- marked te him ms she idled uwhout backstage in com tume, wailing for her only entrance eve, “Shesald she waa dying to meet you, amd she wae a0 disappointed.” He smiled down on her quizzically, 'T"m sOrTy, Mab,’ he an= swered, “Ttwauld have been niece te met your mother, But [ never go to files Wayne's teas. | see enough of her acting on the stage." Mab thought thet his cynical view of Mise Wayne's social muinner was a lit- tle eroel: but she was glad, anyway, to diseover that there wires no senti= mental bond be- tween then, She had begun te wonder if Harvey Norris were in lowe THE SATURDAY EVENING POST with anyone, Or maybe married! A dreadful thought, this last, He had never mentloned a distant wile, aa married men have a habit of doing—when they are not trying te be gay decelvera—but ahe decided that ahe aught to verify her idea that he waa a forlorn bachelor. So she asked Gloria Wayne about it, “Not that I know of," said Gloria, shrugging her ad- rilrable shoulders. “This is his first senson with the com- pany, and he hasn't taken me into his confidence except about what he thinks of me as an actress, But you can never tell about us, Mab, so be careful, Any one of us is likely to have a marriage license of a divorcee suit tucked away in cur shady past, somewhere out of sight." Mab declared that she was sure that Gloria herself waen't married, "Why are you so eure} Gloria wanted to know, as she ftarbed bo comb out her blond wig, which was ao much ad- mired in Ulinapalia. “Because you don't wear a wedding ring. There are hundreds of men just crazy to marry you, of course, but vou tara them all down because you ano devoted to your art.”” Gloria laughed and pulled open a drawer in her costume trunk. “Here's my happy family,” she remarked, showing Mab a picture of two obese infants and a grinning man with a large Adam's apple, “Tt happened ten yenra ago, and T haven't been able to lose him rer, He has a bibile job in New York, so we manage to live together geeasionally." Mab was flabbergasted. “But you mustn't talk abowt it among the Philletines," Gloria warned Mab. “That would be bad for business. Professionally, at any rate, I'm still single.” “Whee. marry,” Mab declared, I shall retire fromm the stage.” Gloria shricked with laughter at thia remark, and re fused to explain the Joke. She repeated Mab's priceless utterance to everyone in the company, and Mab’s attitude toward matrimony became a byword in backstage gossip for the next few days, The others developed a habit of wsking her when she was going to retino, and of chuckling at their own wit, which Mab could not understand, “Why do they think that is funny?" she asked Harvey Norris. Harvey grinned and hesitwted: then he sold: “They rea that you're not on the stage yet, from their point of view." Mab blushed and pouted angrily. “Oh, I see, They think I'm ss rotten as all that, do a “Naw don"t begin worrying about what they think, As a matter of fact you're doing very well and they say lots of niece things abaut you, behind your back as well a Was She the Leading Women of Thr Ferminees Treope of Comembert Sorastormers, or Warn't She? April | to your faee. But they have the ides that you an amusing youruell and will not fo on with it, 4 rank autalder to them, Mab."* She hated them all, Harvey included, for a spenp¢ “Well, Pll show them!" she declared pugns “Pl become a real actresse—a regular trouper— spite them. Do you think I have a chance?” He considered the question thoughtfully. “A chance, yes, Anyone who isn’t an idiot or strouity can lean to acta litte and find semoethir on the stage, with a certain anpaunt of luck, By mean to become more than a minor member of a th) stock company, I don't know whether you have » oF ie ays “Then D've been pretty lad?" she quaverad, “Not at all. Your work has been satisfactory jf stock-company point of view. But you'll have to », wark for another year or so before anyone can te nu a chance you've got. You will have to gn iL With which he patted ber upon the shoulder in J paternal manner, Mab resented his words but liked the curcs, treated like a child had its compensations somety "What would you advise me to do?" she asked» “Why, what elee would you do but marry table young business man and live happily ever in Uinapolis?" he said. “That would simplify tromendously,"" “To shall de nothing of the kind,” she retorted. sick of this town, I hate being a débutante, which & I shall have to do if I stay here next winter, And yung businases mon the Dlinapolia kind give me a I'm going to grow up eo fast it will make your head; Mr. Harvey Norris, and I'm going to become a real » or tuke the veil," Having delivered this ultimatum she withdrew moat holty-tolty manner, “Be gure not to get fat," he called after her, She stuck out her tongue wt him for a Parthian cho went away determined, if the tragedy of (nines af overtake her, to become o lowecomedy si musical shows, making the world and Harvey N writhe with laughter at her bulloonery. Mab had bean learning something new about the thy almost every day; but she had not yet disecoverd: perament, She had imagined that the ward meant the glamour of talent, the free, active self-expression hoo-inhibited artist soul, She did not define this mps ous quality in thot way, of course, bot she hed 21 idea along those lines, She thought that tempera was a happy glft of the gods, She yearned for the when it would be sald that Mub Moody bad it, Suddes. however, she covert’ thet t peramient, in technleal meati Was 4 Bata alfliction, pair fo ita pres times, and a th of tenner bo eve nme else, The Winds Mortons kad | haved, dari Mab's asarckh with (em, pera? ably like 1 tapi family, There's been go quure BO jealous, | disturbing pow sional [rirtiae. lemat nothing : the kind had cor te the ote | Mab'a eye a ears, Bho weed vineed thet the all loved te asother, ih! hheawenly sett @ way, ated tht in the tbeate would bean by Elysian el at diesen en a day alter Mab had disetsied bet HEgatia ward oe Page FV —_- Digt ize bale | eC

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: (Cowtinerd From Page 34) reer with Harvey Norris, Con- ys that had great expecta- o » Went into rehearsal, a med to Windsor Morton n “Broad manager for a mI ge of ite acting value, So laboratory work contained Pwere lacking in the routine i Tt wes creative work that fre on their mettle; it gave ee to get their teeth into fresh fired. ambitions ae wort provincial routine, re eContrary Mary that f him to Broadway at one th impresario who Ppl its metropolitan pro- he an hand to watch the Pexperiment, acoompanied by ‘advisers and flatterers: and young dramatist of promise, Be attend, ie wns 2 bea an A opportunity: might easily it any dressing-room door, new American play, it eritien as p frank imitation of play that a onto pro of money, Lie proud creator, i to eniist the interest af a i munager in bis latest work, will pak of it as a second something or Hpac he manager, remem what a pole nap shaker pal, Ha Wit, m= - preening a ears, lights a fresh fomoa-Pomona, and is ready to listen to | weoding Fe owing this tradition, Contrary M i eu Wy i 8 Steere Peg o° My Heart, onged to that breed of sentimental omg: -s in which the hoyden heroine, an elfin tsughter of the plain peaple, suffers much (rom the taunts and sneers of gilded snobs ol che @ revealed as an heiress in dis re cooemho heaps coals of fire upon the head the arietocrate, eaves father from bank- fa “ple, mother from social suicide, da * = [rom a life of shame, and brother— curving him=from a. carcer of evailes] Lae . The play dif differed from Pogo’ My Heart in these particulare: The heroine waa Seotch, not Irish; and the pet v's) he brought with her when ac visited renter be ‘bgae Heb eget ad but a Shethand Iso, Lo com licate the plot and a fal scepisthooe al cleciarten abe vax a for masquerading in boys" det Windsor Morton began rehearsal in true ceremonial fashion by reading the play: ts to ie aemtled compan Mab was thn with thes formality; it ad never been ine for any af the stale niafeesiat | # ACCRESES whiek - pests Cena ary. Then rome the aasigniment of parts, Harvey Norris, at a nod from Windsor Morten, who was languid from the dra- matic fervor he had put inte the reading, amnee from the prompt table and began to feel oyt certain b E portaana ol bean, trresritten manuscripts on which the dhlgveand coe for the various parte were are cooking ‘this: @latiibrtiens he passed Am tribution Web by with a hall-apologetic but still ical explanation: “There is no part th cuag. or ou, Miss Moaoely. But Mr. Morten hopes you will be good enough to oo gan lhe igs OFvier. Attend rehearsals ve special attention ta her part Paes il have a copy af it made for you later 0.” Mah meekly answered “Yes, air,"" and mi there as etill as an image. This an- ‘Omen eame to her asa sort of shock, Se @auldn't be in the show; t wees ‘te dedlating, she thaught. Still, while Mir, Morton was reading the manuseript ‘ehude't been able to piek out a part for ame, There were no ingénue bits, and the servants were a butler and « chauffeur. This tine, ttasemecd, she waa obviowsly ent if lock, But Misa Olivier was the leading meenae, and if she should happen to dic ‘thin ‘Ube nett tee weeks it -would mean Mab Moody to’ the rescue. There waa a Cast, certainly, of winning glory—even thougs Mim Glivier was in the best of bealth Thar Mab suddenly becume farnil- S Fith all the mixed emotions and tragle THtnings of that erga af suppressed desites, the underst She sat tight and edion. She ob- sie that every member of the a somnpay raifiately began a lets d sides, oF re, in his or ack p Tak Of Sh Bx press i fiction. In the latter case, Mab thought, THE SATURDAY the look resembled that of a child who has se la gn fa Pe: of B eontempt and cdispust. . Suddenly Gloria Wayne, who had seemed to be satisfied with her total of nine, straightened up in her choir and observ in a frost-bitten yoice: “There seeme to Dee ‘he nies my Mr. Morton. as tifie sta irecbor penne not to hear her, and Harvey Nore inte oe breach paeeny ath erent. ime Waoyn wirot at at all. 4 ou haya given me Miss Olivier's part, Perhaps she hat mine,” With which lari made a ewilt and forcible thie Goan ucking Misa Olivier’s lig ad and tossing the other, ke 2 deopine thing, into nee ts ap. Morton serene Ly i off inte bieunoees and disappeared. His neethod of diplomacy waa extremely Oriental. “There has been mo mistake, Miss Warne,” said Harvey erisp * Kandy return Miss Olivier’s park to er and take back the one I gave you If Misa Wayne had been one of the fa- mous Voleanies of history, Krakatua or Mount Pelée, she could not have gone into more complete eruption, Mab, who had Jed a sheltered life in o pacific fumily, had never heard of seen an ae Like it inefore, The gracious Gloria, tafare all smiles, coos and caresses, vehemently called upon her God and inquired where in the reales of Lucifer they ie thot stuff, Was she the bending woman of this vermineus troupe of Camembert barnstormers or wasn't she? She certainly was, she would tell the world, and she would play the lead- ing woman's parts in spite of bell, high water, and any nasty conspiracy that had been framed up agalnat her. She talked ta Harvey 03 4 teamster will talk to a motorist fea hot summer day after an averted col- sion. bet her run oon to an effective climax and then tried to pour oll on the troubled waters. "T thought Mr. Morton had explained this matter to jis privately,” he ssid. “ Apparontly he to, He came to this o after long-distance telephone eon ferenees with the author and the manager who will make the New York production. Miss Wayne suddenly pe from verbal ors Seen apes the Sow reels heartbreak. Fler freely, she moaned, “I shall Morton. That anip of a el to It's out- 4 Tre fon fo "T's insu girl gets the f ae ai girl gets the title part and I am play her elder sister. [t's brutal. eous. It'sineredible.” : "Tam really very sorry, Miss Wayne,” Harvey continued, “and | aasure you there waa no thought of hurting your feelings in this arrangement. We were thinking only how to get the best results out of the play with our oMPAT The tithe rile calls for a sl young who can wear hoya’ tlothes deceptiy x. You would be very attractive in tight knickers, Miss Wayne— but by no means boyish. The part also requires a Seatch dialect, and Miss Olivier happes to have a special knack cle ait at,"" Sandy the lead in the Number Three cNab company,” piped up that yng jd Rs god in corroboration. of the sister," Harvey Tan an ‘on, encouraging “will undoubtedly make the hit of theshow, Bo “T only see," thundered Misa r Wine, “that my contract enlls for my services os pide woman with this amanans! Tin ib poe, Ty Legal rights!" our contract is for ten weeks,” Har- vey reminded her. “The season is to be extended through an cheventh week, ms you know, for this special proeluetion,"" At thia blow Gloria promptly went into hysterics. She threw down on the floor the part she had refused to return, and stamped on it; mecused Misa Olivier of impra relations with Windser Morton, the au of the play, the New York manager, oF some other person of mysterious authority over the production; attempted to masnult orria With her fingernaile: and then fainted triumphantly in a pletunesque attitude, rloria was lu away to be readaci- tated, und then the reheorsal um, IN a fumbling kind at wait under Harvey's direction, with everyone strained and un- happy, Mab waa asked to read Gloria's lines pro tem., and ahe nervously stepped inte the gap wanderin what was going bo come of it all, She had an iden that Gloria hod pone mad and would suddenly reappear like a Fury, to attempt all kinds of harrow- ing things, or EVENING POST Fifteen minutes later the owtraged Jead- ing WORK ©me from ber dress a Ted eyed and sullen, and h on the outskirts of the rehearsal. one We will go back to the beginning,” announced cumly, with a gesture at Mab, which meant that she was bo crop oe ig regres Se ere bo ne are Li ead over again, and Gloria, sane hoa the recent abuse of her voeal cords, came in at her entrance cur ns if nothing whatever had hap : That ended the episede, in tts surface ase fre pedis Sindee and vclens ivier didn't apeak again for yeara, In- cidentally the former made an admirable im jan in the rile of the elder sister, ax Harver had foreteld, and thereby won a conerict © bo a it in the New York pra duction. After the rehearaal Mab, @reathy excited ) inpdabydirs erage ng areund the theater to talk ik over with Harvey Norris. “What doee it mean?’ she burbbed. “Gloria must be crazy! She starts that awful row, and then she comes back aa mek ut Moses and takes the part after all." “That,” explained Harvey, “is temper= ament, She felt that she had to do it to assert her vee ae wats ao her pres- tige ns a leading sor “But she cou di’ t levy that tithe port,” Mab declared, “She's too big—and too old. She ought to have known etter." “She did," Harvey admitted. “Other- wise sho would never have come back. But just the same her position ws leading worn compelled her to throw a tantrum because the title part wasn't offered her." Mab expresged her opinion that Gloria had bohaved like a spoiled child. “You'vesaida mouthful," Harvey chuck- ied, “She is exmetly that. And so are all the rest of us, more or less, as soon as we ah a ca juicy taste of success," considered this cynicism thought- fully She did not want to believe it: _ t Gloria was a special cist atill Harvey Norris had said it, and here i her opinion, waa infallible. Then and there she made a t vow which was to have an important influence on her tito, “T om never going te be like that,” she asserted, “when I make my big h ia gave her an amused Track af incredul ae Pah not,” she continued, “I'm ing te get temperamental or iin or om “up —' “Dpetage.”’ he int: » tossing her the roper technical rico aa r upstage or gitlineny Cress my heart, T hope to die, I'm na “That la a very pretty nmblitea "he gaid; “I wish you luck at it." “And T want you to promise me," con- tinwed Mob, “that if you ever ser me get- ting that way, any time in the future, you'll come to me and tell me about it. ihe times, you know, we don’t see ourselves ae on But what a to be wh "But what ane you going to be when you prt famcust ioe azked teasingly, “Cweet and stately and noble and always kind to dumb animals?" “T'm going to be-—just Mab Moody." He thought that nothing could be nicer, but he did not tell her sa. “Do you promise?” she demanded. “Tdo," he answered in a manner warthy of the occasion. “And here's my hand on ee ahvoole hands gravel ani vely, “Thank you— Harve rey” 4 This was the first time she had dared to coll him by his firet name; ib was indeed an eremon, She romped away radiant with the idea that a bond of intimary had been established betwern them. Shen she got home she made this rc pe Reba in her ant “Compact, wath Alter the week of Contrary Mary, in which Mab understudied the title rile assiduously but hopeleely, the Windsor Morton Repertory Company elased ite season in [ina olia ane disbanded, Moat of its members hurried hack to New York tospend their midsummer holidays hunting new engagements over the het wsphale of Broudway, arvey Norris was noncom- mittal about his plans, but he vaguel mentioned the necessity of going to Chi- cag on a legal matter. ‘There was much cellaneous promising te write, of course, and when Mab bashfully said tc Harvey | be she would like to wk his advice about lans he gave her the Maske Club, New hl oa a forwarding address, } a7 # + Jim Henrys Column Your Mind It always fascinates me to figure out what will be going on in your mind at the instant that my column invites your attention. There are several millions of you | and I have to start witha thoughe which will appeal to everyone. 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There had been the usual family protests against thia adventure, but Mub had laughed and cajaled them away, aid bad been well financed for the purest at her destiny, She had written to Harvey Norris several times ina vein which was quite the correct blend of cool formality and warm affeetion. He had not answered, She had telephoned to the Masks Club when she reached New York, with no result except to get a curt answer that Mr. Norris waa notin the city, She wrote once more and then gave it up, Whenever she thought about him her feelings got hurt somehow, but ake con- yin ad Thinking it abies silly, appear 4 EnK Ing. WEE fy enough. Mak foure that Wee York wus ta exciting to allow anyone ta think about anyone else whe was out of town. (4 Mab in Manhattan, of Mab's adven- tures among the m Tercinary ma . there la little te be told, easing p= pened, of course, which ahe thought were important, hut as a matter of fact she waa ton nepey Alter she bad forgotten about Hurvey Norris—to hove a history, Her career on the atage—for she had one that contained a surprising amount af suc ceca, everything cansidered—may be ac- enunied for briefly, thug: First, she waa lucky, as bak beeen Intimate * serond, she wae a type, or rather the managers belbeved me she was, which amounted to the game thing. How she become a , however, ip worth telling. She was eileing in the waik- tng ron of a firm of producing manager, looking for aomething to turn up, much like a howenid at an employment agency in the old régime when housemeids were plentiful, A door leading to the private ofice opened to GhcEpe a Wort Lat wright. He happened to glance at Mab, and started as if he had seen o ghost. THe immediately darted hack inte the sanctum, and @merged with his collabaruter in tow, They stared at Mab og if she were some rare work of art, and then belted back inte the inner shrine without a word. Presently out they com aguin with @ stage director ae thetr heels, ar the proce ws repeated, with excited molemnity. “Then the jee representative was by th out: then the | junior partner; finally the senior partner. They whispered together fiercely, but never sil a word te Mab, whe began to wonder what was the matter with her and to sus- pect that she had forgotten to put all her elathea on, Finally they retired inte their lair to indulge in an almast interminuh and apparently venomous delete, Half an hour later Mab was invited inaide to fave what looked like s grand Jury sitting on aomurder cose, She emerged with a eon | Lruct signed, sealed and delivered into her ) hinds. This is what had happened: A play was being cast which contuined, among ather Sarmibic chatacters, u homespun Jewish mater, aged seventecn or therenbouls, She wae to be dark, plump, demure ane attractive in an arniably bourgeois manner. She bad to look as if she might be the duughter of Ferdinand Dea Silva, who wowd play the rile of Mischa Mann- helmer, the hero, The authors acl alread | considered sixteen appl eante for the part amd rejected them al because they were either too Jewish of not Jewish enough, er were baby varips, or hel bobbed hut, ar too much distinction, or too litth: clase, or for twelve other pool reasons and true. The managers had begun bo gees the lnywrights of tering Gen fussy about their Jewish maldens; the authors had begun Le as#eTt that the managera would do well to return bo thetr original occupation af cut- rile ticket brolwers: and thus 2 criip had developed, Then try bad stumbled over Alab. She was dark, she was plump, sla , wae demure; she was attractively bour- . geolee: ghe was, in short, the very kind of girl the authors had in mind when they wrote the part, they declared. And so 1t EVENING POST cume about that Mah went to work while luindreds of more deserving actresses con- tinued to worry, Mab played the part on Broadway and immediately found that it pays to be a type, She had offers that season to act fifteen other Jewish maidens in similar plays. Out of this embarrassment opportunities ahe contrived ta get three engagements, to raise her salary to an impressive figure, and to have a season of forty almost conmaecutive wogles, without leaving New York except for the t ts, Ulinapolia was horrified when wrote back bome, “I am a specialist in fat little leilevst,”" but Broadway admired her for her accomplishment, Bat this waa net the mest Important aapect in the metamorphosis of Mab, Ma, indeed, not by alongeheot. She might have gene on playing a line of secondary Jewish fidens until che wos fully prepared for the more serious apectalty of Jewish grond- mothers if something elae had not hap- pened, It was something mysterious and inexplicnble, [twas not quite miraculaua, perhape, bat the lows of ploysiology have nok yet given a satislactory account of it, Tn a word, Mab ce to be rely-pely, A waistline mantlested itself in her anat- omy. Her fat ons and thinned ont ane they were in ee with her delicate wrists and ankles. Her plump cheeks amoothed themgelyes away until her face wos like a cameo. Her figure changed from the dumpy ta the dainty, and when che walked she no Livni clumpod hak fluttered, Without dieting, banting, rolling on the floor or taking up interpretive dane- ing without thinking about the matter at all, Mab dropped from ane hundred amd twentyelive to one hundred pounds in welght, and evolved from a grub inte a butterfly. This piquant transformation sometimes hapyens te pa and awkward irls at the end of their adolescence, and it fapneced to Mal, the lucky. [bt is, pers hapa, Nature's method of lawnehing ber specially favored ugly ducklings into the mating season. Soitcume ehout that Mab to be a fat dapper hecame a aie Little lady, whe looked 29 bf she might be of fairy ancestry. Of course she had learned how to dress go that she was always turned out with a crisp and gay Manhattan smartness, (MW course ber hair hod been bobbed beeom- tngly and her eyebrows lad been deliontely lacked and her mouth had become a thin cruel Cupid's bow of carmine by the art af the lipstick, But these were metel superficial clue Tt was thea subtle culpbure of Nature that altered her from o lower to a higher type, and that took her, as an actress, out of the group of simple Jewish maidens into the class of enchanting American ingénues. And the at ba anziest café and dane. ing places in New York knew Mab os one wf Eroadwav's favorite girla of that season. The prevailing styles of women's dress, aa well aa Mab‘s popularity, contributed to the happy reali—the night-life crowd leegon to sen a great deal of Mab. 1 ARVEY NORRIS come back to town after a sewsen on tour, to pet in touch again with the sources of things theatrical, toenjoy m thorgughicaing actor's holiday biy seeing all the new shows, and bo find a new shenping-stone toward bis ambition to be= come a Terognized, high-ealaried st director. In currying out this program he knocked alsout the theatricul district at 2 lowe end, ba and eit af clubs, rm atfices, theater lebhies, hotels, and all the other rendezvous Wf his kind: meeting old friends, exchunging the gossip of his craft, finding out where it was safe to an aceasional drink noe that the lid had been harshiy tightened on, and amusing biel miktly as a man of his profession and celi- bate war of life will ada, Occasionally he erossel Matb's trail at a distance. He heard her name mentioned, her popularity declared, ler acting falntl raised: burt be never quite caught ap with wr chuiring hia first few weeks, He remem- eered heer vividly os that droll little darling rack ja Wit ia whe had written him a few letters after the Windsor Morton com- pany had dishanded. He was sorry that he wadn't answered those fethera: ane he was. lad to hear that she was getting on so well, Fre would pun werees ker sooner of later, of course, and they would have a jolly talk over old timp. Tie was surprised, however, to hear that she was te have the leading ingénue’s part wprif is, in Frank Baird's new play —and 2 co part it was, too, according to Frank, wrote it. A part that might anil? away with the show, Frank load said. did not sound at all jike Mab Aloods | had known her, Harvey thought; an: idea occurred to him that there moi another girl of the same name who comeup inthe pastwear, File decided he would have to go to the opening find out if this was really his als. Among the telegrams Mab receive: night Flippant Philip nopenmed with h leading ingénwe in a brilllamt cast was that read “If you are the Mfab Moo knew and rehearsed in [linapolis I that all ielir ambitions come true." She murmured “Gh, that man!" diferentiy—and then tucked ft in mirror, in the place of aes. arent Pcs good omen. she did eo observed that it bnwe a New Work + line, and she thought, "So he's no long the provinces." ; After the third act, in which Mah arried od ni inbornne emurbiown me SET atunting eflecet—thanks mostly tea veterans Who had rehearsed her and 4 up the climax for her to shine in—a hur scrawl of a note was brought ta her drew FOMMIEL. Tt read: "You're , Bverva raving about you out in front. I har Tura SUM, ow do you get that wi Many congratulations, H. N."" She said te her minid, as che addled thi the mementos af a thrillin nigebat : “Ape these men ridiculous, nr When Mab read the notices of Fling Philippa in the newspapers the next mo ing her metamorphosis was complet The dramatic erties in ravingg alpout - play had put in a few extra shrieks of ight forherhenefit. She immediately dz the conclusion that in another season i would beconw a star, Harvey Norris was. much more emotio over the access of huis former protdgée th he hed any right to be. The sudden a thoroughly charming revelation of Mala grown-up, infinitely pettable and aciorab an etherealization of the chubh girl heh known, enraptured him, the left thoater glaating over her, in a professor ind of way—for after all he had sor share fh the making of this bit of love ness: and he woke op the next morn still inclined to gleat. How infernal pretty she had become! And how she le put it over! The sweet little rageal! Wi a happy grin he recalled a threat she hy thade—samething to the effect that a would become a ular trauper and gro ap so fast it would make his head sait Well, she had done it, right enough. Tha letters ghe hac written to him must t aiaiewhere in the teettom of his trunk, f he was eure he had saved them, When } saw her he would explain why he hodn ane reed, Such were the refleetions of Tlarve Norris at le went through his matutica eplashings. Finally, with a start tha caused his safety rasor bo ruin ita repute tion, he remembered that he hed mad Mab a certain solemn promise. “And with this hit te top ft off!" In ejaculated to his lathered visage, “Jb golly! Oh me, ch my, oh vou!" Before he went down ta berealefact be telephoned to the manager of the theate where Mlippant Philippa was playing, an acquaintance of his, to say a few pleasant words shout the success of the opening. anv alsa to wsk casually where Mab Moody we living. Mab, ln bed, surrounded by dister- bered newspapers and a boudoir breakfast. aieswera her call: "he, this ta Mliss Mood, ae Whol? . - Oh, Mr. Norris, Surely not Willy Morris? . 2 . Oh, Harvey Mor fis... . Wea, ofcourse. So glad te Ene you are in town. Many thanks for yout wire and the note lost night. . . . ‘Ves wasn kL everything wonderful? . . . And weren'L the critica perfectly dear? . . Yea, it would be most nice to ee you again. . Mr. Norris. . . . No, Im sorry hat i'r: booked for tenight. . . . Ma you si," this is a crowded week, what with fast lights and rehearsals and euta ond parie and everything, . . . Sametime nest week then, certalniy, . . . Do try agate, | I'd be delighted. Eut don"t ring me belie twelve, By-by,"" k (Confined of Poge 47) '

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Next Sunday April Sixteenth Begins A Week of Unusual Interest For YOU It is Educational Pictures Week for thousands af fotion picture theatres on this continent, Progressive exhibitors all over the United States and Canada will run from April 16 to 23 many of - Educational’s short aub- jects to give you unusu- ally diversified and well- balanced programs, Many of the greatest showmen will present short-subject programs made up exclusively of the quality short subjects for which Educational is famous. Thoughtful ex- hibitors will select from this list: CHRISTIE COMEDIES. “TORCHY” COMEDIES MERMAID COMEDIES CAMPBELL COMEDIES “SCENICS BEALITIFUL" and WILDERNESS TALES By Robert C. Bruée SEKETCHOGRAFS-CARTOONS By putin Otendort RINOGRAMS-NEWS WEEELY and apecials like THE BATTLE oF JUTLAND All the above motion pictures are advertised in theatre entrances by posters and lobby cards displaying our trade- mark of guaranteed en- tertainment quality. When you see at — Grifurcatec Had g * yO ey firg. U.S. Pan ont. Go i in--- It’s the Sign of a Well-Balanced Program! ted bea bi. 1a EDUCATIONAL FILM EXCHANGES, Inc. EW, Mammons, Present Eaccutive O8fice, Mew Work THE SATURDAY (Contiawed fram Page 30! ia!" graowhed Elarvey satiri- & hung up the reeeiver, “Tlli= | eagle Hi anew Hite accent!" | Test WH pearing the end af a dinner in a calé which wos so quiet that Mab had never been there Orta proper place for such a reunion, As a reknitting of [linapolitan ties it had been, thus far, a Tiederstely successful affair. Mab waa wondering when this man would apologize for not havi ing aoa ered her | etters, “De you remember ——" Harvey began hesitantly, and she was sure that the tine had arrived. Wall, she world end that she didn't remember whether be hud answered or not, and that ahe had forgotten what she wrote or why she wrote it. “De you remember the agrecmeit we made, out there in your home town, the ala that Gloria Wayne threw her famous tantrum?" No, Mab couldn't sav that she remem- bered exactly, But didn't Gloria behave like a perfect gocee about not petting that “Tt was abowt temperament," Harvey reminded her “You made me promise that if you ever got temperamental or spoiled or upstage I was to come to you and tell ou alent it." ow funny!” auiel Kab cvnsively, “Yea, I t ht it was funny then," Harvey BS a “But now, You see, it's different. [t's serious, You've made the hit you swore you would make—s hit you tan be p I am o little bonstful about ft myself, and am going alamit trying to claim honor of having discovered you." ae bowed mnockingly in recognition of a beet ae A ig challenged, “This is a gossipy town," Harvey droned on aoberly, “Or our part of it is, at any rate. So, although L've been back Sarg a fow works, I've heard a lot nbout “Scandal?” chirped Mab tmpu nel : "“0f course mot. Just gossip, Toe managers who have offered you parts and heen turned down without a thank you. From gequnintances whe fay you have snubbed shan. From the friend of a friend wf a mediste who gaye you drove her into nervous prostration over the powna you wear in Flippant Philippa. rom. ata: managers whe tell lusw your maids are a ways walking out pn yo becaust: yn heii hurt their feelings. Om Preda ageniia who describe with jeere how vou wanted more publicity than the star," Lf a fairy ean bork as hurd ox noila Mab wis clodeg it mow, “Harvey Norris, how dare you invite me wut to dinner and then repeat all this tt clotd acl hating shulf!"" she flashed at ULM es Becainse of the promise Fo msked me to couke," he answered uneaaly, “t's happened. So 1 had ta tell you about it. You've got some of the symptoms. You mre ain ici plete case of a girl whose head ia getting turned by a run of luck on Hroad- way. . ‘Lam nothing of the kind!" “Te's natural, of course,” he eoceded. “Ts inevitable. ‘Te be spoiled uw little ia the right of every pretty girl, particularly in this business, which i a constant inflamma- tion of the ego, Aut don’ let it go too far, Mob, Remeber, your senar of humor. Remember your determinathen bo remain just Mab Momly. And for heaven's sake don't forget Gloria Wayne, or elae ane of these dny's you'll make a spectacle of your- self the way she did, Now [ve teld you und the worst ia over, Let's have same fresh coffee and forget it."" But Mab wha turning with indignation. “Lat me tell you, Air, Nagris.” she said stiffly, “I'm not spotled or upstage, Mia head fsn’t tured. Vou haw en‘t suid a thing to prove that it is. You've beer aut there in the provinces for years and know | nothing at all about my career on Browd- wor, And anyway, i's none of your bushes whether I am epeibed ornot, Amd furthermore, T deny that [ever asked you to make such « promise, and | think you howe Ensen werk rune, I've had a perfeeths stupid dinner, thank you. Will you kindly call me a taxiT She had spoken with auch bitter convbe- tion that Harvey crumpled ap abject)y. There waa nothing left for him ta aay. The conversation, the dinner and the friend shige had cloeed abrupily, SSS SS ES SS eS ES eS SS eee EVENING POST There waa ne aftermath during the taxi Tide to Mab’s theater, because she made it perfectly clear that ahe did nat desire hirn as an cscort and rode away alone, He strolled taward the Masks Club, inwardly curing women in general and himself in particular. He also wished that the bars were aa al- eohalie asin the good old days Weill, that ended the brief history of Mab and Harvey, na doubt. The wires of eg oe were crosed and auld acquaint- blown a fuse, This disastrous interview Inft them in hostile attitudes Which wauld besome permanent—she pe= rentiul, he contemptuous; she convinerd that she had been insulted, he determined never again to take a woman at her word. Harvey, in MMaks's opinion, was a toctless brute, assuming advi povileges he had not earned, crudely babbing the sneering gcesip af the envious. Mab, Harvey de cided, was a littl: monster of bad temper, conceit and ingratitude, In these moods they portel, each determined to live up to the theatrical lymo of hate, which de mands a serateh fora seratch and a knock for a knock, As sail headed toward hia club he dwelt upon Mab’s outrageous conduct with a growing sense of bitter humor. It was really priceless, when you came to think about it, he told himself, a gem of satire ical eomedy | im ¥ividd contraste—Alah, she novice, ewearing that she would never ge upstage, and Atab, a spoiled darlin Broadway, angrily denying her oath, a rectal, bet rose one te spring om the boys at The Masks—a new and memornble vari= ant of a formula classe in theatrical anec- date, In his mind Harvey began to phrase iE ine mast ironical effect and its higrest 1k o tumed down Broudway, into the current of early playgoers, imine diately ran into an appropriate audience for a test of his story. The best possible audience, in fuet, for it was none other than Gloria Way ne, the inspiration of Mab's broken vow, They met, as old troupers de, with exclamationa of delight, too effusive to be altogether genuine; gay, casual Phrases of professional patter: questions sa to past achievements and present pros feths, arewered of evaded aa need be. Tt wis a awift, comradely picking up af the threads of their lives before they drifted apart again, for another season or forever. Gloria was headed teward a rendesyoes with her husband to see Flippant obese Pe and thus, a9 they walked together a black or two, Mab came inte the conversation quite naturally, Mab and her unpromising start: Mab and her present hit—Clovia developed the subject with anlinatlen, Now was the time to serve the cream of the jest, Harvey's footnote to the episode, He therefore gave Gloria the stary—with her share in tt omittel—in hs best Masks Club manner, erlaply, quizzleally, lroni- enl For a first telling he made a rather neat joh oof pinning @ lvatterily’s wings, he thaight, Hut Gloria did mot lange She paused al considered; peu salve sald quietiy: "It takes an old, ‘dear friend, ane who has earned a lat of privileges, to tell a giel a thing like that. Mab vill pirate atly hote you for life. IT koow [ should, Harvey! granted the likelihood of such a feud, and Gloria continued to interpret the Ones: “OF course if you two hack kept on being ally ufter Uiinapolis, you'd have had oo tt te take her at her word ane tell Iver wha the wild gossipa were saving. But I gather vou didn’t, You emparentiy dropped her cold, so you needn't be sure prised at getting your fingers burnt when Vou Cred to pick her up again. e's tao tad. Mab wos crazy about vou out there. Well, here's the theater and there's my man, looking penlaws, Ef T ever rin into Mab [Ul forget what you told me." With the disappearance of Gloria, Har- yer changed his mind. He went to his hotel instend of the Masks Clo, and cug three old letters out of his trunk, Then he sat down for an hour of painful jiterars enieaver, notable for the frequency with which he tore ap what he had written. ¥F M*8 had gone tir her performancn, fraygia with a comprehensive exmsperation. Sie hated Harvey Norris for his presumptu- ousness in attempting te correct her man- ners, for his putermal theary that slbe wae o spoiled child, She was out of patience with April 15, herself for lying ike a cherus girl ani having like a littl pig, She despise cats who were saying things aisout her, was even annoyed with the taxi drive not knowing where Flippant Philippa playing. But Harvey, of Course, wat principal grievance, She reached her theater half an heu enon hecauae of that miserably inberru dinner. To kill a littl time before pg lack to her stully crepes ie FOOT decided to inepect the new Mashtlight pt graphe of the play, which bad appe that afternoon, in huge recoce frame exhibition in the lobby, She stucied pletures: Carefu Ils, scene b3yr Scene, fre ead ie Polat of view; amd audd ef cloudy mond of sullenness broke in thunderbolt of whitehot rage. She visible in onby one of the finshlights, there, by an accident of pera pective, was taficatured almost beyord Pecopnit The officiousnesa of Harvey INorris pa: out of her mind. Her artiatic prestige been slighted; her contribution to Flipp Phipps had been practically ignored ! famed with indignation. Like a belligerent wren tab flew the box=elfien window and hurled at grinning tremeurer a shrill demand for manager of the POpENY, She har recognized her own volot as she spoke, | That culprit had net yet arrived, M learned, She restrained, with difficu! ty, impulse te tell her troubles te the eyni young ticket seller, and left word for ¢ manager that she wanted to see Aim ace, Then she rushed away to her d room, almot hysterical, fiercelye det Tiined upon a polley af reparations | resipmation. Hut as she planned her attack the rend lection of Harvey Norris’ warning ascended upon ber like o cold shower ba Under ite tonic Influence she tried to co vinee herself that she was a lady by bir: and an actress only by accitent.. “Let ome." she breathed piaardefull “remember the Wayne,” That parody of an old war en helped h to regain her sense of hummer. Between acts Mah charmed the compar rianager with her rational attitude towar hig excellent explanation of the mischievn flashlizghta—how the acenes in whieh at ai ares e did not come out right, ands derstood perfectly, She agree at another seaion of fashlight peosin would be asunoying to the others in ch COM Pay. She applauded his suggestion of substi tuting ber best cabinet portrait for th flacthlight which hod made her look « ridiculous. Mab was quite angelic ale it, and the manager went out front peo tlaiming that Mim hloady was a senshh girl with a perfect disposition, That night, after the addreased to Harvey t silered mote: Dear Od Horrey: Firose forged eo ride ut Lr OW averse t aheaut It yo wore of far I neorle ldap le myself toemight —in the best ety of Cloras Wayne-—oyer whine mine im- portant chan some wretched Aaahlights, He ghd warming hel perl Tot to get hold of nyaell. | roe Tain irving bo preform, ond am being kind ta dumb arinzala, Yours alncersdy —— eeciaie e, Mal ia carefully eon ove The for feed “a remembered af A missive from Harvey crossed hers: Dear Mew Jfobs T owe yru three betters, an: T want te explain why | didn't anawer the a. whl have got apounel Coit at elinner tennig! if ra hod given me time. wos a marcied mun back in thoae good dave in Aina ane Wee =e dued for divorce Tr was o perfect] Prapertah ellos aa aye things go, with bath victimes satiefied, But you Were Leo nice a girl te be having any thing to de with an oetor about te celebrate hie fier ivoree. IT thaught if was up to me te deep ost af i, far eight fora while, t wos dorerthing like war milsighderstandirg of lost night—I was stupid but IT meant walt Let's forget abet both incident Faithfully yours —— Alab romd this surprising message witt mised emotions, Of course she wna glad te have so adequate an explanation of Har vey's indifference, and toe accept hia ape ogy, Thrtit was net so pleasant todiseyver the existence of w firat Mrs, Norris, and to begin waardering what kind of ereature she hid beer. There waa nothing to be dane about it of eourse—nothing but te telephone Har vey, a few days later, to inform him gayly that his ¢enfession wos perfectly disgust- ing. With that aff her mind she prompoly accepted another invitation ta dinner, The reat goes without saylng, aie Se ae By

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 15, EVERYBODY’S BUSINES. | By FLOYD W. PARSONS Telescopes and the Stars STRONOMY is looked upon by many poopte as a rather useless profession, ancl its indlowers are often derisively clizbhhendt stargazer. Aut there is a growing belief on the part of many that we have taken too light a view of the science of the heay- ens, not only because of its influence on our intellectual life but for the reason that astronomy may he utilized to po much larger extent in a practical way in our everyday exlatence. A famous European astrononber haa just distovered a sun spot ulmost fourteen times the size of the earth. The spot at the present time is in its infuney, Now the quwestions wrise: Is there any connection between auch a apot on the atin ind the comparatively mild temperature of our last winter? Some of our wintere are severe, while others are net. Ts it not poe- side that this seasonal varivtion is largely influenced by forces external to the earth, und ifeo, why should mot astronomy evem- tually provide us q fairly pecurate means of weather forecostT Astronomy la the scienee af infinity ancl eternity, It ia the oldest science, probally berause the heavenly bodies are the most prominent af natural objects, The study of the un und stars creates @ reverenee for the truth and a desire to know the truth. The degree of civilization of a nation may be pudped by the provision which the ceigle of that country have made for the study of ecrentihe probes. Agtrorcriy! hat influenced human thought to a greater extent than any other srience, If has piven birth to many tra- | ditions which still survive, and has al- waye been mixed up with the various types of religions. It has changed the cnode and fantastic theories of world origin hele by _ ancients into proved scientifle prin- Ci pilass, Ooly three centuries ago the leaders of knowledge taught that because the earth had ne limbe and muscles, like animals, ck could met move as they did. Today we know that the stars are really suna—many w ther larger than our sun; that our sun and family of planeta ate traveling thraugh apace at a speed of more than ivi rion a second, or approximately 400000, 004 miles a year, We know that the early life wf the earth was lived at some point in the Blellur system far clistant from where we fre how: that the planet on which we live is Hunmireds of milliana of years old; that if our sun were a hollow ehell of ita present Ane, TmHare than a million earths could be dropped inte th and there would still be nooceupled space between the eurth spheres, We know that if it were not for the gun's energy the tropics of the eurth would speedily attain a state of frigidity fur more severe than that which now exists at the North and Seuth Poles, It is the aun's heat that permite ws te follow age culture, and yet than one two-billianth port of the solar heat of the sun falls upon the earth, Frovidence hes been kind to nian lh pradding a beneieent atmosphere around the earth, for it is this alr that pre tects ws from the bombardment of S,- (M0,0M small foreign bodies which collide with aur planet ewch and every day. The interest of meet people in on atience ia generally limited ta its practiva upplicntions. Astronomy has done more for elvilization than most of us imagine, We are indebted te it for the first voyage of the Phoenicians, and later for the discovery of the New World, It waa his intlmate knowledge of the sphere that inspired Columbus with confidence to pursue his journey weetword over an unknown sen. The average layman does not realize the great value to the human race of the knovwl- edge we emicerning the shape of our planet and the fact that the earth Tetales upon ils 2x5 in a dependable way and revolves around the sun in exauel ohedience te haw. Tt ia by means of satronomy that latitude and longitude are determined, and prac- poally all important land surveys are | founded on this science, Observations of the stars with transit instruments furnish {ihe eorteel dime for all nations. “Twn gtronomers stathoned on the sume north- and-south line, and supplied with modern hte acl can observe the stars so pececu- rately, in comparison with the bents af their carmen clock, that they will agree within two onethousandths af a second aa to how mach that clack is fast or slow, Astronomy enables ua be make precise mape of continents and islanda; to sail ships over long eourses; to determine the times of high and lew tees, so esaentiol te mariners in entering many harbors. It has helped te abolish the necessity of forta on the fron- tiets of nations, for by observations of the slars we ate now able to fix imaginary boundary lines between adjacent countries, Madern astronomical natruments on a ship toHlay enable a navigator in clear weather to determine the position of his yeeael in midocean, within less than a mile af its Lrue powition. The telescope is the aetronomer’s super- eve, Work with the wonderful instraments now bring constructed is rapidly extending the boundaries of the visible universe, It now requires three to six years bo grin, polish ad correct the lens of a powerful telescope. The gluse disk alone of one of the larger telescopes now used weighs more than two tons. The dismeter of such a lens is six feet or more, Hardly more than a degen people in the United States have the training necessary for working aut the difficult calculations required in perfecting the parabolic curve of such a lens, In test- ing one at these ing lenses 9 ray of light is pasded through a bole one fiftyethousandih ofan ineh in diameter, hits the lens and is Tefiected back te a Plane mirror and then to the opening. If the surface of the lena ia perfect the ray of light will go out through the same opening Chrivigch which it sume in, Tn finishing the surface of one of these lenses it has been found that the opening anid closing of a dear, or the additional heat from the body of another person in the fading room pereegettbly affects the pore: olie curve of the Jens. The telearope is mot wee solely for fits magnifving power; its greatest value con- sists in tts capacity for collecting light from forme distant eehestind body or chester of etar. A severnty-Lwo-ineh lens will gather and concentrate ODOM) thnves more light from 4 distant star than the human eye. The moiern astronomer substitutes a pho- togragehic plate for the human eye, for the effert of light fram a heavenly beoly, brought to a focus by the lenses of uo teleacope, is cumulative upon the photo- graphic plate, which is not trae in the case af the human eye. The eve will see nearly as much et the frst glance os it will ever see, The photographic plate, on the other hand, aceunulates ita Livpresalona, ao that distant bodies which are pot luminous encugh te make an impression on a plate at one can to imprint their images clewly, through keeping them ex- posed to the eye of the telescope for a period af hours. It ia for this reason that modern astronomy is becoming long-exposure pho tography. ; ss he making these Cimt-exposure photo- graphs ft la necewaary to move the beleseupe #0 that it will accurately follow the travel af the star, [f the timing and movement of the telescope are net perfect a blurred plate will result. The longer the exposure the more diffleult it & te Secure an arcurole Photograph, and for this reason scientista are indenvoring to construct larger and stil larger telescopes. As one authority points out, ft had been found impossible to substitute unlimited length of expoeeure for ierensed light-pathering power of a bi lens. So delicate is the mounting of one ab sail bce instruments that the power Te quir to move o large telescope is no more than that which is required to light a sixteen-candlepower electric bulb. Another interesting use of the big tele- seapes, nsbile from making photographs of distant beocies, is the mensurement of the distiness to the mast temote etors. Dbtrect MessUrerberts are ii ible, mo Lhe astron- omer employs the simple methed af the land surveyor who wishes to determine the width af a river, In this method a base line is etiublished on one bank of the river, end the sureeyor mesures the angles made by lines from the ends af thi base line ta object on the other side of the rive astranamy the hase line is the 186,(k mule diameter of the orbit in whic earth revolves anourd the sun cach The object corresponding to the jn: sible point on the other side of the ri the distant star. It is quite evident when the astronomer measures hie an one end of his hase line he must then six months, until he hos reached the end of the base line, when of course h measure the other angle, In order t sUTE accuracy these easuretiienhs mig repented! many Limes, through @ seri years, by astramemers in duiferent i and finally an average distance ia obts that is fairly correct. It is said tha mace than thirty stars have so far hed distances mansured pecuraiely. A newer method of malcailaciice st clistances iz a contribution of Arne astronomers to world aclenee. This ¢ resent plan consists in determining tance thraugh o study of the nature of light received from the variauss stars spectroscope fs uae in connection with telescope, and the ght af each ater & lected, photographed and analy2ed. apectrascope measures the brillianes of light, when it left the star, andl a phot eter calculates the brilianry of the fj we receive fram the etar. With these! rennin known it ie easy to estimate itunce of the star from the earth. Our Ax penences during the World | taught us the neressity of extablisking optical-plasa industry of quroen. Pri the war the United States was depend upon Germany, France and England ite npc gluse. Just as the hig teleseo are the eyes of wetronomers, small glam mirrors and reflectors are the eyes ao nation's army and navy. When the armistice was signed | Unite States had built up an optical-dl industry equal to any in the world, The fore let us nat lose interest in subje astronomical or forget the importance tl attaches in peace or war to the manuf ture af opticn) glass. Great problems ahead for astronomers, and perhaps na POsSeesed = preater presi bilitins thon t storage of the sun's F for release needed, It is not likely we shall ov urcomplish this end until we have four the source of the sun's energy, There a dozens of other problems relating to # heavens that are ne leg practical and if portant. Although the oblest science, a tranomy ix hut in its infaney. Ne line: work cun possibly have a greater influes upon the lives tha poogle af the wark After journeying from Mfussuchusetss t Ohio at the age of seventy-seven to lay th carnerstone of the Cincinnati Gbheervatery ex-Pretident John Quiney Adams said j woe hie endenvor to turn the enthusinsr for astronomy at Cincinnati into a per manent and persevering mational pursuit which might extend the bounds of hurar knowledge and make the country inst roemtal bn elevating the character and im proving the canditian of man upon eqril ne thing is sure: If the skies were clea of clouds only one day and night a yew these twenty-four hours would Be eagerly watehed and waited for by every person i the world. Kut as we have the free ond faay opportunity te view the wonders of the heavens practically at will, very lew of us either appreciate or take advantage of the great privilege afforded us, Ways to Boost Retail Sales ERCHANTS are finding the gelling game at the present time a diffe and tedious prowess, Blackened activity revulting from the business degression i forcing retailers te tax their ingenuity. Store managers are seareliing for new idea that may stimulate trade. Any prolaing flan to attract ceatomers and foster a desire be boy merchandise is now speedily utilized. The methods of shopkeepers to-day at quite changed from thas: of years gone by. Tr olden tines retail selling eis mon or lee of a struggle between luer and seller. Antagonigm and suspicion permeated (Cantinwed on Page 44

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44 HE thrill of the strike—as a mighry black bass grabs your plug; the sing of your line and whirr of your reel—as down he goes through the cool, shady | P depths; the splash!—as up he darts to the surface and in a frenzy of fiche throws his shining, quivering TTLiESS before YOus then—tense moments of play, a futile dash or two,and finally —the catch. That's bait-casting for game fish, That's the Reel sport of angling. To battle these gamy fellows and eet every thrill and joy which bait- casting gives, tequires tackle which has stood the test—the tests of thou- sands and thousandsof ardentanglers, whe each year are bringing in count- less catches like the above, on South Bend Fishing Tackle. Ask to sec the famous South Bend Level: Wiruking “Avngi-Reck-Lich Reel and the South Beul Anti-Back-Laih Rod—aley the equally famous Oreno baits, ar most any sperting goodedealer. Every Souch Bend boiriaa tried and proven fish-gerrer before ic is placed on, the marker for pour use, Send for the book shown below, i's FREE, South Bend BASS CREM CE Ne o7h Level HW leding i? ACST-B ACK LA SH EEL SOUTH BEND | BAIT CO.20H.s i] | =F I ne ee a... ——— j sutished customer mu THE SATURDAY (Coatiowed from Page #2! trade. Not one merchant in a hundred ad- bo a one-price m. When John Wanamaker adopted the es! wf having aly one pries for each article and refusing ta sell for less, dazena of caper a a OOn- demned the new potey and seed ee tion ta fronds th is ane-price plan, which was called “unfair competition hy the onic Slowly but surely business morala have improved. Retailing is no longer founded on a syatem of bargaining. Merchants in the same line codperato, Advan prac- tices and new dest are openly advertised insbencd of secretly Store execu- tives meet in conv cert “and exchange experiences. Goods are reliable; damaged articles are marked os such, and the have his Pores back if he so desires. contrast in bus nese between today and even twenty years ago is amazing when true parallels are ae h thi important ough many things are im in pernting a stere, most retall businesses re baned chiefly an salesmanship. Selling cae a counter ia not ao difficult as belting on the rand, The customer of the retailer takes the initiative, and enters a store with n definite iden of making a purchase. The retail salesman, therefore, ia net compelled | to devote so much attention to arcusing the prospective buyer's interest and desire to own as is the teoveling salesman. However, the person whe sella aver a counter must have ability to classify a cus- tomer quickly, He must determine flret of all whether the prospect has come resolved to bay, has merely reached the stage of desiring te own, of haa been promphed only by eurieeity’. A diferent method of 2elling must be employed in each of these three cases. The salesperson must also dis- cover whether the buyer eonsiders the price alma sreenelys whether price and vulue ore equally anced, or whether price and value are secondary, and suit- ability alone is the chief ideation. I found the business ghil te af one famous petniler most interestin manship a dagen sound facta a et ws are warth 4 fivefoot shell of books. The two things most necessary to avoid are over- statement. ane egret ie They kill pay sales, es Spine straight ane tad erect, elding the head to one aide denotes indecision. Hew to the line of truth. Avoid placing negative thoughts in the prospective e's mind, After making w sale don"t add, “You cauldn’t tet anything mare, could yout" Unetead make positive suggestions that will en- courage desire rather than kill it, Get the customer into onal contact with the article, Some ors apt half seld when they t an article into their hands. Though all deception must be avelded it must not be forgotten that many an seta except for needles: apology, Get rid of the snob salesman who gives attention to the rich and neglecta the Salespeople must understand that before they can sell an article they must sell their own personality, At the commencement of a soles transaction the buyer sizes up the salesperson just as the salesperson does the buyer. No seller can make a permanent success unless he is interested in the goceds he is handling, and mnie them sale gga Bach rotail-stare empl loys eran! be taugrht the value to the frm of public esteem and good will, In selling, it is usually best not to refer to the price of an article unless the customer first inquires about it. This is rspocially tre when the customer appears interested in the merchandise only, exception ta this rule ia the case of an article that is of unusually good value in relation to the price, The up-to-date mer- ehont regards poosible customers as his ests, juat as he does the actual customers, People who are only looking around and not spending should be made to feel per- sae Ba weleome, pre eee oe anal peg chould be shaped accordingly. Tei ne fe on bart of store man- agen ta oF er solexpeople, especially the beginners. Many young emer and women are ruined in business by em- ployers who incline to flattery, Though it is true that indifference toward an earnest, efficient worker may easily be carried too Hed oe beet for oa manger sere show high regard fer an employe ay singling bon out for the really tough jobs, for this gives the Te od worker a chance to ac- VEIoe an lt is abwoys wise to train itched gr to make two of more EVENING POST = — af one to each are ear: a ban on flowery e dny of oratory in selling ts past, Bicotirnie malee- a gs to develop their memories for names ind faces, and [heist that they cultivate both tact and a cheerful demeanor. It is not a bad plan to hold each salesman reapeensible for certiin customers, and have kim hendle all transactions with such buyers, in this way Wallding a personal fol- lawing. This gives saleay samen hat the same feeling they would have if they were in business for themselves, Although it is desirable to have attrac- live window displays, such exhibits should net be out of keeping with the merchandise inside the store, A luxurious window dis- play defeats its own end if it possesses none of the eharacta anes. af ther gp inside the stere, One of the greatest mistakes a merchant can make is te refuse ever to sell gomis at a loss. Many a store has lost trade and become involved in financial difficultios through bangtes on onto a stock af old goods that eold eaally by marking therm dew te replace- ment prices. Tt ig a goed policy for a store te purchase not more than 70 per cent of the stock anticipated as necessary to satisf wirementa. It is more thon ely th that additional goods can be secured if needed later in the season to fill shortages. The merchant who follaws at terse insures him- self npminisk an oversup pl slow-moving gods, When this ru i not followed it too often resulta that the store must sell surpliees at reduced par thus cutting down the original profit. In determining when to ty, the merchant should renem her thet ft ia a rule to ake his faving. if posible when others are not When mills and factories are shut Teserye stocks soon melt away. eo flants that have closed entirely, or which have been working on part time, cannot get back to full pro- duction fora period of weeks. Sound judg- ment must be exercised in deciding on the proper time te buy. Original ideas on increas sulle hove been put inte o tion by retailers in many parts of the country during the recent months of depression. One store ina emall Western lie hes appobsted agents whe ¥ Feperts from near-by towns, The darbsrine forma used provide aes far the names of new customers, newly married couples, engaged girls, new babies, houses being built or led, automobiles pur- chused, high-echool graduates and con- firmations. ‘The apes OF SOrnedy ta of the store are given a 10 per cent conumis- sion on all goods that ang of these prospec tive customers purchase, iA t many stores in both large and ] cities are mow endeavoring ta bulld up o mail-order out- af-town business by iasuin nie catal and offering rebates. In one Weatern city seven firms got together on a. rative basis and feted an attractive wertising cir cular, The plan proved a succes in boosk= ing gales, and effected a ga ln ps alone of more than ten thogsand dollara. oe ae retail concern in attempting to business with suburbanites and “ablished) 2 store sehice on wheels, Several trucks were parenaeed supplied with numerous articles cornea use, and then assigned to certain estab lished routes. Foch house on every route is visited once every two or three woeelks, On near-by routes the articles eold are sup- plied from the truck at onee. On the more distant routes orders are taken for the de livery of goods the next time around, In we towns where business has slumped merchants have introduced a day- and-night sale to stimulate buyi One concern in a small town started such a sale early Monday morning, and kept it going, without interruption, until the following Suturday at midnight. ‘The sale was widely advertised, and the market was scoured for real ina to add to the regular stock, Day and night shifts were arranged, and the store was never c from the time the anle utartee until itendel, A sewing machine was given away each afternoon and a talking machine each midnight. A free tunch was every night at one o'clock, More goods were sold during the week than bad been seld during the two previous months. ‘ De firm answers Hettare ered: wenhen on tin notepaper that ri fh an envelope of the special size. Another con- cern las established personal-service Fda bo supply customers with use- knowledge. A cupable woman in charge April 15, ol this work has prepared a serio of treating of the manufacture and cz various fabrics, Thee talks are giver hall accommodating two Ihe per and include facta concerning: the qua and care of materials. In treating of moving-picture films taker: im Japan 5 . Large have eenulied fron plan, and the women of the ci educated to purchase in amore ing manner. A number of large stores are mow pa Tore attention to children, realizing younguiers are the buyers of future. 'T There are twenty million chil in the United States heteseen the age five and fourteen, Several stores | established barbershopafor children, w parents can lenve them to hewe their cut while the older folks are shopping. concern publishes a monthly magazine boys. Another store has orpanined a Bti hour club for children. The club m avery Saturdy ginger with an in exting st erin charge. The mee Place has h made to reerble a p Toon, and i is decorated with articles ta from the toy department. Aussie pe freshments pre se free. The alerted with fifty children, and mow hs membership ef mare than five hundr Mothers of the children kave found it e venient to shop in other departments of abort pede: their littl: ones have b attending the apt Dour. The scheme | heer & lunes Lu The manager of ° eae in wnether te secured from public-echool records in city the ages. ri dates of birth as well the addresses “pier ign—t ng antes likely wnpreslate £07 bays. letter wot sent parents two or sane feeds before the di of each child's birthday, suggesting that t store had a laces eamort ment of toys app printe for birthday gifts, saps ei parer were flattered and plensed by the thongs ful interest af the geepoansci and respond to the invitation to purchase of ene A other store, ba etn keeps track ments af to marry, sends eordial letter tp the mew francés, su ti that she purehase a cedar hope eat 4 easy terme, As a reault of thia theught! attention the concern has ed mot only rego of _— chests but many thin a ptu pricecutting sale soi, prom eently with much euceess by store in New York City. A mumber j salesmen ar with big blue pend their way through the i the stere, and without any previous a HOULoEMent conumenced to l se on the tage attached to cert of articles. The peychological -el Ravin Seated iichns etal iy mg before the customers’ eyest shared nu movement that in a few hours chen shelves of the goods that were reduce plan was successful because the re wir COViNcing, One abare oreied the vali of frankness in advertising by ee i tion to the eale of a number of aul) had been in stock for several seam — not of the latest style or oft Panga colors, but the gids Wwern § he garments were well tatloned verdant condition. The price waa right the sale was an immediate succeme, chiefly to the honest impression en the advertisement. j Pie aome merchants etill ea of thelr forefathers, the ofreate ere have become students al hols of handling men and pole i to the public. These ones know that mem will work much “ the boas than they will for him. a merchant can build sales he m it sales. Lert the i) ki ¥ ont pene manager who ttalled an iron box with a padlock on it aed aalit in the top just big enough to receive an aveTape-size letter, box was phacet at a point where it could be spon daily by all employes, and bore this notice, si the cul manager: if be pnt: spel ab ae : “This ber | tended for private communications from vou to me. There is only one bey to the k, and I have that. Tell me bow to better working conditions, improve ods and rediice coe cone Sign your letber re & addres, ond 11 mail & personal Fe te vou there” ’ erhaps in ho Line of endeavor is orig inality of thought more necessary thas in retailing merchandise. It is ame busines whee ea ounce of ability is worth » pound of pull. aye Fatale] ae ee

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An. peewee re welt Ato! coped. pl a dean Aareterd ert Weal of Mai yo RFedinge it flsory be id i inl deta ross Lippe, arte en lee fore Lope bog err. THE SATURDAY again. vA last trike, a final ki kiting! Pe orhe next pie ' are ae. iran of i BI ay, nex turn of the market might have eet him on fieaceh bata eid the moboer that thoteand t Toney, pLERALT) dollars stitched in hia eoat, Nat Truax hadn't used it. The money was the last shot in his locker, all that ‘he had left to him. When that was gont —— The silence of the room was broken by a sudden savage mutter, a anarl The next instant he waa at the door, cursing to him- self aa he unlocked it. and flung it open. He was still in his shirt sleeves; and the light from the dim gas burner overhead on his shoulders, wet, still dripping. — mt the eeremony of a knock he pushed open the door of the ream adjoining. Ara. Mangin,inawra Per, by the bed, her hoir and attire in its usual frows disorder, Near by was the boy, , a lad of twelve or so. On the a bed lay the women, his mother, ' her face flushed ond her eyes ' dulled and half cloaed. She did Tot move ot the door opened, but “Oh the bey and the lodging-house as keeper turned toward it, starthed. Anexclamation, 2 protest, sprang trom Mrs, Mangin; but as ahe saw thé face of her tep-floor reomer the landlady shrank back, silenced. “What are you doing here?" de- manded Nat Truax, “Turning out that woman? The gasped, Then os she stared at-him her mean, unlovely face hardened, ‘What's that to a Her lotiger strode toward ber, his loo menacing. “Answer mel" he Scher and wt t e dull rancor in his voice and fuce her eyes fell. “T brought her some food; a plate af broth,” she mumbled sullcily, The boy, too, was frightened. In his fright, though, "le bovishness still ai ted itself, He ed across the room, his face pale, hia eqres rolling: but he hod his. fista doubled, "Vou pet out of here!" he stutbercd. Nat Truax looked at him, his face sour, Then he walked over to the bel and, leaning down, he peered at the woman's face, "Mrs, Cartright," he sald. The women stirred restlessly, but she did not teply; and he took one of her hance i in his, “Look at me, d'you hear!" he ordered. "Mrs. Cartright, look wt ma!" The lidded eyes opened tiredly. A mo- ment afterwards inte their dullness crept o | dawning worder, and her lis m "Why—it's Nat ake faltered, “Yeu: Nat Truax. Where's Joe, your hushan d2” he aeked. “Joe “You: where's Joe?" She had closed her eyes. Her face lyin on the pillows was wan and tired, a fue fuce: ond in the chance that had brougiit her ta the drab and dingy lodging it was evident that Joe Cartright's wile had ene a long way—=a long way down too, ently her lips ported and the man lower to catch her words. Joe was de Nat Truax stood up again. "Here, you,” he said } lolging-howse woman; ae sinirs— get a dector,”’ As she stall guped at him, roqted te the cir pet lia dull wonder, he pave winother i“ D'you hear? Get a move on!" @ money, the bills he'd ripped from. tis coat. wba f he had in his: hand; and stripping a bill fram the packet he thrist tt at her. “There's a hundred dal- lara," grunted Nat Truax: and he shot at ue woman another threatening lovk, “You nd that for what's needed,” he oa The boy he looked nt for a moment. ‘The boy, his eves rounded, his mouth wide, was shakt “Don't you worry, aon,” Te grumb ed: “it's all right.” Then, his face once more scowling, harsh, he turned and shuffled from the room. Five mintites Inter, his hands deep | in his pockets, his cout collar turned up to his eara, Nat Truax was stumplig along tle dingy side street, once more hurrying wely to ther through the tain, Tnsicbe his cont woe the tape he'd taken thot afternoon from Raoker, Hurke & Ca.'s, nr Tae In the veurs Nat Troax had haunted the downtown brokerage shops, feverishly dabbling in the market, the EVENING POST TAPE (Cantinwed from Page 13) stock tickers he had watched there muat have ground out from their maws innuner= ahle miles of the narrow paper ribbon. Miles, miles. It inched from the rasping, chattering machine in a wever-endin stream; and even in his dreams, it see he saw it, His sare, ti, it seemed, dinned day and night the etuceato clack of the tieker a3 the tape came fram it. For all that, the rid the trick, the knack of guesa- ing the riddle me never hall managed to catch. ; Nash, as it's been. said, eauld ae! oe but what’ hud happened that day In the brokerage Shop wad eonelinaive, Mat Truax was as far from the knack, the trick, os he'd ever beon. Jprecading the Wet Carnnenet on Nir Kase, Ne Took r a Peakeaife From Nie Pocket. Joifaly We Began to Rip Gat the Liming in the Dreoor Now, however, he wos toe find out why, ‘That was why he es urriel. It waa why, too, that night downtown he had sped away from the street corner, hurrying from Ge a af he fled from what he’ Seen at the street end. The doings uptown in the lodgin house were merely an incident. The night before, when he lay sleepless, staring at the wall, he had heard enough to Let hin guess who were his neighbora in the Fenn next door, Tt was,in fact, another gra teaque detail of the luck — his luck—the kind Her for years had dogued him, He might arsh, a tough bird, ne hore ps mails; but Jon Curtright, it a ypeared, hud been the mah whe onee had held eat a land ta hint, saved him when be was on the rocks, [nthe test, though, it seemed, Nat Trasx had proved no tougher than his fellows, It might even len said that tn the same best they would have proved not ‘her, Never rolnd, though, What graveled the man Waa that in hia extremity the luck should have lain in wait like thia for him. The thousand collars he had kept by him all hese years wos only nine hundred now, Tt wo, as the luck ordered, alrewdy sllp- mite thooceh his hands. e money he had boarded for the end. He often had wondered, though, if the ed came, how he'd use the money, The fact is, April 15, In other | he'd never dared to face it. aE might, by cant fartune, Not in Nat Troax’s hand, ever, By the nature of the way he] money—got it, afer the: amount Hits Stn puttaice, With it, if he ws living, he might live on year | pe Hie mai might, too, if i aaa fit, it a last ing—a week or so al living, ba “ drinking. The taste for thos h-happy days, the Street's i erm for it—long hed left Wat Truss, after year, however, the fear, the { tugging at his heart, was that wt the the money, the thouwand dollars, wou the way the rest of his money had gone sweated at the thought that in a last hope te recoup himself he might, afte at the last risk it in the market. A last strike, a final chance! Well, if come to that, ‘The morning would aoe ‘Truax back at the brokerage shop. 7 he woe sweating new as never before ha sweated; but the decision he had m The nine hundred dollars would enable to margin ninety shares, That would him ben pointe” leeway should the mai slat to go agalnat him. He eould whole ninety shares, the nine hun lara in a lum more safely, shoot i ten-share ree aa tn the ten-ahare trade would not risk being wi out. all at o rat ge was doing, though, in the n It was getting ready to move, as | Lao and though he'd guessed wron the turn, going short so that on a su balpe it had wiped him out, thia time | uess it Fight. No sense now in pilc Ninety aharea, the whole string, was w he should play. i Uf us played it that any sort get pint movement—w d set an hisfeet. And when he eo The old story. They're alll that, the men with the fever their blond. Wall Street he mij hate, and if he made a last stri a final killing, the Street he mij uit; butas Nat Traax linke a now thr the darkn and the wet he was, in aplte of the tragle consequences he faa still the dabbler he had alea been. Hope, A fever of hope. T belie! almost a aurety, thateon time the luck would turn. Th all have it, the dabblers, Ie Was 3 ain almost rinmi mi heturned pornerant ye toward the near-by DL static Twenty minutes later in a ai street: near Riverside Drive | stood at the door af oo tall broensto: dwelling, Gigging at the bell, The house, its eurroundings, too, seen ilistanced vastly from the neighborhood | just had quit—the lodgi online house and i! rman nnd drab vicinity, T eo dwelling its was ond the most pretentious jo Tf black. The deor and tta ironwerk grill the lace-draped windows and its other ev dencea of smart costliness were all we enough known to Nat ‘Truax, however | sare had gene sines he hod been there les he atl knew the place: ancl the marcservan who presently opened the door he al knew. The man knew him as well, “Sirl” erie the servant, “Ar, Trt! Nat Truex made hima ureod caution “Voir mistress—is ale ot" he asked i 4 guarded voice, “She's ct. sir. She's dining samew heres then going on to a donee afterwards,” th: mar replied. He stared at the visitor, he wonder growing. “You're wll wet, sir, Ha sormething happened, sirt' he faltered, The question Mat Truax didn’t answer. A harsh laugh came from him “So danee, eh?" he cron ked, way ite the hall, the water d lila face, aquelching from his soaking shoe “Show me upstairs,” he ordered bruaquely The servant's face lost for oi momen! its tin) gir of obsequiatis deference, [He eyed the visiter with a fishy, uncertain ee “Sorry, alr, my milatresa said "he be gat Ca growl, a anarl almost, cut him shart, “Take me upstairs!" Nat Trax ordered The man, alter glimpear of the visitor's force, closed the door aed silently Jed the wiry Up Che shares, The hangings of the house, che pictures and other ornaments, the deep pile af the ‘Cwnitnaed oa Page 48) wit! aa thrust his ripping, from

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Royal Easy Chair Corporation Saurgis. Michigan WS AL ie EASY CHAIRS “Prorh: tie Bintton— Buck Recliner ”" avec tal ya. a any or tated pret Sonweciel Pia, tf Mole | door af THE SATURDAY con gol 4 a carpets and rugs upon the foor—were further evidenors of the costly luxury which made the place distinct; but if Nat Truax marked it nothing of that showed either in his face or in the feverish anima- tion of his eyes, The servant, now silent, led him fram the fear above still on. Through two other Soora they passed till they came to the floor at the top. There, in less ornate, leas richly furnished surround- ings they halted before the door of a room in front. Nat Truox touched the man- servant on the arm, “Anyone else up bere?" he asked pear “Ho, alr,” sald theservant: “the attend- ant's still at his dinner below." THe looked at Nat Triax os he spoke. His alr wae deprecntary, evidently aghast. He cleared his throat. “The mistress, sir, ahe will be angry if abe hears,” he remarked, “She said if you came [ was not to let you in, If you needed money [we te give it you, Mr. Truax; bot you were pot te get up- etuira.” “Money, ea?" said Nat Truax. His lip curled itself. “You tell her to keep her maney till I ask her for it.” He mude a mation with his hand for the man te stud asics. “Keep that fellow, the attendant, downstairs,” he directed “T'll do it for you, Mir. Trax: it's a ford an my place, re sail the sera He stood aside then arening Sue Hi Fee in ae Wax she An cate overhead was lighted brightly and, closing the door behind him, the visitor stood gazing about him mo- mentarily, A bed, a big old-fashioned four- pester, half filled the ream; and at the foot of the bed was a heavy leather-covered lounge. On thia lay sprawled a huge loose- limbed figure, a man, clad in trousers and eorded brocade dressing saan The rote was open at the thraut, disclosing an un- kempet collarles: shirt, the shirt and the silken texture of the gown solled each in front with spote, greasy staing. The man's face and figure, though, were what at once would have caught and held ama ‘aeye. His face, like the frame it surmounted, was musaive, quite huge, in fuct; ut the eyet that looked out raw beneath the man's bushy, sha brows were hardly the aort that one had thought to find in features, in a fi rey like Bi They were dulled and wan ering. “They Tait themselves heavily aa epenel: but in them waa no leeht mar recognition, Crossing the room Nat Trusx went to the couch, Hest for a moment lowking ant at the Joos, sprawling figure lying on a “Harvey, it's Nat—Nat Triax,” he said. It was then, a second time that night, that Nat Truax was Tecognized, known, Harvey cihnsh of up at him, his dulled eves lighting to a flicker of remem brance yee leh the remote blorred cells of his tetain. Though Ike had not died that night when the stroke laid him on the floor beside the hago it might have bron better for him if ha had. “Nat? od Nat? he quaverel. His voice, querulous and thick-tonmued, drarnesd on its lifeless monotone, “What's hap- ned te you, Nat? You've changed since ast night yesterday," Yesterday? Last night? It We twenty yeurt und more since that ni ight, the thaw rifting now through his shadowy mind. ae voice, fretful anel patulant: gabbled The twenty eold pare bitpat as the day ih fore in his dim, baerpunise wits. It wasn't oght, droned Harvey Nuzh, that they'd kept him here all the day, locked Lt his poeom like this. He wanted to get out. The wanted to get downtewn to the Street Sonerthiing wibs daing in the Street, Shae wouleln't fet Vubren gre tena l. Who the she was Nat’ to ear. Once, years before in that same room, he'd had it out with Harvey Nash's wile. She had been Nut ‘Trinx'’s stenographer— Nuazh's, too—in the days when they'd traded together: and leattor Nat Truax Well, that, too, waa twenty years and more age, Dt was Nat Truux, though, who'd mate Harvey Nuh take her uplown one day ane marry her. Let that go, however. The time Nat Truas had faced ber there in the roar wae yeara after that. It waa after the night. boo—long alter it—when Ie had brought home Tarvey Nosh the Inst time from Wall Street, She had planned ta | send Harvey away, it seenved; arranged bo ruax liad no need EVENING POST pct rid of ber encumbrance, Nat Truax ad stepped it, that's all. He waa not thinking of that now, however. Tie drew in his breath, ite shrill sibilance wbook in tha stillness af the room. maa “hesaid. “See what 1 have here, ad, as he spoke, slipped a hand into his pate and drown Gt oul apain, Onee mare Harvey Nash's mouth lh one slack and Ber but with his other hand Nat pped him by the shoulder, “Lewk! he whispnred, Tt would be hurd te depict the feverish, fire of anziety and expectation in his eyes, Tor on the outcome the man hovering over the couch had hazarded all his hope, Be fore the dulled orbs of the other, once his pal, he dangled the tay he* d brought that night from the brokerage offer. “D'vou gee it, Harvey?" be sailed. "Yes, [ see it," quaverel Harvey Nach, He i paves a momentary, meaningless ak td'you bring me that for, id A The aweat had started on Nut Trinx brow. “Read it!" he said hoarsely. “Show me how you used to do it, Harvey! You can shaw ne can't you?" Aw pipe cum: from Harvey Nash, plaied shoulder, you're hurting jt,"" he eom= ai fis eyes ablaze, Nat Truax tried [ta “Show me, for Goel's sake, Harvey hee sald, “It's Nut, old Nat,who'sasking you!" Tt was ten minutes later when Durkin, the manservant, uneasy and apprehensive now, hurried up the staira. It was, as he'd anid, worth his place to let the visiter in; brat ot he reached the tagefioor landing he paused, Wat Trix he known for years; afd after the look he'd seen that night on his face Durkin bad no wish te rouso him. He stood at the atairhead and listers, The dear of the room in front was shut, Through its pancling, however, came a sound, amurmur. Dt was a sound that the servant for many years had heard: but mow ho cocked up his ear, listening. The mirmur, 9 yor mumbling to itself, went an fitfully, “Buy—boy,"" if miimibled, while A ai it changed. “Switeh—aell,"" it said; sell" if een his face wondering, pualed oper 4iCAhT. The visitor had gone, departed; but on the couch sat-the servant's moster. In his hands Harvey Nash held a narrow paper ribbon, yards and wards of it: and he waa pian eee is fingers, muttering to ‘he scanned the cryptic lettera and RCE printed in ils face, “Bell,” he wae eaylng; “sell; switch— bay." Iv HE market opened at ten o'clock. A half hour, however, before that time the customer’ room ot Rooker, Burke & (o.'s began to Gl with [te daily throng of dabblers. The night before. tt aeerved, the list had closed feverishly hectic and wncer- tain; and that something waa doing in the murkel woe evident nat only from this; it wie visible alee in the general weeesiness that charged the atmoeplere. Bepks, the mane fr, moved about in the growing crowd, e nervous angiety his customers Sed: thou h, was too old a story te Bees to let: § it after his affability, und he was as urbane and pentlernonly as ever, In the background Buck Hooker hovered, too, the familiar stub of a cigar clenched helwixt his j jaws. Activity of any soTt mennt, of eMirse, commissians: ane Buck's face reflected his satisfaction, As ten o'clack drew near he moved out to the front of the room, “Gentlemen, your munied Tuck. Tt waa the head partner's habit ench morning to begin the tay with a little dis- course on the market. [ts technical posi- tion he referred to first, the term dear to him; ufter which Buck gave to the dob- blers—or auch of them o& cared to listen — his advice on making their trades. The long puull—that. is, lengthy, waiting trades — Kuck seldom, if ever, favored, “Tn ane out"—this he ad vised wlwuys—" “in gm aut.” The process naturally meant [ne quent earnanbisslana. "Gentlemen —— Buck had reached this far when he stepped, The door of the brokerage office opened, and in wilke! Nat Trunsx. The firm's old euxtamer, the mun tt hol closed out the day before, care in a hurry, aitentian,”'’ com april 13,19 it appeared. THis face was moist; it » white tow: but his ys, in contrast - hia akin, were burning. Thrusting a pa way through the throng he made his w toward Rooker. "Buck, [ want ta see you,” he said, Buck scowled, Interruptions like this wes net aecustamed ta. “Just a moment,” be sail wausterely, “Wao,” sald Nat Troas: “‘ meow!" Beeks, in behalf of hia employer, beg to bristle, ald: @ 5H The look Nut Trosx shot mt him menacing. The threat, ton, of fhe tro lence was imminent: and Beeka fell ba aghast, BR heeds d'you want, Trouax?™ growl With a jerk of his thumb Mat Trim | dicated the private offices at the bau “Step inaide, Buck,” he said; and, su an grumbling, Rooker did as he w i s The night before, Nat Troax again hy not alept, The deetor had come, and had found him at the lodging house on | return from the trip uptown. Joe Ca night's widow might not die: but its well EB careful sitention— “money save her. “How much money? va") hentondi Nat Truaz, The deetor didn*t know; was impossible to say with pnewreonia, When the doctor had gone, however, N Truux went back to his room, There meaney ha | left he divided inte tu packets. One of them, then, he put bar if the lining of he eaat, and at fw again. The other he sllpped into bh ‘ket, Five hundred dollars. It was! i pocket now as he closed the door: Buck Rooker's private offier and turned i face the braher. “Well?” inquired Rooker Nat Truax was breathing deeply. | five Minutes or so the market would ope for the doy. “T want a toom, Buck—a- private roa to trade In," said Nat aX, “You want Sheet Hooker's drawl waa expressive. Th rooms like that kept by the firm were mi served, for its heavy traders, The ew tomers’ room was where the small fry, th pikera, congregated. Nat Triinx's demant though, waa not just a whim af his. Eae of the private rooms had a ticker of in own; and nothing less would do Nat Trua new. It woe aink or swim with him. Fe this last tine—and it would be the las that was certain—he must be where hb could have quiet, all bis faculties concen trated in that final trading, Hooker's gri widened. As the man at the door saw it hi BOLWNOR “Don't laugh!" said Nat Trumx; ani fram his throat came a wheeze. It ww thousands of dollars that he'd epent in thi brokerage office; and he shook again. With ac hoods he felt in his inside pearket abepping toward the braker ag he dad 20 res Ty margin,” he wheered Rooker phe Cece counted the maney handed to him, There were five hog tel dollar bile | in the roll—five hundred dal _ —a shoestring. The amaunt would in filtv shares of steck: and the sweat bea ing his face Nat Triax waited, watch- ing. he ns tip Wf his tongue for an instant wet his lip. Uf Rooker said no —— The broker es the bills into his pocket and Nat Truax atirred swiftly. There was a ticker cacking and chatter- ing in the corner; and fora morvent it kad queso, its type wheels whirring aimlessly. Then with o sudden resounding thump it hiirst forth inte a renewed reverberating ack and chatter, Outside, too, the sound of a audken animated stir ran through the Gustoneers FoIHn. “Quick!” criel Nut Truax, He aped te the machine; and with the tape stretched between quivering hands be hung above it, his eyes gleaming. At the snime time from the room came a ery, shrill anid verifier. “They're off!" ft piped. Tt was ten o'clock, and the market kad opened for the day nly for an instant, though, did the man hovering over the ag thumping mus chine linger there beside ot. The tajH: he ve a swift eager glance; and teasing it fron him he turned and sped toward the door, At the door he halted, hia hand on the knob, and looked back hurriedly at the now wondering Rooker. “Waik! I be back!" he barked. “Bont let anyone in bere till 1 come!" ‘Continagd on Page 3]!

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iinigtng onde she: nor ks Ba] gE open the re WR gone. Bock Recker, his mouth , Stoel ere with the cigar etub drooping from his = “Bog! mid Bock, ¥ ARE market opened with a whoop, A Lthegasand Steel came over at the first aneaction, the price an eighth up from the ese of the night before, A huondred-share & followed, the quotation 50 fiat, [t wos owed by another hundred-share lot, fen anether, each at tha sume price, 40, ‘ben (ollowed a flock of other quotations— galing, Soup, Katy, Mex . Little iuriis bap ge in turn on the flowin ie. Steel was the ot hough; an seoment later in the custamers’ paam roa fahrill exuberant volce: “Five hundred Steel at an eighth!" ) By all the signs, the dope the reader, the dept, gets from the tape, that mennt ins accumblation—the time ta buy. It is the trend of the big blocks, brie . that Be an reader gets the hint, hia hunch. “Nuts!” tape telle the story—or so they any, ly had the man at the ticker, how- Jshoubed out the price when-he noel volo! syeain: 6° Steel—five hundred at 80 flat! Are s five hundred, the same, Steel, T4— handed ot the Suri. Stoel, en The customers’ room wos in o ferment, dabblers, eager for action, like all their . filled about in their ansiety ta get. card. Ina market like this, though, it gd heve taken © Serr, Harvay Nash, fact, to tell which way the eat would o: and a shrill exploeive outery escaped ose of the most agitated among din is re futomers. “Himmel, 1 shall bust!" he yoriferabed, e The cmetomer, a short, rotund with protruding eyes screened ay heckensed glasses, rushed up to the at L nto paw him wildly, yata met do ¢ Be Ree peed me gen —vich vay does she got" he aplutee feck gave a grin. «Search me, Bimmy. Why don't you read the tape?” he drawled. Wr. Bimberg—for that, it seemed, was he pectieman’ 5 naime—akt one exploded in “Read der dayee, vat!" he shrilled, iha choke you make off met" t itwasa joke Mr. Bimberg failed ta see He was 2 iat, it appeared, in five oad t ten share lots; but though wild like the fest to get action, how f@ man lay fl cade in a market ronning—aa Mr. Hum berg termed ii—“‘sideways "7 “Sideways” semed, too, an apt term for it. Then, a the tonds of the clock marked ben minutes ate ten, the duor af the brokermge office qeeed; and when the crowd thronging the mon lose around and saw wha stn thee a low murmur of wonder and aston- Ehment tose from it. it wa Nat Truax again, This time, though, he wae not alone. “Two wthers were wih tim—a boy and a man: and the creed stared. “Tha way, Jory," sail Nat Truox. it waa to the boy he spoke, “The al fel ol Gels or Bo. Was on the other side af te tan hat Truax had with him. The await Nat Troax had in his, while the boy. he face set ond intent on his task, Giteltim by theelbow. Dt wos thie—the howe between them —that made the crowd ture. Aa the trie started to eroas the foor ite throng parted, making a pathway for ie three, tee lark room, Joey," clireeted) Nat Hate Nash in that. brief moment of his Weinoe stemed to have undergone a ae 40 the door had opened amd the f “pat ay Ee oy one EL _ esd Gooping, hia du moving. tt may have heen the ald. need forgave sights and sounds of the bros beta odie that stirrect him now—the crm, te familiar quatution board, the raspig lack and clatter of the stork mu- chor but whatever jt was, a swift, vital fraufirtution swept into his face ara fest, Eaepes Ut alerthy, ond he threw back histesd on hia shoulders. From him moe abyh, a chuckle of excitement, acim, “Tey, Nat!" he chir “Come on, Harvey," uw Nat Truax. They were halfway ee room at the bore thes Beek blocked their path, “Hee! What's thiaT What" 4 this?" pred, Bselan. “ut Trax bared his teeth at him. “het of tha wag, you!” he snarled, en THE SATURDAY EVENING POST A thmest of his arm swept the manager wide, Then the door of the back room opened and Buck Hooker enw had sensed the commotion outa his j jaw wan ajuared balligerentiy, PL de was all, though, he said. The door ; and the three, the two meh and andthe by ste inside, Then the bekind + them: and out in the | eustomers room Buck Rooker stared at | Sy" ori the bee “can you tieit?" If Hoeks and his however, ia as locked at that mo ment ingide the doora of a house upbowei near the Drive they might hawe had an explanation of the morning's doings. It would not have left them any the Jeon wondering and aturtled, perhapa; but whatever the case, in a room on the ta floor of the house stemil 4 middl averdreased woman, with frizeed hair and a doll-like, vapid face. Now, however, her face was erimaon with anger. A man, 4 servant, stead at the doors and it was he, evidently, who waa. the abject: of her wrath. “Tou say you con't know?" she wos saying. “Why dan"t know? I told you, didn't I, not te bet man inaide?” “LT didn't bet him in, Mra. Wash," pro- tested the servant: "it was that boy, the kid with him, who bar ate bie boy anid he pwiahed to me aba hen [ went up- stalra to fled uf pci a heen he must have opened the door for the man. I didn't sex him, anyways, till he had the master down ther stuims and outside, driving olf ita the cab." A look of uneasiness for a moment re= Placed the wrath blazing in the wormun's eves, “You don't suppose that tian's heard anything, do you?" she faltered: and the servant looked at her queerly, “About your putting the master oway, ria sal Sending him to that sanatorium?” aa pa.’ Durkin, the servant, didn't know. All he knew woe that Nat Trunx always had threatened to make trouble if anything like that wae tried. The explanation, though, was all very imple. The night before, Nat Truax bed for once and for all found out that he'd never solve the riddle, the trick af reading the taupe; and that was why he'd taken Harvey Nash to Rooker, Burke & Co.'s. Dt was to find out if bis old pal still | could dio it, Down at the brokerage office the door of the back room opened; and the boy, Joe Cartright’s son, ap . His evea were ih a mt for al Asorgy his air was boy- ert Tie confident, . Mir, Rooker! e pl ae hroke Ge beckoned ta inpercuny. NM Truax wants you—quick! Hooker came hurrying. Inside the room the ticker was ssamn ping. and chattering in another rewwukened burst of sound: and aver it hung Harvey Nash, his bulky figure quivering and the tape atretched between his hands, Beside him stood Nat Trumx, es cree of and a penknife - his hasids. Le hing E THEM pert: an frorn it ashy bills ee raat there the night before, In his alr now wes na longer any uncertainty, ere.” he sabieh: aul the money he hunted tu Hooker; “there's some more for ne.” aa he turned to Harvey Nash, His eyed on the ae Harvey Nuzh wos chuckling: ured mumbling to himself. “Steel! he waa saying, “Steel !" Nat “Truax wet his Li lit. woes only for | iti instant though. ite thumbs he put into his armpite: and his tone, when he | spoke, was as airy and nonchalant os if he, | timo, far the moment, hac set back the clack Ewenly years or so, One had to look close to wet how he wae shaking. F “Well, Harvey," We said, a pes Soll," “whats the sail FTurvey Nash. vr od Byireae day's happenings in the market | the customers at Hooker, Burke & Co.'s qill loig remember, They will remember, ton, the doings wt the brokerage shop, All around, it waa an oecaaion they would have reason to recall, Harvey Nush few of thes had ever heard about, while fewer yet had hh, was going on-in the back room of line ‘de Jot howe none had any renson to doubt, Buck Hooker's face when heemerged from the [naide offlee waa dazed and wandering. ever seen him. That aamething, thou 51 Most Widely Quoted In Foreign Press Wythe Williams, special correspondent of the Public Ledger, recently cabled from Paris, as follows: “The Public Ledger leads all American and English newspapers this week in the quotations from the English language press appearing in Continental newspapers. The Havas Agency and its connections, cover- ing virtually all of Europe, give the Public Ledger the leading position in cable reports of the editorial comment on the Conference, especially on the Public Ledger article sup- porting the justice of René Viviani's ‘fervent’ speech at the conclusion of the quadruple entente, “It is notable that the Public Ledger is quoted above the British Press, which be- cause of the short time between Paris and London, usually receives most attention in the reflection of Anglo-Saxon opinion on questions of world importance.” PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA lr pour ch Ar fore! newsstands Find out whether there isa newspaper in your city which publishes Public Ledger News by arrangement with the Ledger Syndicate se gd ie

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THE SATURDAY Those 16 Foods In each dish of oats Tt is almost & complete The oat supplies 16 needed elements. food—nearly the ideal food, Asa vim-lood it has age-old fame. Asa body-builder it holds premier place. Asa nutrient, every pound of oats will yield 1810 calories of food, [t supplics the vitamines, Te is rich in mineral salts, inclucling | EE Caloum [rari Magnesium Potassium Sodium Phosphorus Sulphur Chat ts why the oat dish holds a unique place in the diet. It helps to guard one against the lack of any needed clement And that is why the oat dish should be made inviting, Make it 60 rich, 60 Havory, so delicious that children will eat an abundance. Quaker Oats does that for millions the Quaker Oats Flaked from queen grains only world over. The flavor that won the world Made from just the fie 8 Ciertch, pluton, Maier Wey fet Lue Tet fe frais a-bushsel, The oft lovera of 5 wHtian mel te aL ther ineecaien flavor ; ef : rth Cue snd er] Packed in sealed round packages with removable cover EVENING POST As he hurned te the booth to telephone the order Nat Truax had given him, Steel by fits and starts had crept up half a point. The order, however, he had hardly given over the wire when Steel came to a standstill, Five minubes later it ta slide, With it went the entire list. At hall past ten Steel was a polnt and an eighth under the opening: and from the thick of the crowd again arose another sudden ex- plasive ejaculation, s came, it appeared, anet more fram Mr. Himberg, “Himmel, I shall bust!" re ejaculated, Mr. Himberg, it seemed, had been whl penebi Having gone short on Steel at the teet, he hal switched to the long adn, only to have the iherkat EO again against him: and now shoving his way ‘pole the crowd, his elbows galng like flails, Mr, Himberg precipitated himself on Buck f, “Say! Vat's beppening?" te worifer= ated. “Nat rar be has something up his Sleeves, ain't it? Puneturing the air with an eretyent if pia diy agitated thumh he point to the room at the . Vat “ig dope, Buck? Dots buy or Pda he gel] in there?" t was no business of Hooker's ands He shook off Mr. Himberg’s dawing han ama he wees ring away when the door af ss appeal a hy ined ones more and the oy ap FT Br » Mr. Rooker!" he shrilled, again went hurrying. Inside Harvey Nash still stood at the ticker; and beside him, i still Nat Truax, “Caver," snid Harv “eover; then switch to the long side. ‘Buy! he order Nat Truax repeated; and closing the aor. at the same time evading the now wildly oe agitated Mr. Bimberg, Buck Rooker hurried to the telephone, Again ma gh he the otder Steel begin bo react. By fita and starts ance more it awung back toward ita former figure; but ere it reached it the boy once more wos | eallingr from, the doar for Huck Hooker, “Switch,” suid Harvey Nash. “Sell Rebecea now!" Nat Truas's eyes as he gave the order were like lamps, “And ie !"" Tee anid, Rooker Tea tee he order was to sell Republic I & and add to the trans action the rr te ge minutes alter that U. 3. Steel hegan. ide again, and with it slid Rebeeea, | the lator tumbling, rs if ise propa Dad beon kicked from under it. read what was puming Harvey Nash had from the tape. uring the mext two uck Rooker shuttled between "room and the office at the back not even be could have told, To the dabblera qutaide, however—Mer. Bim if particular—the broker seemed kept ager the jump. The day Mr. Bimberg had a ood wf the others with ‘hina. Ins acita af his vagy wad on the right side of the mow hectic, ferve ea the amall rotund gentleman ‘aoeread to eased wrong in at least four out of maa his trades. Now cleaned out, his paatpios pete toa few remnining dollars, the close to larve ine when again the door of opened. ide, Mr. Rooker!" called Joey Cart- Tight This time ae boy did not beckon im- penously to the broker. is eyes were Found, true; but now they looked a little frightened. When Buck ker went to the door and looked within, his air, too, was He t What's wrong?" he sad. The ticker in the comer had again set up a clattering chatter, striving to keep up with the prices now pouring in on the tape: and over the machine hung Nat Truax, not Harvey Nash, the tape stretched in his shaking hands. Sunken tn a chair, his chin on his breast and his eves once more dulled Bnd roving ) Harvey Nash was muttering to i i: April 15, Nat Triax ceeyet the tape from machine; and hending over the figure | dled in the chair he held the tape he the other's eyes, market wis wave mie, shaking to and fro; and on Truax's face the sweat had started. T: last dollar, his profits pyramided in mat ms, Ine" played on at one last t k, Ha * he cra. The man in the - chnir, his mouth i and drooping, looked up at him with du roving eyes “T'm tired, Nat. I want to go bk now," aabd Harvey Nash. The tape fell from Nat ‘Truax's ha “Here,” he said abruptly te the bow. boy went toward him; and flehing ints ket Nat Truax drew outa coin. “Cl it inte the air, son, You may hawe bw I haven't." The boy, as be was bid tossed up the coin; and as it fell to floor Nat ‘Trunk put his foot upon "Heads [ buy, taila | sell," he said. T he took bis foot from the coin. It was taile; and his voice crmecking, Trax turned to the broker. "Sell," said he, Tt wae at four o'clock that aftern- when on the floor of the lodging ho over near the ferry there was @ sound scurrying footfalls from the stairs. 4 dear of a room Lh the back opened: an YOUN unAS ing nent crap gown, & nu "ehace hi!" she whispered. The boy at the aaepeet pelted and an invtant he ew cwught at his breath “ Mother—she's all right?" he falter Then, ere the nurse d restrain hi had pushed by and bolted inside the The woman in the bed, though, wus asleep. Her ey Carrie and a she looked at him hit gaveaery. Itw more iike 8 shout tt ough. “Mother!” he pi Then be ing and pedal Boor his excibersent lee lon box he hhad in f a hed see ican te it he began stripping the «& erings. "Not flowers! Pipa or his ange There was another sound of footla outside, and a moment Later Mat Tro atood at the door, His face, howen lacked the ieoy's fire and excitement. Was and drown: ancl of t woman saw iba shadow eume inte her Tt was aa if che had seen that look and had learned to dread it. OWE a happened?" she breathed. A smile for an instant twisted WN Trust's ' Py Ltd “Tt's all right, my girl," he said, “You" going to get well, and from now om you ar your bey 't have to worry.” "Yes —but how nhout you, Nat Tran! she said queerly. Nat Triax aguin smiled that thin, wea jed amile of his. What he had undergo in that moment at the brokerage offs when he had stood with his foot on the cai the bay had spain in the air only he woul ever know. “Yea, I'm all right,” he said. “lt going away somew eo —some Seay the country maybe; and I"m going ta an old foend with me, We gic gether | there again: and that's all | want, gue." ape was still gazing at him, her breat “Then you—you wont” she faltered. From his pocket he tok mw strip of pare and held it where she could see It. fryres on i abe gasped. a8 she saw th res on its “Yos, I won R he answered, Then b drew in Tale breath: and with a heave of bb shoulders as if he freed them from a load Yer-and it was worth the price, | guess,” he said, “I'm curesd,""

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Valspar—the Varnish of countless uses — DURE KAHANAMORKU of Hawaii, fa- | Valspar's well-known uses—on floors, furni- mous athlete, expert on the surf-board | ture, woodwork, linoleum, airplanes, boats and world champion 100-metre swimmer, has | and railroad trains—are supplemented by discovered still another use for Valspar. Duke | countless others such as on / Kahanamoku writes: Baby Carriages Golf Clubs Honolulu, T. H., May 3, 1921 Window Screens Tents “Have used Valspar on my surf-boards for several Trunks Fishing Rods years, and find thar it preserves the wood, be- Hand Luggage Tennis Rackets Cause tt is waterproof and prevents the water Wicker Furniture Oilskins from soaking in, No matter how long the board Refrigerators Gun Stocks is used in the water, the Valspar is mot affected Fireless Cookers Snow Shoes a and does not change color,"’ Draining Boards and Skis Duke KAHANAMOKU Boots and Shoes " Etc., ete. Valspar is durable, easy to apply, weather- | In fact, anything that’s worth varnishing is proof and waferproof—“the Varnish thar worth Valsparring. h won't turn white.” Don't overlook the compon below, VALENTINE & COMPANY Longeat Marujfacrers of Hit Grade Faeries in phe Word Estadtinded $992 New York Chicago Boson ‘Toronto London Paris W. P, Fortea & (o., Pacific Coast Amsterdam ae This Coupon is worth 20 to GO cents pe | A | VALENTINE & COMPANY, 456 Fourth Ave., New York bP VALENTINE’S H ion V7, Tenclese dealer's name and s¢ amps, AiPHEAEL Figg to [3c foreach 18 sample can checkeil on right. Linh One satiny 3 iL raul t Lippert ! this space cul rive. Wit plainly Valspar... [] Valspar Stain. [_) State color Valspar Enamel |_| State color Ler bet" a our Lheader’s Addirees Wouur hacw Tike forms Fal | pe "y'csute: “Madea teilrag weber rt

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S4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Big Job in 1922 is SELLINC The Same Store poorly lighted umd property figtineal Te eer fling food. inghtene reculf rhoen an tee farge ifastruréon, follow whe irsnple rat ifavrel mo tle foes nigh-hend paragraph, “Aleope fer Lighting bbe Avercoe Sore” Other things being equal, the well lighted store will always be the busy store! Good Ligh cong does make buying easier, Com parisons are readily made, details are clearly seen and quality is better appreci- ated when the eyes can aid in the pur- chase without strain and without fatigue. Many store proprietors—you are pos- sibly no different from many others — will say, “Yes, bue my customers can see!” Is chis true? Is it not possible thar your lighting falle far below the modern stand- ard? A. recent survey in a large city was carefully made by experts with the follow- ing results: Out of each 100 stores ex: amuned, only two had “excellent” lighting, 23. "good", 15 “fair”, 60."poor”. Lf the rule of probabilities holds pood,then,your lighting is very apt to be less efficient than you have thought! Yer correct ilumimation—the sort that adds to the results of each sales person— costs less than any other important item of store outlay. The recipe in the next column tells, in a few words, how to light the average store. More detailed instructions will be mailed on request! Wational Lamp Works of General Electric Company, 403 Wela Park, Cleveland, Ohio. Recipe for Lighting the Average Store For most stores the following rules pone the way [oO excellent illumination. Firt— Use yoowatt Mazo Daylight lamps, or zo0-watt Mazoa C lamps. Mazoa Daylighe lamps are preferable, under most circumstances, because (a) they show colors more accurately, and (z} their light blends more agreeably with nacural daylight. decoud—the space between lighting units should nae greatly exceed ben fet. Third —The lamps ahould be ely shaded. Shades and reflectors, when made of glass, should be of dense white glass rather chan clear oe frosted glass, and should surround or enclose the Fourth — Clean che lamps and shades once a NATIONAL MAZDA LAMPS April 13, 19

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THE SATURDAY THE SUN-HUNTERS (Ceatinaed fram Page 37) Teun-hunters. are few who are © May chan the sun-hunter’s ee ap Fes is mot recruited from id = of citizens, The natives af erie, with their Unflagging determina- = to place everything in the most favor- ee light. tell you that they are bankers erchants, doctors, lawyers, what nae, oev'd have wou think that racial cif then ebankers, As a matter of fact there are om! bankers arnong them—and some bur- a too. The bulk of them are farmers & farmer can, if he wishes, arrange ettets 20 that he has little or nothing ta » during the winter months, Next to them gen contractors, buildera and carpenters. ¢ sun-hunters are the peo le whe can @aeay from home with the amount \rouble, and TmHen o sorts men, pel basis f all dairy iors. bankers, lawyers and similar folk. gach ia the modern American migrant, et Florida i the goal of his migration. eon ma the first snow begins to full in orth, of when the earth bos lightened ip under a black frost, the sun-huntera gepare for their flight ta the South. Great fermibers of them travel by automobile; oe Mp cag a eae 5 ml o E airs, collape gocordion mattresses, knock-down ta, comeapart stoves, telescopic dish- and a soore of dishpans, tables, ner sets, tin cups, water buckets and articles that fold up into one another lack like a bushel tin. Tn addition to this, ea automobile jet a large assortment of canned goods, palate py on age lancer ue men labing gen inet. p, packed along faides, tucked bebind Saat lean and stacked : the floor, Some of the automobiles so well stacked with canned things that they could make a dash forthe Pole, And one Passes some of them on the road nad ao their owners were currying it, but aware of it if he does, uniform. of canned goods under the teod lipase. rinethe:Can Sua: Hunters gusto the heavy weight af cana bg these automebiles that the true, e@-the-can sun-hunter is known af, to his friends and to his enemies senn tourist. He lives in more of le Tree ta known a8 tin-can trots amd his interests are safeguarded ‘s « Boorehing organization rejoicing in ihe inopressive tith of Tin Can Tourists of thee VW oid The badge of the Tin Can Tourists of the orld a amall white celluloid buttes with thee betters TC T tastefully disposed on it in fark blue. The emblem of the order is « omad] scup can mounted on the radiator of the maembser"s automeoblle. There & alas a cassreonrd which the members baw! at each ether when they pass on the road; but this is coe af the secrets of the fraternity that should not be profaned by publication. The tin-cannets gel in 1919 at the Tampa tin-can town and have held conven- tions there ever since. The present mem- bership of the order @ estimated by soma A the most important officals, of khans, ef the Tin Can Tourists to be in excess of 2) ao, Practically every Florida town and city, large and ermal, located inland or on the gall or om the oornn, provides m tin-con Leen or a tine-can village far the Tin Can Tourtia. Occasionally these towns are fee and provide not only all the comforts ef home but comforts that home never pos eesed for mast of the tin-canners. The Largest and most celebrated tin-can torn is in De Sete Park, East Tampa, on the shore of Tampa Bay, Hundreds of astomebiles are lined up side by side ihremgiout the winter in [M: Bote Pork. Tie camp, whech is Fath do ated and peliced by the municipal authorities, ia free, Acvolley Hine comnmeacts it with the business wetion af Tampa. In the center of the eaup ig a pavilion, where entertainments ee given. The camp has electric lights, fitcing water, clty sewerage, shower batha ie en enema hot-watertonk, The tour- ae are permitted ta send their children ta the ant achools on pereant of fifty onte a week—-which is too little, fiiy enough fifty ceca a week or rmenty-five dollars a year is the amount that situralization © pers want to charge ue aliens for their achooling, but that Congress consiiers too high. It's not enough for Americon tin-canners; but it's ten much for aliens, How does Congres: get that way Tt About the only things that aren"t fur- nished for the tin-cannera are free tele ae pg a free morning paper and free Her and valet service, During the 1920-21 snnson there were at number oof free tin-eun compe hroughout Florida: but Florida towns found, a5 the United States itself is begin- ning to find, that an open-handed and un- sUipe welcome ta any person who enn Berateh up enough money to take advan- tage of the weleome will bring nothing ut annoyances, losses and misery in The Tampa camp was 6 euceeas because it wos very carefully regulated pnd policed, Many the other free camps, however, suddenly woke up te the truth of the ald ailage that penn e ever @ late the things that get for nothing. This is of course the old problem of immigration reduced to m personal basis. The United States talka for a century ahowt the meces- sity of restricting immigration and forelng aliens ta pay for the privilege of enjoyin America’s benofits; but in that bun vears ghe does next to nothing. Florida towne, confronted with a mild edition of the same problem, take action overnight. The Florida Refugees What ‘happened was this—ond the sume thing, ta a far greater d and with far more evil and wideap reqults, is hap- pening to the United States and will keep on happening until immigration ts ngidly restricted: Ward to go forth in the Northern Statea that camping groan were to be had in Florida towns citles: that if one bought a secondhand flivver at the beginning of winter ond his way to these ene he could live more chenyl than he could lve in the North, could afford to ac lower for his services than enald Florida natives, and could go back North in the spring with money in hs t and sell his flivver for what he paid of it. These are almost e the same reasons that brought a million immigrants a year to America fram Eastern and South- ern Furape before the war, Florida has made it plain that she want no muore of these gessonal laborers who can't make a satisfactory living in their oan communitios. Most of them are so hard-boiled that a dinmond-painted drill is needed ta penetrate thelr hella: and moat af them have as much regard for neatness, cleanliness and the rights of others a9 Berkshire hog has for a potato peel. ‘Tin- can towns howe heyun to ¢ Various prices for the privilege of staying in therm— prices ranging from twenty-five centa a night te seventy-tive cents a night or from four dollars to ten dollars a month, Even the free towne won't admit residents who wish to go te work each day. They've got to be tourlsta or devote themselves to tak- | ing the air, As a result the seasonal laborers who wont to Florida for the 1921-22 season were taking th ies hormeword early in 1922 and hurling many a deep, guttural, roughneck carse at the rou ait orids. as vent America wo very Tayid an ac ace tion on ber iramigration srablene ih her citizens could ‘be eantact with ite rottenness, These automobile hobors are alweit as ita train. | ught inte personal | welcome in Florida ox a rattlesnake at o | strawberry festival. : nh newe- paper, usually very slow indeed ta find any flaws In anybody or anything that hes secured a foothold in the state, emit poignant shrieks of rage at the very thou ‘Hit. af thon. Early in 1822 a North Carolina paper with the amugness which character- ex the utterances of a resort newspaper when it thinks it is administering a painfu black eve to another resort, stepqed for- ward with a tole te the effect that 182 wae string a great exodus from Florida of broke, Hus and disheartened tourists. Instantly the Florida papers threw their pal itating typewriters into the breach, “The only Florida tourists beating it back tothe North,” declared the Tampa Tribune seornfully, “are the cut-rate, ihy-by-night cheap skates who have been coming to the | state and preying off the public for the past (Contineed of Page 37] EVENING POST “When Old Folks they wuz young like us An little as you an' me,— wuz the best times ever wuz Er ever going to be!” Jomer Whitcomb Riley, CA Remarkable Instrument! 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58 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 15, THE WORLD'S ono) CONSERVERS AND VARNISI] OF PROPE RT Y — PALS Mae =i; her weeks—months— perhaps years— owners have been saying to them- ae ‘One of these days | must have that painting done.” But as someone said: "One of these days is none of these days.” Not — the thought is translated into action, is deterioration definitely checked, Inside, too, Think of the floors and furni- ture —of the walls, wainscotings and win- dows—of the ceilings and stands—of the tables, bookcases and chairs—of the bureaus, mantels and beds—of the many surlaces MOG ED) Saree the Surface Campaign, 1422 7 x Don’t let it go another day! that musk have vamish, and paint, ‘too, if they are to retain their attractive looks, slay rp and sanitary, and give years of faith- Service. If you have rty that needs attention, the time to paint and varnish is now. There are reliable painters and paint dealers in your town. ‘Talk with them about the painting you ought to have done. Don’t let it go another day. The longer you put it off, the more money it will cost you, “one of days.” Save the surface and you save all. TILT SLUT LE ees Stel TAS: Ge Oh SAVE THE SURFACE CAMPAIGN A ceapermiive meremeci be amo anal Allied [stes- esta whee poeckearte ard mer qogeervs, pooiect mod beesiilp practically cverp hind of property. TIM a ———— I OUT ATOTETOAEN TAT MTT HOUT AVA GRUTA AVA OMRON ETPGUTETUTTTOQOOD TTY FONE URNOTUOT CAVED TUT VeDONO TOT VUAVOGQUO TLE AUDAVEOOUT T0400 SRNL UTED Ne HLUITTUUILEL MCT TTT

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be willy to live in it, and Sucre Eat alt crane icing gerbe ape tt ge irection—north. They were eo usually are about the development ai ay tm any rate this portable fled the read, and it continued fo i the had antl it found a good bard the rem that would Permit 0 gt out a The without tearing iteelf to . It kadl a hanging ite back toor in an attractive “peaple and three per a = were sitting jacdiy on eetin front Baten Letom the ites the front poreh in ped letters was painted the owners’ wee, from which fact one might suspect ‘eat the owners were not ns whe were rae ig age ania a ights benenth voxbel, or who would shrink timidly from pablerrty. When questioned, the jon became Leertainty. The owners of the ble tingly proved to be in Can Totes, equally ready to with you ‘heir lest tin of Norwegian aardines or : baked beanain the Boston manner, wt ty you with concise and intimate aformmation concerning their cam of their htighbors’ business and family affaira from aprile d Ie tore Se, af the portable bungalow was t duiryman who had grown tired of de secury, Banepa Pep ehilblaings and oa puck the long winter months, ei ‘tad decided Years Oatota ee the vet in Florida. He had his first Wate wo mich Thr he had pernuaded a cxple d friends to make the trip with him tring hegecond winter; and this winter thie orp taro other couples in his party, THE SATURDAY The four other é traveled ahead in a litthe sedan, while aoe bis eth toe Ble h ld sor pounded alom in the ole truck. “Yessir, this here ia nothing but our ole delivery truck with o camplng top put on it, and she cer- ie ay prea aril faut saw , 7 met through anything. this ole trdek wi Why, coming through the Everglades ole truck ran Into —— ah ee A Fig: Ball pera ce Can Tourist. No matter Bimon-pure Ti how reper "nd dilapidated his autce- prea it has qualities which place it abowe plied eara—eiven abowr other newer cara of the same make, It con extricate_itself from thicker mud and fram sand than other automobiles. Ita feats of endurance are superautomotive. verge—to hear the tin-canner tell it—aon the miraculous. After the tin-eanner al dwelt for some time on the almost- human intelligence of tha little ole car, one thinks of the little ole car aa standin its hind wheels aod honking yin Satieht when ite master says a The dairyman's portable in calow: which would slough its skin with the advent abe ing and return to its less romantic tea of trucking mill, contained a ports- mel countless canned things, a fully equipped ane ong rein cablnet, a people, and a aearcr ta “7 ay tote af ersdemiacha TES, eultemses and alr Eu oe In the party that weed this portable ao8 base there were, a9 I hove Bnid, BEEN, le. The seven of them had started fram Ohio on the twenty-second of en lingering at oe d a, al an lowly pas Pond feeie un WETe & wor u m Haran epee Ormond, i met ri the road for twa months a aarLEey i Gj i! ae = tu ene and repalra for beth outo- mobiles; street-car fares when needed; food | for seven people, and movies whenever the spirit and the movies moved together. | This meant an average of seventy-three dollars apiece for teo and one-half months’ travel in the aunny South, or almost exactly a dollar a day apiece. Such an ex- me contrat startlingly is 0m- aoragmtniti eb ac Teecris,, where ‘one “a expense for a man and a wie ee wily reed fe a inarieatrregeep tcl tg te into a twoeounee package chicken feed, The Original Tin-Cannar The dairymen declared that to travel In the way he was traveling cost him about onethird as much as it would have coat him to travel to Florida in trains and to live at hotels and boarding howees. From this sintement it can be seen that one deean't néeciasarily have to be a millionaire in order to spend a winter in Florida, Mr. Charles Lae, eo ‘The Old Curi- osity Shop, described the original luxurious tin-canning veblele; but Di ne knew the contraption a8 a caravan. And instead of being moter dviven, it was, of course, horse drawn, The original tin-can tourist to have bern Mim. Jorley, fs pro. prietress of Jar ‘in Waxworka, who in “g smart litth house upon wheels, with white dimity curtains featooning the wine out with panels of a storing red, in which on Spgs colours the whole con- nd brilliant. . . . (me half of . Ee carpeted, and bei onde EVENING POST PITCAIRN oa 85¢ Refinishes a Table qa¢ refinishes a chair $1.f0an average floor So far as cost is concerned, no fur- niture, floor or woodwork need be shabby or worn—and everyone finds it a pleasure to use the brush. Perhaps you would hke to give your furniture a change of color—make old chairs presentable for porch wee—"do over oa bedroom sutte a enamel—or any of the beautifying things that can be accomplished with a brush. You can do them all with Sole-Proof Colored Varnishea and Enamels—which come in colera, ready-to-use, in big and emall packages. They are the highese grade, casiest-lowing varnishes and enam: cls and insure enduring resulta, Seale 1 hy 13 | Lik $4 oF alers EVar yiwhere, Nc ty PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS Co. MIL WAUKEE, WT 1S SUM EW ARE. PE ww JERSEY att at the further end aa to ac . "Pa siseping-piace, constructed after the ioe ie Ate : Gare _ a berth on board ship, which was = © d A DTT 7 ; aN shaded. tikee the katie windows, with fair | =f fe mp WO IS ive cnough, ‘curtains, d locked comfortable 7 Ake ge! r "hrs what kind of gymnastic vt eile . i ae: ‘i e ag the lady of the caravan ever con © exeresé the Ind it was an unfathomable mystery. The other half served for a Y ] SBURGH f GLASS 0. kitchen, anc was fitted up with a stove si srg a SS Pr poy Bos pig the j FLAT. ANE WEN! GLASS - MIR [RRO - PAINTS: VARNISILER- BRL i [MRECTIOCNUES ee . aa! = ——— i

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THE SATURDAY THE RAZOR THAT SHARPENS ITS OWN BLADES eee A Seiinfrokea ca (he atren— the Wade ia keen opain J wet atfp the atrop fheoweh the rasor Ten seconds—no more— for a new, keen edge every morning With this razor you average fifty smooth, clean shaves per blade RE you still plugging along with an ordinary non-stropping safety razor? Half-dull blades to struggle with? Sinking dollar after dollar on new blades right along? Just get the Valet AutoStrop Razor into your hands and you'll see the big difference ! A few strokes on the straight leather strop with this razor and you've got a new keen edge for the moming shave. It's as easy as Winding your watch—ten seconds does the trick, The Valet AutoStrop Razor strops, shaves and cleans without removing the blade. It gives a fine smooth shave—the kind you talk about—every day in the week. it saves the good money you've been spending on blades. Over a year of smooth, clean shaves are guaranteed from every $1.00 package of blades—an average of 50 comfortable shaves per blade. Ask your dealer to demonstrate the Valet AutoStrop Razor for you today. ValetAutoStrop Razor Silver plated razor, strop, year's $500 supply of blades, in compact case rm Rares ened bleder mogy alec br bemghl ceporctely Saves constant blade expense EVENING POST cheste, a great pibeler of water, ond a few cooking utensils and articles of crockery,” Hea ion arise ameng the tin- canner 28 to the proper alee of a camping autit. The man with a portable bungalow vs the man who jama all his belongings inte a emall space as being an old woman and a tightwad; while the man who packs his camp outfit inte the amall machine views the portable-bungalow owner with the utmost contempt as being inefficient, spoiled by luwury, a rand hog and » slave to his belongi In Lemon. ty, @ suburb of Miami, I found a palit home thi-tanning outtt was probably the extreme opposite of the rtable-bungalow outfit. His home was Chicago, an fines enfly outumn he had jounced from Chicago down to Texas, around the eastern cide of the Gulf of Mexico, down the west coast of Florida and up tha east const. He wos a hard- boiled bachelor of the sort thet announce lsudly that they don"t propose ta bother anybody and that they don't want anybody to Ftkhem. His means of locomotion WAS o ee runabout with a boxlile are ra behind the sent similar to Ehwt seamen who carry samples pee do them. Nothing was strapped to to the sides or the running boards the asprin it-was an ordinary runabout with and with an tneanapleusus bex hind, Inte this box, which a ter had built for him for a matter of seven dollars, the tin-canner had packed everything that he n or a five months camping trip, He had lain awake at night far yeare Sas ti exactly where he Soul try th ears e butter and how he coul Feet with the least com- motion; result wes p mooster= Piece af tae such compactness that if anyone but the inventor tried to at tare the camping outfit he might have ted over tha ge for teo hours and. sll had enough left over to fl mo freight The Condensed Tin-Canner The front of the box came off and proved to be shelves packed with tin cans Higher other matters percalning te te the kitehen, A khaki top and sides a led out of the top of the box, extended straight backward from the machine top, and were held in Place by eallapaible uprights. The seat of the machine, laid along the top af the eee gibi hear tical the bed: and on what the owner called a stuiieead: hip mattress, All a person needed, he explained, wos o mattress thot made a comfortable rea Place for kle and shoulders: it no difference t became of his tensile including a paibl bigger than a fair-sised kn well, came out of aamiall thi auiteas:. He had every rove planned out in detail. “In the morning,” he explained, fondling his outfit with the ‘proud and gentle hands of a parent, “T get up and eat one of these individual of breakfast food. While I'm doing that the water is boiling for cofles, and as soon as the coffee is done T put on my frying pun with bacon in at, use two F finished for tablecloth. When I have finished breakfast I put the eggshells in the breakfast-food box, wipe out the frying on with the napkin, prt mm inbo with the equsbells, and tech a mutch ta the box. That cleans everything up." He knew exactly » When and where he wees going to do everything, and he was delighted to knock a couple of daya to explain any or all of his well. regimen to anyone who wanted tao know about it, He would even deign to ain it os fully os possible to some who didn't want to Know about ft. One of his grentest pleasures waa to unpack and pack the tin suitcase that contained his kitchen uten- sils, Tt seemedt el perp that any human agenry could laf them into the space at bis disposal, but he could do it almost ewery time. Oecasionally he would find himself with a frying pan left over when the packing bebe fitunhed but instead of g@et- ting excited d unpack calmly and ly ond ae the things together with o practiced hand until there was nothing left over, He had a collapsible chair that nl inte the side pocket of hia coat took up less space than a notebook, He hod a diminutive double-ended jen cream freezer. This wan his ice chest, Butter went in one end and milk or cream in the other, The biggest day in the life of A prif ii this genius will, I believe, be wh covers a collapsible ing Pah fold inte a onepound The ordinary tin-canner, too. extreme eee ig ordinary small wgrtnige Hes rar, motion hos attached to ional ex machine. The tent and a couple cases are attached to one manmniny mattresses and blankets are mitt the other; cases of conned foods, utensils and other oddea and ends to the rear or concealed bemeatk floor in the tonneau. The falece fo quently carried to such an extreme eecupants of the automobile cor impression of riding around the 4 the backs of thelr necks. pin outfit the tent exten right ang rom the side door af tomebile, eo that the occupants of ean use the automobile at a com lawabory, sitting room, chiffonier closet, pantry and safe-dopostt wat I conf with a mild-spal eanner at'a Miami tin=-can camp February afternoon ag to tin-ca eral. His wile, who was a cap itted lady in a blue Frubt sat with us and rpg org wrk soft of tiny ity cones, i= beige paper them and varnish them al date and make them into faa of beads, This is one of 7 diversions among lady’ t lady tin ores bic tri popu almost nv popular os is among the male tin-canners. The tin-canner was a noncorm:nl farmer from the vicinity of tha eater Ohio re apes VL on his pa Frome romptings from his wife crag eine olowing information: He had broken away from the the winter because he ferred araund where it was comfortably arine arose mbere Sule cent co 2 Waar 1 Florida land, but he liked the Flay orn a at F land with the an (hio farmer, he felt that he 1- particularly eare toe pay mech mor nickel an acre for meoat of ik. He; with a Jot of aD pir and Ohio, along the road, and they felt the aay about it, Still, it was kind of res! soothing to loa loale wt, and the sun ani mare than made up fer the draw) the the land. The gun was nicer just fan, the Ohio sun, and a rat gio Florida sun m kind of trifling—trifling bale: eine lang for lazy. Better Than lt Looks He wouldn't want any Florida p hear him way that som of the land ts ts through ‘aia P53 BD a ra ture ding him to come back inte th aguio—and he wouldn't like that it was a feal pleasant place te con to—In the winter, Besides, you tell much about this Florida land fra ing at it, Something that was a swa year would be nice solid land the me and selling for fifty dollara a fror These Florida 2 were neal touc Fle and you had to be mighty cared you said when they were around. Ti flies pr holes in him every aft but he preferred not to mention it wi Florida people were around, for fe would aay he was a California mi had been pail to come over and cy on Florida's fair name, And for th renaon he disliked te mention the saa that came up out of the sand arcur down and nipped him all over the WE one feature con with tin-canning, and that was lom There were a lot of honeymooners the tin-canners, and they were abe only ones who didn't seem to get Unless you had a couple of friends to with, of were hon Cera, You wt to get lonely and hameskek, cand Et where it was cold, and be sore at y i ing back, oy were traveling with a doetr bla wife from back home. The dost the only doctor in the noighborhewsd 1 had been just runtodenth. Folksawe let him alone. He was just roy to: Somebody was getting sick erey L and they'd call him up at all tp (Conmtiaeed en Page i! fi

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 50 A friend no motorist will leave behind! The Eveready Focusing Flashlight—a 300-foot beam— to read road signs at night; to furnish light quickly when a tire needs attention, or when anything happens along the road, The handiest, surest, safest light ever made for motorists, Independent of all other equipment. Eveready Flashlightsand Batteriesare easy te buy in hardware, electrical, sporting goods, drug, and auto accessory shops; garages; general stores. ‘sy i Eveready Flashlight Batteries are ) universally used because they are | better. Fresh when you buy them; give brighter light; last longer; | fit all makes of flashlights. Insist upon Bveresay 4 —__- _] » 3 tae

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When Washington Was President the few Burd plant was in op rie ag dig far distant ¥ ie L795 chin ever growing enterprse, which has oalmi- nated in the Bord & Son or- Soguged im raking, Gully engaged in rig i Products, for each of which & nation-wide recognition of leadership has: been esol Lesh, wT peril is, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BIRD'S | NEPONSET PRODUCTS _ Bargains Whenever ou Buy Them ‘CH with the old and on with the new"—particularly in the matter of floor coverings at the time-hallowed, house cleaning season! “Brighten up"—the floors especially —is the order of the hour in Springtime. No need to put up for another single day with a dingy, unattractive, worn old rug. When once you see these lovely, modern, sanitary Bird’s Neponset Rugs—and when you read their price tags—then you'll know the reason. eae, ee Ss ae Coom The most inexpensive good floor covering it is possible to buy, a Bird's oie Rear 2 tones up any room amazingly, It simply radiaves cleanliness good cheer. And it wears and wears and wears—longer than any rug within its price range and its field of usefulness. For every room in many homes For many rooms in every home Fel base, thoroughly waterpmofed both sides—and all the. way through—which means it cannot rot —stai ; germproof,—a Bird's Neponset Rug is a blessing to the busy hous ; Easy to clean and to clean —once over lightly with a damp mop, and your cleaning is over. No heavy sweeping, lifting, beating, scrubbing or vacuum cleaning. Av practical foor covering —a Bird's Neponset Rug mever turns up at the corners. It doesn’t wrinkle. It lies perfectly flat and smooth without tacking. ‘You'll find these nich-looking, soft-toned rugs on the floors of many an attractive home, Anywhere, they add a touch of cheery com- fort. You save many dollars when you buy one, and many hours of wearisome labor. The makers of Bird's Neponset Rugs are the originators of felt-base printed floor coverings. Your housefurnishing dealer or department store can show you Bird's Neponset Rugs in a variety of patterns and colors. BIRD & SOW, INC. Hutablished 1795 Bast Walpole, Mass. Heo York; Hi Fith Avenue Chicago: (ES Lemon Beaildingg Canseian Other oni Plant) Haewilpon, Omtaria Look for thie mark when buy: ing flonr covermy. 4 ix the Bind & Son Qualiny Guarantee,

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; mst Tun him to death. “beagle dj heen planning to take a Va- = — r Wt t ran him so he th, but a few orida one hi Mo. the didn't know how hie former Betting along. Probably t. there was obably me ee loolting salt fos 2 W was in a case nt worry Acne Things ng re Z co ‘when you strc torida and began to sit aut in the sun. Ard so we return to the great craving of be min interes to Bit in the sun eats - 138 & Matt i mow Little: tennis is ede nes ard of muse smart Alecks: pola might be ert of dog or a game or a movie actar— bey" re not quite sure about it; sea bathing ya diversion in which they rarely indulge, fut they are remarkable sitters, Given o nck in ain they can outsit a troined ghlete or the United States Senate. Thrilling Outdoor Sports AML the towns and cities and large tin can sina of Florida cater to the sun- hunters by setting apart a sunny park where they can guther and commune ai- lenthy or monosyllabically with one an- other, chew tohaceo, discuss fertilizers, cuss the Administration and indulge in the games te which they are addicted. Some of the sun-huoters who wear the benches shiny im these parks ate tin-canners: and some are seasonal sun-hunters whe have left their forms and thelr businesses in the North and hired s bungalow in Florida for tee hundred wr four hundred or eight bun- dred or a thousand dollars = sepsqn; and sme Are eesional 2un-hunters from the North who have barely en money to last them the reat of their lives unless the country goes Bolshevik or unless Congress taxed their savings out of exist- eoce, and who have bought homes for them- selves in Florida; and a very few ure rebellious hushands from the big hotels who have sneaked away from the money- perfumed atmesphere of the tine-killera, and incurred their wives' disgust and loath- ing by mia gling with the roughnecks, ‘Take, for example, al Palm Fark, at Miami. It is larger than some of the Florida Parks forsun-hunters; but the ble who use it are oo different [rom thos whe sw _ similar parks all over Florida. On one side of the park la Biscayne Boy, , a ST oe ce - Fins Caanee Trasspertt Hime? ia Feeictes Bongdag Freon @ Ones Leaged Fiivoer fo oa Nuagaiow on Wheels THE SATURDAY with gingerbreadish houseboats and gleam- ing steam yachts and broad-winged flying boats crowded plomg the shore, On on- ether aide is Miami's principal business atreet, lined with modern bulldings and up-to-the-minute haberdasheries and modistes and drug stores and real-catate offices and hotels and soft-drink empari- ums and parked nutemobiles and bustling shoppers, In the Lay iteelf, beneath the softly rustling poling, an audlence of silent aun- hunters, aprawled on benches which sur- round the gaze intently at the long double row of horseshoo pi mound ot a score of long tables era with men who are breading over obviously important piattera, The men at the tablea are the skilled checker, chess and domino players of the tin-can camps and the sun-hunters® colonies. At one table ane afternoon I recognize a dactor wha had cured my hh ailments in Maine many years age. eons him. was. reali sia feare 1owe: e him was a cripp CEEET and pan- handler who owned to no home ot all; and. playing checkers with the pan- hap Wes a proeperous-looking amall- town banker from Illinois. Checker and domino tournaments of terrifying ferocity take place at [requent intervals, The champion checker player of Miami isswes a challenge to the champlon checker player af Weat Palm Beach, and the outcome ie awaited with breathless in- terest. It is not unusual for individuals to wager as much as ilty cents on the revult. Por hunit-raising excitement ond action ao thrilling that lt frequently causes hard- ened gun-bunting onlookers to swallow their chews, one must turn to the horseshoe pitchers, Horseshoe pitching is the repre- sentative sport of the tin-canner and the auln-hunter, just as the representative t af the British workingman is drinking Burton's, and just as the representative eport of certain African tribes. is wearing rings in their noses, ust aan Englishman is unoble te see anything in baseball, and just a most fiaph eins ee iphee the mere cas on of eric 50 is the ordinary -by unable to detect the charm in butseshos pibeting. He sees along Fow of Mc tossing orseshoes at iron stakes, and another lon row of men digging the horseshoes out the dirt and tossing them back at other stakes, But the sun-hunters get out imme- diately after breakfast and pitch all day with rsh intensity and. passionate con- centration, only quitting when the aun goes down behind palma in a golden hase. Some of the horseshoe experts carry thelr private horseshoes with them in EVENING POST leather bags, and it if not unusual for on aspiring horseshoo tosser to seek out the experts and pay handsomely for copins of the Inatruments with which they won to fame and high position. Thus it may be seen how anvong horseshoe tossers, aa well 48. ATbOn fers, ball players and ofhers who should know better, the delusion per- sists that a workman attain perfection through his tools ingtead of through him- self, The more ekillful tossers carry with therm all the appliances of their avocation—tape menstires with which to measure the dip tanoe of the ahoes from the stake: coline bo measure thelr distance from each other: chalk with which to keep score; colla Takes to smooth out the tumbled dirt ground the stakes. The delicate move- Try a pipeful ible | ments of a celebroted tosser es he hitches | up his gai spite on his right hand and | testa h aquatting position and rising upright again are watched with the keenest interest. bey large cr of sun-hunters, When a horeshoe mikes a partiewarly netewarthy Aight o fusillade af applausive spitting ashes on the panhabed ground, A Fisherman's Paradise There is, of course, an International Horseshoe Club. It is tea impertant an organization to be demeaned with a merely | ores local name, such ss the H Club of America. Then there are local chapters that indulge in taurmaments at which feel- ing Funs high. At West Palm Beach, when I was there, a new pitch was being pre pared for the big impending tournanvernt with Lake Worth. An international polo match may get more publicity, but there's more quiet bitterness over a horseshoe tournament—imuch more. Especially in Florida. Those who weary of dominoes, checkers, chess awd horseshoes pitching are at liberty to cue w bomboo pole und sit in the aun beside one of the countless rivers, streams and inlets which dent the Florida coast. These waters are full of trout, base, red snappor, yellowtnils, perpate, nis silvery and delicious fish, socalled berms af ther noisy and peevieh growls and grunts of protest when removed from the water—and many other fish whees eatin and fighting qualities would have ciel Izaak Walton ta swoon with delight, (t's hard te believe that the North, every winter, is full of muscles by sinking ta a semi- | or two direct from the factory Not that it will be any better than the Edgeworth you buy in a store, but we want vou to have your first Edgeworth smoke al Our expense. You may repay us by finding that | Edgewarth just suits your taste. Amd il it deesn't—fer there are some few men to wher Edgeworth is mot just the thing—there’s no harm done. Weare glod enough ta send free sample: | in the same spirit chat we'd hand you our ople whe hate Northern | winters, and of folk who don’t know what | todo with themselves, If they don't know enough to become sun-hunters they deserve | bor suite. pouch if circumstances permitted. We wish it were possible to save you even the litle trouble of writing for Edeeworth. 5 £ Edgeworth ts a likable smoke. Moen who have tried it and found it te be the right tebace for them never think ol smoking other bohaccns. They'll tell yo there are many god tebaceos—and there arc, Andwhen yom offer them your poasck with “stranger” tobacoo in it, they may ust up a pipeful just to be friendly. But metice how quickly they get back to their beloved Edgeworth! Day after day Edgeworth fans write tc us They tell us hu man little staries friendly anecdotes Cemhering drome deeworth, Cifber i is the numberof year: they have smokes Edeeworth that prompted them to write, Knowing how hard it is for the average man te write letters, we consider these un- solicibecl messages the greatest tribute to Edgeworth we could possihly have—ereater even thas the tnereasing sales. It gives the busines: of making tebaceo a pleasure that rum through the whole gamut—fram factory executive to the stooker in the backwoods Tf you have never tried Edgewarth, lei | Us repent ouraer, “Try a pipeful or tw direct Grom the factory.” All you have te do is to write “Let me try a pipeful on tveo "on a posteard, sign your mune ane address amd send the posteard tous, The gdedress. is Larus & Brother Co., 1 South Zist Street, Richmond, Va. If you want te add the name of your tobacco dealer we'll make sore that be has Edgeworth in stock. Te Reta Totacce Merchants: Tf your | jobber cannot supply you with Edge- worth, Larus & Brother Company wil tlacdly send you prepaid by parcel post a one- oF two-dogen carton of any siec of Edgeworth Plug Slice or Ready-Rubbec for the same juice you woeukl pay the jobber,

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G2 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Hundreds of men and women tell what Fleischmann’s Yeast is doing for them ee reports came from all parts of the United States— 113 different occupations were represented. Lawyers, artists, lumbermen, wrote in. House- maids and private secretaries. Dressmakers. Even a boxer told how he had added Fleischmann's Yeast to his daily diet. These letters reflect the grow- ing realization of men and women . all ower the country thet Amer- ican meals are often lacking in certain essential food factors. “We now know definitely,” writes one of our greatest authar- ities, “that the regular diet of a large portion of the people of the United States is falling short of imaintaining satisfactory nutri- tion.”” This is what has caused fresh yeast to assume such a new and startling importance in our Ipod. Today men and women are get- ting from Fleischmann's Yeast exactly the food factors they need, For yeast is the richest known source of the necessary vitammin-B, Ficischmann's Yeast contains elements which build up the body tissues, keep the body more resistant to disease. Also, be- cause of ite freshness, it helps in eliminating Porsonous waste matter, It is well known that many of the things we eat have lost their waluable food properties through refining and other such commer- cial preparation. Fresh yeast has not been subjected te any such process. Fresh yeast gives you the health-essential food fac- tors in all the potency of their fresh form. This is what your body tissues crave. Dectors ate agreed that laxa- tives never remove the cause of FLEISCHMANN’S YEAST is a natural corrective food . inate use of cathartics. the trouble. Indeed one physi- cian says that one of its chief causes is probably the indiserim- Fieisch- fiant's Yeast as a fresh food is just the natural corrective you need. Fresh yeast, says a noted dector, should be much more frequently given in intestinal dis- turbance, especially if it requires the constant use of laxatives. More and more science ts com- ing to look on digestive disturb- ance mot as a separate ailment for which one takes a drug but as a danger signal that something is fundamentally wrong with the habits of eating. The food fac- tors which Ficischmann's Yeast contains in fresh form improve the appetite, stimulate the diges- tion, and strengthen the entire digestive process. Some of these men and women did not like the taste of yeast at first. Alinost all grew to Hke it, Most people togk it in water. “A number Liked it in milk. Tt tastes something like an epg-nog. Mfany of the men ked it plain. Women tked te muke sandwiches with it, or they teok it in Fruit juices. Two or three liked it in icecream. One tookitin soup, Sev- eral liked it in coffer. Add 2 or 3 cokes of Fleischmann's Yeast to your own daily diet and notice the difference. Place a stand: ingorderwithyrour grocer, 2000 O09 grocers carry Flerschmann's Yeast. [fyour grocer ims not amang fhem, write fo the Plejachmann agency In your nearest city—they wall! supply you. Send for free booklet telling what yeast can do for you, Address THE FLEBCHMANH COMPANY, Dept. 608, 701 Washington $t.. New York City. April 15,19 THE REAL STORY (Centinaed from Page 30) made a dash for the whirligig arrange ment. Just sa she got herself inside, a alender, handsomely dressed F teat main ¢n= lard ipa weathers ¢ glimpes was eer 3y of as the contact of pa i bay aging currents tn a whirlpool. Tooth the aparkling plate glass she gaw two Jambent flames, and her knees wealered., Black eyes, somber aa night, eloquent as Shaksperc, Lary ite as dew, fiery! as stars, were burniog their way through the trans- purent barrier and inte her soul! Marquis del Argo had arrived, ¥ ULIE OORLESS. had . tr a miserable hour in the confines of her office, doi ne her best to make the artiche about "Harry Leek something better than 2 Inove, towne catalogue of facts. Her mind wes a conti= nent away fram ber work. So the ly del Argo had come ta New York as if bi her neckbealy written biography’! aé the man endowed with eee igieb Certainly there wae a touch atural in those eyes which had fash at her anes mare thrcagh wie a partition - bratty polished glass idea gare ashudder of dread: there was PO, we in that shudder, His TEP PEARANCE int her life brought op » hundred queations, How had he comported hinnaelf t seven years? Elad he made good his hot promise to reserve his mind ated heart far Mier? Te is wonderful to be loved like that, and by such a man, ahe found herself thinking, oh her lips anftened to a fond smile, more appropriate perhapa to ep than to twenty-five. k came in to interrupt her jamais His Napoleonic features held a benign look. “A quarter of seven,” he began amiably, “and athll working! © thought rou aociete rustlers never really worked, How's that Harry Leek interview comin ae “Pretty well, she responded d ye "Gove. Pep it up to the limit. Harry won't Gare—(t all comes under oe head of pres mietices.” Mr. Trask poused and his keen eyed seemed ta be seeking out her dejection. “Heard anything more about that Mar quia del Argo?" he asked casually. Julio raised her eyes, confran by fear- ful alternatives. Should she lie to him and thus weave another tangled web about an already complicated situation? “Ha registered at the Moerlinbilt this afternoon," she announced dostinetly. “ou don't say aol" Mr. Trask thruet. his Gngera inte hls waisteeat pockets sisi ae Hi wt wtire Lesen ere he asked: I've e story, haven “Why, no,” faltered Julie. Tathere { ian "t any story — hat | is ———— “Por the lowe of Mike, Miss Corle!" “I nee Ont pardon,” cutin Julie with a severe inflection. “T beg yours,” conceded Mr, Trask, "ut there's the finest follow-up story in the work! just lying round waiting to be grrallboterd . You eat beat everything in town on it, because you'ne the only reporter wha knows anything shout Del A Get hin to talk-=he'll probably be tickled to death, iret his opinion on American divorces, horse racing, wuimmy dancing and inter- national marriages, * And here's another chance: You sald in your first article that he was 2 champion swordsaman—grt that. Muke him tell yon his duels and a litthe apiey stuff about w led wp to ther. You've gota gold mine there, ‘ites Corless.”" Someone called him owt into the hall, ae he left her to despair. She had decided that she couldn't under any arcumstances go asking a vulgar, impertinent interview of ) the nobloman who had worshiped her aa a i queen then ahe saw Brick Minor standing iffidently in the doorway. Ehe could wot help comparing his rather small, uim- pressive figure with that of the dashing Spaniard whe dune everything for lowe. "A quarter alter seven,” ie amiled, “and you've forgotten all abowt dinner."" “Tdan't want any," she declared bleakly, “Oh, Brick, I'm making such a mes of things!" "That larry Leek intervivwr, yodnwean? ” She nodded her diminished head, sativ- fied to let it go ot that, "Lek ne eee ft, won't TT he begged, and took the litter of yellow paper. "You've got his athletic record a lit twisted,” he explaince after meacding. “EF T'll fix that. Ie tan't so fy -ane poy yeaterday'a story, Lut tell pasa And now wlll you dine with nue?" Would she? She woke from her trar toreslize thatshewsshungry. She thou of Brick Minor's with bess nee than the day before, Fommle-wise, liked him far let in one way and for er in another. His complexion was ao ugly but alter all, he was such a brick! They had a little table at a downta Teataurant, (her a casserole ahe listen vaguely to Brick's conversation. Mewer § rook gs laptops o Qhunint eno uring k ure in the sporte department he Teal fostered a passion | medieval textiles. He had read wolum and written one book on the subject. Bu as he wes he had found time to speculate Connecticut roal ostate and ta dewote | Vaoat to fying trips abroad; he Bs driven a few sharp hargnins i In. Preach Bi Flemish tapestries. His tale of ere eae @l-ainlig Julie a trifle sordid, Would Argo ss from his castle in Spain into au ing commercialism? ssa ai to él] them,"’ be confess: “I'm keeping a few for my house."* “Your house?" Juile Was eurprised . "Tt isn" built yet," be amiled. “Ys soe, I've done very well for several year aed [ whan't be a sporting editor week aft next. Hut Em waithng He paused and she knew hig he we going to say. “I'm waiting for a woman werth t house [* 6 Ginhniest to buy. Julle, L'a mal a very husband, I think, I know I try. But I've never been in lowe befor be ['ve had my long Thee sticking ti much between pages of eapy bo look rout me. I don’t know how to go at thia.” Softness com’ inte his colorless eyes : he blurted: “I'm in love now. I haven anything to offer you ‘d think worth whil-- But I adore you. “I'm afraid it won't do any good nov Brick,” she told him. “But To wish ye knew how much I admire you. You's bern doing the sort of work—well, ve know the sort—for so many yeara. An yee you've kept yourself above it, remain | one of the fimest agree T ever met.” “T don't think you'll ever understan the newspaper business,” he i with a wholesome lmugh. 4] suppose nag." H The confession caused her ta droop little and he asked, “Julie, what's been a your mind all day?" “Nothing,” she said at fret, then cami out with half the truth: “This Marquf | del Argo." “Tees.” Brick Minor bit hig lip. “He's at the Merlintilt, you ene Mr Trask ingiste on my intery ening Sie "OF course. And why ahouldn"t me : "It's to explain, Brick, I don'— ac to go at it in the “That's & poor go at it in t hewapaper Euan on! he told her jn @ queerly constrained voles. “Woo're in thi profession to advance yourself." ue you don't understand, Brick.” “Perhape not.” Minor sat ax though searching bia memory. “Del Argo? at re Wad a& Spanish marquis hy that name who fenced at Stockholm shee I went over to report the CHympiad. [he Tanbed the French champion. I wealein't mind talking with him.” “Suppose de this interview, Brick," she § He ceated Eapehully. “Gh, pol’ Brick grinned. “A orter doesn't pass the buck. Besides, 1 I ve prize fight on for to-night, But what's your hesitation, Julie?" "It's simple enough to me,"" abe said, hg net to make ber tone supers. here are circumstancea—well—I hate to put myself in the undignified ition af hounding a man of Marquis del Ane sort inte playing vaudeville for the Bugle’: readers.” Brick Minor’s rough-urfaced features were puckered into a look that revealed how snobbish it suunded. “T don't think you ought to quit on that plea,” he said, “Tt wou n Littl deserting in the midat of battle. bs By thia remark he managed to apol the evening for her. And she knew thet, (Contin on Page 65) i

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ou ae a2) TES, ahe eould never Corless went, Brick Minor. 5 i Ome hy Subway, FeSOIVG never ta retum be WERE clone with the whole ethics of the continual dinning impoasi- . eee into her ears. She had about her mind the § take n talented apin- ; # f aid open an art tea room ae alowed up at Thirty-fourth eet, ‘The, taal sae to hanes a Mn oat a ag { i Her at ry who bad beon = fh man. Fei. * said “lie was more ike the late ] Corless than t@ her mother, ‘ead =", ; nat erie! quit in all When the anor opened Julis stepped out hee lourth Street Station and : awar to. the ari i rae meas hod fort ef for he ordeal shea was reaolved to ur dere. “The Marquis del Argo is still in the imir ap tig "the man at the deal told her Tulie aan a deep breath anil withdrew a padded chair i sight of the Moerlin- is hamdeome dining-room door, She d wided herself with a newspaper, a off a wc ahe watehed the un fo wretch owait- execution Packs ken hope EE woud bee eet, Teite were seietaetiatile, Fat ol meen, thin laces, old girls, tall , gallacts and blushing maida came troaping At test Julie agp cer it no longer, Panic overcame her. to gel may, was her obseaaing ag Shee aa she down her paper and bounded toward fom. in the Merilinbilt’s foyer there in Bb piteewindowed writing room which feooat Like «2 booth at 2 turn of cur- The fleeing Julie was paming this she was cut off by several fat Pohalrs, eecuped by an equal maumber ewelvet ladies. In that instant of ) chonced to glanee over her fer into the plate-glass window. ae eyes again | Hie bead and shoulder plaindy revealed im the electric glare, M arqls del | a atond eng at her through a glassy partition, 25 1 were his fate always to hvpmatize ber throwgh this transperent meliwm. Julie could have acreamel, and wilen sha fel oto po whe four that some Invlalble meter hac nailed her shoos to the floor. Ly fp this nightmare hesitation the mar- memo beer face kindling, came burating ‘he addressed her aa. TW. hat a an arrangement of fate we: shaded coetet aguin! Cale knew not how ahe got there, but hem next she began to understand she Wes seated primly in the writing room, the marquis beside her, his iy A eyes play ing upon her, an enchanted: four tain, —I"we been waiting outside for you, Sig te foolishly enough. “Ab! Then you also have waited! Those ere bawe made no difference to you alae, : jexlle! L shall not call my euiferings fter this. I have wandered out of this A marae to touch the Hose of _ Efe wai all this in tix remarkal ly pure "i « Already the apell hal so far over- come Fale erage that a yes gril io e2zplain why she had eon .y comld she tell him that she hod sought him out to obtain o frivolous inbery jew for the yellerwest journal in Ar LET: a! Instencd shen mat back and breathed in bla words though they ial beeen clouds of inbox ing perfume. In a thousand years, inom thousand thousand years, Erick Minor could not make love like thiat - Seroaey my sudlering and exile, mare mcdieelle, [ have carried your perfect picture in‘my heart. Not till now have | heord Your voice. Hlowwwrtitis! Say that you re net forgot ten me!" “T hawen’t," she waid, ehaking herself aut of ber dream. “Hut it seeina st FAnge that wou *ve remembered so long. “Remembered !"’ His eyes seemed to be playing a melody to the abbligato of his Tich voice, “The Del Argos de nat forget, redeeoienlle That matt la upon our est: “Chr swords and car hearts.’ [r- pete the mere ei whlch rey lowe for yuu hat ¢ — aud The dow of his speech was stemmed as wmne bither thought, ond Julle asked: "Po me? Was there some trouble?" His glorious orbs dimmed for an instant, THE ri ished, his hair eilky and black a2 might. Pram was wearing a dinner jacket, and his soft shirt, of exquisite fineness, woe elaborately tucked an pleated, Rowed. his high collar he bad wound a black tie several times alter the manner of on olds fashioned sbock, He looked like a royal “T'm T have caused vou suffering,” ake said aul, “How vould t have known? & see his aition and gazed away, Julie da oe int ae comprehend oT handsome he was. His face was lean poet of he gat there brooding. “ou wish me to tell you," "he said ol lost, his mir Reepteniieg calmer, “Ot is a atary of persecution, mademoiselle—porse- cutind unrivaled in all the histery of trensen, And yet the fault was mine—the fault of a beart that loves teo miach,”” He groaned slightly, and Julin restrained an impulae to reach out und stroke one of the slender hands, “Tell me," ahe insisted, wat Marquis del Argo straightened him- “This Grat: T amo awordaman of reputa- tion. Any gentleman can tell you that, Hut then, it is sword that is dishonored.” A in ‘hia | umbent eyes lost thelr tire. fhat do I care for my sword when it is a qieticn af the En aki I have done it, an do it a Yet, in elfect, he gave mea good fight. “But I aniapets my story, You will i, perhops, how o wag card came to yeu bye pr é ih chaperon was furious," Julie in- fa him, "Amd well dhe might have been. Hut T was beside myself with impatience that morning! I had waited for hours in the rain, then like a whipped dog I slunk away—but no! like a pilgrim of love, humble but glorying much. I met my automobile i me at a corner, and 25 We ie parrot the Seine my heart | wosafire. I it that 1 at I should burst asunder | unleaa I uttered what waa aurging through brain.” __ ising to his subject, Marquis del Ar became all aniciatien. Every muscle i: | par por en mire at once het ures, eu of Te Steep warolled itself be stroked hia forchend, his waisteont, the back of his bead. siting Ineseilibis stem, Found iim at hap o my life, ound it im= wreeibbe teat T atic! ald delay writing bo my serge md had an appoin inte ment with ray uni The lost puieawtat came to Julie in the nature of an anticlimax. "This hairdresser was an animal who one hit shop an Place Vendime, Jacq Mordeau was his name—and w devil send me there? This cur bearded littl: Int conoille, ory al of panes and full of his shapheeper' atric mt pee He was a great artist of his lind. ad ne sdoner entered his shop than I called for ink and stationery, What ahould this perfumed little scoundrel do but bring ma o postal wit excuse that there waa nothing ‘better in the shop! I accepted his peda idee for L was distracted with the my henrt. ‘The words burned from my pen; I never felt finer pontry | than that I seribbled then. But my evil genius arate ma that avirn rademoielle, aa you whall sew This oily fellow, Mordenu, full of ‘the ratentions nire of class, was busying imsell with shampoos and pamades in the little booth I occupied, I had senree coms pleted the ecstasy of composition when | Hons that his par ee had. -— ul ing every movenen pen. a ned my mouth ta reriiod the tradesman his poution in life when the devil, dis #8 of manicure, om wWindew, causing & sharp wind to rush across the tile room, ore T could right the mis- ro T am not slow of hand—the wind had P ranies up the postal card made sacred by my m This Re ere of canal, Jacques Mor= deau, was first to reach the where it i yy tae. y, face wp, rs ag eeemegg As he raised ngera e eyes, bright wi wit Saas. fed a ALPHA t precious words, meant only for your But a ine my feelings, marquis has a gift of “At those vile words the blool leaped rage Hee rt to my head, That is to moelle, the Del A une nol uennstoiant to insdenes from the canoiiie, | SATURDAY EVENING POST We! 65 Ghote GINGER ALE Ne ae ELEB RATED Cia AY or C\olo EXTAA BAY ener ALE BIT MEeGune Ge PLU Ope MALT nom Ciigiey PL PS oe, pinay awe Pa evel Ah | iby IEA pga, ee © Hh a Not every ginger ale contains Jamaica ginger Tie Cie nuot Club Co. 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Whether you want a raincoat for work, for motoring, or for business, there's a Raynster built especially for you. Look for the name Raynster! If your dealer should be out of the exact Raynster you want, he can get it in no time from the nearest of our many branches; United States Rubber Company HEW YORE REG, WS, BAT. OFF. A.COMPLETE LINE OF RAINCOATS— «af type for emery need a -e What, then, could I do under the circum- stances?" "Tou aegetirer renga waibed till you. got cried to your hotel before you wrote that sunpested Julie a trifle dryly. the Del Arges strike rapidhy—too rape idly,” he explained, as though that settled something. “But ah! L wns constrained to act upon my sense of honor, What a gentleman of Spain, thus annoyed, do but kick the con ite? I did so with all the h egies my foot. It was a murdercus blow, I will confess, for it sent this animal Mordenu head first through o gloss cose and sprawling over netund fr tatlet artleles. | I thought for an inatant that [ had taken all me his unwerthy life for his im . But no. How much better had it been sol” The marquis buried his face behind his aristocratic bands aaa murmured: Tht horror of what he sa “Tell me, ae Julie, affected as much by the dramatic suspense aa by the oroftundity of his sorrow, @ rose, mademoiselle, and all the Tengen ce of the the gutter was on his loutish Ince. “You have assaulted me in a manner unbecoming a paceman, he snarled, ‘I have witnesses nae | have noe eh to paying dam- we | ind h ae “The ; baught be netiled upon the field of honor,’ he raved, tearing his hair, whieh was vigorous and curly. "Marquis, [ have been insulted. In the morning my secon ds. al call apon you and awnit your pleasure ? “I was at firat thunderstruck, you can imagine. Then | filled the tawdry establish- ment with my ironic laughter. A hairdresser of the Place Venddme waa challengin me, Raphael del Argo, to o betel Wit sianitys at my command [ informed the f t I was inexperienced at et cinerat with curling tongs or cakes of soap, as he would undoubtedly require; where upon he shook his stubby fists under my nose and stormed: ‘It will not be carne ton metorestear | With your permission it sha swords." “Whom have I the honor of address- ing?’ T aaked, putting all possible sarcasm. inte the question. "Doubtless you will remember me bet- ter,’ said he, “under the professional name He es Delve | my fetirement. Jacques henait, fs gata encing inetructor of the pl epublic!*™ aus del Argo eat quite rigid, his wise oyes appealing. t him?" whispered Julie. "Did you fig! “Let me tel Pes "he monneed, “"Eachy mil morn at my hotel two rufflana, a to ee and a tailor, giving themaelves fine sire and announcing that they wert Monsieur Mordeau's seconds, anxious to confer with ming. I informed them that my valet Sich too decent a man te peop ars h if guch asseciations. Monsieur iantea:t they informed me, had instructed them to say that in case J re fused to fight he would follow me to the enda of the earth, issuing challenge as he “T cowed the beggare with a look and bade them be gone. Hut their words left me with an unconquerable depression. The beautiful idgl which you had browght to my was to be mined by contact Be the vulgar herd. A hadrdteeser have in: me to aul my eword in bb raisavable blood. And yet I am a fighting man, mademoisele. A growing im lae to meet and slay the loutish animal would have conquered me had Lae saved myself agalnet myself cing an ing at once for Madrid. I paused in Biarritz but a fow minutes, merely to write you my farewell and my despnir, “Once in Madrid, | men to the house of my noble father, there te forget my sorrow in the gayeties of the eapi Hut it waa not for long. One morning two preten- tiously dressed tradesmen awaited me out- side and sent in a note by my valet, The nate informed me that Monsieur Mordeau, stopping at one of Madrid's tawdry hotels, was anxious to finkh the busines begin in Paris; if T refused to fight he was de- tormined to putin Me a8 a coward, “Twas de myself, mademeiselle, Dn mit fevered ining nation f could picture the rage of may f F at the stain upan our family. Ina pantie I summoned these petty tradesmen into my presence and offered them a bribe of princely proportions, They mockel me and declared that Monsieur Mordeau, himself well-to-do, craved noth= ing better than satisfaction. My father's butler showed them to the back io april 15, f There are newspapersin Bl acrid, moiselie, which follaw the worst. echid American journaliam—if you will par mut. ee crag oar bu arg ey press es Print burs satiric tema telling how hael del wag hiding in the house of his fathe order to avoid an honorable challenge & Fy worthy hairdresser of Parise. “This, incend, wie mor than [ endure. Therefore I waited but a hime before, Teent my valet ancl his co a oe panterer,t tomeet the ser M del Argo fell back im his es hou exited by Te the telling mney ga didn t Kill him!” gasped Ji laying a hand on hia sleeve, For answer Del Argo pulled that bo to the elbow, rolled back the eulf | owed an angry acer on the forearm. Santa MM what a wriet the fell hadi Tt is nat t that the middle cl! shauld be allawed to fenee ao well. At firat pass I knew that he wagindesd Jacq Benoit, who had taught swordsrmansahin the best families of France. He fenced | Fleet form. Before it was well begun I beaten my down and pinned m fram wrist to elbow. Some disreputah’ physician whom he had brought alow attended my wound. When the blood wa stanched I resumed my sword, and lookin my hairdresser in his ogling eves I saic ei de, we will engage wit the left." "Indeed we shall not,’ replied the artfu dog. ‘My left is better than my right, ani I have no intention of killing you. Aon jour, monsiewr. I have had my satis faction!" He closed his eyes, and his face, robbed of its principal charm, wae still handsome. His account of the dishonorable duel had roused more ate in Julie’s breast. Under his 5 he saw nothing humorous is rewa ay all. But let me tell you how my father received the news. That monster og x persisted phe sa} ly TeVEnge; ¥0 an accoun Ls ory to the sth eereaite r, Which waa the enemy of our Fh la: With all their rowdy nin they adorned the tale, relating haw hairdresaer, after wounding me in the arm, curled my hair on the point of his rapier and my wounds with as a pomade. The article was illustrated, Madrid buret into a roar of laughter, When I viaited my clubs those who had called me friend anickered behind their palma. Then muy father came ta me like a tower of ier. “Vou are ne longer a Del Argo,” he said. ‘The blade of & acelbice an nebrated your veins, polluting your o me ‘the honor of golng at once.” “So you find me, mademolselle, an exile ite pals, bearing the name of @ com Fin your republic eee And you did this all for me?" she mar- mured. “Tet is nothing," he assured her, though hia look belied his words. “Have vou been here ever since—ever since the ee " she asked, ” Practical ly. When [ found that I must leave Spain [ thought af North America, because I knew that you were living same where in that strange commonwealth, [ eold my jewels and personal possessions and tock for New York under the name af C. L. Jones. How adversity ma- turns us, mademolselle! Wnaccustomel though [ was te cormrerctal life, I yet de veloped business genius, With my emall capital I launched forth in partnership with o young financier m “In Wall Street?" eut in the romantic your lady. Springs. An enterprising a. In bed North American wished capital to core in the Morpheus Bed Springs Works, whose factory was situated, «finite appropriately, in the village of Bey New Jorsny, For hve years have been living there, during well according to North Aneriean stand- ards. C. L. Jones ia now a man of property. Te is onby pee! Raphael del Argo who wears a broken henrt Julie, overcome by his sacrifice and dere tion, was on eee peel of tbe him a ques: tion that goaded her curival oe “T have never married, am proud,” eaid he, “and there is but one woman whe hos looked inta my saul." (Continued en Page @4)

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RES DOUBLE SERVICE SHOE POLISH (Continued from Page 66) His eyes were locking deep, deep inte her Tnnermoet being. She almost swooned in | ie oes but she still had strongth to t's strange that you should cone: tot ew York—just now, “Tt was you whoa broawght me to Naw York,” he told her, moving a little nearer, “T}" She lacked strength to stir. “Tsaw that curious, vulgar article in the paper. It mentioned my presence af Biar- ritz that fateful summer. Do you realize, ma you are the only livin who knew of my golng to Blarritz was there legs than an hour. Only by my pice did even vou know “T never thought of that!” oxclaimed Julie, a cortain panie entering hor dream, * And when I read that mad article I said: “Enough! She le in New York and has epeken of me. IT am now a man of mean, I shall go beck into the world and resume my title, abe shall hear of me; we si pee pcs a over and took her hand. oho aA hit hold it an ingtane. “T offer vou again,” he eaid in his aweet low voice, “the tithe of my family and the devotion of my heart, And who knows? With the wealth and ability of an Amer- ican girl, d we net win back my place in court society Tt" The room ewam before her eyes. Her fairy story had come true! Then into the spell there crept the serpent af doubt, "T weer I ought to tell you," she wavernt I'm tremendously honored, we —— “But what?" be tased her alovoat flercely. “Tere is mot a s 2 “No. Dt isn't that. lth helpi eee k Rito the my my weil elping a ck inte [I'm not rleh any more, marquis.” “No?” He looked at her curiously, and porte ing of his jawel-like eyes gave her co to add: “I came here to-night to “talk to ta you —— “Ah, yee. You have told me.” “—— to talk to you about an Interview." “Aninterview?" For the firat time littl wrinkles showed in his forehead, “Tos. You set, [ represent 2 newee a Pa ee cadklcicn od Bie clini Wal ens ose ceallng a polaon fang the M: eee could not have arisen more q pan" be ing no interviews for the news- pa e sid with all the frozen dignity of b ia clans: and without so much as a bow he strode out of the room. d hy rr enaging ects ng editor o af the tear Baby bl et more seriously Boe i =o have @x- pected. She was a weak apoke in the wheel; that he admitted; but it is always embar- ressing 50 tohave we agpoke fall out in the course “hy Sey ac ee ad a ae conceived Debit WEG pep pee babe the “pat page during Mit ics Ragnell’s lnvalidiam, now cursed Aimaelf for having been 20 severe with a (orless a8 to have sent her map ari to bed. After all she was Early than mine. att ne aches a woe after Jules ie Mr. ‘Trask eat in his ewirel chair chewing a cigar and glaring monrasely at Brick Minor, who was chewing another cigur. “Do you think she's ill or only playing possum?" asked Mr. T savagely. “She ian"t the sort that plays poem," replied Hrick, his rough skin reddening. i pril is, a “H'm.” Mr. Trask studied his cower, then barked: “Did you see her?" iste She. isn't seeing anybody. ” mothe MARE" T The trace of a crafty smile over the Napoleonic countenance, ing ing that he knew how things. ato # Brick Minor. Then Mr. Trask browet fiat down and spluttered: “ ‘What's the ter with those society hustlers, any You d think they were war SO rrespane the way they get shell shock. I"ve ty the department over to Ri which m that the page in dead until Cissy o back. Ho, hum!" The telephone rang again. Mr. T put his ear to the receiver. “Winer will know him. I'll send right over," he muttered, and hung “Here's a new chapter on that Del , abory,” he snapped as Brick rose to go. gold net a word, but his eyes spar! through ah a aoe ah of the Merlinbilt, is 50 i nr vou don't mean the ray —" “That's itl supplied Mr. Trask wi new cheerfulness, “He's heer blowing | self like a Roman candle—on credit. By staller got suspicious and put the h detective on the case. Tt must have b easy. for the h. d. to have foume anythin “Well, what did be find?" @runted Br Minor, sensing a fear that Julie might! dragged into the ease, ‘Del Argo's a counterfeit, that's ¢ Saran se beeaeiit of his divorced wife a fl a erdope. Now 's the marquia locked up in hehe aod want to make any publicity if he can he it. But be's anxious to have Miss Cork comer and bell what she knows.”" “Tmpossible,"” declared Brick. “She w running a temperature all week." “Well, seo here," 1 Mr. Trask, § woice taking on a W ling tone, ' don"t think there's any story in. this f a—the Merlinbilt company’s solid wil our afice, you know. But we'd like to do favor for Burgstaller." "THhnow Del Ango,” Minor volunteers "T saw him fence at Stockholm.” “Bo a me,” admitted the mu ag “a jee Ge ee ene ang him, will you er turns man over to the police grab the sta whi it’s het. If be turns him loose do what yo can for Burgstaller. It's just a invor b tween friends—underat rr inor hastenid uptown as the Merk hilt. He cared leas than three straws fo Burgstaller, Trask or Del Argo. Julie alon concerned him. A news gatherer by is atinct, he had pieced together sufficien evidence to assure himeeclf that there wa more to Julie's strange behavior than ; mere maldenly slurinking from the require ments of ye journalism. What wa Del Argo's bold on Julie Corless? The scene which Minor encountered the sanctum of Mr. Blurgetaller, of th Merlinbilt, was no more painful “than tha’ Phe ‘by the ay directors’ mest: The room was full of Havana's in Burgetalier, the house detective ana ie splendid cavalier who called himsetl Argo were all smoking very cigars. In far corner an overh beauty with a gorgeously plumed hat see sulky mouth eat staring hinlcallty, "Tm Br. Minor, of the Bugle,” e- nounced Brick. “Hore's just the story for you,” beamed Mr. Burystaller, shuking hands, Theo be (Cenftinwed on Page FO) “~ funset— Lake McDanal fal, Giacier Satleaal Pork, Motos

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Gilbert Clock Co, Winsted, Conn, 'itohers of good clocks ince TOF" © 1923, Wiliam L. lihert Cine Gn, | potnd dela leberde SATURDAY EVENING POST (Centinuwed from Poge o5) added in a low whisper: “‘Not for publica- tion unless [ say eo—seeT" “T understand,” replied Brick, and wna introduced ta the oO PALy’. "Mr. Alviso, announced Eurpetaller, indieatead the handsome foreigner. “An Mrs. Alviso: and our hows detective, Mr. Alsace.” Brick bowed and sat down “Now, Mra. Alviso," drawled the deter= tive, casting fishy yi boward the over blown beauty, “will you please repeat for os fentleman what you have juat told i Certatinlee,” replied the lady, glurin acing hatred toward him whom they now eal Alviso. “Henny and me first met at Coney—that waa in aWITuier, 1fid. It wae a sort of hot night and —— ie atick to the bare facts, if you will," r. Burgstaller kindly. ee Vell, there wasn't nothing between him and I until fall, when he said that wait- ing on table wasn't no place fora lady like me. Ee wrote the sweetest Inthors—now, don't try to interrupt, Henry!" ‘This last was directed toward the : gentleman, Who affected an amused bar “He gushed a lot about love and said he'd keep my picture next to his heart— | that’s been his ‘weakness —keepin’ pictures next bo his heart." “Wald you mind showing Mr. Minor the—documentary evidence?" asked Mr. Burgetaller, “You eats them photos and all that?" she shrilled; antwering her own question she delved inte a ahabh handbag and tite out a serappy collection. B Waa alvra: erazy ‘bout rich women,” she ba on. Hut Brick Minor wre too much concerned in what he aaw to attend further lamentations. He was holding a half dozen photographs In fan formation under hia nose. There was a variety of portraits, all of Indics—a jeweled dowager, a dashing horsewoman, ih simpering miss, Some of them were [ne seribed with eweetiah sentimenta to the Marquis del Argo. But that which caused Brick Minor's heart to turn over and his cheeks to blaze hotly was a portrait he would Baye given all he owned not to have re Aare Corleas, Slimmer and less mature than the Julie he knew, beamed with w look ofigi irlish purity out of a sahinet phovoeriph A the name of a Parlsion atelier stamped on ita margin. "There's a letter goes with that,” ssid Mr, Bu ller con Brick Minor could scarcely see the half- formed scrawl on a bluish t which he held under hia wihappy eyes. Then he struggled with the shockingly bad French: Afon cher Mf Bea circonalances ole ina. rae reudend difficile | rt oR Alin qa Pou deaire, ‘fa chaperone est une femme severe a ye Wai He could read no more, “It was them Ietters and photos and the way he curried on with ladies everywhere we got a job that fel me up with Heary," snapped Mira, Alviso from her corner, “Where did you get these?” asked Brick frostily. turning to me Eps Alviso shrugged h racetul should but his ex-wife cut in eon a “He kept "em Jocked in trunk. I found "em one day when I thought he waa holdin’ some Money back on nme gd ——="" ‘interrupted Hrick Minor. Mr. ee ee book up the crosa- exatnination, laclng the unworthy Alviao, who sat languidly blowing anoke ‘ “Mr. Alviso,” said the manager politely, “vou have negisbered af hotel with a dozen empty trinke. You have been here ten days, and, ao lar as I can see, you have no intention of paving your bill, is alter- noon you tried to leave the hate] without anttling. ‘There is a serious penalty attached he {pin ing a betel bill." am informed," replied the accused in. the tone which one gentleman employs with other gentlemen. “There is alse evidence that you are not what you ie id to be. If you are nok Mar dig del Aro, a8 you say you are At con be quite easily settled," cooed Alviso with just the trace of a foreign gmecent, “I am not Del Argo.” “To see," agreed Mr. Burgstaller, appor- ently moved by the dramatic announee= ment. “Then | suppose you know that you are facing another senous cha _ “T suppose ao.”” Alviso ami dulated hia shoulder blades, anid. Wh April 15, “Gentlemen,” he wenton pleazanth fore the prosecution could resume, “IT no intention of annoying you furthe haye no a NOTNy If you wish to send n fail L offer you my services, ms I have ttle defense." What e was this adroit fellow | ing now? The slightly foreign sccent explaining smoothly: “The BiLarquis is with me an assumed] name. ly seen the gentleman twice, whe par to the shop af the hairdresser ariplired mein Paris, Tam an ambut man. [always had adesire to be aomel in the great world. Possibly that had n todo with my interesting career. “Tn the profession moetts many dis hed men, you understand. Quite frequemtly im aonated these py eae ae was | but excitement to be gained by the ad ‘ture. One time, for instance, I gained t ry control of the Due de Bourh automoblle—that le another amusing st Deut quite a figure with it for an entire amd no questions asked—for reasons kni to the duke and myself." Alvica smiled in pleasant necolleetio enerey Bb before that adventure I sarah my forearm severely with an elec bie iron, Woukl vou care tao me Lreftly she! fee back his sie bo fo axhine an, an sfigurement. ‘T wis useful a little Fede when [ decided impersonate the M ula del Argo, "The marquis, perhaps you fhemerl became famous throughout the Contin becnusg of a ducl which he was forced fight with Jacques Maordeau, a hairdren eau had once been ye Bg sie | at hia shop I had seen the marquis ¢ knew how much we resembled each oth T am a man of very rcharacter. Bo have imagination. My scar and my rese igen the tien was, for me, | vine ting a combination to resist. did very well, at brief interwa's, rel Ing my duel with the hairdresser to sel audiences. This required diseretion, Ha ever, [ mann prot bay the ator a earrow from = bi to thane in watering pla where Americana abound.” Alviso waa looking Brick Minor straig in the eyes when he said this callous thiz A murderous impulse filled the veins of t riing eter. Poor Julie had been of those Americans with whom wateril Placea abounded. ; “How came you in B » New Je seyt™ asked Mr. Burgetnller, "T hove been there tor, ‘a year," nounced the oeeued. “IT could not ive my trade in this po Hee at rec ig known among hai all aver tl di te haves worked as timekeeper in tl sacl Sprig Works, I hai hous - enough for clothing an yt trunks. It haa been like strong dri gentlemen, this passion for impersonatic a eblenman. Silence fell over the room at the end ¢ the strangely frank confession. Finally the manager of the Merlinbil turned ta Brick Minor and asked poiat blank, “Te this mari ger emcee “He looks a great deal like him,” sail Brick, staring boldly inte the face of thi adventurer. “Have you ever seen the m "I saw him fence at the rOlapiad it Stockholm.” “Then yon would recognize him, Is this man Deel a Alviso's beautiful eyes and Minor’ beet ones encountered each other just a aerate the # sporting éditar, “It ® “ Anal HOW, a amiled the impostor, Ielp- ing himself to another cigar out of Mr. Burgstaller’s stock, “it seems to me there is nothing to dio hut to call in the police” “Aonal meres yond and right!" cum the chidin tones of his divorced wile, "Mr. vA " eommanded the See os his lanky house detective, “you'd be up Areas wurlers —— Lace lid agers risen te obey whea Minor. btorkaded i nything "T don't thin att ws gain anything by this, Mr. Burgstalfer,”’ h he objected, : “Who's manny thle busiesa?'* galed “And I don't think you're keeping a hotel to lose jmaaney." “T don’t intend to be beaten out of x.” replied Mr. Burgetaller hot) pe amy point. If you'll bring me the (Continued on Page FI)

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f (Ci4tlaued from Page 70) 3 going to pay it?™ rwas now facing Brick with ich threatened personal injury. if you don’t mind.” am urgaraliee put his hands in his k howse detective saat down kire, Alviso half rose, The man wm this battle raged waa the calm- min the moon, ire really most considerate,” he ep his rich accent, at thank me!" reaiaetee Brick “And now— if you'll bring me the ja check book." ethe bill came in Brick glanced at gi: ELa27.55. Without a moment's ion be filled owt the blank line and jibe check over to the manager. | dink that's all,” he anid, slipping the phe and letters into o side pocket. on'’ Mrs. Alvige, from her eor- w@ getting in her word. "You ain't gary with them photoes,” je sure," responded Brick. “They're property, aren’t they? Mir. Burg- : 2 d sea mind loaning mee your hook again? And now, Mrs. Alviso, i you ask for the evidence?" i" sald she, “I been to o lot of ke in" onte them photes. Lord il'we | enough sorrow and teara pooor life. I think they ought to meth twenty-five dollars, seein’ os ser obliterated her protests with an- -dourish of the pen across a check. he Was going out the Spanish imposta wah the dignity of Castile und to. He was holding out his hand. ir. Minor,” be oaked amoothly, “you jdome ime a great service; would you jmaking hands with met {eould,” said Brick, Katurally,” agreed Alviso, “I quite petarid. bh. Burgetaller, frankly puzzled, fol- d the sporting editer out into the ir. stinor," be sald, I'm much onlin. he ought to t nk you, too, and | @ But what I'd like to know i, what's rite?” Who's running this business?" smiled i Minor, and fed inte the night. Fir pce walked miserably up Madison ivenge, he pocket burning with the idee be had wrested from Spanish medrel. The encounter had left him irres- mand sek at heart, for in that bed ater of an hour he bad linked up the tee aguinst Julie Corless. He walked ingly wong, considering what to do; ttugging feet, a mite more forceful than tel were advancing him step by stop wand Mra. Corlesa" ment. Ae paused at last in front of the forniliar oe Gazing up at the rows of wide- eel windows he saw lights shining on ethird foor, Acting upon impulse, for fick Sid fremmed the neamoning stare, he ret up 16 the little vestibule and rang ; kicarn let, ths Teeily the door began & mysteri- iw chick peculiar to the elevatorless petment home, Minar turned the knob ad bounded wp % the second landing fee to find the Corless door ajar antl =, looking white a8 a swan, in a filmy mut goon, tanding in a patch of light. Teo hed a faint Oe begees “That td come op," be ALi. et ted taken her hand, which seemed ie nore frigilt than the one he had clasped. feo, Bor ied him ints the arma perhstilel B tos, whic with its few pieces of hand- t Chippendale, its engravin S neve) sachle santak tor a eieheen Tumests abaya gave him a feeling of beng at bore with people he understood. Seated beside her on the chintz-covered Sect bedound breath to aay, “I'm mighty ad to nee yog're around again.’ = (i Tm eer so much better to-dny, Srowred cithapaleamile. “I've been regrephan [ bullied mother ay Aone te the theater. [ hope you're t, Grist. You doak tine. rile," be leonched forth, for the Alviso warat't bale of evidence was burning in ta ket, “Eve been up to the Merlinbilt ivi Tk weme to concern you.” hi _ fe ew sorry for hia words when he saw ie ott ober luce, yet a demon prompted Saco ay ant “The Maorcpuis og ue afiy for just an instant, then 2004 prlectly cataral voter: "Lm glad THE SATURDAY did the interview, Brick. You con andle ft ao much better than [ ever could." “Tm not eure of that," he gronted. “It wan't the interview we experted, Julie,"" “What did he say?" The look of fear had come again inta her eyes. Pa ee aie oe oe and said urgatale iain ri his hotel bill. Beenuue Fhad seen Del Argo the fenee at Stockholm they sent me an detail, Theman conf everythi "Everything?" she asked in a still, small voice. “To Burgstaller’s satisfaction, He said brat name was Alviso and that he was ra " Brick, dear! She folded ber thin hands and looked ae tiful that he was loath to go on until she nsisted: “You must tell me, Brick." “He anid that he had taken Del Argo's name in order to make a fine appearance in the world, It seems he's had a bad habit of collecting phatograrhe and letters ——" _ He brought a faded blue envelope and a girlish portroit owt of his pocket and thrust them into her hands, She made no attempt to read the letter, which she knew by heart, but she held up the photograph just an instant before she closed ie “Where did you get these?" she whis Brick was ready to tell her about the overblown beauty. Then a sense of pity Shee "Oh, t elective shook thea: out of his elothes,"” he said ensily, “I knew you wouldn't want ther hanging round. And— I thought maybe you'd let me keap the pleture. : ; “Et's spoiled for any decent man," she caid bitterly, and with a strength which belied the alimnes of her hands she tore | portrait and letter in twain, “What a littl fool I was! she cried. “What a snob and what a romancerl Belek, Yow re going to write it up, arent you? It's your duty, you see." Her eyes had become wild with resent= ment and despair, but Brick Minor's words cane hector “There won't be anything written up, my dear. Alviso’s hotel bill has been paid and the Merlinbilt haa sent him on his way." It was a full minute before she compre bended his words, then she asked: “Brick Minor, did you pay that imposter's bill?" + Why, yes, replied sheepishly, There wasn't anybody else round to." Theo Brick Minor found himsel? straln- ing her slender body againat his breast and axprees ne its . io muppllentions that musth ghd that ashe musth like that. i a “Lat me tell youl Let me——" he heard a amothered volee saying into his “Tell me just one thing, Julie," he con- “Yea, I'll marry you," she agreed, jum ing accurately to the conclusion, “it yaalt have me, Brick.” _Brick Minor made no verbal reply, but his subsequent behavior indicated that she had been accepted without reservations, After a half hour of beautiful nonsense wherein Brick had described a tate bargain he had seen at Greenwich and thay had quarreled loverlike over the spot— either in the rr ion hall or the dining room—where his largest Flemish tapestry should be hung, Julie had w locid interval and said severely: “Briek Minor, you've heen evasive about one thing. Now thut's no way to begin, ip it?" "Tam anopen book,” he grinned, but be had an inner dread best she auerann him, about poor Alyiso’s matrimonial past. “Why in the world did you pay that Fe impostor's hotel bill and let him go without ishment?™ Brick Minor cleared his throat. "You know, | muppoet, that I saw Del Argo fence af Stockholm when I reported the Olyamplad?"" Yes—you've tald me that.” “T met him on that cecasion and had lunch with hia party, I ought to know him, don"t you think?" = } "You ought to," she replied, puzzled, "Well, thi Spanish impoetor, 2 you call him, is the Marquis dar Are bnisrself" Julie Corlesa sat quite atill, her chin reat- ing in the cup of her handa, *T think I see," she said dreamily. 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pee duya of w in which poets ure orn, and pesal We to struggle hard for existence, The blue af the aky looked as though it had been washer by some celes- tial luundress and put out in the sun to dry. ‘There was a balmy wine in the air—much atronger than any paltry half af one per cent. You aniffed it, breathed it, drank it, and after the first few draughts you began to feel at one with lilac blossoms on the south side of p stone wall, and wild violets in a sheltered dell, und curledl-up hickory leaves beginning to burat thelr buds, and bloe-eyed calves frolicking over the meaclow with their tails aloft, and onales tunin their songs in. the topmost branches o the maples and making civilization seem shabby, and man a wingless cuckoo in a weeping willow tree. One of Paul's last duties that day was to visit a stenmship office on State Strect, and as he walked through Buttery Park even he began te feel the magic of the —lngensi- bly at first but gradually with a perceptible liftin ne his big tes “ places j in the world be- sides Weatherby" 4," “he thought te bienself at last. “I-don't have to atick there as lon asl live. All] have te dois to look aroun and get into something good —something with uw future to it, this time—nond up for the yeara I"ve lost." The sun still warming lm, half-forgetten echemes arces to his mind. There was Sta- leson, for instance, who had once bern a kkeeper for the firm. He with m lucky deal in Bethlehem Steel, and now had an apartment on Riverside Drive and a wunmer cottage on the shore, Ever since then Paul, too, had followed the market— in his mind—and more than oner he made wn fruginary fortune ta the rise of stocks. Wrought Iron Common, for in- stance, was about due for one of ite peri= odical climbs, The only thing needed was a little capita, Yee, ond there was money in real extabe, bead rig ald teri for a long term of year, fixing up the fronts a vitehe and rent- ing them out again at a prodt. Or a man might start a chain of garages through the country, the same as on chain wf grocery stores: af invent something like an auto- mobile bamper that woul patency stop the car if it touched thing: or pl equid, be written likes Checkers or The Old Homestead —surely he'd hit on something. surely everything protituble in the wor hadnt t been gob up yet. In short, by the time he went home that evening & feeling of promotion had taken possession of him, a sense of palventure—as though something important anil satisfac- tory wae about ta happen: perhaps the same feeling that comes to the lilac bud when the sun has warmed it, or to the bhue- eyed call when it lowers its howd and gol= lops over the posture, “I toto get a new suit and a palr al new ore | leave Weatherby’s, though,” he told himself, “Now bet's see— if I go slow—and save four dollars o week ——" He was still at this, and not very fond of the answer which was threatening, when he reached hia boarding howe and climbed the step. In the vestitle a girl was trying te unlock the inner door and was evidently hayuing eouble with the key, at's the matter?” saked Foul. “Won't tt itt “No, she sald: “and I hate te ring. Lamiladies never like it. She gave me the key this morning, but I think it needs filing or something, He noti then fer the first time the two euiteases which she had been carrying. ew boarder?" he asked, ded, “Just moving in.’ Faul unlocked the door and picked up the Sultenses—and even os the couplings af a freight train creak when the locomotive first picks up the load, ao Paul's wrists felt the strain the moment he lifted those suit- cues all the floor, “Tl carry them i in for you,” he said, “OW here's your room? "Third front.” “We're neighbors then. I'm third floor rear.” He paused and then rather awk- wardly added, “Paul Sohmer's my name.’ ern: s—Edna Benson,” said she. ag ve her acsmile which she received with that enution which daughters of the city have learned to throw around such olferings; and she followed him up the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE GOLDEN EGGS (Centinaed fram Poge 25) stalra, both busy wlth thelr own thowglite, and between them ane of those sereens of silence behind which human beings have learned to hide the things that are in their mits, “Some class, wll right,” thought Faul. “Down an her luck, I wouldn't. te sur- ised, andl bad to find a cheaper boarding cuse, Suites: like the real thing, ten, but aron"t they heavy! I'll bet she “Pardon Me," Ne Said, didn't carry them far." Aloud he asked, “Came in a taxi with these?" “Wo,” she sail, “On the El” “And curries! these sutcmers all the wax fram the station?” Her answer had a touch of spirit bn it. “You wouldn't ex eck me te leave them behind, would vou Paul whistled to ‘himeetf, his arms anil wrists already beginning to ache, but he hud climbed another fight before the sola- tian came to him. “T know," he suddenly told himeeli. "Sve didn't take a surface car from the stn. tion becuse she wanted to sawe the nickel, Frobubly hed to poy a week's board in wl- yarn, aed it just took every cet she bad." ¥ had reached the third floor by that time, anc the girl apened the door of the front hall room, Paul had another chance to Jook at her then: but of be hod been ex- pecting to see any signs of hoverty ie wins certainly diappointed. On her head was a brave littl: hat of dark red velvet; ber suit had a freshness and a fit to it that weld have done credit toe many a dummy ina Filth Avenue window: and her shes ond stockings had that indelinable trimuvess whieh hod been ineluded in Faul’s fret im- presaion—““Sonve class, all right." And yet, Uo he had dlaregarded the accessories avd had locked at the girl herself, he might have poticed that ber face was peaked a ube mare than Nature demanded, ance t her Cyr, 1s she than him, were brie ter than they should have been, and had vague shadows beweoth ther boo. pues at half past aix,"’ he said, “Did Mra, Seeper tell you?" 2 Yes, thank you,” she nid. “Yes, thank you,’ repeated Paul to hinwelf in his own ream a moinute Inter, “Thlt Feusg Lady Woe Vere the Fire, Fou Tale Four Place In the Edme"" “Same queen, all right." He looked wt the dancing girl on his wall, her skirt standing out from her waist like an opalescent: ring of full, pudsedd ol the point of her toe an lacabei rig enraptured “She's pretther than you,” anid he, and still looking at tea he Piosghthy wide, “T wonder if you would have carr those two trunks six blocks to save a nickel.” The smiling fuce looked boek at him inserutably ecstatic. “ruess!" pt maaan’ Bo. “TU say you wouldn't,” sali Paul, and turning te the geortrait of his mother he wided more thoughtfully still: “I pever thought of that before. it's bad enough for aman te be down on hia luck, but God help a girl in the city when she finds she can‘t gel on. ¥ ANY old saws have a rusty sound and eTate upon tie nensonm. “Stall waters run deep," perhapa—but so do thes who haven't the wit to talk. “The n sient brings caunae|" -yea, bat it brings cold feet aa well, “Nothing is impoesible to a willing heart''—yet probably Mr, Hohenzollern couldn't tell you se, But there is one old gaw Which cute as troly non the day when it was first sharpened —“ Misery likes com= pony,” and every time Paul started to think April i, of his interview with old S.J. some ended by thinking of Miss Benson half troubles. After din aver he wae standing or the fron building thee vague plans of ¢ which are the Slag we of dixap seats when the door behind him an dhe girl inthe third floor frort ca "Oh, ite you," she anid, and aiaeees thought she added, “J you can tell me—I want to fined paper office where they take ad ren “Ts knew where there's tweo,”” sai “ard Do waa just going out for a w you wouldn't mind—coming with They went down the stepa toget he walking quietly be his siecle. ** You i m not putting you aut?’ she rl “Trdeed, you'renot,"hesaid., “It He had started ta aay “It's a ph but it didn": sound quite right—s of that freshness which he had shunned tke the plague. ""Tt's—ao ful evening, isn't ik?” he conclude enough, and frowned at hirrnself having been born with the gift of ; They shesaid, “I think spring’: + arale gong in silence for ore n th ey come to a street lint stole a glance at her, She wae alig teld himself. than he had thought, ing him of the bisque statuette of shepherdess that had stood for yea mother's mantelshelf—a dainty fi the Watteau age that had te he carefully when it was dusted for might be broken. “Yes, and she's prettier than. the he thought. Slender, diminutive and Nie b was something else os well igh trick to cast romantle spells, details and letting the faney Siar, Paul glanced down at his companio the light of the damp she was mol young woman out of a boarding h er way to an advertising offiee: : a mysterious fhrure of and her eves deep aa though with the of impending drama—a hel threntened by a dragon an a Paul's mind a growing feeling of chi chi an ambition to shield ber, mind bh. her—to awing his foot like a mule e * and kick the dragon into the mi~ > next wee. == In the brighter lights of Broad — mid attained even higher prope Young Apollos, slightly sallow af fh ; engaged in the lmumenrerial past= ! looking them over, glanced at Edr.. uneaneniled wimiration=glanees t ” which she walked without the beams: Paul neticed them, soon as he had assured himself th were rolling off the girl by his ide tik = drops off a rosebud he eh ean 1. but. Fabs oun isis thing wi x young walking and I know how to take cure of remember that!" At the ecrossr guided her with his hand cu an hs Mbow, but when he reached t min a alfice ‘be apencd the swingin a0 much strength that the eas back against the wall, and the a side turned around to see what H- © was entering, and whether or mat if--, be anf for them to stay, cpp i blanks and renclly equ wit fn pencil c: to the wall. Paul followed Edna te om ot the and when she atarted to he blanks he happened tor ALA nr ret Wanted — Female." “Oat of a job. IT thought it was thing like that,” be mod to hime under the glare of the lights aber i iediced or the first time thr su: of shadows beneath her eyes. Att init of chivalry grew and was i h perfect flower when Edna went ‘lerk's cage, and waa ae mediately patie wide Fs fang : lagking man whe wus evi stall itt | those progpercus hurries which a 57 Wanting Female could hardly be ex to understand. Paul was on him like a flash, x “Pardon me," he said. “The ! lady was here the first, You take ~ place in the line.” ~—_ (Continaed on Poge 7H)

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faee Dee ©) Pee, 2 em} ath, Tee val vat ets et tet Tet tet fete Eyer ret et et etree ret ree x | money—aormehow, | night—staring out at the towe | Be wy. EVENING POST (Continued from Page Fa) There Ss cr the p because Shak thes the gift of newing when best to advance and when best te beat a Tigo q he, making a ry, m eure,” sani _ fon fede j in front a ‘hime “T ha “That's all right," said Paul, breathing hard and looking astern; and when they left. the office a few minutes later there was a touch of color on Edna's cheeks, and one of her hands rested lightly on his ann. “Listen,” she whispered. “Suppoese— he hadn't stepped back when you A oni . that man in thereT" re Akt grnke onal i had to curry him. eu bout bac, val They walked ang AT vcuk speaking for uo few ice her eyes deeper than they had been, and a proud littl strut to ber walk. Woman sooner or laber meets the rman wh will t for her, and she newer hates h for it. “That's the best of belng a man,” she eid. And vin a lower voice: “TL ooften wish I was one,” “Why? What would you dot” “Td pet on—somehow," she said. “Muke You know—a Jot of it. And then Pd travel. I've always wanted to go to Europe—Switrerland, France, plnoces like that.' He tald her about the Vosges then—of the village where he had been stationed while in the service of Nara. Sih ce! be nice there,” she aeeareed oner, drinking in every * ; Gnd again, "Oh, Dd lowe that!" Soon after she seemed to grow tired. “T guess we'd better start back," she said. “I[—I was in the hospital quite ao while this winter—and I'm not very strong ac time that and dish- cloths that were dimly waving in the dark- ness like heathy biog taylan and with every breath he drew he grew more and more determined He, too, would get slong! There oils be He, ten, would got his an a bunch of money—the same as. ae rest of them. did! “Tye been a fool long enough,” was bis Faul sat in his room a lon good-night thought, ater he had set his alarm clack as he were turning an engine af fate, * ry Bes to try the other thing now, i ets what nu that." rr Ro othe next month Paul's thoughts beat against the Umitations of his mind like waves againat a rock. Surely there oa Sune Way—some ers, for a brigh young man without fo anti at upon ; quick siiccees: = ivut wis over, all that he had for i ihe =i a growing doubt of his own abilities. 5 Pd pe itn that's ti reason [ haven't got on,” foneevening, "Perhaps I i E got ea inme. Maybe there's some little thing that's missing—aamething that I shall never have,” ich wasn't very cheerful thinking, “Funny, too," he though “the way old 5. 1.'s been acting lately. Told me to-day that he wanted Gus to how to make out ocean bills of lading. I wonder if he's cick of firing me and giving Gus ouy wet alse wasn't a particularly cheerful thought, eapectally at a thne when office clerks were a drug on the market and the strongest firma were trimming down their forrees bo si bone. “Tf Ia had some money to start with,” he te d himself with a hungry look. “Wrought [ron Common iagoing up again.” After dinner that evening he went with Edoa to the advertising , but there was nothing there for her. She was quiet for a minute or two, and ye withun air of serenity she said,“ Well, Teun atand it for a month," epent her days, be had learned, an= swariniy rade} in the papers, and applying i in person toa those who gave names and ad- dreser, She wasn oer ae amd from bite she had dropped Paul hud guessed that she wasn't a very good one. “A sort of mist, maybe, like me," be had thought, and felt himself drawn more closely to her because of that. They walked together to Riverside Park and stood for nearly five minutes on the edge of the Drive, waiting for an opening in the procession of cara thot were rolling up and down by the side of the nver, Stately April 15,4 limousines and sporty runabouts, fia sedans and knowing-looking taxis, saute biles. of every size ond make went sli se them in a double line that sem ave no end—until, if you had been you might have been pardoned for thi that all the cars in wold were tade, taking advantage of one of th wine : Spring evenings when it sens = be lonely and @ crime to stay lndoors. “You know what they remind m< said Edna, “The Egyptians in their fobs.” Ard visieing avery old though added, “Wouldn't you wonder where all came fromi™

ien't it funny," ahe sald, ““ how peaple are lucky—and some arem"t?"" Seving «@ break in the traffic they geroas to the op ite side of the Drive, then he not that the hand on his WA. trembling. “T'll have to sit down,” she said They found a bench by the sic of d porapet, ond when & mt down Pa gaw that she was trembling still. With instinct aa old as the human race he plac his arm around her for a reat. ““ Laan © me," he gently told her, “You'll be betty soon. Don't be ofrnid, Just think m= arm's a Fock." He felt her little body trembling agains his shoulder, and so for a time they sg there, watching perhaps the lights on th batt bees bai pos below, and listeni to the pro ceslon of the Egyptians behind them Gradually she grew ql wiet again. “I'm all right ihebi. ‘she said at last, anc gently moved his arm, “Vou ought te see go decter,"” Paul told her. “It fn't right fer you to be: like this. A doctor ought to be able to give you some pin to make you strong again in mo ae ay soy I need a change and a long e sald, and turning to him with o eae that had a touch of agen in it she bial alan “Tan"t that funny A change - and along rest, Can you saeinns that?" Faul aned to himse “Lerd, if I only had some money!" be mourned, half despairing and half in prayer. “Why, what would you de with it?" "What would Ido? Well, now, [ll tell ou.” And gentl ea hia om around F again he continued, ret I'd make a lot more money—and then I'd take you to France—or Switzerland—somewhere far away—and you'd have all the rest you wanted, and grow strong and. well again.” “Wouldn't that be nice!" whe sigh hie. pe tentedly, and after leaning her head on his shoulder for a few momenta she added, more to herself than to him, “I'm afraid there's not much chanee, though," “Wot much chance?" he repeated, one af the moods of Hercules falling on kim again, “I'm going to pet some money Boor aff Lemay to ta ew York by the neck and Be ite aca fame more eal than gel he next week old &, J. are him in and gave him an order from South Afrien to be placed with the Hedman Manu: facturing Company, a Cleveland conerra. The order was a anied by a letger of credit for sixty-teo thousand dollara made aut in favor of the Hedmon company —the money to be paid them in exchange [or the ocean shipping documenta. “Get this through as quickly os you ean,” suid old S, J. in his testy manner. They? re in a hurry for the stuff down re Delivery, Paul noted a he returned te his desk, was to be within three months, and fram his previous experience with the Hedman com , he guessed that they would probuls be a month or two late, “Sixty-twothousand dollars, bethouwght. “Tf Leould oy et the use of that—till the Hedman people are ready ta make their shipment’ Fit BUR Mite Feu rat & Othe tb im perone mien say, the same a5 he would bare ed a pals in, the Sunday paper ee hayoly of linea mand sal ling ca san them,” tald bimaelf. “ There's a bunch of Blanks in my bottom drawer." He drew one out, and in irasgteation be filled in the dotted lines, adding the skip- ing murks in the margin and t : prank ing signature under the agent's name. (Continued on Page 80)

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Le a, a C | a mit tT rat Oo Lc efter oe = 4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Murphy Varnish lor ever fly year an Abt pecserver od bewwilfel surfaces avis 2,000,000 New Cars Came Out of a Can! ruse as for Afty years, master painters have pre- erred Murphy Varnishes for fine surfaces, so have moter cir owners come to appreciate the time- tested skill and artistry in varnish making which has produced Da-cote—the motor car enamel which has renewed the showroom glory of over 2,000,000 cars. Da-cote is Murphy Varnish colored with finest pigments and ground to the smoothness of cream. Anyone can use Da-cote and get fine results— brush marks melt like magic into one even sariny surface—overnight it dries, leaving a finish hard and radiant as glass. Costs aboue two dollars, Try it some afternoon and next day have a new car, Or use it to renew porch furniture, or to reserve metal surfaces from rust. Da-cote comes Diack and white and in ten popular colors. Murphy Univernish Hill Brighten Your Heme The Moors and stairs in Your howse—have they lost that bos trois peweess of the day your took possesion? Murphy Uni- vernish wil] moke them smile once mere, for chia wonderful “universal” varnish leaves a beauriful, professional finish wherever applied. OF course, it won't turn white. Nor affected by soup, betling water, alkali, nor even ammonia. Comes clear anc in six ween colors, Murphy Varnish Company NEWARK, WN. J. CHICAGO, ILL Ty Doge Pera Coxpony, fami”, donned! Camdian Arvoriate I =F =a ied + Pa. = eS i (Continued from Page 78! ane insurance certificates would be nee oe "ha ain “All that hang ve to do would be te make gut an scplication and sae it or go Eo ine eer ince Company, ah they" ve the cert eaites in half an hour.” The only other documents repeat would be the invoices and the “Anybody cauld easily get some bill- heads printed, with the Hedman company's name oF them, "he nodded. “There's a Printing ahop near Seventy-second Street, and they wouldn't know whether your name wis Hedman or what it wos, And then a pubber stamp for the drat, ‘Hed. man Mf Treasurer" With Hese a papers and the letter of credit in his hand he eaw himaelf in imagination going te the bank and. ing them through ecg ae arp reign Exchange" — even as heh a Dissvecl othue sole of papers fer the “ele eight . There woul a brief glance at the documenta—by this time they had Teeriiad that Paul could be relied upon to have them in order—and o fow minutes later the foreign-exch gi elerk would silently give him one of bank's checks for the amount af the in- voice, plus freight and insurance. “About sixty-four thousand dollars al- | together,” thought Poul, and felt bis brewth coming faster as the turned and stared out of the windaw. At firet the size of this } imaginary check unconeciously disturbed him, but it oe long before he saw the error of his "Tt" ig the a are fellows who ana caught,” he repeated to himself, drawing from sone of those wise eae et aforesaid; “the big ie omer pet away. t little fish who prabe a hun dollars goes in Sing. Sing, but the big fish who Ww a million poet to Pulm E Besides, it waen't 28 though he were soi toe take it for good. He was only goin use it till it was really needed, and ¢ Me when the Hedman “i ent came through he would pa ill with a cashier's draft, and na etal be quel a cent. “Siety-fourthousand dollars," he ‘he bbe eed! aol amr abd Pol t Iron Common last month when it waa down to 44," If + had bought on a ten- oink margin ke could have swung sixty- our hundred shares, and Wrou Ft Iron Common waa now selling at bf. “Twelve dollara a share profit,” he morosely nodded, “I'd have mado over savant ve thou- sand dollars in less than a month,” And the etock had Sis ie begun to move. Half a dozen times in ite history it had sold at 100 and more. “Amd it's on ita way up to par again,” thought Faul frowning at the opportunities which he had lost in the past. “Any fool con see that." Fee the bent of the tiny he dit his: work in a sort of mechanical trance, his mind akim- ming around in dangerous circles; and [t wasn't till late in the afternoon that he saw a detail which he hadn't noticed before, "T hadn't i ce that,” he reflectesd, “The bank would give me & check, all vali pl cota cee to the order an Manufacturing Company. And what good would that do met" Ly ot firat, and then more definitely, lution tek form in his mind. ee ate right," he nodded; “I'd go to one of the big banks amd introduce niyself as Mr. Hedman, and say that I was start- ing ac any and wanted to make a first deposit. Then a day or two later [ could draw moat of it out. DT wouldn't need ensh: I'd panels Sere have to draw a eheck to some Hy that | fee as ‘ou Will see, he waa no longer working aut hn x details reali gh ta os He didn't any, * ody ca bo one of the bie hors eP "T al a eury mt tinves, alas—aso easy is the deaeent to Aver- TMs. But although the plan was mow nearly fully fledged in his mind, old habits heen an inertia which is hard to overcome; and planning is one thing, but doing is another, “T don"t know," aighed Paul aa the ofter= noon drew to aclose, “Anyhow, I'll send Hedman the oedie and tell them a credit has been opened. And then, tomorrow or next day, Tecan sill mail them the Ietter of eredit—if I want to." Meanwhile he hid it ameang the pupers in one of his pigeonholes and went uptown, Wrought [ran Common, he noticed) in his paper, had gone up two more points. “in Pik: self, “that would be twelve thousand dol- lara profit. At that rate [ could make sev- enty thousand dollara in a week and still ) haya the money to pay Hedman." shares,” he told him- April 15, h Disturbing snatches of old dreams to trouble him, but with a wariation added to their dist a— rd churm. Before, he had always seen his as the central figure who found aa eges, but now by the side of | erchant Prince was a Poincesa—a se little queen with class in line at whose eyes were constantly to h mingled love and admiration. Tt was nearly half ie five when. reached hia boarding howe, and in « trast with the splendor of his visions it never seemed so common, its windows shabby, or the smell of cooking im its b BO ata “ Mean—cheap," bee ht as he ma his way up the stair; if I stay he much longer I'll be just the some_*" He reached the third floor with a feelit of helplessness, ond wos about to tug toward his room when he neticed be Edna's door was open, and that she sitting at the window, staring aut at th street below, There was something im ba ey which quickly drew him towar “What's the matter, Edna?" he asked “T'm mad,"” she aaid in a low voice. “Mad? Why cid She wouldn't P toll him at first, and wher it finally did come out Paul had to guess 4 lat. That afternoon she had anawered ar adverthement, and alter the man had ex gaged her —— She showed him the mark which his hand had made on her wrist. “Wha was het demanded Paul in a rage “Where's hig affiee?"™ wouldn't tell him, though, and os ahe aat there, listless and tired, Paul cought glimpses of a brave little spirit which could no longer ane up a whith—of a tired Little bool grown weary of stat- ing quali Reject and sal expected —or - Simbing in Room $02 and asking for Mr. at telephoned the newspaper where he advertised, so that ne other girls would fa ys there," atic, “and they aald they “yh, damn it all!" cried Paul, suddenly moved to mutiny at the constantly recurring craziness af life; and making it compre ive he went an, “Darn every- box ! Damn Pkt Agel gt a, Paul, don't say that,” she quickly proteated. Tt was the firet time sho hed called him Paul, and with a queer fullness in his beart hur | over an her. The mem- ory of her thin little arma around his neck was etill atrong within him ten minutes later when be hurried aie the printing shop near Seventy-second St How long will it tuke ane be: “ho me out Are hundred tall beada?" “You con have ‘em to-morrow noon,” said the yp ebor, “Got your copyT" In a that had strangely grown gilent Paul drew a sheat of paper towanl him. “Hedman Manufacturing Company," be wrote. “Cleve » Ohio — FIT (Fs Gooseborry himself might well have taken a hand in the matter—ailing the bearings and turning down the grease cups—so swiltly moved the adventure fps Bite road which Paul had planned. At the bank the foreign-exchange clerk oc cepted the substituted papers bspcse i raise of his eyebrows, an piizslied through the wicket a ch for sat 110.40 drawn to the order of the Hedman Mazi facturing Company, Paul wal out of the bank with his heart playing the anvil chorus against his ribs, and a fine warm sweat i ieee aut along his spinal column. Cher in the atrest the orchestration tat fainter, and. a feel ing of confidence that wasn't far from reck- leasness gradually tock possession of him. é Ree be = pak ote row oe ee the ongo Princes ge P| un find that the shipment pon Pay om et le thought. “But I should Pha Ti won't get there for two monthe yet, and by that time I'll have money enough to take care of ™ self,” le already arin ig out a plen of campaign to re af the situatios when his sithetiinted | Banas woudl be dis eavers. He would retain a lawser—see of the old-fashioned aye mecheal auch as achieve foraporary: Sere A prominest criminal easea—Poul had the name of two such men in his mind—and when it was time for the sterm to break he would (Caontineed on Page oF!

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2 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April is, ene ae nai Biri WHILE arate i ND =i 4 My im | Hl nt = ea ee OL a ae oe aftr: : = mar i - | fL Why Woke Vviniit tier ani es mt ar foshionwed kicechea! Such a katehen cosss males of sceps ind eure of tine cack a! it anwarrunted cox on your viraliry Don’t Let Monotonous Kitchen Work Wear You Out THousanos of women who, like yourself, thought they had “easy” kitchens, tell us that no woman realizes the amount of drudgery in the average home until the Hoosrer gives her a modern work-reducing kitchen of her own Then the contrast 18 most noticeable, How much better you fee) aE night! For the first time it dawns On you that yer have been wasting Tore time and energy than you had thought it possible for any woman to squander. Builtinghelectaral cup boar can never Spe wo well ae when ued in cunmccHnn with a Dlooeren. Thinkasdeod women have porn out pire of the cases im their karchens to make room for the Heneie AModel for Every Kitchen No matter what kind of a kitchen you may have— there 1s a Hoosine to fit at. Specal Hooeires have been deaigned fer the smallest kitchens al theeneieat apert- ments, Soene even fic in an der the kitchen window. All will save work and worry— Heer anilemeny, Gro te roror Hemai¢e dealer ancl scloee the Hesiee which bear fits your needs MaVeS 5 teps There is No Substitute for the HOOSIER At an expense of $300, the wife of the president of a large hardware company had an elaborate arrangement of shelves and cupboards built inte hernew kitchen. Within twelve months she had carpen- ters tear out cnough of these built-in cases fo make room for the Hoosier. She could have saved money in the first place by using the Hoosier, Exera shelf room is essential, but 1s never so efective as when used in con- nection with the Hooster. Such a cam- bination provides maximum convenience at minimum cast. Why Hoosier Excels The reason the Hoosier excels is because Hoosier's scientific arrangement. gives you in one compact spot every help you need to gee up a meal and clear away alper at. In the Hoosier, that spot is equipped with the preatest labor-saving inventions to make kitchen work casy—many of them patented, and not to be dupheated. In the 23 years during which these inventions and their scientific arrange- ment in the Hoosier have been clevel- oped, every sugeested improvement fora kitchen convenience has heen tried out. The best have been accepted—the rest rejected. Today the Hoosien is the cabinet of proved improvements. With- outit you waste miles of steps and hours of time each day. Liberal Terms Make it Easy to Afford the HOOSIER There ts no reason why any woman need be a kitchen slave. You can affont the Hoosier wee. Wo big outlay is necded. Two million women have already taken advantage of this offer and net one would part with her Hoosier if she could not replace ie. Write for folder. Let ws tell you where to gee the Hooster on such liberal terms thar you will never miss the money. THE HOOSIER MANUFACTURING COMPANY Matn Orrice: 422 Maple Street, Newcastle, Indiana Deasciins: Meseanaie Plesar, Pacific Aidg., San Fraoncete: J68 Portage Avec, Winkipog, flan. Canada

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(Cmtinard from Page 40) ged this lawyer around to old 8. J., bear- = in one hand an olive branch, and in the mplaint the money & sword, eu to make n ee cred 4c L, bat As penny of burt if Paul was even for a second, even sire arpasee: Tet a pt would be given up and in addition to get. information would promptly be given pthe Pederal authorities about 3. J.'s of duties, undervaluations, and questionable tricka which were whis- im long to make hia gee!" thought Paul, “But T'll have to ela kewyer. If 1 went If he'd have arrested, if he only it for pure ese; and they'd put me through the degree till they found out where the ey was, and maybe I'd another i | fer attempted blackmail. No: we to send a lawyer, but that's all "TH be able to afford it with the I make out of Wrought Iron Com- ” confidence growing, he ontered a which had a | wilvertising for depositors—and here again Old Goose Psay 9 have been with him, for a few ber a charming young assistant finager waa making out fa] west imlorsing the check. “Vou are incorporated, Mr. Hedman?” eked the assistant manager, looki ‘Ori is it = trade name? Or what?" “Trade name,” said Paul, and seeing hat he was expected to say somethin nore he aeieed upon inapliration and added, “IT shall incorporate later when I have a wn dred corte! dollars in hand."” Splendid!" assistant manager “ith one of his pinche amiles, “Noow if rou'll sign this card, Se te hapectinen ignature *P. S. Hedman,” signed Paul—the name, ehich he hod adopted for his intensive esearch for the golden Tt ene all over int five minutes—se quic ey. alas, so quickl cin Avernus be Jabalgers eal he return me the oice by way of Broad Street, a ping foe a me to look up at the faca Stock Ex as | sy & oben anal. ust u there. wait till te-morrow,”” le the advance in Wrought [ron Common had heen checked in the last hour of Pag tg OF the stock elosing a paint lower than it Pe Good thing T dda’ i t t day,” ree I'd hire? lea money to-day in instead ob ieaktus it. Sall— it's Se of the rary decline, of course, the en onet have probebiy been refite, but Fl the strong ae are se nz om all right.’* Edn was in ber happiest mood that egbht She had been engaged, on trial, in a realestate office at fifteen dollars a week, afd she showed Paul a ade of her nature which be hadn't seen before. As they tturted for Riverside Drive she walked by ts de with a gay young air of ownership, Semele & Ag gin an attempt to keep step with him, quoting ierqiaent inet fron a plea in which had taken part at =A beautiful day for the Ent, Jord." Abid ay Sir Jaques, and the peliesit’ steeds ready "'— humming pact ge open song, S Taoetie her nest like a ttle trombone and laughing at the wund—=in short, playing some of those adorable tricka which seem to come natural 1 every gu she knows thot sha web tery “The Egyptians are looking proaperous tiemgit," ashe reported as they stood on the tdge of the Drive, waiting for a break ip the double pow. "0" tell Soil what wud be fon—just te de itonce, you know. Some tight when you've atruck it rleh— ped and rich, 1 mean—we'll take a tazi ind ide to Grant's Tomb and back, And we'll both st in the cab with our noses op (ev tht ale Iie pe | down on the een clahea, my dear Mor gall right.” said ‘Paul after they tad dodged acroas tha: asphalt. “I may be ering it rich before you know it, and wel buy a taxi then, if you'd like one." “You bet you !"" : “Tet how are you going to strike it eh? Ape you ng Into nis for yours el—o something |" 4 ur. Wentherby would. THE SATURDAY “That's it," he solemnly nodded, “and | we nay have to go and live in France if the lasiness prospera—or Switzerland, even. What do you think of anid” She gave him t ten@lar look which mothers reserve for thelr firstborn sone ne flrat they apeak of setting the world a love you, Paul,” she whis 5 They found their bench and he sat for | a, ah a scarkiy out over the water, of the secret which he was wureing, because he must never share it wit na'e _ iby on his shoulder, her tained in imdl eat. cided the roar of the By plies, hurrying along in their chariots though would never atop. Belew men-o-war—thoee meek onei who have been promised the inherit- ak her, fin them swung ae Lore shoulder—and more than ever he felt disturbed iy the craziness of life, felt himself slipping into a current which would never Ipt i rest again. Vou're ech ane Edna, suddarily sit- ting up and fenling me, ei Bot hivered, “You ough Pa, YOU are; you shiver au. L to have a nice lightweight overcoat, and when I get rich in the real-estate business I'm hg to buy you ane” “Dll get ane aoon," he promised her, “When we Switzerland?" “That's right,” he 1 “Fou e gently scoffed, After a ten glance araund she kissed him, ane shoul- a love you, you, Paul," she whispered agaln. x ROUGHT THON COMMON had a bad month of it—emulatin the frog in the well and slip ie back each Sesaion a Little more than it ““T'll wait till the flurry" 5 over,” Paul from “There® ta The iy 08 won't get to Delagon a a ong while yet eres med of But though his search for the golden eggs Tight wait, events moved faster with Edna, Cme night at the dinner table he noticed how ahe looked, and when they went for their evening stroll she wal like a sad litth: figure in a tragedy, her merry tricks fergotten, “T know what's the matter with yous said Paul.“ You've been working too You ought to let the other girla at the office oO ocala, d th “Na,” ale aa rooping more than ever as che walked a ie “Tt ian"t that. They—they tal tide Seal te t Hasta T needn't come agai “Never mind," said Paul. "pa be rich enough far both of us sown." But she didn't enthuse—thia girl who wouldn't do—looking instead aa though her faith i in fairies had gane 1 ge Oo to Live in France—or n ae see | found ite place on his * thought ano hurry, “I'm a failure,” “Yeu are not!" he q “You're the nicest, sweetest ever made," And as a new t to him her as quickly ou wait Hill teemerrow night, rich show whether or not you're a failure!" “How?” she asked. He wouldn't tell hor, but the next morn- ing he went to the bank and drew out a theuand dollars, and that night he took Edna to a jazz palace on Broadway and ‘ dined in an artificial arbor of Dorothy eae of dieety pin aeured her, Ll that Gad ht came you Perkins begs that were Paiicned Ile bunches tric lights that were joned Ikke bunches of grapes. Now!" said Paul, beaming at her when , was over, “I've got a surprise or ¥ hart she breathlessly asked, her eyes bright with interest. For reply he fished down into hia walat- coat pocket and came up caries a eon leather cose, And, oh, how her on it! He reseed a spring und the lid iy baek, d ii solitaire which fairly seam to thre with fire as it sat in ite velvet nest and seemed to say, “Behold! At last! You meet me face to fore “Oh, Poul! she breathed. you got?" (Caatinaed oa Page #5) What have ance of the earth—making signals to each other by lighta that wine | in dota and dashes, ajo dr pin aa Parga a a events day fora Paget t oughta— the pasa book in his Le RE seg a head EVENING POST Cuprnght Sa Ml, F. Amiens, Sracile. This Year Come Vacationing to Copy Tigas hey Lone. enti. the Charmed Land Si THOSE eg ee babies in Seattle, healthiest city in Seattle — Center of the world and in a class by itself in respect to the low rate of infant mortality. If it's good for the babies it's good for you. Learn the secret. Breathe deeply of this wonderful mixture of mountain and sea air, never too hot nor too cold, always balmy, tonic and life-giving. Whip our trout streams, glide over our shimmering mountain fakes and our placid inland seas. Climb our glorious mountains, Motor over our forest and mountain and seaside roads. Golf, ski, swim, hike, camp, canoe, hunt and do any and all of the things you love —they" re all here if they're of the great out-of-doors. Tt is the out-of-doors people we especially want, those who can revel in the wonders and veligh ts of the Breatest out-of-doors country On the continent; those whe Tan appreciate the aE Pen TIsberpreces of Nature’ | handiwork. i 1m majestic and In spiring SCeNCTY and the sheer beaury of al lovely country side- —of biz trees and ferns andl wild woulsy things. We want them to go back to their tasks renewed in body and soul, and our friends. We want them to learn why babies such as these are Seattle's babies. We want them to spread the tidings until all our over-wrought people will come to America’s Summer Playground for healing and regeneration. Plan for a month, two monchs or three months. Ie will be the time of your life, Mt. Ruointer National Park will hold you for a month of delight if you can spare the time. Come by train or motor and direct to the Chamber of Commerce Tourist Bureau, 702 Third Avenue, Seattle, and they will make things easy for you. Low summer rates and fine motor roads. Write today for bookler “The Charmed Land" and begin now making plans. Seatrie Cuameer or Commerce, 910 Arctic Bldg., Seattle, Washington. Maxtmum tmperuture, Seattle, $2I—f0 degrees, Averige sumaier micnita’ regain for 20 years—F J depress,

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‘in disturbed by the apparent cruises Bf QW ere ey ae eager ee nm of ide, "IT segue some papers and never atop; but Paul hardly noticed them. hen the chip. gets to Delagea Day (Y) be Semowhere down in the harbor below, Ue jn trouble, anyhow. That's the rengon live = Hedman shipment was snugly stored in the ol fo TES something. Thot's the teason hold of a South African stent, and eer acd to ume the money; dow'tyou see?” where in the ovoning. mails three banker's “No, dear,” cba said; “you mast put it | radia wern iy gh to bay for ‘ha tt nn one “Bat 1 tell you Team’ é putt back without for the freight. ‘hady pi sed aa rhat'a prego of Tn TT anid Edna. “You know, the Ha rtford Fire E : es Fda irafrmard ef iby Mabeiperg rire acre oon Ragraced bp Trueatie Coun at i The trademark of the invoice, one Jor the [raru rae ; pecanaetia of 5 a ee peore eater ge, Hibs yee Fal, b li than onen that nigel a teased pn ing of with hve—yea, and a touch | & tarned oo hia balaneleg cot ard imagine] of awe. “ Why, bey, vou didn't have any s¥ MDOMZES over a sernes with oll Bd. mocw ta da with it than—than that star up f l ; “Uo'd kayo me in jnil inalde of Ewen thar, 1 kad just grown fo believe that cen tury oO SE li ne rng a eh join , and i. din’ =e body ane aera — erookml = reqwire mac ort imaglee the scene, AF Wha ‘a try it mosell.” ke room aeerileg staily, 5 thought be “PT hnow |" she at gently protested, thoroughly sound m alee Ue No er aa hs hele bench ~~ eecapled, nd. we thet * d . 4 ond jt wast 4 hie aw the Ge o siarted in peare asother fet Tuokboed thot : beneath Edns's door at the other end of the ghe walled more shorely indem nity agal nst ii we?” he in ene writing arrested just for bent ‘asst’ N my thing ‘hak beppiied I shold canes ih ut there fF 27m aroused him aho closed her have forgiven myer, isan ii wal 1 : A ch chs eres nnd he knew that she was praying, my fault” Insurance Com pany Pye A ilig hall. “Pieed?” he, asked. on : {'Wearly ove o'clock,” he thought, strik- = Well ~ "she hesitated. financial loss by hre. ing Peat a at hia woich. “I cig ce og ine aa he said. “Tt 7 f ; a's : nay ord E = es He pat on the of army overcont that my eotra letter from home last week,” Today, besidescertain Mine eteyes Cet ios an 0. D3 a, and tiptoe ie eal bane npn Ti mad got things : : wel" of “td than. At eh chen he reached her via ghtened ouk” Toa dd : Pp ro E ec tion by il dir isiht tat ae par tuner Gui graske feeder |company which has le at she wae peat Ose WR Noe eae aly Ee asad. ad, ; “Please, Gori! Plesae!”” be beard. TThoy used to tell me that F'd be glad te ge never failed to fulfill Moving with cuatlon Paul went back to back, but T wea a pare that I could get) . his room, and after he hod gently shat the along hera, by myeell.” 1 7 heer he shook bi bead aerd nighod with “Gelng heme?” | d Paul, stoppang to | its promise, policy- eae, gions : ; am ae ut er ae though he coulde'r believe h ld - qf d "T pees ‘m goleg to pat it hack, @ ia var. “You mean to ety you're going | | fF right," thought he. 7 33 horee—ared leave roe hero | O ers are Orere “That's what T wanted to talk to you . * xt Thats what Teeter xt yon | the advice of Fire ATL was on hie way bo the office next can’) core foo. Ot eourse it's only 2 litth mort when he caught a headline in place, hut there's always sumeting to do, | 4 & one al the Brite tg in afternoon and people get along these too. You'd be Prevention Engineers newpaper which human ingenalty places girprised. "Meet everybody hase car, Boe nthe: eet at eiget ALM things ke that, | wrote Unele Will abet Steamer Cott +o jnen Sinking Sorikes you and he sahil he ecald Gad you 2 jolts | who help rem ove the Old Mine Near Cape Verde," easaly ornoagh. snd then—don's yoo seet— | AE the neat station he left the train and if=-if you Bad a gid you could call oa her | CALISES aft hire. This thee tad baught one al \ooea eveciing papers. bor Wilsesdays end Seis and a her ty himeeil, ‘Yes; there it was, with # picture aut to parties und socal anu me, | J : : byevery of the steamer, and a map of the ocent Anil later—mayhe— wien you'd got along. | du al protection can of her showing the corsa which the mint was) yor naw —" tees oguppreed to have followed if ls throeey ear at know," sald Tool in a low voter, oe | F a the Atlantic, starting inthe Marth eald pet olong. Don't worry.” | best be secured if fen, and ending of kee spot marked cides ton tne thent™ 4s te =A 1; £ 3 criaa where if came fo grief againes: the Came? he regeted, lookin BE her F * hoon of the Peace Prince: iis cH with a glance that waa part humllity _ ae the po ey ea©rs t C “The cow has been feken of” che aborye = yea thiek 1 want to stay here alee? ‘ eaneuded, “and th ship-is slowly sinking. They stopped by the side of the parapet, Hartford trademark. Ab four o'clocs thia morning she wis ex- She wee still ieeilng lighthy oo bis arm, nected to make her down urd jeunes ab hut if you bad heen Bbere, bitesed with the aT concert.” gift af divinkeer invible things, you veld | 7 a H A, ‘tiny ty Paul frail been oliler—er perhape ihe Pave eoen that it wat Thval whio was daing There aa artfond are fear yor dk — sheriider. had bees wieer—he woukl kave called ito the aring—lhis siatch for hoe aiden gk? minh Sees AMER CT taper tee | EY AR TFORD FIRE = 7 } ‘INSURANCE CO. HARTFORD, CONN. ciaPae mary apy Ae witty Caunpalitf serie practical ele fener gf desursinge fc fie.

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Fai THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 13,19 n the World-Great Artiata now on Deuble-Faced Records! OF supreme importance to every family with a phonograph othe recent decision of Brunswick to offer Standard Artists’ numbers an double-faced records, It marks the fret step of Brunswick's hation-wide movement to place greatest artista and greatest music within the reach af every Jumerican hone. Brenrwirt (Gold Lobel Records! Just twice as muck music as before! “Two selections in place of one! An inexpen- sive way to quickly acquire a distin- guished musical library, Start by obtain- ing three or four of these records from the new release each manth. Leopold Godowsky, Richard Stranss, Elly Ney, Giuseppe Danise, Mario Chamlee, Max Rosen, Bronglaw Hu- beorman, Florence Easton, Tino Pattera, Claire Dux, and other internationally acclaimed artists of the New Hall of Fame will contribute, continuously and exclusively, to the mew Bronswick Gold Label Records. Pisy ev aay phosoprap’, wey U PHONOGRAP

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Sonversation LUNs to the Great Artists of today, can you uphold your end without embarrassment? HERE is a New Hall of Fame of concert and operatic stars—great artists of to- 4y, succeeding those of yesterday, heir names are on the lips of well-informed cople the world over—Godowsky, Huber- ian, Ney, Dux, Chamlee, Pattiera, Easton, Janise, Richard Strauss, Max Rosen. Jo you know them? Their most noted tri- imphs f—the amazing virilityofinterpretation ‘hich inspired world's critics to acclaim them? [o bespeak a cultured person's familiarity with the present-day world of musical art, (ou Must. Now rconding— iloy on any phonograph You can hear them now in your own home; ran quickly become conversant with the most widely discussed musical attainments of the day. For without exception, all have chostn Brunswick as the most fitting means to perpetuate their art. And Brunswick Records can be played on any phonograph, Thus the world's de /uxe recordings, including those of the great Richard Strauss himself, are made available to every home. “ote, too, that they come on dowMe-faced THE BRUNSWICK-BALKE-COLLENDER CO. Maxfarturers—Earahtished $oS8 CHICAGO AN D records—a radical Brunswick departure, explained elsewhere on these pages. iy Brimswick tas chosen By means of exclusive Methods of Record- ing and of Reproduction, Brunswick brings phonographic music into the realms of higher musical expression. “Mechanical” suggestion—discord and vi- bration are refreshingly absent. Tones are sweeter and more beautiful. Expression is clearer. The true musical expression, both of the artists and their art, is reproduced in amazing fidelity. For that reason, foremost living artists are now recording exclusively for Brunswick. And for the same reason, you will find Brunswick in the homes of greatest musi- clans, both in Europe and America, Hear—Caompare Hear the Brunswick, phonographs and records, You will find them featured as the Standard of the Day, by those shops devoted to that which is best in music, in every ciry and town, There is a Brunswick dealer near you, who will gladly give you a demonstration. . The Brunswick plays all makes of records, and Brunswick Records can be played on any phonograph. CINCINNATI a7 || THE NEW HALL OF EAME OF CONCERT AND OPERATIC STARS BRONISLAW HUBERMAN, Proftary Hee bee dieddted thee eel ef critics sinters parte: ‘Thine who aap ber le cthes ereaneeny liner cel af] oe. ied thee whe my Ber @ potato! ihe preainet, Ibe loprogeoe perce bos bee idol io Amer. Recenily righ themed progke croended the Here Vark Hippadincmet no beast hile. His fire Bramarick ecerdiage bere already exhooeed criti” adbiertives of prolee, belieg dre in ee Felirin. died cement proswensed the cua beeotiful rials pert ret ofeed & midiee bee ling pbc.

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This is the boy you ve got to stop! ET a sock that keeps the big toe in and your hosiery troubles are over. If you haven't found such a sock you've never worn True Shape. Now don't say “That's just advertising talk.” Say “I'll try anything once,” and go to it. You'll find that Si Shape SOCKS KEEP THE BIG TOES IN Why, Man, the toce and heels are unbelievably strong! We anid we'd atep that deatructhye big tee or know the teason why, And we've dione it, TRUE SHAPE socks are beauties, too, Closely woven, they Gt the ankle snugly and conform te the shape of the foot, Easy to get, too Just ask your dealer for True Shape No. 152 TRUE SHAPE Hossery if who mule for women aod chil- dren. If your dealer cannot supply you, Bribe ua dircer. TRUE SHAPE PHILADELPHIA, PA. HOSIERY CO. | well provided for, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 15. RITA COVENTRY (Conitineaed fram Page &) but onee, and the excursion had proved de-= pressing—a vs of elewen miles through 2 sea of mud colled by courtesy a rowd, and at the end the spectacle of a house falling feces, surrounded by broken fences, ected box trees, and undernourished cattle sraxing. amo amongst weeds where gar- dons used to Year ag Melee told himself that eeme- thing must be done about Blenkinawood but the mvental whisper grew fainter an fainter with time. He knew that the farmer and his family were a shiftless if mot Lin honest: lot who ought te be out; so unplewant waa the thought af there again, of seeing the cheap oak ture [mn the old paneled drawing-room. and the horrid little ornaments on the porphyty mantelpiece which Lafayette had sent from France asa gift to that several-times-great- grandfather of his who had built Blenkina- wood, of smelling cabbage cooking and | hearing the man's maun ng eecuees for the years of failure, that he continued to post the duty. Alice had peecinn interested in Blenkins- wooed soon after becorsin intercated in him. She had developed what he regarded 888 mania about the place, and for a time had spoken te him of what he ought to do about it in a valcee which was like the in- sistent voles of conscience, Pt ought ithe ragga she would » Yo ought to be prowl of it, Not | roelypet has an Hardt ie hame, Not. everybod enmes from an aristocratic old faenlly. au don't appreciate what it means. Take me, for nee, My father built the house where I was born, in Clevo- ‘ My grandfuther come out there from Connecticut when he was a young mat. His father waa just a plain farmer. “That's all the Blenkinses were,” he would reply. "Planters and farmers are the same thing.” Then he “would tell her lightly that an- cestry waa largely a question of keep ing: that everyone had the game number af grandfathers; and that whereas his aristocratic fortvears hed bonded down to him a plantation covered with weeds and mortgages, her father, who had been a acturer, had loft leer and ler sister He would tell her tales of his ancesters; stories of bouts of drink- ing aver cards, duels and seandals. T raed tobacco and slaves and Denice ian i he would say." Down in that part of the pole they still ak and talk so much shout Bate gp that th “| have no time left ta det dy lovable people, ei a thank the I had sense enough to get out and come te New York when [ was a youngster. : der of my sent on the exchange than I should be of twenty Blenkinswoods."" AL firet Alice had urged bim te Blenkinewood in repair sa et a capable farmer to run it, Lar i y she began to ah ie aM the at dantation herself. This also had become a fixed idea with her: nor had he been able to shake it with his descriptions of the wretched roads and the dilapidation. “Tan't it natural that T should be inter ested in your family?" she would demand, “T'll never get over wanting to see the place where they liv ; That, in effect, was her declaration now, uttered with a curious penile tenacity, “Bat you have seen all of it that's worth aeelig,” be told her, You've seen the beat of the portraits and furniture from Blenkins- wood in my apartment, You'd be awfully disappointed in the place itwelf,"* She shook her head. “And [ve told vou a dozen times wh I can’t tahoe you there. Tt wauld make tal “It wouldn "taf Dl were your sister or your oousin.” “But you aren't.” ne d Popes that?" io augh was impatient, “The whole as would know 4! ve of six hows. Lf a man eomes from ini, the penne down there knew mare about | his family than he knows himeell. If Il were Ma Bete a feu: Bowe eee it would make a arnnd al “Te would be my risk, wouldn't it?" He gazed at her, amazed. “Up my word,” he said, “you fairly Meee unl re w Hen you Bay a thing like that! bu - ates like yona,”" fa women hos o clear conscience He interrupted, "In this world a clear conscience net You've got fo- think how “Well, at the wort, how would look? They'd look as if [ lowed 37a. It pee of loving you, [Porm pers the kind of Jove itis. I have moth eonceal, Don't you suppose a poe! lovey who knew us are able to see 1 ove you? Clara knows. I've told he fhat did you do that for?** . “Sho's the best girl friend I hawe in York,” Alice answered, “She kirvew it how, and I wanted her te see how ft “he ie * i f nh t I was hea or unhiap pir “Weill, he said delenai ver Ta tried to eonceal sat pasty did I “That's what I Wwirite to see the beauty bi an aheolutels" hh: friendship like cura. I've never bee happy in my life. You know that. worth any nsk. I wanted her to see dine it was— never demanding: many ot WOU! Wriutt wanting enly as much aa arc to give; our complete independ: jour having promised to tell me fra ou ever found yourself losing: ints A me" "What did Clara any to oll that?" “She said you might promise, but bord ata tell me when it came to n “Why did she think I wouldn't asked, surprised. "She gave men don't do things that 2 Poor Clara! It's not unnatural that should be cynical about men after her perience. "Just what was her experience, do 4 know?" “Her husband was absolutely good. nothing. “But how do you know?" “She's told me all about 7." "Oh!" He amiled faintly. "That's another reason | wanted tot about you, She has her life te ma over aguin, and it's not good for her to 80 ¢Fn fileal:. She mustn't go Bo much that one bitter experience, | all m by one, She raat learn ihat Somme im aren"t that way,” me wave i. ai little sidings gs you didn't make muc wi with ees mé Up as an example.” “What makea you think that?" “Clara doesn’t approve of me." “Ts don't see wh you say that.’ ae B all right," he, said. “L"m not cor sean: mr if WAS an old though not a hard-fougl citaraa rs between them, thia differen ever Clara. He did not care to fight. hard, first because Clara was 0 woman, 2 second because ao long as he waa nm obliged to see much of her he had no grea objections to Alice's friendship with her. twas a friendship antedating his ow friendship with Alice, The twe girls, wh were of about the same age, had met dur the war, ina Cleveland hospital where the were in training as nuraes' gids, Mefor they had completed their courses the a had come toan end. All this Parrish koe by bearsay. As for him, the close of th war had found him doing relief work ® oe: and it was mot until some month after his return that he met Alice, who va Pate had a Visit in New York. had firet seen her at a Sunday avening party given by some people ne of them knew well—one of those lan vague purties the object of which seems ie be to assemble and feed flocks of peo who have never met iefore: and che. having eaten and participated in the ¥ din, depart upon their various waya, neve perbupes bi ment again, Sometimes, however, they do rect ages Parrish had asked te be ted to vol had driven her home alter the party. before lonwing her at her door had arr to hove her as his t for dinner and thi theater a few nights later, “Theugh 58 beauty had been*the firet thing to attic him he had found himself charmed, a they fell into talk, by her genuineness. Mon aver, thore was riigabttis fascinating oo the ex her mouweh, At finite kept inking AoA wast just about 0 _ but you presently diseavered that this i sion resulted from the sweet aspect of tt lips in repose. ‘Contineged on Page #1!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Bo rae — Sy grandee hrs ey Sends cask ook: Filed wah eos, Sarees heap lifticg arn depggrrien climbing. Amfomati Peaks Baw Silelf Pater coe brings ROTH ba shelves, and chee cen treme, forward. You cam peach tee FS Gf pan yeu eed fom where po ¢it ar che cabins, Sifewwers Dreamer, This oe jum gbowe she coll froot. Plus fied aad a comeeniens place for lemtevs, ferka and spoeceu in ffequeni wie. Estrading Table: Dror Sectiva A fearon cere woman thud whhed for ond which ia per fered only on ake Sellers — molars ic peaks go gere dninc ree Sat teble Ahawee even when the work ble is exnended amd e hig. eth wromk é! The Cabinet That Makes Kitchen Work Easy ¥ thousands and thousands of women have their hearts set upon owning a Sellera is explained with a single word—“Convenience.” Saving stepa is impartant—but what counts most in your kitchen work is how things are arranged in the cabinet—how it anticipates your wante—how easy it makes your work while you are at the cabinet—how simple it is to care for, These are the things that make a kitchen cabinet areal help and a joy. And in these things the Sellers has no rival. The new Extension Table Drawer Section, for example, makes it possible to get into the big table drawer, even when the work table is covered with utensils and other things. This is a convenience found on mo other cabinet. Then there are the famous Automatic Lowering Flour Bin, the Double Base Shelf Extender, the Dust-Proof Base Top, the Ant-Proof Casters, the Buffet Silverware Drawer, and many others. In all there are “15 Famous Features” that make the Sellers a teal delight to work with, in addition to saving steps. And what makes the Sellers even more desirable today, in the eyes of most women, is the fact that this superior cabinet costs no more than any good cabinet. Mast dealers will place one in your kitchen upon receipt of a small payment down, and make terms for the balance to-suit your income. Building a eabinee in the kitchen coats practically double the price of a beautiful Sellers and can have none of the wonderful features that we have developed m our 30 years’ progress. The Sellers requires only the space oceupied by a kitchen table. Akt present reduced prices, a Sellera is the best value in our history, See your dealer for a demon- atration, In the meantime, write fora free copy of our new Sellers Blue Book which pictures and describes the wonderful new features of the Sellers, uae G. L SELLERS & SONS COMPANY - ELWOOD, INDLANA Carsdian Branch of Sellers Kiechen Cabinets, Brantford, (ogra SELLERS THE BEST SERVANT IN YOUR HOUSE

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a ae ee a ir i eae Faia! a ae ee ay aaa hs a Ae ae ae ae a iq 4 i 1 | ell r , i t ‘i ‘< ni ir i an wird 1 a fe? raicheaar THE SATURDAY EVENING POST id, duit of millions of finely adjusted parts. Ty Man, make and install such a doard sometimes takes we years, Setting the stage where a whole town gets together That busy meeting-place of voices, your telephone switchboard, has a manufactur- ing story not often considered. Some idea of the problem can be had from the very size of the boards pictured above——the one of today connecting five thousand subscribers for every dozen served by the crude affair of forty-odd Years aro, And greater size brought greater com- Since 1869 a reework of wires and is made up of parts measured to the Makers of The sudtchtoard of £668 The modern switchboard houses measured by the mile plexity. thousandth of an mich for accuracy. That the switchboard can meet the de. mands of your service 1s largely because the Western Electric ae ups inv, which makes if, began burile hing wards i in 1878, and since has led the w ay In every 1mpor- rane devel japment in the art. rie | KE = c ide al F. ouipment April #3, 192 [aA TI aa wl 3 7 tall leek

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(featiaeed from Page o5) in the next few weeks he had seen her Plan she should return to eet where she lived with her mar- ei sister; but she didnotgo. By then be ad mot Wanted her to go and, albeit with certain air of playful camaraderie, had id her so, An o han, financially inde- endent, she was able to do a she pleased, ad mere it her moat to do as he eased. She ap ol ber departure itret ion ay to day, t from week to werk, mov= a from the howse where she had srlaited 2 a betel and later to this pleasant little perioment, which she had rented furnished of a few mon Before these months were ended 9 mokly affectionate relationship hod been stablished between them. When her ea hort lease on the apartment waa expiring he renewed ft, this tine for a year, HM om another year lt was shortly after pra ben goes. firat taken he apartment that Clara put in an ap- eatance in New York, She came at ance o Alioe"s, with the understanding that she a. To n for mo few days whiln seeking ) boarding place. The apartment had but wo bedrooms, one of which waa occupied vy Chtillha, and with these facta to work rom Parrish had no difficulty in deducing that from the time of Clara's advent the Wing-room couch must needs be presed nto service aa a bed. Bernase of Alice's enthustasm for her rage 1 ad been dispowed at first to like ey cael hak Gleaner ae e ings fleasant for ber. Whe we say had been there two weeks, showe ng no sigm of preparation to leave, he began to wonder just how long it ought to take to find a boarding place, and just how long a comfert-loving girl like Clara would heoontent tespend her nlghts upooacowch. Then tee had discovered through a chance remark dropped by Clara herself that it was fot she but Alice who was sleeping on the couch, which meant of course that Clara wn in possession of the bedroom and the bed, It waa then that he first began to notice im (Clara's pink prothiness, particu- larly about the: moss and eyes, the hint of ea srrenston slightly porcine, uy P he took Alice owt, he had seo to include her visitor, but of course Alice Pirie felt she should nat go, and urged him to bic instead to her ipartment. Now, 4 friends were generally to be found thers in the evenings—a bet collection, rang= ing from sleek young Ten intent on taking tha: spl inf out to Jara restaurants where they dance, to Sam B a broker ooo type Parrish did not appr oven Ceonpina, his effulgent, jew ine-plume-sprouting wife. * After a few evenings with Clara's frienda Farah had to elay away from the Gartment, a facet that seemed ta disturb Alice far nore than it had disturbed her ta hep upon the ae and thereatter the stuation did not long endure. Precisely how it came to be terminated he was never eure. He only knew that alter the third week of her visit Clara had moved to a boarding house round the corner, There she had. since resided, and one thé continied to be with Alioe a great deal lunehing with her either at home or at a restaurant several times a week, OF. Be A many of her daytime hours at the apari- nant, and aren coming Se to a¢ <4 aheoperantni Ha how ave as thoug Sy tacit wa tanding, the hours at which te was likely to come ya Clara's chief source of revenue, he bad heen given to understand, was a small al imate, though something was anid ales of ier Pipes. a weekly New York fashion letter to several Middle Weatern newa- pipers. Tt was to thea: fushion letters that Clara referred when, as often wench, the spake of “my work.’ He been. curious to know what sort of writing she could do, and had several times asked Alice to get him jes of some of her friemil's quinalitic : fput these had newer sl produced. Alice herself had never been permitted to see them, she told him. "Dick," said Alice presently, “Clara is wrong about that, isn’t she? You would tell mt, wouldn't you, if ne found yourself as terest i ret prombed, re- Wir, he wondered, were her thoughts et on that theme tony? on ik break nh promise bo you?" H t — THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Wall then, what's the use in discussing such o th “You wn sabia I wouldn't blame you if yeu did lose interest. We can't control those things. They just happen. All I ask isto be told, It would be so humiliating to fou! thnt youl vere —" “What on earth is all this ohowt?" he | demanded impatiently. “Nothing. But men do tire of women— we all know that. You tired of Josephine. You told mi ao yourself.”" "Josephine!" he exclaimed almoxt an- grily, placing one hand on the arm of the chair as if about to rise. “What haa Joge- phine got to do with it?" ou were ene ently her at first; but This time he d i “Look here!" he said. “I wish you'd be so good as to aos that subject. Jose- phine wasn’t—— Well, I prefer not to talk about it." “All right, dear, ao long a you under- stand that you're “absolutely free, There are no stri to you. You know that, don"t you, Dick?" She spoke with, intensity, gazin inte his Pim and this eager gravity of hers sur- fad him. It always surprised him. He ati a theory that blondes were never in- interested in Free?” he repeated, “Why of course! We're both free. That's understood.” He tried to make his tone convincing, and if be failed she did not appear to notice it. Tt was their established creed, and no one notices the tane in which an established creed [a putteral off: yet now he wos ecritinizing this creed. How free was he? At the moment rae al ee like a hus- Dan, for had he ber veep r hushanal his gene of responsibility to r eould mot have been much greater, She depended upon hin ao. penis how that sense of Soar cb ne ion shoe unnoticed, ita avoid. ea el petat ie Alice haul be to be a great deal with each other he ad been careful to make chear to her his atti- ids foward life, ad told her definitely, although in a a nvennt to suggest cosualness, that he intended always to remain a bachelor, and so, peviteatale dar this knowledge, she — = ir to order matters as she Suet ut he had not atepped with that, rice and then, after their relatlonship had come alfectionate, he had harked beak th to the tapi fc, cuning out to ai with an air af impt which in the circumstances he Arahat gotnhewhat creditable that ihe was sone and beautiful, with domestic tastes, including a great. love for children, and that she ough to MARTY aud have a hort and family of her own; ond be had even intimated hal delightful though the relationship waa to @ thought it un- fair to her, since it could lead to nothing, and sine: other men, knowing of her interest in him, or sensing it, would drift il : What do I care!" she said. Since then his pro ae had been ful- filled. ther men she hed known had drifted away: they did not come to see ~ now. Ones, tore recently, ne had hen of that, finding his opportunity in e diaa new from her living room of a BL prog ager "heeping th “s lise in ng their price tures around?” she had returned. AH gh little laugh. “They'll never know the dif- ference," ce “You don"t see any of them any more?" "“No—thank goodness!" Then os ti way al explanation ale had | come and him, saying “I love you." Foor Alice! She did love Anite es had roof of that, Now he found hime | nell Lh Ing that phe did net love bin quite | ao much. It was leas his love for her than | hera for him that bound him to her. "What ane goin this evening? he naked tu to dea with yourself | when, at seven, he got up to go. | “T think Pll telephone to Clara and see if | she can't come over. We might go to a) mavie sa sean, She followed him Lisle the pronto ali a having ur, won't you orgive me for ha been =i “ia “Nonsense! ‘There's ppthing forgive.” Ves," she insisted, “1 ca my feelings as | ought ito, love ou ac! ou're a dear girl." ie hoe | |

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Brent Bullecka No. 38, “Liamllacdon Goer of Pipe.’ contains coat analpecs of a parlety of plumbing, heathng, power wind Industrial pipe systems, with notes on correalre effect ln different kinds of service. Send for a copy. COMPANY, PITTSBURGH, PA. Fadubilahind 12h ; Heston Chicaga Cleveland Houston A. M. BYERS New York Look for the Name and Kear rolled in every length Philadelphia THE SATURDAY EVENING POST " Are Are you going to think of me after ¥ou gal! “OM course I am." And it was true. He did think of her. He thought of hor as be descended in the elevator, and as he drove home, and os he dresed, and as he went to Rita Coven- trv's, He thought bow she was, how unselfish, how honest, rachel aa the though ght of ber merits weighed him, Lf only she were not so fine nie adoring, th might bug geuaber dust now Women f ere woman ia euch a lovely, delicate, lofty-minded thing: but when she falla in love she falls headlong, and doesnt count costs, With a man it ts diferent. He may be in love, but even so he can't think constantly of love and nath- ing else, He has other Interesta—and he does like variety. No matter how sincerely he may care for a woman, he doesn't want her dru lovingly around his neck all the tine. t sort of devotion weors o man out. Thatisthe trouble with women. Once in Jove they can think of nothing eles. They have no outside interests, Love is the whale life Thus be thought as his car carried him toward Rites Coventry's house, Iv Bas chonenl th the door behind Dick, Alice stood there with her bond upon the kneb until she heard the elevator come up to the hall outside and descend again, Tt was as if she had half expected him to return for something With the depertnis of the elevator she moved back to the living room, en bo the deak on which reposed the telephone: and called up Clara Proctor, “Have a statted dinner yet?" she weked her friend. “Slo, [wae just going in." “Came oon over here bestend, It's Crtillia's night out, but we ean pick up something or ouraelyes,"' ia | shesate yeu were going owt?" Clara PAE fe quickly. sora i! eee te, but Dick has to go SoTmew vant right, dear, Ill be around in a few minutes.” Aliee, weurlng a checked gingham apron, let her in when she arrived. “T have soup on," she explained, and hastened back toward the kitchen, In leisurely fashion Clara removed her coat and hat, and pst into the living room paused before a mirror, giving a touch to her blond hair, Then erosing to the table she took up a fashion ee and stool for a time ing st it, Noises coming th i the apen pantry door ntly reminded her that sipper was ng tide ready, Without putting down then magazine she moved to the dining- ron door, where she stopped and called to "Anything I can do, dear? “Mo, don't bother. T'll have everything road in no time," _ Clara returned slowly to the table, fin- ished her cumary inspection of the maga- zine, replaced it, glaneed about the room and wandered slowly to the writing desk, There, after pag in her friend's engage- ment pad, she took up oa letter, serutinized the handwriting andl postmark, pat it down again, and went inte the bedroom, where e paused near the dresaing table, upon the glass top of which a number of sllver tailet articles wes ee arene. Aled an She dn=ssing table s a ct pnotograph o Parrish in a silver frame. Clara pushed the photograph an inch or two nearer the edae, clo a palr of mani- cure scissors and snipped a piece of ewtiche at the corner of one of her thumb nails, After feeling the thumb ta see that it was amooth she put down the scissors and scrutinized her face in the mirror, turning her head critically from side to side. What she saw apparently sutisfird her, for she now pave her attention Lnatead te one af the dressing-table drawers, opening it and re- Viewing its contents, After examining some handkerchiefs which she removed from a silk cust she took up a pair of new white gloves and looked them over as a critical pehuser might have done, Then she drew arth a black net veil, and with eyes again turned toward the mirror held it out- stretched before her face, Having reploced the veil she closed the drawer and opened the other, finding in the front of et a small bottle of perfume ina satio-lined bax. Sle removed the glase stopple and aniffed the perfume appreciatively, half closing her eves, then put the bottle back, closed the April is, i drawer and returned to the living room, aa Alice appeared from the kitchen » a small platter of cald chicken and t garnished with lettuce lemwes. “Can't | help bring things in?” 4 ted Clara, vtopping as she spoke. “No, everything's rady. Woou sit da I'll bring the soup directly." And A dina again through. t e Pantry d Clare moved languidly- toa the dir Daten] iy and sented herself, mrad. almest sin ie ce of torn oul with two ste ine cups of tomato illon, one of wk laced before her friend mf Clara exchirnecd, Alive stood near her, “* Tan"t Bont yee uosiingr? "Ye Do you like at? I just put o tiny touch.” "T lowe it. What ia it? *" hea * Awially expensive?" “T don't know." “Oh, & present?" Alice, stnting herself, nodded across t! table. “Look out," she warned, “Dick?” asked the other. St Bareeret si argaret was her marricd sister & Cleveland. we gale Sn bey pi ashe Beg ved “Wy o you hear from Margaret Alice sighed, “—T'm worried about her," she sald “Bhe hagn't been awfully wer Genngel business keeps him tied u nel she won't go away without him. ‘at she needs & a change and a ret. I've been trying te get her to come on and visit me, but she alwayu has some reason why she con't Tt's not only George and the house ih makes her nerves to leave t chil dren." “Sha's like vou,’ Clara said. “That's the kind of wife and mother you'd be too,” “THI eauld be ox ¢ a wife and mother as Margaret,” Alice returned, “le would make me mighty happy," (lara smiled. “Have no tear,” said she, “you would, You'd never consider yourself any mote than Margaret dies; and married jou'd le that Tuch worse." “Worse?” repeated Alice, smiling. “Yes, worse, It doeen't pay fora woman ee be unselfish with a oman. Men doe't eclate it. They'll aooopet all a woman | give them, ait talc it for nied,” ME ou wouldn' taay George didn’t appre cinte Margaret, surely?" “of colnet | never saw them very muh when Twas in Cleveland,” Clara answered, “hart I should aay he aece teed her devotion pretty—well, pretty colinly. Not so calmly as Dick aecepta yours, thaugh. ro * Dick i is mighty sweet to me," Abie de fonded. “No mun could be mare thought fuland kind, ¥ be simply don't understand Dick, my dear." “T understand one thing,” Clara te torted, “ond tint is, if he's a0 darn thouget: ful and kind T should think he'd be aang aomething about murrying you,” “He has," Alice returned calmly, rete and ue up her empty soup cup. e wa? Alice, coming nraund the table to get ihe other cup, nodded, “T've told you that before, Dick be beon perfectly square. In the beginning. when we were first interested in cach ole. he tolel me frankly he wes going to fe 4 bachelor alwaya." : "Oh, thatl’ Clara'a tene was disar pointed and a little bit contemptudus. As! as her frend moved toward the she added, “That's when wou shoul dropped him like a hot enke too!” Alice did not reply. When she retursed from the kitchen bearing plates. and a S*! of |ettice-and-tomota salad Clara tinued as though there had been ne Se ruption. aoe - au twenty—ight pretty stony “You've @ot ta think of yet You ought to have been m irl ike you, with your mse! It ign‘t right for hime ‘and— —and dari sniffing, that a rf “the soup hare she said, future, ECS ago — ih aod your loo driving other men aw: nothing about it himeecll." “Thut [ keep telling you,” Alice wet ri ns she served the salocl from the bowl on th stdlebourel, ** that he mode hes pasitien Br fectly clear in the beginning.” “But what about your position?" "That's understood toc, We're a lutely free—both of ws," (Continesd of Page #F) —Disitized be Goeet

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“Yes, I de.’ Having served the galad, che had taken © plates to the table, where she was now in rc wee slice of chicken and & on ac “That i to say," purued her friend, rou wouldn't want to marry himt" There was a dry little amile upon her lips ia gazed at the unhappy Alice, awaiting reply. “Alot if he didn"t want me," Alice in- Sted stoutly. He'd have wanted you if you'd made Eri. Fork im hand, Alice paused and looked wickly at her friend. “How?” she asked, “By chucking all this highfalutin stuf Reeves wei of « aun about re's nothin a game a my riemiship with Dike." She made the reply with a little show of lignity. But Clara was not to be deterred. * That’ & just what's the mather,” she re- Z crn aman and a women it in ogame, A woman hos louse the weapons the Lord gave her. Otherwise the man has all the Vantage. He can come to see her when be wante to or ra § away when he wants to, but etl er to keep him from knowing thut, Her job is to keep him on the ansious seat. That's what makes men propose, They always want what theyre afraid they can't have. The trouble with yo _iny denr, is that you're too sure with bh “He' 3 square with me." eee are Lda to suppose h ease nded Alice, Alice, passing Clara's plate. “Sot except that he's aman. I wouldn't trast any eian.”” Alice took her own plate and eat down. "You're so awfully cynical,” she said, “T con't seem to you see that my frfendahip with Dick is —— Clara, Who had begun te eat, could not wut even to measticate her salad before replying. “I understand this much," she pat in thick d marry Dick ‘tie morrow Lf ai Task ye ak you," Tes, A Waitt nid Clara, holding up her fork. “You wouldn't raise a finger to get him. bn" that what you were going Lo any?" Alice, looking none too happy, (a d her friend, shaking h 7 it,” suid ber friend, er head bopelely, “And that's just where jou ome owt."* "All right eet returned fn a toe penile but *"T'll lose out.” She looked at her plate for a moment, touched a lettuce leaf with her fork, then fee and hurried to the kitchen. “What la it, dear? Clara called after her. “Wothing. I just forgot the oocoa.” She was a apr ps at wetting it it, mt her eres were dry when ahe ret After that Clara. eto ber to change the subject. ‘There's Just a chance,” the gfuest an- tosneed a they were finishing supper, “that lg po bo Atlsntis City met sometime. Burke phoned thie eel and invited me. That ia, if the oi Sam hasa cold. It depen wt f his cold gets better between the trip's off." She sr aie am Burke. I knew he's a trifle loud, but he's all right, and he's ave forme. I eo tee they'd lne*s ay i (TOU, ‘d poy a [ea Well, td hike te get in a few oo the Boardwalk just about now. Much aa Dike Sam I"m rooting for hia cold wba on a few days more," . Claral" ‘Mice was shocked but with," aad the other lightly, “I make no wert af it. I told G i the same ling eed asked her to tell a He likes tul ind of talk— stu," eyed ta clear the table she, moving sere of the dishee fo the tetverd. astoed, "Shall we wash the dishes ‘owl “No, don't you bother. I'll just set thet fn the pantry and de them later." The propedal was not bested. Later in the evening when she was about togo Clara apoke again of the new scent her fad) Wee Wning. THE SATURDAY "Url" she exchalmed. have such nice perfumes.” “Tin you like this so much?" : its has It hes lure, my dear." "You always “Yea. You know—like expensive ladies in elevators at the Ritz."" Alice went to the bedroom and from. the dressing-table drawer produced the little bottle in its pretty box and handed it to out the atepple and in- baled ‘ecatatleally. Boat she renin again. “Delish !" She corked the bottle, put it back, closed the bar and held it out to Alice, But Alice did mot tae tk, “Ao,” ahe said, “TD want sau te have it.” “Oh, Allee! You dear! But I mustn't Toh you “Nonsensal" Alice ently pushed away containing the har i don't the hand think [ like it of wail a eho kind. ‘T used before." And with a little laugh she added, “I guess lure isn't exactly my style any- way—worse heck" LIGHTING from his cor in front of Rita Coventry's house Parrish told his chauffeur to return at half past eleven. “And wait,” he added, The hotse, one of a block of English- basement reatdences of red brick and white atone, atodd In a aide street a few doora from Central Park Weat. Through the evening dimness he saw that the windows af the floor above, now glowing with soft light fram within, were eqlipped with hares in which low shrubs grew. r Ridley bared Mite two stepe up, was of wrought iron ba tiga lasa and curtains of fight silk, mpi paling alae geen ae pully tee he julien, ig ae aarehnan or a Sues, who, after taking his hat, coat and cane, led him as far as the stair landing, from which point he indicated with a polite peetuire the drawing-room at the front af hous: on the floor above, whence came a buzz of conversation. ales soe i il is ee of the room from the arriat paced ty that it was spa- at pay 7 and at t ceiling were and cream color, with low-relief and rial gg in the Adam rnished in the period, it would riya been a chamber deri and chaste, But it wns not so furnished. To ite hetero contents he seemed to read the ournal of a world traveler, a cosmopolitan with an ample, careless pocketbook, a pare acquisitive fecling for itiful thi a stri for the conven so at leet for these having te do with the fur- planing and decoration of a house. Ina deny dal lanes he saw an ancient Spanish tall and bulky, studded with nails and strapped with ornamental branwark; a Chinese cabinet of red lacquer; and an- other cabinet of buhl. A semicircular Hepplewhite table stood against the wall between the French windows, and in the next wall space a Korean cheat of dark ied eel | heavil bound with brass. e massive table ba inst the blue velvet couch at the center of the redm was noold Ttolian pieee, ancl upon it were two lamps mede from Chinese jars: but the several tall gain, Frome af the and gilded wood were Florentine. He noted also a light Sheraton sofa, French and American choirs of severn) different and o stiff Italian throne and footstea eorered with old velvet and embroidered with the armne af the Borghese, Inside the door he mared bri rule across the room, was half surrounded group of guests, Her famous back, wh ch i honed en, oe neared sere ae two ropes a whic over her “papery Seal connected with ber gown i di th she peared to be undin us a a dressed) oy in t be and a scant aatin akirt, black aid lustrous like her hair. The skirt wos festooned with strings af some of pearl, some of ar emerald shade matching, the lange fan of ostrich plunves that dangled from a loop of velvet ribbon on her arm. She was talk- ing and pesturing wsing ber hands and ra as he sein her use them long ago in Paria at Larwe’s. FT] apr Merrick, standing near her, caught sight of Parrish and nodded a ting Hita turned with a rattling of . ntl extending het han pave him a amile that made him feel aa if more Leh ta had been turned on in the room. He advanced and took ber hand. It seemed to him that he had never seen EVENING POST a human belng ao full of brilliant contraat— white teeth contrasted with red lipa, red one against acreamy skin, and a creamy Aoset off in turn dark eyes and the jet black of her gown and hair. Except Rita and Larry Merrick, Her- mann 1a, the banker and patron af Music, WES the only one of the p he knew, The others proved to be Schoon the nist, his pretty eat wilt, and Mrs, the novellat, who gushed agi ate tinually apoke to Filta and of Hite first name in a way that marie PF, that she was vain of the intimacy. Hardly hed he been introduced when three more arrived—Bickford, the steel millionaire, with bbs girllehly dressed wife of fifty-five or , and Luigi Busini, the ment conductor of the opera, a man tall and dark, with a beautiful profile and the look of one whoewe hat hos been blown away and whose hair and mustache have ne set.on end by the same high wind. who had, of course heard ¢ goa about Rita and Busini, ected em nora with interest. Husini kissed her hand and looked at her ardently: but as be did the same with each of the other ladies gg ee veig ae grins bree dperahoee The butler and a mai on apps sch e of cocktails and ap inpett rig little of caviar and pité de foie ern which the company moved in he ter- | skelter order to the dining room at the rear | of the house on the san f. unusual dining room, resembling nather Au eqnservatory, With ita many fran it windows facing the south, an a of imitation stone, stripped green lattice through which vines climbed | Form marble poeta on the floor. in) el Parrish was pleasantly surprised to himaelf at Rita's righ and it am m toa notice that both Kratiss. | and Busini, secking their sents at table, looked frat at his place card, 28 though each expected te find his own mame there, “Wo, Luigi—at the other end," said Rita, Saxticetne to Busini bis seat far down the The conductor waa at no paling te conceal his disappointment. He gave a little shrug as he turned away. “He is not pleased,” Krauss as he f His eyes twinkled as they followed Buaini. He looked aa if he wanted to lip a etiletto under your fifth rib, Mr. Parrish.” "Thavespoiled "said Rita. “ Seo— he won't look at me. He's eroes ag 0 bear.” And she explained to Parrish, “He eulke Ane way if there's anything ha doesn't ze," “Tt understand his disappointment,” Parrish said. “You were very kind to Place me here “ No—selfigh,” aa pr lightly. "I want rf ota yo Luigi has sat here offen performance reminds me of Seibing that happened at a dinner in Fae ago, just after my début. It BE UER'S first senson there, He was : pei ey They were: mally him the née who had ever ved. The aan ium bogaador was at thia dinner, pal Viewiine an toe-aaghi E eak bye tie ‘ASQUEE OT i= Ft selva: ti? He was very charming, but he was annoyed all the sare. he was ving ause he kissed the hostess" hand, and then, so that she could hear, sald to eka, Biter night, Nie tlt to is Maj my au SIVErCIgN, WL much flattered when I tell him that this evening it wes whe teal tien.” ** Rita's waa the sort af dinner at which ople tlle about dinners a a pe The cuisine, is to say, was perfer Tisdan andl the Winks, ae sherry ta ee ne, deliciaus. ehoen told of the chef of an Italian prince who refused te prepare a men ve more Scr teelve, When his em gave | dinners the chef woul ebay anly for ne dagen most prominent guests, the repasta of the remainder being pre- pared by his assistant, who sometimes Made cut a separate menu. “The chef muin- tained that twelve was the greatest number for whom one man could cook, and that a emaller number was even hetter. He had a saying, “Poe moins que les Graces, ef pos tus que fes Gidees et bes Mees," At lost he eft becouse his employer, who waa enter- taining an Archduke of Austria at luncheon, demanded that he cook for fourteen. This, in turn, reminded Rita of o story about Brambleton, the London critic. Be- sides his caustic criticisms, Brambleton (Centinwed on Boge 55) Tt wae an) ‘< It’s six to one— and half a dozen to the other in choosing between ordinary house paints. But U. & WN. Deck isn’t an ordinary house paint. It got its training and repu- tation on the sterm bat- tered decks of ships where most paints would lie down and quit in no time. Home-owners them- selves are the ones who discovered how saving. it was to use this long-lasting paint inside and out, up- stairs and down. They wanted it in every possible shade and color! And got it, too, without sacrificing ane drop of wearing quality. Besides sturdiness, beau- ty and washability, it's easy to apply, covers a lot of surface, and dries hard aver night. Try it yourself on the nursery walls or that pan- try floor. T'll bet vou a darn @ood spring lid you'll never use any other paint if weout can help it. And you'll win if you lose the lid, Write me how it cames ot: care of The Billings-Chapin Company, Cleveland, Ohia. filer THE PAINTER

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a a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST General Tire Sales 45% ahead of any previous year From the very beginning, General Tires have sold beyond our expectations. Since we started in business, each season—al- most every month—has shown an increase in sales. In 1921 we did not, at first, think this could keep up. We did not then see how sales, under those conditions, could ex- ceed the sales of 1920. Yet they did. Sales of General Tires in 1921 were 45% ahead of any previous year. And this year, thus far, sales have been 55% greater than for the same period last year. Perhaps the best evidence of a tire’s suc- cess—the most convincing proof that it is giving complete satisfaction—is the suc- cess of the factory making it—the success of the dealers who sell it. And it is actually the fact that, in 43 out of the 100 largest cities in the United States, the most successful tire dealer—the one who has the largest and most successful business—is the General dealer. The most astonishing fact of all, however, is that General Tires are sold only for cars in use. We do not sell Generals to auto- mobile manufacturers to put on new cars as “original equipment.”"" Therefore, each purchase of a General Tire represents the seasoned judgment of an experienced tire user, Look up the General dealer. Put a General on your car—and watch it. You will then know to what may be attributed The Gen- eral’s success. Built in Akron, Ohio, by THE GENERAL TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY OT

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Getting Big Business out on time—contented Anything that expedites the administration of business is a source of profit. So, also, is all that makes for con- tentment in an organization. The new Light-Running Quiet-Running Royal speeds up the stenographer’s work by lightening it. [ts super: elastic touch is a marvel of lightness to her and its clean, accurate typing the source of much satisfaction. It doesn't have to be “driven”. Rather, the keys seem to fly and carry the fingers along with them. Contentment! This Quiet Royal materially reduces the noise and clatter of typing. It preatly facilitates comcentration. Disturbance and distraction are real dollars and cents liabilities in an office. Everything that is conducive to clear thinking and concentration is a real dollars and cents asset, and the Quiet Royal is exactly this. The Light-Running Quiet-Running Royal is already peering the stenographic forces of Big Business, and businessce thar ore going to be big, out on time—contented, It speeds up typing and tomes it down! It is the aneawer of a great inventor te a need long fele by aggresive execurives and office managers, Qur ffrysiz page book, “The Evolution of the Typeeriier™, beautifully Whustrated in color, will be eailed free on eequece, Address depurtmenn 3, ROYAL TYPEWRITER COMPANY, INc. 364-366 Broadway, New © ork Branches amd Agencles thee World Chor UYA Lg ‘Compare the Work.” ie =. LIGHT-RUNNING iy _ QUIETP-RUNNING owas famous for two thin | at his own (Continued from Page #5) t —his love of ood ond of solitude silence. Hao avolded people, or if he could not availed them to be drawn Inte conversa- tions. One day a fellow critic who more than once had crossed swords with him in Print saw him alone in a restaurant. THe spoke to Brambleton, but the latter did nat answer, Juat then the walter put a dozen ovetera an the table before hin. “Look here, Brambleton,” frore, “don't you think you invite me to lunch wits you od rk Brambleton shook his: henel and: it h glared. “Because It is unlucky to do ge ¥ou are doing, F perdisted. “You're thirteen at table." The dinner was oll but over before Par- Fish realized that his negleet of alles : fey ht, had verged upon In the Last Salbepahi aa gate gre, talked with her, trying ta make up for the earlier delinguen tying te yel he felt that more at the average dinner , there was an excuse for what he had one, It was not only he whose attention had been centered on Fitna, Mra, Fernin and all the others hod looked to her rather than to thase beside them. Eyes drawn to Rita in the flrat inatanee by her beauty were held not only by that beauty but by some strange adductive moat on tirely apart fram it; tind of vividness which Parrish, watching her, explalned to grea ag oa like the vital force of two combined in one, She pubbled saith pair its. Mer mind and tongue were quick, apir & was amusing. Vet there was that about her which, even when the SE Wenee, made People pause all i pe sonality, Ravtdeeliin aes magnetism, ch allirenent, what you will she had that gift, indefinable and ie that super something which is granted to a few rare beings in this world, and which causes those who have it to stand aut from the m™mnss af mankind like searchlight in the night. * a g tnt party left the dining pout he to keop “ft * hor Tm ‘to gee those prints?" her, “Yea, later—if you don"t mind waiting alter the others Ro. "Oh, thanks4" faa ne asked a tion about ing ect bce over: “How have you ign time to inter- nash ede in printe—a woman as busy aa you are? Ber " she re aplet oe oe ie at him over her white him the arolle, “I can aay to a wW arlo aald, ‘I have had all the follies But I'll tell you more about it "About the follies?" ‘he ie ainaieies amil- NE a5, the printa. I don"t tuk of m follies. It's enough to commit them. sade te ae ee ee world, 2 cn to judge Tom the a aes B world is quite able ta rere care of Gb" Whea, in the drawin {eens aan ane ge were passed ita too ted her cigarette from ro silver nit amp, Eusini cume over to) "T thought were mut srioktoe aoy more?" ite in Italian. “Then, caro mio,” she retorted gayly, “I have not a ther lost the power to ariadeiee| Sheol une suid with grim ifcance, and turned aw “Beast!" she called alter im. But she waa not disturbed, She winked at Parrish, explaining, "Tie ts trying to be as awful as enn to-night. Dt makes him furious when he cannot annoy me. As a matter of fact my lower register ia better than it ever " She appealed to the others: “Isn't my na levee register better than ever?” "Indeed! it is, Rita darling!" exclaimed Mire. Fernia. “It never waa ao rlehf" “Tsn't it, Hermannat” " Abeolutely"" declared Krauss. “Like your figure, my dear, it continues to im- When yd Te sixty I shall no r be able to resist you. We shall go te, ene ia superb b! i Your voice la au —superb!" put in Schoon without waiting to be asked, “But for saying so I want un mn “Creat 1" she anid, slapping at him with t » green-plumed f ‘Aan. am do want an orange," he insisted. "Really? What for, insatiable monster? Haven't you had enough to eatT 4 prif i "I do not want it to eat. T + orange and a hairbrush. Io ow dl etry well, child, you shall hav a indicated a push button nm door, Schoen rang and gave his | order to the butler, who went aw soon returned ed with the Tinge and t brush. “Come and see thi, Rita. (come body!" cried the pianist, going: ove instrument and sitting dowm up: "Thy eatbered ab thim. Taki gathe abowe him, Jon his right hand he m to le ¥ back and forth over the blac! at the same time playing an secor "aaah with his left, Fedneings o cho “Sameth of your own TT" asked I as he febhed , " His own? “echoed Busini with 2 “Chopin's own! The Black Key St orange is my part,” said 3 amlably. "Do it again! Do it again!" artist, who was like a large, | Sei ene did it again, eridenits? enjoyin oT ane me do!” erjed Busini, crowds way up to the plano. 4 at (aa Rita. “What's the rush ae eee ik up, @ feraly' thing of gold enamel with littl wreaths of roses back on & field of blue. “Ahl" said Schoen, assuming the 1 terious air of a magician as he put d the orange and the bresh from hand. “Now you aball get! Thibe ba perl my chef-d'oenuvre.” Again his large left hand ran Hed basa keys, while with the brush, held night he played the Ride of the Valleys resale dawn upon the Rosie with ieee His auditors w filled w enthusi ine Mop laughed Krauss, apple g- “You must stop giving recitals pamer Hall, ae ea ba et A not pf apprecia o inte van) vibe ties or four ‘aicead dollars vee!" ie A Even Busini was lost in admiration, { thig for a time to sulle. “Now let ove do!" he eried, seizing t orange and elbowing Schoen to the end the a paar bench. first. effort was not entirely mecca ful. “Wo, nol’ erled the ariginater of il trick. “Not that wayl You held it t i Lat it roll in your palm,” ¢ tried to take the ornn in ane Ohild cline bue t to it aac 4. to a tay. " Aepiiio! Let me Ravanny rhiie! Twan to dol" And be bees agnin. There!’ he exelairned, delight ed, as after sone pres from. Bush latter elun tice he began ta ; it. “Now I do betier This is more like!" "The bass! The bass!" admoniebed pain ear to help. “It isn't only the Lign. You miint get the bass too!” orgiepe, Tak know the bags. [ play it by ear—hearing you.” "Look—like this!" Schoen showed him the chords, cane Husini atbempte it again, still without perfect sucewsa “But this is the first time I try" pee conductor, and made a grmuce at her, Then putting down the orange he sald, ““Now give nee the balrbraah." “Tt's just what you need!" Rite sad with a laugh. The other did not grasp tha et fie. Oh, "he netorbesl,, passing be hand over his upstanding locks, “it is bewutitul you do not admire this evening, coriama, And you used to admins grently. " Hoe shrug “Yau myrsuderetend:; Luigi.” she aid with mock ardor. “Tio me your halr will alwaya be beautiful. It will bes beautiful memory even after it is gone, For you, my dear, it is the back of thar brush,” reticent tulian with au 00 He clapped his hands. "Ah, ar comsprensial Cal cel That very drall droll, Rita!" Andie a aa Gets: hb undertood fom of he began te explain: “You ae whe she mean? She mean I am naughty bey: t to have the taatow—the epank! Heit Hlustrated, hitting the palm of his hed (Continged on Page Jil! ee a

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Prize Tomato Soup A culinary study—you'll enjoy it For your own sake, try this fine ex- ample of the Van Camp cookery. We aremakingsome soups youshould know. They are based on prize French rec- ip. A famous chef from Hotel Ritz 0 Pans brought them to our kitchens. Then culinary experts—men with college training —have worked here for Fees to perfect them. The materials are grown to our order, fom specified seeds, on studied soils. Thuswe get the ideal flavors. Countless blends are compared, until il agree that the soup has reached per- lection, Then formulas are fixed, each With minute directions. So every soup hotter is exactly like the model. This is done in the world’s finest kitchen, with every modern aid. It is dene by culinary masters, in- cluding a Domestic Science Expert of nation-wide repute. It is done as you would do it had you the same materials and facilities. The soups have a home-like flavor. These Van Camp creations are add- ing delights ta millions of home tables. If you fail to get them, you miss more than you know, As an example, ask your procer to send you Van Camp's ‘Tomato Soup. Do this in fairness to yourself and to us, Other Van Camp Products include Pork and Beans Spaghetti Evaporated Mille Peanut Butter Catsup Chile Con Carne Chili Sauce = All Kinds of Soups Prepared in the Van Camp Kitchens at Indianapolis CONCENTRATED TOMATO Tot dh oF 10c per can

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(Ceatiaurd from Poge 9A) Smack of the brush. Then, to Rita. realy “No wonder everybody fall THE SATURDAY at 9:30, Example, he upon she and her hushond aid good night. “Ts anybody u know." Where= EVENING POST going our way!" Bickford aath you, chérie. Yow are beautiful, sabl, pausing at the oer! | fewomen. But you have esprit. It was unnecessary for him to say which i ferrapted him. singing: = Po rywot serais—je belle Sf ce n'est Beir fire cine?" » from Lowise," geid Busini, “but plow.” He struck a hey several ow a ee rT, then a chord, q = bes wbsolute pitch, you know," er told Parrish in an awed tone. plich?*" eon, iy the other end of the mo turning his back he named one alte the notes making op each of orcs struck on the piano by Schoo. ea afterwards, umid ‘exchumis Pd applouse, he seemed te bein better than atany time during the evening. eat you going to sing to ua?” he Bot meant the request to be over- Ene others, but the sodden silence about them, and the eyes him that he was not f inewer. er I do.” Ve don’ ak her." aight pot to have done it, you mean?" “Tou | *t know the unwritten law." phen gould easily have sald po.’ “Not to evidently,” said the lady oir of coy intimati Lon, ft 2 had made him uncomfortable, but + orgot fh that a moment later when, ‘after Pking o chord, Rita let her golden valoe @ the room: "Drink to me only wifh dking eyes, And] will pledge with ming ——" Her head was thrown back slightly, and er gaze tested, whilr she sang, upon the sper part al the tapestry acrgss the room, Hat when at the end of the song she allowed her to fall he found them meeting te. It was only a swift glance she gave tami, ase fe tart ainy. She hod poe first mt en, as thelr eyes parted rebulced hall. “Tdiot f° pena uP sane coke at Yolo iE iAP pened to ssepste piece Pegemape ain Before the applause had ananped he was it her side. She had. 2 risen and closed the cower aver the k Peery ta vclest thing] ever heard!" wee owing with sincerity. “But [ on I did wrong to ask you." “Admirable!" came Busini'a voles acre throm. “But why? Why not sing some the os i tis a good 20n, "she replied in- Sfferenthy, Then, to “T felt like way theirs was, The Bickfor Fifth Avenue corer, across park, wie celebrated throughout. the elty for ita curious tower, its arches, balconies and etrange protuberances, resembling gigantic goiters carved in stone, This invitation relied in the departure af the Schoens undl Mire. Pernis, who were soon followed by Krauss. ‘Perhapa I can drop you, Mr, Parrish?" he suggested, But before he could answer, Mita replied: ng She turned to Rita, saying,“Get | “I've asked Mr. Purrish to atay behind. Mr, Parrish, Rite dear." T want him to see my print collection,” i ‘was quite willing to exhibit hia “You, Merrick?" invited the banker, "You, Busini?” : Merrick accepted, but Busini shook his “Thank you, no," he replied will stay and look at those print.” : Parrish beard this with no feeling of dis- appointment, which, however, Hite almost instantly dispelled, "T also rae “No, you won't f"' she said to the Italian; pao bars from Loulae made Parrish Jand thorugh she said it with aamile her tone to hear more, was definite "You would never look at my rinta befare. Now you can go home, my dear!" “Home, Sweet Home," Busini answered, giving ber ao slanting smile, “That is on- other song, silly like the ont you sang. | Hors is nok always attractive.” His brie xpreseel a certain resignation, “G Tepiselle’s temperament is ike that. For decdin pahe is very utek."* was vaguely annoyed, for, al- though be was not certain of Busini's mean- ing, he sensed an indirection of some kind, Ie bere formally and Flusini walled to nina - “thla about my collection, Tai ‘ paid Rita as he moved away: en I find i in it something not so good as [hod believed it to be I quickly get rid of it. Good night, men ami." Moving ta the doorway she preseed a push-button. A bell sounded faintly from a distant part of the house. “Come, she said, turning to Parrish, “the printa are in the altting room on the floor above,” the stairway they heard the soft, metal is sound of the front door as lt dosed behind Busini. Hita paused and Tearing over the balus- trade called: “Pierre *“Mademaiseile?" He came running up. “ Canases fa damtiére fd here “Bien, madeniadie, Merci.” He turned and descended toward the lower hall. Fir Rit BS sitting taom bore mo resemidance the other roca that he had seen, Tt was amalier, and there was about it a modernity that was aggressive and star- tling. carpet was of solid black; the panel moldings on the deep-ivery ve were picked out in lines of black and nasturtium color, and the same strikis qe Gh awaits your arrival in cach of these cities. It will be found in the form of an excellent hotel service by an organ- ization trained to give the greatest service possible and with the utmost courtesy, One Keenan custom is that the clerk calls your room immediately upon your arrival so that we may be sure of doing every- thing possible to make you comfortable. Our guests must have every service that it 1s within our ability to extend. This spirit is reflected by all whe attend you while you are with us. It fui — FF he if alter an inatunt’s hesi- night, pare ae Rita." He kisaed her hand. D Yo ley 5 7A "The beads on her gown ‘Then, bowing formally to » he easied: O OU er O nts ashe rceandmavedta “Good night, alr. I believe will enly Sieceere see| Aibnmikee Toledo «72 Wayne? very much, Mr, tion of mademoi: is large. @ ax | 'f oe. undertone. “Che amples, [ believe, howe merit, | | l Dau 0 0 + | ane a wm rote ow guests." others ta 80 aie ic tc ‘ht igre el her to," he re. somethned, to a Be too en.” He : . fwalting, thinking some- looked at Rita as he finished: “ Maddle- NW UNUSUAL treat 1s, of course, only one of d do it; someone who knows many things which make people return to our hotels year after year. Reservatroas Wired’ Free We gladly wire reserva- tions from one Keenan Hotel to another, so that you may be assured of excellentaccommodations. In dining rooms of the Keenan Hotels you receive appetizing food with ex- cellent service. Café and room rates are reasonable. Notice the names care- fully and when you are in any of these cities, go to one of the following hotels. You may feel sure of satis- faction. ot au ie be-right, This sort of day makes Spent he answered with aalgh. “So it doeg gue!'t “And you don"t sing?" “Sot g nate, cy “Pebage yee have mane ener Lena af saremion for the apringtime?™ aALE- pete with a ee sary Auctions," aid “T boy all sorts of nora 1 don't bat Why eet the thing they eall inter ptets pnp rol Fat tried that? sade pictares in magazines, spri othe auom in which to wep a necktie werd tht brow and prance Citough the park with a tablecloth.” combination nopeered again in the mante fiece and in hangings at the doors and windows. Two deep, comfortable couches standing at either side of the fireplace were upbols in back velvet, and might have given a "66 somber note but for the brilliant pilewa of taffeta in solid colors with which they were equipped, “How dia like it?" she asked, ab- serving that he looked about, “It bs very striking.” Acknowledged Leaders "He frank, I've just had it done. I°m mot sure T like it myself. I fell inte the s clutehes of a eoieye va pant am persuasive woman, who wants to do whole house," | “Don't let ber,” THE PLAKKINTON Milwaukee THE WALDORF Toledo THE ASTHOSNY 3 Fort Wayne Cea rent up at dawn for that," he “T dant intend to. This sort of thing ome in his tone the mock seems te me abnormal—like Strawinsky's music. I'm having a frightful tine, though, | ah all night,” she amenied keoping her out of my bedroom. She wanta a iach agg ike hod ant " give me black-an hk or original- ing lie enter- anginal, know. She says ¥ bedroom isn't Bi a hitle myeti came up in nal, but I tell hers dlseyt isn't original int to ratch the last words Rita la spoke, sitter, ‘a what we mustn't do," said the Parrish smiled. aly. “Mbt is at his desl: every morning (Continaed an Page 10a)

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102 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Heart-Break House” A true story of a home that came back 1 EB discovered it when We came out inte the country to rest three years ago—a pathetic littl house with its wWeather-beaten sides, sagging porch and broken eaves. “ Almost daily that summer we passed it in its nest of weeds and brambles, By and by we began to call it ‘Heart-Break House." “Ome day we stood before it in the twi- light and John said, *That house haunts tie: T believe it has a soul. What « won- derful place if some one would fix it up.’ “*Let's,’ we said simultaneously and *Heart-Break House’ was ours! Ours to fixup! Ours to heal of its ‘Heart-Break.’ “What joy we had in the work! We repaired the neglected porch, the sagging eaves, the. tumbled-down fence. We painted inside and out; cut down the weeds and planted flowers. “Tf you could see our little home today you would believe in modern miracles. The white painted fence stands up with dignity; the gravel path leads to a neat, well painted self-respecting house that proclaims home and love in its every line. Inside, white woodwork, varnished floors and ‘grandmother’ rugs; a kitchen whore shelves and shining crockery speak of Care ane taste and. COMMNGOM SENSt. “Something has made us healthy and contented. Maybe it is God's sunshine, and work, and dear companionship in our own home: maybe, who lnews, the magic was Wrought by that blessed paint brush.” April f

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104 It wont be harmed —4tts Brenlin The we shade 0 n beauty . Through all the constant strains of everyday usage Brenlin wears —two or three times as long as an ordinary window shade, It sturdily withstands the attacks of sucking and snapping winds. Its rich colors resist fading and will not show water spots, That is because the material from which Brenlin is made is finer and more closely wo- Yen ike sETOng linen in texture, And because this fabric contains none of tiling, the chalk or clay “‘fll- ing’ that crumbles and falls out, causing cracks and pinholes in ordinary window shades. Also—because the rich colors are of the highest grade, and are applied dy daid by experts. Every step in Brenlin-making ix a step for longer wear, And rich and beautiful in a wide range of colorings 15 Brenlin. [tis supple, not stiff, yet always hangs straight and THE CHAS, W. Scrmirho force of ordinary wiedom shade material tightiy, Tune partieter of ch@lé of doy “Ailing fol! HURRAY Ags mes ERENEALAD CORDPAN WT, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST amooth. [ts endurance will sur- prise you. See Brenlin Duplex, made for perfect harmony with a citer. ent color On each side. Look for the name Brenlin perforated on the edge. If you don’t know where to get this long-wearing window shade material, write us: we'll see that you are supplied. “How te shade aned decorate your soindows correctiy’ — free We have your copy of this very readable and instruc- tive booklet on how to in crease the beauty of your home with correct shading and decoration of your win- dows. Send for it. Actual sar ples of Brenlin in several colors will come with it. For windows of less tmpor- rance Camargoor F, imnpire shades give you best value in shakes made the ordinary way. InC., CINCINNATI, OHI he olde wendow alude heuer in Amenca’ Fasturieg: Cinceinad, Olin, and Carden, S.J. Branches: Wee Work (ey, Philadetphea, Dallas, ‘Vea, and Portland, Ore. the i Grener ul the good will and trade-marks of the |, C. Wemelr Cg. -wearing Brenli n Winpow HADE maferial (Continued from Poge 100) “How ia it done now?" he asked. “ Rese color, I sup French hts ie “and gray.” “That sounds nice, “Would you cure ta eee it? Te's just back there,” She indicated the door. “Yes, I should like to." Heenan the ruttling of the bends AY PL in Erin Lat B wa they ier ake tall. Tt was a sound, disturbing but agreeable The bed- TOO WHA Spee, French blue of the velvet carpet ran up inte the window hangings, the portiires and the canopy and covering of the bed, all of which were of taf- feta, The bed was ‘large and much carves, | with panels of basketwork let in at head | ROOT 8 py feat, All the furniture wns of a cold tone a trifle lighter than that of the Ils, and the only color in the room other val blue anders was in the gold of picture frames. and small articles on the dressing- teble, in the pink roges filling a bowl upon a table and the emall design of rose wreatha eaten rb the silken draperies were bor- Cn a table conspicugusly ineed, Parrish noticed a Estee ph etoyraph of Busint, That, however, would have seemed te him more significant had not this room, like the sitting toom and the drawing-room down- stairs, contained so mony other framed photographs. Whatever truth there might or Tight not be in the gossip about Hite and Busini, sho was evidently not in the le “et senaitive nbowt te: ner about that story of her affair with a monarch, either, for the picture of that potentate with a friendly inscriptin in his handwriting stood on the table in the sitting roam. “Oh, don't let the decorater-lady touch this room!" he exclaimed after a brief aur- VEY, “Fon dike at?" “Te's exquisite, Let the decorntor do her own bedroom in her own way. This 0 oe Indoed, it scemed to fit her as a jewel cust fila its gem. tnte his mind there came a Vision of her aa she must look in that bed when the maid brought her break- fast in the morning. He was sure she had her breakfast there, and that, doing so, she made a picture to delight the eye of an old-time French engraver. She would be propped = sii mountain of soft pillows, nmi would wear a boudoir cap trimmed with blue nbbons and lithe knots of reac, from beneath which locks af that dark avy hair would ecacape to neatle on her shoulder, Sho was nat the sort af woman who wautd lowk tired in the morning, Far fram it! She would be pink and lovely like i baby just awake. From the moment her eyes opened there would be that brightness in their depths. She would see the sun nig through the eurtuing and would enile He turned to the door again. “Tou were going to tell me how you be came interested in prints,” said be ws they moved through the hall in the direction of the sitting poor. "Tt was the summer before I first sang Butterfly, To wantect wo rest and changu, jand L theught a trip te Japan would give | ine atmosphere for the part. Well, it pave me a bishe for lacquer and jade and prints, ! out all events” They were in the silling: roumn now, be- didle a table on which were several lunge partioliog bound in Japanese silk and fastened with littl: pegs of ivary, Hila opened the cover af the uppermost portfolio and bepan to turn the curdbourd sheets on which the prints were mounted. This Hight is poor,” shir sail, pausing after they had looked at two or three of the mictures. “Let's put them on the floor | diver the tall lamp." Ag Parrish corried the bulky volume over | and laid iho the rag in the lamplight Hita | tetk a cushion from the couch, tossed it to the floor aad dropped down upon it. “TL turn for you,” she said, “You can stanc. That might to give you about the Fight distance." The first printa were primitives—ao Gon- shiro, several Moronobus and early Haru- nobus, interesting 2s examples of the art in its Isegiinings; but presently she came to works by Later mastera—Utamaere, Yelshi, Toyokuni: superb compoeitions splashed alana ial April i with nich soft colors like those brecades Rita knew about printa. “he = was generally good: where there w perfertions she recognized therm. po out that this one was weak im colo one a late impression made after the = blocks had been trimmed at the ec ites another had been creased, or ta! me : But though his interest In this a: genuine enough, and though man} of prints were worth seeing, Parrish fou incremsingly difficult ta give therm | tention. How may a man yield hie to minor constellations when in th: 18 Venus, brightest and most beaut, Continually bis glances te iivin| ae Fe Finted bnages to the lowely Livin nding aver them, In the saft | the lamp the beads on her gown 2 eed he of some fnbledd cpl pb lights and. aap ct eesti it ne ta and shadows pla ther the tng waves of her hair. eA the time the first portfolio had | he was aware of strain. (a ing nn portfiolla back te ite place pon le, aval bringing fhe second, he « gratulated himself on having so far omhenent. Hut there were four portfol) Too ig was showing him Heobusas the" Thirty-six Views of Fuji. Muttering something shout Hokus detail, be aw cushion to the floor o dro ldown beside her. Yet here, wit out looking at her directly, he continu to be disturbed, Every time she turnec he was aware of the white lowelini af her arm and shoulder near him. Presently he began te feel somethi like an electric current, It seemed emanate from her arm ond jump Lecross his. Did abe feel it toa? Apparently ni for ahe continued calmly te ture the prin Comme tine upon them as she wert alon * Let's stop!" he heard himself oxeclair He had nv sooner spoken than the cri! eal part of hie mind came inte play, tedlir him that kind of talk would not do at al Suppose she were now to ask him why hy wished to stop looking ab the prints—stat would he gay to that? Df he had good sito he would aay he had a headache—and go home. Hut would he do that? Or would hie blurt owt recklesaly some further wildness* But Rita did nat agk him. She did est speak. She reached out and closed the artiolio, She had turned her head and wie king at him, She did feel E current! Her eves told him so! He gazed into them with straining eagerness like that of on who seeks to penetrate the depths of some unfathomable SCL, “Why —they're blue!" be murmured, The shadew of a emile showed in them. He leaned a little more, Now bee could see nothing but her sali 8 ‘The rest of the world wos nebulous wus shipwreeked on Choe eweet blue seas. itn deacended with him to the lower hall ashe was leaving. On a carved Jislian chest reqeed his enat, hal ond rane, As he started to alip inte the onal. she stepped behind him, and taking bold of the cular helped him on with it. Then she gave a touch bo either showlder—-2 touch of ad: justment given as if she leved to zie ae He turned quickly, and as they there silent fora moment he felt = ip working softly wt the edge of his lapel. sweet bo have her duing that! There ena fragrance | in her hair against his cheek, "Aly beautiful!" he whispered, “Wh my beautiful {"" She raised her eyes to his, and in a voce low and lovely sang again dn French te passage from Louise —— “Why akould I be Ercaaclifad Jf Gf de ot fe be lope “Filta,” he murmured, “I lore yoe so!” “Tt's spring,” she answered, studing. "No, it's yout Tm madd about you!” “Vou think so." “T know! Tell me, de you care for me a3 T do for you? She patted his cheek, Rita, you do care, don't yout" “Dent you know?" ‘Centinadd 24 Page 10?) ——_

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(Costing ed frem Page jad mt did not satisfy him. , ow much?" he ded. e Praised het lipe. Ah, that was better! Fen am I tosee you again?" he asked. you dine with me tomorrow night?” Tomorrow night L sing.” tupper, then, afterwards?" debit rath promised ta go to hea 1 party.” When, then?" 3 st he thought for o moment, Pll telephone,’ she said. 2 WToLe On & wisiting card hia address . ies telephone numbers uptown and hen will "Tomornow ‘Of course. But what time?” ‘Before T ge to the opern,” "That would be around six?" fhe nockded. "Oh, my dear,” be said in a low eager you telephone?” ee. “VU be waiting all day for that He opened the door, but paused reluc- tg the thisahnid. sai ‘a he gave him a gay little wave of dis- Baal, masring "Cool i he" “T lowe you!" he sard, agd cloded the avy door behind him. In the vestibule he paused until the fier lights within were extinguished. ben hve walked toward his limousine, hich was standing at the curb. =x £ HE j homeward ta of Rita aang through hla mind. Yesterday paihemn | he had called life monotonous, lesterday moming! He had not even met ef then! He had come to ber bower a few urs since, all but a stranger. CY thee Foo were there he had known her least. How long age that seemed! Life monotonous? Life's little periods of dhullneme were nothing but a background, fke the gray wall of a gallery againat which rplendid pictures show more splendid atill. In the gallery of his life there hung but one Picture moe. Rita! Rito of the galiden woHice! Rita, ng, brilliant, fameaua, beautiful, all that was desirable! Rita, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Announcing | who in one aplendid blinding flash had let him know she eared for him! For him! He tried to conjure up her likeness, to visualize her face. But the features at which he had so lately guzed in adorution wold mot come into focus for him new. Tn his mind he eduld eee her strong little hands, her tapering arma, her shoulders; and he could see the color of her; the pollor of her akin, the recl of her lips, the glistening white of her even littl teeth, the shimmer- ing black of her hair, the deep blue of her eyes. But try as he would, could tert harmonize these elements and make them Wend into one clear and satisfying image. The failure disappointed him. It was that way sometimes, though, when one tried to think how certain people looked. Why? he wondered, Why was it that the likenese of one person should be vague when a perfect picture of another could be sum- moned to the mind at will? Take, for ox- ample, Alice, He could always make himself set Allies, He hod only to think of her. He eould see her now almoet as clearly as though she stood before hirn in the flesh, Alice! His heart sank. There was a situ- ation tobe faced! That couldn't goon, He miuet find some way to break with her. Cruel? Yea. But he had not willed it ao, Tt was life. Life was cruel; crueler to women Ehan bo men, Pt qught not to ber ach, but Gk wos. How was the thing to be managed? Alice was ao sweet: she needed him 30. What would become of her? Like o black cloud the sense of his responsibility, the re- aponsibility he had always atrivesn to avold, | Tiled down upon him. But this waz no time to be wrestling with | the problem of Alice, Tt was a problem te | be met in the full l tof day, en he was | at his best. For the present he must put | Alice out of hia mind. He did put her out of hia mind, Orver and over again he put her out. He perspire! with the «fort al it. Hut always ahe came back. Through mental doors af which he had no knowles until they apened at her touch, sha re- appeared an mappeared, a silent, gentle, terribly insistent ghost. (To BE CONTINUED) THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SUCKER (Ceontinned from Page IT) andl ie will go direct to a relinble house in Wall Street. What's more, the stock will be delivered, The man who does that is mat a sucker and has mo purt in this discussion, The sucker Wants to pelt mysteriqua and trim somebody. Helikes to watch the big black- board with its rows of numbers. e likes to hear the click of the telegrageh tnsira= ment and be able to impurt some wise ohservation on industrial conditions te the sucker sitting mest ta him. He dotes on knowing that people in his neighborhood are whispering to each other thet he is o mock epeculater. As a matter of facet he hasnt the slightest idea of what it’s all nT Jor] d am not particularly proud of my ex- perience, but [ am no reformer. The beet you get out of that penitent reform stuff is to give somebody a laugh. I have been acuve in the sucker market all my life. [ve tried my darnedest te wtudy the minds of suckers and learn what makes them tick. I'm simply giving you the result of my ob- seTVa Lions, 1 really beliewe it would be a serlous depivetion to rob suckers of their appor- iunitie to give some their money, would make them genuinely unhappy, They dea't want sqund business men and relormers interfering with their garbes and fects, and they are not going to have ikem. either. [ have an of friend, part owner im a herket shop, who was an incurable devotee @ faro—the bank, aa it is colled among iofeional gamblers, Eo matter where fe gous thin elderly man must play against the beck, One night in Chicago it was re- parted io a group of his friends that the oad fellow was up against @ crorked game down the street and that the dealers were taking him good, Two friends went down to react him, "Say." whitpered one of them as they elled bam from the table, “are you crony? Dot you knew this game lan’t a the erat [t's one of the crookedest joints in | ago.” “T know that,” he said fretfaliy, “but | what's a fellow going todo? [t's the only | dre fa bere.” I'm telling you the truth when I aay | that nine aackers out of ten will fight vou back when you try to show them where they are being robbed, The war and the activitles incident to It increased the output of American suckers tenfold. I have noticed in the magazines and newepapent editorial comment to the effect that the investment in Liberty Bonds had taught the people to be investors in sound securities, the impression being that tt was a good thing. Maybe so, but Taint to tell you that in selling Liberty Bonds aa was done by drives and patriotic speechea the Government innocently efeabed mare suckers than were ewer Known tn the histery of the world, ['d hate to know the proea suckerage of this country right now, | Dee you know thot salesmen of bunk stocks wed promotion schemes hod regular follow-up schedules on the heels ob the eosin § Bond drives and took the newly cTeated investors the woy Grant took Hiche | mond? | Around one city in the Middle West that gang took out eight million dollars in a single month! Fhe clipping of the first coupons wus the signal for the rownd-wp. ‘The people, you know, liked that idea of dipping coupons, Lt looked such an Ra Way bo nek money, Their feeling waa: “ How long hos this been going on and me not wiset" The fellows with the bunk of] stacks | went at them like this: | “Yes, the government bord ia a great | thing. But that 4 per went! Doesn't that Taake you laugh? 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LO HAVOLINE OIL Look for This Sign It is the sign of good lubrication and a good garage. ae et ‘i - d 4 ay la es fled A queer looking outfit, isn’t it?— judged by the standards of the present. But it’s a true picture of the “‘horseless buggy'’ as it was nearly twenty years ago, when the moter car—and Havoline—were young, Since 1904 Havoline Oil has plaved an Important part in the auto- mobile industry in America, Havoline enpineers atl chemists weresolving problems ofautomebile lubrication when a two cylinder, twelve horse power car with “‘de- tachable tonneau’? was considered When Havoline was Young THE SATURDAY EVENING POST theacme of perfection. They have kepat pace with—ves, a step ahead of improve ments in matoar de- sign and in lubrication, For every car on the road in 19(}4 there were cb hundred today. For every car lubricated with Havoline in 1904 there are a hundred so lubricated today. Havoline Oil has aly y's macde rool. The Haveoline SIE, clisprl: aved by ides: ile rs Vi ha i -|] | I. LW oline L vil, is i. toad sign for car owners to follow, Look for it when you need motor oil. eo. REFINING COMPANY [nec oepora bed New York April 15,

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Cestiseed from Poge 107) the crumbs, Clip coupons, yes. : an make it 7 or & per cent in- be sucker, asking for more details Id be shown a list of stocks d where from 7 too cent. fiat pala the additional ce of the stock pling in orice on, no, Tod, oo don't need any 7 aot B cent! J Just. Bee ges your Lib- a8 securi we will ised “the stock. In other words, you can your Li Bonds earn you ges rohit of 4 to & per cent in- ¥ ite up in some bane dea? Or you. bik au-aleaply stock in. Libert ett the idea. ia wes gt ap those, people reslized that y Bonds were negotinhle—not reg= name of the holder, They . Millions of were hypothecated and even sold wir all being lost to the original w can imaging a man or woman be = good Liberty Bond to buy a tricky mum: o an injustice by referring to all Pinay a as bunk stocks. For enurse there faorme real oil stocks that have proved investments, but fot many. In 0, for instance, the stock of three thou- od] cen panies was put on the market. thee companies 98 per cent were of the mh variety. Self: Trimming Smekors oil eteck is the sucker’s favarite.

The (home stories of the old family that waa topped om the way to the poorhouse and arned inte millionaires did the trick, The jee of thousands of dollars Funning Fight at oof the ground every day, onee you hit hie sy tarings up old stocki ing beak ralla het ium been. since the Civil War. Even the wisest guys fall for that. In ther imdluestriala something has to be nanwfaatured, bat in cl—why, all you've pot to do is bore a hole, ‘thera it: ba, running right out of the ground! No beother— nor nothin’ It makes Uttle difference ‘Lo some of the eorntirmed suckers that the concern with which they are dealing has no They are just like my old faro frien ‘Many of sneak around and line up with w trick outht as bieser ace, ‘They think t will get a bigger profit. Any- way. they ‘we gotto getin Loesomething where they can inwest filty of a hundred dollars, They must take a Byer whether it be relishie or net. In the real crooked bucket shope—the erudest form of them—every convenience has been arranged ite dation the smart ie orth od a oe thw a great mates what he beses ho be ded as a person of wide in- a, and intelligence, Here he ia: to ie lc fap in the seuanie boom has Just started in France, alse in the manwlacturing centers of this country our finor mun of the self-satisfied customer whe had casually dropped in to oa at the beard. “Sure, Well—that is, not carefully, tut ==" he stalind. As a matter of fact there had been no Treas. “Well, tell me, just what does that mean—what should be its influence on the market?” inmossermtly the floor man, all the time glancing pointedly at the lost quotation on steel, which was falling. “Naturally,” the custemer enlightened ts, “there will be alot of steel bought. vA an has to be no clairvoyant to een that. [telemental. Wat is steel now?" That waa enough. To steer him on a falling stock was mot hard. He put in a hundred-dollar order, which was promptly bicketed, He was wi out the next day, but what of It? that man it wae worth something to ‘agente aa Wire and margin Most of the stock really t for dn ey baie is siti age of partial ayment no dt Hot to delivered tntil the ayment is made, iad the price to be fis that of the murket at the time rae the order. You can see how many chances that offers tor taking the setae: The steck can be manipulated for a month or twa before he ever gets 1t—il he ever gets it at all. Tt is when a number of these partial-payment THE SATURDAY fellawa inaist upon del} af thelr etock that the bucket shops get into trouble. The real job of brokers, whether they be | genuine or tricky, is to get in touch with suckers, Oneo they are hooked o | pers fintage of re Blick, The most #fective means af renching them, naturally, is by the sucker [lat. ‘These lists of names are first made up from telephone directories, the theary being that when a man has a private helpline he must have oa littl something else, At any rate, he ls aon in his conumnity. After the frat or try-aute these liste are carcfully revised zt mp mare promis- ing names retnined. irs acded to fram year to year, The aucher ligt of one concern in Now York that failed seld for forty thousand dollars, A list-distributing company bought it and sold copies to new ie haly i being | organized for stockeselling fool sucker list ia sally sand collars to a pew ol company. know of one financial investigator con- nected with the detective bureau who paid five hundred dollars for a copy just to get a line an the innocents who were being trimmed and whe could furnish evidence. A financial inveatigater, by the way’, is a man who makes a business of representing cautious investors who want aecurate in- formation about the standing of certain concerns. Usually he be pints te the ropes and is feared by fly-by-night companies and bucket shops, A new investor wouln aften do well to read the report of one af these wuthorized investigators before going in too deep on a strange proposition. The average citizen in an outlying ec- tian or Tight in the city likes to have an important man. call him upon the phone, It makes him feel just a litte chesty. ‘The falewmen prey ar that. jenling In Brooklyn there was a school organize once for mere Saye out of high schol in what they call the art of tel ony — they pronaunce it tleph-anv, uh the mere on the second ayllable, Try it ot and see if it dozan't sound nifty. ue was bo teach these boys how to roach a apective customer over the phone and then course, to sell him someth “This ja the president 2 the Native cane, New York. . . « WOR « a. Exactly, Knowing your interest in the industrial quilook I have taken the liberty af calling you at hone," and so on, The Lowe of Taking Chances That sounds pretty » doesn't it? Yrs, ae bank president himael! called up, That is angel food te the born aucker, SB gee at others will be calling up. citizen will quietly take a flyer ae ‘isickitcabop toate bow ik gums Take * te Ral t aE a fOr Wape-carning sucker geta for his bit is the attention he attracts while reading the stock-market re- ort and looking wise on the car, going ome, His family lk all newapa that haven't a market report. all read the tables, and soon—well, think they Snir ae more about stocks than anybody in the af lee These ple have read how @ one- hundred—dollar share of ateek in the a ore nal telephone company, organized to h out pe ane is now worth four hand thousand dollars or something like that, You cun't fool them, not on your life Theard a motorman on one of the walt ears laugh ipl pic at the thought ‘a how stupid our forbears were not to have seen that opportunity, This metorman, at the time, waa dollars on a manless airplane company that Rome premoters were trying to put over. That ia no joke, by the way—that manioss ee mney pin Harlem there is an old man of a scientific turn of mind with considerable Tene 1 fellows went up there ancl took him for ten thousand dollars. It Wks explained to him that but a few selentific men were to be let in on the scheme, whic hud for iis purpose tha trimming of the Goverament, All potenta had been pro tected and the Government would have to buy at the company's own terme. And that ol aenta ony efforts to Pabst ‘him ek He firmly belleves that t itplane will supersede the wireless aa ee inverting of the age. Folks, there you have a sucker born in the purple. I reckon, at that, igns, A Neorth five thou | Leven | conaidering going in for fifty | 1M

pntlone to this day re- | there ig royalty in suckerdom just as there le peasantry,

EVENING POST Al IN nl ie = ( a = Ss a Ti Sass HAT may seem strange to you. I, toa, once the ught—betore I spent asum- mer there—that Southern Cal- ifornia was a place te go in wetler, not in Simmer, —— Shi hi , Feel gy ay " a And vetl know noother that offers such a wealth of summer fun, such complete recreation because of complete changer, or —astrange as you may think it—a summer climate so at- tractive in all ways! i. rad I have spent summer after | summer there, and in a three | months’ stay slept under blan- kets ninety nights. What De You Dor You Matar, if Wabi weeh, for ‘| 4H Mi niles Piall paver highways fie anit hi chil stirceds tiromet a cmuniry in- likey ing vou have ever eeen—

tiles Toy we been there, Yar play golf on inspiring courses, enme-ob the workl's best.. You stay it leautilyl snvehiores al the fant af nanan ranges, or in the walder- AeSS At MUNIN canis Yeo werw fi Zreat a Thy like Scubara, anil dr ive sb ke tu ome of the works horpest cites for yor elmer ata Taos Pestaurank or hotel, Vou vise great valioial Parked Porters gLunt tre birpendas eLnOrEeiC Views, Ele ba gee epuied ly i) fish in amouwntain lakes and BIT LIS Pr Ee Wer ld-Faimaus ie ns Bh | fishing grauneds, Ve i Tike Pea | 8 | Fide horsehag k, Wisi breathe derp and you enjoy a sct af That WW f Vera, youthfulness [Hr li ipa. fi wo haven't fels,

My Greatest Summers all were spent in Southern California By An EasteesxEn i eM stake esol = Se === = {3} cai = moe’

And all within a fee bows of a freak mdrofen cote! — aii tust- crave who dorcsn't know hardly cin | conceive of this, | Different and Enchanting } The enchanting difference ts what hires nee dal the other thousands who go there in the summer from ther east, It's that differenes which peoews your youth, changing your viewpait if you're “run dewn.” ou become abeorberl, fascinated, relaxed to per- fection, The greatest cure for ie “ares” yo Ve ever knew. | i Sommer? An amazing summer= | land— you UW never spend amere de — || fi lightfal, resttul, interesting sumer tm anywhere, eer 1 Ay Hak any railekid ticket office for [Rh further information, or mal coupon i bee leva, | } Loa Special, low-rate, round trip h} fures beginning May 14th— Ne fi more Mor Tax, | fi Flan now for this somone. Let i the fanily have thia great change || ss ancl greal rp. Southern California. is Aanerica's ideal swimmer as well as winter re- ipl. Avorape Tie pera ure at nomm? Jane, fi degrecs; July, 10 degrees; August, (1 dbeerees; September, 19 ff themes. — Dhie 44 vie “idol cle | q E a, Weather Tieraiu, (al iformin M-2iH, Los Acgeles, Cala, | All=-<Vear (lub of Southern | | The pt pre Vear (lub of Souchern Cel Herre, | Dept. M-3H. Chamber of Qonimetre Bele,, |] Lene Admecling, Calif | al ime fu 4 ans rmatern about vacation paresiiadybere ind . Souths orn

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Te round out iia Hine of high grade Mirani oma, “Che Gone darn Coal Gompany recently added ca ita habdings 74,118 acres la the Poca. honitue retlonaof Virdinia and Wreat Vleginia gis 11, eores of bhock oom! in Kentucky. ae J Arn fF <3

Fuel for the Railroads The railroads of America in 1919 consumed 119,000,000 tons of bituminous coal, according to the records of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission. Next to labor, coal is one of the major costs of rail transportation and the great railroad systems of the country, in their striving to keep down operating costs, have given much attention to coal quality and to coal economy. These great railroads are governed in their coal purchases not only by the convenient location of the mine but by the suitability of the fuel itself. They demand for their crack trains a supply of fuel that can be relied upon to maintain schedules. The fact that Consolidation Coal is being used today in the locomotives of some of the Nation's most famous limited trains is a result of the economy records made by our coals. THE CONSOLIDATION COAL COMPANY INCORPORATED Munson Building - New ‘York City FIRST MATL BANK BLING, Obstet, Afiek, LAPON TRUST ALIG., Wavkingfen, 1.1 17 MARKET STREET, Portoceeh, iW. it FISHER BLDG., Chrege, (liect, CONTINENTAL BLO, Aaitimare, (fd. SION CENTRAL BEDG., Citectane, Chhis. STATE MUTUAL BLOG. Alastan, Maas, MARION: TAYLOR BUG, f-eotevie, Ap. LASD TITLE BLDSG.. Pbifodinte hie, Po. (NORTH WESTERN FUEL 00, MERCHANTS NarL BANK BCIG., Se Poul, ‘Mite. Saas Artes VEMPIRE COAL COMPANY LTD, SHAUGHNESSY BLIM:, Martma, Qarkec, EVENING POST A little narrowaced, henpecked-looking mn cume inte my place one day to tell me about n coneern he was going in on to manufacture guaoline aut of the mud on the marsh islands of Jarmulen Bay. I Jiked this little old fellow, and shook ¥ head, "Bettor Iny off that stuff,’ I cautioned. “ou, he cume right back, “are just a8 ipnorant as the old people who thought Doctor Bell crazy when tried“ to rm funda for his telephone, Geel If my grandfather had known as much as T— do new he equld have taken two or three hun= dred dollara and run it into a million. You remenmier alao the fellows who laughed at Henry Ford when he was trying to borrow money to start his automoatile.” " Hit there ain't many Eells and Fords," I mugies 4 “Hut are you ao stupid that yeu eui't ™ | realize that gasoline is gaing ‘to let the mee | tive power of the world q | | rw eT Don't you realine what it will mean when they can make it cut af mud? Have you ne imagination?" “Sounds good, but I'm mot so sure they'll over make it outofimuad, Are you?” Gatting the Pikers’ Money “There you are!" he sald, waving hia arms despairingly, “That's exactly what they said about Doctor Beil, Marconi and ull af them. you con't discourage me. It'll never be said of me that I didn't have more sense than my father and grand- father.” : ; And that’s oll there ia to it. He Ett his money in, and wlao that of his wife. What's more, there's ne living financler, orater or papebet who can convince that little old ellow that he isn't going to make a fortune, They really did try out that experiment with the mui, but nething has come of it, So far. They had the inventor in court the List I heard of it. The sucker is always ready to go one step further if he can think himsell a part of a big scheme. He dotea on being in a secret pool formed by the big financiers to tim the unwary. Handle him = mmys- seriously and he will go the lengih af his bank roll. Never does it occur te him that he is unwary. This tendency to grab at a mysterious tip of something big in the wind rules that bige offices of legitimate etock-exchanpe brokers ane of the choice feeding erica of the bucket shape. Clerks, telephone operators and stenog- Taphers create deep impressions in their neighborhoods by relating what Mr. So- an-So dropped to-day. "Why, | heard Mr, Smith, the presi- dent yes, the president —say onky this Manin "And away It goes bo the next-door nelrhber. Immediately litth wage earners. urn down to the bucket shapes with fifty=ellar orders. These clerks, of course, haven't money enough to trade in the regular market, and besides they don"t want their employers to know they are wang information jacked up in, the offiee. They goin mostly for pute and calla, a practice more common in the smaller cities than in New York, In other words, they san Ly ‘bet that o certain steck will go up or n. Officially these pute and are called options te buy or sell a certain stock ata fixed time in the future, A call is to buy and a pub is to eel], ‘Thut is pure gum- bling. One common method of trading in puts and callsissimply this: John J, Sucker puts up fifty dollars fer on option to buy or sells Hahares of steel at the market price June first. Tf at that tiem the price ie lower or higher he either receives the difference or pays the difference, John J. bets them fifty dollare that hat can outypiis then, in other words. The best puesser wins. There ia never any intention of these speculators actually to bay steck certificates for n= yeetovent, At that, Joho J. is apt te be much winer than the sucker who aetually invests in tum: stecks, He simply follows the game geoone does the races, Same of that kind ieerome shrew crmugh to heen it, Samuel &. Sucker, ovt in- the small towns and cities, is the better mark for the fellow who organizes a fake company for getting rich in oil or something. Samuel likes to autthink bis neighbors, who haven't any vision for the fatiine. He'll stick toe show them that be was wise, There ote several wave of encouraging him. My former pala

=} | buve seen to that. April 14 One of the best schemes for n the al drained’ oil sucker is t Merger. ral concerns, know maveniey of their clients, tried th and it worked beautifully. All oy country there are suckers holding bly stock in oil companies that were ubss worthless, These had been checked) recently revised sucker lista. It ait es ne eluce kee. were Sesrmnel the judgment of the expert producer) the ju certainly be wanting wo little action. 8o literature was sent tof cirying, among other gems, this «

Phrase; “We feel that you could mot be to permit your ma to remain ind dormant Hocinrncuctisis oil stocks further investing. You would like t that money put to work."* Tt was explained that & mew mer been organizel ta take over fl —_ productive stocks anc EL Lice inke a productive one, ave! to thoae holding companies, the names been would entail the autlay ever, except the nominal cht cent for transfer and excpeen would almply be tronsferred, “That,” said Mr. Sucker tor “sounds like real sense. “We oert lor, and there is a big chance? Suppose the transfer fee: cloves | ten dollara? We are already in ae Hl dred dollars. It amounte to nothin But Mr. Samuel &. Sucker didn't 6 that if thirty thousand holders of de Steck mode such o transfer to a new oor pany, also dead, it would mean 560 to the organizers in transfer fees and ¢ penses—n nice littl bank roll, No, he figured that a man wHo woulds no business peewee. Several of these mergers were onganise and the suckers gently milked again. The liked it too. There was a novel enjoymes in looking at tha new stock oortificetes: a in importantly placing them in a safety depot vault or maybe the old trunk, The Tipping Bureau The main support of the sucker trim mers, the ease with which they can work, it the fact that no one understands stock speculation. They meas will, To the average pergon it is always a mysterio way of making money without working or it, There is no real difference between th facetrack wucker nod the stock-marke aucker. Just a different form, that’s all Always it is the proepect of getting money without working forit. Nobody ever sop te think who pritluces the money to krep these inatitutions goin, At the outset f mentioned that I bed re been a towk, I was for a stort time Ws My turn of mind was to etay in th Office and take my bit in ecermmissiom. | have seen the suckers taken, though, and their minds work on the race track post 2 when going after n eecrct oil stack, Lacted a8 busines nianager for a tipper bureau once, It was run by o forme! jockey, The business was to sell tips on tht heei—ont ieest bets. Thi poke, al CMITHE, Was au p ter ise on the ina ~ wise aaa treeful of owls. His explanation af the fact that he didn't make all tle money for himself was that he njedind out sider to help hin finanee the big killing. They fell for it easily. We advertised in the newspapers and did a gieel business selling tips on the diy racing cards, ‘These tips eoat anjeber from two to five dollura. We bad lots o subscribers. Sometimes our tips would win, Lf they didn't it could always be plained as a bad rile, change of weather o sormething. : Qur main killings were made by mbbirt up suckers whom we sized up a hee gootl-sized launk rolls, : One day Ll admitted a prospersce-lookng man to the presence of the forme jocst who occupied a back office, very primi “The ordinary card is pretty god,” the jockey told him, “but we've got a Ya) apecial thing on that must be pulled af in a hurry, Juat how much would yoo & willing to bet on a good thing?” "Well—why, I've a coup of huedred to bet." “Oh,” smiled the jockey, “that's ea the question, We can't tik Now if you could bet five hundred-"h (Continued oa Page 113)

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(Continesd from. Page Tio) pou Tealige that we'we got to fix cer ee lot of detaile? showed the man a Ver clastr: y and let him touch it, gage owl" laughed the jock “Ti that 1you jump like that. at a do you wh nk put he horace? This horse ry + he stir Kien an gets sulky and we man bet his five hundred. The ran second. The man came in to see rent =e. not angry though. fhy. said the jockey, “thatis the et piece of luck that ever hit a guy ¢ world, I'll say it broke me I ed im my whole bank roll on it, A ¢ like that wouldn't happen again in a hat was it—what went wrong?” wey. would you believe it? Just 2 ockey p the button on hie saddle we the old nag the final jolt, that other e @Wtrved against him and—T'll be qoned if the wire didn't break and oar nection." [id you claim a foulT" ssked the cet anxious, THE SATURDAY EVENING “Cloim ao foul? Why, man, don't you | know if we'd claimed a foul and the judpe had examined that saddle we'd have all been ruled off the track and put in jail?" That fellaw camé in the next week to go in an another killing. A month later, not- withstanding his loses, he bought an in- bets in the concern. ing ¢ to give o lithe advice, in the pe peliet , that not a single sucker iid playr the a aie test attention to what I Tindees you have more than a thousand dollars don’t invest in anything bess secure than a government bond. ont a sl big fellows can afford ta gamble, cide to put in an order for stock ath ‘until hueve enough ta deal with a brok eT ape | af gtanciing: one that your banker would recommend, for inatance. Stay away ae ‘race-track bookmakers unless hatha ord to bet for fun—not prodit. isn't aft ‘the curds for you to make a living trimming men whoee profession it a) to trim you. | I say this in the oa that I may help | some young sucker before he is ripe, The | eqinmed aucker—well, he will go to the crack of doom. Old Paul had it right. THE UPRISING GENERATION (Caatinged frem Poge 30) arrow Becluded one He leaned toward pand dropped hia hand to my shoulder, ad ast mat that instant Tot Romney's low Podulleter, with Tot driving and Sylvia ih bet aad Mary Gale on the outrigger, ee dashing around the corner. Taey gave a cheer when the fm snatched away his arm, an vided a smash, They saw that too, And didnt moind, idiot I wos! Beeause w they would have to belleve anything told them about Gran’s crush on me. They were gone out of sight in another gu but the meeting had oa funny effect Lene Lo eo hee: and : gained my point, do you see eckly 1 ea affair with Gran, in the git of my Sheik and of course I was trough, so 1 demanded to be taken back, mt smay—look here!" sald Gran. ‘Could we go over to the club for tea? Theyre playing the Diamond Cup finals rou know, There'll a mob, Came on Alter all, what harm, 2. t eaid I. “I want to go home. I javen*t seem that cup, but I don't care showt it anyhow. | think it is awful of Mr. Sartelle to give a gold cap incrusted with ewels for a challenge trophy! Disgusting inacd taste! “Well, look here!" said Gran, awfully keen. “When am I going to see you uzain— tonight? “OE course You will!" sail TP. “I"m coming to the dance with G. G. Third. hut you can cut in right away. Hoya like that bere me terribly f"" “Tighto!"’ wan all he said, “And by a ‘ou're all wrong about the Dia- end Ci. lt Lf abies really. I aap xin chia you know, I play nursemaid, and Sen is bed every night, Hut I'll beep it out of the safe and show Lt te you thas evening: 1" “AU right," said I. “But don't be sur- pee, ot I steal it to get myself out of rk Then we laughed, and I ran inte the Warden. Just in time, too, for I could see roe afar that mother's limousine waa stop- ping in front of the house, That evening | climbed inte my perty cloths with more pleasure than | had dane lot a long while, I really conaider it re- markatle that I can still find a tertain amount of fresh, almost girlish pleasure in the propect of a dance. toura: I om Baw Us, narrowly very careful to conceal this fact, aa it would look eo eilly. But T almost danced in i preganrse while Celeste got me into a chy petal gown of orchid chiffon that un ee me like a loose Hower. 1 was ing arse thes nahhck and enjoying my ap- yw peo mot marched th ts iepect ma before I slig a i tuking you ta t she WW “C0. Third,’ aaid I. “That's nice,” said mather. “He's a darby. DL like to have you go with him, itoble age, wd they ore “He's a flathead!" I said tartly. “All ta heal ere in his feet)" way, @ clube" "He ia a very dealralile young man from avery point of view—every!" said mother in that. perfectly transparent mid-Vicborian | manner of bers. “1 om glad to see you | A him, dear"! “Tdon"t ene him: Fight ie elf!" said I, “Mother, there is no earthly use in your keeping up speak delicate subs ints aboul my murrying 4, (i., T woulda’t marry tle pour fish of he wos the lagt man on earth!" "Pot," anid mother gently, “I wouldn't | try to influence you for the world, dear— | but they ure such desirable people. And I'd like te see you settled," Celeste had left the room by now, and mother came over and put ber hand on my anm confidentially. : “Listen ta me, Pet!" said she, "This alternoon T heard something about Gran- vile Mesinger paying you ot ii of attention— L hope there ia nothing in that, "No, withing!" anid I, awfully annoyed. "And if there were—good heavens, where's the harm? Marriage needn't make a man a—a hermit, peed itt" | “Pet! said mother in a tone which | made my name sound like 1 aathing but an endearment—"Pet! I forbid your having bene todo with that Messinger man! z ou don"t obey mé Dll speck to your ather! "T tell you there ia nothing bn it!" T aad angrily. And just then Celeste came back to say that Or, G. was waiting, and so, grabbing up my clonk and fan, | made my Pca pe. The club looked wonderful that night, and the dance waa o apecial one, ig 3 eld in celebration of the tennis finals, Gi. G. Thi teld me on the way aver that Rose mere had won and that we would keep the ppmpae SPs He waa awfully keen about it tan, Everybody seemed to be cackling about that cup and 1 to be interested in it—Little dreaming how violently concerned with the darned thing I was eventually to Well, the clubhouse was a blaze of glory when we got there, and it wos going to be | some party, I could gee that. | I felt full of pep when I joined Sylvia and Tot in the dressing roam, where they kidded me enviously alaut Gran. Well, the party that night was a riat! Never have I seen such a jam as turned out, and the gathering was considerably mare than daznp, There wos the tennis championship ta celebrate, you see, and from the very first toddle, which Gran iessinger cut im on ext tremely promptly. I got more of a whirl than I'd had since my caming-out ball, and I'm not exactly unpopular either I wasn't hung up once all evening. Later in the evening I discovered that Ciran was getting pretty well lit up, and | was Televed when ofter a few blundering he tel that we stop dancing d that he show me the Diamond Cup. may hid it in the trophy room," he said, "They locked the room for the night ot | POST 113 SETH THOMAS SSR EPARATIONS all made—every- eWel thing started on time—by a clock || that was fifteen minutes slow. So #4 the guests are met with apologies and an embarrassed hostess has her evening spoiled. One hundred and nine years ago something happened in America that made such embar- rassments forever needless. In that year Seth Thomas began making accurate clocks. Stop at a jewelry store today and ask the Jeweler to show you Seth Thomas Clocks. He likes to show them and to tell how many have POT Out from his store into homes of good taste,-and how seldom they ever come hack for repairs. rmay Wedding rte nem man of gen! puagrimt An excellent clack Plain-or Adince movement Srrikes in. a handsrubbed mahoatty case, hour and halt:hour ono tich cathedral pone. Prices fram S27 bo 845 Cores [t is a=] pay Be inches lcm uy SETH THOMAS

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T said gayl I didn't mind going off the floor, pecaiais the party was petering out a littl by naw anyway, And so, tucking my arm in | Gran's, we started along the corridor to the far end of the ¢ lubhruse, Now our country club is the finest on Long Island, and although tt has no livin quarters it is an immense bruilding with everything else in the world in it, and the Ly roam is on the ground floor in a wing way off buy itself racing on a very quiet part of the grounds. IT mean there is no driveway or path running near it, but only | shrubbery and that aort of thing. The room itself is awfully unusual, but | a eeoe sd el » having been built espe- to hold tlhe clink Lrapuhices, ind mo | forth, There are compartments for these, wile rth heavy glass doora that lock, sunk inta he wails between the three windows which overtook the grounds, This room is proc- tically a gate deposit, but well cameu- Alm with nice comfy chairs and carved panels and ceiling and so on, and you'd never think it wes a sort of vault, to look at it. Druring the day it is ig just a part of the clubhouse, ene one can smirke of read, pe ie mii night bey lock the heavy coor inte thar because there really ig a whale of a lot te stud in there— the Dalton trophy, and no end of cupe and things, which would require a truck to move off, With a good deal of fumbling Gran used hia key. Tnelde it was awfully dark and terigus, You know how welrd a fa- Tulinr rem tan seem at night. It gave me i gh sinsition for a minute, like Wind from a temb or something, tntil > @ CWHEES @ © Gran awitched on the light, and then tt was just the trophy room—as commonplace and | POLSSUTIing 2B you please, } ** Dio re— 1" m supposed to have this put in the safe," said Gran, going over to one of the glass eupboards, “but I kept it out to show you, aa [ promised." “That wis dear of you!" said [. Gran took one of these big shin ae that come fram jewelers aut of £ | board and put it on the table between. the two lampe. Then he took the cup fromm it } and ave its flannel nightie. I gave ed when [ saw it. RBealhy, it was o lallapalooza—a peach! Standing about a foot high, it was os Ep thas and lovely as if it had been made hat ald [tulian chop Cellini, and like some of his things it was all covered with a beautiful igh and foerusted with awe Of course it was a perfectly ridica- ous thing bo use os a tennis trophy, but aside from that it wos a wonder, <Ads it atoad there rellected in the dark wood af the table, catching the light and throwing it back like 2 prism, it seemed almost alive. i clasped my hands and squealed with lear ““There—look here now, didn't © tell you it was a pip?" said Gran, coming around to my side of the table and seating himeelf beside meoon the couch, “It's as unique and lovely as you are!" His eyes fastened on mee and his hand slid along the sofa and covered one of mine. Then be tried to kiss me, He smelled hor ribly of whisky and stale cigarettes ond o faint perfume that he wees, My very soul went sick with terror, but I couldn't seream—L coulin’t breathe, even—and in af instant, like a fosh of ry dg I knew I hated Gran, that © loathed itt. Itaeemed hours that T fought him off, but I suppose it was only a moment. Then he saw [ really meant struggle, and let mega. The instant be loostned his hal | ehoved him back upon the couch and left him all rumpled up in one corner, while I ran for the door, It was locked. I turned on him furiously, panting with fear and anger, With my buck te the doar Teommanded all my atrength to make that red-facecd pig ahey me, “Spain this door at ance," will seream!" “Seream sour head off!" snid (ran, iekeiinge himself up with an tighy lank on bibs face which changed him entirely, He was no more like the cynical frivelous Gran I had known then, than anything! He wos i stringer, *Seroam vour head of!" anid he, “ NSabendy will hear you out there! Cat i even Ipeor the muse?" istened intenth:. He was ep could hear the orchestra, but only faintly, | And if I did scream, what then? [ shid, “or I

peril 14 “Tf you didn’ 'tmean it why did ve V7" he said, “Look re—I'm gu teach you a leson, ou little foo! going to teach you mot to play With you don't understand —ace? We had moved away from the dom La af came see at sc ig of waa is face otill ugly are pou © and wit} horrible sneer upon it. Wan @ quicl ture he unlocked it mnd stood for y stant with his hand on the knob. 4 to leave you lock irl Lee D “Te'll give you 2 char think!" And with that he wae gone, closin door after him. IT heard him lock it a outside, as I steod there abso paralyeod with fright. Then dus came to my senses, TM head was | enough now, heaven Knows, snd [ bega reason thimga ot. The first thing I did was to try the, to make sure Gran really had locked it “Hut T thought ineredul won't leave it that way long. War. can't! He wouldnt dare! ne rel a hackand let meoutaoon. He's just ty Meas me. and I ron BF Filer f" Oo] made sit down again on big couch, and tried Lo compose ma But I didn't doa very good job. Icou sit stil, Very distantly I could bear! miuale from the ballroom rising and fall in faint throbs, I seemed utterly cut from the world in that quiet room. And time slipped by and Gran didn*t come by it began to be rather horrid. I looked my Wrist watel, Carter of two! Wi the crowd would be going home pret soon now, and then he would have toca and let ma out! But another fifteen minutes tieked am and still he didnt show up. I 5 to renily worried. Suppose he had anc drink or two, 29 was more than likely, ar thet forgot all abowt me "Nonsense !"* 7 told m a sii "Buck old girl, he can't forget a thing like the He'll be back in a minute, or G. G. mi cot: looking forme. Why, this ean't le auch longer!" Then | remerbered with a little chill ts I had expresaly forbidden G. G. to do thing of the kind, and with this though came a sharp wish that the day of erone was back again so that oonde! have happened tame. Then I laughed am tried to comfort myself with the though thet T was most certainly heaving 2 ml adventure, But semehow I did awfully wish mother had eome along te this bate ful dance, and the adventure failed pari ir me in the least. 5 a taal & quarter paat two I began to thin that the interval since the Inst dance had been unusually Jong, and in five minule nore T realized that the orchestra would not play again that night. Then I began‘ hear cars leaving the club. Their honkng cikita te net, Peiomn wP from the extrem opposite end of the buildin wet sire = driveway several hun The party was aver and ia rt ra come back! I grew absolutely frantic, as! fst onto pel door peared ont with my ste ane om with all my “Let me out! th all any aT ered But IT might as well have saved m7 strength. Apparently nobody heard o although I kept it up for goodness heey how Jong, with intervals of letening [or some response, listening weelessiy, Then I thought of the windows Iw so stupefied that I had not thought of then before, I would climb out and bega lifts somebody’ car before they all got arty Great gomlness, but thoae whoever heavy! There was only one that I cul munage to unlock, and wien 1 had ge? al and Lifted the sash, I fond an ir soaker Eig sd of thane ee sa things auch aa shops put up at H to my horror I saw that it was locked wi! some kind of fastening that [ ona understand, The more I tried too the Jess DT equld, | only sues i bruising my" fin badly, I ervached 0 the sill, rum and wretched, a tie of the cars went away and a arent dilence fell, Then I heard ia moise wuls the building, and sat up to liste: Thunder! Crash after crash. And thet the rain came, aweeping and mititl aguinst-the iron shutters, [ closed the#r dow and went back to my plese a * | sofa, What was ther use of strugglitt! was Worn out—simply exhausted. Thee was no bell in the room, and oo ber telephone: T had made gure of the. (Continaed on Page Ife!

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Seven Models $2.50 to $05, i THe SATURDAY EVENING POST (Continced fram Pog Ia) With every nerve raw T curled up on the lounge and sat miserably blinking at that gleaming golden cup, which sen to wink at ove mockingly, wotll T cried like a litthe girl, and almest broke heart over the silly fool T had been. With a ort of open- ing af my mind | saw what a rotten way I had been looking at life, and how badly, dangerously, [ had been behaving! Lote af things mother had said aver and aver about what she called good behavior, and that I had thought so silly and old- fashioned, came back to me with @ mew minning, aed L hepan to understand them. begun to realize, too, thal there were reasons for lots of conventions that I hed called antiquated, and that probably they were the result of people's experience — muilybe some expt riences like the one [ was having. ‘And then, ata little before three o'clock, when I felt aa though I just simply couldn't stand anything more, there waa a terrific crush of thunder, und a moment later the lights went out. How Jong the room was in darkness I don't know. Tin may exhaustion T must have fallen asleep, because the next thing that To knew clearlhy 1 was sitting bolt upright and listening intently to a sound that had nothing te do with the storm, The room was etill pitch black, but somewhere close by I could hear a stealthy noise, It wos like inp using © key, very qqubet] and uncertainiy, Moy heart early stop : but after a moment | knew it wasn't a key. The sound came from the window, Someone was trying to brenk in. L eoulkdin"t move. 1 couldnt make a sound. My heart started pounding ao hard that [ felt as if it would burst out of mor bady. Slawhy and aofth: T heard the win- dow raised and a faint thud os the person who had opened iteantered. ID clenched my hands ght but I could not atir. The rownd disk af a pocket light jumped out of the darkness, and danced about the rou, touching everything, it seemed, except me, as the owner moved swiftly away fram the window, searching the walle, and finally lighting full upon the Diamond Cup, Ag it Mashed into view there was. a smothered exclamation fram the intruder. “The cup!" he said. “What luck!" On the tant I found my voice and screened, and a9 I did so, as suddenly as they had gone out the bghts came on again, an ft found myself looking inte the ba of w revolver. Ti teak me a full minute te realize that the burglar waa moat awfully surprised at seeing nee. He hadn't expected to Gnd any body there, | gucss, exeeph perhaps & night watchman, and he hadn't taken the trouble bo eater hie face with a handkerchief, the way burglars are aappoael to, He didn't even look very much like a burglar, exeept for the gan in bis hand, for be wos a pay: fuced young man, with cheap shabby flothes, and one would not have glanced at him twice unless he happened te be point- ing a revolver atone, As it was, I pot o good Jong look—and believe me, [ will never forget bir! “Hold up your hands!" said he, back- lng toward the door and trying the keh, A wave of amazement swept over his face as he didso, “Loerked!" he said. “Well, don"t try La open il! Stay as you are, and don't yelp again or [0 ahoot!"" He came over to the table now, and seized the Diamond Cup, never abibs either his eye or that drewlful gun ol me, Then he backed to the open window, through whieh the firet faint streaks of dawn were now shining, amd knelt beside a allittase on the Aoor, KRoasyang me eovened still, he opened the hag with one hand and pul the cup inde. Then be ateod up aml made me a sarcastic little low, “Tnheard-of tuck! he said. “The Sartelle Cup and the pleasure of your we- quuintance—thank you for a couple of lensant surprises! Now just oblige hy eeping that mae. Good morning!” He stepped backward out of the low wine dow and vanished from sight, while [ stad there with my lands aver my head and ry mouth ao dry with fright that my tongue stuck to it. The whole thing had only taken a very few minutes, but to me it seemed like hours. Then ot lost [ perenne tena that I could move; that I needn't stan there it that silly podition any longer, And what was even more imps tant, | realised that the window wus still agen — 0 could get aut! Honestly, when that registerel on my | tired brain f didn't think of a single other Afpril is, © thing. All [ wanted in the world wast!) home. Tf only I could get home and ¢ into my oan bed and cry mayaelf to gl I never even remembered there must wiichman somewhere about and ¢ ought to give the alarc!? Tf I lad but eo What a lot it would have saved But I only saw the open window. tuck up my hair before I stuck my aut of tt, though, and po my f cally, Queer, how instin too, mechuni that wos, Tf thought of my nose matically, but [forgot about the watch Outeide the daylight was stronger all the time, and the rain | stopped. [looked enutiously about stepped out of the window onto the g but there wae no one im aight. And just ran and ran, like a crazy thing, @ the broad wet lawn and through the =) hen to the public rond way; and ther all people in the world, whe should along ih his car bot G. G. Third, his hair all askew, and his comt turned up hide his evening clothes, Maturally, », he sew me he stopped, “Pet Torrington—in the name of Ha what are you doing here?” he said. “Oh, G. G.! Dwe had such a tercil night!" | gasped, climbing inte the beside him, “For heaven's sabe tebe home—cquick! Take me to the east 2 Ive got to Oh, if only anybody knowing! fund like a silly cries En. “Lucky thing for you T played poby over at Dickey Howe's!" said G. a} dant like this—not half! What hare ya k ip to, Pet?" But 1 wouldn't tell him. I just simply couldn't. AIT could do was ery in sper, G. 1G. wasn't very comforting, T must aay, bat ter lid deice me bore aevel let mee out at the litth: cast gate. “Thanks, G. G.!" T managed to gas, “TH—T'll explain al] about it sometine! If only [ can get in before the -serrans in without their seeing p can get in and to bed withoy Oh, G, Gv" fool I broke down oy are up" Weil, [ got in before they were up, ol right, ‘There wasn't a soul in the ea that sort of reproached mie, it looked se fresh and wet and bright, Nor was enyon stirring in the quiet house, The stain aquenked dreadfully, no matter how mee fully C walked, and it just seemed az if [ would never reach my room. Hut at be Tdid, and threw open the doar with a spo af reliel, And there wos mother, waltirg in a dreming gown, and very wide awale indeed, “Patl" said mother, getting to her feet in a mixture of relief and annoyance. “Do you know that it is nearly six ‘o'clock! Where have you been?" “Atthe club, mother," said I. And there was something in her manner that ems diately made me sound confused and guilty, And 0 guess [ looked pretty dre fully too, “I've been at the club untila few minutes ago.” { Of course that was a foolish way to begir my explanation, but To wes too tired te realizsn how anxious mother wiki, oF queer my statement aeemed to her. “Nonsense!” said mother, "You have not been at the chub, The diatece was ove at two o'clock, Your father telephoned “But, mother "LT began protest ingly. She cut me short. "Pet Torrington!" she said seveny “Tt will be much simpler for you to tell me the whole truth, Oh,-«my aear, ha always said that this wild freedom be pel insiat upon would have some drentlul end ng!" “Mother, [tell you [ve been af be club!” I said. My fatigue disappeared nnd [ felt awfully todignant at eine que tioned in that tone, “I've been at the club: T was locked in the traphy oom. by— by accident!" . “Locked in the trapha room?" repeat mother, “And pray, how did you oe aut?” "A hurglar let me out!" [ subd. "A burglar! suid mother, “My der child, do you expect me to believe sucha story? You are accidentally locked in Ht trophy rocm, and an obliging: burgler tute up and lets you cut, And then, neste! 0: nrousing the household as soon as you here —ond ae the way. you havent mer tioned how G. G. happened ta be on tle spot to bring you home—insrs nrvusing the hweeheld, wow vl quiet up toe your own room? AO likely Now, Pet, there bb no uae jm siege (Canifimed on Page 175)

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toatinead #freaee Page re) ave te. You are holdi A g—what is it? ‘mg something a rae =I telling you the mi I cried. Bon’ t look see like i, mother! Tl tell you all sbout it! peny Messinger locked me in! There!" ‘But why?" eaid mother, with such a betic, Worried look im her eyes that I a “i tdoewn and told her the whole ¥ toned down a little, about how on a ag d fool and led him on, and rhe'd got drunk and angry and locked in the trophy room, and the rest. gher listened quietly, but although I was fully earnest about jit, when I'd got wagh T could see that while she wanted mdfully te believe me she didn't—not ie, Amd T couldn't blame her entirely use as T told it the whole thing anreal and silly that I sort of doubted it reef anc, got to furnbling about for words d sounding sort of false and artificlal, eT tio a Wn LF. “Well, dear, that is a most extraordinary cital!™ said mother when I finished. odhy lewew what to think, I'm sure! You Eng People are entirely beyond me. wh a thing simply could not have he ened ue muy day. and I hope it will anti I shall have to tell him, ct arse. At any rate we can do nothing euE Tt past now. You had better get a rhe sh , my child.” Amel with that she left me, sadly, But! ifm t sheep. Onstend I lay on my bel and 4a alwout and wished to goodness | was 28 com rent or some place where the alder Oran pats simply made you behave! 1 ‘herd never come aut. I wished vas dead! But meet of all I wondered my om @arth I had ever thought it would ¢ delightful to be wicked. After awhile I mildm"t stand it, so I got up and had a wh anmed put on a crisp pink ee to ee ree courage: and believe me i because alter breakfast, which was nat sacthy 2 lowe feast, with mother tearful ed father grimly silent, and my married iter Poosmmeond, who had apparcat — fnumomed for the inquest, sweetly perior: well, after breakfost they herded me imte the library closed the door, and sat solemnly Kokin at eee aa if T were ior strange new kind of animal, while ihew peuade me tell my story all over again. We hem [ got through dad ta his vest vith his eyeghese and pu Aa! juat a if Pt were a directore’ meeting, a Was ifimancial problem. But at least he didn't get by jen), Gke mother and Rosamond, * said dad doubtfully, “this is the eee + a story! I'd like to believe the rhildl, and in justice to her we ought to fawe Balessinger over. That's onby fair. alwaears thought the fellow was a rotter, anyhow. Hoaraven. incidentally, there's the DHiamend Cup. ‘He's res ibbe for it, amcl he will have to get ‘a evidence sooner or later, Better hore the whole tasty business over at once, Carre, will you telephone and ask him te come here a quickly as possible? Don't say what for; jaat ask him ti come,” “Wer well," said my mother, “I will, ast as you wish, Edward. I'm sure you ero 1 will never forget that awful half hour of waiting, When we all sat around and, like anal farnous parret, Ehought but hard apes _ [ was miserable as could be bl tried to appear aloof and indifer: utinwardly [was wretched. Anyhow, ir would certainiy be a great comfort to have Gran clear me and set the family's mind at ret, And just aa T had reached this cheering conclusion and my aplric had begun te come back, Porker announced the Mesmingers. Bo get that? Mr.and Mrs. Messin- ger! U1 say 7 hadnt counted on bag pote. § Ung in an @ HOG: fd, hor Wan er to, either! But there she wae, her serous eager face darting quick locks around fram under a big lavender hat that sivas a bit monies and koe at an tage aye on Gro, He was all aved and white Tinneled, but looked pretty seedy around the eyes ‘after hia last night's Lal ot a ye, he had the nerve to iest an if nothing at frat Son he waa However, that wo onl Towne What I did, I could see i phen eicard thin manner he was terribly nervous, and if Vivian kept an eye on hits he was wateblng Set anaigusly too. Everybody knew how much afraid of his wife Gran was, and when laaw them come in ther that wa i, fave me a sort of lout fecling, even the spake. THE SATURDAY ial | thought I'd just Tun over wilh Gran,” aid Vivian in that polasnous sweet way of hers. “It seemed 20 unusual, his dropping over here this early—I wanted te be in on whatever it is! Shoe laughed sharply, und looked 1s all over in turn, with those swift h glances of hers. a sweet of you, dearl” mother muur- mured automatically, and then we all sat about for a moment in @ ghastly silence until father cleared bis throw! and spoke. “Mr. Messinger, lt is necessary for me to ask you a ee important quea- tional’ dad began 2 first ono—ah— is—ah—did you see my dou ughter at the country-club dance lust night Why, eo af course!" sald Gran, bile amaile a lit pale, if you know what I mean. "AL stink fine did you see her last?" dad wonton. “*Plowe be sure, [have a special renson for this question.” _ ahot me a awilt glance before re- Why, yea, F can answer faut, ™ said. bie cas, “Tt was about one a here was she?" sald “dad, leaning forward eagerly. There was a tense gilenee in the room now, Gran hesitated aver #0 aligbtly, and there was a faint fish on his fore “T—Iit was on the front steps of the elub- house,” said he. “She was just leaving with GG. Third.” Leould hardly believe my cars, The raam seemed to be going around, He couldn't ae Said that—le couldn't! But he had. an Fries up his lipe and frowned. Mr a gaanger was watching her busband inten ay Are you sure of that, Messinger?" said *t beclutely !" aaid Gran lightly. “Why not? What on earth are you driving att What's all this wbouwt, anyhow?" His manner was perfect. T never saw anything to equal it. Why, I almost be- lieved him mysell, “Sor hore, Messinger,"’ sai dad, mow terribly serious, “Tl want you to be very of what Vol apt gaylng. A great deal depends on it. Are you certain you did not sea her again after that?” “Certainky !"* mid Grn appareils as Sur pire aa could be, vghe t the club, Ttell you! [ went back to the ballroom and danced for half an hour, and then went | one nyse." “With whom did you dance?” said dad, “With me," said Viviun unexpectedly. | “T came in late from the Weatworths’ digner. We had one dance and went home, | We didn't seo Pet, I'm sure she had gooe, eS I always notices her—she's so very ar! ell, [t wae tao astounding for words! | Sa that wae why Gran hadn’t come back! With a shudder I remembered that it had about ane o'clack when he locked me in! Thia was awful, awfull I tried ta speak, hut I couldn't. “Humph!” eaid dad. “Well, Mr. Mea- singer, how about the theft of the Diamond Cu Phe theft of the Mameond Cup" ex- claimed Gran. “Look here—I say, have you all ne quite mad here bere morning, or mat, os Dinmond Cup hasn't beer stolen, know where [t le this very miament." “T Dies it was etolen from the clubhouse last night,” said my father slowly, “Perfect nonsense!" exclaimed Gran, getting to his feet. “The TMdarmond Cup ia ept in my own safe at might. Tt isn't even aft at the clubhouse. By ovr, | know how you got that iden—you've heard that the trop room window wos fond open this morming. Of course! Great Scott! How suey things apread in a community of | ia kind! The risa telephoned me about it two hours ago. Hut nothin wae in, I assure you. If anyone b they didn't steal a thing. The trophies a all are quite all right—really!" "Then I beg your pardon, I"m sure,” said father, “Mr, Messinger, I am sorry to have brought you aver on a fool's errand. Will you and your wife excuse ual Borme- | thing important came up, and we thought | you could help. But [see there hos been 2 | Mistake somewhere,” Well, thoy oe mis that, And T hadn't | utterd, nh word rotest. To wos too stunned. T felt Le as if T had been hit over the head with a Y each But when they were gone I came to life. [t's nat true, what he sayel™ T eriod. | “Wake him show you ihe cup—dad! mother! Surely you will take Nature and Osteopathy CS UME TL LLL E TPL my word | EVENING POST 119 — Allies oe Gene Pere a ome ATURE is indeed wonderful. This imposing chemical formula describes the composition of the normal coloring matter of the red corpuscles in your blood. With this amazing formula for par- ticles so minute, think how unerring the pre- cision of adjustment that must be maintained in the nermal body! But often some external force—a jolt, a lietle wrench, Or a change in environ- ment—thraws Nature's delicately arranged ma- chinery out of true adjustment, It cannot always recover by itself. A notable example of this is seen in the fracture of a bone. Nature can knit the patts together and is ready to begin the process as soon as the fracture takes place. Bur she cannot do the “setting”. When bones, muscles, nerves or organs are deranged or out of adjustment, there is need of correction. The Osteopathic physician does the setting—or adjusting, as he calls it— and then Nature does the knitting or the curing, The Osteopathic physician contends that Nature's finely combined formulas provide all the curative powers needed by the body. In other words, the introduction of chemicals is unnecessary if Nature is allowed to compound her own prescriptions. Therefore, the Osteo apathie physician, prepared by his four years O pecialized training, seeks to place all parts in order for proper per- formance of their duties. Then Nature imme- diately sets about the curing which she is divinely equipped to do. Csteapathy is the science of healing by adjusters af the beady, more speciically of the spinal column, The Ceteopathic Physician ts trained through foster aep- arate school years of nine months each, in all branches necessary for correct diogmosis and processes funda. mental to healing. 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Breeches in oll Poecipel Cuiee ViSIBLE| WALES ADDING-LISTING-BOOKKEEPING-CALCULATING MACHINES | my telephone, and so I at once proceeded EVENING POST Mpril 15, bg that—my only Weapon, one | t. The first place | enlled wae the station, where i gave @ full descripti the burglar and hing, only ie out about Granny Mieasinger, of « and saying I had beem locked in by againat that man‘atT I'm telling you the a Tam. You must belleve to mame rad we aad wah op ane think!" ssid my dad, walking up and down distressedly while mother one of those old-fashioned, Bitar, into tial handkerchiefs of hers. “Idon't know what dent. \* oS a orang geelaccc ria cine “T think you'd better have that » station, all right. I expect they h idiot G. G, bird over,” put in Ronamond had any excitement like it since | “All right, have him over!" [ mond's dog wns poisoned —and then i “But he's got nothing to do with this. 3 Reeamond whe wat excited. I even of call up Dickey Bowe and osk where G.0. my entire next month"a allowance as ara capture. Of co I didn't have the allowance t, b epg thought the family wo Os an it, no matter what they teved had done. And as nobody else laat night until twenty minutes before ward for the ght me home!" : t by my last sentence. He picked up the telephone, Then be gave waa hoe Father was caugh: the number, And after a few questions he hung up with a puzzled air, ™ child is reported the burglary I hung up with ht," said he, “Dickey Bowe says that oy raselection having: created a ter youn Graithwaite was there from teelve O'clock last night until after five this morn- when | I picked the receiver u called Ted Stonewall. I didm”™ a al pil So that’s that!" how Ted would take It after the ae Phere was a little pause, during which I stood there, sullen and defiant and mad— treated him; but I ought to have pee bons b how mod I was! “Ted,” said I, “this is Pet. I'm *T think you had better go te your room, be" es, T suppose sol’ anid Ted gen! “Tl be right around." Ob, Ted, you're a dear!" I cried. “E m locked in my room. ‘That is, pray ‘ have to sneak out, Be at | ean gute with the flivwer in fifteen m utes, will sou, and walt until [ ahow be “Surel” said Ted. “Gee, you must in wrong to want that!" Ka didn’ Saray bt secu Biacte SF aa & ng up flew aroun ng » made a crawl-alf, aint oa waltd in lane addy Ted and the tin Lig came ratili “Hallo! it aboard!" maid Ted, and hopped in. The divver grownd its feet! away we went. “Drive along the backest back road yo Pet," said mother at last, Wand stay there until I send for you. I want to talk to your father privately,” Weil, of course there was really nothing elas fore to ae te do. Bo [ went up, feeling pret ae I don't mind saying, and ahut Bete tes had I dome ao when the n my sitting room. Aa it dida'tstop attera few minutes I ang answered it, “Pat |" il e ce, “This la For set Pet Siriaas it back! —but bring “Bring what back?" I said stupid “Why, the cup, af eouTae!"* ps voles pe rd “Look here, fae was a fool, childish thing to de! I'll meet you on Ketchen's Point in, half an hour, and Gran. Le a pay your bridge debta you put f it with you.’ ean find, please, Ted," anid I. “I fave haven't get it!" T eaid ineredu- lot to tell you, and I don't want bo: meet | lously. “Gran Mesinger, you beast! Do agg]! Not on the anes account, ly because I must think!" “All right, dear," said he, and fora Gt while wa rode in silence, ‘Ted giving mr al the time in the world to start talking in my own way, which was mighty kind and sweet of him, But sumehow I couldn't begin Not at least until a big yellow roadster eae whirling around the corner. It su Saat cae a , and she via. Glenning And aS We CHG abreast, and had to ol on Rerperinctpeict yy gee tor Ae int I couldn't grasp it, and then all at once I saw things f in a fiash, G. G. Third had bean talking! The beastly litle ead! So the news was around already. But that Sylvia and" Tot, of all should de auch a thing tome! Why, 1 bad expected them i ns simply green wie crazy about my adventure, ne — I couldn't get over it at all; particularly a I was perfectly innocent. Something ree up in my throat and choked me at thi evidence of how conventional they were heart and first thing I lnew I wa eri wildly, and Ted had stopped the flivrer I waa doing it on his heures and blusteg you actually think aie! ae you muat be mad! Ab V0 SUP Pose know porfect | window m ar took it. How on earth do got out of that ream? You well T eouldn't m the 1 And besides, to think: that you dare—oh, it's too terrible!” "Dio actu Mean a burglar took it?” said Gran, “Then ——' Pop are certainly Siena noid Oe as for meeting you anywhere, ever fi, hate you onat will never even apeak to you ap OE aa] live! So there!" flopped 1! with that I hung up, and went and down on the window and aly yv thought me thief, and had tried fir ee Gkcek tie deteat ag family se Me that lie an hour enrlier; to pret mself fram rn wife by saying I ad left before she arrived, Why, no won- der none of them would believe me! I could net. ve that he had locked me in the room: and if I could prove it they wel think I had rapesa 4 the Sartelle Cup! Oh, but T was being well for foolish flirtation. It wasn't a bit of fun te be bad. I had been all wrong about that! It waa ee But what could 1 do now? EB What? I jumped up and : walking out the whole story, frantically up and down, trying to think. “There, or dear!’ he said in bie But [ couldn't think of a except heavenly kind way, “They are a lot of that [ wished te heaven I'd born and stupid beaata not to see you are as inno raised in 1870 or in Turkey. At noon Celeste brought me some luncheon ona tray, but 1 was so wretched that I eouldn‘"t teuch anything except a couple of lamb ¢chopa and some baked potato and a little ice cream. And when they were all gone I seemed to feel better, somehow, and could think more clearly. And then einigen realized mr a wis che person, and one person only, who could clear me of both The bur- glar! I must somehow cate that burglar and foree him to tell the truth! For several minutea after I thought of this [ danced about the room wit him as a kitten" “Then you believe me?" T gasped, “Yo take my word?" “Don't be silly, Of course 1 kad See tec enh tohelp can, oi Le erhal you poor litt .. A SIL 4 area Ge grateful to Ted thal | didn't even mind the sweetie, and a 5 drove on again, through the back ously and over roads where only a flivver cod! go with safety, we laid a lot of plate eatching that thief, and my confides dence 201 pelf-reapect just simply returned in uns then, about twenty-five mils be Then I n to realize that eatehing Might nat valtcguthor éuay in the country on the most awful re. i was depresting, but I refused to let it ea with a ere views, and where # single car and ape Hig ston flivver that if tor pes rain, he me, for 1 wes a desperate woman. How- ate it was certain that [ could not catch parentiy ly tia him alone. I would need help. ra Wes no use in appealing to my family, they bad araasing anclog et Prem . proven that pretty conclusively, I th anit Beret with bitterness. Besides, they tet maine hai ae Fa iE a curt te bidden me to lenve my room, and hatrig should we aee but an overturned ar practically locked in a person's room ia dia- dent fr one which had been tre Tt was lying on {ts sdk a al us, from the tracks in the dee you diner see that it had a tinctly hampering in such a situation. But fortunately they had not as yet removed

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big elm tree that sort of jutted ou roadway. There WES Tot wa drat prarently. (but just the same it gawe rid sick feeling to look at it, (i Seott! What'a ull thia?™ ' ming down and skidding pretty aad ag 3 WEE Bt mesial Waits of rond, f—oh, we saw a foot sticking p beneath the wreck. ‘There was jrnned under ttt ome we stopped at once and Ted fmutand ran to help. 1 felt simply fe words, because 1 can't endure the blood, but © made behave, jright out after him and ran over muse of course I wanted to be of here W258 a man pinned under that wight, and he was alone, but I had round to the far side before I saw jas, and then I nearly died, for the omy burglar—the very same pasty- Tung man who had broken inte the i ba gc was eptiaprs : and the it hadn't improved his appearance, ay that he looked like an angel from (oO tt is putting it pretty mildly. eing metaphorical, of course, because THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ina physical sense he looked almply ghastly, belteg pastier, than ever, with both ings pinned under the car, and one of them, as | we found out afterward, quite broken. He was conscious, though, as Ted bent over him, and as I came up I could hear him say: “Thank God! Say, feller, 1 been here over since last night, and you are the Well, that is as far as he got just then with bis few well chosen remarks. I didn't ive him a chance to foo and thank Ted, a yell I pushed that astonished youn man aside, making a dive for the inju man's right pocket, and coming to my feet with a ahout of triumph and his gun. “Great heaven, Pet Torrington!" gasped Ted. “What is it?” ; “Te's my character!" T ahouted, dancing around and waving that blessed gun— | rather dangerously perhaps. “This ia my chaperon that was with me at the club last night! And there ia his bag. Never mind his yet, Ted—open the bag!" And while our prisoner iny and cursed, Ted tore the suitease open; and there, praise be, lay the Sartella Cup, twinkling and winking up at the brilliant sunlight, To think that I had ever called it names! “Ine Poets’ Corner Ren We Had Our Rights USE, we Boogwemen! Red-nosed men, straged citizens! Lider, then, ie J break your hearts 4o@ tole thot gloris im the F Can Remember Wheat mil end a wonderful might, ang co ive lene and a fighi, rp Sen at tgled Aours — pumas Lhe daya! dnd | devp.s fear br crf grave of that Yealerpecr. mer pou think of the sinful way way tee eon i] cing mma Miges on pred a : ch omce on @ time would have bought good fonmceae eerrieal one, ne'er shake your head! dimae thal pou spend for a loaf of bread dd) Ave bought you a schooner of foaming ret ; he Jogeowa days of a ranished pear! fold » f Bear old sightal in fhe pl when we hod our Highta! ~olden days! Whea ¢ pepe could make terre! of hoock from one ratilernoke, erubber boot and a drug or two, tm a throw; then, deft and briak, mrming a carefree ditty, frivk er Sunday anf from tie do panda w! kick you oul to lie in a trance ed clarp i off in a wise edie irough di jhe gong came rootad arith the ambulerce, her secs fhe days! Them waa the nights! “elost our dowgh ard cur liver and [tghta md an eye or co—bet we hod our Highta, fee, fellow Suckers good and frue! MTunchere a Veter is Colling You! Thunwchere a pegg ia catching cold, Jeo im the md “4 wih eae oe +e u rL: * ‘a lower ote toured commuting sista ra nan, he pensiré sighs, ping his poor Weary eyes fan way of he wonders when sae pet Aim back on fhe job again. Semoll we then endure to behold ie potal “Saal bia weeping rise to the wore in cain? Sracl the poor pegg’s leare, ke the aumener . he Wir « fond thal is cross and crude And warn with the eeeda of ingratifude? "hall we iomely aif by our bank accownt, "ohking if mown and mound and mount? Shell we hold our peace when the Suckers th Tell oer they god if in Gouwcher's Den— Knockou! dropa in their pail of kopa— Back tn the J Ea Raber Whee? Shall we ever forge! sect daya by Whe we mast Khe looted wk rug siaré rye And wake Wife rather poape irate ad 5 eee noae anhen she atoried to Ty Deer dead daya!l Dear dead n tights! Whea the peggs and the Suckers hod (heir Righia! —Lerell Ola Rees. Sheallback (Corrected With apetagias! IVE we the mainsail's bloodalained bani, And night, aad a Werk Cape Horner; The fo'e'alle howds who curse and grunt — Keep pou your chimnty corner! of a bloated aca, You keep the little (hinge of life— AR your prayers pour Apia off prose; Give me the Horner's piercing knife And the hurricanes cwful rage, Cire me my pola, who drunken ga the walchfal crimpa are ang— Lads whom nerer a home shall know Till the genle time of dying. Heep the books ef te wise men's word, And mouth oli their aofl worda orer— Gipe me the eereom of the white seo bird, And my God when mip work te over, == Fil! Adama. 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THE SATURDAY TRADE —- MARK E ! TOOTH BRUSH ~takeTHIS brushinto your -— keep loose bristles out of’ your system!! “every bristle gripped EVERLASTINGLY in hard rubber” 122 RUB ED ad De 1 ete elie keitiettete ete ttit ital itetitittatitetiate test they cant come out! fon] er ee THIELE LEE PaO id Wha Het ke And to the everlasting grip at the butts of the bristles is ADDED the famous “in-between trim" at the tp of every bristle tuft. It is the trim. that science so exactingly devised—that years of use so positively approved—that den- tists so heartily endorse. It is the trim that enables you to clean so thoroughly between the teeth, behind the teeth, and in every nook and crevice of the gums. You will And it in every RUBBEESET Tooth Brush, in every atyle and size and in all stiffmesses of bristic. cet a1 UE Have yoo yet fexxd THE ONE BRUSH that wulte you bevier When oy eter? Les in the gencrou: RUBBERSET seacrt- ment. Tour dealer diced be able io os ig yeni peremtly, Tf hes stock “a Lenited bell aa Pour Geaires i thot bbe ace filfilied iene i its = RUBBERSET | RUBBERSET 1) COMPANY|COMPANY 3) CR. fC. Bin, Prope LikiTED TORONTO, CANADA i (hee Ny J. UAL — -_ ae EVENING POST Apna THE PRINT OF MY REMEMBRANCE {Centinudd from Page IF! Barymore said, “Great! Let's hive another |" This second-story room was let for thres dollars a week, [engaged it when Smythe left toward the end of September. [t wis 1 fine room for the money, being meurly twenty-five feet square and having threo windows at the front. Among ite lew draw- hacks were the simplicity of ite furnishing anf oa rich, permeating odor of [ulin conking, never abeent and especially high at the flood of the gastronomic tides, Barrymore thought that anybody ought bo he able tea write in such rich and retolent quarter, uway from all distractions and. calls, and when the rear room on the sume floor, separated from the front room only by the customary wardrobes and marble washstands of that period, was vacant he rented if at the game price, Cn his first day as a tenant be brought in two regimes of sott printing pauper, tape writer size, and two docen plain wood pen- ils alrendy sharpened and made of a grade of plumbage suggesting shove polish. ‘They hod retailed at ten cents a dozen. He de- elared his intention af starting in the next morning to write a play. But he didn't come that morting or any other morning, His wife predicted that such would he the mae, She aaid their own aparkment, wher- ever it happenel to be, was strewn with stray leaves on coch of which was written, “Act One, Scene One. A Ruined Gorden." Some five of alt years later, when 0 had built a home and was living at New Ro- ehelle, Barrymore came out one night te read a play he had completed, We had to explain the burst of laughter that greeted him-from my wife and me as he began to read, “Act One, Scene One. A Ruined Garden.” Not only did Barrymore never work in that Twenty-filth Street room but as fur as I know he never came to lt but NILE. This fallure to use the room i not os tonishing when wt remember Barrnymeore’s way of living then. Rather than afore hes four or Ove trunke of valuable costumes which he was apt to need ob a moment's notice, he kept them in o little hall bed- room on Twenty-eighth Street ina hoe managed by o Mira. Higgina, The room also contained a little iron bedstead and washstand. Barrymore never cceupied it, hut to disagreenble: persona hie gave it mH his address, Mra. Higgins was instructed to say always that Barrymore had just gone mut, and occasionally some wastrel transient, on an order fram Barry, slept there, In conjunction with one or tea actor friends, he had a flat on Fourth Avenue, I think thls was really the place where he preferred to sleep and to get his breakfasts, Mrs. Barrymore wos tra velin with the Crane company at that time, and when she came to the aty Barrymore took an apartment Ww ith her at samo obel, During one of these engagpements ther joint address waa the old Sturtevant House, ao that with the room bucle of mine Barry mare quite honestly bad four private address, Chee blizzard night, walking away from The Lamba Club on Twenty-sixth Street, L was stopped by a shivering boy of twenty who seked for a dine to pet a bed. I tool him with me, showed him into this buck ronm. ‘The boy looked at the-sofn. "There?" Four Homes, but Mo Bed I said “Mo,” polated to the roomy and well-furnished bed and left him stammering his thanks. About three o'clock in the morning | was waked by somebody striking momatch and turing on the pad. Barry- mare, dripping fram the storm, ston in the middle of the floor. He nodded to the back room and snid, “What's ofl this in thoretT™ After collecting my thoughta- a moment T ‘sald, “That's a litth philanthropy of “Woll, where am 0 te sleep?" “What's the matter with the Puwurth Avenue flat? There was some frend here. “What about the Sturtevant House Thre ys ricire: anid, “Ethel -ig aver fram Philadelphin te visit her mother, wad T've edn turhedh ail,” “What about the room at . gins?" 7 ¥ “King Hall has that this week *: I couldn't help Inughing at ti of America’s favorite ent pp. with four apartment for which hi Ing rent and mo place to. sleep, 5 aud, “LT don't Anow what yo te de, eld man” "T do” } He shed his outside clothes and, bed with ma, h Burrymore at that time was pl’, onéact piece, A Mam of the Worl ously referred to as the contrits | fused for publication when offers | my reportorial duty on the Post-[ ' Somewhat dissutisfied with his of ties at ae Madison Square The Wie conaiderng AM t under the management ot j . MM. Ha casting about in an fort te d 1 un play that would show to best the Harrymore qualities. Bly with him and the little circle this time put a decidedly mew my way of thinking of thea Barrymore hed written and Helena Modjeka a story of walled Nadjeda, which in the many had been handicapped ity of its dramatic incidental It of thot kind that he wanted Somewhere from the Siouwth newapaper item of tag meé fought a duel. by drawing Lots | with the understanding that the got the marked cand wae to mui and other incidents coming to tion at that time, oll equally bizarre, combined to make a story 4 under the tide of Reckless Temple, | mitted to Barrymore and Hill, and, by their enthusiaam, wrote in that Tq fifth Strect roam, The Old Lambs Club a had ty becom a apse al ambs. At the clubhouse [ passed | than half the time I permitted mysela from my writing, The Lambe was the its fifteenth year, and contained the element in the profession, It wea honor, privilege and @dueation to ba exived on equal terms by its then meri ship, a total professional number af hundred, which included such men em ter Wallack, Dian Boucicault, Stole dl kaye, Murk Smith, Robert G, Inge Otis Skinner, the Halland brothers, Edmund and Joseph, and others wort the standard that these memes Inte A table d‘hte dinner wae served fori cents at the large club table, where tbe, were like members of a family. ‘Thet a notable musics) contingent end of between courses the popular song? af time. The gayely of such youn Harry Woodndl, Cyril Beott Frit liams, Franc Carlyle amd Wed Bel memorible as the wise él of mek 1 Steele Macknye and Frank Maya wed: GeO TAOS nid wnecone d ome of these small dinners [ began acquaintane: with Otia Bkinner. came in froma trip on the road, 9 with shouts and hifted glosses the place on the impromptn Li ite it he stood in the anil a elu] the men's demand recited ‘éeunge We Wee Twenty-One renatber Se Eich plate o wire, LLOOTEn=lOoRL Youngs: eentinvent with which E read “lio, BF waa a cary phie”™ f | The Lambe was then at 34 Wart Tet sixth Street, between Hrosdway and Aqwonue: story, twenty-livetoot-fromt ‘bevernlec* dwelling with high stoop, unde wii u basement entranee, It ‘was He & joining howses in oxternal Tovaks and re similar buildings on the north sit oT street, Those respectable nmghhet 4” with diatrust, Leaving The La” woking enst to Broadway yoo Th ih st. Janus Hotel on the oem a other side of Broadway wae Den running through the short block tT) Avenue, The black waaand cae Ls vause these two great thorough ‘Cantiaced om Page UM tized byic “

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124 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April i | Story of Appetizing Appeal Let Tak-hom-a Biscuit tell you a story that words cannot express. When you open the package, the light, golden color invites you to eat. Fill a plate with these Sunshine Soda Crackers and serve with the soup. Their crackly crispness and even, fresh flavor fulfil the promise of their tempting appearance. Leave them on the table and watch them disappear all through the meal. And when the table is cleared, how few cracker crumbs you will find. Tak-hom-a Biscuit, the Sunshine Soda Cracker, Tak-hom-a Biscuit splits-in-two without is sold only in packages with a ted wrapper crumbling. From t on eh args a he Thousand Window Bakeries Bakers of Sunshine Biscuits Branches in Over 100 Cine __ Digitized Dv tap a”

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Cer tino from Page 332 s me blocks farther sana: Eust Re % placa Made bay their inter- ane Park called ison Square. ogc foun =r im the center and the atst commer, 7S Farragut on the ing thin acy rene beautiful OTL wll four sides in et SUEReSting curvature of bave eyes and never to see the sky is (slowly and unconsciously immersed itter. Where no vision is the people bh. and the vision of this nation is born nourished and reinforced and sus- @ from modest houses that are de mo and which face four ways to the and from which men and women @asy angle at the sky, Sarmeone has her than this and said that a view horizon is necessary to the sanity of eee. In thirty-three years Industry a eapital I has tarn down the old ionico’s, the old St. James, the Worth Hofman houses, the Fifth Avenue ad and the handsome homes of modest bt. and replaced them with cubes of the ‘eimg kind that make central New ki 4 Fel ag of box cafions, i 188 adigon Square had just won a Union Square, nine streets farther hh, ite claim to be the theatrical center. as the amart and modern spot, although a of the actors of the comic-page, fur- med intensity still haunted the older te. Amd at Fourteenth Street there Stil] considerable theatrical power and sation. Under the old Morton House 4. Ail sta) managed the Union Square THE SATURDAY amt fon ciecnt of the day; of Louis N. Megurges, newspaper writer of Philuticl- phia and New York, all intimate [riends of the talented Moses F, Handy of Clover Cluls celebrity. This picture had the kind of draft and indluence of Maxtield Parrish's Old King Cale, painted in after yeara for the late Knickerbocker Hotel café, with the difference that King Cole carne from the nursery with the reputation of having quite meleasly ond in dead: role expr hia preferences, whereas the St, James trio dopemied entirely upon the law of aaaocia- live suppeestion, | ; bia Pte dati adage aaa ellow strongly Filgesling In appearance | former United States Senator J. Harnil- ton Lewis, though Dunn was rather a alent peraon. He had, however, killed o man with a revolver. Another sport was Pat Sheedy, who managed John L. Sulli- | van. Lt was in that saloon, the siory Fun, that when Sullivan ba to beat wp | Sheedy with his fists Sheedy, not un | pared for the attention, had nh derringer ayzinet Sullivan's body and asked him nat ta re, Brass Rail Conferences | Some politicians came there. General Sheridan—Silver-tongued George, wu his Republican friends called him—lived in the bobel. On the next block south fram the Se, James was the Hodiman Howse calé, perhaps the finest in the warld, The prietor woe the handsome, melanchely, gray. haired Med Stokes, who had killed Col. Jim Fisk on account of the notoripua Josie Mansfield, [bk wus anid Stokes ale. slapit thereafter with the light buraing in bis bel. | EVENING POST Food Dangers of Early Spring PRING is a treacherous season. The weather is extremely variable. Warm days follow cold days abruptly. A variation of 20° is often enough to start decay in food, to incubate millions of germs. It is false economy to rely on weather and spoil food. Food is expensive; ice costa only a few cents a day. Before the weather gets hot, ice melts slowly; one good size cake will keep the ice box cold for days. Besides, food kept with ice is crisper, fresher-flavored, more nutritious. Read what Dr. Evans, the well-known health au- thority in Chicago, says: “Food keeps very well when the temperature of the food compartment is 45°. When the temperature is 6o°, milk spoils before the bottle is emptied.” How often the temperature rises above fo" on a 125 mild spring day. The well-informed housewife takes ice the year ‘round. She would not risk the dangers of an outdoor window box. That exposes food to germ-laden air, and to alternate warming and cooling—the worst condition for keeping food wholesome. Start now to protect your food against sudden spoil- age and loss of flavor by taking ice regularly. ater. Ome street farther south was the r, where Crane's lang rin in Sydney enfeld's Senator and other -tgiis wi eur before the passing of that historic ee. Worth of Union Square, where now vis the lofty Century Building, waa the tely. heapitable Everett House; while the emest was Riccadonna's, famous for ghetti ane the patronage of the Salvinia, her and son. yeae, with the Academy Music, then run by E.G. Gilmore, ane iw Pestor’s own thenter just behind it, Loup their ancient claim for attention. t pic fashionable town Was MOVINE Fin. At “Powenty-ffth Street two tides of eaay menaders joined in their downtown [t.. smd returning there divided for the ttherly walks. Every fine afternoon er than matings days members of the eck companies of Daly's, Palmer's and e Lyceum theaters, und members of her combinations of nearly equal im- rlanes, moved in lessurely manner and most smimll-town neighberlines through « eomfortable throngs of well-tressedd id. fairly ante ilipent Americans, to whom lof them were known by sight. Fushinn= de Seew “York was out in private riga with ried eqachmen and tigers: there were * Grolleyy cars, no mertors. he buses on ith Assenue were drawn by slow-plodding room. In this café, puarded te brass rails anid plush ropes, hung a heroic canvas yr the great Bouguereau, a palnting of several nymph trying to throw a fighting satyr inte the water, This prophetic symbol was years belare the general adoption of woman sullrage. In the theater the prizes are to miag- re Lac equine: aus much as to tieas or antics, CH the three facbora, magnetism is the hardest tadefine, To call itattraction is but to change the substantive, ‘Tio call it per- sonality ia only te befog it. To recite the Teasons for my own explanation of it or to euppork my cane arlequately in the contre very those reasons would provoke would take half a volume. I therefore omit Tensions, and avoiding controversy issue , aaly my belief that the force ls electrical: that ite poaseasor ia mot ita generator iyut | its medium, and that the voluntary trans- mission oof it is exhausting, The troly efectlhve actor cannot. simply wipe olf bis prease paint and turn in to slumber, Gur Favershoms, our Hucketts, our Marlawes, our Cohans, our Drews of three actor generations, oar Barrmymores of two, with che admixture of the Drew strain, our like artisws of repute, a well wa those yet undiscovered and uncelebrated, cannot alter a night's play set the psychical brakes and come toa dead center. Like a machine before the shop, the human organiam before the normal nerve rate, must slow down, | For this retardation the ample apartment with trained butler or equally trained maid | and the presence of understanding com- Trades whe quit at the fret suppressed yawn It is your protection. [¢ means that your ice dealer is a member in good standing of the National Association of lee Industries, and is pledged to give you lee Which Is Pure Correct Weight Careful and Courteous Service The dealer whose wagons carry the Association emblem ts a responsible business man, permanently, located in your com- munity, with capital invested in the ice business. Supgestions from ice users for improving the service of any member will be welcomed at headquarters. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ICE INDUSTALES 144 4 Washington Street, Chicage, lino ores. Life iteelf had a gentle pace, serial imter- Ste: a Tore weni temperature. Friends, neetling:, meer to exchan dy glint men A Ero sborbes, inuigh ; policemen id note nak them to move on. The maolds @ form, the glaases of fashion were John is teal. ew and Her Keleey, Robert Hilliard For an income unequal te such provision ind Rerry Wall, Ecpial centers of inkerest =the proper resteurant, the club, the café of ied prompters of good nature were Barry- the THolfman kind, io invaluable, Let wa more, Coghlan, Gorwlwin, Hopper Dighy net chide that immortal coterie at the Beli, Diney, Charles Stevenson and Fran Mermaid Inn, nar Chris Marlowe, nor Ben Calyle. A certain challenge went with Jonson, ner Will Shakapere, ner criticize Ted Henley or Lackaye. too severely that other at the Cheshire Cheese of which Garrick wes so often the An Old Landmark center and Doctor Johogon the mentor. Into that ald Holman Howse café from Sane day it will be ot respectable te write historically of the five barrooma af the Madison Square, the Fifth Avenue, the Lyceum, theee theaters within a rodius of Dat time as it was for Dickens in his ae teo blocks, actors easily drifted, Those af to write of the taproom; and even now must venture something, because to leave Palmer's, Daly's and the Bijou had buat them aut is to attempt a portrait with half litth: farther to enme, Sowrilers mit them. For sooee obscure reason —as alighily the faee conocrabed, Amy one of those im- Peftant men just named could be sapped higher price or the watchful eve of the f house man, Billy Edwards, ex-chompion ii that parade and under the pretense al hoe ot PreEsiig communication enticed DEPEND ON IC IN ALL WEATHER prize fighter—only the better elersent of the men about town frequented the place. ta atmoment’s misteading conference into A sroup of players and playwrights at a one of thous convenient anares. tabla were uninterrupbed, Men nodded ta Inthe St. Jamea Hotel. behind and above = them, or jo them if invited, but they did nat intrude. What wise conferences were many of three ri discussions of current or pro jected playa: what condensed experience; what discovered and tested rules; what classifyings of situations; what precedents the glassware, was a pMeture of thres dash- ing ceraliers, B umed hata, flowing cloaks, erords and : ae in coatume of Billy Commer, hote prietor and erstwhile mu af John MeCullough; of Charlies i, eecks, distinguished lawyer, onabor

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Wiiote for « atalag and vour dealer's name, THE MAJESTIC COMPANY Huntington = Indians ‘The Mark ofa Modern Home ee THE SATURDAY EVENING POST I | and likenesses; what traditions, conven- | tions, experiments, suggestions; what # winnewing af iden by whet vipers, original, challengin | prolific fellows; and in what free inter in an hat dears temper stimulated to just that degree of exaltation that can bridge and blend and Rive an overtone and group consensus! : jy, “Wisdom is justified of her chil- nant For more private and smaller confer- enees, among other places, there was aleo Browne's famous a on ‘Twenty seventh Street just off the Broadway comer; one stone step to the hallwa and a (itn te the t for the parlor dinin Ponies with ita litthe tables to which a thi chair could be drawn: the hot-water dishes for the mealy Welsh rabbit and the pewter nige for the musty ale I first saw Paul Potter there, rewriter of French comedy at the time, but afterwards author of The Conquerors, Trilby, Under Two Flags, and adapter of a score of furces, He looked on oldish young man then as, thirty years later, after the un- anaes obi a hair turned white, be look old ane, Parsee made hirn joln ibe, reget then rallied h his theories until daylight. Paul Potter an was always a bookworm, Why study life when tt is all so thoroughly written and Pigeonholed and catalegu by men ao superior to any of us? And Paul knew all the indexes, including the Expurgetorius, Diderot waa his guide, and laws were immutable, Temade plays ag an aire worked in mosnic, or he thought After that first meeting he met me at long intervals in America, in London, in and without astonishment in 2 seem- ingly uninterrupted intimacy, with both ut in greeting and with perplexed 5 ¢ but whether in luck or in trouble, ways with the selfleprecating, boyish, white-toothed smile. At Foyot's on the Rue Viugirard, the French senators from the palais opposite, equally with the bow- | ing waibers, saluted him aa Monsieur l'Amétienin, L saw hiro last in New ork in the earl spring @f 1921, one afternoon in a Turkis bath on Forty-second Street. 1 first in- quired quietly of the atendant. | and havin made sure of the solitary nei aaa talked lowily enough to reuse him. emaciibed face, simple as one of Shakapere' B | forest ruatios, tock on its walking smile ns he asked “Gua? Gus?" and sat up in his shect, as sinny asa boy at a swimmin® hele, “How ane sou, Pou He chuckled with the merriment. af {1 “Why, Gas, old friend, I'm dying!" And then he jnughingly told me hew desirable diabetes Wae a8 a way te finish, Une hod to gosometime. The doctora gave him on a few weeks longer. “Soc? [t's the swell- | Eng of feet und onkles that kerps me in here most of the time, but the boys all know me and con't ma me lying around, Soon after this stage ons bee me and it's all aver. F and lav nin, his forehead wrinkling under his rh white a The next day they couldn" wake im. | [Thate to jam old friends inte their coffins this way, butwith only twelve of these arti- cles one hax to dm it or hurt some of their | feelings by leaving them out. But bark in Browne's in 185 Paul tole me that, as Diderot had printed for him, our playa are Ha a backwards: at iz, Spel dai trl «dike a tery atery, from the solution teckwnd ti the enigma. Of course, it was. | helpful to know that, anc [ve told it ta dozens of youngsters. “Who was it saidl the unpardonable thing, the one base thing in life is to receive benefits and te confer none? Very Close to Polmer There came thie New York that winter a typdeal Southerner in speech and appear: ance named (Col. Edward Alfrend. His home hod been Richmond, an ihe Other clizens of that place reported ILL af hia courtly minniiibe te had cere callesl Count Alfrend, The colonel was about sinty years of age, tall, suddenly portly at the meridian, with prominent fenttires, and a walruslike white mustache, which with the important Fel ere - an English guardeman he stroked to hold the floor in | the pauses of his discaurse, His ambition was dramatic authorship. degra ans ahi nent friend in the theater was A, M cial | above whom a Ay iace Stature he a BME seven ine He spent many hours in Mr. Palmer's office when it wae evident wf pil tj to other callera that Mir. Falmer » insisting om ie; Reporting thes: interviews outs) colonel frequently said, “IT am very | A. AM, Palover.”” After a couple of he Fe with the ance of Mr. Augustus Pitew, who sip joint author, he produced under t? of Acros the Potomac his only pls Palmer's office Alfrencl met Barr, and Barry, amused 2 the ald genth: punctilious manner, hia pompoelty mediocrity that warranted pred carried Alfrend ahout with him in Jeisure hours, Oneo! Barry's gentle f wishing toembroidera sofa pillow, » | ape activity then not fallen into we asked me to draw in outline on a s7uy silk a profile of herself and one of B more. After | had drawn her own p Tsaid, “How close ta that do you way profile of Barn?" The lady said, “About as close as Al! is to Palmer.” Barrymore introduced the coloned tr and ingisted on my sharing for the Selene hi own enthusiagn, JL eagt found a furnished flat, fourth @ on Thirty-fourth Street bebween Sev and Bighth avenues, with three bedrog a little parlor, dining room and kite The tenant wanted to sublet it forns for forty dollar a month, Harve thought it would be an ideal arranges if we three—he, the colonel and [—sha take this flat and live there, We ete upon its occupation. A retund, mat ies ihc the janitress for the building, i the hh and pared our bw Tasts, Dither meals we took pa rin don’t remember a happier period, The Colonel's Complaint When eg ph came and the fish w running ao thick in the North Hiver th ome could buy a five-pound scape fas for thirty-five ornits, (ren, having gent old Sarah word t cig fore, would appear in time with suc ao ina brown paper: and os Sarah, under h instructions, prepared it and wut it on breakfast table he would discourse cae and the expert way to separate the fi from the bones with all the amvory inters of a Colonel Carter. During those five aearnigi in the acithge fourth Street flat 1 wrote plans, bod under arrangements “oe I | Hill: one for Sydney Drew, which wa never readied another adda [rag the German, which wos produ more Chay a year later under the tithe of A Bight Frolic, with Helen an English artes af more than masculine stature, in te poncipal rile, whieh fortunately required that most of her scenes be played is tht uniform of an offieor of the chasseur. Thal event lives principally by the aasecale of one of ite least important member a that time, a singularly active, optlmitic thirk=haired bad of same nineteen or trent! years famed John L. Golden, Tt is difiest to avoid his name now among the Bret way white lights with his presentations o ‘Turn te the Right, Lightnin’, Theaok Fox a ARGS a white: Bes theses ter a while Barrymore's en for the flat subsided noticeably, and 6 the coming of the summer we abandeeel aur arrangement. We were the ctl theatrical ménage in the building. # daabt if we could have maintainel 2 eecupation much longer, because dunt aur last month there I heard the eels whase point of sew old Sarah unde pecfertly, tell her to ask the lady et iloor above what the devil she riezal moving furniture around of eleven in the morning. ‘The enlanel seldom in more than six hours, at that, Hew hia plays from brooks of the le. et Deserted Village. They were pitia fa a fewet fllexd with | long Soliloquies, all al them written for Earrymore. Harn listening ta one of these and loosing & for help would have been an inspires @ ject for When a Feller Needs a fre® but with hes diplomatic sletll be abate tasted himesell an unworthy exponesl i spring day on rena 28 Barry ail walking together, saw appronching ua with menace in every le ment. When we met him ber said, “de what do you twa fellaws mean by set the enlonel onto met" After leaving the Thirty-fnurth Su", flat which we three men feast | (Cantiaged om Page Ht!

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One item that, notwithstanding its diminutive | proportions, I feel justified in describing woe of a parrot. rot stories do net amuse me, because as a rule ao palpably inven but as Macterlinck has written some msocintion between happiness are the bluebird, ee i tell af this green one's occas pp The ela at vt thi Pernod was not prosper- oe: in fact quite the contrary, and the newly organized Players had begun to draw from it many of tts best members. The only ather permanent lodger in the house fin that tae af gt was the deed a this parrot, John B, Miley, a graduate of | Dublin University. Mr. Miley's Isiness | was to sell wholesale, on commission, fine —liquers handled at that time by the old- Nader se ate! cence vee Kore Pennayvanta gchar Ao, Canna | eetablished house of Ronaevelt & Schuyler. aed ik tlimgioea hor bee ubur P _ ime ad rile — | eater Briel Haykaies | ehhetl foinus oats | | Miley was proud of his business and of his fates dl esters Fam rt b iremannl el lerdal Salabary Cha bette WATGS, i and rae sobre an if o diseern- ee Hataied Paani iten feed DMat. af Cal sop Meta | ing monarch given him the mish se SE eS Madchen annie Wilererort Whsbinnen = atria | knighthood Sentie s conferred upon an eS Mfeivechaseirs | Maer’ entra " 2 F ivetata Woetstsea- fie eminent English distiller, The parrot had Neat feng Heeien Morsic Ae Serie? cane ‘haasdre a, Caraiiag heen with him in many years of eanvivial Keli Fall Rivet ee Here Rea =| ewer Karol Ciewienisin associations that may be inferred, but it Conrad hneetet Wasrstay Kamien alarstand ney el pana had learned nothing oralizing; mo pro- erae Rnd tharm 7 eT ar ew Hiupanict Ananapali Figeemador teres | fealty no grectings, mo all for biscuits: = pio iisinetchl eae Vastk Cli raider rarmbeider Panera Sart ey aughter of every variety, fram a com- Markos 11 Fearn Ireetan larrsteen Lheeketicreiie baraiey polmankary chuckle a the h eens are | Peun rar a ph that ne A Good Line for Retailers— and Salesmen Miley aceupied the little eat telfoom, MONARCH COFFEE second floor front, in which Bishop hadi Goer F000, god Iba, sald by oor Chicaga House ‘died, He was an industrious crson, ing Oeeember, [82 went enrly toa bis ltsiness. Alone in the cub, downhearted for important pereonal reasons that must not take attention here, ewth morning as [ rea iley's room [ was greeted by a formal, complimentary litthe Laugh from the parrot, Dt was my custom to push the door farther open, spea to the bird, and sermetimes ait on the bed and invite his specialty. That little formal lnugh of his, encour Hy omy techn, voluntary only at fret, would grow dn volume and expand in character matt Sr tevived somewhat of all the sity iv maybe diaalute hours of exhilura panionship that Miley's trade and torn perament had won; laughs of a superior ehentele, bak punctuate oeeasionally bv guffaws of chanee and cheaper acquaint- ances, and by concerted crescendo efferts spraying inte broken voenbles os some falsetto, tearful eee regurgled the Point af a ata I was a Poor amateur compared ta Pally, ;, but together we eauld All all the windows an both si rerily Bixth Street with matrona and houserna Fymnpadtiatirally agrin and curious as to disorlerly convocutian at The Lambe, It Was a great way to start the forenoon, and required several unpleasant letters af efficiency experts to dissipnte Polly's fiat sunehine. Dolag Hack Work on Salary In the spring of that year the reputation af The Burglar on the road and A Man of the World at the Madison Square Theater had infuenced Mr. Palmer te ask me to become connected with that fine playhouse. Dion Boucicoult was then under a lar retalner te pateh of adapt for Mr. Pole any imported play that might need it, and aleo to give him first option on any original work, subject, of course, to wsunl royalty terms. BHoueiewult wished to retire. After a study of the rather limited field, still more limitecl in Sa ebay material, Mr, Falmer offered me the Boucicault desk at a Salary of fifty dollars a week the year round, He had n paying Boucicault one hundred, and told me I could follaw aha theatrical Gistam ond any outside Iw oem fe the same: but that never nanan Tt was stipulated that [ was at liberty’ t¢ to produce Reckless Temple ane | The Carrespandent, which J. M. Hill had | respectively for Barrymore and Sidney | Drew. This Madison Square engagement wie a substantial addition to intome, was Food publicity anda fine business address. was then thirty-three years ald, I wrote at Mer. Palmer's vest A Con= stitutional Point for Mrs. Booth, whe needed a anesact play, Mr. Palmer thought the public wouldn't understand it, Eight« een years later I expanded it te four acts aes aie it The Witching Hour. For Booth's immediate need I wrote an- ed aneact play called Afterthoughts, which she did successfully. April 15, Reckless Temple did not succeed in York, and after sixteen weeks on the Harrymare came back to Palmer's Ma Square Theater, where, anticipating those events, | was at work upon a with parte inf it forall the company, ia ing Barrymore. About making that there is in my opinion a story of some chological as well as pathological int Men differ in degree, perhaps in ki their capacity aay ig to aee formes, ability to draw faces from memory me to think that I have mt least the ave faculty, Sometimes in the dark, wit external claim upon the optic nerve, 1 mental pictures seem fmintly objec Their definition f not perfert. Ags the reddish-gray back nd that + eyelids slog Stats wil aE penr jin cone it of a lighter gray. ese lines are fixed, They move, he times, when ¢ take on resemblance to a face, imagina running juat a litle ahead of the FESO muster them into proportions of per drawing, and memory can manage tf inte portralta. It i¢ a fact in pat tieh rere ral “ih coe daieer st shapes. In drowsy daylight oa the "seal er grow farmtastic, nt figs have aiitiee In hig mast ex moments, Martin Luther, it will be membered, could not banish the image the devil from the wall of his cell, and th weed tobe shown a spot where he had thea hia inkwell at this negakive invocath become objective. How Alabama Was Written After the production of Reckless Temp and some attendant dissipations and d manda upon me plapsienliy, mand wher was in a Tun-down condition, this facili of sich seeing was feverishly aupmenta Under the docter’s orders I resin strictly regular hours, not the ease 5 covery in The Lambs, One might befor the club was me inetings | ied F was ing to go te aleep in the ark: At the pian downstairs E, MM, Holland was playing melody, then popular, tallied. Down on th Farm. Theee lines in the dark of which have written assembled inte definite shes andl | could see before me more plainy the many & sta age set shows in thevtrieal ligh two poste of a ruined patowsye one standing the other fallen, crumb I reeognael the picture as of a guiewny I had seen Talladega eome six years before, but Sal mot consciously thought of siner, As | looked wt it with some amusement as od man walked through it, stood a moment, and was joined by a young girl who tos him by the arm and bed him obliquely oul af the picture. Two or three times this little action waa repeated so definitely that it was eee for me in any way Lo om meet Lk with imagination, although the association between Holland's tune, vit its rural, sentimental color, and this pe ture is fuiriy eviclent. There waa nothing unpleasant about tis Wisional intrusion, mor was there auch pe sistence that T felé driven to Luther's pe test. ‘This little gateway and ita twofges Played somehow through my dreams In the morning I found medi d interested it the relationship af the twa le, partls trying to divine, but rather drifting 7 their story, After a day or two the meu! wre gm anespect sketch, This I kad aed and carried it to Mr. Eugene Pree stage manager for Mr. Palmer. Presaty was enthusiastic about the little pies, bt told me it waa a mistake te play it in th form. He reminded me that he Becght had some of its New York at ges ll i having firat been done ag a one-ect and insisted that I had in my fre the nocleis of a fine big story. dog one in the charactera a part for Stotdet and another for little Miss Agnes Millet, who was the ingénue of the company rat tik time. There were other parta for Hany mare, Ned Bell and Harry Woodruf. Under Presbrey's encouragement. wt the sketch as a third act, I wrote the fe act play Alabama, I had fur wah tt Southern colonel in the piece, wher | called Colonel Moberly and whom / nd dowed with all the foray and portpae} of our Colonel Alfrend ere wa 8 Se * vart for Harry Woodrull, an mm Gat aque or Charles Lb. Harris, the splendid cm dian whe _ with ua in Beckie? Temple, At mm eation, after arte the seenario, Mr. Pe almer wtbded Harr © his company and used him in tee of ihrer plays that were produced bedare we fra! reached Alabarna.

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Holland Fos for Mae ee, tHe idea of the colond Ay had some hint con and beaut re 2, Saga they each other in Southern ‘The membership of orant : + deer Tat ane Of the reason for this amused by it, ht its isbn ind im a little Si the club was gaparentl Nization of two hundred gm@thern colone cuffs and all shootin geking phantom but. Tmniiihcnt rTvus= ie play was finished under pressure In and read to the company on the Pa » familiar with it, was not t group t in his little office near Fentrance to the dr rooms. ie the Mrs. Booth left the theater she leaned n lewer half of Preabrey’s “a door and whispered te him, “ Rotten, ‘hem we reached rehearsals she de toe play the part written for her and iven to May Brookyn, fram whom Few see it ae after ths peace waa coed. After re enring Bonmn @ x Mir. Palmer Inst faith in it and re it with one of his English playa. attack and retreat was ated twien, t after there head been three English @ilures the rehearsals of Alabama in a it of al went on te ita produc- on Wednesday, April 1, 1991. In these bora’ Ah moods Mir, Palmer lost aith mot onl the play but in ths author, md one dark day tald me that when the fear of our contract ended, which would @ tn May, my engagement a2 dramatist i inary —thakt was my title; [ don't fenow why—would cease, But he ailidlel that be was sending on a first tour through the eountry Mr. a 3S. Willard in Middleman, and that if 1 liked I could enmcl him as publicity man, ae hah 4 fax the salary acl earned with om hundred dollars, It felt fine a aa backward, but as a newly married man tobe wt. The Flan was for me to leave Now VY orle Shiney, March twenty-ninth, and have two weeks in Chleage before Willard that I didn’t ee per- marm- ae tae A prod

end. a Parnestly cg cr mill thet time I got B mission to wait until earl ing, and thereby on Wi Alabama open. Shortly after his installation as View President of the United States Theodore Ruecmevelt was ane of six men whe come to the ieome of Brander Matthews to meet at lunch Mark Twain, recently returned fram a trip abroad, Colonel Roosevelt was moat entertaining throughout the luncheon with noes of Cuba, Pertinent to one of these be turned to Mark Twain and said, “As an old Con- federate soldier, Mr. Clemens, you must hawe nokiced the nervous oF the brayw- est men upon going into battle.” Mark took his cigar from under his white mustache, and with a dreamy squint re plied, ** Oh, yes, | know that nertousness of brave men mg into battle, and | had the quality ph en Septet it all through the engagement.” Tae Watchers In the Gallery The yoright never gebs so experi= enced at ii Sa peat On la net an @ecasbon, of mervousness, An inexperienced one whose play has been act aside three tines sie ROT ag the manager's distrust has more nerveueness than the brave man going into battle. On the firet night of Alabama mine was augmented by an almost panic condi- tion of Mr, Palmer, Although quite a known to anybody that mattered, | sou a further obscurity by standing behi post im the gallery. A similar timid figure in the shadows across the aisle attracted my attention. Tt was Mr, Palmer, When the first curtain fell with mingled laughter and applause, the moat desirable reaponsn a company can ask for, Mr. Palmer looked at me, his eyebrows lifted in an inquiry mixed with astonishment, Friends of Mr. Palmer will remember hia regular features and intellectual and dis. tinguished expression: alao his large, pale , He also had rather full gray alde whiskers, decorations not so uncommon then as since the introduction of the safoty TREOT. These facial forme and effects, his white lawn tie ond hie look of shocked surprise carried the uncomfortable suggestion of some interrupted paras? function. Four or five curtain calls and the mood in which THE SATURDAY the audience head taken this blandest of cur four acts gave me courage te go to the pron for the second one, With almilar but more pronounced ro pore after that, and finding that Mir, almer had alas ventured down to my level, I threw all caution te the wind and eaid, “I'm going te see the reat of this per- formanea from the ground floor,” When the Bla wis over it seemed to me we had been In the presence of a sucess, but Mr. Palmer was net able to lift hie spirits from the depression of the disastrous | season, 80 that despite the congratulations af many friends I wont to bed uncertain. My wife pnd I at that time were in our first apartment fn the old Oriental Hotel, appoaite the Casina, As we had te tuke an early train for Chicago, we do not ta look at any of the papers until we should | ve mn undisturbed breakinst and were alone ther on pe eins epecding from police detention. r the | paper in which I felt I “cl ont the most | considerate treatment, and took myself the ont [ believed meet hostile, Its v headlines disurmed me. up an met an enthuslastle glow laparted by the notice she had read. We hurriedly went | at the other papers, The press was unani- mous, Alabama seemed the sur prin af the seaaon, and wis charwckerized in terme al- most too laudatory to refer to except by ¥. In Chicago, as Willard'’s advance man, | my calls at the newspaper offices were ¢x= citing, owing to telegraphic reports about the New York first night, and dramatic mon were kind, But that day an ailment that had been threatening became acute, ant I had to submit to on operntion under ether that put me in bed for the next ten days. During that time the men on the Chicago papers gave me all the help I could tnke, I ee ee eee concerning Willard would find SypaLon. Thus encore x; I dictated to my wife long specials for "each paper. which she ca to the offices, and [doubt if any theatrical attraction ever went into Chicago or any other American city with batter leaitigecd than thee: generous fellows handed us Alabama Makes a Hit Preshrey kept me informed of the play in New York, where if was doing capacity hiisiness, and the Foieal ty checks mude me think of the firet time I ever Bat in an overstuffed chair, We pot the New York papers every day; the-ads and paragraphs were fine, and sore of — mpapes curricicdi- | terials abowt the nquiring if New York managers ha mnt made mistakes im ha i a tt Ene oper ee article when native emed so acomptible, And then in rig aes tiitst of all ef it eame a long tele gram from Nat Goodwin asking me to write a serious play for him, to choose my own eubject, and offering a royalty of 10 per cent of the gross receipts, with‘an advance of irl i hundred dollars. 1 agreed bo do th, With the Willard company Mr. Palrner came into the city, eri lee with comdi- tiona in New York and beartil ; approving wl thoac he fone in Chiew passed the erelit for the sepia the it belony to a young writer named Kirke La Shelle, whom Mr. Palmer engaged that werk te take the pluce with the Willard company whieh for sufficient reazons | was giving up. La Shelle later became a theatrical captain and produced for me Arizona, The Earl of Powtuchet, The Bonnie Briat Bush and The Education af Mr. Pipp. Mr. Palmer asked me to for- get his terminating our contract and to go on Under the old arrangements for another year, He consented to my writing the play for Goodwin, which he excepted from the optional chum of our Madison Square agreement. There were more checks from New York, and this twenty-five hundred dollars from (roodwin. To waa able, with a cane, to get about comfortably. 1 ‘had been away fram Bt. Louis fortwenty months. We went here: ‘to eee the folks. roast the Euds Brill in the morning I got to thinking af Whit- lock, glias Jim Commings, who robbed the Missouri-Facific express car to cancel the nase oo hia mother's home, and I felt ashamed af myself. 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EDMONDS SHOE COMPANT BILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN Nate io dealer: = Thee ane a Sear Pocone ot open for on excite. ieee "Poot iiier" agency, Werden EVENING POST Wortf #3, THE DARNED LITTLE BOLSHEVIE (Cantinued from Poge 9} “T must aay they don't apne to me much, en masse,” Ann remarked dryly a we glided by the suddenly silent and apecu- | lative groups of youngeters who, when we left the electric, came alowly toward us in graups, like curlous young calves, Their scrutiny annoyed Aon, | ; “Those largest ones might certainly be taught manners," she objected with irri- tation, “They stare Ike little cannibals, i | Quch!" For at this juncture we both stumbled | over Jenny's broom, Support the Feet | Jenny had been sweeping the stepa of the baby eat and, paralyzed with Ann’s benuty, had neglected te remove her broom from our path. Straightening from an investigation of her bruised foot, Ano saw Jenny. The two stared at each other with equal wonder—the tall, beautiful woman, perfect in her white aport clothes, and ugly little Jenny in red calico, Then Ann gaid to me slowly, “How can auch. things be possible? P I should have: laughed, except that Jenny's erossery pase Buy a reverence of admiration. For Jenny wes indeed homely beyond all balling. Tiny bright blue eyes sot wrongly under a pro- fran forehend : spindle lee stragely tedidlish hoir, a aun-tortured akin ani the merest indication of a nose combined in no measure to offaet the unattractiveness. of her faded red apron and seuffed shoes. She looked the embodiment of imumertal Irish im Leen ct. iflistaking Ann's expression for one of pain, Jenny unconcernedly asked—ol me, since one doea mot directly uddress the queen, ““'S she hurt herself?" “Ho,” corrected Ann with her colossal lack of hum: “you hurt me, because you left your broam in the path—you ugly little thing, you!" Horr! words olenys seem to ro added venom from bewutiful Lipa. had aeen Ann's big, homely husband shrivel under her careless tongue, just as little Jenny now did. Looking at her in a dumb sort of way the child backed away frac her, the dexperatlon of a trapped aminsal in her evea—and all its primitive viciousness. “Yes, an'—an' | bet you're aa UF mH ae of you!" she retaliated, ond Ann stooped dlowly and picked up the worn, dirty broom. “Why don't you add that she has ex- Hie yout own views?" she proddcl my BIDE, “Well, I myuat say that thle exhibition dopen't dit ta ged recommend you for motherhood,” | evaded testily, “Go on in and tell Mra. Evans [ sent you to look at the babies. I'm going to find Jenny," But Jenny was net to be found. Jenny was one of the probleme of the children's home, where she had taken residence at the age af two months, She was now seven cara old, and in all that time [ had never eard one lavorable report of Jenny. As baby she rocked the institution by day and be night with her wails, and of Inte years plots, pri and Gnsurrectians were traced to ber simble wite and horrible capacity for finding weak apota in the gov- etoment of the heme, “She's.a barn Bolshevik,” a matron had once despalringly told us at directors" meeting, and the name had grown te Jenny. Hut a seven-year-old Bolshevik can have a very vulnerable little heel, and my heart ached when I thought af the wiy Ann's unkind words had shriveled up her pertness and brought out that look of furtive meun- nes. Falling to find her, hawever, [ went back to the baby cottage, where Ann wus waits s for me on the stepe, knew she was in no mood to be inter @sbedl tin anything excepe her nufited feelings, and though Mra. Evans was chatting pleas- antly to her she was quite evidently muni Tudely not listening, When | approached she said abruptly, “Did you Gnd her? And at my negative reply she gakl te Mra. Evurs, Will you ear call the little girl who was sweeping ere when wecamoin? IT wish to apologize to her." This from Mrs, Bangor Ellington Stevenson! Tt wassmall wonder that Mrs. Evan leat ‘he “T spoke to her very sharply," added with her quick irritation, “F call her,"" “Oh—I'm sure, Mra. Stewenson, th: deserved it; she—she’s really alway need of correction.” : “Yea?” said Ann, looking: mt her a who is net fond of them looks at we "Will wou please call her?’ The something about Ann that makes you ; her while hating her. Moreover, | Evans knew that Ann's generous ch meant half ite exishence te the home. | an incoherent mutter she disa rapidly into the cottage, from al which loud calle “' Jen—ee!" ; sounded. I utilized these moments by telli that she waa Ndiculous and unk would only further humiliate the chil listened silently, with an aggravating that cied awny when Jeng! abe ape ide the plump and Mrs. Evans, who hastened to say “This is Mrs, Stevenson, Jenny. wishes to pak bo yea.,"" / mae looked steadily at the ehild, ayea ing. "T—I didn't go ta do it," mum Jenny sullenly in acknowledgment of ¢ introduction, directing her cross-eved p hot toward Ann but to me. “Honest, dint po te it." _ "Then you don't really think I am inside?" questioned Ann in a rather disp inted voice, which seemed to turn Mf vans’ emotions into gctive little inset that raced over herfatface, Jenny Fast hersell, shabby shoes well apwrt and hes on her swaying hips. “You bet lde! I meant I didn't go! may You was,” she mode explicit cormeccia ae her pase, UnwHVering, | Mrs. Evans uttered a horrified gap, bi ont ie gesture fram Ann silenced b further demonstration and sent her linge ingly tnte the cottage, Jeng swoyed o A ripple of slow-comin laughter—ra - A eottily eis torus ht bee a tily into our silence. ap peeiisnsicn into Jenny's defiant foo nen ee are toe her knees in fred the startled child and teck the red calie shoulders tightly in her long, beautify an “You're on honest little thing!" st eet in the clear, quick voice of ber git “Tam ugly inaide; ‘re perfectly mi And it's iets WOTHE ia te eine tht outside, Hut if I take you home with ot haps you can make me prettier insidesd can make you prettler outside, Would po ges [idiocy T should have take a eof id a ve nll the ribbons. Jenny, however, adjeiel herself to the whirl of events with ec remarkable pole, She twisted ber and looked down at the white hands» tightly clasping her shoulders, first ct and then the ather, “T ain't old enough to work for ay body," she demurred. “Pretty soon, 554 I'm twelve, I'm going to work for a reach ve 5. “Oh, [ mean for yn to be my girl, Ady—my litte daughter.” : pane Jenny atared down at thet eHY Fi se “To vou mean “dopt mea?" she asaet eredulausly, "Yeu," anid Ann. “Not just like I was born ot 7 rere a “Yes,” said Ann. “Hu-umph," commented Jenny alte + long piuisee—ancl giggled. b wad & mirthtul giggle of real bunt and it made her, in some intangible mate impoesible to deseribe, complet Ao a ay hgly — eRe yvely, See Ga could see her metamorphose her impos” passionate determination to make rein tion to Bangor into desire f this her child. Jonny, after a perplemed gant! me, who had collapsed on cottage le changed her humorous grunt into a oe tive one. sa “Hunh-unh,” she decisively settle ! matter. “Hunh-unh, T don eat (Continued aon Page !42!

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E i nla P| | Pretty soon, | said hdldithe potience; “I | O8e exeeph pau. | Arm suggested, smiling, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Contiqved from Page [f30) when I'm twelve, I'm going te work for a tunch lady, The irl that gleepa next te me wants somethin" ferce te be opted, She's got pretty hair, It cis," “But I don’t want to adopt anyone ax- cept you," said Ann, Jenny quickly switched to new tactics, her manner magnificently ea=ual, as if she refused adoption iby rich women several times a cay, “You'd get awfal sick of me, Honest you wild, ['m a mean kid. An* lots of times, when. my face gets dirty, I'm uglier than I am now.” “The hemelier you get the more "ll love you, Jenny. You don’t understnnd that, do yout But j it's truce.” hese earnest words gave Jenny a new light on the situation. “sayl You don't need te care if you sald I'm ugly, Idon't care. “Tain’t noth- ing. I like to be i ly, [ can make the litthe ge rel run over an” get bee "TL ite Fe the “abort.” Sig. natal Ann said soith remarkable don"t want ony= Tra sure you'll like tt at my Howse," “Nape,” sald Jenny. to—thank you," Of caurse Ann's determination and de "T don't want | Bire were cementing more cloeely every In- | stant, They made a strange picture—Ann | kneeling in front of the child, clasping ber shoulders, her henutiful tice vivid with earnestness: and strange litle Jenny star- ing back at ber like some old, old little creature that a wizard’s wand bad turned | Inte _mrotenais youth for a whimsy. Suppose you try tb just fer ane week," Ann's amiles are me) but Jenny waa adamant. Nope, It's my week to sweep.” “Oh, buat, Jenny, eoulde"é a swept the next week and come to me this oneT Ann was adding a eoaxing note to her voice, which, with the smile, made Jenny weaken. I understood Bangor’s helplessness as I watched her. Eien wae the most lovable thing I'd ever a “WW oll—buat what'd IT do all week?" asked Jenny, like one going under « spell, “Oh, CHL” d have a fat rany to rida, ancl we'd buy eome dolls, ari —ard you could Play with the dogs —— ‘ an... eet BUT ees one of my own I've got if Moally'a. | just aa many az you like, nearly fifty, and you ear mi like,“ einy, withdrawing her 4a father, la there?" inn: “once there waa a job any more,” he away.” He hate to leave all his bod for then,” suid Ann, IF OU ba! 7 dike you either tT" white. Bu Perhaps you will a while, Jonny. “IT con tell ina webiled. An got-to her atill, locking down at ders where those long iki her ee tightly. Then Aan the froat of Ann's hited them out with her Ann. and L matter,” sic ur things, honey, oney "tilt times aday it tt sounded like a I, falling from sinn's me the three of us, ane amod Nigger and in- Of—and woweird bundle Pel ong ines Eat lnte the A been venturing with forpet the faces af the 1 Jenny —as diapepard- (ese hy ef Shel of her Linte that shining car, woiee cold nat can shrilied. "Wi ail n't yelled Jenny with and tucked herself April 14, down on the seat in froamt of wa with a: grin. w ‘Hs chapter is devoted to the py fram this story—of me. IT may “fl necessary to return later, but you wi member that I warnecdl you in the paragraph about the viewpoint and ; technical details, th my passing there passes aleo dai nr R. BANGOR ELLINGTON &T ENSON was waiting on a secl frond until a limousine should leave the beaut av ol Mra. Ann Carleton Steven autifil grounds and glide down the bon rondway. toward the country « where Mrs, Ann Carleton Stevenson that day giving a charmingly appoir luncheon to twenty of society's yo matrons. He had diseowered this from cuTHIne pape, at his hotel. hide mitted he wane pretending ty enjoying th the view. But he knew the dp him: the man"s furtive gia at the sleck white bull terrier which - Stevenson's constant companion suppes that he was thinking of Past experjes in the bootlegging lite. haps thins another passenger with ulterior moth For Stevenson did net look like a mas paid taxi ge hoe fm to sit still i enjoy Views, locked more like «an who enreyen prise fights, chorus gins expensive fh Infact, these were some the things Stevenson had been experime ing with rather extensively for the | yeor—but to no avail. There was no 1 trying to forget Ann—the pain of lof her had gone too deep, There are e who say, boasting ge this thing of letting lowe get the by af you ia ridiculows—mere et they read about love and talk about la and lay down lawe about it. But ther a iby to make clothes for their nakedna thay rend aay ioe patterns to feshy their garments. There are other peo whom love haa arrayed in her a Sela eae foi taut ans ois folk. Thi ave & know hr nimble words would fail to to ae it Hecnuse of their silence ma A She the ie lowing think them cold or bn Bangor Stevenson was ome ot the “gaat i Was homely, ungainly, rig oper ge tire. og yee with love, hoe a mess ings, He had though ibe Loving, ies eduld buy love. [He he a ee would breed grail : instead it had made is Hoa Bu with all his bitterness, his Jove endured He had no Qlusions about Ann: no blin leve could have lived under her selfisten her intolerance and her exquisitely etise passion for cruelty. His love wae all seigg and all accepting. Ti he bd come for ay gclimpee of the amall world he bad bailt about this wos whom he loved, because Ine was again hav ing the country. Ann hergelf he did ret want to sa, hen she had left for be ee Ee he would walk quickly throw gardena Urry away. Finally, when her limousine r down the roadway, he gave the bull tenet Inte the ng of the curious chauilesr and walked down the hillaide, Standing a the wile aniews he looked with emotion Lees eye Uy the beauty he had made te w oon what had been a bleak bres illaide of Polat Lorna, The proud Spanish house looked fren its ab Be u & ¥iste well © of its {alt mre no bluer walters in all pai than these of San Dig Bay, which lie like beds of lapis lazwii, st around twin islands, Above tie patverned the climbing hills where the #0 loved city lingeringly leaves the su 2 stretches like a yawning giantess the supe-ecented mesa, beyond which the mountains their color to the aay. West of the house, behind the bill, of hear olways, listening, the oe triumphant sen song of the Pacifie. Sta ing there Shevenson waited far i steady rh te touch his ears, “Oh, damn it all! he rvuttered, a0 quickly fell to whisting a digit tune. Twelve yeara before he had sod 8 almost that same place and Tad} upon a blenk ten acres spotted ted bere atl there with dusty srenzewood bubs fal one lone young tucsivptua tree gee a seal troll, Beenie of that tris te bid bought the place. It had risen {re tt hillside—slender, white trunkerd, lt its long whispering leaves turned are

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‘graceful girl he had bought Cie ein ita mma re? # Queenly thing, Sel ee its males Linelba. Piste the Rion weve the whieern : i he Ww . 1s- Bitte h ery ha gree ene it was more ‘ ; the big unguinly rth his oose lips ane Liesl teyésand absurd speck of a nose felt wat choke as he looked at it. &. long ago when the house was in its =. on i Heh eae tendetoees of out of his self-conscious od be had blurted out to her his feel- mut the tree. He had walked over to s towered it. enlly, Bang,” she had anid amusedly, don't fit into the penis You ought by a husky old live-oak ae BEVEr aguin gone pear the tree she could see him: and often, walking ® ber, be would remember and fy and painfully conscious of his un- ness and of her lack of love for him. hany tines in the . OF UNSeETh, di put his arms about the tree, and the tof it and the whispering of its lenve: wen him strange comfort. He wanted go over and touch it, but he was not A tween him and the tree a ced-hended igiTlin a brown linen frock wes playing a putter, a golf ball, and Butterscoteh— Yorkshire terrier, Ho had wondered Ann had kept Butterscotch when she his other dogs to New York. fF sauntered across the lawn, awlnging toft gray hat in one hand and his cane he other, but neither the lon ped e girl nor Butterseotch paid him ony fas he approached, The golf ball, haw- * Speed forward and gave him a right m greeting on his ty foot, Why didn’t you dodge it?” yelled the teeaded child, advancing leisurely, Hut eateh seumpering beside her Lewenson stood, storklike, and invoked weds of profanity, his unprintable re tke gradually silencing thermelyes be- rthe deepening wonder ao her face, “Wohy—why, you're him!" she finally ied, her crossed myea seeming about ta fab ever the bridge of her noe onder tir thick-lensed glasses. After the brief- pause she gave a sudden leap forward d, dropping the putter, possessed herself hells of his 1d so that his het fell te the and, where Butterscotch fell to investi- ting it with reminiscent anifls and grunts. “You have changed iff You have angel it! You have!” velled the red- added child os explosive! 1s 8 Tepenting = gun. “Havent you chinpad it? she candied, ceasing her gyrations and pais- 1¢ before him like an animate question HT “So peu have just informed me," be re- fwd ec ye. tt an iehthyoeaur had ot- iched iteelf te him and conversed aindlarly * could have been no more nt 6 Ines, “An! mether thought you couldn't do VT she neflected with a gasp of eeuping ceath. “Couldn"t do what?" “Why, change it. She sani you couldn't. the ahd that samethin’—Geel, I gueas— cept yor from it." “Kept me from what?" Stevenson's mettack mind was finding this a tangled frail. Who the devil wos this imp? “Kept you from changing it," the imp reiterated, “From ahanging what?" hy, my ness your mind!" Tt we quite evident that his icurity was deonding in her estimation, butahe added eheemily, “Oh, but won't she be tickled, though t'* What Who are you talking about?" Apprehension waa beginning to prick through his stupidity. The odd, ey Crea ture was still possessed of his hand and ake beqan gytating again, her jubilant words tinge more slowly os if trying te pierce he bewilderment, “Why, mother, I'm Janet Troe Steven- ino. Tm pew sines you went away. You'll dys my father now. And I'm glad, I think T's nieer to have a father.” Stevensan stared at her, his emall brown eyes eating their way out from their over- hanging brows, "Cr nil! Are you what she achogetedd T** “Yep, sald Janet, too abeorbed in her intent scrutiny to camry on with ber con- stant enemy—grammar, After an instant ed added, an’ she loves me too; even if Lain’t pretty." THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 133 This remark was taking the thunder from his very ts “Oh—you, you on't "he muttered recovering hie hand by inslatent effort, and bending aver the dog. who waa now at- | tacking his lege with violent affection. He etted him and mumbled things at him, tenly and uncomfortably conscious of the child's steady, mewurin ; “He's mv dog now,” she sald aa he straightened. She had picked up thg putter again since he sen ao unfriendly? about having ber hold his hand. “Mother kept him for me because he's homely and you'ne homely and I'm homely." In spite of himself a smile broke wp the fercents of his features at this solemn information. He had been deeply ond primitively angered, 23 men always are when bewildered, “We're a well-matched triumvirate, for afact. Soshe makes fun of your looks, too, does ahe?" What a beastly thing for Ann te do—to toke a child like this as. vent for her miser- able passion bo inflict pain. But Janet True seemed amazingly untouched, by it. “Nope,” she answered him; “that's why she likes me—"cause I’m ugly. I'm better’n T used to be. She's making up to me for how she trented you. You sea I'm making her prettier inaide and she's making me prettier outside, You'll beawful glad you've come back, You see if you ain't." For a rpadige Harpe it occurred to Stevenson that thi Ws gome? ruse af Ann's, some little clever, conliden ining trick so characteristic of her, that always left ita scar, onot it had worked itself out. But the child's trembling excitement dispelled the susplelon quickly. He cleared his throat, bat his words were thick. a acl Lhaven't come backh—to stay," he smd. “Then what did you come for?’ she challenged with Drish alwerity. “Perhapa I came to get Butterscotch." “Ah, you never.” “Weel, perhaps [ came to see how the bao getting along." aa t She jerked about and pointed at the ticalyptis tree with the putter, Stevenson fele os physically startled os if she had hit him with the club. He fele hiroself go pain- fully red under the questioning scrutiny of Janet's crossed eyes. He did not answer, but she accepted his expression for an affirmative, “Mothergald you liked that tree, Shedoes too, Sometimes she canes out and puts her cheek right up against it—tike this.” She demonstrated grotesquely with the putter, seal. Yep.” she insisted cheerily; adding an astute “sometimes ehe eries too." Stevenson threw back his shoulders and | took himself firmly in hand. Smiling with muaaive wneoncern he spoke, not to the child ahe was bat te the knowledgan she seemed ao weirdly to possess. “Ay dear young lady, if you aamrdive for fifteen years, os L did, you will learn that your—your—ah—mother's tears are be cause things are denied ber, mot for the things themselves, Df she wishes me ta | come back, as you Baie it's merely because she knows D never will" This was a littl difficult to fallax, Janet True reached up with both hanks and nal- justed her glasses more securely. What she understood af the argument left her entirely unlepresaesd, "T bet you do!" she wagered blithely, “T bet you can't help it. Once I ran away, but I oly got ma litth ways, I thought I | peek ha’ her—but I didn't. An® yong a | te her, do yout” "Has she ever told you I hated her?" "Nope, She thinks you like her—all | Tight, Hut she thinks you cant change | our pilin. I don't aan al I change mine ots of times. TD heard her tell Mis* William, that time when your picture waa in the pauper with the chorus girl's, that you didn't rare doy more about that chorus aily than che cared about the ieerman.”” Her words were tipping over one another in her eager- | teas,“ n'=an'she told Mis’ Williams that | it wn all her fault, ao" whe said you were the eee wen ae “ livel; an’—an' | ote of other nice things. You—you jestetay to dinner and see how goo she ab Bangor Stevenson tonk himself yet more firmly in hand. His unfriendly fentares agaumed the finality af a locked door, He eoughed, and looked at his watch, and fina ly found « businesslike voice, ‘Thank you, I've no doult it would be interesting—very interesting. But I'm | A Friendly Place With A Friendly Welcome You can probably find it just around the corner from where you live. Or you can find it in any city to which you may travel. 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He turned, hesitated, and turned back te her. “Tt would be inter- esting—that is, do you mind telling me if your—mother"—the word was difficult, socing the child and thinking of Ann- “thot is, is she ever affectionate? Lmenn— dors she ever aut" He increasingly embarrased aver her lack’ of embarrassment at euch a simple question, “She would if T liked it. I don't like kissing much; only when yeu fay od night, oF something special, ike I'm hurt, or she goes to a party like she has today. Rut she'll kiss you lots if you come back, I know she will, Sometimes she kisses your pleture, and E don"t think you're a homely aa itis. Honest, [ don't. ““Wh-what pieturel" atuttered Steven- son, swept into a simplicity aa transparent mi the child's, He had avoided pictures os painstakingly as the plague, “Tt was pest a litle one. Butterseoteh ia in it too. You're grinning and all equinty in the win. An’ she had it made great big, an’ il"s got a nice frame on it.an' she keeps it right on ber dressing table. ‘The frame's ailver. D" you want me to get itt" “Mol" said Stevenson. The opportunity wos not given Steven- son to decide whether he did or did not be lieve her, for a strange pulseatilling whine af terror made them both sharply aware al advancing disaster, Butterecotch had departed. Tey bath stared after him aa he mate hia frantic way in a wabbling black bloteh toward the kennels, his ake surd begs carrying him all tag cumber- somely boward aaifity. For weroas the lawn flashed a white streak of lightning with thorn-pointed ears. Stevenson's white bull terner had become bored with inactivity and draped from the chauffeur, Words are much tea clurmay thi be keep with what happened, "Tenet True immediately contributed a shriek af such ba gree Titeue wan Does the —like a jagged line of light, and fram that mo- rent the world beewme a trilagy of calor ee fe Bteceninia Neale ahead, white rapidly overtaking it, and rel— a shricking redness—nomeringly purauin both, Never had he witnessed surh s in human loge, Janet Troe wes not rin ing; she was traveling—as does sound. Amd the golf club traveled with her men- acingly, Stevenson wos nok weare for some time that he aleo was in mation, Hut male sounds, probably from hia own thront, though mechanical, were adding them- selves. to Janet Trao's screams, ‘n—white and black mingled —a hor- Flble confusion! With miraculobs rapidity red entered the chaos, unfearing; hudn't she personally conducted many a dog fight— triumphant? She made an indelible memory on StLvensen's consciences as she chose her moment, her ted head thriest forward, her body like a taut brown wire, The put= ter aacended far above the awirling masa af black and white, poised, chose a fatal apot of attmek on that proud white head, hung aloft—fell! And the dogs beeame main separate entitica—the one returning to and ie other departing from the things of thle ife, When Stevenson found himself trans- iobed to the scene of-action the English I lay on ita back, ite legs jerking. And Janet True waa huddled, moaning, over | Butterseotch. Bervanta were materializing cue of the quirk house, | Fort more thai. a eur the only love that had touched Stevenson waa the loyal lowe of that flerea white dog, It had come inte er bey orl deacribing, And now this red-hended child ed bir. \ boil kill He etretehed out his long ann and his fingers closed on tough brown linen. It was wool to feel her ad ween a oe lifted her into the air, She looked like a dangling dune bug. And ehe made no sound, He shook her gently at first, then less gently. Her spactacles spec through the air, fol- Jonwel ba Ereasiires from her pockets, “Wou litth: devil, you litth devil! his volee made music for her moter. Theservants had anddenly stopped. They stood like pillars of salt, staring. Their nse cooled his blood, Tt rested on some thing behind him. “Mother! wailed the weight on the | end of his rigid arm. He loceed it, and i pril 15, Janet Tre dropped limply to her wavered, gurgled and stood still, There, at the end of his arm, whey murderess had been, her face white, s harder than gray @ranite, stood, his wile. Sale “_ dremet for her hi party in a aimple perfect gray gow deapened the colar of er eyes and b her vivid auburn hair into wonder trast. She hod last her hat. It la hi on the green lawn, She at | ther ing at him, and the shame of his ex broke out on him like a rash, “Oh, mother!" he henard Janet in & fhightened litthe choke, Ann turnel, making a queer | acnd of tnderea. Sibevenson sta her, fascinated out of his misery as lowe come inte her eyes—deep, ye maternal love, Tt came with the case of a mirocle, » the softness of evening clouds, with light of the highest stars. And the » hended child put her shaking, spirdll little arms about her wnoist « burror her face in the soft gray dies, while § kissed the top of her head, holding her 4 and murmuring to her, Stevenson's face went slowly to an 1 Hares yellow calor. e eotld not ty is eyes from Ann's tye lone white hap outlined posessively on the child's be linen back. How could this womas Ann, the woman who hod been his eT He loet all thought of hirmself in his pri itive wonder of it all. But all nee bagie ed the woman he known retu . She put the chill fr her gentl . She straightened and fan him. Ani with a sick wave oof heat | knew himself for the hideous, beastly this she had always mate him feel. Hut a anid VOEy little, “Take your dog, you contemptible com ahd —and go," she sabi. Stevenson winced visibly. Not thar be words mattered. He it really hea them. Jt was the inexpressite way i which she could simmon all your weak neages, Your faulta, your shaves and sche 7 with them. She did it by the very inal of her. ‘ He ro hee idly. She mace 4 mime OTe Doe i £ G EL. “ Memother!"" said Janet Airue in a abel little voice. It waa a of alarm [ft brought a strange awilt flame of color to the woman's face. “Why, mother," the child burst owt again and burried ewiltly on, “don't! Don't leak that weve You're ‘way being awful—jeat awful! He again, I've jest told him: wouldn't ert be mean any more, and that—that yo lets: his picture an’ want him to eae beck. An! now—now—you're being mean, Too are, mother, you are. I don't care if be shook me, He—was jest mad "cause | bed to bit his dog, Tt was kinda fun—bea shovk—honest it woe, (Qh, mother, dot act mean to him! Act troe te him likey want tol" The man and woman stared at eit ather helplessly while the bhood drainel awuy from Ann's face, but before her lid fell Stevenson saw again that light that & aa steadfast and unfailing as the bighate: It was the first time he had ever seq love eome inte her eyes for him. When silec came after Janet True's frenzied cutburt a litthe surrendering smile touched Bet lips She held her arma out to bir. “Oh, Bang! Isn't she—wonderfal? 1 try so hand to be good, Dededen't @ wey ATL vn, conquered by her emotion, gank for the first time in her undisciplicel life inte a swoon at his feet, where she Fe entwined instantly by Janet True © Little wurrns, Stevenson did not attempt to osen tht child's fierce embrace. He picked the fe of thom up together and carried them ilo the hmuse, explaining to the terrified Just that ber mother had only fainted. Andrewe, who had rapldly peassen himself from one of the pillars of salt," holeling the coor open for them, hes 274 awed and gratified wt a mirgcle which taking place on the lawn. Surely lt 7 quite comprehensible that the Land eval net allow euch a dog te be taken ofl in auch an unseemly fashion. Fut it is a tale of lifelong tolling = Andrews, in whom a proper respect fot Eee lish terriers wae ad deeply bred as hist once for old England, how Stevens 7! his arms full of women was beguiled ot from a fitting regard for gored dog f+ {€ontineesd on Page J34)

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THE Tie, neil Aristotle fa ds frag Aferanider, “disses oll Mnings.” te itis Mord chopier of Alps mew ooriscple, “Ardeos shes fm Afezander applied iheet philosophy fo fh rae rege dissalution of ihe otigily city of Tvre, a Pie > sc ¥ =n Z = =, er 5 Piet ther city of Tere, Cs * © Meee, al am Elgin of tefay: = DiGEcce, oad- - gee peeve fully eed bee Elgin Gucramire, The Va _ of ‘Time By Kronos Parndings by HAROLD DELAY LEXANDER the Great, setting out at twenty to conquer _ the world, found the city of Tyre blocking his path to glory. In Tyre he saw the key to the vast Persian empire. Its massive walls had withstood the battering of centuries. Solidly intrenched on an island half a mile from the shore, it was heavily guarded by the Phoenician fleets—while Alexander had only land forces. Calling together his engineers, the youth settled down to such a siege as never was on land or sea, Under an incessant bombard- ment from the island, he calmly proceeded to build a great pier straight across the ocean’s floor—a pier that stands to this day. Tradition says that when his generals murmured at the delay, Alexander answered, “I mast wait—for J’am om a Aurry!” Seven months of incredible toil bridged the gulf and made tim master of the seas. Hammering his way into Tyre, he opened an easy gateway to the empires of the East. His campaign of the next few years proved that his seven months had been well invested, Alexander, like Confucius before him, knew how to take Time to save ‘Time. ; ee, ei ae ay es SS ee ge MADE oh Olgit Watches x, ELGIK, wv, fh #&. SATURDAY EVENING POST The boy of twenty taught the world a lesson that will be remembered to the end of Time. Before his birth, Antiphon declared that the sacrifice of ‘Time was the most costly of all sactifices—atter his death, Theophrastus called Time “tte most valuable thing a man can spend.” Step by step, the world draws nearer to a practical recog- nition of the Fa/we of Time—and of the inestimable service rendered to mankind by those mar- welt ¥LIS timekeey 1eTh which stanel pruard over the priceless moments of today— — G@ Pai? gto warional wares om

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THE SATURDAY (Continaed from Poge B34) | For as they powel through the door, Janet Tre announced in a muffled voice from Stevenson's shoulder: “Say! Your dog's comin “to life! I gwess God's resurrectin’ him ee “ And Stevenson replied ghtly, neir bo 1p oval’: adog or two, dear, ia neath- ing—nothing at all, to what He's reaur- rected for mc to-day, He must just be throwing the dog in fer good measure." i T WAS some months after this that _ Janet True's eyes were operated upon. The day alter boy areas finn sent for mer bo coma be The maid rool ne directly wpetaira, where Mr. Bangor Ellington Stevenson himaelf softly opened the door for me ane in an emotional whisper warned men not to Talkin Souk “She's asleep. Firet time aince the oper- ation. Tan"t the game little brat now? Never cried once.” EVENING POST We tiptoed through to another room, Ann, white and tired, sot rocking beside a low bed on which lay a hota eh atill little figure with bandaged Was singing — a word lesa nation melody that only mothers know, and its sweetness swept the last veatige of worldliness out of her husband's fase. While she wae stall singing, Hot knowing us there behind ler, he felt impelled to share the wonder of it all with me, though I scarcely knew the man at the time, “Ever see Ann look so fine? he hissed atme. "Know why? Janet True's going to have o little brother—ah, our own, you. know, Wep; surest thing. Learned Tittle Ralshevils wants ont, so that's what she's going to have." And, ag it turned out, that is just what she had Dy chapter! is hie those who have won- y Ann came back just at the moment when the s needed her, It wae because ehe forgot the favere for ber luncheon party. THE COVERED WAGON (Continged from Pager 27! Wong # hillside or a marshy level; but it was for the meat part a uit, Mumrnis- takable road from which it hed bern im- possible to wander, Stretching out, closing ep: Seaoat Lael by inch, like syne gant measuring warm in ite alow p progress, train held on through a vast and etately landacape. (Snipe hemes more pelea wild ter ye still appeared in t im oree race fer any ¢lk were seen, more deer della Bl antelope, packed i in morth- ay by th A number of panthers and dy gay wolves beyond counting kept hunters always excited. The wide timberlands, the broken low hills of the green prairie at length began to give place to a steadily rising inclined Plane. Thesoil became lee black and heavy, with mare sand Fi . The oak and hi , Btout trees af thelr Lemay “and the cottonwoods oo r they had crossed the ford of the ts Bluo—a manned pent of racing waber— the soil wes sondier; the grass changed yet aguin. They had rolled under wheel by now more than one hundred different varietios ol wild grass, The: a tatiod begun to show the grow- ing altitude. ‘The cactus was geen now and then. They were passing from the Prairies to the Plains. Shouts ond cheers ar as the word passed back that the and | hills known a the Coasts of the Platte were in aight. Some mothers told their children they were now almost to Oregon. E Two thousand Americans, some of them illiterate and ignorant, all of them strong, taking with them law, order, society, the church, the school, anew were staging the great drama of human life, act and scene and episode, ns though wpon aome great movie platform drawn by invisible cables beyond the vast prosceniam of the hills, <rvir 5 THE long ered of the great wagon & train beake h the screening sand hilla there was Sicheti ghee and splendid panarame. The valley the Platte lay miles wide, green in the full covering of spring A “crooked and broken thread of timber growth appeared, marking the moister soi] and outlining the peneral course of the shallow stream, whose giant cotton- woods were dwarfed naw by the distances. In between, and for miles up and down the | flat expanse, there rose the blue smokes of countless camp fires, each showing tha lo- Sait of some white-topped ship of the Plains. Over all shone a pleasant sun. Now and again the dark shadow of a moving cloud poe ami aver the flat valley, saftening its igh lights for the time. "Look!" exclaimed Wingate, pulling up he horse. “Look, Caleb, the Northern train, is in and waiting for ‘us! A huniired The;' rh cum pel aver the whale The aight of this vast reinforcement brought heart to every man, woman and oe in all the advancing train, Mow, in= eed, Oregon was sure, There would be, all | told, four hundred—five hundred—above six hundred wagons. Nothing could with- — them. They were the aime os ore rived As the t trains blended before the final emparkment men and women who had never tet before shook hands, talked ex- citedly, embraced, even wept, such was their joy in meeting their own kind. Even eo, the Missouri column held back, an hour at two Inter on the trail, Hanion silent and moreae, still rode ahead, bot. all the flavor of his adventure out to A bed left him—indeed, the very saver af e itself, He looked ot his arma, em touched his lips, where once her kiss d been, ao infinitely and ineradicably swroct., Why should he go on te Oregon now? As they came down through the gan in the consts, Jocking out over the Grand laland and the great encampment, Jackson pulled wp hia horse. “Look! Someone coming aut!" Banion sat his horse awaling the arrival of the rider, whe soon cut down the inter- vening distane: until he could well be noted. A tall, spare man he wes, midd aged, of long, mute hair and aray ‘stubbed beard, and eyes overhung b hy brows, He rode an Indian id saddle, without stir- rups, ancl was clad in the old costume af the hunter of the Par West—frin shirt and leggings of buckskin. Moceasins made his foot-covering, though he wore a low, | vwicle: havt. He jerked up bis horse close at honed. and

eat looking at the newcomers, with no salu- tation beyord a short "Howt" Banton met him. “We're the Westport train. Do you | comefromthe Blufla? Areyou for Oregon?" “Yea. DT seen ye comin’. Thou projeck soma. Who's that back a extended an rH era sath skinny Sad Jackson. thnin"t Bil Jackson hit's his ghost!" “The same to » Jim. Howl" won two shook hands without dismount- Jackson turned grinning to Banion. “i a ajor, "said he, “this ts Jim Eri the oldest acout in the Rockies, and at knows more Weat than ary man this side the Missoury. I never sain to ser him agin, sartain mol this far tas “Ner me," retorted the A lier: shaking handa with ome man after another. “dim Bridger? That's a name we know,” sal Tanion. *T've beard of you back in Kentucky." “Whar I come from, gentlemen—whar Tecome from more'n forty year ago, mear’s T can figger. Leastwaya T waa borned in Virginny and must of crossed Kentuck sometime. I kuin't tall, right how ald i am, but I reck'lect perfect when they turned the water inte the Missoury River.” Helooked at them solemnly, “T come back East to The new place, Kansas City. It didn’t cut no mustard, an’ I drifted to the Blufls, This train was pullin’ west, and T hired on for guide, I've got a few wagons of my own—iren, four nod bacon far my post bryant the Rockies— ef we don't all git our har lifted afore then! “We're in between the Sioux and the Fawnes oom,” he went on. huntin’ the bufflera not ten mile ahead, But when I tell these pilgrims they laugh at me. “They're | The hull Sioux nation is on the |

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Jackson interrupted the parrulity af the other, “We buried men in blankets on the Vermilion a few daye back. The Pawnees got a small camp o' our own folks,” “ee [ koow all abet that.’ "What's that?" eut in Banion. “How fell, we fecal as the arth three o then berg He pret tl, their captnin.” they genie Baik wats a “anal outhe oa Mormons that was north o' the Vermilion. Lhe ‘d come out on the St. Jo road. They Tey Woodhull here—ean you find himT” shore! Ye want to see him?” “He told me all about hit ——" “We knew all about it, perha than Aa te he's told you all a Welles looked at him, CUTIOUS, “We eg boyd te i‘aover,"anidhe, “One al the mei Pawnen arrer in his ley, Reckon bit hurt I know, fer 1 carried a Blackfoot arrerhead under my shoulder Made fer sevor'| years. “Hut come clk diva and help me make these plgrine guards, Dsret mine, now, t ull Beas antintle just in abead o' us, other side the river. Yet these people didn't want te ford to the south side the Platte; they wanted, bo stick north of the river. Ef we had, we'd hove our h'ardryin' by now. I tell ye, the tribes is out to stop eaten Hotpngeniere lon They say, too, many women and children are comin’, an that shows we want to take their land away fer heepa. "From pow on te Oregon—lookaut! The Ep peor cleaned out ne ee ee ast spring in nid a ven the omnes igdancin', The Crees is out, the Cheyennes i marchin’, the Bannocks is east o' the pase, an” ¥o ‘kain't tell when ter expeck the lackfoots on’ Grow Vows, Never was ladder to set a man thon lam teeee Bill ackseon.”” “Stretch out!" Banion gave the order. The Missouri wagons came on, filed through the gap in atder and with military ¢xactvess w. into a perfect park at one aide the main Caran. As the outer columma swung in, the inner spread out till the lapped ges mide a great ob Bridger watching them. Quickly the animals were outspanned, the picket ropes put down and the loose horses driven off to feed, while the cattle. were close herded. He noelded his 1 “Who's yer train boss, Be i sien “de- manded. hat's good work, ane “Major Banion, of Doniphan's column in the war." “Wil he fight?" "Try him! News travels fast along a wagon train. Word posed now that there was a big Sioux village not far ahead, on the other side of the river, and that the caravan should be ready for a night attack. Men and women fram the earlier train came into the Westport comp and the leaders formulated plans. More than four hundred families ate in sight of one another's fires that evening. Again on the still sir of the Plains that night Foe the bugle summons, by now he eome familiar. ‘ groupe the wagon folk began to assemble at the council fire, They ob instructions which left them serious, he camp fell inte semisilence. Each fume ily returned ta ita own wagon. Cut in the dark, flung around ina wlele cirelé, a double watch stood guard. Wingate and his aids, Banion, Jackson, Bridger, the pick of the hardier men, went out for oll the night. lt was te Bunion, Bridger andl Jackson that most attention now was paid, Banion could not yet locate Woodhull in the train. better it it." EVENING POST The scauts crept out ahead af the lnat Picket line, far though an attack [i masa probably weuld hot come before dawn, if the Sioux really should cross the river, the horse atealing or an atbempted stam might bt expected before midnight or soon ter The night wore on. The fires of willow twigs and bois des reches fell into pale coals, into ashes. The chill of the Plains CAI, that the alee in the great wago drew their blankets closer about t them a8 they lay. Tt was approaching aE ris the. when the silence wos ripped apart e-keen crock of a Fule—anether ane yet another. Then, in a ripple of red detonation, the rifle fire ran along the upper front of the entire encampment, “Turn out! Turn aut, men!" called the igh, clear volce of Banion, Hiding back. articade! Fill in the wheels!” Evirr PPB night attack on the great emigrant | encampment was a thing which had been preparing for years. je increasing numbers of the white men, the lessening timber of the buffalo meant inevitable combat with all the tribes sooner or later. Now the apring hunt of the northern | Plains tribes was on. Five hundred oie | cm bhi | of tht Siowx steod in one alls north side of the Platte. The gids were red with meat, ia ugh wWwOMen WEE | dressing hides and the camp was full of | happiness. For a month the great Siam | nation had proapered, according to its lights, | Two hundred stolen homes were under the wild herdsmen, and a who liked the meat of the spotted buifalo might kill it celoer to comp from the scores taken owt of the ret caravans up the Platte that year— the Mormons and other early trailers whom. the Sioux despised because their horses were so few, But the Sioux, fat with boudiaa and dépowille and morrowhones, had wait long for the great Western train which should have appeared on the north alle of the Platte, the emigrant road from the Council Bluffs. For some days hei ey had known the renan, 24 ata.6 hd a hacl explained—the wagons the river below the Big Telandl The white men's mecicing was strong. The Saux did not know of Sige reat rendezvous at the forks of the Great i= ree Read. Their watehmen, stationed * at the eminences along the river blutls af the marth shore, brought back seodfing word of the ecarelesness of the whites, When they got pe they, too, would ford the river and take them in. They had not heeded the warning sent down the trail that no more whites should come into this country af the tribes. Tt waa te be war. And now the smoke signals sald yet more whites were cumming in from the south! The head men rode out to moet their watch- men. Hews came back that the entire white nation now had come into the valley from ‘the south and joined the first train. Here, then, waa the chance to kill off the entire white nation, thelr waren ane their | children, 50 there ‘would be none left tao |

/ j qu SSS SSS | come fram toward the rising sun! Yes, this | would end the race oa vb. wins without daubt or question, bere ney all wate | here. After killing Phone ker woul | send word weet to the Arapahoes and ¢ Ventres and Cheyennes, the (rows, the | Hlackfeet, the Shashones, the Utes, to fol- | low west on the Medicine Road and wipe out all who had gone on weat that year and the year before. Then the Plains and thar meuntatss would all belong to the red men ne The chiefe knew that the hour just before hs hike aE sca weet ey Sanat when his eyes are heovy, so they did not order the udvunce at once. But a of | | | the young men who always fought together, one of the inner secret ae or = cof the tribe, solar not wait so come, firetserved. Daylight 2 be tabi to look over the children and to keep thoes not desired for killing, and te select and dis- tribute the young women of the white na- tion. Hut the night would be best for taking the ell and the aspertted buffalo, Accordingly fram. this clan swam and forded t ewideriver, croased the island, and in the earl evening came downstream back of a shielding fringe of cottonwoods, Their eceouts daw with amazement the vil< lage of tepees that moved on wheels. They heard the bugle, saw the white nation gather at the medicine fire, heard them | a 137 Buy This Mechanically Perfect and Accurate CARTER auc GAUGE for your Ford or Chevrolet (490 and F. A.) UESSING at your ef) aupply cos pees money. Yoo either waste money birying t much calor yuu rum the Fink uf rarnang cut bear- ine when you lee your ail atu ily Pon coo bow You may incend co* “crawl under” and open the qetoocks bat vou neglect et, Install the Carrer Chl Gauge ang Yrarr engine will work becver. In addition, you will sae esr ey your cal ame wpiberp rong, Ateach the hi hit Pelished, mickel-paated Carter Chl Gauge to dash ar inaerumene boged, thread the cen mecting tabe through any hele in alash anil wach po bewer peaceck with an elbow as shown an lustraticen, Li uid) i bial I1gC hasx | actuated by aoe or ar in connecting tube, ify aa tl in crankcase Figes, dif in Goneeeie tabe ts forced wp, cams. ang Bquid it En Bape Wass fo rie, ghd wer ‘er. Nooilfows from ceask- case thru tube ard glass Bsns. When ae In guage is AL cu ththeoilin ee ig aE hh Tetenck Jewel: at “A it ia or lower perenck evel. hee plurgers, corks, ef ther moving parts bo ger oar of odie Operates in all kinds of weather al outlast life of car. Each alige is packel In attractive carbon woth instractzan sheet anil Guarantee of date faction or money re- fended. Hetaal pree— ELON ine, wordaal. If

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But when ot len A eclasia beuplisicokn hn Great Dipper the polat , the line af Sioux ctlanamen crawled away from the rine of treea and out into the cover of a litth: slough that made townral the village of tepees on wheels, a quarter of | a mile in front of the village men arose out of the ground and shot intothem. Five of their warriors fall. Tall«men in the dork came out and eounbed coup on them, took of thelr war bonnets; olf even more below the bonnets, And there was a warrior who role this way and that, on a great black horse, and who had a strange war cry not heard befare, and who seemed to have Tho aa tem So sald ghar cant leader when he told the story of the Taken aback, the attacking party fo found eover, But the Sioux woul atge three times. Go they aeattered and crawled in again over a half citcle, They found the wall of topees solid; found that the white nation kavwew mart ‘of war than they bed thought. They aped arrow after arrow, ball after ball, againat the circle of the white topees, but t did not break, and inside no ont mo ar cried out in terror; whereas outside, in the graga, men rose up and fired inte them and did nat run back, but came forward, Some had short rifles im their regi ponies heart not need to be | ded, ting. And none of | the white rise ihe tan away! And the elk | dogs with long eare, and the spotted buifalo, were mo longer outside the village in the grass, but inside the village. What men could fight a nation whee warrlora were ao unfair a2 all this came to? The tribeeamen drew back to the cotton woods a half mile. “My heurt is weak," said their clon leader, “I belleve they are galing to shoot us all. They have killed twenty of us now, and we have not taken a scalp, goon was closm,”” said = ron boy | whom colled Bull tetas or the Sittin awd “T was close, and I heard the apatted palnale running about inside the village; I Tear - chil . Tomorrow we con run thar away. But to-night what man knows the gate inte their vi They They have got a new chief tony are Many #3 ees leaves, Their miadleine | is strong. irene they are going to kil ue all bf we stay here.” Thus the partisan. So they did not stay there, but went away. And at down prety and Eridger and Jackson ond each of the column cap- tauing—othera alao—eame into the corral carrying war bonnets, shielda and bowa; and some hud thingy which had been once below war bonneta, The young men of this clan always fought on foot or on borae in | full regalia of their secret order, day or ‘night, The eikgrauite had plenty of this ] ev CG wor peur now. eve bent them off," sald B “anid maybe they won't ring us mow, rs the cookin’ dene, Cap'n Banion, and let's | roll cut. But for your wagon park they'd have cleuned us." The whites had by na mean eaica actathelees. A dogen arrows stood sunk ite the sides of the wagons inside the park, hundreds had thudded into the outer sides, nearest the enemy. One shaft was driven inte the hard wood of a plow bear. Eight oxen stage , lege wite npart, shafts fast in their bodies; four lay dead; two homes also; a many mules. This waa not all. As the fighting men approached the wagons they saw a group af | stern-faced women weeping afeund some | thing which tn covered by a blanket on the uml. ally Wingate stooped, drew it | Back ba ee them, and even Bridger | whneed, An arrow, driven by a buffalo bow, had lanced on the spokes of n wheel, risen tn ils flight and sped entirely acroas the in- eloaure of the corral. It hed slipped through the canvas cover of a wagon on the oppo site side as =f much paper in caught fnir a women who was iyi ih ot, & nursing baby in ber arma, aheadieg it, as ahe thought, with her bady. But the missile had cut through one of her arms, Merced the head of the child and sunk into the “fprif is, basom of the mother deep enough ¢ her also. The two lay now, the shalt + fixing bath; and th were buried | and. they lle there still, somewhere nes Grand Island, in one of a thousanc known and unmarked Chg tu Mong Great Medicine Road. nder the ast i fire they left this grave, and drov hundred wagons over it, and the In never Knew, The leaders stood beside: the dead wim hats in hond. This wos part of the | of emplre—the life of a Young wom bride of a year. The wagons all broke camp and wen in a vast caravan, the Missourians ne the front. Noon, and the train did halt. Banion urged the teamaters. Eri: and Jackson were watching the many nal snvehes, "D'm aleared of the next bend," : Jackson ot length. The fear waa justified. Early in afternoon they saw the outridera turn 1 come back to the train at full ran, Bed them, riding out from the concealment a chump of cottonwends on the near side the scattering river channels, there ; peared rank alter rank of the Sioux, mm then two thousand warriors bedecked all the savage finery of their war dre They were their newe » They b left their village and, paralleling the wk mins aivance, had forded an abrad, came oot now, five Hundred, cig hundred, a thousand, two thousand atrog and the ground shook under the thuside the hoofs, ‘They were after their reves sar to inflict the finel blow cand whibe nation. The spot was not ill chosen for the tactics. The alkali plain of the vail swung wide and flat, and the trail cron it michway, far back from the water apd ai quite ta the fanking sand hills, Whik fow dashed at the cattle, waving tha blankets, the main body, with workmas like precision, strung out ‘and awing wi circling the train and riding in to are Fal The quick orders of Banion and & scouls were ohare: as fully as time allowed At a gallop, horse and ox transport ali were driven inte a hurried park and som at least of the herd animals inchosed. Th riflemen Hanked the train on the dange side ane fired continually at the long stray of Punting horses, whose ridera had fluy themselves off-side so that only a bai showed above a pony's back, a face unde hit neck. Even at thia Funge kealll a. doces ponies stumbled, figures crawled off J cover, The emigrants were atark mex with Tifles. Hut the circle went on wotil, at Ge Tunning range selected, the crode Te purk was entirely surrounded by 2 tn racing Ting of steel and fire stretched of over two or three miles. The Sioux had guns also, and thougt they rested moat on the bew, their chain nifle fire was dangeroua. As for the ater. even from this disadvantageous etatoi these peerless bowmen sent them u rh i high pitch so that they fell inside clature and took their tall, Three men, ive WOEKEEL lay wounded at the first ride, id the animals were plunging The war chief led his ‘wartiors in tive eifcle once mare, chanting his own ste the continuous chorus of savage wholatent The entire fighting foree of the Sioux rilage was in the circle, The ring ran closer. The Sioux were i- alde seventy-five yards, the dust streamed, the hideously painted faces of the mbes showing through, ted, saffron, yellie, u one after another warrlor twangrd a be under his horse's neck as he ran = But this was easy range for the stead) [ riffes of men who ae led and fined wil careful aim. Even the ale-shoobe, © new to the Sioux, could work. Poay 2 pony fell, until the ling showed ee whereas now the wagon corral] shovel gop at all, while through the cae A over the tongue spaces, from tie! A of the gray towering wall came edn more and more men. The medicine & white men wos slrong. Three times the ring , ond CE waa all. ‘The third circuit was wilt ragged. The riders dared not com 6 enough to carry off their dead andwutt™ Then the wttack dwindled, the erage scaticring and breaking back to Bee of the age = “Now, men, come on!” called & Banion, “Ride them down! Give = a trimming they'll remember! Cer pee boos! (oentinged! or Page 240)

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We raised his woice Law ferse yell af trirmph, nat much other than savage himself, digmounted and discdainfully cast his trophies acres a wagon tongue. “Tye et horse an’ mule an’ dog,” said he, “an' wolf, wil'ent an' nk, an’ perrairy dog an' anake an’ moat everthing that wears a hide, but I never could eut Sioux. But temorrer we'll have ribs incamp. U've seed the buffler, on’ we own this side the river now." Molly Wingate sat on a bed roll near by, knitting 2s calmly as though at home, but filled with th. "Them nasty, dirty critters!" she ex- claimed. “I wish't the bove had killed them all, Even in light they don't star dr fight fair like men. IT lost oo whole churnin’ yesterday. Besides, th killed my heat cow thia mornin’, that's what thay, done. And lookit this thing!" _ She beld up an Indian arrow, it's strap- iron head bent aver nt right angles. “They shot this inte our plow enn. Laake like they pot a spite at our plow." “Ma‘am, they have got a spite at hit,” anid the old seowt, seating himself on the ound near by. “They're scared o° bit. ve seed a bunch o” Sioux out at Laramie witha plow some Mormon left around when | he died. They'd walk around and sround that thing by the hour, talkin’ low to their- selves, They couldn't figeer hit out no wiys a-tall, F That season they sent a tanner dewn to the Pawnees to make a peace tall, an’ to | find out what this yere thing waa the whites had brung out, Pawnees sent to the t ,an’ the Otecs told them. They said it was the white man's big medicine, and that it buried all the bwifler under the gtound wherever it come, 20 no buffler ever could git out again. Machel, when the runners come bock an’ told what that thing really waa, all the Injuna, every tribe, said if the white man waa goin" to bury the buffer the white man had got to stay back. ra Tne réan* traders gat along purty hinge “Ta tra well with the Injuna—they eoulel pret they wanted at the posta or the rendyvous, an’ that was all right. They had polts to zell, But now these: movers didn't buy nethin’ an’ didm’t sell nathin'. They jist went on through, a-carryin' this thing for buryin® the buffer, From now on the Injuna goin’ to fight the whites, Ye | kain"t blame ‘em, ma'am; they only see | | their finish. “Five years ago nigh a thousand whites drape down in Oregon, Mext year come fiftetn hundred, an’ in “di twiert that many, an’ 60 it has went, deublin® an’ doublin’. Six or seven thousand whites go up the Platte this senson, an’ a right smart Bprinklin' o* them ll git through to Oregon. hem "at doves'll carry plows. _ “Ma'am, Wf the brave that sunk a arrer in yore plow beam didn't kill yore plow hit warh't becuse he didnt want to. Hit's the truth—the plow doe bun the buffer, an' fer keeps! You kain't killa plow, ner metther kin A Ae scare bit away, it's the hbeldin‘est & Ing ther is, ma'am hit never dos let go." “How Long'll we wait here?" the older women denanderd, “Anyhow fer tewthree days, hen'sm. Thar’s a lot bes get to sort out stull on’ throw hit away here, One man haa drug a pair o' millstones all the way to here from Ohio, He allowed to git rich startin’ # gris "mill mt in Oregon, sin’ then ther" choirs an’ tailes, an’ Gad knows what———" “Well, anyhow,” broke in Mra, Wingate truculentiv, “no difference what you men SLY, I pin*t Boing bo lene my bere, nor my table, nor my chaira! I'm going te keep my two churns and my feather bed too, We've had butter all the way so far and L mean ta have at all t way—inh cee. L mean to sleep at nighta, too, if the aiey mitskesters'l) let me. They mst. have et me up. And I"d give a dollar for a drink of real water now, It's all right to setdle this water overnight, but that don't tuke the aedy out of it. “Hesides,"" she went on, “I got four warts a” seed wheat.in ane-of them bureny awera, and six cuttings of my best rose bush I'm taking wut vi gt in Ciregan, Jed's socks it EVENING POST another bureau drawer, It's flat on its hack, bottom of the load. I ain°t going to dig it gut for no mon." “Well, hang on te them socks, ma'am. I've wintered many a time without none— only grass in my moccasins, There's out- fite in this train that’s low on flour and side meat right now, let alone socks, We got ta cure game meat. There's a million buffer just south in the breaks wantin" to move an north, but seared of ua an” the Injuns, We'd orto make a good hunt inside a ten mile tosmorrer, We'll git enough meat te take uta week te jerk bit all, or elae Jim Bridger'a a liar—which no one never has said yet, me's, “Flowers? he added. “You takin’ flowers acroat? Flowera—do they go with the plow, too, aa well as weeds? We . well! Wimminfolks shore air a strange race o° people hoin't that the trath? Duryin’ the buffler an’ plantin® flowers on his grave! “But speakin’ o° buryin" things," he suddenly resumed, “an' speakin' o plows, ‘minds me o’ what's delayin’ us all right now. Hit's o fool thing, too—buryin' Tnjuns!" “As which, Mr. Bridger? What you mean?” inquired Molly Wingate, looking aver her spectucles., : “This new man, Hanlon, that come in with the Missouri wagons—he taken hit on himself to sny, atter the fight was over, we arte stop an’ bury all them Injuns! Well, I heen on the Plaina an’ in the Rockies all my life, an’ I never yit, before now, seed a Injun buried.. Hit’s onnatcherl. But thia here man he, now, orders a ditch plowed an” them Injuns bauled in an’ planted, Hit’s wastin’ time. That's what's keepin’ him an" yore folks an’ sever'l others. VYore husband an’ yore son is both aut yan with him. Hit beats hell, ma'am, thes new- fangled waya!"' “So that's where they are? I wanted Livin to fetch me something to make a re “T kain't de that, ma'am. Mostly my laws —— “Your what? Do you mean te tell me you got squaws, you Od heathen?" “Nat many, ma'im—aonly two. Times is hard sence beaver went dawn. I kain't tell ye how hard this here depresain’ has set onus folks aut here.” “Two squaws! My lows! Two—what's their names?" This last with feminine curiosity, “Well now, ma'am, I call one on “em Blast Yore Hide—she's a Ute, The other ia YOunger an’ pertier, She's a Shoshone, I call ber Yore Eyes. Hoth them women ia powerful fondo’ me, ma'am. They both are right prowd o° their names, too, becauae they are white nies, yesen, Now when Gime conves fer a fire, Blast Yore Hida an’ Dang Yore Eyes, they fight hit out betwern ‘om which gits the wood. I don't study nane over thant, ma'sum. ally Wingate rose so ruffled that, like an angered hen, she seemed twice her size. “You old heathen!’ she excluimesd. “You old murderin® lazy heathen man! How dare you tall: like that to me?" “doa what, ma'am? I hain't anid nothin’ out'n the way, have [7 ©" course, ef ye don't want toa git the fire staff, thar’a yer dnrier—she's yung an” strong. Yes, an’ perty a8 a picter besides, though like enough triftin’, like her maw. Where's she at now?" “Wane of your business where.” “T could find ber." "Oh, vou could! How?" "Dd tind that voung feller Sam Woods | hull that come in from below, renegacdin' away from his train with that party o' Mormons —him that iad lis camp jumped by the Pawners, | gota eye fer a woman, ma'am, bot saa he-—-more'n fer Dnjuns, Tdeay. Tseed him with yore darter right constant, but T seemed to miss him in the ride. Whar was he ati" “T don't know as it's none of your busi- née, anyways.” “Nol Well, I waa just wonderin", ma"am, becous 1 heerd Cap'n Banion ost that sume quetiion oo” yore husband, Cap'n Wingate, an’ Cap'n Wingate done sald jest what ye sald yerself—that hit wasn't none o' his business. Which makes things look share hopeful an" pleasant in this yere train of pilgrims, this bright and. pleasant summer day, huh?" 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Doctor Easton, of the Westi Mise Company, bas kept in as clase touch with Fiadlic a8 anyene, ard he hold that radio poesibilities of entertainment and instruction not yet comprehended even by those who are familiar with wire developments to date racdiophane receivers of to-marrow will be as different from the sets now used ag ire nit-lay motor cara are different from first ma- chines that were built, Radio bulletins will mule it possible for Jnatene Born the whole notion to follow a football ao dloeely that a tetane listener will know a Yale back Has circled the Crimson's right end and is tearing down the field Bea has not yet been downed. Mt ih EA! ng ite message oup in ¢ la farmbouse as ehh and satisfac torily as to the dweller in the heart of a erent city. ‘The members of n family livin riiles from a rallrowd and recelving : but onee a day will likely profit moat of all from the development of the radio tele plone. In the past a farmor’s family could ind lithe to interest , on, long winker evenings if they had grown tired of thelr bh records and were situated too ar {rom etna to reach & moving-picture theater ase AES ate they con cluster nround on radiotelephone: set, and firat on the they eon hear a story for the Pogran children, a tale af falries, deverly pr ed and told to Please the little folks and send them to bed ina happy mood, Then comes the news of the , and in a few min- utes the farm folke have been sequalnted with the high apota of the day"a world affairs, Next comes a concert or a song recital, and then the evening ends with an interesting widrest by some distinguished leader in business or public life, In the marning the farmer may hear market and crop re- ports, goveroment agricultural bulletins, wenther forecasts and the official time, On Suniay, if the weather is bod and the fam- Uy are unable te get to church, the com- plate Teligious services of some selected church, located a hundred or more miles anyway, canbe heard, Itissimply impossible ta @elirnotke what the value the radia Phone will be te these of our people whe are cut off from the outside world. Tt is difficult if not impossible to find anyon who is well versed in electrical matters whe dots net see un ex ng field for radia. Doctor Steinmetz, the electrical wizard at Schenectady, ox to mo his belief in a bright future for redia for brondlecnsting, and stated that as the art advances it will ie possible to wee many more wave ne Se than we can now use, die io Ge ame ity i apa gradually a quire to control with greater accuracy the wave length and ta confine it absolutely within apecified bounds. Jn the Realm of Surmise The aagineera if the American Telephone and Te ompuny are deeply inter- ested in t raph of the radio telephone as part of a commercial system of interes: miinicution. It is their belief that the practical Geld for radio telephony lies in connection with those situations where it is impracticable to employ wires, a8 im the rast of communications between moving vebleles, from ship to ship, from ship ta shore, from airship te ground, and similar | classes of service. All these flelda are bein explored, and in time they may be deve oped into useful suecliiaries to the wire sOrvice. The telephone experts alee recognize the possibilities of radio in furnish a One way broadcasting service which will handle Tews, mlisie, syste ant the like, from a central statlon, They that the number cl wave lengths available for this service is limited, but that they are preparing to furnish this broadensting service to stich an extent as may meet the commercial de- manda of the publle. There is nvuch that ia mot understood about wireless, even by the most pichly trained studenta of the subject, People profess to to know very much abaut todin ure rare # mens these days, for at resulta ree have been little: ex and Jeas understood have been or- curring with disturbing frequency in recent months. Just why andl how radio la ao reatly afected by atmoapheric conditions ls not entirely clear. An amateur in New Jorsey, using only a modest traneenltt outfit, sent a wireless message to a frien lesa than a hiindred miles way, and was teariy heard in Scotland. Many similar happenings have proved that when atmce- phoric conditions are just right the wireless waves will curry literally to oe ends of the earth, while on other days, when conditions in the atmmaphere are unfavorable, even the most re —_ papa er! set will ex- rience culty in its message 2 ph the ether, speaking of eth ae gt rare we pores Up ag a problem that is per- lexing. We r frtlataa ether than we = & stecteinity and that's not ver much. common theory i is that. ether 4 rm se electromagnetic medium, and it ia the strain that existe or is made to exist in itthat constitutes what we call electricity, AE any rate, without ether it is supposed there would Ie ne such thing sa electricity, and without ether it is hard to wee howthore | could be ang auch thing aa radia, assuming | it is agg ER nag sai the wireless waves, According e present con tion the ether fills all space and exists pea within the densest bodies, whether they are colt and heavy, like lead, of hard andl brittle, like the diamond. It is the ether that corries rudinnt onerey of all rity including the waves which transmit li Just. asthe discovery of radium an ie application to life and industry are pee ench day a better understanding of the erties! of the atom, so will the use ot ted T and the atudy of wirelest phenomena give the world a clearer concep phenomena ve Matter and Ether Tt is the ether that is the connecting link between what we know wa th materinl or physical and things spiritual. The life impulse of motion in matter is theught te bt produced by the ag af the etheric Se gtomint citerin te eronlind ia perhaps ator etherie units n unatomized etheric atrecapheres in mother. We talk of the earth's atmosphere as being etheric, umd of course this is perfectly true. But if we carry the thought a step farther | it is plain that what we call the air le but a body of ether, without beginning or end, and in it float atomized units of oxygen, nitrogen, and so on, which float in the other because of thelr rotative tmetion, Some day we shall better understand the relation- sn between what we call bodies in motion bat lals call ether in motion, Nothing the horizon at the prevent time holds forth greater hope of adding ta human knowledge along this line do the study and development of radio. the very nning of time man has been devoting hirssell seriously to t tazk of analy and imitating the won- ders of Mature, When the first man uttered the first word a perfect wireless apparatus wie pul inteoperation, The Creator p in each of us a sending and a recelving set It will be along time before human will be able to build a redio receiver that will be able ta eelect the desired wave lengths with auch delicate distinction as does the human ear. At the present time, in practical operation, it is difficult to select one radio message from another unless there is o difference of about thirty meters in the length of the too sete of waves. The big development in the near future of wireless will be the perfecting of feesiving aot that will materially narrow the wave and. enable the radio operater toe adjust his appara Paratus to various sets of wave lengths that a not differ from one another by anv thing | ike so much thirty meters, What the endl will be it la not podalble to predict, and it is because of this uncertainty that no one can foretell ‘ares how many aul. casting stations will be able te operate in any prescribed anew, tn sending i message by wireless the radiop! transmitter must vibrate elec- trically at a certain rate, which is deter- mined by what is called the inductance and capacity af the circuit, The electrical vibra- ions fash out through the ether in ever- whiening circles, at thea of light, which. is 126000 miles a second, of the equivalent al 300, 000,000 mentera a, . 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST the frequency of their recurrence. If the transmitting set is ia i at a frequency of 834,000 a second, then by aividing 400,000, 000 by S43, O00, we 460, whi figrure gives: ut the length o! the waves in meters Everyone understands that the ether which surrounds us is literally filled with TMses, at the radio beginner likely at first will not understand just: why, if this is true, he eon wiljust his receiver to hear a certain apeech or song that is being sent out through the air. The plan used to eliminate radio interferences is casily tinderstood if one will only indertinke a simple experiment that bs familiar to all musicians, Preas down the forte, or loud, pedal, af a piano, 80 that the strings are re- od, and then whistle some note or sound @ note on a violin, sound wires fram yeur mouth ar from the string of the ¥iolin will instantly set the corresponding piano string into vibration, which can be immedintely determined by hath the enr and the fingers. It will be 7 ated that the aitrling which is belng exelted will vibrate while mo other atring in the piano will be much affected, If the note you whistle or wadice with the violin is made to ascend oF fd in piteh it will be found that the paso string vibrates with greatest ampli- tude only when the note you produce is in agreement with the pitch ow the string in the plane. Similarly radio-braadeastin stations adjust their [natruments te ser of waves of a given length, and the mes- sages that are sent out are caught and heard anly by reecivers thot are tuned to that same wave length. Furthermore, the Toceivers 80 adjusted will net be affected ry mcssiges of other wave lengths. Cn practically all receiving sets is a din! which permita the operator te tune bis in- strument to whatever wave length be de- sires, provided it Jies within the range of his machine, [t ts therefore certain that before lang the broadcasting stations will adopt certain wave lengtha for each par- | titular kind of feature that is tranamitted to the ether, and no one else within a Ln tala anem will be permitted to use exactl these sane wares. One wave length ‘will he weed for market news, another for | financial notes, a third for news of world affairs, while other waves will carry speeches and music. When this time cormmes— arid it is. Trot far distant—the dial on each reeeiy- in set will have engraved on it auch tithes rop Ke orts, Sporting News, General News, £ Children's Stories, Church Services, Classical Coneerts, and se on. The owner of one af these radiophone recelvera will simpiy set the dial on lis apparatus to whatever fonture he desires to hear, and at stated intervals during the aay OF vit ning the desired message will be eaupght and heard. The Mystery of Dead Areas There is very little dowbt but that the members of cortain industries who are vitally interested in ewch day's market que tations of other important facts bearing on their businesses will arrange to use radio SOTVICE, paying the tolophone CoMPALY oT some oobher broadcasting organization ai oh papi aunt for auch dally servics, whieh he sent out once or twlee a day at a ciaadibed time. Already certain indus- tries have taken this matter up in earnest, and there is little doubt bat that the dream of auch service will bea realized fact before long, In this way radio will bring the fel- | lewrin the little town ws cloas to the market ws the man who sits in an office on Wall a HH & oe See ee ee Be 8 For Your Own “Protection Learn How to Tell Genuine Linoleum BURLAP adds resiliency and flexibility to linoleum. Its tough fibres are not readily torn and give to linoleum its strength and durability. All genuine linoleum is built on a sturdy Burlap back. Buy genuine linoleum for service, economy and permanent satisfaction. z. —— ———SS=—_ JUTE INDUSTRIES, Ltn., q20 Broad way Ikew York Ciiy Ark your mie} chan’ fo shew me yd the scouen BURLAP back bE Ess = = 2 ate ene nasa s sae ss ea en eso oes ” Su ride on “a liquid cushion | Street in New York. Hoo-D in | levine Let no one think, however, that all this in if i i ; : .' | ‘A 2, y that ends the shovks thar het ip kind of development will come smeothly Pokicit 1 nerve cxhausuon amb irequent ill-health to the matorist—ihy nunutd without a ripple of opposition from laying: a gentle and reatraining hand upon springs enthusiasm, Settee bade ait’ cates ann Latre will Not merely a shock abserber—but a Hquid cushion —that mildly compete. For instance, one In compels your car to nave with welvet ease over any kind news service of international seape recently af toad. le ends the day of Gitesne mater travel—of road iliseavered that news for which it char “tshell aback", abd makes it instead a resthu] fecreation. amall tere seal nominal fee was Every We have published a teokkee by KH. Keadeick Smith, sent out by radio, and several country MD, 20, pone of America's foremost physiciane amd obeo- Hate Liye ia aepalad aqelge fpend onic mepmis et ibe fine rel ee cam, aad in thie meaniry i om slandard tylpmecng oa arin) rg. home, while mane ifeu- vite hace bees applied qa Parkards, Parree-Arrena, Cadlilace, Stade bakers, Meme, Hodsena, Hosrke and other of Aiedica yd Geel pupers were petting a splendid service for nothing at ali. In cases of this kind the Car Gil Tefela FR dere for Ger Neanve Dyriribator HOO [MOU DAILLE } patha, “How Moteting Shock Atect the Nervoret Seiten", For his own healch'a dake, every erturie shock’ have a copy. Send for it today, andthenever atter Ride Earp with Hoo- Dre's. Tae Hevnaiice Comtant, i¢65 Wrest Avrouc, Huflac, Siow Wook Manu facrared Behe Moude Enpicnarss f Com. Canadonn Bistributem: Caradian Faithanke Mone Ce., Lid., Mectreal ‘DYE SHOCK ABSORBERS HYDRAULIC parties coneermed will be compelled te make arrangements aod take such action as will be necessary to safeguard the inter- este of news companies engaged in o legiti- mabe osiness. With T0000 radio seta actively in use here in the United States, and with several million people directly interested in the camparatively pew art, it is certain aoe rent sped will be made in adyvancin eer toa level of permanent ar a April 15, $ and stability. Not all the discoveries be made b: acperes working in great ly Tatories. million YoOUNE men, m with a fair knowledge of electricity, play a live part in the progress of a Already I have heard of two sect! of the country that are amicl to be ‘des Why, no one seems to know. Bearing this game phenomenon is the experienc a young fellaw in Southern California, a in trying to send a Menage by radio t friend in San Francisco, wae heard in city oof Washington, several thous miles. away wheres he couldn't re San Francweo, only a few hundred mi away, ince the ether carries the ra waves, and, as stated, the ether exists the densest gronite, it is nltogether pr able that the ground is a eonduetor Wireless waves, very much a8 ia the air. Dertor Steinmets tellame that the thes that wircloss waves may travel throw the ground as well os through the air wellin accord with accepted electrical les He i that a return circuit must | provided, and thatinasmuch as the send mnbenni ‘aed the ripe n paratiy beth connected te the ane Ty reason why the SHGhEL tbs may not conductor for the return circuit Pg nateven cary wireless wawes itself, Pa hapa one PERN sone places ore dead | because there is a break in the return cuit. There will be any number of prob Lomas of this Mind that will arise from ti to time and that will make in paints for amiabeurs as well wo profey sionals to apeculate upon. Obstacios Surmounted Each day, practica apoaking: aces | new step forward in oat amiateun who have become familiar ‘ie the work of their scts have an intelligent umderstan ing of audio frequency amplification, easily frequency am amplif fiention has more or leas of a mystery. Now tia is few that the radio 2 Tregneny amplifier is desirable ge cially to amateurs ¥, ane wing a srrual al antenna and a somes unfavorable receiving. operators, by merely laerting ane or m0 stages of radio frequency arnplificatia cin baild up the weak currenta that pre viowdy had possed through their detectors without being rectified, until they am apenhs of producing a loud signal, Avco ag le Are amplification can mow be ook these signs: to any desired in tensity. Amateure living close te trolley lines hare found that the sparking from. the passing aes great] ager tei with the ale wear permuon of ther receevi One trent radio fan ees et that he could eliminate the greater part of the disturbance from the trolley a arrangine his a@rind so that it runs at right nnegles to the trolley wire. Another investigalot | found that with single-strand airiak, #t up in different directions, the interfeteso from the tralley is almost completely re moved, This is a ype of the kind af ce formation that will be fortheoming fren day to fo rat koe Hig at newspapers throughow e qouniry @f aged | in a wild scramble for ev act or wrinkle that is new and helpdul it # a safe bet that the advances in the at wi come with record speed, hen we must net overlook the fact Gal the universities in many etabes have adtec the atudy of tadio te the schee) corncls In some of the colleges radio clubs have heen established, and theae keep ot hous every night to give the student 2 opportunity to practice the operation both receiving and transmitting set. lt half a dosen states the agricultural viper are browiemsting weather r ped crop and market news. Very few of the callers have gone in for amusing the publis !! being their claim that they are academic’. not theutrical, The schools of technology are using Padia oublite primarily for exper mental purposes in connection with the? courses on the theory of radio engine Chut of these colleges will come mc = beer Fit. As is always the case in the develyperett aoa new industry, the radio busine 8 api | to contend with the actiaue a multitude of Inkers who are d art inealeuloble harm, Ca penpanie being organized to float all kare of called wonderful radio Tnventians at ps eent of which have oo merit of racic use. In one instance a crook aqverlee (Centinard on Poge [44)

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THE SATURDAY (Continaed from Poge Ja2) a Teoniving set for ane at an absurdly bow price, and Lwho were interested te come in and aee a demonstration. Several hundred gets were sold on the strength of the splendid reaults obtained, but the un- wire, puleanets did not know or tetnke Ou t a crystal Peceiver, whic: ‘thay believed had supplied the great volume of sound which came from the loud T the currents that produced the satisfactory resulta hed come from a vacuum-tube de- tector and Ave atages of amplification which the trickster had secreted under the equater. purchase and | Everyone proposi to install a radio sot should take time and ine veatigate carefully before porting with his money. There are three general classes. oa receivers, of which the crystal set is the Next comes the vacuumebube the nerative neiple. ‘This feta cBeaud conve: is +t most matia- factory, although of courae it is the most pep Tt ia not often thet a tal wet. l do good work, and frequently it ie necessary to buy several plecea of mineral before a good crystal is secured, Few crystal sets tune up sharply, and oll of ert ae 9 wae ot Peet: Many pecple in Brooklyn fi seta are oe to receive radio , tao sent out by the broadcasting station in Newark, less than fifteen miles w . Vaewum-bube seta are twenty-five to fifty thes as effi- cient a8 are the ervatal sets. In using a vacuum tubp itis well to bear in mind that it melds only a very little to the coat te odd regeneration. iver sete range in price from ten dollars to $250, A high-grade apparatus af stan make, useful within a radius af twenty mol con be purchoaed for $92.50. This apparatus duces sounds that are clear, bat not loud, unless the owner is wery clone to the broadcasting stations, An average receiver set having a fenge of eeveral hundred miles can be pur- ehased for seventy-five dollara complete. This set requires an ordinary dry cell, a special dry battery, and a sensitive clement nae vectum tube, which cowts $7.60 to replace. In fet, if the receiver of this pet is used for periods each day the yvaruum tube and the dry cell mest be re newed onen a month at | ‘Tf the pro spective weer of radio wishes to receive Heaagea over a range of a thousand miles he must pay from $200 to F260 for his set, which requires two batteries, costing three dollars, three yacuum tubes, coating six dollara each, and a aborage battery. The dry batteries and the tubes require periodic renewing, and the storage battery, if used constantly, Tust be recharged once a month. With this last instrument a loud speaker can be , enabling everyone in a room to hear the messages without the use of ear es, Bach a device costs trem ten dollars to $100, depending on the uality and yolume of the sounds it pro- wens, When Radio Becomes Common In the case of the crystal detector it is ne to adjust one of the members of the set util a sensitive apot is found on the large tal, This detector has to be re. ndfusted eect time it lowes ita sensltiveness. In .compurison with thia, the vacuum tole is far more constant and itiwe in ite operation, and is adjusted mans of a tT tat, which controls the fow af filo- ment current. The vacuum tube ia far more sensitive than the crystal, and is al- ware more satisfactory. ni the matter of the inna, Seth it should be remembered that the better the receiving apparatua the amaller the atrial required, In some cases amateura wae hing more than twenty-five to fifty foot of magnet wire, econcenled behind the molding af the roam in which the receiving set has been installed, Of course the rane af a teceiving set is materially extended a larger atrial ie erected. Some people believe that the deve ment of radio telephony will be only a little less important in its effect on our lives than the invention of printing. In the amuse ment Geld it will be second only ta the motion pictures. When radio broadcasting has been developed a little further it is cer- tain thata dozen or more different kinds of features will be sent out concurrently on different wave lengths, ao that the members of any family owning and using a radio | Peceiving set will be able to choose fram o EVENING POST variety of fentures that particular lecture or other number on the program which strikes their faney. Radio has an advan- tage over the press beenuse ite action is immediate, It is also superior to the tele- Phone ond the telegraph, for these reach only specific points, while wireless tele phony covers an area. Tt is not too much to say that the radio- phone will tend to develop the people of a | nation inte one family and will aerve effec threly in removing euch obstacles to inter- national amity aa the boundary lines that. | separate nations, Hadio enthusiasts pre- dict that wireless. broadcasting will uplift the popular taste in music and the spoken drama; it will link up the affielals of the government with the eitizerns , are supposed to serve, and the result will be that reactions to great isaues will be direct, awift and powerful, In the matter of come munication it ls the nearest app ta | the instantaneous that human minds have | ever conceived, It brings a distant voice to our tars and causes the crea ‘eine So of | the telephone to vibrate simultaneously and in unigon with the voeal eards of the speaker. If the President were to peal | in a great auditorium in Washington hia | veice could bo made to reach the ear of a | listener at a radiopbone in New York more | aaney. than the sare words would reach the ears of those members of the Preal- dent's audience in the auditorium sitting in the last row of the gallery. | The Scientific Fans A lot of folks are fearful of the future of radio in those fie f communication where it appeara to fit, because wireless messages cannot be sent in privacy. Let no ont doubt but that this handicap will 000 overcoma. Al ¥ instruments have been invented which send out mea sages in code with tremendows speed, and | other machines decode these messages wt the receiver. People Picking up euch memapes would not be able to understand them, and certainly would not be able to decipher the code in thme for it te be af ractical use. All much. code machines will uble to alter the code they use whenever It la found desirable to do on, Then there is another instrument which will soon be on the market and which will send out the voice so greatly distorted that anyort listening in would hear nothing mare than an unintelligible hash of words or sounds. With this’ inetruvent goes a receiver which is designed te plek up the gibberish and convert the sounds into in- salle’ laongunge, With such inventions i e, ft ia aafe ta say that the ether Will goon become as aale a conductor as the cable or the private wire. The development of radio telephony has rewdy wivancedl to the point where it is purely a public matter, and the whole ture of the art or industry must be shaped in accord with the tsa a of the preabest good far the whole people. The great trouble that now appeara will be in controlling the army of ambitlous ama- teur enthusiasts who really mean to do mo harm, but if periaaiad to operate at wall would goon choke up all the receivers in their neighborhoods. M of theae fang, who are more interesbed in being Weard than in hearing, entirely overlook the fart | that the great mass of the public ia not imbued with scientific interest but is wholly concerned about being entertained, and it is this great majority of our citizens who will have the lost word te say with Telerence to the rules and regulations that must be preseribed for raclio, Though the entettninment uses of rilio appeal mest just now to the average naan it will not be long before everyone will | comprehend the true worth of this mew art as a ocemmercionl and industrin| psset. Though it is entirely poaalble, when at- rioepleric conditions are favorable, to talk across the continent or for even greater distances over water, such long-distance eammuniention by radio is far fram belng dependable, and day in and day out is not to be compared in reliability, service or | apne 7 cy enti es of mes | sages by wire. However, for a one-way | broadessting aerview, to reach @ great nun- ber of people in a limited area, radio offers an interesting as well as a promising field. The first sailor ant eommercin) broad- emating station is now belng erected on tap of a twentytlour-atory building in the downtown section af New York City, This station will be operating within a few weeks. and will wee an antenna 1) feet |

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' Tht wid eyo 4 ae ee et ater Pra den eae re A roe Bnd aa Le oe CHINESE GOOD LUCE FING md obtaan a copy of ite éaefory. ‘ona geaenee eithenut the © #lasnped neta ibe ring ! ee sheer body mshi fall la oh ee foul pf hs (GL) lad He pelts THE SATURDAY This important distributing station bin be ae with the latest develop- | ments, including the use of electrical ltera whereby, aa the hrutioaes Eraws, ecvernl wave | be sent out simul tanesuslly fram tri 30 that the recelving stations may | isten at will to any one of the several services. This will be the first station that will fl handle the distribution of news, music and other features on a commercial basis for such people as contract for the service, The company will ispecies To pra af | its own, but simply will supply a channel | through which anyone with whom it mokes ja contract can eend out his own program. | Tt will lease ite radie facilities just aa wire | facilities are now leased to newspapers, | banks and other concerns. The station will cover a radius of 150 miles, and it ls estimated that within this area there are already 35,000 receiving stations, which provides quite an audience for those using the service, In this same afta are more than 11,000,000 people, oo | that if the service proves popular it is onl reasonable to suppose that the number a tee hs can HULTTIAt EVENING POST reeciving stations will be vastly incremed. | Tt # not tea much to say that at least the | immediate future of commercial radio telephony Mn rac largely on the success attending tion of this first station. If the ee cut hold and if there is not tea much interference in the ether from other stations this initll experiment will doubtless be followed by the establishment of a system of stations throughout the country, do that from any central point the BRIE news, muse or other program can be sent out simultaneously through all these stations by wire and aia with the grentet posable econom The pewiaibilities of note are pndless. heck appeal ia universal, The rudio tele a P achoolboy's toy to a howsehold apparatua of value and o business device of merit. It ia an invention with w pdt and o weeful future; a war necesity ond a asset. Soon there will be more radiophones in use than pianos, and who dares say it will not be as much a household utility in the future a the telephone, the bothtub and the kitchen stove? Statement of the Ownership, Management, Clrewlation, Etc. JiEQUIRED BY THE Act or Cowomnss of Acocer 24, 1012 Or Tar Satcroar Evesme Post, published wmekly | ak Philadelphia, Pencaylvania, for Aged |, ied. State of Poansylvania Nes County of Philadelphia | ™ Tefore me, a Notary ay arses nati and county af-oresadd, appeared George LL Lorimer, who, havi bean eworn scoortine to law, depen and saya that he ie the Editor of ‘hire | SaTrnouay Evrsina Pier and thet the following ia, to the best inf his knowledge and belie’, a tron statement | of the oonership, management (aed Wf a daily paper, the circulation). el¢., of the aforesaid pablication for | the dtvte shown kn the above caption, meyuined by the diet of Angost 24, 112. seshodied in section 443, | Postel Laws and Regulations, printed on the reversn of Ebas form, bo wit: 1, ‘That the names azed address of the publisher, editor, managing edibor, and Wosiness menegera ere: | Kaun oF Pust Crrsce Animal Publisher, The Curtis Poblishieg Company Independence Squore, Philadelphia, Pa. Lalitar, George 1. Lorimer, WW poeobe, Penneytvania. Managing Editor, None Business Manager, FP. & Collins, Wyoeote, Fonnsyl ania E patente comers are: (Give nome and addres “indivi owners, of, I a corporation, give ik famd anil the pacwe and addressee of pasthaliine omming or holding | por cent or more of the total emoont of stock.) Eutwand W. Bok, Mera, Pesnaylvacio William Rogd, Wgmiee P brenda Fh . Teli Sarcha, van u yrs I. = Curtis, Wirscute, sage hip kK. Curtia, Trustes coder the will of Loui Keapp 1 i Hottie Gisorze HL. Lonmer, Wyneete. Fersaylrani aE , Ardmore, thel 3, nm Andmere, Peanay lend ree ea Meyer, Fastmerd” [oes and Trot Compasy, ire EW Spang srw, New Jere f Cotpeny, Plobalel pia, Peoney | voi ape = = ave oar vi TE. i BE 6. fe aT F bet a, haa iT ah rn Mary, Giseler Waltenal Park, Montana 4, That the known bondholdora, mortgages, and cfhoer security bolders oonang or hokling | ate! tok or more of tefal amoont of bonds, mortgages, j pecurities are: i ibuhateuae conser” None. 4. Thak the two ase the owners, ne irobpak ates ° by aa they appear upon the books soon | as developed in a few months from fee barge giving the ; bolil- res ii Acero ager rs of aecurtty holder appeara opon. the books of the com- pany os trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whem such | ‘trustee le actlog, la given; alan, that the sah] two para- grapha contais statements embracing affiant's fall knowledge and belief aa to the crcumstances and con= | oe whirk aoe i iedriny a spd boliders I oot appear wpea Lhe books of the onmpeny a ‘trogtess, hold alock and securities In a capacity other than that of a bona-fide owner; and this aft has no resgon to beliowe that any other person, oseocintion, of corporntion haa any interest direct or indirect in the rt cepa area aaa uy t 5. Thak the average number of copies of cach Gero of this publication bold or distributed, through the Bulbacrl bers during tho six months prorting the i show above iss (This ine formation is required from daily publications only.) The Conte Pimuiina Comrany, George H. Lorimer, Eiiter. ‘ Sworn boand aviaeribed bore me this ith dey of [REAL[ W. C. TURNER, Notary Public, (My comenimion expires April L, 1921.1 Seen Tie ata meee Oe eee a See ee send cae copy io the Asuctont Postmaster Ceneral (Divine ef fag, 1.07. mined petal the ser in the eso the por affine, pubheher papet publish acopy of Malet ip fea pnscmd ee peaked oa alter ibd bbrag. | Des. 47L-RB 145 Increase Your Pay Within the next few months! Are you sacrificing the best years of your life to a routine jou, In the thaaghe that you must siend aa dime for prometion—that you tain advance only at the shuffling pace of the rank and fle? The inom who depends on length of service for advancement rarely gets beyond the informmution desk. Why throw away your future in a bow- pay job, when you can qualify, in a com: paratively few months, for a high-salarved potion as a business. specialist ? Thousands of men with oo betler start than res kaye doubled aml tripled their imesmes by mic-study husiwess training under the LaSa Problem hod, Drwring a period of only three months, 1.080 member af LaSalle Extension Usiversity reported definite salaryincresses 2s a result of training under this remarkable method, ly amr: icredne per wean see BG per gered, Tf “half as much again” would foak good to yeu within the neat Mreise montis, and if you have the slaming fo do thee work, check the pecan that interests you, sign ancl mail the cou NOW, Oe vill bring you full particulars, toget with details of cue compenient:paymeal San; also your free copy of Teo Years” Promodion in One,” “et thia book,’ ssid «a prominent (Chiengo corulive, “eves HW you bpd to pay five dodlars for it.” We will ‘send it f Make Te ectset Aaa ATOR: = ee ee ee LaSalle Extension University Tae Largest Ausindis Tradning Pmidtifation tm Ube Hurd Chicaga, Mlinois Gentlemen! Send without abl pation “ me ite lormaion regarding course iodimated ott Sr) aerm ioarre- iessevencene . aT trap Bsn recice CO iMigher Accountancy Di Modere ie Forse Trafic Maaabeenend tee way Aooouncing nngPeraone ang Emiplng- Seuies Man Mansiement nt Management OLaw—Degrer of LL.B. DEepert Boukiieesing (Gorm mercial Law beastie pry ed aa Commercia nls CiLasaosrinl Meade nee peers oa Oijesking wed Finaore Be. P, A. Coach bog Name —_ Preaect Position Address — #0 oe ah Air © aim, t auniry ‘Ewin . Verh , Rael Sones, | junctare. ‘i “Usage Chern CFut up T Cha seine Aad un Maa: ethos, Sic _ Prices Have Been Smashed 1 Lhe Big Al wel HO LTS if ae 3 alley Plant ently eed dor $0510, ow come shout holt rt ath ie, Meg Electrical Denlers— Garage Owners— | oir avag | Efficient and Economical, i ‘ 5

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INDIA! The umbrella that ca? tum inside-out. Every man will appreciate that feature. Anal it’s the finest looking umbrella you ever saw, distinctive in shape and mighty sensible. Ir opens with a generous spread to keep you dry. Your head isn'E hicelen in 2 cavernous dame, Most umbrellas have®cight ribs. Indias have ten for greater strength. At best dealers’ everywhere. ROSE BROTHERS COMPANY, Lancaster, Pa. mbrella Tike Heke aembretia edt phe Aig opreod™' Little folks" ombrelios Folding oomdele Sfodels for women ‘THE whole world tas learned to rely implicitly on the compass. Likewise the public, by experience, bos come to know the fatthfviness and accuracy of all equiganent benring the stark of the Milwaukee Tank Works, Progressive oil dealers and filling station Optratom everywhere are preiiting by the ise eel thes widely Rncanh aglinpamennt. Mechanical Supersalesmen The popularity of nll stations equ ipped mth Milwaukee outfits . to eee: ALi bara Liles pr i curnbr met ides Factory and Ral Dey (Cheufieng Ohsitite The Milwauker tine wl ie cad Shor mae Eqquigument fe pWergran be Equigment meriaai part. Ae. CUBR ; oe = Sec S¢ in Im peaks nf) Gil eocen scrruct dite sft Bales agencies in prieckpul foreign Coun Country-Wide Soles ond Service Si cizievaniane Tank Works | Milwaukee. Wis. LSA | iia NOES | fate Laie Mew Vast ia a. hs (iirags Neopet, Mie 3 Koemes Ty, Bo yy Fraertere, Cal Tr fidg aL re eere Sealy Pipspeth Boge. Filo Stade Plesaeth Able faite Fils H fir THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April ts, THE LIBERTY OF THE JAIL [COntinged yrom Poge JS) “Sure, that's ensy!" assented T. dtis dg ge “T should bea lawyer myself. “Well,” continued Lefkovitaky, “when a bond is given, conditioned on the debtor's remaining within the juil limits, that lets the shevill out, ‘The bond takes his place, so weak, and if the debtor escapes or goes oe the jail limits the creditor cannot sue the sheriff, but must sue the surety on the bond. Now freese onto this: As any defense open to the sheriff in am action for nn eseupe is likewise oe to a surety in an action on the bend, if the debtor comes back before the action if begun the action falls: the creditor has lost his right to sue,” He looked around triumphantly. “Well, whet of it?" asked Mra. Crabs. “What are you driving at?" “T'm driving at just this: No action can be commenced legally except by personal servies of the summans and complaint upan the defendant, on a week day, within the state, Therefore in any event your hus- band could go away on a Sunday, and so Jong a8 he came back within the jail limits before midnight no action could be com- menced. against the surety, no matter where he went. “T see that,” she nodded. “But Otis can't wait till Sunday comes to spend the work-end at Atlantic City with me and get buck the sume day. There would be nath- ing in that.” ‘OY course mot!" Lefkovitsky. "He don't have te wait for Sunday. dust let him take Mr. Fosdick with him when he nnd he can leave New York on Thurs- day ar Friday and come back Monday after- noon. Tutt can't begin an action on the hommes oS be cure begin ik at all nur hos come back inside oie j Limits, at He go away and eome ail - the same train everything will be ia ell, I'l be damned!" ejaculated Mr. Posdicete bewild mirnition. “Certain © looles to mel" sald a ic “What do you think, ma—my ar Lal Mrs. Crabb smiled appreciatively at Mr. Lofkovitsky, wow entinely antiefed that she could keep ber money and have her Otis, too, over the weel-ens, “T think,” ahe rep iHied, pressing the bell | with Budclen decision, “that wivthing as j slick as ‘that is worth a’ pound of clrinks. |) Crane juice, Martin.” While thie dist inguished group were en- | gaged in the foregoing conversation par Riverside Drive, Egraim Tutt was sitting | in one af the wards of Bellevue Hoepltal beside a Gok ape which a human form was | strapped Lmumovably to an iron frame Wallace Barrington: was gping to recover, bot he would be a cripple for life; he, bales mother nnd his children dependents LOE publi ie charity unless the law came to his wid. He waa thirty-two, hi = heen an X= pert in his tine, o harelwe ng man at 1 is. New he wes little mare thar an nanimolte obpect. Amel & he thought al what | bit bel been aed what now he was, the sud- den collapes of hi 6 tthe: univers, the erush- ing of all his hopes, were mt nares do oin-the Mespairing cyes he fastened upon the old lawyer's kindly face, So Voll he bot bo worry, sail Ar. Tutt rncotaring ys as he felt, benenth. the chur for his stovepips hat, “Your mather anil the childlren-are poling tiglit-on living in the Lpartrivent, aye there is a womnon who ) comes in evers clay r dio the cooking anil hike caro-of them, “SHE wile puns hee? : the franw hoarsely nothi ing in the bank." “Ch, that's all right! Mr. Tutt wares him. The mone lao heing advanced apainet the fifty thousansl dollara which T. Otis Crabb will events ily pag ye.” “Tow soon will thut hes ‘The Laay rer wrinkled fh wt the pleture ef one A. inedin lipon the wall ahowe: lee bed “Tm honing fhe that ten dis," suid he cheerilsy. “T shall never be able to. thank you enough,” whiaperet Barrington, closing his BY S48, ” Birt: bay the time “asked the mua im “T had) practicatly 6 hoa and wir bed lL armnpe to pay it in 2 Ehe td man hal renched the elevator the cheerful expression upea hig face had. vanks ticul What did: you tell him that for?" he nusttercd Wore a damned old Hur, uth! Mow, by thoneler, you) rally leet bond while Mr. Fosdick is outside the. support that family for the rest natural lives!" He and Mr, Lefkovitaky piomsd. di not reeogenise —each other on the hone, ae ND ten,” aaid Mr. Joshua Coq juat like that, with his Ae advancing two blues into the field of ba An unemetional person, Carman, grt superintendent of crue of the big terminals. It was the lot & night session of the ao-calle Bible Oi the Colophon Club, 11:54, and sirmi to Fr run,” cravenly remarked Clay Tale, the next in order, Teh auch!" echoed M. d"Au Paris, who had Tun up from ‘Washin “and even D!" rin, benr knven as Peeaon Cadwalader, All laid down their hands gad § towards the Hon. Ephraim Tirth. elongated features expressed neither nar jay. “Tl cal a muttered the es MM. d'Aurlac aa he clipped a freek ap “that li noone ja shy there should bog ti hundred and twenty-three bone ak cemetery." “Soven thousand e I forty-five france—at to e, rube,"” 14 the Frenchman. “ Beawcosp @'orgen” “And ten," said Mr, Tutt, plein & more blucs—his last-—upon the lean tower in front of bir. “Farewell, da little ones!" “Making | in all five hundred and thry eres," murmured the Peewee, Carman thrust his cards jeutil lute ‘hia collar af m certain sanctified gy aijacent tohis ight ear, He hed jth more blues. Nobody else had much olay thing. It was all in the pot, [Me and Tet had each drawn but ane “Aced ten,’ he whispered wit iba ecstasy. The minute hand of the dock on thi mantel had slipped to within two mia of midnight. Mr. ‘Tutt pulled tack i sleeves and deftly removed the huge om cular ony buttons OT HARENSINE his calla “Are th ae pad fee ae "heisqusal ‘Sure! nodded his adveran. Air "Putt plied eneh ote open the spel Wa pile of blue ed ‘And ton!" ed the rnifroad tak ‘That circle forrmend of Bhe elacees frm td shoving in his t ne. other gummed in difterent parts ot ital drew el ciaer about the g table, All bed frequently seen Mr, ‘Tutt depart mint very thing hut his clothes, ee iW i ‘1. moaned the ald man, “head great ia my falth. inthe hand which az distinguished military gaest baa dealt me unfortunately T cannot walk home in ta mite. However, I have ote Lget resourre L will throw-in my ahd. tall bat aad oF vory-handled eane—a sacrifice, pre Te admit, for ] have geed each ef dhe ire the rey Vera ns equivalent te 2 Te ice you have me more chips, Carma 4 the ent ire jet a fava. repeat he rulrade, : forohieaci, Sa ew one to reel remarked the é i wort” wrinkling Pieewree. “Simple enough,” explained Mr. Tell az if playing for a favor re ae wnat furviliae ets ‘team ool the bets Inve invented EE aon ‘thie spot, mt, IT bers lee pete: mig all except my skin ad bee if Lwin ha hus bo de me a favor.” "Whit sort of n favor?” “Wh, anything reneommble, Just atarat “Donel” aera Cau. she Te Pentlemen, the Honorable Epos and Jone now glagrimg for the pee, pa be rut butters, tall hat and cant, sth phantnarrigoric al, diaphancs and eh thing s-ctheped 3 a favor on. the sie i Hecalle? Weoeall each othe!" He pemeved the enrds from be his ol with a heat-thirteifyeancin peut a Hptewd them [ace up fore the crest. HAE iz jor je, Mi nnie, Molly ase iat!” he piurniaped & ciltantly, i Tutt henk oe te hinsdiees wilh interese. * Dew me! Dear met Niet ie commented, spread ing has (8 ‘Jos hua, Jenhthah, Japheth aie phat!" he chuckled: matching eh wih hie own Icing. Continard on Paoge 1)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST How to Revive Your Ford's Ignition Coils. File vibrator contact pemnte amosth, sec that they meet aquarcly, and set all evenly to a gap of x) inch. Your Ford dealer will willingly test them for even bengion. Have this done. Plugs. Disassemble all spark plugs, wipe porcelaina clean, examine closely for cracks. Better replace porcelains if they have gone over 5,000 miles. Scrape plug bexty clean, reassemble and act gap at yy inch. Wiring. Examine for oil-sooked, fraied or ezpoecd places. Better replace cntare “ har- meas" if in doubt, Sekdom worth while to repair with tape, cic. See that fan or fon belt cannot rub wires. Timer. Remove case and brush msemishy and cxomine for wear, Trace is bumpy or regular, contacts loose, or brash sesen- biy beily worn, replace with complete new tiaver— ane you know is good. O01 thoroughhy—follow oan- ufacturer’s directions. See that wires are attached firefly, and that advance tod is set for correct od- Vance afd retard schon. Above all, don't trey out" any complicated of cheap timers. Play safe! The whord-circoil-proof finer f Cantiect ponte sealed arc ee ta their maichine-cot groorea by a apecieal method (pacens applied for], MILWAUKE! Is Yours Ready for the Road? scraping carbon, grinding valves, tightening nuts—Overhaul Time! Ford owners bustling about their garages, grease-smeared and happily busy, their household chores post- poned— Signs of Spring! Millions of Fords are being groomed, greased and Sarnished for the season—is yours? 4 (SHECK over your Ford's ignition—plugs, wiring, coils, and timer. It's vital to engine performance—too many Ford owners don’t realize how vital. A worn, faulty, or unreliable timer will make the best Ford engine labor, misfire and carbonize like an old “junk”. Play safe! Start the season with a new timer. The cost is only a detail—the best you can buy, the Milwaukee Timer, costs no more than a tank-full of “gas”! You will notice at once the improvement itmakes. Each cylinder gets a hotter spark—your engine starts quicker, pulls harder and steadier, and stays cleaner (most of the carbon burns up instead of baking in). Sixteen years of ignition engineering are back of the Mil- waukee Timer’s simple,smooth-running design and super- accurate workmanship. Compare it point by point with any other and you'll see why it is the standard replace- ment timer of the world—in general use everywhere, in Ford cars and trucks, and Fordson tractors. Each Milwaukee Timer is rigidly tested, mechanically and electrically, before packing. It fits perfectly, runs freely and quieth:—and its durability ts famous. Ask any garage mechanic about the Milwaukee Timer. Sold by garages, auto supply, and hard- $ oo ware stores everywhere. PRICE 2 ““Buy Where You See This Sign" Dealers: This steel “silent salesman™ is sent free t o YOU, postpaid, on request. Holds complete timer. Attractive and effective, Write for yours. MILWAUKEE MOTOR PRODUCTS, Inc. Milwaukes, Wisconsin FOR DS en i ——rd

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148 THE THE SATURDAY (Continued from Poge 146) There was a wild cheer from the on- EVENING POST elgar, and while Carman wae lighting it filled the two glasses again GE NE RAL lookers as Mire ue guthered in the pile “Wall,” he remarked, “here's to the upon the table. The elock was striking favor!" Tunelre, “The favor! molded Carman. CORD TIRE Kiddies’ Coloring Contest $500 Cash For beat rates (Ha eer in the big deable-page ed wertimemernt moral Tires on pages 34 and 97 im this paper. 53 Prizes First Prize S160: Second Prize 3758; Third Prize S26, and fifty Prizes of BS each. Conditions J felorina may be done with water eodora, crayons, inka, or any cojaring material, “And now,” sald Carman with a grimace, “what is this favor I'ye got ta do you?" The old lawyer slowly replaced his sleeve MT haven't Joe hé whispered ll ven't lost yell!" be whisper te them. “Why, T don't know, Carman. It & Sunday morning. Whose hath an ox or an asa which hath fallen into a pit ia entitled to have him hauled out on that us 1 rend the Seriptures, Let's walk along tagether, and if you sheuwld care to atop in at house maybe [ ewuld give you a drink of—h'm!—malt extract." "T sure will!” "said Carman, who, a8 we gaid, wae in the roilroad busines, ‘Y pamion the simplicity of my wel- come, Carman,” remarked Mr. Tutt as he relieved his quest of raf his avercant snd “abd Me. Tutt, “that being m] sup F rallsaadsiean youl agree with Mr, Bumile that the law is an as." “T don't know the mon, but he's cer- tuinly get the right iden," returned his guest. “T'm up against a legal farce," went on | the old lawyer. “I've got a judgment of fifty thousand dollars against a miserable || ewine that ron down and neorly killed » client of mine, and [ cun‘t make him pay o cent, although hia wife has all kinds of money," “Can't you arrest him for the debt?" aehed Carman, “T have! But he got o friend of his to oom his bond for the liberties of the jail. lis wile put up the security and now he gos anywhere he wants,” “You memn if you got m elt in. jail for euat ae by boys of girls under 2 | hat, ging them fromonée ofthe anmsaaf debt he don't have to stay the Enter biank must inctode signature of an | tHe hat tree in the front hall, and preceded = “That is precisely what I mean, If a Aufomabile owner vouching for age. him up the rickety stairs of the old house New York ju ent debtor who haa been miuat be done wirhoue fe aid of er pTecn, 5 Colorchabs snot be delivered fo the Ganeral Tire deater in Four orty before May fat, 2822. He will @nfter you fn ocenfest and forward Four cofaring to the Contest Judges for The Colo 4 Cobring on West Twenty-t ird Street png dining “This being the Sabbath, m and my maidservant are bet resting He turned on i and ignited it wath a safety match. Mr. Carman, who had arrested gives bond in the requisite amount and 4 within the boundaries: af Maon= hattan laland he can deport himself freely from the Battery to the Harlem Canal, and from the Hudson to the East River, eatin eae a oar aac i played ker with Mr. Tutt ev Satur- al Delmonico’s and sleeping nt the Wals fj Prises wil! be awarded on artistic mesit of day night for over fifteen years, but had dorf, spending his mornings in Central cakeings and wall be anew fhe June tanita of fd paper. -——-Entry Blank-——— in one never vieited the old man at his home, looked round the shedy with interest. It was so just like Mr. Tutt himself! There was a sen-conl fire in the grate and a kettle Park, his afternoons at the movies and his evenings af the theater, and still technically be in prison, for he is within the jail limits a4 dened by law. And at the end of six Your Name sleamed on the hearth; ancient engravings months he's [ree for good and all !** Age and a couple of colonial portraits hung "That's a good thing to remember," upon the walls, which were covered with affirmed the railroader, Address what Mr. Corman derided was the ugliest “Algo this,” continued Mr, Tutt. ‘You Clty andl Stare paper he had ever beheld; the carpet was might use it ‘sometime. If the Imprisoned Certificates of Age The above contestant is under 1 years of age. Signature Street and Muciier Clty amd Srate ——— Mabe OF cat crete __ This =e blank. properly Aled out, mist bo Gtkachedd bea aie ok baud: coloring when you E deliver It to the General Tire dealer i your city. threadbare—Turkey red: a horsehair enfin | stood at one end of the room, and between he windows a high colonial secretary ile on each side of the marble mantel recriaedl two horsehair-covered walnut arnmuchalra whose bottoms gagged to within an inch or so of the floor, tdown, Carman,” directed Mr. Twtt. The Tullraad man looked suspiciqusly at the harmmechlike seat of the nearest a] poem Damn if I think if 1 ones sit down I shall be able to get up again!” said he almpl Bit down!" repeated Afr. Tutt. “Will you have hot re port, Madeira or sparkling Burgundy?" He turned to the eseritoire, the glass doors of which were lined with faded green silk, and, unlocking it, disclosed a srall debtor can induce his bondsman to leave Ehe jurisdiction in his company and return wt the sume time that be does—or later—ho ean dlaregurd the jail limits entirely onl fo to Atlantic City or anywhere else for a ew days every week, just ag my man is ot ou den'tsay! Is he now?" exclaimed Mr. Carman sympathetical | “He ig! But he takea hi surety with | him and brings him back on the same train, eo that there is mo way for me to begin an ation on the bond until there is a good. defense: namely, that the debtor has re | jl! turned.” "What wise guy worked that out?” r. Carman. “Well, this is all very inter- hut complete collection of bottles of all esting, bait. what has it got todo wit me?" shapes and sizes, Mr. Carman sank in- Mr, ‘Tutt stroked his lean lantern jaw maps into his a allotted hole. abd gazed maditatively at the empty Be eves ndyi" he anawered hoarsely wath a lieht Mie Tutt, chariing the lower half of the eacritaine, tovk out two glasass with hollow stems, and having placed these corefully Flas. “That remains to be seen,’ he mur- mured, “That remains te be seen, How | about that other bette?" 7 Carman instantly showed new signa “lpril 15, 1, Letyour Easter atic this poe bee -e boo oe Elmer's Chaicolites, Elmer'stphecoleacesere | of het Goeet qualiry. From 80¢ co $2.50 0 4. Ageerted pack- me Mf pecan dain ene anywhere in. the | United States for SL Ask pour dealer, Elmer Candy Cao., 1 Es Bee Orleaine US. upon the rug between the two chalra exea- of | | Ne OOD practical dea 5 PL! a IW 3 ren pute ahs Th n-Wa inl ict { jay cash 1" imarid's alandord 2 aypceriter at a ble "WHY PAY RENTAL? Think of fel Wo han the mnochess ij fn J F IPbe tore Lian rental . We oer 1 ribbed hevesal, ‘par ae 7, Etc. Ete r aN beaakit FREE TRIAL the oe Ts viper TV lon ay L ae Wet Sate ee ley ee om Typewriter ‘Emporium SHIPMAN-WARD FG.00 2754 Shipman Bldg, CHBAGO Send ta retain ml Baresin Gaer Nia, 1756 A bs Standard Wistkie Writing Lap sievencs wall. This ia not oo Oder and does oe Dligaie tine Ler baayr ame ————$— Stree or BR. Fs D. hin, Th haihice Stake a yi cr omy a wl | Mr. Curman significantly, owlng to his own length and sri nearne of his seat to the floor, gave him ppear- ance of a partially folded peren: knife, but enobled him te grasp the bottle firmly between hia knees. “Who's doin’ the favor now?" inquired “Pop!” sald the bottle. “T om!" Mr. Tutt held it for an instant above the ashes gs the contents creamed over the neck, und then curefully filled the glosaca upen the rug. “There are,” he remarked sadly, “ex actly five wera of wine in that bottle. However, | om not particularly thiraty, und—there is another bottle” “Here's luck!" said Mr. Carman, “Tore's misery, marital infelicity, chil- hinins, financial ruin, rheumatism, indi- yestion, sejatica, artericeclerasia and all the murraing, plagues and evils known to nn cient times and to modern man, Upon one ‘OT. Otis Crabb—damn him to overlasting hell" He lifted hi bubbling ruby glo, eyed it iment and slowly emptied it. “One!” he said, wiping his mouth with the back of hia han nel, “ Ah—one!" echoed Mr, Carman. "Tutt, I'll do vou a favor every Saturday night if you press me,"" Mr, Tutt reached to the humidor on the near-by table and tendered his guest o gO BOY t" ideas T. Otis Crabb, longating himself deliciously upon the sands in front of the Traymore at Atlantic City in asnappy, sleeveless, white and-green one-piece bathing suit, "This is sgh rong ee some e jail” bath sg rs. in snappy ah which, ft mane be conf femal ae limba to great disadvanta ier nae at him from under her purp e-und -yermilion sunshade, “You'll come down again next week, Hight-ol Foezy aaye he can leave town on Thursday and stay ower until Tuesduy, That right, ForyT" “Surest thing you know!" replied his elegant anociute, stretching in sympathy. : Lelkovitaky's a very clever fellow," yawnoel T, Otis, “All sumer he's shown me i way to by beat him aut of bis bill if he tries te "T hope that he isnt too smart,” said his lady "T'd hate to lose fifty thou ono erip 3 ed your life the cripple will never gee a cent of your money!" assured Fozzy, “Even I, with my aubatomical admixture at brains, am able to cognate ay pragiensi= finn that you can"l serve: papers on oun. in the state of New Yoel it @ jan't there, | and that if the return of the dear departed ta the jail limits before the papers one vated rom the rear row a dusty bottle, the Ah, “he exclaimed, “who is this miser- | ||| ural x add cork heavil ire and raped in scarlet able wretch? 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or the Rhinelander hit ie att a f RHINELANDER THE SATURDAY j served ia a goed defense to an action T. Ct ond yours traly-ean ride wp ond down from town to Atlantic City all summer without anything to fear trom that old geezer who tried the cages againet you." "Ohi Tutt's kat nee of a lawyer,” pe marked ‘T. Citas, lig uting & cimartite. “He got the verdict, "But not the aaney ti laghed Mra, Crabb, “We've got that!" “Any lawyer can get a oo for the pend in a domage suit,” declared T. ied “But tt takes 2 real one to collect a nt,"" vides of a real lawyer is Lefkovitaky," said Foszy, “Tf Lever get into trouble I'm going ta him, ae af ras ing able prs cook Wp a way for you spend most o the summer dawn here and yet be in jail al the time! Yet it's simple enough, Any- body might have thought of it, We go away together and we come back bogether, and your comin” back makes it useless SOrve papers onime, Ha-ha!l Bean work! THean work ["" Only," warned Mrs, Crabl must be very careful to come Be ht same thme.” “Oh, yea, ma—my dear!" her husband ASSL her, “We've got all that dope down cold. We go together and we return together, like Siamese twins, In the of the famous song by O. W. Holmes ed en shall sever our friendship ever!" ni & Fight, or it mi ht cost me fifty RE " eroiled Airs. Crabb. Number 1112 is the mpeg hale leaving Atlantic phi at 240 on alter- neon: Chit sri appy fe falows Eke tke Tok T. Otis take back ta New City—when they are in fail for det. pg alban pages Tronmaer on the Je side, where change for lower New York and Brooklyn, at 5:24 und then ducks eae through the daubl=barrebed tunnel under the Hudson and shoota into the lower level of the station on Thirty-fourth Street at 6340. When there is a big rush af homing jailbirda No, 1112 rina ten cars, and—through the | tunnel —twe inher for the grade beneath the river silt is eavy; a long train, a very if not quite foo, Wale, iad ; nearly, if mot quite, a Nui ber TZ was the train T, Otis and \ his fried. took that game afternoon, | | arid a8 usual they beat it for the forward smoker with two other dazhing fellows for their prey of bridge, T. Otis had leet o ht dollars of bis wife's ar on ght they reached Mlan- ad and the WEEE go engrossed in what they were doing that of them noticed the rtadghacd little group of three who boarded the train just it started acrosa the devastated regions beyond Jersey City preparatory to plunging beneath the river, They stil] had sixteen minubes to play, TT. Otis wanted te win back Lucretia’s sixty-eight EVENING POST eh al honor te do Mr. r Tutt a favor. Cannan represented the third, OF “Wiha Fhe.” side mt the old lawyer's tri- angular problem, and without him this story would have remained siaeedirtann: For mo one else could have done what he, stifling his official conscience, waa about to do for Mr. Tutt. Entombed like an Egyptian astrologer in the center of a pyramid, he, nevertheless, had his finger on every train on the terminal ayetern. at he-snid went, and what he stopped stopped. “Fay tt the Lord,” he mu “T wonder if any other fellew. tn my wine ever had the nerve to do a th like this before! as the same,” he ad to himself, “‘tha My | SnD and who's to be the judge a whut an emergency is if I'm not?” lithe time be had hla eyes on the clock. "Five-tweoty-lour—ashe's just in out of the Transfer,” he “rel Wit what in o prima d have been ibed a2 a light tremale. He renched nervously for a cigarette and lighted It. "Five = twenty = six twenty - seven — twenty-eight ——" His heart was really thumping, for he felt like a schoolboy about to pin something on the teacher's back. Charlie,” be ted to a bald-headed youth, re me Forty.” yerhael & Unkheoked the reeriver, “Line's busy, chief," he replied, Mr, Carman felt a curious prickly senga- Soot, ep ais: ents and over his shoul- “Forty" la the train locemotive diz. patcher, the official who directly controls train eee, ent through whom orders ane customarily n by the supervisor, or on occasion by t ral superintendent. Five-twenty-nine! Number 1112 was well dawn in the tunnel by new. He would have to give the order directly to the Train Director in the A ‘Tower if he was to be in time to help Mr. Tutt. There waan't a fraction af tae re er either, Fever- e telephone. “Give ne A Tower,” he ordered, “And hurry!" Johnny McNaughton, up in the big recip Tower A, on the “Island Plat- form" e Manhattan opening of the tunnel, oe aibti Hi in mouth, his eyes fixed on the boa ch, like an animated carton, shinsths eaieeieaked Grace teakn by ay tiny greon light that creopa along and stops and creepe again. Johnny wos the man who actu controlled be signal, cowld start or ato — deflect an train upon the system— ainsdieaitie the man at the switch— accvuntatle ta na ane but the general superintendent, the iaar, the teher—and Goel, Fengong on a Monday afternoon is a busy moment for Johnny MeNaughton, and trains. a fdbiwing: one another both ih through the tunnel every few mo "The little geen Went th that was 1112 atc to the epot that represented the

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Jf you'll just lowk out of the end we: there you can see Signal $04. You p ore still in the state of New Jersey ei the forward half of the train & alread New York." He glanced quizzically at the yf eS is of the addy ae debtor. id, “haven't een hee bale £1 about violative» Jail liberties? I feel quite aia that procae server has already served pay on ar bondsman—in the state af § Lig tT, tia collapsed inte the chap 9 pressed his fista to his temples. “Look here," he gasped, “is that right Mr. ‘Tutt boweci peerucaay: “Quite so," maid be. "And is this golteg to ect my wile thousand dollara?" “Beyond the shadow of a doubt! Tutt assured him “That fool ‘Lefleavitsly!" rE Otis. “I wish I" d stayed dn jail!" “Tm fhe you didn't.” answer! ) Tutt. “The Cizeringtare toed tin “Well,” muttered Crabb as ue and hie sro ti his feet, knew one thing: IT won't go back to! lantic City] I'd rather stay in jud [orl rest of may life!" : EVENING POST (More Than Two Million and a Quarter Weekly) TS fully protected by copyright and nothing that appears in it may be reprinted, either wholly or in part, without mescial permission, The use of our artaces o quotations from them for advert never authorized. ng promotions and stock-selling scheme a Table of Contents April 15, 1922 Cover Design by J. (. Leyendecker SHORT STORIES The Damed Little Bolshevik—Loucy Stone Terrill. . . . Tape—Mazimifian Foster The Liberty of the Jail—Arthur Train. . The Real Story — Wallace Invern PAgE The Golden Eggs—George Weeton, . . adie Tans: apc, Rahs Dean eee The Uprising Generotion— Nina Wilcox Putnam . . . 2... ee et it Up Stage and Down—CaAarfes Collins . ARTICLES Up in the Air—Floyd W. Parsons... £ ee Cet ME ee The Psychology of the Sucker— Soremoan Bulger Rape oe eer era The Print of My Remembronce—Augustus Thomas . 2... we U8 | ‘The Sun-Hunters—Fenneth i. Roberta. 0 0. ek oH SERIALS | Fits Coventry its six parts)— julian Street. 2 2. The Covered Wagon (Third part)— Emerson Hough . Eeditorlals 2a ee Everybody's Business The Poets’ Corner A REQUEST FOR CHANGE OF ADDRESS must reach us at least thiry eayt before the date of the issue with which (tis to take effect, Duptleate copie be gent te peplace these wndelivered through failure to send gwch odvantt nie Be sure to give your old address os well as the mew one.

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2 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST AE geil 'é >t your seruice or 50 years Srey = easpoons ee Set of ¢ ie "Ate daly pate, yet proted pee tetris.” Some of those old poets, Bess, could decidedly flip a phrase. But they'd need new adjectives — a whole army of ‘molten golden words’—if they saw yow as a bride. Speaking of superlatives, you'll adore’ the chest of (omMMuNrry Barbara picked out for you. A symphony in silver, she calls it. For, P.4.—You were surely a beautiful bride." GROSVENOR. DESIGN |

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| Published Weekly Curtis ao _ompany TH. B. Qurtia, President ae, atcha pecan Treseerer el Brecnens Menager Welter 0. Fuller, Senpeiaey ana ed BekSrel. Aches rniiing USresior, Pendianc = Square, Philadelphia Lendon. o. Honrienia Street Caren Garden. BOC. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Founded A°D'1728 Sy Benj. Franklin Ceprright Ma hy The Cure Publishing Company in ihe Unie’ Stairs anal Greet Britein Tide Borgitteredd bn U7. 5. Potent Offre and iin Toceigon Se cop te 194 de baat ton —— i PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL 22, 1922 George Horace Lorimer EDITOR Entered as Second-Clase Mares, Novomleed 14, $2.00 Churchill Willinoms, FS, Big@eliow,: ACW, Neel, Further Pc Heogh, T. B. Casein, Adteociate Editor (BTS atthe Pod Office ai Fhiledelphie, Underibe Actol March &, LATo Addibenal Eeairy as herond-Cless Heater at Columbus, Cfo, an Deoatge, (inet. wt Chicege, [kbnata pe at Grillo pedis, Dine. ELatered) at See nel 2 Elna Mater of ihe Post-Olfice De periment, Opiewe, Canada THE FEAR iy Subaaripalons Number 45 HIE RETURN TO NORMALCY RANGE, unnatural On wen Bors were grows ng wp about divorce, [ora Feflected. The acted you te appear pletely indifferent to a hen once your decree Ated as it had assumed be umlquely devoted to long a8 the marriage . Here ale was, sitting in her litth apartment; bitten her towst, poured av colfer, opened her ao dinner invitatlon, a rom: her architect alot un for her new house, oF her brocade slippers, Sunoement of a picture tion, sund Ag she | the last envelope from. stliom on the morning aper her eye fell for the im on the account of tine Bing’s illness, t was said at the Uni- | Hospital, where Mr, was taken late last night, ie com dithon was serious." ehetich—almost an obit- —al him followed; “Val- « Bing waa born in 1880 . Albans, a small town on i Eze He begun life us inher, AL twenty-one he me editor of the St. Alixans re. In 107 he came to York.” She glanced along dy, “Great consolidation wwepaper syndicate fam e—lorge fortune — three s married—the last time fies Cora Enderby, of the ninent New York family, i@hom he was divorced in pin October of this yenr. 119 hing was anid abowt the |) fff) other wives; that seemed : oral enough to Cora. Hut fd not aeen natural that i mas, who for two years | made or marred every in- stot ber fe, was ill—dying, haps: ond that she Uke any er stranger shawld read of qoualy in her morning per, She did not often think idly of Walentine—she tried tte think of him wt oll— teow he thoughts went ck to their fit romance. those davi—she waa barely eniy she had been in con- ctoath her family, who represented all that was conseryetlve ineld New York. She had itted work. a conor, She had gone to see Valentine in his office, armed with a letter ‘introduction. He was a tall red-haired man, long armed and large fisted, with intense fot eyes, clouded ike lopis lazuli; he was either ugly or rather beautiful, according aa oy liked sleek or a rugped masculinity, Foran instant she had had an impreasian— be only time she ever did have it—that he was a silent being. ee tad told her litthe etary. “And os [ really don't know much about writing,” ie esded, "1 thought —— Tou thought you'd like todo hewspaper work," he interrupted with o sort af showt. writing wos the moet difteult of all—ithe only tie) that mattered, What waa oe Hhject of writing anyhow? To tell something, He ecplained to her how newspaper FLEWITRATE GD AF We Wad Come for tie Pherograph, Waiee We oe Toot Geatly Gat of Worgoret's Uaresistlag Nood Valentine's servant. CHARLES wasn't it? Well, in newspaper work —— ideas sparkling and leaping likes mountain brook. She was aware that she atimulated him. She leurned Inter that he was grateful for stimulation, particularly from women. Almost. immediately afterward, It seemed to her, he wma insisting that she should marry him. At firet she refused, and when her own resketance had been broken down ES ae 4 ath By Alice Duer Miller Pa HITCH ELE On and on he went, the torrent of his ber family's stood out all the more firmly. They regarded two divorces and a vulgar newspaper eyndicate as in- surmountuble obstacles. Buta fam- ily had very litth chanee against Bing, and be and Cora were married within a few months of thelr first meeting, On locking back at it ake felt that she soon boat not his lowe but bis in- terest. He would always, she thought, hove retuined @ sincere affection for her ifehe had been content to remain the patient springboard from which he leaped off into space. But she wasn't content with any auch rile. She wanted to be the stimulus—the excitement of his life, And so they had quur- reled and quarreled and quar- reled for the two horrible yeara which had just ended in their divorce, And now he, so vital, so eqotisticul, so doxistnntig, was dying: and she, the pale slim girl whose charm to him had been the joy of conquering her, waa alive and well and happy. It would annoy Valentine to knew that she wes happy fairly happy—without him. She wondered whether she should call up the hospital, or go there herself to inquire about him. Wasn't it possible that ho would send for her? After all, It was only the other day thatabe wae his wife. Andi at that inetant the telephone Tang. She heard a suave voice auying, “In that Mra. Bing? Mrs. Enderby-Ting? Thin is Docter Creighton, at the Unl- tarian.” Half an hour later she wus at the hogpltal. She had ex- pected to be hurried at once to Valentine's bedside, In- slew a Witte reseplion roan woe indleated. At the door a figure was standing, bead raled, hands clasped behind the back. It wax Thorpe, “Tn here, madam," he said, opened the door for her, and closed it, shutting her in. The aight of him destroyed the last remnant of Cora'a self-control, He seemed like a littl bit of Valentine himself, Thorpe had been with them on their honeymoon; she could seo him waiting at the gate under the turquoise dome of the Grand Central Biation, with their bags about his feet, ond thelr tickets in his hond—se cool ond competent in contrast te thelr own excitement that first day. ahd alr on mere visitors, and yet the lighted by a shalt, waa depressing, Some She burried Into the room. It is not to be expected that a hoapltal ehould waste sun jon room, painted a cold gray, and dimly Jagical interior decorator had hung one large

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4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST brown photograph on the wall, Lesson in Anatomy, Cora sat down and covering her face with her handa began to ery. A kind voice said in her ear, “I'm afraid you've had bad mews." Laoking up Corn aaw that a middleaged woman was sitting beside her, 2 woman with comfortably flowing lines. and large solt brawn mys and hair beginning bo turn Tt was a copy of the Eriy. “1'm afraid my husband is dying,” answered Corn sim- ply. She thought it better not to mentlon divorce to a person who seemed like the very peniua of the farily. “Why, you poor child,” said the other, “you don’t look old enough to have a bosband.”" "Tn twenty-four," replied Cora, years aince I was married,” "OF course," snid the other, “It's just becous I'm getting ald that everyone seems so young to me.” She smiled and Corn found herself smiling too. There was something comforting in the presence of the older worn: Cora felt assured that she knew her way about in all simple human crisea like birth and illness and death, Suddeniy as they talked Cora saw the face of her com- panion stiflen; Thorpo was ushering in another woman, k headed, with askin like white satin, wrapped In o mink claale. Evidently the Taw COnuer Was palnfully knowin to Cora's friend, though the mink-clad lady gave no sign. She sat down, holding the blank beauty of her face un- ruffled by the least expreion; and oa she did so Dortor Creighton entered, “Mrs, Bing,” he said. All three women rose. The doctor glanced gt a paper held in the polm of his bond, “Airs. Johnson-Bing, Mrs. Moore-Bing, Mra. Enderisy- Bing.” Even in her wild engernesa to know what the doctor had to tell them of Valentine's condition Cora waa aware of the excitement of at last seeing those two others. Phrases that Valentine had used about them came back to her: "A cald-hearted unfaithful Juno"—she in the mink coat, “She was so relentlessly domestic"—Corn glanced of her new friend. Yes, she was doamestic—almeast motherl;. Cora’s friendly feeling toward her remained intact; but toward Hermlone—Mra. Moore-Bing—who had ao de- ceived and embittered Valentine, her hatred flamed aa it had flamed when Valentine first told her the story. How could she stand there, so calm, drooping her thick white eyelids and moving her shoulders about in 2 way that made you aware that under the mink cloak they were as white os blane mange. “She muat know," Cora thought, “that I know everything there is to know aleout ler. Valentine bad no reserves about it. And Margaret, from whor she took him; and Thorpe, whose testimony in the divorce case ——" Inatinctively she took o step nearer to Margaret, aa if wishing to form an alliance against Hormiane, Meantime the doctor was speaking rapidly, apologeti- cally: “Vou must forgive ove, ladies. I might have ar- ranged this better, but time ia short. You must help me. Mr. Bing’s condition is serioua—‘very serious. He keeps demanding that his wife come and nurse him. He boliewes we are keeping her fram him. His temperature is going up, he exciting himself more and more. We must give him what he wants, but—" The doctor paused and looked inquiringly fram ane to the other. Mrs. Johnson-Bing smiled her quivt muternal smile, Poor Valentine,” she said: “he wos always like that when he was i" There was a pause, "But you don't help,” said the doctor, “You don’t tell me which one jt is that he wints." J “Well,” suicl Airs. Moore ig Bing in her cool drawl, “os I'm hs the only one whe left him against his will ['m probably the only one he wants buck again.” Cora would not even glance ih the direetion ofsuch uwarnat. She had been kept silent her tofore by the trembling of Wer chin, but now she managed to enuncinte; “Mir, Bing and T were divorced onby afew months age, Until Oetober, you see, I was his whfe."" The logie of this, or perhapa his own individual preference ior aslim elegant young weman, evidently influnnced the cloetor. He melded quickly. “Tt's almost three “Df you'll come with me, then ——" he began, and turned toward the door, but there Thorpe was standing, and he did not move. ; “H you'd excuse me, gir,"” he aaid, “am T right in think- ing it will be bad for Mr. Bing if we mistake his wish in this mutter? “Yes, I'd like to get it right,” anid the doctor, “Then, slr, may TU say it's not Mra. Enderby-Hing that he wants, sir?" “What makes you think that?" sald Doeter Creighton. "T could hardly explain it, sir. Twenty yeara of being with Mr. Bing ——" There was an awkward pause, The obvious thing to do wos to ask Thorpe who it was Bing did want, and some thing in the poise of Thorpe's head suggested that he was just waiting to set the whole matter straight, when hurried footateps were heard In the hall, and a hurse entered—an eager panting young woman. She beckoned to Creighton and they apoke a few seconds apart. Then be turned back ‘bo the group with brightened face, “At last," he said, “ Mr. Bing has spoken the first name, Tt is Margaret.” Cora enught a glimpse of Thorpe quietly bowing to hinself—as much as toe soy, “Just what [ had expected.” Mr. Johnson-Bing rose. “Wy pare if Margaret,” ahe sald, and left the room with the doctor, Hermione rose, too, bunching her cape into place, "Well," she said without taking the least notice of Thorpe, who wes opening the door far her, “that's one chore you ahd T don't hove tode, He wos bad enough healthy—sick he must be the limit." Cora did not so much ignore Hermione as she conveyed in her manner ag she turned te Thorpe that everyone must know that whoever might be the object of Mrs. Moore Shas conversation it could not be herself. “Tell me, Thorpe,” she said, “what do you think of Air. Bing's condition?" “Mr. Bing is i, madam—very ill," Thorpe answered immediately; “but not ao ill ae the doctora think.” “Mol” said Cora in some surprise, “No, madam. Mr. Bing, if I might use the expression, yields himself up to illness; thin nssists him to recover." He opened the door for her at this point, and she went out of ik, Bhe returned home not so emotionally upset but more depressed than before. There was a core of bitterness in ler feeling that had not been there when she went te the hoapital, and at first ahe found it difficult to discover the reason for this, Was it anxiety at Valentine's Ulness? No, for he was a little better than sha had feared. Was it the realization that thean two former wives, who had always seemed to her like shadows, were, in feet, living belnge like herself? Wa, for they had turned out to be more unattractive, moreutterly unsuitable teV alen- tine than she hod imagined. It was tote thet her taste, her WF pri sheltered selectivenesa —a paualon which mo brought-up women mistake for morality7 —w2s at being in the same room with Hermione, but a certain gatiafaction in finding her to be worse) Valentine's highly colored descriptions of her. A Margaret, she felt no jealousy of her, even Chouge been chosen. No one could be jealous of any 4 kind, so ald and sw badly dressed. Tt came to her gradually os she moved mbout | ufiable to look of her plans, unable to rem, Uns anything but encourage the toothache at Auer hea was like a memory of all her later relations with % The reason waa Thorpe—-Thorpe’s instant comnvwic it was not she whom Valentine wanted. Wha w sare? He had been right; Thorpe wos always rig twenty year he had made it bis busireess what Valentine wanted. That wos Thorpe"s ide function of a good servant. He had always qui consistently followed this line, while the wives lowed others. Margaret had been concermed wi wes beat for Valentine; Hermione had thought of what was most agreeable to herself; Cora ha only to preerve the romance of her lave Thorp elalty was knowing what at the moment Valentine for, and then in getting it. Thorpe had aurwiwed 2 Cora could understand a sick man having a fan nursed by Margaret, but Thorpe’a conwictiom th Cora, could net be the wife called for had a dew moré lusting significance. That wee the thought tha her heart ache. She tried to take up ber life where she had left morning, but everything had paled in interest —es new house. She had bought a little corner of Lard, the city limits but near the river, surrounded by Sho saw wonderful pussibilitice—a walled garden river view within twenty minugtea of the thenters recognized certaln daadvantages—the proximity of road track, amd the fact that the neighborhood wa unkempt; she enjoyed the idea of being @ piomeer, now, though the plans were lying on the table, she di open therm. It was as if that hour in the hospita muarried her again to Valentine, und there was mo viv left ln the rest of life. For ten days the bulletins continued to be tnecreai favorable, and then—a sign that convalescence ha in—they ceased entirely. Cora found the silence trying. With the great qué of life or death answered there was so much else tha wiunbed to know—whether he had been permanently 9 ened by his ines: whether be would now be start one of his long-projected trips—to Chinu or the South: China had always fired his imagination. Twice durin short marriage they had their trunks packed for 0 Had he beon softened, or fr ened, or in any way change the great adventure af all dying? There was one person could tell her all these thi and that was Margaret. 1 out exactly formulating 5 | Cora went to the hospital day and inquired about | The girl at the desk on a if Valentine were alresd in the lioapital, “He's getting along =! didhy now, His wife's with “T wonder," Cora heard! selfaaying, “whether Me. 8 would see me for a minute.” She retired, rather frigtte at her temerity, to the resepo roam, where the Lest Anatomy still dominated | wall, “ Margaret won't mn ahe hept telling herself. "Sh ao kind, and, anyhow, «& more like his mother than | wife.” twas on this mater quality that Cory depeaded. There was a footstep mo hall. Astatuesquetigure mod into blue serge stood ic tl doorway —bure-headed wil shing bronze-coblored balrel orately looped and euclel. | woe Hermione. “Vou wanted to see me" she ssked in her drawling. 1 constructed voice, She did a omer recognize Com. “Nomad Cons, “Ieertait! did net want to ser yu thought lt was Mrs, Jobe Bing who was here." ‘Continued on Pape Ti! fe Pao the Piette of a Tervifide aod Farchiastiag Fomas

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 5 AEN & TL AIE when business effort is still con- centrated to a notable degree upon the elimination of superfluous human [actors ee peertinent to inquire why so many men get ahead or make good. [tis porposed not so much why the few aucceed ag why the many fail. This 2 merely turning about avery old subject. But itis looked at in auch a way; and, besides, when men OF €@ wen toward the end of s period of retrenchment jorganteation, which means the survival of the = they are more interested naturally lin tert alipplng “4 the pleasurable but perhaps untimely and tmprac- sccupation of dreaming about the te of success. 4 dirficult to deal with the subject lividual suecess and failure with- hatitudinauys preaching. Even if opie does mot cany one bo mystic ees or along the road of a 2? eharlataniem it lends all teo readily to a tone ous, solemn warning and Flution, Everyoneloveste other people advice, and ewho have a sense of humor it at once that it & the ‘pest thing they have to » as well as the easiest of Her Sports, though a vast literature, ped of books, cormepond = = courses and magazine mewapaper articles, has en up in the last twenty ren the subject of success, re is exceedingly little that gcan be new therein. For mh a copy-book wisdom of eoges. Moet of the wise suy- 3, 6s, presepta, rules, prin- be, theories and practices on deh a suecesaful life i eup- wal to be built have come en to us fram the past. In f sume way the reasons for lure are just as old, No one sc improve on Wiliam Jarves, alph Waldo Emerson, Ben- min Franklin, and back of em the Bible and the ancient bilosngeh ies, tt & doubtful if the most menus of modern captains of idutry ean hand aut to a Hiding public of eager and mhitious youth, through the cilful medium of a aympa- bec interviewer and feature writer, any wise bit of advice hat bes not bern anticipated by poets, philosophers und ephets, men who speak eternal truths in words of living in But the voeabulary changes gomewhat; the form of pression and the vernacular even more, Moen use differs et expressiona and different symbols, The illustrations, it cars, of one age mean comparatively little to another, echough the uncberlying thought may be the sanve. Formidable Specifications he young man who has just been fired froma bank or ther business corporation may find that the Hebrew prophets really said more of a mouthful concerning his guitficutions and shortcomings than did even the employ- fent manager whe gave him his walking papers the day belote yesterday. Hut naturally the renarke of the lather wem to have more immediate applicatlon than those af the former. The boas upon whom one depends for a living, and pubape fears, is a much more imposing figure than the dim, vague name of a aeer who lived several thousand yea ago, even though the remarks of the boss ore perlapes arather poor imitation of the wisdom of greater men. Thee the ideas that rom through this article may mot be mew. They hawwe been puthened in the last few weeks from ceniew. with twelve individuals: The president and also (ht personnel director of one of the largest financial insti- ithe in the country, which employe several thousancl workers; the director of an employment agency or bureau diving with the highest class of workers only: the view resident | in charge of personnel of one of the chief public- evi: corporations in the country; the assistant to the preident of the same concern; the vice president of a tation-wide chain-tare organization; the vice president WHO By Albert W. Atwood Me Promptly heat a Saall Fortune of a New York bank, who has had extensive experience aa well with o large government organization and with great bodies af colle men; on experienced induastriol-plant manager; the assistant to the preddent af an industrial corporation of world-wide scope; a partner in an inter- national banking firm, who is also a director in several of the onuntry’s great industrial corporations; the lead of a most successful and enterprising advertising agency; and an author whose world-wide travels have brought him into intimate persona) contuct with many thousands af men all the way from doughboys in the trenches to kings and prime ministers, The. ideas gleaned fram these sources depend for their justification upon no impossible originality, If they are worth relating it is solely because they come firat-hand fram active participants in the business game, and because they are based open individual cases and individual expe THE. Now it is sometimes sald that there are os many reasons why people fail a there are Individuals, But such a remark, though natural enough and a wholesome antidote against too eweeping a simplification of the subject, is both misleading ami careless. Ordinary common sense ana experionee, as well as science, point toward the classificn- tion of men as well as natural objects, Exceptions pop up te moat rules, but there wre rales, and the world weld be a thace without them. [tis a poor teacher who does not soon learn bo recognize a few well-defined types anvong the pupil in a clase at achool. But there is danger also aa soon as we begin to build up Tulea. Many articles and books have been written about access which mention anywhere from twenty te thirty essential qualities, the secrets of success, corner sbones, FAIL keys, alphabets, and all that sort of thing. Any- one who reads such articles and books, or who Purves cHures and systems of home education, character building, memory training, self- analvela, concentration, and the like, cannot but envisage a paragon, a creature of unattainable perfection. Sweb ad- vice is very often too confusing and baffling te be of much help. No one can be « paragon, or wants to be, An excellent book on the training and handling of em= ployes suis that the essential qualificutions of a sucessful business executive aad leader must be: “Character: enea- tive, sober imaghiation: sound judgment; courage; a senae of humor; ability to co operate, to understand men, and te orzan- ime; receptivity; courtesy; expert technical knawlodpe." To put it mildly, this ia n tall order, but it is almest literally nething as compared with many other lista of necessary qualities or qualifications, To succeed, one ia told that he must have honesty, character, health, industry, will power, energy, initintive, imaginution, self-control, common sense, judgment, confidence, dependability, relin- bility. ambitlon, loyalty, courage, a good memory, application, knowledge, reasoning power, concentration, alacrity, accuracy, power of observation, tactfulness, courtesy, perseverance, thrift, resourcefulness, enthu- siasm, chetrfulness, a good disposition, a good appearance and personality, and that he must be able and willing to assume re- sponsibility. Pergonally, I should think a young man would simply curl up and die when confronted with these lists, or advice made up of such ingredients, and that he would admithe wosdefented before hebegan. Na. men connot be shown where they are weak or failing to make the meet of their opportunities by hurling at their teeth great long schedules of an impoesible perfeectibility. Such reat hots lack the necessary lightandsahade, There isno contrast. [tis like a continuous diet of maple nut sundoes, Few human beings con take in so rent ides all at ones, If you tell an man thot he needs to change his life in twenty diferent respects it means nothing to him. One is quite enough. Unless experience can be boiled down to a few, a very few ideas, and unless the individual cases to it reloted in this article drive home a few, and only afew points, if might better have been unwritten, Jfeasures of Succes 4M REAL life men are made or undone by the way in which they moet the concrete situations which arise, A firen bot wie and toectful employer in a single flash of eriticiem may eniuble an employe to climb from failure to sucess. There can be only discouragement in a lengthy schedule of defects, A pro- ducer of goods, whether he be a manufacturer of silk etack- lings of a shorbestory writer, can usually be told in a few words what is wrong with his product, Besides, though it io mishending to say that there are ws nanny reasons for succes and failure as there are individ- uala, yet there is danger always in stressing any list of qualities, because all sorts and conditions of men prove to have the quulitios needed for success, the cautious and the daring, thoes given to detail ond thase negligent of detall.” As one impartial and experienced observer has aaid: “Some heads of large organizations keep every thread in their own hands, and not only plan the large outlines of their ventures but loak to every detail. Others intrust aimost all administration to subordinates, and keep them- selves free Lo think, polauitt,, confer, ‘There are those who. kassfa etrietly to ‘their business," the particular branch of in- dustry in which they have embarked: and again there are thease who launch freely into new and Varied enterprises. No one key opens the doors of sucess.” First, of course, tt is necessary to define auecess and fuilure, This & no place to discus such fundamental questions a bo whether sucete should ie measured by money, posltion, reputation or by such teats as happiness ind contentment. But lt may be pointed owt that, even considering only what is called business success, men are sometimes superficially classed as failures merely becouse their heads have not risen above the crowd, The small country merchant, provided he gives good service, extends his business and makes ao comfortable liv- ing, may by any sane standard be just os successful aa the 'Toitiinaed of Page 96!

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7 T WY godess, B but Fortune often plays scurvy tricks, sar! She will shower her favors on a worthless fellow, raising 2 lepgur from the duet to set him among princes, and at the fame time watch witha coldneasthe striving efforts of a patriot be better his condition. "Taint right! In my opinion thie Benito Servin was mothing short a bum, yet to-day be ie rich ane pow= erful, whilat you ase before you a penniless exile, devoid of every- thing but loner. Just luck, sir — nothing ¢le—the Ruler of the Uni- verse, who carealor fools, had him in his keeping. How else can you explain it? This Servin possessed what we call crazy couruge, which often led bim to aut haerapet things he was in Ech Wanye fithed to de. “Loam the pluckiest one of the whole bunch,” he would gay. “See for yourselves!" And then he would prowe it sure enough. He even dared te raise his eyes to the haughty Seiora Adela Tostado, a lady in the saloon business at El Save who also owned @ great plantation thereabouts known as Tree Hermano. My, it was an earthly parade, that hathtnda, where fat cattle dozed pleasantly in the after- noon shade and high-tailed calves romped acroas greenery of the pastures because everything looked nice to them, In the cool of the evening, when the perfume of flowers mingled with the soft breeses, the protey litth: girls fram the village would promenade on front af the house, with their balr down and glancing sidewise at you out of their vielet eyes. I think violet eyes are very beautiful, What ip your opinion, air? Wea, those shy creatures seemed to say "The night is very agreeable, is it mot? Wel-[-17"' Tres Hermanos seemed like heaven to poor tired soldiers, exhuwsted by fighting the treacherous enemy and golng hungry half the time, and many offleere In the ariny of Lari Pez would willingly have terminated the aad be Teaverent of the Widow Tostado, But the lady waa of a cold, imperious nature, sir, who suapected they were after her lovely money, and they made litth progress, And from the day this Benita Servin arrived on the scene the unlucky fellows lest every liking for the job, for Beryin knew nothing of the ways of civilization, No, he was a tough guy. 2s af Such was the selfishness of his diaposition that he en- deayvered to run of anyone he considered might have the sume intention be did, What do you know alpout that! And he did this with a feroclty alse. “Para ef palieate @ hizo fa belleca." he would say. “None but the brave deserves the fair, So keep out af my way, OF [ will cut off somebody's ears.”* Worse still, he treated the chject of his attentions with a roughness, Instead of serenading the lady, or expressing to her by ardent glances and sighs and moana how aweet. her image made the scenery appear to him te be, this hharabre displayed the fnsticts of the brutes the wery first time he set eyes on the Sefiora Tostade. That was in the saloon at El Sauc, and Servin was strutting up and down the place like he owned it, staring at everybody with inso- lent eyes, when Adela eapied him. Seeing hin thus, she mutterce, gloomy, “Well, [like that! Huh!" and began to wonder who this son-of-n-pun thought he was, anyhow, and where did he get that stulf, “Hi, you! Who made you jefe of this town?" she cried, “Hey? How do you get that way, hombrecita?" Benita turned and eyed her from head to toe while she stared at him the same, Tt was exactly like a couple of dogs glaring at each other and waiting for 2 chanee to get ahold. The instant their glumes crossed, it wie a thinigh two eworda crossed. sir, or two currents of electricity. Everybody in the saloon could feel it and we all paused to watch the pair. The widow was breathing short and leaning a little forward; a smile of contempt for this bum curled her lips, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST : It seemed to anger this fd she emitted a sniff of derision. Benita Serrin. "You lowk at me that way again,” be solid between bia teeth, “and I will sock you on the moe." The Sefiora Tostado, she only laughed. Seemingly gratified by the effect she had produced, she walked up close to Servin and snapped her fingers in his face like this, turning her shoulder against him, “That for you, you miserable runt!” she execlaired queenly. Everybody expected the pelade would now make good his threat and sock the sehora on the moe, air, but he did not. Tnetead he turned around and inquired of the room in general, “Has this nagging crow got a hushand? 1 would deal with him, Men ace my ment," Somebody apoke up und told Servin the lady was a widow, “She needs a tan,” beeaid: “one who will learn her net. to get too fresh." To which the sefiora retorted displeasingly, "Listen at him! What does he know about aman? In thease ports, muchockile, men don"t make such big talk, but let their actions apeak. You may be cock of your own back yard, but you'd best not erow around bere." "Ta that so?" gaid Benito, “Well, a good rooster crows everywhere, And Io am one, Go fetch me o meacal, women, And be quick about it.” 'Vou're drank alrewdy. | verily believe you have been taking marihwana, roseal! My, bot aren"t you the tough guy!" “Yea, [ am," admitted this Servin. “I am a tough guy—Benito Servin, the black cloud of hia enemies. Tam a tiger of the mountains. Where | come from they grow fightera—not scented stiffmecks, Do you know what they de when ow child is born in my country)" “TL know what they ought te have done in your cuse— sure—yea. Ha, hal" “Well, when a child ia born in my country the mother throws him up against the wall, and if be doen't dig hia nails in and stick there—why, that child ia unworthy and a fore tothe howls, Gofeteh that drink, woman. Tam t iraty." The Sefiarn Adela, she informed him of o suitable des tination withwut ne intermediate stops. “That will do," answered Servin, very severe. “That Will be about all fram you. Try to act like alady. If 1 waa your hushand it would be my pleasure to beat you every marning.” “Tf —if— if!" joered the seforn, angered by the laughter af the puesta, but unoble to think up any onawer, “Well.” contiuwed the fellow, and be grinned, do it some day if I take the notion.” “Hal” eried the widow. “That is a good one, PR “T may Any "And any time I want a wile,” cut in Benito Servin, his eyes doing lightnings, "I'll send for you, You'll come teal" In my opinion Servin went too fur on a first wequaint- ance. What do you think, sir? The Setiora Tostado was evidently of that mind, because at thia juncture she entirely lost patience and attacked Benito @ furicomi Cy". tect Hime pre ven t sacra tehing ayes he sa by Khe wris theyre satru bodyr thor bem two wrestle: while thus inatight em whe shold thessaloonm be Marlhowio 2 af Dario . stall. Bow 2 fancied his the fawored of all Adela’ Thirersa, sarc he beheld adored one i sqQueetsee cof aici be Jet out a le ao rage and upon Servin, But the ¢ eately musi dandy was match far wildeat of the wilderness, and Benita soon had hire & less on the floor, in which position he was preparing finish the business with a knife thrust where it would enmuplish the moet gool, when I sprang to the colon rescue, At the same moment a squad of soldiers engu in patrolling the street burst in and arrested all of That's what uw peacemaker usually gets, sir, “What! cried Durio Pea when we lined wp before | next morning. “You amaze me, Don Francieco! T runt was getting the better of the colonel? It is imp sible! Colonel Zapien is twice hia size and a fine fighter he has tald me an himself," “Nevertheless, the colonel would not now be anvong | Excellency, had T hoe intervened in his behallf,"" The general kept silent a moment, eying Renita Sere And Benito Servin, sir, gave him back book for leok. “Alm,” said Dario Pet at last. “What was the trol about?" “"T am planning te marry the Sefiora Tostads, i general," spoke up Servin, “and we were discussing # mutter of the betrothal when this criminal erow made i attack on me with suddenness.” By goodness, what a lie! “What? You marry the Widew Tostado! Why, af would bave to shake the blankets every morning to fp “And,” Dadded, “the prisoner has neglected to mentia that the lady dees not yet know of his intentions,” “Trideed!" exclaimed Daria Pez. “You interes! me Don Franeiseo. The fellow seems to be —— Where & you come from, rascalt'" “From the mountains,” “And what are you doing here?” “T eume to help your army. In my country they grew fighting men, Excellency. And Dam the best fighter in the whole bunel.” “Sure—I used to drink meseal, alec,” aaid Dario Pee, “but I don't judge a mule by ite bray, Aombre, We wl see about you. How do I know that you are mot lying! You may be aspy, oro Ped Flagger, for all 0 know.” “Wo, Excellency, you wrong me, See—here is a better from your ally, General Urbina. In it he tells what sort a! a guy Tam." The general took the letter, turmed it around std around, and scrutinized the writing very carefully. “Well, that seema ta be all right," he admitted. “Le bing must think a bet of you. It seem to be a Jong pee But one és 2 fool te believe in recommendations. They ue either given by prejudiced friends or with the purpoer o petting rid of importunities, A man should recommeté himeelf by his behavior, compodero, Remember tht Here, Don Franciseo, put this away among your pants” Well, I glanced at the letter, sir, and by goodness, It m= nothing but o bill of sale for a gant! “Ceneral,” | cried, “you have been deceived! The ¢ not fram Urbina. It concerns the fate of a goat only, a2 means nothing.’ At that, Dario Pes"s eyes began bo rel and the veina in his neck swelled up. “What!” he thundered. “The son-of-a-gun hes triced me? Order a firing squad to be mode ready, Dan Frc eigen, Twill give him a pill of my making.”

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 7 Mister General, I am innocent! Hear me, I beg! es it all mean? [ was led to believe the paper was ‘ndation, sir; yes, | paid Captain Azacorote, af Urbina's staff, seven pesos for same. He told vst, Wiper! ** roared Dario Fee. “Prepare yourself, =o Being on o long journey, a journey without & point I ventured to whisper to the general, for that he might do an injustice because of a mis- anding. Also I did not wish this Zapien to be rid wal so eusily. at te that you my, Don Pranceo?t" he demanded irritation. “Well, what of it? The scoundrel aa said TE could not read, did he not? He deserves need men, General, sind this fellow hes come a long serve you, Perhaps—it is apparent he did not ee eentents of the letter, or he would bever have mola enough to present it." right. All right. Have it your own way. I will not obey saying Dario Pex ever did an injuative to the ad ignorant. But wait—let us get to the bottom of finesse, What right had you to interfere in this Colonel Zapien?" se ibuot the duty every man of honor owes to ao iin distress, General. This rascal had attacked the that true, accursed one?T" o, She attacked me.” ‘io Pex gamed from one to thr other of them with o al expression of dismay, He scratched his bend. is clear to me that somebody Les," he remarked. se brawls are very annoying. What do you wish me , Colonel Zapient" 5 oly justice, Excellency. [ wish to have this villain ti for what, precierly 7" \e threatened to Kill me if T ever showed wp in the as saloon again." @ geweral turned to Servin and asked, “Ia this sot" lely partly, Mister General. My exact words were | would smear this stiffneck all over the floor if ught him pestering the seforn with his unwelcome sions." So! You, a pelado from the hills, dare to threaten a sber of my stall 1" He bk a cientifico, Excellency; yee. [t ia apparent in his eer. Moreover, I think he is o traitor,” Traiter? What do you meno?" [ ¢an read athery in his ‘hat angered uio Pez, sir. iodd yore bongs, i be shoatesd, ing the table Uh tees Fin, “Bere Tite listen all the Lele proms ps my army the fir (eed would ron to ammunition, esc!" This Benito vit had never en Dario Pez ex- ‘pl at a distance, rand bis terrible i daunted him, “Ton Franciseo,” iid the gemeral ta 4, “what i the fficial complaint inst this meant” ‘That be at- acted Culonel Za- mite it. Sefora Tostado isdged & com- plait 7 “She refuses fo Pfosacortee,” A’ —then it in pat aa Ul thought — i lovers’ brawl. Torn kim looge, on Francisco, and pet hae in Captain Hand's eomanand. We will soon are the color of his Hripes, thin tiger @ the meantaln. And listen to mee, ceage—a cloae mouth cutehes no flies, * Understand?" “fe for you, Colonel Zaplen, I don't expect memieers of my staff to mix in saloon rows of get into fights with peons; but if they do, it's up te them to take care of themaelves. Enough of this childish business—-you ore like teo cake sellers, quarreling for a position on 2 corner, And anathor thing, Loy ly ba try to hide behind your rank in wifalra of the heart, Do you heart" “But, Excellency ——" began the edlonel, a pale green with fright. “TE a soldier is ineubordinate have him arrested, and if guilty be will be shot. But in love, Zapien, it is every man for himself, And I will not have my officers taking advan- bape of their rank with the pretty girls." Ey gomtnenss, We wert ofraid to look at one another, sir, for we could all remember numerous occuslons on which the general hud Fanked ua out of the pretty girla. When they had been led away—"Tell me, Don Fran- cisco, is not this Sefiera Tostado very beautiful?" “Very beautiful," “But T have heurd it said also that she is disagreeably virtuous and poasseed of wabrewish temper, Is it net so?" “She las been a widew thee years, mi general." “And with all that property! Wow! She ost be a devil, Don Franciaco, It is very etrange. Did not ber late husband come toa bacend? Tt seems to me heard aome- thing to that effect.” “Sefior ‘Tostade perished with @ suddenness,” OV peg Tt “She stabbed kim." “But probably Sefior Toetado deserved it? He had done something to displease her, yea?" “The sefiora BUTpTised him with another lady, air.” Sl] ——" murmured Doro Por, pursing his lipa, and be rubbed his hands thoughtfully, I knew what he waa thinking aleowt, air—that this wos a sad ending for so trifling a matter. Well, we remained at El Sauce several weeks while Dario Pez sent couriers throughout all the surrounding country, gathering his forces for a great blow he purposed delivering ugainst the enemy in the North. Ah, sir, those days at El] Saue and ‘Tres Hermancr! We had to work hurd, yes; but every afternoon we had hore racing and cockfights, and the band played in the Hose, and the young girls would promenade with their hair down and decorated with flowers, And when they possed a handsome officer they would blush. By goodness, I like to see o girl blush. Do you tet, sie? For a while I did not see nothing more of Benito Servin, becouse the general kept me so busy, We were growing very much in peed of money, air, He wanted dollars with which to pay his boys, and the questhen of where to raise them occupied hia mind day and night. Often I have soon him pause in a game of coonean with Captain Bunda to stare at the floor, even when he was winning; and at such times Dario Pos would ran his fingers through his hair and murmur, very thoughtful, "Ah, ah! poderare eaballero ez Den Dinero, hey, omigos?"™ A powerful gentleman is Mister Money. And then in his shaent-mindednexss he would cheat, and Banda feared to draw his attention to this remizaness. The captain reported that Servin was an exeellent sol- dier and had already beaten up the best fighters in his command, aod he planned to promote the fellow to be a sorgeant, One day [ dropped in at the Sefiora Toatado's saloon for a bottle of beer, she hoving received a shipment of game. And who should come clinklng in behind me, with bella on his apura, but Benito, os bald as a yearling bull. He sat down ata table in a corner, and then Adela eapied him. “Chen, littl boy, a0 here you are again£ TI thought you were in jail, What! They have made youn soldier? Dario Pee is sure enough getting hard up for men!” “Tes, [am a soldier, Listen to me, woman—you see before you a poor pelode, a man without ¢educution or graces, but aticalm aime to climb the ladder of fame. Yea: one of these days the name of Benito Servin will ring through- out Moxies, So fetch mea drink. Tt i very hot.” “Listen wt hia!" retorted the lady sneeringhy, ‘Well, let me tell you this, hembrectto—somebody elee con serve you— net me” And she walked queenly away. Servin, he did not say nothing and he did not endeavor to reason with the woman. What is the use? No: he just sat there and amaked his cigarette: and rolled his eves around, and drank mss) until he wos peraplring very niece, Ag for Sefora Adela ahe kept her distances, but main- talned a close watch on her unwelcome guest. As she Walked around and around among the tables every little while she would mutter “Hub!” very gloomy, and the looks she darted of thls Benita Servin sught toe have burned him like fire, “ Ab-b-hl" she exchoimed, wlth a hissing, seating herself beside me, “TD could kill that man—yes." "ls it permitted to inquire why. sefiaral™ “Because, said Adela, “T hate him, Us it notenough?" “Afore than enough, But what moles you hate him sot In my opinion he dots not deserve a thought from you. He is too insignif- eant.” "[naignificant? Why, you are crazy, Don Franclaco! Have you fot aeen his eyes? = Lawvk at him now — just look at him! You milglit thjnk I waa dirt un- der his feet—the son-of-a-gumn ft" Servin waa leer- ing oe her aero the room #8 though the Wohah amused him, Bir. “He i nothing short 1 bum,” con- tinued Sefiora Tos- tado. “That iewhat he is. He is wot worth that!" And she anopped her fingers, “I would have him thrown aut, only it would etart. a fight ane hurt business, This Toaster ia nut afro of nobly" “Why do you nat drop a hint to Colonel Faplen to remove him from annoying you, #ei- ora?" “Whol Zapien? This peloda wonla assured|y kill him, Don Francisco. Yes, indeed: he is a tough guy. Why,do you know what he has done? He has succeeded in driving (Continaed on Pogo ITdl

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| THE SATURDAY EVENING POST we yo rd OUR OFFICIAL FAMIZ RECOLLECTIONS OF A CABINET MINISTER’S WIFE By Mrs. Josephus Daniels OVERNOR WILZON ia going ta ask Mr, Daniela to be Secretary of the Navy." The news was plumped Sat me by a coller in Washington, a man whe sald that for reasons of consclence he himeelf waa declining the uppolntment aa Secretary of War. Waa LT overcome by joy, or teara, or antlelpation of the days to comel Not at all. Bly very firet thought waa of Mr. Daniela clasping a high silk hat over his heart and standing on a ship, the American flag waving over his bead. 0 lenew thot, deep-seated in his beart, there was potrictian, but a patriotlam that had in it toa much of reverence and sacredness to lend itself easily to those formaliths which are demanded of a Secretary of the Navy. A littl: later my mother, whom I was visiting, came to my room and wanted to know whether I was laughing or crying. Laughing, I said. The picture of Mr. Daniels and the tall silk hat was still in my mind, und with it a knowl edge born af twenty-six yeors of belng comrade ta my husband, I rewlized that there were breakera ahead. Precedent might make its demands. But I knew that there would be a breaking of precedents, There came to me alao the memory of that night a quar- ter of a century before, Aso Oung bride I had gone ta hear my husband, then editer of a weekly newspaper in Ruleigh, North Carolina, speak at a little school in a helghboring community. The presiding officer at the meeting was the school principal, an old Confederate aalilier, His introduction of Mr. Daniels ran like this: “The greatest honor for an Englishman is te intreduce his Wellington. The greatest honor for a Frenchenan ls to introduce he Napoleon. The greatest honor for a North- ermer is to introduce his Ulysses &. Grant, The greatest. honor for a Southerner is to introduce his Habert FE. Loe, But a greater honor than any of ther is mine to-night, that of presenting te you the young statesman, Joxephus Daniels, whe & known on two hemispheres.” Just then the old soldier apparently realized that the fervency of his oratory had carried him too far, for he threw his hands out ina wide gesture and added, “Or will be.” Learns In Diseretion ITTLE did I think that night that I should ever be golng to Weshingbon with thet “young statesman" as Secre- tary of the Navy: or that for eight years there [ sheuld be called upon to decide such problems ax [shall now de eepibe: What to reply when 1 queen sate that ber clothes closets are dusty. How to feed fifteen hundred wonven ata reception when elght hundred have been expected. Where to find the time to make from two hundred and fifty to four hundred calla every week, What to do when a lady blurts aut a government secret at ates. How to act wheo ovnee af flowers tips over upon the goests at a very special dinner, What to reply when ladies wk for one's husband's shirt tails to make into aprons fora bazaar. How to act at the embassy of 2 country which is atwar, when spies are being discussed and suddenly all the lighta go ou. Lewt of all was I thinking that night of what it would mean every minute ofevery waking hour of every day for eight yeurs to be a woman in public lite, Tt was months later, on a ship in the Pace Qeean, when in my boner the band played Dixie and I ap- Plauded only moderately, that the President of the United States put into words what the woman in public life rust never for an instant forget, “You see, Mister President, I try not to be too enthusiastic,” I ex- plained, and Mr. Wilson leaned acrcsa the table and said: “You are right, It is the little things like that which count mest in the estimate which people form af ua." I had another bit of advice which T remembered all through the years in Washington, There once lived in my state of North Caro- lina a man whe had been of the slate, a United States senator, and ambassador to a foreign country. He had been known to me from childhood, for he served in the saume company with my futher-in the Civil War. Hie wife has tasted the joys of public life to thefullest. And itis char- acteristic of her that in all the years no one hes ever heard her moke an unkind remurk about another person. When she came to mi home in Raleigh te bad me gooi-hby she said, "L can trust you mt to clo anything wrang: try hot to aay anything wrong.” [I made up my mind that day that though the wife of a public man must run the risk af seeming inane she misst guard her tongue more dearly than her life, and be like a Halloween pumpkin, just eyes, nose, mouth, with the light shining through. Many tires the wisdom ef this course was brought hametome. Oneein par- ticular I remember during the days of the war when many of us had to keep secteis, secrets which I am now privileged to reveol. Tt was not auppoeed to be known that armed guards were to be placed on ships of-the merchant marine, when at a reception 9 women UE to me and snid, "Isn't it perfectly lovely that Mra. So- snad=So's tishand is to be on such-and-uch a ship!" { knew that the wife of the naval offleer in question eould thet have ben ao Indiscreet as to tell that fret, and I professed ignorance for miysell, “Why, don"t you knew?" and [ replied, “I try not ba exclaimed the know whut {ue Of in WHIT, tive The Former Jecesiory of the Nooy aad Mrs. Donte af an Army ond Nary Footboll Came oe ee ee Afro, Josepha Daadete Navy Depertme then [am mot tes say what TC ahbouw But all this c= theeday when we j in the livingg Poor home in Rimleigh. good-by to the » had known the: hushand, macaelf, | boys, and the rf whe had been funmer for many We had had a taken, mor beoages mr the big chair im wt had been goes Dor gather for long ti the freight. That £0 With ws as one dearest memories, now for the bog glamour of goin; blotted oazt by tha that Sophy, the old manny, through r! ceion af herown rela was to be left behin Secrets E HAD a! prayer togret her 1a we rose a aniffing « boy blurted out, ™ gone Gavernor Wils That small boy Liter te be querbed ata Her where men fo w President Wilson given everything in Personal careers were: nizing him bitterly, af the gentlemen pre remarked, “You all tilod me of the little Daniels boy, who, instead of bv glad that hia father had been made Secretary of the Na said 'Dog-gone Governor Wilson ["" How President Wikon camo to abolish the inaug ball, how the corefully conceuled personnel of the 1 cabinet waa revealed through the invitations tea lanehe and how a amall boy alept peacefully through a president garden party—these are some of the incidents that co Le me mind in connection wth the White Howse festint during. the first few years of myst it Washington. Those of the falls lige yeurd, Whee thera waa anc mistress in the White House, [ st describe Later, When the aouncement waa mi that Preadent Wilson weakd mot a cept the wel ball om the night off first Inauguration, in 1919, the eco try wondered and ageculated a searched forthe reason, Thos oli who knew something of the stroqy quiet Figure in the boekgrow Flenner Wilson, andl of the ambitier he hod eherished for her huahaet understood that to Kher this we dream reverently come true, andiki sho could mot bear to have ite sect nossa tornishesd bar the fripperis #2 frivolity, the new darieces- find tht coming In, the selling of levitate the folly and empty heartaches of! hall, President. Wileon had carelly yunrded the secret of who wes lo in his cabinet, and ench moan who tad been fovited to take a portfolio tad reapected his wish and aided in ik concealment. To the wife of ane ttor, Whe knew the signa of the toe imong thoes with printer's in = their fingers, ft was interesting ac tht mornibg of the inauguration to est in the press gallery those men ve

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= fad been making up posible alates, eked down inte the United State: Sen- thet and beheld the ttle covey of ten Woodrow Wilson had brought there. 5 @8cited was the atmosphere in the Private gallery, where the wives of those St in a row of seata reserved for them ‘ieom. Many of them did not know one and to the other women in the gullery bitty wal the ten was allay a purzln. Whispers nat the aisles, “Who & shet" ter of attention to the ten of ws waa Beat in the front row, where sat the wife w President, she who waste be our chief, ber husband was to preside over. our &. IT shall always remember her as she > that day, fk seemed to me the embell- & golden pheasant, aristocratic In figure, len—golden not only in hairand costume he sogl which shone owtoof her eyes. the insuguration ceremony Mr. Daniels ent out to find our carriage, and there far t time I met the new Secretary of War, rrison, abel Mra. Gorrieon. In sone way Tiage or theirs had gotten Jost, and ao © we drove down Pennaylvunin Avenue, ne 2a fnendship that has continued ever preener of the ten men and their wives inauguration luncheon thet deyoot the House wae the frst official announcement thington of the personnel of the new oali- it was a large party and-the luncheon rred buffet, Almost before luncheon waa d President Wilson went out to the review= md, followed by the menbersof the cabinet eirwives. Tome it wie a keen disappoint- to learn that the midshipmen, whe are wily dear to me always, sine two of my om: Eave been midehipmen, iad already din review, As neweomerd we were the to of interest to people gathered there that and we ourselves were much concerned in bet glimpse of these rule: of precedence which give’ Mira. Wilson was very fond many Of the meet amuding stories connected with of mvusie and often the tnvite- fegton and which I shall deseribe later. Especially tion was Jor some unexpected we interested in watching the diplomats and United treat of singing or playing. @ enators who had witressed many of these proces- Oner i recall that if vas 0 sur. jand were in consequence rather bared, The White House Gardens LAT morning the late Lord Bryce, then ambassador which It waa well-nigh impossible to sits country from Great Britain, had made Mr. Dan- distinguish the individual yoioes, ind myself very happy by a letter in which he recalled She aleo had great bove for ort and inpaaintanece with . Daniels and ex- eed hia pleasure that 7 bere to be brought 11 closer associa- iin Washington. \oother incident of day waa a telephone irom Mr. Page, wa nine-year-old y Jumped up and an at my elbow and ei: “Lit Thomas Nelson ipe? Ta fet Thomas dson Page?" The effort to quiet and bo eonduct. an, teligent conversation ah Mr. Page finally fame too greal to be am, af] T waked Mr. age it be would apeak 4 the boy. Eagerly latebing the receiver he boy called," Mr, ‘ure, have yuu ever critter anything ebse ges ped as the Two Litthe nlederuies?™ “No, [ never have," teclared Mr, Fage, Thereupon the boy mM aay appemned , Alter that inauguration= dap luncheen there ere any informal en= ‘eflaomenta to which ve were bidden et the White Howse, 0 well px thé official affairs which ave a 29 al regular feature of SEE eens: = ; rary Fear, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST a ry 7 4 © a bey Pig sted Goh T_ eed, ES Afr, ond After, Donlete one TAreer of Thee Beyer a? the Aecepiion Gleen in Nona of Admired aad Mra, Oewey fn the Garden at Iiaglht Ook prise concert by a Russian eboir, the first I-bed heard, and there will ewer linger in my memory the great united note of harmony in flowers, and it was ber pride gal joy to make the approprintion for the improvenvent of the White House other a poolof waterlilies. Shefrequently ain she asked me Flagle Oak, the Daalett Realdencte of Cleeeland Pork, 2. C. 8 to Temaln and took me all over the grounds, Tt was after Mire. Wilson's illness had started, but long before any of ua realized that it was ta have a fatal termination, that.we were invited for moving pictures in the White House garden ome June night. Cabinet children were not bid- den on this night, we understood, but something hupprene d which hed taken jploes on other orem sions, Just as on the lute afternoon of the doy of the murrlage of Miss Jesje Wilken to Proves Bowes Bayre, when there came a peeseage from the White Hous that Misa Wileon wanted the boys at her wedding, eo this afternoon there cime a telephone that Mrs. Wilson desired our sons: with the other children of the cabinet to see the pletures, We bad with os o very young guest from North Carclina, and we asked permbedon to intlude him in our party. WMrs, Wilson's Thought for Others HE cinoma was very long, the garden was dark and fragrant, and the small guest went fast asleop, 4 lhe next morning one of his young host wery much embarrassed him by remarking, “No ane can suy alter you grow up to be a man that you have never slept at the White House."’ It was not only in soctal affaires that Mra. Wil. son made herself felt. She waa deeply in- terested in the welfare of the crowded portions of Washington City, and she wanted very much to have the alleve cleared out and the filth replaced with parka. Almost on the last day af her life President Wilson sat by her bed and wrote a letter for her to Congress asking that a6 appropriation be made toetablish asrall park in the center of ome of theme blocks, The money waa piven, sod mow whee. visi- tors go to Washington they find at the foot of Capitol Hil near B Street and Maryland Avenue a mite alleswag with trees nod flowers, where those whost houses twee inside the filers may still have o glinpes of the beauties which Ged intended for the enjoy- ment of wl mankind. One of my boshand's predensa- eos os Secrelary of the Navy paid mort than his salury for the rent of the howse in which he Hved in Wiaosl= grounds go os far ea possible. She built Pn yee ington, Another former cabinet mem- twa new gardens, Che a@ Foae arbor, the Eleanor Wilmn Meadow her, alter weeks of weary hunting for # home for his family, found one that suited invited callers to go with her into the gardens and their needs and was also adequate for the social see how the flowers wore progressing. 1 Temem=- which, no matter how simple the desires of the Federal ber one particular oceesion, after a meeting of the official, are imposed ypon him by bis offic women of the He asked the rent, end waa told ener by fine hiindred cabinet, when dollars. Whereupon be sunk inte a chair and looked off into the distance for some minutes, At last the real- eatate agent became aa restineas, ea “Are you thinking that the hewse pill do, Alister Secretary?" he ventured. “T am wondering, wos the response, “Tf out of my salary of eight thousand dellara T pay seventy-five hundred dollars in hause rent, haw shall T spend the other five hundred dol- lara?" Of all the women who ever went house hunting I was probably the most ignorant, All my life] bad lived inthe SULTELE lite itt Raleigh, North Carolina. There they tell the stery of a min with three daugh- era, two of whom mar- ried and brought their husbands to live at home. When the third duughter was gsked in (Conihhaadd on Page 108)

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10 ‘THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By MARY BRECHT PUL © HE two letters and the little green book came in the same mail, and Helena could hardly contain herself in patience until James came. Directly she heard his ring she hurried down the broad flight af stairs, quite forgetting her usual leat feminine glance into her mirror, a8 a vain female wormun preparing for her very man. She headed full tilt for the haven of dJames® arms, whieh not incapably and not ot all automatically in- folded her, aweeping her to an obbligate of mingled odors—tweed, tobacco, cold air and masculinity — quite out of contact with her tem- porary problema and her muterial sebting into «a woll-less garden al complete content. Infolded her ao capably and with so little of the aubomaton that only the protesting crackbe of the letters and an aut- raged squeal from the little boak recalled her, She drew oway with a sigh. “My awcet girl! My dear love, whut rd re? inquired James, a little flushed and not at all inexpertly. “You're go lovely, Jamie—my precious old Jim! You surprise me every time. I don’t blame ‘erm— some of thes modern kittens, for liking ‘em the way you are, [ mean— an old relic like myself ——" And she reached up and towched James" kind brown face, which Nature hod elevated mearhy six inches above her own, “Bot [ can't linger over this, dorling Jimmie. Not now. Because I've got a problem." “a problem, ig it! Well, and I'll bet a dollar dog I know what it's about. [t's aboot the henven-boern, It's about your sons—one or both. The brats, Ishouldaay. I'velistened to the saga of the brata, by heaven, until I know it backward, Only my great love for you, madam——" “You don't know this part of the saga—yet,”"” she sighed. “Come in and sit by the fire and be kind to me. And [ll turn the light, so it’s kind to me too," “T might remark that kindness ia unnecessary to a lady with a golf bogey of onetwenty and who ean look in the evening like Melusina in that silver-coloned dress,” “ut who hes two big hondsome gulumphs of gona te trouble ber," slehed Helena. “ Marry at eighteen and be Methuselah at forty-four.” Tt might be remarked that there was no trace of Methu- seinh in the lady who had pressed James Trulow inte an enormous stifled chair, aad now, seated by him, Wks pre paring a barrage made of the little green slender book and the two fat letters for him. In fact, Jumes Trulow, who wae aa creditably and unashamedly in love with the wearer of the straight slim Melusina frock of silvery rough silk aa though they were both twenty yeara younger, could have found nothing wt the moment to please his eye better than Helena with this mounting pink in her cheek and her pretty profile with fis classical twist of brown baolr bent over her worry polnt. And indeed there was something te be said for Janves’ taste. For if a flapper may be represented by the opal— reacting in the expoaure of the harshest san, only to vivid huet and brillant eolars—there is something to be said for the moonatone alec, which haa a ateady and very lovely light, and—in a setting of crushed silver—may be pre- ferred by some, Helena was James’ moonstone; and the thing was not inappropriate, since James himself was not an opal. By Fo PERT, He stretched out now, a brown grizzled man, his long begs thrust gracefully from the depths of a big blue chair, inhaling his cigarette smoke, blowing aut Auffy rings, per- fectly mware of the pretty woman he had lately kissed, half-mindedt to rise and repeat the performance only for the inhibitions imposed by her oecupation. FhkLeEeuw«?!?T & aT & oO S “4 Peebles, Ge te? Well, aad fn Beta Bottar Deg F Keow What (t's About, Fi's About the Neorens fore" About them Helena‘’s living room offered an endleaa appeal of restful quaint and chorm, made of walla of unob- trusive sand color with quick mezzotinis, more of the {nt blue choirs, a Chinese rug of deeper azure, a white mantel with a witch's Gre of thorns, low stands of books and planta, on piano with a harp leaf roised. Just above their heads on the mantel was an excellent replica of the four bronze horsea of the Quadriga, with their implication of the timeless, the superior, the utterly COEnieane, : They offered in the cheerful mundane surroundings an arresting nobe Uke a stilling hand Lifted above sudden clamer, dwarfing for the moment any petty material aa- pect that would assert itself before the experience they represented, Helena momentarily catching thia note, as she often did, forgot her perplexities fora fleet second, then, realizing the clutch of the material, sighed, strnightened the first letter and laid it on Jim‘s knee, The horas of the Quodriga were all wee well, ue they represented, the abstract; and there wee still the concrete, There still remained—the bey. “Beanay," dhe announced, “has been suspended. Fram the Hryaraon Selvool,"" She paused with a sort of tragic sigh and James did his beat. ee ae Ja@aM Er iH. “Well,” he said, ** burt rather usual thing? I. mm Once—we hazed a. fellow over throes weeks I “This & entirely differ Helene quickly, “ou wed by the letter, Read iat."* Then after the fas ntom she prevented his imescli telling him what was im it It was, she explained, th of Beansy’s behavior at a faculty and trustees lhacl honer of the heads ane! pres the school nsocintions. 5 prevident of the athletic tion—an honer at seven tes half—had of course een and all had gone well warrtél J Anderson, one oof the torus up to speak, “Tye mel him" Helens ; jected, “Fat, iftyand pomp very rich, Fawn-colored epats, bay window amd gol no chikiren, but use the BG asa child, a protégé. Well, a I've heard before how bor boys pet ot the dinners apeils. That's net the palm polat it that Reansy got i he was two-thirds throug epeech at the dinner and ir him, And the other boys — the of the associations —cheered. was the goful part. Mo ri dim—you can see that. That awful thing about the childr day. Wot that you'd ewer ha pected Beansy—he's always Very conservative—and he ao spark of humor, He av Whistler's Mother on my las day becwuse he anid it ab him think af me, ond ave the last three, on Moa he's written me the ma and terrible letters, all Tents about his gratit and the sacrifices | haved him. Really, Beansy never a bit of trouble—before, ( good as an India-rubber by T'ta sure he gets the in curds and booklets, and a sends a white carnation in€ Well—you wouldn't suppe Heleno poused, sighed ag . “And yet," she went ony” child has certainly been chang He's thinking queer things. ( at Cliristmas when he was home went up to the wall motte in room—Cousin Annie Edwal made it with her pyrography needle, oh, agea ago!—j know the thing of Browning's: “The pear’ al fhe epring, Awd days at the morn: Morring's af seer; The hilleside’s dew-z The fark'a oot fhe wing: The snails on the fern; God's in Hie Heaser— lls right with dhe world! "And he dove it right af my wall and when | acked } why, be sald becwuse it wasn't true. “But,' [ sald, 7 trie. Morning doe begin at seven, and hillsides dur pearled with dew, and [ve seen plenty of amails siitieg 4 thorns,’ And he told me not to be facetious! He call: omurse it was the last two lines, He said anybody ste la any brains or ever rend anything knew the world ve = wrong and it was ne use bringing Gad inte it, Atsre teen, Jim. He sald in the Interest of freedom [t we al) and unintelligent. And so he tore it eff my wall, Task you & that freedom—mine, I mean—tor Heaney te that to my wall, to forcibly take away Cousin Act Edwards’ burnt-wood gilt? Net that I bold « bre! i> enaile, Hut Beansy! I might have seen it headizg t= way, And yet I'm so taken back. If it Iuad bees Meer Henry was always reactionary and radical, and wry termined, He used to ery for things and, when that dit’

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i! bemled this breath and beat his head on the carpet. for the doctor once ——" wight point out, Helena, that you left off with telling ns —er— Harold had insulted the trustee, Mr. son, amd if you don"t objeet to switching back to the Tack — just exactly what was it about?" seems,” said Helena, “that Mr. Anderson made a deal of money during the wor—war babies, you oh, in a perfectly legitimate way, but the thing gat | You know young peaple in a schoeal—well, there's taort of undereurrent! Beansy told me about it be Not that Mr. Anderson waan't patriotic, and all er—well, the way lots of them were patriotic, you 1 mean he made lots of speeches and stood up for atonal anthem, and bought Liberty Bonds, but-— the war bables were there. And—that's the awful arible thing about young ‘ons, Jim—you can’t — ing over for them. They're so uncompromising and adly unforgetting. They'll look right inte your eye, You think you've got everything beautifully palnted und say, “Yes, but ——" In short, they're the hardest ®in the world to fool. Well, the war babies have been uf eomme thme—and Mr. Anderson got up to speak and woke about the war, And it seems he got on a very horse. Anyway, he made some gilt-edged remark tthe boys. The beautiful bays, he called them, who out into battle ao gallantly, like yoling knights in eo armor, to fight for an imperishable ideal, their ts aflame with righteousness, And Beansy —— Well, with his awful hero worship for Henry, and the of Henry's service, und Honry's beak of poems about truth al-out the war, and all Henry's friends and their ve of mind, since they got back, Beansy said 'Buh!' toot loud. And Mr. Anderson stopped and looked ind and said, “Do | hear someone speak?" and Beansy up, clutching his napkin and said, ‘Yes, sir, you do. ke, sir, I said, Hob!" sir." Then Mir. Anderson suid, “Will you explain your re- ve, young man?! And Beansy anid, “I will, sir. What want, sir, Was that we went out to ‘battle becwume you tuvsr,” Jim, Beansy wes twelve when we entered the 1, bot of course hewas. being Henry and Henry's friends the time. “We went to war because it waa our duty te qt yout when you masked us todoa piece of dirty work. ti doubt if you can ever send as again, sir.' “Can you imagine it, Jim? Well, there wag a terrible uproar and a lot of talk. Beanay was saked to apoligize, and he wouldn't. They were going to expel him, then Mr, Anderson interceded—that was gulling to. Heansy—and they've given hima month to reconsider and he wwears he won't; and the tap form swears he shan't; that if he's put out they rat) with him." “And Beaney hea written yoo his decision ——" Helena faced James tragically. “Beanay haa written me nothing, Jim. He's written to Henry. The sehool—Mr. Paterson, the headmaster, haa given me the story, and notice of Heansy'a return. And I've got a letter fram: Henry, Beanay wrote to him atonee, And Henry is coming home to talk it over, And he’s bringing Moresby Girard. To talk it aver with him! Fancy, os though it should need any talking over! Por no matter about the war bales, ner how right Beansy may be, Mir. Anderson is his euperior officer. He was his host, besides, and Beanay behaved like an ill-bred nasty little boy. That's all. Tf we are to have freedom, Jim, doean"t it work both ways? Elaan't Mr. Anderson the right te be cheaply forensic W he chocees—or even illogical? I ona individual has a ight to foree his standard on anather hasn't Mr. Anderson the right to express his, when he's invited to? Beanay doen't have to belleve what he said— any more thin he has to believe in Cousin Annie Edwards’ wall motto,” “Mostly, [reedom's a one-way ticket when you're Beansy's age,” Jim said dryly. “And sending straight for Henry, Jim! What can we expect of Henry? And bringing Morestiy Girard inte it. As though it were a matter of socred principle. Oh, of course, Moresby ond Henry! Galety has thelr pletwres: this month with six othera—a whole pape of Our Young Modern Thinkers. Because of Henry's poems and Mores- y's nowela, IT know it's remarkable—the things they write, I know it's remarkable for Moresby at twenty-two to have written Chitlaw and Unafraid. “Thoy're amazing books, and full of horrible truths, as very young peaple see truth; in—well, a sort of physi- ological way, Becuuse, | suppose they ve found out all et eae one ao recently, and can"t wear their knawl- lighthy. Oh, beauty's in them too! A lot of beauty. Phos ogy and beaaty and the plain names of things all mixed together, That's what strikes you so! They make ei eee “eu're 2 Pretty ld TAlag, Hom. Bet F Cont Go Back to Anderson, me think—Moresby and Henry's kind—of little boys with their eyes full of dreams throwing mud balls at the teacher." "The teacher!" snorted Jim. “They'll tell you, about the teacher!" : "Oh, [ just meant life, Jim: and some af the rales. T know you enn’t teach ‘em anything. [f you point out that you've lived longer they anly jeer and ask you what you made of your living, They'll say, ‘Ser the mee you turned over to us!" As ifone didn't learn more from one’s messes than one's guecesses. Still, what can you expect fram children?" “Youth,” quoted James, “is a disease that cures ttaelf,” “Tt's tough now and then on the nurse while they're heuling,” sighed Helena, “You, yourself,’ Jim continued, “at Henry's age— twenty-four—were marred; the mather of a child." “T wasn't trying ta fiz the world; I had a job and I attended te it.” “But that’ —James opened his ease amd selected care- fully a new cigarette—"ia what they claim they're daing — ian‘t it?) Fixing the world—isn't that what theyre going to make thelr job?" “Qh, yes. And they've begun well enough. The world's listening to them. That's a great deal. They don"t get snubbed the way we did. And I know they're clever. Henry's A. E. F. book has been called the truest war verse we had, ood the Post Digest hos mode him o literary editor, He hos o mew book of verse just out. Thi is my copy, [got it today. I) read you something.” Helena opened it at random. “This ia what may be expected of our Heary just mow: “CoOCcorTrTre “She came—while im a aheking wire, All stleer a kai grocile elema, F thought of this wien frat es Spohr fo war, The love, ‘tac aun shadow dropping, bendi road wi rapping, ug From poplora lipped with gold—and wight deaeending, “Oh, there was in her face her whole young being— Dark pools her eyes, dim mow wilh sere! uneeing ; Like Mood, ker mowlk, ta her while Manettd fare, Gh, bitter blood, sterped from a Rese: Free: tee, Ske had a wisdom, Jrom the Sphinx’ a day— Ske hailed me on wey way.” (Continged on Page ¢a} Pd be Gelag Back on Eoerythiag —On AU the Fellows Tos"

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12 THE THE GENTLE CRIMINS By Wilbur Hall “When f Leon te Shoot the Mew Recalier f Hace Hoaght fy add Order lf om Going fo We Us the Coorianad " HE time came when ['ciseon Worrick chertled to think what the people of Derby ville would do and say if they could only know what was in his mind. Sup- poe, for example, that be should stand up in the Young People's League makings on any Sunday nightamd resnark: “When I learn te shoot the new revolver I have bouglit by mailorder T am going to hold up the Chperland.” Or, aegnin, if be should enn close to the grille in the qaahler's window ond say to one of the State Bank's leading customers: "Better draw your money out of here, my friend, for enone night soon TI am poe ing botrmbertle ond wbscond with every penny in the vault.” Of course no one would beliewe him, OY the teelve hon- dred and odd souls comprising Derbyville, Gideon waa exactly the last anyone could lave suspected of possible fnithlessness, This careless acceptance of him, by unani- mis consent, as so trustworthy and honest that be could not do wrong, no matter haw much he might want to, coupled with the common conclusion that he would never wait to wt all, wae the trouble, Gid resented being tien for a machinelike man of problty, as old Bije Linder in his rare moments of sebriety might have resented the offhand finality with which he was awarded a life position as the village drunkard. The sensitive man may crave recogni- Hon of bis humn frailties a9 insistently ws of his attributes of divine strength, The cashier had been born on the river below Derby- ville, and had lived in and around the mountain town all his thirty-eight years. He was the community's moet trusted man, but far from being ita moat popular. He waa a potter af respectability, but not respected, Tnatead of belog influential and a leading citizen he was a barn treas- urer. His application to duty was noteworthy, so they did not look to him for braing. His willingness wos notori- ous, Wherefore they gave him me opportunity te use initia- tive, His morals were unasenilable, and they supposed that he lacked spirit. No one ever thought of him aa 4 chairman, a president, on ornter of the day, a marshal of the parade, OF @VEn non commiiieemon an WiLys anal means, But whenever there were moneys bo be paid in, kept, paid out and accounted for Worrick was your mua. Ag a trensurer Worrick was a Derbyville institution. In his younger days this confidence in him had pleased Worrick, but when be found it unaccompanied by any of the more flattering and wonming sentiments it began to pall, He revived somewhat when, at thirty-four, be was. made cashier of the State Bank, after twelve years of unre mittingly faithful service; but he found that the proma- tion muude no change in his status in the community, He was mvt such o fool es bo think eld Warren Selfridge, the president and principal awner, hud made him easier for any Teason save that he would work harder for lesa nenaey than anyone to be had who could be aa safely trusted. Selfridge, while always the deapot of the bank's aifsire, had beon in the habit of consulting Brown, the farmer cashier, more or less frecly, ond had often taken his advice, Mat so with Waorrick. He was never consulted ot all; merely trusted. Selfridge considered bim—and found him—as faithful a&¢ an adding miachine: of safe ws the time lock. Tie waa given ten dollars more a month and treated exactly liken boukkeeper. The iron began te eat inte his soul. At firet his rebellions was im the form of dark thoughts hastily banished, Later he enter- tained these malignant mental visitora— gradually came to inviting them. He contemplated high and dreadful crimes, mot as poeaibllithes, bot as dreama. He liked bo imaging tying Warren Selfridge, against whom be had not the slightest animosity, hand and foot and locking him in the vault, taking the money in the cash box, awagger- ing down Main Street ond up Mendocine with a revalver in cach hand, blaxing away or setting the brary afre seme time when there was a strong west wind which would carry the flames thundering through the business section, gutting it; or getting drunk at the pool room— where it could be done, be heard— und staggering through the town, shouting pro- lantty. He could work himself inte quite a state by thinking auch thoughts, Quite abruptly this random and frankly im- practicable copgitation—meaningless and harmless in elf was eryetallized, and began to harden inte planning at the meeting held to wind up the affaire of the committe: in churge of Derbyville's third annual homeceming-week celebration. Eocause of attempting ta outde all previaus committees, thia ome had exceeded ita appropriation and had come out with adeficit, Now a deficit on the books of a committee charged with staging a public cele brution is always a grievous thing, and there ig no subscription list mare difficult to explain and to tbtalna signatures on thin one colling for contribu tions with whieh te pay for what we know calla- quially and inelegantly as dead horse, Every commtteeman in America knows that. The com- mittoemen in Drerbyville, after the third annual home-caming festival, knew it well, They had been a rifle apprehensive for weelcs, but, as is character= istic wf comumittess, they had haped for the best. When Gideon Worrlek preented the final staterment of aecounts and showed them, in hig neat red figures, a shortage of $348.74, they looked at one another unhappily and then, as one, turned to look at their treasurer. He was a very thin man, with a thin and somewhat melancholy face. Eis hair was thin and of a reddish hue, eo that one might have been forgiven for thinking that what he displayed was h copperstolared scalp F devoid of hair. He had alight, light eyebrows, SATURDAY EVENING POST : FELUFTFRATFEHR BF SF. £. and theae, frarnir light blu 3&5, him a bale and wv expression: that cis hiss thar justice. had a thin, long neck and a very prominent Audam’s a which moved up and down when he swallowed, aa a to gobbler’s head does when he gobbles. Gideom had of for light clothes, and these made him look more thin he was, and did nat favorably affect the colorless chor, of his fue. Most blond men redden easily; Criceon got sunburn when exposed, und grew white when ang embarrased. He was impecenbly meat, which may tended to heighten the tedious monotony of hia etiols Perhapa it was partly because he was peat ard wae! out that he irritated the eammitteemen aa they looke him. He leaned back, fartively paring a finger nail, waited for the chairman, Hugh Drury, to sag bri AELEW “All right, Gid, we'll talk this thing over, Much ob! for coming.” Instead the chairman cleared his throat and obeer “That's funny.” "Your idea of funny maybe,” Doe Neal, the town « tist, snapped acidly, He was notably sharp-tong, “T's cot mine.” ‘ Mra. Gordon remarked, “Dear me, | wouldn't bi been so shook up by a hundred or so ehort. But ih hundred—how much did you say, Mr. Worrick 7" “Three hundred forty-sight seventyfour."" "hy bound f" “But what for?" someone elae demanded crossly, “There are the vouchers," Gideon said, indicating t pile. “Oh, drat the vouchera!" Doc Neal broke In. “If y think this committee ia going to waste half the might low ing through a atack of receipta and canceled checks you crazy! Don't sit there like an eel and make faces! Gi us some Lies obowt this shortage, cant you?" Gideon wanted to make an angry retert. But be cou net think of one, Wearily he drew the sheaf of pape towards him and began te thumb them over. “The fireworks cost more than Mr. Drury thought thi would, in the first place,” he remarked tonelesaly, “How's that?’ the chairman interrupted. ‘* Wait minute, bere! [ never said anything about how much 1 fireworks would cost. I'm a di Than, mob m pul Wheel expert. What do you meao—I thought?" “T have your original estimate here,” Gideon eaid wit! little more apirit. But they refused to examine it. They paseed to th next item. Every ttem got under someone's skin, [ly : perfectly human proms of thought the five members 0 the emomittee begun to look on the man whe exhibite their finaneclal diffeulthes to them os the man resporeib) for them. In three minutes the treasurer was like o Taéing: Were Noppealing Too Komidty for Hoe it

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pt om the stand, bullied by counsel ETS anal importunate creditor. k grew angrier and angrier, but be ithe gart of man toshow it. There ey Tedoubled their faultfindings. Neal finally snatched at some of Oks sued papers and began to caw ¥ throwgh them, sniffing and biting In a moment, interrupting some , he ejaculated: re what the Sam Hill does this bill Weorrick? Curtin & Lalrd, San eco: stationery and aupplies—nine we. ‘What was that for?" ~ letterheads and envelopes the thee ordered,” the treasurer replied tony. “And, oh, yea—ninety- mits for this account book." “hich account book?" ne ome [| kept the accounts in— e dentist took itanappishly. He ran mugh. He leaned back, throwing the te the table. fh, wery well,” he anid in a resigned of wolee. “If our treasurer forgot he waaen't a member of thia com- «2 ond went out on his own hook cut authority and spent money that What way?” Gideon demanded. Phat way! Account books! Fancy gs! Pretty covers! A bondred pages « book and net twenty of them used. a wonder you didn't buy yoursell a [fountain pen to keep "em with.” He wl to the other committeemen. “This hat comes, | auppose, of having a man ton be a sort of treasurer suddenly @ining that be con be the choirman wai and the committee Hall rolled into one. It's slekening!" iideon Wortick, for the firet and last ie in hie life, leaped to hia feet, over- ning a chair and striking the table th hes fist, He reached for his het and pred it on his long head defiantly, “That's all I'm going to take from ybedy here,” he sald in a thin volee st suggested tears. “I've worked giteand even Sundays on this festival business, and ['ve peed the pennies and cut down expenses and weed my rm things, and I"ve never had a word to say about raising e mney oF appropriating it or allowing it or spending it, though: T eould have dane better than some of you did ethan ones: and Ive been-trod on like 2 doormat, and evr thanked and never appreciated und never given o aaat word of a decent job, and now I'm all through aad oe for. You can take your books and your defielt and cor laultfindings and you can go te the grand jury mth them, Hf you plemsn; but I quit, now and forever. feap Mare Ths od Rengh Soceasi of Bafaaces SATURDAY EVENING Tae President's Clase Fell Dowa on Alt Mose oad Ale Howth Opeaed,. We Looked at Mis Coshier in Dtupefed Amaremeat I've been the last treasurer of anything that Tm ever going to be in this town, and you can put that down to stay. Mot ever again[" He walked out, trying to slam the door, But he could not be dramatic, even in auch a moment, The door knob eought in his cont pocket und tore it, and the door clased quietly and decently, Gideon walked dawn Mendocino Avenue with tears of rage and Impotence in his faded ble eyes, ana for the firet time begun to wonder seriously how a man entered upon a life of crime. His speculation from that moment began to POST i3 take tangible form. He began ta con sider practical ways in which to commit some startling felony, partly for revenge on the mean-minded people of the little town, partly to demonstrate to them that he was something more than a smoothly operating machine, and parthy to startle them out of thelr complacent curtom af clazaifying people and putting the.n into pigeonholes. He wae eick and tired, he told himeelf, of finding himself labeled, and always eummarily pushed back Inte his particular rut when others coneelved that he was getting out of it. Derbgville waa a small town, with no particular present reason for being. Its genesis had bern logical, for in the very early daye two great sheep and cattle ranches had made a common boundary of the road of which Muin Street wos a Pince, The Derby Raneh had lang Since passed with its founder, but the Van Lyihe Ranch stretched for miles and miles in three directions from the town. The trouble was that ald Frank Van Lythe, a headstrong and hery gentleman, hod never forgiven the firat settlers for naming the town [or hia rival, Jesae Derby; and though the latter had been dead for years, und though the Derby Ranch was searcely a memory any more, Van Lathe did his business In San Joaquin and in San Franciseo, and avoided whenever he could entering Derbyville even to board a train ortelond steers. If Van Lythe ever died— which some deemed doubtful—his sons tight come to the village and help to make [t quite a place. But until then Derbyville marked time. Warren Selfridge, president of the State Bank anal Gideon's employer, WES & Poor banker; but he was good enough for the town, He was ensy-gaing, trustful, abesent- minded and lazy, His father had founded the bank, and Warren had taken it over in time os a matter of course. For forty yeurs he hod been its head, and it had gone up and down with the country and the tines, always making him and his wife a living, ¥hich waa all he desired and more than he, on the rare occasions when he reviewed ita con- dition and prospects, could reasonably expect. Tt waa not what an economist would have called sound, many times, but no one worried about that. The state bank etaminer's deputy diliked stopping at the Stratlerd Hotel, and therefore he always notified Warren Selfridge when he was golng te call, and the banker would take him out ta the eomfortable family home two miles from town es his guest. It happened once or twice a year, therefore, that kindly, domineering, bustling little Mra. Selfridge and fat, indolent, poud-homored Warren Selfridge were both putting their houses in order at the same time and in honor of the same visitor. Gideon Worrick and a bookkeeper were the anle employes of the Strte Honk, Par a long time after Gideon's elevation to the cashier's deak old Heory Peacock had divided his time between the bank and Patterson's General Store; but the purchase of a armall satomebile and a tour or two had changed the Selfridies' habits materially, With » tent rolled upon the running board and o kit of miscellaneous cook- ing utensils aod a box of easly portable food- stulla in the tonneag, they had become gypsies almost aa though by reversion to type, and for weeks ata time Gideon Worrick was left in charge; in charge, that is, to the extent only af being abandoned with the wark of keeping the institutlon running. He had no authority, could wan no discretion, could act positively on nothing. “Tf anything eume up"'—that was the phrase—he always hac on bia desk the itinerary of the wanderers and strict and luvielable instructions to wire the president and await orders from him. Worrtck had net resented this state of offalra actively until the incident of the defielt in the funds of the home- coming committer, This Ineldent pointed the subordinacy of bis pouttion and be began to chale, brooding over the jack of confidence shown in his ability—if not in his bon- esty —hy Selfridge. His troubles assumed unduly lorge mroportiona in hia mind. Very definitely he made up hls mind ta revolt, and gradually his rebelliads inclinations took the form af a criminal program. He only wondered whether ar nat he hed the spirit actually to carry mut his. plans. If be did hove there would be amazement and con- sternation in Derbyville, for he would strip the bank clean, und with Its fund’ take every penny belonging to half a (Cantiiced on Page &6)

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14 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 4 prif i Charles Frederic Goes Eas

QUDDENLY, though the S pale und chilly moon had mot yet faded in the dusk af dawn, the gangs on Tiscus Fill were electrified into amaz- ing energy. ‘Tiburcioa bounded fram gang to guny, visibly and yernlly the diligent foreman; and resp and clatter and thump, rattle and eraah and bang; the caflon tang to industry re doubled. For two motnbed fyrures had appeared on the eniton trail, and the fat one in white breeches, who rode with knees hunched high, would be J.C. Bailey himsell, lord af the Balley Construction Company. The checker cocked a cynical eye and yawned and went an making marks on a sheet of paper, He, the checker, held J. C. Bailey in the mill contempt that & due a tenderfoot—witress thase tight white brevches:, that ridic- ulouk postage stump of an English saddle, os Wo the mounthins were w city pork! He, the checker, hed beer in Mexico three yeare already, and knew the country. Yes, eveo os Jonah knew the whale. He gat at the high exposed end of the great fill muflled to the ears in a red blanket—it is cold in Tiseus Cafion at dawn, ond seems calder because you know how much hetter it will be when the sun blazes wp; and g checker's work is not so violent os te heat the blood. Nor i it com- plicated, On o dowen tracks, fram either side of the enfion, dump care shuttled, tilting their contents roaring down the dumps, and for each car he made one mark on his sheet of paper. Almost anybody with a civil engineer's degree can make marks on a sheet of paper. Tibureio, the diligent foreman, poused beside him with stern admonitions. "You, cheeador, olerfa! On the fob pow!" sald he in effect. He further addressed the checker as Charley, which is more cutting than it sounds—meaning, humorously, a Chinaman. The checker didn't mind. <A checker hat no dignity; and his name, though Tiburcia neither knew nor cared, was Charhry, Tibureio bounded away. A diligent foreman cannot waste oll his time on a checker. The horses, serambling up, topped the Gill and turned toward the dump, but the checker did not rae, On the contrary be pulled his bat- tered hat over his face and hunched the blanket closer about his ears, A civil engineer is perfectly competent to hold a checker’s job, but he is not necessarily proud of it. “How many cons go olready?" demanded J. C. Bailey in his tenderfoot Spanksh, “Fifty-two,” reported the checker in a slightly better varlety of the same language. ad What!" A checker, you understand, ip paid to be honest. He & paid a whole peso and a half a day, which is seventy-five cents in money, though he has nothing to do but sit all doy on a comfortable rock ond make marks on a sheet of pupeer. “"Tiburebo!” bawled J, c, Bailey, and Tiburcio galloped out, hatin hand. “‘Tiburelo, this checoder, he dice thot they've got out cinewenta y doe cara already, before day. "Taint paeaible {"" Tiburcio, ever 50 anxious to please, wae baffled by the fet that the great man's Spanish was somewhat diluted Fla English. Le the woice of the second hargeman: her, don't be silly, talking Spanish at that man. ou see he's an American?” man?” said J.C. Boiley. “Gh, um!" By C. & Scoggins

“Step Up, Geatlesen! Fleat Come — Ug af — Firat dered f* Seo now how habit betrays you into humiliation. The checker was apprised by the voice of the second horseman that she wos not, accurately speaking, o horseman at all; wherefore his legs mechanically hoisted him te his feet ond hig hand on ite own responsibility pulled off hls hat. The a alipped from his shouldera. He anatched at it teo te. “Dmt" said J.C. Hailey, seeing what the blanket had covered, “Hello, Mr. Bailey!" asid the checker brightly. “Have a good trip in the States?” And right at his elbow a car dumped and a virtuously industrious voice bowled “Number Two!" But the checker did not move, Across the cofieon footed o musical howl of “Eleven! But the checker, bis tally sheet for- gotten in hia hand, the wind of dawn frisking unimpeded through his calamitous ralment, stood simmering in shame, hia eyes helpless on the sweet, grave face of the girl who gazed so curiously on him, It is bad enough te go on your uppers, to come down to a checker’s job and be cought at it by a fat, slovk, offen- alvely wealthy tenderfoot like J, C. Bailey; but te have o girl, an American girl, a girl like that, see you there and pity you — “Un, aaid J.C. Baikew. “Haven't Tseen you before?" “T shouldn't wonder,” admitted the checker. “I have boned you for a job as often as T could pet to you, My rucmin is Gray.” “Um. [ remember, Engineer, ain't you? What you doln' here?" “Checking,” explained the checker, “T mean, bow come? What for?" “A peao and a half a day." “Tm, sata J. C., aad thrust an impulsive hand into his pocket, “Mere! For the love of Pete, buy yourself a new shirt anyway |" “Will you kindly go to thunder?” said the checker in cold fury, and sat dewn and fished vaguely for his blanket. “You tpudent pup!" said J.C. Bailey. Now Tiburcio, looking from one te the other, caught hia cue, Beyond a doubt the great jefe waa rebuking that checker, who, all unheeding of the frantic voices of car dumpers, sat gazing at the lovely sefiorita who wore pants. Tibureio knew ond treasured a few explosive words in English. “Pup” was a new one, o good ane, FEEUSTRATED WiEkLiLI aM AE A DE BF PRINCE “Tou, checoder,”" crintli one who chimes virtucusl the voice of suthorrey, al then hired to sheng ? no com? Lonfer! Biloel) Pup!" But win jaely the of authority turned or ee diligent foreman. “Hey, youl" sputtered Bailey, “onde —donde= where the blinkety-blanki do you get off, talking faa man that way? Huh?) Tiburao mised 2 pricciess opportunity to enrict vorubulury with English words: he was stunned. “Gray, " eaid J. oC. Bailey, “give this fool yourd Tell him to put another checker onthe job asd be che to him. You come on te townand geeime. I'll gives job that’s fit for a white man, by glory! if T have toi one, Clee Clk" With wrathful eluckings and thumping of the Tooele, breaching through the nostrils be hagled his horse af and aet of. The girl followed. Over her shoulder nodded and smiled aa if that cheeker were anabeody at The sun had popped up, dazzling, cheering, chasing thin chill of dawn; and all about him righteously ini nant volees were bawling “Two! "Six!"" “Ehew “Nine f** i HIS ip how Ishimaelites are mode, The original fsim no doubt, coming to the notice of some impulsive om arch of that olden time, waa given a job that wae net! fish, flesh nor fowl, neither boss nor honeateon of tail,eott men unjustly judged him. It is not down in the Book tt aewornan scarned him; buta women finished the er af poison ivy for Charles Frederic Gray. The new job wna so new that naked, nok aven J. Bailey, who invented It after as much as twenty minut thought, knew the name of it. “Here's the idea," he eaid in the important calm of? office in Tequila: “You're an engineer, and you got ac tain amount of construction experience, haven't youl” Charles Frederic felt this to be modest enough. F nodded, “And you're young and husky. Mow, me, I'm old a fat. Riding does me up." “Qught to we a Texas saddle," said Charles Fredesir. “Tae any kind you want to, Here's the idea: Wh can't you ride down one end of the line while | go down th other, lovk over the work in each camp, meet me ber evory work or sa and report? Save me half my riding.” “To cnn,” said Chorbes Frederic, dazzled. To be sure, there isn’t any regular job calbed supens tendent’s eyes, and he wasn't assistant superintends!! because he hadn't any authority; and the pay, it & veloped, waa only fifty a month and found. But it wee important job anyway, "You want to gooagy,” J.C. warned him, Most of tht camp foremen are hard-shells, old-timers that were built: ing railrouds when you were eating your dinner out of 4 bottle. You're young, you got to admit that. Don't mat ‘em sore, Don't swell around. Just get the dope ad You didn't need to tell Charles Frederic to go Even filty a month is wealth when you have been = months on your wppers, and the pride of a dioent job is 8 tingling wine, He went casy. He wont superlatively easy —at fint 1 listened reapectfully to the theories of the old-timers aifered none of his own, wherefore the old-timers jou

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F THE SATURDAY EVENING POST her and companionable youth; and con- he work of building a railroad he saw what he and reported that same, so that J. C. Bailey | his own avoirdupaia Jess and lees often to the = of the saddle. All, in short, was superistively (Charles Frederic Gray—for a while. edit was good at the company store, so that he do early in new boots, laced very high, new cor- vew hat and everything. His standing was good ampany office; but more ond more alten he re- { thee house of J.C. Balley, where his standing was Phere were attractions at J. C. Bailey's house—to el, grave gray eyes whoee gravity was denied by hievous quirk of their own dainty brows; a short, nose that wrinkled in the most devastating laughter, like a baby's; a slender figure that made for Aufy frocks until you saw ft in mannish Lothees: Ihands that were a delight to wateh. Their as Pat, which, ff you will belleve it, was short for all was amazingly well. And inevitable chance four of five of the hard-shells together in Tequila ane, evening, and they compared notes. on Charles ¢ Gray. at about this guy Grey?" inquired Lang Henry foreman of Camp Eight. “What's his graft any- th re. hon. bh; some kind of inspector,” sald Lon Dickey, of Pour, and signaled the bartender to repeat. They the comtine of the Hed Rese, which is Uke anything flower, “I recollect he had a om Bailey sayin’ show him the the engineers, ain't he?" offered old Hub Youth ts excusable in engineers. They have wars a checker in my camp," oe Hibera, of Camp One. ide Cheeor grunted morasely, sai drinking meseal, which, ehite man, omita to cheer while briates., ke ban spotter, if you ask me,” be, tata what, Spotter! Ol Bailey, he cuss me for trinkin’ al | ewear he nawer see me tuk" ik. Tis Gray, be tal him. T'ats Pn." said Hub Franklin Guully, “Mebbe that's why fd man was climbin' me about eeder requisitions, I've noticed ths Kid always looks cross-eyed tie eees mie loadin’."” potter, I tal you!" inaisted wo. “What you tal t's Gray, he j' man Bailey, ‘T'at's whot'" ed the door at the end of the cewung and the selfgame Gray ied in, Sh-h-h!" said Osear, and set his th under the table, Hi Henry!" cried Charles Fred- all cheerily unsuspecting. om" tricks out your way? Hello, a) | — ‘Mr. Franklin to you,” said Hub, alhing through his nose. “Aye, aye, Your Majesty !"" urka Frederic, unrebuffed, Ole ih Franklin wae every body's friend. What's the layt" “Run along, soony, We was just in’ to bave a drink.” ‘Qacer!" laughed Charles Fred- i “T waa jut going to buy ome, bat you have, everykwdy 2" “Soda water, sald the plows Qecar, digeg Lom Dickey. Bee aaa Dickey. “And qetter can make me say dif- =et er “Tub? lackly, “Tes, buh!" aid Dickey, getting ith feet, “Git out of here before we throw you ogtt"" Fliisly here wos mo merry jest. gn Frederic’s jaw went gently / a spot ef white appeare.t over eth ter cheek boa, “You ll what?" he begged. Hal over aguin—alow ['" “You heard me," said the sullen Clicker. ‘Bun along, somny,"* repeea ted A ulb - Franks. “We llbay cur oan, (hanks wt the: samme.” aaid Charles Fredezic ai Say And then Charles Frederic's hands relaxed and his face went from the white of anger to the red of miaery. He had to keep the peace with these men, His job depended on it, And if J.C. fired him now there-vould be no other job: he would have to leove Tequila; ond never ogain—never again would there be evenings In a peaceful courtyard where jusmine breathed ts fragrance under the stars ond the sweet slow yolce of comradeship apoke of many things, He grinned, though the efort hurt him to his heels. “Put up your battle-oxes. I'm not on the warpath just now. Dickey, I was looking for you. Step ower here a minute, will yout" “Tf you got anything to say,” said Dickey, “say it!" "Have it your way. You're running high in both your rock cuts. Bailey says look out for that, Tt coats w bot of money to skin w hard-rock ewt afterward." “Wher was Bailey in my camp?" “Te ol man, he ain't naver lef’ tla town t's week," put in the helpful Ogear. “'T'G rt anapped the kid, “I'm telling you what, Bailey said,” blinking to clear the atmosphere of red. “AML right, all right,” said Hub Franklin; “we hear you. T reckon Lan'll tend te it, That all? Good night," “Goud olght," said Chuorles Frederic through his teeth, In these few seconds the street had changed. The moon atill bathed ramantle walls and barred windows, flooding the ancient cobblestones with liquid shadow; yonder the hills rose mysterious, challenging, lovely againat eternal blue—a brave world, but all unfriendly now. A spotter, a apy, a bearer of dishonorable tales! That was what they thought. And what wos he? A miaaen ger bay! He came to the street where J. C, Balley Ived and turned into it. His hobnailed boot heela woke furious ‘“Seteria, ae Felle! Fhou Kaowert Taot Without Thee the fun te Bark ——** But He Ceofd Net Carry it OFF 15 echoes in that peaceful thoroughfare, but he strode un- heeded and unhesding past the very elbow of a youth who worshiped ata lady's window bara. Acros the street from J, C, Bailey's house yet another youth stood in the shadow against the wall, craning and murmuring sweet nothings to a maiden who leaned to him from the baleony above; and at Chorles Fredoric’s shoulder a mirthful yoice drawled, “Ab! Whither in such heste, industrious sir?" Pir ES, and the moon was high. The seent of nilgrht- blooming jasmine waa in the alr, and [t was Pat her- self who eat within the barred embrazure of the window, the shadow of the grating broken on her white dress, her clear eyes laughing under their tender, whimsical brows, His humiliating status had not changed, had it? Yet he ate exmforted. The lump of bitterness molbed in his throw. “T've been sitting here," she confided, “envying those damaels with the long-distance awains, There's devotion for you! They don't seem te mind uaa bit, do they?" “Envying them? "Odd's bodiking! By my halidom, but this shall not be!" he declared, and swept off his hat in a bow of courtliness, He placed one hand upon his heart nnd extended the other—the one that held the hat—as in urdent pleading. “Sefiorlta,” be begged with fine tremalo effect, appageionato, “one smile! One little tender thought! Thou knowest that without thee the aun i dark amd the daya are very Jong ——" But he could not carry it of. His own worda conjured up reality, the empty days that wnited him if he must go ayvay from her, For he woes no immortal lover, facing herole obutucles, He wos a youth who lived fn o world of too, boa practleal things: whose very bread depended on a job of humility andacorn. He choked—and grinned. “How do you like ma samples, lady? Will I dot” "Encore!" she applauded softly; but he stood awkwardly before her, goinding his eel on the atone pawe- ment and seeking vainly some safe and mot too banal word, “Lasten!" she said, aoaee “Can you hear what he says “Yes, he nna nad fa more, Far it was love that murmured there acroas the atreet, no lesa than in the ancient orchard of the Capulet; love, on this azure night, that whispered at a thousand windows: amd he, Charles Prederie the unworthy, must be dumb. There were ne fierce male relatives to fight, no dragens to kill, There was only the fat and kindly I.C.and a job that pold, precariously, fifty dollars a month and found, “T—I liked your samples,” she sald. Did she not know how bemutiful ele was? The darkness behind her made her clear face a cameo, gave her gray eyes a depth of tenderness in which Charles Frederic was lot. He meant to apeak lightly, to play the game with her; but his voler wos husky in his throat. “But, soft! what Fight fhrough youder win breaks? I} is the caat, and Juliet And madnesa tock him wirolly. No pork was this Charles Frederic Gray, but the man whe shaped those lines was so. Hie knew that hes hand, which had gripped a cold window bar, held both of hera; very amall they were to yield ao much of strength and comfort, He heard hi vobee aa though it were not hia: “Tt ta mp dody, 0, if iz ry fare! O, thal ake Dew she were! Ske aywoka, yr! ashe asaya as wien af that ? Her eye ane — And her eyes fell, and lifted bravely again to his, Her fee was nae countably very near the bara; it was with nogense of violence that he took her in his arma and kissed her. He had forgotten that he staod in a village street, forgotten that he was deapised of men, It was ag though he held the inefioble fragronce of past int in his arms. He relented her and stood buck, trembling. (Continwed on Poge 38)

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Ts THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i RITA COVE By Julian Street GF WEN RY BALE RISING wt nine the morning after Rita Coventry's A party, Parrish felt that he had visited the bound- ariea of sleep but had net for a single moment erased them. He had lnin in his bed with eyes closed, his mind whirling in a wild but not unpleasant phontasma- gorin, neither real nor dream. Having bathed, dressed and breakfasted he appraised his feelings. He was notfatigued, but felt upon the contrary a slight exhilaration, like that af one who in the morning continues to be buayed up bay lust. night's aleobal, As he was about to leave his apartreent the telephone rang. Of course it would be Alice. He did net want to talk with Mice now, lis first impulse was to have Ito say he hod left for the office. Yer somehow be did sot want to da that either. It did not seem fair, and he wished to be ag fair with Alice a5 the circumstances would permit. Besides, wos there not o chanel its being Fital Only the faintest shadow of a chance, to be sure, but —— He had a vision of her sitting in that pretty bed of herswith a telephone instrument in her hands, Suppow: she had uwakened thinking of him, and was calling up just to say good morning |! Quickly he turned beck and Brswered,. “Good morning, dear." Of course he hod known tt would be Allies, She wanted, ia usual, to chat. “T hope you had a good time last night?" "“(h, good enough.” “The prinks were nice?" a gy “A large collection?" For sore curious reason he thought of Busini. “Tl tell you about it to night," hesaid, “We'llgoagt to dinner. I must run now, I'm short of the.” “Tl see you about five?" “Ho. I have an appoint- ment late in the afternoon. 1H not. get there much before seven.” Parlier if you con,” she aad in that sweet voice with its faint note of wistfulmess. “V¥ora—of couree.'’ As quickly ns he could he termi- nated the conversation. Ah! Now he knew whot had brought Businid into his Mind. A phrase used by Allee had reculled the parting utterance of the Italian: “A large collection.” Last night be had sensed an indirection without grasping its significoner. Stupid of him! Yet in fairness to himself, how could be have understood it then? Euaini had, at that juncture, fonseen more than he himself would have dared to foresee, and- had prophesied in sneering porable. Not very flattering, certainly, to be likened to one cone leaaly aelected print out of a portfolia-full! And as to the double meaning in that reference to Rita's collection— that only showed how far a jealous man could atoop. Jealousy! That clearly waa at the bottom of it oll. Doubtless there was a certain amount of truth in the qussij connecting Rita's name with that of the conductor. But however that might be, it was self-evident that she hed ditearded him. What other meaning could ane read into her retort to him ae he waa leaving her house? She had answered his parable in kind, telling him that when che found an unworthy item in her collection she got rid mf it at oner, and she had pointed the shaft with a good night. ‘That bork must have lacerated | What if some of these tales were true? What if it were true that Rita had cruised the Mediterranean in the royal FLEVITRATED Ne Sao Nimoglf With Rite tn Forelge Pieces Amid Ipectacufar Surreosdimgs yacht? What if, aa they aaid, she had used the private car ad Tilghman Keppler? What of it? In one sense was not all thet ta her credit? By her gifts she had lifted herself from obscurity and made herself a personage, with the prerogatives of a personage. She was too big to play the game according to the rules laid down for ordinary women. She could make her own rules, Moreover these sbories concerning her supposed love ofaire were wlways based on rumor alone. Itwos “They say—" “A friend of mine tells me ——" “T have heard "sod it waa not, upon the whole, harsh goeaip, but rather amiable, or even hopeful. People talked about her, but they were proud to know her—prouder, it sometimes seemed, because of these very stories. She was sought after by the aristocracy of brains and achievement. She herself wos frank enough, What had she eaid to him lost night? “I have had all the follies.” A confession, surely, but one showing in what light she looked upon the past. No sentimental adventure, he took it, had ever seriously searred her heart. Just affwira—follles, Busini, for inetance. If she had ever cared deeply for Busia she A pee f NTR could not have dismissed him last night so ca As for the king, it was policy for an opera 1 be graucicqus to a king; of for the matter cef any very cleh man who was a patron of the aur like Hemann Kra’ Tilghman Keppler. In his own case heaven, there eoule auch motive! He ma were merely man ane) Tt Waa at a woman, | Prima donna, that § shown herself to woman fearless, enpre ma. More tham tha metas man and wor dom meet, on an abe equal footing. There be no raking up of b on either side. Tet th pust bury ita dead. TE found each other, Life future, now, for both With such radiant reth his mind was filled bemtied for his offies, ar FPHAE oiternoon, 2 4 day before, he found seething on Fifth Ay Twice on hia mareh uf hestopped; firstatafla where heselected a great of romet for Rita: then | haberdasher’s—for nf the human, like the feat! male, ia fain te celebrate brilliant plumage, Beyond the surging wolk mob he saw, ox by the shop, @ green-and-yy bus go lumbering down Street, It was a new bus ahi with fresh paint, looking oli the world like a | double-deeked flower abloeom with pretty fi under pretty hate. A flash of blue ard 2 amid the swilter moving t fic near the eesier of abreet drew his eye to a bel roadster whieh by the lool it might have emenged a2 MmeAE sine: from bein. Mate-glassshow window. | unaccompanied Viuing ee wt the wheel, 09 conmecee debonair, had alse that | pearance of fashions ecsthy [reahness, “Behold us—speing om pls!" car ond driver wen to chor. There was something 7 Hlee alouk a roedsier, [a eupied a plese in motenh not fled by any other type of car, He woeld hare top a roadster after things picked wp a little bs the Sire, “Taxi?” invited the chauffeur of a prowling po wehicle, Glancing up, Parrish saw that the eab, though by: means new, was resplendent with varnish freshly put Spring! And Rital But be would mot bear from he until six. Half past five found him sitting in bs library by desk on which the telephone reposed. There wan't 2) mews in the papers any more. A weak market woe! news certainly; and for the rest there waa only the ee assortment of rolsberles, cvurdera, fires, molor acide! divorees. He dipped into several editorials, but fond“ interest in them. Even hia favorite fryakar ober. Peek-a-Boo, yielded him but a single arlle, He threw the paper aside, Now at any instant thet Phone would ring, Was Rita sitting waiting, to, te dered? Would she call him exactly at the appointed om Ah, six! The clock was striking. Ile rilerted fu! women were sometimes pecullar in these matte. We was it abowt them that made them like to keep mes 7 ing? Even Allee, least artful of her sea, bad ep be

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘ i7 , onc® oF twice when he first knew her. Woman Well. if it pleased Rita to make him wait a little, reat let her do it. He could endure it, though ality Was, in his eyes, one of the high virtues. It taken Alice long to find that out. Rita, too, would etter When they had known each other for a while, rief Intervals his eyes lifted to the face of the grand- a clock Which had for #0 many years told off the at Blenkinswood. The hands were bending to a agle now. He wondered whether, on that sleepy ald fiom, Cite had ever dragged itself away so slowly, pe the clock was fast. He compared it with his . Bo, it was right, rot and paced the rug, Something must have hap- to delay her. She wasn busy woman. Innurmerable might have come up—unavoidable things, She have callers and be waiting eagerly for them to go. again Tt might be that she was one of those women ue by Nature careless about thme. He hod heard it hat artistic people were oftentimes that way, To her, ight Twean merely the general neighborhood of six. ups the wae now having tea. She had told him she (dined on evenings when she was toaing. Or perhaps asadding the last touches to her toilet. She had togo rémecourt’s birthday party afterwards, How lovely would look! He wished that he might see her. He ei that he knew Frémecourt. He had never liked that aa. Hie looked ao gros. witinuing: to pace the rug he became engaged with the ert, following it with his feet. There was ao place in corer where he had to take a short atep or else go over theborder, In his present frame of mind this annoyed In the back of his mind waa an inewherent wish that rug hack bern 2 little shorter or a little longer to match length of his stride, cull she have misunderstood the arrangement? Could hoe thought he wos to call her? No, it had been her peek. “TW telephone"; thoes were her words, \ promise wad a promise, What would become of busi- o—lB brokerage business, soy—il everpone were core. about verbal agreements? A person's word ought to o poe aa a promissory note, Here it was, seventeen nutes after six! Something must be the matter, If ahe (not telephone by half past six he would ring her up. He ok the telephone directory and booked for her name, ree Coventrys were listed, but she was not among them. As the half hour struck he called Information and asked for Rita's number, Hut he did net get bt. Tt was o private wire, Toformation said: the number could not be divulped. When he tried to argue with the awitehboard albyl she ewt hin off. Either Larry Merrick or Hermann Krauss would un- doubtedly be able to tell him the number, but for some obscure self-conscious reason he did not wish to ask therm. He would do it if he had to, bat would try Mra. Fernia first, A muid answered. Mrs, Fernis was out, she said, He requested, her to took up Rita's sumber on Mrs, Fernis’ telephone list. Weill At last he had found a girl who owes obliging and intelligent! She gave him the number, whereupon he thanked ber quickly and hung up the receiver before she had a chance to ask his name. Now he would find out what the matter waa! But he did net find out, Pierre the butler, who answered Futa's telephone, informed him blandly that mademoielle was net at hore. “How long since she went oot?" Parrish wos ashomed of the question, but he burned te knew, "T really can't say, air. Is there any message?" "No" growled Parrish. “Or rather—yes. Ask meode- moiselle to coll me up whenever she geta in.” For anfety's anke he gave his number, " Mademoiselle wall be Lote, sir." “T know she'll be late. Ut doesn’t matter how lote whe is, Kindly give her my message.” ial Yeu, aly." He disliked that blond young servant. Probably le did know when Rita went out. It stood to reason that he knew. But trust o bother not to tell you anything, whether there is anything te tell or not. It was almost seven. He was due at Alice's, yet hore he was, notoven dreased for dinner, Ho went to his room. He did not feel like dressing. MMe did nat feel like going out, He did mot feed like seclng people, He did net feel like tulking to anybody. But be must hurry. If he didn't gel out of here pretty soon Alice would be calling up. EIT RERIVING at Alice's building he did not go to her apartment, but had the hall man telephone to her that he was waiting. Almost immediately she descended. He Fieo?d Morrersitriches, Rooted to the Inet. He Heard Nar Pleading With Faem, Ne Triad te Tioet and Siep Them, Bot War Bumb “Why didn't you come up?" she asked as they drove away. He made hie luteness the excuse, “Twas beginning to worry,” ahe sald. “Por heaven's aake, whyT" “You're usually ao panctual.” "Well, I couldn't help it. Iwas delayed. I'm sorry.” His towe was slmost brusque, He was gazing straight ahead through the front windew, but was aware that she turned bo look wt him as she replied gently: “OF course I know that.” “Why are you finding fnult then?" "Finding fault?" she repeated, astonished and hurt. “Tm not fleding fault, dear. It's only that you mean ao much to ne, and with all these accidents they have in the atresia ——™ She gave a little shudder and loft the sentence unfin- ished. He was ashomed. "T ought to have let you know PT was delayed," he said ina kinder tone, still without lowking at her, “but DU diela't want to take the thee to telephone. I waa thinking we could have a quick dinner and go to a show. They say this new thing Gladys ia pretty good.” “Oh—the theater?” "T thought it would be pleasant, yea."" Then he oe knowledged the disappointment he detected in her voive by adding, “but if you'd rather net we don't have to." “So: [ want to do whatever you want," ahe put in quickly, “I just thought—you've been away, and all— I theught we could go back after dinner, and you could emake and we'd talk. I got auch a lovely present to-day too. I want to show it to you, Margaret sent me the sweetest pleture of herself and the children, You know the litthe girl is named for me, “Yes,” he said. “And it's getting on Eowards eight," she continued. “We'd be late for the theater, But if yu —" “Dawsin't matter how late you are for a musical show." “No, certalnly not: and we needn't ewt much.” “Still,” he aaid, “il you really don't want to ga ——" “No, nol I'm glad to, honestly, Just so we're together, T don't care." She touched his hand. "Oh, Dick, you don"t know how nice it is be see you!" “It's nice to see you too,” he returned, presalng her fingers. 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18 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST MA prit zi THE COVERED WAGOS ‘OLLY WINGATE was grumbling over ber fire when at length ber husband and son returned to thelr wagon. Jed was vastly proud over a bullet crease he had got in a shoul- der. After his mother's alarm had taken the form of firat aid he waa all forshowing his bat- the scare to a certain damsel in Caleb Price's wagon, Win- gute remained dour and silent as was now hiswont, and curse ing his luck that he had had fie horse ta carry bim wp in the late punsult of the Sioux. He also was bitter over the de lay in making & burial trench. “Some waye, Jess,” com- mented his spouse, “I'd a'most guess you ain't got much wae for Wil] Hanian." “Why should DT have? Hasn't he clone all he could te shoulder nee out of my place as captain of thistrain? And waan't I elected at Weatport before we started?" “Mostly, o man hos to stay tleeted, Jens." “Well, I'm going to! I had it out with that young man Fight now, Iteld him I knew why he wanted in aur train— it was Molly.” “What. cid be say?" “What could be soy? He admitted it. And le had the gall to say I'd see it his way eome day. Huh That's a long day off, beforal da, Well, at least he said he was going back to his on men, ane they'd fall behind again. Thue sults me” "Tid be say anything alot finding San Woodhull?" “Wea. He said that would take tte time too,” “Didn't say he wouldnt?" “Slo, I don't know as he did." “Dide"t act seared of itt" “He didn't gay much about | “Sar does.” “T reckon—and why shouldn'the? He'll play evens sume day, of courme, But now, Mally," he went on, with heat, “what's the use talk- ing? We both know that Molly's made up her mind, She loves Sam and don't love this ather man any oore than I do. He's only a drift- about back from the war, and wandering out to Oregon. He'll maybe not havea cent when he gets there, He's got one horse and his clothes and one or two wagons, mayhe nat paid for, Sam's got five wagons of goods to sturt o store with, and three thousand gold—so he says—oe much as we have, The families ore equal, and that's alwava a goml thing. This man Banion can't offer Molly nothing, but Sar Woodhull can give her her place right from the Start, cut in Oregon. We pot to think of all them things. “And I've got te think of o lot of other things too, It's our girl, Te's all right to Say 1 Tun tan gO OE to Oregon and live down his past, but it's a lot better net to howe no past talive down, You know what Major Banion done, and how he left the Army—even Uf lt waan't why, it wos how, amd that’s bad enough. Sam Woodhull hae told us both all about Ranion’s record,” “Vou didn't ever getso far slong as to talk about that!" “We certainly did—right now, him and moe, not half an hour ago, while we wes riding back." "T shouldn't have thought he'd of stood it," wife, “him sort of fery-lke" “Well, it did gravel him, He got white, bul wouldn't talk, Asked if Sani Woodhull had the proof, and I told him be hed. That was when he sald he'd go back to his own wapons, I could see he was avoiding Sam. But I don"t see how, away out here, and fo law nor nothing, we're over going to keep the two apart.” “They woan't." "said hia FLLEUS TRATED By amarsom Hough EROERWER Wr. HH Jaid Me," “tere, Mise Jtoldy,"" thin! AMfajer Basion Sent in ter Foe by Me. We Find Ade Seock da the el Tahir Talag is Somes "Na, They did have it out, like achoolboya behind a barn, Do you suppose that'll ever do for a man of apirit like Sam Woodhull? No, there's other wave. And aa I sald, it's a far ways from the law out here, and getting farther every day, and wilder and wilder every day, It's only putting Tt off, Mally, but on the whole I waa glad when Banion said he'd give up looking for Sam Woodhull this morning and goon back to hia own men." “Did he aay he'd give it up?" “Yes, he did. He said if I'd wait I'd see different, Said he could wait—snsid he was good at waiting.” “But he didn't say he'd give it op?" “T don't knew os he aid in so muany words." “He won't," sald Molly Wingate, xX HE ernigranta had now arrived at the eastern edge of the great region of free and abundant meat. They now might count on at least six or seven hundred miles of buffalo to subsist them on their way Lo Ciregan. The [Ty of “Toffula! Buiffale!"’ went joyously down the lines of wins, und every man who could muster a horse and o gun made ready for the chase. Cf these hundreds of hunters, few liad any experience on the Plaing. Tt was arranged by the head men that the hunt should be strung out over seweral mil Missourians farthest down the river, the ot! the westward, so that ull might expect ehance in an. enterprise ofse much drmpeortai Hanlon and Jackson, cordance with the fo promnke to Wingate. h tired totheirownn trains alter the fight with the The Wingate troin | therefore looked tho Brig their safest counsel [ matter of getting: meat. worthy headed mm Iaric | bestequipped men and p hie own part in full char A wild figure he made rode, hathess, naked tt: waist, his legs im Enediar gings and his feet im m sins. Elis mount, = con tuyuse from west of the fi fest, bore mo saddle besa folded blanket cinched on a rawhide band. For weapons. Bridger Tied no firearme at all, bore a short buffalo be the Pawnees daa ble-cunr alnew-harloed, madi of thi Silient bets dare, beloved word of all the Plains tri A thick sheaf of arrows, ne sharpened, awung in beaver quiver at his ba Lean, swart, lank of hair, hod =mall look of the wi mat left aleeot him as hen now, gilding his horse » ajaw rope of twisted lair a Playing his bow with hal dozen arrows held along with the fingera of his | hand. “For buffer the bew's 4 Ieest,"' sale be. **0°iL shire afore bong."' They had net tes far to | At that time the short-cn country of the Platte Vail wus the great center of 1! bison herds, The wallows 4 in thousands, the white olin showing in eiteles which 4 most towthed edge to ede The influx of emigrants lu for the time driven the bey back from their ancient for! and watering places, ta whir their deepecut trails bed dew worn ineradicably into th anil, Tt waa along one of th great buffalo trails that the now rode, breasting the is wf! hile that edged the Platte to the south, Wohin the tapped the fanking cldge o marvelous example of will abundance greeted them. Bands of elk, yet more comer oue bands of antelope, countless curious gray wolves, moc than one grizzly bear made away before them, althoug by orders left unpuraued. CW the feathered game thre hed now forgot all thought, The buffalo alone was of i: terest. The wild guide rode silent, save for = low Inter chant, bis voter wt tines ising high, wa though importusalt “Te got te pray to the Great Speret whermall ye hor men,” he expluined., “ An" ye got to have someone the! can call the buffer, aa the Injune calla that wher ibe hunton foot. [kin call "em, too, good as ary Injun. Wh shenuldn't 17 “Thar now!" he oxelaimed within the mext quarter |! an hour, “What did Jim Bridger tell ye? Lookepe yor Do-vee gay Jim Bridger eon't make leuffler medic’ Those ee er aver van ridge—thousands?™ The others felt their nerves jump as they topped the ridge and saw fully the vast concourse of giant blart- topped, beard-[ronted creatures which covered the place ina body a mile and more across—a sight which never failed ta thrill any who snw it, Tt was oa rolling eurpet of brown, like the prmirie’s endl wave of preen, Dhest clouds of combut row bere and ther. A low muttering rumble of hoarse dull bellowing baw audible even at that distance. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST peneral movement of the great peck wes toward ex: closest to them a smaller body of some hun- a0 stored, stupidly staring, not yet getting the wind i ilanta, enly rose the high-pitched yell of the scout, sound- charge. Snorting, swerving, the horses of the followed ‘this, terroramitten but driven in by men whom at least knew how to ride. thhy as a bird in flight, Bridger’s trained buffalo lowed the gap between him anda plunging bunch buffalo. The white savage proved bimaelf peer of ‘age of the world. His teeth bared a he threw hie ito the bow with a short, savage jab of the left arm odeed the sinew cord. One alter another feather \. clinging to a heaving flank; one after another dripped red with the white foam of running; then ter another great animal began to slow: to stand , legs apart; soon te begin slowly kneeling down. ang swept ahead, the dying lay in the wake. intatiote killer clung on, riding deep inte the surging rolling humps. At times, in savage sureness and , he did mot ride abreast and drive the arrow into ugs. but shot from the rear, quartering, into the thin ack of the riba, ao that the shaft ranged forward into testines of the victim. [fit did not bury, but hung s the animal kicked at it convuleively, he rode up ith his hand pushed the shaft deeper, feeling for the = the Indians called it, with short jabe of the im- dimissile, Master of an old trade hewaa, and, atim- by the proofs of his skill, his followers emulated him their own weapons, The report of firearms, muffled e rolling thunder of hoofs, wes almost continuous so w the horses could keep touch with the herd. ldger paused only when hia arrowa were out, and led to himsell that he had no more, ao could count a dozen fallen buffalo for hia product. That others, ied, carried of arrows, he called bad luck and bad ting. When be trotted back on his reeking horse, his er dancing empty, he saw other black spots than his on the short grass. His followers had picked up the wisoill. There was meat in sight now, certalnly—as # a half deowen unhoraed ridera and three or four nded buffalo disposed to fight. be old hunter showed his men how toa butcher the eo, pulling them on their bellies, ff they had not died thus, and splittiog the hide down the back, to make a reveptacle for the meat aa it was digerted: showed them how to take out the tongue beneath the jaw, after alit- ting open the lower jaw. He besought them nat ta throw away the back fat, the hump, the boss ribs or the intestinal bou- ding; in shart, five them their @auential buffwloshuntlrg lessons, Then he turned for comp, having no relish foraquaw's work, a8 he called it, and well aaaured the wagons would now have abundance, Banion and Jackson, with their follow- era, held thair hunt some miles below the scene af Bridger’s chose, and had ne greater difficulty in getting among the herds, “How're ve ridin’, WHIT" asked Jack- son before they mounted for the start from camp. Banton slapped the black stallion on the neck. "Not hia first bunt!" said he, 4T don't mean yore hoa, bul yore shootin’ trons. Whor's yore gunat" “TT risk ft with the dragoon revolvers," replied Banion. “Not the firat time for therm, either.” “Mol Well, maybe ao they'll do; but fer me, 1 want a hunk o' jead. Fer approachin’® a buffler, ati-huntin’, the rifle's good, fer ye got time an’ kin hold close, Plenty o° our man'll hunt thataway boday, an’ git meat; but fer ma, give mea hunk o° lead. See here now, | got only a shotgun, cap an’ ball, fourteen gauge, ahe la, an’ many a hide she's stretched. T kerry my bulleta in my eouth an’ don't wae no patehin’—ye hain"’t got time when ve're Pruntin” in the herd. let go a charge o° powder out’n my horn, elos't aa 1 Kin gueas hit, apit in a bullet, and roll her home on top the powder with a jaro" the butt on top my saddle horn. That sats ber down, an” she holds good enough te stay in til D ram the myuzele inter ha‘r an” let eo. She's the same oa meat on the fire.” “Well,” laughed Banton, “you've another case of de gualiiwa, | suppose.” “You're another, an’ [ call it back!" exclaimed the old Man a0 traculently that his friend hastened ta explain, "Well, [speak Blackfoot, Crow, Bannock, Grow Vow, Snake an® Ute," grumbled the seout, “but | never nin fit Caraoa 18 aecpoat no Latins owt bere. DT allowed maybe so ye was allowin’ I couldn't kill buifler with Ole Sal. That's whut I keep ber fer—just buffer. I'll show ye afore long.” And even aa Bridger had promised for his favorite weapon, he did prove beyond covil the efficiency of Old Sal, Time ofter time the roar or the double roar of his fusee wes beard, audible even over the thunder of the hoola; and quite usually the hunk of lead, driven into heart or lights, low down, sean brought down the game, stumbling in ita stride. The old half breed style of lomelinyy, too, was rapid enough te give Jackson as many buf- fala aa Bridger's bow had claimed. before his horse fell back and the dust cloud lessened in the distance. The great speed and bottom of Banion’s horas, as well os the benst’s savage cournge and hunting instinct, kept him in longer touch with the runcing e, Hanion waa in no haste, From the sound of flring he knew his men would have meat, Once in the surge of therunning herd, the rolling backs, low heads and lolling tongnves, shagary frontlets and gleaming eyes all about him, he dropped the reing on Pronte's neck and began his own work carefully, riding close and holding low, alwaya ready for the sudden awerve of the horse away [rors the alot to avoid the uaual rush of the buffalo whetl atruck. Since he took few chances, his shot rarely failed, Ina mile or so, using paina, he had exhausted all but tvo shots, ane in each weapon, and of cours: no man could load the old cap-and-ball revolver while in the middle of a bulfalo run. Now, out of sheer pride in hia own akill with amall arma, he resolved upon attempting a feat of which he onee had heard but never bad Been, Jackson, at a considerable distance to the rear, saw his leader riding back of tvo bulls which he had cut off and which were making frantic efforts to overtaloe the herd, (Coptiaued on Page 58) Tae [aasilate Filter Clusg On, Riding Deep fate the Sergiag See of Rolling Nompe

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20 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘ April 25 TROUPIN’ WITH THE TEN TZ, T WAS on the evening of a very peaceful Sabbath, and I the tenta were pitched down in a little pocket of the mountains not far from where the sluggish Big Sandy clings cloee to the borders of Kentucky and West Virginia. Back in the mysterious bypaths of those hills they tell you how old-time feuds and clan battles almost dating from Revolutionary days ore still smoldering and upon occasion burst inte lambent fame, And, as I say, the canvas of the circus was jammed in between the hilla in such a small spore thot instead of being parked a8 the conventional tent show it wos string out along the banke of a littl: ereek which felt its way from some hidden spring and percolated quietly through the valley. Nigher up one could see the corkscrew bridle paths winding in and out among the stunbed vegetation which grew along the nunkntalnside, In this country all jour- neys are made on horseback. The women Of the mountains atill come to the Jitth stores riding behind their men on the ancient pillion. Yet, strange to say, thirty or forty miles farther down, where the country is fat, horse riding ia almoat a lost art and the atmosphere of the settlements is polluted by the unhealthy stench of gasoline. Perhaps you will ask yourself haw a circus big enough to need ten cars for ita transportation could possibly get patron- age ing little hamlet like this, But circus men will tell you that sometimes a lo- cality with nething te recommend it ex- cept a few aeattered houses will afford a good day’s business. At daylight the nexe Morning our patrons commenced ta eome on foot and on horseback. They fuirly gazed out of the big hills. Fre- quently the beast they bestrode was car- ring a double burden, sometimes o triple ane. The mountaineers are always circus crazy. They took in everything, from the pit show in which Rhoda—that mys- terious girl who & alive—holda forth, right through the kid show and candy elunds, then inte the main tent forthe full performance, staying for the after show or concert. Not only did they do this but most of them came again at night and went through the warious attrac- tione all over again. And, os before stated, it was an off evening and most of the performers and attachés of the elreua were lying out on the banks beside the pleasant little creek. It atruck me as I looked at the scene what a marvelous setting it would have made fora theatrical production dealing with the activities of the Htth-known world of the elreus, A group of men and women were resting comfortably, stretched out on the greenaward just be- hind the dressing tent, amd [ joined them. You don't hear the doings af the qubside world discussed to wny great extent by those of the circus. Word of mouth is limited ta what might be called family goeip, because when people move to a new location every day, food for interest- ing conversation is never lacking. “Somebody was sayin’ you was gain’ to pull out for the big town, Sleepy," exclaimed one of the group os I walked up. He was ad- dressing a tall young fellow whe lay sprawled out face downward on the grass. “Yeo,” drawled Sleepy Stevens, as he lifted an unshaven face and reated it in the broad palm of a colloused hand. “Oh, yea, Lam a-goin’ to walk uway to-morra,”” A Wandering Jon In Good Standing RK. STEVENS, be it said, was first assistant bo the train boss. He was reputed to be a marvelous mechanic. The speaker arcee fram a recumbent to a sitting position and wound two long sinewy arma about hia knees, while the titthe old fat clawn dog who had been anugeling cloee to him staggered to his feet and voiced a wheezy protest. Ohadinh the trained goose, whe had been greedily nip- ping the lush gruss on the banks of the stream, came for- ward with outstretched neck and hissed belligerently, The clown dog wabbledl afew feet toward him, intent on giving batth:, emitting as he did saa series of nsthmatic barks. He was o jealous-minded stump and admitted neither By L. B. YATES PELVITRATED BY TOF IARG sacred oxen nor feathered actors to clase communion with the human members of the show, “Tet's all regular and right,"" cantinued Sleepy Stevens, as one whe would combat argument. “T ghee the bees folr wartin” two weeks ago to-night. After we hod loaded the chow and was ready te pull out of the yard [ see to the boas, sez T, “Guv'sor, Um a-goin’ to drag my freight twa poydays from now. Deo T get my hold-back?' Fair and aquare I give him notice.” ') gm fie Cady fon Which Weert Bp A yin & Waaee Katia" Tiger Wid Vo Other Peeeon Hut Ale Fetoor ** No one interrupted, although twelve palra of ears had been listening ta Sleepy’s valedictory. “dn” the boea he sez," continued the proapective pil- grim, “the boas he ace, “Sleepy,'’ sez he, ‘of course I'm a-goin’ to give you your hold-back if you want ta go, lut you ain't a-gein’ ta step away, is you? You ain’t gat nothin’ nyralinsl the shaw, have you?" sass he, “* Ho,” ez [, ‘it's a Gret-cliss outfit to troope with, an’ the big shew don"t run no better cook tent,” sex 1, ‘beue it's jut this way," sez 7." “Well, Sleepy, if you like it on this show, what do you want to go away for anyhow?" Tt was a woman's volee coming out of the gloom. Sleepy shifted his position until he faced the speaker. He tilted buck a brod=-rimmed but battered black het from an ingenuous boyish fuer, and emitted a half chuckling laugh. Why?" he efuculated slowly, “Why clo 0D hit the grit, eh? Oh, 1] dunno! 1 jest hod a yen to go down Cincy way an’ spe what wus doin’, “When you pet there and find out what & doin’, what then?" perslated the woman. “Oh, when I land there," responded Mr, Steven unbelievable optimism, “when I light of of the rot ald Cincy I'll be all right."" Hu Yeu? FF “Dh-boh, I'll just goon’ buy mea Ballar Boy wo out what shows is slated around that country, gecourse [ kin jain out again,” “Sleepy don't ever stay with a show more tj month,” volunteered a voice at my dlbow. “* Bef) season closes he'll be on every show in the country. ‘7 old Sleepy. But he's a fine fellow and everybody give) the good ward." And all unwittingly, perhaps, Sleepy Stewems had | roading from the ritual of the Wandering Sons. [t wa) old blood of Ishmael talking. The » desire to go forth in the world an whet was to be seen had filtered a way dawn, It was an henarable lineage, niencing with the firat quest of the] Grail and ending where a. burro pa afrying pan and pick ax in the rush to the Black Buotoe, “Sheepy's all right, he'll be back the season's aver,” voloed the litt who presided over the destinies of “up town” wagon. "The first time I seem you you * with a mud outfit,” broke in thot hostler, “They was just five wagon, I mind you was ballyhooin’ for a | whith didn't have no legs, You 4 doin’ a land-office business."* Cireus peaple have a peculiar way shifting from ite base the subject m ter under discussion, Mamie, the Legless Wonder E little man at the other side off circle laughed, “I was while it lasted he affirmed: “there was days when wouldn't have given John D. Rockefell a plensnnt smile, But she blew!" "She didn't walk owey om youl queried the boss hoatler, laughing at b own witticism. “Not exactly,” returned the othe “she were what you might call ab ducted.” "Yop a “That ‘a what che were,” he reiterated “You see, it was thisaway: Alter oe night show I uster have one of the cap vaamen carry her to the bunk wagot We was playin’ a hick town an’ he cate for ber just as usual one night, but he never reached his destination, He oot have grabbed a rattler, because tear ol a junction where two littl old jack rons met, but I never seen her again. They tell me 18 hombre took her down to Cuba, and joined owt with ae of them winter circuses,” "She were quite an attraction an* it wos some bes,” agreed the piteshow impresario, “I suppose you cools! replace her very handy?" "Well, it looked that way at first, but 0 thowght ups great scheme. I hired a girl in one of the towns we wet through, and I cut two holes in the exhibition pletion where T gaed to exhibit the legless wonder, “The girl stuffed ber legs dawn the holes and [ fad black curtains surrounding her body, and it was as pe feet an Ulusian as you ever seen. Everyboly thought £ were genuine, “Twas shakin" bands with myself an’ rakin’ in the with both mitts, when blooey! a blame ped-beaded fd come along and put me out of basiness.,” “Ab! He did, did he? —this from the boss conyers. “All the trouble ['ve hod in my fife has been with rt headed kids, Whenever ye see a guy roqget cul an’ one ae of the top fopplin” lke a freatbitten mushroom you ca St your bots that Santy Claus has put a fackknile inte =e red-headed kid's stockin'.”" "Ven," continued the boa of the wagon, “[ bed noticed a young carrat-top loafin’ around the kid shew al the afternoon and I didn't pay no attention to bim atl Mamit, the legless wonder from the Peruvian plantation. bet a yell out of her that pretty near blew the big top at. Ao’ at ae and the same time [ hears howls of anguis ine underneath the platform, “What in thunderution ts it, Mamie?’ sez 1, “Anse seein” things?!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 21 a of; ti ee gee RE \ To hae Tt are al iJ “Ther Drew Big Croeds Vali Tacx Haut a Diipore Amaengat Thesoe tins ** Seein” nothin’! sex she. “Some rabbit ia makin’ a whdon out of the calves of my lege!’ see she, “Come pull me outta here!’ sex sbe. ‘ET think J landed on bis , =z What are you talkin’ about?" sez I. Talkin’ about?" sez she. “Some scorpion musta got in ethe platform. He stuck ping in my ankles. I kicked wd as T could and [ think I landed,’ sez she, ‘Don't hear him yawpin'?" Wasteould Tdo? Djumped on the platform und yanked dome LT got her out, Meantinv the red-headed kel eibled through the curtains and was boo-hooln’ to tthe band. When Mamie sail she landed on his pan 4iin't tell ne lie: both of his eyes were black, and he i bhessdin* at the nove like a stuck pig. "TTL tell my pop, * he squeaks at me, jee what happens bo jou,"* From Thirty Days to a Life Sentence lore grabbed that brick-dust twin by the shoulder, heed him for the coor of the side show and give hl a hkicktospeed him on hisway. But that waan't the last t because about half an hour afterwards a big husky mer with a tin windshield nailed to his wishbone come eg and didn't do nathin’ but drive me an” Mamie down ithe booby hatch on’ before the beak, We woz churged Chomault and batter, abtainin’ money under false pre tes and yagrancy. The sentence of the court was Len im in the coop on each separate an’ distinct count. | roged. like a dog to be permitted to pay a fine, lrut the atice wouldn't hear of tt. Mamie an’ me apent thirty iy on the inside a-lookin’ out, an” by the tine they turned theme the show was headin’ for the Pucifie Coast,” “hed what became of Mabe?" ineypuired the woman ‘te ent baele kn the shades. “ih, her? Ab, yea. Mamie, eb?" replied the manager af he uptown” wager, “Oh, vea—the last [beard of Mamie hebad pot upa hundred and filty jars of asparagus, o all {canned cherries, and a whole parcel of raspherry jarn She ays the wheat looks fair but newds rain and that we'll uve a good cop of oats if the dry spell don't hang on for nother week. Whenever Mumle staria a anguiient witli cw uhen I'm laying around home in the wintertime nn tries ‘to tell me what a terrible example [ am, all | got to say ie: “Well, Mame, bats all right, but you ain"t no Pearl of Pekin power’, an’ don't forget that 1 took you eet of jail on" married you. I don't think is tp to vou bo be so yoroud aid taughty” That always wins the angument ot me" 'TH tell my pop "Teall that downright mean," ventured 1 WRaD 6 WOIOe, “Well, perhaps it is," agreed the other, “bal it always geta the important money In the family Randicap. I don't have. to pal it more then one in a ser" “[fa gay could gras himeelfa ren) gouel fra be doetune’s as good ws maule,” ex- chimed the peerveseat ticket seller: “but of ovine that’s ike findin’ a gold mine." 'Talkin’ about famous freaks, ‘I gues: the Slamen twine led thie prracesbaxn sa fur os old-time attractlons were concerned, Hut the bet owe [ remember was Lucy Zaratta the Mexican Midget. She was so amall that she could get inside an ordinary till hat and just peek over the brim. L figure the Toeci Twina rank second, They were [talians having one body, two bomds, four oma and two legs, They talked five languages, and the remirkuble part of [wea that one lil would be tulking French while the other jJabbered away in. either lialian or English or Spanish, os the eoee might bea, "Then thera was George Gilchrist, who came from Mexieo, He was the firat ‘wild man Toever heard of, and wos a pret drawing card. The toes on his feet aod the fingers on his hands were like horna and his naila were half a foot long, When in public he walked on his hands and fowt: like an ape; iam mutter of fact [ guess the calloused hounds and feet were really a growth of warts, but everybody thought it came from using his hands and feet so much in propelling him- well arcund, Aa a matter of furt Gilchrist had o fairly geod édluention and could walk upright as well as you, “Joefo the Dog-Faced Boy wae really a Ruslan Jew, who came to thl country when quite young and was fea- tured by Barnum, Bailey*and Hutchinson. JoJo wae aup- pased to be an imbecile, but he had lota of pense, [ heard that he got married in later years and had « family.” “Didn't you oever have no other fake offer you got ia with tht Mamie experience?" inberrogaled the whi. "T alwaye will claim T bad the best one on record," returned the nian addressed, “but the worst of it ia you can't depend on "em. One time I gotta hold of two one- legged men, one having lost his right leg, the other bie left, IT hornosesd them together and of course when folly dressed tig? locked like as though they had two heads, one lenly and fer umes, They drew bi crowds until they hod o dis- fllte umonget themes lout their rneepective share af tlhe salary aod sepurated, In the main, hiwever, the day of freaks in the alde show le pretty well athing of the paat. People look for entertainment now: in fact, in every walk of the show business they cle mand more than sone. thing to ature wt," “Towonder,”’ broke in the man wholooked after the propa, “if that Jane which. used to play the eullioge will blaw bork," “Meantime the Redsitwoded Kat Terombfed Taroogh Bae Cerladae ened Waa Beare Hoa’ tu Rear the Read “Sant never tell," voucheafed the sideshow man oracularly; “she were a towner, and you can't never depend on them. I heard her folks sent for her, mothor sick or somethin’. “She told me one day as how she played the organ in the First Methodist Church of her home town," ventured Shorty the ucrebat. Shorty did the high dive for life besides being the uniderstander for the famous Shortall Acrobatic Troupe, “Vou wasn't exactly opposed te that dame, waa you, Shorty?" ‘This from Sleepy Stevena. “She were a right nice girls and if I waa T wasn't the ea! ane on this show which might have been dippy bout ihe girl back in the shadows laughed, ‘‘Look cut, Shorty, you're hittin’ below the belt. Sleepy ian‘t the woeman-hiter he billa Wenself te be." “T have joined out with everything on wheels from wagons to carnival caravans," stormed Mr. Stevens, “but I ain't been attached to no show run by old Dan Cupid yet, FF “Well,” combated the acrobut, “thot ain't your fault, Sleepy. You bank ten moch on them eyes jou got in your nut, wel a pallus way of goin". It's language whieh moatly wina the womenfalles."* Big Returns From Small Towns ELL." responded Mr. Stevens, “you win @ arpu- ment, Shorty. Was you tongue-tind all the time that gal was on the show?" The little old town where we were playing had no side walks or streets, We did nol give o porade becouse we éoulda't, The railroad just ran through the town and dis- appeared] in the dent of the big hills beyond. If you talked to a Broadway impresario and told him that you could take ten of filteen cara inte a croaa between a woodpile and a water tank like this, and that you could not only get expenses but on top of thats profit of some seven or eight hundred dollars, he would posdbly imagine be was listening to the cheap claptrap braggadecio ane ao often heara on the Great White Way. Well, the wirew | am-speaking of took ex- actly $7744 in the weok, and that was about an avernge business, The day's receipta ranged from $1700 to as. low os 2460, But as the ahow hes bo take inte consideration winter capensrs jim potting ready to go oul the next season, you con figure thot the daily expense bs 100 w ear, For ten cores Chis maker the punning ex perses total 210M aday, Anything over that can be called clean profit. Here we have an EXPENSE BoOHlil wf 27000 aa against an intake of $7744. This would leave a bal- ame of pratt on the week of scHmet hing over 2700, Sa We see that ever the circus game ip nol se tremens dowsly profitatile pa itis cracked opto be, Linder ayers pe Conde We Cae geen’ Werk in bad writ oe fo pee mueh mire Lion this; sometiones, indeed, Lal ‘Contingaed an Poge 34)

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FOUNDED A°D‘ 1728 FUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY LNDEPENDENCE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, U, 8.4. GEORGE HORACE LORIMER. EDITOR Five Cen the Copy Fier All Newidieeler, Ny Subeoripaam: To che Untied Sass ood Pomesions, Cubs and Mesico, B16 the eur. Mami bp Lo Mee? Cheer, Raper Memes Creer, Chowk or by Breit, payable in DA. Fitdian To Cemeda— By belecviption, Li the Year. Slngl Copies, Ten Caom— Canadien or LU. a. Fomds. orsign Sabsrriptions: For Countrizs in the Poel bine Sebecripticet, ee a ee es ee i i eg im LS. funde PHILADELFPHLA, APRIL 22, 1922 Our Army on the Rhine UR Government has made a claim for reimbursement for costa of maintenance Wf the littl American anny in Germany. Tho sum demanded is $241440,010. We have addresaed the claim to the Reparations Commission, desiring that this sum be allotted to ua out of the fret billion marks reparation payments, This billion gold marks ia worth about $240,000.04), ao we are asking for it wll, In all, Germany haa paid about $2200 .00,000 reparation—in ahipa, coal, mines, kind and servicea—so that the American claim does not in itself look avaricious. This reparation has been collected by the Allies from Ceormany under a treaty that we have refused to ratify. Many Americana have wondered why we heep an army a occupation in Germany. On reading thie bill the ex- Allies may alao wonder why we do ao! Our bl is much higher per man than those of the ex-Allied Governments, beciuse pay and subsistence are very high in our Army, If the accounts returning from the Army of Oeeupation ane to be belleved the cost is worth while, What with good food, attractive quarters, plenty of pretty women te dance with, little drill and no Eighteenth Amendment, the situm= thon of the American soldier on the historic Rhine ly in the muteriol sense not onerous. How is this bil te be paid? Only in one of three ways: The Allies may send us German goods; they muy keep the German gouds and send us thelr own goods: or they may send wa geld. In gold, of course, the avernge American would reply. But if the ex-Albes cannot find the gold now to balance their trade with us, how can they find more gold ta cover thia bi? Every man knows thot in the final analyuis this bill con be paid only with Grorman goods, In the five years before the war our average imports from Germony were worth about $175,0M.000, our ex- porta to her about $200,000,000, a balance of trade in our faver of some $125,000,000, The principal goods in the imports were aluminum, apparatus, bros, bronzes, Copiers, brushes, buttens, carbons, cement, chemicols, dives, drug, clocks, chocolates, confectionery, cottons, porettiina, Alanments, explosives, feathers, flax and linen, lish, turn, gelatin, glasaware and optical goods, jewelry, hides, cutlery and other metal goods, magnetos, paper uted Pulp, photographic suppllest, pencila, seeds of clover ond other grames, sugur-beet seed, silks and artificial silks, malt liquors, wines and cordials, mineral waters, starch, tins, toys and zinc, Mostly finished gaods. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Many of these goomls before the war were virtual monop olies, Singer that time we have established plants for their manufacture, Some of these goods belonged to what are called key industries. Qur antidumping bills are di- rected againat same of them, The Eighteenth Amendment keeps out afew. Let anyone familiar with conditions in the factories of this country, knowing the state of stocks in the hands of dealers and the state of mind of the con- suming public, pleture what would happen if? more than i prewar volume of German goods was to be sent to ua in payment for the keep of our acldiers., That would make The Watch on the Rhine entirely too expensive a tune for Wi tosing. Secretly the British ond the French are enjoy- lag aur dilemma, though on the surface they ane annoyed. The Germans ore enjoying the situation apenly. Inside Information NE of the poorest reasons for envwying the rich and powerful is their suppoaed infallibility in the purchase of investmenta and in steck-market operations, To the small capitalist, whether investor or apeculator, a veritable halo encircles the head of the great banker or corporation executive, riot eo much because of what he has as on aocount of his aaaumed opportunity to pet in om good things or toe beat the market. Hut there is not a shift or eddy in the current of business life, not a tornado or the gentlest of showers, whose passage deca not disclose enormous lotaes augtalned by the rleh and powerful. There is ho lesson that peaple need so to take to them selves a4 that the keeping af money is a very different thing from making it. One does not hove to be a Wall Street bunker, a corporation directer of an insider af any kind, to be careful, thrifty und the reverse of foolish, Moralists are troubled at the great rewards that have fullin into the lops of a few movie stara and baseball players. But the situation will take care of itself to a greater extent than is imagined by critica whowe mental Teactiona are hasty and superficial. Those who have not the strength of character to resist the sudden inrash of wealth will quickly enough lose it, and even among those whoee moral fiber is strong enough will be many whose business Judgment ia lameotably weak. In every group of the avddenly enrlched—bootleggers, movie star, war preditecrm, oil operators, trust magnates of the early 1960's and railroad Kings of the "S0's—there has been of will be a natural and inevitable process of winkewing. Wealth hes been made in this country in countless ways and by men of ty pei so various es to defy deseriptian. But wealth has oo great sticking qualities, and the mighty have fallen ogalin and aguin, They have been cleaned out by playing the market and by sticking te thelr own business. They have lost fortunes by staying fn one line of business while it dwindled away, and they have lost fortunes by golng into new lines, Much is said of the opportunities which this country affords and of how the lowliest may rise to wealth and fame, But perhaps it is just as fortunate that so many who rise ore unable ta maintain their position. It is fortu- note that “wheeoever hath, to him shall be given" la so for fram being a universal truth. It iso consoling thought that one does not howe to be a millionaire, a captain of industry or in any sense an insider, but only an avernge everyday citizen, to enjoy the benefita of common sense, core, thrift and ordinary good judgment. Dead Horses Cannot Puil N ATTITUDE which has gained popularity in the last year or two ia more Punpently expres) by Lhe story of the banker with a glass eye than by volumes of eloquent syeeches against the money power. ‘The banker sand he thought the would-be borrower's bolanee sheet wos all right, “but ane never con tell, Maw you coaldn't tell fron locking ut me that I have a glass eye. Which de you think it ia?" "The right,” replied the barrawer, “Yea, but how did you know?" “T knew It must be o gloss eye beceuse it hod o glewn of human kindness in it," wf pril But unfortunately banks which operate om ths sentiment, generosity and heart-throb stuff rary of any service to the community in the long m peculiar sense the first duty ofa bank is ter reerricic It has not helped the farmers in parte of the NS to have so many banks fail In their behalf. It = argued that thousands of Boston residents are ar of because Afr. Ponzi went to smash with the while attempting to prove that banking could be ca for the commen people on a seale of magrrianimil before dreamed oof, The banker is under a three-fold obligration. these, of course, is to the community in whieh & and hia discharge of that duty may not alwys be or compounded of the highest measure of imtellige judgment. But eritiea who charge him with these boo eaally forget his other obligations. He ia arog for every penny of depesita, responsible for then | on an immediate cosh hasis, although ld @aFrn ay in his business he mist bovest or loan these de pecesi ta wll sorts and conditions of men to we in a Varbety of oll of them invalving human risk and chutiee. Ls wonder that he is coreful, that he exorte wt Cloves rate of interest? But this is not all. No bank is worth the conf of a depositor to the extent of a aingle dollar unle stockholders themeclyes have contributed) @ consid Aum upon whieh subetantial profits are eared, Fo the ability to earn these profita which proves & depositor that the promise of the bank te return bis | upon demand i backed by more than empty w Banks In this eowntry differ from nearly all other cor Kiet in that the thability of the stockholders is doubl par value of theic holdings. These are simple, elementary focts. But there are t when they wre easily overlovked and purposely foro Progress should be made in banking ws in every other of human endeavor, But the bistary of money ard Le ing would seem to indicate that loud protestations ag the “uaury' W commercial banking, together with sp banking programs invelving political, social and pk throple features for epectal groupe of people, usually = in the end no other than unsound banking, and that is t means merely that the depasitor loses his money. Fram Glut to Scarcity QOOLS are divided inte two main growups—men and cross-breds. Mering wools ore finer and adap ta the making of the most prized clathe, (Croaa-beed ws are coprscr and inferior from the stundpoint of mat clotha. When the war closed, a heayy aceurmulator wools, largely croas-breds, lay in British hands. The< af 153) added to the store af stocks, The elip of 192) 5 below the normal level of consumption. The glut in lower-grade wools and the consequent fal. price, together with deciing in price of mutton, rect in liquidation, followed by redaction in breeding. In [3 the count of sheep in the warld was sormer 510,000.00, which some 200,001,010) were in the Aritish Empire. T! eount in 1971 had fallen to some 440,000,000, of wie Hort IES. MI were in the British Empire, [n 19! the sheep of the Eritish Erapire were 38 por cent of 3 warld stack, but they produced three-quarters of the co mercial wool. In 1821 the sheep of the empire Fete! per cont af the workd stock, but they produced fou wf the commercial wool, In this fowr-filtha of the it supply is bwoethirds of the fine wool, Therefore, whee certain United Stutes senators like it ar mot, the rn! Empire controls the wool markets af the wold, In the meantime the wee of fine wool hea pre’: while conzumption of inferior wool has logged behind it the present pace of consumption of fine woel is conti and the prewar consumption of lower-grade wool eum the world with the present count of sheep wil [ie 4 searcity of merino wool within a year, and a succeed searelty of erces-bred wool within another year, Poe will rise, amd the breeding of sheep will be stimula! With high prices, consumption will be depresaed and ae? equilibrium extablished.

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3UCKET SHOPS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM ALL. STREET, in the minds of many people who are mot acquainted with it, is pictured os.2 group of overfed plutocrats entirely surrounded by ey. To a large extent Wall Street is reeponsible for view, for it has seldom taken any pains to defend 1) mati, it has assumed a position of too proud to Tt te this attitude which hos permitted meet peo- to kick Wall Street around without any retaliation 1 the party of the first part, Novertheless, T believe it is time for the real Wall Streot to come out of its |, turn the works inside out, and prove how closely the ‘k Exchange, those whose operations are centered in around it, ae well as the public, are bound up in the ent and future welfare of the country, ‘hie bucket-ahoep situation, for eaunple, ia one that haa en out of the neglect of many vital igques. The Street permitted it toe drift along from one stage to another, dently believing that the bucket shopa would effect irown cure. Such has not been the ease, ina previous article I denoted some of the eurmurks of vacket shop. Most of these related to the mony ond Hows wiys in which they approoch and secure the con- exce and patronage of a prospective client, I will now deavor to explain some of the other earmarks, which come mont apparent after the client has begun dealing a the buckerteer, Qnee you get inte his clutches you are regarded aa grist this mill—merely one of many victims from whom the edollar is te be extracted. You may be poor or wealthy, dor young; business man, doctor, clerk, widow or phan: he istaking valpes fromeo much human ore. Some okete are richer than others, [ce water rune in his veins, vis not concerned with the mental, physical or financial ress growing out of his rascalities. The Bucketeer’s System | in the mind of this scoundrel who is “aivising™ you what te buy and sell isa scheme by which he hopes oreduceyour bunk account to the vanishing point; henner, sery bltof advice and every move he makes is notin your htenst, butinhisown, Se, though he may begin by mak= bea fietitiows profit for you—thot is, report same tranaac- ions which “alrendy show a profit —he is doing this only to bead you on, get you to put up more money, have more canfidenee in him, and in other ways prepare you for the ‘inal kdbng. The buocketeor docs not always follow the same routine. Ne haa many waye af accomplishing a result. One which uinS lees finesse than some of the at-called pool apern- tion previously deaeribed ia te load you wp and keep you laced. Following thia method he not only Induces yoo to tride on a amnall margin but in ease the stocks which you tuy advance in peice and you thereby have a prodit on pater he promptly meee te it that you use this paper profit te buy ore securities, [nm this way he keeps you spread out eo thinly that the first little dip in the murket catches yeu ond wipes out your margin. Hence the eenall-margin inducement already mentioned has tw advantages to the bucketeer: [t firat lends you to trade with him because you can dose with @ littl money; and next, it is a simple means of making you lose your money so that he wing, Note the diflerence between your “friend” and a legiti- mate broker with a New York Stack Exchange member- ship: When you eall on the latter or write a letter for the purpose of opening an account with hia firm you find that instead of the paltry $24) margin on 100 shares which the bucketeer requires, this Steck Exchange firm wants you to deposit from $1500 te $2600. You say you eunnot afford it, They appear te be overcharging. Let us look into this question of margin and the position occupied by your broker in relation te yourself and your transactions, First of all it must be understood that when you engage a broker you are appenting an agent. As your agent the broker is authorized by you to make certain pur- chases and sales of securities for your account and risk. Ifyou wish te purchase 100 shares of stock, at $100 a share, the total cost would be Fi0,M0; but if you have not this much money at the time, you ask the broker to carry the stock for you on margin. You hand him your check for $2000—which is the margin—and he supplies the remain: ing $2000 with which to make wp the purchase price. To all intents and purposes the $2000 you deposit is in part payment of the full amount. You may or may not intend to pay the balance in order to obtain full possession of the hundred shares of stock, but it is your privilege at any time either te pay up this balaner or to let the account run along of Margin. The purpose of the margin is to protect the broker agalnet bow in this transaction which he haa made for your account. If the stock for which you paid $100 a share should decline ja price to $90 a share he would probably call upon you for another 31000 in order to keep the original amount good, If the stock rove te $110 you could withdraw $1000) out of your original $2100, becuse your tock would be worth £1000 more, The broker may not have all the money necessary bo supply the SAK which you require bo complete your pur- chose, He therefore tukes your certificate af stack bo his bank and borrows shaut $301 on it; so that ultimately your transaction is financed by his bank, with the broker acting a8 a go-between. The bank requires him ta keep is margin gol, and he must—il he is a legitimate broker who executes your order and carries your stock for you— require you bo keep your margin good; otherwise he would tun the risk of losing a considerable amount during violent. market fluctuations in your stock, From this it will be seen that no legitimate broker ean afford ta carry such o transaction on a imargin of $500, beruuse he would hove te supply the $1500 difference between the cost —210,000, what he borrows —S40), und your $200. [et would tuke on enormous: amount of capital to carry any substantial number of clients on such Ler, and it would involve o risk that would be out of proportion By Richard DECORATION ad D. Wyckoff GU ERA TLE, Woon: to the small amount af commission which a real broker receives for executing your order, The bucketear, who has no financing to do, requests a $51) margin because that amount seems attractive toyyou. The legitimate broker in asking proper protection for himself is in reality working in your own interest aa well when he says “Put up plenty of margin,” for be knows that you will thus be protected against the ordinary fluctuations of the market. Tn between the the when your wecount is opened with i bucketeer and you go out with the tide or are sent to the cleaner's he has various other little tricks which expedite your finish, Ff you are living in a distant city and he krows you are notin a position to watch the market closely he may encourage you to send your orders by telegraph, for this method frequently means delays which are difficult for you to prove, and it permits him to ill the onder at a price which is to -your greatest disadvantage. For example: Tf you whre him an order te buy 100 Chandler Maters, and the price of the stock is 70 when your telegram arrives wt hia office, he will not execute it and report back bo you that he has bought 100 shares at TO; he will hold that telegram perhapa one, two or three hours, and if, in the meantime, Chandler sells at 72 or Ti, you will get it at whatever figure is the highest. In the officer of one Conaolidated Exchange house which failed a couple of yeors ago it was the custom, when conditions would permit, to hold all telegraphic orders until the close of the market and then fill these at the highest prices of the day if they were buying anders, and the lowest prices if they were selling orders. This is only one style of crookedness which is designed to make you a fluent loser, No Profits Allowed N PLACING orders to buy or sell with bucketeers you frequently find them covering their tracks by saying,” We thought we hod better mot hay just then,” or “We over- louked that order," and other evasiona on trades which might have been to your advantage. They do not want you te realize any actual peofits after they have built up your aecmuint by inducing you te deposit all your available furetia, It ie too much for you to expect that they will aid you, Aa an outsider you know very little about the tarsi nes, and are almost powerless in thelr hands, It will therelore be seen haw vital it is, Wo yimt wre trading in stocks, that you place your account with a broker whose character, financial strength, standing in the eommunity and methed af handling be lisiness are beyond criticism, Contrast the attitude und the medstanece given by the honest brokerage house, which revlizes that it can make money only Uiroaugh the commission you pay for the exe culion of your orders on the Steck Exchange of a dealer's profit on investment securities: which they sell you. Such a firm ff always extremely desirous that you be successful in your investment and trucding operations, because if you are not they will lose your business: consequently they nid you inevery posible way, aresincere and conechentlows boul ib, [Continadgd on Poge 30

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24 +} THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 22, THE UPRISING GENERATIOL do cling to their antiquated idena in such a pathetic way And ta me the most ridiculous of these is their conviction that the ambition of every deb is to become o wife, though af souree what she really wants & to be a widow. All the girls in my crowd proclaim thi frankly, although none of them, so far as T know, have decided how to achieve the deloctabl: estate of widowhood without a whole lot of pro litninuries, However, nobody denies that there ls a certaln magnetic ‘something about a widow which registers with the [Ne members af the alder generation men. In the dim dead past of my own ixtreame youth three years ago, when | was 2 mere flapper af fiftea and awfully werrked about my ears, which the family constantly alluded ta aa being like litth: pitchers, and which, though they were then, ales, une concealably lange, my bobbed and permanently waved halr of today mercifully makes of little aecount—well, at any Fate in these vanished days of my pruntish childhood 7 used to be rather linpressed by what my sister Rodamend and ber chume said about being a bride. Whenever they had failed ta shake me and, giving up the effort, talked frevky in despuir und my presence, T gave rent altentian te their words, for 1 was a thick-skinned youngster, caper andl thirsting for Knowl edge and ready to experiment. with everything forbidden [rom chewing gum teplaying with the ull-the-yeur-araund boys from the village, especially Ted Stone: wall, with whom [ was even then having a secret affair eon- sisting niwathy of an exchange of green apples, but which waa thrilling me to the core just the SULITIC, Standing as T wos with ILTy"= thing but reluctant feet where womanhood and girlhood meet, I shuffled aid feet in a teddle of Pager expretation around after my sister und Elsie Brown and Inpapresdd ip everything they said about white satin and onoge Pesan and whether tulle or real lace was the more becoming. The poor sapel They talked this stuff over in ae much secrecy os | would permit them, and evidently, as [ recall the impression on my childish mind, thought that to be a bride was the end of life. And so it was for their half generation, Pb took a newer, mere vigorous ape, meeanleg my own, bo see beyond the white satin and the volo that breathed o'er Eadarn. To Reamond and Elsie, who promptly and satislacto rily achieved their crowning ambition the flret vear they were out, & bride wae the most intriguing feminine figure in the world, Tut to me there seems something so fright- fully ternporary ubout being a bride, Why, even the Epb- eopal servie: takes only twenty minutes! And then, even When she gets back te the house, the poor bride is only allawed to shine for a brief hour at beat before they whisk ler upstairs and take away her wedding gown and hustle her into a dotiiewr, and that's the last of her white-and- shining glory, for ['ll tell the world there is nothing so flat asa weeding dress when it reappears as oo useful dinner frock, Yor, the bride's glory and ber eostinee Inet but for a fleeting hour, whereas the whlaw—oh, daddy boy! That snappy litth bonnet with the beeaming erfpe veil, the slenderizing black dresses and the pearls for teara can be strung on and on indefinitely, A bride flares ‘up for a moment and is promptly extinguished, but a widow, if she pete that way young enough, ia good for twenty years, Hesides, as [ have remarked, there is a certain something about a young widow, Anyhow, ewer girl in my bunch is wild) fis Lie apie, SAY IT WITH FLOWERS By Nina Wilcox Putnam FLLUIPTRATES Br MAP WILfiowv Whee the Jor Woe Finished the Profescional idee Looked Like Something Thar Had Kacaoped From rie eccident Ward T suppose [am ina way responsible for the introduction into our eet of this new ideal, and of course I myself acquired it through that dreadful week when Marilyn Mo- relle chaperoned me, and when Little Arthar came to visit, Well, ghastly aa that experience wis, what TP learned from it L have lenrmed, With all the panning we debs get, no one Can aly we ewer pass upauny first-hand knowledge or allther thraugh our experiences without becoming wiser for them. And wt unial this particular experience waa the reault of one of mother's semiannual efforte te protect me from any experiences whatsoever. Of course at eighteen Tam perfectly well able to look cut for myself, but there are two people whe oun never goom to peulize this- mother, the sweet old privebes, andl that pest, Tel Stonewall, When one of therm len’t plick- ing on me for sere technically harmless bit of sell- expressian, Ue other one. And when they both perform on the sare diay it is more than any reasonable person can endure. I should think they would see how dangerously it bares me, and yet they both love me, or claim to, Blind stuff that! Love, you know, ta the older generation and ita adherents means a constant butting in and spiking the loved object's plonwre at every opportunity. That this is in obsolete conception of the term T had tried, with a good deal of patience, to get over to Ted on the very sume day mother telephoned for Marilyt. PRETO. Ted had come over at a ghostly hour—my diamond wrist wateh reyis barely 11:30—and I was just finishin eofee on the breakfast porch when dreadful Aivver of his stopped wade; front portion, T knew it waa ‘Ted's cause the only other livwer which o to the Edward ‘Torringi Long Island estate with regularity is J. Smither’s, | Clams & Lobsters, eno iases the tradeeamen"s entra So when the faint infant arti of a fliv died gaepingly oo front [knew very well who parked it there, amd eo plenty of time te gulp down one remaining hit wartiip throw myself into on att tively unconscious attitude, fore Ted came romping in Hi big St. Bernard dog. He's like a St, Bernard —no sen bumorand alwaya rescuing | ple whe don't particularly = to be rescued, without con ing them first. When he este T waa deep in a book, which T looked up with lang grace. “Hello, aport!” [ e with a yawn, “Totter ins park yourself! Coffee?" "Nie!" said my young gia looking abowt him wrathful "T don"t lunch until teek thanks.” "Lunch, my eve!" Dreproy him, “This representa my sie gle back te life after a big ng! That was sume eooy Little part eh, old topper?" “Pet Torrington,” said Ti solemnly, ignering my remer! thought you told me ya father insisted an your getls up for breakfast." “Well, I'm up, aren't [7° said defensively, “" Anwone ca see that!" “ Must. bea great satisfactio to your dad," replied Tei “Let's see, he goes ta town © the Bll, doesn't he? “You sound so sulurbar Ted!" [ drawled. “T supp it's the effect your new fara b having upon you, Do you gt up with the carrots and lr nowadays" "You need mot lang at that farm, Pet,” said Ted in hese way. “You are going te livea it soma day, you know." "Gutamang the truck gardener? Not much!" [ hostel. “That district ia going to be very fashionable befor long,” retorted Ted. “I'm not in real estate with my dad for nothing. It was a darn good investment—my oc dear. What I mean, [own a home, and I'm going to m= the ground pay for the howse—our hows, I web ru wauld not bough at it, Pet. Ewen the carrots and beets ar ne joke, They are golng to belp clear the place.” “Ted Stonewall, you area scream (™ I replied ads “You take an awtul lot for granted!" “How do you mean?" be demanded. “After last ait there is only one thing | can take for granted —that yo unt going ta marry me." This wos so noive that 0 Lvighed aboard. “Ted, old prechous!" Dshriebed. “ Dhon't be such a tuk: Solid bowe—aalid bone! De you suppose a girl mur every boy ahe does a litth petting with?" “Constance !" thundered Ted, using my given nace! the first time in yenrs, and ino tone which sent a soto cold chill of fear down my spine. Perhaps in my bormel ing of him T hod really gone too far this thme, “Constant. Don't tell me you have done that sort of thing with 2 other man! Don't!" “Well, priceless, don't be ao peppery about it!" ] ep! rather shakily, I confess, “It doesn't mean a area “Look here, dear!" anid Ted half incredulously. * don"t mean it seriously? CH coure Im not eo La bil that I've heard o het abowt that sort of thing, but [ beven! (Contlaced on Page 26)

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(itenticoed from Poge 24} gone in for it myself. I suppase because I'm village people and net really in your eet, and my aort of folles don't meet around like that, cheapening their most tender relation- ship. I suppose you will consider that a quaint notion. I consider it only decent. I kissed-you Last night because I mean te marry you. And I won't permit any other man to tawch at “Permit?” I said icily, getting to my feet. “That is not a word I like, especially when used in that tone,” “Look here, Pet Terrington!’ said Ted, going very white. “re we engaged, ar are we mot?" “You know very well my mother wouldn't dream of allowing any such thing!" I replied. “She wouldn't even Jet you come here if she suspected ——" “I'm not asking your mother," said Ted. ‘I'm asking you. For six years I haven't looked at any woman but you, and I have the right to know where | stand. Are we en Hil "Weil, sort of," I replied reluctantly. “Ob, Ted, let it go at that! I don’t want to be definitely tied up to any- body, I'm having too good a time. I want some experi- ence of life, Of course I om fond of you, but ——* “But you won't come out and tell the world" said Ted, altogether too q! i “Wot yet!" I cried. “I want to be free!" "Bo you think it's mice to be engaged, or sort of half mised to me, and meanwhile go around with other fel- lies nnd thot that sort of thing is all right?" said Ted. “Of course Idol" T retorted peevishly, "Honestly, Ted, you might have been distilled in 1941." A look which somehow disturbed me more than I cored to admit even to myself care into Ted'aevyes, He squared his shoulders and picked up hia cap. He became, for Ted, positively debonair, “All right!" said he, “T guess I've been an old-fashioned fool. Tl try te bring myself up-to date, But just remem ber this when the occasion pops up—that sauce for the goose is also an alibi for the gander!" Jind at that he beat it without even ao moch a3 a ket But IT didn't let his not kissing me or his darkhy veiled winter-weight thrent disturb me for long. I knew Ted thoroughly, aod [ was os sure of him as | was of mother, What he had sald was true. He had never even looked at another girl since the day he gave me that fret apple over the back fence. He was mine, absolutely mine, and I knew from past experience that I could trust him anywhere. Oh, I wasn't worried about holding Ted securely! What was eating me was the fact that [ had burt him by the lie I hed told caneerning my other parties, Of course I would hate THE SATURDAY EVENING POST to have it get around how completely innocent my drives between dances hod always been, and how very mild my flirtathons on dark porches. So far, the men had not spread a word about it, Believe me, a man may kiss and tell, but he never brags about hie failures! Yet gome devil in me made me want Ted ta worry, When he waa away from me 1 was simply crazy about him, but when he was there it was so eaey to torment him that IT could not resist getting right on the job. And now the very moment he was gone—back to the vegetables, T sup- post—T wanted te run after him and tell him ie was oll a allly lie. But I couldn't. Principally because just as | made a half-hearted start for the doorway it waa filled by mother, and from the look in her eye I knew that life had again Pegi upon interfering with her well-regulated Mother is that way. When she has mapped out pro- gran for the week—dinners, luncheons, a bridge morning and a Russan famine eoneert, and ao forth—she expects to Pull off her schedule ruthleealy, and if acmebody developa a. funeral or breaks a leg, or it's a garden party and the Lord decides on rain, mother takes the disruption as a personal insult and deliberate injury. This morning I eould see firat crack that ber favorite Maréchal Niel poses had deliberately refused ta bloom in thme for Tama, our old family servant who has been with us nearly a year, to wae on the table on Friday, aa per agreement, or that some similar dire colamity had overtaken her. She carried a sheaf of opened letters, topped by » telegram, and drop- ping all but the latter upon the breakfast table she seabed herself and fluttered the wire at me, “Pet!" said ehe. “The moet upsetting thing has hap- pened! You know my old friend, Mrs. Elihu Corn- wallace?" At mention of this name I got a queer mental picture. Tt was of mother as a little girl, in a much » long: wnisted dress, bangs and white stockings and something called a pinafore, playing with the minister's daughter, a red-headed girl in equally impossible clothes. They were aitting on the minister's front atepe engaged in the impec- cable and altogether feminine game of jackstones. Auto- matically I said " Deisy Duncan" aloud, “Yea!” beamed mother, ecstatic for on instant, Then the troubled look returned, “Of course T have not seen Daley ginee her marriage,” sald ahe. “But we have written each other regularly, apd T have often suggested her send- ing Litth: Arthur on bere for a visit." This was really rather appalling. I knew of Little Arthur, For years I had seen a cabinet photograph of him on mother's dressing table—an enormous, fat and husky April 22, human pie of five, positively bursting out of a sho unmowed curls and a Fauntleroy suit of velvet. “Mother! Dexelaimed. “Not Litthe Arthur!” “Of course Tam delighted to have the omly child « old playmate came on and step with us incdefinit mother continued. “I'm sure Littl Arthur will be a brought-up young man and a most desirable companic you, my dear. Incidentally, I understand that the willaces are the richest people in Indianapolis, not the money means anything tous, But that he should. just at this time is certainly most upsetting. He'll be to-morrow." “His arriving at any time will upset me if he has 7 up true to that tintypel I retorted. “Outside of | what's wrong with the date? If I must have that mour of young Western manhood about, why not mow?" “Pet! said mother, “You seem te forget that : father and I are starting on our motor trip tea Car to-morrow Le “Well, aod what of it?" I asked. "A chaperon, may dear, a chaperon!"” replied mot “Tecan't very well go awny and eave you unchapern I've telephoned your sister Rosamond, but she c possibly get away," “Thank heaven!" T muarmured, "So [ have done the next best thing,"" aaid mat! "T have sent for poor dear Marilyn.” Now Maribn was a widow. The lucky man was- rather, I should say, had been mother’s first cousin. of course Marilyn was pretty old, She must have beep beast thirty-six or aeven, ad mother had often plalntir pointed out, when she waa reluctantly obliged te recugn Marilyn's existence. This usually occurred only © Marilyn wrote that the interest on the mortgage was agi due. [ had never sern the widow mysell, bat you can im ine how IT was shot with dread at the idea of aelding ber the hotiseheld when [ tell you that none of the wornen our family ever referred to her except as poor dear Muarily and that although she lived only as far aa Jereey City. w mother aometines talked to father vaguely to the eve that “we must have poor dear Marilyn out for a ve sometime, Edward. It is our duty really." She ney made good on the proposition, [ didn’t have to be a mir render to know that Marilyn must be an awful hick, ar of courme she wae poor. What is more, the howse on thir the mortgage interest fell due so often was admitted frame! Oh, boy, I could see ahe would make an ide chaperon—from mother's point of view! Iwould be lock if abe didn’t wear health shoes and rubbers and try t (Cantinurcd on Page 278! te Nod On an Jmmeare Poona Nat aod the Tighteat Walsted Coat I Nope Kerr Beteld. In Fort, 4 of Wi Clothes Weuld Nooe Dene Credit te o Chores om

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(Comtawed from Page 76) make me wear them too. My holiday looked as if it were going te be pretty well erumped., "Mother!" T said severely, “You know that was a mean trick! Far years you have been shirking Cousin Miarilivn's visit, and naw you wish her onte me and sneak off to Canada. I showkl think one freak in the house at a time waa enough f*" sd “That will do, Pet!’ said mother, arising and hastily assuming her busy air. “I am really sorry to miss poor dear Marilyn's visit. She is, a2 [ remember her, a most estimable woman, FT hope you will not {nil to show her the courtesy of meeting her at the station temorrow, She and Litt Arthur will both be on the twelve o'clock train,” Do you see how hopelessly far apart the present genera tion and the old one are? Muther walked away with that a8 her final word, and without the rematest idea that she had completely ruined my holiday. She and dad were to bee pomwe for two weeks, and, of course, I had planned to sort of just drilt abowt—make some visite, show myself a big time generolly—and now suddenly I was tied up as tight as modebod bin her bobisle skirt! Tt wos simply madden ing! However, there was no use my kicking any harder, Muther would slmply aay “There now, dear, your mother knows what is best for you!” and that would be the end af the conversation. Mother waa sending that hick cousin out to give the poor crentire aw good time without herself doing any of the clirty work, Wery well then, | would give poor Marilyn oa good time. Ane os for Little Arthur, he'd hove to take his chunee with the ret of the crew. For if I bead to enter tain those tao I at least was mot forbitden to add to the erowd. Nothing had been said about my inviting nobody else at the game time. I determined to aink my hicks and dink them thoroughly, In ather words, I decided to gur- round them completely with my oan particular bunch, and give them the raz. No sooner had this sweetly simple salation of my difh= culties presen bed jteelf than I snatched the telephone from where it was hiding behind the skirta of a bisque coll and got my aide kick, Sylvia Glenning, on the wire. “T'm having a house party over the Fourth, old-timer,” Lead, “and you must not fail me “But I'm having ane of my own!” objected Sylvia. "Tot Romney, Jed di Silva, Tommy Bornes and Rotter Cairey aend—oh, yes, Ethell" “Bring them all over here?" said I. “I'm going to havo two acs. One i called Litth Arthur Cornwallace and the other ia a girl named Marilyn Morelle. I will add G. G. Third and—ch, yea, Ted Stonewall {"' "You old priceless!" gasped Sylvia. “Wo will be there!" “Dinner ot eight to-morrow night," I said grimly, and Aare Wy And then T sat foro while in gloamy allenee. If thet crew of strong men and wild women didn't send my beo intruders scurrying for shelter I was a poor guewer, This house party waa going to make history if I could arrange it. I called the general store down in Rosemere Village. "This is Miss Torrington speaking," anid I. “I suppose you have stocked up for the Fourth of July? Well, I want nll the fireworks you hove—allf And plese be sure to send Jats of ned fire and plenty of very noisy ernckors." After which [ felt better. But by the next morning when I set owt for the rollroad station to gather in the freaks I had about as much pep os wet aatrich feather. For of all the emart towns on Long Island, Fosemere is undoubtedly the amartest, and draws a crowd which would put your eye out, eapecially over a holiday and week-nd combined; and this was Friday, and Monday would be the Fourth and—well, you can imagine the sort of mob [ hod te face. Simply everybody who was anybody woukl) be there meeting friends, ghd it seemed os if T had been appointed to furnish a lowgh. It wees benstly, Zimply beaathy of mother to let me in for a situation like that! All the way down from our place, riding in solitary grandeur in the blue limousine and trailed by the suburban ent Tor the trunks, F could just picture what waa going to happen. There would be the shouls of gleaming cars, the gayly dressed crowd parading the platform of the pretty litth: yine-covered statlon—the Warrlngtons, Tot Remney, Sylvia, the whole bunch eeeeting neypular peaple, with gocel- locking luggage and all that, and ragging each other, and probably staring at me while Cousin Marilyn waddled down the platform, with very likely a straw suitesse and a string bag in either hand, and she would smack me on both checks, and then we would rescue a hig hulking goof of a btackwoodsman with a wide-brimmed hat who would say “Plone to meetcher?" Ane this, of Crue, would be Litthe Arthur! Talmply writhed at the thought. How could mother be ao cruel? Oh, the things parenta force upon us, and then expect us to love and reapect them! Well, at any rate, dreadful aa these visions were, they did not affect the apeed of the limousine’s excellent motor, and I joined the happy throng at the station just before the train arrived, Never will 0 forget the agony of the next few minutes, Lacarcely kKoow how T lived thraugh them. Automatically THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Lexchanged greetings with a few friends, and coming upon Sylvia Glenning did manage to keep my head sufficiently ta grab ber by the arm and hiss “Eight o'clock to-night" inte her passing cor. To my reliof she modded, for I was suddenly overcome with the ghosthy thought that if eke aaw What T had come dewn to moet she might renig on moving her party over to my house, Ted had not even anewered my note of invitation, and T was worrked by the thought that ewerybody might go back on me. Sylvie was cordial, however, even though she broke away from me immediately, for by now the train was puffing and panting out in frant and passengers were pouring from it. T hid myself behind one of the columns of the shed and eombed the puck for my pair af pees, Eut fora long while none of the orrivuls seemed to moot the specifications, Onee, indeed, I saw a nlddle-ageed woman whe filled the Gill; but when I approached ber smilingly that comman Mire. Gabler, whom nobedy knows, darted in ahead af me, "Pardon me, but this ia my cook,” abe said firmdy, and [ foll back rather cashed. The crowd began to thin out, and I saw it would be wie to gob a litle action, Sol started darting up and down the Watfarm looking about, Bart ne freales, The mob began ta melt amidst the roar of motor, suddenly, as it does at a roilway atation, and then way down the platform I saw Ted Stonewall in knickerbotkers and a gray dlannel shirt completely surrounded by erates of young carrots and beets from that awful farm of his, and Ted was talking tow young woman in deep mourning. As Ted caught aight of ma be said something to hor and she turned around. Bhe wos a wilew. Fist at first glance that meant noth- ing te oy fevered brain. All | saw was that she waa a blonde, very preity, with a lovely slim figure which her long black veil get off to perfection. Snappy? Some snap! Shoes, hat, a French bag of dull beads, a etring of pours and, a8 1 drew nearer, 2 pair of appealing blue eyes and a peach of a makeup. Her age might have been anything from twenty-five on, “Hore is Miss Torrington now," said Ted as I ap proached, “Pet, thi ledy wes looking for you." Immediately the lady put out both hands in a graceful, impulsive peeture, “HRippla' of you to ask me “Tam Marilyn,” out, my dear!" For a second I could searcely epeak. Then I heaved a huge sigh of reliof, [felt as ifanenormou weight had ieen lifted aff my shoulders. ‘This was a woman one could take anywhere! She waa an asaet, not 2 linhility! “Whi, you're a peach!" ] cried enthusinstically. “Gee, bit ['m glad! How are you, and everything? Ted, thia ip Mra. Morelle, my cousin, who is going te be with us over the Fourth.” “My name is Stonewall,” added Ted, shaking hands. “You have been so kind, Mr. Stonewall,” said Marilyn, ewitching theae light-blue lamps on him as gratefully as if he had just lipped her a new cer or saved her from drown- ing oe Senaening “T'm so glad we shall be sesing you nguin. “You've got nothing on me there!" said Ted with » laugh. “Do I move over thie evening, Pet?" “T'ra glad you have found out that you can cone,” I said a trifle coolly, “Dinner ia at eight.” And then [steered Marilyn away, found the second man and watched her stack a whole pack of luggage cheeks inta his hand while f broke the bad news about Little Arthur to this stunning young visi tor of mine, “T'm afraid Arthur ia an awful plece of work," I said. “They have simply no end of money, but they are un- doubted trimmed with hay. I suppose he missed this train.” “There ig.a lost-looking male gresehopper whom seems to have claimed down the platform there,"’ said Marilyn. “I talked with him in the train coming out. Nice kid."* T glanced In the direction she indicated and shook my head incredulously. For marooned in the midat of « per- fect Aotilla of luggage stood a emall pale young man who looked as if he had aged suddenly at seventeen. THe had on an immense Panama hat and the tightest-waiated coat I have ever boheld. In fect, oll of bis clothes would have dong credit to 9 chorus man, from his Italian lacework brogues to the magnificent orange necktie which famed brazenly beneath his weak chin. All of a sudden | realized that it must Indeed be Little Arthur. It hod to be, No body elee could have needed his millions so badly. At once I dashed over and demanded the whole truth, and hia watery eyes werd ag grateful as a loet dog's for the reacue, “10h, how awi'ly good of you! he ssid, holding out a wilted hand. Around the wrist glinted something which I thought at firet was on identification tag. But it wasn't. Tt was a bracelet! “Nat, a bit good. Glad te do It," said I, lying cheer. fully, “Come along!" And then he followed me as ff I were Mary and he had been born a lamb. Well, dinner that night was a riot, Sylvia's crowd, te gether with my own, filled the house like a brimming cup, and mi hows party started of with all the restraint and said she. 7 peril qulet of a well-timed bomb explosion. “The dint feast, during which Marilyn broke the athens of ¢ Flas, Then we danesd until about three, when | just naturally disintegrated. But in spite of ite whacking success I was no To begin with, that dreadful Littl Arthur hari « me continually, and kept trying to get moe alone “T got something I want to say to you,”* he ; over and aver, Really, eventuaily, I had simply to walk oul creature. But not so Ted. Ican'teay that he overs me with attention. OF course I was reliewed, ber rile Ted bores me to death at dunces by hanging Aimply all the time, and I wes glad to have hiro for once. Still, I have never before seem him d much in any one evening. And curiously enough, argnilar ner, and danced mastly with Marilyn, wh otherwise have been hung up, for she didn’t kn erowd and was so much older, too, although she wx pretty good-looking ot nlght—if you corecl for he T had begun te go cold an it myself. When we went upstairs later she slipped be through my arm and drew me into her rear. willingly enough, because by now | was beginn realigg that she would bear watching, and T wo: know more ahogt her, A niece chaperom mage micethy provided me with, [ must say! Well, in pring Hi room a sleepy mald mouse | and helped Mere. M. out of her Glmy and brief black rc FOWL “Why do you wear black, Marilyn, dear?” J « "LT thought your husband had bem dead simply year yours.” “My wots, dear girl," said she, “are the only we af the penniless creature you see before you, Then etrtain something about weeds, you know. Men o it. My weeds are my only dowry—my, aa wou might analy inkeritance from poor dear George.” "But you look so young for your age, honey!" [ "T should think you would have married again!" “Bitty, Kitty?" said Marilyn, seating horself bei dresatng table simply laden with creams and bottle boxes and lotions. “Kitty, Kitty! Well, I"m not = foal as bo step being a perfectly good widow unles made well worth my while, And go far T haven't hi chance to meet anybody who looked good to me, As my continued youth, | work for it. You just watch, ki give a book [" Well, I did. And the things her maid did to Men wer atrial, I'll tell the world! When the job was fics the profesalonal widow. looked like something that | escape fron the accident ward. She had on a chin str a howe mid, eungeon's plaster at the comers of both & the lida of which were heayily greased, and acroz | forehead were other strips esive, "The maid had moved the two beguiling curisfram the nape of her oe taken what hair remained, wet it wlth same kind of te and twisted fb up in a funny Uitte spill on the top of | head, She was a sighe! “De you do all this every night?" I gasped, impress Marilyn nodded dumbly. “Madame cannot apeak when she is like dees!" t maid explained, “VA bot of trouble, non? But it ee grand suceess, n'est-ce pas, mademotiselle? And I bed te grant her a lot, Tt wos o miracle, teal what it was, for with this get-up on something indefinat stale out of Marilyn's face, through the plasters anda ahd showed her true age. She must have been forty! could have eworn to it! But all I did was throw spo hands and rush off to bed in hysterics. The old tet Going around fooling decent young men! Ugh! The next day things began te thicken, Ted, who to said be would be obliged to mun out te the form every dy did so, ond took Marilyn along with him. Both Splvass [ beard him promise ta send her in a bouquet of whatee she admired most out there as he helped ber into 0 fliveer. Silly asal I didn’t have any heart for tennia that morning, et: played doubles with Sylvia, Jed and Rotter, beraus tt aaft clam of a Litthe Arthar hed the nerve bo epeiog ul invitation to a solitude d deeruon me before lonch. “To soy, won't you, Pet?" he pleaded In his pp Volee. “There bb something I want to aay to you." “Not now. I've got to play tennia,"” | answered brit bly, and beat it for the club with the bunch, althoug! 4 nies eool drive into the country would have pleased & much better, even if if had beon taken fin a fiver, Tut worse was to come, At lunch Ted was polite. bet Marilyn was gushing to me, And any girl knows va! that means! = “Ob, you aught tosce the darling young beets hegrit- she sald with one eye on Ted to find out how tk getting across. “Simply milea and miles of thea” lowely! And he's auch a eweet host, He's bean sa ged & me, And he isa wonderful farmer lf" ag, he must be, dear,’ I answerod sweetly. “ ors are generally furnilinr with weeds, aren't yt (Continued on Page fa?!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ee ee A New and Finer Kind of Six-C'ylinder Performance Until you see the New Series Chalmers Six, you can have no real conception of the wonderful value it is. Until youdriveit, you cannot know the great new advance it represents in fine six-cylinder performance, All the splendid properties for which the six, as a type, is prized, are here developed to anearer point of perfection. The poy ow is even more smooth; the blending of cylinder impulses more complete; the ac- celeration more sointeds and the Hexibility is pure delight. Not only the famous Chalmers engine, but the entire car, has been the subject of a solid year of engi- neering scrutiny and refinement. This is, in our opinion, the finest- performin six we have ever built —a car of enticing comfort and surpassing beauty. Every mile you travel in it confirms again the remarkablevalue indicated by its size and appearance, and the details of its finish and equipment. AN Models Equipped with Dise Stee! Wheels ond Cord Tires Frtiv Possoger Towriag Cor, 87905, Seova Poureger Tourteg Car, Se, Raaulater, HFG; Coupe, BP; Sean $2205, These piers fo. & factory, Revenar how tebe adder Chalmers Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan Chalmers Motor Company of Canada, Limited, Windsor, Ontario CThe CHALMERS fo 28

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST aril 2: BUCKET SHOPS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM (Cettitued from Page 22) When they give you a bit of advice it ia with the homwest ek blll that it wil] hel FOU. bilan iby | ister order it is execu wl reported beck bo you at the eurliest poa- gible moment. This does not mean that every transaction will be reported within a few minutes, becausesome stocks have what is called ed low eatin. and to forse a pure chase or sale would be greath; to your dis- advantage, just aa it is in estate or any other eommoedity. Asa bucket shop is an ieetiiition Flan the public's money may epeaaitedd but from which the public has grent en culty in extracting it, ¢ resource of the bucketeer is spent toward retaining cash and securities intrusied to his tender care. Trainloads of literature, acres of poete stamps, telephene calle ‘that wou girdles the earth, and other means are used & the Leet ini inducing deposite of stock, bonds and That is Step No. 1. Stop No. 2 i jot, ma im bernie Lhe ‘bucket shop considers possession nine puss of the law, and the greater part of the money ia either withdrawn or secreted in private hank aecounts or safe-deposit boxes, or ia freely epent. Liquor seldom come quite eo high in this eauntry; women seldom have dressed more expensively; and the jazz music of the day is quite in tang with the character of the bucketeer—Lloose and reck- “Having intrusted your funds to someone whom vou know not bot believe in, and dveiring to withdrew a little out of the total, ou fine him ma e doesn® "i like bo see youl isle shes these zood oppor- tunities, or the steck you want to withdr ia being transferred and it will be slog: in a few days, or there is some litthe irregu= larity i in mde necount that necds etroighte n= ing aut, ar he hes a rush telephone m E for yoru whieh says “Get into this quickly." Please note one of the most distinguishing earmarks of the bucketeer—he will mot let you have your own money. You must pry it owt of him. In meet cose you have to go there, demand It, and threaten trou- ble before he will give up. Tf you write him a letter and say “Please transfer my necount” to this or that other broker, be will make sume kind of exces —more of ther. If all his Seni asked for their money he would close » because the memey bas cisappearesd, What was loft in recent failures was a mere patch on what they had before the deluge of withdrawal by thelr ellents. 4in Epldemie of Fallures Within the last few months many & who were dealing with bucket cho shops paki telegraphed of written to them tranafer my account to Blank & res = naming ounother howe. Such requests fled with a New York Steck Ex house vould have resulted in an immediate transfer, for to delay in such matters is to east reAection upon the credit af the house, In the cose of the bucket shepa, days, weeks amd months have passed without any result except a string of excuses designed to keep the eash and securities in the hanes of the buckeleer, Had these peo le taken the trouble te go to the malin office of the bucket shop and demand their property, their boas might have been avoided in many trae, "The Marte of failed bieket shoypet consist largely af amounts of money and securities due clienta who had demanded them but could not obtain them. The New York State law makes bucket- ing ad tracing against a customer a felony, But though the newspapers have been filled withebucket-shop (wilures and bucket-shop rrogkedness there hus not been any notice ible increase in the populathon of the Tomba Prison since the expoaures began, In the early part of last November things buchet-wise were sok eagle quiet alarig the Hislto, Under t sitlace the situa: tion hud been growing more unhealthy: the pirates were becoming bolder; but few guapected that the Street waa about to witness a series of oxplosions such as had never before been recorded. The publiention of arlicles showing in minube detail all the inner workings of the buckes shop wis the litte match that touched off the bonfire. The first evidence of this was the withdrawal of cash and securities from a number of bucket shopa by clients who had not realized the charneter of the howses with which they had leren dealing. Then they told their frienda how and why they withdrawn, as there ap more more evidence of hesitancy and appidition with which the bucket shopa met their increasing demands, the clamor became 50 as to awaken mumercis ing neighbors whet ssbtied their eyes elf own houses afire. Here and there bucket shops began to Tail, Others came a —tano or three, then mare—each day until along in late February and early ca loud reparta sould heard from all quarters of the Street and cml ls tame down with a crash. The New York district attorney found his mee transformed into a collection agency. he grand: ba jury f found many indictments Fut ni that a general exodus had taken place to Canada and ithe un- mae ae houge ake ies ‘i im “th t was then vi ublish the Principles on w ich te seemed that the fi tian of He broke husi- nesd should be based. It was my firm be- lief, based on many years’ obeervation of the situation, that the banking laws af New York State be wo ol as to bring ateck brokers under the supervision of the State Banking Department. There ap peared no reason why a broker, who acts ae a depositary and fidwetary, should be under ho Laer pe when banks, trust com-= anes, insurance companies, bullell onn associations, and so on, are all otticially regulated and supervised, Projected Legislation It seemed imperative that every Indi- vidual, firm or corporation acting as a broker ar dealing in or bende maney on aeeuritles within the state be licensed by the Btate Banking D tment, and that a staff of auditora with long Wall Street ex- peace te a bot appcinied to examine every books und affairs at fro- quent Eiteeane Mian nga along in February bore rain ton that the best element in Wal Street waa awake to the altuatlon, a Bere of the New York Stock Hx- Dabillty pet won the Raciunge by cho ¢ apron: ut Upon yy the Presence iy the million of new investors who had learned to buy securities during the Liberty Loan campaigna, and an- nounced that the time had come when the partnnee members must collectively assure veo ad te one another's affairs, as to the firma which were carrying atocks on margin for the public, the relation between their free capital | and their commitments, andgaoon. President Cromwell stated that he would “never be aatiafied until we have carried our effort for safety so far that insolvency by improper dealing shall never ocear among Stock Exchange firma; » « that the stocks bought for clients must be carried not on by peern- bers of the Stock Exchange but by all brokers who have the remotest connection therewith." Legislatore in Albany and Washington also became thoroughly aroused to the evil which had been exposed, and several con- stractive balla went presented, Some are meeting opposition, principally on account of the licenging feature. It is claiemed that the Martin Law of New York State, 1921, if properly enforced, would prove effective in star be aut the bucket shopa, but it lacked the little detail of funds with which its provisions might be enforced. A bit of legislation which at mid-March I the most promising and which nah ‘ht well hse tallied beth by other states ri fe the Federal Government, was em- in the Katlin Blue Sky Hill, which provided for licenses, which were to be ob- tained from the superintendent of banks; examination of books and oreounts of broker: revoking of licenses forauae: and other necessary features. This bill was favorably reported by the Senate Commit- hee OT ake ¢ at Albany, and the friends of n clean, eee district in New York City sincerely hope it will e a law. The consensus of opinion anieng leading Congressmen, shite senators sentatives with whom I have confi or coresponded is that tke but Foderal pamianien will prove effective in the lon This was Ulustrated in the District Caturatia. When the blucseky laws were passed in Maryland the Wallingforda all flocked into the capitnl; also b "f ™migrns tion fram New York City to New Jersey whee the leacal bucketeers began ta fear prosecution. The author of the Betta Bill, which was recently up for public hearing at the il writes: The reason | introduced the ta tl bal bernie T discovered thot the laws in the Western otaies had d driven a0 many of the crooks out af those states that they were all focking to Pati York, which was becoming their Klon- "What we need in New York State and every other state in the Union is a Federal law which will control the way in which all brokerage houses are opera It is shaurd to permit a lot of irresponsible people, whether they are crooked, ne or gim- ply willing to take a chance, to open broker- = jill houses and thereby become custodians the public's money as well as advisers as to how the public should Inte and invest in securities, Just i Imngioe what our banking situation would be if those whe are now operating bucket shopa should aban- don that pursuit, and—if the laws would permit—open bonks and in to take in and pay out, How long wou i be before the commercial and financial in this eountry would be on the rocket Tt is well for Wall Street and the whole eauntry that ie By Rew York Stock Ex- now bility ta the public and to aii tentnone interests af the American peaple; that it owes a duty to those aire al in its cane Tle eaperially to the anal apa le Admit- ting that it is: prt bo pra- vide facilities for | per ing ah selling pl and bonds, it has, chiefly by reason of re- cent discloaures, found itself in a position where it must, to the very Le it conétral the dealings in the stocks and bonds which it has listed, and eo extend ties crete that no one can employ ita facilities in any echeme for taking advantage of the public, 4 Great Opportuntiy The New York Stock Exchange now faces ue greatest Se al = career. any more Ing a and bends than ever pamk ane inire corporate securities are listed on tha Mew York Stock Exchange than at any Pry ‘OT oleum, mining, publie utility and other kinds af securities, Buyers and sellers from all over the world expres themselves in the prices which they bid ond ask for stocks ond bonds on the big flaor, Banks everywhere value listed ateral by the prives there quoted. The Exchange should now take which will place if in such an unas- sailable position that when this is done ond fully realized by the public there will re main littl: or no basis for the organization or operation of hougea which arg rel may attempt to deal in Now York Sto Bachange securities. Though the Stock Exchange can provide the necweaary facilities, there if one thing that the public must do for itself, and that is aequire @ certain amount of trading wnd investment intelligence, for Tt mou = i ba if iad ar eae me shops knew what they were abo would pad to bein such blind bg and investing in Securit i te line of rere Ho in this hae it cannot be succeiafulla folle ia not thoroughly underst Fie te tala Eo setting up as doc ness or profession, : particularly for the reason named, { comparatively few who make gre cemed and tip te buy something, and aa a not only refuse to expend their offp learning how but they will not spen lative instincts of the American publi cause these tendenches are already potent in the minds of our people, x whom prefer to gamble than to sper in hensaentl oFtoinvest at all. Henry sald: “T hold that a man rence mey who foresees and judge curately, hag an advantage over hia p bor, and it is net secounted imma him to ust that advantage, becaus individually better fitted for the bo and Gt ineres in him by a law of Mi that he has a right to the whole of hin legitimately applied. If ove man or men, looking at the state of the nation} ak the crops, at the posable eortin and risks of climate, at the condite Europe: in other words, taking all ee that belong ta the =e into | a ion, O90 sagLrigus enough to pm cay the best course of action, I el Vit bs not legitimate.” Nevertheless, best interests of the public lie on the inv ment side of Wall t, and by “inv ment” | mean the placing of money income and possible increase in wale of | securities thawed, Time fo Clean Howse The wide diversity and character of dustries now listed and bvetng listed ont Steck Exchange show an increasing ter ency of important corporations to cstabe ae for their sige ra top Teil people cin up their TEWEpGy in thet part of the country is worth; and with the ad rel vantage that any storckbeldi large or small, can take any stich listed t curities bo his bank, in ay part of tl country, and borrow money on them current rates of intereat—a faet which di tinguishes New York Steck Exchange a i ary from all others, have the railroad, public el ity, shh ade ccasnintelel wail baal - rations established plants a properties in every state in the [nios. be their stockholders ore also scattered throcg the length and breadth of this Jand and! every country on earth, so that these vai pope are neither located nor awned i Wall erase being the heart of all he activitles, it ia more than esmential that t financial district become the source oth education of American investors if it i po sible to open their eyes to the necessity un the advantuges thereol. The literatures advertiging of many investrent howe 2 becoming more strongly flavored with & ceetrability af Grif, te veetibent knowere intelligent investing; and this ia well. ba cause statins. prove that, only a -_ percentage of Americans of either = their Later are financially indepett ent—something like four out. af one bor dred—and at the of sixty-five, afl o many com long belore that time, the jority are dependent upon charity ot the relatives for support. As I soo it, therefore, the problema Re Street ix to clean house, keep if deat, prove is facilities, give service, guard and o ublic, ence individua’ ee & emselvea in the teehmir a! te security erat Hf all this be done westal be well on our way to the goal—a satiet intelligent investors,

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“s THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Plant Problems involvin elting, Hose, Packing| [Belting Hose a | |p Knowles e of Knowled e of Properties f; pplication mech? ubber Goods Mech Rubber Goods | | Saya | eae. Maximum Efficiency Economy in the use of Belting, Hose, Packing, Etc. Look at this chart, It pictures, in the language of the plant superintendent and the industrial engineer, the place occu- pied by the G.T, M.—Goodyear Technical Man—with relation to your belting, hose and packing problema. ft identifies the G. T. M. for what he is, the tested link in the chain of service connecting your need for efficient plant operation. and your knowledge of the special working con- ditions of your plant, with the Goodyear Plan of Plant Analy- sis and the products Goodyear makes for industrial use. You Aave seen on these pages example after example of the efficient and economical performance of Goodyear mechan- ical goods that were specihed to their work by the G. T. M. These reports rr kee Up # beely ad convincing evidence, we think, as to the honest effort made by Goodyear to build the best possible product for certain operating conditions. The part the G. T. M. has played in each of these instances has been one of responsibility, seeing that the user gets out of the product in useful work all the volue of the materials and workmanship put inte it. The G. T. M. is an expert in his line. He knows the proper- ties of good mechanical goods. He is trained in the science of their specification and application. His work takes him into many plants, in many industries, so that he is familiar with most transmission and conveying problems, and is a practical authority on many of them, IIH | lant Operator | Knowledge of General Problems of the “ieee Knowledge of Particular Problems of the Plant CHART SHOWING FUNCTIONS AND FACTORS OF ‘Me GOODYEAR PLAN OF PLANT ANALYSIS epprighkt (F202, bp Tre Geedgew Tie & Reber fe, liv Plant Analysis Service —and the G. T. M. When he comes to your plant, he comes asa friendly analyst of your operating problems, your troubles, maybe. He doesn't pretend to know it all. He takes the advice of your super- intendent and engineer. He gives close attention to their experienced knowledge of your particular working conditions, His sole object is to fit what he knows about belting, hose or packing to the demonstrated conditions of service in your plant. If he can find out what you need, and Goodyear can furnish it, he will recommend it te you, and after its installa- tion he will follow it up with a sincere service. fen"t tt logical that a belt, or other equipment, that is con- structed might in the first place, and then is specihed intelli- gently to the work it ia ta do, is much more likely than any other product is to serve you longer and better, with freedom from trouble, and return te you the full value of its utmost eficiency and economy? The Goodyear Analysis Plan is based on that reasoning, and the G. T. M.'s work is to insure that you get the equipment that will serve you longest and best. There is a G. T. M. in your neighborhood. Call on him for an analysis of your mechanical goods problem, whether itinvolves a single unit or an entire plant, a conveyor or a transmission, a hose or a packing equipment. For further information about the G. T. M., and his work, or the kind of service Goodyear products give in your particular industry, write to Goodyear, Akron, Ohio, or Los Angeles, California. al

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if ye f Game Laing a = he oo geneblirag the former “— anc fed Meet local me Commision of that state i the last ten yeara Mary- : local legislation in ot & laws, and that the fan been pretty much wiped “ ‘disinterested sportamen have band faithfully to bring game ale. to this better status. fl i: astatewide hunting license, i! tlawe: for the president and ten cents, the nonresident rs and twenty-five cents. The Veounty Gcense is one dollar and © All hunters while bunting must be left arm a sleeve bane with ol i mee e open BRACE. ati imita a to be logical a os | f open fpemsons, it chances: tha fin eked for mu tions: aa and shooting seasons. Poee Any One man ia wise enough ‘te increase the fish and game of = merely setting dates, and, of Ponly way we really can increase fd game is to stop killing; but ae are worse than others, and oon- arc ; For instance, or gorse other atate ao month before it result is that many ly anyhow, We used and in other states a dave c iceain Auust, and achicken ich in September, The that | chickens. september first there @oncurrent dates for all ‘fish found in one water, all species Pond in one habitat, giving a little ap |i little, will in the end usually or than a fumber of dates | ‘anit the habits of the diferent } or to suit the wishes of avid sporte- . Tt eeeme to me we shall hove to come " sh or two months’ shooting in the Of any or all kinds of game bel ane we : fo the actual saving of our upland | other 4. There ia no royn) it—we shall have to i pion het Shorter seasons and smaller Micaaetnn is not the same country it even twenty vearaago. Indeed, a aes bat that Doctor Hornaday's open and closed years on Hae wil before long seem much more than it does to-day, The prnan ‘len eanmet ron on much further, Special Spectacles KA RECENT periodical I saw rast ma eran veryon wh pr ht bs fw en for that the open sightaw a hteeventy oreighty years ald, Thin student ted 2 peep sight which stands very tet to the eye, with a small apertura ich seema to sharpen the vision, 60 that the sights are seen as clearly as ever, But that could he do with his revalver, held at rey length, away out yonder from the "Wie could not find the aperture if he ned. Bo be sat down and took an old pair if ape , and for the right eye fitted in i piece of black tin with a amall hole drilled zit opposite the ny potep icles The bole Fas Panched wit darning needbe. The lventor eta ow the sighta of the perciver are both seen very sharp and cane, a well as the target.” He says it a The heman eye is a corlow thing, nat miderstoosd by many shovters, Indeed, the whole principle of wing shooting is odentox very littl by sag mvt shooter, mo mater how expert. heoretl- eally the right eye linea up the hand and. THE SATURDAY the left. eye covers ha: field and the object to be etruck. In practice, however, & man may establish aome sort of accommodation between a left eye which still sees fairly well and aright eye which doesnot. He has gore kind of least common denominator in his eyes or in bis mind somewhere, He ules up his shotgun, linea up on hia flying ird and kills it, though he not know just how, Of course, when it comes to shooting a rifle, the shooting eye hes got to be doctored if it does mot gee the rear ond front Ls ap clearly and the object of alm The op “ington 80 long a8 We can use it, the aperture night useful when The three ob} are not all clearin line. You can ma spectacle or a tone by Pehink a little hols in a plece af paper, ot ahd that = great me rire hoot # rifle on running game de a ahotgun—by pointing with the stack and barrel at that mentally med spot which Serentate the accom modation of the tao . Tt sounds difti- cult, but any Hileman knows he can shoot with 1 eyes open and kill deer, The Great Explorers Nic long ago there was erected at Charlotterville, Virginia, a monument, the two greatest of our Amorican ex- tome Meriwether Lewis and William Clark—the only monument, it ia believed, which these two splendid young Americans ever sonpiae we pootived, at least ao far as falls within my personal knowledge. The monument ia a gilt of Mr. Melntire, of Chariottenrilis, and Charles Keck waa the culptor, The height of the pedestal is innrtnens feet, the height of the tories figurea eight feet four inches. The ehief inseription reads: Bop AnD FARSEEING PATHFINDERS Wo CARRIED THE FLAG OF THE Youd REPUBLIC To THE WESTERN CCBAN AND REVEALED AN UNKNOWN EMPIRE TO THE Use oF MANKIND Below the inscription are the thirteen stars of the thirteen original etabes, and beneath them the statement: A TERRITORY oF 985,000 Square Miura Was Apben to THE CouMTEY BY THE EFFORTS OF THESE Men—an AREA LARGER THAN THE THEN Exrsting Size OF THE UsITED STATES Around the base of the bronze figures ore bas-reliefa of Lewis and Clark ente council of Indians; the Indian guide, Sacajawea, returning to her tribe; Indians hg the huge of the party; an Indian sea a butfalo hunt in which a eth ant Clark joined. rally ey much interested in this RS aie: ¥opeason of my oem personal interest in early Western exploration, I have examined it with considerable exact- ness. Tt shows Lewis carrying what might very well be a Harper's musket, ranired and all, which does nat in the least resemble the frontier rifle of a hundred yearsapo, Regarding this detail I wrote to a gentleman in Charlottesville, who soys that the sculptor waa af the helief that Lewis and Clark should not be shown aa hunters, and for this reason he hes Lewia curing i musket. This, alth h both figures are in fel buwekskin not in army uniform. ia gentleman aleo saya ‘that he has seen a bicture of Lewis in Indian dire, nied by St. Memin, and showing him th 3 a Kentucky rifle about as tall a he waa. He adda, however: “The arm Tausket in bait re that time was ca an avery powerful weapon—better, | phould think, for buffalo and grizzly than the amall bore. It is told that om several OOCASION, irl rsued by grizzlica, the hunter Jone is rifle while running, which would ie a pretty difteals operation with the amaller gun with ita lang barrel, EVENING POST UT-OF-DOORS tight bullet, slender ramrad, patehes, and that they yet hege nt one would ies ised the rife in general use the pioneers, but Tam inclined to aeute it. They were United States acldiem. There must be some record of the Expedition's equipment, but I have had no time to look it It is sure that Capt. Zebulon Pike, Weatern explorer of about the same date, used the small-bore rifle, for in his narrative pe fata cd a mention of ita lack ock-down quality on large peor. Tt is stated that mone lwrether wis’ descendants now living around Bat thine know anything about his rifle, although they have other relies, in- eluding his glass. I think it may be stated as safe that all members of the Lewis and Clark E ition carried the frontier rifle of thelr day, na doubt in thel caliber which antedated the later equi rifle in that form of firearms in America, At the time of Lewis’ melancholy death at the Grinder cabin, in what bs now Lewis County, Tennessee, his body Pernia, disappeared with his rifle and his wateh. This man was later found in New Orleans in possesion of beth these articles by a relative of Meriwether Lewis, to whom he surrendered both without any protest, Of the history of the rifle from that time on [know ibe Lam of the bellef that the OU such a piece would have Loerie ier in a ee intended te be deseriptive of the heroes of America’s greatest expedition of discovery, The Coming of the Hora | Rare THE American Indion Magazine Mr, Clark Wissler gives some very interest- ing facts about the firet appearance of the horse in Western America, Of course that animal came over with the ‘Spaniards. Mr. Wiealer states that many of Coronado's horaea cacaped around 1540 while he waa making his t exped oa in alao that De Soto's followers aband oned their horses wher Senna ascended Mleadesi ppl Riven t in 1f41. Cortez brought horses to Mexico twenty years before any Sieh ati what is now the United States. French horst came over in 1647, the en En = gs horses reached New Eng- land in 1629. In Virginia wild horses were rather a nuisance in 1669. When La Salle went down tha Mississippi in 1481 he met Indians riding homes w SE, waa goin te be, Hy that time, the author , all the tribes auth of the lower Missouri River had become horse Indians. The Hudson! Hay Company, in 1754, around what la now Edmonten, Alberta, maet Blackfeet who were well “ala We with horses. Tt is difficult to think of a Wostern Tndian otherwise than as a mounted man. OLD-TIMER up in Aloska, pros. MM“, ing, dleo makes me happy ones in a while with some first-hand natural his- tory. He saya: deo have seen an article about me oe nid i reason me, for De Aaimals Reason? hat is nothing mew to bears, having | nf had plenty of time to etudy | . , and if they can't reason they ought | : killed, for th are roc ieee I have eoniad edge dogs, ha f, and it is wonder- ful what they ota ue have seen leader locate a trail with Bix feet of anow drifted over it, and do many other things that would make an ordinary man gues. havé traveled twenty-elght Iunedred Tolles over my trap lines in the paat winter, and have never seen them pass a trap or a anare yet. ey always know where the next fh ha if alt fe woulel be loat. if t would goa few feet farther down the trail, Aa to they will find the peaking cat in the cache quicker than B man woul the easiest they o fin place to break in, I find it alee very inter- esting to wateh my foxes." aa of Your tired, irritated skin needs invigorating — toning up—to offset the ill effects of the wind and grime to which it has been subjected. Give it a refreshing treatment with Warm water and Resinal Soap. This relieves the pores of their accumulated dust and oil,—per- mitting them to function properly. It generally re- movesexcessoiland reduces the sightliness of facial blemishes. Now watch the tired lines dis- appear and the gray pallor give place to a healthy glow. Once more you are ready for the evening with acomplexion that is radiant and charming. n= You make no mistake when you select Resinol Soap for daily use. It is— Ideal for the beac Uneweeciled for the bath Inenmparahie for the hirery Ai off drug ond fonlet goods counters, Send for free tris! see cole, ep, iH, Beeinol, Baltimore, hid P Sitar a& day | rk or Flay

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | TROUPIN’ WITH THE TENTS weather comes along and on the week you | will rum perhape two or three thousand | dollars behind, and when the season closes “dike as not the owner finds himself facin a deficit instead of a profit. Really showmanship consists of hooking up your show ao that the intake will consistently olfaet the expense. Of course this does not take inte con- sideration a fire or a ‘wreck ora blow-down, A blow mean mew canvas, which taken all arownd will cost a show of this kind $5500 of more. It is not infrequent that a ~— rf may get on fire and burn up, the of whieh provided the running ts gh ia felt | shape, will cost ony- where from to #4000; of there may be a wreck on the road, when perhaps three or four ears, or for thut matter nearly the whole show train, may have to be rehabili- tated The expense of this falls almost invari- ably upon the pocketbook of the showman, because Tai ain their eontracts very explicithy covenant that they will not be responsible for any mishap to the train from any cause while it isan the raile of their division. A Menagerie at Large In the years gone by, of course, circus awnera have brought suits against the roms for various torte and breaches of con- tract, Very few were successful in holding a verdict in basi eet after ie tas been passed upon igher cou “T'm lookin’ for a big day's business to- morra,”" inter. ted the tickettaker. “You can't tell nothin’ about a tank like this un less that you ara bound to be sur elther one way or the other. Of course I rather we was playin’ closer to Broadway, becnuse hikin' over these hills sure does put the wagons ae the toboggan.’ “One time,” reminisced Sleepy Stevens "T joined at with a show in the fall of the nnd as it was golo’ to winter in Cali- loraia I stuck along after closin" day be- whith would be ow train when we cause they wanted a handy junin® up the « WHE layin" " A Loong about the end of this Beason the equipment was pretty weil shot to and [ save to the boss that he hod lay off io tow day and let me look over the ae,’ pez I, “some of it was put sachet oh with carpet tacks, and,’ sez I, “if sores throws a kiss at it ith melt away like a snowball in July,’ sez I “" That'll be all right, Sleepy," sex he. "Don't worry none. Yous ain't one of them calamity hombres is you? " SeE ‘he. “" Not exactly,” sez 2 fb bat —— 4? But nothin’, breake in the boas, *Lemme tell you somethin’, Sleepy: we have had pessimists an’ hard-luck-story tellers an" sob artiste ond distributors of | the old doleful dope alnece time began, but there was only one af “em ever got his moniker on the roster a, the big engue. | His name was Jeremiah,’ sex he, ‘an’ I eas they fi one ST hie as enor: unt in all that time from Demoathenes to Jack Dempsey he has held the undis- puted championship for gloom, and his record for the colamity stakes over a cis- basics of Eriund baa never been approached, much beaten “Well, it's up “to you,’ soz T, "[t's your show an" it. won't worry me if you has to pass a dividend," sez I | “Act that, [ bet you landed in winter quarters all right,” interjected the acrobat. “T mind the time I was with the Kassack aatit. You d have tock your oath we couldn't get te the ment town, because we didn't have a car that wasn't aa down in the middle, aed no salf Beha rp junk dealer would have made a for the | runnin” pear. But we went through the sen- son wt a bobble, an” when the band Played Home, Sweet Home the old man sold the whole blame truin to a movin'=picture nubfit which wanted to stage a bonest-to- goodness realistic railroad wreck." "Ther staged it all right, I betcha," val- unteered Sleepy, “That's what they did," confirmed the acrobat. ““T slipped down to see that event myself, [was always anxious te know what would have happened if another train was te hit-us when we were on the road,”" “Well, you found aust" “And then some," sald the serobat. "This eri were staged In Arizona. It f€entinued fram Page 21) was fixed go aa two trains would meet head an. Half of our cors was hooked on to one engine and half tothe other, Th ve ‘em a tart of about half a mile and then the engineers jumped off. Some of the folka thought they would be safe if they stood off a couple of hundred yards from the scene af the collision, but old phere knowed better, I took ‘ee ition fully a mile away as the crow files, but even then an old mattress out of the sleepers hit ma in the solar plexis an’ [ took the count, The reat af ‘er had a considerable baptiam of old junk. The he-doll which waa the hero of this movie outfit aint never been the same since, They picked up Pacts of that show rele as iar west na 5 eB ure 6 i "How did you gat th your train, Sleepy?" fatsereaies the hose canyvas- man. “Oh, we run all right till we got goin’ through the tunnela in the Cascades," re open Mr. Stevens, “then we telescoped the back end of a freight train which was rales. dt were just as [ said it would be." nr eate: the fate with the cages on "eTE doubled up like a jackknife, an’ while you could clap our hands the mountains wos full of nothin’ but strange beasts of jungle ae Plain. Tigers, leopard, lrg ean mori d everything on the show got loose ex cept oo - + Baby ay Hip, No railroad wreck jar that bird. int inte si on enough, nobody back in the sleepers got mus = we all got tryin’ to Foun ip she ie, If it wasn't that we had a caWhny outtt with usa, which was headin’ for California for the Big Radeo day at Los Angeles, we would be lookin" for’ ‘eaiyet. Be But ; hay aot busy wat their ropes and secured the big cats, which wasn't such a hard job aa you may think, because the snow waa three or four feist deep and most of "em anchored their own selves, Finally they was oll rounded th but when we counted hoses we found at Grover Cleveland, the awellest Bengal r which was ever in captivity, wae still 5 bot And the old man sent us all bark to rout “him out af the brash, I didn’t hun- Tfor a job of this kind, but I went along, knowed from experience that when it comes to big cate you don't want to mon- key with no tigers. If I had of met up with that bird I was a-goin’ to sidestep him an’ politely wish him well, aa when I got aut of sight of the cars [ just picked mea nice spot an" lag down in the snow. I T would let the others do the sloppy sleddin’,” fearing Off a Tiger "Well, Sleepy, you was playin" aafe any way—lI will give sos you credit for that," T just. thought T was," responded crs Steven, “but [ was only kiddin’ myself, I was like a that would start for the North Pole with a straw hat an’ a Palm Beach SuefiE, T was layin! listenin’ to ‘em rowgh riders hollerin' and yellin', when T beara a low growl a few yards te ane alde of me in the brush. “een T. "Tm cast for ““ Holy Saint Db the sean i) pert ta bani in the Den of Liana, always knowed the reporter which sail out on that varn got so be- fore he zor the scene of rations, "You beat tk, [ Buppane * ughed the acrobat, “Ill + FOU Was & Trace track full of s apeed. rr "T couldnt have run if I wanted te," Fr confessed Mr. Stevens. "As it waa, I was. cold enough outside layin’ in that enow, but I am a liar if [ n't freeze inside too, I went out of the hero Lyspsoyct b there, Every time them wan't could PB ‘ald Grover would growl an' I could tell by the sound that be wos comin’ cloeer and closer tome, 1 was like a ostrich, 1 buried my head in the snow an’ waited, IT lived a thow- Sand: an'thensonve. Finally leouldn't stand it no longer, so 1 poked my bead up. You would never guess, neither, what I did see, iecause that thper was about two feet away from me lookin” me right in the oye, There was a woman oncet out Chicago way which won a prize at the butchers” picnic for bein” able to shout louder than any akirt on the apoio don"t want to boast, but I made ber sound like a uncertaker ar= ie, the pallbearers at a swell funeral, let a yelp out of me which all the bays Slaimed afterwards could hey been heard by the President in the White House; an’, April 22, say, do you know, Lam the only man went up agin a man-eatin’ tiger other weapon but his volee, and he down that bill through the deep an as if I been armed with machi aed with barbed wire an" peevin" Yes, air-ree, they cain talk albout con big cata with human eye, but em i Ase any married man if re This here talk about Willard " another chance at Dem Dempsey para tae,"@ in the clown, who waa ed in big faced type as the Boy Jester from ( homa—t tuciest fellow nlive! Ha regarded in the dressing tent as a p authority on aperta and times. “FE They don't never come "Oh, See ie I've fea jem do a re engagement,” vauc the boss car man quietly, “There ain't nothin" ne rule except what vou ae on the blackh in. hy cainenes red schoolhouse."" that pop, I never seen you yet that didn't eet on the yon tid of m argu protested Oklahoma. “Yow think th fae eh? Well, now, for instance, whe did ever see come back? And. I gamble: know all the riders an’ kinkers of ¢ time, Just gimme one specific case and throw my hand inte the discard.” "T seen somethin’ which you ard other Joey will ever Bee," returned the cient one solemnly. “I was on the lot | might that Jimmy Vokes come bark,” me oe ae was he? | nr “No rittiorel the old man; “TT exp you didn't, There gin't ower half a des men in the business today which nm heard of Jimray Vokes, bwt just the =n he did what you call a comeback, and tl y was to live a thousand years you'd ne nee one like it in no man's country.” 4 Real Trouper ieaaid bey Bred rose hice well T guess I'l | on over and hit th eh “Aw, don't go yet, eal" choruse! ¢] erowd. “Tell us about this here Jime Vokes. Don't pay any attention to Ok a. ““What'll be the uel" quavened the a elent one. “None of youse knowed he I don't suppose any of youse wae Sor when Jimmy was the star equestrign of th Jobson Show,” “Old Guv'nor Jobaon that just dial? “Naw—it were his father, the origm William Jobson. I joined out with him’ This latter statement was made with o ape pre ell, well. But go on, Rep, spin th ¥HTHL. What's the use of bein" & proach? The oracle resumed his seat in the litth circle and lit his pipe, puffing thoughtli) for a few momenta hefare taking up hi parable. He was evidently rebearaing in si mind what he was going to aay. "T don't want to eriticize anyone,” bi lhagan slowly, * "but sahtae fae Some to tl about ridera, J kes sharted when they all left of. Day ie day out, he cot autride anyone I ever seen. He had ery fing, rg tert might rede and what's mare three somersaults tn the leaps.” besos ain't nobody done the leaps ‘= twenty years," interrupted the star of th Shortall Troupe. "That's what they ain't,” returned ih ald man, “but you can leet that on th old Jobson show everybody was billed { the big act. Clowns, acrobata and ous triane—it didn't make no difference, Th oss used to say that be didn't cory enarlate. which perhapa be the remaon thit we don't have ‘em nowadays. ora the most popular act the circus “They're ton blamed dangerous,” brat in the clown, who in his pr essical caps ity impersonated a rulbe policeman. “Wh wanta to get his leg or his back brobe ic to show t at he kin turn & twister ot four elephants an’ half a dozen bapgett horacs? ere gin" nothin am oe “Blo, that's what they all the canvasmap. “That's Er ‘the sul- ter with every business nowadays: they allspecialists. A show has to carry so Tite prooge cn it's ae cab i few: of then da* eat a hale man's hank rol. Be Jimmy Vokes waan't one of that bind; # were a Teal trouper." (Cottinaed on Page 36)

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Olur sales policy protects you. Write. Luaa-Sttk Poteh Mig. Co., Hamilton, Ohio Eye Tie Complete omttits, Si) cent oma S1 AN) stsey THE SATURDAY rT (Continued O eclineed inte on he old man aguin re nto silence, The crowd seemed to sense that it would not do to question him further. They would give him bis own time and the story would come of ttself, “Ag T said, Vokes was a real rider," he resumed after a lengthy pause. “But he had one failin’—that waa licker. Jimmy drank like he did mverything , faust as hard os he could; sometioves he would lay aff of it a month or eo, but then he would break out again. The remarkable thing about it waa, it didn't appear to hurt his ridin’ none. | have seen him fill an ordinary glass with whisky and drink tt off like you would water; then he'd get wp and ride just as good aa ever. « "Sometimes he would go on a prolonged bat and wander off somewhores, but the folks around the show didn't —t knowed he'd blow back at the nest stand. But one time Jimmy went and he didn’t come back, After a few days the guv"nor got real worried and be sent one of the twenty-faur-hour men to try to dig him up, but he had disappeared as if the earth had ewallowed him." Jimmy Vebes Comes Back “Weeks and months went by, and still no word of Jimmy Yokes. We had made up oar minds we would never see him Lyin, anid was just about ta close the season in Texas when one night at the evenin' per- formance and just 25 the principal wet had finished, the worst-lookin' tramp you ever seen in your life came through the entrance, made a bolt for the center ring and did a flyin’ leap on to gray Jenny's back, which ria — mare Jimmy shrays ued for his inish, “Moat of the shaw folles thought it Was ml new acl the old man had signed up, because in those days there waen't many ribe riders an’ whenever anything now come out you emiuld bet ald moan Jobean wes among the first to grab it, Well, this tramp started to doa hurricane ride, Ihave scen ‘em all, but this feller did forwards an’ backs an” rede a horse every way a human bein’ could ride him, from his head to his toi], The crowd went wild: they had never seen anything like that before; but while they waa ap- Plaudin" an' yellin' their heads off the tramp rider disappeared, You might of thought we would have knowed him first of, but we didn't becawe he had two weeks" growth of beard on his face, "As Lsay, he went out through the back door, ond fram that day to this we have Tver Bestm ahr heard al him, We knowed it wos Jimmy, though, because someone pleked up a battered old black hat beside the ring, and his name wis punches im tha Jenther sweatband,” The old canvasman finished and for o moment or twa the little gathering was Lost in thought. Could it be that they were fol- lowing along a montal back trai] and jour- neying with the prodigal? In more sophisticated circles it might have been called a silent tribute, but the people of the circus have no particular name foran expressian of prafiound sim- pathy, [tis posible to have a himan heart EVENING POST even if one lacks the attribubes of 2 conven tional aol; the circus always understands, and they interpreted the story of Jimmy Vokes. y as Plaxis’ Texas was no joke those times, eh, pop! ht e old man nodded, “We used to call itaforeign country,” heexelaimed. “When we over the border an" wanted to write we used to date our letters ‘United States of America" Everybody tobed a fun, an" shootin’ scrapes were a8 commot a Tvin'-pichure theaters nowadays. DT can remember cur ticket wagon was loaded with firearms and boxes of ammunition, All the protection we got was what we could give ourselves. I won't aay aa we was hilsr ite, either, because we carried an autft of gamblers with the show, The: authorities knew that, Nine out of every ten of "em was pald for protection. Seanve- times they gave it to us, sometimes they didn't, but all held wa up. “T mind one time some towner went up against the shells in the connection and beet a couple of hundred dollars while you are hattin’ an eve. I was behind him when he reached for his gun, an” I grabbed him mrad both arms oo as he couldn't tee it, Then the tawn marshal come along and took him away to the calaboose. DT needn't tell you we had paid that marshal for pro- tection, “Well, we thought there was nothin’ more to it, but Later in the evenin® it ape pears they turned this towner loces on’ he went and pot his gang. After fillin® them with red licker they started back for the lot, In them days, Comust tell yr, when a resident of Texas went after you with a gun he didn't waste 10 time argulyin’. The first thing we knowerd, this homire an" bis pals opened fre on the menagerie, just the simé aa if they Was regular Loops Slip preaain' a riot. "The old man wae in the menagerie when the shootin’ started, “ret the guns! Hustle to the wagon an’ get the guna!" he shouted, An‘ believe me, they aid. I wae one of the canvas crew then, When the fight got fairly started he hollered ab me ta start tewrin® dawn.” Pulling Out Under Fire “We strick that canvas, big top, menag- erie, horse and cook tent, an’ all while the battle was goin’ on, Hulletes was flyin’ tn all directions, but the old man never stopped a minute. T gues no circus before or since was loaded on the cars qoicker than ours, Then the high sign was given the boys an’ we elimbel aboanl, The engineer pulled out, hell bent lor election. He didn't stop neither until we got over the line at Texar- kann, Lf you think it wasn't a real battle Tl tell you for your information that we was nine men short when we called the roll, an’ T heard on pool authority afterwards that seventeen Toxans had croaked with their boots on. “We never weet back te Texas while the old man waa alive, althouch noe charge woes ever brought against him, becomes evory- hody knew that the Texans started tt, and so firms We wus concerned we was onlis ap fondin’ muirselves. Yep, that's thirty-nine April = yeors ago, an’ Texas don’t Took or the same place as whem I was a boy “What waa the funniest thing y seem on a ehow, Oklahoma?" ingui lonas of the side show, "Oh, [ dunno,” rebarned the clon have seen a0 ¥ fanny stunts t! hard to give one of "em a name, bur one time I waa with a wagon show the hick towns of York State. A felk along one day an' wanted te jo: elawn: if you listened to him he ce everything, from singin" to it the boss signed him up—four dollar and cakes, Figurin’, of course, tha eouldn"t clown he could drive stake "This feller was a sure An's him his first tryout in the concert. | a song be wrote himself and he w j is be wes, blue overalls ond ‘wet hat. All the prope he hed wisp ol hay which he held tucked um arm. Hesang somethin" that ran lik “Toaeent lo foun tie olker doy To eel some bobs aed fe, For ded ond momimyp think f a The Aneel af (hedr berye “AE the end of every taro limes tee) doa breakdown, Everybody on the come in to ae him perform, and iy handed thems laugh. Billy Crossway us then ond it was teo Pood an opport for him to lose. “He stale up behind the rube wh was right in the middle of this song a the bunch of hay on fire. Woll, you! the reat, Talk about tytn’ a can toms tail! This guy lit out of the tent @ had been shot out of a gun, and thi the last we saw of him.”" Sieepy Goes Afi Way Away up the railroad track a ff traln whistled. It was one of thos low hoots that echo and rerverbersine the lithe valley, Sleepy Stevens ros siiaak himself. "Thar she comes, an’ she’s headin a he ejaculated. “TL gucss I'l] be on ope Tolks™ = Why, ant thought A geLl ‘want pals start ll to-morrow, Sleepy,” voir sideshow bogs. “Wall,” returned Air. Stevens, “[ aim to nde the cushions, but consis the weather IT calculate I'd be moma fortable in a furniture Pullman wif side doora open, Guess I'll pall ost long, folks, Gaoad-by." He turned ta go, pushing bis barter! down over hia okt LB ““Cood-by, Sleepy, old boy, Good baa echoed the crowd as the slim figee da peared in the ciusk, Later we note the same form sieoel against the sky away up on the mage which the railrood ran. A long em heavenward. in parting salute, amd oo law yoiee came down bo og: “onl wveryboly! Gootl luck!" And then a6 the care rattled pas wre a lithe figure burch townrd them and appear, “hd Sleenay made her an the run,” a mented the clown. “Goad old Sleepy!” ell

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The girl, Pat, Lit lietart ah yy nea this time practical fly nothing in bis lite. 1 Wee Tre habit that made him lie a that night, remembering how her eyes used ta crinkle with comradely laughter, pursu- ing the fragrance of jasmine where no jns- THING WES, Whaen he climbed into the saddle he waa thinking “Oh, what's the wel" and the weariness of weeks was on him: but he rose to Camp Four. me told Lon Dickey te tilt the croas h : ih gor" demanded Dickey, | ng plain PT Sema test Frederic. “Yeh?” anid Dickey, king yet more lainly. “Since when T take orders fr Form you?" It was too much trouble to explain, “TE oe feel like Lice anactrey the question," sad ¢ fixing Mr. Di with a felipe a gett eye, yo eon Fight now. You heard what I id? Dickey glared. But he did not find the glaring Pleasant; ilatane this fellow Gray was in no reasonable frame of mind, Dickey muttered =) hear you,” which waa net much to aden “All right," said Chestes Frederic, “I'll be back before it's ready to shoot. I want to aee it.” Ast That, of course, was where his brief dn lwsion af authority begun. camp fore men did not, to be eure, bring on the summer rains, but they indulged every other perversity they could think of, The telo= hone line wos down, ond Charles Frederic Saeun to feel like a eat climbing a alate roof. He came to Eleven and found that a slide had carried three stations of side-hill cut-and-All and five mule carts inte the Ria Verde; saw the awollen green flood gnaw- Ling merrily at the remnants of the fill, while no man toiled, "Get ro men ovt there ond eove the reat of that A!" he raged at Oseer, “Are ‘| you crazy?" z Qsear was not crazy; be was merely FLIL “Faln, "he explained. "Tak" a trink, oe Sn aoe, and mebbe you feel No, it was Charles Frederic who was He took the bottle from Oscar's ing through the door into the river. an while Oscar stuttered reproachfully he SegBE Up E TOE a Fope from the floor and based Oscar and bound him to his bunk and Mena ea tonite men to guard him. That was on Soturda ay Through the night, with torches that Over o aank holes in a ledge af ie high above the s-cfuabling de, On they shot the holes rolled the n and blovked the anawing af gang of drillers w seu the river. On Monday he released Oscar. Oscar, rasning, Sromved faithfully to slay eric, as soon as he, Cacar, felt better; but Charles Frederic paid little attention, He could not remember a time when everybody had not hated him. He would go ond see if Lon Dickey had prop- erly tilted that croas hewling, and then he would sleep. The six-foot burrow of the tucmel waa driven deep under the point of an over- panging the chambers of the erops img forming aT. From afar he anw men Le doo trotting up the hill, bearin ege SB powder, a Pushed inta the blac aund the cross heading quite, quite borissnital. "Take that powder out!" he commanded iefly, “Take it back to the powder Lon Dickey, seeing the line reversed, ap “You giving ordera ta my men cow?" “You're fired!’ said Charles Frederic. He had given mony orders already: one more made little difference. "And if you think you're not fred,” he added, “try giving just one more order in this Cun. T ai ~and let me hear you!" men halted, watching them—the Sefiar Dickey very rod, the other, the young EVENING POST Ve a oe horseback, muddy and white- ing from and sunken ory ll see the old man about this,” sald Dicker. * Right!" said Charles Frederic. Three days he remained unmolested, in full majesty of command. ‘The ercas endl ing was finished and loaded; with his own hand he jerked the battery that sent a two- hundrsd-foot ton af ‘hectare and flame mee the hull Wi f a ie eee nt =) it an nlegrate go Toaring down, climbed the atill amoking grade and saw that the slip had properly occurred, Then, being very weary, he teased all might | In his unlawful bunk and rode indifferently te hl reckoning. ‘The campe he were idle—all idbe. Was it Sunday a neay rf? No, it waa only eda ar . A sttike? He abandoned the effort af thinking. He was tired, burned out with vengeful and de structive emotions, In the office J. 0. Hales = A at fig “had retribution, row grimly b Pigs! "gaid Charles Rede Feat et "T don"t know why ET" Oe Really,” said J.C. T stayed, You dont need me hanging around, do you? Running the work all on your own, I hear. Hiring and firing and ware little thing.” “Tee quit,’ said Chorles Frederic, “You aid tt just in time," said J. C. Bailey Ti 15 not a festival for Ishmaali oat Glorigus Fourth, Americnns, empla and unemployed, were torgathored Ln ore nape and in bass and tenor and barytane & pag g areas: but one American was misting. Still there was Oacar the Swede; there was Joe Ribera, wh who had once lived o whole year in Callfornia; and if these did nat eount for half an American apiece, for good measure thera was the Seftor Dron August Hermann, proprieter of the Hed Rose, who, born beyond the Rhine, profeased on this day great reverence for the Stars and Stripes. So ie Might say the Americons were all On wi baleany above the Red Rost the Befiora and Sefioritaa Hermann listened with interest to the sounds of revelry by day, They were not born beyond the Rhine; they were born this side the Hio Verde, and rat § pronounced thelr name "Errman; but they had a tolerant eve for these stalwart if uncivilized gringoa who brought ie tiilrond and fomily to Tequila, and the jingle of the aml ‘Hl was music in any tongue. Yea, there was noise in the Red Rose, chiefly vocal; but throats tire. Through the door erupted little Andy Burch and Lang Henry Hines, brandishing, with inno- cant and feative intent, large blue revolvers. If a heodless architect had placed a balcony bebween them the OfHemt heavens, why, that was not their fault, was it? - Pow—hbang! pom pane Pow! ex- ploded the forty-five of Mr, Burch and the thirty-right of Mr. Hines, to the glad ac- eompaniment of bass roura and tenor well, Hooray for those dear United States! Plaster showered down upon them. With one contralto whoop and three soprano shrieka the ladies someraaul backward and evacuated the balcony. rr "Oh, my gosh, Hennery, we've killed a waman! : nomaed Andy, clutching Mr. Hines. But the floor wos fortunately thick. While they leaped inte the atreet te apolo- gize for casualties Mrs. Hermann re appeored, thre: shades whiter than normal, Keay smilin every daughter accounted for, and He mopped their brows and sealed to the bar for reatoratives, They were greatly shaken, ‘(XT window in the menin, two blocks ane “Charles Frederic say ane rinned. e say, too, how Henry's arm ell carelessly oo aay shoulder aa they disn isappenr and then a frightful, sharmeful fact hit gti amidships. He was twenty-six years old and he wos crying. He turned from the window lest some passer sec him there, like a convict behind the bars, an owtenast gazing into paradise. He had “promised himaelf thet he would aleep, but you ean lie staring at a blank cotling only eo long. He had tried te read, but the superhuman feats of handsome heroes could not shot out the sounds of ae A od-fellaowship that was open to everybody but Charles Frederic Gray. He paced the roam to and fra, te and fra, grinding a bony fist inte a bony fal. April 23 At length, moving softly for some: he took up his hatand went out, pace ive strides down the street and 7 into the Red Hose, The noise perce abated. The crowd made way for hij he came to the bar, his hard eyes m kowiees a friendly glance, his cheek . “Hallo, Mr. Gray!" cried Herman: feasionally eordialL “What for you! ,_ Any hing. Have a drink, & wala't drinkin’ just now, thank;," tered Andy, uncomfortable “We ain't broke yet,"" declared Henry. “Set 'em up again, Hermann Het and ndly, “Have a ink," said (charles Frei "Tm asking you just nee mame" “Cordial cuss, ain't he?" confided H ta the eiberiog at large. how the But de Shi aeTIT mouth of Charles Frederic jerked ‘at corners, relented. “Tl bave a drink with you, Gray,” he, and Fushet over a glass and sez botthe. when, ol'-timer £" Chartos ederie did not say when. dared not. He folt again that sham stinging in his throat, that unmanly 5 ening of the diaphragm. He had | i pet nny ing but kindness, ne H said Andy. “'Simatter sor! What! sit to ey cried (Charles Fi erle furiously. eres —here's how!" He lifted the glass—and the tip of s Gard cue lipped over his sloulder ; Ripped it from his fingers. 4 tam spotter!" of eet # Swede. Charles Frederica turned. The meng stood batweon them stepped hastily pad himself was mot rouasurad: 5 ¥ grim and hollow-eyed visage, Hastily swung the cue and struck. ‘Phe light, sti ing id fell harmlesaly in Charles i Hegripped itand jerked. Oscar, holdi the ne butt, mat bake on his binds u pulled. Charlea Frederic felt the tip a ping and pushed, pushed hard, so that wi the sudden drive of a sinewy shovlder the force af Oseur's own pull the bs rammed into his Swedish midriff. (ee grunted ones and toppled backward usd a billinnd table and knew not what pass thereafter. (Charles Frederic himself knew bb vaguely. He saw a short, broad-blode knife appear as by magic in aawarthy hat He struck wt it with the cue and heard Jy Ribera‘s fervent voice somewhere. finotke hand snatched the cue from hin and ui own fist smacked heartily into the face tha Balonee to the hand. A heawy body we Lipo im. He Aung it of and drove ati broad veat of Sunday black, Hub Fresk Lin's. After that waa the etorm, a store aiatony, arms and shifting bodies and lace that bobbed up and vanish heat He was suddenly happy—heaving said the w sTiashing, atari ing, hot aearning even 1 kick whatever 4 reaented i outing, "I'lly yeas |” iaite humor Absurdly he was He saat we the ex of that parase “Step up, gentlemen! I'll go exsy! Firé come—ugh!—first served ["" He trod ona Leg that squirmed. and pitched hire west, host to nose with litthe Andy. “Hi, Andy’ What gay? Le's go eney!" He did not know how Andy's hain wee tetling from a half semeraqult inflieted by himaelf, Charles Frederic. Hut Andr kee® Andy eet hinaelf and awung earnestly up Charles Frederic's jaw. When the fog lifted, the sone 4x changed. There was a sireat. with cobble stones and everything. Ev peat ks the world, thought Charles li ear and sore, A million arm 4 ached; a million brains thrab million men were sick, He eas ud groaned and sat down again. People weot. incur knew that this was the independence and they were (uaa! en the effect of strong waters, Pondersas bee rounded the corner: J. C, Bailey, = moned by a forbesring police to qué rit, masa on the wreck of Charles Fretet nnd snort ie “H'mf! §o you're the guy that = tearin® down the house and t oh doors!" “T think,” said Charles Frederic tit), “they throw me out.” 4 IC” Bailey pushed in throwgh thes ing doors. He saw what be aay, afd lor) (Coatinaed of Page 47!

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42 Tiki THE SATURDAY = Take These Brilliant Lights With You! i (Continued from Page 40) he leaned opoins! what was behind him, The doors yielded and he danced backward acrods the sidewalk. qn ay, if you love “Gray!” he gurgled. me—di Use an ax? But a waa there. J.C, charged in again, and the ladies Hermann, trembling on their balcony, heard asound very strange to follow upon slaughter. They scurried to ois mas and saw men ve perigee and rapidly closing eyes gazed wu Seats cae crane. nip mute: men w pa | whe bi eo dg pr ph midsections and grinned, albeit feebly; a viteee vee, | fat man in the last stages of apoplexy who couse and (or | Gated from festive raiment torn to ime leer parties and | perienty removed and whooped an washed ae ra ae breath—men who, with every visible white lightcf ai) | Cause for sorrow Taupin It is well known that all Americana are condle power | brilliance gee Firkt- an pala down the atreet, ere from the intri- | cate -ficBcigrlie af navigating a aidewalk that was only ten feet eo that a building Peacteenfiaty at him and thrust him | sprawling inte the street. He clam | back. The street was wider, but on the | sidewalk there were window bars to cling to when the earthg! coum. Let them laugh. He was going away— awhLy. larvelous, though, how the scent of | jasmine aeoathed the rocking and weavin al A Qulek-Lite Lamp will bring you greak pleae- ite and pinve & meal convenience i voor maimmer beat Loy eve ning sovial evend wT ht sound, filtering 4 | clistracted hs PENDATILE = Pleat ¥ al peel Leh whenecwer ged where | cf the street, He elosed his €Ve8 AM ever nu oi breathed deeply, anchored to the security thimneys to washes ner | i £ 7 ol window fare. JA hand elatched he ann. diily Ollfag. = i . "he mumbled, “I'm all Tight. Lie down a pipe that's all, Sheep." “hol” ay¥oiee. “Oh, please! Can WL hold on mk iste ineka minute? "rn coming!" You could not fool Charles Frederic. She wos net there, There waa only a ried street, admirably eteady because of the arent of jasmine; and a pock-marked man in eatten clothes, bareheaded, whi from a door and came leaping at him. He did not care for marked men in cotton clothes. He closed his eyes and at once he heard her voice again. "Walk," it commanded, He. aete his lega moving woodenly under a POR THAT ia eo :, Gshing vo awin toranizg fie | path “i ss va oo a - | W outing: tle me fe a8 faints oa in fa. he pecukie. Bead} foo any Hight seb. at ! whe | him. inte cool dimness and | Sete © universe wheeled briefly; he | opened his eves and saw that pock-marked | fee suspen strangely against the eeil- | ing. [t wae a villainous face, "Pat," he mumbled in alarm, “where | are aah : A me touched his face and there was comfort. 5 away. Just be there." He ne ee eound af water and wincel nude te eee af ps an Bis ines, The -1riar ai iF] ric i ted piece whiskers; it made him dizzy to look at it; and horrible smells killed the fragrance of jasmine, Merciless fingers caught his wrist and a stab of pain | shat ap a arm. He wrenched (it free. “Pat!” he appeabel, groping. i land many a Pade hk WBE. Btpie LiQ-az7, P+ T. risk Tt Prtea 06 de Ceca BEL. STs PN. mar tert Sr rr ion Quick-Lite “The Sunshine of te Night" = ak Pmonterer Taner Lard Lake ond Creager of Milaweo Folcann, EVENING POST “No, no! hands! Aoaati her then, and her lovely face was all twisted with weeping. In his dream ler the t clearly Chat he musth" alarm her, on't ery,” he sald soothingly, “It mutt hurt much.” Oh, you'll hurt your poor She vanished; hut he eeuld hear her - voier, crooning; and the fra ee of jaa- mine came to him again, and warmth and poms and comfort, Night fell ory: ivi e wad murmuring, “You do! You jo love me a litte, even if you despise me, Shad dinke—in his drewam—he heard her answer, “Oh, 1 da! I hit to be ashamed of myself, but I do, I do He woke, Two queer white bundles lay actoss his cheat. He moved a hand to igute them, and they moved, They were his bans, His face felt sti and a . A Ata one distance a sheet lish? glowed Hi arene—Lo wit, a girl sew Now he saw der shame hew his ae boots rested om a dainty coverlid. a wrung them to the floor and Bat up. ae,” he muttered, “you must have thought. 1 was drank!" She was watching him, her hands poised, Her eyes looked big and solemn. She shook her head, ever ao slight a movement of negation. I thought you were half killed," she said, “How—how do you feel?" “Rotten!” he said happily, for it came to him that it was not a dream. It was Fat, Pat herself, ond there was no glass hetween them now. He got to his fect, and she watched him as a mother watches a a2 steps. He laug! ou sald jou agp met," he cried ““Than't yer rapamiber: girl? You've gat to remeni ier!" He stumbled on an unheeded hasacck. She few out of her chair and caught him, a8 8 very small mother might catch a very nnd h and Musaehdy: Baby: Ti dh By eeuene ht her as a man gathers up day fel erhalten er ay nto her hair. “Soy itt “Of eourae | remember." Her aga arial] and ruffed. “But you can't ee a respect fre— —the way [ just threw my at a etunt have heen while I was asleep. fair! Do it again,” he “Woe is me, I wasn't looking the first time!" “| mean—that migitt at the mindow: 3 just climes make lave to me, T want yew did; and then you— ma aud you mustn't. It served me right, why did yout" Oh!" Paid Charles Frederic. oF oan aren "t—engaged to anybody elae, of!" said Charles Frederic with win- ce, SE ae all right," she sighed, smd Lifted th sailey. pre tas énid the enustic voice of J, 0, He gatin plain aight beyond the dow, a green eye ehade proclaiming that he toiled. April 22, “Tt ia!" affirmed Charles Frederic. hands, being in plaster casts, were cli out his arms were stronger enough ti peaetical Purpenaes— that. is, to hole aughter of J, ©, Bail “Pat,” he “T'm out of a job, bart om" OU care ie and A gat ont, decent one this time “still Tunning things your on @ way," anid J.C. Thal alley. “ Conault me in a while, why don"t you? I reckon wouldn't consider a job aa aesistant se intendent?” "This is no time tao be funny,” Charles Freceric wae “Treckon,” said J, C.. "30 don't & how funny you Jook then. But wt funny about that job? What did jrou tl I waa breaking you in for all this time? “Ti you mean that,” said Charles F; evic, dizzy with all the wrongs that eware back upon him, “you might hawe told) You might have told me! Lartting thes think I was a patter; letting me th I was no ee “How could [ toll you,” “when T didn't know it = ire tf Poni, you gat to admit that. know you could swing the job?" “How do you know tt mow?" counte Charles Frederic harshly. “Well, you did, didn't you? Just grab itm swung it all on your own little hool "And que, just in time to keep fn gett fired !* ell, [ was mad. I admit that. & vel. know how I am, Charley; you ouphin to go off halfeocked that way. You ¢ no call to get mad and quit every tim harwl ll out,”" spoke plaintively. He pushed t awung round in his cha a Ha his eye shade and aT nine. di au'd n diced" he confided. “th from Under a tnble crawls this—#whal's kh name? —this Swede, and he starts yodelh about his troubles, And some mare of ‘a pipes up, all about how you come bulgir Inte their eanipe and makin’ “em sit up an beg and roll over and play dead, a ror faer sn gt wo ght a ether eller ain't got na ba Hind blafen ve bunch of a teal tea eo oe ike they was ch dren. Gaon talkin’ T gaya: “you're arin me Hake where § find the man I been lookin’ for.’ Well now, have I got to go hack there and bal ae turned ap saue nose at the pab?” esa youd better,” said Charla Frederic heavily. ibaa won't stand fe me, I gots Wrong. “You make me tired, MA fat lot you ‘em eatin’ owt of your hand right new, Any hard-shell loves ascrapper; anybedy know that. aes ee hy de la go easy and nae yeur head, an ‘Hl get along as easy a shootin’ fish. Tat goe ; tha pall” Now for some reason. ries Frederic battered face relaxed, oad he grinned He looked down at his bandaged hands, at thi anximes, tender eyes of the girl at his chou! der: and his chest filled to the scent of battle and the fragrance! jasmine under the tar. “Yes, alr,” he said. ‘Quite ao," Tamale

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Thee atau ‘the ELLEITT ADDRESS + dasa ahve abowe—theee caonls will oie ify adders a scala ieliers, gecheerii sing cireulass, 2 ct “able a ar prospec is— whenever ae a Perel iar iF weeule They Galas ot Acre, OO 0 Ce TS Tal. Where!" for name PREAEESE ACHE Wrife os for aur Free Book “Mechanical Addressing” THE ELLIOTT COMPANY 146 Albany St, Cambridge, Mars ; PRime THE SATURDAY "Ta that all?" asked Jim. "Doesn't Tienry state his re- That will do!" cried Helena. “Tou know what Henry's like—a meat ly foldeat hand erchief. Even MM eaila Klm Galahad: this is merely observing life. La Vie! And, of course, romancing it— though Henry would shoot ee cheng the head for saying Here's another=Spring. The still do that one, “OR, April ia a baggage, te rile fa i Se ‘i fhe creases oe she gore ier poy In furroae, field amd ral, fer pelliron!"s a fatfered! cla, Her sfocktig's down al keel, She songs ett fhe meni ill With a RRR gir There are fears w al, Spe eyelinds, There's ot ptotel on ig fair, You are ie anlee wunceflienr! creryio “Gracile stems, bitter blowd, sweet un- aertng, staggers, drunken peals, trollop swes'thrarts! Whatailalienry,dim? Rather pretky wu here ond there—hut sich eltange words, The whole book— it's called A Bowl af Green Pomegranates —is like that. His A. E. F. book was so full of that aort of thing too. Heauty, impolite lan- guage and profanity, Ace a lot of diseon- tent, boo, all mob together.” Helena turned her slim foot eo that her Kittle slipper eau the fire glow. “That part's al] peul—I neha that, The smerient anil the cilrsing., Yot're bmind pee it autiof a draft war, I've listened talked wit de heya al the Legian and the hospital, ‘The thinks edie t guess— women sitting rollin in our eodi- fortable parlors, an men men fi you, making utilities; T won't count men like Mr, An- derson, fattening war bobies—what we wert doing to them. Té waen't mud nor bad chow, nor covties, nor death, ws Henry anya, but same principle they think we in- vaded and violated: something monstrous we worked out, That's what makes then so scornful of ws—they won't forgive us. Ive watched their faces on Armistice Dav. They're proud of having done their duty well, but seornful of the duty, They say we didn’ igo! Hut they forget that even if ar didn't—we sent them! “That's why Morey Girard, who went out in No Man's Land under a ff tful barrage to bring in his buddy, and w Henry, who has a citatlon, won't tal about the war—-at least with us who stayed jat home, That's why they hold our old patterns tn contempt, That's why," she air l nn, ey. aes Moreshy aver’ will prevent Beansy from apologtein Mr. tees aiieaals It's a blow at what Sie call hypocrisy. “Ane [——" She slope ped, then went on Well, Um in difficulties on my own accmint, Hecause of you, Jim. For I've it to tell the m—asbout you, about us! hat's alesse hard ee woman, Fler sons resent her being enyth ing but Ak mother; anil Henry, for all his radical ain, heape ae father as a sort of fetish. He only mi him when he wasa lie boy, and he's rans a port of romance of him.” ] Helena sighed. “TI ought te have given | them an idea—before Cheriatmaa ar last summer, Elow stupid that they didn't tier Tt’s becuse cade ut mie ot the elf forever. And now, I don't see how, Well, I've got to brele it— and it isn’t an opportune time. But it's bound to come aut anyhow.” “Tm afraid it is," aald James mildly, “unless you intend to be wholly bound by jhe derision of the heaven-born. I bad always hoped though, that even in the erent of their refusing their blessing, an elapement “James,” sald Helene, and she took his hand in hers and squeered it— ‘James, | ) would be boiled in oil before T gave you up, much as [love my pig-headed Tnde dent bairna, Nevertheless, Lam abashed by the idea of telling ‘em—my young men. th, I'll have tol T'll find a way, I suppose; | lend up to it pently, But Henry! I'm | afraid Henry will be rather awful. He be- liewes in anything pei Sri for the old," | “Have you, James, “taken counsel with anyone me EVENING POST THE BOYS (CeAtinued fram Page Ii! “Marciage,"* Me Proctalmed, “in Changiag! Ft tis Changing Eeery Day" “Only with Norah. She is my friend aa much a my servant. She haa been with ua ten years, And she wouldn't discuss it. She BRYS fee tao barsy," " Comking. Helena smiled. “She's making iments of pies aed huge quanti- ties ret The thick, dark, sticky. icine t Henry loves,"" rr HE train which waa to bear to Helena her brace of returning godlings—Henry connected with it by a branch road—came in at 4:10, and precisely at 4:06 Helenn tooled meat five-passenger sedan into the | parsing eek the beft of the stetion platio os t aril af hard bluck cinder where’ a. a central bed of brown parched étation survived a last year’s memory af bright colew: and geranium. Through a thin screen af bare peplara the western ey offered a suffusion of lavender and pink and a silhouetted range of near-by smoke stacks, spewing languid floating ctrls of bhin=-white smoke. The steel rails of the fourstrock foal sparkled a hard-iee block in the endd sun, atretched away, lightening, narrowing, like a black-rib fan receding to a remote blue speck of union in the horigan., Out of this horizan point would come the god- Jings—in on the snorting 4:10, Ielena perceived now that old Mr. Leafy, with an empty coat sleeve, was waving his good left arm at her, his gnarled hanel clutching at a tang Je of yellow dispatches ad he bent over Hp: a truck, and that a comiderable crow owe youd him had gathered to meet the 4:10, On the edge of this group, arm in aren, lost in an intense feminine a sorption, Wert two young girls, fresh colored, pretty, amart looking, in hats. of velours, apeedt jade green, reaperctively, not Opossum sparta comnts. Ame ‘when Helena recognized the hats she figuratively raised her wide blue coat sleeve and edb ints it. “T told Leah Raymond yesterday the bove were coming, and now Tiot has an errand down here. Brought Ann Kimball. Oh, well, youth ealls io youth. I wish Ann and Henry - = She saw that her little turban was ship- shape in) the peel mirror bar, the percent blue wing lying tidily against her ait; then locking her wheel she climbed out, April 22, The green add apr hata hurried up atom “Mra. Tilden, beg od dot Tmt it alow day? Not goings are you? Mother me deen here to eee if] express pir ‘kane had con They're a slow with theird == liveries,” Te was the taller, darker 6 explaining elaborately, Hi PTAs eyes Were on the of Fini ag ee ane wered— the pe tier one, she thought, “Tottin—and Ann to How de you dot" 5b pre. Tt i charming 2 “Ik is a nice day, aa it? And, ne, I ignotgolng anywber. Can down ha ie arp nent Limes omeand bringing a friend, Mores; i Tot Raymond gasped. ™ Moreshy Gir ard, who wrote Unafraid! He's wonders! Simp wonderful! And Blenry tea! I's af Henry these days, Mra. Tide: i peat be wonderful to have a son [ihr that!" “Tt &,"" b Helena. And ahe referred tothe little green book — quite proudly, “Now mag: did I do that?” she sce herself os she moved away, “TT don't lite Henry's vorses, I don't understand ‘em or, yes T do—but T don't know why he writes pines: Hice like B iplee And yet—I brez. brag, brag nch—and yet ld hike to = enh pies Hut | talk: about him— at the club, to everybody. And look what I suid to Mrs. Everfow, who told me she bat counted forty-one euss-words in Hears war verses, and said she didnt want ber library table littered with curses. I'm net consistent, I en el =hernuse it's mi Henry. se" Her sent el humar a fins heir at the memory a ie lines from In Memoriam — “Reese can | only lowe, [ canna woderstand.” There wae more truth than per. literally, in this. Helena had extricated herself from the girls as quickly a8 possible with an inte tion to dinner for the following evening had drawn away almost exclusively. # though grudging on invasion af ber privacy of expectation, She was like a ques [ee faring herself for a special audience. 2 when she saw a man chalking g up 8 a bar of three minutes an the bulletin stared resentfully down the ribs of the pe black steel fan, with an impatient epintue clutching, an outrunning of her mind be th point of their approach. Tt was always so when the bors bark after absener, There was an ri acbunl pain in the first momest § reunion, As thegh these lives, which hil heen begrun and nurtured in her owt, wich had derived their tissues and ther signtl cance from hers: whose individeal liletty had brought first a physical and later! mental pang, came back for ma tion with their soures and the sei brought with it a certain pain—e are (Continaed om Page 43!

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Through the lacing crowd Helens saw three youths dismount. ing, and an engulfing wave of tenclerness swept her. She wanted to ron forward, the ee mist in her ayes, and ery aut, ining y darlings! Mother's big boys! Mother's s Lamia !"" Only, of course, out of respect for their ridiculous bigness apd. importance she wouldn't have dared. Also TOW, a6 a occasion with special implica- tions, there must be a diferent note. She drew on her knowledge of the grand man= ner and permitted them to approach her, Heansy, she saw, was in the middie. FF Boornsy," Helena reflected, “ia dramua- Hizing himself. He if enjoying this—the nm ght brat! Amd loale at hie big feet— carly a yard long! And hia rownd little with his ridiculous red cheeks! Ke that camel’s-hair ecart I gave him! He look= nice in it. He has the loveliest complexion, and boys weualiy don't. That's right—brag, woman. Even to yourself," She saw that the iniquitous Daansy was. supported on the right by his gating Henry, port and editor, carrying amall weelewnel hag and. a Jiterary-loking brown-leather portfolia. Wha wd pep andl ee a a4 nosalpie. He waa a mild, precise, brushed-and-combed youth with very slick hair, very conven- tional dress and great torboise-shell cheat- ors striding tha bridge of a woll-shaped nigst. On Beansy's Ieft walked one a little lesa mutthodic of apparel— Moresby Cienrd, that fnaotclant novellat, whowassound. ing the clarion of radical thoughe for his pociraticos and ringing the curlew for all aocial structures previous ta 1917: whose @ditorials on frexlom appeared in all the younger magazines, and whose poem begin- TANT: f sing of mig befred of ancient represeions, Fosing of my ketred of days thad are dead, was pretty se tiie regarded aso poten- tial classic. Well, hMartahy corresponcled eats Tore clearly with his doctrine. His ing: his coat especially—swung with a a Hight y Tutsh sir suggesting a complete liberation from silly trammels, Even hig tin was cvetual, and Kis hat—a worn velours fedora eae = & Hat a" hott angle= qmacked af Li bee beet, 7H eat ton, Whe striking—a ¥I BOrre ip eas closely than the others: anda mustache af aimilar ue, bardiy larger or Jess vivid than a Parmachene Belle, rode his upper lip. ) ALL three youn men unhatted when they ny oil-stained aa poet phe permitted herself a thranfoot ad | "Boys! Henry "| Harold! And Mores | Girard!" she 4 graclousdly, thoargh wit utter gravity. The radicala were allghtly taken abock, She offered no salute, save to pres on | Beanay's forehead a brief prave cress, in- dicative at once of his status of black sheep and of her complete muternal indulgence— within bimits, Some of the bumptiousness immediately left Beansy"s healing: He fell in with his companions rather meekly as Helens, turn- ing, indicated the sedan. The gay hats had erept up on her left—astill mally hunting thtexpress package. These Helena now completely ignored: os alao Mr. Leafy, whom she parsed perfunctorily, together with several acquaintaness, To command the situation quickly and gravely was her oint: met te let them perceive emotion, wt rather an abstract attention to prin- ciple. Tt was very hard. Dilicult to be in= human—not to aqueese Beansy's anm or to cuddle to Henry a moment. She packed them quickly into the ear, but not before Moresby Glrard hac inhaled deeply, “The air here & admirnuble,"" be said i gravely. “What a contrast to the city!" “I'm so glad you And it so, OF course you don't get it aa clear and pure here as vou will at the house: we're in the west end, away from the industries, We have o lot of industries here, You know, lock works, cark works, ailk mill, shee far tory. We're the city. too,” Helena claimed. and that"—she EVENING POST made. cireular gesture indicating more re motely a distant triangle of roof— “that—those buildings are our waterproof Lao backer —rainenits and esl heap ne of our biggest enterprisss—made a lot of the army coats, Moved over from Astorvale two years ago, I believe they've nearly doubled their owtput since they were brought over; without any increase in overhead either." “Output! Overhead!" erled “Have you joined the Board af Trade mother, of the Industrial Assecintion? A lot Moresby cares about raincoats and wm- relins. “Well,” anid Helena os she book tho wheel, “it's one of the nicest foctortes we have, In fact, ti's owned bb Trulow,” she added with a f es ; Trul H houghtfull “James Trulow,"" Henry thoughtfully repented. “James Trulow—I seem to re member the mame. When I was up here last gunumer for my two weeks didn't he call at the | house a lot? A lean gray old pales Cc r!” cried Helena. “He hs one hundred and eighty-two in hhis weigh and he's os ft os n fiddle, He's a— friend of mine" —she choked a lithhe—“and avery fine gentleman, And he fn't ald. Only five elder than I am." “Well, but, mother, even that ——" Helena almost ran into a tree and Beaneay emerged fram his new hurmili “Mother, you don't seam like you did Jest time, Sart af—tkind of different, Do ou Ehink ou au ft ha ibe: driving the cor? if mean, do you think YaeuT WePVess wre as good a4 they wed to be?" Mr. James at irrelevant "Ag eat used to bel" Helena bit ber lip, sig and laughed. “Oh, doen't you worry, laddie. There's life in the old hos yet. Now, Moresby, if you bend eloee 1° rabbemnack the town for you. We haven't much to offer—we're wo hourgecis lot, oH know that. Hut still—thut's the City Hall and the Mentclpal rupee over there, where our wee ro erone rong: that's the First Presbyterian Church, where a pre cious lot of cur Victorian hypocrites assem- ble every Sunday: here's the new Celadon Theater, where we're shown that the wages ofsin is death, every aay and here's the Southern Murket and I've mot, Ao gel out for bread and cheese and meat Mr Part and Mr. Orvis left thei tt tive places af business and supported li = ena to the car with her m—to seo the baya. If Helena had repressed her own rapbures it Was Vicarious joy, a true Freudian suk limination, to see Mr, Parr, in bis butcher's apron, oer a pienie-ham hand and compli- monk her on ber jewels—beam at her rosy Beansy in his camel's hair, the ghossy Seury in his serique cheaters —and thar gala friend. role oe to gee you back, boys!" old Kir, Orvia crled in greeting, equally inter= ested, filling interstices around their feet with parcela of raising and applea and achweltzer. “Boyes” cried Henry as they left the market and old Orvis" friendly clasp. * Dhen't thay realize we're not boys? Don't th penlize we're Brown up and are men with the minds of men—doing the work of men?” “You'll sever be men te coe, darlings — really, * thought Helena secretly. can't move, for all this track," sald Beansy boredly. “Ttian't truck. It'sfood, Beanay. Norah's Es to cook it into good Bquare meals au." eala!” said M * Girard, "I've been eating at o ttle Ttalinn place on Twenty th Street. Rather a good cdisine—and of course a chap that's eaten all kinds of chow overseas can atamach a lot—but still, frankly I’m tired of the atuif! A square meall If there's anything of the sort lead me to it," _" Norah can certainly alin ng ii "a Hel Hic," cried Beansy joyously, le = turned into the home sireet—a wide span of bard blu earay uncer arches of bare ee Eres ony clay ard elms. middleclass homes lined gee limestone, red brick. Just ahead a broad span of grayetone dwelling of- fered, wings thrust out from the sides, and the dying light was refracted in ‘pris matic splinters from the long many-paned windows, glimpsed through two unusually lurge maples. yo stopped here und the sedan sud- denly erupted, in a fury of luggage, long legs, brown-paper parce Mprif 22,4 “We'll toke it all, Moresby. Yo too. Give mother an arm. “T don't need an arm.'* Helena, forsaking the car, sprang the wide step. Norah had emerged ee oor and welooming crit laden, and Moresby wi repuaed arm well occupied, Norah shooi them: sfectionate Henry more sedately followed with ¢ bags, and him mm amt beye the others” range She emugh by the eoat Tapels jr ae acs him, held him fr inside the her. “Henry,” she said enrmestiy. “I'm glad os glad to have you horne, dear, Sulin't begin te tell you— only you know it—it really wasn't necessary for Eeag to write—and ask you—about the rh} he did.” : "Tro the head of the family, mother® Henry was grave above the bogs. a Helena ¥in “Tut. to bring Moresby in—p dear be bur 4 bak tek denne a snot oa boy, mother.” Ti Hee fell aT hvush a owestern window, | enry'a face to a pale, earnest, almost a eetic beauty. “Moresby, like myself, » man—and hat had & man’s experienc There's a principle involved. Tf my fat oe were living Iam sure he would see ——" "Your father was a gentleman, Heny The principle of courtesy is involved, and-, and there would he oli one sort af ‘adi ia! he could give—one kind of [netructio, Henry sighed. “That is why we came home. We pe fectly understood how you would Beansy took a wrong method, true—ia he ex truth, or truth as he hetieve it. You can’t violate the truth by @ . mizing for it. That would ba falech onesell, bo the integrity of one's mind. Yo mst stand by truth and sel (mex prestion at any cast, mother, Well, it's a aa we've gol ty diseuss—juat how Beans; to atand by his truth and ite ci T don't eee how he's ta yield. I'm agaicst that. These bags age heavy, mother. Oh,” he added impatiently, “if you knew us st ali! Tf you ever read us—with any inte ligence! If you read Moresby (rire! apes —The Cult of the Individual, ‘The fn ividuel as the Unit, The True and New! Amerion, Self-Exprestion and the New World. Uf you read me, even aay pea the Post D for inatanee: Our Modern Liberty The Passing of an Old Fetsh, | If you read my "I do read your books, dear. The little! yellow war book and the little green pew one too. And I'm ss proud as—lend me one of your words, dear—as proud aa liell! They" re wonderful, Honry, and I can hardly belirve that you've grown up and co waite books. tt seems like yesterday you laying marbles and getting yoo san wiped! Oh, of course I keow you sete in the war, but that waa because yor boriy was fit. But you're metting away Taat—too fast? Gh, I know boys 7 men quickly and some of them have door wonderful things, Bryant—with Than topais, Onky nineteen.” “Bryant! Thanatopsis,” Henry paled around “Really, mother PM ead Chatterton,” Helena hurriedly t for thelr period.” 2a snolopied’ bhuhing. “But we were talk ey : Beansy, dear. Now, you have» much influence. Support me in this— rant you see Beansy is a mere child? Not half educated, Look at his arithmetic. tad have to have some arithmetic—even i he's free. Homvust back a eee, Henry. Ist it of you as a favar—as your mother — "Tan't that like s a woman! You approart a discussion of principle through the ae tion, when you, see that afoul. fail of lope. But logie—a discussion ane, Tes —— “Well,” eried Helena with a touch & apirit, “there isn't any reason why #2 tit men have got to be such brand-new of I—I have asked an older one to hep m4 friend I-—I value"—she blushed—"wsat thinks aa I do; who has a good motu mind, wall balanced — “etl bainneedd!"* Hen “Ar, James Trulow,” and Henry started. “The man who makes raincoats 30d umbrellas! You would asl a perfect ur alder ——" “Heisn’tan outelder—exactly ! Hen” - zi Helena wrung her banda together think I ought te tell you — Oh, Healy. T really must let you know (Continued on Page a) heal. elena evep! oh

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i = estalag from Poge 46) Soy was otierl, ida! i cn Ge dlitted itee!{ from the a, tteod up daturbelly. Tend, a Re aequaintance, : ewith nese thes wellaks of your Henney i" Bfted ~a Protesting hand, but erent up the stairs with his bags fielens dajectediy entered her living , ere therfire crackled and her ensy- mad ied wulted, She sank dispinit- se biggest bls o chair. cong old dear—T don't see how noel * = 2m. I'm ay cath But Pe got ip foward; cat! But I'v Gariini¢—and wan't they be # al a ee te it, Tf only the time were atioue. Cnily, of course, it wold With Henry! And now it’s just ; Just too awiully*—she for majectiv a, le vie dion the younger ‘. opulence “Tape theo maf Bar she sighed. , rt fend Giade, Helena realized, watching Pep, (tactiy no advance whut- Two * time. Dinner was Bew—a dinner to which Tot Fay- 2 Aon Kimball and James Trulow a bidden—and they had all ad- o the living roc. herself, mentally spent with two almost incessant argument sane with —alone of with a Henry and Moresby—sat by tha lay somieprawberd on f equch, where he eould act os an meant on the talking machine. Jim had eof the chairs, and Tot oceupled a faldsiool, sitting with linked hands, the gold a sae pcg in ber vel- up now, in ron fo for Momaie? Mi spt stoad: in pay ri beyond the fe ne ae —— A with one elbow touching the advane- ertof the four horses of t Gundrign, qorses with their polished metal surfaces. ie advancing pose were exceed- to Moresby himself, whose grace curity of manner repeated their as- like pl pen a obs sft whi Hg ‘old viking in m whi throught cut a fine af pure oe set olf ranean his which moved ag amd down under the pressure of Ueno. } Helena was not heeding his eloquence at bee moment. She ne listened to it, off and ss, for sort waht ours. Now she watched Is chway the figures in the 4 ee and Ann Kimb They had led lnack the a little earlier and (F ery had underta ae teach Ann the hrised tango of New York, while Bennay — the muse, But now, though the fasic hod aed away by two minutes, it ap “ered thot Henry was still dancing with den, or, at lewst, wae alsout to dance with jon —fior he had not. the dancing peition at all. Heatood there with his arm out Ann, quite unaware of it—the arm— yparently; 25 one who has laid down some ) ‘nfling article on a mantel, say, and will Peaentiy romemiser it. Ann didn ee ee to final fren a monte re a Y here, the tao young things, depend doubt on the insecure camouilage ling } ma’ biggest fern, which, however, basely etrayed them, and their two faces were aa Baguent asa bown crier's call, Helena sighed. Henry might bean editor ind a modern poet whose clamor was su f periority ta any sert af teil and for com= ' plete freedom, but he waa heeding the siren ‘tow, Ae wad enjeving one of these effer- Tecrnioe knew in Beansy's parlance as a ae—and without any attempt to atull hittin in here! Ann wes a case, too— dety—and a wery beautiful case, She wat a Gowerlike weet young Ching, looking | eke a white roe tonight in her snowy | Georgette, and Helena took up the concept daveventual eonelusion or permanence to thelr cumes, LapPmine Henry grew serious, married ‘t we so whelly approprinte, so bog- va. that ahe sighed, She could quite Yee all the predestined steps in the peice Heory, married, a family man, ibilithes, agin, ing: Ann, # tinnther, the blown to full petal, fading. It pine. peter a0 Warn], Boe airjeble, ae Life bod been lived, that a mag ol matings tegret rose in Melona‘s THE SATURDAY heart. She sow the wilding youth, the illu- sion, the beauty of these two untoucl inexperienced spirits slowly, surely be stumped wnd conformed a with a epecies die—to a certain eohesive unity with— pattern. Cut like cookies. Bhe caught ody fora morent ina complete wave of feeling an utter understanding of the rercal- titrant protest in these modern children ngainst what they observed te be wn brstel- oua gl terrible devtruction. A complete sympathy with on revalt—revolt aa voleed now by Moresby] Using the Quad- Tiga horses nonchalantly to support him he waa waving his arm again and talking about burke AMoreshy had not axperti= enced it, but he knew ghout pt " Marria he epg ty ing! Et is anging every Que cinorse we att doing so mule ge equrae: but mere and mare ft is changing hy the will of the individual. ieee are mada from within. Naturally these were brought shout. by anew eeonomic etatius for ibaa | but they would sisbeel come sibs BE or man's tonlization of his @aentia and right to choose his life for paltry Woman, too—there is 20 feasan why Foe Flage will continue with us much longer as it: haa in gel Tt will ana ral hear r a partnership, whose tenure depe on desire of both parties. In fact, the new order will probably dispense with the ald type—marriage, pera, There isn't a real necessity for it wt all, There: if no teewseby for anything exeept one's self-expression. If a marriage happen to de that—let it stand,” Moreshy'a arm indicated permis- gion, ="! not—some different adjust- ment at Tt seemed to Helena rath? was it the offect of the fire?—the off Quad riga horse winked jta eve at her. One lustrous arell dropped slowly down behind Mareshy" bright head in a brazen cynical wink. , Still worshiping, drooped slightly forward: Tot, scarred veteran of ho and tennis fights—who yet, as Helena knew—was collecting a hope chest. James was looking down his cigarette. Beansy ate gin breed. She reflected new, looking of James, on their affectlon; on ther plana for life te- gether; their peculiar affinit iy taste and tenn peraim ent—in t, in ke, in con- versation, Bhe lo her Jim. Bhe ought to pt dip now and taking his old hend between hands. defy the whole pack, This was her moment. Sher aught to ery, “Well, then — here's a fine example! James Triow ond I are going ta do . Expres qurgelyes and be—per ac, We're going to be married in the goo! old-fashioned way." _ But Moresby went on talking and flour- ing: “TL toll you it's a wonderful thing, The fiw marriage—er—Che whole pew reloe thlonghlp of the sexe as it's belng worked eut—in the new sehool af ex fon! new lowe! Take the case of Carl Kirechmer and Alida Faxon, for instance, Carl's the socialist writer and Alida does illustration: theater stuff, too, after the Reinhardt Methad, Well, wel the ik —te wis Alia who a it up to 1. He'd been around—well —— Oh, 1 mean in Europe, ulte a bit. There was a little girl, too, Julla mann, and they got over that, Well, Alida asked Carl to go with her to Miami; and he did, And on the pis back — Pebr Edwarda h her—she ed hin hew he'd Vike it for a permanent thing, And Carl was ne end fond of Alida, ao they pot married, amd [t's been the greatest success, T saw Alida in New York this week. She was having her nia with pepe Williams, Carl's gone over to Ttal ‘A ta do some work." “That” —Jntes' Tru took his eaypune bbe fram his mouth—*" peer is yur debew of mare riage, | aa you would wa ya it ta yourself?" oreaby cleared his throa "Wh, I'm meerchy a iovtander, a writer, a spectator. You've got te dissociabe your- pelt from emoticn-lomk at life in tha large.” Moresby spake respectfully enough, but his glunee at Tare clowrly anid, “You @d umbrella man!" “You're beautiful, anyhow!" thought Helena, watching Moresby, with his cock- eurencss, bis fire, his young pomposity. “And you're a gelden tin: omily you dan" remlize it." She remembered the reseuecl budely in No Man's Land wad the bad shrapnel acars on Moreaby's lems, She had knawbedge of A young sister wham Moreen was helping through school, and she Jooked at him limned with the halo of light, and thought oa Mr. Amerson, the brostee, who hoe calecl him and his kind “young knights in is chang- EVENING POST golden armor aut with an imperish- able tdeal"— heey that Beanay had zaid “Bah!" to. Yet the thing waa in a measure true at least of Moreshy's type, of Henry's. Their ideal was, of course, truth, as they proclaimecl, And yet, what was their truth? Duty to themselves, they shouted Tonnes. Yet, at the seruich, mht preciiely did each one omint as himself? flat was a man’s eelf, the exact embrace of his ego? What allegiances did he create for himeelf out of his environment—stick to at all ode? Always had. Always wold, Helena uncerstood now why the Quad rigid hort had winked --wise old trave beast wha with his motes hod seen the world so often remede, a many empires fall—and rise: Alexandria, Home, Con- stantinople, Venice. The talk drifted on. Henry came in, walking tenderly and close to Ann. He, too, c med favor for the pester dey matri= mania order—the Ca oh apis for the free, He, too, had known, h cat of very aucceneul inatances. He was aequalnted with at least three personally. uy Howell, who did reviews in Benke's Magazine, and Matilda Estey, who acted, They met once a week only. And there was Kent Bishop and Batika Prce—th weren ‘t—wall, t hadn't bathered with convention at all, Vy were almply far each other—for aa long aa they eauld held each other! Helena’s eardrums ached, she hed tried to remember all the terme and concepts aah had whirled in the air these teo pe -begatinn of Beansy's unfortunate They. had tneluched Puritans, Vicloriang, repression, morong, 7 vets, blocs, nies tery individual choice, hypocrisy, sell-ex , the new world, the new poetry, and the new love— oh, a great deal about the new lowe’! nek ae ane Se a ald fogyr three iets Norah reported that the ple and the gingerbread bik nearly finished, “Life !" waa quoting now, "hg. after wih an idiot’s tale, told cing down the wind." And lelena, remembering the pica, looked wt him in astonishment, Jim, frankly boned, removed his cigaretic. * After all ‘h, it tant daneed alone— is it? Rather what you'd eall a morris dance, fan't it? T mean bie take it with o whole lot of pone doing the same fox trot. That—haelpa a little, dooan’t it? "Raincoats and umbrellas!” Noresby's I everything go, to recall tat seer bea ow hin o El prosreme Pre srueareieiGanianned. ae had hens unpardonabl dra ei and he wouldn't apologize. and Henry and Moresby opposed. Net at an inch gained—a complete impasse, And sont ret’ . told then about Jim, himed eenewhere and Tot, her Page with the new freedom, atag gered ‘ht. Ann and Henry were at all ating at each other. would —de- elared Moresby and Henry—see the girle home, and Heaney whisking the last coomb declared for To Jim, beast Helena waa pensive ancl =u , even at the jeering “Rene gude!l" In hia eyes: and aftervard ahe Htoed a moment in the lowered lighte of the house, still weary. Aut when realized that Beansy must by now be in bed she weet and knocked on his door, Not that she had any hope of succes: greater than the g sieht before She went in and tucked up the long hoof him and Kissed hie drowsy eyes one great apple cheek. "Darling." said, “of eourse I"ve OE to 2 ahpre and bully you, It doesn't Beem tio a ae ee bart I annt ta listen to ma hack and tell Mr, Ancderscn “ Apologize bay the old coot! Mother, I can't: ['m pat ma “Not sorry for differing from him, if you lilte—but for being nasty and utherly cut of place, a ie Heaney 2 long arm around her, Hee re -e poor d thin y mom—dn ao kono fe? But 1 can't go beck to An- aerate: T'd be going back on everything — on all the fellows too. Henry's right and you're erong—though it" play thet dickens with the track." Helena sighed and went to fresh attack. 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Heavier Oil than" E’? First count the cost Heavier oi] than Gargoyle Mobiloil “E" in your Ford engine nearly always causes a drag on che engine, This means loss of power, Heavier oil than Gargoyle Mobiloll “E™ cannot bein so quickly to feed to every friction surface when the engine is started. Heavier oil than Gargoyle Mohiloil “E™ is noe well adapred te the Ford splash system of lubrication, Heavier ofl than Gargoyle Mobiloill “E" cannot so thor- oughly reach and protect your upper cylinder walls, piston rings and piston pin bearings. Heavier oil than Gargoyle Mohilal “E™ cannot flow as quickly and freely through the header pipe. Heavier oil than Gargoyle Mobiloil “E” cannot get so perfectly between the bearing surfaces. Heavier ol than Gargoyle Mobile “FE wall ser burn =o freely from the ignition points of the spark plugs. Heavier oil than Gargoyle Mobiloil “E™ nearly always leaves a heavier carbon deposit. = a * utd mechanical factor and operating requirement of your Ford engine calls for oil of the body, character and quality of Gamal le Motilal “EB. Ne heavier or lighter oil can give such protection or such economy. When changing to Gargoyle Mobileil “F" do not flush the engine with kerosene, A part of the kerosene will remain in the splash troughs and tend to destroy the lubricating qualities of the new oul, Draw off the old oil after engine has been running and while hot. In the differential of your Ford use Gar. goyle Mobiloil “CC™ or Mobilubricant as spectiied by the Chart of Recommen- datiuns. — rae ae ices IN BUYING Gargest: Meta! from pear deal, i fs a = iis rife fa purchapr in original packages, Look for fhe wed Grargepl: om fir cantginer, Tie Von OOF Compoay's Chart operider the ered of Cargeply Mobidail fer epery wake and wmode! 2f cor, Gar- coyfe Afekiiel 8 tr the cerned grade for Fords, [yf paw drice amether make of cor, noted far dur bowklel, “Corrtcl Mobiloil FE Eubricafion." } = : , as 2 oe DOMESTIC BRANCHES: sew York Toston Chicano Facd Cace LMfain Oca Detroit Pittsburgh Ord *-ars Philadelphia Minarapaolia Fa as City, Ran. i [edianapolis Tins Siers Tinka Vat On Coen Ce Feet i _ VACUUM OIL COMPANY _ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST wi Henry to back and help him, too, and : mrs tern! brench would mean a reake There were other echools, as He aug- gested, but here, too, Heang himaett waa recalcitrant. He waa tired of echool—done with it. If he left Bryarson he left ‘em all. Helena looking at vee gel orant felt het a pe ity. Sh sini sit] a & r utility, She p ly his room with a me of defeat, and later when ahe heard the others return ashe for- hore to go and kiss Henry good night. No use milling it over with her other young bullhend. Better to find a way—some new, fresher fashion of persuasion, rr HE new bi chime ae clear, ike a belt from the blue. © Mr, Hw d, the fishman, gave it to Helena the follow ing morning, along with three pounds of chicken halibut for gece “T seen your boyna, yestiddy, Mrs. Tilden, ate theyre big good-lockin® fellers, an‘ I'll bet you're as prowd as Punch! I hear they're aa amart a8 all get out, too, and get things printed in books—but I gues you don't need to fool hurt any if they are so growed up, You look like Whe YOUNE enough yet to have your fling as good as any." ting have your fling a good as any!" Helena, ou the shop, almost staggered under an inspiration that brought a relief as clean cut and instant sharp as white lightning. 2 She put herself and the chicken halibut inte the sedan and turned the sedan‘s nose to Breitmann's Popular Department Stare, a place at which sheseldom shopped. Here, with a bare pouse before an array of wax ladies in popular paper-back editions of Fifth Avenue de luxe bindings; she spaont an excited half hour of purchase, There- after she apex aay ei for the waterproof. t , ste factory and reticent sanctum of ames Trulow. It lacked but a half hour to lunch when she reached again the privacy of her room, untied sundry parcels, slipped out of her quiet pale-gray Jersey-wool one-piece, For an inetant remembering her bronze hefrses, the blue and eream harmonies of her lower roams, she blenched. Then, like a diver about to test unknown depths, she reac Nea ropes nnd idsdkdigg. th’ ppers and stockings, the former cryatabbeed eds & magenta rock, very ahort, of the kind Viennet aeetnaly called a dress. About her walat she girded a broad band of brilliant watermelon-green satin with an ample sash; and added opal what the Breitmann saleswoman iroey ved hr nncivats Cine nia cealee y fi mate blue Orange heads: There waa atill fifteen minutes! margin a8 she aped quickly downstairs, Heanay waa nowhere in sight, but Henry and Moresby ‘Girard weresprawled, talking, in the living room, An olor of baking molasses permeated the halls and a plate af Norah's gingerbread, freth baked, sat, not uonoticed, between the young literati. They aprang to their feet aa Helena en- tered, and greeted her with the unseeing eye of affection, But only for = second, Henry literally howled “Mother! Mother! in the —— Wh—what ails What an earth ——" “What do you mean, dear?’ asked Helena. She seated herself, her hands passively yah in her magenta lap, and looked at her arn. “Mean! Leok at your clothes! Look at your dreaa! Have you gone out of your mind?" . My mind! My clothes! What's wrong with my clothes?” cried Helena. “Why—why, look at you! Why, the way You're drawal. Why, they're a curse! Why, they're a crime! Why, ore an offense—to the methetica eye, ‘o good taste, For the Lord's sake—what do you mean, by this?" “I—I know they're—different,” said Helena in a low voine, "Different!" Henry became ch lesms., "T know,” said Helena quickly, “that you've never seen me like thia before, dear. That's berouse—well, that's because I've dressed like other pea de—as Ll haven't wanted to drewa—at all! I—I"ve always wanted ta wear calora—bright colors, all together—lotaol'em. People—other people dan't usually. I've chap tn thought I—I had to do what others thought was ap- propriate, Io mean—pay some attentlon to~what you just said, Henry—the—the #Tpril 3 mathetic—to good tasbe. ‘That doesn't it, dear, in dothes —«dressi tain agreed-on ways of —of handlin and form—and color, So you don e's sense of beauty? IT mean ing in such a way that if everyh lowed your example you" dl eet the amount af peace—nervous peace. "Bat what do TI care what othes want—in my secret heart? (nly Ive been a kind of slave. barred fighting. myself—that I waa And now that Ive heard you and ! it come to me Rke a flash of hg evening. That's why I didn't « good night to you. All my life™—] voice grew low, penetrating—“"all I've had a repression—2 suppressed) for magenta.’ The color poured suddenly into act, "Ob," he cried, “T suppose youl you're being funny, mether! You'd make fools of us, mother, You'd horse us. You'd hold us up to cerisa "Tf I could hold you up to ders would only BETWS YORU Tight, sonny. J what you've been doing to ws, the | encration, for a long time. But I's esting. No, no! Oh, Henry, let's notg of eclathes! They're only a beginning beginning of a liberty T never dream should enjoy. Dwant tospenk of somet elee. Sit down, Henry! Brt down, Alore I want to tell you something, | war tell Mila Me. James Tralee,” The name produced a curious effect eomplete suspension, a ailenee fell, Henry, yey pale, rose slowly, grimly, sprees his mother, with alms | i - “James Trulow!" he cried in a | hy voien, “A-hol So 1 was riz My instinct was net wrong, [ve wat; it—lost summer, and at Christmas, : now. And nhow—it's come. You're pois to be foolish.” Helena lifted a pleading hand, “Oh, Henry, don't blame me, too mu I've never done Sn thins exes along | old settled lines—like other people. H could I—I be different, until I hea everything explained Eh Henry was not attending. He had mi ened his lips, swallowing hard. “And so it's come to this. James Trolo You—you would replace your hush—r father—with James Trolow, You #or marry —again!" “Ob,” crled Helena quickly, “you ta misunderstood me, dear. I did mot spe of marrying. If—if I had—at any ume any such idea—oh, [realize the abeeri ASyiniie 5 anent. I said, mere! Henry, at | wanted to tell you—abo ‘James Trulow, [ wanted to tell you" 45 volee lowered, ahe drooped her heas— wanted to tell you that—James and | bas decided to be for each other,” é The room suddenly seemed to spin, objects fused into a dark hoe. There» m comp silencer in which Henry soe stricken and transfmed, It was Mores Girard who spoke first, springing @p ¥! an intense gesture, a disordered paler: | “Mrs. Tilden! But this is too terrible Henry found a suffocated voile, his far sult : ! “Wother! Why—why, do pou ene what you are saying? You mean—ele you are saying?" : “T mean—what I am eaying,” Het bowed her graceful head, “Oh, Hens she cried, "I've thought things all out—a" [ sev that—that any different—er—mm eonventional ben that I may hav tertained—was an error, Tt would he displeased you—and I did not wish to 6 please you: In fact, I feared to displ yOu, want your good Sec lea apect, dear; and when I realized that Jan« and I had grown to cure for each othe well, [ didn't see any way really fo el it—to—to respect aur own truth, our it dividual expression—yea, actually, right—until you and Moresby came G0". And then I listened to you, To te 0 wiisom—to the freer way; are I sae lay clear everything was, and how mistaben had been, For here—seo—Jim and | ot belong together, for as bong as we bold ee other—and we're actually spoiling 2oburt We sacrifice nothing. I remain I wis My Garry MELT —— ie chetes ‘Mother! Stop! Are you mad?" Hew) a a up his hands. ‘“Ingalting ¥*" on i ' = ing myself," Helena enrerttt. “Oh, Henry! Oh, Moreshy! Yoo he (Confinwed on Doge #3)

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a = oa = * 7 ee River. To get it | BR under alow bridge the barge | owas sunk, pumped our, floated is : ‘again, and movedondownthe | river to Pittsburgh, where it | “was placed inthe center ofthe [1 Heing plant. E s Wien vou visit the “Home of the 57” yousee the little “House where we began” —surrounded, overshadowed by large modern buildings. To the visitor the little house may seem but an interesting relic— athing of purely historical interest,signify- ing growth and prosperity. To us, this homely little brick building stands as a THE SATURDAY symbol—aconstant reminder of the ideals established there, the principles on which the Heinz business has been built. It was because of this, of what the little house meant to us all, that we moved it from its original location, floated it five milesdown the river ona barge,and placed it where its inspiration would be most EVENING POST (rae ee ad PS a i. here the 57 began mm =The Litrtcte House that was floated down the River manifest. Loyalty to the standards which the little house represents is reflected in the spirit of service, care in preparation and pride in workmanship which char- acterizes the whole Heinz organization, H. J. Hernz Company 5'7 Varieties 51

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A Lesson from the Stars THE SATURDAY EVENING POST rs he the garden of a country home two men were talking. Near them sat a small boy, looking at the stars. ‘Business,”’ said one of the men, ‘grows worse every month. | am making a product that I know is the best in the held — andl still T can’t sell it.” There was a moment of silence. . . . Then the second man called to the boy who sat near them. “‘Son,”’ he said, ‘‘if you had your choice of any of those stars up there, which one would you choosef’’ The boy promptly pointed to the brightest starin sight. ‘“That big one over there!"" he said. The man who had addressed the boy turned to his companion. ‘‘As a matter of fact,”’ he said, ‘‘there are other stars in the heavens, which the boy cannot see, that are far brighter and bigger than the one he chose. But he didn't know the other stars were there ad so he couldn't choose them. ‘That’s why your product isn't selling. People simply do not know it exists." “T know what you mean,”’ said the first man, “‘advertising. But I have tried advertising in the past—two or three times—and it didn't work.” His companion seemed preoccupied with the stars. . . . “*If we stand here and watch the sky fora few minutes,”’ he finally said, ‘‘we shall see a shooting star. It will spurt across the heavens for a second, and then it will die out. There are thousands of shooting stars every night. People pay little attention to them and they are instantly forgotten, “That's the kind of an advertiser you Were. “The Pole Star,"’ continued the speaker, “has stayed on the job so long and so faithfully that its very name has come to mean ‘a guide, a controlling principle.” And that’s the way to advertise. There are certain products today whose names are regarded as a guide to satisfaction and a controlling principle of quality. They are the pole-stars. %In this present economic situation, it is the pole-stars that are deans the business.”’ N. W, AYER & SON @oreeuene NEW York Boston PHILADELPHIA CLEVELAND CHicaca April 2

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' Ceuatiaued from Page 50) oat a@ very different way of thinking, TM ow. Jim, too, And we are od — sou have taught me the sea of 2a Tiberty—and of the importance Gvickwaal truth 5 ane sors it, I see i now — in er pect, You ght! Beansy was right! I shall be my own family! To hear you like I litels dreamed—I t a step rl Tt was a horrible idea, but I'd Fa thousand times. I'd give my con- Lk bunclred times times rather —— but that might bese foolish! How reper that [ may not tire of Jim—aor tine of me—though that aeeTHA x improbable. But there is the poo ty. "“Chis—the new way—leaves an img for ws. It is a truer way. The i Ttest. prevail." Ars. Tilden, this is too horrible!" sLother ! At your age.” am not a nonaigenarian, Hen All mothers are alkd—too old for non- a Not for the trath. You have taught even with my falling powers, to recog- oa Hut we were speaki the general— i# ahetrection, Mra Mh idew = Eee & s net an abstraction.” king, Mra. Tilden, of—of =. aeho of thought—or rather of wthing still in the making —processes completed yet—they are on ed, tested, a very little be as -the younger neration. They may haps be too radical—for—er—the mass. ry may be derorkeas for the individual— | special individual. We can't tell as One for gis all for one," cried Helena. Vhat man do, men may do, And iat,”” alee incorrectly, ““is sauce for Y kitten—mnwust be sauce for the eat." “Tnomy own family!" Henry bleated. “Well, dear—you need not pull so long lace at making a convert. For I've truly anged. I nt dream of opposing at views on ex . Nor Beansy— mw. Anyhow, James and I hove full sided. We gre going to be for ene her —on the fourteenth af April. Weahall “ie propa bard 4 month ae ni enry cried out sharply, "Do you ! Think of Baa home—of your town, t yur ad bee: Ioan “ Leer’ te a . it wou en rma in tet—-thotber whey Cdee'e. ont hy can't you do the Ging a eters dy ie any other sane person?” Aa aay T thought ——' Why. look what you'll do te yourself! Look what you'll de to us all, You carit mck the é¢ alone. Look what you'll oto me! Why, Ann wouldn't look at ink an “Ann “Yr Ann. Do you think she'd have a thing to do with me? And just when [— why, ifthe Post Digest'll give me a raise next year [°}] —— “Do Vou mean that you and Ann ——" “We've been writing since last summer, Tve never known anyone on earth like Ano. I want to marry Ann.” “You mean—in the ald way? Forever and ever, and per er—and take your me? “Twouldn't be any chance at all—with Ass," cried Henry, just as though he had iveen. bore fifty years before. Helena shook her head a little sadly. “Well, [ can't agree with you any more, hear, ow, Jim and I have seen the light. He's coming at four, You ean talk toverwith him. But? dgubt—oh! I want rerything"—she paused in the doorway, holing Gke the Eobermlan Girl in her brght attina—"[ want everything ‘ter ben open and expressed frankly. 0 ine fap no pontine ring throat ing! ith think vat have my lunch in my room," “If Jim,” reflected Helena, “continues ‘his line a minute longer I shall believe Lids —about 1s aipgenies I wall believe 'e going on a amen our He day ih larat ton si , sin Heer. still in ‘er blithe clothing, sat Luring fo her James—and too os iim pras- wed active in the cause of EvEntion aa could be imagined. Beonsy cline been eccladed from the con- But now the aie waa filled with tr=nent for the obverse side af the presented, and He ¥ being THE SATURDAY EVENING POST eould not forbear admairntion for Jomes, atoical patient manufacturer of umbrellas— and no alowch at his books, either—who sat stubbornly unmoved, carefully comaideri the persuasions the younger men offered. lt was mid, indeod, to hear James returning one by one, with quiet determination, the Rolands given aforetime to his Olivers. He had been a pat and apt listener—old im. It wae odd te hear M oré=tlay pleading | now like any f to hear Henry rewson ing. pe oe amanding like any Dour geais ¥ Helena, by th by the window, planning a garden to be begun when she and Jim got home from their mene trip, indulged a wicked old habit. She smiled down her sleeve with a rare sense of content. a Nagok Henry threw up his Rendh, pucing up nad dewe| in a last exaaperation “What can I do to make you see what pe and mother are doing? Why, the thing gece Tmanstrous |" know,” snid Helena, "that's Do so felt about what. Beanay just the wa did—befare [ knew better," “Beansy! Harold!" he cried bitterly, “If be hadn't behaved like a young om this would never have happened. Moresby and [ would never ——" “Have infected me. True. But I'm glad rm wid Mel aN ett lad Bonny did it, maja Rie a ded solely, ‘d like to choke Henry. "T suppose,” he added, “if he had wielded the point in the first place—the firat day, you wouldn't have “Oh, off eosien. But— = think Very Wrong = mg bird rari There's a sciasinteinwcied here—that's soo on believe that's what you and Beansy F “ Thut look here!" eried oe “Oh, mother!—I get your point—I —there's something in what you said before—I sea that now—but if Reansy gave in—if we all gave in—— Upon my word, I believe you're stringing usaf" He stopped suddenly. “Jim,” Helena, “are we " “Friday, the fourteenth of April. On the steamship Carpathia, firat cabin,” said James gravely, af "Mather, then listen. crow and oats old Ati + i would you give iL —he caught a strange glint in Hel- oats eyea—“would you—be willing to on cae conventional, the two of you Welt and mags = HS ve THeVver se ia , Henry. may say that Unless Beunsy doca—we shall continue jy cizely aa we've planned.” Her aon looked at her silently, eonsider- ingly a long minute, then before Faded in ber eyea his face changed, the red Miter even sheepishness poured into Ibe. “ Mother {" boned eh alow brenth, I atlek ‘em wu I hand ik to sou, You are simply—pricelesa.” He looked at Moreh but Moresby covered hia mouth and t é Parmachene Belle with a concealing hand. "Where is Beansy?" he asked. But Beansy was not far and, brought in, Henry, his hero, gave his instructions with ity and abruptness, "Beans," he said, “we've been consider ing it all over— school stunt: and I've changed my mind. I guest you'll have to renege on the fretexpression stuf. I you'll have to tell Anderaon, It don't work out. We were wrong.” “To tell the truth, Hen,” said Beanay, “Dve always kinda felt Iwas. Only that you—I don’t mind telling the old steat | was in darn bad taste. I was. And of course it'll keep the track athletics up.” "Ob," cried Helena, anyved: and so is your arithmetic; and so are James and = And I don"t care who tries to contradict me. “God's in His en: all's ¢ t with the world." In mine any how. And mow I'll go and tell Narah to cut a fresh pan of gingerbread.” ¥ JiHE white curl of smoke was the only UL thing loft. The train had quite vanished di the horizon point where the fan of | met. The t thre: radicals had departed and Helena stood alone with Jim, looking after them. Othera—more remotely—leoked, og as Pollyanna, I'm ‘ht of —— Mother, | soel were moiitg to do it difforenthyy— weren't | “the track work's | to: two opoaum aport eoata and a brace | fa AOEB a pein’ i, La vf a ee ee eee be PITCAIRN rr Celeste sebet coeiaree era eres ican PATE ANID WIND AY GLASS MLRRGRS - PAINTS White Enamel the Bathroom OU will find it a spare time pleasure if you use a free flow- ing enamel and a good brush Which enable you to secure the immaculate surface that is the beauty of enamel decoration. It is inexpensive and very easy to enamel or varnish your furniture, floors, and woodwork. Pitcairn Sole Proof colored var- nishes and enamels, ready-to-use, come in large and small cans of the right size for every possible household need. Sold by quality dealers everywhere, Wrrice for Peel ©" eek er PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS Co. RES. WROTE HE WARK, MEW JERSEY VARNISHES - BRUSHES - iN 5d ro gers, yee ay \ A tere * abies %, ws oe he ed oe ‘PITTSBURGH PLATE ‘GLASS CO. EL TECIDE a]

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4 lubrica ak E S£O0LIDOIFIED OIL A Suggestion to the Two Million Owners of Alemite- Equipped C a pi} AWE it rat Fun e Roe aie site ; SFM heh 5, Shoei Lae ; You can load the Alemite Com- pressor in a jiffy, without soiling your hands, if you use genuine Alemite Lubricant, because it comes packed in auto-loading con- tainers. This is the very best lubri- cant that we know of for your It is pure solidified oil, con- taining no acids, grit or other for- eign substance. Sold by dealers and garages everywhere in half- pound and five-pound cans. A Product af THE BASSICKR MANUFACTURING COMPANY Chicago, [bimods Alemite Products Company of Canada, Lod., Belleville, Ontario SE THE SATURDAY EVENING POST of veloura hats—jade green and apticot, But pies ee only af her loss, novelist; at edibar- athlete. Goat bites aa. be "the erlad. “Jim—I ec! like exhausted bellows. Comfort me.” a Goaiet you? IT t to cast you SS the street, wean. t to throw ou before this south-bound freight. You aven't looked at me in three days. I'm ies dead of jealousy.” “Tf you're jealous it's because of some thing you've lost. Both of us have Lost, Tim. sign they've gat now—but rust But aren't they beawti- ful—while hari got it? So deadly sure April 22, of things—sa talley and full af weeds though the words mattered! It's wesin spade as a a that eounts— mot you call it. don't know For zl! tearing down that theyll build their : at im t things—like all the old at lived before them.” we] ane, my dear Mra, Godfrey G. Gl’ that I really must comfort you. Just t/ of Bermuda: wall 3 ? And the g/ coming up hardand smooth. Look att fields over t But Helena ntill logked down the 5/ After a minute, Jim; but just mow last look her eyes eried Godepesed to) i) boys. BUSINESS LETTER| By Floyd W. Paraone ETTER writing, especially in business, ia being rap reduced to something very much in the nature of an exact acience, This transformation has beon necessitated by changed conditions in comme»rce and industry, The letters of yesterday would fail in serving the needs of to-day. It ia iitanesting. therefore, to note some of elng evolved by studenta of the subject. reonal talks are not always possible in the operation of businesses, and the result ia that letters must be substituted for human contact, It follows, therefore, that te be effective in this rile of proxy for humans, betbers must have huran qualithes. Progressive corporations now realize not only this fact but aleo the magnitude of the aervice to the firm in the establishment of will that well-written letters will ren- er. Practically every large corporution deals with its customers o dozen times na frequently through correspondence as py Seadanl egntact. It is not surprising, therefore, that jn. pa Managements are establishing well-planned courses of atudy within their own organizations to beac employes the most advanced prac- tices in ness corrspondene:, Severn companies thar a amull fee for the course, returning half the payment when the em- ploye completes the study. This is done to piake the course fully appreciated. Such a course should be placed in the hands of a qualified executive of the com- pany, or a letter-writin ing expert should be amployed. If an outs ealled im it Sil tant be necesary for him to baa the tompany scormspondencelorseveral weeks before mapplng out the course. Though ae crane, may be undertaken in a imited way, the principal instructionshould be given by correspondence. The aim must be to estublish uniformity of style, und this must be accomplished without deetray- ing individuality and freahness. Stress should be placed on service to the com- pany; easy, correct diction; forceful ex- pression through concentration on the chief points: and progression ta a natural, logr= tal, convincing conclusion, One concern in an effort te improve the letters written by its employes holds a nieeting on company time twice a month, to which all workers of high and low de gree are invited, but not officially required to attend, Several persons are appointed to bring in a letter apiece, which was re- ecived during the fortnight from some outeide correspondent. The employes are expected to criticize their letters, and each one suggests the changes that should be made in his letter, After the several re- ports have been e 8 letter writer of retogmined ability tukes oll the lethers and comments on the ¢riticisma of the erities, This plan hea been found effective in im- proving the concern's standard of corres- pondence. Different types of letters require difler- ent styles of treatment, Porhaps the most difficult communication to write is an wos fustment letter, In such a communication se opening sentence la vital, for the recipi- the letter is likely to be in an unfaver- i i frame of mind. Never restate the complaint or commence with an expression of surprise that the customer or client has had trouble, Of the writer has decided ta make a cuntession it bs far better to de sa gracefully, and not at the same time state a number of reasons why he should not dose, Adjuetment letters ane eapeclally desigaed bo continue business relations, aod therefore earcagio oF ill temper has no place in th The writer should avoid flattery and tempts at humor, He should not instr but instead give information, Don't tr) force the complainant to admit he i is wri Aveld negative suggestions, and never! flert on the customer's veracity, 3) the letter by saying: “Tt la pleas to help straighten a this difficulty.” Don't waste words stating a letter been received and that the contents bk been Your reply indicates. all Some peaple call every letter a fay whereas many letters are not favors at) A lot of people continually use the ball “ beg" in writing business communicate | which word conveye.an unnecesaary impr sion af subservience, besides being ha need, The clever letter writer alw beginsand ends his communications by st ing in one farm or mnother the point of vb of the person to whom he is writing. Ef generally wise to cover up or at leost ¢ to disguise the points that are of spec intereat to the writer, Many letters a spoiled by cape exarperated sal ments such as the ‘cokes "the big value in the world for the money,"" i telegraph companies tell us that the wo “please in telegrams costs mo than one million dollara each year, ay that the people apending the money ha made an excellent investment. The war “please” can be used aa effectively in le ters as in, telegrams, The correspondent who trusts his punt tuatlon te a stenagra admits his incom etence, and should not complain if bi ettera are misunderstood. Form letter thoughtfully composed and neatly type are a valuable asset in business, except & tases where eorresponiianie carelessly selon ps ragraphe that de not fit the subject ir 4 cause the letter to leek coher ence. Form letters designed with an usually show restraint and almeerity, and are free of superlatives. In these point they are often superior to letters hestily dictated on the spat. It is a goad plan to avoid trying to cover two separabe business: transactions in on letter. A number of authorities go so far a even tosuggest a different envelope far each letter, although the communications to the mame person may be written at the same: dictution, Don't use “Gontlemen"; i stead say “Dear Sirs."’ Assume that year stenagrapher ia the person you are writhy to, and talk ag you would in ordinary co: versation. Try to strike a reaponalve chet, ateelr ia? te thet if you can get the athe fellow to feel with you it will be enaber 4 get him to act with you. Don't say ‘! winh to bet gre ted you are nint advisicg but sheaply ling him poration: Tee words ““bell,")" neguely Ynform” are far better usa Short paragraphs are often attractive. but they can be go brief as to be jerky. 1! it does not require too long a paragraph t is best to finish the ides or thought in mist in the same paragrugh in whick Fou imbr tluce it. In closing & a letter te is better éo be poditlve, using a nite verb rather then participial construction. ‘The expression “Wishing you success,’ “Trusting poo ar well,” and so On, are Tot as prong aa * | wish,” "I trust,” "DT hope,” and the like Thousands of correspondents interchang: words that are net synonymous. Few lines of effort to-day oder corpora tions a8 great an opportunity to improve thelr position in busines as if presented [a the field of commercial letter writing,

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ibe, 2 jel 5G ~~ » s THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 22,1! hall HI. | -F-DI x | {Continued from Page re ' After a time they drew close tometer. waving grass which undoubtedly got its eve was like a atran = at running parallel and at top append, At the moisture from some lower stratum. far end of the dendly Fouls # tube. =! ee ed Paste liscanee, eae. 7an ote Was : swifk BR aoa fl sean ree clintening vee leveled direct at the prostrate mo . a ore between the tee ack mud appeared, although forthe most forehead. foran Acid Mouth bulla, For an instant the three seemed to part the mask of Innocent-looking gro “Hol Banton's call was quick and WL run neck and neck. Then the rider's arma covered all signa of danger. It was, in perative. He flung upa hand, stepped seemed extended, each on ita side. Two puifa of blue amoke stained the gray dust. The black horse ep pang straight ahead, nat awerving to either e. Two stumblin forms slowed, staggered =e presently fell, Then the dust passed, and he saw the ridor trot back, glancing here and there over broad rolling plain at the werk of hinwelf and hia men. do hit, bay!" exclaimed the "Ty seed grizzled old hunter when they niet. “T aed ye'd said ye'd ye plain, an’ ef T hadn't, an did hit, I'd of said ye was a ra iter" “Oh, tt the double?" Banion colored, not Prevents Film on the Teeth

eAn AID to SUCCESS M4 ir from Sir lah SCAR SHAW is cme of many ace | indosd. Well Te eagles could bs done ful snare ss “Onee ern en a of thes stige ea liar atter this? ary one o' them a who have given fele wncuualitved eH domements to Chlor-E-Dixo as an aid to improved: personal . bint pis and had bit ye ye'd have hed no boas; an” ary one was due to hit ye, or drive ye againat | the other, an' then he would. That's a trap T hain’t ridin’ inter noways, not mel" health, becouse , ] ene a at his own battered piece o ruefully. CHLOR-E-DIXO dps the tooth “Well, Ole Sal," nai he, "pears like like peroxide— tye a ou an’ me ain't newfangled enough fer , these ti ! I gi ia med, not none! en t te Ore CHEOR: -EDIRO teppei | rc ef I ever do, rt m a goin’ to stay thar. back, five ¥ To one dreamed o WHE OTES, let A ary plows, Fust thing, bt makin’ plows with wheels, an rifles thit's six-heoters too!"* He laughed loud and long at his own conecit. “Well, a6 ye," sald he, “we got meat. We've lic ome Ted nation an’ got enough ment to feed the white nation, all in o touple o* days, Not eo bad—notso bed.” Arcd that night, in the two te en campments, the white nation, in bivauac, on its batthe ground, sat around the firea of bois dea poacher till near morning, rosating bom ribe breaking marrowbones, fer een singing, bonsting, shaking aie on ae if WeayH wir, THN to their women—the Americans, most terrible and most succesful of all savages in history. But from one enearm ni two faces were miaing until late—Banion and Jack- son of the igsourians. Sam Woodhull, eretwhile column captain of the great pain, if late more properly to be called unat- , Also was absent, It waa ea a | oe their friends that Pitan mon might be aut late, superintending the butchering, of that at worst eee henighted fur aut and would find t next mornin ir way to camp the of these guesses was correct. 7 ss, to be correct, must have in- cluded in one solution the Missing men of both encompments, whe had hunted miles apa x25 & BANION and Jackson ended their part in the buffalo running and guve instructions to the on men whe followed OSCAR SHAW ita | a "frome! Warmest, Dearie." the parular maa. to care [or the ment, t found themselves Ee Tee ken, at a distance of several miles from their starting point, They were deep into a high rollin ateau where the going ws Mare ) difiewlt than in the level sunken valley of \ the Platte. Conelaod that it would be easier to ride the two aides af the triangle than the one over which they had come out, they headed for the valley at rapa angle. Aa they rode, the keon eye of Jackson caught sight of a black object apparently struggling on the ground wt the bottom of a hag! as B which made down in a long rih- Et yan!" he exclaimed, “Some feller’ a boat his buffler, I expect. Let's ride down an’ put him out'n his misery afore the wolves docs swung off and rode for a time to ee eee | iy beeth af ihe atrenat imporlance, and oo | we CHLOR-E-DIXG in Toeth Pawiz.'" ward the at yect, Ebonten pul led up, _ chat'a no ite! That's a man and his horse! He'a | down!" Panne right, Well, an’ bad! I've knew that light-green slough te cover the worst sort o quicksands. She rune |) back sand under the mud, God knows how deep. You can't run a bufiler inter hit— ! he levees. Come on!" spurred down o half mile of gentle | Slope, hard and frm under foot, and halted | at the edge af one of the strange man traps which sometimes were fount fe the un- ined Plaina—a slough of tall, comrse, products

effect, the dreaded quicksand, the octopus of the Plains, whic. covered irom wiew more than one victim and left no diseov- ornble trace, The titer had when a bo cross. a mar- row neck of the slough, His mount had beans to sink and flounder, had been u until the Ws ei there Then too late, the rider had dung off and turned back, sinking until his feet and lege — re gripped by the layer of deep aoft sand twas one of the rarest but most pte accidenta of the savage wilderness, Mackened by the mud which lay on the surface, his hat half buried, bis arms benat- ing convulsively as he thoew himself for- ward agalis and in, the vietin must in all likeliheed soon have exhausted himself. The chill of night on the high Plainga soon would have done the reat, and by fortune he might have died before meeti his entombment. His horse ere this ha accepted fate, and ceasing to straggle la almost bacried, his head and neck su by a trembling bit of eating gras roots. “Steady, fhend!" called aut Banion a he ran te the - “Dent i Se ean cat your arms and lie still! We' ou out! a Bi My lariat, Jackson, ci yours !"" The seout was already freving the sadclle ropes. The two horses stood, reins down, snorting at the terror before them, whee menace they now could sense. “Take the hora!" ealled Banien. “Tl get the man!" He sin coiling the thin, braided hide yeala, soft as go glove and strong as steel, which always beng at the Spanish saddle, He caat, and cast agnin—yet Sg he loop at forty feet gone te noth ing Te very silence of the vietim nerved him to haste, and he stepped in knee deep, finding only mid, the trickle of black sae heiy farther out, The rope aped onee more, an fell within rench—was caught, <A sob or an cane, the BOLE Even then From the imprisoned aninal heryond him came that terrifying sound, the scream of a horse in mortal terror. Jackson's rope fell shart, “Get the rope under your arms!" calbed Banion to the blackened, sodden be- fore him. Slowly, forbly, his order was ole With much effort the victim pot the oop below ane arm, acto a ahoul and then paused, “Your rope, quick, Ball!" Jackson hurried and they joined the enda nf the two ropes, “Biot my horse- be awild, Dally on te Your awn sacked ley Bil Land goslow or you'll tear his head o The seout's pony, held by the head and hacked alowly, squatted toa its haunches, snorting, but heaving etrongly. The hend of ba victim was drawn od ee niard ae his shoulder by the loap, but alone. silently, his- hands clutching at the rope, his began Fe ‘bs to ship forward, ras he dared, at last caught him by the lar, turned up his face. He was safe. Jackson heard the rescuers coeg exclamation, but waa busy. “Cast free, Will, cast free quick, and ['I try for the horse!" He did try, with the lengthened rope, east after cast, paying little attention to the work of Banton, who dra out his man and bent over him as he lay motionless on the safe edge of the Geathomon sunken Banda high stlll half buried him. "Wo wel” exclaimed the older man, He Tan to his saddle and got his deadly dauble barrel, then stepped as close to the sink- ing animal as he could, cra came nroat, The head of the horse crapped fat, ntosink, “Pore critter!" muttered the ald man, and now bestenedd to ald Banion. The latter turned a set face toward him and pointed. The nescued man bad opened his eyes. He reached now rr for a-tult OF pres pane atared. "It's Sam Woolhull!" ejaculated the scout, Then, seddenly, “Git away, Will— move back!" Banion looked over hia shoulder as he stood, his own hands and arma, hia cloth- ing, black with mire, The ald man's gray trem. “Nol You'd kill him—nowT” With a curse Jackson flung his run i | re him vaeee to re-coil the mu At length, without o word, Banion aide, He renched down, an arin and helpet EBanien drag thes on the grass. He cought off a The herbage and thrust it out to 7 who remained silent before i his rian # fate. re ci ore fines, yer the scout, n he sented Pawel | hands before neces, Vill Banion,” said be, “vere a Too ye're a nacherl-borned, congenual, Engr mned fool) Ye're flyin’ in the fare Proverdence, which planted this eri Tight here fer us to leave where no op ever the wiser,.an' where he could never do no more devilment. Ye leave me leill bim, ef oe pe. Loc chick} hearted yoreself! Of leave us throw — back in again!"

Banion would not apeak at firat, thoy his eyes never left Woodhull’s streak ghastly face, Atlength he said slowly, “Lf we hades joined Seott and climbed Chapultepe: t ther, I'd kill you like a dog, right ber hall I give you one more chance to sque things for me? You know what I mex Will you promise?” 4 iat na ‘ broke bi Jackson. “Y amin would ye liewe seat he made even nowf I haga Sasha murder ye the fust airs i gets, ma tried hit ane night afore. Leave mee cut f throat, Wil! We'll never be safe antel I dy Leave me cut his throat er kill him with rock. Hit's onby neat me Banion shook his h “So, he anid - fiero "T eouldn't, am you must not, 1” he ied yor promise? Fepen bey ch helpless man, “iret up—stand up! Tk Fonuise— will you ewenr? Jackson algo rose oe ered to his feet. “Ye kroon re “Swearl Hell!' Woodibull this man orte kill ye, and : e areeakued bus, didn” tye? Whar's yer gun “There!” Woodhull Saeed to the bog, eer which no object now showed. “I'm helpless! rll Perri! Ti il swear i" Then we'll not aeand the moequarter charge that you and I have heard ibe Spanish trumpets blow. You vill estes ber the shoulder of a man who fought sith yout You'll do what you can now—at ary tort?" “Whol east? demanded Woodhull thickly. Banion's own white teeth shored as he aroiled. "What difference?" gaid he “Weal "That's bitt” Again Jackson eut in, inexorable. “Hit's no difference ta Kin what he sw" are, yet he’ cl bargain ever mow, Hit’s abowt the “Hush i" oe sternly, "Not He another word! "Figure on whit it means te you," "T knew what jt to have my om turned ta Woodhull. means to me. I've last chance, Wooihull, and I'm saving yoo for that only. Is your last chance now 2 good as mine? This isn't mercy —I'n trading now, You know what I moa Woodhull had. freed I his face of the mud a8 well as he could. He walked awar, stooped ata trickle of water to wash hin: self, Jackson quietly roae and Kicked th shotyun back farther from the edge. Wood: hull now was near to Ranion's horse, whick, after his fashion, always came and eto close to his master. The butts of the two dragoon revolvers showed in their holster: at the sachile, When he ros from the | muddy margin, #haking his hinds as to ae them, he walked toward the bors With a sudden leap, without a word, he rang beyond the horse, with a swift clutch at both revolvers, all done with a catlike quickness nat to have been jire- dicted. Ife stood cloar of the plunging arse, bath weapons leveled, covering his ree rescues. “Evener now!" His teeth bared, “Promise me!" (Contineed on Page #8)

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TO TIRE DEALERS; Seiberling Cords ond Tubes ore distributed thrgugh regular retail channels, We desire to establish connections with good business men who ogree with ua that high-grade products, a policy of selected ond mot closely com- petitive distribution, and servies te cl resaesmbc ater openness tinea lating and mutually profitable re lationship. Write or wire Sei Rubber Company, Aloe, Obie, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST A 57 ~The Small Car Deserves a Good Tire 'SEIBERLING ¢ “A Tire that Will be Known £verywhere”’ The 30X 3% Clincher Cord at $1250 You would doubtless like to have cord tires on your car, if you could be sure you could afford them and that they were really as good as the cords made for larger cars. One of the first things the Sciberling organization determined to do was to satisfy you on both points. Mr. Seiberling, after many years of cord- tire production—resulting in the world's largest cord-tire business—was satisfied that a high-grade 30 x 34 Clincher Cord could be built and sold at a price which would put it within reach of the average owner of a small ear, and which would at the same time relieve any doubt as to whether it really was a better investment than a good fabric tire. Such a tire has now been produced. It has equally as good materials and construc- tion advantages as the larger size (straight- side) Seiberling Cords. This Seiberling Clincher Cord has very strong features to recommend it to the owner of a small car. The tough, durable rubber of the tread is continuous from bead to bead, preventing tread-separation, assuring side-wall resist- ance to mats, gravel and other rough going, and it is strong at the shoulder, where most small clincher cords have been weak. The On-Air cure process gives uniform tension throughout (no wrinkles or buckles from pinching in the mold) and better dis- tribution of tension in the finished tire. It has one tread design (anti-skid) for all wheels, making tires interchangeable, It is semi-flat, giving better traction and longer wearing qualities. Seiberling Cords and Tubes are now on sale by Seiberling Dealers. Write for name and address of one nearest to you. SEIBERLING RUBBER COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO SETBERLING “CORDS ONLY": Seiberling Tires are Coan only, AQ Tires, Tulse and other products ering nome and trade-mark are of one grade only—as a: we Con it SEIBERLING TUBES: Seiberling Tubes, also ore of carrying the Seib- “one grade only, as good as we can male it." They . tt heavy, large tubes, of long-lived “pure gum, floating , tock," and should last a long as the casing itself ‘

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ee WN) How Manufacturers Reduce Cost of Building 15% The Application of Mill Construction to Factory Building. Also Reduces Carrying Charges, Taxes, Insurance ANY a business man has, in the last twelve months, come to realize the true meaning of cost- ly factory buildings. Extravagant building invest- ments, entailing high, fixed over- head, are proving an almost insur- mountable handicap in the present intensely competitive period. A big price to pay for yielding to fear of fire, instead of inves- tigating the causes of fire and the real facts of fre protection, And entirely unnecessary when the application of a single estab- lished principle of commercial building construction, coupled with adequate sprinkler protection, might have saved Aim 15°, on building investment, 15°), on interest carrying charges, a considerable amount on faxes and as much as 75%) on actual insurance costs. © wonder industrial execu- i tives are, more and more, fig- uring necessary indus- trial building in terms § of fire resistant, sprin- | klered “mill construc- tion.” They are finding that insurance rates are much lower than on so- called fire-proof build- ings, unsprinklered, while the rate is, at the same time, applied on a lower valuation. It is, after all, not buildings so much as fifwstrating the contents that constitute fire hazard; and trying to reduce fire hazard by increasing building investment only piles up the overhead, and unnecessarily increases costs. Engineers and architects, long familiar with the principle of fire- resistant, sprinklered “mill con- struction,’ yet obliged to limit its use because of lack of sufficient uni- formly safe timbers with which ANUPACTURERS who have assumed that so-called Gre- proof building is necessary to lower i rised to dis- the greatest IDSOFaeoe rotes are su corer that thousaods mills in the country sprinklered “mill construction’ buildings, ia which brick and wood have been ine telligestly combined isto lactones of great utility and adaptability — ore paying today lower insurance ooste than almost other olass of ingur- ance rieks ond thet their losses over a recent three-year period have aver- aged oaly 1% cents per $100.0 of in- ures Written. Let as make every day “Fire Prevention Day" 2 nwciah Succi | So ol oe _* ES... it aa bog ae WEYERHAEUSER FOREST PRODUCTS SAINT PAUL* MINNESOTA Producers of Douglas Fir, Pacifie Coast Hemlock, Washington Red Cedar and Cedar Shingles on the Pacific Coast; Idaho White Pine, Western Soft Pine, Red Fir and Larch ia the Inland Empire; Ch, Plata rhe Gina igor Tamedeg Ge, rand iO, Chad, dee, Bagot sand at bliag architectural possibilities of “mill comstruction * in modern factory building to apply it, are now unhesitatingly recommending it. Timber values are no longer a matter of guesswork. The work of testing engineers, scientists and lumber experts, ex- tending over a period of years, now makes possible the selection of tim- bers for ‘mill construction” based on uniform values. T is now possible to secure se- lected timbers for the most exact- ing industrial uses from the Douglas Fir Mills of the Weyerhaeuser or- ganization or from its great dis- tributing plants in the heart of the Eastern and Mid-western markets. Just what the principle of fire- resistant, sprinklered ‘‘ mill con- struction” is as applied to com- mercial buildings, and just why Weyerhaeuser selection of timbers now makes this principle practical of application, is told in two book- lets sent free on request. Weyerhaeuser For- est Products are dis- tributed through the established trade channels by the Wey- erhaeuser Sales Com- pany, opokane, Wash- ington, with branch offices at208 S. La Salle St., Chicago; 1015 Lex- ington Bldg., Baltimore; and 4th and Roberts Sts., St. Paul; and with representatives through- out the country. Northern White Pine and Norway Pine in the Lake States April 3

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(Continard from Poge 54) 20m", cure: waa hia answer. 1 Poe, ae oom folded ware @ liar and a coward, Sam!" said Shoot, if cos ve got the nerve!" ‘edible, yet the man was a natural rer. His « eye narrowed, There came t motion, a double empty click! ¥ again. Sam!" said Banion, taunt- ro ““Bad huck—you landed on an did try again. Swift as an adder, his wip mien Cee ae i 1m Of. ick alter click, na Jackson = comb, expecting death, bes" re all empty, Sam," said Banion ft as the m rer cast dawn the re Fe anc stood with spread hands. “For: st time, I didn't reload. I didn't (‘dd meed them.” ou cam"t blame me!” broke out Wood- “You said it was no quarter! Isn't aorer Justified in trying to escape?” fou ye nat vig cet Said Banion, F mow. “Hope bim, Jackson.” © thin soft hide cord fell arqund the 5 neck, ughtened. low, ** ghrilled Jackson, “I'll give ye ts death!" - iard, “who b te the side of the black training had settled i aiesine 4 6 Fope, EIT ‘TCHING the intention of the mad- dened man, now bent only on awift re- fe, Banion sprang to the head of his #@, finging out an arm to keep Jackson of the aaddle. The home, frightened he atu bhorn iagle betweicn & twa, ng away. W all was pulled flat the nope about hia neck, nor could he en it new with hia hands, for the horse t steadily away. Any instant and he pat Eee in a mad flight, dragging the n to his death. "Ho! ! Pronto—vien aqui!” eo ee s command again quisted the His ears fo » he came up, easing oe ce his own query ns to what really Banton Facies the bridle rein once mare 1 eased the rope. Jackson by now hod ishotgun and waa shouting, erased with ger. Woodhull's life chance was not rth a bawbee, lt was his enemy who saved it ones in, for imeerutable but unaltered reason bis OWL. ‘Drop that, Jackson!" called Banion, Do as I tell you! This man's mine!" Cursing himself, his friend, their cap- re, the horse, his gun and all dndroate ind animate Nature in his bleed rire do man, livid in wrath, atalino; away at cgth. “I'll kill him sometime, ent yerself!" he ecrearmed, his heard rambling. “Ye damned fool!" “Get up, Woodhull!" commanded Ban- >. “You've tried once more to kill me, f course, I'l nee talce. way onth or prom- «from you now. You don't understand ach things. The blood af a gentleman i isn't nywhere in your strain. But I'll give you ine more chance—plve that chanee oo. There's only one thing you under- tand. That's fear, Yet I"ve seen you on i firing line, and you started with Don- pans cen, We didn't know we had a naan with us. But you are a coward, “Now I leave you to your fear! You know what I want—more than life it ia to me; but your life is all I have to offer for it. Pm going to wait tll then “Came on now! You'll have to te Tickson won't let you have his horse. own hever cared a woman but once, My he's never carried a coward at all. Jack- wn shail not have the rope. I'll mot let kim iil you." “What do you mean?” demanded the pPrscoer, not without hia effrontery. The blood «ame back to Bonion's face, his control breaking. “| mean for you to walk, trot, gall duma you! Tf you don't you'll strangle bere inetead of somewhere else in time.” ee He seh: up, ahd Jackson sullenly fol- " jive me that gun," ordered Banton, ind took the isitgnn t and slung it in the pommel ol his own saddle, The ent amble of the black gtallion kept the prisoner at a trot. At times it _ never locking at the man toll his hands at the rope, panting. try him in the camp counci wat" Jackson once mare. 4 Any- ways that? He's a murderer. He tried to kil wa both, and he will yet. Boy, ye rid THE SATURDAY EVENING POST with See dane an” dont know the bey réfugio? Hasn"t the prisoner triod to ea- cies Ain't that old as Mayhoero por Take Soe skunk in on wy yaad t oy, jee" emuey f** “Almost,” nodded Banion. “Almost. Come on. It's late." Tt was late whee they rede down Inte the valley of the Platte. low them tyinkled hu of little fires of the white nation, fensting. Above, myriad atare ahone in a sky unbelievably clear. On every hand rose the roaring howls of the great gray wolves, also feasting now: the leaser chorus af ag ne coyotes, The savage night of | | he was on. Through it passed | eres savage figurea, one m stuggering, stumbling man with a rope araund his neck. They came inte ard circle, inte the dog cirele of the encampment; but when challenged anewered, anid were not stopped, “Here, Jackson," said Banion at length, “take the rope. I’m going to our camp. I'll not go into this train. Take this fistol—it's f loaded now, Let off the reac, k close to this man. aa runs, kill bin. oe Molly fr hiaban Tell her Will Banion has sent bh d to her—onece nrore. Tt's the last time.” He was gone in the dark. Dill Jackson, having firat meticulmesly exhausted the en: tire wituperative resources of the English, the Spanish and all the Indian languages he knew, finally poked the muzzle of the pistel into Woodhull's back, ""it, damn ve!" he commanded. “Cen- guide! Forrerd, march! Ye —" “ae improvised now, all known terms of contempt having been heretofore em- reading th the A way past many feast fires, he did find eae) wagons at len sa did find sealn Wingate. ut there failed fith a akinny hond at peaks ood hull's collar, he flung him for- ward. "Here, Miss Molly," said he, “this thing is somethin’ Major anion sont in ter ye b me. We find hit stuck in the mud. He anid ye're welcome.” fut neither he nor Molly realiy knew ef that other nes had spared Sam Wool- ‘a life, of what it was be awaited in rad for Sam Woedhull's life All that Jackson could do he did. As he turned in the dark he implanted a heartfelt kick which sent Sam Woodhull on bis knees before Molly Wingate a4 she stood in won- dering silence. Then arose sudden clamorings of those who had seen part of this—seen an armed man msanult another, unarmed ond de- fenscless, at a: Bite firesides. Men fume the nde af i Wingate came out fram the side a wagon “What's ri ' he demanded. “Woodhull, ohai's up? What's wrong here?" rir 0 THE ehallenge of Wingate and his Lec Jackson made answer with a high- ate fighting yell. Sweeping his pistol e across and back again over the front of the closing line, he sprang into saddle and wheeled sei 3 “Hit means we've brung ye back o murderer, Git yer own rope—ye leant Olt Miao Ef “big Sil sara aide inscaury over ef ah ‘ runnin’ in the mornin’. Yel faa us pilin’ fer a fight!" He was of in the darkness. Men clustered around the draggled man, one of their own men, recently one in authority. a indignation rose, grounded on the growing feeling between the two segments of the train. When Woodhull had told his own story, in his own way, ome were for ralding Misaourl detachment forthwith. Soaberer counsel revalled. Inthe morning Price, Hall and lsey rode over to the Missouri encamp- ment and asked for their leader, Banion met them while the work of breakin Sap wont on, the entth herd bain erat may driven in and held at youthful riders, themselves ap reaie fer a fight. “Wajor Banion,” began Caleb Price, | "we've come over to get some sort of understanding between your nren and ours. Ii ba like trouble. I don't want trouble “Nor do I," rejoined Banion. “We started out for Oregon aa friends. It seams to me that should remain our purport. No | little things should alter that, “Precisely. Hut little things have al- tered it. 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Lier. | frac Pas 59) “en you and one of our “i tain from. Your own town, your pene But that has now reached ; pamcintg ut might Megan open War z of our train. That ean Fun. That's wrong.” % replied Banion, “surely it is. ©, to avoid that, I wag just orderin eto pull out. T dowbt if we soul ogether now. I don't want war with ends: I reckon we can take care af emies. ‘Will this please you?” b Price held out Fis hand. ajor, L don't know the truth of any of ings ['we heard, and I think those are = that may be settled later on. But bligrad to fay that many of our people "ou and your leadership more than fo our own. I don't like to see you el, then we won't leave. We'll hold ied follow you. Isn't that fair?" (iS more than fair. for you can po now than we can, like enough. But a promiae me one thing, sir?” hat is itt™ we Pet in trouble and send back for will you comet" es. we'll come. But pull on out now, ce. Ay men want to travel We've war meat slung on lines along the fs to cure as wemove. We'll t till for ou." is fair.” Price turned to his asso- “Fide back, Kelsey, and tell Win- @ all think we should break camp at ‘ou gee,"’ he added to Bunion, “he din’t even ride over with us. I regret wreak between you and him. Can't it pence asncil Will fudden spasm Fit aa ons browted Tae it cannot," said he, “at least not here now. Hut the women and children | hawe no risk on that pecount. If we ever help, we'll come.” be twe again shook bands, and the gate Heutenants role away, so ratify a formal division of the train. What do you make of all thia, Hall?" oeober-roing Caleb Price at Last. hat's the real trouble? Is it about the Oh, yea: but maybe more. You heard it Woedhull said. Even if Banion de- Lit, it would be one man’s word against other's. Well, it's vide out here, and nw. They'll fight?" wil twee roogters that have been ated Tt" FrI¥ AME mow once more the notes of the bughe in for the assembly. Word eed down the scattered Wingate lines, ‘atch up! Cateh up!" Fidera went out ta the day guards with lers to round up the cattle. Dark lines the driven steck began to dribble in from eedge of the valley, One by one the ftalled vehicles broke park, swung front reat, until the columns again held on the gien road up the valley. in answer to @e¢ommand, “Roll out! Roll out!" The dmegurians, long aligned and ready, fell in Fhehind and pitched camp early. There fe two trains, not ome. Now, hour after hour and day by day, the @ of the trail through sand flats and dog vena, deadly in its monotony, held them in apathy, The light-heartedness of Mutart in early spring waa gone. By this ime the spare spaces in the w were ept led with meat, for alwaya were efalo now. Lines along the sides of the agons held loads of rudely made jerky— eos of meat slightly salted and exposed othe clear dry aur to finish curing, ‘ & wr THE SATURDAY EVENING POST But as the people fed full there began a curious sloughing off af the aocial ie pris | oZEn | a change in personal attitude. A wagons, short of supplies or guided by faint hearts, had their fill of the Far Weet und sullenly started back east. Three dozen broke train and pulled out inde pendently for the West, ahead of Wingate, mule and herse transport again rebelling Inst being held back by the on teams. are and more community cleavages be gan te define. The curse of fies by , of mosquitoes by night added increasing mix. eries for the tra The hot midday sun wore sore on them. Reatlesa high apirita, grief over personal losses, fear of the future, wike combined to leason the solidarity of the great train; but still it inched along on its way to Oregon, putting behind mile after mile af the grevt valley of the Platte, The grasa now lay yellow in the blaze of the gun, the sandy dust waa inches deep in the great road, cut by thousands of wheels, Flotsam and jetsam, wreckage, showed mortand mare, Skeletons of cattle, bodies mart yee skeletons, aroused no more than a casual look. Furniture lay cast aside, even broken wagons, their wheels fallen apart, showing intimate disaster, The actual hardships of the great trek thrust them- selves inte evidence on. nat hand, at eve hour. Often waa passed a little eraas, hall buried in the sand, or the tail gate of o wagon served as head hoard for some ragged opitaph of some ragged man. twas decided to cross the South Fork at the upper ford, so called, Here was pause aguin for the Win te train. The shallow and fickle stream, fed by the June rise in the mountaing, new offered a score of chan- nels, all treacherous, A long line of oxen, Tow wading and now awimeming, dragging a long rope to which a chain was a the latter to pull the wagon forward when the animals Est footing on shead—made a constant sight for hours at a time, One wagon after another was snaked through as rapidly of posible, Once b down in & fast channel, the flwent sand ao rapidly filled in the eponet that the settling wagon was held aa though in a giant view. It wos new country, new work for them all; but they were Americans of the frontier. The men were in the water all day long for four daya, swimming, wading, digging. Perhaps the first plow furrow west of the Kaw waa coat when dome plows eased down the precipitous bank which fronted one of the fording places. Beyond that lay ne mark of any plow for more than a thousand tiles, They now had passed the Plaina, as first oer crossed the prairie, The thin tongue of Jand between the two forks: own a8 the Highlands of the Platte, made vestibule to the mountalns. The scenery bepan to change, ta become mage, semicnountaln- ous. They noted and held in sight for a day the Courthouse Rock, the Chirney Rock, long known to the fur traders, and opened up wide vistas of desert architecture new to their expenences, hey were now amid and yaried abundance of game. A thousand bulfala five, ten, might be in alght at one time and the ambition of every man to kill his buffalo long since had been gratified. Black- tailed deer and antelope were common, and even the mysterious bighorn sheep of which some of them had read, Each trib- utary stream now hed its delicious moun= tain trogt, The fres.ot night had abundance of the best of food, cooked for the most part aver the native fuel of the boia des packer. The graze showed yet shorter, proving the late presence of the tolling Mormon caravan on ahead, The weather of late June was hot, the glare of the road blind- ing. ‘The wagons begun to full apart in the The Shingle that never curls. Because of the extra heavy felt weed in: the base and the expenenced tem- pering of the waterprochng asphalt. (Carey Asfaltelote Shingles will never curl, ‘Tihey are surfaced with crushed slate in the naturel fadetess red or green or blue-black. Select the color that will best beautify your heme. The crushed slate makes the Shingle snark-proaf, permitting low imesur ance rates and complying with mu: ricipal fire ordinance On sale at himber and building fispery dealera’ alemexat every: where, Df you don‘s (ind then, write THE PHILIP CAREY Co. 4 Milladale Avenue Letkland, Cincinnati, Ohio ASFALTSLATE SHINGLES

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dry, absorbent alr of the high countr And always skeletons lay along the trail, An ox abandoned by ita owners as too footsore for further travel might hetter have beon shot than abandoned, The gray woven would surely pull It down before another day. Coontin wously sxpch tropedics. of the wilderness went on before their wenryingg eyes Hreaking down from the highlonds through the Agh Hollow gap, the train felt its way to the level of the North Fork af the reat river which had led them for ao long. Reve suineteanpe: one had built a cabin— the frat work of the aort in six hundred miles—and by some strange concert this deserted cabin had years earlier boon con- stituted a post office of the desert. Hun- dreds of betters, bundle of pupers were addressed to people all over the world, east and weat, @ government nized this office, ho pottupe was employed in it. Only, in the hope that someone passing east or weat would carry on the inclosures without ice, folk here sent out their souls into the invisible, “How far'll we be out, at Laramie?" de- manded Molly Wingate of the train scout, Bridger, whom Eanion hed sent on ta Wingate in spite of his protest, “Sigh onte ale hundred and gix Fl mile t call it, ma"am, from Independ- ence to Laramie, an’ we'll be two months a-makin" hit, which evernges around ton mile a day," "But it's most to 9 Araget, hain’é tk?" "Mast to © a'um, it's nigh thre: hundred mi D haviad Laramie to the South Pass, an* the South Fass haln't hall- to Oregon. Why, ma'am, we ain't well begun!" Wel Tr¥ N OLD gray man in buckskins sat on the ground in the shade of the adabe stockade at old Fort Laramie, his kriees pic ted age abe oer hia eves fixed on the His hair fell over his shoulders in fone curls which had once been brown. His pointed fell on bie breast. He gat silent and motionless, save that constantly he twisted a curl around a forefi , over and over again, It was his way, — a long-halr, a man of another ee gay had seen the work] change in six aince the first wagon crossed yonder rldges, where now showed yet one more wagon train approaching. He paid no attention to the débria an diseard of Sky new day which lay all about him 2s be sat and dreamed of the daya of trap and sing Near at hand were pleces. of furniture leaning against the walls, not bought or eeld, but abandoned ma useleas here at Laramie. Wagon, aed — their fellies falling apart, lay on th ° ercearedd and other ruina of great wagons, d ried and dis inary Roeder d. The us rr on . ue . near by waa all cropped short. Par off a village ofthe Cheyenne, conve to day and sullen over the fact that littl now evuld be had for robes or peltries, grazed their ponies aside from the white man's read, Six hun- dred lodges of the Sioux were on the tritmtary river 2 few miles distant. The ald West waa making a lost gallant stand at Luraumié. , [aside the gute 2 mob of white men, some alent and businesslike, many drunken anel boisterous, pushed here and there for ac- cess bo the traci ehelyes, long since almost bare of g Paes thousand emi- grants pussed that Tt was the Faurt of July in Old Lara- mic, and men in jeans and wool and buck- skin were celebrating. Old Laramie had seen life—all of life, since the fur days of La Ramiée in 1821. Having now super- elicaly aeld out to these pilprima, resery- ing only alcohol enough for its own consumption, Old Laramie wae willing toa work wag, and content to teid ‘ ground a finger. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Eut yet another de- tuchment of the great army follawing the beg: im of the Moarnnons Whe how approaching In the warm gun of mid-morning, ita worn Wheels rattling, ite eatcle limpl ant ci Sie tongues, this caravanto awung wide into corral below the crowded tepess of the sullen tribesmen. Ahead of it now dashed o horseman, awinging his rifle over his head and uttering Indian yells. He pulled up at the very doar of the old adobe gu tower with its mounted awivel guns: ga off, pushed on inte the honeycomb the inner sEMieune. The famous border fortress was built around a aquare, the living quarters on one side, the trading rooms on another, Few — were admitted wt one time, other Indian wives of the engagés, “ officials of the fur company or rat tha a tached white or halfbreed hunters. abv game of the inner buildings were sleeping lofts. The inner open apace served a9 a general meeting ground. Indolent but on guard, Old Laramie held her watch, a rear poss of the passing West in ite wild days fore the plow, All residenta here knew Jim Bridger. He t out the cana in charge. oy, Bordeaux?" ' be began, “ Whar's oe bourgeois, in?" ” n river—h'enst after iP The trader, hands on his little counter, mt Nadal as aii ia his polyglot speech. a FI e ra ye ot “Hi'll not got a damned chine lef. How many loads you'll got for your h'own poet, deem?” “Hi e double _ what you "il kin git eee ice des and ke ie ral hoff your hand. The his hremigrant. she'll beat the fur." “T'll give ye half,” said Bridger. ““Thar's people here needs supplies that ain't half- way acrost. But what's the news, Bor- deagux? Are the Crows down?" wot beg ac p h" se hee ao the Vil heard of your ght on in the Phan Plenty beeg fight on ahead, be so. Youll bust up the trade, Sears" y Sioux, she's scare to come h'on the to an’ trade. He'll stay h'on the veellage, her.” “Ev dog to hia own yard. Is that all the newar’" gone by tewagons, Tron, flour and bacon,” “Five thousand Monmons, he'll harendy. Hi" womans pullin’ the han'cart, soere Enfant! News—you'll ought to know the news. You" il been h'on the settlement six mant’! “Hit seemed six year. rhe hull white nation’s movin’, So. That o “Well, gre hash Reet. a com up South Fork be wait he Majbesoquely cha’ des tourelles h'out Weat. I dunno, me” “Kit—Kit Carson, you mean? What's Kit doing bere?" “Ct. I dunno, me He nodded te a door, Bridger pushed rs him. In an inner room « party af a were playing cords at a table. these wea a slight, snmdy-haired ae a middle age and mild blue eve. Ib was indeed Carson, the redoultable acout and guide, a better man even than Bridger in the work of the wilderness. “How are you, JimT" he said guletly, reach eh a hand as he sat. “Haven't ‘or five vears. What are you acing here?" He rose now and put down his cords, The game broke up. Others gathered around Bridger and ereetext him. It was Hadther Detatimeat of the Great Army Follomlag 1ee Hegira of tie AWormona Was Now @ approaching Lararnie some time before the two mountain men got apart from the others. “What brung ye north, Kit?" demanded Bridger at length. “You was in Californy in | "47, with the eral." “Ves, I was in Galifornis this sp ring. The treaty's hewn signed with Mexico. We pet the country from the Rio Grande west, neluding California. Tim earring dis- patches to General Kearny at Leaven- worth. There's talk about taki over Laramie for an army post. The tri up in arma. The trade's over, Jim." “What I know, an’ have been payin’! Let's have a drink, Kit, fer ald times.” Laughing. Carson turned his pockets in- side out. As he did so cia | heavy fell from his pocket te the floor. In cour- teay os much as curiosity Bridger s first to pick it up, As he rose he saw Car- fon's face change as he held out his hand, “What's thigstene, Kit—yer medicine?" But Bridger's own face altered mene as he now guessed the truth. He look about him suddenly, his mouth tight. Kit Carson rose and they from the Toon “Only one ‘thing heavy as that, std Kit!" said Bridger fiercely. “Where'd jé hit?) «My gran'pap a a’ t it it come fram North Carl haat AED, 1 know what hit is—hit's gold Kit Car- eon, damn ye, bit's the gold!" “Shut your mouth, fool!" aaid Car- inl a it’s gold. oe 4 want ~ to be a liar to my general "a part o my dispatches,” “Hit come from Californy?" “Curse me, yea, Califernia! I wos ordered to get the news to the Army first, nate lonse-tongued, Jim. Can you keep ig? “Like a grave, Kit,” ETL Carson felt inside hia shirt and pulled out a meager and ill-printed sheet which told the moet sone news that this or any OOWT own—the mnidwinber disenvery a ould ri Sutter's Mills, A flag was dying over Laramie stockade, and this flag the mountain men smw fit to anlute with man libations, hearing now that ene e Toreve ‘orever over eens aver Oregon. Crowding the etackade in- elasure full was a metley throng—border men in buchskina, eagagds ewart aa Indiana, French breeds, full-blood hey nea and, Sioux of the northern hills, Tingling with the curious emigrants ae had come in from the w camps, Phomp Indian is, many of them very comely, some of gee ae - pe Ait neigat wie still hung alent. Sere mint he feweomers, ughin a oe ther a8 oun WoemeTh al a eg Fok black hair nile with oil, their cheeks red with vermilion, their wrists heavy with brass or copper or pinch- beck cinclets, their small moecnsined fevt peeping beneath gaudy calico given them by their white lords, Older squnwa, en- vitus ut perforce resigned, muttered aa their own slern-faced atolid red masters ordered them to keep clowe. Of the full- bloods, whether Sioux of Cheyenne, only those drunk were other than eullenly silent and resentful as they watched the white THAN. at Old Laramie on the Fourth wf July of [EAS Far Rung along the pleasant valley lay a wnat picture possible in no other land or iluy. ‘Phe etnttered eavered wagons, the April 27, bands of cattle and horses, the white! rising now in scores, the blue of many all proved that now the white mas come to fly his fag over a new frontic Ae a stood, chanting an Indians A group of inet came out, alsa excited e drin A tall man in mor d, his fine shirt open over aq breast, his Young squaw follow ity hizg “Let me see ane o them dan things!" he waa. enim “That's T left home ie year a Pap wants make me plo ain't east one since, ‘fl bet a pony I kin run ber right now! git yer plow things, boys, and fotch on sort of cow critter euits ye. I'll bet | ee up ane plow with “em, too, t The old ¥ man at the gate sat twisted his long curls. The sweet wind of the foothills | aslant the smokes of a thousand # Over the vast landscape passed many m ing figures, Young Indian men, ma Sioux, some Cheyennes, afew Gros Veni of the Prairie, all peaceable under the t: truce of the tradi post, out fi their villages to their pony herds, Fi the post came the oecasional note of on harmonic drum, atruck without rhythm a hand gone ae The singers no leq knew they sani The border feast | lasted long eg alter keg had branched. The indian drums were gob Came the sound of monotanous Snge broken with gtacesto yells as the bon dance, two races still mingling, went with aborighial excess on either aide | the slopes as dusk came twinklead courth tepee fires. Dogs barked = mourrtu aslistunt, The heavy half roar of t buffalo wolves, supercili conbde echoed from the broken country. o ow and again a tall Indian, naked a where be clutched his trabe to him une acloualy, came ata te hia tepee | face | rind yering 6 cene words a not knowing what he ke Goel YOuUNngest aquaw stood is tepes, speaT held aloft to mark his door plat waiting for her lord to come. Wolfish ¢ lay along the tepor edges, noses in ae the master cautiously. A gmamibay peg woman mended the fire at her own wi the room, meurest the door, spresda root fhe lity clea. Hin bated lg ung at the willow is alatt back near by. In due tiene all would bow whether af the game of “hands,” while & feast went on, the little clasive borne ie won or lost for him. Perhaps be had la his horses, his robes, bis wea ons —ii squaws, “Che white man's medicine = strong, and there was much of it on bt feasting: From the stockade a band of mourtel fodiens, brave in new finery, decked wth bonnets and gaudy in beaded shc9 leggings, rode out into ‘the slow eimistaaee ronudiin songs. ‘They were ee the most beautiful young woman of by tribe, carrying w wand t by a gilda ball, und ornamented wit belle, feather naturel flowers, As the wild passed the proud savages pald no attentiat to the white men. The ald yo man at the gate aat ap! twisted his eutla. And nene of thet knew the news from California. (To BE Co TONS!

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NO-LEAK-O Piston Ring Company Baltimore, (y Maryland Sener veers af comtinnnd Liccet This Sign mors a Live Gavoge or Supply Store, Look for it, Write fer Free Book — The Plates Ring Prollem and {tz Selution, O ee ed SS, : T = ——— ——— : SS THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i \april 22 THE GENTLE CRIMINAL dozen leagues, aeeoclatlona, committees and socheties of which, as usual, he was treasurer, It remained only for him to determine how and when and whither he should go thereafter, One warm June morning, when the red thread in the tube of the thermometer by the coor wos climbing eleadily for the firat time that. year, Warren Selfridge came inta the bank in his Palm Beach suit, wrinkled from its winter in the press, and walked over to the cashier's desk. “Gid.” he said, mopping his forchend and smiling affably, the ald lady's got her mind made up tea trip. We set up half the night figrurin' it out, She wants to start Sat! In The cuabler glancel out the south win- dow. The promises of spring were being unmistakably redeemed in every shrinking anowbank on the mountain tops; in the tumultuous booming of Littl: Creek under the bridge on Main Street; in the outery raised by the red-tipped blackbirds ewoa ing in neisy clouds from the tops of the full-leafed cottonwoods ta the acre piece where Milt Downer was planting corn, and back again; and in the languor of the sofé, ayetk air Worick contimied to sna rubber bands around bundle of caoncele checks, aa nice weather, all right,” he volun- tee = "Yea, that's what the old lady says, She whtits to go up to Oregon an’ around," oe “We'd probly be gone quite a spell, Gid, #0 T want te check things up with you. "Fore we atart [ll give you @ list of the Places where you cn telegraph me.” — ‘The president want to his own desk, hum- ming a litth: old tune, He took his cashier's prokuty and trustworthiness for granted with every syllable he had uttered, with his casual announcement and turning away, with the very lines of his broad back. His Voice rose now and again in that humming. Several times he went into the vault for papers or book Just before noon he el Warrick in, “T don't knees ['d ought te go for lo this summer," he began doubtfully, “Td forgot about quite a jag o° things. “T guess I could manage,” Gideon said, “T always have.” "Tos, always have, Gid. But there's matters here"—he waved a hand—“well, let's see. First of all, there's the water= oon note, Due thie month, They won't have the money.” “Not likely,"" “Not posbly, Next here's Gill Dun- cun's nole—extension on his loan—twenty- elght hundred. He said he'd have it by the fifteenth. Don't reckon he will, An‘ Mra. Dortit's havin’ bad luck with that millin-ary business of bern. Only eight hundred, to be sure, but we might need it,” The president broke off. “Consarn. it,” he crinel aagriovedly’ "T'm always gettin’ my old stil leg pulled! Never have sense enough te aay nol" aoe kept going, though, for quite a while.” wa laws, yes! Sure! Bungler's luck. e a “The examiner basn't been here this spring,” Wortick reminded him, “No. But he don't worry me any, Templeton alas pve me plenty of warnin'. Lucky he does. Saves a power of scandal, l expect. No, he won't bother none, Just wire me if hear from. him, or ask him to wait till | get bork." ““Thot might make him suspicious." “What? ‘Templeton? ‘Templeton sus- piciouws of met"? “We. But of me, perhaps," The president's glassea fell down on his nose and his mouth opened. He looked at hia emshier in astupefied amazement, “What in nation you talkin’ about, Cid Worrlek?" he cried when he could pet his breath. “Where you pickin’ up such fan- tastic ides? Suspleiaus of yout Why, drat my suspenders, the man that's sus- pitiqus of you'd ought to have his head eniming!—that's the fact! Heho-ho! That's the funniest thing I've heard tell of since Bile Linder got drunk at revival!" The enahier wince! a little, bat he onl said, “Well, you never can tell, Mr. Sel- eae: How about the mortgage on Bich Cralloway's timberland?” The president paused in his mirth and ahok quick lank at Worrick. = (Conttnaed from Page It! “Don't recollect tellin’ you anything about that deal, Gid," he aald. Wortick amiled one of his rare, lugubri- ous anules. “That shows you can't trust me a much aa you think, Mr. Selfridge.” he ob- served, "I happened to find the papers when I was looking for something one day." “Humph! Did, eh? Can't think what in nation you was lookin’ for to run onto that, But never mind. Rich, ch? Well now, Rich needed that four thousand mighty bad, and he's goin’ to come out all Fight in the end." “The note is overdue,” “Well, I know it is—I knew it is. Bat lague on it, what you want me to dot If "dl "a' called Rich's note in I'd ‘a’ ruined him and hed to take the prope’ty over, An’ I voaldn § give ninety cents an acre for it ft its ra au mortgaged it ona Valuation of ten dollara an acre.’ “Sure l did! Certainly I did! What af that? If those power people have to baild a narrow gauge up past Rich's they'll pay him more than four thousand for right af way, alone. Never thought of that, did mit “T haven't thought at all, Mr. Selfridge,” Gideon replied. ‘I any asked about the pent Fees 0 I'd know what you wanted me to do. “Dan"t want you to do anything.” “T sec. That's all then?" “Certainly it is, You're all right, Gid, and [ ain't ne complaint to make about. you at all. You're a good cashier and yeu earn your money. Faet ia [ been thinkin" you eam more'n you been gettin’, But when it comes to loana and marta Abel so on and et cetry, you've got to leave that to me, Now —" E The Selfridges left before daybreak on Saturday morning, according to Mra, Sel- fridge's ‘original plata. They uaually fo lowed Mire. Selfridge's orighial plana. Two weeks passed, each one of them bringing te Gideon Worrick some fresh and sharp reminder of Khe towky position he held in Derkyville, ond his mind was made up. He had known from the first that he eould nok loot the bank for any large sum of money, simply because there wae never a large sum in ite vault; but now he wae de termined to find out exactly what there was to be stolen. After dinner ont evening at Mrs. Cassity’s select boarding house on in Street, therefore, the ewshier went to the bank to make inventory. The cash on hand totaled seven thousand dollars and odd. There was less than elght hundred dollars in a special gold reserve the president kept in a small safe in the vault, There was a sack contnining one hundred dollara that Mra, Bloney, the cautious litth widow woman, had intrusted to the bank's care but had not deposited to her account. There were odds and ends Wf trifling sums set aside for epecial pur- poses, most of them known only to Warren Selfridge; and there were the funds, kept in apectal envelopes, of which Gideon himeclf was the treasurer apd evetedian, Outside of notes, mortgages, etocks ond ions, 1.0. U.'s and various evidences of Indeljbed- ness, none of which could be counted aa cash, eight thousand dollars would cover the umount available to the prospective embezzler if he started that night. As he could not de that he hed to Ggure thet the total would vary day by day. He looked ata calendar, sat down at his own desk and began to fae ; he following Monday was a etate holi- day; if he left Derbyville Saturday after- noon, oatensibly for o plowsure trip to Merced or Stockton, it would be Turse before any inquiry for him would be made or any search begun. In his desk waa a railroad time-table, From it he conatructed an ikinerary that would put him over the Mexican border not later than Monday roorning, severul hours before the hee sect cry int erbyville eoiabd possibly Ten rized, Tt waa trae that there was litth: imme- diately hevond the Mexican line to attract acountry bank cashier of Ghlean Waorrick's temperament and iabita: but de would be safe from pursuit there. and could ar- range further flight at his leisure. So far wo good, Ele went to Mre. Cassity’s and to bed, but he slept little, ~ Whut sulnled hirn wna that all this immi- nent enterprise seemed no drepm, Try as he would be eould pot imagine himself actunlly going over the border, a fh lt was much easier to think of him dying of old age, in the dim future. sri desk in the State Hank of J ville, On the following morning he mum first step towards flight, however, J marked to Henry Peacock that he th he'd take a litthe sg: down to the 4 over the week-end, Henry bit a pen! and grunte phstractedly. But he » remember to tell his aife ane two daughters thatevening atsupper, Gid) and Anne and Maud Peacock wa dependable as a chatty evening pap Derbyville when it came to dissemi9 the news, So that his bridges shog set afire behind him, Gideon that ufte bought a oneway ticket te Steckio the 1:10 train Saturday. Furth! deaned up bh room at Mra. Cassitys night, burning all is letters and paper inspecting the ashes curefully to see no serape were left for the feasting @ rious eyes, Friday morning he «= packing. Also, he ght a state mg ia way to the bank and spent a few Utes conning ik to help him with the ture southword townrda that elusive sommetinies illuaery Mexican line. Hy day noon he was practically ready far great crime. omg Peacock went to lunch at hiso hour, The bank was empty of custom Main Street was drowsing in the sun. ' or three blue flies buzzed intempers againat the plate-ylass windows, and of actor Witherspoon's setters ambled panting, sniffed along the counter and down in a shaded corner. Gideon Wor went through the motions of being a tru and law-abiding and respectable cash but all his theaghts were on a defalcat and embezzlement of the funds, dowy the last penny, of the State Bank and divers and sundry trusts, organizatio pe fn and committess of the villuge. | little more than twenty-four hours the; commolation would roll out of the Dev, ville station, carrying among its unsuspe a bank wrecker | ing amengens Gideon looked up from his rowtine someone pushed in th h the swing screen doors of the bank. Fora moment ‘tayo he stared without eunaprehending f phenomenon presented. There war | precedent for it, and Gideon was a ia slow to move to meet it. Frank Van Lythe, the cattle barce, | hia pict We cream-colored corduroy sul his shining boota and his broad! sombre with ibs famous oo alk bard a euned with an enormous polden disk, wa entering the State Hank for the firat tim in ita histary. These two—the surprised and obfus cated cashier and the millionmire stock man— held a filteen-minute conferences & the end oof that conference Van Lyth walked out of the bank with five thousand dollars of its funds, in cash, in his wallet, Cashier Gideon Worrick had broken evey rule of his life and of his employment by Warren Selfridge: he hod met an eme- gency with an air of grave canclessnese, though accustomed to deing =, and now be moved in a daze. He had made a loan—he, himeelf, Gideor Worrick, without so much as glancing at the carefully penned itinerary of Preaidest Selfridge und bis wife! After that, Gideon felt, anything mips happen. cAnd, as ia often the tease ale months in which nothing at all happess, something dic, Gideon had not recovered from the short ancl surprise of Van he's vialt nd ef rind: he hod not yet telegraphed the pre! dent, and was hepyinning to wonder wherbr he would dogo: and he hod decided notte communicate his news to Henry Peaeoek, when the waning houra of the hang brought in through the door Mr. Dercs Stephens, Aire, Shephens waa the relict of a fine citizen sonve yeara deceased, and wa a temperstourhed and irritable old Ly whom the villagers scrupulously avoide croasing. Gideon greeted her with a ce chan PHlteness, but she ignored he amenity, “Nice day, Mira. Stephera," Gideon eald Teaching for the check she presented, “Tait?” theold lady repel tly “| ain't noticed. I"m movin’ ar tel'ble busy, What's the matter, man?" ' (Continwed on Page 65)

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‘Ceomtinerd from Poge 65) * cashier “a see’ ae the check ssh, cx demand for Fr ten <c sllaran ee Mrs. Staphens for her areathe ly bavi pet, und had been thumb. by beholding that it called for

mt that el in the State ma, Mra. Spterioene.” Gid W a= ; - 1 _you-—this check man,” Mra. Stephens Set stutter and stare at re f ¥ bank book shows that’s the ongin’ to me, on’ ; roth that ambeby here:,"* ) (H course we have!

eit over, I'm goin" down to daughter Eimiry, in Fresno, fonds brother ia comin’ up et foraspell, [ nin't in the my busines to every ninny fo know it, but I'd just os flet want to-find out anything mean to be prying,” he said. tome, that's all, How 4 you like tn ewsh'T" 30 cashier's check of a deofi heard what I said, didn’t yout fashioned maybe, but] know what only that cash will be pretty bulky

“You aaa me over my money! I'L 1 carry it, all right." sell, Gh Gideon said stiffly. j wos not Mochentenly or spiteful —just 1 Mechanica he counted out = = Tis Y money. All nat some sixty oe oar able to give her in bank motes; fe was silver and pennies, Sha glared When he handed her the heavy de, ‘but she waa not the sort to admit Euston, and she walked out with her ed high. Gideon Wortick sat.down hard fd tured! at the floor, Aiedoan te Pronk Lythe ns been mace da reas — ae the n centile jan a peremptory and com ing why th him: because thn pas propel eal for the munmmation of Tehitti te 7 declared his ed of the money was one Gideon could w the great profit in; because he hed al- po felt that Frank Lythe would become a tron of Deerbaville, to the great advan- ge of the town, Lf he were properly han- led: and finally because be was fn revolt nyway and welcomed this opportunity to apres the fact. Under ordinary elreum- tances that loan would have been possible vithout hampering the bank for | SILCe i normal routine was simply that of a Hearing bowse for the merchants and townes- people, with thelr checks drawn for the roost port om the State Bank itself. Van Lethe, of course, was as good aa the United State! "Treasury, and he had iia Si return the money within a few con had thought thet tt would be a pies ‘itth sum for ident Selfridge to receive the midst of the confusion and saps by the cashiers imminent ight with what moneys were left. Hutoow there were no moneysleft, Kira. Srephers had ween to that. Gideon tried to laugh, His plans for robbing the bank and departing were still flawless, with the single exception of this comaderation—that some- thing under one hundred dollars remained to be emberled, Of course he could stage an embezlenent novel in the annala of ctime: he could flee with this small amount, paying the rng af the flight and re jultant outly nil out of his own pockets, That, it wes all that was left for him. He would curry it through, Hut he wondered 2) leaving ruln and consternation behind him, Ie aed cat Gove ia tacdegavoring more of comedy than of igh tragedy, ilee Monk Moore wandered in, whis- ing. Monk was a silly boy of seventeen shoe brainwas addled and who funetion woemand bearer and messenger for the Whige. He stood in the front door of the tank for several minutes, , gazing a8 though ei at. the ceiling whistling i) Lif. Then ke sat down on the floor, took: off we Se shook a pebble from it, rose with palsies hond and cromed to the window, THE SATURDAY "ho on awa , Monk,” Gideon said me- chanically. ri going ta clase the bank now.” "Close it?" Monk echoed vacantly with | a giggle. ““What for? Shut the door Kor Monk cut? Where's your money? You got a lot of money? You're rich, sin't yout Thad a dollar once. Drummer Elva: to me. Know what I spent it for?" “Candy, [ guess, Monk," Gideon re led. He was slowly counting the little poof cash and his mind was not on the | » Monk; I'm busy.” | | “Well, hand it over, Monk: that's a | idiot boy. "Run "You busy? So'm lL. I'm busy, Got to tike a telegraph, Know who to? Don’t, eh? It's to you," good boy. "Tr a good bay. You bet! Hid the tel ph. In my hat. Looka here," He around cautiously, took off his cap, extracted from it a bull envelope, at it a moment os though trying to remember what it was, then put it down on the ] and fan out abruptly, wiids- tling and shouting and awinging bl shoe around his head. Gideon picked the envelope, slit it idly, read the thin inside: SELFRLDI DE. State Bane, Deenrvit.e, Arrive thero Sunday AM. Want to check up busines: in time to malo cast-bound ut ae Sunday for Trockes. Please be ready for | B, 8. Tearietex, The state bank examiner's ed Be (id- eon tried to laugh and fail rel when he was in Mexico, Su night late ar Monday morning, he would be able to laugh. But he ntnew, He had some twenty-one hours ahead af him aa cashlor iran roe State Bank of Derbyville, and it ees ee at lenat eight of those teenies would each be made up sixty minutes jammed full of grief. All at afternoon and evening and most af the night Gideon spent trying to see a way out, It was too late now to summon Preaident Selfridge. If he went ta Frank Var Lythe and confessed that the bank was without cash he would probably fail to get help from that source, in time, ane cdi oargy Tost cartainiy end all chance al bringin good to Derhyville from the trascille lel stockman, Better to down in defeat than to do that. Lf Presi- dent Selfridge had ever trusted him before ad messenger or bank's representative he eould have taken sore the securities down to the Valley by. by somone and bate have barrow emh on them a the institution ope for af ee n few days. ey would proba him in athe for araienah ate are even Gid- eon Mid see the rich and spicy humor in that situation! No, he must stay by his guns, Fis scipit would not leave until 1:10 on Saturday and up to thet time he wos ret bel et sp i m c position ag he saw pe Pha the doora on Saturday maorn- fog with total cash resources of P0244, ex- elusive of trust and eeeurer funds. ‘The first customer to appear was Terry Casey, the plasterer. Terry was full of rich Trish » humor that morning, and he made cheerful remarks to which Gideon found himself hard | to rally. Far Casey wanted todraw—and diddraw—thesum ol seventy- five dollara to make a quarterly payment on his two-acre jiece a or e edge of town. Immediately Casey seg ie ue, a free and joyous, Gideon nun ol calendar, reversed it, found Aleneelf a Bers pen and a bottle af ink and began to design a notice, reading: This Bank Téwrorantly CLOoaep To REGPES ——= On his labors entered Ed Walsh, the umber. The eashier watched him breath= easly, Walsh nodded, walked to the side wall writing desk and reached for a pe. Wie he mring te deposit or draw? The Plumber, ck to the cashier, waa ies a He took a long time—hours, it seamed, Then Gideon sighed with relief, and hastily whisked his sign under the counter, There were bank notes in the plumber's kemuitiisly hand. Walsh, with oon- versation, deposited £24.60 and went awLy The two MeCormick girls, from over the hl, came in and drew twenty-five dollars. Gideon took an unreasoning dislike to them that he had never felt before. After them came Sam Shore, and on his heels Parrott, the cashier of the water compat Gid= eoan’s heart stopped beating. had (Continued on Page 7)! EVENING POST i ‘Where the important value

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(Ceantiaaed from Page ea) em the water company's be y It was eighty-five dollars, ‘ore ther of the two customers could reach his sig he had his sign out and was about ut it up af his wicket. Phen be a brilliant inspiration— whisivod ele = away one more, In the put 3 es bape Stoney’s $100 in gold. Ry k coolly, ruled th the sack del ¥ ae ‘Tetaraed to hia place. Paeate at taciturn, and Gideon wanted very uch to tell him that, a8 the water com- had been operating for five months bank's money, it might be more de- t im him to show a certain pahelogetic ieenece or shame now. But he he E ngue, anil Parrott took the money a8 ough it belonged to him and went out. Shore np ig to draw twenty dollars, and was givenit. — as eieks ix that shiftless farm hand going do with twenty dollars?" Gideon thought vergrily:. But again he forbore expressing ibis thoughts. As Shore disappeared rahe the door enry Peacock, at his bs cee ara AF rE 1, coughed ied and low up from his worle. started. Hehad not thought “iy the way, Henry, "he gad, catechin the bookkeeper's eye, “Mr. Selfri I were talking over that loan to Hichmond Galloway before he left, and we aren't just gatisied about it." Peacock caught the unusunl use of the plural pronoun and looked at the coshier ‘guitzically. But he only sald, “He's bound to be slow, Rich is, ot crooked, don't mppor,, but aint much idea of business, “That! ‘s what we were bate lgieprrag. chal I'll tell you what occurred to us: We'd like you to a dg and drive up to Galloway's Don't tell him whac you've come tor. Just look around and see if you can cake out what he's doing.” ne can go out this afternoon, I gues." yout — ¥ ake it comfortably. ) its # slong dn ny change E an poaly | the wile and spin out | Fal ye right now—take a lunch, maybe, No ren why you shouldn’t The old man fairly beamed, “Well, now, I ain't sayin" Sarah and 1 wouldn't like o 8 buggy ride, Of course if Mir, Selfridge: —— “Absolutely! the coshier interrupted, “Get out wit Aaa t's “Well, of course, Gideon,” The old accountant shuffled aerces te warts his coat hook, shedding his ink- smeared officer jacket as he went, He wert back to clase a book ond straighten his pen, Then rubbing his hands and chuck- ling be moved towards Gideon's desk, The ee kicked his closing algn farther peice, ee mud E ain't been ridin’ sinet | ewurted her, I do believe,” Peacock averred. “How about the ensh fr the rig, Gideon t Gideon replied a inv. Be charge it to the bank, Henry," he ad it Lebar him afterwards that that for you to aay, was one of the Ph mata its thia whole phan Pig iies, Lie With the bank to himself, Gideon foced its dimeclution with leas anxiety. He would keep it going as long as he could. He did ont stop toask himself why he should. He not analyze the futility of trying to pea the face of an institution all morni only to rob it of tte last penny at noon. He find waa a small one, and duty and habit rode him bard, Besides, his train did not leave until 1:10 that afternoon! John Patterson, the grocer, sent over a teenty-dollar bill about eleven o'clock to be . There wae about sixteen dollars in the money drawer. To send the bill back unbroken would have been to bring Patter- mon. over, bellicase and profane, to demand an wepinatiot Gideon reached for his sign. n he remembered the few dollars ingilver that he cored in his own pockets, He made change hastily. With Patterson's messenger gone, he foced the world with a twenty-dollar bill eda lithe over three gine in silver ancl copper. Hut half the banki ing. day was pan and there wos still hope, Omni Mott in Che Sparrow, two ranchers, came in, Aicumng the water shortage and the rela- tiet food values for a dairy string of dry aed green alfalfa for summer feeding. Their upiment akeorked them while Gideon Worrick cit in his cage and held his breath. THE SATURDAY With a nod to the two debaters, Doctor Witherspoon entered. He deposited two checks and asked for ten dollars i in cash. “Driving up to Nash's Mill,” the medica] or mbt casually, “Td Hike silver, Gideon smiled his watery smile. “Tust a minute, dector. [ve given aut so much ailver this morning He walked back towards the wault, his sentence trailing. He violated the trust fund of the Young People's Lengue for ten dotlars in silver, came back and handed the amount to Doctor Withempoon, “Couldn't salt een a nice Gorden setter pup for eight are, eauld I, Gid? Nat blood, but —— Gideon tried not to laugh—to answer of-handedly, “Don't know “No, doctor,” fie said, what I'd de with one." The doctor left, and the two ranchets aud thelr argument long enough to attend to busines. Tom Mott deposited #276, of which thirty was in the form of a check. Gideon cast ap his trial balance hastily. A twenty-dollar bill, four checks, three of gan on his own bank, and $23.64 in spange d E down theck. It “called ae ahd . gave on Patterson's twenty-dollar bill and the bal- ance in silver, and sighed. He felt aa he imagined alack-wire artist might wha, balancing on one too, juggles a knitting needle, a five-pound weight ond an open umbrella, A glance at the clock showed him that it was half past eleven, Ten nies later Mra. Stoney appeared, + bustlin niting a uaual, for she waa a fat litt $5 whe moved "quickly, and chirped to Gideon, “Good marning, Mr. bibl aco Ea oer decided to en uy that sewing machine I've beeen ng, antl Id like that money you falls hase been keeplag for me. "Twon't take quite all of it, but ——" Gideon faltered. This was a demand he had not at all anticipated, and the shock of it left hin winded, “ Probabl bly rou would prefer qur check," he began hopefully. ir ping to give the agent chats " WIrs. interrupted, “but he maid he'd like cash. It's two dollars. He bought a horse, seema like, from the Mill boys, down below the highway bridge, EVENING POST and he wanta to pay ‘am today. ¥. ‘ou know how the Mill boys are about Shecks,” os, Gideon knew. He also knew how he himaelf was about ensh. His hand traveled towards his closing sign; he tried to frame an explanation that would tell Mra. Stoney the worst but In the gentlest manner. Then Mise Harris, Patterson's cashier, swung jauntily in through the front doors. She carried with her the morning's receipts, She was generally conside plain, and she was certainly all of thirty-seven, yet Gideon Warrick thought her in that mo-= ment the most beautiful vision af a women he bad ever beheld, walti on Misa "De you mind m Harris firat, Mra. Stoney?" Gideon asked, Iday. Good morn "Hota bit. I've got ings Harriet, How's your mat Has she tried that flaxseed cou : Bote pester She ain't? Well, now vebeep 1 to hawe those ter"ble apella of Gideon was antieeiy running through the Patterson store deposite. One hundred thirty-two dollars in cash and several checks, The cashier paid mo heed to the lat- ter—his mind was on the currency, Thera was enough to pay Mi ta. Stoney, at any mabe, and after that the debo Tomlinson, the drugg t, waa behind the two Women, and him h tee or three othera were entering. With ma- chinelike scecuracy and his usual subdued politencss Gideon transacted the a asitcame to him. But things were happen- ing too rapidly for him toe keep more than a fough account of balances. They de manded and drew money: they deposlted money: they asked for ailver when there was none in the box: they tendered him bank notes when he would have given his soul for a shiny filty-cent piece, and Dick Drury, the retired rancher, almoat brought the sign up at the very end when he serutin- ized, then sounded, then rejected a five- dollar gold piece as a counterfeit. Gideon had no time to argue the point, and no spirit, either. He excused bimeelf on a plea of putting the coin in the vault for later examination, and came out with the last five dollars from the last of the funds of which jars had been until now the trusted and trustworthy treasurer and custellan, At one minute past twelve o'clock he shut the front doors on the back of Mary Symonds, the school-teacher, and almost Colerada River Bridge From the Korth Bank 71 in the faces of two or three flustered—and immediately angry—customers, went back to his place again and fell into o chair, weak-kn trembling, hoarse with ten- ajon, ahivering with the remction, completely done up, Not counting postage atampa, he had in the bank a grand and final and complete total of ninety-cight centa! Now that he had time to cast up his Tircumstances and return to his own aifaire, Gideon Worrick awoke to a realization of the fact that he could not even abseond, In the rush of those last ten minutes he had put all that out of reach. Hie own Money wae to a penny, and all there waa left to steal waa ninety-elght cents. He had his railroad ticket, to be sure, but that would carn him only sixty or seventy miles to Stockton, and there lay some six hundred mi between that thriving city and the Mexiean border—at three cents a mile and up! He told himeelf ruefully that the game waa played out. The carefully lettered sign he had be n=—and by the skin of his teeth avoided paving to use—winked at him sardonically from the floor, where it had fallen in the excitement, It might as well be hung up now af later, af eourae, for Templeton would come, in the majeaty and dignity af his position aa deputy atate bank examiner, apt - early morning train Sunday, and he och the sign up if Gideon did not, Why all the effort and the strain of the les of this heetie morning? To what phe git had he sacrificed he plane, hig own money, his schemes for revenge on a stupid an an ungrateful community, hig predilection for a career of crime? Gideon did not know. He tried to think itout. But there was no use, He suppos dimly that it was a matter of business with him. Tet did not oeeur ta him—which was the truth—thut jt was a matter of habit, the hablt of being a tried and true and trusted man. All he did know was that hones in Derbeviile deere save honor, And honor, The reaction Pan and Gideon beeame again, hy slow steps, the reckless and ie ate character of a few days since. By gol he'd show them! He'd make theme cate breath and raise their hands in horror. He would shock them somehow into recogni- tor Sar he Was human and frail and weak and a bad “ce He would ie es to bli pool and poker. He would and Swarm and tena mil ma Boddy's pluce, where it waa rumored a Tiling pig wae oor ducted. He had never done any of these things before in his life, but be wasn't too old to learn! He rose and went into the president's cubicle of an office, pried open a drawer and task from a box therein a fat brown cigar. He lighted it after a moment's search for a match and puffed at it. The taste “i hit and the smoke made hits cough, But he porsisted, spitting into Sel- fridge's cuspidor inuccurately, but with a areperale and rakish ewagper. He returned hi own place and appropriated the bank’s last cash assets—that ninety-eight cents. It waa too late now for lunch at Mrs. Cassity's, and be would get a bite at the Mint Chop House, where oll the Derby- ville bloods ate, telling bad stories, At that monvent. he heard the 1:10 whistle for the statlon. He started towards the aafe, to close it. Then someone rattled on the front door. Gideon froaned and. ded not to hear. The demand there & impartunate, Gideon faced around, prepared to tell the late comer to go to—well, Halifax. But he did pot sully his lips, , alter all. He crossed hastily and opened the door, Old Frank Van Lithe, the a king, cane in, ray 8 teable, hen ‘| up, eh?" inguited in his rumbling ble voice. “I'm just in time, then. Here! Stiek this in for me, will yout That loan you made me sure came handy, T bought a Hereford herd yesterday morn- ing and sold last night. i kick on the deal, either, Nota particle of ib!" “That's good,” Gideon anid fcby The clgar had dropped from his sage Lge i wae fumbling with the great all of the eattleman had thrust at him. “eron oe pe to held these for you—till Mon- Mr. Van Lythe?™ he starmmered. a Ino!" Van Lythe bellowed, “Open an aomnunt with "em. Never eat murh af ald Warren Selfridge's way of running a bank, but you atm to know your bual- nee, young fellow. Open an account. That bk if tien thousand and odd is enough for sit?”

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Home Bldg., Milwaukee, Wis. a = a a C a, Comfortakiv Sicaring | Fern F oshe had almost ceosed to be a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST SS AMpril 22, THE RETURN TO NORMALCY pale ay replied Hermione. She arooped thick eyelids and smiled, aa if nome itself were comie—ohe never poke her beanitinl mask with a laugh. “Wao, that didn't last lang. He bounced Margaret as soon as he got over being delirigugs.” “And was it then that he sent for you?" asked (Cora with, an edge bo her voder that a Damascus blade might have envied, “fan matter of fact, he didn't; it wos Thorpe who sent for me,” sald Hermione. had a wholeseme recollection that T used) te keep Valin order. Nice little job keeping Valin order. Ever tried it? No, I Thorpe said that wasn't your Cora would have given a good know just how Thorpe had reat her line, but not even curloalty could make address at unnecessary word to the eon cold woman before her. She was mot jealous, aa she understood the word, but the disgust she felt for Hermione included Valentine, too, and made her hate him for the moment with an intimate disturbing warmth. ; Hermione went on: “And, after all, aa 1 said ta Val , What does it matter ta nave whether he gets well or not? It takes too much vitality—making him mind. I'm through, I'm off to Palm Beach boemorrow, Thorpe’s taking him home.” “Te's gmiable of you—te come and go as Thar ordera. Henmione moved her eloquent. shoulders, "Oh, Thorpe and [ understand each ones “I knew Thorpe understood you,” said Cora insolently, But the woman was insensitive to any thing hut a bludgeon, for she answered, ‘Lunderstand Thorpe too. All he objecta to is wives. He's like the—whatever it you know—that fishea in troubled waters.’ Cora merely moved past her and went away. It wasn't until she was outside that she took in how plensant had been the un- conscious ian behind Hermlone's last wa horpe objected to wives. That was wh he had not eent for her—ehe wasn't a mother, like Margaret; nora vice, like Hermione. She wasa wile, The story- teller, the magic builder of custles that is in everyone, suddenly made for Cora a splen= did scene, in which she, eee ta Valen- er was clisrrisal ne Tree Ten days later took title te her new Boch eve and her architects fled the plang. events were announced in the mews P’Trhat very morning so ips agora? and Thorpe’s yoico—a voier so with all her emotional life thot her ne nerves sibel ran hen we eee it—waa 1 ai for Mr, Bing, Br bein Mr. Hing would be pleased if you could make it convenient to stop in and see ira this slag gait "Tell Mr. Bing gag . T can't," answered care odie e was not @ Hermione to “ore, Tharpe'a invitation. And t then just i al that she wat not spiteful she added, “I hope Mr. Bin ja better." a 1; +t madam PP Bai orpe, 4 rl bette ue & he hasn't thoroughly regained his strength. He testa it ¢ day," Cora hung up the reeeiver, Her thought was, “He can't test it on me." She waa aware of a certaln self-eatiefaction in hay will cenkert Valentine's. In old times her | against Valentine's. In old times she had been. weak in yielding to every wish and opinion that he had ex » Wrtil person, of eduiree in this ene her ability te refuse had ees FS saat (Contineed from Page 4) heen atrengthened by the ineredible im- pertinence of allowing Thorpe to be the one to communicate Valentine's invitation. A few minutes later the telephone rang This time she let the servant answer it, and when woman came to her with interested oyes and aaid that Mr. Bing wos eth wine ies without a r, “Say I'm out." wot she knew Valentine well enough to now she waa not go A get off so easily aa that. He kept ates calling until at lek chance, or roca ora's own wish, directed that he should catch her at the telephone. : : He must see her; it was about this new house of hers. Her heart bent so she could he breathe, while Valentine ran on 2a of old: “Tt'a folly, Cura, absolute zal ! my didn't you consult me before. ought You can't live there—the rai fast On ome side render i tank on the: incon Besides, the raile is mein ta ent its yar in two years ve switching engines draw plang n nh aod an, giving her no chanoe toe an- ewer hie: during the ten minutes he kept her at the telephone, Yet when she hung up the receiver she found she had spoken ont important word: she had promised to eome and sea him late the Nee the bed noon, She had made him refused to come that day, wet had put it off; she had, in fact, him aa much aa was consistent with ultimately agreeing ta vit what be beth pci she did agree the impertinence was explained, plea - he him to her on the phone, course he ha meant to hed to her himself. wit an, idiat—overzealous. Cora her ean view about that, butshe let it pasa. Thorpe feared her, and knew what was to befeared, He knew that if she once entered omar house she might never be allowed to pave i No she aan ft bo aie ee net day, a ee oie bag ‘a mite ith at a a on the ra earrings that Vaientins had given her i Madrid, “it will be Thorpe who will leave." lf there was fear in Thorpe's heart he did not betray it when he o the door and led po upstairs to the library. The room Ws uM Pine haa ea aii a vou for MPke aliGhE repute ble alight reproach was agreta ta Cora. She had waited long enough for Valentine in old times, and sometimes ha pane not turned up at all, The room was familiar to her. They hal not been much in New York during shee berief arr ti ln aga a the previous winter in this house, She had left her own imprint in tha decorations. Valentine used his as he might use a hotel—asking nothing but that it should eS canvenient for the cee of his stay. heer om fer first arrival by hi hidenws tasseled pai a cushions and iml- tatlon Japanese lamp shadea; remnants, A believed, of Hermione’s taste. Ehe had ingtantly banished them, and now she saw with pleasure that the shades of her own ehoosisg were still on the Ps. Everything. had remaine!l of she hud arranged ft: he had seen that her way waa best, A wood fire waa burning on the hearth—mnot the detestable gaa | which Hermione had leit behind her, She found herself wondering for the first time what Hermione had found—what Margaret hud left. Then she remembered that Volentine had not bought the house in the simple daya of Margaret's reign; he bad had a apartment far epbosa and mt first Mar had had no servant. A wish to know if Valentine had paper cutter she hod given him— li, the color of his eye8—made he up and goto the desk, ‘Wes, it wast but something clap was there, too: ar deri phat ph propped against ap ge dat ert ach of a woman, Set caniEieaaiy to look at it, a bends to examine the spo where trembling of the grasa suggests the pres of a venomous serpent. It was the pir of a slender woman with heavy dark slanting tyes, the ervelty of high cheek bone softened by the © di Curve “7 her mouth. A ter and fascinating woman. Then as the | struck across surface of the picture saw it was a glogay print for reprodurt Tt might mean business—a feature for syndicate—not. love. She was sitting far away from the ¢ when, a minute of two ter, Valen enterel—Valentine a little thinner ¢ pete “actice less vital. Hoe greeted be they had parted yeaterday, or rather did not greet her at all. He simply bey to talk to horas he came inte the room had a roll of blue prints in his hand. “Sow, my dear girl, thea: plans of your have you thought them over at all? , You practically madethem? But dan‘t, see what you done—saerificed eve thing to a patio. A patio—only good hot weather, when ‘Il never be & anyhow, The whole comfort of the bot atin for the season you'll be aw They are without exception the most rid ulows plans —— Oh! Yes, I sent doen a copy of tern at onee, I’rr glad I did, T hadn't —— “But, Valentine,” she interrupted— knew by experience that you were fore to bee a Valentine if you wished apenic we nl] = “TE is my h Ise, oR know SS nd £ hut's why T want it to be rig for you,” he answered, “But we'll get tight—never fear." "It's exactly what T want oa it is,” 2 returned, and she heard with a mixture disgust and fear that the old tone of fal determination was creeping into her voir “Tt fen't at all what you want," be sah “You only fe it la, Cora," "Walentine, ve thought it all owt wit the teat care." ut it’s absurd—you won't like it, D ston to reason. Don't be obstinate.” (ybstinate—the old accusation. : “That's whut you always say when Ta sr dalng anne mi a nae “But your way’ heidi oar just Listes to me, my dear gir It was, to Aa identical Plraaes, the quarrel of their whole shart turinulen! married life, He had always made per fet that she was pig-headed and unreasoniblt Dat re eld at once te his superioe knot: ge of her own inmodtt wishes, The troche _ ec itat the turmoil and the fighting es extinguished her own wishes—t werent changed, they were killed—ao that afte a little while she was left gallantly defending a cotpen; i ale a Be Pare wis pen wherens entine's peeignant in terest grew with each word he uttered—anl he uttered a great many—until he to burn with an almost religicua conviction that she must not do the thing in the wy she wanted to do it Tt always enced the same way: “Nor, mi dear girl, don't be ae obatinate.” We ahe obstinate? she wondered: and asa (Continaed on Page 78)

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Ta (Catan from, Page 74) wondered Valentine rushed in like an army through a breach in the wall, He was doin it now. | Task,” he was sayi ai that you should Jook at the set of my man draw—he's a real architeet—nci a bungalow wizard like that fellow you em- ployed, Now you might at least do that— it fen't much te ask that you should juat look at them. Oh, well, ‘ll see they call for another piece of land, but. pati Cora, I cannot let you settle on that swi ing yard that you picked qut ——" She could not refuse to look ot his plans; in fact, she was nota little touched hed by the idea that he hed taken such an infinity " trouble for her. And at this instant Thorpe entered. Valentine shouted at him to get that other rall of plans from his room. “Yes, air,” anid » directly; but the message has come that the aieaicg? is decking and I've sent for a tax, alr. Valentine collected himself. “Oh, yea, the steamer," he said, and then he glanced at Cora, “IT don't ‘think I'l go to the steamer, Thorpe,” Cora’s heart roan; she knew that look, that tone; he did not want to Fo. Sha looked at Thorpe: not a muscle of his face hac changed, and yet she knew he was in a thon "Yes, gir,” he said. “Would you have any objection if | went to the dack? IT doubt if the princess will understand the American customs without assistance, sir.” There WHS a little pause. incess’T"* anid “The Valentine waved toward the pholograph an the desk. "She's caming— Hungorian Shits Great stuff, if she's os per Gn- voice. I'm sendy eee to ed or the syndicate. Hun to Good iden, mn't ik? Thorpe t told me abut har. le lived with her uncle when he was amixassodor in Landon; the uncle, you know, met = h why not? Valentine rose. The recital wf othe facts in the case of the princess had revived his interest | | i in her. “T'l] just go und grasp her by the hand. e yng portation for the for this evening, and she may not relish etarting at once, unless it's put. just right. I'll show her it’s the best thing forhertade, Her last cuble she wished to linger in New York, but she wuld enjey it more an her wa back. I'll explain that ta her, Tt won'ttakea minute. You'll wait, hha 7 Stay and dine with I'm alone, Or no; I see by Thorpe's face that I have some- one to dinner.' “Trdeed, you have, sir." “Who ie it? T don't remem= “Mrs, Johnson-Bing, sir."" “Oh, Margaret—good old her trons= Marguret—soitis.”” Thorpe and Cora, a litth: em for him, averted their , but Vol entine waa not embarrassed at al. “You have noidea how gel she was tao me when I was at Lhe ital, Amd I wasn" ay teful—out of my head, y now. ID thaw +l ought to ‘all her —— You'll malt Cora just Five you time to Mgt OVEF plans, and when I come back I'll tell you about the land T bought aor re Well, [ have an opetion on ie She lost the end of his sen- tence, for Thorpe, who during the speech had been putting him into his overcoat and handing him his hat anel gloves, finally auccerded tn hurrying hin out of the door, still talking. But Cora did not require the end of the sentence: no woman who has lived two years with a man does. She knew what he was going to say, but oven mare important, she knew whul was in his mind — thather welfare wasas importint to him 28 it had ever been. The mirage ceremony, she had al- wkwiys known, did not unite pei ple, bul mow she was digeovering: that o decree of diverce did not ulways separate them. She wos as much married to Valentine as THE SATURDAY she had ever been—no more and mo Jess, How astonishing! She sank intoa chair, Perhaps the really astonishing fuct was thot the: lel ower have parted. parted ust E quarreled, but now he saa that their aa g was the expression of their love. er relations with everyone in the world except Valentine weresuaveand untroubled. And she was. sure there was no one elee with whom Valentine enjoyed the struggle for mastery, The mere notion of attempting bo icastar the docile Margaret was comic, and as for Hermione, she was like a dish of blane mange—you liked it and ate it or else you let it alone. No, it wes useless te evade the truth that she, Cora, of all women was to him unique. Thorpe returned presently and b the new plans, She nodded without tooling at him and told him to leave them on the table. She had plenty of time, Valentine's few minutes were nhways nan hour, “Tf you don"t care to wait, moudam, I'm sure Mr. Bing would be very glad ia have mu take them hore with you," said Orpe, Cora did not trouble to represe a smile, "T shall wait, Thorpe,” she aaid, with the humor that comes from perfect confi- ener, Thorpe bent very slightly fram the waist, and left the roc. At last she rose ard beeen te unroll the plans. She became ately shaoried in them; they were not only beautiful and ingenious but, better to her than any bere thay showed how he had remem- er tastes, her needs, at had always aved growing plants, and he had arranged : glued passageway with sun and het to a aod Dow i Matter to Me Waser Ne Gee Wel or Mot? ft Takes Too Much Fitedlty—-Mablag Hie Misd. ID's Theoogh. EVENING POST be a small conservatory for her; there was a place for her piano; a clever arrungement for hanging ber He had remem- ed, of rather he had never forgotten, The idea came to her that this was not a house for her alone, bat fer her and him ta gether. How almply that would explain his waionate interest in the pect of her uilding. She n ta the plane as if were a love Letter, waa still bending tie ica when later—much later—=the door on ed and closed, She did not immediately look up, Tt was not her plan to betray that she bod what lay behind his actions. She wailed with bent head for Valentine's accus- tamed opening, and then hearing nothing she looked up, to find the newoomer was Margaret In their last meeting the shadow of death had obliterated the pattern af convention, but now both women were aware of an awkward moment. Margaret amiled first, “] SUppOet, 2 nO Oe Bees UA, Wwe my shake bende she said. Cora looked at her eomor. Even in the low becoming lighta of Valentine's Le room she was Satie and yet aiccingit Mipan Core owdy, an owingly hurpan. held out her band “Ts ik so late?" she said. “Valentine mentioned that you were coming to dinner. e gald he hadn't thanked you for all you did for him when be was ill. Mrs. Johnson-Bing smiled. “That isn't what he wants,” ashe said. &he undid her coat and began to remove stout black ree She was in a high dark dress—very iferent fram what Corn d have worn if she had decided to come back ane dine wit alentine. “What doe he want? Cora asked. She wae Feally curious to hear. “He's heand I'm going into business— supplying food to invalids. He wants me to organize aoecording to his iteas, and not according tomine.” Nbgr- rureb smiled, “Hut paar Valentine doesn't know anything alent in valida: jist warts the fin of ha ing everything done his way. she answered. I'm Off t@ Paim Beach Tormerroe '* Mpril 22, The words for some reason sounde a knell in Cora’s cars. Was that all Vy tine really cared abowt— g his way? There was a brief silence; far » in some other part of the houge abe dimly aware of a clock striking and a) Phone bell ringing. [t must be dinne: ahe Fy arguret's hour. Wo, § couldn't h stay te dinner. She [po herself wondering which of them Val = put at the head of the table. Me woud there himself, of course, with one on aide of him, “T suppose you'll bi it Secs = gt ee inighed: she had i Fh laugh, almoatachuckle. ‘Indeed I shay “But [ may let him tl S r cong to. Tt savee auch a lot of troo ne fad found aut too.” _ found that out ten & ockod and admiring —2s a little feels whe ees rone smoking. | was it that Hermione, the faithless, Margaret, the maternal, dared to + Valentine more carelessly than she ¢ Perhaps they did not understand bir well as she did, with her more subtle » ions, Before she eould answer, Thorpe in the toom. When she thought of t moment afterwards she mppreciated power af the man, for there vue no trac elation or excitement oreven of hurry 2h him. He addressed Margaret: " Mr, ie is very sorry, madam, he- ee kv all 5 yaa to hinmar to-nigh working with the quick: at fightaing waited for a second part of messape—aomething that would dntain | and let Margaret depart in -: J Thorpe having delivered hi al this sentence turned to the deak and began c lecting various objecta—a fountain pen porkage of letters, “When wall Mr, Bing be back?" Cy auked. “Mr. Bing is obliged to start for Cai this evening, tiadum,”* harpe, 2 his eye just wavered across here “| packing for him now—as well ag I can such ahort notice.” The reason, his to suggested, was sufficient excuse for lead Lhe two ludies to see each other out, | left the room, his eyes still roving abost aearch of a objects, In this tee 1 moment (ara fh vaguely enviaus of Margaret, wh vomoved by the int nee, wae by ginning to replace her heavy Hs “To China,” she obese idly, “Now I wonder what i i] reason for that is,"" Carn snatched up the glossy ph tegraph and thrust it betwe Margaret's shapeless black Snger “That's the reason!" she said pe sionately. “He lelt mee for jus he an heur to meet her steamer— princess — Peta Btuit if as pet It volo, ' Wel adbently she is as ‘pe invoice,’ if he's going ta (China wit her the first time they meet—he wn hia princess!" te ye ph argaret too oiograp and studied it with irritating cali "DT don"t suppose there ever lve a human male who would not etje going to China with a prince” 2h sald, and she almost smiled at t thought of their dé ure. Tears were alread Punoleg dv Cora'’s cheeks. “What doe! mean?’ she said, "Are men incip able of permanent attachments: “Oh, no, replied Wlargaret “Valentine's attachments af ve) permanent—only they're oot elusive. He will alwys want [il when he's slek—and you whet be wants to test his will power She stopped, for bad cont into the room again. He bad cont ie the photograph. which he nit mk gently out of Margaret's ut bt hand, She hardly noticed Hs action, ao intently was her m working upon the question of Vu entine’s health. “Thorpe,” she said, aa if corel: ing a fellow expert, “do you thish ar Bing is Birong enmagh bore is journey? For the first time Thorpe aloe! himself a smile—a faint frets lighting at the eres Z “Ch, yes, madam," he sad. ‘! think now Mr. Bing ia quite kit self—quite normal. And thes. ami, I ahall be with biz”

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Yet so rich in life-giving food factors that millions of men and women are adding it to their daily diet and find- ing a health and vigor unknown for years. Did you know that fresh yeast is a plant?—that in addition to the Vitamin for which it is famous it con- tains other equally important food elements? It is one of the tiniest plants in the whole vegetable kingdom. Yet it pos- sesses the food factors your body tissues crave. fhe startling difference between civilized foods and natural diets "The chief causes of disease and death Ite in food and drink,” saya an international author- ity on food and its relation to health. This ie ie a ? lees faery ~- THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Tiny plant your body craves as food So small that 600 of these infinitesimal plant could go in a spot no bigger than a pin poin w#ipril 22, i; doctor tells of his nine years’ experience in th East. There he found a primitive people, fa removed from the refinements of civilizatiosc whe never had digestive troubles, mever su! fered from intestinal inactivity, and who neve heard of appendicitis. These primitive people, he says, are “ conten with natural foods, protective feds, . . . “But,” he continues, “the case is differen with civilized man. No longer is he content with the unsophisticated foods made in no ture’s laboratory; his foods must be preserved, purified, polished, pickled and canned. Some he extracts and distils with the object of pro- curing concentrates agreeable to his taste. His animal food he heats, dries, freczes, thaws and stores, “One way or another, by desiccation, by chemicals, by heating, by freezing amd thaw- ing, by oxidization, by decomposition, by mill- ing and polishing, he applies the principles of his civilization—the elimination of the natural and the substitution of the artificial—to the food he eats and fluids he drinks. With such elill dees he do so that he often converts his food inte a dead fuel mass, devoid of thos vitamins which are to it as the magneto’ spark to the fuel mixture of a petrol-driven engine.” A fresh food rich in health- protective elements Now that we are learning about the real seriousness of wrong habits of cating, we are vitally interested in knowing just how valu- able a food fresh yeast ts. The big chart will explain why Ficisch- matn'’s Yeast is needed in the diet. Yeu is not only the richest known source oj Modern man with Ais refined and modifred foodafuits needs fo supe plertant fire chariy ofp with some noturul health-protective food

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ES, a Rhecessary protective clement, but 8 20utce of other food factors essential Falth. It is a fresh natural food sprung clean, wholesome grains—corn, rye, bar- “ontatning factors which must be present Sur daily meals. It contains precious wal salts. It has valuable protein—the | body building material. RE tissue building factors in fresh yeast © Valuable that the same noted authority ted above says, “It may occasionally be Fatuted for meat in the dictary with intage."" he fresh yeast cake contains highly im- nt mineral matter— phosphorus which is i to all the living tissues of the body, : for the teeth and bones, and iron, fit an essential element of the blood. he little cake contains carbohydrate and Which give energy and heat to the body. he foll walue of this wonderful plant can f be obtained in its fresh form. This is f the body craves fresh yeast! Laxatives made unnecessary imMtives are made unnecessary by this mat- tfood. Of course we know that laxatives ff remove the cause of the trouble, but fi make it worse. They weaken the intes- GM muscles. One physician says that prob- ff one of the chief causes of intestinal feavity is the indiscriminate use of ca- tics. Fieischmann's Yeast is a simple food, cor- five im its nature, which increases the fom of the intestines and maintains nonmal - Feast fe grown from a mixture of fhe most wholesome grains om, re and barley, The grain is carefully selected and fharaughly Ghainaed from all clvaf ar ebier faragn subafances. Wha these frains mre grouwnd and soaked tn water they provede theerreceat recur- rang irs fire foe These tiny remarkable plats then grow ei thaafonishing rapid ity: The familiar coke of Freisch= marin’ s Feast consists of miuliions of (hese mecroscopre plants, Fleischmann’s Fresh Yeast supplies the factors you need in your everyday food THE SATURDAY EVENING POST .} 70 functions. By adding this fresh food to your daily diet you will find the need for laxatives gradually disappear, Primnittwe man with his natura! freah food stulfs gets all the food factors Ae needs to profect Aror from or featrve drafturbance and gnfestinal griac- tivitv. Digestion kept in sound working order Thousands today are realizing that faulty eating is the cause of their digestive troubles. These people are now eating Fleischmann's Yeast and finding increased appetite and im- proved digestion. Fleischmann's Yeast supplies abundantly the elements which help the flow of bile and the pancreatic juice. It will help you get the full benefit from the other foods you eet. Without this help even good foods may fail to. give you sufficient nourishment. Eat 2 to 3 cakes of Fleischmarnn’s Yeast regularly every day before or between meals. It will help keep your intestines clean and active, Your stomach normal, your appetite keen, your whole being raci- ant with health. Your grocer will send you Ficiech- mats Yeast freah daily, Place o standing order, 200M grocers carry Ficischmann's Yeast. If your grocer is mot among them, write to the Fleischmann agency in your neorest city—they will supply OU, Send for free booklet tell- ing more about fresh yeast and what it can de for you, Use coupon, odidressing THE FLEISCHMANN CoOM- Pany, Dept. 607, 700 Waah- ington Street, New York, erats five great fundamental food factors in the remarkable little yeast plant Protein —builds up muscle and repairs waste tissue Carbohydrate and Fat—give energy and heat to the body Mineral—regulates the body functions and helps main- matter tain the body's health Vitamin—inereases appetite, helpa digestion. Without vitamin, merther protein, carbohydrate, fat, nor mineral matter can be properly utilized by the body. Without wWtatmin the body starves, Fierachmann'’s Feast com- Gree excel ere dy wt petrris ae a sateen Sra. Sore ie if df ey hot water, orheara Prefer ftin cold. The siniploar war is fo eatit pinin, nibbling Ww from the cake o litt af a fame. fiaa ease, THE FLEISCHMANN COMPANY : fc Dept. 607, 701 Washington 51., New Work Cry, ] Please send me free booklet, “The New Importance of Yreast in Diet.” | Mame | | Street City =

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THE Again Making Hotel History SENSATIONAL RATE REDUCTION Birecny across from Cileagea's famous Haded af Trade and fhe Ea Salle Sanit 227 Outside rooms with private toilet. For one person — Outside rooms with private bath. For one penon — Rares for nwo persons ata slight increase NO HIGHER Every room in the hotel is available at these rates THE FORT DEARBORN CAFETERIA GRILL Offers delicious food at ex- tremely moderate prices. All other departments of the hotel make equally reaaenable charges. La Salle Street at Van Buren in. Chicago HOTEL SHERMAN COMPANY. Cremer SATURDAY EVENING POST # — peril 22, RITA COVENTRY (Continasd fram Page IF) he had krnewn ahe would, and feeling that he had not said enough. he went on agolo- getically: “I can't imagine its being nice to see me, though, T know I'm an utterly tnsntisfacbor person to be with this eve ning, Alice, L'rm as restless asacat. That's why [ thought of the theater— —sonething bright te take our minds off things.” "There's nothing the matter, is there?” she asked tenderly. “Oh, no; nothing special.” He sighed. j “ Apparent ee se just isé any hottom to this a Jot of litle things have bothered me Sel, You know how it sometimes." eeling as he did, he found it pleasant, after all, to be with Alicee—someone to whom he could grumble, even though he could net grumble about the one thing that was on his mined, “T wish I could help you Even more definitely tae her words, her eyes, with thelr expression of aolicitude, in- formed bir of that wish. “You do,” he assured her honestly, look- ing into her face with i ann and mot ‘too ha ay litele smile. ou help a bet, my doar, You're a mighty comfort ie persan to be with.” Ard she was. She waa the eort of woman who, when the waiter hands her a menu, lave it down and saya to her escort: “You er, please,” The head coat-room boy at the Tuileries, the quiet and fashionable French restau- rant at which they dined, possessed a gilt for obtaining, at the last moment, seate for the most popular theatrical performances, the one al iy being. that. ra purchaser should be willing to pay well f service. And the cane tee "t thot one “dined wt the Tuileries woe proof of willingness te pay. The place was dedicated ta the aflluent, eritleal and self-indulgent. Two could dine excellently at the ‘Tuileries for approxi- mately twenty-five dollars—thia sum in- cluding, in this post-Volstead period, a ight yellow beverage at beebve dollars a quart, which was servel only to guests Inowis to the mune ment, and was men- thoned with wise gitnta of the eve by the walters aa epeclal elder, although it tasted ao precisely like gauterne that it was eorme- times ordered by that name, albeit in a at tone, by those lacking o full degree of delicacy, guns ih a what one paid for at the Tuile= dining Pot aims mk boo large, and. naa decorabed with a restralned elegance Which knew nether red nor Hor marble. The tables stood upon aott carpet, not too clase together; the chairs were comfortable, and the cushioned benches against the walls more comfortable still; the tutsine was irreproachable, the waiters sympathetic as only the most expert French wiilters know how to le, and among the fuesta were always to be seen celebrities and beautifully costumed women. And best of all, one paid not only for what one got but for what one was spared, There wa no orchestra. A few earlier Porrish could have bought a box with seate for six for whet he ave to-night for two seats for Gladys. ut his two seata were in the third row on the aisle, No one knew better than the coat-room boy where patrons of the Tuileries preferred to sit. When they arrived at the theater the first act was over, but once the curtain rose they had no difficulty in picking up the thrend of story. A th was all there Wis, The star, a pretty Broadway favorite, figured os a Eowsian grond duchess who had eaeaped the revolution and come te New York with her guardian, a middle aged prince with comic legs, Ine ee the two were working ina restaurant, le aa uwaiter, she aga kitchen maid. Poor though they were, they had brought with them tliboraie wardrobes, and they were thug thle te lead a dual life, going at times into the fashionable world te which their tttles gave them wecess, A FOUng Eni with wiry golden hair, W tenor voice and wealthy parents fell in love with the beautiful kitchen mold, but did nok recognize her when he met her in black velvet ata ball; mor did the lank society woman recognize the prince of the night befare tn tha: waiter who apillec things on her and tripped and fellwith trays of dishes, These confusions of Identity through several scenes cnriched with and specioltios, hut were cleared up ; end when the kitehen maid, havin her sweetheart, was audcienly reve him standing at the head of an impr flight of stairs, up center, in a pris gown which was the climax of the s} a gown which took the honors o evening fram the girl, the Llibretil: composer, and even the [talian mas melody with whee famous operatic i the composer was apparently familia Ag the sumptuous garment dean the ataira to meet ita lower the truth upon him. The person it contained embellished was of royal blood and t fore fit to be accepted om terms of | equality b rary American famils, ho: pantie The young mam put his the gown, from the careful he did it the audience knew that he » cherish it as long a3 that show should At least 50 far as Parrish ‘was concer: Febleirae "5 sa had served its d ening ose. His oyes had been eng with t alage pichures, ia oars | trifling jests and melodies, his mind | nothing. But a4 his limeusine pee! way cautiously through the glittering forno of the after-theater streets, rever ating with the snarls of angry motor hi and the shrill iboats blasts of traffic pol men, he think again, He did want to, but iy could net help it. x0 ‘OU'LL come up fer a Little whik Alice suppes hopefully aa ti turned into the lofty cafion of Park Aven with ite double asphalt trail. “Tit's prec tn" “Hew would you like me te fix you sa bacon ard gs? "No; net i to eat, thanks." "You 1 ook tire d."" “T am, rather.” Then aus re 4 re d hetter | home and to bed id want you to see t though at of Sarsine and the childre It's aa awe." ow la Margaret?" He asked the queation not so much b cause of interest in her married sist whom he had never seen, ag to keep 5 talking of matters unrelated ta him. z ro aera eons Me coke all ri ow Pee 8 sees im tle | ao he can't take Vuiralions, and Mut garet won't go away for any length of tim without him. I ask her bhere—time 2 again I've asked her—but there's stra) some reason why ehe thinks abe can't cor If it isn't George it's the children. Erste she's always urging me to come oul ther “Naturally,” he sabd, “when she's = fond of you. Of course ‘you haven't bee home often.” And a the car dew meat be door he added: “I believe I will stop =f a few minutes.” ar ve a little sigh of nae. idn't sant to urge Lege te bias “huk [td have: been ypolnted tt ‘hadn't atopped i in, I've felt t lately a weren t—I daoei't knew —as i yoo erent somehow." we Nonsense," he seid, He waa glad ie Car was stopping. "Well, that's the way I've felt.” _ td shouldn't get ideas like that,” sald Going up in the elevator he made sxull talk about the muagleal comedy. She me him her latchkey and when he irl! * door preceded him into the Livi turning on the lamps, Then, as : “tall slip off his o overcoat, she came apd: him to “his chair,’ whore she made lin comfortable, tucking ik villow behind hin asa tralned nurse mij bt for an invale after which she brought the pirotoerl and placing it in hig hands prer upoe the arm of the chair where she equid lot at it over his shoulder. “Vory nice," said he, nodding. | “Did you aver apn a sweeter plete?” she demanded, “Don't believe ao’ He conte | lek at It “Margaret lan"t ao pretty @ you are" “Oh, isn't she though! You wot! say that if you could see her. Stet! regular little madonna, Amel did yooer set mich darling children? Cheargie's Bk (Continued an Poge &3)

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Continecd fram Page 40) este and little Alice—isn't thle Just Look at her hair, too— te text boar gaint bs tena rt her ey a hie le, the photograph. thy Ihe stirred a little, dislodgin the Position, and turning his oad PP at » aking: say Margaret | has been unging you Sut amd wisit? she’s always doing it. Even now Ave my own a nt in New bared (George i that thelr home | maw home—the dears! And of ia Bagi it ia." h | af eourse,” he agreed; then: hy don't you take a little run out noe FT met you." She had a way Tira in that fashion. he went on, gentl sister ian't Ben hence unhnis Sig heal. cole ve been thinking about persistent, well ——""__ He she said. “I do want to see them 1 T hate to have Margaret feel womiewe Fo don't come oltener, An es -bring her godmother —" ‘he encouraged, | ‘naturally she a nae more of her Aunt Alice, mote a per apiod a S so swork too. ‘They're arrest ers of youngs terat But'*— the sig “well, tg puess you bee don"t want to go, don't yout’ She Viened, looking at him with eyes cushy tender. sa fired it dull?" he suggested, wish- fennel off the declaration. h, to. It's mot half bad, They have tty house and the people are nico— * they sem so bo me, bens a Middle mer. obs Our sig aren e ae New ei pe you" in m pre me they're mighty comfortable ee = ‘m sure of it. In fact, [ve often won- that you didn't spend more time VOUr sister." ‘ou'we wondered?" She looked sur- d and somewhat hurt. “You think I tto? Surely you know why I haven’e, . Why, ot hret you didn't want me to j idin"t Like it if l even spoke of it. anid you'd be ao lonesome. You teld — afraid I've been very selflah,” he So, | wanted to be with you as much i wanted me. You know that, dear.” Perhaps,” said he somberly, “we've » been thinking too much of what we Not you. It's no fault of yours if Yes, itis, Ihave no right to come be- #1 vou and your only sister.” Come between us?" she repeabed, wished, “Why, you haven't done any- a lilke that} Margaret and I adore each ‘She ‘shurt because you don"tgooftener,” “Sot burt, exactly. It's just that she— \ misses coe, because alter father and ther died we were always together." *“Lntil a came Ensst," he added. ‘hat's w ™my responsibility beging.” “But T didn't have to stay East if I in't want to," “That's not the paint.” He gazed ot egramely. “Allies, [ think you ought to he gene out ibe lt rake Si ake ss ging etl better if she ust ive a look at “TL thought I ae go early in the. anne." “You ought to go right now." ? A dy it equidn’t!" “A lat af things I have to do.” “What ay “Well, [ want ta clean house — and I've niered some clothes." ‘Honsense! Those things will walt.” "I don't want to leave yeu," de- berger “nat when you're feeling the way “pee ‘he said, taken aback. “Why, I'm all neh” “he shook her head. “Something's been etisn sa ‘Business, said he a little bit ‘alles y; “bat that's only another renson THE SATURDAY why you might better go now. I can’t tell when I'll be called out of town again. I'm poing to be & ttully rushed in the next. ew weeks, vou were out there with ie sister ad know you were all right, d know you weren"t waiting around for mi But, Dick dear,” she interposed, “you musth": feel that way about me, vat means I’m a drag on pou ~the vary thing above all others tol never want to be. “Hot a drag,” he corrected. “But hon- eatly, Alice, | won't be happy until this thing i set right." "Then I'll go of course,” she said. “That's the girl! Now the question is, when?" “Next week sometime?" “Why wait until next week? Why nat now—temorow?" “Tomorrow? The idea seemed to take her breath awn. “Yea, the sooner the better, The sooner you go tind yell) ie baeke_" ut "To please me," he urged in a final ap- | the effectiveness of which he well rie, - Well, then —— onl fii TER : dou a little dowbt- fully. AE onee he becume expansive, “"Splenediel 1" He threw on arm about her walet. “Dll step and get your tickets on the way down in the morning. You can go in the late alternoon and be in Cleye- nd early next day. You'd better wire them to-night that you're coming. I'll be around to drive you to the station,” Then, perhaps because she looked a trifle dazed, causing him to fear that she wih still uncertain, he added en tg gly, “It's just possible that rl he going ta Chicago again, and if ldo we might arrange to meet on the train coming back." Immediately she brightened. "Oh, that would be lovely! Maybe could get off and come up and meet garet and George. And I'd love to have see the capi You probably think it's just because they're my niece wand nephew that I talk 50 2 ame mbrecrert zene, but it's not. They're really Deo you think yer could stop of?’ “Well,” he said, “we'll see uae about a week, Ou ts” ' “T can't sure et. et know as rites I : ayaa The stale thi zis is for you to get started. Wa can the rest later." Then observin that ta ooked cast down again he pat her shoulder reassuringly, exclaiming in a volor inten to be stimulating, up, my dear! Think how you're poing. to make them all! You mustn't be He like Grief on a monument, you know!" “T ahall mise you awfully,” she said. “No, no! You're going to have a fine time, You'll see! hy, may Tenet: same follow out thare wha’ Ul make you for= gee all albwt me," le wish you wouldn't aay things like that, be so hideously serlous, deart" “Well, | am—about you. I don't see how you can joke about such Things. You know that no one could —— “Of course I know.” Again he potted her shoulder, “rE m always thinking of you," she went on, “Every night of my life c pray for vod the same as for Marguret ond George ond the children. “ou sveeet gicl!"* He roee to his feet; she followed, atand- ing close beside him and looking up into hia face aa she Baked, Will you miss me?" "04 course,” "Much?" “Lots.” Hoe kissed her lightly. “Now it’s time for ane to be running alang." “ Alrendy? “Te's after twelve.” She eee at the dock. “Only five minutes after." “Yes, but you've a busy day ahead of you, packing and getting of. And I'm tir She made no further effort te detain him. But in the hull, just me he wes lenving, flung her arma around him and for a mo- ment clung te him like a frightened child. xrF ITHIWN the hour Parrish, in pajamas and dressing gown, waa set in a comfortable position on his bed, At hia back were three large eee and a good light fell over his shoulder upon the book which he hoped would keop his thoughts EVENING POST engaged until Rita's call should come. He switched the telephone off from his study to the extension instrument at his bedside, which he could reach at the first sound of the bell. But there would be a long wait before the bell would ring. She sung Adds to-night, and Aida ran rather Inte, os he re- membered it—until about half pest eleven. Then there wis al] that dark rrawlit ps ‘to be removed before she could dress. That meant t wartera of an hour at bewat. By now she waa at Frémecourt’s, but abe would hardly be leaving there before two hours more had . Tt would be three or four o'clock in the morning when she reached home and got his message, But would she got it? He had beon explicit enough with Pierre, abu bay would Flere, | in passing on his wor stress eneugh upon the fact that he Bo her to call him up, regardless of the hour? He lacked caniidanen ¢ in Pierre. ‘This buai- nea of communicating always through a third person, amd that a butler who an usually in Franch, was irritating—irritat- ing as the devil! So much depended upon Rita's understanding the moseages he left! | Tt wasn't a mere case of “Call me up some day." He must hear fram her! He most! Worn aut wi he wos, he felt he could not ga until he heard her vole. @ large volume in his hands was ad- mirably suited for ordinary bedtime read- ing. Tt was the first volume of the memoira of a British diplomat who had spent the past half century in various capiale , and bed in an eney rambling style events he hed witrexesd in thoae capi It was a book of head porte and aoe | which could be ope at any point and coaed at any point—a first eentlal in a bedtime back. But this was not apparently the kind af Teading Parrish needed now. Time am again he found that his eyes had traversed peat while his thoughts were otherwise cngared. | He was ene rhs coher= y nor thinking coherently. He would turn back and reread endeavors bo come centrate, but only te find find himself thy drifting agaln inte shadowy, E speculations and gee oh He saw himeelf with Rita in foreign places amid s edlar surroundings. Mow they would be strolling along the borders of some sapphire lake in the North Italian hills, now dining in a pir eat terrane at Monte Carlo, now roaming the gens villa at Taormina—o villa spar ing wie against green ghee a Bg th the sen spread out below, and ama ke-plumed Etna liftin ae white creat through a far- away blue At bw the at striking of the old clock in the atudy roused him. He had been lying with closed eyes, the open book propped against his knees, Onee more he began to rend. There was a description of a ball and supper at the Winter vast and benutiful apartments lighted by ‘eemanis of condles—a noble company. He seemed tosee Rita there. Constantinople, the Boe- porus, the Golden Horno—a succession of strange places, strange people, stra hape penings, always with Rita at his si Now they were on the stage at the opers. Ho, not | eat aa: Were: standing at prow of a om rau in the soft, eo go Ah Rita was dressed in tratling robes of white brocade. Her oricus. k hair waa hanging about her rs. ‘There was music. Was Sing- ing to him, but in a language he did not knew. The enilors, too, were spenking @ atrange tongue. He listened, spellbound. Thencame Alice, Sailors held herroughly by the wrists, They were dra her te the ship's side, were golng te throw her inte the ea. Rita was not b at them: she did not know what was happen- ing. He tried to tell her, but she could not understand, She continued to sing, smiling at him, and while she sang there was o charm upon him—he was unable to move, Thesailors were lifting Alice now, Some thing must be done ta save her, She looked at him imploringly, buat he steol herror- stricken, rocted ta the spot. He heard her pleading with them. He tried to shout and them, but waa dumb. were holding her aut over the water now. He could see it rushing by below, Ina moment she would be gone. Fite still amiled and sang her song. In agony he- watched, What were they waiting for? Ah, yea, the signal. 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He snatched the instrament fram the stand beside his bed and answered. For a moment there was silence on the wire, Then came the droning voice of the operater, “Number, please?" Without a word he hung up the receiver. Through the net curtaina gently swaying in his n windows he saw daylight, He squinted at the little clock upon his dresser. enty minutes to eight. He heard his servant poss down the hall, open the front aay good morning to the elevater man, who always brought the mail and Heidel! gal It was the doorbell he had heard—only the doorbell, He reached above his head and turned of the reading light. As he moved, the book of memoirs slipped fram the bed and fell with a dull bump and flap of leaves to the floor One of the tassels of his dressing own was digging inte his side where he Fad lain upon it as he alept. The night was gone. Another day had dawned; and not a word from Rita. C For a time he lay there miserable, He ached, Hut he must get up. There wos that infernal tassel to encourage bim, and there wos so much to be done ta-lay. He must buy Alice's tickets, go to the office and come up later te eee her off, And Hita—that matter must be defi- nitely settled. The waiting, the uneer- talnty were no longer to be endured, He had not known a moment's peace since he first laid eyes on Rita. She was driving him mai. He saree, hurried through his toilet, bolted bis breakfast and went out. From the Grand Central Station he telephoned, letting Alice know that he had secured accommodations on the Cleveland Limited and that he would call at six to drive her to the train. Then, anticipatin her, he added, “Tl came before six if fi can, but there's no telling about that until l get te the office." There! That much waa done. Hut, ch, this case of Rital Why couldn't he see through it? Generally, he felt, he understood women and their ways, (Cer tainly his friends, troubled by affairs of the heart, had come to him often enough with their problems: and always he had been able to interpret and advise. Everit, for instance, wher he waa in love with that murried woman in Pawtuchet; and Sage, when he was having difieulties with his wife: and poor old Goodman, who only heeded to be nerred tp bo propose be a girl who had waited more than a year for him to do so. All he required now wos help of the kind he bed so often given. He must eliminate his feelings. He must force him- self into @atate of [rigid practicality. He must audit his affair with Rita ss impar- tially aa an accountant would audit his own books, A man of his experience oaght to be able to do thot, : Riding clowntown in the Subway, he ot= tanpted it. He had a choice of two courses: Either he must ignore Rita antil she should communicate with him or else he must spare to effort to get in touch with her at once. The arguments in favor of the first course were simple, She had broken her remise &o coll him up. She had ignored is messages. She had net acknowledlpe it flowers, He would like te puniah her for all that. But there were arguments in favor of the ather course, Suppose he remained silent— what then? Hits was proud, She might answer silence with silener, A deadlock, Everything exiled, Moreover, a card in a box of Bowers was easily Jest, And there was absolutely no way of being sure that his i eeneee left with Plerre, had ever reached eT. To discover a plausible excuse for her failure to telephone according to her edge id not at first look easy, but before he reached his office be hed hit upon an ex- plunution which sermed to him a master- fect af feminine paychologizing, Her promise, given freely as they parted, had asaumed an aspect altogether diferent when the time came for its fulblliment, April 3 Twelve hours of daylight bad char look of things. She had felt self: Diffidence! That was it! He hed ne bee sakes lara winking bo ta ohim, yet not wishing ta; pong be toward the instrument, then faites giving up, A charming Ween. He understood her feeling. Hew away false pride and keep calling atl he gat peer they had ta! ahyness wou art. At eleven o'clock he left his ded an investor was discussing with advisability of sellimge atocks and bonds, went to the private telephor and enlled Rita's number. Pierre: that she waa not yet awake. He ted that. But to-day he mear arehanded, F Returning to his desk, he res conversation with the custome thought him overpessimistic. At half past twelve: he telephones This time the butler asked him tof wire, That wor encouraging. F kindling hape wast quickly exting Pierre returned to aay that the specialist was with macdemoiselle. Parrish would leave his mumber moiselle would call him in a little » The throat speciolist!> Perhaps ¢ Ul. Perhaps that was why he & heard from her. That wae anothe tingency he should have taken ir calculations. Opera singers had toh careful @f their health than o- Tmottals, But in response to jin Inquiry Pierre ass him thar st quite well; the doctor's wisit was 1 Tautine, “I'm glad to hear that,” said Pan Yet somehow he was mot quite ¢ hear it. Of course he did mot wish F be ill, but on the other hand had sh ill everything would have been expi He left his number, Then instead of out be had lunch sent im to him aes at his ant: LS Beer opel irnegular— & of market one Like te leave. An eae. An hour of sw unebua by frequent excursions Beker. The Tenirtalaeen of this fi ing market were trifles by compariee those of his state of mind. At f to make excuses for her. Her} ises were worth nothing, She bed} intended to call him up. Well, he would give her one more ch As he went to the booth for the third he felt that he waa facing ome of the» of his life. The whole future hung on should happen now. Again he hear voice of Piorre. He asked to speak toi a oiselle bo go out, sir.” “All right!" The electric contact, broken a be ered the receiver oo the hook, would & be resumed. It waa over: over and: with. He stood for a moment staring at the mouthpiece, “Damn her!" through!" he muttered, =F H® WAS tired —frightfully tired needed ret. He needed to reas hig nerves would not let him rele. sensible thing fer him to da, he knew, to go home and have a nap before tab Alice to the train, bat the thought was tasteful, THe was ton restless: for that. After the closing of the market be miuined for a time in the offices. t22 gleornily with custamera about the # nome future of the eountry, the rl situation, © > the exeess-profits ' killing initiative. Had net the Bnt tried an exceas-profita tax and alanct it? But the British generally showed # senetin theso matters, A direct a) wis Lhe seta Ly thing. ae tease fie his dexk sane fo an taln pamphlet giv the compart figures, but could not find it, The am were full of old papers and report, 2 of them useless. Talk about eGcet Sixty dollars a week to a secretary Fi didn't even clear out these desk drew He buzzed for the young man, adi tent of one who has suffered Ime # atiently aporke to him abet the ml ben he belt for the day. Instead of taking the Subeet tf! Forty-second Street, according toh habit, he walked up crowded Nasa °e to City Hall Park, and striking ac = park continued up Broadway. Tow the city had chi a memory! Not only the balding b* = (Continued of Page 6f) wetls I

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(Ceomtinaed fram Page #6! YOu never sw any ise. Half the time you didn't even ish language. Swarthy for- ng in the ariale at of the side- eonverse blocked the way like hing Union Square he swung around ern border, Why was Union Square tor up? Tt never ceased to look fining camp. There was something &, mbeout Broadway between Four- and Twenty-third Streets. All the = fone—some of them moved 5 aoc closed forever. He Se stores, &ven in ie Serene Ke Tlich to spend. And the Fifth t Hotel —one missed it; it had char- The moment anything became a irk in this town it was time toget rid Bnihees it happened to be something aoe i ike the Worth Monument. That of would alwhys be preserved, It as when re were trees bout the trees were gone, @oweather of the last few days | if you wore your overcoat it warm, but if you took it off you fim the air. There waa a lot of one This premature spring Swain, SOON 8S (VEryor was te it shale would come a bliz- ; waa the New York climate. the Waldorf he thought of eon binuwed Filth Avenue ad cunt. not fitendad to walk ao far, but as & he had done it he might as well com- the job, tired though he was, There Cohen ce bake ailiete Aloe atu up before calling for Alice, After left he would go home and bathe and have seme dinner, Or perhaps he pee wt to dinner. He could go to a | would run into there, He pas E : dining alone. of fact be sian a dining at o how the looks of sowda changed from = to day without appar- : eaecn. There ought to many pretty, fashion- ore women cat aliternoon as yaster- or the diay before, but E were mol. To-day the women looked dy and the other half overdreme|, How ‘piled the make-up on! So many of had taken to dyeing their hair, too, now and then one gota whill of scent that waa asphyxiating. a sora obey hte phony ry year winess offices piled in layers, wer and higher: homes piled in the ii @ way—eo-callel homes. Nobody in « York really had a home, I[t wae all SMa ne noe. [ie car was waiting at the curb when he thed home, and soon he was on his way oe town to Alice's, Tt would be some e now before he took this drive again. would be ten dave or two weeks. tow that Hite had heen arcs anid Wily ejected from his life the enc eh eairee, the presaing need that. there h so for Alice"’s departure. Still, it was tas well that she was pine The ex- rience With Rita had sha im. Sach iplendid dream with such a awift amd iter srrakecing. _It would take him a te while to pull himael! together and eb Tt was better that Alice should be ray while he was fighting the thing out th bimself. He found ber a bath aa the last touches to if pcg. robe trunk stood in # omer of the bedrogm ready to be nnd, oot grating the a sides together The porters Came vet it. ‘Let me ——" she said, fumbling at her om, but be tipped them, telling t te vt the trunk on a taxi and have it walt ith hl en car. Her Russia-leather suitcase was lying meno the bed, He sanw her go to her fore ag take the large silver-framed i of himeell, wrap it in same= sett and ener and pec in the bag. ey 0 you?” he aed SE EER OnE “[ most certainly aan “nm should have ask it in the ovis "Ssomiethin might ha to it— ‘trunks pH a, yf eat i. i Aes me.” THE SATURDAY “But when you get out to your sister's— you won't want to put my picture up in your room, will you?" “? d like te know why not!" “They'll be asking about it. They'll want to Sina it it's your young man." “Well, it ia my young man, jan"t ikT™ “Not ao very Young,” anid. She came [ put her arma about his neck, looking ap into his face. “ea, young!” agid she. “You don"t look within five years of your age, dear. And you're handsome —so bancbsorme !* “God forbid !"" he said, “eq, hondsome—the handsomeat man I ever vaw, if you want to know! Mayvhe that’s the only reagon I take your photo pant eth ree. Did that ever oocur to you? avbe [ don't love you at all? Maybe it's just that I'm progd of your looks!" She seamed sweet at that moment, in her fencer saa fichoons: Somehow aa she steed there close to him he felt happler thin he hal isten in several days. Not really happy, of eourse, it lex wh happy. There was eed soothing about Alice, [et hely him to relax. “They won't ak about wour picture,” she went on. “They may wonder--T suppose they do wonder sometimes, but that's all,"" “WonderT" a Tien, I shi ppose they Wwoh- der if I'm ever pring ta—that is, what I"m going to do with my EVENING POST arrange for us te come back together, won't “TEL can.” Her trunk had followed them down in a kaxi, He checked it; then went with her to the train-gate, which wis jusl being Go An obliging gateman let him pass through with ber. “Tick,” she zaid in a low tone as they walked down the conerete platform beside the long row of Pullmans, "T can't help it, feel—apprehensive."” “Why should you?" “T don’t know. I woke up last. night — you know how weak are when you up in the night in te worry? It was @ sort af nightmare, Things haven't Seemed just right lately. ii—as if we had quarre Ne Nad Been Lying With Closed Epes, the Onsen Book Propoed Agalant Nis Kaeee life, But they aren't the prying kind. And even if they were, dear, fin couldn't get mi without your picture. I lave you too mucn.”" “Too much!" he agid, “That's just it. You really haven't had out of life anything me what you’ re entitied to, I haven't one —— She placed her hand lightly over his mouth as though te stop the ulternnee of o sacrilege. They stood thua far a moment, alent. ie beled bee owe: the Wag aad e he ee ag and enap the eloth cover over it. Then, when she had put on ber hat and cost, he carried the bag to the hall and waited there while she ran to the kitchen te any good-by to Ceillia, "TL told her to telephone to you if an thing came up while ghee said von she returned. “That's all right, ian't “Of course. Come along.” He held the dl "Tn the limotisine be felt her hand descend soft over his upon the sent. ‘e you feeling better to-day, dear?" “Vea, ['m all right." "Be careful about sudden changes in the weather.” "Certainly." Ais they neared the etation abe said, “1 don't ae how I'm going to get along withau moh, i ewan "t be long. The car had swung iio Vanderbilt Ave- nue and was approaching the carriagr en- trance of the terminal. “De you love me, Dick?" “You know it.” "Darling!" she gaid, and pressed his hand gratefully. “And you will try to 2 ape dio of my head that you wanted to get “Silly girl! f in “T suppose I arn silly." “Yea. Why, [ had a sighteware myself." bout me? What did you dream about “Oh, I don't know, We were on a boat. I can't remember dreams, There wes cheese in that solad dreasing last night. Cheese never agrees. with me. He boarded the sleeper, saw her to her section and tipped the redeap who had car- ried her ne: ; “Now,” said with the sir of one whose duty is done, “you're all fixed, Here are your tickets," hanks, deat for seeing to everything. Can't you git down a minite?® “T cams to get home and freshen uo before dinner, he answered. “ And— hate to walt around for a train to leave." Yea, [ remember.” She rose. "'T'L go to the platform with He followed her down the aisle and into the narrow paige, At the end of the passage she pon » loaked out to the plat. arm to set that no ont was coming, then turned quickly, and placing her upon his shoulders , aid - io a eager kiss. “Sot here ted, disengaging hinnself andl aan ce ai Sapeeheshvely in him. She wae am “Don't you like me “when I'm brazen?" “Now you back,” he said, emili uneasily, “and we'll say good-by throug the win He left her, walled back beside the car, presently saw her sit dawn on the n plush sewt within, Eending over and ooking at her through the two thickretes of glass, he formed a goodl-by with his (Centinued on Page 92) I felt almost as | » Leouldn't get SS right—wlhen all of a De a Brown beast ex! he lad never missed a train in his life. He was alan a wizard at working puzzles, He had never found one he couldert de, Gut one morning Brown missed his train. His record as a puzzle worker was at stake, He had seen some of the a the Club puzzling for days over — He thoaght le could solve it Gb ahurry. So he boaght a set one tegk it heme. After dinner he worked anit for hours: Finally he rj fave up for the night but starter! in gn next morning #48 aon a6 break- fast was aver, He had it alamost aol wed. The tantalizing were jumping just his train whistled, He aprinted for the station, but too late. Away went hia enor for making trains as well aa for | salving p i | | oe 8 Thouximds of pepe of all ages from ten bo elghet i puiteled over Paurske-Pra for dave Un i er mae bali and mysterious tun i uncle emer ine ven Vou may work for a ta sad ndoone solution, Ved man my Ih east bedoee, ia at nage te with omc née shows alpeady ee Fi it have beer rand. H oypod woat the biggest. bee of fen and entertain- ment hou ere lad for SO cents, get ae of Piitel- Pig anywhere good games ore eed. [yom have trouble in getting yort ert, wend $a , Cee APL wae ee Oa are ) Pussies ae se , LUBBERS and BELL, | F2l Second Ave. Qyvksa> ace GOODS | For Sotety and Service |) AMERICAN GENTLEMAN CARRYALL | an mes bimus atl pea he ler eal ee fen Es ca Hit ei ie pete ply fue fia ier money a, came, m id tidice thon, st ite pm ‘A ballio fe] of char citer: | ome, compeck Disignerl fer lene servior? made of eenciive eat hee atch § lieaiiet Most papiilar bail fill al ita Ein, Cerne Tkond iin ic i i re TeeHlel FREE = Geeks Gobed fe lakh | Goreme (aiid Tach Sherpas = Glock ot Teo Blk oe Mbepary at 00 51.50 £2.50 EOS. ete bee al fr i I tr cual dot eo | ir ry ; Ie-hgllt, ad gen = bla k Jnr jhe Paces bee all need- ia til, = tit SOc I RE ni ‘el eC ed ee ee with ‘his chins ‘ cook 0. HE: CAMDEN, Mf J eee

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Most engine builders now use omd recommend Wico Magnetos. das ce loo Well bow rere vent rue a o ee Wice and mend! edi nik infer Fig depend Meat hich, Wiite pow and eave fime and money 22S See | THianee Street State 3 Town My engine. H. F- My dealer wico ELECTRICC SPRINGFIELD « MASS. U'S-A | | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Ceitinaed from Page 29) | then paused for an inatant, feeling her eli to him with her eyes. “Goodby,” he said again, and lifted his hak. ! This time her lipa moved in anawer. With a nod and a smile he straightened up and wal away. Coming upon a news mun some distance hack alan iis pissiaen he woe reminded that he had failed to sup ply her with reading matter, He hesitated. # did waa wish to back ta poe would Mean saving good over fi. Making a quick Selection from the man's supply he penciled Alice's name and her cor and section numbers on the cover of one of tha por eaticals. Then he stopped an enipty tad ed redcap who waa passing and pave them to him for delivery, [t wold a Lltthe surprise for her. Trifling wtten- tions alwaya pleased her ao, xFI were lighted on Fifth 1 Avenue as he drove home from the sta- tion, and the c was much diminished. It was nearly dinner time, How should he the evening? The sensible thing to do HE street lam would be ta dine at his apartment, reed for a While and go early to . But dred 1s he was, he dreaded the thought of a quiet cige. | at home. His nerves were all on de craved diversion and com alee: | hip any ping to ret get hia mind off Md ad known that the time would come el he would feel as he waa feeling mew; that he would find himself alone with nothing te do, ond that, left thus to himself, he would be miserable: but he had lacked the initiative to plan the evening otherwise. He had thought of various friends and various pastimes, bwt had rejected them one after another. There bes no definite person he really wished to there was no definite thing he really wis todo; yet his desire to soe someone and to da somethin waa overwhelming, He did not want te plan. He wanted some- thing to happen—something unexpected, extraordinary, atimalating:; the Kind of Hung that never happens when ane longs "ae wished be were anywhere but where he wns, Oh, to bein Faris at this moment, with a seut at a litth: table on the sidewalk terrace of eeme boulevard café: of in a & motor bout, dashing alan the ahores aoe tropical isle, blue and allver in the moonlight; or in an a#roplane searing like aswilt night bird between the stare and the a aoe world! But he waa conscious, in his ime inings, of someone at his side, and though he tried to make himself oblivious of the identity of that someone, he could neat. Hita—how she haunted him! Reaching bore ud arden miserably aver hia dressing. -sabdabar io go out only because it eat a little leas unpleasant to go cut than to way in. Tt was after cight when he started on foot i the club; and when, a little = he tered the dining room and blogked abowt he saw aftersdinner coifee on man ra the tables. Four of his friends Larry M erick among them, were at a tab re there waa no room for an extra place. Two more were talking business and evidently wished | to be alone, Clarke was dining by himself, as usual, and for the usual reason: nobody wished to dine with such an ass os Clarke, Parrish sat down alone and sranned the menu. It did neat interest him, The bead walter came and recommended chicken potpie. He hated chicken potple. His order given at last, he read his second eve- ning paper, How slow the services wad ere! When was enting his dessert Lay Merrick came aver and joined him. “A nice party we had the other soon he sald. Parrish assented briefly: then he s Of a consolidation of eteel companies whi had been announced that day, asking Mer rick what he thought about it. "TE ought to be a good thing,” said the other, “Wasn't it nice to hear her sing in those intimate surroundings? It was just tight, the way she mad ted h for that roa Yea. It ute me as peculiar that the steels didn't po up on the news though." "You can't tell in this market. THe you seen her since?" Why did he keep ha af Rita when the war to oe about? No, DT haven't." “Shin secrmird quite taken with you,” "Rot!" or voice ing on the subject was fall of things fot." April 33, “Busini evidently didn't think, Merrick amiled. Parrish luid down his fork, “Waiter,” he said, "bri “You think she was simply warng’ pl him?" That peesibility had mot Parrish before; he found the th tasteful, “How should [ know’ he a “Ail T know is that Husini is a | ‘3 i What do you suppose she cial Fr “The Lord only knows."" “Yet they've b beet keen about ene for a long time.” "So I'we heard,” Parrish answer tone intended. to dismiss the fopit “T guess it's pretty st threly, pla then od ruminat are certainly queer!" ; “I don't agree with that statement,” other returned crisply. “You can't sweeping plese fe about | pal mane than you can about na pa tical parties or the members of f chuks, Bee men at quner, and ie women wren*t queer at oll, Where cas find 2 greater frenk than Buasini, jor stance? "On the other hand, take a high type woman—the fine, straightforward, bone loval kind that you can tie to as if she a the Hock of (Gibraltar, Certainly » wouldn't calla woman bike that queer!" He wns thinking af Alice. er ty must be somewhere near Albany by no She had eaten her dinner and waa back her section reading one of the magacs that he had sent her; or perhape she # sitting thinking about him. e wish that she had not gone away; that she 2 hack in her apartment, where he could go! her for solace. She would ask no question She would demand nothing. “T waa talking about temperament wornet, "explained Merrick; ““the artist “Why didn’ pa so then?" Pie piranha iscuning Rita?" Merri looked surprised “Win were discussing women. When ya gut down to artistic peor there's ae i iscissing them at all, Nokeody ean Grur ipa eut, You can’t tell what they're ae any more than you can tell sha htning ia going todo. Andeve aang, Fe lene rhein cout—what's ih ae It's a Blak irat time. They're Tike i lot of animals in a zoo. You F like to pi and look at them once in a while, but pa wouldn't want to live with them, beraust that would drive you oe your base.” The waiter brought his coffee, Parrish tasted it: It was too hot. From his pas he poured some joe water into the cup, thes gulped down its contents and rose from the “Talk about generalizations!" said Me- rick os they moved together toward tt door, “Tt seems to me you've dealt with artistic peophe pretty much en bloc. Ar thik tects are artistic—aoren’t they prett “They'll put anmuall windows in pio ta make it pretty, whether you get air a moe.” “Maybe they will. But there's a ly difference between different kinds of a- tishic people. Of course poets are the worst, I don"t like authors either. Hal! of them seem to be socialists of anaretst. They get too much ady ertising. It swe. them up. And ntera—they" re a litle af too. They think abe to wet beards and hats and — suits, But music is more ey eal t the abeap arts, Dt reaches everyorn asd tt things for them they can’t expres or themselves, and for that remson ft eect to me that musical ple are genealy more luman than art Pot other binds." They had reached the head of the wi stair leading down from the dining floor to the hall below, Ris ores people!" pping in his trac ener aan WwW repeated Purral, Gira musica] people people am te worst of de whole outht!" uickly as he could he esenped fur Merrie and from the club, and will ing aimlessly to Broadway atrolled doa through the glittering, noisy, crowded de trict of theaters, restauranta, little stom and movie palaces, There came inte 03 mind a vague thought of seeing a more. but the signs in electric lights outside & movie hewsers Rape i him: The Petr alty of Passion, e Chains of Low, Th Golden Sir. Nae ‘hel Besides, ii ee (Continged on Poge 35)

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NEW TORK HOFFMAN QUIPMENT E CHICAGa Lid ANGELES ~ - for Vapor heat control | cising them, but the A man may be dings ponte of the largest otc lace netrapelitan e young employe of a large metropolitan bankecies One a ihitice be become its apy esc manager or trust officer working on afar sounder philosophy than his fellow oF ad who secka the ardugus, almost necking ered and paged reputation. “ go with the presi- cy. There are unthinking persons who would eall the one man a failure and the other a success, although if the question be looked at in what might be called a professional sense, like the ministry or medicine, one man is vist as far removed from failure as the other. Andrew Carnegie was fond of telling of * ‘Gantain Jones, whe for many year waa the competent, superintendent af the Carnegie Steel Pigg ied but whe eon sistently refused become & partwer, although he was told it would andes him & Tullionaire without any risk, Who can say shag - decision was Unwise'? ‘he sald, “I don't want to have my ‘achat running on business. [ have enough trouble looking after these works. Just give me a hell of a salary if you think rman right, C he salary of th zd right, Captain; the sa af the Preaident. of the United States ia yours.” "That's the talk," said the little Welsh- An. Then, too, there are vast numbers of men who may seem to be failures, but if they are wuch ft ia because of clrewnstances over which they have no control. be peer said, "TI make circumstances,” great: men, grnivses, do overcome what seem to bit insuperable obstacles, Those who have marked talents ustially find ways of exer- ab muses, and even those of ity far above that of rank-and- file workers, are not the kind te burst the bonda of circumstance. Thelr abilities need to be called forth and stimulated by circumstance. They need every chance to develop, A young man in a college clasa twenty or thirty years ago showed unusual talent for writing. Lf oo could have gone to work an the New York Sun under the tutelage of Boss Clarke be gd got of indeed in the opinion of fren ably, have developed into one of the abi of Living: novelists, But with a mother and a sister to support he had to go into a branch of teaching which would give him immediate income, How many men there are who because of family responsibilities must do the imme diate thing at hand inatead of following the long path to success and reputation! Postie Justice Phe numbers drift inte occupations the merest chance, or because of iy col spriioe circumstances in no way fone ith the great primary fact of their natural endowments and aptitudes. The head of any business enterprise will tell of men in his employ possessing good education, health, character, qndieabe and even sound judgment and fine personality who never get 2 mediocre position beeause they are not in the right place, bat whe feel pod caonet change on acooint of ae farnily responad bilities. here is a certain inborn capacity, a flair a form of canniness almost, for ual ness, for trading, for buying and selling, which cannot be analyzed and which great numbers of those in business, despite mu- merous other admirable qualities, most cer- tainly lack, ‘These are the men who should be in literatere, art, sclence, handicrafts and mechanical work of various kinds, and perhapa in cultivating the soil, Nor are all the mistite in life on the lower rungs @f the ladder. Indeed there are men who attain a fair measure of material suc- cess who are mot even honest, and this means that many young men ane held back becotioe they are not given a fair chaner, alf life through no fault of his own and berause his superior lacks fairness or common honesty and de- A young man called at an employment agency afew yeors ago and eaid that he waa keeping books for a certain employer and managing the office as well, for eighteen dollars a week, He had tried many times ta get a better position, but was always blacked by this bees, who teld other pos dible employers that he was not quite honest, April 22, “Yet he lets you manage his office, he?” asked the manager of the = | "T have a friend, a lawyer, who wa young tan like you, I will have hi eg ie i a and I think Ie B ioe dave kt a called office where the boy was working the employer that he mere want confirm in conversation the letter ba received. The employer, quite tne ing, dilated on the Sripor taricee of iis: meas and the sizeof his office. He adm that the boy was practically office map but that, as he had written in his let couldn't him any more becasue youth wasn't quite honest, “Twill have you in jail in a few he sald the lawyer, “unless you write and 8 letter, an T dictate, to every man tow dia have ever suggeated the iden that oy is dishonest. Of course he mtg honest or you wouldn” t keep him here, your office," he letters were written, the ng secured a hetber position, a ia he partner in an important firm. But where there ia one dishonest) ployer there are hundreds who keep } subordinates down through selfishnes mere inertia, This is perhaps espero noticeable in the case of big organizatj The great difficult i that the man di uhead w nak saeninieieiadll sastaea for creator There are natural reasons for this attitude. is unwillingness to lowe a good hel to have the trouble of break in a} one. The other is the fear that if assistant is promoted be may prove a i man than hos si peerior and in tine af him and perhaps oust him from Ee Unérained Understudie: “There is a Vice president. of a ceri well-known organization,” says one © knows but evidently does mot lowe “who gets about twenty-five thous dollars a year, and owing to his cons with the concern has many # investments, but whe has long ago s belng of any use. He is selfish and | | ing. He is, however, very gracious, & obeequious, to the men above him, o very disagreeable indeed to those bel. him. His whole attitude to those unc him is, "I've got mine, it's up to you tog yours if you can. A series of newspaper comics known Bug House Fables plebures i 1 OD sur t department head of a business conce going to his employer and saying, “Bo why don't you give my job to assisian He is better than Tam." But though su extreme altruism is not of this world, ac thin measure of it pays. Many ven ha failed of promotion because they have d veloped no assistanbs to take their im places. A lange corporation which does ni go ollelde ita own franks for its gener managers recently found itself in need) five auch executives without having ¢ Figher matevial ready, because the mi Fo up hed failed to develop the Oren there are at nitmbers of em players who mre -E and upsece enough, as well as successful and farses in all other reapecta, but whe have abo as much ability as a hen in picking =! ordinates and balancing their organizatio: Far too often they choose assistants te cause the applicants have the same stron qualities os the employers theme: when obviously the assistants should b selected far mipplementery and ea a tary qualities; perhaps for very traita rather than for the sane. A cloee student of boran values in busi meas has said that 80 per cent of manage ment troubles are due to the faet thal assistants are mot Picked out to supe) qualities which sUperions lack, and with i vlew bo Stine re chee of nye meri, he vite’ By business head “Teste of nicking pis sn assistant who has initiative, who is a deve and a self-starter, selecta one of hie eve type, and then everybedy wonders why th assistant is a failure. “TT an executive cores to me and sv he wants a treasurer, # bookkeeper, & sennuran het or any other ansistant, [ cat not supply such # worker unless 1 know 2 (Contineed on Page Fs!

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oe THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i prif 22, j a (eu eet say bi ra ~, : i - - — = c + | Ouc=sone oO | A New Use for the Homer The Homer Pipeless Furnace has become famed throughout the world for its remarkable heating efficiency, keeping small houses and even good sized homes of from twelve fifteen rooms warm and comfortable in the severest weather. Now it has made a new job for itself, and a big one, In hundreds of homes, institutions, stores, and churches, which are provided with steam or hot-water plants, the Homer is being installed as an auxiliary plant, or a “buddy @ the steam plant”—to quote one satisfied user. ; The Homer gives you an inexpensive, economically operated, quick-action plant—jumt what you need for the fall and spring months, and provides extra heating capacity should you require it on the severest days of mid-winter. Think of the convenience of being able to start a fire on a chilly morning with a little kindling or a couple of shovels of coal and have the house warm and comfortable in a few moments. Compare this convenience with the trouble, waste, and excessive heat involved in starting the big steam plant in mild weather—besides, the saving in fue! consumed will pay for the Homer within a short time. Remember, when you install a Homer, either as a main plant of a supplementary plant, you are getting the only pipeless furnace having the famous Thernmo-Seal Inner Lining, which stops surface radiation and saves fuel—the only pipeless furnace made of Stroke! Tust-Tesisting iran castings—the pipeless furnace designed and built by the inventor of the pipeless furnace, Mr. Samuel D. Strong. Our book, “A History of the Pipeless Furnace," is mighty interesting reading to anyonr whe has a heating problem to solve. Ask us to send it to you free, together with the name of your néarest Homer dealer. HOMER FURNACE COMPANY, Coldwater, Mich. BRANCHES: Homer Furnace Company, 72-74 Marierta St., Atlanta, Ga, Homer Furnace Company, 260 5. 15th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Homer Furnace Company, 1708 Walnut St., Kansns City, Mo. Homer Furnace Company, 1527 Waree St., Denver, Colo. Therm i-Seal Homer Furnace Company, 88 West Park, Portland, Cre, _Inner Lin r Lining Edgar B. Wardell, 201 Devonshire St., Boaton, Maaa. Warehouses: Drscer, Cols; Dee Modes, foea; Efe, N.Y; Perminedate, £2¢ Alama! fe. Boeken ote a. fe Jdaatives, (Pir: Mfanedester, VAL: Widicnie Wot. Warasdie, Tonnes Ogarr, Utes. Oude (erp, Gia: A, Saud, Wie: Sioa Folk, &..; Parmtor, dfars, ol =— Orig incl dl Tpatented. PIPE LE SS FURNACE

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'7tinaee from Page Be) executive himeelf,” says an em- SxPeert. “Tt is just as difficult tnployers to choose wsistants on & physician to treat his own eer and rpg idnds at cannot tal fleet of ectence and at omece silly and h rv nt facta of eweryday life are that nearly all reservoirs af power re ee great ——e i which we fw, and that we wig live evel that t for below what we wow. Een thet scientists whose = have been devoted to the study *, aod whe naturally appreciate the limitations that it imposes, what we habitually do is far lees ito owe could do. end of his life Charles Darwin de- ait mem differed leas in capacity c&al amd determination to use the new have. A meted living biologist, Conklin, speaks frequently in his and beolce on sclentifie subjects of chien, mental and moral powers” of als, of “capacities very much han the demands upon them,” and (bent selene of men. di, thou Pier tok and chance aS their there is anion of pera th forward pull, luck and Pecorttisen nn the success of others and who the lack of them to be the explans- thetr own failure, Feo are thoae il frankly admit inferiority, and ecir- noes ane often invoked nan defense at facts do not justify it, Thus toon that is great en at least to ine i Whole world of free wall, free lity, opportunity and responsibility, een are mossters of their own fate. 1 & Teasonably normal degree af mental and physical health, it ia well re faith in power of the human Oo conquer sieess, Bet obviously the reasons for failure are aut besesily defective must be Ft re are og few exeeptlona, but gen- Speaking any unusual measure of SE SUC requires sound health. Lack of Personalliy had the "fu" erie leans: tend deat of one of th argest ban ations in the country. ‘I waually ne ’ from auny illvess quickly, but that = acemes to be no respecter of person aohyen, Te I has back to work in a few that I was only 95 per well. I learned that I sould not con- efor more than a few days or a few @ at most to fill this position in that fon. My health has to be 105 per to put the smoke on the ball and give i right wallop it Lyla said Lage fail because flick pers Ly EE tL is statement, ah true in a sends, beg the whole tien. Personality means the collective ibutes and qualities of a peraon, the thination or composite of them, and of ou: it is this compan which chiefly fs sucess or failure, jut what of it? A man's personality ian himself, it ie his whole human fume. To say that he fails for lack of per- tality is Gke saying that be is the sort of mwho faila, It is merely a tition of = bald statement that he ia a Inilure, eg, ange _ eee rie re i t ay that a af personali Ely ihe fa that the failure has not o tuing and le appearance and inet, that he does mot attract other pew band draw ae ghee ad mate be ho preEnoe, ut though the gvt for ‘edliness, the ahility to make other peo b feel kappy, and what is commonly ted an attractive personality, do aid uterialiy in the struggle for succes: and ‘ndicap those who lack them, ft is posl- ‘rely nits to note the way business of- wizetions confuse this quality with the tal underlying flair for success and with he attributes that male it wu Nothing more common & an for a man { pleasing personality, the sort that is crown in common parlance as a mice fellow, to stay in an organization too late and too long. Euch & man, al Soe accu relates many frends, sorry for him ud ry es to ane i a go. Very often be cos erund himeelf the semblance af a THE SATURDAY job, But in reality he is a second-rate ! = gee pe te mah aS in the same pleasing goes far a af him eventually, Pime and again an individual with an attractive personality induces hia friends and acquaintances to intrust him with the care of their mone a their undertakings, only to make a fa in the end. To condemn to failure those who lack what is commonly known os personality is to place a procaine on the mere possession af niimerous gilts, although nothing is more se in a busine 0 a scl ned te employes who appear to apped ta come cut on top. Nearly two thousand ago the truth that Fd ig not ao much the number of talents that ae has as the way in which they are employed was told in a parable that i immo again, the explanation of failure is sought in a single word by saying that one must have judgment, just the night bal ance between : ond caution. In a way this atatement ia true, but once more the question is begged and the sian rk tirele aa to na “tht a doce ‘ good to a person that he must have judgment and balance in general. It is like saying that one must be o good business man in order to succeed in business. Tt is a generalization back of which we must still continue to delve, Cases of Arrested Development But if we dig into the operation of great business organizations it at once BpPeLrs that many employes fail to attain the highest menre of Ei analins auecene bernie | af a moppage tne th of thelr men: tality an ust exactly why this is ao AO One GAN aay, and to expl manifold forma would take a dozen articles like this, But the fact itself ia not only fundamental; it has the utmost practical bearing and value. A man of thirty-five who had been with an important business institution for fil- teen years and was the b af @ minor department at five thousand dollara ro dal was recently reported on unfavorably superior. 2 tas called to the office of the director and asked to explain lained that the superior ee had made the report disliked him, had learned all he knew of the busi- ness from him, and in addition had a pull, The personnel director then drew out a similar report on the superior officer from thoae who in turn were superiors, acd read both reports in full. “Can you stretch your imagination far pony IF asked the personnel man, “to comple dgment on these two reports with comp beta impartiality, in apie a OUF en red st aupertor?" an hour's {cheese the tha digarinatit head vsing that no one considered him valuable but himself, and that the favorable and un- favorable reports on his superior and him- self Pepecevey were alike fair and just. “What have you done to whlen yourself in all these ?" he wae asked, and the only thing be eould think of was a cor reepondence course on the work of his de- partment. “That's all right aa far as it goes," said the personnel rach “but I don't see where it widens You have kept in | your own little ap ere. You have drawn & circle about yourself, You ap that you have made no other effort te improve w an Uniinialed mar-achool education, that your apeech ia uncouth and your whole appearance unneeremarily shabby, No one has planned to fire you, but natural lows pare worked like gravity to bring it abou Tn another case unfavorable reports were heing received from a man of about the same age, but in a somewhat less respon- sible position. Hia work had deteriorated in the last year and he bad grown imdil- ferent, gloomy and morose, On aervoral occasions he hod been abaent on account of illness, When questioned by personnel director he express fear that in the ne trenchment process he might boae Tie job, He could not sleep for worry of it. He said he had executive ability h to hold a more nt position and needed a larger to support his family, but, al- though he ad been with the concern ten years, he had gotten nowhere because he had ne pull, "We can't pay you any mora,” replied | the personnel officer, “because you are not {Contineed on Page 107) EVENING POST Varied, original—and often beautiful are sleeves nowadays! The finishing touch is the glove —and this may present a prob- lem to those not familiar with the wide choice in Fownes styles. But there is a Fownes for every sleeve,— whatever its shape, color or texture. The world-wide acceptance of sports wear intensifies the de- mand for Fownes Firoserre— the ideal fabric glove with the unmistakable Fownes texture. Strap-wrist Filosettes for the long sleeve, sports coat, oF sweater. Mousquetaires of twelve or six- teen button length for floppy short sleeves or long draped ones. 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100 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST sit he Peat Company's sew afore, located in the Herald Building, Merald Square, York City, was riage lyrtes tract the HefchHiimarth Desiring Service, i 7 Joratshed iy wrilhy arth ‘Wetted tn Merchamdiiag’’ Sore Equipment of sl Ths men's clodhdng re patna and Nhe Aoberdeshery wiment, sections of achich are ifiuutrafed, are typical examples of ihe application of ‘alhod in Meche ediaing” principtes fo the planning amd! equipping of retail sfores. The design of your store— does it help to create busines: —does the beauty of your store attract trade? —does the arrangement induce purchases? —does the — accelerate sales? the design of r store—the heals interchangeable sectional units, standardized dis- your fixtures and t abe peint part- play cases ving clothing wardrobes of mente—can be tra mu BUCCEaS OF advanced t —combines beauty of design and lack of progress of your aor finish with highest development of modern - merchandising efheiency. It permits more goods If you would achieve for your store a beauty that to be carried in the same apace. It makes pos creates new prestige—if you would attain a mer- sible more sales by fewer clerks. It eliminates chandising efficiency that develops increased rac tit kal of shop worn items.- It gives the sales without a corresponding increase in over- anager a constant k on stock. head expense—lay out your store according to Above alll," ” Methed in Merchandising" Equip- [ day. no ane merchant—no one de today, no one merchont—no ome de- know all there in to know along the broadest lines of efficiency, beauty and economy must turn— not te a single man, experienced as he may ber in stor planning—but to an Organization. is such an organization. It in greater any one man. It includes 2 group ed licensed building architects, store vitects and merc experts —men who are familiar with America’ large anc small —men who have gained in years of ing retail establishments « rich, knowledge of modern moer- chandising princi fi you are dissatiafied with the progress of your businessa—if you wonder whether or nat it would pay you te Mize YOUr store, oF & department of atore—aak the advice of the Welch. Wilmarth Designing Service. eects your business is o small one a large one, "the Welch. -Wilmarth Dealgatne Servi STs coO-operition. Laying your problem before the Welch- Wilmarth daateneita will eee you in no way but itwill give you anew insight into modern, merc efficiency’, a Welch-Wilmarth Store Plan and furnish it with Welch-Wilmarth “Method in Merchandising” Store Equipment. Store planning, as practiced by the Welch-Wil- marth Designing Service, em a scientihe layout of the store from the standpoint of potentialities. Every department is correctly lo- cated in relation to other departments, to store trafie and to windows and skylights. Every de- partment is allotted space according to proven rules of merchandising—so that each will carry its own share of the overhead and show a clean profit. Welch-Wilmarth “Method in Merchandising” Store Equipment—which includes patent ment insures the utmost in merchandise display value per square foot of fixtures. Invite the Welch-Wilmarth Designing Service to repare a modernized plan for your store. ect “Method in Merchandising’ Equipment the standard type or in one of the Period Styles. and you can’ be sure that your store design will be a real factor in building business. Write—on your business letter-head, please—fot a of our new forty-eight page bound book. “Method in Merchandising.” It illustrates and discusses authoritatively many of the modem tendencies in retail store designing. Method i in‘ Merchandising Store Equipmen Originated and Built by THE WELCH-WILMARTH COMPANIES, ASSOCIATED Pioneer Store Equipment Builders of Grand Rapids Offices in principal cities —Repreaentatives everywhere sel el oe

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atime from Page op) E Simd you haven't done any read- Stars. You reoched the peak of nese five Years ago, and we have ed OW ever since for work you dome. Wou say you need more Cause of your famil In other OWS more on the Her of your eed of your work. I have ten ‘Sports joa Fou written by six dif- ,althongh there is po wrist of them all ta the the. Lote pt your resignation now." Shy amare another chance, to do better work. told he could have o ui » and upon his return fe clean slate. His work has inherited a good busi- fh indifference, lowe of com- mganes bad wantonly and t slip away from him, re- ‘jit \ ment expert (He comfort. “T ei and nobody else on either. "The trouble with ma hawe never fod your mind. Pit, but others do, There is Your min d it a bungalow, ory. ay you ever mead the great men, or works on cul- , ethics, justice and the somewhat startled reply been intersted in those su L you will never held w good posi- you do become Interested in hen Indifference is Fatal meible who reads the recital 1 act casts will infer that mere ading of study is the secret of and al to success, or that in the 22 mentioned shabbines wes in pani eno But the wi Sarr nt and perso experts who hove aoted drove with unerring instinct tat one symptom of the ol growth i indifference or stoppage mn the opinion of numerous authori- counts for the failure of at least hall rhaps sage gg af a in the business = ITtiaa ee af ta eee rand narrowing down to “the da aay ‘stint, a8 yeara go by. If men haya tien into the habit of reading and or other methods of mental by the time they ‘are thi we it curse very difficult to get them to in comme here every day," said one of thorities just aches, Sond tell me want better poaltions with more ry But I discover almost at ance that ‘ant expect to get anything better heir present equipment." ‘same idea has been expressed many by saying that men get into a rs bey rust or that their mental growth with thelr physical growth. As the tual becomes familiar with the details joo he beta up. in effort, develops a aod shan way of doing the and actually rots on the job. Of tihis is especially true in highly or- éd and tmeritalized inatitutions, i not altegether the fault of the ae, they are invited almost to easy mehich the easy thing to do is to most Thus nothing 14 more common in a ‘estitution than for a department , report as follows concern mem- @ nis stall: “He is not Foret and ljeng. He is standing sti acme r hack. Urbess be * ah tad et along without hin.” it ie quite generally ccd: 4 nployment expert, ‘* that chonewade tf af te who work for large concerns recelve beer salary envelopes more than thelr bet valor, The mere success of the or- ation itelf adds something to their . When they leave, the world shears off fphing but the marlet valuc, They i Agthing to sell except thetr technic, ghey ean produce in the market, not } ihe ether fellow haa giver them be- whe lied them or because le had = them a long time or could afford ta Wy la it the East Side of New York y ib dowly creeping up into the big THE SATURDAY EVENING POST business positions? One answer is that twenty or thousand of these Eaat Siders go to night school at the local uni- wersities, Americans talk a lot about euc- ceas, but have beeome lazy and indifferent fol its nabcisury conditions,” “What I am preaching to our four thou- sane empla: all the time," * said the Ke presi cent a chaln-atore nization, * to inerease their mentality Hd study ‘andl ctkneerian inorder as Kee abreast of the new problems and changes which come up. | I put it up at that unless enough of them look to the future to rps to apes | on new plans oa new conditions arise, etily they cig the business itaelf willl fail. The pity is that so few go on; most men stop when they have learned to do a single thing. 2K ane city recently we were able in pie ly six men aa a result of two hund fae tome for while we can get all the salesmen and clerks we want, what we are looking for are men who will be rte ps trained sesoriates, There are aa new etores to be o vided only the young men we competent to handle them. or thera is just aa definite a curriculum of activity from stock room to partnership In our business as in any university. The man whe only knows part of our probleme ned, pro fon prove ia handleap on bis at upward, Men Tun alter a Pps the way da a street car. niet have cought it pay soe They dane ea any more, and it life rca to all intents and pur- rev one of indulgence and ha 2 “They have been keen in the few > pene have watched every chanee for sery- apurred on by small solaries and a de aire ta ive better, Hut when get o to a mexderate salary imagination ie, and, won t h they admit it to anyone, | their develope has eta and they ae now prisoners within own limita- ona.” An official of one of the great public service corporations said he thought the reason ao many people fail is because th are cal, puffed up with a very lit success, and ispesed to think they know it all from the start. ae h - first glance this if an apparent] differs line of thought, I am ot that the idea as thua expreaged is fundamental! the same as that francine through this article—namoly, the vital ee of continued mental growth, “But aren't you and I midd St cabs, when we say things like that?’ Men Who Never Stop Growing “My angwer,"' he said, the ablest men have never ato growing, no matter whet their age. The most out- standing charucteristic of the late Theodore WN. Vall was his his open mind to the other fel- low's suggestion, even when he waa well ast BeVEri rhe vom reason people slip is be are thes ciisiaed the ve fonlai by which they have gotten ahead, the bridge by. which they have crossed." “But is it not natural,” I asked, “for people to change mentally as well as physically as they grow older?" Bape. a Here Ee ahead by being genial, the reply. “Why should he atop just Tee he has reached! yoors and poaition 7 I sag denice haa being brusque yesterday just position, Constant vigilanes ia the price af success for young and old alike. We are all in danger bu slipping buck every minute, no matter hat our age or position. The essence of the matter is that every man must watch hia step all the time. "Tam fifty-nine years old and I eould become a distinct fallure in three months if I let a élip. I enn't see that vigi- Jance in this matter hurta me any. I had a partner once who thought the world was his oyster when he was thirty. But now no one wants him around,” One of the most remarkable cosea of failure that hat come te the writer's atten= tion is that of a young man whe had such a distinguished war record that, without any previaia business experience whatever, he Wis wes able to take hia pick of positions when he petuirned from France. This he could not have done even with the war record except for a most attractive personality, The. steary must be shorn of all the pice Tees et detail and in teront ing human touches for fear that the niga ron might be reeagrized, ai Fate, the young man obtained a atti n what, for sake of illustration, we will eall an inaur- ance OOmpany, Here he was at once ‘ly that of | Is Dan Stillson’s own mark on your wrench? The most famous tool in the world was invented by Dan Stillson in the Walworth plant 53 years ago. It has been imitated many times. It has never been improved upon by anybody, not even by ourselves, and it has never been displaced in the confidence and affections of mechanics everywhere. We are today supplying new parts for Walworth Stillson Wrenches made 4) years ago. And these parts will, in all probability, fit the Walworth Stillson Wrenches we make 4) years hence. The genuine Walworth Stillson Wrench is the master mechanic's pal. It holds first place in his affections because it meets every test and rises to the most critical emergency. There isn't a job of pipe fitting or nut turning too tough for a Stillson, and in a hundred and one other breaks and “‘fixes”’ it’s the tool for the emergency. A Walworth Stillson is as finely manufactured as any tool in the world, All working parts are made of the best tool steel. The jaw and bar are drop-forged and skilfully heat-treated to give strength and tough- ness, and hardness without brittleness. And if any further guarantee of quality be asked, we can point to over 50 years of service behind the genuine Walworth Stillson Wrench. Be sure that the wrench you buy has the diamond on it. Ask your hardware dealer for a genuine WALWORTH Stillson Wrench (look for the trade-mark). Also write our Boston ofhce for descriptive leaflet. Walworth Mig. Co. Boston—Kewanee, Ill. New Vers - Hesion - Chicago WALWOETH INTERNATIONAL (CO, i Philadelphia - Seattle - Portland FOREIGH REPREREreTENTIVE STILLSON | Valves, Fittings, Tools for Steam, Water, Gas, Oil and Air

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102 “This knit underwear ‘Tatoo tert SaVeS My summer suits” elog aed Teco Panos Bra Bl is eres I got wise to the fact that absorbent underwear was the only satisfactory kind, 1 spoiled more than one light suit. And my shirts often hung on me like wet rags on hot days. "LT don’t have any trouble with this Lawrence Underwear. It takes up perspiration like a sponge and my outer garments are never stained — they look better and wear longer, It's the finest thing to wear with Palm Beach or other tropical suits. Cool? Why shouldn't it be? Just as light and thin as any other underwear and never sticky. More comfortable, too, because it's so porous and elastic, and it wears to beat the band. “The Lawrence tailor-cut fie is a knock-cur. Every gatment | get is so perfect in fit—cut sepa- rately to pattern E hand and made full size, “TL like this sock-length union suit because it pro- tects the knees of my trousers, but you can ger Lawrence underwear in | fitting achleei Seu : at ‘= a etic union oe Cte! suits of separate garments, if you prefer. vrataand Wlanimens fear wotrtn == perioct inibe, dalacy im tailoring need inte, Tf yeu connot find che Lawrence syle you wernt: ar your *y, uvite to ws and mention his mare. LAWRENCE MANUFACTURING CoO. Extolvished 187! Lowell, Mase. Acrerica's Loree Mamafaccurers of Men's ond Women's Lighe andl Medium Weidhe Knit Urnles- Weak, From ber caw coon oo che fodshed garment E. M. Townsend & Co,, Selling Agents, Mew York City UNDERWEAR | mental and moral THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Fleked for a future officer and given to understand as much. The any VET went #0 far " to get up a training class ially for him. To quote the languse Fy pia a the officers he wos “put into = action as qneckiy as possible," Rut he never went aro. the a Are! 12, He thought he was so much | others that he made no friends. On sev- eral occaslons he refused ta work alter five a'tlack. Finally the department head me marked, “I he ia going to be a flivver after all." ni he waa given very little work to do. Then for a couple of weeks he Was given igh work, nally he was called to the ee ee 2 emp t manuger to be told that h & had apie meee in going inte the insurance business; and that was the end. A few months later, inetead of being on the threshold of an executive position in one of the greatest insurance ationa, he held a manualand menial position, where he will probably always remain, consider the ef a wealthy manufacturer who had always lived on an ample ineame until he was about thirty, when he inherlted a principal of five million dollars. He formed a brokerage-and- proreotion firm, and within three or four yeara was completely cleaned out. This man did not lack ahility or energy, but he ad not gone through the mental processes of learning and growing. He had been apolled in one way, just as the recurnedd soldier had been epoiled in another. An entirely diferent group of cases, which at first glance may seem to have little relation te the subject in hand, should be referred to, The most striking example that hos come to the writer's attention recently was that of a middjeaged employe ihe aithiful and reascnably hard-soricite sort, fairly well up in one of the depart- ments of an ex ingly prosperqua elal institution. Owing to an unexpected number of deaths and other changes he was suddenly promoted in a short period of time until he become assistant treasurer. In this poaaon he hondled large trast funds and was in a ition te familiarize himself with inside financial operations of the firat magnitude, He waa told, however, that one condition of this new office must be the eachewal of all speculation in atocka. The Story of Three Brothers Despite this warnin cy began imme dimtely te Bay the the ft, and when the tect, wit he was summarily Thereby Tong losing @ more than generous tae and the prospect of retiring within a few years on a good-sized pension for the Feat at hig life. Only a peychologist could hope to discover why this highhy and fortu- nately placed individual should throw away his eg ee as it were, for a mess of potioge, But in the character of many of the business men who speculate there i | the weakness of sell-indulgence and Lasi- neta, the false idea that succes can be achieved by a ahort cut that avoids work. Whatever may be the economic benefits or evils of speculation, it is far too often an indulgence whose only effect upon the in- dividun) is te wenken the fibers af eet streng growth. There is a vital defect in many men, | rich or peor, young or old, that ia not de | fined by any one word or phrase, such aa | laziness, indifference heing atuck on oneself, suggest bel eseem tial iden, envisaged contrasting such chases fs here with tof a mun like Mr. Vv ail, whe kept on learning and in other ways pa ing the prloe of succes up to the ver long life. Thi d Bs of enay, eh atierent alipping fram day te day, of not taking the trouble to grow mentally, is Paruaye only another way of aLying . at people are unwilling to pay tht price af success, ixtinguis writer on political and historical subjects planned te sail to Europe on March firat of this yeor, He was able to get the passage he wanted om that date, and in addition would have reached Europe in time to at- tend the bl tey of the ae of Serbia, ta which he hod been invited “Every reason of self-indulgence i vited me to go at that time,” “ht | hove a new book re ue, wud: bo see that it gets started right meant that I had to sta bere afew weeks longer, The trouble with moat authors is that they de hot really finish the job. They work hard up to a certain point, then lose interest and stop.” self-indulgence, or although these all It con beat be 4 pril The story is told of three bro worked fora New York export ho Jim and Bill. Tom received ten dollars; Jim, the eldest, three dollars; and Bill, twentareame hu lara. Bill, being the youngest, waa hig mother's idol, ame @onmtint ained that the other brothers, ‘om, received more than he did the father complained to the emp! way of asked the seca] tlarmrder irs an adjoining could hear what went on in the « = room, without being seer. The followin day, at interval: hours, each of the brothers was = turn to investigate ashipload of g had just arrived, with orders Lo their nature and value. Bill ca shortly and anid a man ee the ¢« him so-and-se about the . tee Sie iene Ds and que ar = eseribing t sesads bn ah oertain net return until the follow oie he reported that he had | option on a porilan of the cary having examined it all personally, sold it over the phone at 2 con profit. After hearing this mepeort fr the employer called in the father | nijaining room, and snid, “* You why I pay Tom so much more t others, I am going to take him ir nerahips.”* T cannot vouch for the literal a of a tale so reminiseent of the Fools but it might as well be true, and it 1 to the writer by a reaponail ble besite as being such, Certainky it is a lite thet relatively few men have ci liv to the ond they are th achieve, Ibis so much ensier Lo tab eye off the ball. Too Quick on the Trigga “Too many men are aatiefed with holding a job,” said the vice preside corporation which employs all sor descriptions of men and women, hope to be carted on by the momen eeicumataniogs by the lapse ane prow of the, inet of hy thelr own : They are the fiveo'clock quitters, pulang me ia the unwillingness i oung man to do his job iit tle bit better. There is only a very difference, only a lithe extra mang tween the goxl man the very man, Epp men mn stop } test mt Little too They do the eetly logical thing correct vent thing, but not the bit more which makes it excellent “A young lawyer was told by hi pores to find all the witnesses in Asai ave them in court at a certain hour, * shall I find them?’ asked the young helplessly, “I°U ioe hanged if [ koe care,’ wis the irritated reply. The ¥ lawyer's question waa nothing but a of laginess, of an unwillingrmess to pa price of the rental SXeThlOn Pequins doing the job. Now it is true that numerous mt though probably a far smaller grous the ones we have been considering, cause of impationce, Instead of bey diferent they are too quick on the try taco bright, and smart, The lawyer wants to get [ote the firm so! that his a pelt lose coniidence in bustling, cious eagerness. Otter, becuse of no fault of their own, young are pushed ahead beyond their abiity, find themeclyves in. such ia wales | ¥ cunnok swim at all taken out of ther and the ina aa falluns when they yo dewey better fate. A young man with a fair edo drifted into a line of work where be sin great ability in handling men. He made a foreman of o gang aft laborers and did exceedingly well. Be boy became engaged to the daughters very wealthy man, and the young lel family thought it undignified ae : future son-in-law to be boasl hunkies, So they set him up in himnsell ane he y piost penal 4 This happened several times, to be! creasing di t of the father-in-law, thought the boy was mo » But firey. his o8n tha young man chien Tinar position in a concern where enue friend was an executive, aod cher, ab some yeara in a subordinate capa hae made good, being at the resect one of the chief executives hime, (Cofititaed oA Bage 05)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Any woman who owns a Lorain-equipped Gas Range can easily prepare this favorite delicacy NOOKERY, until a few years ago, was an inaccurate art. Today it is an exact _y science because the Lorain Oven Heat Lacy ator seve housewives an easy ay to measure and control heat. No longer nee you wonder why the spetizing Tecipes you try sometimes fail to meet your expectations. “Time and Temperature” now a part of the recipe wo new elements, you'll notice, are now 2ing included in the best recipes— ‘Time ad Temperature.” Formerly, recipes gave cact quantities of ingredients only. The cat temperature and length of time for soking were left for the reader to guess. Lorain —The Missing Link hen came the invention of the Lorain Oven leat Regulator. It's a simple, accurate, auto- patie device attached only to certain makes of 32) Ranges. With Lorain you tell the oven ust what heat you want. Automatically that yat will be maintained for any length of time. Only these famous Cas Stowes ore equipped with whe “Lerain” CLARE JEWEL George M. Clark & Ca. Div, Chicage, IL. DANGLER— Danglet Steve Co. Div, Cleveland, Ohio CRECT ACTION —WNational Stowe (Co Daw, Lorain, Ohio SEW FROCESS—New Process Stove | (Co Div, Cleweland, hia QUICK MEAL—Chuick Meal Stove Co. fhe, &t Lowis, hoe VELLABLE—Reliable Stove (Co. Thy, Cheveland, Ohio One cary corn ed the Lorain red wheel a chatee of a4 lacie iy Sepa pr pe A Twist of the Wrist Brings Cooking Success Now, when you read a modern recipe, such as that given on this page, you can exactly duplicate the success of the originator, if you own a pean enulppes (as ean Md prepare the ingredients as explained. Set Lorain at the temperature required. Then go where you will, and do what you please until cooking time is u Everythine in the oven will be deliciously - ready to serve when you return. Lorain Dealers Invite You Our dealers are always glad to explain the Lorain Oven Heat Regulator. Many of them give public demonstrations frequently. That's ee fh cooking or AMERICAN STOVE COMPANY, 14 Chouteau Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Largest makers of gas ranges in the world We manufac: oll aad coal sowed for ant where pes fe noe available bur the “Lorain cannot be used on 103 Recipe i ‘ 7 Chicken & Lorain Dress, clean and ost up fowl, Dip pinces ioflaus—padting the four inc every Pare Ot SuElece a idk thet: abake- ing. if ay Teds, Pace in roster an pour qetleed. beter over ikem. Sci uncowered inoren, tude “LORAIN po a) deereca, leewe ag thie cmp hate nl che atin is eoted a de fud brown. Put POET Oe hoMabee, Turn LORAIN” ro lfialegress fora chine hitent mal ar 150 degrees for wm four Of bre leorur mim bea farther abiene Chen be re qulred uwrril dinner la ready, whem yoo will remeve from Alea creer Lhe fect elie true Chicken you ever gee —even if ir happened the fowl were net young, Soup, ewvert Pouoot, kph and a barity spbce cake may ale so be placed im che ren after the teacing temperature bos been reducnd aad will dee fumed Ger: fethy dong at dinner rime where you cam see for yourself how this magic oven will cook, bake, roast, boil and stew—all at one time—without any at- tention. If you'll mail us the coupon we'll send you the name of the nearest Lorain Dealer and a copy of an inter- esting bookler— “An Easier Day's Work”. AMERICAN STOVE OOMPANT 14 Chouteou Awe, Sc. Louis, Ma Please send me free bookler, “An Easier Diaz's Work’ Narne Address. (ity Shae

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104 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April edge gives more ironing surface, and haw it for this feature when ) you buy your next iran. "he ! ELECTRI tin? C APPLIANCES See ‘How Big ‘Your Jron Should f It may interest you to compare the size of your iron with| of the Westinghouse M-Iron, as shown at the left. Place iron on the outline and see if it fully covers the area shown, does, you may be sure that your iron is of the proper sii work with the greatest speed and the least expenditure of This takes for granted, of course, that you have found ironing surface to be properly heated, as it is in the house M-lron, Look, then, and see if the base of your iron is beveled the working edge. ‘This is a feature that is extremely desi It enables you to do finer work on fussy pieces than is wise possible with a standard-weight iron, and also, as ie of women have found to their great delight, it gives you unobstructed view of the work, without bending over. Ask your electrical dealer for the Westinghouse M-ln which embodies all the ironing advantages mentioned abo as well as other new and practical features. =n WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC & MANUFACTURING COMPAN Oifices tn all Principal Cities - Representatives Bey More Convenience Outlets Make More Convenient Hom house FOR THE HOUSEHOLD

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> acca dt ell from Page 103) ted. of course, in the earlier part of Pr was an older hk over him, cece of this nature, though inter- [me moaweh bess frequent and signifi- war, ‘those of another sort, a recital 7 lends ua ‘hi on to the second two great fun tal reasons for Eergs. asked his views concerning bject af perzonal, individual failure, Eracncmed manager of industrial plants sed a8 follows: “When | wes man- af the Blank ree Company I 4 that we needed o lot of new blood. Jed mew foremen and superintend- eo T teok on a dozen of more young eo temen. To remember two of them ¥. The t tadal eed weceed fou sity and had a gol record t work im the machine shop, and i ita r th wwevks came back and sald keted. [ hadn't forgotten him, he thought [ had. Eut that man ng, he was always dis- and wantel more money, I a * say to him, ‘In five years you will aking five thousand dollars." I had cs of other young fellows like him, eotldin"t lay out o tiowtable for each wave c nother young college man came on at ame thme. Supertic ficially he waa more ieapped, because he was married and Parents were much But he rpeeped. Not a word cane from him, T bad mo ere on both these men all the 1 doen't know what has become of first man, but the second one is now lof a department and ia just aa sure to eed as the other is to fail. The trouble fat woung men will not do the daily Sean ne Ui; fraid the thi So Manse them are afrai e thin rf bowe te do aren’t hari enough. hey mre educated men, if they start h certain mental Siiae soctal advantages, ¥ a ene ian sheers aeund speaki pe of cur ga 1 Ll always toll them i am perfectly will- to carey the other fellow's bag if it's tof my work, and eapecially if the other nis older than I." 4 young col gruduate who had ered a finanetal institution went to the sonnel offteer after a year's time and ed how long it would be before he ee an officer. The Wrong Slant you are “In about fifty yess. 50 the ing now," ‘wae t “ou think am feoling, but your bid is uneatis- clory because of runrest, You were coed scholar in college and were highly commended by the faculty. You and others in your claws came in ate with hat maght be cilled a head start: you ete sl to be capable of a ard a sind abilfties WEEE OPZaE- study. You all looked the KA the # start, we might oa well have icked you out blindfold. Hut now, after a far, you are on different levels, you are erating on your naturel tooks, “You dont seem to realize ge ip ma go wherever they are sent, do atever they are given to do to the beat (their ability without regard te what job it immediately ahead, This job which qu have been holding is not so very ime fertant in itself, but you have had just a eed an opportunity here ae anywhere elas bshow what your attitude is toward work. Thit fol is just a3 important as any other e this institution in reapect to the attitude thich is ahown, and that is the important thine Wl nt Loeeon by the second great fuitneda- mental couse of of failure | is the wrong attl- ide, the wrong slant taken Bo HAE worker, high and low. For ao often this vtitide bp the very essence and alchemy of the man. Failure with them starts in the heart, and the results are just as thoroughly unsatigfactory aa where the cause Ibes iin the stoppage of mental growth. This la not preaching and moralizing, even though the ld Testament does tell how the prophet Samuel in searching among the sons of Jesse for a king to rule over looked them over one after another and finally Look Daved “But the Lord said unto Samuel Lin aot on be countenance, of on the height of ‘ia stature: becauee T have him: fe tte Lord seeth not a8 man seeth; for can bokeh on the outward appearance, bat he Lad Jooketh on the heart.” THE SATURDAY EVENING POST There is no more firmly established fact in business experiines than that the wrong attitude, which produces failure on the art of so many workers of high ae well aa ow , is to a considerable extent cased by the death of apiritual or at least af ethical forces. _ A man over fifty, well endowed phys- ically and mentally, bat » with that indefina- ble air of boing too smart ond just a little eroolredd, 1 Upon @ Placement-and- vocational expert one day. “IT don't want te toueh you," sald the latter with a face, “T how J is wrong wit you, and T can’t help you—that is, wnless you will build iat apiritual forcea from the beginning. Will you meet me at church next Sunday?" The man waa game, with the result that he now has w four-thousand- dallar thon, and his two sone have thar the placement expert many tines, Moral Factors A professional man with excellent ability but a dangerous sity for overdress ing, ini tin praid bills. behind him, and wei Inte trouble with wemen, wos Ei autoal an e4rht-thousand-dallar pasi- tlon and obliged to take one for four thou- sand, Fortunately, at the start of his new work he took a long railroad trip with his employer, who, knowing hia weaknesses read him the riot act during the trip, and explained in frank language a can- Hindance of such behavior Would soon mes the workhouse, The lecture seemed to trike home, and ita reciplent has been moving up in the professional scale ever aires. But I am not talking moral derelicts, the those w! only escape from actual deg- radation lis: in the shack of religious revival, The placement-and-vorational counselor previously quoted always seeks to draw out the moral philosophy of appli- cants, even those of fine, manly appearance, and he ia in touch with something like six hundred a week. The existence of u moral philoso is just ws ry Serpe to the growth of ultrareapectable dera of good army te aa to vine who are patently on the toboggan. In this eonnection the fol- lowing ae teensck was tnede by an officer in charge of personnel of a corporation of the first rank: “T have considered your question care= fully and talked it over with several of my asic bass, e all that with eh who have initial ability and steam of their own the greatest obstacle to success is that they think only in terma of themselves. They think of each situation only as to how | it reacts upon them. They have no nmbi- tion for the organization whose “ili in long run meuns ther growth The vocational counselor already unos aaya that the hardest part of hia work ia straightening out the mental and moral kinks of the people who some to him. “Hundreds of men start out with every- thing in their favor for a successful career, but some twist « qu in their make-w develops a person: gp an attitude which | precabidiee: he their lity. Then no one wants them. These are the kind of men who are always saying of their employers ‘He won't give mea chance.” What | try to do is to toke that stuff, that grouch, out of them, Hut there are many qaes where I can't do it, “People make moat of these troubles for themselves in the beginning, but they be eae very real after a while, There was a man im here to-day with mot very much ability, but he bas other good points which Wow him at sone yolue in @ big or= gunization, He must & cunnecthon very aaah, however, for I see aigna of his becoming sour, and once that eccurs he is done for. “Dien are boo close to get o correct view of themselves, Most of my work is straight- ening gut these kinks, checking way back inte the lives af middle-aged men to find if they coun see and hear porneetly, Thee pe te be helped a4 much as if they we ehildren.”" arily about the own-and-ou1ts, or The personnel director of a financial in- | stitution who personally or through his assistants sees something like fifteen thou- sand men and women in a year, either those | who hold positions in the Tnatitution ‘OF are applying oF the same, that what he haa to t the hardest ia the individual who thinks only of what the concern can do for him and not of what he can do for it. The typical failure, in the opinion of this experienced authority, is the fellow who ee A ee as eS RE I | | } f 105 Ps ESTER IRON ty, fONCAN For Beauty that Lives Beauty is fleeting, when but sur- face deep. Then follows regret. Only beauty that lives is a joy forever. Such beauty must have foundation. From the attractive surface of enameled equipment that brightens akitchen, tothe boiler tubes of a locomotive, Toncan is the foundation of service. Inguiry is invited concerning this better iron. UNITED ALLOY STEEL CORPORATION CANTON, OHTO Open Hearth and Electric Furnace U-loy Steels Anti-Corrasive fer Hulfread:, Astomahllen, Bape? Tooth, Agricatura! 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106 The Builders During a century of amazing achieve- ment, there has grown up in this country | a nation of homes, served as no people: ever before was served, by railroads, public utilities and every phase of industry and commerce which could increase the com- fort and happiness of living. This tremendous progress is attributable to the courage, vision and constructive genius characteristic of the American people—a race of builders. It is inevitable that during the next half century the world will need to draw heavily on American resourcefulness to aid its material progress. Difficult problems are involved in-the extension of this usefulness to other coun-| tries, but the National Bank of Commerce in New York believes that every forward-| looking business man should study and understand America’s future ration to world markets. National Bank of Commerce in New York Capital and Surplus Fifty Million Dollars THE SATURDAY EVENING POST grumbles about everything but himself and is constantly saying “T am not paid for doing that,” who always blames everyone find erything bait himself, “My jab is tasave men from themselves, I am trying ta run a human-aalvage depart- ment. We released a man ranch is wie me ag he left that he didn't Intend te worry, be cause aomeone would give him a eng ant the world owed him one anywa ied, “You owe the world a life en need medical and heepital teestnione ar their attitude toward work as much as do for their bodies, “Men invite failure, and the pity sa _ i that they do not know it. a head. af the department aays, ‘Sorry bet we've to work te-night." Theeel at or ee "I'm with you, Bill," they say, “Do supper money? What do you think” t AM, Ay Wey, & centipede? I'm not paid for that. ‘That's Fred's job.’ They don't say ‘Sure: all ght! I'm glad to doit.’ They resent being asked to work, “The trouble with so many is that they have a seore of reservations, ‘Haw lang before I get a real nice job? Do I get off at one o'elotk Saturday? Do I ever have to work alter five o'clock?" They want better jobs, but in hundreds of cases they fail when they get them. They go down of their own dead weight, They want to be front horses without doing any pulling. We had a vacancy in @ certain line re= eently and a man from another Tnetitartion came in to look it over, TD asked him what was the matter with the job he was holding, and he replied that he had been there nine a without getting shead. He couldn't poe ee Ba. Pid. with the man over him, this fel Lowe was a hard driver. ““T don’t think you hawe the right slant,’ waa my reply, “You have never worked very hard over there, You are not changing your work or Improving ¥OuF position by eqming here, exactly the same kind of work here, I'm going to send ou back and keep tabe on you. I want you to come and see mein about a year and tell me how you have gotten on, But you must make a right-about-foce in attitude" 4 Useful Prescription "He came back in a year and said he had made more pr than in the pre- ceding four years. moat curious part, he said, was that his superior had change his. attitude too, “Men come to me ond say, # want to get along: l want that job up there,” “Are you big enough for it?" { aak them, ‘Before you angwer let me write out on a piece of paper for you what Robert Burns sald: “Oh tom some power the giftie pie wt To set ourgel se ae offers eee ice!" “Thay come into my office and say that they can bast whead, that there is no oppor- tunity for t em. What de you really think al yourself?" is the reply I often make, “Here's what I think of you, Tell me where I'm | Have you ever stopped to | think af the opinion which your superiors have of yout IT know you have corsplainta to make of them, but are you big enough to reverse the situation and put yourself in their Place?" “T often say to young fellows, ‘Here's a little plan I want to set out for you, ind Nortléattural Hail, Palremoent Pork, Poilodelpaia Mipril 23 set just whet happens.” Then [ ert prescription on @ slip of paper for a plete in attitude, urging therm whatever ven them to do te th best oftheir ability. In about thre ¢ the head of the department come and save ina tone of surprise, “Wh; fel ig a a een ale Wasi pened to him anyway ea adil man from what he wad to be. His a: has changed. Former ty he waa all gn and resentment. Now he's all servic, can cancel that release. D'l keep ik low, after all." ; “But.” [ queried, “when you tel young men to get the right slant don) sometimes come back mt you bby 5 that hard work daean"t get m mos wheret” "Of course they do, but T ask thes they have to give except that. to them, "You haven't got anywher other wes now why not try the met! ayers! ut,” T persisted, “‘don"t young who are distaticied or who need a ever come to ey without your lucy apect for ther “Certainly, I have the highest » for the young man who says ‘I's complaining, but l want some sdivice! Why There are Favorite: 'T have been here eighteen Toantha my ident about this business have che radically in that time,” said ane yo fellow. "'The man just ahead of me ho | here five years and he is a mighty cap chap, Lam firmly convinced that Jb a longer way to go than I first suspec and P want your advice about gaing i some other it “T was able at one ta get this ma job gelling musical records, and anh re the right occupation for him. Now ! a store of his own, and is doing very ¥ Aman who is in the wrong place my benefited from being kicked overboard, that is a very different thing from har the ron aa toward one’s work, trouble with most of therm that they want something for nuihh Their charactera have to be trained tog them the right viewpoint. The attitade willingmess to serve attracts attention. cqurse there are always scores of you fellows here who are working for all th are worth, and they stand out above f fest inashort time, A man may be pe eted for a while in a big organization © his superior may take the eredit for 4 good work, but sooner or later it inevites turna up in the fiurea. Sooner of later d timate are loaking around for someone | PFOMAE where are slways a bunch of your mtn here that every department hea wants, the fellows who don't thizk ¢ hours. You can "t keep them in arut, Soa they find themselves treated better tha the others. They get mere considenioa from their euperiora, and the other com am constantly having it rubbed sain a - department hha Strangely snout r ey never seem to know why, They coi plain that favorites are being played, 2 af Pours they are, the favorites belt 5 those who serve the organization best.’

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Adjustable engineering principle that wherever there is motion there ia wear The mechanical device—the automotive vthicke—which provides most completely for cmpensation for unavoidable wear is the more nearly perfect, the more refined No matter what type or form of physical characteristics exists, if ome part moves upon another part wear must follow TIMREN The great difference between the Timken type of anti-friction bearing and other type— which wear as soon of sooner than Timken Tapered Roller Bearings—is That when that wear which salad follow motion does occur (—after many thousands of miles—) Timken Tapered Roller Bearings may easily and quickly be adjusted to com- pensate for that wear and made to function as when new rapered Thus are shafts held in absolute alignment— gears kept in perfect mesh—and quietness made permanent More than 68,000,000 Timken Tapered Roller Bearings installed by more than 424 American and European manufacturers bear silent wit- ness. to the practicability and soundness of this inherent Timken characteristic The Timken Roller Bearing Co, CANTON, 0 Timden Tagered Roller Beater tin Moor Cura, Trach, Teetoss Trailer, Farm ad hic hina, ond foduscelad Apple ancet ROLLER BEARINGS 1

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108 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 22, a ( | ; Wr Hotel laSalle (¢ * CHICAGO'S FINEST HOTEL , —— Occupies the City’s Central Location— ‘ At Hotel La Salle the guest enjoys the : advantage of easy access to all the City’s — Interests, The leading shops, theatres, wholesale and retail houses, banks, political, artistic and musical centers are clustered about Hotel La Salle. Surface cars and elevated transportation are close at hand, and five great railroad terminals are within a few short blocks. Rates far Rooms Fixed-Price Meals Breakfast at Me and f0c—in the Cafe and Louis XVI Room, Nuwar of Price, per day Reomz | Pere 2 Perma is | is A id f2.00 53.50 Tr. =a, i fe 4D vases Os Daan R a aes af dsc—in the Dutch Room, fa 3.50 5.00 Rookwood Room and Louis of) 248 #0) 6. tM) NVI Room. a 2tg 5. * 00) Dinner hs, fei 60M) #00 at £/1.25—in the Dutch Be ae HB 7a 0 OO) Room, Rookwood Room ee and Louis VWF Room, a , on There are 1026 Rooms A la Carte Service at oe : aft Hore. La SALLE Sensible Prices ee ay La Salle at Madison Street ee AE 1: 7 va ae tit ERNEST J. STEVENS fe et Poe Prevost aad iM iaauiges ie wad rb. 4 i Ay cea | a ai a mi - 4, | be = Ye ; ri Pl ry - “i ry k Le. | ele a Lt a * i | at ti iA Ape anagl thE i Biss 2B: 4] 3 Hil “ | {| |]

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THE SATURDAY OUR OFFICIAL FAMILY (Continacd from Page 9) Pra the father anid, “* Well, 1 want to you intend te marry in or out." Datel has al ‘mother having moa widow and ving spent all our muiarried life with ith my secant knowledge of how to ai thought that all I had to do was a Teal-ootate agent what I wanted, uid take me to aee the house, and | move Tight in. ho othis born-on-Sunday-maried-on- av idea of the old rine, [ left Raleigh ray night, with my house in c wants who been with me for and the rooms filled with questa. I. ithe guests mot to hurry away, for imy program would be to spend Mon- ih my mother and sisters, who had ianapartment in Washington; Tue was the inauguration; Wednesday Jontels would be garorn in: Rip aber id find my house; wand Friday I woul nhome. With the greatest confidence eo ofdered the packers to come on iy. day to find » house according to my ram, and actually it took me three i suit qur ll old=timey furniture we ted a Lore -timey house. I stated to the teal-state agent of my choice, Jlocked at every house he could sia . Then I summoned every other ren te agent I could find and T looked at y howe such, bs di rg pe eg turing the eight yours I li in Wash- on, when | would drive through diifer- strects | would say, “Qh, there's the w= with only one bat m and that on third flaor rear.” Or, "There's the = with the kitchen in the basement and yone window and that on an areaway,"" jooked at houses where people were a living and houses which had the dust (meld of empty years on their hangin 1 cortams. IT loo at houses wit vitare and without furniture. I looked loge house and medium-sized houses, 4 bowes in the country and houses in wh. Ao this while the seagon waa in full ping. d 1 had to go to receptions and lunch- ra; and gt night, weary with my z hed to dress and go forth to amile at ones. [t taught me why men of great dlity but mederate means feel that the ost decline Federal appolntmenta. we that other oountries provided homes ttre ambassadora and hones for their ihicet members and even homes for their eft of staff, and for the sake of every mecican man named to public office— be wife—I wished thet our eounbry re in this list, Fingiy we discovered a house that was cl for rent, but for sule. I decided that he hous would do, but my beove said, "Why, mother, it hasn't a hardwood floor’; my hishand said, “I think the only en you ate willing ta take it is becouse thas Plot of grass on cither spde." The Shackles of Precedent S the house was given wp and shortly tvrwacd we found Single Oak, and its ten acre, which was our home during the first al our Washi stay, Single Oak is ine act of one hundred w meres, next dict to Senator Newlands’ house, which Pradent Cleveland made his summer home stile be was at the White House. It sited our toads exactly, and our gratitude ‘ei was greathy increased by a sense of Vaakivines that we hed not obligated anehes to buy a house when one month Waser our r, the Raleigh News and bserver, burned, in ingen Mr. Dantas in blew Lott, when me Ge make m sper selon the Amociated Frees meNritinne Te ov fiir than a firneial loss, rare ST ewer id nok a ee ope ety, utah ieitution. Mr. Daniela had to me his epercs that night with an aching iy at home at Single Oak re up to ge back to Raleigh Wet Sythe, ity of boys fourteen years “a have to earn their living, and T can help tome ther” i gol too, | can ground sell linge a iewspapeers, sad Cheelevern- |'RE- - 1 The Stalket boy, then nine years old, “Selim been allewed tie earn extra money by stamping circulars in the office, and hesaid, “Lleanhelp. [enn lick stamps.” There is noe loa tea great to be borne when one hae a aroall boy who ia willing to lick stampa. Using the word “manners,” which my sone’ colored mammy constantly held be fore them, I verily believe precedent is | death tu manners, Never so long os 1 was in Sraaulngtnn did I beeome reconciled to those hard-and-fast rules which require an older woman, whose husband had served faithfully and well in a pogition of highest rank in the Navy, to stand aside for me, the wife of the Secretary of the Navy. | Nor could [ feel that it waa right for me, use To wos the wife of a secretary, to | enter a room ahead of the daughters of the President of the United States, Two instances very ahertly after I or- rived in Washington brought forcibly ta my | attention the rigid rules of social obsery- ance in official circles, At one of my first dinners I stood in the women's reception Room talking with Miss Margaret Wilson, T was not then conscious of my duty os the ranking woman present. Perhopa [ wos even Walting for Misa Wilaon te indicate her readiness to proceed to the drawing- room, When Mrs. Wilson's secretary sbepy up to me and asked, "Mrs. Daniela, will you go forward?" A few days later [ went upon a warship for the first time with my husband, As hed heen my habit all my life [ stepped ahead of him, and not until I heard the salute and saw the flag fluttering above my head did I realize that T waa receiving the honore intended for the Secre of the Navy. Never again could I unmindful of those rules of precedence by which Wash- ington lives, [n seating guests at dinner, in placing a receiving link, even in the simple tatter of making on in iction, one must always take thought #8 to which of bao men or two worren has higher rank. Sitlcklers for Form The President, Vice President, Speaker, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, mem- bers of the cabinet, Justices af the Supreme (Court, senatera and members of the House of Representatives—each has hla individual Tank, and woe betide the hoatess whe places: one of lesser rank above one of higher rank or, in the case of members of Congress, one who served a lesser number of years above one who has served 9 greater num- reat Indeed it is even told of the wife of a senator who stood in line at nee dial club in Washington walting to wweh her hands, that because the women ahead of her in line, whoae husband happened to be of lesser rank, did mot stand back and give her her place, the wife of the senator would never in enter the doors of that par- ticular club, Tt is mot women alone who are thus bound by precedent, It @ told of a man high in official life in Washington that one night he looked at a dinner diagram and said to his wife, “My dear, we are not property seated, We will leave ag soon as dinner is aver." This they did, rising directly from the table, and om they snid good night their hostess: the gentleman remarked, lal | hope that the next thie we dine with you we shall be properly seated"; but the hostess had spirit, and ahe replied with dow- ble meaning, “I aswure you, sir, that you will newer be embarrased again in dining with me.” : There are conflicts of opinion oceasionally sbaut ronk, especially between the justices af the Supreme Court and the members of the cabinet. Custer accords to the cabi- net members the higher rank, but when any lady belonging to the farlly of a justloe gives a dinner ahe puts all the justices firat and the members of the cabinet second, Sometimes there are unexpected contre tempe due to this question af ronk. Unew Mr. [hiniela and I were giving a dinner io Terk anew member of the cohinet and his wile, Aly husband insisted that since we were in rawlity wll one official family the Vice President of the United States would be glad to come. AlLiough I reminded him that the Vice President should not be in- vite te meet one of lewer rank he insisted upon the invitation being sent. Regrets | came hock as », A few days later 1 caudally spoke to Mrs, Marahall about the invitation, amd she said, “I will tell you EVENING POST 108 The Paaignia of the World's largese maker of All-Clin Plambing Fastures QUIET SIWELCLO Price on ghigen 8.5 Or with Mahewany S22 $0.0) FAQ, Tretten TEPECOWater Closets FOR EVERY PLACE AND PURSE HE Si-wel-clo closet incorporates all the good mechan- ical features a water closer should have and adds thar of extraordinary quiet operation. Ir suppresses a noise you do not want heard and do nor want to hear. The Quiet Si-wel-clo is the leader of a group of water closets which The Trenton Potteries Company has developed to meet the needs of every building, from the big hotel to the modest bungalow, Me, of course, conelder che Chater Bi-wel-elo the mca deairable. Fat those whe can net afford in, we make other good closers, Ineo our “Welling,” “Merit and “Sawzon” we have merged a4 many of the excellencies of the Qhiiet Closet aa pos sible, Each im irs class and or ire price is the bear che marker affords. Each ds equipped with » tank of glistening whine china, with surface unaffected by sain, acid of soil, and crouhle-proof working parma, We have priced these four closee ourhts fairly, fob. Trenton, afd are shipping them complerely cramed to the plumbing coneractor, We now tr will pay you ro indir upon your plumber furnishing them. Send for cur burkroom plan Boek, “Boerhroiens of (heructer’ tp will deli yeu rhinga you thowlal krone before Feilding. THE TRENTON POTTERIES COMPANY TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, U.S. A. SEW YORK SAM FRANCISCO Pe F084, Trencon oo - S555 . $57.50 F.C. B. Trenban Price . . © $33.15 P.O. Tirencon

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niet oe Bumps come front and rear You never can tell what the driver behind you js going todo. In congested traffic you may get a smash in the rear at any time. And that often means another bump in front. . wire you prepared for the other fellow's carelessness? fre you giving your car the callition protection i ought to have? With Lyon Spring Bumpers on your car—front and Tear—you can ake with assurance of safety. Insur- ance companies recognize this fact and grant reduced collision rates on Lyon-protected cars. These redue- tions more than pay for a pair of Lyon Spring Bumpers. So it really costs money in more ways than one to pte a car that is not Lyon-equipped. Why take chances? Each Lyon Bumper is guar- anteed to take the full force of a blow at 15 miles an hour without injury to the car or its occupants. The Lyon-patented, two-piece overlapping front bar and the open “looped ends” yield to the blow like a spring. ‘They absorb the shock and keep it from being passed along to the car. Lyon Spring Bumpers are simple in design, exceed- ingly atrong and perfectly balanced. Easily attached to any car by means of a patented hook bolt, without altering the frame or drilling. No brackets required. The Lyon trade-mark is on every genuine Lyon Spring Bumper. Accept no substitute, Geer amilfion in-use. BO ta $23. Merat Stamping Company, Long Island City, New York Canadian licensee, B. J. Coghlin Co, Led. Montreal, Canada ESILIENT UM \ some of t THE SATURDAY EVENING POST frankly, Mrs. Daniels, we do not accept an invitation te a dinner to meet aemedne who gael ete re Lain and le of the mast A and ain Democrats, ‘ho aise rath for Deak himself, is subject to this system, for Vice President Marehall, in reality a strong be- liever in democracy, would have aceepted the invitation to have dinner with member of the cabinet, but in deference to his posi- tion had toe decline that same invitation because it was worded “to met" one af therm, a tan of lesser rank. During his etay in the United States the Prince of Wales several times exhibited the greatest courtesy with regard to this ques- tion of rank. Un the occasion of the big reception given in his honor at the Congres- sional Library there were seated at his table for eupper Vice President Marshall, Mrs, iC sen aha an Am OF, z The Prince asked the Vise Preskdent, th ranking ella ae present, at what hour he intended to leave, and Mr. Marshall said, “When you leave, Your cap I assure you I shall not be half a mile behind yeu." A few minutes later the Prince ap- proached Mr, Daniels with the same ques- tion and receiyed ao similar answer, since this was during a thne when there was great Preaute of wotk and moet of the officials present were expecting to return to their ote ot in several hours at their desks, “T shall be leaving early, since I have work to da,” said the Prinee, Both Earl Grey and Mr, Daniels smiled, and the Prince asked the reason. The Rritiah Armbassader explained that it wos becauge he could net understand why the Prince should work at that hour instead of the next morning. But the young man in- sisted that work claimed him, and shortly was out of the building, a long line of car- riages immediately following with the men who in reality had work to do but who Monee the E onar, Storkes are eanatantly current of those who are unhappy over breaches of prece- dent, or whet ives offend by trying to occupy positions ahead of those to which custom entities them. I never had theas | Pxperiences, becnuse to me this was mever a Soe ge matter, As T said toa woman one uring commencement week at Annapolis when she asked me if | were not proud o the honors helng Dabs 1" husband, “There ane ho honors being p to husband, The gentleman who is being saluted is the Secretary of the Navy," Overwhelmalag Social Dutles In siniing ok precedent I am glad to recall that the President of the United Stiotes never pay fe that his wife outranked him by an older law than that of Waghing- ten officialdom, and always accorded her the honor of preceding him. And I must confess that now in private life I see some instances where rules of pre cedence would bless and mot harm, and where unhappiness might be avoided by he usages In which Washington delights, “Wother, doean't a eabinet lady ever have a day off" fs a question from one af a aon Which is easily underatand- FT after a glance at an average day's program during my life in bof, Fp A Sra for instance, = E suri W. my en nis were so compli- cated, expecially becaliae of my living some distances town, that t plenead a one tune Like thia: In the morning I started from my house in a black taffeta frock with feathered hat, bouquet of white llaca and white gloves. In this garb I attended a wedding. Back in the carriage, off came the flowers and white gloves, and black gloves were donned for a call of condolence. The call pod, the white gloves were again substituted for the black, the fawers were | hastily pinned on, and my earriage had ar- rived at a luncheon. After the luncheon I pald forty calls and then hastened home ta dress for one of the six dinners to which we had been invited that evening, and for a “reception to which we were gating on later. Usually [arose ot wight o'clock, After breakfast and telephone calls T disused the program of the day with the servants. This wae neo light task, althowgh I did not have the servant problems which beset many | Washington hostewes Onee Mra. Hoke Smith, wife of the former United States | senator [rom Georgia, whose cook longed April 22, ) for Georgia just as Mra. Smith was ty a dinner for some ambassadors and m ters from foreign countries, groaned * Margaret, zu leaving: and the mini coming!" But Margaret, true to her ious upbringing, said, ““Law, no, | indie, Lynin't pwine to leave you il ca tno: meets yere.”” Ry servants wep faithful to me as though conference j meeting every day. ter meking oul menu | dictated te muy eecretary andi over the invitations for the day, the market, There was uaually @ luncheos, from three until six o’clawk every day Waetneaday, when 1 received mmyselt Sunday, when [ made mo social eng ments, i 5 ie ; This matter of calling, one of the n mooted quertions of ashington life, | brought up wt the firet meeting of women of cabinet after I went ta ington. I was heartily im favor of uph inf the old custem of returning the eal! all those who called on me, enjoy m ing people and I was sure then of w! proved to be true, that I should never =| calla myself without ipeating: wore woe) who would illumine my wh i hen in common with the other lex of the cabinet I to be at home « Wedoeslay, rece from. two hund and fifty to four hun calls, I ] Tealize that it is well-nigh impossil any woman in five afternoons in the we even though she calla every minute, to turn theae hundreds of visits, Added tof I myself pride in never sending inj eurd, but abways asked if the one called were receiving that afternoon, and Uy were [ went in and made a real call, suck [would at homein Raleigh, North Caroliz Page Mr. Daniels! Out of that lence I came to belie that ff the wile of a cabinet member mak callers really feel welcome when they con on her public receiving days, and then. stead of returning visits, coca ‘on a large reception, inviting by eard all the who have called, thia moat controverss question would be aalved. There waa acarcely an even BaVE SUE day, when we dined at home unless we ha te ourselves. T alwaya called for Mb jela at the department, and as he rarely to leave before 220 o'cks d be seven when we reached bo with barely half an hour ta dress going out for the evening’. engagement’ T recall one occasion when Mr. Denk appolntmenta for the afternoon made it paste to get even half an hour at b (was to finish the afternoon with private interview at one of the hotela a gentleman whose presence in Washin ie sna not, Wink to: halve publ y Daniels arran to chan the hotel and 0 was to call for : goon toa dinner at the Navy Yard. leet Ao oi , and after waiting rm peg a the dinner hour I oe him pet WAS TO Tesponse, en in des ue asked to have him called in Mr. M——1 room. The clerk said that no Mr. M— was registered, I insisted that he look = the private ter, and he eame bark whisper that Misa 4i—— waa regish and should Mr. Daniels be called & ber roar? e About this time Mr. Daniela came wat ing across the street, There had ben 1 misunderstanding as to the hotel at etic we wore to meet, Cf course the dinner hour was long past. In the carriage Mr. Danes miked Phe might kiss me and he forgive, and [ said the only difficulty was that be eould not kisa and be so readily fargeren 2 the wife of the admiral whose dinner be we keeping waiting. , he avernge day makes mo recooning of the many special calls for entertainment & attendance upon masttings: or puerticipalor in churitable en ses. [am a litle prod af my record that | never broke = at teh during all my eight yar 5 hingtor. When national conventions, of vt? there are many in Washington, took ple L usually invited the delegates to meet L* North Carolina representatives, We ner found our home as large as our hearts, ane occasion when it wes tad me when Women's Christian Temperii® Union met in Washington, and fifteen bo dred Boren Sane to te ren expected about eight hu ; li reached not only from the house to thes walk but clear te the end of the bh {(Centiaued on Page 113)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST iti Reproduced from actual. photographs taken after the two ponels had been hendbed for several dogs His friends made this test for him franc Pari inn. be Rareled Sanighr Aas repeened mnidcne! ast Fae Pell-tsorn Southern Bare isd Sun fight has miki nena iW wosdeork on tho bathe Fiitand washable ad pehe Barreled ts result is a warning to everyone whoa buys paint for inferior use was about to repaint again. It was a question of dirty, graying walls—or “another coat.”* On his desk were two wooden panels—one painted with an ordinary flat-finish white paint, the other with Barreled Sunlight. Passing friends picked them up and ex- amined thers. At the end of several days they showed a startling difference. The panel painted with ordinary flat-finish white paint had apparently collected every fingermark—every particle of dust and dirt. The board painted with Barreled Sunlight remained white and clean as when newly painted. The reason is simple. The surface of ordinary flat-finish white paint is full of countless invisible pores. These microscopic holes catch the dirt and hold it. That is the reason most walls and woodwork need re- painting so often. Barreled Sunlight is a white paint made by the exclusive Rice Process which produces . orks Pegg ) Bars =a Sali THE RICE arene WHITE 4 lustrous surface so smooth that it offers no lodging place for the tiny dust and dirt particles. It can be washed clean like tile— even after years of service. That is why Barreled Sunlight is being used today in buildings of every description —hotels, apartment houses, office buildings, stores and industrial plants. Ideal also for woodwork throughout the home, for the walls of kitchen, bathroom, laundry, ete. Barreled Sunlight is guaranteed to remain white longer than any gloss paint or enamel applied under the same conditions. It is eaay to apply. Flows freely and leaves no brish marks. Comes ready mixed in cans from half-pint to five-gallon size¢—barrels and half-barrels. When painting over an unpainted surface use Barreled Sunlight Undercoat. If your dealer does not carry Barreled Sunlight have him communicate with us for name of nearest distributor. U. S&S. GUTTA PERCHA PAINT Co. Factory and Main Offices & DUDLEY st. PROVIDENCE, R. I. Hew York, Grand a Terminal Bldg. Shienen, Oe Wengen fe And 40 ofher distributing pote in fhe Drited States Sunlight

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SATURDAY EVENING POST April 23, THE Here,Madam. Is the Wonderful 12 Vacuette Which Cleans Perfectly Without Electricity owterial of manufacture, we will replace bo the user. E The Warvette will Lose far years practically; for a lifetinee. Free Demonstration All you need to do to learn whore the Vaecuette will accomplish for you is to ade for a free demonstration, Just wnite to us dire: mel we will arrange for the densonstration raga in your home, We want you to see tle wonderial, work which the Vacwette dees before you mu adecision one way or another, See dust aed d diappear as if by magic—all inte the bog Bir to fault of fr it a ones HE drudgery of sweeping baniahed— housework made much casier.. That is the good news now for every woman who is weary of old fashioned ways, or expensive and cumbersome devices for cleaning rugs and carpets. The Vacuette is the long looked for device which is actually revolutionizing housework—saving strength, saving time and costing nothing to operate. In justice to yoursell, Madam, you should know just what the Vacuette is amd what it willdo. You should not only read what we tell you here— you should ask for the dem- onstration by which vou can make a free test of the Vacuette in your own home, [ho not delay—write us at once—we will ar range for free demonstration. Absolutely Automatic No Electric Current Needed With the Vacwerte bul néel oo electric Current because it optraces mechanicully and auncmationlly. You, therefore, have no electricity to pay for. You da not have to handle pligs, cords, wires of attach- ments. Vou amply run the \Vacwette across the fino and oll the dust, dirt, lint, thrend, ashes, grit vanish inte the bag. The Vacuette gives the advantage of bath a fat revolving, gear chriven bristle 4h and a powerdul air suction, No dust or dirt cam escape—it mut go into the bag. Tt haw the pistolegrip loandle which mikes it exsy to guide and the binrelle stands wysrig lit when not in use. The beady of the Vacwewte ia made of beautiful east aluminum, Et has“ Parkerieek" rast proof parts, It runa on sclachess rubber wheela, The iciechariiscn requires practically na apie at Tc will last for years, It weigha only 714 pounds, Monlel °C," our new type of Vacuette, Presenting these improved features, ‘a stands as the “last word’ in vacuum SWEEDCTE, With all the advantages which it offers, the Wacuctte costs only about half the price you would expect to pay for an efficient Vacuum sweeper, Amc those who wish to bay on easy terms can make a small down-payment and pay the balance a little every month. Qur local representatives are ready now to call and UL for the free trial which will ag revelation—a pesitive proof that the Vacuette makes rugs look bright and mew, and octually makes play out of work. Lf there is not a representative in your verritery, write chirect to us. Proved in 180,000 Homes Wins on Merit Already the Vacuette ts in daily use in more than 130,00) homed. Dt is alse in constant use in great city office buildings, ia hotela, in schools, in hospitals and on steamslups amd on trai. Ho aweeping device ever invented bis stood more strenuous tests than the Vacuette, We did not offer ito the public ontil we koew to a certainty that it wotld doa tte work perlecely, thar in ateength of car- struction it was wuneurpiserd and in sinaplicity of mechanism without a rival. And then we let thovemels of women demaneatrnie it in their hues af our risk, We told them to ose Improved Model “C” Vacuette it chaiky —ucy He it hard ta try to find deiects becauac we were debermined bo make the Vacuctte be. vomd criticism, and we warttesL the uaer's Gaperi- Giet aol pedpterit. The fvults were a6 goallbying Ss We Jetepaisdl the Tepes that case in WER 2 tila wae of enthusiasm —we knew that the Vacwette had sconsd an epochsmaking triumph, And now we are offering this splendid lalor-saving tevice ing mation: wie campaign so thot people ever where tm cities, Lowi, villages anc om farts may leave it. Guaranteed by the Makers Net only do we offer the Vacuette, backed by its renuirkable record in use, but we guarantee that in every came it has been thoroughly examined anal tested! before leaving the factery—that 1 in in per: fect condition and that if any part shows a delect dice As Efficient as an Electric—as Easy to Operate as a Carpet Sweeper % Enddgeord by Gow) Hoewkeeping aed Meeker Priscilla @ acittersl—none left as with ordinary sweepers 1 inefficient sucthon devices. Simply marvelous, you will say. just 26 LEAK) women have already sai, Local Representatives Wanted — Now Sar successiul bas the Vacuette been wherever fotretuced that we are planning te cower the en- Lire contntry threugh salesmen and saleswormecs who will wait homes, make demonstrations a take orders in localities which we are ready + TSA TL, We aee now ready to make appartments, and po active, anlbitious poople Wir ff afl Op prartienny ach as we beliews has never berg equalled in its Beld. Expertenor is mot Aiteeary, 48 We HIVE cvery Hit setitalive a thorough epecha training by sales ex Whe mike every paint so clear that any intelligent MA ot Worn cam quickly take up the work. Every one Wicertters the field goes with a preparation which, coupled with enthusivem and energy, means sic frost the bepineing. Net ooby are splendid earnings to be made by demonstrating amd well dia the Thame, but ieee who prove their ability ‘eit hawe the op partumiiy to take charge of crowa and to manage (Ha trices. hur representatives are constantly backed by a con- alent cam ‘pee of national and local advertising avr! thy aL tiv Ett rlperation, from the factory, Arnel oor free cdemensiration offer, reasonable prke and easy terma place the Vocuette in the great ma howes—a once it always stays. Women never go back to the hard way of sweepity when gece whe how the Vacuette makes Aigtand carpets look Fike ni new with really no effort. To show the Vucuette la to sell it. Vhose who realize that the Vacuette hos a marke! in practically every home neck ie argurent te cen- wince them that the pessibitivies are simply tremen- tows. Ko a@ctive man or woman whe ip ambitious 1 make large earmogs god to win ind nee remain in any phir te occupation whale this propo tion is open, Tn the cities —where electricity i in general Lee — the Vacuette is sold the same aa in the rural come: ties where there is mo electricity. Ese relarge cities, small towns, on farma—the Vacuctte sells inset, To ihereonetrate ta to sell it. Write— and Get Choice of Territory TE you are ready for an opportunity such as we have drscribed Want tO enter a rik poayiti business in which you will be aseeciated with acu. ambitious people write and tell us in what part a the country you wish to work aad we will give yoer aie careful Saale 18 a proposition on which for at fast as we fined people ol § will fill the open territery. Write telay and get complete information abou! the ueiisval opportunity. jarit ¥ cou should ot delay, kind we want, 7 THE SCOTT & FETZER COMPANY, Dept. 12, CLEVELAND, OHIO Manufactured in Canada by VACUETTES, Ltd., 44 York Street, Toronto

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(Centiaued from Page 110) Se te, the wives af J, Bryan pa 3 Josephus Danitels d the guests together, and if our : ve been turned with praise husbands they would -hayve been on One woman met Mr, Daniels-in and asked: the way to the door, eee he questioned. “Any eee @ conducted her ths seul eS Tortie ahaa and a atiey where s free from the feat omens Christian Tem ce Union — 2 pany on that day, and they ually Tumerous when. OE I thaught [ have maid that we Fascia no Sunday ‘itations. We had no criticism for those wo did de ax, but weablded by this rule for relves. We were asked once to dine with r. and Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page, and as igor T asked my husband if I should re t reason, THe said yes, and erefore I turned to Mrs, Fuge ami said We newer accept Sunday tality: and en, that ba the only day we have at home th our bays.” There were tears in Mrs. Page's eyes. Bt esaid, “Stay with your boys.” It is an actual fact that women order wit chauffeurs to take bee He sy. cuter ashington receptions and literally enter house without realizing whose it is. The women of the pera are at home on ys, and on da have ss of the fee uisites of their position, ower from the White Howse conservato- ita alwagas being sent for their tables. Om first day at home I received nine ric and sixty-eight callera, and each reek from teo hundred and fifty tofour hun- women, came in the longline past me. I pa a rare blessing eh mig cr apie ame thronging so rapidly iat for a special word with them I Seal “ iy mother in the next drawing “sl * To be able to send one's friends on. mith the sense that you are conferring upan them your atest, it and with the kneowl- vdge that they will have a friendly hand- just ihe sent word from one's —_ is Fede iter fe ; that to received after ng ta Wome on the wife of a former cabinet member aa me how | expected to like ical life. I told ber that I bed always mnjoyed people and I looked upon this a a ok a the social lines in which I hel abres delighted. Of course, then a vase of flowers had not been tipped over at Avery dinner, nor had a conference it the ‘hite House and an executive ses- don of the United States Senote thrown iwther dinner into chacs—lbut thee ore tories to be told later. I learned that a snee of humor is the only saving lit limes like those, as well as during the long hours that ont standa in line acaiving puesta. Boetor Walther Comas to Tea On that same first recelving day there ame a woman who aald that she wanted to make a good impression me because ter son was a plebe at the Naval Academy ut Lory ee I told her [ was interested beeuse [ had had tyo brothers punts at the Academy, andl | had four boys of my own. And then this woman who wns so eager to clinch her food impression athe) blandly, ‘Qh, were your little grand- children | saw in the garden?” speaking of my two youngest boys, Another day, when I was receiving, mot the pithlic, bwt only an invited group af quiet, | found standing in front of me a wormkdn with a horseshoe of oxeye ies on her frock and a chaplet of the Sowers on her head, whe stated that ahe had decided to come because she knew that if I had under- viood how much she wanted ta be there I would ere have masked her, She re all through the affair ond had a ites cash — onal my youngest tame in to Say, Bag rnid la T didn’ *E want to aut in treat, but Jordan called me"—Jo being the footman—* ‘and there's the funniest ‘hte od main coming in that's a worn. Refore I saw the little figure in trousers, frock coat, and green-and-red-plaid the fas- tered wth a chamond breastpin, 1 knew thit twa Dr. Mary Walker, and I sent word ahead to the maids to see that ahe had qetial fiention in the dining room, THE SATURDAY “Mire, Daniols egy eet Bip faf from the trolley T om so glad that 1 I didn't bring my eer with me, I do not know how she would have gotten bere, clothed as she is," sald, Doetor Walker. But. 1 replied, “Doctor Walker, with the present ions perhaps we are lesa. inn- poles with clothes than you are.” Orut in the dining room Doctor Walker declined oe; but ih age a to the urging of one of the red to make her a cup of eee tea, On that'oceasion and at one ether reception, when I saw her tn full-dress male attire with a coraage beguet of flow era and palin leaves thrust between ber shirt and walateoat, [ saw in the face of the little woman the apirit- which had carried her onte war-torn battlefields. The firat. f ] event for which we is- sued cords in Washington was a. garden rte dune, 1913, for Admiral amd Mra, a Sesh awned clear ane radiant, and baskets of i were arranged on the lawn, Almost imme diately the sky was overcast and everything was ti inte the howe, Again the weather cleared amd things were returned to the lawn. When the Gime again we telephoned to the weather bureau to ask if it was going to rain. The reply was that ik gughtn't t to. And it didn't. foe atl ceitente sad Gk cane ew social engagements an im ga wad, Pabst! cece — — oo which eh nun persons had an opportu- nity to meet the admiral. AW Day With Admiral Dewey olor frientiship of the admiral and Mra, tos in one of the rarest gifts which came Washington, and many of my hap- beat menveries wre of them and their earvelien kindness to us. On one day | was asked to bring our to see the admiral's trophies. We saw erento of Manila and many other treasures, price leas because of their connection with events people, Then we were invited to the dining room, where we found o feast laid oat ah BarecucTing 8 geen hirthiday enke: The omen to prac is birthday showing hia trophies to our boys A few montha later we gave a big Pec tion to every North Carolinian in Was ington, securing i all the government departments representatives of the state who were at work, ond sending each an invitation, The first of our series of New Year's receptions was in 1914. The President was not giving his usual New Year's reception, because he wae not well and waa apendirig the holidays on the Gulf of Mexico, There- fore we had added me oa ata uniforr of our cam Army ificent colds raid a aod pitiering colora of diplomatic corps, w us that year from the celebrated grapejulce breakfast given for them by the then Sec retary of e, Mr. William J. Bryan. There was great excitement among oy boys when they found that among the call- rs were rer of the North Pole, Admiral Peary, and Mra, Feary, Among the pleagantest receplions were those at whieh I received élally, the Mavy Relief balls for charity, the Army Navy League club affairs, the events following the Army and Navy games, and the festivities; wt Annapolis, When I went to Annapolis for the games Taaw in place of the vous auton the field, my brother, Worth Bagley, who was the first American naval officer to give bis life in the Cuban War, and of whom it was eald twice that he won the game for the Navy. For some time his place kick of fifty-three yards was the longest on record, and he used to tell with reat glee of the time when as = midshipman he was familiar with on w= miral. The admiral in question slapped him on the back after the Navy had won the game and said, “My bay, you have saved me five hundred dollars So it wos that in place of ‘these others | I sow him on the gridiron, and in the | und songs the runt at the tune of Marching Through ia, which ' they used to sing when Spey et beer urinal p found the end Wan HET Hd hia aide Fighting like tke deril For a fowehdown, Editors Note—This ie the fest of two erick be Befirs, Oomiels, The second will appear in on carly imo, ower and chairs | guesta the — a might others | whe have been at the White Howse, The | diplomatic corps, [ might mention, came to | EVENING POST é. > The Beauty of Silvore Never Fades i HETHER it be your tableware or your toilet articles, if your silver plate has been proved to be of lasting brilliancy it MLst have been made from Silvore OF from a metal of equal quality. For Silvore is simply a new name for the lasting metal base which has been used for silver plating by many of our foremost silversmiths for decades past. _ Sivore is a manufactured metal, so much like silver in appearance, texture and weight that in its finished form it mighe easily be mis- taken for sterling. Many famous brands of silver plated ware, superb. examples of the silversmith’s craft, owe their lasting loveliness and moderate cost to the fact that they are made from Silvore. For silver plate made with Silvore is its base, retains brilliancy and beauty as long as ir remains in use. Of uniform composition throughout, wear does not lessen the silvery whiteness of Silvore, That ts why articles made of Silvore, or plated on it, holel their lustre after years of usage. a When iL salesman qSSures you afi article is made of Sulvore, or plated CL ah Silvore base, you may be certain its beauty will never fade, THE SETMOUR SEYMOUR M ANU FACTURING Com PANY CONNECTICUT gibi MARK OF {6% SILVORE ae

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114 a to. ly Oc, In America’s Great Orchestras THE SATURDAY Ten American Conductors Who Praise Conn Quality NM y 4. FILA MONTEL, feepon Sir Dhan: Hee Seam instruments ome |i muy ) onthewira ore 5 a Lari oe Lilt batien Symp too Avie whe play Comme i, | Muget, J. Mann, L. Kicepfel, come opens Adio, AL. Shame beh, Keekd, dieeteeee: fe, Koen, Lad bea 4, OSSIPG ALILOWITSCH, Mbetrade Syare= BPhom Pe] wally apprecisie ihe quality of yum easipeerts er Lo tat wirlicetra GP i Weal da erin hiss Terie Sy ap Arie she clay. Comma: Bi Miter, a, etter A Kearney, Vine A raboargh, ae peta A Gtk Yeon ele ch W. Addi 2 om boy 7 Wotsn er, ludke, i. eet sg HERTZ, iar Prenciaco Sor - Fo] oe eee © an lhalfiiiebie oe [tas daty Getler for ny entire brane mnciicn, Jociceiion of coy negare." fin Figre teem Ber veoey Art on ee ere 4A, lala an HAT 0 signiféane face fe is, that the arcises Di: Boadbrerk, OC Kage a. AL Bicpben, q — B. ( iF 12 tu c wb shiner the works of the shear atte wramper Fe Tall, O. fork. mei, Green Whe ema fiGaln & it geoae bohe-pictutes of the 4. JCSEF STRANSKY, New York peu MPOrGE, whe Coonan tnprennty in ake eared hannenic Urchrerra, endotees Conn. quality. Th ap they arr! bt J Howing Pits pieving eader Strangky Be ona. The standards of thear conducsore, anal of the V. Reema. MM. Schiomters J. Crapo. weempeta: players with chem, ape indeed MST LEE, Conn oe pn ta Wiassien, We, Lilieteach, & oeeneey INSITUMENTS: Meet these standarda in every 5. W. 1, ROTHWELL, L . =e Angeles Mhil- decodl, giving life amd color to the com position hamndedic: “Conn tusirumesis abel ti. ous with the brilliant beauty of th cir tone, an caret? ae Uery teliefactury ie bone quality ' =" faaptnckik g instantly to the player's control ins be Lerardt by rela nie oe ee aie the most dificult passe, ¥. bh Fackeos. tram peta iil, Deitel | ~ i _ : Staleber ay I That na Sailer Budaaea, |i Pid Exclusive processes of manufacture developed bitte in the great Conn laboratories, the painstaking JOSE WILLEM MENGELBE ind, te care of artist-crafteen, and the akill develope ier mene Cre weber acai seal “lat Pail. | a halt a cerry Pej OTLal Pie rik building fhe paral Ls Ebe Conn basa ccitunn ol tiie rcoponsible for thiexcetlence. [he name Conn sical ons ba nd or orchestra instrnnent eans oboe all: Highest tn (Qhaaliry. 436 Conn Bldg., . Chicage Co mts Cm, Braeehiesedl Coon Co. c mf ea Pitas c. G. CONN, LTD., 62 E. Van Buren £1, -—> Hen, bree fin, C, Gerke, Ff FREE L ca, bi ccbere: C, Fei, ite, Li “Suceessin Music and How toWin It EUGERE VSAVE, Cincimaatt Sym- A shorn periet of practice with wut hogar. Artists undet Vanie who play . i OLE BEE! F. Weiss, Wo Motes, W. Kopgy trumeprisy hae tot ctewis La Patek for JA ssewvemensi ‘ef Mare Coen Bodie Concerta Elkhart, ladiarna Hew York Comm Co, 2 4-8-7 W. 4ich Se. TDieiroit Comn (a.,243 E. Grand Hiver Ave. ‘eo meni ma Fray Bae be Sena ir Pl inde i i le," Seis depaila ihe net pet Mra Float 7, bos Jrd Ave, Searle, Waals, Souwhern Conn Cn., 17 Fharccine 5a. ‘He w (tien, La, Me Dougal Conn Ca, 129 Leh S., Portland, Cre, Oerveliod Conn Co, 1229 Huron Rd. a G. CONN, Lad. 4300 onn Badu. Elbhare, india & af yo fnew nial, wosepaym HES 1iiiturneest 7. LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI, Phledalphis a7 ea omy ALLL play td Gihie? Sokowk eho Hamter, Lubes a, Pal And. Ad S00 OLOFF, a Fo anes yen Plvens: Yasue inetrerernt #loral Orchestra are od ennrilesL iH ati seb fue. Ceviind Sopher Ariivie sie oe Cone By bad, AL, bent Shida, Qi ccialiae fe, RRL DRRRHOPFER, Mil nina geible Smipawog. Arline oper oe Lecubertfier webs Mie Loar W. This ck, Hot rig chara? AL Kasten 01. Hosme- is 7 Lirkeleeg, bramoric A F Ful ti A OPER CHEN TRA, SY Waste 5 Ma atta, £ mht. - a, &§ WiLacrie = i _ . i ; = : i | ae ; . at q ‘ —c , 4 ; : EVENING POST rp fig ingen It is the truth, Den Francisca. colonel hardly ever comes here any ee ee makes ure Servin is nowhere in the neighborhood. ™ “Surely mot, sefiora. The colonel is a lant soldier. He has frequently told me es payen teeta ath. "What, then, do you p to dot" Srna Cal & tee only war pay no attention e Ww. treat a conesited fellow like Servin. Wow, be is all ewelled up like a pewoock!" Well, she eontinued her promenade among the tables and I watched Wonen are curious ereatures, sir, Tha Sefiora Toetado waa rented to ignore she Plc yet mo rage seightah ok a sand Oe to what pines she #8 er gaze rs ne behea Gente. te ee fem ae how ate ks Bute & spool flow! nonin, on mst awe borne fruit, genio pete sy | afterwards he come inte the room whe was working on a manifesto and, twirling hia sarge rae 7 een Dien neiacd, I give tulate me." Bien at Sram ay ae t what for, my Hascie am the suitor of the Sefiora Adela Tostado, You are surprised; ea? Well, pretty soon I shall be master of Pres Hermannoe.' He was much pleased with himself and smiled at his own image ino mirror, did not like this Zapien, He was a atif- neck, sir, and none of us could understand why he aor the general's confidence, “Finel’ sai “Vou are, then, be “Well—well—you see— are guing too fast, Don Francisco, We are not ox- any betrothed, but she hes given me to understand. You are a mun of the world, ernie, and you know the nurmberless w ses hes of acqusinting o lover of her wor.” “Sure. But I also recall, Colonel, in- atariees where I was mistaken in the aymp- “Poaaibly. But when a woman wks for pra on against another man, Francisco, what ae ae justified im think- ing? Hey? Have told you that I know women? Well Need consider this air as good oa settled.” “So that fa lt," [ replied indiferent, bat I did not feel that way. Zaplen's Manner convinced me 5 a epeaking the truth, and I grew Aog foetiea when | thought af that lovely hacienda SS : a i ADT reported eon Vera ion to Dario He pricked up his ears, then he became thoughtful. nally he started rubbing his hands with every ap- arance of satisfaction. "Excellent!" “This =a eee pleases me a 7 rie Don Fru gives me an i overjoyed, dea orlaat Fapien is a fine chunk of a man, and the a like a pretty fellow, hey?" en th ery young and inex- riginedl: ae Gps y But the Seiors | oste do—" | es it is something to many a member of the artisioerocia, Don Franciseo, And do j not forpet that Zapien belonged among them before he jolned my fag. The ar- | Tangerment suite me very well; yea ia food hunver continued Gs irene “Get ready to write a letter,” he com- | mandext, “T am ready, “Tt @ to ears Miguel Fierro.” “The Hungrant! “The same. Now take what I say, and | be gure the spelling ia correct and you write | it ao for word.” goodness, what he wrote to Fierro ix omy eyes stick out. Perceiving which, Durio Pex said to me in the purring tone he ulwa when in his moat dangerous "You understand, do you not, Don Francesco, the fewest Ly of abaotute silence in ‘this business?" Asaurally, Excellency.” “Then order a dal eourler to onel Zapien inte my T ran like an antelope to execute his com- mands. After all, it was none of mov affair and Zapien was certainly not my friend. He came with an elation, sticking out his | chest and smoothing his uniform, persuaded *"TAIN’T RIGHT (Continued from Page 7! that Dario Pez intended to eongrs him; so the general's first words tooj nel Zaplen,” he said, take filty: men and hy Cafion del Huarache to the town of T have information that the garrisog is disaffected and friendly to my will not offer much resistance, oa ere hrnuiess car l t place @ larther orders.” = It ought not days to meach B; grew "But why through on del Hup loney? ‘There ip an easier way. “Bacause it is shorter,” ans general aternly. “And you would ru: on the other road. out my orders. Tt is your place to net to question.” | A wat ind iat int en e to get his , and t Had digpatched at mewith a aly amile she fot “He is a ae man, that Zaplen- Don Franciseo [ diel not aie: sir, What could | The very next day a thing oe which promised wt one s bo Tesult disastrous forsomebody. This Benito? was Walking along the street on front general's howse when suddenly he ial man mish out of a doorway on the o side, bis feet moving like the n Hin mew machine; at the same time woman, with her hair flying and a shiv streaming behind her, appeared in purse screaming at top af her voice, “Ah, recal Wait till I eateh you! Came back, ya Now the pert 7 ow Man WHS a eet giant, eit and the woman poching but athin, wretcha slattern: but my way he beat it fron there! He had tabaaer once hung over hi Bhowlder and tt bounerd os he ron, on Benita Servin made sure the seoundrel |i robbed the poor ereature, So he sprang like a mountain lion, dil Benito Servin, toe intercept hin. i that prodigious bulk he knew he coald di nothing and Benito had mo weapon excep a knife, but by cunningly thrusting out bi foot he. tripped the giant and brought his tumbling to the earth, “Now,” le cried, “ ‘Tve got you! Gin Up or you are a oe man on t md Lost mo time it ring, shouting it in a voice lke i bull, at the same time bearing Benito to be very careful, And then the sentry at the gate. af the general 6 house rushed up wilh is rifle "A thief l “A thief!" said Benito Sra. Arrest. him." The sentry, sir, arrested both, and wailt still und whether to shoot them ke call somebody in authority, was startled by the appearance af Daria Pex himeell af & win it headquarters. He had be disturbed in ‘hia desta by the awful rackel and now wanted to know what ull this pee on front of the house meant anyhow. Wel, the sentry tried to tell him, and a dd Honite Servin, and so did the Goliath he had captured, All three jabbered away 2! i saute Lint, moaning more confusion t eupeful of perrota gs them in,” ondlered Darts Pet ina tage, and the soldier escorted Benito 2! the Ep man through the gate, up Sr walk, and inside. Goliath held firmly tt sack, and Henito was glad of that, fo 4 heaved in a highly suspicigusa mannef he was satisfied that therein reposd UF evidence. ‘or the woman, no sooner dis ele hewr the oeneral’ @ wrathful voice the ahe disappeared moat awifthy—beast wt aut once glancing back, “Well, what now?" demanded Dati Pez, bending his brows. “ What wasall ls row about? Hey, Aombre?™ “This criminal was robbing ah wornan, Mister General," answered 2" boldly, “and T leaped upon him ari oP tured him.” (Cantina cd on Page fi aa

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Your autety lies a8 boscrk ing for the Wrelsbach Thi aril Shield at huality Lath EVELy bro ot gas mantles you buy. They ihe YOU guarantee of satisfaction. Aur ome leder's, ging dhe Gia Compa, WELSBACH COMPANY, Glowcester, NY. J. Member Amarican Crist Amini ani Having sent back Fierro’s courier with a confidential message the two of us strolled ab ta Ee sahonn ar, [twas well filled, and, ext, the consternation of those ann hen L their gtn= eral! What waa Dario doing there? Some of them decided that his visit boded Ho good and it was assuredly na + for them, and they beat [t; but quite a few remained, and these just sat and gaped without paying him any open recognition. Among this per! bane was Benito Ser- Vin, Sif. ic oil had evaporated to SOIT reat so that he wie not now even prominent among his fel “Tt occura to me, Don: ‘Francisco, that the Sefiora Adela is nane too glad to see us,” remarked the general os we took seat. "Her welcome Locka warmth.” Dario Por was right. The widew did not bai to her poor place; Dut factarsded Fl tr poor p notier nothing unusual and. walked in and out Sus sinong tet uesta at the far side of the redtleanes. Yet her gare wandered back to the general; time and time again. In fact, she watched hire al- moat as closely as she watched Benito Ser- pcied is. Pez, sir, he kept his eyes are a great blockhead, Don Ee apna dente at last, “Yes, int general.” “Let” ua go. TD have seen enough." He chuckled as we emerged into the street, and appeared well satisfied with the visit. “Yes, you area fool! Send for this Servin and rang, him inte mB presence,” [ found Benite st Pel the saloon and eTectecent Elana aaa bega Dario Pez, “ nt -: A am golng to intrust to you a dangerous ne delicate mission.” “ Fine!" said this Servin. “I'm the guy | for the job.” “Captain Bands has recommended you ok ft ted Iti in baad for an officer, but I have I eon trust, Are vou Tetentact™ Pen Gare: Mister General." “You will take men and proceed by way of Cafon del Huarache to the town of Baeza. I have information that the garrison there is disnfected and friendly to my cause, and will not offer much rosist- ance, Besides, they have only a small farce, I rely on you to capture the place and bold it until further o . Also, you will ob serve abaolute silence until your migalon is accomplished. Do you understand?" Benito Servin, he nodded: that is all he did, sir. 1 could see from his expression that he was pizzled and was thinking fast, Ane why should he not be puzzled? Hero he wi, an wheacure aengeant, being selected Daria Pez te command an expedition whi ought to have been given to a colonel, at the very least. “You will start a soon a8 your apt dim ready, It ought not to take you more three days to rench Baers, by Cafion dol em Is there anything you wish to Servin shot a ewift glance at the general, and then replied, “Nothi This way of acting did not Please Dario Pez at all, sir, but he could not complain of it, and. dismni Benito with a move- ment of his hand, And by goa roughneck raged around with such a furi- caity and tore things up ao fast that the force was ready to set out by midnight! The bugles sounded "Saddle boot!" and away they wert. Not long after this event Colonel Zapien req mut oe A ea and ed mule, and wns ollonared, paira, by his entlre eo He told Fl atirring tale of their eacape from the Red Flaggera, which had been made possible by the intrepidity of Zapien himeell in bi all the sentinels as they slept, The col and his followers were almost tarnished: they had endured terrible privations from heat and thirat ln the desert, air, “But,” demanded Dario Pee, unable to conceal His exaaperation, “waa the food not good where you were, colonel?” “The food not good? I do not under- stand, Creneral.” “Never mind. It is nothing, Geo and restip. And you, Don Francisca —see that these peeor boys get their bellies: filled." Well, 1 the days went by, and no ward af Benito Servin, The general began to grow impatient. “What? No courier this morning?" “No, Exeellency" “It is very strange. If Fierro has be _ trayed me "je muttered, gloomy. i pril 27, | We waited another twenty-four } Then oe Pez summoned me ily “Don Francisco,” he said with a bry ae “T have received a Testage Fierro that he has capi Sergeant Bervin and his force, and & them for rinses." “Tt ie very aad, nul gemueral.” “Tt is a terrible blow. He deme: humired thousand pesos, this Hang What i Pb know about that!" “A robbing price for a sergeant, sr, “Sure, That's what [ have been ¢ ing. Where ore we to raise the my Don Frntsee? Has this Servin friends whe would be disposed ta con his aid?" “T have heard that the Seiiora | a —a “Goand fetch her, Hustle! Shake hoofk, Don Francisco — Est B MOVE of I did nat relish the job, sir, but | he and bre t the gefora te the geng house fl. “Well, here we are onee more, Se Adela. The Picci of Ged upon w said Dario Pez “Gaeta, mi geserai,”” amewered Seflora ae bee lee “Have eer genera. and mubbe hands, ving her ho “UA ul thing has bhappes sefiora.” te “Tf it has to da with Zapien, Fa ne Not at at all. The miserable Wiel | time is Benito Servin.” I saw the sefiora stiffen and clutch at breast, sir, but she made like it was aa ber of indifference to her what happened that son-al-a-giun. “You may have noticed that be hes) been around lately?" “Whether he is around of net, [ sho , replied the Sefora Adela in B 7 “Well, that is as may be, But Sey Was gent on a mission, and the blockhe hag let himself fall into the villsige Fierro’s hands. Theat man hate o sefiora. And be sends word that Sen is to be shot.” The Widow Tostado, she sort of taupe sir, Then seeing from the general’: that it was a matter which might make | laugh on the other side of her mecrush 2! grew grave and murmured, “Unless?” “Exactly. You have ina it, sefian Unless a sagan a hundred thowsar pesos ia in ate "But he may escape, Ee oellency. ape accom plished it, and Zaplen cannot | will not escape,” anewered [he Pez, very slow, “It happened once, bul) will not happen again, Tf this money not pale sh png eee willl die.” gene Aa t The po tee two stared steady inte earbnaihe Tt was perfectly still in the room, « still ‘that T could hear the sefora’s ber thumping. She Jooked as though sb have liked to twist her finger |: Dario Pes's hair, gir. Well?” murmured the general at le “What ia this hombre to me, General: Besides, T haven't got the money.” "garely hundred thousand — : Ss aa raise . fourth of that = Temiarked with poltenens, ‘yer fine (nt cattle, seiore urely yeu equl Il gene of them, As a aap you Villain!"’ ahe suddenly burs oue, and then bewan te cry. By goods it rmnche mot feel tia “There, there! said Dario Fez, tryed to soothe her “You are a noble wer! sefiora, And I respect and pdmire fo exceedingly." The Widow Tostada made no mot She kept on sobbing, with her face titd= in her shawl, “Don Francisco,” eried the gene! “do not stand there like Make all the fecessary arrangene!! The aefora had searched as heat, and cannot permit this nian te dic, T ehe will dispose of some of her cath, te money to be used to pay the runs. that the business is attended te si m= Dan Francisco, ‘That is what yu Fit, ia iL nok, sefora?™ The widow moved her head in cort!. and fewring she might change her nied! turn. on him Daria Pex signaled tut should eaeort her aut. I diel so, sir 1 business did not please te, but ei " (Co hiActal ot Dirge FD)

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Pasa aria wee peices! for now there woul Toney bo pay troope a handful on account; but ‘afore the ree ect of selling the aefiora's cattle d be ut into effect, here came a courier hell- mit ieee Benito Servin himself. And by a iets seal Leg ha fon word bes oa arti "place; he had fallen u Fierro with FI cine nanault and a Whitheind of friends and ene- Thies, and now held The Hangman and his whole band; he had in jet L the rich cfentt/- too, Don Luis Aviles, w he had anaked in whilst Don Luis was paying a secret visit to one of his haciendas to gathersome Lrenai re, And what were the orders of Dario Pez? “Why—why—the fellow is crazy, Don Francisco! He had only fifty men. faa on I know for a fact that the garriaon nurm- bered two hundred and forty, and Fierro had s vandied and ninety seasoned fighters, Te is a fake—n trick, “But, Excellency, Che courier swears ft ia one! true, He saya this Servin works magic, They call him The Enchanted Captain, “Enough! [f it is truz—ah, at last [ have a fighter to help me, Don Francisco!" cried Dario nnd bis eyes blazed like a leop- urd' Hy. sir. Well, the general sont A courier on one of his own horses, eurrying instructions to Benita Servin, and meanwhile [ counter- manded the orders for selling the widow's cattle. "But don't tell her yet that thla Servin ix unhurt. It may not be a fact, and beticles, we can use the cash she has advanced," said Dario Pew, A week later, sir, Benito Servin himaell reported at headquarters, and re pee seven hundred men. I tell ot it scared when seouta brought Berd roudhiat thia army and we aay Cran wee ing like » huge Ht across the plain, None of uns could believe it was really Servin, except only Durie Pez, and he had received exact planing which prepared him for what aes i Colonel?" he cried with a joyous- nest af Benito strode inte the room, and he jus up te embrace him. dlonel?" queried this Servin, raising hia eyebrows. “T should have aald ‘General,’"’ replied ae Pez. “My mistake. I congratulate What do you know about that! From eaceeant to general, and J myself only a Fury 2 tiow, "continued Dario Pex, “tell me all about it." “Well, you ordered me to Fe and take Baeza, by way of Cafion del Husrache, Mister General, But I reflected that this route might be dangerous.” ““f course, You did well.” “So [ made a wide swing and got close to Baeza from the other si re, at night, I built many fires, All along the line of hills \1 net fires built." | ink mete. laughed and rubbed his this was one of his own favorite ] oe “The Federals bed Choe fires. They sa perce one to the other, “Ala, the em 1s yonder in force, Maybe we had best bent it.” So when I attacked at dawn of the follawing day they had no heart for the encounter. Moreover, I bad allies." “What? Allies, you aay? You amuse me, Seryvin.” “Yea. There were woddcutters in those hills, and [ made them mount their burro a come with um, raising shouts of 'Viva “The scoundrels had Excel. leney, and we crewted a fine impression." a then what?” “T learned Fierro had hidden his band in Cafion del Huarache; Mister General. thinking to ambush me as he had am- bushed Zapien.” “Well?” said Dario Pex, uncomfortable, | He eould not help wondering how much Servin knew, air, “When the gurriaon at Baer ered, T gave them their cholee of death or jolning our flag. The cause of liberty appealed to them. I now had nearly three hundred men. And later recruits came in [rom all the surrounding terri ‘Excellent, Excellont, General, That is my own metthed, - could not have done hebter myself." ipril 23, . “So in the blackest of night we fell | thunderbelt upon The Hangman, Hp been led to believe we hal gone the | way. Yeo. He captured one of my who carried that information. 5a ' “Fierro told me of hia presence: in country. T led o azmall band ta bbs tion, and here he la, Mister tieuerel prlsaner. id Dario Pet walked gravely up to B Servin and fi emi him, ki him on both Ha. Paige plaipiat he said, “you are aj lam praud to have Pte in my a But ‘tall me—it is ‘trang — hoe you happen to think all this?" “Tt waa not entirely due to my efforts, Mister General, as you per have . No. Tt was the at? Wot that stuff which ra a —— The same, Excellency. I have tse and my enemies have nm pears inst me. Knowing I eould not be b twas there to fear? [ olso sree hk af moet trusted followers wit And now the whole world knows me ss’ Enchanted Captain." By gociness, can you beat that, sir? eccurred to me that Servin: and his lowers might have stunk out the Bars, but he was now @ gen "i an eit eee git t ae rae om nid just t en they in G Miguel Fierro, the Red F the ter af all that omintiry, whose hie Teath wed to frighten nanghity. children wi aria The Ha H and Pez had fs been deadly enemies, but recently, us 7 may have surmised, they had come te sort of wecret understand ing on ks rious to see how Fierro would regard ¢] lust incident, iy & meant or two seat es did» m angen . bwt fidgeted his ehalr. Then at last he glanced up, sm ing, wey sheepish. " he sald, “we moet agaln, General al viper, here we are!" recurte Fierro, “Onby for your treachery — “Clear the room, Don Francisco!" cv Datio Pez sharply. "General Fierro and have bi to dl You rete now, General Seryin. Your promotion be recorded in orders ta-morrow. Embrio e, brave fellow." Well, when he and Fierra came out i couple of hours later they walked arm 1 arm. appeared to be on very friecdl: terms, sir, Ce a news apread like wildis that the Red E cone rei had joze forces vith oa is Meanwhile the bells af the town wet Finging and all the people crowding to the aza to lear the great news of Bente "a vietory. The cura of El Sane told from the biases, and how thee id shout! My, but he becuse a and the entire population oo ration the me ee selves over to feasting and cel And ot Pena grew second only le Servin in importance, sir Everyiedy wanted ta buy same of the eal, They besieged his house, Not only soldiers bat men who had private enemies, or spre to work out—all offered any price tor the stuff, The demand from married WAN reap eons and aed also, ‘The peop he Sauc owned a wi innit Co Leg wil Foof their thensured possessions be tal fa few drope of the Muld which woul rena bullets and steel powerless to burt il Now Pena had very little of the of @ stock, aa you may well beljewe, and be ve at his wit's end what todo, (n Rhee rae was a market which would certainly never offer itt, and which would & auredly make him rich in a few hour il tr could take advantage of it. (Om the ob waa the sad fact that he had aes thes half a cup of the magic oil left. bee water with this, sir. Yes, he thir down alot. Still the demand I cannot aay with mubhorit rw be mit it, but I know thet every + went BEET sutisfed. People learned later that “atl Pena had purchased ten gallons ail a merchant of El Saue, and since bo Kok pees ah automobile or any me" whatsoever, T consider this circus": suspicious. What is your opinion ait] owever, his reputation ree RH long. Gn the moti morning, a Be rodent wae making @ triumph toward the Sefora Tostado" 4 ae. eane body fired at him from the corset of th

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and Benito dropped like a stricken ‘hee man who fired the shot did not ‘inmke any resistance: he just eon- . to gemuze at Benito Servin's body as bh Khe could not believe his eyes. et demd, you say, Don Franciscot med Dario Per “Good. We can ill fo lose a man like in.” ‘ne hullet penetrated one lung, but actor sas will recaver.' nd what dees Benito say now about agic mlt" : ‘hy, he save his watch was 6 anal Fy -_ wet midnight when he made the basi nag It gate pees “mn the smell goes the charm lave they eaught the assuaein 1" be did et try to esca Vhat was at the bottom of the busi- Don Franciecot" Vell, it seems, Excellency, that twa 4 orant soldiers got into an o t the magic oll. Neither eded in buying any. One contended eall a ble ake, the other believed in th a sincerity. While they were dis- og, along came Benito Servin. There- ione bet the other that the magic oil ‘umous Servin wos covered with would turn @& bullet, The second soldier oec- ed the bet." And believing firmly in the seul, that fired the shot. Hey, Don Franciseo?” You are right, General. But how did. kee FP" Oh, manhochkito, learn human nature, other trasenl would never have risked Down the Sefiorw Toetuda know of this She does." And how doe ehe take itt” [de not know, I[ was just about to ta offer may sympathy, sir. jario Pez regarded me with a sly amile, ‘Too late, Don Froncisc auicl. eider, he will reeover. ig ee ec rol w the Sefiora Tostado's house and con- ito her my profound sorrow, and asaure ‘that General Servin will receive every ention.” Tes last assurance turned out to be ceesary, sir. For when [ met the fora face to face, almost the first ae tettered were, “lam going to have him ead to Tres Hermoancs, Don Francisco. s Will you help me? T can give bir ter cure there.” “But, sefiora, I thought —— You your- ftold me ——" THE SATURDAY EVENING POST eal you what?” she snapped. “Why—well—well, now, you certainly did not express admiration of this Servin, Sefiora Adela. Ha, ha! Did nowt" “Men are fools!" returned the sisi very sharp. -Then her expression chan sir. It grew soft, “Why, whispered, placing one of ap little ne on my sleeve, “T would go to the ends of the world on hands and knees for that son-ol-a-gun. Tell that te your general.” "Yes, opfora,” [ said, my heart heavy. “And tell him, too,” she added, her voice rising, “that this Toaster Servin can protect im omen Taste," "T will do so, sefiora." On my way back te hewd quarters T heard a din of voloes in dlapute, and on approach- ing nearer, discovered that they came from the house acroas the street, the one oocu- pied by Carloa Pena, the snake man. Now and in his bull-like tones made them- stlves heard above the racket, but chiefly the noise erhonated [rom GeBora Penn, whe was ecreaming abuse at her husband. ome what could be arniga 1 tlptoed through the passage and inta the yard at the back, for it was from there that the aiunds came, Raa fins will stay ont an night, peice ing, and to shoe Re in when my back's turned, wit youT' shrilled the sefora, and then F caught sight of the pair. That little arrawny woman wad chasing that giant around and around the yard with a broom stick, sir, and whenever she caught up with him she thumped the unfortunate wretch over the head with a ferocity. Finally he could vtand it me longer, act guining on her by a luret af 4 aprang late the largest of the snake pits, which was stand- ing open. Ane there, in the midst of the crawl- ing, hissing reptiles, which he herded into acormer with his stick, he tried to plead | with ber. | “Ah! shrieked the sefiorn. "You think | to eeeupe me. Hut shall see," Well, that b all, this Carlos Pena out unharnved, but only after much trouble and by threatening the | | sefiora with the wrath of Servin, fend, Et food Hermanos, where the rraliagless with the soft breeses, and the ano Pez, Benita ty little girls promenade on front of the se in the af the evening. “Tain't Fight; THE GROWERS RADY ioe gol Attra sore maple frees Aro! Aor nied Liem in od rei, Pep ond dows ond abou fhe howe, Jn the long firme ape. eidy he teeded them loringly, Jad they gree and they grew and grew. ‘ie worse came on oad the pears aneni by ind the trees grea into the summer sky, iu te long dime age, Tele Ali pot dim some dollar sige And ke planted them. ii @ row, fer cut coed cwag from the odd! howeetend, Ts the long tame age. orks Hi temded there aight and day, Awd they gree aad they gree and grew; led the pears come on and fhe yrara wen by, ded the doflers herpedl info the summer aby, Tn fee dang fie ago. liaddy sal wader the angle tree And dreceed (i the curr neces, The Morkbinds followed Aint dows the Jecld, And the bee's cheerful croon, ‘eddy come Aome te ie grenade And sel onder fhe maple frees Till sch al down and the night breese ara 3 Through pe Deli dan fearea where the fire- 128 Jn ike aleen of tke horrest moon, Urnele At selilom woe Reon fo amie: He battled soe whole dife through ; ‘he whisper of God in fhe moet rec To the cad a his I he neer Ene d o@ the # © ie ray an grin And jealowe of a | peated: Ais keart woe cold ond kis eye was hoard — For he loaf Ave soul whes he ae! do gaord The field where fis dollora grew, Daddy wee aw @ auecess, athe gel AN he didl was to make things gr Green (hinge be ond God fended iatupli Jn the long time age, His clothes were worn ond hia purse ieee fea, And he dreamed avd fe dreamed oad dreamed ; hiew, fie was a faliars, the world would say Bul the neighbors all cried when he went owdy, vat the long dime age, —foavell (tus Heese, T contrived to get |i he married the Widow Tostado. | ness, that son-af: nspends. | time biol the hacienda af Trea | perfume of flowers | 4 a Nashville. 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But I remembered it a | time, as you shall pee. 1 felt hot and uncomfortable all through the rest of the meal, ond after- ward refused to join the bunch who were can oa out on Sylvia's father's yacht for a Et Whee ‘they had all left I didn't know ulte what to do with myself In that chastly quiet house, and roamed about almlesaly from room to room, awlully de- | pressed and in the sink generally until in my wanderings I came to the littl coat ronm an the ground floor, locked i om. mw that my huge order of fireworks had been stared there, went in to give them the One Over, and then heard volcea directly outeide the window. At once I tiptoed over and peeked through a crack in the blind, my heart growing sort of cold, # most upsetting and unpleasant sensation. There on a stone bench, well conesaled by shrubs in this secluded corner of the east terrace, aut Ted and the widow, So they had not | on the yacht after all! The low, dece lt things, sneaking back like that! Mari ailly china-blue eyes were turned up to ad in the moat idiotic way, aod she was. port of wavering toward hh ee Cf course I do on * cli Wns. Bal ing. “But what expect—an old woman like me, and a apie number, with ao many pretty littl chickens around?" "Od! Why, you're lovely] You don't jock a day more than alge paren Lac Ted replied, “And believe me, +, youve fot it all over these hide, Nit-wita, that's what mest of them are!" I drew back from the window, my heart pounding furiously, a sort of red blindness coming over me. { could hardly breathe. Then | controlled myself. So she didn't Lenk over twenty! Ha, if he knew only the half of it! Not that I cared a hoot what Ted Stonewall thought, or whom hesneaked away from the crowd with or anything! For certainly I wouldn't demean myself ao far as to care for a man who flirted with other wemen. Only it ee acy pty tat that a nice decent chap like fooled by an old woman Tie Marilyn: There are mighty few boya ag clean-cut as Ted, and ao naturally—well, of course It did make me sick to see him taken In by a middle: fake. Not that I cared, you understand. Not a rap—not personally] Yet [ couldn't refrain from o bitter, silent ing at the shoogtt of Marilyn in ber Ey make-up. Ted could only see her like Ree gee at. eee eh would bring hin to hia gemees. Df he could just ase ber with the chin nn and the muscle Llastera and the coon oil and the damp little knob of hair! she von slopt in a “flannalette nightie! ie if Ted once rei this point I realized that I was staring at a big box marked Red Fire and that just above it was another packet marked In- sect Smudge, Smokes ‘Em Out. And as I read the words over and over saree a great thought blowomed comforting my mind, Ted should see old M if all her negligéel Ie cave the deer silly boy from the horrid creature, and I would do it that he night! No sooner thought than ae Collecting several parts of fire and the smudge, I stole siersly and rapidly tomy own room, where eoneealed them under the taffeta floune- ite of my day bed. After which I took a nap, and when I awoke refreshed I did the nastiest thing I could think of: I delib- crabby put on a black dinner gown. Tt was a dirty trick te erump Mire, M, like thot when black waa the only “she could wear, and ar wouldn't have dreamed of doing a thing of that sort to a a who was stopping in my own house: ut the rituation was getting serious, an T had to spike her where [ could, This babe Earirday there was of course i dance at the country elub, and after din- ner we pled inte a couple of cara and beat it on over there, No one who had seen me perched on the running board of Tot's yellow roadster, my bobbed hair and my donk flying in the wind, my girlish laughter ing out in harmony with the rest, would ve dreamed of the solemn, secret plan Which was at that yery instant burning in boaorm, or suspected the fact that I was simply wild for the dance to be over so that I might get the crowd back home and put ipril 37, tha plot inte execution. Ob, T mana hci a brisk enough sh oulder—a But aa the evening drag ant eolg hl Ted cutin on me only ; i“ irritable an impatient, Som when poor Litthe Arthur cut in np oye time in quick sticcesio he had got in atep and take b his alsa of his feet began his | about having something he wanted to me, I almost pushed his face bh, potualy ehove himaway the very caught tof png im eae chars on the tks tad of th el i shop Leretly os kil pre. Arthu natty, ¢feminate worm! In fact I: have ing almost any thought [t a beastly dull dance But not ao Marilyn, She toddled er and was cut in on ever Peeieeted, Ted, the paror old Wal I rethoe would soon see he should a ge At length, after what seemed a fectly interminable evening, alihow waa feally an uneommenly early oni we left club shortly after two o'; we returned to the howse; are! faollo the usual gabble downstairs, said night and seattered off ta bed. I es my room with benting heart. Sending s Celeste, my maid, Tat omen set abou preparations for the remainder of they with the calm of one whe ia eommitt a abange and terrible deed. am mest coreful and attractive new t& which with a pale pink satin nightie, which abu on a boudoir cape of rob the trimmed with ye one and ¥ nig and argon my | young bare feet into a pair rear mules to match. Next I tucked my su curbs, all but one or two which might considered to hay etscaped while l a filmy boudoir cap, sprayed mys aome of mother's eighteen-dollar and aat gazing at myself in the mirror quite ten minutes, feeling, [ must aay Piha ea af artistic Pleasure in the re had achieved. Conside I had j been startled from my bed, [ was chy ne admit it, Twas, in fact, a wong T looked at my watch—twenty-five o utes past three. By nee Marilyn most pafely asleep, arrayed im her flannel bee htie, chin strap, patches and ail, s ing of cocoa butter! This was my tin fo collected my bundle of red-fire potr a my box of insect smudge, added a packet safety matches, and switching off the lij softly out inte the corridor. The house waa alent as a grave, wno t apa hallway but lit’ aa E flict it, Atleast T started to fit; but sa fons that heelleas mules made t mich nist, sol was forced to take then: and atuf them inte the ar packet off Georgette cape. Then I hoofed it i Duncan. My heart pounded furiouwly. 2 T waa in bar weal: tes soeg Morr seapeniar ba au u beady “aid, and I reached the litte r ception room on the ground floor, whe was my destination, without trouble. Oo! there, I turned on a ‘Te ahut the ca and ot busy with my The three red lights I in tt middie of the floor chavs coulir bly do any harm, [ needed oni Eenite thetr wicks. The smudge fr! m ee Ey party more convincing, And believe tt on tap a iniey a tae You ie . on an ndlings wn ink te ae feathers out aif the StF i hong new magazines from moe rae and some water {rom a vee ol! ra, and the n atema spattered 0 # good bit, but I didn't notice it at the ol And then I mixed up that a r sprinkled on the brown am made my nose itch horrby a | awiul thme not to eneese pee lava at laat I got the darn thing ure did smudge dge beautifully “thal red lights, ewitched off soon 25 the mess got going stone Upstairs, and when the lower be smoky I started to yell. “Oh! Oh!" T sereanmed, “Tamed oe “rial thing! I knew I smelled something! Oh, tire! Firel" (Cantinged on Page 14

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Mhaee Falla, 6, ¥ IRE alae Ba, ! | ering EVENING POST (Coatinaed Fram $227) That brought ‘em out! You should have seen them flock! And even in the excite Foment of the moment I realized that I waa a bet about my fiends that T had never known before, and if anyone nes told me Sylvia wore two falee teeth on pate I zimply woulda"t have believed | it! r that Rotter actually was a rotter and a coward, and that Little Arthur would keep his head and have a common blanket hath robe! But all this was tree, and more, Gesh, how t rushed out and yelled! That upper corridor went simply mad with excitement. I kept sereaming with sheer terror and bed the stampede for the lower floor. Ones there, however, I turned to watch them coming down the staira; but the eakare [ had my eye out for was missing. yn was not there, Could the vain old pe ig é have stopped te prink in the face of this Wideous danger? I could acarcely believe it, yet what else could be keeping her? The servants were on the scone by now, am Tame, in a red ahirt but no undue haste, was very brave about the fire ick il ly and Celeste, my maid, was wonderfully helpful overs turned a huge tubfal of flowers and water in the general direction of the fire, and the mess it made helped to disguise the true origin of the blaze. But still no Marilyn appeared, With a dreadful shock [ realized that Ted had not shown up either! This was awful! I ameure you IT was so unnerved by the realization that I began to feel like screaming in earnest. And then all at once | heard ee running along the terruce, and Ted's “What's wrong?" } ba: shouted, bursting in at the door, But [ could not answer him, I was not only mereamless but speechless, for there behind him came the widow, still in her lovely evening gown, her hair immaculate, and she was even powdering her nase ng she entered | “What te it?" Ted asked, “Where have you been? [ demanded ehokingly. Tt was not Ted who answered me, how- ever, but the widow. She sailed past him and up to where I stood trembling with es Nia eve bern walking on the terrace,” phe aale bi Then sht gave a litthe scream. of ot ter, “Qh, Fet, my deur, how funny you look! For heaven's sake what have you been up tof" Seizing me bythe shoulderashewhirled me around to face o full-length mirror, and for a moment I-s before it fromen with horror by what I eaw, My cap was all askew, a6d across my nose was a horrid black amudge, while another ran up from ane comer of my left eye into my untidy hair, My lovely cape was a wreck and my romy bare showed all too plainly that pattered # acuumid on the dusty floor— penal eae whieh were simply black! A roar of laughter wert up from the crowd, but I didn't join them. With a sob of rage T turned and fled up the stairs and Into my fromm, bay im the door behind me. There T lay aw ar simply hours and hours, cine fon ‘ade to side und think= ing of what N arilyn lad sald. “Dina walkin on the terrace!" She and Tel—my Te Oh, it was dreadful! And eo, there alone in Hap bager presi ae Te jane ee to aay wet a Pup a ron wee ¥ bet go ahead andl break. Wh at a vile ny iat it was to treat love so lightly! How could any decent boy do euch a ry A person ought not to cheapen himesell like that, but come fresh and clean to his own real sepelie—the one he is going to merry. “Oh, Ted, Ted, bow or out" | howled inte the smotherin ot mie damp pillow, And then a hon cute ta me which caused me tositat raight opin bed with alarm. Suppoae Ted intended marry ing the oe ae Phat was there to prevent? Widows been known bo merry agnin, She wan iad but she was free! What shoukd I dot What? T mist. aiop them somehow, T must! But how? With a groan [ turned on my bed-heaod light and, wondering why death waa 30 un- popular when life waa ao hard, I got up, secuptd of little snapshot of Ted —a ridicu- lous thing snipped in midair when he was an the tennis court—and with this T crept baele tan pbs el holding it to my broken ar alenast by n heart and fully intending te spend a miserable, wakeful night. Hut somehow or other the next thing T knew the sun was pouring into the room through the crack beteren the rose-toffeta curtains, and Celevte was running the water inta my Alpril 22, took me quite five pest a to wes my life was wrecke ow [ lived through hat day I nstairs a: | tub. Tt was a beautiful 4 nee When I came ¢ it was around noon, amd the rea: ¢ bunch was also just beginning to ca life after the hard might, and to a out onto the breakfast porch. | others, but I must except Ted and Mra. Morelle, They, 1 seems, fy an aarly start and gone off for a long Well, af course: T lileend to hear thai about as well os i would have enjoy tening ta my own death sentence 4 didn't cheer me up greatly to have! Arthur, who was reaplendent in rajat romptly maneuver himself into the “IME ITE, “Look here, Pet!" he said. “Wi you always try bo avoid me? I thins are just too meant" t Wee "Tm a busy ai des oe over itl’’ T replied & hostess, that’s all. Io ere!" he said again, hitehi if aeat a litthe closer, “Look here! | | you don't like me—not yet. Bat Lt you are a peach, Pet. I*m—well, nos quite crazy about you. Don't be an to me! “T'm not!" T said, “Now, now!" anid Little Arthur, + ing bibs finger atime, “Yes, you are! know you are, for you never let me =e alone!" He dropped his voice, and isl dered at what I eae: was coming. “I: sot you alone, Pet. Lhave something I ta Aa fia you. you haven't!" [ anorted, and retria ht Little Arthur was almost dri me to drink, This was his sixth effort to) Pose in lesa than three days, and it's fy thing, but if you don't love a person n ing makes you hate them worse that have them love you—alter the first refu anyhow, Arthur waa a nut to keep it The Little fish fore! Lf he did have tor million dolkura, be wusn"t worth a—a\ rot of a beet rabeed by a real man! Bul peor moon calf didn't seem to realize thi the least, and continued simply to ba me all em hateful any: However, he: not catch me alone, although he did » nearly succeed in doing so Mist before ¢ ner that night, I bad trusted my diamond wrist wal once too often, and it had betrayed me, that | come down tooearly. Thatisto= Lalmost came down. But when [ reac the bead of the pinirs | cought sight Little Arthur all alone in the prefeti dilenee af the hall below and drew beck « a aight before he ted me. I elf po icky at his watchfulnesa, but [ was al: lutely determined not to ran inte the tra For an instant [ couldn't think whit do, and then I did. Very musiatly Tbe beat tiptoed retreat along the wpper corm and opened the door to the back star 2 incidentally to fate, although, as the wn ers say, [ waa all unconscious of if at t time. Strange what trivial actions prec: tate great disasters! For if I had » apertied yore ual’ parked i in the fro hall, and weed once tn=my-chishs farillar back pra I would newer hay seen that big florist's box Iying on the re antry abelf, or read the tag wpon it, Be did: and what is dome, alas? cannot undone, 4 It was a long white box with the dons name in gold upon the lid, and the strit and the tag were aa yet untouched. | “ the sort. of box which flowers for the tal: might come in, The only peculiar ths about its appearance in the rear ase was the fact that we hove huge greenhie of our own, and practically never by from florista. However, I did pat think all that at the time. It was some s) uncontrollable instinet which caused of stop and ¢xumine the tag instead of [= ing om throwgh to the butler's pasiry the dining room. But stop I dod, ado agine my feelings when I saw that the Was & ddvensed to Mra. Marilyn MMe Who had sent flowers to Marilyz! tt my heart I already knew the answer, 2 yet [ stood there trembling for amon and whispering that I hud to incr hs truth, I pe ad to! I put down my bhe= trich fan and with Shaking finger ud the string and lifted the lid. [Unde dewy paper something glowed red. [oe Red reses! And searing on bop ther was a litte envelope, Sick with fori edge, I drew the cord out, Mr, Theor Stonewall, of course! But he hadn't snl anything on it except to draw a linethry

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Chicago, If a San Prarditee, Cal, G5 a 8 iri Corns? —just aay Blue-jay to your druggist Stops Poin Instantly he simplest way ty end a oor is ear. A touch stops the pain in- anily, Then the com Joosens and SMS oul, Made in two forms—a Gites, dear liquid (one drop does B) eal extra thin plasters, Use Bickever form you prefer, plasters M the igquid—the action is the sume as, fete. Made ina workd- -famicd Serta. Sold by all druggists. ied Writ Baser 5 of Black, Cheeaes, (ep io “Corre (Core Bor eaaudy heh, of jie: Pe ri,” tomik, | alomiely Mi pours ans io 30°98 Ais Fatt Coury 815 Tona a Day in hoe wa peer ibe Peck is be i mor- bed ee ee el sea righ ie A mangges ames * Fadler” (eal fl er feed gleerwias “Mnaineni kl 1 Has bee rrying man ta tone ay mag ora i il ee ens sees heap tes feble dn ibe ern Bi can Bayt aaa sag A aap haa ft Pet br fe aver nt ame end nia of Maries co. BROCKTON, MARI. THE SATURDAY the engraving and write "Ted" above it. Tt was darkest. moment of fsb ri Then from misery I t Roses! Hed rowes, no fear The heh fashioned sentimental simp! Of course led send that bar a ge hl Hts it was i‘ wasn't ao far gone but that could atill save the poor nit-wit before he went down for the third time— and I would. I'd teach that cat Marilyn Morelle net to come in and steal another Womun's man and tum &@ gem young farmer's beacl! eo is ane thing noe woman lo the world can stan, and thot is being made to lock a fool, Well, I'd make | her look one, all righto! I knew how, for nobody if eo sensitive te the brutality of crude youth in love aint aa an older, | experionesd woman, t let one of the a a funny over cosuhamatal situation, eered with her—he's sim ply aut, that's oT Thnew this a4 well aa an- other, and once having made up my mind, I didn't waste any time. I gathered up those rosea one and all, and holding them way off so that they would not contaminate me, I thrust them inte the garbage can and put the lid on tight aver them. Then I collected several large bunches of new beeta from the screen closet and laid them gracefully, leaves and all, upon the bed of asparague fern in the florist’s box, folded the paper over ther, placed Ted's card upon that and tied the box up ecain. Just as 1 had finished, Tama, the young-old family butler, enterecl from the pantry, He waa not unnaturally startled at seeing me, but got back hia poker face almaat at once and stood at reapect{ul attention, “Can [ doe anything for you, misat" witYou can!” I réplied grimly. “I ou can! y. "I spe there is ao box of ros—Howers here for Mra. Morelle, Please deliver it to her at dinner to-night—with the roast." “Very good, miga," aaid Tama respect- | fully, standing aside to let me pane. “You said a mouthful!” I thought. | “Very good is right!" At dinner that night I fairly bristhed with pep, the knowledge of sitting, ms it | were, upon @ bomb intrigued me tremen- da » although I had myself perfectly in hand, and never even tured my | at first when Tams brought in the fatal florist bax. I did look, ‘of course when Marilyn gave ry little squeal af delight as the bu ter pre sented it to her, So did all the rest Rvenréyowse upon her, sy heart thicnped: with pleasant excitement. "For me? How wonderful!" she coned_ "Ted, dear old thing, unfasten the string, ai * Ted, who was sitting beside her, obliged, lifted the lid, ond Maril picked up the card fram the veiling oiled paper, “Ch, Ted! How darling of youl" she shrieked. F Then she dug into the box and drew out a bunch of beets amidst an instant of horri- fied silence, The table broke into 1 roar— rig eotealls, a negular ternade af kid- all theught it a peach of a joke, But netao Marilyn, Getting te her feet she flung that bunch of eweet, wholesome, in- nocent vegetables down hard upon mother’s best Italian cut-work cloth, which wasn't wt all a sweet wormunly thing for Muri to do, because beets ataln horribly, t anyhow, ahe flung then down and pacsled back her chair. EVENING POST vet: Marilyn!" out Ted's beets at luncheon yea- — feeder \" “And he promised to send you whatever ‘ou adel most on the farm!” chimed ne Sylvia, proving onee and for all what a sterling friend ahe is to me. Pie havenever been so insulted in my life!" the wider. “You young—beast!™ eahe ‘shot this at Ted and then flung her- nelf Sur af the room, carrying ber napkin prewed to her lips, her face as red os one pt erage Bs pised vegetables, and heaving Tied staring aud frozen with asteonlehment. "But—but good heavens! T didn't de this!" he sputtered. “TIT *. Marilyn— gosh, thisisawlul! Wait—let me explain!” « was on his feet now and beating it aut of the dear after her, peried shonat of laughter from the eroewd fol lowed him. Then | got up too. I was simply eaten with curiosity to see what would happen, and alao bound to stop any recone tion be tween those twa. "Excuse me,” [| murmured into the dit. “T think I malty ought to go bo poor dear M "ane with that 1 Jeft the table, But I need not have worned ubout reconciliation, for aa [ alipped out inte the hall and watched, hidden by a curtain, Marilyn turned-ot the foot of the staira like a cot af boy and almost scratched Ted's eyes oul, “There is no explanation!" she spat the words at him. “And [ will never forgive it! I never saw anything so—so unspeak ably ate A achoolboy'’s trick! T sup pose you think Tam an old fool, and go you first give me a rush ond then ahow me upl I should have known better than te have anything toe do with o chit of a boy!" “But, Afaril pleaded. “Aid Thever gave you @ rush-- really. a! ve known a along I wos only Srbes unish Pet. And you were so ing and sympathetic at frat! Why don't you believe me now?” eh, did im beset = at those lovely, heavenly words? He n pratending| There waa really pre between them, iad beni” Laie eee ote ee a t 4 weot delirious wit Tappines, and Af not even hear Marilyn's last spiteful remark aa she turned from Ted and dashed up the acaare. Then the nd boy, after staring hopeless after her, shru | his shoulders ted back toward the dining room, ‘And as he did so a second in retation of that hoof his came into my bean—"'To ish Pet!" So he had an idea that he could punish me, eh?. Naturally T decided that if any punishment was to be pulled I WH veh - be the administratrix of said vin At once I conceived the per- eck iden, A yous let Little Arthur propase that very night, accept him, announce the engagement and ther | lireak it off after Ted had guflered a day or two of utter misery, “Where ia poor dear Marilyn? I asked the unsuspecting Mr. Theodore Stonewall as Tem lee from between to as though [ “She's gone upstairs,” “Pet, who the devil did that?" “How showld I know?" said I, looking him in the eye in my charmingly frank way. “T'm not concerned with your affairs.” “Here—don't go!" said he, “Wait o the | bod just left the minute, dear! T have something I want to | aay bo you," At these all-too-familiar words I simply ay Ted, | Isnid, “You simply | m, I didn’t do it!" Ted | Snug, but roomy A ber -#RAT mola table is just bie enough for two, Lut there is plenty room for four customers without the slightest crowding, Aa set consisting of table and chair covers only a 5-foot circle of floor space when occupied by four goce)-size| people. You cad put at least 50°. more tables in your. grill—probably more than that. They are so itinactive they draw trade—10 years’ tral in hundreds of lores proves this. 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ne Imside Story of the fi. E. F. RESEWNTING Oo GE unknown facta of By GE R went on behind scenes while the tates was joined Alles for the da- ermmany I am ac- Y Tore pressing Hons than any Valu such marra- ¥ pPocsess, The ents with which o lately associated t ceased their ef- tie us bar close alb- heir campaigns to Can opinion are Bstent and all per- Under date of ith, newspaper dis- from Washington ed that the extent foenee oof foreign initia had grown so ince the war that deral Gevernment fan inaubiy.. ty PSS roe has bhecn el to entice Amer- o participation in fs postwar troubles. ss ef propositions, sanémic and prolit- we been advanced, ually in a guise that teal motive, making | bard and wngra- month in and month ince 1914, we have eefully instructed duty by the mouth of the Allied ma- and at this writing bely ia wondering ome uneasiness what propesala to enlist §ean ald will come out ‘nest comerenoe, tat the United States

P TT LLO it is always seeking to di- As U feet their efforts. The first step in world polities is ta learn to view dealings with other powers in the light of business transactions. In every crisis and in every war the people eon- cerned have seldom been really informed. They have learned only what the inner circkea who controlled governments and national effort detmed fit to hand out to them—whieh infor- mation has bean plentiful enough in the direction of stimulating united action, but has generally been meager of facts and, when Tot brazen distortiona of truth, either lacking in any indication of motives or camouflaging them, fa the Dark He? history always told the whole truth, in- stead of being largely what Napoleon dubbed it—a fable agreed upon—the peaples of the earth might have attained by now to a knowledge of one another and an attitude toward in- ternational relations which would render military alli- Anices unnecessary and war- fare so abhorrent that no nations of combinations of them dare undertake it. An extraordinary, sedu- lously nursed tradition has contributed to the success- ful effort to keep the peaplea in the dark. This tradition imposes the idea that in any international under- st. held aloof is an —___—————————$$—QWlWLO———SEIx¢m¢__ taking itis highly improper BHT bf COST oe d by every American a Ciemenceao and Pershing to divulge a word of what = who views the situa- free from blind adbereneo to the autworn policy of no association. Willy-nilly, country must take its place at whatever counci] table disposes of world problema. dopment made impesstble and the war definitely ended our comfortable isolation, in joining with other nations in such settlements the American people are entitled now what sort of treatment they may expect from those with whom they will have to |; they should be alive to the motives that may move those who would enlist their For five years sentimentalism and a hysterin bred of war fervor have clouded their ide when considering our foreign problems, and it has become imperative that they dd approach Eurapean contact with clear eyes, International Politics Based on Big Business NDeol venture to write of a series of happenings whose recital may prove instructive \ and therefore assist in a return te that sanity and common sense which formerly dis- our vtitude toward foreign nations, but from which we have been atampeded itulion and the propaganda of thoes who thought to profit from it. Ameticaza ae generally given credit for ahrewdness and hardheadedness in the con- tei of their betness affairs; yet they suddenly grow mushy and maudlin in their vaght on international relations, Why? International politics ia nothing but business ha cola sale, No matter what floods of patriotism and sacrifice are let loose in the ot pohof war, behind the moves in the final settlementa is the cool hand of selfish fenet: even when the peoples are flaming with high reaclve and forgetfulness of sel, transpires, bayond the formal communiqué. Should any government or diplomat do aq, it or be is instantly held up to execration. Such conduct is shocking, rotten bad form; every gun of the old order's artillery is turned loose on the luckless offender. And in the smoke screens they ereate the important facta of such dischoaurea are blurred and public attention is di- verted from the real issue and focused on this heinous offense against the fine traditions of diplomacy. As though any individual's conduct or fate weighed one iotn against the terrible necessity of a people learning every fact of an effort which may demand from them thousands of livea and billions of treasure! The thought beck of this tradition seems to me to be on a per with the recent plaint of some raseally oil promoters who, being thrown inte sudden bankruptey and jail, clamored that their nice business had been ruined by the publicity given it by the press. From the day the outhrenk of war, in 1914, rendered American support of wital im- portanes to the combatants the American peaple were subjected to organized, unilagging campaigns by the European powers to secure their help. That was notural onough and only what we expected, Then in 917 the United States declared a state of wor with Germany, and the need for concerted effort to line us up with the Allios ended, From then on it became a eilent struggle botween Great Eritain and France to bring the United States under tutelage. Ag usual in the international game, the British were first with a concrete proposal for the employment of the American effort, The United States got into the war in April; the French Military Mission outlined a week later some general suggestions as to what form American participation ought to take, and on April twenty-seventh Marshal Joffre

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4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Apr usked that one division be dis. pabehed wt onee for the moral eflect; but on May fifth Major General Bridges, of the British Mision to this country, wrote a letter ta Major Gen. Hugh L. Scott, then chief of the General Stall af the United States Army, requesting that 600,000 un- trained men be sent at-onee to England for training there, later to be drafted into tha British armies in France, “Tht you ask me how -vour force could most quickly make tteelf felt in Europe,” wrote General Bridges, “Il wouldeay by sending f00,000 untrained men at onee to our depots in Fingland to be trained there, and drafted into Gurarmiesin Frane:, Thistis the view alike af cur (Caammander in Chief in France and the Chief af the Imperial General Staff— Sor Dewrglas Hotg ond Sir William Robertson —their reasons being that we are short of men, the wor is.at acritpeal stage when we may yet be gbbe te turn the scale ond force of derision dunng the summer, and Eveny Day Counts, Our recruits are put inte the field after 9 weeks" traning in England and 9 days in France, and give a good account of thomsaives, With yaur intelligent men uncer Our system and instructions thi would be found ample, In no other way could these 500,000 men make their presence felt before what we call the fighting season is over for the year," SrifisA Arms Recommended Be ot Sir Douglas Haig and Sor William Robertson however Tecomnize the difficultics attending such 2 course in view of the fact that you om engaged tn raising a national army. However | put tt forvard for your eon aideration whether no view of your enormous tuun-pewer you cannot do both, in which case the drafts sent us could eventually be drafted t inte the U, &. Army and would he ik fond heaven of Beason ete “The sight of the Stats and Stripes an this eentinent will make a great impression on teth sides, Tt will be os id aa a tactical Wietory in its moral effect. To this end L would like toe see one of your regular divisions sent to CRASS? €Y CLAS, we, , Bo Geragral Tasker MN, lies nn France at once, with 60 per cent re- énforcements following closely." After arguing for the adaption of the English rifle and the English 18-pounder gun and 4.5 howitzer, in preference ia French armament— General Bridges impressed upon General Seott that Great Britain could aupply alloef thes that the United States troops might ne- quire—he went on: “Tt appear to me that the above considerations may have anne weight in the decision of your gov- ermment ate whether your initial forces are directed to the care of our army ar tothe French. The French may be able to promise a eeparate line of supply for a sinall fore. To understand they are PT ae Oe Theale Fay to the Fro. Doughboy: in Mage Formotion at a Review Dafore Hetgian Royalty, Chaamomt, France rar). extremely anxious to have your anmy with them & are probably willing ta sacrifice a good deal to [ feel certain that Sir D. Halg could not promi but would stipulate that your divisions would I eome inte line with ours a6 regards anumunrtioe lf with the French vou would probably want ye food supply alaa,” Some Practical Detoils “A FEW other polots aecuir to me in this eounecton will have the language difficulty to contend | your divislons go te the French. The French how few English-speaking officers: not so many as they A good instructor can indeed seldom speak Engi men will oon get tired of being instructed through preters, 4 Britt Baad ia the Dackgrood

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 5 talk on the Importance of an early entrance of American troope inte the linn. When he had finished he asked Castel- nau toautline to the American commander Che arrangements for this entry of Amaricnn troops, and Castelnau revert ind that it was the intention to face the Americans in tha quiet. Lunéville sector, brigad= ing them with the French. And then Cleamenesau brusquely copped this infor- mation by naming the date— September twelfth, only ten days distant. Promises ENERAL STBERT was placed in a diffieult spoai- tion, but replied to the Frenchmen that he wae not anpowered to agree to any such arrangement. Decisions of that character were for General Pershing, the com- mander in chiel, to make, On hearing this Clemenceau sprung from his choir and be- gun to pace up and dawn in grent agitation, delivoring an impmedonedd harangue in Eng- lh on the serioieness of the crisis and the necessity of im- meéllate American partlelpation in the fighting. He declared it was not a ques tion of the American troops’ getting inte perfect shape—tit wus one of lowing the war, for the strength of the French sol- dier was exhausted, his morale was at lowest ebb, and he had begun to doubt the good faith of the United States, be couse months had passed and mo Anver- ican troops had beon eon in the trenches.

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ape eaeriving idea must be kept American troopa began to pal the United States are aseparate § arrive—veryslowly, forship- itofthecombined forces, theidentity ping was searce and we had ! preserved. This fundamental rule is no trained units of division @xeeptions in particular circum- sizethen. Theregulararmy ent may approve. The decision-ns regiments which went first nd, or any of ite parts, ia ready for were largely composed af Ged to you, and you will exercise full disere- recruits. They were placed ining the manner of codperation. But, until around Gronmdrecourt to be

cs 5 of the United States are in your judgment eul- Petrong to warrant codperation aa an independent iid, it is understood that you will cofiperate as a2 Gent of whatever army you may be assigned to by instructed in trench warfare by the French, Early in September, 1917, MM. Clamenceau. paid a weet bo

He had come direct te General Sibert, he explained, because he had been unable to locate General Pershing, and be wanted to make this point clear: The Amoricang must onter the battle to prove to the French they meant business and were thare to fight bog finish, the training area. Major Gen- eral Sibert wes then command- ing the First Division, With Clem- encenu was Goneral Castelnau, They One can sympathize with M. Clemenceau's heat. Bowere the orders under which the American com- bad an interview with Sibert, in the —_— Extravagant promises bad bern made by ther own inder in chief went to France. At the outset it was course of which Clemenceau made a “Dili cenecat Wiittam leaders to the French poilus and people as to the help the United States each Government.”

The French Program ntenplated that E. dilbert Inited States ibe called upon vce the military t which aubse- ty bese Tetes- Tr bis published | Report, General hing remarks: iskal Joffre dur- is viait to Aumer-

would be able to bring to them by the fall— promises utterly tm- possible of falAllment. They hed been told that the Americans would throw half a million men into the fighting by autumn, when there was pot sul- si made special ficient available ahip- that a combat ping to transport a te sentatonee third of that number as visibla and matériel for them, al our jrur- even had the troops p participate ac- been ready in the fin the war, and United States. Itmay far exgimercr be that such propa and other ganda is noorssary in services unite." f pinch bo bolster up a plans drawn mation, but the reoc- ‘the General Staff tions are always dan- limited to this peraus. tion, but om a On December 2, that would per- 1917, Mr. David Lloyd growth. (rearge wrote the fol Pershing went to lowing letter: gland and thence to Afyaear if. : Tamacrib- , and what he bling this &< the fais there of the sit- alter a tutoultucis: pas- led kimtorable mee Ge very Pars should contem- saan aloes Plana file sending over at toms, Deniinely concur, tbat. 1,000,000 men by ad aod Noa en lent. May.” This was to bold our own and keecp a few days [taly standing eee 2 ox by comphte plans 118, Gur man power la dedieg ports af entry Bed oan ae —_ ine rapes. of supply, Aten of the Firet Gioisioan TAorily After Thede Terleal ia Freaece During the Wiater of ferred

retty well cxhowsted. fe can only call up men {Continued on ag}

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6 . THE SATURDAY EVENING POST REGGIE HE Menden- halls were a bustling fam- ily. Mr. Peter Mendonhall, the father, was the head of a large furniture business, and caught the 7:45 every morm- ing for New York. Mra, Mendenhall, the mother, was a vigorous, come- manding, white- haired woman, whe at fifty-five still maintained a complexion and a. figure. She was o member af the Foxboro Woman's Club, president af the Wednesday Evening Literary Society, and wn- deniably the mis- tress of her own. houwehold. Belle, the oldest daugh- ter, alter a tenta- tive social eureer, had emerged, a trifle battle= peenrred but tri- umphant, ta talon: aposition as spcnn tary ‘to a Wall Streathanker. Shor caught the 8:15, Belle was thirty, » trim, plain girl, very oeat, with a nose that bered up a bit tao sharply. It is fascinating, but dreadful, to think thet Belle's life had been determined by tho angle of her nose. Nat that she was unhappy, None of the Mendenhalls was unhappy. But we must barry on with our description of the family. Buc was the second daughter. She was married, quite succesafully, toa Mr. Treadwell—Teal Estate, Mortgages and Insurance, Foxbora, MW. ¥.—and had two children of her own. They were sucemaful children, Jane, the youngest of the Mendenhall girls, lived at * home and did the housekeeping under Mra. Mendenhall's direction, She was surprisingly her mother's replica. When they went shopping together in the family sedan, which Jane drove, people would turn ond stare at them, and others who knew them would say, “I declare, Jane, you're the Image of your mother.” Happily both took this as a compliment, and would drive home to the large whiteetuces howe of Elm Avenue, pleased and satiafed with themselves. The house itself was about twenty years old, The Mendenhalla had been among the vanguard of persons thoving to the country. [twas one of the family traditions that Pather and Mother had been very astute about coring to Foxboro before the crush set in. But the house iteelf had never ceased to lock vigorously and defiantly new. The stucco never had cracked, for one thing. That was ex- traordinary; but no one thought it surprising. It waa taken for granted that the Mendenhall house never would crack, either inside or out, if it stood till Doomsday. Yes, they were a solid, bustling family—all but Reggie. Reggie was twenty-five, the youngest of the lot, and the only son, To say that he had come as an afterthought to the Mendenhall marriage is to put it, perhaps, a little crudely, But there is truth in the statement. Mrs. Men- denhall had had the girls—let us say, comscientiously and even consciously—within the first six years of her married life, She had wanted two girls and a boy, and she had got three girls, one after the other, with a consistency that she had accepted as a sign of providential determination. Then, when she was past thirty and beginning to think of her family as complete, along had come Reggie. He had weighed seven pounds at birth; leas than any of the girls. That fact, coupled with an early tendency to- ward chi disenscea—“Tf there's a germ within ten FREEVUIFTFRATE SD “Serer fhe fold, “WAat are Fou Delag Mere? miles of Foxboro,” said his mother, " Reggie catches it"— had given rise to the assumption that Reggir was a deli- cate child, His physical appearance, as he grew wp, seemed to bear out this theary, He was a thin, languid boy with pole blond hair, who never under any cireum- stances was known to bustle. At twenty-five be wos still thin and languid, very tall, Very bland, very quaiek. When he spoke it was ina low wn- hurried voice that had a way of drawing laughter out of certaln types of people. The Mendenhkolla never laughed nt Reggie. They still considered him delicnte, His eyes were a light blue; his nose wes long ond sharply cul—a delleate news, His mouth drooped o little at one earner, He had a skin that should have belonged to one of the girla: it was pale with a clear, transparent pallor that showed occasionally a becoming color, A delicate alin. Reggie, alene of all the family, did nothing, was nobody. To be sure, he mused about a litth with palnte: but that, from the Mendenhall standpoint, was as good as doling nothing. Nevertheless they aulfered him, and even hu- mored him, because they felt—it was an unspoken agre- ment among them—that Reggie was not long for this world. He had gone to school in Foxboro, and incidentally had won several medals for scholarship. “Don't know how I happened to get them," said Reggie to his family, “No intention of getting them. Aren't they awful? What'll I do with them?" “Give them to me,” said his mother firmly. “I'll keep them for you. We're very proud of you, ie.” “Don't know why you should be. Feel silly about it, f. But Mrs. Mendenhall had put the medals away in a toy trunk which had been Reggie's as a child. She wept aa che Placed them among hia other treasures. Reggie had prepared for college, along with Bert King and Charley Bingham and the other boys of his age; but when the time came he decided he did not want to go. “You'll never aueceed without a college education, Reggie.” his family said to him, “This is the day of the college man, you know.” “hm,” said Regpie. “Why don't you want to got" April By DANA BURN} BF ft af EF AT. PERE a | 4 kind of p wear ¢ This ¢ faethe; mater three id inclined | 8 Irreliag Great-aj torine, © In towe,i browrsta just of 5 nue—it > sidered Mende-s impractig to live the with twas servant house tos her—had up Rerse decision i fo college, a Fe i alone,” shy Peter Meq during tha of a Sund to Foxbor knows Fl wanes to de gie's nin fiw by a jegfal Regrie d mother ¢ friends a Woman's! “no heat Reggie's ¢ delicate, hnow." Hea at home, dul in oila and color and taking long walks about the countryside. liked motoring; had refused consistently to learn t the family sedan. He preferred to ramble of o: be two legs, poking about the woods and fhelds beyow town, aketching, and prying Into the habits of binl flowers. \ Everyone was nice to Reggit. He woe alin io holiday dances, and went, He danced beautifully; rather a decorative sort of person to have on a party, popular exactly, You would call a bay like Tet] popular; Bert was a college man, a football pleye 4 hero, even then, But Reggie—well, decorative vil When the war came, and everyone was talking aba Regele still kept sllent. One never knew what be tha about the war. Nights when the rest of the family} arguing over the evening paper he would ask miidiy ia art notes, and would sit buried in his single page® the others discussed the Kaiser, Belgium, Joffre and Balkans. His mother could pronounce all the strange: that figured in the news, even the Russian one. 2) learned to pronounce them at the meetings of the Welt day Evening Literary Soclety. Three years later ee! organizing the local Red Cross committe: and mua bazaare for the Firat Liberty Loan. ; Even after this country entered the war it did ns! to the Mendenhalla that Reggie could be in wy 4 afected. Bert King had gone; had become a apis time. Charley Bingham was an ensign in the Se Others had pone or were going. But no one ever Goa that Reggie —— : It was not until, having been called in the fint 44 he stood before them in his ill-fitting uniform thit realized what had happened, Reggie was goingtefro® to warl “My pants,” ssid Reggie, “they're too aml i silly in thern.”” That ia what he said to them when they wall wept on his neck. Somehow, oddly enough, mot +” was shed in his presence. The parting was grim *° preesed emotions, They cried later, all of then; #/™ eried over his letters, which were brief, laconic ai ously lacking in martial deseription. He tel been Paris. The galleries were closed, There wasathp** ] | i i Let dee ds ee La

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 7 bo had lived in Japan. Interesting nut. He 4 Ruetrie the intricacies of Japanese wrestling. t ood deal of rain. er Eremsured these letters as she had treasured Ble knew— they all knew—that they would “SEV again. Only Aunt Victorine sniffed and st boy doesn't begin to be as delicate aa you wees they wouldn't have passed him for the | at omee, Reggie was home again—as pale, as trawlimg as ever. There was one breathless, ening when they swooped down on him with oF EM account of himself. “Tell wa, tell ua, hey cried. “"Yes, tell us, my boy!" This from Then iall, “We're proud of you, you know." knew why you should be," said Reggie. “Only had to. Didn't like it.” hit wees it, Reggie? Where wore youl" At a horse hospital.” © hospital? t © hospital! All the timeT" ATl the time." did 37-ou dat" bed horses down a kind of chute into a sulphur mshed them, Regele? You pushed homes?" | Horses,”" wns om tense silence, during which the family is carn pieture of Regee pushing horses inte a ath im France. vt all you did?" finally asked Belle, her sharp nose aqpuiringly in his direction. fl coal a ship at Brest on my way home,” aaid “Had influenza.” Regie f" exclaimed the girls. And“ My boy!" said ter. They wept then, making use of the handker- hich they had provided for the occasion. Reggie linfftuenza. Of course he would —— jmever wrote ua!" h*t amount to anything. Light case," murmured coed uneomfortably at his family erying inte their rchiefs, rose and walked out of the room, with wo children gathered up, one under each arm. core plump, heavy children—very succesful chil- but he emrried them as if they had been two paper He had a way of doing extraordinary things in an 1, communal manner. He wasso casual about it, indesd, pone remarkerd upon the feat. They merely looked another, shaking their heads and sighing with that able relief come of L emotion, 5° irechalgreddt. developed that Poeggie made some hes in Prac, pither, going eualy through copy of the ay Times, badd Upon several oductions of work of a he artiat ed Menden- whose draw a, Bald the de—it was de- dys flattering me—might be bat the gallery jeertain dealer firth Avenue. "Reggie!" said i Mendenhall. id“ Reggie!" ithe rest of the iy, when they dseterd and do- red the article question, “ How ald yeu)" “How could I fet" “Not tell ost" “Porged,"" raid leggie almply. “Lefs them with the dealer om moyt roy home. For A week loter he retin! a check for ome hundred ‘kon free the Fifth Avenue dealer, He told them that, dutifully, blush- ing under hia clear skin. They exclaimed over it aa they had exclaimed over his medals, passing the check from hand to hand about the dinner table, “Wall, my boy," aatd his father, gravely inspecting tha slip of paper, “it's a start for you. A stork, yes, You enn open a siyvings weeount with this,” "What for?" said Reggie. They severally explained to him the virtues of 2 savings acount, : "You arent going to apend it, Reggie? demanded Jane, the housekeeper, i moc "Geing ta buy an etching prom.” "An etching prow!" *M'm. Already ordered it.” Silence, The silence of inarticulate disupproval, Reg- git went of calmly eating hla dinner, Converaation started up agaln, devlterlly. The etching press arrived the next morning. ifr T WAS the second year after the war. The period of economic depression had set in, and the furniture busi- ness was hard hit; for a time it was feared that Peter Mendenhall might be foreed into bankruptcy. Then if ever the hows: of Mendenhall might have been oxpected te crack. But by rigid economy and a sharp curtailment of living expenses the family managed to keep going, One servant had been dismissed. Only Bertha, the eook, remained. Mra. Mendenhall, enpouble and eoura- geous, helped in the kitchen, Jane did the cleaning. Belle eontrlhuted her salary. Sue waa quite occupied holding together her own hewsehold during the slump in real estate, Aunt Victorine hed come to live with them, her house sold at last, her income deveted te the family interests, Only Reggie seemed undisturbed by the change in affairs. One Sunday morning his father spoke to him abowt ft. The peat of the family had gone te church. Regge never went to church—no one knew why, exactly, but he never went—and Mr. Mendenhall had overalept. Coming down- ataira he found Regele making eofee in the kitchen, “Where's Bertha?" “Church,” said Reggie. “Got breakfeet for you. Eat here, Save trouble.” “Certainly, my bay, Certainly, “sald Mendenhall, seat- ing himeelf at the kitchen table, “Well, I didn't know that you could soak.” Fan. “Where'd you learot™ "France. Cooked for my outfit.” “Riad of Tpogiy, Reg, fan's Fert Mr. Mendenhall said, “Well, Reggie, I suppose some day we'll find out what you really did in France." He looked at his son leaning gracefully against the wall. Reggie was always leaning against something. He had a cigarette between his fingers. He smoked a great deal, more than was good for him, no doubt; but apparently it had no effect upon his delicate constitution. His father began to talk to him about his economic re sponsibilities, ‘Tt isn't that [ begrudge you your living,” he said after a preliminary review of Reggie's butterfly existence. “Even now, with the business just crawling along, I don't say I can’t support you. But for your own good, for the anke of your own charncter—sell-reapect, you know, my boy!—I think you ought te go to work at something." “Am working,” anid Fegyrin, "Eh? At what? “Ritching. Painting too,” “Yes, | know. I know, Eut that’s not practical, At est" —remem bering the hundred-dollar check—" not very practical. “M'm," sald Reggie. “Want me to do something practical?" Mr. Mendenhall replied rither testily, “What do you suppose [ye been talking about? The point is that you're not contributing anything to your own suppertor to the support of—ah—soelety, I don't ask you te go Inte the furniture business ——" “Couldn't,” interrupted Reggie. “No talent for furnl- ture." “Well, then—well, then. There are other openings Look at Belle." “Belle,” ald Reggie thoughtfully, then ahook hie hewd- “Paar Bellet" “Poor? Nonsense. Belle's all right. Afine gir Inde- pendent!" Mr. Mendenhall broke off, and added, somewhat de fensively, “At any nate, she's paying her way." “Want me to pay my way: that it, father?" “For your own good, my boy." Reggie inhaled a most unhyglenic amount of elgarette amoke, blew it out again. “Think it over, father, Let you know to-night." That evening at dinner Reggie announced his deelsion. * Hereafter he would do the cooking for the family. It would amount, at the present rate of wages—incuding board—to a eaving of about seventy dollars a month. Hie announcement waa received with indignant pro- testa. What! Do the eooking? He had cooked for hia outfit in France. That waa differ- ent! What would people aay? Besides, he couldn't do it. He eould. If he wanted ta eantribute ta the family aupport why didn't he get & position some where? Well, he simply could not do the cooking! They wouldn't have it, any of them. And then— somehow—Regpie was doing the cooking. No one knew just bow it had happened, but there he wns, in his shirt slooves, puit= tering about the kitchen. The attitude of the family then fram one of active protest te one of kandly tolerance. After all, if Reggie wanted to amuse himself —— Only Aunt Vie- toring openly en- eouraged him. “Good for you, Reggie. Stick to ik. You've got much in you as any af them. "And the incorrigible old lady added under her breath, "Mavi more." (Continued on Page 106)

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8 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST TROPICAL GROW T. VERY THING prows in Florida. That is to say, everything grows in Florida that Flor- ida people want to grow, That is Floruiasspecialty— growing. Occasionally a fow things get out of hand ana indhaler in anmMe oyor- enthusiastic growing when Florin people wish that they wouldn®t: bit for the most part Florida is proud of the remarkable growths that take place within her houndarles, This is pars ticularly true of Southern Florida. The Bi perlabives as well as the fh grow to surprtielng proportlons: so do the. real-estate adver- thements and the avocudlo pear. The sun is larger ' and warner than in other parte of America; and the aky—unlesa the leading Florida authorities’ are mistaken in their ohbgervations—is higher and bluer than elaewhere, There are only three things that Southern Florida has never made any eforttogrow. These ane mountains, ancw= storma and earthquakes. If there were any particular rea- aon for her te grow any of these things she could probably arTange te pump up a few square miles of ocean floor and pile the sand up into a mountain that would look like a blood relative—eay, a grandson—of Fujiyama: and ahe could unquestionably find a way to raise artificial anow- storms that would make Maine jealous, and earthquakes that would shake out a person's eyeteeth, Since there ian't any Teagzon for them she specializes on more useful things, like pawpaws and prospectuses and perfect-thirty-four bathing gitls and what not: and secures some startling results. Take Miami, for example. Before taking it one should understand that there is grave danger in taking any par- ticular city in Florida to the exclusion of any other elty, because all the untaken cities feel slighted and begin to thirst for the heart's blood of the one who did the taking. A Little Matter of Climates CH Florida city or resort ia violently jealous of every other resort or city, The residenta of Palm Beach speak of Minami as being just a little plebeian. The resi- dents of Miami speak compassionately of Palm Beach, aa young and pretty girls speak of decaying beauty, St. Petersburg and Tompe end Miami have little of a favor- able nature to say concerning one another, They onky unite to resist attacks from resorts outside the state or te say a fow tart words about California, Every lithe while some fiend in human shape prints a eer in a South Caroling or North Carolina or Georgia paper falsely accusing a Florida city of harboring a few cases af typhoid or scarlet fever or of being too chilly for winter bathing, Instantly the Florida people rise to defend the state's fair mame; and the low, gearing curses that are hurled against the foul detractor are warm enough to singe a hog. Every little while, teo, Florida geta a chance to slip a knife into her Western resort rival, California; and when By Kenmeth L. Roberts Three Pletures FAat Skow the Eeoledloa of a Leodiag Motel ot Mlomd, Florida, From the Time the Dito ba Jeagle Laad Was Selected la pd. The Campleted Divectere Wor Paotegraphed ia ao the chance occurs the alr ls filled with a deadly swishing sound, due to the violence with whieh the knife & inserted. A snowstorm in California causes Florida newspapers to apread loud and exultant headlines entirely acroea their front pages, declaring excitedly: No Lives Lost tN CALIFORNIA ELAR This iy the negation of news everywhere except in Flor- ida; but Florida amacks her lips over it with the keenest delight. She emphasizes the bliszard’s severity by shriek- ing that no lives were loat, thus loplying that hundreds— fay, thousande—rmight have been lost eave for the merest chance. She ig so anxious to have tourists realize that she is the queen of winter resorta that she ia overjoyed when another resort atate is cursed with a phase of Nature that tends to discourage tourists, There 2 another grave danger in taking any Florida clty aa an example. The natives of Florida winter resorts are constantly on the qui vive for alighta and insulta. They are ao much on the qui vive in this respect that there ia searcely room for anyone else on it, They oeeupy prac tically the entine qui vive. Furthermore, one can never tell beforehand what atate- mente, phrases, remarks, words or infleetions—ar lack af these things—the staunch Floridans will regard as alight- ing or inaulting. Bometinves they become just ag fretful if you don't say them aa they do if you de say therm. There ia the matter of hotel rates, for example. Tf you tell what they are at the best hotels all Florida revilea you Tor frightening teurista away. Uf you tell what they are at the cheaper hotels the owners and officiala of the best hetela curse you bitterly for representing Florida sa a cheap dump. Then there is the little matter of mosquitoes. Uaually there are no mosquitoes along the Florida coastline between the months of November and March inclusive, because the prevailing winds drive them inland. Occasionally, however, the wind ehifta or the atmosphere is unduly affected by the hemisphere of something technical: and the tough, leathery, muscular, hungry Florida mosquitoes are blown down to the shore, where they sink their dagger- like beaks into the solt white flesh of the Northern tour- ista, April It ia only com It should be wn that such «= cubasep cum. Occasional Beach one ts hoaras fencing hug there are mcsqul Miami; but whem to Miami be fimaie) quitoes and is tal emphasis. that ¢ any in Mimi, there are many alg Palm Beach. i goes. Li one dom tion the Palm Bead quilts one Fume Ge being viewed with) rence by the Alien and if one dotsan'E i the Miami mosquifl is apt to be regeres loathing by the ® Beach boosters, 4 one goes back Nort makes any mention whatever of mosquiters in Flor is more than likely to be enthusinstically damned by; Floridan aa a vile prevaricator. Not long ago the Shipping Board in its advertise emphasized the delights of winter travel in Eu Instantly the watchful Floridans leaped te their fret ear-piercing shrieks of protest. A government bursa, ecrenmed, waa taking the money of Florida taxpare advertise winter attractions in competition with their The entire atate had never been so insulted in its le; the wrathful cries which went forth traveled all thew Washington and knocked unsightly chips fram mur, the capital's ivory domes, As a result the Shipping Bi promised to change its policy, and the Floridass be ealmer—though it is difficult for the outsider to ss bow Shipping Board can advertise at all in the winter wat entering into competttionawith Mlorida, But you sere tell. You never can tell, [t is about as safe towritesh Florida as it would be to kick carelessly wt the nubie a floating mina. Florida Fish and Fruit Boa return to the matter of growth in Souta Florida, Everything, as has beon said, grows There are twenty-nine varieties of palm trees; and cm: spend anentire week doing nothing but check up pals © According to official count there are 270 different vane of fish in Southern Florida watera—or there were 2"! the middle of last February. A new variety » dao every week, Unofficial counters say that there ao! than T00 varieties. The unofficial ones are probably 1" right than the official ones. There are so many idee varieties of fruit that if one attempted to eat every ai! in one day he would unquestionably burst with ah majority report, A partial list of fruits whic ue =o successfully raised in Florida’s southernmost county?" vided by a man with a poor memory, contgins ayealt- of alligator pear—custard apple, mamma apple, [n= apple, rose apple, Buganot, citron, banana, Bie! cherry, cherimoya, cecropia, Surinam cherry, carise, [at fruit, lime, lemon, loquat, various sorta of mane, ft? seven different varieties of orange, a number Wf 74

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 8 Sees and other things, ‘efit, dates, olives, mon- SS. Ppa, pomegranate, ~TSTELETON, Soursop, sapote, Trav isercy and tomate. If has plenty of time at his cam think up twenty or fruits that are fruiting con- | @mergetically in Southern he worfortunate features of pouthern Florida lies in the ome isn't careful hia non- ti-Ploride bearers will sus- hawing taken meney to be etate. They will, in short, m of being a liar when he fmentiong the ever-sunny perfect-thirty-four bath- the amazing growths. The fect bs fraught with risks. Dehn would never have to werk up a reputation as outhern Florida, because his tt much more startling than that happen thore every day. Mianf Beach in Jonuory, F023 {harom had sandwiched a few iets arnong his lies and had tried them out on .Ors some evening after his second gallon of Dort- eer, they would have slapped one nother on the rolled around in thelr chalra with teara of mirth fewn their cheeks, and assured oneanother between medic gasps and groan of merriment that there ald be anybody in the world who would be able ch downright ridiculous, preposterous, worthless, | lies a= Baron Munchausen. Miami, for example. In 1896 Miami consisted of i dwellings anda storehouse. Sometimes as many eminole Indians would be seen in the vicinity of tildings at one time, and the occupants of the = would scarcely be able to sleep that night of their excitement at seeing euch a throng of 10, Miami had a population of 471. In 1820 there out 30,00) people living there. In 1922 there were And in addition to the 40,000 regular residents ere 40,000 temporary or winter residents. That's y things go in Florida, Once let a thing get a foot- ad it grows so rapidly that the general effet is more an explosion than a growth. « grows with such enthusinsm in Minami thal one merely plant acted and bet it grow. If one did that the would come in so thick that it would choke ibeclf, one dons is to plant the seed and then, when the as sprouted, transplant the epeara of grass so that paix inches apart. 4 Jump Ahead of the Prophets fE culture is very simple. A small piece of wood the eof a toothpick is stuck in molat sand, At the end of years the toothpick has grown inte a hibkerus bush y feet bigh and twenty feet across, The publisher of ading Miami Paper declares that in some sections of lity the soll is so fertile that Uf a ahinghe is planted in it emunup it-will grow inte a fully equipped bungalow by (hil Other fish stories will be taken updin another place, ent surest ahead so Dy that none of ite ciel dares to stand atill for ment in order te watch re, for fear that he'll be ie far behind that he'll featchup. Df he makes bliction he makes a run- E prediction: never a ing prediction. If he ia pect of land —and it's wtoral for a Miami citi- (to sell a piece of land as (for tim to hawe coffee for aklict—he ia very likely bat a price that the idvilreach to-morrow in- idol the price that it has ited tolay. Heis always ping ahead of the city. The population of Miami oe nereeed 44 per cent ihe last tenyears. There- cethe Miami people figure ‘ot it wil easily imerease nother 40 percent in the ext ten year "They claim sal. the city's population in Swill be 100,000, are ‘Sth it will be 20,- it frocesding at that rate, its population In 1950 will bes, O,« OOO; amd by 160 practically every- one in North America will be Pushing and erowding in his effort to acqeene into the city. It is of course quite cbyiows to the effete and blasé# Northerner that the claime made by the Mi- ami folk show that there are some serewe loose on their claimers. The Miami peaphs however, Bay that the Norther pen ple don't know how to adjust their views to a — rapidly growing city a that they stand still to en look at it; and that = while they are looking Afr, Roberts, ond an Elght: Foot the city grows out of Thark Coogat Off the Florida Keys focus. They eny that a short time ago the telephone company sent down esti- mators to look at Miami and estimate its population in another ten years, In order that the company might be abla to install the proper-tized telephone switchboard, The exti- mators looked, made careful esti- mates, and reported that the popu- lation would be 10000 in ten years" time. The telephone company burst into loud howls of derision. “You're ern 2 rk cried bo the estimators. St a Waterslportr at the Milam! Beach Canad "Who ever told you that you could estimate? Somebody must be paying you to boost the place! Get out of the way and Jet us send down some regular estimators!" So the company sent dawn some new estimators; and thes estimators in turn looked over the ground and did some careful estimat- ing. They then returned and reported that the population in ten years’ tima would be 120,00). The telephone com pany, without more odo, installed o switchboard based on thit estimate, But the Miami people claim that the estimators were making statlonary os- tirmates, and that the differenes be tween the estimates of the firat and the second estimator was merely duc te the fact that the elty bad maved for- ward between thelr visits. If they had known bow to place themeclves en rap. port, ao to apeak, with the city and move forward with it, both of them would have estimated that the popu- lation would be 200,00K) in ten yeurs' time. At any rate, the real-estate operations ia Mlami— and the word “Miami, by the way, la pro- nounced “Woy-amima”” by everyone except the rude hicks who insist on pronouncing it as spelled—the real-estate operations in Miami are on a seale that will provide building lots enough to go around. z a7 i. 7 ds we 4 Thrising Florida industry | | exact number of meal-+atate denlers in Miami is not known. Practically everyone over tighteon years of age dabbles in real estate atone time or another. Almost everyone owns n lot somewhere that he is anxious to get rid of, although it is unanimously admitted by the owners that every lot in Miami will double in value in a year’s time, Almost every other door- way along Miami's crowded streets sheltera a real- eiabe firm; aod whole eoveye of real-catate firma are frequently sheltered in buildings that would be constderced small by a family of three people. Some af the firms keep impressive-looking salesmen standing just ovtsicde of the buildings in which the firma do busines: These salesmen are large, handsome nen for the moet pert, strikingly dressed in white trousers, pearl pray sack conta, white shoes, white belts, white recktles and straw hats tilted knowingly toward the fight ear, If one stapes for» moment to admire a win- dow display which shows nutomohiles, diamonds and tax-exempt bonds sprouting from the superfertile sail of land that is on eae within at $1000 an acre, one of thease salesmen is very apt to come up behind him and tempt him with honeyed words. It is almost futile to struggle against thes: galesmen. Unless one possesets an iron will he will weakly permit himself to be coaxed within the portals of the office, where he will spend the better part of an hour look- ing at meaningless rape and hearing lorge sume of money mentioned with the utmost conclesiness: and disrespect, Other real-estate firms constantly carry on selling cam- puigns that etrongly rexmble—in noise, at Irast—the return of the 27th Division from the war. They resort to brass bands, numbers of sightseeing automobiles, stlver-tengued orators bo cajole the crowd, and advertisements that inflame the ace quisitive apirit of every beholder, When now- Mer see a moneter parade af sutomolbiles, headed by a blaring band, ewinging through the strects of Miami, they usually think, in their nnocenee, that a three-ring clreus has come to town, As a matter of fact, it is only a mob of proapects going cut to the daily auction aale of Lote at Rubber Plant Park. Skilled and expensive renl-esttate auctioneers are imported—auctionerrs cn= pable af selling refrigerat- ing machines to inhabitants of the Arctic Circle. People are lured to the auctions by free lunches, by distribution of souvenirs, by the giving away of automobiles, Early in 1922 the real- estate firms who disposed af their land by auction were vociferating possionately (Continued on Page FF)

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10 THE JOSEPH’S COAT AM fully aware that | the stery Tam about ta relate could be teld in a number af WAYS. I milght, for instance, write a novel und let Valentine act os the heroine, relating her bhvtary in an impersonal sort of way, with @ paragraph here and there of my own obeer- vations, nheely yelled under the cloak of authorship. Or I might give the pen into her own hands, 20 to apeak, and let her do the talking— but that seeme giving in altogether too much to the natural proclivities of wonan, Sol have decided te tell the thing in my own way, without prevarication, just as it happened, and this naturally brings me to that spring morning when Briggs opened the door while I was at breakfast and announced that there was a lady to see me. "A lady?" said 1, my eyebrows rising alarmingly. A lady, did you sey, Briggs?" He stood firm, though hia attitude as usual was that of the perfect servant, “A lady, Mr. Magnus,” he repeated after me, not batting an eyelnsh, “1 left her in the reception room, Shall I show her in here?" Now, no one exeepl my- self knows better than Briggs how very strict my rule is about ladies. I den't like them in the home. They are all right—dquite in their place, I think—at a social function, decorative ond amusing both; but in one's home—particulorly a bach- eloc's establichment—they de nob At. T have never had a woman caller since I came to live in Central Park South, and that this ia eo is due not a little te the gentle firmness and perfect training of Briggs. Ne wonder, then, that I was a trifle upect at his persistency. Three questions rease bo my lips. I wanted te ask why he had admitted her, whether she was old or young, and wis dhe pretty? But it would never do to let Briggs know that I was curious. The oly way to manage a servant is to keep aloof and be chatty alternately, Never bet them guess which mood has you. This was a time te keep aloof. “Why the devil da you want to bring her in bere?" I said testy. “Don't you know I haven't finished my breakfast, and T'm not dressed either?" “Four house coat in perfect farm, Mr, Magnus," anid Briggs reprovingly, glancing with the air of a connoisseur at my dressing gown of purple silk, “And besides,” he added, “I don't think the lady ia in the maad to notice those things much, sir; alee is very young." “Hasn't che a name, you idiot?" I shauted after him, modifying my voice a trifle, however, when T realized that he had gone and left the door open. My apartment, though commodious, is on a plan that acoustically speak= ing leaves much to be desired. After all, I did net want any young lady, however unwelcome, to reeelve the im- pression that I was a boor. [ rose from the breakfast table and stood with my back to the window, waiting, and almost immediately Briggs Teturned, carrying in his arms two dilapidated traveling bags, which he deposited inside the door, while he an- nounced in his best manner: "Miss Valentine Forater.”” A little girl entered, or at least for a minute I thought she wos @ little girl, although as I looked again I saw that she wond her hair up and a veil depended from her bat- tered black velvet hat, Sho was about seventeen, I judged, and D brenthed a sigh of relief, for a very young lady is nat so terrorizing as [ had surmised this lady might be. The name, however, conveyed nothing tame. Valentine Forster was not familiar to my eara, and I felt that I should like to say something to Briggs for having ao inter- Tupted the quiet hours of morning. Instead, that worthy discreetly withdrew and closed the door, “Thea I Kaew That I'd Doane Sometilag Tarrlite, Taéougi I Did Met Jee Was tt Fioulad Be" The young girl turned to me, amiling, but I recall now that her underlip trembled a little as she spoke. "You didn't expect me, Unele Magnus?” Her voieo was very soft and beautifully modulated, with # little singsong quality that even after all these years away placed her nationality easily. I hid my indignation at her mode of address—for to my knowledge I have no niecea—as I made a remark, “You're English!" “(Of course,” she said in a bewildered tone. “I only got here this morning. The boat docked very early; I—I didn't think you'd be at breakfost. [ come straight here.” Valentine Forster! Suddenly I knew. I smiled and went closer to her. “Why, my dear child, I do believe you're Clement Forster's daughter; Marie's girl." She gave a littl unsteady laugh. “Didn't you know, Unele Mognus? Haven't you bad Amanda's letter?" “T had one from her three weeks ago"—I searched my memory for something relating to the present arrival— “but if was just the same sort of letter Amanda always writes, Sho mentioned nothing unusual,” “She wouldn't," said the girl, nodding her head wisely. "Amanda hates things that are different, and of course at that time we didn’t know " She broke off hurriedly, her face Hnted with rose color. “But you ought to have heard by now, Uncle Magnus; she promised me she'd write.” Now, T have a very bad habit of not opening my mail until after breakfast, a remnant of a vow I made when I had to open so many letters early in the morning for other people, and now as she spoke I had asudden misgiving. In that pile of letters Briggs had brought in towards the end of my meal and deposited on the small table near the window designed to hold them, hadn't I glimpsed a pray envelope addressed in Amanda's careful hand? Turning to look I found the gravely inquiring eyes of the stranger fixed upon me, and for the first time [ experienced a sense of warmth towards her, I pushed up one of my SATURDAY EVENING POST FELUIFTRAATES April By Marguerite Cui SF GEORGE E. 1 great armchairs, change from thes which she sat, an myself as I aaw in it, picking up n letter. Amanda hae Yetrs my only Fx respondent. Shue § slater, ome of th who aeem bern o in those daye bef home she mothers heramudged and letters, smuggled ; father’s house by servant, Were very when I went as through the years yenturous life is her letters folicwed the regularity of clo a thing I gibed at, over in public, and loved. Onhy once in time did she really herself, mand that wi in an unguarded my told her I had been gen oof the United Ithurt her gentleotd heart that a brother should ignore hi on; try, as she putit. fo very well explaintot America is my ce now—has been this heart ever since + ita shores. She could understand. Her letters, if & done nothing else] least kept me in to some of the minc} im the life of the: Not that I cared; th wae nothing to me, helped me cones with Briggs, whe reverence for birte inbred in all Englich the lower classes. He could never have been & te ah American born and bred! As I opened Amanda's letter a suspicion shod me, and not for the first time either. Why hel admitted this particular lady eo readily on this pang morning? Why had be carried in her bags as a course? Why was he even now making fresh colt frying ham and eggs in the kitchenette if bo bad oo to some degree cognizant of the contents of this lett was etrange, to aay the least of it. For once Amanda had spread herself, and th e tion of this unexpected visit from a strange girl ¥b me uncle was instantly before me: Afy dear Mi; we: T have aon very T know you disliked Clement Forster, ¥20 m second cousin, Maurie Blount, but mow that he & : appreciate bla qualities, T motles that death oo ent § affects our meat weid conceptions a “A ratend to have forgotten the family, so I will ieterm Tet t,. Marie's mother made that marr Bottling af 20 Clement and. nein a grent house for them in Heres It may be wielood mn, but I never fonced that Mario; just married her to make himself finanealy oe nhle to continue his work in He became s lee and did magnificent work. eo War, : ‘Tw ark Marie death and Valentine sek ment of the house, The family protested, but ress us do anything when she meu quietly baat ot promised her mother. Valentine la the only girl, Cement eldest; we call him Clom to distinguish him [ree 48! Toddy died quite suddenly last year of heart trubh: tho baby. From that time Clement changed; be bere 2 long brooding fitz of naclanenely Val's influence one 2 wonderful, but of course we all felt it waa very bad fori" Foor Marie's life had been anent ia looking alter Gentle ntine's youth aherald po that it dict seen a shame that ¥ tea, We were all a trifle resentful of the woy bee anrvicra, until he disappeared and we knew that nee definitely wrong. I am writing this bo prepare fer Fae arrival. ‘She has taken it into her head, poor ais her father haa gone to lea. “4 Why? Why should he loave all the honors of Bartok ita beat to go to the United States? T oevor rene 3 keh him speak of the country, and one ao cultured al er felt contempt for a land where the almighty dela 5 oF" aged. 4 don't want to pain you, my brother, bee" e I must record may aclema conviction, fet

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST II alertizee unreservedly in yourcare, It is terrible for his journey wnechaperomed, but abe insists, and Clem. . = itbee the war he isso crippled that it f useless for “Et ft. My dear Magnus, try and make Val realize Se fe clead. He never did anything diferent from = io tis life—exeopt his profession, He must have = 9 & Gt of melancholy and been killed. It is all Be itis much love Your affectionate sleler, Stites sails on the Addriatic.—A, wen the stilted, old-fashioned letter, and Just as if it had been etched on the air I saw a picture wear at the Blount home that day I'd gone to ata call on my only visit to England since leay- —sumd of old Beneon driving up to the house, a Bemtted proudly beside him. ‘Ss yeour name?" she asked me curiously, eying nark ling interest as Benson pulled in his horses ed his het, hare. missy!" the old coachman said. “Mind es mew; the gentleman hes been to see your wt led and brought up a forgotten dimple, shaking emphatically, “Her is out; he couldn't.” hea tiwe shoulder was turned on Henson while she ber qqwestion to me comxingly: is your name?" nu.”" gested that, smiling aslow, dazzling smile, “Are wri be PF mo; Eriiesy, this is Mr. Magnus. Wait till I tell niimaw on you," old Benson reproved, mt ihuave mo misters, nor no missuses," the little ba informed me mysteriously. “They i all uncles its. Are you Unele Magnus?" ream!" I'd interpolated thia Americaniam for the of old] Benson, holding out my arma to the child, ibook in my pockets you'll fed some candy." fimived into my held without hesitation, and the ands searched like busy aquirrele in my pockets aa cated, “Candy? What's candy?" , ae eeite—echoocolates,”” tied Ed an armful for her. But she wae blissfully @ with the little satin box she found, and kissed Bil eT passed ber back to her seat beside Henson, AMANITA, “You'rea fice, Uncle Magnus." Her. approval was aby, but the blue eyes shone as ake looked me over. Benson told me she was Misa Maries little girl. “My, she's a box a” tricks, too,” he chuckled; “se reg’lar box o” tricks.” So this was why she called me uncle; it was a remnant of her childhood; and I—I had never even known her mame; she'd just been a charming five-year-old, a trifle in the life of a young man. Again I looked at the little girl who had been thrust upon meso unexpectedd, Without doubt Amanda's letter had been on a slow bort and so arrived only a few hours before Valontine herself, and owing to my habit of brenk- fasting late after a ride in the park Briggs had been aware of the contents before my nieee's arrival—well, she wasn't my nice, of course, but that word does as well os any; otherwise I could not imagine his admitting such a stran- ger to my home, for Valentine had lite, that morning, to recommend her ta the outward eye, T ean see her now os she sot in the big rocking-chair, holding herself still and immobile in the way English girls ure taught te doin the presence of their elders, but with effort visible in every line of her slender body. She wore an English traveling sult, and from anything mone hideous T pray to be delivered, It was one of those good but ine determinate tweeds of which the English are ao fond, and although lta linea may have been good when It was made— were pod, T have no doubt, for Clement Porater's daughter would have nothing but the best procurable—it was now shapeless and lackluster. Valentine had evidently warn it during the voyage over, and there hung about it atill the indescribable aroma of the sea, that pungent, intangible ewence moat of us love, Already [ have mentioned the battered velvet hat, and her shoes were of the ordinary Osdord shape, which in terms of the English means an wely ehoe built of the best leather. Thelr ecat had been exces- aive, probably, but there was nothing graceful about therm. Valentine's eyes were closed, and this took away some thing—as I was later to discover—of vividness from her face. It seemed. to me, a5 I looked, incredible that this could be Marie Forster's daughter. Poor Marie] I had not puessed that Clement really meant to marry her that evening in my chambers at Christ Church when he hael apeken of her so patronizing; the whole thing had been a most tremendous surprese, a faddeaiy F Feoad Myseif Vioteatiy on Her Fide, Woking Ber Well ta @ Gusat That Could Kot be Aaything Sut Faille She had come up for the boat race with her mother; a pale, rather stupld girl, I had always thought her, with hair of a reddich tinge, halr that in these daye we might have made much of. Clement, charming to every woman, had shown her round, and we had a audden, rather im- promptu meal in his rooms, during which hour I had seen Marie's eves lifted to Clement's with a shy adoration in their pale deptha, a look that eomehow hurt me. Lady Blount. had studied him coolly—I caught that expression too—and perhapa it had been bess Clament’s desire to marry Marie than her mother's belief that she had better make the best match possible for a daughter without natural charm or beauty that had made the marriage. Because that night in my study Clement hed not meant Marie for his wife. I am sure of that, even though he hed dropped his lazily patronizing tone when be mentioned the Blount money, and for an instant that expression of caution had come into his eyes, the expression of which I had learned to beware, Well, well, well, that must have beon eighteen yenrs or more ago, when [was oa frestiman and he'd just graduated with honors in medicine, [left England after only a year at the varsity—I'd danced at Marie's marriage to Clem- ent, but Amanda had forgotten. Briggs entered sllently with the breakfast tray, and the emell of the eoffee ao hear her must have reached Valen- tine's tired senges, for ahe opened her eyes with a atartled expression and looked at me apologetically. “T wan't aaleep, Onele Magnus, but—but the boat ewayed aa,"" “Your mother's girl aould ie a good sailor." “Oh, Tam: mother loved the aea. You remember thatT" The eyes were fized upon toe eagerly, and the tired- ness had gone out of the little face aa by a miracke. IT could think of nothing except that her eyes were blue aa the sea itself, the one heritage from her father that I could dis- cover; in all elae ahe waa Marie, except that she was vivid where Marie had been negative, rosy where she had been pale, colorful as to the thick braids of reddish-gold hair. That awlul tweed suit—and those shoss! Briggs had drawn up a little table before her and deftly assisted in the removal of coat and hat. He doos things well, dors Briggs. [was more than ever certain thak be heel (Contiqued on Page 56)

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‘dz ONCE Al ERE is Bowser, J. Sanford Bow- eer, The great, Sanford Bowser, Bowser, the President of the Bowser Publicity Engineering Corpo- ration, Ine, “Let Bowser Put You On The Map." Bowser, director of a dozen other corporations, all on the map. Bowser, from whose teeming | brain aprang "The Tuck Truck Delivers The Goods," and “"DGeardioe, The Ob-3o- Different Shaving Soap, So Pure A Babe Could Eat It," and a score more wou know as wellas yourcwn name, Howser, the poet, author of “My ore foe je “adele - ob PEPE Bye he, Till, luckily, J tried a conse Of Herawits's Soap.” He ig sitting in his office on the fif- teenth floor of the Bowser Building— “ Built—Like The Himalayas —For Tha Ages.” It is a vost apartment, this of- fice, big as four tennis courts, and scen= ically impressive, As Mr. Bowser said to the interior decorator who, with sug gestions from Mr. owser himself, deco- routed it, “This In My Little Work Reom. Spare No Expense, [want this te ie a place Where Taste and Larxury Shake Hands." [et is hardly bexe thon that. Note the rugs—black, vel- veby and so thick one sinks ankle- In them and withdraws one's foot with a pPlopping noise, “Rugs,” erled Mr. Bowser rup- turously, when fret he gazed on them, “Hugs As Soft As A Woman's Voice in Love, As Strong As A Blan’s Voice In Anger.” Note the furniture. “In These Sturdy, Beautiful Chalra A Forest Fulfille Ita Destiny." Mr. Bowser eaid this directly his bright blue eye fell on them. He had a way of accenting his words that made one know that as he spoke them he saw them set up in bold-faced type, with capital letters. Let us undress Mr. Bow- ner. In the interesta of the science of which be is a high A pricst—"To-day's Magic Wand, Publicity" (Copy- OE right, J. Sanford Bowser) — he will not mind, but will doubtless nasist in the proc- ei, pointing out that from head to toe he is a Bowser- dressed individual, In his own person, inderd, he is the eplteme af the croft be so assiduously practices. “There ia not," he will tell even a easual ac= quaintance, “An Tota Of Hypocrisy ‘* about J. San- bi ford Bowser. neg: I Eat, Wear, Use Only What I Ad worticc."" If cane wishes to quibble about minor detaila—parters, let us say, OF cull links, this statement is not one hundred per cent true, but it ia more nearly tree than most statements af that kind, Let us then, by permission, peel Me. Bowser a3 if he were an onion, but re- versing the process and beginning at his innermost layer. Df one wishes to be strictly scientific one must begin with his skin, which is pink and firm due to ite daily intimacy with SilkuteSoap, “The Pores’ Playmate." There are a number : ae i of square feet of this akin, into which Mr. Bowser fits snugly but comfortably, one hundred and seventy-nine pounds of him. The next layer is of a white cling- ing material and is nothing less than one Swansoltae Underthing, “The Garment That Staye Put, Note The Big Buttons.” The feet of Mr, Bowser are incased in Gloss-1-Fit Sox, “Oh, Hoy, How Happy My Feet Feel!" His shirt ts of a subtle hue of heliotrope and, one sees at» glance, is a He-Shirt, “ Man-Built For A Man's Man.” i collar is unmistakably of the Fits-U Brand, Ritzy Shape, “Alps in Quality, Grand Canyon in Price.” Ie be held: firmly in place by Triple-Triss Collar Buttons— “Constroched like the Brooklyn Bridge by the House of Katz." Hie necktle is of black kolttel alk, very harrow and very straight, and, inclklentally, “The Newest Sensation af the Ar-Is-To-EFerat-0 Line of Toegery." That narrow Mack tie might atrike a note of sinkternesa quite out of keeping with the character of ita wearer, were it not redeemed hy a single pearl scarfpin, glowing modestly, The pearl ie an excellent apecimen of a WO- Telly Pearl. “She'll Think They're Real!” The outer layer that incases Mr. Bowser's round, but not too round, tyrure, ta of blie and is “The] Most Virgin of Virgin Wool: From Sheep With A Family Tree.”" It has a fine white stripe running through it and its cut 1s jaunty and imparts to Mr, Bowser's thirty-right-year-old being a certain juve nility. The fact isa—and Mr, Bowser would be the last man in the world to conenal it— that he is trying out the new Yalo-Fence Model of Kampusfello Duds, and & trying, casunlly, to see how friends and scquaint- ances react to the new Slnnt-slit Pockets and the Hug-Fit Waist-Line. Jumping to his shoes the passionate: ox- plorer perceives that they ore Goethick Brogues of the Armordad Line —“You Could Kick A Foattieship To Bits With A Fair Gf Armorclads,” Jumping five feet and eleven inches from his bropes to his face one mites tht its almast unnatural emooth- ness is due to a happy combination of a Cutlasso, "The Dempesry of Safety Raxora— A Million Safe, Sune, Suceeeful Shaves For A Dollar,” and Beardfoe, “That Oh-So- Different Shaving Soop," the sales of which have inerensed four hundred per cent since Mir. Bowser took leld of tt, changed the fiackage from brown to rich eye-taking fla- ming, had the best buby-head artist in Anvirlea do one of her characteristic roy cherubs nibbling One of thie: luselons-Looking fink slicks, and, finolly, informed the warld from a score of magazines and a’ thousand bill-nards that fb was ae pare a babe eel eatit. Heing rigidly horest, Mr, Bowser did net make this arresting statement lightly. He did not haye a convernlent babe, for he had heen too busy ever to marry, ao, dutifully, be ote ane whale stick of Beardfoe hirssell. SATURDAY EVENING POST Afpril ; SLOGANEER = By RICHARD CONNELL! FLIVITRATED aF af. fam BLUMEN T WTAE That it did not kill him and is therefore _ denced by the fact that just now he was discoverc in his office, gazing pensively out of the window toa Hudson River, where the ferryboate, mere spect his altitude, slid back and forth from Mew York Jersey, from New Jersey ta New York, from New ' Wew Jersey and back again, like aa many met skating bugs, euch as Mr. Bowser, aa a youth, had | the horse pond back in Wingville, Ohio, which vill given Bir. Bowser ta a waiting world some year From Mr, Bowser's well-razored cheek it is but, distance to hia mouth, which is, normally, smiling, confident, and to hia chin, which is, waually, tilted fi and upward, partly because it is naturally aggressis parth to offset a ruff of protoplaam about the Bra neck, whieh follows, alas, a sedentary occupation a consumption of much Bender's Beans, "The Foo Makes America What She Ig": Sunshine Tripe, (Hf Parodiss For A Dime": Choc-Oh-Late Nutties, “i As Is Candy"; and Joan of Arc Hams, “From § Tale, Untouched By Human Hands.** 4 ifounting upward from the Bowserian neck weet the eyes, blue, as has been mentioned, but of a pe brighthesa, and alert ps | a robin’, Then we en- P counter his forehead — high, protruding and rather noble; and above it, his well parted, amoothed, perhaps oiled sagemblage of blond hair of that de- cided cider shade seen on Princeton sopha- mores and collar adyver- tisements, Lastly ont observes hig hands —doing hands—manicured, he will inform you in that bell-toned voice in which he always declaime slogans of his own making, by Dazzle- Dust, “The Polish That Makes Mirrors Of Your Mails, Bao Critical Of Your Cuticle.” De- betes bao fingers is A Marlboraagh = Somerset. ‘i heer] aie we AMS? Se ob. ec i i That Tangish Perfume? Do Fou Think f Des — It's Marlborough-Som- «**" “ine Mand of Beswr erset, Of Course!" The whole pictare at first glance is one of youth tri pliant, for Mr. Bowser certainly, from a distance of ta feet, does met look his thirty-night years, But draw 38 On closer examination jt becomes apparent that all et ray with him, There is an unwonted droop af the sha ders, a melancholy series of small wrinkles about thee and, for all thelr bright blueness, deep in these eye lia cankering distontent. On this day J. Sanford Bowser did not feel right. & had not felt right the day before. Nor had be te before that. For months something had been compe over him, and he could feel it, without kaowing #o wus. This worried him. Its secret apring handy ec to be physical. He was fond of saying, “I Am 4s Tot As A Boiled Rhinoceros.” This was almoat true (59 farm back in Ohio he had built up a steel contol before he put his flannel underwear in a straw le and came to New York and tackled it bareheaded = beat it to tte knees. In that fifteen-year battle he bln? spared himaelf, His work had meant mt! him than air to a deep-sea diver. He bad pm the world a lot of puniahment in thet gt he hac taken a lot himself. He had wo, t# he saat and, Alexander-like, eurveyed te 7 from his window, he got little joy from be tory. He felt as if he had eaten a bere & pickles. , Things seemed sour. Could he be my? pieces, he wondered. Nonsense! Ber @! . Ma UREA Tits thirty-eight. He felt his biceps. They wrt They Ties the Tieep of the Firiaoua Vaal Some Wayereed Fisk Comsumed the Baie aa 4 landlord's heart.

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THE ¥ Sbould even the choicest Joan of Are » ike ashes to him? Why should he get ie ron _ new custom-built eur—A +t — "Good Breeding In Its Every Silotor Mas The Gentlenesa Of A Zephyr, « Of A Herd Of Bulls"? Why should bore him, and ¢ him to sleep? noted he loathe; actually itt Leoame to his handsome om Park Avenue, where Qemve in regal style with a and a Chinese cook Were works of art and Were masterpieces? he be tempted to say to hia clients and to cranky with his business 7 Tt wasn't like J, San- gt all. sudden moody ferocity for a hammered copper cand crunched the life out samoked Marlborough- and muttered “Cuab- ‘hich, of course, waa ab- Ene well knew that the was “*The Hand Picked Per- he WW irginney's Choiceat Fields © (rwn Private Process.” He had aaidso. The fault couldn't © CEerette; tt must lie in How- a that was absurd too. He dug \y @t @ buxeer on his desk anda Ty woepped in like a cuckoo froma clock. Hoe tried merge himeelf in work: but he could not escape I talternoon when Dr. Ned Harter dropped in to pay idly call om Mr. Bowser, he found Mr. Bowser ed in his chair staring gloomily owt over the pan- of the great city. When he wae a tackle at Yale led Ned Harter "Tiny" because he waa only smaller than a taxicab. He had a positive way patients; “They Were Afraid Not To Get W had once sud of him. — nani cceagerabeadiie Harter. E ten an _ross year,” replied Mr. ee: The Leader." - But how about you, yourself?" Fe not ao good.” admitted Mr. Bowser. ‘Not bad. bet eo good. Mot good mt all." fiat’s the trouble?" ‘ve got," aald Mr. Bowser In the bell voice he reserved ie announcement of a new contribution to the litera- af aslogandom, “That All-Shot-To- hereens Feeling [" : reached for a thick leathern notebook. Wait!" be exelaimed. “I must put that & ode the Personality Pil account, know, How's thi: ‘For That All- tTeSmithereens Feeling: Get Cruteicde \ Personality Pill, Pure Whale Oi In A hoon. Hlealth's Right Man." How's that, re ‘Hot bad," admitted the for, “os advertising. my. Rowse, have you one of thaw pills?" F Ht course, Docens of Tm so full of whole minute I feel slip- all over." "Did they make you feel ” tie?" wy “Worse. But T gies it's f the pills’ fault," said & Bowser, ever loyal to feodoct of bis, "1 prupena ftrouble ia too deep for if of to reaeh.”' f kaned toward" Setor Flarter con- eotinlly, “You « ja Se com, Ned," he ud in a plaintive one, “T ean't un- jerstand it. I've pet the world by the neck, but tm, tat happy, I Am In The Ge A Vest Emptiness!" io some moments Doctor Aeter studied Mr. Bowsor. be said, “Io know what jou, Bowne," “What t™ “Sloganitis."” “Hee Fou a Patlest Mere?" Be waked, “De F Look Libe 2 Mifkmoid P" Looghed the Cirl “A Product In Every Line, And Each aay don't pet yOu, Ned. Something new?" “Brand-new. And almost unique. Yours is the first full-fledged case [ ever ran across, You see, it's an oecu- pational greg “What did you say it was called?" **Sloganitis,”" “You're kidding ma." “So, I'm not,” said . Doctor Harter seri- ously. “Howse, the trouble with you is thet you have a rush of slagans to the head. You talk, think, cat, sleep and dream slo- gana. Ten't thattrue?* “Yea, I suppose it is."" "You've done It fourteen or more hours every day for the past fifteen years, haven't you? PE "Guess I have.” "The chief symp tom of this disease,” went on the doctor in his beat bedside manner, “is an uncontrollable desire to put things on the map. Tt makes no difference whether belong there, You're not happy till you've coined a slogun and put them there. Am I right?" Mer. Bowser grinned. “You ane," he said, Doctor Harter leaned toward him earnestly, "You're a aick man, Howse," he sald. “Organteally you nay esem to bee sound. But sloganitia is an insidious disease. It will L met you if you don't watch out.’" “Ob, doctor,” cried Mr. Bowser, faintly facetious, and yee cooemed by the seriquaness of his friend's tone, “is thera no hope, no eure?" “Science,” said Doctor Harter, “has not agreed on any sure cure. There are several treatments we can try.” “What are they?" "Have you tried falling in lowe?" With a snort of double-distilled contempt Mr. Bowser waved this idea aside, He spoke emphati- cally, "Bahl" he said. “Bah! 0 pave up that idea year ago. Love muy be good for adolescent troubles, bat “Wale Up, Fou Black Demee Betta, SATURDAY EVENING POST 1a my case of aloganitis is in its tertiary stage. It's in my blood, Ned. Why, do you know I live to make slogans! It's The One Big Dynamic Passion Of My Life. What woman could understand that?" “You are far gone," the doctor admitted. “But I've another cure—the best cure I know of for aloganitis,” “What is it? Tell me.” "Heat," said Doctor Harter. Mr. Bowser snorted like a harpooned whale. “Reat,” repeated Doctor Harter. “Complete reat and change of scene. No slogans for at least a month.” Mr. Howser snorted again, even more vigorously. “No use,” he ssid datly, “I don't know how to reat.” “Thon you'll have to learn.” “Tdon't want to. Rather die in the harness.” “And so you will, Mighty soon too,” “Do you matan that, Ned Harter?” “Tido, Absolutely," Mr. Bowser shrugged mournful shoulders. “T"p as bad as that, am [t" “You are." Mr. Bowser whistled. "Tr only thirty-eight," he atated. “But, like moat American business men, you've crowded thirty years of work into fifteen." "But I like to work,” aaid Mr. Bowser. “Honestly, Med, I don't think I'd be at all happy resting.” "You have nothing to say about it,” said Doctor Harter. “As your doctor [ order vou to take a reat.” Again Mr. Bowner’s shoulders gestured a shrug of doubt. “If T must, I must,” he said. “WH you prociise me this, Bowse?" “Wheel ae you will give up sloguneering for a month.” de try. “Good! Now here's your prescription! Up in Dutchess County is an old farmhouse kept by toro elderly laces. There isn’t a billboard, magazine or newspaper within four milea. They still read Godey's Lady's Book. But they raise the best strawberries in the world. I want you to go up there and just lie around and eat strawberries. Don't do a darn thing. Don't think of a single slogan. Just rest.” "Bot ——" began Mr. Boweer in accents of protest. "No buts,” snid Doctor Harter. “Come. Get your hat, Dl moter you up there this very afternoon." “Must I stay a whole tmontht" “You must.” “Couldn't I have Leshy, my eopy chicf, come up and satay over weekends? “No, [tl leave orders with the hired man te shoot Lesh if he sets foot on Fromroee Form," _ Wt teem Pie Wale Cp! Dm Gelng te Put Oploere Ga Tae Aap!"

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14 THE TIP HERE was nothing of the cringing debtor about | the big man. Of the four sitting about the heavy walnut table he least of all looked the stag brooght to bay. Like most big men who look back on sixty, he was heavy about the shoulders, his eet collar running up toa meet a jumbled mass of wrinkled cords. He elouched, unharasacd, in the huge chair, tapping the table before him with a forefinger madeled by many years of toil, With the other hand he caressed on un- pleasant black pipe. He puffed, seemingly content, and little clouda of ashes fell unheeded on his vest, Thore was about him the hint of an ald lon basking in the sun, and nothing of the man whe needed twenty mil- lion dollara—desperately. Nothing perhaps but the ae af the wiry white hair on the wrinkled cords, "Well, gentlemen,” beaald very quietly, “here I am.” Mr. Payne Ashbrooke, at his seat oat the head of the table, clipped a clgar with a gold cutter and gazed absently through the burge double window down into the whirling mass of Wall and Broad. He had the reputation, wherever Wall Street was known, of being 2 clever man, and he knew that it waa ac. The two other members of the banking house of Ashbrooke, Mead & Oppenheim were good men; they might even be considered big men in any other house on the Street, entirely eapable of giving orders, of generalship, of financial finesse. Tere they were office baya—and knew it. In point of fact they gloried in it. Mr. Payne Ashbrooke was a money-maker, natural born. Other bousea on the Street could snowr all they pleased, They could hint at will that in changing to an American name he had not changed to American business ethies, Ashbrooke was a go-getter! And the grist he brought to mill was profitable, Always. Old John Stage was a cos: in point. Twenty yeara beck, when Ashbrooke war hol Ashhrooke, John Stage was a trade name ta American Industry, If whet they soid was true Askirooke was atill a peddler bey {n Odessa when Stage Steel Products were known and liked. He wos still saving his passage money when John Stage was a millionaire, When he was known only to Curb hobituts they sakl Stage was worth a bundred millions, And now look wt the two men! Ope still young acd garbed to look younger, the ather seventy and dressed to look every year of It, One with the fragrant tench of o | fresh carnation, and the other sprinkled with dandruff, One growing richer with every turn of the mill wheel, the other tottering on the brink of financial disaster, Smug old-fnshianed hauses could bow, frigidly polite, but the answer was here. Mr. Henry Mead smiled plensantly and looked to his chief, still gazing through the window. Mr, Oppenheim wis eagerly fingering a ¢risp sheet of tissue giving the opening market quotations, . “Well, gentlemen?" rt senbor partner turned saftly back to the table. He smilecd. “Tt ls tes bad to ask you to travel to New York in weather such as this. But [ am afraid it was mecessary. Unpleasantly so for me, Mr. Stage, as you undoubtedly know. We—we have asked you to come down to discuss the recebyership." The head of Stage Steel Products wrinkled his keen blue eves, frankly puzzled. “Recelyership? For what?" Mr. Oppenheim taok the cue from his chief, Ashbrooke disliked to say unpleasant things. “Stage Steel Products," The banking house expected one of the usual outbursts at this polnt—wild anger; pounding on the walnut table; perhaps even beara, follawed by all sorts of wild pleadings for extensions; hard names maybe; accusntions of bod faith. Anything! Instead there was nothing at all, unless an increased sprinkling of ashes or a further bristling of the scolp was indicative, ia Why? oF Expecting almost anything, the gentlemen were frankly sur “Why ae Askbrooka silenced his astonished partner with a slim upheld hand. "Simply because, Mr. Stage, as one af the largest ereditera of your company—er—to the extent of twenty millions of dollare—we believe it fs the best safeguard, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By EVERETT RHODES CA ST! FREEUSTRATE DB BY a fa Raited Nir Arms ond Heid Thom For @booe Aor Walte Old Peod, werkiiy Hae Prope not only for ouraelvea but for the beat interesta of the other creditors and—er—stockbolders.” "But the company is solvent.” Nettled, the seniar partner's woioe lost its suavity. "For the moament—yrs," "Not a claim has been mode against the company which has not been satisfied,” "Hot yet, but ——" "Why, then, why this receivership discussion?” The senior partner knew that this was no moment for anger, that beneath a cloud of amoke one of the keenest minds of American industry was fighting the grim fight of self-preservation without anger or wild pleadings; fighting for time, which in the end would avail him nothing, with a finesse that consorted not with pipe ashea and bagey apparel, Stories drifted back to Ashbrooke—storiea of the fights this man head made, of the sttuntions he had saved, But the man was old now and times were different. He tacked gracefully. "Sixty dave ago, Mr, Stare, you came to this house and requested a ninety-day loan of twenty million dollars to eg for pressing obligutions. You did nat come here first.” No." | believe Tam right in sssuming that geesip is true concerning your attitude toward financial houaes.” The old man nodded his head. “I have never bean able to got along with the caer mind.,"" "You were tured down os — grimly, “You said at the time the loan was arranged that it was your opinian that within the ninety-day period you would bo able to liquidate your inventory and accounts receivable to the point where you wauld not only be able to pay off cur loan but place the company ina comfortable cash poai- at Is that correct?" a: i is." AIFBBERS April 3 xo! Y at NW BURE W "Sixty of these ninety days are up. Mor. Stage, shies Is two-thirds of your prombe or—er—he ea?" T hrough the smoke come the answer, still quia “Te Bs not, Like an otpert stage director Mr, Ashbbrooke tele cine of the desk clock emphasiee the point. Fi tuble he took a long sheet thickly covered witl figures “Your ‘balance sheet, which we have just mi shows an inventory of row and finished prosiuct @ ing to approximately twenty-six millions of dollars necounts recei¥ynble aggregate twenty millions. Ys including bills payable, tay and oorelves, appro thirty-seven millions, Am I eerrect?T" Foy gee” The senior partner clipped his words shart: “Gi that you can liquidate your accounts receivable, @ be eo kind, Mr. Stage, os to stain why we ahould & cuss a receivership at this point when your gress & hos fallen froma penk of fifteen millions per month than three at the present time? Why de jou che ignore these facts in the light of such conditions?” “Gentlemen, I will tell you—and—and I'm going you standing up, A man con always talk — and hatter standing up. Weu aetied come down ta Nev York and brig board of directors with me. IT did that. [didn't bring my Lawyer ¢ I just breeght myself. The respat ity of making decisions has alway mine ever sinee the busines wore | ers, and T ges it wil—until the re third of Aprilanyway. In the first [am going te aay to you that after through talking—and [I'm going | brief—there will be ne further dicey of an reecivership for Stage Steel | cts—nob for thirty days. “ou mhked me how Towns poli aveid it, and I'm going te srewe frankly—I don't knaw., And Iam to be frank some more: “You men business Is only a question of bills gable and bills recelvable: of inven raw and finished; of cash im the & and government taxes: bat sou’ wrong, It's—it's a question of Twenty-six thousand of them sratée all ever God's creation! Fine big bt Bame of them os old as Iam; bow have bern wlth me from the start. tered all over the world from the bo Plant in Clevelond to Singapore. "Do you think a Tittle matter twenty millions of dallars means # thing te that troop if their fighting spirit was ap? | ic it woulde’t. You know tt wouldn"t. And there is whe the trouble lies. Somebody has gone behind tho fines : taken the apirit out of them, Somebody dirty enough ungserupulous encugh has dug this thing called Sid al of them. Somebody who has seen fine pickings free tf bones of a nice big emash! “What have they done? You men ought to a You are within a half milo of where the whole thing W done. Where the entire operation has been carriel @ with neatnesa and dispatch, Listen! Every boy tla has gone to work for me in the post twenty-five pears he had te go in asa partner in the business. [Ho hes hod @ buy atock in the company. Not the preferred stock, whe only meant lending his money at 7 per cent, but eaqmmnon ateck that pot. the profits of the busines. And regardless of the market price they only paid par for cath share. When surplus justified a stock dividend thy am the number of their shares grow and their dividends &- crease, Every single one of my boys who stuck witt it old man has made money, many of them modest forlunt. “Three months ago Stage Steel Products was ai around 197, and the market waa strong. Today market is 31, and wealk—weole as n cat. And what has happened? I ‘i tell you: Bays of mine who were building homes and using their stock as collateral have bad cle? loans called at the bank. Boys who thought they #e putting away for a rainy day found, om paper, that the’ savings were dissipating every day, What difference dH it make if the solid yalue which had been built inte tit atock bey thirty years of hard Labor did) amount to or three hundred dollars a share? ‘There wns the market ft ing them in the face. And with the decline came ¢hip ings, baseless false things from bucketshops and sf tipsters. Insidious, rotten trade lies which crept into boys and their customers as well.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 15 ea of business dropping from fifteen millions t ty age tdrop! It—it was stabbed in the back. “What hope is there to accomplish in one ‘which we have failed to do in two?’ I'll say *bowt that: Give me my boys back with their tne three weeks will be enough. Flenty.” ae ee coughed aggressively. He was the wt mean to insinuate,” he bellowed, “that thie sad anything to do with any damn bear market, ‘nent old John Stage atudied the truculent up- é@of the speaker, he said gently, “if 1 was sure it was you or any- at engineered this dirty thing I'd twist your fat be breath left your body forever! Good day, fter the door had closed cold gray amoke wreatha ibouwt the place where old John Stage had ant, c pei felt his neck ginger gerly. ‘he swore softly, “I'll bet the old fool would ar LM small table a telephone jangled dis- s Spangling,” said the junior partner nervously. ey be do the dirty work to-day," ake Laughed and cromed towards the corner. it ws fat too,” he gibed. “6 traumamitter he gave one curt onder, t down to 28—and keep it there.” ‘ the table the three ast in silence, Oppenheim the ‘® nervously patting the table. - Tarkett is getting awful thin.” Mead said it ‘otreak the irksome silence than by way of con- ganything bile buying would help us distribute a good deal sek." acbmitted Ashbrooke. “But in my judgment jenough at 23 until after the funeral,” tsmoke traces still clung about the empty chair, ay.” eaid Oppenheim nervously, “had the erast to more money this morning, Every time he saves a ney he gets independent." bed em ploges,"" said the head of the house, “ahauld @ allowed to become independent.” d laughed. “I waa just thinking,” he said, kl two birds with ane stone, Ashbrooke might tell ued employe that 8. 3. P. could be bought for real . Wherever Peavy rune with his little: bank book fll probably know of his conmection here, and a fuying might come into the market and give ua a bio pass out stock. In—in any event we take care ays inde ace until he up a little at least,” hhrooke ed slow ly, lL do the adly,”” be é. “amd pes the word as I to-night." ar \AT evening fen Mer. Qi i. Peavy ie to buy his ing paper the iboy did mot ee that he wos weying to a (whist secrets fe as liquid ld. whose wlidpe, locke iy above an hation-tweed fer, would be fied by men leer Ure Bere i tweed or ever hoor there waa mmething elae il mere eqpen- ie Mr, Peavy ad read of it omewhere. fay bei waa min- wer. ( waa that wast i Peavy al is bought the Gr: evening fer, but to fe be bought 2 wsolber and anid brightly to the boy: “Well, my lad, how goes itt" But my lad did not happen te be a captain of industry in the making with a cheery “Very good, thank you, sir." Instead he gazed with sullen indiference into Mr. Peavy's bearing visage. “Yah,” be muttered. From his position in the golden chair Mr. Peavy could not let thia innoande against a great and glorious world pase unnoticed. “Tut” he chided. that true, faithful service never goes unrewarded; er—every cloud has its silver lining.” My lad grunted skeptically, He knew, out of centuries of experience, that they were made that way, one every minute. "Keep the penny change, my bey, and remember t—— A burly individual brushed the advice and Mr, Peawy roughly to one side and bawled for astock edition, But no anger burleesd in Mir. Feavy'’s heart, He smiled benigniy. A gost of raw March wind down the eafien of Broad Street plucked the Peavy derby with playful, boyish fingers and hurhed it inte the blue haze of hurrying figures. Mr. Peavy rescued it, liberally dented, from beneath the feet of a heavy Italian woman, who listened to Mr. Peavy's profuse thanks with complete indifference. In the doorway of a darkened haberdashery he stopped and polished the nap with the sleeve of the imitation tweed. What was the difference? In a few days he wouldn't care how it looked. Through the darkened plate glaze Mr. Peavy saw the new spring modes in derbies at fourteen dollars. Yesterday he would have sniffed audibly and demanded of the glass how they had the nerve todo it, Inthe half light of the present ho made a montal selection and commented to his smiling image that good stuff couldn't be bought for nothing in these days, With the dents removed and the nap amoothed away Mr. Peavy stepped agaln inte the throng. Turning into Broadway be stopped at the first cigar sign, entered, and demanded the best fifteen-cent cigar in the house. His purchase well alight, ha once again sought the crowded street. Four blocks wptown another situation was presented. It read: “Shine, 10 cents." A man of affairs demanded highly polished shoes. The senior partner of Ashbrooke, Mead & Oppenheim wore shoes in whoae reflections a man might sahave—but he never walked through apring eluah, and he had no Mra. Henrietta Peavy. Mr. Peavy looked down at his rubbers in deep perplexity. The Greek within smiled and nodded vigorously, “Fine shine,” he stated, “No waiting.” Mr. Peavy approached tentatively. “As you grow older you will find that— “Maa,"" He fold Gently, “nf F Pea Sore it Was Fou or Aayone Elee That Engineered TAls Dirty Thing Pd Teiet Four Fet Neck" tf I got a shine,” he inquired anxiously, “could you package?" ae ons FE “These.” Mir. Peavy thrust forward his right foot, eovered with ita unexeeutive rubber. “Heep them till toemorrow moon 7" The proprietor nodded. "Sure!" he atated, “The cheek. Ten cents." Mr. Peavy climbed into the creaking chalr and probed for the foot reat. As he watched the swaying hack below him he puffed contentedly at the straight fifteen-center. Chances were he would have them shined nearly every day fram now.on. A regular customer of the swaying back. As for the rubbers, well, Henrietta Peavy might aa well know first as last that rubbers didn't go in the Street. As the brush clicked with false activity Mr. Peavy considered just what rubbers didn't go with. In the first place they didn't go with people that got on. For clerks, well and good; even for the general run of chief clerks perhaps; but chief clerks in the confidence of the head of the house, on whose shoulders rested friendly hands, whose ears received confidences for which men worth millions would fight? No, Decidedly no! And so Henrietta Peavy would find aut, And she would find out quick, As the bent buck ran a line of shiny black about the edge af the Peavy soles he decided just the way the ultimatum should be given. Short and snappy, The way Ashbrooke said things. Without going Inte tea many explonations. Just about the way he had talked ta her over the telephone an hour before. Mr. Peavy chuckled aloud ag he recalled the conversa: tion. First ahe had said aomething must be wrong with his head. Then she said that he had been drinking, though she knew the only thing he had ever touched in his entire life was elderberry wine weakened with water. Amd all for why? Simply because he had said, “Henny, you go right in and gel inte your black net and spangles and meet me in the Ladies" Tooom of the Restrere,” What if it was the bert hotel In Ney York? A man with the world In frant of him hed the right te anticipate if he wanted. What if Henrietta Peavy was right and Lima beans did eoat sixty cents for a litthe aide dish? If they could afford it, why should Hen—— And ahe could find the Ladies’ Room if he could, couldn't she? Budden contrition came to Mr. Peavy. Why, it waan't Henny's fault. She didn't know. After seventeen years of geraping and hoping and everlasting knitting ahe wea going to know! Mir, Peavy stamped his foot aggressively in the face of the astonished Greek, Right from to-night! Out of the chair Mr. Peavy eyed his shoes critically. Nat so long and stylish-looking as the senior partner's, perhaps, but the reflections were there, In consideration of the viclent ges- ticulations of a frayed whisk broom he depos- ited an extra nickel in the palm of the Greek and ran acareful hand suggestively aweroas his chin. “Good harber near here?" he in- quired carelessly. The @ther pointed ta a glow of red and white a short distance up the street. "Firat-elasa?" demanded Mr. Peavy sharply. ia Huh?" “Firet-class?" Fepeated Mr. Peavy aternly. “Clean? Genthe rans Place?" The Greek nodded violently. “Swell place! Swell smell!” and grinned. Mr. Peavy nodded and stepped owt into the night. Jn the awell Place he de- manded a haireut and a shave and (Contlnoed of Page 36!

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16 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Print of My Remembran THE middle of April, 1891, after Mr. [= §. Willand, for whom I was serving a publicity mon, apened his mid-Wertern tour in Chicago as Cyrus Blenkarn in Henry Arthur Jones’ play The Middleman, with Marie Burroughs as his featured support, my wile and I went to St. Louis, and afterwards to the Minne eota lakes and the Northwest. We returned ta Chicage in the middle of May to see the Western opening of my play, Alabama, which had been forced out of New York by a summer sublease of the Madison Square Theater. My father and mother came from St. Louis to see that first night and wisit us a few days in Chicago, where I tramped over the crowded downtown streets with father hunting landmarks of the smell town ho had knewn aso printer and medical student in his youth, The first week in June the parents went back to St, Lowls and my wife and I returned to New York, Marse Henry's Hospitality DER my arrangement with Mr. Palmer I had rewritten parte of John Needham's Double, a play by the English author, Mr. Joseph Hatton, produced February 4, 1891, by Willard at Palmer's Theater. This rewrite waa after I had completed Alabama but before that play was pro- duced. An atcount of It in this place bs a little out of such thme order as T have attempted, but not enough to make the dislocation jar. Hatton had put into his play a supposedly Southern col- onel whom he called Silas Higgins, or something of that kind, and who talked about nutmege and apple sawee. Mr. Palmer asked me to make this character proper to ita seetion not only in name nnd in speech but in viewpoint and relation to the story, I wrote a character which T called Coll, Calhoun Booker, Mr. Palmer, af my suggestion, engaged for the part Burr McIntosh, at that time about thirty years of age, fairly prominent in the Bohemian life of New York, celehrated for his god nature and hls willingness: to take chances, and for 8 pronounced mimetic faculty, Palmer knew nothing of MeIntosh, but I had heard him tell stories at the clubs and was sure he had the foundation for the part. With Palmer's permission I stressed Col. Calhoun Booker's im- portance in the play, feeling that ite presentation would be a ballon deri for Alabama, which wea to follow: and I believe that the success of McIntosh helped determine Mr. Palmer to go through with it, Needhaom's Double was one of those plays of dual per- sonality, resembling in kind The Lyons Mail. It was in- vented and un- likely, and on the first night in New York Melntash, with hia breezy manner and hia weleome Southern geniality, would have walked away with the honors if the opposition had not been a star in large type. He Played the part during its short run and left it ta do Colonel Mo berly in thesecond company af Ala- bam. After the origi- nal Alabama com- pany played ite New York and Chicago engage- ments, and before it reapaned at Palmer's in the fall of 892, i went to Louisville. Mr. Palmer asked me to go there ond look over the per- formanee. The Louisville engage- ment was in the fine old playhouse belonging to the £. Sf. Helitand ar Celoact Carter, in “Colonel Carter of Corferaciite™ memory of Johnny Norton and By AUGUSTUS THOMAS Macuuleys, ao dear ta me In the more recent visit of Marboen. Henry Watterson saw to tt that our first night was a gala occasion, and the men of the company were invited to a midnight reception at the Pendennis Club, Maree Henry was in his element, ably aided by those Kentuckians whe have the Southern instinct amounting to genius for hospitality and entertainment. At an effec- tive moment in the evening he got the attention of the party—cloee on to a hundred men, I ahold sany—and with his arm through mine in the eenter of the floor explained the circumstances under which our acquaintance had been made and claimed to be proud that I was a product of a newapaper office. Then shifting his arm over my shoulder, a habit he had with any younger fellaw he thought ft would help, and reverting to the play, the subject of which was the recon- eiliation of the two great politien] sections of the country, he sid: “This bey has done in one night in the theater what I endeavored to do in twenty years of editorial writing.” No halfway measures abowt wonderful Henry Watter- eon, gone since [last wrote of him in these chapters. With the opening of Palmer's at this time, the little Madison Square Theater passed into the control of Messrs. Hoyt and Thomas, Charles Hoyt was the author of a line of comedies aa distinct in their kind and for their day as the George Cohan plays are three decades later, Distinetively American Suceesses HERE was in the business department of the theater of Amerien at that time a relationship of foress worthy of comment here, Those forees were then functioning prin- cipally in New York. Although perhapa traceable to more remote origina, they focused and funneled through the channels of publicity. The principal managers, like Wallack, Daly, Palmer, Daniel Frohman, hod been seeustomed to pet their plays from the other side of the water. American playwrights, compared with to-day's number, were few, their triumphs not numerous: but in the "80's there had been some notable successes with American subjecte. Florenee had played Woolf's The Mighty Dollar to extraordinary busi- ness, Curtis had had success with Samuel of Posen; Raymond had made p fortune with Colonel Sellers in EF. Pillard Mpril Mark Twain'sGilded Age. Denma aon, under the encouragement of ager, J. M. Hill, had elaborated a) sketch Into The Old Homestead. in all these ducer, rently with these American plays on thy a cycle of big productions of English nm like Romany Rye, The Silver King, T Hoodman Blind, Lights of Leondon, anc the exploitation of which throughout th had developed a school of publicity mon aecurately what part skillful press wo successes. They also had a knowledge of the respective values of tf age to be obtained in the warious cit experience and this knowledge had co together adth the rapid growth of the upon which beth depended, amd while managers, content with their local tri New York and Boston, gawe their atts those centers these lesser agents and the men referred to were wide awnuke to the the rond. Notable Managers UST back of Palmer's Theater, both | I and later Wallack's, on Thirtieth Stra basement of what had been a dwelling ha the office of Jefferaon, Klaw and Erlang Jefferan of thie firm was Charles Jefferson son of Joseph Jefferson. Klaw and Erlznj mo identification now; but even at th A. L. Erlanger was one of the best ir of the men of whom I am writing. At 1115 Broadway, near Twer Street, in a rear room, (Charles Fi had his firet affier under his own He was another of these men, Erlanger'’s genius was of the ey kind; he had the faculty of combi Very rapidly, under his activity, was built up the firat big eyndis American theaters controlling th time on the road. Charles Froh vision was the supplementing one ¢ He also knew the county tastea of the people, and had an un flair for what would be acceptable. beth men, and lewer ones with whom wore associated, approached the whole the question along the lines of availability and s2le ship. What were the things for which there 1 market, and how rapidly could the public inte them be created, stimulated and expanded? The= sete of managers, the Polmer-Daly- Daniel Frohman RroUp on one side, and the Charles Frohm an- Haytnan-Erlanger grouponthe other, approached the business from en- tirely different pointe and with entirely different methods, An t= ample of approach and method is fur- nished by Als- bama. When that play was produced in April, 1891, there wes abead of it in the Madi- aon Square The- ater but four weeks. After that time Mr. Palmer had rented his the ater for Martha Morton's play, The Merchant, and although Ala- bamainunediately paved tocnpacity and would have rapidly restored the failing fortunes (Centiagced off Page #3) Afarie Barreeg!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST iT LTA COVENTRY antil Rita ton traveling bags were in limousine with his, and ahe in the seat be * him driving toward the ferry, did Parrish het saaisfying certalnty that Rita really was i Kirn to Atlantic City. Ais first opportunity to talk with her under con- / ome secluded and tranquil, and he felt pro- Ge fmomentousness of the occasion, He and ! Om. ‘the threshold of grent and beautiful begin- & the Sunday desolation of lower Manhattan ed ewrifthy, and having crossed the hay and Staten iremded their way through the nearer Jersey ey omd Red Bank they swung into the Rumson 4 presently, at Seabright, reached the coast. vigorous sea, white crested and aparkling in the P ocrisp inshore wind which whistled chrilly at the of the car. Save for a solitary tramp steamer, mall and lonely as it wallowed toward the Nar- ier m thinning plume of black smoke, there was no, © upon the waters, Surf was breaking savagely serted sands, Bathhouses and summer cottages, ora and windows boarded up, showed faces os whkess aa thoes of blind ‘4. small automobile ap do from the opposite di- and scurried past, as it to Parrish, apologetically. erod ahead was ernpty— minted solitude. afered her his cigarette . thanks, I don't smoke.” tthe other night——" iat was only to annoy a not displense him te know w had wished to annoy the Le fing a little in his seat he this back inte the angle of shions so that he coal look "without turning his head, e he looked he felt anew opact of ber loveliness. He felt it thua when, having #1 away, he let his eyes re- to ber, He wished te touch wand, but owas deterred by res feeling of strangeness her. Are you happy, Alta?" se answered with a nel and te smile, teolately?” He had a boy leeging to hear her explicit aration. (Mouse. We couldn't have La finer day, could we?" fe war obliged to concede the ince of the day. But he bed her to understand that ri mot the weather that waa iking him so happy, so he eon- wed: “That's far fram being fhest of if though. The best it is that you and I are really ing to know each other now. is is going to be a day to date fram, Ever sinet that night your bowse Ie had a tantaliz geese of knowing you, yet vadorically not knowing you tall [t's aa if I had an unfin- Sed sortrait of you— very beau- fo what there is of ft, baat with te rough canvas showing ieagh in many places. (hb, ite how eager I've been to get it srapleted, background and all” "| shall be sitting fer you all is ahermon,”' she answered, tring him a lithe amile. "Ys" kee coledl eagerly, a and, ‘onerrew, and the next day, and cund on, ati! ——"™ “Evidently,” she put in, “you eo'ta very rapid painter." “Leuppom,"" he said thought- fey," [shall never finish really." Perups you'll be sorry you Firted.™ By Julian Street FELUITHATED BY HWENRYF RALEICH “Ah, no! D'm only afraid that my sitter may tire." “She's mot tired yet. [a the pose all right?" Tn imitation of a portrait painter's studio manner he studied her, cocking his head te one side. " Let'asee—the face a lithe more this way, if you please— eo. And the eyes’""—indicating his own eyes—" here.” At the sudden meeting of their eyes he felt an inean- descence. They loughed together vaguely and a little shyly. It made him strangely happy to laugh with her like that. Again he felt the desire to touch her hand. This tire be did aa. She gave his fingera a awilt pressure, then gently drew her hand away. "You make me feel fantastically young,” he told her, "Wha shouldn't you feel young?” “Because, my dear, I'm not.” “Don't be absurd.” “Guess, then,” "Tete Ger Forid. Fee aif Qure, No Goae Eive Con Look ot it Without Permission From fn ** After a brief glance of appraisal ele avid, “You're about ral et 4 irty=tight,”” he corrected in a sighing tone. “Wall that’s not old. You may be sure [ shan’t let myzelf feel old at thirty-cight.” “Ab” he said mournfully, “when you're that age—I abel! be ald thes!" “No, you wan't,” "ih, yes,” "Do you know my ageT™ “Not exactly. But I have a pretty good ides.” id Whaert™ “Judging by your looks alone,” he anewered, “I'd call you twenty-five or six. But I have more than your looks to go by. [heard you sing in Paris the year of your début, Say you were twenty or twenty-one then. Add cight years and you have it.” “Twenty-tight's my publicity age," she said gravely, " hark I'm risll yr thirty-cne. IT don't mained letting wend know,” Her slight stressing of the penultimate word gave bim extraordinary satisfaction. Gazing at her fondly he laughed. “You're amused that I shade my age?" “or eourse."' M4 Why?" "It's so unnecessary—anond so feminine.” “OF course it’s feminine; be- cause age ia infinitely more im- portant to a woman than to a man, Ne one cares what a man's age is, but everyone is curious about a woman's, About « man they say ‘Oh, he's somewhere between thirty and forty’; hut ofa wormun they say “She's thirty- five if she's w day!" Even when she's young and blooming theyll tell you what she's going to lack like at forty. ‘She's the type that getafatl" People are always speculating albout the agea of women on the stage, When @ woman. has been before the public ten or fifteen years they begin to feel they've seen her since tho world began. It's bad enough when they check up, but it’s worse when they don"t. If it's ten years they call it fifteen, and if it's Mdteen they say’ Why, [ heard her all of twenty years ago,” and they speak of her as well pre- served, Ugh!" She gave a little shudder. “IT don"t want to be ad” At that he seized her hand in beth of his and promised that she newer should be old. “We'll stay young,” he said, “tomether.” The afternoon's run left in his. mind a patchwork of pictures and of memories. Long Branch, Lakewood, Toma River, Barne- gat, Absecon: the sea, the pines, the marshes and the sea again; Rita's profile against the window; her gestures; the quick turning of her head: the sudden lighting of her face; the whiteness of her teeth when she amiled; the prave logk in her eyes as ahe talked about her girlhood. (Mf all their conversation that was what he remembered best, He felt almost as if he had seen the narrow gabled cottage in Rechester, stunding tn [ta cramped yard, between two other cottages almost exactly like it, There was a front porch with turned porta and a honeysuckle vine, where the young people used to sit, chattering or singing, on hot summer evenings, But her father had not, as leg- end told, been a postman. He had been an accountant, This information, though in itself un-= important, Parrish found grati- fying, because it pointed to the

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unreliability of all rumors concerning Rita. People like to tell exogperated of a woman beautiful and famous. Such stories suited the common craving for dramatic con- trast, making a Cinderella of her. As gossip painted Rita's beginnings grayer than they had actually been, so it gilded her later life with adventures set on the private core ond yachts of multimillianaires and kings, The pleture she made for him of ber girlhood tool its place in @ larger picture representing the life of a happy though none too prosperous American family, in which the dressing and educating of three children was a chief con- cern. It was alwaya a strain to make both ends meet. Neither Rita nor her sister had been able to dress so well as their girl friends, “When I went out in my best,” she said, “it waa always with a haunting feeling that there might be a gap some- where or that my ekirt hung badly." She was sixteen when the choirrester in the church she attended thought he detected an unusual yoice. He car- ried her along ws far as he wos able, then sent her to a local singing teacher, who, after afew years, advised that she go to Proileau, in Paris, to be finished. For her father to finance such a venture waa quite owt of the question, but some Wealthy parishioners, beeomlng interested in her, made up a pure and sent her to Paris fora year. A year was not enough to bring out her voice fully, but Proileau believed in her and placed her aa prima donna with a third-rate opera company which played through the summer at Trou- ville, where at his suramer home he continued te coach her, Thus she gained her first pirac- tical experience and earned money for a second yenr in Paris. In her third year she made her début at the Opéra Comiqua, began to reim- burae her benefactors, and bought hersell ““dreasea in which I wasn't nervous every time I got up out of a chair. He felt that be had made good progress with the background of his portrait of her. Patt USK was advancing over the miarehes as Parrigh's car trav- erecd the last mibea of the broad boulevard by which Atlantle: City is approached, and by the time they turned into Atlintic Avenue daylight bad all but abandoned its Cen rearguard action against oncom- rl ae ing night. ; ent Leoking down the wide, brightly eee lighted yet somewhat tawdry ! shopping street and inte the fn- : j tersecting highways with their close-set rows of frame cottages, boarding houses and cheap hotels, Parrish’s firet impression was that thia strange aettlement had changed not at all in the ten or Eee, dozen years that had passed since pena: his last visit. It resembled, he ch kas thought, rather a town into which prosperity had gushed with a flood. of oil than one established on the fixed flow of the Gulf Stream, the tides and tripper-laden traing. Not until they swung around a corner and headed down o short atreet leading toward the ocean did he perceive that there had been, after all, a kind of progress here; for it was then that he discovered, in ita new sur- roundings, the pleasant old hotel in which he used to stay; but its former look of sine and consequence was gone. By contrast with the new flamboyant carayansarica facing the Boardwalk and the beach, it seemed to have paled anel shrunk, "T used to stop there,” he said, looking back a little wistfully as the car drew up under the porte-cochére of one of the larger hostelries. “Ves,” anid Rita, “it's a mice old place. But this one will amuse you.” One of Parrish's bags contained certaln precious and illegal bottles, He paused midway across the lobby to warn the bell boy to handle it with care, and, waiting, overheard a snatch of conversation between two large, expendive-looking women whose modishly short skirta revealed the plebeian bowing of their lege. “Trma's got three hata with different-colared paradise plumes on," said one, “That red one you was admiring cost two hundred and sixty. She showed me the receipted bill." To which the other replied In an envious tone, ‘Manny don’t seem to kick, no matter how much money Irma apends,"" The dapper clerk knew at once who Rita was, "We received your wire,” he declared with oxtreme affability as he dipped the pen and handed it to her. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “T've been able to hold a very cholee eulte for you. Our managing director has had his own personal grand plane placed in your parlor with his compliments,” Rita thanked him and signed the register, whereupon the young man turned to Parrish, assigning him a suite which, though it did not face the sea directly, he men- tioned urbanely os having a favorable position with regard to the morning sun. Before going to his own rooms Parrish saw Rita to hera. Her parlor waa large and elaborately furnished. French windows opened upon a aleltered haleany averlooking tha ocean, On the center table wos a bow] of roses accom- panied by the card of the manager, with the word The Whe the Chelreions Perio the Chime Se Attended Though Me Hetected ang Bas aguol Folow Was Jievrecns “Compliments” written In a Sperncerian hand above the name. Before slipping out of her loose motor cont Rita moved over to the grand piano, opened the lid and ran a hand over the keyboard. It was out of tune. After seelng to the placing of her bags Parrish departed with his bell boy, “T'll be ready in an hour,” she said, giving him a gay wave of dismissal, But he did not expect her to be ready in an hour. His experience af her was not auch ae to encowrage hopes of promptness. Moreover she had not brought her own maid with her, : In leisurely fashion Parrish unpacked and made for dinner; then, aa the hour was up, he took the amall hag about which be had cautioned the bell boy, walked down the corridor and knocked at Rita's door. : “Come! She was moving toward him ss he entered. Her henna- colored evening gown was of some diaphanous material that fluttered ag she crosaed the room. It waa draped with infinite art, and it seemed to him te fit with a kind of hnughtiness, He fancied if as being proud of its lines and its fabric, as a benutiful women is proud of her figure and the texture of her skin. The stockings and the little satin Hlippers, being of the eolor of the dress, gave a character- isthe look of completeness; always there was that look about her; yet Parrish felt instinctively that this completeness April 2 was achieved without much effort or indeed much) on Rita's part, but represented rather the unhamg of costly experts, =~ “T didn’t think you'd be remely,”" he said, pray appearance with his eyes. “T gaid an hour.” “Ves, hut FF He was thinking of the times that she had cdisag him; but instead of speaking the thought, shifted g tion of the absence of her maid. ; “0h,” she answered, “that’s emsy. I"ve bought af the hotel maids.” Furrish laid hia bag caref ully upon the table bowl of rosea, opened it, produced bottles and a ar Pama secured ice, orange juice and glasses, mad tai "T have plenty of appetite without this,” said 9j ne. He was glad that she was hungry. After the my his ind, be prided himself upon a certain skill in op and as teenight he was for the first time to exergy skill for Rita, be had given preliminary consideratig meal, Firat they would have Lynnhaven Hay ei Lynnhaven Bays; then green-turtle soup, provid green turtle was fresh—he would inquire about thay Filet of flounder—call it sole if'you like—with Mam immortal sauce: he was sure that Rita would sop that touch; then a broiled live lobster with drawn} to be followed hy a salad chiffonade. Sweet b might be dispensed with. Cracks cheese—Roquefort or Port de § would be more suitable. Then 4 The elevator was half full whe gotin. Hesawa woman nudge th with her, calling his attention ti and the two atared at her with ual Ing eyes during the deacent to the floor, Cleurly they recognized, Clearly many peaple did. Walking her through the lobby and dow eortider be thought he could te the faces of thoee he saw look her whether they knew who che © saw in her only a woman to be adg ty One man stopped and stood at) 7 inspecting her os a gourmand g P . aN appetizing dish being served d other's table. He was a ereature. Parrish would have !i kick him. Rita, however, apj livious of ocular intrusions. Ehe among strangers as she might | among trecs in a forest. At the door of the café they? met by the head waiter, who led q through the crowded room to afl bearing a card marked “Reser and drew out their chairs with anal Aaurish. ; “| have had the honor to serve madame at the Cath. in London,” he declared as he seated Rita; and it wag her, not Parrish, thet he leaned to diseuss the dinner.) This was a novelty to Parriah, who was thorogg accustomed te receive attention from head waites. fad tevlized, of course, thet ta escort Hita would diferent matter from escorting a women in private f but he had mot foreseen bow great the difference ro Interrupting the culinary conference across the way, bean to outline te her the dinner he had costemp but before be could finish she broke in. “Tl know just what [ want, I want a porte stenk-—medium—about three inches thick.” As she she glanced wp at the head waiter, mensuring with hands in exaggerated illustration. “Amd some brown potatoes, and soup—cream of tomate—" with while the stenk is cooking.” aft “Bien, madame.” The man made swift notes 00 64) and came around the table. ate "Monsieur wishes Lynnhaven Bays?" he asked. pene poised to write. J Parrish hesituted, but only for the briefest mom Then he duplicated Rita's order, on "Oh, but you mustn't letimy vulgar appetite spe dinner!" ehe protested. if He assured her that the things she had ordeed a the very things he wanted, Nor waa the stateme! gether false, | Steak and hashed brown potatoes ordered in the ja by so complete a cosmopolitan as Rita constituted mh barbarity but a gastronomic playfulness in which bees) to join, precisely as he would have wished to ji 5 “7 other playfalaess of bers, 43 The café orchestra, which had bees finishirg « Sl! tune from a musical comedy as they came in, peel’ gan again to play. But this time it was (nbd from Madame Butterfly. : “They've found me out,” Rita told him with ast

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST tlaimis> was the case. The violinist who led the leepet his sad, luminous eyes fixed upon her as he Pis directed to her the attention of those among & whe had not already noticed her. [t was te her 2m to the musiciana that people looked as they _ Paes oes there waa the same applause, the same bowing of the violinist te Alta, the same concentrating of ayes upon her. When, having lost no time over the simple meal, she roap to lenve, people at near-by tables stopped talking and gazed up into her face, and as she moved toward the door, Parrish, walking behind her, saw that the whole room turned ita head. The violinist stood and made her a pro- found obelance a9 she posed the mucleiana' platform: at the portal the head waiter pald her like homage; and as she emerged to the foyer the maid from the ladies’ clonk- reom hastened forward with her wrap, But 20 one came running forward with Parrish’a hat and coat. The oliveakinned attendant at the men's coat room stood entranced, gazing at Rita. Parrish had to apenk to him crisply before the trance was broken, Hud Rita bean a queen, he thought to himself, she could hardly have re- ceived more attention; then with a little inward emile he added the reflection that had he been a prince consort he could hardly have received less. “Tf Tahould ever be a fugltive from justice,” he said to her as they made their way toward the exit leading to the Boardwalk, “Ishould know exactly whatto do. Instead of hiding on some obscure island where they live on pineapples, bananas and rum bighballs, I should conceal myself by going everywhere with you.” But, as he was to learn later, thet form of welf-concealment wre not so ofectunl as he had supposed. Some eyes there were alart enough to encompass both Rita and her escort. By one such pair of eyea—a not too friendly pair—he had been recognized. ES MERGING from a revolving door and posing by a wheel-chair stand, they moved up the Boardwalk in the direction of the Inlet. The night was dark. The moon had not yet risen, and though there were stars overhead they were dimmed by the Boardwalk lampa. Below them the beach waa a gray mystery fading away te a blackness within which, as an awakened sleeper may feel the presence of a silent moving something in his room, they felt the presence of the sea. A mild galt breeze blew toward them. Ahead the heart of the Boardwalk was marked by an electric brilliance against which wheel chaira and promenadera were revealed in ehifting silhouette, Mor eas the brilllanee to be seen. only along that way of pleasure with its rows of lamps and “The Polat ia That Pm Going te Fling Foor Senge ia Compcert ’"

id ita bright doora and windows: by a ladder of Murminated windows [t mounted to where, above the hotel roofs, the aky was restlessly alive with the changeful dotted glitter of great advertising signs. As Rita took his arm and stepped out beside him he was struck by the fact that ahe did not amble after the fashion of moat women, but strode with a fine swinging gult, making necessary but a slight. abridgment of his own normal step. It was like an expression of her apirit, that free, elastic trend. He leaned forward a little and looked down at her alippers awiltly appearing and disnppearing below the hem of her cloak as she walked—satin trifles, frail and exquisite, with soles walter thin and heels of a voluptuous viclinlike curvabure. “T suppose,” he said wonderingly, “that those slippers are fully as durable aa morning-glories.” "Oh, they're stronger than they look." te} They must be” For a time he was silent, his mind taken ap with the miracle of women’s dress, which is to mon the most baffling thing about her. For man feels that even suppos- ing he could walk in slippers euch as hera they would be ruined in the distance of a block or two, while as for her gowns—tmade seemingly fram wispa of ralnbow, sunset and the Milky Way—he knows that such things, worn by him, Would not endure an hour, His ruminations on this theme were interrupted when she drew him over to a lighted show-window containing dainty bite of feminine equipment at which she wished to look, As they moved on again he shifted the position of his arm, bracing it behind hers so that her elbow found a crmile in the crook of his, her wrist resting in his hand. Holding her thus firmly be was more than ever conscious of moving with her in delightful unison. They wandered out upon a pler and back again: then, having nesumedl their way along the Boardwalk, were at- tracted by sounds of snapping rifles and clanging target fongs to a shooting gallery, where they stood for a time lovking on. The shooting gallery faecinated Kita: prea- ently ahe announced a wish to try her markamanship; and when, after a little coaching, her bulleta began to break elay pipes, ring gongs and knock over moving models of (Continged on Page of)

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20 was dropping on the hills when Bridger and Carson rode out together from the Laromie stockade to the Wingate encampment in the valley. The extraordinary capacity af Bridger in matters alea- holie left him still in fair pomceion of his faculties; but some new purpose, born of the exaltation of aleohol, now held his mind. “Let me see that Dttle dingus ye had, Kit,” said he—"that pines o° gold.” Carson handed it to him. Ye gat any more o' hit, Kit?" “Plenty! You can have it if you'll promise not to tell where it came from, Jim.” “If T do, Jim Bridger's a liar, Hit!" Heslipped the nugget into his packet. Theyrode to the head of the train, where Bridger found Wingate and his aids and presented hia friend. They all, of course, knew of Frimont’s famous seout, then at the height of his reputation, and greeted him with enthusiasm. As they gathered around him Bridger slipped away. Searching among the wagons, he at last found Molly Wingate and beckoned her aside with portentous injunetions of secrecy. In polnt of fact, a sud- den maudlin inspiration hae seized Jim Bridger, so that & promise to Kit Careon aeemed ininitely lesa im- portant than a promie to this girl, wham, incdleed, with fn old man's inept infato- ation, he had worshiped afar after the fashion of white men long gone from society of thelr kind. Liquor now made him bald. Suddenly he reached outa hand and placed in Molly's palm the firat nug- get of California gold that ever hind come thus far east- ward. Physically heavy it was; of what tremendous import none then could have known. “T ll give yethis,' he sald. “An' LT know whar's plenty more," She dropped the nugget because of the audden i welght in ber hand; pleked = it up. “Gold !" she whispered, for there is no mistaking gold. “Yes, gold!" “Where did you get it?" She was looking over her shoulder instinctively. “Listen! We'll never tel? Ye mustn't! I swore to Kit Carson, that give hit to me, I'd never tell no one. Eut I'll set you ahead o° any livin’ bein’, so maybe seme day ye'll remember old Jim Bridger. “Yes, it's gold! Kit Carson brung it from Sutter's Fort, on the Sacermento, in Californy. They've got it thar in wagonlonds, Kit's on his way east now to tell the Army." “Everyone will raw!" “Yea, but not naw! Ef ye breathe this to a soul, thar won't be two wagons left together in the train. Thar'll be bones o wemern from here to Californy!" Wide-ryed, the girl weighed the nugget in her hounds. "Keep hit, Miss Molly,” snicdl Bridger simply. “I don't waot hit mo more. IT only got hit fer a bracelet fer ye, or something. Good-by. I've got to leave the train with my own wayons. before leng an" bead fer my fort. Ye'll maybe see me—old Jim Bridger—when ye come through, “Yes, Miss Molly, [ ain't as old as I look, and I gota fort o my own beyant the Green Hiver. This year, what sik purple mantle of the mountain twilight FLEVUSTRATE D THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE COVERED WAG By Nater een Hough HORRY ER a 'Moliy?' Ae Broke Oat. “Elta te Mae! De Fee Want the Engagement Srotent De Fou Waeat to be Belen Fr Uiltake infor my cargo, what [ll make cash money fer work fer the immeygrints, Vl salt down anyways ten thousand; next year maybe twicet that, or even more. I sariainly will do a good trade with them Mormons.” "T suppose,” said the girl, patient with what she knew waa alcoholic garrulity. “Aun out there's the purtiest apot weat oa" the Roelbes. My valley is ever'thing a man er a warmer ean ask or want, And me, I'ma permanent man in these yore parts, Tt'a me, Jim Bridger, that fust diskivered the Great Salt Lake, It’s me, Jim Bridger, fust went through Colter's Hell up in the Yellowstone. Ain’t a foot o° the Rockies [doen't knew, T eena'most built the Rocky Mountains, me.” Ele spread out his hands, “And I've got to be cena most all Injum mysell,” “T suppose.” The girl's light laugh eut him. “But never ao much as nob to rever'nee the white woman, Miss Molly. Ye're all like angels to us wild men out yere. We—-we never have forget. And so T give ye this, the fust gold from Californy. There may be more, I don’t know." pril 3 q ) ] “But you're going toleave us? Whatarep todo?” Asudden kindness waa in the girl “T'ma-goln’ out to Fort Bridger, thatag a-goin" to de; an’ when I git thar I'm o-goe hell gut o' beth my that’s what I’m 4 Payg: afr: ai, dot ‘ne's tamend Yore Hide, an" t'oth Yor Eyes. Whirh a o- “Exh ea uk me, 1s tero nae an’ fitten, way I fra All at onee Jim wad afl Indian age timed and stalked She heard his yolre¢ his Indian chant) turned back ta- by Waronm fine. But now shoot iring, cries coming line, A general mo wos taking place tom lower ond of the cong a high quavering Gi again and again. “There's news! "eal aon bo Jesse Wingateg “Thot's old Bill Jee wir ers unless T gy taken. Js he with yo “He was,” said WW bitterly. “ He and bist broke away from the and have been foekd themsclves since than Three men rode tpt Wingate wagon, flung off. Jackson wae yea, and Jed. Wings son, ‘The third mani hishore:. Wingatewin ened, “Mr. Banion! Soyo fit te come inthe my cae For the time he ha ha a ae randy vous he Ye've been with f on the coustT’ oT aa Going ee " Alhas ridin’, ae Besides, same betters from Lieutenant id about war matters and the treaty, like enough. 1 we'll get all the southern country to the eomath “ An’ weleome ef we didn’ t! Not a beaver ties sand miles, Kit. I'm goin’ to Oregon—goin’ the Nez Pereé country, whor there's horses. "But walt w bit afore you an’ me gite too: Ye see, I'm with Major Banion, yan, an” train. We're in camp ten mile below. We With these people no more—only one way— the majors got game business o° his own oh up. Trid with him, We met the boy an” ath usin. We wasn ‘t sure how friendly our frien towards him an* me," a He grinned grimly. As he apoke they bal Bam woman's shrilling, half greeting, half term turned in time to ase hia daughter fall in ashen Will Banton slipped from bis saddle and bore XFIT Bi ese WINGATE made a ewift inatinnetive mati ward the revolver which oe at hile hip fan aprang between him and Banton

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THE fold on, pap—stop!" cried Jed. ight. I brought him in." Driers" =o mman's prisoner, Captain * saidl Banion’s deep voice. Were fixed beyond the man he apoke, * Molly, to whom her mother taking: the white facein herown Mimgate looked from one to the do yeu come here? What do I that you should bring more iS 3° always have? And what we me" © you nothing!” said Banton. re Te nothing at all. I have eled in your train, and I shall el im it. I tell you once more, rong in your beliefa; but till hoe that Dl not risk any argument about it.” aowhywy do you come to my camp now?" should know.” kono. [t's Molly!" Molly, yee. Here's a letter from her. I found it in im at Ash Hollow. Your friend Woodhull could me—we passed him just now. Jed could have P=@— win can now: it's easy. But that wouldn't Se Perhaps it wouldn't change ber." }eermne here to face me down?" hep. 2 benow you for » brave man, at least. I don't Pm a coward—I never asked. But I came to see jiecause here she's asked it. I don't know why. Ewant to shoot me like a coyoteT" & Bot I ask you, what do [ owe yout" (ing. But can we trade? If I promise to leave th may train?" i erant to steal my girl! fp LT want to earn her—some day.” old Roman before him waa a man of quick and \Gecisions. The very courage of the young man had a b least you'll cat," said he, “I'd not turn even a away hungry—not even a man with your Lin the Army.” fi 2 0 mot eat with you." fait then! I'll send the girl pretty soon, if you are by her invitation. I'll see she never Invites you Be ‘e Bil Jacko Wingate walked toward his Hanlon kept out of the light eirele and found his horse, He stood, leaning his head on his arma in the saddle, waiting, until after whatseemed an age shanlipped out of the darkness, almost into his arma, standing pale, her fingers lacing and unlacing—the girl who had kissed him onet—to aay good-by, “Will Banton!" she whispered, “Yea, I sent for you. I felt you'd find the letter.” Yea, Molly.” It was long before he would look at her. “You're the aame," faid he. “Only you've grown mare beautiful every day. It's hard to leave you—awfully hard. I couldn't, if I saw you often.” Ha reached ont again and took her in his arma, softly, kissed her tenderly an each cheek, whispered things that lovera do say. But for his arma she would have dropped again, she was so wens. She fought him off foehly. “No! Nol It fs not right! No! No!" : “You won't be with us any more?” she said at last. He shook his head. They both looked at his horse, his rifle, swung at the saddle horn. She shook ber head also. “Ta this the real good-by, Will?” Her lips trembled, “Te must be. I have given my word to your father, But why didyou send forme? Only tetorture me? Dmust keep my word to held me train apart. [ve promised my men te stick with them.” “Yea, you mustn't break your word. And it was ine just te see you a minute, Will; just to tell you—to say I love you, WH! But I didn't think that waswhy I sent, I sent-to warn you—aguinst him, Ttscems abrays to come to the same thing.” She was trying not to ach. The man was in but little better case. The stars did not want them to part. All the somber willernesa world whispered for them to love and not to part atall, But after a time they Knew that they again hed parted, or now were able to do ao. “Listen, Will," agid the girl at last, potting back a lock of her fallen boair, “1'll have te tell you. We'll meet in Oregon? Tl be married then. I've promised. Oh, God help mel I think I’m the wickedest woman in all the world, and the moat unhappy. Ob, Will Banion, I—I[ love a thief! Even as you are, [love you! T guess that’s why I sent for you, after all, SATURDAY EVENING POST Zl "ho find the scout—Jim Bridger!" she broke out sud- denly. “He's golag on abewd. Ge on to his fort with him—he'll have wagons and horses. He knows the way. Gowith Bridger, Will! Don't gota Oregon! I'm afraid for you. Go to California—and forget me! Tell Bridger —— "Why, where is it?’ she exclaimed. She was feeling in the pocket af her apron, and it was empty. "T've logt it]" ahe repeated, “T lose everything!" “What waa It, Molly?" She leaned her lips to his ear. “Tt was gold!" He stood, the amsghe name of that metal which ghows the color in the shade © lectrifying even hia ignorance af the truth. "Gold?" She told him then, breaking her own promise magnifi- cently, as a woman will, "ro, ride with Bridger," sha went on. “Don't tell him you ever knew me. He'll not be apt toepeak of me. But they found it in California, the middle of last winter— gold! Gold! Carson's here in our tamp—RKit Carson, He's the first man te bring [t to the valley of the Platte, He was eworn to keep it secret; so was Bridger, and so am I. Not to Oregon, Will—Californial You can live down your past, If we die, God bless the man I dofove, That's you, Wilf And I'm going to marry—him. Ten days! On the trail! And he'll kill you, Will! Oh, keep away!" She paused, breathless from her torrent of incoherent words, jen enis af the passing meamenta. It wis Vile, bb wis deapernte, ft wos crude, But they were in a world wague, desperate and crude, “Tye promised my men I'd mot leaye them," he enid at laat. “LA promise is a promise.” "Then God help ue both! But one thing—when I'm married, that's the end between ws, So yood-by."" He Jeaned hie head back on his saddle far a time, his tired horse turning back ite head. He put out his hond blindly; hut it was the muzzle of his horem that had touched his shoulder, The girl waa gone, The Indian drama at Laramie thudded through the dark. The great wolf in the breaka lifted his hoarse, FuucMia Foar ones more. The wilderness was afoot or hedding dawn, accerding to ite like. XX VIIT ARSON, Bridger and Jackson, now reunited after years, must pour additional libations to auld lang ayne at Laramie, 20 soon were off together. The movers gat around thelr thrifty cooking fires outelde the wagon corral. (Continged an Poge 8a) 4 Stecdy Fire of the Vasern Foe Meld the Lotter at Bay After the Firat Abtock

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22 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A°D! 1728 FUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENMSYLVANLA, U.S.A. GEORGE HORACE LORIMER. EDITOR Five Cem fhe Gees Prem Alt Newsdealer, Dy Subhecripaluna Te the Ueried Saetew and Possession: Cubs ane Menlos $16 the Fear. Hemit by UU. & Money Orders, Express Money Onder, Check of bp Dewi, papeide fa 1, 5, Fenda, To Comede=By Subscription, 28 the Yeor, Single Copies, Ten Comte — Caneten on Lt, &. Fonds Ferrlen Subscriptions: Fer Counerias i ihe Pos Unien. Subscriptions, Si he Year, Remilittet i he hy Deel oe o benk In the 18, popetla ln U3 bord PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 29, 1999 Really Shocking Book HE revweon why schoolboys furtively read dime novela under their desks during histery hour ia that, as a rade, novelista of the Nick Carter achool have a far keener sense of the literary possibilities of suspended interest, drumatic situation and well-approached climax than is displayed by the pedagogues, with necks cramped in the yoke of tradition, who write textbooks. Aa good rulea work both WHys, in it nok remsonable to Upp oe that if a writer af achool histories, with all the comedy, tragedy, adventure, mystery and romaneo of the ages bo draw Upon, were clever enough, he might make a texthook ao thrilling and abeorbing that bays would stay indoors to read it when they might be outside at play? This remarkable achievement has lately been accom- plished by an American professor of history whe wrote for hie own children the story of mankind from the first brutish emergence of the human race down to the middle of the World War. His work & so clear and simple and ao admirably balanced thot it is to be doubted if the average collere graduate has a more lucid conception of the history of the roee than mny tet obtained from these pages by ary bright boy of fifteen. This book is of rewl significaner not only on its own accmunt but because it will probably exercise a powerful inflwence upon ether textbook writers wha have the oour- ape and ability to follow in the sume path and break away from the dewdly formalism that old as well ox young find so tiresome and uninspiring. The advances in textbook writing that have bern made in recent yours are tremendous; but schoolbooks are still susceptible of a vast anvount of improvement. This is o debt thet age owes to youth, for though dullness and drudgery are inseparable from elementary education if bs the obrvbos chuty of teachers and schoolbook makers to present their subjects as attractively and interestingly wa it consistent with sound learning, The method pursued in the book under disewssion k to aveid any attempt at unbroken narrative, but to deal adequately with the high apeota of history, allowing the gaps between to take careof themselves. Welleproportioned biographies do not devote equal apace to every week of the lives whose stories they relate. They are fill and ox plicit in regard to significant eventa, periods of swift development pnd grime plratal oerurrences: bat won the interludes they are gilent. Applied te general history, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST this method dictates the exclusion of much dreary chronicle and the lively treatment of such really vital topics as daily life and thought in various ages and countries, the rise and fall of vast empires, the achievements of thoge who have most influenced the thought and behavior of men, mo- mentous military activities, notable advances in acienoe, industry, political organization, art, religion, philomaphy, exploration, discovery, social systems and the various struggles whereby man ever socks to adopt his life to the environment in which he must live ik, Such mutters are hell of interest for all except those who Bhrink from the slightest mental effort, and it is only when they are devitalized and spoiled in the telling that they be. come tiresome and repellent. Yet history is often written by men whose literary attalnments are smaller than those of very mediocre mews stand novelists, Few textbooks would be improved by being Whustrated by the author instead of by a profeasional illuatrater, but in the present instance that rash procedure is entlrely justified, for the “animated maps” and crude drawings with which the writer haa illuminated his pages are singu- larly ealeulated to impress facts and sequences of events upon the student's memory. Pictures and dingrams that haye this effect require neither justification nor apology. Profesalonal temtbaak writers will find this a shocking volume, for though the author's subject is a aclemn and atupendans one he has not been ashamed to give free rein toa lively senso of humor, He has even constructed two eqioplete seta of laughs, one for bis childish readers and another for those of maturer years. Tf books of thia aert ahould multiply and became com- monky adepted for wee in our public schools, American education would never be quite the sare again, Tk might be brighter, more panctrating and fuller of the joy of living, but it would be different, very different. Is the Trade Tide Turning? NTERNATIONALLY minded economlets who hare been venturing the prediction that our positive balanee af trade in commodities could not be long maintained, on account of the differences in the buying powers of the United States and Europe, observe tn the trade figures for February an approach to the confirmation of their views, The value of exports was $251,000,000, of importa $217,000,000, the positive balance therefore $34,000,000, This is only part of the picture. We are buying more services in shipping and insurance than we are selling. Many remittances of immigrants flow from this country to Europe, few are sent tous, We are expending far more tourist money abroad than is being expended bere by the foreigners who visit ua. Foreign loans are being Aonted regularty on aur market. Americans are investing abroad in ndustrial enterprises, Europeana are selling hack old investments in this country. [tb is not possible to strike a halane: between these several forces, but the trend is un- mistakable, Te have passed the worst of the business cycle and better times are ahead, We shall need te import more manganese, tin, nickel, jute, wool, rubber and other raw materiats, Our herds of animals have fallen to euch an extent that decline of expert of animal products to the level of 1914 would surprise no one. A short crop of wheat this summer would wl pet auk the exportable surplus, We are loging mone of our fondness for coffee, sugar and other imported necessaries, Qur exports of cotton should rise, and of manufactures also, But by and large, the impulse to import seems gaining ascendancy over facility ta expart, We shall restore our standard of living faster than any other people. That means importa. The care that travel over our bonded highways run an imported asphalt, are made comfortable by imported rubber, and are propelled in part by goseline made from imported mineral ail, Farmers, manufacturers, bankera, traders and shippers will resist an excess af imports of commodities as long os posaiile. When it comes, if if does come, we shall console our- selves with the reflection that creditor countries have pril 7 always had excesses of imports of goods. And m will find it as easy to angue for a tariff under the conditions as under the old, m | Industrial Leaders ire Diplom HERE is sound common sonse in President announcement that it will be his policy to « autstanding business and industrial executives rat old-school diplomatists to represent the German ment af foreign onpritals, The tentative sele Dr. Otto Weidfelt, the dominant director of the works at Essen, to be German Ambassador to thi States ia a conerebe instance of this policy. It is) to bring forward any convincing reason why suck representation should not be of the highest value, curriculum of industry is quite aa broad a5 that « macy and the training it affords is much more var exacting. Old-line diplomacy was largely a matter of inh jockeying, wriggling and maneuvering for advanta prenpbeed and time-hallawed tactics were based on | ning rather than on beneficent wisdom. Its metho irs sharp eootrest to those af great leaders of pid dustry. Big business men do big things in a big way sharp eye of a future etill two or three wenerations For the most part they are born builders with vi constructive minds that aim at broad g@eneral reac! There are always those who are ready to deri appiintment of businesa executives to malnisterial Wo still remember the sneers that were heard why late Senator Knox was at the Department of States enemies mode much political capital out af his“ diplomacy"; and yet the most superficial examinst international relntions reveals the fact that often fairly bristle with dollar signs, sterling marks and symbals that tndlewts monetary units. Successful men of large affaira are singularly fit earry on the kind of negetiathons that will be favoly bettering relationships between the various nation af the human family. Tt & net too mitch to say tha passing of the old diplomacy will be one of the best o for future peace that the world can desire. Better Than Bucket Shops O MUCH has been written on Chesubject of thrift one hesitates to lay down rules desigmed to guide L steking financial sucess. However, lt is a faet the! somal thrift, to most of us, is such an unpleasant duty th is performed by the majority of people only in proper to the frequency of the admonitions. Therefore, br a few fundamentuls which may serve more ag gems than rules for thoes interested in saving: Start a bank account. Banks may break, but ther the safest known place to keep money. Money in savings bank will work for you aa you have worked Jo Idle money is as mischievous as idle people. The p sisaion of even a small checking account advances 0 standing in the community, The best receipes ic paid are your checks which come back from the bass Make a budget, It is as necessary to the individel © would beconve euccess{u] as a compass and chart ore & ship at sea, Purchase life insurance and make you 7 Men who love their families should spend a few dele Tia, rather than permit a slbunation where the expendi of many more dollars wall fail te safeguard the fore a widew and her children. Investments should be made for safety rather than! large and quick returns. Money should mot be inva in projects concerning which you are unable to inte yourself by personal examination, wnleas you are alt’ base your action on the advier of those whe are spec in the business concerned, and of whoee abeolote inten you are assured, There are thousands af recognized {2% elal institutions in the country managed by men tf bi character and undoubted honesty, andl Choe coer experience and reputation value their standing ©" highly than any comparatively small amount they 2! earn unscrupulously.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 23 ALL WE FINANCE EUROPE UR AMERICA ? — By Carl W. Ackerman JAY 1815 te 1920, according to George M. Reynolds, imirmsaen of the Board of the Continental and Com- ercial WNational Bank of Chicago, we exported 0000000 of capital, cash or credit, ‘her words, during these five yeara the American loaned an average of nearly four billion dollars y te foreign governments, cities, railways and ies. through the U.S, Treasury and the banks of ited States. year, according to the Guaranty Trust Company of ork, foreign governments and foreign corporations ed $650,000,000 more, This, however, is a conserva- timate. Ome of the bankers whom I know in New mtimates that we exported one billion dollars in In minking this statement he called attention to the vis of millions of dollars which have been “spurlos 2° im the American market by private “invest- “in Eussian rubles, German marks, Auatrian i, Ltalian Lire and French franes ond jel foreign securities not included by ew York bank. Ss, from 1915 to December 31, 1921, F twenty hilton dollare of capi- Pt January 1, 1922, to March 17, it article is written, that sum waa ised by $225,000,000, the amount of t publicly obtained by foreign gov- | ite and corporations during the Gleven weeks of this year, Included Se Gigure are afew capital exports auch efollowing: $0,000,000 ta amd; $27,000,000 to Argen- + 11,000,000 to Canadian Tae National Railways; $30,000,000 to the P. L.& M. Railway of France; £1,000(KK) to Rumania; 25,000,000 franes to the Midi Railway of France; and so forth. If we continwe at this rate we shall export more than a billion dollars of capital before the dawn of 1923. This is what Mr. Reynolds had in mind when he asked recently, “Shall we export capital or use it for American bruni resis T"* "Shall we finance Europe or our own country firat?™ Home Needs for Billions " TALE glibly of giving billions of credita toforeign countries to increase our farm exports," Herbert Hoover said, addressing the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion. “I wish to say, with all responsibility for the state- ment," the Secretary of Commerce continwed, “thats billion dollars spent upon American railways will give more ene ployment to our people, more advanee to our industry, mare assistance to our farmers, than twice that eum. ex- pended outside the frontiers of the United States; ond there will be greater security for the investor. 4 pen Program of constriction wauld fn its various ramifications give relief te five or six hundred thousand of our unemployed. Tt would enable even added numbers to increase their etandards of living, and thus give in- creed market to the produce of curfarmers. Our farmers, who look to foreign markets to buy their surplus, should stop to consider that our home consumption of meat de creased nearly seven pounds per capitn in 1921, mostly owing to unemployment, and that if this de- crease could be overcame it would be worth more than a 26 per cent inerease in exports,” BESCENGED Fah APE = r PROOF AC 4INIT DARIN Mr. Reynolds, who interprets the sentiment of that brand fertile section of the United States, the Middle West, which Meredith Nicholson named The Valley of Demor- racy, answered the question of what we should do with our capital and what our national policy should be, in this way: “Foreign trade for the United States is both necessary and desirable. There is no disagreement on this point among bankers, busingss men, economists, statesmen. However, in seeking a lead for the revival of Amerlean business, attention should not be focused on foreign trade to the exclusion of domestic business. American exports have constituted only same 6 to & per cent of the total ales of this country during the period of maximum ex- ports. The domestle market is definitely under American control, to berevived if proper thought and action betaken. A clear ray of hope offers in the thought that mewsures looking toward business revival can be taken at home and ateance, This does not mean that foreign trade, particu- forly in certain commodities, is not important. It does mean that the key to business revival lies in the doreatic market and a more normal foreign trade than that of the calendar years of 1915-20, "Th determining the place of forelen trade," the (his cago banker added, “it is important to emphasize that # continuation of abnormal exports cannot be expectecl. American exports mounted both in value and volume to unprecedented proportions, partlealarly during the yours 1915-20, But once the stimulation of extraordinary de- mand and dirt necessity wis withdrawn, there was a noticeable drift back to trade more in alignment with prewar trends, Any notion that the United States can go on indefinitely selling all kinds of goods in all markets (Confined of Poge FO! HE 14 ,/ |HHO CERT, | J pat: 2 ney ye ie ey Epa how & Ghose

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a4 N OUR oot, particularly among mother’s friends, the things we find | really amusing are usually forbidden by eenvention. Further down town, in Greenwich 1 Village, it is perfectly conventional to | break allthe conventions except the con- vention against being conventional. At first glance the average pleasure seeker might easily consider this condition of things satlfactory, and give up ony further search for the perfect happiness which someone—Bernard Shaw, I think—so quaintly refers to aa “the Blue Birl.”" But the Blue Bird lives further south than Washington Square, It seems he isa native of Tahiti, and that the South Sea Islands have it all over Greenwich Village when it comes to personal liberty’, aelf-expreseion, and allowing your awn ‘trite self bo emerge from your inhibitions and ramp around on its own completely untrammeled, because the South Sea Islandera apparenth haven"t even a convention againat conventions. What I mean, it's quite all right out thore for a mative deb to expand pretty well as much as she likes, and Marqueson mammaa never say; “Now, my dear, don't dance that dreadful camel walk ar take anything to drink; and if you allow Bobby to kiss you he will never come to see you again, I assure you!” Well, instead of pulling a line like that, the Marqwesan mammas are reputed to amile sweetly and merely say “ Hicky of poll" eraamething of thataort, which gently translated means “Go to it, my child, and enjoy yourself!" No wonder everyone has gone simply , mad about the South Sess this season! *. Why, Just think of the scope that place offers a really live deb—one full of pep and health and ideas like, let un say, myself! I could groan aloud when I consider all the wasted years before I knew what Tahiti waa like, and the fact that my youth was thrown away upon the stuffy air of Rosemere, Long Island, and amere New York season! Also it makes me pocitively shudder to think that if T had never moved to the Village i would not have met Bhackelton Salta, and if had never met him I wouldn't have known a thing about the South Sea. Of course mother didn't like ny mov ing downtawn, ‘That, aa] read it over, isa very mild statement of the fact. As a matter of plain truth she made the deuce of a row about it, and yet it was really she herself who drove me from my father's ancestral Park Avenue apart- ment. What I mean, she did oo because she tried te enforce a Jot of conventions which simply would not convene as far as I was concerned; and the end came after our hay- ing a terrible row about my staying overnight at Sylvia Glenning’s and walking in to lunch next day, wearing a tangerine ¢chiflan evening freck and gold slippers. Of course there was nothing in the least improper about this, but mother simply could mot be mace to geo it from my Point of view, and ao we had this fearful row I was speak- ing of, and I got dad ta allow me to take astudio on Eighth Street with Malvina Jowes, a girl whowas at Miss Spoaner's with me. For I decided that perhaps, all things considered, it was time Tor me to have a career of some sort. I waan't at that time quite sure what kind, but it waa te be a real career, net merely a socal ane, and fndlng myself was perfectly Tipping, 1s Malvina pointed out, Everything | wanted to do uptown and was forbidden to, or af least circumvented from doing 5 far as the family could manage it, was absc- lutely de rigeur belaw Fourteenth Street; and all the things my own peaple thought proper, such as being on time for meals, paying one’s bills, washing all over every day, being a Mrs. Somebody when one married, amd geot- ting a8 rich as posible—all these were considered almost indecent by Malvina's set. I will say that I found it a tremendous relief, throwing off all social responsibility, or, as Malvina put it, allowing the subconscious to animate my life habit. ms, CMH Lea To YELL pt = THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE GALLOPING | By Nina Wilcox Putnam FEEUITRATED BF CHARLES “Sou WEEE Giew Afe Four ne Tor of the End of rhe Fasage, Woa't Fou, Leopardeas F*" Not that it, or anything elae, animated Malyina very much, She waa the limpest girl [ ever knew, but full of ideas—Miss Spooner used to miscall them notions—and eo, 60 different! At school I didn't think very much of Malvina because her mother was a writer and lecturer; queer, don't you know, and of course, a8 a mere ignorant schoolgirl] I thought Malvina was queer too, Qhur set didn't approve of ideas, and a mother who called herself Miss and backed movements and presented bills to legis- lators—or no, 1 guess it was legislaturesa—well, anyway, Malvina's mother was modern, and so was Malvina, and that let ber out as far as our bunch was concerned. Malvina was lonely at Miss Spooner's achool, and we girls rather thought she jolly well deserved it for being so darn intelligent. 1 expect her mother sent her there be cause eke didn't knew what else to de with her, And when Malvina finished at Miss Spooner's she didn’t come out like the rest of us, because her mother didn't have any home to bring her out of, | suppose, and ao Malvina just weot out, instead, Went out te the Art League, and took up batik, which is a kind of dyeing that con never be @ failire, becnuse no matber how it comes out—etreaks, epots, anything—the batikist always claima that it was just the effect she had been trying for, and nobody is in a position te contradict her, Well, anyhow, the very day [ had that awful row with mother and threatened to leave home forever and had not the remotest idea of how I was going to make good Do MITcCwREEL April 29, TIGE] on my threat unless I married stuffy, proper, old faithful Ted § wall, | was standing in Fifty» Street looking mournfully at a feather hat at forty-five dolly Francine’s window and realizing bitterness that under the circum” Teoukln't very well @o in and cha to mother, As [ was standing : along came Malvina in @ green ha only it was a greem felt tam. 5h had a portlolla under her arm ani wearing a ruined batik smock thy one of her most successful inspiral an interpretation of = can of green Ithinkit was. And [ wae so low in I was actually glad to see her, Malvina allowed me ta take b tea, although it was unfortunat conventional hour for ten, and » ate ahe listened to mat most beaut and underatandingl 4s". “Look here, Pet Torrington!" sh claimed when [had pretty neark ished—which is a long time for on to allow another to talk. “‘Look! what you need is work and freedon can see ata glance that you have gp intellectually in the year since we school, You have bobbed your hair one thing—the first step toward emancipation. I'll bet your people trying to marry you off ta some com tional man, and that they will be; feetly satisfied as sogn as they eve trapped for life. I'U bet, further that they hamper and curb you ata turn!" “Indeed they dol’ IT sald cog "Why, father has actually cut my all ance to five hundred a month! } since last night he's boen threatening takeaway my roadster. You see, we pinched for speeding coming homei he didn't like our being In evening clot in the police court before noon, Day so painfully conventional !™ “That clearly shows how narrow your people are!"s chimed Malvina. "Now, my nother has always onged! to express myself fully in every way. My only diffi has been that [ can't seem to find much to expres. Bal tell you what you do, Pet. Move down to my place, @ meet some renl people; learn to know yourself, and wa Work ia the great solvent ["* “What Kind of work?" IT asked doubtfully, “I de know how to do anything!" “All the better!" Mulving exelaimed. ‘I will belp to find yourself, Work will come naturally. Try out al of things and eventually you will find your métir, Lf example, waa a sculptor for a while, and then I dropped! and it broke ta pleces, Tt was a group cnulled The Falt Man. And next | tried froe verse, but I couldn't get aa money for it. And then after a while I fownd—thial" Malvina held up the tail of the green-pea effect a apoke, and while I didn’t think much of the smock | cet talnly was impressed with her ideas alsout living aloo with her in a studio and having perfect freedom for sali expression, and when I found that there was a good gu right around the corner from her, why, I decided to try at make a woman of myself and find a career and allow real nature to develop to the highest point so that 1m be of greater value to society. Society in the most Leed sense, you know, with a capital “S"" and all that! And as Malvina waa with me heart and soul, ve wt right to it, Malvina's mother only sent her thirty av st tarnestness and inventiveness were about all she hae 18 contribute. But she had a lot of those, and os [ of promptness itself when I am trying to get away with 1n- thing, and mother was out and father atill downtews. ! gave up all idea of the green-feather hat at Francite? | put the remainder of my allowance into a van aod 18 men, who obligingly went to the apartment with usat ot and carted off my day bed and a big divan fra ny = ting room, and a long mirror and a few rugs pol thine | because Malvina had only a black cat called Por, ane and a spring cot for herself. We took my elegre Le and my dressing silver, which is gold, in case we eet short of cash, and also a lamp, some books that Mew wanted, a couple of lace-trimmed pillows, my blue 3! comforter and the firedogs. Then Malvina thought v2! enough and sent the men off with the load, whi ig! (Continusd on Poge 26)

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26 fCentinved fram Page 24! new red roadster out of the garage and had the tank filled and ol putin and charged that to dad, and then with only a couple of armifula of clothes, three hat boxes and my Jewel case [left my parents’ apartment—I thought it only fair te leave that miich—and drove Malvina down the Avenue, smiling at all the cops as [ went. When this was done and I was comfortably settled in that great glorious big studio, why, I telephoned home and asked permission te move, What happened subsequently T refuse to put on record: I think tea much of my parenta to tell all that I know ibawt ther, However, | will say dad prodticed a larger vocabulary than I had ever dreamed he possessed, but that in the end permission was granted, nevertheless. Which ts how I came to know about the social revolu- tion and Freud and batik and chop ewey, and a lot of wonderful things like that which showed me how I hod been wasting ma time uptown. T eould do proctically whatever [ Hked without a tiresome family snooping around exept once or twice a week when mother would turn up with a hamper exacthy as if [ were the poor oF something. Dut for some reason, once the break was Imade, mother didn't object to anything. She seemed to realioe that | wae-tading myself and looking fer my life. work, and she was really very sensible about it, and I was left practically untrammeled in my ew life until one after- noon when Ted Stonewall showed ip. Now Ted's family are yeurenraind people out in Rose- mere, where we have our summer home, and when we were kids mother didn't mind our playing together, I expect she knew that Dd get-over my girlish fancy for Ted, and for once die wae right. Ted was intellectually quite out of date, if vou know what T mean, and his ideas about women were an antique ae mother's, And of course [ was not gang to permit myself ta stay in love with anyone who would cramp my style. Curiously enough the alikeness of their standards got him nothing with mother after we grew up. T suppose his father being coal and wood was the rewson for that. Certainly she had never of late years encouraged his coming around. And so when he turned up oat the stuclio with a hamper from her [ wasn god bat surprised, unbil I realized that he howd probably worked it Ao ne to geek te sec me. "Hello, La Bohime!" he greeted me aa he awung the big basket to the refractory table with an easy lift of bis broad shoulders. ‘Gee! This place lu as big as Art Jones* phota-stodbp. aix=dollrs-<n-doesen- finished =while-you- wnt, dawn home!" “Ted, don’t be crude!” IT admonished, dig- fing into the harper to make eure there wae quince jam. There was, and so 0 turned back to Ted. “Don't be facetious, Ted, it’s so hour geols! This is iL real stud bis— my worlke= shop!" “And where is your work?” Ted wonbed to know with that diseoncert- ing directivess. of its, “Thaven't found my trie work yet, Ted," I replied creely, “Bot when L do find it ] shall work at it here." "Oh!" said Ted. Then he camo over and stom very close to me in that way which used to comfort and at the same time rather frighten me in the old days before T became an jateHectual, “Don't you know what your true work is?" he asked softly, “Wol'’ said J, trying to break AWRY, Well, Iodof” he asid. “Its to marry me: that’s work enough.” "Oh, Ted, you are really impel: ble t* | erie, Freel my hunds, which he hud samechow managed to pot hala af, “Ban't be ridiculous, please! I ehall never marry. Ane as for fineing my work in the home, just forget it! Don't tuk te ine about domesticity: di"s cadel, coll goriewebeseg “Dt's never cole, to my mind !"" snc Ted soberly, “Io say, Pet, wou cont take this bunch down hore seriously, do you?" “OF cotirae Io dof’ I sakd hoch. "Tim thinking, forthe first time lo my life, ond I'm enjoying it" “Thinking about what?” suid Tod, “Oh, aboutart and ifeand beauty,” = T said, “and, of course, work!" “Hut what work?" persiseed Tad. “Look here, Pet, | believe this cew you're Punning around with isa bunch of fakes! Don't let them put anything over on you, dear. The real art in this world lies te the simple, fundamental Se ee oe | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST things: in happy homes, fine children, in things which grow in the clear air, not in stuffy cellar cafés!" “Tel Stonewall, you have no right to speak of my friends like that!’ [ retorted, “You think | am living down here among a bunch of cheap, fake Bohemians, but sounre wrong, Do you call Shackelton Salts a fake?" “T have heard of him—from your mother.” said Ted, Plainly impressed, “The chap that wrote those Deep Sen Chanteya?" “Yer, that’s the one!" [ said triumphantly. “He's a very eapecial frinnd of mine—very! He's published seven volumes of sen porms—only two at hia own expense,” 1 went on—"“and he's a very wonderful pergon. He's been around the Horn ten tinves, [ think it is." “Got Masefield lashed to the mast!" murmured Ted, but I pretended noe to hear. “Tm very fond of Shack," [went on, “And nobody; net even you, con deny that those pre great sea. Poo. Then there is Shamus O"Shamus, who wrote Glimpses, And, oh—lote more real people!" "Well, could you endure the company of a mere lew bree musical-comedy heund for one evening? in- qiired Ted. “Because if eo [ would hhe to hove you dine with me." "Oh, Ted!” T said regretfully. “I'd love to, but I have already asked Shack to dine with me!" “dud he aceepted?" said Ted in a peculiar tone, “Well, then, perhaps be won't mind if [ bring Malving along, and Aina) all dine with me?" "That will fix it aplondidly! I cried, relieved. “And some 4 the others are sure to driftin. Ob, Ted, I do want you to meet my new friends anid see just how perfectly splendid they are,”

ies ae * home he Bidicafour, Pileose! I Shall Neorr Jarry: And os for Finding Ay Work in tte Wome, fuct Forget Prey prt i “Good !" sald Ted. “That's exactly what [ con tewn for {" An hour lnter we wore seated in the café of the eli hotel, and [ looked about the table with pride, for had foretold, the bunch had gathered arownd. 4H scarcely seemed piaaible that a few shert weeks a people, all but Malvina and Ted, had been utter = tome, Why, Dhad not even heard of them, and now on first-name terms, They certainly were @ distin looking crowd, and it waa just wonderful to bi there among people who did things! First in importance came Shackelton Salts, of with his magnificent physique—and it is truly we only perhaps just a llttle thick abeut the middl anyway, With Tt thrown gracefully into his mirrore and a new Bult of corduroys, the shirt open at | atrong throat, as he bade us notice, hia mat of yell fairly standing on end a3 always when he was excits of course he was always excited, and usually poun table. Then there was my Malvina, very limp in a batik smock, but so emancipated under it all, on Rosen—you know, the organizer who split the but makers’ union. Just now she wasn't splitting w exceptabaked potato, butshedidit with asingle-mini andl flerce determination which made me realize he erful her personality was—that, and her powerfy hair ane strong littl: igure, Zelda was the dauwgh Lower Enst Stile tuilor and was the living proof utter democracy. Noxt to her sat Edouard Fioula: sculptor; awiully modern stuff, he does; in fact, i founder and one of the very few members of the Ai Echoal of Beulpture, which never uses original mats takes something that fs aymbolle of the idea they 4 interpret, unc uses It asafoundation, For exampl statue called Smoke waa mace entirely of old cigar and attracted a grent deal of attention at the las pendent Exhibition. Next te him was Ted, wisely hut absorbing a steak, and on Ted's other hand sat 3 O'Shamius, the author of Glimpess; a dear boy, so romance, aod the most perfect dancer, Hes of which hewns the great Irish patriot, you At least his other book, the one about the H af Belfast, was a great success. Shamus hai been itt Ireland bimeelf, but he changed his from James Jameson to its present form of bi accord, and he fecks very <i abeeut the Irish. I*m not jus on which side. I felt sorry for poor old tieal Ted, silently eating as his corner, completely swamy the brilliant talk of the othen seemed so aut of it ned so con place, compared with thenst litthe group, that [ pitied his cerely. Particularly because! ao utterly unaware of his en My heart ached for him—ors have, only [ remembered in that, os Malvina often sas commonplace is always ante able, The talk had for some time upon Russia, as it usualy among us at one Lime of a _ during on evening, #elda j ways bringing it up beceus — Bunt‘s husband was killed ia grom or a droshky, [ don't i remember which. “See what ao uneserrate the capitalistic potatea!' she claimed. “Iti spite of the le the kept press, I'd take a that the free peasantry of ne tionary Tussia grow larger p toes than that!” All of a sudden Ted eme from. his retired corer. “Believe me, then, they hiel “em mighty when Lo wea over there with the [ed Cro saticl Ted. “You were in Russia!" exclaimed Ze *“Camerad! Tell wa abut it!" "Nothing tetell that the papers haven'tto replied Ted. “‘Shugh, cold, hunger, disexs: slavery. All thie freedom etutl is bunk!” "AR! sald Zelda. “You probably only saw what) were monn to see! You probably never got to kee! truth I “Well, [ waa only there six months,” Ted admitted. returned to his steak, “Truth,” said Shackelton Salts, “is a etrange, do thing. "Ue ane ufruicd to book for jt—hboeeause it's nce wel know, and we are a nation of prodes!" (Continued of Page 24)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 27 he Greatest Year In Hupmobile History Sales Everywhere Mounting to Larger Volume With Each Succeeding Month ETENOOAVOVAQOUUUTENTAEATSETEUOAPSTOOSUATENCTEAOOTETATETOOPOOPAVATEVOUOUPEPOPA TOTO VEU ET EOEAPALOOAUS PET ELON APAVATEO OOO EEDA AT OUTPOST EDP TAT OT EVOT PAP POONA TNA = year wall be the greatest, sales volume. of all the 14 of E4q@wpmobile history. fst month of this year was savest January inthe records Hupmobile. shruary, the smashing in- :in demand topped January ' per cent. h rapidly gathered further entum and recorded the est month of selling the Hup- le has ever known. iit has gone and is going, pafter week and month after th. all over the country. Public Sifting Out All Car Values iclear now that the six months’ 1 will almost reach the entire duction for the largest year the has ever had. Style—Beauty— Luxurious Comfort fooriag Car, FRO Floater, #55) Rosdater-Coupy, fT poh Cord Firw on all medele— Proce F, iO, 8, Detrot— Reese Tom Extra The reason for this tremendous” growth is perfectly plain. The public has settled down to a sifting procesa—to a process that is leading thousands sama to the Hupmobile. i The Hupmobile i is in tune with the apirit of the day—a spirit that socks out that which is substantial, that which is sure, that which is saving, and that which renders BErVvIce. Traveling side by side with this swiftly specding and greater ap- preciation, is an equally impressive demand for used Hupmobiles. As we have told you in recent an- nouncements, used Hupmobiles are a live asset all over the United States, Confirm this by looking over your own local newspapers. Offerings of used Hupmobiles are Coup, apn Foden, #335 typical of our enles everywhere. few and far between, and they are eagerly sought by waiting buyers, New Buyers Come From Agh and Low Priced Fields” In large proportion, this great in- flux of new Hupmobile buyers is coming from two sources. One is the field far above the Hupmobile in price, the other the field far below it in price. The Hupmebile has never sought comparison or competition with cars of leaser price and huge vol- ume production. But in many cases it is actually outselling the best of the cars whose strongest appeal is price. There is not a distributor or dealer on our books who has not increased his orders and sold the increase. There is scarcely a dealer who does not report remarkable in- ; stances of buyers abandoning costlier cars for the Hupmobile— and scores of others discarding High Lights in Hupmobile’s Greatest Year Official reports from scores of pointe throughout the country indicate the tremendous increase in Hupmobile retail sales. Comparison is made with 1920, the greatest Previows year, Figures are the latest available in com- plete form, et the time this tabolation ia made. These few examples ora Bosion =. oi rain reioa 1922, greater thes ue months, 1920, ky— De: P , 1922, greater than mame months, 1920, by— Sa% Chicage . , 1922, greater thas same months, 19270, br— 238% Minneapolis . Janoury and February, 1922, greater than aame meatha, 1920, rie as , 1922, greater than same mooiha, 1920, b j— = Les Angeles . January and February, 1322, greater thas seme months, 1920, by— ZT cara of lower price because they are convinced of the greater econ- omy of the Hupmobile. That economy, of course, consists in the greater freedom of the Hupmobile from repairs, and its lower upkeep costs. Greater Economy an Established Fact Tested out time and again in busi- ness fleets, the Hupmobile has proved that it if 4 more econami- cal car than those in the higher priced held, and the best of the lower priced as well. More economical because this Hupmobile is built as all Hupmo- biles have always been built—in shops with the will and the equip- ment to do the same precise and painstaking work; with the same high quality, tested materials; that gointothe world 'sfinest motorcars. Hupp Motor Car Corporation Detroit, Michigan ogee NAAT ET RUTTER LAANE AT PUPAVANENEROETSVATUTSVAVEVOTENETPOVAPAVOTEVPVENPEEUETAUUETENTAT UAT APAT ATTA aT Tea AAT TEAPAPOPH APA AT ETPVETPAPAPAVEPOVEOTETENESOCPEUOTEVEVENPREEOEATUPVEL EVO ETO EVEVEUATATOTAGSN NTA TATEPOAEAPAPTENE TST? Hupmobile +g LERNOUT ATA TAA ATTENTION

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{Continued from Poge 28) "ih, pshaw, Shack!" said Edouard languidly. “You love to talk about nudity because you're stuck on your shape. You are getting fat, though—you ought to train down!" “Train down!” shouted Shack. “How under heaven eah I do that In this mad country? How can I live a free, healthy, natural life when I have to go around in clothes—the most unnatural things in the world? How?” “Ye gught to go to the South Sees, Shack,’ put in Shamus. “I've been reading that Murphy book, The Shadowy South Seas. Great stuff! The place would suit ye, man! Faith, it would suit mycelf pretty good, as well ["" “The Shadowy South Seas!" T exelainved, “th, that's a wonderful book! It makes you want to Jump right on a boat and start for Tahitil” “ Those Marquesans are real people!" declared Malvina, giving them her highest praise, “Utterly unconventional, and the only clothing they wear i# batik. How I'd adore te go there and compare batike with them!" “By heavens, Your are rleht!" exec ‘aimed Shack, replit= ing to Ed, however, not to Malvina. “T ought to go te the South Sea Islands! Do you know, in all my voyages before the mast I have never sailed the South Seas? That is to say, not werlowly. Think of the glorious freedom of life on those ishinda! You are right, Ed—that Murphy hook is i masterplece, T would certainly like to ¢o out to Tahiti, Every pert ought to ge there! By thunder, I have an iden! Think what a magnificent thing it would be if an army of poets and eculpters and artists invaded Tahiti intent |, | to live the glad, free life of the islands; to He under the brewifroit tress and make verses, with no beastly exli- tors and landlords around; with not a care in the world and no effort to make except toa danee about, Think of it! Glorieus! Mar- velous! By heaven, if Thad aseaworthy boat I'd take you all there! We'd leave this poison- ous, artificial life behind us, and in Tahiti we would produce art that would conquer the word!" I was simply par- alyzed by his mar- velows eloqience and by the inspira- tional light on his rugged face, But [ r F teas te sur- Pe z pri at his refer- — ue ring to the Village ***** a8 polsonously arti- ficial, because he usually mere me that [ was seeing true freedom there, Well, af CCHITSE, Tahiti would be a whole lot freer; DF had to admit that, even before Edouard took up the theme, “An art ship to Tahiti!’ he murmured, lifting his pale face and half closing his eyes. “Exquisite! Iwason a ship ance! If tt could only come tree!" “Tf T could only eel] some stuff ['d take you all!" ex- claimed Shackelton, “D'd buy a ship—a sailing ship, for who would want to find romance under steam? Then I'd hoist the fair white sails, cast off, and then—ah, then!” “By Jove, Shack, my boy!" ssid Shamus pettishly. “T wish ye wouldn't make such talk, with the winter soon to be upon us and my bones aching for the warmth of the pun! I'd go on that trip of yours for the shake of a cat's tail," “So would Tf put in Zelda, who had finished her capi- talistic potato, skin and all, “The trouble with those Marquesans is that they are not organized. How can they resist the invasion of the white man unless they have a union? I'd whip them into shape, so that authors would have to get a permit from the Hula-hula Union Local No. 1 before they would be allowed to land!” “Friends!” exclaimed Shack, “If only we could do it! That mythical sailing boat—a schooner, preferably! She has captured my fancy utterly! No hired crew, you un- derstand. We would eail it ourselves! Think of o crew of artista setting sail for the South Sens, the black ship dip- ping like a gull, the fierce white foam kissing her sides! The crew singing 'A deep sea, a cruel sea, between my blue-eyed love and me*!" “How beautiful!" said I. “Tt's the firat poem in my second volume of sea ballads," breathed Shack, turning directly to me, “Think of that THE SATURDAY EVENING POST voyage, with vou beside me, Leopardess! A ship, a ship, my kingdorm for ia abip!" Then Ted, who had been watchfully emoking and look- ing keenly fram one te another of us without joining in at all, spoke quiotly, "T can let you have a ehip,” said he “Twe-masted schooner in eplendid shape; everything sheard her but the crew. IT took her for a bad debt. For a moment there was an incredulous silence. Then Ehackelten lenned taward Ted, and they atared at each other like two dogs who are not quite sure whether to fight or not, Then Shack sort of wagged his tail, "Do you mean that, or are you kidding?" he demanded, as we listened breathlessly. “Never more serious in my life!’ replied Ted, removing his pipe from between hls strong white teeth and emiling fa his pleasant Why. "Shin's a sixty fit sehooner, tao masts, full-rigged, sleeps ten peopla ond has a gasoline kicker, Mame, Sadie Brown of Hosten. She 1 is in eound condition and you are more than welcome to use her. With crews on strike I dida't knew quite whit to de with her. You have shawn me!" "Old moanl” asid Shackelten ‘after an al- most imperceptible hesitation, “Done with you!" And the two shook hands eelemniy, “Look Heer, Pot Tordageoal'™ fhe Exclaimed, “Whar Fou Heed je Work oad Freedom" “This is a great opportunity,’ Shack went on. “Think of the publicity! Why, it's the biggest eort of a Sunday story! T can't tell you what a wonderful thing you have done!" “Not yet, you can't," said Ted; “so don't try. I'm nat sure just what I've done, myself. But the boat is yours to command; on one condition—that you let me come along!" Well, we just about got up and cheered at that! We were almost pot out of the hotel for it—Aelda afterward claimed that we actually were, but I still think it was only the ordinary clocing time. However, we certainly made a big row over Ted, and then we parted reluctantly out in front, alter first agreeing to meet next morning at ten at the wharf where the Sadie was tied up, and look her over, Ted took Malvina ard me home—that is, to the studio, Once there he somehow managed to see me alone for a moment. "Pot," said he, “Mr. Shackelton Salts seems very de- voted ta you. Does it mean anything?" “T—ilon't ask me, Ted!" I beg@ed. “I—well, [ haven't tmade upmy mind about him yet, [want te walt and get to know him better!" "Tseo!” said Ted thoughtfully. “Well, you will, on this trip. Do you mind my coming along?” "Mind, you old honey!" I exclaimed. “Mind your coming on a party that has any stunt [ ever did before trimmed down the neck? That puts tt all over any party Lever dreamed of ? Why, littl: angel fare! There is only one thing ['ll mind, and that is if mother tries to stop my going. Ob, Ted, she must not stop it! You help me to peruade her!" Teéd lacked around gulltily, to make sure that nobody was about. Nobody was, for Malvina had gone to bed. 4 pril “Pot!” he whispered suddenly. ** How about up to the Crystal Room at the Ritz for a lity Your mother has a table there to-night, twelve o'clock" “We—you—she might ——" I began bars Ted, I'd love to! Only promise faithf you} tell Malvina that I did such a dreadfully eng thing!" Next morning it was Shackelton Salts who ca me and take me down te see the schooner, for Ty business at hia new Park Row offices had promise us at Pier 13 at ten o'clock. Shack came around to our place at elewen min and I tesk him and Malvina down im the red ro “'Do ya anything boats, Pe asked, hixan fixed upon 7 aly. “Of cours replied. “Ih Europe thray "That's Shack reli “The more a j understand the better. har | he went te South & onasailing bast dy war, and Ed has re Of sea abories and & he can easily put inl tie: what he rex from them. How your plutocratic Stonewall?" “Oh, Tel in't a T explained. beginner at busi though he's makingd good. But when it tosailing a boat—wh been doing that ever mer all hia life, “Ted can sail a b eusily as you cas beautiful portry !” Shack smiled deligi at that, and I am be say his attituel: toward Ted became dist mare cordial from then on. Well, when we finally get bo the whad, was Ted sitting on a post and smoking his old pipe with all the patience of who war a monument? Anyway, there he was, and ft tumet that although a little late we were the firat upon the ¢ Malvina flapped up to him at one, an anxious expr cn her fren, "0h, Mr. Etonewall!" she cried. "Do jou really t it is all right to leave your boat at Pier 137" “Good morning!" said Ted. “Yes, it’s all sgh eotre, Surely yeu ane not superstitious?” “Wh, nol” disclaimed Malvina. “Only you oe, | teen is supposed to be unlucky and the idea of ill Jerk: assorinted with anything may influence one's subcons thought, that's all. I only mean thet by association ideas some of us might actually though unconscia indwee il tuck!" “Well, it hasn't hurt the old boat any ao far,” Tele mented. “Hello, hore comes the rest of the buneh. ! it's only oloven o'clock,” The others were indeed coming down the pier, ex ma Shamus in a rather soiled white middy blouse, which had dug up goxdness knows where; Zelda in her unc tweeds and no hat; and Edouard in his immarc aculpter's amock, lowking than ever, if pol A handful of rude and shockingly sophisticated amall wert following them. “Behold the faithfal—our romantic seafarers!” & Shack in his beautiful liquid voice. “Welcome, dear venturera!"" "Ave, aye, captain!" cried Shamus, coming toaer marine salute. “The top of the morning to ye all!” “Tt's not the top, it's halfway down the morning!" mented Ted, the mean thing, apoiling the bate ef “Come on in, friends. The Sadie's warped to the fare and I"ve pot to get back to the office!" “Justa moment!" exclaimed Shackeltom with oe) fine, atrong pestures, “One moment! Before we sir ie this spot something has got to be set right, Shame be has used a most opprobrious term. He addresed 5 or one of uws—as captain, Now te my mind, ona ryai’ this kind—a quest after sheer beauty, made br oti in the arta—there can be no question of officers Neo? tain, no mate, no crew; but only a oneness, a pertert, i ancl ‘glad colperation between us all. No one ghoul bse (Centliagd of Page 12)

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a) Jim Henrys Column More about Water It isa curbous trait af hum an nature: that no one likes to follow directions, How many times have you been last hecause you thought you knew better than the road map! Or, to be more specific, have you ever read and followed the inseruc- tions which come chi d around each tube of Mennen Shaving Cream? OF course, Mennen's will give great results no matter how you use it, but just the same you will never experience the perfect Mennen shave until you obey the rules, These instructions {1 wrote them myself} say to use three times as much water as you formerly used with old-fashioned soap. Yet, so far as my observation goes, most men use only the first brushful of water and, as a result, get a thin coat of whitewash instead of the heavy bank of lather they could build up if they would only use a lot of water. Now, this extra water has a lot ta do with putting your beard into a proper condition to be shaved. One reason why Mennen's is so : much better is because its lather holds so large a quantity of water. Please do it my way just once. Start the lather en the point of your chin and gradually spread. Then keep adding water—a little at a time. It is amazing how much water you can pack into Mennen lather. Until you have exposed your beard to a three-minute, complete saturation with iil eer. you will never know the joy ol ating on a thor. oughly licked bends Juse to All up the column, I want to plead with you to learm what com- fort there is in Mennen Talcum for ‘len for after shaving and bathing. It is newtral in tone and doesn't show, Il send samples of Shaving Cream and Talcurm for Men for 10 cents, {Menaen Salesman) i * dae THe Mennen Company faewars, ALL USA THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE INSIDE STORY OF THE JA. E. F. of 46-f0 and bo of 17. France @ done. The American diets will not be ready ta fight on an-ormy until late in P18. Our ex- perioner proves that meanwhile we must keep the fight going. Even ball-trained American companies or battalions would flight well if mized with 2 or 3 years veterans, Heg H. to consider this favorably. Yours, DO. L. G. The inclosure to which the British Prime Minister referred was a memoran- dum, as follows: “Obviously Germany has a better chance of winnin war before America can exert her full strength than she will have after, [t follows that she may try to win it during the next eight roonths or ao. I believe she will. Russia's defection enables her greatly to strengthen her forces on the weat or Italian front, or on both, and to try to get the decision, Italy will be weak for some months to come; the man powerol France is rapidly diminishing: we Cannot Yel eee our way to keeping our divisions even approximately up tostrength throughout next summer, eapecially if there is’ heavy Rghting this winter—which will probably be the German game—while Amer- Ion requires several months before she can put an appreciable force of divisions Inte the field “Would America, therefore, be ready to help in another way, as a temporary measure? When she first came into the war we hoped she might send some men for ‘inclusion in the British armies, as being | exald bring over men? clearly the quickest way of helping: but for reasons we quite understand, she erred to retain her national identity. Mo dowht she still desires to do so, but over and above the preparation of her divisions, and with- out interfering with it, would it be sible for her to provide a company of in- fantry to replace a British company in such a number of British battalions as America Even 100) such companies would be of the greatest value. Every consideration would, of course, be given to the companies, and if desired they cold later on be recalled and poated to the Ametican diviaiona. It ia thought that this mingling of American and British tropa bn evlablish a close and cordial feeling between the two armies, and would also ive the American troops useful training. f this systern is not weld America find a battalion to replace a British battal- LOTh im. ms brigudes ms ble? There would be mo aeuperetis difficulty in meet- ing American wishes in such matters as dis- cipline, rations and general maintenance, The only difficulty is American national sentiment, which we quite understand. "On the other hand, theaystem eupgpested ia clearly one which would the most repeey afford much-needed help during, perhaps, the most critics] period of the war.” Genacral Petain’s Proposal While was being het to bear overseas by bath French and British, each (prernnent was exerting ite influence fn Tashin: 1, alas, te accomplish the same end. e War Department cabled the American commander in chief on Deeem- ber 25, 1917: “Both English and French are pressing upon the President their de- sires to have your forces amalgamated with theirs by regiments and companies, and both express belief in impending benvy drive by Germans somewhere along the lines of the western front. We do not desire loss of identity of our forces, but regard that as secondary to the meeting of any sak rg fs ar by the most helpful WBE possi the troops at your eon mand, The difficulty of course is to deter- mine where the drive or drives of the enemy will take place; and in advance of some knowledge on that question, any redistribu- tion of your forces would be difficult. The President, however, desires you to have full authority to use the forces at your com- mand a4 you deem wise in consultation with the French and British Communders- in-ehied . the President's sole pur- pose being to acquaint you with the rep rsentatlons made here and ta authorize ou to art with entire freedom in making the het disposition find use of Your forces aa appears to be possible to accomplish the Main Purposes in view, Three days later General Petain sented a French plan for using American treape, Writing on December 28, 1917, he saicl: "Since the time when the first programs (Continued from Page §) wore fixed for the American forces, the gen- eral situn has been moelified by the Russian disloyalty and Italian events. “A menace hy enemy of an imminent, large-scale general offensive on the French front obliges us to wtilize all resources, not omitting the support of the American Torees. “Without prejudice to the duration of the war, tt ia then believed that we cannot walt for these troops to be organized and instructed as would have been desired had we made our dispositions in the tranquillity ef considerable time," : _Greneral Petain then outlined his propo- sition, which was to incorporate the Amer- icans with the French forces, one American regiment to each French division. In urg- ing its acceptance he emphasized the im- portance of haste instruction ao that, in case of need, the eould draw on the better units of the American forces pie psu 4 aie n regard to these ouals t river ican commander in «© ief cabled the War Department: “Do not think emergency now exists that would warrant our putting companies or battalions Into British or French divisions, and would not do so ex- capt in grave crisis.” To the French he aaid: “As to the ques. tion of placing American units in French divisions for actual service, | are many real obataches in the way. The differences af language, military methods and na- tional characteristics above referred to would seriously hinder. complete codpera- tion necessary in combat. Moreover, the American ple would not approve of giving Up the integrity of our organization and scattering it among French and British units, Such a plan would prevent the final building up of a cohesive, ive, aelf- reliant American force which must be de- pended upon to deliver the final blows necessary to and the war.” General Pershing's Note The training of the Ameriean troops in France had not p with the sneer desired. Those of us whe were over there in“the winter of 1917-18 will never forget the maddening delays, or the al despondency among the French and British forces and the French population, induced hy the collapse of Russia, and German triumphs jin that direction; the Italian debacte, in which 20,00 men, 300) guns and enormous stores were lost to the enemy; the failure of the Allied armies to achieve anything moore than local attacks which proved wholly insufficient nat the German defense, despite a superiority on the Western Front in 1917 20 per cent in strength; and finally the failure of American help to reach the battlefront, after the Allies had been led ta hape for our participation in force before winker aet in. This delay was partly due to the shippin atuation, t the handi af French tutelage had a lot to de with it also, A memorandum written by a member of the Amerlean General Staff stated: “Reports have been made by several officers whose units have been most closely associated with French units and, while appreciating the value of French assistance, the opinion is bi generally expressed that beyond the details of trench tactics, our troops have made better progress under their own in- structora and secording to our own meth- ods, This, of course, does not apply to our stall officers, who have derived great len- efit from association with correaponding Freneh ataffs,”" ; Finding that the American conimander in chief could net be bent te accept thelr views, the Freneh proceeded to go over hia head to Washingtan. Gen Pershin wrote to M. Clemenceau on January 46, 1518, Clemenceau being then President of the Council. “Dear Mr, President: Permit me to quote: the following cablegram from the War Department at Washington: ‘The French Ambassador called on Secretary af War today and read to him a dispateh from Ml. Clemenceau to the effect that General Pershing and General Petain had eonferred as to the wisdom of seasoning of American troopa ay ac ae their regi- mental unita te ‘ach divasions before committing a part of the line to an Amor- ican division made up of troops not so April accustomed to actual front cans Clemenceau's enblegram stated eral Pershing had reported General Petain in substantial on this subject, but General veyed ta M. Clemenceau an ope jon. The French urge the acti above af being safer for the troops than it would be to gi: once an independent in thy urge very strongly that the § War here accept their view and it to you. This the Secretary of willing to do, desiring to leave wholly within your discretics, cons eration af the important ee Me I not suggest to “May [ not ou yOu, my Present, the inexpedieney of 4 cating euch matters ta Washi cable? These questions must all here, eventually, on their merit: friendly conference between Gene and miysell!, and cables of tha likely, I fear, te canwey the imp Washington of serious disay tween us when such is net the + “With cordial sentiments of sonal exteem and 1 The anawer Baker to the French af American effort in the war, his appointments, and then he those men through thick and matter what political pressure was to bear on him, Baker steadfastly on decisions being mide by the the spot. Speaking at a dinner war Pershing paid the secretary tribute of saying that no comms chief in American hi y bod bap loyally supported by his chief. In my opinion Mr. Baker was ma derestimated by the general publis Was a man af exceptional bread knowledge and accurate informath many subjects, a man of extrasd precigion oof mind, and the cory stand by his decisions. Critical Months Troop were mot arriving 08 fast commander in chief had reeommende on December second he cabled the Department: “Tt is of the ots tance to the Allied cause that ve swiftly. The minimum number al t we should plan to have in Franee b ond of June is4 Army Corps of 24 dive in addition to oof service rear. . . . This is given @ lowest we should think of and is plus higher because the limit of available! ortation would net seem to warn ‘aragraph 4. A study of transport facilities shows sufficbent Americas nage to bring over this number of 6 but te do aa there must be a redert the tonnage allotted to other than / needs. Tt is estimated that the he needed will have to be rapidly inc up to 2,000,000 tons by May, in ul! the SS Thru shipping for commerc perpen mi curtailed as much as possihle. Tor / rilief this year. 1918. ‘The year av! relief this year, : year afte be too bate, Bt in very doubt is hold on until 1909 unbeas we give them ofsupportthis year. It is thereforestt recommen that a complete rad ment of trang tion be made.” At the beginning of 1918 the situation can best Burned ep words of a report compiled for the Ger Stall: fa) The offensive during the part of 1918 a to have defit! passed inte the hands of Germany, this advantage will probally be ee? her until 1918, ; “(h) Germany's probablesaperioely ing 1918 will be such os te came 4 aotk bo bring about a war of mine But Germany cannot be sure of te) about mich a result, and her choice & ions in which to launch ber will be modified by the necesly © flicting a great moral blow on the Alle the pe a result of ea bcos “fd France is especially ase! eerning the on St. Mihiel-St & tin, while En d ia especial ly concerning the regions contigs | {Continged on Page Fi)

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Deurable openings in certain bernitorves lor salesmen ancl experienced specialty men whocan qualify aedistrict managers, _— THE SATURDAY (Continued fram Page 70) Channel bude This senaltiveness ia auch aa to make it possible for Germany to choose her objectives in such a way a8 te reduce the cooperation between the French and English “(tg). . » We must bear a principal pert in the main offensive for the reason that the other countries have suffered nearl all the important losses they will stan except in defense, th) Druring the early part of 1918 our troops will not be instructed, equipped, or sufficiently numerous to take a materially eat part in the war. They will not there= ore be suitable for a general reserve. Aso last resort they must, of course, be used to the last man, but to parcel them out and use them up in piecemeal ple ged | means eliminating the possibility of launch- ing a t Alliat offensive in 1919, "Political situation: To take full aceount af political considerations it j to inquire not only inte national aspi- rations but alee inte national antlpathies and powible ulterior motives af govern- ments, . . . France desire: Alsace Lorraine, Tt is believed that many Frenelh people suspect ulterior motives on the part af the English. . . . The British der that the nach methods are unreasonable in many ewes ane feel that the French are more interertad in having their own ideas prevail than in winning the war. . . . re d, France and the United States England, all ¢ontain certzin elements who replize _ more fully the national necessities for after- thewar commerce than they realize that the war must be won before an after-the- | war commerce can beestablished, Whether ‘or not the shove estimates are correct, it is undoubtedly true that the French and English relations are none too harmonious. It seems equally true that each of the na- tions is jealous lest the other's influence over America be greater than their own.” Shortage of Man Power “Tn faver af throwing our forces ia with . the English, we find the increased morale which would benefit England. Due te the seeeogy heavy lowes, with but lttle correspon na which the British suf- | fared in 1917, there appears to be little doubt that the present itieal and moral eondithon of England [a leas favorable than is that of France. It is to be remembered, however, that this condition may only Last fora moment. _ “Against changing our plans—to be more intimately associated on land with the French than with the British—we must con- sider the suspicions which would be raised in. the Meerar tar suepicions which would be AGETaAYS erman prop Bee Ir has beer : ted that it would be desirable to place our troops between the British and the French. It fo difficult for us to avoid friction now, and te place wur foress between those of our allies would increase our difficulties. We are on French aol Ans must wae French poche ene 3s Chay appeir we muse C wong with the French unless we decide to turn all our forees over unreservedly to the British, “The constantly increwsing efforts which not only the British but the French are making to induce us to put aur troops inte their units seems to be indicative of a grow- ing. necessity for raising the morale of our Allies and of 'a deep anxiety on their part concerning the possibilities of the next few months," Only one American division had ap- peared on any portion of the front up to the first weeks of January, 1918, training not having been compl : but we had in France at the opening of the new year more than 176,000 troops. Our Allies began to feel the delay acutely and to regard the future with forebodings. The British thereupon made another proposition, on January tenth, this time to secure 150,000 American replacements for thelr forces. A memorandum from General Sir William Hobertaon, Chief of the Im- pertal General Stall, set forth the plan, As ito wit discussed in conference later I will give only the substance here. Sle William referred ta Russia's defection and the ex: tent of the [talinn disnster, emphasized the diminished man power of France and stated that heavy losses had compelled the British to cut down their divisions from twelve to nine battalions. On the other hand the Germans hed placed twelve more divisions on the Western Front, bringing them from the east, ao whereas the combined Frenelh and British divisions were fewer by eleven EVENING POST than they had been, Geemany's atrength had increased to a net gain of thirty-nine divisions. General Ro nh conveyed the information that Germany could bring forty more divisions to the Western Front by the summer, but Britain would have 25 per cent less infantry by then, “If France and Ey de not receive gubstantial American military assistance before the summer,” he aid, “the ossist- ano: America i now preparing may come too late to admit of the entente securing the kind of peace for which they are fighting.” Again: "The main difficulty in making your help available lies in sea transport, and from this point of view it is clear that to bring Irom America a given number of men with all n equipment, horses, ete, a9 complete divisions means an infi- nitely greater shipping effort than to brin, the same number of men as battalions, an without tranaport of any kind—which could be found by us. Having regard to the general eritleal situation and to the short- age of our manpower my Government i pared, in order to secure Infantry rein- arcenvents immediately, ta run very conaid- erable riske in the reduction of our present stocks of food and war material in the that later on the American sormer- cial feet, os it gradually increases, may be uble to give compensation for the cargo abut out by the carriage of the reinforce- ments. All could be done without in an way interfering, now or in the future, wi the transport for the American army os at present arranged, and it is estimated that 150,000 additional men—or 150 battalions — d be brought over within 2 or4 months of the time it is decided to permit of their gue ig ci the manner Lae Hea pears t wou Serve any very wl Purpose to put these American unite into British formations unless they could remain there for a reasonable period of time—say 4 or 6 mionthe. . . . "The great difficulty which confronts you in acceding te the above request ia the very natural one of national aentlovent and Re gherer y e la fully appree the Hr govern- ment, who foel that if America can accept the proposal she will thereby display the = possible magnonimity and sacri- na, This was an appeal calculated to touch the rican apirit of sacrifice. Later in the memorandum General Robertson say: “T have already dealt with (a)"—General Pershing’s suggestion to bring over divi- sions in place of battalions, so that the Arerican Army might be built up without further delay—"“in discussing transport; and the @ or 3 extra divisions which avallable tonnage would bring would not, 1 feet sure, be deemed by my Government sufficient justification for the risks incurred in providing the tonnage." General Robertson's Siatement _At a conference some time later, the Chief of the mperia General Staff again made it plain t the British could not make sacrifices in shipping unless they were te obtain use of the American troops 80 transported. . ; "Tt ee gs William urged in =u the Eritish pro 2 matber a tical sentiment on the tne hand and on the other of Germany establishing her- self in a winning position if your assistance does mot come in time. . . . As you are soeaihy wih the SHEA government tie ually wit rit nent the inuatiqadsie value of the proposal and has no desire whatever to raise difficulties in regard to ita application to the French Army a4 well as to the British Army.” The American commander in chief for warded the British proposals to Washing- ton, and in nothfylng the British of this step, tock oerasian to inquire inte thelr main power. “Ta view of the national senti- ment in our country agninst service under an allied flug at this time, it is deemed of the utmost importance, if the above plan be considered by my government, that the « British government declare its purpoe: to exert every energy to keep its own forces aa strong in man power as pons: Only with this general understanding in American would the foregoing plan meet with ap proval there, I would request a full state- ment fram you aa to Britigh resources in this ard, including those at present available and to become available during this yer.” General Holsertagn lost no thee in reply- ing. He furnished figures with which the aT pif world has been made farniliar— United Kingdom had raised ar tained 7,500,000 men for ite arm and of these over 4,000,090 were time being carded on the Strenet armies. Ey bending ever37 effort the British could make axailahl+ iee at the front 449,000 men the training, plus 100,000 more to be « In hit book issued since the war Robertson has furnished somne fgur throw additional light on what th ican commander in chief wea Erp ir at by his queries. “There were al pone of 1918 nearly 1,500,000 rm nited Kingdom borne on the stn the army,” says Sir Williarm in bh "and it was frequently asked + number should be ao gremt. Jt ¢ waa much greater than it Ought been, and aa C.1.G. 5. [ had mar endeavored, th withowt much to get it reduced. The respecomsily reducing it rested with the Army at a whole and not with the Grenen as each department of the Wear Cr tained men at home on serwices col with its own # duties, and tk eral Staff equld do nothing e@xicept bring about o reduction ao ms to 4 more men for the battle fronts.” — “Tt was frequently asked why th ber should beso great! NWearly [,/ men were bore on the strength armies at home in Englund when th ish government wos asking for ! American troops ms replacements fim ish divisions. Pressure on General Pershi An explanation of the Britix<h dif in maintaining their strength on the ern Front rang eer foune in ar port af Sir William Roberteon’s “There were, towards the end of 1911 writes, “probably no fewer than 1.20 men in distant tera, Who, be ite were mainly fighting Turka and Ht and not Germans, and although a proportion of them were native troop therefore not altogether suitable for ployment in France, they contained a siderable mum of British troops could well be spared without incurring risk, a8 cur successes in Palestine Mesopotamia had removed all dang Egypt, Persia, and India, By redu our forces in these theaters to a defer: minimum we would set free not only rt troops for the West Front but also r shipping for the Americans. Ag alr sheen, this was not done.” At this cll bade be well to emp what the Freneh and British propost aimed at and what effect their ado would have had on American effort. government of each of these emant strove to get the United States to cone to the American forces belmg aplit ups AIT ted in its armies by small en In other words, American soldiers wo have fought by battalion or regimer units under British or French comma The United States would have been utili Bao great reservoir to supply the Hritieha French armies and furnis larenen Boiled down to s few words, that = ¥! their every proposition amounted to. Day in and day out, month after mec! the French and British persisted in 1 purpose, They brought to bear ewry a eeivable form of pressure to pain 1 point. In emergency the United. frst yielded some temporary relief in the = they desifed—but all that will shew | good the. It early developed into acm teat between the two Alliea for the us: our troops, a contest provoking no ust hitternesa: but on oceasion, when the was some advantage to be gained by United front, they aeted in concert. Hed Pershing surrendered to thre ce stint and powerful pressure browgst | hear—hod he even backed up an inh- there weule never have been any Amencil Army in France, ond the history of 121 would hawe been different. At a conference on January 24, LA 0 Compitgne, which was attended by bet oral ain, Sir ae Haig, Gentil: obertson, Foch, Pershing, Davidest 1 Lawrence, both Petain and Roberta marked, in reviewing the situation, u! their only hope lay in the American serves. Without them, offensivesorancs offensives could not be undertaken, To asked the American commander in de for a statement of the atate of hia fore (Continwed on Page J4!

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Winni- pra) Julian Sale Lesiber Goods ('0., Tarcnuss, BUXTON KEYTAINER : The original patented Key-Kase THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page 22) Sa: ib aheor pointed out that the question h d resolved ved itself inte one of este and that nothing he plight say could make the troops come. foster. He wished them to understand Pedi however, that any real offensive in which the Americans took part would be executed by them as an American Army, and he could not arnare the principle of loaning men to the Allies except in an em Cy. * The Brith were still pressing their pro for the transport of 160,000 Amver- iran infantry to be arta gamated in British ivisions, no nm became the sabe ject of a itcpeuat of between Marshal Jofre and the American commander in eet on January twenty-sisth, Joffre was the acheme, He thought incorporation er Americon battalions In British divisions would have a bad effect. The Americans would find themselves commanded by a British general ond British stall, and this would inevitably load te neeniment and | friction; in case of o reverse there would to blame the command, As indicative that the British proposal was not in line with their own policy and practice, Marshal Joffre pointed out that the British had never found it desirable in the whole course of the war to incorporate Canadian troopa in British divisions. He considered that the effect of amalgamation on the American people at home would seriqdaly coal thelr fervor and create com- plicntions, A very frank discussion of the British proposnls took place at a conference in the Trinnon Paloece, Versailles, on January twen inth, Present at this conference wore Premier af George, Viseount Mil- ner, General Sir Williarn hertaon, Field Marshal FHuig, General Sir H. H. Wilson Lieut: Col. Sir M. P. A. Hankey, General Fershing, aera Blbe, and Colonel Boyd, aide to Pershing. be a tendency Mr. Lloyd George's Argument Lloyd George opened proceedings by asking what the situation waa in regard to the | incorporation of American battalions in British brigades, to which Pershing replied that the question was in abeyance, pending action of the British Government on General Robertson's dis- patel, Slr William Roberteon then announced that, contrary to thelr underetanding, Gen- ern! Perehing had not aperored the British SE orainiteins aehington and had not intended that the Administration at Washington should believe he did. General Pershing had felt very strongly the objec- tions involved, and his eounter-propesition was to bring over not only the infantry but the reit cf the combe iat troops in these divisions as well. So, said Sir William, be sufficient transport for only cote Bo battalions instead of the and fifty they if complete American ivinons were rought over, amd the aie tor arose as to ther it was worth while for the British to carry out the transaction in view of the shipping sacTificesa involved, David Lloyd George then took up the discussion. He read a cable which General Blisa, of the United States Arm re ceived in London; the Prime Minister in- sisted that this cable meant Washington had agreed to the British proposition. Some argument followed, in which Gen- eral Blee remarked that the whole ques- vont was getting mixed up and that the array ard e did not express ap leh proposala, Instead, Wual- ington submitted the question to General ies and the latter did not a snore. 38 tag gE George reiterated. that the Brith Government hed understoxl from mit received from General Per. a alegre he approved af bringing Oren ove hu rei and fifty battalions for ineor par. tion in British brigades, To this, the American commander in chief replied that be had never opproved the propesition and had never gone on record to that effect, Lloyd George remarked that his govern- ment had interpreted the words ‘serious consideration as tuntamount to approval, Pershing told him they were mot, how- ever—that he had only submitted the plan to Washington for consideration, and in a subsequent cable had emphasized the im- portance of ceening the American troops under command of their own officers. At this int Sir William Robertson drew attention to the faet that the Wash- ington reply referred only to the ahipping EVENING POST rei and not te the tical diMeulty, d suriniised Washington enter- tained no objections te the propeaal, This hint brought Lloyd Gi e again ta the fore. He said he had gained the im- pression thut. the for dec wis fw up to General egret of decision. It seemed to him that the Washington Government wanted a statement from General Pershing as to whether a military emergency actu- ally existed, rigp mer at a politician's standpoint, he thought they wanted a recommendation frame General Perehing: that he himself knew what Secretary Baker wanted—he wanted a statement from the -Srinighoic lc in chief that a mili- ‘i a thir ad to te he considered, anced r. Lloyd ree. rat, t acIng @ these American soldiern in British unite Wat a necessity; second, they must eon- sider the conseypuences of the disuster which might follow failure to do so, They must consider what a terrible thing might hap- pon were ny to turn on the British on the Western Front with all her resources, possibly some Austrian divisions too, i i Haig were to pai ite at a military emergency exis ‘or ting British battaliona in. French divbions would understand that Haig looked on it as sesrinthi that had te be and he himself would be protected by Haig's state- ment for the necessity of such L. After a certain od af war, continued Mr. Lloyd G every administration was severely criticized, In England the overnment had fallen; the same thing happened in France, If he were in Secretary Baker's pluce he would be re- lieved to receive a recommendation from General Pershing in favor of the scheme. General Porshing the opinion that the adoption of this measure would so antagonize national sentiment that political outbursts would create a general oppoation against the direction of the war, and the President would be exposed to bitter eril- ictsm. The Irish population would very naturally resent giving the United States troops for service in the British Army. All sorts of questions would be raised an to why our divisions were not competent ta perform 28 unite under American com- maand. The question would be asked whether we were In the war to fight for Britain, and there would inevitably follow rilgunderstanding a8 to why our offleers did not lead their own men. 4s Ouestion of Method Lloyd George interposed tha: battalions would be under aS othe commander in chic! replied that the brigade and division commanders would be British, and the Americans would be acting under their orders. Before any such pro- gram could be out such a storm of disapproval would be raised that the project would have to be abandoned. The acceptance of this pro was bound to ereate a breach of feeling between the Brit- ish and Ameriéan people, and stir ue pa quay of the French, who would all damination. Moreover, it eiuld ts a i slpation of the present effort to build up a strong American Army. In hls opinion it did fot matter so much where the troope were in line—the thing waa to get them there—so why not aa an American foree? Replying to General Pershing, Lloyd George sald the propealtion was or the fact that it took longer to train divislona than it did battalions, and the urpeney waa grevt, He then azked Sir Douglas Haig a question, and Halg remarked that a German attack might beexpected an times: the Germana were moving to the Western Front ne a Avera of nine or ten divisions weir Henry Wilson said by the firat of Muy the Germans might attack with ninetyrnir divisions they had available, and they might have on the Western Front at that time two hundred and fifteen divisions—already they had one hundred and seventy-four, General Pershing said that if the Ger- mans attacked os soon as indicated, the American troopa the Eritish wanted could be af no assistance anyhow, for they could om be “aitynte hi aver that soon. ifving his objections ta the he ae instead a plan te have the British bring aver the entire combatant personnel af the divisions, giving the British the in- fantry and auxiliary services, and hy the artill te be instracted arcordin the sare plund and on the sane grinds oH April 3 were now being used! by the Ag using French feractora and mate this hy the infantry and artiler be united under one of our a when they hod been . The Allies had not look forward to 1918, but probal campaign in 1919 «also, for wh American must be ‘large and For this reason he oowld mot afford | ap ten divisions, which would be + him in order to carry out the scheme. General Pecsnine aubmirt his own propoeal would occasion ver delay and would render the usefu! the Amerlean forest much mote yi And the American people would « regard a Britizh offer to transport tire personnel of divisions as very re Sir William Robertaom stated tt Britzh could not place the pe lation at the disposition Americansindefinitely. He contend the Eritish plan would result in | ahead faster, al Pershing agin reminded that troops of one nationality wo amalgamate with thase of amothe men would soo become dise and would not do themselves it forces of the British dominion serves in divisions of their own, amd the | had refused a plan submitted early wor to eo te with the Freel At that, George took uj cudgels. He said the British had Teazon to refuse to armalgamate wit Benet in the beginning of the war. ae MG i lniulydie Rie Pace ip tha af the ha PEN had five ; ang of the ve hest quality § in frame the beginnin : @Feame the J jeans had been in the war since last / General Pershing reminded him thy Canadians had net amelgameate! witl Britlah. Lively Debate Sir William Robertaon sald there mever been any call for that; and matter of fact the French had never se the British to amalgamate with # Existing conditiona pointed tea the mr sition te incorporate one hundred and| battalions in British divisions a the! toe meet the situation. eneral Pershing replied that we wi mot meet the military situgtion bet ane plan than the other. Bir Douglas how took part in dissumian, obaerving that the tual waa more seriqus than he had previo thought. General Petain informe | the French would haye to dishand twa divisions by the end of 1918 without a ting, and that such a fight as the G mans might be expected to put up wo cost ut lenst 500,000 menor thirty di sions. With twenty divisions suppres and thirty more put out by the fighti the French Army would be reduced fifty divisions, That was a very efi matter. Sir Deouglas concluded hy dee ing on the difficulty of organizing new dh sions and the ulness of the America in battalion unita according to the General Pershing nr du baw apeaking ‘only from pr pe, willie he to a remark k Sir Douglas Hay General Perahin that the Bnew commander tn el octet to tha the United States was to continue feedin recrulta to the British Army, He dt munded ta know where this propoibe wit suppowed te stop. In his opin ! should stop now, and every effort shoul b exerted te build wp an American Arn. Haig stated he had always umederetoa the scherne was to be a stepping stot 1 wurtl trainin "i turning out Amencl divisions rapid In thot ease ” poplied General Pershiet. he and the field marshal were in eri accord, if Sir Dewglas meant what he ad in rep Sir "Douglas remarked that he = aperine t English. Later, during an = ment aa to whee these battalions would be with the Briel for training or really to make up amore Haig admitted that, incidentally. d make up a shortage. General Pershing announced that he ¥i quite willing to have American oe trained in the British Army an b* actually telegraphed this as a recom? tion. But he understood that Sr Willen Robertson's plan comprehended [edt (Contigaed on Page Jf)

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Mand $10.00 HOMEST ALL THROUGH : THE SATURDAY {Continued from Page 34) American troops into the British line as a more or leas permanent rig are merry t.n Lloyd George said the itish War Cabinet had never understood this, Sir Douglas reiterated that he ate understood the proposition was eine for the training of American trooj Still unconvinced that this understand- ing was clear in all quartera, General Per- ashing atated that he had gathered from Sir William Robertaan that the latter wanted the American battalions pat into British divisions to fill up the depleted British battalions, Viscount Milner now intervened for the first time. His understanding was that Pershing would get his divisions formed more rapidly by passing them through the British line than by oo his training | to the American campa. After General Robertson had read aloud 8 memorandum covering the econdithons said that he happened to be in a slight hurry. beard — later he waa swing abruptly fil "Lilac on the fom gir? A bit of fragrant tonic on wh wild light Sr ane in re: Peavy's oye. oth,”* he eomman yi. With the tou ch of fragrant toni mingling: with the remains of straight fiftern= center Mr. Peavy paid hia chock and out. At the first corner he consulted the huge hunter which dangled from the Elk's charm and chain, It was 6:55, Ho ex- tinguished the fifteen-center and boarded a surface car bound uptown. Twenty minutes later a fat littl man his thinning hair moet marvelously arta and exuding the on penne fragrance of bud- ding lilacs, peered into the Ladies’ Room of the Restmere Hotel, In a far corner a stil figure in black and spangles gat between. a gt ing young thing of babys Padar ah and a Olid mountain of peal and & Pisoni] “The little man siniled broadly and erossed to the sofa, "La, Henny," he bubbled. “Sorry I was late. Got held up, You know!" The lady In black enlifed suspiciously and then nodded her head as if confirming sone preconceived theary. “Didn't want to be inte, You knoe that Henny. Especially g@ fight like to-night. Just wait till you hear why — The lady continued to nod—grimly. “Where are your ribberst*" The silly btth: thing of thirty-four wiggles! autright. he little man laughed a pldrpend fol all right, Henny. Let's eat. There's a fine new picture att “When did you tike those rubbers of?" Someane else in the background of faces latghed outright. A desperate inspiration came to the littl man, "Come on, Henny,’ he said. “It's all [—I—I left them out at the front A belted earl conducted them through a blur of facea to an inconspicuous corner of the Fountain Room, On the right a huge palm separated the pair from another amall table. On the left an aisle, and at its end o in an | the famous fountain eprayed with vari- colored lighta and huge goldfish darting, like golden blades, against the blue-green of the plate-glasa tan The little man amacked hia Lia appre clatively and peered aver the huge menu at the ominous figure wf his companion, “Swell! Eh, Henny?" Henny’s lipa were a atraight line. “Ie you can afford goldtish with your meus lt is. “Weieon. Wall til you hear," A sniff, For the moneint the tittle mon hose to ignore It. mew aber ol Pe “But Henny, they're still good, Ain't ey, waiter? You know what they aay in the rime about the R months.” The litle man waa trying—hard—to ignore the enim Henny sald de dryly: “It ian't A's that my stomach objects to—it's oysters.” The litth: man laughed gayiy at this too pay ly. ‘some poke! Eh, walter! The waiter thetgh ban The lady did not, 5, Henny? itl OL EVENING POST for the ineorporation af the American battallona, General Pershing resumed state- ment of his objections. He sald he ap to make a clear distinetion between battallona with the British for ah for trang ad ar place them there for service. best training troops could i have but he wanted them to grasp clearly that American battalions were not coming to stay im British divisions, but merely to train until ready for incorporation in divi- Se Tete he Thad G eed if nh et is, Lin eore a5 the general pr to take the battalions out of line belore the fight WES OVET, thereby leaving each British division basi mcshocr ans ola ks think an wo change durtrs 5 the ight a: ed Pershing. them out whens you Wanted t then?" persieted Lloyd "T would.” General Poching coded that he insisted on being free to take over THE TIP (Conatinaed from Poge 15) “Roast beef," adhe aald brielly, “frbed tio cag mixed tea and a chocolate éelair.” Aw rent Don't you want some- pp dierent? Some af this New Jersey "The trie oe onler will de for tere." The littl m ropped the card discon- solatel Al right," he said bitterly, “Make the whale thing for tun. water goblet in hand his bitterness left Hen ny Henny!" he whispered hoarsely. “Lack! Lookit!” "At what?" "Coming ‘towards tes. With the head waiter, 1? “Welll™ * Don't you see him?" "T see,” anid Heme: quite calmly, “a dried-up man that looks aa if he never iat ht hours in his whole life,’" Sie! 9 pal mala in come Ain't that just like a womantT" he whis under eover of the dinner eard. ling a man like Henry Loveret dried up an’ never sleeping! Can you bemt it?" ee sald Henny, quite without emo- go that la Henry Loveret, is tt? I -— about ita In the . r last Sunday, The paper gaya they im the Wolf of Wall Street—the poor ott [" “Poor!” ejaculated the little man, “Can you beat that? Why, do you know how many tillions he js worth? Do a, Henny? Well, it's more than tne ret toes, Am’ all i ie neu t three pears ee oof Started as allet & Hallet. Saved | up - male : little clenn-up! Made a littl b pl Then came the big bear market of 1920, Goth! The money he made! An’, Henny" —insidiously—" he didn't start oat with any more than we got now.” "From his locks," observed Mra. Hen- ristta, Peavy, "he appears as if he won't ahs ayer much longer to enjoy it." nice 4 for it waa he, leaned aa far the table as his generous rotundity would t pa H ‘hia “But we have, Henn w ine porn " And in Sl it es aa. Lé I have it at t this time— straight from Ashbrooke himself! © An‘, Henny! He patted me on the back when =F told me! We're going ta be rich, Henny! fa ae Mrs. Peavy at » him with an ominous. ieete arora “Oliver J. Peavy," she demanded, “when waa the first time you made me eomne dawntawn to dinner th is way" “Well, now, Henny "Tt was juat abet anaes VCATS BO We had saved up just fourteen hundred dollars for the farm. We needed n two thouwsend more and it looked so far olff—and you said you had your informa- tion so direct —— "Gh, now, Henny —" “We said that it esr be a bleason to us, didnt we? And we went to work ma mr aver. And “ager when we had a thousand again, after four years af the hardest kind of saving—you—you invited me to come downtown to dinner nm" "But, Henny, T had it straight from Mead himaelf. What a might «all a straight tip—almeat. Mead knew a man pared to put in more to replace those taken away. jean commander In anial ie oe like to be inf d from. Were he to furnish rep nen interfere wih the project ‘3 an Ameri Army. eh 2 carry out the English plan we acheme from the formation _ Shorty after this the conf agp con fret off a ticks by Mr, Pattalle, The seconel willl that knew the vice oh pomeient of oh pany aa well ae] know you, and—ani At ie toler oer the pau fidgety man of thirty-six be inhale his long brown cigarette, just as well he had mot asl to move him. were not always ao interesting the old lady was the straightest, pr thing—like you seein moving pict Site was speaking again: “And the vice president Was 1 wie *t he, O. J." Yost but, Henny aera as — a tip was ever straight th I gx straight from janeeake ‘hing mself, Henny, he laid his hand on my she an "You said that before. They always straight—until it was all ove we wire starting again. No! I s myself the last time that it would ; happen again. Never! Not even | arm never comes. If 1 newer do ope bedroom window and feel the salt i air.” "But listen!" “Oliver Peavy," aald the lady ed finality, “there ig no use talking. | give up the bank book! We're i take the long way rund, but the way igsure. I may look out the window at ecal dust for many a yer, but ja the I may sniff the salt, The Massacho Baileys were always o long-lived cla. were only seber now. “Sober! The little man's knife with a begs sith Betegirade "What do mean, sober? That's what you said « the phone, An’ furthermore, Henny, know epee You know I haven't had « a youd af el derberry wine i in fifteen re now —" “Sobricty,” said the last of the Ba pre slowly, “isn't alw & matte elderberry wine, Oliver! ne sm i it isn't. It's—it's money dru and om is your third jag. ¥ a “ve watched it for many aad man Tt beging when the depxit & testis to draw close to the thousand =i rou hit 1 You—pout pa nial teat the ote at instead p sth on our all pera ere doutle Canfield. You get abusive with lo and talk about getting a ralse or kmow the reason why. You—; emoke dg Instead of your Tae eu—you gel uneasy a8 Luke Tulle down home wea spree time is approaching, And then happens, this time it woos! f eae, Oliver - Peavy, the bottle b gai to stay locked up!" Tt was the moment for a detersit stand. The was his! He worked forit, Hnrd! “Valf was his by rode, And the opportunity! It wait moment for any man—no matte i mesysgoing—=to arise and declare bee Mr. Peavy reddened liberally and le arose for the declaration of r But | didn't. Old Tam Bailey had eold eye. He sank back into the plush | the golden chair. = rightl, Geaheat eee an wag t! Go me thet hundred years. I—I—I——" then inaplration came. “But just the 2 I didn't leave the damn old mbes {Continued on Page 3!

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Coachleg Kame Present. Pioslelom a = 1 ar = = SS ts pri mS a a 4 bel = ' Mead THE SATURDAY {Cestiqoed from Poge 36} the door, I didn’t wear them down hare a-tall, I'll never wear them Behind the palms the ted wor a ety Street grinned and looked al The al bitty was & poacher, a Hall the But the tithe FRaEL lamba were of the Clan Bailey would be mighty small. had spoken of Ashbrooke. Thoughtfully he anieel his coffee, Ashbrooke! It was funny that one of Ashbroohe's tips would come ta reat here! Loveret wondered what Ashbrooke would look like if he eould sit at the table behind the polma and listen to his confidential elerk telling tales out of achool. oes ough. The security had not been mention The old martinet had not let the jag get even that far. Loveret laughed oy mf inikene i Or wasn't it? Somewhere he h once from. some cynical a les pe _broker—" Gut of the Tandthe of babes. —— At lesat it wouldn't be half bad fun, and fun was uncommon. He paid hia check and arose, There was still about this Wolf of. Wall Street, the pol ation bler of the en alursp, much who had and on gna bight green beard and foleed wi Pasalng a the peels of the aisle he etnped, and only the presence of the table oe e wall prevented an apparently nasty “T'm so sorry!" yed with excitement, Mr. Peavy could only open and close mouth con vulsively. Tt wns Henny who en "Young man, you near had a bad fall."" Mr, penvy frenined his breath, “ Dhom't mind her, Loveret,"" pologized, rnp ee didn’t t know you.” “You don't know me of course, Mr. Loveret, but I'm with Ashbrooke, Mead & Oppenheim. You know them. Peavy ia the name.” The Wolf of Wall Street acknowledged the meeting with gamle. “A amart banker, Ashbrooke," he amilled, “lout tos eed ken tive. But aa far as ‘that goes, re bankers are toa rman can, Penagling, Mr. P ki j r, Peavy a knowing whe he con “Soma ot alwa times we ot alae, be con Mra. Pevvy sniffed, unnoticed in the Kaas But I thought bankers never gam- “They don’t, Mr. Loveret. He, he! They don't have to! Not when they ‘have sure things right in the office." “Clever devils, Loveret. though ¥. Mr. Peavy waved a deprecatir ig fark aloft, a fork still impregnated with ie cra section of astonished chaecolate écluir, “Wet that I wouldn't like to pasa it along. Hut ine Mr. Loveret. Carnlidential, “Exactly. Highly eonfidenti al." “Wan't you Mr, Peavy waa reaching for another chair. “No—er—thanks.” The Wolf said it quite hastily but with a disarming smile. "Tam late now, And—and I must atop at my room first and jzet—mi rubhera.' “Well, you see," r. Peavy slowly, “You heard him. The biggest gambler in tedasdceerbe You see what portunities L have. Why, Henny in twoweeks will be ours, an" “T was thin ." his wile interrupte with quict calm, “about hia ab Op PINE to get his rubbers—even with all his money.” Fir TT 8:45 the telephone at- tached to the ornate deak of the firet vice presi- dent of the National Company tinkled musi- cally, as becume the tele phone bell of a first vier president. The e view president suid “Hello” eurtly, " Loveret rai pe “T want you te confirm aureot. I am almost ave Ashbrooke, & Oppenheim The ¥. p. eordia , EVENING POST ything in their shep now aside from poor old Stage?” The v. p. laughed. His best customer's annie “To the best of my knowledge, not an “Certain? Nothing else that's listed on the Board?” The v. p. thought not, giving certain reasons gleaned from financial back alleys. “Thanks! For your trouble and frank- ness I'll tell eomething: Stage isn't hoor. —they must be i by the going to get thal pound of flesh some other ¥. p. said “Thank "and added, “But th spa T never arate At 10:20 the v. p. commanded an imme- dink connection with o downtown num- ber and asked for the senior partner, “Buy me a thodsand 5. 5. FB at the market,” he commanded, and then becnuse h good fellows, though in jumping to conclusions, he 1 ‘It’s really not for me—but for the time being put it in my account." The senior partner winked solemnly at the telephone and touched the button for his colleague. "Char well-known vp. ls buying &. &. P. at oe trarket in thousand-share lota."" Ei baionae grinned. “Hot atuff?" he in Tt looks that way, He's a for the well-known friend." “Would you pass it a The senior nodded his at Piet looks pret bo me; and happen to have a rule about employos and partners speculating in this firm [ was just going, to: suggest that I have a well-known with a little spare cash that wants about tro fed thintanad — The junior gri gTinned agai “Tan't that @ eralaeee now?” ‘he said. ate & friend that wanta fifteen hun- In the building acroas the narrow eafon another man hung up a telephone receiver ate wire tin direct to o private suite in the Restmere Hotel. He lit a narrow flat cigar ond and whistled woftly, te!" heanid softly. "Ten thati= aud thane shares of 5. & FP Where does he | . at the market, his hunches? Eefore this ten thousan calling it THT." is picked up theyll be He called a soft-footed man and spoke to him curtly. The soft-footed man nodded ee ae . Of his way out t h the clatter of shirt-saleeved oper- atora stopped over a seribbling form. “3. 8. PF. at the market," he w pered and went on, A few moments luter the serbrhler lounged carelessly through the door, then con for an independent tolephone. At the other end of the connection o fat man in a cirty little office gruntecl with satiefaction and hung up the re ceiver, He reached fora sheet-of yellow paper whoee imprint read: AROS J. McNULTY SDOCESSPUL SERVICE Pik TRADERS: April 29) Under this caption the fat ~g “To-day's best bet ia S. 5. PF at least twenty polnte."" To a lanky gi an outer offie handed the sheet, “Get this out ps And send Collison a check for a bundy in @ pa envelope.” The lanky girl giggled. Hop i j ivate office of Mr. Payne eee tr. Oppenheim Inughed } ously, “It's like throwing gesolin fire. inf is nervous toc! Simp Sayre ha o five thousand shore: they grab e every offering anjpwhere pes, market." Mr. H Mead nedded thought “Well, that's what we wanted, wasn’ We wanted a chance to distribute 4) more stock before we greased the skid the big drop, didn't we? That wae wh called Peavy in, wasn't it?" oe oO elim ranted conten m it was,” he agreed. Peavy and all of the little buckets: that Peavy knows couldn't margin r than fifteen hundred shares mt the cap Does Eimpeon & buying thous ghare late two ta abowe the ope gale look like wy? Don't make la mu ‘Phe telephone in the corner jangied sppennainn picked wp the rece with, a j A moment later he retour itt to its place with an oath. ht eight hued aoe hundred rl ouzsny lak lock—and paid 3514 for the last th “Coles?” Fhe gare Mead stupidly. "Yes, Coles! And you know who [: stands for. So does everybody in | Street. In ten minutes it will be in ew trading room in the United States. Ca see them reateg *Loveret buy a: PB. Hanged if I haven't half ami ta ——' Watt a minute!" Tt waa the i words from the heod of the house | uttered them from his position by the w dow, where he had stood ie mo full tere! minutes d to the aren of Bread Serat. "Dan's be yuune! Da forget that you Be ah he Don't forget that for a moment! Whaté ference doea it make if Seg re & Sayre i take stock at the market? at differen does it make in the end if a bom gambl like Loveret, even if he is able to boy w sell anyone in the Street at the mome (Cantinned of Page 20!

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of mild, satisfying El Dallo i ia sealed in —protected from “Killing” — changes - wrap “ex its own ech cigar in That's why El Dallo, withits fragrant aroma, means big coloe to the amoker who wants a gener- Not a mere fancy foil wrapping for looks—but a real limate-tight pro- teative foal and ts sue humidor che Lf your ae ler send one dollar (21.00) for the Handy Pocket Edition Package containing 1z large | favincildes, ‘TWertheimer Bros Baltimore, Md. “EACH CIGAR IN ITS OWN HUMIDOR “is | owed to a banking syndicate headed THE SATURDAY (Cantinued from Poge 34) of Stage Steel Productat “True, but ——" “We know that twenty million dollars hy ua must be baa in lesa than thirty days, And we know the money isn't there to pay it. We know the answer!" “That's true"—Mr. Oppenheim licked his lipa nervously—"“but even when you | know, it's nervous watching a market with that damned liler init. And then there prices old & Stage, I woke up the other night ey jaweakee —and found myself | really mennt what he aaid re my ik If he f found out —— Ashbrooke hawghed. “The trouble with and Mead,"" he snid, ° ae your Nerve isn't as long a8 your avai A moment later he anstared the tele= | Bann “Stage Steel Products just came through on the tape at 38. Four thousand shares." | Oppenheim lumbered out of the room. To his private office he knew there was con- | solution in a aquat brown bottle, Tt would | ee ae to remember, perhaps, that he was | a banker. ¥ | REE weeks is, comparatively epeak- ing, a short spwee of the, yet within ita narrow confines lurk unt Possibilities for a man who has something to and | the depth of feeling and dramatic ability to say it effectively, Such a man waa Mr. | Oliver J, Peavy, On the evening following the dinner at \the Hestmere Mr. Peavy returned to his | apartment and maintained 2 majestic eolm a ‘hout the shar meal, The meal fdisposed of, he rem from the inner seo of his neat tobacce-brown suit m thin sheet of paper dotted with meat figures. “Tt will interest you to know, Mrs. Peavy,” he aaid throatily, “that & Steel Products closed tovday at forty dol- lara per ehare. If you will take the trouble to examine this rt le will see that, had T been allowed to fal my own business judgment, a judgment—ahem—based on | seventeen years’ experience, we would have | been two und and sixty-five dollars reher—or, at the rate we have been saving | an my salary, your nas cersancanls thetinacy coat We teday the savings eleven months two weeks, I trust you are satehed with your work." After this he bowed stiffly. On os follawing evening + sare opened the evening paper to the finan page, folded ft and thrust it dramatieally the calm face of his wife. “ Madam,” he sai note! Don't take my word for it! Rend it in cold print, fresh from the lips of one of America’s fore most financial nuthorithes, Here it ia": STAGE PRODUCTS TOUCHES BO IN HEAVY TRADING Followls ad vancnA arasion Stage a steady demand at fractional bout the corly port of te-daoy's teel Products jumped perpen: dirularly in the last few moments of trading too new high for the recent move, In a turn- over of lesa than five thousand shares the stock advanced from 434g to 50 in ten minutes juat before the close, Talk in the Street gives two reasons for the wide enhancement seen in this stork Sarinz the past twodays, Onolathe operations of Upbown apeculator whoao following, oven on aie Teerost hearany, ia great. The other is the fuet. that the company's maturing indebtedness amounting to twenty million ‘dollars will be meet or ox bemded, As hes been often pointed out in these col- umna, the enormous eciation in this steck hos been aut of line with ite book value for many months, and with» turnin the affaira of the comp a condlnion a ae easily be treated which would heave shart at the bent Tar out on the ton Payne Aahbrooke, head of the aynalicate andecectiios tha Jann al the company, could not be reoched, ond in his abeence other meme || beraof the firm refused to make ony statement, Mr. Peavy arose ond held the evidence dramatically extended. “Six months’ Tore savings we hove been cheated out of, Ten points! 1 lh ee Mra. peasy, this thing can't go an, urther, I insite on remaining blind to our ant interests, I will not! We have lost nearly cightorn Tnonths" savings, but we are not poing te lose any more. T won't stand for it!" Mrs. Peavy aroee and faced ker vermilion ape and in ler was the cold Bailey eam of battle oting It. Mr. Peavy a _— nervously. He became less dra- matic, We’ EVENING POST “Wow look here, Henny ——" She calmly arose and n to collect mtr ise peat ket sa at ubletly ta the doar leading Inte the kitchen. Ta SE duet o, she ai he baffled eve a har husband ail ted ics : parties in newspaper byi an the adeetak iy ; Tt was tal in Greek. He had brought it home that night. He would show . Package i bi hand he moved to the window and pret it with a jerk. He waited until he heard ita thud in the court below, then he closed the window with a alam. "There!" he eaid to the closed kitchen dao. “T that'll ahow you who ig hoes around here!" rr ROSS the city three other gentlemen consid the same st eee article, ‘oo Jett out.on the limb,” Lire of the three, and qd his vor vole Was thick. “I tell you no matter how safe it is I don't like it! Suppose he should dig up the money somewhere, where would 1 dig up the ten thousand shares I'm short—an" at what (price?™ "You're not the only one, Oppenheim. Think of someone elae for a change. I"m short ten thausand—pnd ao is Ashbrooke,”” ““Thirty thousand shares in a market like this!" The tan shivered. “Shut up! You and Mend Hida sada bo ha out in See Rereate FOBLNe Saas ram chil- dren. ‘There isn't 9 chanes i in ‘the » world, T tell — unless —urless inlows what?" They | both chomancdend ms Unless don't hang togethe hia “Unless we don rin t market and have one try to get out at the = tector the reat. In pradesh eb might get to a nt where Stage would have enough critters his collateral to give ua the money—eapecially if business jn- aus with the return of this morale he talks about—and I give him credit for that. I think he knows whereof he speaks. Do we agree not to sell?" Mead nodded his head nervously. “ee ‘oroat ai sree Let's h Fr. m wi "Let's have a drink on ee he au But four heure laber, — the privacy of his own chamber, Mr. Oppenheim found slumber impoasihle—even with the help of another ae brown kettle, A sentence farmed phophoreicent charwecters danced ait the wall: “Ten thousand shares isn"t ws much es thirty thousand.” And another: “Number One comes first.” Mr. Oppenheim arose u switched on the night nee By its uncer- tain m he found the telephone and a ee *Spangling?” he demanded, il ee, “Rudolph Oppenheim. I want you to buy inall the Stage Lamahort. An'—an'— Span —do it through some other broker. Get moe, ine, Branming? This is just you and o, nothing is the matter. os what nobody doeen"t knaw don't hurt the At the aries end Phi agling smiled wat yet," he erimly. “No uae goin t het na well wait solilaquized, “Tm until Mead calla up and completes the thirty thousand. nd all just ieetween friesia—and ag usual Ashbrooke beat them bo it. = Avh. gre entunit with the financial page of the local ney lathe him. He was o Mian, an as lange men EO, and from the corner of his mouth a huge brier gurgled and shot ashes. "A litth: more," he muttered. “Just o little farther.”" He reached for a telephone and asked for a number. ateura Laake pio ded, side ae these figures n—t Fe pret ard to believe. In tue ere fied pitt than weve booked in the last two months Thank you, bay! Good night." Sully be arcee and a in front of the old-fashioned marble mantel Like a man long out of rice lve raked his anms and held them far above his white ald hed, Jerkily he prayed, another man sat Frir TAGE STEEL PRODUCTS ercesed 60 with a rush and 70 with ease. During the days that followed, Mr. Peavy con- tinued to make pithy remarks relative to the obetinaey of certain people. Om the April | twenty-third of April the Street trading room in the er wil word from the offices off ‘ de Oppenheim. For the fi weeks Mr. Eudolph J downtown, having been: to his household, ead, who had left weeks vacation, nefunn exactly at the howr of mm of eye ani] nervous, outward sign —of an greebed on other oo cordially and Dookie at t In an outer room Mr. E with importance, i waiting newspaper Men. John ines bs yealecs a Lone, brier sending a whirling over his huge rownded sh ceeded by the bustling Bibr. through the ornate walnut ¢ ference room. He walked gira table and laid on ite shiny 1 of li he blue paper. . 4 fT heft the reewiver at To Frily, ‘ond brought } hank you on by for the—the accommodation, The silence was broken the door. Mr. Peavy ape ReWEPApeEr men were insmets they were admitted he, Mr. B Pear few words tosay. A few word at for the Interest they had shown : fare—an interest be, Mr. Peay never forget as long as he lived was prevented from realizing on 7 unexplnineble obslinacy of a leq Had he but known it, Mr. Peaw the piraersnip of Ashbrouke, nhed eim by that little apesch, | a safety valwe that was ~a football upon belie the thet euld not be said might be exp Ope get out of here!" roared Sad ee atay out!" from Mead. The senior member of the firm te sativfartion in a lower tome— almicet , antly, “Get your money at the cz win ow, Peavy," he aaid, “amd get o bomthow Mr. Pea found hi through the maze of early moonday & Somt way he found his way homes Fired! } ame ib mime to him. enuse of it all! Tf she hadn't be obstinate the thing wouldn't—cow have happened. Amd if it had happen wouldn't have made any difference, * would have had the money—the mon do the things had dreamed of & all the daya an of scrapeg paring Bend rage cleared the curt r vy's ing the fi i rig 7 oot ng the first sprin is feeik. He tied with mare po Ever wae gonel There would 5 be anything but scraping and pare fe the he aban ta come. For ones, boeme would speak hia mind out. In the doorway to the sitting moor fio . Bubeoneclously he noticed | she the window open, Well," said Mr, Peavy, “here J 2 “So T see, Oliver,” In vain ane a Peavy try to b eumiy., A torrent can mever be a iro Hot tears blinded a fant little eyes. tie as qui as they uttered chaotic, | At its a Hee, through the blur kesawt she was holding owt a letter and ancveh His watery eyes the letters refused to fo until oir: ae penn wiped time and ap Finally he hina. OuivEn J. Peavy. Dear Wfadam: Allow me to send yo! very amall commission, which [ fe more than owe you. To your busbar, th please convey my best wishes, | ae ale el a remembrance, ae youn ta, fora te diay. Sincerely yours, Henay Loveiet From the envel pa Mr. Peavy ds with fingers that haraily retain th power to grasp two brand-new thot dollar bills! "Here ia yours, Oliver,” gate hard Mr, Peavy pnbed © atring and alewly remeved the wrap Silently he ir of whiny beck bera upon the table by t he door and Fale slowly over to the window “T tell you what, Beans, Se sad fal “they're just what, ru need down [aS Cape Cod country."

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST People buy where the lights are bright «NUR experience has proved it,” says C. A. Whelan, President of the United Cigar Stores Company. “We know positively that Light not only attracts buyers but actually sells goods,” he adds. “Next to our sales- men, Light is our greatest selling force. That is why we have increased the wattage of our lamps and doubled our cutrent consumption in the past seven years. That is why proper lighting ‘is an essential consideration when we open a new store. “We value our windows for adver- tising purposes at millions of dollars a year in sales. Without proper light our windows would be worth onlyafraction of their present sales value —yet the cost of the lamps is so little in comparison with what they add.” i * * * ate A glow of light in the store window is the outward mark of a progressive spirit inside. Good merchants everywhere realize this. You are pretty sure to be sate if you buy where the lights are bright. To Merchants: Our Lighting Service Engle foers Kawe prepared chee Practica! guides clveting the ) lighting ef che following: Lorgs Drs Geol ond Liepaer Tum inares, Reruall Stowe Show Caote ond Shows Windows, Your peéjdieat, mailed tm the Eden Lamp Works, Har- tition, Mi. J, will bring pou the proper Geookebet oo bewtake- feces ar ance. | Your Bdisen MAZDA Lamp || Agent can sapply pou with eC Ebse riglhe lannpes, a 41 ——e— ees

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42 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April Chart of — Recom mendations How to Read the Charts To correct grades ef Gungoyle Molla fer onging lubricanon of boch peeenger aed) come mercal care are apecsied in che Chart belo Al mcane CGarpeoy te Mota! ny" BB mcans Gargoyle Mobile) «A E mead Gurpovle Mobile +E Arc meant Gargoyle Mobiloil Arco Where different grades are recommended for mame and winter uae, the winter moommendstiome sienld be followed ducing the cniee pored when freezing Ermperafares ry be experienced, ‘Te rotcmmendapind tor prosieeneehss of engines W Con conenienae, © is compiked by the af a and repreecnbs our pry seb sic fabnepben, ‘i But that won’t help your next car. What will? iPenmeghe Dia pala] a |W Chole Binal ha plac Auer Pir. irr [A Tiki (5 yl ee ee = PS PS Ou prea Vou car every care it the lesson thes year than ever before. ee orem ' i | should have, perhaps—save one. More will wake up to the fact thar riley ede: You may always thoughelessh civ, incorrect lubrication dowbles engine Abs kia Mas [Aaa ts jAre cn ne : ‘ ici feu] A en | ee Give me a quart of oil." repair bills, Instead of saying “Give A} a re : ‘ ‘eer hale . ck fe ee Oe eed Qhieer, unexpecied knocka come. © @ quart of ail they will ask for reat SAL lon (ft Pla bf Repair bills seem high and frequent the correct grade of Gargoyle Mo- ee Sect "ot eategtey eee yr Ps om aby jel LA Ae poe uh nun A | A ie a! Operating troubles muliply. The balesil repair man simply can't seem to keep lf vour car is not listed inthe pars the engine sweer You expected to tal chart shown here, ask the dealer. keep the car five seasons. But the He has the complete fist of recom- enpine already shows signs of age. mendations—covering every car bualt 4 A All around vou are men who aon"? r roduc eo a dec Not a gasoline by-product cicero BOE Ue MO arg Tur C2FS 1 every Seas or Tw Puriand Paladalalatalata F. ary 4 1 i 4 4 Ay ut who area? constantly face-to-face Nine our of ten dubricatiag oils on with unexpected repair billsa—whoa the market are simply by-products in climb long hills easily and quietly the manufacture of gasoline et ie TP -teobankehek >> even When the car is old Crargoyle Nobles is Ca | bny- = 5 7 They are the men who fondle product ite 4 their cars a bit, keep them wp well lt is produced hy lubrication spe- aa ' And they are particularly careful ¢jalists who are recognied the world rs a % about Lubrication over as beqders in dubrpcatiuig practice. Have you ever netied dow many af Gargoyle Mobiloil is manufactured | fr ane caivurrnanesan Ganpewe Afohiteil! from crude oil chosen fur its fviry ] N : cating qualities hot for iS rasalerbe Warn ig: pint adie ike Boks Aa Lee (place pre [Ar LAr Jone for Economy content, Grargovle Adobile) is man- Pont. he aided hie cane Prominent Makes of Engines A rect name Astron (mot Ate People are learning that ulactured by processes inilar sounding name, Lasik ne tle nbditarier (ar shea they have a right po ex. oN o designed to bring out the ae ARATE tacos eae a pect more from their biiyekie al fabricating Value tileband forthe red taareovie lubneation, NKloreaute- net the greatest pal- | mobile owners will learn homage of rasoline. Domestic Branches : “q Siew York ie Hi [Afann Cyto! Mobiloil Make the chart your guide

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Palmer, tt never a “@ tio him te de- iO gE Es si be a ureaate pen 4 : auc 7 Su : i, eeter: To get ( shi 4 A Group of Cart: a money he was allie colores, 0 the are obliged to - a Left — Fredarte ' nal! interest in ry i Remiagionby as at ge ac ax fo, aa ee Bi Futtas Thomo. a an an ay: Pa et the Bight — Both these men ~~. “ i. 7. Kasbie oy & him to continue a a Madison iL hike ey argued Wliee Morton's ae cit a8 yet un- | that other the- astiuitable aa the fn Square could E nr it in the ory and that Stiss m had ne right other than tht most tal ome, ae: none whatever in jis © impair Mr. Palmer's ¥ by gE it out of a theater where it had suc tum. As o matter of fact, the new ete were right. Miss Morton's man= vould have efited rather than have ¥ some financial accommodation that | have deferred their premitre. The hant waa preduced in warm weather TE Tot successful, afles Frohman knew nearly all the en playing in the fgg it theater, laying ¢ wilh Haverly's and ntters Minstrels, with modest ven- of his own; ho wat Ee a geen L eperosch- and human person, amd is Little * jest one flight of stair u up De the dwasy sidewalk, where anybody rs [ wirthoat knocking in those aintance and- his popularity rapidly . After Shenandosh he aequired a pol the Twenty-third Street Theater, men Sixth and Seventh avenoes, ard Men and Women, by Belasco ae on Pei eg the playa were then su Lyceum, was followed ta ache dramas and a of fares provided by the skillfully as well as adapti nal William is success built for him the utiful Empire Theater at Brondwa ortieth Street, which he opened wit ‘a fine melodrama, The Girl [ Left d Me, in which Frank Mordaunt Morris, Theodore Roberts and appeared with the aks actor, Wallie r, a4 Dick, Pfroiman's Cheerful Philosophy ‘ay M. Greene, In a burlesque of that. y, tad the colonel in reading ee of an Injury te little Dick, hand the egraph tape to the major and aay, Take f must pet back.” ‘Back aa Fete “To the center of the stage." I'l talk about me. We were friends, Charics Frohman and from our first meeting in LS&2 until he we foat on the Lusitania in i thirty- ree years. After 1892 he nine ays of mine—Surrender, ch natch The fin Upstairs, The Other Girl, Mrs. efingwell's Boots, De Lancey, On the ot, The Harvest Moon and Indian temer, and five others which I had re filten bat dal net algn. I don't remem- er that we ever signed a contract, and [ meare that we never had adifference. He meamong the first men upon whom I called then T first came to Mew York bo go with he Varlowe company, and when | returned vith the though rider Bishop. He waa he Siret toask an pay mw fora Aig Sagi vate city. stute for bina bits aot mentioned abowe. Theme little things were Sten written in bis eet a he pushed thedasde ‘nb mbjet ameup insane rela ta. He had of Ms oldoing that-with other righte—Gillette © Fiteh of Carleton — wd ft wea great fun to ee him some bit for me of his gurl stare and bees him may, “Phat will go in doenaght.”” THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE PRINT OF MY REMEMBRANCE [Continged from Page Fé} Resiagion, Hae ee Ce Thesior by Rem: lageen There waa never any talk of remunera- tion for these little things, as the burden of obligation, if cblaaken existed, wea always Pa] iy the other side for the hate dreds of litth: courtesies that he found one way of another of extending. Charles Frohman had a fine dramatic sense, and without attempting exactly imitation had the mimetic faculty that suggested the object of his portrait quite aa definitely. Mien amused him much, and when he told of hia laat vieitor the interview was likely to be vividly dramatized. I remember a report of a watt of Colonel Alfrend, the Southern awiher of whom I have written. C. F., with his irresiatible twinkle, eaiel “The colonel was here to see me," and then without another word there was the pantomime of the high hat laid carefully on the table, one finger after another 2” one glove ecarefialiy withdrawn, then ¢ entire glove straightened out and laid across the hat; the anme treatment for the other hand: the silk-faced overcoat care- fully taken off, shaken out at the collar, folded, laid over the back of the chair; the button of the surtout carefully adjusted at the waist: mustaches stroked, and the vietim transfixed with asteady and piercing aze. The scenario of a play waa drawn ac one [nslde breast pocket. RS a C. F., ta propria, interru —"T to doe play by J. M- arrie for Mise A ama. bad. ibrought, me in something for Mil ay —' Then ©. F. was stepped; another seenarie came from the other inside pocket. This wes not exactly the kind of story that wae wanted, Then, still as the eolonel, ic. F, put one hand over his head like the legendary Westerner getting a bowie knife and drew a third phantom scenario from the back of his coat collar, this last gesture burlesque, but so in character that it waa impossible te eae the line dividing it from precede com Ch arles aon had a bit af Philosophy that he carried through life, He rood that ex. Istence Was supe portable if he had one Teal laugh in the day. Among men interested in art and the thes- ber 88 cOnnOLE~ seure and patrons the wisest that IT know is Mr. Thomaa B. Clarke. 1 was at a loss bo compre. hend his standard af excellence in the drama until 1 heard him say one time that any - Play which fortwo Eugene Wifey Preebrey ond Froeacit Wilson, Caritatured by Mugestiad Thomas eonstcutive seconds made him forget him- self, made the play- house disappear and him to feel that he was presence of areal event was for him a notable play. Hesnid: "One seldom gots from a studio a canvas af uniform excellence throughout. Therewill be one featurecd it bet- ter than the others. I ean prize it for that feature. And if I get a play with the scene I ve indicated [ go three oor four times. when the scene ison to get the same pleasure from it that I get from the excellent note in a painting.” . FP, seemed to apply an equal theory to relaxation and the day's conduct. The thing that a him he would write upon a blotting pad, and recover somewhat of its poy by telling it to many a subsequent visitor. During the arsila of The Other Girl referred to in previous sriseons we had on our third or fourth day reached the firat repetition of the second act, | was on the stage with manuscript and a blue pencil, the company standing about, slowly marking tions on the , When C. F.'a office boy came with an envelope carrying athe ta back the well-known blue display of Maude Adama’ hame. As the boy ted for an anewer the rehearsal stopped long enough for me to read the ahem inaielie, Tt, carried in large and ue hand- writing, in colored crayon, “How are yen getting along wt rehearsals without me?" C. F. Wins a Bet Taking the inauiny at its face value {rom a busy man I wrote across the note one word * Great,” handed it to the bay and forgot it. Two dave later I atopped in at the office for some necessary conference. His letter with my comemoent wea pinned on the wall. He «aid, ney Earnest me arid for two days, L showed it to everybod He was aleo a ical joker, i eS zo to considerable wnat bs, but never with y af the eruel k of consideration that practical jokes sometimes When Alabama went on its second visit to a a he wis interested in the manage= He eaid, "I'll bet you that it'll do a bigger business than it did the first time." ef rll tener ay we to ca ty t f tlie, didn't Dida td that poe be, and said ao. He wanted to bet, nevertheless, and reject- ing cigara and hate as atakes he fixed wu a suit of clothes. I demurred, feeling it Waa wreportemanlike to bet on a@ sure thing. He generously gave me that ad- Vantage, however, he busines on the second trip waa neerty double, becuse of the fact, af which ©. F. was aware ancl 1 not when he made the bet, a the pla had been chosen for the local police bonefit and all patrelmen o bh were sellin tickets. The in tits reconcil me to the loss of the bet. The bill for the auit of clothes came in with C. F.'s indorse- ment. The price, one hundred dollars, amused him greatly. We must remember that back in L&92 fifty or sixty dellare wae a fair sum for a suit of clothes. 0. F. waa fond af telling all this when he had me and some other man in his offies, Considerably later he Was to open with a new play, the name of which cid not please him. On his blotter he had a half docen priest titles auggesie eres eae had salted during the di The man who winning tithe toa suit of clothes. He told methe atory. I auggested Never in, Which (© F. wrote on the blotter and said would be taken (Continged on Boge 45) gave ‘the Waa to 43 AVE the pistons of your H automebile been playing ary Pranks on you Lagely ? They do that sometimes, But you will know when they commence to cur capers. When your cylinder walls become worn and out-of-round; your pistons vibrate and trembke and ‘the oi] begins te squirt up around chem—rhen you will know char your motor as having a little party with you acting as banker, You will find it expensive if pou den'c crab this ttl game, particularly when your motor begins ec loaf on the job and displays a lack of pep and viper, You'll have to feed the kincy with oil preety regularly and donate » few spark Plugs to the cause, But char won't stop those piston pranks. They'll keep right on cutting into your roll until pou insist on anew deal with new faces setting in. ow I don’t want you to feel shat we're mercenary—but here's a bit of free ad- vice that pou can follow and make some money. It's simply this: Jf you wane real action under the hood, just slip Spencer.Smith Fistens into your engine. Then they'll receive sledge hammer blows at every explosion and grin; they'll] race up and down the cylinder walls with never a skip, faleer, oF eg aeey the power thar pulls you through hub-deep mint and specds you over the highways to the dnyways. No oil pumping and no carbon grefs with Pa ora iths, be- cause we encircle each piston with a arene into which the eal is wiped by lower piaton ring. From the groove the wil drains theaugh beles inte che crankease, This @ a patented Spencer- Saiith feature and it works so perfectly that | am surprised somebody haen’e cried to imitate it. So Tsay: Junk your old, overweight, slug- fish, wasteful pistons and replace them witha set of economical energetic Spencer. Seniths after regrincing ourcylinder walls, Honestly you wan't believe 1e's che same old chariot. Smooth? Smooth as the mahogany above the old tine brass rail. And power? Why you will be accusing sameqne af dissolving satick of dynamite in your gas tank, Did T hear seme dowbgng “Thomas ask “How does he get that way?" Well, it's a far question. Bat we have the evidence—in print, too. The hans is the author and he sorely has wiven adry subject a punch thar would almost be convicting evidence for the probibi. ton oficer—wherever he is, Suse i me a card in care of the Spen- CerecHitl Spt ae Samper, Howell, i penonae ¥, ‘mill mail aking: Your Pistons Michigan, and 1 vou his bookiet, “ Pay a Profi.” Ps 4 Patrad Of! Drain Groece Holice that oll grocer ened the ofl bole They peevent carbon papa cand by perk ny “aS the dawn apeke of (ey piensa ies oll da foto Che grower by ibe third rang and le chen Apples rpg staat pene back inte SPENCER-SMIT PISTON S Raitt ip the Dee doe fectererd of ite eofaatreds H LE)

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‘Coantinued from Page 43) consideration. My wife and 1 dined 7WH that night and wenttosplay. As © coming wptown to the Grand Cen- ation all of the exposed ash barrels, atic temporary scaffolds were being with anipe advertising of Never Went to an a firm and d their best sult: t ce We one od dollars. T asked t ger ee Te way to increase it, ter Mis gdditions induced them to bovet ne hundred and fifteen, C.F. added xf his story. the success of Alabama the con- blic for the South= Imer's attention to by Francia Hopkineon wat The st ory, Which had appeared in thet magazines, waa al in. book Bnd wee probably a best seller; one Of St everywhere. 1 had eare blanche ial, bat felt a litth overawed by vty of the book and the au- : ites author. The play was only » but it marked a i date in my own affairs, a friend- Frith that man of such extracnlinary Sity,. Hop Smith, os his fiends Dhimn, that laghed watil his death in I have at hand no scrapbook to E Uh Poti the defenseless Tender, Inui sk it an act of simple justion to the w of the hook re quicke fram The et of Time by Wil- Winter, Aumertca's eat critic of the EEF: ‘oming as it did at ae when the stage tering freely used the dissection of ttude and disease, Play came like a ze from the pine ds in & morning of og." Amd of the derful artist, dear t Holland, he writes: aviclita: of the F P= Arey Ar. eu a= arter, re. bh his remarkable ek coat that could adjusted for all oc- ioms by a judi- zs manipulation the buttons, his ved wristbands, shining trousers, pisiaontettrre) lorn poverty i his unquench- © spirit of hope, © and honor— a, in that remarkable performance, a tiresgque, Lowable reality." With the uclien of Carter conm- toed, and with plays for Goodwin, Crane 4 Charles Frohman to write, I ended my noection with Mr. Palmer and curned to evaider feld. Mr. Palmer had about cided to abandon management anyway, though with his caution over any con- dered step be did not dose for two years. Mr. Palmer's Retirement During thaw: two years he produced fiby at the Garden Theater and one or wo flay at his own house, in which the eutful Maxine Elliott made her first ppeatunee. Air. Palmer, who had been a ble libration in hia yeuth, wae the moat utrated manager I lenesw personally — fever met Atigibstin Daly. But falmer’s culture made him timid in a busi. wee that was fast offering premiums for denture. I remember the melancholy of de man in his ‘ual retirement, as dir. ne that period he said to me, * I'm an old man"—he wees anfay Pot mH under sixt atthe time—“'and I cannot compete wi these yo men who are coming into e named particularly Charles and Mr, Erlanger. be of interest to remember the if world in which we then were living period beginning in 1892 and cover- mest five years of which I now write, ‘President of the United States waa Qeveland. William MeKinley waa sor of Ohio. Hoswell P. Flower was of New York. The state of ehus had just elected to the ‘Btates Sonate, ba surcecd the tg a Dawes, & Person Compu | sl BS Hh Min sty es Henry “Cabot Lodge. The ture was considering the frerable report of a Senate committer e Wallace Eddinger ia “The Gori fF Left Bekiad Ate" THE SATURDAY roposed Nicaragua Canal, We had uarhiad a decision that it was essential to fave our Navy doubled, Gold had been diseavered in quantities in Colorade, and there was an excited movement to that sae Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick, inir who. ie putes, been responsible for the pre- elpitation af the Homestead trouble. On the other side of the water Charles Stewart Parnell had just died under some- thing of a cloud, was preparing to retire from the premicr- ship after explaining his home-rule bill, Bismarck wes being charged by the Socialists of Germany with corrupting the press with money improperly collected, There was a famine in Russia, In France Ferdinand de had been indicted because of irregularity in the conduct of the Panama Canal enterprise; five dep- uties and five senators were under arrest charged with complicity therein. Deputies Clemenceau and DMiroultde had fought a duel, firing three ehots. at each other, and con- cluded by shaking hands. The Early '90's Thomas PF, Gilroy Wai Mayor of Now York City; the com- munity wns busy dis- cunt rapid transit: and the prospect for a first subway, for whieh itsermed impossible to horney money. There WHS 8 tstir in mu- nicipal consciousness all aver the eo lL. &. Ellert had just heen elected mayor of San Franciaco on an independent ticket and a promise to give clean business os op. passed to the sand-lot ed pid Mat shegpe Miuyror ngres, of Dip troit, had won on a campaign for cit lighting. Meyer Wil- linm Henry Eustace of Minneapolis was cloe- ing & business admin- istration, and at contracts with t lighting companies had five yeara to mun, Minneapolis was re solving at the termination of that time te |, have her own electric plants. Chicago was hoping to elect Mayor Harrison in order a is directlon during the the World's Fair, And Nathan Matthews, mayor of Boston, had been elected on a ticket for municipal lighting and an exten- sion of the transit. For the season of ‘91-"92 my wife and L had resumed possession of our apartment on the upper floor of the Oriental Hotel on the Thirty-ninth Street side, oolkin the roof of the Casino, La the summer a early autumn evenings we could sit at the ‘window or on the little flreescape baleony thereby and aee the operatic performance on the Casino roof as comfortably as if from a private bax, though a bit remote, Part of our royalties that were coming in I de- voted under com Pasi advice to the eal- leetion of a small |i rary, & good for workin Purposes, acid EaMEn ly getting here an there a little pleture that waa worth having. Bemebody has said that when you have ate theroughly seen a pleture you ray safely take leave of it: it will mever again have for you its first effect, For some reason that is not the truth for me, A picture that T have really chosen and that [ like grows more and ane ta be a pert of my environment, and | feel with Dr. Henry van Dyke, who wrote that his pictures were for him windows through which he looked out from his study on to the world. In that apartment, thus agreeably situs ated and surrounded, I began to think about the story for Goodwin. He had been so sucessful im a sentinental bit in A Grodd Mine, written for him by Brander Mat- thews and George Jessop, that though he was willing to have hia new play largely comedy he heped that ik would have a eerivis buckhone, At that time Goodwin was slight, graceful, and with a face capable of comveying D the subtlest shacks of feeling: | | ALL HEINZ GOODS SOLD IN CANADA ARE to consult with their men, with | were having some labor dis- | In‘ England Gladstone | EVENING POST 45 Ready cooked ready to serve EVERYONE likes spachetti—if it is prepared right. Everyone likes Heinz Spaghetti, for it is prepared jist right. The dry spaghetti is made in the Heinz spotless kitchens. So is the famous Tomato Sauce. The cheese is a special selection. The recipe by which it 1s cooked 1s that of a famous Italian chef. It comes to you in a can ready to heat and eat. No work or fuss on your part. Keep a supply of this delicious food on hand. Serve it often—for guests and for every day meals. Some of the Vinegars Baked Beans Apple Butter Tomato Ketchup PACKED IN CANADA

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Seu Die or aprin e ASK TOUR DEALER FOR 7 BULLDOG 75: oie P ENDERS PL» a bah CREATES COMPORT: | GiaB AS TE TG EAM feet THE SATURDAY EVENING POST his ¥oioe was rich and modulated. ay roblem was te find «aster for a blon ert five feeteeven inches tall, weighing under ont hundred and fifty eumds, witha Roman nose and a steady, steel- blue gaze, IT stood the Goodwin photo- graph on my table and looked at it until it. talked to me. The slight tin couldn't explain the solid confidence of that look ex there was behind it a nh. I clarified my problem a little eclding that the gun should be carri lawfully, and a8 there waa nothing sug- resting a soldier in ain ee o wel about was cael to the Kies cf saceill ‘eraons interested in play writing— and 2 am persuaded they are not few in nutmber— will see how that clears the at- | mosphere. When you muster may write | To secure the lave interest I forastaritian abigerars taleretas char- acter pprecaty and definitely chosen. aught of a girl who would be of w little finer strain than the sheriff t indicated and the necessity for conflict au atival. The rival should be attractive but unworthy, and to make him doubly opposed to win I deckded to have him an outlaw, someone it would be the sheriff's duty and businest—bbusiness used in the stage senso—to arrest L have told in earlier chapters af my ex- perience with Jim Cummings, the express robber, who had given a messenger on the Missourl-Pacific road a forged order ta carry him in his car and then after some friendly intercourse had tied the messen and g off the train with a suitease full of acks. The need for a drama criminal ecided me to make use of Cummings as Goodwin's rival, a etre and beautiful mating: Cumm|ings, but ae mare gerd him. bal Rreing aa rescued the aot tho the girl from azy mining camps in whiela rn rind na been groping ag fixed the trio in Mizeccrs. 7 Vewspaper experience in those daya fore the fica and the rewrite emphasized the value of going to the place in order to report an occurrences, and I knew that aside fram thes: three characters and their aie and cir pe reanonship ie reat of my peaple and my play were waitin for me in Bowling Green, Mizzoura, T told Goodwin of the character and the locality got his approval of the idea that far, and teok a train for Fike County Getting Characters In Mizroura Tn those days Mrs. Thomas and : use te hold hands on our evening : but I think it was really our foolish New York clothes that ma smile, At any rate, we sto at his door and talked with him. e knew Champ Clark ond Dave Ball, another Missouri statesman, and had the keenest interest in the coming convention for the legislative nomination, Tt was fine to hear him pro peli we vas nauitee: inne ‘ary it wa originally spelled on many territorial charts, ait ane ite permitted to eall it in the pablic echonls until we reached the ea where iim: culture ruled. The black- amith's helper, who was finishing 2 wagon shalt with a draw knife, wes ‘oiali to | lesa intelligent, and pr | horse, ai Mra: Thomas. A driver brought ina two deseated depot wagon on three wheels and a fence rail, The fourth wheel anc ita broken tire were in the wagon, and. the blackemith said he'd weld the tire at 6:20 the next morni We went without reakfast to see him dait, He was my heroine's father by that time—a candidate for the legislature—and ! To was devising for him a second | thing to sacrifice for the girl's father. eomedy daughter Ag ef apene to the boy with a | draw knife. at day I alaofound the drug- store window and the “lickerish" boxes that Cummings should break through in his me eicape; and r recovered the nig- “dog fannell,"" the linen dustera and ‘the ata eollars which in my recent ‘d forgotten. I also nominated win for the legislature, which in- his importance and gave him some- I was very happy over what I felt was the backbone of a play as Is from Bowling Green to St. Lovie on the return trip. In the day coach my wife and I were the only Paaaengers except a man who aat well forward by the heater and aeemed in trouble, When the conductar, wham I knew, aon alon man. He aru ie That's Nat Dryden. You | must know h the blackemith | I asked him about the » Ga the Foamana. William Crase (a aq Leventrlo Hance, An the Biggin Horry Woed raf? [ did, I went for- ward to Dryden's teat. He was weeping and muttering to him- self, though slighthy consoleal by Licpuor, When | spoke to him be turned to me forsympaths and aid, “Oh, Gus, Gus, Maney died last night." Nancy was his wife, and was kKnown.ab one af the handsomest women in Missouri. “Yea, laat night! And oh, bre, how ahe “Why, [don't think Lever met wour wife!" “Throw it, But you remember that con- ied Jefferson City bet pales I wad @ tn in for attorney-penet T nodded. “The fourth ballot was a tie betwer and that blankety-blank-blank from Calle. County. You were at the reporters e, Ata pause in the proceedings you rose from your impotent and inopportune seat and apt that convention in which you had no rights whatever you said in a loud voice, ‘I sat it distinctly under- stool that the press of this state is for Nat nodded, “Dear boy, it hewt me. But I went home and tald ft ta Nancy, and we've loved you Ba ee a I ped only a day i wife and [ stop only a day in St, and then we started back for New York, There are few better places than a railroad train for building stories. The rhythmic click of the wheels post the fishplates makes pour orate march ms i drum urges a column of soldiers. By ane time our train pulled into New York impatient to make a running teanecsint! of thes of my contending people, But at is a relief that roust be deferred, Like overanxzious litigants, the characters are disposed to talk too much and must be controlled and kept in bounds by a pro portioned scenario, asaigning order and re- apective and progressive values to them, Nat Goodwin Orders Breakfast Before beginning to write I aubmitted the story to Goodwin. He was playing at the Fifth Avenue Theater at the time, I think, in Henry Guy Carleten's Ambition, nut . am positive about his room at the Worth House annex of the Hoffman House just across Twenty-hfth Street. I enlled by appointment at twelve o'clock. Nat ha been a nn wild the night before, za wis now propped repentantly against his pil- lows. As 1 entered the room a German waiter was standing at the foot of the bed with an order blank in hia hand. Nat was studying the menu with a most regretful Hacrinina thsi: Paintly assuming my per- Mission, he gave his order, the obeequicus German reaponding and writing daw. “Bring me a Phere rd of erange juice.” « Minegtass, juice." t + i ieee, try dost," Piece of salt mackerel.” April 25, Pb waiter anawarr and ar Saar by N. DD af cokes "Oa jez-sir.”” Following Nat's appeal awn at's appenl ] niiaitet to the j the significance of Hor. E 4 Goodwin was so enthy about the story that it added stimulation to the our apartment in the di beran work on the play, far aa dialogue went almost itself, One night-in parti talking in minute detail th act to Geodwin, really pl with him, [ went to my tah an early and bb ner, but with ao fee that T had 1 w ve ali Fad na teal af a wreck itwae finished, ay handwriting wer cult te read: baby finally transcrte was never altered, the play ecoule Promp from acript to-day, Al First Nigt Early in the Wa Fair time there ¢ achanee todothe at Heolev's, Gone had a fine comp somewhat misces some particulars, all of ability, with handsome Frank Ca as the villain and a tawer of atrengt! McIntosh, whom I peruaded Goolwi take when he had been rather seton get MeKiee Rankin, a mich more expat and older actor. We hac exactly te days in-which to produce the piece. wasone of Goodwin's greatest first nig [ had frequently been behind the cur with Nat in other plays, but tea mw hegin one. That night in Chi perfect case of seasickness, an sith ¢ t eulty controlled his nausea. during thea He told me then that his nervousness: ane affected him that way with a Pe all never fo his pale face cot descriptive line as apt ope of the in risslons he looked wp atime and said, “ boy, a first night is a hos race that | three hours." After the Goodwin contract I had aged to do | ‘a for William Crane of Charles. mun. The mast imp thve of thes: was for Crane, then pa) in The Senmtor nod looking about fr fal had ‘bo iollew ik, bo Eine some years be! had a play by Clay M. peharg? th Sharps and Flats, in w ich he ard Rot had jointly starred, anc Crreene bad written for Robson and Crane some ol script. Joseph Brooks, Crane's mica wished Greene and me toe write togell It waa arranged that Greene and | & Crane at his summer home, Cohss Greene was to be in that moeighborh with a yachting party. My wile av panne to stop on our way to (eran Fs Besthiny Harbor, Maine, where | Eugene Presbrey and his wilt, Ar Russell, had a bungalow to which they! invited us for part of the summer. At Mr. Crane's home I found 2 reg from Greene for Crane and me to cot Boston, where a yacht on which Gre WHS Bf fUesh wis anchored, This weap able, as Crane had his qwn steam vir the Senator, and was in the haba of rats up to Boston onee or twine a week on cuses not nearly so good, ‘Greene: > was Harry M, Gite, owner of the schoo yacht Ramona. The Senator anche near by and our party went abear Ramona, where, with Harry Giliz pay a tarepatch and Frank Unger etrucanty banjo, the distinguished comedian eho" the oe he eould atill shake a [0 Crane n professional life as 6 ar B Comic opera company, and went Ir (Continued on Page #9)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST TWELVE BODT TYPES LINCOLN MOTOR co. DETROIT MICH. Is it reasonable? If the Lincotn were not surpassing in its capabilities, is it reasonable that motordom would now accept it as the most advanced and most highly developed of motor cars? If thousands of motorists were not convinced that the Lincoin isa better and infinitely a finer ear, is it reasonable that they would supplant their already fine equipment with Lincotns? If the Lincotn were not a car of distinguished character, is it reasonable that there would be such eagerness to seek comparison with it? If the Lincotn did not actually provide a fas- cinating means of travel, never attained in a motor car before, is it reasonable that there would be such great ambition in the industry to approximate its performance? If thousands of motorists had not waved aside any other possible consideration, and if they had not chosen the Liycotn for the all- embracing excellence of the car itself, is it reasonable that Lincotn sales would now be mounting to unprecedented figures? Surely not LELAN D-BUILT

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i iteantinwed from Page 46) to Rice's burlesque, heey Ferme «8 Le Blanc be had not oo ae > baat to dance, Besides jollity ere Wee an amusing incongruait ta a oe Sonaioe™ in yeti : atigue ng a futtling jig on the LVne schooner, After a icval after= Trane went home alone to C y wife and I joined the cabin party schooner yacht under Gillig’s prom- sail ws up te Presbrey’s, an easy of two or three days. rf Cae. Californian, had recently a daw aire. yOUTE cuiple Were of honeymoon The Gill had with a Western party, including, bearles 1d Mrs. Greene, Frank Unger, tigi diye U the’ young pl Theodore W Worres, hee o Stoddard, t, author of South tyis: Harry Woodruff, actor; # Thomas, partner of Charins: Hoy younger group of managers. Gi ‘nger, as mombers of the Bohemian San Francisco, were alao members af ambs, where I had met them amd an intimate friendship that lasted tog both men lived. time the Ramona reached Booth: arbor, Gillig and his cabin ed to ma wife and me leaving it tl to Presbrey. The amiable stir djusted by our spending a few days :ehile the boat crubed near and en rejoining for a run te Bar Harber wek, when our heat took Presbrey d, too, for a sail back to New York, rule ao composed and down ran pe with ita recend, [ shall not write bot oll leave all to sympathetic Blanding wi under the embracing words ellowship, sail and song and basally would be with the greatest regret that {ei ciminate from my experiences that be and parts of two =u Went ores: Aggescples and yet I think that nearly kt embarrassment that comes fram i) one's expenditures exceed hia in- could trace to standards accepted mt tire. Field was wise when he refused ister strawberries, as Mr. Molville prelates, because he feared they would thit taste for prunes; gondii then we fe of the theater are so easily misled ape afd also by a creative wish Only three or four years 4g med fears Miller in San Franeiges, hed myself, he had come to put on a vs in that summer. in, Peat le Why aren't you on a i miter 5. BeREO ft your York theater? | From Pathos fo Bathos use [ was not content with a place country pood enough for any man n, but being a Jane fool theatrical had bo built stone walla around ft, lferraces, avd make a oduction, Now itil working to or it." the Ramona, Greene and I home fed wut astory we thought would do for ' pay ap Tt wasn't easy, Ee all the eomedians at that time, Fae a comedy-drama, something that ge kim a echanee for the untried Hactial powers he was sure he : ih this story i in hand we had g season wiof usin which to write the dialogue. Wihvugh again getting a little out of the ellipses for the sake of eobesion I thread to the production of the ap which we called For Money. je a four-act monstruction, and with a fitnt serious note. Crane played a ln tho had been embittered by anding ‘we deal wile's locket, which he h fubt eomtsined hia on ralt, the fir of anther man. This unhappy lecry lad been made many yeors be ye opting of our atery, and the in- of the pay, whe had come under his tert, eaklig bn pride of her ante Ket showed to Crane a portrait of ber fr, The unhappy star was to regard fied say in a quiet undertone to himeadlf, tas whose picture [ found oh my fol wite’s bosom. \‘irks Thorne or John Mason or Lucien ry might have got away with that line, when Crane spoke it, registering a =) ree, and spreading his bands imanter that had n irresistible in ct-time comedy of Forbidden, Fruit, haa cked with laughter, hter of a California multi- " THE SATURDAY EVENING POST PUBLIC efee2s LEDGER Greene said, “Some of ‘em wanted to me for the man in the picture." ormance wat in Cleveland, reane amd I had a few friends, thetic Feaple tried ta restore the equllibrium of the play by reclating its serloua Values, but 23 Greene ot our. ry when the evening Kes, Pecp People came to me in the lobby yang eld ey liked it, but they didn’t Be moe om the beek." y the end of the week Brooks and I took Rams, for our apie in equal riers ] Waan't a8 aa it might have hewn aed Crane didn't handle serious etait aa well a3 he hoped he would. I once made a caricature in Frank book af Francis Wileon, weder which ank wrote, “Da sublime ou ridicule il n "y a qu'un pas,” which some yeare later [ was able te translate, Bot the fact of the eas atep from the sublime to the ridiculous knew by experience. ‘Two weeks abead Crane's time for his New York season at the Star Theator was waiting for him. Tanid, “Jon, I think I can save the print= ing the scenery and most of the company and make a farce of this thing in time for New York." Brooks ssid, “Por God's sake, do it)" here Ualatentional Rapartet My wife and I went baek te the Oriental Hotel, With clase application to the work, with the brave use of selsaore and paste pot, I rejoined the coumpany in four daya ith a new seript and parte for bh brood farce. We rehearsed It ln Baltimore, teed itin Washington, came to our dress Bal at Sree in aa ks eompany everybody in high spirits, There occurred at that drees rehearsal a commonplace inquiry of mine which I have BEEN qinbed in timespan as an exemple of my brilliant repurtes, when it was only the most. hanest-to-Gioed inquiry a man could make, In the middle of our second act at the Sunday-night rehearsal Brooks loudly elapped his bands after the fashion of the interrupting ma r, came down the aisle af the theater, calling my mame. I came into the prompt entrance, from where T had been rendjusting a light, Brooks said, “Gus, there are a whole lot fe Sans things that could be said right re,"" aw written myself out on the mush ith the acript and worked myself out at rehenruals, and oS to take het from any quarter, I simply answered, “What are doe?" When I he Pelt aoe te company that had been interrupted, and from the few people in the otherwise empty wet, anawer fo as an example of agili For Money played o fing eight weeks New York, but, as | remember, Crane never did it on the A My firet play for Charles Frohman waa ealled Surrender. I beliewed that we wera far enough apa the soe: tea ates rege 2 view of some ta episodes, that alter the sericus playa that had handled it the public would be glad te have the subject treated humeroualy, ©. F, thought so tea, He liked the script as | ve It ta hing, and it was turned over to Bens to Tehearas in Boaton. Presbrey was so appreciative of ite valwoa that he theught jt nm mistake to make o@ faree of it, and after u conference with C. FL, whe wont over to oe at the rehear- sls, ‘they decided co see it seriqualy, stressing melodramati hore, wake point and introducing o arrived at about the dress rehearsal the enthusiasm of those two men overbore my first conception of the story, and we went to the public with it os a serious play. It lasted on Tita cond only some sixteen weeks. Maude Banks, the daughter of General Banka, was playing in the hanes the part of the only Northern girl. A requirement of the seript and of the part waa a blue silk eash on her white dress. aa IT remembered the young women of war days declaring thal | 1 ty. At the dress rehearsal Misa Banks declined te destroy the effect of her white diva by putting any eoler on it, pr ferring te leave the company rather than be disloyal to her dressmaker. €, F. said it was too late to do anything alae it, a the poms luly"s whim prevailed, I don think she ever played uncer Mr. Frofma' ; management again. Laisa ‘Aldrich. a stalwart actor whe a5 a star had won great reputation in Bartley Campbell's My Partner and other dramas, played a Southern peneral with a line that . Er 49 Che MILWAUKEE JOURNAL publishes dailsy PUBLIC LEDGER News “The Journal has had the Public Ledger Combination News Service ever since the service was started. From the first, the service has been remarkably well organ- ized and its management has had a clear conception of its aims. It has foreseen news sources and prepared todevelop them. For supplementing news association reports it is invaluable to us. It is alert, speedy and disinterested. It is intelligently and interestingly pre- pared and, above all, it is authoritative. The Public Ledger Service line on news has come to be a guarantee of dependability.” (Signed) Harry J. 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More than a solid year of smooth, clean shaves is guaranteed from every $1.00 package of blades. Ask your dealer to demonstrate the Valet AutoStrop Razor for you today. ValetAutoStrop Razor supply of blades, i campace case 5 Strops amd Mader mdy aay Bet bodaphl separately, Saves constant blade expense THE SATURDAY EVENING POST T had taken verbatim from an assertion by Colonel Alfrend that the South had whippee the North on a thousand fielda and had never last except when overcome by supe rior numbers. Aldrich declined to deliver this epeech, because personally he was a Northern man, so that altogether we had eonsidernkle trouble with our tem - mental wetors, There came a time in C. F's experience and development, however, when he was somewhat more insistent on the effects that he wanted, and when aclors Were not eo ready to oppose him. In the spring of 1892 we built at New Rochelle the house which is still our home, The versatile, volatile Sydney Rosenfeld at that time was anveng the first if not actually the prinelpal librettist of America, and a weiter of comedies. He had one or two aue- cewet on Browdwiay, and he and I were yer closely associated in the Lambs. At his sugpestion we went to Aew Rochelle te find land on which te drive our stnkes. For some reason or other Sydney postponed his building and finally abundoned the inten- tion. I recall our first day's negotivtian with Sydney's friend from whom we hoped to buy the land. Mr, Leo Bergholz, ever since that time in the United States con- sular service, was showing us a little pine thicket. on his own land, densely grown, the ground covered with fallen lea. He had a pretty wit, but stood somewhat in awe of the great Rosenfeld, who wrote smart din- logue for the Francis Wilson operas and had aleo been an editor of Puck. Very Muck Ineagnite Commenting on the seclusion of this one, Bergholz said, “No ray of sunshine ever lap cn this gloomy fwstneas.” When neither of us smiled at this medi- eval uttermnce, Berghols nepented it. With some diticulty we continued serious. As Berghols approached it forthe third time he lifted his hands after the manner of a , Thee, and dancing in most amateureh fashion aferble jig, hesaid again,“ Moray of sunshine over penetrates this gloomy fmat- TSS. Sydney, looking solemnly st Len's feet, remarked, “That's the gloomiest. fustness. I ever sow." lt was great fun to pn a house, In the old days on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch architecture and real estate had been one af my departments. William 8, Eames, ome af the ngest and most talented archi- teets af St. Louis, associated with Thomas Young, a pupil of Richardson of Boston, had been a meniber of our old life class at Washington University. He tried to tell me something each week about the beauties of his art, and T came to believe that an exeentiol feature of domestic architecture wus a foot that could beseen. According to Eames, the house should droop its wings nod hover ita sheltered broad like a mother hen. A memorandum sketch that I turned over to our New York architeet, and which my wife still hag in her aerapbook, waa drawn on the back of an envelope after many conferenars: af to our joint needs, When we bo build we went ta New Rochelle to board in order to be near the eee! hae There was no hobel. The beat ing house in the place was kept by two elderly ladies, one of them: a Mra. David, whose husband had been the princi- pal merchant of that little city, and after whose family David's Island, now occupied by Fort Slocum, had been named. We were satisfied with their references, and they inquired for ours, With his permis- sion, I gave them the name of Eronson Howard, They had never heard of him and asked his business, I told them and named his prominent plays, The Banker's Daughter, The Henrietta and Shenandoah, They had never heard of any one of these, I said, “He is your neighbor and owns the house just around the corner,” giving them street and number, They had never heard of that. This story of Howard's obecurity waa a favorite one of mine for many years to illus- trate the indifference of the general public to the men whe write plays, until it was superseded by an experience of my own, In 1909 Mr. Shubert asked me to go to Chicago to overlook the performance that the John Mason company were Ewing in my play, The Witching Hour, at the Gare ek Theater. I purposely stood in the lobby until the curtain had gone up, and then in my meat humorous manner as the man in the box office if he passed the profession. The lobby was filled with post- ars bearing Shubert's and Mason's names, April 29, and my own, in that order of impos and display, The treasurer as name, the branch of the profeson Iwas, [told him, He asked mp of some plays 0 had writben. or five, omitting The Witeli said he would have to mak The manager came to the b dow, put me t nalre and shook his head; when I told him how he wus Mr. Shubert, and pointed ta ib sheet bearing the name T hme that he in any way associated | with the type. = At New Rochelle [ became i acquainted with Frederic Eber E. W. Kemble. These two illu been friends for some time elsewd were great companions; but them tiful side of their friendship mesded for its precipitation. Kern tele iim amusing when he cares to be, | are his equal in putting the #F eature late oFdinary verbal rep ment: even his famous “ Koemib da fot show such gure fun. . apanded promptly tao Hemble's however dxf . Moat mene da the same, but Remin When Kemble had loft. hirr 2 view all of Remble's woes of wh ton hed been the repository T dwarfed in the lunger horizon of] ton"s experiences and tronem ube inf splitting jokes, In his mind, / never grown up; and Kemble : Remington's throes, viewed Eemble's prism, were just They took even each other's arta fellows take each other's games. 4 were years when much of their : passed in company. Their unders was mutual and immediate. One alter the theater, on the train home New York, ane t her, Keri was by the ear window, Kemble next aisle. An obstrepercus commuter turbing the passengers, men and Wi The busy condueter's admonition hae ineflestive, the brakerman's repeaiie postalations uwelesa, The mem pas seemed cowed; the rowdy was n fidence. On his third blatant poradethn the car, and as he pesee cemble a Remington's two hundred. amd fifty pe of bone and muscle reached out [ote aisle, and with the precision of m snap turtle lifted him from his feet like a nau boy and laid him face downward | Kemble's interposing lap, With the 4 of perfect teamwork, as Remington the ruffian, Kemble spanked him, while legs in the aisle wriggled frantically {i foothold. The correction, prolonged ra a = a al ens by rom aot =| ter from fifty other gers. Eeing di Remington stood the offender on his & The man began a threatening tirade. fore half a sentence was uttered Hemirg had him again exposed to Roemble’s ths rile tattoo. This was enough, and w again released the fellow promptly eft car for the eeclusion of the amoker. The Hartranfi Statue Tn those early "90's my sculptor fri Ruckstull's relation to life was not unl my own, He was working in a depart=i of art where there was no regularity o! come, and where his opportunities were! result of competition, Noxt to getting order for a play anel finding o story sal factory! to a star or manager wis sl Ruckstull win a commission in a comp tion where his sketch had been appro When he got the order for the Hartna equestrian statue to go up in front of t Capitol at Harrisburg it made quite s.¢ stir in our colony, Besides myself, Remington and Kemble werr artistice interested, After one had submitted a sculptun model sketch which is perhape rightes twenty inches high, the procedure teva the heroic group that is finally to & bronze is through what is called a fou sized model for horse and min fe haps four feet high. Ruekestull dec! rake his final clay model of the finelX prin Prance, Studie rent, plate ing and the final bronze, together = one's. own living for the year that thes would require, would all be eo mu cheaper that such a foreign residence, *" somewhat of a holiday color to i, 7 about pay for itself, His fourth-sised me however, he would make in th ur {Continued on Page £1]! LB

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eatin Frew a Poge 50) efun that it would be for all of us ad him to Laie half ms on i] ni be our hous at AE ger do the work there. ton, a very methodic worker him- e his ability to play in off hours iy, put in an entire forenoon, interruption of a light lunch stil nearly three o'clock. Then ‘during thet bag of Ruckstull's fcame over to look at the prog- pmodel. He once anid that when e wanted to have written on his e knew the horse."" i aid of Remington about as truth- fany other artist that has ever meres, Ruckstull ale koew the tirom another angle, [t was in- to hear the disputes of these two a Rucketall’s horee progressed in ficg. Hemington always arguin redrawn Western specimen | standing for the more mont- picturesque horse of the Eastern y that time | went to Remington's nt day, where he was dro a fr shooting up a barroom. That igure in the fo nd, however, other detail Seat he wakes rea so teningten imum y dua enal outline, and instead he drew man in the background shoating ie TOOnL “Fred, you're mot a drafteman: peulpter, You aaw all round that ud cold have put him anywhere wed him, They cull that the seuljp-= gree ol veuon." gion lwghed, but later Fuckstull im some tools and «a supply of rs wax, ond he began bis Broneo it was characteristic of the man a first attempt should be a subject. tenugh as a technical problem to aunted a sculptor of experience amd eoftechnic, His love of the work wget at it, his marvelows aptitude ut is which he had never had a ean, ae Some evidence that it waa Yhesctier, His few bronze ques that rapidly followel the o Auster and his herole equestrian net ol The Pioneer in Fairmount Pedadelphia, are the work of one who ead have exeelled in sculpture if Vived to follow ft, ie Lent Tribe of Dramatists kin thease days there was a wish to we the theater, not unlike the general iso prevalent now, and which has been entirely abwent; a feeling that mn office ahould not so largely domi- in the selection of o Play. and that mict should not be the | watit offering. Prominent in this mwas Mr. Henry B. McDowell, a { man of enthusiasm and high pur- ted, what was equally valuable at ros er lat ofafortune, Mr. ecided upon a winter's series lays which should | nal One On meee be bean in the apring of 1892 iénner of fifty men, about thirty- ad whom were novelista, raypezine and ports, the remainder being ey engaged in the business of writing 1 inmember among the literary men Wilum Than Howells, Charles Dud- Warer, George W. Cable, Frederic J. a of Boston, Richard Hovey, the i Rickard Harding Davis, Edmund Nema Frank KR, Stockton, mi tothe left of Mr, Bronson Howard, Haring the meal snid to me: "These eee believe that they con- i lost tribe of American drama- nad that the theater will be elevated, ene As boon as they turn their at- be apn attitude startled ame ae ret so pleasantly Br. ae litle comedies, The Elevator, bel ee Register, and the like, ot TM and 1835 in Harper's, ay “Spaing Mr, Howard, I took the Pidsgestiey that that might be the Tey dendtely this veteran then asked j tras, what is a dramatist 3" tae “A man who wrikes playa.” ening What flays have these men ia et enforcing his position Stat the capacity to write plays a = THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 53 invariably evinced iteelf in a diapoeition to do ao before middle life. When called upon te apeak, however, Mr. Howard took ee tie or etie attitude toward the venture and talked hc is One other speech that [ remember in a ral way is that of Mr. William ©. De Mille, father of the present De Mille boys of dramatic and moti jeture fame. One line par- | ticularly had a considerable influence on my way of thinking. De Mille reported o proposition by Harper Brothera that he | should write for them aset.of rules for play- bah Ae e said: "IT at first ia dae the eom- | mission, but later declined for the reason | that I feared that if I once formulated a set | af rules for writing a play I might some | time be tempted to follow them.’ Tt was about that time that Frederic trator and painter, aaid to me, “Tommy, if I felt cocksure of anything about my nee I would begin to be afraid of my- sat. porta to egy © Pesieliy opes mand stout a a Open a the things they were doing went far toward retarding my own ossification. — Mr. McDowell established his Theater of Arte and Letters and gave the five per- formances. Plays by Mr. Stimson, Rich- ard Harding Davia, Stockton, Clyde | Fitch and some other author were produced under the stage direction of Eugene Pres- brey. Mr. Howard took a definite pleasure when the en had cloaed in calling | ta attention the fact that the only play | that made any worthwhile Impression waa one offered by a profesalonal dramatist, Clyde Fiteh, a little thing called The Har- west, which he subsequently elaborated | into The Moth and the Flame, Besides a | very generous subscription fund, McDowell | lost a substantial sum of his own—as | rememier it, thirty-eld thousand dollars. | A Reformation That Falied I saw these performances, and alter a lapse of thirty years [ remember three dis- tinct features: The small talk of a fashion- able company waiting for the bridal couple in a church which made up the ba d @ Fitch's litth play; a line from k Stockton's Squirrel Inn spoken by M Shaw, kn Sian art * ae nurse ora , and whe when the paricain either aaked her if he under- stood bables answered, “I ought ta, I ; incident wherein Joaeph Wheelock, Sr., played the part of whoae wife was a drug fiend, Each sympathetic friend that came upon the stage took the husband's hand and gripped it in silent sympathy. As the audience bean to titter over the repetition of this business Wheelock became sensi- tive. He put his hand behind him when Nelson Wheatcroft, the next member of company, came near him in a su ing scene, Feeling that something de pended on the ture, Wheateroft took | Wheelock oF elbow, recovered the hidden hand and shook it to general laughter that almost closed the perform- | ance. It is interesting, at least to me, that out of this expensive essay these somewhat technical pointa should be the lasting i , and that all the fine literary erings intended for the reformation of the theater should have ao vaniehed. In these early “$0's Joseph Brooks con- eeived the idea of having a play written with ratae Wamtiington aa the central ehor- acter. This was sugyested by the resem- blance between the portrait of Washington and that of Joseph Holland, then at the height of his popularity asanactor, Brooks’ iden was to associnte Joe and his older | brother Edmund. [ undertook te write the play, and made a fairly thorough study of | Washington's life and times. Avoiding the error of the biographical play which tries bo | cover tog much, I confined i Be the pericd when Washington was a colonel of the Virginia militia, and before he hod mar- ried Martha Custis. I found a character for Ed Holland in Virginia's Seotch gow- ernor, Dinwiddie. When the play waa done the professional engagernenta of the two men did not allow them to undertake it | immediately, and before both were at lib- erty one had fallen U1. The jolat proj was abandoned. Having faith in the play, [ wanted to see it tried, and for that pur- post went to Boston, where the Castle Square Stock Company at that time had as ending man Jack Gilmour, bearing consld- erable resemblance in face and figure ta the Love of Oats Foster it in this way The love of oats will last a lifetime if you foster it correctly. Millions of mothers, in fifty countries, have for decades done it this way. 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This was explained to the audience, but when we rang up again the whole thing had taken on such an sir of unreality that two or three other mistakes which have a fash- ion of running Ant grees sis hard-luck nights in the theater destroyed any impression we Tight have hoped for. Later perform- ances convinced me that I had a good play, but it waa never done after that week. Brooks went to the uction of a new piey for Crane cal The Governor of ntucky, written by Franklin Fyles. At the end of rehe star, manager and director felt they were in bad shape a to atory. At thelr dress reheoreal, at the re- be of the author, I indicated what I ought were the weaknesses, eiptested the remedies and told them what [ thought caday morning papers would say. Remembering our quick revision of For M , Brooks hoped something of the same kind could be done with The Gover- nor, On Tu I was waked by telephone at daylight, and at his request came at once from New Rochelle, By arrangement we met Presbrey and Fyles. les approved af all the peo changes, but not beng in good health left the work with Preebrey and me. Between us we had a revised script that evening, and the version went on be- fore the end of the week. Brooks insisted on paying for the day's work. When I hesi- tated to name a figure he suggested the canceling of a thousand-dollar note of mine which he held. I agreed. Willie Calllear and the Tallor A little later than this Harry Woodruff came to see me at New . He had then left the stage and been two years at Harvard College under remantle condi- tlons, Harry had wen the affections of a daughter of a wealthy family whose mem- bers objected to an actor a vgeeme for Shae Weoarall wind tr: divoagh Lintwers and equip himeelf for another profession the objections would be withdrawn. ee also agreed to pay his way. While Wood- ruff was at his studies the family took the young girl abroad, and with a change of aoene and her wider opportunities suc ceeded in arranging for her an alliance with one of the nobility, With this accomplished, the family had notified Woodruff that the financial support they were giving him at the university would be withdrawn. Harry was courageously making arrangements to pay histown way through the remaining two Years, snd reprattahg that he head not se cretlhy ied the girl as he had an oppor- tunity to do. This possible set of relationsa—a young man py eee secret] Fae i _ the ‘amily gto marry his wife to a foreign nobleman—atruck me asa pretty complica- tion for a comedy. Having a contract with Goodwin for amething to follow In Miz- zoura, I developed that story into a three act play whieh I called Treadway of Yale. Goodwin accepted both the asenaria and the finished script, bot before the time | came for production he married Maxine Elliett, of whee dramatic ability he had | such high apinien that he thought the com- edy gave her insufficient chance. He thero- | fore forfeited his advance payments on it and returned the script. It was produced some time later under the tithe of On the Quict by William Collier under the man- | | agement of Will Smythe, and later revived by Charles Frohman when Collier passed under his direction, Collier went to London with the piece. During his successful run with it there Willie had occasion to be meas- ured for aguit of clothes. An English tailor, | amused with his American muanner, @n- deavored to spoof him, a riak that no Amer- ican tallor would have taken. Ag he ran his tape over him he said in his blandest manner: “T saw you last aint, sit, in your very ce i comedy, Have you played that before the King?" | Collier said, “I played it before anybody, I'm the original." Along in this epoch that I am oo infor- mally trying to describe 1 was ane day in 4pril a dark theater listening to a rehe pong intended for Marie (2ahill time, I think, still with Daly, o with Duff. In the syncopated am ment there was a hesitation mot up intermitting heart jamp that so one wotil the family doctor with b on one's wrist says “Too much The radiant composer-piano-playe above hia racket to Mise Cahill, “5 ragtime?” She did, T wae at som distinguish it, but that was my f tion to the term and te the mann thereafter, a year or two, ** ragrtiny stetk word, Same more jars af vided space and attention with ju are cid. On the border line ol | belt T had been brought up om dari While the melancholy of slawery 1 them the negroes, intensely respo and expressive in music, had found in the Stephen Foster Hentuchky Ea of melody and a racial cadence wy the tunes of the Baptist hymnal! lighter output just after abolition » rap-tap-a-tap-tap school of sand da eNish silence-and-fun variety. W equality got onto Sixth Awenue, | the African tom-tom in a red weet. appearance. Jazz was ita offspring ragtime triumphant and transfigu Congo arrived at kingdom come. Plate on faze The nation's fect kept time. Ti step gave way to the fox trot e shimmy came along with jazz. f Africa saw ghosts. Some moralist of a certain ferocity in Nature whie it hed ite inlet by human crime, mus ita outlet by human suffering.” Wh not jazz be the cutaneous eruption virus of black alaveryT If avi Vaughan are accurate in their tran of Plato's Republic the idea is met = as the inquiry, for therein Plato say “The introduction of a new music must be shunned as imperil whole state, since styles of music are isturbed without affecting the mo portant political institutions. The style,” he goes on, “gradually gair ledgrent, quietly inginuates itsel! Manners and customs; and from th laaues In greater force, and makes it inte mutual compacts; and fromm oom it goed on te attack lawa and constitu i ag ing the utmost impudence, wi be averturming everything, bo public and in private.” It might no doubt amuse Plato to fifty years of musical progression in A ica and check its changes apainst our cl ing compacts, laws and constitutions. "But say, this guy Plato—where he get that compas-and-constatution s Whe wised him to anything about: business? sin" ligsunt! Thia Davus Vaughan—words by, music by—I r keteh them on mo big time neither." Frederic Remington, with a naturals philosopher's view of them at they wo fot only in the theater but tn life, refirse believe thatthe overlowing ide of ignor: wos destined to inherit thefnitts of thees He disliked the growing influence of ungssimilated immigrants, He hated politien] herding of them. He loathed politicians because they talked. He le the soldiers because the military a: promptly and without debate. In his in the West the Jocal advent of troop meant sudden and inflexible order. eaw humanity's future sale only un toilitary discipline. We differed, be liked his mettle and hia impatience conditions. At Remington's I met sew of his soldier friends, among them G Nelson A, Miles, then the command major general: ala Capt. Francis Mick decorated for gallant service against Ip and in Arizona ln 1872 and 1872. When finally confused with the reed and inventions for the theater in whiel was then becoming involved, [ resolv again to go for a subject to the plain a primitive things as far as one could & them. Encouraged by Remington, a definitely interested by bia enthusiass, took a mandatary letter that Remingu got from General Miles toall commandas tf the Weat instructing them to given information and gestion, and with t preconceptions as to story went to Anzot in 1897 to get a ploy. Dt was an importa fuming pant in my caret, Editors Mote—Tiie is the ninth of a erica teelve articles by Mr. Thomas The tenth wall ag pear in an earky lerue,

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read my letter from Amanda, But I eould not afford te quarrel with the old raseal; l was too used to him, I nodded mi head at him and spoke te Valentine, * Briggs has been with me a grent man years, my clear; be fs the person to ask of you want anything. He carries my mind and my money about with him. Briggs, this ie my niece, Miss Valentine Forster." I don't think either of them spoke, Val= entine bagi a little, and her eyes lighted with ti ief that was purely childish as she met the reapect{ul glance of my servant, Did I gay reapect(ul? It wos devoted. Yea, he knew who Valentine was, and he was deg worahining her family tree. Pahaw! d «nol af I turned from him in disgust. Crutalde, the trees in Central Pork were tinge! with green; spring was here; the peal with the AWEns on it, up and down which the chil-. dren soil in stimmer, had already been decked out with tiny boats, The sun sparkled on the mirrorlike surface, and the bine of the sky was the blue that only a youn and slencer woman can wear, agic!" said Valentine, following my 1Ze. “T had the picture framed especially for my whidews," I said fippantly, and turned to pour out her coffee, 8 had forgotten nothing; he ut Hrig Drat the had dene Ehat ahd withdrawn. fellow ! Lurged her ta ent, bot ele was almast too tired. The coffee and the warmth of the roam revived her somewhat, and presently wt manned to get round to the subject of Amanda‘s letter, To mi surprige and relief I found her very direct. Moat of the Eng- lish girls | remembered were sa vague and vapatish. Of course thot was seme time age, Things change. She told me that her father had been missing for two woecks. “He just walked in one night, Unele Magnus, and stomd in the door of the drawing-room looking at me, his overcoat thrown back, his white shirt front gleaming in the light from the fire. He looked wET¥ eel aomehow, and a5 if he had been eyed up ta samething tremendous; the way he looked sometimes when he had been do ne wa Fi Coen enecnens that no one else He is so clever," she added aimee “and so—eo0 strange sone times, although people don"t gues that, ever, Mother had warned me about him when he looked that way. T must be very Hiet and mattereof-fact, she sald, and not distur hirn hy my manner; the thing to tio wee to get him to rest, anyhow, any= where, don't know, but [ think that something had happoned onee when they were first marriecl to make mother afraid of what he might do when he was in @ tired mood like that—so I just called to him and he come into the room, throwing down his cont. You know, Unele Magnus, our house in Ver har spr w eta im cada ed entirely with things prandmagaveto F when she was ahah Beautiful, in its way, but not a bit like your room here, "Father had to pasa several amall tables to get to the fireplace, and they rust have annoyed him, because he kicked one of them over and juat left it dying there, and he 14 ao pollte: that waan't t like bim. Tt to be more than a littl: disturbed, st bir gd have let him gee ard ee world, ept on gripping my work a telling myself over pnd over tnside that [ must remember hee mother used to oct and try andl take her piece: when suddenly the clreadful thing papeaens She stopped, anc the face ‘she turned to me had lost every vestige of color; even her lips were white. And her blue eves were almost black, she was so much in earnest. "T don't suppose it will seem horrible to you, shegsaid; “it doesn't to anyone except me, but I saw it happen, you see: that makes a difference. Father cane to the fire and stepped dead, looking over at the ottoman. And then I knew that I'd done something terrible, though I did not see why it should The. “Did you ever hear, Uncle Magnus, of Dick Forster, daddy's younger brother? He was just a baby, I think, when you and father were at college, and when [ waa little { used to think he was splendid, though I believe he was the most awiul spendthrilt, and quite wild, He used to visit at home 3 lot when [I was at echool at Miss Clay- ton's—he was house surgeon at one of the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST JOSEPH’S COAT (Ceatiiued from Page 21) hospitals then—and once when [ was home for the holidays he came in at lunch time and asked for the governor—that’s what he called father—and heaved euch a sigh of Péelief when he found he was not there nor expected, He had curly fair hair and al- “a wore the maak extraordinary clothes: at lewst mother said they were oextraard)= nary, but [used to admire them like every= thing. This time he had on some pink socks with black silk clocks, and a most FO EFeouUs waistcoat: it was of maroan silk, fine as could be. Mother laughed about it; she always teased him about things; and he aaid eeriqualy, “Wlar'—that is what he always called mother for short—'you don’t krow what that walsteaat cost! T just wish T had the maney I gave for it, new." “Well, we had lunch, and Dick waa just 05 guy os he always. Wis, laughing and chatting mether all the time the servants wore in the room; but when the biael groin and we were drinkin our cower he soberedd suddenly, ‘Listen, Mar," he said, ‘wall you o something for me? Will you promise to—to always be the same to me, whatever happens?" ‘Mother grew a little pes. but she pu down her exies cup and emiled at mn. Wh y Dick, you know I will,' che said. Mother had an awfully comforting way al saving things like that. And when she spoke Dick stretched out his hand on the tablecloth—be hod such beautiful hands— and he eaid husklly, “Blesa you, [ believe you will tow.” Amd he got up to go, "Well, I don't know what happened ex- actly because T wasn't there, but mother followed him out into the hall, and [ heard them go into one of the reception rooms and clase the door, and presently mother came back into the room hunted in her desk fora check book and went out with it, and when Dick left he was laughing, and mother came back into the room with the Tarcon-colored waisteoat in her hand, and she was laughing, too, only she had tears in her eyes. “'That absurd boy!" she said, and sat down with the walstesat.on her lap, smooth- ing it absently with her fingera every now ane then, with a little frown between her row. "What was was it, mummy?" Taald. “Didn't Dick take his waistesat?" And she laughed again softly, and sald, "No, the foolish boy; he insisted on tabing Ut aff and going away without it," “"Whoy?! T asked her, bechuse, of cou I was still o little girl, and I didn't pte re stand ubout not asking all the questions 7 che repented ada ¥i a she bought it, dear." les "So that waa all that happened that day, but often after that Dick would come in a walsteost of some diferent design—once it waa of moleskin, I remember, orna- mented with little silver buttonsa—and he alwaya le(t ther bebind him. Mother grew to have quite a collection, and she always kept them in the ottoman in the drawing- roam, clase te the fireplace, and once I re member adhe said te him that any time he ‘Hecouse T wanted toa be particular ay he knew where were; he coul take which one he wan But he only shook his head, latighing the way he always did, “No, Mar, you've been an angel from heaven, but I won't take my trophies until I've earned them,” be said, “Some day I'll pay. yet heck and take away in a “That was the last time I ever ew him, I think: the day he said that. For when I came back from achool the next term he had gone, and mother was very sad about it when I asked her, “Dion't apeak of hin to your father, dear,’ she eaid: "he's very scik on Dick. He ee een arr was just a : he Ways 20 upright and hederite Picectt sd ve “And Amanda told me there wes a most dreadful scene once, Dick had been hauled before the governara of Pe hospital—he was a house su and so clever, they satd—beenuse he had been found gambling one night with some students, Daddy had been called in, and it was due only to his influence that Dick was allowed to stay. He begged and bepged father to tuke him on aa his assistant, but futher—Amanda said he eneered. "'Take you, and have the death of a patient on my hands—while you gambled and forgot!" "Take that back!" Dick erled furiously. *T never neglected a patient im my life, and ou know it.” They glared at each other ike wild men, but father would not give in; he never gave in—he belleved it, I sup J She gave a thy sigh, “Tut Dick wasn't bad, you know; just diferent, rhe always thought he'd come out all F “Once T heard mother and father talking about Dick—I think it was when daddy had been paying some of hia debta—and he said angrily that he hadn't brought any- thing from Oxford but his bad name, Dear mother contradicted him—which & what ehe very aeldom did, Sheaaid, "Oh, youare wrong, Clement. He brought the best reputation a8 B bar Reg hap of anyond in the varaity." And she Jaughed o littl, a aad laugh. She was awfully Dick, “So that night when father came home T had been looking at the waisteonts in the ottoman and thinking that I ought to wrap them up in mceaproes paper before the spring. came, and I suppose I hadn't set. own properly, for father caught hold of it with ax bi an impatient exclamation and instead of shutting it, jerked it open, and there, of course, lay all Dick's faney watstooata! “He stared at them for a minute, and then he put down the lid quite gently and looked at me, ancl he looked ue as he did when the news came of ‘Toddy's death. Taddy was my little brother, you know, Unele Magnus, and he died at Marl- borough, while beer was at school, the last ar ol the war, It wasn’t anyone's fault; t simply had a weak heart and no one knew it, and the rifle exercises he did were too much for him. But father al laughed at him when he said he didn't want to be a cadet, the work made him so tired; and when he died, just because he had been one—though he wanted te, any- way, When it came to wartime, you know, because the ee training even the little boys in all t well, father felt as if he had had a hand in| billing him, “He'd taken up one of the waisteaats— it hap ta be the one T remembered best of all, the one made of mareon=colored sllk—and he felt ft all over ond he hal the micet dreadful expression, I enn"t describe it. Tt wasnt remorse, and yet it had a lot ot, hi in it too, And be ssid, more as if sing Ba to himself than to me, ‘First the little erred and then my son!* Then quite gently he dropped the waisteoat in e box and lie the lid, and muttered ie put Lthot himself. I didn't quite catch it, but I thought he said ‘Joseph's coat [ “T said w n't he have some hot milk, or per nape a Whisky and eoda, but he sald no, he'd have some tea if I could get it for him when it was 0 late, and I went down to the kitchen mysell—it ia in the buse- nent ga a hee ot SaR hear tae anyone ig doing in the drawin ,o course, because that le op tee flights: you remember what English houses are like in the elty, dan't Unele Magnus ?—andl made the tea, All the servants had gone to bed, of course, beewuse jt was really very late; about two o'clock in the morning. “When [ came back with the tea the drawing-roam was empty; but all the lights were on, 6] thought father would be back ina minute, and set down the tray and whited, Tut after n while the house was so still and I heard nothing of father in his room, so | went up to see where he was. “No; he wasn't there"; she replied to my imquiring "We never saw him after that, and I think that. when I was in the kitchen I heard the front door alarn, a T didn't notice it at the time. “Uncle Magnus, we've done everything to find him, everything we can think af, It waa as I had thought at firat, only his evening ¢lothes put me off; daddy had done a difficult operation that night; he'd been dining out and they'd sent for him from the F capital He was simply ex- hosted when he came home, and I sup- pose those waisteoata —— You see,” she added explanatorily, “Dick had gambled away almost all his money, and he'd asked father time and again to let him come to him a3 assistant, because the particular work father epecialized in was more inter- eating te him than anything in the world. But father teld him to keep atraight first and then he'd see. So when Dick simply hadn't anything more ta sell he'd taken to his heels and flown the country, and mother April 29, Fr told me oner that he hed Fone to Americ and died there, Somehow that must hay oa eyed on father's mind, you see. Ther t an Fae Magica explanation. Sore tine Bindi things—the strange: peopl,the mer 1 "Tt was nok in the least like my concep tion of Clement, but I could not tell hi daughter that. He had always been selfis! in his 4; why ahould he haw changed now? It was plain thet he ka been a drag on Marie, and that drag ha descended ta his daughter. Why, this litt irl shawld have been in eclaool mow, oo ftlng in a etrange country for a loa father, But [ couldn't say any of this to Valen tine while she sat with her eyes wh on me, her face tense for something crumb of comfort, perhaps, I don't know whet elae—her lipa trembling with oeagen ness to pour out all that had nm pent up in her heart during that long ride across the OBEN. “You gee, Unele Magnus,"" she eald, WOTY OFS yor think “ever élae thinks that I am crazy to come here ta fine daddy, One excent Clem. I've had to fight them all, all the uncles aod aunti—all the people who even think themselves related to ue."" She ger her hand wearily aeroas her could att that far am inetant she was back ogain in England facing them one @ nnother, all wearing that tmplas- able expression o right that is a0 antago nistic to the one who is determined to do something that ia never done, all with some diy wise argument that means nothing to the person of a jpassion for tloing, righteous or otherwise, And suddenly I found myself wiolentiy on her eide, championing her cause, wishing her well in a quest that could mot be any- thing but futile. At least it would give child & rest to visit moe, to see somethin that Ameries that aa yet she deca = dispasslonately merely a9 a hunt for a lost father. Desire to make her ipa the country for itself roae up in me. She would lave—with pagslon—once she was aroused, this little girl. Fer the first time I sow that she bod Soaeialliae of beauty, of something that ingruished her from the usital min of Ameriean girls, ple though they are— d thare is no mare ardent admirer of the ‘Arpericah woman than l—=something that ect her apart from most girls. Tt camer to me with an “sme my mistiness of the eyes that fil or over that it was a sense of sacrifice, Valentine had prabably never had simply a tim. fhat with one thing and another, lots of ee girls don't. the alight inconvenience caused by the me mistiness of my glasses I had mized aome subtle change of mood in the giv Whe regarded her again she was look ra er nahe waa . ing out at the pork with an expression in her eyes [ had not seen belore, something werdering, almost ecatatic. I did not wonder at her. After sixteen years in New York I never tired of looking at my view, the view of Central Park framed by Hie sky and shining in raretied air. You must have been bern ever there to know how clear the air of even New York is—the gold on the roof of the Cer tury Theater glinting in the sun—the air of charm and hustle everywhere below, | believe even Briggs loved it. And now here was another one, sitting with her hance clasped before her, her eyes mirroring the E of the whole, “Magic, ian’t it? she said in witk out turning her head, just as if she bad known me for a long t and I believe ghs cleat child elt that ahe had, es 7 t—ien't it a foreign city i dream—when you think of Poccient: And” ahe went on, not wuiting for me to amet. “Show fother would lowe itt After he gut used ta it of course, Oh! T musta't me any time hunting for him!* She started out of her chair so rapidly and with such grace that I was surprise. I stood up also, but laid a detaining ban on her ehoulder. “What makes you so sure he is ber, Valentine?" ; She flushed, but her eyes met mao? abeadfastly. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 57 EAUTIFUL HAIR IN THE MOVIES Iw Stars of the Screen Enhance Their Charms

ALICE BRADY

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(Cantiaued from Poge 46) }'ll think me foolish, but [ think be sh birmeself. He's doing some erent, something odd for him. came a trifle closer; her eyes —"“I—I believe he's wearing ex- ; clothes—making people stare for a penance, you know, pie -3 mired Waidteoot, You seo tally ally to you? S coat. ] y 53 (i: sich A or in @ girl's at know a girl could look like fost in my throat; she was much in earnest, I didn't : had come here. It didn't melike him; and yet his daughter know. Whether her ht ar net, I could allot it, I neon her gravely. it doen't seen silly," I said, mr aniled. “T knee it as well as if he ime when he left home that night 30 tired, There isn't any reason in iS grown Persons apeak of reason, seis plenty for me. When I knew ght that daddy had gene—it Cane suddenly that he had disappeared, verything had been toa much for tas mother had always feared it -lsat down in a chair, numbed. I “t think of anything except that he ne, e now that mother was not ota a care of hir. ee te ‘h ght Pout at the memory of them, « ener; a bit I grew quieter, and then I L. q don"t Ohink said much except 21.0 God!" just like thot, but after ‘word anawer came. It wasn't in the ef worda; just that I began to think | America—and I remembered you. red to know quite clearly that I must hertand search, that you would help That @ why I came before ther have

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Mmenory; that's what one Suggested: ammnesin, he ip Green Pond, ry brought phe tI haven't erin ; because I ae that the voice gnutherin es in ihe she continued, hows Fo own absurd littl somehow touched ma as Bothing ar Let her = bellere it if she she wae here they would back in London some- be Let iota—the whole caboodle af *em— ad the funeral and say “1 told you ao" another, IT at least had the flower erg di here me she should try her ty America before she went back ta You're j like your mother ae ize ; my hich after all isn’t a bit what I wanted ay—for Marie had been a soul, unaysa Little dull, while this girl was linet with grace and life and pep. But (dhare thought I'd paid her the finest rae gelatine hl She flushed, and — ay suddenly with a con- Tm sot half 5 goed {"" not," I said dryly—f like ‘with » bit of fire in their Fmakieup, my= ial th Abe suit me,."* he “a [Sen to my surprise she burst out Sand hung around my neck, and I a yall rl Mining her eyes with a hand- rope] easel yr ot uate reladtakerte ot af her oan h ‘em yand ie just as if she hod il ated oat I saw that. atl wag about to suggest that ‘0010 het room and take a nap B Briggs re at suave way of - Mi iets Foon was cll the boat had docked so early rat to take a sleep, and in the sn we could find cut all the in- ber a from the steamship companies aie teem who might have a re- Tin oe ti. the doctor, sé hog of that, but I had to ad- mba. rely ecded “tov evitything shipshape for the - “oi by tht time she was awake, and ms tea peared vith Brigga—l hovered in THE SATURDAY the background, for when it comes to mak- ing artungements [ have te admit that the cal much oe ee I—I hms male voice upra in respectful we come. Briggs had imported an elderly maid for my niere, a creature os perfect ae himself. IT heaved a aigh of relief aa I faw Valentine consigned to her hana be= hind closed doors. But that ahewkl not prevent me having it out with Briggs! He did not even reply to my tirade, merely au ting by his attitude that I apoke with the wisdom of Solomon—that he was humbled in the dust. When I began abe my severity he mats ae Sug ges- e hal been eating Some “Shall I take in hand the Sr inerie of information about the doctor, air? I know you won't want to be bothered with that: too much detail. And Misa Valentine, alr, she'll enjoy society and the theater, but Jane saye che only brought two suitrases amd she bh has nothing fit to wear, Shall I ngs from. Tendrin a, oF will you go your= Be He didn't finksh his sentoner, just ston waiting ea ie of nd I sat my eat pire Kron ba pleasure, I wonder if there d bachelor | in the world who haan’ Conead cpnabe time or ather to dress a pretty woman—not as she wants to dress herself, but as he would dress her? Fora long time ['d owned s half share in an where they breed birds of paradise— ne achat mMumes that had come to me were away in a storehouse, I'd been paving storage on them for yeara and hese Now I had a woman to f she were a very little woman. she was aweet and charming and almost my own fleah and blood! Taprang op with haste and told Bri A ak I'll re rl 9 James, earl" Bai "Eh, what?” anid I eae, Bente | mee ment I didn't follow hi that a9 usual he hod been perfection. oer James is a stately old dowager with a heart of gold, who has been my ee ever alnce I was a clerk pier bree band’s bank, Then when I got on and they gave me a position of trust she gave herself the joy af running me socially, as she called it. I aed t Tr giana at it meant then, but that anyone Mra. Janes ronnie was bound to be in the ruanlbg: she's a social arbiter, even In eee cae See Briggs of course knew this, too, and he intended Valentine ta have the best start possible. Ag I waa get- ting into the taxi he came running down step. “Irs. James will be eased, Mr. Mag- Tig, if Misa Forster you will have ten, with ber this afternoon." lighted Ione Mr. James we'll be de- I said, and slammed the door, lieben ae an excellent all, a man does oecusionally like te little thinking far himself. Val, I could see, would need the most careful shit out. She ag hag be a peasy of she might be almost p golng te be a success, | declared, an I id etitabe to get Tendrin himself out of bed to talle the matter over, He keeps late hours ond usually sleeps until noon. The litth: man bb 6 quite excited after a bit, and sketched two or three of his pet ideas for me, In the meantime he had a ve suit and some amoky fox furs and three or four befarred and befeathered little hata packed inte big boxes for me and sent on to the apartment. He understood that the young mees had distinction, he declared — so much better than beauty alone. I chuckled to myself, because I believed that she might be beautiful as well. But even ao [ wasn't prepared for the Val who appeared in the study. The el- derly maid stood right behind her, her grim face relaxed ina amile a9 she watched me to see the reault of her handiwork. I think she knew in that minute something of how an artist feels a8 he watches the public admire his latest pleture. For I stared at Valen- tine with a Ca] popping aut of my fend. ae of your beauties be Wiad, eeaelaite, big eam mah ated i solt o girl cou ve the elothes and the si her mirror thing thown her. Val had at te the colar of wild rears now, and her eyes were ag blue aa gentians, "Unele Magnus," she soid, “you wiz- Tequeesed her hand: a lump came into my throat. The pretty little thing—the pretty little thing! I felt as if my daughter EVENING POST had come to life before me, though I'd never had a daughter; but [ tmngined I felt as a father would feel. Mra, James was sitting very stifty in her éebalr, but ahe ataod Lip and peered at Val in amazement when I presented her. She tewme quibe excite and whispered and Pinched meal hand behind Val's back. She scalded me ne nat having told her of Val- entine’s ay ra el arrive = hee d,"" she mid "T'd have denied myself to everyone, and we'd have planned 8 sensation to introduce the child. Why, Magnus, she’s a coat inlet Why didn’t you tell me you had thi in hiding? Mun, she'll be the rage in half an heur, ace she’ 4 seen. Oh, if I'd only known!" She rang the bell vigorously. She was just a fraction of a second too late. The butler answered her ring and announced Young Jim at oné and the same time, and the mament he did so Mrs, James locked at me with an expression that said “There, [ told you sol" and waved the but- ler away. She couldn't very weil let her other quest know that she had been going to deny herself to him, when he had caught her entertaining us, But after she had nted Young Jim she kept on mutter- ng to me in an wndertone that it waa a pity—might a5 well not show the girl now. poe her faded, shrewd old eyes would fasten first on me and then on the young kere sitting side by side on the sofa— Jim, 03 we all called him, with his dark head and dark eyes and all hia vig- shining with ite nimbus of red gold, her a dancing, her cheeks pink a8 a een shell. Old though we felt, we couldn't watch them without our hearta softening and our eyes shining a little ton, It was so plainly a case of love at first sight for Jim—and ve he supremely tinconscious of what ing to him, it seemed. She ipa ah ry and twinkled and talked her wounded brother, and Yount Te eden if he were entranced; we stood up to go he quite simp said goody to Mrs. James and went wit tus as if it was the most natural thing in the world. The last sight I had of the old lady she was sitting up, grimmer than ever, in her Btraight-backed chair, and she called after me a5 1 followed Wal from the room, “Tele- phone me shir be bere later in the evening, She the knack of belng as right as Briges, aithou h not ao frequently, But this waa one af the thoes when she hit it, for T had been yaw for half an hour when I remembered what she hed said, For Young Jim had insisted on comin back with us and staying for dinner—an he and Valentine sat and talked and ta ay ane —everything they touched on ger Not that I minded! I loved Young Jim; everybody did! He was simple and manly and unspoiled, and he was Mrs, Janes" nephew and the heir toan enormous fortune, part of Heawg IT managed for him—or sche helped him to mans and I eould ot suppress A ly worklly satisfaction that he had fallen so d ctaly T in love. As for Valentine, the child was made for love, and d showed it! It was like Galatea coming to life out of the cold marble. lt did not take a minute to get Mrs. James on the panne. although she has usually quite a dignified ceremonial before she will take w call, but she must have n walting close at hamd. “¥ou tell Young Jim to come here. I want to see him!" she snapped, In a few minutes she had the whole story out.of me about Val's father, and her voice eoltened aa she heard it. “A good irl," she said; “pool and beautiful. Lord, agnus, you're in luck—as weal,” “Tt'a not my lwek," I told hers “it's Young Jirn's! After all, he's the right ge. T laughed to stifle asigh, but all I heard | in answer waa aanort of wrath, There ore times when you'd declare that Mra. James cel no Tanner—she expresses herself go agnus,” ahe anid, “you make me tired; James used to say you were a finan- cial genius. It's a good thing finance has “pee to do with woren—you'd have ailure all right. You tuk as if you were wighty. Don't you know that at thirty-six —— Oh, pshaw!” She hung up in disgust, jamming the receiver down on the hook in vicious dis- regard for my ears. Gl

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Five years ago she asked me brusquely if I was hg a broken eee eens ee her she attacked ¢ the subject from another angle. ‘Thirty-one, she said, was a sensible charming im to marry; she knew treo Ec. —_ Ags Sigies gravely that I had no de aire to follow in the footetepa of B art Young she awept my levi dh iy 7 ing mee pichurea—the ridbutantes’ of Te . “Tan't thera one that appeals te you?" ahve sald. eth cvulda’t tal her how I tet, Some. res, w det t I caught sight of a face ina erowd—the face of the wort of girl I might marry; but it had never turned out that way, and now [ was af worn, What had an old bachelor to do w ebty, audacious girls? IT was an- raved a ira. og orient he dling old woman, Why dn't she bet: content to watch the photty? eo going on hs th Aarons Vo vies thiig Bacall aye went by All the men were z= ve i eyes Ol for ¥ to Sa ie a tin think ke wie alee pen te I ped to pee feenlne hd t, e only glowed and laughed, thoug sometimes her beautiful eyes had a haunted expression. Each night that she had not found Clement she sighed, and each maorn- was exciting, because it held the pos tieiute al andi him. F reporked na resulta from. Foamy iq rics, even. Val bed told Young Jim an about it, and he was as anxious as she. néither of them doubted that they w either. Sometimes it so outh in faith—because it has not sul- ered disappointment. And to what fragile threads it fastens its hopes. Surmmer flew in that year. It was June before we knew it, and one evening in the first week Valentine came into the library before dinner and perched on the arm of ™Y. tincls Magnus ——" she sald, and we lt pang go through You know ta o me. You what ‘ia ta tees pochenkhig. gad au know that you are face to face with It. “Uncle Magnua," said Val again, bury- her bright head on my shoulder for # ute, ““I—I can't atay here unless I find daddy, you know. I have to go back to T wanted to tell he that it was folly but [ couldn't. T could aee inte her heart too for their father, VU: my had proaf of his death they'd plan for his return. And Young Jim wou aie nothing to say to which she would listen, believed she loved him—but love, in her atretge eate- any Sik ane conte alot dt Tt had his ides of duty 2s an enemy to all soy aa freodonn From which t had tara away, and here I was, up against it again. It was hard-—hard on me! At last I'd found fine cine seen ae ne that made eve BEEN BTM comparison. Tol waa sweet and lovely and dear, and— she wasn't English, not at heart! She'd felt aa if ahe came home, that morning she came alsa And nth all her gentle abd EBS 8 a gayety and a hap arr Sink inden Gee eseen eh ghetto tbe equates T dewed. How U'‘ddwelt on having her near me—an American! One of my own people—some- one who peally belonged to me—but free, free, no longer tied down by all their inhi- bitions and worn-out ideas, Not that I don't admire the British— they’re true blue all through; I'd fight = other man who spoke isparagingly of them—but I didn't iat to explain to Val what I meant, She kn Her little sigh told aa, aa she looked out of the window to the fresh summer green of Central Park. Nothing more was sald just then, but I carried a heavy heart about with me all evening. April A. ," I said that Png od him aa he came ta lock th the night, “Miss Valentine chinks leave us unless ahe can find her ee give 8 a aurea dollars to find eo: er. wTte . a of money, sir," said yes," Fr MY id, lapesi Briggs went on with spin. ? be better than to interru me whes “Wothing, ir," said my servant ¢ “except about Miss Valentine. Isahe wish ta find her father, 2 im a bad egg, sir, if you quse the expression." “ou aeaved cee the trouble of we said I, “All the same, she wants | him, naturally, yin ef eourse hi here: heproba pete ee “T wouldn't hopeful, Mr, ia nus,” said ire aravaly. “Men hor iowa ¥3 Sod raght, gr" they're leg ood nig The next morning Youn * Jim cx and asked if I thought that Valk would like to dine at the i tine | "Ti'a diferent.from a ahe anywhere else, isn't it?" he said. “f au it in the most deferential took my hat. [f you the Uncle Magnus"—he'd ado Val‘s fer me; it made me wriggle trritably. : Pag af Hs pany for you." He pre L wonder it had not oceurred ta mes the Adamantine Club, I'd been a me im ae Old James put me up befor , and Young Jim often lived lace for weeks ata time. It isn't the, pereons distinguished { or that fact alone. But what I wanted Vall te see, more | apy thing es was the clubhouse and the wy ing Style—they couldn't « et be eg had an idea moet had to go home she might as thing possible beforehand. Th fel = FI 1 Young Jim's idea with enthusiasm In of loveliness I had never + Val so beautiful as she was that nigh! we waited for Young Jim to bring } James to the club. She and 50, although the dress appeared dimple, it was Tather a gorges fair, Tt looked aa if a ralnbow kad be caught and twined around a pink ce There was a fan that went with & & Val waved it to and fro as she watehed crowd, al with that half-amiling glx hiding the ae - wistfulness. (Ono & sighed, I have been wrong—tut sg it va it becatise she bated to thi of leaving prevent her, but how—howt [pre ote ar nd sut and gloated over bec ong en Jim arrived I saw bim i dat ts lowed Mra, James actos room. Valentine was enough that nglt | give BOY Than pause. We went into the dining room, fount» table by the window. Valentine we ing to Mra. James—they were pay looking about the room. It is a beat: lofty place, a trifle dark for my tel any but a summer day, but the aak pase ing serves only to emphasize the vant ‘ the keane Fable gaat psig oe ‘or a stage setting. antine wanted ane ; thing different for os anta, and it eer it. erimgon and ail Se ard bititant blue —witt the powdered wiga and ailken alve- quite aut of Bing but gongems, all id don't think anyone elze neticel ¥ even Young Jim. But I saw Val across the room to a parti : specie earn Oe F eyes wi arly, § again, and then bent across the tablet" espoke very quietly, but withaspe* effort at self-control: “Uncle Magnus, I have een ltt Can you go and take Mra. Jame, ples! Jim, I am dreadfully gerry to ape! (Continged on Poge 64!

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ONLY THIS Tinapal aca ti THE PRIDE OF ORIGINALITY MARK GUARANTEES "Protection with Distinction | | people came to him from all over the world 18 BUILT INTO EACH BIFLEX i se iCantinwed from Page 2) but you see, if father did not find me alone —it ia the only chance ——" Her yoiee had a note of terror in it: not for herself; for this poor father. Before 1 could reply she went on with her “ He's—it's abeurd, but he's a i He won't mind me, but if he sees you Her eyes besought; ag almost: pushed me fro Beat. You m grasped the siaon th his usual ine insight. we understand. 7 course we a me. a. oan want us, telephone! We'll be at the Sper bnant, dear." She did mat notios the " Tt wae like a knife in my heart to “or he must have used the word aften. The pain persieted a8 I guided Mrs. James fram the room. " Extraordinary!" shes) muttered], I excused it, ‘or 1 knew that she was ei and wanted herdinner, Mrs. Janes ost, in her sense of appetite, the deti- ats flavor of romance that ia the birth Tight of every lady. Ag we reached the entrance I looked back. Wal eat alone at the table set for four, and a sudden mist came before my a. ‘She looked so littl. I seemed to see ictures of her—aa she had come to bing tar first day in her battered velvet eB hat and ugly tweed suit, and as she was | tisha i, a oe : — ee | | ~ | when

to-night in her foamy pink cloud and binds a fire James coughed, attracting my at- STA ood girl,” she ssid i h a F in a hungry voice. “A good girl, And Lord, how benutifial!" : : Vol sat on at the table until the waiter she had recognized came near. Then she signaled him qu . He came towards her, stooping a a tite in his gorgeows uni- form, a napkin under his arm, the inter- rogatory ression of the waiter born in pli ut there was something else there, Efe a remorse that was sadder than grief, a dryeyed endurance of inexplicable suffering said that the tears rushed to her eyes os ahe looked at him, How camé 60 much wisdom to be locked up in her heart? That waa the marvel aa she told me about it. She knew aa ale met his gaze that he had loat all memory— af her, at least. The words that had been on her lips died away; she clutched the table with her small hands, foreing herself to speak in a gentle, aloof tone, w Walter, my party have not arrived. I feel a little noe Be Bh sitting here alone. Won't take me to some quiet place Peon rv pe ee waitT™ * Cortainly, madam!" He dren her ehair deftl corted her fram the room. The and ea- ig lobb | was almost empty, but she shook her hea at his suggestion that she wait there, and he led the way to a small writing room off the main one. She sat down and looked up at hin. “T wonder, would you telephone to my unde, Mfr. Mi {" Bhe paused. "Does that name remind you af anyoneT" “Wo, he told her; and he drew hia hand across hia eyes as if to brush away a film, "T think it does," she said quietly “omly don't quite remember, do you? What ia Tame er" “Clement,” he said, and stared at her. Once again he made that gesture, in= finitely weary, infinitely pathetic, of brush- ing away something that had tantalized him, A sob caught in her throat, but she “You've been ill, haven't youT” she asked, seelng how thin he had become. "Have you any family, any friends here?™ He hesitated uneasily, moving from one foot to the other, His eyes were on her face now, ond she kept her on him, watchin for # faint spark of recognition. He atl stood, but she pointed to the chair facing her, and he sinepoes inbe jt wlter wn instant ol hesitation, caning back os if he were ineflably weary. And then, a8 the silence persisted, sho had the big idea, the thing that dazzled her as ahe thought about it. She would tell him the story, the a of himself as ehe saw it, Perhapa her volet, and the names she would usm —— ; "Toused to knew someone so like you," she said. “His name was Clement, too— Clement Forster, He was a surgeon, and | foreed it back. to have him cure them. He waa a very clever man indeed, but ao often he was tred. He had a brother called Dick, and ason named Todedy, and a daughter ——™ April 29, 192 She didn't get any further. He stoa Up, ing back the chair and peering her with eyes grown pormige | keen. shadow had dropped a as if the = ghone on it; he touched the little hand held out to him, and suddenly his dropped down on it and he began to om Val fell on her knees beside him, the pi dress billowing all about her, ber little fae a blur of yearning tenderness * Dod ee a a ae been searcht for you arling." = teeters 0 mother,"" he said, looked at her gently, a look that turned almost to eriticiam. “But j;our moth was never auch a little queen of Sheba!” And so by degreea the real Cleme: Fore, "the father she had Known, But he seemed to her atronger, Prieectfite| than she had ever known him, As she tulked to him underatandingly in picked up the threads with ease. trained mind could trace readily ust an had happened to him, and he told Val the he had gone out that night gr he hb disappeared to get a breath of aur, a bpm that rang in his memory like a toll

jou: a ae ao over and over, " Jing a coat, Joseph's coat." Haunted thus mentally, ae | cally so tired that Bee fourd mmovbng ¥s he had run through the streets of th End. <A texienb had appeared iaseue and be'd haiked it, sinking down, on cushioned seat and where!" station, and he'd boarded the train for Liverpool in subconscious effert to escape the sounds within his troubled mind. Of all that happened when he had finally reached New York he did not know, nor how he got there, He'd come to eer of the money he carried, and then, pass ee Adamantine cok one night, har gen the corpses rgequs uniforme of the waiters, cal 6 that old refrain had asked fora job. He said it h at firat to do that work, but lately he had begun to be troubled because he eould not remember who he waa nor why he was there; and he hadn't dared to tell his fel- low workera that, He shrank from their laughter "AE fest," he said quite sim "y used pride see two faces Dick's and od uals Sey faded. I did not why fe saw t but I knew they hurt, = Ob, addy l she erie ing a yearn a they clung together she knew + a had eome back from the See of toe fulness with no longer any real need of I don't know, but | think that ee gil bic wo glad to drop rake enforced ra and ones more as the surgean. Fis never knew that I Sistine tharetaila stare When he came into the apartment with Wal later that evening, wearing ordinary evening clothes, it war in his old easy, rather sell-assertive manner, I saw then | ‘ow wise she had heen: would never have brooked the kecow hedge rahe af hia own, aaye Val, had geen had a ted her explanation Ft mam an oicarse thing. Renlizing that he had suffered fram an attack of amn brought on by strain and repressed remorse. he never spoke of it afterwards, even to Val- entine; he knew enough to be sure of his cure. Inwardly ale clung to thet idea of bers— that he'd worn that us clothing, done thia eae thing—aa a pene anee, even though he hadnt known it. How pay hologst I do nat know. I'm not a iat. The only thing that mm be was that she'd found him, That she should have sensed his feeling did not seem temarkable at all to Clement him self, T suppose it come from having li for many years with poor Marie, always looked as stupid, "“4 course, Uncle Magnus,” Val said to me late that night, when she had seen her father safely to his room and crept out 2 me in the library, "he waa peel at first. For such a long time he'd suffered because he'd been harsh with poor Dick and—and perhaps hadn't always under stood Todldy., It kk very pathetic, really, when you think of it: not even mother auuaptctedt how he felt. “Pathetic? [ growled, “Leaving you to suffer and drag the Green Pond —nevet “i line, just walking off like that! 6,1 know he couldn" pit, but—but he ought to have helped it; and now—to look al him—you'd think he owned the earth.” ([Cantinued of Page 67! We

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{ Contineed from Page 64) semiled at me forgivingly. Did she faint sigh? “Of course you don't t= y. Moone really did, ever, darling meather. II don't, quite. can"t help thinking of how awlully i@ ems DT found him, Uncle Magnus. = frightfully tired of wearing Joseph's lare say '" 7 gald grimly. nowdn't even eek ack the tiny le of Tuamoer that showed a9 she fin- T didi 't approve of Clement Fore- wl To mewer shall. [ could hardly make f serry for him, and yet without Val- “8 faith what a fote might have been Perhaps he'd never have remen- perhaps he'd have lived and died wer. yh! [ was sorry for him when aght of that; but reer ae L couldn't ‘sleep until d her further. Tour father ——" said I. swere interrupted by a knock. retools ed; his manner was so periect to be unetuous, He carried a salver es hand, and before us deposited some m forms. r. Jim suggested before he left, Miss pine, that you might want to send a ze to your brother, Bomething after manner, miss?" indicated a message written ina clear, hand acl ques fmething dawned on me, somethin (had met previously been clear. bed for my check book, Somethin of this kind, Misa Valentine, ce from the hespital in London, would shes Forster greatly, Alaa, there pboat on Saturday; we might secure portation, fe waited gravely. The message waa but it was very clear, Clem would Eestand d exactly what todo, He could ch from his couch, ] the hospital, @ them send an urgent cable to the mer surgeon asking him to make all haste returning. Val read it through twice, aw her lips twitch. Then she bent and her name. at is an excellent idea, Briggs. I— if it had better be sent at once, dom yes. miss; very good, mise." I could have sworn that he strutted, cath he hurried from the room. “Lnele,” said Val, “has it oceurred to ji—wasn't it strange that Briggs had never all ready for you here when and mand Mrs. James got back? Jim told e he laughed, I—unele do you think im thoughe of that eoblet" L shook my head, sighing. “No, honey, don't; the message was in Brigga’ own Titing.” “And Jim said that he suggested) our cing to the ntine Club, Of course i doesn't seem possible, uncle, but it al- nest —doesn't it siege to you as if he must uve kKnown—about dad ri “He probably did," said I bitterly. “He saa undeubt y already eng “state wema on the boat sailing on Saturday, errr ee ate busier I I voice grew a trifle . Lawear eauldant hele it: when a man ia older he wants a pretty young thing of his own close to bi. It seemed teo bad that Clement Forster should have everything. I worked eqsell up inte quite a state about it. “Lf he has" I aaid, “he logea that thou- rand dollars, and I awear I'll diamisa him. i want a servant, net a secretary. Briggs ye be bac’ taken pasange, “Qh, he net tiken faa he?” said Val in wlarm. —it ia ul right abowt daddy, of course. 4 really rar he had better go. He fits bext in Ithink, don't ou? But I couldn't racer Magnus, cou could I "ste wemed to be wating for pte “Yoa are gst tS ara 2 im’! How heavy my heart felt! I ould parily bear the light in ber free. “Wary Jim?" Her voice was strange is she repeated my words, She began to “Oh, no," she said, shaking her had in the adorable way she had brought one from babyhood: “I couldn't marry fm He wouldn't want me, really; he fon thinks he does. Why, Jim isn’t old gic 2 he's Just a ah Te three yeu than A chado tited arin her are, "Tt werd os you wanted me to marry him,” ihe remarked resentfully, “So, ool My ds were vehement, the tured [rom me, but [ could see ber yes ste fced me in the iirror, | don't ior me, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ; know just what exclamation fell from my pa, “Mes, James said I knew nothing 4 E wemen!" I added, almost as if the words were forced from me, "Mrs. James? Mrs. James? What hes she todo with us?" Val shot at me; there was something like a flash of fire in the quicksilver. voice ‘At that minute Briggs tapped and en- | tered again. “The cable has gone, Mies Valentine,” he announced in his best manner, She thanked him, floating fram the room allently like a gay but . Samething went with her, the doora of poradize shut. What a gray old world! “Damn you!" [ roared at Briggs. “Don't oa. know when you aren'L wanted? Na, an't go: now you are here we'll have a litth: explanation, When did you learn of Doctor Forster's position in the Ada- mantine Club?" Briggs did not falter. He a red to mikditate. “T think it was three days after Miss Valentine arrived, sir.” "And you kept this knowledge te your- self? ‘You allowed my niece to live in anxiety gbont her father? You ——" “Well, Mr. Magnus, I kep’ my eye on him, sir; be wouldn’t have esca me, I asgure you, And it isn't as if Miss Valentine were really your niece; that’s all a pretense, of course. Whiy, she never even speaks of you, a8 uncle to Jane or me, no more. I[t didn't seem to be giving the joa tire, sir, to find the doctor in three d His eyes had grown aiceae wistful; he looked at me F etfully. Then he drew himself “8 and resumed his normal manner, standing back for Val ta (Ler. “Tf yevu please, miss," he said quietly, “Toye taken posse for the doctor, State foam B—17, on the upper deck," He seemed to melt from the room. Valentine came towards me quietly, her blue ryes shining through tears, "You sen he didn't take wih him? me," she said, “Will you fix it with 7? II don’t want to ask him myself But even then I didn’t Tiasical I had to turn away from her, I felt so.atrange. Life had grown so gray. Now at last I knew that I was really old: I'd been play- ing with the idea before, “Yea, I'll ask him," I said tonelesaly, and picked up my pen. That silver voice Was MUrmuUring in my ears. aturday—three days cs Three days until mare." Aa Uf she had taken a sudden reselution ehe stood up, er eyea brighter than I had ever seen £ em, the flush in her cheeks a ‘brilliant rose, Over and aver in my mind went that phrase of Briggs: “It didn't seem to be giving the thing time, sir, to find the doctor | in three dayn. What thing? I lifted my eves to Val, and heard her catch her breath, She came closer, leaning over my shoulder, watching me write, “At ousand dollars," she said curiously, "Yor Briggs?" She a glance at me, “Payment, dey Val, for something he did for me; en perfect servants have their price.” A smile twinkled deep down in the blue eyes, came gasping to the surface in a half incredulous laugh. She looked at me, pert radiant, the sudden clear joy of shining through. The lovely, lovely | thing! world rocked about us. I caught her to my breast. Mot even to her father did she use the exquisite tone that now carried her thaughta to me. The spring wind floata the breath of vieleta to the stars in some fulch melody. “Ttonly took three minutes to make ul lave me, Magrivs, and Thad three dayal™. “Tye low you from the first moment— only I didn't understand, Briggs did, the | old reveal!" I told her what he said. gn ne smiled up atime, her arial face trang- Ee Weill always keep him, won't we, Mag- nus dear? He's almost perfect, I think." “Tf Lhadn® t asked you to marry me he'd have given me the idea— before Saturday." She laughed in gentlest mockery—but I believe it. 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THE SATURDAY RITA COVENTRY (Cotinurd fram Page 9) 3 ori became enthusiastic asa child, . a igi Parrish toa match. 6 omer to gi i ize," ified. give the winner a prize, Tight. What shall it be?” at's for the loser to decide." a= his. purpose to allow himself to be ell and to make his vanquishment an for giving her o prevent. Hoe hod ‘exon, 2 to give her a present, What td be © had not determined beyond et that it should be something ex- | amd precious: something worthy of a of feeling for her; a piece of ¥. doubtless: perhaps a linked brace- Platinum and diamonds such as he Hower hit. of giving Alice for her birth-' eteept that for Rita the diamonds we larger to bear comparison with her jewels, Not that he had the least ht of overlooking Alice's birthday, arse he would get her something: hing nice, though les expensive than aoe bracelet, He sien could not wo, a having emptied the magazine of her and made a not discreditable score, sh began to shoot. mitist mis about every other shot," id to himeelf, and he commenced by : 20. Then it struck him that Rita Conotiee the even balance between the ind misees; wherefore he to vary ogra, with the result that he lost t of score, He found it, moreover, msiy difficult deliberately to take falee [we or three times he said to bim- L toust. misa this one," yet when he ‘he would not miss. The ta drew rifle barrel as the magnetic pole a he. Lh was enay enough to miss if you tT want te, but dificult te do it by nt. ring to miss was like trying to at s. To bring oneself to do it— competition and against 2 woman who sever held a gun before—was absurdly cult. Yet Parish, as he fired his last believed that he had thrown the ith to Rita. | Well, you win,” he said, laying down ihitthe rifle, "Who, mol" ‘lertainly you dol" The attendant set him ub en trimmed the lady by three bits," | he. Parrish was surprised. However, it in't matter. Really he needed no excuse Levins her the bracelet. la Pangnintioh for vis bedi anid they f Lip t wilk, "T'm glad you think so. [t's lots of fun. ow you shall hawe your prize.” Like a child at a paerey he was wondering hat the prize wovld kve “Wow? “Yes. We'll goin here.” She was head- ghimupa short connecting walk leading ithe door of a hotel grillroam. “For the prize?” “Yes, The prize is an ice,” He was a litth disappointed. Not that edesired a handsome gilt from her—had be proposed such a thing he would have retested, and sincerely—but he wished tat she had thought of something more eranal and besa trivial; something he ould keep. This grillroom was one of the eayest lancing places on the Boardwalk. The alf dozen negracs who ge aap the music were not playing when they entered and the varmnt oenteal space with its surrouncd- uvg, banks of tables made Parrish think of Ube sandy bed of some drought-stricken ilfeam, n the drum rolled and there bapa of jazz music, whereupon the emply a was inundated, becoming a piped on ahase surfoce dancing figures tinted round and rownd, bobbing, swaying, fomning this way and that, like flotsam at ter Sal capricious currents. r Arent golng to aak me te dance?" temanded Rita presently. The proposal came at a mild shock to Pariah. In his twenties he had enjoye tneeq, and though his interest in it had fiminished with his advance into the thir- Ge, be had remained a dancing man until, mote than ofc barter the time of Clara Priclor's visit to Alice, in New York, be had found it expedient to renounce ie pastime. In this renunciation Clara had been the Stemming factor, for there had come to is apartment in her train a following of sleek-haired, facilelooted youths whee en- tire thought and talk was of dancing places, orchestras, tunes and steps; and t h Parrish had tried at first to make himself agrerable te Clara amd thes: friends of hers on Alice's uceount, taking the two girls and the young men on several nocturnal jaunts to realms of jazz, he had soon perceived that Clara and the youths—her troupe of trained seals, she called them—regarded him as nothing more than a convenience: someone to provide liquar and a limousine aml settle restaurant checks. Neither for Alice nor for him did they show the least consideration: nec they became neconend in axe noisy halfdlisreputable dancing piace they were never ready to go home, é id not core for Rrondway night life and knew that Alice liked it not at all; each time he took them out he saw her growing fatigued with the din as the night wore on, and, himself tired and bored, would finally sUggest that it was time to Fo but only to be overruled by Clara and the youths, whe tinder the combined spell of jazz and high- balla to contract a mild hysteria, a dancing frenzy which possessed them like some demon that only the light of dawn eould exorcise, After several of these unsatisfactory: ex- periments Parrish sewed to invite them out. But they continued te go, and Clara, who did not wish to be the anly woman in the party, waa constantly tugging at Alics, endeavoring te persuade her to aecompany them on thelr jaunts abewt town. This put Alice between two fines. She did not wish to go, and knew that he did not wish her to, yet she sometimes felt obliged to ac- eamnpany her visitor, Tt was when he perceived Clara's por- sistent selfishness that Parrish put his foot down, Partly to protect Alice from further imposition, partly to protect himself from continual intrusions of Clara and the youths when he and Alice wished to be alone, he declared his purnnee of giving up dancing altogether and asked Alice to join him in so pas Of course she a ; phe always did as he asked her to. that day to this he had notdanced: that fact— of course without the detaila—was his ex- cuse to Rita now. “T haven't danced for a long time,” he told her. “Oh, never pilnd, Came on." She bad already risen. ‘There was noth- ing elae for it, Reluctantly he aceompa- nied her te the floor, Then all at onee reluctance turned into delight; the foe of minsic ht and wafted them away m2 enaily i 1 they were adrift aon a swift stream ina canoe; he might have known that it would be like this = _ And you didn’t want to,” said she in light reproach, f _ She was all music. Her speaking voice, rich and mellifluous, was like her tread in walking, while her dancing—ah, it was like a Song expressed in motion. "I want to close my eyes,” he said. “Deo, then. I'll guide." He let bis lids fall, and im that. artificiol darkness, surcharged with melody and movement, experienced an exquisite sensa- tion as of souring with her in a perfect oneness through a vast aweet night. “Sow, he murmured, “we are far up air the stars. How huge the heavens are! We must held to ench other, Rita, or we may get lost." in eyes) aponing, encountered hers, Not since the night of their first meeting had he looked into them at this close range; now, as then, he gazed like one who seeks bo penetrate the depths of some unfathom- able seq. “Are you sory we danced?” she asked with the shadow of a smile as the music died away. She knew he was not sorry, and he told her so aa they moved toward their table, “And yet," he added, “I don't want to dance again—not now; perhaps never - IT want to keep this memory.” the nodded, then suggested "Shall we Oo. “Tee if you'd just aa eoon. Let's po out and look up at those stare we were among a little while ago." But when they first emerged from that brightly lighted place they could not see the stars. 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a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST brillianes, could they discern dim pinpoints of light overhead. “Let's go out on the baleony,"" he sug- gested when they reached Hita's altting Piet, How different now the aspect of dh o heavens! Half the universe spread out before them, the t dna: star-dusted, overhend; and below, stretch- April 29, This morning, however, she wa pra Five minutes—ten ming teen minutes past the appointed tis sat watching the elevators. There | to return to him dimly, like memos a nightmare, recollections of other | when be had waited for her thus—in Matters were, however, on a different ing now; there would be mo more of miserable uncertainty; this was the m little tardiness, : Still—what was keeping her? Shea surely to be down by naw. He woul to his room and ring her up again. 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He turned her toward him, closed hla eyes, and with that power of divination that eames in the dark ta lovers found her lips, Oneof her hands was resting on the leave al his overcoat, and now he could feel it creeping upward sti ong the collar of his coat and ao arvund his neck. “Tell me you love me, Rita!" She moved her head as though in ac- quiescence. “But tell me! Say it! She drew AWAY & little, "T love you,’ Saat "That ia —— She did not answer instantly: ashe seemed to be questioning herself; then, Wea." she replied, “I think a lot." “But if you love mea lot,” be asked “why did you want to qualify nt all?" “Only because these things—if I shouldn't love you always ao much ss you wish me to—if it should end—why, then I —— He not hear her out. “But it's not going to end!" he cried, drawing her close to him again. “It's go- ing to grow! It's going to the big con- suming ear in both our lives! You'll see! You'll sea ie E WAS already thinking of Rita when early next morning he awoke. Sun- light we strtaming into his windows with the fresh salt sir. His sleep had miraculously a him. He leaped out of bed like a happy boy, and to the pean ca lr i ia running bath water and the metrical click of his razor on the Re tied le were in the dini that bay: our, and when, havin ati he out to the Bourdwalk he 1 abe at ite emptiness, [et was like Wall Street on a Sunday, he reflected; and ft oecurred to him that WHS BODE thing ms ah in the spectacle of empti- ness where usually there is a crowd ag in the spectacle of crowds in unaccustomed AOEE. For a moment he leaned upon the iran railing, watching the surf break on the golden sand and me aa deep breaths af mild, invigorating air, It seemed te him that he had never amelled a breece so sweet or aten a sun ao brilliant. What a pity, he thought, 29 he walked briskly off, thot everyone wis net out to enjoy the morning, What a pity thut Rita was not up to wa with bir. =e Sap fold him that eleven was her r rising, by half past ten he was back at the hotel, waiting in his room, and promptly at eleven he te ephoned to her. His good morning bad the sound of a caress. “How cid you sleep?’ be asked. “Splendidly. And yout" He told of his early start, his walk, the glory af the day. OU Hever Say such a morning. Yow must hurry and get out." fe But ‘aul want waint te walk any more, will you "Dusk try me! When will you be ready?" “Tl hurry all [ can," “Let me come and sit while you have brenicfast.” "I've bad my breakfast.” "Then let me wait in your parlor while you're getting ready." “The plane tuner’s there.” "hl" He wanted so much to see her. It was hard to walt. “Tl meet you downstairs in the lobisy in an howe.” Pom at brenk= = ping at his own door as he had inte & continued until he came to bers 2 drow near he heard the muffled soa a plano, and he was raising his har ‘knock at her door when he realized thy Milisie was coming from within. Ah, that then was the cause of the de Naturally. The piano tuner having ; pleted his work, Rita was trying out instrument and, artistlike, hod lest track of time. Without knocking he paused. Saw the night of her dinner party in New ¥ when she had accompanied hersel/ Drink tao Me Only With Thine Eye had never heard her play, and be astounded now by the brilliance af virtuosity. The composition she was plajirg nat familiar to him. It was a strange full of curious melancholy cadences. stood motionless, listening, until the | notes had been struck. Then he knock “Why didn’t you let me Know that ; Were Jat ee Be ” aaid to Rita when eB “T should have loved alt and listen." " Aa he took a step toward her she sep; gat raising her hand § In warning. cung main was seated wpron the po batt is back wos burned and be ¢ not look around, but it was unmistakal a young back, and there was somethi youthful, too, in the look of the brow curly hair, thick and short cropped, whi stood up upon the head like sculptur hair upon a Greek statue. "Ohl" said Parrgh vaguely, looking the back. “Tt waa Mr—ah ——"" Rita pve giving the stranger time to anmounr name: then, os he neither spoke nor tare his head, but did a light swift ran with b left hand, she raised her voice slightly | indicate to him that he was being spoke kn, rites nee "Tdon't think you told me you At that the other pivoted slowly. “Delaney,” he said, looki sey be op at her. “This ia Mr. Parrish, Mr AE The young man seemed to see Parris now far the tirat the. He gave him a sod muaking skmultuneously a alight throaty Sond which the alder man interpreted BE meaning ay are youT™ “How do you do?" said Parrish, a: vancing and holding out his hand. Mean while he was thinking, “He dosn't men to be rude; he's shy and awkward.” Thus cornered, Mr. Delaney ge up from. the piano bench ond shook hasds hastily, a5 one who would fain get some thing aver with. Though his hand was on large it was square and strong, but there wis a nervous quality in the grip it ger and in ita quick escape. Parrish felt asd lie hand had A dro The young man's glance was like be handshake. The light-blue eyes, late intel gens and slightly prominent, held ral expression as they encountered fa *, and they dropped quickly, sORTAE to study his scart and then his watc il If Mr. Delaney’s manner was uve! ao was his physiognomy, His was net or af those faces that fall conveniently unde some everyday classification; Parruh bal never known anyone who looked in tt least like him, yet he was perplened by! paradoxical feeling that the fase ws [i milior. It was a Celtle face, although th strongly modeled features had the es a reulurily we mative with the at = tchusic Groeee—a faet rendered the m2" striking by the sculptured hai, grawird well down upon the forehead, Suddety Parrish knew why the face bed seer familiar. Mr. Delaney was a proto of the Hermes of Praxiteles—a slerederee Hermes in a shoddy suit of twestet century clothing. course! Why, even had the soft cheek of Hermes avi (Continued on Page 73!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 71 Thi Garead Cai Range ia Ani ished in full white giiateni nad forces‘ enamel ag wel! ae ee erame!, Ji ti wiped clean hike a ef nia ota. Both the faege bak - ing and the brolling ovens are ventilated ho five fia uneroran heat for whith the Carkand fe famous, The large cookrng top Goaturpeed with the patented Garland heat spreading faigr rear, we fic sa00R FW #a%% in @a8 oon srontagef east, Garland Gas Funges afe ovade@e fa erery mire and finish fo Fit avery Aifohen requuranicnat Chosen by More Than 4,000,000 American Homes It is both impressive and signifi- cant, that more than 4,000,000 American homes will have no other cooking or heating equipment than Garland, It is reasonable to believe, also, that this overwhelming preference is an acknowledgment that Garland products are better and that they cook and heat better. ° The fact is that not only in these 4,000,000 American homes, but in 80 per cent of the modern kitchens of all our hotels, restaurants, and institutions as well, Garland ranges are preferred and used. Unquestionably, Garland products are thus preferred because they cook and heat better, and because the features which produce these desirable results are found no- where else—whether the fuel be pas, coal or wood, If you do not know the name of the nearest Garland dealer, or rf you have any heating or cooking problems, write direct to us because there is @ Garland heating and cooking device for every purpose. The Michigan Stove Company, Detroit, Michigan Largest Makers of Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces, arc Pipeless Furnaces, for Coal, Wood, Gaa, and Electricity GARLAND COOKING AND HEATING Thie tifratrediact an the Pence anaey Garland Simple Action, three fare? Lyra gee Ate range, whech eeoke and bakes perfectiy wilh either ine Saat al aed iY arith: kd fuiiing the lever you change ra ayy wetotheother, Hoth fueloan bes used at (he wame time whan needed. Fface rh Farrcini atres ard finiinhed, cf de aree of curr moet popu ler Caer fand models be- Cageeit saeuresa waren Aric hen ori jibe and 2 ooo) oe 1A Gao e.

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(Cantiiocd fram Pope Fo) « immartal youth, albeit Parrish his age to be twenty-six or twenty- withing to put the other at his e older man spoke cordially. twas alovely thing you were said. “T waited outside the ae 307 an wy thrust his hands deep into his i pockets, bent his head forward as sudying his feet, and took a few yen the Poor. 1 wouldn't know jit,” * he declared. gat sf a con eerbo,” ta, Put in quickly. 4 ity t eal & youth had turned and wos now by no again. ikover, won't you? said ele. weed at her quickly, shaking his hen looked down at his shoes again. « | told you I hadn't worked it y, ye, You have, Certainly that One movement @& — i andantinao—adagiotio,” he car- if ” wes very litth: difference,” she re- beg your pardon,” returned Mr. ey, showing the faintest shadow of a and raising his voice to a slightly - tenor note, “but there is ever ace, There ia exactly the same dil- eas between sew and adagio.” wish looked ex) elantly at Rita, but iy aewered, * haps you "re right. a ertain! 1 am ht. Othersise, why mm? Then e failed te reply, but garing curiously at him, he, said Ime show you—in this son "and ng down to the piano bench aguin, to play. i followed him to the piane, sand tin him, watching his hands jere,"" he said. ‘When I play it this t'kandantino; but if 1 do it tike this, it's adagietto."” He looked around at “Yeu seat" edismissed the elucidation with a litthe eexing: la that yours tag?" Yea!" Cepublished ?" Yeu I've had nstheng published." rie folk song, picts FT D ‘ 14 iffangerne ceri o amme Leer, ** wit “The familiar urran t always i i= tel oe, Tes such a ally jig tune.” o Parrish, Bonnie Doon was one of aul folk songs that were sacred. He iembered his mother's singing it long at the old square piano, He mot (tw bear it spoken of with disrespect. re he was Tevising his first impres- not Mr, Delaney. “lly ne tune?" he repeated in a tone hiy hostile, “Exurtly," lied the other. “Tt's all whet up.” Then, lifting his light voles site be crusily burlesqyued the ancient angement: beake and brars o" boh-hotn-nie _ Choa, Tow eng-hownt yr Moc-hoom soe freAesh a “You see?” he said over his shoulder. Sy openbaar ota 4 " ood * Parrish re- ate iay, people hav ave been under an Ipteaon t ‘ they Well, they dow't " eid the other. Trat's only one of man queer im tea people have. They lost people think that alr wee written for lonsite » but ft wasn’t. Not an core thes my sult was made for evil, ie ne written for an entirely different song. inn ” tn rated f 3 tm abou fe itt a delightful quaint 7 “Oh said the other, “if you're talking Guinness ——" Fle gave a shrug. ite o alliag about the fitting of music to “Pay pur t " Rita sai i cul, arrangement again, Ls did Ba, Hall,” she exclaimed when he had rer hk ume lovely.” She looked at “Tan't ik? + Fes, the sail; “but ——' "hk Coe to say," she went on, ses thal pag haven't publiel edd any of these Ting of Ue meth ae said he, pres re full of ‘em. THE SATURDAY cae nobody would ne ante pes “Nobody except one t that wanted me to pay to have them pub- Vished."" He amiled up at her. “They will take them!" Rita ered. " Mi he—some day,” he returned coolly, atl emiling ap at her, while his hanes fue tered over the yboard in alight improvise, tion, “Some day after I'm idea ser genuinely ‘to amuse him, as if it were a jest not at his own ex- nse, but at the expense of music pub- ishers. His smile was infectious: his face | lighted with it, his eyes looked roguish, dimples gar in his cheeks, and his lips, drawn back, revealed two rows of hard white teeth. Though the young man had incensed him, and though the amile waa | not for him, Parrish found himself alracet betrayed inte an answering amile, He checked the impulas, Rita, however, burst inte a lwugh. “Tf you're planning to dle before they pubis" your cf ry ml of Bonnie said she, “you ll have to hurry up,! What makes you think so?" “Becaunt it's going to be published at one! Unmeved, he demanded again, “What makes you think so?” “T'm going to tell them to, That's why!" * And you think that when you tell them "Right ofl" she answered, arused. Plainly she was delighted with the sit- uation. "Y oan just. give ne the manuseript of es a "she wert on, “and two or three ng. I'll take them with me. I'll nericateeineaee: My lawyer will—_" “There isn’t any manuseript. I've never written it." “Heavens! Make one then," Pa I suppose T ool do it to- | Nat to-night —now." “T haven't any ruled paper." Again she laughed. ““Oh,"* she anil, “TH rule the paper for you, FF “But my job—I've got two more pianos to tune to-day." “Your job!" sha repeated seornfully. “Why, it’a ridiculous, with your gift, tan- ing pianos! It's a crime!" In her excite- ment she took him by the shoulder and ghoeok him gently for emphasis. "Don't you ever tune another! De you hear?" “That's all ¥ well,” he anawered, “but [ havea faral ¥ ta look after, I have to get a certain amount of money every week, Oh, " she said, showing mild suTprise, “you're married? Children?’ “No! Married? I should say not! [k's my mother and sister,” “You don"t look married,” she said, Then dismissing the subject, ‘Well, an you're coming to New York rignt way Mid and I'm uy fd Tm going to ——" New York.” “You can't afford net to! Don't you Understand there's golog to be business | with music publishers for you to attend | tot" Asif at the she of his attending ta | business aha buughed agin. | “You don't seem to get it through wou head,” be declared ly, “that I have my living to make. It's a matte: of dollars and cents.” He was playing his arrangement of | a Tomas Tien ae thot dollars and cents Pianissime, criad i rag raped “forget ey ean't,”" | “But that part ia esay!"" There was a note of triumph in her voice. “The point is that I'm going ta your songs in con- eert. De you see? I'll sing your Bonnie Deon ata benefit next week. You'll ac compnny Hoge and wher ——_" "Not 'E major," he lnaterrapted. Hastily he. transposed the eng a half tone lower, “KE fint is better f or "No, it isn’t! Who is it?" There was a sudden caapanes in her voice, which Parrish thought boded ill for the young man. But Mr, Delaney was ap- parently Hnconsciows of the menace, oh yee he insisted ina matter-of-fact tone, t gong in EB major would bring out * Asheapoke het yea eels regis | ter."" a e thum eavily upon three renee ice Parrish saw ines clench her fist. There wae a moment during which she etared | PSs spatchiess at the youthful back in ita wretched belted coat. But though the lightning played for an instant in her eyes raminute, won't | EVENING POST WINCHESTER AGE a, For the Motorist AN you say of the tools in your equipment,- these are good teols? Haven't you tele same time that you would give a lor for a sturdier pair of pliers with a real grip? Haven't you wanted a screwdriver with a blade that really fitted che screw sloc! @ You will find that Winchester Tools really are good tools, You will firs inp ToOVeMents VW ‘Rig hi come from the long experience of Winchester mechanics in making the fine tools used in gun manufacture. @ Winchester slip-joint pliers work smoothly and freely. The jaws are milled sharp and clean. The steel is heat-treated: as carefully as a rifle barrel. Winchester hammers, wrenc hes, screwdrivers, and other tools are all well made and will give suaitistaction, @ There are $000 stores in the Unired States which eel Winchester Tools and other new products. Look for this signonthe window: The Winchester Store.” @. Ask the Winchester Store in your neighborhood for a pocket catalog on Winchester Tools, WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS Cth. SEW HAVEN, CONN, KITCHEN CUTLERY TOOLS “POCKE T AND FLASHLIGHTS + GUNS AND AMMUBRITION - FISHING TACKLE __SRATES

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T4 Fer Handling (Gaspline and Oils erexer Sold or L) Filling Station Pasnps. and Tanks for (as olin. Portable Tanks for Gal and (raseline. Storage and Mleagurime Chithesfos Pane Oils, Kerosene ana Larbri- cating Oils, Carload Oil Storage Tanks. Power Pumps. Dyy Cleaners” Under= ground Napheha Clarifying Systems. Richardson-Phenia Oil Circulating anc Fil- fering Swetems and Force Feed Lubri- cators. Grits fe Eel gallon. Facwories ood Warehouses: [Herict Offices: Alhamy. THE SATURDAY its a af ie “And, Charlie, always look for the Bowser Pump. That's the way to be sure of the greatest gasoline mile- age. You get full measure and the gasoline's tree fram water and cliet. Pure, dry gasoline prevents carbon —and you know, carbon is the cause of moat motor troubles.” “All right, Dad. Dll sure do chat.” Deafers 2 Pistan- Type Visible Pum Home Plane: Port Wayne, lodiana Sydacy, Toren mia, Chee Drala, Arla Derrost, Os emer cred New Tork, Pulladetobia, Pat burgh. Re, Louis, Sa Represrniativer Everyehere, __ Branch Cites, ith Sense Departs, tm Poinebal Cites Abroad VIN ni Freacen, Teroms. nat | ESTABLISHED 1885 | HL It will pay you to use a Bowser for gasoline service. Write at once for full information. S. F. Bowser & Co., Inc. _ Oldest and Largest Ifanujactiers of Self-Measuring Pumps J tHE Bowser Piston-Type ‘Visible Pump measures gasoline with mechanical pre- cision. It rings‘a bell for each The sight glass shows you that the measure is full. Albany, Dallas, Gan Francieca, Denver. ‘ ACCURATE MEASURING PUMPS EVENING POST itdid nvtetelke, Wher she apoke her tone was cali. “Oh, you've heard me then? “A dozen tims, IT worked in New York all last winter. You're wonderful in Louise." The little laugh she gave seemed to origi- nate in the ia of her solar plexus “Weaning, . that I"m goad in im apne r lea?” At that he turned around and lacked at her earnestly. “Oh, | don't mean that at all! 1 meant not much musically, Histrionically, of course, no= body can touch you, Except porbaps in. Butterfly." Rita grinned. "Thank you," she said, “for these very few kind words.” The other stared at her, puzzled. A fhish tike that of a rosy baby apread over his face. He rose, protesting. “Oh.” Ihe blurted, “I didn't mean to— I—I didn't mean m “Never mind what you meant," sald Rita, shaking her head hapelesely. Then moving toward the desk, she ordered, “Come over hens and write that music. Parrish, wha had been standing hy the French winddws bimcling to the mow stinlit haleany, turned quickly, + here," he suid to her, “1 —if we're not going to get that walk—if you're going to write this murie—there’s no use in my hanging around any longer, L'il just— ah ——"' Without finishing, he moved definitely toward the coor. Leaving Deans | at the desk Rita and laid a ining hand upon his. arm. “Tm serry,"” she said in a low tone, “tot—you see?" With an expressive jerk af the head she indicated t riuisician, whe was already writing busily. “He wan't be Jong, Let's lunch at half past one—up here, We'll have our walk afterwards,” “ATL night,” be said. Aut even before she pressed his warm al showed him the smile he was fieling that “all right" waa not enough, “that will be fine,” he added. zr HEN, after a second walk, Parrish ascended in to Rita's sitting room he found Mir. Delaney all bot ready to de- part. The young man glanced at him cyitiekely a8 Rita Jet him in, then took up his. overcoat and made haste te put it an, "Let me ‘Bia you,” said Parrish with padiberesss. 8 tepping behind the young men he lifted at the collar of the overenat. But the garment did not slip on easily. “Wait a minute,” said the other after a moment's struggie, “This sleeve lining is torn.” He withdrew his arm from one sleeve, then carefully reinserted it and maneuvers! it through. Having donned the coat he turned up the collar as if that were the natural way to wear it; then drawing a checked cloth cap from a pocket with ane hand he reached down with the other and teak from the Aoor a amall tin satchel, which, though acatnped in imitation of alligator skin, was plainly made of card- rd, A muffled clink of tools came from within the hag ms he lifted! it, “Then it’s all settled,” said Rita, giving Fist her hand. He enatched her hand, shook it quirkly, drap it and made for the oped door, Putting on his cap ae he went, ‘Deen't lowe the address,” Elta called after hirn. With one hand tigen the uber door knob Delaney pratisaerd and turned in the aperture, “Toe got it safe,” he assured ber, Finding himself thie arrested he seemed to have some difficulty in going on again. ‘Well, then"—he said in the tentative tone of one abut to depart: but he till atowl there, “fu revoir,” called Hita, with a char- acterlatically gay wave of the hand, That seemed te mupp ¥ the impetus the youns ton sought. With a quick emile and, a jerky little mod he drew the door shut Lafter him. Neo seener bed tt closed than there came from the hall without a dill crosh as of falling dishes, Then voices, The two looked at each other. “Tm oafrait, said Rite. showly—" I'm afraid he must have run into the waiter— with our lu neheon “OF course, "said Parrish with eyvoleal {n- i as "hue! & precisely whit he woudel cn He took a few steps away from the door ag if to indicate his disassociation from any “rapidly toward the door. Aipril 29 disaster in which Mr. Delaney migh beteoene bavolved, = “TU go ane sews," said Rita, "Hold on!” he ered, "Thon "t She spied: an moet" = l come hack me “Bo, he won't: and, 2 a ind Lagat ahien toe pay for Wat Ait fi il he ‘said, moving door. Fou stay here. I'll go spe bo it. Two or three minutes later he "Yes, it was our bunch, he fatigued tone, “I fixecd t pone down to duplicate the ord that Delaney's pone we may get i Rita laughed. “Don't you like him?" she chicvoualy, “The young whelp!"" he "Why, the way he ked to A — | darn to you! A piano tuner! It wort piece of impudenace I ever hay may life!" He paced the floor, “Yen believe my tats. I wri | he kek Ome thé ng alter amother! Ieee myself, "This iso ttthe dee much? ington nail nomt’ Hoe oo fisttookit. Offering toihelp bom, whae bevel saiel!" Elegies staring at ber, “Think of iti” “Fou tell hin you'll sing eon song of his; some song he bad tause Bonnie Doon isn't him—the same as telling him—iatel what doe be eax? thank: yout Nol He tell you fh I “"h, iuardly that,” ehe gabe “Practically that, "Telling: ju Yor cyte ade tT “Teddi pte got a let of bi wl notes in ter?! Yes, and thumping hte them! Rita, | con't see why ae at. Do can't get it through oye feed She smulecd, “He was a dog te do ab) be "hag it's &rue,"" “Blo, it isn't! And if it were otha only make it worse. Tell mie Batiady my curicstty—bow did yer come to let him get away with itt" She looked thoughtful. “Well, she guld, “in the fret plore & ifted; he really knows. And being gifs Fea veer, One makes allowanes. 4 there's scnethine horribly him, Ba pan and so talen * he put in, tits but he's young, He mast be vt vane. Hew old do you suppose bee” Old enough to know bether,” Ai : ewered dourky. And be adebed, pretty. rar men always look younger then ib re : ea" sie _ agreed reflectively, “ -leoklag."' “Tot goetl-looking,” Parrish mumth as the waiter knoeked at ‘ve door, “! ot te have been a piri." wt he quick forgot about Delane Never, it to him, hat Rita be quite ao fascinating as during that kod eon. She seasoned the repast with ame poreip -the story of a fight ai a earsal, a little’! fight between two fc dogs whieh rapidly became a big fight tween two big prima donmnag: store | intrigue im the struggle for fame; ir tales of temperament, love and jealous of pranks played upen one another by & singers, and of misadventures dunce pe formanees, makin aE for Parrish succl* pictures of a world new ancl strange. “DPve never been behind the soma the opern,”” he said, Bas "You'd like to? Come any tine It se sertuat co do you sing Wednesday agit! ee wba he aak Hutte » but—you'd have bo ere during the part of the evening. [hin py it lrusiness engagement Later, Wou' you rather come Monday —it's Manet and stay all evening?" gone pace his fete over her upe “What a question, when Moni i five days further off than Wednesday: Be sides, I love you in Butterfly. You ie just like a Toyokuni. I"ve alwags wiht equld sores day see you In thier or furnes, cloae bo. "All right! =a said. “Come a B® before eight ll leave word. with te ot Man.” (Comtitacd on Page 77)

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78 a THE SATURDAY The motor is the heart of a good automobile. But the soul of a car finds expression through the spirit of the men who make it. The heart of this remarkable car is a new, distinctive and exclusive Jordan motor of a thoroughly modern, light, high-speed type. Engineers have long been baffled in the effort to build a motor that combines silence with what we love to calla “‘punch’’. When they built for silence the power was not there. This Jordan motor has what the small boy would call a “‘wallop’’—a silent, thrilling something that makes the old driver turn and grin. Call It Pep~Punch—Performarice EVENING POST April 29.1 Call it pep—punch—performance. You will enjoy its snap and go—the solid, sturdy feeling of the car—no wabbling on_ the road, Designed in every detail and built from the : a owner's point of view, this new Jordan is produced for those who want a motor car of lasting value that will run 200,000 miles and, with friendly care, last ten years, Light as the needs of the hour demand, it gives that dependable, day-after-day per- formance which reveals true value, Drive this new Jordan yourself and know the thrill of true motoring joy. Sanday ering i ot gaara Firgina fetog. Mliewerd yp tee ae frngrast cova great aera, Sain comme of fhe coertad—ohercd def mecaditeg re: mascer orf Shree. Aware! years ape. Thee at the dulac ofr of a soft, paring | dary fhe coord rou! of Me aoe | fhe dal Tahar ts Waiiaedwrg dar Mur.

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(Cantiauvued from Page fd! rose, passed behind him and laid her Sagpeon his shoulders. iy dear,”" ahe said, “I'm awfully dis- ated about something. sling a pa "we bese putting o te you. go back this afternoon turned quickly in his chair and looked her, echoing stophalllys roe, mrt yl rhe long-dista: =, ey got me ont nen you were out. Isn't it disgusting? hat idiot Bonata. You remember, | vou sbout her? She's such a slow '. [t's outrageous that they hee ig age wt why do pow have to go back? mded. rising. t's the new operi— foes. on a week from day. IT have several scenes with her, ve called a rebearsal for ten o'elock sevuios morning." THE SATURDAY EVENING “Oh, Rita!” “I tried to get them to went on, “but they couldn"t, I sow that myself che they explained.” She looked “But there's no need for you to com oi -—." “Don't be ridiewlows("" he eried. “You pia perfectly well I couldn't stand it re i" “Then,” she answered, sighing, “there's Ft to do but pack and order the Turning away from her he walked with a slow step to the French windows and looked cut upon the balcony and the wide sea | 2 pen ae as if to bid them farewell. Then a fa "Woill," hh said, “they can’t take thal aWwEy from 15, anyhow!"" (To BE CONTINUED) TROPICAL GROWTH (Continged from Poge #) their muctions were bona fide, thar they : legitimate and sound, that they were nut TeServe, that -th were absolute. ponte muctions" was the watchword af his was what had been happening: l-estate firms had advertised auctions, be lotsa for sale, and, when those in ance languid! refused to bid more asim or seven dollars for a lot, used pro ional buyers to make phony bids in er either to run up the price or get the of the market. It is possible that auch Ung will never happen again, now that siaienr! firma have the hablt of adver- eS oabatl auctions—posalble, bot sg Fp aot ae With five or six auctions held ach day, and with rT nilm= Sof lots being offered to stolid Middle sterners who have come more for the froe ch and the automobile ride than for the iestate, it is inevitable that some lots will fer about $1.75 everything is beft in the tds of the legitimate prospects. Common @ tells us that no real-estate dealer could ed such a blow without emitting poignant teks of pain, no matter how persuasi i convincingly he may chatter about elute suetions. fome of the real-estate dealers allow cus- ners. to buy land on terra that would at- kt ever ' tzky, who doesn't believe in a sort of thing, Four-hundred+lollar G in one subdivision can be had for enty dollars cash and ten dollare a oath, with no interest or taxes for a yeur. i another subdivision $1200 lots sell for 100 cash and twenty-five dollars a month itil 20 per cent of the principal has ud, after which the buyer can sink back id refrain from payin by more on his fncipal for seven an alf mi advertises island water-front lote at S750 a lot, the terms being “$7150 cash; dance $500 every six months; no interest cst year; no taxes till spring 1925," Blots on fhe Landscape Subdivigions extend out of Miami in all frectiona—up the coast and down the a abd inland and out inte the bay in of islands. Palm Beach is ayer ty raga north of Miami: and there are meat grt subdivisions ala that eventy-fvemile stretch to provide homes for a million people, Sore olf subelivisiona are beautiful, ome haye been thoroughly cleared of the tangled jungle of palmettes and other acrub hat make a total mess of go much un- ieveloped Florida land; and flawless roada ini pavements have been constructed, water mains put in, and gas, water and elec icity prowided, Hestrictions are imposed insomed the good ones: homes costing less than HMO cannot be built on certain lota, TEB00, other lota they must cost at least 15,00), Inaiber subdivisions the strests are half hid, the location is vile, and the shacks that ae run up on the erawded lots are little bet- tee than (he mara huts of Runtere Beach and Coney Tdand, to which poverty-stricken ciLy of Basten and New York fre- quenily iar tei during the heated terma of the early "BO On top of thee depressing spectacles, many of which may some day be partially obteured in crapics verdure, certain enter- preing ots of Miami have added to Florida's scenic beauties by lining the madsides with blatant signbourds setting forth the delights of zeragee waurants, loathing emporla an similar pitta hace a bel buildin goer ees algnhoards w robrida gaun repulsively from flat landscape and convines the newcomer that he is approach- ing a slum city, they have nailed counties numbers of huge yellow monstrosities to the palms and pine trees along the high- ‘ways—signs which have wo influence on anyone except the lover of beauty, and which serve only to fill him with contempt for people who can permit the natural beauties of their surroundings to be so be fouled. In the North one expects to find— 28 he does fnd—a plague of slgnboarda aod hidewws summer resorts whose pre dominant features are those of the owful and tasteless "0's, In the new South, how= which lures tourists with honeyed word and promises of every sort of benuty, the erecting of roadside signboards shou be viewed with as much disgust and lonth- ing as grapefruit stealing or murder—both of which crimes fall under somewhat the same head in Miumi. —S Sensitive Tomato Plants Spreading through and beyond the sub- divisions ene " and grapefruit groves and the truck gardens vege table farma. Oranges and rae eer Bre a0 eomimon in Southern Flor that frult are served free in many of the Fores, while many other hotels keep large bows of free oranges alonguide the ice-water tank, So far as is known, these are the only things that one has a chance of getting for nothing in Florida hotels, There are hundreds of three-acre and five-acre farms by Northerners wha didn't like winter and ran away from it with one or two thousand dollars in their pockets, Many of these little farmere not onky manage to make both ends meet but even salt away comfortable bank rolls. One lithe town near Miami shipped 61,000 i kor af strawberries to Northern cities uring the flrat six weeke of the 1922 sea- son, and the growers’ share of the apoila was fifty cents a quart. The wise atraw- farmers, who t their land to vel- vet beans during the summer and plow them under in September, and otherwise Indulge in the clever tricks of the trade, get some very snappy resulta, One of the best strawberry farmers near Miami had 4.1 acres of Jand planted to strawberries in -1921. His first. berries came in on De- cember twentieth, and he picked twice a week until July fifteenth. ‘The tetal yie! of his 4.1 neres wos 41,059 quarts, his aver= age price for each quart was forty-five cents, and his gros sules amounted to slightly under $15,500. His total expenses were a littl over $6000, More than 14,000 acres are planted to tomatoes in the vicinity of Miami, and nearly [0,000 crates were shipped Nerth during the 1921 season. These tomatoes bring the growers about three dollars a erate, of which about $1.74 must be ch afl ta fertilizer, labor, hauling and erating. The life of a tomate farmer is not o happy ane, for the erap is yery sensitive to wee weather. It is also very sensitive to dry weather, The slightest nip of frost also puts a severe crimp init. Some of the tae mato farmers aay that the plant ia so sensi tive that if a man cusses or chews tobacco in ite vicinity it will refuse to bear, In spite of all this, there are plenty of tomate | pone it,” she | I POST No Air Lost! Actual Size §l fer cach tire. Dn at fb hdr went ns elded ove 2000 ses 26 tive life of Wou'll ever buy 2000 milled cheagete im any tire, 2000 more miles can be added to each tire, if kept properly inflated old fashioned tire valve, which is in such L common use, is one of the things motorists have become used to, simply because they have ocver had anything better. Do you realize how much time you waste going through the routine of pumping your tires once a week—not to mention the dirt and grease—waiting your tum—washing up—and all the rest? This remarkable new invention, the Trex Air Valve Lock, now positively locks the air in your tire, stops all leakage and maintains perfect inflation. It elimi- nates all the troubles of repumping. For years under-inflation has caused untold damage te tires, bringing them to an untimely end, in spite of the intention of the motorist to keep his tires at normal pressure. The Trex Air Valve Lock means full mileage from every tire, and with mo cares or burdens whatever on the car owner. It pays for itself many times over. Road tests as well as laboratory tests have proved that the Trex Air Valve Lock positively locks the air inthetire. Fits any tire, and is interchangeable. Screws onte top of present valve stem. Outlasts several sets of tires. All metal; mo rubber parts to rot or deteriorate. (Carried by the lending established jobbers ond deolers in all parts of the country. You can readily recognize our attractive orange ond black display boxes, each holding fve Locks, suitable for the four tires and spare tire on one motor cor, Sold singly, if you desire. Get o set for your car today, Aak your own garage man, orwrite tous, Absolutely guaranteed against defective workmanship of materials, as ate all Trex Products. THE TREXLER COMPANY, Philadelphia, Pa. pee ag Wp geste lin deg Factories: WILMINGTON, DELAWARE TRADE MARK REG. U.S. PRAT. OFF TI AIR VALVE LOCK 1. Positively locks the air in your tires; adda more mileage through perfect inflation. 2. Eliminates trouble of repursping, and pre= mature blow oute due to rim cuts. 3. Fite amy tire; any motorist can attach in three minutes. ji Se ee ee

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THE SATURDAY TS The selection end cutting of the sole bearer for Beacon Shoes iy performed with consistemate care; thick is cherracrercic of curry etep in the production of chit nacionally known footwear, Your Ideal of Footwear Just before you go to purchase new footwear you quite likely ‘sea a sell icine idea of style, of quality and of price. More properly your idea should be termed an ideal, For you do want good sryle, and accurate fit, and faithful service. And you do not want your shoes to cost too much to buy, nor to wear. In Beacon Shoes you will find that ideal. For example: At $6 your Beacon dealer will show you admirable foorwear, smartly fashioned and substantially built; footwear that you will take pride in wearing. We are as Proud of the Prices as we are of the Shoes! We are proud of our ability to build for you intelligently designed, sturdy, comfortable shoes that you may purchase with- out a feeling that you have been extravagant. We are equally proud that we can stamp the Beacon trademark on shoes of that character. F. M. Hoyt SHoE Co., Makers MANCHESTER. WEW HAMPSHIRE The Beacon Spring Price Range: 55 to $8 Suvartg Lease Thrmar Bal Oa ford Maude in (jum Metal, Momcco and (chi ppendale Raccela Relbubte settled down in earnest to the EVENING POST lovers Ld il tomatoes every winter, and some of have made fortunes out of this popular fruit—or vegetable. The cupidity of farmers who are sick of Northern winters is easily aroused by pricea obtained for the beat. varieties of mangoes, “Their fie py, flavor, temp ting fra- mnie ul coloring. say the — | prospecte, “make ges one of beni tig table desserts that can ba iin sained. iomi, it appears, hos a monopoly on this fruit, and the catalogues rub in the bad news by aading that “this monopoly is not only confined to the culti- vation but alao to the exquisite joy of eat- ing it, aa very few find their way to the Hoarthern markets, the local demand far exceeding the supply.” One reads that the eholeest varieties “readily sell in the Nerthern markets for from $1.00 to £1.60 each," this confirming the bellef of the late P. T. Barnum that there was one born every minute. The wenk ce! in this ange: ment is not visible at the moment; there is some reason why the Florida people pee exquisite joy of eating et mango to the even more exquisite joy shaking down their Northern brothers for $1.6) per mango. Maybe it's because there aren't enough raised in Florida to make it worth while ere pores pam the mango ripena from June through August and the weather is tow warm to ship. At any rate, there ls an Ethioplan concealed somewhere in the woodpile, And one who aspires to become a mange grower will ne daubt have his first fine alleen dashed by the fact that trees begin bearing in from five to seven years alter being set out. Seven years is a long time to wait. And Northerners may acquire a little sense in seven, and refuee to pay $1.50 for the ‘| exquisite joy of eating one mango about the size and general texture of a peach, Reclaiming the Everglades O8 to the weet of Miami lle the Ever- Rindes, flrat made farmous by the Seminole af, When the United States Army spent upwards of fiivoen roses trains g to chase the Seminoles awk of Ev ades, but sel- dom saw ge than three minoles at one ludes, not ac | ago, Bias an ciate shallow loke aque milés in aren, dotted with half submerged islanda out of which grow giant whiskered live onke and countless yurieties of ical plants. The alligator basked in ite shad- owed streams and the — a lurked among the und ready to emit a blood-curdling | SCPea i a - culated to make the hardiest intruder think longingly of home and mother, Explora- ton waa mace almoet impossible by a saw- toothed which throughout the Everg and exten several feet above ih bal #0 are perenne tried to arce his way ¢ TE would cut every- thing to shreds up to and including his eye- brows. People _ for years of draining the Everglades; but such talk was usually ree with serena of laughter that rivaled ihiesralie nltie the Everglades thers. years ago the state of Florida systematic draining of the Everglades. Canals were cut, giant locks were installed to control the water level, and the land was cleared. Thousands of acres are being reclaimed each year, settlers are moving in constantly and the reclaimed land ia yieldin tables and fruits of a alze and py to make a Maine farmer shake his head dubi- ously and wonder whether that last batch of licker that the sheriff sent him had af- fected his © L ype which has resulted from centuries of decaying ak coon aban sr anything that will grow wi t twiee os and twice as ragidly j in ai Everglades as it will ang else. There to be only two seasons in the Everglades—wet and wetter; but now there isa dry season; and in the course of o cl ig Bar when the truit treea begin to bear, the Everglades alone will be in a tion to supply every city in the North Sreeghoat the winter with all the newlan and oldfangled fruita and ¥ bles that can be desired. he thousands of farmera who have t= tired from active farming and are occupying their winters by absorbing the sun in Miami and pitching horseshoes in Royal Palm Park become fearfully excited over the Warlous varieties of grass that are raised in the Everglade lands. Grass ia not a thing that one would to mention at any length in an article on a winter resart; but the ve wonderment over it on the ex. The soil is a rich black . April = part of the horseshoe pitchers requires ay rage of cee hares Tt appears that some thave come in thick eno eg ay aire an talked about are Py Bermuda, Rhodes, Natal, Sudan, St. Lay St. Augustine, igh ge, (ou Pancim, crab grass, billion dollar and several othe There seems to be everything but just py prass. The chief idea im the minds of: armers seems to be that with all this py the Florida stock ores Nee here sn rean pasturage, and ca can el siniek a third of the espace that they ce in the North. This of course fa important if true; b the average Lae lataadl whe oomea to Mian not inberested in grass except aa somethi Ge. which to to lay ie oF sit. Whar wants. in cay relaxation wy plenty: of it; aid ret that 4 what he woz can get so much of it in and mear Min that one werk ebe ion ma usually be followed by two weeks of + cuperation. The Rive of Miami The people who knew Miami 1918 have an entirely different their minds from the Miami of t ¥. Tl old Miami waa city first and a winter 5 sort afterward. This statement il! | course offend the touchy Miami folk: ty it is true none the less. It was—and ix hustling, bustling, booming, noisy 4 with age one rakcanobite ‘OF each seve: eighths an inhabitant, and with pe ara Eli § and sunshine. In the bon owever, the tourists—ti people roll down. ‘ir winter «it air Bout done up in bales and te Plaintively to be shown where and how : spend it— samy want to go to a hustlisy bustling, ran ly growing ni for the; winter alldays, even ues 2 city ma heat warmth and sunshine What t want ig plenty of sun an sn ang a complete change from the sceom which are accustomed in the Northern elles, and a surcemse from noes except the noises they make then selves—which ore frequently much _ than the ordinary nowes of a city. that reason Palm Beach was in o et br itself. The b oney touriste went | Palm Beach. Miami @ smattering of them, but a very =) smattering. Beach sneered at Miami Beach and calle it the Coney Island of Florida, That, he- ever, was prior to 1918. Tosday Mimi hu been augmented by Miami Beach, The etary of Miami Beach ia a remari: able one, and it should be told bere, ane dba it ahi would searcely be able to prospectuses with Laiyhe af Acca Sere tielle ladies in red om peck aching: elton on the eovers. This 4 5 the Pied af it: Miami's palrsneied streets run doen to the shores of Biscayne grb which 3 2 strip of water some seven miles long 7 between two and three miles wide. tween the bay and the ocean a tone narrow @ of land, not much over a mile in width at its widest point. Priv t& 1913 this narrow tongue of land wo a worthless jungle. The man who owe etically all the land on it is said to hove t it for $12,000. The only way Fea it was ferryboat, and ther on it except a bathing stars at the extreme tip, to which’ niece ween ie e almost to wae Hoth on the bea few tourista occasional] urge for gen hathin fonenee to be endu In 1918, however, when the populate: of Miami was only about Th os wealthy ian ins man came to Miami for his health. "Fisher val able to see the possibilities in things whic, everyone else F wes jerupecena bilities. He had alwayn heavi yon his be liefa while bis friends and mequainbance on the sidelines and told om UF other Reh a shame it was that Cet! had ce re One am lc ae the anapolia way-i £ streebare which does all ite business, PS? ita expenses and makes ita profita of of day out of the year. a Miami he became interested sal e-grown shut Mian ard Sf from Gie-see } ine fre greatest winter resort of modem time with acres of beautiful homes, and bots in towering palms and scl flowered hibiscus; with polo fields an! m™ (Continued on Page 80)

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—— a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 79 ‘ow Ready! GoodrichoD The NEW 30324 CLINCHER FABRIC TIRE HERE is a real tire of real quality, at a price most remarkably low. It has everything that you demand— construction, appearance, long life, low price. It’s a GOODRICH — Great Value! Made with all the skill of Goodrich, of high-grade quality throughout and perfected with its scientifically constructed, anti-skid tread of thick, tough, specially compounded rubber. Ask your dealer to show you this remarkable tire. Remember the name—Goodrich “55.” Also made in 30 x 3 size. THE B. F. GOODRICH RUBBER COMPANY Akron, Ohio HOME OF THE SILVERTOWWN CORD Te TI MRE efor Saaait Cars

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THE SATURDAY APRA RATER ERT bare Wi She ranallthe — way to the station and got there ten minutes too soon| L the needless rush to get ready—the panting race down the street—a trip to the city started wrong because the clock was ten minutes fast! Surely modern life is tiring enough without the need- less strain of faulty clocks. And it is so needless. A hun- dred and nine years ago Seth Thomas began making accurate clocks and putting his name on the dials. It will add immensely to your peace of mind to have a Seth Thomas Clock in your home: and the cost, as the Jeweler will tell you, is very much less than you may have supposed. He likes to show Seth Thomas Clocks and tell about their service. Why not drop into his store this morning and afford him that pleasure? Ar the lefe is one of a group of cighe te- morkably serviceable uprivht moadels— kh. day, striking clocks in mahogany cases. Pirlo from $15 to BP. AL Sech Thomas ye is assured a place of huner in avy heme. There are cighe small clocks, suited bo desk or boudeir, inthe group represented bythe model iHustrated below. Jeweled Hiday mavemenct with [ee TE watch CB ple a éplemdid timekeeper in a hand-Tubbed Cima: of wolid mae hogany. $23 to =34, | impenetrable jun EVENING POST (Contineed from Page 78} links and tennis courts and lee rinks: with lagoons amd canals and artificial islanda and Venetian gondolas: with eaaines and hathhouses and outdoor swimming pools that would outde anything in America or Europa. _ He lot himself go with the utmost enthu- sinsm, and kept his imagination working an. a teenty-two-hour day. His friends gave up all hope for him. “Poor Fisher!" they murmured privately behind his back. “Poor Fisher has gone completely loco, We must make arrangements to put him ars quietly." got control of the bulk of the un- named worthless tongue of land and went out to look it aver arena: Around ita shores he found a salid wall of mangroves, whos interlaced roots rose several feet out of the water in such a confused and slimy jumble ‘that any appreciable progress sheveah them was a matter of hours, So got a gang of twelve negroes and srt ia | te them to work hocking a hole all the way through this jungle. Beyond the mangrove swamp was a solidly interlaced growth | cabbage ce ami palmettos through | which no human being could force a pos sage without tearing his clothes and his | skin to shreds. The palm and palmetto growth filled every t of the tongue ex- cept the shores the shores were over- | grow with mangroves. Greatly cheered and stimulated by these ohetacles, he promptly set to work on he scheme to build, almost overnight, a great America sine resort, Starting at the extreme tip of the tongue his gongs of la- borers cleared off the mangroves, cabbage palenk; folmettos and other scrub, They ound bears in it, and panthers and count- loss numbers of smaller animals, and aint the tongye they built high © the ed val bulk B ey buile eg = heads . dg oe head berbarit sp gers pum Band and water ou Biscayne Bay and inside the bulkhends, The water ran off, but the sand remained | and turned the rein and marshes into solid land. This work required dredging crews of 150 men, three pumping boats, eae res boats, from ten to fiftecn supply boats, two oil tu ug tee a r boats and an eighteen-inch pi ing’ ser & anil in len For eight months the pay Toll was i000 a day, and Fisher's frien daily became more in- sistent that he be are away where he could ibis throw his money inte the Atlantic 4a Extraordinary Development Canals and inland waterways were dug so that future residenta might have easy aces: to all portions of the reaart by ht, howse boat and motor boat. Palma, ibiscus and tropical planta and vines slowly crept along in the rear of the dredging operations, Fifty acres were turned into palo fields. Three hundred and twenty-five acres were ect aside for golf Courses, ret excellent golf courses were made, two at a cost of $200,000 apiece, and one at a cost of a quarter million, Today the tongue of land that was an in 1913 and a waste of sand in 1917 has the city of Miami rage Its value has grown from $12,000 to $20,000,000. There may be some to rgd the latter figure; but the assessed af Miami Beach property in 1921 waa sei, 112; and unimproved property was sasecaed at one-quarter ite valuation, while improved property was being assessed at one-tenth ite sale It hes a front- age of aix miles on the ocean, seven miles on Bigewyne Bay, and sixteen milez on inland waterwaya and canala—though a Miami Beach enthusiast would no more think of listing Miami Beach property In aad than a Jeweler would think of listing in quarts. It's too preelaua, He dian it in feet, and tells you that the front- age on inland waterways is 85,000 iat In a few yenrs, if he ag be future as he hes in the past, he'll fs be listing it in inches. Many a water-front lot has been sold for double the prise that was paid for the original jungle not 50 many years ago. There are over forty milea of atreeta and roads, lined with palma and shruba. Sey- eral hotels have been built. The eat. is no more expensive than the big Palm each hotels — although that auffciently es sive to send the cold shivers up ad the spine of the a who haan"t become thoroughly hardened to money spending. April 24 There are a score and more of apg houses, and 350 private residence ¢ from iced simple littl § ete lie up to artfully simple Within paet e six YOarS, accord the more sane and conservative Beach predicters, there will be six or more hotels at Miami Beach, all than the present onea. Fisher has oi modest caravansary planned, whick have an ice rink, covered tennis cour a tanbark horse-show inclowure on th Unless his friends lock him up he & » carry out hia plans—which will pre be as highly successful as his pest ver A few af his frienda mo longer fear | Banity. His former business parc: Indignapolis, James A. Allison, has helped t & food work along by buildin stoceing at Minmi Reach an aquarisn rivals the greatest aquariums of MM; Naples, Honolulu and Manila. A many of his friends, however, still their hends itvingly when they hezr tion of hotels with ice rinks on the n The ging operations which transferred sand from the bottom a cayne Bay to the top of Miami Head leit several unsightly mud banks pro ing a few inehea from the surface o bay. Fisher surrounded these mud t with bulkheads and pumped more inte them. The nezult waa seven ae islands, moat of which are already xb by palin roves and detted with gimp beautiful homes coating about thirty lars a square inch. They are easy of ar alnee they are conne with the mai or the causeway, Bathing Suit Notes Some Miami pea a have likened ¢ islands to lilies whic oerlace the sa, the fashion of Senator quoting | Browning in an attempt to explain islands of the Pacific te a concourse of h tant panier jealousy erie te te that jealousy evins the | dents of one Florida resort toward ew thing in a rival Florida resort, aay | they more like floating flapjacks, ' truth, of eourse, lies between: amd in other ¢ two ra, When all of them with masses of tropical fall Feb will be nothing flapjackish ab them at all. (Ome of the islands, toge with an obelisk rising from its center, gest ix ally ailely a4 a memorial to ler, without whose vision and fi da would probably be ko “- sp the place that Florida Wate named after, One af the largest i hes an area of sixty eeres. A mile of ba head, with bulkheading at twelve dollay foot, wad. fn. ita eanstruction, & ita total cost wae half a million dollars The inability of 0 per cent of the hum race to see how a thing is going to lo when finished has cost the human rac large amount of money at Miami Beat Not long ago, for example, an effort # made to anew hose for PIS, | stood on new flat land, however, and the were no trees or shrubs around it. Ever boty who saw it refused to buy it | wae ponte in Fest presi, sate flawera and amd & bea house, When this ae ble the ioe sold instantly for $30, rh to one of the mi who had refused to pay $16,000 for it & preceding year. M and Miami Beach are noe ot jeeobed a curving e@onerete caer three and a half long. New 2 spacious as [t is, it is often too sal t accommodate the thousands of au that hesten out te Miarni Beach on Sunday afternoons in midwinter 2 that their scones obtain sanett as the fe foes, ocs, of the bathing oust The ment hasnt at “ae bo ciety its Pindeaees felt: at ee to any noticeable extent, bathing suit is heavily Siareved tt oer * ng young women, and there art ils large mnanioes of bathing suits ebich iF peur, i f-piese or even [se tthe plece, The latter variety of btn ault ia newer worn with stockings; ft etockings—so far as is known—ten 7 been marie long enough, ts, reath ie ibe striking effect is frequently & tained by the wearers of these tron piece bathi ing suite when t stra rm the beach in short, hip-len capes wih hang _ Hay oh raed at the throat. Be sees nothi the cape bet # (Continaged aon Page 81!

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a bosiding —or re- g—aamall home or F this Spring 7 Tihen fo aead you a Bbloee d eprcifications for i bearth and brick ag for the Aeatrola. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST —in your claims for this new heater, which looks like a phonograph and works like a furnace” —so say letters from hundreds of men and women TS is to place important new wating information in the hands were @f small homes and bunga- —with or WITHOUT BASE- 475. Also stores, offices, halls, etc. ly mail the coupon below. Boole dl information will be sent free postpand.. Eh opportunity te inform your- tf thit new-day way of heating, have had unsatisfactory heating ta this past ainter, of if you are ding of remodelling this spring. # principles are embodied in the ate Heatrela—a practical warm- fomace, finished in grained ma- poy mame and designed like a Hom tabinet phonograph. cunts ant in use. Back of it is 1? years’ experience in building ating devices for the home. Results famamng. The owner or renter of mall home is mow offered all the Vite of warm oir heating at W oae, What Users Write U's Recently we wrote to hundreds of users of Heatrolas. We wanted to learn first- hand what their experience had been with the Heatrolas in their homes. Their replies are amazing. They tell us we are too modest in our claims. We say the Heatrola will heat 3 to G connecting rooms. Many users tell us it hes been doing even more than that. We have published a number of these letters in a booklet, which we shall be glad to send on request. What we said about fuel economy, too, ia multiplied. Five and 6 rooms are being heated at no more expense than heating ene room the old way. Thus it ia in thousands of homes, from Maine to California. Everywhere the Heatrola arouses the greatest en- thusiaam. Sapplonts Stoves and Fireplaces Installed in one of the living rooms, the Heatrola keeps the whole house warm, Tt heats 3 te 6 connecting rooms bet- ter than the ordinary stove heats one. Note, particularly, that the Heatroloa is not astove. Tt is a furnace, which arculates great volumes of warm, moist air throughout the house. Hence the Heatrola offers the most healthful, the most economical way of heating. And the cleanest, for it is finished in a vitreous enamel, hard and smooth as glass, that you can rub and dust with a cleth, just as you do your furniture, This finish is practically everlasting. No black iron to polish, no nickel to shine. Wo going inte the cellar to tend the furnace, this mew way. Where To See The Heatrola Leading hardware stores, furniture stored and heating contractors every- where are now featuring the Heatrola. Ask your local dealer to ahow it to you. Gr, if you doen't know him, MAIL THE COUPON for free book and local dealer's name, 81 For Larger Homes ’ &slale™ WARM AIR HEATING SYSTEMS Pipe or Pipeless Models Ail cest-lron. construction pecneroccul heme, nel will furnish biue primt free of charge. Gstale™ HEATROLA — | ————4 Mice By Tue Estate Stove Company, Hamitton, Onio—Buiipesns Since ifgs OF a | ‘48 Fawous Estates, A Stove, Furnace*Anp Rance For Every RequineMeEntT z “Fok Coogttna Ano Heating With Coat, Woop, Gas Ann Etrectricity Pacific Cram Glice: 819 Muon &., San Peanctioe, Calil

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B2 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 29, Thirst cant be denied The Coca-Cola Compan Atlanta,Ga. is

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(Tatqaed from Poge 3d fards of flesh, and nothing above fe but several square feet of flesh. tthat gives one paves. When one for the firat tlime he feels thet he hint up a lift-mawer Sometime later ug and wk him to go and speak to ig woman and tell her that she out without her ten-filths-piece fit. But one soon becomes ac- @teseeing such things—so aceus- in fact, that one foels disappointed Ys fon. Willlam Jennings ryan has a Miami, and was deyoting most of | iast winter to aswuring his large husiastic audiences that the doc- | evolution, hitherta accepted aa tyerery reputable scientist breawse orenwh ng mass of supporting 8, & fo more worthy of credence gatory of Cinderella and the little pret; that, in fact, it is as harmful fpaing and impressionable as an un- ited set of Burton's Arabian Nights. fps of Miami Beach were highly fwith Mr. Bryan's anticvelution f—not becouse they have anything evolution but because they like to Bryan interested in something that ep him from trying to make his if conform to hia ideas of right, feo doing, spoil the bathing hour. , i committee of Miami Beachers a ee waiting on Mr. Bryan when ifinihed shooting hale in Darwin, 5 Wallace, Herbert Bpencer and ietinguished aclentista, and urging rt the disgusting and contempt- feery that the earth is a globe or [aad to come out strong for a fet fe are no wheel chairs in Miami pet there are in Palm Beach. The jited to interest their guests in wheel | bot the guests would have none of They are successful at Palm Beach the Palm Beachers find them use- eee in which to kill time. But at ach one has no time for time f& There is something doing every i. Thereare golf and tennis and polo thing and dancing and rushing over i to gee a Movie oF an oTrunge grove mthing, and if one tried te get around fhrel chair he'd come down with nerv- Rottration in a couple of days. -bootleggers are very active In UL. The prices seem low to Northern- (have been paying $120 2 coae for th fe only At for cleaning the nico- rh ol stema, The bootlegpgers pet aft in which fo mall land Siew mikes of the Florida const, It imi land, but the British offirinls Gy haven’t any fdea of assisting the 0 Sigies to-enforce her lows. Brought From Bimini © Universal bootlegging price for h whisky in gle ge se a /bootleggers buy it for about jaour dollars n case in Bimini. The =i men Tetail the stuf’ to the hotel @ ten dollurs a bottle, or $120 a takes a very nice profit for ftursta whe plan to bring back a wee (ef Seateh with them from Florida tld be rey careful to carry the bottles their hand luggage. All trunks are erdon the way up, and all aleoholic mulants eared abstracted. Nothing Qbloched, A friend of mine tock three fal hot-water bottles to Florida with S 0 that he could bring Seoteh buck - These bottles were inewsed in My pink flannel wrappers. He filled Seth Seotch aa planned: but when he tnd Washington again he found thot Pfuek hed been opened und the bottles moved. The pink flannel wrappers were B edi, anil nothing else hat heen ‘Thete seems to be an idea in the North tt fin twaning from Bimini and Cubs ithe Florida comet can easily atop { Mesibition agents, ‘This is a mista : for the tum runner has several hun- ‘4 nile of eninhabited coast line and “7 on which to land his cargo. It was fotg thes keys that the moat notorious “is of the early daya concealed their "rb und their treaaure, and eluded pur- “tor yare It would be as easy to catch (TE Tine among the Florida aa to “S. ined ant in the Hippodrome, A Florida keya drip down from the end ainda on which Miami Beach ia THE SATURDAY built, and would doubtless be compared by Senator of the late Robert Erown- ing te o necklace of jade and gold, or to mange on rps ea o'erluce the sea, or something similarly poetic, Among, b= tween und around these or is found the greatest fishing in the world, Florida fish- ing is about as much like the ordinary con= eoption of fishing as e fighting i like fox-trotting. Ins of sitting contem- platively over a rod and reel with a pipe in hia mouth and a dreamy look in his eves, and occasionally anaking a small fish out af the water in a lelqurely manner, the Florida. fisherman crouches over hia rod with taut muacles and enters knock-down and wt fighta with bundles of eon- eentrat eneriy that lenve him as sore and limp and blivtered ws though he had been wrestling with the Twentieth Century — boats al f ¥ motor boats slip oway from Minmi landing stages and reach the fishing grounds in an hour, Over the reefs, on whour rocky peaks lie the skeletons of many an uncient wreck, wait the barracuda, somelioes known os the tigers of the sen, Catching Big Ones They are long, alim, ally like enormous pickerel, and thelr jaws are set with heavy te teeth. They average between four and five feet in length; and aa boat ‘with his bait spinning along. thirty t wit alt Alf orig wring, Ieliowtngs, Fellg the barr one behind owing, following, oir the bait like a thin gray shudow. The barracuda [a al there and always ; 80 when all other fish fnil the fahermen turn to him. n he finall decides to take the bait he takes it wit mich vigor that the fisherman feela that a steamer trunk has fallen on the tip of his rod, The rots are stiff as iron and the big retls have deogs on them that would stop a face horse in e hond yards: so the ave ten minutes, All game fish, of course, are caught by trolling from the back of a motor boat traveling from six to ten miles an hour, 4 Gut a littl farther toward the Gulf Stream are the golden dolphins, thin and gurprised-looking flah, much smaller than the barracuda, but better fighters. There, too, is the husky amber jach, that fighta for twenty minutes and more th aplte of the hew my on the reel, The pretthest welterweight ghter of the Florida waters ia the fish, a blueand-ailver torpeda, five and aix and seven feet in length, with a spear for a noee and a lateen sail for o dorsal fin. He iso finicky striker, and when he is at the bait one feels only a slight jar. The lightness of the touch usually meuns sailfish; and when it comes, the fisherman Telenwes his droag and bets his line man out fifteen or twenty of even thirty feet. Then he snaps the drag back into place and hoists his rod with a mighty heave without fgh, rather cuda seldom fights more than | further angiey.. . Freqaen ly the sailfish is | ine, 1 at the end of n which case the fur ins——the sensation being about the same uiscrrirne. fer umment halting a Fifty rope. Ifan amateur is ing the tod the end of the thirty or fortis minute fight finds him calling in a weak and trembling voice for a large drink of var- nish or some similar restorative, and he spends the remainder of the vit pricking and caressing the blistera-on his hands. acer gy va eran Stream are the avywelght scrappers— tuna; hie between the keys and ie matters are the giant tarpon, These fish will fight for two, three and even four hours; and if, In their leapings to shake the hook from their mouths, they chance te full inte the nat , Chere ia never any room for anyone lee. The spectacles that one sees in theap Florida waters are enough te make Inuuk Walton take the pledge. During one day's fishing which [ had off the keys with President James Allison, of the Miami Aquarium, and Cap'n Charley Thompson, champion tarpon tracker of Biscayne Bay, a whip ray twenty feet from wing to wing shot thirty feet into the sir just ahead of our boat, falling back into the water with a eragh that must have been heard a mile in every direction, Cap'n Thompeon declared that this violent leap- lng was due to the fact that the whip ray Aresiiuen ty feeds on clama, When he haa rathered a bushel of cums inte his stomach 6 Jeapa high in the alr and descends on hia (Continued of Boge §5! EVENING POST vs oe a) a ee wee ‘ ry ’ é “Dollar Topkis gave me | new ideas about value” pa like to have the money I've wasted because I was afraid to buy an athletic union suit priced | as low as a dollar, Iwas so sure I couldn't get anything worth while, that I cheerfully gave up double, year after year. “| didn’t know Topkis then. “Finally, a persistent salesman in Johnson's shop argued me into trying Topkis, | thought he was foolish to urge me te spend less than I wanted to, He was— like a fox; he knew he was land- ing me ag a life-time customer, “My dollar never before bought me as much quality and value as | get in Topkis. Loose, airy fit that keeps me comfort- able all over and lets my skin breathe. No skimpiness: no bagginess; no pinch, no pull. “Wear! That's where Topkis shines. Keeps its size, too, no matter how often it's washed. But I could talk for a year with- out getting the Topkis idea actoas to you. Hop into a suit yourself and find out the same way | did.” Topkis Athletic Union Suits are mace of best nainsook and other highgrade fabrics. Pre- shrunk—full size guaranteed. Be sure you get your correct size—38 if you wear a 38 coat, and so on. No good dealer will ask mote than adollar forthe Topkis Men's Union Suit—although many will tell you it's worth more. Men's Union Suits, $1.00, Men's Shirts and Drawers, 75c per garment. 75c for Boys’ Union Suits, Girls’ Bloomer Union Suits, and Children's Waist Union Suits. Ach for TOPEIS Lindiewear. Look for rhe Toplis abel, Write for free dlaeraned booller and learn when's whar bows aculerutay, TOPKIS BROTHERS COMPANY, Wilmingron, Delaware General Salen CHfices: 10) Deoedway, New York Cirg Athletic

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i Coantinerd from Page 63) ‘Hh. The resultant crash breaks all arm shells and its the ray to the clams. doesn’t sound * right, but one should be careful dishelieving any of these Florida ‘Ale later o giant marlin or spearfich d out of the water amon then each line had a a A orton at its end. Cap'n Thompson esti- his weight ot 400 pounds, but three later he was estimating it at TO00 of ies were being reeled in preparata irting home, an eight-foot shor Lup from nowhere removed my Fortunately rom beneath my hand. nored the hook with it, and a few es later he was lashed fast to the of the beat, making a hurried trip to Misami—where Director Louis way, of the Aquarium, spent a happy ‘moving pilot fish and parasites [rom Be and and tongue. 2 ean never tell what ia going to turn Florida waters. The wees of winter and gummer resorts usually lay THE SATURDAY EVENING POST rs on a littl: too thick. The Miami proa- ich. Starting. hth bathi rripeiltipa: mu rting wi ty the front cover and ending with the prod fisherman on the back cover, they aye look a little too perfect. The phrasing, too, see a trifle aa and fi ed. “It's Junein Miami," these rospectunes declare, Seshaeaa sistas in Borel) to summer.” Pie & Seem to rare overwild "Minami w eomed with the emile of the tropics," rave these bite of te literature, atitiad fa the hewpltallte of the erecting inst n the has oe Erecting that awalts you here, 5 Peal ter be find, bi enre to the fey eae anal to tum anil yin oe being eternally YOUTEE nh. ney in Nuture’s most alluring out- apn ound, under azure skies, anid Posie ulms and riotous flowers, with song of bird, the balmy air, and the ictions of Borns sunshine, find heath. ih teappines and conten tment.” ike raving before you've been in But after you've once been there you recognize that the bathing girle and the qe uns ar aeertiond. Ais for the pros don't seem so violent after they seem pretty conservative, pectuses, th UL In fact, t sense amd Nonsense Coming Across (RING the eorly Kansas days, when ‘he Daltan Gang was carreeieivs the i traimmen on rullroeds were always when any of the Dalton boys fed their train, for fear they con- Hated a holdup. ie of the Dalton boys, the recognized fof the gang, had a habit, when trav- (irom ane point to another, of bluffing fnductors into carrying him free. feday the Dalton Gang leader boarded ain, and when the conductor came ied and demanded his fare Dalton out hie gun and anarled “There's 2 af he shoved his gun Into the igetor's tikes, Al right, you ride, Dalten,” coolly on- fel the eanduetor, walking on through far. he conductor proceeded into the hng- prar and procured « sawed-off shotgun. fn he returned Dalton was leaning out fe car window, so, taking him unaware, conaduebor calmly willed up to him, fed the gun into his ribe and eed .* Say, Dalton, I'm ready to punch your pnow.” And Dalton come ocross. Distance Mo Object AUN TING the farmer in the western fection of Kansas about the absence of fer on his land has been commonly prac- i for years. last surnmer a party of Eastern autalsts Ef passing through this sectlon of the try, bound for the Pacific Covet. One the drivers of the party, fn need of waber peed a farmer along the road, who writs Ging several! barrels of water on hiss ayon, Gtter negotiating with the farmer for & moch-nesled water the guto driver floussy inquired, “Well, my frgnd, tell BE bowr far do you have to haul this ert” *Ok, only "bowt ten miles, | rar gaiec teers mil sake!" exclaimed the stranger. Why don"t you dig a well?" What's the use?" drawled the farmer. I's "bout ns far one way as "tis the other.” the farmer Took the Words Out of His Mouth ps had got hurt— not much more than decratch, it is true—but his emplover Bi visions of being compelled to keep him if life, and had adopted the wise courae of ining lien t the hospital. After the howse surgeon had examined nereully he ssid to the nurse: “As Eicitareous abrasion is not observable | not think there is any reaaon to op- frehend tegumental cieatrization." Then turning to the patient, he asked quizzically, ° "What do you think, Pat?" "Sure, said Pat. “ye took the very words out of my mouth, That's just what [ was going toe gay.” The Life of the Party fly general manager of a large Pacific Coast concern overheard some of his emiploves discussing the Jap question, Stepping up among them he jocularly interrupted, “Well, Tommy, I sup you'll be the first to enlist if we should have war with Ja van f"* “Oh, yes, Toramy molded, “I'll ga— but there'll be twe other uy golg too," “Well, who are they?" inquired the boos. “Why, the tee fellows that will drag me there!" Tarmy replied. Ais Parting Words LARGE Western railroad, when its em= floyes are injured ofr accidental! killed, requires the foreman to render a full detailed report af the aeciktent, A printed form is used, which has many complexities before all detailed questions are satisfac- torily answered, The company emplovea o large number of Mexican track laborers, and one day a push ear loaded with rails got away from a Mexican, taking him on a wild ride down grade until the car hit a de tall at a -ewiteh. The laborer was killed instantly. Mike Casey, an old-time foreman, took matters fn hand and imunvediately under- took to render his gecident report. In his rough serawl he anawered all the questions to the best of his knowledge, but hesitated when he encountered the lack question on the printed form, namely: Rewari. Scratching his head for several rhinutes while he pondere al, he finally inserted, “He never made ony. He wus deal." His Method HERE hain't nuth'n specin) im the a otosdias," replied an acquaint- Suber =f had heen interrogated by Tobe Wolford, of the Owl Gulch, Arkansas, neigh- borhood, “exeopt that it saya fur million folks will starve to denth in Rooshy this winter if they don't get halp."* “Well, they ort te starve if thes hain’ pot no better sense than to stick right there Th Rooshy when times is thatawoy,” the disgusted answer. “When things get to such a pasa with me thot ib looks like something has got to be did T book wp the hossed. poMr ad pour ful of water an the fire, call the dogs, a nd i take the fami ity Mey to Oklaho ry to vieit my wife's kin.’ wes. | a5 “World's Greatest Business SO) Liberty LumberCo., Liberty, N.Y. “a Le if $3750 For Wf 9p m- prealér’” only? Cost $13 5° Goshen Shirt Co., Chicago, Ill. Extra for Au- fomdlie Tag Lister alfuch- Fara os sham, “ELL your story driefly and tell it offer! 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Cheaper to take ICE than spoil

FA a day will buy enough ice for aver- family use. Food costs you many times as much, You cannot afford to waste it. At this season you need ice, not only to keep food from spoiling, but also to retain its fresh, appetizing vor and the nourishing qualities so necessary to health. Keeping food downi cellar or in a back entry is not safe; at any temperature above s0° it spoils. The Comfort of Having Ice cannot be measured in money. It makes a big difference in the family health, es- peak. the health of young children. hey must have fresh milk and you cannot keep it fresh without ice. Dis- ease germs multiply rapidly in milk which is not kept COLD. Take ice regularly—the year ‘round; it will save you money.

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THE COVERED WAGON (Continudd from Poge 27) Wingate and his wife were talking heated]! she in her nervousness not knowing thats a fumbled over and over in her fingers the | heavy bit of rock which Molly had picked up and which was in her handkerchief when | it waa requisitioned by her mother to bathe | her face just now. q i After a time she tossed the nugget aside into the grass. Tt waa trodden by a hun- dred feet ere long. But gold will not die, In three weeks a | prowlin Gros Ventre aquiaw found it and rites it to the troder, Bordeaux, asking “Won, non!” replied the Laramie trader. “Pas de sale But he looked curiously at oe thirg, ao he How, colo!" “whoedled the squme, oe t She made the tat for sugar, rom her palm to her lips. Bordenux int the thing into the tin con on the shelf and gave her what suger would cover i spon, “Where? he osked her, his fingors sera shaken, meaning “Where did you get it? The Gros Ventre lied to him like a lady, | and teld him, on the South Fork, on the ; Creek of Bitter Cherries —near where Dhen= ver mow is; and where placers once were. That was hundreds of miles away. The | Gros Ventre woman had been there once | in her wanderings and had seen some heavy | metal, Years later, after Fort Laramie was taken over by the Government, Bordeaux as sutler sold much flour and bacon to meen ly down the South Fork to the early Colorado diggi Meantime in his cups he often had told the mythical tale of the Groa Ventre woman—long after Cali- fornia, Idaho, Nevada, Montana were all afire. Hut one of his hallbreed children very presently had commandeered the tin cup and its contents, so that to this oe no man knows whether the child swal- | lowed the nugget or threw it into the | Laramie River or the Platte River or the sagebrush. Some depose that an emigrant bought it of the baby: but no one knows. hat all men do know is that gold does not dle: » bor the news of it. And this news HOW, ike a multiplying germ, was in the wagon train that started out for Oregon. Aa for Molly, she asked no questions at all about the logt nugget, but burried to | her own bed, sup: eee T pale and weeping. She told her fat nothing of the nature ool her meeting with Will Banion, then or | at an time for many weeks. Molly, come here, [ want to talk te “Wingate beckoned ta hi daughter the second morning after Banion's visit. The orler for the advance was given. The men had brought in the cattle and the yoking up wis wel Eirlinkat had pots on na wis dying down. taken sealer olnees an flank or at the wagon rear, women were climbing up to the seats, children tlinging to pleses of drial meat, The train wos woiting for the word, tay girl followed him calmly, high- * Molly, see here," he began. “We're all rendy to move on. [ don‘t know where Will Banion went, but T want you to know, nt | told him, that he can't travel in our train,’' “He'll not ask to, futher, He's promised te stick bo his oan men,”" “He's dele you wt lust! That's good, Now [ want you to drop him from your thoughts. Heor that, and heal it. tell YOU Om Tne, you" re mol trea tinge Sum Woodhull right, H She made 1 no answer, “You're still youn, Molly," he went on, "Omer ‘re settled you'll find Uregon all right, ‘Time you were marrying, You'll br twenty ond an olel maid first thing you know, Sam will rrubker you a goo! husband, Heed what 1 sa But she did Ant heed thoush she made na | reply tohim. Her eye, “scornful, threaten- ing and young,” looked yonder where she knew her lover wast nor was it in her soul ever ta returmm from following after him, The name of her intended husband left ler ood as ice. “Roll out! Rell out! Re-o-o-ll ou-t!" Phare men atone the Ue omee ioe: © Pialo of the wogen whi mache ee | Sue dinnia of whe drivers at na the for necked oxen bowed their heads again, April 79, 5 —+ _ with less strength even for the ligh load. The old man who sat bey the Fort Laramie, twist @& curl arcs finger, saw the plain clearing now, great train swung out and up the trail. He perhaps knew that Jim Be with his own freight wagons, going and faut with mules, wos om west, ah the main earayan. But he did nat the news Jim Bridger carried, the news that Crntion wavs ing east three old mountain men, for a few meeting after years, now Were posing apart, never to meet again. Their cig encountering meant much to a men and women then om the row ts gon; to unteld thousands yet to coma, As for one Samuel Woodhull, late colg captain, it was to be admitted that for time he had been consciqus of cortain | fetings of fate. But os all thoroughh unimals are thin-skinned, so are all) shaort-bred pachydermatous, whereby endure and mayhop arrive at the m as well ss the next. Trae, even W vanity and self-content had everyth asked of them in view of his Late seria mishaps; but by now he had somes chirked up ars rest andl good food, g wes once more the dandy and hail | He felt assured that Aga? presently | gones would be bygo Toreover—s9 reasoned—if he, ! Woodhull, won § spoils, what matter who had won anys af vi T He knew, aa all these ok knew and as all the world knows, thal beautiful woman ia above all things spe opima of war. Well, in ten days he wus marry Molly Wingate, the most besutil woman of the train and the belle of me than one community. Could he not afo to laugh best, in aplte of all events, eves wo been to hi om in But the girl's open indifference was lea of all to liking. It enraged his val higede nature to lia inner care. Alresd a6 anned dominance, but willing tw wa to endure for ten days, meantime | cesnenied lnnacence, reticence, dignity, al tentivenesa, 80 that he seemed a mule misunderstood, misrepresented, unporl wed: to whoae patient aoul none the la pregently mvust arrive justice and exone tion, alter whieh all would be happier eva than a marriage bell, After the weddin bella he, Samuel Woodhull, would show who wa master. Eonenel > hee more ie noe er on nt, an aving t ste sept gin thon te a. effeet throuchoak OB reg train, Woodhull had bee allowed to resume oa nominal commas over a part of the Wingate wagons. The Teal eantrol lay in the triumvirate 2h once had usurped power, and who might do so again. Wingate himself really had not modi more than noriloal eantrel of the genetal company, although he continued to pe niet Caleb Price called ps Se id whypns, I Fi io oF transport, atill putin wd the head of the truin, Molly continuing to drive ber om light wagon and Jed remualning on tie we TOLUEMEL, The advance hardly had left. Fort Le- amie hidden by the rolling ridges betore Woodhull rade up to Molly's wagon 2 f excuse to pass his horse to a buy while be himself climbed up on the =a with his fiancée : She mode room for him in silence, ber eyes situight uhbead, The wagon ae mince od ecreen behind, the were fur in the rear, and from the w wags shed none could see them. Yet after a moment, her uffianeed besharl dropped an arm ta her waist the gi flung it off iupatinntl ie "Don't!" she excluimed, “I detest hve making in public. We sen enough of it cha! can't bie hid, [t's getting WOR, mite Opes the farther we get out.’ "The train knows we are to be martiee at the halfway stop, Molly, Then you'll change wagons and will not need te drive” Wait tL them” a count the hours. Don't you, <i est?" She turned a pallld face te him at le. resentful of tis. endearment Ta do," whe said. But he did se know what she meant or why she we © pale, (Continued on Page &F!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Fisk Tires Stand Any Comparison And Show Their Extra Value pIVE minutes given to the in- spection of Fisk Tires and to comparing them with other makes will go further toward selling them to you than pages of copy could do. The Mn O4—Fisk Premier Tread . | | S1088 20-5 34 —Mon-Skidh Fabric ‘aa care 20 3'4—Extre-Ply Re Top ‘a TAS S00 9 4 —Se - Pip Non -Shid Cliecher Card 44 AS 30 2 34—Sie -PAly Noe Skid Cord Straight Side 15.85 27.00 a4 —Sis-Ply Mow-Shod Cord a4 —Mon-Skid Cord = 414—Moe-Skid Card a 4/¢—Nom-Shid Cord Sah = MenShid Cord extra value in Fisk Tires this year is soreal and so obvious that it will pay any buyer, inmoney saving and in satisfac- tion, if he will compare Fisk for size, strength, resiliency, looks, price. There's a Fisk Tire of extra value in every size for car, truck or speed wagon = Time to Re-tire? (Buy Fisk) TRADE MARK REG. L. 4. PAT. OFF.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST OW DOES its present value com- H pare with its cost? Your bank will tell you and it’s well to know. The only known way to keep the original value in a building is to keep it painted. That's the first thing to know and the second is this: Every building has many surfaces, each requiring a different finish ac- Send 50 cents (63 cents in Canada) for The Home Parting Manual, the most complete work on paint- ing ever compiled. 170 pages of text; 27 color plate pages. Address $01 Canal Rd_,Clevelond,O.,Dept-Bidi, What could you borrow on your home? cording to the nature of the surface and the wear it gets. You can buy under the Sherwin-Williams label just the right finish for each surface you wish to protect or beautify—a finish that will faithfully serve its purpose and keep the value in your home. There is a Sherwin-Williams dealer near you. . Bene Free.—Set of 8 color plates, showing modern effects in interiog decoration and attractive combi- nations for exterior painting. The Sherwin-Williams Co, 601 Conall Road, NWN. W., Cleveland, Ohio? SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PropucTs | PAINTS ano VARNISHES i pril 29, on this house | | So DING it necessary to placed mortgage on a small dwelling which I owned, I had the property Inspected by an appraiser and was surprised to learn that the appraiser advised his company to reduce the) amount of insurance on the howe by one-third: The best offer of a loan I could get was S800 which I did not accept, and) in talking with a real estate friend) the condition of the paint came up When I told him that the howse was) about four years old and had never’ been painted, he said without hese) tation, “That is the cause of your trouble.” Timmediately got in tou) with a reliable paint dealer, invested) $42 in a standard brand of readre) mixed paint and employed an oldne gro” Jackofall Trades" whoputtwo | coats of paint on the house for $40, This 582 investment made my) house look so much better that I had no difficulty in securing a bag of $1,500 and my insurance policy, © instead of being reduced, was in- creased one-third, (signed) G. E. LENNON Savannah, Georgia

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| Ceatinged from Page 4¢) hink we'll settle in Portland,” he mn. “The tra * stories say that at the head of navigation on the tite, has as good a chance as © the Falls. I'll practice law. e . @m taking aut will net us a good “tm hoping. Ob, you'll see the bed rol not regret that I held you to somite! "rm not playing this Oregon o seongh ll = : Si fa . te rt? ae i Better to have ‘than to explain ot—that's ene of my mottos.” ‘matter howt" ut foen—and the differences.” Y deer, ad a achool-teacher you have do te Use a map, a blackboard. Do ok on Lit men a ponderable, measur- ‘om pu table?" girl eight to de that if she's going ta t ahead, cold, ‘s arms or still was statin elrai gz no silent call for a ‘silence was s0 long that at length even ick hide was pier jolly tT" me broke out. Prac oe sah mu want the engagemen n? Do rant. to be released?" That would they all think?” ot the question. Anewerme!" to, I don't want it broken, I want it with. Isn’t that fair?” POET nee t you say you wanted me on any sieiy Le lon"t you nowt ‘3, I do, and I'm going to have you ‘eye, eovetous, turned to the oe ft tiling of the maid beside him. He milling to nk mee 8 te Wl but one part You've never really actually: ot me you loved me." wry smile. ‘1H planning to do that after I marly 1 suppose that's the an, (4 course, it can’t be oe et ome man will do for a woman bo marry, we woman fora man. If anything wats on that basis— why, i rapide are | That would be foolish, wouldn't it? ey women do adjust. Don't you EsoT™ face grew hard under this cool rea- = 4m I te understand that you are Tying Mme a5 wi choice, and so Lyau ean forget some other man?" Couldn't you leave a girl a secret if she lene? Couldn't you be happier if you ! Couldn't you take your chance and if there's anything under the notion wt more than one man and more than iwoman in the world? LoveT Why, ut is love? Something to marry on? ey aay Lb pre zee, tell me that Hiagé la more adjustable, means more eresta than lave: that the woman who Ee SEL Tee ye OTe Ie to be the apiést in the long run. , then, you fou waned me on any, tts Does d t that inclade he “You're maki a bard bargaln—the te take." rest Eman can “Tt was not of my wacekea.” “You said you loved me—at first.’ “No. Only a girl's in love with icv fret. I've not really lied to you. I'm ying to he honest before marriage. Don’t ar UU not be afterward. There's pa that, don't you think? Maybe there mething, too, in a woman's ability to ee aa pagan eae I tly know, ic tto be ss happy as the average couple, don't you think? None af beni are happy for so very long, they say. ‘wey say lowe doesn't last long. I hope ot, One thing, I beliewe marriage is casier beat than lowe is."* “How ald are you, Teally, a ial Lam just over nineteen, SI, “You are wise for that; you are ald.” “Te—toce we started for He sat in sullen silence for a long time the venom of his mature gathering, all bin ay aay yt met that renegade, traktor and thief, ill Banion! Tell me, in that ai" “Yes, that's trie. I'm older now. I ey more,’ r THE SATURDAY “And you'll marry me without loveT io love him without marriage? Is that “Tl never marry a thief." "But you love one?" "T thought I lowed "But you do lowe him, that man {"" Now at last she turned to him, gazing a te Ei the mist of her tears. Hf you really lowed mee, weuld yeu ask that? auldn't you just try to be ao gentle and good that there'd no longer be any place in my heart for any other sort af love, ao I'd learn te think that our lowe wa the only aart In the world? Wouldn't you take your chance and make good on it, lieving that it must be In nature that a wenn can love more than one man of howe men in mere than one way? Tsn't marrna breader and with more chance for both? Tf you rot me and not just yourself alone, can’t you take your chance as I am taking mine “And after all, doesn't a woman give the odda? If you do love me —— “Tf I do, then wie business is + bo try bo make you forget Eanion. “There is no other w may din, I tt you. after I'm married “And I* rE nas you another thing’ her strain ou could. He never see him learn—if I ever believe—that Major Banion is not what I now think him I'll go on my knews ta him. ll know marriage wrong and love was right all the time.” ne, oy dear! Much happiness ! But unfortunately for Major Banion's passing romance, the official records of a military connrt-comriia) and a dishonorable discharge from the are facta which none of ua can doubt or "Yes, that's how it is. So that's why.” “What de yeu really mean mean then, Mally— Fou aay That" a why “That's why I'm golng to y you, | | Sam. Nine daya from to-day, at the In- dependence Rock, if we are allve, And from now till then, and always, I'm, going to be honest, and I'm going to pray God to aye you poser to make om arget every roman in all the world except my— a 7 "But she could not say the word ushen “Your husband!" He said it for her, and perhaps then reached his zenith in approximately un« sewer devotion, and in good resolees at "the sun shone blinding hot. The white dust rose in clouds. The plague of flies in- creased. The rattle and creak of wheel, the monotone of the drivers, the cough of dust- afflicted kine made the only sounds for a long tiene. “You can't kiss me, Molly?" He spoke not in dominance but in diffi- dence. The girl awed him. “Wa, not till after, Sam: and I think I'd rather be left. alone from now till then. After —— Qh, be good te me, Sam! I'm trying to be honest ag a woman can, If I were ae that I'd not be worth Withowt suggestion or agreement on his part she drew thehter the reins on her mules. He sprang down over the wheel. The sun and the dust had their way again; the monotony of life, its drab discontent, ite yearnings and its sense of failure once mare resumed sway in part or all of the morcea caravan. They all sought new for: tunes, each of theae, One day each must learn that, travel far as he likes, a man takes himself with him for better or for WO, | ExIx Bain allowed the main caravan two days’ start before he moved beyond Fort Laramie. Every reason him to cut entirely apart from that portion of the company. He talked with every man he knew whe had any knew of the coum- try on ahead, all he could find, studied such mapa ag then existed, and kept an open ear for advice of old-time men who in hard experience had learned how to get a a country. Two things troubled him: The poesi- bility of grasa exhaustion near the trail, and the menace of the Indians. Squaw men in from the north and west said that the Arapahoe were hunting on the Sweetwater, nod eure to make trouble: that the Black- foek were plannin wnt: that the Bannacks were ent of the Pass: that even the Crows were far down below their nofmal range and certain to harass the trains. These stories, not eounting the hostility of the Sioux and Cheyennes of the Platte country, EVENING POST 88 Dunlop 142 The dec! ball to play with Smaller sinc. Afe cach. Dunlop *b** The mon durahle boll i play with. Medi- um fie 35c sick. Bunlop Afogrun The watical ball ta play with. Large fine. Alc rack. Buntop Waris The cherpent of good balls do play ith, Mediam size. Toe each, with us again for the new season The Choice of Particular Players Here's the golf ball chat has established itself as the choice of particular golfers. Amateurs and Professionals, the world aver, have depended upon the sare playing qualities of Dunlops for more than fifteen years. Today, as a Hite eit af skilled work- manship, the Dunlop ranks as the leading im- ported golf ball, both in volume of sales and the general spread ort irs popularicy. This Yeor’s Price 85 Cents Each During the last two years the regular price of standard Dunlop balls has been 31.10 each, This season we are pleased to announce a price recession, which makes the Dunlop #42, the Dunlop “D" and che Dunlop Magram obtainable at 85e each.: The /’arwick will retail at 70k. Everything considered —including the playing qualities, durability and d dability—we be- ewe that the buyer of golf balls will find the Dunlop range provides for the truest economy. You Can Get Dunlops If You Ask For Them Many players accustomed to the use of Dunlop golf balls have sometimes found it dificult to obtain their favorite brand. No need for being without Dunlops this season, A liberal supply is available, and there is mo reason for taking a substitute article. Sometimes, though, you may have to insist on Dunlops to get them. If you don't find Dunlop balls in stock, please write us, giving the name of your club, Dusvor Tine & Russen Conrponation of AMERICA Golf Ball Sales Department 17 East 42nd Street New York (City All Danlop Balls are Standard, complying with WU. §. G. A. spectiicacions for both weight and measurement.

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Gar Tf you are thinking of building, This ts the number of the plated, ball-tip, loose-pin {cKinney Butt. this book wtll be mighty helpful TS aim is to Suggest to you a number of little things which should be carefully considered in building a home—little things which sometimes are overlooked — but little things which go along way toward making your home an easy-running, pleasurable place in which to live. It ts-a book which will prevent a lot of regrets after your home has been lived ina hile. It will eliminate such expressions as “Well, if we had to do it over again we would do thus and so!" Ask ws to send you this book. A postcard will bring it by return mail, The book will also give you considerable valuable information about proper hardware for your home—particularly information about hinges. It will explain to you the 1 importance of hinges. Why they should be selected carefully; why a few moments’ thought about hinges before your home i Ls built ll ena able yt ba forget all about hinges during all the years you occupy the house. And it will tell you why McKinney Hinges and Butts for over half a century have answered the exacting requirements of architects, builders and home owners, why they have always given such long years of servi ice, why they have naa ays served casily, smoothly and noiselessly, Garage Door Hardware Sets. We wll als describing one of the latest hc Kinney develo eae eS: fer the Cab VERE hoe of these wy bene te thi inhi ft of bullding 2 private gar appt. The book shows pictures and working plans for the desagning and encetton ef all kinds of garage doors. For each type of door there is a complete sets McKinney Hardware, packed complete ina hex. Everyrhing needed for the hanging and send a apr benok operation of the doors es inckuded, Write for these books teclav, McKRINNEY MANUFACTURING COM PANY, Pittsbu rgh Wiesterm Olfice, WW nglhey Budding, Chicage Expire Represencatian MCKINNEY nga and track, door @aolts and tatehes, shell brackets, wrrao ac fardipa ri door Aa errs jorereen dardiwars , tasinel Aged e, ffée i Waar dl wand pero Bay ipectaliie: | dreamed possible. The buffalo ran | bones were clean within the hour. | miles out from the Missouri, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST mice it apptar that there was a tncit eos pense of intertrial heetility, and a general and joint uprising against the migrating whibes. These facts Banion did not hesitate to make plain te all his men; hut, descendants of pioneers, with blood of the wilderness in their veins, and each tempted by adventure aa much a by gain, they laughed long and lewd at the thenght of danger from all the Incdlians of the Rockies. Had they not heaten the Sieux? Could they net in turn humble the pride of any other tribe? Had not their fathers worked with rifle lashed ta the plow beam? Indians? Let them come! Founding his own future on this resolute epirit of his men, Banion next looked ta the order of his own personal affairs. He found prices so high at Fort Laramie, and the ateck of all manner of poms so low, that he felt it needless to carry his own trading wagons all the way to Oregon, when a profit af 400 per cent lay ready not a third of the way atte afd less the further risk and cost, Ae accordingly eut down hla own stocks te ont wagon, and sald aff wagons and omen as wel, wotil he found himeellf poms of considerably mote funds than when he had started out. He really cored littl: for these matters, What need had he fora fortune or a future now? He was poorer than any jeans-clad ox driver with a sunbonnet on the seat beside him and tow-headed children on the flour and bacon sacks, with amall belong- ings | nd the plow lashed at the tail gate, the ax leaning in the front corner of the box and the rifle swinging im ita loopa at the wagon bows. They were all beginning life again, He waa done with It. The entire caravan now had passed in turn the Prairies and the Plaine, In the vestibule of the mountains they had arrived in thee mast eplondid outeof doors counkry the world bas ever offered. The. climate was superb, the scenery was a constant suc- cession of changing beauties: new to the eyes of all. Game was at hand in such lavish abundance as none of pe ae nA - ways within touch, great bands of elk now BpErard. antelope always were in sight. atreame abounded in noble game tich, and the leaser life of the open was threaded across eantinually by the presence of the great predatery animalsa—the grizzly, the fay wall, even an ace palit saaiialn The guarding of the cattle herds now | required eontinoal exertion, and if any weal of crippled draft animal fell out its The fecling of the wilderness now wes distinct enough for the most adventurous, They fed fat, and daily grew more like savages in look and practice. Wingate’s wagons kept well apace with the average schedule of a dozen miles a day af times spurting to fifteen or twenty miles, and made the leap over the heighta of land between the North Platte and the Sweetwater, which latter stream, offen winding among defiles as well as pleasant meadows, was te lead them ta the sammit af the Hockies at the South Pass, beyond which they #et foot on the soil of Lirepon, teaching thence to the Paciic, Before them now Lay the entry mark of the Sweet- water Valley, that strange oblong upthrust of rock, rising: high nhoawe. the surreunding plain, lenown for two theasand miles as Independence Rock, At this point, more than eight hundred a custom of unknown age seemed to have decreed a pause. The great rock was an unmistakable landmark. and time out af mind bine! brew aL register wf the wilderness. Dt carried hun-= dreda af names, including every prominent qe ever known in the ds ae ool ‘fur trade or the new day of the wigen trains, It bes came Known 2 on Pest liege place; indeed, many rested there forever, und never sao the soil of Oregon, Many an emigrant woman, sick wellenigh toe death, held out so that she might te buried amon the many other graves that. clustered there, Bo, she felt, she had the final company of her kind. And thoee weak or faint af heart the news that this was not halfway actos often emiete with despair and death, and they, too, laid themaelyes down here by the road to (neon, But here alse were many scenes of cheer, By this time the mew fife of the trail had been taken on, rude dl simple, Frolica were pfomised when the wagons. should teach the Rock, Neighbors made reunions there. Weddings, as well as buriala, were postponed til the train got to [Independence Rock, pri! 74 Here Shn,_8 sed-faced girl, ete prom some strange pil of her own _— Bios was to beem fe persistenr be ch Sin it little eonaiort beyor wedci ia All the train kre Molly’ te was to be married +| Sam Woo dhull: now restored to try authority. Some said it wae a goce | others shook their heads, liking wel] a maid either blush or smile in such Molly's, whereas she did neither, At all events, Mra. Wingate » days baking cakes at the train Friends together little pet bride. Jed, Molly's brother, him=eli dler of ized an orchest; dozen pieces. The Rev. Henry 0 Baptist divine of much nuptial di #n route, made ready hia best coat. came into Fore In the open space valley hund of wagons Were ae each to send representatives to Mol} gate's weddi Some insisted th ceremony should be performed on t af the Hock itself, so that no touch mance should lack. Then approached the very hour— the night, after duties of the day done. A canopy wae spread for thi A central camp fire set the for the wedding feast. Within a hal the Lride would emerge from the s a A to meet at the canopy Rock the impatient groom, alread i ae best, already giving largess | Hobos musicians, Ww now attune struments, hie brake eut inte moda or pertinen wt Molly W te did mot hor father . A hush a a a Aieecblige. The minister of “ pel departed to the Wingate encam to learn the cmuse of the delay. He | some het at irate “ re Mi 6 mother stony calm, the vhite but resolute, "She ingizta on seeing the marriaj cense, Mr. Doak," began Jesse Win “As though we could have one! Aath she shou le cane tore fer that than paceital Quite so," rejoined the reverend oye is something I have taken op the happy groom. I have with ol pountes I have j sinad in wedlock o« trail. Of course, being a lawyer, Mr. Wi ull knows that even if they stood bs the meeting and acknowledged then man and wife it would be a lawful mar before Gel and man. OF course, alow know that alnce we left the Missvuri awe have beeen in wnorganieed territary, 4 no courts and oe form of government, soricty as we understand it at home. 1 wall. Shall loving hearts be kept aw for those reasons? Shall the natural on of life be thwarted until we get to (rey Why, sir, that ia absurd! We do note know much of the government of Ore itself, except that it is provisional” The face of Molly Wingate appeared a8 pet sesh af her transect ho She ate rom her om and oa loreard, Beautiful, aE nae radiant, | wis; cold and calm, but mot blushing i uncertain. Her wedding gown war 1! white Hane noni to tradition, the but of dela new from its pa ing trunk by. her mother’s hands bodice, long and deep in front and at te WHS plain entirely, eave for a treme aes eee ae apg art mother's ng ago. Her han no gloves, but white ahort-fingeral ti! fit also cherished remnants of days of she girl belledom, did gervien, Chyer whi stockings, below the Jong and full-bec skirt, showed the crossed hands of b1 elastic r etl ip ear ef in place ittle slip: ack ig finished lea th er. | ad they secn her. wl said that Molly oe ring was the cert! and the most richly clad bride of any 04 the Long, long trail across the land that is no law. And all she lacked for ber well costume was the bride's bouquet, #1! her mother now held aut te ber, with care that day of the mountain an ers—blus harebells, forget-me-netecl =" blues, and the blossom of the gentian tian. bos and blue in the suntight, though at np infolded and abashed, its petals turtict ' and waiting for the sun again © #7 them. Molly wees atout. and sen! bosomed, wet eyed, held owt ber ene itd preannt to her al. oe ewe lamb, Fie WHS TOW surrendering. But no band of {Continued on Page 37!

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sientist from another world id come to our earth and a book on our habits and s, we might have a queer af ourselves, Among other he might say: w humans live in artificial ms of wood, stone or «, divided inte roams with ebetween. The outer walle » doors and windows to it light and air, ummer, windows and doors open and their houses are t and airy, but in winter (close the outside openings even the doors between the nm, living in a stuffy, dry, ted atmosphere that is ally very uneven in temper- fe. is queer custom, that is quite erally followed even in the it of their homes, is un- ibtedly the cause of much ea, for these humans are yect to many diseases of st, throat and lungs in the ater, when they really should more healthy than in the mmertiove. emust admit that this is true. or know it is true and insist on windows and doors in the sick- i. Architects know it is true, they design homes with wide ings between the living rooms. itdo what they will, the doctor the architect cannot give you a pletely open house with proper ilation in winter; only a good ting system can do this, he Convector Opens Your Doors to Health he Mueller Convector heats TY foom in a house through one stet on the firat floor, It auto- fealty circulates all the air in home over its large heating sur- tand back again te your rooms. imesh air is warmed and mingled ball the air in the house and sent caghoutevery room. This health- ventilation is going on all the %: the air is never still, There A be fee stagnant air pockets, no “tty bat or cold places. This complete air circulation, el by the Convector, really es doors to better health. Hav- fi well designed open house is of S iet unless your heating system * You comect ventilation. You ait hep every inner door open sll have poor ventilation with a ae stem that does not circu- ite aap, Vere is no more practical and =foticl way of heating any home So ith the clean, warm air that ‘tt from the Convector’s single ft. Living rooms are entirely THE SATURDAY EVENING POST he Open Door to Better fealth- It’s in Your Home ise” TE) _ free of heating apparatus—no pipes, no radiators, no valwes or registers scattered over the house—nothing but a constant circulation of health- fully moistened air. The Convector never makes a noise, it cannot freeze, it cannot leak. How Nature Automatically Keeps the Temperature Even Sometimes people ask how an even temperature may be maintained with Convector heat and ventilation— why the upstairs rooms are not cooler than the downstairs rooms—why the room or hallway in which the register is located is not warmer than other parts of the house. They might as well ask how an even temperature is maintained with the large warm air heating and venti- lating systems installed in our best schools and hospitals, They operate on exactly the same principle as the Convector, except that they must have expensive systems of fans and piping because of the large size of the buildings. With the Cenveetor the warmed air circulates quite naturally and evenly, without these aids, This system of circulation is so efficient that if one room becomes cooler than the others for any neasen, the Convector automatically begins to send more heat to that room. Gravity causes this action, and there is nothing more positive than the law of gravitation. There is rarely a difference of more than a few degrees in temperature in the rooms of a Convector heated home. Interesting Facts About the Convector Tt la poaltively guaranteed to heat all your home to your entire satia- faction, Thousands of practical tests prove that it saves one-third to one-half in fuel. It can be installed in any home, new or old, usually in less than one day's time. Warmed air from the Con- vector is healthfully mois- / oe ee ee ee SALESMEN) Wa heave places For acierof proded men whe went oF excellent product to back their cbf ity. oom. Gentlemen: DEALERS; Writa new for details of orctlontot aofen | LI L. J. Mueller Furnace (n,, oe Feed Se. Aileen, VF lin. nl tened. It does not harm furniture, intenior woolwork and fine finishes, fabrics or musical instmiiments, as dry heated air often does, The Convector is more quickly and easily regulated to temperature change than any other type of sys- tem, and it is lated directly by the amount of fuel- you burn. You can take the chill off the whole house in a few minutes by burning a few pounds of fuel—the Convector is noted for this economy, Tt is very easily operated—two firings a day will keep all your home cozily warm. Nothing to get out of order. No expensive repairs. Heats ample supply of water for kitchen and bath, Sizes for homes of four to cighteen rooms. Will heat store buildings, theaters and churches. Takes small apace in basement. Never heats basement. Not necessary to have full size basement for installation. Burns any fuel—hared coal, soft coal, coke, wood, gas, oils, lignite, Screenings. You can buy the Convector on easy terms, if desired, from a dealer near you. Send coupon now, for completeinformationon Installation for your home. Send for Your Copy of “HEAT” This book is an interesting dis« cussion of scientific facts about heat and its use in homes and other buildings. It 1s of especial value to architects, builders, home owners and those who are about to buy or build a home. The information in this book will enable you to save fuel and get greater comfort and efficiency from Your present method of heating—no matter what system you are using. Send for it. No obligation. Mail the coupon below to L. J. MUELLER FURNACE CO., 246 Reed St,, Milwaukee, Wis. Makers of Warm Air— Steam — Vapor and Het Waorer Hearing Syaremsa Eatobtishl 1547 P, k. Ul ee send me without cost a copy of your book on Ptease gend me complete information about the Cory. a. Thde lp an VECTOR, ) geeewe! opporto. nutty for good Sow: Na ==. errs Addrese.. ——-* = = Copyright iyua Lah Mueller Fomaca (a, City. . — = Stare —_ —_ _

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a2 AUNOINECABTUEEE EVRUGTENUGTE FU LAEREPAT ATE Ged ene EN EATDAEATE THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Keep a supply of Pet Milk always on the pantry shelf and you will never be without milk. You will appreciate the convenience and economy of using Pet Milk. For coffee, it is fine. For all cooking, it is excellent. Pet is pure, rich, full-cream cow’s milk, with part of the natural water removed, then sterilized—that’s all. Milk at its Best! Try it and you will never be without it. Your grocer can supply you. Two sizes —tall and small. For Free book of Pet recipes, write to The Helvetia Company (Originators of the Evaporated Milk Industry) General Offices—St. Louis. Try this recipe Coooa, 24 moblespoons cocoa, 4 tablespoons sugar, | cop Pet Milk, 1 cups warer, few graina salt, Scald milk diluted with nwo caps of the boiling woner, Mix cocoa, sugar and salt; add o half-cup heiling water and stir toe make a smooch paste: then add remaining half-cup of water and boll one minure, Pour into scalded milk and beac thoroughly with Dower ege beater just before serving. es £ FPP eT ee ee ed a ee

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‘Centiveed from Poge 90} vas extended for the bride's bouquet. cee of the bride was not low and at, but high pitehed, insistent. weional? Provisional? What is it esaying, sir? Are you asking me to riedina provisional wedding? Am I aa bess ? Ismy oath onal, or his w, now, my dear!" began the minis- father broke out inte a half-stifled int do you mean?" mother's face went pale under its mz. nean this,” broke out the girl, still trained high tones that betokened ‘atal state; “T° marry no man in Iway fashion ! Why didn't Ou tell Why didn’t I think? How could I ‘orgotten? Law, organization, ao- canrention, form, custom—haven't rren. Choae thi to back me? No (‘ve nothing! It was—it was those —form, custom—that I was goin to Oguppart me. pide be nothing else, -they re gone, tool And kine to marry hina— opens .™ r provisionally! Oh, hat awiul thing was this? Vt even to have that solid toreat on, back of me, after vas over!" H y sto looking at her for a trying to catch and weigh al intent, to estimate what ht mean as to her actions. ke images, you are!” she ee ae her pharalaa] t physics ag of another og her well. mai: “You dn'k protect ] oan daugh= she cried out. or stupeef ied ats. "Must ok for you at hour of my liow meer . how near! not now his way! Nol What do a Molly?" de ded her father aly. “Come we'll have no an teatro at stage! ‘This on! They're ie ing! He's wait- Let him waiti" eried the ull ber outraged, self hed heart, Her philos- F fell from her ewafthy at crucial moment when sie ito face the kiss, the em- cof another man. ‘The it inarticulate volee of woman nature suddenly sounded, im- ative, terrifying, in ber own ears—" Oh, 1 Banion, Will fanion, why did you take de bet? And now ahe had been bgp of doing this thing! An act of ed intervened. fe Wingate nodded to the minister. fy dew apart. The holy man nodded et, humied away—the girl sensed on at trrand, “No um!" she said. “I'l not!" ae and stronger in her soul surged * yearning for the dominance of one man, (this man yonder—a yearning too strong @ lor ber to resist. “Bat, yn Oe daughter,” her mother's ier said to her, “girla hes—girls does. ol che be suid, it's the promise, it's the Tymentthey both make, with witnesses.” Yrs, af course," her father chimed in. Irathe coment in the contract when you area thera all,”* | sot stand before them. I don't mat! come ie se ne ment!" Sade ht fror her mother “polit uquet. “Look at these!" oo by one, asia. she tore out and “teen eto ian ram Se: no the might ture. dai et dn't! V't! They couldn’ tl th— i con't r coul THE SATURDAY She had the hand's clasp of mountain blossoma stripped down to a few small flowers of varied blooms. They beard the coming af the - half running. A fener fell over fT the great pace esi The girl's father made a Pall atep forward, even as her mother sunk down, cowering, hor hands at her face, Then, without a word, with no plan of purpose, Molly Wingate turned, sprang away from them and fled out into a night that was black indeed, Truly she had but one thought, and that in negation only. Yonder came to claim her aman suddenly odious to her senses. It eould net be. His kiss, his arma—il these were of the poene thre and place, then noe place in all the world, even the world af suvage blackness thet lay about, could be eo bad as this, At prc test her philosophy hed forenken her now almost ms well, and sheer terrified fi flight remained her one Teaction. She was gone, a white ghost in her wed- ding gown, her little slippers stumbling ens, DVamladfel of tte Jalen A paths of Men aad Wosiga, Jed Saag Wirth Nile Cracked Lips an Ae feroig Frem One Jig te the ext over the stones, her breath coming sob- ua she ran. followed her. Back of them, at the re whose illumination deepened the adaie rae rie a murmur, a rising of curious poop ng forward to the Winpate'stut cation, taf these none knew the ond it was curiosity that now sought answer for the delay td the antici pated divertisement. Molly Wingate ran for some moments, te some distance—she knew of neither, Then suddenly all her ghastly nightmare of terror found climax in a world of de- mons, Voices of the damned rose around her. There came a sudden shock, a blow. Before she could understand, before she could determine the shadowy form that EVENING POST rose bafore ber in the dark, she fell forward | like the stricken creature. cz ERE was no wedding that night at the Independence Flor Rock. The The Arapa- hoes saw to that. But there were burials the day following, six of them —two women, a child, three men. The night attack had caught the company wholly off guard, and the t fire gave illumination for shaft and ball, Put out the fires! Corral! Corral!" Voices of command arose. The wedding quests rushed for the shelter of their awn Men caught up thelr weapons a eteady fire at the unseen foe held the latter at bay after the first attack, Indeed, a sort of panic seized the savages. A wartlor ran back exclaiming that he Fadl seen a apirit, all in white, not minning away from the attack, but toward them as they ay in cover, He had shot an arrow at the rit, which then hud vanished. [6 would be better te fall back and take no more like chances. For this reason the “stig bat of Maly Wingate, pursuing sould, found her at itt, lying “Tace Prose in the grass, her arma outepread, her white wedding gown red with blood, An arrow ite shalt eracked by her fall, was embeddec in her shoulder, driven deep by the savage beeman who had fired in fear at an object he did not recognize. Sa found etill alive, still womutilated, atill no prisoner. They curried the girl back to her mother, who reached out her arma and Iaid her down behind the barricaded wagon wheels, Me Bring mea candle, you!" she called to the nearest man. It anced t to be Sam Woodhull. ; Sonn. 2 WoMan came with a light. “C0 Coram now!" the mothe the ilinappointed man. He ped inte the dark. The wld woman opencd the bodice over the girl's heart, stripped away ine stained Jace that had served and so got to the wound. “Tt's in to the bone,” she said. “It won" Some out, Get me ag Herne out af my bag. It's Wane ing right 'side the seat, our Ain't there no doe- tor?" she demanded, her own heart weakening now. But none could tell, A few wear grouped around “Tt won't come out of that little hole it went in,” ead stout Molly bi er not quite sotsbing. to cut it wider." Silence held them os she finished the shreds of the ashen shaft and pressed to one side the mri obit. Bo with what tools she knew best she cut into the fab- ric of her own A tengo out a her own blood and bone; cot mayvhap in steady snippings at her own heart, pulling and wrenching until Bie Sem, now growin , was ist Shae rite girl's white breast. Both arma, in their white sleeves, lay on the trodden grasa mo Honless, and had not ahock and strain left the victim unconscious the pain must now have done ao, The sinew wrappings held org head, wetted as they now were with The sighing su caught the base ire the arrowhead in thumb and finger, There was no stunching of the blood, She wrenched it free at lost, and the blood pasted! from a gag hola which would we peeant death In Ln any ae at or in any patient but the vi ae Se Poe Now they disro the bride that was nd bride, even as the rifle fire died away in the darkness. Women brought frontier drafta of herbs held sovereign, and laid her upon the couch that was not to have been here alone, She opened her eyes, moaning, held out her arms te her mother, net to an husband; and her mother, bloody,unnery weeping, caught her to her bosom. STUDY THIS PICTURE A MOMENT AVE you ever scen a union BIE without a single button front or hack?) Here it es. THE HATCHWAY NO-BUTTON UNION SUIT for Men and Boys Step into the legs, slip your ame through the armholes, and yraa're in. Yin never immgined rach amplicity, You have a new experience Pn stern yea En corafare as well: comfort that conforma te che body lines and comlort of enine: through che complece elimination of bugien bother seorning amd might, ared fe frore sewing on of bortons ar reparrinig of bunny hobes. 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THE SATURDAY THE BICE PROCESS WHITE Smooth—white— washable as tile A paint for walls and woodwork that resists dirt WHY do most white paints collect dirt s0 quickly? The surface of ordinary flat or egg-shell finish white paint 8 not actually smooth but full of countless pores— microscopic holes in which dust and dirt cling. Barreled Sunlight produces a lustrous finish that is amooth and unbroken. This even surface resists the tiny dirt and dust particles. Marks or smudges cannot sink in. Walls and woodwork coated with Barreled Sunlight can be washed clean like tile—even after years of service. That is why this paint is being used today in build- ings of every description—ofice buildings, stores, hotels, apartment houses, schools and industrial plants. Ideal alsa for woodwork throughout the hame and for the walls of kitchen, bathroom, laundry, ete. Made by the exclusive Rice Process, Barreled Sunlight is guaranteed to remain white longer than any gloss paint or enamel applied under the same conditions. Easy to apply. Flows freely and leaves no brush marks. Comes ready mixed in cans from half-pint to five-gallon size— barrels and half-barrels. If your dealer does not carry Barreled Sunlight com- municate with our nearest distributor. (See list below.) U. &. GUTTA PERCHA PAINT COMPANY Factory and main offices & DUDLEY STREET PROVIDENCE, R. L Mew Wark Grand sere cop hea oer es Chheago—ts VWrag hin San Prancisoo 28 wv erred Street THarriburted also by the following: rs Ohlo—D, J Ww, pa at la Alentawa, Pia.— “reweler dr. ds. Bald moce—= The entra Morgan Co, Ron Watsoe, Hallert (0, Buftalo—Towne Polnt ¢: m., -mr, Burlingbon, la. rehill Drug Om. Charloate, Hi. 4 Enel Pritchard Go Lhicego—l . Mowker Clea & Paine Cin. Ciacle mat habeas cr Winsiel tan. 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Va. — ict, Mocheser, , V-—F, 1, Rae Ole Sate Lake Ch y—Steymer a Dele San Preacieco= Uhl Bros, Spin diehl Meigen. —Wighland Palen & Wall Yor RE (atts Comal -Bray Gloss & Paint Ge. Pa, 7 Ae Hl a Palnt Co, abe =U. A. Reorn & Cn. bee cL red] Samttlo—Uhl Bicracuse, Pi, green. Ki, J » Hester Be Coa, N. ¥.—(haa, 1. Daurhy tn, Tulsa, hla. KRibrer alot ha Cin rica. fi, Yes, Alber & Geen C0 Washingenn Tr, ep tle Helly cn Preterbury. MNGi hecurize Hall Co, bad kL nel —t. sri faba Paint & Wall port Warceser. | Pel dt ee, CO. Leer) fe Con F Save 2 the surf Buifface and se | F? years alll ha EVENING POST “My lamb! My little lamb! Oh, dear me! Oh, dear me!' The wailing of others for their dead area. The camp dogs kept up a continual bark- ing, but there was no other sound, The guards now lay out in the dark, A figure came creeping toward the bridal tent, “Is she alive? May I come in? Speak to me, Molly!" : "Co on away, Sam," answered the voice of the older woman. “Wou can't come in.” "But is she alive? Tell me!l™ His voice was at the door which he could not pass. “Yea, mores the pity!" he heard the Bane wolce i But from the girl whe should then have been his, to have and te hold, he heard no sound at all, nor could he know her fright- ened gaze into her mother's face, her tight élateh on her mother's hand. This waa no ploce for delay. They made graves forthe dead, pallets for the wounded. AG sonfia® the train moved On, grim, ave, dignified and silent in ite + eul- Fering Phere wns no the for rep Fisal or revenge, The one idea as to walety ep to mae forward in hope of shaking off pur- aul But all that morning ond all that day the mounted Arapahors har: them. At many bends of the Sweetwater they paused and made sorties; but the savages fell back, later to close in, sometimes under cover so near that their tauntings could be heard. Wingate, Woodhull, Price, Hall, Kelsey | stationed themselves along the line of fank- | OTB, and 28 the country became flatter and more open they had better control of the | puree Bo that by nightfall the latter n to fall boek. of forced hree Croas- e end af the second da roses found them at the ape of Sweetwater, deep in a cheerless alkaline desert, and on one of the moat depreasln reaches of the entire journey. That night auch gloom fell on their eouneil a6 had not yet been known. | “The Watkina boy died to-day," said Hall jolning he -aeucure at the guarded His leg wos black where jt wos broke, re. re goin m juet ahend, in the ‘wail it ee iene, Bee: - leave head- boards by Wingate | had zallen into a sort of apatiey. | For a time Woodhull did not speak to h | after he also came in. “How i is she Bir. Wingate?" he ssked at last. “She'll live "T Fas Gee replied the other, We found a “Fever. No ont can tell, doctor in ont of the Iowa wagons. He don't know.” Woodhall sot silent for a tine, exclaimed at last, “But she will—she must! This shames me! Wo'll be married yet." "Better wait to see if she lives or dice," said Jesse Wingate succinctly. “T know what I wish," said Caleb Price at last a5 he stared moodily at the coals, “and I know it mighty wel—lI wish the other wagons were up. Yes, and ” He did not finish. A nod or eo woe oll the answer he got. A general apprehension held them all. “Lf Beldger hadn't gone on ahead, damn him!" exclaimed Kelsey pt lost. “Or if Coreen hadn't refused to come along instead of pl okie iant peti assented him aa Hall. Mal el Sapa Ke ¥. “Sal oe te papers to get through. Maybe Kit Careon'l! sometime ca of our being wiped out somewhere.’ “Or if we had Bill Jackson to trail for us, Sait poker the os? pm again. “If we could send back wo “We sant ba what's the ose?" inter- tupted Price, “We were all together, and had our chance— ones,” But buried as they were in ari doubts, regrets, fears, sa that night and the next in dared not hunt, though the bu ns a antelope were in swarms, and though the knew th snare Bere Heat the weber limit af the bulfale They urged on, mile alter mile. The: sick eat the wounded must endure as Gey might. Finally the Mapes the gentle incline which mar the ‘hte of d between the Sweetwater and t & trbgtaries of the Green, and knew hay hod renched the Smith Pasa, eolled halfway to Oregon. There wos no timber here. Tho Pass itself wae no winding cation, but only ae fist, broad valley. Bolder views they had seen, but none of greater interest, Now they would set foot on Oregon, | passing from one great series of waterways news oom pal April 24, to another and even vaster, leading to the western sea—the unknown } Sea marked aa the limits of their pm sions by the gallants of Eing ©) when, generations earlier, and cares all these intervening penerationa of to sone they had paused at the corer ap in the Appalachians waved a way hand each toward th known continent that lay they kne how far to the westward. But these, now arrived halfway a that continent, made no merriment in turn. Their wounded and thelr sick with - The blazing sun tried sore. Before them also lay they kne what. And now, coming in from. the nort in a vast braided tracing of travais and trampling hoofs, lay a trail whict ‘told them was that of yet another war waiting for the whitetopped wager on acrogs the Paga It eould 2 more than two days old. "Tt's the Crows!" exclaimed Sam Vi hull, studying the broad trail. “Th got their women and children with th "We have oura with wa," said { Price almply. Every man who heard him looked at the lines af gaunt cattle, at the stained canvas coverings that housed families. They were far afield from | Cal Wingate. Let's decide wha do," exclaimed Frica again. “We'll te nat ey voted to go on, or of any bv plan “acme amid Bridger's + wa ar ahead, A general impatience, fre querulous, manifested itself. Igrar many of Pan wanted to hurry en to! Lea which for most meant the Willam Fall , in tewch with the sen, marke: the usual end of the great trek. Feo k Lenk they now stood on the soil of of hol country. The mapa and joun olly Wingate were mo more fa coming, for Molly Wingate no more tog the evening achool, but lage deliriows un the hothouse canvas cover that intesd the rays af the blazing sun. [it was oh death, but by now life-and-death « had become no wndeual experience. It was Auguet, midsummer, ang om half the journey done, The beat wa bit ing, bllatering, For days now, in the ¢ gage country, from the ford of the Nol Fork of the Platte along the Seeciwd and down the Sandy, the white alka‘ di had alfted in and over everything, U cracked open, hands and arms either » ray or black with tan, The wagons 7 ready to drop apart, A dull silence & fallen on the peap plo, but fatucusly folle ind the greot Indian trail they made ao mt last at the ford of the Green Rive, ¢ third day's march down the Pacific Sl) Wo three days of all the alow trail had te harder to endure than these. "Play for them, Jed," counseled Cal Price when that hardy andy peeks leaving & shrunken herd, came in hala: Junch th day at the ford. "Yes, but keep that fiddle in the shad Jed, or the aun eertaindy will pop it open Jed's mother, her apron full af Brot bite af angehrush, turned to see that b admonishment wis heeded before she tea ‘her mlgday coffee fire. As rs "Ted himee! with a wide grin be crouched dawn at u side af the wagon and Ieaned agains! wheel as he struck up a» lively air, nara joyously to his secompaninvent: "10H out" the way, ald Dan Tucker, You're foo fate te gal yore supe! Unmindful of the sullen apathy ef me and women, the wailing of clrildren tit under the wagon tope, the moans o \ sick and wounded in their ghasly & comfort, Jed eang with his eracked lip! he swung from one jig to the neat, 5 voice of the violin reac me all the waged of the shortened train. “Choos yore pardnera!" rang bis role in the joyous jeating of youth. An marvel and miracle—then and the ‘hs enn. Deen Keil did hs up the jest, 2 ~ ree ingly gathered on thesun-searedar They formed sets onc danced — duaced 4 dance of the indomitable, wt high ne heat blinding, the sand hot under feet 2” all of which were shod. Molly den herself fifty and full-bodied, cast dee" firewood, caught up her akirt with #2 hand and & good an old-time fe tuseof the violin. and the EceaP cal ment of many voices and of re ed ok i (Continued on Page 37)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST e/fmounang . | Standardized Service bringing reduced prices for maintenance, new econ- | omues in labor and parts,and an end to guess-work OW comes the long-expected intro. duction of Standardized Service. And Marmon is first to attain the me- chanical fections which make it tble. It is the climax of years of effort—the Marmvon 15 a nine year development! Since the inceprion of the “34” series of Marmon cars, Nordyke & Marmon Company has had but one object in view: to dengn and produce the most efficient and comfortable means of transportation at the lowest cost per mile. This goal has finally been renched. Nation-wide records of upk costs of thousands of 1920, 1921 and 1922 Marmons, enable us to offer Standardized Service, the newslay way of re- ducing operating costs to a minimum. Our plan ts this: The national organization of Marmon distribu- tors have joined in a co-operative movernent to adopt a known price for service. We are estab. lishing uniform published prices. We aim to prove beyond question that the Marmon, by virtue of its inherent simplicity and ruggedness of design, costs less to own and operate than comparable cars. We prove that a Marmon ranks frst in economical operation, of all high-grade cars. We have based our Standardized Service upon time studies of thousands of Marmeons. ‘The new minimums in hours of Isabor and material costs are entirely practical, not philanchropic. A fair profit is made on each job, but lower than ever. For the first time in motor history, an owner knows écforetand just what service costs. Higher mileage— Lowered cost Records show that there are 16 service opera- Hons covering the awerage requirements and constituting 84%, of all maintenance. Now t are reduced ta a simple cost system: hours of Take the most important item, for example. We know that with reasonable care Marmons do not require rebuilding until after 35,00) to 50,000 miles of service. This enables the Mar- mon distributor to give you a contract with each Marmon of the later series, agreeing to completely rebuild the motor at any tlhme necessary, in 55 hours’ actual labor. ‘The total cost for labor and materals does mot exceed $265." This includes complete replacement of all parts liable to wear except crankshaft bearings, as records show that they do not wear within this mileage, Read about this remarkable contrace in “Modern Transportation Costs," a booklet sent to all who mail us the coupon on this page. For the other 15 average service operations, we likewise establish actual standardized prices, based on mew efficiencies. Thus we insure every owner the lowest ating costs in the history of The Foremost Fine Car. Learn the details Marmon is able to make this revolutionary an- nouncement, the details of which will amaze you, because it has established positive, undisputa- ble records for long-life, dependability and econ- omy due to inherent simplicity of design of its wonderful, vibrationless six-cylinder motor, due to its sturdy chassis, due to superfine materials and higher standards of manufacture. Every car owner will be intensely interested in this startling, but inevitable, development of Standardized Service. So we have prepared a complete booklet en- utled “Modern Transportation Costs," It de- scribes Standardized Service. We send it free to all who ask. Merely mail the coupon. The faces will give you a new basis of computing operating costs. You will learn a way of owning a finer car at a lower cost. Send for this book — it does not put you under the slightest obliga- tion—it is dur contribution to a better day in motoring, Norsorke & Marston Company INDIANAPOLIS / fad cogpdr moe Jer the moat fnter- eiing booklet you Ache @ter read on fhe dmbject of arto wabale ma inlés Hance ccenomies. ft shows why we are dlc fo mate Mo recolwtromary annonce! and coiy ide (farrror is first to adapi fandardized dermis, The done det ig gent free fo af whe ak, Fat oul fhe coupon and saat! if ——— eee Fatablizhrd nice MARMON | | CThe “Foremost Fine Car Nomorke & Manwdoxs Company Gafatliebed sr | labor plus price of materials, Indianapolis, Indiana of “Modern ‘Transportation Costs," deacribing in detail your pew evatem of Standardized Service. 1 t i ! i] GestLemenx: Kindly send me a copy NAME STREET _ "Prices on Pacific Codat PO. gebditlomel.

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a6 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 29,4 Ih 9 eee eas Sere / Aes FO) SOIC AD) (7p a8 SP sine et i ae See ee ee eel) TT Democracy! All America has come into the silk stocking class. Because of its remarkable economy, Phoenix has been an im- portant factor in bringing hosiery elegance within the reach of all. Long strands of the sturdiest silk, woven by the Phoenix method, have given it the great mile- age endurance. And for men, women and children it holds good looks to the end of its long journey. PHOENIX FLOSTERY 6c - a a: oi aia Telia Sle Sot a ; Se, - a =n A ; te a ee tel cis Te MI ve | a fit ae Ps ae a sh = 1! ee t i ‘ 7 Sete a, =, Wah 2 ik, Pe ttn, es aay Ses ay pee “he i b i A os <4 r. =, 1K a] # n We Dy by ie Lae i Ha bf mu ti + if is H

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‘Coatineed from Poge 4) ised at length, dropping her ealico etween her fingera, and hastened toa i wagon side a8 she wiped her face er apron. dn't you hear it, Molly?" she de- di. + parting the curtain and looking i in. a, E did, [ wanted—TI almost wanted .. Mother, I almost wanted to AmItolive? Where are we now?" ‘a Tight pretty river, child, and ist. bo on. Come ke your r, Molly. Let's try." meupon, having issued her orders toeveryone to work at something ser practical fashion, the first ey oe: train went frizeling her shaved bul- vat with milk in the frving pant iling that milk now was almost at the ing point, and that now they wouldn't wither buffalo: but always getting rl with her menl. This she at lest iy announced : _ come an’ git it, people, or I'll it ‘to the £ oo the sand, on blankets or odds sis wf hide, the emigrants sat and ith the therrmometer—had they had perhaps a hundred and ten in the The oven were silent for the most with now and then a word about the which they SEE it would be wise ake ab once, the river per- se might rise, and while it still would wim the eattle. Ve con't walt for anyone, net even “rows,” said Wingate, rlaing and end- be mealtime talk. ““Let's get aeroes." ethodically they began the blocking ithe wagon bodies to the measurement lished by a wet pole, Thank the Lord,’ + Enid Wingate, “they'll char now if the bottom is hard all the ne by one the teams were urged into tickleh crossing. The line of wagons eset all at the farther side when all nee the rear guard came back, spurring. THE SATURDAY “Corral! Corral!" he called. He plunged into the stream as the last driver urged his wagon up the bank. A rapid dust cloud was approaching down the ¥ *Tadians [" called out a deeen volces. “Corral, men! For God's aake, quick— corral!" They had not much time or means a make defense, but with training mow ie come second nature they inperoul and threw the dusty caravan pon the w | barri- cade, orgie to tail gate The o oxen could not all be driven within, the loose stock was scattered, the horses were not on picket lines ath that time of day; but driving what mo could, the boy herders came in star en they saw the wagorm paring. There was no time to spare he dust. cloud swept on rapidly, It could not spell peace, for no men would urge their horses at such Pace under such a sun save for one ca—to overtake this party at the “it’s Bill Jackson!" exclaimed Caleb fd, at the river's edge. ‘Don't shoot! Wait! There's fifty Indians back of him, but that’s Jackson ahead. Now what's wrong?" The riddle was not solved even when the eeout of the Missouri train, erawded ahead by the steady rush of the shouting and laughing savages, raised his valce as though in Sine and shouted seme word, un- 7 a which made them hold ‘their fire. The wild cavaleade dazhed into the stream, crowding thelr prisaner—he wos no less—before them, bent bows back of him, guns ready, wert stalwart, moked men, wide of uw, great of chest, not a woman or child them, all painted and full armed. mnt ¥ God, men!" called Wingate, hasten- ing under cover, ‘Don't let them inf Don’t let them in! [t's the Crows!" (To BE CONTINUED) ONCE A SLOGANEER— (Conftinged from Page F7) ir. Heeger frankly groaned. Trimtoee Form! [ see where I'm golng fare one mercy time.” “Let's that or the Scrape heap,” the dactar ated kim, ‘Ned, Fou “ve got me seared," saicl Mr. aa ‘T’'m afraid your diagnosis is : L have advanced sloganitis, But I “'t think bying around a farm or any= ere else will cure it.” Deter Harter made as if to leave in go “Wait, Ned!" eried Mr. Bowser. “You a. Its tre. I don't own this business. meta me. But Nething Can Break A exer. I'm Going To Be My Own Boss teafter, Not The Servant of Phrases. ‘el on to Primrose HF “That's the spirit,” said the doctor, mung back from the doar. “! promise," anid Mr, Bowser ogre Yh eel te think af slogans for a month ind will fie fallow, I want to come be i Charged With The Electricity Of “lnomatcally he reached for the thick otehook to jot down the happy eg Vit asmile Doctor Harter snatched i rom kim, threw it inte a deak drawer, aa ommed the drawer ahut. “No youden't!""aaid thedocter, “From im second | hold you to your promise, Swnyuet this thing. Don't let sloganitia 28 he down and ut." “Tou Can't Put A Bowser Qut," said iv omer of that name, taking his hat— er CamYer Dignity, You Might Ao et Dhenity, “You Might Wel Try To Put Out tthe Sun." Cat that," warned the doctor, Beet ‘apalogizedt Mr, Bowser, “Rome Warn's “Built. Tn A Day, Nor New York ared In A A Night,” “Cut that que," growled Doctor Harter ® hired Mr, Bowser inte the elevator. shes SANFORD BOWSER was in the sixth his rustication at Primrose a, noe Valley, in Dutchess, fairest Tt ties, aH fa toeed suit, za collie, he sat Previtseh in Mn plensant old-fashioned Tee hem with Miss Evelinn Venable, ibis) Hity.and Miss Cornelia Venable, “'weityone, The air of repose was iW ee rect, Mr. Rowser had napped, dozed and slept liberally since his arrival, than when we undressed ate in Bt A office, but hardly more con- tented, Cnly that morning as he tied his tie he had to check himself in the midat of BANOUNCiNg to A winged blackbird aut- side his window, “Bowser Totters On The Brink Of Boredom." The two sisters wore that look of serenit seen only on the faces of the simpl hearted: And yet on this morning, ail though it waa, that serenity seemed to be struggling with worry. Mr. Bowser might have noe teed this had he not just then been very busy with the strawberries and cream. He was flooding his second helping of ber- ries with thick yellow cream from the Hue willow-pattern pitcher, Miss Eve lina Jogked at Miss Cornelian and sighed, Miss Cornelia looked at Miss Evelina and alg ir. Bowser looked up at both of them interrogati vely, "T beg pardon?" hi said, "Oh, nothing,” said Miss Evelina. “Oh, anne said Miss Cornelia, “Man Does Not Sigh For Nothing,” he declared, choosing a berry as big as an egg. "What's wrong? The sisters looked embarrassed. “Comelia ig wormed about the berries," aaid Nfliss Evelina. “Evelina is worried about the berries," aaid Miss Cornelia. “Worried about thease berries?" sald Mr. Bowser, “Why, Each Is A Garden's Mas- terplece."" “Te'a not the berries themaelyves,” anid Miss Evelina shyly. “It's the market." “Cho.” said Mr. Bowser. It was all he could ay from a berry-crowded maith. “You see," explained Miss Evelina tim- idly, “Cornelia and I—we depend on our cs, “O-ho," said Mr. Bowser agnin. “You see," explained Misa Cornelia, “if the berry market fails ws gain we'll bawe to. rimrase “Wa yo chaaider't like to do that,"” adedel aeeWhats orone ith the berry ‘ket? at at's wit mar at asked Mr. Bawser. ““The man in New York we usually sell them to," said ss Evelina, “won't take them this yar, ¢ says he can get them cheaper in New Fn EVENING POST ew Ae tel ee ee The Avalos Mien ae Cached Fro, Fis ea Put your feet at ease! EARING Glove Grip Shoes is like giving your feet a holiday. The Glove Grip feature lifts wp the arches of your feet instead of pushing them down. Fatigue disappears. The cawse of mest foot aches is removed. And the old idea—that comfortable shoes must be unconventional in shape—is knocked sky-high! Glove Grips are as pood to look at as they are to wear, They combine style with comfort in a manner that cannot be duplicated in any other shoe made. The Glove Grip idea is patented. Note the men's oxford shown above, Conserva- tive in its general atmosphere but with a touch of distinction that marks its wearer as being fash- ionably shod. Below is a spring model for women—the Vassar. Its graceful lines have aroused en thusiasm wherever it has been shown. First-class dealers everywhere are now display- ing these and other Glove Grp models for men and women. If your dealer does mot carry them, we will gladly send you the name of one whe does, together with an attractive miniature catalog. M. N. ARNOLD SHOE COMPANY Worth Abington, Massachusetts. OARS OL DS) GLOVE \ 2) GRUP \ SHORS

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THE SATURDAY “The Most Interesting Development in Golf —since the rubber core ball” The Bristol Steel Golf Shaft is the successful result of years of experiment in the effort to produce a golf shaft that would be equal to the finest hickory. Lighter than hickory, the Bristol Steel Golf Shale nay MR ge makes a better balanced club—it puts the weight where it ought to be. When you take hold of ir, it feels right—it POSSCSScS che samc weather, will not cormode and is unaffected by cli- matic conditions. It is a handsomely finished shaft. o~ Peedi Pear a Ru Good hickory is growing scarcer, as everybody knows. The Bristol Steel Golf Shaft is the equal of the finest hickory in every particular. trial and convince yourself, Ask your “ Pro. it. Have him fit the Bristol Steel Golf Shaft to one af your ald clubs or buy a new club equipped with it. Golf Shops and Sporting Goods Dealers: A great deal of interest is being shown by golfers every- where in the new Bristol Steel] Golf Shaft, pay you to investigate this new source of revenue, Golf Clubs fitted with Bristol Steel Golf Shafts If You Fish then you know Bristal Steel Fishing Rods—you know them as the stand. ard; the rods demanded and used by real fisher- men: the rods which give maximum satistaction in all kinds of game fishing. Every Bristal Steel Fish- ing Red ts guaranteed in workmanship and ma- terial. No. 14, Cork Handle “Bristol” Trowt Rod, 9 feet long, can be pur- chased from your dealer for $5.50, or it qall be sent to you direce by us for the same price, postpaid. Write for Brinch, Meck and Aregeaiagr Pasting Catatoguar— muted finer ga pga, — “Steel Golf S! NOTCE: Aavic and Tuppleezniary Pare secrrimg Steel Galt Shafer are camrniled exciverinety by ar, “whip” in all oy Fatratvd May da. 9rd Moy #. rea Bap ay ADE MARA REG i.5. PAT OFF Give it a | ” about i iv i i It will | eC Ma mb ie can now be supplied by : The Crawford, McGregor | r and Canby Co., Dayton, F Ohio, and The Hillerich & Bradsby Co., Louis- ville, Ky. Write for our descrip an tive circular giving us ‘oll th \ the name of your golf a club and professional, ee ‘bale, The Horton Mig. Co, 44] Horton 5t., Bristol, Comm. POST | “But not better,” said Misa Cornelia EVENING | prow "T should Bay not!" agreed Mr. Bowser. "Best Dever put a tongue to.” | He balanced a truly remarkable berry on his pede mend “How much did he pay?" “Six otra, aA berry Tt" “Six cents # quart for berries like this’? Why, [ve paid sixty for worse," “I'm afraid sister and I are not very eae people,” said Miss Evelina, ing. “But they are fine berries, we think," | sald Misa Cornelia, alao blushing. | “Why, It ought to be worth six centa | just to see a quart of berries like these," a Mr. Bowser. / “The mun in New York said," remarked Miss Evelina, “that berries are herries, and ahee they all Hie alike to him." edid. d dhe?" said Mr, Bowser, and \ oh anne a which might have been the sometimes s mentioned g mm of battle, | came to his blue eyes, eid, click het" He eating berries and leaned his brow on his hand a full minute. Then he raised his head and evied “T have it." "You have what, Mr. Bowser?" "The punch idea!" He checked himself. He was thinking of his promise to Doctor Harter. He wistfully at the berries. He ate one. He thought how bored he had been just doin nothing. He ate another berry. He at the faces of the Misses Venable and read in them a growing concern. He ate an- other berry. He slapped his hand down on ire table; the plates and the two sisters mpd. 7 pel apologized Mr. Bowser. reall this ape ae to lowe." idea “About your berries. u "Chur berries "Yes, I sabi what they need." “What? More cream? More sugar?" “No,” cried Mr, Bowser in the voice of a trumpet. “Individuality.” The sisters exchanged uncomprehending glances, “Why, ladies," exclaimed Mr. Bowser, his nostrils distending like those of a vok- | eran fire horse scenting smoke, “look beg — These Berries Aire Gems, They Bel | A Queen's Necklace. Wh: Why. i A Yor | full of connoisseurs who'd gladiy pay a | dime apiece for such berries. Wait! have it] I have it! “The Connoisseur’s Berry, A Dime Bach—And Worth If, Each In Its Own Individual Container." E sited es ed through his mC FURRETa wheta si fished cut a aid envelope. ith fingera that trembled he tore it and folded it inte a small cornucopia. Inte this he papped a berry and, with a twlat, seabed it in. ) “There! he cried, waving it before their } astonished noses. “Behold! “The Con- | noisenur's Berry. So Rare We Won't Sell More Than Twenty Berries To One Fam- | ily.” Not bad, ¢h? We'll print that on each wrapper. Look here, Miss Enclina, Miss Cornelia, how long does the season. last?" "Only a few more wertks,"” thes told him, “We must work fast." The words were popping from Mr, Bowser 20 fast thet they Bagi on one another s heels, “Is there a printer in this town?" “T believe Mr. Wibber, of the Clinton Valley Clarion, does printing for folks," | sald Misa Evelina, “A job prea. Might be worse," said Mr. Bowser, speaking criaply, inecisively. All trae: of ennul waa gone now. “Here, you, Misa Evelina, Wibber on the phone gt once and tell him ta come right up here with samples.of colored paper ——" He emiaght himaelf, for he saw that the sisters were locking at him gles A “Oh, I beg your pardon, really" he aaid. “I'm wery mTTy. Forgot myself, Habit of mine to be boey when I'm in a hurry, Will you plense, Miss eyes ask Mr. Wibber to come up here as rapidly as the good Lard will let him. Ask him, please, to bring colored paper. Bright yellow preferably.” “What for?” asked Misa Comelia. “Wou'll see," said Mr. Bowser miateri- mely. “Now let me have a pencil and a wad ef eopy paper, Please." He added this word as an afterthought. “Doctor Harter said you weren’t to have m, | protested hliss Cornelia. “But: April 29, fh "Hang Doctor Harter! I beg your) don, I mean I'm sure he won't mind.) that I'm rested up a bit." His tone was so exigent that Mis | néelia produced paper and cil. Ha ig ninaiheoat ai) from her ego the gleam a ore even brig in hfs blue eyes a8 he rand the peach fe wpe man said berries are berrins, 9 he said aloud to himself. “Berries , th? All alike, eh? We'll "Most Herries Are Just Berries, Vex Berries Are Precious Jewels—-Each Bj Gets A Mother's Tender Care," Noi that, Not bad," He was still writing industriously » Mr. Wibber, the printer, arrived with yellow paper. Five daye after Mr. Wibber arrive Primrose Farm with his yellow paper,, had a long, head-to-head talk with | Bowser, the roadster of Dr. Nei He snorted angrily up te the door of Pring oar) corde rtor Harter samc _ up the steps, Fang angrily at the and demanded angrily te see Mr. Bow He found Mr. Howser at the telephe and at Mr. Bowser's elbow was a plik What anyone could tell were proofs ff from the printer and exhaling the pam perfume of printer's ink. As Doctor Harter burst into the heard Mr. Howser saying, ‘Is ia | & Rexford, Fats Avente's Famous Fr erera? This is Mr, Bowser, sales Tana for Venable's Connoisseurs Berries, , | Sorry, Mr. Parker, but we can't let ave more than ten thowsand, Gu product, know. No, I dig say ten thousand quarts, You bay «4 nary berries by the qa I said § thousand berries. . . . Wes, a ole each, wholesale, Fixed retail price, a each. . . « FOU can use ten thous week till the season closes? : Firat shipment will reach you ei See cur ad in the pases, hig Glad youlikedit. . rks. 'g! He hung up the recelver just Doetor Harter nded across the room tear it from his hand. “What the devil is the meaning of thal roared Dector Harter. What?" asked Mr. Bowser, trying look innocent. For reply Doctor Harter slammed der on the table a Now York morning new paper, Do you think I can't rend?" demande the doctor heatediy, “Do you thors | don"t know the fine hand of Peowser whe I see it?” Mr. Bowser eriggled a bit sheesishly li his: chair. “Cenldn"t resist temptation,” Mmured. "Listen to thia,”” bellowed Deetor Hate in a fine passion. He read from the pape “BERRIES ARE BERRIES,” said thd old-fashioned fruit man. But he was wrong. Dead wrong! Most Herries are Just Berries. But VENABLE BERRIES are the Pre tlous Jewels of Berrydom, Each berry ite ao mether’s tender care. That's why te new seneathon is called Venables CONNOISSEUR BERRY The biggest, most lusciows, moet Gir thous pattie] ill aa ever cde hig hted the par ate of mortal Each in a or dust-proof yeie® wrapper, with the Venable Seal of Super ority stamped on it, None genuine #15 out the signature, E. & C, VENABLE, PRIMAOSE FARM, On sale at a few of the most select o tt fine fruit stores. Look for the Berry in'® Yellow Kolmono, A Dime Each— AND Worts It. Beactor Harter alncbed bint paper dow hard and glared at Mr, Tt “Again I ask,” he said, oe hat the devi dno mean?" "That ad sold ninety thousand bere.” ¥. fet TOE: said Mr. Bowser meek “And gave you a relapse of slogan” roared the doctor. “Tt put the Venable Berry 0: ™ ert said Air. shah a v gaid ti t may put you off the Tay. doctor patie: “Now, see here, Bor I'm going rr cure you in apite of years Primrose Farm is a failure, (Continged on Page 10?!

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Cincinnati, Ohi Doalers=Agk for defatle of oor trial offer : f Pseper t on Bini Treva it oo aid ! ft prodece Ts | 1 ‘The Or iginal” _ARCH BRACES arugelit, murgeral dealer of cedor direct | Too rene New York. Tae ale-willed ; erable and all tired out, with aching, | EVENING POST {Continued fram Page #8) “Te fa pot,” denied Mr. Bowser. “Tt'a on the map now. Misa Evelina and Misa | Cornelia are fixed for life." ya A Bilt Tt's tae. Fe sloganeer. Pack up "You sail to-night for Opipes."* “What's that? rade name?" "No, [t's an island.” Where?" It's wild and primitive. tions for a we re? “Never mind. No white men there." “No white men? Oh, doctor ——' “Mot one. The natives are bay. The don't know a word of English, But pesceabls. . You're to live there like a prim- "Thm no Robingon Crsoe,”” “Neither waa he, Ah he was cast away," said the deetar ; “But, Ned —— “What? “i don't belleve it's rest I need, after a “I'm the doctor, not you. Do os I say, that prom you'd try to beat alogan- A Bowser Promise Is Like Forged Sto “said Mr, Bowner, "Cut out that stuff. oe “Sorry. LT sli "Come. Pac Up "Oh, all right," raid Mr, Bowser wear- ily. " Weeping Judas, doc, but you're “Then you'll keep up her” “Until te Moon Falls Into ficboken,” : They spun the doctor's a ‘in 8 car, while the sou amy in tearful and radiant, on their best cam- brie handkerchiefs after the departing Mr, Bowser. i a of successively amaller steam- J. Sanford Bowser on palm te eoral strands of the remote and ell but anknown ile of Opipee, with a quan Ata ane of eroech. He pitched his tent—it was a Beagzleigh Tent =" Canvas of Se prabeg peda liv’ —and 2 is array of gli Uy tials Gok oat be lee Te ok down on the sand, wok Bee anid, ‘dine atthe chat ‘or & ong time he sat thera rec Thar horizon where his ship aren ow," he said again, “for a real rest," Anas t, somehow, the words did not ring ri i The suspicion forced ite way into his: brain that for him reating waa the hardest ind of work. He rid of this thought only by going to and te sleep. Next day the aed of the night before waa still with him, and despite his resolu- tion to take things easy ab any cost it was with a blue mien that he eet forth for a stroll of inspection of the island, where fora month be was to be a yoluntury Robinson Crusoe. The island, clearly, was all that Doctor Harter had represented it to be in bo at cong Ft) ead lle i remar! to hirself as TH is leisurely wa al uit Ie As Devoid Of Trace Gt Cwih tion a A aia a Of carpet ng met his rovi a ta aL, fenek and d trees, Fi i Ne loca the natives, the remnant some tribe, ely ofa pee very aloof, and a FE of a philosophic temperament. “yt in i oy fen ood eae af thatehed huts deep in the e. They pureved, if one may use 3 = denoting motian, the simple life. As a moltter of fact they lay ey and let the simple life come to clining on contented backs in the shade, ee let Nature take its course and grow things for them to ent, Now and then with an ab- normal burst of one they overtook an earthworm in its flight, put it on a hook and let it dangle in © water, the line tied to one big brown toa. Then they slept the tha sleep of the virtuous until some way- consumed the bait and twitehed them into consciouaness, whereupon they yawned, reeled in the line, yawned, and devoured the fish on the spat, a lng the tion Most eaoklnig i. a4 an éfete allecta- tion cally they slept. Their spoken resembled a series of snores, Mr. Howser gree them with o loudly genial “Hello” they responded with April 29, 1 an affable snore, and ed olf | barr little ce — “CO huEnay ce,"” oO oH Bowser to a aearlet cockates on 2 bey frait tree. It was the end of his tenth i Opipes. Truth te tell, Mr. Bors finding rest and solitude not at all ts " . hesaidironically, buted “Restful, ml mist admit t, Bs restful, for thase who like te rest. * Place Where Sloop Was Discovered’ | "ite continued to pace A lot of men—tired business fel i would like to know about so restful , Bs " he observed a little later to 9 crab at was scuttling along the ch “Where Mother Nature Takes Maz, Son, To Her Bosom. Wish I'd roo wy notebook.” For the first thme since his arrival os decorated hia Taees E ‘A ; ere Hut Emosphere” yeuintbeds wid Enea. Bal htening marks “By Judas, it rime! You get i two limes: Nothing Here Bul Atmosphere.” Cn he paced, or "he said a minute later, “I 5; T out. I must not Fall 4 | As the Gland the pa trees and echoed in his ears he shrugged soEs ie shoulders with a hopeless shrug. oH hi it again,” he mu a marched onward along the beuch, ie x , as if ha Gare the he mune m. @ usd eal OTE Lrees mused. Then from his nk oa Whisper : OF These Cool Green Seniy ture’s Paradise, Wot had, ty a have ft set In 18-palnt Caslon und ma. Jove! [ve done it agnin. ie clenched his fists resolutely, “Tl watch the sunset,” he sol betes trated his gaze om the semitrapical sw very much as a cat watches a mouse bol The sun slipped down, mingling its mts "Like Celestial Strawberry Ire Cran! said Mr. Bowser, and clapped his heed 0 his lipa. ‘T'l think of the trees,” he said, | , “The Only Sood b 7 half-tone of that clump of | corns] tight teeth. He sat on a rock and cone gold with glowing pink of the rlood The sun seemed to leer at him sede tively. Temptation beset him aore. A eg! shook his whole boc He was amir miserable, Then rebellion broke loose, 4 mind and body seemed simultaneos!y stiffen. He stood up on the rock and fo the setting sun. “T The te make + slogans, "he shouted “T like to, do you hear And ['m poing make ‘em! I’m going to make ‘em!” The eloud lifted rom his brow e pronounced the words, He looked ls sinking sun squarely in the eye, and in thi bell-toned voce bis clients ond asc act BO) weil i ag oes a "Here In 8 Re eoeeeg hy A eee 4 When New Yor t Da Streets i Deep tn Snow Slip Away 0 Opipes, The Magic Isle Where The 2: ver Kind. It Turns That Oh-Whsl The Use i Into An ['m-Glidl Alive Feeling. Write For Free Liters” He sprang to his feet and ran dow heach as fast aa he could run. Hed up all but breathless to the native etl ment. The astonished blacks, lang: munching an evening meal of bres from a common pot, saw his face red & running and alive with excitement. # understood English they'd fer I. anford Bowser shouting wilh « ake Up, You Blick Dumb: Bl Wake Unt, 'm going to Put pipe 0) The Map ie 4E month to a day after J. garierd, Bowser had for the first time svt @ gum eye over the charma af (pie ed Harter came to get hia petiest. Daeg tor Harter’s launch urched threags 18) aurf to the strand of Opipes » ad the was ao Vidlently in a fairy to eateh vedi Bowser in the act of reating that beim int the thigh-deep water and wade! [5 to lan "Bowser!" he boomed, “Bows! ane nowhere we * # are No voice replied; trace of Mr, Bowser.

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Burveyed the . had ak oe Be Bowser pltchteg it, Something had happened there, cl sudden and violent. Where the bere were evidences that it had ted, wiped out, There were the i maid of the last Bowserlan camp bere were the tent pegs atill in the 1; but the tent had been ni from Deetor Harter's alarmed lips framed od “Typhoon.” Than bacdhock Tk be knew that that tranquil isle knew tof typhoons. An even more alarm- qicion shot aereas his brain. Cannl- Had the natives by some strange us ban pricked from thet torpor rai iri into man-taters? possib avism," groaned Doctor Harter aloud. siege And I"m to blame, I'm me." there on the beach, bded. He lifted his ey res to the rows onut palma that mar t is janet ing. Then his eyes protrod ach from hia head aa if his Sead "3g pean agent Sta ee clief against the dark green o je ees was something that leaped out to hs astonished eyes, It was a sign. wared to be made of what waa once a brown canvas tent. It bare, in inex- Ee unmistaknble letters of white, this THIS [3 OFIFEE 4“HVATURE'S PLAYGROUND" fest Im Its NowrimrnG Aim RECTED BY THE OFIPEE CHAMBER. OF OMMERCE J. Saxrone Bowser Puesiroaty Drecror ctor Harter stood on the beach, in- ble of mation or gee At one the same second he experienced the ons. af tie sar peti ai wind cee, vas reading the sign for a pans meee Oe as oe 2 inure BE Td doen the beach in single file until they ed within a dozen feet of him. They fatives, brown and glistening - re iy shined tan shoes, and they walked high and with the step of men mportance. "They were naked save for ething which waa Hot exactly a garment whieh covered them from neck to es. befaré and behind. Teo the confused ao Doctear Harter the significance of odd garments did not, for some sec 5, become apparent, But aa the natives tel quite near in dignified proceaaion, it airack him. They were sandwich men. Their gar- ns were Fignboards f The signs they bore were made from is and ends of packing cases and flat caol driftwood, and in the same bold tering of the camvas sign they bore Tous legends: FREE EvEEY EVENING GonceoUs SUNBET FREE DRINE DEEP OF THE STIMULATING ATMOSPHERE No EXTRA CHARGE TELL YOUR FRIENDS OPIPFEE MADE ANEW MAN OF YOU HOOST OPTPEE— OUTPUT A Minuos Cocosuts Br 1925 And there were a dozen more in similar sh fath tarried by a proudly solomn Doctor Harter said something between “teh and then strode down the beach ovard the gap in the forest line from which wool the procession. Down a trail beaten ‘troogh the jungle by countless bare feet Ge quite teently trimmed and wid W hatehete, he could aee the little dump of Sirehea, Agign on a tree at the trail's Mar taught his eye. Tt renal: bine AHEAD LOWSER CITY “WATCH US GROW" pant ait mit ste the doctor made his i eee gre sb Tove Sa Leee au, era outaide hamlet, at the be. Tathy of the crooked path that was the THE SATURDAY settlement’s only strect, was a sign on a Btake: ; FIFTH AVENUE BREED Lata EXPORCED AuTomon(Le Curp oF Orirex Doctor Harter approwched the first house, a tumbledown one-room hovel of straw and ee Fj door wos all but obscured by a mm made, an acute observer might oo with pot black on a man's white Linen shirt. ‘This sign read: THE MARLBOROUGH-BowseER ARMB “4 HOSTELRY OF MARKED SUPERIORITY" AMmuCAN & Enorean PLAn J. 8. Bowser, Prop, The next hut, more dilapidated, if pos- alble, than the flrat one, bore a a made obviously from a linen trouser leg, and lettered in clarion letters: First Natiowant Base or Bowser Crrv “ RELIABLE AS THE OCEAN'S TIDES — SOLID Ag THE Rocky MounNTaIne" PLaxt Youn Mciar Beas, We'tt Mane [t anew Doctor Harter shook his head partly in ii artly in anger, and scnipresst kik ée next hut bore another sign, ab- a er the other trouger leg, This hut wos the largest In the village, and from its size presumably the residence of the chief. The sign read: OFIPEE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE “PRoonees Is Gorm MiooLle Name Proepesity Oun Last Name" GET ON THE BAND WAGON A smaller sign, hape the eleeve of something, bore in hin lettera the worda: WELCOME TO Bowser Crrr QOrrice or J, Sanronp Howser, Poecocity Director Get ix Touch Wir Bowser For Factory WALK IM Inte this edifice pushed Dr. Ned Harter. In the single dim room he saw a figure so absorbed in the bask of lettering another sign that the entrance of the doctor was not noti The figure was J. Sanford Bowser. He was clad sketchily but. effi- cently in a Swansofto unionsuit, having sacrificed the reat of his wardrobe in the cause of publicity, and the look on his face was utterly beatific as with a bit of burnt cork he put the finishing touches on a sign ing: GET BEHIND BOWSER CITY PaTvRonizE THE Loca Stores He looked up, saw Doctor Harter and the cork dropped from his hand, J. San- ford Bowser looked Bs guilty as a school. boy caught with a D Eye Dick novel in his geography. But se look chan awiftly to one of pride, of defianes. As for the doctor, his aspect was sar- veg but his manner controlled, as he “Well, Bowse, at it again?" tee " gaid MMr. . “Dm going to put Opipet on the map. Just wait till I get back ta New York and spread the Message of its Health-Building Sunshine over a few hundred pages of newsprint. See. I've got a complete campaign all written.” He indicated a hile of ered with wing Take made with a pin. "Rowse," Dector Harter sternly, Se aaid I'd seo you through this and I'm going to. My sporting bloxl is up. I de- one more chance to cure yau aloganitis If I fail this time I°ll admit my cure is all wrong.’ “Guess I'm incurable, Ned," ssid Mr. Howser. “You're [neorrigible,” said the doctor. "Do T get oy ehanee "Yes, T gave my word.” " Groene # “et launch ia waiting.” “Wait o aecond, Ned." anid Mr. Bowser, "till | find a good clarion site for this poster. Then I'll be with you." ¥ HEN the boat docked in New York, Doctor Harter bundled J. Sanford Bowser into a eating motor car, silenecd his proteata, whisked him straight post the Bowser Building, and on , OVET On ward, deep inte Connecticut. 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Orange-C! ice cream, ices and sherbets 101,000 gallons of ice cream and ices Qavored with Ward's Crange-“Crosh, Lemon4Crash or Lime(Crush were soll in 1621 by one Gr in one cty—Hieck- MeJunkin Ga, of Peesborgh Phat is ever three mliflon dishes! These pew flavors are the same used is the well-kceown “Croah” drinks, only specially prepared fer ice cream ra epee, Litmost care is used in selec ing and compounding the pure, delicious igre Tepared by Qhunge-Cresh Co., Chieago, U.5,.A. bn Canada: Orange Crh (Co,, Lisioed, Winnipeg Ah ug FRGE AAAI AS TUT BV. 0" Sioevrion Closed Covich Uneen fale (Pui. | Verathia’ Gi oa) hid par Tne BVD'Red Woven Label Vi is the Trade Mark by which | The BVD Company assures | you the far-fomed comfort, long wear and dependable quality of its product. The BvD Company LP 5A Men "eho, Soihe maii, ies, : et i THE SATURDAY EVENING POST dienta—frait oil and juices from cranges, lemons or limes, U.S. corified feed color and cane sua. One ice cream Eiem [n principal citbes and towne is enclusively lic Peg the “Crush” Davers in frosen prochucts, Ask any retail ice-cream dealer, Send jor free booklet, “How Crenge(rash Is Made* [oe Cream Manulachirera: Write for ifommation about exchusive righita, shal ‘Tork, So ice ian TU, Oe Core ut Ll rides: ins atl Keee Lengeh Se Dxaeer, Aik whe gurmuccae. Télaxed from his grim silenee long enough ta ei 1 Charming hit of scenery we just CE east gite for a hallboard,” said J, Sanford Bowser wistfully, Silence for a mile of two, then, from Mfr. Bowser, “Would it be too much to ask, Hed, whither are we drifting?” “Sanitarium, said Doctor Harter, “What onet™" “Testwold,” aaid Doctor Harter. Mr. Bowser groaned. “Wore rest?" he gaid plaintively, "Tf this fails," the doctor returned, “I'll admlt rest ia not the cure for sloganitis.”" A few more miles of sohnery elspend be fore Mr, Bowser ventured to spenk again: “What sort of place is Restwold?" “They make you rest,” said the doctor hrieily, Mr. Bowsers shrug hed an aroma of wetter skepticism. Presently, after following twisting back roads, barren of human habitations, the ear reached Restwold, a low, white, much- porched building in a grove of pines, having aieout itech an air of somndlence that Mr. Bowser yawned at the very sight of it, “Here we are!" geaid Doctor Harter » "“Reatfol, isnt itt" a Tomb,” ssid Mr. Bowser de- ject ectedly,, Then, brightening, twold—The Tem orary Tomb, All The Peace Of Death With None Of lta Incon- ) werdenes "Bowee!™ “Sorry.” Doctor Harter turned his reluctant pa- tlent over to Doctor Downey, who con- ducted Sig yee nnd departed, “tm I the only inmate?” ~skec Mr, | Bowser, “One other,” said Doctor Downey. He had nl deliberately restiul voio, badd?" “Business “T never take more than two restera at nl time," said Doetor Downey with sweet severity. “And I never discuss business." Mr. Bowser sighed. There being nothing else to do he went silently to bed. In the morning after a quiet breakfast in his gray-walled room Mr. Bowser took a seat—a yielding, cushioned: seat—on the ch, and sat staring at the Berkshires, His stare wae acd. He had reeolved on the night before ta make one more try to throw aloganitis, and to rest, really rest. He thed te occupy his tind hy counting the treet on the mountain side, He got as high os T8630 and then lost count, A frown. be gan to form on his face, He fidgeted, He started to count the trees again. He could not. help trying to figure out how much paper they would make if reduced to wood pulp, and how he weuld fill that paper, when converted into magazine pages, with eripping, compelling, clarion words. He lit a Mariborough-Somerset, He fidgeted again. He closed ee and tried deaper- ately to rest. It tired him ta do aa. He stend up and went to the edge of the idan and drew deep inte hia cheat the fresh alr 6o fresh indeed that it forced its attentions Ot him. “The freshest air [ ever filled a lun with,” he saad alee, “Em Let's. pee’ He fare led for a phrase, "Ade Se Fresh" he be gan, © ‘Air So Fresh —— = That [tis An Inspeiriting Blend oF Wine And Electricity!" cTied gan excited voice at his elbow, J. Sanford Bowser sharply. "Oh, I hope I didnt startle you,” said the same voice, “But I just couldn't resist the temptation to finish your plirase.” J. Sanford Howser saw that. the owner of the voice waa a girl, a rather pretty girl tie: nota flapper, for she had ton much character io her face: thirty, weal Mr. wheeled about a | Towser, or ruby le thirti- ccd mmc mmc pleasing to Uh eve in her eporh sulk of the newest shade of lavender. *T promised | wouldn't, vou know," said the girl gravely, “Wouldn't what?’ “hiake phrases,” said the girl, flushing. J, Santord Bowser started. a ‘re you a patient here?" he asked. * laughed “De I look like a mil ikmaid? the girl. "How's this? ‘Oh, mo. | no, no,” be iT | : you are ing phrs 1 a a kl Hi he girl Bee “SO Ti disenver SOME ths deretands,” she said. “Yes. T've gut vanced phrase fever, Doctor Harr 4 af Sanford Bowser gave ber a look with interest and curios curiosity. "Will you sit down?” he said vif MoT hey t k adjacent seats. oo acent me “Tet me introduce ee name ia Kun “Kunkle "mused Kir. Bowser. arg . familiar. By any chance are you rel to P. I. Kunkle, of Di , Tina Kunkle, "FP Png —Th of averting fond ha F ecienot off Salling,” finial the girl clastic: “Tou are related, then?” "Tam that Kunkle, "said the girl, stu ing her brogue toe, “ I wrote that ph ‘'You?™ Mr. Bowser was incredalag "Vou, F. I, Kunkle?" "Yes, ImP.1 I. Kunkle—Pandora In Kunkle, “But, I always thought F. I. Kunkle & Man “She Hever was,"’ che replied. nL Saea Say say, said Mr. B with widening eyes ‘that are | P. I. Kunkle wha the l,"” aaid A ge aa Fir " And at the F. I. KRounkle that the Pan-Am erican Pie ee. "Heaven In Hunks," she murmaq with dawneast yes. “And the P, I. Kunkle who did ; wonders with the sales of Doctor F Toni-Tonick?" : “But, Mamma, omised ma Ewismus a case of tor Peetlie’s Te Tonick. It stimulates my pancreatic zymes and settles my he quote “Great work!” eried J. ord "Tye always wanted to meet P. I. Rusk My Bare is Bowser—J. Hanford Bao 2o7 —— “Let Bowser Put You On The Map, she sald, delight ond awe in her aoft vw anal!” _ sald. ahoo Then they talked. Te was full bottled-up talk, Spent mec wig He told her of his lonelin nash tesmithersens feeling, which Doctor i ter had labeled sloganitis, ‘and of how hed tried to pest and couldn't, Th talked all . Toward dusk they t jaaily wor out sin Dy aaherats plan top estwold on the map. “Restwold—With Emphasis on i REST," was his contribution. “At The Second Joyous Lungful (1 f bots Air You Own The World,” 7 ePa. After dinner, beneath a ie mon tilked some more. T chairs Fe clowe together, They talked about then #élvea: about ther souls, “Tosnight,”’ he confided to her, “Tt graphed Doctor Harter that he was rot about my case. Pest will newer cure m sloganitis, And, thinking out loud, [ den believe | want to cure it—now." There was something tender, full : meaning, in the way he said the eof “nae “Phrase fever is mot so bead," she te aoldy, ‘wher someone else really unde stands.” SNE hay: all, Pandora,” said J. Santor awser as he took her Unresisting hart cs pes Is Understanding. What happent here wean interval, only the moon say. "Shall we call the firm Bowser & Ear kle?" he asked, his arm about ber. “No, dear,” she anewered, “Just Te Bowsers." "The Bowsers," he repeated in estary “The Bowsers" "The Bowsers," she sald, more aoltl) ati. “Let These Twin GoGetters Po You On the Map."

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104 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST She dinderear oe af Gen theo an. GOTHAM Underwear is designed to meet the demand for finely tailored, screntifcally pro- portioned garments that assure with the utmost in comfort the utmost in service f # = ARLSBAD SLEEPINGWEAR § SEE the Comfort (a FO. T Can J2f the amare \ in these Brighton Carlsbadsleepinggarments, f| just as the camer: ue | S Lt DCL SSL If y (photograph unretoucherdd |, =) Lwist and torn in them-tt J you re a restless sleeper they work hind WILE FS skimne l, pun chy Till Jored garments will. A Gor Piece Pajama i ‘e tl tile ‘aide rit LEtiriall rs terial 7 \"3 a Seeiial for Fras Ss idincie [bomk- iL HG. lower Company Dept 4 Dubuque, lowa Micdkrri ot fiejgdvasCoet tad or April 29, hf SHALL WE FINANCE EUROPE OR AMERICA? (Contiqvged fram Page 22! at fancy prices finds no confirmation in the | views of experts who have studied condi- | tions, of in foreign-trade statistics. |. “The prospect for the revival of Amer- | jean business lies in the increase of business | in the tic markets and in a foreign | trade maintained along more normal lines | and developed in a more normal way than | is sometimes urged by the proponents of | plans for artificial stimulation of foreign trade," After pleturing this pele ari af mor- mal trade Mr, bigg foeaiern the keynote of his theme by ng the il]-balanced financial position of the world. “The United States," he declared, “and in much less degree Great Hritain, are the only countries with an ap inble amount of capital for apart. ‘or the purpoas of maintaining their own financial solidity hese two countries can ill afford to supply Continental Europe with funds secur through bank expansion, 5 “Reports indicate that the nations of Continental Europe have made small prog resa in balancing their budgets, Deficits have accumulated. These nations must make serious efforts to improve public | finances. This course involves stringent | measures in the way of deflating inflated paper currencies. It also involves taxation of the moat ri | character, ‘There must be retrenchment in public expendi- tures. . . . It is imperative that Euro- pes countries work, tax, save, restrict importa to necessities, and above all re- verse the mad policy of printing bank notes “One of the conditions necessary for normal trading between the United States and Furepe is, therefore, that European eountries shall themaelwea take clearly de- fined steps to strengthen their excha ceition. Moreover, Europeshould first help hersclf before aeeking large amounta of new capital in the American market." | How often we have heard this same state | ment: so often that we, as Americans, are “full up and fel we" with the idea; but what is being done in foreign countries to-day, or, for that matter, in the United tates? | Some Sielking Figures Do the American people today realize | the extent ta which European countries | have been securing capital in our markets? | During the period 1915-20, according to | this evar Valley banker, "foreign | loans floated through American bankers | ft ted some $5,000,000,.00. Dhrect | loans by the Federal Government to Euro- pean nations amounted to some 910,000,- | (MELO, At the present time the unfunded debt of Europe probably amounts te sore where between $9,500,000,000 and $4,000,- 0,00), In all, these figures represent an export of something like $15,000,000,000 of capital.” ; If capital is a form of prosperity, then we have been exporting prosperity at m t-tich-quick spendthrift rate which may difficult to continue if we expect to enjoy and profit by some of our prosperity at Ome, To illustrate the significance of his fig- ures Mr. Reynolds makes some terrifying comparisons. “During the period 1915-20 the total reported issues of securitica— Tailroad and traction, industrial, municipal and state, and those put out by the Federal Government, amounted to #43 FM,000,000, Of that total $15,000,000,00 went te Eu- rope, Europeans received $3,0000,000,000 more than wae given te all American rail- Toads, traction companies and induatriea combined. They received a9 nyuch aa these with state and municipal Issues adebed, “Tr puny slabements negarding the sub ject of exporting capital the tden seems to e prevalent that money is the only form ef capital,” But this is not true, Mr. Reynolds maintains, “If the United Stites makes loans to France and the p 9 oof the loans are expended in the United States, it is felt that Americans will be mala becouse the money is still here. But in such case they have parted with capital gowkls that have been paid for with their own funds. They will receive for these ae goods the costomary evidences of debt—bonds or notes which draw interest. This is ss truly an export of capital 4 gold had been sent abroad. . . . Az ican capital resources have been dep to the same extent in either case. | immaterial whether the recent $100,000 French loan was made in goods or in | so far a5 this country’s capital acco: concerned. Thinking about the expor capital ahould not be confused by create attention an money and forgetting the) that capital goods are exported even tho the money can be apent im this county hie eoltibh a uh Bate eerie inde Pp or the proposed $100,000, forelgn-tracde Sranisltue corporation, ] a plan to export a part, of all $1,000,000,00 of capital to Europe. | a plan to stimulate exports, but it invol the export of capital. in return which Americans will receive inter bearing promises to pay." What is the effect of this policy? “In considering foreign trade afd export of American capital —to qu further from Mr. Reynolds’ statement “not only the needs or demands of Eun mist be taken into account but also | capacity of Americans to export capi without seriously affecting domestic ind try. Europe would not gain in the ls rin from the impairment of Ameri: resourons and capital. Exporting Prosperity "Wo recourse to atatisties is really nea gary to confirm the truth of the state: ao Often made that American railre have not received, for several a funte additions to their capital, additic that were necessary to t transporn tion service. Some idea of the situatioc a be gained from the fact that reported Leu of railroad and traction securities fra 1909 te 1814 averaged almoat $1,000,100 000 each year, while from 1917 to 199 inclusive, the average was leas than Ho) QOOOMKM a year, Dt seems a reasonable b ference that the export of American copih to Europe must have helped to stay ri road progress and development. Similar) the export of American enpita) mur bis ad an adverse effect om building open tions and must have a contributs couse to the present housing short Capital needa for building are probiem Estimates range from 31,000, 000,000 to play its full part in the restoration donsestic perity. "Todeed, in every fheld of domestic deavar the shortage of capital hes more or less seriously felt, and alth the United States is new a enaditer pa! it must ie recalled that at mo time in histery, prior to the war, have the of the United States accumulated eno eapital for American n Sa n 138 years of our national inde anes we produced or own prospering i process of work and thrift. ring past cight years we have been export aur prosperity in the form of capite =! ings and capital goods, but mow that are at the turn of the road finasc industrially, economically amd mation what is to be our future policy? To! use shall capital accumulations be pl Shall they be turned in large meayet Europe or put to work in the Um Statea? Mr. Reynolds raises the lsmue, “S00 savings are not indefinitely expands, decision ie a as te whether oh dhall be spent here to furnish Bary with capital OP apert here to fort American industries with such capital pe To what extent shall American svi used to furnish Europe with capital and to what extent tised to furnish cf goods for the rehabilitation of Amer industries? “ne thing at least seems clear: | United States cannot export its capil! # have it too. =] "The scheme of financing ale wE rope would be more alluring if 2 ere business on the high-price level «! ! firat part of 1920 could Ibe forever. af Reynolds added, “but the mainte” such a price level is neither posit}!

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® It has already been lowered tre. The revival of American busi- the basis of lower prices is inevita- the price of goods is to be lower, ut Be lowered enough to give a ble margin of profit. This applies f to the production of the domestic but p ution for forei 1 markets. pe 4 of costa de a higher cieney in production. ia alickence miust he found in capital a8 labor, There must be the use of a ani ean ae i Fainsportation in beular hos ness that must be met. It is im- Lt therefore—in fact, of major im- re—that ‘the question of business con in relation ta the en of the extent to which American thould be ex problem of 3 transportation and the ed of capital to enable our railroods in much needed new construction e ome Mr. Hoover was discussing in rgton when he made the statements {at the beginning of this article. we leok at a national economic on os a whole.” Seeretary Hoover “the greatest impulse that can be te recovery from any source what- 2 reduction of rates on pris rities, combined with the abide d aimption of railway construction and nemt. The firat depends upon reduc- { operating costa, the second upon eager of ered. Pie vw thing is utes transporta- cilities are below the needs af our Fr. end unless we hove a quick ption of constitution the whole snity—agricultural, commercial and trial—will be ing from a strangu- caused by inauflicient transportation comment that our busines activities i. ew People seem to realize the amount ansion in our transportation machine ary to oat pate the growth of country, and an equally few seem to ing nation of be Tice We for There echt: ha tio aving it. . altar whatever, basing such lores 2 experiences we have already had, te late o& loss to the American peaple af 0,000,000 for each one of these peri- transportation ah Sere ia nething thet & a irrecover- a less to the nation a idle shapes and men. To-day we have both," the tary of Commerce told the Interstate meret Commission. “There is nothin will so quickly start the asprin ies and empl ent as an im ne mption of reaps ig and ey tof the raibrars. ‘lvan,. idtainadon anes me we shall n all. re our capacity for production of consumable We (not only find it strangled for lack of cportation but we shall find ourselves ging inte the manufacture of this very vay equipment and construction in selition with consumable goods for ertiala and labor. Herein les the basic we of destructive price inflation and ms, with all their waste and over- aneon."* Rallroads In Meed of Capital [ this is the condition of cur transporta- Leystem, if a real program of construc- iwould aid the mation ass whole, then y is not the capital forthcoming to ag aueeee ? vt Mr. mgt a capital is un- ds of millions Sethi inte tax-free orities and foreign loans, and yet our lways are unable to finance the most derate of construction To show how the railways are not the & busiveteet in the United States that bbelng strangled by a lack of capital, mit me to quote the latest reports of R. (Dus & Co. on the commercial failures thia country during February, Dun's tistics state there were 201 commercial fures with linbilities of Bd gon in at month of this year, number id amount this exceedexd ang other Feb- ary in thirty years, and included 451 anufacturers, 1714 general stores, grocers, Foods merchants and traders, and 136 ta and brokera. Drurin January of year there were 2720 failures, with met amounting to $73,795,780. Hew- 9 turing this same month of business alties in the United States, foreign gremments and municipolities obtained 14.56,000 of new capital from the Amer- tar people and American banks. — THE SATURDAY EVENING POST In January and Februs ary there were B04 failures, with liabilities ga 17a. Duri these same two months European and other foreign countries obtained $1 886,000 in the American market. Qur fai res amounted to F146404,173, and at the game time we exported $158,856,000. During January of this there was an inecrense aver last year of $42,614 (600 in the amount of our capital exportations ta foreign governments and muntlelpalities rf “Lf American railways cannot earn interest on their borrowings let wa throw up our hands ond poepare for a second Flues," Mr. Hoover dec "Justification for proposals ja furnish rope with even more ca "Mr, ner nolds said, “is aa | in t pi that the fortunes of the people = = nited Stables are tied up with those of Europe. Failure, i ter there aril mean failure, distress and disaster here,” Furthermore, the Chicago banker con- tinued, the “wiew is urged that American goods, “particularly raw materials, must be sold to Europeans, not only in order to re- lieve the American market but also te fur- nish Europe the materials on which to work in the process of economic rehabilitation. heat eae Hi 1 to furnish Europe with wre “apital should receive the closest er meta of the European nations are impoverished their poal will net be ere improved by America's financing without adequate eonsidera- aon a risk Invelved or thought af the extent to which capital should be exparted. If Europe ia npg lye improvement of the condition of ier Eek ples will met be brought about ig forcing America to the Backing Foreign Horses same conditlen “Foreign trade has been emphasized to such a degree of late that thought af buai- ness revival is | ly in terma of exporta and foreign financing, If it were necessary for the le af the United States to await the rehabilitation of Europe before ale ent feos measure of proa- pene: petty, ey We to wait a ¥ ong . dust ierlate: Tho one Satan gy Ciera ia far from comforting at a tiene a roam alee engulfa American busi- be no paralysis of action wie he world's greatest domestic market at hand and controllable. To emphasize this point, an an cnegeres statement might almost be Lif we take eare of our 92 per cent or fil per cent of domestic busi- ness, the of ea eent of foreign business will take cure “A prospe America can help the world,” Charles | M. Schwab, chairman of the board of the Bathichem Stoel Corpora- tion, wrote not long ago, “but a prostrate ARHerica, camnot.” The serious condition caused in the United States tout that prompted ex porii- tions of capital ia ce de the State Deptnent, FL March 3, 1! 3, 1822, to issue pie, to American bankers ex Pressing re af the Government to mord folie eterno’ of prospective foreian loans. ceperity comes in two ¥nrieties, the imparted t brand ane the domestic product. There is a men who are tireless advocates varted prosperity, the kind that is supp bo come from limitless i in- yveetments in foreign countries. They say we can live and prosper on foreign profite. But can wet cone et as . uate of fact abb ie tween im prosperity an ty which is made in the LS. AL"? are en te-day in national ik well as international ponder for trace. Our bhosines depression, transportation deadlock, commercial failures cannot be exported and exchanged for the uncertain osperity af Euro By financing Eu- ropes come neglecting our own we are hamstringing prosperity and a sound economic revival in this country, In the race for normaley we have been putting our meney on foreign horses. bie causa we have been told that Europe must come first and Americn inst. Can we afford, as a people and a nation, to wreck this country financially and indus- ct Aa ala rebuild the reat of the w ar The lagical, safe and sound policy would bt for the United States to put its own house in order first and then, when proeper: ity returns, share that prosperity with aur lesa fortunate neighbors, —— ee SSS SSSSSSSS6S6ggSg464 g4.6855989898088808°8 css and beauty rotber than “What an Old Sea Captain says about hiage Granite i Manufactured ls rhe os of Lam Examel the Antik eemaculatte is arabe 105 “Ther od i, tie — flare, Ah, aed! pif aa tha devs want be, Fou cat _— pear dardly ow ther Ane ef 2 diy ef see slope onmr the naff, mag HM mp, aed wa harm dias." Liquid Granite brings out the natural grain of the wood and preserves its beauty under the hardest wear. It makes a floor clean, water- proof, durable, resisting the buffetings of use, standing up under occasional hard knocks and persistent daily wear. Protect your floors with ae aaa ILLS, OR TSAS An Architect, A Painter and A Sculptress Joined in Designing This Exquisite Lamp The lines, proportions aod coloring of Geert of the lamps yee eee in these daye of conmerrcinlisgs: ary the werk of ide- ing departosemia of lore: docieres. They are the fruits of a deen inaw- cder of what makes 2 ‘ooqular elles." Bet some people, the ™ oom Eeittre felt sitive, would like a lamp designed piitely with an evé bo good Leste, a lamp ol artiaiic proportiona and har monivus tones, a lamp em= bedying grace, eymmetry the long experience: of the ““saolecamans designer”” of what seems moet. jn decrenil ls pla) tots, Hence this eoauaialce Tittle lamp you se bibferL, Aurora,” een nated beeen becuse of the Bit Qf its Gertck Finite aril (Latics, A Labor of Love For the delicate work of desigeing a lamp that phoald be a real work of art instead of a mere anis in a faclory a prteliction, anid yet ebould he a practical afd osetul article of lieeie-furnishing, Lhe League enlisted the enthusiastic coiperation ef a groip of talented artisis—one a famous architect sicilled ig Whe practical requirements of intering decorating, ea a polster and) genie in cobor-rfeects, ace] one a eo sculpiress, & studest of the great Realin cm They cought the apéric of the League's idea, and the deageine of a homp that would paige the areietic spree erin ing became to them of pee labew of lee. Lafter model was made, eiodied ried ee Ut) a8 list a design emerged, with et Bot one the three coulil find a fault. Tn the exclorive Filth Avenue type of shone. where lampa tha are alae works of at-are dhe, ee equal of this fase- cimeting Ibe “Aiwrers," if found. wrowk) exit feud from #15 ta $ri— perhapa more. Wet the peice of this lamp Ls hue $3.50 — Think of it! Only the Dscorative Aria League could Gring-ous each a Lump @f auch @ prior. And only a o mexna of widening itacirch-ol use. Fulzees could even the League make siich an afer. Wa matter how Many other lam pa yon have in your bouse, you rls always inde place just eeited for thie dainty. arming titche “Aurorm.” 16 inches high, shade Lo, inches in naire ten; ler aed Gaps Coe in: ealinl {O84 toches ahaft of mcaimbcsa brass, all finished is rich atnateary brome: brass-bound himent shade ofa mewiral brown tone — am a ae se col- ored reflecting surface; et permitking adjustment. to any angele: "eae ban eckel: sie feet of naulaed lamp cord: Ihpbece attac hument Glug. Yow will rarely, if ever, get such a valoe again, Direct from Producer to Consumer by Mail Only Send ao mane —almply aig aed mail the coupon, ech pay the powtecan $2.50 ples the amount of HNL Ep oe Lhe package. Weight of lamp Lie la only Give. pounds. so nt pren to furthest points is bneignifcans, OF yee pheoeld! not find the famp all wr say of it, oF all you capeeted of 4b, gen! Ge Back in fie days and your meney Will be refunded in full, Chip = & enuiqean new, fad mall to Every Detail Perfect ¢ Leng 175 Fifth Avenue, New ts sivbe of oe ameniaiion Gtick ge == sits Leseue (Phare) Géier wa ire omiif, emily bo virkd on the J Sp eka fi eral to Ube peatect simgdicaty of the classic "LT RUORLA' Decorative Arts League (iow ' ah, z mv) Greek lines, Even euch m small devail a #50 Wye er ee ee Boe ig gee ere the exact contour of the base waa worked 7 over and over again until jf showkl blend tn One coniiniiniis slpeaes wath EB lines of he elender ghaft. The gracelal carves of the shale iteell, amp a Chey acm in tbe finished model, were the results ol dowens of triads. The result ja a masterpiece of Greek almplicity and balance. Not a thing could be added or takes away without marring the general efflect—neot the sixty- fourth of an inch diqerence j in any molding or curve beat weetlid be harmful “sgrope” enc with any Hy af fureishing: it adajite feel! oo boudeir of Loyer-hall, to literary or living room. shman $5,50 ples the powiage, bso ered. i neq aailalaciory F con redurn the lee evihin ee dave cf rectipl and Fou arele refun me Hines ln full, air may oer my fates ad rea al the Detaraties Arta League it leu ingeall stint indersiood that euch core eri Ale in de tere] fee farthing, neve oo later, wel is be eee ee obligeiian ol ay rer ar aires registers me a4 one isterasted in bearing ed really artistic new things for home deceretione, poe jy Sipeed ——- Ald pte —____ Cie Ce ———_—__...

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106 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ite Trucks Five thousand own- ers operate fleets totaling 50,000 White Trucks. §-ton 315-ton 2-ton 34-ton F. 0, B, Factory e 4,200 3,250 2,400 THE WHITE COMPANY 71 Years 5 MINUTE VULCANIZER o f Cleveland How Knowing sf ye A Friend in Need! Last tube punctured—patches won't stick —you're ready to start home on the rim. Then along comes a helpful friend and shows you how to vulcanize that puncture for good in five minutes, He'll tell you that he wouldn't take ten dollars for the feeling of security his Shaler Vuleanizer gives him and advises you to get one at the Text garige or accessory store you pass, You'll do it, and next time the emergency comes you'll thank your lucky star that you were prepared, Costs Only $1.50 Slightly higher weat of Denver and in Canada, Vuleanizes boots, rubbers, glovea, coats, ct. Ivo eaecline, Fach PatchsikeHeat Coat containa tts ewn fyel, Acmotch is all you need. c. A. SHALER COMPANY 1400 Fourth St,, Waupun, is, U. 5. A. April 29, | REGGIE (Contiaued from Poge F} At the end of a week Bertha, the paid cook, departed, Reggie had found her a new pos “Get another pine for you, ertha,” he bad sald, and had started out in his casual, thoroughgoing way to make good his promise. He had gone directly to the ey Mrs. Kelsey, a widow, whose husband mavie several millions, and then, in the American way, hil dled and left them to her, was by far the wealthiest women tn town. Her daughter, Trenna, was o friend of Reggio's. He had known her for years. He called and presented his cane, "Business, Trenna,"' said Rogie, lean- ing against the wall of the Kelsey living room, Find a position for Bertha, our cook. Letting her go. Can't your mother take her?" Trenna, perched lightly on the arm of a purple velvet sofa—e slender, charming blond ereature—swung her silk-clad legs and smiled at him. “Of eourse. Mother's alwaya looking for a cook. Send her over.” “Thanks,” The girl's wide-open blue eyes studied him keenly. “Are you tired of her, Reg? Or——" “Wo, Fine cook, My iden, letting her o, Family thinks I ought to earn my board. oing ta.do the cooking from now on.” “Rogge! Are you really?" ia i'm,” She came toward him, put her hand on his arm. ' You funny old bobb—can you wl MI" rr She glanced up at him appraisingly, then au ; You're the darnedest man, Reg. Hon- sa, GT 5 “Tion't seo anything funny about it,” cald ie in his al drawling Vvoick. “You do see something funny about it. But not the ¥ I mean. Sometimes I think you're ae hing at—at all of us." “Nat at you, Trenna, Sure your mother will want BerthaT” “Absolutely. Bend her over. I'll be } responsible.” &o Bertha was transferred to the Kel- seys', und Regeie—it was rather a mystery how he managed it—rWled serene in the Mendenhall kitchen. Tit THE extraordi fact was that Reggle turned ait ta an excellent cook, | Before Jong the family began to admit privately that he waa the best they'd ever ad. Still later they took to praising him outright. "You really are a wonder, Reg- gie. Howeverdid you make that timbale?™ “Cookbook,” said Reggie imperturbably, Lie went to all the dances as before. If Foxboro, in the persons of its more fashion= able set, looked at him curiously he did not rticularly notice it. Foxboro always had ooked pf him curiously. nee Gert King, now a member of a famous brokerage, firm in town, and still the hero of Foxboro, saw fit to poke fun at Reggio, Tt wns at one of the Country Club dances, and o group af young people were gathered about the fire- Lee. p “Hear you're some chef, Reggie. Why don't you open a tearoom? Make sends of Toney 2" Everyone laughed and looked at Reggie, leaning ugainst the stone mantel. Hewes aS Serious a8 eveT—so serivus, eo thought- ful that it produced a litth: hush. “'Pranl it wouldn't be a success, Bert. Tell me you're on a diet.” Ti was a subtle and telling stroke. Mr. King was known to be sensitive about his figure. They all laughed again, and rose ag the rousie started, Bert,o tride red about the cheek bonés, gathered up Trenna Kel- sey and danced off with her, [He was pay- Jing open court to Trenna these days. oo | was Charley Bingham, for that matter; but Bert was the general faworite. They made an appropriate couple—the local hero | and the local heroine, Foxbara approved the rormnce, sentimentally beamed upon it. But now Mr. King, looking town into his partner's face, [ound it overcast with a peculiar sternncss, |. “You deserved that, Bert. You had no | business to pick on Meee.” | “7 was only joking, ‘Trenna.” “7 like Repgic. He's a peach.” Mr. King was moved to retaliate was rather a short-tempered young and ie’s reply hed amarted. . blossom!" suid Bert. Trenna did not answer. But whe dance was over she withdrew abe from the hero's arms, “Headache, Going home,” she nounced over her shoulder, and lef King standing stiffly in the center « room. She walked over to the fire where Reggie still made a graceful pi “T'm going, Reg. Come with mel’ aaet a ht, Se : . my things. on a! The Ne paved out in front.” It was a Fe night, mild, w touch af apring in the mir. Trenna q She drove beautifully, megligent;, ved hand resting on the wheel, the ding together the flapes of her fur ning cloak. pe all “Aren't you painting at now?" “Wo time, A peo, Se etchings.” “Well, i. Shin Ka ieee B. Jus cause you happen to erent — “Got to ike kom Money son Trenna. That idea af Bert's. Teas Not so bad, Believe I could make it ; "Do you mean it?” "M'm. Buy an old farmhouse o state road, just outside town. Decoy myself. Domyown cooking. Getac man. run it through the sem Make enough to paint all winter. Tiu “I'm sure you could! Listen, ha You know that old house with the elma in front of it, about a mile from ty The one that’s been empty so long?” "M'm, Shet it amet, Al q angles. Interesting." wouldnt that do? Lets d out and look at it.” wven 1 fashligh "Vee, I've ta ig ‘" "Came, sald ie, She glanced at him, sitting luc down beside her, his long legs & 1 black trousers twisted about each d in @ ener oo was characteristic Lepr le's.. aughed. “Reg! You funny old nut!" “Just because you are," said the | and put her feat en the accelerator. They reuched the farmid about a quarter of an hour later. [t! dark aie in its dilapidated state, | bidding. Trenna shivered as Regri pl up a window, ee of apooky, Fey, len't i?” ma "m1," He climbed through the window, le out, picked her up casually and lifted over the sill. She s close fo 4 clutching his arm. pies Spe mice, Reggie? “Wo.” He was already caleuleting | peasibilities of the place, “Put a co tables here. Think? Cut a door thea to the porch. Maybe take down that p tition." They prowled about for half an bo Reggie profoundly interested, thougit! Trenna shuddering and clinging ' | flashlight. Once a rat scuttled across the foo. 4 shrieked and ju wp on a broken cha her skirts to her knees. Reggie regarded her exten plativel hia head on one side, des “French poster," he sald in a sido tore. Trenna laughed hysterically. I: s+ her as irresistibly funny that ie compare her with a per | eleven o'clock at night, in a spelk) 4 at was falling visibly te pe about them, She was still laughing when they? back to the car, “Honestly, Reg, you don't feta fr seared I was." “De,” snitl Reggie, tae yi ‘| quivering.” She giggled as she swung the a ® into ae yea ; mh te my legs, youRg a They rolled my ee along tovarl 4 lights of Foxboro. “Fun, wasn't it?" said Trente Mm," murmured Reggie. lt LT could do it, Trenna, Male sont = {Continued on Page [df

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Something | ' New for Campers and Tourists How often, after a hand day's trailing, you've gat before the camp fire cooking a well earned meal when, slide! went the skil- let inte the fire, or else the coffee pot took o header off a slippery stone right into the middle of a bed of coals! But, you need not put up with these annoyances any longer — Fou can cook your camp meals in comfort if Fou Wee Bi Campfire Stake The awhat hadulbewt asti- che ofitekind over producred, Something needed by every hunter, trapper, flahermen, Camper, ond even the orce- ote pienicker. Con be att up i ome minwie. Ad- dastable recks for ments, skillets, pote end pene—cor J be itetantoneqasly raleed, lowered of turned in ac- cordance with the height of dome and direction of wid. Feaociis wiage le pesal- tion autombtically withsit cl aorews o¢ luge Portable and Compact— Weighs Only 7 Pounds The Campfire Oirab Stake is light, portable aad compect. Conzplete outfit am pictured weighs but 7 pounds. Con be carried i a ‘s pack o7 knap- Sack of wader an autemobile ment. Securely iy peiond Se arn ole oo TO? long, 9° wide and ps Phe pe Ee phleg carehal o £ E le Taste! guaran Buy From aon Dealer oa with o Canepfire é. a 8 = year dealer Easel pet yet etockoed ib, perder ier from eid aes rr Bldg, Se. Leula, Bia., giving deal. lathe U. 8. era Ga and enclosing money order or check for Hi0in Canada The camping eaten & beginning— Dealers! ;: prepared to get the fall Beeehe from oar extensive national advertising—order from year jobber afoonee. Tf he cannot supply yeu, write direct far sample any! pericca. CAMPFIRE MANUFACTURING CO. 1037 Eoatmen’s Bank Bldg. St, Louis, Pla, | Go to Paris. Paint. THE SATURDAY (Continadd from Poge 108) Came home. Make some mare money, Print." Wea" soid Trenna, and for seme reason she sighed. a Tae ih SNe Wietorineg who advanced to finance his tea | pee The fa family were solidly against it. Theit arguments, In substance, amounted to this: t wasn't respectable, “ Poespectan ble!" suid Aunt Wieterine from her place at one end of the council— dinner—table, “Maybe you don't know it, but one of your ancestors, old Jmeok Mendenhall, once kept a tavern on the Boston Post Road; and it didn't prevent him from being a good citizen, either. You come up to my room, Reggie, and we'll talk it over.” “Aunt Vietorine,"” gaid Mr. Mendenhall eternly, “I insist that you —— “You can insist all you like, Peter Men- denball. It's rooney and I'll do what Tlike with it. If Rerpie wants funds for a tea howse I'll lend them to him. What's more, I'll p hig aa his place here. cone Foxboro as a whobe, it ar | with the family. Tt did mot approve oF Fee ie"a tea house, e'g. career," anid Bert King, “ia cut out for him. He'll eee a new Silad dressing, and die amous.” If Reggie heard this bon mot he, os usual, paid no attention to it, He was busy fixing up the old house on the state road. He had decorated the front of it with a novel and humorous design of colored pat- terns, which igh the Horeca a rakish, mis chievous an of it ites decrepituce had been ‘held an a firml by the local contractor—who had eee Reggie quite mad. Inside, the plaster walla of the main tearoom were covered with hurnorous rea—a fat man bal- aneing a teacup on his knee, a willowy con with green hair elegantly fishing for su lumpe with a pair of fire tongs: sf in a brilliant coat balancing a pile of plates an one finer. e, at least, thought his decorations amusing, and Sue'a two chil- dren, when they saw them, ahrieked with delight. Older persons, on the contrary, siared gt Reggie's handiwork and were inclined to take it seriously. They had an uncomfortable suspicion that it waa in- io. Rexsore did not of Reggie’ a, ore di approve t's venture. That fact, however, did not pre- vent it] from turning out, practically en masse, on the Saturday afternoon of Reggie's opening, which occurred about the] of June. Of his family, all were present except his gpl who ee es been able ta out fom “We'll have to go," Mra. ir ia had sald. ““We can't desert “Gat pl up Aunt rictortne: “Humph! equree I" ng Wouldn't miss it for a thousand dollara To aay that the afternoon Wad & RCo is to put it mildly, It was a polite etam- pede. An hour after the first guest had arrived Ru and his lone Chinaman were hopelessly involved. The latter came panting into the kitchen, his round face glistening like the Moon pair. “Allee time glest come. No good. Mo aqualsh,”" Reggie, flushed and disheveled but still calm, thrust his head out of the kitchen door and signaled to Trenna Kelsey. She carne. “Riot,” said Reggie. “What'll I dot" Trenna cast her eye over the room, nodded, and gave his arm an en- couraging a. “Leave it to me, Reg.” In ten minutes she had organized a relief committe: of volunteer waitresses, She herself returned to the kitchen, rolled up her chiffon sleewes—it was a warm. alter- Ton — went to work Le sand- wiches and cinnamon toast. ay not only was saved but glorified as well. The daughters of the firet families of Foxboro were toiling for Reggie. Even hi own sisters —— a reeds " whispered Jane to ler © paced witha tr af ten and i Be cele ht dictate in Low warble for hin. Wouldn't you know it?" "Genius!" said Aunt Victorine, highly delighted, sh it was over, mee aia pad one, ®, & cigaret wean his i vaned aa the kitchen wall and locked at Trenna washing her hands in the sink, EVENING POST Thanks," murmured Reggie expan- “5, I sPhought its it wee fun," Bore," Sie turned to ee a ‘face pink with bend- ing over the stove, "You'll make a great success of it. I Facer LIh =—STICAS WHERE &TUCH know you will. Your decorations are a marvelous ad. If you could have heard what people said!" The ghost of a smile passed over oe gie’s lips. His mouth drooped a li mare ahr di M'rm "i £ R 1. “You'll be a pluteerat in no time, young my Goi this OPe ap, ing awiiy ; Summer, Trenna?” “T'm going to Narragansett in August," said the From t aroadi in front of the house came the lowd hon ns, af an automobile horn. at's Bort,” observed Trenna. “He said he'd drive out for me. My car's on the blink. "By, Hepgie." “Thanks, Trenna, Saved my bacon.” "“T aH ¥OUr cinnamon toast, anyway. I suppose you'll be busy from mow on. on to live here, aren't youT™ m. Like it better.”" “Well, come see Ene, Reggie, or I'll be out here alter you." She added lightly, Putting on her hat, “Can't give you Up, young man. "To much of a habit.” Again the automobile horn. She tewehed his hand, turned and ran aut of the kitchen. He heard her call to Bert King, “Coming! Sarry te keep —' For the next two months Reggie sn little of Trenna. He wos busy— busier than **Sticks Where Stuck Leaves Both Hands Free When making tire changes alos dark muddy road—or when thik in a poorly-lighted garage you meq Webster Magnet Light. Te *"etk where stuck" affording ample light = the freedom of both hands. Te ig feel pensable in emergencies, Tt ja attractive—and. sturdily bul Tis dull black, rust-proof magnet base clings tight to any im electry MRE] lace Te nck ited oh herume a nel, hired a secon Thinn- shades the cyes und protects the & man, then o think By the middle of July he had made almost as mach aa Belle made in a year. But he was so eas eung, . = abouk it They ne ae 5 used to be impressed. no longer looked upon Reggie's tea house as un- | oT scaking thine ow ie i of ma ings respectable simply doing them. They looked upon it ag an idiogymeraay, a8 a toy with which he amused himself. They understood that Reggie was, at bottom, thoroughly im- practical. As for Trenna pak cama frequently to the ten house—she a's cus | tomer—lbut ahraye there were others with | Bert King or Charley Bingham, or bath. A number of young men were more or less in love with Trenna, about her, in the Foxboro idiom; but Bert and Charley were the chief rivals. Hert and | Charley had been rivals since thelr high- achool days, when both had tried for the Graduating Medal—which Reggie | | had won. But in the present quae Reggie | could be aafely disregarded. He was out | |) in the kitchen, making sandwiches, | Foxboro had decided that it would be | either Bert or Charley, and probably Bort. In fact some persons went so far as to rl | that Charley was not really in love wit Trenna, but that he meant to marry her if he could, simply for the sake of defeating his rival, Otherpersonshad it onexcellentauthority | that both g men were desperately in | love with nid. Altogether it waa a fascinating drama. at sume | Ite twelve feet of cord ia ample fort largest car and the plug fits any socks abut the car. If your dealer cannot supply, check or money order direct, epoch make and model of your car. WEBSTER ELECTRIC COMPAN RACINE ,.WISCONSIN , U.S.A. Monufarcfarera of THAN) Webater MWagrnetoo _Makes Plants Tike = Magic soehne miskee plats gros a " 1 Just a Hitele af Lhe oa iia foie, ti We ‘ Ask yoo = cele oF anti LAT RB, HL HOOVER LABORATORIES, le, Dept, 2 Freeport, [ine [heeiey; Hes fe some of eran rohier o- order aaneay Foxbore talked about little else mer, It was understood that Trenaa would aonaunes her engagement bo one or | the other of the two young men when she | returned from her month at Narragansett. She was leaving Foxboro Au first. A fow nights erevicms to that date Reg- a aor dock fling —a eebieeth, rariiew, @ ps af Lease gie locked up the tea house and set out to rs Bred in Otel Kstachy walk the mile into town. He was going to than you have ever karen bo eall on Trenna, ‘bo good-by to her. He ss met her halfway to the village, driving her |». ear. She saw his tall figure swinging along | (| the Png the twilight and Sie nod 7 an i g! He crossed over to her, stead leaning againat the aide of the ear, "Lt, Juet coming in to see you,” Bigeovings lo oe ee 1 . all yin if add] reese y Thor peg Maer pour al ing mid, motions op ey 5 VW rite ay. Bra Moberly. Hex S88 Cumin. [i Smoking Tabacco “Were you? Funny, [ was coming out to cata you. ‘Tired of waiting for- you, Gnale PIT Honey, we haven't had a tall | FooTweat Oe inet Sater eds A Man's Feet Carry = 165 bcone i: Seri A " abtet ea pepo chats Lene = for He sacs, Hop in the seat beside her wih out bothering to open the door. laughed and let in the clutch. They arifted along, the warm night air in their faces, the read a languid black river flowing under their li aeits t the firet ee ce se | atop ; they sat ng at the lights of Foxboro, twinkling at a distance. | SCHR BOL OW rarep FIELD bb FLINT oo. “HROCETON MLIE

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What She threw aut her ung noes in a gesture Unpremeditated, beautiful, “T alwaya thought it would be fun te have a let of men—well—interested in me. I've only got two, as a matter of fact ia 5a very modest number these days, I'll have you vide ae they plague me, Fen i in tke thom both, ae I've a apres ening thet I’m going to mary one them before long, You know, when a woman gets to be my age, teenty-two next September—and that's older than you'll ever be—she beging to ‘pak intuitions. She knows whether she's gto marry or not. I feel it coming on, Fon he: “Which one?" he sake, "That I don't know.” Reggie mused, studying the hot eoal of his cigarette. ot Why? he said finally, at all? That's just what Fea heen ering. But—I don’t know— ire expect it of yey, for one thing. And pontarel ien'tit? I mean—instinet, and Freud! He knows."" Her ae had in it a troubled note, “Che lay ft doesn't seem te matter which man I 2, 60 long os he's young and sound, My tind runs to a modest mansion on Elm Avenue, full of my own things =silver and linen and furniture. Children, too, I oe of hungry = ——" She sinned lders, “I don't know, arg fi the emt a or re mae the same night, I | want—other things. hings not s0 easy namt, but more—more perfect. Then 1 fee! like like jumping into the car and beating it away from Foxboro st sixty miles an tae t, don't he epalite ent, oon at “Lets go," said Reggie. “Where? “Anywhere. Difference does it make?” She put her foot on the starting pedal. Tee footer caught with a thrilling. muted art moment later they were flying down the hill, net wt aixty miles an hour, at least at soon And they were headed away from Fo, He wos busy hl ean — home from that drive at an indore early hour, In fact hays time ie had wa ked the mile back to the re couse the first gray feelers of sy were beginning to creep over sky. Eve then he did not go to bed, bout aa by the window in his ream. ae a cigarette and watching, with a deep contentment, the shifting ca patterns of the dawn r ERA came back to Foxboro in Sep- & had ¢losed iy tea house directly after Labor Day, and was once more & man of leisure, He dropped in to see Trenna the firet night of her arrival home. a ae alaut T: af n the evening when he @lieya' doorbell, Trenna Iet him 3 in. * Came carly," said Reggie. “Avoid the She laughed, and putting her arm about wellpage w down his head and kissed you funny old nut, Let's ait out here an Siavnty orp 3 in the living Pisin, got to to you, Reggie. aor gat on the in the warm September evening, talking. About 8:30 | Bett King drove up in his car, and a little | later Charley Bingham arrived. Pt ice cnt he earty, but somewhat Eighem produced a box fg chocolates, which he opened with apene | priate faectiousness, Still the atmosphere | of the front porch cantinwed to be ol | with a slight constraint, a slight embarrass- ment. Finally Reggie got up, in his languid, Pa rLer,. “i see the furnily, "he raurmred. “Might, ee cate “Good ni ht, He Hie neta to pages two eal a i the porch steps and sauntered off down EVENING POST ~ See hee of Char —— Tn front af i Moetenbet! house he stopped a moment, looking up at its discreetly veiled windows, his bead Bide, hig th irene we ‘ou al the w stairs livi sais Bai his father, Belle, Jane and Aunt Victorine. "Well, ef" “'Lo, ‘Thought I'd drop in, see how you were gettl His m sketched the family state health, “Belle has a cold. Jane's coming down with one, My neuritis i better. Your father’s been spring ni hts at the office.” “Inventory,” said fondenhall wear- “How - ou, my boy?" ily. * Right," Keggie. “Have nal | SOOT na?” asked Belle, looking at him with a animation. The light in her eyes was one almost of a wo '"M'm,” he said. "Toll us, Reggie,” demanded Jane, “You know her best. Which one is she engaged to, Bert or Charley?" Belle i interrupted before Reggie had a chance to t Cha -_ Bilt ccnftmedl iva foment peal ly a n stoppe, father. zi . Mr. Mendenhall apok " Charley's been masala in Belle, They in on the same train, you =the :1h. Eb, Belle?” “He told me," said Helle more calmly, “that he hadn't pro posed to ber, He isnt yk whether he's in in lowe with her or not. and Bort ask Sons z think it's just because hb have al dat eon—Tivals, and— & putes Well 1 think. ies Bert!" snid Jame. “Don't you, ie? “Never can teil, Jane." Aunt Victo ke Humph! ne EY could have her him- rar if he wanted her. She doesn't loak at an Lie weer euch er I watehedl __“But—Aunt Victoria! protested his | isn't—Heggie couldn't get married i ifbe wanted bo" He has no Have, "gaid Peggle. “Made two thou sand dallara on the tea howe.” A aan of exclamationa, ar a oF “Did you really, Reggie? I think that's nderfal.’" wei “Very good, my boy. Very good indeed.” His mother's voice ‘dominated the aut- itp “But it isn't enough to get mar F on! "Trenna Kelsey's and te spare!" retorted aah: Victonhe tena- ciously eng to her argument. never marry for money, said his nate with dignity. coe ee had been. leaning emoking. Now he atral Need looking from rl to the other with a mi pany ui] eye, ia Al have, Fr aaid Regie, “Have!” exclaimed Mrs. Mendenhall, “Have what?" His volee waa a serenc, as drawling as he said. “Married her, Fr. “Trenna,” fore she went aay,” Month ago, The family sat staring at him, their | astounded faces. Reggie felt it mouths opom—a cirela of round mouths in incumbent upon him to explain, to go into detail, to be, for ones in his life, cows. made an effort. He “One night out driving. Talked ft over, Decided. 2 to Greenwich. Borrowed from Trenna. Hought a ri Minister married us. Came | ala pei ue and glanced about at them: ati seemed atu “Theght wed it over with,” he aald garrulgualy, dee nounee it later." His mother's voice waa tremulous, al most plaintive, “But—Reggie! You couldn't—without telling us!" "Talling you now." i “But you where are you going ta ive “Beauty of it,” said ie, “Going to live in Perla, ‘alne there.” Aunt WVietorine'’s triumphant plpe roe clear above the ensuing babel: “Told you eof" Hoe escaped from them os soon a8 he could, slipping out of the reom in the midst | af a hot disciarion 108 Most Valuable ASSETS! FA 2 artTH— kffciencgy—Ha Fee. — What a pity so many business men and women try to gain and retain them re spite of thar FEET! 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He looked into his sister's face, Her up- turned nose, now with the affliction of tatlon Belle" it was trembling. How do you do it? a eold, gave: ‘her an interrogative—a pathet= ically ‘interrogutive and beserching air. _ Something ou want, Belle?" "Charley," whispered: and then with a fierce choking mal: harley!" He put his hand over ha and squeezed "Ack him,” said Reggie. “Be a damn fool. Ask him." Belles breath of a reply followed him down the stairs. “T will, Reggie." FI T WAS afternoon of a day later. Reggie I was alone in the tea house, packing and putting things to rights. He was glad to done with the tea house; it had bored him excesalvely. Poaaibly Jane would run it another season. Silly of Jane to stick around heme, running errands for thelr murther, when ahe might be out on her own, He would speak to Jane about it before he left for Pons. Paris! He heard an automobile stop before the house, | out of the window and saw ne coming up the walk. The lat- ter's face bad a set look; his sir was one of grim_determination. Discomforting. “Trenna’s told him,” thought “Wonder what he wants?” The matter was not long in doubt. Bert King opened the door of the tearoom, walked in and planted himself squarely in front of ita pro or. | “Tye core, Rei, aald Mr, Hing, “ta neh you in the nose.” we asked Reggie. Mr. King's jaw—it waaa fighting jaw— thrust fo slightly. Tt —for—my—own personal satisfoc- at to do it all my life," continued Mr. ing, drawing a deap breath. “All my life—and now ——" “Minute,” interrupted Reggie. “Come outside. Ground’'s softer than the floor." The other opened his mouth to protest, but i¢ already was strolling across the room. Bert King, flushed with the rage of years, followed im out of the house and inte the back yard, where a straggling apple orchard wearle dweet the autumn air. ut Mr. King was not to be moved by any sweetiress, of apples or of human | suaaion, He caught = hearthe shoulder hey stend eye to and apun him around. eye. “ADL mgr Lifel" said ae and added, “You never would fight, Don't suppose | ypu" ht naw it" "Can t," said Reggie, “Not your way.” "Won't, you mean! Well, I" pe not Raine to be done out of it,” shouted Bert. always wanted to, and I'm going aa Be for Ty OFT Pe satisfaction!" He drew back his arm and shot it toward Reggie’ # inoffensive and rather delicate "Bometiving happened. It happened sud- denly and mirmutntialy: Tt happened to ee! d dropped from under hi & nd dropped out under him: an. anne t tree danced crazily before his oy ahd then—he was Lying on his back the thick grass, staring at the sky, He sat up. There was nothing before | him but the mild September landscape. Mpril 29, siren vot Bert," came in Hag se unhurried tone, rs) spin about, ng ta ble oe tans Bhar toward the des he t happened again “ae a falling earth, the dancing apple tree, sense of being meipeniedl 2 in mid-air. 7 a ctash, like something being broker clsianee, h Reggie's en he come to arm tole pes and his head was restin That the hell?” said Bert Eng the * Lew “Fiaiten” ape in France. low in. my eomaaieny. right now, Bert?" “Uh-huh, Mr. King stood up. "Reggie, be bepan—"" Reggie. I- But at that moment Trenna Felsey, was Trenna Mendenhall now, came s ing about the earner of the house, her & her hand, a luminous edge to her blond Hort!" she said when she saw him, stopped a short distance away. “1 are you doing here?" 4 segele apo up, gravely, imperturhs “Came aut to congratulate me, Tre Right, Bert?" ae . King - Right," said sure do. Both of you And he went svar: He etrode off, his shoulders equ walking rapraly in the direction of arate foe heard the a per of rhe pli nes ingg fminter, no he et! sigh i ed, "She waa Hirer dg to Reggie now, looking up at him hands on his shoulders “T feel awful - guilty, somehow. i awfully happy. ee met, Reggie.” a | aL Fir ane bcs Mendenhalla are still a family, though their aituuntioca | bi changed eamewhat. Belle ia marrial arley Bingham and haa a baby, ay to which she devotes herself Im a cope and businesslike manner. Sue ia expect her third, which doubtless will be a a cessful as the two othera, Mire. Med hall divides her time between her clutee the housekeeping, for Jane at lee t shaken off the maternal apron strings. | ne taken over the tea house, and rons year around. She is doing very = ni ibe 1 Mendenhalls are doing well, T it pa eo has Asktacain to is nning prosper api eae (Per ie eatehes the 7:45 with his former guste, Aunt Victorine i is anning to go abrat brasil mee visit Reggie and Trenna in Paris. T a er it most impractical of b fan e is going, nevertheless, Treat baby, a boy, ia mamed Vietor, alter 44 Victorine. The Mendenhalle often of Reg and alwayva with affection. When thy m came that one of hi paintings sary purchased by the French Governmes* the Luxembourg they made no attempt, conceal the fact, though when the pain in question waa reproduced in the Su Times it turned out to be a most un gated une: Mrs. Mendon had one of his pictures sonmpted'b by French Government.” een a caiceg uh pe Mendent We're all very happy about it. . - Whatsay, Mra. C ber? 2 2. Tret ais aa I cnet think ao. ibe f models for—for everyt t's nal aldered at all im— What aay f Fleteher? Lucky he married Tren! ‘ Tadmit that Reggie never would hav able te earn his own living, An sist know. Soimpractical, But then". ing about the circle with a ae *Regzi always was a delicate boy.

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The Sadie Brown of Boston was a vessel you could not help noticing, becwuse as you | approached her a distinct odor of fish—not very new fish—b to aort of emanate thal her. In fact radiated an aroma. of tions of fish, aa it were, and if you ence been aboard her | am sure you would always have been able to find your way back, even in the dark. 2h “You see she was a fishing schooner, Ted explained rather unn ily. But she can quite easily be cleaned up. She's i hepa except olfactorily,”" “She's @ beauty!" exclaimed Shack as we boarded her. “Ashipo' dreams! What do you say she is called - ‘The Sadie Brown.” At that a bon! of protest went up from the entire crowd. “That will never do!" said Shackelton, who in spite of his declaration about having no captain in our crowd could not help rather taking the lead, This waa natural enough, too; a sort of instinct after all his | voyages before the mast and his volumes of aea pooms. “That will never do!" said he. “We =e an inapinarion! name—a ame which means someting net Let's call her the Sinn Fein,” suggested Sharnus. ‘ “Not on your lifel" Ted howled at once. = This is a strictly peaceful boat, even ifit a ahe oP ig “How about The Toddle?™ I sug P “She's apt to, when we get out on the deep water, you kn ow. Dear Pet "said Shack tenderty. “Your humor isso quaint! But I think that name hardlyexpresses ua.all, Lf yousee my point?" “Siow about The Gauguin?” put in Mal- Viti. “Nearer, muchnearer!"exclaimedShack, “But J thine some native word would be even better!" _ acive. of ee Ted, but nobody paid any attention tohim. — Then Zelda, whe had eo far contributed nothing but cigarette smoke, took one of the books she inevitably carries about, from under her arm. “T brought it along—my copy of Mur- | phy's book,” she said, “in sea it would be seful. W find a name in that!" ttt oedaimed Bhack. "Lets see!" and he turning the pages over rap- idly, with familiar fingers. Ted came and looked over his shoulder. j “Shad South Seas!" he exclaimed. “Some boa l raring lari pits they sure ATE 5 , not to say sh “De ow anything about the South Seas, Mr. Stonewall,’ Shuck asked coolly, “that you call them shady?" a “Sure! sald Ted. “1 know the natives’ favorite food ia tenderfest, but 1] be garne if the reat. are!" : : “Nothing of the kind!" reprimanded Shack. “Their native dish is called poi!" “Short for hoi pallei,” Ted insisted. “Hawever, why not call the boast Tahont I see it means a headache from thinking.” “1. favor calling it the Moon and Six- pence!’ said Shack, But nobody would agree to that, and finally we compromised wpon The Gallop ing Tiger because that exprewed the entire Village, if you know what [ mean, and all of us had a feeling of relief when so much was settled, " 5 "Well, come on, now," anid Ted a trifle “Don't you want to look over the boat itself?" “Waltl" exclaimed the pale Edouard dramatically. “Before | goonestep further EVENING POST an this voyage another point. of extreme importance must be definitely arranged. This hip has wo figurehead [*" Tt waa too true. We all went and looked aver the end where the fi head ought to be, and there was none. tore his hair— rather agreratedly, I thought. “What shall we dot" he exclaimed. “Calm yourself, old ehap!" said Ed. “T'll tell you what [ll do—D'll make one." “Something appropriate and in Titt= ter," I suggested timidly, for I remem Smoke, and Shack echoed my sentiment, “Of course!" said he. “A symbol of our errand [™ And eo that was that! “Now that we have settled the two most im ant paychic points,"" said Shack kly, “let's have a look at the practical sierra really: thinks it said "If you really f neccesary," Ted, leading the way. “ Well, here is the hold—we men will have to asleep down there —it's a little fishy now, but we can fumigate it.” “Sulphur candles," said Shamus, “Ob, sulphur smells so horrid!" pro- tested Zelda, ““Whynotuseincense? en I took my studio over the old stoble [used incense, it's so much pleasanter {* Shack ignored her. : "“T say, this will be really amusing!" he exclaimed. "Onee we get it clean we will give it a cost of paint—lavender walls with a cerise trim on the bunks! Ripping—eb?" “Just a8 you plense,” said Ted, leadin us on. “Now here is the galley; the ol stove la perfectly if it's bit—messy cook, [ll say they had—and then come on aft ——" “WF hat's down there?” inquired Shack- elten, peering over the edge of aaort of a light—hatch, mean. Hedrew back hast at thi: first whit. “Ob, it's only the tank,” replled Ted. "You ought to remember that, Salta, Didn't you sey you onee galled on a fishing t FE a Coe only for a short thme,” said ack, A "Well then, that’s the tank, where they used to put the catch,” Ted went on amoothly. “You'd better stuart your fumi- gating down there. Just give a look here at the cabin—two nice little staterooms off it—aee? For the girls, of course.” “Light oak!" acrenmed Malvina as she &t fret. “Oh! Impossible! We will have to paint it all! But give me time and I will make this ship a thing of beauty! I wad an interior decorator for one winter, you kewl" “That's all down below,” said Ted, turning te Shack and Shamus. “Don't you fellows want to leok at the rigging now? She's got almost new canvas.” “Sails! exclaimed Malvina, her face lighting with an idea, “Salla! bh, chil- dren, wouldn't it be wonderful if 1 were to batik the sails? Glorious orange and pur- idl “Now that you mention it,” said Ted, “it would. But I think you will find plen to do below—and on deck. And after all, white or even gray sails are pretty good, dan't think?" "Ted Stonewall, that's the first eyTnipa- thetic remark you've made today!" I “I'll make another now," he retorted cheerfully. “It's nearly one o'clock—why not all c over to te'a and have a bite of lunch on met" Well, everybody thought that would be splendid, only Shack could hardly bear to leave the ship. “There ip euch a lot te be done!" he said with a groan. “Just one more thing before we go. Of course 1 think we ought to do the whole work ourselves, but as the boat is so large, and as perhaps one of us might fall ill, or overboard, don't you know, how would it be to have one—just one hi sailor te lend a hand if—if meceasary?™ “T think," sald Ted seriously, “it might | trhaps be well, In fact I was going to e “ it. Not that we would hat ir really do anything—but just, as you aay, to lend a hand." : If the party had been enthusiastic before, they were now wild with delight. This idea of Shack’s was euch a good ont. 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Was “4 : san eee ene RAGvaz2 Fikno, ._ Sarophane, oe Chri tere, Sint Ie ra pra Peagiog: bs L ited e Be tg, Ea a ale Sarl ines at pal eae OWN ones since, whcleuie Choco rat Cuma, Cancdy-Minta ete Hace ee fackoges. Emclusive propoettion. HELMET PRODUCTS FACTOR, Cincinnati, Chie a ae WANTED 4cONNECTION with Broker or = 2 Nicre eters dealer rallroads, banks, Janie Inne Coan, De Dept. &, Morfolk, Vu soft br THE SATURDAY “T certainly will, Shack,” ssid Ted, de- lighted to be admitted to first-name terms. " And I guess [I'll keep him away from The Galloping td until about an hour before we anil. how eailora are—the crude things! He might not wniderstand our preparations!" Everything 4 ao beautifully aectled, we went off to lu On the way over Ted a4 usual got me alone for a moment, and I felt moved to tell him a terrible secret which was weighing heavily upon my mind. Ted" he are not the only one whe will have to bri someon on board ae +e last moment. Don't breathe it to o soul oy nee | is coming with us, She wouldn't let me go, otherwise, Isn't it 5 fal "said Ted. “There are going to br several shocks on the bi "What?" [ said, “Oh, Tea, what?" | But he wouldn't tell. CRASH! | "Wait and see!" he said dark a gollies, [ never thought this bunch woul pea far as actually starting, but I now ieve they will. And when we sail, be- lieve ma, kid, we're going to sail right!" “You don"t know these people!" I said indignantly. "They are real: and you are only just beginning to learn it!" will never forget the ten days that fol- lowed. They were one continuous party, during which the boat was gradually trans- ee Ne tempat Salta presi der aver the w 2 a great ra ng He waa simply the moat Seat af men, and | to realize more and mare strongly that a neh girl Uke myself ought eet Bar & Se Sc Tak yay to develop his gen ue unhanipered an financial worries. Shack seemed ta sa, too, although I won nat pormalt| him to comme Tight qwt and aay it. T wanted to pro- long the sweetness of our indefinite rela- tionship until the end of the voyage, sailing free with him—and the rest, course — under the swelling white wings of the ship, and then seal our betrathal with = kiss beneath the tropie moon, bathed in ca of palely flaming hibiscus blossoms. That last sentence is Shack’s. I rushed off and wrote it right down immediately after he had said it, speaking on the deck of The Galloping Tiger, aa sie was now called, and waving a paintbrush dripping vermilion paint as he epoke, for this tender sentiment between ua while he was working oo the mixdernization of the cabin hatch. “But you will give me your answer at the end as a ¥ ge. woo q you, Leopard- ena?" he ing a Vermilion panel into @& pp intel order: And go of CeMrae: hs apne to Seine cond Thad pretty neal ded that I meant to aay yea. be boat was finished it really was worth seeing. You would not have known it for the same old Sadie Brown of Boston, and although I had helped a lot-in fixing her up, except when T was uptown buying a fow yachting clothes, [ could not but wooder if it reall same Vessel, and what on earth the New England lady for whom she had originally been named would think if she could see it now! The bull was block and the deck a it yellow—a queer shade which Edouard had put on because he gold, and gold leaf was dreadfully expensive, 80 he hed to use yellow paint because it was the nearest thing at hand. The hold was lavenderand vermilion janes tire Shoes, and the cabin had been redecora black woodwork and tangerine upholstery, while on every available wall apace and door hung synthetic Gauguina of South Sea subjects, palnted by Malvina: and honestly, Uf you hadn't been told you would not have known that they were not b the great French-Tuhitian master himsell, particularly one rene Papeete Madonna which represen ly colored woman with twins lookin th h asliced banana, At least that's what [ think it was. Well, at any rate the cabirt ire Beit and the galley: am ¥ mpgs ue derful esta. ¥ emma things sent axe trtink the fen By ET ier and I had alao got Tams, our butler at home, to send down alot of tinmed things in glass—every poeaible edible that comes put up that way. Because when we had drawn lata about the work | had been elected to eook for the firat day, And as I simply enw met cook anything but fudge I waa rts afraid they might get tired of it as a steady But while the boat was a arent surotss I think that perhaps the most a thing about it was Edouard HRoulan figurehead. Never will I forget the day ba EVENING POST brought it aboard, wrapped carefull solt sheetings, and borrowed a couple dollars from Ted to pay the men who lifted it from the taxi to the deck, Every- y dro wir work a8 soon as Ed announced what it was he had, and stood eagerly waiting for him to unveil it. ‘Comrades, " sald Edouard solemnly, "“T have devoted weeks of work to develop ing this figurehead, and I feel that ite un- veiling among our intimate little group worthy of a real ceremony. I have put my whee soul inte petting. just the right figure—something which would be wtterl aymbolic of the apirit of pure beauty an adventure which ia leading wa seaward. Te ought to be christened properly. Has yes td got any ligquer?™ ell, we couldn't dig a Pal cause Tams had not brought it dawn yet, but Sharmud alter a little healtation pro duced a flask of his hip, and this Ed handed aolemmnly to ne. “Will you be sponser, Constance?" he asked me, using g my cen name, which showed how seria ¥ was taking this alfair. “To will, indeed!" I replied, acce ting the flask and starting, of course, bo t eee its contents upon the shrouded figure, when & dinaniencs cry halted me. “Wouldn't it be more sensible to drink in? ** nacasanes SHAE Shack. He is ware ao practical, So they drank it—a little nip apwece—to the vo , and then Edouard allowed me to pull the string, and thé figurehead stood reveled, At first [ wos afraid that ely had something wrong with them. Yet I I felt all ht, so I merely rub bem and I See. But the as looked just the same, only more so. It was a wooden Indian —s regular Sixth ayes cigar-store Indian aay pred a bunch of Trua, é had been jazzed up a ae i with pane and bright colors. The cigars bad Aerie white with green ti tte the fi ‘a middle was a hy nla kirt made of heavy copper wire: also it wore a garland of tin flowers gracefully ut ung about its neck. suff cate!" cried Ted. "What in the name of ham "Tt is a Tahitian maiden holding a bunch or ey ? replied Edouard with great pf en The asparagus the Marquesan aymabal of ewift vt.” There was a little silence then, of ape ciation. I felt ao stupid not to have immediately seen what Edouard had in- tended: it wasallao plain once he explained it, and as we afterward —all but that tireaome Ted—it was auch a splendid example af the Adaptive Schaal of Seul ture; so much result from so little work, if you apie what T mean. But Ted sim- ply eould not get the right angle on it, “All right, ol Fight!" he sald te me privately, “lt they can pul that sort of atull, so can other people, Pet, why, I will strive to riaeet At the time I had not the remotest iden of what he meant, but on the day we sailed I & glimmer. morning of that eventful day came at last, although at the beginning of our = ih : as Py ges never really away, awoke at dawn, heart beating with excitement and ankick tion. At I thought it was dawn, it was only overcast, and nearly ten o'clock. I jumped out of bed in a hurry, you can believe, for we were suppoeed to eail at one, and I wanted to be aboard be fora mother got there. Mother is apt to be on time for things, and her coming along was bound to be an awful shock to our little group, who had not as yet been told abowt her, Well, [ reached the Sadie—I mean The Gillopag Sige ein of theentire crowd although 1 thought Ted, who lately had stemmed to grow more and more imisthe about the other man's seamanship, would y be down, fussing and worrying over silly things like gasoline and ropes and that sortofstull, But he wasn't, and the watech- man let me aboard and then, at about 11:30, Malvina showed up earryin her black cat, her dyeing outfit, and cur electric curling iron. She was also accom- panied by Shamus in a yachting cap, ten- His shoes and a new straw suitcase, "Ty thought we'd better have the electric curler, Pet," Malvina explained. “The salt air takes the curl owt of one's hairso qulekly. And | brought Poe along for a mascot.” “And where will ye the electricity | for that curler? demanded Shamus. * Un loss it's fromsparkes off the black catitself?" f you Uke it, 113 Thy Medoaie's Homer oa fae Soba Shade in the Garden of Allah en a ae Dou] Le pictur: Lining al the , sand blanketed esert— long age devised a “Front pore" for their tents with a covering be shichd them from the sun, Because the covering was made of cloth, it absorbed heat rather than threw it off. Moreover, it collapsed when the wind blew too strong. Bart —it provider! shade. How different from the most maxdern of sun protectors that you att on 6 Many Aumerican porcles— OLMOR Trade Mark Self-Hanging, Wind-Safe Porch Shade Conlinict shidea afc aa feo) as the name bmplkes fade of lnu- tual in warled colorings, hey Jend aktractivencss to an Porch. The eoclesive wide an narrew at be a gbbertiocl feature: wid is wise Write for hearest 40 Coolmoar rolls enail eve and ielf-hangimer. infeannation and name dealer. 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Jind remomber, oly ia the geaukne “tavelo” do you get the particular fit, shape and wearwhirh then orieiealacalecaa sive trawela” clastic-lendt procees ieatepee, Over 5,000 Dealers sell “ travelo* knit jackets. in a yarety of models end colocs, Inclading many bean- riful henthers. es have id ditfenity buying a “travelo,™ = te us direct, caer atyle, den and color poefeme, "travelo” ae LASCKE TS PECEKHAM-FOREMAN, Inc. 1904-1915 Pork Awveaiue Hew Work “Head and Shoulders Above the Crowd— How to Get There” fa an inferesling beoklet that we ere glad to sem every li does pot paint any “bhoescy iireama” that you cornet realise, but it tells “how we are beSriter thousincds of young men in fue Lise meet of gbrsy thuily ours, We will als cad i ar) ae Sin Reasons why rou. thoold arieer the Unstied ¥. AL Schools to help you to qualify dor greater peapom ait ‘lity, more conpenial or bethergenying work, and larger manheaud., Shur frilly Cound da (ree, Send this Slip by rene ¥. MM. C. A. School! | rreapomdence Courses, iE: arpa wae silerd training: ; Airanoibt deri into Mi ambitious pote Fae. ——— Farrar ship Ags sar Cencecic Eachen Tarp Farming Destionon Eictrician Eiviccal Rng Facters Mangere Fare Mesagcreert, Tex ering Fuare qger i bebe Trats) Maigret Fareign Lara ‘Vee of the Side Eola Are yee ee enerereue eee United ¥. M.C. A. Schools, Dept. T2-A. 275 Leazington Ave., Sow York Ciny Witheet obligatlog me, please advise peperding a Treat. Ar es Ceetuipeee —— Num Full Acdirces = (Pier sie poate SS Gee we eee see ee THE SATURDAY “Oh! sald Malvina, chagrined. “That's so! Fargas: ae beet no Wining on emailing bant! tan annoyance! But Poe wi bring us good luck, anyhow. Not that I am superstitious!" “Sure a black cat is an evil thing!" ex- claimed Shamus indignantly. “And Shack has a terrible fear of cata of any kind. Don't you know it's bad luck they bring, anid Tie at all?’ "Tt is mot!" said Malvina furiously. “Tes nod luck, and we need something to counteract this Pier No, 1a!" Well, I did not enter into their squabbles then, for Zelda and Edouard and Shack were arriving simultaneously, with lots af HIRRREE and in a high state of exclbement. instant Shack sae mé he rushed right over and gra me by the arm. "Pat, we are lost! he whispered, “I must hide you at once until we sail, Do you know who is on the end of the dock in a footer? Your mother!" "Well," said I, outwardly enlm but in- wardly trembling, “go help her with her Mi et Torrington, T thought “Pet Torrington, I t Ou Were a real radteall” = said oattent "And now you bring along your mother—your mother! Tam inexpreaaibly shocked!" But he fetelbed her, none the leas, and the nows wis broken to the rest, and mother was really a dear to them, looking awfully smart und pretty, though large, in a blue serge coat and stiri : rt, and examining the bot through ite, very ami- ably, mcing them "all dously, the way she cun sia she wanks something. There was no sign of Tedd, “Confound him!" said Shackelton, after we had finished a pienie lunch and waited around and gone ashore to telephone in- numerable times, but ta no nvail, “Con- found the man, I've a good mind to sail without him!" : “But there isn't any wind!" objected Shamus. “And besides, he was to bring asuilor, Sure and I think we should wait for the poor kid—I mean lad!" “T shale gol’ T eried indi tly. "Soil withaut Ted Stonewall on his own ship’? Over my dead body!" “Don't get excited, aur " gabd mother in that soothing way of hera which irritates me ao, “There is no need bo worry; Ted will turn up, I'm sure!" : And mother was right, as she sometimes is, for about mid-afternoon Ted did turn up in a etate of brenthless excitement, ith him were two strangers, whe hoy EVENING POST in his rear a he gave wa his news; and a quecrer pair [ never saw, was palpably the hired, professional sailor: a stalwart man with stubby brown sideburns, wide-bottemed blue trousers, a short anilor jacket and a round cap with Tibbons on it, He stood there, spitting behind his hand and occasionally giving a aor oo ae eae op was, l suppose, a typical sailing- sailor—a ax treme cage, | judged, but com at: Phewa was nothing sre about him except the perfection of British-tar type, if you know what I mean. But his companion waa certainly a most remarkable Rents Thia other waa an unusually beng man with a hawklike nose and terribly weother-beaten faee, stood with a peculiar slouch, and bin glance fairly burned me up when I met it. But elriking as his face was, his ¢ wore even more peculiar, for he wore a Russian high be smock belted with a bright sash, h boots, into which his trousers were and a round astrak eaup. His joe white whiskers swept acroes his chest. It was to this person that Ted pointed as he spoke to the assembled crew of The Galloping rin a hoarse whisper. “Friends,” he eaid anxiously, “a most ex ed and edie thing has ha . That's what delayed meso! An old friend of mine from Hussia—a man who befriended me when I was there, in Siberia, and to whom I owe my life, in fact—his just arrived in this country, only to find that he is wanted by the police, I have brought him to you, to ber that we take him with ws on our vo “From Russia?" eel Shackelton. ni ian Bring him, of course. Who is he "He if a ih poet,” explained Tol. "That's why I se ht you mule not mind, although tt speak English HienamelsAndrey Kropustikint” The great man! ed eleln, “whit an hener!" “De you speak Russian?" asked Ted in a choking voice, whirling on ber, cn rig she mourned. ee ™ era none of us do! But he maybe epeaks a litte Yiddish?" “Well, never mind that," said Ted, “I talk Russian enough to make him under- stand me. I'll fetch him andl Harry Binz aboard, and then let's be off before the cops locate ust" et and a (TO BE CONCLUDED) THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (More Than Two Million and a Quarter Weekly) IS fully pretected by copyright and nothing that appears in it may be reprinted, either wholly of in part, without special permission. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 115 Look About You In St. Paul's Cathedral, which he designed, Sir financed by bonds; city schools and parks and Christopher Wren lies buried. A simple slab bears _roads financed by state and county bonds—all these this inscription in Latin: are, in part, a monument to the investments “IF YOU WOULD SEE HIS MONUMENT, which Prudential has made for you. LOOK ABOUT YOu" Of your Prudential savings such a sentence might be written. Farms and homes financed by mortgages; railroads and the telephone Wherever you live a part of your savings is close at hand and at work. If you would see them working, look about you. The Prudential Insurance Company of America /ncorporated under the laws of the State af New Jersey Porrest F. Devoen, President Home Orerce, Newank, I. J, if every wife knew what every widow ives: every Aishand would be insured Tiara Tas

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| THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘To compliment your guests—Premium Han No matter how simple your dinner, if you serve Premium Ham it will be a subtle compliment to the good taste of those who share it with you, For while Premium Ham—a boiled shank-half especially —is easy to prepare, not extravagant, and will serve the family for meals to come, it is indeed an aristocrat among meats, It has taken years of constant care—in the Swift's Premium Swill’s Premiur belare broiling or frying Geek for this los identification fag When fou boy « who airzi or wit Pou by 2 aloo selecting of meat, in the perfecting of the special sweet mild cure, in the skillful smoking over hardwood fires—to get that unvarying tender- ness and delightfully piquant flavor which dis- tinguish Premium Ham. Place a Premium Ham shank-half in cold water, heat slowly and let it simmer gently, allowing 30 minutes to the pound. Remove the skin while the ham is hot. Serve with buttered carrots and peas. Hams and Bacon Swift & Company U.S.A: April 25, 197

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=, \ Ey x oy, t a a = if met my STRENGTH The exactness with which Haynes engineers and designers create the specific car for its purpose is shown in the new, improved Haynes 75 Touring Car. It is a true touring automobile — equipped for travel. On the rear a handsome moleskin-covered trunk is placed on the special rack, with the car body protected by heavily nickeled rods which add to its appearance; five separate package receptacles are cleverly arranged in the car; two spare tires may be carried fanking the hood—in every way thought: fulness has been exercised to provide the conve- niences the tourist demands. The car itself, with its three-quarter run- $ ning board, its searchlight head lamps, : its graceful lines, its splendid finish, is THe Haynes Auromosme Company, Kokomo, Indiana 1893- 95 BA, FACTORY TOURING CAR the picture of power and dependability. This impres- sion ig more than borne out by the mechanical excellence achieved by Haynes engineers. The new, already famous, quiet-running Haynes-built 75 engine is a revelation to even the most experienced driver. With the Haynes volatilizer to give it increased and immediate power, the pick-up and pebaway of the car are admirable. It is one of the outstanding achieve- ments of the organization which has had the longest automobile experience in America. See this exceptional seven-passenger car at your Haynes dealer's showroom. We recommend that you place your order with him now for early delivery, for the demand is naturally growing rapidly. # Exrort Oerrice: 1719 Broadway, New York City, U5. A. Gwane IM. a THE HAYNES IS AMERICA'S FIRST CAR: 19 5/7 = = —- OE OO a a

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There is something about a good c iIBURN-CAO cr, ff iL. ake all wrapped up in a coat of creamy chocolate frosting that makes people feel To be sure of that “something” you must use the right flour. that your dinner has been a success. Just try our GOLD MEDAL, cake recipe and you will feel certain that the world's leading flour was specially prepared for you to make that one particular cake. GOLD MEDAL, The Gold Medal Cake Gob Mra. Foor — 24 Cups (3g Cups satier Whites of five cigs 14 cop shortening ?tenspoons baking powder Licup milk [teaspoon vanilla flavins (ores bgt and shortining together. Add milk alternately with thee {arias ich has been sifted with the baking powder. Add Muvering and mix i Fold int the well nator white: of egies, Fut ta greased cake thos anal bake frat thirty tu for minutes iin aslaw oven, This recipe may be baked in two large layer thos or three somal thos. It takes less flour to make better cake, pastry and bread when you use The Chocolate feimg ? cups sudar tL taldespoeon butter 34 cup milk 4ounces bitter chucolhite [2 sepanires) Place all ingredients in a siuiee jrim anal beoal, stirring cms nanely Li = tia anal aniount dened in cel water fms avery enft ball. Allow to cine) ace hic seat weil thick crouagth to spread on cake. For other eccipes and cooklaig advice write EDUCATIONAL DEFT, WASHIUAN-CHOSRY COMPANY

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “How did the groom look?” Y OU may as well be frank No one pays much attention to him—with one exception But it’s worth being dressed exactly right for “her” Our clothes are correct in every style and quality detail Hart Schaffner & Mas a eR SFE ili eecesieidel rani csciaeanegleh jishekubtieels hk ae

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ublished Weekly George Horace Lorimer . : EDITOR Curtis Publishing A Churchill Williams, F.S. Bigelow. Company T.B.Cosuin, Associate Edjiors aH, A. Curtis, Peeesldemi Seeendlast Manes i sy Fresicl ou Entree os end fleas Maer. Movember 15, fume Canernd nine hee 1679, atthe Foor Office a1 Fhilsdelphis, Waleew DL Fuller, Shrererde rae iader ithe Aci of March & §a79 om Bord Adwemiaiog [4 recnee ag ter eet ota cetartctes Mater dence Squere, Philadelphia Founded AD 1728 by Benj. Franklin Chiicage Mirada, and at indlenepotie. fad “Extent Condens We baie ee al Powt-Gilice Department Onwwe, Canada 194 Se, THE Cop PHILADELPHIA, PA., MAY 6, 1922 $2.00 THE YEAR Number 45 rotecting the Small Investor WHERE THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE STANDS Brot only one of permanent economic LW Albert W. Atwood 2's vise ot scary $15,s00:00,00, in sca ortance but has m continued personal tion to nearly 32,000,000 shares of stock without ret for millions of individuals, The par value, been discussed many times from many viewpoints. High wages during the The brokers who belong to the Stock Exchange are members of 437 different firma, w Liberty Loans created new armies of stock and bond holders. The great ringing from comparatively small and unimportant partnerships up to J.P. Morgan & boom of 1919 earrled with tt the flotation of thousands of new stocks, Now (Co. lteelf, In the public mind the Stack Exchange is almost synonymous with the words cubject is up agmin in most insistent form because of the failure in the early “Wall Street." To a large extent the public looks upon the Stock Exchange and all wav of hbehaeen fifty and a hondred ateck-hrokerage manner of promoters, stock salesmen and brokers as part of the same piece of financial few York City alone, Though many of these were i mathinery of which the Stock Exchange is the teential cog. The Stock Exchange is Eee carried on the mot extensive operates amd \ blamed na dewbt for TmLny evils for which it is net responsible, but on the other hand freral cases, with liabilities amounting to millions. it is by far and away the chief link in the chain by which securities reach the hands of beso many ways in which money may be loet and i the public, the purchase of stocks, and so many plans and ia. Thus the first and meet natural appreach to the subject of protecting the amall protecting the amall hier, that ane hardly knows investor le to disenver the attitude of the Steck Exchange, [t is trae that among the fin. But an eesential fact is that the largest single stock brokers who foiled in recent months only a very small fraction were members of fr securities, and- especially for the Stock Exchange. It is true also his country is the New York Stock that though severe Jossea have been & The 10 members of that trody sustained in the purchase of Stack Ex- fed to deal in bonds with a par change securities in the lat few years the losses were perhaps no greater than Too MUCH INTERFERENCE

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4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST among business operations in general, and eertalnly the wast flood of get-rich-quick shares which were sold so freely in recent years were only in the rarest instances listed on the Stock Exchange. But the Stock Exchange is so large and powerful that its responsibilitios are correspondingly great. If the small investor is to be safeguarded and the standard of protec- tion raised the Stock Exchange must obviously take the lead. For that reason these questions were put to Seymour L. Cromwell, president of the Stock Exchange: What specific objection has the Stock Exchange to the regulation of ita members by the state banking department or other state authority? Why should brokers, who handle large sume of money, object te belng Ueersed and con- trolled like bunks and other similar institwtions? If the Stock Exchange objects to this sort of treatment, what constructive propocal has it to make regarding the whole question of hocket shopa, get-rich-quick stock selling and financial awindling? Many customers have urged that all brokers be placed under state control, on the ground that the average customer is no more competent to pick out a good sound broker than he is able to choose a atrong bank or insurance company. These Latter institutions have long been regu- lated ly the sinte, Mr. Cromwell replied: “The Stock Exchange is not against legislation which will accomplish good, and there is nobody so thoroughly in favor of such legislation. But the danger of licensing, above all, to me la the lowering of the stundand instead of the rakalng of it" Objections to Licensing Systema i E CONSIDER that it would be a very easy thing fora man to get a license, We have seen an extroor- dinary amount of that in the personal letters that a lot of these bucket-chop men have received from really Prominent persons. “Now if a man eame with lettera of that character he could probably get o license, and ft would not make much difference who he was, Alter a man once has o license he can go on doing business until he haa been proved guilty. A very complete case would have to be made out against him before the license could be taken away, “We feel that a man going inte the rural districts with a license, with a badge, would carry with him practically the stamp of approval of the state, almost a guaranty from the state, and that a great many very bad brokera and Promoters would alip in, We regard that as a dangerous thing. This licensing will not only lull the prospective investor into a false security but it would afford the bogus broker a valuable means of securing new business. “DMoreover, the honest broker with his well-earned reputation dislikes the attempt to subatitute a license for reputation and credit. He dislikes the company which he believes such o system would necessitate," In a recent speech to members of the Stock Exchange President Cromwell aaid that “licensing doean't atop fraud- ulent practions any more than registering a vicious dog will prevent him from biting.” Nearly all proposals for the licensing and regulation of brokers are coupled with a measure of control over’ the issuance of securities, But Mr. Cromwell in his interview called attention to the fart, regarding which there seems to be no dispute, that the listing requirements of the Stock Exchange are much more strict than those of any low. “But aside from our own securities and considering only those which are outeide, we feel that there is a great danger in having the superintendent of banks, aeeretary of atate or other official receive applications for securities and put upon them the stamp of approval of the state, We feel that a situation like that would mean a real interference with legitimate business, which might be countenaneed if it would step the bad things, But the danger of starnping the approval of the official of the state on on bee of securities is that you cannot easily take it off again. The thing does not atand on ita own feet, which an ordinary apeculation or Investment must da." Mr. Cromwell's reference to the ense with which the owners of bucket shope and other financial swindlers have been able to get lettera of recommendathon from, prominent people has an excrmdingly im- portant bearing on the attitude of the Stock Exchange toward any legislation that looks toward the control of bro kers. The bucket shops, which are ao ealied brokers that either do mot really buy securities or having bought them im- mediately sell against their customers, are in almost every case dependent for existence upon being able te get the qua- tatlons of steck prices made upon the floor of the Stock Exchange and nowhere clae, Unless these can be had quickly by telegraph or telephone the bucket shop Bron goes out of business, But the Steck Exchange, owing to ite autoeratic power and perhaps manepolistie character, as well as its freedom from state regulation, isable todeny and does deny ite ticker service or quotations to many of thoee who ask for them. Tt alse frequently rips owt the telegraph wires fram brokers who are not members of the exchange but who have been granted the ticker service, This is done upon evidence that these brokers are bucheting their ordera. Whatever the defects or faults of the Steck Exchange may be, there is not the slightest doubt that tt hos broken up numerous great and powerful rings of bucket-shop gamblers by the simple and expeditious deview of tearing out their wires, as Well as those of many individual bucket shops. Indeed, the many brokerage failures in resent months were precipl- tated by action on the part of the Stock Exchange in de- priving what it suspected to be bucket shops of their tickers, Now it ia asserted by the Stock Exchange that many of these bucket shops, and rings or groups of them, have had the most powerful of political backing. Nor is there the slightest doubt that bucket shops, like race tracks, gam- bling houses, liquor interests and other easy-money forma of business, have had in many inatancea the support of politicians. Mr, Cromwell saya: “We believe that it is greatly to the public benefit for us to have this, you can cnll it ‘autocratic’ power, if you want to, We believe we are the last ditch, in the way of defense, against these awindlers, We believe that we are the one ageney that the Public authorities can use to accomplish what they want, if they want to. When the-wires were taken owt of one of these houses lest year, the pressure that was exercised was such that we are convineed that the cure cannot come from that source"’—political eqntrol. "To gome of the recent flagrant failures of bucket-shop houses men who had held public office were partners or directors. Any man in the public service who may have even a remote interest financially or otherwise in—let me soy—bucket shopa or stock-awindling concerns might be able to block the active efforta of homest officials in the enforcement of the law, It has another significant feature in that, if reputable stock exchanges were to be placed under the contrel of the states through incorporation, not only would their powers of discipline be menaced but they might be subject to demands under threats of interference which would be extremely serious and detrimental ta the maintennnes of free financiol markets.” One docs not have to take the word of the Stock Ex- change for the existence of strong connecting links between bucket shopa and politicians, It ip a matter of common knowledge in New York that one of the most active defenders of the largest bucket shop that hes failed this year was prominent in the political life of the state. References That Mean Nothing NOTHER fact that must be taken inte consideration is the ease with which swindling brokers appear to get letters of recommendation even from men of high standing in the banking and business world, Mr. Cromprell sald that he knew that some bucket shopa have been able to obtain the finest of bank references. “We know that prominent men have been inveigled into giving introductions to prac- tically chance acquaintances, and in many cases these ref- erences, honestly but foolishly given, have been wtllized ta Promote swindling In the Street and out of it, “Tt has sometimes seemed to be sufficient for a deposi- tor to have a substantial bank account to justify the offi- cere of a bank in giving him letters of introduction that imply business integrity and responsibility, This failure on the part of banks to investigate character has at times bern responsible for the distribution of securities of doubt- ful value, and consequent losses to the public.” Tt is obvious of course that a bucket shop can maintain a relatively larger bank deposit or appropriate ao much larger sum for advertizing than o legitimate broker, be-= cause it docs not have to use ita capital in its business, and Ma therefore can pile it up in a bank to make an | showlng, or spend it for advertising Purpows In view of these facts there is a very obvica presented. Many people feel that the Stock ia not strict enough in keeping its quotations ; service out of the hands of irresponsible swindh has been urged to far greater sewerity im this re other people say that it is am arbitrary and institution when it rips out wires fram bucket she due process of law. The question is whether ir control it would be ensier or more difficult for 2 shops to get the stock quotations and ticker ser In discussing the position of the stockbroker | well laid atress on the fact that the broker is a oo and personal agent of his client. Brokers look > position os only slightly removed from the pr relationship of the lawyer or physician, where the of personal character ia more important even th fineness. The relation & looked upon a3 one personal confidence, and there is mo profession th posed to guard information regarding the af, clients more jealously than that of the stockbrol Confidential Relationships bei position taken by most brokers is that the handle money and securities for ir prise handle them not aa a bank doe, but aa a penn Very few customers have personal checking ore brokerage firms, and a broker is mot supposed 1 eroryone who chooses to come into his office, He; for the principals with whom he is willing to a confidential relationship involved in the employe customers are expected to select as their brokers my they porsonally Know, in whom they have pera fidence and whom they can trust. In other words, brokers take the position that 1! leaa public business than banks of insurance om and for the state to come in and assume superran be to substitute forma and red tape for the persa tact thet ia the whole spirit of the business, Th that their position is like that of an emecutor o personal agent holding property of another, and ¢ a question of personal honesty and ehoracter rath af concrete facts in the form of financial stateme balance sheets, that quickly show to the examin insurance company or bank whether such institut inzalyent or not, Whatever the soundness of this argument may be, | assert that under a license and control system th authorities would be swamped with a flood of appS from all manner of irresponsible parties, and th would be no practical system of keeping out the oe would be difficult te set a minimum amount of ¢ as with a bank or insurance company, a8 a Very poir if honest and skillful is just aa good as, and in farts deal better than, a wealthy but dishonest one, Tt hae long been maintained by the Stock that by selecting tts own members, who at all 7 wholly subject to the control of experienced gore has produced and maintained high standards of x honor and integrity, with of course minor exrepilt the eyes of men best fitted te know. State eco its complemental license, it bs argued, cannot ite! or maintain high standards of business: honor and i and under such supervision the control by the p body of its membera would be gone. It is feared that any crook with enough moory& good lawyers could get an injunction compellig Steck Exchange to give him ticker servicer, and of to do business until the case was fought out in the It is argued that not only the awift removal of ticker outside concerns suspected of bucketing but the @ swift discipline of its oan members upon Ireqett! sions would be interfered with by all mance“ objections and obstacles. Mr. Cromwell stated that ios Middle Western States which bss al sky law that has been adem working well, the exchange bas bi? trouble with bucket shops axzg it than almost anywhere else, and 28 te pull out many of them. Tt may be argued that the #4 change should take the lexdesk) =! ting statutes upon the books tht’ reatrict bucket ehopa, get-rich-ia erations and bogus investments pe and that its failure to do so hte important reason for the greet 4 parasites. Mr. Cromwell spt 7! bluc-wky lawsos cumbersome nit obstaclea to the distributinn o her! securities. He alse expressed the view he of these laws have not st plished enough to make then 45 {Comtinwed on Page i tae

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 5 RANNEY lived on the road from Lg ) Harbor to Fraternity, some eight ™ irom the bay. Ho wos, at the (which I write, a man fifty-seven and his life had been as completely ful as life can be. He had never ‘adventure, had never suffered o fie, had never achiewed any great i never even been called upon to iperticularly poignant grief, He was born in the here he still lived and save for one trip to Portland & cried the county line, He married the daugh- fan whose farm lay. on the other side of Frater- fie was not particularly pretty at anv time: and fever any passion Jor ber, though he had always & well enough, and had always been kind. His ‘nd mother lived till he was in his forties, then Geably in their beds. He had been o child of their fare, and before they died they had become almost fly helpless, so that he felt it was time for them He and hie wile had three children, all of whorn f maturity, The oldeat,-a girl, marricd an Enst p boy who loter moved to Puaigpues ba; the other two, fmt to August to work in = factory there, pre- the ordered hours .of confined toil to the Jong and tasks upon the farm. fand then Jes wife departed te visit her daughter, fhim to keep bachelor hall alone, He managed fably enough; his fe, thon as alwnye, followed o dered and familiar routine, He rose at daylight, lor his stock, made his own breakfast, did whatever lay before him for the day, finished his chores before geupper at night, washed the dishes, rend the eve- per Ul he fell asleep in his chair, and then went to ow and then in the spring and summer months he \time to cateh a mesa of trout: now and then in the Printer he shot a partridge or a rabbit. When there iercus in East Harbor, or a fair, he went to town for ay. When there was a dance in the Grange Hall he in wife had used bo go; bat they bod long since ceased i frvolitios, A's farm was well kept: he had a profitable orchard, oa were of pond stock. When the price of feed made cterpriae worth while he raleed a few pigs. There wos vorbgage on the farm, his tages were poid, he owed na bie buildings were in good condition, he owned a tdhand automobile and a piano, and he had seme few dred dollars in the bank. It is fair to say that by the card of the emmmunity in which he lived he wis a qetem man, He was also a just man, and he hod a fet corse and wit which his neighbors respected, iw November day, some vears before this time of which bese to write, he woke early and looked from his fen window and saw a deer feeding on the windfalls in retard. We shot the animal through the open wins & acd the spike horns, still attached to a fragment of ickull, were kept on the marble-topped table in the fr of the fermbouse. The shooting of this deer wos hoowt exciting, the moat interesting thing that had ever FRE @ “Sradiag Yoo Dows to the Cota at ao Memeot When I Kaew “TAS WINH y He Would te There. Fo Thor Pou Might Fork Mie By Ben Ames Williame fT RA T ££ o a F G. happened to Jef until that series of incidents in which romance and drama were st absorbingly mingled, and which i te be here set down, Tt was a day in October, He had planned to go down inte hia wordlot and manufaebure stove wood, to be stored for use during the winter that was still twelve months away. But when he awoke in the nvorning a cold rain was Laeedulregr his window, ahd a glance at the aley assured him the ruin would contingwe all that day. He cdociched to post- pone the outdoor task. A few errands in town wanted doing, eo he put before his animals sufficient water for their needs till night, threw a thing of two inte the tonnes of hit car, seeured the curtains, cranked the engine and started for Enst Hurbor. Sines the road was Tmucals ane somewhat Tutted, and he had no chains, It was necessary for him to drive slowly: amd fis late start made it almoat noon When he slid down the steep and muddy hill inte the townH, He purked his car tt ain anghe in the middle of the strevt and went to the restiurunt presided aver by Boh umpass for his milday meal, Eating st a restaurant on his. trips to town was one of the things Jeff accounted Juxuries. Bok; fat and aminble as & Mine Hoat owt of Dickens, asked Jett what he wanted: and Jef ardered Ragu lar Dinner Number Three: Vegetable soup, fried haddock, pie and ovffes: thirty-five cents.” Not till be had given his order did Jeff perceive that a certain excitement was in the air. There were two other customer having lunch near where he sat. Cne wns Dolph Bullen, whose haberdashery was among the moat prosperous of East Harbor mercantile establishments: the other waa the chief of police, Sarn Gallap, a wordy man. Bob. Bumpass, having taken Jeff's order and served his soup, leaned aguinst the counter to talk with these teo men, Jel? percetved that Sam was telling over again a story thet had evidently been told before, “Wea, air," gald Sam, “he came right along when I took a hold of him, And he had the neeklace in a kind of a leather case in his pocket the whale time,” “Tou took him right off the Boston boast, didn't you?” Dalph asked, "Yep, said Sam. “Right owt of his stateroom, He had bis suitcase open on the bunk when I knocked on the dear, T didn't wait for him te let mein. Just opened her right up and went ing and he looked at me kind of im= prudent; and he says, ‘Hullo,” he saya. ‘What's the mat- ter?’ Cool as you want.” "He come in here one day this summer, when the vache was in here,’ Bob commented. “I kind of liked his looks," WreeE EI aaa Sam shook his head ponderoualy, "Them's the worst kind. But he didn't fool roe." “Name's Gardner, nshind. Bob nided. "Frank Gardner, Viles for sixaeven years, he said." The chief of police was not willing that his part in the affair shernalel be forgotben, He was a reund-faced, bald, eLeroing man: bat he knew his Tights, knew that 3 4 this drama which had been played he had a leading réle. “T says to him, “Matter enough," he continued im- portantly, “"T got a warrant for you,’ I gaye, And he asked me what for; aid | told him for stealing Mrs. Wiles" ian"t Tt?" Dolph He's worked for old jewels, He got red enough st that, snd mad looking, I'll tell you. And he started to say something, But I shut himup. “You can tell that to someone else," Taays. “My job's to take you up to jail." Then he asked who swore aut the warrant: and I told him old Wiles cid; one at that be shut up-like a clam, and soupped his suitcase shut, and came along. [found the things when I went through his clothes, up't the jail." He hid fore Lo tell, ated whet Hak Boarripass had brought Jeff bis fried haddock apd resumed his ploce os auditer Sam toolt up the-telling, How Leander Wiles had come to him, demanding the arrest of fis secretary; how he had insisted that the millionaire swear out a warrant: how tocensed Viles had become at this insistence. “Tl tell you,” sald Sam emphatically, “he got right purple, tall 0 thowght the man'd burst: and he sort of fol down inva chair, grabbing at his chest; and then he got white a9 eam ie," Dolph nodded, “Kien like Inivn; big and fat, are full of whisky all the time—they go that way, He's got a temper too. Some day when he's good and mad that heart of his will crack on him." Their talk continued, and Jef continued to listen. In any issue it ia instinctive for mankind to take sides, Dolph and Bob Bumpast were inclined to think a mistake had been made. “I doen't belbeve he ale to steal that neck- lace at all," said Bob; and Jeff found himself agrecing with the restaurant man, The three were still discussing the matter when Jeff finished his pie, paid his score and went his way. His errands kept him busy all that afternaan, An ax handle, two or three pounds of nails, four fort of strap iran and a tox of shells from the hardware store; a pair of overalls from Dolph Bullen; oatmeal, coffee, sugar and salt from the grocer: a bog of feed from the hay and grain market at the foot of the street. These errands were attended with much casual conversation, chielky concerned with the arrest of the jewel thief. Late in the afternoon Jeff sought out Ed Whalen, who dealt in coal and wood, and mavle a deal by which Ed would buy from him a dozen cords of stove wood, to be delivered while snow was on the

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6 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ground. Ed's office was near the water front; and when Jeff came out he perceived the Viles yacht at her anchor- age a little above the steamboat wharf. Jeff studied the eralt for a while admiringly, and he wondered how much she had coat. “As much as my whole farm," he guessed. "Or mebbe more,” Night was coming swiftly; the lights aboard the yacht were turned on while he stood there, and her portholes appiared like round and luminous eves. He could dimly seo on sailor or two, in oilsking, under the deck Inmps. Rain was still falling, cold and implacable. “Gwess the folks that live on her are keeping dry, inside,"” he hazarded. He tried to pleture vo himself their manner of life, ao differ- ont from his own, as he went back up the hill toward where he had left his cnr, A farmer from Winterport, whom he had not seen for years, halted him on the corner above Dolph’'s store, and they talked together for oa apace in the shelter of the entrane: to the bank. A whistl down the harbor an- nounced the coming of the Hosten bont; and before they ted another whistle told of her departure. Then Jeff had trouble cranking his car. He had forgotten to cover the hood, and the ignition wires and pluge were wet. One cylinder caught at lost; and then another; and finally all four, He had olready loaded in his purchases on the floor and seat of the tennenu. The bag of feed lay along the seat. The Winterport man had reported that the steamship line would make a new rate for apples by the barrel to Boeton that fall: and Jef decided to go down to the wharf and make inquiries. He parked his car on the edge of the wharf, in the lee of the freight sheds, and this time threw an old rubber blanket over the hood to keep the plugs dry, before turning toward the office. With the departure of the boat, business heresbouls was done for the day; and eave for a light in the office, and another on the pier toward shore, the wharf was dark. Jeff's errand occupied some ten minutes" time; and while he was inside a flereer agua af poin burst over the harbor. He could heur the water drumming on the roof. When the aquall had passed he returned to his car and took the blanket off the howl and threw it into the dark cavern of the tonneau, then cranked the engine and turned around and started home. His lights, run from the magneto, were dim and uncertain; his attention was all upon the road, The ear skidded and slid and slued and bumped; but it came to no disaster. He drove into his own barn toward seven o'clock in the eve- ning, afd left his pour- chasea untouched while he wert into the house to change into overalls, so that he might do his chores. When he came back into the barn hesaw some one standing motlonbess beside the machine. He lifted the lantern which he carried, ao thatite light flooded the still figure, and percelvedl that the person who stood there, facing him, was a woman. This woman, in these surroundings, waa an amazing apparition, Against the background of his old hayrick, still half full of hay, Jeff saw her outlined. She worea sallor’s oilskin cont, buttoned about her throat; and beneath the skirts of the draggled coat he glimpsed elim ailk-clad ankles and badly soiled white satin paripes. She wore no hot: her hair was wet and all serv; and there was a thin streak of blood from a acratch upon her temple that had trickled down acroaa the brides of her nase jin aslanting tlirectien. Yot in spite of these difficulties he perceived that she was vury beautiful. At aight of her Jef had stepped in tiie tracks anil stl] stead mationles with surprise, the luntercn in his lifted hand, The woman's white finger fumbled nervously at. the fastenings af the oilskin enat she wore: ahe waited for amoment in silence; tut when he did not speak she nodded in an uneasy little way and stamme»ringly sald tohlm, “Crood evening!" Her voice was fall and throaty and pleasantiy modulated, Jeff replied, “Howdol" Ble began to speak very rupidlsy, “You're probably wondering how I came here. T was in your car. On the floor of the back sent, Almost crushed. That big bag fell off the seat on top of me when you hit that terrible bump. It banged my head down on a plece of iron, I'm afraid it has bled alittle, [wes almost smothered, The rond was so rough,” She was panting as though she had run a race; and Jeff watched her steadfastly for a moment, and then, for sheer relief from his astonishment, gripped the eommonplace with beth hands. "ou better come in the house and wash up,” he told her slowly, “and get warm. T guess you're kind of wet." She nodded. “Yes. I'd like that. I'd like to de that." He perceived that she was fighting for self-control, putting down the revolt of jangling nerves, "Come through here, ma‘am,” he bade her, and led the way through the woxished and into the kitchen. There he set. his lantern on the table and brought fresh water from the pump. “I've been away alnee morning,” he explained, “The water in the tank is cold. You want to wait till I heat some up?" She shook her head. “This will do finely." He went through inte the bedroom and returned with a heavy porcelain bowl, which he set in the sink, removing the granite-ware washbasin. The woman had sunk down limply in a chair beside the table. Joff, careful not to dis- tress her by his scrutiny, unwrapped a fresh bar of soap, brought out o clean towel, Then with half a dozen motions he threw shavings and bits of kindling into the stove, touched a match to them, laid a stick or two of hardwood atop. “That'll warm the kitehen up pretty quick," he told her. He understood that she wished to be alone, yet wis hoteune what he should do, At list he said awkwardly, “Tl be daing the chores," wod lighted a lamp for her, then towk the lantern and departed through the shed again. F i] ey AM a | Z J 7 | “Soe Heard Raouga boat Fou fo i'd Like Right Well fo Mio if Up With Yea a Edttle Hdie-if Fou Waal fe Try Waevthing Like Tage" Ma; When he had gone only a few steps he stoppa ered, then returned and knocked upon the dog which he had come out. She bade him enter; | he did so he found her on her feet, unfasteniny black coat. . “You could go into the bedroom,” he said te She shook her head, smiling gratefully. “I'm is fine. But I would like a comb.”" “T'll get my wife's for you,” he replied: and | to her, Mrs, Ranney wos a goed housekeeper; was as clean aa new. “Would there be anything. asked when she had thanked him for it. “No, But you're very kind te me.” “T'll get the chores done," he ne plied uncomfiat this time departed in gomd carnest to the barn, When he had fed and watered the stock, finda in the familiar routine, he remowed his purchases ear. Saw where the woman had crouched on | The rubber blanket which he had thrown in art must. have fallen across her back; the heavy snc might well have crushed her. “Lucky she wa’ hurt,”” be told himself, He waa full of speculatic: questions, half dazed with wonder. Women of x as this were as though they lived in another world, was in his kitchen now. Tt was necessary for him to go back to the hog the milking pails, Again he knocked upon the d the women bade him come in. She had laid ex: aking: he was not able at once to understand jus waa she wore, A dress, but of a sort unfamilltar to He had seen magazine pictures of such things. An gown, décallette Her hair was loose in a wan about her smeoth shoulders, and she was leans the stove. “I'm sorry,” she apologized, flushing with sa fusion, ““D'm trying ta get lt dey.” He would have backed out of the kitchen. hurry, ma'am.” But ahe cried warmly, “No, no, it’s all right. Co “T come to get the milk pails,” he explained. “[ them out this morning.” He took them from the | bourd at one end of the sink, “I'll ge milk now.” She asked diffidently, “Cnhn’t I be starting supp you're doing that?” Jeff amiled faintly. “I'm used to cooking. [know the things ane,”" “Tean cook,” she assared him, “ What are wp have for supper?” She was beginning to see some in the situation. “Why I fust figured to ecramble some eggs, and coffee," Jeff confemed, “The things are in the pam through the dining retm,"* he added. "T'll have supper all ready when you come back “T'm promised. x He said reluctantly, “Well, all right," and left ber When be returned, half an hour later, he found i hair ino loose braid, wearing one of his wife's aprong about the kitchen table, “I've everything ready, told him, “but I waited, so that things would be at hot.” “T got to seperate the milk first,” he explained. She nodded and, while he performed that open busied herself with egg beater and mixing bowl He the cream down cellar, act the akim milk in the shed & hogs. When he hod washed his hands and fare si, moned him to supper in the dining roam, She had cai omelet and toast, and her coffee was bartter than bis ate with the silent intentness of a hungry man, Ale phe insisted on washing the dishes, while he read, enough, yet with an appearance of alsorption, the 7 that had been left that aftermonn bn the mail be the door, There was something grotesquely do the situation, and Jeff's pulses were pounding with ma at it all. He had asked the woman no single question. q were a thousand questions he desired to ask, but anit delicacy restrained him. The glamour of the hor dazed this man; his sensea were confused. There unreality about the whole experience. The dishes, in the aink, sounded no differently than when be? washed them. The Wlusion that it was his wit ¥! come home in this guise had for a moment domitio# him. The lines of newsprint staggered and ovum te his inattentive eyes. He wondered, wondered, Hut he asked no question of his guest. When she had finished her self-appointed task and inte the dining room where he was sitting she einad expect a catechism; but Jeff kept his eyes pon tim? a8 a man clings to a safe anchorage, till at let forced to speak. =n “T[ve been expecting you to question mz,” =! uheertainly, Jef looked up at her then and found woemne eee in the fact that the silence was thus brokes. “]*™ expecting you'd tell me without asking,” be ed 2% faintly at her. “T ought to," she nodded. "But there's go mech tote and it must sound ao incredible to you. I hid"?

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 7 sarf, blindly, not knowing whe you were. I had vray; Wanted to get away. Anywhere. -To hide, lewhile, Lean pay you." She spoke uncertainly, rte give offens:, jok his head good-humoredly, “I don't run a hase, "eum." re to find some pluace where I can stay." e thoughtfully silent for a little, then asked, "How ot know. Perhaps only a little while." as you can stay here a while,” he said. apoke of your wife?’ she suggested. ) visiting my daughter, over in Augusta,” Jeff ex- “Won't be back for a week anyways. I reckon wier for you if ahe was here; but you're welcome L oked down fel plissad y at the gown she wore. “Tit iad thing to do," she whispered, half to herself. eed what she was thinking. ‘kon you could wear some of my wife's things," he id. e you Toom for me?" were two bedrooms on the ground floor of the farm- but he thought she would prefer a measure of . “Lean make the bed in the room upstairs,’ he % vt your neigh bons be surprised that [am here?" onideresd that for a long time in silenes, till she obe afraid the obstacle was insuperable. Then his ted with recollection, and he ssid slowly, “My moved to California and married there, and his teen talking about coming to see ua. We can bet Te beer." sied with sudden friendly warmth in her tones, eeverso kind to me. Lappreciate it. Your taking o unquestioningly." at'é all right,” he told her. going to take you at your word,” she exclaimed, sasehbieaci i 'RANNEY was a man habituated to routine; he naturally into a regular way of doing even irregular The next morning his life was on the aurface as it ways been. He roe to his chores, returned to his mt, went into the woodlot and set about the tosk 1 postponed the day before. The woman cooked wt and did the work about the kitchen that hia wile have done. Tt would have been easy for any out- oaeept a8 fact her pretended status aa Jeff's niece Talifornia, Jef was not deceived by the apparent normality tbee existence, The man was immensely curious ter, absorbed in. the mystery which she personified. wughts all that day were full of conjectures, full of heees, formed and as quickly thrown away. One te clung to as probable fact, Tt seemed to him cer- be had come ashore from that yacht which he hed ying in East Harbor the night before; had come caicor whe flees. But to the questions who she the and why she had fled, he found a thousand an- ned accepted mee of them. e question of her identity was solved that night, for fret page of his Boston paper a headline caught his It remo Chine: MILLIONAIRE VILE" WIFE (8 A SUICIDE eye moved down the closely printed eolumiu, intent wa word. Save for journulistic padding the first graph ted the Slory: at Tazo, Mx, Qet, 18—Laucia Viles, wife of Leander the cilliteaine hanker, committed aubeide here last night Stiog. Ste lelt the Vilea yacht, which ia anchored in the of, a aaeall ro Lata moment when a heavy aquall of baddniven the crew te shelter: ane it is preaameed that she therell into the water as acon as she had peachod a auffl- i Gtnce ao that she would not be seen, The tide was dapat; and the rowboat was picked up. by on incoming ‘tan darly th morning, down Gelow the bell buoy, three i lrom on peat anchorage. The body has oot nh re= Ti Mr, Vile, enillionaire husband of the dead woman, a she kad been subject to fits of melanchaly far ‘fed this while his guest was washing the dishes Taupper. She had thrown herself zealously into theae whol taska, as though her overstrained nerves found ‘oihem, When ahe came into the dining room after- nb lid the paper down in such a manner that she He the hradiine which had caught his eye. rae it, caught up the paper, read hurriedly, Ss if When she was done, to find him watching her. ‘Lini've read it?" she asked. He nodded. "I didn't Gk they'd have it in the papers," she erled, as though fa'el at what she had done, in Ye didnt make your boat fast when you Ty, od Fogpested. Hk her head. “No, I pushed it off, I hoped hog Whit this.** Phares ber. surprised and thoughtful. “Won't your Mike kind of worried about you?" he suggested Fie Hodes Aim Eater; ond When He Hid Ifa He Fouad NWerean Ner Fart, Unfariening the EKosg Afhack Coot mildly, and was startled at the fierce anger be- hind her reply, “T want him to be worried! Oh, | want him to be tortured !"" she cried, and became aheaorbed ones more in that whieh waa printed on the page before her, “"The body has not been recovered,’" ahe read alowd after a mament; and with a qlee ehurige of mood hiiaghed at him, shuddering faintly, “It does give me a creepy fool. ing, she said. . “Tahould think it might,” Jeff assented mildly. “Yes, T should think it weuld.” She was wearing a gingham dress belonging to his wife, which he had found-et her request. Now, sitting across the table from him, she began to tremble and to laugh in nervous burata of soind. Jeflasked, “What's the matter? What you laughing at?” “T can't atop,” she told him helplessly, “It just strikes meas funny, DT ocan't help laughing. If T didn't laugh I should ery. They think I'm dead. Dead!" The word was high pitched, almost like a seream. Je had seen feminine hysteria before: he said sternly, “You got toabop. Now you be still." The woman eontrolled herself at once, nodding Pear = ingly. “Yes, EE be'stall, I wall be still,” she promised. "You wan't let them find me here, will you? You won't let them know I'm here?™ “Andy Wattles atopped here this morning, in the truck," Jeff answered. “To told him you'd come. He'd heard me say you was thinking of coming, It was safest to tell him,” "But [ wasn't thinking of coring!" she cried, appalled, “Sy brother's girl from California was," he reminded hers and she neddel over and over, as a child nods, to show her understanding and her acquiescence, Her trem- bling had ceased: her fright was passing. She went te bed at last, somewhat reassured. But the paper next day. in even larger headlines, an- nounced that dowht was cask upon the theory that ale was a suicice, “Mr. Viles,” the reporter wrote, “daid to-day he thought it poeaible his wile might have become temporarily insane; that she wis subject to heures of extreme nervous depres- sion. It is known that she took «a considernbl: sum of money from a safe in her cabin before she left the yacht. Tt is peoasible that she went ashore upon seme errand and was agaaulted and robbed, The three pose sibilithea which the police of Fast Harbor are eon- SigeTing are sulelie, nob bery and murder, or an lngane Hght.”" Jef amiled at the pleture of Sam Gallop, the “police of East Hor= ber," considering anything, “In order to enlist every possible helper in the search for the missing woman,” the reporter added, “Air. Viles has offered a reward of a thousand dollara for her body or of ten thousand for information that vill lend te her discovery alive,” The woman, when she read this, shivered with dread. “They will find me," she told Jeff wearily. "Oh, 1 hoped they would believe me dead." “T dunno as they'll find you," Jef argued. “They're nok apt to leak awk this Wy. Theyre more likely te think you headed for Hosten or somewhere,” “Tis hopeless,” she indisted. "I think you'd better go tell them where I am, and get the money, The ten thou- sand dollars, Some good will come out of it, that way. Dd like you te have the money. You've been kind to me." The man lnughed reassuringly. “Shucks, ma'am," he said, “What would I da with a lot of money like that? It's no good except to buy things with, and I've got more things than I can take care of now. Lron"t vou fret your- self. They ain't going to find you, ma'am.” “Everyone knows ['m here. Those women who came today ——* She moved her hands drearily. “Someone will tell,"" Jef ahook his head. “No, they won't. That was Will Bisaell's wife and Mra. MeAusland, They heard from the store that you was here; and they'd heard my wife say you was coming." “Oh, they must have seen thet [ wae nr unwilling to hurt him, “Different from us folks?" he asked, smiling at her understandingly. “Well, California folks are different from people around here. They'd have thought it waa funny Lf you was like ua." “And my wearing your wife's dress." “T todd ‘em your trunk was lost. You had to have seme thing to work arownd the house tn." She waa, in the end, unwillingly persuaded to a more hopeful point of view, But when she had gone up the stairs to her ream Jeff sunt for o long Gime, turning the newspaper in hia hands, reading over and over that which Waa written there, She was so beautiful, so much more beautiful than anyone he had ever seen; and the gown the wore when she came to the farm had stamped itself wpe his visual memory as a port of her beauty. That a reward of ten thousand dollars should have been offered for her discovery did not surprise Jeff; though it added to the glamour whig¢h cloaked her in hia eyes, : (Ceatinued on Poge I34! She paused,

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8 sh S USUAL, W. John Simpson met disillusion halfway. He eons fronted his tardy enlighten- ment with a correctly cynical amuse- ment, his ehagrin almost exactly counterbalanced by the satisfaction of a triumphant inner “1 told you so" addressed to that other Mr. Simpaon whe had once written it William J. Edith had not justified the expecta- tions of this artless fellow; the shrewd and sardonic W. John had never ex- pected that she would. ~ He surveyed her now, imperson- ally, aloof, obwerving that his pro- longed silence did not disturb her, that she was content to hear the ner- wous clock, the whit-whit-whit of the gas grate, her attention engaged with her seam, her Tips puckered, her brows drawn faintly together, She ne longer required conversntion, his conversa- tion, His smile became perceptibly acid. They were all alike, Tn away, he had known from the very beginning, had been ac before and during the fuct to his own deception. It was a pity tes, Out- wardly Edith left so litth to be de sired, He catalogued the itema of this superficial appeal, admitting them ungrudgingly becuse thelr existences, vin full measure, hod been a prelimi- nary requisite to W. John Simpson's notice. If Edith hadnt been some thing better than just pretty, if she hadn't beth amiable and, in the trivial exchanges of husernt acquaintaner, clever, there would have been ne il- lusions to be destroyed. He shouldered hia just proportion of the blame. He'd helped her per- suacde him that she was different; she couldn't have. convineed him if he hadn't been willing—eager, even—to be convinoed, Bhe met his glance above the nee dlework. Her lips relaxed and eurved slowly, He admitted that she had a jolly smile. “Tired, John?" He nodded. He realized suddenly that he was very tired, tired of the whole silly quest. That very speech, for instance—he classified it savagely. Maternal, proprietary, without excuse. Just becouse he had funeled that a fellow could play sbwut with her a bit she assumed o vested interest in him. Her property. - “You shouldn't do it! You're just slaving for that Mr. MelIntyre. He doean't appreciate you either, You ought to take care of yourself" He held a bitter smile in decent leash. There it was, naked and shameless, if a fellow needed any better proof. She might just as well have added “because you belong to mee now." They all got that way. Sooner or later, no mat- ter how frivolowly they began, they gut that look in their tyes, that possessive quality in their voices, that tenderly superior attitude. And if you hadn't been on your guard, hadn't been wary and watched your step, they could make it stick too. They couldn't remember that it was just play. That was the whele trouble. No matter how it started they aways ended by taking it in dull, deadly earnest. And even when your conscience was absolutely clear they could take you feel like a desperate cad for mot taking it in ear- nest too. A fellow was a fool to jolly himself with that old dream of finding a girl who could keep on playing, who didn't want young slender romance to grow old and fat and stupid. There wasn't any such girl. They were all alike. : “Of course [ believe in working with all your might." Edith rethreaded her needle. “But you oughtn't to overdo it. Night work's bad for you—nond you've stayed at that old office five evenings in two weeks!" “Got some new accounts—keep us all hustling at first.” He achieved a passable counterfeit of aemile. She'd counted! She thought ake had a right to keep taba on his evenings! [t was about time he got his eyes open. “T's not as if they paid you extra cither.” A finger on the purse strings too! He realized suddenly that she'd been vetoing nearly all expensive fun lately. They'd been going to movies instead of plays, eating after- wirds gt some soda fountain, dining at dinky Itallan joints; she chose the Subway instead of taxicabs, (th, she'd THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By HUGH MACNAIR KAHLE rkkw F TF KF AT £ OG thet Thought fhe Pad a Right to ewe Tate on Wie Eoenings ! ft War Shout Time De Cot His Bree Oe given him warning, sure enough, Her signals bad flown in plainsight, And if she hadn't practically told him to-night he might have let it go on for weeks —might have got him- self jammed in a corner. He came to his feet, moved by an instinet of escape. “T do feel all in. Guess I didn't realize it. Been holding my neat against the old grindstone pretty steadily, for a on Bad company. Better go home and catch up an She let him go too willingly. He almost stumbled on the ataire. His feet wanted to run. That was a near nearer than usual. [f he'd happened te ask her what she was making! He shivered at the recollection of that impulse, arrested just in time. It was always like this. You'd think you'd found one at last—lound a girl who could play the game and stop at that—be a good comrade, dabble delightfully in senti- mental shallows —and the first thing you knew she had you sitting by a fire and watching her hem dish towels, It was lucky that he'd been working late. He could stay at the office every evening for a couple of weeks, and then taper down gently on any surviving intimacy, avoiding anything like a fusa. (M course she'd be sore. Probably in private she'd ery about it, and ser that he guessed aa much when they met— try to make him feel guilty. They all did that. He seruti- Hized his word and deed in accurate retrospect, confirming his stainless foneecence of anything, overt or implied, which could justify dish towels. And yet he couldn't help feoling rather mean about it, That was the worst of these disappointments: you couldnt even count on your own moral support. Well, it waa over anyway. That waa settled. And he aught te be convinesd, mow, that there wasn't any pot of gold at the end of that rainbow, You could dream about a girl who took romance.temperately, but there weren't any real ones whe did, except those whe only pretended to like it. To the rest it was just a habit-eforming drug. They wanted it in ever-increasing doses, until even in sickening quantities it failed to stimulate, and merely narcotined. APaoy 6, HW UY 8B E KR T a & Fr HH Ff Edith, forinstanes. At first made ber gleam and spare, there was just a steady une glow. And, at the lmst of it, t flre and dich towels! No, when it came to ro women were either total abetab hopeless topers. They could’ it or leave it, couldn*t learn to the taste instead of crawing thee He sighed deeply aa he tue his collar against a nipping win: the river. It was a frightful Taken sparingly sentiment 1 glorious intoxicant, but you c= drink alone, and for compar must choose between girls whe feigned a taste for it and girls: it inevitably stupefied. There + any aenge in hoping that you'd day find the ideal playmate. only let yourself in for—for dish-towel look if you tried to » for her. The dream brightened aa it its reluctant Might. Omly ay that auch a girl extisted—a girl took It truly and yet lighth;, could enjoy the shallows with o sire for the deptha; a girl, fs stance, Who could regard a kiss detached and pleasurable ine with none of the train of implics which silly custom had append it. Only suppose—but it was b to stop supposing, once for all you gave auch dreams a lod your faney they'd surely lead 0 tompts at their translation to res Stall, suppose —— He shook his bead fmpatie Better get all that monsene: o his head for keeps. Plenty of o things te think abowt. Miller, fs stance, of the Miller Eleetric. | could just get under Miller's 5 ever eo littl. He eould be sal? anybody elae, if you could find what went on behind that [rn face. And a new comtract like t would settle things at the office, too, put a fellow onad nite footing as an owt-and-out saleaman, with a due account against commissions Instead of a static salary That waa the ides, If you must dream, dream ah something attainable instead of wasting your imagins! on imposdbllithe. One reason he hadn't pot abead fy at this advertising job was probably right there. I! } cut out this wild notion of finding the idem] girl he mi have had an interest in the McIntyre agency by now, In this light he regarded the closed episode of fd with a ney malevolence. She'd distracted hia stteot from his work, jostwhen he had his firet crack at aellingh Served him right though. Maybe he'd believe nov they were all alike, It wasa pity though. You were only young a little wi and if there were a girl who —— He set his foot brut! on the peralatent vision. Of course there wasn't any = girl. fr UPERFICIALLY—he compelled himself to insert @ adverb against an ineautious impulse—superidu this girl undoubtedly measured up. Not just looks el there were thousands of them whe struck agreeably = 1! optic nerve; this was deeper than that, though si affair of the surface, to be sure, Class. You could aly tell that when you saw it if you'd trained your eye! recognize the counterfeita. A blend of health and wi & charm with something that was neither hereditary © yet soquired—a clear and confident eye, neither bell inquisitive nor coldly disinterested; a direct, unui speech, with the effect of words used like arrows, eater) chosen, accurately aimed: that cunning harmony a de too, presenting itself as a unit Instead of an assembly =" these things had a share in it, and were yet merely Q7F toma of it, external indicia, not the thing itself, There was fun behind that mouth, too, or W. 2° Simpeon was ne judge at all. That was the stot imports ‘ single factor, when you came right down te it, that ple hanvor which could grin back at life's fiat old jobs. P= hapa, after all, this girl —— He jerked savagely at a mental curb. Playing the | again, with the bill for the latest folly seill go pay! Je ee ee eee eal |

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Q we'd run into a new girl who was reasonably good ,emingly intelligent, probably a nice, jolly sort, ttoknow her! Dora Willet. Straightforward, sames, but to W. John Simpson names only, he know about her except that she'd illustrated catalogue with rather decent photographs? beaver get rid of that obsession? d them myself,"" she wos saying in that cheerful speech that had pleased him at once. ‘What om? I suppose you didn't look me up simply to kind words on my work.” diy she had humor—didn't take herself too seri- e most women Who got on at business, And she herdignity, either, likesome of them whoseemed lly alert for offemsive courtesy at men's hands. aactly.” He felt his face reflect her smile. “And saomething like that—something pretty vague, d. I thought that perhaps if I talked to you I taline on Miller that would help me manage him. at imprint on the back of one of these prints and me that you must know —_—" . The mouth crooked more cheerfully, “You to tell you how I did it, That's good sense, I like were aren't many men who'd have thought it out, jous few of them would have sunk their dignity earvund to a woman for the straight tip.” «, quite plainly, a narrower Interest in her frank wi. He patted himself on a mental shoulder, He wtohandle ‘em! That was ome thing he'd got out 2 painful experiences—he underatood ‘em like a trelvepoint bold! In five minutes" talk he'd got ‘se attention fimed on him a an individual warth ay. oks, But I might have guessed, without coming. wed to know why Miller bought those illustrations could hand it out stralght to girl like this. She wactly what her looks wore worth to her, ich fl r] a eze partly that,’ she admitted calmly. But [ had something to sell, didn't 17" it's bully good work—I told you that to begin with. been offering him good atull, teo, and never cadent. That’s the difference,” miled ox if at a memory. Then ber face darkened. a, that's the difference.” Even when her voice ed, hemoticed, it didn't flat. His ear was nice in such ton. “I probably shouldn't have sold him those gaphs if T hadn't had the sex percentage on my side. —" Shestopped abruptly. “Look here—I made up tudies for him with a view tosdvertising. He didn't them—didn't know anything about them. Before I am complete we—we disagreed. There's quité a bit oer tied up in them, and they're no good to anybody i Mr. Miller, Suppose I helped you sell him your yeervice, could you find a way of working them in tcimpaign? I'd puta reasonable price on them, and has good—just about what he ought to have.” oho paca ed his beck tia es Iron Hwan Tiezalized manular= ar, Ubtky, aps, bat wehtudly wre, with hak all a tho bad nite ideas what be Ter mare ititess (if Tra “Lite'tape by tet. OF ame | don Frade ruth Laps bar a Oar are ab, wauld listen to renson. And we'd about decided, anyway, to il- lustrate with photographs if we ever managed to line him up. Can leee what you've got?” He went over the prints rupidly, They were oxtraor- dinarily good, net merely in execution but in conception too. They told a story in its simplest form, realized the full value of the pictorial appeal. We could ise most of these, [ think. They're good — very good, She shrugged. “I know that. There's.a condition. If Wn ever come to use them my name doen't appear. They're your work—as far as Mr. Miller is coneerned.” “All right—that's all the better for us of course.” Again his mind wavered from the essential point. They must have quarreled in earnest if she felt like this, “Nowabout selling him. [wonder if you've noticed] any- thing queer about him." “He's the coldest proposition I ever tackled, Sits per- fectly still, never talks, himself, except to say when your time's up, Won't even ask a question.” "Yea. Does that auggest anything to you?" He shrugged. “Plenty, But nothing very useful, so far." "TU give you a lend, then. You'll have to sell him through his eyes. There, now, Does that help?" He laughed. “It would help—you, sure enough. But it dosen't do me much good. He won't even look me in the eye—alta there staring at the end of my nose till he gets me wondering if there's a smudge on ft," “You've even noticed that! And still you don’t see!" She spread her hands. "Who ever started the fiction that business was a man's job, I wonder? I gwessed it the first time I saw hie." “T'm still in the dark.” She was aplendid when she glowed like this. Really hand- some—not just another good-looking girl. Perhaps —— He gritted his teeth. Again? Wouldn't he ever learn? "He's watebing your lips, that's all. He's net very deaf, but be's sensitive about it, Men of his sort often are—they pride themselves on youth, and hate to admit anything that doesn’t bear them out. He missea about half what you say, and has to strain for the rest. Stay away from bis offiee and write him. When you do ace him always send him a letter repeating what you've sald, He does nearly all his buying that way.” His mouth opened. As simple as that! And aa visible to his eye a6 to heral That waa the kind of observation and inferenee that counted! He'd been right about her—she hada mind with o tempered alge. “Tl try it, anyway. I'm better at letters too. Six years’ work in the copy department, you see. Just beginning to try the gelling end of it. I'll land Miller if'a typewriter can doit. And if ldo D'll—well, T suppose thanks won't do you much good, but you'll get all I've got.” “Tl sell a lot of photographs that costme real money,” she said. “Take them with you if you like. Let your art manager see them before you go ahead. I'll talk prices with him direct if he's interested." Dora War Exactly the Fomaa of 410 Ther Nuagry, Sepelest Dreams, Aad Fer —— He lingered, in spite of dismissal in her voice and look. Carey would be dealing with her alter this—fat, falsetto Carey, with his pink, pully fingers and his bulging eyes. He groped for a pretext that would bring him back. A girl like that—and it was suddenly significant that a tenuous chain of improbable coincidences had led him to her— a girl who might, after al] —— “Geed-by, Mr.—er—Mr. Simpson.” She'd even had to glance at his card. He resolved that she'd know bis name before she finished with him, “Good afternoon, and a fret installment on the thanks feeount." He went out, pleased that he'd varied the commonplace even alittle, Really a remarkable girl, however you con- aidered her. He digeovered that he waa contrasting her with Edith. A girl who wouldn't be very likely to depener- abe to dish towels. He was bitter about Edith now. He'd missed her—not the real woman of course, but the imaginary Edith who had almost convinced him that he'd found the ideal play- mate at last. They had separated into quite distinct per- sonulities in his thought; Edith as she was had destroyed Edith os he hed fancied her. He couldn't quite forgive her for that, even though he was broad-minded enough to admit that she couldn't help being what she was. Looking back he found the lost romance touched with a soft melancholy glamour. It had been perfect while it lasted; Edith had played the game so beautifully at first. He remembered an evening by that little lake in the Jersey hills, with a moonway on the water and a mandolin tin- Kling like thin ailver on the farther shore. And he had kissed Edith, quite eatually, and ahe hadn't minded, hadn't even seemed to give it significances. [t had all been delightfully Pianissimo till she spoiled it—as sweet and light and meaningless as the thin, distant mandolin. And it was gone, He couldn't help missing it, displeased aa he wag with Edith herself, As he reached the office he was already considering Dora. Willet as a possible candidate for the vacant idenlship. Of course it waan't likely that ahe waa different, but you eouldn't tell Plenty of people believed in fate, and they might be right, at that. When you figured the odda against his ever meeting Darn Willet it certainly looked a4 though somebody had taken a lot of trouble to bring them together. He scowled at Carey aa he passed his desk; Carey, vul- garly cheerful under his layers, absorbing a cigarette in a Jong, fermining holder, Carey couldn't possibly appreciate a girl like that. He called them skirts, as if they weren't anything but clothes with clockwork inside, The fat mutt! He exhibited the printa defiantly, his hostility appeased only at Carey's ready approval. ‘Who's this D. Willet? Never saw her work.” “Guess she's just beginning. Got a sort of shop over In the Sidney Building." Carey cocked his head. “What's she like? Amy good?" The hostility revived. “Clever photographer, I guess." “Meaning you saw her firat, eh? Well, son, the rice doesn't always fayor the front run- ner “Quoting the war ery of the well- known turtle family," said W. Jobo tartly. He avoided a counter by shutting the door of the cell in which he atill wrote his eopy and dic- tated his let- ters, his good humor re- atored by the lingering sa- vor af the re- tort, He'd tell Edith that. The impulse startled bir. Habit took held of a fel- low in fumny Ways. He hadn't even realized this one, He saw (Ceaaticoed on Page I28)

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10 The Inside Story of the f. E.! By GEORGE PATTULLO T aa it ia impossible for an Indi- vidual to view his family's re- lations with out- siders impar- tially, so ta it beyond the ea- pacity of nation= ala of one coun try to mee any thing @exzrept their own side in dealings with other nations. The tendency to attribute base motives and double dealing to a rival is uni- vergal: on the other hand, ev- erything that one's own coun- try does is grent and noble and of pure purpose. And of course an enemy is al- ways a ecoundrel. The extremes te which this sort of thinking will drive people are often laughable. I re- member two nice old laches from New Englanel shopping a oreturned wur corre ponent on Fifth Avenue to question him whowt certain stories they had beard of war prisoners in German hands. Was it true that the Germans prodded pris- oners with bayonets, and kicked them, too, to make them walk faster’? “Well, war's a tough game." anewered the correspondent, who was a bit fed wp with the whole business, "Les dog eat dog, and every army has men in it whe go in for rough stuff. You have to, in a fight." "Ohi" goaped the ladies, all aflutter, “Huot not our boys! They're too noble.” Conditions Early in (gid T ITH this very human tendency in mind I have tried in this narrative —and will con- tinue to do ao—to stick as exclusively as pes- sible to official reporta and memoranda which are in the secret filea of the French, British and American suthorities;, Now and then short explanations are necessary to a clear under- standing of what the official report really means, for it seema generally to be the object of officialdom to make communications eon- cenl happenings and disguise intent to all ex- cept the inner circle, and even in thet directlon to word agreements ao as te leave loopholes for further decisians. And I plan to tell all sides of the story. Therefore it may as well be admitted right now that the American THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “COPHGST FF SSID SS FURIE Geers, wane ON, Bo Amie Troe, at the Rad of o Gay's Tralaiag, Returning te Camp ia Sackhefithe Lines. Ahore—The Fleet 7 eerloon Troepe to A erlee lo Franes. Thee ore Wearing the Frevek Helmet effort in the war up to the early months of 1913 waa very dismal, We hod made the welkin ring with shouts of what wo would do, and our Allies had evidently taken us at our word. By this | mean the civilian populations, and the Pornorama of the City of ChoteouwrTAlerry Photographed July Of, (97a, Wher the Last Offeanee May i rank and their fii their kh command Bovernr THiist has ized the |s bility of ; Buch bug in France new Ep he Oratoare hesscri bed thom fore: then none and we | Thea of Porting Rad they ready. That «i Baddest | af the wu ery whers enemy Fa umphant Bia had lapeed: Italy lay bruised from one of the erushing cefents in military annals; an spite a 20 per cent numerical auperiord the Western Front the Allies had been 2 to acore anything but local successes ay the Gernuin defense, ‘Their efforts to p decision tinl failed signally, with terriis of man power anda sickening slump in ex If the Germans could hold and beat baci Allies with eonshierably fewer fore : might they not doa in the mpproachicy when they would have numerical suri on secount of the arrival of their freed: aions from the Eastern frontaT Dismal Woaths “TNHE German peneral stall could sow / Be ek ie veri lies General Persia his published report, “the campaign of ] yinst, the French and British on the wee front which might terminate the war. It net be said that German hopes of final wei were extravagant, » « Diseourm existed. mot only Among the [Allied| "4 population but throughout the ania well. . . . Allied resources in man pr at here were low, and there was little prop af materially increasing their armed steer ‘The events of the last half of 1917 ale new decisions. On July twenty-sirth ao ference af the French and Ttalian eommaisd in ¢hief and the British ond French ches staff had agreed: ‘General conclu reached were necessity for adoption of purely deles attitude on all secondary fronts and withdrawing sTF troops for duty on western front. Ey thus etrengthen western front, believed Allies could bold wontil Amens ib %

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iva, in numbers sufficient to endancy.”" 2TTEn SUCtPSEses necessitated vtion ‘of these plans, Gur ake to the fact that unless the States Vastly ineressed its ery soon the war would be imeriain commander in chief eseen the need os enorly as _ 1917, when he wrote to the partment in connection with twas forwarding for an army Gon much; vevident that a foree of about i i the smallest unit which ern war will be a complete, lanewd, and independent fight- snization. However, [It must. ily clear that the adoption of we force af a basis of study not be construed as represent- maximum force which ahould to, or which will be needed in, It is taken asx the force may be expected to reach in time for an offensive in ind a8 a unit and basis of or- THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 2. OPP, Pee ey den. Plana for the future should be based especially renee to the manufacture of artillery, aviation, and material, on threw times this force—i. ¢., at least WO men," Shortage of Clothing for Our Men Howas the scale om which he planned—a million men alilbofensive! But by the end of 1917 wehad only Stroop in France, and none of them had been in the rept the infantry and artillery of the First Division, cas entry into the war and the spectacular arrival of imt Division in Paris had done much to stimulate morale, but their hopes gradually died when nothing etmel fortheoming in the way of help from the dStates, Clemencenu potsome heart into the French, ust in time; had his assumption of the premiership ‘layed there ia nosaying what might have happened. ope were coming very Landily. Theshipping situation iad and at home there were Pon ing to the necesst ty of Zing Varlousdepartments feEmnment ond petting rid of feed wood. Fine old peace Riwhe could sit at a desk flare on reerait into a panic teald not think beyond doneeds to eave their im- gl sola were hitting the B bot polities still played a lard reorganization dragped. f did things faster in the KF. When a man showed he ft equal to bis job there off Fhe heal Pepard/ loss of his fe fiends in Congress. J, J, fling hos never been noted et citsideration of feslings Reht; he thinks a fight calls fighting methods: and the fhtshughtersd incompetents Dime of the swertest Hip hits bever gladidened the eve, SOPH I CRT Os PRL 2 == = ere of Ariens Frocks Cred in the Sercler of Supplies The winter wore along under most depressing conditions. On every hand we heard discouragement talked among the civilian population, Had our troops felt that adequate progres was being mude, the rain and snow and mud and the leck of proper clething and shoes and equipment would not have mattered; but it was so pitifully ewident that American effort was falling below expectations. And our supplies! T remember at one time we had no blankets, no shoes, no socks, no capa, except what we could buy from the British surplus and the French, Our lack of supplies at this time was a scandal, And instead of receiving the quantities needed, instead of getting the heavy shipments of hard-boiled fighting men the 1918 preepect demanded, the A. E. F. grew by com- parative driblets while witnessing o continuaus procession of junketing purties of politicians and their friends, and helplessly watching much needed shipping diverted to business wee and to humanitarian efforts, For we had in the United States an unduly large element of ballyhoo 1a PSEC, HRT, ai 3 Las r =f aoe. If ‘reac Bud fea Halted, Ahora —= Jame of tha Earlleat Mmerieaa Treopt ia France Durlag the Wieder of fort rord kiya mee si Pope rae ed 5 ale "ay enthusiasts who seemed to think that * the war could be won with chocolate and hoatess Iouees, and whome exces sive zeal for humanitarian werk in preferenes te fighting slowed the wheels of the military machine ap- Preciably, I[t was a bitter pill for the American soldiers to see these poy Tders whirling through the training areas when they needed clothes to their backs and reénforcements by division unite. The American commander in chief kept moving heaven and earth to hurry shipments of men and material, but the results were woefully digap- pointing. The United States had not yet got inte its atride, and naturally the difieulties in the waz of operating eo far from its base proved enormous. “For all practical purpose,” re ported Pershing, “the American Expeditionary Forces were based on the Arerican Continent. Three thousand miles af ocean to cross with the growing submarine menace eon- fronting us, the quantity of ship ton- nage then unknown, and a line of communications by land 4) miles long from French ports to our probable front, presented difficulties that seemed insurmountable as compared with those of our Allies.” Great Handicaps Overcome ET despite these handicaps—doespite red tape and French efforts to direct American construction more in the direction of permanent improvements than temporary works ta meet the need of haste—when the armistice was signed! a year later, 4 all proepects far onstruction had been eampleted and supplies were on hand to meet the needs of 2,000 men, while further plana for necessary construc- tion and for the supply of an additional 2,000,000 were well under way.’ Tt is worth mentioning, also, that we had more than 2.00000) men in Franee before the armis- tice was signed, The A. ELF. had taken over certain southern ports in France and the use of sore lines not already devoted exclu- sively to the French and British military machines, As for the Aumertcan front of tha future, “* bo the east the great fortified clis- trict east of Verdun and arcund Mets menaced central France, pretected the moat exposed por- tion ef the German line of eom- municationsa—that between Metz and Sedan—and covercl the Briey lron region, from which t lia: nem iy obtained the greater part of the tron required for mii- nitions and material, The coal fwlds east of Metz were alan covert bi these same defenses, A deop advance gest of Mets, ut the capture of the Briey region, by threatening the invasion of nel) German territory in the Moselle Valley and the Saar Jasin, thus curtailing her supply af conl wr iran, would have a (CaAtltodgd an Page Of:

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12 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FISH EYES LIFFORD WALLACE was noticeably ill at ease. He worked Intenslvely yet me chanically at bis post in the Third National Bank, within the narrow confine of a cage bearing the in- scription Paying Teller No. 1. Horizontal lines of worry crensed his forehead and a single Jock of white stood out with startling clarity against the deep brown of his hair, Beside him were piled great stacks of money divided into neat packages. Behind his back the huge doora af the cash vault gaped, disclosing more money, At the right of his cage were the nela aures of the three other—the junior—paying tellers. The mar- bled lobby of the big bank was a welter of diaeordant activity, of impativnce—the clink of silver, the solt shuffling of new bank notes, the slamming of ledgers, the kum of banking during the rush hours. To-day waa the bustest of the month for Paying Teller Number One, To-day came due the pay rolls of the three largest corpora- tions in the industrial district of which this city waa the metropolis. More than a million and a quarter dollars in cash occupied the cage with Clif Wallace; a million and a quarter dollars in silver and bills, anly a few of the latter in denomi- nations of more than one hundred dollars, Tt was Walluce's task to make up these pay rolls and deliver them to the armed men who came with the checks. He waa sorting the money now, indifferent to the exasperubed stare of the litth man outside the window who impa- tiently rattled his own modest pay- roll cheek for $208, Behind the irate little man a line formed slewly— tao or three other representatives of small businesses, then a strikingly pretty young worn in a blue coat awit, and behind her, two stalwarta from the Garrison Coal, Tron and Stecl Company. CUT knew the proportions of the check they carried —$278,000, Penal work there, work re- quiring intense concentration. It was so easy to make an error of a few hundred dollara when one dealt casually in Single amounts greater than a quarter million, Clif re- etlved the litte: man's cheek and counted the money deftly, cramming it into a canvas sack, He was visibly annoyed when the man insisted on opening the sack and counting the money for himself. Cliff's eyes sought those af the pretty girl and a brief glance of undersinnding poseed between them. Both were taut of muscle and tense of nerves; upon the face of each was an unnatural pallor. The litthe man completed his count, closed his canvas aack and moved of pompously, The next man in line presented his check and received hia money. So, too, did the next. The gir! pushed her check through the windew—the pay-roll check of the wholesale hardware company for which she worked; 3728.66. With it she presented a lenther satchel. Clif! Wallace unlocked the barred window of his cage to take the satchel, He placed it on the shelf at his right, the shelf containing the maun- talns of bills, Again that look of onderstanding—of apprehension—passed between them. They spoke with simulated casualness, “God morming, Phyllis." “Good morning, Clift." That was all. Yet, save for those first glances, they avoided each other's eyes. The oldish-young paying teller sorted out the amount of her pay roll, And then, working discreetly, awiftly and dexterously, he piled be Bide it aamalletack of new billa. In that stock of bills was a hundred thousand dollars; one thousand one-hundred- dollar bank notes. Onee he permitted his eyes to rove restlessly about the lobby, They paused briefly on the gray- conted figure of the bank's special officer, who lounged indifferently near the Notes and Discounts Window, Ap= parently the bank detective had neither thought nor care in the world, Renssured, yet with no diminution of his nervousness, Clit Wallace returned to the task in hand, TAe Color Receded From Mer Cheeks, cad Her Hond Trembled Foulbly on She Shoced Ner Satchel Through the Lite Wiedem Inte the girl's brown leather satchel he put the amount of her pay-roll check, and then he crammed inte it alao the one hundred thousand dollars, His face was ghostly pole as he faced her once more. The hand that held the satchel trembled violently. He conscripted a amile which he intended to be reassuring, and the amile with which she anewered him was so ob- viously an effort that it seemed to shrick her guilt. For a second they remained rigid, staring into each other's eyes, then the envoys of the Garrison Coal, Iron and Steel Com- pany coughed impatiently and the girl moved away. The paying teller fingered the $278,000 check nervously, his eyes remuining forused on the blue cont suit which was moving with horrid slowness toward the whirling doors that opened onto the street. And finally she disappeared and CLUE Wallace breathed a sigh of infinite relief. Thus far nothing had been noticed. He gave his attention to the task of assorting huge stocks of bills for the Garrison company. Meanwhile the girl in the blue coat euit turned into the ewirl of traffle on the city’s main thoroughfare. She threaded her way through the crowd, walking with un- niocteiny swiftness, with the single thought in her mind of putting as much space as possible between herself and the Third National Bank. Her fingers were wrapped tightly about the handle of the brawn leather satchel, her face bore a fixed rigidity of expression, her heart waa pounding beneath the plain tailored waist she wore. It seemed incomprehensible that the transaction in Cliff Wallace's cage had gone unnoticed. It had been so simple—ao absurdly simple. And now she was muking all haste toward the office where she worked. Cliff had warned her that she must return promptly from the bank in order that the inevitable investigation should digeloae no suapicious lapse of time. She turned up a side street and thence Inte a gaunt, red-brick building labeled Sanford Jones & Co. Biting ber FrELU ff FRAT EB May 6, By OCTAVUS ROY COHE ERMWES T “Fws lips with a fierce effort at control, she entered the bu und turned immediately, int women's wish reo. Trem fingers found the door ke; turned it, Them making that she was alone in. the roo took from the shelf a large pi browh wrapping papeer whic had placed there earlier : morning—that and a bit of 1 She cropped to her knees, oj the satchel and teck from it i hundred thousand dollara. 5} a Vague amazement that so money should be of such ema! She arranged the bills neat three stacks of equal height wrapped them carefully iu brown paper. Then with the j age securely tied with twin thowed the satchel, unlocked washroom door and swung the office. No one had notion brief excursion inte the washin that much was evident. Straight toward the cash tleek she went, and in his placed thesstchel. Hiseyes en briefly into hers. “Got back pretty quick morning, Miss Rabinsen,” She forced asmile, “Wes. | much crowd at the bank. I did back ina hurry." The bit of dialogue pleased | The cashier had noticed specitic that her absence from the store| heen of briefer duration than us He would remember that whea! detectives made inquiry. She seated herself at ber ty writer, Beside her, on the batts oak desk, she placed the innocas appearing brown paper packs the package containing one by dred thousand dollars. Shr a herribly nervous, but apparel no one noticed anything unusual her manner. The wall clock a ented the hour of 10:30, Fr then intl noon she must worl. It was difficult. Her thoughts were focused upen t money before her, Once a clerk stopped by her desk chat and his hond rested idly upon the package of mone She felt as though she must eeream. But he moved am eventually. She breathed more ennily, At five minutes after noonshe left the office for her fax With her went the package of money. She made her = to the City Trust and Savings Company, an impel edifice of white marble nearly opposite the Third Natoma She entered the building and descended the broad stal way to the safety-deposit vaults, noticing with rebel th there was an unusually large crowd there. She extend: her key to the ancient man in charge. “Twothirty-five, please, Mrs. Harriet Dare.” Mrs. Dare, now dead, had been Phyllis‘ sister, Fiyl had access to the box. Too, she maintained im this bak box in her own TUL, Hak that should official investigiia progress to the point of examining the safetyr-cdepost of Phyllis Robinson, nothing to excite suspicion would b found. That was one of the strongest links in the slrt chain that Clit’ Wallace had welded. The man in charge ran through his index and het her a card to sign. Her hand trembled as she wrote name: Phyllis Robinson. The old man took her key a his, unlocked the box and left her. There were » cam of persons in the vault: One pompous gentlemas £0 tatiously clipping coupons from Liberty Bonds of its dollar denomination; an old lady who had already belo! her box and was struggling vainly to wsmanre hersel! thi * was thoroughly locked; a fair-haired clerk from a bit? office assuming the businesslike airs of his employe: a fui deaen others, euch rewsuringly absorbed in his own be ness, Phyllis took her box—it was oa large onm—= earried it into one of the private booths which stood j4 outalde the vault door. She placed the tin box and her package side bys" the mahogany shelf, A quick survey of the place a= her that she was not observed. She wondered vagus #7 she wae not. Tt seemed as though sameane must i But apparently no one did. Swiftly she transfer“

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 14 thoveand dollars to the strong box, She was io find herself computing financial possibilities the while she was frightened. It was an amount even thowand dollars a year carefully invested. ans could live comfortably on seven thousand year. And that meant every year—there'd be no m of principal. Nearly one hundred and fifty week. Every comfort and many luxuries assured. . Independence. Fear. turned the box to its compartment and emerged street again. With the money put sofely away a lifted from her shoulders. She felt a senso of 6 relief. The danger mark had been passed, the ippeared to hawe justified itself. But now her rere jangling as they hed not been before, She hiened, not ao much for what the immediate ight hold as by the experionee through which she posed. No longer was she keyed up by action, ction left her weak and afraid. She knew that she do it again; marveled at the fact that she had | this act at all. eo tiny meal at the dairy lunch which she patron= ilarly. At 12:40 she returned to the office, where w herself into the grind of routine work, seeking ines and ease for her jangling nerves. But her swere not on the letters ahe typed: they were at cewith Clifford Wallace, chief paying teller, while CLs insergtable, rather bard face gave no onof the seethe within him. He did his work with leal precision, counting large sums of money with ie apeed, checking and rechecking his payreients, ag to hia nowtine work with the deftnes and ac- that had wen him this post. e was in his manner no slightest indication that he it enginerrod the theft of one hundred thousand incurrency. Wever friendly at beet, he waa per- bday a trifle more reserved than usual; but even iielow workers noticed the fact they would have dit to the abnormal preeure of work, [t was sel- at three big pay rolls became due at one time, And wing of such huge sums of money is likely to cause fey irascibility in even the moat genial of men. Bour hand of the big clock on the marie wall crept figure two. A pong sounded. Immediately work waa fed at the long rows of windows, Then the little doom were dropped, the patrons of the hank drifted fioally, and the bedlam of a busy day was succeeded tdrone of after-hours work—the clackety-clack of { @aichines, the rustle of checks, the slamming of jie dink of silver and gold, eis hand, CHA Wallace checked over the money! tn gt, Paying Tellers Numbers ‘Two, Three and Four ifhetr reports "Then Wal- jive bis at- te his oon The door of ie ras Open, it the capes Hour paying i were tem- iy en ealte, i Wallace's the door af Qash vault & The vault fie part of fage, lis con (Wullace’s re Ghilty, He Red swiftly Brily, And £8 few min-= Pbefore 4:00 filet case, In elt hood he b paper @inv= @ with dures, (ite wis ex- (ted haunted 4 in hin eold page mu. He Mel op a chad Ir a the ha Abia "Mr Warren "—his voiee was steady and incisive, giv- ing no hint of the emothonal strain under which he labored—"T have just checked over the cash, I am pre- cisely one hundred thousand dollars short." The president's swivel chair creaked. The gentleman strangled ona puiFol cigaremoke. His big, apatulate hands came down on the polighed mahogany desk surface with ithump, His eyes widened. “You—you are what?” “My cash is one hundred thousand dollars short.” The statement appeared to have difficulty in pene trating. “My dear Mr, Wallace—thut is impossible! An exact amount?" Clif was more at esse. It was a scene he had rehearsed a hundred tines, and it waa developing just aa anticipated. "T realize the impossibility, sir, But it ia nevertheless ff fact.” Rebert Warren’s face hardened slightly. He regarded his chief paying teller with a critical, speculative glance. Wallace returned look for look. The president apohe: "Please explain yourself, Mr. Wallace. Am I listening to a statement or a confession?" "A statement, sir,” "Hm!" Warren was himeelf again, Only superficially waa the man genial. He had cultivated geniality as a busi- nese asset. Haaleally he was utterly emotionless, He real- Heed that the thing te which he guve eur was of vital import, and os that realization hammered home, his de= meanor became intransigently frigid. “H'm!] A state- ment?" "Y og, gir.”” "Your exh ib—er—an even one hundred thoweand dollars short? "Yes, sir.” "How does that happen?" "Dm trying to fled out myself." "You are quite sure?" “Certainly, sir, [ would net have come te you had T not bern sure.” Silence, Again that clash of eyes. "This puts you in an excesdingly awkward position, Mr. Wallace. Personally." “Tonderstand that, sir."" “One hundred thovsand dollure ts a grent deal of maney "Yos, sir.” “The reaponsibility is abeolutely and exclusively yours.” "TD realize that." “Tia Joss cannot but be due to curelesaness on your part.” “That ts probably trae," " Probobly 7" = SS “Yea, sir. I am not certain about any phase of thie— this—unlortunate situation.” Warren lighted another cigar. “Of course the bank will not lowe. You are bonded. I must notify the bonding company immediately." “OF course, The younger man's poise asemed to get on the nerves af the bank provident. For onee in his life he had come inte contact with a man more unemotional than himself, His fist pounded the desk suddenly. “Damn it! Wallace, what does it all meant" “That that amount of money has disappeared, sir." “Cne hundred thousand even?” "To the dollar." "When did you notice the loss?" “Just a few minutes ago, sir—when I checked over the enal,”" i “Tou rechecked?" Tarlo” “Have you been alone in your cage all day?” “T believe ao, gir.” “You only believe?" “T can't make a too positive statement. The cages of the other paying tellers open into mine, Almost every day the door between my cage and theirs ia open for a little while, It possible that that was the ease at certain times to-day." “You are not positive?" "Mo, sir." “But you believe that the door was open—in the regular course of the day's work?" “Wea, air.” " And you believe that one of your assistants took that money 1" Wallace’ 4 face twitched, ever so slightly. “Mo, air.” "Wot" “Even ifomy door had been open, Mr. Warren, I don't beliewe they would have had a chance ta take that much mores." “But—but, Wallace—there are only four men in this hank who could have token it—provided it waa taken: yoursel! and your three assistant paying tellers.” “T peatize that.” 4 And Ou aay that ou don't believe they eould?" ae | “Hm! Do you realise the inevitable conclusion?” “That if they didn't, I did?" " Exaetiy."" “Tog, alr, T realize thet.” ‘ “Vet you pay that you did mot," "Of course," Robert Warren showed a flash of irritation, “You seer damned un excited." “T don't believe this ia. any time for Te to become ex- cited, gir." Robert Warren raat, “Comewith ™e, ¥OUNg~ man. We'll loek the doora of the bank and ¢eheck every cont of cash we have, There must be some mistake.” “T sincerely hope so, sir. A careful check- up showed plainly that there was no mistake, One han dred thousand dollars had disap- peared {rom the bank during the course of the day's business. It waa gone, The three afdiatant paying tellera were nerv= eua and excited. The cashier, a nervous, wiry lit- tle man, rushed around the bank like a chicken sud- denly bereft of ita head. The bank's Private detective, a portly, unimag- inative individual, strutted around the empty lobby trying to look ifontineed on Poge 68)

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14 BOOTLEGERDE i HEY called it the Greased Road. Before July, 1919, it had been known aa the Hamburg Turnpike, It ran southwest from the Canadian border for several hundred miles. Here and there, on ite eamoothly twisting length settlements were clumped or straggled. Incidentally it wound along Crescent Hill, akirt- ing the noisily black metropolis of Midtestburg. It had once been a highway of much minor convenience but of no special significance. Now it had taken on a Hew and rather sinister im- portance. The countryside at large and the metoreelub sigis etill spoke of it sa the Hamburg Turnpike. But an ever- increasing element from Canada to Missouri knew it as the reased Fond. <€ pe aa: RR There was no more visible or tangible grease on ita well-kept surface than automobiles spill on any other thoroughfare. But certain chauffeurs received one dollar and seventy-five cents a mile for making long runs on it. Certain garages along ita course recelyed from twenty to thirty- five dollars a night—or a day— for harboring and tending these chauffeurs" cars. More than one Village constable and ercearcada justice of the peace was refur- nishing his home and buying mechanical piano and a now get of dining-room furniture by reason of a myaberiously doubled incor. The long highway was greased with money, particularly in apota where untoward creaking would have interfered with a flouriah- ing industry. Along its undulat- ing miles, sometimes by day but oftenerby night, chugged heavily laden trucks, driven by stome- faced men and laden with boxes arid bulis, These bales and boxes were moat distinctly labeled for all to see. There was no mystery about them. The legends, Dominion Apple Corporution and Sas- katchewan Canning Concern, Ltd., and the like, were sten- elled on their exposed sidea with vivid clearness; and the vehicles thermsel yes bore still more plainly the names and stolid business addresses of their owners. Some- times through the darkness such heayy-laden trucks or a line of from three to seven high-powered motor cars would go roaring along the Greased Road at hideous apeed and showing illegally few lights, From the north they came, and the night swallowed up their southward dash. A like traffic prevailed on a score of other greased roads leading from Canada, from Mexico, from Florida. The greasing of these thousands of miles waa a costly item. But the consumer paid it all, the priee of the commodity rising in direct ratio to every mile, At the point where the Greased Road topped the sum- rit of Creasent Hill—the moat exclusive residence suburb of Midwesthurg—stood the gorgeous estate of Rufus G. Belden, the region's chief politician-financler, Well back from the curiously wrought iron fence ond its elaborate gates, acroaa a swell of stage lawn, the house of Rufus Gi. upreared its six-hundred-thousand-dollar bulk. It was not » home; it wes a redidence, Anyone with half an eve could sor that, The architect seemingly had sought to graft the dream glories of the Taj Mahal on the more practical ground- work of Buckingham Palace, If the resultant edifice had been built by a less inexhawustibly rich man it must have won the nickname of Belden's Folly, [t was that sort of we: KS S see eh © ast BS ge 4; . ro : a o At a respectful distunee behind it was a garagestable which had the aspect of a dieclute Russian cathedral. To the left of this was the most ornate and up-to-date group of kennel buildings in America, Here were housed FLLUSITRATE BD THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By Albert Payson Terhune aY CHARLES ju: oe.

To Gambol Areand aad Around Thiele Prison Was the Citimate Fast the farmed Beldeneroft collies, the pride of Rufus G_. Bel- don‘s heart, Hore they were cared for by a staff of highly efficient and more highly paid collie experts, under com- mand of a soft-apoken little Scot named Jamie Mackellar, Baek of the kennels was the most unpretentious and only homelike etruchure on the eatate—Jamie Mackellar’s cottage. Here, with his big Yorkshire wife and hia two etocky children, dwelt the little Scotchman. Here, too, an honored member of the Mackellar family, dwelt Champion Lochinvar Bobby, the great collie whoshared Jamie's hearth and board and whe gave to his diminutive master a blindly obedient adoration. Bobby wns not one of the bragged-of treasures of the magnificent Rufus G. He was Jamie's own dog, not only because Jamie had bought him aa a gqungling pup and had humanized him and taught him he had a soul, but because Bobby had chosen Jamle as his god. When the best type of collie thus selects a man or woman to worship tt matters nothing who else may buy or 2el] him. Till death he ia the dog of that one chosen deity, People had a way of liking Meckellar, Even the awe- acme Rufue G. held him in queerly high esteem, and after one or two useless attempts had ceased to try bullying him. He valued Jamie's services unspeakably, and trusted him shone of all his employes, On a morning in very early spring Mackellar finished his Found of the kennela, Bobby paced along beside him on the teur oof inspection, every line of hia elasale head and shaggily tawny body vibrant with lofty contempt for these ELIFIivGrrTrowyw

lesser dogs of his breed what wirt runs and conerete huts chumming with their master, | have reduced snobbishness ta As Jamie paused ta) rections to one of fe min Bobby unbent ao anil putronizingly ait merle collie —ome of eevee doga that had been toy together for the day wirt inclosure, ‘The aug been thrusting his pol through the wire les Bobby touched the snilll trils inquiringly with fe The temperamental) anatied at the unaaked gi from a dog that was fp he himself! was mot, He did he snarl, but be = futility at the receding g Bobby drew back is § gust at such a displ temper. He did not des turn the snarl or so mg tipple his shaggy mens: ace, The merle wis neath his notice, He pray to prove ft boy giving the aressor a look of conte then turning slowly amay the snub rankbed just a Tt was seldom that Bob descended to make ov friendliness either te humans or to strange @ and tt was far more seldom auch overtures were rele The offender needed 5 ment, Moreover, early hod got into the gree blood and had wakensd] the imp of mischief thing lies very deep below them in a collie’s makeup. | Thus, even ss 3 away, he 3 walk for a wild gallog, and around the big aa frisked at top spend, i tail flying. Now, a student knows, this BUEL

of Bobby's prank’ res Every one of the seven dogs proceeded Barking, screaming, howling, they fhaing thi wire barrier, following in a plangent mash Fur the Bobby's playful gallop, splitting the morning ai! horrible cacophony of din, : "Quiet!" shrilled Jamie Mackellar, up af followed by two kennel men. “Quiet, there!” 7 The seven clangorous dogs ceased thelr wiles came to a shambling halt, still whimpering and4 resentfully out at Bobby, oy At his master's shouted command Bobby iam dened the provoking gallop. Hie deepest tae atwinkle, his end a litth on one side, he) ped! interested|y ut dumie, whe bore down upea him —— “Tt's all your fault, you old ruffian!"" aceusel J “Don't go flattering yourself I don't know it! 1*” whole thing! Are you a harum-scarum, kittle-sille © month pup, or have you gone fey, Bobby bd!" For answer Bobby wrinkled his nose backward inal that showed teeth and gums alike, and he come #7"! in conciliation up to Muckellar, gesticulating fe with one stiffly outthrust white foreleg, Thre 7” fear in his placating manner. He knew perfectly Fel Jamie was not displeased with him. But he abo" he had been in mischief and that it behoowed him’ his peace. Mackellar rumpled the classic bead © “' severity, grucolling: i “That's the callie of it! You never know whee ee eat of ‘em will turn puppy. Tuke shame to yu

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 15 ae poor tikes, Bobby boy. Next time you do it fou in there with ‘em for a while, just to show you bs to be in the hooggow. I'm off to the atation ite thie bales af cedar shavings cone pind bo pny ew crates. Want to come along? Not that you a. @ Bobby's mock contrition fell away from him as , Though he read the tome rather than the words § question, long experience told him it forecast a fon the instant he was dancing feverishly around jiman, careless mow whether or not his antics ee the kenneled dogs to frenzy. }the drive to the highroad they started, Jamie jetordily along ond Bobby dashing ahead and ke to his master’s side a dozen times in ag many fet. Once cut om the turnpike, he stendied down fihivior of the occasion, True, he troethed pbead or fo investigate interesting sconts and sounds along ) But at the most distant approach of any motor faye dropped back to Jamie and walked soberly, (the man’s side, wrtil the car had gone by. This earned to do long ago, even os he had learned to j the forward or sideways excursions and to stay is master a2 soon as the city streets were reached, ba half mile beyond the Beldencroft gates a turn filsice read brought him in aight of a motor vehicle ih he did not drop back to Jamie's side, For this fies standing still. It was a huge truck, empty lor a heap of tarpaulin on its tonneau floor. It waa firth and had evidently come from Midweatbursg peome point to southward. Se puncture had brought ite driver down from hia fhe man was replacing the deflated tire with one of ites strapped under the tailboard.- He was on his fetide the ear, hard at work. Habby trotted post fh mo great interest, but stopped presently ‘and fieck. This becouse Jamie Mackellar had paused fPe busy mechanic. Taine G. had hired hirs as kennel manager Jamie foe bis tiving, first by driving another man’s truck ber atruck of his own. Severn! oid features of thie ip the road te-day had caught his notice. jmweating driver glanced up from his tire-chonging Roper damnall man and a large dog intently watching The driver had nat the look of o beahful or solf- fi person. Yet noting this interested inspection he sl Indeed, he seemed thoroughhy uncomfortable. fel any help? Jamie opened the conversation in his q _ "Ho," prunted the driver, “And I don't need any gallery, either, Move on, can't you?" Jamie looked grieved at the rebull, but his interest was grenter than bis shyness. "T never saw such a heavy truck before with pneumatic tires,” he said, “except for carting explosives. It must be a big expense item when you're deep-louded. Of course you cin make lots better time, and you don't pounce so much. But the cost of all those spares “Gay! exhorted the driver, getting truculently to his feet and revealing himeel! a9 something like a head taller and forty pounds heavber than the little Seot, “Say, you mann xy shrimp, [ told you ones ta bent it! I'm telling vou again! Next time I'l! start you on your way. Take the air!" Jamie fished. He was a peaceable and friendly chop. He tid not like to be spoken to in this foshion.. Far down under his friendliness something hot began to etir. “The road is public, neighbor,” he said gently. “Tf it Tiles you to be talked to while you're working I'll keep my mouth ahut. But I'm an old-time trickman, and this machine af yours has got some things about it that ane new tome. By your leave I'll just walk around it and take a look or two. IT won't meddle with anything." The driver, alter delivering his warning, had bent down over the almost wdjusted tire. To the first port of Jamie's reply he had paid no heed at all. But now os Mackellar took an inquisitive step nearer the truck he got te hie feet again and lurched threateningly forward. Deftlhy, with his hanmlike right hand, he grasped Jamie by the eollor-back and Splin him nround, fucinng the cal below, “Walki” he commanded, giving the amazed little man a forward shove. Then two things happened wt the same tire and with bewildering quickness. Bobby, head turned, ears cocked, had been listening to the colloquy. Skilled at reading the human voice, he disliked the tone of this sweating and malodorous atranger toward his littl god. Yet, as Mackel- lar did not seem ruffled by it, Bobby saw no cause to interfere, Now, however, something occurred that did not meed any explanation or second thought, The driver had laid violent hands on Jamie. As the man gripped the Scot's cost collar Bobby sprang for him, Jamie, too, at the brutish contact, was galvanized into fury. Wriggling eel-lke out of his ecat, he apun about and smote upward with all his wiry strength at the driver's uAprotected jaw. Now Malachi Dorner was uncommonly handy with his fists. Also, ne-became a man of his trade, he was resource- ful and plucky and of powerful physique. But just now hia right havvdl wai Tens prededl hay a suddenly Vacated cont and his left was far extended in a grab for that coot's elusive ahedder, Moreover, attack was the last thing to have been expected from the meekly talkative and nosey little intruder wham he had sought to chastise. Wherefore Malachi Dorner was off guard. Wherefore, too, Malachi Dorner received on the jaw point a scientific and fairly effective blow that set him rocking back on hia heels. At the same moment seventy pounds of furry avalanche smote him on the upper chest, A double set of white fangs raked his red throut dangerously deep, in a praiseworthy effort to reach the jugular. Backward reeled Malachi Dorner, serambling for hia bulance and flailing the emmpriy vir with his outing iLrims, Bobby, missing his mark, sprang again. The orm gripe ping Jamie's cout sought mechanically to fend him off. The cont was slashed from neck to waist by the snapping Jawa; then waa ahaken aside aa Bobby made a fresh dive for his master’s meaallant. Jamie Mackellar, blind with rage, smote again for the heavy jaw of the giant who had so grossly assailed him, and again the blow landed. It landed at the same in- stunt Bobby's flying bulk smote Dorner amidships, and this time the dual impact sent him asprawl on his back. The driver, bleeding from the fesh wounds in throat and arm, and jarred by the two jaw smashes, prepared never- theless to epring up and return to the fray. But Bobby whirled again at his throat and the man shrank back. With one hand Dorner sought to. thrust away the dog: with the other he reached for his hip pocket, Tt was then Jamie noted for the first time that his chum was taking part in the battle.” He seized the collie by the Tull as Bebby flashed past him in the throat dive, “Stondy, Hobby boy!" he quavered, tugging at the anger-scourged collie, “Steady, there! No one asked you to born in! I'm wone so old 1 can't fight my own fights. Keep back, you murderous idiot! Now then,’ he shrilled defiantly at the proatrate Dorner, “ere you man enough to get up and finish it? Or have you maybe bad all you can hold? Which'll it be?” For answer the driver tucked his ample feet under him for the dial purpose of getting up and of launching him- self at the belligerently danelng little Mackellar, But his warlike eye rested on Lochinvar Hobby, tense, bulky, terrible, straining forward in his master's grasp; and half (Cofttiiudd on Page Fa) Bobby Far Tee Mock in Farneet to Ver Places, Far Tee Aagey te Gloe Fetes. Me Spreng Foreord

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16 Wa Elephant ia the Act of o Breokhoeoy regarding the equally Amerlean elreus which it almost sacrilege to disturb. For instance, it has been handed from generation to generation that when a big show goes inte territory comprised of many email towns the cireus splita into several parte like the fabled joint snake, and exhibita in three or four places at ones. Again, it’s a certainty that the fiercest beasts in captivity are the lions and the tigers and thet if ever one of them should esrape it at once would vent the pent-up rage of years of imprisonment by killing everyone in sight, By the same line of reasoning the bravest man on the whole blatant organization must be the lion trainer, who trtce daily—rain or shine—goes into the dens with these beasts and by a narrow margin comes forth with skin and body still hanging together. A different existence indeed fram that of the bull man—all elephants are “bulla on o cireus—who haa nothing to do save ta keep his placid, gigantic, ever-begging charges from eating too many pea- nuts, to bring them forth now and then that they may push afew wagons complacently around the lot, or trot them inte the ring during the crowded hour of the performance to do the hootehy-kaotchy in their lumbering, comical fashion, to play a big mouth harp with their trunks until that laughing, easy-going trainer takes itawayfrom them, to cavort at a pachydermic gare of baseball or bear the million-dollar beauty around the arena at the head of the grand entrée, Allin all, comparatively speaking, it would seem much easier than ehooting a blank-cartridged revolver into the bellowing jaws of a roaring lion. Of course he must be handy always te warn the uneduented that his big, clumay charges hate tobacco, and that they never forget an injury, but those are only little idioayn- erasies which bob up even with some human beings. No matter how placid a person or beast may be —— [sessing are certain well-founded American traditions Shattering Old Traditions UT to get back to the traditions, Just to thke them in thelr numerical order, a show never splits and never exhibits fn several places at once. The lions and tigers aren’t nenrly so fierce, perhaps, as one of the tum- bling bears, which stays in ite cage for the simple reason that no one ever has been able to train it. Sell] mare, When the door of a lion or tiger den are left open by careless attendant—ans often happens—the escaped feline is usually so frightened at being exiled from its matural, steel-barred home that it does nothing but run in cireles and yow! like some overgrown house eat until its nescuer aurround it with a bit of side walling and restore it to its own hnbitatagain; and the lion trainer, he who fights the ferocious beasts in the steel arena, often yawns after his work is over and calls for nothing stronger than a bottle of near-beer, Unless there Is illness of fear or an animal feud of some sort among his charges, he haa little to worry about. Hut the placid life of the placid keeper of the plucid bulls & something entirely different, For, a it often happens with traditions, the usual rea- soning iswrong, In the first place, the bulls are not placid, just as they are not clumsy, just as they do not remember ' Bide surrounding itl THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE KEEPER OF TH By Courtmey Ryley Cooper an injury for years and just as they do not promptly set. upon the man who insults their taste with a juicy plug of tobaeco, Perhaps, long, long ago there may have been a solltary elephant that disliked nicetine—but times evi- dently have changed. To-day a plug of tobacco is a tit- bit for any elephant, and more than once is a visitor's pocket rangached by an inquiring trunk searching for a chey, Elephants eat tohaceo just as they eat sugar cone or pop corn or peutiuts ar candy, To them it is 2 delicacy. Nor is the taste confined only toe chewing tobacco; if you'll keep your eves open the mext time you go to a cir- cue you may even gee elephants ahooting aniper, where visitora have dropped thelr cigur butts along the picket line. Which ends that, Their memories are no longer than thoee of any other intelligent animal, and their clumalnesa and slowness are things that exist only in appearance, As for the relation= ship of case between the bet of the leeper of the lions and the keeper of the bulls, the lion trainer leads a bored existence. VAll that is necessary for him to do is to keep a whip rein on a group of well-trained beasts, and by a resaonible amaint af care fruiaurdd his awn skin. ‘The keaper of the bulls must strive to protect his own life, the lives of the thousands who crowd into: the circus, the lives of the animals of the menagerie, the horses of the grent ehow, the tenta, the wagons, the heavy, costly properties— and even the houses and lives of the people in the town where the circus is showing, as well as that of the country- Onee the placid, amiable, stodgy elephant etarts forth upon a tour of wreckage his only competitor is a tornade, and his only possible master that envied peroan of tt life of tase—the keeper of the bulls! Inconsistency isa thing which surrownds an elephant on every side in his life in the circus. Just as he is the best- liked beast of the menagerie, so is he the most feared, duet 2 he the thing that must be counted upon literally to drag the show out of the mud when the mire of a wet circus lot has sunk every wagon to the wheel hubs and so entangled the heavy conveyances that horseflesh, even tractors, loge their efficiency, soon the very met day he ray wreck everything he has worked so hard to save. Hoe will swing forward confidently to the attack, should a lion make a breakaway, but the proximity of a mouse or even a sminll, harmless snake on a country wayalde is the signal for a panic, He will carry a cannon on his beck into a formance and stand immobile while the booming charge reaks in deafening fashion above him—and then, on the next Fourth of July, start a stampede at the popping of a penny firecracker, He will remain at a picket Ine through confusion and turmoll while thousinds of persons crowd airout him, then pull up stakes and chase the daylights out of a candy butcher who consistently offends him by Pevensie selling daintics among the show goers instead of diz ing them [ree along the elephant Une. He is 3B sogachs animal in enptivity—yet, when he | frightened he doesn’t know enough to turn out of Gh of a brick building. His. daily food consists of hundred pounds of roughage, «few pounds of coals munches greedily Lf he can but get it, a bushel | “| grain, ten or twenty pounds of pure dirt—choools orewamp muck preferred—and a tub or two of wae he will quit it all gladly for one lonely peanut or a eandy, In the elreus world they've changed ag expression te Ht their own needa: *“Toeonsistency—thy name ia elephant!" The FoursLegged Paradaxc A, It seers, the purnadoz is a continual thing i great puchyderms which form the backbone af cally every clreus, There is never a time in which te not depended upon to gaye the show in times a arrivals, muddy or sandy lots or on long hauls fe unloading runs to the exhibition grounds, when the three tons of flesh and bone and muscle which » phant pomesees are thrown into play to sugm efforts of the straining draft stock and chugging te Yet, by the same token, there is never a momemf the circus is free from the danger of being torn te by that sume boneand muscle and sinew! Upon ome and one alone dens the task depend, one man whi lender above a leader, who con succeed often others may fail, and upon whom rests the reipor for salvation of wreckage—the keeper of the bulle 7 Tn explanation, a herd of elephants—and in.somem) big circuses a herd will number as high as twenty members—is built upon the monarchial system, # princess or two, a queen and a king in eontral| princesses and queen are elephants; the only male allowed is the superintendent of the herd, the mam whom the queen, of leader, vows allegiance, Now what other men may do, what other men may comm the keeper of the herd decides ot herwise—then o a the reault. The lewder obtya him above all others # obeye at all: the princesses obey her, and the male hers tag dong ina group of bulky camp followers, citi agitators and revolutionistsa. The males make the im in an elephant monarchy, the females make the low) enforce them. It ig seldem that other than o malog@ astampede; und ulmost inevitably it is a fermale—ober in her turn the man whe commands her—that balisit As an example: The Sella-Floto Circus, ont af group of larger shows, was in Canwda severn! yen and one of-ita stands was Winnipeg. The performas Hilly, the Trouble Breeder, Whe Caused Masther Elephont's Deals

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ed for Monday and, as is usual with a circus, the Larnived in town a day ahead for what la known parlance as 8 Sunday on the lot—a day of rest cin which everything is made ready for the per= = to come, leisurely, yet. carefully, that the nay go forth early the following morning and weduled thing take place on the minute. The tents percted, the seats placed, the animals fed und the ring curbs fastened into position, the hippe- ack smoothed into readiness, the rigging for the drial acta set—and the cireus had settlel to rest. menagerie the lions and tigers nodded sleepily, hing te disturb them from their Sunday slothful- welephant picket line was calm and peaceful, the nks weaving lazily at the transference of a full of roughage from ground to mouth. Group by ecireu people departed from the lot, townward of the usitial Sunday stroll and the luxury of a a hotel instead of the cramped berths of the Only the watchmen were left about the various ily the aeistanta in the menagerie. came, starlit and peaceful, The torches began to sout the cirews grounds, spots of limited brilliance uiicient to provide protection the pitfalls of stakes and wagon and tight-pulled guy ropes. weed in torpid peace, Down esuperintendent af the elephant rel Alispaw, seated himself at be of a night restaurant and sero toward his wife, awalting igion on the menu of an after- supper. He called awaiter, He he giving of an order. Then -——- wareCrazed Monsters. JENLY the café, the street, the were in darkness, following a gaze of lightning and ita con- Eerash of thunder, A moment ol the rain was pelting, borne at eof a forty-mile gale. Winni- fasecond had beeame a storm- e city, ite lighta extinguished by cing bolt which had struck one of dn feed wires, tts streetcar sery= eonimandeer it fora trip to the circus grounds several malliss Livi. His pxpericnes with elo phants and the ingstine- tive knowledge of what the beasts might do under circumstances auch as this demanded awitt action, and plenty of it. More, intuition proved correct | The storm had atrack at suddenly gst tha Circus grounds as in the city. With the first flash af lightning the wind had awept through the menagerie bent with gaulelike foree, lifting the side walling and cousing it to slap and bellow ond snap in wked, its streets running small - ee = . . — 4a Etephont Will Soce the Shoo One Doy oad Wreck tt the Next étill another thunder—that of ton-hes [rom the rain, ite every activity emoment halted. In the eafd lughed, struck muatehes and waited for the lights to of again—all but one man, stumbling through the ee Loward the doorway, Fred Aligpaw, keeper of the ay here until the lighta some on!’ he ordered rot his wife, “D"ye got to gee ‘ter the bet" It the cara are sto roa ma I'll find o taxi! I've got to get to vinta the sheetlike rain he went, to leap te the run- beard of the firat passing automobile and literally — Oo as iaae? Wo ae They Appeared Whea First Broug queer ghostly fashion. The elephant herd, peaceful and drowsing at ite double row of stakes only a moment before, had heard and seen ! There was no keeper to remssure them; only assistants, To an elephant on assistant counts for little if the supreme voice is absent, and right at that moment Alispaw waa miles away. In vain the menagerie men sank their bull hooks inte the eara of the plunging charges, then bobbing alsout like ao many plummets strove in vain to hold the bewsts in line. Even Old Mom, the bead of the herd, bad became panicky with the rest, not from fear of the storm At to Tale Couatey Wid Tadic Slaghalea A bieadant fai, Oe em, Le feyder After He Had Horn Execoted but from the fright caused by the si af that twisting, writhing side walla had shown for an instant in the glan the lightning. To the elephant itr esr toed meget unknown bellowing m ater about’te attack; the ures plait thing always means trouble in an « pliant herd, So the stam pede had beg One by one the extra: stakea w ragged from the ground, Cine bry the frantic animal attendants w thrown asiie or kmecked down by flail-like blows of teasing trunks. 17 thunder now bore an obbligate screaming, hesing cat animals, crowel in fenr in their dens, of showling am of rencing stakes, clanking chains 4 squealing, trumpeting elephants. ‘Tl bodies plunging across the mena tent, the crashing of timbers as they knocked poles and ca from their path, and the stampede of the nine-tleph: herd was on! A moment later the stages, the poles, seats and grand stand of the main tent were aplintering z shapping os some aizty thousand pounds of fear-madder elephant flesh tore madly here and there in the big inc sure, rushing wildly, then wherling ax frantically in other direction a5 a lightning flash showed that writhi flapping thing of wind-blown canvas surrounding them evervalde, Greater and greater the frenzy became; in: milling two of the males collided and began to fight w ewilt smashing rushes and lashing trunks, Louder o louder became the squealing and trumpeting —sudde to lull. A voice had come faintly from the darkness the menagerie tent—every torch long had been ext quished—a volre which caused Old Mom to turn and trumpet with a new note: “Mom—Aom! Here 1 am!" The Bull Xeeper Restores Confidence GAIN the call sounded and Old Mom answered, queen oheyving the command of heroverlord. 17 fighting ceased, A new signal sounded from the thr: of Old Mom, The elephants steadied. A moment lu Alispaw, standing in the connection between Lhe men erie and the main tent, saw revealed in a flash of lig ning a great hulking shadow coming slowly but stead toward him, while in the rear thera followed eight othe practically abreast! Old Mom had heard the voice: sought. That was. enough ! But the fight had only begun, Tho storm now + taking on a new intensity, a new fury, and the trai knew that he had but two allies, Mom and Alice, as of elephantineg lady in waiting to the real queen of: herd. As soon os possible he enought the two eleplia by their ears and stood between them, talking ta the reassuring them, while they wrapped their trunks abe hirn and squealed their delight, while the rest of the bh milled and trumpeted about them, each crowding uimest to be near the thing which te them ment safe For nearly an hour it continued, with the inte of the sh in the hands of one man, literally buried in a burp jostling maze of thirty tons of frightened elephants ~« min whem they trusted and whose presence alone co! hold them against n new panic, Then slowly with * aid of his assistants anda lone flickering torch he beg fContitued on Page Fa)

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18 THE SATURDAY ix : 7 xxii HE Jersey pines were looming black in the February twilight as the limousine slipped awiftly into Lake- wood, and it was dark when, after a light repast, Parrish and Rita resumed their way toward New York. Reaching the city before ten, they drove to her house, where, be- couse of her early rehearsal next iY morning, they parted on the door- slop. "Wednesday night, then, at the opera house,” she said in farewell rence, the outer door. In night—and this onl Monday ! ‘ At Parrish's own door Ita greeted him with his polite Japa. nese smile, “Teregram for you, sir,” he said as he carried in the baggage; for Ito had the usual Oriental dim- culty with "1" and ‘r."" Parrish knew what the telegram would be. Going to the library he took the yellow envelope from the desk, opened [t and read. Yea, it was from Alice—a tautological an= nouncement that she had arrived safely in Cleveland. Also there lay upon the desk a special-delivery letter addressed in her familiar handwriting —legible, slightly un- formed, nbove all, honest, As the telegram closed with the words “Much love," so the letter opened with the anlutation " Dear- est.” followed bya dash: for dashes served Alice in place of periods, cilons, semicolons and sometimes commas. Hurriedly he read the letter: George met me ot the atation with hie car and drove me out ta the house —Tt was certainly finn to see them all again—theugh of course T nin terribly dear— When I was here before the grading wasn't all fin- ished but now everything looks nice ond settled inalde and oot—although it in certainly w we would call kerate eniion tone bane a Cali- OPT brnga. ow Qiz— sbooo and brown Sea ath a second atory that you'd hardly notins from out- fide —and the furniture is meeetliy “mission” —T can seo you turn ir cur nose ot thot! IT don"t thin argaret really likes mission furni- ture—but the old dear likes dt because it's “solid looking” —and all these two ever think is having sven yining the way the other warts it—Tou would think them very un- sophisticated und they are—the way Tweed to bel—bot f know you'd lila them because they are ao good ond deveted—and ‘dl be-crazy about the chidren—They have grown so much alnce T bast saw them that I could hardly believe my eves—and ey made such @ fume over Auntie Alice" that it made her ery—t cer- tainly is wonderful te have children lowe you Like that and 0 den't ad it heragee they are Margarct’s age rollly ape remarkoble—T think De partly bersuse they are such little darlings and partly because their bit- tle arms around my peck somehow made my loneliness for you horribly aeute— Doss that sound erazy dear? Maybe it is but that's how I felt—thh Dick bow I do love you! (How Clara. would seald ime for writing you that and telling it to you all the time!) She thinks men are so conceited and aelfigh becouse: she has never known the right dived of man and that bas Fide her eynical—She aay a woman isa fool to bet aman Know abe cares because a man tires of a worran when he is so gure of her—I don't believer you can lay down any suck pule to cover all caars do yout Anyway, Dara! you to be sure of mo! And it's lucky for me TD del—berause if TD dein! want you te be you would be Just the same—I couldn't belp letting you aee— Oh deareat I'm ao worried over Margaret!) =ho's ao Talapr- able—worse than I thoight—The doctor anys ale ought to have kone ba the Adirondacks two or three weeks ago becouse though it's just plourisy sho won't pet over it in this lake climate at this time of year and it might get worse—She has been fighting going becouse she can't lear te leave George and the children hut ahe la getting frightened about hersell now and since [ am here she Paipoey 4 haa no excuse—But Dick it means a month of ex jek out here for ren asd | any reproach myself for not having realized and come sooner—So T can’t go back with you when you come through—but I would give anything om earth — === FLLUITRATED Sr HEN RE ARwWELETCOH EVENING POST ITA COVENT By Julian Street May 6, Oh Dick you know how I adere you don't you? P s— Your loving Ay You haven't forgotten what the f WIE jy the fences ot Bleakinawood ra at = Parrish sighed heavily, tp letter into small pies and dp) them into the wastebasket i, Trae ee” # | - | of his welter of conflicting he ry wt “Your Eagagemeat," Ne Began fnterrogatieely, "That Ausiness Fou Spoke of — it Hasn't by Way Chidace Been to eee you—Cooldn’t you stop over a train and come up? But if net Pcould come dawn anal pee woo fora minite at the train — That would Aelp wouldn't it dear? So if you go west be supe to ae ee in lenty al fim —= . ell dear I'm ofraid this epistl: jan"t any foo eheerlul eqund- ing—hut T do rls yeu so and this ie the nearest I eon get to talking to you— _ Tuke care a rare tne Aiy sale dear and don't eek toc tired — You work ao hoard you know—nond there are so many germa aPagnd one can’t be too careful — 1 will write you every day and you must write me aa often os ie ean even IE it is only a line just to let me know you are Peshape if we get ao lonesome for each other we can't stand it any longer we con talk on the long distance the way we did when T was here befare— tiont and impulses emey thought of telephoning te be quickly he let it slip back in welter, He would write, He took a sheet of pape the rack, dipped his pes paused, Then he wrote “p and after pausing spain, y “est.” But when he blotte word the final syllable, not & dried so long, was percep lighter than the first, “Oh, hang it!" he said, He tore up the sheet and js fragments fall to the basket. Alice's letter already lay; the ing he went to his room, #9 and put on his bathrobe and pers, whereafber he retureed deak and sat for a moment, only to get up again. Thin; be proceeded to the butlers try, where, after picking sav at the ice, he secured a sun piece, which he washed and posited ina tall thin glass Th he went to the sideboard ania unlocking it, withdrew a bw containing an amber fluid. Ba he poured a generous portios | his glass, and adding water, da Putting down the empty ¢ he returned to the desk, oa himself, took up the telephones asked for the telegraph office. His night letter to Ale » long, sympathetic and oninis ing. “Am writing,” he ended But he did not write that ug and next morning he was pea for time; he had been absest[n the office fora days much buss would beawaiting him. Morrcr there were errands to be doe the way down. He stopped at | jeweler’s, on Fifth Avens. # was there for the better part of hour, Coseted with the head ot firm. Thence he went to hid rist's, where he ordered flower be telegraphed to Cleveland, That night at the club be = repaisitioned to male a lowth bridge, ao he put inte his pool ‘the letter he had begun, intend to finish it when he got home. Bi it was late when he got home; 2 on Wednesday morning there #1 the office calling him agai. : meeting kept hin downtown lat than tual, and when, alter ts hiswilk up the Awenue, he reache the apartment, it was practical time to dress. Ordinarily be st: have had more time, bul ten! he must dine early in order tebe! the stage door promptly at qu efor: wight, EET HE WAS even a little abed¢ time, but the door man * expecting him and let him through, sending a yourg = to pilot bim to Rita's dressing room. Parrish had been behind seenes before, but oe 4 such a place as this. Here, as in an ordinary thet: waa aware of worn gray boards underfoot, af brick ls crude and solid, and of the pervasive musty smell cue! to all playhouse stages, He waa dimly consis & moved along of innumerable ropes and cable atl aloft, of cyclopean lighting devices to be avoided of ture and properties piled in corners, and of the ft bareness of unpainted canvas. Yet this stage, lee! ita vast size, was unlike any other, It was cosmic. lr” dim vistas workmen were butgnomes; beyond thetre™®

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ' 19 ihe scone set for the first act lay an undiscovered : the dark, deep spaces of the fly gallery, above, remoteness Of a midnight sky. Following the an Parrish began to feel that life itself, becoming with madness, had turned its clothing wrong aide gubt to masquerading. iating a corner and leading the way up several |stepa the pilot knocked upon a metal door, and ceiving an answer from within, departed, leaving ttanding there, it immediately the door was opened narrowly, a maid in a frilled cap. sieur Parrish?"" pened the door wider, saying “Enfres, s'il pots matic,” and as ahe relieved him of hat, overcoat i, continued, “Jfademoiselle roma demande trifle , Monsieur, mats elle n'eal por encore Aabillfe. ous Ja peine de pows aeeoir, moneieur." ing the most comfortable of the wicker chairs obediently sat down, and as the maid departed cert room began to entertain himself by inspect- nurroundings. Long and marrow, the room had the ort Of a rather large hall bedroom; there waa a of dull beveled glass, white and blind like an eve rataract, but Parrish had a feeling thot the apart- wdly knew the light of day, much less the sunlight. it tte mirrors, bright electric lighta and chintz it ave been a very gloomy Place. - The chinte, which cream evlor with a running pattern of rose wreaths, ited the place. It covered the walla and the couch; idew and the door leading to the dressing room inained with it: it had heen used for uphelstering ir. Alabel-covercd ibe trunk standing in ner, aamall table and. ing desk of cream- namel, some mirrors, raphe and woses of 1 balf-hearted|ly at- sito dispute the away rewreath paibbern. ie cirrers nefblsettisd ie w other objects were wots against it. Ewen it sheaf of Agmerican y toed, standing in rresembling an enor= meaphone of brass, me inconspicuous i thiee serpentine: of nee on the walls, i attention was st= ei by some caricatures erntic figures, and he look at them. They dawn by a famous whose talent for dis- d portraiture waa often thoned in the newa- GB, and among them iweked sketch of ity déligande"s trailing «, with her mouth pen. a: locking disap- ‘ingly at this when he di the clink of curtain i tehind him, as the fire at the dressing- ido was thrust back, Rita's voice calling te {0 Come In. ‘be maid stood aside in ita was seated ata long ming fable with triple nim strongly lighted, em, pausing in the final xtoenof making up, she es her head to greet © The glken kimono, wevied obi, and convo ‘el Wig of glistening caal- x hair were those of ‘ane Butterfly, but tly he Fie covtume was, hig Deal itww cursor. It ster face that held him, It fared at it, discon- ftted, Foe h there Mt tree of Rita in the 1. deguied with heavy ar I the lashes ‘ht rthelly black, the inner corners dotted with red, the outer corners lined ob- liquely to give an Oriental tilt—and though it waa her voice that spoke te him frem behind that mask of grease paint and powder, he could not ferl that this wos she. Like the lad in the fairy tale whoee loved one & transformed by witeheralt into another shape, he shared memories with the extruordinary being before him, yet felt that she waa a stranger to him. With an instinctive desire to overcome this sense of unreality he went back to the subject of which they had last spoken, asking, “How did the rehearsal go yes- terdny? fF She was leaning toward the mirror, giving @ final touch of color to her lower lip. “Lasted all day," she said, a2 if apeaking to her own reAectlon. Turning her head from side to side she inspected eritl- cally the fit of her wig; then with both hands she pressed it down more firmly. Meanwhile Parrish, anxious to break through this sense of remoteness, sought her eyes, moving behind her and logking at her in the glass. “Did you pet very tired?” She turned quickly. “Oh, don't do that!" she erled. “Don't leak at me in the glass when you're talking to me, It's unlucky!" He smiled, "T didn't know that you were superstitious.” “"T suppose we all are, Things here depend so much on luck, Don't you remember—we were apeaking of that the other day? For instance" —her lvugh was a little bit apelopetic—"“we are superstitious about whistling in the dressing room, Lt brings bad luck to whoever is nearest Though dt War Yer Polee That Socke to Hin From Behind That Mark of Grease Paiat oad Peeder, He Cootd Net Feel That Thir Was Rita the door, And I wouldn't dare have any shoes on a shelf higher than my head. That's awful—poverty, disaster, death! And yesterday we didn't sing the last few measures of the opera. We never do until the first night. And there's an ald superstition abeut ——" "T hope,” he put in, “that there is none about receiving agiltin the dressing room. Because," he went on without wilting for her answer, “I've brought you this." From an inside pocket he drew a flat leather-covered box, and placed it before her upen the dressing table. She seized his hand. ; “Oh, you dear! How dear of you!" Then pressing the butten whieh released the lid ef the box, and discovering in its black velvet nest a flexible linked bracelet of plat- inum, set with square dismonds, chic and costly, she cried out again, “Oh, it’s lovely! You extravagant boy ["" - Pulling back one kimono sleeve she slipped the bracelet on her arm and, helding it away from her, gazed at it admiringly. Then rising and taking both his hands she exclaimed, “I'd like to hug you! But [ mustn't. This liquid powder rube off." “T'll take a chance," he said, looking dawn at her benignantly, "T won't,” she returned, laughing. too soon." As if in eonfirmation of her words the maid knocked at the door, announcing: "Ce prilede ea cammerecer, raademetarlle"' "Birk, Sopher.” She summoned her, and taking off the bracelet placed it in her hand, saying, “Look at the beautiful thing monsiewr has given me!" Then, a9 the mikd admired, che added, “Now you take good care of ft, Sophie!’ And to Parrish, “Ll hate to take it off, but [t might be noticed from the front—and of course it is out of character,” “Tea, of course," He was disappointed. He wanted hertowearit. With it on she belonged to him. “Now came," said salve, “and T'll show you where tostay and watch the act.” She led the way out through the anteroom, down the stepe and to the atage. The scene, showing the Japanese house with ite ter- race aud garden on a hilltap overlooking the town and bay of Nagasaki, was fully set, and the footlighta and borders were agliure. Two singers, costumed for the parts of Pinkerton and Gora, were standing at one side, well back, prepared to be discovered when the cur- tain should rise, This obvious readiness made Parrish nervous as he walked across the stage ot Rita's side. “What if the curtain should suddenly as- cend!"" he waa thinking to himself, And when, just os he was thinking that, the first violins vigorously at- tacked the beginning of the overture he was startled to the point of panic, To be caught out there in the mid- dle of the stage—a night- mare! He looked anxiously at Rita, but she reassured him with a smile, When the curtain did rise they were safely off the acene, seated in two gilt chairs behind the canceal- ing proscenium arch and its appendant draperies. Hitherto the rousic had been muffled by the eurtain, but now there came a burst of sound from the entire choir of strings, and simul- taneously a sense of air in circulation between stage and auditorium, and of a great dark something out there beyond the footlights, very quiet but very much alive. From thair vantage point they watched the bustling 2 (Cantinwed of Page 3a! "T have to go on

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“ail Right! New Mold Sitddy o Minute" oe ew OW, cola!" exeloimed the lender of the band af H Indiona, crowding up te the gup in the corral where a part of the stock had just been driven in. He grinned maliciously and made the sign for “Sioux"—the edge of the hand across the throat. But men, rifles crosswise, barred him back, while otters were hurrying, strengthening the barricade. A half dozen rifles, thrust out through wheels or leveled across the wagon bongues, now covered the front rank of the Crows: but the savages—sonre forty or fifty in nurker—only aut their horses, laughing. This was sport to them, They hod no doubt at all that they would have their will of this party of the whites as soon as they got ready, and they planned further strategy. To drive a prisoner into camp before killing him was humorous from their point of view, and practical withal, like driving a buffalo cloge to the village before shooting it. But the white ten were not deceived by the trading- post salutation, “He's a thar!" called out the voice of Jackson. “They're nol Siewst—they're Crows, and out for war! Don't let "em in, boys! For God's sake, keep ‘em out!" It was a brave man's deed. The wonder wos hia words were mot his last, for though the Crowe did not understand all his epeech, they knew well enough what he meant. One brave near him struck him across the mouth with the heavy wooden stock of his Indian whip, so that his lipe gushed blood. .A half dozen arrows turned tow him, trembling on the strings. But the volee of thelr partisan roee in command, He preferred a porley, hoping 2» chance might offer to get inside the wagon ring. The loose stock he counted snfe booty any time they liked. He did not relish the look of the rifle muzzles at this cloae range. The riders were now piled in almost against the wheels. "Swapl™ exclaimed the Crow leader Ingratlutingly, and held out bis hand. “How, cola!" “Trent believe him! Den"t trust him, ment" Aguin Jackson's voice rose. As the savages drew apart from him, to hold him in even better bow range, one young brave, hideously barred in vermilion and yellow, all the time with an arrow at the prisoner's back, the men in the wagon corral now gaw thot Jackson's hands were tied behited his back, so that he wos helpless, But still he sat his own horse, and still he had a chance left to take, "Look out!” he called high and clear. “Get away from the bole! I'm coming in!" Before anyone fully caught his meaning he swung his horse with his legs, lifted him with his heels and made one straight, desperate plunge for the gap, jostling aside the nearest two or three of his oppressors, Tt was a deaperate man's one hape—no hope at all, indeed, for the odda were fifty ta one against him. Swift aa was hia movement, and unprepered ns his tormentors were for it, just as the horse rose to his leap over the wagon tongue, and as the rider flung himself low on his neck to scape what he knew would come, a bow twanged back of him. They all heard the zhut! of the arrow as tt struck, Then, in a stumbling heap, horse and rider fell, rolled over, aa a sleet of arrows followed through. Jackson rolled ta one side, rase to his knees, Melly Wingate chanced to be near, Her selssors, corefully = [he Covered Wago: By Emerson Hough _ FLLUITREATED AY Ww. H. BB. KORRHER THE SATURDAY EVENING POST —— ee guarded always, because priceless, hung at her neck, Swiftly she began to aaw at the thong which held Jackson's wrists; bedded almost to the bane and twisted with a siick, She severed the cord somehow, and the man etuggered up. Then they saw the arrow standing out at both sicbes of his alioul- der, driven through the muscles with the hasty snap of the painted hoaman's shot, “Cut it—break it!" be demanded of her, for all the men now were at the edge, and there waa no one else to old. And staunch Molly Wingate, her eyes staring again in horror, took the bloody stem and tried to break: it off, in her second case of like sure gery that week. But the shaft was flexible, tough and would not breal. “8 knife—qulek! Cut it off above the feather!" He himeclf caught the front of the shoft and pushed it back, close to the head. By chanee she saw Jed's knife at his belt aa he kneeled, and drow it. Clumaily but steadily she slashed into the shaft, weakened it, broke it, pushed the point forward. Jackson himeell unhesitatingly pulled it through, gush of blood follawing on either side the shoulder. There wes no time te notice that, Crippled as he was, the man only looked for weppons, A pistol lay on the ground and he caught it up. But for the packs and bales that had been thrown against the wheels, the inmates of the corral would all have fallen under the rain of arrows that now slatted and thudded in. But they kept low, and the Indians were so close againat the wagons that they could not see under the bodies or through the wheels, The chocks had not yet been taken out from ureler the bowea, so that they ateod high. Against such a borricude cavalry was helpless, There was no warrior whe wanted to follow Jackson's cxample of petting inside, For an instant there came mo order to fire, The men wore Teneching inte the wagons to uneling thelr rifles fram the riding loops fastened tothe bows. Ut all was a trample and a tumult and a whirl of cust under thudding hoofs outside and in, a phase which could last no more than an instant. Came the thin crack of a squirrel rifle from the fur corner of the wagon park. The Crow partigan sat his horse just a moment, the expreeion on his face fromen there, hia meuth slowly closing. Then be slid off his horse close to the gap, now piled high with pools and pear. A boy's high quaver rose, “You cont say nothing this the! You didn't shoot at all now!" An emigrant boy was jeering at his father. But by that time no one knew or cared whe shot, The fight wason. Every rifle was emptiod in the next instant, and at that range almost every shot was fatal or disabling. In sudden panic at the powder flare in their faces, the Crowe broke and eeattered, with no time to drag away their wounded, The fight, or this phase of ft, was over almost before it waa begun. Tet all was one more repetition of border history. Almeat never did the Indians make a succesful attack on a trading post, rarely on an emigrunt train in full corral. The cunning of the Crow partisan in driving in @ prisoner as a fence had brought him close, yea—teo close. But the line was not yet broken, Firing with a steady aim, the emigranta added to the toll they took. The Crows bent low and flogged their horses, Only in the distant willow thickets did they pause. They even left their dead, There were no wounded, or not for long. Jackson, the pistol in his hand, his face gray with rage and pain, stepped outwide the corral. The Crow chief, shot through the chest, turned over, looked up dully, “How, colal” said his late prisoner, baring his teeth. And what he did with this brave he did with all the others of the wounded able te move a hand. The debt to suvage treachery wes paid, savagely enough, when he turned back to the wagons, and such was the rage of all at this last assault that no voice was raised to atay his hand. “There's nothing like tobacker,” saeerbed Jackson eoolly when he had reintered the corral and it eume te the ques- tion of caring for his arrew wound, “Jest tie on a good. Jim Bridger May i, chow o' Lobacker on ¢ach aide o' that bole an’ "rey long afore she's all right. I'm glad it went plumb th I've knowed 9 arrerhead to pull off an’ stay in wi sinew wroppin's got loose from soakin". “Look at them wrists,” he added, holding up kh “They twisted that rawhide clean to the bone, dan skins! Pertendin’ to be fiends! They put me in {ror you'd let “em ride up close—that's the Crow way, right into camp if they can, git in cloae and play fi But, believe me, this ain’t but the beginnin’, The hack, un" plenty with "em, Them Crows aint west Pass fer only one thing, on that's this wagon train,’ They gathered around him now, plying him with tions. Bam Woodhull was among those who came, at Jackeon watehed narrowly every morment, his cen w handy, as he now deseriles] the events that had be: him hither, “Chur train come into the Sweetwater two days b you-all," hesaid. *Weaeen you'd had a fight but ha: on. We knowed some waa hurt, fer we picked up woman fixin"s—tatting, hit were—with blood on bit, we found buryin's, the dirt different color." They told him now of the first fight, of their losses, wounded; told him of the near eacape of Molly Wh though out of courtesy to Woodhull, who stood meray, said nothing of the interrupted wedding. The ald n tain man's face grew yeb more stern. That gal!" he said, “Ter shot by a smeakin’ t hoe? Ain't that a shame! But she’s not bad— comin” through?" Molly Wingate, who stood ready now with band told him haw like the two arrow wounds had been “Take an’ chaw tobacker, ma'am,” said he, “EF hunk on each side, dope mind, an’ she'll be well.” “Oo on and tell us the rest," someone demande “Wot rweh te tell that ye eouldn't of knew, pester resuroed the scout, “Ef ye'd sont hack fer us we jinedd ye, shore, baat ye clichen*t seemed" “How could we send, man?” demanded Woodhull agely. “How could we know where you were, or why you'd come—or whether you'd have been of any ue Z had?" “Well, we knew whar you-all was, "t any rate,” rej Jackson, “We was two days back o” ye, then one Our captain wouldn't let us crovd 4 he said he wasn't weleome an’ we = “That was ontel weatruck the bigd trall, with you all a follerin’ of hit bl aschasin’ trouble ag hard as ye o chase. "Then he sont me on ahead to war an'togsk ef weshould jineon. Weloo the Crows was down atter the train.| “T laid down to sleep, I did, und sagebrush, in the sun, like a fool I! beat out and mesded asleep, and | thed T was safe fer a leetle while. woke up it was a whoop that done!| They was around me, laughin’, i arrera p'inted, an’ some shot inte | ground by my face. I taken my chat and shook hands, They grabbed med tled me, Then they made me guidet in, like yeseen. ‘They magbe didn't oe I come from the eaat and net from! “Their village is on some ereek ubove here, [14 they're on a visit to the Shoshones, Eight hundred = they are, or more, Hit's more'n what it was wel! Sioux on the Platte, fer ye're not so many now, An time now the main band may come. Git ready, met [ me, | must git back to my own train. They may be! twenty mile, or thirty. Would ary man want fo re mel Would ye, Sam Woodhull?" The eyes of his associates rested on Woodhull. — “[ think one man would be safer than two” 4° “My own place is here if there's sure to be a fight “Mebbe ao," assented Jackson, “In fack I dente" as more'n one'd git through if you an’ me both 2°" His cold gray eye was fixed on Woodhull carck!“ ef hit was the wrong man got through he'd never leas vie Missouri men for'rerd to where thia fight'll be. “An” bit'll be right here, Look yan!"" he added He nodded to the west, where a great dust cee"

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 21 re is comin’,"’ said he. ‘Yan's Bannocks, like as even the Shoshones, all 1 know, though they're let. The runners 18 out atween all the tribes. I on my way ants to find his own horse, locked to its welfare, oo, had an arrow wound. As he passed a certain he heard a voice call to him, saw a hand at the ad front. a Molly! Hit’s you! Ye're net dead no ways, me," said the girl. irew near, fell back at sight of her thin face, her but again she commanded him. now," said she. ** He"s—he's safe?" a, Miss Molly, a lot safer'n any of us here." u're going back to him?" a When he knows ye're hurt he'll come. Nothin'li im, onéet I tell Kirm."" , at! she whispered. “I heard you talk. Take him She pushed into his hand a folded paper, unsealed, ttaddress. “To him !" she said, and fell back on the da of her rude pallet, hat moment her mother was approaching, and at her alked Woodhull, actuated by his own suspicions Jackson. He saw the transaction of the poteed note weed what he could not know. He tapped Jackson )ehoulder, drew him aside, his own face pale with sone of the officers of this train," sald he. “I want ov what's in that note. We have no truck with nnd you know that, Give it to me." ison calmly tucked the paper into the fire bag that at his belt. ame an’ take hit, Sam, damn ye!" said he. “I don't what's In hit, am’ won't know, Who it's to ain't o' yore Everday 1" cure 2 cursed meddler!" broke out Woodhull. (re aspy in our camp, that's all you are!” of Well, cussed meddler er not, I'm a cussed shore An’ advise ye te give over on all this on’ mind yore es. Ye'll have plenty to do by midnight, an’ by that all yore wornen an* children, all yore old men an’ all cowarts Il be proyin" fer Banion an' his men to come. includes you somewheres, Sam. Don't temp" me too inet too long. Dl kill yeyitef yedo! Git on away!" They parted, each with eve over shoulder. Their talk had been aside and none hod heard it in full. But when Woodhull again joined Mrs. Wingate that lady conveyed to him Molly's refusal to see him or to set a time for seeing him. Bitterly angered, humiliated to the core, he turned back to the men completing the defenses of the wagon park. “T kain't start now afore dark, "said Jackson to the train command. “They are goin’ to jump the train. When they do come they'll surround ye an’ try to keep ye back from the water till the stock gota crazy. Lay low an’ don't let a Injun inside, Hit may be a hull day, er more, but when Banion'’s men come they'll come a- runtin'—allowin' I git throwgh to tell "em. “Dig in a trench all the way aroun’, be added finally, “Put the women an’ childern in hit an’ pile up all yer flour on top. Don't - waste no powder—let "em come up close as they will. Hold on ontel we come.” At dusk he slipped away, the splash of his horse's feet In the ford coming fainter and fainter, even as the hearts of some felt fainter as his wise counsel left them. They waited—the women and children, the old, the 1] and the wounded huddled shivering and crying in the scooped-out sand, hardest and coldest of beds; the men in line against the barricade, a circle of guards outside the wagon park. But mid- night passed, and the cold hours of dawn, and still no sign came of an attack. Men began to believe the dust cloud of yeeter- day no more than a false alarm, and the leaders were of two minds, whether to take Jackson's counsel and wait for the Miz sourkins, or to hook up and push on as fest as possible to Bridger's Fort, scarce more than two hard days’ journey on ahead. But before this diacussion had gone far events took the decision out of their handa, “Look! erled avolee, “Open the gate!" The cattle guards and outposts who had just driven the herd to water were now spurring for shelter and hurrying on the loose stock ahead of them. And now, from the willow growth above them, from the trail that led to the ford and from the more open country to the westward there came, in three great detachments, not a band or a body but an army of the savage tribesmen, converging ateadily upon the wagon train. They came slowly, not in a wild charge, not yelling, but chanting. The upper and right-hand bodies were Crows. Their faces were painted black, for war and for revenge. The band on the left were wild men, on active half-broke horges,, their weapona for the moet part bows and arrows. They later found these to be Bannocks, belonging anywhere but here, and in any allianea rather than with the Crows from east of the Pass. Nor did the latter belong here to the south and west, far off their own great hunting range. Obviously what Carson, Bridger, Jackson had said was true, All the tribes were in league to stop the great invasion of the white fation, who now were bringing thelr women ond children and this. thing with which they buried the buffalo, They meant extermination now, They were taking their time and would take their revenge for the dead whe lay piled before the white man's barricade, The emigrants rolled back a pair of wagons, and the cattle were erawided through, almost over the human oecupanta of the oblong. The gap was closed. All the re- maining cargo packages were piled against the wheels, and the non- combatants sheltered in that way. Shovela deepened the trench here or there as men sought better to protect their families, And now in a sudden mélée of shouts and yells, of trampling hoofs. and whirling colors, the first banda of the Crows came charging up in the atterapt to aurry away their dead of yeaterday, Men stooped to grasp o stiffened wrist, a leg, a belt; the ponies squatted under ghostly drag: ging burdens. {Continued on Page 4) The Croes Beat Low ged Flogged Their Horses

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22 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST le Afay 6,/ OUR OFFICIAL FAMILY ee floce af the United States Senate, but whoe wives are the beet of friends, ‘Thissituation hes corm: albout largely through the organization known as The Luis of the Senate, which was formed by Mrs, Thomas BR, Maur- shall, wheat View President Marshall, kz RE are men who bitterly asaail one another on the Draring the duys of the war Mrs. Marchall brought the group together te sew for the Bed Crom, A roo In the Senate Office Building was set geide for their wee one mort= ing of each week, and over their needles and their box luncheons the women began to establish friendships. Some Of the bonds which grew between Democratic and Ma publicnn Wer remind ime af P| friendships one of my boys farmed soon after we went to Washington. ‘The bay had never known much about Republicans, amd one day he come to me with popping eyes. “Mother,” he said, “my fiend fa Republican, Will it da for me te go with him?’ Tsenecratic and Republican women have found that it would do for them to go topped her, frie pelitios has been relegated to the background with suth plewant resulta that the organi- mation is te be continued. Acremark which Mr. Marshall made shortly after coming to Washington is indicative of her strength of character. “T have no respect for a woman who changes her hablte here," she sald. “Tf she has been brought up to belleve that a thing is permissible under her code of manners I have no criticiam of her when ahe does that thing here. But when she changes her atandards becawee she has a diferent position In Washington, then I do condemn her.” Too Small for the Chair ON Mr. and Mrs. Marshall fell a coniderable burden of social re- sponsibility in Washington. Their own great popularity browght them muny invitations, Added to this was the fact that while President Wilson was ill upon the Vice President devolved the oficial entertaining for foreigners. It was during this thme that Mr. Marshall said ene night of dinner thet he beliewed he should carry a screen around with him, retiring behind it at intervals to declaim, “The representa- tive of the President will now come forth,” or "The Vice President will now come forth,” or “A Hoosier politician will now come forth." Mr, Marshall never spared himself in the quips and jokes for which he was famous, and his frequent remarks at the expense of the senatora over whom he presided have been enjoyed by many persons in the gullories, Mrs, Danletes tin F. Ww, Cc. a, alfor me Sa le, ears — I Atrs, Donlels Golag Aboord the U. 7. Ff. Bofphla, the Former Secrotary ¢f the Macy Following Aatory is teld of him when he firat came to Washing- ton. Former Senator Hacon, of Georgia, a great sUlckler for tradition, entered the chamber ane morn- ing ba find that the gremt thromdike chair provided for the Vice Presidents for yours had born replaced by a Bimple swivel chair such as is used by many an Amer- ican business man wt his deak, Sinater Bacon foterviewsd the serpeart-wt-arnes noid wee told that the secrobiny of the Sanat higel ordered the cluinge, [is indignation meaunted wa he went to the secretary and was told that the Vice Presi- dent wae respneible for the order, Thereupon Senator Hurt appre heel the View President, Mr, Muorshull heurd him through, os he expoliated on the glories of vice presidents of the past whe had occupied the chair, and then he asked: "Senator Tucan, the people elected me Vire President without having seen me or that chair. All T can say is Tum a mistit and 7 do not intend ta continue shaking around init like one pea in « pod.” One ean iragine the View Presi- dent mentally remarking that it was hard enough to preside over thut particular Senate without sitting in an uncomfortable chair. It is. a great tribute to the spirit with which the Viee President performed his duties during those trying days when the Administration wes the object of euch bitter attack by the senators, that upon hig retirement he received a gilt from the senators, accompanied by speeches bearing testimony to the high regard with which he is held. Similarly The Ladies of the Senate made a gilt to Mra. Marshall in token of their affection and esteem for her, Mr.and Mr Marshall brought home to me a fact which [ hod never appreci- ated so keenly before [ went to Wash- ington, [had enjoyed my own children ao much and had lived eo greatly with my four boys that I had not realized the void in the lives of those whe have ne children, nor the keenmeas of envy with which they regard those who have them, [ean recall several men in Wash- ington who happened to be thrown with my boys and who revealed plainly their yearning for sons to carry on the name they had striven and sacrificed to extab- lish, (One very wealthy and powerful man several times rode in the same ele= vator with one of my boys and one day laid his hand on the lad's shoulder and said, “To weuld give o million dollars if you belonged to me." From the beginning of their stay in Washington Mr. and Mr. Marchall par- thelpated in the local civie and putrictic activities, and at a day nursery where Recollections of @ Cabinet Minister’s Wife By Mrs. Josephus Daniels | Residence of Jeceetary Daalgis in Pashliagtes, Where oe 4 mualag War FSeore Oecerred Walle Presideat Piles War Dining Tiere Mrs. Marshall helped to weigh and measure babies she by earme greatly interested ina little boy who was suffering fron malnutrition. The boy often came under her attention, Shi lenrned that the father and mother were honorable, hit working people with a large family to support, Fined Mra. Marshall, with the approval of the Vine President asked to take the boy home for six weeks. Permission vai given by the parenta. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall wer the making thelr home wt one of the hotels They ‘took a boust in order to make the boy comfortoble, and engaged 3 trained nurse for him. As they struggled to bring ts child back to health they experienced the sacrifice etic greatly endears, and at the end of the six weeks they found that they could not bear ta give him up, The Kindly Marshall Spirit le WAS a rare spirit which Mr. and Mra. Marshall i played in planning for the littl boy. There we © adoption, for they did not want him to be bound to thes by law nor the mother to be prevented from having bin back whenevershe might want him, There was no preten that the child was thelr own, and the little fellow was ke regularly to visit his old home, for they wanted bin fv love and be loved by his own family. Whenever the ctil waa ill his own mother waa the first to be notified Morrison Marshall lived with the View President ac Mrs. Marshall for several years, until the spring of 12! One day’ Mrs. Marshall came to a Congressional (Li luncheon, at which she was guest of honor, saying that O* child was not well, During the luncheon she repeatedy sent to ask after him over the telephone, and immedaley after the luncheon had been served she excused welf and rose from the table. From that day the cil grew worse, and a few wecks later passed away. was buried in Washington until one day, early last po

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST aréhall announced thatahe was with- tfor @ time from all social activities, ' took the little body tothe Marshall iot in Indiana, ip's transom is not a ventilator, a ee eontaing powder which is to be instead of stories that should be » 2 conning ‘bower a8 a seinen ne Seuliar purposes of their own—theee Were learned for the first time by WoOTmen, and same men, when they ot Guests of Mr, Daniels on board the nm. the ship assigned to the Secretary Mawy for his particular use. Dolphin was completed during the istration of President Arthur and S210med in 1864. There was a terrible lo ower her cost, a sum considerable ¢ days, but an amount which to-day scarcely buy a good launch. That tk was well done is proved by the long 2 which the ship haa given and the at her engines, In use now for more thirty-five years, have never needed eplaced, But the criticiam broke the of the owner of the shipyard in which tolphin waa built, and in hia will he ed his family never again to take a Ament contract, Trips Aboard the Dalphia E Delphin isthe oldeststee! ship now ln e Navy end has the record for traveling Teatest number of miles of any of the ~ Indeed, during one year of the war lolphin traveled a greater distance than ither shipin our Navy. That was after files to the south of us created a great for amall-draft ships, and Mr. Daniels i over the Dolphin for fighting service, Pthe time the Dolphin had just been hover. There were now hangings, and hich I especially liked had been put into the com- Se dining and sitting salon. The Japanese steward, had been on board during moet of the time that Mr. fiels had been Secretary of the Navy, carefully rolled up few rug and put back the old one. As the ship was maching Haiti the admiral in command summoned the fard and remarked that he didn’t think much of that would like the new one laid before port was The steward, with an intrepidity that was mir fad under any conditions and especially so in view of the station of the admiral for sternness, replied, “Sir, you ft have that. That is Mrs. Daniela’ rug.” jet the admiral got the ruc While she wars in Souther waters the Dalphin was taken 1 Tampico Berber, and there the memornble incident ured of the imprisonment of her paymaster, when miral Mayo neoti- ithe authoritie: af the prisoner athe relensed and i United States isaluted or he ad fire on the 7. The first official fw which we made the Dolphin was April 11914, after meweeks eroded thentertainments © the incoming wobera of the Ad- Watration, house miting and all the Bails of petting set kd in a mew city, toes the first tine hat moat of the tembers of the cab- tet and their wives fad beeen allie tin heap fing enough to real- te thet new atatua & members of the ‘ficial family. fe had on bowril, meg others, thee Secretary of War, Mir. Garrison; Mira. Carrion: MisaNona. McAdoo, eho was then hostes in the house of her father, the Seeretary of the F PF Get ir esi The Wilson ‘Cabinet feing Recelned on Beard oie OU, fi 2. Wyoming, Flagrhip of &dmtrat Badger. Me. Daniels, Wis Mand Eeteuded, tt Fottomed 6y Mearrs, MWc@dog, Surlergn, Lane aed Noeurton Mr, and Mee. Thomar BR. Marschall ond Thele Footer Joa, Merciion Marshall Tressury; and Miss Agnes Hart Wilson, who because of her mother’s (ness acted as hostess all during the, two Administrations for ber father, the Seeretary of Labor, Then there was Miss Eleanor Wilson, the youngest daughter of the President, and her cousin, Miss Hones, The sound of the steering engine of the boat waa no ticeable aa we proveeded toward the capes for the tar- get practlee, which waa the object of our trip, and there was recalled a former Secretary of the Navy, whose sleep was disturbed one night by the engine and who called the captain and asked what was causing the noise. “The steering engine, Mister Secretary," replied the captain, “Have ft stepped," said the secretary, rolling ower and eomposing himself again for slumber, and leaving the captain to solve the impossibility of stopping the steering 23 engine and yet docking the next morning at Annapells. That was the first of many trips on board the Dolphin, all of them delightful, although wind and wave often worked havoc with our plang. On one occasion we were taking a party up to the Massachusetts const for the launching of the Nevada, our guests ins eluding Mrs. Newlands, wife of the senior senator, and Senator and Mra. Fittman, of Nevada, A very rough sea was running, which rolled Mrs. Pittman’s chair com- pletely over and sent her sliding across the deck ina heap with some young quceta and their chaira, We were obliged finally to put in ta Newport and continue our journey te Quiney bay rail, The Rivers and Harbors Convention was meeting in Albany one year and MMr* Daniels, who was to speak at the convention, could not spare the thme to make the trip by water, but it was necessary that the Dolphin should go. Tt accordingly became my duty to make the trip and act a¢ hettem, The Berkshire waa taking up other delegates, and the two boats exchanged hospitalities on the ride up the Hudson. We stopped one evening st aemall town and on our trip around the city a resident whe apparently had net understood who I Wis, asked Ot, in thé presence of the party from the Berk- shire, “What kind of a fellow is this man Daniels, anywayT" Consternation was visible on the faces of these around me, and I can still remember the relieved laugh at my reply, “That ques- tion was put up to me twenty-six years ago, and I derided that he would do." The Dolphin was stationed in the Hudson River for the Army and Navy game one year, when a most amusing incident! happened. The motor boat to go between shore and the ship was beautiful in appearnner but unre- liable in usr. On this day the young officer in charge of the motor boat had had the bos'n and the crew taking her round and round the Dolphin ao that he would be sure that she waa in perfect trim when the Secretary of the Navy came on board. When they loft the ship for the tripshoreward to moet Mr. Dnniel a snilor standing at the stern, who was too confident of his sea legs, was swept off the boat by a haweer. As the launch circled round and round in the effert to plek him up out of the water a sudden jerk stopped the engine, the motor refused to mote—and there on the dock stood the Secretary and his party. Entertaining in New York Harbor HE young officer told me afterward, with tears of eon- sternation in hiaeyea: “Oh, Mire. Daniel, you don't know how I felt. You haven't been taught to believe for years that the Secretary of the Navy is a little shining light in heaven — not quite God, but the next thing to God." A dinner on board the Dolphin which stands out most élearly in my reeol- lection was given in New York Harbor, whenthe Mayflower, the Fresident’s yacht, and the Dol- phin had taken up a large perty for a review of the fleet. Rear Admiral Fletcher, ! com- mander in chief of the feet, invited the men of the party to dine with him on board the flagehip, the Wyoming, ancl the ladies were asked to dine with me on the Dolphin. When I returned to the ship that morning after the re- vlew [had a gift not ordinarily seconded to an individual, 2 box of flowera ut (Continwed on Page 61)

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Chale Sh 4 METER the door closed on the lady wgitator Kate Alverdy sat down again on the little Bola facing the picture of Napaieon and Joeephine and looked atit steadily. Not that ita details compoaed themselves to her eye any more clearly than during the interview just elesed, nor Inderd that Rate needed any clarity of composition. Actually she was not seeing the picture at all. It was there—a emall patch of eolor arrangement on her wall—just aa it had hong unobtrusively this many a yvear—sinee her marriage, eighteen years aga, in fact—like a famillar mole on a friendly face. She reealled now that she hed never liked the picture. It was really a wretched choice for a wed- ding gilt. She stared at it steadily, still without looking at it, remembering how ehe had unpacked it out of its tissue paper all those yeurs ago and hung it up here in the hitthe neeeption roam, an unconsidered bit of detail, because Cousin Julius Page had go kindly sent it, and because ite frame wae really good, powdered Florentine gold leaf over bronze, and because in her great encompassing happiness this serap of historic emotion seemed to play the part of foil, She had traded, self-congratulatary, a litthe smug, on the note of tragic suggestion it offered. It was not really a picture of Napoleon and Josephine at all’ It was really Napoleon Breaking the News to Josephine. At least this was the eaption on the back, and you could gather from the posture of the parties concerned that the news was vital and most unpleasant. It was writ- ten all over the person of the doughty little emperor, in the puffed-out stock, on his pouter-pigeon chest, in the forensic position of his handa, one buried in the bosom of his cont, the other beneath ite tail, His face wos gum, his shoulder averted: but you gathered that the very grimness and angle of aversion bespoke his imperial discomfort and uncertainty of himself. The effect of his news was even worse on the poor litth: beautiful, miserable lady on the sofa back of him. Her dark, curly head was buried in a morsel of handkerchief; her whole willowy figure had sunk back into the affee- ionate embrace of a maid of honor. All because of the news the disagreeable little person in the frog-bellied com ture, with his square jaw and wispy forelock and tasseled boota, had broken te her—Kate had called him names a dozen times in looking at the picture—to wit and namely, as could be ascertained in any French history book, the news that he was going to put her away. Kate suddenly pressed her hands tightly together and, leaning over, picked up from the corner of the rug, with delicate care, an almest invisible curlicue of white thread. As she did so she could see again the hall-concealed legs of Petunia Rosyblow thrusting out from under the sofa— the lega which had precipitated the lacy agitator's remarks, Kate called them all lady agitators—thest women who were affiliated with public movements, with those boards and bureaus and committees in which the name of Richard Alverdy figured, and with wham, in the capacity of Rich- ard Alverdy's wife, she had so often ben compelled to COMUMune. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Named Kat By Mary Brecht Pulver ait . FELEVFTRATE DB fhe ftored Mow a at Aer Horterr, Unaware of the _ Mirttiness Taot Come Hefore Kate's Eves “Compelled" is the werd deliberately chosen, for Kate was reactionary and insubordinate in her compliance with modern demands. She cared no whit to bra lady board or to sit on committees, though she must figure in their presence ag the wife of the owner of the big Alverdy Mills and the social hub of their little mill community, She must lend an car to community benefits, to soup kitchens and siling orphans, to home relief and housing problems, to all necessary beneficences connected with her husband's work. In her heart of hearts she cared for no active part here. For her a book by the fire or a tramp with her dog over russet autume hills, or—driving her maids out of the kitehen—the mixing of a special cake or salad for Rick, aa in the old days. She was insular and narrow in her in- terests—Rick had often told herso. It was because of this insularity that she had fought herself so often and so gallantly; had let her name become a synonym for gen- enasity of time with those whe fostered the growth of new movements in their town. It was because of this that she so often received them here—cager, earnest persons afire with zeal to better the world, to rebuild and construct. In the prefranchise days it was here the auffragiat had burned her ear with scorching proof of her oppressions; it was here ladies with a atring of federated clube or aocleties wader their wing presaed her for contributions; or patronesas of benefits for nest homes for pets or old women or outworn veterans; or godmothers for municipal schemes and leagues and drives. Hate always permitted herself to be driven. Hick had given her a wonderful bank account. Only at times her mind would grow a little vague before her besieging host. She would sometimes formulate a faint protest about people doing their day's work and saving a little and taking plenty of batha and reading beaks, but this was met with sweeping protest. They must have playgrounds and thentera, movies and talking machines, swimming pools —— “Rick's given them all those things. This is Fairvale, you know—every body gete fair play and fair pay." There were other things, she was told. Her duty was ¢learly defined, There was always plenty bo de. This morning she had almoet refused to come down when Miss Camilla Conway's card was browght up to her; had yawned boredly and was on the verge of flat dental, “Field Secretary for the County and State Bureau of Eugenie: and Health Extension,” she had read. “Great heavens,” said Kate savagely, “what have [ ta do with health or eugenics, stancing here tottering on the brink of the grave? What has old Mrs, Alverdy to do with this?" You see, ib was the morning of her fortieth birthday, and Kate wes a bitsavage about tt. She didn't care partic larly.to be forty—never had really intended to be forty — yel here wis the factthrust violently upon her, full-grown, May 6,5 a YF CEN ARLES bb MITCAELL I like Pollot Athene sprung fron § brow. Why, yesterday she bad | only thirty-nine—a mere chs how, to-day, definitely categoria! “I'm old, Father Wiliam— a the dickens—and yt I don't fed bit." Tt was just here that Miss Coon, card had been thrust upon ber, “Eugenies!"* soid Kate gy "She'll be sixty, and have a lem; hungry look, and yellow eyes that will bls; bore into you, and a bit of green parrot feathe 1 magenta velyet tomate on her bonnet, Peh just to look at her will cheer me up." That was how it came about that a minute § Eate faced the visitor in her reception room} realized her great error. Mitt Curnilla Conway waa in complete rapport ao exponent of her subject, She sat, a healthy-Llooking po woman of twenty-ght or oo, in a low mahogany ce wearing a modest suit of heather cloth with squirrel fy yet such was the quality of the atmosphere she rat the nura she exhaled, that Kate felt almost apologetic the clased windows of her room. She felt that only dir currents of pure icy air should envelop any creatun vivid and rose red and cream white and bursting © palpable vital energy. Not that Miss Conway was bes ful; quite the reverse: and this waa curious, too, es Ks realize in coming forward. There was no feature of Wf Conway's face, no individual turn or curve of her etre hale figure, that was notin itsell charmingly created. Fr the intense blue of her clear eyes like Norweginn i from ber smoothly banded Titian hair and full-te-burss ruddy apple cheeks; from ber double row of unsulli teeth like kernels of new corm—to the strong column of b throat and the rather fully exposed lines of her capabi strong legs in the thick wool stockings and stout bropw she was the epitome of human female vigor. Yet the hand that had assembled her seemed to bn slipped. Despite numberless delightful features, there n no effect of beauty. She was the type of whom ons el gay, “She just misses being pretty." Tio tell the tratl Miss Conway's miss was well wide of the bull'seve 1 Kate, coming forward, noted. Pinin and wholesome; a suitable mother for warric:- the viking's bride. She does setting-up exercises, counter, one—two—three, She looka best in a sweater and ps knickers. She can play basket ball like a fhend and do th Dutch roll backward, She washes with antiseptic soap un wears Taasculine lingerie. “How d'you do, Miss Conway?" she said aloud. “Mra. Alverdy! How fortunate I am to find sus home! ['ve been wanting to see you for ao long! Bot Pv been so crazy busy ——" “Exuberant!" thought Kate, “She gushes—sher & healthy she can't help it. Oh, well, I'm forty!" She had drifted away from Miss Conway's thread, lu! caught up. “for three weeks. (Of course we've seen Mr. 4- verdy a lot—ever since we opened up our commtis rooms—and he's heart ond soul with us, Mr. Alverdy 2 wonderful f"" “Yea” sald Kate—she amiled, a little languid, thourt he one on earth could have told so well as bersell, fe thought, how wonderful Richard Alverdy really was. |! was this feeling that threw up a barrier between her ae others when they began to speak of him—a scart of few possessiveness that turned her cool and unrecptive. “Wornen usually find him ao," she added, “T can quite belleve it. I was never so gurpraed. | thought when he came inte the office, ‘Is it possitte the! 0 young a man, so—er—well, so attractive, so mage a man can carry Fuirvale on his shoulders, and have mi 26 great a name for himeelf throughout the state!’ Wor derful, Mrs. Alverdy, really !"" “Yes, said Kate not ungraciously, “and what is it)" wish of me, Miss Conway?" Miss Conway sat wery erect, her fine, strong 74s spine straight as a dart, but Kate rather lounged om b little sofa. Her lavender morning gown, with the pare Val lace collar and cuffs, set off her long, slim, tre’ lines to advantage. Kate looked rather well whe‘ lounged—and knew it. “Oh, Mrs. Alverdy, I shall core to that im a mint I was leading up to it, in faet—just telling you 5” wonderfully interested and kind Mr. Alverdy bat be

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘—how different he appeared from my expecta- nd you, too, Mra. Alverdy. [hope you don't mind you you're different too, [ had fancied some- ll, how shall I put itl—someone quite matronly All the mill owners’ wives I've worked with err so— comfortable.” drew back her head and Inughed. Her teeth were tas good as Miss Conway's, and her laugh wos iden chiming of full-toned, sweet bells. now, Mra. Alverdy, I'll come night to the point. iy hasan autumn feld day here in Fairvale, and eed the eugenics and health committee a booth nm, With a lot of appropriate stunts, We'll have a itroneases, and we'll want you to head it; and, oh, tare lovely, Mire. Alverdy! We'll have a better- sntest, of course, and a beauty conmbest for girls enty— with a committee of returned soldiers from . FL for judges—and running races for matrons of e or over—the loveliest prizes, Mr. Alverdy! | Brothers are giving the girls an order for a ilar hat, and Barrett & Reeves are offering the the lowellest set of aprigged china—one hundred : and we have a beautiful aet of Fameus ofthe Past, in three-quarters Levant, for our prise . The last contest will be for hale old men above ears, Mra. Alverdy. We will give the books to the pt preserved apecimen, making the teate according astic standards. Tt will be ao interesting. We have tderful entries already, one of eighty-seven, the we ninety—an old Mr. Knorr, a beautiful old man is like a prophet out of the Bible. Amd of course ner ill have to tell ws exactly how he has lived ‘to preserve his splendid powers.” ii Jake Knorr is the winner he will tell you he was e coffee and fried pork and pie and has chewed and dace be was a baby, Our old men around here ike that."" I'm sure you are wrong, Mr. Alverdy! Goad like everything valuable, requires: thoughtful care harry, Tt is only to be had bar living aetcurd ing mpl, kygienic routine. Tt is humanity's most B pesto amd, like everything else, is had at a apnle bloom on Wiss Conway's cheeks deepened, blue cyte turned accusingly on Kate, mare our committe: can conviner you of many etal trutha regarding health, Mrs. Alverdy, if you ow us. All too few mothers of families have as te a comprehension aa they ehould of the simple mecis of normal living, For Your aan sake, Afra. y. [hope you will forgive me if I am tee i, but you suggest a certain Jack of physe # yoursell, ofl—er—being under form, and Fown ake, and the sake of your children, odd seriously interes! yourself in our great txbension work.,”” rite sake of my children!" erepeated the phrase rather idiotically. rly, 22 the mother of the children of a ke Me. Richard Alverdy—os the principal rin Fairvale, in. fact—-it is actually your tt,” said Kate, “Tam not the mother of any- Mr, Alverdy and I have no children.” nenar of surprise, al= horror, athrred Miss ay perceptibly, o children, Mra. AL 1 Bot | was eure— T thought __ ikere Kate aaw Afisw ays eve following a of sunlight paring wt the ep, in whe ~~ >on, lay fally ex- tthe times, iol Pevania Roarblow. thought one of your rh mma 14, Petunia! That’s an tal cut of my ehild- L My Little nieowss eome in and play with her Fumes," htev perfectly the correct ritual to follow— tarofutal thing to say. {It tas always been the greatest disappoint hto Mir. Alvendy and me that we have no dne-—the souree of a very deep sorrow.” bo badd beard women talk like that—a few waonven in fa, Tt would be the truest, the aincerest thing she ver uttered, yeb iis very truth, tts sincerity mere » To interpret the hidden wisthulness *F He into the cool ears of this positive, acrubbed and "Hf ponent of the hygienic was unthinkable. The "ett i Kate that reared that peeullar barrier behind ch abe an often hid maved her how, Che Sarunig her Burl let ber bead tip at a cosuul, careless angle, her glance meeting Miss Conway's rapt blue stare non- chalantly. But Miss Conway was still involved. “Wh, but that is too unfortunate—ia it not, Mra. Al- verdy? T had no idea of such a thing! No child—no oon to whom Mr. Alverdy con poss on his great interests! What a disappointment it must be to him!" "In just a minute I shall put her out of my howse— with my two bare hands. She's atrong aa a bull, but Goel will give me the strength,” thought Kate, Miss Conway appeared to be chanting. She was naming, one by ona, Richard Alverdy's industrial achievementa— the bone and sinew of the Fairvale proapect that stretched over two hills visible through the long windows. She was summing them up now, reiberating the pity of their deprivation, “T've always been sorry for childless people. Ome can imagine the disappointment. After all, a home is not a home without a child, you know. [ndeed, marrlage''—ashe fixed Kate with o brisk, bright eye—‘‘marriage without a child con hardly be called marriage.” “My dear young woman, what can you possibly know of marriage, who have never tried it?" The words formed on Kate's lips, but died there. She waa thinking what devastation a callous foot can offer to one's hidden inner garden, “What should you callit, Miss Conway?" she asked. Mica Conway lifted her head aa at a challenge. “Te ia not for me to say, Mra. Alverdy: but I beliewe— Tam sure that it might be made the basis of a supreme, a supernal sacrifice in the interest of life, of humanity. I have often wondered why in certain instances a childless woman does not abdicate.” “ Abdicate!" Kate repeated. Miss Conway snapped her glove with vigor. “Just that, Mra, Alverdy, How beautiful it would be— er—eugenically speaking, if women of that type stepped aside! Everything we do mut be for the Taoe, for the = *t W ATan of Rick's J.modre gad Achievements Cochd Tarry Aaybody, Women Were Atways Falliag in Loge With Hie 25 fommon human betterment. A woman not contributing is, of courne, & parasite. You'll pardon my frankness, Mra. Alverdy, but I am genuinely and wneelfishly inter- ested, What a pity that the triumph of Fuirvale must die with Mr, Alverdy; that ite association with his name will span but one generation!" "With my two bare hands!" Kate's mind regiatenad. But she was no longer thinking connectedly. She sow the capable youth and strength of Miss Conway—and this was her fortieth birthday. Outside the wide reach of Rick's factories stretched, climbing brown-gold hills that melted into purple distance, and she saw Rick an he had walked out of the hall at breakfast—tall, lean, supple, active—young still, 28 men were counted. And Eate almost sneered aloud. “Almost she said aloud: “Why, I've thought of all these things before, my poor girl, a million times! Who are you to refresh my ‘mind in this way? Do you suppose you have to go about putting the world to nghta? De you suppose your thought is ariginal ?* Miss Conway was putting on a second glove. Rosy and strong and determined, ignorant as a child who has un- wittingly set off a mine, she stared now at her hostess, unaware of the mistiness that came before Kate's eyes and lay like @ film across the room. She only put out a square, forthright hand. “Oh, Mrs. Alverdy, I hope I haven't been too per- sonal—that you'll not construe my remarks in that way! I only spoke from a general angle. My work keeps me in touch ao closely with people | con't help wanting to work out problems for them. It scema to me such a waste to do anything but put out a helping hand—don’t you think?" And Kate could think of no particular irony or conven- tion with which to evade. Miss Conway wrung her hand literally, and her assent verbally to her project, and was gone all at once —calm, ruthless, conquering, “like a prowd, trumpeting elephant," Kate thought, hearing her descend from the porch. Then she had gone baek to slt on the little sefa and had looked at the Napoleon and Josephine, which had bobbed suddenly into her comaciousness during Miss Conway's talk, and at the limp form of Petunia Rosyblow. After all, Mise Conway had offered her nothing new. She had beon the spark, the catalytic that set off certain process in Kate's soul. For better than two years now the tiny hidden seed of Miss Conway's idea had been germinating in Kate's mind. It had remained for a Miss Conway suddenly, crudely, to put inte the symbols of accepted ameech—the coarse phrasea of an intrusive ij stranger—the hidden, evaded, hall-guessed concept that Kate had allowed to play on the edge of her consclousness. Marriage, Kate hid been reared to believe, was for betbar, for worse. Still, it was true that Rick had { mate a littl kingdom for himsell—was a Ae he pet Fay 7 little industrial Napoleon really. 4 AR There waa, of course, something in Nap's i Idea, She admitted that. A women must I i} mean something—must be contributing. 1 What exactly did ashe herself contribute? “, Well, if she contributed nothing, was not this i horrible lady agitater right? Waa she not a parasite—purely that? Anddidn't Rick him- self think so? They were certainly no closer 1,” ingether, Something, some wall, lay be . tween. For yeara Rick seemed to evade any—any searching nnalysis, any attempt | to disewsas their deprivation in life, He was i sutlefied, ha declared, but was it not a eatis- faction of resignation. And didn't hot rebel- lion stir in his heart at times? Did he not fee] theae things Misa Conway bad oo crudely uttered, or hacdn"t they been put into words, actually, for him? Kate remembered suddenly a dozen instances where innuende or condolence: had been uttered. She had passed them over, but the seurs remained, She was suidenly aware of these now. Now also she remem- bered afresh certain scraps of con- vergation overheard whens Hick was making his Christmas presentation at the local newsboys' dinner, the little fellows clustering arownd him: "Deoeen"t Mr. Alverdy love chil- dren? Whatalather he would have prided 1" Rick was fond of childron —health- ily, normally ao. Yet it hadn't oc- curred to Kate in their earlier years that they mattered more to him—il as much—than they did ta her, It was apparently only that their lack mattered so much to other people. (Continwed of Page 45)

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26 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A‘ D! 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS FUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE SOUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANLA, U.S.A. GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR Five Ceote the Copy From All Newadealers, Fy Sulerripalon; To the Uplted Sram and Poamashone, Cube end Manion, ELM ihe Veer, Flam bp ‘US, Momey Carder, Express Money Cider, (beck of by Doi, poyeble fin CL, Si acti, To Ganade— By Subsccippoo, EM the Yeer, Singles Copies, Tan Ceom— Clu dian or LL S. Foodie Foselgn Subscelpiones: For Counce In che Poatal Union. Sohecripibins, LH the Year, Kamitteeces to be by Gereift cm benk in the UL S., peyoble in LL &. fonda. PHILADELPHIA, MAY 6, 19232 Getting What We Ask For ENNSYLVYANIA has a chance to leaven the poblie life of the country by nominating for the governor- ship at her approaching primaries a citizen who has behind him along and unspotted record of unselfish public service, a record that ia neteworthy mot for mere passive honesty but fora thousand proofs of the old Roosevelt fighting strain that pute the fear of God inte the hearts of political tricksters and predatory private interests. Pennsylvania polities if a mat oof contradictions, Governor Sproul gave the seat in the United States Senate left vacant by the death of Senater Knox ta Mr, Wi, E. Crow, a purely political appointment that waa not hailed with approbation except in organization circles. A litthe Inter, the passing of Senator Penrose, the sole survivor of the old race of great boeses, left the state organization lenderless, and the immediate political outlook was hazy until the governor surprised friends and foes alike by the appointment of Mr. George Wharton Pepper to the Pen- Tee seat. Apparently this was recognithon of the principle that big offiees ahould go to big men, regardless of the bleatings ahd yammerings of petty politics, Shrill factional fights for the Republican gubernatorial nomination were suddenly stilled by the annowneement of Mr, Gifford Pinchot that he was out for the governorship ona platform prepared by himself and scattered broed cust. To Mr, Pinchot's onemios the distressing feature of this sudden eruption was not that it was backed by a sensible and alluring platform but that they well knew he meant every ward of aaid platform, and if elected would carry it out in letter and in spirit. Moreover, they were beset. by the well-grounded fear that the voters at large are so furniliar with Mr. Pinchot’s reputation based upon past performances that they, too, would take his declaration of prinelples at its face yolwe instead of regarding it na the conventional efferveacence of political hokum, The enthusiasm with which adherents flocked to the Pinchot banner threw the organization lewjers inte a panic, and after several withdrawals a new candidate was put forward at the last minute, The tactics pursued afforded n striking instance af the extent to which a few men can nullify the spirit and purpose of the direst primary ayatem, In terent years Mr. Pinchot's name haa net often figured in national news, but everyone with a memory a yard long = — oa - THE SATURDAY EVENING POST recalls that it is, in effect, a short way of referring to or eonnoting the Conservation of National Resources. The long and bitter fight that Mr. Pinchot made is now ancient history; but it is no bess valid training for the sound exer- cise of executive functions as the chil magistrate of @ vast and proapercia commonwealth. One of the greatest living authorities on American his- tory wae recently asked what was his opinian af the Hoos of Representatives, taking it by and large, from the days of the Continental Congress down to the present time, He wis quick to reply, "Pretty poor stuff! But," he added, “the Senate, until recently, has been ruther better." It ought to be a great deal better; and ao ought the general standards governing the election of men to all high public offices. The willingness of men like Mr, Pepper and Mr. Pinchot to make the very real personal and financial sacrifices invelved in the acceptance af public office is a hopeful sige and & gen omer, ’ Unecasing!y aie complain af the borden of tomes and extravagant public expenditure under which we labor; and at the same tlme, as a rule, we keep on pulting into office men who, we know in our hearts, will continue to operate along the same old wasteful lines. With our voices we monn for relief, bat with our votes we echo the ery of the mad orator in Lewls Carroll's book: "Less Bread! More Taxes!" And wa get what our Votes ask for. Bonds for African Land CCORDING to traditional economics the payment of the debta of Europe to the United States con be accomplished only in terms of goods and gold. We could draw the new gold of the world as fast as it ia mined, and some governmental gold in addition, We could invite and receive a flood of goods. Mr. Vanderlip has proposed a scheme of Wquidation whereby the payments would remain in Europe for upbuilding, constituting American invest- ments there, Many economists who rebel at the thought of a flood of gold and goods, declare outright for concellation, New propoeala are always welcome in a dilemma. A new pro- posal comes from Senator France, and i stated in the Congressional Record. 2 The proposition of the senator from Mary lune —whesn Position on the recognition of the Soviet Government of Rusala is well known—runs to the simple effect that the ex-Allies should turn over to us the former German colonies and cables as liquidation of their debts to us. President Wilson stated in Paria that this country would accept no part ef former German possessions. That is not in con- tradiction to the present proposal, because we would now be accepting present Allies" possessiona! Let a line be drawn from about Ashlind, Wisconsin, to El Pass, Texas, The country to the east of this lime corresponds in area ta the combined artas of the former German colonics, as Ulustrated in a map printed in the Record. The speech of the senator bristles with pertinent homilies, "Civilizo= tion is goods.” “It is ethically right for us to extend the boundaries of civilization te Afrien, and it is commercially wise to do ao.” The bonus question ia several times re ferred to tn the acddress, and the reader makes the infer= ence that homesteads might be carved out of these African lands. Finally, appeal is made to the missionary apirit af the country. The link between evangelization and trade hus seldom been more eympathetically described. "Christianity is service, and service must be expressed in onl: so that it ia particularly sound ethically and it is very wise commer- cially to do what T have suggested." What Germany might think of the matéer is not stated, Nor is any intimation of the attitude of the ex-Allies adduced, We did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles, 30 that we have never confirmed the legality of the transfer of these farmer (Terman pPoesessions. Insular Americans who have only a lazy idea of the sivt and lagation af the former German powessians in Africa will proceed to study Africa when they take in Afay 4 Senator France's appraisal of the trade of these And the attention of the Shipping Board and of ¢ partment of Commerce ip respectfully draws matter, According to the figures printed in the (Congr: Record, in 1913 the imports inte Togoland were at ERGL000.0M, the exporta at £456,000, 0) verted inte dollars, that would make a mifty addi our declining foreign commerce Surely, there + reason to search for bagatelles in Europe when package in trade awaits us in Togoland. What the group of irreconcilables who protest | getting entangled in foreign affairs must have t when they read this proposal in the Peeord! F; Senator Johnson waa silent. Four Thorny Problems HE four thorniest problems of International and the four weightiest are: How to reduce German reparations equitably ts that Germany ean pay without a ruinous collapse: How to stabilize the depreciating currencies of | and te restore a régime of honest money: How to adjust equitably internllied debts and restora 4 normal balance of trade between the (or and Great Britain on the one hand, and between § and the United States on the other: How to bring about a drastic and proportionate tion of the armies and military budgets of Europe — that involves also a removal af the jen] ciiskes:, fea: territorial ambitions af many old and mew state: The particular point to which we wish to call att is Ehut these four problernss und their solutions are dependent and almest inextricably interwoven wit another, Thus, the rensen why the French Gover has been struggling ao desperately against amy red: af Germany's treaty debt te France is that the po Public expenditure of France ia nearly double the ; revenue from taxes; but a linge part of this defies | to the coat of an enormous standing army, which ar required ta avernwe Germany and compel her, by bo by erook, to pay the installments as they become Again, the reason why oll the ingenious plans for eta ing the depreciating currencies and fluctuating excn af Furope have came to nothing it that practically 2 aid and the new states in the war aren—and not 2 fi their neighbors who were neutral—are sullering deficits, financial chasms that cannot be bridged an taxes or loans. Many of the taxes -and this applies especie! custome duties—are ao high that their revenwe yield 5 increase if they were lowered; and the liquid enpital « world available for investment in auch market as Lon Amsterdam, Faris.and New York is so small in compa with what it waa belore the war that embarrassed s! with dtsorderce! finunoes, which hatte already ais neagures of open or concealed repudiation, have noch od vbiguining lonns, aren on the moat weuriows tern. why should any sensible American, Englishman, 0s man or Seandinavinn who has saved a litle moses: it to Latvia, Esthonia, CzechoSlovakia, Jogo-Sla Greece when he knows that it will be used te pay the posterously inflated armies and buremuecracies of enurttries, and that da a year or so after the money been apent there will very likely be no alternative bew another loan and defaulet Thus, the solution of the first ond second prook depends upon the solution of the fourth. At first sight, the connection of the third is lee int diate and less obvipus; and certainly it dows involve ot! considerations: but it is pretty clear from the termas!! United States Government's refusal to participate 6! Genoa conference, as well as from the tome of debate Congress amd of reaponsible organs of the American pre that neither the American Government mor the Ams people is at all inclined! to be indulgent towards = barrasard European detvbors, or even to cligeus theo mercial diffeulties that such huge repayments will ive! until Burope is ready to set its howse in order.

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THE EJP Pr) ‘RAIGAT line —unless you [ ave been dazed by the Einstein beory—is the shortest distance two points. Honesty ia the icy. Simplicity is eclogance. rto get a thing done ia to do er put off until to-morrow a at can be finished before mid- These words of wisdom have wen poured into childish ears at fueney, the understanding at when the child grows up he elhislifeon these wise precepts, pergons remember the teach- } teir early days and apply them | ‘awn conduct in after life, waons suffer from fearful lapses ory. The persons who suffer th lapses are not limited to any ar cuss of society. Not only y found on the lhasehall dia- edin the bucket shop but even acloistered hall ae that of the States Senate. Many a dis+ cel senator rises to hia feet er day and emits a stream of that dows uncensingly for two, ed four howrs, amd leaves the ushed senator no nearer to any- ehes he finishes than he was he started. Everybody who im is Painfully aware that the ts apparently proceeding on airy that a curved line ia the ft ditance between two points, inumiocution and evasion are at policy, that towdriness is rm, that the way to get a thing ato dodge doing it, and that no should be taken today if it can iy be delayed for two weelts, thing that he learned in his early eems to have slipped bis mind. weven in the United States Senate emen who pemember and prot ewhe alvice that was conveyed «= daring their tender yeara— gh eopy books, parental teaching and MeGuifey's th Fuader. ‘Their memories are so good that they forget. even when harassed by the hide-piercing toe of the opposition. these nonforgetters there is one that stands out—one shen? who can remember more in five minutes than rage absent-minded person can forget ina month. orelerence is to George Wharton Pepper, who, among ties other things, is senator irom Pennsylvania, of several hundred pounds of law books, athlete, itaincer, college professor, baseball expert, Fellow of \nerican Arademy of Arts and Scienoes, color sergeant it First Provisional Plattsburg Regiment, and cham- iMavrweght rememberer of North America. A Memory Like Macaulay's iaprraeie Tat WE asees for the peculiar Pepper memory is not due to “e fact that his family was training him for the Senate “ete laet that he was expected to be blind, His eye “is 50 bad when he was a child that he was never "So sched, but was tutored at home by his mother— “arted Greek in order that she might teach it to her * \ year before he entered college a tutor was secured “Ta blind tutor, ao that he might be instructed in “wer of blindness in addition to his studies. ‘The tutor wis alts tricks of memory that made it possible for him tl a thing ont gel remember it or ta have ft read SATURDAY EVENING POST ai = By Kenneth L. Roberts es 7 eT nr Governor Sprool |teft! aad Senator Geerge Wharton Pepper on Their Woy to the Copital, Where fhe New Jenotor From Penssyleonia Took Nie Gaih of Office to hirn onee and remember it. Such an accomplishment ia a very handy esect for a blind man. The tutor waa eminently suceeseful. Tt waa no more difficult for young Pepper to remember offhand such diff= cult and annoying matters as the date of the Battle of Salamis and the names of the kings of Egypt than it wos for him to remember how to tie his necktie. After he had rend ower two or three times a piece of prose or poetry sufficiently abetruse to make the average person clutch wildly at his brow and wonder what it all meant, he hed it by heart. One of the moet difficult pieces of poetry to memorize ls Francis Thompson's The Hound of Heaven, Pepper learned it in an hour. Boyd-Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon, was remarkable for his skill at developing a com- Plicated argument. Pepper once heard him deliver a lecture on a deep, mywtifveing, braln-twisting philesephical subject; and after the lecture was over Pepper, who had taken no notes, went wey and dictated the entire lecture to a stenographer from memory. He can say the Book of Psalms from memory—f he has time. When he waa an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania he took the leading part in The Acharnians of Aristophanes, the firet occasion that a Greek comedy had ever been given in America. The play his a large east, and the dialogue is compased of single lines and half jines, so that there are a great many speeches [n it. Pepper learned not only his own part but all the other parts as well. When the rehearaala came to an end Pepper could recite the entire play, which took over two houra and a half te present. This would have been somewhat of a etunt if the play had been in English. Instead of that it wis in Greek: and each vowel sound in each word had to receive the personal attention of the deliverer. When Presi- dent Wileon declared before Congress that American participation in the war wis eeential Pepper and a party of friends were eagerly waiting in Phila- delphia to hear what the President would say. When the speech wes re- lesked it was read over the telephone to Pepper, whe digested it carefully and then hung up the receiver and re- delivered the speech to his friends, Pepper's eyes grew atronger after be entered college, and he at anee em- barked with the deepest enthusiasm on his life program of taking a violent interest in everything in sight. If there weren't enough things in aight te keep him busy for sixteen or eighteon hours a day he invented a few things and took an interest in them with equal enthusiasm. Keeping Busy “TAH S it appears on the records of the University of Pennsylvania that George Wharton Pepper, of the class of 1887—he took his degree, by the way, when he was twenty years old — ran the half mile and threw the ham- mer for the varsity track team, played fullback and guard on the varsity foot- ball team, rowed on his class crew, played on the varsity cricket team and caught on his class baseball team, Nor will i¢ do for the technicians who read this artlele to write letters te the editor pointing out amid hoarse and jeering guffaws that since track meets, crew races, cricket and baseball are spring pastimes, It would be impossible for any one man to participate in all of them outside of the pages of a piece of rah-ruh fiction. Pepper participated in them, and anyone who doesn't like it should lodge he protests with the Univerity of Pounsylyaniq. In addition to occupying himeelf with every athletic diversion in sight Pepper teed with his studies so effec: tively that he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa—an honor accorded only to students who maintain a dizzy standard af excellence in their studies for a matter of three years. And then, instead of being universally hated by all hi classmates for his general superiority, he waa made Spoon- man of his clas—the peoeition of Spoonman being a peculiar University of Pennsylvania institution accorded bar tobe to the most papular man in the class, and carrying with it, as a badge of office, a large weexlen spoon. When he got out of college his meriory easily retained the ides that the little busy bee, or the busy little bee, was worth emulating because it attains its enviable position at the pinnacle of the insect. worl bey improving each shining hour. 80 he kept on exercising both his brain and his body and otherwhse arranging matters so that he had no idle hours whatever: and for that reason he is still what might be termed a brubeer. He has the strength and endurance of one of those large, puffy horses with whiskers on ite feet, but none of a horse's clumainest, He is tall ond brown- faced and soft-spoken, with a tremendous chest that fre- quently eplita the clath just to the rear of his upper vert (Continwed on Page 125!

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28. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May & THE GALLOPING TIGE! ERE wasn't any wind as yet, but Ted didn't mind that, and curiously enough © Shack did not seem to mind it, either, although he had talked so much of starting out under full sail, and had poetized about it constanth. He and Shamus turned aver the flywheel of the kicker without comment, while Harry Binz, the professional sailor, took the wheel and Ted flew about attending to last details, It gave mea mighty queer feeling, that start did, a very deep, profound emotional upset, Ladmit. To think that soon Man- hattan's tall towers would be seen no more, and that we had simply weeks and weeks ahead of us of nothing but ocean—an ocean which would gradually grow warmer and more beautiful the while T came to know my poet better, and then—and then Tahiti! Nothing but sunshine and flowers and dan- And, a8 Iam ashamed to confess, I pe. called with @ littl sigh of relief a couple of good moving-picture houses, There might even beanative yacht club. I rather hoped ao, because after all there was 4 certain dan- ger in a lot of New Yorkers remaining wh- solutely idle for too long, and nothing ruing friendship as quickly as boredom does, But in the meanwhile the deck was a aoene of gorgequs activity. I felt wonderfully safe and happy with our splendid crew, The only person who caused me the slightest feeling of un- easiness was. the stranger, Andrey Kropushkin, Ted's Russian friend, who stood about morose and idle in a ecuri- ms powture—his smock tucked up in the rear and his hands thrust deeply inte his back trousers pockets, his jaws working constantly, although be did notapeak aword. Hisailence was elo- quent, however, for he eyed Shamus and Shack in a way which made me rather nervous when they performed any of their duties about the boat, and when Edouard apread a Spanizh shawl tipon the deck, and sitting down upon it began to play his ukulele, Mr, Kro- pushkin let out a peculiar sound that was half a roar and half a groan; a sort of native ery, I suppowe. At any rate tt brotight mother to my side, from which vantage point she looked the un= expected guest over carefully through her lorgmette, “Pet!” sald she, “Do you know that man locks very familiar to me? Lam positive I have seen him some- where!" “But where, mother?" T demanded. “Vou certainly haven't been to Fiussia,”* “No, af course not!" replied mother in the tone with which she is accus- tomed to dismiss any suggestion she considers improper, “But wait a moment, dear! He reminds me of someone—that curious drop of his shouldera! NowTremember! Hesug- gests old Captain Billy Hicks, who deed to be around Rosemere Bay, He is dead now, I think, poor fellow, But he had that same morose look!" "Mother!" I exclaimed, incxpressibly horrified. “The very idea of comparing a distinguished foreign poet to some ald water-front character! I, for one, am glad to know that Ted would make friends with a Russian poet of his own free will, and 1 think it's simply too exciting for words to have him along!" Well, I expect I ought to see that the man is put at his ease!" mother replied, the hastess instinet in her com- ing to the fore, ms usual, And with that she sailed over to him, intent on a little formal conversation. But Zelda had beaten her to it and waa already firing Yiddish at him when we drew up chaira and motioned him to sit down—which he did, somewhat reluctantly, "Oh, Comrade Kropushkin!" Zelda exclaimed, "Es git ane gros chre efele cu koben wail was eile abend!" But Mr, Krepushkin only shook his head and stirred nhowk unewsily, uttering o single Russian worl which sounded sort of like “Goshallfishooks!" Having been ob liged to tuke his hands out of his rear pockets in order ta Ter Pee By Nina Wilcox Putnam FLEUVITRATED BY CHARLES ©, MITCHELL Piers Met Wo Fusttcoe f'* Be Dhkouwted sit down, he did not seem to know quite what to do with them until he found his knees, when he at once started rubbing them rhythmically. "T am altaid the great ane speaks mo Yiddish," aaid Zelda with a sigh, “Oy, what a pity! When there is eo much I want to ask! The truth about Russia, you lonew, and everything!" “Are you a good sailor, Mr. Kropushkin?"” asked mj mother in her best manner, "This may be quite a rough trip, you know, T hope you won't be seasick!" Mr. Kropushkin only groaned at this, and [ signaled ehyly and appealingly to Ted, who promptly hurried over and joined the group. “T think maybe Andrey would like to go below and lie down a while," said Ted nervously, “until we are clear of the port, you know! Ishov no iski sov!" he added to the Rugaian. Kropushkin got to his feet with eagernesa. Edouard had joined the group by now, and we all etood around watching interestedly. “T really think he had better go below!" Ted insisted. “He probably ia not wed to emall boats like this, anyway.” “Oh, lam so disappointed !"" cried holding out a volume which she har carrying clasped to her breast. “I | volume of his poems. The} are in 3 and T ean't read a word of them, bui hope he would rend them to us!” “What the devil!” exclaimed Te volume of his poems! Why, [—well jiggered! Why, I—I didn't suppose } wis a volume of his poema anywhe this country, that is, [ showld aay, of | Abem! Some other time, #elda. The heat might come along any mament, him to read someotherday! Slov nor he added to Mr. Kropuahkin, who most unexpected thing. ‘Trusting by bony red hands toward the heay a despairing gesture he threw bg head, and strange words broke his lips, “There ain't no justioe 1"" he sh In an instant Ted's hand dees upon the man’s shoulder, and heq and went below, Ted closing the door behind him, and wiping th spiration from his brow aa he back, He was evidently very ¢ moved. So were we. “You heard?” said Ted sh “That's his seclalism —it's the only lish sentence he knows, and he do so worked up over it, the poor chap! He hes these spells, but just leave him alone a while he recover," “Deo try to get him to mead tot night,” Zelda begged. And of course we all echoed her di Ted promised. He had to befor would let him go, and then we tered to take up cur various appol tasks, These did not fall very hearil any of us aa vet, however, althoug had drawn lotsa onder our plan of fect equality and no command, Ed Shamus had the mainsail, Sheck Ted the foresail, and as these wer tied up because there waa mo wind! were not very busy and had pothis do cxecept sit around and talk. We still going out with the kicker, © more or less ran itself, with only al attention from Ted. Harry Binz steering, and while T was eook for day the things I'd ordered from the] had been sent down in vacuum beat which left me perfectly free for afternoon. Well, everything wert beautifally, “No formali deloyed us, and no hateful police cume looking for | Kropushkin, and really, first thing we knew, we wen of the narrows and in deep water, headed for the Az The adventure had really and truly begun. And ob, b [lowed itf My heart fairly aang with excitement 4 pleasure, for | ana fine eailor and so, of eqtirse, wae Sha whe for the first hour or two paced the deck alone 2 stately manner, leaning over every once in a whie commune with the waves, I guess, and to think profou thoughts about the deep, Ted, on the other hand, was as busy as a beetle, fina taking a trick at the wheel, and while be was thi Shamus joined us, for mother was doing her check bo and didn't want to be talked to, ao I had stationed mm by Ted, “Say, Stonewall," Shamus began. “That man Binz” “What about him?" sald Ted. “Isn't he a dirst-l standard-size sailorman?™ "Well, he seema a fine aprig of a boy," anid Shand “and a good, competent fellow. But why _ sing?" r “Why should he?" demanded Ted. “Grand opera written into his contract.” "Sure, man alive, I waen't thinking anything kind!" Shamus declared. " Chanteys is what I mean! W don't he sing some chanteys?"" | “Mayie he doean't sino: any,” Tod suggested. “Well then, faith, and he's a funny kind of a sit Shamus declared. “Why man, all common ies chanteys, Anyone knows that! Maybe he's a bl! 0 You tell him we'd like him to go roaring about the de (Continued on Page 30)

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ww (Continued from Poge 28! for that is the true nature of his kind, and very likely a habit with him. Maybe we'd pick up a little copy from what he sings—eh?" A curious sort of apasm econvulsed Ted's face for a moment, but when it passed he replied sericus)y enough. “TT speak to him about it, Shamus,” he said, “1 think your point is well taken. Any regular snilor in real sailor clothes ought certainly to sing deep-sea chanteys whether he has specifically contracted to do so or not. It's only right. Of course if he was one of the ordinary commercial- ized sailors in suspenders and an old derby hat, such as we all too often see on sailing vessels to-day, we could hardly expect chanteys from him. But he is so unspoiled—a good old-fashioned type—that it's more than likely he knows some" “Call him and suggest it!" ssid Shamus. ‘Don"t bet him think we are making fun of him; just be natural about it!" "Al right!" assented Ted, Then he raised his voice. "You, Bing!" he shouted roughly. “Shiver your timbers and come along aft or I'l belay your bones!" Hurry Binz, whe had been doing some mysterious thing with the rapes, gave a hitch to his trousers, called out, “Aye, aye, sir! and came aft, which was where we were, “Bing, my lad," sald Ted in a kindly tone, “the ladies and gentlemen have requested me ta state that if you feel moved to sing they will be glad to have you do so, If dur- ing your hours of toil, or in your idle moments, a deep-sea chantey or 20 leaps spontaneously to your throat, go to it and let herrip! We won't mind. In fact, we sort of expect it of you!" Harry Bing blushed a deep crimson, [ suppose it wos a blush, or maybe he just got red in the fnee, “What the dev—that is to say, aye, aye, sir! he gasped. “Just as you like, of course.” Then he gave another littl hitch to his trousers and went back to the rope, “To hope we didn't embarrass the poor chap too much,” anid Shackelton Salts, who had quietly joined our little group, “so that he'll keep quiet forfear we're making game ef bin.” “Oh, no," said Ted easily, “I don't think so, He was probably just surprised, that's oll." And Ted waa right, for a little while later, juat before eunset, when I wag in the galley hard at work putting parsley around a pair of cold roast ducka, T heard him alng- ing, aod peeking out [ saw Shack with a notebook, crouched in hiding and putting the words down, I suspect, although I for one didn't think the chantey very beautiful and certainly not nearly aa aalty as many of Shackelton’s own composing. Still, ringing out in the free ocean air, it did sort of add to the romance of things ond lent a gow deal of atmosphere to the ship. The chantey was eomething about: oe in wos asephead, fie a woe made ale se ae waa full of Heker na ooddn'l afeer fhe ene: The crew aaa in Me eobin Eating bread ond ; OM J don't lore dhe nea, hoya, I just do thie for mony! But Shack kept nodding his head as he wrote and seemed Intensely inter- ested, He had on his pay- choanalyticexpression and appeared to be finding aime deep meaning in the chantey which was entirely hidden from ignorant little mt, I gave wp listening pretty econ and had just turned ray attention to frosted charlotte — also from the Ritza—when Ed- ouard stuck his head inte the cookhouse and sniffed at the beautiful eupper I Was preparing. “Huh! sald he seorn- fully, “You don't suppose Prince Kropushkin will ent that stuff, do you?" “Why notT’ I de- manded, “And why prince?" "Well, see here, Pet," he saidseriously. “Zeldasays he's a prince. She says all Russian refugees are princes orgrand dukes, At any rate, she's got him out THE SATURDAY EVENING POST on deck, trying to teach him English, and she calla him prince, He hasn't dented it yet, anyhow, Look here—he's areally grent man in Russia, 4eldasaya she knows all about him. And if we don’t look out she's going to cop all his in- terest—she's bringing him cushions and what not, and I think it's up te same of the rest of us to alow bir a little distinguished attention and make him feel at home,” “That's a good idea, Ed," Treplied. “What do you sug- gest? FF “T tell you what!" he said eagerly. “Of courae I know this is ywur day to cook, and all that, and that you've a splendid supper for the rest of us—but Dknow how to cook the Russian national dish; I read about it in a novel by Gogoyl. And I think it would make a tremendous hit with the old boy if T fied it for him.” “ro te it!" [ said, “But where will you get the in- gredients?” Edounrd gave me a look of scorn. "Wy dear girl,” he said o trifle impatiently, “how many times must I tell you that the actual materials are un- essential in making anything? I will simply use as a foundation the ingredients we have, which moat elosely aymbolize the real ingredients, and compose a mem of pottagel™ ™ Meas will probably be right!" retorted, flouncing out with the ducks, and leaving Edouard already feverishly sorting cans of spaghetti and sardines, For the frat time I dowhted the soundness of his theory of adaptivity, He could talk all night about its all-embracingness, but I, for one, would not eat a mouthful of adaptive goulash! Fur- thermore, I doubted if Edouard would eat it bimgelf, and I began te wonder whether he was perfectly sincere. T had scarcely put the ducks on the center table of the main cabin, which was deserted, when o strange sound arrested my attention. It was a deep sobbing moan, and came from one of the tiny staterooms. (1 course I went over and knocked, and when a faint voice said “Come in" TI entered! to fied Malvina epread all over the lower berth, her face as green as her crinkled smock, her feet dangling limply over the edge. "Oh, Pet, make them stop the boat!" she moaned when ehe recognized me, "This ia awlul—awfull Oh! [ never felt anything like this in Kansas!" “T dare soy!" T snapped, “But this is a calm night! What on earth will you do when it blows? I thought you said you had done lots of boating?" “On Duck Lake," Malvina replied faintly. “Oh, I wish [was home! Do you think Lam going to die, Pet? I would hate to die without ever having truly lived!" “But you have lived,” I said cheerfully, “and you'll feel better if you'll only come up on deck!" “T eouldn"t—I couldn't,” she protested, reaisting all my efforts to make her get up, “Oh, Pet, | know I'm going to die, and ['we made such a failure of life! | wouldn't mind “Os, Pet, Mole Them Step the Boot!" The Meaned. “Tite le @ufal! F Never Felt Anything Like Thies in Ronson" Af cy dying so much if only I had been married and 5 home and children and—and some decent taih and a French ball dress, first. And, oh, Pet, a house in the suburbs and a permanent Wave; ani you are my best friend, when Iam dead just rece horrible mistakes and go back home te jour oF before it is too Inte!" "There, there!" [said soothingly. “‘I°ll get y of aomathing that will fix you up. Things are r aa you think)" “Well, Poe te lost anyway!" Mabina retorte fully, “He escaped when Zelda took her thing doesn’t come when I call!" "Never mind that old black cat!" sald [. * Zelda take her things away, and where did them ta?" "She's moved to that litthe cubby-hole up—d that she can study Russian in quiet,” groaned "Oh, Pot, why did I waste my life?" Well, Lam not the sort who will do anything fr some other time, ao [ did it then, and watted on Jones as well a [ could, But [ must confess dremdful shock to have ber talk im that amaci ventional way, reneging on everything she had before the world merely because she thought dying; especially as she was doing nothing of the only needed a little fresh alr and courage. It wa disillusionment to me to discover her tribe natur got her up finally, aod half an hour later, the wa very calm by then, she even managed to come to which was a step in the right direction, because had been appointed waitress. However, the bes do for the table was sit at it, My own appetite was excellent, and my fai munity sort of returned as I looked at the bunch + gathered about the, by this time, fairly festiv Prince Kropushkin had the seat of honor, of cou maother on abe aide of him and Ted nest on the interpret, although as yet the Russian had said 2 nothing at all. Then beside Ted came dark litt and next to her, actually, Malvina, very limp in pretending she was merely too thoughtful te eat, | chin resting in her thin hand, Edouard was at t and Shack, with, [ was delighted to see, a coup! poems which he hod dashed off on his little typeset very afternoon and which I had a feeling he woul: us if we urged him a little. Harry Binz was at th and Shamus, with the leg of a duck and two ; cake, was on watch above. It was a beautiful evening and just that soft sunset hour that I lov the roseate glow filling the little cabin and lendis of extra enchantment te everything. My firat supper was a great siccess and every? joyed it except Malvina and Prince Kropushkin, + obliged to eat som guard's special politeness, but wk: seem to care for much, ewen after’ translated Edouar ory of adaptivity The Rursaian sat thought, and conv ical romantic mel of the true Ras Zelda exclaimed. he would talk. I'd know whit the gre isthinkimg, About! olution, ID suppoe! “ He Looks to me didn't have moc: replied Edouard, = sulky because bis had not been prope preciated. ' Mayt getting senile!” “Well, for my | think he haa an inf com ples,"' aaid 3 “He is certainly ver, eat, ab any rate.” "Ho's got an ish allright !""Edouanla The sound of Edo Voice must have sl the primer'’s attents he turned towar sculptor aa if he = to speak —lhut he he merely looked, | get a distinct inp that Edouardwairtt! to him. ‘Ted sat thr amd interfered tacts (Continued os Papi

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a2 {Continued from Page 30) "T'll try to get him to tell you about Lenine!”’ he sug- gested hastily. “Lenine is one of his intimate friends!" The prince made one of hi queer sounds at this, which I eoulda't quite evteh correctly because of Zelda's shouting, "Oh, do!’ she cried, “Moke him explain the Third Internationale!" “T'd rather hear some of his poems,” objected Shackel- tan. “If he would rend them Ted could translate, I'm sure his poetry must have a savage virility and unusual Iyricism: combined.” “TU tell hits that you want te hear his poetry, then," gaid Ted, “Same of the love sonnets are very delicate, You'd be surprised.” THe turned to his neighbor, “Solier ed nauseum solgeb,” ssid he. The older man looked at him with a sort of piteous ex- preeion: there were almost tears in his eyes and in his voloe an well, “There ain't mo justice!" he muttered helplessly, "There!" exclaimed Ted brightly. “Always thinking of the revolution! And trying to talk to ua in our awn language!" Ad that instant mother gave-n violent start and a little ScTeAM, “Bomeone kicked mel" she said indignantly, “I wish you'd tell your Rugalan friend to keep his feet where they belong." The prince muttered something unintelligible at that, and Ted reproved him severely, ““Rashpitkin’" said he Then he turned to Zelda. “Here—give us that volume of his poems and T will trons- late them!" he commanded, “The prince is very shy about reading his own stuff. You know how it is your- selyes! Feels embarrassed at putting his own work for- ward, and all that!" 2eldu produced the book from her lap, and we sat abut in expectant slence while Ted turned the pages, hesitating where to begin. “Lovely atull, lovely stuff!" he muttered, half to bim- self, “So different fram his politieal works, You know his military book, of course—How I ‘Took Russia Steppe by Steppe? Very cold piece of work, that! Ah! Here ipa beauty!" And aa we settled into silence he read aloud with, I must say, a great deal of expression: “Rashir wor aolak : Yah mar rarengh, OF posh, O, tratitear! Hor no per permik! Holnar! Lush feniety, Of draghly Or droskierr, Vodka, rodka!" There was a tense moment whon he finished. Kropush- kin himself seemed uneasy and began rubbing his knees in that charactenatic nervous way of his. The stillness was broken at length by Shackeltom Salta. “Beautiful!” he said in a low voice. “Wery benutifyl focwmd— bat what does: it mean?" "Tl have to make a very rough tranalation,” asid Ted apologetically, “D'm mo poet myself, you know, But it's anmething like this: “Phe litle sieler moon ts en fhe aby: (hh, come, my fender lore, my fther’s Gitle cobbooe Sewer, Let ws cotch a droakky, nd toa, sik i ped drosiky, And dripe trio fhe fore of the: mma Dhrinking podke!" “How striking! How strong!" erie] Shork. even moves the poet himself" And tndeed it seemed to. Fora moment I thought the Russian was going to grasp Ted's throat in his extreme excitement. But before anything actually happened bbe tween them a terrible ery rang out from up on deck and sent us all simply Ayling above. It was Harry Bing who called, and the words sent a chill to my heart, “Man overboard!" he shouted, “Man overboard!" And in a panic we all rushed up tosee. Binz had the deck to himeelf. “That fool of an Trishman walked out on the berw- sprit!" he howled at Ted. “I guess he's hanging on by the stays, but we'd better get him quick!" Tt was Ted who did the job, however. [ never saw such snappy aetion in my life, Tt seemed only an ingtant before Shamus’ dripping fqrure was on deck again, and Ehurckel- Lon was giving him a bawling-out. “You're a fine lockout!" said Shack scornfully. “What the devil did you think you eould gee cut there from the bowsprit anyway? You ear't see any distance fram down here ["* “Look out your own self then!" retorted the shivering Shamus. “For by your leave P'll do no more tonight! Sines you're so amart, why don't you do better?" 487 mill fb? replied Shackelten, "LT will climb inte the topmast and from there cry out what I see!" And this he proreeted to do with great enthusiasm, al- though not much agility, while Shamus went shivering and cursing below, and the prince, becoming auddenly and “Sone— it THE SATURDAY EVENING POST violently agitated, drew Ted away for on emphatic whis- pered| argument. The rest of ua watched Shackelton as he climbed wp and up to perfectly dreadful heights. My heart was fairly in my mouth while I kept my eyes gleed to his figure me ft marvod ogainst the sunset, and Twas most awfully relioved when he stopped at a sort of crogepiece, threw one leg over it, and clung there, one arm about the mast, the other hand shading hik eyes ih the most appropriate and churming gesture, Meanwhile the prince had broken away from Ted, tucked up the buck of his smock, and with his hands in his rinr pockets agin, paced violently up and down the deck several times before whatever was overcoming him over- came him completely and he made a dash for the forecaatle and disappeared into it. After which Ted, with an ex- hausted uir, poined us in watehing Shack, and o mighty good thing he did, too, for just then we found Malvina’s black ent, Poe, You see, Shackelton had climbed inte the foremost and Poe, who had been missing for several hours, had, ft seem, climbed Lap into the hindmast anc wes afratd ‘to come down. He—[ mean Foo—had been up there mewing faintly, but mobody had heard him and come out to give him that moral encouragement about descending which all cots seem to need when they have gone up higher than they hind originally intended. And now he caught sight of Shackelton up in the other crosstreea and gave every evi- dence of being about to try to jump across to him. Shack saw this and he didn't care for the idea at all. Not that he wr afratd the cot wouldn't be able to make the wide leap, but that it would succeed in doing it, for Shack had the cat fear, and he simply could not endure one to come anywhere near him. So pretty soon he was mewing even louder than Fre. “Hey! Call that creature off!" he shouted tn a regular panic, holding to the mast fret with one arm and then with the other, “Call that beast off, T zay!" “Here, kitty, kitty! cried Malvina, suddenly galvn- nized into life, “Wh, Pee, eme here! Oh, my lovely ent! Oh, do rescue him, Shack!" “Rescue my eye!” shouted Shachelton. “Call him aff before he Jumpe on me or I won't answer for the rons quenens f "Kitty, kitty!” shouted Malvina, now almogt as frantic a4 Shack, “Oh! He won't come down! He's going ta Lemp!" "Dean't let him!" yelled Shack, clinging hysterically to the mast with both arms now. “ Don't bet him ar | shall fall f°" “Good heavens, man! Why don't you come dawn?" Ted called, ST con't!" shrieked Shackelton. pricey [" "Oh, resewe him!" Malvina acreamed. But whether she meant Shackelton or her pet I am un- orriain, Although the wards Jeft her Lips and nok mine, it was most certainly Shack for whom T was concerned. Of course I knew the cat could not poseibly make the jump from mast to mast, and [ expect the cat knew it, toa, although he kept on going through preliminary ermuches, the way cats de, But [certainly was afraid that if Shack- elton got any more seared than he already was he'd fall to the deck before our very eyes. Tt was truly dreadful ta set him, the far-fanved sailor poet, crouched up there lke a frightened monkey or something, on a mast which eaght to have bern perfectly familiar te him! The sight made me fairly ill. “Grab held of the halyards,” Ted called up at Shack, “and awing yourself down!" “How can I grab the halyarida when the sall isn't up?” howled Shack. “The halyards, you poor nut—not the hoope! The ropes—right at your hand!" Ted replied, convulsed with lnughter, “Say, au are some sailor bay! Hey, walt, Ul come up and shew youl" With which he made a dash for the mast, shinnying up much better than Shackelton had done, and pretty acon he had the author of Sea Songs of a Sailorman safe on deck: aufe but haudly sound, for Shackelton was a nervous wreck and hed ter be bel pet below, AL this siirhit I turned away, overwhelmed with shame for him, something inside me simply crawling with disguat. If there is one thing I de- epise it ia a fake of any kind. And Shackelton Salts had tlaimed to have been around the Horn gexxlnes: knows how many times! Well, perhaps he hacd—as a passenger on asteamer! Ugh! Tears of sheer bitterness and dis- ilugionment welled up inte my eves, eo that I could hardly set, and I stumbled over something in the growing dark- ness on my way eft to a secluded eorner where I might weep in peace. The object aver which I had tripped wag Poe, the black eat, who had magically descended fram the mast unalded and unoebeerved, and was now purring around my fort as uncancernodly as though nothing af all had happened, and the world was the same good old world of romance which it had been half an hour earlier. The even tenor of our ways now suddenly turned to a deep barytone—and ao Littl off key, at that. For next “T'm dizey. [ daren*t Jfay morning when we came on deck, beheld we were v fog. I'd been in London when it was showing of benefit of visitors, but I had never seen a fog lice before. ‘There was a terrible vagueness abort it, a heing Surrounded by an weiul unknown mothingn us all. There wos, of course, mot a | wind, and the water was sort of oily and moat up looking, It wasn't a bit like the summy trip to t South Seas which we had plored. Moreover, & the remotest idea where we were, and just drifre because none of the men could agree on what - to do. “What do you think?” Shackelten, who was for the day, asked of Ted. Shack was rather cron very poor breakfast, prepared by Zelda, whoee to: to eek, and who did net know how. “What suggest, Stonewall?" Ted took his littl pipe cut of his mouth and « large cloud of emoke very slowly before he replies “Why ask mel” he said calmly, “I thought agreed to run this ship in turn. It's your tur wouldn't drewm of inberterieyg.”" Well, Shack walked off, very much annoyed at t he couldn't seem to make up his mind about what even after Harry Binz, the handy sailor, wolunte auggestion that we anchor. “No, oof" exelaimel Shack impatientivy. “Wl keep moving! The Azores can't be very far away and I'd like te touch them as soon ae pPorssibie!” No sooner had he said this than Andrey Eiroy who was shanding near, suddenly doubled up in + alarming manner, and had to be led away by T course we all crowded around to inquire for the ; ran when Ted reappeared alone, for it was apy quite a dreadful attack, But Ted said the Rue all right. and resting quirtly, "I'm keeping him safe below for a while,” be sai there is nothing to worry about. He has thes occasionally, It comes from the bread be ate in a a rule, hw [t sometimes occurs when @ Poet bs oping!" And ao began the moet completely nightman Thaveeverapent. The fog stayed down tight, and | wt wert ecurcely speaking to one another, The o citement was furnished by Zelda, who diseavered 3 the galley and abaolutely refused to go back tn an eooking lunch. Zelda, the fearless radical! And w pointed aut that it wae her day ta cook she simply s that nething hed been agreed about rats, and thats out on strike. And as we couldn'tspltt her union mother took Poe with her into the galley and they a on the rata and on #elda, and we had a deliciou anyhow: but preporing it didn't make mother ver company, a8 eu can imaging, and she said several sharp things abowt nasty common youre fema.s made Zelda sore, a0 she punished us by refusing + te the table, and went off gulkily with a volume of in one hand and a can of sardines in the other. And still the fog kept up. During the afternoon Kropushkin reappeared on deck and began fis pacing up and down, turning nervous glances at i peering inte the fog and oceasionally bursting ir exclamnotion, Scemnetinies ft wos “VYaht™ pnd then gamething like “Godfreylishia! And when pf Captain Shackelton Salts asked him toa stop and te hew to say “boat and “gail in Ruseian the of looked ws if he would like te bite the pcre "a head o was so mide that Ted had to interfere, “He's composing. Let him alone!" And believe me, we took the hint! Shamus, Shack ard mgyaelf were seated on the fo hateh and at Twas between them [ got the brunt of first fight. “These pooma I'm going to read you,”’ Shack b “ape all descriptive of the Marquesan Talands.” “Ten poling bo write a book about them islands my Shamus broke in, “I'm gevinige to take an eer tinely dd angle from Murphey, at that. The men that’s ber there haven't properly undersbaend —— “As T waa paying,’ " Shack insisted, “these porc going te Feel —' “How can you desenbe Tabith when you haven™ there yet?" demanded Shamus, “Well, you've never been in Ireland, but you #1 betk about it!" Shackelton snapped back. “Raith, I don"t wart bo listen to any monsene 2 out of The Shadewy South Sens!" exclaimed She jumping to his feet. “TL suppose ye hawe ped rime joy and pareu with happy crew! Bah! I ev! treks! I'm off to write some tithes for the chapter 0 own book!" “Saphead!" muttered Shack, looking after St retreating gure. “He writes like an after-<dinne qund speaks like an after-dinner writer!" From which you can sec that things were really very badly. And when Edouard, who was set tose decks that evening, used all the freeh water ou! of (Continued an Page 45! he advised |

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a4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 6 EVERYBODY’S BUSINES Common: Sense Vacations ACATIONS now constitute an im- \/ portant part in the curriculum of modern busines. People who are wise know thot a respite from one's daily work and a change of environment are necessary to give a person a renewed grip on life. Civ- iization often weories of itself, and at such times ordinary individuals foal the backward tug toward the freedom af savagery. Just a5 serpents discard their skins, so must humans shuffle out of their old selves. i Corporations that glye their employes vacntions with pay have found that they get a high rate of interest on the investment they have made. Recreation is a great bal- ancer as well as a harmonizer. Healthful exercise in pleasant surroundings brings inte play certain faculties that are not utilized during the hours of routine work, Em- ployee grown stale in the grind of business nearly always prove a quarrelsome lot. <A vacation period properly employed restores mental snap. Tt transforma irritable, peevish men and women into happy, efficient workers. The biggest men in business to-day are those who either have the vacation habit or who have a hobby on the side which takes thelr minds aff tiresame tasks, Business conditions will doubtless cause many people to modify their elaborate ideas for a vacation this year and carry through come acheme for providing recreation at amuch lower coat than they would conternplate in Musher times, Though expensive hotels and fashionable resorts may suffer from this enforced economy, it does not neces- sarily follow that the pleazures af the individual must be eurtalled. People whe are foroed to follaw the campers" trails this year bersuse of their attenuated purses may find new joys never before experienced, The success of a vacation dependa largely on one's ob- servane: of simple common-sense rules. Firat is the neces- aity of on safe water supply. In order to have this, preference should be given to modern plumbing rather than mountain scenery. Tennis courts and golf links are Jews important than a sufficieney of pasteurized milk. If there is the lenst doubt as te the purity of drinking water it is advisable to bil it. A common mistake of the average vacationist is to try to take of a full coat of tan in one or two days. Nature's way of protecting the bexly from the sun's heat is te tan the skin, but this process must take its course slowly. Otherwise the individual will acquire a painful if not serious case of sunburn. It is not the light rays but the invisible chemical rays fram the sun that burn and blister the skin, sometimes setting up absecases deep in the tisues. Sunburn may be treated satisfactorily by heating one-half pint of water and then stirring inte it a level teaspoonful of boric-acid powder; then add twenty drops of ecarbolic acid and shake well, Use o small piece of cotton or a spray to apply the solution to the skin, If cottan is used dab it on—don't rub it in. Wet the skin twiee each hour. If blistera form, do not open them. Les pain is experienced if one permits the blisters to break of themselves. When a person is burned and no medicine ia available cold compresses will afford relief, Vacations usually take people inte new environments, where the body lseubjected to changed condithons which should be beneficial, However, because of coreless- nes and lack of preparation many vace- tions bring disaster rather than build health. Everyone golng to the mountains or senshore should be prepared to deal intelligently with accidents or cases of sudden Ulness. In many places doctors are not at hand, so a simple first-aid kit may prove to be a life-saver. One author= ity suggests the following contents for s simple, inexpensive kit: Two gauze band- age, two or three inches wide: two cat- ton bandages, thre: inches wide; one roll of adhesive plaster, one inch wide; two dozen aalfety ping, two ounces of abeorbent cotton, one yard of plain sterile gauze, one or two ounces of tincture of iodine, two dozen compound cathartic pills, four ounces of castor oil, two ounces birarbon- ate of soda, one dram permanganate of potash, one hot-water bag and one clin- teal thermameter, Headaches and fevers may be relieved by iceecold applications. Most other palna reepond te hot applications, A pain in the abdomen is often the result of constipation and will be relieved by nu lnxative. Colicky pains, however, fre quently aecompany diarrhea, and in such By FLOYD W. PARSONS a. cnse all food should be stepped at onee and the patient should be given plenty of water to drink. A twenty-four- hour fast will usually cure diarrhea. Isolate a feverish pa- tient and feed bir nothing except a litth: milk, and that only incest he isvery hungry. Hundreds of cases of typhoid feversrecontractedduringsummervacations. Many people are guarding against infection with this disease by subject- ing therselyes to antityphoid vaccination. This vaccina- Hon affords protection forfram one to four years. Forthose who lean to the use of vaccines it ia worth looking inte, In the case of small cuts bleeding is beneficial, as it serves to wash owt bacterla, Later point the wound and the surrounding skin with # light cont of joding. Then apply a dressing of sterile gauze and hold in place with a bandage. Even a large cut will atop bleeding of itself un- lesa a large artery or veln has been opened, in which ease send for a dector. If the blood comes in spurts apply a tourniquet. Fishhooks are a common cause of wounds Vata- tionista. De mot attempt te remove the hook by pulling it directly out, This lacerates and tears the tissues. The Proper procedure is to push the point of the hook forward and onward in an upward direction, bringing it out on the surface at another point. The barbed end is then ewt off with a wire cutter or file, after which it is an easy matber to extract the remaining part of the hook without dam- aging the tissues, Even splinters which get under the skin are painful and require proper attention, Before using # needle or the blade of a knife to remove a splinter be sure to pass the needle or knife blade through a flame several times, each thme cooling the metal before holding it in the fame again. Insect bites and stings are a common source of annoy- anca ta vacationists, Probably nothing is superior to the application of afew drops of household ammonia water or some bicarbonate of soda for treating the bites and stings of mosquitoes and other insects, The sting of the insect should be removed before applying the ammonia. Pain may be relieved by applying a solution of boric acid. The insects known a jiggers bore under the akin and must be dug out with a needle which has been sterilized in » flame, Snake bites usually consist of two punctures, and these should be freely incised with a knife and then sucked. There is no danger in aucking the wound caused by a anake if there are no eracks or sores in the mouth or on the tongue. Later such wounds should be cauterized by apply- ing carbolic acid or nitric acid on a toothpick or bare end a amateh. If noacid is available cauterize the wound by touching it with a knife blade, nail or other piece of metal which has been heated in a fire. Permanganate of potash, a level teaspoonful to a pint of boiled water, is also use- ful. Giving the victim whisky ia usually harmful, for in such treatment another depressant is added to the snake poison whieh is already in the aystern. Instead of whisky, give aromatic spirits of ammonia, one-half teaspoonful in water every hour, and half 9 capful of strong coffer

every two hours. Serums have be duced which are elective in certain snake bites, but they are rarely chy When needed. Inflammation of the skin caused by contact with ivy is best treated by bathing with salt water, ses being the best. Another treatment ia made by dis one teaspoonful of berie acid in a glase of hot wate large blisters which form on the skin should be pom Every two or three days the affected parts che bathed with warm water, carefully dried without - and the treatment resumed. One common summer ailment is sunstroke. Th thing to do for a person who has been sunstrucd lower the body temperature and raise the heart ; Remove the clothing and sprinkle or sponge the bod eold water. Apply cold cloths to the hemd and hes feet. Let the pergon inhale ammonia or camphor o low a little water containing one of these stimulants oraus rubbing of the beady and extremities is ako b No person will ever suffer from sunstroke who keeps bi eool and his feet warm, especially if he perspires ire More vacationiste will probably camp out this yeu ever before, Lacate the camp on high ground, 4 py near trots, but away from underbrush, A grav provides good drainage. Get away from standing) which breeds mosquitoes. Garbage and waste aba placed in covered receptacles and promptly dispos One way to treat such waste is to dig a hole, partly with field stones, and on top of the stones build s fre garbage should not be dumped into the hole until a's fire has made considerable headway. If the waste sb it should be placed in trenches that are at least p inches deep. Fresh earth should be placed in the tre each day. Even the simple precaution of digging a drainage all the way around a tent is often overlooked, Wi flooring adds to comfort. Many people do not know that there are more the thousand summer camping sites ta let in the ome ho and fifty-three national forests in this euntry. Thesela are located in the White Mountains, the Appalachian: other Eastern ranges as far south as Florida. Sie alae be rented in the lake states, out in the Rockies x the Casendes on the Pacitie Comst. A site covering | one to five gore may be rented for from ten to twecy dollars a year. Many sites are close to fishing, buctics wonderful scenery. The acheme is ao arranged that i a lease expires the original renter has the first ches renew it again as often as he likes. ‘The United 3 Forest Service will sell timber at cost price on the = to the lessee, who can cut the timber himself or hire = oné ta de lt for him. The only proviso ts that a de: looking cabin must be built. Application for pork 1 Tiust be sent to the meareet. forest-service official, vt authorized to issue a permit to any responsible appl Hundreds of people who are familiar with thie plas taken ndvantoge of the Government's generosity and | vided themselves with summer homes that are chee practically permanent. The majority af peaple prefer tag their vacations near some body of ®t and as a result boating and sxx are popular national pastimes. Th sands of emart-Alecks still rock and insist on changing seats at mit appartune times, The only remedy this brand of folly that has ao far b found effective is the liberal use of cals form. But in swimming, even peo whe are cautious offen get inte tov or must help others: ao it is wellton in tind some of the facta and mies must obeerve in helping those who cal to grief in the woter, Am exper swimmer should alwaye make a ce survey of unknown waters before oth goin. Submerged roots, rocks and ot obstructions cause many peridents. 2 cue adrowning person by throwizg en thing, to him rather than by goingto if possible, Even a amall floating ote is quite sufficient to sustain a poe weight in the water, Lf the per | trouble is struggling try to beep 9 from him for a few seconds until be ad quiet, In effecting a rescue take [0 hold of the hair of the drowsing pe and turn him a8 quickly aa possiile oe & back. Throw yourself om yar back, with his back to your stomach Feo for shore,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST \UT-OF-DOORS The Rawhide Railroad (KING of forgotten trails, did you haps ever hear of the Rawhide Rail- @t in Oregon? Dates appear in- \yet it seems quite certain that this bey railroad lead ever known in Oregon. peso lack a competent historian, for Estes, an attorney af Portland, a written a whole book about +e which [ am willing to say holds gs euch of the catia humor jerican West as anything I gear fi covers ane days of Mark Roughing It boears that in ‘the days of old there e Dee Baker, who moved and had ng at Walla Walla, and who, being set to which coin naturally clings “Venger pas of all sorts, kinds an of money. He made money gs. madeitin cows, made it in wheat— every way he looked and in every: he did, Old Dee Baker, believe us, have made a splendid here for some fork story about Wall Strect. In- [| shudder to think what old Doo sould have done to Wall Strect had ei jeg am So ker was just naturally a cap cae, and of the sort who sone- (ive veara before their time. It i@ ged where be got his vision, for eo fold be never lived outside of Oregon: imehow or ee he hae scat rel een in those i & a ined for a my ees th of his he Cohimbia River was all right, My was thirty miles a from. the Uwhich he made his aeat of operations. antes to tide from Walla Walla to on the steam ears, and nothing malty do bim—and then: were no Loum, that time Portland, Oregon, was qui ig. Agrest many of the stum uimps had pulled out of the main street and t pbank owned by one Mr. Ladd, to itank aforesaid old Doc Baker would mina while and deposit a wheat fullof gold. He brought this down by va ihe Columbia River and the reat PWSteT Toute to the present emporium eOregon country, One day he enme rth am ¥ sack of s other apa ot in eee aomoeny,, informed his. er that be wished ‘than to send East order two modern and up-to-date soived for him. His bankers mildly dhim what he wanted with locomo- tad in effect he profanely informed ithat they would furnish the locorme- be would do the reat. midentally, old Dee Baker told hia mn that he wanted them to purchase tim and have shipped out with the the twe motives @ little order of one thousand tel to show his opulence by wearin fe ‘alk hat every day, but as to that ‘Baker satiraly non somites! had asin mind. He suggested S bankers that so long as he had plenty money i ther hank and they had im: date access to it, all they had to do was im locomotives and silk hate when he rile Whereupon Mr, Ladd agreed iva explained to Old Doc Baker that being tht Lacomotives & by ship mhew York t Portland would take nis ue tg get-together 2 housed to get together a thouwsan fata, The hew railroad king of Oregon ral rmarked that he would have Syiting ready by the time the shipment ome! ieee then departed for hia awn net. bee Filer knew that in order to con- ae frig ip must have an engineer A out Ladd thought it would ae abeet six months ta make the pre- me arte fer this railroad, but that ie timtoa real hustler, Where- Pete eiset bethought him of a friend be tame of Bill Green, an old-time and og-team driver, True, Bill ed fever asen a rallrond any more stp hut he was the sort of irs @ one Way OF an- i) #0 DE wag ail for chief engineer Mr. Green was alightlh handicapped by the fact that he did net know exactly what a railroad looked like, but he had heard idl ant Pat Pronty, a placer miner who was once to have worked on a rail- ead far back in the Enst, He found Pat, and Pat d to go in as sesistant engi- neer and chief of construction. The two of then started in to lay out the railroad, They had no surveying Instruments, and would mot have Known iow to use them if they had owned them, Their methods were yory simple, il Green took a whisky bottle half full of water and found that he could attain perfectly good levels by aquinting along the top of the water in the half-flled bottle. This seems o little crude, but a8 a matter of fact it worked. More than that, it worked on horseback. In that equntry at that time no one ever walked. The engineers rode while laying out their levels, and éo0 saved t! vee much fa- gue, So successful were their new rail- roid methods that instead of requiring six months to lay out ie line they did the whole ght just six days. You might think that they did this work in a crude and ineominstent fashion. Such is far from the case, When the a tide of civilization had lon, Yo real rai roads out inte that country the new ongi- neers did not need to lay owt anew line from Walla Walla ta Wallula. The Bill Green SUF and the Pat Prunty grading were fa entirely satisfactory, and all that re- malned me waa to put down mew rails. Our historian informs ua that in grading the new lines the engineera weed twenty yoke of oxen hitched to a grader mide on the apot according ta apecifica- tions never elsewhere, They kept this grader in nee] hitehing teams of mules to it on each e. With this equipment, original and aunpt Phil mus Ve wea, the ding on the new railroad from Walla Walla to Wallula went on o E mort rapidly than Mr. Ladd predicted. They put in culverts te let the water through, built bridges where absolutely necessary, and laid down ties just ag is done on a regular railroad. Of course they had no railroad iron, but that was.a mere detail. The rails were made of heavy woolen stri level-headed quality : tronsporiation. They spi rail on only one side of track. WhytT Because they had no idea bow far oper the wheels of a locomotive were, and was no way of finding out inside of tro fue: So they nailed down one rail, and et the other lie Looe until they could fit the road to the new engines when they came. There wae almost no lost motion in any of the operations of building the firet railraad Oregon ever had. reader will new suppose t to have ela . AL the end of that ine Banker Ladd sent word by canoe ex to Doe Baker that his cargo from the hed arrived, He also sent by personal messenger a straight stick a ocrtain length. Doc Baker understood. That measured the gauge of the locomotives. Bill Green at once started his men at spik- ing down the loose rail of the railroad. Baker himself started down the Columbia River to bring up hia freight. Tt came tore loeomotives, one hundred mi oof car wheels and one thou- sand plug hats, That is to say, it curr: simply nnd stendily as far upstream as patel bold rapids, known as Wish-ram, whereabouts dwelt a certain tribe whose hearts were known to be bad in to the white man, and who were accustomed to exact toll of travelera much in ancient banditfashion, At this point the real genius af the reticent Doe er shone forth. He net only needed a opener but he’ netded 2 transport as ow to get the heavily louded barges over or arc the Wish-ram meg fee wan a question. Of course, since he eash for everything, it waa his dia to do what he liked with the lia the ear Fe ae iia why wheels and the He never ha he hed. ordered one thousnnd plug hate, supposed that he intended to wear them all on the first train from Walla Walla to Wallula: but such waa not the case, He now opened his boxes, crates and packages of ailk hata and, taking one of the aforeanid hats in hand, ent the tribal council mein had been called for this orension, | aced the hat u the head of the Ay and, standing back in admiration, declared himself of the personal belief that Solomon had nothing on the chief of the Uden te and that any Wish-ram warrior, thus attired, even if he eould claim but little else by way of raiment, would put all peronal competition out of the question | as against any other tribal member what- mever, Doc Baker explained that the Wish-ram thos arrayed would irreaist- ible with the fair sex. | Not to be partial, he explained that he | these had one thousand of hats, one for each ablebodied member of the tribe, He | indicated also, delicately, that he needed about a thousand able-bodied men to pull his locometives around the rapids. wotdersd if a thowsand silk hate would nae | furnish him a Wish-ram passport in every senso of the word. fé would; itdid, As one man, one thou- sind seminakedl Wish-rams, each with a silk hat on his head, laid hold of the lines pte walked the locomotives upstream round the rapids, their work well. It was found that the logomotives fitted the rails abeclutely. The fl | Bill Green and Pat Pronty had done | 1 | engineer and fireman imported from FPort- | land got up steam and found that the new | certain things | ratlroad worked, Mayha occurted by 2 of celebration—histary suith not, But history saith that after a while, under the many cargoes of wheat, Indians and lewding citizens who began to use the railroad from Walla Walla to Wallula, the flanges of the wheels began to ut inte the 2h iar se a ii t waa a t tha Ore the new railroad ete disin te. oe This would never But how eould | the catastrophe be averted? Why, plenty | easy! Doe Baker knew that raw the most durable substance in the world for | one who rightly understood its uss, He hia new railrowl to be faoed with rawhide all the way from Walla Walla to Wallula! It was done. It was found that over the rails thua reinforced the traffic could be handled with perfect chat fsabg Ces course the railroad was a good er when ft rained, but in the hot weather shrunk op hard as iron and worked ectly, Aeco ing to historian Estes, Doe Baker ane iris engiriaere did Cot andetacand abawt the cowentcher on the engine, There wore a great many cows in that country, but they did not want to spite sr Aggro bate contrary. Hence they rigzed a li form at the front of each engine on each mounted a competent dog. When any animal ocbatructed the track the dog warhed it off, or chased it of when harsher Meise Were wired, All in all, it is a grave question whether the engineers of any age or locality have shown themselves more practical than those who built and operated the first railroad in Oregon, It was only thirty miles long, to be sure, but it wag some rH d in its cng, What became of it? Mr, Estes in his his- tory makes that quite Erg There came a nat hard winter in that part of Oregon, with deep snows. Maddened by hunger, the wolves came down out of the mountaing and infested all the settlements. The hardy men of Oreron prepared to aell their lives as dearly an possible, for each habitation was surrounded by a circle of these beasts, with rel, slavering jaws. How often does some little event turn fen core hint cfc The avis i mig Opera ri Walla Walla and Wallula shee not been for the fact that some hun wolf, while digging in-the snow for food, chanced to strike, ina shallow place of the anow, a por- tion of the roadbed and rails. At that | tite, to the moisture of the anow, the | rails were in what might be eplled a rela- as succulent and aie tei tans edible ition, Word was p among the veanlvia With rel, sdavering ne they fell upon the Rawhide Railroa ae soon the | Rawhide Railroad had passed through the red and alavering jaws aforesaid. - Naturally thae ended it, You. can't run | a railroad after the wolves have caten up the rails, can you? af You'll be glad — to know that U. &. W. Deck Paint has a worthy running mate—U. &. WN. Deck Varnish. Andit's just as fine a varnish as U.S. N. Deck Paint is a paint. Guess that's about all I need to say to old friends. But to those who don't know U.S. N. Deck Paint so well, I'll say briefly: If you mensure the value of paint in price per gallon instead of ‘in years of service you won't be inter- ested. U.S. NW. Deck Paint costs a littl more a gallon than most paints; costs more and is worth more. Tt outwears ordinary paint; it withstands rubbing, scrubbing, and washing. 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REG. US. PAT. OFF. HATS FOR YOUNG MEN QUALITY without (opera and the | pasalonate Extravagan ce ERG Style speaks for itself. A season’s wear tells you the rest. Berg styles stay smart because the ““Sta-Shape”’ Brim* stays in shape. Made of mellow “tight” felt by the pick of Orange Valley haterafters, Berg Hats are known the nation over for “Ouality without Extrava- gance’’—today as for more than a half-century. "Trade Mark Applied For At men's shops the nation over from $5 up F.BERG & COMPANY Funded 18by ia Orange, New Jersey, U. 5. A. General Relre Ofieess Albemarty Bladg., c2o7 Broadsway, New York | Boston, Jan Francisca REG. US PAT. OFF HATS FOR YOUNG MEN THE SATURDAY Goro exhibiting the littl house to the American naval officer, the scene with Su- zuki, the servant, the arrival of the Amer- lean consul, Sharpless. Then came Pinker- lag whimeleall intradueing a anatch of The Star- Spend Banner, and the AMUSing puss ta convivial invita- ark En lah rors Punch Me whis ngoutsos from t mellifiuaus etalk text = Presently, ee eniiiee Ba to hima to remain seated, Rita whispered, and left him, Soon after, he heard the litth: hubbub of warmen's voices that preesdes the entrance of Butterfly; then softly, in Ritu’s thrilling soprano, the reci- tative, Amcora un passe or fd, With music mounting like the hillside steps she Was sup to have climbed: and aii immedintely on thig—stil from a little dis- tance —bher happy song of love, The wistful atory of this “My acar,”’ ale | | yearning af ita Spbdiee baal: ways moved Parrish, butnow he felt a new emotion. This was not Coven= try in Madame Butterfly; it waa the woman he loved. Hreathlesaly he awalted the firat vision of her on the brow of the hill, hla heart thumping thickly; burt when, & hepeating the plaintive * ‘Thave come at the call of love," ahe appeared he could see her but dimly through tears stand - ing in his eyes. Startled and chagrined at his emotion he hastily brushed them away with the back of his hand. Theneeforward he sat spellbound, listen- ing for Rita's voiee, watching her every gesture, How perfectly ale aimulated the mannerisms of » gentle little Japanese! How expressive her hands! And how mall she looked—or was if only that the tenor was eo big and fat? “Young licutenant” with those dimensions! There was some- thingunmanly about tenors. Conse to think of it, he had never known any man with a voier to make good in busimess. ‘he wedding guests arrived upon the scene, the ceremony wie perform “lane the company departed, leaving Butterfly and Pinkerton alone. Their wedding night. The footlighta had been growing dimmer. Stara “Hh to show through the back drop. T & muaie! Nob y endld equal Puccini as a compoter of these throbbing, Passionate love songs “Ti serro polp dante,’ sang Che teror and, suiting the artlon to the word, seized her in his arm. That was the beastly thing about a woman's being on the stage; must subrolt te belng handled bees in spite of his aversion for the tenor in deeply moved hy the flery eof t “ big uct with which the act eo kerton led Butterfhy to the mgt chan mine e. B great cloud drifti price ai now in ri the have ae rabaia while from t ace ond swep Flause which ale Parrish think of ap you roar of rain on a tin reel. As the magnificent footman drew bork a comer of the heavy tableau curtain to pass. fe BIT ont, fs se first ang ‘BITES up and peered throug! aperture. In the dim auditorium he could see the people in the boxes meareat the ae arch—the men a background or the women—proid-looking wornen with aie Saf tha biteing stare phune_ 4 es CAUSE e blin - hts in his eyes they pia gi eal es to » like paper Bess eut from fashion singers moved out before the cur- tain the ae rolled louder. Hewatched EVENING POST RITA COVENTRY (Contianned from Page 13) them taking hands, smiling, bowing to each other and to the audience, their faces sharply lighted from beneath, like ballet girls nf Degas’ palntings. ny encores, Alta alone with the brilliance beating on g.on the youthful denly through the air, flowers rag Betm= ing ta -come from shi ed Pars ai seit voices in the distance ing “Arane!™ ers when she came to him, "TT must hurcy!" she anid. "T have to be on at the be- inning of the next act, you worth your staying while I ehange.”” ‘Tour engagement.” be began interrogatively, a2 contour of her chin and me erarms were full of flea- now. Io don’t believe it's they moved towurd her Ae Was Walking Rapidly; the Cofler of Hie Orercoat War Turned Up, aad Ne Wore a Checked Cloth Cap dressing room—“that business you spoke af—it haar t by any chance been —— o, I'm sorry," she broke in. Dui run along then," he said, "T'm afraid you'll have to," she agreed aa they reached the antercam. She was apeaking rapidly, like a busy executive to tae time ia everything. “Why don't Mt out front and hear the rest from Here." She snatched an envelope rai the desk, scribbled a few words on it in pencil, and thrust it inte his hand. "Take that to the box office. Ask for Mr. Spiegel. He'll give you a seat if there's one to be had. Now I really must "She turned toward the door of the inner ream. “Thanks,” he said. “Shall [ come back for you afterwards?" “Oh, mo. D'Dl be late.” The words came over her shoulder. But from the doorway she loaked back, exclaiming," Oh— Talrost forget! Come to dinner Sunday.” With that = A tle frinred., “Thanks, [ will," he said to the chints curtain and, taking up hat, coat and stick, left the room. looked: the Mfay 6 Of course-cshe was in an awful h no doubt about that, She just didn’ time to think, And she was pleas the bracelet—he d see that wh thanked him. No particular ressg éhe ahould ap of it in. ; He passed through the © stage da walked up the side street toward Uy af the building. : She rape naan that be ve er wnt Impoesi wanted ta be oo he wonaldn't other ent. for Sunday that wag ie. ; The iby was full of men in ore u ‘sh one the envelope t! baenie window. I fet ped Mes ie ie ill yom eft,”" sai r. Spiegel ay management's boo? Parrish thanked him and {heel COL) Taree. he boo, which an usher unlock him, wes near the center of the bor A brass plate on the door bore the th ,and a like place on! cee eae intieiad Pevak joining box was that of : Teh scape tas and sit down at the | and he waa pot fm hurner ta He took a chair at the reas,: bee high partition sheltered Vir. dust what was her bu about, he wondered —not tl was any particular affair Rita's lawyer loolked | over for her. He bh hay a good lawyer, But did they contracts at night ls dra rooms? That didn’t specs businesslike, You'd think 4 go to the manager's office— the lawyer's ce—or that lawyer would come to the cin house. Artistic people were tonioualy careless about bod And she made aa much mo probably with her it was) come, easy go. What she on was the advice of a good # business man. She might do) worse than to consult him a! some of these things. The house was darkened, curtain tose. Thesad etary, th fecting melodies and hisown a tions as ine eget fy noe in that grea rill picture—and heard her voice Frying through those vast spa combined to produce in tt state of mournful intoxication Which he remained until, 2 opera wae about to emd, pe in the parterre bases tol away to get to their limos before the rush of the general odus should begin, He decided go too, Lf he waited to thea end and went out with the ov he was almost certain to le he knew. ipl his chauffeur te keep the jam by parking In a side street 9 toward Sixth Avenue, he went out throu the main entrance, and headed up Brot way, intending to cross at the next oct but the street was crowded and be bed wait on the curb.' | He glanced back several times in thet rection of the npr teal Pg He supp she would take her make-up befor ing ta that apne A street car a ag ices al came “dodging eet be fhe by him as he bed he daw 4 eerack by something farm [ar in themit appearance, Parriah turned and looked att him. He was walling rapidly; the 2 of his overcoat was turned up, and bere a checked cloth a Something {arti Suddenly he If it waan't that p= tuner from dantle Cty it was eomecel im ae ee hirn. stood looking after him, bet # ™ young man was lost to vier 2 (Canthiaed on Page 4!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING The more closely the new management comes into personal contact with owners of the Peerless motor car, the more deeply impressed they are with its past and present performance. Owmers seem unanimous in their eager willingness to submit the Peerless to the most exacting com- ‘parison, in point of performance, with the very finest motor cars extant. Peerless motor cars are now being manufactured by R.. H. Collins and his associates, and each day's developments reveal more clearly the splendid foundation laid in advance of their coming. Among Peerless owners they have found a depth of satisfaction so pronounced that it is difficult to express or explain. The car upon which they are bringing to bear all their skill and experience was already so good POST that the very earliest of the eight-cylinder models are still rendering superb service in all parts of the country. From what they have found of the past, and what they have been able to accomplish, they are con- vinced that the Peerless has everything to gain by. comparctive tas ehich daneattie ak ond substantial value in a motor car. There are going into the Peerless today a fineness and accuracy of manufacturing measurement, a scrupulous care in the choice of materials, and a beauty and durability of finish, which stamp it as one of the world’s really great motor cars. We believe it is the universal conviction among Peerless owners that, under existing market con- ditions, it would be impossible for those seeking a really fine, serviceable, long-lived motor car to make a sounder, safer investment than the Peerless. THEODORE F. Seurt Passenger Touring Car, $2790; Four Passenger Roweliter, $2700, Four Paserager Compt, 87500, Froe Paserager Sedan, $9050, deo Poetmgrr Sedan, $9700; Seoee Pooeoger Sedans, PAO), FOB Odpoetara! The Peerless Motor Car Company has been acquired and is being operated by R. H. Collins and his associates PEERLESS ~4i! that the name implies MAY 1922 GS MacMAN US

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| fram the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST {Continued from Page 3) the crowd that was beginning to emerge curtiage entrance: near the stage EzI¥ fIDENTLY Rita had not meant te put him off until] Sunday, for next morn- ing she called him up at his office. She wanted to thank him again for the bracelet, she aaid. She hadn't had a chance to thank him properly last night, she was so rushed, She had the bracelet on now, She loved it. She wis going to wear it this aroning 0 dinner, Tt would be ect with a black velvet evening gown abe had. ean Boing out to a ls "What are you going to do to-merraw night?" he asked. ‘Some people are coming up to talk abaut a teur te the Pactfic Const, But 1 tell you—I"m going to the dressmaker's in the afternoon. Wouldn't it amuse you to come around there? And we could go out to tea after," That day at bunch Parrish told his part- ner, Stuart Bement, that the period of de- preasion which had ao long been afflicting the country waa, in hia opinion, about over, This was a good market to buy in, By June eonditiona would be normal, Yes, he was feeling optimistic. He car- ried his optimism up town with him that evening, down in the morning, and up again when in the late afternoon he went bo meet Hite. The name of her dressmaker had lon bean familiar to him: it waa mentioned wi respect by the beat-dressed women he knew, and he himeelf had often found his eyes drawn to the double tier of windows, wide and sumptuous, ln which ita latest costumes were exhibited te the paseing Avenue; but he had never entered ft before, and now aa he did so, he found himself a little ill at tose, Vaguely he was aware of counters, showcases and wardrobes of polished wood and shining plate glass, holding all manner of feminine equipment; and although it was so obviously put there to be looked at, he had an instinct not to look; to have eon would igs eer sgl on # & peeping Tom. et why! rut things, hich sugpested to the corner of his eyes that they were dainty, sheer and nb door. bony, belonged to an incorporated com- | Why did woman's bel Beem 80 mich more personal no man"s—not only her under dress, not only a dress belonging to some specific woman, but even a fro in 8 shop window? A bemg with honey-coloread hair ap- ei him, shapely in a tight black Pea, vey plain but somehow expensive locking. She had the alr of mounting to ward him like a sunlit breaker gracetull rising to a crest, With her head a little to one side she raised her lined eyebrows in polite in tion. He answered with “I'm looking for Miss Coventry.” "Oh, yea.” Immediately she waa amiling and gracious. She undulated to the eleva- tora, pressed the button for him and, when the boy opened the door, enunclated with careful elegance, “Let this gentleman of at the fourth floor, please." The fourth floor differed from the first in that the latter wos a place of finished things, the former a place of things not quite finished. Except for chairs the room was unfurnished: there were long threads on the gray-green carpet, and opposite the elevators a battery of fitting raome, gray paneled, with lights shining from within eae ground glass, Ag emerged from the elevater two black-lad women etepped toward him. “Miss Coventry?" he asked. Ah, yea! Like dewtroyera picking up a “gaa they swerved and convoyed im. “The gentleman's bere, Misa Coventry,” called one, rapping at a fitting-room door. “Just a minute,” came Hita's voice; whereat the convoy, having brought him to his anchorages sailed awey. Presently the door waa opened by a mil Worn wearing steel-timmed spectacles, Rita was facing him, posed like a manl- kin, with arma lightly extended From her shoulders hung a trailing scarf of silvery fabric, very thin, which, attached to brace- lets on either wrist, made a background resembling a pair of aoft, halffolded wi The gown itself was of brocade, sapphire blue and silver, cut to a deep ¥ in front and held in place by the <t of strape. "Beautiful!" be exclaimed, looking at her white arms.. = Jay The fitter, moving behind her. gu touch to the scarf. Simultaneous!) woman entered, “Here's that little frock, dear said, exhibiting a handful of «J chiffon over lace. “It's just « You're the very first to pee it. Li you're here! Mr. 8. say right aan there's a creation for Mise Covent it aside for her" Arent those lit buds sweet though? I'we never | antec 1 Si2 and [ cert wan ohaveit, [t's so sympa “This is Miss McCaffery,” said "Pleased to meet you, the young woman. “She's a burglar,” Rita went o phe does know how te dress me." Misa MeCaffery railed her br Triah in humorous protest. a y dearie! How can you 9 athing? Now, just to show you, I" I'm a to let you have this little drew a sactifice.” ' aes too young for a said Fi ooking at it appraisingly. Misa MeCatery turned to Part mock hopelessness, a, ea beat it?" she demanded her looks!" And to Rita, “Dea; know -perfickly well you can wa thing ! af haven't time to try it on t said Rita. But Miss MeCaffery wae prepa work fast, “I'l have a model slip it on for said) she, Thrusting her head oat door she shrilled “Claire l" and pas UE to unseen hands. Then a waa about to change, Parrish fallow fitter fram the room and walted ; the door. , He had waited but a moment wher erpeeree a youthful model, lookin a baby cloud at sunset, in the shel gown. She entered the fitting » where from over the partition he hear their voices—and did not emery Rita came out dressed for the stree. "You make no mistake In takiry little frock," assured Mites Med'alls they etend by the eleymtor, ‘It'll you look like an anngenoo. Itsy thetic! Well, good-by dearie, © soon in.” And with « littl bow mish: “Glad to of met you, I'm sure.” For tea they went to a neighboring! where there waa a dark wainseoted room with tables net toe close tw exeh with agolthy glowing lamp, red suggestive af confidences, cat of dl bles were occupled by couples intent their own law-vai Pon vere tion. “This place always amuses me," Rita os they sat. “Tt's known fer and as a ploce w people go when they want to be seen, So they alll come hat ate cach other, and pretend they doa) Over the tea he found an oppor to k of something that wes @ mind. "By the » I thought I caught of that sauna sens tuner the other: The statement wat a question. i las Po tat arora Fee “At the opera, the night [ was ti tf & minute, baer 3 | re you going to sing his song?" She nodded. "I told him I would ow, “Well,” he declared emphatic I've got to say is—that young mat to be mighty grateful te you." ie ee oeen't show any 3 tyet, |r wondering nbour it. An y. wear ing out some Plans te push, his song? ‘In spite of hia ingratitude, eh?” “But he's a genius" “Huh!” Parrish, “Gene overworked word. Nowadays anyc manufactures a cinky little auton paints a picture that looks as if a deli child done it or raises the in the county geta himself called ap Since seeing Delaney so near th house he had given the ease of thi! man aome thought, and he wai pee now to state his conclusions; tut missed the topic, saying lightly, "Pst ou’re right; he may not bea po aasure you he ts a mew type to Dt odd types have always intersie “Certainly you've seen af he said, diverted. "Lord, what )° people you know! And the peers you so well, too—or thi es think J do. When I'm with pal ‘(Continued on Pag ft!

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42 Start Your Aladdin Set Now A Kitchen that Smiles tures of kitchens in a te ond by those sturdy Dutch painters who knew that the kitchen is the heart of the home. How happiness radiated from those glowing pots and pans sitting along the wall, likeroay children in arow. Like results are produced in modern kitchens by Aladdin Utensils with their graceful shapes insilvery alum- inum and china-like enameled steel. mes The strainercover on the Aluminum Straight Kettle has a perforated slide which closes tightly, and when open pours without spilling. This white enameled steel Sink Strainer is another useful, durable kitchen The Double-lipped Aluminum Sauce Pan pours from either side. Has the comfortable rounded handle and nicely rounded easy-cleaning body. The most progressive hardware, housefurnishing or department store in your town is prepared to help you start your Aladdin set. THE CLEVELAND METAL PRODUCTS COMPANY 7612 Plat Ave. Cleveland, Ohio Also mokers of New Perfection Chil Stoves, Oren and Hater eater ALADDIN: Uiensils \ Pe , ead Sa a ee Ne 2 ae eee THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page 40) but away from you T stmetimes get the feeling that [ doen't know you ao very well after all— yo I've lost you to whatever Reople n to be with at the time. dnd who are t ey all? I try to imagine where you are; but moet of the time I don't know where you are. I don't know enough of your life te make a mental pleture of it. don't I? That's what I want to know. You don't seem to me to be secretive.” “No,” she answered, “I'm naturally frank, I think.” Then, smiling eal “But. supposing I were seeretive— you expect me to tell you 80, or be secretive about 17" He laughed, but this time was not to be diverted verted, "Tye never felt. this way before," he ron on. “DT ean't Agune it out. It mokes me restless, T want you to know all about me, and [ should think you'd want me to know ae ry ite Haven’ t you felt that way ei e you've cared for? There was ‘ boul cared for a great deal and I could come pretty near reading every thought in her head," “And are you etill interested in her?" Rita ashed. “She waa awfully eweet,"’ anid he, “LT es always have a mighty tender feeling ‘or Rita looked at ber jeweled wrist watch. kk iF 8 gotting late," she said. “IT must be going ey were waiting for the check he mincint earlier thought. "T want you to see a ment,” he told her. “I have some things that will interest you. Will you come down and dine with me aome night aeonT' “Td love to, pinto, when I'm not so “Well, anywiy," he said, knowing bet- ter than to press the point, “I'll sea you Sunday might." ne OWEVER, he was not ta see her on Sunday night. Next morning he had a tracted tok over the telephone with manager of Parrish & Berment's Chi : “Al right," he sald ra irritabhy at the close of the conversation; “either Mr. Bement of I will be out there on Monday. Probably Mr, Bement this time,’ But when he went into his partner's room and suggested to him that it was his turn to make the Chicago journey he found him obdurate. The idea of opening a Chicago adie bad peeriaent wie Parrish, ae that pe ways been regarded in mm as Parrish’s particular concern. Dut that was not all, The journey that Bement was momentarily expecting Ay embark upon was not to Chicago, to his home on Lone Island, Mrs. Bement Ie dentae having nformed him that morning that it waa cratiably only a matter of hours before his presence should be urgently required, Parrish endeavored to express a proper sympathetic interest in the approaching ordealol parenthood. Well, there was noth- ing else for it—he would have to go to Chi- cago himself, Lt was unavoidable. He must enll up Rite and Jet her know he couldn'tcome, What vileluck! Who would be there Sunday night? He supposed she'd getsome man to take his place. Whowould it bet Who would be in his place, at her right? Ne always felt une about Pinging Rian Tk Tele oning to her was some connected in his mind with disappointments. But this morning, tuther to his surprise, | Pierre admitted that she was at home, and a moment later he her voice. "9h, that’s too bad," she said when he had broken the news to her. “Yes, and I may have to be out there a week," he answered ‘“Well—be sure to let me hear from you when re t back." get back?" he repented, “Isn't | ghar gre ay of my ene ye befor Ea "When do you leave?" "Tomorrow afternoan—245." | "Wait till I look up my ement ) list.” mis began boruntoate aloud: “Um— | let's see—Sunday. Nao, I don't think— unless you —— I tell you: I have to be => dude at re ee alternoon, ow would ike me to drive you to the station aoe | “That will be great!" he cried. Then his | bane adits Sagar "And there's some- thi want, Rita: your 3 |I want to have it with me." ) “Tl bring you one." EVENING POST "Thanks, dear—and write on it, will “Yea. About quarter after two, then?" He was waiting, with his baggage, . ee lower hall next. afternoon when little French landaulet stopped at the ten He was | ing nervous: but she wasn't so very late; and Fifth Avenue wwan't crowded on Sunday—they could drive down quickly, Yon ou brought the photograph?” he de- manded as they drove off, She handed i to him. He slipped it out of the glazed-paper envelope. “Ob,” he exclaimed, “as the Festival Queen. in Louise! Lovely!" But secretly he was a little disap- pointed—net with the photograph but with the peaeripnpes o Paithfel yours, Rita Caventys’ He often aaued bis ters to men friends “* Faithfull yours,” ee couldn't help wishing ahe had at least written "To Dick"—or better than that, since the picture showed her as Louise, she might have written thoge linea from the opera which would always have for him a Bipnificanes so tender: Pourguot serats-je belle St ce weat pour dire aime? Bull, when you really thought abowt it, that word “faithfully could mean a great deal, He bres the suitcase on the floor at front ve and gently placed the a within. oe you knew [ye never had a letter acer 1 yout” he said. “Net even a little He slipped off his glove and took her her white-gloved hand, which woe lying in her lap. ‘ saend mt i line owt to Chicago, will oes Pita he answered: but the little chuckle that followed the remark diseon- cearbed bite: "T got a letter from a cowboy yesterday,” she explained. ““He said he Haw my picture in a magazine, and ihe wants me to write te hin." He amiled din, Ah, what a ahort glimper of her this little ride gave him, Already they were halfway to the on % k, when, you are going in to dinner," e said, “you can think of me sar alone in the ining car.” pueeid creates Ue ines have to go," she answered “T made a desperate effort te wet out of it," he teld her; and with feeling udded- “T simply loathe te leave you. T hope you're going to roles me?" cette this getting away that's the hard "she sympathized, “The break of aviig. But it won't be so bad when you pet Shere. You'll be busy. You'll be back ore you Know it.” “But your dinmer ——" he began, “Ok, ['ll be giving other dinners." “And don't sual GH that you're coming te dine with me. I tell you: I'll wire you from Chicago a5 soon as ] know when I'll be home again. Then you ean save the first [ree evening.” She nodded, : “You won't mind coming alone? I thought I wouldn't ask anybod olse—un- lesa you think appearances might —— "Appearances?" she broke in with a littl: laugh. “You're right—you don't know me. IT can't be bothered with auch things. I go where I please.” She laughed again. “I'm not quite so emancipated, though, as aome perple in the opera. Ap parently eee of them regard gosalp a4 an asent—goml advertising.” “As soon as T get back then!" he satd almost gayly as the car 1 under the overhanging cliffs of Grand Central Station. He let go her hana. "T love yaa, sarah he said. Ree roe 24 a porter advanced to open the The man took his bags and he alighted. “Where shall I tell him to got" he aad: pausing, hat in hand, and thinkin ne how lixuriqus she looked against the aa upholstery, "The Diseaphone studios; he knows." “Making records—on Sunday?” "Fae ‘they do it for me because I'm so through the week." . at are you ainging?" “Bannle Doon,” ahe replied. Some taxicabs had driven op. behind them, and now, unable to vec, suet He a hooting of horns which rever Taucously in that cavernous apace ‘The car sjalskdy he closed the door. away. He turned and followed the porter into the busy conmeourse of the station. AMfay # Sometime durtig the night he ened by a silence, rhe train a standstill, Wondering where he raised the curtain, looked) ognized the Cleveland statie stopped; the airbrakes sigh Alice! Alice very near! Tine écheduled to stop at Cleveian if it hod been she comld I down at such an hour, It wae rie then, not to have bet ber a passing through. to her, though. He ought tae ve He really should have finished to her when he come menos Tein a day or two ago. But ie we from Chicage, Come to think of it, li ees —_ ne had aaid that she was going day, What did her silence n her eter went Were Vaguely, asa be he woe gweanre of the met wheel tester's hammer ga? he ror way along beside then nearer, then on the front ; the car he was in. Now he eouk faint flicker of the man’s oe Allee! Not riage : Chere @ Aweeler, nier The wheel ee prasad b window, his torch making & praund him. ‘The light rtra dusty double panes, and thare ment when, for Parrish, the inner was dispelled He had treated Alice badly. Hehe selfish, cruel Now for the first ti acknowledged the truth. And the stabbed him. The sound of the hammer on they grew faint in the distanes. The train | to move; it slipped out inte the : But Parrish felt it now an unrelenting like Fate, which had him in its clutch was drawing himaway. Fora long tz lay there in the darkness thinking of. his heart fled with loneliness. His first day in Chicago was cm with business: in the evening there a dinner to attend and it was late wh got back to his hotel. Instead of er to Alice he sent cael explanatory gram, carefully phe: pleading bus re and promising if possible ty r at Cleveland on the return jours “Am hia ak sot hoe ¥ his m to her ended om if! sister anti how are yout Pleas answer.” It was a litthe awkward to let ber k he was in Chicago; in one sense he w have much preferred not to commis with her until he got back; bot 2 better for having sent the te Mm. Her reply, which arrived early the afternoon surprised him somewhat [ sidering the length of his dliapates fo she might, he thought, have been ai more communicative. Her message rat Margaret doing nicely. Am well. D trouble to stop here. Ten words exactly, How like a som A women thought nothing of sen forty dollars on a hat, but to sav i cents weuld boil a telegram to i § bones. Though it contained the inh he desired he found the mesange i tory. Her telegrams usually eed the word “love.” That, t have made eleven worda. But howl that last sell-aacrificing phrase, telling! net to trouble to atop at Cleveland of! way back, although he well knew ber ay ness bo see hiro. The effect upon Parrish of his wit Alice was so ble that, two days ‘he telccrapticd coal This time there| Ho answer, Two dave more ever, before he noticed that; 20 by the foreground of his mind wat oer by something else: Why didn't thal #8 come from Rita? Toward the middle of the ws *4 pene to look: for it, having his ml to roam with the papers erly @ morning, and making excuses to ff to the hotel during the day. But bere" Saeeay ae wae going heme thi © noon, having heard Pothing ot Ri Pita 2 what hehat gleaned from papers, stale with the 0 a oe newspapers twenty-four hours all. The concert had occurred on day. She had sung mot only a (tentinued on Page 4 |

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Building Balumore. fad, Sales Offices [59 Chorch St. New York City THE SATURDAY (Continued from Pope #2) how arrangement of Bonnie Doon, but as nncores two other songs by Patrick Delaney, the promising young American composer, who provided a sympathetic aceompani- ment, Both the papers he saw mentioned that Rita had been in unusually fing voice, On the ling that posed through Cleye- land he was offered an upper berth. He took another road. Alice would under- stand. In New York, of course, letters from her would be awaiting him. When he answered them be would explain. But when on & Sanday hen et he reached his apartment, he had)only one thought: To sew Rita. ‘Theearly twilight was shadowing the city ag he arrived at her house, “ Madermotselle i is not well," said Pierre, mes will see," “Nothing serlouws, [ hope? Parrish seloed. alarmed, ° “Only a little cold, monsiour, but she did not get up today. Mademoiselle has ko as so very careful, She sings to-morrow mn t"F ere was not such a bad sort after all! While he was gone Parrish traced pat- terna on the rug with his qaine. “This way, monsbeur,"' invited the butler a he returned, Up those two well-remembered flights he led the way, and at Rita's bedroom door stood aside and motioned Parrish to enter. The sounds coming from within were not indicative of illness. Several people were talking animatedly, and Parrish entered to the accompaniment of a rumbling chuckle, uttered hy a bearded gentleman reclining upon the foot of Rita's bed, whom he at onee recognized ne the hig basso, Fréme court. “And what do you think she do then?" he thundered. “You think she thank me? Hah! Nol” He roared derisively. “No! She tall me names. “You grem-at, beeg, chimay bool!" she aay. And all for what? Because I try to do her leetle service! I fal to her: "Madame, your ekirt ts beawti- ful, but it leetle beet open in the back.’ He threw Up hia hands in comic resignia- tion. Rita, while joining in the laughter, waved to Parrish, Ho crossed the room, took her outstretched hand, and somewhat to his surprise found himself being drawn down nv iE, “On the cheek," she amid. “T have a end, You know Mrs. Fernis, I think, and Mr. and Mrs. Schoen? And this bea beal, sltting where [ should like to put my feet, is Monsieur Fromecourt—Mr. Parriah." Laughing again they greeted him. Fréme- mere rose, made Parrish a brief litth: bow, and ‘cried out to Rita in booming protest: “Hah! So you. too, cull me bool? [t is too much! I gol" He took her hand, bent over, and for a moment extinguished her in hia astrakhan beard. Then standing erect he amached tis Ligss and with a grand ature proclaimed, “You see, my darling, Td not fear to keos your sweet lips. Yawr levtle perms have for me no terrors, On the contrary, they shall have a nice nesting pines in my beard,” With a flourish of farewells he departed, nnd had hardly gone when Aire. Fernis roge, “Remember, dear,” ahe warned, “the doctor said you were not bo ty alk, You've been talking altogether too much, I blame myself for fue ig stayed so bong.’ The Schoen parting alan, “T suppose I ought to go too," suid Parrish, leit alone with her. As he epoke he drow his chair close to the bed, "Oh, not Tight away," ale sage, me about your trip." "There's nothing te tell," said he, “ex- cept that I aecompliahedl what | went for, T thaght sav said, vouch write to me?" “7 didl stort a letter, but some people came in and in berrupbed me and I didn't s mace this their cue for de- “Tell | have time to finish fet." "Let me have it anyway. a letter from you, you know," "Oh, ashe anawered, “1 found it kicking around my desk yeaterday and tore it ue I hac Yaeur telegram hy then, OL Sas There was a knock at the door, “The doctar, made cstlle” announced Pierre. Parrish Fost as the middle-aged physician entered, carrying his bag. I've never had “What would you dae with wm girl like this?” he began aa oo an a4 he hed intto= duced them. “IT can't de anything with her. 1 tell her not to wae her yoioe, and 1 COeTELe WEL d find 2 mob of people leaving the howe." EVENING POST “Kir, Parrish just came," defended Rita. “ And I'm just going,” he supplemented. “Anywa,'' Hita went on, “all you doc She turned ta Parrish: “OF sours you know about their latest fad? Colds pren’t ne - more—they're futoinboxication . &o what does this brute tio? bette me on a diet: Mathis BE ie eat. And I love my little vara Tot of difference it makes what [ tell aatthd te do!” the doctor good- umoredly, “IT can't see why you have me at all, Yos, [ can, too—to patch you up in time to sing. You're too atrong for your own good, fen fe lady: that's what's the matter with He laid his. eae on a table near the oy and opened lt. As he did so Pierre enter att a ga troy. as doctor looked at it. !" he exclaimed. “What's that bacon doing on of that milk toast?" “T can’t eat that sogey stull without something to favor it,” protested Rita “But I told you,” the’ doctor insisted, “nothing arnoked and nothing fried." “Pierre,” said Rita, “you must learn to time your entrances, Take the tray back and bring it after the doctor has gone.”" “Without that bacon!" added latter pees as he screwed the top on an ateni- ~ Parrhih ok: Rite’ thand, What a lovely invalid she w *“Tueeda ni ‘ht, then?” "Yet, unless I'm dead of starvation.” "A litth: before eight?" tte oe a f lanvpa fell caressing! rosy glow o pa fe rigly upon het face and throat. He held her hand for an instant, gazing at her. Fireémecourt kissed her on the lips before them all. Why cauldn't he before the dacter? But he knew why. It was becouse he wanted to so much pare N MONDAY he had men up to tune and polish his miniature grand piano and he left word with Ito to,be sure Lge have the polisher remove that mark on the mulaie rack where a ci had burned it, long ago, On his way downtown he bought a piano lamp with a carved Flor- entine base and 2 shade of Burgundy-color silk, and that evening he and Ito did some rearranging in the living room, turning the piano ao that a person seated at the inatru- ment would face the room, with the lamp- light f from behind. When the room wre sett] to his liking Parrish tried Rita's photograph, in its new allver frome, in various places. Itlooked best, he thought, upon the mantelpiece, where Alice's pic- tote, also silver framed, had so long stood one. But where to put Alice? He carried the portrait to his room and tried it on his dresser and his chiffonier; then, disaatia- fed, he went into the library and stood it on his desk, where for some curious reason it again seemed out of place. hoard It waa to find a corner for it. The effort made him aad. He had not greatly relished the thought of facie a pile of letters from Alice on eat & eran ie tC bls Tae haviag found none he digappointed. Never Bast had she gone a0 long without communicating with [t was very peculiar. With a ash he took up his pen to write to her His letter did not altogether ss Fees Under the circumstances, howev bt wie the best he could do; he hoped ahe would not tier ie gape, He eed , in the aeprcbdclivery stamp, drop it in. the mail chute in the hall, and returned to the living, room, k How different it looked now, with the new lamp, the piano turned around and Rita's picture on the mantelpiece! That, of course—the placing of her pic- ture there—was the ant change. A grim little allegory of the love life of a man! Next morning he Esihis Tto explieit direc. Hons about that evening's dinner, They would have cocktaily, and for hore d'muvre, fresh caviare; the soup would ae Russian borech; then filets mignon with mush- rooms under glass, and so tittle potatoes gaufretie, followed by salad, cheese and coffee, He would bring some of that ape tial coffee home with him this afternoon. From his well-stocked wine elaget he took the two bottles he most prized: A Char- treuse which had been extremely cholee even in eye days, and his last quart of Krug 1908, He wore a fur-lined cont that day, Winter had come back. A fine snow driven a hewalked to the Elevated, sesh ol mst ma ht, SET : su \ « rondbed of ered with a thin am of snow, lik ond cake, The man at the ticke box had the collar of his blue ¢ turned up; his face was eold, and frozen breath = mustache, Now and then he mould » woolen mittens to his eure ge he | in his felt boots, his back to the 9 A fashionably costumed woman sts near him, waiting for the train. © turban and cape of under | her arma were folded ane abun hunched, elevating the cape and mab and the skirt beneath a a than the fashion y the dagr her face one could see oa @ pair of | eyed, a bit of upper 2 Bucy On her feet were light pera with French heels, and these = trim length of taupecolored ail s, ahe exhibited—astoc! the shade «| burned legs —acemed the more inads in, contrast bo the warm bulk of the Parrish shivered aa he looked at her. All day the storm continged, the wind sweeping the hard Tittle pelk snow out of the streets and into o2 like a hasty housekeeper eompany; and when aa he opened the of hig apartment that evening hewn by abe poo wer i al ce Fn cyt, be had mn Gnepirntio: "Teo," he said a3 he gave his serves package of special coffee, “aot a little) for dinner in the living room beside the When, after dressing, he Gotarnad critically gurveyed the a mnt “Eaccellent,”’ ive said te Jape “eeoept, intead of placing the lady 9 site me, stat her here facing the fre,” sarge fi Rita surprised him by arri ahead of time. He was aware of the grance of fresh air about her as he took sable cape, and as Ito carried the gar to the other room he did mot waste the ortunity. Her cheek felt like a rom fi al the refrigerator of a florist. Perceiving the table set by the fire, exclaimed with pleasure, pnd, com font upon the fe rested a slippered holding her hands toward the ae On her wrist his bracelet didly, sending out needles af; green and w te, Tha waveciog amyl enanding lights and shadows on he a and face, and touched the folds of be bi velvet gown with a mysterious rary bis _A woman and a grate fire—Rits be his venir He tingled with a sat ticity. Ite came in with the cocktails. ing beside the table they touched and drank. Setting down her gles found the orchids at her place enc them againat her “But [won't put them on mow.*| sald, laying them beside her plate. want them here where I can see them” The dinner pleased her, ‘With the) thusiasm of one playing truant from “4 she praised it, course by course, | " And this wine-—delicious!” she “The last quart of my 190% Krug, told her, gratified. , Dve een a for a great occasion." "Tt is nice of you to have fade if occasion, but you shouldn't have opé it for me. [doen't need etinuolatio.” i “Tf you mean ou don't peed tt evening, he returned apr frend oe distill a somiptinent out of that,” “Help yourself,” : As [to was in the kitchen he ously chose to place his own constre om the invitation; whereupon she fi a great demureness, singing: Je ne sapgis que dire, ef j'ai roan f “Yes be sald, sires phasis self because he ret the tragee from Faust, “bot Marguerite we Victorian, I prefer Louise's af Marguerite is a wax doll in a blond She's so good and so pathetic, [eee being victimized she should have = some worthy burgher and beroee mother of a i Turrily,"* “Let's send her out bot riding & pack with Lohengrin.” said Rita. “All right, but Lowise—she? I'm interested in. She stands ot ! (Continued on Page di)

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EVENING POST (Coatineed fram Page #4) other operatic heroines as you do fram other women. Her poet may quarrel with her later on, but she'll never bore him, If Sear it'll it beewuse he's jealous of er. es phe agreed, “ Loulse len"t an eaay lady to hold, Undoubtedly she'll thre of him. And when she does, let's give her aocareer, Let's have her. tuke up with Lieutenant Pinkerton ancl pay him off for Hiting Madame Eutterfiy by eloping with arsifal.” “By all means,’ he agreed. “An -allair with Lowise would be a thing for Parsifal. Tt would teach about life.” Orver their eofleeand Se he lighted they laughed together. As they roe ed a cige- rotte. Rita pieked up Reig orchids and. moving to the piane trled lt with an ar- pemzio, "A good tone,” had not expected it “You're surprised?" “A little,” she said, seating herself ond Moe the orchids on the music rack, Lask why?" "Oh— barkalont Panos,” alril What do you know about bachelors’ Mm emething she remarked, a if ahe She spake planes?" Rita laughed. “They apt to be like their owners— a Litth battered," she said. “Give mea cirarette,"" “Excuse me. I shoves you smoked only to tease Husini." He hastened to offer hig cust, “This time,” she answered na he gare her a li hie, * “it's berauae pour dinner was too go After a few puts at the cigarette she laid it down and began to modulate softly from key to key. ‘Some friends brought a Southern girl tomy house the other day," she teld him as she played. “They wanted me to hear her, She had same negro songa—the real thing. Have you ever heard that plantation song, All Geis Children Got Shoes? And she did some modern ones —blues—very funny. Of course | can't sing ao soon after dinner, but * She played an accompaniment and began, half reeitlag:

"TT got de flies and Pn ina daha neds fa a ending with: * Satte peo We soy dow peory blues cin’l bed. Ifajug’ de muse ole feelin’ dad J eruh kee!" New and then she would glance up at Parrish aa he leaned on the piano, and there was an amused expression in her eyes which told him she was taking a childish delight in doling something so remote from her waual repertoire. “T've been teaching tt te Frémecairt,”" the gaid a ahe endad. “You ought ta hear him try to get the negro accent." Then with sudden enthusixem: “There's an iden! U'll give a party and have him sing some of these songs. We'll call it a week from tonight ving yeu hear from me ta the contrary." She pos: {rom ne pinno, “Now what abot those trowsures you were gaing to show met" : He led her about, keeping close to ber a9 he exhibited the portraits and the more im- portant pieces of furniture from Blenkins- wood: the Gilbert Stuarts, the Sully, the St. Memins; the! Duncan P hyfe dining table, sideboard and chairs; the old silver punchbowl: the Lowestoft china; the card table at which Washington had played when visiting Blenkinswood; the armehair of bis leet; a signer of the Declara- tion: and the Chinese Chippendale clock ordered out from England by Parrish's thiree-times-great-grandfather Hlenkin, There were letters aRaut that clock — writ- ten in the old gentleman's distingatithed hund, in inkonew brown with ape, on shes of hundmade paper, Parrish hal found then ina chest in Ehe attic of the pluntation hse und hed sent the moet interestin ae cmens Lee in expert whe hel binech ac. fa them with silk at their worn folds, and marnited them in portiolias, along with ste! engravings of the venerable house and of several of bis: ancestors. The table having been removed fron be- side the dre, and the couch pushed back to its uzial poaition, Parrish brought the old iapers from the brary and, seating himself beetle FOL plaice Che firet parttutio th her lip, turning the shoots for her and explain- ing as ha wont along: May i They had looked at 2 number al and had come to an engraving Te house with ite new wing-— when the old dock dowly bosset tl Tt waa ben, “What day is this?" suddenly de Rita, turning to him sharply, “But—the date?” “March first. What's the matt "The first!" she exclaimed, a = peag nas ane hee portfolio slipp er lap so on the tug, but she seemed not em “Heavens! I've had a feeling ge BNE Now [ hare done it! 4 Gb, that to-night—-ot the Kra that’s too bad,"" said Far Tee iittaliin he had feared: he something worse. i Yes, it's-t But"—he —“well, you weren't there, that's all." “But you ‘t understand! [:' bly important! [f it wasn't for ii Krauss there wouldn't be any oper heaven's ake pi my wrupi! rash right up t “Nonsense! It would be half p when you arrived—they'd be goin And your car—where’s your car?” She was near the door. Now she awiitly back, cult ae on one of the cy ‘ta iim elench two flats. iekly { a taxi! imu get a here as Sa in the anow!" Alcs i ay of his reluctance he was on by ber vehermence. Slow paoeuike. he moved toward his room, the sable cape lay on his bed, But h did not suit her, A fine ending, this, for their ev Before picking up the cape he tur make a ap “Rita,” he . “have a link How can you ——" ““Wil—you—hurry?"" she efied 3 He took up the cape and hal! & around her, Then in a poroxyam of aed ber he espe ar in his arms ani face with kiswes, “There's no time for this!" He Wal smothered. She pushed away my hat and coat, anys "You don’t need to come! don't ; streamed back i ag she raced toward the outer door, He ran to the hall, seized his coat strugeling inte it as he went, joined t the corridor, where she was waiting [e elevator. She did set look at him, did not speak. ce eecr Wh abiaen ina nae al b abo Ea fn a i beside the curb. Parrish, endeavors help hice fn, had only a sense of the ove fur upon his fin 5 you! he reiterated | the darkness wil “Get over!" be said roughly. andj hy driver the arkdress he shove ry the narrow door and slut i AR the end of their short, sient rt alighted, ceremoniously assisted ber the walk and rang the doorbell. footman ned the inner dour, be his pate gave sci a still good na au night," a @ repli And as she passed in she added aver shoulder, ‘" night, Brain.” He got back Into the taxi and 4 heme. His feet were eald and wet: fl had leaked in over the of his peal Tt weuld serve her right if he got por and died. His apartment was still redolent d! Bd with ber he never neti! fumery, but now i= the place was haunted a ike fragrance. The cheerful a mockery. He went to his bein change hia pumpa, and crossing tht kicked something with his foot. [| to be a gold-mesh with a studded . Undoubtedly 4 able contents, She would iit Let her, then! He put it in bi she wanted to find out about it <4 telephone! (Continued on Page 4) eitniet a

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Belbewife, On terion THE BASSICK COMPANY EVENING POST (Continued from Poge 42) In his seer he returned to the living room. The Blenkinswood portfolio and its ) contenta still lay upon the rug where she had drop anew 24 He them; his indignation famed ot dawn ta pick them up. Such frail old papers! She could so easi have laid them aside! One of the Signer's letters had been torn in falling; and in the | center of the engraving showing Blonkins- wood with ita new wing—ad in L179] — waa the ruinous imprint of a sharp little French heel. Having gathered the papers he saat down on the sola te arrange them in their proper order, The fact of the matter wos that Rita hadn't been interetted in them, He saw that clearly now. Her attention had wandered, how she came to remember her engagement at the Krausses'. Bored with these things! Priceless old Americana! Bored with Blenkinawood—his house! Alice wouldn't have been bored! She was always asking him to shew her those portfolios. With a tenderness he had never before felt for them he carried the portfolios to the library and laid them in their place. Fito | had onky looked into the Library; there he 7 for a moment to elude her, but upon his return to the living room that subtle seent in assailed his nostrils. Maddening! He must get it out of here, Ady i Cold though it was, he would open dow, Passing piano on his way window he stopped short. The arch picked them up, Already they were Ing. The window waa fromem shut; he hammer with both hands at the open it, When it did open it flew a rae momenta from bi , and a great Loot [Peering o in, snapping the window-shade and the draperies awhirl, With his beft } axized the agitated curtmins, holdin aside. Then, drawing back, he pois self and hurled the orchids out inte blackness. Women! They talked of love! W they know about love? Devotion yt, ere wocept plenty of thot plenty of everything elae too! By it came to reciprocating —showing consideration for a man—they weren't there! Ba se Hie oe engagement, or an —would se flyin; olf at a at. hey were | ue ble, lux oving, Belfiah prom Give them a eozy cushion by the 5 they'd purr for a while, but yost wh began to trust them they'd sink thei in you, Women! Sullenly he closed the window, p the lights and went into his bedroow (TO BE CONTINUED) fl WOMAN NAMED KATE (Contiaucd fram Page 25! There were other things—other mem- oriea—one srg a4 outstanding—of the Etheridges and Bick, only lest summer at the lowell house. all, hedge or evade, the nucheus of her meditation was the Etheridges— Lily Etheridge, in her wid- owl, and appealing 1 mourning, with little four-year-old Paul, a baby cherub with ald hair. Paul had fallen and hurt himself down at the end of the wide green luwn, and Rick had gone to pick him up. They came back together, Kick carrying the little chap, his shoulder rating: Paul's bright hen, ae Lily at his side, her face turned ip to him, Rute had heard an out-of-town visiter exclaim: “So that's the father of that lovely baby! What a stunning couple!" “Oh, no, that‘sour Mr, Alverdy— Richard Alverdy, of our mills, He has no children, But they do make a charming picture— quite en foreddle, Lily's so sweet and pretty, and such a perfect little mother too." A mute little lightninglike flicker of pain had tightened Kate's body for an inatant rt] Riek und Lily had conve up to the porch, Then she had gone to meet them—this and a dozen, a hundred, similar scraps of re- mark floated up into her conschowsness mow, She had always accepted the implica- tions of condolence im them for herself. Wasn't it ber denial, the stultification of all her latent instinct, that the warm little clinging bodies she took up and embraced— the little Paul, her litthe niewes, all the others—should be the children of other women? And ahe herself cheated! This thought always brought her to the edge of a dark abyss of disillusionment, a sort of spiritual tarn in which she had drowned certain bright hopes and expectations, cul- tivating on its brink substitute flowers of more material character, You had to take what life served to you—be satisfied. But now she realized she had been con- cerned chiefly with her own denial—she hadn't thought of Rick. Though he was four years her senior, he wae a atill-young Man. Why, ‘Tee of his bs il day founded new dynasties! If she—what was Miss Conway's hidegqus forthright word ?— if she abdicated there was still time for— her lip suri a while Hoe ee a Queen Louisa of Prussia—Lily Etheridge Rick could have Lily like a ha. A man af Rick's hig a iiaaibs yada at: marry anybody, Kate thought confidently. Women were always falling in lave with him, and Lily drooped like = ripe pear on a bough — courting protection, They ware to- gether so often—why, it was obvious Kate pressed her hands her again, with something like a mingled sob and snort of contempt. She threw up her head witha quick, imperious movement, shrugped like one throwing off a burden and tan upe | Stairs, She uttered at her bedroom door | "The woman's wooden oath": but, once inside, her walor drooped again. a She heard the hum of Rick's car o up the drive, They were going out to together, and she must not be unpus But daar had got out sa rack eon frock, a georgette of t eliewt: that was her favorite color, had 2 from her morning dress and draws the pina out of her thick hair, her pore dow and terpil. She heard Rick's step on the stair, heard him com his room and presently set up a spl in his bathroom. But she only si before her dressing table and stared her glasa. She could see behind her head all the tour and coloring. of the pretty roo called her own, the lilac roe af the o the warm ivery of her Empire fen the big sunny bay where her persocal stood with certain special books, maxi! tions of her secret wish—a Stevo Child's Garden of Verse, a Field, a fi & Walter de la Mare, Pater's Chis i House. Above it a little cast of a | Robbia bambino, some pho is- hapa a dazen—aol little (riends, her 1 But. for these and Fetunia Rosy blow hows would have worn mo trace of ¢ presence, ; To the right she could glimyue the terior of her bathroom, a sympnor) nickel and enamel, and to its let door. pL bec roo was the replies a] except in furnishing: mahogany for | with dull maroon rugs sire hicneioid " tortoise-ahell fixings to dresa with, a bf blanket on his day bed, and on the = an odd motley of pistela, Old World ons, the head of the big moose fr killed in the Alberta country, ami i: drawers and cupboards the rows of Re shoes and ties and shirts and sock, tf intimate, plain, mannish things whe o and replenishment she supervaed, t formed her particular miiliew in Re masculine world. All these thing. & ally and unconsciously, made the le ground for the bead and face thal had mut of Kate's mirror, Men called Kate Alverdy hiner They had been frank about it to and she was conscious af it, qulé 4 aaionately and free of all varty. = ad had no particular beauty in her youll anly a gort of gawky, ardent pen. was of that type: that comes into is tardily; that in the September oe (Otol of life shames ewiltlier blossoming = with a persistent accent of youth cesT of jirlishness. There was en = a freshness about Kate's bare tin: tf waa the deapair of the masseuse Sidi Her chin and throat might hve young girl's; her arma were round bul er; as Misa Conway had said, nocti tronly —motherly. Above: the finely 8 sweet line of her neck her fact i* back at her, a ten years youtre heractuality. Her oval cheeks wee (Cattitiued af Page 70

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| (Coatinwed from Poge 48! and firm, her eyes clear, candid, scarcely marked by line or wrinkle, Only her hair—Eate's hair had always been her pride; a dusky, silley, toa sat romss that. rippled below her whist. of dnote years, a little fan of silver had en crept upon | her temple, like a white elileck thrusting lin. It waa curious, fantastic, even a little quaint. Rick ealled it a granny lock. | Rick had alwayea been proud of her hair. He He hed ae te touch it, and once, even, he ‘ht her a poem—a little sheep- og fa gh a line in it referring ta another | woman wh ase hair “smelt of apples and | lavender," “Just like yours, Kate," he had paid. But that had been ee yee before. She could hear moving briskly about, and she wished suddenly he would come in and speak to her. She waa too experienced in matrimony to expect hin to remember her viata Sometinwe be- fore night it would probably occur to him, oF at least in the next few days, and he would be contrition itself and write her o slimpiuctis check, 4 ; Tt wus mot for this she wanted him. And preaentiy she ealled to him. He came into the open doorway. He was in his shirt sleeves, tying a cravat, his chin elevated to a supercilious angle, his hair tousled from his serubbing. Even thus, under circumstances detrimental to or- dinary maseuline beauty, Rick was, Kate reflected, the handsamest man of her ac- qualntane:—tall and shapely, with his finely pasiaeel hewed. ‘Thad acaller this morning, Ricky—she's just geomet: -a Miss Camilla conway,” "Oh, yes, the little health fiend! Regu- | lar little dynamo, and fresh aa a daisy. Lily annie is helping her with her atunts here, They've been at me harnmer and bong to give them a booth at the fair. OQughtn't yu hurry a littl, Kate? I'm late myself, but Lily waa in the office this morni ng over her plana, and [ nearly forgot this apres.” nte the reflected image of Kate's face there stole a change. She was aware of it herself—watched it like a curiously d tached spectator, Something dim it, as though it had been breathed upon, pinched it with a delicate frost, struck from it all its | prettiness. Even Rick —— You look tired, old dear. What's the matter?" But rte, watching the sudden blight, wid onl thinking how digunited body and spirit hit be—what a lie the flesh was at Lines. Under the newly white, fathgued face her spirit was caught into a vortex of acething emetion, Her face looked cold— ald, even—but heart was half suffo- ented under an engulfing warmth, 2 weve of desperate emotion, of human love for Rick, for this man ayes her eapage! in his homely personal task of dreasi Itwas likean echoolsome old, fragrant, forgotten memory caught up with strands of dew and a strangely apiritual and sacrificial passion. But marriage develo Feticencea: she gave no sign of it. She put oUt & hand ta gather some little appur- tenancea from her dresser and gaid in a bright, level woice: “Oh, I'm all right, Rick! Be ready in a rinute!™ IF I’ HAD been a genuine love match. Kate had grown up in a shabby little house in Baxter Street, where her experi- ence in married or family life—in the outer, or manifest, phenomena of what is called love—had not been especially happy. She was one of a family of five—tao sisters, her mother, her father. Her father had been an ineffectual, poorly ent sort. ofl on, with neal inartistic—his wife ealled them coaree— predilections. Early tn thelr life together her mother had become quite unconsctvisly a matri- moninl apple borer; a small, inconspic- tous, genthe litth: woman, but, like the borer, capable of deadly and effective havoc. She produced it by references to “your father's disposition,” “your father's sort of investments,” “your father's unfortunate | appetite," with an effect of discluiming any | parlicipation, the had a decided tuste for gentility, She rend the seciety items and noted deaths and allinnees of the city's lead- ing families—of even larger places, She waa. very punetilious in her table etiquette, curl- ing ber little finger carefully over her tea- cup handle. She wore little Bhai of lace, | and belonged ta a small, iabby-genterl \ elub which discussed and studied Hrowning, | She wos ou lady by instinct, in short, and Ada Kate's father was—well, others used the word * ‘earthy.’ He wwsn't ¥ neat about bi: the brushing of his clothes, and grew earnest in his conversation certain gestures with his thumb had a taste for rather vulgar, + food—onion soup, Hoe seemed cis rather silent most of the time, rare intervals, when he laugh Kate discerned in a flash ence of a quite different person someone securely hidden from 5 eve, By reason of these contrast eternal deprecation, a constant = terness, home was rather unplea father offered a mutely resigne tsi: front; her mother con hom, Kote sometimes though sad, becnuse they hac — presumal! ried for love. Indeed, her mothe it was immoral to muarry for i reaaon. Neither parent was a They supported their obligation 1 wort accepted their role, the imposed on them. It wa inl sometioves thought, a mat bona 2 anyhow. They eouldn’) ther here—that was. all. Penpile ra agri She had an idea that j hen they shuffled cff their morta anit to some other place, where ¢ tera a8 Browning ancl onion se matter, they might come to love: AT hs when Kate was eigh Was reaelyed to evade may She had o rved in her own anda perience that it waa t a suecee! ao why bother? She had to say th firmly to still a liethe hidden inn that kept urging her ta certain woke WR EUTES of thought that cropped 9 moments, urging upon her the fallacy of special exeriprtion, of her to make something special and roa af what had wel a common ful Kate would have none of it—oui She waa golng to be practical, and end ale in a day narmal eomiltg hone derosa the e1ly every ‘ter help her mother get tea, Kate this ime a tall, = rather ae with a ff color, handsome rn teeth and tons of fine hair. Her were strocious—worn diseards of § sisters, a shabby made-over fur 0 her ceother's, shoes that were deli tions of cobbling art. But she w happy, serene even in. ae rosagsirs : she was healthy and young: incase she never sulcoeed that inner s aueriee hg nit thik | queer, pepe Poa prove that something lone aa to happen—as it did, Oneraw, blustery Februaryeveniy ataving for extra work, was gees sage by her princi oa to deliver oz € home. It waa for tipal’s eal matron of the wanna 4 Wing of Ch Municipal Hospital, the low, rel hovulle which covered a whole Kate's homeward way. In the dim February glow sted the single door that interrupted t facade, and quickly found the set Block in her serubbed and disinfe: office. [Tt was a cheerless place, pant lean, brown corridors 2 but when she emerged i

human activity She saw a feta af well-dressed Women cena thins ugh dioukie « by, and heard Mise Tlock's reli just—rom pleted trastees’ meeting. at the sare time a narrow door opened, and Kovte caught a glimypet derelict women— old of middle-aged some of them in bandages —who At of chairs, their heads bent over = They were singing—it sounded In ing—to a mh -voLced by a woman with a frightfally a7 & erutch against her knee; wemah—little, old, wizened, in less calico of the tree hospital, withered, useless arm —came inte songbook in her good hand. fe pock-marked face was frankly ic! as she stepped forward, half inviting in her gesture to tee apes Cris bees, “Tt's our evening srrvice. i came int" The men passed her with pet but polite negative, The # proached more slowly, and Kale<® (Contiaaed an Page 2

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Continogd from Page 50) the little wizened woman hed recognized one at least. She ran up to her and touched her on the arm. “Won't ye come in to service a bit and oer pieces for ua, lady?" ad recognized the trustee too. Sigwenite Helen Thornby, whose wealth and musical culture were legends; a beautl- ful, spoiled, aha ae women, w voice had been in Europe, sai who in certain hours of caprice favor ly advertised gatherings in the name a altru- iam. She saw Mre. Thornby now in her apparel push the old woman mide FF] coe It was not Serene ae ahvee tt denied the implicution of humanity at all. ne vas ao abetracted, so unawans, that a a of hot quixotic rage ae pro er to one of = = Lr ” Nites ph fheaing destathe laws Bride, con- sider that in silverware the new Wallace aodga sti Ss ess HW} piece a is the fashionable service of the year. It is an achievement in silver design—a- pattern of unusual charm and dignity-—an exquisite adormment to the table. Tt is so well made by Wallace Silver craftsmen, thar tt is cuaranteed without time limit: Made in flatware and hollow ware, the complete dinner service, The Dinner Knives are with stainless stecl blades. The Wallace Ficafess Pronk ills Woallate priogs hove been fe- what covery boetoe ahold baw duced. Forenrnple,™ Hoste" Correct taille settings hisireied beaapoon that were $4.50, gre aed explained. shag remlen Se. "| pow $640 a dogen, sfc. cic, Ee feos Addresac Hostess riment, seus “hess fhe WA LAER ie Bog Mo. 17. ys he Ei? Vn ee a ee = She ee ‘out in all her ahabbiness, in the flare of the dingy 8 pep cerigy “tr her ea dangling on their le hand on the forlorn bil Lola gacfiak me me ' she sald al clearly, 2 little de- come in 2h OF you, What followed was never quite clear. She found herself seated at the melodean with a queer trernbling ge her. She realized the unlovel Ss inkeronted facea around, a d de aes t the door. way that meant some ars t ndivideel out of the hallway group, and an a horror settled on her. She was not a singer. She couldn't sing a note. Nobxly had ever accused her of such a thing. Sometimes she in church of In sehool, her volee lost in the commen voen) wen; but here— ) alone—ao solo! She wos completely crazy. Tt wasn't as cos felt any special compas- geek grt women ware well enough off, cared on peepee Kate had all of youth's healthy aistaate istaste for dis- ease. Her spark of anger carsiad her here, and pare Yo aaa Ba But she must do her part. She pressed down the melodeon keys and opened her mouth. It waa really the worst voiee iss bas ever listened to— wabbly, ready, h “Tf cia hes ma home, An’ I’m weary affenwhAties, For the longed-for home bringin" An’ the feyther’s welcome emiles ——" Tt was really unthinkable! There wea a roaring in her ears, a deep shame at her heart, Perhaps it was Mra. Thornby who listened. How she would |! Kate fin- ished the song and turned. re was no one there, only her eharity audience, who thanked her and amiled upon her. One or OT 3 9 Ginenils Som oe | = — — i | | | | | | tao of them were in tears, and several were actual eel ta Pal icy Kate to get in ito the air, She eacaped ay to the hall, com- pletely empty now, Hut with her hand on the door latch, he came owt of the matron‘s pei arte flow, with a fel pie head a ye ot 8 ince under aeacat ol ark hair an ea of a clear, penetra light i lue—steanee, with F his dusky color t looked at her raizingly - mest sternly, between cloner thick, short “T'm Richard Alverdy," he said. oe ‘took my ergerch 8 Place at the meeting hb and I heard Ae T think""—he b urted the words rte rudely—"T think you're 8 eweat woman,” The word “woman" startled Kate, at the eery cp bee eetheod years. i u on thy agai breast and at hi Mm. : ‘ Ob: " she cried, a shouldn't have done t ust like a ad He aide deny this— couldn" "te "Tt wasn't Ene ningith ou know that," he said, still sternly. eed, he wae so stern, eo dominating, so teery ville and BO benutiful that found Ht wlip- bing a ae @ strange confusion of values, could have died to think he had heard As ber ain SF aed if he bole pat He again — Seustal that Waa itt And quite—blind- ‘to the eye, To hers —— e atood patter, snd Reaelokes » Scuth, Gan Gey aecke tagdker vee thou t —ePven through ane emgage, fears Bada be For all his sternness, his virility, his eyes on her called up in her a strange emotion, a d eS ae =the ks Roe \ like demre to prove herself; yet @ su (xe BX Sige’ ar ye brs ef some splendid, queer mu- Lit | He spoke quite abruptly. 7 RWau LACE & oe = G. ran zo} A) ! Watli hig ford — fovgecticig ATER ETH Fownnre: iy May 6, | “Well, good night," he said, and & then did aruda, an inept t . Skene her shoulder, without a werd, and ne inte the darkness. She cried a little : | self an she walked on under the yells At least teare rolled down her ao darn, darn!" ashe being the aoe aateaie of ca eration. the e swillaw meye As if it really mattered! Hie way whose father owned a fi woolen mill st Lt ust Kate Hallock, prion bs to t ! emotion was really unnecessary surd, It didn't matter a picayune ard Alverdy what she did—or 4 Uke—aor looked Ihe. Their way never tar She would never in, peg S a long time. In Eat lasted just three years. She had t an assistant in Miss Dell's & Girls, and ona blowy, windy a8 she came out of the building = a delete her Lalimth ng he spoke to t recognize t pyre at all—stood tusaling against wind valta Lees me," o ¥olce eid, a almast bamagdlately, “Why. you Kate made no effort to conceal her & tity—only ae be sah sense of happy a she knew. conventionall yentional experience of years before. Tl conversation was, indeed, meteorslag a spoke of the weather—its quality this time of year. They compare ts other woatking at other years, and atated a preference for moderate weal of any kind—that she actually hated weather, And Richard said he liked » ter—real winter weather—becauce of aporta, and the weather lately had bh worse than last year's. ; But af the a he said midis “Where've ¥ t yourself all ths t My father ane t after T saw you & edlagings Sesh and ['ve been bow the deuce, but I've tho t about ya hundred—yes, a thousand—times | were beaut Where have you br Tell me. . Li di bi ot proprietary sionately, but chard ‘didn oe F speech crossed hera; they were sai gether, their og mingling red potuously break down a barrier Fersellng on hidden inner niche ata a i net tthe corner nag retilined that Fa: Singing io him, Eling. yrotay, tar dt apart, a little ashamed at their lack of vention. It took five weeks to bring together again. In these five weeks th played a game of make-believe. Theyre Plaats Ber peepee every aonrenticn demand, but in each other's eyes they pv the trath,and Richard one evening vooe! Kate, darling? ‘ lowe you and I know you lowe me. Were nigh vb T sald t lef yeu Bvt ad t wouldn’ ve At If your name's’ Kate, wine Poichin, I'm your bully and you'r = love— Reh Speak up and aay sm Oa i kate By th by she and Hich 4 y ie ee and come to live together in the Alverd family house, in whose reception room had presently hung Cousin Julius Parr t oN Napoleon Breaking the New: & oseph Nor hod Kate ever regretted for oe least fleet moment. Pick was her ono: prove nnd places of Gaye = prose a a offered her moetery in Lad ain pn very esammce of rman The ges rte lany of A igo moods-—Rick's hl inga—his moments a eb died tw promsibilites. sonar ent ue els ned of her ins the #: and bond between Shel oalia: ad talka and errann os in amon, ther one, ear Tally eb tional these factors were init dep a together Inte the inner ent a te's consciousness, They made bet =. {(Centisued on Page Fi)

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Witvwed from Page 42) f have no life aetunlh without ey were part of a welfish, precious —lish in that it considered af. Abwaye she had believed this happiness was Filelk's aleo—none red. But now under a troubling saw, indeed, that there might be pele for him. How could ahe— o utterly—deny him any gift in ‘to bestow? ; uplexity of emotion made her a and languid as she emerged from to join him presently, She wns yin her blush-colored frock, with of black lace and a stole of chin- : Rick did not notice. He had his vted abowe his watch. on, Rate," he said. “Don't poke of ogee a party from the Crothers twoo'elock. Lord, [ haven't got ay jaunting this week! But peo- iao—wormen. Lily Etheridge,’ he she didn't get through this morn- ai I'll have to have another ore the committee meeta on me Ea “that shouldn't be as CH. hardship! IT dom't say that, but for Laly and girls like her's in a ws a pretty thing—lote of charm that. But mixing into business ou haven't the heart to throw out yones. Kate, and that's a fact.” arse Lily knows that." lidn"t a the words, but she laid hand lightly over ber good-looking, bossy Rick, with vit perfume of soap and tweed RES, has a dear little boy." ut has! Cunningest little codger! telling me something he said about Wednesday aes lost the thread of Rick’s aneedote madden thought: “Bick and I have eea nhie to laugh together over ke that.” cared to her as their car rolled on Sowing foliage how sad, how really September was, beneath its mis- ripeness, in its implication of nas ath and wtter fulfillment—how nites to life's cycle, ‘ga nice little girl,’ Rick was fin- “She's been a dandy little mother oy. ap of a quotation flashed to Kate's “And so, having given all things, ung no other left, he gave himself," tguling wave of generceity flooded ke felt suddenly remote from life, ‘aged. She waa not Rick's wife— itis mother—the mother of all men. terre rolling wp the Coumans' drive In the ve she could eee htly mts, Lily Etheridge would be there. ni be guided by what he does," ahe relf with a sharply drawn breath. qe to ber directly, I willdoit. But wait for that. I will wait and see. hall decide it,"* omen and were mounting the ie steps in a flutter of yoluble hos- y. dice Coeman had taken Kate's igled you and Richard came, Kate. © much io say to you—asabout the we want to da next week for little « Wilton.” ‘Was looking at her with an air of ‘mtention, but she wae conscious of welett—Richard had left her side and wliberate precasion had singled out a trtaired woman in mauve smiling at rem one end of the veranda, Only two ‘ounting spats of crimson in Kate's tr her recognition of her ealf wd dewth warrant. She answered Pertect composure: “tsk it will be lovely to plan for Ale: but Tia afraid I'll have to nated out. I'm going away next week. bedi edt | think 1 ceght to a . Lthink—l o t to ~indefnitely. ai ir SEEMED to Kate as the train swung ioe over the rails with a ewift hum- trtyihee that she waa like one dead— “Si tio & ttgion where there was no Me ttl or poesibility of thought or ‘He felt disembodied—numbed, oi the lay hack in her chair watch- “*itiy mroke ribbon flatten against ipa thy, It seemed to her the train ee ri chanted to this disem- : widhernewith « monotonous itera- THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Golng—gaing —going—gelng —going— ne! Goin ing—going —eoing—go- ng —gone! ‘And a-going—and #-going— and s-going—folng—gona! - There was something chuckling, hideous, even derisive, about its murmur. Kate tried to fix her mind on other things—on the hours that lay directly ahead—but the future, being too veiled and opaque, offered nothing. She remembered instead the ten. — sion of the past week: her silently, swiftly crystallized decision; last of all the letter ehe had written to Rick and left on her | deak—the letter In which she had tried to tell him that she was abaurd paece of femininity, | Doll's House, who wanted a life of her own, Only here, of course, it was because she wanted to give Rick his more com letels-, This was the part that had been eo difficult te let him see, Tt seemed like bathos—an absurd quixoctigm eet on paper. She had done what she could ta transmit her frame of mind. wanes it had been the only pos. sible way. She felt abe could never have apoken to Rick about it, He would have Hiade all conventional poe and here was aomething to be evolved from her saul, worked out for him, only set crodely on gy PP Ee and white. t had been a poor letter. It said merely that she had decided to go away; that she believed it was better for therm beth: ; that it would muke for their eventual happi had been for her to leave him: that she selfish not to have done ao earlier; that she particularly wished to give him his free dom; that she believed life would offer him better things without her—»would be better ii bai Pte ae this last ith trembling fingers. It must appear a dual benefit in Rick's mind, Lf the letter had been vague, it was at least irrevocable. She had left no address, and Hick would not her—he would not suspect a haven with Willa Herbert in a city only seventy miles awas, Kate sat now, her hands inert om the book she could not see, watching the smoke flatten, break like an ill-definel flock of birds, melt away. Willa had written ahe would meet her at the Moxbury Station. She had not seen Willa in some yeara: re membered her chiefly as a rat hand- some, rangy, loud-voiced girl who had | made a disastrous matrimonial move, and followed with a second. It was fitting she should hunt ap Willa, Divorces should fiock together," Kate | | thought ironically. sal ent tn : ~Hf Willa failed her she had no other immedi ee, Kate recognized the tall, strik- ¥ dressed, quale rilancing wore of arthull aipereeien middle yeara moving toward her through the crowd. “Katy, girl, | waseo tickled to know you were coming to visit me! How fresh you look! I'ma fright with the pace I've gone, Come and tall me everything.” “Oh,” said Kate, “there isn't much to tell." Something caught in her throat, a strangling desire to cry. She felt a sudden wild longing to burn all her bridges in a word, here on a station platform. ‘J haven't come to talk about myself at all Willa,” she cried with forced gayety. co | wank to get away from everything for a little rest, so 1 thought of you." Willa looked at her with cann3 . "I believe you've left your fosband, Kate. Well, my dear, if ak me, that's what husbands arefor. Give me your bag- page checks. My coupé's aver there on the eft. Don’t look ao bucked. Katy, if lve hit the bull'seye." She laughed suddenly, “You're only golng the way of all fleah." “How absurd you are, Willa!” Kate laughed nervously, A few minutes later Willa was crushing her silks and scent and beads into the court na h eel sien i "Well," she sa reusly, “it's nice to have you here, whatever reason that a you. Oh, Hate, Mart aap am ma very wise woman. (ne t way. I had an idea when I got your letter that somes es vg. They an be so horrid, Kate, though just what alled yours—wine, woman or song? It was song with my first one. Ted Royle was a waster —just whistled a the money dad left me. But I got it back fram Ed Her- bert. He was a sesh, though, There's alwayssomething. Oh, don't took like dag- gers and pistols, Kate! You shan't say a (Continaed on Page §7) ing away, like that | om, in A | te | et | But Willa had promised and had kept the by the box Have Cinco on hand at home and at your office. These tin boxes are guaran- teed to keep Cinco in per- fect condition indefinitely in any climate. Buy a tin today. 2 for 15 cents everywhere OTTO EISENLOHR & BROS., INC. PHILADELPHIA Esteblished 1850 cigars in tin CD ey Cina .™ ' €) Cennmeniininn 8 ¢s av « a a *, te, bl : ah) e a L) a seme teeny rer ay) + 7

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A vconepactecstin from Page 38) less acou like. I've been through it Fle the deuce with a woman's —the first shock, That's why I'm mL came to me. You've some to the “son.” Sal wery mistaken, Willat™ Calor S Eiate’s checks. “2 don’t know sald infer— Richard and [ have © happy. He is the finest man s were any fault, any beast mtion, it would lic with me." pm aL a 8 fully heroic, Kate, but fright- Well, my ‘dear, I be if I was wrong. Only ' to be ao auepiciows! to have ; and you shall re bere you like."" zi said, "ret —that's what | filamont of desire to confide in hard, wulgarly kind frend had g. Allin a minute they were were cozy, Kate, I'll ae davenport, and you can oom. Wait, [ll pour you some d you'll find cigarettes there on @moke,” said Kate. “Not that I but my husband docan't rare i apa “take a husband — Wall: elated. cE ons set that are bi “an | ; P chirking vag va ou" “ bund r : We've: got 2 little grou ip of Who Meet twice w werk to omies and books and biol- y—that sort of thing—and and marriage. You'll Ml be nice," said Kate vaguely. © Nice to stay with you and rest. Seems tot af sleep, first of all.” we did pot alvep. Perhapa the arrayed like a robed cotafalgue E or other things. She got. up lore daybreak, and tle One ale strests, That morning she er ot ee park. and library, nnd Willa was up put ina feverish orgy of ping with her. In the ovening they ef patience. It waa a day of desperate eshifta, mental evasion, fou look haj ard today, Kate,” Willa . “but we'll chirk you up. Our little en rhe Hotel Fothergay. ‘We're go “ing tat the of ere Pong iscuss parasites." That's whaE. 1 was—what I om no er," * thought Kate. “Now why am I happier?’ he second day was no better than the . Kate seemed not to have chirked up F a ga cy eh at all. But in a ot her pation a t y vith the iamived souls. TE Were wt-talking, rather clever bunch, she ht, the women either absolutely 2 or blondined and enameled like la—very experienced, This is what is open to me," thought te—" this or living in @ room ina hotel, eking out same sort of lonely fenee, Well, but for Mick's sake —— The mere memory of his. name raised a. lowling emotion, blotted out the impas- eed utterance of a litthe moon-laced, pling, beardless man quoting from a Sra ig wad Hall," tree ried 3 e's ao tempera e's fm named in three divorce cases. Atide of ecknes flooded Kate. She ant re in an encompassing cloud of tobacco brooded, That was one beauty the kindred souls, Her presence made no — They aeons woe keer orritae Tut queston. fi they de- wed, for an absolute rte pat But one thing was clear: Her soul was tkinwith theira. She must pet away in a or bwo— toy sone oe situation. She tok even the strength, the courage to care her status here. This, in the face of ¢ unalterable decision, was manifest fy. The world must know sometime. An trilse to bitter humor seized her as lag a certain advertising slogan: —Why Not Now? It was ex- applicable. What was she evading, "elon? She must give her decision to ie sing ar coldly disap judg- fet of the world. put it off? It was e intention to declare herself frankly, to tent full onus for the separation, to su by. of necemsary, a certain element of pu kty, And here was her opportunity—in THE SATURDAY this freeet of free atmospheres, where only individual will counted. Yet she was silent. "T souldn't do it here," she told herself. Bc da Hen away at the week-end. New York But ake did wot atay the week. It was on her third morning that she met Sigmund Hall in the pork. He swept off his rimmed felt hat with one dimpled, woman- ish hand and stood very clase, "T followed you deli tely, I sow you turn in here. You don't mind, do you, Mra. Alverdy? I felt thé other evening I Wanted to know you. You know, very lovely— poetical lovely ta Honk ah: Er—you suggest en Kate's torpld sense of humor stirred. She looked at hie broad, fa tle: his pelntel, effeminate _ feet; h smooth, childish cheeks: rp lager green eyes, assuming wha — was an intense jook—and almost la ‘"ibenction-—~that’s the only thing that counts,” he awept on. "You suggest it im- oe a though your name were it FE "Indeed," aaid Kate, “you are not very cornplimen ry hi," Ae oa: “that's the reaction of a fettered soul. But | want you to hear me talle to-morrow on this line, Qur group— I'm to lewd our discussion on our social evil—mitr , andl its cure—diverce.” “But,” ‘Kate, * ‘you' re. hot married! What do Ror know about it?! ietnmrene he said, and gave her a She remembered suddenly his legend, with an utter revulsion. He was not merely a plump littl absurdity after all, but a cun- ning miniature satyr with infinite pc tentialities to undermine. She drew a eoolly and quickly. Indeed, her who spirit was remote and withdrawn, gone inte some definite Inner epee rte unaware of passing She felt this “ihe 2 techs nigh if * sitting i Willa, listening to Willa’s friends, to Seman und , to passionate excoriation, debate, declamation among the freed ones. They talked on and on in their aura of thick blue smoke, dissecting matrimony, the adjustment of life for man or woman, the question of individual liberty, preroga- tives. “There's only one thing, one beawtiful solution,” cried Sigmund Hall, “and that's diverce. Of course we all know that; but the question is, what are we golng to do to | bring it more freely inte our lives, to give it It was. hora that Kate's sickened apt moved her to one of her old frank impu She roae suddenty, isolated, the ape Her id, re like chil- ¥o do not Ha diverce, not if people have really married, and the real thing’ sall that counts. The ones thing's different. But mar- —jt's bigger than all this you've been ing about. [t's not made of contracted- for things, or of—or of habit-channels, or even of posterity, but somthing else— divine ——" Her voice broke, trailed away. She was aware of the horrified, frozen kindred star- ing ather. After all, they were by- -products, oa ged pardon,” she faltered. “yT— ares She went aut ge the room and back to Willa Herbert's. Her black bag and the train for New York! ae should have a note, Notes! Wis she going th h A papers ie paper trail? But she h enough of at In an aan she was sitting on a late train bound toward Fairvale. Oh, but not tore turn—of course not! All that she had said back there to those people was true, but eould alter her plans in no way. She had made them irrevocable. She waa going toward Fairvale because there she must change for the New York train—only in the station for a litthe—in the late evening. preshning the Fairvale alr and then leay- i ut when they were tee miles outside of Fairvale the train stopped and the conduc. tor came through. "There's a apread rail, and we'll have to back to Shoreton, the last atop, We'll wire back for an engine and a coach, and pas- sengers for New York can probably make the train at Perleyville flag station. We're a mileand three-quarters down the turnpike | EVENING POST a7 The Price You Pay For dingy film on teeth Let us show you by a ten-day test how combating film in this new way beautifies the teeth. Mow your teeth are probably coated with a viscous film. You can feel it with your tongue, It clings to teeth, enters erevices, and stays. It formas the basis of fixed cloudy coats. Keeps teeth dingy Film absorbs stains, making the teeth look dingy. Film is the basis of tartar, It holds food substance which fernments and forms acids. It holds the acids in contact with the teeth to cause decay, Millions of germs breed in it. They are the chief cause of many troubles, local and internal. Thus most tooth troubles are now traced to film. And, despite the tooth brush, they have con- stantly increased, Attack it daily Careful people have this film removed twice yearly by ther dentists. But the need is for a daily film combatant, Now dental science, alter long research, has found two ways to fight film Able Pépsaod REG. U8. authorities have proved their efficiency, A new-type tooth paste has been per- fected to comply with modern require- ments. The name is Pepsedent. These two Alm combatants are embodied in it, to Aght the film twice daily. Two other effects Pepsodent also multiplies the starch digestant in saliva. That is there to di- gest starch deposite which otherwise may cling and form acids. Tt multiplies the alkalinity of the saliva. That is Nature's neutralizer for acids which cause decay. Thus every use gives multiplied effect to Nature's tooth-protecting agents in the mouth. Modern authorities consider that essential. Millions employ it Millions of people now use Pepsodent, largely by dental advice, The results are aten everywhere—in glistening teeth. Once sec its fects and you will adopt it ten. You will always want the whiter, tleaner, safer teeth you ate. Make this test and watch the changes that lt brings. Cut out the coupon now. a OF F.. epsadenti The New-Day Dentifrice . Endorsed by moder authorities: and advised by leading dentists nearly all the world over. A delightful test Send this coupon for a 10-Day Tube. Note how clean the teeth feel after using. Mark the absence of the viscous film. See how teeth whiten as the flm- coats disappear. In several ways this test will be a delightful revelation. All druggists supply the large tubes. 10- Day Tube Free “ THE PEPSODENT COMPANY, Dept. 068, 1104S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, TEL. Mail 10-Day Tube of Pepaodent to Only ome tube to a family.

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The Expensive Way The Clipper Way Two Clipper Lacers Cut Operating Costs *500a year | “Twice as fast—twice as cheap. Save us $500 a year”— that’s how one plant engineer(name on request) describes the Clipper method of lacing belts. In this plant 2,000 amall belts operate half as many machines. Before the first Clipper was purchased, each broken belt cost the company 15 to 20 minutes idle machine time. Now the machines are running in five minutes after the break- down occurs, because one of several Clippers is always handy and because the workmen use the Clipper them- selyes to make a smooth, lasting joint instead of waiting for a millwright. This means 33344 machine hours saved each year—a reduction of #500 in operation cost. Yet the Clipper machine which effected these savings was the largest of three sizes and cost only #25! A partial list of Clipper users reads like a directory of America’s leading manufacturers. From many of these plants we have statistics which show the sound, cost- sheet economy of lacing belts with the Clipper. Send for this convincing material —it's free. ! 2 Sald by Atl! Soppty Dealers tu Principal Cities CLIPFER BELT LACER COMPANY Grand Rapids. Michigan. U.S.A THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | from Fairvale how, if ani? Pupeeenger for Fairvale cares to walk.” Tt seemed there was only one possenge for Fairvale at that hour=a woman with a amall black bag. “Tt'a past ten, madam, and beginning to rain,” the brakeman uttered. “You eculd gel. a motor over from Shoreten.” But she drew away and melted, bag and | ll, inte the darkness, | ¥ T WAS utterly futile and meonaistent, Kate reflected, that she should be walk- ing back to Fairvale at this hour; walking haek over a wet, deserted turnpike between hostly hovering rows of gtubble, a heavy Fas dragging in ane hand, her umbrella Hitec in the other to aspray of cold, pelting drops. Walking hack for what? She was not clenr. She would be compelled to stay the night in Fairvale—a matter for talk pos- sibly. [er presence was absurd, whether ehe remained in the station or sought a hotel, and there was no other refuge. The Fain seemed to accelerate, blew in vader her umbrella. Tt smote her face like little cold, atinglng fingers, clung there, hut it was oot rain that lay on her eyelashes, a — bag and tt rbielli front hand te ant "I should have gone back to Shoreton. T could turn back, even But. she walked pnt be ahead, It mo curred to her ahe might not reach Fairvale, The way waa long, black, gray, empty—or almost. Distantly alead of her some hun- dreda of feet Kate disterned a man's shape striding, head Jow, before her, He had emerge from a divergin tlane, He walked without an umbrella, rndisti inet, misty, avd in instinctive feminine reaction Kate rreal- ined what ambush the shrubbery and cornfields offered, Any one might lurk there—aspring out. Bhe cared very litthe—nothing—what happened to her now, but atavistic inetinet moved her. Her hand tightened a littl on her umbrella, She euited her gait to the figure thewl, She would keep well behind, just in cast, se the same time near enomigh, yust suppos She pulled ne umbrella low and strode along. Walking #0, her pace was nicely col= euiated to her interval from the figure be- yond, But after a littl, lovking out, she aaw that he was closer, He had seen her— had stopped, was coming back! Ehe set down her bag and pul down her umbrella instinctively in an at-bay gesture. But as he came up, foursquare, cialine swiftly bia] the fine gray spray, she grew very stall, frozen, like one partic ipmeing in & long: = ected, incredible dream, And as hedrew Ash light fram his peckek and threw tte igs on her she eppke, with a single stran- solr: By He held the ‘light rigidly on era moment, In its tipped glare : a rould see his face, lined, dark, fatigued, Thelr eves held each other, etarébed, fill of : question, "Hick!" cricel Kate, bat she could only utter the trivial, the imminent thing, “What are you doing out here, Bick—this rain? You haven't even your rainesat!" “Tve been toa damned eugente fumeral i" hee cried. “A funeral!" “This Coney woamin and her eommit- tea—they bad a contest on; but thelr prize old man, Jake Knorr, dor day hefare nas terday. Then they planned a special serv- ice fate this afternoon to celebrate his meade! life. I"d pot to be there, Powas late, and there was trouble with the ear. They waited for tus tao hours and a half at the East Wollayilie Chirch, But they couldn't have it after all the good health con amit tees ceryice— boca the old man had died of eating too much kidney pie Op back we broke the differential walked—that's all.” Tut now the light was owt, and they remembered, “Kate,” Richard cried, “where bay been, and what did you mean—thal letter you wrote?! What kind of ag war ii—poing away to leave me?" “Well,” guid Kate, “that's what} [went away and left you. But [oe ing back, J didn't realize it until am REO, L hed to be near you, Bick. "Near me!" coed Aiichard, “Gi your bag" 0h, but Rick, wait! I eouldn't the letter, but there's somethin all, [t's grievell me ao, & abwut—not having a family. theught—well, another I Tor Richard, J thought there might be 5 ono clas, I—] uns sure there wee—) like Napoleon and Josephine.” | “Leee,” anid Richard, “T was tobe and you were Josephine, iow, jet mm thera was another ports", Wasnt Gi Queen Somebody-or-Other— Gees 7) ummy? Had you by any chances mb her, Kate?" wT thaught—] as ib FOIE pretty woman — “T geo.” gab Richard. Een of ae little doll baby—was that [et* Yea," snid Kate honestly, “Hatt waa more than that. [t was to be all tig if you wanted it, You're ent titled | 1 everything. I'd have given it to you." He went up to her in the darkness "Qh, Kate," he said, “you're ag brick, but you're an awful ges! I care for you at all, Kate! Why, jus] would we do that, when I'm you and po me—the way we've beenT If we had evervihing, isn'é fk worse for you me? Give me your bag, woman, andi love me, never put me through warter hour oie ell like. theese Lest) on’t say a word! ‘You come homel" He bantand kissed her ab sharply, “Ok, Rick, you do care for mel” sobbed, "Care! snorted Richard. "Care! a alone; we've got to get home!” “To pander whi a man hates al a he loves her after he's mar wh man never telld a woman be her, He telis himself," anid Richard, ing ahead. “In the beginning be ma statenpent to his own COnecioMeness. it's thoroughly stamped it ‘isn't neem bo mentbon Gt" 1 Kate dimpled through her tears af) tall figure before her, but Fulck whirls denby round bo her. j his matter of a sie ge “what do you call my Kind of lle? - ple—-thousands of ‘em for my dependent on me, on my strength and piece and through me, on the ¢ ooks after me, You, Kate"”—he ubaut, walked on three feet, simp npain—"'L'll ask you a riddle out beyhood: * What's woree'n a Worn waterfall in her hair, a erick in heer belt a spring in her heel?’ ‘The asrwer if woman with a notion im her head. Kate, you ought to be ashamed!" Kate laughed bates is "Oh, Ricky, such vulgar punt! De turn again, dear. I heard ol Roepe paddle, and you'll be sfek. But Rick disobnyed her. He wala feet and stopped agnin, and thistimens arrogance mor certamty spoke. “Katy.” he said hoskily, “Ido lowe If you knew what I've muffered—iy ever da that again! Core bere, you a: billy! You—eome—here to mel” | 1 rye

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST New Standards Now {vERY man faces, in buying a motor car, two considera- Hons: First cost and operating cost. Up to now, only frst cost has been revealed and advertised. Up to now, operating cost has been ess-work. No man ever knew what e was toencounter. Service has been offered, but the owner has had to wait until the. bill came before he knew what the cost would be, It has been a faulty principle of doin business. Every pet maker has tri to Overcome it. ading associations in the industry have advocated vari- ous methods of ending this evil. But no car up to now has ever been able to stand out and proclaim its fit- ness to adopt Standardized Service. Then came the inevitable: Marmon 15 first to arrive at this perfection, A startling climax That is why the Marmon anmounce- ment of Standardized Service by Mar- mon Distributors has created such a nation-wide discussion. It confirms Marmon's right to first place as The Foremost Fine Car, Marmon has always been conceded first place in performance. It is known the world over for its superior driving qualities and comfortable riding, for its power and acceleration, its speed and distinction. Now it stands pre-eminent in the field of economical operation. The evi- dence os overwhelming. To publish prices, a8 we do in our new book,— “Modern Transportation Costs ""—is a revolutionary idea, conclusive, un- debatable. Facts are facts, Now all guess-work is ended. Now everyone can figure operating casts. Fine car ownership is no longer so vague that only the very rich can afford the speculation, Now more men can own The Foremost Fine Car—any hesitancy, such as sur- MARMON The Foremost Fine Car “Price on Poole Coa 10% additional. rounded any high-grade car, is now removed. Noman need content him- self with a lesser car. Marnmon’s sturdy and rugged qualities are now established. Its dependabil- ity, its simplified, vibrationless six cyl- inder motor, its lower upkeep, its long-life and its wonderful perform- ance make it worthy of first considera- tion. It has estabhshed a mew stand- ard of comparison, . No one can now afford to buy any car until he knows haw economical it is ta own a Marmon, Then can make comparisons, No one can afford to buy merely because of first price and blindly pay unknown service costs. It is a8 needless as it 1s extravagant. ‘Learn new standards So important is this announcement of Standardized Service chat we heave published a book, “Modern Trans- portation Costs"’—fully describing the new idea. Herein are the 16 average service operations, and others. Herein are tabulations as to time required for each job and cost of parts. For Instunce, a major operation on 1920 and later series, such as rebuilding the motor, Which is not necessary until after 35.000 to 50,000 miles, with rea- sonable cure, costs only $265.00," and only four days’ thme. This includes complete replacement of all parts liable to wear except crankshaft bear- ings, as records show that they do not wear within this mileage. Read about this in detail in “Modern Transpor- tation Costs." Note how tt is about half the usual price and half the usual time. This and other new economies are now offered for the first time in automobile history. So mail the zou now for your copy of this book. Naceatevs will surprise you. Nororke & Marmon Company Esvubliched ffs INDIANAPOLIS BAM cry rere ee ee fee eee GEMTLEMEN; In Choosing a Motor Car Old ways faulty because only first cost was revealed (Abr cOMpOM Neo for the mast inier- ening doghier ou Ager ¢ver prad en the abject af autt- seabile aad te hance ecomemins, Tt shee eek ter are ade ao muni thee revolwionary anmowmce mca ara uviy fde J arsver is fivat fe adopt Fiandardized Sernce. Tie dook- ded fs neeat frre foi! whe wk, Jianpir JA ont Mer compor wind madi! if NosovKe {4 Manscox Company Leehided HES Indianapolis, Jedigen Kindly send me ao copy of “"NMeelern Tras portation Coss.” describine In tall your pew ayetem of Standardised Samvice. SPREET. = | a EE

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60 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST VARNISH PRODUCTS hale : SR ee 1 Jes Pans 5 es s | = —4 4 B Poin” ts Mary Tried. Capen PO, Fo FEW strokes of the brush, and lo! there # a chair! The magic of Vitralite, ere Leng-Life Enamel, ratifies that inherent desire to beautify the home. And with Vitralite, this is accomplished at small expense. fi Correct shades of Ivory and Cream, a beautiful Gray, a rare Leaf Green, Chinese Blue and White, provide a cheb of au thoritarive shades for rhe Fre E elaborate home decoration or the painting of a single chair. These rare Vitralite tints possess character and deco- rative charm; they have none of che harshness of the common, heavy, “painty” enamel colors. Vitralite is self-leveling, shows no streaks, laps or So durable is Virralite that ir lasts longer than paint, It is guaranteed for three years on both inside and amide work, although instbe it lasts indefinitely. Send for Color Card and Names of Local Dealers Pratt & Lambert Varnish Products are used by painters, specified by architects and sold by paint and hardware dealers everywhere. Gearanices JF any Pratt io Lambert Parnish Prodtct atts to give satisfaction, vou may Aave vour money back, Praes i Lambert- Tre i Ata} 4 Tonawanda St, Buffalo, Ay T In Canada, 245 Courtw riche Street, Bridge ae Ontario, Makers of Effects Auto Freiiher and “Ae Floor Ferngom brash marks and does with a smooth, porcelain-like My ae, GY gloss. Ti sounlike ord: nary ename ‘le that the differen: | is apparent the moment you dip your brush into it. QU OANA AUTORELOAD Ae itviied babi iad atk iad cre MTA DOO — -- = Digitized byGpmems

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THE SATURDAY OUR OFFICIAL FAMILY (Continued fram Page 23) feet by two, with the compliments gident of the United States, The fied me, not only because I saw tind thought of the President for bo bee It confirred my sus- it the President was deeply inter- an. Galt, who was to dine with light. sa dinner not a dinner? might be one of the Worst catestrophes fel me during all my stay in on, When John Lind returned trip inte Mexico upon which Wilacn sent him he was to be in on for only a few days. We asked bi Lind far dinner on one of ta. ouble aM 86 acon as they ac- Due i he shortness af eatin som T especially desired were en- eehere, cabinet members were out ane men who were in Washington deme with ao press of official mad. ; lost T had my List cone debe: the eluding Secretary ancl Mra. Lane val United States senators ani ‘-. norning of the dinner President telivered to Congress hia message ot. Juat as L started to po up on io hear him apeak Mra. Lane tele that the Preaident was sending e to speak out of town, and that aid trerefore be unable to attend —T. Lentered the gallory I sow Mrs. 4 Who had declined may invitation Secretary Houston wo out of From her 1 learned that he hud 1, and accordingly they were sub= for Secretary and Airs. Lane on ol gueate, ee I callsign home than tale velephone repreta but my oan hius- Me. Dhaniels ead he was very sorry ne my invitation to dinner, but that heen called to the White House for Tener just at the dinner heur, Witigng J. Bryan wis then Sec of State, and the ranking cabinet ‘irs. Bryan wes away, and I at- dto substitute him as bast, All day red fo reach bir at the Departoent », His secretary assured me that yan had mo entries on his engage- ook for the evening, but it was not Si o'clock that I was able to reach Te | himself. amighty sorry, Mors. Daniels," came ie back over the wire. “Nat only wt come myself, bt Tom obliged to way your guest of honor,” Mr, acd Mr, Lind had been summoned White House conference, mii until 7:30 o'clock [ snatched dfficials away from their own tabblos te and fill the vacant sents at mine, shed into my dinner frock, preparing Ete my guests, sora host, sens gwest bf, ippeared that my troubles had only egun, for the arriving United States Sead that an executive seaalon badd fale] unetpected|y for that eveni het they would ie obliged to leave Atcine o'clock the senators began {up from my table, leaving those Vreaira whieh ruin the peace of mined y howiess. ® to my dismantled table and my ily eaten dinner there arrived Mr. oats hard on bis heels, Mir. Bryan Tr. hell The Daniels" Only Wet Guest Et wat another catastrophe, the B icowledge of which was mercifully bltc me at the time, It was one of lst for the season, Iecause as the imo trouble began in the spring we ie the invitations which we then had fer din Ta, fot feeling that wi could ibaa when our troops were at ‘ihe dinner the table waa centered ia tll glver vase from whieh long Revol lowers were arra in showers ey) wold bong from the branches of a ®. [lad not then learned the danger Tee this Fem of table decoration, and he Prighied the veo. et the dinner was about half over the © sty air changed. A storm was EMD Up ind little gusts of wind began to blow inta the dining roum through the open dows. There was one of the woman este about whose health I was particu. arly concerned, and I called the butler to me to tell him to shut the door behind her, Just a8 he moved to the door a strong breeze blew shut the door on the o ite side of the room and the draft which wos ereated blew the vase of flowers over. L could not imagine what hed happened to the water in the vase, for as the butler lifted if up nota drop was visible on the table, The next morning I asked the man what had become of the water, “Why, madam, didn't you know?” he answered. "The water all went between Commander Jones' ehirt and veat!" Commander Jones mappeent to be Becre tary Daniela’ alde, and when I told the etary to a high murine officer he answered, “What is on aide for if not to take the hard- ships which should come to the secretary?" Phere wer sometimes cdifficulthes cove liege to the late arrivals wt dinners and luneh- eons, but not often, for Washington is notably prompt in attending functions. Hicials especially have to manage their affairs on such a strict time schedule that the regular lwour for luncheons is alwa: 1:30 te 3 o'clock, and for dinners § to 10:30 | e'clack. It is usual when any t is more than fifteen minutes late for the hoateas to give the signal to go to the table. There | were bao aaierptions to thle within my | recollection. One waa on a busy evening | when oa dinner was being given for Mr. | LTraniels and myself at the Army and Navy Club. After a particularly irksome forty- | five-minute interval we discovered that we had heen kept waiting for a retired leuten- ant commander of the Navy and his wife, The other occasion waa in my own home, | when @ POE wonian kept a distinguished | guest of honor and a luncheon company waiting because her shopping that morning had proved especially fascinating. “if tes Right it’s Right” There was one occasion which ieee have been rendered difficult for others than myself which was saved by a reminder | from one of my oe I returned home one evening exceedingly weary from a day of heavy social duties, and Mr. Daniels came | from the office only to say that he must hack te it immediately after dinner. = | had promised to sit in a box that evening | nt an entertainment for the Florence (Crit- tenden home, the other ta In the box bo be Viee Presbdent ond Mrs. Marshall, the Bacretary of State and Mra. Bryan. As we discussed how hard it would be for me to go to the entertainment Mr. Daniela said to call up Mrs. Bryan ond see what the Bryans were going to do, “The secretary has to go to speak ot a banquet, but he says I ought te go,” was Mra. Bryan's response, At that moment there came from the ad- joining Feom in solemn tomea from one of my sons a statement which I frequently hod made ta him and bia brothers when they had tried te make their acta depend- ent upon what other boys were permitted to do, “If it's right it's right. I! it's it's wrong," auld the bey. A Se wae ondered out and I went to the entertainment; fortunately enough, for when I arrived [ diseuvered that pelther Secretary Bryan nor Mere. Maraliall had been able ta come, and [ aut there for the evening with Vice President Marchal and Mra. AP. Catastrophes may be turned to even greater account than to provide a laugh, os wee proved one February night when Henry van Dyke was among our dinner guests. In some way a few drops of soup were spilled beside Doctor Ven Dyke's flate. He was greatly emba ane exclaimed, “Oh, Mra. Daniela, con you forgive me?" [ told him that I had seen in New Hampshire, just a few days before, a rug proudly cis layed because once Lafay- reise heed apilled wine upon it. “Whe can tell, Doctor Van Dyke," I asked, “but that in future years I shall be showing this table solely because you once spilled soup upon it?" "Tou shall have a further reason to he | member the dinner,” said Doetor Van Dyke, and shortly afterward I received a beautiful copy af one of his books, auto | graphed in memory of the dark spot which waa to brighten many a day. EVENING POST él Get Ease of E' from the Driver’s Ease of eye, and ease of nerves, through a plate glass windshield —be- cause the road ahead is seen as itis. Yor don’t see double through plate glass. You don’t have to contend with swirls and scrolls. You don’t see little curlicues nor blisters. . Plate glass hasn't accidental prisms, nor waves, bumps or hollows. It helps i you drive naturally, relaxed. For. you don't have to peer nor squint—as you do through flawful common glass. When mishap breaks your auto glass, replace it with plate glass. Eye-glasses are ground and worked, trued and polished. Wearing spectacles with a flaw or swirl in them is beyond conception. For the spectacles on your car, or for the windows, use the kind of glass that is ground and worked, tru and polished—plate glass. P.atée Giass Man UrACTURERS of AMERICA Nothing Else \ is Like it cc om sts

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THE SATURDAY Spark PLUGS One INCH fring surface is PATENTED WE invite you tomake this test. Go to the longest and steep- est hill you know of. Leave your present spark plugs in the motor and drive up. Then change to FYRACS. Put a FYRAC in every cylinder. Climb egain—and note the difference. SPECIAL NOTICE We hove arranged wich desbers to io with a certGoate Prove for yourself, in this way, ways recommended the the extra power that comes from aa taeks ius caer ea et you ecarcted. If your dewler cannot Doyour order, write ua —we will see that you are supplied om thie beads. FYRAC’S INCH of firing surface. FYRAC sparks simultaneously at 7 to 10 places along its stout firing wires, igniting ALL the gas vapor. Theresultismoresnapand power, quicker pick-up, easier starting and greater mileage from gas. Because FYRAC means less carboninyourmotor, iteliminates much of your spark plug cleaning. Ask your dealer to demonstrate why a FYRAC in every cylinder will give your car a smoother, sweeter THaning mofor. FYRAG MANUFACTURING CO., Rockford, Tf Canmaifan Address: CAMPBELL AGENCIES 2 Achmed BWg., Torones, Canada If your deer cant supply you write ws. ‘After I pee ut Fyrac Spark Pluge in my car, my PROORB ssssieer took t an §80-mille trip over a road with many long, atifl grades. My daughter knew noth- ing about the Fyracs. Om her recurn she asked If the engine had been overhauled. She said it had more pep and ton better than ever before. It togk all the hills on high, ot moderate speed, wherens gear shifting rad always been necessary on this road, My experience with Fyrace has been exactly the same as my daughter's, and [ can fully recommend them." - 5. C. Parker, Salem, Oregon EVENING POST A near extastrophe at an International convention during our stay in Washington WAS BY by a most ingenious stroke of the presiding officer, Many other attrac- tions were making inr on the attend- anee of the delegates to the convention and one morning when a famous foreign visitor wid to mike an address there was Iterally no audience: te hear him. The presiding olficer made a burned tp to the telephone, called tao of the largest hotels, and asked them to send one hundred of their best- looking waiters to his assistance, The waiters marched in, took tha seats of the detest and diligently applauded the speech of the distinguished foreigner. Mr. Daniela and I came to be known in Washington af the givers of cabinet- raking dinners. nee a veer tach cabinet member has the pvilege of entertaining the President at nner. At the beginning of the season the member and his wife send on invitation to dinner to the President, who, in replyin indicates the day on which he will be w c to accept the hospitality, The list of guests ia then made up and submitted to him for his approval. This has not always been so, Up to the time of Mr. Roosevelt's Admin- istratlon only cabinet members and their wives were guesta at these dinners. Mir. Rewevelt became tired of meeting the e, and intima that te have other questa asked. This pa Te was therefore adopted, and the clistom of submitting the Het for his approval, which was me haugurated, has been continued ever si Mr. Daniels and I felt ‘that those who lived in Washington had other opportuni- ties for meeting the President and Mira, Wilson, and we therefore invited from out of town for our presidential d neta. We had sg aan of eae E tot our firet dinner r. and Mires. Newton Baker, of Cleveland. Later, there waa a cabinet vacancy which Mr. Baker was asked to fll, At subsequent dinnera we had for our guests Mr, and Mra, Meredith, from lows, pnd Mr. god Mra. Bainbridge Colby, from New York, both Mr. Mere dith and Mr, Colby later being offered and accepting cabinet portfolios. is led to a facetious friend saying t our dinners were like horse shows with possible *candi- dates paraded before the President for his bra peetlow. A Morth Carolina Dinner To me, whether one ls entertaining the President of anyone else, the atmoaphere to provide is the ane ta which VOU ah ae customed, the one ofa so ia prices natural, So in plannin rat dinner, for Febru 19, 1914, decided to have a North €; ing setting. We began with chic was early shad season and we had written to fri who gent ue beautiful fish from Enstern Carolina. Our roast turkey and sickling pig came from North Carolina, Boh both to he roasted, and the pig to be served with the proverbial Ted apple in his sume group of he ‘wold be mouth. It was before the of the wine mess order Mr, Daniela, aa I allowed myself wine favoring for my dea- sett, something which we never did after the order, for we would not serve ourselves what was denied to the naval officers living on the reservations or the men on the ships, Our dessert was tipay cule, a Southern deli- cacy, made with sponge cake filled with as many blanched almonds as you can make it held. Over the cake ia poured sherry, a heavy bolled custard is placed on that, and the whole is topped with whipped cream. For the house decorations we had bam- boo of Southern amilax and gray Spanish moa, The table wae cen with double red camellia japonicas, elngle blue violets and white hyacin ter the dinner there was = prophecy: of the many future times when Mrs. Baker wea to give Wash- ington ariel ape ptt with her vobee, for she san qup of act that | the President did give his ‘persona oe the ne of propomed eats for theae affnirea is a letter which Mr’ Daniels received from President Wilaan under date of January 4, 1917, which reads as follows: fy dear Mr, Secrefarp—Just o line with my own. (this litth machine is pen! to that this list is entirely eeeaptab e to Mra Wilson jlson and to me, aod to thank you for send- ing it for our approval, Faithfully yours, Woonnow WiLson, May The list thus approwed for our her, containing a number af Mr newspaper friends, whom he wi have meet and to know the skies ie did, was as follows: Mir. and Mi; Cobb, New York City: Mr. - Adolph Ochs, New York City; Basa, Bangor, Maine; Mr. and Mh Howell, Atlanta, Georgia; Mr. a Richard Hooker, Springfield. M setta: Wir. ond Mra. AL OW. ae berton, North Carelina: Don ©, Seitz, New York City rs Mra, Thomas Edison, Orange, 4 Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Meredith, Drs Towa; Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Alderm wersity of Virginia; Mr, and Mra Ford, Detroit, Michigan; Mr. a Meredith Nicholson, Indiana; | Mra. Grozier, Cambridge, Masa: Mra. Carrie Chapman Catt, Ne City; Mr. and Mra. Thomas Res, éld, Dlingis; Dean Sills, Bowdr : Mr. and Mra. Bainbridge (all ork; Mra, Adelaide Worth Bagley say different fram the easy atm af our first dinner was this one on th the declaration of war, Presider had apoken before Con on 3 evening, February third, annotne e WES renal in Ambassador Gerw ermany and presenting passport German Ambassador to ce a Count Bernatorfl!, Qur dinner was o day evening, February fifth, The alli ty in ks 2 eb uring those and expec Washi , where public offical: | grent we ht of responsibility for the: In the Midst of Alarm On the alternoon of the day on #4i dinner was to be given IT asked ry manservant te search the basemen: aac Lee ee pico al Be be the Washington police foree, telepha suLy that he understecd the Precis to dint with us, I explained the p tions which [ was taking and told hin I would be glad to have him send as well. He did so, and the man remes the basement throughout the dinner, | I teld Major Pullman that 7 war bi only my own eervants, who had hex me for yeara, and that they were all cm he gald, “Tam glad of that." Ag ws when the Preside dining aniwhere he waa accompanial catlond of secret-acrrice men. Ths = peeotdanes with the Lew which seo that as soon os a President is ceca shall be protected, although it wi 4 cially irksome to President Wilsos a often worned the men ri te ben him by slipping off to take walks alom On this night extra men mist hiv | gent, for in the middle of the dinner d was a loud popping sound like the stood of guns, and members of the femiy) were not attending the dinner sud thal they looked from the windoas torr | mon seeming literally to rise everyet from the ground. The explosic prove be nothing more serious than a cee Apellinarie which had been Jefé on theo PORES winnie dine thought ito the [er weather, A little later one of my bays set Sr call on a neighbor, and slammed the jt he went out. A man roar in the dtc and @ second later exclaimed in warn accents, “Son, Ill fo ne you thi i but don't you ever do that again.’ That night the President, of cours. # on my right, and Henry Ford, 4 gy such strenuous efforts [ot peat 8 left. During the dinner Mr 78 aver to sat, “Mister Presses aay have been to ee the Secretary a Navy and have tendered him my p="! the construction of any warmer ce it can produce.” In that plant ver the Eagle boats which, t they Wet not finished so early as we reece went as far as Aacsis. On the occasion of one of ost pte tial dinners Mrs. Wilaon's bepeney and outer wraps were removal byt edlored mammy who had septs my ce dren's 1 for many yar alipped out of the dra mba = ment after dinner while the geoties ™ cle arg i over their cigars in the a er in the hall, her eyes sat ocr? her bright bandanna “Tt! * dent's dun shook hands wih mF murmured tremulously, { Continued on Pag ©!

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(Cemtinwed from Page 62) 8 the same old nurse who, when we i from the Convention at alr. Wilson was nominated for his nm. had aaid, “You Bay Mr. Wilson's tran for President?" Mir. Wilson's going to run," we Wl! ilson*s =enine to rin for Preal- Why, I thought Mr. Bryan moat iy run.” * came only to visit and not tostny while we were in Washington, and * TL received a telegram calling me >» Raleigh because she needed me. haha esting watching by her bed “A g& low and she was taken u - that bay: Gt Tene ne be Leneorit ae althtul : wall ms apa & an sien Bisa nvitation to the White House & a nd, and indeed there are fow persons # not glad to have it so, and to break ber engagements t may have in o attend a function re. t series of eventa is given for official each sear at the ite Howse, be- with a dinner to the cabinet in the [ ending with a dinner to the Speaker fore Lent. In the intervening period sand receptions are given to the ws of the p Judiciary the diplomats, mbers of (oo the justices of the ne (Court aad officers of the Army avy. ; hour for the receptions is aly ‘dock, and just before that time the Tesident and hia wife and the mem- @ the cabinet and their wives as- bin the large circular li on the |foor of the White House. a table ihe door are beautifal bouquets of s from the White House conserva- ind one of these is presented to each y the President's aide, Just before felock the President and his wife join rty, and exactly at the hour the bugle 4oand they start the grand ay, the Vice President and his wife ie toambers of the cabinet and their following. et was an unusual event during the Prat a ienie’ Shcwstary: of Bais, F a former John Foster, stood at the foot af that ray, and watched coming down lt her jaughter, Eleanor Foster ing, on rm of — Robert ng, Secretary of State, ® President and his wife with the wife ® View President and the wives of the wt membera form in line in the Blue n, and the reception continues for t three hours, the questa passing by ily, with only a moment lpr a cand pomubly a murmured name. were is a great honor which is accorded few quests at White House receptions, of standing behind the line. During rears that I was in Washington os wile ue Secretary of the Navy] wever stud he Line receiving without wondering ther the women whispering back of ma : a4 thrilled aa [ was the firet time that ws taken behind the line. It waa when husband was chief clerk of the Interior it was the Secretary of the Interior, w Smith, who took me behind the line. ong the other Rae mi ie Poa persona T ret he charmed cirele th I recall Jo- i Jeiferson, In the Recelving Line Itanding in the line ja good discipline for ‘worn a vanity, for there ahe is made fealizé that ahe representa her husband toot herself. Women would come down ijline, teach out their handa with no In- eat whatever until | murmured “Mra. iiels," and thes they would say sen j=Mrs, Josephus.” A woman fm that she is im the front line of ‘he elev only as a ary i tio wea the Wi ee oes a those received, oa the mere re al li the in ure gay ve epee tp by a. Often the | hi aes ute: pi a firm handclas vom stepping upon let the music slow and the line Hantly while the spirits of those Sivieg safer a correaponding drop. I ember well one evening, when nearly “ter number had been a classical selection, ‘at Tsent for Admiral Deaynon and asked Ms ithe music might be changed to some- ing with a march step. The change in THE SATURDAY EVENING POST tempo had its immediate effect anc the : crowd began to bey more rapidly, It is a corique feeling ta have one of your best friends approaching and to be unable to one word to her, for it ia the | Positont 3 is hand- | ho sets the pace, dup is quick, and if anyone be him delays a second it means that the line stops directly in front of the President—a faux pas of which no woman of the cabinet weld bap piy le guilty. After the guests hove been recelyved the President = byt — to she upper apartments o © House an the women of thé cabinet are at liberty to break line. It is remarkable that women who have searcely felt tired during the eve- ning, in the excitement and pleasure of meeting distinguished guests, find after the line breaka that have atocd in one Bele for eo lon ore they are able to bend their knees. Refreshments are usually brought te the members of the cabinet and their wives In the Blue Room, and chairs are placed for It is sometimes a little taxing to be as an exhibit in a 200, for it is the habit of many guests to in long lines to wateh the animals eat. Besides these formal events anmtall informal affairs are given at the will of the Predent or his wile. Sometimes the invi- tations to these are worded differently fram. those for the iene events, and say that if Mrs, Stan has no previous engagement she will be welcomed on stich a day ond at such an hour, Under such circtimatances any lady who is invited is privileged, if she 80 desires, to write a note to the “White House and state what her previous engage- ment is, Few, however, wish to do eo, The Mistress of the White House Anyone may call upon the wife of the President and eave cards é without see ing her. If a lady desires to be received she must write a note to the White House and gtate her request. If the wife of the Preai- dent granta the audience she usually iseues other cards for the game time and see sey- eral women at one, for the obligations upon the mistress of the White Howse are heavy, and her ment list which sometimes nolmoat that of the President himself, Tt was into this atmosphere that Edith Bolling Wilson came after her marriage to President Wilson, in December, 1915. The first formal occasion on which she was en- tertained ag the wile of the President waa | the dinner given by Vice President and Mrs. Marshall on January 14, 1916. I[ Temember how charming and natural she wos that evening, and haw ii ans errs Burleson appre pin w Mrs. Wilson wis seatid te nee and sald, "Ploase take this oar Mra. Burleson, It is far too large and too ‘grand for ma," Shortly afterward she displayed eg same tactful courtesy ata dinner whi n= jels and I gave for the President and Mrs. Wien. The men were still in the library with their cigara and the women were gath- ered in the drawing-room, each of them anxious for a word with the new first lady of the land, She sat in one little group fora few minutes and then helped me as hostess wery greatly rising, walking about the room and ing eonuments soneerainy some photographs which she knew woul please me, an then array herself with a different group of Lito de Her tact and her cordial democratic splrit had endeared Mrs. Wilson to many fa before the coming of the war cur- talled the official entertainments. She haa charm in a high degres—and charm haa bern defined aa ““something which, if a woman haa, ahe needa nothing alae: and if she lacks it, nothin Ht bes tte place."* After that her ollowed a certain routine. Me the ¥ ve early morning she Played golf with the President, seeing to it that he the exercise which those around him realized When she returned she wrote notes, and in many humble homes to-day thera are tiaee- om eas in the tude for of rien expreasing gratitude for some thought for Mr. Wilson any letters wine written ‘to her Seer the men: fr the service. Mothers asked her about the welfare of their boys, and young wives begged that their hushunds sr . sent home to be with them as ipa through the ear orden]. Thee eters were not ordinarily referred to Mrs. Wil- son's secretaries to be sent te the depart- ments, but ingtead she would Inclose them at minutes will pass | keep an appoint rivals | was so vital to his well-being. | na je cera , jarnuze WHITE * perfectly even ~without a érush mark or lap" From kitchen to porch pillars your home can be made a bril- liant, lustrous, sanitary white. And why not, when a white enamel like Kyanize is so easy to obtain? 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Ca Protection— No Mis-Fires N protecting your home you want to be sure the cartridges in your pistol are dependable. In a crisis there must be no uncer- tainty—no mis-fires. Oil necessary to lubricate a pistol seeps past the bullet and primer of ordinary cartridges into the cartridge shell and spoils the powder. Or, it de- stroys the priming materials which ignite the powder. Mlis-fires result. Remington Oil-Proofautomatic pis- tol cartridges are sure fire always. They are positively sealed against oil or moisture—an exclusive Remington feature. The best pistol is dependable only if loaded with cartridges that are sure fire. For protection—for dependabil- ity—replace old cartridges in the clip of your automatic—whatever make or caliber—with Remington Oil-Proof cartridges, and eliminate doubt. The nearest Remington dealer can supply them. REMINGTON UMC The Remington automatic pistol in 2 and 2H caliber ia dependable, light, compact and aafe. Magazine quickly removable; can be instantly replaced. A cartridge left in the chamber cannot be fred with maga- zine removed—the most important safety fenture ever incorporated in an nutomatic—malkea it perfectly safe to heave about the home. MMagacine capacity of 380 caliber, 7 sheta: of -d2 caliber, & ahors, Remington, REMINGTON ARMS COMPANY, Inc. General Offices: New York City with peraonal mesagea to the members of the wabbinet auking what could be dane to make ft easier for the writers. Later in the day Mra. Wilson cut ancl made garments for the Hed Cross. Many an overseas man, too, will remember how tneredalous he waa when he was told that the beautiful woman in canteen uniform who had just handed him chocolates and sandwiches was the wile of the President of the United States. | ‘There waa the trip te Eurepe with the | President, when her charm and grace, 2 | well as her great strength of character, car. ried her through new and strange experi- ences in a manner which rete ik upon her country. Then came those trying months of the President's illness, when Airs. Wilson was eohatancly at hia aide, and there waa fresh cous: for the display of her tact and ) thoughtfulness as endeatored to apare | her hushand the vexations which might ne | tard his recovery and ne the aT arta airove to avoid making decisions which | muh appear like the assumption of polit- | ical authority, It is my belief that for her ; service then the nation owea far more to Edith Bolling Wilson than ever will be | } understond by the majority of its citizens. Old shirt tala of my husband te make into bagmar apron, money for soll courses, freth for churity patienta in tubercular hoapatuls, positions in govern- ment dopartmenta—requests for eve Eiing Baca the sun come toa public official and his wile. Bometines the requests are small in thersselves and therefore may be granted, although these little gifte make wp a conaid- erable finanelal b nin the a be. For instance, there are hon Hoot re questa for handkerchiefs to be sald at baziars, and almeert every woman in public life in Washington accedes to these, Some- times ther givers are courtenis enough to write and tell how the handkers chief, raffled, has brought a considerable gum into the coffers of the charity. Dolls are asked for almost as often as ehiefa. I have dreased many of these, usually in Southern-negro costume. For one bazaar I remember I sent te Charles ton for a real mummy doll. With four boys of aur own of schon age iE wat im peat bh to gratif those other mothers and fathers who believe that cali- net members can bestow free college courses as easily as they enn adbograph their photos graphs. Not all these requests, of course, reach o cabinet member or hia wile. In the case of the husband, all tail goea through his de partment. If it ia offigial business it is referred ta the chief clerk af the depart- ment. If it bs 5 nal kusleess it goes to the seers of the eabinet member. If it is conlidentinl business it ia teal by the confidential clerk, And-—adds one who is familiar with Lael procedure—il the intter is sent to the house—it is read by the wife. One friend of my husband's who desired to send him personal letbers tested out this acherme, abd when he had found that all that I have said about official procedure ia true he sent lettera to the house, starti them with a m = to me. He lears that what 0 have seid abet eablnet women reading the betters is true, toa, for TD always received the Tease and wt first hand andker- Reading One's Husband's Letters There is more than curiosity in a woman's reading these lettera as they come to the | Howse, for often she apares her husband } sonte slight unpleasantness or unhappiness contained in then whose barb may be very keen under the clank of anonymity, The letters of a cabinet wife are also sifted for her, her secretary reading practicnlly all of them. Mr. Daniels and 1 had to give considers tion to working out a scheme by which we might write each other free of censorship. And during all the eight years of our resi- dence in Washington, when out of town mygell, T sealed my lettera to him in an envelope marked for him personally from me, ahd inclosed this envelope in atill an- other addressed ta him in eare of hia eon- fidlential clerk, The war increased the burden af these communications which might be termed May 4, peculiar, because every Gure must be then. Much time and effort was wag following up such eormminicetocs, I remember one evening when Mer, inls wae colled to the telephone by a who refused to give her c:ame but af that she had absolute information th submarines were on their way fron many to the United States. She, give the details only to the Secretar nest sien re Lori her af a certa dress on t owing moming. Daniels felt suspicous of the giver, formation, but to be on the suid that he would send o representative to her the fi At four o'clock in the phoned again and said that the fighting her, but that she information and she wanted to eame and hear her a her to wait wotil morming. intelligences: papal to the address she hed given he that tt ws an insane aslum. In of terrible anziety when everyone was for the defense anc protection of the, try this poor soul wes greeving us weight of imaginary troubles, at thoee that were real. The Man With a Bomb A North Caroling man appealed} during this time tn a trowble which to be very real, He hol invented a which he tock to Washington. The} Department referned him tio Admiral who was much interested in the i and asked the man to test out things concerning it. The tveq little ac to city ware walked down Pennsylvania Avenue Raleigh Hotel, where he aghed a the street te direct him ta a place eould test outa bomb. The sineets: erowilid, the man interrogate! was for the safety of the crowds, and the inventor jailed, Mir, Daniels send down to have him bailed out assure the authorities: that the on another oocasion by a very muct woman whe aaid, “De you know tain Soeand-So0 has been here in ton for ten ELIE, and that he nothing but God himeelf can get af here; while Captain So-and-5o, came on shere duty and who har and baby, has been ordered ta the Mr. Daniels said no, he didn’t and the woman snapped back, “¥: know much about the Navy, do During this time many aad letten te me fram mothers whe felt that I et their boys into the Navy, of out avy, of secure information about sons. After the Marines had f Eellent Wood there were many missing men who were not i reported. One North Caroling moother that she had been unable ta o formation abaawt her boy alter this We investigated and aa nearly o be determined from hia position of time of the battle it appeared that be have been in a group of Marines who & blawn inte bits, The first man lost on armed gerd from the staff of the Dolphia, thea psigned to the wee of the Secretary df Navy. The mother of the in Washington and later in the war, I ei close to all such me two of my own boys were in and my brother, Comm ander ace ‘, WH rted missing Jor Tar hue after his ship, the larch Jaw was torpedoed off the Scilly [dari 1 those who knew our family hetery na not seem possible that my mother cod! called upon again to bear such a bes, 4 my older brather, Worth Bagty, ped bed the first American officer to lose his lite! the Spanish-American War. Bhat the bat of torturing anxiaty before we keer ol safety helped meto understand theses! mind and soul through which oth: Were Passing, Editor's Mote—This fa the wecoed of seo ate by Mira. Deanbela. ng sailor gnuther a

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important and succeeding not at all, He believed it incumbent upon him to detect something orsomebody, felt that the weight of the world suddenly had deecended upon his shoulders. But his brain worked in a singlt unfortunate channel, His attempts at detuction led invarinbly into the cwisde= ae et "Te Just couldn't ae at was the reaction ex every bank employe who knew what hed oc- curred. é@ thing waa imposible, The poying tellers, who had worked in team preparing for the rsh af the day, were a] reasonably certain that the cash had been correct at the beginning of the day— aa certain as they were that it was not now correct. Through it all Clifford Wallace worked with them. Tiny lines of worry corrugated hia forehead. And when, at seven o clack, iy pecare & evident kg ae meney wee poaltlve ne and kad dis appeuned probably his the course of ihe day's btizindss, the president, the cash= jer and Clifford Wallace retired to War- ren’s office, The dent and cashier were amoking. Cliff declined their proffered cigar. “T never amoke, you know.” “The point now is," apoke Warren, ehecking off that particular point on he thumb, “that the money hes disappeared and wet must do something, The question i, what? 2 He turned his FRO pon Wi'nl- lace, Chi met the stare steadily end answered in a matter-of-fact voice: "The obvious thing is to place me under arrest, Mr. Warren,” “Obvious, of course." "But Mr. Warren '"—lt waa the nervous little cashier—“you don't belleve CLA stole that money, do yout" “Certainly not, Mr. Jenkins. Of course I doen't. And equally af course To am not sing to have Mr. Wallace placed under arrest. A flicker of triumph crossed Clifford Wallace's face, to be followed instantly by his habitual stoniness of expression. "TI am perfectly willing, Mr, War- Ter —_ FF “Tt ian't a case of willingness, Wallace, If I thought for a moment you were ilty—or even could be guilty. wouldn't esitate, Nob if you were my brother, But the thing is impossible. You've been negli- gent Be abel na I'm not even sure of that. [ understand banks well enough te know that a certain laxity of routine is naturally and exeusably develaped, It ls my personal opinion that the money did not dizappear fram the bunk. It either never wie here or it ba still here." ft a sir.” Cliff wns aay ri aly “Tam going to search every emplove as he or she Save the hank. That will insure its remaining here to-nignt, By to-morrow morning the bondin any detectives and the representatives of t Bankers’ Protective ociation will be here. What- ever actlon they «are te take, Wallace, will be strictly up te them, Personally, I wish to take orcnsion to mare you of my con= feleree tn your integrity andl bo ex ptr the belief that this is an explainable mistake of some sort, which will be set right to morrow." “Amd you are not even going te keep me beta surveillance to-night?" ia i, FE "Pardon me, air, but I believe you are making a mistake. You will be eriti- ‘i seca | | “They can eriticize and be damned to them," Wallace returned to his cage, where he busied himself arranging the shelves for the following reclorn Then quite as usual he closed his vault doors, set the time rer A ak bil subsea ane bolt aig building after undergoing a thorough search. Once outside, his shoulders went back unconsciously. He knew that he had won. The very almplielty of his crime had caused it ta be crowned with success. Hut he did not allow his elation to strangle enution.. Every move in the gama hid been thought out meticulously in ad- vanes. He did not deviate a hoir's breadth from his regular evening routine. He went to a cafeteria and ate a he meal, al chongh the food almeat choked him. At the ke he telephoned Play Tlia Robingan, “May T come to seer you this evening, Phyllis?" Fle did that four of five evenings awerk: they were secretly engaged. "Yes, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FISH EYES (Centiiogd from Page DF) * There wae a distinet nuance of tremu- lous inguiry in her volee, It annoyed ClLf- ford. ey had threshed gut every detail of this sort, She must keep a stil? upper lip, had promised not to ny any n= t interest in his comings and goings immediately following the robbery. But that was just like a woman, ea a in the tene of her voice the vast re ale felt at knowing that he waa free. Wallace didn't like that, It was an indieution of weakness, and weakness had no place in his slaboratescheme. Besides, he knew well thot Robert Warren was no fool, realized that for all armen a pretation: af aoe in i integrity, ank president a a r=) shea ehadowing him. He had ari- tic satel and a Epes nares ae i to epend this night [n ; and perhaps eeveral other. Certainl under observation, This freedom cause elation, but brought about no lessening of cnution. At 7:45 he presented himself at the garage where he kept his modest little roadater, filled the tank with gas and drove down the atreet, This wae a nightly ritual. Straight to the heme of Phyllis Rebinson he went: tk wat o ramb two-atary atructure set well back of a high-terraced front yard, its wide veranda blanke cozily with honeysuckle—a modest place, one which had seen decidedly better days, Phyllis, an orphan, lived there with an aunt, The place was a boarding house, All very disereet and ea at She him In the hallway. He was innit by the patent effort of her casual- ness, He directed their conversation, the chatted about innocuous nothings umnti te wore safely out of the house and in his little car, headed into the country. This, be, Wa a not uncommon procedure. Clit was Well satisfied with himself. The meet sushiciqus watcher could have found no | for speculation this night. His aetiona had been the normal actions of an innocent man, He waa acting juat os he would have acted had he been innocent of the theft of one hindred thousand dollars, hey mounted a gentle acclivity. The broad smooth highway dipped from the crest through a small woods. Overhead the full moon shone benigniy over the valley, behind them the city, ringed about by furnaces and steel milla, gemma of fire fn the setting af silvered night. A red glaw in the sky, © man at the steering wheel, calm and eclf-pomssssed, eye focused on the ribbon of trond ahewd, i ig busy with the epochal events of the day, Nor did he mention the subject uppermost in his mind until the girl epoke, spoke with a quaver in her woice sa her hand clomed tremulowaly about his. "You—you're free, CHAT" "Obvleudly.” The iar wea a porers this was too perfect an opportunity to mist, Ho wished the girl at his side to be impressed with his own granite impervious ness to emotion. Phyllis shook her head; she loved him deapite the fact that she knew his weakness, “They don't suspect youT™ Festi not. They couldn't. I went in to the old man and teld him the money was gone. IT didn't protect myself a bit. a that he had better lock me up, And of eourse he didn't.” He smiled grimly, pridefully, "The only dunger alntin the whole scheme has been passrcl, hyllis. We're safe." >" And I'm frightened," “Of course, That's natural,” id Aren't you! ia “Not ot all.” Hoe stopped the car aa if to light a cigarette, “You put the money in the vault at the City Trust?" ae Yous," “Wheat” "“Tmmediately alter I left the office for luneh." “You went straight from the Third National to your office?" “Yes, And the cashier commented on how quickly [ got back," “Finel Great! Sooner or later they're bound to connect us in this matter, and when they do they'll investigate your ac- tions. It'll disarm them te learn that got back te the office in record time; that ou perro pear have gone anywhere ween the bank and your ploce of bnesi- nes, And nowy nhout the vault —you didn't mei any Particular attention there, did you Fr “Noo I'm sured didn't. There waa a crowd there, and I am sure the old man didn't notice me at all, I put the money in Harriet’s ber, not mine." He patted her hand reassuring. "You were a trump, dear. And you're not sorry?” “Noo-and ye, I know that it is wrong, yet—oh, well, we need the money. Tt means so much more te ws than It ever could to that bank. caught.” “We won't be” His narrow, rather hard face was ect. He argued as though to reassure himself. “The weakness in any- thing of this sort is preliminary planning. The average man who seta out to steal one hundred thousand dellara’'—the gel wineed —" makes plans ao ¢nermoaushy lab orate that he cute his own throst, mini- mizes hia chances of getting away with it. For every detail that such a man plants he sows a possibility of detection. He isn't content with Lhe easy, the safe, the normal. In striving for perfection, for abaolute safety, he lnys traps for himself. Remember this, Phyllis: a detective can make a thou- baie mistakes and, by dolng one single thing correctly, land bis man. ‘The criminal tannmat alfa a single mistuke, Uneer- -" And then the feminine side of the girl flooded to the surface, “Cliff dear, you re so—so hard!" That plensed him. He wanted to be hard, cultivated a gelid philosophy. “aantiment serves no man well, Phyllis, My hardness has made pocalble financial ease for wi—and consequent contentment, T have no conecence. WNelther has the average Man. Conacience is the fear of Ee, caught. We are all inherently un- moral, It was not wrong for the primitive man to steal. He took what he could get away with. Right and wrong are products of legislation, of artificial ethical culture. They are not tofus; we are inoculated with them, ey are utterly forelgn to us. In taking this money I have eonveniteed no natural crime. Ry statute only am I o criminal. Tam net ashamed of what I have done. T would be ashamed of detection.” Silence fell betwoen them. The girl shivered as though with a chill. “You are very convincing, dear. But I'm afraid that I'm terribly a victim to the morality of education. course you've convinead ty intellest. But—asinee this afternoon—I'm afraid you can never eon- Vinee my conscience,” He floshed her a sudden o hensive glance, “You're not getting cold foot?" “No.” She shook her head sodly, ‘It's too late for that.” “That you're afraid?” “Yes. I'm afraid.” “Then you'resilly. We'reaafe now, The minute you walked through thase revalving doors with that hundred thousand in your bag I knew that we were aafe, The scheme is successful because of ite yery simplicity, We are ta go thew in aur ae eal WHR, There is to be no variation whatsoever in our way of living. Ine year we will marry. A year from then I will get a position some where else. And then—and not until then—will we begin to make use of the money which we got today. We're aafe." "From the law—yes. But not from our- gelyes," warping on tongelenee again?" wi ost i If we're only not “PAE T have oo conscience, no fear of the intangible,” She sighed, “LT mvtst agrem with you, dear, I've gone too far notte. Tut I won- der—whether it's worth the pot He lourhed harshly and the car leaped ahead aa his finger caressed the lever. “It's fortunate, Phyllis, that I'm prac- teal. The thing that counts in this world i what you have—not how bes got it.” They returned ta the girl's boardlag house at eleven o'clock, atom chatting fora while on thefrent poarch, CUA wondered whether the man who must be shadowing him was witness: to the tubleau. Ele knew that the man must have been bewildered and appre hensive when they went off for a ride tae ether—and pleased by their return. He ancled he could diaeern the person lolling in the shadows of the big oak across the street, Heswang down the steps, whistling Jauntily. Phyllis slept not at all that might. Clif, serene and untroubled, alurbered heavily. For two year he had planned this thing, May 6,15 had gurveyed it from every angle. He! made an intensive personal study of men with whom he would have to d Od Robert Warren, the president; of Gy Jenkins, the cashier; of each membe the board of directors. He had == their mental processes, had deliters built up their confidence in him and bi teprity. He had known in advance 1 arren would do justabout as be had d and that his opinion would sway the & af directors, He knew that the mg would be hushed up and that the inves tion would be conducted with the most: secrecy. He knew that detectives appear the following morning, would main there for some time—and thar | would find nothing, He knew that evr ally the eoncluaion would be reachel | there had been, in fact, mo robbery a but that the hundred thousand detlan never toached the bank vaulta. He would be watched carefully for month, two, three. Then the matter wi be fled a as an wmsolved mys Above ing, the bank was not sirous of a scandal. In the abeens aufficlent evidence to convict they'd pe him his freedom. And the perfect norm of his life would convinee therm spree that he was free fram guilt, : _ He reached the bank the following m ing at isely his lar time, notan ute early or a minute late. Ife held ob conference with the three sesistant poy tellers and apportioned ta each his quot cash from the vault, which was a part of individual cage. Then quite = fo he anawered a summons to t ice of preddent, And as he entered the doc recognized in the three strangers who fe him the clotectives, Ch was somewhat amused, He iz that the glances th bestowed a I were surcharged wi eep and dark 4 Ficion. Money had diappeared fro | cage of the chief paying teller; erp, | chief paying teller had etelen it. i start out on that theory—and butt heads aeaingt a stone wall, He realy that Robert Warren was talking, that was ing introduced, “Thodetectives: thisis Mr, Peter Jan son, Te ting the bonding compz And r. Carl Burton, of the Bank Protective Association.” He hesitate moment at he turned toward the id] stranger. Then: “This other ponent alee here to represent the Bankers’ Pratl tlve Association. Mr. Wallace, Mr. Ha vey— Mr, James are oi liff started visibly. Jim Hanvey! fil heard of the man—a detective with anq viable reputation. But he had envisoa Jim Hanvey a8 a person tall and anes and with a saturnine face and deepe flashing eves. This man The hand which the great detective « tended to hint was limp and clammy, «| raan Bimself utterly negative, He was large man, true; t hia shoulders wy rounded and fram them the coat of 5 cheap ready-made tweed suit hung lite smoking jacket. Above a thick red ne rose head—huge, fat, shapeless. Thy floppy chins, an apoplectic expression, wide, boose-lip mouth. And eyes Those eyes fascinated Wallace, not ey were marvelous eyes bat b cause he could net reconcile himself to 15 fact that they were capable of seeing o>) thing. They were large yes, and roo like a boby's, In color they were a pasiy gray fishlike. ‘They rested on Wallace's: their hands met, and then the lids cos slowly over them like a film, rising jax 4 deliberately. It was more an ocular yam than a blinking of eyes. Cliff felt with: him a contempt for the man, instant acl instinetive, then pulled hirmaelf togeth= witha jerk. He knew that would never Jim Hanvey bore an international repot tlon, such a one as could not be attains through inefficiency. ‘ Jamieson was nearer Cliff's conception 4 an efficient detective. Medium build, dap per, dynamic, with blazing eyes a cor petent manner. He liked Jamieson, ket that he would know how to cape wil oie. Jamieson was a practienl detectim, ol Jamieson was there in the role of aie Tt was most decidedly to the interest ol th bonding company to establish bia iti cence. Burton, too, radiated efficencr. &* wad Call and broad and had deepest oer (Conttinged on Poge 72!

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POST (Continued from Poge Gi) eyes which logked out keenly from under heavy lashes, He was there to convict, but Clif did not fear him. Burton, like Jamie- Bon, was too normal a man te inspire appre- hension. But Hanvey, Hanvey of the Hlow-blinking, fishy eyea—Hanvey was a disturbing quantity. Clit didn't like Hanvey. Hanvey was speaking. CIE noted that the others deferred to the ponderous, uninspired-logking individual, “Him! You're the paying teller, Mr. Wallace?" “Wes, sir." “Kind of funny—the hundred thousand gettin” lost thataway, wasn't it?" Clil was annoyed, The man wasn't even ! grammatical, | | |

" "Rather peculiar— repent any idea how it happened, have you “Adio.” “No chance of anyone sort of wippin' an amt through the cope window and grablin’ L Buh! the man wee we ieliest., *Hard|y that." “Kinder makes us believe that it must have been done by somebody inside the cage, Ain't that so?" “That is the obvious conclusion.” “Well, now—so itis. Bo itis,” Hanvey } produced a golden toothpick, which he re- how anny. garded fond “Awiul fanny thin money gite to go thisaway. wiul Ain't it, Jamieson?" PAC —yes indeed.” CA glanced euri- at the competent Jamieson. He Bae that Jamieson would appear ari- | need by Hanvey's cumbersomeness. But instead he sow the two other detectives haungri worshipfull uyarn Hanvey's words. Pectin r—it Wan inoosible that nee ad keen intelligence, And ye Hanvey noddinl heavily. Tats all Mir. Wallace. I reckon that’s about all I need from you." All? It was nothing—less than nothing. One or two absurd, meaningless questions;

less a ridiculous: voicing of the thought that someone might have stolen a hundred thousand dollars in eurreney from under his very eyes, And Jim Hanvey was re- puted to be a great detective. Cliff Wollace wae bothered. The very somnolent heaviness af Jim Hanvey begat apprehension. He had no idea how to cope with it, The man was too utterly gquileless, bod awkward of manner. His ponderous indifference must clonk a keen, pereoptive in. Jamicson and Burton—well, ae knew just what they were thinking, He'd alw know what they were thinking. But Hanvey—never. He didn’t even know that Hanvey was thinking. He was an element which the paying teller had not foreseen. Frank suspicion was easy to combat. Throweh hie head there flashed the shibboleth the Bankers’ Protective Asteriation: “We get a man if it takes a lifetine—even th he has stolen. only a dollar [e's the principle of the th He shook off the thought of Jim Han- vie, but t hout the day watched the ponderous, bigejowled mun luroier alseut the lobby and through the cages, those great fishy oe Phe a with a delibera= tion which reminded him of pn man making physical effort to remain awake. Orca= sionally Chit looked up to find the glossy eyes staring at him through the burs of his cage, the detective's unpressed tweed suit agoinst the marble shelf. His eves would flash inte theee of the detective, then would come that interminably slow blink- ing, and Hanvey would move away apolo- getically. Onee Wallace shivered. That was the beginning. Hanvey during the days that followed did absolutely noth- ing. Jamieson aol Burton, on the other huncd, worked busily and thoroughly. They pared over the let of cogtomers for whom rheeks hod been eased on the day of the money's disappearance, And finally they rame to ae auy-foll check of Sanford Jones & (no, They culled Cli inte eon- forenes with them, Burton doing the qives- Honing. “Who presented the Jones company check, Mr. Wallace?" Clif steeled himeell to impassivity. | Miss Phyllis Hobineon.”” “You are acquainted with her?" “Ye We happen to be secretly en- iti cl." nH ahh t" Cli suw a meaningful look | peas between the tyro detectives, “ Your | Fieevedas 2 ** Vogt May | a “Did you personally cash ber chy ay ih “Tou are piaiiey about that? “Yes, [cash all of the pay-rol and besides, | remember talking while she was at the window.” The detectives nodded at each of Clif was dismissed. Immediately J and Burton checked up the move Phylle Robingon om that particd They learned that Ramil had oc <o pay-roll ¢ as Usual: yee abeent. from the offic ot time, Yea, the puzzled cus positive of that—he remembered pardentetly that she'd hardly lef « fore she was back with meat answer to their quer}" a8 to wbri had time to stop somewhere en rou office from the bank, the little mg pany protested that he recalled « the morning and that she | pos have done so, “IT never ic aek aun quick before, and si was pes te loiter." Sq much for that. The girl | deubtedly gone straight from the | her cdfion, rhe J he Jones cashier ines} she delivered the satchel to him Jamieson and Burton then visited th af the city and its suburbs. Thi National was the largest in the disq they went meticulously down the the order of importance, At the Cr they were informed that Phyllis Ri rented a safety-leposit bom, sn ine af her card disclosed the fact that) not vielted the box in two month had she a hex at any other bank. | bad CLT Wallace. teens af the investigation, recei the eel cashier, via the In Pyle sleted Ci” He was del know that the two detectives were r and supremely confident that they discover nothing. But Hanvey did nothing. All 4 he lounged about the lobby or eat of the cages with his feet propped | shelf, surrounding himself with at rancid cigar smoke. And alma blank, stupid eyes were turned upr of the chief paying teller—bii linking. Wallace did not vary a hair's by from the established routine of his lite, He breakfasted mt his usual pl the usual hour, snatched a lunch aif aly: been in the habit of doleg, at his favorite cafeteria, called upon binson in the evenings walked with her or took her riding little ear, On Thoreday he drew his monthl check—two hundred and fifty dollars hundred dollara of it he immediate posited to his own credit in a sevim count. He had done this for year ight fcacea he received a shock. [t 1 day—not more than a i rol an dollars had been set ast the pay rolls, In the line was Ft satchel in hand. He greeted her 241 eounbed tha aekages af bills and ce silver, And t then, as be unlocked the window of to Feturn to be satchel, he vinion ri ea pi Jimi Hanwey lolling ifferen shelf; rownd idligtte ‘fhe feed id upon him. Fear flashed inte Clits! and the color receded from his ch What was the significance of that! it possible —— With an almost ijr esture he slammed shut the sin anvey’s eyes blinked once, slovl second time, more slowly. Then be heavily away, playing with his gol & ek That night as Clit was driving | Phyllis in the countery—"'That wa | yey ata standing by the mae tonday ] emshi ray-roll ely The gi of your bays tight He's ha ae a Tell fish.” ct er why he did that? Hes dane ik it before.” "Did what?" “Hung over the counter while [ cashing your pay-roll check, I su: te he suspects —— “That man! He looks like an imbece ic backs like, yea. But he & sapes® a great detective. bacist t's impossible." “He's getting on my nerves, Pho lis. can’t help but believe that be =F something. At times I feel a conten his obtuseness, Then I know th! (Continued on Page Fi!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ___.4 7 Phote by Underwoed é& Uederwood, NV. the ship. Sepia Ammericn there priin at sayings "Cpond peck. ing, bad packing, and then American packing. damage done to American export trade by such a reflection! This crate is a striking example of alipshod packing of poods for foreign thipment. Te shows the condition in which a crated motorcycle reached an American port presumably reddy for export, The mionefachiener sunped lember and mails in matdagchis crate. In onder no save the motorcecte the forwarding agents Ace! eo relnailel the crate before it cond by loaded inzo * Wha can este the Acsingle shipmene received tn damaged condition muty destray the good. will assets of a shipper or may injure the erode relenars of a whole nation. And for every needlew damage, somebody pays —unually the con- sumer, through higher prices areal tanaporuaion costs g Do American Shippers Pay Sufficient Attention to the Packing of Their Goods? AKE a walk into a freight house and look at the crates that are expected to deliver merchandise safely to customers a hundred ora thousand miles away. Too much lumber in one crate; too little in another: weak corner construction; lack of bracing; too few nails or nails of the wrong size, some too small to hold, others so large that they split the wood; nails driven into end grain and conse- quently of little holding power; in- sufficient protection for contents; contents not properly braced— these are the most obvious weak- nesses in the crates of average American shippers today. Weaknesses, too, that in large measure account for the enormous losses in damaged goods that the American people each year are obliged to pay. HIPPERS who have looked in- to this matter of shipping con- tainers are securing startling results. They find that the elimina- tion of damage claims and the de- livery of goods in uniformly better condition, speeds up collections and increases sales. In some instances, too, large savings have been effected through proper crate One manufacturer is saving 350,000 feet of lumber annually and has cut his shipping weights over a million pounds. Another saved $30,000 in materials, labor and water transportation through rede- signing the container fora single product. ROPER crate construction is no longer a matter of guesswork, but is based on definite engineering principles now thoroughly established by the expe- rience, observation and experiment of VME add- ing more lumber to a crate does mol Heoceea= rily increases ite strength. Much moreim portant ie the manner in which it is used, ‘The construction shown abovre could easily be thrown out of plumb ildropped oe toons of ite oonrmers. Likewise such a crate might eo lose ite rigidity, os a resultof rough handling and the weoving sotion of o dreight car in motion, as to force the contents to bear ithe wants any objects thet might be loaded on tap of In the | re i below, correct construs- tion haa saved a considerable amount of lum- ber. Properly applied diagonal bracing pre- vents the distortion and racking of o orate frame aod reodera the contents immune to the damage often reauliting from the friation be- Red tween crate mem- here and combents. 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74 ‘Traffic has trebled in five years— Fiftftt Avenue looking north, showing one of the new fowers to contro! traffic THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 4G, t 4 | A way to prevent this from becoming an increasing menace to motorists LMOST three times as many cars crowding the streets and roads to- day as in 1916—9,500,000 as com- pared with 3,500,000. On Fifth Avenue, New York, a system of con- trol by towers and lights has been installed to meet this alarming increase in trafic, Between 34th and 59th Streets all Avenve trafhie moves and halts at the same time. Tt has become imperative everywhere that précautions be taken to prevent accidents from increasing traffic. Tests which the San Francisca Police have conducted revealed the startling fact that the brakes of every fourth car are in dangerous cond rfior, Don't let any emergency find your car with faulty brakes. The chart at the right shows how quickly you should be able to stop. Hare your brakes inspected regularly by your garage man. Perhaps you need new brake lining. Ordinary woven lining wears down quickly and unevenly =it may fail unexpectedly. It grabs and slips after the first few hundred miles. You can never be sure that your brakes will hold. hermo,: 4% more material—Avdraulic compressed To overcome these faults of ordinary brake lin- ing, Thermoid Hydraulic Compressed Brake Lining has been perfected. It matntains its Enipping power even when worn as thin as cardboard. 40% more material than can be put into ordinary brake lining is compressed under hy- draulic pressure of 2,000 pounds into a tight, close-textured mass. Each layer of material in Thermoid is Grapnalized. This exclusive proc- ecg inked it eilproot ard waterproof, Brakes lined with Thenmoid can never grab or slip. Because of its unfailing efficiency, the manu- facturers of 50 of the leading cara and trucks use Thermoid Don't take any more chances with faulty brakes. Next time you need new brake lining, specify Thermoid. Write for “The Dangers of Faulty Brakes,” the first complete publication on the subject ever published. Sent free. THERMOID RUBBER COMPANY Factory and Main Offices: Trenton, New Jersey New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, Seattle, London, Paris, Turin. Brahe Lining Hydraulic Compressed MMahera of “"Thermoid- Hardy Universal Joints" and "'Thermald Cradide Campornd Tires "* ian a) = ee fey a A > | ae — 4 | 2 ~ a = May 6, | i 23 ' . | ea | | ' Famous Thernvwdel Standard Chart of atopeind @ how Aporore. iy Ooty Folios Ouodads go dol 2Enguneers, Chart afeoers digterenes in hee f atic! brakes are efficient. Brake lines Sadie thir tasarly GAA. hora. Weare are qadrl- fy gad aaa), Leaea i eippiag peer aya! ferara. Therenoid FP efor ins Ce pew ied. Satie ine comguil derfarr, Pears dows alert Give eoniferes pi fieg rerface wt! were easier pis,

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(Continaed from Boge 72! ¢. He couldn't be what he ia and be ool be looks. And he doesn't do any- r He's never questioned me. He's r questi anyone. He just sits » aed watches and watehes—like— a Huddha.” « did the weeks which followed alter tution. Jamieson reported to the iffieialt that in hia opinion there had norobbery. Burton concurred. They usived at the definite conclusion that money had never reached the bank. ewer to CEs statement that it had, pimitted that Cli believed ao— but serear. CF refused te be convinced, thas @tablished more firmly than ever er minds the fact that he waa fanocent amplicaty in the erime, It wos the of Jamiesan and Burton that in ing the unusually large amount of fram the district Federal Reserve ¢ to meet the heavy pay rolls of that cular day, a miscount had been ae sending source and the checkin he Third National had been ff, i, the aeeounte of the Federal Reserve Eshowed no surplus of one hundred eid dollar, but both Jambeson ond Son Ene aptimistle that ft would oven- ly come to light. Gf Wallace knew that he had been ezful. No hint of suspicion had fallen ihim. The worst that had been sald wt him was that he had been careless minting the money a8 it came into hia i He was sorrowful about that—oa- atinualy ao, just ae he would normally reshibited grief at any su tien of tn-= ency. The ank officials d not blame Most of them had climbed the ladder iy and ey eee ing tall the g routine of the paying bellor's Era iabit ity to error, cub 1, they th mon Bie r evenntumlly, It was steurd to teal ford Wallace. ‘Two detectives had dowed bim tmeeticulously. The orderly tence of the chief paying teller waa wo- gel. He went his way serenely, ‘o Wallace it seemed more than worth trowble, Laing In the vaults of the y Trust was one hundred thousand dol- iin sh, an amount sufficient to yield en thousand income in with moel- te acumen. That meant leisure and efor himaelf and Phyllis threat life, did oot want anything m He knew the would newer again nae tempted to ue; not that he was morally op inl but because it wasn't wort ni hundred thousand dollars was acde- ite to their needa. Ae hed planned this ne for two it Now it had been the rhed i it only wasn't i tor Jim Hanvey, those m those eyes, from the insolent indolence the man, is apparent indifference to the lday he loonged around the bank; matt. binglesome, awkward, inactive, He hited ne suspicion of Clit Wallace, Yet felt those in an eyes f et all times, And that incident of anvey’s presence at the cage when he 4 with deny significance. P Hlepechs me,’ proclaimed the par “He tows that Tid it and is just trying to ot how.” i'm afraid, Clif. Horribly afraid." It he'd only say something! I wish HEL" “Il mean it. If he'd arrest me they'd They haven't a thing on me. I'd be rated in Se. Then he could go to i, Td be sale i en—even if they found att aie that T had done it." wie for the: an Thee mame offense Pranecitet le shook his head. “I can't, I've ed Baton bath bel minnocent. Jamieson Parton kath believe the money never tend like a hoot owl at noon and does [t's Hanvey I'm afraid of. He iestaring eyes. He, couldn't get away tery he was ap to be solving. qeted no books, asked no questions, ex upon Lag Phyllis’ pay-roll check—that wan stale fe to his accomplice. She beld his hand between beth of hers. td arrest re, ring and they couldn't possibly con- devil — and those fish eyes of {00 Titan that you eouldn’ t be trbed ‘Then why not induce them to—to inet, tut old Warren and Garet Jenkins Try oe, bale. And Hanvey just sits ra a! The only thing he doesn't know is THE SATURDAY Two more weela . Wallace's ho that Hanvey would depart proved Ill- founded, The big, awkward man was there at eight o'clock every morning, and there e remained until the books were closed at night. He epoke to nobody save in the most way. Every other employe of the bank came to take him for bed. They were Interested in him at firat, but later aceepled him oa pecepted the marble pillars which stubbed the lobby, He was big and lumbering and uncouth, and gradually they forgot his reputation as a k detective, But Clifford Wallace did not forget. In his eyes there had been born a hunted, haunted look. Hanvey'a flabby, rather eiarse face had a hypnotic eect upon him. He found himeell wondering what obliqui- tous courst this man was pursuing, what method there might be in his madness of inactivity. Ho folt like an ill man who finds himself daily in the room with a coffin, Hanvey's stolid demeanor generated an aseeciation of ideas that was irresistibly horrible. Tt waa obviows that Hanvey suspected something, someone; equally plain that he did net suspect anyone else in that bank. Tt must. be, then, that he did subs pect che. And then he cammeneced visiting Clift s "He lid it if only 8 dc a His manner was friendly, almost apologetic. But he i Mean insinuating bat of appearing at the cage door and rattling the knob. Cliff would whirl and find those dull in- human ahd blinking alowly at him. "Can : In, ait allace?" And then eee the #4 “Jest wanted to pana me of day with you." Invariably, bey Fert au: ay gree A browsing arcu iny cage. A peoping into the money-stocked vault of the paying teller. “Gosh! 1 That's a heap of money "Yea." Clif found hi fon adie when. Hanvey waa in his cage. “Never knew there was that much money in the world." Damn the man! Always obvious in hia ig + ia “Nope. Sure didn't,” Hanvey nevet mentioned the robbery, u neespreating mist. Testud all ere a ne oa img Cl was frig ened, recalled ed the adage that a de teetive ze err a thousand times and yet win; the criminal cannot afford to slip once. He lated his daily life serupu- lowly. At the end af another month he again depoalted hia regular amount of aav- ings. @ gow to it that llis did the same, But the strain was telling on him. His appetite had gone, dark circles ae under his eves, He wished clai that he'd be summoned into Warren's office to face the thing out with Jim Hanvey, He knew they couldn't convict, that they didn't have a thing against him. Even the box in which r | their hundred thou- sand dollars stood in the mame of Mra. Harriet Dare, Phyllis’ dead sister, Before her dewth Phyllis had been authorized in writing to be permitted to the box. CIT had taken eore that the box remained in the name of the estimable and defunet lady. He became moody and depressed, ob- seased with speculation os ta what was happening behind the bowinely expression- leas face of the detective. The man’s coun- tenance waa blank, but Clit was no tool—he knew that it masked an alert mind. True, he'd aeen mo indication of that alertness, but he knew that it must be po. Hanvey's inactivity waa telltale, Hanvey knew that he had it, and was walting with axlike patience to discover how. Sooner or later he'd learn. How, Clift didn't know. But no scheme is so ect that it can stand the test of unflagging and uncemsing surveillance. And when be cid learn—Clifl shuddered. He knew full well what they did to crooked bank empl Robert Warren would be hard in such o situation—very hard, Mecagral Then came another b day, and Phyllis’ weekly visit wit the ideas check from her Grr. This thae Hanvey fell into line behind her. CUP saw him coming, and his face blanched. Phyllis noticing h pate turned and stared inte the expression- ea countenance of the big Snesaaee ve: de- tective, The color receded from her too, and her hand trembled visibly os she | shoved her satchel through the little win- dow of Clif's cage. His fingera were eign aa he counted the money, He chatted with Phyllis, the effort being visible and whnabural. 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Planters Nut and Chocolate Co, Wilkae-Barre, Fa. Sulfalle, Wa, Chicage New York Baaton San Franciece bch Aanatiag” The girl moved away and Han looked after her trim blue-auited figure. Then he turned hie fraglike eyes back ta CLA Wal- lace and blinked in that maddening way of his. " Durnec kiy “¥eag," at was sh oa nerves ajanglo, “Friend of yours?" id Vea.” “Awful pretty girl." pau A moved away. CI staring alter his waddling figure restrained with difi- euilty an impulse to scream, And when he left the bunk that day he did something he hed sektom done before in his life—he took a drink of whisky. Thon he went to seo Phyllis, He was but a nervous shell of himself when he took her idling hat aig He was a Victim te nerves. Insomnla gripped him—Insominia interrupted by a succession af nightmares in which he wee hounded by a pair of glassy eyes which blinked slowly, interminally. ? “T's all off, Phyllis." “What do you mean?" “Hanvey knows I did it. Sooner or later he'll figure out how.” “I thought— to-day — —when he hung over the counter —— “T'rn alrald he's about worked lt. auc. We're near the Red ey. C She Pets faepit ate “Clif —_—_'" “Don't i ti isn n't cing to ie a a | bit of gon ©” man is driving Met CTREY. LT tell you there's only one thing to do," “And th at i i. —= | “Confess,” “Oh-h-h!" He laughed bitterly, “Don't worry. They'll never know you had anything ta do with it. You get the money out in the marung. Bring it te me just as [t atanda— wrap in brown pra Papers T'll earry it ta old man Warren. 1 offer to ve the mystery and see that the money is returned in frchanae for a promise of immunity.” | “Will he keep his promise?" “Abaolutely. EHe's that sort. He'd mot rosecube anyway. It would injure the ank's reputation, A bank always prefers to hush up this sort of thing. They prose- cute only when it's been very flagrant or meen the sep to secure a neviraan ao that the bon eon Fea pon file for their Tow. ne tievisesiie a She reated her head briefl He agulnst hha about “pore iEbss g And I'll be giad when it O¥eT, o very, very glad, I've beon afraid, dear She delivered the money to him at eleven o'clock the following morning. It wag Saturday; the bank closed at twelve, He saw the eyes of Jim Hanvey blinking accus- ingly at him through the morning, and found himself trembling. Suppose Hanvey Bhould accuse him at this moment, when he wae on the verge of confemion? Noon, The t doors of the bank ware closed, CA locked his eaee tucked the brown paper packe wander his arm and closeted himaelf with the president, Dhuar- ing the walk across the lobby he had felt the horrible ae eyes of the detective fastened upon him, leechlike. Theacene with Robert Warren develo just a he had anticipated. The president renidily promised frmunity, the cash was nrddiens and esunted. Warren wasshocked and genuinely grieved, He was considerate | enough to refmain from questioning a to lying, half aquatting, Dorner wabbled irresc- lutely, bis hand straying agaln to his hip. One af the policemen from the Creseent Hill substation loafed into view around o bend of the steep road, Derner's hand left his hip. ‘The patrolman came bustling up. The sound of his hurrying footsteps ma Mackellar glance about, At ones the two humans in the bellicose group proceeded to become normal and a trifle sheepish, a9 ia the way of squabblera at aight of the palice. Jamle relaxed his hold on Bobby's rull with a sharp command to the dog to come to heel, Dorner scrambled to his fect and returned busily to his almost come Meted task of tire changing. The police- man loitered to an inquiring stop alongside the three. ‘"Smatter?" he demanded tersely, j "'Nathing, alr,"" spoke up Derner with =e * cheery friendliness. “This gentleman's dog Eat them daily for hungerazd health [Ravina etn | land. Tis boss yanked him back and I May 6, the identity of the accomplice, althoy Clit felt that the man knew { course, he said, Clif could cota himael! discharged. The matter wo never become known; the bank soughs ; such noteriety. Mr. Warren trasted th this would be a lesson ta Cliff: he « sure that conscience had wrung this = feesion from the young man. CHE av his part adequately. But all the time hia heart was singing load had been removed. ia fear of Jj Hanvey had turned inte a deep, pamions mal hatred. He felt that he'd fie ten his fingers in that fat, flabby thee He swung owt of the president's of The loss of the hundred thausand doi meant little as against the relief he exp. enced in the freedom from fear of its mesmeric expressionless eyes. As he ae f- into the lobby he felt them fastened c- ee eouldn't realist the impulse. Pent emotion demanded expression in woe Clif knew that he must tell this bear aot, Blaw-moving man that he had ba outwitted, He strode across the lobby on pulled up short before the detective, PeWell Hanvey, you're too lite,” The eyelids dropped slowly, then apes even more slowly, “Huh? “T beat you to it." (Clif was gripped | a moderate hysteria. “Tve fixed enn thing—for myself. You don't get a bit glory, And [ wantel the satisfartior telling you that I’ve known from. the & you suspected me." Jim Hanvey's fishy eyes opened wid then narrowed, His fat fingers fumbk awkwardly with the glittering gold test pick. His demeanor was one of beewilde ment and utter lack of comprehension. “What you talkin" about, son? So pected you of what?" CLT felt suddenly ecld, There wu disquivting ring of truth im the draein voios, Was it posible that this hulk of; man had not suspected him, that the eq fesion had been unnestssary? His tem bling hands sought the pudgy shoul; of the detective, "You've been watching me and my igs haven't you?” "Sure “Well—why?™ The big man’s manner waa | friendly, His dull round eyes blinked 3 isd his voice dropped discreetly. “Jeet betwee Us, SOT, T reckon there ain"t mo hanno ine explainin’. "Bout three yenrs ago Spa Gorman, cleverest forger in the cousts, Ved an awful neat job in Des Moines, Then he dropped outa sight, We air’ heard nothin’ of him till Headquarters px the tip he waa operatin’ in this distre! We knew good and well if he wae bel sooner or later try to alip a bum check gre ‘on this bank, it bein' the big one bert: abouts. So as I know Spade pretty wel an’ personal, t geAt mae down here te loaf around until he showed up." Cl Wallace's hands dropped limply in his sides. [Tt was hard to understesc “Then you werent even working on =) “Nao, T wasn’ t workin" on your case. A! if you went an’ confesaed anything. ; vill probably done yourself an awful d tick. Far as I'm toneerned, son, 1 ain even been interested In your ense see! | got an inside tip it had been dropped.” BOOTLEGERDEMAIN | {Continued from Page Ii} kind of slipped on—on the grease and a! OER uae Balj.” be eats the mystic a berg ht effect. t cmigaiie mh aged word ty upon his hearer, But fais ar was adiy paleo man, not a rural constable. And a: te Road merely skirted Midwet- burg, there was no orrangement betwres the local police, under a mew reform a ministration, and the professional runners af the road. Wherefore the paseword mae no sense at all, and Dorner was pad ¥ had apoeken ao conciliatingly. The blueeont glaneed for eanfirmatat a Mackellar, whom he knew, Jamie noddec, his ancestral dread of the Law vsualisint police courts and a possible mingistralé# order for Bobby's execution gs a vel Phat was all, of'cer,"" said he. “nly ibs feller misjudged Bobby wrong im thnk: (Continued on Poge 79)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Ht) townie. Halla ita keen cutting edge. Has pail | Sold by hardware dealers, Ezcept in Fer Weat and in Canadas i) i] ITTING the nail on the head is mot a matter of mechanical skill alone; it depends largely upon the haryg of the tool. The carpenter, who drives nails constantly, appreciates the “feel” of a perfectly balanced hammer. Of course the carpenter uses a Plumb! The weight is in a chunk just back of the face—to give you driving power and accuracy. The extra size face makes it easy for you to hit the nail. The Plumb hand-comfert handle is formed. ta rest in your hand as cozily as a $10 bill—to give you ease and perfect control without the tiring grip necessary on ordinary hammers. Mefhourne te ing porn Morufarrten wid au Seq maye | ‘Its a PLUMB’ }} DOUBLE RSA | Hammers Hatchets | Files Sledges Axes ™ Hitting the nail on the head It's true economy to buy the Plumb. They're worth more™ because of Plumb special analysis steel, double forging, by die press and drop hammer; Double Life tempering — hard for ser- vice, tough for wear; knife-edged claws that pull any nail; non-rust, hand- forged black finish and handsome ma- hoganized hickory handle. Ask your hardware man to show you a Plumb. To see it is to covet it. To swing it is to buy it. Retire that hard-to-wse, battered veteran and know the satisfaction that comes with using a Plumb. Price $1.50, except in Far West and in Canada. FAYETTE R. PLUMB, Inc., Philadelphia, U.S. A. Factories, Philadelphia and St. Louis Fareign Branches and Aepresentatives: Prishane Santiaga Established 1856 Af anala channeaburg Suenos As iron LIFE Ee ee" De

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78 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 6,19 — — —sy — The feel that tread distdaden street Disinfectant Reg U5. Pat ouF Kills Germs Strects are breeding-places for germs of If your floors were cleaned once) all sorts of contagious disease. week with water that contains a little “Lyall The same shoes that tread germdaden Disinfectant, they would be kept safely it streets enter your home and walk the floors = fromgermlife. Lysol” Disinfectantisasay of your rooms. In this way, millions of dis- substance that helps to clean as it disiniccl ease germs are tracked inte your home every A few drops of “Lysol Disinfectant, mim day. with water, should be poured frequently int Whether these germs will spread and per- your sinks, toilet, drain-pipes, garbage-pall haps inflict sickness on someone in your tubs. Such places also breed disease germ family, or whether they will be killed by A 50c¢ bottle makes 5 gallons of germ-killq disinfection—is a matter that rests with you, solution. A 25¢ bottle makes 2 gallons Proper disinfection. kills germs. It also “Lysol Disinfectant is also invaluable f@ checks the breeding af germs. personal hygiene. Send for free samples of other Lysol products You cai purchase a 25e bottle of “Lae health of the skin. Fenders smal] cit Disiniectant for taal purposes at ony drug msepiicolly clean, We will olso inchode o store. We chall be glad ta mail you free sample of Lysol" Toilet Soap. Refreshingly amples of the other Lysol products axothing. healing and helpful for impreving Shall we send a sample of Lysol” Shaving the akin, Cream fer the mired folks* Preteets. the Sercl name ond oddres on ao posbearh Matilacturced cen ¥ hy LYSCvl., Loe, LEHN & FINK, INc., Sole Distributors (45 Girecnwich Strect, New Vork Makers of Pebeco Tooth Paste Canadian Agects: Morold F. Rhichie Company, Lunied, Wi MoCeul Street. Torento

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(Ctitncd from Page Fe) ea.’ tried to hurt him. It was only bey , sir.” j nnot only knew Jamle, Te Was kennel manager for aR Us « Belden, fh magnate a word in the right quarters ufficed to make or mar a fecord. Urbanely he smiled ing Mackellar. With almost he petted the unresponsive hinver Bobby. He favored the oe th & eld stare, Then Dee wherewith he had swept the had taken in the details of abraded ma of the torn coat lying beside : oli poe and rightly tabu- vely red lumps on the ieee eeeth appraised Jamie's t be on your way," he adjured weer his shoulder aa he continued — mare than willing to obey The thre woe in place by this Hi Giver beg his kt nboard Pik d Yor his is he passed Toby tatartive loo at the departing blue ae = oe rihiy eae ig en emphatic kick on the dog's ribs, milly the same motion he swung fap to the seat, far out of reach of reprisal, Then he preseed the self- under way with astounding the size of his truck. kick, thanks te ite deliverer’s haste, : iy. It stung rather than it was the first kick Bobby had since his long-vanished puppy Lucits Frayne’s Lochinvar Ken- With a wild-beast roar, Bobby hurlal Mat the man who had offered him feafiront. But Malachi Dorner was autol reach. Jamie dragged the dog from under the truck wheels. He el waa white with wrath at the cow- ‘ome down here and finish it!" he ied, heedless now of the chance that policeman might hear him, “Come here, ou dog: Kicking wring ne? T ig i true seh ro leaving him shak= in impotent and knuckle-torn fist after inning driver. Mackellar rel 7% stooped to pick up his own DOB: Quietdown, Bobby boy, " soothed Jamie ie dog continued to snarl in helpless ‘alter the vanishing truck. “We e tare fools of ourselves, you and [. | what ate we oe breed itT e:my best every eat to eos. And there's you, with a kick In rie to share are The eoat’ll mend if than you'll tling that same i, 01 knoe rt about the inside of rbrain, Bobby lad. But that's all the d it'll de . So why not down met , but these knuckles of mine i to sting me! Notso bad as them two #00 the jaw are fashing Hii Bays you? ht you are, Bobby, like you're apt say, at the fascinatingly frequent ahve of his’ Own Tame, deigned to i ed rd murdercusly up the hill in ‘wake of the departed truck and to give ana of hig waa) heed to hla master’s ‘= 3 that's that, Bobby boy," resumed mit as he tacked his wree ‘coat under ee and resumed his journey downhill, ind Wit be a warning to you never to Fto be human, When two dogs fi ® the other in the street we call t Pa ‘We beasts, Bobby. But how about two Wn men—men with souls and intellects hate and all that, Bobby? Herel and plas gti nt even know each other's yet before we'd seen each fer tity seconds we were acting like we ! imo mongrels in the sok Sours, Fine omy sales you, Bobby lad! Mistress Biol a ask me when do I plan to Trip, Bobby. I'd best get this poor ot mended downtown and aay I cut up = kul atimbling against a door, sand stop havering.” He ode doenhill at a swinging gait. say beting at hia side. ‘The cat te walk and talk himself out of tT eked his dog. co Bobby," h r | Lf o ' i eat “Yon pitel ie THE SATURDAY to you for cal who afool. [t's a splendid breed of fool who takes such risks just to stand by his pal. Did ye see him reach back to his hip, Bobby? Twice he did it. Waa ita gun or a flask he wanted? Ip the old days when a man reached for his hip Mother feller sa hold up his hands and look scared, tother ied holds out his hands get ooks hopeful. But I'm doubting he was offering usa a drink, Bobby Maybe the cop did ua no ill turn atra ng in on ws all w en he did.” Tt waa perhaps o fortnight later that a sample batch of summer climate waa tossed into mid-April as a specimen of what might be looked for in malas The cool of the Northern spring was changed in a trice inte torrid August weather that endured for two days thereafter and broke up in a spectacu- lar thunderstorm. With the thermometer deserting the for- ties for the ninetles, the hea ted col- lies of Beldeneroft panted and fretted and drank much water and avught out coal angles of thelr runs to drowse In. ane premature change got on their hai nerves. Their great blankets of unsl ed outerspand-inner coats them acute discomfort, Lochinvar Bobby carried the heaviest coat at Beldencroft. But his luck was ter than that of his kennel brethren, he could lounge at ease in a cool cellar or pend: down to the brook and put its chilly waters to far more practical use than had been intended rf & sean eerooner who had designed ite ornamental hed midnight of the hot spell’s second Bobby lay asleep on the handkerchiel- sized veranda of Jamie Mackellar’s cot- tage. His tawny coat was still damp from immersion in the brook, and on pore corner he could catch the faintest tinge of a breeze which wafted from the northeast. Apart from this y breeze the night was breathless. The Was Eur lurid where the eity' seit alpha es its Low- clouds. izon'a rim in two directions pulsed and ever intensified a shimmer of heat lightning. Bobby got up once or twice in search of a cooler or softer section of the porch boards for hi his Ot Piling | to find what he ae a again, and with o Sd bump of pe enolic The heat and the breath- paleo oe a ee h from a long gallop, Haider alae ton alone that a Aa fe one of these ¥ uests for a apot that should be m Lis eon] and soft, Bobby checked himaelf bog was about to lie down, His tired body stiffened, Up went his chiseled nose to the faint breeee. His nostrils drew in quick whifls of air, That air waa tainted vaguely with some- which caused Bobby's hackles to brist His teeth began to ahowl in some- thing which looked like a smile and was not a smile. Far down in his shaggy throst a hall-audible growl waa born Even as humans tabulate folk by their faces, BO do dogs remember them by their odor. The is the most nearsighted of all domestic animals, and his uncanny scent and hearing serve hilt ie the place of vision. Te-night, borne on the fitful poll of northeast breeze, came to Lochinvar Bobby a far-off odor which awakened not alone and trong? iff scant. Bobby forest he ig for a com fortable sloep sleeping poet He remembered ¥ aman who had ed his adored master and who had deed on himself the Maforgiesbie, unforgetable insult of a kick. invar Bobby cleared the low rail and made for the northeast. The largest af the kenmel rung waa in his path. He circled two sides of this at a tearing gallop. That waa quite enough for the seven young dogs who, beewuwse of the heat, had haan left out there for the night. Ta their feet sprang the imprisoned pock on te dase alfway around their incloaure, f @ night's silences were split by fran- tie barking from seven rackety throots, The clangor, of course, was taken_u instantly by every other collie in the Bel- dencroft kennels, for even better than dog men do colliea know how to translate a bark. If some lonely or sentimental or eranky dog in the kennels had begun to tn Fito volce his woes, not a colle would have ec him, But the voeal efforts of the aroused sepbet bespoke indig- nation and much angry excitement. Such a bark never goes unanswered. Thus at odd etrong-lunged collies shattered EVENING POST midnight with a galaxy of din. The place was in a turmoil Bobby, the unconscious cause of it all, ais Het or etay. prety stride was bringing to him more distinctly that fury- provoking scent, Raging, he sped on, Malachi Dorner, of Cane and St. Louis and points between, was in the mid- dle of his night's southward drive—at one dollar and seventy-five centa a mile—and anned to ekirt and pass Midwesthurg be- ‘ore one o'clock In the morning. For his cleverly constructed and pneumatic-tired truck was heavy laden with ¢ whine market value incrensed at avery southerly mule of the journey, and he wanted to leave the ungreased city far behind him as soon as might be, a ge and road house where he was scheduled to make his next twelve-hour halt—or stache, in the vernacular of fis trade—waas but seventy miles d. hy patting on extra 4 he cou len our or ao of driving inte an hour or so 80 sue the better. He atepped on the accelerator, His nerves, like those of the Beldencroft collies, wore and on edge from heat. orner was topping Crescent Hill when he put on an extra burst of speed At the hill's summit was the gaudy Belden estate. n would come the steep pitch down into the edge of Midwestburg, and after that ate ec milea of open apa ie | well-greagzed country, with the hospitable | garage and road house ahead. Up the easy lope toward Beldencroft | the truck. Dorner put on more e knew he must wee the brakes more tha he Iked on the at and winding pitch beyond the crest. Hence the extra an so easier incline. As he topped the peutie did not bother to ease up on fas. r the furlong of more level road was an ideal aprinting place. The overstrained treads gripped the smooth stretch and the track sprang for- ward, One of the tires inciden a semilflat and keen shand remnant of a broken milk bottle drop there fram a wagon an hour earlier, The shard was lengthwise across the tire's way’, and it ewt ike a knife blade. The truck was going at something over thirty miles an hour. The collapse of the tire gave a wrench to the front axle which all but tore the steering wheel from Dor- ner’s careless grip. Too late, the man twisted the whee hark: into line. ‘The truck had swerved an inch too far. Ita right front wheel amote with terrifle force the frat of a heap of piled telephone poles which adorned that section of the road edge in preparation for a branch line to be Fun inte the ety, of extra sleep, The axle siaroea like rotten wood under | ck eareenod the jarring impute, tru drun , plowed its way a littl deeper inte eye of apr poles and banged to a halt. sees pb flung hard against the steering wheel, and clung convulsively to it in to keep his balance on the sideways-listing seat. There he sat till the breath, expelled viding staat wheal with w steer w came back to his. defiated lun of Then, shaking both flats heaven ‘Malachi Dorner launched inte a technic mono- ‘addressed to his ter, At best it ia not pleasant to diteh a ear and amagh an axle, at midnight, a mile or more from the nearest garage. But when one is carrying cange salable ot many thou- sand dollars, tae when that cargo is of sort confiscatory by law, the situation bbe- comes all at once acute, Nor was the inci- dent likely to enhance Dorner’s popularity or wage value in the eyes of his Canadian employers. ita driver's brimstone ha- pict or pled heaven took on a note of ed fervor. As if in chorus to hie solo, a fanfare of wild barking surged forth upon the night. Thea, after swearing himael! breathless repce Dorner decided on hig only course, red yard or more in front of Bim was ane blz ricer he eo ee not, Lpparent the rev Funt volley ot barks. The best thing to do was to go © thither, ask for the use of the telo- phone = coll up the nearest greased garage. A wrecking crew could reach the apot in short order. The hour was late. The road was lonely and waa ill- thot by the police. It waa not likely that any outalder would inter- fere. At worat he would reach his aleep- ing place somewhat Inter than he had hoped to. {Continued on Page £2) bk ae ae Eee Young feet should have a chance qPee feet of young growing girls are tender and casily distorted. Equipped with proper shoes —Educa- tore, they will grow up shapely and strong, a4 nature intended. Don't bend and twist young feet out of shape in narrow, bone-crumpling shots, Give them a chance, The vogue of today is trending more and mere bo a senaible shee with room for all five toes, Insist on Educator Shoes because they are made scientifi- cally ta “let the feet grow as they should." Your daughter will never know the meaning of corns, fallen archea and other foot troubles. in Jater life if she wears Educators. They will suit you too, Conservative, good looks, and oh, so comfortable! All the farnily should wear thee. Our interesting booklet “Bent Bones Make Frantic Peet” will tell you some startling foot facts. Send for it. Phone your local TEL-U-WHERE Bureau for name of nearest clealer. RiCE & HUTCHINS, fne., 14 High St., Bowton, Mom. RICE & HUTCHINS FDUCATOR SHOES For MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN Bade ipod de ih

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cost of the Sellers each year, to give you these THE SATURDAY EVENING POST \NNIVERSA FULLY appreciate how Sellers in 30 years has blazed the. way for greater kitchen convenience, yw need only seat yourself before one of these beautiful and complete kitchen cabinets. nusual ease with which things are done—the many wants, usually ignored, which this cabinet antic- will at once be evident. At present reduced prices, and with its many unusual conveniences, the is undoubtedly the greatest value in our 30 years’ experience. Thousands of dollars extra are added extra conveniences. Some of them are described . Read these descriptions. Then judge for yourself if you can be fully served without them. ‘ found early in the hista: ete cabinet thee the lifting of oads of flour, to fll the flour bin, teiminated. So the now famous (ATIC LOWERING FLOUR BIN fected, This bin comes down ith che work table where you fll veast, Then with a little lift it hack into place. No heavy lifting :herous climbing is necessary. ther feature which women im- ely appreciated was the snow amtary Porceliron Work Table. nen, we found, were complaining jand other which got heir abe o make this ible in the a the fa- Ant-Proof 3B were in L Bytheins jf as use of powder, ants and other insects are vely barred. his same year the first Glass Drawer were used, because they are more ry. will not rust, corrode, etc. eh most kitchen cabinets wines lst hard to get pots and pans from weer cupboard. To overcome this trouble on the J) Sellers, a device |) was perfected 4 which automati- a] ¥ tt | lower shelf out as the door opened. This improve- = =— ment makes it ble for the worker at the cabinet to ahteded pots or pans from her chair, on Gggng into the dark cupboard. recently this has been improved so now both shelves are automatically ight forward. S stand dust frequently work their "in thier the sliding top and down into the cupbeard of the ordinary kitchen cabinet. So that Sellers users would mot be troubled with this, we designed the Dust-Froof Base Top underneath the Porceliron Work Table. This invisible top keeps the inside of the lower cabinet section absolutely dust-proof. For several years our experta imented with a finiah that would be beautiful yet resist atmos i¢ changes. in the average kitchen, result was our handsome Oil, Hand-Rubbed Finish, which was ap lied to all Sellers cabinets inning in 1905. No superior Golden On finish has ever been used. For greater durability all Sellers Fitch- en ineta were built with Dovetail Joints instead of ordinary construction. While Sellers Cabinets had always been made in the standard size, our in vestigations among hundreds of women oved that many homes could use a arger size more conveniently. lt was duc to this fact that the first beautiful Sellers Mastercraft model with a capacity ofover 400 articles was placed on the market. This is the model shown in the picture —the ideal size for the average family. 4 Today the Sellers shows the results of 30 sof constant endeavor, Never in all those years have we ceased in our search for practical improvements. In 1920 Sellers in the wonderful Apartment Kitchen Cabinet—the small- est cabinet built. This innovation now makes it powsible for thousands and thousands of apartment dwellers to en- joy the Sellers. To make it more widely available, the Sellers Apartment Cab- inet is made in three sizes: (1) full size; (2) to ft in space under high windows; (3) to ft under a low window. Another event of importance in this year was the introduction of the beau- tiful Sellers Majestic, the largest cabinet made, To furnish real convenience in extra large kitchens, this larger size was needed. Therefore, Sellers produced it. In this past year three of the most im: all Sellers improvements were Froughe out One ia the Double Base Shelf Extender referred to =” 1. Another is the Extending Drawer Section under the work table. As the work table is drawn out the drawer section cames withit. enith table is fully ex- |B tended and cow ered avith things, | you pull the drawer out and reach into it just the same as usual. You can always get what you need from the drawer. This is one of the greatest um- provements ever made. Alone, it would cause many women to choose the Sellers. 7 The third im- provement is the new Silverware | Drawer just above the roll curtain. Itisplush lined and a most convenient place ~ for the knives, forks and spoons in fre- quent use in the average home. In addition there is an added drawer and 20%) more shelf capacity in the base. These are just a few of the main fea tures. Many more are discussed in our Blue Book. : A Sellers costs mo more than any other good kitchen cabinet. And it costs only about halfas much as building-ina cabinet. Besides, no built-in cabinet ever has the many wonderful features of the Sellers. Oceupies only the apace of your kitchen table. See a demonstration. Your dealer wall y¥ arrange terms to suit your in- come. In the meantime, write for a FREE copy of the new Sellers Blue Book. It pictures and describes all Sellers cabinets and features. 326) G. L. SELLERS & SONS COMPANY = ELWiOOD, INDLAN A (Cenadian Branch of Sellers Kiechen Cablnets, Brantford, Canada ERS NYOUR HOUSE THE FAMOUS AUTOMATIC LOWERING FLOLUA BIN =A SELLERS INVENTLON

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For window shades of enduring beauty—Brenlin RENLIN wives you two or three times the wear of an ordinary window shade, Every step in the making of Brenlin is closely watched to make sure of that. The cloth from which it is made is finer and mare ey woven—like linen in texture. The number of threads per inch in every bolt is counted to make certain it is fine and strong enough to go into a Brenlin shade. Such fabric needs none of the chalk or clay “ fill- ing” that causes cracks and pinholes in ordinary shades. Brenlin has no “filling.” And experts apply by hand the beautiful colors that resist fading and will not show water spots. At every step fog aear is built into Brenlin window shades, Rich and beautiful in a wide range of colorings is Brenlin. It is spp not stiff, vet always hangs sa and smooth, See Brenlin Duplex, made for perfect harmony with a different olor on each side, Look for the name Brenlin perforated on the edge. li you don't know where to get this long-wearing window shade material, write us; we'll see that you are supplied. “How fo shade and decorate your windows correctly —free We have your copy of this very readable and instructive bookler on how to increase the beauty of your home with correct shading and decoration, of your windows, Send for it. Actual samples of Brenlin in several colors will come with it. For windows of less importance Camargo or Empire shades give you best value in shades made the ordinary way. THE CHAS. W. BRENEMAN COMPANY, Inc. Cincinnati, Ghia The oldest. window shade house in Asweriee." Factotices: Cincinnalil, Ohia, anil Caen, 6. J, Teranches: New York cae: Philadelphia, Dalles, “Tesas, aad Portlusd, Ore. Owner of the ger! oil and trade-marksoaf the J.C. Wemple Co, Brenli n Ay left, tie Aiepry, foods uewen malrrial ger windew aes; af rig fie fine IeomE, Bae | Jobric i ia i Soratch ot piece of oratinery todnidiiar re etree iegml ye inf farncies rath or clay “Buing * jal cm. Arenlre ko: me fil ing Ercry fool Feralin di of Sei ea by aml by cpr jer hewady af ap Ara, (ang weary pa ppt aprration the long-wearing Winpow Suave material ) for the nearest a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Continued fram Page Fe) Reasoning himeelf thus into calmness, Malachi Dorner got up from his tilted seat and began to make his way to ewrth, He chose the side of the trick highest in uit, leat his wien’ rause the precariously swaying vehicle to to apes. It was a long way to the ground. Malachi Dorner began the descent backward, as if climbing down aladder. He did not finish the descent at all. From the seat to the top of a dished wheel he made his first step, Thence groplagly he lowered his exploring foot te e wheel's hub. As his toe found and bal- anced itself on the slanting surface Malachi Dorner add his Maker once more, this time in a screech of astonished pain, and instinctively he swarmed up the tilted side of the truck to the safety of the seat. Lochinvar Bobby, following the guid- ance of his own wnerring nose, had awept down the driveway of Beldeneroft and out into the highroad. Body low, tiny white feet flying, he dashed along in dead silence toward two dimmed and slanted ear lights, He reached and possed these lights. the skies or eleewhere was descending inte his reach the belly of the man whose scent he had cought—the man who had kicked him, man who was his master’s foe and his, Bobby was too much in earnest to use finesse, far too angry to give voice. He sprang upward, his mighty jawe drivi moet obvious Malachi Dormer’s anatomy. Thro trou- seve seat and underclothes and fn and flesh sheared the curved fangs, grinding against the wen: bons It was the shock and fer anqual af that onslaught which dar far Dorner the ear-torturing howl and which sent him degli up a sloped side of the truck a monks on @ stick, If Bobby bad been a bulldog or a bull terrier he 9 would have held his grip with locked jaws, and would have accompanied and im Dorner’s upward flight. But a fighting collie has his wolf ancestor's ety! a of abandoning one hold for a better wit bewildering awiltness, thereby giving the ir an of everywhere at once, Bobby's teeth struck the bone, and at once he knew he had done all the igre with this porticular hold that there was scope He let go and slashed for the ankle as it climbed past him. His eyetooth found a al just above Dorner’s shoe top. But the flog’ a next leap was fruitless. The snapping jaws closed upon nothing. His victim was on the truck's tilted seat, well out of reach. Dorner stood there—it was obv ‘houaly aut of the question for him te alt down athe then or for some days thereafter— nuralng his abraded ankle with one hand, while with the other ’ repented his famil- int hipward rt, ot be vane before drawing f what. a a reaching for. Obviously in the present condition of his beoely a his truck, tact forbade him to introduce himself to the neighborhood. by & succession of shots at the leaping and y seen collie. The killing of a pet must lead to inquiry, after the fir of the shots should have ght the worl at large running ta the scene. Inquiry ia the very last t i ee ia by the trav- é@lere of the Greased Malachi Dorner began ta hunt, in the jumble of tesla under the seat, ‘for the truck's crank, Finding it, he prepared to climb down and to do battle with the who stood between him and bis chance telephoning for a wrecking crew. A hard- enough blow on — of backbone with the heavy crank would P pr lie well owt of fighting trim, am he racket of barking ut distant Beldencroft could be counted on. to drown all lesser sounds of strife. But, cea he found the multiple Daren t crawling igteih for the low in- ng of by, the breath- teat bl silenee tale settled down ante mare, Dorner made hia painful way toward the Fround, poiaing the erank for o blow, ohby ceweed growling and stood alertly Gonded by keen nd by the keener need of getting imself, and his truck on their journey aguin, Dorner slid to the road. Bobby met him with a rush. The crank whizzed downward for the dog's skull. But Lachinvar Bobby waa not there when it fell. Wolflike, he leaped back from the awasahing blew, gauging his distance per- fectly and flashing in with the same specd ua the crank's key hit the ground, Before Dorner could swing the weapon aloft again Bobby had raked hand and wrist and Was once more alert to dodge the crank. ubthdgaay. the muneuver, Bobby w beautiful | The first red) rage pane. fer left him. rom the was te be a combat Tae punitive expedition, With gay m= entered upon the duel, understan general rules as well as Dorr preparing to invent such few addi rules ag he did not understand, But with dogs as with humans thing or somebody is always inter! the very moment when interferences spolled sport. From a hundred fag hind came Jamie Mackellar's high and the sound of Jamie Biase ning stepe, Jamie was ealling hi name, and Jamie's was the one c Bobby never diso . Reluct éollie drew back from the enthralliy time of dodging the murderous cram trotted off toward his advancing maz The frightful din of the Belden-cral lies had brought Jamie to wakeluln the jump. Waiting only to don th ahd slippers, he had sallied forth to tigate, So hud the kennel men. 5s equal haste, but in worse temper, ha augase ulus G. Belden. While ~ k dieting the i dada Mackellar whistled for Bobby. the big dog did not stir tem feet fra pallchnadte post of night guard. Bui for some reason he was not within cw Jamie ran down the driveway, eho ashe went. As he e ornate gates he heard a yell of mortal pain. to the road he seurried. There, 5 right, he saw the two dimmed and si moter gets. He ealled in, oe eattre| lights appeared. is dog. J hurried ta meet a Bobby, tis heib excitement, touched his master's with his cold nose and then wheeled a Backward as fe thetruck, glancing ea kward as he went, e world over "sa invitation to a human to fi ins: ackellar followed. His flashlight revealed to him the upset vehicle with its tarpaulined con fhulge with bowes and cases. On the, seat crouched a eee ee cian wielded a crank, The flashli to Jamie the driver's pain sine Mackellar whistled softly wunier breath. Then he looked with mew inw atthe listing cargoof boxes, Bobby de frantically about him, making occas litthe rushes at the unreachable Dos who had been prudent enough to rem) the truck as soon as the dog had beens moned away. "T bust an axle,” the driwer was ex) Ing with nolay volubility, “‘anmd I got d to see could I fix it, and this eur tad me He seem to belong to you, strar bbe Sou grab hold of him and then tell eo eet to ie pegrert phone? IU te worth your while,” "You've made it worth my while,” ewored Jamie's timid voice. “You m it worth my while a couple of weeks b You don't seem to remember me, or ¢ Bobby here. Last time you pitched x me like you was a wild beast, Afters tore kicked Bobby. The interfered alts could my share of the bill. Fi red ap aoe this wheel, Bo acta to have paid some of his. Well,” finished lamely, "T'm here. Will you a down, ar must I come up for you?” ’ Now at the moment nothing would k afforded keener delight to the wrathful pain-ridden Dorner than to send a bo through Bobby and then descend oro ingly to earth and smash Jamie toa But men of affairs cannot indulge tb ished impulses. Some other tim say, on & northward trip with an em truck—-he could afferd the luxury af sti ping off for a half hour of homicidal « canicidal fun. At t his duty and fat job centered about the aafe delivery his cargo. Wherefore he awallowed thr and conjured up i Ae words, “EHrother," he said in a tone of fratert eonfidence, ‘TT @ load of fast frig here, for down below. Perishables—eq and garden truck and the like. I g “You're toting a ton or so of contrabar liquor,” interrupted Jamie, his own indi mation still abubble. ‘Don't tell such silly lie. I can be meek and silent unde whole lot of inaulte, but net te an inet! my intelligence, auch as It ts. Eggs as garden truck and the like! Havers, be you're begging the question! I gahed 2 you want me to come B there after yor: cde ae Seater i ere to me, Wier ig it? Speak up! 1 ——" (Cintiataed of Poge 84)

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What more ce tean one white man say to a What one wh white man can say to another don” t figure in this, I —— isten, brother!’ broke in Malachi Dormer pleadingly. “To show I mean It, I'm going to put you next ty a chapee to earn the softest hundful of coin you ever got. Here's the iden: I got a friend who runs @ perage an coupe rf back, [f you'll pune ‘or me to send a wrecking crew ere ina mosh it's alte dollars to you. If ine bir do that, and call off your cur—your le oe —why, it's fifty dollara if your at's no bluff. Here it is.' Peas G. Belden, wandering to his es tate's gateway in search of Jamie, had caught sight of the elanted moter Larnpu. Dewn the read he had puffed to investi- gate, He drew within earshot in time to eateh the trend of this eloquent appeal. Rufus G. had heard rumors of the Greased Road traffic, The careening truck and the fifty-dollar offer of ite driver for telephonic ald told him the story with entire clearness. Belden paused cubside the dimmed radi- ance from the Jamps. Indeed, he alid be hind a clump of bushes to make more cer- tain of concealment, for here promised a little drama worth watching unseen. Jamie Machellar’s solid honesty was a continual wonder and delight te thia magnate who had won his own wealth by Napoleonic methods and whose a employe smaght with much Industry to on ent him at every turn. Now Rufus G. prepared to hear the Vials of Mackellar's honest rage launched upon the tempter, [et ought to be well worth listening ta. But to his growing astonishment the outburst did mot occur. Instead, Jamia abandoned his own belligerent attitude at the truck side and took a hesitant «# backward. His clenched flate relaxed. even chirped Bobby away fram the truck. For perhaps half a minute he pondered in ailence. en he aaid, with no trace of hin former heat: “T—I kind of hate to do that, mister; not that T count myself a saint, not that [ cheer every time the Volstead Law is spoke of; mot thet I don't like a drink or too, or maybe three. But —— Well, it's One gay feel like I feel, and it's another thing to help bust the law and the Consti- tootion the way you're asking mete. I— I dunn.” There was a waver in his ¥olee, Felden had a queer aenaation of Josing his seant crop of remaining ideals. He was annoyed that the little "sent! a hesitation should affect him so, As to Malachi Dorner, the kennel-manager'’s signs of weakening were swert music to him. But he dreaded the loss of every minute, and he urged elo- quentiy: “Thonor you pe way, brother, only you're all wrong his atudl is for a hoep't'l, down below. You wouldn't want a bunch of aick folks to suffer for lt, would | you? Bay, ['l]l make thot an even seventy- ve dalam. How about it?" “T'm poor man, gutrendered Jamie, “and if it's reelly for sick folks —— Well. what's the garage number you want me to Tin Fite 59999 Aready,” replied the delighted Malachi. “Jump, won't you, please? "ye lost a passel of time already. Some bull ort § Soar De or —— ustle, won't "be here waiting tar you ] by quick aia get back and tell me you've pha oe ember, it's §999 Arcady, rick th Obediently Jamie pattered off down the road in the direction of Beldancroft, with May 4 Bobby at his side. He wh within ten feet of Rufus G. The oo rally knew by scent that Belden we behind the clump of buahes, bot +b no coneern of Baby" ‘#. Belden waz enemy of even a stranger. “The mangy little crook !" gruncer G. to himeell as Btrallcn Mackellar and the dog. “Yep, eva has his price. Nothing truer, ar ian't the ane exception I'd hav he was. But seventy-five meary ; He eould have cheated me of te aa mutch, any time, Gee, but this; in the: astonach | I'd have Stalked » on him. ‘The wallemyed fool! He euch a tush to carn his bribe he ner qut for advance payment, Yet 15 the Scotch are shrewd! He'll have time collecting a cent from that b> the phoning is done." Foreseeing sport in the coring between the briber and bribee wh former should refuse to make gout stayed on where he was. The 5 d hy, and #till] Jambe did np back for the price of bia croskednen, or telce Belden could hear Doerner abawt and awenr. Foden up the bill came chugging o in Belden peered from his cover te the wrecking crew descend as the car close to the track. Then he coy breath and ran out into midroad ts: fun, for the dimmed lamps had to him two or more men in abt automobile police patrol appare chanced to be hg and had ss diy ey had reached the investigate, ahead of the ear. footsteps behin interrupted Belden's py a of max, He turned to con returning Mackellar, “You lost that seventy-five dolh WAS never going to give you," ecole G. "The poli ot here before thi you phoned to, ehold the glitwers wards of sin! You'll do better with s practice.” “Yes, air,” aaaented Jamie with ere meehnesa. “T take it heard passed. He offered me a handful to phone the garage for him. 1—j>, I've a vile memory, sir, I coulda’ th life of me remember that garage ce I—I rouldn’t seem to remember bo phone namber in the world. Sol al that one. A fine, grand-soundisg ms if was—17 40 Montmorency. [neve get that number. But this was the time [ ever had need to call it. Ts it'll be the last, alr." Rufus G., with fat jaw ajar, wee bh down at Mackellar in utter amaze. “Montmorency 12, amet he ‘blits ws man, Are rs lice hreadquars TH, sir,"* Sorin timiclly. air, — 1 know i. "Vou man, sir, he & Bobby, and he called him a cu. = Waan't Man enaugh to some doo fight. So 1—T had to carry the fi him the only I eceuld. Beside he—he tried te bribe me. All thoe aren't on the {ree list, sir, ] weet der to make me take the ut when he said that t about paying me afterward, then ee he was playing true to form, air, and [! oy conacience needn't fash me for se jee onto such aman. He—— rd help Anverican business m biwatiee Hufua ©, in something aki awe. ‘Lord help American busine: m Sturdily ata Tone the bel i ewer there's a wholesale emaigration | Bcentland to the United States "Come on home, Babe!" Mack was exhorting the interested collie bit into carrion a while back. Wash your mowth." Dee pon

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE GALLOPING TIGER (Cantinased from Page 37! for the pr leaving us onl lon Glterfulin the cabin —woell, when we discovered the social atmosphere just about as dense os the, fog, instead of clearing off, grew thicker eker vere all pretty worried by then, I'll workd—all but Ted, who somehow to keep cheerful and even tem- no matter what pt lb Tr fact, ce quarrelaome and nasty the rest tthe more suave Ted grew, until Harry Bing, and, rather to my sur- nother, were the enly calm people ight drew near, Shack’s anxiety and anes in He got out the but of course he could and compass, : them in all sre fog. And to cap max, when Berry, ne suggested ng to our bearings Shamus lost d off the line! FE was taarniich: We ompletely lost, with no water and ith: common courtesy left aboard, alvina started babbling about Kan- {how nice and dry it waa, until we rady to choke her, wld not sleep that night, but lay tn mow berth over mother, restless but nng to teas ahout for fear of diaturb- r, and wondering what on earth had thrachel toe either to the South Seas these dreael ful ple whe were anil. ere with me, were all right in mates’ Den on Fourth Street, but I t help realizing more and more rthat this would hawe suited better if The Galloping Tiger had ned tied to Pier 19 and they hed ditup as a tem shop. wught, boo, of my father’s lovely big ment on Park Avenue, and my sweet fafeta bedroom in it, and my own bringing in a hot breakfast that had cooked in a kitchen instead of in a t And T thought of bathtubs and In- ons to bridge teas, abd Season pare Anne underwear and privacy and—oh, lota ngs. Ate in the sip _ an he (were made a tw efact af Ted's ont on fecal ‘ ethe truth, And the truth was t a iota radical, [was not and never d bet an artist of any kind. I was lracommonplace, conventional female i little extra —and my career, if was more than likely to be along the which Ted had ted. And, with welul clearness whieh comes when you take at night, I saw that not only was I eal artiat but that none af the reat of uch were, either! wus terrible, but it was true. And sj contemplated vow yaging on und on popig peel 1upon an island full of savages which ‘ batiked where they weren't tattooed, uh hardly endure the thought. To say ing the trip home! The mental mre simply unendurable when ctured that homeward voyage; and it ig now dawn T got up, dressed quietly ae out on deck, fe a fi ahout except Ted at wheel, and old Erines Kropushkin, and latter was acting in the most peecullar The Russian was doing the same sort leg rththewextant fompis that et tad fumbled over, But Kropush- iid not fumble, Hi knew what he wis tg. I could tell from his businesslike air. 7 Sues puted and wondering deeply, thdew into the main cabin ore ter ef the men saw me, and busied my- {setting the table for breakfast. He breakfast, a a sulky meat everybody present except the act, Shack's voice rang out excitedly, ahead!" he cried. tod [wish you could have beheld the ay that cahinful of long-distance vi Hlumed att on deck! Dt was a atarn ‘et tha would get the air firet, and thet Et eough, not very far ahead, a ‘ollar meustain loomed dimly ‘koa at Teint, ut threatening and will einige ec of relief went up from ih must be the Azores!” asid Shack aintiect “Gee, it's an ugly-looking stern hound coast te make a landing on, Mi] think kw better try!" dangerous reefs!" warned fiding tet eeu "Oh, do look out for “Sure and I don’t hear any surf breaking over them then!" putin Shamus, “Only a dim pounding, like!" We'll have to chance it!" shouted Shack. “were re short of water, remember, and we really must land somewhere!" tie suerte rtm In point ‘act ng appealed strongly to every- body in the ee and for once we were al a single mind, “Better go ahead slowly," said Harry Binz. “You can’t ever tell What 8 ahead,” And you couldn't, either, for scarcel had he anid it when the kicker went dead: stopped gor pe And there we were, pi f course Ted and Harry Binz did thei ai best to start her up again, but to no avail. For half an hour they worked and got all hot and dirty while the rest of uastood about foolishly and watched our ship drift slowly toward that awful mountainous island and a wible wreck. Butfor once Ted's efforta did no good at all. That motor was a9 dead asadoornall, And then when we were in weber oo. a pum of wind atirred the curls a “Why, there's a wind! "Can't we manage to sail in?" But I was not the first one who hod notleed that sudden breeze. Prine: Kre- ede ot who had been standing apart in grandeur like a statue, had miracu- joule gar to life and was frantically rie ng eet ating blouse and hand he tossed the astra- khan cap ieee: and with the other threw his smock aside with a gesture of loathing, revenling a red flannel ehirt and blue es as he bellowed orders in a might hie voice, i i a agonal this ship from now on, and ¥e'll take yer orders from me!" he shouted vn F per mutly good New England twang. up to the astonished Shackelton and shook a mighty fist inta the t's face. @ would say I had an inferior eom- plexion!" heshouted. “Well, get out there and help with that mains’ OF su inferior | your own complexion for ye Then he turned of Paouard, who shrank before him, seer ay es 13 he shouted fiercely, “T'll show you which of us has an inhibi- tion! Get over there to the fores'l and do what Harry tells ye to!" Fasped “Vosr—ha! Edouard, terrified. ae ll take the wheel!” shouted the old "Ted, you show these boobs how to hist. the arid and, by Godfrey, we'll bring the Sadie i in ee oO" hell and poetry!" 5 “Bay, you doa ag he sa shouted Tal serry aelien to it, quick! He's Captain Billy Hicks, the finest navigater going, and He'll land us safely! 5B ‘ iz arr the emergency I t him on 1 ell, I can bok describe the scene which follawed, with the men hopping about. getting the canvas up, very awk » all af except Ted and Harry, whom Captain Kro kin Hicks called son. But dazed as I was by this revelation, it waa nothing ta the shock I got the next time I looked toward land. T fog tad melted rapidly under the whip of on-ehore wind—and behold, we were just off Atlantic City, and our terrible mountain was the Traymere Hotel! An hour later we were aafely on the Boardwalk, a disconmolate crew, ve and crestfallen, yee aw th secretly pelleved a well, and huddling abit ed, awaiting is command “What'll we do ptt anid Shackelton. “This trip is ruined. Tt can never be the same again, ms os far os [ am concerned!" "Ty sapeeet said Td, cheaefal: and re sourceful as ever—"'T suggest that we acquire that flock of roller chairs over there, and all ride down to The Shelburne for a ood lunch on mel" ank God for that!" said Shamus fervently. “I've gone aa far eouth as I've any to. And I'll write all the better about the South Seas for not having me mind too much confused by facta!" Ei tio ou Fet?" asked Tred, a at do you tay ALS said Ineciling inte Bis eyes, “I'm willing to go home. 1 suppose I can atill find romance in the dictionary!" “I'm going to help you look it up!” aaid Ted (THE END) ae exe cimed. 85 HAUGHTON ELEVATORS The dew George D, Harter office and hank building, al Canfoat, Ohio, com pletely opine ped with Hanghion passenger elevalors of the peared Ly pe Fas the strong temptation nowadays to buy for a low cost price, it is well to bear in mind the reasons governing the selection of elevators for the George D. Harter office and bank building. First cost was considered, as it must be. But due consideration was given also to the important question of upkeep and operation expense. Haughton Elevators were chosen for their demon- strated ability to give uninterrupted service over a long period of years at a minimum cost of operation and maintenance. 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Dust beke board with flowr, roll out quite thin fone-eighth Inchi—meue with cruller cutter. Frosh top with well beaten esE ane sprinkle with balance of coconut. Bake in hoe OVER Pen fo pwelwe (REE, Three Kinds In Baker's bier con—the flamed scab wp in thet whales. noxteza! ereccemert milk. On Bades's pellow can —the Dare, fresh, whine mca ol bike till meobet ith io oe wbolesome., nitutal feicre. be Bakes’: bur codbaard cent inet— ithe dew eberdied feewt of selene! coconuis, carefully perpiced for ther whee oerlll preter the etd. laskianed, eagarcured kind, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 6.) THE COVERED WAGON (Continged from Page 2!) But this brought them within piatel range. The reporta of the white men's weapons began, carefully, methodically, with deadly seems. Tats was no panic, The motionless or struggling blotches ahead of the wagon park grew and grew. A few only of the Crows got off with bodies of their friends or relatives. One warrior after another drop They were weed to killing buffalo at ten yards. The white Fifles killed their men now regularly at a hundred. They drew off, out of range. Meantime the band from the westward wes Founding up and driving off every animal that had not been corralled. The emigrants saw themselves in fair way to be set om Loot. Now the sav strategy became plain. The fight was to be a siege. “Look!” Again a F pointed. Crouched low, advancing under cover af the shallow-cut k, the h reases of @ score of the Western tribesmen could be seen. They sank down. The ford was held, the water was cut off! The last covering fringe of willows also was held, On every side the black-painted savages sat their ponies, outof range. There could be no more water or grasa for the horses and cattle, no wood for the men. There was no other concerted charge for & long the. Now and then some painted brave, chanting a death song, would ride alawly toward the mugen , Some der- vish vow actuating him or some bravado ss ap him. But usually he fell, t all mm & quiet, steady, matber= of-fact performance on both sides, ‘This very freedom from action and excitement, so different from the gallant riding of the Sioux, was meore ying than direct at- tack en masse, so that when it came to a teatter of shaken morale the whites were in as bad case a9 their foes, although thua far they had had no casualty at all. There lacked the one leader, cool, calm, skilled, experienced, although courage did not lack. Yet even the best cou suffers when «© man hears the wailing iis chil- dren back of him, the of his wife. As the hours passed, with no more than an occasional rifle or the shut! of an arrow ending its ne, are, the tension on the nerves of the beleaguered began to At puldday the child began f t midi the children to or water. They were appeased with mille tram the few cows offering milk, but how long might that last, with the cattle themselves beginning to moan and low? "How for are they back?" It was Hall, leader of the Ohio wagons. But none could tell him where the Missouri train had paused. Wingate alone knew why Banion had notadvanced. He doubted if he would eome now, “And this all was over the quarrel be- tween two men," said Caleb Price to hia friend Wingate. “The other man is a thief, Cale" re Pherated ings. “He wis court-martialed and broke, dishonorably discharged from the Army. He wes un zr oni= phan, and had control of subsistence in upper Mexico for some time. He had the regimental funds, Doniphan was irregular. He ran his regiment like a ness, and might order firat thie officer, then that, of the line or staff, to take on his free-for-all quarter- maater trains. But he waa honest. Banton was not. He had him broken. The charges were filed by Captain Woodhull. Well, is it any won there ia ne love lowt? And is it any wonder | wouldn't train up with a thief, or allow him to visit in my family? God, right now I wouldn't, and I didn't send for him to help us!" "So!" said Caleb Price. “So! And that was why the wedding ——" "You! A foolish fancy of a girl. I don't know what passed between her and Ban- ton. T felt it aafer for my daughter to ioe married, as soon as could be, to another man, an honest man. You know how that came out. And now, when she's as apt to die as live, and we're all as apt to, you others send for thet renegade to save us! 1 have no confidence that he will come. I hope he will not. I'd like hia riflea, but I don't want him." “Well,” said Caleb Price, “It is edd how his riflea depend on him and not on the other man. Yet they both lived in the same town" | "Yes, one man may be more plausible | than another." “Yeast I don't know that [ ever man more plausible with his fists Major Banton was, Yes, [ll call ater I wish some of us—sa- oodhull, now—could be half os res with theaa Crows. Difference ir Jee!" he eoneloded. ‘ Woedkul there—and now he's bere. He's here. now we're sending there for the other» “You want that other man, thie dishonest as be is?" ; “By God, yeu! To want his rifle him too. Women, children and al) whole of us, will die if that thief de come inside of another twenty-four bo bites, she Sp out his arms, wr AWAY’, clasped behind his back met Woodhull. “arm, what shall we do?” he deme 'Woo're gort of in charge now, been a seldler, and we haven't had | of that." “There are fifteen hundred or two: sand of them,” said Woodhull slowly hundred and fifty of us that can fight. to one, and they mean no er"! “But what shall we do?" “What can we but lie close and bol We i il Fand wait?” ad Vea" “Which means only the Missouri m “There's no one = Ba We don't | that a xe alive, We don't know will come “But one thing I do know" —his | ra in a scowl—"'if he di come it will not be because he we asked! That fellow earried a letrer | Molly to him. IT know that. Well, who you-all think of me? What's my stan in all this? If I've not been shame: humiliated, haw ean a man bet Ards am [ te expect?" “lf we get through, if Molly lives, “Yes. I don't quit what | want never give her up. You give me lem try again? Things may change. Shes consider the wrong she's done me, honest man. It's his hanging around the time, keeping in ber mind. And: we've sent for hira—and so has she!" They walked apart, Wingate to wagon. oddine tor Melly" he asked of ka o nodding to a Wagon. Bipot trey 1s 5 ale, a circles of fatigue about her eyes. ~ won't ent, even with the fever down. Ut was back home where we could get thin Jess, What made us start for Oregon!” "What made us leave Kentoedy fo diana, and Indiana for Illinois? 1 do know. Ged help ua now!" “Tea bad, Jesse.” “Yes, it's bad." Suddenly be toot wife's face in his hands and kissed | quietly. “Kiss Little Molly for me. said, “I wish—I wish ——* “IT owish them other enid Molly Wingate. “* Pe wey ACKSON, wounded and weary 2 was, drove his crippled horse eo hard the night through that by dawn be & co almost flty miles, ard waa in og of the long line of wagons, crawling Uo serpent down the slopes west of the Sod Pass, a cloud of bitter alkali dust bangi like a blanket over them. WNo part 4 way had been more cheerless than i gray, bare expanse of more than a hon Miles, and none offered lesa invitation! a bivouac. But now both man and be were well-nigh spent. Enowing that he would be reached witli an hour or so at best, Jackson ei f lawt energies of his horse in riding bat and forth at right angles across the T= the Plains sign of ‘Come to me!" & hoped it would be seen! He flung his down scross the road, in the cis, bridle tied to his wrist. His hors, nearly gone, lay down beside him, 2° Foee in. And here, in the time a gallo == bring them up, Banion and thoes of men found them, one dead, the othr little better, “Bill! Bill’ | ‘ The voice of Banion was ance» © lightly shook the shoulder af theprout Continaed on Poge Jf! | meh hen we'd see!’

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i(Continded from Page 26 raid that he, too, had ied, Btupid 1, the scout sprang up, rifle in hand. wea thar?" Id, Full! Frienda! Easy now!" ald man pulled together, rubbed his iust. of went to sleop agin,” said he, arse pehaw now, pore critter, pw! apld words he now teld his errand. ould see the train accelerating ita ie i me at hia a in anton t paper. He | the hy steadily, read rend the “wares bed ag a 5% tts," is what jt soya,” He fre a damned lior, Will,” remarked 5, lread it alll’ asid Banion suddenly, il Banion, come te me, or it may 2, There never waa any wedding. I e moet wieked and moat unhappy sin the worl. You owe me nothing! ime! MW t's what it says. Now you know. w—you heard of no wedding back at date Rock? They said nothing? she —— lthey was ever any weddin' hit was ieort, an’ ashe gaye thar waen't mone. erto inow." = : Po fide, Jackson?" a in six fast mules for a in that i, Lakes is gallop. I'l pa in that rorao. Git yore men started = Be bet agh aie It's nigh fifty sae = o' the Green. fine near to mutiny when Banion fd a third of his men to stay back the on teama and the families. Fifty Seunted and ready in five minutes. were followed by two fast wagons. In Wf these rolled Bill Jackson, uncon- inf the roughness of the way, the Sandy, twenty miles from the they wakened him, sow tell me how it lies," said Banion. ws the nan chaps LEE on the sand. Phey'l surround and they'll cut off the “a we ford above and core in behind ie meut, Send half stral ht to the me’ half come in behind, ¢ the m, bah? That'd put ‘em between three Et we driv’ ‘em on the wagons d get hel thar, an’ ef they broke the ou could chase ‘erm inter us agnin. I Fve'd give ‘em hell. Hit's the Crows Tit dakeered of. The Bannocks—ef fe ho they was—'ll rum easy.” ‘iiuet of that day the emigrants, now ‘mad of thirst, and half ready to despalr mrcor of guccesd, heard the Indian m sound and the shrilling of the eagle 2 Elie! leg, Crowe were chanting agnin. Whoops fe mote the river bank. They're [" called outa voice, There ag aatir of uneasiness alang the ‘a8 ominous thing. nr beats bevobe es frora: tb thelr cover, more ae thowand men, to take some hae ‘alg that the peed) fo were mow In other circumstances it Port Beldger must have been a stirring spectacle for any who had seen it, To these, cowering in the aand, lt brought terrar, But before the three ranks of the Crows had clonred the cover the last line began to bu to whip, to break away! Scattering t continuous rifle fire followed them, war cries arose, not from savages but from white men. <A line of riders emerged, coming straight through te the second rank of the Crow advance. Then the beleaguered knew that the Mixaouriana were up. “Banlon |" aald a volee which fewatopped to retognize as Waowdlhull's, He held his Gre, his rifle resting ao long through the wagon wheel that Caleb Price on swift motion emught it away from No harm, friend,” said he, “buat you'll not need this just now!" Hie cold eye looked straight into that of the intending murderer. The men in the on parle nase be nee work in. The hidden Bannocls: to bin from their lodgment w " the river hank, The sound of hoofs and of shouts came down the trail. The other wing of the Missourians flung of and cleared the ford before they undertook to cross, their slow, i ar, deadly rifle fire doing ita work among the hidden Bannocks until they broke and ran for their horses in the cottonwoods below. This brought them partly Inte view, and the rifles of the emi- nts on that side bore on them till they in sheer terror and fled in a scattered! aque qul peul, The Crows swerved under the enfiladi; fire of the men who now crossed the fo Caught between three fires, and meeting ir firat time the use of the revolver, thee new to them, they lost heart and once more left their dead, breaking away into a mad flight west and north which did not end till] they had forded the upper tribu- tories of the Green and Snake, and found their way back west of the Tetons to their own country far east and north of the Tomegetes croming of the Wind River Mountains; whence for many o year they did not emerge in to battle with the white nation on the Medicine Road. At one time there were f Crow scuaws core and old, with gashed breasts and sell-amputated ingore gt given in Mourning over the unreturning brave, What many men had not been able te do of their own resources, lees than a fourth their number now had done, Side by side Banion, Jackson, a hall dowen SEF rode: up to the wagon gap, now opened, T were met by a surge of the aginst Women, girls threw themselves upon them, kissing them, embracing them hysterically. Where had been gloom, now was rejoicing, laughter, tears, & leaders of the em aad tame up to Eonion and his men, Wingate in advance. Banion still sat hia great black hore, coldly ing them, 5 Rea "T have kept my promise, Captain Win- gate," said he. “T have not come until you sent for me. bratty one mort, do I owe you anythin o, dir, you do piel " replied the older mar, and da awe me anything?” Wingute did not answer, “Name what you like, Majar Banion,” aiid a volor at his shoulder—(Caleb Price, Hanlon turned te him slowly, “Soma: things haw no price, sir,” said he, “For other thinga I shall ‘ask a high. ti in time, Captain Win , your ughter asked me to come, | Beperre fb ne’ a moment, and carry the hope of her recovery, we shall I ‘fel well repaid.” Wingate made with the others. ‘adler rode straight through the gap, with he more than one insceing glance at Wood- hull, near whom sat Jackson, a pistol rest- ing on his thigh. He came to the place under a wagon where they had made o hospital cot for Molly Wingate. It was her own father and canis who lifted her out a4 Will Banion eprang down, hat in hand, pale in hi own terror at aecing her ao pale. "Wo, don't I" sald the girl te her parents. “Be with ug—and Gad," She held out her arms and he bent above her, kissing her forehend gently and shyly aa a boy, “Please get well, Molly Wingate,” said he. “You are Molly Wingate? "Yes, At the end—I couldn't! I ran aeay, a a in my wedding clothes, Will. In the dar He shot me, I"ve been sick, ae tally sick, Will.” "Please get well, Molly Wingate! I'm golng away again. This thre, I don't know where. Can't you forget me, Molly Win- te?" “Tm ng to . Will. I did ty. Go on, ahes or * she added. “You know what I mean, Do what I told you. I— why, Will” ¥ poor lamb!" said the von of her mother, who gathered her in her arms, looking over her shoulder at this man to whom her child had made no vows. But Banion, wet eyed, was gone cnee more. Cabaceriie g his Sel out of ad wagon Bs aF a camping spot far he fe stumbled up te the cot where lay, her allent parents sti till clase b “Here, Miss Molly, gal," anid hold- ing out some object in his d. “We both gol @ arrer through ne shoulder, an r mine's a'most well a'r Ain't nothin” in the world like a good aw o terbacker to put on a arrer cut. Dove, now!" ERSTE Missouriane camped E pon coldly apart, the bree ais intone by ne ma healed, pot rather «¢ me, ver anorably eo, ar now well coterenood of all, Most men of both parties now knew of the feud between Banion and Woodhull, and the couse underlying it, Woman gossip did what it might A half dozen deter- mined men quietly watched Woodhull. As many continually were near Banion, though for quite a different reason. All knew that time alone must work out the answer to this implacable quarrel, and that the frienda af the two men could not pos aibly train up together. f all, when in sheer courtesy the leaders of the Wingate train came over to the Missouri camp on the following day there came nearer to being a good under- standing than there ever had been since the first break. It was agreed that all the and er on together as far as Fort Bridger, tand peri beyond that pain the fain should aplit into two or perk bodies—a third if enough Woodh saver enta could be found to make him up a eda Firat place, second and third were te be vith the di They all talked soberly, fairly, with the dleniky wT men weed to good standing ame . Thess matters con- cluded, and it having been ry erates sc hoe all should lie by fs another day, pit pbc the rape into ane of herer fel foc Old Bill Jackson, against his blanket roll, fell into Si fos Bi "Ties past," aaid he, “the Green River rendyvous was helt right in here. I've seed this place apotted wit hull valley re a” pg ea a an" 7 ole st an’ Sublette an! muy" Dade jckean an’ all them traders, That WES right here on the Green. Ever" drunk an" happy, like I ain"t now. ounting meni togged out, new | "a an” their women hae , warriors painted up a inch a their livea, an’ women with brass wire an’ calico al} Bout wanted—maybe Gayla: thou- e if the seek pie dmc Bot “a po ao short, an" ciaver sad a0 nnish fe tin’ afore in all my life as [ have this Bh lag is thar third time we're jumped, this time we're lucky, shore as hell. Pull on through to sa a apart, “Laay "the on are chen turn ve the grasa fer ri that follows, an’ git on fur's kin, every wagon. We ain't likely to have no more trouble now, Pile up them braves in one heap fer a warnin" to any other bunch oa reds that may eome along to hide around the wagon ford. New times has come on the Green.” "Can you travel, Jackson?" asked Hall af Ohio, “You've hed a hard time." “Whet Mel Why shouldn't [7 Give me time to pick up eome o” them bows an’ arrera an" I'm to start. I noticed a right fine horn bow one o" them devils had—the Crows allus had good bows. That's the defen ation brave that was itchin’ ao lon il ch bad through my riba from beh ey “ like ta keep bow fer him, him not needin' it now." Before the brazen sun had fully risen on the second day these late peaceful farmera al Ohio, . rfl Tllingis, Indiana, Missouri were plodding along once more beside their ooted oxen; passing out unaided into a land which many leading men in the Gov- emment, North and South, and quite nside from political affiliations, did not value at five dollara for it all, Though still a thousand miles of it ahead. me tate derteaer ee ar Bion ¥ the sant Don't you cry fer fice, La going through to Oregon, with my banjo Fair a9 a garden to the sun-seared eyes of the emi ta seemed the upartate ca post, Fort Bridger, when ita ride ateckade se arated itself from the distortiona of the desert mi whose citadela of silence, painted temples fronted with colossal col- umna, giant sphinwes, vast tics, lofty arches, fretwork facades, antastically splendid castles and palaces now resol (Contihved on Page 2)

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a0 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ) May 6, Glo ria Swanson aes in ELINOR GLYN’S 2. Beyo Ro dolpis Valentino A Sam Wood Production Scenario by Jack Cunningham 7 py i: Le Here is Gloria Swanson, supported by Rlodofp Valentino, in a great Paramount Picture G Let down fron (hia foes Elinor Glyn. | ering off in the mighty Alpe, Lord Oracendals (Valentine) gaine the ledge which haa saved § Thaotora Fitzgerald (GO bvie Swanson) from a Ai | teribie death, and thanin i So the hoarse thar pam befors Boe oa) Pere What more could you want for certainty of eres entertainment than those four names? You remember glorious Glona in Elinor Glyn) “The Great Moment”! You remember her in “ Husband's Trademark”! You remember Rodolph Valentino in Georg Melford’s ““The Sheik”! You remember him ink ly | Ingram's “Four Horsemen”! | the reetue perty arrives, y Lore Nghia ita kotfoal fire fe ic in theeuir Aeartat Memories of these will be eclipsed by the s more thrilling memories of “Beyond the Rocks”, —the photoplay of passionate young love, —and of luxurious life in a Paris setting with al the latest chic in gowns and coquetry! Above all, don’t miss the thrilling scenes of tig rescue in the mighty Alps! First showing next week a more than 200 leading theatr Is your favorite theatre showing W

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TER | | EVENING POST fCestitved from Page #F) themselves into groups of equat pole etruc- tures and a rude stock corral. The site of the post itself could not better have been chosen. Here the fat- tened and dividing waters of the Black's Fork, ley cold fresh from the Uintah Mountains to the southward, supported a substantial growth of trees, green now and wonderfully refreshing to desert-weary Ps. The families are coming!" Bridger's clerk, Horaea raised the new ery of the trading “Broke an’ hungry, 1 T'll bet!" swore old Jim Bridger in hia But he retired into his tepee and issued orders to his Shoshone aquaw, who was oan and pretty, Her name, a8 he once amid, was Dang Yorr Eyes—and she was very proud of it, Philosophical withal, though smarting under recent blows of her white lord, she now none the less went out and erected once more in front of the tepee the totem Bridger had kicked down— the tufted lance, the hair-fringed bull-neck shield, the sacred medicine bundle which had stood in front of Jeem's tepee in the rendezvous on Horse Creek, what tine he had won her in a game of hands. Where upon the older waw, net eg , pretty or jain, aes im in U “went out Her name wi Blast Yore wood, tlide, und she also was very proud of her | white name, Whereafter both Dang Yore Eyes and Blast Yore Hide, fernale, and hence knowing the mooda of man, wisely hid out for a while. They knew when Jeem had the long talk witht the sick white aquaw, whe was young, but probably needed bitter bark of the cottonwood ta cure her fever. Painted Utes and Shoshones stood about, no mont silent than the few moun tainewrs, bearded, beaded and fringed, who still after some mysterious fashion clung to the old life at the post. Against the new- comers, profitable aa they were, atill exiated the ancient antipathy of the reai- dent for the nonresident. sical land sakes alive!" commented stoical Molly Wingate after they had made BOMmE in uiries into the costs of staples here, his store ain't no place to trade. They want fifty dollars a sack for flour— what do you think of that? We got it for two dollars back home. And sugar a dollar a tin cup, and just plain salt two bite a Pn they and them, to guest at the pound. think we're Indians, or what?” “It's the tenth of August and a thousand miles ahead,” pol Caleb Price, “And we're beyond the buffalo “And are pe gece added Jed hee fa m ight wagon's got one hin spindle half in two, and I've apliced the hind ex for the last time." Jackson advanced an idea, “Ad Fort Hall," he aald, “I've seed ‘ern cut a wagon in two an’ make a two-wheel eort owt'n hit, They're easier to git through mountains that way.’ "Now listen to that, Jesse!" Mra. Win- ate commented. “It's ee ting dawn ta and less every day. Hut I'm going ta take my bureau through, and my wheat, and my rose plantas, if have to put wheels on my bureau,” The men determined to saw down three - hi wagons of the train which now seemed oubtful of survival as quadrupeds, and a general rearrangement of Was agreed. Mow they must jettison burden of every dispensable sort. Some of the sore necked oxen were to be thrown into the poe herd ns longer et smi for a time 1y COWS HO ering mille, A new atheriess began ta sit on all, The wide reaches of desert with which they here | were in touch appalled their hearts more than anything they vet had met. The assy valley of the Platte, where the great ourfold tracks of the trail cut through a waving sea of green belly-deep to the oxen, had seemed easy and inviting, and since then hardship had at least been spiced with novelty and change. But here waa a new and forbldding land, This was the Far West itself; silent, inscrutable, unchanged, irreducible, The mightiness of its calm wes smiting thing. 8 awesomeness of its chill, indifferent nights, the uneparing ar- dora of ite merciless nears, the nmeaaureless expanses of fits levels, the cold barrennese of its hillsa—theee things did not invite as to the bosom of a welcoming mother; t repelled, aa with the chill gesture of a > | atranger turning away outcasts from the daar. May 6, | “era resolution almost faints!” one, A general requisition waa made « scant stores Bridger had hurried chen To thelr aur . Bridger himeelf ms atens 8 at frontier profits, rdon,” commanded the min ter of the post to his head clerk, down your tradin® bar and let my prot Sell them their flour ancl meal of w has coat us here—all they want, dow what the will need till my pa Vieaques brings in more next fall, if be Sell" em their flowr at four da sack, an’ not at fifty, boy. Git out flag 1 saved from Sublette’sa outtit, i den. Put it on a pole for these feos give it to them so's they can carry acrost to Oregon. God's got some w them folks out yan or hit wouldn't & be penin” this Lin ae I'm goin’ to hel scree. Ef I don't, old Jim Bridge “That night Bridger sat in his lodge. moodily smoking. He a shaki the pegs af the pe “Get out!" he exclaimed, thinking it was his older associate or cise cor truding dog. His order was not obeyed. Will Bi pulled back the flap, atoo and ent “How!” exclaimed Bridger, and fists smitten on the blankets made sign to “Sit! Eanion for a time smoked in silence, knowing the moody: af the old-time men. “Ye came to see me about her, Molly, didn't yeT" began Bridger a! long time, Kicking the emibers of thet fire together with the toe of his moccai “How do you know that?" “T kin read sign.” “Yioa, she went mt." “When?” “That was at Laramie, She told come on with you then. IT eould not.” "Pore child, they mout "a" killed She told me she'd git well, though— me dao to-day. I had a talk with her.” #rinkled face broke into additional cca “She told me mere!" "T've no wonder,” “Ner me, Ef [ was more young ad Injun I'd love that gal. [ do, anyhow, sake o” what [ might of been ef [ ha had to play my game the way the a sald fer me. “She told me she wae shot on her wel night, in her weddin" clathes—right ple to the time an’ minute o° marryin’ ther thar. She told me she thanked God Injun shot her, and she wished to Geib killed ber then an’ thar. I'd like ext abride, huh? That's one hell of a edd huh? Why?” sera sa age staring at the -* a ow 8 OF part Ww why. hit me was drunk at Tuieeoaie. ae aa trem ber much, But I do ree-colleck hits something to me about you in the An with Donerphan in Mayheeeo, Right i I gits patriotic. "H says says I, The taken another drink. Atter that we fei arguin’ how much land we'd git om Mayheeco when the treaty was signed. hit war done signed now, or ct wan't, I don't reecolleck which, but was one or t'other, He had paper. © seo Kit again ary time now Ills aat him is pa was, [don't reo-colleck ext. “All that, ye see, boy,” he reo “was atter I was over to the wap rake ann hen Miss Molly tor goud-by to her. I reckon m wie aide o sever’) horns even thea.” “And that was when you gave her California nu et that Caran & given you!" Bunion spoke at last. “ih, weapring no surpriao, boy! Stet me to-day she'd told you then: said ste you to go on with me an” ball the others to Californy; said she wal! you to git rich: ssid you an" her hed pare af’ she wanted 2 Sey to live things doen was to tell ye that. “Boy, she loves ye—not me ter te other man. The Injun weormern kin ive dozen men. The white women ber’ I'm still fool white enough fer to beaer that. Of course she'd break her proms not to tell about the gold, args i knowed she'd tell the man she loved. she didn't wait long. How leag va E afore she done so—about ten mine Bay, she loves ye. Hit hain't no mee I ii a re. afraid #0." yy, don marry her thes, fr here? Efa pal ten ves a man be aria mitt her, ef only to cure her o” bess’ a fol © (Continoed on Page 5!

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foatinoed Fram Poge #2! syman, Why don't you marry her wee cause [ love her!" ger gat in disgusted silence for some 4]," said he at last, “there's some o fools that kain't be cured noe lexpect you're one o” them. Me, I skighiajutin’. E€1 love 4 WOMeTt, r me, somethin's oly to happen. i this here like? othin’ happens, its when nothin” saat ge that lin’ ebe does a» rll marries t man—barrin” pohoes. A fool k--that's you. But there mightn’t bea Injun hidin* to shoot her when sdresed up agin an’ the minister dtin’ to DETRLOUNGe “em man an’ wife. vhar air ye?" rezk on More ep after a time, a hed oot a hard, sinewy hand, +h a her ia fer the oung mn ria white man’s full ihre bo give her . curty ut a doe fawn an’ kind as a ghbred Ally, In course ye loved her, How could yo ashelp hit? An" ye was to go to Oregon —ye'd plow rather'n ight a" her? I don't blame ye, boy. wher is not supported by rifle an' Hit's the home amoke, not the tepee che, [ask ye nothing more, boy. tuk ye what ye mean. Man an' velolowed the tepee amokes—blue newin' an’ a-beekonin’ they wis—an" rset this hone te ne plow i in all my jut in my heart two things never was mit—the sight o° the white woman's f’ the sight of the flag with stara. Ipye all lean, an’ good luck go with Tork hit out yere own way. She's more'n all the gold Californy's got stime it was Will Banion"s hand that iidenly extended. ike her secret an" take her advice * sail Bride or alter a time, “te must ahead to Californy, Fust come fst lan any beaver water, Fer me ‘tia [ kin bold my hat an® the immi- ‘ll throw money into hit. I've got ctune here, boy. I can easy spare ye ye need, ef ye do need a helpin' out'n te, Fer sake o' the finest gal that croeeen the Plains, that’s what we'll EFT don't, Jim Bridger's & putrefied o help me God!" fion Tade ni mie at onet, but could iil of understan i not need munch said he, “Aly is to go on ahead with my men. I think there’ll be much danger noo lediaea, from what I hear, At Fort [ intend to split off for California, I make you this proposition, not in wnt fer your secret, or for anythin If I find gold I'll give you half of a mscon ae] pet out of can send it.” That do ye want o” me, son?” fit miles aod packs, All the shovels picks you have or can for me at Hail, There's another thing,” ks" what is that?" od i to find out what Kit Carson Eit Carson had. If at any you Waal to peach me—sis months, # it fan care of by the wagon 1 PRR Jin care of the district court a0 on the Willamette.” Why, allt ht, all right, son! We're all be talbiin' tn the air, but I more'n half nigra i One thing, ye ain't never 4 intendin’ to give up Molly Wingate! fa fool net te pia her new, but t reckonin’ to marry her sometime— m the FLOOE Hirns green, hikh? When ge an’ shriveled up, then ye'll marry nie caly looked at him, silent. ‘ I'd like to go on to Californy ‘ye son, ef I didn*t know I'd make An” taster, out’n the crazy fools i be pilin’ in here next year. So good ut “0 Ye Kit had more o” that stuff," tdenly added. “He give me some re when I told bles ra oat that fust vt be give moe, a Piece fer Fe * Bon. Te lee! It lowe He ietad onde fambling in ie tobaeeo ch jead i der the head of his blanket He looked up blankly, slightly alter: pie ee his elder equa, | damn her hide!" said he fer- “Ye kain't keep nothin’ from ‘em! se lain’ keep nothin’ when they reer ACE tore the train, new permanent] ' ‘det into two, faced the desert, all "20 ind many women now afoot, the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST kine low-headed, stepping gingerly in their new rawhide shoes, Gray, grim work, toll- ing over the dust and sand, But at the head wagon, taking over an mn ine foot by foot, flew the t fing. Halt pear That may be. Fanatics, so fet also had prayed and sung and taught their children, all the way seroas to the Great Salt Lake. They, too, carried books. And within one hour after their halt near the Salt Lake they ta Blow, began to build, began to work, gt rhe wand made a country, The pe at the trading post saw the Misacus wagons pull out ahead, Two ee later the Wingate train followed, os thelot had determined. Woodhullremained with his friends in the Wingate group, re Pat now with an increasing indifference, ut biding his time. f held back his old fHend Jackson wean F the last train pulled out, It waa midafterncon when the start was made, “Don't go just yet, Bill,” said he, “Ride on an’ overtake ‘em, Nothin’ but rattlers an” jack rabbits now fora while, The Sho shones won't hurt "em none. I'm powerful lonesome, somehow, "a you an’ me have one more drink.” "That sounds ress'nable,”" said Jackson. "Shore that sounds reas'nable to me." They drank of a keg which the master of the t had hidden tn his . back of his Blanketa; drank again of Algh wines diluted but uncolored—the “likker™ of the fur trade, They drank from tin cups, until Bridger meee to chant, a deepening senae of bis old ancholy on him, "Good-by” he said again and again, waving his hand in general vagueness to the mountains, “We wae friends, wasn't we, Bill?" he demanded again and again; and Jackeon, drunk as he, nodded in like maudlin grav- ity. He himaelf beeen to chant. The two WEE SAVEPES a “Well, 3 go ih part, Bill This ia Jim Bridger's last rendyvous. I've rid around an’ said good-by to the mountings, Why don’t we do it the way the big partisans allus done when the rendyvous was over? ‘Twas old Mike Fink an” his friend Car- penber n hit fifty year ago. Eeel-boat Ten on the river, they was. There's aa pond pi left to-day ga then, and a9 good de. You an" me has seed hit; We seed) hit at the very last meetin’ o' the Hacky Mountain Company men, before the farm- ilies come, An" nary a man apilled the whisky on his partner's head," “That's the truth," peated Jackson, “though same | wouldn't trust now. “Would ye trst roe, Bull, like I do Vou, fer sake a the old times, when friends was friends?" "Shore I would, no matter how come, Jim. My hand's stiddy sa a rock, even though my shootin’ shoulder's a leetle atiit from that Crow arrer.” Each man held owt his firing arm, steady a4 @ bar af iin @till gee thst nail heads on the door yan, Ein ye, Bilt" Flain! [t's a waste of likker, Jirn, fer we'd bath drill the ae Kg ae cee “Chardon. a roared Bridess to his clerk, “You, on, come here The clerk obeyed, though he and others had been discreet about remaining visibbe as this bout of old-timers at their cups went on. Liquer and gun r usually went together. "Chardon, ye git two freah tin cupa an" es ‘am here, ring a piece o' charcoal to cup, We're goin’ to shoot "em olf rg ten head, in the old way. You know what I roean. Chardon, trembling, brought the twe th cups, and Bridger with a burnt ember sought to mark plainly on eweh a Mack bullseye. Silence fell on the few observ. ers, for all the emigrants had now gone and the open space before the rude trading building was vacant, although o few faces peered around corners, At the door of the tallest tepee tun native women sat, # young and an old, their blankets drawn aeroaa their eyes, accepting fate, and mot daring to make a protest, ow!" exclaimed Bridger aa he filled both cups and put them on the ground. “Have ye wi yer barrel?" “Shore Lhave. Let's wipe apeis.” Each drew his ramrod from the pipes and attached the cleaning worm with its twist of tow, kept handy in belt pouch in muzzle- loading daya. (Continued on Page #7) cleney fhroughour ¢ copying mefhod fer ‘this kind of work." 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Continued fram Poge 55} , as a Whistle!" ssid Jackson, reagent here Jim Brid ming. er ger graced staal with a nfe,” oe," commented Jackson, " Hold 1, Jim, an’ on high the top of the rll be safer fer ig 4 ekelp, an’ hit'll hisky out'n the hole, We got to at's left. S'pose'n" we have a on we both shoot we kin drink," re- ifriend, with a remaining trace of . “Go take stand artes ee mance th, Chardon, damn ya, aig Bina van' set hit on hia head, an’ ef you aft ae drill ye, d'ye hear?" gags face went pale, Vonmeur Jim t bMonsleur Jin ° me or [il drill a eanyways! Do-pedo what I tell Then il ye crave fer to see some thootin” come on out, the hull o’ ike & Baar damn ye!’" a t firat, B i," demanded ore lig light's aoft, an’ we'll swap fust fire, to git hit squar for the %, an’ no ‘shine on the side o° the HE we'll tosa fer fust,” eaid Jackson, rout a Spanish dollar. “Tails fer " he called as it fell, “An" I win! wt, Jim." el will ef the toes-up Phage toes friend. “Step off the fey yard. rio” iron yet Garryin", Bill? do ye T kn o Virginin never bored a batter: rian a's td H k Two good none Ty oO awken. 0 two goed men, Bill, o' the al" fe ol" times! We hain’ taay falrer’ n ee, at our thre o' life, for favor o° imves, Hill? We got to de somethin’ ‘ ind a’ git fered u Tain kin say fairer. ‘said his friend. shook hands solemnly and went on- ith their devil-may-care test, de a historic keel-boat muun's brain, 2 ! then by alcohol as thelr own it by the terrified clerk, Bill Jack- L thin and grizeled, stoical as an and too drank to care much for enera, so only he proved his akill ruzage, wal Bteadily down to am tpot and stood, hia arma folded, ming his own rifle against the doar trading room. He faced BHdger toa tremor, bl head bare, and Chardon for a coward when his remibled a he balaneed the cup on a's head, mn ye,” be exclaimed, "there'll be het without any o" your apillin'!"" ye all ready, Bill?" called Bridger is station, ir _ cocked and the | as ae ae eerie i hate test touch against sr eles oe loose the hammer, ready!" grewered Jackson, two, jealous still of the ancient art me, which nowhere in the world td nicer development than ieh as these, faced each other in what wat considered the BUpPeme teat af indskill; for naturally a man’s hand trembli, miebting three Inches above mis eyes, when it would not move a ghting tenter between the eyes of an ines ‘pet out his tebaceo chew and ly raised hia rifle. The man opposite toed steady as a pillar, and did not his eve The silence that fell on who saw became ao intense that it q ames to radiate, reaching out the valley to the mountalns as in a a hapurs, Pin ifetamt, which to the few oh= m sened an bour, than two figures, Thich motion seemed to have passed H stotd froaen. Then there came a ‘Ol whitish-blue emoke and the thin Tact of the border rifle. hand and eye of Jim Bridger, in ol advancing years, remained true to lng treixing, At the rifle crack the pon the bead af the statwelike ft mehr flung behind as thou by “wali invisible hand. The spin of mle, acting on the liquid contents, et dart the seama of the cup and fet wee. Then and not till then aglow separ. cup, bored : bday eth ee the Phlack & ot, and ra rics with it in his hand toward i wiping out his rifle once THE SATURDAY EVENING POST "T call hit might careless shootin’," ead he, irritated, ow look what yo done to the likker! If ye'd held a lewtle higher, above the level o' the likker, like [ told ve, she wouldn't have busted open thataway. It's nacherl, thar warn’ troam in the cup fer both the likker an’ the ball. That's waatin" likker, Jim, an’ my mother told me when I Wee. 4, Bou "Willful waste makes woeful wan » Teall hit a plumb-center shot," grumbled Bridger. “Doe look now! aybe ye think ye kin do better shootin’ yerself than old Jim Bridger!" “Shore I kin, an' I'l) shaw ye! I'l bet my rifle aginat yourn—ef I wanted #0 sorry a pleee aa yourn—I kin shoot that close to the mark an* not agill no likker a-tall! An" ¥e ein fill her two-thirds full an" But yer ae in fer the balance ef ye like. “Tl just be ee new ee agin yer pony ye ae nothin" o the sort!" "ATL Fi ht, "show ye, O° eure, ve got to hold seid." “Wha said a wouldn't hold ai “Nobody. Now you watch m He stooped at the little nite ditch | whieh had led in among the buildin: from the stream and kneaded up a little ball of mud. This he forced into the handle of the tin cup, sir filling it, sesh of the cup. ee ein ahoot the fillin' out'n the handle | * ot aut’ n the cup!" said he, “*Mud's thenp; an’ all the dif runee in holdin’ is, af I ni Pr the side o° yer haid it'd hurt re "houwt the same as ef what I nicked the | | eonter of hit. Ain't thatao? We'd orte prac- tice inderstry an’ "conomy, Jim. Like my mother said, "Penny saved is er penny yearned.” ‘Little drops a" water, little grain a” gamd.’ she, ‘a-minkes the mighty odecedn an” the P ~ea-sant land." “T never seod it tried,” said Bri ridger, with interest, “but | don't see why | hain't practical. Whang away, an’ ef ye | spall the whisky shootin’ to one side, or cut ha'r shootin’ too low, ‘your caballo ia mine— an’ he ain't much!" With no more argument, he in turn teak" up his place, the two changing positlons ag that the light would favor the rifleman. Again the fearamitten Chardon adjusted the filled cup, this time on his master’s bared head, “Diese tur her sidew now, bay,” cautioned Bridger. ““Set the han'le side- Ways aqua’, aoeahe looke wide, Give him a fa’ shot now, fer I'm interested in this vere thing, either way ahe gow, Elther I lose ha'r er a mule," But batting arma he faced the rifle without batting an eye, as steady as had the other in his turn. Jackson extended his long left arm, slowly and steadily raising the silver bead up from the cheat, the throat, the chin, the ere of his friend, then lowered it, rub- bin hia sore shoulder, ll him te turn that han'le squar’ to me, Jim!" he called, “The damn fool has got her all squegeed around to one side." Bridger reached w i a hand and strnight- ened the cup himse "How's that?” he asked. “All right! Now hold stiddy a minute.” Agsin the Indian women covered their faces, sitting motionless. And at last came in the pull of armioke, the faint erack of erifle, never lowd in the high, rarefied alr. eThe straight figure of the seoukt never wiverrd eeap still rested on his bend, The nifleman ealmly blew the smoke from his barrel, his eve on Bridger as the latter : | now raised a careful hand, to his head. Chardon hastened te sid, with many ejacu- lations. The cup still was full, but the mud was gone from Inalde the handle as though | poked out with a finger! “That's what I eal] shootin’, Jim," said Jackson, ‘an’ Teas’ nable shootin’ too, Now spill balf o' her where she'll do some ,an’ give me the rest. I got to bee goin’ now. I don't want yer mule, I faust come ae from Missoury to git shet o° mules." ardon, cupbearer, stood regarding the two wild souls whom he never in hie own more timid nature waa to understand. The ‘two metintaln men shook hands. The aleo- hol hae no more than steadied them in thelr nde work, but the old exultation of their wild life came to them now once more, Bridger clapped hand to mouth and uttered his old war ery before he drained hia whore of the fiery fluid, “To the ol’ daya, friend!" sabd he once more; “the dave that's gone, when men was Teen, an” a friend could trust a friend!" Your Wife Knows the Worth of a Skinner Lining One of the first things she will look at in your new suit or overcoat will be the lining. If it’s Skinner's she'll be glad—for your sake and her own. Skinner's Satin AILSilk or Cotton-Back adds much to the distinction of a garment and does hot require constant mending, It is the overwhelming choice of those manufacturers and merchant tailore who use only the best materials —and has been for three-quarters of a century. 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And—it costs less. 10° and up 15c size now 2 for 25c Other prices reduced in proportion Girard BROKERS 5% Inch perfecto Pormerly 15c NOW 2 for 25 ANTONIO BROIG & LANGSDORFE Latabliahed 67 yeara FPHILADELPHIA GIRARD Americas Foremost Cigar ) wonder that our Allies took THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “To the ol’ days!" said Jackson in turn. “an Dll bet pat better shots don't stand to-day on the soil o' Oregon! But I got to It's far." He swung inte hla saddle, the rifle in ita om, But Bridger came to him, his knee. "T hate to see ye go, Bill,”" “Shore!” said J, . “T hate to go. Take keer yorself, Jim." e two Indian women had uncovered their faces and gone ee the lodge. But eld Jim Bridger sat down, back cottonwood, and watched the lopping figure of his friend jog slowly out into the desert. He yore ng now, chant- ing i ana yong Indian refrain that lingered im fag from the days of the last rendezvous, At len he arone's and, animated by a sudden thought, ao ht out his tapes ones more. an Yore greeted him with ahy amilea of pride, May | “Heap shoot, Jeem!"* said she. kill-um. Why?" She was decked now in her fines to use all her blandishments on t and master. Her cheeks were pain her wrista were with copper thong at her neck hung @ al stone which she had bored through aml, or with three or four aw much labor, that very am ched up the. ornam umb and finger. He said n tur his fingers spoke. “Other pieces. Where?" “White man. Gone—out there answered in the same fashion. “How, cola!’ she spoke aloud Bay, ‘How, cola,’ me She erik much pride over “ies conquest, and two silver dollars, “Swap!” Tn silence Bridger went into th and pulled the door flaps. (TO BE CONTINUED) THE INSIDE STORY OF THE Al.I (Continued from Page JT) decisive effect in forcing a withdrawal of German t from northern France. The military and economic situation of the enemy, therefore, indicated Lorraine as the field promising the most fruitful results for thrempla tof ourarmies."—Pershing's report to Baker. the winter dragged along and the A. E. F. remained a feeble growth. Smail and lost patience. Where was the American help on which they had eounted? Soa far it had consisted merely ot the appearance of oer= tain small forces of troops and then their ppd ane had into oe aehting in ne ha ne engaged in mae ch became o akepti- cal Sidees scornfal. They dubbed Arericans soot," French and British authorities ‘pressed their efforts to have the American troopa incorporated in their armies instead af malting te build up an American AEDT They kept pleading the emerge pb zi when no ble @menpiney cou before two or three months, “My conclusion was that, although the morale of the German people and of the armies was better than it had been for two oars,” orbed Fern. “only an untoward combination of circumstances ett eal the enemy a decisive victory be-= rican support as recommended could be made effective, p the Al- lies secured unity of action. However, a situation might arise which would aby tate the temporary use of all American troope in the unite of our Allies for the de- fenaive, but nothing in the situation justi= fied the relinguishment of our firm purpose = form or own under our own a chief troukde at this time waa Allbed morale, They were in the dumps. “Well, here's the war; you take it," was a com- mon salutation from individuals in the Allied armiea when our troops arrived from overseas, and the losses and sufferings they had gone through rendered this state of mind to understand. But their de pression had the effect of conini ae efforts and plans to defensive tren fare, whereas the Germans were then prac: ticing for open warfare and concentrating the plek of their men in shock divisions. The American command felt that only af- fensive and open warfare could end the wars and decided that any sort of permanent tion of United States troeope with th the ch and British would have a disastrous affect on i in attack. _ Some American troops went Into the line in the middle of January, and discussions pens wi ser sage authorities on their renewed ae ey inging over hited Staten tor ineorpora- troope from ton in the British arrales for training and experiene:, The outcome of thease negotia- tions was the six-division tfuen which vided for the transportation in British tonnage of six entire divisions, without in- terference with the American shipping program, The infantry and auxiliary troops were to be given experience with British divisions, artillery was to be trained under American direction, using French tiatrie’: and it was agreed that when these hattalions of infantry had reeeived sufficient training they should be united for service in American division their own officers. [t was planned | od of training should cover ob weeks, By this arrangement the A: erin chief secured the stip for which he had held out in the con! described in a previous article. The Supreme War Counmeil appro ‘cement and adopted a memo which concuded “that France wr safe during 1918 only under certain tiona: (a) that the strength of the and Fetes troo in France are a ously kept up to their present total si and that they receive the expects forcements of not less than two An lone per month." inte came dizaster. as twen ret the Germans inst the Etritish with the 1 ave midable militury machine the wor ever rol crashed through th ish line, the old Somme batt took $0,000 prisoners, and aewept fom an irreaistible flowd, > French and] eserves were eaten up im a vain ef _ the onrush. A adopted— age pg command—by which « et was to furnish @ certain 1 of divisions for a general reserve to b under direction of the Supreme War cil chiefs failed tragically; these re were not available in the erisia, and hundred thousand tro cea of the country's ujrements £0 held in England. A. F. Pollard, pro of English Histor in the Univers Landon, writes: ose hundreds of = “ea! Troops shown to be su IE ¥ the subsequent France were hept at home vt ibaa pa in authority be they were nee! defend our shores against a Germ on." _ The blow to Allied morale was sh ing. It looked like the beginning of th gael ‘aan had to be done inet The lack of complete coiperation a the Allles was proving fatal, The F and British representatives got toget! Deoullons on crehtaeunyoethanin Foch to cotirdinate the o tions 0 Allied armies, but they did not ennii him supreme command in all its ij pretations. Just why reservation made in his appointment is explained cable from Baker to Pre Wilson under date of March thirtieth: “The situation, poems te erty L George Is n favor of a sup commander, but fears British opinion be the other: Way sch a comm oa ee the Channel ports to enge aria. at riage if that General Foes ta 49 be pipe to cotirdinate, but withost > eee eas ta ven that. in ring part of Li eorge's message you Abele he aake and an a that we willing ta accept a general supreme 6 mand whenever the French and Be are. Perhaps the ghd sanallmess of present foree and our having no immed defensive object in France would mab unwise for wa to urge the point, though (Continued on Page [cl

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100 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May | The Business World’s Standard of Accuracy Business deals in figures. It requires exact—not approximate —records of its transactions. There is no other kind of business in which that requirement has been so long and so consistently maintained as in banking. ‘The banker's books are balanced daily; he tolerates no errors. He would never use a mechanical device unless it gave him accuracy day in, day out, under continuous use, The fact that by far the greatest proportion of all the figuring and bookkeeping machine equipment used by banks bears the name Burroughs is con- vincing testimony of Burroughs quality, dependa- bility and accuracy. And in other lines of business the same evidence is to be found, for today business continues to use more Burroughs Machines than figuring machines of any other make, For as Burroughs has met the banker's standard of accuracy, so has it met the standards of retailers, jobbers and manulacturers for a generation. Burroughs Adding Machine Company Detroit, Michigan THIS is AN ILLUSTRATION OF ONE OP SARY STYLES ARD AFES OF BIRAAHAGES AUDI Ne, BICPO RII, CALCULATING AND BILLING MACHINES ° ) a » ay ts : & Me tne ex

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(Cectlteed from Poge Ps) 1 would seem to have denon- hl. Bie American commander in mio meet the crisis. He had : dinstly for the building up of an [atiny; NO Pressure, no arguments, on, no Motlarations of “‘emer- oped him from that purpose is project did not imperil the but seemed n hecesaary A had. we tweed the many he Te oonsen to but beyond that daria ce ae pr w not po. rc. WH (esc at Tt waa no on of ong ot geecing ths : ight of a crisis Detect ae ‘the ra reeemed destined promised that the United : t the Un @ what American senti- . He want of town, set on 2 hill, he located me the moment , General Petain and if Walked in the garden See the marshal. When se the Américan com- found M. Clemencenu in. and Lowcheur, military situation ta maneh had started eounter- : Montdidier. Presently ain went out into the Pershing told Foch d come fer. t shnowspapers of the cay quoted ‘ geo to tell you that n people would consider it a eer eeone to be engaged in IT ask you for this in ta my own. Infantry, artil- tine that we have js yours. | ya More will come, th equ gl adeleledas J Dramatic Moment by ene fally to tell you that sal ite will be ‘st to take be rreatest battle of Heatly touched. He grabbed : Sommiaander by the anm and i. Clamenceau must hear of this ’ e two hurried into the garden, I the French Prime e incon brecretion ‘with Petatn, Hold- the arm Foch strode neross feand briefty told them the news. Tiger's eee ore Hented even Petain, ia known in Ameries are reflected] apprectation. what arrangements should fe, ocd Foch said that the details iieg this offer into effect could ba Phetween Petain and Pershing. fe poblished final report the Armer- emmnder in chief hus only this ft to make on the incident: “The lance of this offer meant the dis- Gol cur troops along the Allied front feonmaquent delay in building at tive American force in Lorraine, but ts situation of the Allis de- el elegy from our plans,” feed of eight days the German drive Ginpete, but a couple of days before Siest the military representatives Supreme War Council prepared a (Pick ran in part aa fellows: Be tatile which | is developing at the fmement in France, and which can ite the other theaters of operations, bey quickly place the Allied Armice nation from the point of view . and the new situation ims ew decisi Phe Mili Representatives are of iin thet it is highby desirable that the Feu Government should assiat the is goon aa poesible by per- te principle the temporary service Ons, Brien unite in Allied Army corps and thts. Sech reinforcements mist, how- f shtained from other units than Ametices divisions which are now rating with the French, and the unite sa Peeiy employed must eventually be el tothe American Army. \ a a | THE SATURDAY “The Mili Representatives.are of the opinion that fron the present time, . and wntil otherwise ted by the Su- preme War Couneil, only American infar- try and machine-gun unite 2 nized ms that Government m brought to France, and that t all aaveantonite ar con- ventions hitherte made in conflict with this | decision be modified accordingly.” Tomienen SNe on ike Mints Attar &: conasste ence with and Bliss, Secretary Baker cabled to the ident: “This ought to he conceded only in view of the plang critical situation and con- only so long as that situation meces- asrily demands it. The question cf replace mente will continue teers the British and French governments, and offorts to satisfy that need by retaining American Unite assigned to them must ie anticipated, but we must keep in mind the formation of an American army, While at the same time We mst not seem to sacrifice joint elicienc at a critical moment to that object." He recommended that the preferential trans- for infantry and machin ners should peta igh Arete added: “He'"—tha commander in chief of the American Expe- ditionary Forces—“‘will use these and rl other military forces of the United States under his command in such manner as to pentier the test mill assistance, in mind al the determination ot t ernment to have ita various mili- forces collected, a8 apeedily as their raining am the miliary dation permis bo epen can in ja iccat with the rns of meat eine severe. G oF F Gem ae so eee aa ES pene Ma adalat were accepted, arrangements were made wath the re Frenci ad British for training and aman aan al Sick infantry unite as le t be assigned to The Wishes of Our Allies By now, however, the Allies were clarmor- ing for indefinite ee of priority for the infantry, and silts Ine eorporition of t these ean tenes in brie French and British divisions. y de- manded, in words, entire absorption of the American force to make up French and British loess and give them suffielent numbers to combat the Germans, So the A. E, F. commander found it ne to eable the War Department on April thi that the priority of infantry should be limited te four divisions, plus 45,500 re placements, and that the necessity for an: pete the future should be determin The efforts made to obtain the emplay- ment of America’s troops varled ib der ably. The British proposed to Seecre — Posies in March nto r rican Sons 8 the communications ce eae should suspend that work and be drafted behind the Allied Front to construct de- fensive lines. They also asked for American batteries in excess of our divisional require ments, and wanted American artillerymen to be sent to British batteries to replace losses among the British artillery personnel through the recent German offensive. Alan, Buggested og i of the American aeeitoe area ee de rt com saat abi with ang em uploved the etaat in British at dividena On the rch aide, in a conversation be tween Petain and Pershing about the same time, the French era) asked for Amer- ican divisions to some French in the line, which he tbat to use elsewhere in the battle front. The American commander In ehief agreed to this Ef dalrcra a dei united on eta objected that they had not had ee experience to jus this, never erode plan too aaa corps. He consid- e plan too hezardows. ramet nie Pershing the opportunity to ohasiee the need of following a policy Tooking a the building up of an American darmy. General Petain approved af the qiea, but said he could not at present fix a date for the organization of an igi ican corps. In asking for the neh Array be wala pick gain sapien ents wished te drive af oan es ii that Anverican Pi scsi should teyae) lace. as soon 1a possible in quiet sectors =f e line, and the ineor an ition, but the front aa an EVENING POST 101 § Breakfast Comfort— Yes,— we mean just that! In thousands of America’s electrically lighted homes, breakfast-table comfort is being enhanced by use of the Marion Flipflop Toaster. The Flipflop adds charm, convenience and pleasure to the art of table toast making for— — It saves time. No trips to the kitchen: no dirt, fuss or worry over the breakfast toast. — Flipflop makes it unnecessary to usc a fork or to handle the toast with the fingers. 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If your drug, grocery or hardware estore does mot carry Flyosan, send us a dollar and we will send you an introductory package containing a pint of Fiyosan and «a sprayer. COLONIAL CHEMICAL CORPORATION Reading, Pa. BY THE ROOMFUL Ceperight ncy, Cafenial Carmel Cerpararion Lact summer a gen: eral store in Boon- ton, M. J. (5372 pop- wation) sold $1200 warth of Flyocoan— without advertising, We are advertising nationally this year. MORAL: Write for dealera” prices to- diay. PRICES: Fine hi G5 Quer «1.25 Gallon 2-25 Gallon 4.00 Introductory Package 1,00 {ping and sprayer! KILLS FLIES THE SATURDAY EVENING POST conversation turned on the American divi- | slons being trained with the British. The ] — commander in chief wanted to withdraw them for use with his other forces. FPetaln did not oppose suuireming. tnt from the British, but remarked could use these American divisiona advantageously in service with depleted French divisions, Perhaps, he said, it could eventually be arranged to have two French regiments and one American reginvent per diviaion. Later—on April tenth—Gerneral Petain wrote to General Pershing as follows: “So matter how appreciable it may be, the aid which you will be able to bring us will necessarily be limited and will be very far from making up the wearing out of our unite in the battle, On the other hand, the effectives which we have available ore also limited; thus, as I told you, it is necessary for us to plan for the suppression shortly af acertain number of ourdivisions. . . . This depression ia of a kind ta have a con- siderable influence In the result of the campaign of the year 1918, E can ser only one way of escaping it, which is to obtain from America—which alone has the necessary resources in men—a sufficient support to compensate for our losses. “Tt is for the Infantry that our needs are imperious and urgent; it would therefore be advisuble that priority be given to the transportation of American infantry during the approaching months, ao that the efec- tive aig, frail our divisions during the hattle, which may be prolonged during the whole of the summer, may be maintained.” General Petain then proceeded to recom- mend that the shipping allotted to the traneport of the American Army be devoted to transport of infantry, instead. “TI allow myself ta make thie suggestion to you be- couse I see the solution of the grave prob- lem of effectives in the present campaign onky in Amenecan celperation in infantry.” videnthy the restrictions placed upon Foeh's elevation to commander in chiet of the Allled armies had provoked friction and difficulties, becnuse another conference was found necessary to straighten out the misunderstanding. It was held in Beau- vais on April third. Mr. Lloyd George, M. Clarmenceau, Foch, Haig, Sir Henry Wilson, Ble and Pershing attended, Clemencead opened procerdings by ex- plaining that there existed some disapres- ment in the understanding of Foch’s powers as conferred on him at Doullena eon- ference of March twenty-sixth. Foch stated that the pawers conferred by the Doullens conference were limi to coirdination of action between the Al- lies. They were conferred while the action Was in progress, and the power to coordinate had been construed to be limleed to the time the Allies were in action. That step was taken on March twenty-sixth. It was now April third, and since the armies were no Lom in action, but were facing each other, there waa nothing to codirdinate, He thought there should be authority to pre= ar action and direct it. “We are right k where we were before,” declared Foch. Uailty of Action Mr. Lievd George said they hed hod three years of war and had not hed unity of action during that time. During the year just gone ey had seen two kinds of atra , one by Haig and another by Pe- tain, and nothing had really been gained. The onl thing the Allies h accomplished ore while General Nivelle was in su. preme command, The Germans, continued Lloyd George, had done exactly what General Nivelle tied todo, Recent happenings had stirred the British “ts voy alge ¥, and such things must not happen again, as the people would demand why they had happened and somebody would be called to account. The Hritish wanted some sort of unity of command. General Foch wae at present empowered to omitdinate the wetion of the Allied Armies, but this did not go far enough, as he had no authority to control except by conferring with the respective commanders in chief. He needed authorit to prepare for action, and Mr. Lloy George thought that Le resolution adopted at Doullens should be modified so that they might have a better understanding. General Pershing remarked that the principle of unity of esmmand was wnr- doubtedly the correct one for the Allies to follow, “Todo not believe it is possible to have unity af acthon withaut a supreme corn- | taancder,” he said, “We have already had May experience enough in ing to co the operations of the A Amz out guecess. There has never | unity of action. Such eotrdination two or three armies is impossible, ter who the commanders in chief Esch commander in chief is inte hi own army, and cannot get commander's point of view, mor ; problem as a whele, I am in fy cupreme commander and believe ceaa of the Allied cause depends [think the necessary action should by th eounell at once. IT am In conferring the supreme comma General Foch." . The British Prime Minister : warm approval, “I fully agree » eral Pershing. That is well put.” turned to Sir Douglas Haig and « for an expression of opinion. Sir Douglas declared that the J had practically complete unity « He had always coiperated with th: whom he regarded ag im contr: erence questions of the war, 4 I under the command of ivelle and General Petain he ha worked well with them. Sir Dough with Pershing's eral itien th should be unity of command, bu ered that they already had it. Foch in Supreme Comm, After some further talk ao resolu adopted to confer the supreme c on Foch, bwt it referred only to th and French armics. Pershing said this resolution si elude the American Army, Wiiec sook ibe ready to funetion as 5: should therefore be inclucled as a: like the French and British armies Petain said: * There is no Americ t ag a oathoer | hg oF are am a with the and French.” General Pershing replied: “Thi not be an American Army in for tioning now, but there soon will b want this resolution to apply to it beeomes a fact. The Aumerican | ment represented here at this con and in the Wi, and any Beton a supreme command that includes t) ish and French armies should ale the American Army." Ar ren wae Teached a: “Gen. Foch is charged by the French and American Governme the coordination of the action of th Armies on the western front; to 1 there is conferred on him all the necessary for ita elective realizati the same end, the British, Fres American Governments confide b Foch the strategic direction of 1 operations. “The Commander-in-C hief of the’ French and American Armies: wil! « to the fullest extent the tactical di of their armies, Each Commander: will have the right to appeal to his! ment, if in his opinion hia Army is in danger by the instructions receiv: ren. Foch, (Signed) G, Clarmenceau: F. Foch; Lloyd George; DD, Hadj, Henry Wilson, General; Tasker H General and Chief of Staff; Jobn shing, General, 7.5. 4." The tail of the agreement was i af the devil of distrust which lurke: the Alice dispositions throughout years of war, The curious reservaly each commander in chief! had the ri a ra to his government if he deem af Foch's orders endangered the exi of his army waa inspired by the | dread that the French might, in a sacrifice the Channel ports te profect The French lived in constant fear tha British allies would permit the fail o! in order to aave the Channel pe feeling had a ee Uae elect 7 early conduct of the war. The British assumption that the ¢ ential shipment of American infant: employment in the British and F Armies wae to be continwous develor ik mecinal n Paria betwen Secretary | and Porshing, and Major trenera¥ | ham and Hutchison. At that meeting eral Whigham stated that the Brith be able to ship 60,000 troopa per ro and the Americans 60K), making « of 120,000 per month, These figures seenved to puzzie hecti Baker. He pointed out that ae igen (‘Continued on Page [da

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104 THE SATURDAY Being handy ‘isjust owning the right tool © you qualify as a “handy-man-round- the-house’? Do you flinch when she pleads “(Can't you fix itP’?P When a rusted screw sticks, when the stove shaker hides, when a nut on the baby carriage gets loose, do you putter at it with a makeshift tool, bung your knuckles and bungle the job? When a faucet drips, or the radiator leaks, do you quit cold and call the plumber? The plumber doesn’t want “piker’’ jobs. He has more profitable work to do. He'll ad- vise you to save time and money by owning a genuine WALWORTH Stillson Wrench. “Take your Stillson to it’’ has been a by- } word with two generations of mechanics. “a it is getting into the household, be- cause it will turn things that an ordinary wrench can't hold on to—such as a pipe. Dan Stllson invented it in the Walworth plantover forty yearsago. [tis the best known wrench in the world. The working parts are drop-forged from the best tool steel, finely finished, and heat-treated to give strength and toughness, combined with hardness, without brittleness. or vee Oe aoy oot or bolt Ce cloth wild prevent eeratehing) Te tofa strewedriver phen screw ia rusty Ask your hardware dealer for a 10-inch genuine Walworth Stillson Wrench (be sure to look for the diamond trade-mark). Also write for descriptive folder. Ta furs oF nie anE~ WAL O TH If this diamend mark ien't on your wrench, Walworth quality isn’t in it Valves, Fittings, Tools for Steam, Watee; Gas Oil a | handed to machin ni | months of Apell, EVENING POST (Contiaued from Poge fo7) been mentioned in the Versailles marten ment. and he would like to Know the origi of those given by General Whigham Baker emphasized the fact that there had been no obligation on the part of the United States to send any given spe al aoe Fomonth or for any particular period é did not think it was clear that the Versailles agreement annilled the original six-division ian adopted at British behest. The Ve agreement provided that Brioclty of shiping for for infantry abould be given only until further orders—and those orders aut come to-morrow, Whigham said the British War Office interpreted the Versailles agreement aa wiping out all previous menibs, aker replied: “What is pertinent to the present discussion is that American are going to the British for training. I don"t want the British public or army, or ee vreneh ublic or army, bo get an ex- idea that this scheme t provides, o enti provide, a means by which their loeses are to be made up in future. 1 want Perel teclie for the eee hee Sonera in of the return of the troops. facrapted to them for aan General ¥ Whigham replied that this was perfectly un However, I venture to remark in paesiT that thia arrangement Mr. Baker Neneh was goer wae! what the British and neh were trying to bring about, They ad an Uncanny knack of of interpreting any Sonat ph made to help them out in a ere aa a fixed iey to be followed in- finitely, and their honest indignation knew no bounds when checked In their disposition of American resources amang themselves. Hardly had the battle lines of the March offensive by the Germana become atabi- lized when they delivered another crushi blow apainst & ‘, British in the vicinity Armenti#tres and along ° Passchendaele Ridge, whose capture had coat the British such a fearful toll of lives in 1917, had to be evacuated. The German attock was launched on April ninth on a forty-kilometer front, and losses wore so heavy that the British were hard put to it | for replacements. Conmequently they put forth extraordi- | nary efforts to increase the shipping avail- able for American troo General Pershing a to London on i hen ring to ome agreement, and w ere WHA of a note which had been Reading, the British Am- epcering in Washington, on April nine teenth. This note re he principle af priority af shipment of infantry and personnel throughout the May, June and July. It was another instance of the Allies going over Pershing’s head ta Washington. The Program Adopted But the note assured a shipping capac- ity of only 120,000 men per month, whereas the London authorities saw in sight te fee British tonnage alone to carry 130,000 in May and 150M) in June, with ia tly iin- creased capacity for July. Finally an ar- rangement was arrived at providing that American troops should be sent over in the following order: Infantry, machine guns, engineths and signal traopa, and headquar- ters of divisions and brigacles, brig, Sent for training and service with the British Armyin France; butonlyuptosiz divisions. Any excess shipping was to be used for trins ing troops necessary to make the American divisions complete, It was stipulated that the artillery personnel of these divisions and the corps troops requisite to build up American ofgunizations should fo immediate thereafter, and that the artiller personnel showld receive its training with French malériel and join its own divisions ns soon a4 trained, Upon completion of thia program, if the military situation made advisable the fur- ther 4 ipment of infantry of American divisions, “then all the British and Amer- ican shipping available for transport of troops shall be used for that purpose under such arrangement a3 Will inaure immediate nid to the Allies, . fdi That it is con- templated American divisions and rcorpa when trained and organized shall be utilized under the American Commander-in-Chiel inan American group. (e) That the Amer- ican Commander-in-Chief shall allot Amer- jean troops to the French or British for training, or train them with American shawn a copy May # Of course the French chose agreement anindefinite ican infantry te British wind that the United States haa Prince. they wanted it ap herefore, at the openi the Supreme War Counci May , they started with that the first business wast chief, in att cpinion, Sag a voice in the matter. i a hasty conclusion s#ems a brought to France #2 tlk tranaportation facilities will on that, aa far as consistent with th of building up an American Army, ence be given to infantry and machi units for training and service with and British Armies; with the unde ing that such infantry and machi unite are to be withdrawn and unit its own artillery and auxiliary trog divisions and corps at the American Commander in (Chief aft aultation with the Commander in C the Allied Armies. in thigia sin mainder of the a an indorsement of that esactenel t don, for it carried the same provisia Mr. Baker's Cablegram Apparently the arrangements Priority of infantry were not 30 4a the Allies wanted, because a | they were pressing further demand Secrebary af War cabled Pershing @ twelfth: “The President asked me to exy 4 that he has been much im fe | turbed by ry atiligteney ofically m him here by French and British Am dors showing the steady drain upon F and British replacements and the number of replacement troops now able. He feels that you on the crown full opportunity to Know the sitcation fully trusts your judgment as to how! ought.to give additional priority to try and machine-gun unita, in view; fact that such troops seem to be the code Ree ttable and wi eeded e Abbeville sagreeme course, provi less priority for inf and machine-gun unite than wae 5 mended by the Supreme War Cound with shipping at nt in prosped result in practically 120,000 ager machine-gun unite, #1 Scr pe, heer OOTPe per mon during May June. It hat been aug to the | dent that General Foch may meope subject with you, and the President | you will approach any such interv# anya aly as possible, particala suggestion as to replacements 9 has been presented to him is as eritie it setrs. Orders were issued on May second b Eighth French for withd=awal 0 American Twenty-aixth Division from sector for service in aneather, Thr called forth the following commest | Genera] Pershing in a note to the Chi the French Military Mission: “Isa as the final decision as to the Ama divisions te be sent to the batthe frost be made by these headquarters, it i gested that in the future [ bye informe to the proposals of the French comm belore any action is taken.” The French opinion of the aioe under training at this time f af © Ina memorandum issued May 1, isis Petain's headquarters, on vib American units attached to Fre units, these observations “Tt should be borne in mind that ti have an extremely highly developed & {Continued on Page [07)

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Consequen attitode of ity over them should be assidu- cided, a fact which in no way pre e abeclute subordination required ers not carrying out the rules of . + In cose of necessity, Hioers should not hesitate to exer- it authority, noe ater {operating in o _ sor fter woken through t his re hon much meh es aia devoted form of operations, . , ‘he in soldier, as did MUFS formerly, azual Labor.’ dese him, he gurely did! j interview between Petain and fat Chantilly on May nineteenth, ight to get an American sector wetenewed, The American com- in chlef favored a sector of the and insisted that the American iwith the British should be eon- d there at soon as their training eee hey agreed to pool th gmeeting they their eof supplies of all kinds, and olen ftranspert, whatever reservations amingeroent the British might }ermans next attacked between the 4 Berrv-au-Hac, on May twenty- ,gpaleat the Freneh this time in- the Hritizh, a8 had generally been i. It a bt the French com pletely rise, the initial push over a re-kilcmnetgt front carried the. en- : sont Tana in four daya. That is marchin erdepe ral a fight. hath Ted “the M wodefensive Aan, directed their tioward Paris, Allied morale was jie the breaking pexint: the armies ttl: weary, worn, with no heart for wttack: the Preserved Were ui German Vietory seemed irami- ny ones digs a whispers, when awas abelling Paris and half oe thought that it meant the were close, nearly 1,006,000 people jeapital, heading for points south. ip wat now on the seas. [t took a catastrophes to wake the Anver- ele to the dire need of haste and its jas to speed: it teok defeata un- ein British military histery to et cation to the mecesity of mak- femé sactifices of shipping for the fof American troope, larch twenty-first, the date of the main ofensive, only 2) (Me Arier- op had reached France. A number ions were in line im quiet sectors, thing oeclirned to stimulate our topes until the brilliant exploit of i Divsion in capturing Cantigny, fy terntyeighth As that was a local attack, undertaken for its fect, the military results were not lat except so far ss they raised tions Near Chateau:TAlerry (the Second Division, in reserve et of Pars and about to relieve the ithe Montdidier sector, wae thrown (tate near Meaux to help check man advance, Deploying across dteal-Thierry-Paris road early on ming of June first to fill a gap in the line it topped the German onrugh. | kame tin the iat trained Division went wit ch to Se crossings of tha siorae and its bed machin n battalion assisted ealully delending the river crossing iteau-Thierry. (a these performances were, they compare in thelr effect with the i swelling of American reénforce- The ports were jammed with 1 inhntry, now arriving at the (10.00 men aday; all night and all “tte Inde] to the guards with boys wee, shrieking and clanking (he face of France, In every town, ery roadside, American soldiers on Meat tothe battle areas grinned at the “Helton; afoot and in trucks, ved by thousands along every high- ct the end of Muy there were GM, 000 me Coops in France aah reach preubtion saw these thin hi ered, new hope stirred s sierzeath all these activities—in eee of rourthess feet, the ceaseless “Sel teop trains—they eould feel the THE SATURDAY mighty power of a roused nation flowing in rakes flood, So they gave a cheer and knocked off te follow the marching troop: and the poilu took a hitch at his brecks, lit a cigarette, and decided to take another fall out of Heinie. Meanwhile the Germans, checked in their advance on Puris, were organizing for another effort. The prospect gave the British and French commands intense con- cern. Where would the new blow fall? How eould it be met? Where were replace ments to come fram? The whole question of man power was threshed out at a conference in Versnilles on June second. Present at this meeting were Prime Minister Lloyd George, Vis- count Milner, Gen. Sir erry Wikon, Sir M. P. A. Hankey and Maj. Gen. Sir H. A. Lawrence, representing Great Britain; Clemenceau, Foch, General Weygand ane General Mordacq, representing France; Pershing, General eAndrew, Colonel Connor and Colonel Boyd, representing the United States, Professor Mantoux acted as interpreter, The announced subject of debate was the June and Jul tec rogram. General Foch by saying that he a Gene Perabing had been unable to nt a meeting the previous evening, anc he inquired of the American commander in chief if he had any proposal to make. General Pershing'’s Position General Pershing suggested that, in view of the emergency, preference ahould be iven in shipping during July to such in- antry and machine gunners aa were trained and remy, but he was emphatic in de claring that the United States must not be denuded of sive arr He was just os strongly opposed to bringing green, wn- Sralnet moe who would be unable to get into the fight within thirty days after land- ing, anyhow, The point he particularly atreseed waa that at the end of June there would be only a arall pro ion of infan- ie seattered arnong the eighteen divisions left tn the United States. In reply to this General Foch u uineed sha that every infantryman in the Uni Sta should be brought over, after Suifictont instructors for the new levies had been ex- pits. Tt want neceerary tc leuve en ar instructional purposes, he argu The American commander in chief re minded the conference that this was a muat- ter for the War Department at Washington to decide, He reiterated his opposition ta any attempt to drain the United States of trained men, because it would oblige Amer- ica to improvise an entirely new army. At this point Mr. Lioyd George took part in the discussion. they mist be quite clear what General Pershing’s proposal meant—that is, the Allies would receive aga nt infantry from the United States in Ju dent Wilson really intended this, Pk hie understand, but be, Lloyd Ge » bad mot hitherte underiood anything of the kind. He quite realized that the yniiee of men a be retained in the United States was en- ‘a matter for the War Department at to decide, he said, and he re ered with his customary tact to the debt he Allies owed to President Wilson for enerous and chivalrous aid in the manner in which he had agreed to meet their needs; but Mr. Lloyd George understood that 50,000 men were to be left in the United States as a nest and if such a nest age were left there oe would have nothing but new levies to bring to France General Pershing eelied that ie did not aay no part of these 50,40 would come, but the question must be left to the American War Department to determine. U which the British Prime Minister remar that all they could do was bo represent to President Wilson their needs and hopes, and make an appeal to him to come to the rescue—more especially of France—at a time of the moet terrible necessity in which that country had ever been placed. The Allies were, of courst, in the hands of the United States of America, he added. General Pershing stated, “But in July there will be very little left in the United States except troops of one or two months" rr gh loyd George's comment on this was that even these partially trained tropes should be brought over, a8 a month's train- lng on the epot would be worth more than thre months’ in America, and by training in France the American drafts would come into contact with their own men and would say that Lord Milner had spoken the EVENING POST get the atmeephere of the war, which waa an a pe Baneapioes for ile General Pershing said eg certainly have some bes ter ue arrived, but in July they would be s ih | tao green. Drafta were belng called up in June, and consequently in early July they would have had only one month's training, he said, M. Clemenceau broke in with “In the meantime, what ia te happen te the war?” General Foch added: “They shevuld bring over every available man, leaving only w certain number of instructors.” His | information was that ample tonnage would be available in July, and he that it be devoted ta bringing infantrymen, filling the ships with the most advanced recruits. | The American commander in chief re- marked that the question seemed to have | Peovioun day be ball explain’ hie deste £0 previous eX ig ship mere men for the railroads and ; but the conference appeared altoge to ignore this, and he felt he was recety: ; ort shrift, Generals Foch and Weygan knew the enormous difficulties under w ich | the United States was Bie Be a ies France, and they surely real the im- peesibility of running an army without sufficient ports and roilways, Ching to the necessity of bringing over infantry during the past month, in order to meet a grave emergency, these mattera had been loat sight af; he atom af opinion that a settle — ment sould eesily be arrived at if the mat- ter were left to Port Milner, General Foch and himself for arrangement. M. Clemenceau gaid, “For the first time T understand te-day that the United States af Americn if short of men. At Abbeville the discussion proceeded on the lsasis that this could never happen.” He went on to oS ey previous day of 200 (K4) men arriving from America in June and July. Now he learned that only 0,000 instructed men could be ht. General Pershing replied, "Not as many aa G0,000. If chip 170440 in June, aa contemplated, there will be only 40,000 trained troops in July," After some further discussion of the nur- ber of available men Clemenceau remarked that he was terribly disappointed, Could General Pershing tell him when the em- horkations would recommence? General Pershing anid, “In Auguat." He sear also, that 434,000 men had called up in the United States during he month of May. Mr. Lloyd George's Proposal At this juncture Foch propesed that the June program should be allowed to stand and a plan worked out for July shipments wie ee ae cha Premier weed to en ment this su wi cores that the the situation should be | ex mod te to President Wilgon. Mr, Lloyd George then addressed the | conference, He opened PB ving that he . a a a a Ee a ee a quite foaled Te course, the importance of sendin lementary meti= tioned is tetera Pershing; but t ey were confronted with a peeing 2 he provesidead to read the f owing TLessage which be Rope should be cabled to President by Generals Foch and | Pershing: “We recommend that the reinforcements to be sent from America in the immediate future showld core in the following order: | Drtring the month of June, infantry and | machine-gunners should have absolute pri- | ority to the mamber of 170MM, During | the month of July the same arrangement | should hold good as far as possible. Inas- | much as this would exhaust all the infantry | and machine-gunner Tecruited before | ey, the numbers of men of these nee | . if possible, be made up to the figure | pititecryplated by sending some of the Ma levies. It is recognized that it is undesir- able in principle to send out men having so short a period of training at home, but we consider that the present en ¥ is such as to justify a temporary exceptional departure from this principle. ‘In making this recommendation we bose ourselves upon the assumption that eombined American and British tonnage will render possible the shipment of at least 260,000 in each of the montha of June and July, ao that even if a maximum of 170,000 infantry and machine-gunners (Continued ea Page [09 ! 107 In spring and summer women welcome the change from con ventional kid gloves.to lyhet and more informal wear... Fownes silks, that harmonize or con- trast with every vagary of a riot- ing season of color! 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inttiage|d from Page [dy ‘A were attained, at least 1h,0) a caiegorbes mequired by General sp be sent ower during June and r + agree that this arrangement w be adopted in substitute for » at Abbeville the beginning of Pershing said: “I cannot agree ver American troops of only one raining. They could not ber used E- t Milner undertook to pour oil dbhled waters. He made an ear- of “seme saul concessbon “on the meral Porshing, peg» mut that val members of a conlition and neel one another's wishes to some enril Foch was surely making a iin agreeing to the draft tel leone read, so why cou Pershing make a eninaieg mesaion? feulty was, answered the Amer- sander in chief, that what the be United States was not a srnall i—it was miuel more. Moreover, hand British were not in a podi- poly the troops they asked! for, in state of the railroads and sup- « Americana must therefore plan 7 thelr own men. The United ngs with the Brith had red, and were not then receiving, pee they ought, owing to con= the ports, This proposition of ; oittng to bring over men for nil ports, was bound to law ke for thers in the future, General recommenthe postponement of program until August, preference ren meanwhile to building up the wel railroad nel: the onky ment involved would be the em- nol troopa of one month's training d not be expecbed te fight so soon neegu remarked, ‘But the Ger- mt ree 2 his ie ral Eg Te . Untrained troopa can- ded on to fight." at the Proposal Jnvolved is stage of the proceedings Mr. SORE presented the moet daring of mh propoaale. Through the British in Washington they had felt out rican government on a plan to send Amerieun ‘Leoages for incorporation keith armies under British com- a ng tiag an Sue pl the vin and it pr mo than a feelers next had come thelr fr 150 battallons of infantry to ie emergency caused by British wi the proposition which the Prime ried tothe conference as comi & British eae dwarfed. al a denamts in the scope of its ex- ten of the etitical situation cremtecl sega the French reserves and the consequent urgent t farther divisions to replace the ibvialona withdrawn free he Brit- L"ittan, “and having regard more ary-to General Foch's considered that if the number of British divi- hut gah els we shall lose the ee , a8 an emer- hae the abc eilerse chick” shall be the jud Mctol training required and ‘he Pole ran when the American #2] be pat into the line.” Boia car Understanding of what sition invalved. The British as ag avn freak Americn ut to over: this wavidesd that, te matter how green Ta might be, ne matter how unfit ting, t American troops could ig into the battle any time the i tommander in chief decided they ede! It aimed at taking control of Som oot of the hands of the Amer- Sinander in chief, ra bard ty reconcile this proposal Lovd George's usual common ‘ Whabiy he would look on it Pies and chuckle; for I venture } iat fo government in the world tapes the hard:hood to make any t postion ta the government of = ak Hot the government of France, 7H Tate * ane eg Y- de fmmander in chief de ‘ely that he could net pos- flo ths proposal. He himself THE SATURDAY mitst be the authority te say when the American troopa should into the line, This rie bacey ad never disvussed at all with him: it was thrust on him for the first time, Ad be wanted it distinetly understood that he could not have matters taken out of his hands as proposed The Prime Minister retorted that pres- ent Segall ica were such that the Anver- bag would very likely never be avallabl F the battle, This remark of Mr, Lioyd George's exem= plifies a faculty the French and Eritish pas— sess of making it appear that you aren't playing the game whenever you decline to Play it the way they want. Each govern- ment had its mind set on utilizing American nid for ita own effort, and so euch made continual demands on thepleacfemergency, and if the United States refused to recognize thatan emergency calling for auch measures existed, then our ef to make it ap- peur that ‘the United States waa not doing its share in the war. General Fock’: Memorandum The tactics were probably familiar to General Pershing, for be merely replied to Mr. Lloyd George that he was ready to put the United States Army into the line when- ever it was required, but in the case of troops in training he must preserve his own t to say when the moment had arrived. oreover, he considered this mathor wis not one for the conference ta decide, but he would be glad to give careful consideration to General Foch's recommendations for urgency. After some further talk it was | agreed to leave the question of the July shipping program te Foch and Pershing for discussion. The next thing on the Ml WHA A memorandum read by General Foch a pealing toe General Pershing to lnerease the Americoun elfort te 100 divisions, which would entail the calling up of more than 200,000 men a month. Now 100 American divisiona would be nurverically equal to 200 Freneh of British, ane eo the ose effort almed at an American Army in France superior in size ta the French ane British armies combined—more than 4,000,000 men. General Pershing readily agreed to this. He assured the conference that the senti- ment of Ube American people would approve such an effort if it were required bo win the war, and he heartily approved of General Foch’ sopinion being forwarded to Washing- torn. At this point Orlando and Sonnino, of Italy, entered the room, and then AM. Cler- enceenu abruptly switched the discussion. He wanted to know how many. British divisions could be maintained in France, Prime Minister Lloyd George replied that it would be best not to diseuss that. uestion until the return of the ex o Clemenceau had promised to send ta England te determine the man power avail- able there. General Foch informed the conference that the Allies had only 150 divisions against 204 German divisions. [f these 150 could not he maintained at strength, then the Allies would be bankrupt, No matter what the ne ply of M. Clemencemu’s expert on their man power, the British must make a strong effort to maintain their fifty-three divi- sions. Df they failed to do so he could pee pontee but disaster. It waa impossible for him, Foch, to carry on the war in behalf of the "Allies nirsk an, enemy whee numbers increased whilst the Allies we di minishexd, Here Viseount Milner exp concern over some of the figurea he had heard handled about. He deplored their use, For instance, General Foch's fi tee a” i160 Allied divisions—he wan correct thor, He painted out that the. Allies had 169 divisions, This slip on the part of General Foch appeared to occasion the British representative considerable cha- in, because he referred to it again later. 4 regards British civisions, said Lord Milner, their reduction was due te the fart that had been out. of alll fea da thay be to what they had anticipated taken steps to replace the losses, Bue those netaaures would hardly produce the troops before August. Viscount Milner waa re ferring to the new levies. General Foch accepted Lord Milner’s correction: the Allies had 169 divisions. But he wanted to point out that eleven Helgian divisions were being opposed by only seven German divisions, so the Allies lost in balance there, Amd it was incontest= able that the Allies had » @rent numerical | |e : at a | } - P| 2 cy; ' EVENING POST = 2s = ™ Fie Mampien— Stele Af mu 24 THE FLORSHEIM SHOE ils: | THE fine appearance and apparent qual- ity of Florsheim Shoes win you from the very beginning. 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COLLINS Photographic Mountings “Add Chanm to Every Pororait™ No fared tanith 10 oF wl navesyyiag as s ag by ig ne me piond! Peotoproperr, inferiority, and he was net prepared to conduct the war on the part of the Allies if the British divisions were further reduced. He demanded again to be told the British Intentions as to the number of divisions they would maintain, _ Gren. ae Henry hahaa er that it was im eto give an @ ube guarant chat th eeitace reduce below the sr r. Only the last week or so they had had te ig ck more divisions. General Wilson h peel the British would not have to reduce belaw forty-seven divi- sions, of which ten would be American as regards infantry. net mere | to the fact that figures were lesaly used, and many of them were incor- rect. Heaaid he coul that hdd bead Wilsen' meee: in his que He Pda pe tee “4 now ot General Wi the minimum number of divisions the British would maintain, Sir Henry Wilson replied that it would be forty-4even instead of fifty-three, The British had recently bean maintaining fifty-three divisions. He hoped to incre the number later, Foch asked, “Then that means that if the American troops with the British are withdrawn, the British Army will actually drop te thirty-seven divisions?" y way of explanation the American commander in chief informed the confer- ence that, according to their arrangement, the American troopa were being put into Britieh divisions on the underatan that the American infantry would be withdrawn as soon ag the wuxilimry troops arrived, However, he thought that by thet time the new British te ought to be ready, Mr. Lloyd George said the whole buai- nega seemed to simmer down ta the assump- tion that no German divisions were being done away with, Were the German drafts like the widow's crise, he asked, the oil of which was always maintained? The Prime Minister preveed General Foch to explain why it was that, before the recent fighting, only 460,000 German drafts were rhe by the Allied Intelligence as available, yet now, after months of fighting and heavy reported German losses, there a Te auied to the Germana Se), 000 drafts. He winted to know how that could be. Milner drew attention being reck- Further Negotiations General Foch made no attempt to ex= plain. He said he was tolking of British divisions, and of a fact, not a hypothesis. Out of fifty-three British divisions, ten would be completed with American troops; if the British reduced the number of their divisions bo forty-seven, then only thirty- seven of them would be British, He pointed out that Germany, with a population of 63,000,000, was able to maintain 2M di- visions. Great Britain, eaid General Foch with a population of 46,000,000, cen] maintain only forty-three —excludin tha American troops with her armies—and was considering cutting down the number to thirty-seven. These remarks naturally produced some slight temperature, and Mr, Llayd Gen apparently sought to create 2 diversion by returning to the problem of how Germany could possibly maintain 204 divisions on the Western Front with only 300,000 men in her depots, He wo that the British Government was entit ed too reply an this point. The Prime Minister then went on to offer a possible solution—he suggested that perhaps the Allied losses were much heavier than the pera ges Foch reed that such was pos= able, dj giuin rd Milner protested against Prairies these figures into the dis cussion, Foch replied by demanding to know when the British sald Teconetitube the ten divisions mentioned as having been laid a He reiterated his warning that if the British armies were not main= tained wt strongth the Allies would for disaster, Finally M. Clemenceau eloaed the in- eldent by remarking that he was sendin an expert to England to determine British Tan power and ta make proposals, ‘The | conference thereupon referred ta Generals | Foch and Pershin the matter of reconsti- sat the ten broken British divisions with er cain infantry, May Lord Milner, General Foch Pershing subsequently « lowing agreement as tog based on the asaitmption i could be tronsperbed June and Joly—by 6 of American shipping: F combatant troopa in Jus machine gunners; also raubaay sitvices, of whieh had been asked for by the ister of Transportation; 6 categories to. be determin Pershing. In July, (prion eombsabint troope— our ce tillery, or $4,000 men, pls ments—balanes of : af troopa designated pe: | “We recogprige, «Ere forth, “that the combatants disinate heel in July freope which have ing, but we consider the p is such aa Lo justily a te Burl tig tional departure b the U Lin sound prineipbes of train 4t milur OU rae is being | ae and Great Britain,” The Promiers’ | [t will ie seen that thie | taing practically all the pain AMEercan GOmMMander ino Out of the Versailles described came the followin “The Prime Ministers af Fm and Great Britain, now ieee sailles, desire te morn thee fol to the President of the Uni "We desire to @& a thanks to President Wilson fart ihe promptness with whieh Alm in excess of whet #€ one: r practicuble, has been fend t during the past month to” ne Pen y. oA “The crisis, however, Gen, Foch has presented i ce of the utmost gravity, Weicn® that the r numerical superiarity oll in France, where 16 city now oppooed to 200 German very heavy, and that, aa t hility of the British and Firemen the number of their division trary , they are pre to 0h t beep then up), there is spree Ye ‘ar being lost Unless the Aes arity of the Allies can bere us possible by the advent troops. “He” [FPoch) “therefore i Utmost insishence that the ne a Bs gible number of inten gunners, in which pospect al men on the side of they marked, should eomtine be from America in the | i July, te avert the inode dun Altec defext in the prema ee is ing to the Allied reserves ieeioge before those of the enemy, Taal this, and looking to the aenta that it is impossible tals mite victory fe the war wel able to provide such am the Allies walt imately cepa i‘ superiority, He places the tol foree requi ired for this at no and urges the jon tintin! ar gh Amenean levies, waoieh | Sinn ton sirnuld mot bee Jess ti i Ti! th, weit : 1 i | cig ica force of 100 divisions a a te aa this @ ikfl Er caail ky be dion “We are satiahed that "Gen 1 tudiicting -the present camp eninstisnnnate ality, and on whose mm judgment we continue to place che absolute relianee, is not overestimiiil needa of the ease, and we feel oo that the Government of the Poites: will do everything that can be dom. to meet the needs of the immediate tion and to proceed with the mets raising of fresh levies, calculatei vide, 24 soon as ible, tie nue superiority which the Commander of the Allied Armits regards a5 omen ultimate victory.” Editor's MNeote—Thia ia the second of: = arGclea by Me. 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@f working the mammals back to mt line. mm and for Alice it was comparn- a For the rest it was es far more _ Alspaw could not be every ma and ip Baines ge herd tung out to the slightest degree id be a concerted rush to be near gephanta and the keaper who em In vain the assistants strove ters back, ahd at last one of the his head, struck violently at + hentia with an iron bent to miscalculate, t bslevw eo, and he dropped dneon= the note of fightin Old Mom's tonew spasm of fear and a of the milling to the reat of the br they circled and crowded — That one was Old Mom, half r the te trainer, whim= jtooching him-with her trunk, and frightened curiosity forming against the rest of the surging full five | mae biter @on- dizzy and ree ng, Che Keeper fe feet and renewed his calls of ( The storm lessened, Slowly jwheeled into ieee at the picket brmitted to chains. Alice her; then, atill trembling, or and squealin and protesting, elowed, Daylight found the <. a thing of comparatively dephants, and all because of one satall unusual. Strictly other- th the Barnum and Bailey Cireus Venitk-voiced man who has been pol the show's big herd of ele more than a quarter of a cen- fe his aide at the head of the herd pot lady of sore eighty-five sum- ‘ein fead his every intonation, ‘command, and w forees her ‘the rest of the herd—or knows why! In elephantdom there be a certain respect for superior= vader af the herd attacks with ‘any beast under her control, no mw fierce tt may be, how big oF rd in fighting procliviths. In quarters of one of the Western Ba Sas patch of cement work mw years ago ig Up a gaping me ten feet in diameter where o Beast bubted a abe Sri Ene hi- e kerd through an elghteen-inch Seine: a herd has of that herds. & leader he has pth But even saga qen't sale. at keeper cave guddenly, and what t b the question every circus whens there is a sudden shift in eilency of the elephant line, i hans os nis Sites Oo. et in & (radualiy as th than rag it has meant only to the cireus but to the Un view of which, enter Snyder.

en? ‘ Gets Temperamental him the bi t elephant in (i Whether be bint eh Sat te waa, é beat p TNS, one of the rua ; fame me one o vabable, When Snyder departed imeant that a twenty-five thou peorming tusker, trained to { his pe fs a about the whole a mm eee ie ing his trainer on his oe engi cireus world for. ihe result that his trainers were With care and that the slightest must, or badness, in his eyes Psigtal for instant and variqus ols hold him from a stampede, in to hoop a valuable elephant out and performances=even to im= ttre day after day in the bull cars— Tun the risk of a rampage which Win the necessity for an execution. wuntly Henry Boucher, a trainer, Lei into Snyder's life with all the the luinehing of a yacht when his = ened afew years ago. The Pidvally ancepted his new mas- = time to love him. Two years in which Boucher held the hig Set sale from Peer tab fed stam “nperamental Then, » 4, 2 Qaling, ‘isaae. the bainee in come | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE KEEPER OF THE BULLS (Continued fram Poge IT) berame violently fl and waa forced te eave the circus on short notice The next day Snyder grunted and snorted and trumpeted in vain, His trainer was gone, That afternoon the beast was kept out of performance, and he weaved un- pears at his picket chain, alapping Ae. trunk viciously al every passing hutcher—how ev very elephant hates therm even refusing f Is yes moto loud slightly, the first ee af mat. The matinée performance ended, and an aasistant, aaaigned to the ition of sub stitute trainer, released chain which held the hetusked brute and led him Inte the fs srnpes big top, of main tent, for a first rehearsal under new management, Snyder listened to just ane command. Then with a rush he knocked the substitute from am pat’ aplintered the quarter poles which before him, smashed a path through a ther of seats, broke through the sidt walling, lowered his head, then with a great butting lurch overturned the first wagon he aaw, headed back Earnen the side walling of the menagerie, seized t monkey cage at ita tongue base with his trunk and threw it from him like a bey throwing a baseball, The cat animals be= n to roar and screech; he made for the ns, one by one, and overturned them. The hippopotamus grunted eerie im his five tar den, and sn Sayder rushed for it like the maddened thing he was; an im- pact followed like the crashing of runaway engines, and the den with its bulky freight catapulted through the side wall and ten feet clear of the tent. Kas and Mo Start Something They tried to surround him by peseetul elephants, to mingle him with the reat of the herd and thus return him to captivity. Tt waa useless. Sayder had turned rene- pade; he recognized no superior ane he ought the leader of the herd with the same frenzy that he fought any inanimate object whic: his path. Eo at they sent for rifles; nor waa it long before twenty-tve thousand dollars in Micchent flesh became only an object for a museum. Four steel bullets in his brain hed ended the career of an elephant which had refused to recognize anyone but the master of his choice, SO you see there are grounda for that circus SE Pecan ain ficnrea ancy. ner. an elephant ibeconves fee ag litthe else than death can block his pail. Yet in the regular course of events that same elephant actually can be afraid of his own shachow ! On one of the big shows ore Kas and Mo, named respectively and respectfully for Kansas and Missouri. Both are what are known to the bull men as agitators, both flighty, unreasoning, seemingly al- Ways anxious to find something that will Serve ad an exeuse for trouble. Both alao are punts, the circus name for anything not yet full-grown, and the lack of maturity in age may account for the equal absence of steadiness in character. In any event their course has been a stormy one. Their first day on the show, when they arrived fresh from India in the care of a Singhalese, ended with a general stampede of the en- tire herd when. the teo punks decided to run straight through it without an intro duction; the panic, although it lasted only the length of a city block, resulted in nearly & thousand dollars in damages. The first windy day after their arrival brought a way on their part, and the danger of a othe action on the adult mem- bers of the herd. The first parade was one of constant attempts at ruma and the amiashing of a twehundred-dallar plate glasa window. Finally there aume the time when, at the slightest hint of any unusual appening, Kas and Mo were loaded hur- riedJy into the first available wagon and sent unceremoniously to the cars. This eontinued during the entire firat season. However, elephant tralmers are istent elas, and all that winter the keeper of the berd labored with Kas and Mo to bring them to a condition of dependability. To every possible noise, action and cir- cumstance that might cause fear on their art were they subjected, until the flighty rutes were considered proof aguingt any thing that might occur on a circus lot, Then they were turned over to Lucia Hora, wile of the menagerie superintendent, for a novelty in elephant training—the driving of the diminutive pachyderms in tandem style before a flower-bedecked two- wheel cart. It really seemed that Kas and Mo had reformed. They learned quickly: they obeyed every command. Springtime «ame and the show went forth to its first exhibition stand, reheare- ing, a is usual, for three days before ane opening date. Eve a lovely. Kas am Mo, garland festooned with Btrands of paper flowers, took their place in the grand entrée Iike veterans. Rona wae. Pleased, So was the keeper ofthe bulls, So was the owner of the show, So was every- one, The past was forgotten. The opening day arrived. Kas and Mo went into parade with their woman tralner, their garlands of rosea and their high- wheeled cart, looking neither to the right nor to the left, At the afternoon perform- ance they moved apr their position in the elephant section of t Be stand entrée in a manner both joyous and faithful. Night arrived, the chandeliers gleamed, the signal to prepare for entrée sounded fram the whistle of the equestrian director, and the punks took their place at the bead of the section, awaiting the time when the rest of the entrée should emerge from the or performers’ entrance, that they, wit the remainder of the menagerie ay, with might enter at the other end of the tent, thus filling the bipredcane track simul- taneously, At the head of the tandem was Kas, somewhat rgrciig svathing te Big- nal to start. At the left waa a hurig chandelier which caught the beast's body and silhouetted it i the near-by al wall of the menagerie tent. Beyond was a main tent filled vith: gs gaping spectators, sara sania coward e empty rings and stages an hippodrome track, waiting for the show to in. Amd just then Kas aaw ite shadow on Bide wall. The punk nted and raised its trunk. Over at the aide wall that mysterious thing raised its rank also, Kas fidgeted. So did the shadow, The big ears of Kas dis- tended in fright. Over there a pair of black ears moved in unison. Everything that Kas did waa immediately aped by that thing on the wall. It was teo much, A squeal, a snort, then suddenly the crowded tent saw a tandem team of ele phants pitch through the gay dividing cur- tain and swing into the hippodrome track at full spect the rose-bedecked cart ca- reening behind them on one wabbling wheel, and behind thia the entire elephant herd, following excitedly and without a reason save the fact that Kas and Mo were leading the way. A moment later the cart hit a ring curb, while the bespangled Lucia Zorn dived. gracefully and far through the air to a dazed position on a pile of canvps—and the runaway elephant parade went on! Back ia Line Around the hil rome track they thun- dered, two squ he baby eis slechante 5 in the lead, ten excited, bewildered adult beasts in the rear, and the whole shouting, pant- ing menagerie force trailing vainly in their dust. The first curve came and the punks left their cart leaning in drunken, awry fashion where it had collided with a "enter se The second, bat they tangled in their redecorated harness, but they went on! A third curve, a fourth, then straight | through the dividing curtain they plunged again, the rest of the herd after them, and back to their places in the picket line! Meanwhile out there in the main tent a dase crowd stared again atan em hippodrome track, not knowing whet the whole thing had heen an accident = some new form of elephant race! So awilt do breakewaye happen sometimes in the Gite especially if the culprit be an ele- Phant! In fact there is more than one break- away, more than one panicky, dangerous minute or hour in which the very persona whoee lives are threatened stand by with- aut fear, without even the knowledge that a stampede i is in progress! Naturally it is an impossibility for any man or set of men to maintain an unbroken record af halting panics. Their charges are too Lig, ton with temperament, too prone te become frightened at the moat puerile things for a keeper always to out- guess them and outmaneuyer them, How- ever, the number of panica on the part of Keeps Out the Germs Big infections result from little germs. A break in the skin : no matter how small it may be—should be at- tended to at once. Keep out the germs that cause infection. Protect the wound with an antiseptic dressing, under which na- Eure can do the healing oM= disturbed. Use New-Skin promprly. In the home, keep New- Skin on hand, in the larger sizes, In your pocket, carry the convenient vest-pocket sackage with you.. Have New Skin always ready for emergencies. “Newer Neglect a Break in the Sin” meat ani Lent esata HEWSEKIN COMPANY New York ‘Teronin London 113

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A small investment for o greak peo tection. “Your desler will gladly show you venous models of Colts Revolvers and Automatic Pistols, IF you write 10 the Cok’: Patent Fire Armin Miz. Hartford, Connecticut, they well send you “The Romance of a Colt.” an interesting book sent free for the asking. pen bo any | the various elephant herds in which dam- age is cau or the big brutes actually succeed in getting away is so far over- shadowed by the attempts at revolt which are broken up in their j ti tion that there is mot an opportunity for comparison. Hardly a day a among the various circuses that at least one elephant does not decide to pit his will againet that of the man in ch But actual panics, with consequent , happen only a feo times a year. ve hears of the latter through me pers and damage suite: the other events, in which a cool-headed hurnan cutgenerala an assorted tor tof ele phant flesh, is neither heralded nor an- nounced; [t's only a part of the game. In the life of the keeper of the bulls his fail- ures become public property; his successes are reflected in his pay envelope only, and the often home without ever. the thrill af knowing that an elephantine revolution was nipestt in the making. For instance, few persons in Berkeley, California, remember an elephant stam- pede in that city. The very who saw it probably would be willing to take all aa nothing of the kind ever hap- Yet there was a stampede, and one that for at least five minutes threatened the lives of pines of persons, to say nothing of the rty damage that might have ensued, the street had not. been long and straight -—— Berkeley, in the circus dictionary, is a fah-rah town—a feared thing to a mennmg- erie department, It means a col a the traditional enmity that has grown up between tent shows and student bodies through long years of fights and troubles encasloned hy the overexuberance of youth, and the disturbances that almost invariably follow the attendance at a performance: of a large body of students with their class yells, their chain steps and snake dances, Circuses are composed of high-strung sons who risk their lives as a part of daily work, and of equally Nai abeose horses and other animals. Disturbances rh the performances are not to thelr ing. But on this particular morning in Berke- i apparently were going exceeding The parade had started on time fram the lot, and now waa traversing the Jos E and most crowded street of the whole route, iy were blaring happily. | The bull section, numbering some twelve animals, was shuffling along the asphalt in peace and contentment. The Stampede in Berkeley Suddenly fram around a corner there awung into line with the parade a geri! erew of some three hundred studenta, the feet stamping the pavement in unisen, thelr li none a clair d college song, joining th = procession ly j the ball section. The elephant kee spurred up their horses and attem to the tration. The college men ay erin at them and tramped stendily on, Time after tirme the bull men gave warning of what the result of the monotonous chant and still more monote nous tramp-tramp-tramp a hundreds of stamping feet mi meat be, The parade mar- shal searched wil ti for police. They were somewhere else. e strove = block the marching line with his horas. They circled him and went on, still beside the shuffling bull line. Now eare were distending. ei eve ig ta weikies mers: Falling im their too smal skins wene beginni At last there cere a call from Shorty, the _ and the elephant men gave up their task. “Don’t try to break up thet line. If they won't stop let ‘om go. These bulls'll break at the first rough-house, Stand by te tall "em down!" Into position shet the assiatants, ench ready to dig his spurs inte his horse wt the first sign of a break, Far ahead went Shorty, taking his position just behind the Ri ntie trembling Mary, bearing the Ten nd Dollar Queen of the Harem at the head of the section, a harem beauty who, incidentally, just at that moment wished she was hack in Coshocton; in fact, snyehire except in that bobbing howdah. Leader art wis beginning to shimmy slightly with increased fright, and her shuffle on the hot wphalt carrbed nh pew wiggle of impending danger. Then the marching three hundred broke hed a wells class yell—and the stampede b tied inne May # Straight forward went Leader Mu ecrape @ lion's cage, to swerve ghrp one side, then, with the Ten Ts Dollar Queen of the Harem aqy aimlessly in the howdah, to bead ; wild scramble iby epee Bon down Acad with the rest of the her rear. Then it was thet the pre the of Shorty, the keeper of the he Be execution. At the firet move of the elephant the horses of keepers moved aleo- furious pace, for the speed of an ele; a deceptive thing, and it is a gos that can & abreast of him, @= lirbers inte full steam ahead. The ing college men were left behind ao the front section of the parade | suddenly hushed band and blar clowns was passed almost im an Gut of ther all only the Ten Tl Dallar Queen of the Harem waa | bouncing in her howdah, still sques squawking, while, spurs deep j horses, the elephant men strove :h to keep alread of the fast-travel section, rag ag ent reichoing the Shorty at the head of the line: “Hi there! Mule up! Mule u Mary! Prieda—Frenchy—Sulter Tails there—taila!" Elephant Psychology Tt was a double command, wh! eled along the line and back agar as men could voice it, the order to: at the same time for each elephant the tail of the beast before him. passed while throats grew hoarse, » the thick-packed throngs of the | stared vacucualy, wondering why t! should be in such a hurry to ge phaonts out of the line: of march, But never a warning sounded, hint that a panic was in progre that repes and rerepested on ae there! "Mule up, youl tai a All of ft meant an experiment 1 peychology—and one that had be many times before. Att last the « aank in. The second elephant of ped the tail of Leader Manr—: tinwed te run. The third elephant the fourth, the fifth, amd on thm whole section, ; But the command continued: “ there—mule up! Taile!™ Another two blocks and the ov changed; more, the elephant line A block ofully: shufiin ae whok waa ufflin ly th kh the fact t sehr ests bi made to believe t trainer really desired them to run, | in their breakaway they were mere! ing out orders, Nor could they Er in obeying the command of tai handicapped themselves soa that 1! of ene could be no gremter than another, and that as long as the leo to a straight line, so must the rest Further, the occupation of thei track minds in the execution of 4 which eoincided with their natural ches. had wi aut in forgpetfulmess that sormet ing be had threatened th brought to t the belief th trainer merely was running the from an obnoxious thing. Therefo the command came to slaw down: ao in confidence, and in the mssure any danger waa over. Many a pers that day from watching the para dering perhaps why tte elephant should desire to put his beasts their paces. But few of them reali the little play of apeed had saveel | the circus but the downtown Be Berieley, with ite thronged sidewal "The | trick works time after the stand-by of the elephant first hope at the beginning of a A few yeara ago, in Park r Virginia, a cireus hed just i bot, with or copeerieut on atl ting up, of yowling caged lumbering. truckling wagons, and) Ting stock as the variows elermenb show traveled into position, Stand! the menagerie tent were two ele seeured side by side with neck which fastened one to the othe: keeper of the herd waa within tw superintending the staking out aicket line, and leaving the two bay in the care of an assistant until he (Continged on Page Iii!

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foctinued from Page J4) hem. But a second later he was hetentand inaction. The chained |qune on astampedel = al, the most innocent thing in the d caused it—simply the buckin roe, OF Pant ithe way to the stable tents. But been enough, and neck and neck dephants had started aeross the slasion with a wagon, and the clinging until this moment to a tlastened in an elephantine ear, » fouble or impede their flight. int the wagon—on wnt the nother wagon blocked their path, ) a sideswipe they capsized it, ring alightly in their course they _ quite by accident, the rear of a He wagon aa Curate fed began to twist madly in their jiree themetlves and travel on- pere destruction. Hut just then a jent entered—the keeper of the it up there!" he shouted, “San- ! Pick it up—pick it up!" fe command to push, and with- ing that they were yielding their ihe elephants strained forward. ted into position at the tongue to guide it, while from the in ever-iiereaslag foreefuln es: aright—pick ie up! Pick it up fsgonow—pick itup! Morgan— Biuke a leg there—pick it up!™ hints picked it up. With the ging the way they took that ja Ralf trot aeross the circus lot aguin, around the big top and up dway, and finally for o trip of a i down the street and return, the il commanding them, still prod- iwith his bull hook, still obsessed desire that they pg it up. At mg and wabbly, the twa recalei- jhants brought the wagon back cect position where it had rected reof their collision, and were al- dow their pace. *A bull hook a fanlike ear. you two come over here and 1 up this rare, ma commanded r, and meekly the twain obeyed, et trinks under the sidea of the ey had capsized, and unprobest- ethem into position again. Five later they were in place at the &, pet ‘Wand calm, their fright tay for the bugle call of parade. tall, the life of a bull keeper is a Tnstant gambling. He has nene mrance With which the perform= er beasts are blemped; the lion or tet has his cages, and the knowl- een should @ vicious cat escape, ot two fram a heavy-calibered Li close range can finish him. It ee-jarke army bullet to make mt even realize he's being shot! the beastie au ton ee be caged, i) he Beant ing geek a. selwark a op-forged chains. im nothing short of tod deep enough into the ground ttn when they really desire to run. ya matter of a good leader of the id princes working Under her, | that there are few agitators or iets in the reat of the monarchy— fong trust in fate and the breaks ian, For even the elephant ert knows what start the » An invasion of fleas in the sandy of the West can do it; an ele tide ran turn a leaden revolver Gif can't stand fleas! There's mn from mosquitoes. Paky Mosquitoes fea and the mosquito evidently Te ement ing the pointa of ‘EF inc an @lephant’s hide than wallet, salane the soft aperta the tars, the eyelids and tender ra flank her their a bane nee eit sumbers, trouble ina. It ‘all unugua) to see elephants being wh fea preventives. The moequito Sf mite rare, bot wt least one f & chargeable to this cause trialy, the instance formed an- Teiit mark in the eareer of Old Sd isother example of at least one ‘With common sense, The show “tga Sunday run in Canada by t brdged nly expanse of territory * money-making stands, heading ithe sorth of the Dominion, where ore, a4 he had ile driver of THE SATURDAY EVENING POST few shows had exhibited and where the natives would be glad to | with a double ad mmiasion price for the pleagure of seeing a bigger circus than usual. The run had been él by several days of moist, mosquito- ding weather, with the result that when the show train made a feed stop at a small prairie settlement, and the elephants were Unloaded for a trip of a half mile toe the nearest water, the insects sw in stich millions that they almost obliterated the lettering of the railroad cars. About the railroad tracks several hundred smudges were lighted, thus freeing that exact terri- tory from the pests, but the elephants weren't fortunate. They were foreed to travel out into the country for water, and the moaquitoes went with therm. By the time the watering process waa finished every elophant was crusted with stinging, poisonous insects and squealing with discomfort. They pulled from their keepers: in vain Old Mom, obeying the commands of Alispaw, strove to hold them in line, She bellowed, she butted, she lashed with her trunk—but to no purpose, A moment more and an inveterate agitator made the break, followed by two others, and instantly the rest of the herd meshed after them. More, Old Mom broke from the bull-hooked eras of her keeper, and with Alice, her handmaiden, beside her, swing madly into a de ilsel It seemed that at last the ability of Old Mom to command a situation was ; Faster and faster she went, passing the slower members of the herd, and at last forcing her way to the very front of the stampede, Alice puffing along in her wake. For a full eighth of a mile she bed the rush | straight out into the prairie; then the pursuers, far in the rear, noticed that she Wes inning to turn in her course, ehe had made a semieirele and waa leading the plunging herd straight back in the direction of the cars, Old Mom's Leadership Thundering on they went, the workmen and clustered partons Perens pad modi Ba hey Sheree the runs, Old Mom still in lead, and hending, it seemed, on a straight path for the sleeping ears and the crash which seemed inevitable. Onet an elephant loses its head it takes no cognizance of what may be before it—ita mentality knows a bee line only, oo matter if the obstruction be a stone qu Nearer, nearer—then it suddenly me evident that Old Mom evidently waa in full possession of her facultieg—and a bright ides. At the tracks she swerved, and while horses and workmen scurried for aafety she led the way straight to the @lephant cara—and climbed im! The runs, or running board by which the bensts wsually made their entrance and exit had been removed in preparation for the switching of the cars, the climbing operatiin waa a literal one. With the rest the bulls behind her Old Mom, grunting ats squealing, made the ascent, and Alice ollowed. Then in the semidarkness of the smudge- filled car she trumpeted happily, and reat of the herd crowded in after her. A stampede of nearly a mile was over with- aut a cent of damage. Th fact, Old Morn, with her faith and her level-hendedness, has meant salvation in many an instance. I once saw this sensible old elephant lead ber herd across the enble bridge which connects Whoeling, West Virginia, with the Ohio side, with a storm in fp , the surroundings inky black, the rain pelting, the k ra almost aa terrified as the brutes, with the beams of the bridge nga from overweight, and the structure itself swinging fully eight feet from side to side! Below was a sheer drop te the Ohio River; two elephants had heeome panieatricken and had broken from the bull man in attendance, razhin iain forward to the protection a their leader, The rest of the herd had begun to mill, with only a thi oot width of bri as their arena; bull men were befuddled and nearly blinded by the pelt- ing rain, Yet Old Mom held true to the commands of her trainer, and with weird trumpetings which sounded sharp above even the rush of wind and crac ane af thunder, someway, somehow reassired ber herd. Then with the ever-present Alice at her side she began to | the way, slow step after slow step to the opposite aide, hat very slowness was the salvation of the herd; instinctively they knew that she waa beating the bridge, and by aon sort af | ( i) | } ——— 117 C The Purest and Best ROOTBEER is made from ba, at | F = One 25c package makes 80 glasses Just get a package of Hires Household Extract from your dealer—mix it with sugar, water and yeast accord- ing to the directions on the package—bottle with tight corks or use Hires Patent Bottle Stoppers. It's the easiest drink in the world to make and the most refreshing you ever tasted. Ask for HIRES HOUSEHOLD EXTRACT If your dealer cannot supply you, send 25 cents and we will send, postpaid, package direct. Or send $2.80 for carton of one dozen. THE CHARLES E. HIRES COMPANY 207 5. Twenty-fourth Street PHILADELPHIA Ask for Hires of the fountain, or boy if carbonated in bottles ready to drink, from your dealer, CHARLES E. 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This is done by placing In the shoe a pliable leather device ao formed aa to counteract the tend- ency of the bone te lower. this principle applied ta different bones, the Wizard Lightfoot Sys tem successfully corrects fallen arches, callouses, leaning heels and aeher foot troubles withour pain of discomfurt. The meat progressive shoe deol- ets employ one or more capers whe have studied the au and know how to correcr foot troubles mee Wizard Lighefoat System. your dealer if he can provide you with chis serv- ice. Lf not, p phone Tell-U- Where Bureau or write us and we will tell you whete you can get relief. Wizard Lightfoor Co., 1764 Locust Se, Se. Louis, Ma, | fh Ave. Mew York. Gagnard Bldy., Liverpool, | frantic, there is one falling— | disciplinarian to the point of being a marti- Telsome, smoke | lowa in EVENING POST animal potas pie did likewise, The rocking lessened. A half hour later Old Mom brought her cares safe out at the other side, every elephant walking in cori- eal, gingerly fashion for a full block after leaving the structure, for all the world like overgrown fat boys toying to negotiate an aren of eggshe Yet even Mom has her failings, her likes and dislikes; and once, at least, her dis- cipline kas ended in tragedy, Woeful is the | life of the subject elephant that defies Old Mom, ancient ghahemay be, Well past the hundred-year mark in age, dependable when every other bull of the picket line is Mom is a net, More than that, she is os foolish in ber likes a3 a person in seeond chil » and her favorite is the worat trouble maker of the whole herd! ; Long age they named him Billy, a litthe runt of an elephant that spends half his time in winter quer- tera striving to slap the daylights out of the hoglike old hippopotamus that wal- his permanent tank near the picket line, and the remainder of hia ex- Sheree In lag ae feed from the rest of the elephants. Nor does one of that bull line dare to protest! Imoediately there comes a equeal from Billy, and from farther down the line a bellow of anger from Old Mom, where, 7s laring, trunk twisting, ears wide, she wheels forward toward her picket pin and ares to free herself that | ale may punis e offender. For in dition ta her other accomplishments Old i mo Banelephant Houdini. Therenever | has been a man on the elreus who haa been able to invent a chain tie that Old | Mom haa not been able to loosen. With her a chain is pg a formality, to be dis- earded from a stake at will and with only a few swift movements of her trunk. Ag to the ordinary half hitch, Old Mom can not only release herself from it but with a quick twist she can put that half hitch on a stake again! So bondage meang nothing to her, ea- pecially when a squeal of ish comes fren the piggish Billy, and et en ja swift and sure to those who offend ¥ offend= ing her pet. Billy, to Old eer» i a little angel. He can do no wrong. To the reat af the herd he la an obnoxious, aelfish, ob- trusive litthe devil that can do no right, They hate him. But they submit—rat -j than feel the thump of Old Mom's trunk, or the piledriver impact of her hard skull. Winter quartera or the road, it is all the same. Old Mom has taught her littl an her secrets of escape, with the result that wanders. the wectant line at will in spite of , bonds or even keepers, Cle Mom's protection of Billy extends even to humane, and the runt does as he pleases. Floto, the Rebel For eight years had this “ipa when the iy came. For eight yeara, Floto, the e¢ t, moet amiable male member a the herd, had submitted to Ada if= nity one elephant can ir hee on an- ane Billy hd stolen ‘his Billy had edged forw hen visitors arrived with peanuts, ward literally taken ther out a ge atrunk, Floto had protested and unished, and so Flote had endured. “sort all during: those elght yeara the hatred was being stored against a day of judgment. And near the end of last season, at Orange, Taxes, tf came, A Pair services which earried the story of that day's event announsed that someone had given Flote a chew of tobaceo and that he bad gone mad because of it, But that was only tredition—and o guess. Flote was one of the best tobacco eatera of the picket line. And Flote had something more on his mind than a bad taste. The story of his death if one of rebellion ane reven Old 3 Mom was oth on the lot busily pushing the wagons into position for the oading of the night. The matings waa aver. The menagerie tent was drowsing in that ealm which intervenes between the afternoon show and the gleaming chande- liera of night. Floto was at his picket pin, parving | in his portion of hay. Then came ily He rooted in aa usual and to bhle Flete's feed share, even os be had acu for eight yeurs, But this time Old Mom was not there to protect him, and more, Floto had in his eyes the alight cloud Which indicates the badness that comes to nearly every male elephant in the autumn, J May if He snorted and warned the rust res omy may But the fat little Billy only ¢ reached for another trunkfe! the final insult. A-weird trumpet blast, and the) Flote rose high on his haunches Ty a sudden thumping drop he com fours again, and seizing his pipgish in his trunk raised him squealing ; head, only to throw him, brest His ground, and then breaking hhis stay to leap upon his pudgy enemy be amaller elephant coul in his moment of mauling followed, is thundering bools knocked resstas the fallen t, and then, uring | aie a Segment pi roller and b reas a beleaguered animal alocg ¢ ee ground until the fon 4 torn from the runt’s body in gree and the blood flowed from its ir wounds. Animal men ®ith bull hooky futilely to pull him away. He aba off and an to pound the proc with flail- blows of hig trunk, to halt and wheel, tremblin E: hes Old Mom, with Charles, Churchil | ont keoper, at her head, was swing the side wall to restore order. time for that was past. 4 folo Performance Flote was in the position of a criminal. He hed disobeyed the « of the mistress of the herd—and defied her. He did not even wai Mom to approach him. Head ‘trunk tightly curled, he swung fq the attack, butted her out of the plunged through the side wall, oot sparesty peopled circus lot, an at. Wagons tumbled aut af kim crashed into them. Ticket hors ¢ matchwood when he caught th crushed them with awilt stampir of hia heavy forefeet. Ropes strings before his plowing workman crossed his path; caught him in his trunk and: thirty feet into an irrigation to the menagerie he went, te elephant that faced him, ta to selze frightened, sereaming cp eo their backs. Then they cz: PH, Only seirtribirties were in tt wagon, equipped with leaden buls the arn men felt that enough ch them might suffice; at least they! able to hold the maddened beut until a rushing sutomobile, alr townwards, could return with ars Hurriedly the guna were distris the magazines filled, Then as fas: eouild work the levers thirty 2 fired at the ot of the outlaw, ¢ striking its mark But the bullets did little moore the the heavy flesh; some of them dn the ground without even breal thick armor of skin that covered phant’s skull, He stomd and took the shots. ¢ another, hardly seeming to notl itr t. Then suddenly, as th wildered, aa though seeking «a reas all, he whirled for a morment in circles, then headed straight for th big top. ‘The bullets had not ent animal's thick skull, bwt sone a thought had. The stinging of tt ing lead in some way seemed foo idea to the brute that the humans commanded him now were striving him to do a certain thing, and 2 moment of obedience fe hurts execution ag swiftly as possible thing he knew! Inte the center ring he rushes, a single elephant in the middle ted circus tent. There, alone. music, sons the crowds, sana the t and the kc which usually 2 tied the performance, Flate the os: blow nirearaice from thirty bulk without guidance, without everae through the every figure of his act, the connections the men of the cirr and watched, unable to com 7 unable to kill him, unable to him—wutched while he waltzed 2: ring, while he knelt over an = trainer, while he walked on be biti and while, with a sudden change oft he crashed acroga the stages, tore (Continued on Page 17!

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Coatinaed from Poge Fra) vscats, aod then, bursting through be sa fa tie Som. meh night im, & tral 4 sn er broken fenees, of wrecked yard, af wide swaths throu erupes. Commesdantally enon th wcked place of the eountry- ithe ranch of the a ‘nding the elreus he next they found Floste o ic Bare half mile mn, where he Sirah te wos Lerorne the qirew. yl the renegade. He sighted wen, and trumpeted. Then with a rvement he turned toward a tele le and wrepped his trunk about a wat a sharp crackle, Wines aplt ga they popped. . Flote had “a pale olf phen at ita base and, red man would stralght toward ri There they killed him, with it volleys of steel-jacketed bullets, be charged them—Flote whe had ripline enough to becom a rene all of which oa thered that the keeper of t is far from aetenee, From ont minute to the a pamble, from one day to another sof life and death is played, with j standing between a tremendous ytentzal etion and the safety , of peoqe and of property. always a matter of a apasmodic y ay orasingle bad animal that must |, Sometimes the whole herd must it, not only for a day but for a won. Such was the misfortune of nn Be rl brine years ita e that an in aprin ening of the season and whieh did until winter quarters had come fhe life Wf an elephunt man that o the atery: There had been a ithe man commanding the herd, a change, and one whieh the ele id not like, At least, they gave af a displensure that wea nok on lasting. The show, a8 was usual, fe seagon in the Coliseum, in and according to the ordinary weld its releuranls for three daya te beginning of the regular per- he ay for dress rehearsal came—the eof practice, in which the whole ‘mh epectacle to races, is run -and twelve elephants of the herd ytwo, each with ita hea pati “ns trappings and its ion to awalt the esinal ich was also the sig vastics of a building are far differ- those of a tent, minute the med, so did the elephants. Some ny the areia by the front entrance. ait a ig chutes into the base ed straight 0 the horse moines number of the ring stock, wedged im another chute, i time threatened the Se cavatine that of the building. At last eweating bull men corralled them and Lforthe ony possible thing—to re- helt charges all night if necessary ag ready for the next after- Specialties In Noises rogram was followed: dawn found thants still being forced through trance and their tricks. But even eve hours of practice only four of heatis were found sufficiently trac- Tait in entrée, time came, with the blankets again, ‘tings and the howdshs. The ele fade ther entrance, The audience lei enthusiastically. All of which the new noke te the nervous (2 went the four, heading for - une in the Ryrete and panke among pachyderma <td gh behind. Three, hours ant mer bat only for a shack tena. PThe ibew brought another near-panic, tp poundage Yeckylerma” wae eliminated race im of the circus—at least as far wt woos of the show on the show's enguge- itch followed, the trainers ‘prepared =e, Every unusual noise, every t liing that might be the cause of THE sa | of the beasts, was pro- for. Horses dragging sucks were ridden up and down in front of them; guns were fired behind them, tin cans dropped i in a pile in front of them; t Were even eae few houra by a pair of fighting dogs Fan animal trainer though of : noise or thing that might frighten an elephant, the picket line im- ee was introduced to it, with trim- on the last a of the mient the trainers reported that they helene oa Ey had made progress sufficient to al Presentation of one elephant isi te presentation waa all, The only action waa that of the entire herd stampeding wildly for that dearly beloved hapenient and ite comparative safety, The Futile Cow-Punachers But now there came a new chance—the show Ieft the indoor and went into the open, back to the land of cunvas. There- fore at the first stand, Danville, Illinois, the doora of the bull cars were opened confi- jeairget and aut care the entire herd, ex- E two, one of these being the chief ee of which every herd, i seems, has misfortune to posess from one to yaar incidentally, could there be a better com for the itator of an hant herd than that of the man who “Fire" in a crowded theater or the revolutionist who throws a bomb at a Sunday-school picnic. The elephant agi- tator oecupies a5 of a place in & herd as the nihilist occupied in ja, OF gl. anarchist in America. There ib only one difference: With humana, the rest of the nation or state promptly dots ita best to aquelch the alarmist or the trouble breeder, In elephantdom, the agitator, once he gets started, all too often has the following of the entire This waa the ease in Danville. _ ‘The agitator started the trouble by refus- ing te come out of the car. Then he changed his mind and come forth on a fa milling the rest of the herd and startin atam: of the entire twenty-two whi ce lag until late afternoon and whieh re- sulted in two things—a damege bill of close to fifty thousand dollara in the: city of Dnn= sits and a city ordinanes which barred all lephants until five years liter, when the en of another circus, bearing many recommendations for sense and sobriety, were, Baier heavy police guard, allowed ta parade, The result of this sortie was that all the herd. save twelve working elephants, was Sei whan tuey apaiti pues became tere WEE were ‘a il apg dine geal evidently repent~ For three months there waa nothing a dangerous than rminar breakawajya and lone recalcltranta, and it wit believed that trouble at last was over. Then, at Rawlins, Wrcssing. where the cow-puncher Population entire surrounding country had congregated to watch the un- leading of the rig circus, the hulle were led a dog ss it atartil ! than a ceuents ith wandaring, | fright- Passenger wee, station, the engineer fearin to poll out lest his coaches be overturn an elephant galumphing forth from a hiding place behind a box car; the pas- re station Pw gecti ky ane the cow-punchers es ¥O tarsi bad aenesin® dane agar Viget brin es ni H Ba when alx of the bulla fot te the oe ine prairie the offer was accepted—anything that looked like aid wes a welcome t the see ee Wo ebb ro contest in Wyoming's Abn tise greatest defeat that a bunch of Weatern co nehera ever knew, Not that t sd didn't succeed in roping the bige beenusts they did, But that wes the end of the capture. The minute a ro settled about an elephant’s neck the pachyderm derided to go elsewhere, takin rope, horse and cow-punecher with bir wnti the lariat snapped. As a last resort some thirty of the cow hands decided upon a form of piprane round-up, an attempt to ines i z Sepa to submission by the of a eattle round-up. It ated aly wotil the alx recalcitranta de- cided to move on. Whereupon they low- ered their heads, pashed the horses ond ridera out of the way and loped gayly a SATURDAY EVENING POST Pz weRcse SE Heater “al, Tike Acca Gar, faid- vous Hroer fhe only opidarr ef tty dimet an fhe accepted Ve of far wae erwin ianhgranery, eaubvioded ) amd wale rata hy tube ational Paar af Fire Uider- ed, i Alra mate for Bee tree rs Bathroom Gasset A la Carte S these days no home is complete unless provision has been made for adequate heaein the bachroon. 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= = ll a i ay “The Happy Darsy Bay" oP jor ee ee Diifere: wf Dafry Mode marge 6 price from fro fe Feo, Are any — Ardea’ oF sports 1 fag Foods anaieF, eA CHICAGO Paris Garlers work for you V6 hours a day CARTERS NO METAL CAN TOUCH YOU 3000 Hows of Sofid Comfort PARIS Garters quote you the lowest rate per day— #100 hours of solid comfort for 35 cents. It costa very little: to walk in perfect ease for many montha in PARIS Garters, Single Gripe3$ cents and up. Double Grips 0 centa and up. A small cost fora big service. More men than ever are wearing PARIS Garters in silk at 50 cents ond wp. Hove you tried them? A.STEIN & COMPANY HARB Children's HICMOAY Garters THE SATURDAY EVENING His First Gun Most parents—mothers as well as fathers—want their boys to learn heow fc} handle a Bun correctly, and ca shoot straight. It is a sport thar makes for real character and manliness. Millions of American boys, THCY Brown, first learned to shoot straight with a Daisy Air Rifle, and were then ready for a hunting rifle. For over thirty years it has furnished safe fun and train- ing for American boys. DAISY MANUFACTURING COMPANY Piymouth, Michigan, U.S. A. DAISY AIR POST forth to new fields and broader prairies. Late that night anew relay of cow-punchers, acoomipael by a half dozen of the captured elephants which had been thor- otighly parthed, and headed by the bull | keepers, found the truants a full twenty five miles from town, and ay Ha ingling them with the passive beasta finally returned them to the cars. After which another te three weoks passed in which the ] phot “ae men oe ormance, followed another aasivi This lasted, Sscaierrer: only ie the show reached Bakersfield, California, and a ean- vas tan chased a frightened rabbit, which had bobbed up about the show groun under the side walling and into the menag- erie tent. The rabbit went out the other side of the tent. So did twelve of the elephan wrecking eenear bor the menagerie to the side show, tae for an irrigation canal at the other pe ee os peng ia aphernali rom water, t a muddy and ruined, and BrOnehE back to the p chet line once more—where they re- raed ful for a whole twenty-four are be next day, at Santa Barbara, an itator chirruped—a queer, almost bird- r e call which precedes a panic—and away they all went again! Some chose town and the wrecking of fenees and small build- ings. Others made the outer circle, dis- Tupting the garden hopes of residents for weeks to come, Two more for the fish market—and ruined it, Another struck an automobile, wrecking it and injuring two persons, The remain ring ai of the run- the bay smelling the open water, made for the and hopelessly mired themselves in the salt marshes, with the result that forty horses and nearly three thousand feet of Tope were required ta pull each of them from the mud, A few days Inter, at Tucson, Arizona, the bull cars were run fifteen miles out of town, and the agitatora were put to death. But even with the agitatora out of the way it was impoeible to take chances. Every bull that remained was hobbled until it was weighted with chains to a point of uselessness, At New Orleans, a few weeks later, they were brought forth, as- sembled, appraised—and taken back into their cara, not to leave for the rest of the season. The tisk was too great; it had cost the show mae a Gfth of a million dollars already for a herd of elephants that did nothing bit cause trouble. The Herd Goes Swimming All of which has ite antithesis in another stampede which stands alone in circus his- tory, for it actually made money. Usually the toll i is in the other direction, with the circus wagon closed on the night af the stampede, and with the ticket takers recelving cash at the gate to guard against attachments until such time os the legal adjusters of the show can ferret owt the damage—human or property—and make proper amends. But the gods sometinees wor even a keeper af the bulla, and euch was the case in the stampede of the Sells- Flote hepd at Idaho Falls. The day had been hot. The elephants came aut af the performing ring of the matinée tired and "jugey,” a8 a bull man terme lasgsitude, to be led quite indifferently to a near-by irrigation ditch ta drink, There, by their straining against tho ele- Phant hooks, they indies that @ mere drink would mot satiafy, “What're we goin’ t’ do?” inquired an assistant as he scrambled at. the end of a bull hook. “They want in an! they're goin! t" have in!" “Hald ther ketal Tes ** came the curt reply of the keeper, “Sink that hook deeper an’ hold them bulls," “What's the matter?" [twas a new voice, "They just want aawim, den't they?" "Wel. The keeper touched his cap to the owner of the show, “Yeh—thot's what they're after," “Then why don't you let ‘em have it?” “Afraid. Snake Hiver’s just over this hump here, and th ight make for it. It's deep an’ awilter'n ‘ell. Been a half a dozen horses drawned nght here; noth- ing’s ever come out of it alive.” _ “But,” argued the litthe owner, “that isn't this ditch, is it? Why should they want to go over to a Tiver they can't see when there's all this water rieht here?" The keeper grinned in sickly fashion. “You don't know bulls. "They"ll—" “Quit your kidding. Let ‘em go. The poor things are hot." May “All right.” init, Wout with a in it eure ba men | Eg Sy ral There waa @ ae Zs Bplask of then shining bulley forma that aa scrambled out of the water at t side of the irrigation ditch. The bx entirety, had amelled broader ex water, and almost abreast they it—all but Old Mom, who tr wildly, who squealed and bello roared, but who for a moment | shane. ate ee sonra Alice Funni: wi et a aver the = tne raise ae down a ivity of solid rock raring waters of the Snake Hive Behind them the two remaining of the herd halted, ateod a momer then whimpering returned to th Old Mom, while the circus owner, he hacl sent a valuable elephant b death, hurried|y decided to move « than the rings of the baleful « keeper of the bulls. Good Publicity Stu Down in the rapids, with its | dangerous suck below, the t Phanta floundered a moment, then out in different directions, Alice, mon stnee aroused at last, swam her strength straight for the oppasi finally landing in safety just above But Trilby and Snyder, forge ewiltnesa of the current in ther en of the water's coolness, drifte along—until too late. A moment: the hundreds of excited sightseers gathered atop the banks saw the tossing, suddenly frantic beasts plo the falla and inte the suck boles an pools bencath, from which no liv ever had emerged. By this time the owner was fa and seeking even more apeed. Am automobile hastened to overtake | to break the news that his elephar in ae Snake Hiver death trap, He piamaly sad went on, while below | Ipools —— The elephants now were in a= which formed the main amusemei othe of the town who, when the er games had faded, were woot! large loge over the edge inte the waters and watch them churned to the feree action of the builixg Triby had vankhed. oO the 4 Snyder's trunk showed ot me in Atop the ae the keeper of th thed another good-by to te best elephants. Then a shout. three hund below the suck hole Trilby, imme What had seemed hours, had com surface and was fighting valiantly shore, Finally she qulied 3 it, to cma rocky ledge, to stagger, then ts hausted, Five minutes later Sen beside her, equally fatigued. An Temained, moaning wis human intonations, until their kept Old Mom, came to thelr neseo. All through the town the wa that a living thing—two living fact—had survived the death w crowds gathered; it was as those ing heroes lee cg radlae ane r LOTS people even borgre Allee damages when it was learned the ambled from her landing point t yard and caused a panic among t stabled there. That night the ! unable te contain the crowds that to see the elephants which bed & whirlpools, And in the years toe simple announcement of the com circus was enough to insure tle thousands of dollars—aes long 2 tained the assurance that the elephants would be a part of sia ences b cht "| ut such a happy thing as this! of a bull koeper i almost too 5 se es asl eee apa, of plun te agaitet ¢ cairabte oda, wy ihe fear of what pit y bring, and all too often the ontkemiing. In the a young man seeking advent! told to go Weat, nor to becom 4 tor, nor te drive in moter-car nor to He a to the Northee! It is merely suggested that f her doven't care whit ¢ arteing a a good idea to lear i" of the bulk Ale he kane Fetched tee heopeless’

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May 6, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Does your car make a hill of a level road? On Shorten Fauure Figs Oe Wigimg ———— It does if the ignition system is faulty i F every cylinder does not fire you almost instantly whether or . properly every time, the effect not every plug is firing properly is to rob the engine of power—to every time. Anyone can use it. make it climb on level ground. You simply touch the spark plug with the point of Spark-C and read the result in the little window Mer = Onaw Line Bia Lider = MeL —— The live cylinders must drag the ire all dead or crippled cylinder and fight ! bivany le against the unfired compressed gas, the side. ignition It is like an invisible air-brake hold- You can only be sure of getting ing back the car. the most power from the gas you Many cars have faulty ignition S5* if i hole know that every plug due to triflingthings. The spark gap ™ fring right. is too wide or not wide enough; If you have a car, a motor the plug points are dirty; the con- boat, an airplane, or an electrically tact surfaces in the distributor ignited stationary gas engine, get a need wiping with a cloth oralittle Westinghouse Spark-C Ignition rubbing with sandpaper; the ine Tester from your dealer or ga- sulation on a wire is oil-rotted or rageman. in the United States cracked, causing current leaks. It is made by Westinghouse—a Spark-C Ignition Tester will tell mame that is a guarantee in itself. Westinghouse Lamp Company Executive Offices: 165 Broadway, New York District Sales Offices in principal cities Westinghous —“£_, aS

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THE SATURDAY ‘PEPPER (Ceatinugd fram Page 27) and keepa his tailor in a state int exasperation. Any newspaper wed a picture of George Wharton quid make an answerable subeti- of a picture of Cecil Rhodes by out » few of the harsher lines. with a long, catlike stride that w from his passion for snowshoe r years—except during ge or ar—be went up into the Maine the winter and made tracks over smished surface of the entire north- ol the state. Then the war came rs kgal activities have been auch ake the boay little bee lad a4. it were suffering fron Hypeeesis, ited from the University of Peon Law School in two years, after the Sharsw prize, which is the reward that the University of ania Law School has to offer for brilliance, While he waa in the dane of the fifty-seven things in took an interest waa the problem Jucation, At that time practically thool teaching wae done by what as the forenaie method, in which ver doea oll the talking, nod the quently does some heavy ni of Harvard, however, was devel- at is known aa the Socratic method og. in which the students are made the talking, so that none of them ocd to take eat nape in the clos ‘eoper ativecated the adoption of atic methoed, B owas ole Hi fellow of the law school on his in, in 1235, and at once went up ard for a few months ta study trasroom methods, On his re- law school adopted the methods ated, and has retained them ever 2 [883 he was made Algernon fiddle professor of law, and held lon dntil be real ned, in l#10. He ber of the b of trustees of the ty of Pennsylvania and of Carnegie , 20 that had an opportu- tudy the educational system from aistrative a8 well as the teaching m beth ends and the middle, Wr. Pepper's Interests ‘the i drawbacks in speaking flies in the fact that any mention ‘his activities ia bound to distract of the bearer from bia other actiy- th interested in missionary work, bles, people, roacl ma , Amer- on, children, ethnology, aseball porterbowse steaks, preparedness, the squmre deal, people, biobogy, thinking, immigration. wood chap- ok writing, foreign relations, fish ‘ion, philosophy, people, swimming, thbrows, lowbrows, prison reform, aod people, to aay nothing ‘ess other matiera tego numerous ion, among which pecrie sigue might neatly mentioned, Nothing bores lany things make him hot under w—things like pacifism and Bol- ited sloppy y law drafting and the hot t ls known a4 hokum: iing makes him tired. With these tereata, therefore, it should not be that Pepper is a ara bo to the oof other things, or a professor stdin of other ep or any- the exclusion of anyth ng elae. thing that Pep BLS is crystal He thoughts flow out smoothly eqular order, and they are clothed lage ao simple that a child can ind them. Se, he haa been ie elegy e has always re- tin bis metry. One of his pas- the clothing of abstruse thoughts in iyuage. [tis his belief that there Sscertainty in American law, and 8 a ia due solely to the f draftmanship of the laws. He be incume-tax act to be a thing of a horror forever, for the fegen that the people who drafted ptand checure English. Having Sey and meaningless clusters : | well-intentioned folk in the ibbemup ted to clarify them by er one; but unfortunately Prete rioc were frequently couched Mere obscure language than the Ey perported te in Thus the Smatry waa plunged into confusion. Pepper gave an excellent demonstration a simple but airtight legal document when he wrote the uniform player's con- tract now in use in the American and Na- tianal There are no whereases in it, mo port jes-of-the-firat= part, re to-wit's, no hereinbelort-mentioned's. It is as sim- ple asa telephone bill; and the player who signa it “pledges himself te the Armerican publle te conform to high standards of fair ply and good aportamunship.” When he written this contract he ed tn write a littl: contract for all the hard- boiled club owners to sign, so that all the Promising sahouldn"t be on the part of the ‘ers, “We, the rade net Eka this contract or pledge, “earnestly desirous of insuring to the public wholesome and high-class baseball, and believing that we ourselves should set for the players an example of the sportamanship which accepia the um- pire’s decision without eomplaint, hereby pledge ourselves loyally to support the Commissioner in his important and diffi- cult task: and we assure him that each af us will acquiesce in hie decisions, even when we beliewe them mistaken, and that we will not discredit the sport by public eriticiam of him or of one anat This was signed by twenty-nine club: ‘owners, but not until some of them had emitted a plaintive howl of protest. Jome Biz Cazes No Pennaylvania law library is complete Without ane litth: trifle for which Per per is responsible, ther with Prof. William Draper Leis. title of this bit af hammock literature is Digest of Decisions and Eneyelopodia of Pennsylvania Low. It contains a digest of every case in every court in the state of Penneylvania from 1754 to 1898, and is in twenty-two vel- umes, Each volume contains about a thousand pages. It was an eight-year job, and may be regarded ‘as one per's alter-hour relaxations. Pepper la Giferd Pinehot in the famous inger-Pinchot struggle ibe tween the Forest Service and fee hs partment of the Interior in 1910, 5 represented Pierre DuPont in the litiga- tion respecting the purchase of steck of Du Pont de Nemours Company. Sixty million dellara were involved, and Pepper won the case, He re resented the United Fruit Company in the longest jury trial ever held in Philadelphia, when Fruit was aed by the Bluefields Fruit and Stearmn- alle Company for alleged restraint af for- fh er ad won the case after a imelve we weeks’ see fat He tried the enge for organized ball when it was sued by the Federal Penis for aang a combination in restraint of trade. He lost the case in the District of Columbia, but the verdict was reversed in the Court of Appeal. He argued it before the Supreme Court a short time ago. And it was Pepper who drew up the documents under which Landis was commissioner of baseball, He is as persistent a lawyer as he is a mountain élimber: four cases before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. eis frequently cursed fluently by the labor people as being the pal of the pluto- crate and the lambaster of labor; yet from time to time he haa been chosen ws arbi- trator in disputes between capital and labor, and he has refused to take cases against labor unions where he question involved was a dispute between an em- rand employes. He has taken cases again nat labor unions—and always won ern —where the unions were undertaking what is technically known os a secondary boyoott. If ta for example, are building an office building, and the union notifies all laborers on the job to walk out unless you break your contract with a heating man who refuses to discharge nonunion laborers, you would be the victim of a see- ondary boycott. Since he won these cases Pepper's position would seem to be lesa that of alambaster of labor than that of one whe remembers the basic principles of the Square a | When tha (ireat War began he cam- paigned with General Wood in an effort to make the country nenlize that we were going into it @ventunlly, and that we weren't prepared, When the first Platts- | burg camp was started, in 1916, Pepper | inane day, not long ago, le argued |, Lis) See eee eee —eEEe—EE—E— EEE EVENING POST one entirely new in Style and in construction CLUETT. PEABODY Cr CO. Inc, Makers Tray. i. ¥ = a tJ : a, 7 a nf mm JAVE you ever wondered why quick fortunes are never made by funeral directors and why you never hear of millionaire undertakers? ao “Hi =a 3 SE rats SeF, = Public need for broader service ancl toiproved facilities has resulted in lange investments in motor cara, ecien- tif equipment, funeral homes aod chapels. These bring about a heavy and continuous operating expense, Another Treason 19 that the funeral director has taken over all the tasks formerly looked after by neighbors and friends. He also performs scores of additional eervices which modern conditions and modern sensi- bilities demand. ce = - Ta the funeral director's ball, the cost of this service and overhead (often o large proportion of the tetal cost) usually is included in the charge for berter under- stood items, Such charges should be judged with this fact in ovind, THE CINCINNATI COFFIN COMPANY t = —, LJ —_— nil % t Frevch Renaijonce Rordsr, Ooien dae For pty Glare Omer Kaappom—" Tern opyrighied 1922 CC. Om roe: 4 ea of Pinality taken rng Baweer ae, SISSON SES:

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EVINRUDE MOTOR COMPANY 656 Exierade Building, kilwaukes, Wikcomain Tre Poa: San Frarectecn, tal 1 Saran Sa, Portland, Ure, dio Mas bet Fe. Et EVINRUD Tineke Quits So 2 = blunting tbe wild eraict lily. Standard and | Lightweight | DETACHABLE MOTORS FOR WATERCRAFT THE SATURDAY EVENING POST WOE Up as a Pookie and was made eolor sergeant of the Firat Provisional Training Regiment. He went breve an the following eur and tock the training course again, fe net only wanted the training but he wan tech to stimulate younger men to do likewise, He mode ur Abbe pt ta pet inte | the army hil a provisian that men over military age, if bodily sound, could be aecepbed for line duty. Failing in this he signed up with Colonel Ronsevelt's pro- vision division, Pepper i is tlriven by the fame type of internal engine that drove Roosevelt, arid the sight of him wos always envugh to make Roosevelt click his teeth together | in approval and delight. During the war he was chairman of the Pennsylvania Council af National Defense, After the war he started a fight on the League of Nations. He decided at once that our participation in that league meant that we would bbe a party to the settlement of every boundary dispute in Furope—and that for the next feo years Eurape ig cit lel have as many boundary disputes as Polish ernigranta have cousins. [He fought the League of Nations with the League for the Preservation of American Independence, af which he wae vice ‘pheagnates That ar- ganization was formed to exiperate with Senators opposed to the league; and on it, to a large extent, was built Harding's fight for the Presidency. The most dramatic incident in Pepper's fight was his debate with Senator Hiteheork in the Metro dlitan Operas Flowse of Philadelphia, The bine was jammed; and Pepper and Hitcheock, alter the fashion of ‘all those whi opposed each other on the League of Nations, thought that they got the better of each other, Papper's lorie. seem bo have helped, atany rate: for not long after he hal been appointed to the Senate to fll the place of the late Boles Penrose he overheard a guide lewling a party of brides, grooms, cori farmers and pilgrims toward the Senate Chamber. ove, ladies and gentlemen,” said he, “I'm going to take you toa place of extreme interest— the place where the League of Nations was killed.” Friends High and Louw For twenty-one years Pepper has been a member of the Board of Misstons of the | Episcopal Church. He tas written re ligious bovks, and he has been keenly interested in religious and missionary work in the Philippines, Ching and Japan. Some, too, wuld call him an uplifter, be rause ihe la always doing something to better the lot of juilbirds, He would admit, if asked, that thi hasan large number of friends who are murderers, burglars und forgers. Burglars, however, he views pessimisticall,, He haa nal for almost every ofher sort of criminal, but he feels that you can never be sure you ve reformed at burglar. Burgling, he thinks, combines the joys af bi E-pame hunting aml those which come to the gambler when he gets something for sothing, so that the burglar meyer loues his epi uch for this fuse inating pr ofession, follow: ing OF a¥od “alin, But in apite of his tendency toward up- lift, he par hea, 1a the SALE Oe, iB power- ful wallngy, nnd is pt tip remermiser some af the more militunt presepta before he remembers the one about turning the other cheek. If, therefore, anybody were to tome ght aut in th FOE and accuse Pepper m Teper eser thing any articular class of people he would probably be the = or 1 SESbES, HES, ee falle River in the Fedleosiene Vetional Pore May &) Tecplent of a quick stifl-arm j shape? of an abrupt reminder represents murderers and i ployers and employes, rs playvera—that he hes more fends) different sorta of people than ang American with the exeoption of Simplicity is elegance. That ease, Pepper could not, if he tried tlegant in his beliefs on variouy that will aacn set a few tireles : that sugust budly, the United 3 ate, to spouting passionate and less rivers of words that wills listened te by more. than ten o bored Senators, a couple of § stenographers und a few bent reporters. You can. call it you can call it climbing a roller or you eam call it sypthing like, but when oa are ‘through @ names vou might try calling it Bene OF an cepa of the Gl that a straight line is the shortest between two points. Old American Stuff For example, Pepper holds thay lem that confronta this mo : it be levying tenes or sdjeat schedules or fixing railroad rates, solved et is solved in the interes class or locality or at the expense other elass or locality. This np that may be working an the ¢ immigration gnd ta matters kidney, Many, for example, use ther) power to levy excese-profita gratify them enormously became seem to Sone largely fram ce pockets and to bear comparatively on their own resources. The nomic effect, however, is to do things in industry which ployment Therefore the tlane by the pexer ipainst the to be an evil from which the suffers intensely and the rich mm little. 4 As regards the military situa vhems the surrounding scenery equally kindly and simple smile) one side are arrayed the “ss who infest the shoals of portion words are Pepper's; and on thea is arrayed an idle reguilsr anagg idleness automatically breeds di tion, Pugnacity and militersm, to elther would be fatal. Therefore less slnena must be ig rered, and the officers and enlisted men both act to work training a yearly oa serves. Thus there will be noi the Army, 40 that dissatisfaction amg) livers will vanish from it; amd af time the country will be invatis i against future 1s. bey storing op ol increasing number of trained pet A straight line ts the shartet@ letween two points. Simplicity gence, Haneaty ia the best pole pers memory hes never foiled ioe mostly the good old prewar stuly to say, there's none of the new, lange foreign-born stuff to be found ing of the afshenta of that “anganiee a4 msn anil trinsigured erime ingundera high-sounding Russian uote Pepper again. It's all the oem old and straight; and old friends peer

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 127 ie friction-proofed tire now a reality! oo Friction, the primitive means of - creating Hamme, is fodar the br problem in tire-making; theasource of raad-burn, of 95 blowouts im TOO. fi 5" 5 7 i an Pe Tha ea oe wee Aas es F oS = = - = ———— ontradicts all previous onceptions of tire service fomes a tire to change men's views of idurance—8490 friction-proofed ! 1B a new era in tire-making. An cra of fendurance, of reduced tire troubles, of Ringly increased mileage. ms the greatest enemy of tire life. It ( And heat destroys rubber. It weak- fi; makes them susceptible to stone ) 1 easy puncturing. It lessens resist- mne-half, very tum of the wheel creates friction. are inction-heated in gaining road hold. chon the brake multiplies it. there is @ constant fight between mamn- a materials andl the natural element idestroys them. us in 100 are charged to friction— “burs. A problem 20 years old it development of the first pneumatic ction has been the great problem in Tig. ‘aed that fact when first we started Hi tires, We knew if we could solve it, "Et Cotteptions would be changed. So for | L. What 84 Per Cent Friction-Proofed Means Friction is the enemy of every thre In service—the source of 95 biowouts im 100, By special process, Brunswick Tires are 84% friction-proofed. years we experi- mented, World-ex- perts worked with é : A new ; bt concepion of tire cndur- us. Innumerable anece is thus effected, Processes Were tried, only to be dis- Service is multiplied; road troubles recheced to BD Gang maniim. carded, Expense was not considered, Now we've &4% succeeded Today, we offer an 84% friction-proofed tire. The process is a special one—the final solution ag we see it. Time may come when 100% fric- tion-proofing is achieved. But we doubt it, for that would effect virtually everlasting service. But 849 means, we believe, such tremendous road endurance that thinking men will scarcely ask for more. Hence, in this new and greater Brunswick, we feel the Supreme is being offered. At standard prices! For 76 years we have specialized in. super- quality products. Yet our prices have always been held to standard. So throughout the world, the name Brunswick stands for that which is best in manufacture, at lowest consistent prices. Thus, the fniction-proofed Brunswick conforms to the standard list—is delivered to the user at the price of an ordinary tire. We urge all moter car owners, all operators of delivery trucks, as a simple matter of good business, to get the facts about this new Bruns- wick—cord or fabric—before re-equipping with new tires. Any Brunswick dealer will gladly explain them. THE BRUNSWICE-BALKE:COLLENDER Co. General Offices: 623-633 5, Wabash Ave., Chicago Branches in Principal Cithes of the United! Geates BRUNSWICK TIRES 84% Friction-Proofed

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Tom Macklin Wins a $5,000 Job Good news for Tom Macklin —he haa just been picked for a five-thousand-dallar j Fairly gucprised him, the promptness with | which he won promotion, and the actual | a fun that he got in going after it. Tom, ay pe see, WHS just an average chap who had been slaving for yeara in the general offices of the Marbury Company, while, ocher he bape his own age had been mg into the bige Positions. <ppins one day, less Y thea owelve monchs THE SATURDAY EVENING POST PLAY (Cantitaed fram Page 8) now that he'd drifted into a way of gen up these business jokea to make E laugh. That waa the whole trouble, he thought bitterly—Edith had forgotten to lau A darned shame too, She had had such a jolly little tune of a laugh be whe apr Sane oh - eee e Erdle thea the photographs on his rung for a stenographer. They ought to help construct that letter to ler. They were even better than he'd thought. He sould use some of those ideas in place of the suggestions he had tenta- tively re in his interviews with Miller, he ee he Hgsry to see he woman vont pas corte and photographed them. . nary ad sure enough. It wasn't impulse Evidently this thing wasn't curable! He scowled at his obstinate delusions punched “the call button with needless emphasis. ad rir OU'LL have to fix things so that I can deal with you on this Miller job. | T simply bar your Mr, Mean- | Tom Macklin woke up. He did che | ching thar he should have done five years before—he enrolled with LaSalle Extension University. And suddenly he made o very happy discovery—he found home-study training under the LaSalle Problem Method down- Tighe interesting, Fascinacing, so fee called it, oo take chose problems just as they were put up to him Ey highly successful business men and to work them our for himself. Por the first cime in his life he began co see real progres. Tasks he would have eatepped a month or so before he pe. formed. vickly and sutistactorily. His chief was quick ta see the improvement, boch in his work and in his acripude toward the job, The reaule was inevicable, When penned left to go with another comcern, Macklin was nad to succeed himi—at a salary to stare of $5,000 » year. Your Shortest Route to a Big-Pay Position Typical, Macklin’s experience, of that of thousands of ambitioua men who have found their path to suceess in the LaSalle Problem Methad. Letter after letter in the files of LaSalle Extension Undversiry tells the same shrifing story. [fehe men new in low-pay jobs cou see those actual leteets, Bora thousands af chem, telling suace $s advancement to sitions paying 4& 00, and up eo fi0 0.000 a year, they dh never pese uncil they had mastered the specialized cralning that they absolurely need to win success, Send for “Ten Years’ Promotion in One” Whar are = ba da mich some spate time dus he meet moncha! 1 pea wer ome portion of eo help bi hin ili you on r ia no bigger o , or w you conrinus ta dri drife—draf brift—drift—aned be to conienk poorech? with pour preenne carnina ! ie mi imporans:, yu shook] do ar oece—vou should yet the Jars. The coxporn will bring them bo wou wich ran eogether with particu. lam. of our coneceder your coop wf thar mapering book, * en Terr Fanaa! in Cine.” “Clee ebiis honk," =H 2 prominent Chicsgo execute are ge have to pay fre dedlers for in." We will ion Mark —Sagi—Mail che eoapea—Now, LaSalle Extension University The bar Buco Trefadag featatiem do rhe World Genieinens Send me without chilextion. to maz informanon pegarding curse indicated belerr, alec copy of our inneresting book, "Ten Year" Pramedion in he." OBusiness Management OMedera Budmees Corre- Dilebeermooehip bmoadence aod Practice OHigher Accounteecy 9 OCModern Foremaachip Traffic Managemene ped Production Meghoda DRadiwey AccountingandPersoocel and Employ: S¢ation Munagement meet Monagement DLlaw—Degree of LL.B Oitupert hooker ping eGo atcha Lave DBualoess Engiiah Ded orl Management Caimomercial §penish Etictency DEfective Speaking UBaokbng aod Flagace DC. P. A. Coachlag Hume — = = —— Peeecet Posirkomoo = Audabrens ———— W. John inner brightness. He might have known that oe xo d : Willet. He olight to have given her credit for so much taste, to say nothing. of sense, Carey, whose notion of pleasing a lady was main ¥ 4 certain audacity in timing the adoption af “kid" as his form of address. “AD right. I can arrange that, 1 guess He spoke confidently, Since the acqulisi- tion of the Miller account he had perenne anew and grateful attention to his tions at the office. Melntyre would dt him on this if Carey tried to fuss. He chuckled, “Iden'thlameyou. Carey—" “Oh, he's the reediay thing. “There are only two kinds: his kind"s lees poi- sonous than the other." Simpson lifted his brows. He objected to such inclusive generalities. He refused ‘to between classification with Carey and being graded as yet more Poisonous. : “I don't get that. How do a3 mean 7" She waved her hand w y. “I mip pose: mot. You wouldn't. It doesn mutter," “But it does! [ want to know which class I'm in, and why ——' “That places you, You're the other kind.” “And why? [ dan't see any creeabones on ty Libel." “They maver do. You're the type that takes ita sentiment seriously, Carey's the port who just makes it absurd, cheap. Ha's the male of the vamp apecies." W. John Sirapeon gaat very atill, boring his unbelieving breath. It just couldn true, There really wasn't any sich WOMan. "And you think I'm the opposite sort— the kind that can't see anyt to a kiss ut a fret degree in matrimony? Thanks!" “Yh, you won't admit it of course. They never do; the he-coquettes would make Gibraltar look like 2 weathervane if you'd let them tell it; and the others are all pos- itive butterflies. Let's drop it. I'm buy, and Carey's kept me way behind with th MPa ETL He held his peace. Words wouldn't con- vince her, but time could do it. ides, how did he know that she wasn't only pretending? Adter all he didn't know any- thing about her yet. He could wait. But if she waa real —— : The fotalistic theory acquired a new foren, however, in the light of what hed been said. Probably, just as she claimed, all man, like Gaul, was divided into three FF ip comed af which W. John Simpson wae one, f it that ashe enc pled. mn similar divainr of t af the other pander thore must be something in destiny. You couldn't account far ikon other theory. varie -tbo-one shota couldn't win un- assisted Melntyre justified his confidence, The man who had solved the long-standing mystery of Andrew Miller was more im- portant than-any number of fat art di- rectors: Carey, Tashly venturing on a@ veiled hint of reekpnation if hia proviner were stibjected to tres heard a pungent reference to the difference him beck to ducers and spenders that sent him ba his desk with the look of one sufferin a alow leak. Striking shrewdly while — became conscious of an’ W. John Simpaon adjusted matter rather effectively. Sarvcnky Ais dollars a week, afber this, and a commission on new business too, Very different. from the forty-dollar status of which had seemed to stick for the last year and more. His chest needed more Foom, amehaw, than bis west allowed. ete meditated on suitings over his work. Tweeds, probably—something that would combine dignity with—with class Collaboration in the photograph matter led, as he had foreseen, to a rapid progress in bes commercial directions. It was nec- essary rather often to interrupt protracted sessions in the studio with brief luncheons at the tes room in the basement; a pressure of rush work required a pause for dinner and 4 return afterwards to work under arti- ficial lights, The rena quality of this ilha- mination would n severe on some complexions, but ‘Dora Willet seemed to re t by it instead of | She paid for er own food alwa He had the wit to offer no protest about this, Suarifer ta iicda— he amended the tog hustily—e sudriler in re too, Edith had insisted on going Dutch, at first. He: suffered still from a sense of unde Served re When he thought about Edith. © enildin’t help holding her re oe. ed this, It was another griev- ugh in justice to aaah cht e was taking it nicely. She'd only phoned a few times, and his wh references bo night work and the Miller ace eount had satiated her, She wasn't ; oing to pester him, he saw, That was something. But it was hor fault that he persisted in fecling mean about crophing her. If she'd d been what she'd pretended ta be, what Dora, Willet seemed, there wouldn't have been a single parting ang, He became gradually aware of a reagaur- ing background behind Dora Willet. At a lute interview in her studio he enewuntered her mother, a Victorian survival, to whom, he instantly perceived, this daughter was as mysterious as a duckling to the aggrieved hen responsible for its incubation. Mrs. Willet visibly disa ng ta of & business in- timacy unsanctified by social and domestic preliminaries. It waa ahe who invited Mr. Simpson to larize this relation by ealling at the apartment, To his surprise there was no ohjection on per gh pec aan | might 2s well," she lured, i along now and have dinner with us if Ag ‘ve nothing elae on hand.” hesitated, It undeniably had the looks af the usual trap, Ke minute the element entered the equation you pir eee trouble. Still PD ioiale tina was almost a release in advance faa ane any inferences on Mrs. Willet’s part. "T'd like ta," he deridedl, After all, it would be just as well to get a Hine on her, people. You could learn a lot abowt a girl by aa alee watching her relatives. More than once he'd avoided distressing entanglements by a timely glimpae of the family group, There were three other Willets, he dis covered, besides Dora's mother, and it wneeded only a few minutes to enlighten him unmistakably aa to their attitude and hers. Mr. Willet addressed his daughter With a cauthous deference which W. John Simpecn instantly interpreted, before Dora's conversation revealed the fact that Mr. Willet was looking around. Misa Mamie Willet, appealing fram the decigiona of the tubal court in a plea involving the peopeet aereen drama entitled The un ae “First Ki Kiss, confinmed a praees which had alresdy become a h con viction, and the unfilial tana of Master Clarence in the same dispute became sulk- iy submissive when Dora handed down a cotulrmation of the previous finding, which was at once and silently accepted as final by all concerned. He departed early, his doubts dissipated. There couldn't possibly be any room for r g@ntiment in a girl whe carried this family on her charming weck. Probably she harbored a lively desira to excoriate the Parties whe had invented marriage. And even if she was like all the rest of them, here was an impassable rock in the path, No woman would expect a man to shoulder that crew, and it was quite obvious that this was what a man would have to eon- template if he —— e went to the doar with him and shook hands, He discovered o distinet thrill at he had to |

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THE SATURDAY the contact, Somehow he hadn't expected that her hand would be like this; it wasn't a business hand at-all. He had a sudden stab of anger against the other Willeta. Letting a girl like this eupport them! “You're greatl” he said, on impulse. “T—you're a double wonder,” “I don't exactly hate myself aither," sha admitted. “I'll have those washing-machine ideas ready sometime to-morrow, Phone you. Good night.” he walked home, Absolutely no nonsenmt about her; and yet-—— He opened and closed his right hand reminiscently. This begun to look as if a dream could eome true, even a Wild dream. She waan't a bit the hard, emotionless, business type or her hand wouldn't be like that to the touch, He remembered the way she BIeC= onded ber mother'sinvitation. “You might at well.” He understood that tone now. She was serving notice, in effect, She'd classified him among the men who needed such & Warning. # didn't resent this se much, now that he knew; at least she hod also given him credit for enough intelli- enct to see and heed it. She didn’t take im for the usual sapheaded male anyway. And she'd find out very soon that she waa wrong about the reat of it. Heenjoyed hisatate of mindscientifically, Tt was the way he had felt before, when he had clung to the same hope, but this ar there was lee: dowbt in the background, less of that sophisticated scoffing from his enlightened self. Here was a girl who He restrained a Abeolutay his feet ox I wouldn't ever let atic sentimentali spoil things and yet could —— He me his remembering fingers tly, ery wis what you got for bile differ ent; the ordi- nary fellow would never get any such rene tion from a casual contact of hands. He was humming solthy as he climbed the stairs to his room. aa ORA didn’t move. She waa so still that for a moment he had a fear that she was angry, disgusted, after all, at what had happened. He held his breath, waiting. lt was a climactic instant, with all the fu- ture wavering in a balanee, If she took offense —— “That,” she said softly, with just a whia per of a lwugh behind the word, “that waa a nice kiss, Johnny.” He breathed again, relief quickenin delight. She took it perfectly. He fe have known all along that she was real, “The night needed it—to bn perfect,” He had used the phrase before, un ees circumstances, but it wee, ‘he felt, as nee, [twas another test. If sha | romaated its delicate hint as to the episodic me Whe, aeerery She faced hi lekly se » Johnny" a mi quickly. There was light enough from the thin moon to let him see that her eyes were wide, ocores elairvayant! How did you know I was to say that?" He la ar sofely. “I didn't. I felt that way’, that apll., It's true, ian't it?" FF “(4 course it's true! But you —— She paused. “I thought—oh, it doesn't matter. It spoils things to digsect them, Let's not talk." He amiled triu mphantly at the sil hight. She knew! gently he touch her hand, relaxed and motion on scuffed wood of the pier, She turned slowly toward him os if she eg aa if — "Te's late, We'd better He rose at once, helped = scramble up a Rea ee : “Yes. And it's e to spo ngs when they're perfect, ian't it?" ¢ laughed again, She wasn't sure of him even now, He heard her breath eatch imu pretending, Johnny? Because if you are it's rather brutal. And you can't possibly be real.” “That's what I've been telling reel about you, Dora, I wasn't sure till just now that there were seh of us. Hut & = pans isnt tod ieetag bias t it's true,” ng him. “Don't you want Pas ie me again, before we go back, JohanyT"” He caught himself in time. “Not any It's perfect, more than you want me to. jan't it, as it is?” She laughed softly. ‘“That wasn't fair, I But T had to know. Oh, Johnny, to be wonderful! [ve always of somebody who Saar fee! jus I lo about it, Somebody who could ——" "T told you there were two of us. I don"t more than half believe it myself, but the thing's happened, It's true, EVENING POST The lights at the station, the homing | holiday crowd, browgh other reality. Their eyes met and laughed together. In the car they were silent, shar- ing an esoteric amusement at the frank | emotions of the cammeon herd, Dora put | it Inte words: “They dent know when to i poor things 8 modded. ] But the word jarred un | pleasantly on his mood. It suggested an end of int this radiant miracle of coinci- dence. He and Dora knew when to the time would come when they would 6 their ways withowt rancor or r ta. e discovered a midden savage hostility te the thotight. Perfect thi ould wre forever. A cormradeship like this ought not to fade and die, like ordinary friendships, If it could only lest He asked himself sharply why it couldn't? Why couldn't they go on and on, as n, in this soft twilight zone of gentle emotions, never overstepping the boundaries like the un- thinking who couldn't let perfection suffice? The conceit took hold of his faney, thrill- ing him. Forever and forever! It needn't even end with age; he sow them, white haired, still under the spell of a romance unspoiled hy excess. It might go beyond, even— He drew his breath deep. Dora would sea it too. He tu to tell her eagerly. “T've been thinking about that Larned y¥. [believe you could make business, Johan him see reason if you keep pounding away at one definite point, instead of arguing on generalities, Let's work out a epeciic com- yaa st pcb and sell him that, instead of d about advertising itaelf. m “Somat ing in that, T gress." He wae annoyed to find a mild dis- inter below his coroval Of course e was right to be seed practical in this peneshbers: you couldn't possibly t misty, fragile fancies in the seat bohind that pair of pom chewing euddlers. But it was a pity, all the same, to surren- der that thinly aweet [natant of romance so suddenly. (ne should approach reality, after a fare and emquisibe excursion into dreams, by a gently graduated descent. ther listened fa De F eerso ot her r¥, compe to agree and to admire, et cles: Bie discontent. NWothing was utely perfect, after all. Ais thought eee in some groove of associntion to that other evening, by the little Jersey lnke. Edith hadn't taken it any more serious than Dora, in one sense, But she hadn't talked all ¢ the way home about advertising aluminum kitchenware either. He a twinge of conscience. Of course it was a] time aince he'd seen Edith! Why shouldn't it be? It would be longer now before he saw her again. Hadn't he found ara! "Tks : py scheme, Dora. We'll have a shot at it. He frowned aa the girl in the seat ahead pnoeeion in the hollow of a weedy shoulder. ae frown waa directed chiefly against Lunbidden envy, Tt was sick= A to think of himself and Dora in that shen vues juxtaposition; he despised imsclf because in the teeth of this doc- trine he continued to harbor the belief that it would be pleasant, Even in the taxicab he governed that debased impulae, Their da bare. poured aa they parted. Dora's sami Pier bardiy: bopad you'd bea _, ob Aerdly you ay Up Bo id= tifully, Johnn oe you Se knew ——" He laug ‘5 hortly. “Think I don"t? Tt's just aa bad, being a man, You can’t _— Fy sh unbeas you want it all!" he shook er head. ne can't drive vie ne hegiring you, the slightest excuse they think —— He untangled the obscure speech. Most mn—any man except W. John Simpaon— would certainly justify her complaint. eens mls can trust me, that’s sure." He spoke grimly nd ou can trust me, Good night; ¥. He | peid the cabman and walked back to his room. If it could only last! F DIVIDED mol went with him ta the ground-glam: door of the studia—a door which had mysteriously acquired over- night a new and portentous aspect. He Was at once ori for this interview and afraid of it, If had been wrong about her, after all, he would find it out now. She'd be different anyway. They were always Simonet alter such revealing orca- Bicone aa last night, give. them | t them back to an- | RS a a ia | I z = —|—— ——_—_ — - 1 ft - Ltt = a al = onl Invitingly Shady and Comfortable The porch enclosed with VULFOR Shades ig invitingly ehady and com- fortable in the hottest part of the day, Cool air is kept in circulation through the ventilator at the top fan exclusive VUDOR fenture| and the light plays soltly between the tinted wold slate with the heat and glare filtered owt. VUDOR Petch Shades are atratly 35 Pediiced ia peiee. 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Sad for pe ** Leak proof Retr." amd fertiecealr comriag years of wor. L, SONNEBORN SONS, Inc. NEW YORE Dallas Geshe Low Angeles Baltimare Chicago 82. Louie Boston Philadelphia Detroit The Points Where Most Roofs Leak S0HMEROAM If YOU want to earn extra money in your spare time, mail this coupon ODAY The Curtis Publishing Company O51 Independence Syuare, Philadelphia, Penna. Gentlemen: Please explain to me how your subscription representatives earn up to £25.00 a week extra in spare time. | assume no obligation in making this i inquiry, IN ame = i a Street Town Shane. a2 eS SS SE EE SE EEE eee See eee 2 ter, EVENING POST There was a sharp relief at the sight of crisp and brisk and unm ably businesslike, and hergreeting finally shamed hig lingering doubts. He list to brief and pungent comment on the character of phote-engravers in general and of McIn- tyre's pet firm in particular, a discourse illustrated with proofs of the new Miller cuts. “You're right, Dora. the job. I'l it Fight See e might have known she wasn't like ae others, Nothing about her remotely d that she had watched the moon- lig ton the surf last night. A faint uneasi- ness subsided aa quickly that he was conscious of a vacuum in ita place. In the relentless morning sun she was prettier than under a feeble moon; her clear color, the glints of light in her hair, the soft, lovely curve of her "ehnsk stimulated an ache in hia throat. There waa something aut of tune here. A girl like this—what a pity that circumstances obliged her to think about the sing and shortcomings of engravers! He thought of that family iabongin with a sudden vindictive animosity. on her, ao that there Was room in ae ap life for only rare brief mo- Toenta of that fatrhe thing far which Nature had so patently cust ber “Dora, l—last night ——" Her smile flickered through her annoy- ance and was pone. “Business hours, Johnny. Nine to five, oer Saturdays and Sundays." she was wonderfull = She remem= re and yet memory didn't govern ber, She could ot a separate. rat ache in hia throw ekened and throbbed. What a erime that he had tol "T knew you'd aay that,” he sald slowly, Dora, I can't pet over it. It doesn't seem ghee an att r ee ‘ey ? "Nine to five,” she repeated. Again the smile flitted away almost before he saw it, atc the alight frown came back, “I've pot eee, worked out on that Larned ac- count. Thought of it last night. Moving- oe = the whole story in obographs,"" ‘ She funabled for a serateh block and drew ei He watched her, hia admira- tion doin attle with that persistent ach- ing cMapamione Even last oight. instead of thinking stout what had happened, ney ve guromed a she'd worked out this idea for selling Larned's Eternalastie Saucepans! He put a protest into words when she paused: “Last night, Doral I thought you said that business hours were from nine to five," He barely saw the emile this time. She spoke abruptly: “Oh, don't, please! 'Thia ia serious for wa both, If you can get that contract it ar —= "Tm sorry. He was mollified at once. It wasn't | business, altogether, after all. She'd lain awake to eount. uzzle owt this plan on his ac- @ touched her hand gratefully. She drew it away, “Tt means five or six hundred not for my end of it," she finished sharply. “Tm Ber ane to get it for me. it. He is net deceived by that sulbberfuge of hers, He took his leave presently, up- ‘borne by the renssuring discoverica of tha | interview. She was even more marvelous than he had thought. The conviction was forced upon him 23 li mugie summer alipped away in almeet . daily ingss contacts, relieved by rare brief lapses into the pinnissimo sentiment for which he had longed in vain, exquisite momenta which inevitably ended in an abrupt complete return to the wholesome sunily of thelr workaday relation. There were other moonlit even oes at the lem congested public beaches, late prolonged rides home from the play in open taxicabs that dawdled through the park or past the river, interludes of that precious intimacy thot entire assurance that each was complete in iteelf, that bers serial romance, ing to a cling barely connected series of distin= jures, maw heel where they | He knew that it was perfect. Fe those excursions along the border mance be found no PRcise ‘Persistent sense of somvething baci ie upon him with dismaying ob orn wes exactly the woman of i hungry, hopeless dreams. And yei Sometimes when he saw Andre on madied by om business he found perreced Weer Com pasdon ave hit ihe al bachelor pretty - infatuation with Dora, Of cours wes common clay and coukdin't stand how Dora looked at things. have hurt him. Dora could be no when she chose. And she wasn't for old Miller, She apoke of b a kind of exasperation—a man | rated with sappy sentiment that insisted om marrying the whole err es "Tf you hadn't seme along I'd h to ch of about four hundred worth of work ['d done for him” clared. “Thad to break it off altoge Was such a pest." W. John Simpeon winced acd | himeelf for it. waa absolutety | course, Hadn't he dropped Edith abruptly? Dora's hand touched his a: if | dent, ‘They were going home thra park alter a play. That was one d thoae sentimental moments— thea pectedness. Somehow tornight be ha sense of discord. She didn't mes thing by that; she didn’t care an about W. John Simpson than si drew Miller, It wasn't real. Hed hand away and muttered an apo if it had been hie fault. “How does Larned Dike the te series, Johnny t" He sighed. It was perfect. Abs perfect. But —— E SURVEYED Edith impern aloa!, oaleerving that his cos silenes lid not in the least distur) » she was wholly content to hear thi eae clock, the friendly whit-ehr4 as grate, her attention seems with her seam, ber lips cre ot er aaa an an sbeorbed pont His extened. Edith was eo diferent! ‘ Ha deliberately a the io er su cial w monfirming | curate mental list of them, She kee meeting his eyes above her sewing. « lips relaxed in the aenile for which, © knowing it, he hod been walting. “T saw Dora Willet this aftercr eaid, “She said the micest thing: ou, John. I don"t understand ms fl were son I'd be simply mad, gm girl like j . John Stenson prenmitted | bs contemplate the mauve flame of 6 in Edith's new ring, “ih, Dhora's all eight,” he cancels ercusly. “But mobeds eould sop ghowt her—thet way. She"- for a sititable phrase and emphatic nt once ch ‘she she hasn't any a for ries feeling. She—shw just play Edith’s evea widened, : “Plays? Why, word ander "T didn’t mean it that way BeTious enough about Ape tae matter—business amd all that, you 2 but she only wants to play with thet that count. He leaned forward and rested be! on hers, “ Like—like this, Edith!" =

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132 Nowhere Else in The World Could Such Scenes Have Been Filmed A Passionate Love- Tale of the Desert— the desert with its mystery... its glamour, .. its herce, primi- tive emotions of men nurtured under the the Sun, Suit fia Was WW Mg in b desert. HH ia prodction abounding in big acenes, surcharged witli true-to-life bocul color. To make this vibrant photodrama, Heory-Rouseell, greatest of all French directors, led his commoy thousands of miles from clvilization, into the heart of the ahim- meting desert. There, wath thousa nbs af aplenelidi ye maemo) Aura bet asia tite, Cle rel ey ible got pekisiesal Dhe caaniry of ole Poopiet wae used aa a background The reidervous of Oe crumbling stepa af the tiined Temple of [sia, Bie sword duel by torchtight, the inerhs of the dazzling bent-lhareims—aéll are eoplisibe socives to blerill ie But, woven through it all. ina great story—f Een ca hal «© pic od &. folirs baited English gicl's swooning tnfatwa- Gon foro hondsome ywune Amb ehedk, Hadjid Ben isso piilished product of Cater education and London haber Gashery, but in bia ewes ia the mystery ol ther land ol bla fathers. Tie eopke marry — with the wnder- slitling Uiiat thee girl eliall be the sole Get of Hadj s harem. Tleet-folhnys Che cladh of fie oath to lie bide and Allegiance to the faith ot his ares, Ti you seek the umusual in mation pleture entertainment. ase “The SHEIKS WIFE The SHEIK WIFE which thrilled jaded Eroedway. Its lowe BLoOry JA dramatic, [APkMmbceve, mils poet terucal— but it eves the emiin brat, This picture is coming fo your favertte theatre—ask about sf, > ou ee es THE SATURDAY EVENING POST PROTECTING THE SMALL INVESTOR (Continued from Page #) . Noone will argue that the bloe- laws lished nothing. Gonve swindles have been prevented or ¢ hecked, ed in resent Lona of the country ye the blues Soaks low idea has been popular. Even where die ch operations of swindlers have been checked by bluesky commis- alona or other state authorities the initia- tive for action seems to have come in the cose of several of the most notorious fakers from other and outside sources, : But Mr. Seat emphatically denies that the Stock Exec ange hes has shown no interest In this eee af th t helped te brin about the of the Martin Bill, whie became tear tt in Whew York State on ae 1921. This is an “axceedingly drastic aky law, which gives the sc) of the state aweeping powers to investigate and prosecute criminally those “engaged in the fraudulent, fictitious or p edd issuance, sale, promotion, aegotaation, nil= vertisement or distribution of any stocks, bonds, notes, evideners of Interest or in- debtedness or other securities within the state.” It reaches not only persona but partnerships und eoerporations, and the attorn neral is empowered not only to go tor thoea who are engaged in fraudu- lent practices but also those “about te employ devies, scheme or artifice bo defraud or for obtaining money or property Pe saan ot any f fulae pretense, representa- ion or Not only iti connected with the Steck Exchange but many bankers and lawyers farniliar with the sale of bogus investments have long maintained that the chief difficulty is not so much the lack of et Pha iy ergata i meee Pie problem, t say, is mot one o ng ed laws b tg of self-starters for those that ei you re ap want to know the funda- mental difficulty I will tell you,” said a lawyer whose familiarity with crocked bro- kers and steck promoters probably equals that of any in the country. "The average district attorney although possessing eat powers doea not like to start somet tetas aussie temas mbes bro and # jon is com plicated and abstruse to the lay mind, The district attorney hes no time to aun the tode Ye ne rae a pein xs . He r uip m cial robles, by aa knows, besides, t at the crook will employ the best law- re there are to fight him, lawyers who ow every detail of the game.” Laws That Lack Self: Starters “But make no mistake about it, there are plenty of laws to meet the situation. Take the ease of the grent bucket-ahop ri which an assistant ta the attormey=peneri of the State of Pennsylvania in codperation with the Steck Exchange deaned out of the western part of that state a few years ago, The assistant knew nothing about it when he started out, but he iw the subject for months before ha made a move. He found that the ordinary bling lawa used in conjunction with the bucket-ahop law would meet cq, ® tagk no chances on the local authorities hee friendly with the bucket-shop people. suddenly awooaped down upon the bucket shops with the state constabulary; and that was the end of those swindbers. “Tf the laws in all the different states relative to the issuance of and denling in an a could be made uniform and then oars Hy and effectively enforced with- any Hew ores, the whole situa- would be cleared up.” course there is usually more glory to ies won mg icy the political arena by urging new and sweeping legislation and posing aa the reformers of Wall Street than by merely enforcing exiating lawa that are dead on the statute books 4 and of which the | | Public has never heard. legislat mere piling up and enactment af new Hon, commissions, bureaus, depart- eis ant forms of control means nothing unless laws already on the books are en- forced. There have been laws in New York State for more than ten years almed at the bucket shops, and yet there hos been very little enforcement under thestatutes, More- | over, there appears to have been very little offort, any, made to enforce the relati new Martin Act, and the bill has been mu criticized by those who want atill newer log- islation, alt tiie pe peat ru rd min to bea powerful and efficacious wee Such at least are the facta which t familiar with and s dal enaeal toward the operations af the Stock Exchange are sure to call attention to. When apecifi- eolly what plan or m the Stock Ex- change to combat bucket shopa and slineipdstine igs Mr. Cromwell, bel es prdiha, H to the Martin Act, which the Ex- elped te put on the books, oe See two other lines along which the Ex- change is working. Remedial Agencies One of these is the formation of an or- ganization for popular education in thrift and sound investment. Among those on the tion sey a og ma Mr. Cram- representathyes several very latge blicutilt corporations ¢ngaged in t irect sale of their own securities te the pub- lic, and bankers representing both the com- mercial and investment banking interests. Another purpose of the saeneaHion is to assist in providing machinery whereby securities may more effectively be distrib- uted to investors. It is hoped to do this by inducing a larger number of banles and employers to buy sound securities for their customers and emplo The effort is to get the banks to b down the awe which the small investor feels for banks and bankers, and which is one reason w he would ra deal with the smooth, slic stock salesman than with his own bank. It i B- hoped also to interest pers and advertising agencies to shut out more effectively the erent thes af awindlera, and also te ghia cop from getting, hank ferences Fei gfe most i ot its portant purpose is inform ic where facta regardin _ Neeaeent Dsl tion and stock ply had and handed over to the ane eat ce - ar other anencies qualified to prosecute, «Tt is very difficult, of course, to get a scl, mag sacl of business organizations to- for eodperative purposes of this nmi. There i no immediate profit in it and each business onpinization prefers to carry on such work in its own way. Eut pone Ak of those who have studied the subject ly agree that there is no other way finuneiel awindier an effective war upon the egress There ia no single exist- ing that is powerful ateugh by itself to te fo ow up the constant violations of law. Lf the banks, insurance companies, in- vestment bankers, stock exchanges and the larger corporations could act ther sort thing might be accomplished for the first Whether thease Metre —— can settatlyy work out such a plan of codpera- tion Tremaing to be seen, Mr. Cromwellstated that another method to be followed by the Steck Exchan protect the purchasers of securitios will be a more frequent and accurate investigation all the financial condition of ita own mem- bers. It “phi almost absolute powers of di alpine, which it frequently — But it hat long been urged to its own members, under this paca ower whith it now has, far more actively than in the past. “We are going to require from our mem~- rae at periods as frequent as twice m year, anewering of 9 questionnaire which wal eover all the points necessary to dis- cloee their condition.” He said that the Exchange would alse adopt a aystem of requiring its members to take off trinl balances os often os once @ month, Mr, Cromwell readily that the failure to do this in the past has been a lene of carelesaness and that certain mem- firma have been unaware of their own condition for considerable periods of time, becominginvelved sometimes without resnally? knowing it. It has been asserted by Mr. Cromwell, however, on another oorasion that in the last ten years fewer Stock Ex- change members, relatively, have failed than banks, “What is the attitude of the Stock Exchange toward what might be called May i So easy to clean- with t-snow-white spotices | for and cxreriar. Add sen saninacion and sunshine to 4 home with this super “Add RHINELANDER, refrigeraros Durable, scl il Carma PLucr icori— hy citully finahed—heavy compe fibre insulation — dowble-sag vocuumelike food -anad Jee ch ber — alti doors — with @ dry alr ¢clrmuloring perfecthy— just a few of RHONELANDE scientiic methods to secure | temperature im food chami arid ice Coro ye. Ask for RED LANDER white enamel rlors of dealer's, or ‘write facton Rhinelander Refrigerator 0 Depe. 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Look for this display on Four deoler"“s counter. ike replacements yourself — 7 attached in LO minuves gd ok needed, [i your an fare them write clirect. Hepa with Seik tite patches, Sth, pede a alog No, 22 show ine Wir ihe Seat Covers, Tire Covers, eae ete will increase yet b Write toda ay, Hale. Stree :Cinchnnadl, 0. S.A. eee inner U.S AL | bu THE SATURDAY indiseriminate speculation?” TT ashked, “Should overyone lite, or only these with means and special equipment?” Which isso of course, refers to margin pur- “My personal advice, given In Boston to a large audience and since then by letter to our members in outlying clistricts, has been that if a man with a small amount of money comes into the house he should be advised to take his money and put it in the bank; and that it is very much against the intereste of the public, which, a all, is the interest of the New Yor “Stock Inxe change, a with small amounts of money sho allowed to speculate. When they get enough mene uy hold outright a ahare or twoahares of good stock, fine!" Mr. Cromwell said that he doubted if any, or at lonst if many, decent brokerage houses on the Stock Exchange would refuse to buy stock outright for the armallest in- vestor or in the smallest quantities, He said that upon all ceeasions he urges meme- bers to accept such business despite the smallness: of the commission. Although Stock Exchange firms are allowed to charge a minimum of 2 few centea share commission when buying stocks in hundred-share lots, they are not expected to take any order where the total commission is less than one ar twodaollars; and this may prove quite an item toan investor who buys only oneor two shares at a time, Mr. Cromwell believes that it would be papa itchy to aps $800, whe FT until t ave eauld pu ek econ thie a ie to i pack, Sau then be only a small percentage of the total amount. In reply to a further question, as well 24 In ches to members of the Exch he sal that he did not beliewe in the partial- payment plan, which, it may be remar ical all st stock-exchange authorities ave always as merely a di form of margin speculation and subject to all the evils thereof. If a amall investor wishes to buy stocks he showld save his money ina bank, according to Mr. Crom- well, until he can buy something outright. Bucket Shops SHU Popular pr being atked whether ho thought storka ouieight Uitcceh brakare or chiveps -oU stocks ow rouge banks Mr, Cromwell replied that he did not see that it made much difference, He aald that this was a case where the public in- terest should be served and protected as pic ast me are are a Replica af PL FRc rae ther tg the Steck Exchange would not be i Ps tated , because the ition would the reapectable kin In fact he pS ded that efforta are now being made by Steck Exchange interests to persuade the rural bunks to act for persons who wish to stock outright, he competition to be feared, he indi- cated, is the unfair kind of the get-rich- quick promoter and broker, who makes promises which cannot be lived up to and who by mere display of office apace, multi- Plicity of telephones, clerks and the like attracts the ignorant and gullible, Upon eg brows asked whether he did not be- a sos ag be a vastly larger ni people cou started as investors in conservative securi-' Hes rather than aa apeculatora ia more or less fraudulent stocks, Mr. Cromwell replied that though this is no doubt trie, the other side of the question is that “you cannot mite the cheap ling apeculator from ing to cheap ra any more an ya tan prevent people from bu ying Flicks or from buying cigars ¢ peddler who said he smuggled ehemn in in rest Cuba without paying the duty." here is a certain ti af speculator, he backer out, who really seema to prefer eket shops and other aan places where he ia made to feel at home and not asked too many embarrassing questions. Pro vided he has a hundred dollars or so he is accepted withowt question, and often feels at home much more than he would in alegiti- mate brokerage office, where hia financial eredentials are more carefully looked inte, “One of the facts that make difficult the mb apression of some of the meat objection- 8 practices is the readiness and. guine ‘caus af the public to buy securities throw irresponsible dealera in atocks and bonda, It seems to be only necemery to place a | gold-lettered name on an office window to EVENING POST attract a certain class of investors ready to | put their money into the hands of men who | ct, and who ant only masquerading aa role firms. “This type of investor seldam or never inquires inte the leritimacy of the firm with which he is risking his money, but the dealer's office much as he woul go to the first hardware store, had it been his are without standing or conscientious scru- | what should be his investment or specula- tion as rendily as he parts with his money, and in this way he makes himself aban eaey prey to Stock-emindling: Cranenc "He hag no know af Shepear the dealer is or pretends to be a member of o reputable Stock Exchange of has a connec: tion with a reputable Stock-Exchange firm. Tt is enoatgh for him that the dealer has an office—until he loses his money; and then he in his ignorance is only too ready to blame it all on the Steck Exchange.” Reprehensible Practices It is said that as a result of a recent bucket-shop failure the fact came aut that a man who cs erp ae in his own town and whe buys very | Wanti- ‘Hes of bonds and other consery rathre bivint: Tren bss mbtat some of tha Latest ante saRicing. oe brokernge houses in New countiorabout 3120, ings ioe heaters shan The truth was of course that he wished ie epeculate or, it might be more correct re »gamble there, becatise he waa in veholly erent company from his ordinary busi- ness and financinl associates. & Waa afraid that if he speculated in this way through a recognized stock-exchange firm of standing the fact might in some way become known to his friends and associates. This sort of speculation is quite common, and the writer has known of numerous cases where people seek out questionable brokera in order to get as far away from their wual connections and associations aa posible, Mr, Cromwell alee referred to the evils of speculation upon the part of the poorer members of the working classes, of chambermaicds, cka and the Las He spoke of casea where such pecones hee been hired by bucket shopa te induce their friends and fellow servants bo apecolate. “Twill say this: Tf we found a house of rs that had been responsible for a thing oe that kind and had not looked carefully into the position and standing of these peoples we would take nvost drastic action. t how to prevent them dealing in these other outeide houses, T do mot know," Mr. Cromwell also declared that he would - takea very sirongaitiuse seein members of the Stock Exchange calling up strangers on the telephone aa contrary to proper atandarda conduct. This has been one of the greatest evila and nuisances of the bucket shop and get-rich-quick ewindles, tis of eines pork Ethel by legitimate te call wp scp but the fly= ee de ita practice are lephone or telegray tog em. n af to strangers urging ES Another subject touched upon was the criticism directed against the Steck Ex- nge for restricting the advertising and ing om of its members. All advertising of Stock Exchange brokers is scrutinized with the utmost care by the authorities of the Exchange, and it haa been demerbed that the rigidness of these require ments has driven business into the arms of the swindlers. But the difheulty is that stockbrokers, if allowed complete freedom of statement, will alw. be tempted to prophesy—in words, to give tips on the market lei in clear that the problems of the Stack ange are not simple or ¢ to solve, ar aa aan in this barista r= posely those which are presented in a the Stack Exchange. ‘There may be other points af view to consider in protect- ing the investor. It is possible that the Stock Exchange hes not been anything like Vigilant enough In the past. It may not have been active anndgh in suppressing the evila of speculation or in putting itself in a position where it can be more clearly diseo- dated in the public mind from the swin- dling. fraternity. Hut the problem cannot ae unless the facts as seen an aritedt by those interested in the Stock presented are first understood. 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Parker, imventor of the leak-proof “Lucky Curve.” Tt took him 30 yenrs to perfect it, but it took America only six months to make the Duofold the leading seller at hundreds of prominent eounters, Its native Iridium point is as smooth and life-enduring os a hard jewel bear- ing, and, is guaranteed 25 yeors for weer and mechanical Tite over-aine barrel holda nearly twlee the ink of the ord pec— anew unt the firvt pen oounber the plessant aeneation of the d's businews-bke feel, Take one sway for 30 Days’ Feee Tal. If your dealer's aupely la mot in, give hie onder, subject to your a ‘| F torial, wribe tas, giving your ‘. Tame, 30 Days’ Free Trial THE PAREER FEN Cio, ANESYVILLE, Wa. Chicago Wew York San. Spoleane Taacic

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__ Street or FE. FLD, —_egere SS See —— or Ud EVENING POST “She's worth more,” he told himself aofthy. “Tf she was mine I'd give a hundred times that much to get her back again.” And he thought of this husband of hera, whom she w to torture, and won- dered what he had done to her, and hated this man he had never seen because the woman hated him. ‘He's not going to get ber back," Jef ewore in his th ta. “If T can help ber away from him he'll not get her’ again.’ There was nothing possessive in the feeling which was awaken- ing in him. His devotion to her was 1 com- pletely unselfiah foree. Tt was alas the moat powerful emotion Jeff had felt in all his ee YEOrs, Wit HELTER ‘sop at the farm next morning, pel at the talking with Jeff, watching furtively for a glimpse of the woman; asked at last, point-blank, if it waa true that Jeff's niece comet to visit him. He and Je were on the porch, outeide the kitehen door; and Jeff vodded and, raising hia voice, called to the woman, whe was ingide, He called her by ba eee namie, his en came alowly to the door, dreading this contact with a agin eee ee ree m introduc: poe “He lives up on ther beyond the WwW eyeaupon her, said," Howdo, ma'am: The women watched him through the o you << door, and answered, “How He said no more, and after ma ger se eee back into the obscurity of the teh Will told Jeff, “She's older than I figured @ ae looks older,” Jeff agreed te dees ain trip wea ard: gi was kind of ik Brotty “Aln't but twenty two or three, is she? I'd think she was. thirty, anyway “Tween "gael set told Co —_ When presently wen Aas Jeff watched his disappearing fi a a stern eyes, and there wae troukle 1 ae he countenance when he turmed and saw the woman standing inside the sereen door and abs watching, "Who was that?" "T'd as soon he hadn't come here,” Jeff eonfessed. He's a mean howd. A natural- fe talebve arer. Maybe we fooled him ough, She made no comment, but both under- stood that her desire to remain hidden was imperiled by this man’s a ance. The shadow hung over them all that day. In the evening they read the paper together, found in it litth: that was new, Afterwards the woman sat for o time, ty, FT think silent, und wt last abrupiay,. I'd better tell you Ls Trana Jett | ed aerces at her in su hesi- tated, Then: “You needn't, ' ise you're & mind bo," hie aeeured her “Tt don't matter to mr,” “Tt ts your right to know,” she decided. "And—I'd tiken to be able to talk about it with you. It would bea relief, T believe," Jet nodded. at | expect that's so," he meson bed. She took the paper from him, opened it to an inner page and pointed to a para- graph under a separate headline, beneath the a of her own disappearance, “You sav this about Mr, Viles' secretary being arrested?" she asked, Jeff looked at the pauper, The paragraph recited! the fact that after a eines hearing Franklin Gardner, seer bin er Viles, had been held for the grand jury on a charge of stealing gema belonging to the missing woamar, Ranney nodded, “I heard about his being arrested, in town that day," he told “That was why I had to run away!" she eTied, a sudden paxsion in her tones, “That | was why I had to getaway. Because it was I who saw him tuke them, and if hain made me tell he would have to go to jail, She was leaning acroea the table, rest- ing on her elbows, her fingers twisting together; and she watched Teil anxiously, pai a a¢ though to be eure he under- May ONE CROWDED HOUR (Continued from Page 7} Jef considered what she had q Thoment, and at length asked alow) him steal them?" "Tt" ty a necklace,” she explars pereiely “Pearls, and a pendant diamonds, very F benatifuliy Mr V boast how much be paid for it, pel cde proud of it, you see He show it to a man w Oe ate him, and that's why he asked doan to the cabin ane f= it ge ti Jeff was trying to fill out the pa story. “"That'sa when you found necklace waa gone, eh?" he inquir She nodded. Her words cue iy “Tosaw Mr. Gardner come ou pais a with the migra Et e dodged away; an thought I had net seen him. And opened the little safe in my i "| aoe gone, Fined a little at that. = didn’t to show it of a saan it after all?" His antipathy toward thin bod hers was inereasing. The woman shock her head. “| go back und tell him it was gor evibhe rise, Twas foghomed 4 tors have warned him. So | tie aaaure him, told ye that Mr, Gard clasp segemre ddewbite "OnTa u hy! ite," rte hf . him gered ate cried | "Bu thought ramet hawe ask Gardner to get it, must have given’ me of the safe, Only ik Memories slleneed her: and J prompt t her with @ question: “| done that?" “He hadn't! He hadn't!” she a in a vaior like a “knd whet he was gone. 6 » Had run 7 ae So th : deg gata eae, i es caught vey wel Garene of had the » ecklace back again.” eke x yes eT Tight they go on She hesitated, as though chowij had forgal Pehle a told him. janet mes ore, I was very unhap But until the next day I ad so; not | Mr. Viles made me sor, It wes nat sinner, and [ met him in pee & wis very expansive and very humored and triumphant. Hespoke Gardner. And he said this to me" She repeated the words in a curicg rotlike tone, as though they were ej upon her memory. “He said: ‘I's you saw him, Lucia. If you hadnt w seen him come out of your cabin wi necklace in his hands we probably oo gend him to jal, even mow !"" ini Jeff was watehing her attentively, me hadn’t really underatoced, bef. would send him ta jail” the 9 Sha Sad beogud thin oe kee as t an im riot to; laughed wt me, He said: ‘Hel d years for this little piece of work, | se him be the one whose testimen mn UTS That aught to be a cal run away he saw 8 tebe added, with a movemet d hands ws though “So [ ran away. helpod me =a fave me his enat, ad away, and in Your car because | rain ath god that was tbe place [ saw where I could hide and be tered from the rain She broke off shraptiy; es peith them spoke for a sidered that which i had ery Ik At length he asked dy, Tea Want to see this here Sardine i The worn cried pear No! Oh, be was WOE . If not seen him I we Pe disor, iret But I didn't want to “I guess you liked him pretty Jeff sand. His tone was sympathete inquisitive. “Yes,” she nodded sadly, az thou socke a Mast beanie ca “Yes, is di ith asudden confidence she aclded, wT (Continwed on Page 1

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Bey and bo Jeff foae from his ¢hair, behind hers and touched her shoulder roughly with his heavy hand, wouldn't werry too much,” he sald oe “LT wouldn’t worry too much if I pa be She ted up at him and smiled through sudden teara. “You're gould to me," 4 told him. “You run along to bed," Jeff bade her, “ Just forget your bothers and run along te bed," But when she had gone upstairs the man remained for a tong time im fis chair beside the warm lamp thinking over what ahe had told him, supplying for bial the things she had mot told, Self h hed a shrewd com- mon eense: he waa able to fill in many of the gupa, to see the truthe to which even Lael are hitnd. And aa he thought, hie a clouded with slow anger and hia brows drew somewhat together; and when he got up at last to turn toward hia bed- rocin there was a ferocity in his expression that. ne as nal see Been on Jet ao haya face fty-seven years, He mpone Howl, half aloud, addressing no one at all, “Damn the man,” he muttered. “I'd eon bust him a good one. Tt'd do him good. Upen this wizh, which had a solemnity eal it almost like a prayer, Jef went to IF Jigh es morning, when Andy Wattles drove by the farm with Wall Bissell's truck on his way to East Harbor, Jeff saw that Andy had a possenger. Will Beltor yan tid a ea tar te Th Ane im as they the me agi waved a hand in greeting aa they dis appeared, Jeff's perceptions were quick; it was no mont than half a dozen seeonda before he understood that there wos menace in this move on Eelter’s part. His firat thought was to stop the man and bring him back, bat the truck was alr far away along the townward road. He shock his head; there wos nothing he could do. If Beiter meant harm harm wos done. But the incident put Jeff on his guard, eo that he made it his business to stay fbaut the house that day: and when, in the early afternoon, an automebtile stopped in the road before the farm he saw it and was ready. He had given the woman no warning, but she h ine, and came to hia side in the dining roam and looked out rf A the window, Them- eelves hidden, t eould aee the cur, Thre men were in tt—the chauffeur, Will Belter ond another, Jef knew this other man; it needed not WOMEN'S ec tion to inform him. Her husband had found her hiding place, When Lucia aaw him she sank weakly in @& chair beside the table, auld in a voier caf moan, “He's found me! He's found ma But for this crisis of his adventure Jeff Was ready; he rose to meet the meorent, eri her shoulder. ust mind this,” he teld her swiftly, “Keep your head, ma'am, and mind wht Tsay, You don't have to go back with him unless you wank, He enn't make you, ‘ha'n't no legal wey to make you: and if I you don't want to go wou doen't have to go, Il aee"t he don't take you unleas you say the werd.”" She looked up at him in swift gratitude; and he smiled at her and asked, “Now can't you thke a little heart from that, ma an?” "He's coring,” ahe w And Jef looked tough in window again and saw that Wiles h ad left Eelter und the chauffeur in the car he, bed hired if East Harbor. He himself came steadily toward the kitchen door, while the two other men watched him fram the road, EVENING FPoOsT Jef and the woman heard hia loud Knack upon tie dior. At this sumone Jeff left her where she gat, her strength returning. He opened the kitchen door and faced the man he had learned, to hate eo blindingly that the pos- sion infoxicated him. Yet his counteninen was calm, his features all composed. Wiles was a large man without being fat: one of those men who have about them the appurent solidity of flesh which ia the attribute of such dogs as Boston terriers. He may have been six feet tall, but he was inches broader across the ahoul- dera than most men of hia belght, founbenance was peculiarly pink, as though Tich blood coursed too near the surface of his skin, Jcedf merked that he was subject to a certain shortnesa of breath, that his eyes were too small, and that even now a little pulse was beating in the man's throat. Yet Viles spoke in a smooth and plensant voler, said a jovial good afternoon and asked if this was Jeff anney's farm, Jeff said it was. Viles asked “Are you Ranney?" “I'm Ranney," Jeff mented He had tet asked the to come in: the aereen door still separated them, “Ah.” said Viles. “I am told your nieer from California is Visiting you, I have a Father inipartarnt hit of business to transact with her, Jeff shook his head. “She ain't my niece," he answered frankly, “She'a your wile, that had to run away from you, His voiee waa stony; but at his words Viles moved backward a step, as though under the impact of a blow, and Jeff aaa the swift rage mount hia cheeks in a purple floc, gel the rich man Bia his hard on the sereen dear, opened it, ae rail did net move to one zidé, and Viles said hoarsely, “Get out of my way, you impudent fool !** if shook his head. “Listen, mister,” he said softly. “This is my house, You can't come in here on your own say-so. I'm not fooling with you either, If you ict to come in, you ask," les Lifted one chaichiod hand as though to Let the other aside: and Jef added, “T've heard enough about you so I'd like Tight well to mix it up with you a little Da 7 “T want to come in,” said Vilex hoarsely, 1 this for a moment, then he spoke te the woman, over his shoulder. "De you want te gee himT' he her, “IT suppose so," khe told him wearily, Jef nodded, “All right, mister,” he sald to Viles, “Come in and take a chair," Vilea had somewhat recovered himself, He followed Jed's indifferent back inte the dining room. The woman did not rise, Jef seta chair across the table from her and Viles sat down in it while Jeff himself erceaed to shut the door that led inte the farlor, then came back and leaned against ; the kitehen door, watching thia hushund and wile, waiting for what they would say. Vilea had drawn a velvet glove over the iron hand, He masked the woman gently, "Are you all right my dear?" She nodded, “You are wel ae ahe said slowly, “Yea, T am “Kits. Vilea is He looked toward Jeff, unfortunately subject to momenta of great depression,” he explained courtecusly, “In these momenta ——" He stopped, arched his eyebrows meaningly, a& though Jeff gi etd ells?" Ou mean slve lows crasy & asked bhinthy, Wiles protested Proven. “She don't ack crazy to me.” Jef com- mented. “But you may be right, She married you,” He waa seeking gulte deliberately to goad the ether man inte violence, but Viles controlled himwwlt, seid aeross the table to his wife, * We heave been greatly concerned, my dear.” "Tm arene ‘she aaid unconvinengly, "Tt in. o relief to know that vou hove not suffered, That se futch Eerie Your bam

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I don't want him to go to jail.” Vilea aopEst his. eves to the oileloth that cove the table and drummed upon it with his fingers for a moment, then turned to Jef, “T'd be obliged for a few moments” tulle with my wife ulone,” he said, a sardonic note in his tone, Jed held his eves for a minute, then looked toward the woman, “What. shall I do, ma'am?” he osked, as though tt were fi mabher of evuree that be should defer to ee ry Perna: “He has a She made a weary Tight ta poet she Jef nodded. “TU come back in sy minutes, mister," he told Viles manacin But Viles smiled in affable assent, * will do finely,” he agreed. Jef went out through the kitchen into the shed, When he waa gone Viles rose and erossed to listen at the door, ond heord Jeff go on into the barn. Ho returned to the dining toom and stood above hia wife, and when she did not move he gripped her chin harshly and turned her face up te his, No velvet glove upon the fren hand now. She winced a litthe with the pain, but made no Poni There was triumph and malice in is "Tou're faney- Lt ia your home, You Thought you could get away with i did you, Lucia?” be asked, She sai nothing, “Thought I wouldn't find -Aale Still she made no sound, “Where'd you plck up this rural esquire of weasel” His tone was ingult, and her continued silence seemed to anger him; he loosed her ehin with Lh eg ik though he flung her aside: rounded the table again and ant diva facing her and lighted a cyur, wutch- ing his wife th hthe smoke. Fors long Thintte neither a them moved or spoke; then she lifted her head, very slowly, and met hia eves. After an instant Fee oe hed at her mock- Lingly aetel Leeurpeeed of with the fh ah mene aad flecks h upon the ail clot "Lueia, my dear," he aaid, “you heyen't Played fair with me, You and that tome eat af Yours, And now I'm going to even the seore, Tf you loved him you shouldn't hive marmed me. Or having married me | you should have ceased to love him. Isn't sus i fair statement af the ethic of the a didn’ t know, Leander,” sha sitid pti- fully, “Hie hd been so long away." - *T stot him away," the man admitted hurshly. “I wanted a clear fleld, and ae it and got you. Thought I waa pettlng the whole of you, But whari he come back I saw Within six months’ time that it wags only the husk of you I had won." “You're unfair! she cried. “Frank pee apoke to me—there waa never any= ae hat do To eare?” Vilex demanded, “Don't you cenpous [know thet? Don't fou supple I've seen to it that you were ath pretty closely looked after? But you loved him, and he loved you. A blind man cmuld sea that whenever you were to gether.” ia [ Lay pleaddex: f el fair with you, "his wile " And he did: too,” EVENING POST "That's berause you were afraid to do anything ele," he aszured her seornfully. “That's because you're weaklings. I'm net a weakling, my dear. In his place I'd ave you. In my place I"ve evened the acore—against both of you.” She began to sense that there was some thing more, something she did not know, “What? she asked faintly. you done to him?" He puffed at his cigar, relishing it, reliah- ing the situation. “You two blind fools! Did you think I was alay blind?" She shook her lead helplessly, UW hat a ‘ou trying to say?" man swung around fora moment to tock toward the road and make sure the two men who had come with him were still in the car, then leaned neross the table toward her, speaking soft] “T gave Frank the combination af our safe,” he > told her, grinning with delight in this moment of his triumph. “I told him to get the necklace, and take it to Boston. To have it. restrung; @ surprise for you. Told bir not to let you see him, not to let ¥ou know. The poor fool believed oe," She was staring at him, half understand- ing. “He didn't steal it? He didn't steal it, then?” “And the pretty part of it was the way I rane you in,” ee us band sacred hee mockingly, "Sen you ¢ ore to the cabin at a miemment eter 1 T knew he would be there. So that you might eatch him in the very doing of it, So that your own testimeny, my dear, might send this aweet- heart of yours to juil.”” Her eyes widened, the was white as enow; and he threw hack his head and laughed aloud, “Ah, you see it now?" Lucia came swiftly to her feet. “Ha didn't steal it? He didn’t steal it?” she | eried, “Oh, he won't have to go to jail!" Her husband chockled, watching her narrowly. “Not so quick on tho trigger, Lucia. Notso fast. He'll go to jail, right enough, Dor't worry about that, And you'll send him there.” “But he didn’t do it, Leander?" she amt Pleadingly. “He's not a thief ot “OF eouret he isn't," Vilea saaented. “That's the beauty of the little trap I laid." | Flames were burning in her cheeks mow; | “T weoe't testify | her head waa high. against him,” ahe said swiftly, “You can't do it without me, and [ won't ——' “That was why you ran away?" he azked casually. “To avoid testifying? I thought as much,” “Tl go “To owon't fo back!" ghe cried, “There were othera who away again | He emilel, saw," he told her mildly. “Do you sup- pose T would be sontent with ao Joos a Flan? They saw him, a well aa you, ui ala. "He leaned toward her foros cloualy, “You'll testify, and you'll tell the hay or I'll convict you of perjury on your ot lin, my oer He" tee to jail certainly; and you if 5 you chanae, The woman ae fata intent, hor thoughts racing. Ane suddenly she laughed. fn. is face, “And D'll tell what you've fant | told me," she reminded him. “How long will your scheme stand then?” He shook his head, “Oh, no, you wer't, may dear.” “I will.” “There is," he said equably, “a little provision in the law of evidence which will prevent you. A wife cannot testify to any vain converdation between herself ard Ff hieheand. Did Ou. ui Pye I would bee a ‘ied aa to let you slip out of this trap sa easily? The fudge himself will forbid your BOY IT Cm word as-to what I have told you ETE, “What have | 137 BEG 0. 6 PAT. OFF, CRASH! metal a y iy A meamrnt, a aeconed, ie and wut. of the and twisted ol brought forth, maybe two or three, They may ie only sligtthr tmjered. permanently cripgiled Cf ebe deiner lives te tell the wiery, he aya, Tt wna Ube aborm, my whadaliield waa bdurred, i eoutdn't ac.” That gume eacuse hos been given over and nh but new there should Wendel Cleaner keeps the windshield clear. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST She was trembling with despair, “T won't obey him!" she erted, "I'll tell aniy- - ; May £, Viles reached toward his wile 4 have taken her arm. ““Lucia!” ke | way. The jurymen will believe me." “Come away from here. Come away If you blurt cut such a thing against here with me.” | the of the eourt you will be jailed for But Jef put an arm between them, contempt, ame thar ja jury will be forbidden to believe you, will be told to forget what you have said." Heshook his head mockingly. “No, Lucia, my dear, there's no way out. I have told you this aim Iy in pester that you cua apprectate the ey have taken,” He laughed a a “What a thoughtful hushand you have!" He was still sitting, watching her with a cruel gatisfaction: but she waa trembling, broken, her knees ylelding beneath her, By littl ahe aank tnte her chalr, and pot her head down upon her arma and wept bitterly, Her husband watehed her from aeroaa ct ca table ra me uffed at his cigar. aa opencl the parlor aan ana ei into room, Viles, at the axund of the opening door, looked up in the big mun back opwinest the table | instant noone of thew mowed. The said slowly, “I had o lawsuit one happen to know. What he says is ol) On private conversations, But yo this wa'n't private, Ih us “You henrd? she whispered, not) stinding. Jef nodded. “Sure. And I can te thing I heard: and I pee er it don"t matter much, fhow—] yeu coin tell it, toa, IT hi what be He wus looking dawn at ber, bu the moment forgotten her husband, Lucia had not f ten, and it was 1, ery that warned Jef. Wiles was tug pistol from his pocket. Jef swung h is leg upward. | conn ly at the ne eco hand, SPeirisicamerianiw: Reman wae 2 5 4 eer wht 1S. Pp og at Je tole if wt ait, at ‘ A Man fe) Belt 1S Like nee What were vou doing thereT” he de- aan Ee Fie Sb ps manded, coming to his feet in sudden anger. “Listening to you talk," sald if terribly, exerting utmost strength Then Villes" big head drooped » | B nN d- N equably, litle snapping jerk aa all his body b u ge up ose “Listening? How long?” and he slid limply through Jeffs an a iis ae “Oh, | come right around the house and the floor. Jeff's one great hour was do ITHOUT @ vest, o man’s belt is Aik ee ofl enball ea rh pte in the front door, goon aa I went out the An hour later Jeff drove Lucia ba about the first thing people see— ain. Chodee of ten widthe—I inch or 4% inch back. Heard all you sald, I guess." town. He would send a man who almost as noticeable os abunged- of four correct cobers— lletk, Cordovan, Luela had ate ea crying: ae liftel her such matters his profession, to cr up cose. Particularly if his front-view Gray or White—a eulor to harmonize with any hind aid alrted Hier d looked at what was left of Leander Viles, architecture ia @ bit bulging and over= hanging. Morathon Washable Flexyde Belts are inevery way worthy of the place of prominenee and hoegr aroudd @ men's middle—noot ooly while now, but yeor alter your. The spleedid L Plenyde wrap dewen't fade o Deetwo't seer up free buckling. a eanily bepa eleae—the only foe bela the fray oF seuif, wanking eet ek @ aplendid bogkle—ihe fameome * Marathon Gina Cirip. Genuine Nickal Silver — wht tariiah of cer dull. Handsome, handy, Aube simple, dependable. [nstamly edjveted w any devired snmgeees, Holds with o il that woo’! fa OF ry Erouetrs. 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A day or two later Mrs. Ranney home from Augusta, Bey that time J+ settled inte the ole routine noe fore life had become again a uneventfl 2 life can be, Save for one or two echo his great adventure—when Luca 9 that she and Gardner were to wal, when their first baby waa born—lhis « ence continued in ite old accustome! He lived some dozen years or so of farm eight miles out of Emst Harbor. winter, while working in his woodlt became overheated and then chilled: the coming of night; and a few days | he died. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (More Than Too Million and a Quarter Weekly) IS fully protected by copyright and nothing that appears in it mage be peprinced, cither wholly of in part, without spectal permission. The use of our articia o quetations fram them for advertising promotions and steck-selling scheme 1 never authorized. $150.00 EXTRA! One Month’s Part-Time Profits “| have just gone through my records for last month,” writes Mr. Alman J. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 130 umatized Facts out of | — The ‘Day's ‘Work No, 14 of the incidents depicted in ; advertisement are facts— ts gleaned from the daily rk of Grinnell engineers, ssmen and artisans. If you interested in knowing the ics, places or other details these facts, we shall be glad answer Your request. ay,” yelled the Production anager, Bursting in, “the rove on the Blooming ill line Aas cracked,”

. a eee ane, oT) s a a, Ge ea See ee whe? Nat a ay DT Be a; = 4 | rf 5 b y f t i Father’s economy lesson explodes in his hand at, son, 1s the kind of economy that keeps this steel mill paying lends,” said the father, tapping the paper before him, “That Mill pipe line vou had done under contract cost $1,800 more the Blooming Mill line Henry put in with our own men. And ies he utihzed most of that old material you wanted to junk.” its no use, Father,” replied the young man, “we'll never agrec Id better resign. Any consulting engineer will tell you the way to figure costs on a line like that is on the horsepower de- ed over a period of years and not on initial expense.” ut night here they were interrupted. The door to the office imed open. Say," yelled the Production Manager, bursting in, “the big valve he Blooming Mill line has cracked. It won't last the day out. ‘Ihave to work all night with a crew to get a new valve hooked up.” And that's the old valve from the saturated steam linc,” gasped engineer, sinking into a chair, “We'll have ta comb the country nda special dimension valve like that in stock.” That means a month's shut-down,” cried the President, “and the: oming Mill can't be shut down—it can't!" What's it worth, Father, to have the mill running again in ta ree” Worth? [t's worth $7,c0o—and it’s—it's nothing for you to lhon Four times what you think I wasted on the Bar Mill line, eh?" led the son. ‘* Will it square it if | have a new steel valve on that ‘by 7o'clock tomorraw morning?” ‘He's kidding,” snapped the engineer. Fs, <; i mt 3 | , ss i ice T is iL i ca a Steam & Hot Water Heating Equipment

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Published Weekly Curtis Publishing Company KK. A. Curtio, President A, Wioe- Presider ane Treesures 2 Generel Toasinges Manager = Waliee Oh. Fuller, Secrets WQlism Bag, Aahwr rising Direcior pendence Square, Philadelphia Leadon. O, Merurietts Sepeet — event Garden WC. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Founded A’D' 1728 Sy Benj. Franklin Copyright. ft. by The Curtis Publishing Company ine United Seetee ead Greet Briain Thile Registered in U.S. Patani Ofice and im Foreign Coumneries George Horace Lorimer EDITOR Churchill Williama, FS. Bigelow, A, L Aualhur Ma Heogh, i T. B,Costsin, Assoctaie Editors Entered ws Seeond-Clase Maiier, Novers ber 1B, 147). ai ihe Post Olfice ot Philadelphia, Underihe Actol March &, bao Audidisiones! Enon as Second-Claas lamer at Columbus, hie, at Decarae, 1inoks, 04 Chicas. (bnals, and af ladlenmapella. nd. Enered a Second-Class Blaner ot the Fou Ofliae Deparment, Oeste, Conede ne (9@ oe. THE COPY fc. in Conoda PHILADELPHIA, PA., MAY 15, 1922 $2.00 THE YEAR Number 46 ROM McKINLEY TO HARDING Personal Recollections of Our Presidents By 7. H. KOMLSAAT [E Gret time I met ‘taj, William Me- tinley wasin Canton he day after the tal cleetion af LS76, ’ Dannemiller intro of to him with the “Let me intreduce ar next congress This is Major Me ifmt term; be will é from."" tinley whe an e@x- handsome jung f thirty-three, with of distinction that eto him at once. I years hia junior, and 1 Mr. Dannemiller hi wher he aaid “He heard from." seldom met until T alternate in the Re n National Conwen- ' 1588, in Chicago. get before the econ- imet, speakers of na- mutation addressed wodience in the Audi- » among ther Cal. (. Ingeraoll. He coved with grent ap- and 2¢ he praised the aie to be woted for & loudly cheered by artisans, Loyalty DENLY be switched m politics to religion ade one of his charms eattacks upon tC hristi- Ferafew momenta the men and women pres. ere silent; then sad- fomeone hissed, and Boer ihe het: came paibttic reeponse, It led Eke the escaping | ifs lecomotive. [n= Istood like aman ina thy thesudden transi- lrom cheers to hisses. tit his hand for si- The audience refused ©* him to proceed and ore imnpabee loft the hall. SerOnVERtiOn met neat McKinley nal chair= of the Ohio delegation. othe nominations for iden were made MeKinley in an eloquent speech nominated John Sherman, af Ohia. “tthe hlisting someone cast a vote for McKi (te shevtators, When the cheering subsided McKinley mounted a chair, His face . : In a ¥Yoice fall of emeation he said, “No true friend of mine will “ela potion af being a tralter to John Sherman.” ‘The effect on the convention Sumitic, For a moment there was dead silence: then they broke into cheers, and kniey “4 more than ever the popular favorite. The Illinois delegation was “init fot Judge Walter Q. Gresham. He was nominated by Colonel Ingéersell. What ‘be ever hed was Killed by Ingersoll in his speech the night befare, white and tense, Wert mul ir fe ay ire Pres ¥. ry hdr ote, OF deat Wokiniey at Wis Inauguration, Warch @, 1497, Waahingtoa, 1, Cc. lt received great applause | | | player and sat in many a game with Marshall Field, George M. Pullman and John W Doane, [tis told of Mr. Farwell that his wife, a devoutly Christian woman, remonstrated with him at one time, saying, “Charlie, [ wish you would stop playing poker, bad effect on the children.” He answered, Why, mother, don't you worry; we only play for a fivecent limit!" “T know,” she anawered, “but why have any limit?" President Harrison and Senator Farwell fell out over patronage. Harrizon that when he gave & man an office he did it in such a churlish way the recipient went away angry. In contrast in manner waa MeKinbey. Senator Billy Mason used to say thot when McKinley could not give a man an office he looked ao unhappy about As the fight developed against John Sherman, Indi- ina put Senator Benjamin Harrison in nomination. Mr. Harrison, "ho wae in Chicago when his mame was proposed, loft for Indianap- olis, hishome. Hewas finally nominated, and was éleeted in November, In the years from 1889 to 1891 T gaw McKinley fre- quently, and when I pur- chased the control of the Inter Ocean, in 1601, we aame in eontaet very often, I never lost my youthful ambition to see him Presi- dent. In 1882 the Rapublican organization offered me a Place on the Illinois delega- tien ta the National Con- vention in Minneapolis. I aocepted with the under- standing that after the firet ballot, for the renomination of President Harrison, | waa free to vote for whem I pleased. Only one vote wis taken, however, and Mr. Harrison was renominated, The Limit ¥Y VOTE was for Harri- son, My cholee was Mee Kinley, [did not like Preai- dent Harrison. Although I recognized his ability and honesty, his manner chilled me. Many people admired him, but he had very few warm friends, It was said of him by Tom Peed that Senator Harreon carried hia lunch in his coat-tail pocket during the Senate session, and then ate a eold lunch. T came in personal touch with him twe or three times, but there was no contact of enthusiasm. Perhaps I was somewhat prejudiced by our Iilinais senator, Churles B, Farwell, who hated Harrison with all hia nature. There waa little in common be- tween the teo mon—both Presbyterians, buat of differ- ent achools. Senater Far- well was famed as a poker Tt has a Tt was sald of Mr.

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it the seeker would go away filled with eympathy for the President. [was present ance when a labor leader asked Mc- Kinley for sone faver he could not grant. The man was hurt and rather trucu- lent. McKinley told him how pained he was to re fuse his request, and as he shook hands with him asked him if he waa mar- fied. Taking a carnation from his coat he gave it to him, saying, “Give this to your wife with my eom- pliments and best wishes" The astonished man smiled and said, “I would rather have thia flower from you for my wife than the thing [ came to get.” MeKinley made life lang friends af that man and of his wife, During the preconven- tion dave of 1892 Eugene Field, in his Sharps and Flats column of the Chicago Daily News, printed an item te the effect that T waa going to Minneapolis te work for the nomination of a colored man on the ticket for Vice President, and that L would pay the expenses of any colored man who would goto Minneapolis to help secure the nomination for ane of his race. Field knew of my interest in bettering the condi- tion of the colored people in Chicago through library and reading rooms, and played on that fact. The next morning when I arrived at my office in the Inter Ocean Building the halls were filled with colored men and women eager for the trip. It took a good deal of ex- plaining to convinee them that it was one of Field's jokes! Sone of the emall Southern newspapers took it seriously, and [ was subjected ton lot of com- ment more forcible than elegant. William E. Curtis, of whom Fielel had borrowed $150 some years be- fore, came to Chicago from Wash- ington en rowte to the Minneapolis convention. He called on Field anel reminded him of his debt, Next day Field printed this paragraph in his ec uur: William E. Curt, the well-known correspondent of the Chicage Record, is in the city for a few days looking alter aome of his permanent investments. Mot Too Big HERE are few places in the coun- try hotter than Minneapolis after the middle of June, and the June of 1892 wea no exception. The conven- tion was held in a newly erected building, finished on the inside with fresh tnseasoned pine, from which the rosin dripped continually under the awful heat from the sun and the 16,000 or so human beings crowded under tts roof, My seat in the II- nois delegation was directly in front, close to the platform. McKinley was chairman of the eanvention, When the balloting began he was fun- ning himself gently with a large palm leaf. Without any warning some body started voting for him for Presi- dent. He looked down at me and shook his head and began to move his fan faster and faster, As the voting proceeded he became very much agitated, and when Ohio cast her vote for him he challenged it, a3 his proxy had voted for him. But President Harrison won, although it is doubtful if he could have done so Of & afeond ballot. Blaine and MeKinley polled within one-half of a vote of each other. During the nomination for Vice President a delegate from Tenres- nee, With a delicious Southern accent, got up and said, “1 nominate for Viet President that grand old man from Maine, Thomas B, Feed.” One of the Maine delegates asked him by what right he proposed OST THE SATURDAY EVENING Confederate Veterans, the GC. &. FR. ond Loyal Legion Weicoming Preeident McKinley, Nontecliie, &ichoma Mr. Reed, a4 he was not a candidate. The Tennessee man comet hack with, “By no night, suh. [ do not know the gentleman. I wouldn't know him if | met him in the middle of the road, suh; but no man is too big, suh, to be Wiee President of the United States, suh!" Whitelay Reid was put in nomination, and during the speeches Chauncey M. Depew came to me and asked what effect Mr. Reid's fight with Big Six of the hieal Union would have. I teld him I didn’t know, Mr. Reid received the nomination, After the convention adjourned I left the hall and went to the West Hotel. As I arrived at the hotel entrance an enthusiastic crowd surrounded McKinley's carriage and ms he is all in.** McKinley said, At AY LSSe3S0 d Crewe, wee OS Presidaentia( Tatiyso Porty in Goldens Cow Park, faa Fraacises, Colifernio May 1, took him on ther ders and carriad into the betel, Mew lashed very distr: unhappy, and me when he saw tha: :| of His trousers wy nearly to hia knee, ing his bare skin as garter. He vainly er pull it down, bu | lasing his balance They finally dy him at the elevater,\ asked me to take & my room, 28 he | he would find hb crowded. He waj hausted with the mq excitement, On my room he at ox moved his outer -y and, clad only inhi wear, lay down o bed, from which | thrown back all the ering, I did the | Nothing was aaid by| a us until a knock at the door and soo from Mark Hanna asked if McKinley was in the | Taaid, “Yee, but Major MeKinley does not wants la “Tell Mark to come up here.” Mr. McKinley's Bad Luck HEN Hanna arrived I took the top sheet and | it aver ane of these awful plush sofas. Hanna sy to his underwear, and all three of us lay panting fox te Bone ior water revived ws, Hardly a word was epoike fifteen minutes or ao. Finally Mr. Hara said, “ My Wiliam, that was a damned close aqueak!"" There was no real intents nominating MecHinley in 122 was felt no Republican om) electel—it was mot‘a Repub year—but | am sure that Mr. 3 thought if MeRinley made a | shewing In the convention a | it might help him to win in 154 first work for MeKinlev's yom tion was done in that rocer by 1 men in their underclothes. Mr. Hanna's fear that [52 not a Republican year wae real President Harrison was des and Grover Cleveland cect the second time. But the organization to soi MeKinley In 1896 was active work, The most minute detall not neglected. Each man wo dared himself favorable to Md ley's nomination was en alphabetically umder Mr. Has supervision. MeKinkey was governor of and in constant touch with thes! tion through visita to Mr. Hi and Myron T. Herrick in Clevel and through the visits of be! them to Columbus. February, 1893, Govern | Kinley promised te deliver the Bi ington Birthday address belo Ohio Society of New York. I was in New Work at thea stopping at the Holland fa Eugene Field had come with oi my @uest for se few days’ re. were eating breakfast 00 ! twenty-second, when Field! clairmed, "Ghoul Lord! Mekisla busted!" and read me a csp from New Castle, Penssylaics ing McKinley had receive © thats friend of his, Robert L. Wak of Youngstown, fad failed, and he had turned back to Your and wired New York, cancel! engagement with the Chis Soo" The dispatch stated that fe" nor McKinley was on Walker #2" to the extent af £17,000, I knew something of Mckirle! finances and did mot beliece So! [Contiaagd oa Pope 14

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 5 By JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER (ASPS 3 just like that, Glenn Thenamy told himself; the res a Wasps’ mest, He was sitting alone, through vening, in the narrow drawing-room of Morris nurow hous! on a narrow street. Glenn never id stayed in a dwelling so crowded in upon, and sed him. He had been in the city now, at Caner's, ae. and the time, reaching forward and back, bad seem interminable. Thenamy was there, eo far mings County, in Kentucky, with a most splendid ot Morris Caner, who hed connections in Limuis- d incidentally for himself. Glenn Thenamy knew e tract of oil-bearing land on which he could, he ain, foree a foreclosure, and then secure for the small sum of twelve thousand dollars. It was in rstof that he was North. Caner, he had thought— terested im the by-products af oll ~might well furnish the money for erty’. etwas that Morria Caner had prac- sided to do this for the purpose of ig gascline; but he had to be sure ye depth of the ofl, and an analysis gmade. In the meanwhile Caner voidably gone to New York, lenw- amy the hoepitality of his roof and . Thee servants, tagether with o eke, bothered Glenn. They didn't east embarrass him im i] at eaae; noth- we sort: they simply lhim. They were, for . in the way princi- ‘his cating. Glenn von the table, where i be weighed, con- tolanced against tte and this thing of a ypearing and disap- through @ aoundless ith an effect of stage wee a sourer of inrita- jot what above all turbed him waa the ae, im brick and stone ftal. Glenn had an n that he couldn't properly; that he tstreteh out his long He was actually very og and humorously wrioudly hard and mouth closed tightly without a mark of its 7 hs black hair strag- » the rim of hia coat ms fact was dark, a # oil rdges and hol- but the darkest, the st thing about him seyes. They were like oa coal, with a rapid af like the flicker af Bi etal, truth about his eyes at they inspired neither act her calm in theac ret tubjected to their ig ecrutlny, No-opti- oral] describe them as ; they Were open in ne ofthe werd, But if his Wis restless, his hanced, fod thin, were abeo- ‘ twitched: i wer they happened to han fexerable quiet. tend moved now in a smooth precision to fray ald pold-cased watch in his waist- Meket. it was not yet nine, and he re- athe watch with a zigh. He would have ta bed at eipht, but there was a chance of is flim after dinner— Morris (Caner dit dimer—with, it might he, a decision wart for Geng. He poke aloud, wonder. what in the name of a bitterly qualified ‘plein kent the other, Why didn't he hs the designated sum of speciied money Thetamy get back to Lexington and cnrnmaia aad Ficleas, Foeleger wv f fF RF A T E OB A F Bennings County, where, the further elaborated Creator knew, he had an overwhelming amount to attend to, Glenn Thenamy had at first gone out with Caner, and alone, to stores and public buildings and parks, restaurants and theaters; but, unaecountably, it had tired him physi- cally. Ther he wos o little past all that in years, fifty-four ina littl while; and in addition he was anxious to get back South to his wife and to the oil lands situated in a country where nothing could be predicted from day to day, The weather as well was bad, a November of icy rain. Thenamy had never notieed the weather in Hennings County, but here in the elty Lt was like an unewsy knife at his back. No, while he was obliged to stay here he pre- ferred sleep, the slow chewing of tobacco and an easy—chair to excursions for any improvement of mind or amusement. Tt was reasonable tosnppose that, here on aTelatively quiet street, he would feel comparatively free: bot this was mot the case, Quite on the contrary, the houges crushed against Caner’s on each fide, with partition walls that blurred bat didn't deaden the votes: and sounds 7 on either hand, particularhy bothered ] him. There was, every littl while, an qudiblt sharp buzzing, often angry and threatening; and that was what mode him think of a waape’ meat, “Vou Kace James Wemlag Peetiy Well, ond Fou Reolies Hoe Un: fee Can Gather e's Desperate Noo as Weil" C. oH. werieleef f£ #& Af of He was, shortly and comprehensively, uneasy. These weren't his conditions and people and dangers, Danger, in ewilt red spurte of explosions, was an inbegral part of his existence. In the faces of the varieties he understood he wae almost serene: but, conscious of a pervading inimical inffuence here, he couldn't recognize it, he didn't know how it was to be met, Caner’s servant hed, with an ex- presaion Glenn Thenamy had wanted to pound into hia skull, brought him a spitteon; and Glenn, with a foot, moved it-to a more convenient situation. It was by no means cloee, but not a stain fell short to disfigure the gray velvet carpet. Glenn bit a fresh semicircle from an oily wedge of tobacco, and, comfortably uncomfortable, determined to stay up until ten o'clock. An automobile passed, swift and silent but for the mideden stuttering blore of ite horn, and an assault of rain-heayy wind beat upon the two front windows. There was a light under a ruffled green silk shade at the back of the room —if they wanted light, why, in an exact charac terization, did they cover if up?—and a floor lamp with a bell of bronze-colored glass beside him. Between them the gilded eagle on the mantel clack seemed to flutter its lifted wings, ‘Glenn's eyes, no matter where in that in- terior they rested, always glanced back at the eagle. There was something familiar, satisfactory, about that effigy of in ieirel, anyhow, The rest of the furnishings—the scrubbed marble and soft velwet, the chaira and hangings and pictures spe- cally—only added to his vague discomfort. They weren't easy; that was it! The pictures, Glenn severely thought, belonged in the anloons of the past; they ought to have no place in a home; and with the corners of his lips relax- ing he imagined his wife with such seenea to hang. That one with the girl ina sewing, her skirts Aylng! Yea, the wickedness here he was ignorant of; it had a mis- leading air of being same- thing elec; there was a pretense that all was right, Glenn Thenamy, though, knew etter, What, he supposed, made him nerv- ous was that it was a wichednesa not controlled, frankly, with the leveling of a gun, There, exceptionally equipped, wholly ade- quate, Glenn was at case, This menace, like the wind, played at his back in an ambush that was fteelf in- visible. No, it couldn't be shot at, stopped with the shock of a steeled bullet. No stones were handily to be picked up, and there was nothing really to throw them at. He diverted his mind by the thought of the actual dangers that waited for him in the Ben- nings oil tract, It was dif- ficult to exaggerate these, yet they didn't disturb him. lis hands, along the arm of the chair, were a8 still aa the hands of a sleeper, of a dead man; rut there was a benseness in their immobility far from death, The sound of voices behind him, in the other house, grew louder, clearer and angry, and he ould alow! distinguish the words, They were, ns usual, the tones of a man and a woman; the woman told, biting=-and young—the man speaking. but it was nearly shouting, in rushes of iiieentralled Ln EET. Glenn spiculabed about them. Ue had seen them both, in passage, on the adjoining exterioratepa. The woman, muffled in a bloe Ca pHe, ib blue cloth hat low over her eyes und with a concealing brown veil, was slender enough to be described asa girl; the man, too, wie young, With a flushed face and bright, hard lie: yess. Glenn Thenamy had asked Caner about them; but he, knowing ther beth well, had been in- different in his reply, They were the Herning, James end Ava. She hac been someone or other—Glenn evuldn't see the importance of this—and she rode horses very well—o fect Glenn ectoad on atonce, James—no one, it seemed, called him Jim—hed « bad temper, made worse by the whisky he continuously drank. That was about all there was, Caner pronounced, to James, Oh, yes, he was

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6 THE SATURDAY EVENING /0OS8T a good live-pigean shot; and, younger, his taste for fight- ing had been colebrated. Glenn waa interested: and now, with the contention beyond penetrating to him, he wondered what in a named locality the trouble was. He could, he thought, detect whisky in the masculine voice, The clamor reset and then sank, stopped, abruptly; there was a loud closing of the door; and then after a short space a second shutting of an outer door, This was followed by the sound of steps at Morris (Caner's entrance. The servant went noiselessly through the hall, and the woman, infinitely more like a girl in a simple white dress with a low neck and noe deeves, came inte the drawing-room, She was surprised but not disturbed as Glenn Thenamy Toe, and continued to advance with a light ateurity. She had thought Morris was at home, she explained. He frequently sat here in the evening and she often informally ran in, She was Ava Heming. “T knew that,” Glenn replied. “I aaked him about you," When, neturally, she demanded why, he was embarrassed, and in an- ewer shifted his toharce from one flexible cheek to the other. “Don't bother to think out a lie," she continued, dropping inte a low chair and erosaing elim knees. “You soe, I really don't want to know. I was just tall- ing. Your name ia Glenn Thenamy, ian't it?” “Yea, ma'am,’ he said. “You are here abowt of in Kentucky, and you met Morris in Lexington." “All correct," he indorsed this. “I'm right flattered to have you know so much." The servant, undemanded, entered, and on a low table between them arranged a filled decanter, tall glasses, small blocks of ice and a pitcher. “No water,” Glenn directed sharply. “T thought only women took it straight,” his companion observed. “No, ma'am!” he replied with emphasis. “In my country we like it emall and quick. And not so small, either,” he added with a gleam of humor. “T was going to stop you there,” she admitted. “It's always plensant in here,” she wenton; “I suppose because it’s usually quiet. James and I have ao many rows our house is like ——" She paused. "A county circus,” he suggested. “That's why I asked about you,” he admitted: “you can bear them in here.” “The devee you enn!" she exclaimed. “IT never thought of that. Well”—she made a gesture of indifference " Worria understands it, and the Jaynes, on the other side, are in Egypt.” She clouded her straight features, her straight gray gaze, with cigarette amoke, Glenn Thenarmy was shocked, He waa displeased at the legs free of covering, at the cigarette, and particularly at the fact that she swore. His uneasiness at the city grow, Before him obviously was what he must deseribe aa a fine lady, a thoroughbred: and she had the manner ofl—of a mere creature. At the same tine he liked ber. Against so much that he couldn't penetrate, account for, in her there wae a great deal that he could. If Caner hadn't told him that she ree well he would have guessed it. There was ne mistaking her lithe, poised body, the weather-hardened skin of her face, the sinuous strong fingers. Amazingly, at that exact moment, she said: “Do you know, I like you, and I am specially glad you are chewing tobaceo. Somehow it ia a tonie for me. The apitteon, in Maerris' drawing-room, on this street, ia a scream, I'd like to lead a hundred people, all within 8 hundred yards of us now, around it.” “That,” Glenn told her in an fmpulee of eonfidence— “that ts what T don't rest against up here, There are too many people ton close; you can’t tell what they are albeout.” Bhe studied him coolly, “You don't seem to be a coward.” "Tam," be assured her cheerfully, “in an assortment of ways. I've been seared clean out of my boots any number of times. [t—well, it goes with my life.” She leaned forward. “What is your lite?" she demanded, “Oil, [ guess, as much as anything; though it didn’t used to be that. When it was opened up in Bennings County T sort of opened up with it, Fora while, back there, [had a good piece of money. Then it ran dry. But if Caner'll listen ta me now we'll both be right. I've stepped plumb on a fat rattler this time," She asked, “Won't it bite yout” He smiled, ' “Not me; I've been handling snakes too long; I'm “T believe you are," she said slowly, gazing thaught- fully at him. “Deo you know, I believe you are the worst- locking man I ever saw. Yeu, the ait woret. That, I suppose, is why [ am attracted to y “Not to boast,” he assured digs "T have just that reputation, You ain't a lamb yourself.” "Tam not,” she answered crisply. “Though my op- portunities for anything decided are mot very gool— "Te La at all." “Wile,” he put in, “have been nonpareil,” They Hod Aiffed — aad Heen Kilied “You fill me with envy, The truth is T hate all the slush I'm caught in.” Her gaze, he thought, was the coldest he had ever seen in a woman. “I want to kill somebody, but it would coat so much—more than it's worth. I'd lose what liberty I had, the only thing that keeps me on my feet." “There you are wise,” he agreed with her. “It's a mis- take to Kill anyone if you haven't got things kind of fixed in your direction. Most of the men I knew who had right bad luck set out to kill in a place—a town, maybe—where they were etrange. You can't get it done safe to yourelf.” She plainly showed that she was fascinated, and to his enormous relief ahe didn't sak if he had killed anyone. She seemed to realize that, emphatically, he had. Settling back allently inte her chair, her expression wis gloomy. Glenn nervously changed his position and set his gaze upon the ceiling, the gilded eagle whose wings seemed to be gathering for Might. He, Glenn, wlahed Intensely that he might fly too; back to Bennings County and the life, the perils, he knew, A grinding of brakes sounded outside. Tt waa one of thoee tadenhs, with Morris Caner back from New York, decided, probably, about the ofl tract, “Never,” Morris Caner declared, “have I seen two wore characbers in consultation!" A large man, vigorously made, he wore clothes which misleadingly appeared to be carelessly chosen and worn. His features were heavy, but hia eyes held a perpetual light af humor, so that it wes dificult te know when he was serious. Glenn Thenamy could never quite decide this, and in consequence he was always at a alight disadvantage when talking te Caner, A curlows thing, in connection with that individual, had happened to Thenamy. “Your Kentuckian,” Ava Heming observed, “I like very much: we hove exchanged everything but his te- bacco, I know him, I fancy, as well as he docs me: and that is more than a dash. At the same time, Morris, he enrages me: le makes me perfectly furious—he is so satisfied with himself.” "Why—that—that’s not so!" Glenn protested. ' How eould it be—a man like myself? Whatever put that in your head to say?" he demanded, turning to her, “Tt's quite true.” She rose. “Thanks, Morris; 1 must see you again, and I want Janes to meet you—you'd appreciate cach other. He really is ft to associate with us" When she had gone Glenn directed a silent quaint. series of questions, at Caner. “You see tt all," he replied, “There is nothing irae Tinws; no sleeve to hide it in, God stuff—I like Ava immensely—but wasted. She'd be better off without any of her apirit. Diseontent! All the good ones have it here. James is sullen; I can't find more in him than that." Glenn Thenamy speculated over what he had been tald. Caner, he decided, hadn't been satisfactory. Sleeve or no sleeve, there were qualities in the Hemings that abeorbed him, qualities hidden. She was, she had said, lost in slush. It was too bad. Not like his wife or any other women be hed encountered, Mrs. Heming was superlor in her coolness. His thoughts were interrupted by Morris Caner’s voles. Waa it light of serious? Glenn wished desperntely that he could make out, May it, “Look here, Glenn, [ have had a very bad report» I don't mind telling you they couldn't well have = worse. It included murder; but, of course, oem pretenses, accessory in any number of crimes, mm cially treachery. I don't know what to say toyou: | and that's afact. It's the treachery that disturbs ns rest we could talk over, but there is something fy, be I can‘t touch," Glenn Thenamy rose, straightening out hh ly stip. "Mr, Caner,” he began—te his own surprise be tears rolling over the rough inequalities of bis & “Tye been all of that," he went on again, “and so forgot. to mention. I've been a bad man, and in B= I'm supposed to be, right now. “But where you are concerned, where anythin belong bo you eemes up, I tale core of it for po friend and you » friend, and noi ever change or threaten me a 5 that.” He mi right palm, “ Ya my oil, Mr. Canée! “You will swear to that, Caner retorted. report from the try good: so: promis at the price it fools suspicious, The man who wee: for us doesn’t think you can get it done.” Glenn Thenamy’s expression relawed: he chew curely. “Leave that to me,” was all, however, that he a "You aee,"" Caner went on, “the conditions, ing ihe priee, are not entirely favorable, Twelve tha is only a half of the purchase, and in order to get th have to put up a thirty-thousand-dollar bond the: bare four wella within six montha. [ don't know they holders, They might be more interested in th: | thousand than in developing the ail.”* “Leave that to me," Glenn repeated calmly. (Caner's volee developed a note of impatience, “That's 2 curious way to do business,” "This business is right smart curious all the Glenn was undisturbed, patient, alaaoat miminative “But it's a queer way to invest money,” Cor insisted. “Even with what I've done, I can't se be are going to rum it." “Now, logkahers, don't bother me!" Glenn exces “Tf you think you'd like to hear all the littl: deta» wrong; your system couldn't stand them. I zaid—i T?—that we'd goin with a half of this and come mt it all. Aint that enough?" “Wo murder,” Morris Caner directed sharply. “Murder! Glenn was plainly disgusted. “Who a word about that? | warned you mot to mo m corner, You're not fitted, as you stand, to do busin Hennings. By yoursell your money would b& 2 wasted. The—hark to this! I used to yse her eh! those olegant offices—personal equation is what ~ there. Yes, air, just that! At the sare time, undent IT don't want you to give me @ hard loole if ther’ accident. That's mighty apt to happen with the me they're drinking now. Oil's a chaney thing too; de and forpet it." Morris Caner sighed and laughed. "You ought to be hung, Glenn,” he asserted: “! pect we all ought to be, Well, it was left to me; 5 won't make a decision to-night, To-morraw's Saturdi you can go back to Kentucky, Sunday.” "T don't beliewe IT ean atand it that long even wth» Glenn Thenamy admitted. “To peekon ['1) pet on, ed can send me a telegram to Lexington. ‘This city be worried. Why, a simple shooting, that seems to sor all up, is nething te what's going on here all the ie can't ser it for the walls, but she's there just the sam. badder'n | ever dared to be,” “Nonsense! Either you're ancall or romantic.” “Tespect they're bad names, but they don't up| T tell you, this is a wasps’ nest!" “Why, vou old fool,” Caner ered, “there's nota ey it that can tauch you!" “They've got me a lot of ways," Glenn insistel ¢ gedly. “I'm not just green. Take that in with the Hi ings, that wicked buzzing, and her in here with her { eyes, and bold logs, her drinks and cigarettes. You“ about me, but have another look at Heming’s fee—® a killer, That aln"t the worat—I hiavtes thee heveee 0 7 other side, with that man crying at night.” "T told you Foreham had temporarily broken ae Caner said impatiently. “It's not to be wondered at 5 you remember that he isin the fareign-exchange depart" of a great banking firm.” “That's it, and again it isn’t.” Glenn mee “TEE along down to-morrow."

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 7 ml faee Carrie fer Sead, Shot fag 2 Long oy wll not] Caner ue L "it's not quite ¥ faa that, There eqaestions I must preced, No, you'll pal up with it here lay. I don't mind admitting that I think—I think ho. And there's your friend Ava Heming; don't bout her. [ could see she was interested in you." ey much embarrassed, Glenn loudly disclaimed. it right, be insisted, and with them all married. would comb him if she caught any such loose lowever, Morris was a bachelor, and they were the we, everybody knowed that. flowing, coarse, white nightshirt, with the minute (ered Jenny had worked about the neck, Glenn ay sappearauce had » grotesqueness contradicted— aps caumed—by the grimnesa of his face. When he me. or thinking, he seemed older than his actual then he showed the effect of the strain in which a beal of hia life had been passed. The room in be slept lay across the house, at the back, with theating anger of the Hemings on one side, the ines like steel and the hammering voice like a tc the other was the man who sobbed apas- uly. He was till now, but at any moment, new, he would begin again a hopeless, dead- Tyg with a catch in the breath. iscmehow, brought back to Glenn Thenamy EP rtormy courge of his life; it lay before him fland, witwere, visibleataglance., He was— tinded himaelf be had always been—sort of mi; that is, if anyone decried religion or the ite permitted himself a sarcastic difference of it; it hardly went further than that. He was, cites, a good husband: he recognized that ¥. The girk, to apeak generally, had na power ‘Ration over him, He was true to his Jenny. this brought him to his feeling, his loyalty to at Morris Caner, hat be was steadfast, beyond assault, He had (18 Caner had proclaimed, false to associates in mel. Mark Sondera he had killed—but it was able that Mark had intended to kill him; he had sil and falsely testified about it Inter; politically — oT 3 10 use in going into that. The politics of ry County, like ita business, was peculiar. What ‘eletling he had for Caner? It was respect, but that 1} cough to account for hia attachment. It was— eed if he knew what. bathe oecupied his mind was the unusual fr Hon of exactly how bad he was. The city, which he , 2 and feared—had put that question in his En Saddenly he didn't want to be a part of the city. TNE Wis resumed, long and hopeless. To Glenn ae It itemed not sorrowful, but evil, the suffering td cutola man by —— That was what he did a not understand. He wanted tao 1 take the victim to the peace— he thought af it here aa that—of Hennings County. How bad was he? Pretty supernally damn bad | But this mysterious thing around him wes wore. He opened his windows, feeling choked; but at the subdued menace flowing in, the sound that was no sound, and which yet filled his hearing with ita threatening, he slammed the sashes abut. : The room was furnished tn gray, with touches of pink; asoft luxurious bed with fleecy blan- kets, deeply eomfortable chairs, small intricate lights, and a inconceiv- ably fled with means of cleaning. He had forgot to fetch up the spittoon, and he spat gingerly into a porcelain basin. Glenn wished for Jenny. She would have ap- preciated all these traps and-fixings. This, he told him- eelf, was mo way for aman to live: it waa for women. The bed was so soft that be found |t uncomfortable; anyhow, sleep evaded him. He wished that he had his life all to live over again; he'd be different. He would have made a regular-thing of saying his prayersa—no use to begin now. It would look like he was cowardly. The stinging accents.of the Hemings started up. As it waa, he reflected, there was little could be done there. They were too much alike, fightera; a wenn for Glenn's taste must be—well, like 2 woman. Jenny had as sharp a tongue as any; but itwas only sound, the evidence that ahe had been worrlel about him. This Mr Heming wea more Ilke a man; mo, that wasn't right, he didn't know what she resembled. He thanked a designated grace that he waa net tied to her, But ehe waa different from the city—the rleling had done that for her. He had seen women a little like her in the horse-show rings of the South, and on the great Kentucky racing estates; but he hod never, as he phrueed ft, met up with one before. Mrs. Heming was like that, only more so, a great deal more so; and at the same time ahe had a lagk. He could see her in worn calico, dusted with dried elay, in the doorway of an mountain enbin; be could see her with a pipe clenched in her teeth and a baby at her hared breast. The Hemings had no children, Glenn had cHseovered, Tt was lucky, he thought, that his sheurd vision waa hi own, unrevealed, How he would be jeered for it by Caner, by Mrs, Heming herself, ly everyone! She was o lady, and he had been picturing her as a mountain woman! That vision, thaugh, persisted, He evytin saw at her back the single room of the enbin, or perhaps an interior cut in two. He saw the emall wood-burning stove, the pipe led through an informally eut hole in the wall; the walls themselves, chinked with mud and partly covered with “Soe Jtepped Flemt oa a Fal Batter Tale Time" the faded and flapping colored sheets from past newas- papers; the beds, bagged straw, in the corners, God, how often he had stayed in auch cabins, slept in them bealde a husband and wife, male and female relatives, and uneasy children! They had got up before dawn, with the room filled with the odorous sputtering of bacon: and, the women subdued in voice, the men ailent, hurried through breakfast and gone out with rifles inte the flush of morning. They had slipped through the under- brush like shadows, like waepe on foot: or ridden along the recky courses of dried streams, winding about the bases of the mountains. They hed killed—and been killed. He had been carried back for dead, shot through alung; but he had recovered, except for a pain that some Himes now burned within him. He hod been slashed with a knife, in Lexington, at noon, in the midst of the day's throng, and he—he had stood on hia feet again. He reckoned that he, Glenn Thenamy, waa a very tough man. That was all to be expected; it was regular, It was his present situation, in a room of gray and pink, with a bath- room like a conundrum, that waa strange. What had brought him here? His badness, he supposed; but he h that it was something elee. He wanted it to be hia feeling for Morris Caner, whom he was going to treat aquarely; far whom, [fit were atrictly necessary, he would sacrifice so much, He fastened on that, for it alone seemed to give him some security, something to hold to in the rottenness around him. Strangely enough, although it wasn't real, like, for example, the littl: lamp he could put his hand owt and touch, Glenn felt that it was more solid than the lamp, than the floor or the walls of the house. Stranger, he added, by far than walls through which came such dirty sounds, : The crying had stopped, but the Hemings hadn't; that, Glenn realized, couldn't go an. Something—with those two—ugly was bound to happen. They were like that; two dangerous individuals tied together. Any self-control was leaving them fast. It wasn't his concern. Whatever happened would happen after he had gone, when he waa free from the city, He would naturally forget the Hemings. Tt wouldn't do for him to stroll about Bennings with his mind away from the concerns surrounding him, but now he was sorry. He liked her in apite of her brazen manner. At noon on the day following, still without committing himself to the purchase of the oil tract, Morria Caner told Glenn that Ava Heming had asked him to dinner at eight o'clock that might. "T reckon we'll go," , replied. : T waan't invited,” the other explalned, “You see, I am ntta—anovelty tothem.” He paused obviously to alter his phrasing. Glenn sald instantly, “That's not night. Why, im with you! So farins they're concerned, Tam you." "Th Bennings County, yes," Caner informed him; “that is your form of ([Continaed om Page Iv2) fie Asked, “Waoa't ft Site Fea F""

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5 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST How DoT hey Get That Weigh By Nina Wilcox Putnam tainly hes a big effect upon what one can accomplish, You can go just aa far a8 you can aee in this world, and by that I don't mean the horizon which is. discernible to the naked eye or with cheaters doctored to your proper prescription either, but aa far beyond os you ere capable of perceiving with a healthy imagination. Let me illustrate: One day I was driv- ing my tin Lizsey along over what pur- ported te ba a country road, when I came upon what was pretending to be a town. Not that it was making any very obvious effort about it, however. I should say that sometime in the past a couple of tramps had been thrown off the train thereabouts and, feeling too discouraged to go any farther, they established Presto. At any rate, whoever got the idea of mak- ing this tewn had go far aceompliehed a post officer and general store on the Siamese-twin style of architecture, a cow barn, @ hen coop which had lately been promoted to the rank of gasoline station, besides too half-portion bungalows, The railroad company had thrown in a second- hand depot, and there was alao the usual real-estate signboard to the effect that this wees PRESTO-ON-THE-RAILAOAR, HREAUTIFUL Howk Sires, Lots Fo SALE. ONE Dotar DGWS AND a DAGLLAR WHEN WE Catch Tour, Wh Not BUILD HERE? Stopping Lizzy beside the only citizen in sight, | aroused him from his Rip Van Winkle long enough to answer a question. “Why Fiesta?’ I ashed, The old boy untangled his whiskers from about his feet and stood up. “Young lacy." saya be, pointing, “it's called that because we are very centrally located here, Do you see that railroad station yonder? Well, you can go any place in the world from thet!" This remark of Father Timo's registered heavily with me, and... at once read into it one of these personal interpretations which can be suggested by anything if we are ripe for a particular bit of knowledge. I took him to mean that one can aceom- plish wonders, provided ane really desires to, Of course he may not have intended any such wise crack, but acting upon my understanding of it I have since made many a long journey, and of these none has been more astonishing to me than the road from slimness to fatness and from fatness to a perfectly normal weight. A few months ago I wrote an article for THE SATURDAY EVENING Post in which I told half the truth concerning thie experience. That ia to aay, I deseribed the alchemy by which one might grow thin. Having by certain methods got rid of a lot of weight, [ thought it would be a kindly act to pasa along the how. The fact that I had Jost fifty pounds in seven months, after having jumped from ninety= eight pounds to one hundred and eighty-seven, would, I believed, bring forth a large, interested response, It did. From thin folka who wanted te know haw I had grown fat. I will now oblige with the story of that earlier experience. Oy personal point of view cer- Three Causes of Light Welght T THE age of nineteen, and the welght of ninety-eighe, I was not extraspecdally worrhed mbrwt my slimness except as it affected my collar bone. Of course in those quaint, old-fashioned days us society buds wore, with our evening gowns, Walste which were recognizable as such, Rut unfortunately even these naive bodices did not go all the way up, if you get me. They left the collar bone entirely exposed except for the conventional dangling fresh-water pearl on tte thread of woven gold chain, In these days I was so thin I could have worked as a model in a spaghetti factery, You might have parked a mint of water in the hollaws of my neck, and when [ pot out of my bath | had to lean over and let the water run out before IT could get dry. As T lack back tipen those lean years I recall with gratitude that legs were as yeb officially unknown. Even my bathing costume, purchased in England, had fll and mercifully eoneealing blogmers, ane at that time all ladies also wore a corset into the briny deep—a stalwart corset, capable of holding a substantial amount of padding. Onte Ske Wasted to be Fat Of course in an age when hips were an aeert and it was considered chic ta reveal, upon lifting the raffled akirt at a stroct crossing, a tightly laced boot, it was a nuisance to be so slender. But except in the matter of one's décolletage skinniness could be camouflaged very effectively if not in complete comfort. The bustle manufacturers were still im business, and it was a comparatively simple matter to ruffle wp a little maslin at home and pin the rexult across the front. of one's corset cover, ao that one's Gibson shirt waist stuck out satis- factorily. And aa, taking things by and large, I was straggling along with my slimness without undue discomfort, when quite unexpectedly a seriqua reason for dissontent over- took me, I threatened ta pull a Comille, I put it lighth:, but it waa no light matter for me, except when | stepped on the scales. Ninety-eight pounds and nepot on one lung i a pretty poor combination, particu= larly if one is also a wage earner whose money is needed by the reat of the family. The doctor said it nicely, but it waa hard to stand up under, just the same, Two years, if I obeyed him implicitly, was what he gave me. He was a leading authority on tuberculogis, but he was wrong about me. For he counted on perhaps a 40 per cent adherence to his rules on my port, whereas [ made it 100 per cent faithful, and fooled him. At the end of that two years I weighed one hundred and eighty-aeven pounds and he proncunced me cured. [have hod no return of the trouble, although [ have, since my period of probation, lived a perfectly normal life, have a healthy child, and have done my work with joy and regularity. Now just for luck [ am going to give the regimen which cured me. It may not auit your case, Tneleed, [ hope sin- corey that you have no such cose to suit, But at beast it certainly cannot hurt you to try my methods if you are desirous of putting on weight, However, the coved fact is that if wou persistently remain thin in spite of a normal diet, and are only moderately active, the chances are that there is something wrong with you, For heaven's sake see adoctor, See him anyway before you boy my prescription; fat leg coyly overlapping the top of a May 1 let him read it through, and the me out, Passengers will take tb) at their own risk. Roughly apeaking there are thn causes for a teclwe-and-a-hall col) neck which ought to demand 9 a Firat, dizeage: second, an easily er chemical deficieney' Im the orgy your hody; and jthird and moe misspent lunch money. I want tc separately on these three euboe am going to grab off the most ony one first and get rid of it, partly T. 2B. is the inatinetive fear of evs thin individual, and also becage | thickening-up process occurred connection. And again because * so obviously curable, provided, fir you catch itin time; second, that: low the rulea absolutely; third, 1! keep on doing so wrtil the doe ay you can have one smoke a day, High Life in Mew Fori T WAS the belief of the phyxin effected my cure that tubercular; shawld and could get well in the where they are obliged by their b tolive. He considered it a mistake aman from Long Island out to 0 unless the Long Islander was going for the other trunk and ice box and thing, and make Colomade his bey ters for the rest of hits life. In other the theary was that though (; would probably cure, a meturn te Island would occasion a relapse, by reason of my circumstances, to New York City, and ao the roof apartment hows: was the change mate prescribed, . For a period of months [ epent towelwe heura a diy in asteamer chair on that root, and there that I wrote my first neve. winter was severe that year, 2 it way Of being in Manhattan, and of 601 Fifth Avenue was often o with snow. I wore gloves, and c over the gloves, andl wrote eighty sand words with a lead pencil up o snow-clad city peak. The novel, in tly, found a publisher, By which D mean no brag b pointing out that I eould and did keep on with my Two hours a day were spent indoors, receiving friend aooon, I even gave, during that winter, a costume te which T went In the character of Madame Récam a part of the treatment was that on days when Im termperature T was to lie down and not get up unt temperature departed, So life, you see, for such ap need not be all hardship. At the end of the eight x T weighed one hundred and thirty pounds and we sidered well enough to move about ocewsionally, Now here are the rules T follawed: I. Never under any circumstances or in any © remain in a roam or a conveyance where all the wir are claasd. Never, If. Never walk an unnecessary step if you have half a degree of rectal temperature, Lie dawn. The will pass, and next day, most likely, you cn about in moderation. Take the temperature twict Ill. Eat no eweete, That seems a curio rule, bu a Vostly important one, Eggs and milk, green veges simple meats cooked plainly, and fruit in moderation | the beat diet, supplemented by thoroughly cooked = IV. Take no medicines, Especially no cough med Timplore you. During the two years of my illnes tir medicine I took was an occasional dose of old-ehi sirup of rhubarh, as required, ¥. Don't cough. I know that sounds like nonsense it can be done. Fully 80 per cent of any cough & b and coighing, once you permit yourself to tart. a wore than poison ivy when you scrateh it. Conse! on net coughing. When you feel the cough coc tent yourself with a mild “Ahem! You cas pati control it if you will wse your will power, The mo uncontrolled coughing soon becomes uncontrollable. : the resultant exhaustion will be your worst he«d Don’t sneer at this last recommendation. [t is ex and of ineweulable help. “si VI. Keep occupied and happy. You can't geben) without poise,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 9 tabeolutely all [ did, In two and a half years I sletely cured, and so fat that [ bad to reduce. ve second cause of ehronie thinness to which I have IT knew les about, Come to think of it, I hove red a lot of troubles, thank heaven! But [ do tt there are a lot of fancy acida which you ought i your stomach, and that somehow or other there versight concerning them when some people were Hat the plant. aedy this condition you can take powders and ad in time the trouble with your carburetor will ted. rer, I have, though a woman, long endeavored to nyself to talking only af things which I know hat is, except when asking questions, Your better equipped to tell you all about it, and he ably write a litt chemical shorthand on a slip of ewes they do, and say five dollars please, as is ral, wn you will be free to go and give the drugstore preseription and the rest of your money, and : you will in all probability begin to get fat on cored, iot kidding about the dectera, God bless "em! I ly pointing out that essential acids are something tae known to be acquired by the overly thin, and Flack of development, or disappearance, generally wout through the ose of improper foods and core- te af life, nt and really sensible people now go to their wice a year for an examination, They go in fear ibling that the doe will find a little work for him- if they po regularly they soon discover that a little all he ewer does find, for an ounce of prevention sighty leng way in a profesdion where fillings are bay the gram. And why shouldn't this go for the too? uree we all hate te de it In either case unless we have a pain ora complaint of some sort. But f and consider what a grand thing it would be to viare in good health. The improvernent in one's sey Would repay the office fees, for a bot of worry dover ils which are purely imaginary, Why not et the doc reassure you so that you will be free to bout something ele? The homan race would soon physically perfect if we would re our bodies looked over, to be y were in good running order, much regularity as we pul our siles inte the shop for the same No reasonable owner would ~ven a flivver to run more than the without watchful care, and team flivver owner will let his 1 withowt proper greasing, ad- it, taking up, or even burning carbon, until he absolutely has for knocks and squeaks, the A practice is to let "em go as long id body will run at all, The Proper Divi U are, however, perfectly healthy wt for the fact of being under- it may be that you are one of ny whe believe the way to grow ‘gto eat certain foods which are aw although popularly sup- co bee faebbeccirg. va girlin thet class who wanted spup a bit and ao she went on a ng diet. In the morning she ate fe of bananas and some sweet with sugar frosting and butter. ith she wernt around to Murphy's un and had a couple of Murphy's i pastries and an iee-crenm sorin. for dinner she got mommer to econdied eweet potatoes, plum we, pies, cakes and waffles, He- times she stoked up with candy, end of a couple of months she was ftom, v the truth of the matter is that a ealsting exclusively of eweets and ei isone of the worst things a thin iran indulge in. The case in point meistently creating an acid in her ch which precluded proper diges- This would have happened with tany one type of food if that food ten eaten te the exclusion of all i Milk contalna a larger aseort- af the various elements requisite anced diet than any other single hot milk alone will not make a al person fat. There are certain things which I would advise cutting out if you are seri ahowe net likely your slimes, and here ts a list of them: ForBippen ‘ All povetey, Candirs, excepting chocolate or milk choeolate in mod eration, and that only in place of dessert, after meals. Tee-erearm sodas and fountain drinks containing charged waler, Synthetic fruit drinks, Bananas, Cake. Rich sauees on ice cream. Riéh sauces on meat. Highly apiced sauces, Relishes, such as pickles, green olives, chili sauce, catchup and other meat sauces, Russian and Roquefort salad dressing, Freak pork, dried heed, @anned meat and eannerd Ash, Pickled tripe, pigs’ fort, calves’ head, Liver, kidneys, brains, eweetbreads and other innards, Haw meats. Pickled fish, lobster and eral, Cole slaw. All but a very litth: raw or canned fruit. Fritters, waffles, griddlecakes, hot broads. Fried foods, Above all, avoid richness in cooking, Thickenod gravies, sweets, starches in exorss are fatal, And lay off of candy. Folks have heard a lot about fat being undigested food. And a great deal of surplua fat comes from just exactly that cxuse, But no wholesome meat can be free on your bones unless you first of oll digest what you eat, and cake, candy and many of the starches are not digestible onder certain conditions, I'm not saying they ane net plemsant, [ don’t myself like a big box of homemade fudge much more than I do my right eye, but I also have a pretty good netion of what it does te my turnmy Lf it ia given the oppor- tunity, Rich eating may bloat you ff you keep Te up long enough, but it will never give you your normal weight. There are still a few enjoyable things left on the menu, however, “You my have all Aaele need of anything: on this next list, but don"t stuff yourself. Just remember that you are net preparing yourself for the market—that is, mot And Then the Decided te be TA unless you are the skinny daughter of an impatient Ori- ental parent. And even if you were attempting to land a job a fat lady in a circus, stuffing wouldn't speed things along. Bat until you are satisfied, and then stop. Don't over- eat. "Let," aa the poet says, “ged digestion waik an appetite.’ And don’t ever forget that you must assimi- late what you take aboard. PERMITTED dilk. Eggs. Baeon, much bacon: this may be fried, All cereals with cream and mugar, Baked potatoes, Macaroni with cheese, not with tomate, Baked beans. Rien. Euctter, of course. Chicken, chops, ateaks, lamb, beef, Ripe olives, Fish, Grapes. Oyetera and clama, mot fried. Green com, pens, beans, squash, spinach, okra, carrots, beets or any fresh vegetables, creamed or plain. Bread of any kind, except newly baked hot breads, Gluten, whole-wheat of Graham breads ars preferable. Mayonnaise dressing. Peanuts or peanut butter, Rice pudding, baked custards, tapioca, rennet, plaln lee cream. What and When to Drink ONFINE yourself to these desserts, supplemented by an occasional bite of sweet chocolate. And don't you dust to go and jazz those puddings up with a lot of spice and sugar and faney sauces! Make ‘em in boiled custard or rich milk only, A few currants or raising may be added if desired. Asa matter of faet, nuts, raising and dried figs are about as god a dessert as one could wish for, and are extremely desirable for the would-be fat. Stewed prunes are @ood too, or any other home-cooked stewed fruit. IT said stewed, net preserved. When you lean up agsinst the soda fountain you are to remain on the wagon. Three drinks are ta constitute your entire repertoire, and the first. of these is milk. The second is malted milk, and the third ia freah orangeade mide with plain water, Which lends naturally to drinking with your meals. And drinking at any time leada, even nowadays, to the ube ject of alcohol, Now the first thing I want to say about aleohol is that where you ara concerned tt is out. Very likely you have heard that itiafattening. [t & not, [t will merely bloat you. In acid eases alcohol is most injurious, and in tubercular patienta the we of it is a fatal mistake, It increeses tempern= ture, gives a false stimulation, inducing unwarranted exertion, and is in every way objectionable, To the skinny dieter it is of na help, for it merely creates an abnormal appetite for food and induces the eating of more than the system can properly take core of, Lay off of all alcohol, even if you are able to pet it. Drinking water is another matter, hut water must be taken in moderation at mealtimes, Don't swill your food around im it, for if you do the gastric juices won't get a chance to do their duty by their country. Take one glass of water with your meal and try to remember ta drink a quart between mienla. And by the way, don't eat between meals unless you do it at stated hours. What [ mean to say is, don't go around nibbling at things. Ne candy or crack- ers in the pockets. This habit annoys your friends and it won't make you fat. All it will do is te spoil your appetite for your three squares a day. But if you comfortably can, take a glasa of milk and a cracker in midmearning and amicxlerate tea in midafternoon, Don't eat cheap bakery foods at these times; take a malted milk or a bit of standard aweel chocolate and a ope orange or apple, if you prefer them, But shun the intricacies and the elaborations (Continued on Poge fa!)

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10 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST P UPS THE C COHN HARVEY was preternaturaliy old, but really quite young. He did not belong to the type that sits on the front seat of an omnibus. His mature was too retiring. He sat behind and did not complain when tha flying aparks from the pipes and cigarettes of the gallant and debonair passengera in front took refuge in his eyes. He was toc forbearing. His wardrobe anokit: his character insimple phrase. It intoned the word “sobriety.” Within were fifteen suite, but only two suitings. His ties were numerous, but in pattern identical They had no pattern. On a shelf in his dressing room wore seventern pairs of shoes as closely resembling one another as the members of a Lemperance society. He had got into a groove. His favorite sitting room in the flat was lined with bookeases from floor to eviling. He read everything—good, bad or indifferent. To him books fled the place adventure orcupies in the mind of the average man of thirty-five, Also they were his friends, his enemies, his source of enlightenment or despair. He was on excellent terms with a number of sturdy figures in liternture—mén and women, too—whe in real life would have paralyzed him into instant specchiesences. Speech was always a difficulty with John Harvey. Words are winged, and, alas, he did not possess skill as a fowler, When occasion arcee and he had the will to talk, behold his sentences died stillborn. But be could talk uneam- monly pleasant stuff to per= sons who had no interest in listening. Men who laid carpets or cleaned windows, wonen whose mouths were full of pine while they fitted lone covers to chairs and sofas—to such as these he was eloquent. But of what avail? Silence makes for lonell- ie nees, and he was desper- & ately lonely, although he would never admit it even to himself, To allay the poignancy of loneliness he indulged in a seeret vice, and like ell other views it grew upon him and wes his master. He became a de- voter of the movies —se- cretly at first, but later with growing brazenness. The movies became part of his life far more readily than the theater could have. The lowered lights gave rise to private thoughts, and it waa plensant to a him to ser in this mysterious art the entire gamut of emotions being ranged without a single spoken word. It provided com- forting reflections, it offered a weleome and a refuge to the inarticulate. Particularly was he attached fo pictures of unhappy foundlings who married inte very well- furnished rooms, Their courageous ascent from melancholy and uncharitable surroundings to an approved finale in which nothing iat their curls could be seen, storming against some good man’s breast, wae an unfailing source of delight to John Harvey. It gent him heme to his lonely flat feeling right with the world. It was only the screen maiden whose eyes he dared to meet. In their company his courage was immense. He eould look them equarely in the face, even when, to express the immensity of their emotions, the prepector had mead to multiply their normal proportions by eight diameter In real life a close-up would have filled him with terror, but at the cinema he accepted it unflinehingly and his aym- pathies were aroused in direct ratio te the grief of gladness reproduced. He found the apectacle of eyes that measured three feet acroes and shed hall-pint teara was particularly Moving. But these intimacies taught him no lesson of valor which he might apply to everyday life. In female com- pany he remained as self-conscious and retiring as hereto- fore. Ina crowded railway carriage he would offer his seat only te women of advanced middie age, for he did not dare to meet the grateful ar reproachful glances of the fair. Here was a failure of courage, not of chivalry, since the agony he suffered while remaining seated drove needles of remorse Into his very foundations, The flat in which he lived was comfortable and expen- sive, but not ao atoutly built a8 te exclude all neighborly sounds, Thus, when the youngest daughter of the tenant below, inspired by hopes of a musical career, embarked By Roland Pertwee FLECITRATED AY Wea Ar SEADE PRINCE “Tie My Metis, Fir, anc bt War Four Fatser's Before MWe. Coupe aad Kiiiet = Ling Hard and Bie Come." *Alagertiag f"* Said Joka Wares Iternig upon five-finger exercises, her occasional failures te strike the right note were as audible in John Harvey's study as in her mother's drawing-room, If hath windows chanced to he open at the same time he could hear the words passing between pupil and teacher, the slaps provoked and the ehrill protests. "Mow Dien! “Oe must [often tell you to keep up the wrista?” Whack! “Woaow! You're a horrid beastly beast! [ hate you. I hate all morn"zelles! I wish I was dead!" Tears. Then John Harvey would close the window, because he did net like tears. But the sounds that came from above were very difs ferent. - Quiet footfalls, bath water, chair springs that squeaked luxuriously, softly closed doors—and never any voices, John Harvey decided that the tenant above must be a man after his own heart. Their hours of rising and of retirement synchronized, and in all sorts of silent ways their lives seemed cut from asingle pattern. He had never seen the man, never tried to see him, but he devoted an extraordinary amount of time to thinking and making up May 13, stories abeout bien, Ta attractive stories, fon) invested the myzieda known with hose oy virtue. Often John Harvey suddenly cece ear at the ceiling ame lie amiling content, ta ¢ sounds which per through from abers, ] his solitude to reflect low creqbure wae ocen sapch i Po Bs his, perhaps, the same% killing, Perhaps, the, unproductive hewn; perhaps, the same wistful loneliness. "I've half a mind i) oo the fellow ome af thineg mustd John, “Stil. I never chall.” Half-a-mind isa state, [teeldom hos to mount a fight af of the personal estate of John He started his career ag a emall elk powdered-haired youth, who rode arms on the box of the Harvey rose at last to the post of conf Lnlike his son, the late Mr. H of a blade; he had a roving eye, 0 pre for neckwear in. meee ee and. Eshing enpactty for remaining presence of mixed drinles, That John had failed to follow in hin footsteps wae matter for Insting re Roberts, He cid avert cher od a nence and could not tolerate | he youth wasted without excesses, heledl somewhat Oriental w of women, he felt called 4 had done so before, butt a fresh attempt. He chose an after Was peeping over coverlet and the'ap & I should like a eruz “T'll look to ik, sir, _ though I. believe senson., But a ——" . “An Easter cake would dia,” said John. Roberts drew a deep breath. alee GL “T was about to remark, sit cate B John fidgeted., "Surely this is very: poor cons “Very poor, sir, To claim the p service, it does seem a pity bo me, alr, of your time alone,” John raised his head cher ae ae a re John shook his head. "e "to, no; I thought I heard ‘the chap of flat above: bit it wasnt ——' He picked up a poker and stirred grate. Roberts stuck to his guna. “Thad the offer to-day of a puppy, sir. Very oo ionnble beasts, puppies, I thought, sir, you might fs OF the ember “Ho, just a crumpet, thanks,” said John, “40 mare,” It was hopeless to argue with such a man, bot the lant Roberts made a final effort. “Properly speaking, sir, woman fs man's [ru | panion, [am speaking again on privilege, and 2 1 who has been married himself on sundry occasion John Harvey shivered protestingly: the Montt characteristies of his servant had abeays previlel) with unensy sensations. “ “T dare say all that is very modern and tne, & plied, “buat I find the subject disturbing.”

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 11 22 a pentleman good to be disturbed, air.” Thecked | the interruption with a raised foredinger. world as f ser it is divided into two classes—men for thermselves, and men who share themselves other sex. They might be classified under the Bibliophiles and Polygamists. As to which is ' ideal state I would be reluctant to decide, since en part I know nothing about women and have d the temerity to investigate my Joss." ts wound up the argument with an sighteenth- _ sir, it's my opinion that a man can't, te call himself a man till he's drunk three battles ing and had his arm round the waists of a dozen og interruption and banishment he proceoded “Tt's my motto, sir, and it was your father’s e Cups and kisses—live hard and die game.” meting!" said John Harvey sternly, “Go away er comme back in that frame of mind again.” ing your pardon, sir,” said Roberts, and retired, reached the door an electric bell sounded, followed id knock, 1 owt," said John, and disappeared behind the f a gigantic volume of Burton's Arabian Nights: ircumatances it was an unhappy choice of litera- © Peerticularly lurid paragraph catching his eve im. naatily te revtere the book to ite place in the ft of late-afternoon sunlight pricked a pattern cf (pon the maroon walls, caught the facets of a cut- wl and blew a sprey of rainbows across the ceiling. cell tang again and presently Roberts returned. . "Bir, there's ——" ld you T was out,” replied John, cung Lady." n still owt, Roberts.” wishes to see you, sir; seems to expect to gee you.” eet? Roberta, [am more than ever out." v good, sir, but I'm afraid she'll be disappointed.” hesitated, oe is this young lady?" he ashe. ris said he had no ides. Thought she was from the > had that wistful look of a country girl. | | eet * = 4 ii | i :* "Him!" said John. Roberts, do you think I should be safe in seeing this young person" Roberts’ emile was paternal. "T think it would do you goad, air.” John Harvey looked up for guidance, and there were such a lot of rainbows on the ceiling. "Show her in,” said he. He was quite unprepared for what was to follow, He had risen with the vague intention of securing a large book behind which he might retire in case of need. He never did look where he waa going: not a week inthe year went by but that he ran inte a lamp-post, the back of n cart or some other obstruction; it war the penalty of watching his feet rather than their direction. Roberta’ announcement, “Miss Mary Merrow,” must have synchronized with the girl's entrance. She came in with a sort of run, and John, who wae not fitted with eMclent brakes, walked atraight Inte her. Tt was a most unfortunate introduction. Stammering awkwardly he stumbled back a lew paces, bumped inte a bookease and stood aghast. Roberta had gent out and clased the deer, In the center of the room stood Mary Merrow, rather breathless and blinking her eves very faat indeed. She presented an astonishing pleture, cult to describe what, She had a great deal of hair—wayward and curly— which waa enjoying a rlot beneath an absurd little Mer- cury cap. Her skirt was very short; she wore very large black boots and white stockings, which rucked and stood in urgent meed of suapendering. Hound her neck was a ndiculeus fur hoa, with the ends hanging down behind. Tt looked more liken compress. She had a white blouse with a blue rosette pinned to the left breast and a pair of care fully mended white cotton gloves. In her left hand she carried, by a ring that protruded from the top, a large square parcel, done up in oil cloth, The conformation of this parcel and the ring by which it was held suggested the arcommodution of a wild beast in captivity, The girl's expression was baffling—at the same time familiar. It contained a happy mixture of expectation and awe. She did not appear to be in any way embarrassed by the oddress of her attire: on the contrary, she seemed quite satisfied about that, Tt wauld ine diti- Te" “T don't like to send her away, - John Harvey waa thunderstruck: he could not believe his senses. “He touched the hookease to reassure himself that he was in his own study and not at the cinema. For the first time in his life he realized the meaning of a “film descending on the eyes" It was the only explanation. He had seen Mary Pickford in Daddy Longlegs, Polly- anna, Goapauds and a score of other screen plays. Se- eretly, too, he had loved her, Aa we know, the apectach: of beauty arrayed in rags and her father’s boots had never failed to touch him with romance. But as a prosaic and practical young man, of ane convictions, he had never believed such character: had real existence—that lovely orphans with a passion for tamed rabbits, and with stock- ings that refused to keep up, had any being outside the range of the cinema. The diseovery of his mistake was staggering. ; She stood in the middle of the room blinking and breath- ing very faat. Something would have te be dene, John took a grip on himaelf and spoke, “T—er—Mies Merrow—that is tosay—how do youdot™ “Thank you very much," sald Mary, a9 artless a you please, Tt was difficult. “Ohl” aaid John. “Tsee. Ur! Please forgive me— [—er—wean't for the moment expecting—that b—er—you wish to see me?" “Yes, please.” She nodded. Her almplicity gave him a measure of self-confidence. “Well, here | am—at lonst, I think so." The sentence ended there. Hestarted afreshone. “Do you sit down— I mean will—won't you sit down?" And again Mary sald, “Thank you very much." Dash it! The girl talked like 2 subtitle, He put a chair for her and took another himself, an- nouneing aa he sat down, “My name is John Harvey." "Yes, isn't iT" said she, Assuming she had regarded his mame as an observation on the weather, he politely subscribed, “Very for the time of year." “T know,” said Mary. She had pulled off her gloves and waa rolling them into a ball. Her hands were surprisingly smooth and white. Joho marveled at that, He found himself watching them. (Continued on Page IG) tke Rated Her Chile, Thelr Faces Were Oaly o Feo fackes Aport. ft Wor Joke Naeroey"s Flest Eeperlence of a Clager Op, aad it Saeok Wim

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12 THE BALLIOL s emall and rather plump West Highland terrier, born in Surrey and largely bred in London, the little dag did it quite well, his master thought. Balliol lay on the baking turf below the veranda and horribly growled at the village of Rawling’s Hope; at the vast and placid valley beyond the trickle of white wooden howses: at the Rawling sawmill, which wailed on the edge of o shimmer: ing basin in whose waters great logs were rolling with an animal lazinesa. In his grow] he defled thia valley of the Pennsylvania bills, with all its lumberjacks, their dogs, their offspring and their rattlesnakes. He was magnificent. It seemed to Noel Bretherton that his pet was trying to wie his tail, The young Englishman stem! on the steps admiring Balliol, whose growl swelled as an engine slid to view on the narrow track by the dammed basin, towing three flat cars covered with logs. Men ewarmed from the waterside and the huge trunks began to splash inte the basin as chains were loosed. Fluffs of spray were tossed inte the flerce sunlight and Balliol barked. “Yes, dear heart," said Noel: “that's quite all right when you're half a mile from the trenches, If one of those logs happened to light on you, though ——’ Balliol atopped his noise. A large black tomeat came sauntering easily about the house of gray flint, from the stables, and approached in a composed but ambiguous gait. The terrier paddled up and nosed Noel's boots, “Tust ao," Noel told him: “you're a reapectable Eng- lish household dog, old thing, and you don’t know any. thing of that fellow's antecedents. He has a bad eye. Come along. We'll write letters.” But the logs splashing inte the basin kept Noel's stare for a moment, He looked with a sort of pity at this process. Men hauled the turning bulke to the margin, using long poles. A apiked chain caught the cedar and pine lengths and dragged them up a runway into the droning mill, to a swift assassination under sews. The spinal atream of this valley flowed into the basin under a bridge of whitewnshe! timber, and more logs came eailing on its brightness. The pool wes dense with floating wool. Om the farther shore boys were visible as pink dots, diving from the bank, and some ran carelessly on the logs, chasing each other, Acsmell of messacted cedar hung in the heat, and mist darkened the valley's depth. “Stunning,” said Noel. He lounge into a chalr, let Ballial climb his lex, andl began a note to his father, using the broad rail of the veranda as a desk, aware of the cat observing him fram the slope of lawn. He wrote: Raw Line's Horr, PenNey.vanta, July 12th. Dear Porent: Sanford Rawling motered down to Oil pant early this morning and I am left in no the ial territories, powers orl Snilnigiea: Tt is i as fh responuibility for ane who fos heen here only perceive that this is a feudal state only th hina got or Towt i in n the Tited Sttntes. T feel rather Ike a meieval clerk whose lord has gone tothe Cruanieton short nation, A deputation ef gavage old wamen arrived while I wasshay- ing. to complain ag the village buteler is [ Been was pretending to be a savage beast. For prifiteerin te pork, While T waaat breakfast came an atriarch whe js supreme boss ef the earl awearing terribly that some one has been raiding the dynamite which they use to blast owt rocks for ng paths. ‘Then nu Swede lumberjack at least nine furlongs tall came pounding in with some woeful about his fonaies, Santord's father isin New England somewhore and Sanford in in som- kg charge of the place, These i treat im aa (rod, abeolutely,, although t ey call him San. Tama fearful failure asa deputy deity, and am growing nervous, The Hawling cat oh- vinwsly suspects me of intentions bo run hes F with four bund aquare miles of valuak timber and the howe, which haa alx hach- rooms and ia lit electrically although 14 Je fil- teen tiles from the nallread. thay ee are approaching from the ‘villa rahably want me to decide which one i is to Marry onc. Women ore rather scarce bereaboute. He halted his pen. Balliol scrambled down the steps and went to meet the three tall men, whose overalls were pecullarly foul below shirta of black muslin. Noel braced himself. He had bern tiuking messages for Sanford Rawling all day. ‘The men stooped over Balliol's pale fur and two of therm stayed eo, The tallest come swinging his naked dirty arma up the steps and said cordially, beaming at Noel, Hey, they say Ban's wert to Oil City" - Right," said Noel; “he'll ba: back late to-night.” "Well, dog-gone,” the caller drawled, gun.” He squatted on the planks and wiped his face with a filthy wrist. A mixed emell of oil, sweat and acids swelled in the veranda. He took a peaked black eap from his head and released a masa of curly black hair, Under his “and D wanted a. Joald Meri. “Oh, Jae Op 12? “Feu'tre Kot Eallghiening. £ Confdein Peo and Foo Souk Like @ Beastly Seageti*" mettlings of coal and greese he wasextravaguntly handsome, young, white skinned. He gazed at Noel with bright blue eves and announced, “Tain't had time to come up and meet you yet, ['m Nute Sears. Thoee are my brothers, They're twins. Hey, kids, you'll got his dog all dirty. . . . We run the train.” The twins tramped up the steps with Balliol trotting between their shorsa of soiled canvas, and looked at Noel flacidly. They were not so long of oo handaome aa Nate Sears, and their twinship was startling. Tt was obvious that they ran the logging train. They must take turns in ehoveling coal for the engine, They might be eighteen. Noel murmured “How d'you do?" and the twins nodded politely. Then they sat down to play with Balliol. Balliol’s vanity bloomed under their caresees. He sent haughty little barks to the calm cat on the lawn. "Tt's a good pup,” Nate Sears said, loading a pipe from Noel's tobacco pouch on the arm of the chair, “Well, say. SATURDAY EVENING POST By THOMAS BEI rFEeErEeg?SOAT & Wf TF EF May | a F clar = You give me one of San's guns, will youT Tell bs it ‘cause old Conor's actin' nasty, He's been whe damn tune all week, Last night the kids was slee side "cause it was eo hot in the house and they bs whistlin' by the bridge. So I needa gun.” He lit Noel lit a cigarette and tomeed two more to 1! Here was a young and healthy male, sensible « be trusted with the logging train and allowed inviting him to hand overarevolver—gun meant re by reason of the acta of Conor, Who was Conor? “¥ou mean that this Conor—er—is dangerow “Sure!™ said Nate Sears. “Damn dangeroe San asked him if he was goin’ to make a fight « came hack from Oil City he said he wouldn't lay a us. And he ain't tried to. We've been back a we he ain't spoke to none of us, and he's whistlin’ 1 And the kids aay he was whistlin’ round our p night. Conor's a good shot for a left-handed ma The less-soiled twin said shyly, “Hey, Nate; | what you're talkin’ about.” And the murkier twin Nate Sears drawled, “Oh, mebbe he don’t! way. Conor raised her. She's an orphan. Hes to marry her, see? Only she run off with me. W Oil City all June boardin’ with an aunt I have do But she and the twins got awful homesick, ss hadn't never lived nowheres but here, mee? So | Ban to eee how Conor'd act if we come back, Az sald he wouldn't lay hands on w—which don't me ain't revolyers—so we come back, She didn't com with this aunt I've got in Oi City. She wrote ( say she was sorry, and like that, and he ain't » nothin’. I doen't want her back here unbess | Conor ain't goin’ to be nasty, Only, she's homes killed his second wife, see?" “Oh,” sald Noel, ad he diat™ “Sure! He caught ber holdin’ hands with s feller, and killed her. He's kind of jealous in his tion,” Nate Seara explained. He rubbed some the rosy bloom of his left cheek and perndered. Mamma took me to the funeral. That Dane war: sight in his coffin. I seen remains in France that in mind of him. Of course I'm some bigger'n Coe dunno exactly could I lick him or not.” The twins said comfortably in twin voices, “5 eould, Nate," as if this had been much diseussed a Balliol barked. “But this fellow haa given San his word to—to | hands of you?" “Yeh, Only he keeps on whistlin’, see?" A tein murmured, "He don't understand show whistlin’, Nate." “Ob! Well, when he takes to whistlin’ it's whs cull a bad sign. I ain't got s thing against Con He's 4 nice feller but when he's mad. And he's awi And just as mad at the kids aa me, see? "Cause the brothers," The twins seemed highly gratified. Twin grinz a under their dirty noses. They sat patting Ball looked at Noel in a pleased wat. One of them observed, "We was sleepin’ out le On «a blanket, Down by the water, We oo Coner whistlin’. If he'd got a gun with him be « ugged us," “Cause it was bright starlight,” said the ot her “Where do you lads vet" Nate Sears sted up and pointed, “Across thi Over where them kids are swimmin’. That's cor where the big tree sticks up. SeeT" Noel saw a tree that soared far above the genera across the basin, but verdurous shadow hid ang hou said “Oh!” and watched the pink points which wer on the margin of the water, What in law and order one do? What would Sanford Rawling do? “You think this is liable to énd in a shooting?” “Conor beeps on whistlin","” sald Nate Seare: ‘a means he's boilin® mad. Ill take one of San’s gut: be eure to tell him I teok it." He went tramping ¢! the wie doors of the howse and sang out to the f butler inside, “Hey, Cooper, expect you're feelin’ sassy now you got an English feller to wait on! liughed against the servant's horrified mumble, Noel blushed. The twins finished their cigaret threw them away with uniform jerks of grimy hand sald, “Nate gota medal in the Army for shootin’, the other added, “THe could thrash Conor. He 2 heavy, but he can hit awful hard.” "Tist who is Caner?" They said responsively, “ Boases the gang dows | runway. He's a old Irishman.” "And he's been married before?" “Oh, sure, Three times. Two of ‘em died. He lucky with women. He was goin’ to marry her, bul

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 13 older. "N then she wanted to get married with we run off te Oi City, Second of June." shook the trumpet vines of the veranda. Noel ‘orm his chair, A boom spread across the valley ger of smoke wagged from remote crests of the ims peeered off at the display and one said tran- Blastin’ rocks out for the new piece of the rail- ¥. #ommeone’s been stealin' dynamite out of the 1 to the too] house. Hey, bow much‘d a pup like ik I gave ten guineas—filty dollara—for him." ins looked sadly at Balliol. Nate Seare came out eer with a hunk of chocolate cake in one hand and tic revolver in the other. Guns were kept In o side the butler's pantry. The engine driver upon Noel and said, “Hey, Cooper says your ‘lord! How did he get that way?” { runs in the family," said Noel, groping for an | phrase, damn if it ain’t intereatin’," Nate Sears re He slipped the revolver inside his black shirt, | a e@ritidge of coal from his white chest. “Well, San I"ve took this. Come on, kids. We got to teime to bed." minute,"* aaid Noel, “I—['m quite strange here, w. Would Mr. Rawling let you have that re sure? Weh! San teld me if Caner got to actin’ ed give mea gun. He knows [ won't use it unless . 2 "see,"* he finished, having ewallowed the last ke, “*I ain't gore on Conor, He's a nice old feller, i all upset about her marryin' me. He ain't any , See? T expect that's what's the matter. And ibly lowed her, Come along, kids." of ahadew floated on the turf alongside the legs of the Sears family. They marched down the y to the road and into the shady village. Balliol | his wolfhood and growled at the cat, which bad ane under a Roac of Sharon bush. Noel said, ible ft" ent to the butler's pantry and found Cooper, a the corkney, reading a volume lettered, Manners les of Goxwl Eociety. Noel wanted to laugh. He “Do you know this chap Seara, Cooper?" “Quite a pet of Mr. Sanford's, sir, Very decent lad, T believe, Quite a commotion in the village when he ab- sconded with Conor's intended, sir, She ‘asn*t come back, T notice.” “And who's this Conor?” The butler said less readily, “A very rough old fellow. A prize fighter formerly, air. If I might suggest ——" He spread his fingers on the Rules of Good Society and gave a. butler's meck cough. ai Yee?" “Mr, Sanford has what you might call a most hextraor- dinary method of ‘andling these people. I shouldn't—if I were in your—predicament—sir ——" “You'd let it alone?" "TET might suggest, sir.” Noel thanked this burst of tact with aemile. The exiled apostle of good society bridled. Moel ssid, “Tell them to saddle a horse, please." "Thank you, sir,” said the butler with passion. Noel rede down the slope, thinking. Sanford would be back by midnight, and nothing would come of this before that hour. Should one de anything? He worried. It was comic. He imagined the flight of Nate Seara and the nameless bride, attended by the twing. And yet the girl was wo frightened of Conor that she stayed in hot Oll City. She must be frighboned! No girl would want to leave Nate Sears footloose where other women could sympathize with him. Another blast echoed. Noel could not see its souret above the trees of the village. He let the horse walk past the smithy, where old men sat in the sunshine on a bench; past the eloged schoolhouse; past the rel- brick office of the Rawling Lumber Company, Children spotted the dust and chirped over Balliol, who had for- gotten his wolfishness and paced with dignity beside Noel's horse, Outeide this pateh of dwelling was the forest, intricate, hot, solemn. The horse atopped, unbidden, in an open apace by the basin. The engine was moving inte a small roundhouse of mossy brick. It vanished, carrying Nate Sears. The twing beckoned to Noel from one of the emptied flat cars. He reined his mount and asked, “Which ia Conor?" "Him in the blue shirt. With the black hat. Lookin’ at us," ssid the twins. Ten men were pulling logs toward the wooden rim of the hagsin, The hooked poles splashed. The mounting chain af the runway caught and dragged, rattling. A man at the foot of the wooden trough seemed to watch the chain and ita load of wood. His cheat was prodigious in a blue shirt. He stood with pink flsta on lean hips, and his cavernous hat brim hid his face. “ Lookin’ at us," a twin whispered. "Certainly," aaid Noel, “If you lada look at him he'll look at you. Don't stare so." The twins were abashed and swung their long legs fever- ishly. They muttered, “He keeps lookin’. He come right up te the engine, now, when Nate was cleaning her, an" lonked st Nate. Nate didn't pay any attention, He's whistlin’.”” The hat brim rose a trifle and showed a shaved jaw, a pursed mouth, Conor might be whistling. The shrillness of blades chewing loge inside the mill drowned any noise lesa than a shout from the worker. Then theaawe etopped. An inhuman lazy whisth: came from the pipes of the shingled roof. The chain of the runway fell idle. The men's voices gabbled sa they straightened, and a sound of lig gently burping came from the water, In this peace trembled an alr, the sound of a jig whistled merrily. Ballial dropped a cedar chip and jumped over the grass to examine Conor's shoes. A twin murmured, “Aint it funny? A dog'll always run and tak at him. Look at that, now.” Balliol was hopping up and down before the whistler in exhibition of liking. The little dog's white tail w He was happy. He hopped, absurd and delightful. The twins giggled. A sense of utter inconsequence gripped Noel. This man might kill them. They gurgled because a dog liked him, He had probably doted on their brother's wife and this jolly whistle was o note of deflance, rage, a growl at the world. Odd, frightfully odd. And yet two Danes had stabbed each other to death over a stolen shirt on the day before Noel's coming into this upland. A amell of cedar drifted from the pool, Conor sat down on the molst planks and patted Balliol. Noel dismounted and gave his hore to the nearest twin. Balliol was in ecstasy, wriggling all over, This man knew how to pat him and did it amiably with his square fingers, Noel approached and deliberately clicked a spur on the word. Conor looked up and easily said, “It's a fine pup, sir,” in the moet melodious way. (Cottinued on Poge FF2) “Coaer's Gore Off Up the Foller. Tht Guy Iven Nim Watkin’ Off Up Post the Grooeyord, F Gon't Like Titot"*

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The Imsia HE American troops al- Feady en- gaged in the battle are the unanimous admiration of* the whoale Freneh Army,” wrote Fe- tain. to Pershing on June 6, 1918, referring to the fine performance of the Second American Division at Boks de Belleau and the Third Division's prompt aetlan in defense of the river crossings near Chiteau-Thierry. “T therefore willingly accept the offer of all the units which you place at my dis- posal, The five United States divisions which are to come down from the British zone will be placed on ealm sectors in the east, and af acon as possible each will hold a divi- aional sector,”” This waa all very fine; but still no move to indleate any intention of building up an American sector! Instead, every step seemed directed toward postponement of this project, For a long while this policy was partly inapired by doubt of what the Americans could do, and fear of intrusting a sector to them, but after the offensives of July there could Mnger no doubt in the French mind of the value of the Americans for fighting purposes, because they were from then. on the ahock troops of the toughest opern=- tions. Yet oven after July no effort was spared to delay operation by the American forces ag an American Army under American eorarmarnd., At a meeting with Foch and General Weygand at the American Gen Headquarters in Chaumont on June seventeenth, Perahing reported that the War Depart- ment in Washington planned to call out enough men to place 3,000,000 troops in France by the end of March, 1915. To this the

Allied generalissimoreplied by dwell- =. ing on the improved morale of his De ‘ troopa through the arrival of the . Americans, All the French troops which had contacted them rapidly renewed their fighting spirit, he said. General Pershing seized the op- portunity to urge once more the importance of uniting the Amer- ican into one army. Such a step would not only help morale but add to the usefulness of the Americans very materially. Postponement oh bpp Allied commander in chief agreed with the iden in principle, but when Pershing outlined a pro- poeal for grouping a few American divislons—the Serond, Twenty- sixth and Forty-second—as astarter for an American field army, Foch requested him to consider turning aver from some of the divisions going into the American training secbors a few of the best regiments af infantry to serve in the most fatigued French divisions—again that persistent idea of utilizing the Americans in small units as replace- ments! Foch dwelt at considerable length on this proposition, his pet argument being the necessity of stimulating French morale, and he contended le Story of th By GEORGE PATTULLO - a a a a a ae — >. P — ig ne t€§_§_€€£€£-@€ @_ @__-—_£€__€£€£._£€@W@0 _HH_____ ______— forme af the Man of the 204th Infantry, Compored of Pennsyloania Troops, After They Nad Pushed the Gercans Beck More Thon Four Ailes in Lear Thon Teratyefoar Daare that it would bea matter of afew weeks only, Later these regiments could be returned to American command for incorperation lite “Americon divisions—he felt sure this eould be done the latter part of July or early in August— and he wanted Pershing to draw up a-plan for the echeme, “We have two tasks facing us," sald Foeh—*to build up the British Army in man power, and second, to build up the morale of the French Army and in August sssemble the Armetican army.” General Pershing's answer was that he would study the proposal carefully with regard to the needa of the situation. About this time M. André Tardieu, French High Com- missioner to the United Sintes, had one of his inspirations, Of all the Allied spokesmen MM, Tardieu was ever the boldest in presenting demands and the most tireless in mij Amolgaeas Adesaring on the Pigardy Front

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eqored regiments te our foros would be = con help, while there are no clifficultiea ina ored troopa in close coiperation with white to Freneh Army." Still No American Army dl bre American commander in chief replied a@ "TT regret that [am unable te accede to vole ng this: matter, As you know, the colores! regi composed of American citizens and I do not feel in employing them on any basia other than fall the ene af white regiments," During these anxious months the people at hem sustained by the proud conviction that the Ueited

had an army of its own © unfortunate snmouncemess the War Departevent at ton contributed to this <9 thesr announcements had ofthe” American paretlhaede ican sector,” and certainiy the implication which th: public took, As a matter we had no army operating in Ps then: our troops were sermy! the French and British au divisions or emaller units, Although the United Sie 1,000,0%0) troops in France ¢ move meade by the Allied omn for the disposition of Amt forees reflected an intention © vent, or at least indefinitely j pone, the formation of an Aret eorps. The orders issued by French for the employmest @ Forty-second American Did was an instance, and Geoea. shing had an interview with at Bombon on July tenth tod the formation of an Amencors! Aa Pershing polnted out to Pa three daye later at a merit Proving, the American civeil this time were seattered clear the English Channel to Belfer the Swiss frontier, and niwier! there a sector known as ae 18 iran seebor.. “The American pe had -been given to undela we had 1,000,000 men is fr therefore they would —oon bal Ee

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST , 15 * there was pet an American Ariny fighting af ws ptssible, of the if weld want te know if the American soldiers movement of United fend enough to hold a front of their own, and States units,” fmeet this inquiry might have a serious effect We arrive now at = fale of the American people, what has come to he the conversation with Foch at Bombon, the regarded by moat fiimenaer in. chief admitted: “America has the military aithorities five her Army organized os such; the American as the turning point fi be an accomplished fact. Moreover, the cause in the war. The first fies will be better served by an American Army half of 1918 hae been | fen ehiel than by an American Army with fts disastrous to Allied Greed. Therefore it, is- necessary at the earliest arma, ite to constitute side by side with the British The German affen- ih armies the American Army; and itis necessary. sive in March had his Aumerican Anmy as lorge as possible." carried all before it antl the depth of ths Official interchanges own penetration 2 stopped ita impetus: VER, there was a “but” in this declaration of their second grand & Im order to bring victory tothe cause of the ussault on April ineontestahle numerical superiority wis required, ninth menaced the fae ae the battle lasted, or threatened toreopen—. coal supply of ES Superiority of divisions had been realized—the Franee ond the fhe Ades demanded that the French and British Channel porta, (Should be sopperted, and retnforesd when Freneh re- fe yr American infantry, eid Foch. AeTv es feted the infantry of American divisions which had in filers —and at Allied behest, hardly anything but had been shipped for months—to be assigned to fnech and English losses fora certain time, prob- fmaonths. As for General Pershing's Suga @emble the American forces into an army fmporary sector in the vicinity of Chaiteau- this accorded with his general plans, but fle he would seed certain of these di- G@ attacks he propoeed to launch on fact the front. In short, by the time mainder in chief had finished outlin- fans for the employment of the & divisions it was very plain that ides of establishing an-American fore QOebober. fe French went rightahead making Gn of American divisions without ag the American commander in ere for the movement of the my-flth and Thirty-second di- Pere iseved by Petain's headquar- foot proper notification to the BG. H. @. *Tt appears that orders to the Firat (ie move te the region of Toul have hed direct ‘oo that division without these fers having been previously informed," i $4 ihing ina note to the chief of the French \ - " } Mizzion. “This matter has been brought ‘\ ~*~ t 2a attention se = SoPPanaT 9 Come TH PUBL ae Tafontry of the First Dipision Lined Up fe Afoal After Toeriy Dopp: la the Trenchew ie to be diverted as far north as Ypres to help stem the tide, On MMinv bwenhy-seventh the enemy again smashed through the Allied front and ewept over the Chemin dea Dames, crossed the Aisne, and thence marched almost un- opposed me fir me Chittenu-Thieny on the Marne. Allied loses were ao heavy their Teserves gank to the vanishing point, The German armies were now close to Paris; they were flushed with victory: Allied morale wascorrespondingly low. The cap- ital had never seemed in such peril; peo- ple fed from it in hundreds of thotiaands. Mangin'’s Counter Attack Depot ER German attack, but onasmaller seele, was launched on June ninth. It qulned theenemy nine kilomebers aod was then brought te a standstill by a counter attack of five French divisions under General Mangin. This eounter attack stands out as one of the heric feote of the war; the French losses were ap- palling, but they fd the wn- stopped tha bility of =| men y Mhods has Up to the mid- Plnined. It Me of July all the hithat wn- Allied fighting fers are & wea on the defen- jour troops sive, Lf they could ise head- éeheck the onrush- fg, all con- ing Genmans they Wer our wore wellentisfied, jeeases. I The power of the ippreciate German offense fhe present loomed as: irre- move- sistible; it became @ in exact an obaeesion. The with pro- Allied Infantry, ‘toade bay discouraged hy f disastrous failures Gust, how- oF ruinous partial fist thet tn successes in PGI, no or worn out by the the move- (rermana’ savage ihour troop onslaughia in et ontil » overwhelming ment numbera in Lats, mimade and had no longer the thee heed- heart for attack, have i Some untts of i necessary them had: there m to the WERE Erin pa anbon ge troops ‘ the French and int British which (thie the i would hase kept himigeion pe 4 | . on fighting until ‘aa fellows. "i daomaday: but ie. of days oe al f rid he bulk of the ( L “i ya : #55 aFioics had spirit ithe fiture i “a : { ee r only for defensive = | he. 2 ‘ Bet cs e 7 Berican com RSSTOSAANe PRE SOEEoer a veoneeeoa, sy 5. — a warfare, fthall he in- 4ime@ricas Treops ia Flanders on Ong of the Innumeroble Nosqitonny Days, Aber — American Reverees, Jart Before (Continued on fl. as Ben Bering Rashed Tate te Cowater Atiack at the Warne Poge [ié)}

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1G THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Test of Lochinvar Bob: By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE FELEUFTARATED ar winter walk. The walkers were little Jamie Mackellar and his big collie, Champion Lochinvar Bobby. Jamie was kennel manager for the great Rufus G. Belden, financial giant of Midweatburg. Bobby waa Mackellar's chum—the dog that had spent nearly a year of his youth run- ning wild in the forests and had been re- claimed and humanized by hia diminutive Seoteh master, This morning’s walk was uneventful enough for both dog and man, until Bobby chanced to pureue a cat down an alleyway, He took a short cut through a mud puddle during this blissful chase. His flying feet dipped on a film of ice and he fell aprawl- ing in the puddle's muddiest depths, Rolling over, Bobby regained his feet in something like a tenth of a second, but mot before his magnificent tawny coat was one thick smear of mud. The cat vanished over a fence: and Bobby, at Jamie’s firat call, galloped merrily back to his master, Mac- kellar, frowning ruefully, surveyed his dis- reputable chum. “Eh, Bobby, you miserable tatterdema- lion!" he sighed. “Not three days ago you had your bath—a grand bath, Bobby, lad !— and not an hour ago I brushed you till you shone. And look at you new! Look at you now, I'm asking you, Bobby. Did you ever aee the like of you, for fair filthinesa and muck? “No,” saya you, being at heart a truthful tike, ‘I never did." What'll Mis- treee say when I lug you home looking like one of the children's mud pies on four lege? And what'll [I be thinking when all the folk herenbout set eyes on you and get the idea that Jamie Mackellar knows no better than keep a collie in such shape? Home we jo, Bobby, lad; home toa bath. Come along!" Now, siatanrailly Lochinvar Bobby under- stoad the meaning of only a tithe af Mac- kellar's words, desplte the fact that Jamie had always talked to him as to a fellow human, But from long experience he read the voice and the face of the man with per- fect ease. From these he gathered that he was being scolded, but that Mackellar waa not really angry at him and that he him- self had not committed any sin, Yet Bobby listened, downesst; and he fell into step behind Jamie with drooping head and brush. Not olone because he was dirty and because he loathed dirt, but chiefly because he had three times heard hia toaster utter that detested word “bath.” And Bobby's heart sank dejected!) at thought of the serub- bing and the abhorrent reek of soap in store for him. A few eollies really enjoy swimming, but almost mone of them like a tub bath, For some distance through the outskirts of Midwestburg on their return journey to Beldencroft, at the aume|nit of Crescent Hill, the two hurried along. The mud was drying on Bobby's glorious coat. This and his morcee anticipa- tion of a bath gave him a furtively tramplike air at utter varlanee with hie wonted proud beawty, (nee only did he rouse himself from his lethargy of gloom. That was when he and Jamie chanced to pass the white-fenced front yard of a hows about a mile from Beldencroft. From the steps of this house sprang up a dozing collie—pale gold and white of hue, dainty of line, tlassie of head. At sight of Bobby thie dag cleared the stepe in a bownd and came charging dewn toward the pickets, barking in strident challenge. Asarule Bobby paid no heed to swaggering advances from dogs he met on his walks with Jamie, At worst, an impatient grow! of a mice mentary glint of teeth was ‘his answer to such defiances, But to-day he neither showed his teeth mor growled, In- stead he eaat aside his air of misery and trotted up to te palings with tail awag. For a well-bred collie does not re- sent the barking insults of the female of his species. He and the gold-and-white little beauty touched nese: through the picket spaces. The new dog wagged her tail hoepitably and did a series of dance atepa, then galloped midly off for some ten or twelve feet and wheeled to see why Bobby did not accept the invitation for a romp. [: BEGAN simply enough, with a late CHA ARE RE £ scpunlling shrilly, EFVIF GEToOY SOULE Hobby Grove There Off Fifty Timer Setwren Sunrise oad Desk, Bet aa Often They Clamored Rack Geeedily The picket fence was Bobby's sole reason for not pecept= ing. Now, as she glanced back at him over her shoulder, he cleared the fence top with ridiculous ease and trotted over the scrap of lawn toward his new friend. Jamie, missing him, turned about just in time to see an obese and overdressed] woman emerge from the house, “TLoset Lassie! Come here at once! Get away, you nasty brute! Seat{" The last half of her speech was addressed to the mud- coated Hobby, He stepped short as she advanced shoo ingly upon him, He surveyed the woman with no fear at all; butaleo with no favor. Instinet told him this was not an tinderstander of dogs. Hs sensitive eardrums, bon, were irritated by her shrill raucous voice, The other eollie ervuched, terror-stricken, at approach of her mis- tress, and began to slink away. Plainly experience as well as instinet warned her of danger, Jamie Mackellar’s brows creased in disapproval at sight of Lass’ fear, It could apring from hut one couse, Knowing collins as he did, be had seant patience with any manor woman who by needless brutality produces that look of terror in their eyes and that eringingly panic way of #lin king olf, Tersely he called Bobby back to him. The dog, with one Wistlul glance toward his frightened new playmate, cleared the palings again and stood ot his master’s side, The woman, ti midlawn, scowled after him. Then turning on the timid-looking littl Mackellar she inapped, ll thank you to keep your dirty cur off my premisea! He ——" America, He's 2 muddy, but that's a litth accident = a mud puddle. j young collie you 5 finished concilimt “And she's a pest. I'll either teach Ge oF Tl thrash the life out of her. She: “H'm!" commented Jamie, eying f ened dog. “You've made a way or the other. Come on, Bobby, i [t was aa they rounded the next cori ice truck skidded on the slippery p knocked Jamie Mackellar under ing | When the policeman came pul found an overturned truck with a sem crushed driver wedged under tt. Sor s farther back he saw Jamie Ma unconscious, with a scalp smal compound fractore of the left: leg. A momentarily increasing crowd the too victims, but they ep araund Mackellar than around the because a huge and mud-streaked ¢ over Jamie's oddly Lochinvar Bobby hy turna bent and quivering above his master, muddy face in an agony of grief; the Ing erect again to snarl murderous de the spectators. One Good Seumanritan fi to lay hands on Jamie to carry him to} walk. Bobby had flown at the man w centrated fury that not only had fre kindly attempt but had kept everpon arm's length, There stood the great dog broken, bereft, savage—abower the um little man who was his god. And oe break in on bis vigil, : The policeman turned in an Then, being prudent, he decided t attention on the mishap's oe While he was still examinii the ambulance came up, " At the same Instant Jamie’ lar awoke, dull-headed but] enough to know himself te bel of anguish. Stupid be blinked ward into Lochinvar Bobhy@s dark eyes. “ Bobby, lad,” he whispered ““whabever on earth's happen Are we ——" i The ambulance surgeon bustledup., Bobby gro sbomd between him and Mackellar. “Let him be, Bobby, boy!” panted Jamie right. Leave hie alene! He ——™ Fain and the effort to speak were a oombinal strong for Mackellar's tortured nerves. He EE But his order had been given ane had beeen This white-costed human, who stank of punge fectanta, was to be let alone. So much Bobby mew had said the man wis all right and eed a! and Lochinvar Bobby had never in ee questioned a command of his adored 9 Unwillingly, and stil] growling ow heels the dog drew back. Quivering with mi craving to interfere, he none the less ate the whitesroated man and another jut hulance, Jamie had said: “He's all alone!" And Jamie's order mist be ooh Presently the ambulance drove ‘aff, galloping close behind it through the sh of Midwestburg and later through the choke city’s streeta, At last the vehicle stopped j large truilding. a building which, even from the gave forth to Bobby's acute senses the same dik aa had the clothes of the white-coated man, Jamie was borne earéefully indoors. il cloee behind the stretcher, A man at the sie renebed owt to bar the dog's way. Bobba paused on enough to slash at the outthrust hand. The man sp hack and aimed a kick. The dog wheeled upon bin such an aspect of silent rage that the man hopped nl upon a table. Bobby paid him mo further heed, 5 lowed the stretcher-bearers, i pin

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 17 ‘om they carried Mackellar. The door swung nel them in Bobby's face. Imperiously he for admittance, Then he flung himself in a fury SS againet the strong panels, The panels did not GO One came to let him in. ut retehed himself out across the threshold with a Pressing his nostrils to the crack under the door, hed to wait. he room he could hear voices and moving feet. above the sickening disinfectant reek he could od scent of his master, And he was content to “2 0OP twice an orderly or a nurse come past from F Peart of the corridor, At Bobby's savage show se intruders gave the collie a wide berth. No © out through the doorway he guarded. <i me, inside the white room Jamie had come to his i had told who he was. Someone telephoned to Belden. In another five minutes, at that 1 Peersonage's mandate, Jamie was sent home in ambulance, with a doctor and a nurse as escort. Ted out through a door other than that whereby tered. ‘Thus only by loss of his master's scent did iow Mackellar was no longer on the other side of inately closed portal. waa ne lenger there, and tt behooved Bobby to He jumped up and scratched again at the panel. jsomeone heard the sound and opened the door gate. Into the long many=doored room dushed niffing the hateful sir, peering in all directions, no circles to pick up the acent of Jarnie’s steps. Mackellar had been carrled in and then out again cher there was noclew. Out of the room sprang galloping from corridor to corridor in growing on. Wo, Jamie was not anywhere within aight or sound. He wes gone! And there was no way of whither he had been spirited. tinvar Bobby had been a human he would doubt- gome straight home. Euwt he was merely a dog: out go oclog of a breed that is prone to think things eaw no need of going home. To him home and. ackellar meant one and the same thing, He had Mackellar cottage, back of the Eeldencroft that morning in company with Jamie. Wherefore snine Logie Jamie waa not at the cottage. The pot whither he hed traced Mackellar was this ill- hoe pital, and search and scent showed him Jamie mper here. Distracted, the collie trotted out of the and made his aimless way up the street. Te “1a

Bobby was the chum and the devoted adorer af Jamie Mackellar, but te no one but Jamie had he ever given allegiance. ‘True, he was moderately fond of Jamie's hig Yorkshire wife—who, by the way, felt only the mildest interest in dogs. But he was not devoted to her, Also, he was fond of Jamie's two children, But both of those children were away at school just now. In a patronizing and tepid fashion he was on friendly terms with the aust Rufus G. Belden, and with the kennel men. But none of them counted for much in his life. No, there was no reason for hurrying home, or indeed for going home wt all, now that Jamie was no longer there. Nor could he pursue any logical quest for his lost master without a single clew. He must needs accept heartache and bewildered loneliness unless fate should in some way bring him and Mackellar together again. Yet, collie fashion, before giving wp all hope he cast back upen his trail, He retraced the long journey from mldeity to outskirts; to the place where Mackellar hac been struck down. There he sniffed about the apot on the grey street where Jamie's body hud lain, As he was giving up this unprofitable task another recognized scent assailed his keen nostrils. Around the corner, from her home in the next block, waa walking the large and roucous-voleed woman who had called him a dirty cur and had shooed him out of her yard. By a flimay leozh she was leading the gold-and-white young collie, Lass. In the woman's other hand swung a plaited dog whip—an object unfamiliar to Bobby, Wagging hia tail in friendly welcome Bobby advanced teward his new collie acquaintance. Lass at sight of him sprang forward in playful eagerness, The spring caused the looge-hang leash to dig inte the woman's fat wrist and gave her arm a sudden wrench. Angry at the hurt and the jar she yanked vexedly on the lowsh, jerking Lass back on her haunches. Lass, foreseeing punishment, dodged behind her mistress’ skirt, She did this just as the woman turned to strike her. Asa result the leash Jooped itself around the beefy ankles. Without waiting to extricate hereelf the woman browght down the dog whip swishingly acrosa Lass' dalnty back, Then several things happened, At sound of the blow and of Lassa’ pitiful cry Bobby aprang forward, every line of his powerful body albristl: with hostility, But there was no need for him to interfere. For as she cried out Lass bounded as far as possible to one aide te escape further punishment. The woman, leaning far ta that side, aimed another blow, As a revult the looped 2 £

Five Times He Ruched With Skat Eyer at the Slasiow Coliies leash not only tightened about. her fatted calves but was pulled sharply to the left by Laas” jump. The woman sat down; very hard indeed. Lass, ninning backward to get out of the way of the swooping avalanche af flesh, strained against her collar. The collar being loose slipped off over her back-pulled head. The women scram- bling up, purple with rage, flourished the whip and made a Wild rush at her dog. As she rushed ehe bellowed fero- clos threats. Lass did not wait to be caught, Ineonti- nently she turned and fled. And shoulder to shoulder with her galloped Lochinvar Bobky. Life was taking a new turn for Bobby, His mind, dazed by the bitter grief of his loss, yearned toward this new friend of he own species. Having no desired home ta reborn te he followed the runaway elope of gold-and-whibe Airnlessly Lass fled, her one idea ot frat being to eecape from the swishing dag whip and from its bad-tempered wielder, Her brief stay with this mistress of hers had been a period of terror.and of pain. In the far-off kennels of her birth she had alwaye been treated kindly, but the woman had made life a horror to her and she was eager to put as much distance as possible between them. Presently, as she ran, she was aware of Bobky's com- ferting presence at her side. She slackenedd peace and touched noses with him. Then she glanced back for her pursuer. The woman wat not in aight. The two dogs relaxed thelr gallop into a lelsurely trot, In another minute Bobby came to a stop. ing They were at the summit of a hill, Below, in front, was a straggling suburb of the city they hed left behind. Beyond the suburb was a plain, Beyond the plain towered a Tidge, which separated Midweatburg and ita. outskirts from the miles of rolling forest and farmland that stretched away almost to Canada, The sight of the ridge and a whiff of the odore blown thence by the March wind awoke strange memories and stranger impulses in the masterless Bobby, rer that ridge, a8 a gangling scared puppy, he had serambled his tired way on a winter night years agone: and he had traveled on to Blake's Woods, beyond it, where under the rotting dance pavilion of other days he had made a lair. Thence for nearly a year he had sallied at nighta to ravage ben roott and fold and rabbit warren and partridge cope, He had loved that wild life and he had thriven mightily on it. He had left it because Jamie Mackellar hod found (Continued on Page 153)

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18 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May iz, Selling to a Crowd-The Auctionee to sell and want ta get the best possible price sellitatauction. But if you want ta buy something at a bargain price goto auction sales where that something is sold: people are picking up bargains atauction every day. Eat your cake and have it too? How ia it done? Partly by the fellow who does the selling, the aue- tioneer; and partly by the peculiar mechanism of auc- tion selling itself, The auction sale multi- plies the number of possible purchasers, and pita them against one another, Each bidder has his own idea of valuea—very often wrong. Or be has his own idea of the prices he bs willing to pay and will probably pay more if some other bidder tries to get the article away from him. Some years ago there waa an empty factory in a New Jersey town to be sold in receivership. A near-by manufacturer wanted it and was willing to pay fifty theusand dollars for the building. The receiver ad- vertised for offers and got anly one—a forty-elght- thousand=dollar offer from this manufacturer. He decided to put the property up at auction. On the day of the sale several bidders appeared. ‘The firet bid was fifty thousand dollars, which was quickly raised to fifty-five thousand, then to sixty thousand. At this point one of the biddera went out to telephone, and coming back, bid more, eventually getting the property for seventy-two thousand dollars. Then all the bidders went to lunch together, and it was disclosed that the purchaser had acted of agent for a New York renl-cstate operator who had bought the property for a client. Ultimately it proved that the factory was not worth what had been paid for it, and the manufacturer who wanted it in the first place was glad that it had gone to somebody else. Peaple get bargains, too, because aome things are sold below value at every auction, There are bound to be cer- tain articles that few bidders want, and they are knocked down cheap. It is important in auction ealeemanship that there be such bargains, for the auetloneer uses them to etimulate buying. The word “auction” usually brings up a picture of the establishment found in ewery slaable town where brivs watches and glass jewelry are sold te the unsophisticated, with the aid of cappers. This kind of auction room, called a grind shop, is often as crooked as crooked can be—an interesting place we will investigate later, Or people think of auction selling a5 a sort of last resort to get rid of property that cannot be sold otherwise. I: YOU have something 4a Old-Fashioned Country Sale TUALLY auction sdlesmanship is used to marketa very large share of the world's products and merchandise, and meat of the selling is honest. Moreover, this ia one of the quickest and lewt expensive methods of selling. Rare books, valuable manuscripts, famous paintings and works of art, with other articles sought for collections, are sold largely at auction. So are secondhand household effects, particularly fine furniture, ngs, plate, China, napery and the like. Auction selling moves great quantities of staple raw materials cheaply, euch as fura and wool; also the output of seme tnclustries, ike carpet making. Much of the fresh fruit marketed in big cities is sold at auction, and a great deal of city real estate. It is estimated that thirty thousand cauniny auctioneers throughewt the United States are busy most of the time disposing of farms, livestock, implements and household effects for farmers whe are moving, rethring, Wquidating estates or under- going the chifts involved in the changes and chances of farming a a business, In pretty much every other kind of selling the salesman's objective is the individual customer, one prospective buyer By JAMES H. COLLINS Tha “CeingsCoingeGoae" Chant on oc tmall Veo Eagiaad Farm whom he wants to talk to alone, leading him through the four standard etepa of agale: Firat, he gets his atbention; apeond, arcusts his interest; third, seeures his confidence; and finally, peta his action in the shape of an order. If other people are present they often distract attention and delay or block the sale. Sometimes the salesman sells to a group—a board of directors or a conference gathoring. But generally, wherever it is a matter of choice, he prefers to have the single customer alone, The auctioneer, on the other hand, sella to the crowd. Without a crowd, or at least a sizable group of people, there ean be no auction, The bigger the crowd the better the auctianeer likes it. Selling to a crowd i based upon the same principles followed in selling to an individual: there are the four standard steps of attention, interest, confidence and action, But the methods are decidedly different. Getting and holding the attention of a crowd is often easier than geting and helding the attention of an in- dividual customer. But in the crowd there may be potential trowble of kinds seldom encountered by saleamen in other fields, The auctloneer has the advantage of work- ing with customers who already want to buy, That is why they have come to the sale. But they are looking for bar- gains. They are there to match their wits and their wills against his and buy things for leas money than he wants to get for them, if they can. He matches his wits against theira and alao pita one bidder against another. He givea them bargilns, and at the same time generally realizes higher average prices for all the property sold than it would bring at private sale. "Ladies and gentlemen, we are now about te atart the sale," announers the auctloneer, climbing into his rostrum, It is a country dooryard, and a farm is to be sold with standing crops, livestock, machinery and household effects. Thene ane more than a hundred peaple presenot—neighbors. who have been walking abowt inspecting the property to be gold. Their interest has already been secured, but it is concentrated on one point: What do I want to buy and how cheap ean [get it? If the auctioneer were a book agent or an implement salesman, talking individually to any of these folks, they would expect him to magnify the value of his goods, Rather strangely, they seldom expect this at an auction, Their chief thought is that Neighbor Stubblefield has been forced to sell owt, ane that the auctioneer is golng te get as good a price for everything as he can, but that they are going to buy as cheaply as they can. If the auctioneer knows his business he takes advantage of this viewpolat right at the start. “T will state the terms of the sale," he continues, when the crowd has drawn together, and briefly enumerates them: Goods ben highest bidder’: the moment the knocked down: on peid for im eesh, | deposit. made; to be away under such-e) eonditions; and = Then he begins og the value of hia goed like @ book agent —| thern in the show ef as it is called. Be | interested crowd, bj interested only in | things. There are plows, pl pickle dishes to bes horses happen to be what scarce in that borhood just then, 2 af the crowd have 5 the auction boping | up one of Stabbleic work tearm. “Come, let's be gays the auctioneer ageistant irspath “Hana wp something thing—that bundled and hoes, Why ae ready?" He cracks a job this lot, and the | laughs, As be calls fy it ke digeovered thet | the forks t broie seolda the assistant § calling attentic= ts defect. “We don’t want to sell such stuff without lettings know it's damaged—this lot goes ‘aa ie" It down cheap. The crowd has been drawn together, in good humor, tt haa seen a neighbor get a bens begun to think that the auctioneer is an hoes ty Other things are sald, sometimes big things fir, ee farm itself, and sometimes a lot of bargain: & thinga—dishes, tools and like plunder. The auction a definite plan in thls apparent carelessness, based | echoracter of the crowd. Sometimes bidding & om has to be stimulated, while again interest centers © purchase of the farm itself: and the bidder who pl property may be a god customer Later far Erestoe machinery to work tt—a good reasom for selling it & The crowd is thinking horses. The auctiomer' 5 plows and pickle dishes—and thinking pigs. “When are you goin’ to sell the horses?” asic ape five buyer. An Expert la Pedigrees 4 WERE coming to them in a little while,” is the Honeer's answer, and he takes half a miceis © about Stubblefield's fine mares, his ability as a fare standing in the neighborhood and the pride be hee shown in keeping his place well stocked with the everything, Thus the crowd's interest in heme Farmer Stubblefield'a atanding in the eommotity cleverly utilized te get their attention for the brought under the hammer. It is a penful of pure pigs. He sells them not as pigs but as possibilitie, dev upon the advantages of having good pigs of this par breed, talking about their pedigree, ancestry, recodl The capable country auctioneer knows mote abel different breeda of horses, cattle, hoga and other live than the average breeder, for the breeder is likely ® well informed about one kind of animal, and ose bs that, and honestly prejudiced against other breeds 4 the auctioneer must know all breeds and carefully © having a favorite breed. Ho follows pedigrees as lee! the racing fan follows dope. Many of his sales are! etock alone, and he must be able mot only to talk o expert upon any breed of animal brought under the * mer but about individual animals, and to give theo fresh, convincing facta about the breed and the ina"! and the successes made with this particular breed by“ people. He paints a mental pleture of what may be it plished by the purchaser of these particular pip. Wy man who owns them may become a leader in the =! nity, and areal benefactor! Biddera mentally tthe (Continued on Page 145)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 19 LOW-SOUND HORN ioctor in my little Rocky Moun- town asked me to write this ?— 2s a fawor to him and toother ‘ho live in the hills and who, in af Nature, dislike to see the landscape muddled the wrecks of humana and automobiles, to say “what it may do for those humans ves - tt on a vacation with a glorious proapect—and hospital, ot that I object to the work,” he told me, “even is a bit trying to hurry thirty miles or so up into r hills and try to load someone with a broken hip ‘uitomoebile and bring him to town, only to find fracture is such that it requires an X ray before ‘as, necessitating a further trip of forty miles to a Ya ipped hospitals, It's just that thera's in it~—and any doctor who's really a true member rofession believes far more in prevention than this little effusion on how to avoid being killed your wacation! And in apite of the jocularity of appen te live in a country where persons seem to hetdlessly killing themselves during their annual od; which, after all, is hardly the way to spend on. It ruins not only their outing but that of telse; therefore these few scattered facts about a which is a foreign land to the majority of the on of the United States, but a desired land, nevéer- especially nt vacation time—the mountains, ountains, I mean mountsins—not hills, Thera erence. The Catskills, the Alleghanies, the Blue and the Cumberlands ore hill. The Rockies are ms in the professional “ the word: and it is of sunita that the moter ver coftten dreams, cou- at dream with a mental t his old cart con take g they" we got on high. s tha of mober-car pride or of . Most of us live in cities, he streets have been care- raided to admit of the Lameunt of resistance: te k of a vehicle. The mu- ty that possesses a hill of Gin 6 per cent if weal, ein rare cases that such is greater in extent than ortwo. Eomewhere out- town there exists, per- nacclivity that may run (a8 10 per cent, and that of three hundred feet in to which the motor-car in takes the proepective for a test of the machine, athe car on second or low, case Tay he, without an ce of strain, and certainly itany unfavorable results ‘he cooling system. Toa iaecustomed to flat coun- {hill appears to beatraight lmost an impossthility for ing to climb—with the re- at when the car goes up it and as though longing for the inevitable pride of a mer causes the annmounce- “Well If theald boat can that ft can make anything even looks ike a road!" Ups and Downs [2 with the armament. of i information that he pores mountalns—encountors ulties, trinls, troubles, trib oe, broken-down motors tien serious accidents, and aout of it all no wiser than ws before. Must have been something ig with the old bus," is his . “Tt sever acted like that fe."" [for the reason that it never before been in mountains! there'sadiference, The hill By Courtney Ryley Cooper that asems atraight up in a flat country ia only a medium grade or fairly level country when one bucks up against the professional grades of the various roads the vacationer must travel in the Rocky Mountains. Any car in the world can make a 10 per cent pull for a distance of a few hundred fect. Eut whet happens when thet grade extends for miles? A mountain range is not merely a ragged ridge starting owt of level country, and armoothing off again on the other side. [tis a succession of ridges, each piled upon tha other in four or five waves or projections, which gradually mount wrtil the backbone of the continent has been renched, receding on the other side in the same fashion. Fiftesn miles out of Denver one can climb a mountain range, and then, at the top, really be at only the beginning of the mountains, There are two more ranges piled on top of this before ever the crest of the continent is reached [ Consequently, ones a person really gets inte the moun tains all sense of perspective seems to be lost. Grades appear to be only flat stretches, while the heavier pulls farther on seem to be only allght things of 1 or 2 per cent, which should be taken easily with the motor breeting along on high. But for some strange reason the machine eougha and gaspa and slows down, The inexperienced driver begins to fight his engine, relensing the clutch, allowing the engine to race, then throwing in the clutch hard again, for a spurt. But still the gasping comes, Becompanied by cums words directed toward the carburetor. . Tom Fr i maf ie hike det Deer Vireo ial 4 Ponty of Tourlsate Motoring Through the fouth Tt. Praia Conon, Witliude S200 Feet, in the Rocky Wownialas At last, disgruntled, peevish, inte sec- ond go the gears, while the engine is raced again, and thrown once more into high. Ding that carburetor! Again and again is it tried—and then something goes wrong with the cooling system, Thedarned thing's boiling! First time it ever did such a thing in its life. Ever senit to fail, something always goes wrong with a car when you're a long way from a gar- age? Of course the driving hasn't had a thing to do with it! Nothing at all—only this much: [ have driven many, many thousand milea of mountain roads in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, I have an ordinarily good car, neither cheap no high priced. With that automobile I can climb one grade of six miles in which the lit etarta at & per cent and finishes with a grand finale of $2 per cent, experiencing neither an appreciable strain on my motor nor any trouble with the cooling sys- tem, The nearest my car ever came to boiling was when I towed a disabled machine up o part of the terrific grade! 4 Matter of Practica HERE+* is another grade, which extends for fourteen Tiles, on which the “level stretches run a minimum of § per cent, and the heaviest grade is 18, meaning a steady pull of more than ten miles in second and low. I have never had radiator, oil or engine trouble on that hill. Yet one day [lent my car to aman unaccustomed to mountaln driving, and that car of mine, which had sailed over the hump with hardly a realization of the difficulty, boiled eight times in those fourteen miles! The hand at the wheel has a great deal to do with the work of the engine. More, because the hand at the wheel isn't a practiced one, and because the brain behind that hand at the wheel has either re- fused to understand the diffi- culties of mountain driving or haa been kept in ignorance of them, there are at least ten aeci- dents a week during the summer months in the driving regions of the Rocky Mountains, and on the various passes leading over the Continental Divide. What may seen strange to the wniniti- ated, and not at all strange to those who know the hills and who see the decupanta of every fourth or Alth ear literally shak- ing dice with death, is the fact that most of these accidents happen when the car is either stopped ar going downhill! Naturally there ia.a logical ex- planation. The usual man, when he stops on a hill in town or In the country, sets his emergency brake; and then, if this does not hold tighth enough, retnforces this by throwing the car into low gear or reverse, thus making the engine aceomplish what the brake bands do not, On the or- dinary grade, when the time comes to start again, the pull of the hill is so slight that if the emergency allows movement at all it is so slow aa to be almoat imperceptible. But on a moun- tain grade conditions are differ- ent. One can't throw the car out of gear and then atep on the starter, trusting the brakes to hold until theenginestarts. Tha pull of gravity is so etrong that the minute that extra bindage is Feleased the cor sturts down- hill, and withspeed! The result ia that the driver, frightened by the strange actions of his car, loses his head for an instant— and that instant is enough. Mountain roads are narrow, They also are crooked, Upon the usual pass road a fifty-foot prog- ress or regress in a atraight line inevitably brings a car either to the edge of a precipice or into the stone wall of the mountain itself, There's a crash either way, (Ceathided on Page 104)

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20 but for the shifting of the sands, would have been marked by the bodies of dead catile, in death scarenly more bone and parchment than for days they had been i while alive. The horned toad, the cuctus, the rattle. snake long since had re- Placed the prairie dogs of the grassy floor of the cast- ern plains, A scourge of great black crickets ap- peared, crackling loath- somely under the whoels, Sagebrush and sand tack the place of trees and grass as they left the river valley and crossed a succession of Fidges or plateaua. At leat they reached yvoat black basaltic masses and Java fields, proof of former aukb- terranean fires which seem- ingly had forever dried out the life of the earth's sur- face. The very Vaetnesa of the views might have hed charm but for the temper- ing feeling of awe, of doubt, of fear. They had followed the trail over the immemorial tribal crossings over heighta of land lying between the hens ofstreams, From the Green Hiver, which finds the great cafiona of the Colorado, they come inte the vast horseshoe valley of the Bear, almost. cireum- venting the Great Salt Lake, but unable to forsake it at last. West and south now rose hald mountains around whose northern ox- tremity the river had felt ite way, and back of these lay fold on fold of lofty ridges, now softened by the distances. Of all the aplen- did landscapes of the One gon Trail, this one had few rivals, But they must leave this and cross to yet an- other, though less inviting, vast river valley of theseries which led them across the eontinent. Out of the many wagons which Jesse Wingate origi- nally had captained, now not ont hundred remained in hia detachment when it took the sagebrush plateaus helow the great Snake River, They still were back of the Missouri train, no doubt several days, but no message left on a cleft stick at camp cheered them of enlightened them, And now still another defection had cut down the train. Woodhull, moody and irascible, feverish and excited by turns, ever since leaving Bridger had beld seeret conclaves with a few of his adherents, the nature of which he did not disclose. There was no great surprise and no extreme regret when, within safe reach of Fort Hall, he had an- nounced his intention of going on ahend with = dozen wagons, He went without obtaining any private interview with Molly Wingate. These matters none the less had their depressing effect, Few illusions remained to any of them now, and no ro- mance, Yet they. went on—ten miles, fifteen sometimes, though rarely twenty miles a day. Women fell asleep, babes in arms, jostling on the wagon seats; men almost slept as they walked, ox whip in hand: the cattle slept as they stumbled on, tongues dry and bolling, All the earth seem! strange, unreal, They advanced as though in a dream through some inferne of a crased imagina- tion. About them now often rose the wavering images of the mirage, offering water, trees, wide landscapes; beckoning in such desert develte ay they often now had seen, One day as the brazen sun mocked them from ite zenith they saw that they were not alone on the trail, DM iitnettor the a the desert. The road now, FELUITRATED THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE COVERED WAGO! By Emerson Hough Ear es For an Hour Moailiy fat, aad tha Fun Fonk. Tae Light of the Whole World Died “Look, mother!" exclaimed Molly Wingate—she now rode with her mother on the seat of the family wagon, Jed driving her curt when not on the cow column. “See! There's a cornvan!" Her ery was echoed or anticipated by scores of voices of other, They pointed west and scuth. Surely there was a caravan—a phantom caravan! Far off, gigantic, looming and lowering again, it paralleled the advance of their own train, which in numbers it seemed to equal, Slowly, steadily, irresistibly, weesamely, it kept pace with them, sending no sign to them, mockingly in- different to them—mockingly so, indeed; for when the leaders of the Wingate wagons puused the ridera of the ghostly train paused also, biding their time with no action to indicate their intent. When the advance waa resumed the uneanny port poe again wert on, the rival caravan going forward as fest, no faster than those whe regarded it inf faacinated interest that began te become fear, Yonder caravan could bode no good. Withowt doubt it planned an ambush farther on, and this sinister indifference meant only its certainty of success. Or were there, then, other races of men out here in this unknown world of heat and sand? Was this a treas- ure train of old Spanish corgadores? Did ghosta live and move da men? Tf net, what caravan waa this, moving Mfiay (2 alone, far from the beaten trail? Wha: ; had it here? “Look, mother!" ‘The girl's voice row again, but this time with a laugh in it. | ARUP ELTLCe pee) ly line, others luaghin lief at the sobytics. “Tt's ourselves! Molly. ““It's th Morgana —but ka velous! Who esol ist’ Indeed, the mira taken that rare ands dinary form. Th: of their own caravan was Pellected, mira eome freak of the de and air, upon the 4 blown in the a 2 tance from the tn was, indeed, thes they saw, net koowy @ vast. primordial m the desert goda \ the discovery of th lessen the feeling of | fort, of apprehensio: laughter waa at best until at last a tore trail, a shift in the # of the heat waves, br the ghostly qo gent it, figure by tiga hicle by vehicle, in unknown whence | Come. “This country! claimed Molly Wa mother, “Tt aca: Oregon's like this = "Tt isn't, mothe, rich and green, with There are great trea, mountains, bexuti!| where we ere py, there are fields of There are—why, ths hemes!" The sudden pathos voice drew her ma frowning gaze. anid she. “Dont mind. Well aei a home for you, yest and me,” The girl shook be “T sometimes the! bether tomch sebyoo an alone.” | “dnd leave poe] onts? +P “How can I lool father in the faceerr knowing what he feels about me? Just now ot a me of ruining Sam Woodhull's life—driving him sy af the train, But what could Ido? Marry his, ate I can't—I can’t! I'm glod he's gone, but [ dont! why he went.” “Ta my belief you haven't-heard or seen the lee Woodhull yet," mused her mother. “Sompetie: & geta sort of peeved—wants to marry a girl that jl more’n if she hadn't. And you certainly jilted bint church door, if there'd been afiy church there. [tt awfal thing, Molly, I don’t know os I pee how and it Long as be did.” “Haven't I paid for it, motherT" “Why, yes, one way of speaking. But that a=" Way Men are going to call theirselves paid. Uw married, a man's peverful set on having 2 wom [ don't, he thinks he ain't paid, it don't srarcely mal difference what the woman does, No, I don’t reckos: forget. About Will Banion —’ “Don't let'sanention him, mother, I'm trying lt him." “Ves? Where do you reckon he boy this time far ahead?" “T don't know. IT can't guess,” The eqlor on her cheek eaught her maother's a “Cee-whor-haw! Git along Buck and bt manded the buxom dame to the swaying ot bas"

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THE SATURDAY EVENING © Poad with no real need = took up the “arden of the desert. ee V armilies are coming — the families!" It whe cry of the passing fur it @aastward ave of the Toa plows: same iver rt Hall, on River, ma it at Lararnie

The Horse? Tead. ihe Cactus, the orth Platte, or as it had been at ee i IT = =< Rottiomake Long a the waters tributary to the Green. ar = Since Nad Replaced npany clerks who looked out over plain saw miles peay a dust cloud ant but one thing. In time they saw ate train come on, slowly, steadily, and deploy pment a mile away, The dusty wagons, their wera stained, mildewed, torn, were scattered th found the grass good. Then they saw scores grants, women as well aa men, hastening into the iow pest midsummer, around the middle of the August, and the Wingate wagons had covered lve hundred and eighty miles since the start at of the last spring—=more than three months of is travel; a trek before which the passage over lachians, two generations earlier, wholly pales, lid they need, here at Fort Hall, on the Snake, last settlement of the two thousand miles of toil cer amd exhaustion? They needed everything. question first wos asked by these travel-sick, ing people: What was the news? How could there be news when almost a year ipee beefere Fort Hall would know that an that —in that very month of August, 1843—Oregon wed a territory of the Union? How eould there be news, when these men could pfor much more thin a year that, as they out- herein the sage, Abraham Lincoln had just de- Be governorship of the new territory of Oregon? fe did mot know, Why had these men come here? fmt kno,

They Piaaged?, Welloerd, Siaggered: Bat tie Lrad Poker Jae Where the Ford Chiimbed the Da = _ ; the Peaiele Doge But news—the news! The families must have the news. And here—always there wos news! Just beyond branched off the trail to California. Here the supply trains from the Columbia brought news from the Oregon settlements. News? Hew slow it was, when it took a letter more than two vehre to go one way from edge to edge of the American continent! They told what news they kKnew—the news of the Mor- mons of 1847 and 1848; the lutest mutterings over fugitive negro slaves; the growing feeling that the South would one day follow the teachings of secession. They heard in payment the full news of the Whitman massacre in Oregon that winter; they gave back in turn their own news of the battles with the Sioux and the Crows: the news of the new army pots then moving west inte the Plains to clear them for the whites. Mews? Why, yes, large news enough, and on etther band, so the trade was fair. But these matters of the outside world were not the only ones of interest, whether to the post traders or the newly arrived emigrants. Had others preceded them? How many? When? Why, yes, a week earlier filty wagons of one train, Missouri men, lel by @ man on a great black hotse and an old man, a hunter. Banton? Yes, that was the name, and the scout was Jackson—Bill Jackeen, an old-time [ree trapper. Well, these two had split off for California, with six good puck mules, Londo light. The rest of the wagons had gone on to the Snake, But why POST 21 these two had bought the last shovels and the only pick in all the supplies at ol Fort Hall no man could tell. Crazy, of course; for whe eould pause to work on the trail with pick or shovel, with winter coming on at the Sierra creasing? But not crazier than the other band who had come in three days ago, also ahead of the main train. Woodhull? Yes, that was the name—Wooedhull, He had twelve or fifteen wagons with him, and bad bought supplies for California, though they all had started for Oregon. Well, they soon would know more about the Mary's River and the Humboldt Desert. Plenty of bones, there, sure! But even ao, a third of the traing, these past five years, had split off at the Raft River and given up hope of Ore- gon, California wes much better—casier to reach and better when you got there. The road to Oregon was hor- rible, The crossings of the Snake, expecially the first erosa- ing, to the north bank wes a gamble with death for the whole train. And beyond that, to the Blue Mountains, the trail was no trail at all. Few ever would get through, rice chrbe keanew how many had perlahed. Three years ago Joe Meek had tried te find a better trail west of the Blues. All lost, so the story said. Why goto Oregon? Nothing there when you got there. California, now, bad been settled and proved a hundred years and more. Every year men came this far east to wait at Fort Hall for the emigrant trains and to persuade them to go to California, not to Oregon. But what seemed strange to the men at the trading post was the fact that Banion had not stopped or asked a quea- tion, He appeared to have made up his mind long earlier, und beyond asking for shovels he had wanted nothing. The same way with Woodhull. He had come in fast and gone out fast, headed for the Raft River trail to California, the very next morning. Why? Wsaally men stopped here at Fort Hall, rested, traded, got new stock, wanted to know about the trail ahead. Both Banion and Woodhull struck Fort Hall with their minds already made up. They did oot talk. Wes there in nara word about the California (Continued on Page 129)

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22 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May | RITA COVENTR eX VIE HE Bement baby had arrived while Parrish was "T's Chicago, and now Bement, craving diversion after his sufferings in paternity, suggested ta his partner that they make a might of it in town, going to ashow and later to the Mid- night Frolic. Of course it would have beon nice if Mrs, Bement had been well enough to join them, but she and the baba were getting on all right, and he really needed to get away for an evening from that house and those tiresome trained nurses. The propasal, finding Par- rish in the bitter mood In which he had been left by Rita's abrupt exodus from his apartment, appealed te hirn, He, too, had suffered. Two nights of white horror. His fatigque instead of inducing sleep expressed itself in a gnawing restlessness. More- over, hia apartment had be. come hateful to him—for the ghosts which haunt us most persistently are mot those of the dead. The perfume of Rita was gone, but something of her lingered; he was con- tinually aware of her gold- mesh bag in his safe, and of her photograph upon his mantelpiece. That photo- graph pleked ftsell out for him in the room as if a spotlight shone upon it; he had a thought of removing it, but felt a curious embarrassment about doing ao; to remove it would be to admit that he had reversed himeclf, and he wes not ready to admit that. In his need for comfort his thoughts turned te Alice, 1s those of one in trouble turn ta a neglected deity; he gazed for a long the at her photo graph upon his desk, but that photograph disturbed him, too, though in a diferent way. Strange, there seemed to be a look of sadness in the eyes. Why had she not answered his letter? Ho was beginning to feel just a litth hurt by her neglect. He wrote and told her so, On Tharaday afternoon the partners came uptown tie gether to Parrish’s apart- ment, where Bement and his sultcase were duly installed. As men will when their nerves need soothing, they dined at a Broadway reatau- rant where there was contin- uous dancing and jazz music. In the play whieh they aub- sequently attended a fat oe median, the victim of unjust suspicion, was obliged to hide under the bed of a pretty but virtuous lady whose hushand was jealous of her. The comedian’s chief humerous eect was achieved when he crowled from under the bed like a turtle and wihatfully eyed the audience, This he did three times, and the play was over, leaving Parrish and Bement free to continue on their round of payeties, Through the after-theater crowds they slowly worked their way to Forty-second Street, and passing into the wide corridor of the New Amsterdam Theater, enterad the elevator, Within, a litth: group was alrendy walting for the car to ascend, and among them Parrish recognized Sam Burke, whe bowed to him: then aa thowe within the elevator atirred to admit neweomers he saw behind Burke the latter's wife and Clara Proctor. He advanced toward Clara and was about to ask if she hal heard fram Alice when her atiff litth nod stopped him: and as if further to repel him she turned to converge with Mrs. Burke. By Julian Street FELUIFTRATED aF HENWVRF ite Meord Her Behind Him on the Stairs The Kept Coming: He was surprised. Though he did not like Clara and was aware of her dislike for him, hitherto aa if by tacit underatanding they had been carefully polite. Well, if ahe did not wish to continue the effart he woe satiefedd, though he thought it stupid of her to revesliso plainly what he considered to be a jealousy of his hold on Alice. All evening Purriah remained in a sardonic mood, and when after returning to the apartment the partners sat up for a time talking, Bement found himself amazed at the acidity of the other's observations wpon women, life and Jove. Though he had known Parrish since their colloge days he had not before realized him te be a misogyn- ist. It must have been coming over him gradually, Bement had never been able to understand why Parrish did not marry, but this, he thought, explained it. A protracted bachelorhood was to him incomprehensible — the world was eo full of lovely girle, and married life, RALEIGH in his experience, so hoppy. He and his » jong harbored a secret hope of finding the rig Parrish, but he now concluded that the fall such a hope was, i atill a possibility, exceeding! Next morning 2 | however, after Far drunk his eoffee = was infinitely more in had Bement but in read his mail, he wa ably more cheerful, The junior parw mented upon thia- “Tt worried me "to hear you so cr night.” “What did I aay cynical?" “ ABOU Women,” “Oh, mo,”” returne brightly, “you're man. I'm not that» All I meant was—y te keep them in th There's nothing ec eynical about that. talnly there's noth about it." He » “Everybody know: when a man’s in love times hosn't ser e put it Inte proche Woman Goes some doen't like he show ber fora while. [td god mF Tt wast the note [r lying beside his co which had made ey his mind the truth « dictum. For two da ignored her, and wi result: she had wed) hag 28 2n emcuse te! apologetic note, re him to bring it when te her house on " Shrewdly he surmise the truth were know a litthe bit afraid he come at wll, Weil, ! afraid! It wouldn't to worry for a while! That day he took bag with him to tl wrapped and sealed sent it te her by a cnt clerk. She would Jc note in the package to hers, When she di it, that would give b thing to think Throughout the dar with malicious pleas thought of her lookin for that letter, but by day he hod begun k if, considering the stances, he had not litte too severe w “After all, she had op he didn't want to ber manly. As for her having lel denly the other night it was frightfully annoying, he had to admit ope tion that anyone might forget an engagement. done it himself. He remembered the time, lon Bar Harbor, when he had forgotten to go toa & given in his honor, And Alice when he firat knew forgotten an engagement she had with someones gone out with him; certainly Alice was newer inter careless nbeut other people's feelings; he rememiw upset ee had been. For another day he thought the matter over.“ wrote briefly to Rita, accepting her apology! wasn't going to make it too easy for her—he dit definitely that he was coming to her party oo T “Tam very busy," he wrote, “bot will come i] poasilsbe.”" When Tuesday night arrived he made up be m he would go. He was purposely late, however. =

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST wa happy when be came in; he could have seen if she had not spoken of it. OTe People and come halfway across the poor 1, Saying, “Oh—I wasn't certain I was going to might."" mt be sure," sald he, ® been awfully sorry if you hadn't come," she hecourt is just going to sing some of those negro (ten about, introducing him to thoes of her guests met. The room was filled: fully half the people 72 famous in the world of music: Cassoli, the cel- en and his young rival of the violin, Helmann; the great Polish pianist, with his air of amiable ind hits soft aureole of gray hair, talking with 1 Elena Cordoba, the musical sensation of the denstein, the symphony conductor; Licbmann, publisher; the Erausses, Bickfords, Stickels, and others whose bank accounts vouchsaled arivilege of association with the artists: and of ty Merrick and the inevitable Mrs. Fernia. ferous endeavors of the vast Frémecourt to te an American negro, handicapped as he was nch accent, delighted the a=embly, and seemed ¥ to appeal to the melancholy Paldowski, who fat at the piano and played the basso's accom- lile there were mysterious departures to the din- where @ guy conspiracy was evidently being and when Frémecourt stopped singing there reat tumult, followed by the appearance of a German band made up impartially of muuasi- millionaires wearing paper caps and playing instruments of papier-m4ché, from which they minds by singing into them. When the band, @ famous baton of Wildenstein, had frighthully weral mumbers it marched gravely out again, ng aomething dimly recognizable as the most of Chopin's compositions. Like the music, the applause which followed was burlesque. ernis bustled toward Rita. e.”" ahe demanded, calling half acrosa the room, the young genius you promised us?” oked at the clock and shragged. "That's what I've been wondering,” she answered, “I do hope he is not going to digappoint me. But he if an uncertain quintity—in crai type, I assure you.” Parrish standing near was looking at her, wondering tf he knew of whom she was speaking, when she, catching his eye, seemed to catch as well the question In his mind, for she added, “Mr, Parrish can tell you what a gifted young man he is.” There was a mischevious gleam in her glance. “Wir. Parrish discovered him.” And to him she explained parenthetically: “T am speaking of Delaney." With that she turned quickly away and engaged in conversation elsewhere, leaving him at the mercy of the inquisitorial lady, to extricate himself as beet he could. “Flow very interesting!" she exclaimed, “And where did you find him, Mr. Parriah?" “T didn't find him at all," he answered shortly, Then fearing she would think him rude he continued, “ Rita’s just being playful. It wasshe who found him, I had noth- ing ta do with it.” "But whe ls he?" “That I really don’t know,” he returned cdismissively. "T heard dear Rita when she sang his songs in concert a week or ao ago,” the lady went on. “Then,” returned Parrish, “you know more shout him than Ido. Twas out of town.” “He accompanied her, you Know." He nodded, “There's something interesting about him—so young— and ao good-looking, don't you think aa?" Parrish, wondering how Kita could put up with such o women, suid he cid think so, A moment later, as he was speculating on a meana of escape from Mra. Ferris, he saw Delaney enter the room. He wasin evening dress and looked very well in it, though obviously the suit was not made by a good tailor. With some surprise he noticed that Delaney appeared perfectly: atease, Hoe paused inside the door and looked about the room: then, seeing Rita, strolled over and with that de- tached air of his, greeted her. “Exeuse me, I must go and speak to him,” Parrisheaid, thinking hesaw his opportunity, But: “I'll go with you,” said the lady. “His looks fmecinate me. So Hellenic! IT want te meet him. Silently he escorted her across the room te where a little group was gathering around Rita and the young man. 23 “Of course you remermber Mr. Pariah,” Rita reminded Delaney. "Oh, yes," he answered vaguely. “How do you do?” “How do.you do?" reaponded Parrish. He held out his hand, and when the other had shaken [t presented him to Mra. Fernis, identifying her by saying: “Mrs. Grace Etheridge Fernis, you know." Then as no light of resog- nition showed in Delaney's face he made a further effort to assist him, adding: “OY course you've read Sifting Sands?" “Shifting Sanda," corrected Mra. Fernis quickly, “Well, anyway, [haven't read it,” announced Delaney. “He reads nothing but the Russians," Rita hastened to explain; and to Delaney: “When you get through with those eight volumes of Tolstoy's War and Peace you really must rend Mrs. Fernis. One can’t be au courant without reading her." While she was speaking the young man looked at her with a curious intentness that was characteristic of him, Te was as if he were listening with his eyes. “T see,"" he answered indefinitely. Then after a glance about the room he asked, “Isn't that Wildenstein— that man aver there?" “Wea! Fute answered, “Come over and meet him." But Delaney did not move. “T was just wondering,” he said ruminatively, “why he took the third movement of the Techaikowsky Fifth so slowly the other day." Rita gave a little shuddering laugh. “Well, don't you go and ask him that!" “Certainly not. But just the same he ought to stick ta Beethoven and Brahms. He hasn't the temperament to do Tschatkowsky.” Again she laughed. “Since Wildenatein doean't measure up." she gab, “bet us see [f we can't find someone here who will, Would you care to know Paldowski?” “Yes, I'd be glad to meet him.” “That,” said she, her eves brimming with amusemant, “Gs probably as great a tribute as he ewer received —though perhaps he wouldn't know it.” Some late puesta entered and she croased the roam to weleome them. (Continued on Page fet) “OF Course Foo Remember Afr. Porrish,” Rite Remladed Belaney. “OA, Fer,"' He Seseered Foageety. “Heo Do Fou DoF"

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ot INSIDE THE BOO THE SATURDAY EVENING POST WN THE first of next month I'll he winding up my business in New York and moving on to a proposition that has just opened for me in the Middle West. I've closed a deal to take $1000 for the goodwill—just my list of eus- tomers and an introduction to them, Then I'll kiss boose peddling good-by and go while the going is good. I have been one of the amall fry—I got into the business a little late—but, at that, [ have enough saved up, besides that $1000, to give me @ start in something else. The fellow who is helping me to put this down asked me the other day why I am cutting it out just now, when the business sits so pretty. Well, in the first place I've been watching something going on in bootlegging circles. Last fall, when prices ran rather low, I found that one of the big fellows was storing 10,000 cases for a rise, In the bootlegging business the general Tule is to get the stuff off your hands a4 soon aa powible. It's dangerous to have. Well, the Christmas rise in prices came along. You'd have thought he'd let gothen. But hedidn’t. The bottom fell owt of prices just after Christmas, and then roee again in February. But still he held on. [ figured, and I still figure, that something is going to happen. He needn't worry for fear he'll low. He is too well protected. But the little fellows like me—we'll be ruined. There are other signs. I don’t like this dilution business that's going onnow. More and more you find that the etull you get and are obliged to handle is cut with water or worse. Fortunes Made by Insiders FPHSEBS another reason too. When | was eleven years did five of ue were playing bandit downoan Avenue A. We found the back door of a cigar atand unlatched, and filled our pockets with cigarettes. We were going over the fence, when the cop on the beat epotted us. He got three of wa, including me. Aly folka were away that day, and I had te spend the night in jail, The turnkey looked me over before he locked me up, and I can remember just what he said: “Young fellaw, you've got a fine atart. I guess it's the electric chair for yours.” Well, I was just enough of a kid to think he meant it—that [ was going to be sentenced to death tn the morning. They got in touch with my father next day, and he fied it with the district leader: but ever since I've had a horror of jails. Thot's probably the reason why I've alwaye atayed emall fry. The biggest money in bootlegging is made by fellows on the inside of polities who control the game and collect the graft. Outside of them, the beat line is running it in from Canada, But sometime on that Cangdian route you may hump something—a freelance agent from Washington who's been sneaked on to a beat unbeknownst to the fellow you've fixed, or an honest country cop who believes in prohibition, I've always told people that I didn't go into rum running because I didn’t have the capital. That's net eo, IT could have raleed it at any time. It waa [AuTHon' a None — AL names fn thie artiche wre fhetitious:) By an conyers Bootlegger BEC OR ATI oO WF F G¢PERNWY FEF the fear of going to jail. And now I know that if there is a smash-up a lot of us emall people may bump against something right here in New York. So I'm pulling out before that happens to me and I have to spend my sav- ings for a lawyer's fees. I'm trading an easy graft for security, The graft won't beso ensy from now on, at that, Before the war | was bartender for Jim Malloy. He had an old-established calé in a good location down by the Brooklyn Bridge. That was the time when the breweries were running wild, setting up new saloons. All you needed for a start waa a license. Some brewery would put in your plant, furnish you the liquors and clara, and take in return a lead-pipe mortgage. Then they'd set up two or three more in the same block; or f they didn't some other brewery would, You remember how New York used to look in those daye—block after block, you'd find a saloon on all four corners, with a big brewery sign over the door and a little sign giving the name of the proprietor down in ont corner of the window, Which was how it should be, for the brewery owned you—lock, stock and barrel. There were so many of these places that the saloonkeeper had to do some kind of dirty work in order to keep going—anything from selling dope up to colonizing floaters, Hut Malloy had been in business a long time. He'd gone to school and grown up with a lot of the poll- ticians, always worked with them, and could deliver o big bunch of votes at election time, legitimate, He had pull enough to keep these fly-by-night brewery saloons away from his location. Everybody liked him, and people came to the place just to see Malloy, He had been making money ever since he started. Most of it he had tucked away in tenement-house properties, but he kept a floating fund to invest on tips he got from his influential friends, Jim Malloy’s Advice THEN the war come I enlisted. My outfit was a long time in France. I was discharged just before prohi- bition came in, andsaw Malloy to get back my old job. And Jim advised me to cut out the business complete. “You're a young fellow vet," he sad, “and you can start in something new. I'm old and I've made my pile. I'd ‘heen thinking of retiring anyway.” Ta thease daya almnat nobody in New York really thought it could possibly happen. But Malloy knew the big fellows, and politically he was a Wier guy, Thowgh be never bet on an election, he could have made a fortune if he had. I never but once knew him to call the turn wrong, “It's coming and it will beforond,” hesnid, “And it's a Federal proposition, Did you ever see the militia foolin’ round with a strike in the old days, and did you ever ace what happened when Unele Sam's regulars showed up? Well then!" dim Malloy was a-wise guy, but not quite wise enough. Nobody was." A‘fellow was telling me the other day that sLinographer, teought fora blind abowt $1500 @ ; d in the beginning of the@ Picture game rank cutee} big money. Not one of Gey ritl miinagers had ee | what was coming. nal faloonkeepers like Malloy and the wholesale liq made the same mistake. They thought it was enforced —seon, if not rightaway, They shen The big money the first year wae made by sig) eigners: "They didn't Know a state law. from @ low, and they didn't much care enjoy, meant nothing in their livea. In those dep drawal permit was the cream of the game, The held by the Government far medicinal purposes We withdrawn blind: You gota wholesale-drig lime permitted you to sign withdrawal orders. That political pull, and you needed about $22,008 money, [f you could prove your ability to pet vou oath generally borrow that—at pawnb terent—arnid pay it back in a few weeks from your First you fixed the grafters,. That cost from fi $22,000 at various times; it averaged about) Then yet got an office semewhere with al woo RE drugs like peroxide, calomel and Epsom salts, i= i whoaltsaledrug broker, Yoru seld some of your dniges ot cut nts fe That was toohave something on jour books, Ta ready now to do business in withdrawak. Hew the Profits Figure Out OU never handled the staff yourself. Tht = beauty of the game. Acting as broker, you age petrnite for your clienta—wholesaler bootleg the rest. You charged ” igbteen dollar a =a signing these pe rita. When the money wi ! men were presont—you, the rowndernan for the and your client. You kept half of the money, om lars uw ocnsee. “The rest went to the grafiters, wisi ietween the big hove. You were allowed t 1500 eases a week, The demand was ao greet never failed to take the full quantity, | There waa fast rotation in office among the pra It was figured that any crew was good @ aVOragE af thirteen werks—a quarter of a year time you could figure about like this: Evey 3 withdrew 1500 eases, on which you made sine re fareee,, car, of $15,5000 week, So your gros toen weeks was #1ITH,500. You had i wT BOS, for your original permit. You)had In dirug ‘ble =} wre ott jst about Havel Lo give away at vatl n feed lows. Your office went ery ep Swat teed about two clerks. . You ieepé wis tise m gunman and personal fumed, ay your trinssetians were in cash ane some Sao of S10 AMM i in bila on you. Another wiubeh over the place stood you about sevens nweek, Cheeasjonnall ¥ VO tipped a cop, Sar, per

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST frent @apenees, or $9000 for thirteen weeks, and ohabhy stretching ft, gures like this: it payment i wea TS ee i a fer ALDEN Unt a va. Mee 1,500) Pe rr rr a0 AES .$ 3000 aa, 13 weeks hSM SUMMER a al dm es cat atnacrial aCe Lit Gftae eae 000 ts, 19 weeks to ee ST 500 things changed you had to pay for your permit you could get it. Often you'd find you couldn't. go to someone who had worked up a longer pull. io, the business was a partnership, and profits thetween twoor thre: men. [fa fellow played a jand stuck it owt for a year it is easy to see that rearly $600,000 to the good. But for moat of pues, it lasted only about six months—from the sof this good graft began getting round, to the S-08. On the other hand, some firme fixed it ao y could withdraw a great deal more than the a week allowed by law—sometimes os high as fia week. When that happened you made lees ot of the excess. You were allowed to keep only ven dollars a case of your graft money. Further, these birds doubled their money financing the ning business. ‘There is one foreigner who landed laland a little before the big blow-out In Europe a dollar in his pocket or a word of English in his But he knew how to handle the East Side gangsters | mode himeel! ao useful politically by naticnal- jon time that he got into permits early. Now he oe strings of tenement houses, fnoteveryone who had a wholesale-drug license . Ne tmere, by any means, wae everyone in eenforcement offices. But if you held 2 te permit for legitimate purposes and refused any tomen higher up you were likely to have a hard be pralters managed to sidetrack you and pigeon- fall along the line. The old-catablished wholesale ms, working one profit of 6 per cent on their capi- peal the gure straight he fi alring. And seme of inte trouble on account of it too—the grafters jgecipline them. The Details of the System was one firm ao afraid of doing something iilegul when the inspectors came to look over the stock wouldn't even give the boys adrink. In the Behake-wp some of his staff called the attention honest prohibition chief to an inregularity it-of this firm. It was just a technicality— Etoa der. But this firm woke up one morn- hearly $600,000 of liqquer—practically its whole (held up. They tell me that before noon the presi- = company was called up by two men whoee Souk surprise you. They applied to take the attorneys, and they wanted $15,000 apiece in fees. raft eouldn't last forever. One day the big boss from Washington and broke the whole thing wide Hashed the force right and left, he reduced the ‘i permits from sixty or seventy to about twenty. time withdrawals amounted to 154M) gallons. they were about 11,000 a month. The Wholealedrug permite blew up with a bang. bootleggers have to live, and the big boys who this game see further than day after to-morrow. there was a good deal of business done in running tvirfrom Canada. Withdrawals hadn't furnished Choe, anyway, to supply New York and New = And men whe couldn't get permits but whe in jest the same were trucking it down, taking chances then they do Preemt; for the graft Pet really organized. fate enforcement tome in by mow. e that happened I in, I'd been working slong in the West, going from one job to another. The hard times came and I was out of work entirely. I wrote to Jim Malloy, asking if he could find me anything in New York. He wrote back suggesting that I peddle booze for a while, He's sitting on the sidelines ever since he retired, just watching the game, He may be doubling a bit of thoney financing a rum runner now and then, but that's the moet he does. Jim wrote that the business was pretty nearly a cinch for safety, now that everything was or- ganized under the new state law, and that T couldn't lose if T kept my eyes open. T took his advice. Tapent a couple of days round New York finding just how it was dome, and then struck a bit of luck. Down near our old joint by Brooklyn Bridge is a big eatablishment—call it a printing shop—employing 300 of 400 men. In the old days pretty nearly all the drinkera among them used to patronize.our saloon; and they knew me. They had a regular er who called at the shop every day for orders. Well, just before I showed up in New York this bird distributed round the place, in one or two bottle lota, a ease of bad booze. I don't know what was in it, but [t made several of the force sick for teo or three days. Everybody said good aleo- hol—that's always the tag put on bad booze. He didn't do it purposely; he'd been stung himself by a crook on the docks; but it all came to the same thing. When he re- turned for orders the men in the basement kicked him halfway round the block. Setting Up in Business IT WENT to see the head guy. ['d done him a favor or two in the old dave. [ got Jim Malloy to call him up and Pua bee me as knowing how to get the safe stuff. Before I was throwgh the boss had issued ordera that I waa the only bootlegger allowed round the place. They weren't buying much for a week or eo. They were too seared, But I did pick up, that day, ordera for three cases— one in bulk and the rest in single bottles, I was living in a lodging house then and had no place to keep any small lots. [ had te hire storage with a produce dealer on the East Side, Later T took o amall fat ina good safe district where the cope are right. The broker gave oe prompt delivery, By the end of the second day [ had distributed it all. After paying ten dollara for storage I found I had cleared nearly fifty dollars for two days’ work. The shop began to buy more freely after they got over the scare. Thowrh other bootleggera raid my custom a little now. and then, | manage to keep this place pretty well to myself, and I've branched out too. Since T really got started I've never made less thon $200 in any one week —clear profit. Before 1 open up the details of the busines ['d better tell how the syatern works. It's like a flight of steps, with the profits getting smaller as you go down the line. At the top are the big boys who protect the whole game and sometimes help finance it. They're politicians, leaders in the underworld, and bankers. They never show their hands, bat they get the biggest shee of the pie. Next below them are the importers, who run it either by truck from Canada or by ship from the Bahamas, Canada or Europe. Wext are the brokers whe git in their offices in New. York and keep touch between the importer and the retailer: Finally come the peddlers, like me. In the 25 business small fry are never called bootlggers. We give that name to the importers or the big boys. The importer starta the whisky on its way to New York. He takes a truck or e fleet of trucks to Canada, Each truck has a driver and a guard. He goes along in a touring ear and he has a guard too, In Canada he buys standard Scotch whisky at—present prices—thirty-five to forty-five dollars a case. For that sum it is also repacked—taken out of ite original boxes, which are too dangerous, and made uP into packages of various sizes and shapes. Early in the game they used to load 200 cases on a truck. A cage, of equine, la twelve bottles, Hut that waa too Maky. You lost too much if you were caught. An experienced importer seldom. carries more than fifty cases nowadays. When they atart back to the U.S. A. the boss in his touring ear rides before or behind with a wad of ready money in his pocket, always keeping in touch with the truck and fixing things as he goes. At might he travela very close, 20 as to be ready with his gun or his wad in ease they're held up by high-jackers or cops. At about the time they cross the border he makes his first graft payment—five dollars a ease, Farther down the line he pays five dollara more a case, making ten dollars in all. This explaina why the big boys are rolling in easy money. The ten dollara takes him to the vicinity of New York City. After that he has to make hia own way inte the city, which sometimes takes alittle planning. The danger is from flying squadrons of prohibition agents or from euch city copa aa haven't been fired and can't be. Those Alying-squadron agents are likely to be pretty hard-boiled and torefuse totakemoney. Still thereare a hundred ways to get inte the city without looking suspicious. Somewhere along the line the boaa in the touring car flasives to the broker, by long-distance telephone of code telegram, just what he has and when he expects to arrive. They have already arranged a meeting place in New York, There the broker's agent pleks him up and tells him where to take it. All the importer wants from this time on is quick delivery. A lot of booze is always a dangerous thing to keep in pour possession unlase you have a long pull, Ceually it's off his honds and turned into ready money within a few hours. The Bootlegger'’s Overhead [3 earnings figure about like this: Let's say he's carry- ing o fifty-caae lot, He will pay for it in Canada from thirty-five to forty-five dollars a case—an average of about forty dollars. He pays as regular graft on the way ten dollar a com. His chauffeur on the truck draws $1 a week, and hie too guards from seventy-five ta $100. Tt takes four days to go up and back, and it costs about $7.50 a day to the man for living expenses—say, $120 for the crew of four. Gus, cdl, and incidental automobile expenses will average $100 a trip. Sometimes you have to come geross to country constables or New Yotk cops. You distribute those charges as overhead over a number of tripe. By the time you sell it in New York, averaging trip with trip, the stuil haa cost you about sixty dollars a case, You get for it about ninety dollara a ease if it is bulk de- livery or about ninety-five dollars if you drop it in small lets. Last Christmas bulk wholesale prices to the im- porters went up to ninety-five dollars; in the Marchslump, . after people hud just paid their income taxes and felt poor, it fell to eighty-eight dollars, But ninety dollars is a fair average. That's thirty dollars s case clear profit, or $1500 for a fifty-cuse lot, prowided everything has gone well, Of course your staff can't turn strakght round and co it again. It is hard work, and both the chauffeur and the guards have been on edge every minute of the run. You must rest them a day or tee in New York and a day or two in Canadas. Then there are other delays, ike weather and uncertain help. Guards and chauffeurs are always getting drunk of quitting on you, and you have to mastle round for new men. Month in and month out, a truck will make less than one round trip a week. Buteven at that, ifthe importer has the luck mot to baernge anything huts ought Lay average EMM) a week, even allowing for deterioration of (Continued on Page 42!

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26 THE SATURDAY EVENING THE NI. By Carl! Clausen fLLVITRATED AY J. E. ahLew ht. HORACE BLASS, president of the Blass Invest- ment Company, tevk the letter from Frishie, his partner's, hand and Jaid it upon the plate-glass top af his ornate mahogany deak. A wolfish smile rode upon Mr. Blass" salmon-pink face. “What did I tell you, Frisbie?” he chuckled, “There ain't no eriterion about suckera not biting the second time. A sucker's a poor fish onee, alwaya and forever." Frisbie, tall, thin and with o funereal droop of his mouth, leaned back in hia chair and fambled his the nervously with his long, bony fingers. “T waan't thinking about suckers or any other kind of fiah,"" he stated very clearly, as if his partner had mis- understood. “But we're better fined now than we've been for years, Qhr cosh balance is over sixty thousand, and the results from the Platinum Ridge prospectus will begin coming in in a week or two. There's no reason why we should take any risks. Drilling an oil well is no sucker-list proposition. It takes neal money, Mr. Blass.” Frisbie always addressed his partner with the prefix of Mr.— perhaps from foree of habit, certainky not as a mark of reapect. “Sore it takes money, Frisbie. But don’t forget that there's nine ways to akin a cat,” he quoted erroneously, “and that T know eight of "ers." Frishie heaved a sigh. “Of course if you insist on risking our hard-earned money ona wildeat oil proposition —— “Wildcat nothing!" Mr, Blass interrupted with bent, “You don’t suppose a hundred-million-dallar concern like the Buena Vista Oil people would waste time on wild- _ eatting 7" “They haven't begun drilling, have they?” ohjected, Mr. Blass fairored his parbner with pltying glares. “Your pessimism, Frishie, makes me sick. No, they haven't begun drilling yet: but ain"t you wise to the fact that oil companies never" —here he paieed and tapped the edge of the desk with his etubby forefinger —“ never begin drilling until they've grabbed all the land they want? Besides, I got Blair's word for it, ain't [2" “Blairis a crook," Frisbie stated without malice. Eeing a crook was to Frishie merely a species of barsi- ness Man. “Sore Blair is a crook," Mr. Blass agreed heartily. “Tf he? wasn't we wouldn't "we got the tip, But also he's a fine geologist, Frishie, And Blair ain't gonna give us a bum steer, He's getting too much essay money out of this coneern.” “ Geologints Ss wometines mithes mistakes,” Frishic objected. “The Martinez field, f'r instance. On the reperta of Cooper, the Texas oil cruiser, the Consolidated sunk half a million im three holes, and didn't get enough oil to lubricate a sewing machine.” Mr. Blass” pink face clouded a slightly darker shade. “The Conselidated made the mistake of employing a Texas man to look for of] in California,” he Frishio “We'll Glee Yee One Heur te Pull Gat—or be Jioreed Gon" replied impressively. “Might as well have sent a Hotten- tot to Greenland to bunt for ivory, Frisbie. Blair is a Californian. What he doesn't know abeut Californin, strata and—things, ain't worth Frisbie spread out his fiat, bony palms with a gesture of resignation, “OF course, as To snid before, if you insist on throwing our hard-earned money into a hole in the ground ——" “T insist on—nothing,” Mr. Blass interrupted coldly, His emall gimlet eyes glittered angrily, “I thought we agreed onet that personal opinions should not interfere with our business.” He picked up the letter from the table and toaned it inte Frishie's lap. “Pile bt away and forget about it.” Frishle picked up the letter and glanced at it unewsily. For the third time he read the fol- lowing: Inca, CAaatr., June 1i-"21, Dear Mr. Algae: Your kind offer came to ws dn this morning's mall, L will be ja ngeles June the fifteenth, ana will call at your affiee at two PM. to talk the matter over with you, Slneerely sure, Norma Mansa. Prisbie fingered the letter with bis long, bony digits, His glance traveled from the cal- endar on the wall op- posite te the marble clark on Mr. Elass* deak. The calendar said June 16. The hands of the clock pointed to 12:i0. “TAdrivrone TaAounrd Hadigreo? For Tage May tt hee “She'll be here in an hour and a half,” he ead frown that made his long, horeelike profile seem ; longer and more horselike. “You handle her p I'm going to keep my hands off.” He paused and passed the letter back to M- Then he continued: “AJlT ask is, go easy, Sir: eand dollars is a lotta money, and we gin’t a5 youn used to be." “Leave it to me, Frisbie,” Mr. Bless chortle, never saw me come a cropper yet, did you?” *Wot—yet,” Frishie admitted grudgingly. Mr. Blass leaned forward and proemsed the baer eipe of tis desk. “Miss Kuhn,” he said to the stenographer « ewered] the ring, “please take a dictation. Carta begral ssizue."" Yes, sir,” the girl replied, then laid a card op desk before him. “Mr. Callister ia cutsice, walling you." Mr. Blass picked up the card and fingered the alp with his fat thumb as if to test it for cutting quis glance!’ at the name, Ben Callister, the with a wink at Frishie: “Show him is, Kuhn.” The stranger whe entered a moment later personable-looking young man in the late tw or thereabout. He wore a Stetson hit, high-laced howl gray tweeds, Norfolk cut. His face we tanned, and hia hair a criap light brow mes were brown alae, and direct of paw locked like a man who liked te have ba way—aond was used to getting it. “The Consolidated phon your message an bour um, came right up,"" he seid bret Mr. Blass nodded. Heo affect pompous, but roa he failed. He had Intex elaborate quizzing, his uel of procedure in hiring peope stead be found himself wks tually asking the man beer: | he would take the job of a well for him. Followed ri utea of haggling over term, 4 which time Friabie’s [see gree! and longer. An agreement bi finally been made—at Mr. ¢ bee's terma— the man ance. “Tl have my erew and the ber for the derrick on the gral a week [rom today.” "4 Very well," Mr, Bila Wetting his lips he gavel ‘alls aidelong glance, “ Mus's te" understand? I dan'tweet th go off half cock.” “T Knee hi ere te ‘cans my mouth skut,” the aril plised easily, “T haven't been in the all basines ! years for nothing.” When Callister passed out of the building a oe luter he almost collided with a girl entering the sets 4s he apologized he noted briefly the tired ek & virl's © ess and the threadbare suit she wore, Her le’! tnone a like his own, and her gloveless hands sbrere | unmistaluble marks of hard work. TéAiagi"

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST girl,” he thought as he turned the corner of the id walked down the atreet. ar Mr. Blase returned from lunch at 1:45, and dhis private office by the side door, Migs Kuhn im that Miss Nora Marah was waiting in the to see Bim, rim busy, Mise Kuhn, and that [ll sen her in utes, When I press the buzzer you can show r. Blass told her. The girl nodded and turned dir, Hlsss put forth a detaining hend. “When I ou later, Miss Kuhn, you'll understand what |of you=I mean in regard to the contract I belore I went te lunch.” 'r. Bless," the stenographer replied without 2 jotiog. gamiled. Miss Kuhn was a bright youngster, ined her himself. “That's all, Miss Kuhn," e door closed upon the stenographer Mr. Blass rn in his heavy swivel office chair and, opening fthe degk, selected a fat black perfecto from o favorite brand and lit the cigar. sanexeelent, almest jocular mood, A pleasant ticipation played about the corners of hls moist fitaled the fragrant Havana amoke and blew it lin long, deliberate pullz, His amaill girolet eyes 4 a sort of breathless expectancy as he con- ;owe of Nora Marsh. dten wondered how it would feel to be a million- gunced about the luxuriously furnished office it recolored window hangings and its over- yethalra, He decided that he would be able to uve that fireplace which he had wet his heart Ukd soon. He hed seen the mantel in an opon West Seventh Street a week earlier, and aptivated at onee by ite eoatly massivencas and okmanship of its hand-carved Italian-marble The dealer had confided its price—two thousand » Mr. Blass with jost the right shade of desire eneration, had decided upon the exact epot, to the inch, | where the mantel must be placed to be seen to inlage, eye Fell JaRRIVE ode, he an Map Bix, al Valley, County, a, iE a. this Teen, flat af qossy chetpe- @eled in bamong ight-lined ‘lea, and [ Srpeh= ale blue behln d on, you would never have suspected the true character of Rowana Valley. Te was never quite clear why this region had been dubbed a valley, Topographically it might be classed os o valley, but to most people the word “valley is synonymous with pleasant meadows, lowing kine, orchards and corner meet- ing houses. The only kine one is apt to meet with in Rowans Valley, with the exception of the gentle burro, navigates like Napoleon's army—on its belly—and eorries tustaneta in the tip of ite tail. Of meadows there are none, and the orchards consist of here and there a equare mile of cactus-bearing sand, fenced about with barbed wire for apparently ne good reason whatever, unless perhupa to guard careless strangers from walking into a bunch of spine-bristling cactus in the dark. Mr. Blass put his stubby index finger upon a small square marked in red ink on the map, two inches removed from a flyspeck marked Inca. The red-inked square waa not the work of the map artist. Mr. Blast had made it himeelf a week earlier, upon the advice of Mr, William Blair, chief gea for the Buena Vista Oil Company, that all of Townships 14, 16, 18 and part of Sections 4, 6 and § af Township 22 contained ofl, Only the upper ten acres of Section 9, Township 22, came within the report, but Blair had been emphatic about this ten acres being directly in the Une of oil; go Mr. Blass had thoughtfully marked the ten acres in red ink and dis- patched a letter to Miss Marsh,.the owner of the ten acres, the answer to which now reposed in the tray on his desk, Mr. Blass adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, which hung suspended from the button on his cerise waistcoat by a white silk band, and regarded the equare of red ink with contemplative rapture. His thoughts moved back two years to a certain day when a young girl and her aged, musclebound father had called at his offiee and had brought te him a certified check for sixteen hundred dollars in answer to un advertisement of his, The check was drawn on an Eastern—lowa—bank, and passed into Mr. Blass’ bank and to the credit of iis atcount in exchange for a section of sand and cactus, two Inches by map, two miles by crowflight from the flyspeck marked Inca. During the two years that followed this transaction Mr. Blass had considerable correspondence with Mls Nora Marsh, the drawee of the check, a correspondence that hed Clatchlag the Caateea da the Crook of Ais Wounded Arm He WaAlelad About, Ralaed Wis Piste! and Empiied it at the Hammock aT annoyed Mr. Blass and ruffled his usual serenity to the point of exaaperation. The correspondence come to an abrupt end when Mr. Blase replied one day ta a supplicatory and discouraged letter of Misa Marsh's, anent dry farming, that if she did Hot think her farm was dry enough, to try some other and lower location, the dryness of which he could guarantee absolutely. Mr. Blase permitted himself aallght frown as he remem- bered this letter of his. It was regrettable that he should have let his annoyance get the better of him to such an extent, but when he considered that at the time of writing he had not had the faintest suspicion that the land might carry oil he excused himself at once. Still, for the first time in his life he was sorry that he had been rude. Mr. Blass had aeqgulred the land himself in 2 somewhat roundabout way. He had grubstaked the former owner of it, an aged proepector, named Tomlinson, to thirty-five dollars and sixty cents’ worth of flapjack flour and bacon, in exchange for which Tomlinson had given Mr. Blass a deed to the section, and had congratulated himself upon having driven a shrewd bargain. Mr. Blass ran the map up and drew the rose-colored draperies together. Returning to hia deak he flecked an imaginary duat epeck from the knee of his curefully ereased pearl-gray trousers and regarded the burning end of his cigur critically. The last inch of the cigar had turned to ash, a perfect section of dark, firm ash, varying not the fraction of a millimeter in circumference—the ultimate best of a first-class smoke, With a aigh of renunciation Mr. Blass laid the cigar on the ash tray, pulled one of the overstuffed chairs close to the desk, facing his swivel chair, and surveyed it, lips pursed slightly. Then he stepped to the window and drew the draperies apart a little, noted the result, and returned to the desk and moved the chalr another slx inches, so that the light from the window would fall directly in the face of anyone occupying it. Satisfied with the reault he seated himself in the ewivel chair, with his own back to the light, and placed his fat forefinger on the ivery button of the desk buzzer, He answered the knock upon the door a moment later with a pleasant “Come in,” and when Miss Marsh entered timidly and closed the door behind her he arcxe with just the correct amount of defer- ential alacrity and bil his caller to the chair beside the desk, and glanced at the marble clock. * Promptness bs a sterling virtue, Miss Marsh," he purred. Misa Nore Marsh amiled fainthy and gave hit a look that night have been distrust—might have been just timidity —then dropped her eyes. “Yes, ahe mur- mured. Mr. Blass cleared hia throat in the weighty si- lence that fol- lowed. He shot her a quick glance and noted several things: that her hat was faded and of a vintage two seasons past: that her shoes though polished bravely had the unmiatak- able roughness that desert sand imparts to leather and that na amount af polish can hide; and that her dark blue broadcloth suit was cleaned und Préeased to the quick of the nap. Her gray eyes had Lost som: of their eager faith of two years ago, butthey (Centiaeed om Page 78!)

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28 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST fii. wo Pat. oer, FOUNDED A°D' 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY [NMDEPENDENCE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANLA, U, §.A. GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR Pive Cente the Gopy From All Mewadeslers, Dy Subsclption; To the United Siaden mod Posesicns, Cubs and Menico, $16 che Veuor, Bemis by LU. &. Money Order, Express Money Ore@er, Check or by Drak, payable ia UW, 5, Fists, To Consda—Dy Subactipticn, $1.6 the Year Slaghe Coples, Ten Coa Canadian or LS. Fonda Foreige Sehecriptloaa; For Coetriee in thee Portal Unies. Sebecriptona, ae Famimances to be hy Porat on 2 beh in the U. 8. peroble PHILADELPHIA, MAY 13, 1922 Metting:Pot Literature VERY thoughtful novel reader and playgoer in middle _j life must be uncomfortably aware of the striking changes wrought during recent yeara in the prevailing standards by which younger people judge current books and plays. Victorian standards of propriety were by no mens faultless; but they were infinitely better than those that are replacing them. The flaw in the Victorian code wae 8 certain humorless prudery; and yet, for the most part, tt wes sane and wholesome. Its weakness we have perpetuated: lta strength we have allowed to dig, Like the Victorians, we wince at forthright Saxon nouns, the ugh names that designate ugly things. As long as a writer’s smooth ayoonyme hold aut he may go as far as he likes, for in the minds of many of his readers he will be judged not by the thoughts he seeks to convey but by the diction he uses as his medium. Let his words be suave and he may be as salacious as he chooses. Young people with inzuffclent literary background to know the worst writing from the beat will read him forhis“ wonderful style," as they call it, and critics will mot be lacking to defend his books on the ground of art. We are accepting at their oan valuation certain of these critics with the lackey type of mind who can find nothing good in literature unless it is w colorable imitation of a decadent European model, In Shakspere’s day and for more than two hundred years that followed, there were standards of decency far mare sound than our own. Words that are never seen in modern writing were employed with a thoughtlessness that we find it hard to imagine. Broad jests and racy stories that no ane took the trouble to “ parlorige’ wern the order of the day. And yet there were limits, and the prevalence of the dueling code and a certain fundamental deceney kept epeech within the bounds, such aa they were, For plays there were censors; and authors had to take their chances with the law. Standards were broad and elastic, but still, they operated. Somewhere: between the rollicking bawdiness of old times and the finical nasty-niceness of to-day there must be paths that can be trod with clean feet. Grossness of epeéch ia never admirable, but right-minded men and women find it Infinitely lesa offenalve than the more subtle language of smirking innuendo. The gradual shift of style from ont extreme to the other is an infallible sign of de- Feneraey in a@ certain group of authera and in the grow- ing dudlences whose morbid tastes they address, The old THE SATURDAY EVENING POST amut brought gring, laughter and guffaws, The new b& Hot intended to provoke either mirth or merriment. In other centuries strength and virility went along with wul- arity. To-day our salacity is overcast with the taint of degeneracy and victousness. Old londmarka of morality are removed. Virtue and vice are painted the same color. Basle standards of degeney are ignored or sneered into the background. Far too commonly is our body of current fiction and drama defiled and brought into disre pute by those who find lowdness delightful, once it has been dusted over with eachet powder and trickel aut with the cosmetics of catchpenny literary art. In vain shall wesearch English literature for the fountnin- head of this polluted stream. Its true source lies between the Baltle and the gean. If we explore the capitals of burnt-out European civilizations we need net go se far east as Suez to find places “where there ain't no ten com- maindments” and where sex morals are on outworn tra- dition. There, too, shall we find the diseased and degen= erate life that half-caste authors and their native imitators are portraying in plays and novels, This contamination, this fouling of our own nett is part and parcel of the punishment that is visited upon us in eonaequenc of a generation of warestrieted immigration. The policies that have permitted our clean old stock te be steadily and mercilessly mongrelized now make possible the intellectual subjection of American young manhonl and young womanhood. The moral standards of youth are plastic. They may be shaped awry quite as easily as they may be modeled in lines of strength and beauty. He whe has eyes to set may perceive all these things without being a puritan, an ethnoalegist ar an uplifter: and yet Congress with plenty of support behind it for the aecomplishment of the tusk of framing and passing a per- manent protective immigration code continwe: to tempo rize, Senators, congressmen and government officials are moved almost to tears by the stories of young immigrants who would be kept out of the country by the enforcement of our very temperate three per cont law; but they still vhea with cool judicial mien the national tragedy that is being enacted under their very eyes with their own kith and kin os the unprotected victlms, Melting-pot Uterature and melting-pot plays ure the inevitable scum of our melting pot. More on the Costs of War HE provisional budget of the German Government for the year 1922 has been placed before the Reichstag, It is provisional in two senses: With fluctuations of the mark, no one knows how much revenwe will be needed, and noone knows how much will be secured by the new tax levies, The present-day Germans ore past grand masters in tax evoslon, The total figure stated is 266,000,000,000 marks. Of this, 133,000,000,00) marks is set aside to cover reparations, the cost of defeat. Then 60,000,000,000 marks if to be devoted to domestic costs of the late war, being pensions, and so forth, That leaves for oll other expenditures 27,000,000,KK) marks, and of this 27.000,- O00) marke, 6,00),000,000 is to be used to support the present army and mavy. Germany & supposed to be disarmed. Her army in sup- posed to be only large enough to guarantee order and security, The disarmament commission of the Allied Governments has worked in Germany continuously since the adoption of the treaty enforcing disarmament, The German Government boasts that it has the smallest mili- tary budget of any nation of hersize. And yet the military budget is one-sixth the total budget devoted to ordinary governmental expenditures, and exceeda the aum to be devoted to wlucation. Thia budget illustrates how for the world haa yet to go in the eradication of war waste of money, Relocation of Business by War EFORE the war the average annual world preduction af the nonferrous metale—aluminum, copper, lend, tin and zine —wea 3,200,000 tons, of which the hited States produced 1,287,000 tens—38 per eent—and con- eumed 1,089,000 toma—33 per cent. In 1919-20 the Mey 15, average production of thes: same metals jp was 2,800,000 tons, of which the United ctu st 1,565,000 tons—55 per cent—and consume! 1 tona—48 per cent. The sutput of the work is output Foss. The eonaumption of the world dectise consumption increased. This amounts to a tardy of the business in nonferrous metals from other rory world to the United States. Europe, of cours, by the loser. And of Europe, Central and Eastern Eom leet more than Weitern Europe. These figures are drawn from a mourmaul meu eircunmstances that has appeared in ao publication gg the German Metal Company of Frankfort on the} the suceessor to the company that before the w employed by the German Government to conrad nonferrous metals. Germany has lost more thy other country. The increase in use of thee os 1919-20 was part of the boom, Part of the good used at home, but a considerable fraction wen: y When trade revives this will be one of the parsd fought for, we atriving to retain our prefminecc, | atruggling to recover hers. Three Poor Arguments HE proponents of immigration belong to thre; or wit leant three arguments are advance bb removal of restrictions. A certain type of emnplere the market of unskilled labor kept glutted. A rem historical idealista atill clings to the motion that the try is the haven of the oppressed of all contre, A large group, finally, favors the admission of fon type needed in this country. They read in diges recent censua that the population of cities ku ce that of country declined. They are impresee! 2 statement that the number of agricultural vod actually smaller than in 1910. Could we not adn ints whe would enter agriculture, amd make sare of; farmer material by selecting them at the source’ The meaning of decline in country populaim & misunderstand and exaggerated. Farming br & more efficient, and the farmer population has pet ce maintain tts earlier percentage in order to keep ow with products of the soil. The census of farm yo made before the return to the country of the me to arms and drawn to the cities for war work | census today would give a different result. Jo acreage or yielels, the work of farming has bees foly tained, Lf we need farm workers we should mis secure them from our cities, not from Furope The idea that we could prepare a card cataloged workers needed in this country and then pick then European countries is insular indemd. We hav 0 authority in foreign countries. The countre di want to get rid of undesirable elements; thy = keep the industrious elements. Lf we should a attempt to pick out the best for ‘immigratice ¥ be promptly and properly told to go ta. Europes suffer under no despotiam, unless it be the dpe democracy—and they would be exposed to that her pensants of Europe enjoy the best conditios & countries. Land reforms are in progress everys bet country is in much better condition that the cf buying power of farm produce is higher than te! power of city goods. The peasant enjoys a seller o If European farmers were to read in our pres be accounts of the depression in agriculture here they regard their conditions as greatly preferable foc tt ent. Wo aerupation is so profitable in Europe = 4 ture, Can we offer homesteads, land at low por market prices, fortune os well as security? An could Europe needa her farmers aa she never dic 2 would regard as avarice our attempt to sect elements and exclude all others. The present restriction of immigration show!t - placed by a more stringent rule. ‘The city [s wasting! aymputhy on the farmer, If the city will pay a living price for his produce the farmer wil docs without immigrants. We can face an ultimate pur we are further on.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 2a zusimess as the Farmer Sees It E) interest of general welfare the is fully here for some straight ing and plain speaking about the basis on which manufacture, md transportation are being con- tk nobody is in better position to | the farmer, who is no party to the sy between capital and labor ex- help to pay the billa; who is both at and a laborer himself, and who ag under an entirely different f production and a much lower Talues than i belng set up for cal labor and highly capitalized arp separation between capital and vt has come to characterize much o business hag led or driven both L extremely uneconomic positions already sacrificed uncounted mil- th of capital and labor, retarded lopment of the country, and, un-= ‘ed and rationalized, bid fair by nd leckouts to ran most forme of _ i not indeed modern elvilization to the ditch, We have followed in tepa of Babylon long enough; it o look about and take stock of the iwe reached a time when labor and instead of pulling together as yoke- tt a burden that needs their com- sergies, have wriggled out of the d stand facing in oppesite directions, glaring at ef aa they mill about, getting nowhere, but wasting gies like two hungry dogs quarreling over a bone. public pays heavy bills for nominal service while wo agencies of industry mark time under what sto a condition of armed neutrality, and progress oa standstill, everybody blaming somebody else litth: gets dome at so high a cost, while he himself all the ducats obtainable while the getting is good. High Wages, High Prices extreme position of labor is well expressed by the ae “A living wage," and that of capital by the ¥ proposition “Pass it on to the consumer™—twin thorn not of enterprise but of industrial warfare; rh std sore critheal study before we proceed much along the road that leads to nowhere. Let us con- wee two propositions for a moment, if we can, 95 a pher from Mara might regard the situation, eentention that an American laborer with no capital time and his talents should be able to carn enough By E. DAVENPORT BY GUVERNVIEYF MOORE BECORMA TIONS to support himself and his family in comfort is so obviously fair that it has won universal sympathy and has thereby become a kind of slogan without any very careful consider- ation of the inherent elasticity of the phrase or what un- thinking adherence te its demands is likely to invelve. Under this slogan all sorte of increases in pay have been asked and granted in the attempt to keep up with ascend- ing prices, but, strangely enough, without much relief, For no sooner are increases granted than prices rise to meet them, and the laborer finds himself no better off than be- fore. Why? Wherein lies the mystery of it? Why will not prices stay level when wages go up? There must be some sinkxter influence at work to rob the laborer of every chance to make a good living when with every increase he finds his dollar less valuable than before, and in a blind unthinking way he lays it on the speculator and the profi- teer; nor does he have to go far to find instances that seem to justify his contention. Aga matter of fact there ia no mystery about this de ment of wages and prices when we remember that most buyer are laborers. of some Kind, warking far a rage, For example, a man or a group of men succeeds in securing a notable advance in pay, say 20 per cent. This menns te them as individuals either of two possibilities: First, that with the additianal pay they can advanee their ecole of living: aecond, if they prefer ease to comforts, that they can maintain the old seale of living and We stills good part of the time. Now if only a few individuals were in- volved here and there, with all the rest of the world going on aa before, then either of these Utopian drevms could be realized; but when any considerable numbers try it the scheme breaks down, for this is the way it works in actual practice: First of all, when men in large numbers attempt to advance their seale of living by reason of increased wages they at once in- erent the demand for consumptive goods in the open markets and inevitably raise prices on themselves by competing against one another as never before, by whieh it is clear that prices will advance with every increase in poy and possibly at even a greater rate than the increased size of the pay check, Underproduction ECONDLY, when men in large numbers ._) reduce their working days or hours be couse of a higher rate of pay, expecting to maintain the old seale of living with greater eae and more leisure than before, then production ts loss- ened, and even the old demand is met by a decreased aupply, Now, as before, competition between buyers will raise prices, and again the increased pay has failed of its supposed benefits because so promptly followed by the inevitable rise in prices. No littl: surprise has been expressed that a dollar is worth in buying power ao littl: now as compared with its value a few years ago, and yet even a casual atudy of what naturally happens and what has been happening all about 4 cannot but show how inevitable will be the results of the false economy that has taken possession of so many of us, The whole matter seoms to be treated as a mystery, whereas it ia no mystery at all, We live upon goods, not upon money, and the moment we fail to maintain produc- tion in propertion to qur demands prices will rise quite independently of speculation or of profiteering. Indeed it is increased demand in the absence of increased produc- tion that lays the very foundation for speculation to the extent of profitearing, which would be impossible were we producing In proportion to our demands, {Continued on Page F25')

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30 N PRECEDING chapters, in trying to tell how I came ta go at the business of writing plays, to tell how my attention was led in that direetion and how information, experience? and ma-= terial for the work were gathered, I have tried to use diserimina- tion. This is probably not ap= parent, but as I mentally review what IT have considered the high lights of this irregular repert | am comscious of much that has heen emitted. After getting the paper that preceded this, the editor, stnsing my difficulties, suggested that I extend the intended series of ten installments by adding tea more, That. permission makes it almost imperative that IT refer to some of the facts and happenings con- nected with making a pay which was colled New Blood and was produced by Mr. Joseph Brooks late in the summer of 1894. If this publication were political in its character T might slam ahead and call a lot of people a lat of nares, beeause, fair-minded and wnprejudieed as I have tried to be, [ fear that [am ao good deal partisan. [ have frankly told that as a young man I was a Master Workman in the Knighta of Labor. [ deeply armpathized with the working classes of the country, to which [ thought I belonged, and their problema became my own sa far as study and investigation want, and also as far as I could express and be tolerated as a member of one of the principal politieal parties. [made speeches in all the presi- dential campaigns after I became of age, and occasionally talked in local campalgnea in the congressional years. Issues of the Early Ninetles T WILL be remembered thatin the early "90's twoabsorb- ing considerations in the country were the trusts and the money question. The Populists and—strongly inftuenced by them—the Demeerata were urging the free and un- limited coinage of silver; the Republicans were alao urging the eoinage of silver, but after an international agreement. The moet outapoken of their party at that time, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, was for the unlimited coinage of silver and a discriminating tariff that should force England from her gold standard into bimetalliem. Sen- ator William V.AUen, of Nebraska, aman who had much of the physical appearance, the habit of thought and the oratorical power of cur present Senator Borah, charac- terized this advice by Senator Lodge os “simply a piece of Yankee ingenuity.” Mr, Allen's party, the Populist, was at one with the Democratic Party in ita fisht against the trists, and the Republican Party was not far behind ina wish to regulate those combinations, With the trusta as a sustaining theme, I had written a flay in which a manufacturing company waa divided against itself. A son, impersonated by Mr. Wilton Lackaye, in sympathy with the new epirit of regulation, wis atowar in the beard of direetore with his father, Played by Mr. EB. M. Holland, whe adhered to the older ideas of a man managing his own business in his own way, When the play wea ready Mr. Brooks engaged ong of the best companies that could be got together at that time. Besides the two excellent actors named, the east included also Maurice Barrymore, C. W. Couldock, J, H, Stoddart, George Nash, Jack Barnes, Ffolliet Paget and Anne O'Neill, a prominont ingénue of that time who soon afterwards married and left the stage. Shortly before we got ready for our production same of the forcea that I had been endeavoring to estimate and depict came inte collision, The most outstanding figure on the labor side was Mr. Eugent Debs, now, in 1922, in the public eye because of his attitude during the World War and his consequent incarceration at Atlanta and his subsequent pardon from that place by President Harding. In 1894 Mr. Debs had asked that a4 difference of opinion between the Pullman Company and the men working in the Pullman car shopa at the town of Pullman, near Chicago, should be submitted to arbltration. Mr. George M. Pullman, the president, who had been a grent benefactor, in that he had built THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Print of My Remembranc By AUGUSTUS THOMAS deen Aadeeoe, Falter Hale aad Flaceat Jerrans da the Phage "at ein @* a model city for his employes, was deeply hurt at what he considered their ingratitude and declined to discuss arbi- tration. Writing tn a magazine of his wttltude at that time, and the various patents the Government had granted him, Dr. Albert Shaw said: Mr. Pullman should ae very toward a nation that has aff him ns kr pei epee tunities and baa rewarded bis talent and energy with euch aa] tributes of wealth, Te very many people lt seemed clear that. Sgos he not bo have allowed his local quarrel bo ga on uneettled and unappeased until it bad assumed continental propertions, The seme impartial writer condemned Mr. Debs for extending the strike to the American railroad unions and through them obstructing trains that carried Mr. Pull- man's cars, When Mr, Debs did this he also stopped troins Giloe May aad Boebsrt Ederen in “4 risona May 1 on whieh there were th: States motile, with the ps Preeident Cleveland rie: the situation, and wher « Blood company appreac cago toward the end of / train on which it was ras a district with miles no! freight cars on either, arrived in Chicaga to & city under martial rule, s artillery strumg along; { front and commanding proaching streets, The whe came at night ta Chicago performann obliged toe alow tchets den: at [ntersecting con establish the peaceable cf of their errands. Of course, in that sik that subject and that - company, the mana thought we had the American play that o written, Mr. Palmer rr eee it and immediate Mr. Brooks time at his Br thenter. He ever atrengthening the alread east by subetitating Fata Otis and Katherine Grey ladies already named Charles Richman was ng the place of Mr, Barnes desire for betterment through every department of the production At tite-i-tite between Eanymore and Lackaye in th followed by a love scene between Barrymore ot Grey, the men in Chicago had lighted their elgarct a match, but for New York we had a fine dot. copper outit that sbood on the table and burned a | First-N ight Contretemps THE first night in New York, at the me: moment, this aleahol became superheated, ore its lamp, made a flare on the copper tray. Peo! audience began to gather up their wrapa; Reuke who wae playing a butler, came on and backel o this flaming exhibition, but too late to recover st and a moet essential part of the exposition of these loet. Mise Otls had procured a mew silk drew! niw engagement, very snugly fitting a week be play. That interval of hope and mayhe entertal however, contributed enough added outline to ba new dress in a hurried adjustment, and 2 2 was held several minutes while the modiste po gore. The whole night took on @ tone al weer a dispute between Mr. Palmer and Mr. Brook stage hands, extra ones, though needed, wer 5 gaged, and altogether it was one o'clock befor a performance inded. Cur New York pre ou | as (Chicago's bad been favorable. Charley Fr saw the play in the middle of the week and D But in his characteristic way be touched at con what he thought made it fail. A strike leader who has been shown Into & Floyer’s breakfast room, after atatding his clact & eandithon of his people points to the table axd “What you have left there on your plate,” andy Charley said, “That workman saying ‘Tho are as much as one of our families gets fore dip speaking to a parquet full of people that leave | You can't say thoes things on the Atlantic Sr although you may in Chicago,” My own belief is that the play came when 7 and magazines were ao full of the stuiT that they looking for entertainment didn't want any mor, But [t had been written under conditions be be Asa playwright I was depressed and nesded agement. I thought I had been writing fi knowledge of the Middle West and from my ip Be B yOung man, and that those were all I had valuable to tell. I was forgetting that a mans? He was not a writer himself, but he hed beens = and was more particularly a handler of lita’ (Contineed on Page 32)

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32 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST {Contingsd from Page 30) He had a paper organization of audiences in Bos- ton, New York and Chicago to which he gave what he called un- cut leaves, papers yet unpublished, that their reepec- tive authors read ulead. Lincoln was walking with me up Fifth Avenwe to the Grand Cen- tral Station, on hia way to apend the night at our home in New Rochelle, and I aaid, “Line, I think I'm written out.” He laughed the jolliest, moat reassuring laugh that a man making that speech could ask to hear, and then told me of the number of men he had heard say the same thing at about the same perlod in experionee, His observation was that this fear came to them in a fallow time, and frequently preceded the best of their work. Supporting his belief, he said much more in the same direction, The first play I wrote after this encouragement of Lincoln's was Arizona. Among other plays written after that time, also, were The Earl of Pawtucket, The Other Girl, Mra. Leffing- well’s Boota, The Witching Hour, As a Man Thinks and The Copperhead. Joles Leoy Luther Lincoln's Glassy Itare HAT night at New Rochelle, a5 Lincoln sat reading, Tendeavored to make in the guest book a carlenture of him: bwt as I look at it now it is less caricature then por- trait. [ havessid Lincoln was not a writer, by which I mean writing was not a source of income te him; but he was akillful and entertaining when he tried it. A year or two Later he had to furnish an introduction to some Annals of The Lamba, at that time the most powerful and moat in- teresting theatrical club in America, Becnuse the opening paragraph of his paper leads attractively to its subject, and because it is a fairly condensed expression upon masculine club life in general, and becouse it is a good in- dication of Lincoln‘sstyle as well asa. good example of impromptu perform- anees, [ wish to quote it. He aald: The evolution of Bokemin os a factor in. civilization may be written from the annals of clubdem. From the day when nedlithie man emerged from his cave ond discovered that the grape juice which he had inte a coconut shell the ban * had become beverage whose ow Ungled bis beartetrings ond made bin forget bis troubles, be beeome convivial. Becoming convivial, he called his friends about him aod established o ee cape _ of care péelling, seli-lorgetting, pe ing fellows; adians, Corinthiangs, SAUD abeesption at remerrte his gradual a on of the things: in civilization, haa developed to ita greateat walue the easence of club lite—the dinin club. Literature in English rings with that especial institution, From the im- ination of Chaueer in hia Canterbury image to the realities of Ben Jon- mons Apollo and the Mermaid Pon; Trom the Kit-Kat Club, Will's Coffee i and the still extant Cheshire Cheese— with tts hallowed chair of Doctor John- aon—to the countless groups which now meet in and out of Alsatla to engender the fow of wiedem which a hospitable round table can alone induce, there ie one long and brilliant procession of Bokemians of every rank and class, with- cul whom language becomes tame, art pedantic anal life, as Mr, Mantalinieo auc elnetly put it, “one demolthon grind." Having been thus respectful to Luther Lincoln's memory, and after stating further that he waa one of the most vital influences of an artistic and literary kind that ever came into The Larnba, I hope I shall be forgiven for talking of him in lighter vein, With all his ability to encourage other men, there wae a touch of fataliatic despondency in him concerning him- self. NMotany of his male forbears of whom he had information had lived beyond fifty years. Lincoln had a premonition that fifty would be his limit, and it was. This death-wentence feeling made him take the pleasures of life as they came, Like the preceding mem- bere of his family, he lost some ten years before his death the sight of one eye, Tosave the other it became necessary to remove this useless member, and it was replaced by an artificial eye. Both eyes were overhung with fairly heavy brows and were behind spectacles. Lincoln during the last hours of some all-night sessions sometimes closed the good eye and elept, while the artificial eye remained on duty and looked steadily at the detaining monologist. In one of these slumbering moments he was leaning on the little bar of the old Thirty-sixth Street clubhouse, seemingly listen- ing toa club bore considerably intoxicated. It was a warm night, and this talker waa gradually fascinated by the un- winking attention of Lincoln's glasa eye. When he saw this steady gaze still maintained, although a fly alighted upon the pupil of the eye and twiddled its hind legs, he felt that he was the victim of aleoholic hallucinations, The few te whom he confided his experience said nothing of the eye's being artificial. Lincoln died soon afterward and the man never drank alcohol again. When I started West to get Arizona, Frederic Reming- ton superintended the organization of my kit just as he would jae arranged his own. It was very much on the camping-out order, with a shift to something that would be presentable on formal oeewslons. I carried, as I have said before, a letter from General Miles to the officers commanding the Western posts. I started at Lincoln's encouragement and counsel, with Frederic Remington's good wishes and the color that I had abeorbed from hia talk and stories in the preceding eight or nine years, and added to this equipment = moat useful admonition from Capt. Jack Summerhayes, whom I met in St. Louis, where I stepped o day or two to see my people. Surmmerhayes was attending to some war preparations at Jefferson Bar- racks and happened in the city for that day only, Our meeting was accidental, His contribution was thia: “That department letter you carry will command any- thing those men can give you; but they'll foel happier if their contributions seem voluntary and come only under the head of General Miles’ permbalon. Also you will find that they are marooned out there, and that they will be mighty glad to see you; that about the only thing they have worthwhile to them ia their rank, and at all times, espectilly tn the presence of their junior officers, the more respect you pay to that, the more you do to preserve its traditions, the happier you will make those old fellows feel." One of Mr. Thamar’ Plays in 195 When, after several weeks in the territory, I time to say goodby to Col. Winfield Seott Sumner, who had given up to me the best room and private bath in his quarters, he eaid: ber oof Tay family here, [ never came inte a reom or Went onto the porch where you were or left a group ef whieh wou were a member but that you aves ap rab he and coming fot ba one of thee Heutenanta wed, and I want to aay to you ft made mp feel damned fine. Muay i, Filliam Hoary I don't think I would have done anything tobe brave offieer, bot [am sure | would not have punctillowsly attentive to that litcle ceremony 2 been for the friendly counsel of Jack Surtees On the way to Fort Grant one leaves the rap Willeox, at that time a little one-street row of =) shops and barrooma. The hotel proprietor tag I came off the train for my first night in Arsom@ ambulance with four mules was there to carry eee fort a captain who was expected on the train er five in the morning. I gaw the driver of the ol night. He promised to tell the captain of my preseal in the morning I was standing around ready to eB But again, under the remembered advice of Bp hayes, I didn't spring my headquarters paper mi tain or try to address anybody except the e to whom the letter was directed: and aa it little te this coptain to learn that a stranger w to the fort, his four mules and his ambulance without me. I went some hours later on a litte tee depot wagon that made a daily trip, and waa all nate in that fact, as the driver on that herent told me many useful things. Bonte! Frohman, Sugesius Themes, Feed Filllame ond Edward Ualit at a Reading of I waa directs, oo colonel’s quarters to the ofan! There was 1a attendant The} room contained four or ie a playing cards around the hm, a pause one of them caualpl up. Dashed for Colonel Somme nodded toward that officer, Sz with his cards, paid no attenta The Courteous Colon I SAID, Letter from Wg and hunded it to Bim: al exactly as [ bad seen messengm hearsed in Held by the Boag Shenandoah, I stepped backaag still. The colonel opened hal glanced at it quickly, strock tal a. bhow, “Gentlemen {"" All the poker player # promptly, [was weleomed andl duced to the group, with = spent the grent part of on @ mat enjoyuble sojourn of my The poker game wae immed broken up and adjourned, anda hour alterwarda I came (emt freshing bath ond is my sturee to a fine midday dinner in Ot onel’s home with his amiable #i wholesome and attractive diag That was on Maseh 17, 14 don"t howe te refer to any Teears recover the date, because [al lunch we wert ta the parade 7m where a big tent hod been ee? a telegraph wire beading moi the men of three troops ol ae and I think two infantry oe gathered bo bear the report byte of the championship prior & tween Jim Corbett and Beb Film mons, then beginning in Cart Nevada. Among the ciceniamy or two faces thitstrockae ee and thenone of the teow cies limping a bit on a cane, [recog (Continued on Page 2 ¥ aoogle

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Sales Mounting Higher and Higher In Greatest Hupmobile Year All these, of course, in addition to those who have learned by their own Hupmo- bile experience, how much it means to satisfactory ownership tohave theextraor- dinary soundness and reliability, the note- The first quarter’ s Hupmobile business ban for this year is clo ust as this is being written, The completed sales figures positively cinch the conclusion indicated by the first two months—that this is the grent- est year in Hupmobile history. Sales and production volume in March was higher t the company ever ore experienced for any one month. The quarter far any previous first-quarter record. New Thousands Are Coming to Hupmobile Twa significant things are happening. First, the Hupmobile is being bought by those whe now sec how futile it is to try to get enough more in a car to make a higher price worth while. Second, it ze being bought, also, by those who are ing out that a lesser price can prove to be anything but economy. How Hupmobile Sales Are Sweeping Upward mente for this year, one huodred per cent orer last year. The total incresee in the Hupmobile business for the first quarter of 1922 was 172 cent over the first quarter of 1921, The following typical examples among Hupmebile distributors cover the quarter ee rach dist Milesin .. 270% Theta Miseeapai . 120%, Bovtes ||. EIT? Port Wacik 290" Rew Yark.. 14s": Charlotte. 10: Har 200") Pittubargh |. . 80°) Chicage.. PES 1 ore ea gt i en ce Dea Maines B', ble economy, and service, and long life always associated with the Hupmobile. For 14 years the Hupmobile has been best known for these qualities. Known for them not only in its own immediate circle, but by all owners of all cars. Reaping the Harvest Of Farthful Service What more natural than that these addi- tional thousands should be coming to the Hupmobile now? People are buying carefully and critically. are c Ing proven goodness and value and life-long service. The Hupmobile today is reaping the harvest of its years of faithful service in this country and all over the world. sla. Car, Fra; f7050; Aoadlder Coupe, BEB; ‘ail pe, Pree; lam, #1 errs, Cond Fires on ol ogee Prec ¥. B, Bctrcs — Fees Flew Tor en Hupp Motor Car Corporation Detroit, Michigan

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a4 (Contiased from Page 32) aa my Leavenworth attorney, ex-Senater Thora FP. Fenlon. He introduced me te his son-in-law, Captain Nicholson, also at the post and in whose quarters he was staying. Nicholson had been one of the officera in Plowman's esurt room that busy afternoon eleven yeurs before, when they had ridden over from Fort Leavenworth in full dresa to protest the foolish slander of the talented Helen M. Gouger. lam working now between the need to econe mize space and a wish to talk freely enough about ny experience to fix whatever alpnificane: it may have to other men trying ta make plays. And when I say significance [| mean only that. I don't mean a rule ora way of doing. Each man writing plays makes his own rules, and one man at different times will have different ways. If I neem occasionally minute it will not be because T regard any act of mine in epic fashion, but only becnuse D remember it as an articulating part of what subsequently became machinery in a play, I had been writing plays too long to be entirely free from habit. [suppose that a man sent out te write a comic opera would at beast begin by think- ing in terme of a quartet, All those fine soldiers, every sturdy private, the amart officers, the forsee ful old colonel, each of them began to be in my mind a possible factor if not center of romance, The officers’ quarters there in Fort Grant are doby, and face the parade ground. To the western end of the row the first two or three are two- story buildings, substantial ws any brick or brown- stone residences of the city. They then tail off into bungalows, with fine shady porches, and all, becnuse of their doby walls, with cool window and door recesses from cighteen inches to two feet deep. I don’t remember how many ladies were in the fort; I should say half a dozen. The pminjority of these, of course, were married; and when we have checked off their husbands it left afine circle of unattached officers, attentive, com- Blimentary, respectiul, [heard no breath of seandal oreven ol geeip that in any way involved this compact littl eom- munity, but it was impossible to view them with an iriag!- nation bent by the theater without beginning to play chess with their reputations. Nothing could be further from fact than any hint of discordance in the household af Col. Win Sumner and his wife, almost his own age; but as I wanted to use him as a principal character, I had no com- punction in mentally hooking him up with a much younger women, somewhat regretful of the disparity in their yeors, Of course this discontent of the wife would be evi- dent to more than one of the young officera, if not actually shared in or promoted by one or another, Besides donves- tle life at the quarters, there were a few wives down at the barracks, and one or two daughters of enlisted men, My difficulty on the first day or two was to keep an open mind and not have these characters form associations in muy fancy that would by repetition of the concept begin to take on the authority of fact. Ag I listened to Colonel Summer talk at his dinner table of eattleren, Indians and soldiers; os T heard Mra. Sumner tell of Tony, the doby messenger that cume down the valley with social motes, I felt that the field was too rich to make immediate commitments of selection. 4t Hooker's Cattle Ranch OME dispenser of mental tone has said that thoughts amt things. I offer no opin ken om that, but if they ane they're curious things, and it is hard for one who trades in them to keep clear of superstition. I have seldom begun to work eornestly upon any line of reflection but what that line has been frequently twanged by cross currents that the overcredulous would misread. 1 wrote earlier in these chapters of coincidences, naming two that were note worthy in my own experience, Personally, [ am willing te necept the explanation of somebody whose words, but not whose name, 1 remember, to the effect that a line of thought is like a magnetized wire, and that particles from all the waves und currents thet cross it adhere when there is sufficient affinity, If that is true, a man thinking along certain lines would mistake the selection made by his attention for fateful response. I wonder if this is an approach too clumsy to another one of these points. I was slowly dictating the stuff above about the military post and waa thinking as I had been thinking for a day oar tee abowl Hooker's ronch, some ten or twelve miles away from it, and how [ could be accurate about certain itema, when Robert Bruce, of Clinton, Oneida County, New York, came to the door, Mr. Bruce hes written historically of incidents in the Civil and Revo- lutionary wars. He and I had an exchange of letters about the firet two or three installments of these reminis- cenoss which of this writing - have appeared in this publicn- tion, and he had promised to stop in and see me sometime when he was in the city. His call just now interrupting my THE SATURDAY EVENING POST CW Couldeck dictation shout the army post was prompted by that invi- tation and waa determined by the fact that he had two leaves of the Erie Railroad Magazine of December with an article tn it about Airs, Forrestine Hooker, author of The Long Dim Trail and other stories, He brought it te me becuse near the finish of the article the writer said of Mrs. Hooker: “She married E.R. Hooker, son of Henry ©. Hooker, the centile king af Arizona, and lived at the Sierra Bonita ranch — near Fort Grant and Willeox, where the —— famous play, Arizona, was written arognd her as Bonita by Augustus Thomas.” Thanks to Mr. Bruce's call, I don't have to cudgel my brain to remember Mr. Hooker's first nome, or the name of bbs beautiful daughter-in-law, who away out in the wilds played the piano with such delightful skill. To distinguish him from his brother Col. Sam Sumner, of Fort Myer fame, my Colonel Summer was culled by his army friends Bull, This was an appellation affectionate and descriptive but mot critical. He told me of the several Elements in the life of that section of Arizona, particularly af the wild station of San Carles on the Giln River, ‘ay ar so many times @ year a troop of cavalry on guard was relieved by one fram the post in ita monotonous duty of guarding that end of the Apache reservation and dealing aut beef and flour to the poor Indians who came period- ically to get their supplies from the Government, He told me also of the ranchers who were his nelghbora at intervals of ten and fifteen miles. After afew days.at the post Twas taken aver to Hooker's ranch. The administrative center of this waa alao the reai- dence of Mr. Hooker, his daughter-in-law and grandson. This doby hachenda was a quadrangle about one hundred feet square, with blank walla some eighteon feet high out= side. Three sides of the inner court were made up of little reo one story high, with roofs sloping to the center and rising toe scrmewhat less than the height of the mater walls, whose superior Margin served as parapet in case of attack, A fourth side of the quadrangle, besides having a room or two and a shed for vehicles, had a large reinforced double gate that could be thrown to and fastened with heavy burs and staples. In the center of the court thus formed there was im Well, sa that the colony might have water to with- stand a siege. Henry C. Hooker was a quiet little man who had been some twenty-five or thirty yeara in that locality selling beef to “Geavernment und Apaches”; ot times ot the defensive and at other times on friendly terms with his suvage melghbora. He had known the old Apache chief, Stuart Pobeca, 1002 May Cochise, the predecessor of Geronie, a hundred interesting tales of bis as with Indians and cowboys and soldies under the average height of the Ame slight and quiet, and while adopting } the liberty of replacing him in my 2 more robust and typical frontiesrs:: dreds of the lines I finally gave to Hee the rancher in the play of Arizons, wen own words, which | remembered and wy wae alone set down because of the p quality wand thelr great sir plicity and » Picking a Heroine NE speech that all the Cantys—x fourteen that finally played it—us and which Douglas Fairbanks, an aspir aber of the theater long before he we movies, learned to recite, although never the remotest chance of his py part, was Hooker's description of his stlecting a cowboy, Before [ had as to justify it or any theme to which it ment, [ had this epeech from thar » man. Think what a helpful nugget th picked up by a writer looking for mu * We take a man on here and ask po We know when he throwa his saddle o whether he understands his busines: » may ben minister backslidin’, or a bes his last lung, ora train rebber on hiss we don't care. A good many of our = men have muvde their mistakes. Allwe, now is, will they stand the gai? Wi sixty hours in the saddle, holdin’ a! tryin’ to stampede all the time!” At Hooker's raneh I decided hi in-law should be the hercir story. It would take me out; closely knitted life of the w and while giving a heruinew appeal to a young cavalym girls on the ranch rode aw men did, it would be a tui breezy touch of character 4 as this self-reliant and ath was eeeocin ted with the most characteristica and accomeli Colonel Summer thought | life at San Carlos. That bad wish when planning the play pected to get the element d buetle for tin an Indian weiss had the disadvantage of harkity several other American plays, and thing of the color of Jessie Brown relief of Lucknow. But there waa notin aight, To reach San Carlos from For 6 aday's cavalry march up the valley tol and another day's ride ower the moucts first half of this journey was made in an ambuls roules drawing it, while a small detachment of 5 telegraph construction outfit, tea Indian guide or six pack mules with aupplies were in the sexu lop’s was another doby house, with ornamental a ings on the ground floar, ancl an upright piano We had an early start the second morning, = bexdy in the saddle. Captain Myer, in charg: @ tachment, lent me a handsome pacing stallion 7 a welght carrier, The features of qur second 4 none of which [ used in the play and which there! little place in this recital except as they cooird sense of hardship and the stamina meeded to met narrow trails on the hoghack of the mountains, © ancroid barometer showed five thousand feet, a2 the path was eo narrow that everything was int the animals, which carefully picked their way © abeiite line before the other, sometinnes all four! short slide and often cach stone gingerly testes | sure of footing; climbing grades on which so ion have carried any rider, and where no tenderfor, ter how stout of lung, could have climbed in tat unaided, ; The procedure was to take with one hand 14 on the long tail of your horse and bet him pull walked behind him and led the horse for th = followed. When the height was reached wher io tion of the grade made it poasible to get op! saddle, al] the company, troopers and Indie 2 glad to pause and recover breath before eft mount. Across these ridges the wind, which is always >? that season, came ata pace of forty mile. 56e4 on our left was a wall that occasionally grate |! nearer, on the other side, a declivity drop # af eighty degrees for three thousand fayet. (Continued on Page 107:

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36 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May iF HENRY GETS AN ASSIS is a old aa his lege and a hitter is aa old ag ‘hiseye; buta ketcher is as young as his head. Thatis why old Henry Hammond can still go behind the bat. and turn owt a good job of work, He does it by brain strength and awkwardness, for his arm, legs and eye are gone these many years. Henry has outlived three baseball generations of outfielders and hitters, and a whole human generation of pitchers. He hes caught in more leagues than Old Man Farrell ever heard of, and from nearly every lengue he hos sent up af least one Pitcher that was awhish. You know, one of those speed boys, like Walter Johnson, Grover Alexander of old Charley MeCormick in his prime. He was a regular traveling echool for pitchers. Every year he was In a different league. Most of the winters he spent in a little town up New York State, figuring cut which league he would tackle for the summer, It got to be a tough problem a few years back when he found he had been in almost all of them. But he usually man- aged to locate one in the Ozarks or Carclinas or the copper country or aomewhere. Then he'd ait down and write a snappy letter to a manager in that league, setting forth his bat- ting averages of a decade back, along with aome felding averages. He al- ways included a twelve-year-old pho tograph, His firet letter generally brought him a contract. Sometimes the manager that hired him knew him as the old-time hattery mate of Charley McCormick, but more often did not. A fresh halreut, a new plug of to- bacco and an old mitt formed his équipment when he deacended on the new club and the new league. Every ketcher hangs onto his mitt until thera ia nothing left but the back of it.. The fresh haircut destroyed heavy streaks of gray over Henry's ears and around the back of his neck, And Henry knew that the only way to keep the skin of the face from wrinkling ia to have it perpetually stretched to ite utmost by am large healthy chew, On reporting, Henry looked almost young. “Lemme have a month's poy to kinds get along on,” were his first words to the manager. “I'm buyin’ a little farm back home and the payments kept me broke all winter.” That wos true about the farm, and he generally got an advance, which lasted until his job was safe for the sum- mer, But he lied about being broke, because he had more dollars stored away than Ty Cobb has bese hits, Tt was a poor season when Henry did mot lay by enough to start buying another farm. "G'wan, I'll beat yuh toa whisper!" were bis first words during the first workout of the season. He addressed them to the nearest man who happened te have a ball in his hand, “Gimme ‘at ball, will yuh?" Glaring fiercely, he grabbed the leather and threw it as hard and aa far oa he could into center field. Regularly the manager would rush out on the diamond and beg him to be careful of his arm. “Blooa-ah, now I feel better! I'm all right. Arm's like iron. What time's ‘is first game called?" Henry's career a5 a rolling stone began the year after the celebrated firm of McCormick and Haramond dissolved partnership. Never heard of McCormick and Hammond? Oh, yes, you have, under the real firm name, Like Math- eweon and Bresnahan, they were known throughout the land a4 a pair to strike terror into the hearts of wtrong hitters. Back in the days when people read Mr. Dooley and bragged of shaking hands with John L. Sullivan, McCormick and Hammond were as well and favorably known as pepper and salt, McKinley and Hanna, ham and eges. Damon and Pythias, Barnum and Bailey, or any other celebrated battery partners in the public eye. MeCormick’s apied and Hammond's cunning were vaunted in barber shopa from Eastport to Vancouver. But A FITCHER is as old as his arm, an outfielder By Jonathan Brooks FELECITRATED AY WILE AaAM KEMP FTARRETT +? oo Sate et e 7 wa x See. eg va. yee 7 at r rir i hi on eee a “Jon, Pm Preod of Fou," Sie Aaemered. "Sad Fou, Teo, Blew Four Ola Benes "* MeCormick dropped aut of alght like a meteor, and then Henry gradually faded from view, As in the diseolution of the celebrated firm of Me and Gott, which found Me hitting less than .001T when left alone, Hammond ceased to flourish. The head was still there, but the arm, the legs and the eye were going. Moreover, the baseball public in the big- langue cities avenved to resent his presence without his great battery mate. Thus much, introducing old Henry Hammond, ketcher. Known him always? Perhaps you have. There were too tastes to which, in common with his kind, Henry held firmly. The first was a liking for hulking big right-handera with a world of epeed, The second was an aversion, equal to horror, for tindersized southpaws with none, That is where this story comes in. "T like these pitchers you've got,” said Henry to Mike Barnes, manager of the Terre Haute club in the old Central Lengue, one night in April as the league schedule was heing broken open. “Nice big husky boys, all of ‘em. Plenty o' smoke." “Yeah,” grunted Burts. speed. Too much of it,” "How d'yuh get thatwayT" demanded Henry. “Speed's like beer and money. Never was too much." " A’ mph!" "What else d"yuh want?’ Henry pursued. “Well, we need a left-hander,” vouchsafed the manager. "Blot Just because he's left-handed,” declared Henry. “T can't see this stull o' carrying a wrong-hander simply Le a ne we'll win, ‘s all I gottn my, "Lots of speed. Nothin" but because all the other boys slings with tp hand. For me, gimme these big guys th enough heft into the ball to burn the old] T like ta feel my fingers sting: “We're not payin" pi your old bones, but to wings a pennant,” rejoined Ber “Well, you take ft frog more my hand burns the That ended the clisuasi time, but the subject was Bornes constantly longed hander, bot Henry cone expert abuse on the cubright that crowded the Tots ready he wae looking for hj prospect for the big time conching, cajolery and general level of pitching and the Tota rose with ii centage column. Henry's was red feenty-four hho now, and hia blood wos forgot all abowt Jelt-has “Henry, [ve got him,* Barnes one afternoon iy the second week in June “Whol Henry had lest cion of the manager by thy! “Why, that left-hander huntin’. Whe did you spe “Oh,” said Henry. The #/ out of bis sails, “Oh, yea,” “Webbe he's the goods!” “Mebbe,"* said Henry “What's he like? Big!" “Well, nat so bly.” “A'mph, little guy!” “Not se little, either.” This confirmed Henry's fours. “T think,” Barnes hastened! “that he may be another Dick! “Aus to sla nd Jeft-bord mebbe,” Henry granted. “i have to show more than that | like thia Herr, Where ib be! have a book ot him.” “Well, I told him we'd g a try," said Barnes, “ot fein’ well, Hodn*t ote moe aol bought him a good mela him along home to Terre Hest him bo gel a unlfonn anda at the park, and we'd @re chanee when we got home” Henry grew a grouch belo left Wheeling, [4 developeial and by the time the club reached home he was ready abatintwo. It looked as if the waiting southpat for mangling when the tearm pulled in. The bow] hurry from the train to the park and rush inte the forms, 60 Henry had no opportunity te look ower ther But the reapite ended next day. “Hey, look out there!" Henry yelled during m practice. “I°ll beat yuh to a whisper] Whaea by steppin” on "at mittT" He seowled heavily at the offender, wha proved te new pitcher, busy playing hi-lo with half a detes me of the tearn. “T'm sorry,” sald the bay, “I didin't aee it.” "You'll be worse’n sorry in a minute,” Henry back at him. "Eid didn't mean anything,” interposed arm. © you'd give him the once-over to-day, Henry. Meth not ready yet, but you can get a line on bien.” “Give him a life line,” Henry replied. “He's ov head in this league. I can aee that right now.” Barnes sent the youngster out to plteh io & practice, which is no test of pitching ability. Ev Henry whaled cut a few nice line drives, but #8 appeased thereby. “Not there, Mike," he declared positively. “2 got a thing.” “Give him « chance," the manager answered “J got to get a good left-hander some time, Might & keep tryin’.” That afternoon Henry, warming up the pith = afew from the new candidate, Instead of workiceg US (Contithved of Page 39)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING — ae Fy ete a (Kentinugcd from Page 36! Hl bia accumulated aplte and grouch of ten pthe boy a veritable third degree and a eol- Priled in one. He yelled for apeed, and then med fora curve. He demanded to ser the boy's : declared he'd enlled for an inshoot. He called ad three times in a row, and ewore up and down eitrewn him nothing but straight balls, All the Behooting the ball back at the boy with all the id rightarm. He fired high and low, according f Ws bending over or reaching up, Fe shet to @ the other, always almost out of reach. When Methausted his fiendish ingenuity he threw down BS wived the boy ta the bench, nt to the water bucket for a drink and waa gent, Barnes knew Henry's game, but saw no if ability in the hoy, He realized that as far os Broncerned he might as well turn the little fellow it be decided to postpone breaking the sad news Band try him again. mire came early. Evanaville's Littl Evus, a d, drove two of the Tots’ apeed boys to the She first three innings with an avalanche of hits i Starting the fourth, with the game hopelessly mes todd the new southpaw to goin, Henry shook |, then acquiesced. aiure of the Evas to score was certainly through fol the little left-hander. And it was no fnult of either, for the old fellow continued his hazing until ining ended, doing his worst to make the boy look une sympathized with the kid at the want Limi bughing over Henry Hammond's vicious prejudice i-handers generally and this one particularly. ati be got, Henry?" Barnes asked after the game, Lnesairng shed. ing bet his glove, and he borrowed it," the old wunvered, ts you'rm right, at that!" Barnes agreed, Might aa li him. now, Hey, boy,” he called, motioning the Gr te the commer where he and Hammond were G. towel in hand. “T"ee just. been talkin’ to the ‘bere, and we—uwh—that is, I—what did you say oe WagT" 7 thiwed nothing but contempt for the proceedings te joint. When Barnes asked the question the be wa rising from rubbing hia feet, and looked Ts cCarmick,'" saéd the boy. “Charles MeCormick.” cComink—Charley MeCormick?" repeated Henry. bie nd shock ne head. Then he looked the boy rt ‘ketchin' department.” over from head to foot, staring at him as a near- sighted scientist stares at an ugly bug. “Well, well!’ he sasd finally. “Well, what?’ asked Barnes. “He says his name's Charley MeCormick,” anid Henry. “What of itT™ "T used to know @ pitcher ance that was named Charley McCormick,” Henry replied, speaking slowly. “But,” he aided significantly, “he was a nght- hander,” “Oh, you goto, yuh big stiff!" spoke up the boy deliberately. He turned weay from the pair and atalked back to the bench where he had been dressing when they called him. Barnes, holding back a grin, lovhed at Henry, and Henry locked back at Barnes. Tt was a minute before Henry broke the silence. “You know, Mike," he aaid, “mebhe the kid will do, T Uke his looks. Lemme work with him a while before you decide.” Old Henry Hammond wrote a letter that night to a friend in the New England League. From then on a close observer might have no- tleed that the ketcher was keeping close scrutiny on young Charley MeCormick. He quit razzing the boy, When he was warming up pitchers he took MeCormick along with the rest. Twiee he asked iarnea to send in the left-hander to finish games and treated him as he would any piteher, All the time he seemed bo be studying the . One morning ten days later he called at the pest offer ond received a letter from the friend in the New England League. He read it in a dat, and reread it so many times he was late for forenoon practice. At the park he asked Barnes let him work with the boy a while, "Say. did you bring your awn crutches, or do we have to furnish “em?” demanded Barnes, ignoring Henry's request. “What's entio' yuh?" Henry countered. He had no iden what was on the manager's mind, “Tye tumbled, “at's all." “Tf T fell for all you do," Henry retorted, “I wouldn't brag about it. What's eatin’ yuh?" “Your name's Hammond, and you knew a pitcher nama! Metlermick," said Barnes significantly, eving Henry closely, “Oh, that's it!" Henry laughed in relief, “That's plenty, ain't it?" Barnesdemanded, “Listen! I'm glad ¢' know yuh. ['ve heard my dad talk about you. Manny's the time he's traveled from here to Chicago, from here to St. Louis, from here to Cincinnati even, tose: you and MeCormick werk, and he putin the rest of the time tulkin’ about yuh, Never eccurTred to he you'd still be alive," “Where'd yuh get that etull? Your dad? It was my gran‘dacl he saw," Henry interrupted, con- cealing a blush under his leathery hide. “T know what I'm talkin’ ubowt, I'm glad to know yuh, for old time's sake. But, say, I'm runnin” a ball club, not an old men's home.” He glared at Henry in resentment. “Well, I ean"t say much for the rest of your ball club, but there's nothin" wrong with your = F —— i Henry glared right back at the bows, feeling hewas on solid ground here. “Tf you'll say you're not satisfied withthe ketchin" you can have my job right now, See?" ay : "ad + ae cee POST a9 Barnes refused to say anything, partly because Henry wae holding up his end on the field, and partly for the reason he was more than holding up his end in a business way. At that moment Henry had six weeks’ pay drawn in advance, and he'd kept one green kid ketcher to warm up the pitchers. This boy could not begin to ketch a game. “Forget “at atu! about my age," Henry continued. “You should worry about how old T am—when I fall dawn onthe job. But say, lemme work with this kid, will yuh?” “Did yuh tell him who yuh are or who he ist" “Aldn't told him whything, and won't," Henry declarod positively, “None of that sloppy sentimental stuff in rine!" “Dl tell him—T"ll tell the papers too. Look at the pub- licity we'd get!” Barnes exclaimed. “Big crowds all over the leaguel™ “You do,” said Henry firmly, a gleam in his eye, “and I'll beat yuh to's whisper! This is my party and I'll do all the talkin’. Barnet held mental reservations about being beaten to a whisper. Next day he told the sports editors all he knew and had ever heard about Henry Hammond, of the famous old battery, McCormick and Hammond. Attend- anc: at the Tots’ games grew overnight, old fans flocking out to see a friend of their youth perform behind the bat. It did not oeeur to Barnes to mention young Charley, far he did not connect the teo MecCormicks. However, that is getting ahead of the story. “Hey, kid,” Henry called to the boy as they were throw. ing the ball back and forth, “how old are yuh?" “Twenty-two,” McCormick grunted, putting his weight into what he intended to be a fast ball. “You're lvin',” sold Henry, taking the shot in his gloved hand and tossing the ball back leisure "Yes, Lam!" growled the boy, shooting another one after a short windup. “How d'yuh know?" “Because you're net throwin" any harder’n a nineteen- year-old kid,” said Henry. “But don’t get smart with me! Dll beat yuh te a whisper!" At this MeCormick put on the last ounce of strength he had and whirled through a fast ball that would have done credit to a high-school youth, Henry took it in his glove as eielly ges Ef it had been tossed, After five minutes he said, “Not even makin’ ‘em tunk in the mitt." “Old stuff,” rejoined McCormick, “You can make a slow ball tunk if you wanta, and keep a fast one from it." By way of anewer Henry dropped his mitt and teak the next one with his bare hands, McCormick, resenting this (Continued aa Page FI! The Bay Crobbed Hit Glove aad Started Gat of the Dugout oa the Ras. “Ney, Walt o Minato $"" Sald Neary, Fi Go Wik Pua"

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40 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BALANCED WO By Woods Hutchinson, M. D. DECOR #4TFraoWNWF Ss a F V he ARE informed that work isa punishment for ain. For two bites out of a wormy apple was the sentence pronounced upon our finest peur- ents, “In the eweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.” A terrible and far-reaching penalty for so ting a crime, think most of their de- scendanta around the heur of seven A. MM But though the burden of work is laid upon our re- luctant shoulders by the sternest of necessitios, because we need the money, there are certain redeeming features about it. The sweat of our brow not merely earns our bread but gives usasplendid appetite for eating it. Noone knows what real pleasure in life is who doesn't work— at beast part of the thme. And if we will make a game out of it, see how many points we can win each day, we can get a good deal of pleasure out of work ttaelf. The first thing needed is to tackle our job with our brains and our gumption, instead of our backs and our hind feet: second, to remember that the new physiology tells us that we never step growing but keep Fight on improving until we are petting ready to dic; third, to hang the motte over our desk or bench or kitchen table, Micet Accomplishment for Lest Agony, Some eynie declares that 5 per cent of people think, 10 per cent think they think, while 85 per cent would rather lie down and die than think, And if the man from Mars showd come down and gaze with thoughtful and cispos- siaonate eye upon the way men labor, from the rising of the sun until the going down of the same, he would be strongly inclined to agres with the cynic, There are few things we dose stupidly and brainleslyas work. The average worker is given mo choice in the matter, no chance to exercise his intelligence. He is not hired te think, but to obey orders, as some captains of industry delight to inform us. He is simply offered a job at so much per, for eo many hours a day and week, often the highest number that the sense of decency of the particular community can be made to stand for, So he hes no chance to consider how his really wonderful powers can be harnessed ta the very best advantage. There wasa day when the average employer used simply to prob as many hours a day of the worker's time aa the law and the labor unions and public sentiment would per- mit, ane then try te drive him at the top of his speed for ns large a proportion of his time as was possible. Small wonder the worker sometimes stalled and soldiered! The employer was hardly te blame personally, He didn’t mean tohesostupid and greedy; it was justa custom of the trade. Common Jense in Eating JUT the senselesenesa of it! Just think what would hap- pen toa horse trulner if he trotted or galloped his prom- ising colts just es far and as fast as he could every day before the race. Yet we are supposed to be training our young men for the aixty-year race of life, instead of a dash of a few short furlongs. Hut now, thank heaven, « change is coming over the spirit of the working world. The new point of view is that the human machine is so far the finest and moat wonderful machine in the whole wide world, turns so much more of its fuel energy into work, is eo infinitely more resourceful and elastic than any other make yet invented, nat only making ita own repalra but building itself bigger and increasing its horse power and capacity indefinitely, that it is a shame not to give it every poasible favoring condition and facility for doing ita beat that the wit of man can devien, And this recogmition is made just as frankly and fully by employers and their combinations as by workers and their organizations, Nearly a third of our great industrial plants are already on the eight-hour day, which is the first and high outward and visible sign of this inward and spiritual grace, or attitude, Business is no longer merely business, but humanity and good sense and scientific intelligence ws well, For the whole movement is based on and driven irresistibly forward by modern achence, Suppose then thad aman has a reasonable degree of con- trol over the times and tensions and hours of his work, and GUEk RAW F EF

over the conditions which enable him to develop the very beat that is in him, either by being on his own or under a sensible, broad-minded employer with the modern point of view, what con he do te make the moet of himself and his powers? How can he make himself of greatest use to his day and generation? How can we fuel and lubricate and run and rest and avoid breakages in that magnificent human machine of ours, half dyname, half gas engine, ao that it can run at full apeed with least friction, without hot boxes, or burning: of its bearings, breaking its cogs or short circuiting? First and moet fundamental is the matter of fuel. It ean be summed up in ane sentence: The best of everything is none too good to werk on. There have been wide and windy differences of opinion on the problem in the last thirty years. But the wind has been pretty well squeezed out of the different theories, particularly in the fieree red wine press of war, and the almost invisible remnants—re- riainders of the no-meat and low-meat fads, the anti-ugar, ante whitebread, onti-canned-food and anti-cooked-food crazes and the chew-chew insanity—have been shot into the ash barrel. The alr ia cleared of dust ond the sltuation greatly sim- plified: Starches—thut is to say, bread, biscuits, potatoes, cereals, cakes and puddings—for mere horse power; meat of protein in the form of beef, pork, mutton, fish, eq, game and milk for repair material and growth, and for drive, pep and resisting power against disease; fat for brain work; the marvelously important but atill mysteri- out Vitamines of present popular fame, as contained in fruit, green vepetobles, enlads, tomatoes, butter and cream, for lubricants and growth regulators. Cut down on any of these Big Four and the machine loses efficiency and begins to grind itself up at ones, Cut out starch, and horse power falls; cut out or cut down too heavily on meat, and tuberculosis, pellagra, as now threat- ened in our Southern Stites fram cotton reverses, and one kind of beriberi develop; go short on the vitamines, and you get acurvy, anemia, chalky teeth, stunted growth, myxedema and other forms of disordered metabolism, Give fair representation on the table at every meal to all four of the classes, not forgetting minority representa- tlon—most of the starches, next of the ments or proteins, then of the reds-nnd-greens, lest of the fats and oils, Mix according to taste, and engulf according to common-sense, healthy appetite, which abnnadant experiments net only upon man but upon animals have shown to be a better and safer guide to health and efficiency than the moet elaborate af O O RE main méels, they should all be square, with & trimmed off for breakfast and two for lunch. On another matter the new point of view is ag tinetly different. The moat Important part of our May fz, and machine=made diet list hog cafeteria why mits plps to choose their ony from six or seven self-fiecey ders of con cotton | chopped j fd so foe and chy gives b growth in! time than akilled Measure weighed ¢ Exclusive diets: oral

tes, of precious little use ever just a8 wesensibly please, an less frequently and taller and stronger and b history of the world before, As for the size ond distrib coalingn, threc-scpuare menin a arrangement for the cooks, ia better for the eatera—a milk and crackers and a fours zi is at night ora pantry supperat nine i meal in the middle of the day. Aste partly because we are two-thirds water aul consisting in witimate analysis of a few pounds fg and solts diamolyed in five bickets of water. Wee ing bring tinks, storage batteries om legs: every life takes place and can take place only under wate, | Our tissues need plenty of elbowroom and sea neo ever they want to do any real work, ‘The more acti the more vitally important they are the more vite have in them. Our bones and our skin contain onl 26 to 60 per cent water, while our liver, oer dj glands and our brains are from 80 te 90 per cent while the moat highly explosive living tissue on ear electrical organ of the terpeda ray, is 92 per cent “Sap-head" should no longer be a term of reprose Sickness From Infections HEN we go too long between drinks we dr! die. It's always healthy to drink pure water ever you fool like it—on rising in the morning and a to bed at night, at meals and between meals, wist suramer, particularly the latter, engulfing not merely but gallons a day in hot weather, Now that the machine has been properly filled ant cated, with provision for repairs, comes the qoe! keeping dirt and grit out of the machinery. By! commonest und most serious grit that wriggle in bearings of our human machine is an extremely penetrating powder made up of tiny living partide They are so infinitesimally small that it tam men and a microscope to see one, but they are oli damnable gurminesa and grittiness when they lodge human bearings. Tiny and apparently trivial a 19 they smash up and send to the scrap heap nearly 2 of all workers the world over every year, and key § to 10 per cent continually laid off through sickos That this serious drain on productiveness # dar! not merely to infections in general but te infection apread only indoor is shown by a reeent repert Public Health Service, covering about 60,00) wa acattered all over the United States. The number< per thousand who are laid off for a week or mt aecount of sickness of all kinds, each month res 56 in September to 109 in December, 275 in Janct $26 in February! After which it falls steadily ani © through March, Apriland May, reaching thesumme of 2 litth over 6) in June. The significant point is that nearly 34 per cen! tremendous sickness loss, affecting one-third of the! force during January and February, is due to if while in July, August and September barely one-2all vastly lower rate is caused by catching disease | words, the sickness disability rate from infec (Continoerd on Poge #2)

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Touring Car THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Spore Car The New and Guaranteed Oakland Is Proving its Unusual Worth One of the most significant recent developments in the automotive industry is the New Oakland Six with its special written guarantee. The New 6-44 is not merely a new model but anew and advanced motor car in construction, performance, appearance and value, In the severest experimental tests the New Oakland Six overhead-valve engine has shown new power, new smoothness, new reliability, and unusual economy in operation. The new style bodies mount- = ed on the oversized chassis Increased Oakland sales prove that Oakland performance reveals new merit, new and per- manent dependability. One example of the permanent dependability Oakland gives is its 15,000 mile written per- formance guarantee which goes with every New Oakland Six. ‘This is the trustworthy New Oakland. Ata price amazingly low—a price never before equalled for a six-cylinder car of such sterling quality and performance. See the New Oakland—the reveal a beauty, a comfort, a completeness and refine- ment of appointment that are positively a revelation. PRICES AT FACTORY Charm - ¥ &es Sport Car RY 26s Readiter - #f27) Cowper i fiei Touring = of¢85 Sedan = f¥aa TheNewOakland S1x-44 Oakland's 15,000 Mile Performance Guarantee “Shoghd the engine in thia car fail to perform properly dae to the presence ef excess of] in the combustion chamber {comenunl y known as "oil Pumping” and evidenced by cal on the spuurk se the Qokland deoler when delivered this car to you will remedy the cauee of the trouble either cost fe qou for either mraterfal er fvbar,” quality six of the year. It will raise your standard of what you can get ina motor car this year at this price. OAKLAND MOTOR CAR CO, EBidden of Come! Ides Cera PONTIAC MICHIGAN 41

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42 {Continued from Page #0) January and February & about elght times as great os itis in July, August and September. The months of open-nir and open-window life are more than five times as healthy as the months when we live and work indoors with all the windows and doors shut. Unfortunately in the ventilation problem no chain is stronger than ite wenkest link, and one criminal idiot who doean't beliewe in fresh sir and is perpetually on the job going round shutting windows and pulling down blinds will trample on the rights and neutralize the efforts of twenty sane sensible men and women who like to draw a little oxygen into their lungs occasionally, Any man who shuts a window, against the protest of other people in the hall or building, ought te be, at the third attempt, thrown out of it. Nosingle step that could be taken would save so many human lives, eepectally of women and children, as a dozen or two of saoch righteous vengentoes at the beginning af ewery winter. As one of cur moet larnous tuberculosis experts and high- ext authorities on ventilntian once complalned ta me in utter discouragement: " Dector, I can'teven keep the win- dows in my own hospital wards open! There are forty per- feetly good and sufficient reasons why a window should be shut, and not a single self-ncting one why it should be open! If you want to keep your machine off the serap heap for as muny decodes as possible and running swiftly, amoothly and tirelessly, have your windows open day and night, and for heaven's sake keep at least ten or, better, twenty feet away from every human being who i# showing visible or audible signs of engine trouble, coughing, sneezing, grouch- ing. Many up-to-date great offices and industrial plants have their entire force given the once-over by the official nurse or the company doctor every morning, and who looks out of sorts is set aside for the third degree, and if he has a temperature is sent home at once to stay there until it comes back to normal. They find that within six months they have cut dewn their absentee rate an account of slek- ness OO to 7h per cent, and at the same time greatly dimin- ished their percentage of snarls and mix-ups and mistakes and lost orders. For the blackest and fuzziest fly in the apothecary’s ointment, the sharpest-cormered and the scratchiest cinder in the eve ola great industrial organization ia the mechanic or clerk or boss who is just coming down with a cold or other more serious infection, and dropping monkey wretie shies inte the machinery or adding up the wrong totala or giving contradictory orders and bawling out everybody for the mistakes he has made himself. Dentistry That Pays VEN such an apparently trivial and at firataight chiefly ormamentsl defect os blackened and decayed teeth is now recognized by intelligent managers as an important factor in business efficiency. Many of the large department stores anil great office forces now have a company dentist with offices in the building, and require ell theiremployes to have their teeth put and kept in first-class condition on the company's time, charging them just the expense of the ma- terials actually used in the work. Not only so, but they refuse to accept applicants for employment until these repairs hive been made if the defects are in a visible and conspicuous position in the mouth, or af lent put well under way, for the cold commercial reason that the in- crease uttractivencss of the selling force raises the total af anles, while the prevention of toolhnehed and Pile bendls distinctly diminishes the number of daya’ absence per month on account af slick TifSss_. The same fact was pireeviect Wp bo the hilt by the experience of the Army vpon weenie of millions, At first sight it seemed litthe short of ladierms to reject a sturdy, upstanding would-be fighting mun simply becnuse he had twooor more holloe or uleerated beetle. Wefeltatrongly inclined toxympathize THE SATURDAY EVENING POST with the disgust of the square-shouldered six-foot High- lander who, when rejected for this trivial couse, glared and rumbled at the army surgeon: “Mion, yer makkin a tur- rible mistuk. Ahm no wantin" to bite the enemy, alm wantin’ to shoot um!" But bitter experience in the field haa shown that a fight- ing unit with the toothache or a throbbing abscess of the gum is just as effectively disabled and on the sick list as if he had had a bullet through his left hand or either foot. Of course Later in the war they no longer rejected for dental reasons, but simply placed the recruit in charge of the offi- cial camp dentist until his defects were repaired and he wis mide a good as new. Tt is an interesting illustration of the workings of the professional military mind that when a crack Canadian division arrived in England in the firat months of the war with 2 complete and fully equipped modern staff of dental surgeons, the English War Office ordered them back to Canada at once, on the grownd that it was not advisable to bear the expense of transportation and maintenance fn the zone of war of individuals of no practical military value! Tt was only upon the most urgent representation of Cana- dign statesmen, and offers from private individuals to bear all the expenses of the support and operation of the despised unit in England, that the dental staif was permitted to accompany its regiment inte the training camps, where it et ovenvhelmingly proved tte value that a perfect clamor arose from all the training camps at home and base and rest tampa in the war zone for similar help and advan- tage, so that even the War Office had to bow before the storm, though it even then haggled for a long time over giving the dental eurgeone railitary rank a8 officers. Speaking of physical examinations as a condition of employment suggests another important sid for keeping one's working powers in healthy balance. Goto you fam- Ely physician at regular intervals, at least ones a year, and let him give you and your habits a thorough going over to diseover beginning or threatening hot boxes or otber engine troubles, and advise you how to avoid them. In other words, pay him to keep you well, Instead of for toying to tinker you up after you have broken down, So obvious and innumerable are the advantages of this plan that I venture to prophesy that in a deeade the whole method of the practice of medicine will be reversed to conform to it, Many large employers have for some years past required full physical cxarnination of all applicants for work and reéxamination whenever the employe is changed to another department or promoted, In the beginning these examina- tons were usually opposed and looked upon with suapicion by Labor unions, on the ground that they would be made an excuse for shutting out union members or dismissing employes who for other reasons the boes didn't like, or dropping men from the pay roll when they began to show signs of breaking down and thus avoiding linbility in the way of pensions or workmen's compensation. But fortunately their practical rexult haa been just the reverse of this. Very few applicants have been refused on account of physical defects discovered, still fewer employes dropped an account of approaching breakdown. But the findings of these examinations have been whlized in a broad-minded and kindly apirit to fit or change over men inte the particular joba or kinds of work for which they May it, were best fitted. Many aman with the beginning: of disease ofr latent tuberculosis of with impaired va; ome eye or with defective hearing hus been gives 4 5 which he could not only earn decent wages witho: ing his health and breaking himself down, but wits ; advice and encouragement to take care of bine! regained health and full working power. So marked, in fact, were the benefits, that the unions have now taken the matter wp for themed some of their most intelligent leaders and editors organization journals are now urging that th physical examination should be made a condition of bership in the union, both for the advantage of the 4 found below par, so that he may be placed in a pes recover his health, and as a matter of protectios | fellow worker. The worker in a Plant naturally and propety to running unnecessary risk of life and limi fry low employes with defective vision or poor hear nervous OF mental disturbances, auch as epilepay oe ing spells, being placed in charge of engines or dan machinery. Tn the admirable community campaign against culosis which is being conducted at Framingham, | chusetts, under the leadership of Dr. Donald Army a shop committee consisting entirely of worker | largest industrial eoneern of the town of their own | came to the management and requested that cases 9 tuberculosis in their fellow workers should be placed it teria, both to enable them to regain their healt: ) protect their families and their fellow workmen fra risk of contagion, the expenses of the patients to b out of sick-benefit funds to which beth employe workers contributed. AMfachinery and Brain Power E HEAR on every hand loud laments over the ening effect of machine methods of production intelleet, of the dwartng influence of machinery upon power. There can hardly be a more absurd and uj lusion. The machine worker is supposed to do nothi day long but drop a sort of glorified nickel into neg extract it fram another, Wind him up in the mornin he will preas the button at mechanically regular int all day, while the machine does the rest. [frankly confess that my own enlightenment wea matter of yesterday, some eight or tem years ago | inspecting a number of Southern eotton mills, wich a for hogkworm among their employes, and the muck was eo wonderful and lifelike that [ became interested in apite of myself. Glancing down the long line of spinning jennie their thousands of whirring bebbins and vbeir bi tenders, I noticed gaps every here and there, anc | sionally quite a stretch of machines without any up tender. "Ts it safe for those machines to run themselves = watching?" I avid to the foreman who was shor through. “Where is the man who is supposed to be! ing that machine?" pointing to a varant one [wi front of ws. “There he is," said he, pointing to an agile litte § two or three machines up the line, “He'll soon be. this way, and if anything was to go wrong he'd bes like a hawk," “Why, can one man run more than one of thes bobbin machines, which almost makes you seal to follow the whirl edit of spiders’ threads?™ “Sure he con! Ane nary chump aftera months’ training can ni machine well escugt, § good intelligent works rin two or three, ance jack like that man ter OF sit Or even seven, & better work withiwee (Contiqnaed on Pape

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST SINGLE-SIX SEVEN PFASSENCER TOLTRING VERY hour of Packard history has been dedicated to the pro- duction of motor cars which should be beyond cavil or comparison. It is Packard’s high privilege, now, in this new Single-Six, to culmi- nate these years of unique prepara- tion by rendering a public service greater still. Out of the wealth of Packard engineering and manufacturing experience has come a mastery of production which has resulted in value little short of revolutionary. Packard has learned how to sur- pass itself—and still widen im- measurably the circle of Packard ownership. For those who seek cars of the highest calibre, the value plainly ex- pressed in these exquisite cars leaves literally no choice but Packard. Packard dealers are demonstrating these new cars. Single-Six five fossenger touring, $2485 at Detroit. New price of the Twin-Six cowring, $3850 ar Detroit PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY - DETROIT - MOTOR CARS AND MOTOR TRUCKS PACKARD

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Jim Henrys Column! A Digression T have a one-product mind. I shall always consider that the purpose for which I was produced was to show men how to enjoy shaving by doing tt right—with Mennen Shaving Cream. So it is with reluctance that I oc- casionally capitalize on the confi- dence which millions of converts must feel regarding aneening f tell pst. by discussing other products. It ts a peculiar fact that only re- cently has science concerned itself with bodily comfort, Qur internal nechanism has always appealed to science as an attractive field for ex- perimentation and research but things like itching, raw skin, prickly heat and baby rashes have not ranked as laboratory headliners. Now my company has always specialized on com tum to the world, It freed men from old-fashioned shaving soap. But | am inchned to belteve thar history will record as Mennen's greatest con- tribution te the comfort of living, } our miraculous Kora-Konia. Kora-Konta ts one of those things you have to find out about for your- self. [can tell you that it's great for sunburn, bur you will never appreciate what I mean until you sce the angry redness change to healthy pink, and the pain subsides, I can assure you that it saves you from the torture of skin rubbed raw by damp clothing or chafing muscles, | but you must shoot eighteen holes without a suggestion of irritation | before you will understand. But Kora-Konia reaches its pinnacle | of beneficence on babies. A baby with plenty of food inside and plenty of Kora-Konia outside is at peace. I feel some diffidence in discussing the matter, but through no fault of its own, i baby's skin ise to conditions which can only be de- scribed as deplorable. Kora-Konia places on inflamed litle legs anc other areas, a velvety film of cooling, soothing pawder which clings for hours, protecting while it heals. Kora-Konia is amazingly efficient for prickly heat and baby rashes. A big tin costs 35 cents at druggists’, Send 10 cents for a generous sample. * rere Heart (Messen Sefrsmian) | THe Mennen Company Newaen, A. USA. ! | brenkages than the one-machine man. We | craftsrnen, before the age of t. It gave Tal- | THE SATURDAY fCentiawed from Page 423) can't get enough of these three to five loom hands," And anyone whe watched for ten or fif- teen minutea that lithe amd agile little blue-shirted re dancing and swaying up and down the line of his five machines, darting his fingers inte the tangle of yarns and mending a broken thread with a singh twist of his thumb and finger as swiftly and eurely as a humming bird darting ita beak into. a flower would need no assurance that whatever else he might suffer from at the end of the day it wouldn't be thick- wittedness or brain s ation. Tt takes a great deal more braing and intelligence to run a machine, to keep it pnt musically, to prevent and repair ntakdowns, to steer it from chewing up and tearing into shreds the raw material fed to it, than it dors to handle simp ordinary tools, such as 95 per cent of a workers had to use in that ical Golden Age of crelarianablp of William Morris’ dreams before the blight of machinery fell upon industry. nines When the product of their toil reached auch a level as to be of beauty and capable of giving pleasure, then the joy of craftamanship and the inatinct of creation awolce, ut such fortunate stonm, wore a few in the hundreds—indered, a handful in the thoussnds—and the over- whelming majority of the toilera during the a of bharbarism—which for 90 cent of us ended only in 1830—delved in the mod and wallowed in manure, and heaved huge beams and heayy buildin stones inte place with wooden levers an wet ropes, lived in filth and died in misery, and were worst fel and howed than the atthe alon icle af which thes worked ane with which they were practically yoked neck to neck. This is a plain, unvarnished picture of the real life of the Happy Villagers and the contented craftsmen of mites years ago, If anyone doubte it [ should be pleased to show him surviving samples of the same, in every country in Europe and in most | states of our Union. The loss by the worker of his pride in craftsmanship anel pleasure in his work since the ecxming in tel machinery, =o loudly and eloquently be- wailed by long-haired and short-brained sentimentalista, particularly arts-and-crafta ladies of both sexes and a certain clase of mild welfare workers, is one of the moet | Imaginary of his troubles. Twenty minutes cut off his working day and spent at the movies would recompense him for the whole of it and give him a chance to see and eniey more beautiful things than he would all day long in the average factory, Besides, even supposing the things he manufactures are pretty, what good is that in his life if be can't afford to buy them himself How the Head Saves the Heels _ Nor is the increased intelligence required in the worker limited to those palatial bee | hives of glass and steel which pour forth auch marvelous and varied torrents of ad Aaa that the wit of man could de Vise or his heart desire, of whose toilin Yuleuns one usually thinks first when wor or labor questions are mentioned, It is equally necessary and indispensable in business lile of every sort—in great execu- tive offices, in Insurance companies, in hanks and department stores, in publishing concems, in government offices, in the achools, in the pProlesions—everywhere except in the courts, where the same brain- lesa old formulas are still being d over as two hundred years ago and all the chief authorities and rulea of procedure are four te six centuries old, Just consider what a tremendous part machinery plays, not merely in factories and mills but in every department of human toil and activity. The office errand bay no longer runs—figuratively epeaking, af course—four of five errands in a morn- ing: he telephones thirty or forty; the clork of secretary no donger laboriously transcribes letters and bills and notices in longhand; she clicks them off at forty miles an hour on the typewriter and multiplies them inte ca to peta mimeographs or multigrapls, besides ing her dictation from a talking machine, The grocers clerk would be utterly lost without his cash ister, and the bank clerk without his adding machine and check-writing ma- chine, Go inte the execunlve offlees or the EVENING POST cashier's de nt of any big business concern and you will find yourself sur- rounded by scores of the most mysterious, complicnted-looking machines, of which you can hardly even guess the uses, Practically member af aur cit working forces and office forces the lan over has become a machinist. It may not call for the very highest degree of intelli- gence te run these ines machines and avoidanarls and stoppages and breakdowns but it certuinly docs require a great deal more than the old brainless, routine hand- work with pen or pencil or gelatin pad, Even telephoning is a matter of earsan tongue— and temper—and our supposedly highest hurnan accomplishment, speech, instead of being merely a strain upon our hind feet, as running errands waa. In a physiological sonse we have raised the general average of human intelligence at least 50 per cent since the coming of steam. Or to put it in another way, we have become three-fourths brain workers—that is to say, the parts of is which we chiefly use in our work are our THiné, OUF nervous systems, our tie and eare and the amaller and more delicately balanced groupa of our hy ial larly those of cur fingers and hands, Nervous Strain I have dwelt upon this point at some length because it is of auch tremendously wital ie nee ln any scentifie view of this problern to realize clearly that two- thirds to three-fourths of all those of us who work draw chiefly upon our brains and cur nerves, And these sensitive and exqui- sitely balanced mechanisms in the first Place eimply will not atand the strain of the old twelve and fourteen hour muscle- working day. In other words, our brains and nerves to-day are fatigued and utterly worn out in litth: more than half the time that our muscles used to be fifty yours apn, Secondly, and equally vital from a proe- tical point of view, it is precisely our brains and our nerves which are the most highly educable and capable of the highest im- ahaa of all the tisawea in our bodies, eae two facts alone explain the apparent paradox that we workers in modern indius- try of every sort and class con train our- selves or be trained to do far more work in less time, provided we work short enough hours to leave us abundant time for rest, healthful recreation and education and de- velopment along broad and happy lines, as well as these of aur work, That workers at modern machines whose strain falls most heavily upon the brain, the nerves and the senses simply cannot atand the length of medieval work- ing day is almost obvious, but a few illus. trations may be of interest, One of my colleagues who wis keenly interested in in- dustrial ene told me that some years ago he had just been back for a visit to hia old home town. The town had changed from a largely agricultural and amall trad- ing community inte an industrial one by the coming of a ble manufacturing plant, On talking with bis former friends, running over the list of their hood acquaint- ances and school fellows and inquiring what had become of them, he learned that first one and then another, and then two or cnet more had iis to work in bine ppt and fom crasy', e was nature Ep Ly shocked and made careful Sucuiviée ‘alter unfortunates among their families ene ten, He Gey ator, what had ray ap | was that these youngsters ha flo eagerly inte the factory, attracted by the novelty and good wages, and shorter hours as compared with work in the fields and in the country stores, They had caught on quickly to the trick of running machin- ery, and then been speeded up by injudi- alow foramen until their eyes had fi dazzled into hopeless confusion by the incessant strain and glitter, their ears deaf. ened by the clatter and clang, their hands and fingers cramped and achingso that their nerves were frazzled to the breaking point. Then theinevitable explosion came: they leat all wontrol over themselves, beearme hysterical and weepy or sted eta and abusive, and énded by either throwing up their jobs in a tantrum or being fired by the puzzled and indignant foreman. This waa particularly troublesome in certain de- artmenta of the factory, whieh actually ad an industrial mortality of several hun- dred per cent per onnum! That is to say, their whole working force was fired, or quit, every three montha. Thia of course wae Pulnous, wot merely to the health of the eniployes but to the elicieney of the plant, May 15,3 An efficiency expert with scientific ing was ecnlled in, the hours & ; man-eating departments were ax @ the heating and ventilating of the improved, the lighting of the a altered, and the workers shifted she three or four different quieter departs alternite months. ‘The mental bral stopped at once and most of the fp victimea were coaxed back inte the fy again, and with a little intelligent mf pathetic assistance learned to adjust selves quite comfortably to the wir quite a number flatly refused to up risk again and a few remained! sew unbalanced for a considerable perine Not all individuals and races, of a react in the same way, and a curs; stance of another sort of response to; trial nerve strain is found ame in the Southern cotton mall, going throwgh these huge extablshm waa atruck at onee by the total abe from their working forer, evs the boiler and engine rooms and the! porter work of the receiving and tra riments! was the more surpre at this be Thappened to know that one of the» pal reasons why the mill men hed = their factorigs: down from New Fs and the North to the Southern Stare to utilize the large supply of cheap c labor, a9 well aa. to get nearer the seg the raw material. And on asking the man Why this plan hac failed to devs told me that the earliest mills had = themselves almost completely with | workers, but that their perve = would not stand the dazzle and ge the looms, the incessant clatter of th chinery, and the all-day, meanatonom tithen of little insignificant hand-and-) movements, But instesd af going | they took another tack and went p fully to sleep on their feet and fe! inn machinery—with disastrous results to machinery ane feld hands! Se the were at that time mun largely by the dren of the poor whites of the mow districts and of the sand barnes. Cured by a Cat ane recent year, wnder nteees tific management, negrocs arte heen € aively employed in both cottes mils mitnition works, and they mule etce and reliable workmen; but the charge! farm hago rina siaigaane ft work in open air actory conditions, wth | glitter and clatter and foul sir, +m sudden. Just te show what apparent trife| wreck or restore the efficiency of the p when dealing with these brainstorm 5 frictions, one of our most ingenious tific trouble fixers told me that be hada abreakdown and tie-up of a largeroom- deed, a Whole departrient—in a big Ma Western factory with a cat. The eneh in the disorganized department wer ® sixty or eeventy girls, the job was fon aut huge numbers of little stamped. 7 metal disks, method was peer There was keen competition for the 4! records and wages, and in apite of th ploring appeals of the forewoman ace t agement, who wanted only just =r disks turned out to keep pace wilt other ports uced in the other dep ments, the girle would apeed up agune another, particularly in the late afters Then when human nature could eo lor stand the atrain the lid would blow of, room, would split up inte cliques, fon warrels would brenk out, and whe istracted forewoman interfered to pr actual hair pulling, all hands turned 0! After a careful study of the situates theexpert ge. re changed frat to overhead and slightly mufiied, t= the glitter from the shining disks, the was cooled down five or six degres i ternoon tea at four o'clock waa intrue improved the situation somes but the girls still scrapped virwusly un themselves,andthecharnpionsandwe= champions epurned the alluremests © and bread and butter and sat teres 1 gilent.machines, like a cat ata moc = waiting to renew the fight wt the firt pe ble moment. eet wie One day the puzzled expert, skirmlstt through the factory ta see whet or 5 he might discover, aaw'n couple of tec plasine with and fondling a cat ft ange handsome Maltese, of most un and alluring fluffiness and softness; a (Continued on Page 4.)

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eT HERE are thousands of acres of old, worn shingles, like these, on e house-tops of America. No doubr ey have given service, but their mod of service is over. Perhaps there some ge over your head at this But don’t tear them off. They are Re-roof the Johns-Manville way. y Johns- Manville Asbestos Shingles, fistic and everlasting, mght over pur old roof, Count the advantages 1. The old roof underneath the new ind permanent one will always be an ad itional protection and insulacion, ‘2. You save the cost, labor and time ) hearing off the old rowel. | al em over the old shingles! 3. No muss or dirt around the house of littered, broken shingles. 4. Johns-Manville Asbestos Shingles are unconditionally fire-proof, They are giveh highest ratings by Under- writers’ Laboratories, Inc. They make a roof of artistic beauty, in soft tones of gray, brown or red, whichever you prefer. You need never re-roof again, be- cause Asbestos Shingles are practically indestructible, They should last as long as the structure they cover and protect, See your dealer or send to us for further information. The coupon in the corner may help you, ja HNS-MANVILDLE, Ine Madison Awvenwe at 4let Street, New York (ary Jira ja FP Lope Libr Per Cina; CANADIAN BON SSAA SWV ILA tai, bod,, Vii THE SATURDAY EVENING POST What Type of Asbestos Roofing? This chart will help you decide Kind of Buitding Type "ar = sitar ‘Slate surlaced pial Plerstene — roofing of shingles pedi or gore Samual! luildimga ° Slate sirlored fell Fletetane — ViweThinee roving of shingles red of green: #4, (40- 87 09K) or figél aalpesicn riped thingles fal, bres ur uray Biardatd 2 eatra Lhick—redl, heoern, grey oF [Hensel Nerlings Rigid ashesbos 07 (hb (he air gh Colorbleiide—live- tone, brown withor withowt wel or greg ercidenials Diwedh ne Rieid ashesirs 015,00) apres sbactg lie Ioites Manville febrstos Tbealy [Erenfingt or Buile-up Heating Fartores, shops and | tilla=Munitor ured antl ready Saloath pre" Flat roofa— a buildings* Bailt-up rociege Joho anvil Curmagnbral Asbestos Heating Skeleton [rein | Commute! qshrstig bau ilsh=iges renting wath alert titan cenliticns® | neinferrciment Shel} frase bepikd- ingg —erreeire {em Schone Manville TranateCorry cated Ashrstoa Wired EHasating Cortumbel aslauiion \ peeing? aithiut steed peratuine ar conden- | atetay | infers nent. an Lien cute Leora ® "Nate —Tridlmatelel lvildiogs call for exper) salvirw, ‘pening eapert be avnilebde of oll odes-Manvillr Branches, Jeliie-Klanns ille, Inc , Wel wclisint Ave i tlatSt., Mew York diry Kindly gend oe your brmekler ""Re- roche fas the Luar Tine, "" Niarue wooded ple ii hen LM Rec Fackinch COMETS haa , Benth Afa'ress.

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oor chauffeurs from whis THE SATURDAY (Continued from Poge 44) a flash an idea came to the expert which he pullintoegecution with Napoleonic prompe- nek, About three o'clock in the afternoon the ahve the workroom jew open and i walked pussy, waving her alluringty. The frat palr of girla she came to pounced on her at onee with geen of delight, amd alter potting her and hugging her to their hearts" content, pam | her on ie ee group in response to an eager clamor from all over the room, and she made the circuit of the entire line of tables, Afternoon ten that day was a real social function, with all grudges buried and rival- ries forgotten. was immediately adopted aga mascot, and in reaponse to the unanimous petition af the entire room, as a epecal faver, placed by the management eee pay roll, She was provided with a silk-lined basket in the sunniest window seat, and whenever a girl began to feel tired or too much strung up she would run over and rub her cheek against the soft fur and be purred back inte corafort and hu- mor. In faet, the eat acted as a shock ab sorber and tension reliever—not to say “ontulyzer"'—for the entire room and no further riots occurred. But these apparently trifling frictions have their tragic alde as well. In one corner of a great industrial plant stood a massive stamping machine which riveted ther sharp-angled bars and spikes of shining steel in a way that required the most care- ful and closest attention in feeding. It had stood idle for many months, for it was known as the mankiller berause it had killed two workmen and disabled three others, and the men flathy refused to tend it. So the er paapase had been obliged to go back te the slow and toilsome method of riveting the parta together by hand. 4 Matter of Light One day an expert was visiting the fac- tory and waa shown Lie grin white ele phant, on the chance hope that he might be uble to suggest something to tanve its feroc- ity. His first glance showed him that the monster stood right in front of a south window so that the full blaze of the sunlight poured down upon it and glared up inte the es of the tender from every angle of the glittering steel that it riveted, Derricks were attached and the great machine was swung over to the other side of the room, where the light came from above and over the shoulder of the workman, Then the expert ran it himself for half a doy, and a foreman for another day and a half, te give confidence to the boldest of the and the great brute stamped and gnashoed its teeth in smooth and harmless rhythm and never after a single sign of Fela into its man-eating tendencies, The extent to which working hours can be profitably reduweed varies considerably with the individual and with the nature of the oecupation. But all that has been said and ao abundantly proved on both sides of the Atlantle about the inerease of output, from shortening hours in industrial plants is even more strikingly truce of higher grades of work. The moment that quality and executive ability and arriving at eound decisions ea great masses of data or the planaing new ventures and the use of constructive imagination come inte play, EVENING POST the necessity of short, decisive concentra- tion to brief working limita becomes even more absolute, The majority of our grent executive heads of business and financial and engineering enterprises have cut down their conference hours and actual executive working day, not merely to eight hours, but sometimes to even less. Your chances of finding anybody of any importance in New ¥ork City, for instance, working in his office after four o'clock im the afternoon are ingly slim. Not a few successful men will boast de- lightedly of the way in which they used to work sixteen and even eighteen hours ad when they were getting their start an fighting their way up in the ranks. But the CB deeds ota cee eed gures seem much larger and longer in memory's rody light than they really were; and second, that these great men in their rawesalad days didn’t really know how to work to the best advantage, Executive ability consists precisely in turning every- thing possible over to your subordinates or, in he neneas of one of my successful friends, “ Nover do anything that you can hire done.” The worst and moat unsuccess- ful boss is one who tries to do all the work of his entire staff himself, Last, but not | tomes the question, What shall we do with that ion of our freedom which we have won back from elutch of the demon of overwork? Here we strike another paradox, and that is that though what we need moat to develop ia our brain power and our nerve emirdination, the only tical way in which we can do this is by exercising and training our muscles, But this is perfectly logical and rational, for two reasone, It ia obvious that we are not going to rest or improve our poor tired braina by purely mental exercise and discipline, such as soly= ing problems in higher mathematics or Playing chess or wrestling with the Ein- stain problem, The awful and abysmal infantility and banality of the relaxations chosen the famows tired business min, who, af Will Irvin declares, “gently baat firmly locks his brains in the safe every night before leaving the office,” are a suffi- ciont illustration of this. On the other hand, the way to a man's brain is through bis muscles, just os surely as that to his ig through his stomach, From a modern physiologic point of view all that we know about and can do toward training our brains.is training certain mus- cular centers and certain centers for sight, hearing and touch, which together form the basis and foundation for the entire cerebrum, to work amoothly and swift] and we hoo udgment in teamwork wit one another, nbover mental develo Tent we get comes as a by-product. In other words, intelligent mental education and intelligent physical education are one and the sane thing. Thoughtful modern physical edweators who are new being trained in thousands over the country, under the stimulus of owr wartime legislation by the different states, will tell you without hesitathon that the real field of physical education and ath- letics is, first, the heart and its marvelous Tesourees under toying circumstances; and second, the nervous system, On the other hand, thoughtful and Pro- greseive experts in pedagogy are equally agreed that the best way to train the mind May iz, is to train the sensea—by moving p by living specimens, by bird and | work outdoor and by actually mac: creating things with tool and bap) cil, combined with training the free and happy play in the ope: hikes in the open country for far » and geography training, with a - 5 of bookwork and schoolroom iny We have no way of reaching th ment. itself, or the mind, except throngs th, rey the senses. a that j quis organ, our intellectual | a though incredibly and enon complexed, 18 from amother point o steadily becoming simpler, Not or} nearly 90 per cent water, but £0 per; ita solids consist of fat, so that one nearest sporoseye We can make to osition isin ice-cream soda. Ever : + present in both, because the near proach to and imitation of protopla can make is a mass of soap bubble. , seema probable that it is in the pe making soap-bubble-like filma with a and fatty acids that the special rae in our brainstufl consists. The pictures of memory are photog upon soap-auds filma. Restful Amusements Therefore play hard and happily) open air for at least two or thre ev day if you want ta put your arid inte the beet perable cox for the greatest quantity and highet ity af work during offier hours, Wil the best single and far most avallayy door exercise. Get the habit by alle but it has the great disadvasiy allowing you to continue the same tn thought which has been fatiguing p: day. Hence the advantage of various which compel or allure you to einres your attention upon them and forges troubles, cenreiety golf, which thug the more than a joke as physical eserca a mental occupation is superbhy shew and entrancing. Likewise the soy hile is of priceless value, eapecially |! drive yoursell, both for its reac change of scene and air and high dieq from-worries power, And in addition plenty of that most valuable fom cf which can be enjoyed with pictues. | beautiful buildings and charming 4 scopes, with exhibitions of all that uh tiful and graceful and vivid, such a shows, dog shows and horse shea, is letic meets, in theaters, and last, bet b means least, in the cinemas, the jes boon to human intelligence and eles and amusement that the century toss You will find literally scores of things 2 ine out of your werk and your buees| wall be of best plesusare and isteet growth value to you in your felsure bo But after all, in spite of its lakooes and its everlasting and incessant demi our work is and ought ta be oar ee and pride in life, [t is a poor and woth business or occupation ar profession 7! does not open up a dogen avenie & velopment and self-culture in histor music, in ecience, in the drama and ine’ field of human interest. Whee yo reelf properly trained and cosdite for gaccoae in your work, your werk 5 will became your favorite play, INSIDE THE BOOTLEG his curs, His investment is just a truck, a touring car and his current i Of eourse thera are risks. If you get Pinched and t¢ make it stick, you lofe your cara, probably forty or fifty eases of stuff, a fine and a lawyer's fee, besides your time. That will cost you up te $10,000, which knocks all the profit out of two or three montha of hard work. Even if you get the case thrown out of court it Is expen- sive, Still, trouble with the law ha only once ina while, What the bootlegger fears more than the officials is high- jatkera—booze highwaymen who hold you up along the line, They are mostly guards convays who have learned the game and then gone still more crooked. They know of course that in a booze robbery you have mo recourse with the law. In wvse they get away with it they go scot-free, If they can sneak your truck from you they'll doit, A many times a set of bootleggers have left the (Continued from Page 25) convey for a few minutes, and missed it when they got back. The importer, in such a case, can't take any chances making in- quiries. He knows that likely as not some SMun bry cope or prohibition agent has it. Tf he's cought trying to get it back he'll not only lose it but probably be put through besides. He usually hoofs it away. Sometimes the importer manages ta double-crass the crooks. There was a ene last month where a crew of four men stopped in a town north of New York, very hu . and went together into a restau- rant. When they came out the towring car nebo there, hut the truck was gone. wis a light fall of snow on the ground, and the truck had one tire with a peculiar tread. They tracked it easy, until it turned inte the main road ta New York. Then they knew that the thieves were high- jackers, not loral cops, They figured out a cut-in on the main New York rend about twenty miles down the line, took chances with the speed laws over bad country '™ held up the truck just at nightfall, ge! drop on the thieves and recover: | whale thing. oi Every night something that sould |! at in the papers happens up ot ‘anadian road, Early in the sprig Wasserman, who runs a anearuck wl had to pet a new chauffeur before ber out of New York. He grabbed the <5 he could find, Tt turned out that f really a high-jacker and was taking“ job in order to deliver the truck fy Amp e last night out they were com through along patch of woods witha) Inad, Texy noticed that the chase! the track was making flashes wilh er light. Izzy step or it and cr! afungpide. Just then the truck mr, dead stop, and firing brake wat nc woods. Lexy and his outiit had te thet 4 their hands, because it waa so dit (Continued on Page 14!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST TONE CORDS b Cid moder ee bigh sforsiare! off erule- io For P22 Finer Pies elected! by aise i Foes Aunieriont car t ord aque. in Peete im onorng @ omar beeurfort com. @ fey on fhe wricivt ol ars s ihe. oer 8 A institution whose active prin- cipal stamps his name on the product, and where every worker is a stockholder, operates on the right basis to build a quality product. It is such an organization that is carrying out the practical ideal of “Most Miles per Dollar.” Practical because it represents the A Practical Ideal highest standard today—ideal because it isa standard that constantly advances. Firestone genius and energy is never satished. It works ceaselessly to give you greater mileage in Firestone Cords while lowering the cost. You are pledged the most now and always—so long as your tires bear the name Firestone. a Most Miles per Dollar 511.65 Bali Ble it nan- iy by, ah at knox is in gel ono cacale i | UG boing acta ot Per on rece iw J abet fae $9.99 eat a ‘ARI anan f in

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HAY, Tie. 120 Hattery Strect, Sam Francieo ME BY isis oR Weise for 3 derer Asaommenr of Spar Ties on apersys ASK YOUR DEALER FOR - 73° BU LEDOG ie ‘SUSPENDERS TRE © acy ra GREATT A re fine: +100 | | :aratte- | himself” loose and untied the | the woods tryin || ished, They clim | track but whole | Besides, it gives better fate urity. THE SATURDAY (Cattaued from Page 70! couldn't see where to shoot. There were three high-jackers in the ain, besides tha: eropked ehaufeur. The ed Izzy and | the two guards—didn't leave them a cig- tlindfalded them, marched them round in the woods and ted ther to a bree, There's where the chanteur made a min take. Instead of letting himself be rolled and Hed up with the rest he went off with the lond. Along Iexy worked aarti, The rest of the alight they stumbled round in to find the road. When dawn broke they hoofed it te the next town and [xzy got the proper people in New towards momin | York, reverse charges, on the phone, When | the thieves were running into Yonkers they were met on the road by a reception com- mitter and forced to come down and have a little talk, Inside of ten minutes they had given up their loot, their diamond pins, their watches and their rolls, and the crooked chauffeur was dawn on his knees hanest— Gr eeing then not to kill him that night. You set, lazy has a direct pull with ple high in tio u underworld. These were New York crooks They reengrived the reception committer and knew who wal behind them. Old-Fashioned Fmugglors There's another case where the high fackers last owt. You know in fashi country places just now they're installing burglarpran’ wine yaulte with combina- tion locks. The owner of such @ place—lIt's up the Hudeon fram New York and not far from the regular Cangilian route—went to Florida this winter, lewving a caretaker and his wife in charge. About two or three o'clock ane Morning & gan of high-j atkers backed a track up on the lawn by the cellar door, held up the caretuker and his wile, stood them aguinst a wall under sunrd., blew the lock on the wine vault and oaded up the truck to the top with fancy vin binge stulf—the kind that bring almost any price these days. : + was about eavtient before they'd fin- aboard to start her and she wouldn't go. They got down and found that the wheels had aunk te the hubs in the eeft turf. They tried to dig out, but it was no use; the gruss was too slippery, By the time they" ad site that up it was broad daylight and cars were beginning to appear along the road. They started ta Unload a littl: and see how that would work, Then a car tured inte the driveway and came toward the house, Tt was only the butcher, but they didn’t know that. They lost their nerve and skipped. The curetaker telephoned te a Jot of the bess’ friends, who drove straight over, to be on hand in case the thieves showed signs of euming back. They didn't When the boss returned from Florida he found that he had all his booze, besides a fine truck that no- body hus claimed yet, A, good pac Importers. operate met one efirets. At $1000 4 week a truck, you can figure how much they make. E eh lead insures the othe ra, ai ou don't lose a whole two manths' proi ths in Cae one convoy gets caught, But the robbery ‘business miakes the Can idian route a littl insecure, ard the tendency now ia more an d npere to bring th in by wea, Eueoee ptmaey' linan"t sturted up yet, and [ choutet if it ever will. It's hard to find a ship ot sen, Tesides, beyond the three-mile limit alcohel is prop erty, and you have the British Government to denl with, berause many of the ahipa ure under [tritish charter. Rum minning into New York by sen is only for the big fellows. On an average truckload from Canada voor initial invest- ment is F2000 or Fah. ‘By sea it hardly pays at all in cargoes worth less that $100,000 of $200,000. This generally n= Vols hankers, There are same firms in New York doing very little but bootleg financing nent now. The comer or ni age ant ia akhore in Nev York when: he gets the flush saying what eliny she’ S CxMMmr ! and Shes eaitohi afi. es siourd: be oes FOUN 1 to the proper place all i insert a th u ati iTening. He doesn't pay just then. quite the ten dollars a case that it ooata to bring fiquer down frm Can ucla. For some of the eops isualiy hawe to ben fern, aT Tensonatde alloworece mist be made for that. In eg end, it probat ly fiir te ghout the same as it does on Ane Canwiian runm—te ntl lars ac hon tip ve kir clit Linge EVENING POST and for unloading, you have to pay for the trucking in New York. I don't know ex- actly how the total coat to the importer compares with that for Canadian work. But it must be favorable, becouse, as I've said, the is coming more more by the sea route. The cargoes are consi from Nova Seotia to the Hohamaa or the other way about, The ski knows how to load under his camou CAPE REF GLa a to sink her too low at the water line. f he's stopped on the way ean the Fe alwa a alibi, even when the ithe on people find booze aboard. He's allowed by sea law to put inte a foreign port in case something's wrong, like a sick SPAIN OF machinery. He takes oof care to have a sailor groaning in the fo recnstle, or a broken part, The woret he risks, before he actual be begins to unload, is putting back to sean and waiting for further instructions by wireless. The trouble in this lay is mostly with drunken help. The kind of skipper they get is no ibitionist, One big consign- ment was last year because the captain and the officers entered the harbor, docket, and gave ordera to unload in broad daj- light. en they were arrested they oe too ‘yell a shelincked even to put up a They used to run it into the Bronx River in b covered over with a fake cargo of aome heavy material like brick or A ing stopped that ten. One of the crew, le they were waiting for darkness, burrowed under the bricks and got y Soe et ey hadn't gone ng an ing the cargo at one another. It turned into such a Hot that the patrolman ealled out the reserves, While they were hammering the fight out of the crew ig, Seg down under the bricks and saw es. That te Dp ilebnaes by harge—in the Brong at lent. Th h you don't have the steady risks Bonga es do that you do on land, tell me that the unex is. more Hide tu henge, One of ‘big seizures last winter was just a throw of the cards. She was unloading at the: at a quiet a wharl away up toward the northern e the city. Everybxly who was Tiely te interfere had been Bn Iles ao that no one can see what is doing at that wharf except from the roof or from one ittle place owt in the river, The boot- leggers were unloading fast and the tracks were Waiting to take it away. They had o lookout with a flashlight on the top of a shed, where he could wateh approaches. Some little thing happened to scare therm, The lookout saw it was nothing, and flashed the signal meaning “All clear.” It would have been all right, maybe, if he had dene this only once; but he was a0 anxious to rensaure them that he kept [t up, Methods of Distribution Just then a free-lance police patrol was coming along the river in the shadow of the wharis, looking for harbor pirates, They saw these mysterious flashes, sneaked up a She wars peor a the aS oe tt somebody or S300, 000 besides part of the graft money put up in jee When the bonne is fairly landed in New York it passes into the control of the brokers. ey have the soft end of the bus- nei—¥ little risk and big, quick profits, But they have to work for t ieir maney and their eves open every minute, broker has his list of importers on the one hand and of lera.on the other. It is his bh to keep them in touch with each other, oe not too close touch, or iol ll form a combination and dowbbe=cr im out of his fees. He must see to storage if neces- gary, and insure delivery. When he geta the flash that a cons ent is coming on to New York he works fast to get it all red before it arrives, so na to clear it in the shortest possible time. Probably he has alot of orders already. Either by mes- senger or telephone he interviews the ped- dlers who have given these orders, and arranges for the plact and hour of delivery, If this doesn't eat up the whole consi aa he keepe. cbf aot untilitisall sually eve d before ‘ie convey or t oa p Paes ew York. But not always. Even the brokers have no why of regulating the flow of liquor into town. There are bound to be some days when goods are not arriving and you can't fll Vive orders Fight avny. Then agit there will be a jam which the retail market simply won't absorb. The latest to come May 13, have to store it. Where it is stored, thing I'm not telling. But the + are expensive—usually fifty certs 4 night, and often a dollar. A few rug! that will eat up alot of profit, A bn standing with his importers depend); rr ae oe clears the mf ee days vy importation 4 pulling every wire to beat each ej the immediate market. The im r gets ninety dollars in bulk, a fetailens have to pay | case just nia The difference doo bel te the brokera. Half a doc, ants, including these who take pruf a slice of that eighteen dollars, A 4 has to enpiey peusiderabile Fall bootleg help comes high. Trans amd tana from cm aah repel ecet a lot of money. Bn e8Ey tr: tion, where they simply put an imps touch with a customer, brokers chy fe ot Fe oe teas oes cae It's what they figure to make, too, «he transaction peta a litthe more compli T should say that a firm with 4 ond ness ought to clear 500 eases a day. | that for yourself. Most of the broke jest hung with kale. ]T ean alice them on the streets by their clothes. order £200 suits six at a time, and » tree ailic shirts by oe dozen, and thst carat baa ‘we fever k before, ate spend t quickly. Next, it gets down to the retailer—p example. I'm moving all the time, keeping in my old custom, looking for pew. [ in my mind—I keep as ew books a; ble—a record of patron know erp Smith ‘aay: BEB & cam: y ance in three weeks. When tirne i is pl nearhy up I visit him or talk to him the telephone, fl Strictly Cash Busines hor pail sieibination she a other ers whe employ a boy ar t] dollars a week to sit ot a telephone, which we're paying jointly, When as lar customer wants to order unexpect be calls up that number. Of course I'm in, but the boy takes his name. Tie four times a ng cull up the bey, a! the names that have been left, and oe customers or telephone to them ss es ible, My share of this servic & iggest overhead expense. The otben just a little tip te the cop on the beat | and then, and an occasional tavab a rush order, Married bootheggers a don't need this telephone service. T wives answer calls for them at the flan. Moat retailera of my clase work by f ease Tota, Wheo I have orders for tt whole cases I tap the broker for ive a Threw of those go in bulk to my custom For them I pay just now $108, and rai $120—a profit of twelve dallas a com thirty-six. dollars for the bot, The me have sent to my fiat. As I'vesed, lex the policeman on the beat not te gt quisitive about deliveries, That anal let of two eases bey T distribute tt by one, bro and thee bet at an average of eleven dollars a both, $132acase. This is harder work, a com than selling it in big lota, but the mom twenty-four dollara a case, From th! eage lot I've taken on on averages © ee esd an of eighty-four dollars, Someicm eHow who has had a strobe of Inka wants to lay in a supply will give mes ® case order. That is sixty dollars fot noo trouble than seelng the lhroker apd © present ee ae & collection whe | gomds are del ivered. I always to do that. I've tit broker to set down a case at the beet door of Number Umpty-five, Wes Leet aixth Street. The notifies mF ec it say be ex e expected, I'm theres on the spot j= a ae ne = nee SEES. his pood. 7 is strictly cash business—no cherie even certified checks. You doc’! went a - record In the banks, [ take my #1) r off my twelve, and hand the ret driver of the truck. He tums feo the broker, who pays the impartet. any reason I fall te show wp the die lects the whole sum, and nextday! 3 bit waiting for me at the brokers § reason for being present is te pe doublecrossing. Theetuff isstill, w=! the hands of the importer. Otten rt truck that brought it frem Car cana docks. It stands him ninety-jre4"2* (Continued aa Page jf

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THE SATURDAY (Contineed fram Page 48) he sells it straight by five-case lots, and the price to the customer ia $120. The chauffeur, if he and bis boss are in- clined to be double-crossers, will say to the customer, “That's good stuff, ['vegotsome more just like it coming down next week, You con have it for 2105 a ease, That fel low you ordered from is cheating you." Right there, you lose a customer, This end of the business got so once last winter that a combination of retailers went ‘to the expense of hiring a storage place amd meaking doliverios themselves. Finally the brokers used their pull with the big boys and put down the serews, So far I have been telling only about whisky. When Amerienna can't heer they are first of all whisky drinkers, That is staple of the trade, Next in demand is gin, next red wind, and after that the faney stuff such as champagne, brandy, awect wines and [iqueura. hese come to me through different rowtes. Very littl: gin is imported. Even before the prohibition law most of cur domestic supply was synthetic. Pure aleohol and distilled water were blended with junit extract and other flavoring and allawed to age. The aging waa important. New syn- thetic liquer of this kind, even when all the re ther ATe 8S Pure as you can get them, is bad for the lining of the stomach. It needa two or three years’ aging in bottle or wood, Rut it's beimg turned cut and sold raw by thousands of gallons a day in roost af the big Eastern towne. In winter gin costa trom thirty tothirty-five dollarsa cue, and Sells for from forty-two to forty-five dollars. In summer, owing to gin rickeys, the price goes up aleout ten te fifteen dol- lars a case, ‘Tho profits are amall. But people want gin mostly in case lots for cock- tails at home, and thera’s little peddling by the bottle, which takes time. Poison in the Cup I don’t much like to handle gin. You never can tell where they get their alcohol. Dan‘t think I’m talking about wood aleohol either, The warat trouble at nt ia this denatured stull. Pure grain aleohol is easy and cheap eareah te get. DT aell it larly te customers who want to make their own, at sixteen to eighteen dollars a gallon. has seat the druggists from whom I it ee mn shay Bell to me at about eleven ollars, But the supply hae its limite, and the denatured stuff is even cheaper, This denatured alcohol ts doped in tere different 4 to make it unfit for drinking. Either a drug that can be precipitated —guinine for oxample—is put into it, or it is di ited with a poison like formaldehyde. Preeipi- tating quinine is ¢asy, and the manufuc~ burer to pet Tt all owe or the taste apoila hisatuff. But when formaldehyde has been used the alechol must be redistilled. Some of the big manufacturere employ chemista to do this werk, The little ones try to de it themselves, anc don’t always succeed, Gin with a trace of f won't knock ou out the first time or the second, but i it up, a cocktail or two every day— and ood night! Some of the whisky coming up here from the Bahamas is diluted with cane alcohol and coloring matter, It isn't poisonous, but it has an awful kick and gives you a headache next day. When the Canadian whisky FE handle is diluted it's cut with only distilled water. That cut stuff is generally most common in perixds of high prices, and there's a epecial reason. About helf of the retail peddlers and bootleggers con't want the cost te Lhe conauner bo Ret too high. They any if's killing the goose t shard e golden PERE: This is all a mutter a pay chology, Eomehow the avernge customer has ten dollars fixed in his mind as about the price he's willin ta ey Tor a bottle of whisky. He'll we half a dollar or a dollar above that, jit as mo man at an auction will go a dollar show: his price for something he really wont, After that a certain proportion of cus- tomerd will aay “Too expenaive,” and be- gin to drap aut, Wher wholeale prices rise loo high the beh legen or ders will make twelve bottles of Seotch out of ten in order te hold their ts at eleven dol- lare. But it tends te YOM customers, A guy whe lenows whisky tastes the water of finds he dosen't get enough kick. Then likely, he goes to some eloe, When have to handle the eut etuil I try te work it aff on transient custom or amabeur | drinkens, EVENING POST Our trouble with prices comes mostly from pikers— le who don't follow boot- coger 13 a at \ game but de it on the alee at if happening more and more all the time. Sometimes [ wonder if there will be any really professional peddlers after a while. That's one of my reasons for alling aut, The plker competition is mak- ng itself felt, Thore are thousands of them. in manicure or hair-dressing parlors do regular business with lady customers. Many clerks working in offices on small aal- anes make money on the side bootlegging among their pals in the shop. Then there are the outsiders like news-stand men, pro- prietors of amall cigar ateres and head waiters. They have a thon and a steady income out of another lar business and the customers come to them; they don't have to go owt rustling for trade, So they canafford toundersell, When we are charg- ing $120 8 case for Canadian whisky they often let it go for $115. Their trade ia maoatly ema in large lots. They have ne time to diver small orders, But some of them will land ten cases a day at a profit of seven dollars a case and no expenses ex- cept perhaps fifty dollars a week or so to the eape. ALL classes of retail trade aredoing it more or less, I know one foreigner who has just left for the old country to be a mug: nate. Fle made it in two years because he had a location in the basement of a big office building and an inside acquaintance with roost of the lowes and clerks. I don't know how this price cuthing is going bo ber stopped unless the big boys at the top pot together and let the pikers know that if they sell below the market price theyll be Pinehed for Gootleestng. The two elementa that sell regularly in exces of the market price are the female bootleggera and the hotel bell boys, The women in the game are usually pretty girls with good clothes who know how to flirt. They atick around dances and lay ta get men a little ed on them. hen t sucker is h the girl breaks the news, She's alrendy sized him up es good for one or two or thres cases. Generally he save, Tight away, "Put me down," and names a time and place for delivery, When it somes toa erga af price ahe says “A hundred and fifty dears," Well, oven if he know rie regula? price he hates to appear a piker; eo he falls, Tt's all lovely until next morning when ehe's delivered and pot her money, Then bhe becomes strictly tvusiness. She's beeught through the same broker as [ have, and for the same amount—$108 to BLI0, say. if he's stung himself for three cases she's Tmhade $120 to $125 for her evening's work. And sometimes by playing It fine she'll land two or three suckers iin one eventing. The Bell Boy Trade The bell have a lar trade price— nghteen dollars a bottle in one, two or three bottle lots—the sed , they ever sell, [fa boy is found underselling he loses his job quick. Not through the manage ment—they aren't in on it—but beeauge the other be ride him until he has te get out, They ¢ arge more if they ean. Hotel erks and bell boys are great judges of human nature, ‘They gi you a onemeover and have you sized up, Well, a man regis- ters who looks proeperous and a little like aa . and the bell boy sees there's a good aucker in bir. He asaya a9 he's taking hie tip, “Is there anything more [ con dot" Abewt half the time the sport asks where he can get some whisky. The bell boy says maybe it can be fied, hut it's rather hard to get now and will cust Ewenty-tye dollara. Usualiy he starte with some aoch sum ag that and comes down if he must to ly Ken where he sticks. He is afraid to p the stuff in the hotel. The management won't stand for that. There's nothing im it for them, Either he has a bottle buried with some friend meur by or he rings up a peddler and makes a date to slip the goods at some quiet entrance to the hotel. He pays the pee $10.50 or eleven dollars like any- ody elec, and makes fron seven op, mina fl it with the hed bell boy, maybe, bor you cub your eyetorth huni don't deliver to a customer ina hotel more than one, When the bell boy sees you coming with a sultease or a bundle he rushes at you to take it. If yo refuse be lors url over as if you were a pier trying be get out of r tip. Really he suspects you are dling booze and is sizing you up to re member you. [faye doit a second Hime he tips off the hotel detective, who follows May 13, you tip and als hit Par to the bork the room where you're selling, Why hears you just about to pass the pay brepks in and pinches you. We get back at the bell boys on Se) nigtite, when papas it enn tires » to get t awa. uest a three or Mir baktien for a Fortin, tein buyers, When the bell boy cilic; you know he wants it quick ge” count on getting it. Bo you gay, “Ae but to-night it will be five dodlass ec delivery. He kicks, but he falla for it. | he gets the five dollars out of the one at that. You cant buy liquer in every Ner hotel, Some therm employ spe) tertives just to watch the boys and = the place i bonedry. These hoteh have some trouble keeping the: though. It's a game where you have to kee eyes apes every minute, berarse i! > yourself be stung there's no com through the law, In Christmas week I cleared more SLO. I could have sold three tn much if [ had been three men, | 5 couldn't Gil the orders, Now in any busines FT ocould hawe hired extra by make the deliveries and collections, I worked the telaphene. Bait in bon dling! Half your assietante would nm with the money and the other halt , knock you to your customers and ge away from you, Barby in my busines rience | handled five case: of Cho Seotch. I'd sampled the stuff, and it all right. But two bottles in evar were filled with cheap claret, the ked costa fifty cents o gallon in Canada to replace these ten phony bettie: sj: stull in onder to keep my eustomers, ; lost on the transaction bath in tine money. The whealezaler in Canads fixed a whole truckload that way bets deliversd to the importer, Waterfront Transactions The worst place for trickery and che is the docks. You have to depend on purchases now and then, becwase ma: the fancy stuff comes that way—ligui port, sherry and cham e. Stone petty officers buy it in aera] lets ates prices in Europe, stow it in a dak | about the ship, and split fits with wi one emplo ashore, who distnbun But these people will generally do yp! they can. And between the dee First Avenue on one side oF Seventh | nue on the other the law dowem’t reco al night. They've got you alone down there they can pretty nearly chuck vou inv Water and no questions asbed. A friend of mine whe brake its business resent lost all his pecan! Prolite on a dock transaction, Ose ol eLStomers was giving a party. Hew a Case of Sempamne ee away. friend had a tip that a guard wis ing of several cases of good ie arrived. He went over in a tam and the gowds. What the guard really sv him was a lot of strictly temperance * sirated apple juice, which come inch pagne bottles, is labeled in French en< a trade name a little like the war “ch page.” Tt sella for fifty eente af bet rales abores. “All Bt,” tye friend, “let's taste a sample.” The si pops a cork and pours out. a glasful. the real thing. It was the customer who discovers! mistake, mot the bootlegge. He pi was a complete failure. He had a peor mull long enough to male may ties ck the money. The guard had ster the label from a bottle of the apie pasted it on a bottle of real champs and opened that for a sample. , VSeeneg me Fight for try gto de ness in a foreign lakataae " eva ray fh tome, “To don't rene Swiss,” Well, iatkahibide. LF ther don't sa this week they newer will. It's ther | chance. I'm t gh. T sew Jim Mah day or vo ay, abd told him #4 tie just up from Palm Beach on he = reland, Jim's living easy naw, REO EL ing himself. He listens to ms, an" eays, “I don't know but yuirs? young man." ‘. That's as far as Jim ever comm = self. But he's on the inside, apt i 5 dom seen him miss the turn, Sone®5 going to happen.

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This nanve invari- Leok for the package with the Acad bend: and. e a DUTCH BRAND SURE-SEAL ©o0M- BLMSATIGN GLTFIT comtains everpthing needed fora quick, parmanenc inner-tube patch: sehf-curling, coe-aplitelag, amd elas bic. [rincludes a supply af 2-in-] Cos-Filler which sala caving cum and prevencs dnd Wtorl o5 well oa che casing faelf. Medium ae ouche, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 13, | The Hotel Remembe: E town elerk of Wey- port West was dini at the house of ol friends, Ronald Morrit and his wife. The Morrites and he and Spenliss, who was the only other guest, had gone to the Weyport High School kindergarten together thirty- add years before, ao naturally there was no formality phowt this dinner, Dessert waa past, but Mrs. Murrit stayed on in her chair. The big white cloth had been taken from the tuble, leaving a beautiful surface of dark oak, aeross which two very narrow white cloths now stretched, arrayed with decanters and wineglnsses, coffee cups and silver ash trays. Mra, Morrit was alim, fair, atill pretty. On her night was the town clerk, slim also, clenn shaven ind looking the nstube law ‘pr that he was. Spenliss, on her left, and ber hushand, opposite her, were both strong- framed, etoutich men, who were contrasts in temperament, The dark-mustached Spen- lies wis noted for trasctbllity; Morrit, of the cropped, sandy mustache, was practically always in a goo humor. These two, Speniiss and Morrit, were coupled a the richest men in Weyport. Speniies had inherited a large fortune: Morrit, shipoener, grain merchant and much else, was making a particularly large OTLB. pag as with them the tewn clerk was poor; his income was merely tye thou- Sand pounds a Year. Converantion for the moment was rune ning on foreign coins and postage atin pe Mra. Morrit and Spenliss, insatiable col- lectors, were urging Morrit to board the Ulanza—from the China Seas—when she approached port early next morning, and to clean her out of Asiatic money and stampa before their great rival collector, the Missions to Seamen chaplain, could get alongside, Morrit was remarking genially and untruthfully that he could just foresee hirmsell emerging fram bed at four A, at, te hove: i kent Time with the chaplain, By G. Appleby Terrill FLECITRATES BF WIkhLLiaxwt MEADE The town clerk wis allent. He intended ‘bo give a sir prising. turn to the eanversa- tion presently, but there was not the least hurry. By his side was.an empty chair. His hand happened to be resting on the arm of it, Perhaps ones in every minute his eyes stole down the lang recm to the open win- dow which looked over Weyport and the gea. The light of the room was opprossively yellow, for the electric bulbs were draped in oringe alk and the dark old pictures were in heavy, gleaming, gilt frames; and out- side the window was an expanse of cool gray sea under a dim gray-green sky, athwart which was thrust a jagged shaft of mauve-gray cloud, the sharp promontory of a cloud mass, But it was not to rest his eyes with this scene that the town clerk looked towards the window. Sitting in the window recess, with a mov- able electric lamp by her side, was the girl who had oceupied the chair next to his— the big girl with the eun-tanned neck and sun-pecled back and the long, thick plait. af dark hair. She was ao member of the house- hold rather than a. guest. She was Mrs, Aforrit’s nlece, and had come down from Northumberland a month previously to make os long stay with her aunt. This was her first visit to Weyport West, The town elerk was forty-one; the girl wis just eighteen, From the day of her arrival the town clerk had felt tired of being a baehelor, The girl —unfortunntely for him—had felt wtterly tired of the dinner table. Not liking to leave the room without her aunt, she had compromised by settling in the recess. She was reading a magazine, with one eye: the other was temporarily musa tele owing to the reeent inn pavet of a cricket ball. Now ond npguin her eye roved to the sea, to the jagged, mauyvegray cloud cape. It certainty did not rove in the town clerk's directo ht The town ce: resh elgar, expelled i with something of PRINCE and took a letter fro pocket. "Tf you people have quite dong ing,”” he said, * isten to this, I this interest you. I got. it to-day." Haig the letter. “It's headed *Rue de Pay “aris, and, a9 YoU see, Cypewr money onlber far five alvilliniges ons Ea Now listen —— Oh, ahut up aTEuiNg, Get aboard the ship yourmelf, Buy al ing canoe and paddle out to her, Ly To THE TOWN CLERK, Werpont Weer, Essex, Exon) Dew Sirs | beliewe it is pot umceel te the town clerk of o place for bora) tion, Can you tell me whether Mr, ¢ ert Lydekker is still Uving at ke White Gate, Weyport West? As ape after to-night la uncertain, perhaps i} kind enough te insert your reply in | column of the (London) Morning Sta Eaturioy 6 ime. With apolegies. for troubling | cutent, Yours faltkfatpe GILDERT Basta The town clerk laid down the bette "Well?" There was a little note) citement in his voice. “Well, wh eomething to sayT™ Mra, Morrit surveyed him witha frown. "What is there to gay?" asked 2 "Quite o reasonable sort of letter, Morrit, after rumination, olen know a Fred Banthrop, farmer b & et,” The town. clerk smiled with a im aell~pride, “The name Banthrop has nothing! with it—in my opinion. Nell"—t Mornit—"T'll prompt you « bit § does ofd Charley Ladekker make aoe] of? Here's somebody wants to wee bit docan"t Uke te write him —* (Contitagd os Page 54) DUTCH BRAND FRICTION TAPE is the ermindard of qualicy.: It tea mistake to figiee that “rape & pene agticle whe cvatoriec bays shows aecater variation af qaalicy, Dwich Brand hat os wnuavally arrong and Cones foundation fabric, heavily iaprecurced with arith mbber compound. Te high adbesiveness, tenle streenctls ond eleccrical reslscamce and it doe mar dev out. 2-oe. cerben, lle; doc. Des Bees. Phe. 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Terante Tae Seal Saye Ps a Sica THE SATURDAY (Cotttiiwed from Page 57) "Oh-hl” erled Mrs. Marrit very softly, “Somebody who doesn't know who's town clerk here—I'm pretty eure of that— hat who won't send address ta Wey- pert, because by a remote chance some Person might puess that Gilbert Banthrop's ronal nme —" “Deere! Mire, Morrit breathed — “Derek Seaith!" “Trorek Smith,” said the town clerk with conviction. Away in the windew recess an eye oban- doned a magazine page with a jerk, and, very wide and blue and interested, dwelt sbeacily on the town clerk, En with his sulpect, be missed the pleweure of noting this. “Derek Smith," he said in. “That's who Gilbert Hanthrop is, I'd bot a thou. sand pounds on it, w do T shape aa a detective, Ron? “ Abenbute firat-rate,”” said Morrit slowdy, scanning the letter, which he had reach hed for, “Dhereke didn't de this slgnature—il I recollect hia writing. But T agree with you, This is from Derek," any wonder if be's altered much—in nine years,” suid Mra. Morrit. “Far and away the best-looking mao I ever saw, was Derek, “Here, I say!" -peeteriet the homely featured Aforrit. ee! There's aplte— over a few confounded Chinese stampa!" The town clark took a sip of wane. him, Nell—on Saturday ra. Morrlt looked puzzled again. But Spenlisa, whose expression had breare par- Geularly unaminble in the last half minute, lifted his ci E quickly from his mouth, “T wou His mustache twitched alightly once or twice—a sure sign that his temper was thoroughly stirred. “I would," he repented after a pause; “Td very much like to gee him, the blackguard; very much like the chance of Punching at him for a le of mindtes befare I handed him over ta to tha pollce—helping to swindle me, a pal, an old schoolfellow! [HT equld i got withis reach of Master Derele ——" ee pre y with anger, cog and actually ph leaned tow the town clerk, “Jimmy, I know what you're half thinkin af doing. You won't tell him that t's house isemply; that the ald bov's living in Col- cheater. You'll reply that he's still at The White Gate, And one night, probally Saturday, Derek'll come eneaking along re, and we shall be waiting for him. Dyn It, Thamy! You must!” Marrit whistled. “Poor Derek |" sald Mrs. Morrit. “Still it would serve him right—and how exciting for ws all! He never could stand against oi in boxing, vould he, Spen? Jimmy "— bes eyes lit engerly—"“a9re you going to do tithe town clerk toisted his win “T'm futher inclined to make t e rap- ture. . 4 For this reson. enpecialiy be added: “Derek's nerve and will, you may be sure, haven't last their trick of weakening on occasions: and [ think that Spen with his fiste or the hope of eeeaping with a light sentenes at his trial would per- sunde Derek to aay where the real sequn= drel of the plese, Lionel Gancdry, is at present. . What d'you say about this, Ron?" Morrit, with unmwonted seriotsness, heal- “Sheakl be plowed to sec Gundry caught,” he aaid at length. “But aa to Derck—well, he was one of us, Jimmy. Can't farget that when his people moved up north he lived! on here with his Uncle Lydekker just te be nears." “Tus to flatter his uncle," corrected! Bpenlias swiftly; i 1] cajobe the old yp into buying him a partnerahip in Gandlry's Estate Agency business; just to keep Lydekker in the humor to Lewes his money to Mr. Derek Smith." Morrit poured out a lbgueur, his mouth pursed, “Tent agree with any of that, And I often dowht that Derek knew anythin about Gandry's ewindles: anything at al beiore the night where at, elj andl pen, You can edid. I s1y—— Look bere inter the town clerk. “Tve been trying for hours to deckde whether to trap Derek or not. Aa I couldn't decide i Shodebt that the four of is should settle the question this evening: fn @& businesslike way. We don’t want cree and depute sropin W every few eeconds, peed, “Tell you what—and this should give us the praper EVENING POST atmoaphere—althaugh = ie all know as much as F know about Derek, I'll lay the Se ge yous fact, reer geared ‘OL cise with nt wire JBCUIBA it at the ena That done, we'll have o vote—irap or mot frag.” “Yes, yea! Thia is really thrilling!’ Mra, Morrit's other arm came onto the table; she clasped her hands expectantly. Spenliga Jabbed at an ash tray y with his ! Now, Nell, vote fra ap. one cout if abe Be. fo “any more than mmy's going to on the case oa there beni iting. want time to think, Go on, Jimmy.” The town clerk dey at his cigar. “Till midway through this month, nine years "be said, "we considered Derek, pais WE d known ‘all our hives, absolute atralght and lownest, We considered h partner, Lionel Gandry, honest, for that matter; but for eighteen months past, un known of known bo Berek, Gandy had heen ewindling wholesale, “Something was discovered, and late ott lant Unele Lanetcity told Derek that pial ¥ Gancdry be arrested in ihe rorning. It nad Toolish af Lydekker, for- only a ortnight J previously Gandry, at the risk of his own Li if, anyved Derek from drowning—you can keep your charitable regreta to yourself, EBpen. Don't inter- rupt. Of course what did onan oe His slipped off at once bo warn Gandry sein him to escape, Presumably Derek ac from sheer gratitude, eee whether in the awindles or not, he was in mo discernible danger himself, Gandry alone had ap- in the various transactions, mp sals 1h oement incriminating Derek was found, But Derek's move to help Gandry wos dizastrous, cc any pepe ties thelr bag ae i aagt Wan rooney in the wo policemen saw their light and, slispecting burglars, inveded the office, Dt pPrompily occurred to Derek and Gandry that these oe arrost ine Ty. ‘They simply Fe ites and chucked them clean down a fl stone atales—laid "en both very much out. And than Derek, in an understandable panic, went off with Gandry and a of ether people acnsh. A warrant wasstralght- inewed for his arrest, but Gandry and he ad vanished, and have rem ak Rr ishext oll these yenrs," The town clerk drew at his cipar agin. "The warrant charged Derek wi aault and—not unnaturaily—with ben no ceewindler with Gandry. Like Ron, doubt that he was, anell he became some sh like lton this night. Anyhow, Derek marty killed a policeman: he achieved tho Cigar. ‘ nye No afrap. Facts and surmises be an maid Morrit, pri af Lionel Gan , among w pes Were f ta the tune of three hundred and eqghty nds, Spen to that of geven hun a Ron nineteen bine dred, wes it, ton?" i ed Morrit 4 » “And” continged the town clerk, “ Derek undoubtedly shared that bag of lot, for he had to leave hie meee ee in the bank, What he's been dolng these nine yeurs—honest work, or picking porkets— we can't say, Rut whichever it is, he hasn't pros . The significance his letter is obview:, He's hard up: he wants te get money out of Ladekker, Ne probe ably communicntes with bis parents and sisters in the north, and knows exactly how furiously kik unele disowned oh and dis- owned them for speaking upon his behalf. But he belivwes that if he walked suddenly into the off man's room and held out ht hands in entreaty he'd be forgiven. So ha means to risk coming to Weyport if he's teld Lydekker's here." The town clerk leaned beck in his chair, “Any point Oe to? Kot Weill, what's the vot- ing fpenliss airuck a match viciously. ab't lask at me! You know mir woe,” ap Ront" Morrit shook his heud. “T say don'l drop." Spenliss smacked the mateh down in dis- gust. “Nell, say fra The town clerk Te ced gat Mre, Morrit and was met with arched eyebrows and a "T a'poee Fo ought to follow Fon's Irad, bt 7E would be tremendously interesting, went’ itt And Bypen's ao keen and ‘ra the real leader in this, ane 1 almiont ow how you'd like me te votre T vote rrp.” May 13, M922 “Here! Nell hasn't a franchise!" ex- thi irratsd Morrit, “She didn't Inse any Une be. Derek had a pound af mine Rina copa on a horse,” said Borie with oe ats two against icy fighty pounds?" “Unem—it's something F'm still sore about." The town clerk stared at hia cigar. “There'd be a satisfaction in landing the pair in jail—Derek and Gandry." “Thut no police on the scene till I've hae of pounds with Derek, mina that!” anid flisa. A smile, very Unpleasant, touched his face. “Derek won't feol like throwing police alent when I've finished with him, Jimmy, it's just strock me that you'll have to vote frap. You, as town cerk—and Ron, of course, a8 & Magis trate—"'Il bo neghecting your cuties: if you don't catch Derek," Mra. Morrit gave a algh of exultation, and the town clerk was unmistakably leased by the introduction of thie vlew- HE. “Wery well, Spen," he said, “Tl ——™" " Duties—rubbish !" intervened Moarrit. “Dan't vote that way, Jimmy. Vote with me. Step shaking your head! Listen! Make it two against two and we'll boss up to decide. Ee img, sae a anything of the sort," ordered Speniiaa. The town clerk hesitated, then, "Ta please you, Ron—ne frap,” With a certain amount of relief in his face, Morrit took out a half crown. " Fleada, Derek ian't Inberferod with; tails trap tba." “Oh, mind my dear table!" eried Mra. Morrit. The coin spun up and fell on the carpet. “Tails —froep,” said the town clerk: and Mire. Morrit softly clapped her hamds, while Spenlisa nodded in gratifiextion. “OF course, you mecdn't be one of the hot party Roo," be remarked, “if you'd refer —— "Ok, I" Lye eee: re not too rough with Derek. “May IT" whispers More. Morrit ec statically. . For ones Morrit snapped, “Certainly , mumy, you: — ees what's hee. hire. Morrit shragped. “T shall laugh if it isn’t Derek, or if he loses his nerve when he finds himself in wey port turns beck before reaching The te Gale. What a sell for you three, molding your breaths in ambush there!" “Pye thought of that turning back,” said the town clerk, “I akall bring a few more people into thisa—peaple whe knew Derek well—to watch for him on the ed_ee of the town and at the railway #talion. Unless he comes cleverly diaguised or hid- den in a moter ear, he wont have mich chance of retreat, once he's entered Woy- pore, Tet" —there was keen regret in his velce—"'yet T wish he'd let clip his address in London. We'd be so sure of him then, T suppose he's in London—some hotel, if he con afford that. Fity be hadn't a fa- vorlte hotel, back in the past. He might have pone there. The stall would scarcely roeollert him in connection with the Wey port affwir." “Therek with a favorite hotel!” said Spentiss. “Dissatishied prig! Did he ever stay gE thet sacri otel twiee? Did le ever discover that ‘quiet, comfortable Little place" he wha always saying be moant ta discover? The others shook thelr hewda. Away In the window recess, very wide ad blue and shining, an eve that had not rete Frown ibs Jong yur on af the tabu. Amid the black and varicolored patch which formed the environment of the other eye there woe now a blue, bright slit, slowly becoming wider. Of those at the table it was Mra. Morrit who first glanced towards the window recess—awiltly, after giving an exclamation. "Veronica, she sald, " Derek Smith, don't you?" ie chat Smith?” From the ine in which she had been abearbed the girl looked up uneorm- prebeolnely ¥. be used te play with you in Northomberland when vou were a kid— your mother often teld me. Surely you Promeriker 1* The girl pondersd—vainiy, [t woe ob Viow—ond lapsed back to the magazine. (Coantiaeed of. Page 67! you recollect

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fContinard fram Page 4) "Great hack {"" breathed Mra, Muorrit actoss the table. “Else she'd have listened to all we've said. Forgot she was there. Don't want her to tell her people, Talk of something different now." Tt was not from her slater, Veronica‘s. mother, that Mira. Merrit particularly wished their conversation kept. It was from the “conceited, aristocratic’” "father the distinguished athlete with “absurd notions" as to honor. His idee of atamp deal effected Mrs. Morrit as being “absolu tel mot ‘cricket,’ by which he meant “abaalutely mot aparting — not honorable," had iol to a forclarnecterl. tater Tel, in hon of the end of hich Veronica come on this visit. Veronica had inherited from her father all his lowe for outdoor et and some thing of his predilection for honor, though mot enough te render her talkative when Feticence was diplomatic. - Bhe put down the magazine, leaned back in the recess and netted her eyes—el them. One word, directed at the table, was shaped soundiessly by ber lips: wine She folded her arms. Dear old Derek! She amiled. What cheek she had in those days, always calling him Derek! She a short-frocked, bare- kneed, often grubby-faced urchin, with the ribbon bow oon her sea- water-soaked, Tat- chiow hair reaching littl: higher than his even in the last daye af their fiend- Couldn't she recall things viv- ae; ‘Her delight whenever Derek was in Northumberland vimiting his people nnd, a — - THE SATURDAY EVENING POST an old friend of her mother, visiting her e; her wanderings along the with him, when they cel dl searched the rocks for eraba and wondered os ey soci athe a rh trae tear maid of something equally exciting bayo the big black polnt. The euttletish! Her smile inereasesd. How istently she tried to get Therck manufactured by grin on the shingle, and how vehemently he ihn matter culminating in thet | flariowa afternaon when her father and ot hie tasthi with cuttde-poudet-charyed at his with a cu brush every ime he couldn't help laughing! And his nickname for herl That waa really humoroga when one recalled that thenadays she secretly very mach foneied herself of a pretty and graceful young person. Peshe had cut ber knee. While she sat on her mother's lap Derek plastered it for her. “Ls it very ?" asked her mother. od ath said d to theae leath sate an ing go, ee oe cae Ory, rheaten old knees? They"re just ike paid knees of a thinoceros I know at the ik, There you are, Littl Hhinoceros nbes And after that she was always Little Rhinoceras Knees to him, encore whee she WR. Biinos, Lt was jolly <difiey di eae | ve eal ethereal when you were a Rhinoceros Knees. Dear old ihe "e here was news of him at last! He had mannged to struggle throwgh the nine

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“tke Red Elephant i Blue Dealer MAHARAJA OF MUMBI wanted a Hed fant, So 4 other brand would de. The last Peery one he hed possessed had far ee cu rpassed allachersin Speed and Power, Hut he had broken thru the Crarage dear and left for Parts Unkoown. So the Maharaja dispatched 2 Runner to the Laeal E hint Dealer wath a Rush Order for Gre Hed Elephant—F. 0. B, Factory. Upon receipt of the Order the co her beaved a Heavy Sigh. His stock “Reda wae gone an he had not Seiceon Profits ween "e Large Enough an the Red brand. They lasred tao kong— Renewals were few. But he knew bow impossible it would be to offer the fda haraja any shade but Redin Elephansa, Now it eccurted to him that he knew of a Firm thar equld paint an oedinary Mack Elephant so matural a Red char . Nobody would ever notice the Diderence. Se it came to pass that the Maharaja received an Imitation Red Elephant. All was well uacil the Maharaja, who was a wse bird when it come to F lephorta, made atrial trap arn ae a lack of Pick-up in his new pee pon clase examination he found a black pie an the clephant’s back where the Hed Paint was wearing off, The next morning a certain Elephant Dealer was requested to dewore his Ener ee tt breaking up Stones for new Movie alaces. “That's enough to make any Elephant Dealer blue, For fF The Maharaja had learned the impor- tance of demanding the Genuine. Mr. Morerist, when you discover that a dealer has sold you a foregenuine part, your anger om no less than was the Maharaja's, But when buying Stewart He tere Parts, Fou Can probecet Fours lf by locking for the Red Tag. The Maharaja was unable to tell his product was counterfeit wneil after he had | used it. With Stewart Replacement Parts, you can assare yourself of them genuine- ness before you even purchase them, Genuine Stewart Parts are tagged for your protection. Be sare te Look for the RED TAG on all Stewart Replacement Parts, | = | Derek. Sho'd mu a THE SATURDAY years, and now he couldn't resist secking the hand that could lift him out of poverty, or something akin to it, into a decent posi- tion. And this precious quartet of his old schoolfellows — © wes disa inted in Uncle Ron, whom she real ¥ iked! Why hadn't he aquashexd that heart- less Mell—stopped the thing, instead of sliding into it? And this dows. qauriek, with thelr: camfarte and thelr money, were out bo sandr the helpleaa chap! Thank goodness, there were heapa of af circumventing them, even if they ai turn the whole tawn into a trap for peiee a For eee eee, ce SIT geMe nits =n Bat ce & Morning Standardo following: Denese —"GiLeeet Bantaner'’: Thot snipe of a town clerk is lying. Trap met. Keep right away. Ranga; would scarcely fai to warn Derek—or ta make re Ver interesting for Veronica in bie eronica opened the easily nitble and very amilingly studied t pended miss, now spread far aeToee the a However, the advertisement plan was a TRESve oe. nes she visualized a certain. afternoon which had come into her mine as soon as Derek's name wae spoken—an afternoon only a week before his High an We t. Her mother and Derek had lunched with the Pekan on; “Derek,” her mother aaid, “I've got te call on tivo oar three nie, Tho take Veronica somiwhere ake her to the PE iad * ejaculated Derek, are sane Ferplesity on ber mother's aed mae her there with the other rhi—— Ow The “Ow! "marked a frenzied attack by Veronica. But they went to the Zoo. Ag they were returns ¢ on topof a bus Derek pointed to the portbhes of a buildi an attractive por= ties of white pillars ant: las, with pote of flowers and clipped Bhruba that were like litte trees—these were in blow polished barrels— at the idee of of its flight af she “That's ray hotel," he asid; “nat ao big 1 yours, but a fine place to stop at, I dis- covered ib yesterday—mean to stay there always when I'm in London." Veronica peered. “There're peaple haying tea in the hall. Such a fascinating [1] hall, Derek, let's hove another tea—there.” Derek pretended to consider. “They're awfully particular about knees at my ho EK You mustn't hit persons in public! course We'll have an- wther tea, Bang the bell, Binge. Steady, ny. ll think the bus is on fire Veronica couldn't eat much, but the hall Was oven cate fascinating than it had Ap peared f from the bus. There were a black a kitten whe eame and made ends, and every minute or ao the kitten. wenalal ‘take 1E inte tts head to climb like lightalng up the trunk of a mininbare tree ich stood by thelr table. There were little children at the mext table actually tulking French; there was nicer soft violin muéic: and there wast oa sort of counter laden with the hugest boxes of chocolates — white boxe with orange ribbons, Derek bought her one, and, on w hint, endeavored ac pree the kitten. thy mummy, helpin the chacolates and expressing satiafuction that the kitten bud not nee for sale, remarked: “T think I shall i ite er th aed and dad are nothing to her, Ut's only Deere that matters, eh, Veroniea?” That was an exaggeration, yet Veronica’ 4 anguish g short time afterwards, when she heard that Derek had run away, that no one would ever see him again unless he were being led to prison, was terrible, The Veronien of toenight thought pityingly of the child who lay for hours moaning, al- niost stunned, in her nrumny's aren, ane who for woes thereafter would brenk sud- denly inte fite of desolate sobbing. Veronica, a8 a pchoalgirl of thirteen, had forgotten that a person called Derek once existed. But there came a summer a noon Wher from the tep af a London bus she saw a portico—white pillara and shrubs in polished barrels, The brea pei Waa drawing quickened, moking her chest a Tr mmember!"” she whispered. The kitten, the French children, the chocolate boxes! “I Lo remember!" she EVENING POST whispered again, and her sunlit afternoon turned dim with ree kare She twisted round in her seat bo p her eves on the portico. "What's itn name? Did I ever now?" She could-net discern 2 nome, “T'mm aorry [forgot all aleout you, Derek. won'k any more, now I've seen the—the Hotel With eyelashes flickering, she scanwed the house fronts for the nome of Che etreet, When she went back to Northumber- had Sioecranted Dercacast rai hore are photogragh a re nding ome in a Lond drawer, installed it on the drawing-reorn mantelpiece; weeaial Conia i he passed veral times in ensuing years 8 { the Hotel Remember; certainly aries pacer for the aight of it meant the ing af ine Bing e fread its name, but ehe preferred to know it by the name she had given it. She had aeen it inet a month ago when she spent a few bis in Landon on her journey to Weypa eronica shifted int the Window recess Teerek's careless nine CAs old— “Tilean ta atay there always. What were worth? The magazine, which had been gliding, fell. Mire. Morrit looked round. "Veronica, to-morrow's Friday, ‘You igs Api- surely?" wan't be able to play cricket for direws* ‘and it feels no bit hunny. I think I air run up te Landan tomxtow moming and let od Muirhead and ho one Bienen, dad's town doctor, tobe o@ stare at it. ee RONICA passed am the minia- ture trees in the hall of the Hotel Re- member, wondering whether in @ moment she would be retracing her atepa, horribly disappointed and drafting in her mind the precise form of sje congsbag te apie she would deliver ad fo at the Mornin Standard office, ae for the alock May bF, 922 disappittanent. Of ae Derek wouldn't be here. re wasn'k “A Mr. Smith, mmaddain 2" said the hotel clerk. “From Paris— —quite so." sigaliy teem a e paae oF} al his ister, ey Phage ert ea imi vening.” arrived Ane oe havitag been instantaneously wrought upon by bruised beauty, he bur- tied aside from bis register and moved for- wird a chair, “Df you will please be sew Iwillaendupword. What name, madam?" “Thurloe, Please tell him Misa—Veron- i a i =—no ont with her.” pperbe y—ulsowroughtupon—asaluted. is the gentleman, madam, just mag inp ae he amoking room. Pardon me ‘Tet rN, ee Veronica quickly, “I see— O. Fr Li at she went acrase the hall and ciughe fenagel of rod smoking roc ms it Wd. swin he room waa empty save for i itt tin back te here the tallish man with the neat head of brown yf hair, Noiselessly she came round the anne and rabselesly Jet it close. “Buay, Derek?” she asked. He tured and surveyed her. clean shaven as formerly, but there was an unexpected, slender furrow at erther corner af hig mouth, With his mouth shut rigidly, t with # atupefaction, that he could not he examined Veronica's features. Siutdenty there was wonder in his eyea— wonder with exuberant delight. "Little Hhinoceros Knees!’ Then in apologetic embarrassment he actually be- cunt i‘ “Veronica,” he earrected, holding her hands tightly. Veronica squeezed his hard. Her query, “Busy, Derek?" hed been a magnificent effort at calmness. Now she folt hot drib- bles from her evea going right down ber cheeks, curling under to her throat, She snulfied, Seeing that Derek used to kis (Continesd on Page of} Fmifiage

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(Coatinaatd from Page 28 | ' hes harder surely —— Gripping his she leaned forward and kissed ao dear child!" said Merely his lips denidedly aquiver, He cleared his throwt. “at beast, not ehild. Veronica, what a int a bea gira beauty you've grown inte! Saotl c ie Veronica. “[—T must be, since you can't help thinking so. But— no Veronica-ing. Stick to Rhinos.” “That [ won't!" said Derek emphati- cally. And then for quite a time sbood as me vane a heehed, amlling; their rangi. without a word spoken, from sparkling te almost wistful, from contemplative to almost riaboaus. "Tsay, bow much longer aim I going te keep you standing!" exclaimed Derek. “Came, let's ait gala er allowed in this I Fe out? hh, I don't Over in the window seat, Derek, Excise me.” Veronica produced a handker- chief and mop at her cheeks. “Tan't this fine!" sald Derek, sitting ise that he could face her squarely, aor don't think I'm reverting to criticiam, but the wonderful colorsthemeo! your cy —" “Cricket—=silly stroke of malen. bull came up olf the bet." Veronica put down her handkerchief and a pered her lips k looked, mee ejaculated: “Whit a arent it shame! Three of tho lavely ‘eu " tecth—botioma snapped off!" “Hockey, last March. But I'm going to have them crowned. I su pase lam mm and ; I've also a sarsreateat collar bone, ami if you feel thia ae What | a shame!" Derek repented yvehe= scary, running hia fingers tenderly along ““Tt's tremendously strong, really. night "—Veroniea took a breuth—"'T nearly jumped. oF and hauled that litth: snipe of a town cler —— I've a dangerous temper, you knaw “Town clerk! That sounds like Weppart West." His fingera on her wrist puwsed. Th furrows Enfl ie mouth straightened. With eyes aye PEP the blue eolor of but fa he questioned hers. reronice'a, ml Wat," he said again. ‘*Veran- lea, all at sen ag to how you found eyport— me. Did you pick up a clew in yesterday tT" “Tdid, Mr, Derek ‘Gilbert piling igd ne He naddod with a whimaleal grimace “Hue and ery on its way here?" “Certainly not! Your addres wasn't aerertaingble. Buta deputation of ald and venomous frionds will meet you at The White Gate to-morrow, if you care te go. * [ waa 8 bit ansdous to tell you this." ay fingers elid from ioe wriet to her palm. Veronica!” hoe said by way of thanks. eronkea swallowed. The manner in which he spoke that word was pretty allecting. “Spenlias wis going to maul : phe remarked after a moment—="if he could, and then—the police." "Plaid out a poor rofa bobby, you know—seriously, arcording to the news- ‘He's quite gat over it," said Veronien auertully. “He's to be epecially invited to The White Gate, Swveet-natured idea.” And then she withdrew her and swiftly. A white-haired, very amiable-looking old fentleman, with a newspaper and a ave under his arm, had come inte the room waaan old pentlenan of delightful tact tart: foe promptly he felt in his pocket for a for- Rotten pipe, and, looking more amiable than ever, eae ees Fined it, Veronica blushed fully misinterpreted his re rent. “He a eving to have me booted out,"" she observed. nyhow, before that happens I'll tell veacabnnt toes night.” She leaned sicdew to recover her hand- teers ire His oor, and atraightened On or great plait looped over her forearm. Getting the are in her eh and flicking at one of her pele th fal inch or two, she gave ieee es altogether cricket, was it?" she ended bitterly. | with a vicirus flick. "Ay own fault, 7 suppose." ere with his hands in his jacket ‘Jimmy was right about that cae I id to we twenty-five pounds.” He stared at THE SATURDAY “I -didn't think Ron.and Nell— ‘the floor. still, what do they matter, when Veron- fea ——I Veronica, I never once suspected that Gandry waa swindli And since pou ve ben strait oe eerie oun vE s ‘ though F doub Reed it!” said Veron- lea. A Den old Derekf Now listen?! I haven't aie explained haw T ware you a shade nearer, andl, leaning farwpad aud twisting the tail af her hair, told him. “So jolly glad we had tea that after- noon=at the Hotel | Remember,” aber breathed eventually— i and the abject with knees. I[ pot Hi f the kitten's still alive, We'll ask presently, Derek, keap your head as itis a second. That's how you ire in a pa l hove. Now have you really «¢ much? Ne; bit older, thinner, lines—don't know whether I like them or not—but, as some return for a compliment, eae nice eee Front hair's get a DO a Veronica's anor lightly he : ‘T'll EIFe WML Soe Pippy or that.’ “Anything to do with cuttlefish?” Veronica's smile well-nigh menaced him with ical violence, Pag don't appreciate my sclici- Appreciate!” His eyes, it seemed to Verne Were seannin her more than fondly — yearningly. perecsiate! My : nt ‘oly precld pba T appreciate! . , : eronica, I expan andry a week alter we bolted from Weyport, and ever since [I've beon living among strangers in Franen or Spain, bs making 1 ieaeaon > life, ereet tne ttle a teri On eaOnLe . Fait op tite that I've managed to put in with my people during the last few years; divine little af—of being with those who care time. It's one of those a vet with somrething—I can't quite what—with something strangely different in if, that you're giving me oow, Veronica, sith there rie fl thy Hower-print dines, wit as white filmy scarf—grown up, remem- Hie Sea had ¢ e somewhat queer, He @lanceld away. Veronica saw hh elida tremble, Her own immediately followed i¢ muit. “Tf the sun hed taken all the skin olf sony reaaiers eat do want to wear a filmy searf,"" ahe said gaspingly, and that set him laughing. “Ebd Qir pone be didn't know Mr. Litdeke- ker had left Wi port?" she asked pres- ently, He shook head. “And they didn't want ome to risk to him. But I am chauparstieely ha with no pects. oeresh bad of him. Pia like to sony him.” ec his aidrome: Yet— sau mustn't chester, ! Os GoSyNri tees are qpulte oe ee having his: lense watched, when i don't turn up at The White Gate.” Veronica ponsively stubbed her chin with the plait end. “Look here, Derek, [Hl go and see him. © don't mind if the conepiratora do find out; they shan't fallow me here, I'l fix up an interview for you, even if Mr. Lydekker isn't—well, al- agate in favor of it." She her inte the plsit end, spreading it like « i ky shaving brash, and smiled. "T can be peruasive when I ‘aca. Deerek's furrow-eornered] mevuth had been very firm, but at that he chuckled. hen his mouth stiffened agnin; but the finmness in his face was lees than the ten- derness in Lt. “Veronica, dear, | won't let wou go. I won't have you mixed up in thet way with—with a fellaw like me: a sert of eniminal, Why, it hardly seems a keep you here with mee for—for ——"* there wasn't any firmness in his face tesa Rather weakly, af fact, he held bis han towards Veronica, “You won't go for an hour oF tea, Veronica?” “Hour or twol" She gave his fin “I'm going to slay wit eins Hit eevee alx-aoenekbl nig train to-night, W I nar We'll disegas Mr. Lydekker some other day. Fut—T wont to know this: How much money have you altogether?" “Fifty pounds. Not a great Int, after nile years of language teaching, but some thing.”” Voronica gaye a sigh of part relief. “Twins juat a serap afral vere ihc to your last five-pound mote." She opened the vanity baa beside her. “E brought up a upe in cian Derek nodded his head alowly several times, EVENING POST » “You dear!" be said, repeating the term “You al ou might take care of them till te night.” Veronica leaned acroce and d a small PML into his side "And af these’ A pink manicure ern spare handkerchief, and three or four half rab followed the . “I'm always posing tain out of this wretched . I've & trick of giving it an absent-minded whirl Found—nearly welted a man on the nose this ma ; but he waa awfully nice about it, nd now what shall we da? ch, inquire about kitten—what then? | Lum BAY, let's go bo abruptiesa she stop “Derek! areal RA YOU cpl alge ri et you!" anyone from Weyrport met you CNet a chance [mn a million,’ he an- awered, taking her possegsiona from his pocket and studying them before putting ST eer based tee Wenger a alee a gixpenny ar Weypart—at n Tn daylight it'd cause a crowd to collect.” Veronica come close and linked her arm with his. “TH you were arrested when I was with aot aareele Lahould die," she said tremulously, Tio seerly “T don't look like it, tnat au He pressed her arm. “Not vou! You'd load up that te hag and welt—and I expect the would be ‘awfully nice’ about it." Veronica looked doubtful. “Twas going ss Fee Ba “let's go to Lords and That Sela be vpbeeia rer a | feel that you were safe from Weyport conspirators there. We should be among cricketers aniy."" A teach of eonscienes or mischief scfily: "That old geatlenan whe fosgot bin . "That old gentleman who pipe just now was a bit of a ericketer 1 a “ Heeause he didn't have you booted owt! mae it likely be would?" asked the obtuse rir N. ONE of thos. narrow stonewalled lanes which fun between teo rows of With extraordinary her face You Sore about in the back dens of old Hampstead boss were Veronica and Derek, three weeks ds. They had been on the heath. | Really, were hurrying now to find a taxicab to take them across London to yercaie train; but under the spell of the lane they were motlonkess—very com- pletely in each other's arma. Peeaibly the kro abd pr Prep Gad as on two | reviows occasions, had it not been for a midden but somewhat stealthy gratln hoof a garden door within a yard t] There was a lightning Labi af their lips, a generate 19 ai ear the re rceheettod ot a te, “TE know we'te being stared after breathed Vergnica. “Beastly neipartinel Deo leok back, pte ki slipped He obeyed, an ni his arm slipped round her, and, turning, he turned her with him. The ands tartie for a rough- haired whiteand-black terrier whose och- vious sentiments were pride in his ekill as saat epener and benevolent interest in them. “My dear, we mustn't a ba protested Voronica as Derek brought her laughing face bo his, “Well, there, a there! Slow come,” ‘She her hands against him, and ance forefinger af the left was in a eplinted bandage, having been fractured in a recent cricket match against men—for whoae blood Derok thirsted—he yielded before it instantly, for fear af hurting | ca “TL simply mustn't get late again,” aald, her other hand in his ss they a athed | on. "TD believe Aunt Neil'd a her | temper this time—invite me toc all to Northumberland. are pretty tense — I told herwuse my bwier=n-wer trips to con. Still na suspicion of yeu, af course; mo thought" —Veronlea grinned — “ne thought that the noble conspirators owe me thanks for six diza ae eva ninegs at The White Gable ond bona af per- plexity. Deor Jimmy —I've been proposed ta—dear Jimmy, the snipe, is still rheu- maticky from exposure to an emply house, ou'll be desolated to hear. However" — eronica looked contentedly at their Beidy Hise a now a distinct caspian of 8 else—this sort of thin me i bape I'd better tell you. I don’t think Nell would have let me come to-day if Unele Ton hadn't wanted me to go to the sale ja Like”. r Jaunty and youthful ) are the new Tams, ) fashioned from | Waterside “Suede- The soft, supple texture of ©) “Suede-Like” is just } right for Tams and its durability insures | satisfactory service. At good stores every- ) where, Tams of Waterside “Suede- [7 =| Like" are obtainable 99) crisp, new colorings. | Tf your dealer does Pi als Ce tor Tl ie Tes Sin a wide range of Gi | not carry Tams bear- 797) ing the “Suede-Like™ label, send us his name and $2.00 and fall we will see that you | are supplied. State color preferred.

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Enafanstty een led by vecuurm Released by took aif-vene valve, Satin or Pollsied Silver, Polished Nickel af Capper. A Seat weerplable gift. Sold by leading Departement, Drug, Lardware, Jeweiry. Sporting Gonds and Auto Accessory Stores. rite for Free Miu. tuatrated Bieodkter SS eee ALADDIN 815 We ka Lake hat Inc. ao, 1, Pleaw som me Pree Boollet aboot Skohlin Thertnabware Jame acd Deeties, Sly Caaler’s Hore Sarr: Pd tes THE SATURDAY deposit for thea papers af hia. You've got thern all right, Derek?" He showed her a large envelope in his pocket, In Fitzjohn’s Avenue they hailed a taxi. Derek"s tone, a8 he told the driver to close it, was aomewhat biting—te discourage a smile. Tt could not be explained to men. that the sole renson for seclusion was Veronlea’s terror that while drove through the streeta sormeone from Weyport right cateh sight of him. Veronica, set- tling within Derek's arm, waa allent during the rush downhill, Then: “T'm having a little look at some of our difficulties, dear. Tere's a Lydekker nhroad—we doen't knew where, You've only fifteen pounds left." errors lifted her hand that he might seo a ring—= whith would be slipped off of sha or reached Weyport, and alipped on again tn her bedroom. discredit the reprool Sle put the ring to her lips, "Only fifteen— though I've teobre to odd to that. And I can't endure you Go go back to France without. me, or to have a cheaper room than. at the Hotel Remember—which has meant ag much tous, Dye a jolly good mind to ask dad to help oa." Then she drew a breath and laughed gently, “It is strange to remember that when [ was a kid you were a T= EF friend of His, a sort of extra father to me, whilet now''—she looked round at him and her blue eyes shone— “whilst now, to mc, you're just my own SEC. me denr—my dear!" Their lips came together. "Don't ask dad.” Derek's arm tightened about fer, "its frst concern weld be to tnke you from me." He falsed his bend rather unhappily. “Poor old Tom, what a thundering cad I’ve been to him, snaring his daughter inte loving me—me! "For ever—ond she didn't require any sharing, thank you,’ ‘said Veronica blithely. "he for cad" —her yore went low—" dear, haven't you utterly refused to lot me do what dad and mum might—might hava some excuse for feelli hurt about? Wouldn't I run away with you this eve- ning, to be married in France, to be to work every minute af tem ? Wouldn't Ti" She laughed suddenly, int baccite con ingly. “There! I'm re bemeing you again to tnke me, 7 vant | want to go. Of eourse""—teaa Patt L may not deem worth taking, all mended up— | He ited her to him. | “Tfhonky I could aay ‘Come along’! ha whee . “But there're not only dad and mum to consider, and—far above rag ie the present Un involyed in such 1—e pracoeclng: eres you of the future, my wile, won't keen you In exile! [want you to live in England with me—openl : frm of any fear that I shall be meres ' He hesitated, “Veronica, if I were arrested now and found nat pullky of having & hand in Grandry's ae and rmomat oprobably thet would happen—I shouldn't get a long imprisonment on that bobby"s account, after nine years. That imprizonment would sweep away a fot of our difficulties, We couls it foe peaple ao boldly! Dear, there's a peesibility that I niay get several vears, but I think that when we've had a few more days together T'll surrender te the police." Almost frantically Veronica grabbed at him—with ber leit hand, burting her finger and whipping tt back with a gaap an fey iors hl “Nol nol nol" she entrenteL “Oh-h, promise!” With the hand between his palma, striv- ing te comfort it, muttering reprowches at hirneel!, be promiged fervently, | The taxi brought them to Liverpool Street stathon two and a holf minwtes bes fore Veronica's train, at a remote platform, wns to lenve, Derek was never allowed to emerge fram the taxi in this neigh bor hood, Verouiaawung out—and faced the Interior of the cab before both her feet were on the ground. “Nearly forgot!" she ejaculated, “Quick, alll ey rel a in your pocketa—Hon‘s papers —she tucked the envelope under team" parse, bunch wf okeys, What? THida't T give them to yout Ob, they're in the bag with all these moldy pennies then, What a weight! My finger brick, | plense. Moremaney? Can'twait, Good-by, | dear! You shall see me sprint." She darted, awinglng bark: ler shanty | bag in a gesture of farewell a9 ele aweryed | bute an entrance “Hang! She'd welted someone: but | neither to apologize nor ta pick up the ' couple of pennies, undouk btedly bh her own, EVENING POST which dropped in frant af her, could she pause, She waa lifted into an empty first- class carriage of the moving train by a gallant——and master insects and, amilling happily, she relaxed in her deep com- fortable seat and reviewed the latest da with Derek, oongh presently theif As cullies arrayed t wea formidabl her mind, her is did not change. iy i culties—tah! Didn't Derek eo mipenaate ten thousand timea over for dificultica— for all the difficulties in the world! Tha great, benutiful, tired = gitl—excitement, rush, and a throbbing finger hed teld on her—sank -lower in her corner, with ber bi on the eailing of the compartment. er lids deicged. She half doze. Then her eves flew eee and she laughed gayly. _ That nice ticket examiner at the barrier just now—how fortunate that instead of adking to vee her theket as she whirled by he had devoted his voice to a desperate en- deayar to prevent the train from starting! Her return half ticket was in Derek's Walatenat pocket. And then her fase he- came a little anxious. Fancy if Uncle s keys were in Derek's ‘ket! Shae wasn’t rel all sure they weren't, She tonk cay bag. Fon had given her hia bunch licate keya that morning; for the his safe ae a“ as was on it, and Key was finding trowbbe in ddtarhing it, and Yeronica was ty a hurry te be of, She wr hand her bag on to the seat, swept her hand scatteringly across the pile of elds and ends, and said “Hotheration!" There! She had known positively that Derck had the keys. This was a trifle uwkward. Still, what did it matter? Tt wee only one mare dificulty—a tiny, tem- porary ane. She lay back again and thought. . . . Uncle Ron was dining out-—wouldn't be hore tllehe hod gonetebed. Ripping hack! he she had told Derek to go to a thea- —bo have a bright evening. He wouldn't te back at the hotel till H vaca Bally Tuck! Tt would be a risky business lang- distance phoning hire from unele's library at that hour. Ah, sha ate pr Derek. She would ring up the hote ently from Weyport station—give a pane gage to be repeated to him aa soon aa he roturmed. He must send her the keva by miiaenger, first train in the morning, That was settled! With something bet- ter than keya to think about, Veronica drow off her ring, kept it against her 1 for a while, and then, slipping it on ey threadlike gold ehaln around her neck, dropped it inside her blouse. i Ving next mor firat renlization, on wak- a next morning, was that it waa rain- hata driving against het window— , open top ond bettem! Dresin ae was eure to be soaked. Couldn't And then she heard 3 knocking at Bap oor, and called “Tullo!” “May T apem ibi" ~ Why. ene in, Unele Ron. It's all EE “What a sleepy-looking Her wncle’s amile was pent - thera was something unusual in hia face. He wos untidy too, He had not shaved, or brushed hair, and bis eollar and tie were in a wonderful muddle, “Had a good ten-hour snocnet He sank his hands i into th seeder i aay, herouies ase duplica keya of mine i Silene, “LT left them in London. They'll be here directly." MMorrlt made a semewhat rueful grimace, “They've been here already—to Har- hour Strent, at least. They've unlocked the Bide dear ot the offier, onlacked the stran boxes ad one of the gales, and departed with about five hundred pounds in notes and eighteen hundred pounds’ worth of BSCE tes — wobobly did the job in five minutes.” He moved towards the window. “It's a particular nuisance about those ae- curities, They belong to a friend of mine.” Veroniea, otth pa recollection of having tummed over, discovered that she was lying with her forehead on the plow, ae her mouth strained open and the fingers of one hand heoked hard aver her lower teeth. Bhe bit deliberately om the fingers. The in made her writhe, She took away her Phy | “TE ena’ ll go down to the library,” she muttered—"“ give me a minule— bo calleet thoughts—and garments, TIL come.’ As the door closed she hoddled her hands, splint bandage ond all, benenth ber May f3, M27 chin, stretched to her utmest, and lay Tigid, testh clenched, eyes mat, ist After o spoce she remarked huskil at ~ ou'd known how jolly bad I = op ‘feel, rek, [ doen't believe you could have dome it." With o vicious twist she out of bed. She fastened an a white skirt, slid into o blue kimone, and, barefooted, hair is sundry plaits, went to the rary, allt cold rage in her eyes, and, ms it a falter in her voles —for. a Hime, "IT waa with Derek Smith yesterday," she said, sitting down. “I've gone up to see him-—alwayn.” 3 Uncle Ron's foes expanded. For an long his lipa were folded, and then ke blew onpediv. to tell your aunt," he said, “She! d only make an “To waa in. love Dit tes; till five minutes ago.” Veronica fingered her ring. “Tm sorry if it's o wicked thing to say, but IT do wish [ had died just before knocked on my door this moming.” Her breath came in a violent heave, Unele Ron looked at the ting. He moved over to ber. She felt his Bid on her shoulder, “Ttisroughanthe child, So Derek had the keys? eH She nodded, “We'll let the matter drap,"* oF. Staring vindictively at the carpet, Ver- onica turned and turned the ring. Her Iner began to flush. been kind to anid Uneln “Wewon't. You've aly mé—incredibly kind in this minute, and i heen aidi ith him againat you. I ban him out of The White Gate trap.” You—you ——"" Unele Hon stuck, awayed her sents vith hogs bompetal hand, aad then roared o r : ke. “TI by ——" He laugh phi t. “Think- ing, of Spen,” he explained. he was sill speaking, her volee oddly "Tem, siding with Derek Ww you now, chan't have your money and things if I can prvetne ik. Derek's weak"'—ahe ram= bled a litthe—“wenk, you know. Oh, of cturse you knew that. I anw it the frst e thought [ oughtn't to be with him, bat but he let me stingy 2... Weak— but only when lt suite him. He wouldn't take me to France — Unele Ron's hond jumped. “My dear, T haven't looked after youl" Lhe was tremendous consternation in his Tie wouldn't take me, becnusp—of enurme—he didn't want me, dida't lowe me. He was just lying ta me, just weakly mak- ing pretense to love, , Lsuppose, he liked it He mig ht have remem—recob lected Ewes such heaps younger than him- self... . Then his money was going: there were difficulties, So when the keys gave him an iden he weakly ylelded—proferred ppata Ba me. That's how things went, Unele "Her right hand moved to the chair arm; her nails began te work inte the wood. “There's no reason to let Derek of; he's treated me pretty ——" Her brenth came in another great heave: she nodded at the telephone. “Hing up the police or whatever're the Fide a Til te] you the name of kis hotel—in a second. ell have left there now, but it may help them to get on his track. Goon, Uncle Hon. I mean jt.' “0 ita’t to Int him have those securj- ties.” Het unele walked to the telephone. “Weyport fourteen," she heard him say. That was the town clerk's private mum- her, waen't it? So the arrest would be organized by that little sx —— Her face sank between her hands: she n to ery silently, duzed|y, She heard nothing wit distinctness save presently her tnele's request for the hotel name, which she gave him, and, ages afterwards, the telephone eel as he Tang of. Then she stood up very suddenly, ond made a step. “Upstairs.” she pantedd. “Feel awfully queer —can “t brentio properly.* "Here!" vocifera Morrit, aprin from his ehair. “A great prize-fighter aie you toubkin’t faint if— Deuce! whet o amas ht "= gone!" "Feel pretty sewsick," admitted Weron- iva, an hour anda half later. White, ringed about the eyes, atill in her kimono, ahe sat with Unele ton by the telephone, “ Bot." ehe added, “LT won't le down again till we have some mews,"" (lontvaad of Page 85)

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sus anavenl aks tolegtuay ir bar ie relhe@ 8 ata tele et lap: * Haven't So sorry. Will search on ecseart Shall [ advertise loss? D."" eedin"t have up ono big lin, sea” he?" she asked. wearily. “For ha cn “tintend to brazen itout.” She looked at the telephone, “What a time they are elein ks rt he's got away.” ore than likely, said her uncle. “Aunt Nell wae very decent aver it, ae t ae think?" telephone bell raced. Unele Ron rocked fs aor. the reesiver wT Well?” He listened for a while. ht! See you dineetly."" He put back the euainece “They got him, Veronica —at hotel," her bead. Uncle : bo the pele She nodded, Ron. turned. impatient Ln — wMarting when he hung up the to ring. He jerked Ana i receiver honk, The bell raced on. “Gant they understand [ve rang off!" ie et up the receiver, “You—Ex- BOrT ys bbe Se, ith in biegee ah} Oh, Cal "Veronica, with a further interest in the hone, stooped and pulled at one of the en alippers on her stockingless fect, od got up Bi minute, ™ Dnecle Ron aabd to her, the receiver at his ear. Soon alter he apoke ite, the waephone. “Very mmart of your police. thanks. {ll motor right orer, He rang off, looking at Veronica. He tad lest color considerably. “The Colchester police ——"* he sald. But she moved her head in appeal. “Tell me later. I couldn't understand now." Ome of her feet turned over side- vays, and back, over and back, nervily. Her blue eyes had a heavy stare. “I feel ie if" "—she ber fingers across her pes— “os if [ shan*t ever understand any- Lilnge is pane numbed me, belng so shamefu She breathed hard through her nostrils. ‘Oh, Dereki" Unele Ron stepped over and took her “TM. Ae Bie eatoacien nine hone tr. Ne ail mind, 7 hae pieacka a rare af things. T Coleherter gern Tang up to say that tey'we just collared a mon who has m the securities an ie bunch of e confessed ip ing at omoe. pr raid origin e eound in Liverpool Street station, read te office address on the tab, and took the ee ‘clock train to Wi hen the pennies out—I gave ameone mo end of a welt!” Veronica loughed , ond then cmomed, rocking in her uncle's handa, shieh had rip her sai the elbows. “Whoa l’ Uncle Ronshock her. “ Attend tome! Derek’tl be free ino or twol Pree ! Undereene that? He shall come be- le the Wey pa rates—before mel I'l take a silhee mek beth ien"t tedled with chet only be that police EL busines “hat"ll be get far that? A pltry few ae Understand?" But Veronicas had quite ceased to under- -_ Te ok ey Teton Mosatiier, From ao dmoll Aree of fachroa's Lobe, Wyoming ——— THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 65 Lincle Bon laid her on the floor and shouted, “Well!" ERONICA ated amid the miniature trees in the hall of the | Remem= ber, with her eves on the entrance doorway. kitten of vore, etout in these days, urred somnclentiy yet anticipatingly at for fant . The arriv Veronica moeont cael a Hate of really chofce viandsa would present he laced pei ue Lanta appeared, Veronica apa one glance note the commencement of the meal; then her ores went bark ta the doorway. wis coming here to meet her, stralght from the fourteen days' imprison- ment which had been his sentence. She had not seen him since that evening when she left him outside Liver Street ata- tion, that evening before his arreat. She was now facing, in her own phrase, a de- oer strenuous sort of moment. In fact, to foot she waa in a quiet esky She had sg ai altting room in the was within. oc eemeice distance of if as che waiter, she could retreat to it forthwith but believing that Derek would be fright- fully disappointed if be didn't catch sight of her as soon os he reached the threshold wf the boll. Naw and again her quiverny fingers touched her hair. [t was “up for the first time in honor of the occasion. Two taxis stopped qutside, Wouldn't be Eerie isk Lh ‘Thera lei ih lite Sizpiien! manila a heeraee pce wae Derbi: Aine: to z peat we line at her, wie his e and ncing. a a sign ond nipped inte = nie roam. Derek, following her, the ee queklys for Veronica, her iene arms across her "Nhe Saying in gree great Gee she sand the {ok that Tete hand finger, and then parting the arma let them fold a gether again behind his head while his cheek pressed against a bot, already soaked cheek. Whiapering, enaselTe, hg that she would make him cry ae well, be strove te cake A eo tk to brace her body but seeming boda on Pg oni Me best in this streas—againet the shock of her soba. Fairly soon the sobs grow rage ie grew gentler; but minutes genni bal are @ co Pent word came from Veronica. "Swine—l am! Treacherous swine! Derek! Ob-h, Derek, why don’t you fling me of —detest me?" He wiiepered § many reasona, and after a little she moved her head and with a sound that would have bean a groan but for hap- fitees in it revted ber lipa an kh “But to think—of what I did!" She had i pat back her head. ae were welling Deen a culty th me in I at's mel" retorted Derek enthusiastically, » “Think of that, you dear love a A smile wavered into her face at inst. "There's another § diffculty—neaorly gone." She beld him etill more tightly, with her cheek to his. “Wery nearly gone. Dad—he's coming here dicecthy. 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i THE SATURDAY Whole grains steam-exploded. Puffed to & tirnes normal size. One at Night One in the morning Make these all-day-long delights Puffed Grains are the supreme breakfast dainties. cereal food mace hall so enticing. But that isn't all. Pufled Wheat in milk is a matchless dish for luncheon or for supper. Puffed Rice, crisped and lightly buttered, is an afternoon de- light. And on desserts, like toe cream, it tastes like bubbled nuts, Think what puffing does — Puffed Grains are made by Prof. Anderson's process. are steam exploled—shot from gums, Every food cell is blasted. Over 100 million steam explosions are caused) in every kernel. Digestion is made easy and complete. the whole grain is fitted to feed. Thus one pets whole-grain nutrition—?G mechal clements. All can be assimilated, —SE———————————————— SS See Never was They Every element in Puffed Grains are tidbits, Aimey and flavery., The texture is like snowllakes, the taste like toasted guts. But, above all that, they are scientific foods— the best-cookerl cereals in existence. Let children eat all they will. Puffed Wheat Puffed Rice Mex With Fronts Jn Your Soups Airy, toasted wale rh, These toasted baibbles ack ever trady a nut-lke blend | The Quaker OalsGmpany sole Makers ou have enough EVENING POST May 15, 1922 OUT-OF-DOORS The Camper's Coffee O ME the moat important item of food on a camping oxpedition is coffee, There is nathing quite so stimulating or warming a good cup of coffee in the morning or ies you are tired, There ia nothing in the world so bilge laggy en a bad cup of coffin, Radly made coffee always makes me sich. Tr the woods there ia a long-standing argu- rent as ta whether coffee or tea ia better for a men after physical exertian, Per- amnally IT prefer coffee. [ believe that a majority of woodsmen, except in the far north, will agree with me, Up there they insiston tea, Df you aver tasted the watery stufl they brew a¢ coffee you would alse insist on ten, Un one trip in Nove. Seotia the Indian guides tried to please us with coffee one morming. Just one taste and we drank tea for the reat of the trip. Every guide up there carries a teaketéiles on his hack. In stinetively he sees to know Just when you are getting tired and suggesta building a fire and “bilin’ kittle."" We grew to like this, but my, how we did enjoy o cup of rea] colle on the train when we a eouth! f have found that about one man in fil knows how to make g onto, will take a chance on aaying that about the same parcentage of families have good enilem at their homes. I don't know if this in die to careksinesa of to the fact that they do not know what good calles ie. Tt requires very little more trouble to make good caliee than to muke bad coffer, Ina camp, of course, it is net practicable ta have drip coffee or to wae a percolator. But there are other ways, The main idea is to buy a very good blend of coffer te start with, and then we plenty of It. That old idea of using one tablespoonful of ground coffer to cach cup won't abraya work, I've often wanted to know who started that tradition anyway. Tt may do for some peaple, but it doesn’t suit me, I'yo found that it didn't suit the fellaws with ma either, A better pee ja to keep on waing ground color untu you have enough ta make ik as strong aa vou like. When you think I would even sug- gest that you use a littl: more. HH you think it too strong for your health, why, drink bes of ft, But don't spoil the caller. Others may mot beso particular about their health, A smell cup of coffee is much bet- ter for you than bao or three large cups of sweetened, muddy water, One of the best ways of making coffee aver an cee a fire is ter fill thee pot about three-quarters full of cold water, Pour in o cuplul or two of ground coffee, covering the water until you can no longer see it. Let this come to a boll, The moment it starts to boil over pour in a few spoonfuls of cold water with just a bare pinch of salt. Then et the pot to one side and bot it simmer, It will settle at clear as wine, e longer it stands the stranger it will be i SHOU) eset traces of the oil of eofee on to oureap you may know you have as Never heat coffee aver or use the per asecond time. Alwaya make it fresh and have the pot clean. That's the trick, By weckiont we discove another good way cuce while on a boat, We had put ground coffee in the bottom of a pot to eave trouble in the morning. In same way @ litth: water hud got in the pot, and the enfee had sealed all night, until the grains were swollen, The next morning we poured in eld water ani boiled it in the wun] way. The seaking had drwwn the substance from the coffee and it waa delicious, There is still another method, commonly employed nraune fishing shacks, I do mot think it issu good ad the others, but Lt bas the advantage of speed, Place a cup and a, half of ground coifer in the bottom of a pot and pour in enmigh boiling water te cover it—just at the moment it begina to boil. Let this set, and then pour in mare hot water, Sometimes it works well and some- times it doesn't, You'll have to gamble, The tiny bit of salt helps any eoflee— gives it a tang or snap. But don"t use too much. If in doubt don"t use it at all, T certainly weald like to ser all the cmp erm have a good time this summer They'll do it. bo—it they use plain conunon sens aml doen't try to be Daniel Boone in two ) weeks, Mange ia Doge H* your bird deg or your house dog picked up a case of mange? If 20 » toa good veterinary. Tf you have none ps one oof the standard remedies, You ¢an perare profit by a littl: knowledge of treatment. An English veterinarian’: book recommends aulphur, twa ounces lard, two ounces, carefully rubbed in, 4 stubborn case would perhaps do better on oe ounce oil of tar and oventy ounces of whale oil. Red mange, the askin diseas which vee @ ped tint to the hair, is bes ieee. the bellef of that veterinary, by ath application of one ounmee of ail of juniper and four ounces of glycerin. The standard American. bea are peel, Tt 6 ho we te treat a deg for mange un- less you treat ita bed alao, Scald out t= kennel thoroughly, When dry, swab in with a solution of an ounce corraive publimate in a gallon of hot water. Move the dog to mew quarters if possible, Silver Trout eee we do not lack in improve ments on Nature. A sporting journal Poings out that a considerable amount of the soscalled sllver-trout egga were in proc. eaa of shipment to Eastern states by pov. ernment suthoritie: in exchange for the af the brook trowt of the East, The writer of the article is an aogler of the state of Washington, ahd cautions Eastern stock- era againat having anything ta do with the silver trout of the tributaries of the Colum- River. I do sot know this fish, but its sald that it is a pygmy gale, whoar length when mature is only ain or eight inches, and that the fish is utterky devoid ef any talities, “As a game fish for a sportsman,” he gaye. “I should call him o dat failere, and asa food fish for real gum fish bher than a failure. For such purposes a fish should be Bon corn abiiive with the fish that he is intend indians 6 pint out ai these silver trout “gat all the Thee hae per Jaa ¥ er trout in lake, ‘The £ the ges See thts fish ine eon aig water orthwestern epuntry, where they fish for the larger native trout. The West orm writer is the belief that Faster en ought te beware af ex this neers because the int a strange jet Goighet be quite hurtful rather than helpful. The name of the silver trout is sihariee: and it aes tom bad that the eraature cannot live up to its eegno- men. Look before you leap in stocking a stream, Be aure you know what you wart iments wcticon af The Trophy Supply WE taxidermist firm in an Eastern f city—nok one of the largest of Easterr, cities either—reports the past year aa the banner vear in the entire bite of the firm. Jt received for mounting, Gunning of other treabment o total of GOST pi The oener thinks that this year will run fifty per cent higher in totale. There were 768 deer cua, M0 deer hides, 81 bear hides, 150 fox skins, and o great omeunt of other anaalier game. This firm recetved for mounting a bald engie with a wingsppesd of ais feet five inebes which, incidentally, was taken by a hunter poisoner in South Dalota, On the whole, it would seem that the demand on wild life for furs of every de seTiptian is ter now than ever wa keown, and there are more wholesale CLM: palgns Of peloon, side hints, vermin cam- Paigns, and the like, being waged reve thar ever were known inst all our wild game animals. We would bave all the game we really would need Lf the game had wny sort of a chance. Of course, these tremendous figures on the part of taxicdermists indicate ah aboormal amount af killing, rather than anormal amount of game supply. The last year of the buffalo on the Western plains tured out more hides than any other year in all the skin-huoting days, The next year there were pone. In one trade paper I notiee In one col- umn eight advertiements of poisons for use ber trappers, This poison ides seems bi have spring up within the last three or four years. It laapreading very fat, under Taational @Overnment encouragement. Aint civilization wonderful?

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST EVERYBODY’S BUSINE) ? By FLOYD W. PARSONS Color WwHet ig bt in the nature and tempera- ment of certain Tacea that makea at prefer certain eqlors? Why do Grien- tals select clear rich colors, and HL Lge diaplay a marhed preference for brilliant hues? Centuries ago among the anclenta were schools af calor, Green was dedi- eated te piety, black to intellect, white to inspiration and gold to understanding, average person Tremaine faithful throughout life to the colar or colors he firat preferred. In other words, certain colors attract certain individuals. People respond to color as planta do te the sun. @ are told that the colors of the surrounding land- acape influence our lives by creating in ua eertain types of thought and ert fad da grees of mental and physleal activi r plant would be seriously injured by being subjected to the same of light con- tinuewly. The same thing is tree of on individual, and for that reason the average person benefits ora ged through a change of environment which surrod hima with # new and different set oie color waves. The city dweller who goes to the country and the ruralite who visits the city are likely to respond faverubly to the changes in sur- reinding colors. The progress of civilization representa a slow advance from an understanding of almple truths ane Semis principiss bo to ah attempt to master ight and electricity. how come te the science of color, which subject presenta a field af interesting possi- forens ms tied bilities. In addition to ite use in the art of illumination color is being applied to the treatment of human disease, It is likely that before many years intelligent people will seriously consider the hygienie v As af colored lights the fuel as they do the th factor in a agi ventilation at the present time. & we demanded that light howl be given wa in sufficient quantity; in the future we shall inaist that it be of proper quality, Some day we shall look back with amazement on our present lighting practice, which condemn most human beings to live and work in a dead level of color which not only impairs per- sonal elflclency but which injures humen eyes and nerves. One reason for the health resulting from an outdoor life is that the individual is subjected to the ever-changing vibrations of Nature's color raya. One of the pioneera in the rapidly ex- pean Froup of color scientists ia Beatrice rein, W. Tesearch hes been corried on in many parte of the world and whose work a this new art, or industry, has been recog- by various scientific and technical organizations A talk with Miss Invin de- veloped a number of points that will be likely to interest many people, There are three fluscisrmental ma al color, reacting respectively on qur mental and Hervous systems. ee ma these ia divided, in turn, in Cee with its affective values, into sedative, recupera- tive and stimulant eolors. Respiration & J affected by color. The sedative eolora in- duce deeper reapiration: t soothe and culm us, The recuperative colors induce a more auperticlal af more even respiration; they equalize and refresh us. The stimulant colors oxcite a more rapid respiration: they quicken our activities, The ative, Te= cuperative and stimulant colore af the three aysteme are classified aa follows: Tit Poarsica Tk Mista Ti Nervevs SED TIVE BSEDATIVE SEDATIVE Lead Gray ‘Olive Coreen Moonlight Blae | Prope Terre Cotta Bloes ‘(Green RECUPER- gree RECUPER- ATIVE ATONE Golden Brown Roao Medder Orange | Turqucies Flare Rize Royal Blan Emeruld Green STIMULANT STtMULANT aTOoULANT Vermilion Violet Eau de Nil Chronwe Mauve Citron. Azure Blue The theory is that people lean toward these colors which represent ulities ar | agplrations in which they are deficlent. The

people of primitive races prefer the hard, ee bona mental colors. Individuals ar handicapped ph ically repaaiee aif affinity for the colors wh apie : ical power, while a a gene who are highly materialistic on a nervous, or spiritual colors, which furnish the eibraeions | in which they are incking, The retina of the , telor scientists affirm, la capable af only three color aen- sationg—blue, red and vellow. All other bine result in combinations of these Each eye hos an individual appre ciation of color; the ge te de rally pre fers cal and the ‘he eve mental eolors. The nervous pais or oolore are achally intensities of vibration, and ara dizeerned by mast people in a dl arn sation rather than as.an actual vision. Each individual ies more quickly to colors wat rc his own deve ent is con- Many people are deeply affected by dis- plays of color without noting or ana ing the reaction on the human system. eolora make one draw a deep breath, as if one were drinking in those colors, Some tines we oheerve a color acheme that makes ut held our breath, or perhar ealses gn involuntary exclamation. ently a vision of color unfolds before ue, amd the sensation err gene instant to rennin nd our eyed involuin loan. Shack ch is ihe | effect on many urban iwellers when view the ae of color which apens before them at the seashore after many months apent in the city. Red has been called a stimulant, blue a sedative and green an exhilarating color. The modern belief is thot eed cs can be i ie pete blue a étinvulant and tive, according to the cerrsicmatiner it these three colors or thoir aeeriration with other colors. Tt should be rememberre that the terma “red, “blue” and "green" Are gird a for long rangea of vibra- iat Magen ee ot et oon in the p fan and restoration of health is ning recognition in many quarters, Screens and color filters which absorb certain color rays and ol- lew other rays to pass through are beet emplayed in the treatment diseases the eyes and the nerves, There are good reasons for the statement that a change a edlor a often of a8 much benefit te on in- ie or convalearent as a change of air. green of the ocean or of ewan t ina pte sedative, soothing mere: and giv see Frees Bie to beens ao ape mentall peepee rranie bee ae rasta mast powerful tn ing prop- erties, The records show that insomnia and dipaomania have been materially relleved by color featments. Practi all the color cures are b on the therapeutic effect of light when filtered through eolor mediums. Sines tion is aflected in different waya by di poner it follows that color science | n the treat- ment of various nervous canditions, such as ehell shock and other inflammatory nervous ailments, The most immediate use of calor rays, however, lain the umination of our bones, offices and public buildings. One author- ity says, The lighting of the future which does not take inte account the value of edlor effects. be likened to a acheme of decoration in black and white—a schome that is sufficient and sutistactory only bo those whe are color-blind.”” Since the ab- aulute necessities of lighting, in pong - the matter of quantity, have now been plied, the time is opportune for the av a opment af a decorative art in illumination. = have reached the day when we must have lighting artists ws weil es illuminating ngineer, Lighting @cheres in our hermes til offices will be carried cut in accordance with plana which take into account the effects of the light mys on health and effi- ciency, Meet everyone ia aware that opaque colors uch as these on walla and ceilings exert an influence on the tempera- mant of e: luminous colors have for more dee affective powers than those Which are nonluminous, A discriminating liane of color with amination is beoom- ing a constructive necessity. use of the la item of cost mi peaple cannet aff ta redecorate the 4 i homes and offices at fre However, when we acquin standing of color science tion of its principles to ahall be able to remove preasion caused by the and color that mow 5 Foam in our horees ‘will Fecuperative ar stimulant their location and use tive, while hall entrances rooms, instead of being Bo alive with stimulant colors. — In the future illumination’ be the outcome af mochanien

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fused, semi-indirect oT gon Installation, wes fide lights—possibly igel wall—to give us color the cana installa will bi ce the pr vibra a a rece, the tint will ig be unobtruaive. The globes ducing the calor effect will be I located in natural recesses of if gueh do not eat ino room © created by masses of silk, wht h rofective value. The impresion should be from the eolor tenella roe te cecil a future G al a, Li | a beers roan colored light will be under glo ¢ el be oe In ie te-marrow of lighting, Tays will have become an impat in most illumination schemes, tention will be given to sci colors in the plan are well lbalar example, if a room is worked out in eray: for the first or p rasta Wumination engineer mt a ary installation conte Py ag fe persiive green, Lighting instal iste hi ich ele climate shadows will hen 7 engineering, expecially tn Shadooe reduce monotony ad strain. In schemes the flected through a room from p floor the owner will be able to color of each pool whenever he di The whole subject of the color a of light fs intensely inberestin prove a fruitful field of study <= gating minds. Let those Len color raya have an clfect on peopis

the strength of thelr opinion hy « menting with animals. One: test is to climb the fonce of = pasoiea WHVeE a Aug at an ball, 5 There & much we have jet to concerning light and ite eect on life. Cop 7 pik sessed of limited powers the absolute zero of tempera ture all bodi continuausly radiate a tg — to hitimans, except w daylight, ik Sone imu esceneted Anis eatin aniatiale and birds, The phoephorescesi qualities of the eyes of a cat, so apparent’ at night, doubtless @nable the animal ta see the invisible rays that all objects emit. The cat can clearly sea the outlines af the les other animals i im the black al af vision. - ht, whereas human eyes would mot be - to discern the long wave radiations from thear same objects at oll, Some day there will be rooms dedicated to certain color achemes, ao that of aegson of location the dweller in the cily will be able to surround himself with the green af the forest or the blue of the aea, Eventually, when women understand the full value of color as a foree of ature: tion, men will be more helpless than ever fn resisting the artiices of the fair aex. [n that day many people will gurround thes snives, physically and mentally, with colors whom potencies th desire, Also, in the future, we shall profit greatly through oat better understanding of how ealorful Ma- ture, coiperating wit cima: het molded the Lem periments of peo red largely bape the destinies of ra agi faces of the » aan: considering every lighting rl i lower animals man oy

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Esch Barre! ona Lanfersped in Orne, Hurrels i raaf heated. 7 Your [| Will IncSOHNSO Ceo ae, Barrel clerks” and «#, oS yertrap With records * advertising, pros and credit record" boxes and loose. ‘ liorseatica fool-preaf. You ee Stat end te-proen, air-cooled Hanuner- record card or UIE Barrel Trap Gun at ao moxder- When Kardexed¥ith features found only in oven Cdn GR ghee ci Paper? SPATCAG ohtline ventilated rib breaks always. Each syes, and males for clear vine 3,000 of any sizte shooting. The Beaver Tail sift By usjpikets both barrela and protects hi i+ heat ORE fostener, Selec: Cid COPACIEy 15 suromatic ejector throws out records are cothelils when you open the gan— units stack tege have fired ome barrel, both if of cards—hunid fired both barrels. ay el with two L-: Ivory Write for KARati-Flinch Recoil ack Full rcs of cards yrtip Rubber Carved. fo ingare . “arabe phone toc oe ae fee gauge, 32-inch barrels, full Te AIeCteT, Stock and forend of handsome walout, finely hand checkered ished. Perfect for shooting ducks, ad ool wild game os well ae for ——1 Faiaciilita Por thease whe prefer a Single Barrel Trap Gun— The IVER JOHNSON SPECIAL TRAP Single Bartel Shot Gain is the best boy in the ingle barred class. Has Matved Raised Ventilated Rib which brenks heat waves and prevents glare, Large Trop Style Foren gives firm hand-held, and pro tects fingers from hot barrel. Bartel and lug forged in one. Write for FREE Catalogs Catalog "A" gives complete details of all Iver Johnsen Single and Dowble Barrel Shot Gunes o¢ well as the formous “ Hom- emer the Hamenser Safety Revolvers. Color Catalog “EB shows the complete line of Iver Johoson Bleyelea for meen, women, boys and girls—aolso Velocipedca bee d Junioreyeles for little children. THE SATURDAY (Comtinaed from Poge #4) "T ‘woo wt the meeting when Hoe said that," put in Bert Mill. “He asked for estimates af the coat of producing @ six- column, eight-page paper, 200% copies, Would you fellows beliove that those esti- mates tan all thea way fram $75 to $3007 The mom who were publishing the papers didn": know, most of them, what it coat them, How art you going to sell advertis- ing speee at a folr price if you can't prove to the advertiser that It fg a falr price? And ed can't prove that unless you know what ft enete you. “TL think I've got the coats prethy well worked out in the Gazette plant, but it took my older boy, frevh from college, to show me where | had omitted a lot of terme in my ‘eld way of figurlng. Now we charge up ta chate net only the wages pald and material aged but a rental by the week for each ma- chine, high enough to cover depreciation and interest on the investment, o fuir rent | for the building and everything else we can | think of In the way of expense, including ) my own salary, and then we add a profit at at arbitrary figure on top of all that, to be “Trun & gizteen-page, siz-column paper, weil print a litth: more than SMO copies | every week. | average about 1000 inches af advertling ewch lasue. Figured the way I've just described, it coute about £446 an issue to prodwce, T pet 40 cents an inch for ad- werTtiging space, or about F400 an iseve, t may look as if the Gazetta were headed for bankruptey, but that apparent lows of $46 a week is offset, iret, by the 25 pes cent profit whieh has been figured into the costes all along the line, so that on ad- vertising alone there ia a profit in getting out the paper of $65.50 a week. I draw a salary of 260 0 week, which is included in the costa. Those two items come te $500 a year, ghd the subeeriptlan nevenie rine an- other $7Th00. The interest on the Invest- ment, charged also into coets, brings my profita above $16,000) «8 year, without counting legal advertising, aale of extra copies pred such ibome." L wes pretty well convinesd by this time on every point but one. “Td hate to try toe borrow money at the bank on the atrength of that subacriptlo revenue,” I auggested, A Local Mecosal ty There was a chorus of laughter from the entire group around the luncheon table. “Try to subscribe to an up-to-date coun- try weekly without paying cash in advance and seo what you get,” said one of them. “The Cesh-in-Advanee Club ia one of our strongest and most popular onganteations, lt hoe taken a good deal of educational effort, both with subscribers and with pub- lishers, to eatablish the principle of paid-in- advance subscriptions, and there are a good many papers still which da not en- forea it very strictly. But I sbould say that a dear majority of the country weeklles now get their money from aubecribera promptly, both fer original eubacriptions | and for renewals, ‘The modern farmer has ! not the aversion to paying owt taah that his | pranddad hud. He has the cash to pay, for | ont thing, and he buys machinery and other | things for cash, ao that it seems natural ta | him to pay for his paper in cash. And | while we think of the old-time editer as | taking apples or cordwood for subscrip- ! tions, we've found some papers, in the eoure of gur adaoclation investigations, which have alwaya enforced the cash-in- i JOHNSON S ARME & CYCLE WORKS | advance rule, There's the Southern Stand- hy ¥T eas Paar igh Sa ln a MASS. a ‘Chicago. tou W. Lake Sect Saq Francisco, 717 Market Sereat , WER JOHNSON ard, for axamplo, which has been published ‘at McMinnville, Tenneson, since 1879 with- owt oa break, and which has newer sent o opi to a subscriber who wasn't paid wp for ayearahead. They pet somewhat lesa than the prevailing rate of $2.0) 4 year, or five cents a copy, which if now almost the standard rate all over the countrr and which gives the publisher w rim for his money." “The whole trick in to make the paper so tieefitl and interesting to the local readers EVENING POST that they can't get along without it," anid Bert Milla, “Like the Star Clipper,” agreed the man from lows. “That's the’ prize-winning equntry weekly for 1927-28. One of the things which the National Editorial Asso ciation dom fvery summer is to award a prize to the best country weekly, Bert, here, got it ane year, Until the 1928 con- vention, next summer, it's held by a paper out in my state, in a tewn you probally never heard of, called Traer, in Tama County, Towa. And what makes it the best weekly paper in the United States, aa it has a right to call itself, is the fact that it ia so full of local news about local people and events that everyledy in tts territory just has te read it. Traer has a population of £929, but the Star Clipper has @ cireula- tion of G675—and all paid in advanes at trodollars a year, When the N. B.A. com- mittee checked up ite circulation it wae found that in thirteen townships in the county nine out of every ten farmers wore subeeribere. ‘Three townships showed 100 per cent gubacriptiona." Spurs to Better Papers “That's a real record," said Bert Mil, “They give another award every year, too, for the paper with the best editorial page. It ig an upstate New York paper that holda that this year—-Jacoh Strong's Rhinebeck iiazette, Miost of us dan’t go in very strongly for editorial comment, but the Gasette speaks right out in menting about matters of local interest, and has a great in- fluenee in Dutehess County."" "T think there's a decided tendeney to Ward stronger editorial expression, aa well aa toward constructive community service, among country weeklies generally,” added the elitor fram Oklahoma. “That Last is another matter which the National Edi- torial Association is encouraging. At ita last convention the sseeriation gave a prize to the Clinton County Republican-Nows, published at St. Johns, Michigan, for the grentest community gerviem, in recognition of ita campaigia to raise money for a county hospital, for fireproof vaolta for the court- house ad for tuberculceis teeta of cattle in the county. Acrvarda like those, ond the others which the masociation gives annually, are doing a great deal to stimulate country editers ta produce better papers. The Brookings Register, in South Dakota, for example, holds the current award for the best front page. That puts the Eastern publishers on their mettle; but it wae an Enstern paper, the Graphic, of Newton, Masaacho- setta, which wen fret prize in the aseocla- tion's advertiging contest, while the News, of Montevideo, Minnesota, tevk firat. place as an example of good merspaper produc tion.” Theae awards are powerful infhoences for the betterment of the country pres, the other agreed, bat two or three apohe al- Miultaneoushy of the echoots of journalism aa parhapa the moet potent factor of all in the progress of the amall-town weeklies, “ow didn't think that all thia flock of boys and girla who ans being graduated every year from the achools of journalism were getting city jobs, did you?" asked Bert Milla as | expressed surprise, “I don't know just how many there are—somewhere between thirty-five and fifty universities, 1 belleve—which have foll-fedged journal- iam schools. I noticed that Prof. Willard Beyer, dean of the Wisconsin University school, said the other day that then: were more joba than there are graduates -to All them, and I believe he's right. And muny of these achoola are concentrating on the problem of the emall-town weekly rather than on the daily pres, Indinna State, for exumple, pays almost no atten- tion ta daily jowmaliam, but when a bey or jorl ip graduated there he of she can always find o fob on a country weekly. [t won't be Fobruary 35,09 long now, perhape in our own time 2h the country editor who is Bot a wires graduate will be oe rare a hird as they time tramp printer & today.” That turned the talk to the modem ox, terpart of the tramp printer, theres! i neyman whe drifted from town to tow 5 was the main reliance of the old+assic country editor. The machine opervs usually a machinist =x well aa an ops and offen an all-round printer me wl has taken his place, they told me ! “he”™ is often as mot a “she.” Cone are whisky bottle and the comeob pipe, te bald jest and the odoriferoua spittom a mate the old-time country mewspeper & 80 picturesque and glamorous, It isa ls like boudoir nowadays by compazison wae a Nebraska linotype opersior, 2 Cook Courier, who was crowned Quo the Johnaon County Fair law fat! tramp printer ever achieved anyteag that, “Gentlemen,” [ asad when we tad that far, “you have been breaking heart by degrees ever since we forgathe You have knocked my lifelong ieaicn a cocked hat. You have threwn rom into the hellbox, a8 it were, Vox b turned what was ones a glorious, ine: athle adventure into a sordid, com dial, BGicent, prowpercus, money-mal bualness. I can aurvive those reveati aa I have survived the discovery that & Claus and the type louse alike are my But do not shatter my last remaining] with the romantic memories of tural , naliam sa T knew it in my youth, [hy 1 beg of you, de not tell me that the of Ereeide ie dead)" 9 | The Potent fasides cp My append) moved them, though». cisely to bears. They hastened bo metry that the patent inaide still tiv at. patent inside and its younger bro thy boiler plate of beloved memory P= stand-bys in country mewspap!'' Four or fier thousand small-tow, the still buy their paper stock print, 4 aide with a varbety of pewa-fegg)yp! tures, “fiction and the like, & ec appeal te the rural reader—Lyened Tain difference from the old foo the editor has the privilege of of ° what shall be furnished in hi’, service instead of taking {ype the haughty magnates, Who UWilsires their money 0.0, D, at the qualita choose to send him, advertieand will), Or he can buy the aame aogh (NF | boiler plate, columm-wide ae®®? ht: of type metal, pictures snd M2" whieh he can put on his owe, ee from. And 20 per ent OTiature aad | weeklies now have their rbell, outfita, purchased of lee lo mar thay can cast their own life. Cost! matrices furnished by 7" than talned from syndicates oda only editorial f rate i bet, invietis fashion and aport serpinforced by’ iad bees toe and borders to ena horescett j Paper to give ite loeSt, so apparet tive advertising dis the animal te | al] aljects emt. ete than over for the yey Sen mat. be witabliah a cred wave facial arial capital, Gat all. tremely liberal; be rooms dedicate! longer a finaneis, 80 that regardless Z weller ip the ofr nob rrnge cd hulsrosull with the women Undersie the editer-pulp as a force af attra: job and ts wore helpless than ever newe and stces of the fair sex. Is chance thaple ait ec tare prosperousnd mentally, in iryeaacis desire, Algo, in the trey © fe greatly through et ry ev ethding of haw colorfal Ni: | ae x with climate, has ml 7 fils of peoples an f shines Btinies of the races of tht gue wl.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST SEIBERLING CORDS From Bead to Bead— the Same Tough Tread. When your wheel drops into a rut or grazes a curb, your tire is all tread. If the side-wall of your casing has less resistant qualities than good tread qualities, it is right there ind then that you pay for any real or assumed saving 3y the use of somewhat less expensive side-wall » haterial. Seiberling Cords have the same kind of rubber—_ ‘tread-stock”, we call it—from bead to bead. It is —hicker, of course, at the center, where most of the wear comes, but is one and the same tough piece throughout—built to take the hard rubs and the hard knocks and the sharp stones and bits of glass with least injury. There is no joining of two pieces of surfacing ma- terial, so that there can not be any separation of the tread from the side-wall such as you often notice in looking at a car standing by the curb. This one Seiberling Cord feature is a good illustra- ‘ton of the principles you'll find in all other points of =nstruction, which will be fully explained in sub- . €quent advertisements. “ SEIBERLING RUBBER COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO “CORDS ONLY": Seibecling Tires ore Corda only. Al Tires, Tubes and other products carrying the Seiber- ing name and trade-mark are of one grade only—os od as we can male It. [2]RERLING TUBES: Seiberiing Tubes, like Seilser- sng Corda, ere of “one grade only, os good os we can make it", They are beary, large tubes, of long-lived “pure gum, fowting stock", and should last as long as the cosing itself. “‘A Tire that Will be Known Everywhere™’ TO TIRE DEALERS: Seiberling Cords and Tubes ere distributed through regular retail channels, We desire to establish commections with good business men who ogres with is that high-grade products, a policy of selected and not clowly com- petitive distribution, and service to the user form the right bosis for o lasting and mutually peefitable re- lationship. Write or wire Seiberling Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio.

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70 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Tomato Cc (@)3 Can at your grocers Prize French Recipes From Hotel Ritz, with American perfections FEARS ago, a famous chef from Hotel Ritz in 1 Paris came to the Van Camp kitchens. He had won prizes in French culinary contests. And he brought his finest recipes tor Soups. CONCENTRATED ae But here we employ scientific cooks—men with ro M ATO oy college training. We use exacting methods. Mare- - , nals are selected by analysis. Countless blends are _ tested to ger the ideal flavor, ‘@) A | Then every detail is fixed in the farmula, So every soup 1s always like the model soup adopted. And here, to get the home flavor—to make the soups as you would—we employ a Domestic Science expert af nation-wide repure, Combined skill So the chef made up his recipes. Our culinary experts studied months to perfect them. The final resule was soups much finer than one ever makes by puess. Those Van Camp SOUPS are now dehghting millions. They bring to homes the finest soups produced—a Other Von Camp Products Include new conception in exquisite flavors, Park and Beans Try them, in fairness to yourself and us. One serving Spaghetti will induce you to adopt Van Camp's. And it will Evaporated Milk induce you, we think, to try some other examples of Peannt Aneter our matchless cookery. Chit Con Corie : They will come to you from the finest kitchen in Salad Dressing ga ore ; fae Mustard Dressing the world, from master cooks; and you'll enjoy them. Catap, Fie. Erte. As a test ask your greter to send you Van Camp's ‘Tomato Soup toilay. an Camp May 13, 1922 S

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST HENRY GETS AN ASSIST worst of all insules, burned the bull through with everything he ‘No use, " Balad Henry finally. ““Twe fast hall ain't there, Tenn throw harder'n that with my loft . and T newer used it for dingin’, etther. At this the boy caved in, covering up his denature with o sickly attempt st a ee old iP ag aay you was?" Henry wked, putting mitt on again. nein: =-wh—that is, almoat," MMe ; A be bl Hed Jewdly = Atha "ye eory lowdly. ute ee what yuh got! C'mon, boy, oot!" That evening McCormick approached Manager Barnes in front af the hotel. He ms a ¥ much discouraged eeciae “Sar,” suid, “can't you make that id hum lay offa ‘mae? He thinks ble job arate Of ridin” toe all the time. If he a cut tk owt I'm through. T'll quit the "Suit wourself, aon," Barnes: replied, ‘lowing emepke rings. “Hut remember, rou sked for work. T never sent out any ousting parties to find you, did ry Aw, aay ——"" the hid “Now, wait g minute," antes cDq- iowed. “What you need is to keep still ind Warn something from the old bum." om he, wouldn't tell eee anything if is lile ——" “Ye. he would," Barnes cut in. “He ld me a while ago he thought you had ie otalf. Amd listen! If anybody tn the secld con make m pitcher outa you, old Henry Hammond's the guy to doit. Now 7 fin along to bed and do what you're Began, then, a thorough eourse af sehool- ng for plichera. Young Charley MetCor- cick did not get into another game for thre weeks, owen to finish » loser, The axon wack that after bis forenoon workout ind another session in the afternoon before mime time he was so utterly weary sothing left. An hour every mofning he ates at fielding bunts and bard ground- ws, playing every ihall as if a pennant de- pended on it. Barnes swung the bat and M4 Henry Hammond ex him on. A wl! hour every morning he worked on a imp shot to first bese, the “on wurintion wing a shot to third, wae for the purpose “picking a runner off the bag. Another half hour he spent pitching to Hammond, learning to put his weight inta wery ball. This wae the only phage of the a a which old Henry was not enthu- w The kid will be a world-benter fieldin’ 1 jfeitlon.”’ he confided to Barnes. “And be can take a runner offa first or hired pi Bhar tte sit penton Snow a8 as tried te Pom sen’ President of the U.S. A." “He's gotta throw, though, to be a iiteher,"” and Barnes grinned, sso! m gonna make a alow-baller outa “Yeah, but even a rape ll a gat 2 have somethi else," je kid rm sia Bay ball oe Beary ‘eplied, “and for a change pace mr aalower one. You watch him!"* ares watched him. He saw ely how the boy hew to hold ng, cad threw a slow ball, He sow him bit rate the betty action, the shoulder mo- = and the poaltion af the feet. He saw dew tall tad the kid a fast motion for a a slow mofion for Sa rt iehvery, When all these were mastered be watched, ciel old keteher show the bicny hear ti slow curve, as well os 2 tow stralght ball that Hoated on the alr like a cork of a canal. The pg Pat they sitar the more enthu- faustic ay went inte his take with a ree Pere erance; hot Henry, laboring just as hard, was timngely jubilant for one of his yeurs and fatled experience, What Barnes did not Too: Was. a grooming gta on the part af ite Hoenmoned for young McCor- mit Tot kiel hal deop in resentment, held aloof from old-timer aa if vil tolerating the discipline and school- ing he did not intend i let: aavhody think he liked tt oor his teneher, taken (te chip off his shoulder, but he weemed to tary it handy in hia pocket. Old Henry Beit shout hia work in @ benign TANT tht took no notice of the boy's feelings. (Centinged from Page 38) Presently Barnes begun to be impationt, He was currying MecCunmich aan extra, und one salary more in the minora makes a oe say, Hl id th “Say, Henry,” suid the mam that lid about rewly with his in bell" “Just about,” Henry replied, "IT waa goin’ to ask you toe use him in the morning game on the Fourth,” “Goad enough! We'll give him a charnee. If he can come through—fine! If he can't it's curtains for him,” said Barnes, "To's rosin’ is mamey* “He'll deliver," Henry dechared = ean- fidently. "vind say, Mike," he added after a moment, ‘1 didn't tell yuh obowt this But since the t papers told abowt me some thine back — “Yes, and [ told them, and it helped boost the crows," Manager Hurnes inter- rupted. "Well, you can tell ‘em that this kid “ ald Charley McCormick's boy," said gt Meds fh at?" Barnes sini doch Henry Tixided, Gangwey, t gray! Lemme gettoutelephone! I'll poll rit pers that, and we won't be able te hold the crowds!’ Barnes hustled off toward the ball-park fice, Managers in the minors have to think af many things other than hits and error. The youngster did deliver, thanks te som hurd hitting wd gpood felding Behind him, brainy support by old Henry Ham- mond, and his cam sharp fielding. A great crowd was out rowting for him and Henry, before the clei Tots. He was a happy kid that evenin “Hot go tnd, so bad.” conceded Henry when A Cuelek asked him how he had done. “You were not as good as you will be with another game or two under YOUT SFM. The boy wwore at the ketcher under his breath, denouncing him for an old eral. But he changed hia tune soon afterward when Manager Barnes tole him that Ham mond had asked to have him as his room- mate for the coming road trip. He hunted up the old ketcher. “Say, Im much obilignecd, ** he sald avk- wardly. “The boss just sald you wanted me to bunk with yuh on the trip, and T'll ber glad to, tray re nice sf lal “Peretti! “But, Henry,” mid t Pr ares “ia the cee the papa ae T . se ead i you an ; |, right? you used to ketch hit” “Don't aoe what the paper Anya, ive beni "But many's the Td in there with old Charley M escwny didn’t you tell me about tt long Never just got around to bt, TF guess. Why? What difference doesit make? This is a different bean, “Nothing, except Lye sworn Dd never be friends with any friends of my olf man,” the boy said bitterly. H thought a long time before he repilled, “There's more'n one kind of friend, a enry learned by judicious questioning the boy was trying to become a base- bal Player. MeCormick told, a litthe at o time, how his father had left his mother wher he was & baby, and had Later died somewhere in the Northwest, His mother, he said, had kept him in echo!) because she did fairly well with a little millinery shop ashe owned in Woonsecket. She even sent him to el for ane hor Fut then business got and he had to drop out. Now she waa barely alle te get by herself. In fact he wanted te make aa much money wa he could, te repay her and tule cure of her. Te was a rough job though. Henry betrayed no Knowledge of hia own. ees why did you wanta play boll? . Anyway, ewerylrod ape "ball Over could make a pel ie "Crome ones, yeah," Haste grunbed. “But most of “em don't keep it." “Well, I'm gonna get into the big bat eg ar quit and into somethin ere ft can get over,” the boy dee : ee t te make good aod make money bath, that’s all, My mother’s not gonna be thrown down by two men of the same name, nat if T kerorw ae."* His blue eyes flashed ond his jaws set as he apuke, but Henry did not notice, He wus blowing his woe, and when he fin- ished that. he had to clear hia throat, “Fine!” he suid finully, in a voice that sa have been a lite husky. “That's the stuli, bow! Dm for yuh. But don't be too ruagh on your old man, eon, He was one good guy. He glapped McCormick on the shoulder and walked away. Young Charley McCormick won four gums ina row on the rowed for the Tota, and fana and newspapers all over the Mid- die Weat talked of the new edition | cof McCormick and Hammond, It waa a ger sendation than Lad caused by ne effort of Peeka-boo Veach's boy to break inte a at Indianapolis, where the pee tibee. ah peng g second baseman got his atart. On the way back to Terre Haute Agnry Satine aked Manager Barnes for permixsion to take two days off. Barnes was reluctant, but agresd when Hen chy gested he might be able to sell a pitche ane Ce oe, big-league Manapers. tapes asked Barnes... i Ope, “Not § Smit ht" “Well, eet Henry said. fet Whe, then oP “Why, ably Bc ormick.* “who're you kiddin", Henry? ‘That ewell-hended kid can't pitch for marbles." “But you'd sell him, wouldn't yuh, Mike?" “Sure, but if he ever geta to the big time he'll blow like a tay balloon in o ail ntenry did the enry not pause to argue paint, wt took his two-day vacation. He jour- is to St. Louis, and forguthered with Higgins, manager these many yeun at the as. Traditionally strong and traditiona winners, the ala were fighting their way to another pennant wre another world series, Bill Higgins, o roug coer of the days when I was layed on the diamond instend of in the sport pages and the movies, was an ald friend of F ognitl THe had played third base ie the club for which MeCormick Farvimad had worked. Higgins was a atick-apokon, cocksure fellow, “Don't need any,” was his answer te Henry's query about pitchers. “Alao vou con't need to breathe, Henry entin “Air's free,” said Alaina,» and laughed. “But listen, Henry don't yOu see Charley Earle? Fle heeds pitchers terrible, and woukl buy if you tipped him off to Borret hing " Henry Hammond whbesenmed himeelf then at great length, He included several facta, among them the fart that he had wever delivered Higgins a lemon; also the fact that he knew o pitcher when he saw one: alao the fact that every cussed one the ‘pitchers he had tipped olf to Hinnitn four i in all, hed made good. pall ain 7 arguin' any o° them reine ne aed. “All I'm rit a pitcher. Go see Chi any aut you do need this ona,’ abated. patbet ee He proceede then to sell his goods, ' wv don"t yuh ask me what I've got?” be demand “Tell ma a don't want it when you don’t know w itis! Listen! Suppose I told yuh f got the | Sites yi may need to win this here fall, at then, hey?" "T'd have to laugh, Henry. T got eleven | pitchers now, To. wouldn't lau near as loud ps people laugh when they think aout uh gettin’ into the series again,” Henry, warming to his task, Lautan tal tell yuh something, Bil. Lf you'd think about this series before the darn games wae starin' yuh right in the face mebbe your elub would win anes in a while” “T never noticed leadin® uny ball clubs into the series, said Higglna, hotly | resentful, ; "Wo, but that ain't no sign T can't bend ree little idea up to a series and make it work. “Oh, well, what yuh got on your chest? Shoot! Hut f'm not gonne buy, and you can make up your mind toe that." “Listen, Bill! ['m gonnasell yous pitcher. Le's look at this thing a minute, You tleven pitchers,” Henry slowly. (Continasd of Page 73) * Henry in 4 71 Tar feefemork of the Hentferd Fire Peraroesr Co, Kegreiod be Trnoney Cie A policy bearing the trademark of the Hartford Fire Insurance Gompany is an absolute ‘guarantee that the financial loss by fire will be repaid. 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(Caataaed from Poge Fr! “Every dumm one of * bay ‘aa fast-ball pitcher, right oF sper Ta any one of the lot a dow-ball pitcher?" “Why, I outa t have a man ay dub that, couldn't throw a2 slow "ball 1 Hig exclaimed. rowin' alow one don"t make a man a slow bal A area said Henry with con- viction. kin’ about a slow-ball Now listen! Have you figured on the beam yuh may have et in this series? ['ll aneeer that I hey tell me the Whales are dane vin’ ‘Ters riersand the Red Men to fight it out. Well, look at them two teams," ee te look wt, IW say!" muttered ay IT don’t know! Wouldn"t kh say they're both frec-swingin’ cluhs? Neither one's gol a real amart ither on it. Every dum ome of "em likes to lay back and take his ewing fram his heels to hell an" gone, Me yeah,” ak dinitted dzingly. 2 iggina admit grudging bell te that's why I'm sellin’ yah a elow- cs es said you waa sellin" me a alow. ball piteber?™” Higgins demanded warily. ni ‘aid. And I've two more things to say before we make a deal, You're pent ae THe pata te have me eligible the seroes, Bhead now and laugh before [ finith what I'mesnyin'!" He paused while Biggie | let out a yell. ‘The Fe tinued, Tm gonna {gas alittle, citer. Eddigec neem ler, He name"—and pti me my Higgins held up sn oe “his Fume,” MeCormie lal » Meco = Hig! igginga ¢ an ng stared at nae in dishbeliel, rae harley’s gone long ago—passed out!" Higgina an. “That's right,"" Henry agreed. "His were ailent for some little time, Higgina thinking back inte the past, Henry into the future, McCormick and Benioed, "said Wi “MM eCormlick and. iin Weddell and Schreck, ee or Kling Young and Criger, and—MeCormick and Ee enry, that's been a Jong = When Henry Hammond took the night train back ta Terre Haute the next even te had sold Bill Higgina one plteher ont keteher, to be kept up the sleeve as an ate for the series in which they were sure ake at: Hi a to say nothing of the deal publicly, and Henry resolved to ae it to no one but Mike Burnes, the Manager, At home with the club, he obtained Barnes” agreement to the news from young MeCarmick, with thought that Lhe boy would develop better and be more likely to eseape swelled head if he knew moithing of the sale, Then began the second phaue of Charley McCormick's education. If he had thought he hadi hazed, the boy must have decided that the next three weeks was one Sontinuous tornado. The work he had dete on joining the club seemed play com- pared to what he went through now. Never ww a more relentless taskmaster than old Henry Hammend. At home and acroed, mg ahd afternoon, the boy toiled to mert the exacting demands of the old ketcher, Besides laboring Caran bo de velop his etulf, as Henry ealled it, Moctor. mick started three games of his own, and eel his way to victory in teo of elt. ert eta ee finshed tern cerning it a pair of the Tots’ speed boys been knocked cut of the box, McCormick could not help boiling aver Under the strain. Once during the late maiet of a game he decided to use his nt in pitching toa o batter in- stead of relying on Henry. He shot a fast ball, or what was intended to be a fast ball, when Henry had asked him foro slow curve, The hitter looked it over without fering to swing, but Horry turned ta the bench and wigwagged Barnes to call in another pitcher from the ball pen. “What's the big ideaT’ demanded McCormick sullenly, on the bench whon the inning enced. “Wanted yuh to take time out where rub could remember who gives the sig- nals," replied Henry laconically, con h ia “Where da h big stiff? Only pay on th chet how to piteh to a hitter?" THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Heary ignored him then, but that n be reminded the bey very rae without heat, that the way to get abead bagzeball ia to play the game according es orders, Next morning Charley waa atill rebellious, “Field ‘em yourself, old-timer,” be called pm de in fielding ractive, Henry was rivin bunts for throws to first and third, “If Bt hen wasn't eo old and ati! you could pick up yoursell, right there by the plate." "Coma on, get this one!" ignoring the remurk, Charley cume u fast, aeooped the ball on the foinp and macs rT rg bead oes: Thon, standing wear Se Ue ce gual Sik ig eile Tf yeu wasn't dead from the neck iv move around fnst to field self. I don't see in* Teoaa and mith ates che big fi bay field your buf for oie and T don't eee him tryin’ to chun them into any big leagues either, you little !* barked. to the infielders, ““Gro on back out there, now, and do what you're told!" Henry said nothing. MeCormick cooled of before the day was over, but, rg ml apolled child, did not take the trouble ta | logize. Shortly after that Barnes broke e news to the youngster that he had been Bold to the Royale, to report the firet week in August. Henry was not around at the time, and did not see Barnes until late in the even “Told kid this afternoon,” sald Barnes, eel Boe'd ie ‘dl he tke ie?" ” WW EI to da af ery or something. Finally started ra me, but I walloped m one. "Where in he?" asked Henry, “Teon't know." Henry started a search for McCormick, boy ad to a eigen, house where the beer living. and then te the hotel fal slayer room downtown where the younger D pavers loafed. Charley was not there, ther was any other of the Tots’ ee Tt was an hour before Hen found him with some of the younger an wilder Tota in a boot ng the outskirta of Terre Haute. He hod ei to corny the boy out and drag him There was one other occasion of the same sort. Tt came a month later when the pair had been sitting on the Royals’ bench day after day until they were in danger of weor- ing out the seats of their uniforma. Th WEEE POOMINg ther, and ance a leer romaine, ‘gether ane Heary had been responsible f for hip tunity im the ors. pas Th ht ty went out alone. He might ins aolt—-irink drinks than were eng when al, ar “Wor” lemme have a chansh," Charley was complaining to a small group al new friends, “Get me up here won fea record in Shentr'l League, but won rs ish. Make me sit roun’ all day. Never a ee ce more tary DM, CO eee be eeee, Rica 8 aberp Senes, for MeCormick was rebel “Anil last of all, [1] say ay this," Henry eondluded: “You're a little runt. You've ort. no build, no weight, no constitution. Roe, ben! “L knew your and be was a pal B tilne. Never told yuk that before, but he was, Your dad was a oie ae big, pore fellow. Throw a ball through a will. That's why I can ketch your fast one barehanded. But he waa ab He tried this same stuff you're fei ais : it licked him—Lieked him cold. See? If was the man he waa ‘d. aeill get. iyo by the booze. Sec? You've got to cut it out, “Ad while we're at it, kid, lemme tell yuh this: If you was the man he waa you ed throw a fast one like his, But you're not, That's w I had work on ‘at alow ball. It's all you've and it ain't enough to keep you up here in the big time, You wanted to come up, Te brung yuh. You can stay @ while if you're good, Sea? 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Co., Philadelphia “YANKEE TOOLS Make Bettiv Mechanica’ "Towal Fook Mailed Free Tis tiaties ool dle sorkbed all the inge= nine Yankee" Logdls fat eoving Chore mal Lal EVENING POST on the bench. ‘The first of September rolled around, and Bill Higgins sent Henry on a trip sequting the Terriers, ret fear and cortain winners in the rival therefore opponents for the in the ser bes. b "You won't stick the kid in there while relent al asked Henry, “Batter eral al ala aa aaa a pro enry went fort to dog the trail of the Terriers until the end of the season and they should be ready to start play for the world title, He was a canny ecout, and a falthful one, although it must. be recorded that on one ecrasion when the Terriers were in Boston he deserted Sect toe wena in Woonsschet, and afense on a day when Pact in New York. ns when. it rained ont Saturday in Philadelphia he left them again and did not pet back feorn Waon- socket until Monday afternoon when the was yea over, His friends, if be path al pep nto any of them, would have that the old ketcher waa aprucing up, looking younger than he had in : The series come on, and the United States of America left a nathon-wide enal strike, an international aituation and the high cost of living fat on their backs to give afiention to the great event. M: re thelr accounts recelvable te em- ploy great ex to write many columns of basrball, Poor fans stayed wp all night te mequire tickets to the games, und ri fans up at the banks te buy : spate at fabulous prices. It was a ist i bably the best in the derful series, pra chore ‘s Hitle ploy, but that makes little foe in the tel ng of thia tale. McCormick and Hammond had their full [mare of the publicit i When Manager mitted his lst of eligible chivans and the Ha ing na aub- ra penta the mamea of all his oe nl followers could not believe MeCormick and Hammand? ‘t McCormick shot himself, or something yearsago? And Hammonds he game any mere, surely! Aft. be other Players by the same name: but, boy, so the head-wagging comment ran, that wa some battery! A pair to draw to, or rather to atand pat on—MeCormick and P atlay: sad Bikary pled be hia | ay ig rina in the publicity, but took me park in the fret anes on the diamond. »workd knows how the Royals, with a dashing, slashing attack and faat, furiqus tching, won the first three games. It ows, too, how the Royals collapsed in the next three games, falling fatter than » flivver tire on a muddy road. It saw through te own eo oF ee vividly rol a eyes a tat experts afore= sationed, hew this sellaiine took place Tt saw the nervy Terriers, with their teeth set in the series, hanging on like grim death while they added a second game and then a third to their string, up the title contest, Tt sae them smash and pound their way to three viebories in a row against rannon- pltehing. Then came that seventh and deciding game, with the Royals on their home grein 8 massive crowd of sullen fons walting to be shown whether the Higgins. men could come back for one lone game. The park wos pocke:d as tight as a sp E, Ev Were ‘ered thot t T would walk away with the game, but the rooters would not bet, “Pitchers all shot,"' waa the universal comment when Royal pat were dis- hod used Seria: of his twelve icansin in in firet alx Coot them nh the three straight aren Jia stall was om the run, roated and in a resi pileht speed merchunt on the li sc Dani pad ctioatey Cheiveseeteitas orcas: Only litth: Charley McCormick, sliding m y back and forth on the bench, had not been used opgainst the enemy. Old Henry Hammond sat placidly heside Higgins at the other end of the bench. ins given his men a ber- rifle tongue-lashing in the dubhouwse before the 2, calling them everythin ~ could think of from mere quitters to fil yellorr ange. The line-up waa full of fight, *pue the oe t re Hinged with uncertainty, for the i not know what sort of pitching they rant have as their bulwark. igging sent in Whal sik-footer with a fast ba te dent armor plate whenever it met a battleship. Whaley hud all his steam, and got by for two innings without wavering. a great, hulle that was Line May 15, 1972 Then the Royals, reassured, tore into the Terriers for siz runs in the next two rounds, aendice the crowd into the oi gl : ere poe the oltl pare é fans exulting. But they repeated the remark shorily afterward with a different inflection, for the Terriers adjusted their sights to Whal- ey's fast ball and waded inte him for te rune in the sixth. He got the side oot, but the fans wavered. Starting the seventh, the Terriers slammed a pair of doubles fo another run, and Whaley retired to let fanithsan, another giant with a faster ball, ree shyla pai the Terrien n the ej to peel another mun, petting te Smithson for a single and a long triple. A double play staved off further disaster, leaving the seore stand & to 4, with one inning to go. The crowd breathed easier and got read to go home, waiting only to see the Royals toke their turn at bet. The went down in a row, and then began the test Dobbins, a lanky Terrier, leading hia league in hitting, landed on Smithson for a three RE oat Seaauia gueed tn dia ninth. Footer fame af them filed owt at the gates, and others amt back in disgust to see the brutal finish. T swore aloud os Swope, az- other fine hitter, but better known for his apesd on the bases, came up to face Srilth som. “Nobody out, ard the meed tuna to tie," groaned the fang. “ ne Ales eal int” But Swope was too smart to take a chance on a double play with two mans re quired, He played ton base, Instead of swinging, anes hie dumped a pretty bunt down the third-base line. Smithson fielded the ball, bat watched Dobbins, on third, ao long that he had no chance to throw out . He etecd and held the ball a: and saw his own undoing, as the fans him and his Mod for a race of Sumb-bella, The Reval infield surrounded Smithson to calm him down, but they were just os far in the air as hoe was, ill Higgins, smurt manager though he Was, appeared at a loas. He did not what todo, for he had nothing but mare of the same stuff that Smithson was made of warming up in the ull peo. He looked them over and studied Smithson, etanding sullenly in @ graup of hes mates on the dianenal. - "Say Bill" — Higgins felt an elbow iin bis Tikes and looked arcund—" lemme take the kid and goin there mow," It was old Henry Hammond talking, nearly excited as he had ever seen the an- gent ketcher, Higgins looked st him in armasentent. "That kid?" hejeered. “You're cracy!™ “He'll slow-ball "em outa this,”” dectared H patiently. “They'll murder all the yuh got fe ar Higgina pondered the suggestion an in- stant, tneredulous, and than wavered. “But he's stone cold," he anid. “Don! t need to be warm to throw a alow ball," epee Henry. nstan ing wan on his feet, He milthaon, who professed not hilt, nad then piling out of the dug- out rushed toward the bese lines and ealled him in. Motloning the catcher to bold the fort a moment, Higgs ing went back to the bench, followed b e disconsolate Smith- som, lelelci his ee in the dirt “You, kee, "he gald, jerking a ‘thumb at young Charley MeCormick. The boy's heart bent wildly aa he heard Higgins wddress him, but he calmed down when he looked from the man to Henry and saw the old-timer buckling on be Henry win at him. breast protector. Heaseured, the bey tore off his sweater, cae his glove and started out of the agent on the ron. “pel wait aminute!" said Henry, ““1'l go wi An oa following a hurried con sultation with Higgins, ran out te the di mond with his megaphone. “Ladies and gen'l'mun, for th’ Royals, MeCawmick itchin’. For th" Ha fe Hammen' ketchin'. MeCnowmick and mond |" The effect, aa he repeated the announce ment to all corners of the grounds, with fana atudying their seore cards and old sport writera scrutinizing the strange pair taking the battery positions, waa electrical. All eyes were on the boy after the first i stant, for older fana remembered Henry and passed around the word it was the all fellow himself, (Continaed an Poge 77) |

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Ginger Ale a F w Sarsaparilla pi Birch Beer \ Root Beer ae i ie i, pe i SS er “Well,” said the little Eskimo, “Till tell you all about it “TONa: long ago there was-a King whose boast it was that he had the best feasts that men could devise ar cooks could cool, “He had a beautiful daughter, as all Kings of olden time had. When she was old enough, the King an- naunced that he would give his daughter's hand to him who would bring a new beverage that would be as beautiful as golden sunlight, would Be wey-cold snd hot at the same tine, would sparkle and live through a whole feast, and which, While it quenched the thirst of the moment, would awaken desire for it in Young and old, rich and poor, male and femaie, “And in due time it came to pass that a handsome young Prince, aided by an old wizard, brought some roots fram one island, some canes from an- other, and seme fruits from a third. From below the ground he drew the living waters of a magic spring. Then the old wizard blended the esacnces of the roots and the fruits, sweetened them to a nicety, and infused the whole with the bubbles that gave it life, And at the next feast the Prince won the King's daughter with the wonderful new beverage, which ful- filled all the King's conditions. “And what is the name of this beautiful golden liquid?" asked the King when the feast was over, “But the Prince had walked into the garden with the King's daughter, and there was no answer. "So, my dears, we must assume that then and there was discovered the universal beverage, Ginger Ale the one of which we say ‘They all ike rt’ ”" Under the ground at Millis, Maseachuactts, ore bed: rock springs of pure, cold water. The ginger usel in Chequct Club Otnger Ale comes from Jamaica. The par 18 frags the cane, Lemon and lime juice are combined in Ehe Ginger Ale that is cold mnd bot, is alive aul peidcn, afkl which ploders evervybcedi, For your feasta, for meals and between oeals, donk Clicquet Club Ginger Ale. THE CLICQUOT CLUB COMPANY, Millis, Maaa,, UT, 5. A, QcandQoa! ALE 7a GINGER

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74 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May #5, 1927 Time to Re-tireP (Buy Fisk) ib THADE MAKE BEG. U. & FAT. OFF. a eee ini Sore eit Are nthe ’ z tae fo ee eal etal on eat m3 “a ree u : 4 mde) a 9 PT —, = 2 Pb al Fs hea There’s Extra Value in Fisk Tires ee tia —_ ai ftae 4 i r — ' * ' U , Se — ee HE only time a lower price is more for less. Because Fisk Cord ASP sat 4 areal inducement to a wise’ Tires show contrasting values in eis buyer is when compari- size, strength, resiliency weet 2 2), —Pisk Premier Treed a ea a son proves the price to = | "2! Nes:Seed Fane ee and appearance when Ptah) " o O¢g—Sie-Thy Mom-5 Min chep Caw . J oaeet sabi z give a greater purchas- =| #00 (—sichiysen-shucoa,seraigha compared with any nee ") iA i = ad =I = ts Hon: : ‘ard #7, " a * baz ie Anges th ing power to his dollar |i:! iscsawae | other tires, the price is ee r n i B2 x fly —Now-Shid Cond ; 4 : 3 i ee Eis 9 —when he can buy [Mice : interesting. pen There's a Fisk Tire of extra value in every size for car, truck or speed wagon wy - =e ® * Fa = Se =7u re bot me Tae tae ies tee A oe ag aie oe - Ft Sen ee Rare ce ie teh Fe ie Ee ipa L at ae af tae " i. : “= ia ea Fae! * oa ere oe eho 7 aa" ee ; a oe | Pott Fe yt be : ry . a rt ou x a ' = a hia ar in oa “ a soe a ia ' Pe pee =, Ty

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‘Conhnaed from Page 7a) "But ‘nt kid, now?’ was the quersict “Naw, naw, he's dead lon *aleer rE replied. "Nother M corel, ‘at's Then the word went round that this weet the son of old Charley MeCormick, dis- covered by Henry in the minora and hand- mised by him for the Royals, As the throngs the situation they broke into a cheer owt of ae friend]y sentlment. acy son of old McCormick de served a hand. But as nS "i muitpcity of Ball Higgins in trotting out an aniteied souniee ck ater and a broken-down backstop in a last desperate effort to stall off the onrushing Terriers heeame apparent to the fans they went Wik, Here was a situation to warm the heart of even a Philadelphia fan, Trost: Bill Higgins to pull something good! Me- cost and Hammond—wow ! Henry Hammond, shoving on his mitt, shuflled along beside the boy as fur a the third-base he Then, an arm over his shoulder, be shaped to the a andl belted kien on the bm uringly, Whis- pened’? Rather, he shouted te make him- self heard above the clamorous heer eal peeomded ta the new version of th battery—MMeCormick and Hammond. Fol- lowed some stage Management. While the ah manager Tished aut tm the hen pire and wrangled over the eligibility of ‘siren unfamiliar battery, although he wage remembereil their names from the wert Tat af aunt dung Charley MeCoriick warmed e shot through the fastest. tall be had, and old Flenry took it in his mitt with a thud like that of a town faca dram, The Terrier manager dragged his fret back to his bench and sat down, ‘More speed, eh? We'll eat it up!" he sald to himself. Then, with Dobbing on third, Swope on fret, nobody out and. Wayburn, a heawy= hitting frat baseman, Lop Henry ambled out toward the box nd the ball to Morale lat af throwin +A ty 3 him. Again put hig arm aroun shoulders, and in, with an eye a ag be base runotrs, sperke to him. Then 1 lee went back behind the plate and erouched, = Fight, bow!" he ealled. freapondad with a fastone through ae heart of the pan for a strike. MMe fol- lnwed that, upon cignal, with anther fast om, this time a ball, Old Henry walked out. with the ball. “You field the ball and play tt tame," he udered., Calling for a high slow ball, Henry looked quickly at Debbins on third and Swopn lading far off firet to aatiafy hirrself he baad guemel the enemy campaign. McCormick tame through with a floater, and Wayburn dumped a slow rales down the figgt-hase line. Dobbing and Swope Were on the run. “Play it here, kid!" ae Henry at the top of bia yoioe aa Dob ing mume whirlin home from third. Charley waa on the ball ina flash, and flipped it to the pan, where oM Henry was waiting. Dobbins fling him- self at the re all ng ina cloud of dust. Henry bluffed at tagging him, and then vtrale aightening BB rity pee the ball like a let to th Swope, springing like a Paddock, was caught standing w his desperate ty fr two bases on the play, and ii aes stepped wt first hase. crowd, senaing old Henry's stra in trading one run for the chance to cut Swope with the t tying marker, roared its approval, The ap heartened! Charley andl Head alae abe As ears pms Pa dgeny rs an you big stiffs ‘at try to pitch on this dub would learn ta Geld a ball Hike ' ‘at kiel, and you ketchers had the guta and brains to pull a play like that, we'd never lose a ame te any * pronounced Bill Hig mins, Royal manager. The ‘Terrler leader, inthe e aout Was alert to keep his men on the With onbky one out and in old man hind the bat, ¢ aby sae cut boas dered Wayburn to steal. “We get the tyin' rin om second, and dither George or Mason can drive it hare,” he gaid to himself. Henry, watching Wayburn narrowly, senaed the pin knowing full well the op= paition would held kim and his old ann cheaply, He called for a fast straight ball over the pints, and George looked it over—for a strike, Henry then resolved to pat upa bhai at playing into the Terriers’ ‘anda. He bluff by taking a position wide of the plate fora pitchout, and George bluffed a deaperate desire to knock the ball over the fonce, Young Charley McCor- mick, careful watching Henry*s signal, bluffed a windup. THE SATURDAY Wayburn edged away from first, dawn | the Une for second base, He dug in his apikes and awung inte his stride aa Char- ley’s arm lifted. Even as he did ao, how- | ever, be heard the bull slapping into the firat haseman’s mitt and knew be had bern tricked, Wayburn ran it out ae beet be coubd bot was trapped halfway to second, » thousand fons went crazy. Bill Hinged drew a long breath. (ld Henry Hammond and you Charley MeCor- mirk settled down to the task of disposing of the third amnel last man. Gaons, | farin forlorn hope mow, waa He chutched his bat. and pie the plat, determined to swing the Terriers back inte the running if it were humanly joasible, Henry called for a slow curve ball over the plate, With one strike, Geo took a chance that thesecond one would be wasted, butswore bitterly asthe ball eurved through the of the pon. Tt was two strikes. The hitter smashed the plate with his bat, jerked his cap down inddefiantly faced the pitcherasthecrowds, apprecating navi m v the Royal come- nae but a beautiful eransple of buttery ‘Hed their approval. Herry called for another alow unre in the same groove. This time George, overansious and smart- ing under the taunts of the throng, waded into the ball. He was off balance in his ansiety to bit, and had started his swing before he realized that the little southpaw, using @ snap delivery, was floating another slow ane up to him, The best he eould do was a high looping pop-up to the | secon an, and the game and the Series Were over. Triumphant ala, jubilant over the decisive turn in their favor, atarted to carry Henry and Charley off the field on their shoulders, but gave it 1a when wil fans insisted on parading to t's clubhouse bear ing the puir aloft, Herr ." called Higgins i Im iia clressing room, "the boys are konta doa the right by, are the kid.”" reget it!" Henry replied, “Ppt nothin’! We're gonne vote you | one full share between yuh, Of course, sy | only worked one inning; but, man, w. an ioain ad rizet ity" “Modeat as well as brainy, hey?" reed Higgins. “How about the kid? Say, boy, iva was a nice game yuh pitched," Henry, watching the ha, gaw McCor- mick Hush. He blushed himself an instant later as. Charley belie “You're talkin’ to aed nob me. He's the guy that pitched Ab garne: When they had finished dressing, Henry took the boy's arm. “Come and go with me," he said. “I'd like for yuk: te meet oy girl. Met ommick stared al at the old-timer in disbelief, This was a much, old Henry Hammond having a girl! “Yeah.” Henry continued, “Gotta dote tila her for after the game up by the press Three minwtes later they crossed the sa and approached the stand. Char. ley's heart missed on three cylinders, He stopped a moment and sin an phir then tan forward to take old Henry's gir in his young arms, “Mather!” hs ey “Son, [I'm prowd of yey ‘she ane=wecedd, “And you, too, Hen bbe your old hones," she » bold the old ketcher over Charley's shoulder. Henry grinned happily. “But didn't say anything to me," y bean i in reproach, one intended to oll along,” his mother Charley looked around for a place to sit own. “When cid all this b whed, the surprise too much for him, “When the Charley MeCormick waa | itchin' ond yOuUrS truly was ketchin'’— eConmick and Haramond,"” suid Henry, “Your mother had her choice between us, To wart any anything about her firat guess, init the aecond rakes a hit with me.” “All I've got to aay is, three cheers," exelnimed the youngster, the ketchin' for me?" “You wanted to hit the big time, and you've come it," anid Hone. Now back to pltehin' te one of these cilené acultics, aon. MMeCormick and Baie it used to be, and I'm proud if was MeCor- mick antl Hammond ugain Te logked at the boy in an ulrricet sararreal ride. “But to-morrow" —and he shifted is gaze" T'm prooder to say, it will be Hummond and Hammond," in?” he | ™ But ae ] you dot Quit and settle down? 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Sales managers will find it to the advanta af their firms to suggest Keenan Hotels to their men, THEPLANKINTON THEWALDORF Milwaukee ‘Toledo THE ANTHONY Fort Wayne dehoowidged Eradert is - rigt awe. ori ae Acer ee KEENAN SYSTEM THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | had acquired the greater brilliance of aaffer- | ing. Her face was sun-tannedl but youthful asewer, Air. Bluse was forced to admit to himself that even in her threadbare raiment Miss Marsh would give most city girle— Miss Realiny Pr instanes, whom Mr. Blouse had selected becoie her dark hair ard pallid complexion went well with the rose- colored draperies—cards and spades, und beat them at their own game, “ou are looking well, Misa Marsh," he remarked. “And Mr. Marsh? How is his theamatism?" “My father is well,’ the girl lied. "The desert alr has nearly chad ies If it wasn't for that I don’t know what we would have done,” she murmured fain ity. “He worloed for the railroad newrly three month this apr Mr. Blass nodded, This was the entering wedge he had hoped for. aol" He beamed happaly. “Would you believe it, Misa Marsh, when OU aT your father a into thia office two years ago’’—bhere he tapped the arm of his chair imprestively with one fat fore finger—"T said to myself * There's @ mam that the dosert will cure,’ Miss Marsh?” oni" re was a note of surprise itt the gitl’s voice. She shot him a awift, ap- raising glance. "The desert came near cilli ws both—of starvation,” she in= for hint aa inipassively aa befare, Mr. Blass’ eyebrows shot upward in well- tra distress, Te pursed his lips and roan “Ae bod aa that? 1 Amy word, Miss Marsh, I sssure you I had no idea Why didn't you—tell me?" he Semariche, ning upon her with reproachtul velo eb gy Mp a lot of correspondence, " "Oh, "Mr. Bless interrupted. THe glanced at the face of the marble clack as if to reiresh his memory. “IT remember now. was—up north at the time,’ Mr, Frishie, my spoke to me about the matter when I re- turned, but when I did not hear ang more aren a I thought everything was all = Marsh opened the frayed hand bag in her Tap. “The letters were signed by you," shi said. “IT have sore of t em here." Air, Blass waved the letters away. “Met by me, onal, Miss a he secrected, Ties Kuhn, my secre my nanee to them of course, but Frsbie dictated them. I came actos this correspondence quite by accident the other day—your lettera to ua and the ear- inl copies of the letters mailed to you ave ay signature, I was thunderstruck, Mins a—poal-tively thunderstruck!"* he repeated. “TL hastened at once to write ther, handled the correspondence, He to you, You wouldn't beliewe me puilty of such unt discourbesy Lo a lady, Misa Marsh?" he implored. He pa . A serious—er—rupture has taken place be- tween Mr, Frisbie and myself over the matter, I'm pernuinely dis T assure you.” He paused once mee, ne, planing het with his eyes. “To set arig a in pur estimation I wrote ad at once mak Ing the offer of driflin far water ta help you out. IT had mo idea that you did not have the funds for drilling, yourself. If I had known this in the first place I would never have perce you for a moment te go on ye Fis 1 studied Daim in silence for a mo ment. ‘Then running her hand mero: her eyes, a8 if to brush away from her mind the unpleasant suspicion that had dwelt there, shi said, “A well, T understand, will cost about two thousand dollars, Mr. Blaaa. I have nothing ta offer you as security.” Mr. West waved ble pudgy hand muag- nunimausly, “My dear lady, I'm afraid you de neat understand land values in California, With plenty of water develapedd your land will be worth at least two hun dollars an acre."" He smiled apologetically, “Naturally I shall expect something in return, Enough to reimburse me for the expense of clrilling. FPauaing he brought down his pudgy flat on the glass-top desk, aa il a bright iden had suddenly orcurred to him. Tell you whut, Miss Marsh! You con deed me ten acres somewhere—say, tlhe ; rten. We will draw up a contract to effect thot oll the water we strike will abe | bola to you with the exception of enough THE NINTH WAY (Continued from Page 37) to irrigate the ten acres you deed me, free of charge, indefinitely, [will give you a right of way ta the we —twelve feet wide, we'll ee ee for your irrigat- ibe 17 fir, Blass leaned back in his chair, fairly carried away with the brightness: of his ides, “How does that strike youl" he de manded gra grandly, bath his situ thumbe hooked into the armholes of his cerise walsteout. “You are very generous, Mr. Blass," the girl roplied so promptly that Mr. Blass wondered momenturily if the tone of her Volee was aurea of just plain relief, “With plenty of water your land will be worth two hundred dollara an acre," hastened to explain. "Think of it, Mee Marah! Six hundred and forty acres at two hundred per sere, One hondred and treaty eight thousand dollars," The girl atared at him in amazement, “Bat—Mr, Blass, why didn't you keep this land and drill for water vourself if it la worth such an amount?” she asked in- ereduleusly. Mr. Tass nodded delighted approval. “A pe oat Fm natural question—to the Uh-initiated Marsh," he boomed, “Iit'a like this: We promoters have ao many irons in the fire all the time we are foroed to let some of ‘em got cold to ker the others hat." The contemplation of th apt simile pleased him huge “When I suid you the land," he went on ‘beamingly, “T wus badly in need of ready cash for erreloping 2 mine project in Southern New Mexico, Your sixteen hundred dollars small as the amount wos, just about save! sion dN Neturally I feel that I owe yOu Bom "Ohl" bie girl studied him again in silence for a moment. Then she asked, “Why da you want to doll the well on the upper ten acres? The ground ia higher thera, I ri think you'd have to drill that much deeper,” Mr. Blass slapped his fat knee in delight. “An apt the mal on, Miss Marsh. Shows you'wn as makings of a fine business woman. el her around the desk. Pulling dow down the map he pointed to the square in red ink. “From this point," he explained, “your land slapes away in all directions, You can irrigate every inch of the whole section by natural gravity. Fifty more or Jess of drilling makes little difference, Miss Marsh." "T gee," said Misa Marah thoughtfully. ay > well, then; I'll accept your offer— diy. gla rrr Th town of Inca, Howans Valley, la fetal in tha hot midday sun—a pe iar habit af desert towns—as jt had isin every noon of ite twelve summers since the day the city of Los Angeles gave birth to it by planting two portable cottnges and a water tank beside a narrow-gauge ruilroad and enlling it Ines. The railrond continued its way up the al- kaline floor af the Rowans Valley to Rowans River, but Inea remained to grow and proa- pat or bo ee pa va grow but ded not proaper. Neither did it ther. and it refused Antly to die, Ita first census, taken ten years after ita hirth, shawed a popetaien of eighty-even antils, taht tone of wham were engaged in wringing a ating fro the molstureless evil, a discouraging task, Of the threr remaining, ane ran the Sierra Café, the only restaurant within a radius of thirty miles. Another had committed Buicide 5 ee Sora by misappropriating huis ah bors hares, Ho was buried at the foot af one of the Nevada-Lee Angeles Light and Power Company's conduit poles, ater having been suspended briefly fram gall pole iy the neck. And the third, a drinking man, had walked biimgelf to desth with @ Sega blank in ue lool ru ruttleanake, Elis b body never and: and quite a h arcee at the census taking about Heer Sei Municipal pride was strong for admitting twanderer to the nel count, but Duty, the census taker, who made his living be tween censuses by running the Sierra Café, and for this reason was a dictator of sorts, decided against it. Duddy was a large clean-shaven man. He looked like the average fat man, which he was not: but he hod one trait in common with all fat men—cheerfulnes. His small gray eyes twinkled. A network of fine May (3, 927 mirth wrinkles crissereeaed his bland meoeon- like Ince, He seemed unnecessarily cheer ful, considering his environment. He was seated on his high steal behind the cash register of the restaurant with his ise hundred and forty pounds of obesity dling, wheat-ock fashion, over the oie the high ateol. The nae eee oe fram Cardinal had just pulled in train crewe=both of Shan —sats ;ineeelng * flat ear Joaded with henry timbers, the shade of the station awning, sprawied on bundles of blankets and suit — seated sixteen men who had alight the train, All sixteen were mopping His foreheads listlesaly with their handker- chiefs, If the expreasion wu their faces have been translated into words it would have something like this: "What a place to be dumped am ati" One of the strangers, a tall man in a Palm Beach suit, arose and ae ed him- self be the rou, and sauntered dawn the platform the Sierra Café. Paua- ing before it he surveyed it dublously for a mament, then put one sun-tanned, efficient hand upon the handle of the e screen door and entered, accompanied by a cloud of flies. “Dinner ready?" he inquired of Duity, Duffy glanced at the clock behind him, "“Toill be in ten minutes,” he informed his nde a “Mac's twenty minutes early to-l Mac was the neer of the iron steed am ping an the track outade, Geena te at the Sierra resiaurant wast ted by Mac's achedules, he and his conducter iseing the star boarders, The young man flashed a row of strong white teeth nt this information, “There are sixtecn of us us: I and - drilling crew. mu eall the boys,” he stopping: ba pees oor and beckenin ihe rang men arese, pic ve — and filed into the restaurant, “Dinner for sixteen, Misa Marah," Dufly's voice boomed, AG the word “Marsh,” the wheeled about and found himself Toaking into the y oyes of a quiet-looking girl in the apron of a wuilres, beh hind the counter, He recognized her at once og the girl he had eollided with at the elevator the day he went to see Mr. Hlass, “Yea, Mr. Duffy,” the girl replied. She gave the young man in the Palm Beach suit a glance of swift serutiny as the fifteen others ranged themselves in a row upon the stecla at the counter, then her eyes, arsh,”" suid the young man, addreas- ing her with a smile; “that's the place I'm looking for—the Marsh place,” he girl raised her eyes to the spembker, then let them travel down the row of faces lined up belere her, Ske smiled sali Sells gg he the men who are to we is she said, “I'm Nora fark é Sais man held out his hand with an answering 8 “My name is Ben Callister, I'm the driller in charge." He looked at her in silence for amoment os if he was tryi i make up a Tind about something. ‘T releasin and he said, looking alot him, er awn this place?" The girl flushed. “T work hare," she informed him, Ben Callister’s: ayes twinkle, “Well, you won't have to very long," be anid in a low volte. “T hope not," she replied. “We've met before, 1 think,” Callister said, reminding her of the epizode a woek earlirr. “Ch, yes, IT remember now," the girl cchurnndl: "T thought your face was farmviliar.”* When they had given their orders Calllis- ter questioned her about the distance to her place, and ashed her if she knew where he could rent a track. “T've got a iit cor loaded with lumber fer the derrick, out there,” he told her. Mr. Blass will be out In the morning, I wint to get the stuff hauled out right away. My employer is anxious to begin drilling at once.’ He pi “T guess you are tao," he added. “os she told him. “I've had all I want of dey farming. There's a man by the name of Stanley down the track half a mile whe bas a big truck. I think you enn poe him te hau your lumber, He hauled wursa—lor the house." 'Continged on Page 8]}

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''foatineed fram Page 78! You live on the place then?" Callister ked. ee Yes—I and my father," the girl replied, rr HE derrick was finished and Callister wee watch men removing the planking fram the newly constru eon- erebe starter hole one afteroeon two weeks preigc the girl and her father came up the trai. Ar, Blass, moist and perapiring, wos sit- ting on a Gimber in the shade af the tool sherk, fanning himself with his Panama hat. He arose as the two rounded the curner of the tent, and hold out hia hand with a word af greeting. Something in old Nass aeyes made him pause, He glanced gh the girl, who ij paced hia praf- i d, then shot Callister a quick, Prorat es tlt.| glance. Evidently someone ha eal blahbing. "Well?" be demanded, on his defense. Od man Marah teok o step forward, his slight wasted figure bent threnteningly’. "EL met Warren, of the Buena Vista Oi] CODE, down at Duffy's today," he “Wher I tald him you were rilling for water he laughed in my face.” Mr. Blass drew his breath in sharply. Then running his hand into his inside vest — he palled oUt his pin-seal * cigar eelected a cigar and removed Its wel erelully with his’ pe pentl-hondled penknife, Lighting the he blew «a cloud af fragrant smoke a rd. What ar poets going to do about it?" he waked, flecking un leveuanary speck of me from his carefully creased trousers. I'm—I'm going to make you and your ie get a off my bland, derrick and all you ad I" the old man retorted in a b of fury at the —s ong attitude. “fat soll hee Le that stuil— your land?" Pulling a document ian he vatket bee held it up before the oll man’s eyes. “Your daugh- ter'a deed, “Mr. Marsh, to this ten peres, recorded two weeks ago. Ruin along bern an don’t bother me. I'ma busy man.” "You're a—erook, that's what you are!" Miursh shouted. “Tl have the law on you! 1 —— “Go aa far as Pla like,” Mr, Blass re- torted placidly. elana mie|ent te écliver to your ni ter all the water I trike hen= in drilling, in consideration far euch ghe deeded me this ten acres, If ‘here's anything. legal about that you milter show mr, “Water! Phaugh! You knew there was all ter,” Karsh etonmerd. “Nobody knows tag you might atrike ol, Of is a gamble, Mr, Marsh—a big facie, Besices, vou didn't any nothin about oil, Water was what you wan If we get it it’s yours, I SHUPe You," “And if wou strike oil it's ra, eh?" “Well, of course,” Mr. laza’ * Drilling a ie is a CXpensive propeal- tio, T atand a eee chance of sinking Gfty thousand dod are here without getting one cent in returns “Yoo mean to tell me that you'd have tacen the chanee of losing amount if vod hadn't thought there waa oil here’ ul re arrested for false pretenses.” Mr, ee aneket heartily. IIe wos relly armed “Tt ain't what a man thinks that poll him in jail, Mer, Marsh. It's what he aims his came to.” The prometer wagged fat forefinger in Marsh's face to emphasize his remarks. "I might think: this whole ection wae full of, fr instances, diamonds, and go dl for them. Lf I found that i Wee mo Dl mape you'd have ne arrested for gesting: Tig. t. Hutsupposel dint find wo diamonds, ewulkl I have you arrested, Mr. Marsh, for letting me think wrong and wn ahead lasing my money, digging?’ Marsh ao movement af imputgenes, “Your twisted arguments don't atand with me!" be retorted, his thin face white with anger. *" You swindled me donee before. The lows of this state must be pretty rotten when such as you are walking around loose instead af being i uh anal." "Tut, tut," said Mr. Blass reproachtfully, Veserntion for the law that ‘had alwaya erved him so well was his long suit, Callister f off the derrick platform ast then and i pelnes them, attracted by the argument, He glanced at the girl quea- Voningly, then at his employer, “What's the matter?" he naked. "Matter enough, Mr. Callister," Flas: I plied. “These people sign an agreencit. aod then try to La 8 rt.” THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 81 The girl threw her head back haughtily, She gave Callister a curious level glance which included the gang on the derrick, aa well as himself and his employer, “You people have taken advan of my ignorance of—of the law to awindle Baul my Asari oa pboter with Lear a O; Wn am promote bat. We Te sh adn Ll ta cheaters.” Taking her father’s arm she turned her back po Collister and Els, ond the two me and girl, walked down Shs peal Mr, Blnss winked at Callister. Tete af spunk that girl has," he ehortled. “A good looker too." He mul’ his double chin reflectively. “If I waa prea years younger I'd go after her and have her ewting out of my hand in a week." Callister glanced at Mir, Blass’ perfectly maniclied right hand. “She'd have to be mall wasan his lips, bat what be anid I'll be ready te start drilling in the fandaln If I judge right we ht to strike of] sand in less than a month, We're drilling in decomposed granite, and it's set aa cheese," “Fine,” said Mr, Blass, “Don't forget that ['m paying you to bait down expenses, Bo don't waste any money. “DT never do," Callister replied quietly. ¥ UPFY Jovked up from his stool by the cash register when the driller amd his crew filed in to supper that evening. A seowl rode, slack saddle, across the nes- faurant man's usually cheerful counte Floor, “VY oit're a fine fock of erooles,”* he said, including them all, but addressing Callis- ter, "TL ought to refuse to feed - ‘you. If Nota drops a spider inte your coffer I wouldn't be surprised, but delighted. You're sixteen fine excuses for a coroner's inquest," unre, the tool dresser, wn old wizeneed= ooking desert rat, spoke up. “What's ovtin' you, grandpa? Stow the gab and trot aut your ovulligan, We're ungry, and when this crew's hungry we eat ‘em olive." Nora teak their orders without a word, ere watched her out of the corner of hia ty8, but not once did she glance his way. en the rest bed fished he stayed behind on epee Nata wae clearing away the hes drom the end of the counter farthest remowed from him. “Another jaece apple pie, Miss Marsh, please," he saiad. When she placed the pie before him a neament later and wrete out the amount of his check his hand closed about hers hold- ing the pencil, “Topant te know if [ was included in that remark of yours this afternoon," he mche tried to withdraw her hand, but Cal- | lister held it fast. Her first Hopales vara. Lan strike him with her free hand, but some thing in the young driller's mes deterred er. “Certainly!” she blazed out. Callister let go her hand. Nora got the impresion that the look in his eyes wos more of contempt than of anger. "T don't Krew what Your apneement with my employer is,’ he said quistly, “T's none of my business. [ve taken the job to drill this well, and I'm going to drill ik” As he picked up his check o cold, sbeely look conve inte his eyes. “You're the first human being that called me a cheat and got away with it. This fact may Interest you.” Witheut glancing at the amount af his check he tossed a toenty—dollar bill on the enunter, picked up his hat and strode out af the retaurant. When Nora gave Dufly the check and the money the restaurant kerper rang up the amount, fourteen dollart andl seventy. She turned pn the | five cents, and handed the girl the re- | mainder, : “Well,” he snid, “they're goo ependera at any Fate. A tip five and a quarter is Tot. to be aneceed at,” The girl Isid the money down on the rubber mat beside the cash register. “Plea: give Mer. 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Mace Exeliadior Storea in Principal Cater, oa Agraiy i Ayre, if there isn't a * ‘tarcumd- Capper" in your locality, ered ws ihe ome of you Feguior dealer, Regmre sail les THE SATURDAY rarcena: So when Callister and his men for breakfast the following morn- ing he waited untal d thay wits all seated, then beekoned to Callister, ehinkin, rat he had made a mistake in payin his check the ni nt before, arose, y handed him the silver dollara ihe quarter, and said ina a voloe that could be heard a block away, “Wiss Marsh are me to give you back your tip, wi The ritler sian at the money in he hand, then back over his shoulder at the zirl behind the counter, who never so much er eyit. e Without ii haa of comment Callister walked to the door, opened it and threw the six coins cut into the street, Then he returned to bia seat and picked up the bill of fare “A howl of patminal mush with plenty cream, and a double stock of bu i. Mins Marah, please,’ he sald in a steady wale. Sheet eay gave him » brief nod and posed on to the next. Duffy drew a long breath and seratched his head. Hel worried. When the men had gone ond Nora wis huey in the kitehen the revtaurant keeper left his seat and sauntered outside, Look- ing up and down the street to satisfy him- he wat not being observed, he the ineh-aleep dust of Ineca’s main fare with the toa a he slip hooked Fora dll minute he stead, th inte the armboles of his = whistling. Then stooping qaic’y o picked up the six etins, stick t a pret and sauntered back to his high stoo When Nora returned from t eee ha wae still] whistling energet real Fr 7ARLY one mornin Warren, field man Buena Vista Ol il Company, lister, Warren Was an easy-fo0ing, the depres week doe oe i -mannered litth man, with a wa beard, rR Fakes and ve ‘on top af ead, Callister several beg a a compan as ho was for hi tian af itn one apr tha best in Southern Californis. The two men were friends, Warren had no desire to antagonize a man whom he might need at any moment, eo he held out his hand with a smile and snid in his mild- est tone, “Ftecken you're going to strike oil here, Ben?” “Search me," Callister grinned. ‘I'm hired to drill a twosthousande-foot hole, What might be at the other end of it don't wOITY me.” Warren gavethodriller a quick, searching apes, then dropped his eyes. rm ai people have been wondering how vou fellows got the Bins to go looking for il around bere,” he anid “Search te again," ‘Callister replied, “ ATl T know ia that Blass left word for ard at the Consolidated, where I hed j finished a well, to come and see him. a he told me where he waa going to drill I thought he was crazy, but my iness is to drill and not to iva geological melvien, Besides, I've struck oll in some pret unlikeh } places the Past three years, Bo hustl my crow together, and here we ire Watren smiled eoftly. “Wot so crazy—this man Blas,” he a ie hae and, young f the Teputa- rotary drillers said, "We've been scouting this territory for three months, fl t. What we'd like to know is, How in blazes did it lenk out? We've been wearing muzzles and rubber heels all summer, Funny about him knowing to drill on this spot. Of the whole section, only this upper ten seres Covet urder Blair's report a8 poasible oil- bearing: That i is ry A Callister agreed. “Another thin Warren went on. “Old man Marsh Ewe meé the paper his daughter rignes with your employer. It's A rank swindle, Ben—the rankert [ve seen in my Life, and [ve seen a few, Gets wie girl to deed him this ten acres under text to drill for water for her." He pul ed a document from his pocket and handed it to Callister, “Thad my stenographer make a copy wf it when Marsh came to see me last week. Fiead it.” Callister tan his down the typed page then beckoned Warren to a seat be- hirn in the in the fool shack, while he perused it more carefull cats!” he exclaimed when he | had Shed pant ing it. “That man Eloss EVENING POST is an artist and no mistake. Robs them of their eyetecth and makes them sign him “Pretty rank, ch, Ben? Warren said with a nod. “Rank is right,” said Callister. “No wander they raised the roof. They were u here a week ago—the old man and ter. Nice girl, Misa Marah." i bat aR genera She' ported he w B AO r= Bed the ald man by working ot Dniity's. Daffy feeds Marsh. That's part of the bargain. The two of them came out here fram Towa a couple of years ee =to keep the old man from passing out. The girl was a Bchool-teacher back there. Your em- plese sold them this A) section for a ‘arm, When they get tie me starving the went to week." and Trowned mildiy. “It Shisha as if the people that con lenst afford, it ore always the ones whe pwindled ot 7s es," said Callister ns’ my ber youth som berny avin F Nadel amay in epi Tada of Duty taurant. “How far you dawn?” Warren sskesi f a Pause. “A lithe aver four hundred feet We'll hit sand in less than a month—unless we strike hardpan. I don't think we will,” “Vat Biche 8 arren . “Tes eaay : all the way down, Blair re- 7 B AMOS, I thought maybe yoau'dd like to know what sort af a man you're vee for." TT em Ben." “Well. se lik my long, Instead of going straight home after supper that evening, Callister sauntered across the strect to the depot and tried, unsuccessfully, to engage Jean Bullpit, the etation agent, in conversation at his open window, Bullpit talked, but in monologue, a monologue d ainet those who use the law to aid therm in awindling help- less womenfolks and old men. Callister listened until Bullpit ran out of breath, then aaid, “I knew you mean well, sae real ¢ punch fined face for you. ry it and see what'll hepper to you," the station agent invited him. Callister shook his head, etal would mn—to mo. The 5. P | be a man short fer a week or BO, that’ a all.” Hullpit seowled at the driller, "You hate yourself, don't you?" he growled. “Not particularly," Callister replied perfially. “Well, there's a Jat of us in this town that do," the station agent informed him, “and don't you forget it. Lf I had my way shout it you aed your outhit would be hit- ting the ties aouth by daglight temoarrow morning.” Callister aust “Te'd take a lot of you be moake ws," “Oh, I don't know. There's a aight of WB here who know how to nurst a pair off shorting irons “That's all Hehe with os," Callister nned, “TI and my crew pe lie travel epled, Trouble is our middle name," “That so? Well, maybe we'll teach how te spell it hackwards—yet,” Bu pit phate pulling down the window with * Callister stralled about town until he aaw Duffy lock up his place for the night. When Nora came out of the alley a moe ment later and walked down the road he es hi ik x neressi is until he was abreast. * Powe an apology for cus stat with that ip. Moy only ex at I was so mad that I forget the a on i owe me ip the girl replied, ss rh a Conalde d th "All right. eT it a present then." sea bit her lip and made no reply. There are ane of two things I'd ike to know about,” Callister went on iniper- turhably. “You bought this section from pr age “Wou put all the money you had inte it—or nearly all?" “T don't see that my affairs are any of your buainess,"" she retorted hanghts "They are—and they are mot I'm mak- ing them my business—if you don't. mind,” be tis whirled ban him angrily, mind! Fo wish you'd leave me alone! Callister laughed. Th ke May 3, ipa “You've got the same kind of a tem that [ have. We'd make a fine pair,” nerioualy he added, "I'm butting into your affairs for the simple remson that they need butting into—un you want to sling hash at Druifv'’s for the rest of your life You need a man to take core of you," “Tadeed !" abe remarked ys “Tea, Indeed," Callister reiterated: “and I'm goin to elect myself a committee ol " wT he “icl so ed. short, fist) clenched e girl s “Qh, if I were only a man!" she cried out r'd— Tdon't koow what I'd da ta 7 rsa“ CuLigRi ‘hae’ aad apt “T'm glad you're not—a man,”” be said, “bot not beouse of the wallaping I might "he added gently. Then aa she im and teak the path across lots to the hose be called out after her softly, “Good nkght, barney!" Mr. Blass and Frishie motored out from ae city ed pei Reborn week, Mir, Bless wa in the usual umer preceding the successful ae aa deal, as he termed his questionable transactions, Fris- bh wa morose silent, The junior partner was euffering from an aggravated case of writer's cramp, from. ing wouch- ers for the new ae phe Half of the firm's bank balance had been depleted, and only half of the hole in the ground, as he gloomily refi to it, had been dug. Chills of horror ated down his spine when be had itemized the first weekly expense secant. ‘Listen to thie!" he shouted, “Twelve dollare a day for a well digger. Ten more for a tool dresser, Does he fhe manicure ‘em boot Is the man crmzy? o hundred dollara a —wapges alone. Forty dollan aday more for meals. Did he hire a bunch of catriches, does he maybe board them at the Waldorf AstoriaT" Mr. Blass explained patiently the differ- ence between a well driller and a well dig- ger. Instead of al Frishie waved a bill pe three hundred and eighty dollars’ eons of gasdine—a th lone —in “Maybe you can explain this also. Is it that we have Barney OldGeld running Tne th tetot igo dilute the gaso- ine wi ape champagne? ht centa a gallon! For that price I Teel fi ma, almost, a cellar with bootleg.” Mr. Blass explained here that the ga line was deed for the engine and that its Price—thirty-elght cents a gallon —waa due to the throehundred-mile haul acroes the desert by tank car, When he suggested that Frishle aceamy him to the prap- erty, his partner dervurred at firat. But later, drawn as a criminal to the scene of his: erime—to Frishie, poying out moner, his own, Was synonymous with erime—be to moter out with Mr. Blaga. For the best port of the three-bundred- Tile drive he sat listening in agonized silence to the high-powered cylinders eating up a gulon of gas every fifth sand-strewn mile: and when they arrived at the well, tired and dusty, he took one amazed look at the derrick, then exclaimed, ** Thirtr- one thousand ‘dollarat For that thing! Far thirtyame thousand dellare [could build me on Wilshire Boulevard a hous, with a Jap cook and seven bathrooms.” “Qh, shut up!" Mr. Blass explocied ax the two men, hot and perapiring, climbed the Ween k platform. bis. ‘Galli ons it os T. Ee ter? Mr. Bl Blass ejaculated, pleased at his i “All rig t ‘the driller replied, acknowl- ed his eciplayer'a intrse urtion of Fre- bie with a brief ned, “We're down twelve hundred f Frshie poked his long nose over the edge of the caain and looked down, os if cz- pect impse there some of his van- ished “Bauch a business!" be muttered, Fir RST-CLASS well driller can do things with a well that would make a magician sick with en lister wae o first-class driller. He the reputation of being abe use his head is oe Began gency. been using it for asi week—since his talk with Warren, . He was down now where his drilis tod him that he was nearing oi] sand, and bis nose confirmed the suspicion, Gas had been tladng in the casing for the past two shifts. (Hata an Page #5)

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ffteotinued from Poge &2 Ee ed mack Le oomabiered bie po di the i. For 5 tu half hour he ant in his king—about his own reputation cea ‘er, Mee aout the weacrupulous piracy of Blaze, hia employer, but ap tyes a the ] who had been bucking the the wal anded, with a a grew hard, amd when he finally eae ive nurroered ta mere slits, That night, under the cover of darkness, he ert a wigan team down to the creel which skirted the lower end of the adjain- =e quarter section, for a load of atlobe Adobe clay is inseparably interwoven with the hi af Southern California. Sun- dried bricks were made from it by the indans and the early settlens for their éwellings. The ruined arches of the old — ue Sane in the history of arin rg ig aticlelewt af elicky clay, a dark brown substance, aoft aa peat in win- [ef, Tenacious gs India rubber in 8 ring. and hard a8 conerete in summer. the adhesive qualities of a leech, and the ingencirahioness of an elophant's hide. Med with straw ond smoothed down with a trowel ft mahed an excellent plasber, eg damp it sheds water like a gaber- "Callister found a new use for adobe clay. Mines it with water to the consletency of tar he poured it down the drill casing by the backetful, As the drill ote its way into the ofl and the wet mud for B onal of ai mE Pa the walla of ihe. bone, wis opan ening prevon OW irom Sowing through. Watching his drills closely os they wehe pulled up for real alny he noted that their points were stic oil, Hass had giewed right. There wie mil there—lots of i But be wag Bet ng not ff Callister equl help After three shifts of te get any af It— it, drilling the forma- tion a He had gone through eighty poe Be nd to the er stratum be Pulling out his drill he lowered 2 six- ink cating inte the bare, thus shutting 08, for good, any low of Then smiling softly to himself he wired Bla at Lod Angeles, ond went on drilling. He had one trick more up his sleeve. it failed he could still break Blase by drill: “When Blast and Frishie arrived from the ety in Mr. Blass’ elght-cylinder roadater Callister led them inte oat office behind the tool aback, and shut the door. “Well, gentlemen, she'll blow inside the bent eight hours," he said. "I that you'd like to be an hand for the fire works, ao I wired yeu." Mr. Blass rubbed hia fat handa. “You think there's plenty of oil there then Mr. Callister?” be wsked anxiously, "I don't think it—I know it,” the driller replied_ oe telazed his gloom momentarily, mitted himself one of his rare «miles. Pa abnt time,” he grumbled. “We've si ad pba sinty heieeod oe somethin tt ppen qui we'll be dow! mg for a men! thaket: i “Something wil bappen—peity: quick,” Callister aewured bien, McFee, the tool dresser, came Into the * then. He nodded to Blasa and Fris- it. ratte a gang of men with rifles com- up the hill, none he sald to Callister. ft. Blass’ ade Renee eh car ar the arms ef hiss ate: is -amoath, le face tumed the color of chalk. Friab silat exwth drooping, from McFee to Callister, The driller glanced owt of the window and Be noerowd of perhaps fifty armed men ‘oa up the trail. He turned to McFee, out ete | irons all around, ‘he saiel etly. “The curtridge =a are in that se he added, pointing isa bon under the desk. ‘“Hetter move them upon thecderrick platform. Rowse the tien shifts and form oa line around the Setirk, [I'l be with you In a minute.” He turned to Hass and Frishie as McKee fried the box of curtridges outside, YT ca gentlemen had better where yerare,” he said. “There might AOmMe <ooting going on ground here in o little “tise reckon you'd lowk good to them oF tar “We'll stay,” said Mr. Blass hoarsely, ind Frishbbe seconded the motion with no forward droop of hia head. ; Callister opened the drawer af his desk ind took from it bis witomntic pistel, THE SATURDAY bigs extro clipe of of cattridiies inte he stepped ovtalde en the advancing men were within a hundred yards of the derrick he called them to halt, and asked them what they wanted. The men paused. Jean Bullpit waa the firnt to speak. “We want you and your gang to get aut," he said briefly. quicker," Duffy, the Slippin his “The sooner the restaurant man, applied pl ge formar. Both men were Lister pulled out bis nistol. "T suppose you know what the law says about attacking a man, or his representa: tives, with | ¥ weapons on hia own lard," he sad Bulipit noe 1 i “We're net losing sloop over Ww. the law says,” he vjecred. “Perhaps net," Calllster came back, "hut yoo! have a nice long one if you don"t observe it." He raised the pistol. | ““The fret man that comes a step nearer will go back down the trail feet firat. I took the job of drilling this well and I'm pi to finish jt if T have to Inca mass funeral. Think it over." “The men conferred a Sieh briefly; then Bullpit said, "We'll give you ene howr to pull ovt—or be starved out. Callister shook his head. “Come again. We won't pull out, and well choot nls way-to grub =f nenemary. “Tt necessary, all right," Dutly chipped in. “You won't get nothing to eat from mo—not fora hundred dollarg.o meal.” The ae aytreneed # short i prea bhai eplit groups of twoa and threes Proseeded to surround the derrick on all oe joined hit men on the platform. We're in for a fight, "he said. “Can I depend on all of do *“Sure-you con, boas,” t falar hirn in unison, Palco lemme , then.” He turned to the tool “Gather u I chs, Mae and them with sand, and pile them up around the derrick, shift on duty, go back to et is drilling." Looking around he noted that the at- tack arty also were preparing for a Biege. ‘They were y piling up brush and digging trenches in sand, He amiled gnimly, His last eard atill remained un- played. ee IE Sen ane penines 0 i are history in te aanila-b Fol igh ha without fowl or water, and under the basin desert sun in midsurn- determined men deed mar, a hu a whole community. When ly ran low on the third shift Callister eal ed the mon together. “We need ev drop of water the tank to keep the drill going,” he informed them, "That means nothing ss dri now on until we're through. W' our way to water, but some of us are bound to killed. Hove you got the nerve to stick it out? “Boga, we'll go te the devil for you if the word,” one of the men replied. others nodded their agreement to this homely sentiment, as entPenae yee salts elit onto o tha ‘im grim with pride about the circle of Oy WOES. bene i i af that gine pt lenguering foresa grew advised a rush during the bight, but: | mr ther day ihe d they'll t " Another of it, and & run ol of water,” he sai knowing how great a truth he was uttering. “Ther ll be too wenk to fight. We can dump ‘em on o flat ear ond ahip ‘em aouth then." For the next ten houra alxteen hungry and worn-out men awaited the deasrt dawn that would be the beginning of another day af suffering. At five o'clock the red ball of the sun crept up aver the rim of the w eelieber called the men together for the | last tine. "Tm going to nak ge to stick until ] cry, ‘hel —no longer," he snid in a pore FOLGE, The men noelded in silent fe egret None spoke. Hut Callister their foces felt mesured, Blass staggensl out of the office just then, fll by Frishie. All the pro- mater's bravado and complacency were ne. Hie face hed turned o ghastly green, iris clothing waa ciienrranget and hia eol- lar wos pushed askew, Me walked with tha EVENING POST i 1/1 Hl | RU Badger air ar French Bristle: a brush to fill your fart aprice fo p, YOUT PUTSE. TRADE MARK MADE IN U.S.A- STERILIZED || for in no other w au getting the GENUIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION, take te luart this frank ond sieple warn- ing: —Coanfusing imitations of our trade name are not uncommen, BUT SIMILARITY [5 NOT IDENTITY! A boosh may beor 0 RUBBERSET CO. TTT TAIT

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST oa NR i if f Bai i L it i is | fhe Cow te a Prosperity mantfests itself invariablyin an in- creased demand for steel’ From farm implements and machinery to pleasure cars and the fine tools of expert industry, little that is important in American life can be done without the use of steel. Coal furnishes the power tha tra nsforms iron ore into the vital and necessary steel. It is esti- mated that the ironandsteel industries@f America consume approximately 100,000,000 tons of bitu- minous coal each year. Three-quarters of atonare required to produce one ton of ironingotsand four tonsare consumed in making one of finishedsteel. From our 92 mines in the four great coal pro- ducing states, The Consolidation Coal Company supplies a large volume of bituminous coal pre- cisely suited to the needs of steel production. Consolidation Coal of high heat content and greatest possible cleanliness appeals to the indus- trial manager with an eye for economy. THE CONSOLIDATION COAL COMPANY INCORPORATED Munson Building - New York City FIRST MATL BANK BUDC, Dictroit, Mficb TRUST BLOC, hasbvngfes, 0. 0. 147 MARKET STREET, Paorteneati, WW A FISHER, BLDG., Chicago, Jifinais, CONTINENTAL ALIMG., Falwnare, fifi, UNION CENTRAL BLOG... Cincimoatl, Cite STATE MUTUAL BLDG., aster, ffi, FIRST KATLOGARR BEING. Aoseole, Fa. LABD TLE BLDSG., Pdladeledic, (ORTH WESTERN FUEL 00., MERCHANTS MATL BANK BLDG... St Paul, Aft, Saka Ama) NORTH WESTERN FUEL 00., ROCKEFELLER BLDG, Cieimed, Chita. EMPIRE COAL COMPANY LT, SHAUGINESSY BLIM. Moniro!, Quaker. Y Comeolidadicn \ Coal | lister himself tool | he'd have te shut of the e | drilli gait of odrinken man, and when he dimbed up the platform fo his movementa were those of a huge, ungainly turtle. Etchind him stalked Frishie, hatless, with his long arms dangling at his sides and the alma af hie handa outward, ape ashion. “Where's the—drinking water?” Blass gasped, “In there,” Callister said, pointing te the tank. The promoter reeled forward. “We couldn't stand it—any longer, Came out—ta get a drink.” "Yoo came to the wrong place,” Callis- ter said coldly, "What! Is the tank empiy?" "Mo, but we need every drop for the drill, You can't have any.” “But [ want a drink!" Blnas shrilled, elutehing at his throat. Callister laughed hoarsely. “There are sixteen of us here in the same nothon, You're ne better than the rest, Cet back where you belong and stay there." “But we'll—die of thirst!" Blass "Foul die of something else if you don't get off this platform or atop your Wubbering,” the driller informed him. Mr. Blass | dawn at the pistol in Callister's hand. With a ealp of terror he slid down the ladder into Frishie's long arms and the two of them staggered back to the tool tent. As the desert day advanced the men. begun showing signs of weakening. Callis- ter moved among them, hing and jok- ing, Sharing them Inte taking a evip upon themenlyes, He cajoled them, told them. what he thought af them, bitterly, point= edly, prayleg the while for time. E noon the engineer collapsed and Cal- charge of the engine, When he measured the water in the tank he found that lees than eix inches remained. The heat was now almost unbearable. The aun faye poured upon them like sheets of molten metal that seemed to break and become shattered against the blinding whiteness of the desert sand into minute plnpoints of heat which pierced their skins and drained their bodies of the last veatig¢e of moisture, Callister lifted hia | Above them a buzzard soared in long lazy circles, He returned to hie seat at the engine with a eayage shrug of his shoulders, interminable: hours dragged by. His throat was parched. His tongue had awollon to shocking proportions. [t seemed as if wee no longer room for it in his mouth. Every bone and joint ached. He felt sick and faint. His bedy from the wiist down was a cumbersome, leaden thing, that responded to his will only at his moet determined effort. The short staccato gasps of the engine fell Lae hia eara with maddening maonat- anv. He had a sudden frenzied ine bo leap upon it and shatter it to bite, e sounded the tank in. A scant ted inches remained. One hawr more and ne. He was in hardpan, and withowt water to keep the drill coo ‘d have to shut down. In one hour it'd be all over. His judgment as a driller hung upon a scant ba muuniubest. @ wea bending over the & the lubricating cups, when loo saw Nor coming up the trail, Droppin the ofl can he atraightened up and shad his sun-blinded eves with his hand. The girl paused at the nearest group of watchers and exche words with 7 briefly, then came toward the derrick, McFee, the tool dreaser, raised his pistal almost involuntarily, If the girl saw the motion she did met heed it, but kept com- ing. Fifty feet from the derrick ahe stongeed. " Don't zou think this las gone far enough?" she demanded of Callister, The driller tried to reply, but the words Tose bo a3 ee povaneed: ee ss, Heari © girl's voice, stage out-of the tool shack. “Water, water!" he pasped, dropping at her feet: in the sand, The girl shrank back. She stared at the prestrate man, then at the row of thirst- maddened faces that. | wk her clully aver their breastwork of sandbags. Turning awiftly she tan cdewn the trail ta the near- eat group of watchers. Before the men could prevent it she had snatched a two galion canteen from them and atarted back to the derrick with it. As Callister reached for the canteen and atralghtenel up one of the sand hume mocks behind him spat a puff of emoke, ine, filling hy Wp he Ad ay 13, 1937 The report of the fle waa deadened in the nol of the i, but he felt the sharp ating of the bullet im his left shoulder, utching the canteen in the crook af his wounded arm he whirled about, raised his pistel and emptied it at the hummock, The would-be murderer rose to his knew, snwed the sir with his arms Fras then fell acroas the hummock and lay still. Callister replaced hia pistel in his pocket and wnecrewed the cover of the canteen. Then to the girl's amazement be erred, aeroas the platform and two gallons of water into the casing. “Fifteen minutes more time," he mut- tered thickly, os he threw the empty cao- teen back on the aand to her. Min went up from hia men. Blass and bent his fists on the sand. girl climbed the ladder to the plat- "Please, pean stopl" she implored Callister, “You'll all bo killed." Callister clutching his wounded arm smiled and shook his head. “You're hurt!” she cried, “Ch, you to ait on a beam and stubborn, arre t man!" She forced im examined his wound, When she Jeaned forward he swept her into his right arm and laid his parched burning lips to ber cool ones. There was a Tush and a roar behind n, A shiver seomed to pass thromgh the platform; then a reeol. The derrick rocked and swayed. Crut of the mouth of the sixteen-inch casing burst a column of edal sparkling artesinn water! Tt rose ten feet in the alr, thes collapsed, fan-fashion, and struck the platlorm with the roar of a cataract, engulfing the man anc the girl completely, and almost sweeping them from the beam where they were sitting. Callister dropped to his knees and buried his face in the cool turbulence and drank— with pore of hig thirst-racked body Again and again he plan his face into it i drank; and the gurl clung to him, A shri ; The “You wanted water a minute ago,” he shouted to Blass, “Take a swim and drown, you croak!" as “7 WANT you to tell the truth, Hen,” Warren said one evening two daye later when the tea men werp for gathered at DD ‘a over a bottle of not be ‘oti . Did you or did you not F oul Callister stroked his bandaged orm solemnly, = “That would be admitting that I had bungled or—faked o well," enume back with aemile. “Either would queer me for life asa driller, But if you want my advice it’s this: Geet OUT CMe together and drill for all you're worth." "You thine years foxy," bh Gu Ehink you're pretty , he growled good-naturedly, “Hut I've been on to you fora week. When I found that somebody had been swiping “dobe, at the dark of the moon from the creek on our roperty To put two and two together," eo offered Callister hia cigar case, “You ean move your rig aver on the quarter section next to you and go to it, We've lrased it from the 8. P.on royalty, You get a bonus of 2 thousand dollars if ou strike oi within sixty ane But for the lowe of Mike be careful. [ don't want no second i on my land. ‘The floor of tha whole pie tas a lake, Blair saya." Callister blew a cloud of smoke ceiling- ward, “L knew IT couldn't miss it if I kept on going,” he chuckled. “This gang of rube cane near spilling the beans on me though.” _ When can you be ready to start drill- ing?" Warren asked, ‘Th two weeks," Ten replied. ‘There are two things I want te attend to first. 1 want to record a deed and take out a li- cense “What! Warren exclaimed. “OV od haven't been drilling in this county with- out a license?" % * said Een with a wink, ‘“T've been drilling all life without that kind Of a license. But DT won't de it any more, Fred.” He handed the other a legal-leoking document, “Blass deed, conveying bark te my future wife ten acres of land." Hae amied reminigceently, “He owed me are the crew for the last week's drilling, so | agreed to tuke the ten acres im payment, faned out? Well, | guess yea! I had to atnke him and his long-faced partner to their breakfasts, and thirty ealleria ol gas to pet back home on.”

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BH. [i WAS 2 memorable morn- ing, this twenty-third of May, 1712. The flowery frost was fallen from the branches and the smorous promise wf June glowed in the sunshine. In the forking streeta of Londen the curious crowds were clad cap- a-pie in the high plumage of the season, Catches a song were inthe air, and where the epaces were green there was the whistle and whir of birds, Ruchard Town ant in the lumbering cart with the Newgate ordinary at his side and thought he had never seen the old city so mellow, ao magnifi- cent. Never before had he remarked its ways amd vistus, Never before had he felt the same kinship with its throngs. And never hed the women, who stared at him aa he passed, tugged at his male imagl- nation with auch exipence, He gazed back at them with colm, unflinching eyea. He felt a vibrancy, a sentiones in his nerves and veins, He was glad to be alive on this tumultuaus morning—and sorry. “You do not know, air," eald he to the ordinary, “that this is my birthday.” The religious turned a sour eye upon him. “Thad thought you would not jest at ——" Richard Town did not bet him finish. : "You do not believe me; and yet it is eo," he insisted. "TET live unti] noon I shall have completed my forty-first year.” Something in hit melancholy smile and the visioning cost of his eve caught the ondinary’s attentlon and wrought belief, “Ts thia truth, Town?" he demanded. “As God may have mercy on me, it is so. Porty=one yeors age my sainted mother bore me in Spitalfields, and I came brawling Inte the world aa the bells announced fio. The preacher Jet his head slip from its prim erectness and stored before him at the buck of the driver, wordless for one. Presently the racking, springless cort bruised its wheela on the last of the cobbles and essed upon the grate ful dirt roads in the hoalf-raral section approaching Tyburn. Steere Measures of Old Times “FOHERE are the Tyburn elms," said Town, “ond there is the crowd, dressed fora fete. | Like te think it is my birthday they have come to celebrate.” “You are a strange man, Town," said the preacher. "Why da your thoughts run on these things st such a time?" “Becade: the world is yery benwtiful and life is very sweet,” murmured the merchant—“and I always liked ta indulge my fancies,” The cart tumed into the open space ond wedged its way forward through the crowd, “Ae what of your immertal soul?’ demanded the ordinary. "That ia in your hands,”" said Town. “Tt should be in your mind,” “Perhaps. But 0 have another thought." "What?" “Aten will say," eald Richard Town, “that I celebrate to-day the strangest birthday any man has known,” The cor stopped abruptly before the tall structure, The two sheriffa on the rear seat sprang down. The parson dropped his head inte kis hands and prayed aloud, Richard Town stood up in the cart and etared again ab the inviolate green of the Tybura ela, at the flower and glow af the fielda, at the feckless blue of the vernal sky, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By Edward H. Smith DECORATIONS He took into his lunge « great draft of the opulent sunlight and turned quiet, smiling eyes upon the multitude. “My frends," he called resolutely, “this is my birthday, IT aee you have come to help me honor it." He aprang down from the cart and walked briskly to the first sheriff, from whom he took the white cap of doom. In amoment he had mounted the scaffold, slipped the harness about his neck and placed Himself ta adjust the cap, A pretty woman in the front row caught his eye and he bowed to ber. “Madam, my compliments,” said he, “And thank you for coming to my adventure.” He placed the cap over his head with easy aeuranee and gave the signal hieself, ; The drop fell. The rope lashed out like a serpent and jerked taut. The body plunged to the tether'a end, and Richard Town had been banged. He had been executed under the law of 17045 for conceol- ing ameta of the value of twenty pounds and for feeling from his creditors. His waa the first hanging wader thia strange and significant statute. In reality, Town had caused fifteen toms of tallaw, valued at four bandred pounds, to be shipped out of the country and had then ot- tempted to follow hia goods, taking hia money with him and defrauding thase he awed. The ship in which he had set sail waa driven back by a gale, and Richard Town was captured and brought te trinl and death, You may find a record of all this in the Old Newgate Culendoar, and you prauisk mart obpect if a later pene has sore What embroidered and adorned the tale. Early in the reign of Queen Anne in England there had been serious creditor trimmings, with the result that Parliament finally nominated this trick a felony in 1705, providing that whoever might conceal his assets anc ats tempt to fever his ereditera after April, 1707, should be publicly hanged. But Queen Anne in her darkest day never witnessed such a volume of this type of erime os is seen in the United Stutes on the brightest ome, This offense of trimming creditors, legally enlled com mercial fraud, is related, to be sure, to fraudulent bank- Fuptey, yet it ia a distinct offense, committed in ita own peculiar manner. Its technic, too, beara certain analo- fica to bankruptcy scheming; but the two things are dis- inet, since one fulla within the punitive powers of the national bankruptey wet, with ils wide rights, whereas the other must be prosecuted under the ordinary criminal law, unless circumstances should permit the harmed ereditora to throw the culprit. inte bankruptcy, In a former article | gave some authorities for the esti- mate that fraudulent baokrupts mulet American, business of sixty million dallurs a year. It is pousible to keep some sort af record in this matter and prove the probabilities at least. On the other hand, there is practically no check on BF GUERNSEY MOORE May (5, 1923 THE CREDIT TRIMMERS the credit trimmers, and only arash man would try to tabn- late the amounts they ates! annually, However, the ext judges of the eltuation tell me that the latter offense ta aa costly as the former. Ie is certain there are many hundreds of euch cases each year. Itigafaet thatin certain districts the reputs- tion of merchants for this sort of crime is so had that no browd eredilia can be got. When the National Industrial Tax Conference Was in session in Chicago two years ago, Faro witnesses eatimated the yourly turnover at anywhere from too hundred to six hundred billions of dollars. The question ares as to what a one per cent tax ob Fetal] sales would yield, and the economsts summoned said that in their opinion the Federal income fram such an impost must be between two and six billion dallars, Let ua tuke the mean and say that four hundred billions are spent yearly by the people of this coun- try. Ninety per cent of the goods ao retailed are eold to the dealora on credit. I nmeantion these figures only to show how vast is the field in which the credit crook operates, Inne other type of crime save stock or market swindling and bank defaleations ia the logs a crime eo great uw in this. Mr. 0. D. West, the veteran authority of the National Association of Credit Men, who has pot thirty- odd years of his life inte the detection and prosecution of these offenders, assures me that the creditor trimmer who takes only twenky or thirty thousand dollars is called o Biker. Fitty thousand dollars, says Mr. Weet, is probably the average log, And there have been cases in which a single trimming conspiracy cost the creditora o malllion dollars and even a million and a half, These things we are to witness presently. The Growth of Commercial Fraud ISTORICALLY it ia alittle difleult to exteh this mat- ter. I find no record older than that of Richard Town, yet there must have been numbers of antecedent crime and mony punishments. As soon as Europe turned {rom its old organization and became a continent of commercial em- Pires, credit organization grew up, and eredit crimes must have appeared at about the same time: The more com merce and credit were extended and liberalized the greater becumne Lhe opportunities of the crovk, After England had weathered the perll of the Armada and begun to colonize the New World her commerclal prosperity mounted rapid)y, and energies long wasted on military alms come to he expended upon the handling of gooda and the making of money, ‘Trimming grew os did prosperity, [nour own country there seems to have been mo time at which this type of skin game was unknown. But our atri- tude toward it used to be far different from what it is at the present. In the brave old days the manufacturer and jobber charged off such lomes and put the cost of them on the shouldera of thelr honest customers. In his compo- tationa of a fair gelling price he put in his own most, his overhead, his handling cost—and stealage. The falar bankrupts and trimmors were thus provided against, This may have been a convenient way of doing business, but it had its decided evils. Perhaps the greatest of these was the gradual education of a troupe of men in the arts al eredit trimming. They were allawed ta commit their crimes in high immunity, and they soon came to regard this fraud os their privilege, To-day many orgunizations of makers and wholesabers of goods are earrylng on a determined fight against this (Continued on Page 92)

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700d way to save NSTEAD of cream for coffee, fruits and cereals, use Carnation Milk. It is rich and delicious. Use Carnation in your home for every milk purpose and you will effect. quite asaving in your monthly milk bills. [t is pure, country milk, evaporated to creamy thickness and sterilized in air-tight containers. When you add an equal part of water to one part ef Carnation you get milk of normal richness. ‘To get thinner milk, add “more water. Your grocer is the Carnation Milkman. Send today for our Cook Book. Carnation Mitk Propucrs Company, 532 Consumers Building, Curcaco; 632 Stuart Building, SeaTTLe Chocolate Blanc Mange—!4 teaspoon sale, 2 cups Carnation Milk, 2 ounces unaweetened chocolate, 4 cup sugar, | teaapaon sya clipe Warer. lo cup cornstarch, Cambine 2 cope walter and Cornaceon Milk. Put in dowble boiler andl bring to boiling point, Mix carnstanch, sugar, galt and balance o water. Add to Grst mixture, stirring constantly, Add melted chocolate, stirring occasionally until mixture thickens. Cook Gfteen minutes, Add Havaring; mucukl, chill and serve with whip Carnation Milk, Carnation © “From Contented Cows” Sold by Grocer Everprhere WAPOHATED | fr Carmation Milk Products Company _ tas Stanle Chicage Siew York Avieer, Chit.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 3, 1922 er Ever) AFt Wherever you may remember yi In traveling, especiall digesting the hastily-ea up for lack of water,) and _ thirsty. In short, it helps a gf IS wrictey’s ZL! DOUBLEMINT Save the Wrappers They are Goed for Waluable Premiums

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST a1 al fter-Meal Helper. igley’s will aid in past. It makes vhen you’re tired il after each meal. "LUNCH ROOM

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fz Why do women like pipe-smokers ? We asked many women. One said: " Because a man who thinks things out, does them and goes all the way through with anything he starts generally smokes a pipe if he smokes at all—and nearly | always he does smoke," Another replied: “A pipe smoker is more of a home man, it stems to me. There is no better picture of contentment than a man smoking a pipe in his home after the day's work is cone,” “He if more honest, more reliable, more manly," said another—but she was rather young. “Fipesmoakers are not so jumpy and fidgety, so nervous as non-smokers. They're more easily contented,” was the opinion of one woman. There were many reasons given by the fair ladies: some of them mot very power: | ful from a logical viewpoint. The signifi- | cant feature of the questionnaire was that the great majority of the women admitted that they do like pipe-amokers, And just to show that woman is not the | only illogical of the two sexes, we asked a numberof men why they liked the tobacco they smoked. Gne said it was strong enough for him, Amother said it was mild enough for him—and they were smoking the same brand. All of them had some more-or-less indefinite reason for liking a certain tobacea, but putting that feeling into words was diff- cult, Even our old Edgeworth smokers —our best friends— have difficulty in telling why they like Edgeworth.” “It is a friendly, friend- making tobacco that just suits Pome,” was the best answer we could get. Jive! secriy mel “There's the whole thing. But Edgeworth doesn't suit everybody. Qut of every hundred pipe- smokers there may be one or two who couldn't get supreme satisfaction out of Edgeworth. : Nevertheless, we would like to send any pipe-smoker free samples of Edgeworth, and we are sincere when we say that we would rather send samples to a man who thinks he will of like Edgeworth—for he may find he is mistaken and then he will be the best friend for Edgeworth that o smoker coubel bee. lf you will send us your name and acl- dress ona postcard, we will forward sam. piles of Edgeworth, Ready-Rubbed and Plug Slice, and there is mo tag attached, “Send money if you like it.’ ‘The samples are free and postpaid, Address your cand to Larus & Brother Company, 1 South 21st St., Richmened, Wa. To Retail Tabacco Merchants: lf your jobber cannot supply you with Edge- worth, Larus & Brother Company will gladly send you prepaid by parcel post a | oné- or twodozen carton of any size of | Plug Slice or Ready-Rubbed for the Sane price Fou would pay the jobber. | offerume, = THE SATURDAY (Canthioed fram Page 88) kind of thing. Hundreds of the crooks have been. pe ane sent to pee Hundreds of Laveatigators and ; But the crime ia guardians are in ey ae mtet difficult to su It i not possible to write clearly and justly of this subject without remarking that such crimes are contrary to the prac: tice of Americans and of thoae elements in our popWation whieh made the older United. Stites. When failures occur among people of these bloods they ana due almost invari- ably to lnexperience or incompetence. Too many young reo plunge lito business with- ok wanip rant or ana and they Soe me rap to woke pie fact, matiy. “onganiza- tions ie launched business American Bankers Association has its Com= metcial Bankers Institute. A i lines, the National Association Kien has lately inaugurated the Institute of Credit, in which it hopes to train men to resist the schemes of the trimmer and his related criminals. Though our own people are convinced of the wr and i adage af this this fe are amon with whom the trick is hig fe Thee ure rita re Maditaransen il avantine peo intend no nspersion upon the ie iy oF moral fiber of these races. The & ig rather a matter of being used to the lane, of litigious habitude, Thea Southern and Eastern es have no such system of eredita a4 prevails among us, They come here and see the, ta them, loose methods. Naturally they conclude that the American business man is a fool, and the impulse to trim the fool is universal, Bankruptcy as an faduntry What i¢ moral in one part of the globe is extremely nauseous to ethical palate af another part. New and strange custome anid laws are not readily bowed to, The Kurds and Armenians are me is Kurds are a simple, hardy, warlike stmifomeadic, close to the soil, engag constant small wars and broils Among them whatever ie dane by eau tion is honorable. The castles of thelr chieftains are bandit roosts and their heroes are great banditti, The adjacent Armeni= ans are, on the other hand, the shrewedest traders tn the Evest. Their Sie see in merchandising is historic verbial. They live in cities and mibelst by by buying and selling. They love. peace and ecommerce and profits, Tha ¥ con no more understand why it ia not right to trim the ilelese Kurd and charge him a high prine OF grain in time of fanaa than the ro en praep any reason for net holding up the Armenian merchant's caravan or commil- ting Eel oem raids on Armenian towne when he feels he has been wronged, We have here the explanation of some of the massaeres aod the continual bleed- ing of Armenia, which has come to be « byword. The same contrat in laws and business morals existe between our underatanding al these things and that entertained generally in the Near E For a number of years ane Syrians have been crowding to our textile centers. They ure experts a eatton and linen wenw= lng dad are more than welcome. Hut there are among them habitual traders with the Oriental slant. A creditor-trimming con- spiracy of a group of these men has lately been investiguted, and mit of the partic- pant a are in jail. ht young Syrian arrived in one of our at chic severn] years ago ond went EVENING POST forthwith to a prominent man of hia own country. "T want to work ino factory,” said is The leader, called aking in the vernacu looked the young man Up and down, egg him with questions, teated his intelli . ine work in m@ factory?’ he sakced Te. rt “T come to make money," responded the youth, wondering. “Can't do that in a factory.” “Hut they pay well,” “Yea, in aur money; not in their own, Listen. If you want to make maney pul ite hi in my hands, let me teach you a oul and then just dons T soy. Tt iat hundred times as good as the oo the King and the young immigrant cam to ‘ent si After a preliminary few months of eqech= ig the nal man Was sent into the South fa Si ee eee shop in @ all city. He vee already instructed is the manner veedit, and man peer palin a bs aerate paid for, were followed by constantly larger ones until the time for the explosion came, Then the young fellow went quietly and soberly into bankruptey. Tt was not aspecially glaring case. Noth- ing wns ight of it. But a few weeks later another young Syrian of a similar name cane the same sort of la a in a not distant town. And a few hundred miles away another man apparently of the same race had likewise gone bankrupt a few months before. Credit men ig to scratch their heads and wonder. Then there was a fourth debacle, Am investi- autor was sent bo the region, and he shortly overed amazing sf diverting thi Three of these kings had apparent ae and aes whole affuir. of them had a large store in a pelnel- fal eity. The fifteen or twenty other shopa Wore a ‘in the hands of their tools and were acest gies rata at states, The thch ite an 1 Ww + they immediately hl, Pe of the icing, who then sold the stolen at low prices. As soon as one of the eipauthasrar the bursting point he cleaned out his atore absolutely, sent a final ship- ment to his master, and then either wan= ished or stool his ground and played bankrupt. The Technic of Trimming The final detail of the plot was even more Ba ious. When one of the underlings ed and the creditor swooped down to get what might be left the kings showed aie sunvely presented on the store and entire stock of the eck tool, But the thing was too good to be true, About thirty men are under arreat and may shortly inhabit the priscces. he technic af iter trimming is mo wise a recondite matter, In elementals the joba are always much alike. A man OPO m and manages in one way or another ta ra up hie ered eredit. Then he con- ceala his saseta, usually by shipping his foods to some distant hy or turning them over ta some local fence. And thereupon he vVanizhes into distance and doubt But this simple fundamental atructure of fraud may be almoat infinitely varied. Burglary crews are often employed, and arson experta are still mare common, The eredit trimmer wees inotndiarism for two Purposes. Sn iden maw be to oon- ceal the removals he has been pulley OF but quite aa often he is simply aiming at the ingurance companies. This kind of criminal overlooks no opportunities, May I3, 1973 In aoe eee seaside summer Hetil = ines fr the pring tnd a usiness for the spring and mum. mer, But when October somes skulking slong the sea, with ita sharp winds ona waters, trade dropa to nothing. The Bay Se enn Wan crowds ame _one ace ere | ard winter to face, Sy it happens eore a power of small merchants go to the wall in theae places 29 ao0n on summer has ant eotigh green viel gah In one resort, jong Bi, § shone tT I shall call behsola. Pa allen race, up a fancy store and laid ina ateck, which he grathually increased means of b eredita, On the first day af the ensuing October he vanished into the fine clear air of the place, and his store was found to contain nothing worth mention. A search was instituted, but this wise Mfr. Nichola had most thoroughly obliterated traces. Finally, in going over the records be hod left, a detective found a bill ithe thing Goat tho lartioataey a | F E nies a ep, What was a man doing with animal catehes in alan moodsahop Why bad he ordered them? For wham? * j in the abandoned shop were gone over thoroughly, and finally a railroad waybul was found, showing that the dozen aries! sabchels had shipped to a town in Pennaylvania, and te a man of the etore ers own name. The detective hurried out into Pennsylvania, Hot on the Trail In an old howse in a quiet street of this @lumberoua Pennsylvania town resided Mr. Simon Nichola, the elder. The detec- hive sensed at once the respectability of the hi nileman and di after bref that it was the son whe had been fe, of the vanishment at the seashore. ; a father is by no law answerable for thought a little serutin sins of his sci, the investigator might not be without predic. ng of Bir. Nichols In what bus- nem whos Mr. Nichols? The town gossip told him at once that old Simeon was an animal trainer. "Kinda funny, too," anid the glib in- formant, puckering his nose. “The old gay trains cain." F Pee echoed the detective thought- lly. “Yep. That's wot [ said—cats.” The crime honter went awey very ab- aorbed. The next morning, after an agi- tated might, he agen himself to Simon Nichols, ata in guise of a circus scout, atarching for ee ues animaks. Dad Mr. Nichols, by any chance, have a couple of cultivated ta or a troupe of docile wildeats? Mr. Nichols was very curt and very sw pictious. He would not have the intrader in hishouse, He did not train animals, He had a couple of cata which he worked with for his own amusement. Where had any circus man got hold of his name anyhow! , besides that, get oat! The wines of the old man convince the investigator that all was not well. He aan more carefa] inquiries into the puest . Simon Nichols, and soon found that cs eat man had formerly beth a merchant. His reputation had never been apotless, and he had, moreover, suffered a fire whick came ¥ near wiping gut the busines a certain city. After the fire he lead retired. Had he a trained cats? How many _ he keep on hand? Did he ever sell an he detils of such an investigation are undramatie and tedious. By watching {a (Conmtinucd an Page 35)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ; 63 ANNOUNCING the WINNERS of the Save the Surface $1,000 Prize Contest a Save 4 save > has Mate such ace and — (Ps ? \erniisdh — che Gerface Campaign |r First Prize—$250 Memories That Time Will Not Efface Mrs. Ruby Manard, Kenner, La. 2nd Prize—$100 | ites Priceless Hou Th Lucy Tren Parmer, Mornin. We Van 3rd Prize—$50 Everyman's Yesterday Claude J. Woclard, Long Beach, Calif, 4 Prizes of $25 each America’s (Greatest Assets— Youth, Loyalty and Thrift Wem. Chennells, Woawota, Sask., Canada The Accumulated Wisdom of Centuries Burh Bass, Brooklyn, New York 30 Prizes of $10 each America's Mins. HL Wi. Wagon, St. Louis, Mio. A Good Example for Dodd Pral F, Jones, Akron, Olie Chiracter Leta A. Martincale, Morrison, Dl. Grandpa's, Dad's—Now Mine, We Paint [t Every Year Kathetine Hargrave, Newbargh, Dad. beh an Taestinet Rev. B. J. Wetzel, Shippensburg, Pa. Childhood's Joyous Hora AR. Foltz, Terre Houte, Ind. An Object Lesson for Grown LUpa E. J. Wadsworth, Bedford, Fa, Wateh Dogs af the Future L. E, Gretl, Ossining, New York Young. But Starting Well Martha Hill, Centertown, Ky. Boyhood Drage Edith E. Huddle, Kitts Hill, Ghia bg _— Builder W. Howell, Bexley, Misa. A wie to Aexise Ownera Horry Vande Koppel, Muskegon, Mich. His Boyhood Lesson Mra. Harry Hepola, New York Mills, Minn. A Big Idea in a Seal Way J. F. Cleovelin, Evansville, Ind The Gold Bond of Eeonmomy (Carl Erickson, Lorimore, HN. D. ~ ‘Tt Pays to Use It, Jack Anna L. Martinique, Fe. Smith, Ark. Efficiency in the Making Heillic Kinnaman, Fortville, Ind. Obeying the First Law of Nature— Preservation J. Thean, Rock Island, Ill. Every Mome is Worth Saving L. H. €. Hart, St. Lowis, Mo. Be It Ever So Humble, Paint It Barth Rosafchd, St. Losuis, Mo, And a Little Child Shall Teach Them Mrs. Oscar Londy, Winheld, Kame. Lf It’s Good for Dad’s House, Why Not Mine? Mira. J. M4. Dis, Mit. Airy, NL, A Judicious Landlord Rolph Wi. Smith, Denver, Col. As Ye Create, Alao Must Ye Preserve Alfred Haugner, Devils Lake, Wi. DD, Preacrving His Estate Birdie Bryan Miller, Onford, Ga. A Good Hint for Ded Mra. Ada Geon, Spokane, Wash. Soald on Advertising Grant W. Ernet, Syracuac, N.Y. The Effect on Youth of Advertiacd Truth Wictor K. Croaningshield, Orleans Roads, W. Va. Rieof and Chimney, Door and Wall, Hous:-Oan the Wise ef Palnts"E-m All We. H. Jomes, Charlotte Court House, Va. Save and Have Marjorie Crampton Perkins, New Haven, Conn. Point's Cheaper ‘en Houses Manion Seishsan, Milford, Utah Make ‘er Last (ruinn Patten, Tiler, daha Winners of 40 Prizes of $5 each . Mra, = Bred Lightfoot, San Antonio, Texas hi, Christina Terry, Housten, Texas Albert Stewart, Foyetteville, M_ iC. Joephine Cunnington, Muncie, Indiana J. F. Cromdall, Everett, Wash. Mra. 8. 1. Howard, St. Paul, Minn. irs, VLE. Stevens, Wellaville, N.Y. Orrin §. Brooks, Mossville, NH. ¥. Albert Smith, Lineal, Booreas pMrs, Jomes L. Jones, Fairfield, If w, A. Ferris, Belleflower, Dll, Carl Wr. i Minneapolis, Minn, Mrs. Chas. H, Cole, Heisson, Wash. ©. J. Hoch, Yuma, Cols, Frank Hoffmann, Cincinnati, Ohio Alma Adama, Elizabeth, La, Vim. &. Higholt, Duluth, Mion. John Ockerman, Paria, Ky. J. G. Smith, Polk, G@hio DG, B. Hart, Stratford, Towa Arthur Smith, Monett, Mo. Mire. W. J. Bowrdish, Ealiapell, Mont, William T. Miller, Lakeword!, Oregon M, Bolster, Lanaing, Mich. Mrs. J. B. Patterson, Stanley, NH. ¥. Mrs. A. F. Bonhom, Chilhowle, Va. Evalyn Prentice, Waeoca, Minn, Mrs. L. A. Wooel, Syracuse, N.Y. Ruth G. Back, Terre Haute, Ind. Mrs, George Lince, Suamico, Wa. Mrs, J. B. Freeman, Ivanhoe, Texas Miktred Leigh Gibson, Washington, BD, C, John L, Harvey, Chartley, Mass. Mrs, Virginia BR. Grendy, Edwin Schotz, Wheaten, IL. William King, La Salle, Til, Mrs. G. H. Bangs, Underwol, Waal. Mrs. Joanna Sherburne, MN. Topeka, Kons. T Piss ae $1,000 in prises was offered for the beat ¢tltles to the palrting by Morman Rockwell reproduced in the Save the Surtace Prize Contest advertisement. This advertisement oppeared in The Saturday Evening Post of December 31, 1921, in January American Magazine, in January Farm Journal, and ¢lacwhere. The contest closed on February 1, with 42,000 tithes and 25,000 stories received. The jodges of the contest were Exddward Bok, Norman Rockwell and Ernest T. Trigg. The des submitted came from every section of this country and Canada and in fact from all parts ofthe world. We take this opportunity to congrat- ulate the winners and te express our gratigude ce all Participants for their keen incercet in thia contest. One condition of the contest read: “Your sugges tion must be accompanied by a story of same par- ticular surface which you have caused to be saved or know to have been saved with paint or varnish —or know to have been rulned by lack of paint or varnish, These storlea form o remarkable collection of first-hand personal experiences with paint and varnish; many of them will be weed to further the great cause of surface protection of property. The penonal observations reperted, of needless rot, rust and ruin, provide overwhelming evidence that America is aland of wosre. Buc theough the great majority of these stories rings the convicelon that paint and varnish, applied in time, is the anawer to this waste. Tf these Save the Surface stories could be told to every property owner in the Untred States, ml- lions of dollar” worth of valuable properry would be saved to its owners ond to the mation. Every day more and more of the property-building, Property-owning, property-using American people ane grasping and acting on the economically avid idea—Save the surface and you save all," SAVE THE SURFACE CAMPAIGN 507 The Bourse Philadelphin, Pa. A tie rather er pepe by Paint, Wornish and Allied inter. aca Scritee Conserve, pPobect anel enailie practically ae kine! of property.

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How the Lone Life Gould is Built Ab outtanding difference between the Gould Starting Bamery and others is this: ic is buile complete inone plant (with the single excep- fon of rubber jars}. Read these four funda- mentals that make the Gould reliable in per- formance, long-lived and economical: I—Dreadnaught Plates The famous long-life Dreadnaught Plates, made from an exclusive formula, are the foundation of Groukl Quality. Their rugged stainina made possible the Gould Natonal (Contest Average Record of 4 years, 1 month, 2—rowld-made Oxide Long-life plates demand good oxide, ‘To in- sure uniform high quality, all lead oxide used in Dreadnaught Places is made in the Gould Oxide Plant. No other battery manufacturer makes his own oxide, ji—Armored Separators Rubberized vweoaod separators—cornbining the ideal porosity of wood and the acid resistance ebaederr ads - exclusive parented Gould Eeng-Jife ecparatora side-by-side rey Longe ife Dreadnaught Plates. —One Quality Standard (ould Batteries, whether for the Pord or the Rolls- Royce, are made to one standard only —Dheadnaught Quality. Every Gould far every car has the mous Dreadnaught Plates and Armored Separatora, and beara the Dreadnaught rrademark. A Famous Battery Family Crould Storage Batteries are specially designed and built for Farm Lighting Plants, Motor Beats, Electric Tracks and Vehicles, Home Radio Receiving Sets and Emergency Vi ire. less, Railway Signal and Train Light Sia- tems, Submarines, Mine Locomotives and Industrial “Trucks. GOULD STORAGE BATTERY CoO, 30 East gand Street, New York Chicagu, Detruit, San Francisco Pars Depron, NY, Over 3000 Service Stations in principal cities and towns THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 13,1923 Husky! - after Canadian Winters Regarding his Gould Battery shown below, Mz. J. L. Carhart, of Toronto, Ont., states: “A battery that will live this long (March, 1916, to Nov. 18,1921) m Canada, where the excessive cold drains it at least 25° more, is surely something to brag about.” Adfidavit and battery in Gould office. ‘Longest Life by Owners Records SPL Pet (Ree OU. 5. Pat. O0,} jould Battery The Gould Endurance (Gonbest The shaven “Longese Life by Owe en Heoords” is based on nbe aver. agn long life record established in che Fecent aationally ailvertion Gicnald Esduraete Comrest hy atancdard type Gould Batteries on raricucd makes of cars—the average among all Gould owners cheering the Gian test being 4 years and 1 moach. \

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fCeotitadd from Page #2) sontha, by making canatant guarded in- quiries, afl finally by insinuating a child into the house of the cat trainer, the truth was gt. Nichole trained his cata to do just one thing, = | Qwer a table in his kitchen waa a gas bracket whose jet wees fitted with a con- cantly burning pilot or tip of light, This was turned up into full flame by pulling a short chain, The cats were trained to thi chain andl turn up the light. Here was a little trick apparently harm les, but the investigation ahowed that thes: cate were weed for incendiary pur- pees. Any man who rame to old Nichola properly introduced could buy one of thesr trained cate. The price waa three hondred dollars, The cat was thereupon installed in the store of the purchaser, where @ gus jet wu similarly arranged. The cat turned up ihe gaa every night and lay on the table to deep, Then came the time forthe fire, The bib,or Gp, was taken from the gasjct sothat the tame must leap up tea a grevt height, lnlammable substances were arranged shove it, The eat was taken away and put in charge of a confedernte, Then the areon- latting merchant went with his family to the mountains or the sews aor. When he had been gone aeveral days the confederate took the trained eat tothe vielnity of the store at some Inte hour af night amd there released her, a cellar window of gome other opening having been left for her entrance, Puss walked in and tumed! ap the gas aa weal. The flame shot op and ignited the inflammables, amd the ibora and insurers suf No dowht the hapless cat usually perched in the blaze, Thisis nota pece of imagination, Father and non both wert to prlaon, and the stery af the trained cats was put upon the court rtporils at their trial, The motives of the trimmer never require duedation, He wants te get goods with- ost paying for them, tothe end Phi ha may saga the miackot mad flee with the 5 © Wan ask and enay money, to be spent fast and easily, To this end he wil fabricnte the moat intricate designs, the most marvelous textures of chicane. Fart Friends Hit Hardest lhd retent Easter cos a man of so great tulent that there may be real at its perversion began a8 a amall jobber in a filroad center of middle size, He ordered seal! lots and paid cash, often diseounti hs hills, From this he gradually worked his to credits and ever-increasing lata alg . He extended the number of his coliters constantly referring new men to hs ald creditors, who cheerfully recom- mended hile. Here ig a point for digression. ‘These men always hit the original creditor hardest, wordy because he has benefited them. sort, He gives them thelr flrat goods and their first trust. He writes the first recom- mending letter for them, and is frequently called upon thereafter to vouch for the reponsibility af these sharpers. In theend, ms the oldest man on the list, be is given Lhe severest blow. The paychoalagy of the thing: is a There ia not only confi- dence which protracted dealing gives but (here is the fact that aman who constantly Stiles commendations of another man aan or late comes under the spell of his on epistles. The flatterer grows to eup on his flatteries, dust this happened in the case in ques- tim. This fraudulent Jobber begun with amall purchases from a New York house ind rapidly extended his dealings among few York manufacturers and wholesalers, Then he jumped to other cites for his goods, ind when the debacle came it-was found that the original befriender had grouped lar worse than any two others. _ This schemer had, at firat, only his single lobbing place. But as things grew in val- ume he ope branches in several cities ind under sasumed names, putting aselst- ants in shares He then employ a rep far corpe of yETH,, who went fram dealer fo dealer and aent ta » When they were not buying for the chief they were cting for his. assistants in his nch TLL. _ This man knew the danger of railroad 'pments in the coneealing of asseta, He provi himself with heavy motor tricks, a0 parthy on credit, and used these to cart hig stolen wares from one part of the eoun- try to the other, He employed both bur- Pary and aman gangs, and it is of record Ht k G THE SATURDAY that one of his branches was first burglar- | iwed to get insurance and later fired for the aah purpose, This culprit was careful net to dump his stolen stuff on the American market, Instead he exported everything | and underbid other American dealers in | Mexican and West Indian conters. It has the ring of the Ineredible to say that when he attempted to flee he awed over a mil: lian collars There is another notorious case which shows the manner in which trimming ia tiught and the fleld constantly prahs, eB In a small Middle-Weatern city a few years age Silman told, or one who might ve borne that nan, apermted n smiall hober- dashery. He waa a lean little man, post fifty, worn out, not too intelligent. He had bern vely an inaccurate clerk, an indifferent aaleaman, a low-ralaried travel- ing man and finally an unsuccessful mer- chant. His business was always in trouble. His p nts were always made, but they wer always alow, Everyone knew him to bots Peornagbly honeat and tolerably incom- tent. Thens wns a mortgage on his modest e, afd his wife and four children were uae howling for money be could not silpply,. night Gold came home more de- than ever. For once his wife went to him anxiously and forbore to lament. The Magnificent Renner “We've got to get five hundred dollars somewhere,” said Gold woefully in answer to her questions. | “You can't pet another cent on the house,"* said ahe, “Ane T wouldnt if To eould,”" “Then there's just one thing to do—go to the charity society, Just aa good omen as you have gone, and Renner has always helped thern. ta the next day Simon Gold arrived in the principal city of his district ond sought out an orgnnization, founded about ten years before, which mode it p practice to bend auma of money to merchants in dificulties, Loans were made without In- terest or security, They were payable at a fixed date, but i ht be tenewed under proper conditions. prime mover in this benevolent orgunization was one Hen- ner, a rather nary Persan. When Gold appeared at the office of the char society and asked to whem he might tell his weet, be wha direc to Eenner. Gold hesitated a litth about going into the presence of this formidable personage, but there was no other way ond he set mut. In the heart of the city's business district he found oa big modern building with the mame of Renner upon it. This hosed the magnates business, Gold eteod aeross the street for sone time andl Feeared COUF- | age. He knew a good deal of Renner, The man had come in by way af Casth Garden forty years before, with hardly a cent in hia childish pockets, He had worked in the sluma of New York, his start after in- finite and deaperate labor and then gane PT Mee oe this arent rhchentlny a. up greak w =T af bia, ite acemed to dominate the | field, Hemadeannualtripsabroad. He con- duc his charity seciety because of the goodness of his heart and because he hed never forgotten his own days of strugele andtrouble, Hewasa millionaire, He was influential in polithes, These details of the Renner tradition Simon Gold let trekle through his processes na he sbood at the ewrh. Finally be wert neialubely weroas the street. and into the great house of business, A clork stopped him, “You wish bo see Mr, Renner om busines, oF about the charity sockety?" he nsked, The society,” said Gold humbly. “Have a seat,” said the clerk, and went to the rear of the great room. Gold sat down on the bench and wiped his neck with his handkerchief, for the day was wart and be was suffering from nery- ous distrust of hia adventure. After inter- Minable moments the clerk appeared at the énd of an aisle and motioned to Gold, who rise und tottered inte a rich private office, where a secretary received him and pusled him through another door inte the sanctum of the chief. A large, genial man, in white flannels amd a silk shirt—for those were the days of silk shirts—turned a well-mosanged [nen upon the tremulous merchont and motioned into a chair. "Business pretty bad, eh?” asked the big man. EVENING POST That's exactly what you have a right to expect when you buy gas- oline. 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Broce SKETCHOGRAFS-CARTOONA &y Julan OMendorD KINGCRAMS-NEWS WEEKLY and tpecials hike THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND aa —~, ~ Theatres which insure you o WHOLE evening 's entertainment can be identified by this sign on posters and lobby carda When you eee if=(o in= Jt‘: the sign of ao well. Pn Seana Hew. UF 8, Pak Dae, EDUCATIONAL FILM EXCHANGES, Inc. E. Ww. Tammodns, Preeident ) a list of suckers also provided b THE SATURDAY cea Gold hardly remembered to shake a confirmatory bh head. 8o this waa the great Renner, ae the merchant sared at the diamonds in rich man's rings and tie pin. He at the fine office aceouter- menta. So this was Renner. The thought ke rauing itself. Mow much will you need, Mr. Gold?" come the euavre voice of the other age “T don't know, exactly =——" began t merchant, “But, then, how can I help youT™ “Well, I think five hun Tmaight do ft." “Tell ma all about it," commanded Renner brisk! Simon Gol i owt some netes and be- gan to go over the condition of his business, He hesitated often, forling that his petiy affairs mist be tedinua te ao great a man, but Renner gave him unflagging attention and urged himon, Finally he was through. Rennér nodded comprehendingly and made a few brisk calculations on 8 pad of paper. He swung about in his swivel chnir, cocked a mathematical eye at the ceiling and said curtly: “Five hundred won't do it. You need seven hundred, Good. You ean have it.” ; Simon Gold managed to murmur his thanks. "Tl give you an order on the treasurer af the society," anid Renner, turned back to hia desk, Be took out a form and began to write. In the midet of his lors he paused and turned back to Gald, Let met ask you something, Gold," sald he. “Has your business out there in Blank- y¥ille aver bean a suceesn! "Teon't say Lt has," admitted the haber- tlasher, trembling lest bo meet refusal after all, “Don't you think it might bea good thing for you to make a change?” Gold's Easy Money Gold begun to object. He had his home and family in Blankville. The people there knew and trusted him. He was too old to bi br his = roots. Fenner interrupted “Tha dine I mean won't take you awa from the town permanently. You con s live there, but vou may have to travel and take your — ¥ along." "That costs money," noted the mer- chant. “But you'll be making it—twenty Cimes, oe ee what you've been getting sald CGald, and gat ho PI ag "ee here, Gold, "said Renner imprea- si “You're ane af thoae fellows who iin his own light. You're hot a ee ant: You're not a good boas, don't know how to manage yourself, But aly be a fine man to work under me, ow, Understand, you can have the seren hundred and God bles you, But you're a fonl to take it, Come in with me, beurn the bustness for a few months under my at good pay, and ea I'll send you out hot you can really do something for your amily. The two men wert into conference, and God went to work for the magnificent Renner. Seven weeks later Simon Gold, who had bein honest for all hia fifty-three years, went out on the road to become @ credit crook. He had orders to proceed to Noville, Tikincls, and there to open alinen-and-white- goods store with capita provided by Ren- ner. He had in his ket a list of trusiness men Whom he might give as eredit refer- enced. In his wallet he had several thou- sands in cosh to deposit in the best bank of Noville, Hut most important of oll, the Wallet contained a list of goods he was to get hold of on credit—tlinens, silks, hosiery und certain special thems, The shop was opened and onlers sent bo Renner. Demunds for references come back, and Geld, whe waa operating under an meme name, to be eure, aent on the list given bir at ete The gov come tumbling in, and d pald for them with im ive sii osc The orden grew in ak aynents continued to be made on btinas Crecit was now established, and it was time toa fire Gn the agreed order, These goods were brought to Gold's shop, but never un- packed, They were transshipped to another point, where another agent received them ind agaln sent them on their way, They made a devious journey, but in thee they repoam safely in Tbenner’s big shop, Lang before Chese goods had reacled their destination Simon Geld had drawn his EVENING POST Ee rea fen paca’ eel seliod ne for well ¥ mis Search was instituted, but without q Months elapsed, From the track of the Missing man never a sin came back, Meantime Simon Gold bad gone back to Renner with his invoices. Penner took them into white, gleeful hands and potted corr pled merchant on the back. The invoices called forthe pe tof moreethin more than seventy t ousand L ollars, an the check which Henner tumed over to hia tool was for ferty per cent of this amount. iets kept the goods and paid the freight hw The benefits of this delicate orrange- ment may be glimpsed at once. Renner had, for about forty thousand dollars, goods invoiced at more than seventy thousand, Gold had, instead of a seanty living and a continual ataving off of the bankruptey ast Masta than thirty thousand dollars ahaut seven months. His wife and fay naturally ceased to complain. now rested for aeveral months be- fore embarking on a similar adventure. This waa sent bo a emall city in Missouri with instructions to repeat. ae had a changed list of suckers to trim; had also w slightly altered plan of ak up the gare: but the result waa to be the BRET. One of those fortuitous trifies, those vial mizadyentures which upact the ces- tinies of nations and gods, intervened. A merchant in Gold's new town who wea naturally jealous of the neweomer sensed something in the conduct of Gold that gave an excuse for reporting the new storekee bo the credit men in the nearest me! 4 An investigation was made, and Gold was arrested under circumstances which pointed directly to prison. The man saw cscape only in confession, and mada it, e moming a few weeks Inter three ra Walked inte the big building aceu- ire Renner and his whoelesalp business. hat suave gentleman hed nok yet arrived, but would be on hand at any moment. The strangers said they had come on business and would watt Presently Teer Crt seaate ccugent dresaed, ceatenk: blazing with evels, agnificontly eell-confident. His vintton Tal wed him into his office, He took his seat and turned a smiling inquiry upon them, phan his hands with satis- faction os he 5 At that instante ane of the three vistbors, who had got a littl behind the magnate, reached out and snapped a shiny pair of bracelets about the meer's: wrists, The surprise of the man waa wabeurd ed. He knew of Gold's arrest, but be ae im- plicit trust in his lieutenant, who had heen sent word that Henner's fortune would be behind him in hie trial Never before had a support failed this frawdulent colossus, Te was something unbelievably atrocious, He nearly fain Eucky Days for Crime But he was dragged off ta jail, and the contenta of his safe were loaded inte a van sell niet pol nln ae i pee fi if eve 1 & in hia defense, but i in thevend he went bo the Federal prison, caving, "I haven't a cent or o friend left in the world.” Simon Gold, stripped of his briefly held spoils and his life's structure of z repu- tation, wos let go without further punish- pole ment. Out of the sere af evil, of wrong have come & thousand forme of that vast proces- sion of superstitions which still opproases nearly all munkind., Certain things harmed him, others benefited him: so the sa poatulated twin forces of evil ahd ga each exerting itself through legions of aplrite, grim gnomes, whiches, kobolds, haunts, gods, The right and the wrong came bo beer distinet empires and separate Tulers. The right must be propitiated and ‘the writ Appemoed These ideas are by no means foreign, even yet, to the most clyi- lized races, and among the more backward peoples they held their ancient regnancy. Aevne eeny nations the idea hos grown up that there are special beings which pro- tect the evildoer, In paren times there was the god of thieves, and his festival is still celebrate! in parts of Europe. More rmolernly many superstitious Je have believed that the rulers of ee oatlanel world were henign be the thief on evikdoor at certain tines, These strange belicfs furnish the explana- tian of a peculiar fact connected with credit trimming, ursan anil pretentious burglary. “clothing ated furniture anal al May 15, 1922 For many years = men rene whi eat cee eh ae ee ima t Was Sata thee ant r Sturdy night we abaconding, burglary or ra It wus for- mer! believed that the u ¥ heavy at Sek laid in at the holiday season wholly emhintned the great number of crediter trimmings at that time, Undoubtedly this is. a factor, but the ancient superstitions of Mediterranean peoples, these fancies out of the furne of the dead past, have much more bearing here. Were it prvubls to rend completely the minds of the Levantines who close their shopa on Christmaa Eve and vanish into the waste of winter with hundreds of argh sande of dollars' worth of g¢ credit, tt would no doubt Pl fawn that they belleve themselves ally protected by heaven at the time o rol ane And it would alsa undoubtedly be discovered that the Sicilian whe decampe and leaves bebind an empty ¢ store does ao on Saturday evening for precisely the same reason, plus ect ie faet that he hos until Monday to Here is, ‘then, another interesting facet ta be in atudying our alien credit ad- venturers. I have piney Colne out that it is probably their lack of habitude in our business morality which leada to the great number of credit crimes among these races, 4a fii-Learned Leaton Some rather diverting incidents haves ae in connection with the misdends of In Denver a short the ago an Ttallan had set up a grocery-and-olive—oil shop and Lend ‘4 forwarding goods to mining o Utah. The man saw that credit mat ois were to attack and decided on atather original asmault. Having first carefully removed and soncealed His stock and aold off for cazh as much as he could, ee ths mon ae — he made off for Vinh. Tt was sai had gone ta collect necountis and would et be back until a week following the first of the month. But this guileful information evidently failed ta rene one of the creditors, for he sent a man to the merchant's place on the pk to find out why the bill had not been “Ob, mister, mister! Tt is no ebte.* walled the trader's daughter when the exl- lector appeared with his denend. “My father has just been held wv Bnd cobbet of everything—t ity thousand The poor young woman seemed dis- tracted, and the invesligater took her at her word; but not ao hia guperiora, They decided ta watch, They mot lomg for barnes morning of the sixth a disheveled, bleeding, terribly frightened Italian ap- peared ot the pollo wes tia of a emall Utah town and reported that he hod just been held up robbed of thirty thousand dollars. He collapsed and had to be revived before he eauld E. descriptions of hiv amailants, which did in voluble detail. He kept the Police resource: of that par: ticular county in violent motion for aeveral Then the discrepancy between the fourth and the sixth was discowered by the single exi: creditor, and the dum- founded merchant was made to diagorge. What breouties of putais he must have bestowed on his blundering daughter may be left unesid. Surely no one will read of these raacali- ties without wondering how it ia vidal to conceal mindeantalby Kuge stocks of mer chandise, How does a man Lo hide twa or three hundred thousand dallara® worth of goods? After ries and and linens are not rubica and penarla, to i hidden in the folks of a turbun. Concealment of is @& gubject to which a volume might be given, It has a history, It possesses a romanthe tradition We con concern ourselves with it aa if applies to the present matbers, then only brietly. The most succesful ereiiter trimmers, itke roe Le tia. critstaals. § in other The rate Ww migh onganization, ip gomls back and forth amon ernie salves tranaship.and intership. Grier 3 ia stolen here is sent henee ond disgrocwed of yonder. Merchandise obtained on brum- magem credit is shunted about in every direction and often sent out of the country befare if cores at last into the hands al the ultimate diapaser. The railroads and (Cninaed on Page 99)

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(Contiaerd from Page #F) geamship lines have always bern used in this great game of shuttlecnek. But. these hearer feateme, moving on their ways, with their hams, went certain difficulties to ssininal, There is always the bill of lading or the waybill. There ia rae for the inveati- gator who is persistent and clever enough am of tracin the stolen apticles, ar through them the thief, Invention, whieh haa raised maxabine from the brutes gad fu fartiiehe rhe Irae for ie aged nf dag eor- cundeered by the antisocial. In this i in= ance the automobile has been taken over by ne eae ben tricks ao highways, an How move plun- dered wares freely in any direction and without track or trace, In some: instances easional trackmen who have learned to cep a close tongue are employed. In the greater conspiracies the trimmers own their cen lorries and kerp their secreia at home. This is, indeed, one of sig Jamel problema of the day in combating the speciniiet in commercial frard—how to put a check on the tracking af goods: how to thwart the criminal bere, The fraudulent merchant whe operubes alone has a different kind of problem. If he ships his goods from place to place, he must fallow or precede them in person, More frequently than otherwise he resorts tonething of the sort. He finds among his own countrymen a fellow who has a ware house, a loft, an old stable or a store. To some ‘such haven he haa hla gocls trane- ported, generally by a truckman also of his own people and one who in Lae a eae intricacies of croaked finds. method is risky naturally. But the usm here réliea cn the notorious fact that creditors have an cosy way of refusing to put up money for investigation and prosecution— ae ing ood maney alter bai, as they ruse I Hiding the stolen stuffs in some ware- house is perhapea the commonest of all practions in this cannectian, Much more remarkable are the coneealments on the premises used in fake bankrup Shing In one instnnes m merchant ha shelved built, Wher he waa rary to 20 ke he put the goods inte rows of boxes in the back of the shelves and ranged ‘Estos them a similar structure of strict mipty cartons, Thos, when he went to bi itors and offered a settlement, he was able to show to the examinem that his great show of ateck wae a display of empty boxes. They did not look beyond or behind, and he waa successful in decelving them. The Four Claws Found In another such case there was a broad staircase of some thirty-five steps leading from. the showroom inte the basement. The crook had the staircase boarded wu beneath and hid about forty thousa dollars’ worth af fine allke in the ee spuces thus left under the steps, On an- other oecasion the same man finished off ienke esau in his nel pueporting he floor By boardi me up under- ta “he again created spaces abouk ten inches doo hap i the upper floar and the basement celling. Here he concealed what there wae te be hid, but this time he tripped himeclf. The cellar ceiling looked boo new In the nature af things euch methods are of ne use te the fret beh a Trust tab flee. The place will therenfter be notab unhealthy for him, and he must take his along or send them inte some alien situation, ere is one method of accom= pists this aside from those I have al- y related, and this brings ua to the celebrated affair of Gashie and his wife's seven cabs, It was October In Michigan. The dis- tinces purpled with haze. Every cope a Towe was dripping with the yeur's tod There wis that mighty tion in the alr that draws the winged a aero half the world and sends the wild herds restlessly toward the southering sun. Mfr. E rand decided to take a vacation. Mr. Gerard was the proprietor of two prosperous shops bor oer nasortoenibs of women's wear in a Western town of gen- eral celebrity. He put a ealeewoman in cha af each of his stores and said he mule 0 to his ranch for a week or two. ‘And he was gone, - The weeks come and went in their an- cient procesion, but Henry Gerard cama THE SATURDAY no more, The saleawomen wondered anid wort! and then proceeded te make the moet of thelr employer's recreancy. The cat was away. (Only the crecitora of Gerard, to whom he owed thirty or forty thousand dollars, could not ieve that they had aeen the last of him. Bat finally they, too, were forced to eredit the bitter intelligence, bankruptey pro- cendings, and there entered upon the scene that amiable and persistent person, Mr. C. D. West, of tion something heretofore. Tit is porhaps su to any thaé Mr. Gerund's shopa were stripped te the bone. In his evacuation he had included most of hisstocks, Andlo! where were they Tt Mr. West found four clews in the man's Foom—a rallroad | so two envelopes, @ few sheets of a and & medicine butte. The nt envelopes led inte culs-deeac. , on the other hand, yielded something tangible, With si hack to to = bape Mr. ate ue i iu & pie bund fs Ha cl of the Santa Fe Railroad ain vat onece akin, matters again and yet again. Always the open at the gare . Sol Mr. Gerard had been thinking of taking the Santa Fe for the Southwest. Well, at least the trail was long enough to be interesting. Garhtle’s Jecen Cats The medicine bottle, boo, glitter of ot aoe the tn trail, iat Eo the traced ack sp ote what he ow of 3 rard and his wife, ‘Thet chied face 4 Wan that Mr. Gerard was the owner and abject devotee of seven cata. “Seven cata!" exclaimed the startled detective, He took his hat, thanked the physician. and went out in a hurry, lest his astonish= ment should further betray him poknen it wae ten The old seoundrel: his trail again. Witlees, after all, this wonder crook. [He could doeverything but silos his wite give np this hobby, She would have ne cata—and perhape the cate would ray them. West knew Gashie and bis record well, and he had reason to be privy to the matter of the cats, On several former oocasions when , always under another alias, had turned up absentee and left his abe minds ped the wife's felinomania had o and had once been hard upon lead- he the astounding owners inte jail. ieee Was Fo ee of a been in preson and out; a straigh Liat honorable merchant for many years and then again a crook, He was known to retailors and eredit men from one end of the country to the other under thirty ave a faint for ik was or forty names, He turned here #3 Immerling Brothers, there os J, Gordon Fowler, yonder as W.C. Gordon, H. Evan, George § tutz. Tha most remarkable ri about him, aside from his uncan canny gift getting credit from usual men, was hie method af concealing god trans- porting his Some years earlier Gashin hadtiarred the lady with the aeven cata. This woman was a naxdel wife to him, cleaving to him in wor and weal and aiding him stouthy in bis complicubed biesiness, wos by hia slide sometimes, in the months when he built ap his credit in a him ad. bet pets. Aga er im and her gain, she ar and operated the other end of hia vanish- ing line of communication, At such times mysterious would be exchanged between the lady and her lord. He mig it wire ber from St. Paul, “Where is Ma And she might answer from Louisville, “Margery is in Memphis.” Whereupon be might reply directing that Murgery et went te hie in Billings. There were fifty-one euch feminine names upon Mir, Gashie’a list, and it a thus incanesivable that they mem= bers of bis family. Tt was ao unl that a gentleman a0 extraordinarily mobile and ag bath i faithful to his wife should have this met itan chorus of ladies in his entourage. The solution ia more telling. These were the names of large Saratoga trunks in which Gashie and his wife hid their bowght-and-not-pald-for The trunks were laden with fura, ailks, linens, Tobea, kimonos, what not. And ot pe in eacit Gate were a few artes af personal apparel, In case any question hit arias, The trunks were abigped back forth, up and down, They were stored in i the buggmge roams of railroads, fe in hotels, EVENING POST in warthmines, wherever it was convenient, aed the of the seven eats went and got them out when the mater called for them. All this was well known to cra i Weat, and it had its aa Tet bee ne upon t ent et problem. The nape Eth moment, however, rested rather upon the rallroadl e and the cats, Obviously it ipa labor ft for Heracles to trace aman orn couple xith ight denser clew than the fact that they may have traveled by the Santa Fe Railroad, a long and intricate system. But when there is the sore thumb of the ri ga aticking up like a spire from a | there is some limitation ta har o Weat aet out along the Santa , . He traveled a short distance at a time and questioned every porter, brakeman, baggageman and conductor be encoun. Had they seen Gashie and his wife? Nay, gag bard ball Cele the dogged inveatt o the trail took the vestigator west » th Chicago, out through Hilinois, Acton the corner of lowa into Missourl and on to Kansas City, Hore there was aetop. Gashie and the cats and soma of the contents of the trunks must be somewhere in the neighborhood. Mr, West made a tour circling this vicinity. The hunted man was not in 8t. Joseph, Atchi- Bon it Topeka, He must be in Leaven- worth, Were there any newly sprung merchants in the town? r. Weat did not go there, that Leavenwerth ha with The Chatlet. Merchandising Company, Mr. C. EK. Noble, manager, letter was written this fin, and a typewritten answer came back, signed by Mr. Noble, Now typewriters have their individuali- ties, like men. And those who use these excellent machines have also their peculiari- ties. Mr. West had picked up some sam- ples of Gashio's typing in the yeara the eredlit man had been on the trail of thia marvelous depredatar, and he knew both the stigmata of Gashie and hia trusty He looked w the lists and found ‘been blessed machine, He cheered silently when The Outlet Merchandizing Company's better came to his hand, Chtlet in —for the contents of those fifty-one great trunks with their soft, woman-swert names. West caught the first train for Leavenworth AITIVINE rota ei nt gel an a SOT ATTAngpeNven make, itt investigating to do before he might risk the arrest, Before he wears the Lampe of Christmas Eve were bowehed to flame, and the celebration had ore 4 Soarprisa Party Mr. 0. EK. Noble waa among the Leaven- worth people who believed they had reason to be thankful and joyous, was cele- atte the season with a dinner to his empl at the principal hotel, He and his wife occupied the ends of a long table at Which sat eight or ten of the sunpeope The hs soles ba he ope and Mr, Nabie w g up to say a few words 15 adel igh art of selling, He did not observe the quaint, ministerial little man whe came in and shel a good fair look veeThere i ibe i h = ig. a princi in av ing," Mr. Mable elds bell boy touched him at the elbow and whis dd, "Tell them to wait!" commanded Noble irritably out of the corner af his mouth, “Dont they know better than to interrupt how? “They're kinda tnadeting," said the boy, Mr. Noble ceased ta to his table and took s look at the door, hat he saw did not renasure him. Three men were comi in. One was in Possession of his coat and lat. Another bore his wife's fure and wrips., ‘The third looked a bit too trium- hant for much gool. He motloned to oble, and the latter Sgr are he had better reapond. He ex himeaelf and went toward the advancing leader. The other made no formalities. "Too bad, Gashije," said the officer, " but the game is up. Care on," At lewet employes had got their Christmas Evedinner. Gashie and his wile enjoyed, let us say, their next in that t rin po gtk which stands narthwest of the tile city of Leavenworth and scowls down ope ik wit it ap bright, menacing night eyes— | prison, Take ‘the case of a firm of textile job- bera in an Eastern city. Bath men were prosperous; to the common eye they shone as millionaires. Their establishment was im- H SS a a sss ss sss aS SS — eee nm . : = : Ls | Z 5 Phos : De! ke e 7. at ‘ ry t t “ = 2 iF a. 2 1 pressive. They didarich business. Yet they | Cradle Your Car on Ride Rite Springs Lear the real joy in driving that thow- sands of other motorists have found. Get preater tire mileage and more miles per gal- Ton of gos—reduce wear and tear—decreose upkeep costa—and add thousands of miles of comfort and pleasure. Here's what a Dodge owner says: henge da be Beees they eet only Ride Riten can't be beat they Ba at fever on mend tint. 1 seene of thee other Be owners want toride [ae cusitr they fhauld wet Ride Rite Springs.” And this from a Paeckoerd owner: RR area than. plowed with “ri me thay howe newer pidden in = car that rade an ameothiy, Other Packard cen arm onevtice the wide difference between the springs on their cars and mine.” Ride Rite Springs function as eprings should function, eliminate vibration and re- move unnatural strains from chassis, body and motor, By absorbing jars, jolts and shocks before they ate communicated to the car and ite cccupantie they save operating costs, imerease car life anc add 1005), driv- ing pleasure and riding comfort. There isa set designed for your car, Get ready for summer touring now, Equip your car with Fide Fite Springs. Six simple teste in the “Joy of Easy Rid- ing,” o meaty litth book, tell you how to judge riding comfort. Your copy is ready. Harvey Spring & Forging Co. Dept. & Racine, Wis, Dofeers aad manufarerera af ante mahiie ppriwer. Mokers al fee fare Hl peordital Hair Aiding Folic re ocrmrnl cfriags for olf dere ae ry nr Dent cra, all Hiry, e@er Make Rough Roads Smooth

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Poo went bo prion as thleves and trimmers, and etn Wf their underlings went with them, while fourteen (ed Pag itate advantage of the Canadian er, When the petard went off under them at last it waa found that they hod been guilty of twenty-seven fraudulent failurea and bed stolen more than a million and a half from their credit- ors. [Dt ia lar no means certain that theae figures are complete. The modus operandi was delicacy and simplicity embodied, When the Peat chiels at headquarters were ready for a coup, they sent out one of their underlings oT agents to open a textile store in a chosen BE. Let us assume that the man's name was Blase and the town Gomeville, On some favored morning Mr. Nicholas FP. Blass arrived with imposing baggage at the best hotel in Bomeville and scrawled his name emphatically upon the Ler, that doybook of the transltery. aving settled himself at the hotel, Mr. Blase went to the First National Bank and there opened an secount with five thousand dol- lars in cash, saying to the cashier that he might and probably would open a jabbing house in the city. The Operations of Mr. Blass Mr. Blass now ventured upon the strects of the town mail selected & Mesecoom. ste tin Purples a hig, Bp mber wars. dp= tlrable. As soon as he bad found it he set men to painting the windows, in order to screen the o tions within. Shelves were then bullt n both sides and actos the rear. Big rough tables ranged dawn the center of the room and a counter cut across near the front, ao thet customers could not get back. Then, when a small private office had been built in one front comer, the structural arrangements hed heen rade. Finally an assortment of goods out of ening failure was scattered about on the tables. A code telegram now went forward to the principals, and im respons came a number of coses of goods ta be follawed Insert fate: Px acrow of experts, These casea conte ony empty boxes and car- tons in the fat. he crew immediately went bo work, pat the boxes together, In- heled ther and filled the shelves, Shirts, socks, underwear, linens, blouses, all man- ner of manufschunel textile articles ap pure on Mr, Blase" shelves by the mere touch of the paste brush, The wene hack at onee to head quarters, Mr Blass summoned some eign painters ta do the honers on his windows, and then he opened his doora. Before ever he had let in the alr and the public, his principals bad moved on their wing. Helng subscribers to the commercial rating houses, they asked for a report on Kir, Nicholas Bless, of Someville, and a reporter was sent to get it. Mir. Blase re- ceived his caller in his little private office and seemed ta be peevish morc “Wot can I de far yout" he buyuired, scowling. “We wart & financial statement,” said the seen y “Te's cuslomary."" "Wot fer? I don't need none, I pay cush. I got all the credit I want." There follawed ten minutes of delicate and definite persuasion before Mr. Blass consented te give any facts about himself. “Well, he biewan, "T got forty thousand dollars in stock. ; The reporter looked at the imposing amy of empty bowes ond nobed the fiLimtvunk. “How about accounts reecivabie?"” he inquired, “Wot'a dat?" asked Mr Blas, feigning ignorance, ‘as reporter explained in laborious de- Ga1il.. “hh, dlat's it," said the terchone. “Well, I got some notes,” He adieew forth his portiolio ane dispnyod tnquestionable netes in anmeunt of eighteen of twenty theugand dollare. “Good,” said the reporter, “Mow how about enh?" Mr. Hlass backed away dangerously. “'Lookalere, Te man,” grow les, “vou'te going o& little boo far, Whose busi- ress is it how much cash I post" "Te's aiirs if you want a reting.”" "TT ain't gonna tell you dat." More persuasion follawed before the astonishingly stubborn Blass consented to they wrote hack making THE SATURDAY say that be had an aecount in the First Niational with about five thousand collars on hand. Finally the reporter succeeded even in selling Blass the aga | service for seventy= finn: lars. He left the now jobber's piace and went directly to the bank, where eTeceived verification of the man's state- ment. Naturally his report was colared a bit in Blass’ favor, and 30 it finally reached) his principals through the commercial ra- “ hour they immediately wired th Ereupon Imimedabely wi ce waiting Blass, " Nally ta mich betber: don’t worry. ee are many rays cat rung be or interpreting such a te » fat only oné correct one, as usual. Precisely trans- lated, thia affectionate little message reads, “Wie have recorved the poport; go ahead,” And the bold Mr. Blass went. In that night's mall he sent aut orders for a se lected bill ef goods to a prepared List af sucker jobbers and manuiacturers, When who Mr. Blass was and why he ought to be trusted, he referred them lightly to the credit rating house. Andso, within merasumble trove, the bill of aame timbling inte Blass" stare room. He put the invoices in his pocket. seratehed the addresses off the shipping cases and immediately had the goods sent elsewhere, He paid for this firat arder and immediately ashed fora larger stock, The old, old game was pl . Credit was ron wp te the bursting point, and every com of goods that came to Blass went out again unoprned, Finally he evaporated fike o pullofether. By devious ways he got back to headquarters, and here the arch con- spiratora paid him fifty cents on the dollar, aecocding te his invoboes. One of the humorous details of this case rests on an order of thirty-five hundred dal- lore’ worth of silk hosiery, The firm wanted thes goods, of a special manufacture. The lant an which they were made was just a HA payed arc tt af ie ae an ao stand ci Lng IL lavage et, Gouget few barat dollara’. wert af the same gotds from the manufacturers and held the receipted bill and canceled checks. Then they sent Hlass out te Sameville, in In- diana, with instructions to get the thirty- five-hundred-dollar order of the same goceis from the factory o few blocks from t ani trim the makers aut of their money. And so, in truth, it was done, T have said these raseols came to grief and to prison, Let ws see how, Slender Claws There had been a number of unex pliined failures in Pennsylvania, Chie, New York, Virginia and Kentucky. Finally eame two BYTCHFOnds vanishments in St, Lawis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, (lineis, both stores belonging to the sare firm. vin in- vestigator for the National Association of Credit Mon was sent to look the matter up, and most. unha visions smote his oye, Two parteers had operated these shops, and they were gone. They were lost in the fog and river minama, lenving not hail mor holio, The investigqntor, finding nothing better to da, sent to all the crediters for the letters Chey bad received fram the two part- ners. Let us call them Black and White. In going aver thn |etters from Messrs, Black and White the lnvesLigaber Hokest Hho special peculiarities save that the sten- ographie initials in the lower left-hand corner displayed t wariety, Aso eperulation he put the letters inte variqus niet, according to the etenographers’ Initials, and was met greath surprise! to find that each pile representest nh owerk's correspotlerice, hagtarihie an Bfon and ending on Saturday. So, then, Mesars, Block and White had empleeyed a different typist every week, Clever fellows these, ho gum-chewing miss was going to get ary insight into their operations, However, the very number of girl gave this sharpdetective aclew., He resorted wt ance to the nearest conmumercial emplay- ment bureau and found that a girl had been gent toe Black and White, Theo address af the girl was got und she was intervie What could she remember about the men? Nothing except that Black had one bad eye and that White had @ protruding lower lip, which twitched when he talked, (hh, yes! One thing more, On Friday they had sent off a ie registered letter to an address in Dover, Delaware. The girl could think of nerthing more. Anether of the Elack ond White ste nographers had marded and moved down EVENING POST into Arkansas with her hushand, The do tertive went te see her, and she canfirmed the first girl's description of the men and the Friday dispatch of the registered letter to Dover, With ao slight infomation at his com- mand, the offcer trace! the tered Jet- ters bo Dover, and the trail led him to the door of a woman, evidently the wife of the wanted man. From her he mana to extract the fact that her husband had a store in Baltimore. The truckmen of Dover were canvassed, abd it was discovered that gooey as well as registered letters had come to the town, whence they were transshipped to the joh- bing firm. A great light pored in the brain of the investigator, @ jumped ta Baltimare at once and went to the suse pected shop in the puisea bayer, He talked to the proprietor, who hal not a bad me. The nat eave him little ‘h informa- tion, But lip tedtched, the lip twitched! There was no more for this clever man to do, He summoned the rerhment ta and put the case tote their hands. ¥ wotked quietly in conjunction with him until they hal their case built up. Then they descended u the house of the chief plrates, The result has already been sta bed —ten to prison and forrteen in flight mut af the eountry, A New Method In erediter trimming ws in all thi there are the old-ostab tated WaHers, the cusbormary wave of working and succeeding. The crook is almost superstitious nbout tinp= arting from the steps of his Fallachoos athers, but now and again some genius crowds up above the others—seme man with the courage of the pioneer and the eyes for looking east, He originates something; he steps owt of the old trammela and the dead conventions, Charles W. Eckman is not the name af a distingulshed-looking, mellow, saft- mannered man of nearly sixts. He is an Americon of the first native generation, He has five or ale children, grown ip and married. He was aceounted a rich man, and his family certainly pape bape gt a means, judging fram the way in which bt members 3 Ve Sd eperd. But Eckman had got eld. He was pe tired from. this lar business, He hod seen his sons and daughters safely launched. Tt was no longer mee te strive and atruggle. Eckman stood the idleness for a few years, He got more whl more nerves, He could not stay in the house, As soon as breakfast was over he burst out into the BUNBHIne Ane sent hows eine A lap ated down Riverside Drive, watching the maids with their baby carrlages, eitting on the benches with hia on the mighty river. azing abetracted|y at the huge, cruel et ohi lying sleepily wt anchor, Cfien he did met return to the house until baonger drave him in. Then he ate hastily, in silence, and went cut nagein, He marched! up ond down for miles, ogling the irks, talking te the men and women Louwrg- he on the sents, seeking some excitement. But he was too oki, It would not pasa his way, “ne afternoon as Eckonan sat blinkbig in the gun an idea for action came to him and he sprang up and went dewntown, Tt WES 8D siempla at needed fa elaboration. All he wantel waa a certain book. Then he would be of—adventure, excitement, Toney t Eckman went to the office af his frienel, Rose, an attorney. “Have you got the commercial-rating hooks?" asked Eckman, “Sune, “Chere they are," said the lawoyrr, “Goblng back in buslvess?" “KMaybe: maybe," answered the retired merchant busily, and fell te studying the books, At the eed of fifteen minutes he gat up, with several nares and pddpesses written ana bit of paper, thanked the leeqyer and went hurriedly away. Old Charley Eckman apent three dave snuntering up and down lower Broadway louking for o suituble loft. Finglly he found tt—a little farther north than he would have liked, luwt still quite desiralle. He paid a month's rent, signe a lease and moved in, His equipment corsisted of one desk and two chuirs, He next went to a printer and had same stationery prepared, for which he paid ensh. Eckmnan’s sign and stationery read: EDWwanto BLaNk & Co., Wholesalers. May I3, M22 Let us say, for the mere purpose of this relation, though the facts te otherwise, thar Eekman's number on Broadway waa five- twenty-blank, An investigator would have discovered at once that there was anothe: and older frm of Edward Blank & (0. on Broadway, but at threeGfty-blank. Once ve attention is called to it, the disparity ween & firm at fve-tewenty-blank Bread- way and another wt three-fifty-blank is ob views and painful, But such discrepancies do not always obtride, and on this fact Mr. Eckman was tounting. He had been ork the rating books carefully in preparing hia little scheme, and be had found onby one Edvard Blonk, 2 firm rated Al. He had aeeordingly chose this house to acreen his operations, Eckman immediately sent out te manu- facturers in all pee of the country orders for lange bills of goods. The credit men of these various organizations looked at the orders, saw that ey were from Edward Blank & (o., laalk ip that firm in the rating books and saw that it was consid. ered most reaponsible, Lf they noticed the discrepancy in the strect number at all, they arabes: eaneluded that the house had moved. i Moaroover, the rating books rarely give eirect niumbers, The thing worked out exactly as Eckman had planned. The goods came rumbling and tumbling tn. He turned them over ts Melt buyer wt low prices, put the money in hie pockets and sent further onder to other manulacturers, The thing got ao big oo him that he immesii ¥ went to other dn clthes andl repented the performance, Picking the name of some well-known and responsible hows: and setting himself up in the same street uncer the sume mare. Ard in each case the factories onee mere bled precious merchandise, Tt was a great and exciting game, full of the thrill and movement he wanted, It kept him skipping from city to aity, pinn- ning, Maneuvering, defrauding. e WHS alight with the passion of it, He had what he wanted, Eckman Trapped One night when he was about to close his office a well-known comumercial livertigatar received a long telegram from a fire in the Middle West, asking about Edward Blank #& (Co.. of five-twenty-blank Broadwwy, re- citing the nature of the transaction and re questing an investigation. The officer tock his bo the number indicated and found the beft with Eekman's sign an it, Pe got noanewer He went away and came in, with the same result. He waited. Still ne result. That night he put an assistant in his lace to watth. No one came. Finally he got the janitor of the building, tack this individual partly into bis confidence ated goat the dear co the loft opened, On the floor lay a mast of unepened mail, put through the door slot by the postman. The detective copied the names of the ad- dressers from te envelopes, step out into the hall, closed the door after him and put the matl back throagh the alot. (me day, two, thren, five passed. and efll ne stir in the left of the fulse Edward Blank concern. It had about been decided that the man had taken alarm and skipped when the distinguished and genial Mr. Eek run ayrpeared, thritst his hey inte the Jock and his head into the trap. He had beer taking & swing round lis circuit of cities That explained his long absence, There are times when the duty of the stern prieat af the law is none too plewsur able a thing. The man who caught old Charley Eckman frit a thousand qualme. The man woes able ta restitution, and willing, for that matter, His family wos witely Enown and terribly abased at the father's seerct crime, His sons and caugh- ters moved heaven and earth in his behald Friends from the loltiest legal and business circlea came to his reecue, Everywhere there wos the feeling that Eckman's crime wus the work of a half-demented man or, at beat, anmeuratic. All these things the officer and his employers constiered Chm the other side wos the dour faet that Eckman had not only committed a great Series of depredations but also that he had evolved an entirohy new form oof erectiter timming, and ane likely te be widely copied un its acigineater wert severely pun ished, Par this reason the prosecution =a foreed, and the man was eventually con- wicted and gent to Atlanta.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Roll Call of White Truck Fleets In Active Service 1 Hts year’s Koll Call of White Truck fleets covers twelve years of transportation experience by the foremost trick owners in the country, Nothing like it in eatent and quality of ownership has ever been published by any other maker. It shows a steady, yearly growth of individual fleets in every line of trucking service, among a class of owpers who know motor trucks. The list includes only fleets of ten White Trucks or more, totaling 18,419. There are also 33,302 Whites in fleets of less than ten, and a host of single trucks. The Roll Call ts Industry's endorsement of White Truck performance,—a performance resulting from the maker's “Twenty-one Years of Knowing How.” ‘Tie CNG LAGE DFE PS 1914 PS Pee PT 1 1s day Abbotts Alderney Delrbes, Erc, i a fi 1 | * 7 | A isi om Abraham 8 Sesqaum o a a o Li] tH , WwW WwW FF a Lome Cah Shores a o oO i | a a 4 5 wo 16 at 1.8. Adem & Go, * © & &F & & £ &@ WW FT @ ‘Oily of Akron, (hn a a i 1 1 I 4 i] Es I | 17 ob Uires Pore Milk (ia. ci fi i 4 a db ib ri & a4: a2 4 Strom Scorage & (aoncracting on. ih ti] Oo o o a 2 45 5S i is fo A. Alimamn & (a, i a :- | 2 2 @F 92 392 93 8lU CO Asutican Agricultarnd Chem. Cm, Ir OU 1 1 | 1 5 E] 7; VT & American Amhiibarice FRed Service ih a O u o o | Hn nHanBtHh American Bakery C4. tJ t | o o o o LJ a t Zz if American (Can (Cn, LJ oS 4 7 a we & 1 & SS Ametican Fruit Cerowers, Inc, th fi] i ii] io fi it 0 o oe 11 it American Tee (an. i o a dl a o i 2 7 7 a 845 imei Mews Cap, t oO a o 1 Z a z Zz i io if toticon Pocemieun Cn, ti] Li] o 40 o o o 61 & mw Hh OM imericim Relief Aabrobn. 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Co, o © a o o 6 oe Z 262 hh ® Bis-Mar Cx, o . ‘a o i] L | & t'] I 1 Lt 61 Bieabik Transportation la, a ‘o i ‘a a é ih a o 4 Lo od Alake Motor Trucking Co, o oO @ 0 o o Gs wo km aw 1 «61 Shek a& Eulhl Co. ci a o o a I = ] a q La 1s Lg Aleomingdale Brothers tT] ‘a a o a ti] o o a EH if AP findge & Muth, line. ¢ 8 8 & BH Mo 6!6h6Uu lull Holbers- lpia Choo Be fee Oa. o oi 5 7 7 7 7 T Is oo io BowWlevard Transportation Ca, Henry Boach Ga. City of Boston Busten Coca-Cola Bottling, Coe, Boston Elevated Railway (a. Bourne: Fuller Go. Bradford Baking Cn, The Brande Cx. Brewer #& (., lac. Brockron “Transportation tin, Brenklyo Alewtroa Asphalds ton. Breskiyin Dey Eagle Bry-Block Mercancile Cn. Backeye Pipe bbe tn, Bdidwine Rarrliig Ga, Bullock ® M, Burkhard: Brewing on, FA. Buatier tn Bucher Bros. Ine. Cate Draper Baking Leo. Cagido Parish, Loulsigos Slate af California California Paki, (ai. Caltfornia Central (reamertva, Inc, Californias Packing Corp. California Trick to. J. Gabrert’s Sona The Campbell System Chinteld O48) Co. Canton. Provlalon fo, Canton Storage & Tranafer Con. (arkhen Coal (le, Carolinas Public Service Can. 2. 0, Carr Discuds Cn, Curatens Packing tas, (Carter Ol Ga, A. Choe bene Can. Chandler & Rudd (Cn, Chapin-Sacke Corp. 'Chhero=(lola Boceling Gow The Ghero-ola Cao, Cheek-Neal Colfer ta, Chicaga Amendean & Pald Eas. Ghitago Fire Insurance Board (a Abastecedora de Leche Cincinnati Mortar Ternilnole tis. icy Bakiaig (Ga, Cicy of Chicage City toe & Fuel (ap. (Cine banath (ity lee & Fael (ae (Cleveland) Chearlng Hou: Poree) Delivery (io. Liry of Cleveland "Cities Service Ca, Clerelund-Akron Bag fs. Clheveliind-Akros Bus Line Co. 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102 Contimad Fram Preceding Pope eveland Eloctrie Whsisilnacing (a. The (Jeveland Pree Cleveland Provision (a, Ceweband Ria llway Cas, Gevehad Trane Gao, levetand Tracking & (arcing (ao, tlevelond & Sondueley Brewlng Co, ld Coke Boat iig (oa The Coca Coke Oo. The Coca (via (4p. { Caonedot 4.2, Collins (aM4umial bee (Grim (oa. BR. H. Gonaey (Ca. Lan nbencial “Transter Ca, Gormnadby Com tra tlng 2. (Tasnaolidated Cana. Consolidated ios, El. Le. & Pyer, Ca, Lansolidwited Rendering (a. tanviinenial Ol Co. Camden CHL & Cone (a, Crescent Forwarding & Tron, ta, Crew Levick Cao. Coban Government Coidaihy Paecik lity Co. John ‘TT, Cunningham Duhl-Gamphell Grocery Co. Thinnembiller Grocery (hn. Chor img, fe Oo, THO & Gallina Deniialen of Casiida Tarake Bockers EK, f. (naPont de Nenmoura Powder Cn, Ee Hale. aie Ca. Eaat Side MUD A Lumber oo, Eastern Tarpeda £25, T. Eaton fn, Led Electric Bord & Share (2a. eco Package Agency Emerick Motor Flus (a. Emplce tras & Poel Co. Emplre Stace Dralry (ao, Enumchw Traineportadion Co. Erie Service Con, A. J. Eva ‘The Fair The Foirtanks Go, Fade Hew Cond Co. Fuiltmont Creamery Go. Foyer Baking ts, Fenway Garage Cr, Firestone Tire & Robber Co. Win. Pibene’s Sone a, ‘The Fidechmann Oo. Florida Moder Trunapett (io, Flow Stare Baking (0, County of Fulton, Ge. Fly & Hoban Go. Foster & Kicdar, Linc. Frank & Seder Franklin Ice Cream (Co, Harry ¥. Franka Pirederick A Nelaon, Die. Freedoes O41) Works Ca, treneral Baking (ao, teoneral Flee Extingulaber (a. Cienetal Mocor Truck Corp. General Petroleum, Co, Geor“la Badlewy & Power Coo. Crlarberd Birva., Ine. | lwaukec! link Prothers (sew Vork! Ghmibel rothers ( Philadelphial ‘Glutton Park Troneportation (as, ecy CO. Clause & Son Globe Garnin & Milling Ca, ‘Ghourcester Avie Bus tn, hey ef Chice ter fubolt Gobel, Inc. 2, Giatdemith fc Some Coa, B. F. Gioeedeich Gao, tiinklyocar Tire & Hobler Co, Ceraaacll Cliemical fon, ‘Gray Conagracthon tc, tated SNomrheroa Papert Cs. (ereemiek) Electric La. & Pr, Con, Greenville Core Cade (eoeriling Con, atcif Brothers Coporage Car, (aol Preadwcthom Ga, Gulf Ketining Go, taypay CRE ta, Hadley Furniture A Carpee (i Hinke Brochers Halle Brothers Cm, 4. Hamburger & Sane, Ine. Jameed A. Baal eoeii The liardware & Supply ton, A. BD. Harteell Fred Harry Haverty Furalrure Go. Hull Counce, 1. 0b The Hecht Ga. H. J. Heine Co, Helssker Sc Junge Cin. Hercules Powder Co, Hersey (Creamery Ca. Hickey & eek bes The litgber Go. ildetranmdt Provisiow Ca, ee ee ee ee ee ee ee: ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee SEE eo ee eee eee hee eee Pee eee eee mB PHBE OP PE ON HOE eB BSR SB PB ee ee eB eB eB ER eH Hee eee eB eh eee eee ee Eee ee SS i _ - od a i = : = SBS EO RRSP SERB ESE DHE RBKEF bt PRK BRE BESO F OPO MH EEF Pee Pe Oe MBE HEP oN eee aes eee SS eee 2 ne en en ee ee a SH SSPE SRE SE SSESSSSHESSHESSSESHSKBTSELRSSUSSESCHR ESS RPSRES SPSS SHR ERERSSSESTSREPSS CEES SETS SSCSHSSSSRECPCE PRE SSC RE SES ERE SHEERS ESSEC PSS SRC SRG Cee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee a ee ee ee er THE SATURDAY Toe FOU PROT 1902 F913 Ladd PAS Ilo DFE? ILE PS? 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A. Ente Hollatid Bread Ca. Joseph Hornet (oo. 3. L- Wudson Can, Hudaon's Bay (a, E. ¥. Hull Humble Of & Refining Go. Stade of Idaho Timperhal Tee Cream Ca, Imperial Of Co, Lord. Independent Brewing Co. of Fitts. Independent Torprdo Cn Independent Towel Supply Ca. Indian Awtomebile Co., Lod. Indian Terr, (humlmating O14 foo, CAcy ot red be nee peel ba: lonerante Wholesale Grocers, [mc. [ran Cicy Samed on, Jaman 8. [vine Jackson Brewing Ga. dohnicke Service Co. Jehnaon C4) Befrlng Ca, Jones Store Ca 5. Kate Son Co. Kowimann Depe. Store, Lec. Kauiraann & Beer Cur, Cw. T. Kavanagh, [re Rennloote:-Patrerson Transfer in. 3. Kenny Vronafer Car, CD. Kenny Con Kem Gounty Transportation (a. Kingan & Go, The Elrk Co BE. BE. & BR. Enlight, lane. Theodor Kundca Ga, Lanshorg & Bro,. Inc. LaSalle & Koch Co. Lawrence Ice (Gream (ao, A. Lewth do, 4. Willbem Lee & Son Fred T. Ley & Co. Leyte Land Traneportadion to, Lbberdy Buackimg in. Lit Brotha, Inc. Frederick Loser & (Co. Loft, Inc, 4. PF. Loomis Coal & Supply Ca, Looe Wihea Hlaewlt Ga. Los Angeles Brewing (a, Loe Angeles Creamery Co. Lak Jugpeledt Joe & Gold Stotage Ga. Loe Aumbelos Goa & Eleceric Garp. City of Low Angeles Caumnty of Los Angelon Long’ é Tiunafer Gao. Loalslanes Coca Cole (orriling Oo, Flagmolia Petrudeum Co, Hay Stern & Co. Mcireey & Ca, Estate of Alewander Marr i. M. McKelvey Co. McMahon Brochers RK. H. Mary & Ca, , Adee Boro ee Ac (. Pelee io, Masechusetia Peaking Can, Saute wl Massichiiert te Tike May Go. Mercantile Stores Cp. Merchants Lime-(ala Aetel, Merchants” Trinafer Co. Messke Tronaporteclon Ca. Bietroepadltain Coo) om, Michelin Tire Addl Cos tinent Casale Co, Mid: Kansas O18 Se dios op, Midweat ReGelmg to, Adler Blucbber a, Alger Hird MAD brig Coo. H.W. Mollenaucr & Drocher State af Montara Henry Margun & (3s., Led. KE. & «A. BE. Morgan Jehn Merrell fc Ca, Maria Bc Cur. 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THE SATURDAY Call In Active Service The Moaie Ca, AL Samm #& Gen Cy of Naah ville Mathers! Gasket Cox, Satkonal bre & Gold Storage Ca. ‘Ngeiconed CH] (20. hae! Relining foo, Ohy af Newark Chi al Nee Olena Sew Orlee Cae Lighe (an. Pevince of Serew Brumererick: Sree of New Jeraey i. 4. Seek (Co. iy of Mew York 0, Bogind of Fbpe Lederer per ‘oe Var Ste Ral ape orth Pade Dee Lao, ‘erihers Qhie Traction & Light Car Sorthets Ti. Tiractdom (le, feriece of borg. Sool Dhan Ci] Cn, Orondaga. County, §, ¥, Dpptilielaa, Collbiia Be Con hare of Chregom: . M4. EP Neil Gan, Fieiic Raking Ga. Pacific Mille (ects (HL Cop, Pugt & Shaw, Inc. Potala Hoyall Pon-Americon Peer, & Troma, 0. Frat Paiteehew Ch im Peher Tramportacbon (ao. Peingols Rapid Tramalt (a, Fran Public Service Con, Soule of Pann remy bead ferecr & Gleacy hitcleom Wea & Power (Co, Albee is Electr: @a. ay of Philadel pide ‘dlippine Cavern ene Shlmont Chena-Cale Hotel, (a0. Seance (lM) (org. Stegrgh Mencamclbe tsa, Tal Wiggly Stones tee’ Peak Auta Highway Co. ‘ihener Hreslig, (ao. jihbesgh Gage & Supply ico, Lae Pogise Crm, orlaad Sehage Tee Co. cers. Mercammibe (Go. Tie CHM ky thas Con, Talis Pipe Line tl. ter nd Prod eace Ubic Service Electric Co, Oget Sound Power & Light (oa. oe CM Co. ity of (eubncy dinker Nationa! Park (a, eo Fock (le. mar a. fpuiic Soractural iron Wie. On, m. Richa eth Mc oki Dalry (Go, Scheer Cras Bc Electric Co, Sheer Rallwey & Lighe (ar. Sky Meititada Parka Trane. (a. W, Rogers Ca, Moe Cocm Coole Bog ling Cn, Riectihbaues Co. ery Hosenchal fina Petrodeuan (on, traf Se. Looks fee Be Coan Tt Lake Traneportation Co. nderaville (loam Cooke Boca. €25, ager Brochers ly and Cogniy of San Preoclsco 6 Francesco Muntei pal Raley 0 Jogi Ligh & Power orp, fit Jouguin Baking Car. vege-SehenAeld (Co, Sua Baik (a. ty of Searle tm Raker Drochers deffer-Bheck ts, afer (Hl & Refining Co. cpard s Awte Bua Line Settee FSS SCSC SSS SSCHES FSSC CPPS HSK" SSP SF SCSCOPSPS PSP SSS RB SEP CCF SESSCSCHESF SCRIP SHE SS SSE SST OCC SSS SP SCS SK SSCS RK SS SERRE RP PSS KEP SRS TSS RSH SSCS HM SHES RH SSH SSE SSS SSCS PSS SSS SSCS SSCS SSCS SSP SSS SSS SSS SB SSS SS PRS ee ee ee ee 2 ee ee oe ee ee 2 He - ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee a ee ee ee a ee ee by = tek ee ae ea ee ee 2 oe ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee SSoe+ Rew te eouunsoe ee ooh oo we P90 VEEL 1902 PTS P80 DS GG PT Len ie Po doy Toe fi fi 5 Ff * Hi fi 2 4 & 7 @ FOS a ai é | * HH ib Hw 8 eh &e Hh a 5 T J * Gf 0 a o o oT t a I 1 1 2 2 fh fn 4 a 4 T Gf © £3 o o o a 7, # Hl o f 4 L & Wm WA (nH ww» Hw IF 6h6mHClCU | | 6 i 5 25 Ib o o 5 ® Ww Wl fa rok ok oO 643 2S AD i hm MM NH HH HH H 1 5 1 i tt tO Ol o t L a o o WA o 4 5 5 if 5 OF a a . 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T B SB @ bt ow a i] 4 4 4 it oe] ‘o a C & * WD 10 ‘a fl | Zt it tH 1B i h + a ? di 43 fi § ‘ 7 tf fi aHsk HH Bw S&S al 1 | I I I A 18 p o a a i i; Me i] c] t o | ee || o o t to o@dd 62 B® o | I i 4 7 61 EVENING POST Shepard Stores ; Sthall (ar. wl California The Jah Shllee Co, Fronklln Simon & (ar. Shelley C4) (on, John A. lean W & J. Slew ne Sonoma Gowney, Chal. Riuthemctern Express Ci, Southern CHE Garp, Southern Paclie (a. Siqeewr ik Con, 4. HL & L. Stadler Fertilizer (n. Otte Stakl, Inc. Standard Brewing Ca. "Standard trae & Eleceric Go. Staaderd CH fe. of Caltfornta Standard CH) fae. af Lidiens Standard (41 to, of Rentvacky Standard (Hl (s, of Loulslans Sanidard CHL tle. af Mebradicy *Stundard O40 Gao. of New Jeeaey Standard CH) tio, of New York Stafickerd CH ie. af Ola Scandard Sanitary Mfg. Ca. Stark-Toscnrawas Brewing Ca. Seerllng & Welch Ca, Sterling Praducets Ga, Stern Brothers Stewart &r tam, Stewart Tasl Service (on, SCH (Al Relining Car. tone ke Webarer Intereate Reruwhridge & Cochber Srretiinanns Vienna Rakery Sumimertiehd Go. Sin tas, elit & Cs. Swift Costil ken Co, Tacoma Bottling Works Taft-Kern (0, Cal, Schowl] [Merrice The Tazl Ga, Wim, Taylor Son & Co. Terre Havre Brewing Cs. Telling-Telle Vernon Cn, The Tews (a. Teras Pacific Goal & Ol Go. Thearer Norton Prorialan (2a, Tita) (Mil (a, Vide Woter O41 Go. (ley of Tokyo, Jopan Tratstonitinental C4) Co, Tein (iy Mater Bos fin Union Rlectric Light & Power (in Uider: Carkdile de Corton (0, Ina, Union OH Go. of Califernta Union Gos & Eberle Co. Uniden Traqeer (2, Union Wile Loser On, Undted Drug Ga. *"Volted Gas & Elecurle Corp. Untied Cae Improvement tae. Toes United Satur trae Co United Shoe Machinery Garp. Unlted Siates Bakery Unhted Saat Burhber in, US. Poar Office Depearinaent U, & Sreel Corp. Incereana U. &, Tracking (orp, Upllike Lawnber & Col Car Von Born Irom Works (as. FP... Vege & Sons, Ine, Joba Wonamaker Wurd Boking Cao. State of Washingron Raphael Weill & Can. Weare Eloceerbe (i, Westerm Meat Co. Weetero Motor Tronafer Cho. Wet Lidia O8l Can. 4. G. White & Go. larereata White Bus Lines White Trenapertation Ca, Whituker-Glesaner Co. BH. White Co. White Taxi ta, Wildte Tranabt Go,, [rc. E. H. Wleser A Co. Willard s Ghocolates, Ld. Wilson f Cn, Winchiater Lawndsy¥ Wi. Winkler | Speeds. Wedel ea] Sita te of Wileroralm, Wie Brothinrs Weoedtord CH] Go. Woe wand Ac Lochirog Wealmer Brewing Oo, Ceo. Warthingian Ga, Yellowstone Purk Treen, Con Yourmlee Nachonal Park Oo, Zettelameyer Coal Cn, Zumatena Taakeah Ca. 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THE WHITE COMPANY, Cleveland 103 Tn 47 7 4 ow Ww oat a 7 9 «18 17 #14 a 0 9 aa o oo © es et eT | o of F tf ‘6 oo © 1 o 3 4 tt a7 1 ie rh ee | 4 it as a8 5 Ss i& iT 5 TF dl i i7 it a iil 1h 214 aa Ha 713 Uhl Lel lal He Mo eS Pe er ee] iT Ww OH | 450 920 422 Ba 4] TR La) 2aT 1 1B #33 te a ee) id th 61h) oR + Lb la La 2063 6» om H if iz is 430642 oS OBE o 2 * a2 4M OD is 1s m® old oo f § = 1s 1 wis 127 toh 2a Bar 7 il oon w if #17) «iF 1 2 &# WoW oo 4 20 & & s oT * 6 42 61 BF 11) oh 118 14 os & & 6b 8 Wt o oOo a) a? 4S a7 mm AS fo oo @ ii o. oOo i @s nn | | A oR 12) il i om Go Ze 38) ee Bay 1 hh iz 12 1 oo o olloa u 5 2% i434 4 tt i 65 Th TE o 8 Ww oa 1 th i ie “Wn H loobb 61 Bt 445 468 485 Bb iT 0 ® P| 6 dz 2 if & 7 G3 W2 “4 of Woo | 1% TR Bh Be o oo 8 It 1s @ rm 24 de a a a ee | ’ 8 i 2s 7 Tf sf If 7 FT &« if RA 8 Ja 1S o oo 68 It bo @ (8 if 140615 #00 254k OST OF Hh» 4 4 i oo & o o@ i 14 12 WH 1 4 i W fo WwW 1 1 ee ee | o o + 10 i o4 43 41 4 18 1s IF eo o «8 it an eC 11% 185 188 16d ”u 8 6 6 ” mw om 14 B BR are 15747 ala? 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eee is pictured a tandem catch—the result of an eight and one-half and a three pound | Bass frantically fighting over a Bass-Qreno bait. With a‘three-pounder on, imagine the thrill of having a second furious, animated mass of bronze rush—yes, smash —three times at your bait, Three times he misses in an attempt to dispute the three-pounder's right to the Bass-Qreno. Then, with a fourth fighting grab, he tries again and is hooked. A few moments of lively play and you slip your ner under two bronze beauties—eleven and a half pounds of obstinate bass, That's the thrill of bait-casting for gamoe-fish. Thousands and thousands of red-blooded men and women ate experience ing like thrills, through the use of the Bais Ceene and other famous Sowh Bend Oreno Bain —all tried and proven fish-getters. Over 100/000 anglers are using South Bend Reels for perfect costing. Ask for chem. ar amy eperting goxds dealer's. Send far “Faking day Ser dna! hen" ma nor . Seeh Peed SurfChens “ ec er onl or foue SOUTH BEN BAIT CO ard South fend, Ind. | common sense of Fe Whe | the place for which stopping every mow and then, | ) to the apesder’a court, B this Booklet. | step on ‘er. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST SLOW=—SOUND HORN Yet it all is easily avoided—second na- ture, in fact, to mountaineers, The man who doves mountain toads merely turna off the ignition, and allows his car to stop in gear, at the extreme edge of the road if he is one, ar at ning place he cares to if he is aecom panied. en the first action upon leaving the car is at ee a good. sized chuck rock under a hind wheel. After which he can even release the brakes if he cans ta—the rock does the braking for him. When he atarts, Wf alane, he hoes come from a far side of the road, where the chuck rock will not bother the next moter- ist, because it is out of the line of travel, If he ia accompanied his campanion stands at the rear of the car and throws the chock fram the highway, aod then catches up with the slow-moving machine and hops in. Very simple to the mountain driver. A bit Ineonyenent, perhaps, ta the man aecus- toned to the cities of to the amooth white ronda of the East—but there's exactly the point; Mountain roads are neither boule- yards nor pretiy gleaming tarapikes, They're something to travel an to get somewhere, and the sooner the prospective driver realizes 1, the bebber. In fact, there's very little tourist propa- ganda in this articlo—none of the giint of dancing lights atop the pine trees, the sparkle of the brooke where lurk the aris- tocratic trout, or the log fire at evening, It's juat Bpaln out-und-aut colleetion of hard-hended facts, built to appeal to the i to get to they sturt—and to come back, You can get all the scenery you wun, all the deseriptions possible, out oof the railroad and tourist folders. But what is the use of it all if you are not going (to be able te enjoy it simply because you haven't the necessary education which can take you therel Mountain driving is as different fram city or turnpike driving as nuteomobile driving Is different from the progres af Old Debbin and the one-hesa shay. There are certain things to know—which must be knaown—just a4 must know how to throw in the dutch and put your foot on the gas before you con expect o machine to move. Yet the strange part of it all ga—aonee the few pecesaary things are learned about mountain driving—it's the engiest driving of all! Keop Four Eyer on the Road In the city you look for the signal of the ‘traffic patro , wabeh the man ahead of you, and Keep an eye open for what mony come upan you from the intersecting streets. That makes three things for the eye to wateh. In the mountaina there ia only ane—and that’s the rood, But, it must be sinted, that road is a j thing, and ane which requires constant attention, You don"t just give it a glance now and then; you watch it! Ttisa propowition whens you are Wang both eye all the time, and with bath those eyes fastened upon the brown twisting ribbon before you. For a time it stema diffieult. Ales, for a time, it appeara that you are doomed to miss the very acen- ery you have come to see, But as the miles goon, you find that in some instinctive way your vision haa broadened; it second nature to watch every foot of that Fond, yet sex everything about you at the sume tiret. In fact, the weal procedure of country driving is merely reversed, You see the scenery in ewilter glanees, ancl the | road in bonger stretches of watching. And, you know, there ia no law againat your ting gat of the ear, really seeing what you've come to look at, instead of wateldng tas | through a railroad-ear window. But to the rest of the directions, In the ty one travels at a certain rate of speed because of the laws which govern that apeed, and berause of the motorcycle cop who is ewer ready to si nal 1 down and give you a red or blue adimialon theket In the mountaing is a speed cop who truvels unseen, but who is at your elbow, nevertheless, whenever the desire seizes you to forget caution or to He's very influential, Wis ham t& Death. Again let it be explained that mountain roads are not boulevards. Of course It is perfecthy true that thereare certain atrebeles of or that deserve this name, such aa that masterpiece of meountain-highwoy (Cantinued from Poge I) enginerring which runs from Golden, Cola- o, Up the slx-mile stretch of Lookout Mountain to Buffalo Bill's grave, thence on to Bergen Park, to Morrison and back to Denver, a park road under the ment of the eliy of Denver perfoctly aligned, with every curve marked, every gricde broadened, every drain in place, and every pouible thing dane to make it a highway fully deserving of the name. Like wise ig the Big Thompson Cafon road loading into Estes Park, the road connoct- Ing Trinidad, Colorado, and Raton, New exied, the high-line drive to Cation City, the mew plies pet project to Mount Evans, and severnl others, But after all, though these roads run through mountaltes, they are not, in the strict acceptance of the os en ere — 1 real mountain hig ris f gredua= thon from the wagon and road af a day that ia gone inte the automobile road of to-day. hig atenes have been re moved, that crank coves may net be broken by eartact with them: the roadbed made a bit smoother, and the turna widened slightly, That is about oll, In some piace the ¢ have been lewened slightly— bat it is not unuaual to trike one 10 or 12 per cont hill after another, The curves, in spite of their widening, ore sh und fre quent—olten aa many aa a hundred te the mile. The man who attempts a an. this woes ef road deserves to have Lewth at his elbow. To Co DownsAill Safely Bo, the first two thi to remember in Lhe mvintaing are caut and elowness, Caution for the turns of the road, and a push on the horn to warn the other low eoming down of up hills for the stops; and for a constant certainty that if your navchine ia toe runoff the rand wtall itis to scrape a fender on the rock aide of the miiintain, and net go careening over the other side, where the drop is sometimes two or three hundred feet. ‘The man who drives the inside track, with hia wheels well ln close to the wall of the meountain, may serape a fender atgutly now ond then, bot be won't len picked wp from somewhere ve Lita dies bee of to § owness Of progress, a person rarely drives the mountains in a wild desire bo get somewhere at a certain moument— except, of course, the essehardened ta- tives who really live in the hilla and who know mach crook ond turn backwards. Therefore, a speed of fifteen miles an hour on the actual mountain roada is all you'll need, More, onee you're traveling at that epecd on the down grade af, ri an 16 per cent declivity, aomething will beghn ta tingle cr and down your spine, the pine trees will seem bo whiz by, and you'll find reared wondering Uf the speedometer lan‘t a bit off, For, a5 has been mentioned before, the majority of mountain accidents come with the machine traveling downhill—due en- tirely to the fact that the driver hasnt the slightest know)ed ol how-to descend o grade. For which | shall be censured, and to which I repeat that not one out of tern drivers whosn habitat in the flat country oF the city knows how to go down a prade! Yet [tia the simplest rule th the world: Go down the sam way vou come up! In other words, in the bills if it is meres sary to make a grade on low pear, that grade should be descended in the same manner and at the same speed, with the engine riinining. Dt lan't whee to gave in the moantains by turning of the ignition. The constant revolutions of the engine cause unexploded gas to beck up, with backiining and a spurt which may come at the wrong time, the wise mountaineer ken his engine running—and takes his me. It may consume three times as many minutes to go down a hill in low gear aa it might te attempt it on high and trust to the brakes. But one's sute—and the other ign’t. The preasure of brake bands.aufflicient to hold as car to a ase pace on mountain grades is so intense that the friction often cae the brake bands to start burning within the firet half mile—and remerober, you're dealing with professional hilla, not the kind where a qiburder of a mile cruise is a Jong jor. Between Empire, Colorado, and the tep of the Herthoud Pasa road, the crasmiver to Salt Like and San Francisco, May (3, 972 is a distance of nine miles. The Govers- ment now is building a road to this Cont. nental Divide Pass which will not have more than a 6 per cent grade, but until that roud is finished the 10 and 12 and 15 per reid reer atill stand. In those nine mis, the altitude changes from approximately eight thousand feet to one of elewen thou. sand three hundred foet, with the mais élimb in the last six miles. In other words, in gia miles your car must climb a half mile, straight up. More, when it reaches the sUrumit it must drop down a half mile o- the other side! Brake bands, not redinforres by the compression of an engine, cannot stand the struin, The result ts that they eateh fire, becom glazed, and then—all iy an ingtant—give way! Onee that break comes, ib ts ten late to shift pear. The machine sheois forword with sudderly doubled speed. A puch at the gear lever only brings a horrible bu and a snap ping of tecth, nothing more, you do ene af wwe things—go inte the bank ond smash the front end of your . OF waltz payly over the edge of the road to another Divide, fram which no one ever hex been able to send back o report on the scenery. Therefore the wise driver doesr’t shift when he reaches the top—he merely oes on over the hump in low, and keep in ow Until he fa sure the reached grades that permit him to shift to a higher gear. Ag for going up the hill—even bere are certain litth: rules that are necessary, In the first place, the man who goes into the mountains must elther know his car or hae se tg rite i jon the SETSL person wil stop at the beth 4 of a ati’ climb, down his pride and open up his hood, He will test the oil ayatem, ww be sume first of all that the crank case is fall of the fluid, and secondly that the ail aystem ia working and distributing prop erly. He will stand a moment and watch the fan belt, to be sure that it is not alip- ping. He will teat his spark plugs for core ignition, and then, as a last precaution. stop his engine, let cut part of the radiate contenia and refill with cool water, Then, his testa made, he will begin to ewe be machine up the grade. “Ease” is the exact word. The mo Becuatomed te driving the mountain road will tell you some paradoxical things— nmang which 1 the fact that it ie far eneier on a machine, and especially on the cooling aystem, to end the old bins along easily ond without a strain on second than it bb tw force that engine up sed on high. — Sagar ar 19 suppesed a at an engine. So Faia under certain clreumstunoes, Tit it also keepa an engine cooler under other circumstances than foread work in high! The same aleo pertains to low, When that engine must cough out ¢ach explosion tle beat is lingering—no longer is it a quick, snappy combustion which departs almost the neament it @ecurs. It stays—and it heats, That's why the mountaineer grim and into second, while the plainsman aweara and tries te farce his machine oo- ward in high. The machine that is trave- ing at the 5 stands the chance of not boiling untl) far after the other one For Mountain Work Again, when you meet the man who tells you that the eleap small ear is the one for the mountnins on account of its lightness, llaten te him if you want to, agree with bin il care to preserve hie friendship—bus take it-all with a grain of salt. Smal. light. nky-ingined cats were made for light work, not for the sort of thing that one e:- equnters in the Rockies. Why, [ dean's know, but there seems to be aome sort of Gad-given faith in one or two make of arnall car which gives their owners the belief that they can go up a brick wall. Of course, if you want to walk from fre to ten miles, straight up, carrying half tke luggage and Finblacar of a camping trip on ane shoulder, and helping to drag 4 machine uphill with your free arm—go flead. There's no one to stop you, But that isn't my idea of & vacation, However, it appeara to be ular. | haveseen thesesmall machines by the doses. stuck on any one of the half dozen passes bn Colorado, so loaded down with campica paraphernalia, bedding, food, wood, me mentoa of the trip and what not, that the aprings were nearly flat. In mddition w (Cited of Page FOG | a

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST How can one small a « a ot # a a HEN you see fr some hamlet of a few homes and you hear that the Sunbeam dealer there sells a complete carload every season, you wonder how he can do it, Yet there are hun- dreds of such in- stances, for the Sun- beam is made by one of the largest furnace manufacturers in the United States and, therefore, can be sold at a quantity-production price. Thousands of home-owners have learned that a Sunbeam Pipeless Furnace will heat a given number of rooms more evenly, more healthfully and with one-third less fuel than stoves or fireplaces. Other thousands are learning every year. dealer sell a carload of Sunbeams During a bitter, cold winter the Sunbeam will maintain an even, comfortable temperature throughout the whole house, or in mild weather it will give just enough heat to remove the chill without waste of fuel. With a Sunbeam in your home you will not have to carry fuel for several stoves. Just fll it morning and evening —the rest of the day control it from upstairs. There is no dust from a Sunbeam, no ashes in the house, no smoke. It is just the kind of heater for a home where there are children. Sunbeam Pipeless Furnaces last a lifetime. All parts are over-size and are so accurately fitted that leakage is impossible. All that we have learned in thirty years of manufacturing has been put into the Sunbeam to make it a QUALITY furnace. Don't wait until fall to get your Sunbeam. There are lots of dismal, wet days when you need a smell fire, long before cold weather comes. It takes only one day to install a Sunbeam, so why not start saving one-third of your fuel right away? PIPE and PI FURNACES Why the SUNBEAM Costs so Little and “Warms like the Sun” Just send for the 105 ? Fill out the coupon and mailittous, There'anot & everyone knows, wari air fises and cold air falls; that ia the simple principle upon which Sun- beam Pipeless Furnaces work. Heated air, mixed with vapor, rises through the central compartment of the large register placed in your hall or living room, A constant, gentle circu- lation of warm, moist air at an even temperature is Tmuauntained in every proom, the cool gir of the house being drawn down through Elyria, Ghia the outer compartment of your register into the fur- nace, where it is heated and sent upward again. The Sunbeam gives health- ful heat; tt requires little attention, as the draft is regulated from upstairs; owners all over the country tell us that their Sunbeans have paid for themselves the first year by saving one-third on the cost of fuel. See your local Sunbeans dealer. the slightest obligation invelved. If may be the meansof saving you o great deol of money. Se ee ee ee ee: = | THE FOX FURNACE CO., Elyria, Ohio | Gentlemen: | Without obligating me in any way, I would like to learn more about heating my heme, and the Susbeam Punere, lealers con profitably write for details concerning these lowest priced furnaces | Also, please mail eet a copy of your “SUNBEAM SS a a en mae : he FOX FURNACE CO. | Street Address . | City and State:

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Costs abour two dollars. Also fine for baby carmiages, porch furniture anc] wherever an opaque and lustrous enamel is required. It comes in black and white and ten popular colors. Murphy Univernish Cvrar and m Six wooed Colors Around the house, use Murphy Univernish, One coat brightens up floors and trim, snaps out color in linoleum and makes old furniture live again. Of course it won't turn white. Not affected by soap, boiling water, alkali or even ammonia. Wonderfully durable! Ask your dealer, Murphy Varnish Company NEWARK, WN. J CHICAGO, ILL. Tae Deegall Fareis§ Company, Jindted, Jonured!, Candela fico tar Es are aaaes (Coatinaed from Page fod) this were fram three to six Porc: who flso had to be taken over the road. I alao have seen the engines of these care white- bot from the heat inflicted upon them drivers whe did not know enough te allaw an engine to cool; and then every yao cracked wide nh by those same drivers, wha, realizing that the machinn wos about to eateh fire, duddenly made a run for the nearest stream and literally soused the engine with iceeokd snow water] After having helped to tow, push, ul, crowbar and almost carry seme hun or eo of these machines over the Continental Di- vide, owing to the fact that the rond was either too marrow or too dangeroits bo offect & passage or night was coming, and the poor, bewildered accupants were virtu- ally lost in a strange » ve come ratty well to the conclusion that Ill stay ¥ the big or ot lenst the middle-priced car. Of course there is this advan in the amiall car—the rative ease with which ports can be obtained at the small-town garages and b mith shops. Parts for ig cara in the mountalos are few and far between, A breakage invariably means a walt of too te three daye until a replace ment con be received ower tincertain ral roads from the cites. Once upon a time, whee To owaa new to the hilla and didn't | knew enough te test my oil preasure ond evatem before trying foolish things, I at- tempted a mountain pass. Halfway up I tray do baer eegioecaeines 1 Berea oO do GuE be OT: Hg. mE another—and then a Third. Finally I reached the tap and clanked down the other gide, There I met 2 man with o truck, oe you Low oe to a garage, old man" asked. Bag Regular price, though. Dollar a mile. Tagreed. Late that afternoon 1 my savior & bill of eighty-three dollars! It was that distance ta the nearest garage! Whleb brings another thing to mind— don't pat your faith in garages. Put it in yourself, The closest garages in the moun- talons are ten to fifteen miles apart, The farthest dlatance I know bs ai ees Soars onehondred and twenty-eight miles! ich is n long distance to walk at yall ie oat of gasoline, en ol, your fan belt isn't working or there's a knock In the engine! ae the pro pon teeale are b+ bE unger on of large car as against that of a small car. where the strain is many times ter, ia lesa than a ratio of one to a hundred. The efficaey of a small car in the mountains, eapecially if it is overloaded, aa it must be bo the equipment of a touring porty, Ley Laurgees a fable, Mountaia Peculiarither For that matter, several thingn are fa- bled when the mountaina are conoerned. One af them inchides the supposition that all mountain roads are dry, sandy, gruvelly affaira, thak can stand at Bort of deluge and five minutes later be their old, cheery, smiling selves again. Tt isn'é trv. course there are aectlons of the mountains where there is that sand and gravel and permanency to the roads, Then again there are sections where it is necessary to wallow through the blackest gumbe that ever stuck to an automobile wheel, while in shill others there are gat clays end “debe muds which, once bie hecome properly slicked up, can defy the efforta af afesnes nny car that doses not possess in ite outht a set of mod hooks. More, these sections are altuated in cloudburat arews, where it seema & part af the climate for clouds to ather suddenly and to turn loose 2 2 thing they have been picking up for the last six months. Tt happened that one day Inat summer I was driving in a section of mountain country where the roads for fifty miles were ‘dobe, The weather was fing, the toad aa hard aa flint and as smooth as polished steel, Then something began | coming up out of the weet. A holf hour later my companions aml [ stool beside the machine and watched a wall of water, a hundred feet wide and fully four feet deep, | Fush down an arroyo and take the road jwith it. After the cloudburst was gone and the torrent had departed, we managed to cress; then, with chaing attached to every tire, we muannaged to finish the reat of that fifty miles in an additional eight hours, an awerage of aix miles an hour! Which should sew up the shrewd of another fable, Then, tow, there is still something more to remember— winter doesn't finish ils wack May 13, 1922 in Ehe mountains until months after it haa removed iteelf from the lower countries There is ioe on near high lake {5 early June, and anowdrifts that mange [rom ten to fifty feet in depth. Last summer, coming over a mountais pass, | saw a wabbling machine in [rant of me, which veered rously toward the edge of o cliff, shied : ted forward, slawed just in time to miss another ma- chine moving upgrade arcund a cure, al finally come to a step in a clewring on the mountain side where a sawmill had e1at- lished a amall sawduat pile. Into this saw- dust the machine ran ite nose, plowed) there a moment and came to & ooughing aba. I halted my ear behind ft. “Better let one ol ws fellows take thar machine down this hill for you,” I urged. The man, his eyes staring, his lips moving nervously, attempted a laugh. ot ean cake it all right.” “Alaybe you can—dan't daub it at all But— how're your brakes working?" ‘a Fine.” Bi compression any?" i u FF Whereupon I explained thoroughly the use of compression and felt the brake druma. They were almost red-hot. Again T explained the use of his gears, ond he nodited in vague fushion. At last: “Are you absolutely qure you understand?" "Oh, yea—I understand.” Mountain Fever Hut there waa something im the man's eyes that didn't look natural or sane, | beegresd chen Sa Tas me take hin family of o Se Grange archt gee diese on iG could get Th right. offered to drive his car down for him, and let one of the other occupants of my ma- chine handle the extra adtorebile. He didn't seem te underatand me. At last 1 wha forced to goon. Ten minutes later er beard a erwsh, The man's ear had gone over the edge, somersaulted four times and crushed the whole family! Perhups in ordinary circumstance: be wae asane, level-headed man. Wher | ae a he was materi from. revankaln fever and aa mentally irresponsible as it wae possible for a man to be! The mountains, with thelr sheer ascents, thelr lowering cliffs, their grades and constant turns, had got him. Ho was o living exemplifics- tian of a combination of fear and d : tion—eo frightened that he hardly nee what to do, so desperate in bia nonund=r standing condition that he would accept no ald! Tt ig a condition that is rare, of course, but one that ia plagsible, The driver is in & strange country where noth ing seems to go right. The slightest ap pearance of a hill causea his machine to cough and miss and heat, The grades ary deceptive—10 per cent looks almost like a level stretch. On one side is the consiac! danger of a sheer drop of hundreds of fee und the mind is naturally attracted to it There are curves, curves, curves, and con stant meetings with machines that slink around them as though they had been Ly- ing in walt to force o victim off the road There are meetings In which cars ore forced to back, sometimes as much as a hundred feet or so, to a turnout, and back- ing oo @ de is nok an enay task, Su withal it begins to eat in, deeper, deeper watil at last the driver logee his control ad mets icky. The machine is co stantly L but gelling awe from him. even if he rung of compression: in his nervousness he forgets that he is putting his foot on the gas lever and shoving up the speed. Dn a case like this there is only one remedy, but a gure oné—stop the mae chine, get out, find the stumdieat of one of the jonumeruble dead tress that are alway a part of the surroundings of a mountain asa. Drag it to the road and tie it on find your machine, The extra wenght af that clr will slow up the poachine ta auth an extent that you mowe with snail like progress and, during that lull, regan FOUF COMposure, But aU ppt you. hoven't a ateut rope? Well—if you haven't, or if you don't know how to @xamine pur engine, your bralpes. yeur ail and con oj nt ee you don't cuty 2 conbwiner oll ond 7a, @ collepe- ible bucket for obtaining water from near-by brooks, a good set of tools, a fee purts that may be substituted for thoar ic most danger of breaking, » spade, a good extra tire, and a head that can assimilate simple rules and follow them —— Don't drive in the mountains!

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Myer called back, “Look out for your tat! Can't go down ‘there for a hat!" Laaid, “'T wouldn't go down there for a suit of dothes !"" HT ad te write ots ens under senbenen of death T be iy ge al a ae cheng Rak. the “pee poael count- octal ao ngerlycrep te Me Saree faour horses over tha Be kgtaar tenant tha aidehill be fore a fellow's breath would be out of him, ound myself com computi the Suns ralve of a ten-thousan dedollar icy in a Sinden chenatia nie aed ; of that money and of a fairly new wae deducted, te alga through the io pil your bot ara dragaed at at your her awite ticked it at ou kept it tu into campaign bat pt ye fram drawing blood. a Tn to ot in one of Sek aReTECt TE af Ee peegaee aa Dob ieist i ee ddoe- Fees ehaee mare swiftly than Auguat in the Valley. oon We top a half bour for din- amd to rest the horses, [t wes estonish- i put a coffeepot on two pat ly ca er et af a ben's egg. ving brush feat Te with 8 two quarta of coffer I have ever seen it heated The Gils River is filled with quicksand, Hereand there la a ford. As we approached bated a trooper rode from the fort a mile his station on the opposite bank ng, which the ford “called back, “Lift your vier! Hold up your horse's down and roll! Follow ly! r of sundown, alter a day . 1 could do everything com- hold up my feet; the alongside the stallion an eh bowrt- to them over the Pulled at the little beled sos get Ma PELE ok ree ri aver tarldle and ent tae from. eis ie reached the ground, diy fat old doctor psy was there hoked me over and without the formality intraduaction sald, “Put this man in bath." As he did so I put him into ‘in the tub a striker brought me a trom Colonel Sumner: ow's the patient?" ictated the answer, “Mat so beautifull whe was, but knows more Couldn't Fool the Yankee When I came down the four sbepa of the litth shack to go to the mesa room the a morning | took each slowly: and hung ante the banisters ike a man half perelrasa. There ia nothing like a good of horse rheumatism to put a tender- commission. week at San Carlet was interesting. had the Apache at first hand; but as color was from the Hort bat spect for tt here only emphasize the fact that there are a | ee § Hit i he - a Ee iit. ate tn wat perk e to hove in the lumber room. I shan't talk of deceptive distances or tell any stories of men starting o walk a seeming three miles and learning that their vigible objective is fifteen rotles Lway. Beshdes, one isn't always credited. On the tip homme, on hour or two gut of Bl Peso, athe station Alamogardo, Aahrewd New Englander asked, “What it those mount"ins to the northeast there?" “Those are the Sierra Blanca— White Mountains,” THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE PRINT OF MY REMEMBRANCE (Caathaued fram Page Fa) ing Deke onal aie aa te i oo melfe abn whiskers and then eald rebuke: "Young man, the White Mount'ina air in New armpshire,”’ In the bari ore the way back and at home I was busy on the abaya withan Indian uprising a8 my pri lmachinery. And in its frst draft the play was so finished. Early in morning of Februwry 16, 1203, James Waterbury, the agent of the Western Union Company at New Rochelle, telephoned me that the Maing had been own up and sunk in the harbor of Ha- Vand. ng the interest the would have for my neighbor, aria aig n, [ immediately called him on tie cel aod repented the inferma- ton. im apo - ponte at to shout "" Ring " In the proceas of doing a I could hear him calling the private tele- prcae Humber af his publishers in New ork. In his mind, his own campaign was already actively under Way. Authors and Artists First One incident of that campaign illustrates the primitive man in Remington. He and hg Davia were to po into Cuba by the back way and send mate rial ta an evening . The two Ten were to cro in the night from K Weat to Cuba on a mackerelahaped a boat af sheet iron and ahallow draft. times the boat put out fram Key West and thre: times turned back, u e to stand the weather. The last thme even the crew lost bope of regaining port. Davis and Remington were lying in tha amibyere and clinging to the shallow rail to keep fram being washed overboard. The Chinaman cook, betwern lurches, was lashing bogether 4 done acter ieminete grt Fl ta i the ad¥ bility of trying something of the Kind for th ve. “Lie ati!" Baemingtoan commanded. “Yau and I don’t Eriow haw todothat. Let him make his raft, [f we capeine T'll throt- tle him and take it from him." months: incident, [ tried to discuss the moral af it with him. But be brushed my hy asicle with the remark, “Why, Davis alone wae worth a degen sea cooks! T don’t have to talk of ™m . ree ce Haak ask tata al the Indian stuff in my manuseript and to make the a the gettin er of a troop af cow Ay im was prophetic af the Riders, wrote Denton's cow- bey ‘roop and the Kha iacket into the ay at onee, changed such few s a nominee Cd duly eighth President aia: neccesary. On July ant Afe- Kinley nominated Col. Leonard Wood to be: brigadier general, and Lieutenant Col. Th re Hooevelt to be colonel of the First a nee Paras a fF A tow re a mn oO : Th fi playa Tf Ut. wasn't for aie pent wate would strike wat the statement I would ote the Boston Transcript to the effect t when Thomas ia these prefaces wilt be put together in limp leather and printed ux listis classics, Porhaps if I don't 1 the names of the plays or their pub- lites this statement oul get by. In one ah rena al re "This fay was a ed bo may it was a marketing ah mide and remnants utterly useless for ay Fane and "And elsewhere in these remem eos [ve anid that all i fish that eomes toa t's ponel. Late in the winter of 1456, when the other guests had gone home alter dinner, Mr. Joseph 1D. Redding, of the Bohemian Club, San Francisco, waa at the plano in aur living room at New Rochelle; listenin to him were Mr. Will Gillette, my wife anc ing was running over the keys and talking through the musle in that enter- taining way which as musician omni talker he has in such eminent degree, Crver one haunting melody he sald, “Here's something | heard a little girl Bing | ing alone, hidden from the rain in a tloby doorway in Sunta Barbura.* (Coatinwed of Page FO) later, on learning of the phase 107 Why Jack Conover - stopped paying high prices for custom-made shirts “T get shirts that look as well, fit as well and wear as well, for less money, when I bry Emery,” he says ACK Conover lives at the most exclusive club in Cleveland. A club where good dressing is an inborn trait of ics members. Like many members of his club, he boughe nothing but custom- made shirts. Cine day the club valet told him that he needed more shires before packing for a trip. “L didn't have time to have my shirts made," says Conover, “so | dropped in ta one of the leading haberdasher’s and they recom- mended Emery. “L told them that they did not have my sleeve length in a ready made shirt and asked if they could have them lengch- ened for me. “One of the firm measured my arm and said, “We can fit you, Mr. Conover, —in Emery Shirts.’ “And chen I had a wide variety of pat- terns to choose from | Why Emery Shires are equal i Chor Panem in each phir perfectly bal- dnend—airiper match im codfa, front, ac. Dligleera sleeve Length. Sere spa fontcmdig pecur ced irs) re ples gaping dheees and make caffe set right. Preahrnk nechBands Mek-banirab (Gr inaping 2 buiroan im heck, baw Un Clear pearl Dirahedls newacen, And and | picked a half dozen Emery Shirts that were equal—yes, better than custom shirts 1 had paid double the money for.” Emery Shirt patterns are always smart and correct. Emery fit is roomy, casy, comfortable—no skimpiness across chest or shoul- ders, under arms—anywhere. Emery fabrics wear well. Emery tailoring refinements are found only under the Emery label. Emery Shirts are equal to cus- tom-made in every way. Yer, they cost na more than ordinary shirts —$2, $2.50, $3 and up. lf there is no Emery dealer near you, we will see that you are served, on receipe of money-order and name of your dealer. Mention neck-band size, sleeve-length and color preferences, W. M. Steppacher & Bro, Inc. Makers of Emery Shirts, Phil- adelphia. Shirts

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TRADE MARR i THE SATURDAY (Confined from Page for: we wae e moment's slence when be finihed the meloty, and my wife sald, “A litth: girl that could aing like that wouldn't be alone," Gilletee in his metallic tenor added, “ Besides, it never talns in Santa Barbara." Each of these lines was worth a smile to our frelight purty; and i just ax Tam telling the story ge I told it at a buon uet table at the ta Barbara Clab in S01. J heaped only for pood-natured re- mene gil wos wt utter lows bo i haacubaced men dupped exch other on the back i Perse with glee and rocked on their unsteady chairs, The toastmaster felt 7 aus entitled to an ex een me ity estate man present explained the laug telling that Gillette some years before had bought a consideruble country estate at hioateeciio, a aaburb of Santa Barbara. as ‘had bought it on blue printa and | graphs 5 hig bay the Pay ut ‘One ewe thotogra ier, purlin ae pai “Gmmmediately alter one the infrequent rainatorms of at section. On the other three hundred and sixty-four daya in the year thie water course was dry. t kind of ching amuses real-estate men, Om that winter evenin however, Gil- betbe tald of nothing of this dusty brook, ; but asked Redding to repeat hia rainy ; Mmugic, wirt the firelight tows before | the introduction of auction bridge and when pen te sensibility sometimes sat howe an or listened to little in eee f that Redding kind. [ awe more than onee solved some knotty prob- lem in play building by a moral invited bey each ousted half hours. ‘That night a@ Redding repeated hie melody [ slowly hammered oud these verses: Her smile is af pearl and of coral, Here a the duck ana the dew, Her sigh fuo the Greath af the laurel, Her heart [aad (he pineoncica rue. The hearendy afar for oboor her, The breeze of lhe injfimile sew, Witte isos all her perfidy, lowe her, Thea why eal! i madness te me? And a0 on. As touch ws the character Wf! the music, the fact that Hedding’s romontie waif was OT was not standin ‘ an adobe doorway made the subject doby to me. So that when Colonel Summer's deughter, Nan, told me that Tony, the raquerd, whe brought the letters from her friends and who had such white teeth played the mandolin amd ang, und | saw Lim 7 woenving him inte my story, and L gave m that af Hedding’s. Later Vincent Serrano’s mother putthe words inta Spanish, E newer thought of Tony without humming its mel vs am vee ‘end i was done, it bel sae ge an aan, the er. “ie ee gh nage od ther a bk to use Hlentil ying foil theres ics Arior, as the song was called i pabilabed, aecompanied Tony rege the perigee having tl areompany alec t happy German girl with eral he =the, in lowe, it knitted these two together more firmly in the minds of the audionce than any ial eould do, Nan Sumner call my attention alao te Tony's nalve indimter- enon to English profanity. He had learnect -lad all together, and wos unable to make and untraubled ber any distinction, =e aa when T got him into the play T was ab le to haw him finish his lover's declara- tian after the HOT with “and dumn to bell my soul, T Jove youl"" The Lambs’ First Gambol In its revised shape I submitted my complete! manuscript to Charles Frat man. Although his influence ae railroad transportation that [ had used re ag io Anzona, and he had ean fonyard to the completion of the play, Rochat hla in the seript or in my reading of it, Peas he listened to the four wiles at Eo read them, decided him against this protuction, With tht wer on, man agers were timid and my peel rare seemeel unlikely of early production. | amused my- f with the conduct of The Lambs" first all-atar gamisol, There are few social lube te whose fune tions one can with propriety ask attention. But The Lambs, because of its theatrical membership and prominene:, is muon that few. For many years un abel night head been taken in the club when EVENING POST members free from profesdonal colis gether in an entertainment the backbone al which was some burbeaque by some skilled man upen some current sucess, ms from several of these intimate performances had occasionally been given to the public of Now York, In 1858 it bite decided to make a much mort pretenti appeal by pluyers, wll of whom should he star. Contracts for the exclusive services atone dollar per week for the last week in ay were drawn between the club on one aide, and an the other Nat Goodwin, Wi H r, Stuart Robeson, William Crane, Wille i Collier, deters D' Angelis, Chaun- CHeott, Dighy Ball, Frencis Carlyle, Wilton La a iat, Ball, Frat Worl, Charles Klein, Eugene Coles Taeph Helland, Ha Connors itz Willinms, Burr Meintos:. sep Grismer, Joase Williams, Victor tam rt, [gmatio Martinetti, Victor Harri abd some forty other meen af almost eqyual prominence; a half dozen playwrights and He May musi j Vietor Herbert's band and orchestra of filty pieces. Playing on Shipboard The company, all told, included over ome hun men. Tt was computed that their jotwt salaries, according to what they were then getting upon the road, would for that week have amounted to one hundred avi vere ease thousand dollars, Thoa- tere were leased for one night only in Nee York, Brook Washington, iaded- phis, Boston, nringtield ittsburgh ated Chicago, Adwaoor work tor publicity was done in all these cithes, Contract: existed for aepectal train of four sleepers, three din- ing cars and two hoggage cor. Rehearsals wire well under way when wor wos die dared. Matters of equal importance from the gunusement point of view were eroded from the papers by the war news, It would hate beers jbbebo cane! the bourend eon tracte and pay all claims incurred for some fifteen thousand dollars, and such a course was advised by dostph Brooks, the mana- ger at the of the husiness: group. As penere amusement direetor of this gam- L, which was to lift the debt from a new clubhouse recently hut, the nested af additional indebtedness if we guve up the tip derided me to go on with dt. het Tironks quit [ put the business man ment wp be Kirke Lo Shelle, then handling the Bostonians. The club ; gare the aol 4 of gambols in the cities named and took in sl Fite thousand dollars. it businesslike rlgumé of that yonture Impressive, but the sentimental side of : will appeal to thase acquainted with the Byers. ahall tell vale of the first feature le program: an old-atyle-minsirel first part, pyramided on the stage of the Met- ropalitan Opera House, and in which, with Herbert's hand, there were one hundred men. The interlocutor, end men and vo calists, all in the regulation evening dren#, at the end of the opening chorgs were on their feet. The great suditeriim of the Matro- politan Opera Howse waa crowded from parquet to dome with one ef the moat aelect pudience: ever sseembled within ita 1 we remem that we were only in the first month of our war with Spain we can form some conception of the enthusiasm as this iener rose when the finished with the apap Banner, and then the burst aa every ni Ringer mb cue drew fram the inside o s white vest, i af a pocket handker- chief, an American flag of sill. We had been under pressure to start rompily in order to make train conmec- Sane ‘or the next town, and T am not sure that anybody has ever explained just why the curtain was held. The facts are, hov- ever, Ehret it was difheult for my wile to get to the Metropolitan at 2:15 owing to oer- tain athention that our baby bad te have at that time before it got to bed. She had ramimel to make hmetc, ancl | had prom- te stand in the prompt entrance ane if pomible to hold the curtain until 1 saw her take ber seat in the front row of the dra circle. Men on the stage were [rete ting, and the audience—there was twenky- seven thousand collars in the howse-—wus Libingy impatient, but the baby delayed fhem anly four minutes, In June of that year, 1296. I made m hiret crossing of the Atlantic estan hale ua dn that boat were seven The Lambs Cluob—Chauncey bi pela Wal ter Hale, Vincent Serrano, Howland Buek- atone, Jor Wheelock, Jr,, Huckstull and one other. First-class fare wus fifty dollars; the lowest quotation now i iwo hundred May 15, M22 andl fifty. The old Vietoria was a catth boat with bilge keels—that is, an additioral keel on each side, somewhat below tie water line, bo bei her role ‘The cattle wens where £ marily 18, und we never knew at th chan Ls Yeu! orn ining persin was among the passengers, bent. upon grt up oa eomeert for the benedii uf Aeaiad annie And the ois tain thought it would take the passengers’ minds from the constant fear of Spanish nuboais—submerines were net yet Lf Let, WF American achore eoaldn't recite, hus they could play Hf they had a maamaseript: so with their urging nivicew and co Font? nasistance T wrote a comedy nhout twenty-five minutes long dealing entirely with the ship's company, which we called Three Daya Cut. In it Chauncey Cirott layed an old Lrish woman, Hale w roman: tic tenor, Huckstone an English financier, and young Wheelock, who looked like the bathroom stewnrd, impersonated that oi ficial, borrowing and wearing his clothes for the performance; Sermnoa Played a Span- ish cattle roiser, Ruckstull was a walking gentleman, To was on Americun inte man. We went aff near the steering Th F oS sie eb lt in the open sunshine. ree days Ore We fot inbe port we gave ormanc: whirh netted a dscns ane for the beneliciaries, _ Charles Frohman was in London at that time laying bis first plans for his extensive theatrical contra! that d later, We had our card filled with all Kinds of agree ahie appointments, and I met thon for the first time J. M. Barrie, Ber Shaw, Alfred Satre, Beerbuhm Tree, George Alex- rab Arthur Bourchler and Max Beer- (Chor first night in Paris wus the CeTning af July fourteenth, the anniversary of the fall the Bastille, Instead of the fire ctuckers and jan wheels of America, Paris ex preset ited in sireet festivila and dances, In every arrondiasmmedl, ar wird, there was a ceniral gathering where musie wus furnished by a munich band andi where the netihborhel people cancel on the clean asphalt of the street. It nee inte one of these circles only a few yer before that Willie Collier and Bill (Old flea! Hoey walked, and catching the time of the music began an impromptu dance of the American mosbel, ‘0 visualize this fuily one mist remember Howy, with his ful! idack beard and @eeentric manner: and remember the natty, areoth-ahaven Willie Collier of those days in his fat-brimmei straw hat: and then the pair of them sur- rounded by the gradually widening circle of astonished Paris tradesmen as those two Armrican boys eompeted with each other in henvem bered and invented s of Vaude ville assortinent. That would be a rare treat to-day for an American audience furniliar with that character of dancing antl guthened at Longacre Square. But at that time, for theaa simple pirovetting bow geaisie, it was electrically eccentric. Jean faures’ Theory T shall offer no tourist’: impression of Paris, bot there if a notable permembranc of Jean Jaurte, the great socialist, pleadieg for evolution, not revelation. He waa a men a fen ytilra later, buat Muck and I went to hear him then, He talked upon the theme I have furtively referfed to in earier chapters, and which in the pinst winter of unemployment more t one puoblickt advanced. Jauria was sure that the trouble with capital and labor was net one of closs warfare, but that both Clams in some fushion were troubled by the machine in industry; by competition between owners of competing machinery, but principally by competition of the hu- man creature againat the insvensate Frank- enstein eteation, His Wis. Afi ownership by the etate of all the mecha cal facilities: af production. Some day weshull diseriminately tax them secording to wise conferences betanen al! Tutions, When we come te rerross the Atlantic. in August, there was etl some fear of che Spanish punbosts, As our troubhe with Epain subsided I curried the play, Ationa, to Kirke La Shelle. ‘There was no theater available in New York: he arranged | for the production of the play at Hamlin's Grand Opera House in Chicago the follawing summer, 1899, | have sain earlier that Kirke La Sheile bad the quality of the captain, and To arn sure that fad he lined he would have beer one of (Contingad of Poge Pia)

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fCantinoed from Poge rral the most dominant influences in. soe Acar ian theater, Only to the theatrical wal the following be ificant, ar tke the onginal eat of Arizona included Thoodore Edwin Halt, Mattie Earle, Mabel Hurt, Robert eye phar Kiay, Geum Edwards, Arthur Franklin Garland, Walter Hale Li Lionel Bar- and Menifee Johnstone, and the jour orfive other characters were by people apg “Samper aral earnestness ated abamey. authors doing a melodrama have had better exiperation than that. There wae an incident of the firet n ae eS ee Nae ie . i inert H ving nesd f 7 os wit a Or @ ng oral Se a> two men one ar rel. & Jew dag z. | spoke tia group of sper that bi “aperencet BHLOe ae iil olka nai pally ied affirmative Ta tn wot bly of nese 1 wake Lah + id train four men in the ranual “Pick your four and report when you have dioeen it." In a litte while be was ready, At our det meheargal La Shelle and [ sat apart a the parquet. Fone hed gone well We wire on last act, as Pe utopr characters Were to come on in al the noncam and the aqua. ooh , the seven of them marching to their oper places ots the with a smart "hae" and “carry ann. | gopped the rehearsal and eaid to the ying man, “Go back and make that en- Inince again. While ce wens oe out te da came scroga the parquet in t fest earoestre,. & “Why did you send them back?" “L want to see them doit again,” Tr a curtain apesiel the next night I told 46 inedent, then reverted to-a rehearsal tlh Mimoura some five or six years before when from o simi proup had asked for a man who sould i Belper for . vel upos a Chicago mupers T could find aman 1 Viunteer astronomer. I told the i ng man who had puy aso poldier and had. eo elfecki would be : et; he didn't know I was ing of him, but if the mudionce chought i mue ot oe peel ermmaticns e428 elle td | bod thought they would understand ty emphasized it. When the two pris Siar pau pert Ts Hay, Sd ying a reaponsible part in , ani ft meat year with one af ia al oe Getting Odds on a Sure Thing On oy hteenth in that simmer of McCoy waa to meet Jack Me week, McCoy had many admirera in ¥, and, as [ remember, the gen- were some four bo one on him. rooms, which ace under tha are oye House at that nt, were buzzing wlth interest in the wp. taching battle aa cur men were makin for the ae Harry Hamlin and I keta for fight, but declined to take yoo! the attractive odda that were of- td at the theater, The meoting was only three or four wo away. As the two men faced each ter in the firet round Harlin was searech- ‘his pockets for some matches. A sound m the ring and a startled response from ery ceclnniert aoc other Coy gay with some lo si at the ri ca , MeCor- ck had knocked him out with the firat och. Hamlin and T were saan back in 'theater. We seenved to have bean only ndering from one dressing room to an- THE SATURDAY EVENING POST fered on McCay at th Side Sage tunepbbibn Later news came duly ter and found a sad spin lin and T confessed to a having SOREN before the betting and __ One fi notalble ay mii kecket made that sum- ack o few years further were able quickly to take all the bets of- re Rector's, after the performan ne the a gotten gaina. ine a pet sak ot Ineo eo seem amusing. In » UEpar- donable in any recollections, A cou ha ut nf years before my trip to Arizona I a Play for Mr. Daniel Frohman which [ rend to hia acenie artist and stage manager nil bith and which at that a bh te Pie eepta Something prevented ieee aod I revamped it from a serous react play to a throe-act a Don't Tell f Her Hushand. eae had a steck company at A Colurabia Theater, San Francises, under the manage ment of Gottlob and Friedlander, They wanted to produce the play under my direc tion and gent me in advance money for railroad dares. sleeper and exposes sercas. the continent, At the rallraad offe: I met Crane's manager, Joseph Brooks, who, learning my destination, linked his arm with mine and aald, “Just starting for California with the Crane cCOMpany, There’ ‘8 a empty section in qur car and glad to have you." Hae de- élingd te take my money, ig bE woul vitiate hia railroad contract il he rade any subanles, but be oie “The boys play and they will be glad to win that Elearor Robson's Early Career We were four days creasing the continent. The poker player in Mr. ene sari were himadlf d friends Walter Hale and Vincent Serrano, Under a moral obligation to lose those one hundred and twenty-five Gollars. to Meare on on bile ae Pi bo ait ate t rig ace the weaknninded and the ine fantile, I aaried at ths the ald Baldwin Hotel with the hb ane intect. and some more es gle hse the four gentlemen areas In the ge li af that ald hotel, | by fire, I saw Gottlob and ribet pero id dinner. Gottlob came over to my tabla. I told him the arrangement under which I had traveled and that had I last the money T should ‘have considered it a legitimate although circuitous application of the ax- t fund, Not bavi avineg lost it, I it, I ‘feared to him It wes w faurkyeties dollara to see ae rei ee thon in his business experien He carrigad the prin ‘back te Friedlander, They held an excited consultation, regarded me curi- ously; later beth joined me, and after many tentative: as to the kind of enter- tains I would find meet agreeable carried me off to a private box at a prize fight that was occurring that ia In Mr. Prowley's eanipeniy, Wht tained auch excellent Lg eet ae Frank Worthing, Frank Carlyle, wley himself and Maxine Elliott, there waa the more experienced actrisa, Madge Carr Cook. Her litth daughter was just begin- ning her stage experiences, and as 0 remem ber took the ea Rigen Redhat Busot eard in aur “The girl's stage name was Eleanor on. She did so wall with Preskey: that a short time thereafter she Olive May ad to in Denver, and when to leave the ‘Arizona com- pany during cur summer in Chicago Elon- bson come to take her place. Not si the early daye with Marlowe had I Ban & YOuUng woman who had a with so many fine noturol qualities, andl helore ahs opened in the part of Bonita T told La Shelle that she would be a star in a short while, and it would be wise to make an ir jate orn ni with ber. He agreed with me; but, deferring his ne- gotiations until after the New York open- ing of the company, found & Eleanor Robson was then att a atarring contract with Mr. George Tyler. New remember its artistic disappointment when alter « fow brilliant ork will | ; rizations 14 113 = - = a Ba RE. Mer a Yood Shinelt aR Here, men, ts a regular shine, and a shine that lasts a long time. No need to use ene each time yon want a bright poll Just apply it occa- sionally. 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August Bel- | | i bert Edeson and Walter Hule bad mat sere and seelety and chine enter- | | g. PAT-OFR. ' gone on. Theodore Hoberta, Edwin ined what the oii Got dt and Vineont Serrano came off in a Pree ittle play Don't Tell Her Husband, ieee a 2 DOUBLE SERVICE SHOE POLISH was taken by Stuart Robaon, who note or bero from the first act, and wa

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The inereased friendship be- tween Hale, Serronp and myself at the poker table in the Crane car, her with our transatlantic trip, deepened my wish to have them in the Arizona company, where their grip upon the public was t reault of thelr own merits. There ia a seties of happenings in the relationship of thease two friends that car nes an interesting chological study. After a time in the orig company Ha dg the German-character part and played vy mano ite Serine, now ai. vanced to hero. Near the end of the third aot it was Berrano's business to walk over to Hale, who stood well down loft, and wfter looking him in the eve a minute alap him over the aide of the face with a som- brero; a trick slap with the force of the blow falling more on Hule's shoulder than upon his face. In one of the early per- formance, however, a leather band around the sembrero hed streck Hale's face and burt hina alightly, but sift 3 to make him prehensive the . This fear wore on his health ancl one day on the street he fell Hincons The doctor traced hia diff- eualty to this fear of the blow. Hale left the engagement and returned to his earlier wark asa etcher ane ibustratar, He traveled with hie talented wife, Lowlse Cloaser, for some time in Europe, came back te the theater and played several parts with cis- Gaetion. After a total interval of some ten ra he was playing in my plece, As a an Thinks, in which John Mason was the ster and Vinernt Serrane was the hero. On our opening night In Hartford, near the end af the third act, Hale forgot his lines and couldn't take them fram the prompier. He was all nght at the next day's rehearsal. But Agu i at night the same lapse oocurred, He waa a comecien- tious artist, and in great depression came to me ahd wanted tu surrender his part. I asked him to try another performance and let mo look pt it from the front, third time his lines excapesl him. When the play wes over Hale was positive in hla de cision to quit. Ff said: “Walter, | think the trowble is that it is Serrane who comes down left and con- Tronts you. Your position on the stage and our personal relations in the story are iet whet they were in that old cowboy Play; but if you will remember that Ser- rang dosan't wear a sumbrero and ja not going to strike you with one, and that you are playing Mir. De Lota in a parlor story al New York, the difficulty will disappear,” He played actly that night and was never troubled in that manner opguin. Sinee these have been muionlng in THE SATURDAY EVENING Post men have written me and more have spo to me the wonderful memory that T must have—““Or have you kept recorda af all that?" T have not kept records and I have nat more than the ordinary memary. Hut here are two sides of that interesting subject: Mr. Habert Broce bri ing fe some n= formation that I needed m out Heary (. Hooker, the Arizona ranchman, Until Mr, Bruce came in al that opportune moment [ had never aeem him. Tracing @ Cornetist Now on the other side: [ wished to write uhout a comet plo and hin performance an a memorable might In 1901, Lt would be all right to refer to him impersonally, but my effort to get his name oa fair example of much of the work that hoa been incident to all that I have written. aa cornotist was in a company supporting Mr. Peter Dailey in o ann ft play called Chenpegne Charlie, which I wrote for him and which was produced late in August in that . Lat October, 1921, 1 tried ta ef Daley's manager, Mr. Pronk McKee. e was out of the city, addres unknown. Alter two later attempts to locate him, the question of tha corneteet came wp again just now #80 reached the end of this chapter. I stopped dictation and for thirty min- utes my secretary and — pursued the fal- lowing process: Walter Jordan, a play agent and sometioe friend of MeKee, is called: he pivea MicKee's residence; In- formation gives his telephone; we talk to hicKes: he remember the cometist very Earlier in thia chapter | have written of May 1, 1935 well, bat tbe enterprise was seeuty sea ago BO ongets hit name. Peter Dane iad The next important noember ol the com ia that exeellent qomediar Eddie Garvey; Garvey would probai) remember the musitinn, We try to locate Garvey. Miss Humbert, of the Packard Theatrical Agency, thinks Garvey is «itt Charlotte Greenwood's company on th: under the management of Olive Moareaeo. Morosco's office is called in one to locate the company. They tell we tha Garvey left the company two or three weeks ago; they haven't het the engagement waa made through agent named Leslie Morosed. Leslie Moroaca, when culled, knows Mr Garvey's address and his telephone ous ber, but is reluctant te give them to persons inquiring over the phone, Gur identity is eatablished, the nature of the busines ex- Mained and Tue SaTunpay Evexina Pocr referred to; then Garrey's nombeer ia given: fortunately is wt home; remem: bers the name of cormmetiat and the mar himself well, He says that the rornet- ist was William Disston, of Philadelphs where hia father woe a skilled maker of cormmeta. William Disston and Garvey were together in many of the Charles Hoyt productions, netabh: The Milk White Fle: apd Diseton's singular skill as a cornet. almost saat that of the ibaa Jules , Got him his en “PTA ong with Garvey in the Peter Dail company re: ferred te in whith be was featured a the Program and gave a cornet solo, Garvie TeMmen the night in question, although he dosen't remenber the exact date. He- and Dissten left the theater together. [ris- ton wes a convivial person, ane the ec any being that week in Providence, Rhode dland, Deaton and Garvey went to the roame cf the Musiciana’ Union, where there were some beer song and Miikeic wnt! & late hour, They then started to their hon, but in order ta do ao were obliges to poss the fhice of the Providence Jourca! In front af this building about w thousand men were gathered, watching the bulletin In the windows, js the last one appesred Thissten teak his cornet from ite case. McKinley's Death Aly oem telotion to thet occasion we this: I waa in bed in the atately old Narra- gansett Hotel. The night was warm. Two win of Toom were . At about three o'clock ln the morning [ was wakere! by the sound of the cornet. Jt came over the night air, carrying the strains of that impressive abd hymn, Nearer, Moy God, to Thee. [t took a monrent te recognize this, and then the expertnesa of the playing con vinced me thet the player was Disston. [ t out of bed and leaned on the window aill, As the cormet ee a repetition of the hymn it was Hines a male chorus af some tho voices, und there plainiy tame the words: “Even thotugh it be eroas that raiseth me." I knew ther that Prosident William McKinley, who had bia wounded fora week in iT ws dead | WHE Surprised aa T listened to the finih a the hymn bo find that my cheeks were wet with tears. Nearer, My God, te Thee had been a favorite hymn with my grand mother. My mind went back to her and the death of President Lineoln—to the tears, the solemnity of that tragic time— amd, in the middle distances, Garfield. Walter Wellman, famous journalist wrote of that night in Buffalo, where it the Milburn residence President McKinley died: “In his leat periad of conecin mess.) 6g )6CEhe surgeons bent down § hear hia words. He chanted the first line of his faverite hymn, Nearer, Moy Cod, o Thee. Alitthelaterheasapoke again; Doct Munn wrote the wo down at the aide, amd the last conscious utterance @ dr cro ieee pc Li I Gall "* Coonetbey, all; -hby. It tf God! way. His will be clone." ui "The President soon afterward lapel into unconsciousness, ami did net nin. The end comeat 2:15 AM, poe PH tember lath." | hron Presidenta of the United aa hud been killed by madmen. AL th shots I beard. Edijer’s Mote—Tile ls the tenth of a erin twelve articles by Mr, Themes, The next wil! pear in wn early isaue. 1

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116 How was she to know? INALLY he appeared one evening —the man who stirred her heart —the man, at last, who captured her instant interest. All the rest had seemed only casual, arousing never a single, serious emotion. But he seemed so diferent! Themoment theireyesmet there seemed to be an understanding, They felt drawn to one another, Through a mutual friend an introductionwasarranged, Then they danced. But only one dance! He thanked his partner and went his way. She saw no more of him, Why he lost interest was a mystery to her, Aww war she te ben F ** * * That so often is the insidious thing about halitosis (the scien- tific term for unpleasant breath). Rarely indeed can you detect halitosis yourself. And your most intimate friends will not speak of your trouble to you. The subject is too delicate. Maybe baltosis is chronic with you, due to some deep-seated organic disorder, ‘Then ao doctor or dentist should be consulted. Usually, though, halitasis is only local and temporary. Then it yields quickly to the wonder- fully effective antheptic and decdor- izing propertics of Lisrerine. Fastidious peaple prefer to be on the safe and palite side. They make Lister- incasyetematic partof their daily toilet routine —ad a gargle and mouth wash, Tt eo much easier to be comfort- ably assured your breath issweet, fresh and clean; to know you are not offend- ing your friends or those about you, Start Maing Listerine today. Be in doubt ne longer ghowt your breath— Lambert Phannocal(u. ,5t. Lowa, Mo, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ay 3, 6973 THE INSIDE STORY OF THE A. E. I. “Up to this time,” writes General Per- | shing in his Final Report, “our units had | been put in here and there at eritical points | as emergency tr to stop the terrific German advance. In every trial, whether on the defensive or offensive, they hod roved themsel ves equal to any troopa In A final mat cmen att nates cas a8 parted: and the outlook appea of the Allies, ‘The enemy soldiers had been assured by thelr leadera that this attack would eonelude the war with a triumphant German peace, and they were proportion- ately eager, The German plans f however. Indeed, they were known to the French in such detail that they were able to check the advance after comparatively insigniGeunt gains, ng thece gains was some ground east of Chiltteau-Thierry, where the French on the ght of the American Thind Division failed te hold and the Germana penetrated eight kilometers. But the commancin mera af the Third reported: “Although Tush of the German troops overwhelmed | gonve of the front-line positions, causing the infantry and machine-gun companies bo suffer im some comes a 50 per cent lees, me lids yp ans ahead road npr ‘casoy to Cresancy except a8 a prisoner o war, and by noon of the following day— July sixteenth—there were no Germans in the fo wid of the Third Division sector except the dead.” : : General Pershing speaks highly of this explait in his report: “On this oceasion a Single regiment of the Third Division wrote one of the moet. brilliant pages in our mili- | tary annols, Tt prevented cromsing wt | certain points on ite front, while on elther flank the Germans who had gained a foot- ing pressed forward. Our men, firing in thren directions, met the German attacks qwith counter-attachs at eritical points and succeeded in throwing two German divi- siona into complete confusion,” The Allies now determined ta toke the offensive. There were more than 1200,000 American troops in France from which they could draw for reserves, and every Amer- ican division with any aart of at all was Tiade ready for the battle. The First Division had been in the Montdidier sector for a couple of months | enduring acer hen guntained artillery fire ig Sa ian martin beer : they had ca antigny ; they had gare Shona several punishing gut attacks; they bed had no rest. Yet, on the division being assembled near Beau- vais after ita relief, it was ordered toward the Soissons front and hed to do the distance iy forced marches. Z On the folssons Front They marched day and night, Along tillery se ina ralel dpa het and ar- ti and wagon trains and moving troops they toiled forward, Through the mud and the blacknesa of night—with bleeding feet, hungry, aching, so utterly exhausted that death would have been a joy, as bringing relie! they trum bow battle, Men groaned and whim with pain but. they kept on. When t e column halted soldiers went to sleep standing up. Every now and then cume clash and clatter af a nfe on the ground—anether dough- boy had paged out. The coluran Oh. And when at long last they preplis afta destination those battered, tt jumped aff without a rest, Second Division went through aimi- lar experioners. They had been badly mami in their memorable victory of Bois de Belleau; they had repelled a long series af German counter-attacks: they had just been reliewed by the Twenty-sixth; hawt Tw ing headed actos many mules af country for more fighting. However, the Second would always goa long way to get a good fight, ‘othe Tenth Preneh Anmy were allotted these critical operations. It had five corpe in line, and General Mangin's attack o7- ders mode the Eighteenth Corps 2 pivot of maneuver on the Aisne west of & ons, To the south was the First Corps, which was go areas seize and held the plateau south of the Aisne commanding the ap- proaches bo Sotsons, The Thirtieth Co wis to cross the Savitces and attack in the direction of Fireen-Tardenoia, Next came | the Eleventh Corpe, to conform te the (Coatlauaed from Pope IS) mavements of the Thirtieth and connect with the Sixth French Army, The Twentieth Corpe drew the job, and on its success hinged the whole uttack, It was to drive a wedge in the German. front, searing the plateau north= east of Hartennea helding the seuth- ern outlet of the Crise River valley. The eth Corps was made up of three divislona—the crack First Moroccan, the First and Seeond Armerlean divisions. Owing to the greater sine of our divisions, American troops thus made Mp four-fifths of the Twentieth Corps, which was the spearhead of the attack, The troops were aseembled under cover of the Foret de Retz, The country over which they had te fight their Wy WI @x= ceptionally dificult and hazardous—a bare, high plateau, slopin dually up from the Foret de Retz and then abruptly drop- ping off inte the Crise Valley; a country cut up by numerous deep ravines, euch one prot by villages or farm buildings. On ite eastern edge, where it fell off inte the valley, were strong points like Ville mentaire, the final defenses to the valley, and the Soissons-(hitesu-Thi Toad. As the house: of the villages vl farms were Tiostly of stone, they afforded excel- lent cover to the enemy, and there were Mero quarnes. All the OPEN spaces were ooverad with standing grain, The Turrleag of the Tide Crowded into the salient to the south of the Twentieth Compa were more than twenty German divisions of the army al the Crown Prince—the German High Com- mand had anticipated a deeper penetration than they achieved in their attack of July 16-16, and this congestion of divisions was to provide for a wide expansion of front, which never came. Without the uenal artillery preparation, tp ed by a barrage, the troope aa off at 4:35 o'clock on the morning of July eighteenth, Tanks oceompani them and their onrush rapidly overcame the enemy's first resistance, His line seon stiffened, however, and although all ob- jectives for the initial day were attuned, the fighting became very severe, The First American Division had bare got inte position for the attack when it was time to go. They went at it herd — with such vigor that the One Hundred Fifty-third Freneh Division, on their left, Tailed ta keep abreast. The ‘Moraccans, an their right, & in close touch—there are mo finer assault troops anywhere—but the absence of suppert on their left exposed the First American toa heavy flank fire, Never- theless they captured their objectives. The Division had a harassing experience—their last unit did not arrive waell five mlnutes before the zero hour, Yet, utterly weary as they were, the Second attacked with such speed and power that they gelasd Vierzy before nightfall, deep penetration at their most sensitive Foe precipitated a general with- lrawal of the Crown Prince's army from the solient. On July nineteenth the German resist- ance proved much stronger as a result of their reserves coming into line, but by eve- ning the line tun fram just north of Ploisy, south through Chasalle and Tigny. In this day's fighting the First nor gn Division repeated iis experience og e previous morning, wna the Second vision pro- fond the troops bath te left and Fight, inciuding the Moroccan division. one wenthy they went through a hell of fire to hold their wlyanced ition, unl the Second's casualties more than 400 men; bat they had captured G0 ines saxty enix pieces af arbillery. ihn division waa relleved after the second ve Awedlge was directed against Berzy-leSec on July twentieth, and the First American Division formed the apex af it. Tersy- le8ee was a etrong poeition dominating the surrounding country and had originally Inin in the territory assigned to the One Hundred Pitty-third French Division, but that division couldn't make the grade, and its failure to advance resulted in this ob- jective being allotted to the First, One again the First and the Moroceans went forward together te substantial gains, but the troopa an the left of the First were repulsed, leaving that flank entirely open. In this situation the One Hundred Fury. thind neh Division woe relieved te night of the twentleth and a new atteck was launched at 4:45 on the morning af July twenty-first, and by 9:15 the firal porte were corned, the most advanced ing the Chiteau of Mgt eapiored hy a regiment of the First. Heavy fght- ing took place the next day, but ther was ho advance, that might a crack Scottish division relleved the First, ‘The First Division «@ el from the Battle of Soissons torn and bleeding, tru covered with glory. It had suffered, all casualties, including 60 oomt of its [s- fantry officers; but it had advanced eleven kilometers, captured 350) prisomers and aixty-elght pleces of artillery, Among the Prisoners were representatives from seven (German divistons, American units also participated in this general action—the infantry of the Fourth Division, which entered the fight- ing on the left wing of the Sixth French my, ahd the Twenty-sixth Devision, which attacked in the Boia de Belles sechor, Aside from the Twentieth Corpa, tha Tenth French Army made practically no advance. The only real penetration waa achieved by the Twentieth Corps, composed of the Moroccans, the First and Second Americana. Seldom in history has one day's fighting had the effect which the offensive of July tighternth produced. The minds of the French had been filled with fears for Paris: now the Germans were withdrawing: the threat to the cupital was rermived: Ir stantly their thought leapedl to pushing the advan The change In morale simply cannot mensured in words. In a fre hours the Allies passed from dark fore bodings to confident exultation, The firet aliack troops of the German armies had been overrun and captured in thousands; the sama enemy divisions which had been bat- tering their way toward Paris with minds aflame with victory were now dogped|y figh*- ing red achons as they withdrer meroas the Marne; and the tremendow reserves the Crown Prince had gathered in the salient to exploit a decisive sus- cess were being hurried toward Soisson: to stave off a general collapse, a catastrophe which would have made the Freneh diz aster at Sedan half a century enrlier a mere trifle by comparison, It was the story of the First Battle of the Marne over again, na fin American troops had partic- ya On top af this vietory: "I thave the honor to confirm to yon my entire adhesion to the project of uniting in an army under Arverican command those of your divisions whose state of instruction permite them to engage in the battle," wrote Foch July twenty-second. “Aa we hawe agree npr age rill be formed in “gic na af t amt, around : alread in this loeality. aa exbend im cm to St.-Mihiel will be plnead preg under American command in the o in which the units which can be sent are aVailable.** A Brightening Outlook ‘That them units would be available within a reasonable period looked very doubtful, however, for Foch went on to say that previous to this agreement (Ge eral Petain had directed the Thirty—seco: American Division to the Tenth Fres: Army, and he asked Pershing to accept thi attungement. When the eFican cum mamder in chief grew urgent for ma specific steps toward the formation of anmy Foch ge “T cannot fix o det of which the First American Army can bf eqnetitutbed The tide had turned at lost, The Allie had soen defeat staring them in the face with all thot defeat would entail fr an implacable foe; and suddenly ictonl | inte view af a peasonahble certaints From the deptha of despair their maar suared to fine fighting piteh. Om . twenty-fourth a memoranium was adept at a meeting of the commanders in chis ef the Allied Armies at Hombon: “Wi hove reached an equality at lemst in tho Aumber of battalions, and in # more get eral way in the number of combatant For the first time we have a superiority it (Continued on Pege frp) 1 | J |

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118 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May I3, 1922 SELZ $SIX All feather, made of genuine full grain Cords Calf Goodyear Hing foot Rudder Heel Goodyear Heit Natural Fintrhed Oak Soe, eritgore donger wear Fine Calfskin used in shoes costing niuch more Look anywhere. Read any offer. You will find the Selz*Six a most attractive shoe for $6. If you want to combine high quality with economy, the Selz*Six is the shoe you will choose. Its low price is only possible be- cause maker and dealer co-operate by accepting a minimum profit. But both profit by increased sales, The demand for this shoe is large because it is recognized from coast to coast as an unusual value. Ask your dealer for the Selz*Six. Six different high shoe S k L. 7, models —three oxfords 1871 f, 1922 MARERS OF GOOD SHOES RETAILING AT #5 To Flo, (NCLUDING THE FAMOUS “ROYAL BLUE" CHICAGO FITTSRURGH jitized by Gooole

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[fentloaed from Page Ja) reerves, Bebind the Allied Armies the bay reerve Strength of America is SS) 00 men each month ante the il al Se rhe atbed Armiea are new arriving at the tum of the road; they have just taken the initiative in fall combat; their s pectnita them ta keep it, The moment rome to shaaion the general defensive attirode seapeeed up to this moment by foot inferiority and to poss to the ohare j taken the initiative in tell com this date until the end athe war no offensive where German mestanee strong wae undertaken bythe French except when aga troope were the head of the s * :, El inear= porated in French visions nerged their identity in the al Allied corm- sen but as were exceedingly prom Telegram rata fom ent. Lloyd George to M. Chmenceau, da ted August tt second: oT did not ait for the tranafer of American divi- we to the British front, The brilliant oe - eer f H more just: the use ae vitor made of them. What I wked waa that a few American divisions at mott, [rom among these recently arrived ia France and who could not be put into the Ene withowt some training, should be sext to complete their training behind the Brit va linea. ig sa was to form 6 Teserve ca- nia al ieand iin the eritical situation oa break through in our frant by the memy, . « « I did not consider my de- excemive, for it must not be forgotten that the grewter pert of the American boys were brought to France by British mipping, and that because of the sacrifices to furnish this shipping, aur hg aca ta the right to expect that more than livaions of the 28 American divisions now | cing shall be put in training behind wr lines. “We sre informed that a seriout attack in the British front ia still probable now. Cc not wish to hamper you hy asking for letailed explanations, but in the interests Uthat unity of command for which I made ogreatan @fort, T urgently ask you to ap itove the very madeat demand made by me fem our eomumamder-in-chief.”" The First American Army As Foch now had the means to undertake be offensive warfare he had alwaye eham- ee a Prvgreisi of early early goetadrs Was ‘-AcOWee roar in the Marne abe 2. Release [the Part Armiens. 5 by a a ion of the British and French, Re- rT of the Paris—-Avricourt aanad | in the pent ee ee iient. bring the Allies within ech of the Briey region, enabling them ta too large scale between the Meuse and lle. d. Helene of the mining ine ithe north and te drive the enemy # Dunkirk and Calais region. “Tt was ap mit that ‘the emergency teh jug the dispersion of our divi- 4 had pase," General Pershing states hit Final Report. “The moment was epetions for assembling our divisions, tlleve] ae they were along the Allied ot, their supply had ‘become very ae it From every point of view flab ofmnization of an independent ferican force was indicated. The formu- Sol the Army in the Chiteau-Thierry fit and iis omrly transfer ta the sector thee Weevre, which was to extend fram feeny, eaat of the Moselle, to north of Alltel, wing sar acuta decided upon by Foch and mvsclf on August 9. First and ‘Third Con Dafthea. E. F. held a continuous front of eleven Boers along the Veale, the first con- haere front under American control— i thes waa in August of 1918 Until ioall efforts by the American com- eier in chief to iar aaki cy his forces frustrated. Even in July, when 1 Abied command sanctioned the forma- n of the First Corps in the Chilteau- te region, little waa achieved in the yool practical results, because only one stican division was operating under itral of this corps, whereas eight Amer- i divisions were serving in the front line French corpe at the same thne—about eit ae “Pershing’s persistence finally fi, afd the ofganization of the First THE SATURDAY American A under his command wae announced, with La FPertéaous-Jowarre ag headquarters, Though nominally assum- inet control of a partion of the Veele front Preparations were made for Ita secret con- centration in the St-Mihiel sector and plans were worked cut for the reduction of this formidable German salient, a nut so tough that the French had abandoned all te to erack it. Jit one stage of he prepares aratloas: the Bt.-Mihiel operation to abandoned owing to Foch's araciint = American divisions destined for rr attack for service with the French and Eritish armies, The Allied commander in chief asked on A enty-third for the Twenty-seventh ay ‘Thirtieth divisions to participate in an operation with the British mp tor she Twente e ‘Thirty- second and Seventy-seventh divisions for the French armies, Although this seemed to threaten the break-up of his newly formed Army, Per- phing sanctioned the demand in part; but a substitution in the case of nn of the divisions, and stipulated a fort- night's tari ft for the nty-seventh and the Thirtiet Foch's depoatien of American divisions led te another conference between him and Pershing at Ligny-en-Barroia on August thirtieth. General Weygand also wos present, Marshal Foch opened with the statement that the German Army was in complete seed nt and mo _ copper taaiiat should be rded them He ani- nintod the Britich roposed to attack im the direction of of Cambrat and St, Choontin, while the French would continue their push in the ¥beinity of Mesnil. Ag for the employment of the American forces be had plans which would have split them indefinitely, He proposed ta fix mcs bigr eon there E of the Meuse to o taining , the line Vigneulles Felt io rate ie, which would dis- Avricourt railroad: then gas wanted four or eix American divisions— 180,000 men—to reinforce the Second French A for on attack between the Afeuse and the Arga Argonne, and from eight to ten American divisions—200,000 men—for a Fronch-American offensive from the Argonne to the Souain Real. eral Perehing remarked that nee arrangement wold cats? a separation the American forcea. Some would be left in the Woevre: then there would be the Second French Army with some Americans on its Joft; then some more French; then some Americans on the Aisne, and once more tha pc tes 7 ion, ar Pershing emphatically, wou estroy the project for which they had been working 80 long a time—an Arwerican Army. Trying te Get a Sector Th reply, Marchal Foch gaid he had tried to gee a way for bringing the American Army together, and he requested General Pershing to think the matter over; as for himself had studied it very carefully and had sincerely sought for a means to avoid dividing the Américan A but he did not belleve it could be fou Pershing directed attention to the fact that Americans going to the Aisne would replace certain French divisions; why should not those French divisions take the at a the rah gt who wold gee hit- in the French Second Army hy should the Americans not bet Ae secbor from tha le a ean Argonne, gaat ae a French Second A Cn caulk thea go to the aid of the French Fourth Army on the Ned The American commander in chief remarked that he did not want ter appr ali ihicwlé, bue the American people and the American Government expected the American Army aboald at ae such, and should not be dis- pone he d there along the Western te Bach t ae the Americans seemed on the point of accomplishing their organi- zation some propeoal rosea Was presented to break it ap. Marshal Foch asked: “Do you wish ta go to the bettie?" Pershing replied, * "ME rat assuredly! Fut as an American Ar The Allied commander in chief sald this arrangement would take a month, and they miat act ab ono, General Pershing replied that if Mur- ehal Foch would give him a sector he would take it at onew, Foch inquired where this sechor would be, EVENING POST “Wherever you designate," suid Per | shite. The marshal obeeryed that there were numberless details to be considered in thia connection, and it was his opinion that the | American Army would be in a bad plight | if put all together without any assistance | from the Fren Pershing answered that the French had always insisted the Americana should bring to Frunce only infantry and machine-gun unlta, and that the French would oe them. This program had been foll the repeated and moet urgent. inalstence af the marshal himself, and the marshal had alao promised to furnish these troops with what wae nm for thelr organization into American a Now, said Gen- Pesblne his Seasniet that the marahal fulfill his Foeh declared t ines mist start the battle on September fifteenth: it waa then Aupust thirtieth; he was at General Per- ahing's iy er for eonaideration of any propoaal—but they must act on September Botan z thi rtunity, Pershing stated ng this opportunity, Pershin ihe he was to take all the divisions not needed in the Woevre and send them to the west of the Argonne aa an smeared Army. He wanted all extra bl pe there. He did not approve of ting American divisions in the Second " tn that event," said Foch, “the French have not enough divisions to attack.” Parshing Stands Pat Pershing said it waa pot diffleult to eend divisions from one army to another; this. was what the marshal proposed for the hermes Army, amd it would be just aa simple to send part of the Blac ourth Army to the aid of the French Second Army. Foch objected. The Fourth Army could mot furnish them. General ponte ci sorta that tha American Army between the Meuse and the. pein rs Foch reminded him this wos his first idea, but added that study of the project had convinced him it would be very difficult, After acme fu discussion Pershing Teiternted that the Americon people, the American Government, the Secretary of War and the President insisted the Amer- jean Army akculd sign na ee BS mich: that the Government, fra President down— and General Pershing himself—had been severely criticized for parceling out Amer- ican troops ameng the Allies, and the President had sent a message to the em- baasles atating that the American forces must fight os an American Army. : General Pershing put these views into writing next day ina communication to the allied commander in chief in which he re marked that Sagi siccomen alae obtained! had far exceeded expectations when they made their, arrangements in July; consequently —"*There are a number af paints which especially alfect the Amer- jean Army and which, I think, must be given the consideration which the American effort in this war warrants. The first of these relates to the method of employing the American forces. “Tecan no longer agree to any plan which involves a dispersion of cur units, . . . Briefly, American officera and soldiers alike are, alter one experience, no longer ig ae ete in etre’ pee even Bue corporation Larger unite. The older American divisions have encountered sq much difficulty in their service with the French and British that it la inadvisable to consider the return a such divisions to French of Britieh contral, , “Tt bows been said that the American Army is a fiction and that [t can not new be actually formed because it lacks “hee and services, etm Met this lack evident. But our ak are due to the fact toate hs Neste Ieeaene over infantry and machine-gunwers to the virtual exclusion af the serv ant alixil- jaries. Permit me also to recall that when this decision waa made, thera waa coupled with it a promis: that the Allies wold Undertake to provide the necessary and auxiliaries, and that you yourvell hate repentediy guarantesd the formation of a real American Army. “Tt seema to me t it in far more w priate at the preaent moment for the Allies temporarily to furnish the American Army (Contaurd on Page 22! — ——————t(‘#l.___see 119 Every brush sterilized ajter being enclosed in the yellow box.

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122 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST that tells you: man Contrall ings. Just s Wee and it 4 following mail, Waterbury, Conn. CEICAGO LOS ANGELES (Continued from Poge fe) with the services and auxiliaries it needs than for the Allies to expect further in the formation of an American A : am writing faithfully my own ideas, which are those not ge fe every American offi- cer and soldier, but also of Gavern= men. . 4 Bipot our arrival in France our plans, wet only with the consent but at the initiative of the French suthorities, have been based an the nization of the American Army on the frant St.-Miklel- Hp depots, hospitals, trai “ALL war oepi ning areas. and other installations are toeated whe ref erence to this front, and a change af these Plane cannot be easily made.” The American commander in chief then requested the return of the Twoen seventh and Thirtieth divisions from the a and Thirty-second divi- Twe eh ie hireencicond Peer nie A Thirty- seventh fom the ee line for an opera- tion toward Moziéres suggested by Foch— a total of more we hae 270,000 men our Allies had nerraast sage ted imme diate concentration of all the Anverican forces, with o sector from St.-Mihiel to the frgutter af Se one aaa pe "However, your ty aa oOmmauner it iB pret it is your province te decide an ta the of operations, and I abide by sr he ona.” The Belfort Ruse “Finally, however, there is one thing that must pot be done, ant that is bag to dis perse the Arwerican forces among the Allied armics; the danger of Srageg fi by such dispersion the fine morale of Americar soldier ia ton great, to say nothing of the results ‘to be ined by using the Amer- ican Army as a whole, If you sig bale utilize American forces in at inthe direction of Mezi¢res, 1 accept t de Sake ae : en it. rest east a sup an tare af my sick oi sielees tart dn ineist Char thee haved ona aoa aaa be employed as a whole, either east of the Argonne or weat of the Argonne, and pot four ar five clivisions here and six or seven there.”” This lagen WAS hredaind out again at Bombon on September second, during @ srnlaretson tn which Foch, Pershing, Petain, Wi nd, McAndrew and Connor ti- pated, and it was then practically decided Lanny ‘disposition should be made for tha St. "Mibiel o operation and later for the one to the weet of the Meuse. Foch wanted the St.-Mihiel attack carried out with re duced forces —it was to be an all-American attack—so that divisions would be avail- able in requisite strength for the French- American offensive weat of the Meuse, General Pershing op the proposal to undertake the reduction af thes sErac eee Mihiel salient with an inadequate fo acid -chls fatto Scise Wieein: diecioadaa i what American forces were oeailable in | France. ‘The marshal said there were twenty-two trained American divisions, | out of a total of thirty American oe in France, ; he su af eight or ten for St.-Blikvel about Sen tember tenth, leaving twelve or fourteen divisions for the Meiise operation, His ex- ieee waa, however, that fully twen ited States divisions would be reine for the latter offensive, Obwerving the French und English striv- ing to gain the use of American troo Nad Italians decided to try their lu Representations were made te Washing. ton and all the political t preete they could bring to bear was exercised General Dims supplemented this by a nual t te the American com- opie in chief. General Pershing waa in Paris, where he had had on iba view with Lord Reading on September thi during which he = Plained to the ficiek Kachcakasine Washington hia policy in saree id lo 2 American Ar Then came General Diaz, who asked tue twenty American divisions for emplo with the Italian armies—about & ven meo. A few minutes later General Dink raised his figures— he osked for twenty-five divisions, of abowt 100040 men. American commander in chief evaded all ate and remained atrictly moncom- mittal. All thes matters were finally composed and preparations for the St.-Muhiel offen- | sive went actively forward. Among these May 15, 437 preparations was the famous Belfort rise, hove wHlity has been wo often earl hig babe, Wal Petain wrote te the American commander in chief deed date of August ningtemnth: “1 rom everywhere, and specially from She “anion and cml authorities of the east, that im their at eTOus beeper on piecing tet prospect of a great succes over enemy, numerous American officers and soldiers have talked in a public way of the projects of the High Command in the Woevre, . . . Under these conditions it im impossible that the enemy should not be forewarned, but we can attempt to deceive him. To this end, if you are in accord with me on this paint, you could send American officers to make reconnaissaness im the different sector of Lorraine, af the Voagea, and Upper gr which are occupied by French I would give to the Beventh aaa ‘Eighth French Armies in- structions which would bead them to te liewe that an offensive action by American farees is under consideration in thee sectors. Thus the enemy's attention would be te a certain extent taken away from the Worvra.”” Eveready Ae hod Fe ck talking, for that matter—the Fren eens and train- men who hauled ean troopa to the St-Mihiel sector, the civil Lampe hon of the tewns this concentration Troops cannot be moved by the’ hundreds af oa without axciting o Jot of coTmnen Thora righ aware of this sltuation, General Pershing had already nel subterfuge to be carried out in the vicinity of Belfort to neutralize the effect of them innocent fodiseretions, The American commander in chief re plied to Petain; “The importance of the considerations which you have set forth relative to the necemdty for in all operations had not escaped me. heenly regret that indiscretions maw have been committed, and | consider, with you, that we must attempt to deceive the enemy from the actual directiona of the attack. I have piven instructions with this in vew to reneral Staff." Followed an elaborate preparation for operations in Upper Alsace. The eon manding general of the American Sixth necesaary te Belfort to prepare detailed pins tor for an offensive in that region house was named as the objective of the attack, and the front was to extend from Altkirch to Thann. “It ia intended by the oecupation of this line to insure the destruction of the Bhine bridges,” said the orders, “and eventually to establish our line along the river itself." The Indiscreet Officer Seven divisions were designated for the first line, and three officers from each of hg divisions were ordered to Belfort for the reconnaissance. “The work must be expedited, as it ia desired that the attack be launched not Inter than September eighth.” The last sentenen of this order read: “You will, of course, appreciate thi necessity for The officer courier to whom it waa in trusted for transmission to its deatinatic: was told on leaving General Headquar ters: “Tt you lose this, don't bother tu return to & hendquarters. Just kee an going.” Yet an American officer di: lee a copy of these instrictions, and com mitted the indiscretion of talking: shot oh th prcvectes attack, Court-martial proceed hge Were instituted aguinst him, pts he ¥e never tried. Every attempt to convene court was mysteriously frustrated am after the armistice the charge was dropped It then became evident that his indisers tion formed part of the fake, butt the other on the ground ant not know it at the tim und would certainly have given him a cour had net General Hoaieutiears thrown of stackes in the way. The reconnaissance party went at thel job ee enna 9 und made exhouile Teports of the enemy's positions, atrengel and so forth, and the bable regu cde for ne ccna Bea pa aftders were bo examine =r talning to exploitation of @ su be attark, and they did it—did it th On the very day the St.-Mihiel 2 wis a Male a TH Whe muabaettied the Belfort operation that went into | tails to the extent of submitting a bul!

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raterials needed for the penetr a Viaduet wich could pot be used by the American fora until the Germans were pushed back. The bal of material specified not only the ether amd iron needed, but also the oum- berand size of bolts, nuts, and so forth, and rated for “a liberal amount of track and tate materi to repair tracks behind the a lines” alter the Germans should have foreed ta retreat. That reean- solemn never contemplated failure, slanned thelr operations for a hreak=- erick io ane last wheel and shovel, In riew of their instrictions, it was a highly jtable performance. _ ta ag resulta af this reconnalasance on ihe ene iy urees, thet be is now folly acquainted wth all that has been done here. The memy's soutces and channels of informa- tien from here via Switeer are very comerom and take about two days for tncsission. VWarlous indiseretiona have hen committed, ag was to be expected, which have made ae information easy fer him to secure, I do not believe, how ever, that the en fakes this recon- Ease Very Berl ¥; he has too pood a check on every carisad and trickloed of THE SATURDAY ammunition acd su “et Rema inte Bel- fort, to be decei ny mene" pper- work" earning ee or boar bap a5 ne officers, unaccompanied bay mw thons of guns, nvunitions, material an gab dlatenee. T might add that our own officer, both corps and division, have taken the work Heh seniously and have worked hare and in d earnest. The French staffs have been very polite and helpful, but have elven me the impression by their attitude af feeling: “You Americans are very single conde indies inderd Wf you think you can either us or the Germans by any such game as this" Howsoever this may have been, [bt seem. reasonable to assume that the ruse gained some practical result, beeause on A twenty-elghth General yon Gundell's man detachment numbered only eight divisions, on September eighth it had been increased to ten divisions, and a little later he had eleven divisions in this seetor. Bo even though the Germans saw through the ruse they must have entertained su cient doubts to prompt them to divert three divisions in order to play safe, Editce’s Note=— This ia the third of a sesies of arti: cle by Mr. Patvillo. The mest will appear in an eerily imc. The Price of Coal NatiowaL Coan ASsoclaTion Cammercial Bank Building Washington, D, C. J.D. A. Morrow Vioo-President APRiL 4, 1922, Eator, SATURDAY EVENING Fost, Indepredence Squure, Piiladelphia, Pa. DFA SiR: In your isa of April 1, L822, appears an article by Mr. Ellis Searles, editor of the United Mine Workers” Journal, entitled, The Coal Minera’ Case. Toe third eolumn of page $6 of that artlele ootwins the following statement: ‘The fact is the miner is the least to blame of kdl garg ries. J.D. A. Morrow, view president of the Notional Coal Aumociation, of vine organization twe-thirds of the bitumi- ratora a tha country aro members, At =f before the Interstate Commerce Com- chilog a few woeeke that the average retail elling price of bituminous coal throughout the ‘tite? States in October, LOZL, was S10Al 7 os. Ho tewtified, further, that the labor coat tihe production of waa £1.972 a ton. weal production ecat. he maid, (rch the labor ot wet, In other wards, the milae work- Bfectived £1972 no their for ucing o. vcd gual that eold at retail for $1041, hi he to engage in no controversy, but be foregoing is eo grosely misleading and piefalr te the producers and distributors TEtuminous ¢oal that I feel constrained se to publish this better as a cor- On March eleventh in a letter to John . Lew, ideat af the United Mine ‘urkers af America, I called his attention ithit misstutemont of Mr, Seorkea, which Waleady been made see: My letter UM, Lewis read as follows Tkescer au wish bo quote sworn testimony cautey, and therefore with to advise you at [ made no statement that thn average ing price of biduminges coal in the United sha in Getober, 1921, waa Ell per bon ew ibibit fled with the Interstate Commer mmiaion, whith pipresenta the only in- maiton on this subject in our posession er ‘th ta the commision or anyone clas, showed the average price ef biguminous coal f0.b i mings, rum of ming hosls, for the seven ike April to October, 1921, wos $2.25, and it the minora received 67.6 per cent or $1.97 ‘tom owt of the total eneat of $2091 for ding that coal. For the month of Betshor, e the aware anetunt receined per ton — Tl and the average cost per ton was #259, wembker the average umount received was f ond the average coat of producing that wis £2.72. Similar figures for miberr f Average at which the cool was or ie seein coat al prducing Ta view of the misleading and erranecus im- preasion created the alate inh inl FOUF OF- ing php if the herein ore oe erstand them to wll ip kindly Bet thant i correction is ublished will accurately quote the teatheany sake etad ta the Inter atate Commerce Commision? Mr. Larisa, ni a date of March alx- heenth , replied as follows: This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of March eleventh, requeating the carmection of an oy the uned Mine arin En & ae ba erie, betel bbed of America quot- er aa muthority fer oun ion uesting MMe. Ellis Searles editor of the Unk Mine Woerkers* Journal, now in Washington, to gh consideration to your request. The National Coal Association, with which I am officially connected, is com- exclusively of coal mine operators. t has nothing to do with the retailing of eoal and has no information about the Tetail pricea of bibarninous coal. It should be understood, however, that about 88 per eent of the total production of bitumingus coal la bought in carload lots by the user and never through the hands of retail dealers. The cost to the consumer of &) per cont of the bituminous coal outpat therefore is simply the mine price Plus the freight rate, whieh ja paid by the CONSUME, ile freight rates on bitumi- neis coal range from a. minimum of about 80 venta per ton to more thon $7.00 per ton, George M. Shriver, viee president of the Baltimore & Ohio FH. BR. Co., testified before im aoa aee Sonne Commnis sort & average [rez chm Tom the mines ta the point a woo tiae } is ¥2.27 per ton. he average f.o.b. mine spat price for the last week of March was reported to be $2.05 per net ton, Thus, the total delivered cast to the consumer woulcl average H.32 per ton. The 12 per cent of the output which is used for domestic pur- pases necemarily is distributed at 2 higher otal be consumers because of the expense of retail handling. Mr. Searles states in his article that the miner is the least to blame of all the factors of Bong rel the bt wige seole is highest known te the bistary af cowl mining iy see pra aoe mee the bitu- Mminous coal industry ay has mo margin of prafit which can be reduced to Paupeiles | eed at the mines. The coat of supplies | is decreasing. The Interstate Commerce Commission ia now considering reductions | in the freight rotes onconl, The labor sng | in the on fields is the sivsle reine persalnlng item in the mine coat of bituminous which has not been deflated. Yours very truly, J.D, A. Monmow, EVENING POST Use any kind of water with Williams’ Shaving Stick Some men have to use cold water for shaving, especially in Summer. Others prefer it. In some sections the water is hard. These conditions and many others were allowed for in determining the Williams’ formula. Use any kind of water with Williams’ Stick, Use it your own way. Rub it in or not—just as you like. You are rule-free if the stick is Williams’. See how quickly the Williams’ lather forms and how it piles up on the face—how immediately it begins the work of softening the beard—how it softens the skin and prepares it for the razor. See how supple, smooth and re- freshed the skin feels afterward. See how glove-like it re- mains all day. A perfect soap in a perfect holder. Williams’ Holder Top is the holder that Ae/@¢r—metal to metal. It cannot wobble loose. It cannot fall out. When you're ready for a Re-Load, a push of the finger releases the wafer of soap from the patented ring. jambing—no mushing of soap in the Williams’ Holder Top. Williams’ Re- Loads are instantly ready to insert and always cost you less than the com- plete package. Send 10 Cents for a trial length stick in a large, re-loadable box. For canvenience use coupon below. He Ider Top Shaving Stick No THE J. WILLLAMS COMPANY Dept. 65, Glasionkury, Conn, Send me a trial Irmgth Holder ‘Top Stick in a loge ee-loadable bos. 10 cen encheed.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 124 ral = — sereTe vi WTAE Sabb cea heme pant va fa) dN | fps a SAS Be Scalia! Sr eae Bloy aS T rater antes Ria nite ai nna Petar s 0 A ie AS Ae Fie a Se ol Doe your home run like clockwork? faecal is your schedule constantly spoiled by clocks : fa that lose and must be set forward, or gain and i must be set back? Life is too short for such a needless annoyance. For a very little investment you can have your home run like clockwork—like Seth Thomas clockwork, which has meant accuracy for more than a century. Ask your jeweler to-day to show you Seth Thomas Clocks. Their beauty speaks for itself; for their ac- curacy he can speak. He can direct you to friends in your neighborhood who have depended upon them a lifetime and find them still dependable after many years. i TTT TEUUVAE AV POUT TROD AT TT eee ACA AAA FETA PETA A TATTLE Suites iti) Tm F The perfect gift for Graduation, Wedding or Anniversary ————— = a ee Big gS Pig iy 2 af a a aca Ev. Lagat A SARASA MP SARE NAR/SASA SNES NANA AAS te Fa oo ae m1, Bans OF Rie a i Plo ae Pa . r F EET ss One of many inexpensive, reliable Seth Thomas T ambour models, iin cages thar are an orniment to on room. $day movement: hour al half-hour strike; prices $20 to $30, Above is one of fitteen Seth Thornas chime ime clocks: unexcelled anywhere. They chime quarter- hoursand strike hour, $60to$1 10, An accurate, handsome clack or a mahogany bracker for any wall, $28 oo $44. The cand solid mahogany, colonial desigm, 11 eo 313. im, | ra a Fa a i “SET TH_THOMAS_ ACRE PA MAYERS. RAL WE AWE ENE VRE Be oi WER WEARER ENE a

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 125 BUSINESS AS THE FARMER SEES IT (Continued from Poge 29) arrive at the gener! prine be lithe elet than mild dissipation of time, wages are raised, then whieh is the stuff that life is made of. in sore way or other be Not only that, but men work enaiest and even pace with wage in- most effectively when th Pred them- the additional earnings will selves cally and mentally fit pleat up by increased prices, ing not half the time but every day. In seve ol living may even be actually thia the writer apeake from long personal under an era of advancing wages. eyes in physical labor, and as ong fussia played this game to the finish. who knows the workman's poe as compared wages Were forerd up hours of lair with the injunction Eo | mg. ort reduced, production declined and waa Quite unmindful of the inevitable reaulta, praiually overtaloen by increased demands but with a perfectly laudable desire to help oe the of those possessed of unac- the under dog to make a living, industry = bu power, until money be everwhere has been burdened witha killing meme worthless for the ¥ good reason over af unnecesary labor, thease who at nothing remained to be bought with it. made and enforced the rules not seeming Nothing ts clearer to the thinking man to realize that the consequences, like every- shan the fact that we live by work and mot body's chickens, will always come home to fy wages, and the corollary of this general roost, sition is that the way out for the For example, when labor adopts rules corer -and the only relief from high requiring three men to do the werk that pres without a penerul lapas inte a period could perfectly well be performed two, oldepreseion—lhea not in higher wages and the purpose is to provide the third man greater east but in more work and in ins with a job by forcing the public to employ srescul production — ineteased to the point him. ut the elfeck is to incrense the ong ie vhich, as he ought, the seller seeks the oof production 60 per cent at that point, or sayer. Then may the laborer hope to be the equivalent of six or eight profits. ibe te buy his own productand puy forit, For this overload does not come out af the we pot before, Profits of the company, but is added to Here also lies the economic consequence the production coets, and, belng added at standardizing to an eight-hour day, tom the very point of origin, it becomes at once crty-four ora thirty-hour week, oreven to oa base for additi outlay and therefore imaiform mote of pay for all members of a Probes Ee puta: eviry soar who banding riven craft, the product from factory on bo consumer. There a noguch thing as astandard day. In this way the initial overload in produc- Tight houra is far too much for a day's thor Iecomes multiplied aay Hee before mark at certain kinds of empleyment, but ~it reaches the consumer. ‘Therefore when npeneral bt be hot enough. The world was the laborer goes into the retall market he iol brought te its present stage af develope ooften finds himself unable to boy his own rent by ange euch Pilacy ant e nokion that roduct: oer will the remedy be found in tere only so much to be done and there higher wages. The remedy must be found of @e must organize to make the work go in | get that third man at really ueeful rand, and productive Iubor—that is, in maki Qer fathers worked as the farmer works. something else that the world wants, an ‘bey, like him, followed the old-fashioned enough of it to sell ata price that the world lan "Make hay while the sun shines.” can afford to pay; It would be cheaper to ‘te farmer learned long ago that if hi pangs this third man by charity than as ford this baw of Nature he would an idle wheel in industry, and not much iheut fodder, and he harbors mo delu- reore demoralizing to him. ins about what constitutes a day's work ay iit Ze aE i= Amidhine, capabk of adjusimeet fo any human gienke, goeerned by » falling weight: | eel o opring), Sith perfect “fallewabei™ anil | exactly: measured force etpended in each stroke, The Serious Business of bgt Making Good Golf Balls mine Bedded in concrete on the grounds of Fort Dunlap, Birmingham, England, is a patented driving machine— one of the many devices used in maintaining and impraving the qualities of Dunlop golf balls. The ground in front of the driving machine is measured off in a manner similar to the field of a long-range gun. aan ia te ben orig at hyde A Blinded Policy Accurate experiments, many times repeated, have given r fitds and harvests are : “rae > ; vd between showers. But this is not the full result of over-| Dunlop “0” Dunlep engineers invaluable data on all the ge ps (ur fathers followed this same principle loading with useless and nonproductive | developing this country, whether on labor. The company probably hes all it im, in the shop or on the railroad grade, can do, especially in slack times, to get tere with plow, team and fume scrapers contracts in competition with the cheap ey laid most of the roadbeds of the United labor of the world to keep the fac eon abe alter harvest and wt other odd times -Hienaraat busy and everybody onl Sees di peaacne, werklng as did upon the Clearly the business will fail to get contracts fms from gum to sun. And they were if ik carries many of these useless over- aly keppier then in getting siinas ane loads, and! in pauper ite ns it {nibs to sell aj ae we, their descendants, who are lta goods In the competitive markets of ime intereeted tn w than in reqalts, the world, in that pro ion Will all these d who came nea i rae mipbgsal ard men run elie of bring Lendib i idle inheritances, are failing to reap the = employmen Eneesry closing Thenefits ly rewaon of our foolish mod- of the factory. i stumdards about work, based on the And finally one of the resulta of pushing tion that labor is a curse to be avoided, the campaign for increased bes to the The sant durste things that affect the flight of golf balls—depth of mark- + pe se ings, resiliencies of core and winding, arc-of-Aight tenden- fSe. cies, distance factors and shape-retaining qualities. Improved processes and long experience in the manufac- ture of golf balls have put into the Dunlop many extra items of salve that benefit the player during all stages of the game. In price, the best grade of Dunlops is only slightly in excess of domestic brands and is less than mast imported balls. The Dunlop Mareict (really much superior to the average ball) sells for 7Ue. Dunlops can be obtained thru your usual source of supply. ta privilege to be utilized. upper lindt of what can be forced from the If you have any difficulty in obtaining them, we will ustry is to secure such a real advantage appreciate it a6 a faver if you will write us direct. We'll Unnecessary Labor over other forma of employment a8 to do what we can to see that your needs are supplied. attract greaber nimbers to that particular ao geywhere over the cmniey with the job than can pomibly be employed. The ston, What ant we doling with our in- result ia disastrous by producing an over- itanee? and the answer ia that with all load that of necessity throws a good part modern improvements, the result of of the people out af employment. stdic knowledge and inventive pent, The conspicwous example of this blinded lalled at enormous outlay of capital, yet policy at the present ia the mining induatry may pointe, as in railroading, we are in which the rates of pay have been for ely keeping up Tepoirs and muking toe figure so out of all proportion to the a the cation on improvements income enjoyed in neighboring enterprise— alled by our fathers in the days when farming, for example, in the soft-coa) re womeant work and men worked for gion—that men have been drawn from the 4 labor could achieve in tangible me farms until crops have retted for want of 8, like clearings, ditches, railroad grades laborers to harvest them at the very mo- fuvate or public buildings, ment when the mines were double manned ‘he half day off has becomes a supposed = and miners on half-time employment under tity for everybody, young ond old conditions that made the consumer support quite regardless of what is to be dane two minera to do the work of one, each Lihe time. Weta half day off each at double wages, while both claimed to be : it & loss of over & ; cent of the ee centr does the bellney st er oF a ge pro Opa any n- fe gab rae tiles Lat tng & gal Ua eeiccics are Gempotel [rem Ueee to tine, i phe Fee, sad this ia of some co tence to = productive industry defeat ita own ee eee alng the are, . re va Be past wh te ms foung fellow getting a etart. ot only andl miners went out on a mation-wide | its fight The cry eect deviation of dhe hall {in fret) ga well a4 k bar the erent mass a people would strike UPON an, issue that in aconomicnily the “rn” alter sthiking the grodad are do measured impligh more ond be better off physi- imposible, especially when it is Pemem- | » es well as financally if they would bered that farmers in the saree region are : | BUNLOP TIRE & RUBBER CORPORATION OF AMERICA GOLF BALL SALES Dunlop Warwick DEPARTMENT ‘The chrapeit of pont lnlls to play wlth 17 Eost4ind St. New York, §. ¥. Micdwum sige £ 11 sl § Tt 4 1S a E \ continwouply for moat of the year and obliged to go without necessary Inbor in itake time enough off to mean some- order to farm the land economically, and rather than to fritter away good thee same men, originally drawn from the week by week in ways that produce: land in renin canes, refuse to work at any- noteblednd, asofttnasnet, amount thing Uke w. t the farmer can hope to get

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126 ‘ THE SATURDAY CONN RADIO || CONCERTS: «| “Ts 1 | | | | = Pictured here are dome ote Che arcinle appearing ni (Cann Aadia Gonceria, Abore— Frank W astphal’s ease Chair Rainbow Garden ahd Chicago fan Presslago Symphony Orchestra. THIRD OF NATIONAL SERIES Friday Evening, May 19 ONN radio concerts have taken the nation by | storm! (hur programs of March 17 and April | 14 by America’s leading dance orchestras and nationally famed soloists have occasioned universal admiration for Conn enterprise. Isham Jones, Joseph Smith, Frank Westphal, Hal Nichels, D.C. Rosebrook and their orchestras have already played; Benne cise, (Charles Randall, John Leick, Mabel Keith Leick and Fred Tait have given solos. More of their calibre are to appear. ¢ ErneetPechin gj S Carnet Saloiat - Mahe Aandaiea Samophone Solsiag Travelers on shipboard 1500 miles from the Aclantlec and Pacific coasts, people in Northern Canada and in Central America will enjoy the same music which will be ~ dohe Chilom heard throughout the United States May 19. Cornet Sobaint Think of it—Conn Ltd. is entertaining people by wireless a quarter of the way around mr ‘ig [herr ily Bearken els Chicage, Soocen EY WI. Sears be aad. , Sta bien 1G th curberets THLE: Conn dealers ate enteraining at raulinphene Watch for local announcer: FREE | nisthe world’s best, choice of the ftadin Be Lt STihinis $46 Conn Building C. G. CONN, | LTD. Aaeaned in AL faprge Cites Slew. Wowk (oe, 2UN-5-7 Wich Sr Clon Cann Detroit EL, Coraiedl River Ane, 1 Sd aka Orloe Conn Portlund ie, 127 Tenth 5 Conn Glewelened Go, VEAP betes Wrine trot caruny L i Tec for new sseophone book: F Tells wh the (r fanenia petiata on ¢ ‘ds Elkhart, indiana a Citeean Co Clon Sentile Cr _ ei Van Ibe Pirtat ink? Th 2, atin. a ATL a AIMMOLVEN em? WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH GRADE BAND AND ORCHESTRA INSTRUMENTS tt a | mass of the ‘buyin | burdensome EVENING POST for his-labor.. Under these conditions it ia economic sulelde to declare industrial war under the slogan oe "A living wage" from the past int of manned indus- try lpaded ot with idle ballast. fo ineistent haa organized labor been | in getting a living Wage, 50 sympathetic | has th the poole been, the em= until now, go inglatent haa logrer, nd, if ‘the poche been to spend his money that | the managers of our Poarpobeal wicaglan Peay Ad and ou tion than gis interminably aver all these ob- structions to business, have adopted quite generally the gentle art of passing it on to ‘ne angen Tt has amounted to 2 kind of quasi eon- and capital, and as ese 88 prio were constan | system was bound to work, As one con- | tractor frankly expressed to his neighbor: We den't care; we almply pa eae te you, the consumer, torn ashion. You ante one that gets it in the neck. We ore the dines of peace and heme realst- Ber ~ibel§ if anybody raises a rough-house you are the one that will have to do it.” And that is what the consumer in going ‘to do, now that the jod of deflation has eet in and every value is shrinking upon the hands of every coe that holds it even overnight or attempts to handle it in the ordinary way of trade. A third af our cen- eumerd are farmers, whose products enjoy no ity of the overload that capital organized labor have between them put apon almost every akan form of enter- | prise, and this third is pretty well out of the markets until business, which is capital and | labor combined, gets reasonable and un- | oada one of its Wnnecesary burdens, Twin Follies at Work This is. one angie of the situation, and the other is that, outside of farmers, the great public ia made up of the very same poopie whom we denominube as labor in all discussions concerning pro- duectlan. That ia to say, to a very large extent the laborer is his own consumer, and hen the employer scoms to agree with | him to poss it on to the consumer he be in rely togaing it back to the laborer, like Playing catch; only in this case the hall is a boomerang, for oftener than not the laborer meets Owl product | iit the market and must needs turn his back upon it, which ia but another way of saving | that to this extent he is forced to destroy ie murket for the producta of his own Usk ryt. Agd that ia the way in which these twin Fooliesn, “*h living wage” and “Pass it on to consumer,” have operated ta destroy some of our moet important industries, and to cripple others, to the great distress of nvery in bath eases, For example, the building trades are practically extinet because capital will not invest at prohibitive costa, while rents are because of shortage of benup- ing, carpenters and masons and lvthers and plasterers and plumbers walk thesireeta for odd jobs at common labor—akilled workmen who ought to be building homes mei & rules, mt would be the case if everyone would work exactly aa he would were he building a hearse for himeelf and needed to get it done before winter sets in, we wee the coe with our ploneer forefathers. kel ie ; TIPS, GT RSSC ET A Le, Wreckage of Fareed a4 DAeree of Jackass Lake, Wyromlag May 13, 932 Transportation ig absurdly overloaded as any travelor enn see who observes 4 Maintenance ww: ws it bene py mer ing but spactetisn doa: A else that js visible. It atira a farmer all pon the in. aide to see such work and to know thst ke has to pay for it every time he marken y bishel of wheat or a pound of mea, [- will stir everybody up when be comes fully to realize the way in which matter turn the cheap wheat and cheap meal of the farm inte expensive food for the lubor- ers table when all the chickens have com home to rooat. ‘ The burden of clemd India is ite caste sysbem. How many know that it had roots in craftemen's guilds, and that, qeity in addition to overload, we ore sowing the seeds of it at this. country every time 1 craftsman pefiises to work without a helper. Tefuaes to perform certain of bis own trade because that belongs to the helper, or bends to rules that him met to touch a saw, for exampeet, 2 he union card reads "plumber"? The Taree Stonecutten We talk about equality now, brut these things cannot go on for many generation before they will pass from @ financial ad economic to a social and even religives dtmurcation between the various trades castes —into which society will speed; become hopelessly nish ete by the very influences now milituntly tive. Tt & a time te talk lesa about our nigh and our liberties, and more about our re sponsibilities and our opportunities. [ta a time for in sand for vision if our kind of elvilization ls to bulld a worthy structure on the foundation that haa be: ao worthily Inid, anc we must stop talking so mich about Washington ned, Limeade. iotl) we set our industrial hwuse so well ic order that we can prove to ourselves a least that wo are capable of governing our eel yee meeting our orcinary mecesite Then perhaps we shall be able realy w take care of an advancing civilization. A good deal is said by the agitator about industrial slavery, But is a man o save elmply because he ia busy? Ds the baste after a good supper to be counted a slave’ Are the birds building nests and the men building himself a home to be counted x slaves use they are working early acd late? Is a farmer a slave te his job ote anybody when he is up early to plant while thr season is on or wears out y chay light £0 harvest what his industry hus produces’ Is the wile a slave to her hugband as she labors by his side, or to her children as she ments their multitudinoaus sor wabehs all alight by the bedside when the fever = on? anybody a alave when he works at job he loves? No, there is the test, Dowe ove the job or hate it? Freedom and slavery lie not in the fob, but in the att en toward the job. goea that three stonecutter ae veh! in she yards: The philcsophe wong and aaked each the same got Goa: What are you deing?T “I'm gtr bb beau relate obit ea teaier Eh cuttin is stone, os uo sew,” ” repli nape “We are building a cathedral the third answered, Which one of these three men will b most nearly typical of the American cil one hondred Yeahs. from nowt

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rail, down af Bridger? Had a new route aver a Humbeldt Basin been found, of something of that sort? How could that bet Tf eo, ib must be sh Pm needing work is places, ele why need for sc inaxy shovels? But maybe the emigrants themselves ine about these singular miatbera, or weal when they had read their letters, a, of cOUTEE, the Mdiseouri movers hed ig a lot of Jetters, some for their folks jack Esst next year maybe, but some for peuple in the train. Banion, Woodhull - had they ol any word? Why, yes, both etibem, The trader amiled. ow nach. Tea the game person, Yea. Well, lucky girl! Bet that black horse, now—the Nez Perces would give a hundred ponies for him, But ceil oe dn't trade, A sour young man. But Woxlkall, now, the one with the wagons, iwhed more, Amd they feck: had left a iter fa aeene att Aod this wos Miss iielly Wingate? Well, the trader did not slume them! Thear tere giem girls! They were like rete to the old tracers, east away this life- come wut here in the desert. News? dk ¥ea, no train ever came ihrengh nes d set bring news and get ners ab old Hall—and so on. Fhomenrter the old adobe fur-trading set was thronged by the men and women othe Wingute train. Molly Wingate at fat wat bot amenig them. Sle sat, chin on ber perce hie tongue in, the en- camper ng cue over the bhoe-gray dvert to thy ned-wned-gold glory of the sink- ing am. Her mother came to her and Lt in — lap the two letters, etood ony hea each,”* said she senbentioualsy, val turned away. The nite face poled aa she opened the oe che had felt sure would find her again, emewers, domehow. It said: feet: Towrite to Molly Wingate, becouse: ud only beraicee To knew she still is Melly Wingate Tt mi ate kinder ta as hoth Uf E edie ont Erie at all a4 went my way amd left it all io ime and wileness, T feumd E eoubel mit, There will be no other woman, in all my life, oot. T cannot bey any vow on uf maid, if Tdarmd, T woudl aay * “Wat t ar 7 vhie I pray for o yeer—ond peri koow, T new have taken your advice, Iridger and [are joined for the Califoenio ods estore, [the gold is there, as Carson thinks, Say fied more fortune than T heave earned, fore than [could earn you gave me—when I poi ia That was two months ago, Mow oy Keon the news of the gold, if it cam he kept, ‘hora you can, Ne doubt will spread om Other sources, hut ao far aa 7 knew—- ane aks only fo you—I am well abrad of any ‘er adventurer fron the East this season, i, aya knew, winter soon will seal the trails aginst the followers, Next year, LEV, will the big rush, if it all does not thetten. lean think of no one who con have shored tecret Caren will be Eset by mow, but he a fvernment man, and cloas of menuth with aager, Pridper, T am sure—for the odd won that he yocskhe yor Earl gh a cme *, @petialhy since ha eh mia, (Sie and sucessd. One bee od ga only rests my mind, At hia poat 1 talkecl with Bridger, teld me be had a few other bits af gold it Corson bad given raz at Laramie. He fed for them but Aad lee them, He sus ‘ted his Indian women, but "hes know nothing. course, it would be one chance in a thousand Qanyome would keow the worsen head thesaa Ge and een eo ne one could tell where the dcome from, beeriaee met even the women know thats aot Yb Bridger dota, ox- fe: nor eveti I mse negeneral Faun onde for the ver. Li pe fimento. T shall work north. mw that will be toward Oregon! write ws though [ ospectel to eee you again, pout cat I rk a ge to expect or hope for he dead young man, Will tion, oi af Uindustly and and wrap y eri ani af af all rtune for w i—vhe onfalr el wrongly writer yi % Shen he ought to remem oa dete oto a land far trom spina, to fo re down his past, Ab, ittcouldt Ak did “4 eg ‘haps about to die, o fram. ree eee al rac be between you and Acd the teoth is T nower abel fo wou, fruté ts 7 lowe soo: mere than anything ele everything elae in all the world, I were in other what the man of your & aheuld be, whould this truth have any ht with you? I donot kmow and | dare nat Remon pk aire ghee calpsiene it would fask you ta lol im your heart a memory ot Sasi ‘That fa ier me bo de— ta have ferry, and motyou. Bat my memory ecver Penteme foe, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE COVERED WAGON (Continued from Page 27) It scems as though time had been invented at that. through all tte mona, our feet might ron in search, one for the other—to mect, where’ Well, we did meet—for one ineataa hil in the un- soured ages, Chere on the proirio, Well, if ever u do see me agoin you alall say whet her I ve been, indeed, tried by fins, anal whether lt haa left me clean—whether [ am o mon ond nat a Memory. That 1 perhaps have been a thief, stealing Whee mevor could be noler, ia my great spony now. Bot [love you. Good-by. WitutamM Hava Aaston. To MancaneT Wpecatr. Fort. Hall, in Oregon. For an hour Molly sat, and iF sun aank. ‘The light of the whole world d he other letter rested unopened until later, when she broke the seal and rend by the light of a sipebrish fire. She frown Could it he that in the prowi- dence of God she onen had been within one de liberate step of marry- ing Samuel Payson Woodhull? MY Darling Mollp: This Tepe Bn you well after hari LIPO y from ee to Hall. They call it Cruel eto knop o Soerot from o Woman. an, I hove been Cruel, though only in Poor poy for your Pes to me. T have bed a eret—anel this init: hare heft for California from Oe Ep ada and shall mit re on, oT hawe learned of Cald in the fate = Wifornin, amd have departed to that State in the hope of early Swecees in Achieving a Fortune. So far aa 7] know, J am the Firat. ta have this news of Gold, unless a certoin mon whese name and thought | execrate has by his Tiel dishonesty follon on the sama informa tion. Tf so, we two may meet where none can Interfenr, T do pot know how Jong I may be in Cali- fornia, but be Sure I go for but the one p of arnassing a Fortune af jhe Woman | love, I pover hare eve. eal and mover ahinll. Your Promis is Hi our Engagement oorer bas been, Broken and the Mere Hts tha gecidesit for Che threes Frorented que Nuptiola by no means shall ever mean thot we sha | oot Gril Happy Consummation of oir mead Che Desire ot sore Joter Time, I eonfidently HH to arrive in Oregon a Fich Taam net, later ‘than one ot bw year frome ow. Waitforme. Tam mak you amd Shall count the Minutes until then when I can tn cod digg in my Arma anal Kise you a Cheusand vo Tem: To have not Heretofore Places, but it was best oot and itwaafor You, Trubeed you ane ao much in my Atari my Darling, that coch and Every- thine I da is for You ed You only. No mire at, eae then, but should Cyeper- tuenity offer T shall bo you ba Fale whi paar father seid was ble to 0 gene nation, it belag my own preacnt bie ee Gane tocngage in the Practice of weelther at that Point or the settlement of Portland which I understand ia not for Below, With my Means, we should socom be Hand- somely Betthed, May God guard you on the Way Thither and believe me, Darling, with more Love than I shall be ever able to Tell and a Thousand aa. Your Adfeced and Umpatient Lover, Sab Parson WioooduLh. The littloangebrosh fire flared op brightly ‘or an instant ws Molly Wingate dropped one of her jettera on the embers ae you af EEEVIF TAT S wrong withthe people, Cole?" demanded Jesse Wingate of his stout= hearted associate, Caleb Price. The sun was two laure high, but not all the break- fast fires were going. Mon were molly, truculent, tacituro, as they went about their duties. Caleb Price bit into his yellow beard as he gazed anen the irregular lines of the ene “De you want me to tell you the truth, aba om ae te it seems bo mee the truth ia that this train has lost focus “T don’t know what vou mean.” “T don’t knew that [Pm right—don't Lean make my guess plain. Of course, every day we May UP, the whole traln goes to pieces. The thing to do is to go a little way gach day—get into the hahit, You can't wear oUt m road as long as this one by epurta—it's steady does It. Robert Releay “Bue I don't think that's all. The main trouble is or red T don"t like to hint to you, cspeciall hg Baca ee OF ts ean hel it.” “Cut with if, 0 “The trouble ag ine people dant think they've a lender,” Jesse Wingate colored above his beard. “Thut's preety hurd," ssid he, “1 know it's » but T guess it's the truth. You and I and Hall and Kelsey— we're accepted ag the chief council, Hut there are four of us, ond all this country is new to all of us. ne thet how aie Uli 3 bunch of cattle ready taatampede. They're nervous, peudy to jump at anything. Wrong way, Jewe. They ought to be as steady as any of the trains that have gone aeroas: [RAG when the Appl hess crossed; 1846, when the Don ¥ wall, if think they're scared." That's hard, Cale!" eg hard for me bo 7 to you, with your wife aad and your girl just now able to sit up— yea, it's hard. Harder shill since we both know it's your own personal matler—this quarrel of those two young men, which I don't need ex- ain. That's at the thom af the train's Uneaziness,” BB dol they" ve both “Yea, both. ut half of of the both were here now you'd see the people quiet. Oh, can't ¢xplain leadership, Jesse! Some ave it, most don"t, He had. We know he had. I don’ b suppose many of those falls ever figured it cut, or do now. But they'd fall in, not ke w Be bee gs eyed rh Born! nthe air, They say cm when an earthquake fa coming. . enay myself, and don"t know why. for Oregon. I don't know why. Do you witha api speculations of either man ennsecdl as both caught sight of a litth: dust choo fur off nero the sage, steadily advancing down the slope, ‘Hum! And wha's that, Jesse?" come Tented the Ohio leader, “Get your big glass, Jone," with the went to his wagon and returned great telesro pe { mommies emblem of his authority. Bo man, two packs,” said be pres- ently. “* ‘All alone so far an I — oe Herr Western enough—scnme Boat suppose, Fides like an Indian ante like ane, but he's white, beeaose he hes a "Let mesee.” Price took the glass, “He looks familiar! See if dan" E think it's Jim Bridger, What's he coming for—two | hundred miles awihy from his own post? Ree was Jim Bridger, as the next hour - why he came he himself was ring to exploin after he had eaten and smoked. ae camped twelve mile back," said be, hed in gacohag by li I jest had a bee di sorter over in here, see how ye ee a tin walang. Is your hull trnin made ere ane bee ae answered. “The Mis- WREONS Bre aherad,"" aes Woodhull with ye?" if Nao, Br “Whar's he at?" “We don't know. Major Banta and Jackson, with m half dozen pa no ons, have given up the trip. fn pitt off for California—lett thelr "And ao has Sam Wonrdhull, “We su ao. That's the hy He took about fifteen wagons with him. That's why we look cut down.” " Tleat ye goin’ on through, huh?" “Tam, TF hope the athers wall." “Hit's three daya on to whar the road leaves for Califormy—on the Raft River, Mebbe more'll leave ye thar, buh?" “We don't know, We hope not. | heor the fords are bad, This 8 Ble erodslng af a i Snake. river, My people are uneasy about i "You, hit's bad eagagh: right often. 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MceCRAY SALESROOMS IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES |See Telephone Directory) POE LECCEES FUR MEAT MARKETS FRR HOTELS, CLUBS ANT HOSPITALS «for Purposes MeCRAY REFRIGERATOR COMPANY, 5212 Loko Street, Kendallville, Indiana Gentlemen: Please ated the book on refrigeration and refrigerators checked below: (I Mo. 56 for Residences: No. #4 for Meat Marketa; LI Ne, TH for Grocers and Delicatessen Stores: LINe, 75 for Floriate; CIMo, 83 for Hotels, Restaurants, Hospitals and Institutions, ee ee ee eee (won't charge ve ‘scthin®. Whee EVENING POST fear Blah, ink fH’ a roorin® ye kin hear forty mebbe. ‘The big ford's erroun'’ two re Pp mile ahead. That'd make me four hunderd mile away from home, an" four hunderd to ride back agin, huh? Is that for enau 4 fer aol’ man, with anow comin’ On BCom “You don't mean far? What charge? “T some fer that, mainly. you'd guide us on that Phat d0_ye I a'poae Jim Bridger'd care ef ye drownded in the Sale? Ain't ther =H more pllgrima whar ye all come [rom Won't st be out here next year, with money to spend with my pardner Vasques an” met’ “Then how could we pay sie “Ye Kain’t. Whar's Miss Afolly?" “Vou want to ase her?" “Yea, élae why'd T ask?" “Come,” said Wingate, and led the way bo Molly's little cart. Tho girl was when she aaw the old seoul, her wide eyed asking ler queathon. Mornin’, Misa Molly!" he began, his rathery face wean Ta in a smile, “Ye didn’t expect me, an' I didn’t neither. I'm pad ve're about well o' that arrer wound, kerried a arrerhead under my shoulder hinde sever) omer’, on Preacher Whitman cut bit out. It felt right crawly | all a one till ther. sent nobaterail ul saple honderd mile a mornin’, iss Molly see how ye all was gettin’ bdaedlnicy ene er an- other,” Without much regurd to others, he now led Maly a little apart aod sented her on the ide him. “Will Hanton and Bill Jackson has went on to Californy, Mise Mnlly," anid he. “Tou know why.” Mollie nodded, “You'd arta! You told him,” “Yea, T did." “Tknow. Himan’ me hadatalk. Ovedn' you an’ me all he'll ever make, he allowed to pay moethin’! Which is, wimittin’ he lave you, he don"t tobe no advice, to finlah | that weddin’ with another man subester- tuted, "No," saya he, “T Kain" marry her. Greauaa Ears her z Hib} ie hal that’s oar. ethin” deep under that, Mal ¥ *'Lat's not talk about it, please," “Allright. Let's talk erbout Sam Wood- hull, hub? "Then mebbe I'd better be goin’. I know you don't want to talk erbout me!" aC arinkling smile said he had more te “Miss Molly," said he at last, “I mout as well tell Sam Woodhull ia on the way after Will Banion, He's like enough pic oot a fine honch o horse thiels to erflong with him. He knows somethin! erbmat the gold—TI jest found out how. “Yo aon, Some men gin"t above eee up to a Injur wWomern even, such mebbe lonesome. Sam Woodhull Waa tL, He seed one o° my fam‘ly wearin” a shiny thing an her Hit were a piece of gald Kit give me atter I give you mine. He trades the womern out o° her necklace—tfer all of two pesos, Mexican. But she not talkin’ Miggoury, an" him net talkin" Sho- shone, they don"t git fur on whar the gold come fram. “She done told him she got hit from me, rut he don't say a word to ne erbout that: he's too wise, But she did tell him how Will Banion gitazeme mules an" packs o' ne. From then, plain gueesin®, he allawa to watch Hanon, e May womern keep an rin'—not peeanin® no hartmn—thet thar's plenty more neck- | laces in Cal"for, because she's heard me an’ | Banton say that word, “C alifia “Slim guesain' hit were, Mil ian Riolly. but enough fer a man keen as Sam, that's not perteniay, neither, His plan was te wate whar the: csehceliy dct He knowed ef Banion went ta Gn he'd not use packs, "Huh! ine time he'll have, follerin' that poy an’ them mules with wagonel I'm ensler when [ think o that. Becowse, Miss hi olly, ef them two doca meet away from friends a” both thar’ a Rein to be trouble, an’ traukle anly o" one kind," orn Molly Wingate nodded, pale and silent. “Well, a man has to take keer o” his own eelf,** went on Bridger, “Hut that min’t all her moet what brung me here." “What was it then?” demanded Molly. "4 bong Hide?" ov ob Eight hunderd mile out on” back, ef T gee ve across the Snake, like IT allow I'd May f3, i973 better do. I"m doin’ hit fer you, Miss Molly. I'm ol’ an’ yere young: [mawid man an" ye re one ao’ God's wiramin. Tut I bad sisters oncet—white they was, lice fu. So the eight hunderd mule is light. ‘litt hee ain’ t why I come, neither, or all wh Tahat is ee eee eee Is it about—himt' “aoe nodded, “Yea, The only tros- don"t know what hit is." Be oe you're foolish!" “Shore Tam! Ef [ had a few drinks o good likker mebbe I'd be foolisher—er wiser. Leastwaya, I'd be more like [ wea when I plumb fo what ‘turaa Kit Car- Bon to re ho We Was sprecin' at Laramie, He had somethin’ to do, some thin* he was goin’ te do, somethin’ 1 waste do fer him, er mebhe so, next season, ater he got East an’ got things done he was goin’ to do. We see, Kit’ 8 in the Anmy," “Was it about—him “That! a what I kain't tell. T jest som ered over here ited spre pie mile i - ye wheel ye e'pose it is that we plum at, me not havin’ the eume kind o "Hikker rght now. “When me an’ Bill was havin" « few afore be left | was right on the p'int o' re memberin” what it was [ waa fergittin’. | don"t make no doubt, ef Kit an" me er Bill an’ me could only meet an" sage along day er ao hit'd all come plain to me. But by myself, an’ aober, an" not sociable wit Dan Yore Eyes jest now, I sw’ar, T kain’s think o' nothin’. What's o girl's mind fer ef hit hain"t te think o' things?" “Tt was about—him? It was about Kir Carson, something he had—was it about the ld news tT" “Mebbe. I don't know." “Did he—Mr. Banion—say anything?” "Mostly erboot you, an’ net much, He only aald el TL ever any madl te send i to the judge in the Willamette aettlements.” “He docs expect to come back to Ore- “How can] tell? My belief, he'd better jam in the Percific Ocean. He's a dams Misa Molly. Efa man loves a womern. that’s aamethin® that never orbo wail. Vu he goes teeterin” erroun' like he had fron now to doomeday toa marry the girl which be loves too much fer to marry her, That makes me sick. Yit he hes resemblance to a man, too, some ways—faint resec- blanees, yes, Fer inaeanes, T'll bet. a gan flint these here hat’s been bearin’ erbout the ford o' the ‘Shake di be a hull be gladder ef ey knew Will Banion wee eflong. Huh? M Wingate waa looking far away, pondering many things. “Well, anyways, hit's even Stephen fer them beth two now," went on ridges, "orn" may God k the right an‘ devil take the hin'mostest, hey" like like enough both marry nie wimmin an’ sel tlhe down in Calif Out o' sight, auto" mind. Love eve lit , lowe me long. Lard Lovell, he's mounted his milk-white steel Furewell, sweet sir, partin’ is such swwel Borer, like ol Capa Bonneville weter aay, But o all the messea any fool bunch @ pilgrima ever got inter, this is the worstest, hit couldn't be no worser, ee Now, Miss Molly, ye're a pliomb dase Fintment to me. I jeat drapped in to see ef ye couldn't tell me what hit was Em done told me. But ye kain’t. Wohiar is yer bossbed superiomed a5 a Womern? “But now, me, havin" did tock mile a day over that Tey eee Teed susie name), an” I'm goin cf ol" Cas Grant, the past trader, habae ary bit o° Hue aon Bay rim left, Ef he hus hit's mise. an’ ef not, Jim Bridger’s a liar, an” that | sa) deliberate, I'm goin’ ra try to gat inter nor condition encugh fer to remember a few plain, simple truths, Benin’ aa you al kain't. Wary hit is, this train's in » hell of 2 fix, an’ hit couldn't be no worser.” EXEPIIT E news of Jim Bridger ‘a errival, and the swift rumor that he would serve a pilot for the train over the dangerous por- tion of the rowte ahead, aprewd an instas- taneous fesling of relied throaughaut the hesitant eneumpment at this, the touch, with eclvilization emst of the dewtinaticn He paused briefly at one of another wages after he had made hia own fnirmals com- fortable, laughing and jesting in his own ce coher en routs tofu lA his promis imeself regarding the trader's rum. In mat wars the old aeout's wide experi- tence gave his dicta value. Tn one assertion. (Continged of Page F7) —— | | (perio

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(tentinoed from Page 170! towever, he was wide of the truth, or short ait, So far fom things being at had as they could be, the rapid events of that same morning praved that stil more confusion wut te ercue, and that speedily. There came riding into 2 the post from the weteand a little part -time maun- isis men, driving their near-spent mounta and packs at a speed unusual even in that lated of vast distances, They were headed bya man well known in that vicinity whe, tbough he had removed to California since the fur days, made annual pilgrimage to the emasrant trains at Fort Hall in ‘to do preeelyting for California, ex- the a of that land and picbur- seat fashion the horrors of the rond Qregen and the worthlesenee of Wo ever attained. Old Greenwood only name by which he was known, an a or fant past cighty an: ue eye, co onttyS gages unkempt beard and a unparalleled nity. He came pand singing, as did the men ing muking the nendesvous *Hee, Greenwood? What brings me ee aaa his erstwhile ah fr, advancing, tin cu ul, to ig “Light. Eat. Spe- ac How—to the old times!" Old times be damoed!"" exclaimed feeawood, “These is new thes." ‘He lifted from above the chafed hips of iiemibting horse two sacks of something heavy. MSHor conc is this warth ta 7 ae be de manded of Hridger and the tra: “Have «any shovels? Have re e any picks? clave shears seas ra Brides ete Canon did not Sr He a dat And they did not know how much this wet worth, They hod no es for tow ad, mor any system af valuatlon for it. nd they had no shovels and no pickaxes; and siner the families had came they now had very littl: four at Fort Hall. But how they had the newa! This waa the greatest mews that ever came to old ‘pherry the greatest nows America know ear, of the world—the news of a great Leola strikes in California. 04 Greenwond euddeniy broke out, “Have we left the mines an’ come this far feroothin'? J tell ye, we must have sup- Fire A hundred dallara fer a pick! A dred dollars fer a shovell A hundred dollars fer a pair oe Hankets! An qunee fer ines, n ' An une fer half a powod o butter! A half ounce fesaig! Anything ye like fer anything ‘3 green! ree hu Cr eT likker! A ounee fer a box a ila! ‘Lit herdred fer a barrel o” flour! Same fer same fer suger, same fer coffer! fh Bicarues hides, we'll show + ZF “4 hat prices is hat's money to ust Be pit the pu re gal that mowey's made pts an "git it all we want! Hooray fer Belin isnanne: His comrades roared Homeric chorus with him, ing frorn peo another of the current ditties of the They declared in unison, “Old Brimes is deal, that good old man!" " Then “4 ewung of to yet another clastic bel- There wee cn ofd woman who dod lAree ana — Joshua, omer. ane Jak! rahi chat, and Jim gat drowned, ‘alert put low and never waa found, and th! qe the end af the woman's lkree aor, Jona, omer and Join, Having finished the obsequies of the bree sone, net ones but many times, they ment forward with yet another adaptation, Hheving ld Greenwood, whe stood with 4 thrown back and song with tones of Ant Mh thew Suacnmeh, don’t yon cry fer me! m goin" fo Califernuak, vith wey nemel je. om my knee, The news of the gold was out! Bridger i hi cups, forgot his i hurried folly Wingate’s curt a mn Bit’ 5 true, Ming Mol w he cried — frct’n true ‘hitself ! Yan's men just in Californy, an” they've got two horse- eo’ gold, an’ they say hit's nothin’ — Yoome aut fer supplies, They tried te Will Banion—they did trade some Woodhull. They're nigh to Humboldt foow an' goin’ hard. Miss Molly, gul, THE he's in ahead o° the hull eountey, an six months by hisself! Lord give him Tach! Hit'll be winter afore the men back Best kin know. He's one year ahead—thanks to yer lie to me an’ mune to Kit and Kit's to his general, “Gold! Ye kain't hide bit an’ ye kain't find hit si hg kain't al iy up ao" ye kain’t keep hit down, Molly, gal gal, I like ye, but. how I do wisht ve was a pag, aoe in an* me could celerbrate this here, "Listen!" said the girl “Qur bugle! That's bape rete t “Yes, th S's ll isn’ there, Come when ye kin. Hell's a poppin’ now!" The emigrants, indeed, deserted thelr wagons, gathering in front of the stockade gtoup ufter group. Mi Was @ strange Heené on the far-flung, unknown, fate ful borderlands of the eountry Senator McDuffie but now had not valued at five dollars for the whole. All these: now, half- way across, and with the ice and snow af winter cutting of pursuit nbn deo had. the great news which did not blica- tien in the press of New Yark Halti= more until ember of LRaa. Tt did net attain notice on the floor of Compress until Deeember fifth of that , although this | wis news that went to the vary foundation of this republic, which, indeed, was to prove the means of the perpetuity of this rr fae, drucken. hunters in their ragged wools, their stained aking, the emigrants in their motley garb—come this far they knew | not why, since men will not admit of des | ca in nathona—also knew not that the over the death of sla the ad eof the Union. They did mot know that now, in a flash, all the old arguments and over ‘slavery were ancient and of no avail. The wagon — ers of the Sangamon, in [linais, here, roistering, did not know were dancing on the martyr's grave of | Lincoln, or weaving hit his crown, or buy- | ing shot. =e shell or him to win his griev= | aus ordeal, brother aguinst brother, Yet | all these things were settled then, beyand | that range of the Rockies which senators had said they would not spend a dollar to | BELTS “were they no more than ten feet | in then the Rockies fell, Even then the grent trains of the covered wagons, aivny BY men who never heard of destiny, | their places on the unwritten seroll of Time, The neweomers from beyond the Sierras, | crazed with thelr eaay fortune, and now inflamed yet further by the fumes of aleo- | hel, even Fannitied the truth, as it fen ; spent their dust hy the handful. They asked for skillets, cooking | ans, that peg could wash more . | ay wanted saws, nails, axes, hammers, | picles They satel they would use the wagon | bows for Long Toms. They said if men would unite in companies to dam and di- wert the California rivers they would lay bore ledges of broken gold which would need only scooping up. The miners would angytht bt y any food and all of it ata dollar a pound. They ack horses te croas the Humboldt Desert | oaded, They would pay any price for men is pabete horses for a fost and steady | it ecause, they said, there waa no longer nny use in mes tiriis "life by the ald stand- al value. Wages at four blta a day, a dollar a dav, two dollars, the old pricea— why, no man would work for » half hour | for such return when any minute he might | lift twenty dollars in the hallow of an irom | d Greenwood had panned his five undred 3 ina day. Men had taken two thouzand—three—in a week; In a week, men, Hotina year! There could be no wage acole at all. Labor was a thing gone by. Wealth, success, cose, bixuny wus at hand for the tuking. What a man bad drewmed for himesel! he now could have. He could overleap all the confining limits of his life, and, even if weak, witless, ignorant or in despalr, throw all that aside in one vast | hound inte attainment ond enjoyment, Rich? Why should any mum Permiin poor! Wark? Why should work be known, aave the labor of picking up pure gald— done, finished, delivered at hand te waiting | and weary humanity? Human eravimgs | could ne longer exist. Human disa ean ment was a thing no more to be, | I5, California, just yonder, was old “ ie a! Do mind —ean you think of Lt, hie Gold, gold, geld! The sun had hered |} they | "4s for ahor in iron and wood, T ay | @ SATURDAY EVENING POST ie == == 1 with } never been bo ) Detravel widely, and once went = ‘a Here, You're at Your Best | no matter what you wish to do By a Traveler : ‘Southern California Sum. mer” "15 Ha experience t that you, perhaps, have yet to enjoy. have enjoyed many since | frst heard of their almost un- helie 7 able SLEErIe Eas, [suit ety nights if June, July anc Anuprust wider dienkers is the male, A friend once amazed that statement, I California, ie haa But there-=to sce for myself. I've spent seven. summers there since then. Ln me other land are there so many different diversions and SCr erie sities, Ane nowhere ’ else, it seems, clo You feed as wou cho here, You're at your best in golf aril every other sport. dea im the ar. Ari) ehere’s ihberes nay change wher crer you may turn Lanchon a great-desert bke Sahara, Dinner that evening im a famous res- rauran! in iene a che world's large abi ep The Ame crening, t the seashore, 4+. miles of paved highways, tike Vou i Wikie Tt ereath as Ev eh hpee, «hk o these places. Lt ‘ Tou fsa in nkes oT Teams, rest ride heorechack aver wild trails, bien Fre at | TM Eee 20 STU CODE, vir Fewest nd a Such ground fr ts this Preart mummers im chal ttn Soupendoais hiuindeed-mile views are evertwhere on clear days from many paints, And all these diversions within a Faciug of HI hisnel red pile abrive over perfect moods Ace thea clhimate—warm days and nights that are meaty cool! and jou fin (Tne) Surarthice Wii as this may seem, bor one Scrhacru Cal dt OTeLaE is l Liner 1s Wwe rll i. wr hbher reset. Are ipe Preah era peretiir June, eet degrees: July, 7 degrees: August, TL deprees: September, &F ceprees.- The +hyvear reoond of the LU. 3. Weather Hires, Sumber F land—you'll newer spend a more de- lehtful, restful, interesting sumer ah where, Bese of all, yena'l have Enis co pete phaner? And In that featare is the real pede of vacntens. Ak any rilroad further infmerniay beefy. Special, low-rate, round trip fares befpinning Moy lach—Aio nore Wor Tax, Flan now for-thie summer, Lee the Jomily have this HP ke ch Lie and pTenr trip All-Yeur Club of Sautherr California Deep AP-200, Le Aaerles, Call Aer Cheha! Suchen Celfernie | Lirpt. 30-205, Clumber ul Commerce Ble Las Angcles, Calf Tease srr Waralh tt: 5 infortuiiaen ole, nh Peeretant Laid LD ie hove herr Z oy Bs set — - a aT = ee ae f f | tt fi ) Hithactions: te an ideal : Aumervca's An amazing summer- | vier oftce for ee ly of fal Qi fH tis if

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Why should th got Had it not been foreorda that they prt act the news here, before it ~ ton Inte? F miles more and they. had loat fh, A ak earlier and they would not have known It for a year. Go to Oregon and plow? Why not go te California and dig in a day what « plow ow would carn in a Call it stubbornness or steadfastness, at last Jesse Wingate’s strength of reaolu- See asiiad cn wencpaie te balaick , Oe # ‘ SLi. & Ag out for Oregon in the council with his aing. y stood near the Wingate wagon, the same which had earried him inte Indiana, thence into Dlinels, now this far on the long way to Oregon. Old and gray waa are om as he colled his wagon, by int ground from felly, spoke ad fo "the aldes dunt covered, tha tilt dis- figured and discolored. He at the time-worn, sturdy frame with somethin akin to wifeection. The spokes were w to hold them tight, the rima were bound with hide, worn away at the edges where the tire gave no covering, the tires had been riseb again aod again, He shook the pear- eat wheel to teat it. “Yea,” said he, “we all show wear, Eut I soe little use in changing a lon ones made in a man's best sober j nt. For me, I don't think all the world bas been changed overnight “Oh, well, now," domanded Kelsey, his nornaul "Kentuck key blood ood daminant, “mo wee holding to any plan just for aake of doing it. If something betber comes, why not toke it? That stands to renson. Carre out here to better curtelves. These men have done in six months what you and Imi ht not do in ten years in y'd guide us thr ta C eral; aol he went on. “Weve no guide to Sn al say that the part from b i rom. here on i the wena drier and drier, and in Places very rough. And the two fords of the Snake—well, I for one wish we were acroas them. That's o big Titer, and a bad one. And if we ercsaed the Blue Mountaina all right, there's the Cascades, worse than the Blu Wea, and no Known trail for baby tient “Tl moy ae to leave my w ona, Jess Wingate, “but Uf I do I aim to See them as close to the Willamette Valle has I can. I came out to farm. t California. How about you, Hall? What do your neighbors say ?"" Much as Price says, ‘They're worn out and scared, They've been Falcinay about the Snake crossings ever anee we left the Sodalfprings. want to awitch for Cali- fornia. A good many others would like to go back e—if they thought they'd ever get there!" “But we've got te decide,” urged Win- gate, “Can we count on thirty wagons to go through? Others have got through in a» seagon, and ao can we if we atick. ioe tT" His hesitant glance at his staunch trail friend's face decided the latter. "Tl stick for Oregon!" eatd Caleb Price, “T've got my wife and children along. I want my donation Innda,"* re Halli?" ll go with " gald Hall, the third Bian ader, “Like to try a whirl in California, Lat theres ao much gold there, next year'll Ll wont my lands" “Why, there's ei ten thousand peo ple in Oregon by now, or will be next year," rll aay pe ie be iTuiLy’ AOL Ww uh LE Bn. h a territory, some thme, And It's free! Not like ‘Texas and all this new Mexican land just coming in a a treaty, What de you say, finally, Belo @ Latter eee tobacco for aor time. “You pat it to me hard to answer," said he, “ Auriy ane: of ws'd like tar ‘try Californian, It will open faster than Oregon if all this geld news is true. Maybe ten thousand reople will come out next year, for all we aw: “Yea, with picks and shovels," anid Jee Wingate. “Did ever you see pick af shovel boii a country? Dad ever you see qteel traps make or hold ane? Cregon's ours becuse we went oul five yeara ago with Wagons and plows—we all know that. Na, | friends, waterways never held a country. May 3, 22 Noe path ever held on a river—that's for exploring, not for farming. Tio hold a omin- try you need wheels, you need a plow, I'm ye ci bees * admitted Kieiery ou pul vt strong,"* admit’ E “But the only thing that helde me bark from California ie the ae we foor rade to each other when we Oter train's fallen » little by yhule I I'm ole Enintucky. e don't moe back, and we keep our ciel: We four sald we'd go through. an stand by that. I"m a man Imperiously as th he were Pizarro’s Lf, drew'n Une In che dust of the tri, “Who's for Oregon?" he shouted: agala demanded, as silence fell, "This side for And Kelaey of Kentucky, man af bu word, turned the stam definitely. Wingate, hia three frienda: a little group, augmenting, forQreg women the children steed aloof —aunbonneted women, brown, some with new-born trail babes in arms, silent as they always stood. Across from the Ciregon & stood almost 1s men, for the most part unmarried, who had not given host to fortune, and from resol for California, A cheer arose rom “Who wants my plow!" demanded a stalwart farmer from Indiana, more than fifteen hundred miles from his last home. ay brung her this fur into this dameed desert. [ll trade her for a shovel and er ane more try for my folke back one.” He loosed the wires which had bound the implement to the tail of hia wagon all these weary miles. It fell to the ground and be left it there, “To some Ehinktag, rrr, patory count your gold and dre rine Dg don't last, but the aoil does. A is the Humboldt Desert, There's no cg ne wagon Toad over the mountains if you get that far. The road down Mary's River ig a real gamble with death. Men can go through and make roads—vea: but where are the women and the children to stay? Think twice, men, ahd more than twiec:!* Win be spoke solemnly. all out! Roll out!" mocked the mas who had abandened his plow, “This way far Callferny!" The council ended [mn turmail, where hitherto had been no more than a sedate daily syatem, Routine, become custom, gave way to restless movement, excited armument, Of all these hundredsa now e- cam on the sandy sagebrush plain ia the high desert there was mot an individ- dal whe was not affected in one way of an- other by the news from Califarnia, and in most cases it sl tlie some sort of personal derision practically upon the mo ment. oO uaee argued with their wives heat. edly: women gathered in groupe, weeping. The stoic calm of the Mec, swept away in a sort of hysteria whi seemed to upaet all their world medi ita old values. Whether for Oregon or California, a ree olution in prices was worked overnight fo every purchiae of aupplies. Flour, horse tools, everything merchantable, ‘doable and more thun doubled. Some fifty wagom in all now formed train for California which, in addition ta the long Line of poe animals, left the Sangamon caravan, » called, at best litth more thon half wha ft had been the day before, ‘The men with cut families made up most of the Californ in. The gl for California, by force ¢ habit, etl went among the wagons afi urged the old argumenta againg the savage tritees on ahead, che | forks din desolation of the land, the wast and dag gerous rivers, the certainty of starvatio on the way, the risk of arriving after winky had eet in on the Cascade Range—all cual tera of which they themselves apoke b hearsay. All the great West was then a knewn. Moreover, Fort Hall ams a natu division paint, as quite often = third of wagons of a train mi ae arth fornia even before t ol ous Wingate and his panna he he Oregon immigration for that yeur, ev Beacionpped ae now, ultimately would inte thousands, Tt was mid-morning of the next bl day when he beckoned his men to him. Let's pull owt,’ he said, "Why for the Californians te move? Feri po with us across the Snake. “Towel : the wore Eis loupe we lie bere, ard Wapons are two late now." (tonitinoed on Poge FF)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 135 oe Eee Bring Your Car Up on Havoline The enjoyment you obtain from your sew car when it has become an o/@ car depends very largely upon the lubrication its motor receives during the first 500 miles of running. ‘To insure a happy old age for the youngster, feed tt Havotine Off and don't drrve ever 25 nels an hour. Hi iWoline has been giving new cars a proper start in life since the days when side baskets were part of a car's necessary equipment. lt has grown up with the automobile. Havoline engineers have enjoyed the unique opportunity of studying problems of lubrication during the years in which the single eylinder motor has developed into the four, the six, EWin six, and eight. That they have profited by the oppor. tunity ts attested by the unsurpassed quality of Havoline Oil, You can get no better lubricant for your car, The better dealers throughout the country sell Havoline. You can buy it from the quart measure or can as you prefer. Look for the Havoline Sign, Ask for Havoline, There is a grade which will exactly meet the requirements of your motor. INDIAN REFINING COMPANY Ineorporwied New York Branch affices in 158 cuties AVOLINE OIL

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136 You believe in paint—but do you paint? THE SATURDAY OU may intend to paint—later. The place looks pretty good yet, and you think another year won't matter. But decay feeds upon the property of those who may believe in painting but who put off doing it. Paint saves the surface only when applied, and then only when it is the kind of paint that saves. For every surface inside and out- side your home there is a Sherwin- Williams finish—a paint, varnish, stain or enamel—that is made ex- actly right for such a surface. These finishes are scientifically made from Pure materials and their reliability has been proved over a period of 55 years. See the Sherwin-Williams dealer near you. SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PropucrTs PAINTS ano VARNISHES EVENING POST May 15, 1977 The cost of neglect The pictures, from actual photographs, tell the story Mrs. Eleanor Weeks of Mattoon, Wisconsin, writes: “Enclosed you will find pictures of two houses and a true descnp tion of both. “They were built at about the game time and on the same street. “One was kept in repair and painted every two or three year. It looks like a new house still. ™ The other has never had but one coat of paint. The outside boands are dried and cracked and the mus has soaked in, rotting the wood and causing the two parts of the build- ing to separate. It appears to be twenty-five years older than the other house and rents for just half the money." Send 60 cents (65 centein Canada) for The Home Parnting Manual, the most ox plete work on pointing ever ooenpaled. 170 pages of text; 27 color plate pages. Sent Pree,— Set of aght color plates, show- ing meders effecta in bateriar decoration and attractive combinations for cove Co..601 Canal Read, 6. W. Clheweland, Ghis 14 . : Tae Mao Red.

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permenant vane 134} The others ut there waa now fethe train organization. The peal beta val, “Cateh up! Cuteh up!" heard. The group, the family, the vadivich ol sow began to show again. But after ier leaders come, one after another, rat- tling, faded wagons, until the dusty ges that ed out meroas the gage flats tenancy stretched out for over a balf taile, with yet other vehicles falling in behind. Silent and grim were young and old now over this last defeetion. "About that old man Greenwood," sald Molly Wingate ae daughter a5 they eat om the same jolting seat, "I don't know abot kim. saw elders bn the church with sl araee as long and waite Fit yan but you ter wabch your hog pen. For Tider kes ia It like enough | is troe be weed to live back in the Rockies in Ieyun times, and he may be eighty-five sare old, aa he fete Bian! ers California may ah wordlerfiol be, the way he eayny tol gome things T can’t believe. “He says, 1OW, aH knows a man out in Puteri a He ee who waa two ty years age und he had i let at af money, gold and ailver, he'd fet cutol the mountains, Greenwonl = e's knows led and sileer. for nel. Well, this Spanish man had role: ive that wanted his Property, and he'd rade a will and beft it to them; but he recidn't die, the climate was so good, 5a ti folks allowed maybe if they aent him ta ipain.on Ste leas die and then they'd pt ibe p raperty legal. Bo he went, and iB did ibe: t he orders for his b the sent back te California to be buri to wien his ¥ came they buried him i in “‘difermia, the way he asked—so Green Bat aT hea get hi ti “That they is property? Not at i! The old Spanish man, almost as soon she wes buried in California dirt, he come elife again! He's alive to-day out there, ad thit man Greenwood = he" = a ane eral hi and he knows nurse, if that's trwe vou eat Bis aything about what a wonderful country ‘ators it But for one, [ ain't right ue, Maybe not everybody who gors to lalfornia is going te find a mountain af tier ive to be three hundred years old! “But ta think, Molly? ere you thi away back to Laramie! Well, if the cota hen started there “stead of here here’d be deal e now back of us wren there i now. That old man Bridger ad you—why? And how could you keep gecretT™ “Tt was for Will,” ame Molly simply. Thad given him up, 1 told him te iliformia and forget me, and to live things wo. Don"t chide me any more, I tried imarry the man you wanted me to marry ated. I'm "Tie Orepon—te pial teach school. never, never marry— ut’: gettled gt lost es got a letter from Sam Woodhull Yes f did “Hubt Doe he eall that settled? Is he ing to California to forget you and live ings down?" “He gaya not. I don't care what he Fi. “He'll be back." "Spare hia journey! It will do him no * _ The Indian did me a kindness, I “Wel anyways, they're both off on the me journey lel Sib whe anil what or uch? The three hun is ald before they ime a mountain of 7 But to think—I had T chunk of but didn“ fd right i in mo own han ewit! The same gold my mother's wed- ig ting was made of, that waa mine. It's ht thin now, child, You could of made out of that lump, like enow "T'll newer need one, mother,” eaid Molly ingate, e girl, weeping, eer pal arms abou F mother" neck. “You ak why I kept ! secret, even then. He kissed me, ithet—and he was o thief!" “Yea, Lkenow, A man he just steals o I's heart owt through her lipa. Yore paw o¢ that way with me once. Git up, in! You, Daisy! “And fram that time om,” she oclded pine, “I been trying to forget. him and ve him down" EEKFIE IHREE days out from Fort Hall the Vanguard of the remnant af the train, tthan a fourth of the original number, THE SATURDAY saw leaning a gnarled sagebrush a box ae whi "had scrakvled upon it in straggling letters one word—""California,” re now were ta part the pick and the Tn Eri paling his gaunt horse, rifle horn, hal for the head of the tr train to cull even with him. “This here's Cosela Creek,’ said he. “Yan's the trail down Raft River to the Humboldt a acrost the Bierrys to Cali- forny, A long, dry jump hit is, by all accounta. The Oregon Foad poet on clown the Snake. Hit's Tonger, if not ae dry.” Small invitation offered in the physical mipect of either path, The journey had be- eome intermina The unspeakable Ti aia i whose only variant = smothered the spark of hope an interest. The allurément af mysbery ad wholly boat its charm. The train halted for some hours. Once “Last chance for Califor . men," * anid old Jim Bri * calmly. Oe eee the tracks? Here's Greenwood comein. Yan's where Wroodhull's nmi deft, the rood. i a a lat airackna'Haclon's mules, "T wonder," he added, “why thar hain" ary letter left fer none 6° us here ot the forks o' the read.” He did pot know that, left in a tin at the foot of the board sign certain days earlier, there had rested a letter addressed to Mins Molly Wingate. It never waa to reach her. Sam bicep rept pie inten i ie ea irag, anperet and Trad iE, he hm himeelf of exacter knowledge: than ever be- fore of the relations of Banion and Mall Wingate, Bitter as had been his ha before, it new was venomeus, He lived thenceforth no mere in hope of golel than of reven The decision for or against California wae sonvething for serious weighing now at the last hour, ane it aff the fortune and the future of 2 man, Woman and child in all the train. Never a furrow was Plewed fn carky Oregon bat ran bt bones and blood; and never a dollar was dug in old in Californin—or ever gained in gold anv man—which did not cost two in somet. stg else but gold, Twelve wagons pulled out of the trail silently, ane alter another, and took the winding trail that led to the left, to the weet ami south, Others watched therm, tears in ther eyes, for some were friends, Alone on her cart aeat, here at the fate ful parting of the ways, Molly Wingate aat with a letter clasped im her hand, frank bears standing in her eyes, [tb wa no new yap te har beark rain an ere Pa F to her li then tat arm's length before bee li the diren en ot af ag far land which eamewhere beld its “Oh, God keap you, Willl” she said in her heart, and almost mudibly. “Qh, God give you fortune, Will, and bring you back to mel" But the 0 more anc held t hey? mye ond one cump, for Bridger urged haste, he caravan course mow raat along the great valley of the Snake, The giant Teds af the river in ita cafions they could only wagons closed up once thesatep nok being guess. They heard of tremendous falls, of | gorges through which no boat could poss, vwugue pumora of days of earlier exploration: but they kept to the high plateaus, dipping down tothe crossings eek many sharp streams which in the first month their Journey Haid would have called impassable time. They were averaging now mo& twenty miles daily, bot no more than half that, and Beason Was advancing. It was fall. Back home the wheat woul be in stack, the edges of the corn would be seared, with frost, The vast abundance of game t had ci hi all along now ares Sonwe Ta zines a few sage se, nightly coyote: —tha made ll, & savages who now hung on thelr flanka lacked the stature and the brave trappings of the buffalo plainsmen, They lived on horse meat and salmon, so the momar came. Now their environment took bald of the Pacific, They had boft the East wholly behind. On the salmon rin they eould count on food, nat so good aa the buffalo, but better an pion green Sale Sy nists, Uaeate hg, aoopling, adjusting, pPrevwwing, Le * went an day atterdary filts' miles, undredl, two hundred. ut always m1 de uneadiness pervaded, hn croesing of the Snake lay on ahead. The moody Fiver hed coat upon them oa feeling of awe, | a EVENING POST They a: are not Keds unless the name Keds i is on ile Shoe One of the newest Keda for women and GF cri/- ored trimming. Welt consiroction, comnpo- girls, White adticen seal. 137 ——— Sturdy sport shoes, wih or without feels. AHearr reinforcements and onkle patch. Smoofh, Garru- gated or auction sole. They not only brought comfort —they created a new national habit One of the coat pop- wiar all-purpose Kes. For street, hoame, sport, High or fow, Srles for avaeryora. The pessimists said it couldn't be done, but facts show they were wrong! The big development of Keds, with a canvas rubber-soled shoe for everybody and for every need, has changed the summer footwear habits of a nation. Tt is the most astonishing growth in the history of American footwear. Light, cool, casy-fitting, Keds let feet cramped by months of stiff shoes return to their natural form and breathe. And then Keds have a snap in their lines and finish which makes them popular even on the verandas of exclusive clubs. Why it will pay you to insist on Keds Back of every pair of Keds are the skill and ¢x- perience of the oldest and largest rubber orgenien- tion in the world—grower, monufoecturers ond distriboters of rubber and ite products, Uppers of fine white or colored canvas—soles of fica eds reas wet pecsetok es aero ene ta tia Ss make you prow ELT DP Pear ence oa well as enthusiastic about ther comfert and wear. There are many different kinda of Kets—ligh and low, plain and athletic-trimmed—astyles for gutdoons, for home, for every kind of sport. You can get the kind you wish at your dealer's. If he haen‘t them, be will get them for you. But Temember, Reds are mace only by the United States Rubber Company. If the name Keds isn’t oe the ahece, they aren't real Keds, United States Rubber Company Keds Tridemrk Arg. 0!. 2. Pot. Te Aed: were eriginaied gad are made ofp by the Qhadted States Rubber Company. The nome Keds ds ow eoery pair, ff is poor pears enter of quality and evalu,

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138 THE SATURDAY © CHEE © CE) 6 CUE) 6 CWE 6 Cl.) «6 Ir a Thisery Mak fomilliooe k Soot Dinsue 1 a eoetie four tert bey Graber meted tt ie fumyot hands nd fect, Mo other rourel io like Scotus. /Thyi ib | a cs kK Thirsty pre ! ecu ! Teele Bat Reg, UH. 8 ore OM, ond eerie Comets OT LL a TS a a : HYSICALLY clean hands have al- ways been associated with the thought of morally clean ones and the Scott Paper Company has devoted years to making physically clean hands easier to attain. ScotTissue Towels are synonymous with cleanliness. The drying qualities of Scot Tissue have been accomplished through Thirsty Fibre —the medium that gives ScotTissue and ScotTissue Towels alone that most distinctive, thirsty, absorbent characteristic so essential to a real drying towel. Aside from its great drying power, you can be sute of agenuine ScotTissue Towel only by the imprint of the word SCOTTISSUE on every ScotTissue Towel. If the towel you use is not imprinted SCOTTISSUE, it is not genuine. Thirsty Fibre— His Biography, il delightful booklet, will be sent free to all who ask for it, SCOTT PAPER COMPANY Cheser, Pa. Mew York Philadelphia Chicogo San Francisco Stoffi issue owels Gs.r ce, i | @ CHEE © CHEE 6 CUE) © CUE) 6 CUE © CUD © CHEE) 6 CHL 6 CUE) 6 CWE) © CEG) 6 CO 6 | two midstream tlands, | Fiders waded in, | trembling beneath them, Eridger, | of fast fords, followed the bar u | not pasaed the las | heavy cattle im first! | the hank, | dragned the othere through! EVENING POST Around the sage fires at night ths facplinn | talked of littl: else but t the fo rd of the | Snake, two days beyond the Made Falls. It was momning when the wagons, well drawn together now, at last turned dawn the precipitous decline which took them from the high plateau to the water level. ache a — was called. Bridger took full ch inn The formidnble enterprise con- eg te ae was one of the real dangers % othe ‘wean waters of the great nver were divided at this ancient ford by which gecounted for the selection of the epot for the daring meeay of a bridgeless and bowtleas crossing, There was something mockingly relenthera in the strong rippling current, which out off more than a guess at the actual depth. There was ne ferry, no boat nor means of miking one, Tb was not even possible te shore up the wagon beds so they might be dry. One thing sure was that if ever oa wagon was awept below the crogsing there could be no hope for ie, a others had erosed here, and even now a certain rough chart existed, handed | down from these. Time now for a leader, mtn now wore thankful for the pres- ante of aman whe had seen this crossing made, The old seout held back the company leaders and rode into the stream alone, step by step, scanning the bottom. Hoe found it firm. He saw wheel marks on the fret rae a horse, fy ato isd them las, aire staggering y fel oe out WAY. Belly-deep and pussable— Bridger turned and =f te a wide orm. The foremost wagons came on to the edge. The men now mounted the wagon soats, two to each wagon. Flankers drove up the loose cattle, for their turn later. Men rede on each side the lead yoke of oxen te bold them steady on their footing, Wingate, Price, Kelasy and Hall, bold men and well mounted, taking thia work on themscives, The plunge onet made, they gat to the first island, all af them, without trouble. Hut a dizzying flood lay on ahead to the second wheel-marked island in the river. | To look wt the rapid surfaen was to Lose all sense of directlon. But again the gaunt horse of the scout led owt, and again the their devoted Staab stadent renm., channel offered angling with it, till a dee nd. Unable ta cen him and the | evade this, he drove inte jt, and his gallant | mount breasted up and held ite feet all the why BCross., thing could be done! Jim Bridger ealely turned and waved to the wagons to come Of — the first island. “Koop them jeat whar we was!" he called back to Hall and Kelsey, who had t atif water, “Put the Hit maybe won't swim them, If the stuff geta wet we can't help that. Tell the womern bit's all right.’ 4 Sie Bees cine in eee eep in the . plun thr waber broken by their knees; saw theo first wagons lead off and crawl out upstream, | slowly and. safely, tll within reach of hia veiee, Molly now was in the main wagon, aod her brother Jed wes driving. Between be ‘ines af wets horsemen the draft omen advanced, f ing the wigons, strung cut, but all holding their faoting in the green water that broke white on the upper dide of the wagons. A vast MUP MULL Toar came up from the water | thus retarded, They made their way to the edge of the deep channel, where the cattle stood, breasts subm Bridger rose in his stirrups and shouted, “Git in thar! Come on through!" They plunged, wallowed, staggered: Lut the lead yokes saw where the ford climbed made for it, caught footing, agon after wagon made it safe. It was desperate, but, being done, these matter- af-fact folk wasted no time in maining of what might have happened, They were safe, anc the ford thus far was established So that the athers need mot fear. But on alvead lay what they all knew was | the real danger—the bast channel, three hundeed yards of racing, heavy water which apparently no sane man ever would have faced, ut there were wheel marks on the farther shore. Here ran the read te Ori , The dauntless old seout rode in again, alone, bending to study the water and the May 13, 1977 footing. A gravel bar led off far a en of rods, flanked by deep potholes, Te rods out the bar turned. He follewei » up, foot by foot, for twenty rods, quarter. ing. Then he struck wut for the shore, bottom was hard, yes; but the har we crooked, with Bra ering Wa bet oe either hand, with potholes ten fer den and more all alongside. Amd worst of ql) there was a vast seecp of heavy Wale fe low the ford, which meant destrgrtiog ged death for any wagon carried down, Wel fa ie crowns a pperernal ands its sini Teputation. Courage and care alo could give any man saufe-condict here, The women and children, erying, sat ir the wagons, watching Bridger TetPace the ford. Once his stumbling horse swam, but caught footing. He joined them, vey Berbis. “It's fording, men," said Tre, “but she's mean, she shore is mean. Double We all the teams, yoke in every logee on and po six yoke on cach wagon, oF they'll get swe: down, shore’s bell, Some of them will hod the others ifiwe have enough. I'll go ehead and [ want riders all along the tewms, above and below, to hold them to the line. Hit can be did—hit's wicked water, but hit cin tee did, Don't wail—alwaye losep thing movin'.”* By this time the island was packed wth the loou cattle, which had followed th: won, much of the time swimming. They were lowing moaningly, in terrer—a grue some thing to hear, beanies culled to Price's oldest by driving Molly's cart, “Tie on hind 1h big wagon with a long Fope, an" den't drive in tell you see the fust two woke abes holdin’. Then they'll drag you throug: anyhow. Hang ante the eart whatever happens, but if you do get in, keep oj stream of any aninmile that's swimmin’. “All set, men? Come oheod He led off again at last, “ee the teams were doubled and the loads had py pila high as posite to them ary. Ten wagons were left behind, it being needful to drive back, over the roaring channal, some af the doubled heawy teams for there They made it well, foot by foot, tbe eattle sometimes swimming gently. coal pent as the line curved m under the ney marasts but always enough holding sik the team anfe. “The horsemen tole loner de, exhorting, agturing. It war u va rolief bps at the last gravel stretet i dpa inn wel backs of the corr me big once mare "Tl go back, Jesae," anid Kelsey, the man whe had wanted to go to California “T' ge silt you," added " go with you," young fed Wingate, climbing down from his wag sient and demanding his saddle horse, which he nuwnted bare-backecl, It was they two who dircwe: and led the pe back to repeat the crossing with the remaining wigons, Those on tk bank watched them anxiously, for th) drove straighter acrass ta save time, and were carriod below the trail on the istant But they came out laughing, and the oe were rounded up once more ond doullel in, 80 that the last of the train wae reader "That's a fine mare of Kelsey's,” suc Wingate to Caleh Frice, who with him was watching the daring Kentuckian at 5 work on the downetream amd more denge- aus nie ef the linked teams. “She'll f an pe nodded, ansiously regarding te laboring advance af the last wagons, “Too light,” said he, “1 started with a ton and a half on the National Pike ace Ohio and Indiana. 1 doubt if we avene five hundred now. They ford light.” "Look!" he cried suddenly, and pointed. They all ran te the brink. "The hore were trying to satay the drift of the line el cattle, They had worked low and mee footing. Many were swimuming—the =2t- one were afloat! The tired lead cattle had mot been ats to withstand the preseure of the ber) bard a second time, They were off th’ ord But the riders fram the shore, Jed by Jie Bridger, got to them, caught m rope aroune a horn, dragged them inte lime, dragged th whole gaunt team to the edge and sarc the day for the lead wagon. The other caught and held their footing, labor through, But a shout arose, Persons ran do=7 the bank, pointing. A. hundred yards low the ford, in the foll current of (# Snake, the lean head of Roelses's mare 2a (Contiqued on Page fal!

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—_ Se ee THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Save the Money That Now Goes Into the Scrap Heap Rust is waste. By materially shortening the life of your rainspouts and flashings, plumbing pipe and pipe fittings, your roof, your screens and your hardware, rust heaps high the scrap heap— at your expense. Copper and Brass permanently resist rust and are therefore truly Everlasting. Copper and Brass give you generations of expense-proof service. Substitutes give you trouble, repairs, upkeep and renewals. No matter how you paint, plate or gal- vanize ordinary metal, nature will have its way—and the result is rust and ruin. Copper and Brass are cheaper— you pay for them only ONCE SUBSTITUTES IN SHEET METAL When leaders and gutters and other sheet metal shapes are mot made of Copper they must be replaced every few years. The plategraph ahows what hoppers to them. They are o hardy perennial expense. Copper faata as Jong as fhe a8. 138 SUBSTITUTES IN’ PLUMBING The rust that quickly forma in sub- sthtutes cloga the pipe, cots boles end couses beaks, necessitating mc- pairs and replacements, Brass per- manenarly rmeafaia ruar. = / suBSTITUTES oma IN HARDWARE Unesightly streaks of rust, soiled paint, spect! dissatisfection and early renewal -these are the marks of plated, imita- tien hordware. Meal Brass or Bronze hordware Jools ad wears well, mot fora few spontha burt forever. SUBSTITUTES IN SCREENING Ordinary metal rusts even if you paintit yearly and insects find even the anal holes. Wher you have Capper er Bronze screening there #5 mo painting, mo re- newals, and there da mo paint- clogged meah. SUBSTITUTES IN ROOFING Note the rotted wood around the rusty nail, Tf you must use weed shingles, Copper o¢ Brose nati will prevent this form of roof disease. But the economical way is bo have mn all-Copper rool, Mo paint, no patch- ing, nO peptrashink no replacements, wher you we For Home Builders — FREE COPPER AND BRASS RESEARCH ASS'N | Building Service Dept. : | 25 Broadway, N.Y. -OPPER anp BRASS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION | poFiease rend me without charge my copy of your | | 25 Broadway, New York hea ~ ! | r Address. — — - | ———_—_ SS Se

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140 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Neglected Inch” —the inch between the furniture and the floor You decide the life of your floors by the Casters you use *S the inch between the furniture and the floor where the casters belong that determines the life and beauty of your floors and floor coverings. Scarred, marred floors and torn rugs result from neglecting that inch. You push a bed and the casters refuse to swivel; you push harder, forcing the bed to move, dragging the casters broadside across the floor—you know the result: big, unsightly scratches on the floor, strained joints in the bed, all because the casters were neglected. You cannot afford to be without the proper Bassick Casters on your furniture. The saving to your floors and furniture which they make possible during their first week of use pays their cost many times over. By their superior rolling and swiveling qualities they protect your floors and floor coverings, and add years to the life of your furniture. They make housework easier. Go over your furniture today and find out just where you need Bassick Casters. If your dealer cannot supply you, write us for the name of one who can. Your investment in Bassick Casters is an invest- ment in good floors, long lived and easy moving furniture. Bassi ick May 13, tg73 ate sy i : For th has Ca st e S ines ean ae hi eee coetar tha Agree, offiew, THE BASSICK COMPANY Reipétat, ware: BRIDGEPORT, CONN. @ The Mesick Company. Brkteroom., Conn,

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= (fated from Poge 258! fit. ewimming hard, and ateadily being geeptdownstream ina current which awung aff shore below the ford. “He's all ght!" called Jed, wet to the peck. aitting his own wet mount, safe ashore it last. “He's ew - toa, They'll make it, sore! Come on[" tis sartad of ata gallop downstream the share, his eyes - an the teo ioe chert, now steadily lasing distance aT en But old Jim Bridger put his bands acres his eyes and turned away his fice. Heknew! it wea now pps to all ¢hat yonder a qillent man and a gallant hore were mak- ing a Geht for life. The grim river had thera In its grip at lark. fe es moment the tremendms power of ihe beavy water had one Kelary and his hore far belerar the ford CUErent there wes ewilter, noisier, as though exaltant in the mccain the scheme the river all along ba proposed, jo 6 the vietime, the tragic a bt vent om in silence. If the man call bear him above the rush anal eg had ans they saw the white rallera bury the ino heads of the horse and the man, while (9 mt of the eurrent steadily carried them 2 the ahore. It waa only miracle could-see the mire ‘a muzzle flat, ee toward the of it, up- cram, Uie head of the man. Whichever teln had decided, it was evident that the imal waa stiking life to reach the shore tom whieh tt hod swept away. Far out in midstream some conformation di the bottom turned the current nee more na long slant shoreward, A murmur, 2 ab of fund of packed slong he shore broke out a the two dots came deer, lar below, More than a quarter of a cit downstream a sand point made out, ering a sort of beach where for some pact a landing might ied made. Could the alist maremake thiapeint? Menclenched tei hands. Women began to sob, to moan "When with a shout Jed Wingute tarned ighore and set off at top down the bore some followed him. The horses and ma, left alone, fell into confusion, the fins tangled. One or two teams made fata run inte the desert. But these ungs were nothing. Thee behind hoped Jed would not try fy facut in that flood. Molly stood ringing ber hands. The ‘es mother ran praying audibly. The voice of Jim “ Trose in an Indian chant. It was e deal! They aw the gallant mare plunge wp, ck and shoulders and body rhing aa ber et found bettor a few yards out from or. She stewd free of the water, safe on a hig: stood etill, looking back af ker and en. But no man rose te hia helghe oc ae: There wos only one figure on They saw Jed fling of; saw him ran and aon, lifting something long and heavy im the water. Then the mare stumbled ay. At length she lay down quintly. & never rome. "the was standing mig ‘he here," said Jed the others came. ri Smad hold of ie ma at tight To eouldn't bh nd, He ra Ree Wig At ae ine hit naan He was layin ter, hangin that kept fhe —_— to the reins, from washing in oe THE SATURDAY They made some rude and unskilled at- | tempt at resuscitation, but had neither knowledge nor confidence, Perhaps some. where cut yonder the atrain had been too t; perhaps the sheer terror had braken the heart of both man and horse. The mare suddenly began to tremble as she lay, her nagtrila apt tg ert in fri a she died, after n the — hand ne her Treg Ther buried ghee a Kentucky—flew knew im othervise—=on o hillock by the road at the first fording place of the Snake. They broke out the top board of another | tail gate, and with a hot j iron burned in ona more tecord of the “Robt. Kelawy, Ky, ee Scpet. T, ago cut out the lettering, 1848. A brave pean. pa, sand me ‘abe a ett ang ago the paseo a. But there lay, for a long time known, Kel- sey of Kentucky, a brave man, whe kept his promise and did not rue back, but whe never saw either California or 0 “Catch up the stock, men," said Tine Wingate du y, alter a time. “Let's leave this place Loads were repacked, broken gear ad- justed. Inaide the hour the silent gray wagon traln held on, leaving the waters to give shriving. The voice of the river rose and fell mournfully behind them in the changing aira “LT knowed hit!" sald old Jim Bridger, now falling back from the lead and break- ing of his Indian dirge. “I knowed all dong the Snake'd tuke somebody—she dia every time. This mornin’ I gee tee ravens that few acrost the trail ahead. Yesterday I seed a rabbit settin' squar’ in the truil. I thought hit wns me the river wanted, but she's done teok a younger an’ a better man." “Man, man," exclaimed stout-hearted Molly Wingate, “what for kind of 2 equn- try have ¥ou brought us women tot One more thing like that and my nerve's gone. Tell. me, is this the last bad Tiver? And when will we gee bo “Don't be aakeeredd, ma'am, " rejoined Bridger, “A accident kin happen ariy- wheres. Hit's a month on to Oregon, whar all hended. Same fords on abead, yee: to ercea back to the south side the Snake axa ' with 7 “Buk you'll go on us, won't you?” os poeung el Molly Wingate, the the cattle wt the foot of lava cut ulape Bridger looked at the young girl for a time in si ence, pam m off my country, Mi Baise, I ain't never been. turn back here an" git back home afore the winter come, Ain't [ did enough fer But he hesitated. There waa a ey light on the worn old face, in the sunken ae oye. “Ye wank me to go on, Miss Molly?" “Tf you eould it would be a comfort to me, a Protection to us all,” "Is hit so! Miss Molly. ye kin talk @ al'=time man out'n hia last pelt! But sence ye do want me, I'll ial al wong a leetle | ware furtherer with ¥R. a good fight is spoiled pi did "i it's goin” to comet cut. 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If you are asked to dinner it is either in payment of a like obligation or you are entertaining. here are other nemeaons. Still, Glenn Thenamy didn't think he'd go. Besides, an Saat ae oe bong, to wait for supper —he couldn aE enil roca after bapa oh inner, Mortis Coner ht he Wal wr ie “Either yom would be a circus for the others or ane wouldn't understand what sar! were talking about." henumy wae conscious of a awift re sentient. at tie ohjected instinctively te the that he could be found merely ridiculous, and to Caner's disparagement of | oe ‘a invitation. Ups of it like that,” he said formally, rou a ey iit mind. A A ran can't here—and stay away. TIES! A0 Caner spoke cheerfully. “It may Interest you; certainly it wi be dif- ferent from anything vou are apt to have S000, hg hae is, You are so proper that I wanted will b blushes. talk, bo put it ently. ‘ly, be free—the talk and the lace ateckings. wag ™ pk a baby! Thenamy sounded ia tra laughable ta contradict you, of course," Klorris asserted; “hut in a great Tmeny ears ae art exactly that, a you aa Reh the time arrived for Glenn to go in to the Hemings’ he was suddenly aware that clothes different from those he had with him would beexpected. He was genuinely distressed, and explained his difficulty to Morris Caner with rueful curses. "That doren't matter with the Hem- ings,” Morris reassured him. “You are doing them an injustice. Whatewer may be said of them, ay are not superficial in a sere of Used onaiptiou ously was, Glenn ae early. The drawing-room was empty but for | igaeslt, Tt was twenty minutes Ava Hemin He greeted her aie and then once more conducted his where. Positively, be thoughe, it Was eran like a mocting with one of those comic- opera girls right off the stage. James, he was told, would be down in a minute, “T don't know if you’ aa like the pecpls I've asked ta cae 0 rt jus see vigorously, “einee th your friends.” ines Shey Sere "she cried, “what could ae you suppose that? They are pathine of the sort! Tt weld be too dull. bia hate ther all, all bot ce Pking mbes I detest, and Vida—you'll ha me what you think of her—and dig: Ronald, They are terrible pecple. Leva Ronald can't be trusted with—with a bread twist, Yet, don't you seo, they amuse me. The whole situation has what you might call a kiek “Don't pay boas much attention ta Ava," me in pe Abed ted how aie are Wi feere Ip no reason why 1 shou James Becing st in the doorway. he's shifty little eplke hidden in her band too." Thema. Th oc ae nm he wis, rf ted, that he was totally indifferent. AU that he said, all his impatient movements, were perfunctory; they covered o totally other preaeeupation. was, and in the pa spare hard way, aa personable as his Gienn could plaindy see what Morrla Caner had meant by “sullen.” Hemi was more than that—he was sultry: an yet his evident hot temper was at the same time eold: a combination that hod made hie fighting skillful and dangerous, The Ronalds came next—an emaciated man with a face and boir almoat equally gray, and fingers that seemed aa fragile as the dried atema of When he spoke there were no signa of animation, af recog: nition, in his voier of an his face. Mra. onald, who was small and aa pale a her husband, was, of the contrary, filled with a kind of rasping vitality, She talked a great deal, in a loud unsssuring voice, cleorly regarding Glenn Thenamy ws on acyuigitlen te her experience af people. She asked at once how long he would be with Morris, explaining that she wanted Glenn for dinner. He told her, however, EVENING POST WASPS (Coattined from Page 7) with a polite sentence of regret, that he ‘Privately ‘Mr Kentu immediately. bei rs, Ronald almost terrified pes the dark emptiness of some cellar She stood so close to him and gazed so directly into his eyes that gee rained embarrassed, and rg a him suddenly bh how he led he penanaet and, aware of its phate} fragrance, he said that it-was “hire. Ronald —e theory about scent," Ava bape te told him, “She thinks nd it tible ta the right iphere's. nothing reatral in explanation,” Mrs, Ronald added. atudied Glenn Thenamy. "You smell of apples,” she announced. “That's funny," he replied, “for the tobacco I use is called Green Pippin.” “yh, yea,” Mrs, Heming put in, “I bad ane gat for you. It's much nicer than Morris’. You might accept it as a present.” An elaborate brass spittoon was pro duced with formality; and, simply, he ace knowledged her thought. ‘Mr. it developed. tock anulf. He had a anuflbox af Lies ip men stone, and Glenn, with practiond fingers, aceephed its Pun . His mother, he said, had been very partial to snuff; but Mr. Ronald's was finer than any he had sampled before. "Mine," Mire, Ranald proclaimed, “had a taste for cocaine."' Glenn looked at her, puzzled. “My mother!" she particularized. jee aa bird flew high, in very fancy His distaste for this, hia disapproval mllst have been marked, for she aughed delightedly. It was her little joke, he told her, with the unplensant éonvictlon that she had spoken seriously. "Hers," ahe corrected him: “I haven't needed it yee.” There waa a stic of arrival in the hall— the Saviors; and at the fret glinypee of the WOTELALL entering oes the hangings of rhe dearway Glenn T felt that wt last here was someone he did understand. Alta. lor, tao, was amall; but her smallness, in a wisp of dipess, waa as buoxuri- ous as posible, She had a great pile of naturally bright hair and the face of an expensive, an irreproachably flawless. doll, be Rind surface she was unquestionably the was so lovely that, to moot her ppt brought almost a gaap at her via- ible perfection. But Glenn didn't stop there; with Mrs, Saylor he was thoroughly at home. In fact, he hardly more than acknowl- edged her nig, and turned, interested to ove bet uabend. That individual hed a broad, disprapartionutely lange fee a ant deft in the chin, iebously fim tone and soft, bla nehed hands, is shirt held but one stud, a eu cone eae piney at ina ciree of d an. the little fingera of both hands were long in- io Tin ges Hering prompty nivieed Glenn: “Don't bask Barer te the eapravines on his rings ed like nothing even he could hardly volunteer—but you wouldn't enjoy them." In the ar nt of the table Glenn Thenaimny sat Sect Ave Heming and Mira, lor, Heming was apposite his wife, wlth Ronald on the left. If Glenn pve Mra. Saylor but litthe heed he had for him. Except for a quick nod as he had been introduced, she wns, it seemed, unaware af his presence, However, she spoke hardly at all, but addressed herself with a solid attention to dinner. Even at her shoulder, Thenamy thought, she appeared not to be made from living t- sup, Her res the beautiful mold of her shoulders, had a look of wax, The pow der waa no drier than the delightful Tak it adorned. It was plain she knew that her voice aye, of all her perceptible quali- ties, was ugly, It was thin, weak, the voice of a mechanical doll, without ring or under= lying color. Het husband Glenn had, as well, dis- missed — part of the slush Mrs, Heming had spoken ol. Hut this opinion, os the courses P . he was 1 te diseard. Say- OF Was not ao featureless as he had seemed, He looked, it was true, like one of the balls of dough Jenny put in soup; but out of that unplewant exterior a cuustic wit flashed and glittered. A great deal, as Caner had predicted, Glenn did pot com- prehend: and when a meaning was plain a She May i3, 977 to him he half gazed about, ineredulow ‘that it could be meant. The faces of the women were masklike. Gbenn was slowly, stendily erveloped i the feeling that the menacing stale air}; he had found in the city was being co: oomtrated into the room. in whieh ke as, The smoke of the cigarettes sgninst the low of the condles ossumed fantastic pd sy aha ‘Age He was intensely wncoenfon- hing that he had, following (Cn. o's ce uae stayed aweh In this, pertaps, he Wis ho pore Glenn didn't like rth Tt waa no better, be told himself, tham weak cer; but the food Chea supremely. i Pe fn he wished Jenny—she'd like those things in. seipied ple erust. But ary wouldn't the servants just put the diske o the table and cet out of sight? He decided thot, o 0 e hated servants; the eaug girls and the no er mi men. He withdrew from the conversation—th Hemings comfortably didn't pester him— and watch expressions, studied the voleea around kina Ronald, whose bead might have been dipped in a cust bam, ea abat , Seitemptuous of the others. Not a man, Glenn decided, to whom bed like te try to eell oll, After a minute's direct talk with Honald be would want to knock his face in. Mrs. Ronald continoed oie oe eo ty tomes out of an inner void. drank continuously; the bottles in tha alte king were alway steht et cat GTi, pouring! at cellar! on T benny renee now that what Mra. Heming sol shout the people there waa true; ahe die liked them strongly. But then, everyore, in his wife, disliked Saylor. He knew € Glenn gathered, and got a form of pleasure from it. James Hering listened him with a vertices! frown between be eyebrows, It seemed to Glenn that Hen ng was walting for Saylor to pas hat boundary of the permissible did exe if the latter made a mistake, Glenn com tinued his thought, he would come up againet an et barrier to his pe euliar humor. Pe it became evident, he would noi and Glenn from him to James i He saw the mark of a special and personal enmity to Saylor in Hemirg’s frowning attention. He wondered ove that: and, wonderiss, rested on Mra. Saylor. She practically never 7a to Hering, nor glanced toward man, though, glanced aeilay ae eae sively: ae r when tl inner wh pou ged occupied, He didn't, ially, nie piel Med dMigheanata pra the ect of ene og few remarks Glenn later upon thet Mrs. ee he ee Was Bo ensly understood that he couldn't quite believe Heming was stupid enough to be inter ated — ht, réally—by her, Why. hie wile, Ava | Was worth a theusan: undles of such thin tinder! At least abe Wha & ughbred. So wos James Hem: ing; Glenn was obli te admit that of both of them. Here, he went on, they were out of ploce, That was it! So wne he. Glenn bad w atrunge ability—a comaciour ness of danger close, but hidden fram him. ie cepa ese whirling sharpy. he had met, , a threatening of casbon awifthy ailently overtaking heat from the back. He knew, as he put it hirmeelf!, whon things were wrong. And that gengation was very strong upon him sow. In some way, too, It threatened the Hem ings, His valuable premonition of calac- ties extended to all three of them. There wasn't anything that he could ¢, no evident steps for safety could be taken The servant at his back had po intents, for instanee, of shooting him, This wast the oil tracta of Kentucky. The seb sion, however, persisted. He had an at impulse to warn James Heming, to mab him a signal that would put him alertly his . He wanted to send Mrs. Hen- ing inta cover. ‘ he Pe oF, rte a @ conviction ara GF tepud tok Saylor mame into Bennings lie he ‘cule t Last Jong —be would meet ap with an accident. ‘ey would, to putit abruptly, be @ coroners in quest, or what locally had the appewraso af one; there would be an inquest af @hics he, Glenn Thenamy, might be called on 1 mike a few remarks—an explanatioa, i (Continged on Page 145) Glenn's attention swulc

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‘foatieed from Poge agen i ' es Heming wet wasting Ua ma ieee for Saylor to make an error; ooo were cocaine when it was wise to ce an error for granted, to consider it does This Saylor was wn error in birmaell. fer if Heming wa8 infatuated with et ker wile, then the sullen James was ma ig a mistake of heroic size. The trouble ew tat Gann couldn't say unything, not even 10 Ava Hermlng—least of all to Ava. Henisg would kave to fall into the pit amd eruhle out Wit was possible, It was too jad: and Glenn would apeak about It to Merrit Caner, hia friend. Saylor turned Kentucky T™ te aif, Fentucky.’ “4 cate wath only a leaden argument.” “They are covering them, in steal.” 4 bale,” 7 “No, s&s grave. 5 “The women used to be beautiful; they ce ne longer, if [ con judge from Louwis- de: hit — “still very noble.” Glenn thought he had better interrupt fs, The continuation of Saylor's sentence, eww afraid, would be embarrassing to wc! occadlon. ; Saylor said, generally, “I didn't know tat woed “noble* wae etl! pronounced." "It isn't needed a great deal,"" Mrs. jag turned; “hut perhaps it is still reful in Reatweky_"* “Yes, ma'am,” Glenn assented. “It is, pil smart.” “He is about to recall the Alamo,” This ws Saylor, “Set bere; not with you araond,™ Chas wondered if he might, with even iappreaimate safety, kill him, Then he menbensd that such a light blasphemy ui common here. He had mo wish to ake Mirae! absurd. The best thing for miodo waa to shut up, and he heat fectively on a superlative cigar. Why in't Morris stap his nonsense about the tractand buy ber? If the ribbon on that eve Keoke be would dive under the table: ‘dnever Teach the door, Glenn was cer- ef this, He emaght an an of Hira, ming’s a compression af her mouth, tet further enlightened him. Whvt—Glenn demanded hentedly of am Caner—kind of a way was that to ? He had left the Hemings’ soon after mf, and Goding Caner in the deawing- ate had ewept inte a pleturesque de- idation of the whole situation in the m next door, ‘You can put all the oil in Kentucky on fact et abe epee tty pode tae at mw that j ore the up, Mrs, cingeees right through thea to the wall ind. And she won't say anything, she ‘ido anything, net to the stir of a fin- That's where she's wrong, but she ‘thelp it, being what she is." You take them too seriously,” Caner fam. “Woeu con't understand thear fe Remember, ev hing here is dif- ot from Eennings. t there would eagreat deal, the most ible, is in long Tun Unim portant wlth us Such B—you are Tight about that between . Saylor and Heming—go on_all the . [vethe current relaxntion. Fenson- people like Ava Heming pay ne atten- to them, and they die out when the Lis consumed; they soon eld." fou know more about it than I da." fea unconvinced, “With moat af egrhapa: but not with the Hemings, ink T know them; they might have Tight from my country. If they are rarelul this business will break them Sol Toretal ‘anguage ‘his, press am wl da e his precise on of Mrs, Saylor, ‘This didn't, ape ily, quite satisfy him, for he ieegan ; bat Morris intermapted him. ws display of words that is remark- It gems to me you haven't for- Suny; but you are apparently able ‘on Yet what's the good? The oga and their troubles ane far out of Cutriet. I am a@ little surprised at Gleon; for your entire philosophy of val OOM in avoiding whut- ley outside your own purpose, m rurprised, a myself,” Glenn ad- dmeodily, “I'd like to have a anatch ut Saylor—put some berries in his =: I don't know which I mislike the —him or his wife. They're a pairi™ Tell, get them out of your a | ~~ you have guessed, you old gimlbect, THE SATURDAY that I have agreed to your criminal pro- . No, you can't go home toe morrow: you'll lerve Monday, and I shall be with you. Twant to hove one look mt He place before my money ainkes in it." Glenn Thenoamy roe, and his gravi brought Caner to hia feet. Their 4 mot; but that was all; nothing was said, As Glenn prepared for he Listened sibedensdtany to the usual contentious sounds from the egg, but the silence there was unbroken. Tt was still in the opposite direction teo—until Glenn was waked past the middle of night by a par- axysm of the dragging sobs, He sat up in f sharply disturbed; and the muuifled ng waa brvken by a shrill high aeream. There were others, incredibly prolonged; a volume of fear which, it seemed, must be btyond the capacity of a human throat. There waa o eruah of falling furniture and broken china, glass, the sound of running feet and terrified voices, Tt wid, bo Glenn Thenumy, net whoty Siren. a awake, ut horrible, in thought that he could a struggle-— t was a chair thrown inst, the wall—then there was quiet It waa | interrupted aoon alter the grinding af | automobile brakes on the strest and the ing of a door, He could not vi ize the happening beyond in a ratlonal man- ner, [t seemed to him that the evil about him had attacked a man already spent, waabed, by tks opposition. The allawtiig morning he learned that tha invalid had been taken, tied, to a hos- pital. Glenn was still shaken by it, but a ear of Caner'a sense of humer, of bel cheerfully derided, kept him silent aboat his inner feeling, He had an impulse, in apite of all Morris desired, to run, take a train, any traln, headed for the South. He sat by the spittoon, in a merous conmatrnint, until bunch andl after, consol- ing himself with tobacco and the reallza- tion that his chair waa aquarely planted against a wall—no one much _DOTTHE up fram behind him. His mind shifted finally to Ava and James Heming. Morris Was wrong, and it was a shame. A desire ‘Lotie him to sec Mr, Heming before he left. He fought it aff, but ft grew and when he finally recalled the fact thet he owed her the courtesy of an acknowlodg- “rig her hospitality he maved relic tantly. The servant at the Hemings’ door, ob- viously hesitating, af first t ond then waa certain ane wasn'tin. He gave the elfectoof shutting the door on Thenamy, & poselltlsty that Glenn resented with a con= ave, “0 find out,” he directed curtly. to object, when Ava in the hal!. Please." ghe sald, at one. “T have an idea that wank to tell me you abe going away. | hope you were suc- "Those are both right,” he repli in- side. Standing and facing her he fell silent, Glenn wan ta say a great deal to her. He had a conviction that she would under- stand it and allow him, now, to proceed; in some intangible way he reongmize! that they were friends; bat he was unable to think of an appropriate, a permissible be- EInning. “Both Janes and [ would have liked ta Bee something of you,” she told him. "T like you too," he answered, “I have: been thinking abowt you a ight smart lot, but [don't just see how to put it in words, fi Aren't yoa mioet And, doyoa i ‘Ares mio! , do you koow, T have an idea of what you want to aay. Thank you, but it's no pood." She drew in a dacp breath, and suddenly he noticed that she wae unnaturally pale, Hor hand had been colo. “James and [ are too much alike, and he's been finding someone different." "He ia a fool!" Glenn declared con- | cisely, “We'll agro: to that, but it docan‘*t help | anything.” She estoppel. Then, with her gaze directly on Glenn's, she added, “Cort Saylor is upstiirs with him now." “The hell hom aay!" he replied eoover= sationally, his ricinel reaching far beyond the fnct, “T dant understand it completely, generally—yes. 1 suppose they are this impossible situation,” “That is, Homing must be," he corrected her, “IT wouldn't trest that Saylor to fix a core, But [ wonder"'—he spoke with a thoughtful drawl—“I wonder if that James of yours ——" | but fixing | | EVENING POST 145 i c= K Pat. oe EATMORS | fst oN All the Wonderful Flavors of the Choicest Cocoa Beans Blended to Your Taste Never was there a chocolate so luscious, so full of wholesome goodness as Zay-Tek Eatmors. Rich, red-brown cocoa beans from Brazil and Ecuador; cream-colored cocoa beans from Ceylon and the West Indies, roasted and. blended with fragrant vanilla beans, sugar and full-cream milk—these give the zay-Tek flavor. Only when you have tasted Zay-Tek Eatmors will you realize their delicious- ness, their difference from ordinary makes of chocolate. Zay-Tek Eatmors are just sweet enough to bring out the wonderful flavor of the Zay-Tek blend. They do not tire your taste nor cloy your appetite. And the big red air-tight tube keeps them fresh and pure and firm, even in summer heat. Buy a big red tube of Zay-Tek Eatmors today. You'll get a new idea of taste- pleasure! PENNSYLVANIA CHOCOLATE COMPANY Pittsburgh, Penna., U. 5. A. ‘fake a ginsa of foed Zay-Tek cocoa. Ti Stiumulates ond delights your faste with ris deferaus Aavror, Try rf today. Ask your grocer for Zay-Tek Cocoa in any one of these sire canea—f-/b., Ve-b., Yy-Fb. “alate tats! a —

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146 u When the electric lights go out Wwe the electric lights in your hame go out suddenly, you say, “A fuse has blown our”—and it's a simple matter for someone to put in a new fuse and set the lights burning iigain. The fuse is the safety valve of your electric wiring system. When wires are overtaxed by a current heavier than they should carry, the melting of the fuse breaks the current and stops its flow, preventing the burning out of all your lamps and eliminating a possible fire danger. And what isa fuse? Just a little piece of lead alloy wire, which is inserted into the circuit of copper wire and which melts at a lower temperature than the copper. This is just one of the countless uses of lead in daily life. Lead ts all about you in your home. The glaze on your fine china concains lead. There is lead in the rubber stoppers in your bath- room, in the brilliant glass of which your electric-leht bulbs are made, The cans of fruit and vegetables that come inte es wate nd | Maw Work . Se as Cleveland THE SATURDAY EVENING POST your kitchen are sealed with a leal solder. Most important of all is the use of white-lead as an ingredient in good paint. Paint protects the outside of your home—and the more white-lead the paint contains, the greater its protecting power. White-lead mined with flatting ol] makes a beautiful and durable finish for interior walls and woodwork. Painted surfaces defy time and weather; unpainted surfaces cecay— hence the slogan, nationally known and nationally heeded today, “Save the surface and you save all.” National Lead Company makes white-lead of the highest quality and sells it, mixed with pure linseed oil, under the name and trade-mark of Dutch Boy White-Lead Write our nearest branch office, De- partment A, for a free copy of our | "Wonder Book of Lead,” which inter- estingly describes the hundred. and= one ways in which lead enters into the | daily life of everyone, NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY Bosion Buffalo Sam Francieca ‘Se, Levee Cincinnati Chicage al JOHN T. LEWIS & BROS, Oh. Philadelphia RATION AL LEAD & OIL OO., Pitteborgh Sa an. > = eee et ee Some Products Mode by Notional Lead Company | Dutch Boy White-Leod Dutch Boy Red-Lead Dutch Boy Lingeed O11 Dutch Boy Flacting Oil Dutch Boy Babbite Metals Dutch Boy Solder US Cartridges and Shot Shells Orange Mineral Lead Wedges Lead Cruskets Bearing Metals Battery Red-Lead Sheet Lead I a le ns a SSS “He tan't mine,” alee interrupted him. "of yours,” he repeated, “can pet it done right, I don’t know how the land | lays here, whut his facilithes are. There was a sound of movement through the hall, and Saylor, 7 different in color poli “Bs erg from lest night, entered, bat Dimes Hemiing. e difference im him was tragic, He seemed noticeably older, his mouth was tight and the cos toes hed-tempered sparkle of hie eyes eat. The two men were surprised to see Glenn Thenamy; Dea WAS © momentary and ! awkwa “Well, ai. Herin in a level, emotionless voice, ns Sirgp ie have you dn cided? Can you at lave ane woman in peace, of hes Janes, of you, Cort, been Thagnanimous? You'll be nerpriaen to hear that I'm anxious to find out “Av, "her hiustbamel eed | in. tones at once brittle and outraged, “how can you ?7— before a stranger)" “How canit matter?” ‘sheasked. “Every- oné eoan In the flood of suffering that inundated him it was apparent that James Heming, as well, forget Thenamy‘s presence, He walked ‘sharply up to ler, "Ava, he said, "Cort carne here to tell Me that—that ty fda loves me.' "To core nothing for that," she replied, “T don't understand why you put it like that, Unless—James, bow ubout yout He hesitated a long while, and then with tremendous difiewlty—in a voice, Glenn shoaghe. hat. sounded as though it were hrowgh a wall—he replied, “I—de net—lave jer ft" There wasn't a flicker of expression on Saylor's countenanen; were easily thrust inte his packets. StH," Avs Heming insisted, “I am in the dark, don't lawe her why don't mans aay 20, pF os that, and let's get over i, Ee Heming labored on, “T didn't realise oy Téeling untll to-day. I—T thought Tloved her. It's a terrible position, Ava. won't insult you saying mw, when it's too lute, what I tind I have always, ait Ranier thought of you. J'm caught— tee are betters; mo one could get urauned hem “At last,” she replied, “it’s clear to me. Neither you nor Cort wants her, but Cort thinks he con persuade you to have the ne. “Ii'a.a Githy fix," Heming acknowledged. "Two alwa is mi your mind, heir | Saylor told “there fan't a serait. of | aligar., af sontimantality:1 init. With a sen- | tence you have disposed of a situation which tock James and me two hours to reach. You're right; [ am happy to sur- render my—my honor "What yf threatens to do," Heming ia beged on a lie. You know that Tarn truthful, Ava. Aut I can't prove it. The whale thing —with her to help him; 4, it's like that—haa me, a T aaldd, enught. | Lean either take her, or— but | can't even epeak of it to you. “This Saylor, he‘s fart an ordinary blackmailer,”” Glenn Thenamy said un expectedly, “ Eixtraonlinary,” Saylor corrected him, | Glenn ignored this; he waa addreasing James Heming. "Tne been study | first he had ey uzzl pot inte him. I had a partner ten Vears ngo, those splendid offices in Lexington, jist. | Like him. Imagination, * sald Glenn Then- amy—"that's his I Saylor b trouble, and it'a a bad one, This or hes too much braing for his curcass. aan to what hap- pened to Deacon. He did Wenthey Pye out af a plese of money, and Pye stopped in bo BPE 1S, “Towns in Deacon's office and heard all of it. Pye, a little somebody with a lalf- | twisted face, did radio forus. He told aye that he knowed how the money at got, and apologized for wasting — cee time any. But his father, a very rel man, was old amd ailing, and troukde a the family might affect him serious, How- ever, Deacon, he said, when father died, he, Wentley, waa going to kill him prompt. Went asked, Deacon os a favor nal to | himself in an accident, beceause he didn‘t quant to be cheated, “When Pye went ovt, and with bis back a him in here. At : but nat now—l"ve to us, [ said to Deocon—who this imagination—that the only thi for him | was to shoot Pye before lunch: iBhoat Pye, | Tl advised him, and Pye's father will have to look out for himself. He kind of agreed May 15,92 with me; but when I met him agus ys in the evening, [ saw he hadn't dics ; He waa tur it over in his mic maybe Pye didn't mean what he sd Ba did. T understood that, ond a0 did Ta na "Yea." Heming broke i in irvitably, ' ‘ber this can’t go on here now! “Wait!” Glonn insisted calmly, “Fron that minute it was all over with Tam: He stopped talking and grew shades. like. He was always struggling betwn wanting to talk about Pye' B threat wad sat wanting even to mention it, I tod bs again to do some killing, but then tt wy ton late, “After another month of so Twas afl Deacon would dhoot bimael!—in the month with the barrel tilted up, & surest—he instead be plumb disappeared. He fel ; business that wad getting better com, ye Deacon left a nice howe and 9 sie wile; rae Jott A gre coming twenty ee a daughter going moarried the 1 ieee and he disappeared—he fell of uh earth, “Well lor demanded, “Welt lene. tarred and faced him. “Imagination, “he repeated hardly, “Ya gob it— you're rotten with it. T thoughts Feat that if Heming didn't tend te yx would, and take a wild chance. You “et on the edge of death for mote than 9 seoonds, Lt isn't and Dm po to at you why, clear and simple — imap tion “You know James Heming pretty © and you realize he's tincertain in bls » thona—uncertain and wWielous, You 4 gather he's deaperate now as wel. [ o going to spenk for him, and explain vb er, 0 ea fin't aati Pet a good ma aye of petting killed a city. For ¢ at "tt beats the country | nothiog. A city is stuck full of aed and you can take my personal worl of will meet along with you. Him and m ase to it. Sometime, hot far of— mig be in bord evening, and then agaln at root: you'll stop, You may get pround up, 9 may have your head knocked into « ol ter; pethapa you will drink—ei an arn downrigi t anhealthy, fall cuit of - I don't know just what, but will be with ing am your be If you like, ave me bound over 1 won't hurt anything with uw: [ oe bonded ond loose. Hemin buen'| me toned a threat. He won't. is oo poe a = waned abi —hubl The o wip you 12 to moalce a mista abe Things like this have been a part my life. I wouldn't give mo more thog ran rou than TE would to gutting a rabbit esha pied, leaning implacably fon fund Saylor ‘a hands, now wut of his pork teitched at his si He studi buat th was eddent he fownd no reser there. Glenn Thenamy"s glitter lipless mouth, stained with tol were get in a bitter cruelty. He de advanced a steady hand until a fet finger very lightly rested over Say! b. "So help me, my mother!" Gleas 2 ¥ He swung immediately back to lo Herning. “You fix remind on coming & with me in t ocr ainie: Ava, she come with you. I'LL tell honest, [| to see so much useful “bedlnuan goin waste, FT don't recommend Hen eens but for ym it would bea sky a “Tt ain't safe, remember; mere | likely you'd be shot in a month. This Morris fig in will neod maneg-s haven't told him much, He's a nic and it would hurt him: but the tut James, that we're going to put fire to! ail Anyone watching ther wil allie y. Moris talked about tithe ¢ Titles! The Bennings Court’ was Cursed down twice just to get ce tle. “Mind, Idon'tuphold it: but there Ava here could cook and hawea bale, baby, who'd prow Up a man and shox man who shot you, glanced around contemptucs|y. "Saylor, le lett right st diaat | fat do you t Ava Ha asked her hushand, “There je nether for mn. T'W=1'l try it. with you! Heming studied her with o hed termination on his ive feer: with a ewilt and aurprising humbes thanked her.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING oe estat Diag Ae | i i | A pouiber io deighten all | | eee, Fuld it comniration | aah he primer for JF po ee ee a ee _ = Makes 1 your Sewing Machine an Electric Sew all your own lovely things id fear, withourt any weary foxot- peeplag. One meotionof thehand fucothis Home Melastocundler the fondo heel of Vorur ordin ary acy- ing Machine and changes ie to a meedy wif-operaring elearke. No fools orscrews or beles required. Yor machine Is obeslurely wr- marred. Then you sew a4 long a pealikewithouteforrorexertion, 4 coat for current of less than one cent an four, Seas feet or tow; no broken threads. Home Motor eomup lene wih epod enfi- Gol pedal $18.50 A great iniqe-action cate eieur. Crean dulter ara! iipar} mever fhe seronthest! cake dough, aise beats ger, Rv creda, muabes mar yoninan, er, Aon) ‘This marvelous Electric Sweeper 15% These are truly pictures of progress. They show how Ameri- can inventive genius has lightened the labor of home-keeping, and simplified the difficult job of being a housewife. One litthe motor, with its attachments, does all the house- held duties shown. Over 800,000 are already in use, sewing, fanning, whipping cream, sharpening knives, and polishing silver, Now, we announce an additonal device for use with this same motor—an amazingly efficient electric sweeper with a motor-driven brush thar sweeps and beats! It is so simple that only a Trnomert is required toh attach QT TEM? the TMmshor; and yee it is Soh COM peetenct el cleaner that, n actual laboratory and home tests, it has picked up screw-drivers and objects of similar size and weight. So Wool Can rel! how easily it Pcts all surface dust, threads, hairs, lint, match-sticks, and embedded grit. Just phone your dealer for a free home trial. Its work will be a revelation, Te Alome Motor and atiachments may de purcharsedal most Pec trical, Hardware, Setcing Afachine, and De partment Ktores. Fear fold by ial’, or complete with olf attachments, or with any one of them, Aone your denier; or aerite for dookler 99 asta bes rane. HAMILTON BEACH MFG. CO., Racine, BH isconmrin Ge OP ee Or 08 ae OP SOP OP Se Te nck Beach) Home Motor POST i Far ve ast na The fretle grinder- ited! thar pens aif acl banrees The Electric Swerper dttechinenit, comigivtele mith dap, eating. surepiag eras, and ; 4 is pa Aarratle Profitable Positions for Salesmen Our dea lers all Over the Country need TCTs and WOmken hoo, who have the knack of explaining things to others. To those who have the ability to demonstrate how the Hamilton Beach Home Motor and atrachmenm: anves thre, lealeh, and labor in the home, we can likely offer well-paying posithors righ bo thieie oven heme teen. Or in @ nearby one, if preferred. Just drop us a postcard, Tell wa the size of your town, ane mention the name of the dealer for whom you prefer oo work, We will send full particulars, without obligation. Please address the Sales Manager. 47 if takes just at pity to nip the ingenious fan attach mention fie same moter AF, Cute a ae Se = 9: i) yl = oS

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148 Herve a Sure Way to Read Your Future! Never mind the month in which were born—Aow much practical Bussiness crabuing hiewe you had? Here's ao poaleion calling for an Expert Accountant; it pays $l) a week, Do you knew Accounting? Here's a fob de demanding a really eenperent Manager, of a salary, to start, of $4,500, Have you over mastered the ‘modern sclence of Traffic Management } ul Here's position: ir pay: a big salary, Bur—the man whe fills it must know how to finance on encerpelse—how co ied — how to manufacture = how to Can you quality! s & & hy reals away the bese years of your lite when you can fc your elf in a comparatively few months of homec-sudy training wrder the LaSalle Problem Method for a ree nsible executive positign—at a very substantial salary? remar mecthod che wwilt, duce Poeute bo success, Todew chey are coming poled daehgetoaed Chince’ are are he Copa Ae any one ae DE 4 is will rain, a a ns inate gon! to yOu, een ae ku ulace— sive waorurealf a fu furr radi ot in th = ile hen “The vod will brin sae i information erie sn You rowith demila of our comvenlecd payreenn plan: gles yoor free copy cf thot inspiring “Tee Years’ Peomocion in One. Mark —Sioo— Mell che ooapon Moy, a a: LS SS se LaSalle Extension n University The Lorgent Buriser Jnrtituifon in the Hori Gen witheat ahl td i obligaiten fo me im- hae aerggeiliea wl ater indicated below. also copy of your interesting book, “Ten ‘Years’ Hon. in Ohne.” fF roremetrelt he ean OMetvs dere Businges Corre- Higher Accountancy CiMedern Forem peal Mane teem call nay om a germane OBaltsar As Accounting sad lFersensl ane Es Soretar: EGE. ong OLaw— Degree of LLB Pte Tookkeepind and pi Busineed Entileh Clnauatrial Management icommercit Spanieh ney Stiles Gptaking OBenkiag aod Finance OC. FP. AL Coaching i Preene Posinon _—— Address Gone! Mister Rat soon disappears when his menu includes— RAT BIS-KIT RAT BIS-KIT PASTE All draggists or general sterce have it, 25c, The Rat Biscuit Co., Springfield, ‘Ohio loan on your collateral, Kinley came dawnstaire and sald, “ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 13, igey FROM McKINLEY TO HARDING raise £17,000 cash. So I left Field at the breakfast table and wired the governor at : “Have ae read of your y open to you, Am going to Chicago to-night. Will mort you anywhere you sayin Ohio.” Later in the [ received a telegram fram him saying, ke the aix-o'elock train. Will meet youl at the depot in Cleveland Sunday." I learned later et Mr. Walker had ad- vanced McKinl oy! $2000 every two in a number of to pay his aésessments. McKinley repaid him $1000 a year out of his salary ns scp einer whirh at thet time was $5000 a ved at the old Ebbitt House A ton with his wile, in 2 couple TOTES, In 1892 Mr. Walker osked MeKinley if he could help him to tide over a short time, He was a manufacturer and was suffering from the general depression which led up to a wiley rai I will ey sald, " give you every- thing I have, you have been my friend through sa many cumpaigns, T own abaut $17,000 worth of atock in different indus- trial enterprises in my district.” Walker answered, “Am afraid the banks will not but if Filial will indorse my notes for that amount I can g the money.” McKinley agreed to i or eee to the amount of $17,000, believing hue: ould make good if fh To return to February, 1 93. The Buf- falo Sunday morning pa AInoUun cel that i of being on Wal beee' # nobes for $17,000 the amount at midnight had arsen to £75,000, On arriving in Cleveland about nine o'clock Su: morning, McKinley and Myton T. Herrick met me as I stepped aut of the car. McKinley waa Pale and wan, with black : xibas under his yes, He pot his hand on my shoulder but esuld not speale ie his emotion. Teara rolled down his ¢heeke. We went directly to the Her- rick home. On ta, ge way the governor was much day el! him bow much he was in debt. aoe sald, “I don't know. It ray be $100, 200,000 or $600,000." It seema tat when the notes came duc Walker would write McKinley at Columbus that a pote for $2000 of so in each agi cat a bank would come due on a certain do and he did not know whether the bak would renew in full or demand a reduction; that if McKinley would aign it in blank be would fill in the amount. With his sublime faith in his friend McKinley did so, Then Walker filled in the amounts until the emmor waa on $130,000 of notes j | of $17,000 as he su Friends to the Retcue Sunday afternoon a number of friends including James H, Hoyt and John Tod, eon of Ohio's war governor, met in the Herrick home and the renee Mr= Kinley could be heard pacing the floor in his bedroom. After along discussion I aug gested that Governor McKinley ‘and bi hes wife make an assignment to trustees of part dpai ed ak ai Mr. Tad, had. ask mn : Possessed a sepulechral voles, aald, "Because oe ‘ins made a damn foal of himself why McKinley be 1 pauper?" Fa. ekiniey wi some farm property left her by her father, Mr, Saxton, a former banker of Canton, I answered, “Because if Mc- Kinley is to stay in nolities he must show “ise Satay net aren oo ne charge & has put his property in his wife's name, We little progress. al a Mark was here.’ T ashed, "Where is he?" He said, “In Milwaukee to-day, but will be in Chicaga row. [ will have him (CaAtinaed fram Page 4! ment ; any hour FOU say is convenient for bin MeKinley wired Mir. Hanna te ieensioartha tte Qeean office at ten Welock the next day, , On my way to the depot I sto in the Cleveland Leader office and saw Mr. Covert, the editor. He helped me write a statement which was accepted by the Associated Pres and United Pres, to this effect: Bir bide gion und his wife will give p everythin ave In the world ex- path the clot LZ _ a thott backs. If that is not enough to pay his debts in full he will reburn from office at the end of hie term in Deecember and practice law in New York or Chicago until every cent ia paid,” The first McKinley knew of the stale- ment was when he read it in the Cleveland morning papers. My thought was to head of newspaper criticism, a3 a Trot: belie that the people of the count al nemi- nate aman for President whe niceanil motes in blank and thes tried to shirk his responsi- bility! Such was the ar as T never ae & an article criticizin ar. facts were never =p pop wati] now. Afr. McKinley's Gratitude fet for a moment from the thread of the story, an indent aeeurrel three Wir and a half later, in opie eg 1396, Hanna fom what he cal Mela in ed ome to celeb rn pees pal Presidency. eats Ba a T. Trick aad Bree gure rs and Min. James A. Herr, Gognel an Hay, my wile and myse anna I pene out for a walk in the gar- den. McKinley said, “Wait a minute. I will go with you.” As we wolked the gravel paths the governor put his arm around my shoulder and said, “I have wanted to say something to you for over three years, When you put that item in the papers in February, * 5, that [ would pay my debta in full and closed the moutha of my critics, you a mee greateervice, I twe more to you than aneont in the world, exeept my Tniber, for I should probably have gone te the ‘penitentiary instond of the ite House! I told him he was wrong, as he never did a dishonest thing in his life. To return to the meeting with Mr. Hanna in my offer Monday morning. I told him of my suggestion that trusbees ¢ appointed bo receive the MeKinley properties. He fully agreed with me that it was the course to pursuc, We drew up mn agrecment and Hiyned Gur names te a certain sum to liquidate MeKinley’s debts. z have the paper now, Tb shows over $40,000 raised in Chicago. Mir, Hanna an Mr. Herrick secured a generous gum in Cleveland. Mr. Hanna wired me to meet him in Pittsburgh. We went to the Duqueane Club and hat Philander C. Knox and some of his and Mr. Hanna's friends.) When we left the club we had, as [ remember now, $120,004) total subscriptions. Mr, Hanna went on to Philadelphia and completed the $130,000 needed. New York was not asked for a eont. There were over 50 subscribers to the funl, Mer. Herrick called upon the banks in oo holding the Walker-MeKinley paper and asked them to contribute 10 per cent af the amount of notes which they held, which weit the greed te do, and he paid them in full ie the 314, on) eft over Mr. Herrick paid 8 a mortgage of $10,000 due on cs in a rie rte in Canton, and in bank to meet current ane niture bills, Previous to the subseriptions thron trus- tes—Judge William A. Day, Myron T. Herrick and H. H. Kohlaaat—were ap- pate To them Governor and Mra. Me- miley turned over all their property, Judge Day, now Justice of the Supreme ALrt told me thal not one single cliirs Wad. against the estate. Grovernor MeKinley never knew why contributed the unoeiey.. This fist af mayb —— erg a a soe whee bs asked for it, declaring Ww then back with the money he saved at of | halt ary a3 President, and turned over as he received Ik ta Mr. Herrick, wha made acm fortunate investments, which gure MM: Kinley's estate some $200,000 STATE OF OHIO Expeinve Derantekat OFFICE OF THE GOVESNOE CoLrMes, Feb. 26, 121, Dear Afr, Kohlepaf: The pen will mot—as not speak what ia in my heart this mocnisg. your letter is so full of personal sweetne— expremiona of Chicage friend whom you quote are fo tender mre gesercus that my Barat ree. flows with thankezivin Did ever man and wile have uch friends acd how con we ever them? Aiy eral te larger than ever before in my lik and so abourdiag with kindness and empathy and offers of material oid. I om standing with courage. Yet, the eu of my {rims and their confidence | ino mey faegrety mores oe deeply. I wish you might sce Tey letters acl Tha, our thoughtful au vacate ted ba fy in ite wants is no iL WHLS fe nilary, whieh in afew dave will be paid to me, will be oble to got abong com Give te my Chicago friends the — atd ieselng prstioude of Mrs. MeKinley and mp od bless you, my unaelfiah friend, od re to your home and bowehold His teste Your sincere friend, Witatam McKixiry, Je, the winkber of 1894 the work o okie delegates in the Middh v For the small grow of si a Hanna had chosen to word with him. During one of his vee 4 Chicks he sto at the Wellin Hotel. We dined together and he a young fellow whose father, Gen. Ruf Dawes, was Major MeKinley's old com manda, had been to see him and ha red his services. Mr, Hanna had sske the Young Man to come to the hotel cho Wore Wes evening, While we were in Mr Haseal roum Wes announced, a rather pale alight figure, and somewhat diffident, ¥ dis plans with him os he displaye erect interest in McKinley's success as offered his services free of all expense. Looked Good, Was Good eee he left the room Mir. Hanna n “He doesn’t look much, does be? T salt, “Any man who will work fi nothing and pay his own expenses lool ome!" One would hardly re ize the might figure of a, in ee alent Brig. Gren, Charles G. Dawes, whose =H did record during the was won him the = fithenee of our bea and justified Gene Porshing’s faith in him. He displayed: difidence when he op before a Ca gressional eonmumittee last spring and mal “Hall and Maria” famous, and tater in b lecture to cabinet officers and departme thiels whose coliperntion he ashe wien! | drew up the firat natlonal bu Cha Dawes, a8 hie frien ‘call kit dovoted himeel! to the MeKinley cau He toitiated a card-index ayster extend from the Alleghanies to the Paetic, # probably, next to Mr. Hanna, did mov win the nomination for MeEKlnley a i: Lows than any other man, Eediner's Mote—Thiis ia the firat of a actica of © clea by Bir. Eohleess. The meme will appear early iaaae.

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- THE SATURDAY EVENING POST HOW DO THEY GET THAT WEIGH? ja cheap bakeshep and restaurant ‘nw soul shun the ns eeu oe d ht ot te dream of Wt Men’ cl Christenas, = they are a snare and & delusion and wre is BO nourishment or yvirtin in them i peu. Many 8 good digestlon has gone » bell on a eRe Debowtessen saopS are not for the fatten- vew aay more than are the polatably od ay pleasing piifiaseries, The cold wee, a pleasingly pink and prickly with os ¢ languid ickled fish, we erardiFin nage een ring eh of dried beef are forbidden yur leegin ongime eee However tempt- gir the peviae and the Limburger linger pur eching mos , mo matter bow iken ref the berring dalad gleams, you revel have Revers, Say ey tch at the icc of your thront with the odd familiar aazy, hall pleasure and half paln, but uy metal eee them by without a sign. Thi dekealemen store is at ones one of :greatest. blessings and curses af or me liletoeday To neaiet ita convenlence al oxceions would be, in the imecress- hy perfunctory housewife, iow, But to ase it constantly us oof food supply is Little skort of sia. And these who seek to grow fat i beathy, lastin fashion must os sative Raunt of the Biamarck herring {the home of the nc raha I'm nat on percentages, my guess is pee number of people who are onder- reted and 63 wently uncderael ah he result of a rg | delicatessen waerable, Tek cenarth ius af the quality of the f procur- uinsuch places, but because of ite chear- t fal, anyway, fom alone won't put on pall Si One difleulty w moet terperiznoe in their attempt ta fe i eek hate ven Tay eae t6 tl cof. And If, after a moderate Witea hard job to reat if you don't Corer even if you have to work Ee you may rest sufficiently your weight bo creep up on “ loan Whenever WOll Gan, #Fen it's inanelewator, (Lie down after meals, thetgh aout hawe to get up nie kta ninutes, Lf you are enough have breakfasts ain sae bat non in VOU eUeTrise J ‘Oner ver that allly iden ¢ that { tts marie ts the two blocks over to Aunt say ide it as @ matter of course, you wil to put an werkt to rather more than heart's content, and tip the sealea to at where you will come prethy near cg them over if you don"t watch out! Too Much Hustle the evidence on ang main poi ta eae: notwithstanding, avery fe te [MSSEEA & CAF: AO, tte pen -and-installment plan. And # thease peeple when kt are 1 en= Jn accupations which keep therm if personal feet for a good part of the Standing on on's feet, or anybody for that matter, i one® of the firat or getting thin. ‘You seldom see a fat cderk in a stereo, or an anonmcus Bor an overweigh t book agent. Tt none rgsiey Enust exercise fer a living = ee out how consistently sinfully chance to rest must be epen. in this connection let oe call atten- the danger of overeating when you ertired, Don't do it, Albwayn try D8 litthe before eating and after Pa ines you sii a 1 simply peoison yor ia] om" criediy. Food snatched in haste wuton feah. DTndeed, I can't too — on elirninating the habit of Tom everything you do. Noth= i hale ke keep stow thin more effectively be nero teneion which come of ait of yuariee when hurrying is un- ry. To don't mean that one must iy orciak ogre Phra But I eniy aware of the fact that moet ant take a false pride in hustling busthin od nat gp grid Toe pt fraying out of their re aeystem. There ia a vast difference (Contiaacd from Page #9) between aloth and poise, between self- regulation and sloppiness, I don't intend to suggest that you lle down on the job or on the family in order to put on weight; but © odo insist that 4 quit worry quit hurrying? find aut in a frank on mination whether or not are working under a high nervous tension, and if you are, dal ceilbersbaly: oynccons i Get the habit of rest. every Gime you get a chance, and | you don't get a inte make ove. ; Relaxing isn’t so ensy either, but 1t, ton, can hen you MP TeILITPRE, Wy. come in from your day's mark gi at once to your room, beosen your clothing ae he down on your bed. Be sure to lie fn with the head only very lightly elevated and the feet in a normal poeition. Dron’ stick them on the comforter, which wall raist them. He a sport and put the com- forter out of the way. Allow your hands to rest on the bed on either side of you. Then relax, Helax completely. Let your- self go. Piret get rid of conscious interest in whatever you have just been doing. Then concentrate on letting the tension im your muscles go. You can doe it. Think yourself out flat until you are eo imp that U someone were to come in and pick you up you would hang on their hands as oocily as a jell hoor an woderdone poeched = ane nim this half-baked condition for tem eninuten am u will get up at the end of then fooling a million dollara, Well, like a ralee i ay anyway. It & nat how long one lisa down that rests ome, but how peerage eid ane lies, if you get the notion. [t is perfectly possible te cheat a lot of reat out of the buslest wort of lifs, and tha sioner the fnttor, take it from oor. 4 Perfect Shape for Fifty Cenis Even though be rich and idle, don't away Sf he notion that lying im bed oF fi ile ere are me Beat work any faster, won't. rectally ah tale off a moderate amount af init easential to anyone's well ‘bel sil napa are fine tonie which you et used to takin After a little while E won't be any farder for you te gather up a book or azine and the nicest anfa cushions, and hog the box ammock or eoda for an hour or two dally, thas it would be for bo stipe Over an nick up a hundrod=te: lar bill on a d strect, It will eome kind of ensy and natural, and the rest of the family can't crab, because it all comes under the head of health. And now just a word about what not to take. Of course, genteel reader, the advice which immediately follows ia not intended for you cally,» yet I am ane an intalli- pent individual yourself will under stand that I have te put it in. For there are 8 jot of booba around, and some of them might get hold of this copy of THR SaTunpay Eventne Post, Naturally 0 am aware that you would sever dream af tak- ing any of : patent medicines wee which market is flooded and for which many otherwise quite respectable cary advertising. But unfortunately there ia a patent-m icine taker born every minute, and [ want to warn thee dumb-bells in Of course, with licker ao scarce and high, it in kind of a mean trick to demand that patent appetizers be cut owt ma well, But Practically all str cal ball fat-making tonics are cocktails in di . exourding only eod=liver=ail para nd if you care to take a Liver—oll cocktail three | tires daily before meala you are welcome to for va of iat Eat Leigh off of the sell-foolers, | that you are to have no 5 poh oe I mean it, even when it comes in an extract bottle and is labeled Whoowis Compound of something. A jag by any other name da just as for you When it comes to galng glands that some ml ee or sheap has got through with— re is no neomuinting for tastes, Por= annally, the [dea makes no a nati me, bu there are folka who will try anythin one:, For my part I say let's give a glunds @ decent burial and to pick up our own liver aa though nething had hap. pened. Now the average skinny perme bar ts unxiins to be leas oo is, am a rule ¥ desirous of putting it on in aor part en spot, "I"m all right in the hipa, but my neck and face are something fierce,” are the words of the national anthem of the eas, varied on hotidaya by that good old b commencing, “I'd like ta put om justia little hit around the chest, but my shoma|ach and my hips are fat enough.” Ab first glance this desire seema reasonable, for surely there is a mothod of growing flesh ai where red and nowhere else, Ther must be a way to make a million dollars by wishing for it, by that same token. If have time and patience and money a first- class pbysicul-culture instructor can come pretty chose to doing the job just the way you wank it, But that ip not what you mean, or what I mean cithor, What we are both Looking for la aurmething that will give perfect shape for about fifty cents. for Local Plumpress Neediess to say, there is no such thing. However, if your face and neck need bui ing up there are certain substances which | actually help along the good work. (Goco batter is the safest of these, and can | be bought at any good drug store. A small | quantity will go a long way. One melts it | | and ruba it on night and morning. Faith- | fully, Rub in ws much as ean abeork, | Common olive oll applied in the samo manner i almost as good, You are literally feeding fat into your Meah by doing this, and untae food Lita ae lire ail can yf RUE our Vi but they may grow hei tnd on the face. sicnda padi umping purposes a reliable Crean ed better and is also beneficial, although alower in lta fattening effect. Don't pet a preaseloss cream; get a skin food, and allow it to remain on overnight, Use it under Four make-up, airls, in in small ae and plaster it on under it will help do, away with w atringy throat. Fat it in good and hard, tamtal your skin can absorb no more, and only wipe olf what won't patin. Don't rub—pat. ™ 1 important, na rubbing may make wri kles. Bue the patting will veimulate t the circulation, amd that in itself will help your face to fll out. fo an age when so much that we used to dao for ourselves is done for us mechanically it is not unnatural to think that our phys- ical welfare ought to be taken care of auto- matically; we aPé apt to feck that we should be able to grow thin or fat by d rappin nickel in the slot—a plugged nicke lark ably. But sciene has, fortunately for o moral welfare, not yet advanced that iar. It is all right enough to have out lance played Tor carte cur qe sung and our funny ar tut bay bonoerepie. 1 I am eed Milling that. mur elat washed by an electrical alban th errands says fa eeinoipone, Ge oreven that our breakimet f Hut I thank Gad that there tele atill a ng things we have to do for ourselves or go without. And getting fat is one of them. T can tell vou how, but I can't force you to persevere in the effort. Juat how quickly you may oxpect results d pate af course upon your indiy idunl pf ur, Same people take to fat far pit _ ily than do others, As if orc of four ois faithful fol- ng opram you have mot gained, | either there somethin lueking im your ayater which only a clan can discover or else you have not really been faithful alter all, I de not believe that there & any such thing aa belng naturally thin or naturolly fat. Those cries are the cowardly admission of p who won't moke a sincere effort to alter their condition ond who enj hlamine their ancestry for thelr awn or ms. [thas been an ensy fashion to inlerit one extreme ot the other. This, when oven the emalleat ecientific scrutiny, is Cha: moat fallacious of alibi. Ani uneonscously ft quired habit of mind regarding one’s phys pa eanditian is the moet we can grant such oer fidelts must, however, be aeur mae , very roughly translated “slmpe mist he faithful.” Tt =a ie 2 SUPOr Man or worn to brewk the rulea T have laid down amd break them so discreethy that no harm would be done thereby. Hut keep to the rules and you will aet what you will ae, Add, in the language of the Orient, where fat ia fashionable, | wish you luck. May your shadow never grow 161 RURPEEJOHN NSON FleatAforD SHOCK ABSORBERS The ‘third spring assures comfort Take a ride in a Ford equipped with FleatAforDs and you'll wonder how a cor con be made to ride so easily. The secret is in Rhee faneds “third” epring. The two long spiral springs absorb the dewnwerd thrust with flexible case while the “third spring checks the jarring rebound and bolds the car eteacds witht akicaway, Float/forDs are on the job BOTH ways. Notice that FloatAfer Ds cdo not bine the Ford springs. No tampering with the Ford suspension principles. That's the Penece why we gave Fou positive guarantee against epring breakage. FinetAgorDes ere doe priced, =edan ond hee Tht gag ape nd lmmonwure lncreeee the 1lfe and fuymi ning efficiency cf the cer, 10 Begs’ Trial — 12 not satisfied, theec abecr bers will bet taken off amd poor money refunded. for Ford core and triocke Bald bby eal Ford daalera, Before buying any ehock abeorher get— “Why The Third Sprimg"* Booklet Free= Write for it BURPEE-JOHNSON Co. INDIAN A POLIS: + Soe tk ee \ AR E this wonsler=trips | feire Gl Vieir VacanoR Mimeriry. a A: he reck-ribbed Palisades, the hoe ing Rech POL aT ane i other beauries af the tajeacis Huel Bon, Americe’s most PAGEL ibe be tT = inban dl waterway , are YOUTS to en ca qdhe wthiest fren the cae decks af chee PALATIAL TAY LINE STREAMERS The most lucurtcusly apeeinted epee ceeds din the eer bel Nahe Ciel beta! emesdey ie be Bee Poi Th oy fiver gba ale areca eel foe Roti Plager. 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152 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST - Why This Amazing Dominance? When you consider the degree to which the Speed Wagon today domi- nates every class of carrying, it 1s mo Jess than amazing. In every phase of hauling and delivering the Speed Wagon is supreme. Ask twenty owners or drivers, and each will give you a different reason for his own preference for Reos over all others. One will emphasize the wonderful power and stability of the Reo motor. Another will mention the clutch as superior in rigerous service to any other he has ever known. The next will dilate on the simple, certain, Feo control system and dual clutch-brake feature, as of paramount importance. Are so it will go, through each feature in turn. The rigid yet flexible chassis— the rugged axles—the stipenor starting device—the powerful steering gear—the extra stout wheels. Drivers are invariably enthusiastic over the rondability and other qualities that appeal to the man who actually lives with his truck, six days a week, Superintendents of service shops will tell you of accessibility; reasonable cost of replacement of parts; of Reo Service; and general freedom from trouble. Sum it all up, and you have the real feason—as Carcying unit that is as strong and dependable in one part as in another. In a word, a machine that is perfectly balanced in design and construction, and that excels, not in one or twa, but in all features— minor as well as major. Is it any wonder that spted wagons per- form every class of carrying—from 500 to 27500 pounds—a quarter-bon to a ton- and-a-quarter—and do the work quicker and cheaper? Reo Motor Car Company, Lansing, Michigan Reo Motor Car Co. of Canada, Ltd., Windsor, Ont. oy ) ; Prive are fio hk Factory, ples Fedora! Tax Chassts— B 1 o 45 (The Gold a May i3, 92

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THE SATURDAY ‘TEST OF LOCHINVAR BOBBY (Centinaed fram Poge IF! cree eutele Bel th ie 4 rea 22s 5 tora master had overcome the lowe of wild, But sow Jamis Jaheed. of ee The pte eer a Fe Let ihe's Woods. These veces marked the of the meval forest. Once had been 3 varite plenke nd for Midwestburgers. tlong age been abandoned in wisi tas trad sity iy neetenl corn or by howe: eGek! nuts. In the ter of the grove stood. weed-hidden ring structure that had ones been i veal twist he no longer plu nly through the und , a tof] fareat-ronning callie. Inte his jand into his expression had come some- ig stealthy. His feet made no sound. non cost to earth and tock advantage ue Saas bit al cE ig fe hanelt did me not realize why he did , nor whet change head come over hi it, But Jamie did not appear. bert to Jamie, the dog loved this wild he waa returning to. ig ive gait and his caution. No lange did ! on & fland h . She, throu in twit celery ae yund ‘what he sought, ont Wf a aperture in that formed the sider of the platform. was the hole he had discovered in whood, the hele a heeding into the low leaf-strewn lair beneath the flooring. ng afer with stomach to earth and after each careful forward thruat he under the droge ape Was as had left it—dark, mol w. The flaaring ee ee ciee ine . Yetit still served as rool, even a the ‘of many years" lonyea BS WHTTh ing. im began a stran ear ne: iat mes alenoet at loss of facketiar pir ele Bio has weratincd aoe cee took ® wilderness with as much eagerness the had been berm in it. And there the ieelt aa, aforetime, mated wolves had tin thes gare forests. ; ithe Grat ovenin i: mings af hunger h to rack them mw suppertiove arrived a3 no supper company it. Harking back to Eobhy sallied forth to f i im. ently ored along beside ind of a hundred yards he ek a rabbit acent. Ineatantly the hunting af his youth returned to him. Noise- with couchant body, he fiitted along track. In another ff yords be id he speed with a nines that it made the done tolling Lass col- ia him. puzzled and hesitant, » bed him creep: cenbetagen like a cat tee little distan f dart ahead with whizzing or a bullet. As she ttup wath ahe a he ine van arth ao plump and ki Maoh Palitely he shifted his grip on the allow her a chanes te ap ees eee That was their first ior: the wild, and for days thereafter thay fared sumptuously. The hunting senson was past, Taek of molestation the rabbite kad grown incautious. Bobby was a born tracker and with marvelous quickness Lasa picked up the art of tracking and of stalking. The two waxed fatter from their feasting, at Bi in another month the rabbits for a mille or so around the lair seemed to have learned that the vicinity was not healthful for them, nor conducive to aveod And even os a tubbit-infested Somes goon after "2t the huntin, , Sea80T, the once-pop stretch of a Woods lost fe tig Tt een peak to range farther and farther paren In order to exteh a single unwary rab Bobby took thia oiilosokieally: and strove to add to t Falions an o¢csional tracked partridge or o mouthful ef ba ‘qual Lass bit on a lesa ‘The two ‘tid the b the bulk of their hunting by sie close to the lair for the most Platform or under bit of cover, and lke there, moveless and tense, until the intruder had Probably neither of them realized r did this or why they returned in che unapertenkae device hi u ft ia Pog pain food eam Sper fg lal pe Bg rt canta hevertielsss lepet slug: at eer Tet Hele ga aide. In half a mile she slow oat the oes 65. Term clearing and with nolaeless iB iit i 2 i tH f into Hobby" the fact ¢ rcpt ie chem a ge Babi fecha Ba the collie after a lamb in a field, ag he Faeietep under- stund that lambe cote under Sara hands-off category as do fowls. Tonight a9 Lass wormed her way for- Bob the invitingly open hencoop door a head oF ta Fealet he interpeaed his aeveni bulk between his hungry ae and the brain. prey. To Lass" vast novance and amaze he miouldersd her gen ¥ ntl back from the doorway and toward fringe of forest. Thus it was that the Debby sini BUppeErless: pat Tight: pee law, sald noe! eet i or let him bbrealk it, by way of reward, very met evening came an astoundingly fine bit af luck to the pair, As they were issuing, famished, from the lair, at dusk, something came blundering and crashing t through the bushes atralght toward them. The wind was also blowing toward the doga, and it told them this oncomer was no human, Wherefore instead of slinking back inte their hiding place they inquiringly beta its A oie roach. e undergrowth lurched an dette mcnteolt bull—fat, powerful, lumbering. From a farm three miles away sprang in front of her. 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THE 154 Alou free Circulation Wide-Webs depend for #1 er sort, not on tightness, but on the happy combinat fon of the weave and broad surface of the solt wide web. This means free circula- tion and free play for leg muscles. They are adjustable. This means a perfect, comfort- able ft from first to last. Ask for Pioneer-Brighton in the smart blue and orange box. PIONEER} WIDE-WEB GARTER Single Grip—dsec. and up Double Grip—Stc.and up For 4d poors raiWrechinrerd of Pioneer Suspenders Plonect Bellte Ploneer- Prigh tort Cortera PIONE et SUSPENDER [PANY PHILADELPHIA PA. ——- =- = 2 | by the SATURDAY EVENING POST he isp , after trampling and gociny neal h the man inte had tend him ped birth—the man who deemed him etill a harmless calf. His temper and his nerves sti ws a attempt at Slaughter, and fear of the er fi who had awatmed forth with, pitchforks and staves to beat bim away from hia Brey the young bull had taken to the woods, Phe: Now in analy esr the law Jamia Mackellar h nothing about cattle, nil reg ohis tee of food Bobby be came all wolf. He crawled forward oblique course toward the enemy, Lass as reer close behind him, The bull cither amw bodies through the duak or ong ok a atte of their acent, fer he halbed, lowered his head and pawed the forest mold. The halted, too, and crowched weThea with no furth the an em re Fb ae wernie ae nine males pare a? ng mL tare Fg a the two neti dark forms. The doge had never aon by ip teh aps rata plan Tih chanoo Tehenraal or for ang arrunged plan of cumpaign, Pall nd ervel old Mother Nature taught them what te do, even aa ahe taught the first starving wol a million years apo. By common consent they drew wig = let from each other to avoid & bull—as ever is the way of bulls changed with his eyes tightebut. Ashe hurtled the apot le was aiming for, Robby had hind leg just above the hock and was grinding with all the strength and skill | of his mighty jaws th tough hide and | tender flesh, in quest of the tendon. Lass, less wise, had eprung for the throat, Her white fangs cleft through oa | fmeping: toh of akin, to no leth urna | A single jerk of the bull's neck flung her aelde wlth a handfal of skin and hair be tween her teeth, At the same time an | agonined fling of the bitten bind leg sent | Bobby rolling over and aver in the bushes, e breath knocked out of him. But at | vel he was up again. The bull, maddened by his hurts, glared | from one crouching tormentor to the other, | Then shuttin | Robby. And” his ave agen he charged Here — Laas learned from her firat. faihare dogs he thres combatants by shes in the eeblant. Then the bull waa free for another someti Five thes he rushed with abut za ca a elusive collie. Five times hia slashed and ni in that tadtstrious quest for the all-important tendon, Then heaving ond ng he ceased hie charges and wt ‘doubtfully at the two, He had had enough, more than enough, He was through. He took « step backward, Instantly Lass was slushing at his seni Live mice, ng just out of reach of the tertile short horns and butting fore head. While she beld him thus in momen- tary confused pouse Bobby found the way te the tendon he sought, The wu, bet: emailer how that the foe was standing | stock-etill and braced. The bull spun about to crush him, but he aie only half of the desired turn. From ing cous: his right bind | eave way moet agonizingly under him he plunged to, ea to earth with an impact that Fiercely the two doga eh for the swaying throat. The rest was Ne aa vind Lassie lay down ond tel heavily for a few minutes before beginning the feast. Bobby, his beautiful on one si his dew dark evel bead Fae with sympathy, s near her, walling. Of late she tired mach more eaally than at firet. Nor, except for short exertions, was she so awilt and so wirlly vigorous. on Laie ane it back her breath and the eaeted long and rvencualy, If stents was made for the strayed bul- lock that search did not extend eo far aa an undergrowth-choked soction of Blake's Worls, And for long therentter the lardor of the runaway collier was replete with ten- derfood. Thesupply would have lasted still longer had not the crows flocked to it by day. Bobby drove these off fifty times be- teeen sunrise ond dusk, but as often they clamored back greedily to the banquet. Then, on a marning, ere was noth left of the bullock but a #keleton on whose few remaining ahreia of flesh the erowe alighted unchallenged, They were unchal- longed because Lochinvar Bobby waa riak- | ing expasure by forging far fram the lair, Afay i3, ar t; and beeen Lyn lay in & corner of that lair wis) seven sleek mouse-colored puppies, : preer tte than squirrels, nestling close ty tnt Te pov this new family that Bothy had deserted his nocturnal bali, to scour the foresta by sunlight, Monstrien dog and solf-important wos the this day, and he hunted in rare goo: Rabbits are lmoat as ily the i Because, many days bast thet callie foes ore Sue eatin them, the Reni nee the dogs had derarted from hee ods or elee that ther ko lost their taste for bunnies. Back to the ald feedlag grounds trooped numbers of th: se apchty fe d of them good | ound one =i big fellow at that—before he had quested fr an hour, Back to the platform he bere | ln triumph, Ignoring the molay crow, o being far beneath hia notioe on ao great \ day, be crawled through the hole into thr dark lair and laid his prize in front of Law and by browd da Then be sniffed in in curiosity w: SEVER Ww ing amd « ing babie. Their presence om through all his vara sale be Felt. be cut es for them and and guard then, maibility which is ever presi ities gh fathers and practically ave with aires waa heavy upon him. Thanks to the ill-founded confidence: of the rabbit folk, foraging wae easier: this! n weelt or so. nonce more the bunnies vonlehed, and to find one of them ane was forced to Fahge several miles af He hunted alone nowadays— soni hire anights—for Lass stayed at home, gelder ering farther from the lair than t» g-ilisiant sprin ponte Eb sere F for a water bo T was no longer any fun for Loch ver Bobby in these nights of hunting, fy they carried me far, and more than oss iey carned him inte real of fancied pen i be laying his return te the lair unt wd sunrise. But it did mot eseur to ba to shirk his new gre Apart from hi utter devotion to his mate—a devotin more sstraarl enone Siehioree collies tha pgped nad i ibili ard ad Ghat od cs responsibility tow pups. this sense, as Lhave said, wast al) weil It was sweet to crawl wearied|y into ta . on his return from a t era and ta dro bier feet the rabbit or pe cigs be d brought home. Tt was ees her tail welcom ting glad among the dried leaves of the nest wher | drew near, and her litth whimper of gre ing aa they touched noses, [t wos smuzin = ee veg - ae wateh « umay antion of the pu shee eee st as rabbite—as they tumbled over him: over their mo or strove to play = one another ufter the manner of =! jointed patent toys, Yea, if life meant new work it also men strange new interesta. Amd if again again Bobby's heart was racked by long for his lost master, yet his present, ties bi hina back from rebural to the haunt men, now that Jamie disappeared. In the early apringtime duak the fu family would come out from the lair s chance an hour of fading daylight in | open, the sire and ing ee at ease amid the undergrowth wh pipes gamboled awkwardly hide oh omayed cinpgery little litth: excursions fa iow weeds on either scr Lass wutched thease power | tripe © real worry. Seldom did she gljow then continue for distance before jump to her feet and heading off the creep ee acon and nosing wt back into sia Sp ae her time ae | fhe were taken up nowadays by fully babies of hers. She d scare thought for her oneeidolized mate exc when he brought food home, Nor wo ahe follow him for a single mile from precious pope. Presently Bobby seemed to note | change of heart, and it aaddened him. was too big of soul to visit any remenie on the youngsters that had stolen DL devetion from him, Yet patheticonly atrove to coax her to romps aa of to the long forest rambles they enjoyed aa argh And, failing br the gay dash be be ta . He lost pean Se be Sook hee » which malig cuter keane a One night heset forth ae usual an kisl quest for food. He coursed the forest’ (Caitinied of Page 57

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(fattaeed from Page fod) ihe bls hevond for ig Ferenity miles, drawing hackatevery covert except one, and cis fry bie prey? by @ Shain’ a breadth when ine bunny Ghved into a bowlder crack eHithet dog could nat follow, Tired hongty. at gray dawn Bobby turned bet toward the nsailcdbenea ale Be tad not oped a half mile when he was then veently on hisside, This by reason of planting one careless hind foot on the fares of a well-hidden fox trap. OF od dd Bothy would have caught the seat of this and would have anet it, But kng dwell with humane had kiinted in a measure the wolf instinet that tod been his aa a 1m puppy, and he fad stepped straight into the snurt,. Te seal jaws caught his foot slanting! They drove through the akin and they held inet, frat they did not break the bone or ao mech wr cut a tendon. Nevertheless, he spring would nok re its held in aplte of all Bobby's ae. Sor did the Slender steel chain. Nor d the deogeilriven stake to which it was fied. The dig wae a. prisoner, Savlight qume fe before he ceased his nad thrashing about. Then rose the sun aed @pped high and higher in the ekies. The storming wos half spent beforo the temtand who had set trap remem eed to viet bt. Tie his fnered lous dis fe poke! found a gigantic iawapant rite collie stretched at full length ai the Soin'a farthest span, pastin for bres The man chirped ta him. Botsby ti ho not esarl the galute by so much as AE ea i ened a worn Savagegy Wb a e man an appraising at him, ring setully on the posible reward for Bo magnificent a dog, Hf the brite were not Inedy too far gone to revive. Then be mit to open the trap. Later it weuld be me to try to resuscitate ite helpless isthe steel jaws were pried free from the ig foot the lnert Hobby came be life, on d the edges cleared hia paw when eweup, He sprang from ground fh lightning swiftness, and in practically te aame mation he whirled acrom the heet distance between the trap and the rast ine of bushes. Into this shelter he slid as noiselessly ag tort 23 Che astonished farmhand made a ted rush at him, Still on pods of inet, oblivious of the pain and surellin ‘Aw torn foot, the collie aped at i Be tos the miles of eon that lay be = himwelf and the Inir, queer worry, & mystic instinct--- orged himon., Twiee he sprang meross ots, but though he was par for fst he did not pause todrink, And ever, he ran, that same mysterious terror Bee Stronger and more and more REO =aly compelling. he was in Blake's Woods. Then wake the mouth of the lair, At sound ha approach sewen ff to voices raised benger chorus. But Lass’ welcoming dmper wae not them. Last was ithe, Even before he stooped to peer Mt the opening Bobby's scehting powers Shimeht was gone, “The hungry puppica itawled eut of their nest and were ling about in the open ‘a moment Bobby stood there, hie ‘Sepes clouded with misery. Then as fhe colle brain and ressoureefulnoms te to hia ald. Neetrila te ground he be- (to course, Tnatarthy Plebed up s'trail, Itwaafresh. A mongrel puppy ‘id have fallopeed it, tere, bot an hour nr, Lose had trotted, ' Pate bad net come home, her babies ¢ hingry, and there was no one bet wl to forage for them. Before she had a quarter mile she had caught the scent | Troe, tt wos from which te had ones driven her, but he wae not itoe to push her aside from it. And in ts, mother cinta was a billionfold ger than fot of the meta and straight to the ret arm ahe went. The first outbulld- Be came to was the chicken coop. It the work of a moment for her to butt fh thee door of it, and of another nest to drive her teeth inte the fattest ft a8 tmnal it proved easier te get inte thle than to get outof it, The chickens Sp a tot godless racket. A man came ry frei ie adjacent barn jest as the [owl succumbed ta Lass' pounce. Sie her futile efforts he grab the callie by the nape of the neck and wut of the coop. = THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The county law indemnifies a owner for birds kilked bay meaay ay doe In- stead of bruning impulse, the man shut her + nto an erapty cormenb six feet alee and. oft her there until he could drive to the village and bring back with him the loeal con- stably iu to the damage and to its tutor. here ln the dusty recesses of the crib, nigh on wooden poets with ao tla pan at the of each to keep out rata, the luckless tallis ran from side to side, biting and seratehing at the slats in furiows attempts te get out. And there Lachinvar Bob found her. Bobby circled the crib, Hearing, righ and seeking vainly to get a foothold on its aides. Last whined plaintively, scratching at the thick alate and ee herself at them. in a frenzy af dread Then ail at once Bobby ceased his fran- theal taeless off Agnin he mov secmingly deaf to his mate's whimpering cries. And at the cimax of despair came his ides. : Man in dire extremity runs to his God for aid. Tea the dig oll men are gods. That does not mean be worship them all or buss any we for the majority of them. till, they are gods and he knows it—infinitel wiser ond stron and more +i than himself. us it waa that Lechinvar Bobby in i agony of fear for hia brood turned to tha ovis he knew of, His personal mo Jamie Muckellar, was Fane, perecinl there were other gods, not at to him—gods for whorm he had a mild ois who had made much of him. These dencroft folk, rather than any strangera, would be suey to help him in hia moment of stark peel Without ancther backward look at the mate he was apparently deserting to her doom, Bobby went into action. Head n, feet fhring, he flashed across the elearing, heading in a bee Line for Mid- weatburg. Jamie Mackellar at the end of sight werks had been able to hobble about ana cone. Assoon aa he had come to complete conaciousness, at Beldencroft, his first query had been for Bobby; ary kennelmen were sent forth to hunt relia tot the el A policeman disbanded kine ing one of the searchers that a big calla that morning had become in quest of a. lost master in the thick of traffic at the Main and State Street cross ing, and bed been run over and killed by a mitor car. The description seemed te iit Bobby, even to the mud-covered coat. For- pe that scores of dogs, hunting their ast masters, are killed in that way, the konnelman went na further ints the matter, but returned home and sent Jamie's fever soaring three by telling him Bobby Was Fun over and dead, On a stiffingly hot noon in late June Jamia Mackellar aoa toakting his hobbling roune af the keinels when a hurry catapult hurled [teelf past the corner of the driveway and flung itself bodily wpon him. "Bobby!" ae the. dumfounded Jeans, in Vanes of incredulous rapture. For an instant the deliriousiy happy man and the ater orci snrapend id were all over each other. Ten came running up. One af them telephoned the main howe and Rufus G. Belden came hurrying down in person to verify the rho 1 Mouckellor ii h “Ao howe was L as he ‘the be breath out of ee eenkeeting 5 maniac that galloped hysterically aboat him, flinging iteelf again and again on hia cheat. “Bobby, boy, is it the wraith af did roll lie when you said you were Paar die but it's new life to see eet AO Na self again! It —— at ails your Poor foot, there, Hobby? It's all qutt andtstim Shon thes Bobby resovered trom So ALL meling ¥ vanished master, and Saharterd oie he had come to Reldencroft. In an instant hia wild exuberance was gone, gone so eud- doniy that Jamie broke off, astonished, ia his own incoherent words of welcome. Seizing Mackellar by the coat hem the dog braced himself and tugged. Then he let: go and eat a. shore arb toward the highrond pealing ely and making ae alt ge Eager with are frantic barks, Aa all deg men know, this behavior means butane thing. Jamie Mackellar not only knew dogs in general but he knew Bobby in particular, He knew that in the a's 4 me Gractle DRAPE AND BURSON GRACE ss Yatalic Horris “The penchant for gracile drapery raps for the attention of Madame and Mademoi- selle this season and, whether the occasion speak for the evening gown or the fringed sport skirt, more attention than ever must be paid to the selection of stockings. From behind the swirling Grecian drapery trim ankles constantly play peepand hide, and what is more annoying to their owner than to know that their shim grace ts marred by unsightly, croaked stock- ing seams? Long before Burson dis- covered the evolutionizing idea for knitting shapely hosiery, stocking makers knitted hosiery flat—making allowance for the contour of the ankle—then sewed the product of their looms with a seam up the back. Next came the “tubular” hosiery, a pipe of knitted fab- ric which practically ignored the ankle. Now, someof these ordinary, seamless stockings, with just as many needles

- i <: |] Al, | Fs [NALA LL a ae ee Le oe oe | am We Laat fh ! f oe | = il Lt i ie i th ie Fes Ae fly 7 4 ne i at cae! Hl ino ef ie | || el = oth fel yf ig | cals Po a. ‘ ti bes, £ = if to the ankle as the leg—are made with a mock seam up the back, attempting to imi- tate real fashioned hosiery. Often the latter is difficult to detect until the hosiery re- turns from the laundry shy of its “ pressed-in” shape. “"Weatness for drapery's sake—faultlessly neat” is the whisper which circles the new vogue to us from the salons of Paris, Burson is the correct and final word in the dress of trim ankles—whether your de- mand be for silk, lisle, mer- cerized, cotton or heathers. Burson means full-fash- toned hosiery, without seanis, giving the slim-ankled effecc. Burson Hosiery has nothing to fear from a tu ding—or the laundry. It is comfortable to wear. It re- mains faithful in its promise to wear long—and it retains its live elasticity and knit-in shape as long as you wear it, Deo ask to see it, and you will want to take a box home. ov URSO ba J Tale SLES SILK CFE. f . ANT CIRRCRRIZED ed Hote HfeaTHERs Burson Kwitrting Company, Rockroarp, ILLinots 157

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158 What It Costs the Ice Dealer lo he READY serve is avery big item in the cost of ice delivery. Itinvolves filling ice houses to take care of maxitvum need in event of achot sum- mer ar providing capacity to make encugh ice. If the summer turns aut cool the preparation is. wasted. Then the ice dealer must be ice the year ‘round. More and more of his customers Reape 55 ts we pared to deliver take some ice in winter. He k his wagons going to deliver itasneeded. That is a heavy ex The tonnage is too light to pay for his overhead; so in winter the ice dealer always loses money. In the heat of summer it takes a lot of wagons and drivers to take care of rush demand. When people need ice, they need it immediately, Prompt service is expensive, The making or harvesting of ice is not the main ex: pense—its cost at cece hehe aad eee the consumer. Delivering ice and being ready tode- liver it as needed often cats up one-half of every dollar you pay to the ice dealer. It is the official badge of honor awarded to members of the National Association of Ice Industries wha live up to its high standards of service to the public and the pledge required of them to give you Pure Ice + Careful Weight - Good Service The National Association of Ice Industries is organ: ized to improve ice delivery, to extend the uses of ie, Inform the lic about refi jon of food in the allagatad! woe anid hae econ: omizing ice, saving food and protecting health. The housewife should see tout that ther ice dealer a wagon bears this emblem. NATIONAL ASSOCLATION OF ICE INDUSTRIES 163 We Washington Street, Chicago, Tl. ICE DEPEND IN ALL WEATHER THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Bobby minute of their reunion Lochinvar By would never have sought this to make wus a sole nbs meee: except for some tremend aay et And every line of the callie aan theta every errtckrgs Gen of his frenziedly ing f a beara need, Jamie Peewee alte alter at his master's first step seiloped up ie aes ‘ie te the gates and turned again bark entreaty. “What's the matter?” sashed Rufus G blinking perplexedly at the eager dog and at the limpingly following Mackellar. |. “He wants me to somewhere with him, sir,’ called back Jamle over his shoulder. “And he wante it mighty bad. Bee, he's starting off down the turnpike. With 8 poor cut foot, at that!” “And you're going to strain that bum leg of sours by chasing after a dog just meee eee eye sae ee aa walk?" seoffed Belden. “Lf you'd at a look at those eves of his, air, or if you'd try to read his hark woud | know it waa something b “a as called back Jamie. “Hobby never yet played the fool or made a fool of me. He neeis me. I dont know why. But I'm going. Boden grunted. Then, os Maoclellor Started down the road alter the hastening san . the great Rufus G. gave an order to the men. Two minutes later a tour | rh car care toe halt behind the plodding amie. “Here!” ordered Rufus G. from the tonneau. “Hop in. If you're going to be idiot enough to follow that beast across the continent you may as well do it without pulting 98 your leg out of business." - Bobby had paused wor- riedly. Then he had run on fora few more tentative stepa. As the car followed he understood, And no longer troubling to alacken his, ce or toe look back appenl- a orth at a sweeping run. \i an aig ta later =p car topes ts 3 in a farm dooryard, The place wos the farmer having taken his wife along on hia drive ta the village. em did inti hoger pet ar for the openly @uying Rufus to out of the ear. ices the doarvard he sped, eomlng to a halt at the foot of a eernerib. Around this he galloped, whining. He tried to climb the six-foot ladder to ita doar, but be fell back, From the crib's interior Came an wnswerng whimper. At sound of his mate's call Bo flashed back to the car, whence Mackellar was descending, and caught Jamie again by the ar “He's got something in that cornerib he wants to show ua," ven éelden, stck- ing to mask his aroused interest. “A cat he B treed there, most likely. Or a skunk. “No, air’ denied Jnmie, Tthounting the fae Lier and peewee 1¢ through the slat open- Iris, 4 ollie,’ He lifted the crib’s door Itch to pet oa hebier view of thec uplive, Lass suved him the trouble of opening the door, for she fing herself. agatnet- it and catapult ed oni into -spaver, nimnst knocking Mackellar from the Ladle Lee. Striking. ground ms Nght ely ns @ panther Laas fearce Waited fo father feruelf uy before sharcing on across. the | landscape like 2a polden stresk, She did not give Hobby ao much wea glance as she whined pest him. Cmily ance an her. flight thi she slacken apeed That was when her flying feet bere Pr Piast the + hie Leoopi, The thre: slatnh fowls had been Inid-in o row on the ebro aitsibe the coop, for tine constable tome. Barely checking her stride Lassa abe her | 12 ard And Mh abi hed iif one af Eheee hens os she re she waa off with tlhe peel nf wr Blak : Wools, she Lara hunger ic vards jee ) Boobies had tart ; her Tack, hurt Alter i May 15, 1977 hesitated and came to an irresolute stop, He looked back at bit master, hie sees oy 2 abrim with appeal. Then be Tooked his worahi mate and took a step of ive to follow her. But of a sudden te again, with w bow whose pain went even to the heart of wondering "T, With something ridiculously akin to 9 pee Se hie tuirey, Crome ERe Sree ice eras and walked alow stocd. There, shaking os if with a chill Lochinvar Bobby laid himself down, hx Clussic head eroas Jamie's boot. He bad made his choice, the choice thet threatened to tear eit eo mt af him. Man Bobby wna turning his back ee Mate and on bis brootl ane ie everything his wall nature craved, for the aake of the man who was his There he lay, quivering, and with that strange sobbing sound in his throat, ho head athwart James muddy beet, ho tear-flled dark eyes lifted te Mackellafs face in sorrowtul eg There was ory Even Re valgbla Flufus G. could not think of anything funny to aay. Then Jamle cleared his throat apd said, “T—I think I understand, fir. I thisk | get it all. I—I know Hobby, you Fras And I know 2 bit about eollies at large. Likewise [| remember the a ttoom: in Babhy wed te live, Aad Bobby, boy, "tis a. feackeesar tl ng Bee i ereature turn from its mate to ite ged’ AC fearsome thing, Bobby, lad; be the cTeature nothi mit a ot How mart humana would have the om te do i. d'ye spier? How many? But ye'll not ee Nore i Sent ik I'm aan obby, if I'm right in guessing what we'll find under yor platform. Ye're luckier, that way, hby, than a bot of humans. Or—or, aibanes ye're not. Who but Gred knows? (Come abomg f" He laid wt bps itped bill baesicle, tebe recuuinin chickens, Then forth on Fie quest. “Where are wou goingt oe Flufiss (Gr, as Jamie stumped off beside him. exquisite courtesy of his kind. rE aa ing thia hand gut. Though it make te penne of sense to me, ay of it. Wi t ts Peters brin r oe up at his master with grew excitement as Mackellar gave directions to the disprantied chauffeur. At a turn in the inderhrush Jems jumped up, pootin and shouting, "T was tight, Bo T wes righl See! snd your mate goes with your bein to Belkdencrtt teo, Dll buy -ner a Be owner @yer shows Up. See, eenae He waa gesturing toward a bushes where showed a bit of the fact platform, with A TRE 1d hobe im ite side the mouth of this he a Lay Lassie, her sere babies crowding anand ‘her furry vides, Ld very daintily she tore apart » large and oherse Hen, Hobby awoke the echoes with a. those if ecstatic barks. "Hr!" mused Aafia (GG. on snother fel minutes a5 he and Jamle loaded the pup into the tonneau, along with their eft tively happy. parents. “Talk about Scot thrift! Hore yo lose Bobby for fe months, and you get hic back with Tid pee cent interest— BK) per cent, counting 4 mrte, Lord, but | wish le ould lose a block Fiuilroad hands that way for four months! ry = a ¥, t a ; La | Let

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 159 a Mevones, there's that new 7 meee fewart Speedometer.” "Say! That's a fine idea, I'm going to find out more about it." | eee |) “This is the new Stewart Speedometer, for Fords, Mr. Jones. Here's what the color dials will do for you. You've never before been able to get definite information on when to oil and grease the various parts of your car. The color dials automatically give you this information. They act as a mechanical book-keeper. “There are five colors which appear at certain mileages in the season mileage odometer. Every time one of these colors turns up, look at the =, ¥ lubrication chart and it tells you just where oil and grease are needed. For instanec: a red dial will appear every 1000 miles. Let's look ar the chart. It tells you to change the oil—to grease the differential. It tells you how to do this. And the diagram shows where these oil and grease points are. am “It is mot necessary to keep a record of any kind. The colors cannot Medien ==» Ask for the Speedometer with possibly fail to turn up at the proper mileage. You can forget all about the color dials, oiling and greasing until the color dials tell you it is absolutely neces- : sary. All unnecessary lifting up of floor boards or getting under the This diel: pica ine re, : reales iene eee ire car to ascertain if you need oil or grease is eliminated. additional device which keeps an automatic ever visible lubrication record for your car. Because of our immense production facilities we can “You want to keep your car in Al condition. To cut down your repair of et i ula SE cea phi ite bills due to lack of lubrication. To increase the life of your car. To Ford Owner many times that amount. obtain a good trade-in price. The color dials do all this for you.” Al [wbrication chart is fure SL ikad Gah acl cadets STEWART-WARNER SPEEDOMETER COR'N CHICAGO, UU. &. A. CLUUW' —~ SPEEDOMETERS == ‘LLS YOU WHEN TO LUBRICATE- TELLS YOU YOUR SPEED -RECORDS TOTAL MILEAGE

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 15, 1927 Number two is out! AY if one cylinder in a gas. engine doeze not explode, there is a similar effect. The other cylinders must fight againstthe miss- ing one. They lose the power that it should give and must burn up some of their own power to carry the load of the dead cylinder with its compressed (and wasted) gas. One cylinder missing irregularly is dificult to detect by screwdriver or open cut-out methods. It took an expert to find it before the Westinghouse Ignition Tester— Spark<S—was invented, Now anyone, amateur or expert, can find ignition troubles almost instantly. All you have to do is place the point of the Tester Westinghouse Lamp Company Executive Offices: 165 Broadway, New York Diserict Sales Offices tn Principal Cine Westinghouse against each spark plug and read in the “window” of Spark-G whether or not the plug is firing properly. Spark-C Ignition Tester is easy to use, clean, safe, efficient. It will last indefinitely. If you have a car, a motor boat an airplane or stationary gas engi buy a Westinghouse Ignition Tes ter—Spark-C. Check up the igni tion system now and period It will help to give you the ful power of your engine and save considerable unfred gas. " Your automotive dealer or ga rageman has a stock of Spark-Ca can get them from our neare district sales office.

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THE SATURDAY RITA COVENTRY (Coptiqued from Boge 23) “Jer't she beautiful to-night!" frothed js Femls, looking after her, “I never ww her in that type of frock before, did mt It makes her look ao girlish—eo de because of the failure of her me with Delaney she looked Pan vemarked the gown. It was the gmpathetic™ shell-pink gown she had sered on the day he met her at the dress aor He did net mention that, how- ‘Telaney. too, Wad gazing alter Rita. var be tant he, almost as if speaking to reall, ! 1iv'a Ipegutifiel."* Mrs, Fernis had evidently gathered that ae trem Del was praise indeed, for ‘on Tice she said to her, “Mr, caney hid been admiring your droas.”* ally?” She looked at him, “Have ; att “Then” she said half jestingly, Hei in rabletter dey for me. | had about adosed hope of ewer extorting a com- eet from you.” Deuney thahed and looked confused, tramoament’s hesitation he anid gravely: hy, surely you know T admire you very ih” Fauth etrana spoken before mel haa and though ap e he de only a ceerentiousal rertst el ja curious feeling aa af palette hed idsomething he waa not meant to hear, fe a litte bit embarrassed; ane ac, deatly, did Mrs, Fernis, for with the mer of ont who has by accident in- dre she turned hastily ta Parrish, aay- “Tm almply famished, aren't yout fego-and get some Supper.’ bs Ebiyr moved together toward the dine room she ms "Tiesn't he strike you as being a very lar FOUTIg Tra: ace hernia himself in full accord 5. a trikes tut as being all of that," exeVIIT pili supper, when eek WETE nyed re pstptercipeal sanin, m, Delaney paves Fy Pic Gallery, whie “sa annaunced he had completed, In it he attempted «a mousi- ccaaion of the emotions erented | tpalntings. The first represented one dard 5 ranvases—water lilles in the ren at Giverny; the second, ria Whistler; thet ird, a Spanish set place thar Lamar Ng music, like paimti porctaiad ns impression= Parrish d net ticle much af it, and ss astonished when the musicians fed around Delaney and congratu- him with an enthusiasm apparently low let me als aoe one of his new ("she said, and immediately the room ne quiet. at liked the song better than the compasitian: it had a melody, and ond—an old poem by Samuel Lover— lemorous: ‘tit time F ahold talk io your mather, me Miry,"” saya J: don'i tale io ey yraother," ginning to ery —— fter a rejection by Mary of a like tion in regard to her father: thor shall I pet yon, my jewel, wt Marg?" says ur falker ond pink # ao crmel, be eurely JU aie!" Ww any die, dear," oy the fo sore bmy paréida ore @ od betier aak me!" Mo encom: Rita sang fect of Bonnie Deon fare of the aor only as a backgrounel fhirights. t Sweet Mary song was new, eh? noticed music manuseript on the rt neither of them had used it, tt words end miisic by henrt. rine the aeng? Hoew Jorg hal bt te legen it? Of enurse she was just whee had she he knew just when, it ee Pose it had taken. Deluney says Mary, says Jorg: T see; fa contrary — eer oe a ars had come Inte; that ge pe hadn't tehentaed this evening, When then? Somehow he didn . ike 't the Idea of their rehearsing there together, alone. The first thing Rita knew, Delaney would begin to misundgratand her interest in his music, all, he was just a pinne tuner: he had ne advantages, no breeding. Amd he read the Russians—the rotten Russianal He wondered if Delaney had been in town ever sinee thet might he had seen him witeide the opera house; it: looked thot way. He had said in Athantie City that he eouldn’t afford to come to New York at all: bed he had come; and now apparently he ing around, Mad the mauesic pul lishera and the Dern bore le ad= vaneed him money? ‘ere t In the habit of advancing money to eb compost? Fle didn't bheleye BD; compostm were trulitionally if fans had been advanced ft must ort have teh cause of Hite's influence. Tt was not for a woeman to use her influence in that way fora man.- Not that sort of man, any- way. He would have to speak to her about it tonight, when the guests had gone. After singing, Rita summoned Sehoon to exhibit to some of the others his tricks at the o with an ora and a hairbrush, the Fiano turn was f ed by Wildenstein, who a hie own elaboration of a Strauss “He is very vain of playing the well in addition ta conductin nia whispered to Parrish. SE Pencil to set great store by these little tithita of gcesip about the musics) celebrities. Already some of the guests hac left, and now a8 it was nearly one o'clock a more Festa exodus began. Soon only Parrish, Ferns, Frémecourt and Delaney re- mained. Frémecourt wasn netorious night owl and Mra. Fernis wos almost as note rious & on. Leavin e others gathered around the Piano, where tmecourt was homming Bonnie Doon, Rita drew Parrish aside. “T haven't aeen you in * she said, “and to-night I'd counted of a Little visit with you, but" '—she gave her shrug—" you see how ithas been?" She ran ri " Aside from that, I do think the party has been Sraphttag NA ad he ar i m—den't you think mit 5 » “They sremed ta," moush “Dors he York lang?" cnge = he replied magnani- expect to be in New “Yes, he's really getting launched, Lieh- mann is publishing nie Doon, you knew, and he said tonight lint he would bring aut Sweet Maury und Ina Picture Gals lery. That's all right." Parrish returned, “but what I'm wondering is: How ean Delaney afford to stick around New York all this time? You know in Atlantic City he told ws “Oh, it's dear of yeu te be warrayin about that!" she put in, her ban with what seemed to be an oe on ture upon his arm, and raisi warm with gratitude te his. “ nis, jis just the aame, tha ugh—it' 's all been fied. “So 1 j “said he. "Tt isn't as if it wert only sheet music," Rita continued, “There's the Discaphone, There'll be lota af money for him in that when he geta started. I'm golng to sing Sweet Mary for, them to-morrow, and next week Dn —' "OF course," he interrupted, “you've done wonders for him. That without gaving. Lf it weren't for ‘d #till be ra He around Atlantic City in his old checked a. Probuely pianos. No queation about that, Frobubly all the rest of his life, Bi Ritu, ait sanether side of this thing and you ——" She looked quickly at the others. 'Sh-hl" she warmed, “Come over here,” Again laying her hand upon his sloeve she drew him farther from the poat the pane. Then lowering her voice to nm con dential tone: “There's something I want ou to do for mee, dear. You can help ine a at if you will.” newld “Prémecourk will simply newer go heme,” ahe whispered, “nor- Grace Fernie. I'm always having to send these-two away, T must get them out prett econ, I have ‘to practice Chose sang, ‘ ‘aldowski, Frémecourt and | | Her oF Rant wus rarnest and appealing, He EVENING POST Lspess-vou have eaten Apollo Chocolates you canmot even guess at how good they are. Unless your dealer carries them you have no opportunity of finding out. We have therefore selected some Apollo pieces—all different —which we think you will like and your dealer's name for this quarter-pound trial Box of Apollo Chocolates and packed them ina special box for your approval This acquaintance box will, we beheve,pive you a omewodea of candy excellence. Send for it and see if we are mot right —juet a quarter in an envelope with your dealer’s name and your own. 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For safe dy mops good adeaters TOM WWE, Winchendon, Wass, Incorporated | Mrs. pecan Bl He broke in with “You mean aloneT' “No, of course not, With Delaney.” He stared at her. “Lat me get this ight. You mean— what you want me te do—you want me bo go—la that it—and take them, and leave you with rarer pe Ml Sha "Oh, you dol" he said roughly, his rage nivendcr nee ah Bs do youl Wall, you gues apaini” & him fixedly without tice * ie he continued in a tone iy sarcastic: “No, my dear, you've got it wrong this time! I'm not the one wh going. It's your little friend you see? And what's more " His volee waa rising. je ee a row!" ghe broke in you see they're listenin He Flanced toward the Pans ‘eatehing ia” aie ieee upon them. Haatily she looked away. “What do I care!" he exclaimed. “If you don't want them to listen get them auat! There are some things you and I are going to #ettle right here, to-night. I'm going to have a talk with you Tow if it's a ag she flashed, “on hal basis ——"" And leaving him abruptly she moved toward the others, Mrs. Fernis, rte met her halfway. " Fite, dear, " she announced, Fréme- court and I have just been saying we must zo. its getting scar scandalously walked ale ks room an speeded : ni he sata, “but we'll have to pt a Crt Ronit clock, will yeeanding at some distance from the door with the three. “Aa he watehed Delunoy go | | he thrust his hands into his troieers eis and planted his feet more firmly on the try half coneciously to assume the a host. It gave him a sense of Emp them out Rita presead em Fe i a Fi gdh op Sra Peep a om ome Se ae a a tlistent mark. af bid tt ight. the Fre se a in ing them good Thi ‘om wherd he sted: te see her eanleg aver the Gulustrade looking after them. Presently be heard the soft matallic sound of tha front door closing. Rita called down to the butler, “* Pierre!’ * Mademoiselle?" He came Fushi ng Up. Zz umiere bi-fire," engi she added: “ Monsieur will fue presently, I'll ring." Aferct." He de- "H ik Was os a recwution that you tald Pierre to ait u sald with a oon- temptucus 1i e laugh, “it was quite un- neceasary. I ssh I were the ki mann who can take a woman and drag her around bie ae hair, It's what you need! Evi- ceutly: ror know it toa, But can sok ag nd at rest—you won't have to ring oF ar ™ a ae you're ngle-Saxon,” ahe retortesd “T wasn't worrving. It's a little coil , that's all. Deoean't it seem fitting that I d have you shown owt with due ceremony when prghaliy you'll be leaving for the last time?" The Bigpency hurt him as no display of an ers es in tg “that's all this whole thing | has meant to you, ait?" She was at the other end of the room; he tock a few sbops toward her. “If my going doesn't ean any more than that. te you I might ws well gon "1 Wes only striking back," che said quickly. “ Dan't let's go on like this, Let's ait down ite talk things over.” Shear rang the bell again, and returning teal a chair, indicating to him a place upon a near-by couch, He sat in silenor until Plerre reappeared. “Ved were wp late last night," Rita said to him. “I wil see monsicur to the door. “T thank mademoiselle." He bowed retired. Parrish listenel to the sound of hia footfalls on the stalrease. ell?" ehe invited. you think there's no end to what I ean stand," he asked her, “or is it thet you just tee t Sept I care. Da think if I weren't *Tfond of you I'd be here now?” end pt iat are ‘fond of me," he I think one may fairiy ASSUIDe Se ile ade It seoma strange now lightly" May ny that I didn't see all along that with pou j was nothing more than fondness. back, avorting has pointed that But I nf see it—or would’, Natu , I didn't want to see i, carry for you aa I do. Oh, what a fatoows jdic Caring f do?" she echoed "Caring for me as you do " And dl just how much de you think you de a liention of doulvt as to the af hia Te feling for & moment stupefed he "Tf T haven't shown you," he anrerred, “T guess there's no way for me to tell yoy now, “But,” she demanded seg wal “ia mag ¥ loves a Ween Part dee doesn't he ak het to marry him Marriage Ws that it, then? Waa thy: rte she had been thinking of all thy ot wis @ dituation! He had neve fel was not a mar aa he had nine he waa not a Taam, The tops had mest See lf andl. be had never thought of 5 up. It bad no een eee ita was auch a diffe. ent Lunt women! You never cocd tell a a woman! Blas vee cate fized upon his face, “You mean," he said . “Ve mean that—you—want—me—to men — “No,” she answered, speaking quite slowly as he, and looking at him ‘with @ pert nba i ated “L dost a burlesque o own &x na! mean—anything—of—the—kind.” He felt the hot blood in his face. "Oh," he snd, “then this is just a de earmest, “No, it's not,” she answered, “an shouldn't have done that. I can see boy my question about pei. Thisled I asked it because I wan that you aren't ao deeply in love with: as you may have thought yourself." | “Well, it doean"t show me anything a "said he, * aah ger I've you to marry me PT al I've not asked anybody else. Pernain a bachelor. I've never intended marry.” At that she smiled a little, “There, at all events," she told him are perfectly in accard. Pdont blame 94 for wanting to remain a bachelor. wouldn't marry the most fascinating ma alive, Inmy cose of course aaa just an in mae Opera singers not to marry—the women anyway. Yd can't serve God and mammon, and ant "taerve your ark and hot rolls for ee Ba of them ere married, though, Bail sellin ns dn a ions rows the rula; But look at Prenslana er career ia ruined: she loat her val when she had her last baby. JAund some the others have either divorces oF ol their hushands* lowe affairs.” Dee ne been ce ad tur BERBER aT Spent his inte an abstract discussion. | had not stayed here to talle of ith th anhan, een Le “This is all very interesting,” he = rising aes jaking ibid few restlesa steps, “bh it's Wear eben re then, ‘sbereplied amiably enoui "what ia it you want?" : He stopped walking and looked down er. “[ sane so Sie peecsyy wena te with you," sald he, Her ever met his. oan B just what I've been wonderin ae Tod don't know?” “I thought I knew, but - "Evidently!" he put in. —— but there's such a difference tween loving and being in love.” = "he retorted, “and there's a / ference between | and hating. | ot to know! But that isn't getting us 2 where either.” "Being in lowe: gets me somewhere.” insisted. "If ont is not im love life empty sa an unfurnished howe. [ do believe pee eae who is not in love is re ée day [ met you ID was lone’: hie me. Twas longing to be cites ge The day was like spring. if j (Continued on Poge [é4)

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Firtarms catalog “A 7 alad sent oon Tequest IVER JOHNSON'S ARMS & CYCLE WORKS, 7 River Street, Fitchburg, Mass, See Francia Cline: 717 Market Se Mew Wark CHhine; 3 Chasskers 4) Chirage (fice; OW, Lakes Seppe EVENING POST f€entinued from Poge M2) “Do Tl" he munnured with reminiscent ferver, and after a deep sigh resumed: | | “Then what you mean is—you were long- ing to fall in lowe with me—or with some- body—and now you're wondering whether you really did or not.” “That's a crude way of putting tt," said she: “bot lowe means more to me than it dees to some people," He seated himself near her, leaning for- | ward, and was about to speak when in a reflective tone she supplemented: “When I'm in love T sing better. The words etruck him like a blow, “My God!" he exclaimed indignantly. | "Talking of love as if it were a gargle!" Rita burst out laughing. “Well, an mt in dectared, “T lave you for that!" "But that isn't what [ want to be loved for," he protested, “And I don"t want in- termittent love—one day on a pinnacte, next day in the ditch. I'm worn aut with T eternal ¢ bleneas. It's neach killing me! This thing is going to be del- initely settled to-night! [Pd rather ——" er pase she broke in. “That's just it! That's going to help me to explain ry dies Deo you remember on the way to A bic City uo owere talking about wanting to understand me, wanting to knew about me, wanting to m w Portrait of me, as you put it? You kept talking about getting the portrait finisled. Woll, what happens when a portrait is fin- ished? ‘The painter has learned all he can about his subject. His job is done, The portrait ia framed and hung wpon a» wall "'— she waved her hand toward own por- trait above the mantelplece—"“‘to gather dust. With alove affair itis the same. It is the development that is interesting—the find out, When that is over most love affairs are done. Not great ones, of course—but there arent many great ones. “You'd think,” she eontinged, “that almost anyone would understand a thing like that, but men seldom do, In love they go by instinet, and their instinct is wrong. T hunt love aa naturalists hunt butterflies. They don't see the beauty of f m ant movement. They want to eateh the butterfly, run aon through it and mount it on a cork re they con investigate it microseo - But by that time the battertly ia dead.” “Ifyou mean that aman wante to be sure of the woman he loves," said Parrish, “of course he dees! That's the point: I've never been eure of you. I guess there must be a hole in my butterfly net!" “Or perhaps the mesh isn't fine enough," Bald ahe, ng. At that he became an ry again. “Oh, this butterfiy " he exdlntined: "Generalities: " hat I xan to know is— is there any Use in my hg to go on, or am [ through?" * Ared that's what I've been endenyoring to tell you," she gave him back. “I knew you want to pin me down, and I won't be inn own, Inn"E an exact science; aa Qne art.” And before he could brenk in she added: “And ta be entirely frank— if vou. want me to be frank ' : me yes,"" he urged. “Weill, [am afraid you are not an artlat. In love, at least, you lack the light toweh,"" Again he felt an impact as of a heavy fist. Cf all conceivable charges, that was the last he had ever expected to hear made = i him. And by a woman! She had efrontery to say he lacked the light touch in lovwel—he te w men friends had so often come for advice in these mat- ters; who had always handled altuations of this kind so deftly; who, without being mercies, managed women; who, in his love affairs, had with invarinble skill eharted his course between the Erylla of loneliness and the Charybdis of responsi= hiity! Preposterous! She was delil- erately trying to confuse him. But she coulde't de lt! He knew what had caused all the trouble, He had been feeling it all dong, and now somehow he knew it, And he would tell her too! “Tet hasn't anything to do with a light teach,” he said: “it hasnt anything to do with me. It's Delaney! Ever since you first saw that whelp you've been diferent."" “Well,” she Bc rat De rturbed, “ewihal have you agninst Delaney?" “T hada‘t planned to stay Jong enough to tell you,” he anawered bitterly, “but T'll tell you ome thing I've got against him: He's not a gentleman.” “Perhaps not—as vou mean it,” she conceded without rancor, "I guess at that May I, ipa rate ['m neta lady either, But Delay is a good deal more than a gentleman. He's all is artest.. “Am 1 to infer that an artist canmot bes gentleman? His tone woes boiimphant “Tet has been keen to happen,” said che lacenicall sy, Ein: his belng an artist can hardly make him a novelty to you,” he said "Certainly you know plenty of them, And nan artist he's not im your class,” =e - you're wrong,” she anewered “He is more truly an artist than [am |» the firet place be creates instead of re producing; and in the second he love tisic purely for itself. T lowe it partly for what it can do for me," “All right,” be said: “granted you a4 mire him. But you don't have to get sent mental about him, do you?" “No, I don't have to, and I don't ax [ am sentimental about him; but if on must analyse, if might ibe inberesting & have a man like that care for ome even mon than for his music.” “Tea, and you've been trying bo mak him rare!" he c il, “IFT have, the effort has not: been high! su a “You just fall in love with him.” 4 prophesied vindictively, “and you'll ge ours! He's a lot younger than you an on cua hold bina “Tm @ gambler," “Maybe you are,” he retorted; “bot you can held him it will be the first cos: that kind ['ve rin across. I've seen dozer of them—where the woman woe older us I've never known it te fail. In the he'll fall in love with some Little girl your to be your daughter, and where we ee Pri beanie ahlee us L nieve c agae roles as [ mewver did |» fore. shouldn't wonder if that sort : bump would be good for me." He sank back on the couch, his ey slafing Unseeing across the room, his me filled with a whirling misery. Present She stirred a little in he har, and ke b came aware of her again. She did loc younger in that dress—aleacet girlish Totesquely girlish for one capable of sach shocking stream, of bizarre sophistication he roae and stood before her “Just like surgery—this—for me,” | said, and smiled. And as he smiled the dryness of his i against his tenth was painful. His whe mouth waa dry. When he opened it ag to speak his tongue made m little click sound against the roof of his mouth, whi vaguely irritated him. “Tiagnosis—-that's what I wanted. N: I knew. Tt's better to know, Well, I ready to be wheeled out,"" With that he awung around and ma his way toward the door on legs that { wink and numb, He heard her make a! tle sound of pity—he didn't want her pil Then her swift steps coming after him— didn't want ber following him! ™“ Deen't come,"" he aaid without turn “T'tl let myself out.” But she kept coming. He heard | behind him on the stairs, In the lo hall he almost ran to get his ooat from chest where it was | . He did not pe to put it on, but threw it over his arm = seizing his hat and cane, made for the dc She was back of him; be felt her pull at his coat. “Let me help ou on with | re heard her aay. W n't she star! stairs ak he told hertoT She ought to ie he wouldnt want her looking at him # jee wae Ike this! Aa he reached for the doorknob abe Fy cecaining an arse his cutstretg arm. He drop atm abruptiy turned i upon her, 2 startled, he realized that he had ma threatening gesture with his cane, Sher was saying something ms he sh door behind him, ENTE TOR the next fow dave Parrish w aman drugged. He felt light-b and a8 he went about was eontinu his guard against revealing it. But he the office every day, Several times h aware of Bement's surreptitious sen and it annoyed him. What if he looking very well? Was that amybod:- business as {ong as he attended te hi He was a little bit surprised that the was not greater, Though incessant, i dull. Perhaps it would be worse whe: dh fecling wore off. His chief thon was that of being crippled and nc

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pecstoned bo ik; of at far body | post jon of whi | had rears ay poi! avily: but sn: cul foe there were times when bp ared to breathe deoply lest it bring on the stazp pain. But presently there came a day when te began to Understand a little and, as nupenition Advanced, to gather comfort fom amen phil Wel, at all events, ‘it was over. This arpery had from. the first been inevitable. (iemitely, no doubt, be would be bette for i: iy one way, even, he was bette yew—the oncertainty was gone, At last ot ould sleep. : is hia mind cleared he found himself hinkag of Alice, Not one during what orsamed to him te have been a period phi ang he had passed had beard [rem and now in af at- luting her alenee to the condition of her gter's health or to ann ee with him arg lore long delayed writing to = ta be honest with himself and sense deeper causes. Cold she have beard some rumor of dat hed been going an? At first that sened te him pay Probable. Ble was cowiy, cut of touch with New York and ted with the le with whom etad htely been associating. And even ye people, he liked to think, had for the tat been unaware of hie affair with ita. Busini had evidently suspected some- ing, ae perhapa the abies uitous Mra. cred about he bardy ought there course there Alene City, ton that trip he had mo noone he aEer, The people he lenew ould nok be Hiked te that hatel. The only frien be ice’s he had met oe she left was Clara Proctor—at the aihaght Frolic-——and then be hed beon th Bement. Clara, to be sure, hed all it cot hie. That still puzzled him a little. But he d Cara never had liked each other. She walways trying to come batween him and is ring te inoculate Alice with her t clam concerning men, advising rio drop him: because fee didn't mean to wry, she thought of that there came to him ‘Est gieumer of mirth— mirth— the had Knewn since Rita's door dosed id him He had disliked Clara for in- fenag, bat os was Tight: Alice should e dropped him; from. a strategic stand- ntit would have heen the thing to de, } Alice hadnt any etrategy. iutegy was not very well distributed ing women; some had none; others too h. Real fineness didn't countasit ought n relations between men and women, twomen, like Alioe, lacking at iney ting to use it, go often lost oat, whi te who were cold-hearted and un- pulows got everything their own way. we the fine ones could get some faction etal knowing they were square honest, but that seemed cold comfort. ‘oxen! Why were people always gen- tng about women? Such a stupid tio do! Generalizations were stupid ny. How true the epigrac of the witty thman who deel : "All generaliza- vate false—ineluding this one!" When generalized about women they were in tydescribing not women, but thelr own fons to some certain woman. If aman dimed women selfish, heartless, cruel, sasafe conclusion that the woman he | for had (used him: ond if upon the ‘hand acoerding to him Were at, loving and forgiving, the woman for Was: | rows amd kind, ring these days he reflected a great te hal i h © helpless the average man against man pre and unscrupulous! To a it wae we -nigh inconceivable that a in’s soul might not be so lovely as her that fe, wntil she proved it to him, ta beautiful face, his romantic faney Lendow her with every admirable and inng quality of character, Strange,too, ieauty anid ier ee lure—qualities © oot the slightest bearing upon should ber the two great ets of we attraction, That meant t the Sis to attract were not the qualities ld love. Something wrong there. If S sere right with love, men would the beginning be drawn to women eit sweetness, their fair-tmindedmens, capability, their loyalty in short, thelt ss, ingtead of learning later to appre thosy qualities if lucky enough to find THE SATURDAY EVENING POST them. Yet under the distorted lawa gov- erning the love gttraction-all those quali- ties—-the qualities of a good wife—might aften be found in wamen wha, for lack of attributes au ¥ att ve, were al- rooat certainly predestined to a state of pinsterhood, The whole thing was a mess Take his own cone: How ‘horrible to realize that he had so esa hen dtwen away from what waa beautiful and fine by what waa beautiful but not fine: how heen tay oe could ae Alice's u un anging ove, for something modLe, epurlaus; and hew horrible t the loss of that brief meretricious love pata Plunge him into a wretched state in whieh, though lonely, he aur: peaple, each eR a py maboin ithe ii oe § mai inte its Sitting sable fire in living room one night, unable to interest himsell in bowks or magazines, he tied to analyse his situation. Rita's ty ig atill pee Pye the pce: for mantelpi several days ite Huse there had been disturbing him, but aa if for want of an ‘bo manne 16 he allowed ik to remain, ‘There, at all events, was aome- thing he was able to correct. He rose, took down the picture, and removed it from the silver Irame. His wretchednes wos not a wrebched- ness of longing for Rita, He treasured no pram; however ehad Of a renewal. He put ber—or she ad put herself— deinfaly aut of his fs Her destruction usions, ber blows upon his self. reapect, made him detest her. If in the loss ha he missed anything it was a Rita he had imagined, a) rt pa ot did not exist. ed looked w ipa in his She it ae a wi ie beauty Sprs a blue-ribbon cob exhibitin a horse show, proud, sleek and gure. Sellf- confident, aeit-contared w:lf-antistied, the expression of her face in the picture irri- tabed him. Suddenly, vidlently, almoet aa if He hes at her, he tore the photograph. He hb eet at the face, vipa a narrow ik, He tere paper broke oe ee asalng through ome th epliomlll eas the ‘kK. He threw the bits of the en picture at the ‘tire, but they hit the screen and fell back upon the hearth; found it nat unpleasant te ecu them inte the hat ashes with the eole of his shoe. The ailver frame he put away, He could give it to the cleaning woman. But now in this morass of misery he did bong for Alice. His longing for her waa like his for his mother when a2 a he became ill away from home. There had always been that mother quality in Alice, that eternal watehfulness for his well-being: she was always thi of him, worrying about him, afraid he d 5 eekcrdge diate sua cold. He th wel bt a chair in ber aye of the bi ehair in her spore ment an rcgeck tedteperet pal de it: his chair, his stand, she called them. And their tastes were so congenial—ahe always wanted to do what he wanted to; in restaurants ehe was delighted with what he ordered, and after dinner it was for him to decide what they should do—whether they ahould go to the theater or back to her apartment, where be could be comfortable and smoke while they talked. How he wished she were at her apart. ment now! Itwould be so comforting ta go to her; ehe was so understanding when one was downhearted, When the market was at its worst, after the war, and brokerage houses were failing, he could alwaye get en- haa ement rele And ae he the grippe—she came to see: avery day. How well he remembered the way she tweed to fix his plows; she did it- better than the nurse. Trifling things always pleased her so. When he gave her some little present she did not thank him only once; with her a preent seemed to renew iteelf over ond over, and she would speak of it again and again. She remembered everything: not only birthdays but the most trifling anni- VErearies, That reminded him—he had been mean- ing to get a present for her birthday. Her birthday would be comin Let's gee, when was it? IT middie of March—March fourteenth. And biti wia—March fourteenth! Her vie ny wns to-day —and to-day was nearly OVE haetenial te the telephone and put in a call for Alice, It was only a little a alter ten o'clock, That meant nine in Cleveland its gaits at | BO): Serie Seok lre well JE RESO Batteries aod remade Wiewt lie Linon—2 superior errvice ciceltd br VWiegtinghouse ar you | FWESTIRCHOUSE RADIO BATTERIES | he Wa 165 The responsibility of fame GHT=—miles from town—a fellow moptorist with a heat Jen Liery. 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Wot only is this a Jot easter andl more satielactory for the Pro—but it is beteer fer the clubs, for ther original balance and weight ane net changed even in the alightest, Locker dampness —wet course —epe abr —fothing afecta Pldite rans, They al- ways retain the same perfect balance. vale your Pro or Dealer about thems and let us send you descriptive catalog and forther information. Dayton, Ohio Plashew Halemeced balls : aiware fun free *S Try Gee, Here's Style Serie yea] Fre cli, Like all Bi H. B. tilover (Company [inpa, 4 Dia lsungier, Tarn " F as Well as Comfort “HOWOT) looking, tsa tite You Tecould even use thes garment fora lounge suiton hot summer verte. Its the Jatese Srightor-Canrlr- fad Paranton, a one piece pa wimia that thea saris of men knew hor ren, relax Me cr cm ark Wate the luatton and Fuls at the ankle to keep trouser leg cleewn, There are a lee of eele comfort features like thes venue Ul fine only in Beri te n-iirishac EVENING POST How fortunate, how very fortunate, that he had thought of it in time! Bide poche peed the oars toe the call to put throw aad tt . rug, following ne etalk his feet. 'T here was a place in earner where he bad to take a short atep or elae go over into the border, In the back of hia mind was an incoherent wish that the rug had been a little shorter or a little Jonger, to match the length of his The knowledge that he was sosoon to hear her voice made him happy in apite of hia apprehension as toe what her attitude would be Aunin oe spebslatent nie suse of hier ot. Suppoen she in some found aut ee Hita—what would she say, and what could he say? However, be did not believe that was tt. It seemed far more likely that she was hurt by his neglect. But he wished he knew. [t would be so much easier to commence talking with her if he knew. Why didn’t the operator get her? Long-distance service ought to be prompt at ¢ is time of night, He wes moving toward ane telephone with the intention af rgb re fi +0 al on his eal, an the bell tevelland said the ap ey with oP Hdlo—hello—hello, oe he called. “ [ust a minute, He waited. There came a little click and a Bott electric ma Spon. the wir, " Hello,” Then he teard ‘e volee, faint and lio—Alice. This is Dick." He paused; then as she did not answer he aneee “Can you hear me?" 5 "] calla ay bp iat you a hap Pag ay. [couldn your present in time, [ wos wondering whether ad better send it or hold Gt here until you back. I suppeee you ct be coming back aw hy not? Ia your sister no better?" “She's much better, thank you." “Is ahe back from Lake Placid yeti" we expect her next week.” “That's fine! And after that you'll be ei Toe oe lair, "che eald Hi, and there iad erga ominous to bim about the re But, T want to know," he persisted, “You must have some idea when you'll be coming sie | ta ven't made up my. roind."" " Alice,” he said, "To misa you awfully, You haven’ t oven written to me. IT know pi fault—lI tte have written to E I was pees busy just after ou went away: I kept putting off writing you day to day, te after a while I felt so guilty alepat tt ‘didn’t know how to begin, And I haven't been feeling well. And last weel I waa called on the jur cannirting devil of a time getting off. - I've here alone all evening, thinking sre gents tian Came home tired aut. night I w heme, too—and the night befare—thi about you, I’ d give anything to Bee you do wish you were home. , He was nok satisiied “with what he had been saying; he felt that it did not sound genuine; he waa throwing in words dea ately, aa if they had been bags of sand in- to step leaks in a dike, ly the flood he feared was nota flood of re- proaches but of silence; now as he waited, giving ber a chance to answer, the tilence began seeping throngh again, fore- ing him: ta throw in more words, «gett Alien!" May 13, 977 He hastened on: “I'm wretched shay: the way I've treated you! [ keow 1. made you unhappy, and that makes mm unhappy. Can't you say something ta comfort mel" 6 that awful silence. ‘Alice! Are you there?" cnet quality in her voice—he me quality in her woier—he did ery know just: what—told him now tbat she Wink wie] : “Can b you just say aoreething to me™ The electric singing of the wire sodden ato : Pan No answer. He worked the hook u when the o inquiries ‘Hold tbe wire: please. A curicus little sound come through the receiver, tellicy him that the operator, like a dllsrmabodied andl down and -aiokiag resqeenged made nerve, apirit, was flyn igen the gaght te mag Prey out what was wrong: 9 moment Lav he beard ber disembedie voice, ve party disconnected,” she ifomel His first Impulse was to call Alice apc, but be abandoned the thenaghe; there aa no remon to suppode that further comm nication with her by telephone wool! mare satisfactory ean the one-sided cm. wersation just en She g. He wos = ner certain of it, Waa it a= she wish him te detect it “hat she had he the receiver—or was it a dismiseal? silerers, her short replies, lent color to tha latter t he had never treated ke like that before, Lf only she had re Le pie hima instead of being silent; tht would have shown him where he stocd: a things were, he Roew mo more tha i! br had net called her wp wt oll, What if he had lost her! Now for te first tire be fully envisaged that pom bility. He had relied upon her pentlenes her on, her forgiveness, Had by relied too much? Ruth he bed trades on her finest qualithes, treating her w b would not have dared te treat a won ¢ comrser fiber, His ethics had been th ethics of the jungle. He had been cor fiderate of Hita because he wae ale! s her, and inconsiderate of Alice bens « her he was not afrakd. Why—the thou struck him like & thunderbolt—he by treated Alice of Fitn had treated him’ Would he forgive Rita? Never! Wool Alice rab him? She must fonive bo He must find sore way te make her forges him. He deserved to lose ber, but he coe not bear to. In the past he had been mone aware of b need of him than of bis need of ber, bot so their positions were reversed. He cquldy on withowt her. He must win her bac e mist ser her, He would go at once! Cleveland. Consulting a time-table he found that train left for Buffalo at lili. He em just make it. By changing mare at feds to-morrow morming he could reach Cle land in the early afternoon, Through the pantry door he shouted Tto, then ran te his awn room and be collecting the things he wanted pack When the servant cume he left the Hi ita the bag to him and telephomedl for a ta In fifteen minutes he wae on his war tet station, in half an hour be waa on the tre and when a little later he retired for | night the train was roaring along be the Hudson River, But he equld not st ities There are no windows in an Up (TO BE CONCLUDED)

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168 THE SATURDAY MONARCH SWEET PICKLES MONARCH SALAD DRESSING MONARCH CATSUP and other MONARCH FOOD PRODUCTS Salesmen Wanted Mice bang 4 aageiney ida af MORARCH COFFEE were eold hy 2 wleermen of the ef Beld, Murdoch & Ce. im one month recently. A Bewepupe a 2 why MOM ABCH COPPER ealea eepre op bite end the grocer replied Ep because ita drinking qualities Mewee, and there's none beter wbtaingble at any price.” Desirable territory is open in New England and Athntic Coast States in ey a we wal qdact saleaeerin. § Te Jon waka of petal) clerke t 4S years To wich we abet an ceqartunicy to make @ weetk-while gonoestlon where pot a wide eld of phat oy ay aa lendid peepect fer development. haa been eer pwicy to make eddies to ant organ wan, men ui 1 fh peccnda of goons im frocery wore aniay We megulre refescacea from present =e We want capable, ambiliesa, energetic mea, and # yoo are Jooking for a future with great possibilrites, come and sce us. ‘Binly applications in gettean. on ried. REID, MURDOCH & CO. ESTABLISHED 14%) 882 Third Ave. (Bush Terminal), Brooklyn, N. Y. TO RETAIL MERCHANTS: gapemes and {he aivie lp . aT In bi tak "We have cmLLF ites u ¢ hae Te Bo tothe cat of pista, widoees ae kberevo| Ser. of Fituburgh eititon: Reid, Murdoch & Co., Clark St. idl Ill. MONARCH COFFEE "Yn Tacoma.\Wash. Jdfeory eg comcerrur exct as the ikntfonal Bank of Tacoma — are endhe hiastic weert af a loose leaf and street ling equifencat IMPLE methods and simple equip- ment cut office costs. We can show you the methods and suggest the equipment: thirty: three years experi- ence. BAKER-VAWTER COMPANY Sendece ficen im SE Cine: General officers Benson. Harboe, Mick. Ts fea = Copeland Siete tf, Deoapies, Oeieria EVENING POST May 13, 1923 SELLING TO 4 CROWD=-THE AUCTIONEER (Conting@d from Poge 18) inte this picture, the desire to own the pigs is created, and by skillful handling af come pating bidders price is lot. aight of in the be guined from the investment. Ag he knows his nda 80 the auctioneer must know his customers. He appears to be standin an Ipit and urging the" hid. Actually be is selling to aowd to hi ata rhea “Any schoolboy can atand up and call for bids and get two-thirds the value of an article,” says one veberan, “but it takes a saleaman to get that other third. To be a ood auctioneer must atudy and read uman nature, Ne two biddera are alike. One ls suspicious ee bas eet a mental limit to the price he will for something he really wants; humer him, Another fancies ihn he is a shrewd bayer; compliment him ig pudgment. Another mot eri ai dare; Wave & Ted nyse him by pointing j aut kis competitor, hers tile the time= light and want to be painted out os herocs when make w ae, Seill others are thmid and bid when they think they are lost in the crowd—that the auctioneer is net personally soliciting their Another ekillful auction salesman works on the assumption that moat bidders like to remain hidden in the crowd, though he admita that other men get just as good ale playing pan ividuale, His good many oughly a beforehand hy the aue- tioneer in tricky, that the stuff to be sold has some hidden defect, and that bidding is simulated by ate Thia belief that auctioneers. use confederates to make fie- titlous bids is still common, but men who sell at mnessoas day by lay by dey out, say tha ia alma wholly te crooked grind-shop etions, Just aa meerchandise purchased by the individual customer in a man-to-man sale | rust be satisfactory if the avle is to hold and the purchaser turned [nto a peat customer, in and your no the are auctioneer is jnely anxious that succesaful bidders be sa lafied. Then they will attend future sales and buy again, Very celal peti travel- ing from town ih tet he works In the mune territary, and must create and main- tain o reputation in fair dealing with people who buy at bis sales as well aa with those who hire him to sell | Property. ae, like the suspicious fellow; be ual makes the best buyer when 5 oe auctioneer, ore his eee tale k away from him lett him see that you really do not care whether he bids or not, that he doesn’t matter, une stuff is ae briskly. Presently he cheap himself, decide customer selling so cheap! will itil in sone hil you are square, thereafter." A Contest of Wits be a good “Tt is not necessary ling. Bat © or trickery in honest auletion ssellln ut what is honest auction selling? Is th ere such o thing as an honest crowd? The sale is a contest of wits between the crowd and a auctioneer, Of the two, in most cases auctioneer is more honest than the re bidder. - every sale two of three permans cons o buy a certain article at an abeardly lo pre which they agree upon in gaeihe: bey reser: that the auctioneer has to sell onjthe second bid, wait until the crowd is emall, anc then one blde a dollar for a twenty-fvedollar article, and another rales him 8 quarter, and gets it, Ia that honest? Bidders think so—if it works. But the auctioneer is responsible to Taan for whom he be welling. if ‘ho suich trek hy bidders were t AVEr- arr F pr an the whole would nok be sstigiactory. So auetioneers have ways of prertins themselves, SoMetinits CLppors wre been teed to bid in articles thet do nok being adequate bids, but the trained auctioneer can plek an iinaginary bid out of the air just ag easily his hammer and say "Sold to A. E., past is. equivalent to bidding in the article for the owner, | inary bids wre often picked out of the alr ln atarting the sale, to give an appenr- | ance af brisknesa or to speed up the sale | when it loge,” aoualy over & dk nhac ne oe. Spicuc over a chip H ‘dish thy somebody bide in for ten cents caz te blind te the’moth holes in an Orlectal ry sold for a hundred dollars. [if the = chaser eomplaina be pro you are dissatisfied, sir, we N pat the og u pair ceca Nine times i be protests, “Wo, no! ['p satished. Tl fap Some auetionvers like the disaticin aay that every knocker Purchaser at an auction sale ia really a booster, The dissatisfied customer b aghin fo get even or he growls about the way be bu been treated, and people who listen to ba meevanes conclude that be lacks shen: eT hey are ammart themselves; oo atectioc. eer could fool them! Amd confident is their own sh nee burn Fram the grum bler te the gale, The Auctioneer's Techale The old-time auctioneer often ridiciled af bullied the bidder, y holsting biz up te the laughter or MAMIE crowd bi i cheap skate get things for not} ing. But the ski a aan Saleernin al to-day considers that os Die males a4 k there are mare courte andeffective ways olatifening bide Theet time auctioneer, too, waa often a jolly eno and kept his crowd im good humor by eit temarks ond jokes, sometime einected t persona in the erowd and again at the 1 ticles being eold. The Breevit dey wecoe 1 salesman uses Wit and laughter ta oly limited degree, and in ite proper place for definite purpose, If the om ia smal by may jolt until it Lit solemn timid ae oe ea afew jokes. Or in potting wp a new arti after heated bidding he may relieve tesa by cracking a joke, A crowd may gre stale during an suction lasting sve hours, and then the joke helps too Bu laughter zella nothing. The moment humer has teen restored and hidia we again the salesman must be sericn th a keen buying crowd jokes ares & tin, i the epee : fp wit oF sarcasm at na in the aoe is tec expensive to t indulged in. The skillful auctioneer m his ridges Pt y making fun of the merchs: tting up a well-known paere : farm machinery he says, “You al! icnow th Blank reaper—made out of old babe wire and fence rails, liable te fall to peo the first time you move it. This et poorest | Blank reaper ever made, and [ & Break it away for somebody | Kledling and old wire. Ti "t want tt: he thinks it's: qood. I don't want it, and I know 7 ont want it. I want to give it ov fot ishapestines fest of too mach!" he experienced salesman sellin = individ eUatomer knows when hes come for action, amd directs ail d energy to win closing the deal. Me salesmen wt they know ths laereee The auctioneer, too, develops a ect sixth Sense, which he knows wir | Last offer has been made by a bidder. T homes of bidders’ veiers carry a wot information to the auctioneer. Samet fella him when they have reached | highest amount that cam be secured fort article under the hammer. Sometime 0 bidders carry the price above reason, competition of beraum: there is perce feeling between them. A good auctions ia quick to see that, and set ome apue , saying, "Don't let him bly ms you can an Day ms much as he can; make 5 Bp Red well-known real-estate act) ih stretched again and again. te F B gort of tension ss they imcressr, a5 wise auctloneer knows maint ia bein sirain upon ui audience by some a ing romark: “That gentleman i int oe tle—what do I hear from yout’ audience icra: relaxes and rest 4 ment—but only for a moment, i

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arene is tes great, bidding interest ee The losin £ Point in most auction sales is really a vey fine balance of opinion ly vallied, anys try auctioneer area sximal for to ha feedbad te ‘oe funded and fifty dollars for a bull. The ecumion breeder from whom he begs get an animal can pay four hundred to got hundred dollars. The medium eae who rilses bulls good enough to qprve the commén breeder's herd can Jord to pay three thousand ta five thou- ud dollars. ter olla ak eee Dat tien for selling to the wii Anam ston ant thane yesand dollar: for a bull of as much suare pa particular bull is worth to him in re de. Now suppeee ten farmers or breed- sattend an auction sale. Each brings in cwn idvas of the value to him of the dhtebe sold. The auctioneer knows the gk, and has hie idea of thelr value to we proapective bidders. It is his bual- ie ind ae te ise, min an o, and point i it to ikem. Well, ba 0: at af vale ped cher man corrected tha an weeer's idem rips nagaA pba rae Lop, ap, wth [t reaches the value to the in tho can get the most value owt of his thas, If tt goes above that there will dimatifnetion, and if it rtioneer hasn't secured the best resulta the seller,” a 4 Towa Under the Hammer Tow an adetion sale settle: voluce wh gome neon ths Bn in “the mors west real-nstabe "when more 2 fifteen huncirel aaa in a war-built pyard town were sold for the Govern- at. The fi property waa first offered at me sale, but the highest price obtain- tw about two million dollare, So ten sale was deci upon. Imme- “ly there was propaganda against the tia—Tumors that the houses were ly built, had wet cellars, and so forth. ‘wuetioneer who the job came [rom ther locality. Was propoganda net him aa imported. When the auc er opened the gale he faced a crowd ep of Spot people 5 who ear the houses in d be sold over i beads at oe cine ae iy dpay; alao, of people who wanted to houses below their real value. They ght enough sympathizers to d the wuditeritim and smash win doors, When the auctioneer began he jeered every time he offered a house for Hut he persisted, telling the crowd foolish it was to think t he better of the United 8 by any euch tackles, and after on of turbulenee there waa a queer fe. mes were sold under the hammer, pecs, Cactine banat, Heaull peop n oaCit fed to acquisitivenceas. People hid, boght, amd cheered the auctioneer time the hammer fell. In one final thant whe were most hostile t Ege auctioneer, whereupon he asked if they had the interesta of poor to much at heart, they didn't raise doand help some of them buy in homes. Later; na widow with J children lacked money te keep her the auctioneer raised a fund himself. steadily grew better but were rea- le to the enc. Government got tehce ma much for the whole prope @ hed been offered privately—and the sale ended the auctioneer was a fe arse demonstration. of farm are: the auction activity. | = rs sug¢estiona to country patie wha ling out should be interesting: cg is @ good season to auction of iaf—from February to April, Live ims Wintered far enough te show con- and farmers who gold livestock the il for lack of feed to carry it through. nter are looking for animals. New from other sections ly come neighbyennas and start farming in .and need implementa and live ctober ber and November are also tted good months in some parts of THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 18D the country, as livestock is in tion, whos ter, g Phe oll it wie bole on an ‘i Belge should Ee ave wid ‘SIT Property put in ow =i) ‘ene aa re money han if sold without implements should be Sane broken parts replaced, and be towehed ag st with paint, harness olled and mended, perty of the same kind, like implementa and furniture, should be che eee nae an 8 and arranged for easy in- veatock tied or penned near i i Taps is seattered the crowd will Uae a and the auctioneer have difficulty in keoping it interested. Finally, it is im- portant to have a good lunch. BeV- eral houre of selling ple grow hu and lose interest. Good nature and bidders, are restored by funeh. It need nae Ie elaborate—plenty of hot coffee with sand- wiches will do, In other d iquor was often served at country wuctions, but auc: Honeers are all prohibitioniste i in Seo re spect. Liquor will make a man bid, they but he cannot be held to his bargain. Liquor often him troublesome, inter- rie es the sale and diverting the crowd's harden ee for one kind of goods filght net another, Farm property is sold one gps elty real extate another, Faw fure or art in still ather ways. Generally the suction methods are sha by the bu yrera" knowledge: af ilies crowd that comes to ase the furnishings of who closely gan value of whatever they bid upon i Or More PRTEOns, often a lal by curiosity, enn the 1 arian sough t the same books at srivate 216, ahd within a few wealcs got them all for leas than two hundred dollars. The Electrical Bidding Device When i comes to selli tobaces, fruit, weal, Dutch bulte sca he and other commodities to professional bidders—men who think, dream and eat valwea—the aue- tion becomes less exciting as a sporti event, perhaps, yet full of interest an speed nevertheless. Very often the bidding is in code, so that com pene will not know who i 18. ‘bidding or w icular lot be is bidding on. Such bint nds are held in Foome fitted up for the convenience of the buyers, we t at desks, like a lot of mie ee cabs] in hand, and ex- citedly wigw a tlnat at teacher, the auctioneer on n this class falls the Dutch one "eoruman in the gale of Holland's bulbs, cheese, egge and fot at prodaeta tit doa Piet ah atop ig ra, Bi ne lowering the price bit by bit until some bidder agrees to take it ata price, when the lot is knocked down to him. The up-to-date auction in Halland ia conducted electrically, with a clock face around which a pointer travela fram high to low, Buyers watch it, each witting at a deak with a numbered push button, When the painter reaches a price aome bidder is willing to pay he presses his button and his mum dial, and the eggs or tulips are his, Endurance coanta in auetion selling, for very often the auctioneer ia on his fwet, talking continuously, for five or six hours a day and several in suceeagion, or ten or teelye hours in a big oneiay mare sale. as must therefore have health ane temper of the man selling to Indiv oe customers, Pine ne abity to keep a erowd interested and piped Long ore he foals fatigue & will pebably ol oo tired and become: indifferent, te liven EE up with hls own anne Most of all, he must be able to talk con- tinuously during thease long selling periods: so Yoice training is pert of the courses w eondi- | Fo appears over the | aye ius howe te ath Ne Underwear is RVD Without It “The BVD' Red Woven Label is the Trade Mark by which The BVD. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Just as the brain and spinal column are protected by a liquid shock-absorbing system, so the liquid cushion of Hoo-Dye protects the motorist from * Hoo-Dye operates with absolute cer- tainty in softening the softest blow or hold- ing a3 in a vise the car body to its mean line of travel over the worst roads at the highest speed, By its curb on springs’ en- thasigsm, it makes longer trips possible, and it tarna what was a tiring journey into a day of restful relaxation, In Europe and America the application of the hydraulic principle ta the control of road shell shock” and fatigue. the motor body as developed in the Hoo- Dye Shock Absorber has opened.a mew era in motor car comfort, ‘The great majority of the finest forcign Cars. are Hoa-Dye equipped, and im this country it is the standard equipment om Cunninghams, while many thousands have been applied to Packards, Pierce-Arrows, Cadillacs, Studebakers, Mercers, Hudsons, Buncks and other of America’s best cars, Ef inctoriag @eatlen pe ef mulled feu cesecious of your Ured meters, send fol ear bel “Hew Menor. Ing Shocks Affect t Narraca Syne by A, frermost Kendeirk Smith, M1, 0, 0. O,, ene of America’s pkpsicians and eiteepatie, Pet yeet on bealth's ake yoo shenld hive a copy—aend fer [tveday and beare che heal wap of motoring, Aide gasp whith Hen Dye Mpdralic Shock Abeorberg, Tee Hovnaue Comrany, 1416 Wet Avent, Baffak, Bh. ¥. Macufarruced by the Monde Eegineeriog Coop, Canadian Bist: Canadian Palebanks Moter tn., Lid., Medea Diirriterars te all Vere crear,

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| wuctioneering in taught. “To talk steadily through a ale the volee must be strong and pl t: alzo, the auctioneer must have something to aay, In taking on a student or an apprention the muctioneer who teaches his kind of salesmanship puta the candidate through a physical examina- tion for Bh sit etrength and sound lungs. Then bis body is built up by exercise, amd his voice trained for pce ral ge carrying power, sfTeon tomt and &n- | duranes, Tho novices talks, speaking as pininiy ME pomebie and increasing carrying | power verybody in a large room | can hear him distinctly he practices talking a little faster, and faster yet, until he ean hol the attention of a crowd not merely rigs | te bw by wins be sarap abter papas rst wel BR about the he sells, and therefore the successful puctioneer is a lender and investigator in his line, whether it be livestock, city lots, secondhand furni- ture or Chinese He. The real teat im thie line, saya pas auc tioneer, is ability to grind, which ni in that interesting institution, tha nb op, the more or crooked extabliahment where fashy jewelry, brie-a-brac and other merchandise known as alum are sold for ae much above their real value os the aue- tioneer can get. The grind shop is found in most cities, but in only a few well- chaser locations. Fa succeeds in well- traveled streets, w ge me are mostly strangers or working folk; of near depots and markets, where cotintry people come— for these are ite chief pt dey Working people seldom complain when cheated, for that they will be held up to ridicule as euckers, W oe the farmer stranger in town kerp a bal bargaln quiet tor ear their names will into the ‘pnestep and be read back home. Gond locations are not numerous and aie rents. [fsuch an establishment REE AMIN aaa OF profess people, accustomed to insisting upon hel Fights, it would soon be closed by the police, Grind. Shop Methods The grind shop originated In pawnshop sales of unredeemed jewelry, about theaame time jewelry merchants discovered that legitimate auction selling solved certain. problems in their trade, The jeweler's merchandise tied up a great deal of money, and waa often slow eelling: a0 much so, sometimes, that he WAH Eriven into banknipicy. AtteHoneers were called in ta sell bankrupt jewelry stocks, and jewelers learned that the auc- tion could be used to forestall bankruptey, Ic is widely used to-day to Tiquichater sur atu stocks, the jeweler getting his capital ack quickly, and purchasers getting hon est goods at reasonable prices. Fawnshop proprietors found that antici- pation of bargains maudle people hid freely ot sules of unredeemed jewelry; so. the tind shop with ite secondhand watehes, ese jewelry and thin-plated silverware wad quickly established te meet the de- mand, [tis altogether unlike thee legitimate pewelry auction —Indeed, vecy habe to the latter. The grind-shop auctioneer takes pride in trimming customer. He would rather eel] a brass watch for three del- lars, making 1 dedkor and a half profit, than sell a goml wateh for twelve to twenty. five dollura and make dowhle the protic. | Curiously, this sort of establishment doce } rot make grent. profits, nor cle tts pue- fionerre wir anything like the commis siana that might come to them in honest stiing, They are often gifted salesmen, hut- have fatlen tte the grind-shop habit fnd find it hard to break away. The grind shop yercgeroc baer if usally 4 aml merchant with ne regular customers, He employe two oF threes suchioneers who relieve: one another through the long htsiness clay, often lasting until midnight, ‘The term ae “orind”” grew out of the fact thar j Piped talks contin ot thatthe am | FE ee at i Prospective customer will begin fictitious bids. “Gather on the night on the inside! The sale is ing, we are just starting the wale, right in, be right in ce 4 tem Ge - agers worth fifteen dollars of arybode's mon ' It was made on the farsmway chores“ a il ten thousand miles away, ard i hand palnted and bea Ly fr sepa in bright pepe ee eae Gold, la er ‘ite worth teen wt dollent A A I'm bid twenty-five centa, ‘T! im bid a qa" ter, I'm bid twenty-five conta, five, f tmwonig-tive —" in Hereditary Title Ld ae or fifteen people are a fine coed shop if there are one oF twat bidlieea anrong ther. The shillater, by-bidders, a5 they are also called. are} even paid, in many cuscs, Ba sey the au Tiki as A friends of the rietor or cation The paid conf ate is employed ue where buyers are hard to attract. Th are fare eeeuone that ge gales Ug a single rummy drope in drawn by the small crowd and fieend thinks it rust be an honest auctes | because there are so few people, Theo tioneer obligingly offers ae up & thing he wants to bid on. ebuild bld, and make comments upon the of goods, Articles are knocked down them, and they step brisely up Gy) eminter to pay for their purchases, tha ing down a silver dollar and two filty-rent pieces ‘in change. Bingle customer can be inte kept buying as long as soatbie prying three ta five times the actual ® of everything purchased. Yet the outstanding fact sbaat eg shop is ite aimall turnover, Ly twenty dollars an hour is considers factory selling, and fifty dollars a8 fine business. Cheap auctions of thi are iften ponchestndl with twenty fifty dollars’ worth of merchandise, 2 SOME yb sine rummy decree bugve the one bros watch unex n ie necessary to hurry a alhillabor ere the nearest pawnshop bo get anothem A final word about tho country tioneer, the ward he is gtbelangs Te by—“ColaneL" Beople heave won why, and asked him, but he seldes® himeeitf. Recent investigation ly & known suctionper in shows that the tithe wre firet late Cal, Janes W. Judy, a famotlt thoneer of the last generation. Colonem was the pioneer in purebred I auctioneening, and bis tithe of coon won in military service during thd War. Many another auctionner ankioiia to beeome known = a Colonel Judy, and thus the tithe “Cos waa given those who suceeded.

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We again urge you to accept the 1922 ACOUSTICON For 10 Days’ FREE TRIAL No Depostt — No Expense Hf wou fearn ef another hearing device which elainia equal rGelency, ask ber Ube same [ree ‘bral ehich we offer and compare the torn in Sur owt Vee will bee rere hanpy 1 ave you thesar the ome which eeils you bret and return the ofher. Let ne one con Pikes poo ba aniiferll. DICTOGRAPH PRODUCTS CORP. 1301 Candler Bldg. 220 Woaz St, M. ¥. Ciay WRITE for free ilusisnied ORE ae ATENTS. get BLAME.” Bend mio! or skrich and vos Severs a nen Ber our fren epinion of tia patewiabie mokore. Victor J, Evans & Co,,727 Ninth, Washington, D, C. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BALLIOL (Continged from Poge 13) “Right. But he’s not quites pup. He's tre” almmoat “T'd the ike of bir in 'T8, when I was a Ind. Bought him af Phil Mendoza, that had a shopin Seven Dials.” Conor whistled two bare of the jig and tickled Ballinl’s nose with a cruel] thumb, be a son of Lord Bretherton af Sholea, air. I mined His Lordship. They was epongin’ the bload off me alter I fought Billy Jevona in 79. His Lordship came up and said, “Damn you, Conor, you've coat me guiness!" JA fine big man then. He'll be older now." “T faney you're thinking of my poner father. Aly father was never at a cet ale. and he'd hove been at rachoa! in 1879, The man tilted back his rebabnisaait fone and grinned. He eaid, in the same mel ay al sliding vowels, “God be above us all! But that's true, Lt'd be your grandfather, then, Eh! Dhoemn't time pass over us and we prow old eway? And childer put black shame on ws and a laugh will be in every fool's mouth.” "You don't look an ald man," said Neel, “ZT con do my day's work still, and ask no man’s help in it. # stool up. It was a boy's motion, He ar hia bat fram a round head and be- | came old, a that Nocl started. His eurly | | | bas was white to the roots. His He said, “I'm sixty: -three, But you'll | soe I'm atill a strong man, sir.” He locked over Noel's head at the cars. | Noel had te turn. The twins were staring. Nate Sears _ alte his anit wie ton waste, At this group of young the old man looked nd Gag ta whistle little ite. treating bene few notes He ha n¥ery still, Now his iandsome face wrinkled gently about the mouth. He whistled aia tence Werk Noel's reason. Balliol pawed the Iriah- man 5 show, “The pup likes me fine, sir,” said Canar, | “T'ns sure he does," Neal mur Eh,” said Conor; “a pups diffrent froma woman, now. It's women that grow up bo be clever and look out of windows at your fellows pitehin’ snowballs under the * He sat down again and took | Balliol against the amazing chest. ‘The dog licked his chin. The old man spoke over the dancing red tongue. “Like in the tale. The girl looked out of the window and saw a young lad with ae ar ang red cheeks tramping the snow, a dog's better. ath never been lucky bell women, Is ik a thing to be aad far? Ident know. Little “dows Ike nee, and tall women TUE off frorn T'd beat buy a dog, air." He smiled. Noel cleared his thront, The ofd man whistled, rubbing his chin on Balliol’s head From the hig door at the tap of the runway | mon were staring down. The fellows on the hasin's edge were idling, their poles in sed | hands. many Era tet and the het sir wos Eve watched as if the whistle ne therm allent. “What is that tune?” “The name of itis Deirdre in Seotland, sit,” Conor said, te looked up. His wm chennod, The | dull smoke dissolved an aonaath i ng glowed terribly, then was gone. Balliol” barked, nuzzling his frlend'’s neck. Conor let his hend drop on the bl air ue ated pain an I've no e0ne, sir. | like of this one in rer oT Feat tn ea a Phil Mendoca, that had a shop in Seven | Dials. I was known for a go pote in them days, ait, and gentlemen would speak with me quite public in Piccadilly, But I'm met lucky with woren.' Nol gently lled, “I've heard of you often “It's likely. I'N be gettin” home now, Good day to you, sir. You've the look of yoalr grandfat rr, wh you're not ao tall a m, He covered his white head and went ere past the flat cars. The whistle rose and was shrill asa tortured violin, The boys sat immovable, Nate's hand wis preseel oon the side of his black shirt. Canot passed slowly Inte the village and turned ee the peels aa tiny house in whoee yard flowers A man rw his pala on ae lanks wand ered, “TCU end in a killin’, Nate!" and men murmured all about. Then he sabd,"You'l* Noel walked through the | papanang apy eters discussion and mawnted twins amiled ¥, cairn Ve battle of-attitudes. Nabe Noel wit another look. “Tt's too bad.” "Yeh." said the engine driver; “it's too Zi bad. He's a nice old feller and alwnys treated her fine. But what can I da? I ain'tsore an him, Dlike him. Did you ses his ponts?* ai a i "Gun in his left. pocket. whistle when he walked ust" "Tt's incredible," said Noel. “I say, ¥ lads, do keep out 3 the old chap's tee It'd he auch a pity if "He acts like we wus yas laughin’ at him,” Nate Beara complained. i, “We ain't. Net much! person that had Hear him any sense wouldn't taunt any place near hint, "and got down from the car ad ad with Balliol. Hoel let Balliol follow them olon rocky path that Jed te the whitew idge aver the mouth of the basin. The engine driver stalked by Noel's horse and | drearily whistled this aminous jolly tune, star arith thi aa r bee ron ci. yin! wit is aunt I've fl it She's homesick, Amd ul ah the k ide, "Conse they was in school with her, and used to fetch notes from her to me, seeT | But she’s aeared af Conor. It aint like he'd said a word either. We've been home aweck and he ae "Eanid a thing to ppheey: pita | seul unantis! ucbory ! You see why I a gun werPorfecti, "said Noel, aod pulled in on the bridge. He oan: too, & house of red boards in the thin woods near the water, It seemed to cower agalnst the hase of n tree that floated its branches on the paling sky. "That's cur place,” ate Sears told ps “Dal rer it, He used te ron the ine, back before I did, Died al he poison fra eatin’ somethin’.’ “How tall is that treet" ““Bout two hundred feet. Awful old, San Rawling says. Five feet thick at the roots. Yeh, it's a bi at Well, you tell San about this. Sa Io He walked away one vercak the trina, Balliol sat on the vo oe and Jeoked up at Noel, Satin a L he whined [stood on his thi cel watched the Seara tribe spel pp soma trece and walk up ana patch of rough gress to their door. The colossal cedar chaded the roof of red tin, Its branches must ewell twenty or thirty feet in all directions. It was superb. The jhe gs below the tower of bark and dull- like a discolored pup at The three brothers sat on the doorstep and were trivial, Trivial ple Int in a scented valley! Noel worried. This matter distressed him. It cught to be settled, healed up. ‘The girl must be pretty, It neemed tp be agony s sade He turned his nor wad tot old for reasons, probealy yain. People had chaffed hie had an old man's sterile on for this girl. That waa all. Noel cund his mouth pursed. He waa whiatling the ji ai iol sat on o bathroom stool and watched his muster ter bathe. Noel slapped water over the edie al the tub and snid, full of gloom, "Distinetly none of ey business, dear heart, and I should muck it all up af I tried to interfere, And, after all, Ban Rawling will buzz in by midnight, Darin that tune!" Ballicl wan alarmed when Noel bepan to walk about the fi alter dinner, sige tlin and neglecting hes pipe. The in the center of the rug and wate {is lord stalk te and fre. Occasionally N [to tees cut some sentence. a wloye! Watehed them bury two thou- rand men in Flanders, Getting into a sweat over this! Sentiment, you a Fallial aepbed his: tail on ahan master’s still shirt front. creaked. Neel ae his hands over his dark hair and sighed, Balliol sighed, suffocating with avimnpathy. Why didn’t the deity go to bed Wf he wasn't ing to Few ab ofsamoke? He found | the {i eile doleful. & god gald, “Prepoeterous! And, really, there's no such thing aa civilization. One site under an electric lamp and looks aut. Idiots killin flappers. It's abau each other about | xg fustrous May 15, 1929 =|| Sheer Silk — i Every woman will love these J lustrous silk stockings. 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He kicked the rug with his shiny, black at, Hallicl was wary of those shoes. He rested the quality of American Suciing: They'd been much better licking wt hom "he pod whistled and then thos himasel = at the plum. He made She ae come from the sunning esi ‘sel climbed a soft chair and peeped in bike vibvating silve fe ee oceland” eald Nos, ite his pipe. “Who the devil was this wirdre? Used to know. Where's the en- iia iia Bulliol was pleased. His god settled into Ate and pulled books froma shelf. The «ame to sit at Noel's feet and sniff the Hoel read out: "In Reltic mythology. ede was the daughter of an By Gc ief. At hor birth ft was pr that ewok bring ruin on hy King weechubor'—what a name!—" i= wher had her secreted in a lonely fortresa, inting to marry her. meters havin sata dutance the bewutiful Naisi, old= tof the sone of Dena, she fell in lave with no. Nalei married her and, with his othecs, carried her off into Seotland. ver some time, King Conchubor tured Pith — | back tate Ireland, Naisi and i brothers were treacheroualy slain at octuber’s orders, and. Deirdre, becaree = king's bride but presently destroyed vont sald Noel and sat sturing at Bal- Lover the book. ils pipe turned slowly in his teeth and |oh sifted to the page, He started and nme the reins Fe back fake its mire om bell Then he said 7 feed through the cities i gi of verenda., ee rew moon had set already. The here 4 pobscunt Winder stars, beet bulbs village and a wind went bee ms enon the nearer trees. The coach- n n was plas a concertina. behind the debauched some melody on sheery insttument. After a time some iiramped along the roud and one of meangin a high and whining tener that to the veranda with a ahenen: (rine mie some coopers, homey, I'm feelin” — I acid I'm feelin’, Feelin” pol (M, the eold ain't touched pe! Fon’ re Just a good mor geflin' afd, tesilly rhythm crawled like an aching ce Nool shivered, went back Lnte littoom and kicked the rug. He told hl, * ‘My conduct is anworthy of the eof Briton! I shall be seeing ghosts ily, Did: you ever know that there's ody home? . that eg ith the | paper fn PRES Urniture, “Tirsila fae it distinctly ane night She'd leet teelve robbers of bridge, “a dae bed. And absolute ly no 7 the whele bloody valley! a hak and, with his brothers, carried Fl — Became the old king's vty —— fol barked. “Oh, shut up!" snied > Yoo re notenlightening. [ confide H Bh i ots squeak like a beastly sea- ft doen't like this, They're oll so and : e. Now what would hap. fig would happen at Shales, It + con ble that anything of this ah pen at Sholees. ‘The owner af ti house in the littl: market: I distike this (fai a retired prize fighter, of course, oY tame! The man grew fuchias and fineteen. grandchildren, with two 2 Albepastuibely - Grandfather lost thirty guiness ie LaTo. And Conor's got a re his left hip: pocket." ‘byl have revolvers. What { would Nate's revolver do th t “they came on Conor suddenly in 1 among this pestiferous Brush? The butler came in with a Pol Seotch whieky and an iev bottle ae Re, = = aniw. T was rather wunt- £ Tatler henmed. He incapped the dl led Noel's glass slowly, Gere interred the room with his glased font and bald head, geked “You've been here some Ceopert "' ft years, aic.”" THE SATURDAY "Conor, Noel heard himself waking, “how long has he been here?" “Quite a long time, sir, About thirty Yoana, I penis tr no rene : onor and young rs e alec’ Little man pronounced, ° “hus dl disturbed the people considerably. Mr. Rawling's qpaite annoyed. The young fellows have beta on it, | seo, [ believe Sears i is the favorite. He's a very fine shot," “De t kU each other very much hereaboute?" Noel demanded. “Oh, dear, tio, sir! Not aften. Mr. Sanford Rawlin ng, bas an way of —what one thight call heading them off, But--of course—there's a woman in this business. Wery disturbing, Thank you, alr." ool gave Hallie the mriny. soda bottle and watched the dog w it, A wind breathed inte ‘the room and ruffled white hair between Balliel's ears. The whole bus- mess was ailly, disturbing. And how very Arasticas a make re rabout and i nd people sitting about and wpit- ic are Ra ecb ld fool to kill a hand. some young fool or be killed ee hic! And mt cig were so pleased by their im- portance eg Some along,” said Noel: “we'll go to | The clock struck half past ten. Noel walked up the goalloy onken treads of the | staircase an climbed after him diligently, much pachanted: Then he sow aa alae turn and atart down the stairs aN oel said, “They should have guna! That old oss is quite os Hees: to pot them a8 he bs the big chap! It's oatorous!"* in a lowd jarring voice: went striding to the closet beside the butler's pana: From this armory of shotguns and volvers the young man pic aut elak weapons and jammed them inte the pork= ete of hia dinner jacket. Then he said, “Come along, old thing! They deserve som protection. I dio hate the way that ald maniac whistles.” Tt was stifling under the trees in the vil- lage. Noel saw men lounging Gnside the stone smithy, whenee blew a chilly air, flavored with horse, A baby eried in one af the cottages. A lad whoee bleached hair shone Pan across the road ond bawled at a lit fl baie BS or it's @ girl!" d efore one of the Inst houses a irl eh =r “Well, Dl ser you at the picshers -morrow nigh night, Jimmy. I got to goin nel "and her draw threatened Jimmy with all the displensuyes if he didn't protest. He did. said, “Well—I con stay a minute.” And the night Put a question on the followin giggle. Lf Jimmy hadn't kissecl ber, N thought, he was an ass. Birth and love went on in this tunnel of trees. The basin was a fog of brilliance andor the stars. Points of glitter appeared between Hoating lags. Morel paused to look. The litth lake seemed to palpitate as though the burden of wood Li its bose pane. He stumbled on the ties of the narrow track and came to the whitewashed bridge, where dew woes dripping from the bondrails, The amell of pine was burdensome in the peli air. Noel halted on the middle af the OES oor of the cottage below the giant tree was ruddy. Nate Sears and the twins would be w it was too bot for sleep. The twina had been aleep treet last night, on a blanket, by the water, which roar a conor influence in the pant darkness. Noel lit o cigarette an tng an the rail. Directly Nate Seara gaid underneath him, “Hey! What you doin'?” "Where the d are youT" The twins chuckled. Noel stared down und made out a bloat of blackness Ho lit another match aod beheld the Sears famil altting on a raft of four ce: dangling thelt lege in the water. Six blue yea took his match flame and sparkled. “We'r: keepin’ cool,” avid Nate. “Got any more eig'retie: on youl" He stood up on the raft and stretehed his white arms _ under the rail. Noel shoveled bes into his palms. The big man w eel, "Thanks a lot. ee there's the pup "Lo, pup Gimme a light, will youT foe! | eee bin a anne and said, whis- pering, “ . I've got tee guns for the twins. rl seed thar your coblage, eh?" “You're a good muy Yeh. o that, He‘s fetehed you oe Rae ae Tho twins said, "'"S fine. 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I don't likem that. like he was anenkin' over te our side oh the creek off where noteodsy'd eet him. Gimme them gune and cent near our place. "S why I've got the ki out of the way. They don't know it.” Something in Noel rose against this dis order. He said: “This is simply ous! Thefellaw won'tahoot me. Here, take these guna. IT ahall go talk to him if he's hanging ahem B aoe, Thisis utter rot. Sim ly a — said the engine driver: ‘Gimme them guna and go home ta bed. Bure this fs all ret, eet ier aay. Only I and the kids can't go an ait Inthe black- amith's and bet folks aay we're scared of Conor, But I don’t want the kids shot up; arme nether. I ain't tired of life, ana shin likes me better withowt any holes in my sturioilech of an eve pluy out. Conor's dippy about her pie this is tough on him. He ain" reasonable, Gimme them guns and go home,” Neel handed over the revolvers, Then ie said, “T shall certainly eee if this ass is hanging shout your house, and if he is I shall send him about his business. This sort of thing simply dooam't do. It's the twentieth cena Keep the twins quiet," He stalked off, aware that Nate Sears called something after him aoltly, but not [|| caring to hear, He walked from the =| | planks of tha bridge te the soft earth of the road, fuming. Conor must certainly be spoken to Trees made the lit door of the cottage blink and tyrinkle. The monstrous behind it was a blur. Noel strode into the shadow of some smaller tha, which he fancied birehea, and up a stretch of meadow at the glowing door. Balliol whined uncomfortably in this gloom and Noel found the door d ing. With the cover empty behind ae doorw lamp waa am welcome, He cere listening for any rind af a man among the trees, any sight of a shape on the meadow. There was nothing. Halliol worried a branch of low brishwood and sniffed. What a silly business! Bot Conor might be lurking behind the house or in the shadow of the great tree. [¢ towered upon the stars and sssumed, somehow, a male threatening the lit- “Soul! loud, and walked f from the Ph into the meadow. pat r Then Balliol turned and barked, and a hand shut on Noel's shoulder. Conor aiid, “Come back, air! Come back ! ama out af this! You shan't go near them, si tis voice ailed autee mare He nctersd Noel back toward cee bea Noel shook his hand pepe eri "Ridic- ulews! Look here! I'm frightfolly sorry for you! It's « beastly shame, At a Ol Pe ever so much older than this | she's married this lad and he's quite al right. You should stop te think —— “T'm destroyed with thinkin" of it! It's asorrow in me till I cant eat nor drink nor ein Comet away, sir, and let them be, Mebbe she'll think kinder of me, that's an elderly man and not bad in any way but unlucky with women, when she can't sec thelr black heads nor the red in their eheeks—like blood on snow, as it is in the tale that old women tell, I’m an old man pnd a decent man and she never hal an un- kindness from me. What does it matter to you, slr? Oh, come away)" Hoel found his eyea hot. He said, “I'm frightfully serry for you. Look here: Do teh a mi ods Hele! At was gia go home to bed. I—it's But Seara i bP saat lad and he's sorry for jou, IL AF) “God be above wa all, day and night! Ia it any better that he'll be sorry for me? With her——" The pute of the tearing voice scppet | in a jerk, Conor dashed hia hat from bis head, SEI heel i) in ca shadew. He screamed istle him back ta you! Call the deg hack ta you, sir! Don't let him go weer them!" Ballinl’s white fur waa wandering up the meniow, Noel stared, What madness! May 13, 1927 Exen mustn't go near the empty house which Conor thought held his ex. miles who weren't enemies. S we said, “Oh, that's all right, Conor! “Call him back to you, sr! pup! Call him!" Conor howled. istled terribly and ran up the rriewains fe white balr raced. He was romniny desperately and calling, “Puppy! Herr, It's a fine i] here!" Mad "said Noel, “Mad as a—" Balliol barked. ‘Then the earth rox net door became a fan of spraying flami in a shivering world. Noel waa shaken by a S08 Of motions. Through this vapor by saw the great tree bending slowly forward A rippling shrill sound bit Noel's ears. fi might, “Shells! Shella !"" Somethiry lashed his face eenelly, He put up a bate and found that he "t a helmet. H: flung himself down on the turf. Bits o stone seemed to be rattling about him. fi bai uptorn soil. There wae a mighty but aaft noise wit! in ite softness. Then there wa nothing to be heard. Noel sat up and found blood runnin from his temple, blinding his eyes. Hut » haa money aing to noe certain about it terms. There waa certainly something He got up, found a slim trunk, a sapling near bis 4, and clung to it. His ear ached with the noises, He leaned on th tree and enlled, blinking. He shoute “Balliol! Here! Come here, air. Balliol Here!" A horrible aching came into his knew He licked his lipa and pursed them for anes Then cr a et am peed, omy hi and whimpe oel mat an ft t the dog's hee with ahiveri Shane He mumbled, “You're all right? Nothin nt You" ele htt" i teas i wrigghed and twisted 2 to bark. He deneed on Noel's hirt wl iis Haney, paws and sniffed between & Ovals of light shone suddenly into th branches of fallen. tree and made th green boughs unreal, like strips of torn pa rf, Menshouted. He could hear Sanfce E wling giv giving orders. a Bretherton! Look! i inte the he cad look for him!" A motor had driven almost to the erushe branches oel sow his higet standing | the machine, with lanterns dancing a about. He got up and lurched along. wii Balliol twisting in his arma. Then | coated with two bodies running cloee © er, very wet. “Here!” said Noel crosly. “ Mind whi you're about! I"m afraid Salliol’s burt The twina screamed, “Hey! Hey, Sa: Hey, Nate! Here hs is! He's all right*” "Oh, bring o light bere!"" Noel yelle “T want to eee whether Balliol’s ——" Everything stopped He woke up in the library and saw Bs lied lapping a of milk on the pleasa green mig. on ndmined his "Ball oom gurein trying elreumatances. GF cide like a aemsib rane! doin and orderly thi The caine: : eating and aitter on a couch side side and sige pul a while Sanfal Rawling thed a tod bandage aba Noel's head. ‘The butler was holdin of sherry onitssilyer. Noel reached fs “Dynamited the tree. Made a mac with an alarm clock," snid Rawling. waa clever about things lite that. toys for me when I was a kid. Feel Tight ee ion] 7°" | Nowl coughed. “Quite, thanks. He quite mad. The tree fell on the cor of course? T couldn't very well see.” He rose and strolled across the roo the mantelpiece for a cigarette. So was crying miserably near at bane. suw Nate Sears sprawled on a chair in bright hall with his k head i an his arms. “Nasty business," eaid Noe], A trembled” in him. He leoked at San Rawlhing and murmured, “About (oc ine sr “He can't have felt anything. branch hit his back, Better eo to Noel. You look all shake a tray with a 7 of bout the pat the match and dulled it as if = mad glowed fora second and then was quen ih mercy.

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He presumed it was one of those modern _- catehea, Ho he too — ay Bd Pom & an dl *« wife” was new Lo him. li wad only eivil ta at) aed kind. he ssid: "she waa turned into = pillar of salt before I waa born.” His humor was w however, for Mary was occupied staring at the decora- tions of the room, She did nat seem to hear. She had a pleased amile about her lips. To cure himself of noticing these de- taibs John assumed a businesslike air. gi wished te see about—er ——" “About the dfuation, please." He serewed up his forehead, "Tha situation?" "Ves, please." “Whose situation?” "But I haven't one," he replied. “T have a position of sorts, but ne situation.” "The one ae she explained. “ advertised for,” dear young Jady, I've never written an mdvertisement in my life.” “But you have," said Mary. “I brought it with me.” She started rummaging in the cket of ber skirt. saw it on a piece of pu paper that as Carter—she's the rid badly. ete rr peer shop at Powder's End—it's a poor! Os ee oe there, oe tie and there are + ge Bounders— Bulls’ Eyes—Clove BF and Pevensey Humbugs—Ponder'a End if in the coun ey Harvey live and wey bin ohn aman Deponis tn fT ay “T may he anid. “hut Sia a thean detnily printed on this Piece of pa to which you refer?” “Oh, no," said Mary, shaking her curly head so hard that the little Mercury ca fell of and lay unnoticed on the floor; TH was a piece of newspaper ood wi rownd. sort Fara auger I bought, | couse the blue bag had a bole in the commer and was leaking. It's in my pocket some- where, I cut out the adverteement with to his feet and made Martie for his glasses, mumbling aa he Sidon Pex haps you would be good enough bo convey ta me the substanes of this mysterious advertisement.” And as though it were the aim : thing in the world she answered, tised for a wile, and I thought retaee I would do” John Harvey knocked over a ch is books and upeet a vase of spilled wuter trickled into his pe ee calmed. hin. Mary had come to her feet to make her saneoe eee and wae picking out the ereases in her blower, smoothing her akirt and generally presen ting herself te the best advantage. Tae an ene of her mc = | Hane was concen T eosied atk is avons ohn, me this mivertisement at ance!" A mere glance at the cutting we enone hi to allay his fears. He turned to Mary with a gasp of relief. "This is a mistake!" he exclaimed. “Vou'rvr made om serious mistake, The wivertiser's address i: Number #, Mel- bourne Court. Mine is Number 7. You can see for yourself 1 dqn't want a wile, “Show Certainly not a newspaper wife," But did mot move, The glad expectancy died out of her face, her mouth went down aod her chin dropped. “Wil you tell me what [ ought to do?" bata nd, He shook his head, "T really den't know. I—I have very little experience in these matters.” “Should Togo up to the flat and ask there?" Sian | Se the bare thought of such a thin have put him aut af temper, ng sole not," he replied, “unless you know the man whe lives there.” “But I don't. Do yout “Wet personally, I've heard him mov | ing nbowt, but [ve never seem him." “But he wants a wife," said Mary, “and as [ve come all this w My dear yotng ladys I forbid “My dear young lady, I forbid you ta ga about from youn to door being a wile ay every one af them. = Bae ian"t decent.” wae surprised awn Valor; a0, | apparently, was Mary. She raised her af heme ie admiration. He pointed at the chair aa bade her sit | down age She was oddly willing to | ae she marched toward it the at | feather bon fell off and revealed the grits lines of her throat and shoulders, | absence of the bea and the little Mer- a hat toed a nanerkabe difference to was beginnin - re "ens ike like @ a petro and more nips But Sort t pg ared npr of her akirt, the domine stock and 2 totally id ea ety ma bf ribbon | that im her hair in a knot at the | tap of ‘head, she mi i have muster in any company, It was as though | a latent homogeneous sense was superine Angeles npr soning af Soult Kare sim a Ne uth Ken- out aE lace in Jah a hea a tent ou oe fohn ners at, & fact which = with uneasiness and ie cleared his throat, “Sit down, he said, “and let us con- sider what is beat to be "done." “Yes, but it isn't fair to take up your cea Mary "You don't want Hehastened to assure her that this waaeo. is a, = don't.” she repented pathoti- at ‘adready. told you I do net," he “But he does,” said Mary with a nod at the selling. “Then he must go without,” said John Harvey. “A man who has the effrontery to insert such an advertisement has pe right to papnet applicant. It's a: a shameful proceedin put if he was lonely ——'"* sce subg gested “That has nothing to do with i answered with heat. “I am +e ; oe in the man who lives u fe aad bad formed such an agreea 2 opinion of . the fellow too "Had dees Whyt" He turned to answer, The eae ribbon had disappeared from the her head. Her hair, with its crooked si hh +, had fallen serenely over shes ears, The change it t in her was magical ond so sur- pred John that be lost track of whet he was about to ave some teat?" be said. “You're sure to he tired after traveling. Tt makes people tired, Dea have some tea, | There's a crumpet—I know there's 2 crume | pet. We cou share the erumpet if you a for eTumpets,”" looked so plemsed, i erniCeS "she nolded, “They ahs for crumpeta the same aa for ings." l conversational roads between the | wie bend te or away from the altar, To cover his embarrassment John Harvey rang a bell—for tea. eolserts’ satisfaction on Teceiving the order was too obvious to be | + He inquired beter he should po the serviers of a second “hed th i et Da, said Jobo severely. then with an effort to relax he remarked, “Are vou aware, Roberta, that they ring bella arta the same ax for-nmufins?” Fi by said Mary correctively, an Ftaberts webed with a amile, | A ailence followed Roberts’ departure, broken at last by Mary. “Tf I'm to stop, may etd ease change my shoes? there was a party. John ierined an inaidible assent and went and looked out of the window. Night was falling and the window glass had the impertinence to reflect the room anc its ccaipants. 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THE SATURDAY | white stockings inte the bird cage. This done, she again wrapped it in the piese off oil cuath, stood up and shook out the folds of her s kirt, By some astonishing process it seemed to have increased ite length by es inches, The reflection in the glaga revealed a peecty normal and very attractive young pee ye aanply cla clad Ps a white blouse, a ack salk stockings and black irae shoes, 7 The rowette had disappeared er. "T'we finished," she announced, and turned for his inspection. “Tt was kind of you te ask ime to ten," He wae too confweed to talk sense. “Tea ip not a kindmess,"’ he atammered, BG bbe lnc tig be if it ia bite A courtesy.” “Do you tee ae bee the corner in that Sean way * she demanded. OM ond I don't know, © have never round the corner to seo,” bs beg Toe do you live here all done?" He admitted te the charge of solitude, but added that he had his books for com- Pa Ato friende?” she queried, id gt ey. She sighed. an haven't any friends either. I'm very bon." ree which he hastened to ne ly” aiid a word about belag lone 1 by oneself “But it is lomely to rites with eee but books," to be drawn, and she pro still, I suppose ina great big place like on one can't really be lonely— and i ina é big place like these fints one can’t be onely eft There must be something "Tie. sociable about living in flats. 4 denial came from him in apite of himself: “You're sitive wrong. There is prob ably no mare | analy éexlatence in the world “DT newer | than living in a flat. And in answer to | the surprise she revealed: “You wouldn't understand that because you come fram the country, w knows one ele, and everyone is part of everyone else. But apart in London sa is only part of onesolf; apalte a emall part too,” Tea ap “hich was tiresome, until Hoberts peared ver Would jou kom like ma to pour out?" asked ur you would,” said John. "Thanks," Strange how leasant it was to antes. a womaka pert this simple feat. He quite captivated and followed the mavenmate of ber wrist and Suber with a curioda sense of basking. The experience was so novel. As she pasnedd his cup their eyes met. "Do go on talking,” she said, ee we Were discussing loneliness,” "You wouldn't understand how it feels to live with people to right and left, people know nothing. You meet them, in a lift, on the the foe pet Mshen strangers. It's queer, isn’t it?’ aymipath ically. the man whe lives upatairet"" “Wo; he's a miyate ay abave you and belaw—about whom you laughter or raised in ent, and And you don’t even know the chap=< “Ah, well,” said aid. Marg po practically, "T | don't expect you want to know him.” “T's curious vou shewldsay that, You're wrong. Ide. I want to know him very much. Until—until to-day his life has interested me extraordinarily." He seemed reluctant te proceed, but the | kindliness in Mary's eyes persuaded bkm. | he geta up at the same Gime as Ic “In some curious way I feel there ls a bond of union between us, Ev prenine an has his bath at the same time ae I have | mine. I actually enjoy hearing the water splash when he turns on his tap; enjoy it. Tt gives me nsolid sense of companionship.” e colght a amile Mekering at = eat nera @ her mouth and stopped abru “You are laughing at me. I can ha blame you," “Hue I eho I wasn't, really,” Mary, “Do ga So he rent ce on, Bile he tald of the del he had to hear the waste water gop anid ‘hE down the pi feeb oseniiel aie gah “TE gu away &0 ™ ebbe of a mysalf own with a towel, In aw think it hyphenates his raaakerion ence with mine” Mary nexdided “Yea; and then?” she nn EVENING POST “And then he walks back to his bed- . TL imagine be must have linoleum in the hall, 40 “Because can hear his footfalls so distinctly. t footfalls they are, and abeurdly enough I try to keep step. Left, right—teft, right. But I never succeed; I never can step short encugh. Then, click! The bedroom deor shuts and a heayyspila t muffles all the rest. We shut our doore at the same instant every morming: only he shuta his gently and I ban mine.’ 7" she askerl “Heeause I think if he ies as ao " conhiee acme n early morning greeting. Bang— hang. “Top of the morning to you, sir, whoo 700 Niag De. Did you ever a dder aT think it's ihe t pathetio—yery ry pai- thetic.” And although there was obviously hint of tears glistened xo pyenon for them a mr Ptber ict" John, "T fall to sep where the Bh toatl “So far as I can see,” cris anal: "it never goes out. (Oh, it's very pathetic “hat anyone could have oo little interest in life that they listen to a few poor footetepa overhead, somesoapy water aplashing down a pipe, and try to get someone they don't know te bang a door, It's very pathetic indeed, "T wonder,” gaid John. “Perhape it is.” For the first time he looked at her with- OU SOfecios Unemsiness. "Tio know, it has been extruordi- narily pleasant to me to have met you In this rather unconven way, I—er— ve never nto a woman with any Hay eee at aaid ci ic} WERE FE ‘ol i Ha Lager iis head. o ' she said, jumping to her feet, Me think I'd better be He atretched out a hand ta ene her. “But not upstaire,” he pleaded. She hesitated —h tiie, half doubtful. Then, “Well—if—if you aay [ mestn"t."" “ah, that's Ti af he warmly applauded. “I'm sure t rash gece mm arc a great mistake, Would you, I wonder, station in my ear? It would Pleagure.” "T suppose it would,” she acknow ruefully, Then a sudden twinkle show ig She beckoned him to sprroach. say, do you think, from what you've him—the chap upstairs d have been pleased with me? She raised her chin, their fuces were only a few inches apart. it was John Harvey's first experience of a close-up, and it shook him to the bone. "T think it'a exceedingly probable,” he led iuxkil Ys ary Merrow backed o apace wit with a rip ple ae pleased Laughter. dof it— the sex of it—awoke something chieaahtil in John Harvey's nature that had never proved its De: pelure, A sudden firy he stamped across the And a Paths svotaiira,"” hia ‘eribd bh ae in zou " he “ond tell that fellow precisely what I think Of a man whe acts aa he hes ached !' "Oh! Please don't!" she implored. "T foel it a right to take short cuts to the state of holy matri "Yes! i T was just as bad,” “Nothing of the kind, With you it's entirely different," “0h, is 1th" eal Mary. with pinta est emile, “Is it? Oh!" The last “Oh sounded peculiarly satisfied, He tu come back and took her hand in his, “Are you really ao keen on this mar= ve Print avers hain; Pa cught to be rar- ial think Re a rather ail nae ee tee you can be, a it's ahaa ia very gad not ta be when you can He sighed and her hand dropped from his. “| suppose women look at things in a different way." have to," she answered with her amile . "You ase, I haven't any hath. a running down a pipe out- a Thewords wae iie spoken i thre words were nnacen om but am has the strangest effect on J Harvey. He ewiveled round and loolced i sear ence Pe = ocabed a in the air as t trying to find someth he to he ing, ae mine he'll | let me drive you as far es the | be a real | che benefit af the jobbers and paabae ats. A man has na | 177 Why we want you to try ten cigars We believe you can‘e judge a cger properly by hiving only ane of ceo. 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Hypnta is not pele to in e=1 ell but wrote it Empire—that The Mas- = ' the reports of either society, perhaps because reba cca a more sits patent only fon ee of gr bi Low came 7 lhe sha the wings of death. exactly within range of the societies’ in- “Aalst the abiding faith of millions T place veatigations, es see Ehy a — septa Edina ogee ton scientists toch apy in a recent issue e New at Pronounce the greatest master of ‘eck Tames. Fourteen lines! How fast the hypoosia of which there ls any record. I say oad moves on! The squib, in the form of nine out of ten because here and there is a odsocisted Pres: dispatch, dated Hunkow, doubting Thomas. Packman, for example, is ‘tina, is as fallows: pares virulent — hurls the Chinaman fi ly auth teal reported that the Chin into the limbo of chariatanism and damnawith vote, Chang mt ba Low, d died here to-day, Tt was ay a age curses hie “ao great mackie t0 tes the report me E ¥i far) whoa wou ignify the tricks of a ee pitied away by some of his followers, mountebank with serious considerntion.” In ine chess Foo Low, the then leader of Drenlocekil, of Vienna, Harden and Mc- thew Buddhin, ¥oluntarily gave wp his bigh Taviah, of London and Glasgow respectively, shien aa lama of the Peking temple by bec attribute to Chang telepathic powers developed nett to a degree heretofore unknown. A almilar Fete tiba! taeertaer arity of the hi Re ior foc ait tedeing.. His opinion is held by several American investi- ath cared in the home of Kal Pee, a dealer in gutorm, — the oged prophet hod stopped for the All this is quite confusing. I have no inten- aed then, however, of attempting to make it clear, It is certain that a mere teller of tales would fail in diaeovering the true source from which Th, then, is the obituary, 50 far as New ak lb concemed, of the curivas figure which the extraordinary powers of Chang were de- rived when the beat scientific minds of the med acres the Pacific beenty-five years world were unable to agree on the subject. & All America, all Europe, saw thot figure. wid sketched vaguely at (iret and later with re or lea faithfulness in the daily press. This much, which is common knowledge, I ter still, various acientific journals devoted know: Prophet, mediam, hypnotist, fakir,"or es toa discussion of the mysterious forces whatever we may choose to call him, Chang ich had turned a withered Chinaman into a Foo Low for half a century was the direct and ty—soforas Asiatic races were concerned unquestioned voice of the Supreme Being to fa celebrity, at Jeast in the oyes af what we three hundred rillion eouls. And now it seerma beat to let my ster pro coo, its facts leading to whatever conclusion we to call civilization. Javing a tale to tell in which the above. they my seem to warrant, vioned forces were placed at the disposal tro—skall | aay thrse?—members of thia ste] civilization, I have been dipping inte ides published in New York, London, Paris, nnand Berlin, over a period of ten years ning with 1890, which touch upan Chang w.. hee articles can be divided roughly inte clases, reportorial and seclentifie. The cer T find are quite similar in character. ha proper eye for news value the gentle iof the press consistently describe the lama prophet, He is always referred to ns The at Fraphet of Ching, and coses. of his tris ihant functioning in that role ane choed in fing hia right te the tide. The American fl more particularly concerned with his mastication of the Spanish-American War, Battles of Manila Bay and the nssassino- of William McKinley, There is a story to effect that Chang warned the Chie ign Office of this last deplorable event > time before it occurred, with a request the informathon be conveyed to Washing- This was never done, perhaps through of civilization’s mockery; perhaps, as the ‘insinuates, because of a further prophecy he lama concerning the allied invasion of it, in which he named the United States ne af the powers which would engage In march to Peking, much for the pres. Now for the acien- . Not one af them more than mentions srophetic vision of Chang Foo Low, Ob “Now, son, ahe aald, “yeu don"t hawe to ély it is mot considered worthy of discus- , c goin if you don't want to, but you're going by scientific minds. The English and “he Wil ba Hard te Make Foo Belle, I Regine Wik a Dream" to be a aoldier some day, aren't you?" # Tn the year 1884, on a dismal afternoon of early apring, a earclage drew under the high white-pillarad porte-cochire of n substantial home jin the outakirta of Atlanta, Georgin. From the carriage there deaeended a lady dressed in black, and a boy, a little boy, wham she took bey the hand as ehe prepared to go up the steps to the front door, The boy was more than ill at esse, He was on the verge of panic. He enst a look of wild appeal at the negro couchman, who had turned to regard him with a not unsympathetic oye, "Luke, Uncle Luke," erled the child, “I don't want to, I don"t want te." The appeal was in vain. Uncle Luke wiped the sympathy from his countenance, and way- ing his whip in the direction of the front door be issued the stern command, “March on in!" With the sustaining aid of the lady's hand the boy attempted te obey. He mounted the atepe and proceeded with a fair show of reso. lution to the frowning mahogany door with its silver name plate, bell handle and door knob. Suddenly he halted, his eyes filled with dread. They were observing a wreath of leaves and ferns with streamers of purple ribbon, attached ta the frame of the door, “Oh, mummy," "he gasped, “take me heme, please, please!" His mother knelt on one knoe, pot her arma about him and lacked inte his face,

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4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The boy nodded. "Nat for a long, Jang time, though, mummy; mot til I'm grawed up." “Darling, dar- ling, there's moth- ing to be afraid of. See, I'm not atraid. [t's your own doar grandpa lying in- there asleep. Just the earth part ofhim. Al the rest and the best part—his kind eyes, and smile and vorce— are in heaven. He sera you this minute. He sees bis grandson ufrald te go in and look at the earth part of bir for the last time. He doesn't care, of course—be's toa kind—but you'll i core some day, Now if T were you I'd walk in with mother and look at. him for a mc ment and aay good-by, and then Luke will take you hore" So spoke this young mother, constrained by the conventions of her day and race, These decreed that a final logk at the dead by members af the furnily wus obligubary. At last James Calthorpe Lee, aged seven, managed to enter | av the ominous-locking mahogany door, clutching his mother apasmadically by the hand. He came of fighting stock, this youngster; but the reloubtable Light Horse Harry, of that nustere yet flaming son of Virginia who all but won a hopeless cause, would have taken little pride in the bearing af their amall descendant during the next few moments, Shuddering, terror-stricken, the bay was turned over to Luke when his ordeal was past, and so wos driven home to the safe black arma of Aunt Selina, whe, neglecting his infant sister for a time, cragned over him as in days gone by. Also when night come Aunt Selina understood. Without a suggestion from him she saw bir inte bed and turned the lamp almost out, but not quite. How grateful he was for that! And then—a reagsuring creak of a rocking-chair, a heavenly voice grumbling [rom the shadows. : "Ain" nothin’ gwine make me move fum right hyar.” An hour or more went by. Aunt Selina, whe bod been dozing at her post, became suddenly wide owake. She was conscious of a peculiar feeling In the palma of her hands and the soles of her feet. It wae a gort of prickling senaation, which presently affected her limbe and the akin of her neck and body. ““Got all crampy settin’ hyar," she reflected. ‘Folks home mighty goon now, Reckon I'll get down to the do",” The rocking-chair creaked again as she made a prelimi- nary movement toward relieving itof some two hundred- odd pounds, Tt creaked no more, for Aunt Selina was sitting balt upright, witerly moveless, the whites of her eyes shining in the faint light from the all but extinguished lamp. She was staring inte the shadews beyond the foot of the bed. As she sat rigid a amall white-gowned figure suddenly rose to a aitting position and also stared over the footboard into the shadows, “Why, grandpa,” said a relieved young voice, “I thought you were dead." For a moment the boy seemed to listen. At lawt he nodded. “Yes, grandpa,” he said, He dropped hia eyes toa lower level, stared, amiled shyly, and again nodded. For a moment longer he aat erect, then choged his eyes and fell back to his pillow. “Laewd Gawd, Lawd Gawd!" moaned Aunt Selina, and though her tecth were chattering and ber face ashy gray, she lumbered tothe bed. Bending down she listened. Ther untroubled breathing af a slorping ehild rewarded her. “Praige’ be His name.” Ficking up the lamp she crept from the room, trembling, awe-stricken, dazed. She was still shaking when her mistress with sore out- of-town members of the family returned for the night. “Chile, chile,” she said when the boy's mother had been drawn out of earshot of the visitors, “his gran‘pap done drap in on him while you is gone." But the mother, having listened impatlenthy to Aunt Eelina’s acount of what hod oecurred, said, “Nonsenss! Ho had a nightmare." “Americana! Atmertemnar f'* fhe Cothed of the Top of Mae Folre Agols cad Agaia. Mad Theo: "Wetpf Wetp Ff" “How kum | feel dat nightmayeh on my ole black hide? How kur I see ——* "T don't want to talk about it any more, and T won't have that nervous child hearing auch things. Now listen, Selina, and understand me. Much os I lowe you, if you over repeat to any- Leh ie you! ve just told me T'll discharge you that ube pode Selina's Lipa were sealed. As for the little hoy, if he had any recollection of a strange visitor he did not mention It next day, Always a quiet littl boy, his added thoughtfulness for some time thereafter waa not partiew- larly noticeable. On the day following his grandfather's funeral he asked to be taken to hia grandfather's home. Cnee there he went inte the garden, looked esgerly about for a time, and then began te senrch the arbors, shrubbery and rose bushes, Next he pattered up to the great, still attic, He returned downstalrs after a time, grimy with dust and strangely whetful. From then on he was given to long silences and to ploy- Ing by himself. Games with other children did not seem to amuse him. He seemed to prefer his own world of make- beliewe or thoughta, or whatever it was that kept him lone for hours at a time. And always until the place waa sold he liked to play in his grandfather's garden. His favorite diversion was to give a party in a emall arbor in the garden which he called bis house. For this purpose he had accumulated the proper atensils for dining in state with a single guest. Broken und eruwclied dishes and teacups, buttered and rusted kitehen forks, knives and spoonsa—he had a complete service for two, which he kept under the steps of the back porch. Offered more treasures of the sort, he declined, “But you could give a bigger party with more things," suprested his mother. “T don't want o bigger party," he told her firmly. "Just us." “Who is as?” asked his mother, “Whom do you have heside yourself?"* “Slobody," he wlmitted. “But, mummy," he added, brightening, “any day IT might.” “You can today," said his mother quickly. “I'll ask Mra. Harcourt to let Mabel go with you thia morning, and you can have real things to eat." He shook his head. “I don't want Mabel,” His mother looked at him thoughtfully, Mabel, a year younger than he, was the blond beagty of the neighbor- hood, as apviled as she was lovely. Accustomed to instant adoration from ull with whom she came in eontact, bis dtrange aloofness had proved surprisingly effective in winning ber regard. Desiring passionately all things that she could not have, Mabel had begun by demanding his atbhentions, She had next made somewhat haughty ad- vanes, From these she descended to humble requesta fol- lowed by violent and tearful pleadings. “But Mabel is so seoet,” arged hia mother, who had become warried of late over what seemed like a towch of May 20,1923 morbidity is her son, She had hoped he might be jolted out of it be other children Who better Fo the No time far moos. ing whem ahe oa abwat, Her court wns kept busy min istering to ker wants and obeying her commands. +" All the other boys adore her," she pe minded him, “ond she seoma to like “T don't wari her," be repeated 1 firmly. “Please : don’t ask het, THTamy."" His mother did not insist, Bhe bat tried the forcing method, to have it fail. She had seen hima miserable ang distinetly owt uf it at hia own bith day party. Though she did not like bis playing alone s much in the gupden of the old place, the garden would jot be in the family much longer, Why not let him enjer it while he could? She kissed him and let him go, and a dawn to think it over, If his father had only lived! A boy needed a man; be heeded) the viewpoint of his own sex. This paved. the war for nu cligtresatng conchision, Her son must go away ts sehool—to boarding school. She clutched her heart. He was so little and shy and—yea, queer, The admission lei to firmness. The quecroess must not herome settled: masters and boys would rub [bt aff, She nodded with woe pressed lips. A month later Jimmy was sent off to board ing school, leaving behind him a moaning Aunt Selina with her apron over her head and a Spartan mother amilire through unshed teara. In the ten years which followed, that mother's exerifice was rewarded, Hor san came home one apring, a lumber ing St. Bernard with huge paws, calloused from baschall which some day—ineredible thought—might fit him, He volee, which he made no effort to constrain, caged 1 nerves tinkle in the glass chandellers of the parior. Litt doubt that this clumey, bellowing creature ran trie to | form—a normal, zestful young male, During the next month Mabel came inte her own. One| he had scorned her charms! They had been children, «| course, but even so —— “Poor kid," thought his mother as she saw her youn St. Bernard anxiously learning to fetch and carry. “ld like to shake her." He was supposed te be cramming that mammer toward | examinations for the Paolnt, but a vessel to Mabel Har eourt had little time and leas thought for mene books, Hu) mother, abaerving the lady in blue dimity with a hav ribbon to match, quite understood that. Amd then something totally unexpected oocurred — something that trotted Mabel’s soul during many yea"! thereafter. For the one and only time in a long carr) this resisthes: female of the species, who wes destined @) become the boast of Georgin, knew defent, Tt came about in the moat unaccountable way, 22) What appeared to be ler certain triumph, At an evens? affair which included Mabel, Jegser damsels, and the timid-bald, old-young specimens of male adolescence ¥ 5) aquired them, dancing was found to be impossible becau= | of the modest sine of the home at which they had gutbere! | Forfeits, twenty guesses, and amusements of a sels) character had aroused little or no enthusiasm, when | company wae electrified. Post office! No one knew 529) had first augpested it, but post office! post office! Wo) figgles and guffaws it became an accepted fact thal | innocent game of childhood, now a daring venture, eou4 be attempted. Mail was awkwardly delivered and received in the d= ness of 2 small reception room, the postmistress, 2 timid soul whe positively refused toa indulge in cormspondens announcing the addresses from the door, Ad leet a pr theularly forward youth dared greatly and summoned haughty and beautequa Mabel from her netreat ina ro hammock, to receive a post card. It was a great moment. Would she eorme? She de. with a bored expression, and languidly entered the = office. The bold and envied awain presently eet“ therefrom, and then, “A letter for Jimmy Lee,” shee the postmistress.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 5 doce before in this narrative we have blushed at the feeendant of Light Horse Harry; and now again All preent turned to stare at Jimmy in his great good fortune. Deplorable to relate, he stood immovable, with eye ad Crimson ears, Meanvhile the incomparable one waited alone, the dim echsinn of the post office hiding the chagrin she must have felt at the thought that ber priccles favor ssomed nbout to beware. At last by means of jeers ond some shoving o ductant cavalier appeared in the post-office doorway. A sal push between his shoulder blades, and he had stered. The door cloged behind him. itis peeible that the uncertainty of a moment before tad reused the Indy's ardor. It was characteristic of her jut the should be so, At any rate as he stood there in a ert of agony soft arms stale about him and clasped him in onething of an @cetasy; then warm lips found his own, wot caer but many tines. Fora moment he trembled under her Kisses, atruek to gpiremesa by their shock. Neat there rushed over him a inding foree totally unlocked for. Her kisses were torned—were overwhelmed. She bent beneath a fright- “Let me gegol” “No, no; ae eee — plemme {"* She surrendered again for an instant, then freed herself id opening the door walked out inte an eager circle of suiring eyes, airy and quite calm. No other sign of life came from the post office, Investi- ton proved it to be empty. An opon window leading to ehwn explained this phenomenon. Koowing the utter pesbility of facing anyone at the moment, Jimmy had ad through the window inte the etarlit night. 4 great and deathlesa love had come to him. In the hum caused by the knowledge of this fact he wandered, the and wild-eyed, for an hour or more before bending Hepes towards home. He undressed bor imstinet and fang himself on his bed, ratime he lay moveless fn o bliss of recollection. This ged toa stupor in which he still was conaclous of the rao! gummer imeecta, the barking of a dog and the ting of the clock on his mantel, oven while he floated Jimmy's Tercies Recoloer Came Out of Foe Boeleters through soundless apace with his arma abowt his Mabel. At last real slumber came, deap aa the caverna of the sea, and now he began to toss and monn, struggling in a dream more poignant than any waking moment he had ever known. "T must, | must!" he cried in a choking yoire, and sat upin bed with bis arms outa Whatever his arma wert seeking was no longer there. Tt had been there, [t had been there, right fn his room nota moment ago. Wide awake now, he still knew that. But was he awake, or waa he dead, or what? He got out of bed and went to the window, Roosters were beginning to crow at a pray mist not yet ss tangible as light. Of course things looked unearthly in that mist; the two pines on the lawn were black velvet plumes and the box hedge seemed like a yawning ereviee, But it wes the same lawn an Peach Tree Street, Atlanta, Georgia. He stood at the window thinking, thinking—or, rather, trying to under- stand. By ten o'clock that morning he had taken to his books. He told his mother that for the reat of the aummer he meant to study until three o'clock each day and then play tennis. His faithfulness to this régime was a delightful surprise te hia mother. [twas more than a surprise to another lady. At their nest meeting, which she waa foreed to contrive by happening along hia route aa he returned from the tennis club, Mabel made it clear that she waa not offended by the enthusiasm with which he had entered into the sgarit of the gume of post officer, But Jimmy, avoiding all reforenes to that tender epi- sode, confined himself te unewsy mumblings while looking up and down Peach Tree Street. He actually seemed ta be on the qui vive for something more diverting than a lus- cious budding figure in white organdie below luminous purple ayer and spun-gold hair. “Who ane you loaking for?" demanded the puzzled and angry Mabel, immy started, “'Why—why—nobody," be stammoered. This waa the first reference ever made to bis hablt of anxious peering which dated from this time. The habit had grown to such an extent by the time he entered West Point that hia plebe room-mate—one Robert Preseott— straightway nicknamed him “Old Look "em Over.” His elaza took it up, and later the entire corps, “Look ‘em Qver™ he became, and “Look ‘em Over" he remained during his four years at the Point, They called him this affectionately, for Jimmy was a good man on the gridiron and eleewhere, and popular with his tribe. Not se popular, however, with thelr woemenfolk. Frescott's slater put it inte words after Jimmy had been her exeort at one of the dances during their final year. “Of courae he must be splendid, Bobby, or you wouldn't adore him so, but I must say he's the queerest thing I ever Sam.” "Queer? You're erazy. What do you mean?” shouted the loyal Robert. “He looked at me ones," she explulned, “when you introduced him, but never again after that. He'd talk to me and heap watching other girls. I could feel him doing it even when we were dancing,” “Oh, that,” said her reliewed brother, “That's just his way. We call him—well, it's just his way,” he finished ely, “Tes ou wy T can get along without,” declded his sleter prompely, Many eo decided, for Jimmy's activities with the sex were fully deseribed by hig nickname. Having looked them over he ventured no further. Mabel belonged to a dim and distant past. She had made a final attempt to wipe cut the one stain on 2 Aowloss record when he had returned home wt the end of bis first year. She woe the breath-taking belle of Atlanta by then, and ahe stooped amazingly te a mere Wet Pointer. But Jimmy, after aqueezing her hand in the moonlight one evening, became weird again, as ashe put it after meeting os the following day, and proceaded to poor himself out of ger. Close after graduation came amazing good fortune, for which, as Prescott wrote him, they must thank God and Congresa. Here they were, [ust commissioned, and war with Spain declared. Later they found that young officera, (Continaad ea Page 65) at es i or wie Se = “Wr re ; t “Paton Back Gulek,"" He Fale

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6 THE rotecting the Small Investor SATURDAY EVENING POST May 20, yr THE POSSIBLE AND THE IMPOSSIBLE HERE is, of course, only one perfect way to protect the investor from muking fraudulent, bogus, warth- lea, get-rich-quick and unsueceasful investments, and it ia otterly impractleal. It would be in the form of a law, enforced universally, prohibiting any person in this country from investing in anything except government bonds, municipal bonds, savings-banks deposits, life insurance policies and similar clossea of property. Buch a law could not be enforced, and the results would be terrifying if it were, But until the investor ia wrapped up in cotton batting and locked away in a steel vault, the losses in ill-advised investments will continu: to be of prodigious extent. Protection la an impossibility, and no anvount of organized or enacted protective measures will more than slightly affect the final result. The reason is simple. The fundamental cause for the great losses in unwise investments is contained in the very phrase itself, “get-rich-quick.” The basic trouble is the desire of peaple to make a quick fortune or killing, totale a business risk, boapecwlate, bogumble, rather than te invest, What must be fought le eupidity, greed and avarice, and that fight will last aa long as the human race itself, for these qualities are latent to a greater or leas extent in the hearta iw the vast majority of men and women. Tha frrepresible Gambling [natinct NA PREVIOUS article, President Cromwell, of the New L York Stock Exchange, explained the attitude of that or- ganization toward various proposals for the protection of investors. It will be remembered that toward the end of hia etaterment he said that a certain proportion of the public always seemed bound ta go te the woret type of aecilled brokerage houses in spite af every warning and every law. In gathering material for the present article the writer sought the opinion of officials of a number of the leading suvings banks, investment-bond dealers, com- mercial bunts, lift-insuranee companies, the United States Treasury, and other agencies through which Jegitimate investnvents reach the public. Without an exception the view was expressed that there ig a very large gambling element or inetinet in people which cannot be suppressed and which finds an outlet not only through bucket shops and margined accounts in legitimate stocks but to a fur grenter degrer, among a wider range of people and in more different stctions of the country, through the outright purchuse of what ure so commanly known as get-rich-quick stacks. The explanation seems ta be that with people af small means it is only after the hardest kind of work that even a few hundred dollara are aaved. Upon these few hundred dollara the rate of interest that goea with conservative investment amounts to litte. The principal grows with painful slowness. The universal craving and almost uni- versal atruggle for independence do not appear to be furthered much. Tf only the few hundred would suddenly grow into a few hundred thousand! Wf only there were more action! By Albert W. Atwood DECORATIONS BY GUVERNIEY 4ZOORE All authorities in the closest touch with savings and investment inatibutions warned the writer against expect- ing 100 per cent elimination of the gambling instinct, no matter what reforms may be effected, It con never be eliminated as long os promoters, reputable and otherwise, ant able to point to the few great and striking successes in busines, In almost every industry there are a few ex. amples of enormous profits made on the basis of a small orighial investment. As long as there are any such cases to point to, the public will continue te take its chances in the stocks of new, unproved and undeveloped enterprises. What the promoter af get-rich-quick investments always refers to is concerns like the Bell Telephone, Ford Motor und Stundard Oi, Calling attention to the profits of some other company and by implication helding aat the promise of hope of similar riches has been the characteristic mork or trait of tena of thousanda of stock swindle: or failures. Nearly thirty years ago a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, who waa chairman of ita clean-up committees nt the time, wrote a book in which be called attention ta this sign of the worthless promotions, Like the sands of the seo have been the aobeequent warnings in books, magazine and newspaper articles and in “education” on the part of government departments, bluesky eommiions, state security commissions, banks, insurance companies, chambers of commerce, better busi- nese bureaus, and the like, The public still goes on in- vesting scores, probably hundreds of millbona of dollara annually, largely on the theory that one lucky strike is worth «lifetime of savings. The Telephone Romance HE unquestioned fact that the overwhelming majority af attempted lucky strikes turn out badly seems ta make no difference at all. Even the fact that a large proportion of professional aperatora put not only all thelr money but their skill, education, training, physical etrength, time and experience into the game they are playing, and yet fnil, makes but elight impression. Profesional ail producers who have spent their entire lives right on the ground in drilling, and who put everything they have into the wark, are perfectly hardened to the fact that they are more likely to lase than to win, Yet the investor whe eontributes nothing but o few hun- dred dellara, and whose ploneering and adventuring are solely of the indoor variety, goes on hoping against hope that he will strike it rich, He still intrusts his hard-earned sivings to total strangers in the expectation of winning a fortune. When the slick salesman says, “If you get in on the ground floor you may make a fortune, for this propo altlon is absolutely sound, with the finest of prospects," the invester tiching for a gamble almost always falls, Nor is the invester deterred by the fact that the great fortunes have usually been made by those who gave every= thing they had of time and Jabor, and only in the rarest of caaea ber theese who invested merely a littl money. Almost every stock swindler in the country haa urged the sale of his wares on the ground that early owners of Bell Telephone did exceptionally well, Bhat the largest fortune mide by any ane man was less than $1,500,000, and these pioneers of the telephone took stock not so much berause they wanted it aa because it was the only payment they eould get for their time, labor and other services. If the holders of the $400,000 stock paid for the inven- Fong and development to L878 and the $317,000 stack aold by the trensury at par or leas in the early dave had sold at the top of the market the $717,000 stock would have realized leas than $12,000,000, “These are the facts of the great telephone romanes,"" Zaye an authoritative aeeaunt pub out in isehalf of the company. “They have been multiplied, distarted and rade the basis of misleading atatementa by promoters, reputable and otherwise, who were after the eredulous investor. One of Profesaor Bell's original associates called the attention of the maker to one of these misleading pros pectuses pot out by a brokerage firm and the only sntis- faction he got was the statement: ‘We ure brokers, not historians,’ "' ; In the case of the Ford Motor and Standard Oil i: woel he conservative to say that the large fortumes have co te those who took stock in return for their service. [ muny cases where large profits are pointed to, they coal have been obtained only by selling the stocks at the te of the market, which even the insiders rarely ore able t do. And whether the promoter has in mind incame of tf accretion of prinelpal or bath, his argument is misleadis in nine cases out of ten, becawee many of the most succes fal companies have become so only after two or three fab starts in which the original investors loat all they fo part in. But in spite of all the exaggeration and distortions | historical facts, there is no doubt that a wery few me hardly more than one in the million, have made fortum ob the basis of small cosh investments, and this & whe the great appeal comes in. How to eombsat the eflect this argument, how to protect people from thelr o# desire to gamble and prevent them for losing thy savings, this ia the heart of the problem. Among others whom the question was put was the officer of an institute which handles several billions of dollara of investments trust for several million people. This was his answer: “Tf you put this argument on the ground of winnl the one successful lottery ticket, then I hawe nothing aay, there le ito anawer. No doubt there are a few feos walking the streeta of Parla who live in luxury becou they won the big lottery prize of their year. But wou any sane man argue for that reason that money should | invested on any such plan?” fnterent Merit Not Enough “FPIHE great fallacy in the minds of the inexpenence that there is some magle in the investment of mone Of course there ia no magie about it, but the ides constantly fostered by the onein-a-millian venture th makes a phenomenal ucceas. Aman once told me th he could have bought vaseline in the early days for $5! But he didn’t see what he could do with it: he thour over all the posible uses, and none of them appeared be practical, “But Chesebrough came along and made a fortune 0 of it. The point ia that itis not enough to have a potent good thing. The capacity to merchandise and put acre the product often plays just aa large a part im soeces the product iteelf,"" What the public nearly alwaya forgets is that even existence af a Valuable product or of a mineral depo means nothing unless the owners can put it eros of it out economically, as the ease may be. Such work | “fraudulent,” “awindling” and “bogus"* are used a po many times in this article, but they are substantin’ inaccurate, The literal, accurate facts are well put successtul financier whose business brings him. into eet with great numbers of investors: “The absolutely fraudulent investments gre but a pl ef the total. Where there is one person who koow ©

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THE proposition bo be a fraud, there are a number of others gioar wildly hopeful and whove idea of realizing on the invetrent a merely visionary. If a man thinks he can fed oll or gas or gold by digging in his back yard, you mont accuat him of swindling, because he naturally isieves that there is aome there, and there might be a nite pesibility that there may be. “Per example, a fow years ago about $5,000,000 worth fi stocks it MeKeesport, Pennsylvania, gos fiekis was marketed aroun Pittsburgh. It is not fair to say that all these were Trauds—there was about $4,000,000 worth af ain McKeesport in amall pockets, but boring oles by he hundreds to reach the game pockets did not get any- ody anywhere." The securities commissioner of a atate in the Northwest rid thet although the Geologies] Survey had reported gan and again that oil could mot be drilled in that state commercial quantities, some men who suw oil oozing ot of tke ground formed a ball-millien-dollar company ni mshed cat to sell the stock. Yet who could say that ‘= was actually fraudulent? It was slmply a case of jople being fool. As the Minnesota Securities Commis- in said in a report: ‘Tost much money is boat through the failure of bona- bat minguided business-ventures ns through mut-nnd- tiruda”: = = - In diseuseing the subject of this article with a number dealers Th sonal investment securities the question was Sad by one of them as ta why the word “small should war inthe title. “It is not only the emall or ignorant vetor who geta stung.” said this banker, “It ia not a vsiion af being a rube ore hick. Even bankers bite on qaaible oil-stock achemes, ond successful professional are always doing it, Often the estates of even the rerich are filled with cats and dogs, and people bite on 6 bricks in the moat highly developed metropalitar of finanee and investment. Indeed, the poor, Polack farmer in a renvote rural district often has enough to put his money in the poetal-savings bank dis thos caved from [oas,"" | The Opinions of Experts 1S well Theagnised meng investment dealers that acpaigre to get small buyers, anc aimed at their sup- oe] inexperience, usually turn up a surprising umber medium and investors, people who seem to be Uh ignorant of the subject, although having from $1000 toeven $50,000 a year to invest. Further evidence of ifact is found im the sale not long ago to # man in a stern state of m total of RAS 000 of Treasury Savings ‘Ghrates, although these ure issued by the Government manly to meet the needs of the small investor, lof which raises interesting questions, bwk not esen- te this article. The small invester is written about tterause he canneat afford ta lose. He is the one who i protection, mot the eupposedly hard-headed banker merchant of surgein whose income ia large enough to fant him making a fool of himself if he ao desires. teseking how best to combat the get-rich-quick idea Wiler interviewed among others John J, Pulleyn, ident of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, of ‘York (City, ane af the two or three largest savings @ in the country, with close to 200,000 depositors, Frederick H. Eeber, vice president of the Metro az Life Insurance Company, in charge of the invest- te of a company which has more than 26,00, (f) palicies and $744H,00K0 of insurnnee in force, the largest in the world, These tvo wathorities made substun= tially the sime statement, that in the last analysis the only effective argument to use with people against making 4 get-rich-quick investment is that it take a long time to make wp the loss of principal by a high rate of interest. To quate Mr, Pulleyn: “The minds of many individuala seem to abaorb only the higher dividend rates in the advertising and literature which they see, Many of them come to us with fram £1000 te $10,000 to invest and ask for our help and advice, Whith we are very glad to give, because we have tried to nike investors out of Liberty Loan buyers as well as aavings-bank depositors. They thank us for aur willing- nea to help them and then almost the next remark is a statement that they would like about 10 per cent return on their money. “We can only say that safety of principal is the first consideration, coming before any question of the rate of return or profit, and unless they are willing to acoept our dictum in that respect they are wasting their tine: in talk- ing to uw. Do we persuade any of them to our way of thinking? Indeed wedo, and this ia the way wegoabout it.” Bargains in Liberty Bonds ‘ WE APPROACH the subject through the general law of averages, which is the suvings-bunk approach. We have been in busines seventy-two years, and we di cuss Lhe value of money over that period of time. We try to show how from our experience 4 per cent haa not been auch a bad average. When the Liberty Bonds were put out we told our people that they were worth par, and when they went down almost to 2) we started 2 campaign among our peaple, who sought advice on investments, to buy Lib ertins, "Tt was an uphill fight at first, and we sold only $401 ar $4000 a day over the counter, But we managed to forw: the attention af aur people om government bonds, and after a while we were selling $50,000 a day. That, too, was during the period when get-rich-quick stocks were having sucha vogue. One of the best arguments we were able to use was to tell investors that with all our oppor- tunities to invest, with the $200,000,00 invested bj us, the safest and best we could find were Liberty Bonds." Charles E. Mitchell, president of the Nathonal City Bank of New York, which has perhaps the largest bond- selling organization in. the country, expressed much the same idea by saying that “Over a period of decades the man who invests gets ahead of the speculate, with isolated exceptions.” Frederick BR. Fenton, seeretary of the In- vestment Bankers Asmociation of America, put the idea this way: “Lrge people to build an estate, Pound away on that story. What dos aman really count upon te support his farnily in case he dies? Does he count upon the oil atock Which may pay 20 per cent for one year, but more likely nothing: or doea he expect his family to live upon the shendy, conservative inveatments?™ Years ago when Ida M, Tarbell was preparing her articles on Standard Chl she inquired as to the value of cortnin get-rich-quick wl stecks of Henry H, Hagers, fieity af the greatest copitdlists that Wall Street ever knew, and a power tn Stardard Ol. He told her the stock waa worthless, and addedt: “There is no man in the world that can honestly say that he can invest money and be certaln of permanent SATURDAY EVENING POST 7 large returre. The big dividends come from speculative ventures, and nobody should make them unlesa they are willing and able to lose all they putin. I had a thousand dollara sent me today from a woman who wants 2 per cent. DT eannot place it so that | can be sure she will permanently get G per cent, T have no right te lose it, wel I shall not dot; EF shall return the money. “Nobody believes me; they all think that if [ would T could make a fortune for them. When I send this ehou- aafl dellan back the last thing this woman will do will be te thank pee."” A famous epeculater ones said, “There is no such thing AS an investment: either wou get stuck or you don't.” It was a witty, aemart thing to say, but it does not happen to be true, The savings banks and insurances companies alone prove that it is not truce, There is no mystery about the safe, conservative investment of money, He who runs may read, Anyone may doit. But it takes extraordinary luck ar genius te make a killing; there is mystery in that, and mighty few are those who de it. It is a peculiar fact that a man who buys a risky and apeculative atock which pays no dividends for five or ten years and then distributes 2 or 4 per cent, and never any more, somehow feels os if he had made more than if he had been getting 4 oor 5 per cent interest on a bond every It ka strange commentary on human nature that at the very time that men were attracting thowands of suckers in Boston, New York and Chicago, by offering impossibly large returns on thelr money, Liberty Bonds could be bought at bargain prices, and ‘Tressury Savings Certifi- cables were being put on sale with a guaranty from the United States Government to return the investor his prin= cipal and 25 per cent adcditinnal at the end of five years, Tt & not that all people should be kept from taking ehances. If they were the country could not grow, and ita supply af ail, copper, lead, gold and silver would soon give out. It all boils dewn to whether inveetora really understand the chancea they are taking and, more im- portant still, can afford to take them, The final question is whether the investor can afford to lose the money if the propect fails, If not, then he has no business departing from government securities, savings banks, and the like, Inoostment in Life Insurance FAVORITE method of combating the get-rich-quick A and visionary-investment evil has been to eall atten- tion to the great sums lost in that manner. Estimates of the amount lost or wasted ench your have ranged from $100,000,000 to $750,000.00, and have been credited to many different authorities. But though figures on a sub= Jeet like this are amusing, or perhaps tragic, they are ob- viewly unreliable. No one in the country knows or hae even the basis for a sound estimate concerning the extent of these losses. The line cannot be drawn between strictly legitimate losses in the regular course of business and those mustained by the ateckholders of ventures tainted with fraud and get-rich-quick methods. Then, ton, though the stock swindles condached on a large interstate seule might be estimated, there is no way of bringing tagether the lowes in emall local enterprises, Nor can anyone aay whether such estimates should include the money thrown away in speculation and gambling on perfectly legitimate stacks in legitimate brokerage offices and bucket shops, or how much that amounts to, Nor can the line be drawn strictly between investors whe lose in (Continued on Page 95)

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ERI Cf QOMETIMES I think, looking S back, that maybe we never did take Eill serloualy enough. Rissa always laughs very bitterly when [ aay this, and re- minds ne of the times she has tried to do eo, and what bape pened. Of sourse | see what she means, but we are both his sister, you eee, and much older than he is. This rather leada us to pick out the things he is to take seriously, and try to take Aim sericualy, and [admit thet it dorsn't albyays work out well, Tt isn't that Bill n't willing, He will try anything once, he always says; not that everybody ke will- ing to have him. Tremember when Rissa thought that he might be Sarles’ secretary, one summer. Hill always apent hia summers With ws, and of course, when your brother-in-law is a busy throat specialist, and has extra hospital pructien in town in the summer, you would be glad to help him out, as Bll agreed iame- diately. But that waa the only time that I can re- member Searles not even } heing willing toargue with Ri ISS, He just said, “My deor girl, really!" and that was all he would aay, Of course Bill might have kept all the ac- eounta, and he began it once, Bull is always very obliging, and he Iles new things. He got those large check books, with three checks at a time, you know, and he planned out what I still think was a very interesting way of keeping the house ac- counts on plnk checks and Hissa'a expenses on green cheeka and the chil- dren's on white checks, But though it sounded simple, I think you would really need more busi eXpenonen than Bill had, to do it, because after he had thrown away all our ald books, itall pot mined, somehow, and there were so many things, like Jenny Androws, for instance, that came In teo places, that Bill himsel/ couldn't get them atraight in the end. Jenny, you sea, was the children's nurse, and Bill counted her in under “poTvants”’ and then again woder “children,” and we couldn't find owt whether the had been added in twice, or not at all! ~Fill asked Riess if she wouldn't be interested bo know just what the children cost, and she said she would, very much. Of course their clothes wore easy, but Bill was very angry when To used some of their easter ail far Fache Molba, the poodle, and the botth: broke. He charged it ta “stable,” aod Joseph heard of it and sald it was utterly unfalr, as he had hia own castor oil for Commodore and the pony. Bill offered to say “stable, ete.” but Joseph said that was no better, And you couldn't make a page for “kennel,” baring with only Piche Melba, whe lives in the house, anywe But this was oebiag though Joseph does cherish grievances terribly—ecompared! to the horrid time about the decter, Little Clarry had a temperature and looked Tatler yellow, and we sent for a very nice young doctor, who came two or three timea—really, to talk to Rissa, I always thought, because the child was only biliows, Eill was anxious to get this all down in his book, and be wrote an Sarles" typewriter, using his affice paper, to ask the daxctor why he didn’t send his bil, a4 be needed it for his accounts. Tt seems that doctors never charge each other anything, and thie one waa quite vexed, and aimply told Bill there was no charge and he needn't complicate his arcounta unnecessarily. Bill didn't understand, and thaught the doctor waa making fun of his system, and wrote him what he admitted was rather a firm note, It made quite a little trouble for Sarles, and he told us he'd rather pay whatever it cost to run the family, hereafter, nied let it go at that. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ? ICIENCY AND BILL By Josephine Daskam Bacon ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES 5. MITCHELL betes pM ir fee et 1? Kiso a Wemon Whe Dede That fort of Thing Beouils folly,’ fave Peaches. “Shall I Glew Foo Mer aAtddrens FP" ™ Bill got rather exaaperating, and kept pointing owt to Sarlea that he would never know what hig overhead expenses were. That waa almost the only row they ever had, But when, Searles finally said that he'd rather have them overhead than underfoot all the time, Ell laughed and they were friends again. This proved to Rissa that Bol had na business sense Whatever, and she has always persisted in this belief, though Bill did well enough in insurance for more than a year, But she said that his heart was never in it, which was true enough—ass Bill said, the insurance business isn't exactly the thing you would put your heart into—and aleo that going out and getting policies wos one thing, but almply copying figures wos another. But there, agnin, Bill didn't plek out that business: Hieaa put him inte it T nrust say that T felt worried when Bill left it suddenly and took a littl apartment with George Hawkesworth, and then sublet it after a few weeks for nearly twice what they paid for it. It seemed like gambling, somebow. But when they went poking about in queer shopa and picked up enough ta furnish another, and then did the same thing with that, [ couldn't help feeling that this wasn't just luck; (tt looked as if those boys really had a great deol of cleverness: and taste, And George admitted to me that Bill did most of the picking out. George kept the wecounts, May 20, i Tt waa just then, unfortunately, that Bill did the abeurd thing tha: Rissa couldn'taeem ta get over, quite Although she has such a wonderful semen of bun - all ber books are full of it—that I always wonders, why she eouldn’t see the terribly funny aide of i, He had made aschelule of our butler, Howghton'y tine, and decided that he waa the best-paid mac {> the least work of anyone he knew. Sea be watched Houghton carefully, and borrowed his best Englst reference nod actually ongaged as a butler with . rich Weatero family who hed just come to Siew York’ And right at the telephone in our own library, with Rissa altting calmly there, writing a novel, be answered his new employer and verlied his om reference. We might never have known of it, but Fisea and [ called there one afternoon to tell Mra. Plympic: nbout the Help a Home Society, which is Poisea's great charity, and Bill nearly brought us in the teal He daughter, Marjory Blat, a lovely dark girl with by ey, who wasn't able like ber mother, and Tres. have taken after her own father, Mr. Blair, was dreadfell; upset when Bill refused to come [n—he had seen us you aea—and it all came out, of course, and ther ws found out that Bill and Marjory had fallen in lew with each other, and they were engaged » soon as Mrs, Plympton realized that 2! wasn't a butler, but a clever college be Playing a joke, After the firat shock had worn off we wer all really very much plensed, Marjory wa thoroughly nice; Bill seemed likely to b ecttled; Mr. Plympton was very rich am really good-hearted, though rather a com mon sort of man, and immensely proud ¢ being connected with Mrs. Clarigaa Etheride Elton, the well known noveliat. He had great deal to do with insurance in his bo neee—he manufactured electric elevators and offered Bill a very good job in ane c He had a very big head and face, and shall never forget how wide his mou! atretched when he laughed and said that the Plympton Electric Elevator Compas Inc., ever failed, Bill could easily suppe Marjory by buttling. He had no vacaney in New York at th time, but he sent Bill owt te Chicago; ar those six months, with Bill working hard a: Marjary writing ber old frienda in the We and golng ta concerts with him in the eve ing, were really about the most peace! aix months of Bill we ever had. Then he came back. I[ remember t night ao well, I waa all alone in the how ond [ was a litth startled when [ beo someone knocking on the door end not ringing. But xb T noticed thet whoever it was wos playing a tune on © door—it was the March from Atda—I stopped feeling frig! ened, because that ian"t what burglars are likely to do “Why, Bill" Isaid. “How do you happen to be bar Where's Marjory?" “T haven't any ides, Flops," he answered; “but fsa pose she's in Chicago—she was when I saw her lost.” “Oh! T said. “Is—is anything the matter? “That depends on how you look at it," he sald. “I you suppose [ could seare up a cheese sandwich or sor thing? I haven't been hungry all day." While he waa eating I gotit out of him, as far as [ coo though it didn’t seem very reasonable or very much | Bill, even, which is quite a different thing. Marjory 2 hee weren't any more, ‘to hagin with. “Why, Bill,” [said, “what have you done? Wi wai she marry you?" He gave me one of his queer looks, “Tt's me that won't marry her, Flops," he said. "Why. Bill Etheridge, what do you mean?" [ cri “How can you say such a thing?" “T can say it very easily,” he answered, and he had th 7 obstinate, laughing look in his eyes that I knew we “Towon't mary any woman that [can’t support.” “But—but you can support her!" [ said, surprised a angry. “Aren't the Plymptons going to give you en apal ment—buy it for youT Mra. Plympton is getting linen now; [saw her yesterday in Baltmamn's. And Ris ordered the silver last week. And George Hawkee and Joe Madden and—well, there's no use telling yt what they were going to get. But it was wonderful. Aunt Elle and I the ching!”

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “you're all very kind," he sald in a tired sort of voice coil looked at me queerdy, “Why, Bill, what can you mean?” I begged deapair- apy. "Didn't rou know —I suppose you didn't—that Mra Plympton is going to give Marjory a baby gramd punoand Mr. Plympton is going to give you, for yoursell, woe of those new Buell runabouts you wanted? That's entirely mide from ordinary house furmishing—what more pani hey do? Why, rich people—with both of them peb—don't get ang more!" He eniled the strangest emile. “You're perfectly right there, Flops," he said. "That's tue—they don't, But I'm not rich, you ser.’ “You cartainly aren't poor, Bill," T answered shorply, fer [couldnt understand him at all. “Anybody that calves four thougand dollara a year now and will have ive thousand when he's married, and the future that you lavt to look forward to, isn"t—ean't be poor!” "I'm glad to see you come down to what I'm earning, Fioga, and not my wedding presents,” be snid, with o ragh little laugh that didn't sound like him, Jeouldn't help but smile, bad na I felt. “it course I took that for granted, Bill," I assured him. “We all know about that. Won't five thousand support Marjory? Her tmother had much leas to live on when Madge waa born—ehe's often teld me.” “T don't know whether it would or not. Never shall now, probably,” he answered calmly, “You see, Flops, Tmoct making five thousand, or even four, as it happens.” "You're net? Why, Bill, has Mr. Plympton—he hasn't find you?" “He certainly haa not," he said. “I've fired him!" i stared at him. “You mean you've left?" “T mean ['we beft, ind there's no use asking me about t, Flops, for T shan't tell you.” “Toes Marjory know why?" “Not “You won't tell her?" “Why sheuld [7 Uf she won't trast my judgment she'd etter not marry me," “Won't ae marry you, then?" "Not under present conditions, and I suppose she'd be a fool if she did. You sea, [ haven't any job, And Mra. Plympton won't bear of it." “CM course she won't," I said, pretty coldly, I'm afraid. “What senile mother woukdT" “Oh, I dare say," he anawered in a kind of nhsent- minded way. “I think I'll go up to bed, now, Flops. Is my room all right? You might tell Rissa about it." "You can tell her yourself," I said shortly. about your rom." But when ['d got the bed made—the maids were at the moving pieturei—hke stopped me as] was going out and put his arma around me and dropped his head on my shoulder. Don't you go back on me, Flops, altogether,” he avid. “T couldn't bear that. I—I just have to do it this way, my dear ft" T couldn't help but pat hia arm, “TU naver go back on you—renlly, Bill dear,” I told “T'll gee Of eourse Rissa wae furdoows. “We tight have known it wouldn't last,” she said bitterly. “After the life Bill's led, the idea of his taking up thia idiotic, idealistic attitude! He acta like a sehoal- boy. Teating Marjory, I suppose, ia what he thinks he's doing. Like somebody in Dickens! He's never bothered much about sceepting things from rich people before!" This sounds dreadfully, but, of course, Rissa wouldn't aay It te anyone but me, and, of course, [ saw what she meant. Bill's always been very easy-going. He was al- ways a0 handsome and clever and amusing, aod he always did have rather expensive tastes. So that many of hia college friends were richer than he was. But Bill never chose them because they were rich; it waa because he liked to do the same sort of things that they did, and did them wery well—games of all kinds and what he calls stunts and jokes. And Hisas, though she hos always grumbled at him, haw never really refused him anything. I might as well admit, I suppose, that Bill was what some people call apoiled. But, you see, mother died when he was ten; and maybe Aunt Ella and I didn't always be manage Might; she waa too old and I was ten young, Strangely enough, it waa Sarlea who wasn't go hard on him. “Waybe he had his reasons, Rissie,"" he aaid. “Better now than afterward, you know." Mrs. Plympton asked me to come and see her—she was always afraid of Rissa—and the poor thing was terribly ‘upert, “But what does Bill mean, Miss Flossie—what does he mean?" she kept asking me, her kind, nearsighted eyes full of tears. “What could Madgie do but give him back his ring? To leave Mr. Plympton like that, and not only with his bread and butter but Madgie’s too? It's all very well to gay he'll get another job, but why not cur job? You know, Miss Flossie, Madgie haa a great deal of spirit, and she feels hurt, and I feel hurt, and of course Mr. Plympton is very, very angry." I eouldn’t blame him, Could you? And all the silver had to be countermanded, He went back to the apartment with George Hawkes worth, and though Sarles got a very good job for him through a patient of his, in another insurance company, Bill wouldn't take it, He said that this time he was going to get @ job for himself. Of course we were all worried, bernie, As you know, pvbes haven't eon so ensy to get since the war. Even when they actually managed to sub- let that apartment, and move on te another, it didn't seem like anything realorsensible. Bill asked me te go wlth him to pick out some things for a nursery one day, and when he told me that he was going to furnish this one for a young married couple with a baby, [ simply gasped. “But, Bil dear, what a waste of monoy!’ I said. “Suppose you don't find one, then what will be the use of that darling litth: crib?" "Tread a poem once, Flope," he answered very solemnly, “that aaid, "Every moment dies a man, and one and a sixteenth ia born. This is what keeps up the birth rate. If one and a sixteenth babies are born every minute, they must live somewhere, you know—and why not in my apartment?" And as a matter of fact, they rented it at a hundred and seventy dollara a month more than they paid for it within five weeks, (Continued on Page 18) “Toe Jee Har la Froat of Poor Gid Mise Lefflagwells Tea Tray, Feeding Thor Sickening Peblagere Pups, Was Simpiy GAastiy""

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10 THE PRIVATE tn the Six- teenth In- fantrysawa heavy shell hit a chow line one day in the Montdicier sector and ball and rend seventeen of his comrades, It had been hot work up there for a month—an in- ferno of light ane heavy stuff and gas. Open fighting ho jusk given place to stabilized warfare, and the trenches were 6 joke, Hesaw more od his comrades go weet right beside him during the ufternoon and, whilst moving, bent double, along a shallow runnel they called a trench on his way to the front lines ‘hat night, a Chere man mirchine gun ner dusted him for a painful hundred yards. In the blackest houra af early morning he and others of a pas tral encountered a patrol af the enemy, who flung some potato-miasher grenades, and everybody began to shoot. This sort of thing went on day and night, taking heavy toll in dead and wounded, So when they were relieved and the chance come the doughboy sat him down te write home about the hell he had been through, Afterwards he Cane §cro8s an official communiqué of happenings about that date and his bulging eyes read this: “All quiet on our front," Somehow or other he lost faith in official communi tions. He said, "They dont tell mathin',"* Tam inelined to agree with him, A study of General Pershing's Final Report reveala some carefully worded references to negotiations with our Allies, hut nobody equld get an inkling, from these brief, guarded statements of conferences, of the hidden struggle constantly waged to gain the use of the American forees for the French ona British unmirs, = a 0B Sf Coss 2S SL bP CATE The SteMlAiel Offensive OR instance, the only comment the American eom- mander in chief has to make on the various moves and conferences I deseribed in the third article of this series iat “The plan suggested for the American participation in these operations was ot seceptable to me becuse tt would require the immediate seperition of the recently formed First American Army into several groups, ma inky bo mast French armies. This wos directly contrary to the principle of forming a distinct American Army, for which my con- tention had been tnsistent. . 2. My poeltbon Was stated quite clearly that the strategical emplayiment of the First Army a8 a unit would be undertaken where desired, but ite diarup- tion to carry Hut these proposals would not be entertained, “A further confer- ence at Marshal Foch's headquarters was held on September 2, at which Gen. Petain was present. Ader discus- sion the question of employing the Amer- ican Army us 8 anit

Compote: Eo ond M, 2adth Fafontry, fed Dictaion, Adrascag on aa Enemy Peolties. Eaglaeert of the 20714 Regimeat ore Citoring the Woy by Biowlag Up Wire Batoagiemeats ‘The St.-Mibiel sallent was of immense value to the Germans. [ta possession interrupted French communica- tions in an east or weet direction on the main Paris-Nancy Tailroad, and at the same time threatened the entire region between Maney and Bor-leDuc. and Par-leDue and Verdun, From the defensive standpoint it covered Motz and the Priey iron basin, both of them vital to the enemy. Moreover, extensive aperations between the Meuse anil the Argonne were rendered very hazardous so long as St ifitiel rernalned in German hands, The Germans captured the salient from the French in September, 1914, and held it succesfully until the

SATURDAY EVENING POST May 20, 973 The Inside Story of the fl. E. FF. By GEORGE PATTULLO Armerienn asic four years later Two attompr were made by the Frenne te regain the Position, bgt broth met with fail- ure, These took place in February and April af 1915—one agains the wert face ged one against the south face of the salient—and their met resulta were limited to some slight local sue corse. The Get mans held on to Stn A thiel, The position Was Very atrong in natural defenses, ite rugged heights making attack dil- ficult and at the name time afford. ing excellent ob- oP al ion stations, Often, when the First Division wax in the Toul sector, I used to gaze up at the height o Montsec and wor- der whether the Germans would ati] be there ic 1950. However, despite ite natural defenses, S:.-Mihie would aeem bo aome Weaknesses in the eves of strategiste, “‘in that it might be attacked on both flank and pinched out. Consequently the Germans had, throw out four years, strengthened it by a great mass and variety of artificial works, the main feature of which was an clabe orate aysbem of wiring, This wiring was found not only 2 the front lines, but wos encountered to a depth of ten ba twelve bdlometers.”” Pinching Out the Big Salient ERSHING'S plan was te pinch out the salient. In he ordera for attack oceurs thia sentence: “The general eoicepiion of the operation is thus the converging ol envel oping forces in such @ way os to cause the fall of the en- tire snlient.” And that is procesely what happened, The depth of the St.<Mibiel operation having been lim- ted iby Marshal Foch to the Ene Vigmeulles-"Thiaucourt- Hegnieville, the nomiser of divigions to be used ve reduced from the orlginal estimates, General Pershing communded the First American Armcy in this battle. Iu etreneth totaled 60.000 men, of whom 70,000 were French The usual artillery preparation began at one o'clock o: the morning of September twelfth, with more than SHE guns. ‘This great assembly of artillery completely domi nated the German batteries and there wae hardly any hostile fre when the infantry Wee: jamped of toward thi south face of the sp lientat five am. Owiry to lack of tanks anc other weapons of ce struction. the barbed wire entanglement Temuined intact ofS largearces, There va only ote way of gevlind there— the doughy walked om tep af th densely woven mass Onthe western fac ofthe salient the ati: levy “fire of destror ion” continued unt elght ALM. gt whiel hour the infantry = sat was launched. was. conocdesd,”* The whole operaciot So Pershing won mrt moved with clorkie again. And prepara. preckion. Just wt tions went rapidly for davlight hext day— wan for the aaault on a EME —— —— Septen ber thit St.-htihiel, American Aritiierymaa Proceeding to Taeir Batiery Position Through @ Devertated Freack Cliy teenth — elements ol

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THE SATURDAY EVENING ate Fintand Teenty-aixth divisions made a junction near yaronchatel and Vigneulles, and that point is eighteen iaeetere northeast of St.-Miuhjel. The salient had been cached gut, afd by" afternoon all objectives had been Fost and the positions were being consolidated. The Piet American Army captured 16/60 prisoners and 443 rare, with ecenparatively light losses. The casualties dur- ing tie actual period of advance were only 7000, . Thoogh the French were complimentary, what chiefly iapeesed them was the fashion in which the American dughbeys cromed the barbed wire, They marveled that aides could get over dense masses of wire that had not ben cat by artillery or tanks. The French High Com- qand ont an order to the commanding generals of three fitter armies, in which the following appeara: “It ia arable for a certain number of French officers, non- omnizsoned officere and soldiers to visit the terrain so far they can fully understand the manner in which the igerican infantry hes been bis . . «tO overcome he chetoces encountered ene the advance and mot jetroped by artillery or aks The American units ave themaetves cuit A pad ape With wire-cutters ough the thick bands of in, or they ave walked ra thes! wire entangle- ers with much addres, gidity and decision, It is ieretingthatour Infantry ders ehould see for them- tes the nature of the fieudties this overcome, id that they should per- ole themselves that they cals capable of doing as ithon orasion.” Then trortions were issued for mnking visite of selected res and men to study : olotacka encountered T#- *(hordirisions concluded ‘attack with such small sand in such high spir- "“aiva Pershing in his ort, “that without the ial pest they were imme tely available for eme- yrent in heawy fighting ioee theater of operas ws" hid any United States representatlyes ‘ais presented to the French Premier he French President a criticism of the ‘ih which the Frmech oommanders thandling the French troope it is very ty that the French would have taken action as an affront. But on Oetober nth, a report on the operations of Lhe ficanh troops in France from Alay to ust was cubmitted tothe War Depart- tin Washington by the French Mili- Advisory Mission. = Fee om FaaATT French Criticiam ME of the comments in that report re of interest: forale of the traops—The morale of troops encellent. Ite apirit of eacri- ind tts offensive ardor are indisputa- Theenemy reporta testify to thia fact, cers —Their carriage is. perfect. ‘peek changer, and are desirocs of ring thelr men with enthuse. runately the lowes among officers Gren very High, and it aften happens ut the end of a battle a battalion is trommand of a young officer, wha 4 = Peo. aL ps faces fire for the first time. Doughheya Drder the Fastruction of ihe French, 4008 —@ Tergeant oad Nu Gun he zeal of the Americans ia such that alten throw themeclyes inte a high- el attack without sufficient planning. They hurl ives on the places of resistance, Instead of manguver- The remult ia that they eufler severe loses, and the tive is not always reached." : ereport then went on to criticize the fashion in which mericans masse] on the front lines and the insuffi- wee they made of automatic arma. These eriticisms based on the Battle of Soissons. sscon aa there is a halt in the advanes, how few units are who think of entrenching themselves, even if ‘or a few moments, thereby curtailing useless losses! dantryman must not counton the engineer.” In this # Fi monnection several instonees were cited of American Inases due te failure to entrench properly, Newt, the report erlticized Walson and went on to point cut Weaknesses in the American system of aupplles, not only a4 to munitions but as te food and water. "Geveral tinves it has happened that the men have re mained without supplies for a number of days. In spite of the endurance which the American troops always show on thease ocensions, the wear and tear on them in this case _ such that they had to be relieved after two or threa VE. “Cantonments—In spite of the manner in which Amer. tenn soldiers are willing to smerifice their comforts, it would be well te see that there is eulficbent room in the canten- mente to avold loses through sickness, once the bad season starta. It seemea to have bean forgotten that the atrength ofa, &, infantry division is superior to that of a French infantry division, Crew of the 308k Dielston Toking ao Feo Minates" Ravi "Coneusion—The operations in which the American units have taken part in France show in every stage of the garnet: admiruble during and splirit of sucrifice, and an earnest desire bo do the right thing. There only remains for the American forces to more deeply absorb the princi: Plea which they have been taught, and to earry on the fight acearding to those principles, which are the result of four years of experience in war." The criticiame of the French Military Advisory Mission dealt partly with the handling of the First and Second divisions in the Battle of Soissons, in which they oonati- tuted, with the duhing Moroccan division, the spenrhend POST 11 of the general attack, These two divisions covered them- selves with glory that day, but certain delays and failures of Haleon were polnted out by the military mission in Washington. In this connection the comments of the French general on the apot, who eommanded all the troops in the attack, are worthy of note. Addressing a eclonel of an American regiment after the First and Second divisions had been relieved from his command, General Mangin said: “Goodi-by, colonel, You are now returning to the American General Headquarters and will probably see General Porshing, I want you to tell him for me that I and all of my staff officers hove watched the First and Second American divisions very closely while they have been with me, and if there wenn anything in their sanduct or the way they have been handled which needed correction I should tell General Pershing 23 8 professional service. But there was nothing which [ or my staff could find to criticize,” There was teo much fight- ing on his handaforPershing to bother with criticism dur- ing thefall of 1918, but after the armistice the American comumander in chief dealt with this report. “Without diseusslng what appears to me to lee the impropriety on the part of the French High Com- mission in submitting such @ paper to the War Deport- neent,”” Perahing wrote on December twenty-fourth, "T desire te invite attention to the inaccuracie® and to the character of the com- ment contained im the paper in question," Riposte EN he quoted some critica. They were af Riminor character—a civil- ian would regard them aa meré pingricking, “The manifest intention In the above quotations,” he wrote, “is the discredit. ing of the work of the American etalf. “For the operations south of Soissona, the ist. and 2nd. Divisions were at the disposition of the Freneh. The2nd. Division was moved by motor busaea from the region west of Chitesu-Thierry to the region aouth of Soissons, This movement was exclusively controlled by the French staff, It is true that the delay which occurred in orders reaechiig the lower anlis wis inexcusable. This delay nrust, however, be attribted first to the orders and eounter orders re. ceived from the French, and second, ta the inethictent work of the French etalf ofieers who were charged with every detail of the movement of the 2nd, Divi- tpn by moter bus. In this movement the French were overanzious that they should neboverlook any Jumerican in the acemunt to be rendered for transportation. Ta this end the busses were held up while French stall officers made an accurate check of the number of American troop, “S. Sinee the French High Commission hos mentioned the action af our troops south of Soimens, it may be well to record here the fact that through the oetion of the French etall, certain Amer- ian ambulanes ordered to join our troevpea were stopped by the French and were Tot allowed to execute their orders. The exeuse offered by the French staf was that ol] newssary ambulances were available from French sources and would be at the disposition af our troops, Asa consexpuenct of this action on the pert of the French staff we were inexcusably hampered! in curing for our wounded. “6. Many of the Individual officers of the various French misslens attached to our forces have been of the greatest pesible value, and their eriticiam and assistance have, in fact, heen indispensable, On the other hand, in- stances have oecurred in which eriticiams have been based upon euch a distortion of facts as to cous the belief that aome French authorities have been willing to go ta any extreme in support of their ulterior motive of bringing (Continaed on Page 37!

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i2 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST WAS a caliph once. Yea, once in the very manner of the gow Harun himself I befriended a homeless vaga= bond, fed him and clothed him and dazeled him with my wealth and kindness; but there must be some differ- eoce between ancient Bagded and Milo, Indiana. It didn't work out just right, Tt wos June, | remember, becauae T waa at the station to meet Martha, who was coming home fram Wasear. It was June; out along Madison Avenwe the elma were green, and people were beginning to ait on their porches in the evenings, and honeysuckle was in bloom. June, 1912, it must have been, because that year 1 was president of the Live Wire Club and we put up that big electric sign at the station—=Milo Offers More, No doubt you've seen it, passing through? [i was new then, and that evening the station agent forgal to burn it on. [ remember Martha kissed me, before the whole crowd, as culmly as if we were alneudly married. It made me feel alitth: blank: Iden't knew why. Maybe I'd thought she'd be exelped about it, or ahy, or eomething; but she kissed her mother, and then me, and then Andy her demon brother, and three or four of the girls, and got into her mother's car and drove off talking a mile a minute: and Lstood there wishing something were dif- ferent: Iden't knew what. Business: was good, ond Martha was lovely, and I waa one of Milo's rising young men; but it didn't. seem eo very much to cheer about, after all, I suppose caliphs often feel that way. So I noticed that the sign wasn't lighted, ond you may believe [ apoke abot ik, Tn thee days people moved when Howard Prealey epoke. Far down tha train the conductor waa already wailing “Boeeoard!” when it blased aut, every bulb doing full duty. Having seen to this T was turning away, when I be- come ovare of an entirely legal passen- ger who sot. on the blind platform of the baggage car, blinking and shrinking in the sudden glare of that splendid slogan. “Well, greetings, Weary!" [ said with my unfailing wit, The train moved, He relaxed ond grinned, “Dees iT" he murmured, "Does what what?" T inguired intel- Ligerutly. “fer more,” he said, waving a bland farewell. Yet not, alas, farewell, Jerry the sta- tion cop knew the unlawful uses of the blind-bagpnge platform; Jerry the lynx- ayed knew I was not given to conversing with empty space. Violently the hand of the Jaw fell on the ankle of the trane- gressor. Violently they rolled across the wonerete into the parking space, for a minute you couldn't see the taxicabs for the dust, The vagabond came out of it. Unfortunately I wos in his way. “Oot! sald I, and “Whool" anid Jerry; ond the train departed. “Ho, hum," sighed the vagabond. "Welcome to Milo, Gus! T felt a litle to blame. No, I will tell the truth: I had never seen a hobo in high laced boots and wide gray hat; he looked like a character out of a Wild West movie: he was grimy, but he wos lean ond browd-shouldered, and he had a jue, Have I said that life seemed orderly and dull? [ was diverted, “ue, I aald, “you take the words out of my mouth! If we'd known you were coming we'd have furnished a solter cop for you to fall on.” Jerry was not amused: a hobo by the railroad's brim o simple vagrant wes to him. Satd he vengefully, “Come along. (Git goin’, Gus!" Belling real estate teaches yan bo think fast, I walked with them round the corner into the shadow; I spoke confidentially to Jerry and offered a certain avothing argu- ment, and Jerry kept on walking. Yeo, ten dollars was all I thought I was going to pay for ane Arablan Night's entertainment, Indiana edition! "Here's ray ear,” Taaid. “Hop in.” Now that [had my vagabond I didn't know just what to do with bim. Feed him, I supposed, and learn the sad story of his life. “Hungry?” T asked him, By C. &. Scoggins MEEVITRATED BY GEORGE £E. WOLFE Her Clear Eyes Widesed oad Maer Dolaty Brows Weat Up. She Hod Taought, of Comres, Teot f Came Alone His voice, a leburely barytone with a port of Western nasal quality, fitted his picturesque appearance, but his words were somewhat hackneyed, “Old-timer," he said, “I take this mighty kind of you, but don"t get me wrong. I nin"t exactly a hobo.” "O0f course mot," I sighed. “I take it, though, you wouldn't refuse a menl?" "TT could eat a wolf,” he admitted, “raw. But if it’s all the same te you, let's go somewhere and shell out a few tinder first. Mammal That engine burna lota of coal.” He seemed to find a certain humor-in his grimy dia- comfort; maybe he was some special kind of hobo, after all, drove round to the side entrance of the Park Hotel, prudently avoiding the lobby, and smuggled him wp to mi meores, “Gosh! he murmured, pusing. Right there, Dean ase it new, waa where I got the caliph freling—princely, you Know, all generous and meble. Through his eyes | eaw the true magnificence of my own bachelor quarters; by pleasing contrast I felt my own importance in the world. “There's the bathroom,” I told him. “Go as far as you like,” What is there about bathrooms that makes people sing? He bummed, this vagnbond, disjointedly at first, spottering and splashing; then you could follow an add, foreign- sounding melady, [t took held of you: it made you some how wistful; but I got to thinking about Martha, I don't May 20,192 IN THE NIGHT know why, and forgot to listen. Martha, and long cure evenings at the country club, where she and | woutd s)- away alone. Down the fifth fairway where it drifts etn yh woods, our feet falling silent and our voices bushed, theoyy) a vale drowned in shadow to a velvet knoll under the mince, Martha, and the lights and laughter sweetly remote aro the stillness, A new hot longing thrilled me. 1 bse ro meant toe go to her this evening; she would prefer to rex after her trip, And yet —— [looked at my watch, The bathroom door opened. “Say.” cried my vagabond, refreshed, “can I we a dup of this alewhel rub bere on the shelf? This is the first tie T been clena for a week, and I fee] reckless.” He was naked, and, by Jove, le waa a pereerlul spec. men! Mo wonder the burly Jerry had fownd kim had w held. His shouldera were thick and rownd, with irik bulging veing that ahowed not an qumee of fat: bis flask were spare and hard, and his akin as white aa a baby’s, Thad thought he was dark, but that ws only soot and sunburn. He wae indeed y special kind of hobo, From e sooty bur de he fished clean if rumpled anderelothes, and be had a razor too, “Old-timer,"” he eried zestfully, “now this is seme way for a white man 1 ivy! What do these diggings set you bact—e do you own this dumpT" That wes his manner of speaking- erude; forceful, but crade., [wea move to malitalin my status as o clips. | mentioned, mot tea conservathvely, thi sum [ gurrendered monthly to the man: agement, and he whistled so respectul) that was almost consoled for mot ownin the Park Hotel, T had @ sudden pleasing famey. | a most Inughed. “Wait a minute!" [ad getting up. “You're wbout my sxe Wonder if you could wear my shoes" “Huh?” said he. “Hobnailed boote,"" I explained tot fully, “while admirable for—er—pern touring purposes, aren't exactly appre abe for dining.” He grinned. Even in his nampled underclsthe T tell you, the fellow was picturesque, bs whe teeth showing boyiahly in his lean brown face. “For a fact," he obeerved, “I been misc mena right regular lately. Maybe it's my boots Even as ] opened my wardrobe door the ik grewonime. But I didn’t laugh, Casually, it true manner of acaliph, | tossed him my dinn jacket and its accessories; reserving for myzll,! wae fitting, the superior formality of tailed oa and white tle. Now that was all in order, wam'tl Purple and fine linen, aa wnderatand it,arepartd caliph'sstock in trade, Very property, too, these boffted him and the cut of the vest duced ha "Oh, mammal" he murmured, “Jerry, Jerry, pia me quick!" But I didn't laugh. I was kindly, tactful, I skillfdl adjusted his tie and turned to put the finishing towche: my own, Then quite auddenly it came to me that thert 8 nothing much to laugh about. My face seemed more i usual — ee not fat, but roundish: and my brisk digalli eorringe did make my—you know—my front stick little, I looked like what I was in those days, 3 prosper young business man. But be! In my very own whieh fitted him badly enough, this fellow Hardy 8 distinguished. Yes, Hardy he said his nome was; 6 Hardy. He had gone moody, pacing mesthessly about t room; he carried his hands in his pockets and he © shoulders Inoee; and his brown face, lighter acres * forehead, gave him the look of one of those bem hunters or explorers you see at banquets. I made mer note to wear a hat that summer, playing golf, so my hewd would stay white that way, Vex, I perced ved! a differener between, Bagdad and MI Indiana. In Bagdad everybody knows which is the call “Where did you get that sunburn?” I galted him. He answered absently, gazing out the window, “fiat mala, | reckon.” I give you.my word I didn't know where Guatemala ™ only had a vague notion that it was one of thee " countries. And he laid no emphasis on it; rather bese lost in some somber train of thought; yet when he = that ward he wrapped it in glamour, He dint ¢ know what I mean, speak |tin English at all, The sy eame clipped and liquid off hia tengue, like the mune’ deep quiet water, and for a moment you saw o land le: and strange.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 13 That, of cute, was my cue to command him, “Now tell je sad story of your life, Begin |" j fed him te the dining remem and planted him at a ae infed table, and even then DT eeuldn't think of a graceful vay tort af 1t- booking nerass rose=lighted linen wt that hewn fact and gentlemanly shirt front, The New Yorl- sleganee ol the Park Hotel didi not lend an atorosphere; the modern calipha I eould resell seemed to hove inf [nt qauleit greaay chop houses and saloons, yl can't offer you a drink,” I aaid. “Loeal ip- + pee knee,’ fe nedded abeently, gazing about the room, It was a ithe late for dintras there were only the Anderson,-and “Mi; ay lira with an out-of-town guest, ond a few travel- fe fo toed again, “Pretty bet in Guatemala, eh?" H t enough of the eoast. In the roca takne, fini, Too were in the mountains?" “Quemiienango. Railroading.” There bt was again, the erp liquid murmur of aylabiea teonfured up visions, “Tt doesnt sound lke a place ere'd bea ruilroncl,"" I spicl. ro pin't, yet. Never will be, maybe, We're trying ind away through." dnd he seemed bo think he had salt ital, Jengle?" I prompted. "Mountains. One ol those places God forgot to finish— fn thousand feet up and no way to get down. The In- fans cay He bad a lot of land left over and just dumped it (here,"” “Oh!” Tanid. “Indians, Hostiln? fe grinned abeenth:, muking a negative gesture with int forefinger—he was always doing something with his fends, Magee," he wall, curling the word ao quninthy fet [had te ask him how it was spelled. “0h,” Dsaid, “Mayas!” "Yah. Ever see any of the Maya ruins? Quiriguad, for mince |" He asked it simply, as tf you might walk down the street fi dey ond ser Mavs ruins, l repeated after hom, “ Fueereegwih?"' ns if searching my lamer: but the fatness of my own syllailes bom bled me, ‘Old, sald Gus Hardy, “Old when the Spaniards ie; old when (Christ was bern; nobody knows how old. all courte, two hundred feet between walls, where they Gye a game like basket ball. Platfornma for sacriflea, LL mt where they cul men’s hearts aut Ho thelr eropa would crow, eos and temples — empty these two thousand years aod mare,” His eyes came hack to mint, aod | remember that they were intensely blae, “Mukes you feel queer," he daid. “Makes you feel like a man lived about a rhinute—like «a fy. Here's Chuirigud, a station on the white man's foatlroad. A United Fruit farm, with awitth engines; shunting araund, loading bananes for the States: ani over here this place that was a elty when Pilate washed his hands. Big sandstone pillars sticking up, curved all over some kind of writing, thoy tclaiim—and a Maya king at the top. With whiskers," he said, and stopped, looking at ine. "Plat faces and slant oves. Ami whisk- era: but no Maya, no Indian hes a hair on his face besday. Where dil they come from, thes: fellows? Where did they go?" T could see the Naylor and the Andersons wibehing worndering. no doubt, why we fait He Looked Like a I doubt ff T knew, oven then, whet we ote. Wath ghort cnide stroket-he wiped out forme the Central Arver- iva of OF; Honry and Richard Harding Davia, ite . funny little republie a. and palm 18 and revolutions: building in shod a grem ole empire. fining me with the thume of iningri« nition on his brown face, “Makes you feel hesaid. “You go ott thea hansins proves, the et aeqping sort a we through Ehvower bag fla Thay loaves. Grint, ic mnly switeh engine lankrne acinewhere, aml the Inazy whack of some nigier's mod- ehete. Qubeter and quieter, the jungie chaki lf FOO, anid no Bound hut your horse's howe «squashing along the trail, And you come out on this plece—this lace where kings walked alive. Hot, you know, anal atill: so still vou can hear the jungle growing to swal- lew 1b aan, creeping up under yer r frit, crowding in, smaethering yo. y Lilee something alone tind wiekesd, wuiting, eternally waiting to swallow the things meade. And you rum toto a bly ltol = wore evening clathea—while Gus Hardy WoOri- Character Dud of a aquatting in the brush, half frog, half tiper— dered what had happened when the world Wiid Wert Movie grinning; and you hearaawitch engine whistle Ws Ure, “Stone temples around a eourt—standing thera, atill anid alter twenty centuries of jungle rot. They didn’t know hew to built an arch; they hed to make the rooms little and the walks thicker at the top so a slab of stone would reach; but they had mortar that's better than any we kor, “Anidsome of thee elabes are granibe—erainlte, half a bon to a alah, and no granite formation in a hundred miles! No trucks, no wheel roads: nothing but man power. How dil they doit—and why?" and you jump. | promise you, you furnip." Hie talk drifted. Chucho, Huehuetenango, Hetalhulen, I con remember yet the finvor of those names! Biack benches and the endless thunder of lant combers on the gand: steaming lewlund, nod plateaus in the sky where claud seas flawed below you and the sun burned you thraugh ey air. Dlstance and apace and color, through which rode white men, laughing, conquering. The Muyaa, survivers of an ancient race—vou saw them trotting in from the hills-on market day: the women with slant-eyed, (Continaed on Page 117) The Stare Come Fare Clare “bout Taat Hoclasida ia the Hilla, ia the Courtyard are Flowers oad a Foontain That Lelie Foe, aad the Ciel Dage

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14 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 20, npr WHEN AMERICA GOES EAST courtyard of the house where the hanum, the one wife of Ferid Bey, sant yet at breakfast, when the bey himself came striding forth from his quarters with a musical tinkle of S—MITa. The hanum, lolling in her chuir beside the littl table that bore her eoifee and rolls under an awning of Vines, lifted large heavy- lidded eyes and amiled at him languoroualy. “Good morning, my dear," she said in French, The bey smiled back and came serces the courtyard towards her to take her long limp hand and bend abo it. From doorways here and there faces peeped. forth swarthy,fes-crowned, viewing a4 with awe this strange and incomprehen- sible ritual of morning grecting. "You are well, [ hope," suid the bey, and took a seat close to her, “I will ask you for a cup of coffee before I go on my busi- hea—on our business. Ah, there is no cup!” He, too, spoke in French, but when he summoned a servant he neither rang nor called. He clapped hia hands sharply, There came shuffling forth from the e, the body of the house, an individual in a long dull- blue gown who bowed stify, averting hie eyes from the hanum’s unveiled face. Tohim the bey, with- out turning, threw un order pa curt 98a curse, iti Turkish. "There will be no diff culty, you think, about that business?" querled the hanum in her slow and ereamy—there no other word for that throaty con- tralta of the speaking ywoice — tones. “It would be terrible if this year we could not get to Bukharest, lam withering away in this place, Sometimes | wish we could emigrate altogether, like the peasante.” The bey amiled, for truly she had no look of one who withers away. The daughter of the pasha of Adrianople and a purchased Georgian beauty, she showed in face and figure the best of both atraina—the intemperate-blooded Turk and the specially bred sexspecialized Caucasian, She was tall and large in the frame, with a face of a perfect oval and the hue of marble that has ripened in the cen- turiea; her every expression and attitude were mere different phases of graceful and langworous repose. She wie dressed now ih a white muslin frock with blue ribbons: her arms, long and smooth, and her neck, were bare, Her night-black hair waa coiled low on her brew; and no veil hid her beauty. “You cannot be allowed to wither, my dear,” answered the bey: “And it is not only that; we need money far other things, besides our visit to Bukborest. We need it in every direction, But I do oot think there will be a great difficulty, I shall ga to the Jew." "Ab! Not to—the bankt" The blucsgewned serviter, still careful mot ta rest his eyes upon the countenance of the hanum, returned with the cup and presented it, He arrived at the precise instant necessary bo save the bey from an outward and visible wines at his wife's mention of the bank. He filled his cup ard sat back to sip It. “ty dear,’ he said, “the bank! If it were mot for your honored father, the pasha, and, perhaps, for my own oficinl standing, the bank would have swallowed us whole long age. These Germans—you know what they are!" TN morning sun was elanting into the By PERCEVAL GIBBON FEEPITR ATED HF ff, ae The Bey Come Mf croest the Comrtyard te Take Her Loag Limp Nasad sad Bead Abeow Ie He made a little grimace of disguat and contempt, such ns a millionaire might wee towards a man of Ietters, His wife watehed him with great, lustrous, unwinking eyes. He wae net more than thirty, a tall, beautifully built young man, With a hard gay face of faultless regularity. A smear of black mustache waa brilliantined to perfection under the slight hook of his nose; his wide mouth, with its full underlip, was sensuous, sophisticated and crucl, He wos recognizable at a glance os an item in that social scom which breales in prison bubbles te the surface of that cess- pool swirl of races which is Constantinople: gratifying Orient appetites with vices of the Oeeldent; wearing a fez for socal convenience and drinking wine for his stomach's sake. He wore the fez now; for the reat he waa tap-a-pie in riding clothes that would have passed muster on Retten Row or in the Bois de Boulogne—cord breeches, black boots, silver spurs, and everything handseme about him, Tt was the pete of himself and his wife, bo themselves ns to the world wt large, that they had put the custome und prejudices of their own people and religion behind thern, Fathma, the hanum, dressed from a Viennese fashion migazine: Ferid Bey modeled himself on the foreign officers and attachés he saw in Constantinople. Pare being out of their reach, they went once a year for a month of dissipation at Hukharest, where one may make a FORE & # benst of oneself in good company, And thes apent money; they strewed it abroad like water; and when money came to an ed they borrowed. The hanum wos theorughéful, Hay the Jew?" she objects “We owe him already much. Will he —2" | The bey laid dow bh coffee cup and ree He gave her bis wide, lig. lipped smile, the Gime emi he had carried with kin through Armonia ta Trebl. fond and back, what tin his nickname was The Friend of the Vulture. “Tthink he will," he sail very deliberately, “g-2 now T mist go.” "TT will soe you of," whe replied, and stood up, They went togette: through the drep-archer gateway in the wall and passed through it te the read without, where agaist a clump of tangled fig trea a | mM EMM equated, holding the bridle of th bey's stallion, He spring upright at their appearson and made a reverenc, The bey did net notion hina by 80 mich as a goanice With hia wife's hand on ka arm he stepped and loo araeund him, a fran the was not all of thoaght eel Oring on his brow, Heald him his wife stopped, te unquastioning and pasm trying to follow bis = and see whatever that he eae. Tio her ally a4 ugual, Befere then across the shining we of the Maritza ead & farthor stream of i Tundja, rose the walls a roofs of Edirne, ewelling with dome a spiked like a porcupine’ a bristle ofslendder minar Behind them wos the | Turkish house, fat ro ite walls crowned arched red til Rhodope showed in the sunlight bulls aif dull eapphire; | waters trichied. the lea rusted: the Fame, “T hate itf"’ said the bey euddenly. “But itis the home we haye, If we lost it ——" He stopped, his lip, “Lost it?" echoed Fathma, 4 He looked down at her, She roised her great him, and for a space of seconds they remmined eu one anather. His waa the gaze of an avid Fae the willing prey. In full sight of the wonderiag and mayed horse boy he caught her to him amd kissed the full lips. He let her go with a little eelf-eorseloms and. beckoned the bay to lead the stallion ower to hi “And now, really, I must go to my Jew," he eel, The bay held the stirrup and he swung hi Baddie handsomely. The stallion pawed ond copuettishly, long black mane and sweeping Amey aswish, Ferid Bey looked down upon the wife af bile “T ride against cur enemies,” he said. “I goa knight!" She smiled, not in mirth, but because he ou and stood yet a while to watch him as he camtered it) the bur lidpee that lends aver the river amd inte the mal the old city. Then she turned and lounged back to ber] chair in the courtyard for her usual morning's ol tion—manicuring her naila and studying fortnigh! copies of Paris and Vienna fashion plates, Ferid Bey pulled the black stallion to « walk @ Passed throweh the cemeteries which etand abeot 1 trance to the city, and headed him towards that shen: tangle of alleys and densely inhabited plague hole: »

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ’ B co inown wt the Ralé Quarter, About him, as he rode, life wethed like water in a caldron, like a broken ant hill, lie maggots in carrion. In the alley by which he went, eoving over the beads of the throng which joetled and peed aside to give his magnificence free passage, like an indifferent angel pasting over a ruined world, every house suadhop. At the roote of it were caverns, within which aqatted merchanta—a Jew, a Greek, an Armenian, rarely a Turk; their dark faces looked out from their halos impassively at this fair specimen of the common enemy. ft was Eke riding between the cages of a menagerie of donted but untamable bensts. Tt was at one of these shops that he pulled the stallion tos dat and bent forward above the animal's neck to peer under the low brow of the place. The alley waa iteell a piceof day-long shadow; the shop at first glance was dark uthe pit. But at the bey's brusque call someone stirred whin it; a piece of the general blackness moved forward, ind there came forward te Ferid's eyes the tall bent figure ef leak ben Thrahim, the rich man. There was a black skulleap on his head; his black gown enveloped him fram his neck to his feet. Upon the bosom of it his great gray heard, matted with dirt, made him, aa it wee, p breastplate, His forehead rove ina noble arch from Ha heavy white brows, under which the eyes were still aa gvltered poole: a aplendid curve of nose awept down to feet the drooping mustache that hid the mouth one inew to be strong and humorous, Altogether a splendid, formidable and tragic figure; the bey leaned aside and wat ait came inte his view, The old Jew spread out long thin hands and bowed his reverend head between them in lysble salutation. “Come oearer!" erdersd Ferld Bey, in Turkish. “T have emething to say to you." Ink ben Ibrahim moved near to the stallion's shoulder. rid Hey looked at the old face contemplatively for acme nomente from under gathered brows, “T shall need some more money,” he said suddenly. “At ones,” he added. The old man made no answer for an instant, and then notin words, Nateven by gesture; it was conveyed by a subtle but unmistakable alteration in the whole pose and Tanner of tha man. What had been a proud and stately humility in him, a surrender te the accepted forma of deferenee ond sorvility, became suddenly aslack and non- Tesistant helplessness, lke the attitude of a scalded dog that rolla over and submits. A thousand epoken no's could not have made his refusal clearer Ferid Bey's face darkened. “What do you mean?" he demanded. “Are you playing with me? You will bring it tonight, within two houra of sunset, to my howe. You hear? The saree sum 28 last time!" This time Izak ben Ibrahim spoke. “Excellency, I can Lendl nN: T have nothing te lond." “ch re "Tt is truth, Excellency, I have nothing." min's words rang sincere, “My daughter's chazan, her betrothed, has come back from America. He was the son of a jeweler In this city; and now that my daughter is to be married I have given therm my business for a dowry." He shrugged the Jewish shrug of deprecation, shoulders humped to his ears, palms outapread. “Tam an eld man, Excellency; so I gave them the business, And'—hoe looked up; if hesamiled his beard hid it—“and the debts,” he added. "You dog!" sold Ferid Bey, almost mechanically, But he was thinking—thinking hard. “T must have a talk with the pasha about you, Izak. We have left you alone too lang. But in the meantime, where is this Jew from America?" ; A voice in the darkness of the shop answered briskly, “He is here!" There was a sound of movement, and a second figure came forth to the ght of the alley. Ferid Bey stared at it, "Come Nearer!" Gedered Ferid Bey. “SI Haooe fomethiag te Fay to Fou" 15 It showed as the remaina of a young man, a face miserably thin, an empty sleeve, a leg that dragged uselesaly. It was dressed in worn khaki breeches and leggings and o thin alpaca jacket. On its head was a dreadful old bowler hat. The newcomer paused in the dooreny and took calm stock of Ferid Boy, sitting aloft upon his black stallion. He neither saluted nor bowed. The bey, according to cus- tom, leaned aside and spat at sight of him; the broken youth in the doorway bent forward and spat likewise, “What is your name?" demanded Ferid Bey, “Jacoke," waa the answer, “What's yours?" He spoke, of course, Turkish: but somehow by his tone and manner and by hia choive of words he managed to make that prolix tongue serve the usea of crispness, even of slang. oon Bey restrained himself. His need for money was vital, “Te will pay you to learn quickly who I am," he said, through his teeth, “Tell him!" he spat at Ismk ben Thrahim, The old Jew apoke to the other in a low tone, The younger man modded, “You,” he said aloud. “You are right. It will pay me te know you and where to find you," He hobbled forth as he spoke, and seated himself on the low edge of the open shop front. With his one arm he lifted his crippled leg to cross the other. “T'm starting in to collect the outstanding loans,” be aiid calmly, "T'm beginning with you. You've had over two hundred and fifty thousand plasters of our money, and you've pald nothing—not even a single para. And now you Want more ["" The pasha on bia divan could not have been more at hia ease, more sasured and self-secure, JA cold shiver ran up Ferid Bay's back. And this was a Jow—a Jew! He sat still in a mere trance of amaze, (Continved on Page Fo@!

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FOREWORD: Every atate in the Union mow hos or is ar of at depart- Ten’ gheaya; aver before bas coud building been undertaken on ao largeaeeale, Owing to the enormous sums being apent by the states and tho Federal Govern: ment for highways the leaneeat building of ponds affects di: rectly every tat- payerin the country, hat follows os not intended as an sralgnreent, al ary one peolit par Tha article is ah ten bo show the peo- lltleal evila affecting highways that pre- vHilin my own slate, in the bope that should similar condi- tions exist in other #lates what ia bere said prove af some public benefit. HAD been for [«« months in the hospital of a military camp, slowly pulling myself together, when word come from 1 man whom I barely knew that the governor of my state wished to see me, One year before, I had been an engineer officer in France. After the armistice | had marched south from Sedan, only to hear, at the end of 126 rain-drenched, heart-breaking miles, thet I must return to the States; for somewhere along that march I had picked up an un- comfortable tempernture and a never-ending cough. In those tense November days af 1218, just before the end, somptone had mentioned the election in my atate, but when this summons came from the governor I could not even recall his name. Why he should wish to aee me was @ mystery. Mysteries being interesting, I secured leave from the hoepital and searched out the governor's rooms in the building where he gave audience to the people of our largest city, The antercom was crowded; there waa the smooth, blewched-faced politician; the impatient busines mun, anxious for the passage of gome bill, was there; there alan walbed the poor sad-eyed women, eager to learn the chances af having husband or son relessed from prison, I moved through the crowd to an inner door. Imme- diately I had my first surprise, [ was expected and could go at once into the private office, As I entered the gov- ermor was bidding 2 group of men good-by. He turned, gave my hand a finn grip, and without smiling his eves traveled fram the top of my head to the aoles of my hob- nailed bats, “Sit down, You are Major Gray?” From years af campaign epeaking in the open his voice had become worn to harshness, but beneath the rasp ia a note hard ta describe. Ef any two words can cover all that his voice conveys, they are “'poetive and “sincere.” “You've been recommended to mé as an engineer whe knows hla business, I've got a job for you.” Whaat the Godernor Wanted Me For ASKED mysell what political job a governor could give to one as far from being o politician os is possible, und made a snap decision to reject his offer. “D'm looklig for a highway commissioner,” be coc tinued. I gasped. In our state one of the moat souglt-lor posi- tiona within the gift of the governor is that of highway COMMIBSIONeT, When [| had cought my breath T anewered: “You've made a mistake, POVGENOT; you're looking for game other Gray. I'm net your man, "Why '" He ehot the word at me, “Because D'm ne palitichan,”’ “Who eaid | wanted a politiclan?'’ be said sharply. Then hia face waa lighted by a smile, “Don't you know that if I wanted a politician I could get a thousand by just holding up ane finger? I've been dodging politicians for weeks; I'm looking for a rand builder," “Hut, governor, | know and care so little: about polities that [don't even know whether your tenn of office is for tien Yes or four." This deplorable lgneranee surprisel| him, “You belong to the Poverty Party, don't youl" he asked. THE SATURDAY By a Former State Commissioner bBeEtconRaA TION £F BF CRrERNIEF “Yes, but I have sometioves voted for Property men when I thought them the better candidates,” “Well, that’s only a little crime: and [ know you can build roads; you'll do." He said this, his clear eyes fixing mine, as if the matter were settled, “Wo, governor,” [ persisted: “it's aut of the question. I wouldn't know how to make the right political appoint- ments.!" He laid his hand on my knee. “Politic: again! It's politics, major, that's keeping our highway departorent in the mud. IT would hate to beliewe that in the party which has made me governor of this atate we haven't enough talent te aupply your assistants, but if you accapt thia appointment | have just two instructions te give: Build for the state the best possible roads, and rid the depart- ment of peanut polities, [ promise you a free hand; you ran appmnt any min you think will best serve the state."" His eyes so plainly showed the trith behind his words that [ was astonished. To appreciate my surprise an ex- planation ia necessary, “ft Blow fe fhe Paliticlans HERE is in our state a political machine of which [had heard only hard words, ‘There are of people who believe Lt in closer league with the devil than is his chief coal heaver, The mere mention of the name chills the spines of thotsands of honest eltizens. The one thing I knew about our governor waa that he eteod high in the organization, and te my shane [record that this knowledge made me suspicious of ane whom [ now know to be the most directly honeat man with whom I have ever been aseociibed, We discussed the appointment o few minutes longer. “Think it over, major, and give me your answer Moan- day. Suddenly all harshness left the governor's voice, his face grew sad. “There's a poor woman outelde whoo son ia eondemned to death. I must talk to her now." T left the governor, profoundly impreased by his vivid personality, but as to aecepting the appointment I held grave doubts. I sought out a friend whom [ knew to be paliticully wise. “Commissioner of highways!" he expec. “Why, Tat, aad didn’t listen right.” I assured him that I had. He sounded a long-drawn whittle and drummed on his desk. “Well,” [demanded “is this thing on the level?" He turned on ma quickly, “You can bank on anything the governor anys, Tut in offering you this job, undouht- edly against the wishes of the party leaders, he's done a bigger thing than you can realize." “Well, shall T take ie?" "Tt's a tough Job te handle” Yes,” Lanewered; “be told me frankly that it was the hardest ome in the state." “And that you could fill joba without political inter- ference? Well, the governor will try to keep that promise, but, strong as he is, itean't bedone, As for your accepting, T just can't advise you one way or the other, I'm too surprised" Upon returning te the hospital [ spoke of the muotter to the affiger in charge. EVENING POST APay 30, 9927 ad Highwaymen “Por your owg sake," he told me. "7 onghet to bees you here. You're running inte more trouble than yoy #Ver sa in the Ar gonne. Hoche gas Tmaime a fellow physically, politi- cal gaa eats awny his good name.” That night « friend of the pov ernor called me on the phone asd asked if I had made my dectsion, “T have,” | an awered, “and plesse thank the governor for the honor he has done me" It 6 pleasant to record that the prese praised the governor [or giv ing the place to a Practical road builder. Even many of the Property papers commended his action, He hed created, or rather broken, a precedes! Heretofore this highly technical department had been in- trusted usually to a lawyer, always to a politician, Since the law was enacted making it a single-headed commision I am the first and only engineer who has been eommis- sioner, Twas told later of the astonishment my appalnt- ment caued at the caplial. “Grayl” the lawmakers gasped. “Who the deuce & Gray" My name was given the Senate early in March; it was not until the middle of April that my appointment rus confirmed, This unnecessary delay was the first political trick practiced upon my administration. My name had been referred to the Senate Finances Committees, where, in the keeping of those senlous guardians of the atate, it was aecurely held. Although my predecessor had overaerred his term by two marnths, and for five montha had known that be would not be reappointed, it was explained that he needed time to clear out hia desk. The trath ts, that confirmation was delayed in arder to give a Property commissioner time to advertise and get under way per tain roada much desired by deserving men of his party. One of these lay in a county near the capital city, Dia regarding the fact that in another part of the county there was a row sorely needed by a large community of farmers, my prelecsisor advertised a highway to cost $45,000 2 ‘mile, that began at the cliy line, Tan through Ql whine habitel section, between and paralleling ten already improved roads. But this favered read—in no way con- nected with the state system—led te seme property is which a senator was said to be interested, and who, strangely, was a member of that finance committee. HWoOoRKE Political Methods In Practice HE second.road was an equally vicious example of po litical favor, Built in a sparsely inhabited rural county, it passes two, possibly three cottages, and serwes: a ridici- lously small amount of traffic, But it aided an importast asemblyman to reach more comfortably his hunting lodge in the mountains.” You can readily grasp the neatne of this arrangement. Useful men—to the Property Party — in both Senate and Assembly were taken care af; the farmer aod the farnver's crops could afford to wait: and # ecet the state to please two deserving Property politicians the insignificant sum of $121,217. This kind of thing has been practiced ao long and = openly in our state —and perhaps in youra—that by now = is considerce legitimate, The senator for whom this row was built would be surprisecl — yes, shocked —if Dt were said that his uae here of political influence had been dishonest He is looked upon by his nelghbore as a monumec!, standing for all that ig wise and righteows, As for the assemblyman—well, he, tao, would be shocked, “Ye” he would tell you, “the state needed that road badly.” Io his heme town he talka lowdly of red-blooded Appericans and on Sundays he goes to church. L saw the governor for the second time om April Sich He asked me to be in the capital city by the eighth, a be expected the Senate's confirmation on that date, He spolr of the importance of securing an efficient secretary,

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THE “ay [told you,” be said, “you are to make your own apprintments, but I know one man for that job who could belp you with the political end. [am striving to write @ true account of the experiences aa ical holder of a political office; I must then ral not taf but all the truth, With a prayer for forgive- reas, therefore, I write that in splte af the impression this wan had sade on me I still held some lingering doubts. Hemember, please, that T had seen him but once, “What kind of a ward-heeler is he going to name?" 1a a young man from upstate,” the governor con= ticusd. “I beliewe you'll like him; anyway, look him over, His nome is Roy Field." Locking backward [t now seems absurd that I should jave felt such relief at hearing that name. Here waa no eincheelr. Field waa known to be a8 square aa a dic, When I beft the governor I was conscious of a feeling of security, af akeclute trust in every word be had spoken. And here let me sag that never have I left him after any oe of our many interviews that I did not experience the wpereaction, Itwas always as if T hod been given some thing that I did not have before—added trust, a new etbuwiaem to strive harder te do my work efficiently. Lam not a young man; I am no hero worshiper, but I thank the fates that I can still be glad on the rare oeca- some when I most a really big man, 4a HasGrinding Reception Committee Y SIGNATURE was not dry on the hotel register in the capital city when things began to happen. They mur have been camped in the lobby awalting my arrival. Agecis for bonding companies, whitefaced, stout gentlemen with friends—good party men, all—who needed joba; trick ealeemen; eteam-roller men; road-acraper men: all ese and more engerly grasped my hand, amiled delight- ly at the mere sight of me, and pulled me from this side thot te whisper in my amazed ears. Confused, dosed, I fied to my room, where, behind okel doors, I stayed until morning. But they were a ubest crew: D found them, their ranks awelled, awaiting ty appearance at breakfast, and one persistent, sticky, spilt slegman walked with me clear to the door of the mvernor's private office. Behind that barrier I found peace. The governor's atc- aary ahd his mexistant greeted me cordially, but nelther culd bide iis Gntemest in the strange innocent thelr chief ad named for the big job. The governor was working tthe mansion and would be a few minutes late. While uting I read the announcement of my arrival in the Ql papers, It was given half-eclumn, front-page space, it that depressed me more than I can tell was the gist ‘these notioss, It con all be summed up in the single nul word, “patronage.” Literally, in those sheets re wae bot one ward af my ability or lack of It a an geer, oo question of what kind of reada would be it, 10 hope expressed that I might build good roada; weed, each paper had used some five hundred words tell what juicy plums lay hidden in my Christmas », Gleefully they recorded how many fat jobs 0 hod to fill, ding with the grand patronage total I could distribute, Patronage! I hated the word then, I lowthe it today! Then, when my spirits had struck bottom, the door ned with a bang and a brisk young man came into the Son springs. He was well built, well dressed, and finch of his rather short figure was alive; his eves led. To each of the secretaries he spoke same quick rd that brought «laugh, Humor, action, ability showed wery curve of this young man's stocky frame. ‘Now, why the Th,” T growled, n't that fellow ld be like this i? I'iibet he'll ¥ up soft, fat, id, and all the of it." he governor's Flay spake in F toned to the eomer. Twas ng behind my ad paper, too ey to read. So, you don't " answered stranger Hy. "Well, 20 bad, from t Il can see, lime, George; me gently." if aeeretary t foward me, tranger, smil- toadly, at his “Commissioner —I quailed at the new tithe—‘"this is an ald friend of mine. He comes from my home town." He paused and I held my breath, “Let me intreduce Mr, Field." T grasped the outstretched hand. “Nat Mr. Roy Field." “Guilty, and entirely without an alibi!" Field nedded his round head rapidly before saying aa if proclaiming a miracle: “So you're the new commisaioner!"" “And you're the new eecretary! There's no discussion about that, Mr, Field, you're simply it.” We were still talking when the governor came in. After telling me that my appointment had at last boon ratified he bade Field steer me through the formidable tagle of taking over the department, Then he turned te the huge pile of letbera on his desk with “Now go te it.” That one short sentence waa all he considered necessary to his commissioner of highways. Mota word did he say, then or later, in favor of this road or that; no lengthy instructions to give as to what I should or should nat do, and no mention was made of those appointments, seem- fngly so vital to the newapapers Surely a good beginning! ‘ No sooner had I taken the oath of office than I found before me one of the most distasteful duties it was ever my bad buck to face, "Come on, commissioner,” Field said lightly, “now we'll goto the department and fire that bunch of earnest Property workers,” “Fire them! Deen't you suppeee they have vacated already?" i A amile epread acroaa Field's cheerful face, “Vaeated? Esch one of those deserving Propertista is sitting glued to his little chair; they'll get their name on today's pay roll if it costs them the seats of their trousers,” To had of course expected that my predecessor would remain te turn aver the office, but I had thought that his personal appointees would have left before my arrival. When, embarrassed by the proapect of the wholesale db- Tiissals before me, I entered the department, [ learned that all were present and accounted for; there wasn't a single A. W. O. L. in the building. Rewards and PurlAments FTER an hour's talk with my predecessor, during which he was generous with advice, [ waa finally left in charge. Field at ones atueck hie grinning head through the door, "Well, commissioner, [ hope you haven't forgotten any af ES he passed on. Each word, you know, was a pearl.” I swore roundly, “Aly right ears gone lame!" Qur highway department is a huge machine, but not too large for the great work it is doing. To accomplish ita work the department has a personnel of engineers, in: spectors, clerks, in all about a thousand employes, In addition there were the patrolmen. During the twenty months I held office the department spent and obligated for contracts the tidy sum of £41,000,00¢) of the taxpayers’ money, Do you gasp at the patronage possibilities? Huge as is this sum it does not cover all the patronage, One frank member of the Property Party, when I hed been atkhed by a new governor to resign, explained it te mein this wise: “You ses, we've got to pet cantral of your department. The salaries you pay strengthen us, af course, for they will all new go te our party men: but, after all, anlaries satisfy only individuals; it's building roads that equnts. Eby building » road here or refusing to build one there we can please of discipline whole communities at one shot." To manage efficiently an intricate business of thin size, one hedged about by every eoncelvable political eoenplica- tion, & no job for an infant. SATURDAY EVENING POST 17 From the moment my appointment appeared in the papers, requests for jobs began to pour in, There were but two classes of applicants—the young engineer just out of allege and the old engineer out of m job, I soon realined that the successful engineer of from thirty-five to forty- five years, especially these belonging to the Poverty Party, could net be persuaded to consider a political job. It ia. a popular sport to eritielze public appolntmenta; If other department heads have one-half the trouble I ex- perienoed in securing first-class men they do not deserve your criticiam. There is no sound reason why the man successful in private enterprises, assured of steady employ- ment, should give up such a position for a temporary public office, where the only thing he may definitely count upon ia viclows abuse from the oppesite party and the partigan press. The fret employe I saw, after taking office, was the auditor, I had thought it nesewary to appoint some friend of long standing to this position, but one look into Stephen Gillett's face determined me to make no change. Gillett is a $25,000 a year man, who from sheer love of his work filled the poaltion for the inadequate $5000 that the state then paid. Bucking the Political System NEXT appointments caused surprise throughout the department and a good partof the state. Tfourd the private secretary of my predecessor to be a young man who, during the four year he had served that loquacious gentleman, had acquired experience valuable to the depart- ment. I reappolnted not only thia man but the young woran Who had acted as the former eormmibaioner’s con- fidential stenographer. Before the day had passed a politician, locally prominent, galloped into my offlee. What are you doing?” he exeaimed. "Do you want to disrupt our entire party?" With difficulty I retained my potienes, “Theae people have knowledge it would take a year for new employes to gain,” T sald. “T don't care about that. Why, commissioner, the Property Party wouldn't keep a aerubworman who was a Povertist! For the good of the party you've got te fire thoee people and appoint Povertista.” “For the good of the state they shall stay. I'm running this department for all the taxpayers, not for any party,” T answered, He left, boiling, and marched straight to the governor, After listening to his complaint the governor asked him to return the next day. When he did ao he found other Poverty leaders assembled. The governor, a8 quoted to me, said te them: “Gentle men, I have requested you to meet here to-day in order that I might ask you to keep your hands off the highway department and let that man Gray alone. During my administration I want the highways managed for the best interesta of all the people,” Tt ly quite impossible to convey to the average citizen, unaequainted with politica, what amazement thia cowed. After that interview a Poverty leader in one of the largest cities did not speak to our governor for three months, When, wer three days in offer, [ had found no suitable man to fill one of the most important positions I had to offer [ appealed to the governor, “Bab,” be called toa clerk, “being in that highway file,” Bob returned with a file two inches thick, holding nat legs than a hundred letters. “Are all those recommendations?" I asked, ansazed. “They are the selected ones; we've thrown out aa many more," the governor answered smilingly. As he roan through theletters my amazement been written by the biggeat men in the state, yet the governor had never before men- thoned the letters, the writers or the candidates: ao ar- dently pesorarnes- ded. We went through that great stack of letters carefully, but fom, wee thought, name! a man. fit- tel for the work. During the read- ing the governor vetoed several candidates from personal koowl= eige; moet one did (Continaed on Page 37)

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18 THE R | xxx RRIVING at Cleveland in midafternoon, Parreh went toe hotel, and after a brief pause there took a taxienb and, giving the driver Alice's address, set forth inte the unknown. Alter passing through a busy distriet of large retail shops and theaters, in which itseemed to Parrish people dashed across the atreats with little regard for regular crogsings, they came ta an “auto raw" made up of two ond three siory buildings ef hbrick and tile, with here and there a mansion of an earller day rearing ite amokebegrimed bulk in futile defiance of the out- ward march of trade; then more ald houses, ugly and massive, some af them well kept, telling of wealthy families still hald- ing on, others turned into drezsmakers' eatablish- ments, art shops and roon- ing houses, A few minutes farther out, at a trolley crossing, was a thriving center—agmall city within a large one—with banks, stores, and yellow taxle clustered around a railroad etation: and after perhape ten minutes more, during which the col traversed a section where apartment houses and business build= ings waged about equal warfare with old homes, another secondary busi- Hess cenber, with its eros town trolley line, banka, moation-pictura theaters and shops, Then a parked! circle with a branse statue and a Ltele lake behind it, a boulevard winding amid trees and shrubbery, and presently, after a long and rather steep ascent, fine heights, on which stood large residences in specious grounds, wi th here and there an apartment build- ing sharply breaking the ahyling. More winding along a parked way: this one double, with etreet care running down the middle and new houses built or building at either side; and mt lost, after what was beginolng to seem bo Parrkha very long drivenl- though his wateh told him they had been litthe more than half an hour en route, f Fight-angle turn into an intersecting highway which astrost cormersign told him was Willow brook Avenue, Tt wos the kind of strect he bed, from Alice's descrip- thona, expected it would be: fanted by late, nat very large, and modest modern homes. One or two of the lurg- eat howsea might, he thought, have cost as much ay eight- een or twenty thousand dollars. while the least of them must have cost twelve thousand. The shruba and trees in the yards were YOUTE, and on such. residences as were embellished with vines the lofticst ehoots did mot reach more than half way to the eaves, ene there could be he doubt that, like the owners of the lives, they were year by yeur progresalng upward in the world. T[wexpensive car stood in front of several of the houses, and ber Ween many af them were little drives rade of twin cement, leading back te amall garages. Here and there children were at play with their sleds, laughing and shouting as they made the most of the thin coat of anow that lay upon the ground, and from the sizes of the children Parrigh gathered an impreasion that the fathers and mothers of thia neighborhood were young. The house before which the taxi stopped was of stucca and brown-stained timber, law and substantial, somewhat str ips of FEEVITRATED BF NEWVRF RALETCH Hoond De With His @imost Retigiows Adoration for Her on a Beaedlfal Jetelt Wor o Paesolen for Her gf a Beautiful Pomas in the style af a (obfornin bungalivw, nlthough here were upper windows, inblen biti a second story tuckel away heneath the long slope of the roof. Alitth boy and gicl near the house stopped playing and advanced a few stope to inspect Parr from ti He Gal, lansing up the walk he smued.at them, but their big bhoe eves remauned solemn. “How do you do, Georgie? righ a he alighted How do you do, Addon? Ine sid, with & miselievois cesire to astonish them, They did not reply, but continuel te follow him with their eves. The only sign of thelr having dean kin was SEVon iy litth Alice, wha quickly reached up anid placed her anvil red-mittened hand in her brother's. Parrish ascended the steps, ercesed the wide porch and rang the bell. Then, turning, he looked back at the little pair. They were still staring at him, but now Creorgio, taking courage from the safe distance intervening between him and the strange gentleman, berame voeal. Nodding his head emphaticnlly, os if in affirmation of a fact almost unbelievable, he declared: “T got a puppy. Names Don, He can lick my face,” SATURDAY EVENING POST May 20, Mize A COVENTRY By Julian Street And before Parrish could make a suitable comment the high baby voice of the little girl chimed a cotroboraiies echo: “He can lick his face." Like her brother op nodded as she spoke, widening her eyes, gravely bright. “Ts his tongue toogh?* Parrish asked. “Yea, it's rough” pail Georgie, And “It's wall " immediately echoed Alice Theconversation wns terrujshed at this jonetess when i Maid ofenid the front door, Parrish esked for Als and gave (hoetmid his co which, having nocard tray, ahe took in her hand. "Come in," she invited civilly, opening the doo witer alter having love nt the card ss-if tones that he was not Scan vacmer. Ay be hung his coat-and bation the dark onk rack in th hall he aaw her on theway upataire inspecting the card again. In the partor hesat deen in a. morris chair by a wad front window, Cot ie the vord he could pee the eal dren at play. They wer ewetet-Looking chaldren, Allee leod anid, He fel grateful to them: some how—he did oot quity know how—they had mak easier his approach te te Hevea, ‘The room was (paite lane with dark woodwork aol patternioss gray-prenwel paper. The furniture wa in the mission styles, & cak—fumed ook, he be lieved It was called a the cushions in theca were of brown leat wall wis on ebonked @ fight fille with a book of songs far little children: me niusie rack, and beside the piano stood a tall em in lamp with a éhade of wine-color silk. Aside from two lk leaa landacape: in watercolor there hung upon in etching of Rheims Cathedral, « sepia pine Hossetti's slender women, ad at either side of nk higare reproduced in black and white ff murul decorations in the Bosten Public Library He bad ample time in which to observe th ince the maid was gone for a long time, ~ nu! iy light wus beginning to fade, ond the purtor, shaded by the porch, was becoming tec he could hear someone moving abawt Ele en was Alice getting ready to come down, A Preaentiy he heard a step on the stairs. Alice: it was the maid again. : “Misa Meldrum ask to be excused,” me 1 "She~ -she does?’ He stood nonplused. “She's mat very woll to-day.” “Oh, I'm sorry,” he said, relieved, “Please tell i come back this evening to find aut how ale ig.” Here thoned the name of his hotel,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Pulting on his overcoat he wondered who it was he had tard mowing about the room overhead. Of course it night have been the maid. His spirits were at zero as he toole his hat from the rack. Je did oot wish to leave the house; it was the one ploce in Cleveland where he wished to be, but he could think of somncusn for staying. Could it be possible that she would stone to soe him after he had come all the way out to Ceveland, sheping in an upper berth and changing cars ai Boffala to get bere in a hurry? Surely she could not be eihardon bim as that! She was eo aweet and gentle. On the other hand, though, he had known down in Virginia many an unreconstructed old lady, and some young ones to, whe were the embodiment of gentleness until Yankees eee mentioned, when they heeame more bitter than the nist fery of Confederate veterans, That under Alice's tenderness there might be an unrelenting sirain was a pesibility be had met until now faced. Ob, she must see fem! She: naust! da with great reluctance he opened the front door ta vave the house, he found himself face to face with o stranger who was aocending the stepa—a powerfully built man of about his own age, with ruddy cheeks and goenel- tunored blue eyes, Reaching the top step the man troeght a key ring jingling from his porket; then, as the dwewns already open, he put back he: keys and, looking deely at Parrish, nodded plomsantly. “TH l'm not mitaken,"' he said in a strong volee, “you're Mr. Parrish, from New York.” “Ye—Mr. Brooke?" “Thegame,” THis amile was engaging. “I had to reach ound inmy mind for a minute te think what your last ane was, You're known as Dick in this house.” Parrish arilecd buckle. “[was having precisely the sume difficulty with you," wea, “Ol course Alice always speaks of you os George.” The master of the house came in and shut the door eind him. " “Take of your coat,” he said, "Thanks, I was just gone.” “Where to?" “Tack to the hotel, T eame to see Alice, bot the maid do me she ian't very well. ‘Thought I'd try again this veg.” George bad hung up hb ulster. “Yea,” be said; “she's bad a lot of hewloches Intely. fut: whe Teane heme early." Then, aa Parrish had not oved to take off his overcoat, the other hoapitably stripped we garment from his back, saying: “Here, you don't want bre yet, Come inte my den—we'll haven amoke," He led the way down the hall to a small room even more masculine in ite equipment than the parlor, Alrendy Parrish was bayginning to like this cordial Middle Westerner with bis ble volee, his close-croppeed, wiry, wary halr and hit understanding eyes. Moreover, he was grateful to him far making it ensy to remain. “Hold ont" said George, stopping Just Inside the door, “That must be your taxi owtalde” When Parrish asaentel his host turned back, declaring: "I'll send him away. When you have to go [ll drive you down.” "You're very kind,” Parrish said, following him; “but let me send him away.” “Put your money back inyour pocket!" ordered George as they raced together down the walk. “No, [ can't let you pay for my taxi,” “Yes, you can too! Parget it! This is my town.” He thrust monty inte the driver's hand and dismizsed him, wherealter they returned to the howe and settled them- selyes with cigars in the lamplight of the den. “When did you get in?" George asked. “This afternoon, I was due about 2:30, but my train was late,” “Ever been to Cleveland before?" “Once or twice, on business, years ago.” “Tes a good town," George assured him, “DT really don't know anything shut it," Parrish on- swered. “"T pust went to a hotel and an office und a club.” “Been to the Athletic Club?” “Wao, it was an old-fashioned club, very nice, right across the street from the hotel.” “Oh, the Union—I don't belong there. I'll be glad ta give you a card to the Athletic if you'd core for it,” “That's very good of you.” After discussing the Athletic Chub for a time George drifted to general tuk about Cleveland; about how Cleve- land grew, and why; the city's indwstries: the late Tam Johnson, ond the cult of the three-cent fare: then, drift- ing to comparisons, he went on: “T don't ase how anybody can stand living in New York. Every time I go there it seems to me the place ia worse. More people—more congestion, under the ground, and on it, and above it, And so many foreigners. Whew! That town makes me depressed about the future of the country, I have to keep reminding myself of Ohio and these other states out here,”' “So doubt you're right,” returned Partish: “but you mist remember that New York has a let of attracthons.” “Too many apartovent howses,"" the other went on. "To live ina flat seem to me only a shade better than 1g living in a hotel, I like to feal that I'm anchored to the soil, But I know what you mean, about attractions, and if course it’s true. New York does offer a lotin the way of things that are improving and entertaining museums, the theater, concerts ancl opera—if you care for opera and that sart ef thing.” "Yes, yes," said Parrish hurriedly, “Tt seems to me,” Gearpe continued, “that New York is essentially a battle ground where men try their strength, Business competition must be terrible, and ther: ane more temptations, more ——" "Tm delighted to hear that Mir. Brooks ib so much better,” Parrish put in. George beamed, "Sho certainly gave us = scare,” he anewered: “but she'll be home pretty soon now—probably better than ever, [t's a darn shame, her boing sick, She didn't need te he, bot she's one of those women who hates to leave her farnlly, and she wouldn*t go until she hac te, That's the way with the Meldrume—they don't care about a whole lot of people, but, Lord, how they do tie up te the ores they're fond of!" He seemed for a moment bo reflect on this quality in the Melirums; then, ina new tone, leisurely and expansive, he went an: * Well, I'm ratgrhita glad to see you here, Parrish." He cocked his eye humorously, “I doped aut that you'd be carming.”* “T've been meaning to come for some time." "TT hepe you'll etay till Margaret pete back. She and | are interested in vou, you know—hearing eo much about you, First thing Alice takes out of her bag when she pets here ia your picture, and it's the Inset thing she packs before she leaves.” And he added, with his infectious chuckle, which seunded aa if a bag of marbles were being ruttled in his chest; “Tf you're as much of @ moan ag she claims you are you're quite seme person.” “T'm afraid I'm net, though,’ Parrish answered gravely, George chuckled again. “Of course you're not? Tf you were a good as Alice elaima you are, then you'd be as good as M » Claims Tam, and there ian"t anybody that good." He shook his head ruminatively, “They're a great pair, those girls! Alico—she's a sketch! T don't know what I'd have done without her while Margaret was awny. [ don"t mean only running this plant for me and taking core of the children— T mean the way she's worked to cheer me up—and the way she's amused me uneonsclously too.” He laughed remi- niscently. “Friend of mine—perhapa you've heard of (Continued of Page Foy “Dot We Aren't Gelag the Jame Woy They Jee, Pm Glad, F Best TAtak That Sey Out Teere Looks ay Foo Piearent*

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20 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 20, 1923 THE COVERED WAGON at least remalned unchanged for many days, but at lsat one evening he came to Molly's wagon, his face grim and sad. “Miss Molly," he aaid, “I'm come to say good-by mow, Hit's for keep" “Nol Then why? You are like an old friend to me, What don"t [ owe to youT” “Ye don’t owe nothin’ to me yit, Miss Molly. Hut I want ye te think Kindly o' ald Jim Bridger when he's gone. Tallow the kind- eet thing I kin do fer ye is to bring Will Eanion to ye." “Tou are a good man, James Bridger," said Molly Wingate. “But then?" "Yesee, Miss Molly, I had alx quarta o' rum I got at Boise, Some folke saya rum ia wrong. Hit ain't. I'll tell ye why, Last night I drinked up my lastest bettls o that Hundson’s Bay rum. Hit war right good mim, an‘ ez [lay lookin’ up at the stars, all te oneet hit came to me that I wae pest exactly, mo more an” no lega, peat to the ha'r, ez drunk ez T was on the leetle apree with Rit at Laramie. Warn't that fine? An’ warn't hit useful? Nach’erl, bein’ jestoven up, I done thought o everything I been ferpettin'. Hit all came to me ez plain ez a streak a" lightoin’. What it waa Kit Carson teld me I know now, but Ho one elae shall know. No, not even you, Miss Molly. I kain"t tell ye, eo don't wk, “Now I'm goin’ on a long jour- ney, an’ a pesky one; I kain't tell ye no more, I reckon I'l never see ye again, So good-by." With aswift grasp of his hand he caught the dusty edge of the: white woman's akirtto his bearded lifes. “But, Jamea —— Suddenly she reached out a hand. He was gone, TL Ts freakish resolves of the old-time trapper oF One winter day, rattling over the icy fords of the road winding down the Sandy from the white Cascades, crossing the Clacka- mas, threading the intervening fringe of forest, there broke inte the clearing at Oregon City the head of the wagon troin of 1B46. A fourth of the wagons aban- doned and broken, a half of the horses and cattle gone eines they had left the banka of the Colum- bia east of the mountains, the cattle leaning one against the other when they halted, the oxen stumbling and limp- ing, the calluses of their necks torn, raw and bleeding from the swaying of the yokes on the rocky trail, their tongues out, thelr eyes glassy with the unsapenkable tol they so long had undergone; the loose wheels walhling, the thin hounds rattling, the canvas sagged and stained, the bucket under each wagon empty, the plow at each tail gate thumping in ite lashings of rope and hide—the train af the covered wagons now had, indeed, won through, in the front seat of the lead wagon sat stout Molly Wingate and ber husband. Littl Molly's cart came next. Alongside the Caleb Price wagon, wherein now sat an the sent—bhugging a sore-footed dog whose rawhide boots had worn through—a long-legged, barefoot girl who had walked twelve hundred miles since spring, tradged Jed Wingate, how grown from a tousled bay inte a lean, self-reliant young man. His long whip was used in baseless threaten- ings now, for any driver must apare cattle such as these, gaunt and hollow-eyed. Tobaceo protuberantin cheek, his feet half bare, his trousers ragged and fringed te the knoe, his sleeves rolled up over brown and brawny arms, Jed Wingate now waa enrolled on the list of men. “\Gee-whea-haw! You Buck an’ Star, git along there!" So rose his voice, automatically but affectionately, Certain French Canadinns, old-time engapés of the fur posts, now beowme habitants, landowners, on thelr way home from Sunday chapel, hastened to summon others, By Emerson Hough FELUITRATED ir ww. #.

We Fooght Fart aad Furlsatly, Stoelag te Taro the Body of a Maa A fheeat oe Fereag of Biemeeil, aad Yeo a Masia ia Rage “The families have come!" they called at the Palls, as they hod at Portland town. But now, though safely enlarged at last of the confine ment and the penalties of the wagon train, the emigrants, many of them almost destitute, none of them of great meana, needed to cast about them at once for their loca- tions and to determine what their occupations were to be, Thay scattered, each seeking his place, like new trout ino stremm., EI AM WOODHULL carried in his pocket the letter which Will Hanlon had left for Molly Wingate at Cassia Creek in the Snake Valley, where the Oregon road forked for California. There waa no poat office there, yet Banion felt sure that hia letter would find its way, and it had done so, save for the treachery of this one man. Naught had been sacted to him. He had read the letter without an inatunt's hesitation, feeling that anything was fair in hia lave for this woman, in his war with this man. Woodhull rewalved that they should not both live, He was by nature not so much @ coward as a man with= out principle: or eeruple. He did not expect to be killed by Banion. He intended te use such means as would give Banion no chance. In this he thought himself fully justi- fied, a9 a criminal always does, DB KROERERAWER But burry ag he might, his overdriven teams were no match for the tireless desert hors. the wiry mountain mount and the hardy mules of the tidy litth: pack train of Banton and his compassion Jackson. These could go oo steadily where wagons mas wait, Their trail grew fainter ax they gained. At last, at the edge of a wate. less march of whose duration they could not guess, Woodhull and hia party were obliged to kas, Here by great good fortune tie; wore overtaken by theewilt pack train of Greenwood ad his mes, hurrying back with fresh animals on their return march to Cali. fornia. The taro campanios jad forces. Woodhull now had guide. Accordingly when, afte such dangers and hanlship wo then must be inevitable to me covering the gruesome tral] be. tween the Snake and the Sac. mento, he found himself late tha fall arrived weet of tho Siem and in the gentler climate of the central valley, he looked about him with a feeling of exultation, Now, surely, fate would give te enemy inbo his hard, Men were spilling south is: the valley of the San Joequiz, eoming nerth with proofs of th Stanislaus, the Twolurne, thi Merced, Greenwood insisted or working morth inte the county where he had found gald, alr all the tributaries of the Zacta mento, Even then, too, befor the great year of “9 had dawned prospectors were pushing to th head af the creeks mnking inh the American Fork, the Feathe River, all the larger and. lie streams heading on the west slope of the Sterraa: and Gree even heard of a band of men Fh had stolen away from the |ow diggings and broken off to th north and east—sone said, bes! ing far up for the Trinity, thouy that waa all unproyed country! far as most koesr, And now the hatred in Woo hull’s sullen heart grew het sill, for he heard that pot ff miles ahead there had passed quiet dark young man, riding black Spanish horse: with } a bearded man who drove a lit) band of loaded mules! Thi Progress, eo come the story, up a Valley whose head was i possable. The trail could not be obliterated back of the They were in a trap of their own choosimg. All that needed wos paticnes and eaution. Ships and wagon trains came in on the Willamette in the East. They met the const nows of gold. Men of Oregon also left in n mad stampede for Ci fornia. News came that all the world mow wae in minea of California. Allover the East, ms the later sh also brought in reiterated news, the mad craze of “49 ed then was spreading. But the men of “48 were in ahead. From them, scott ing like driven game among the broken eountry over by dreds of miles of forest, plain, bengh land and valley lan no word could come cut to the waiting world. Ni might know the countless triumphs, the unnurobered tra dies—none ever did know. There, beyond the law, one man might trail ano!! with murder stronger than avarice in his heart, apd oc ever be the wiser, To hide secrets such ms theae the 5 fathomed mountains reached out their shadowy arm. Now the winter wore on with such calendar as altima latitude, longitude gave it, and the spring of "49 <=! East and Weat, in Washington and New Work; at [ni pendence on the Missouri; at Deseret by the Great 3 Lake; in California; in Oregon. Above the land of the early Willamette sottlene forty or filty miles up the Yamhill Valley, so a letter &

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 21 ure Caleb Price to her relatives fy (ikio said, the Wingates, lead- os of the train, had a beautiful ium, near by the Caleb Price pe | nil, witwaa known. They had up a good house of five rooms, get their cattle were Increasing . They had forty acres in aheat, with what belp the neigh- hops Rad given in howsing and planting: and wheat would mam ffty bushel to the aere there. They had bought young treea foram orchard. Mrs. Wingate had planted roses; theynow werefine. She ielieved they were as good as those she planted in Perthind, when first she went through there—-cut- tings she had carried with her seed wheat in the bureau teaver, all the way aerose from the Sangamon. Yiea, Jeaae Wingateand his wife had done well, Molly, their daughter, wus still living with them and atl wemurried, whe believed, There were many things which Mra. Caleb Price be- feved; also many things she did not mention, Ske sald pothing, for she knew nothing, of a little seene between these two as they sat on their litth sawn-board porch before their door one evening, looking out over the bewetiful aod variod landscape that lay spread before them. Their wheot was in the green now. Their hogs weveled in thelr little clover field, “We've dowe well, Jee," at length said portly Molly Tinie, “Look at our place! A mile squure, for noth= ig! We've dome well, Jesse, 1D welt it." "For what?” answered Jease Wingate. “What's it for? What haa it come to? What's it all about?" He did oot bave any reply, When he turned he saw his wie wiping tears from her hard, lined face. “Tr's Molly,"" said she, aE LLOWING the rossion of the snow, men began to push westward up the Platte in the great spring gold eho 19. In the forefront of these, outpacing them a be tireless fashion, now passed weetward the greatest fveler of his day, the hunter and acout, Kit Caraon. The eu poet of Fort Kearny on the Platte: the old one, Fort arimie in the foothills of the Rockies—he touched them con aa the grass was green; ond as the sun warmed the unch grazs elopes so that his horses could paw out a liv. ap. he crowded on westward, He was a month ahead of bt date for the wagon trains at Fort Bridger. Se Put Ale Nod: on Ner Sdeulderr, eld Der Aeay ot @res Longe “How, Chardon?" said he as he drove in his two light packs, riding alone as was his usual way, evading Indian eyes as he of all men best knew bow, “How, Kit? You're early, WhyT" The trader's chief clerk turned to send a boy for Vasquez, Brider's partner. “Light, Kit, and eat.” “Where's Bridger? I've eome out of my sountry to see him. I have government mail—for Oregon." “For Oregon? Mon Diew! But Jeem"—he out spread his handa—"“Jeemn, he's dead, we'll think, We do not know, Now we know the gold news, Maybe so we know why Jeem be's gone!" “Gone? When?" Loa’ H"august-Settemb'. Hall ofan atoner be took the ‘tral after the hermlgrant train las’ year. He'll caught him on Fort Hall, we'll heard. But then he go h'on with those h"emigrant beyon’ Hall, beyon" the fork for Cal- iforn’., He'll not come back. No one know what has be- come of Joem, Hell been dead, maybe so,” "You? Maybe so not! That old rat knows his way through the mountaina, and he'll take his own time. You think he did not go on to California?” We'll knew he'll didn’t.” Carson stood in thought for a time, “Well, it's bad for you, Chardon!" “How you mean, M"siew Kit?” “Eat your last square meal. Saddle your best horse. Drive four packs and two saddle mounta along.” "Chee? And whore?” “To Oregon!” “To Oregon? Sacre For’! Whot you mean?” “By augthority of the Government, I command you to carry this packet on to Chegan this season, aa fast as safety may allow. Take aman with you—two; pick up any help you need, But go through. “T cannot go farther west myself, for T must get back to Laramie. I had counted on Jim, and Jim's peat mst ase mt through. Make your own plans to start to-morrow morning. I'll arrange oll that with Vasquez.” “But, M'sleu Kit, IF cannot!" “But you shall, you must, you will! Tf I had a better man I'd send him, but you are to do what Jim wants "Mote oui, of course," : : "Yes, And you'll do what the President of the United States commands.” “Bon Oheu, Hit!" “That packet is over the seal of the United States of America, Chardon. Ut earrle: the salgnature of the Preai- dent. It waa given to the Army te deliver. The Army haa given it tome. I give it to you, and you must go. It is for Jim. He would know. It must be placed in the hands of the circuit judge acting under the laws of Oregon, who- ever he may be, and wherever, Find him in the Willa- montis country, Your poy will be more than you think, Chardon. Jim would know. Dead or alive, you do this for him. {Continoed on Page #0)

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22 [a PETERS was examining the stock sheets which showed the contents of the huge warthouse, and he derived little if any pleasure from the perusal, The Mill had been in operation now for some months. Daffieul- ties and secidents attendant upon the atarting of a new mill had proved to be fewer than expected, and were readily overcome, The mill was efficient and economical. Timber costs were aa low as those of any competitor, and as for labor, there was a slight advantage over most. Ted knew he was doing us good a job of manufacturing as any woodenware concern in the country, but when it came bo sabes—well, if it weren't for bardwaed lumber he'd have been seriously worried. “Shipped three cars last week when we should hove - shipped ten," he said ta Veronica, who wageled her bobbed head and looked serious, “WhyT" she demanded. “Weve got seventy thousand boxes of clothespins stacked in the wurchouse, and about fifty millions of wire- endl clishes,"" he sald, continuing his own line of thought. “Nothing's moving, and when we do ship e car we get nothing for it." ag Whig? FF “On the present market—our list less two fivis—alter we pay commission and freight, we're getilng just about a dollar for five groes of clothespina, Believe me, we have to hustle ta manufacture them for that. Don't believe there's a eont profit,” “Why! an “And wireends! You expect clathesping to go to the devil, They're uvually there, Moy experience is the mills Tun along for ten years and barely get by, and then comes a good yeor when there's a clean-up. One yeur out af ten, But dishes! No reason why we shouldn't always get a decent price. We'd be making a decent profit at the market now—if we could move any. But we can't.” “Whyt" "Pazey Hickson,” said Ted. "And who, if it's a question a wife may ask without blushing, t3 Parry?" “Pazzy,"' said Ted, “holda at this minute the world's championship belt for price cutting.” “That's what he ia, not whe,” THE SATURDAY TILL THE JOINT CRAC EVENING POST May 20, 1977 By Clarence Budington Kelland 4RTN OUR 4 F ATI WH Nt PE / “He's & kind wf a sort of broker. (Office in New York, Three or four years ago he made a five-year cantract with oo mill up in Maine for ita entire out- put. Ethink he did it with a gun; or else he's a hypnotist, Nabady knows what price ina pays, uk it's a peach. [ clew know he's pleking of twenty-ve or thirty thousand a year without lifting his hand." ia Howt" “Selling wireend dishes," said Ted patiently. “Tf he can sell ‘em why can’t vou?" “Hecause,”’ said Ted, “his confounded mill manu- factures just enough to upset the market. The general price—and it's been maintained pretty well in spite of everything—is two fives off list, Well, Pazzy doesn’t have to worry about market price, He don"t care how much money his mill loses. So what does he do?" “Yea, ver What does he dot" “Goee around selling for a price that equals about four fives off our list. Just laziness. If he'd cot one five it wouldn't be bad. He eculd sell all bis stuff with that advantage, but he'd rather wear his pants shiny and have jobbers come to him—which they will for two fives. Beet And when the market knows dishes are being sold at his price it's natural they shouldn't buy at ours. They're all laying back, talking less than they can get along on, and waiting for a lust," “Which,” said Veranies, “it looks ns if they would get." “Te does."' eaid Ted, “wrless something ean be dor with Passy." “Such ast" “Pushing him off a mountain,” said Ted. “He'd newer agree te it.” “Probably not, but it's the only thing T can see.” “Has anybody talked te him?" “Talked! ‘Thayve shaated !"* “What doe he say?" * Tinst. gring —arned rakes in bik bwenky= fine thousand.” “Why not make t exay for him?" Veronica uskhed. "Tt must be aome trouble to sell alot of folks. Df you went te him and bought his whole output at, say, four fives off, or maybe a shade under, you could have them packed under our imprint and sell ‘em again—at our price.” "T've thought of it, but I'm afraid of the ears." “OW big? un “Hestroint of trade. Just now, when every industry needs to be letalone, or helped out, the Government get na FLEG@ITRATE BD Wikis «a fa’ Phi § Pr Going HMome ona Gare Soci," When I'm Prickting Afy Fiagerr Wits a Nerd ie'* 2m =“ imey as a squirrel in a hickory tree investiguting everything and everybody under the Shermas Law. Seems to me, when busines is in the condition it’s in now, they ought to kine of store the Sher- man stulf—except where it's really raising the dewil." OF oi mean it would be Dhegal?™ “T'ro afraid it would. Wow seve ean tell until the; land on you." "Tan't the Goy- ernment silly?" sald Veronica. “Tt has fre- quently been con sidered so hy our best mbtids,”* said Ted. “Hut we're prejudiced. We have to make e Living."" “There mist be some legal way.” Said Veronica. "There always is.” "TE you ean find it,” Ted aaid, “T'll buy you a larg stick of candy,” “Why don't. all the manufactures get together ond DEMee On a print—. price that will give them a reasonabe protit? Thenevery- body would be on the same footing?” Jail for a million me | Be Ci tile Sot Feronien, ““S Think Better “Mr. Sherman's lithe caper again. years, ae a billion dadlars fine.” “Ouch! Den't do it, then. I can"t spare you—ve But f would bring you the nicest things to eat in your cell,” "Thanks. ['d have no appetite,” "Find out what he has to poy for dishes, and then se! for lesa until be promises te be good." “That's what [mi afraid it will come to. But there's darn littl: profit in selling goods at a loss, Though a lot al elothespin milla seem to have done it for fifty years. "Tm going home and darn socks.” said Veroulea: uy think better when I'm pricking my fingers with a nesile.” "Ain't she domestic!" said Ted admiringly. ‘Though T mest say she don’t look it,” “What do I look?" she demanded with a frown of terrible ferocity. *Lowely,"* bus sald Pit for that T° abolish Pasay Hickson for you,” fil “ Please do it to-day. You see we hove beelve clothespin machines, and each of therm is grinding out seventy fire grces bowes a day, That makes six humered and four thousand, eight hundred pina every eight hours. Alea we are making about twenty wireends every second—and they pile up. Stab your fingers hard, hones." "Ta the bone,” she said, A young weistant bookkeeper came in with the after mown mail anc laid if on Ted's desk, The top letter bore the return address of his solewman in Boston, and Ted opened it with hopes of an order. [t was .o long letter. bu! it waa het an order At laat,”’ said the letter, “we've got a look in on tle New World Chain Stores, Thelr trade is all each evi carry. As nearly aa T can get the figures Chey will eet u- wards of twenty carloada a year. If we eon band thi | think T ean grab off their clothespin line, special pach ages with their imprint. They buy pins f. o, b, the ml drop shipments, There'd be no commissions to pay, od it stems to me, on this volume of dish busines, you eauld see your way clear to making some concession ot price, The fly in the amber is Pazzy Hickson. Saw kim town. He's uttering around, and Pazzy always haz b3 ear to the ground. Tf he's got wind of this we're ditebed Wire instractions.” Now a contract for teenty carloads a year was a mal’ not te he aneesed at. Bassides the money tno led was oe

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST wpect of eslarging the wood-dish field by that much.. It would benefit everybody dealing in woodenware. An ab- sorption of twenty carloads by a previews nonconmsumer would ean unmixed benefit to the industry, Ted made up his mind to have that busioess: if tt could be gotten, He wired, but not instructions. “Wal arrive maming train,” his telegram read, riecpbcllabalye he called Veronica on the telephone. “heath your peedde,"" he aaid, “and hide the socks etind the drawer, We leave for Boston to-night, Pack waat IW peed.” “Goody!” Veronica anid, "I've been just dying to sor astrert car and eat Freoch pastry!" As they sat in thelr section that evening Veronica asked peste, Tew hat's our price on one-pound dishes, delivered in Beton?" she aaked, “Two eghty-seven, leas two fives. Why7"" “And we ship abot six hundred thousand to a car?” “Cortect, bat ——* “That makes op 2 minimum weight of twenty-four thousand pounds ?"" “My dear, you're learning the Iieines. Hut what's the weighty bea?" "Em." Veronica pursued her own line of thought, chaiag itup through her bobbed hair with slender fingers, Veveica always rumpled her hair when she was thinking. “ind acar with the usual gssartment of dishes fram suirter-pounds to fives would mun abut — "Say eghteen hundred dollars." "dod a hundred cars like that would cost a hundred and ghty thouaand, wouldn’t they?" “Alo a thousand would cost ——" “Shugh! What sort of man is this Pazzy Hickson?" "He's the kind,” said Ted, “who could sell corned beef ind cahbage to a man with chronic dyspepsia, He's o alrsmen, lady." “Is that all?" “What do you want him te be—a piccolo player?” “A -businesa man. Is he that?" “He's a Teacher.” "Which means?" “Fle would stretch his arm out of the socket reaching a scmething that looked goml—without stopping to gu whe was going to set the joint for him." “hed you dald he was lazy?" “All of him but his lower, or working, jaw." “T think I gort of, Kind of, after a fashion, like his ieellications,” She peered out of the window for fifteen minutes and ly waggled her head at her husband when he tried to Rome convergational, “Play with your wateh charm o little while, honey," @asid, “or do mental arithmetic. I'm buzzing, and fink Tt gelng to find a place to light.” He waited with what patience be could ouster until she ohe again. Suppose,” he gabd, “I went to the millinery ahop, and Sewn a hat in the windew and [ wanted it ao badly otdered = four—and fthe milliner found f ahe couldn't get t two—alter she'd feed to wel] me the fl wanted. Whut ld happen?" ae "The j ey would pronounce you insane without leaving ir “But | ir I did—and she did?" "Why, you could go out on the open market and buy two more hats and make your milliner pay you the difference between what you were compelled to pay, and What she promised to sell you for," “How lovely! Call the porter, idea." In the morning they were driven to their hotel, and shortly afterward to the soles office af the Peters company. Billy Pett, the sales , was waiting for them, “T've had a talk with the chain-store folks," he said with satiafaction, “The buyer's a buddy of mine, and he saya T ean have the contract—if we'll meet the price. On an equal basis we can have the business.” "What price has been quoted?" Ted asked. "T sow o letter from Pasay offering dishes at four fives off cur list." "Just a minute,” sal Veronica. golng to have a row." “Eb? said Billy, etartled out of his complacence, “Why? What for?” "Because [ need a row to make me enjoy my Junech. It's going to be a public row, A noisy row, You're going to argue, and then, Mr, Pett, you're gotng to quit us cold, Throw op your job and go hare with all your playthings.” “Tam, ch? What's it all about, Mr. Peters?! “Don't know. But if she says ft'a a0— why, it's oo" “The row cones," ahe said, “just after you make sure of the chain-store contract.” “At four fives?" “Yea, in your own name—oa breker, You agree to deliver personally. Will they accept that?" "Yen, Tel saya Mr. Hickson “Get it quick, and meet bere. stops at the Parker House." In an hour Pett returned with his bit of werk aceom- lished. “Now for the rumpus," said Veronica. “Listen, while I make it all clear.” She did so for fifteen minutes; then they took a taxi to the Parker House and strolled into the lobby. “Ts he here?" Veronica asked. “He's over at that writing desk,” Pett said, and pointed. “Edge over whene he can't mist a word, and start your wrangle,” she directed. It was a eplendid, realistle, convincing wrangle. They began mildly arguing a difference Im aalea policy. The argument continued. It became acrimonious. I want to sleep on the “Vou and Ted are YY! Cannot Teli a Lie. FoBid ic With My Lite Bobbad Head "* 23 Finnlly Pett, nt the top of his lungs, shouted, “I'm through! I can't sell goads with such backing. I quit. Tm out. Run your show any way you like, but you ean't erack that kind of whip aver me! I'm done!" He turned on his heel and rushed away with a rage that waa both pleasing and convinelng to Mr. Passy Hickson, who had missed no word of the debate. He arcee leisurely and followed Mr. Pett, overtaking him. before he reached Tramont Street. ; “Wfornin’, Pett," he said. "Arrerch!" Pett responded sivuigely, “ Alew's baesindsss 7! “To blaces with busimess!"* “What'seatin'you? Climb out over the foot of the bed?" “T've quit Peters.” “"Shucka!" "T've quit him, and when IT quit, I quit. With business in my pocket too, I'm carting a twenty-car contract, and he wouldn't tale it, Wouldn't cut a couple of fives, And T can land the Stump Brothers for another forty or filty ear too.” Stump Brothers were a colossal woodenware house with branches all over the country, notorious for cles buying and price cutting. They bought in enormous quantities, and then distributed just enough under the market to upset matters, . “T can land forty cara for delivery within twelve months, And he won't take that, I'm through." “What you figger te det" “Huy a shoeshining parlor,” sald Pett. “Un. Mebby you and me can squeese semethin' out of this. You've got the inside track with Peters’ customers, You got sixty cara to start with. How if you and me tle up, eh? Come on where we can talk,” “T'm through working for anybody," said Pett. “I'm going to he my own boas, Icon sell woodenware too. Thy , l know whet Pl dat Fu opto we. brokerage office, That's what I'll de! And [ll moke Peters wish his neck wasn't 0 darned stiff. Before [ get through with him he'll be glad te sell for a lot more’n four fives of." “Say, Pett, you know I ain't interested in dishes except asa eide line. Other fish ta fry. Get thia here contract and I'm ridin” it high and handsome. No trouble to sell— at two peg under you follows, Jest sit and let her roll in—kind af, “With about tanenly trips to eee the trade BVEry Fear,” sald Pett. “Oh, thes nuisance connected with ft, I admit. Say, how many dishes d'you cale'late you can movel" “Give me a price and T can move all there are.” “How does four fives off fit yout” “Where'd I get mine?" Pett asked “Five per cent commission comin’ to you.” “No more com- Mission for me, From now on Billy Pett is Billy Pett's bea. 4] He pauses as if an attractive iden liad presented itself. “Go ahead.” iConthlioed a Page 36)

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24 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A’D' 1728 EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSTLVAN LA, U. S.A. GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR ee oe Fea Al Nestidesler, By Subscription: To the Linked Sia ond Pomeeions, Bolivia, Colombe, Cob, Coan Bina, [aeninices Begs, Exrwodhier, Haba ria, Mexico, Micursguu. Sabradce, Puna ond Peru, $1.8 the Year. Bemis by US. Monger Chee, Epes Moory Order, Cierch ov by Draft, pepabie in U, 5. Foods, To Comeds=f7 Soteciption. 1 the Year, Single Copies, Teo fea — Canniles oF U5, Funds, hierr Foreign Cauagies In tie Foetal Unlons Subscripsoos, MM the Tear. tem ices fo be by Dent on 2 eek lo che 0. &., pages be LS. file, PHILADELPHIA, MAY 20, 1922 The Vanishing Wilderness Y THE simple proces of pousing and locking back- ward a few thoutand years every once in a while we may rather safely arrive at the general conclusian that times do change. We arc moved to theat general reflections upon the mutability of human affairs by our growing conviction that the out-of-doors people are not keeping up with the tinves. We ought to take a look once in a while at our aparting methods, ao far as they have ta do with our flekis of apert in America—the methods, manners and means hich we employ to exhaust our own resources. We go on improving the deadly apphances for killing aff our fish and game, and that man is most belowed of his fellows who tells us where o now field of sport may be found, whether in the United States, in Canada, Africa or Alaska, Oneo found, we exhaust tt os Inst as we can. Improved transportation is the grentest enemy out-af- doors ever had, The cheap car hes helped kill more flah and gare than the cheap ahotgun or the cheap flehing rod af the improved rifle, We cannot go back to the Mint- lock or the ieew and arrow, af the horse and sidebar bug. Lf we intend tostick we have got ta change. If we intend to hove my out=of=dooar Amerien belt we have got to change mipghity AMM, The imumedinte resson for thee: animadversions upon mar wholly human fatuousmess Ibes in a few exes) columns W the sporting page of a daily newspaper, A paragraph mentions the aafe arrival at Nome of a couple of uirahips Which started somewhere in one of aur Eastern siates— Elsewhere one reads the farther rasual mention that two or three of our mirships safely Yet another dis- pitch says two Canadians have just left Halifax, Nova Scotia, for Vancouver, British Columbia, by air, Still another mentions ten-hour sirahip service between Seattle and Skagway, Alaska, We might all of us just as well rub our eves and wake up to the fact that the populations of the world are uid te=day: that the interintelligeaces of the world are almost instintincous; that the new transportation of today has altered the wilderness abealutely and irrevocably, What are we going te do about it? Some day we shall Tub aur eves, wake up und do something which will show Oilr latent eonvietion that the qut-ofedoors life of o mun ld nok meant te be wiped out sbsolutely; that it bes ita to-day they are buck safe, arrived at Hazelton, Hritish Columbia, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Place in the economy of things ns much os life under a roof; is as needful, as helpful, sa vital, If we hold anything we have got te fight for it—fight intelligently and with the methods of to-day, oot of yester- day, These changes are coming, The mere forces of commerculism anid self-interest cannot stop them. Uf you don’t believe thet, read the daily papers and see how short. a distance it is from Washington to Nome to-day. The wilderness must have defenses built for it, supported by the united intelligence of men in tune with today. A Warning to Widows HE ease with which the average widow without busi- Tiss training and with ao banker to wivien her cam be wheedlod into putting her hushand's life-insuranee money into wildest stocks by the first alick saleaman who ap propches her is proverbial. Any lawwer or banker can cite a dozen eases in which the entire savings of a thrifty man's lifetine, amaaaead by yeara of sacrifice and self-denial, were awept away simply becasue a whlow or orphan trusted ane af the slick crooks whe rob women for a livelihoee, Now comes Afr. Heron Wr Afoser, president of a St, Liwis banking institution, with a simple and practical suggestion for minimizing thia peculiarly contemptible form of awindling. Mfr. Moser’s plan is to attach to every lifeingurance policy a warning against yielding ta the blandishmenta of these crooks: and in order ta make the warning os impressive as posible he would have it bened aver the facsimile algnature of the President of the United States and reinforced by confirmation of the policyholder, The originwtor of this idew is free te concede that the word- ing of the following tentative form drawn up by him may brimproved; but he is convinemd that itis well considered inecope and aubstanoes A GOVERNMENT WARNING TO BRWEPICIARIES OF Lire INSURANCE POLICIES United States Government statistics, as well aa figures and, facts otrtained from insurance companies, banks, trust companies und other reliable sourcea throughout the United Stutes, show that millions af dollars are lost an- ninlly by those who make unwise and unsale investmenta, The sar pare is that mast of the memay ts lost bey those wha cannot afford to jose it. This is especially true of widows and others who receive instirance money after the death of the policyholder, Tn many cases friends of the family, whos: intentions are the very beet, advise widows to invest their insurance money in securities that they think are aafe, bot offen og o reault every dollar af the money is oat. Un other instances anecTupulous saleamen induce the beneficlarbes bo invest in worthless aecurities, god all the money ie lost. As o reault the widow ia compelled to go ta work or to ask sup. part of her family or of her husband's fanily. This warning is issued in the hope that all insurance companicas will attach @ copy te every policy iagued here after and inclose a copy with every check sent out in settlement of a denth claim. (Signed) _ a Preeident of the United States. To ~ ¢FHll in name of beneficiary.) 1 have road the shove warning and it is my wish that you he extremely careful with the insurance money, T have tuken this insurance to protect you-=net to help someone elar to pet rich, : . (Signed) __ (To be signed by policyholder.) Mr. Moser's plan is so simple and has such obvious merit that the life-insurunce companies might very well ask presidential cokporation in carrying it out. Protection to the Farmer CONGRESS has been in the throes of tariff legisla. C tion, In the post, tarill legislation bas always included an considerable amount of polities, A British histurian of legislation once stated that no tari had ever been framed In any country on 2 foundation of trade data. We have a tari commission. Tt has issued a number of reports. But the first draft of the projected legislation gives evidence that the propoes| duties deviate from the injunctions of experien ma. divergoner between what it presumably designed and what is actually undertaker. In other directions we observe AMfay 30, 923 An illuminating illustration is to be observed in ihe duties to be bevied on raw agricultural materiak and ther manufactured products. Accepting the position that im- port duties are to be erected toe give the home market co the American producer, it follows that the rate of duty 1 be placed on the principal product must correspond to thar onthe raw material. It would be abaurd to set a hogh duty on sheep aod a low duty on mutton and wool if the sheep ralser ls te be given the home market. But preciaey tha: has been done with some commodities, The situation, may be ilastrated with four materials—wheat, foseed, wool and vegetable oils. In the omergeney tari bill the duty on wheat was fre at 95 cents a bushel, and on flour 20 per cent ad valscem, In Janwary of this year the price of atardard patent flour in Canada was seven dollars a barrel, Sie bushels of wheat were required to make such a barrel of flour. Lf the = huzthels of wheat hac been imported the diaty Would have been 200 cents. At the ad valorem rate on flour the duty was 140 cents. Eariy in April the price of the same four in Canada had risen to eight dollars a barrel, This made the Hour duty 160 sents a5 against 210 cents for the wheat If the tarif were compenastory the duty on the flo should be at least 710 cente a barrel, the same ax th duty on the whewt required to make the barrel of four, In the emergency toni bill the duty on Aameed was fixed at 30 cents o beeskel, and on linseed off at 10 cents a gallon, A bushel of flaxseed is oquivalent to two gallons of linseed oil, This makes the duty on the seed GA) per pear higher than on the oil, In the emergency tariff bill the duty on clothing woos Was sel at 30 cents a pound, equal te 60 cents a pool aouurel. This i equivalent te nearky $0 cents a pon! wool in the cloth, The duty on wool in the fabric was x atdi cents o pound, half the figure on weol in the rae state, The resulta in the cues have been, naturally, to repre the importations of wheat, flaxseed and wool, and stim late the importation of wheat flour, linseed oil and wool cloth. Ench unit of finished goods imported seize a much of the home market of the farmer aa though the corresponding volume of raw material irad been imported and passed through manufacture here, The lower duty the finighed manufactured goods therefore defeats in pari the object of the duty on the raw material, the protestic Indirect protection afforded by duty o finishe:l goods how the same meaning for the farmer & duty directly on raw material, The duties should be the same for corresponding quantities of raw materials an finished gooda—that ia, compensating. Th the ease of vegetable olla a different procedure was followed In the emergency tariff bi. Dowtier were leviel on collared, peututs and sat beans, also on tle x phtsened ous. Mo cuties were Placed on copra and pats kernels, buat were levied on the expressed) olla. The dite on the expressed oils are fairly compensatery te those 0 the seeds and nuts. Why the correct procedure == followed with the common vegetable oils and mot wits linseed of] is not stated. It ia to the interest of the farmer bo export his product in the manufactured siute whenerer pesible, Wheneve ugrirultural products are imported they shraubkd be in tor raw state if possible, Manufacturing operations give ex- ployment to labor and cupital. The larger the volume o manufacture the greater the efficiency. Eweh milli barrels of flour irmported makes the grinding of dames”: wheat more expensive. Whewt ground in this eunty leaves the mill feed here, We require in this country 4 large Volurne of Linseed oil in excess of our production & flaxseed; we must import seed or oil, [f we import se and grind here the menl ise contribution to the eountry: © equals on importation of fertilizer, In no way ie t> farmer preferentiolly benefited by the importatien competing agricultural products ip the finished state rth than raw; quite the eontrary. Whatever may be the merit of protection ta the fame. this to be attained only by direet duties on raw mate andl equitably compensating duties on goods manufact from those raw materials, Tarif legislation must. bee sistent if eatoblished trade and manufactyre sre mot ol disrupted. of the funmer. on

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THE ‘ED SATURDAY EVENING POST 25 A Consideration of Newspaper Composition and the Use of Words HE young man just starting in journaliam packed to wrlte in the aimplest words and jhe shortest sentences at his command. Hos told that the reader wants fucts rather than ¢leganen: of expreedon and that the plainest Innguage bs the best rewapaper style, By plain language is not meant the language of the did’: pumer, but rather the uae of good Saxon conerete sina and active verba in senteness not embellished with velo phrases. Nevertheless, when editors tell the young meporter to ust the plutoest language they mean, usaunolly, that they will be satiefiedd with it in his rowtine reporting, Hut they encourage alse the study of how to produce rich efecta by the war of familiar words, how to write mot only with pteadiness und strength but alao with thoae little ssielghments of incidental word and phrase that lift the week cut of the commanplace. And they wreeusingly unge the necewity of good weriting—for not anywhere is gone etiting appreciated more than in a newspaper offier, To write the aimple Longunge requires much study and practie—more, indeed, than to write the other kind. Itis mtural for people, children especially, to use simple words, wot the schooks and colleges have taught, until within afew pears, the writing of rather high-sounding prose. Text- mocks have reflected Deertor Johmacn's ornate paragraplss, INGRESStoway | CAMPAIGN REELECTION |! By CHESTER S. LORD Macaulay's: massive profundities, Washington Irving's beautifully rounded florid sentences, and Sir Walter Soott's superlatives, For years and yeara they were commended to students of literature for imitation. The effect of this teaching remains, We fied it dificult ta write with the sume simplicity with which we tolk, Old. School Standards HE editor gave fine advice to the cartoonist from who he wanted an artlele. Said the cartounist: “‘He just offered me one suggestion inasmuch as [ was nok a regular wriler—thiat U refrain from toying to write and simply tell in my own words as though 0 were telling tt to my wife,” That's it—refrain from trying to write if you wish to write in aimple language and simple style. Write aa vou talk if you are a good talker; hundreds of articles of advice have urged to that kind of eompoaltion. But almeast all tuk & without study, is commonplace, is net the expression of consecutive thought, is disjointed emtruction, Tt is notorious that dictated articles have loss finish than these penned, although they may have BUIMNMVEIS FEROS BALL PAOO more kick, Ewmercn saya, “The speech of the street is incomparably more forceful than the speech of the academy.” The newspaper editors of fifty years ago urged their staffs to a nicety of literary expression, Writers were yet under the influence of the Victorian Age of literature and the study of literature was popular, The proper use of words bad much wttention, and 20 did the econstructlon of senteners, Willium Cullen Bryant hod inspired the stall of the Evening Post of New York to excellence in the creation of English prose, Manton Marble, o fine writer himaell, insisted on gol writing in the World. The New York Tribune took pride in ite correct use of lionguage, Almest all publicationa had a printed index expurgaborius ora cutalogue of “don'ts.” Richard Grant White's book, Words and ‘Their Uses, was on nearly every editor's desk and wos the subject of much eriticism as well a9 praise, Mr. Dann bed no patience with slovenly writing. He knew his Greek and Latin and half a score of other lan- guages ao well that the derivation of an English word came to him almeat instantly, and he objected to ite frisuse. The plea that a word was in common use did nok appeal to him. He did not heed the dictionary definition. He knew the orlgin of the word as well ns did the maker of the dictionary. I have mentioned in a previous article that he objected to saying of a middle-aged man that he was in the prime af life, for the reason that "prime" is from the Latin word " prim ire,’ which means firat. A roam (Coathiued on Page 40)

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Fi] HEY'RE bump- ing—said the fat foreman — since this war come on, more than ever they werd, For tt's all over now— with the station agents and the clerks and all in wider the seniority Fules, But the worst I ever saw began when. them engineers started in on that Englishman. "Tis in the fall they hump them meosthy;— when they take off them Lem porary simmer- voration rune: and all the crews on them have to place themselves reg- ular again—eome al- ways bumping some body else owt of their job beeause of senior- ity. And it was so this time, And the time of year naturally mada it wore, All that hot seething weather they had that summer helped start the thing along, of course— aa you'd know yourself if you sat much in the ea, feeling your hide peel off your back and roll un with the hent like burning: shavings in m bonfire, Tt pets of your nerves, that's oll, os the lobster avid, when they asked about bolling bim—and always does, And toward the end of summertime they pet so—them engi- neera—that if you plek a hair off their coat collar they'll reach over and amash you. But mostly, each knowing how the other one feels, they sit etill and simmer and boil softly inside until something suddenly starts up the botling—and they blow! And this time it was this Fng- lishman I wos telling you of, this Halpin, his hand waa— Oliver Cromwell Halpin—that done ft. Tt seems they none of therm liked him overmuch, he taking everything up and down—in the English perpendic- ilar style, aa a feller gaya to me once—whatever that means! Alwaye a Kind of stiff and sorehead. And this particular summer finally they all got to jawing with him about who it was won the war—England or this country, "Bulldog grit—the old English bulldog grit!” he says, starting taking all the credit, “That's what turned the trick,” "You heard what our fellows were telling them over there," save Tom Nogent—who wae the josher and prac- tical joker around the lobby alwaye—"“what that A. E. F. meant?" “What's that?” saya old Oliver Cramyvell Halpin. " After England failed," be saya, giving him thet old one, But it made bim os mod os if ft was brand nee, "Wo'd show you,” he saya, “Lf we ever got at you once, Lat the English and the Yankees get at it onee, we'd show faa And that made him friends, of course, all over. For he was like all the English—not a0 much to start the talking, but never seeing a signal set against them when they're once under way. And naturally, with this line of conversa= tion, be got more and more popular in the lobby—espe- cially that weather, And then this Nugent—who started it, you might say— run across another engineer, an old boy that had been ona Summer FUR UP in the mountaina for hia health, and waa coming back to place himaelf in the regular runs again, aeconding to his seniority. “Will you do something for me?” says Nugent to him, the idea striking him all of 2 sudden. “What?” “Tf it wis fined right, would you bump (1d Irensides,” he saya—" the Duke of London—up to the other end of the line? You're longer in the service than be is,"" be saya, "“T dunno," says the old feller—half smiling and half serious—for thia Englishman was held in the same high estimation now by one and all, Hut finglly he done it; and the idea was popular, “Te'll get him and his English bulldog grit out from our conversatlan for a while," they saya. And sure enough the run he had to chocee te get the next-heat cholee had ita end at the other end of the divislon, But somebody must have told him just how it come, for he didn’t blame the one that done it—he went right back of him and held Nugent responsible for putting him up to it, “Huroped!" he says, “I've been bumped! I've been pushed out of my "couse and ‘ome. They wouldn't be THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BUMPED rFLEVgSrT eR aT Ee © allawed to do this in England. An Englihman's "ouee is his carethe." / And they all laughed—one starting, and the rest following—for they equldn't help it. “Lart,”' he save. “arf. FU larfyou. Fil show you something about bumping, maybe, you don't know! Dll ahow vou," he says, walking up and standing in front of Nugent, “how an Englishman bumpa! You wilt,” he Saye, “T travel light. Gin ky ma and my daughter," For his wife was dead, “I ean go, But wale tll there's some of you who pull up with your five and six children, and go marching." “7 fews the Grosdest ond Mort Raclthlag Girl ef the Doace Last Mighe" And then he went off to the other end of the line; took hia furniture and hia daughter and everything. And moat everybody thought no more about it—exeept they aaw he never noticed any of them, Passing ther on the road. But after that there was a kind of a funny thing hap- pened: the old devil went and bid ina new ran that every- body knew was just temporary, and paying way under what he was pulling down already, “What's the ideat" they was asking one another, “T'll tell you what's the idea—if you want to know," saya littl Jockey Kernochen, who always had the news on him. “He's petting ready te come back." id WhereT'" “Om the retarn bump, when this summer ran is over: and he has the right to.” And sure encugh the minute that temporary run was dona—and he was out of one—beek he come and bumped Nugent out of his. He snid nething—just bumped him. Tt was a great surprise to Nugent, for belng oo much younger In the services and ao much farther down the line—neboedy'd ever have dreamt he'd burp him. And if it was a jolt to Nugent, that was nothing to whatit was ta his wife, for they had been fixed comfortable where they was, and now they had the choice either of moving aut of town to the other end of the line, like the Englishman hod dane, or staying there and taking up with » poor and dis- commoding rin with less money, But finally they chose to stay, for one renson bernie where they were, at that end of the line, their boy Tammy— who they was trying to put through medleal school and make a dector—could be boarding with them. Hut Nu- gent’s wile was near crazy. It ain't the easiest thing, nor the beet for your temper, being the wife of a joaher and practical joker for twenty-five years, and this thing of having Nugent bumped into a night run with lesa money didn't make her temper any smoother, a F Mey 20, 912 By GEORGE KIBBE TURNER 4RETHAUE 5. FULLER Tt didn't improve it much neither when her boy, Tommy, cone in-and told her one morning what he did. "Gee, ma," he says, “I seen the grandest and mot ravishing girl at the danee Inst might, A wonder—yoy never seen such o dream! “What was her nome?" she says to him, “Halpin,” "Halpin!" she says, name?" “Maude,” he saya, “Don't you never see her again t" she says to him, blas ing. “Let alone speaking to ber!" “She's the daughter of that man that bumped jcur father,” she says to him, “Ob, ma," be says ino sad, disappointed voice, “she can't be. He's up at the other end of the division, living now." “They've moved bark now, haven't they," shesays, “naburally? Now that he's took your father’s rant” And after a while he sav she must he right, She con- vineed lim. “T wouldn't have believed it,” he Says. “She wae a young and quiet and isn cent looking.” "There's something wrong with ber, you can count on thet,“ she says, “with a father that dell berated y done whet he done to u— bump ua, for be pews at all!" For No. gent, her husband, hada't never told ber how he'd started it all with his advice, fooling. “He's th worst enemy your father's got," ahe says. “We know that. He's thinking and considering all the time how to damage him." But just that minute, when she was aaying this, od Oliver Cromwell's mind wes starting getting off her hee band and onto bigger things—higger game, you might say. For bumping naturally don"t affect just one mon of one family on a railroad—each one bumped out of his job having the right te bump somebody lower'n him. in time af servien; and before this little firat move of the Englishman for his rights was done, eleven engineers and eleven fami- lie lind been bumped out of their rina, and aome of then had had te leave town entirely. And so their bumper ve noe more popular than he ever was—much less sol And they were making all kinds of cracks at him. He said nothing back much, but it gave him somethicg to think about on his runt—a new zest in life, as the adver- tising feller says about the breakfast food. And any man eould sec there was something on his mind, He went muttering and speaking to no one. And just as soon 2 them temporary summer-vacation runs etarted wp in the Thaintains at the other end of the ine, and he started loose again and bid in one of them, there was quite a lot of suspicion—though naturally they couldn't foresee just how Touch was coming. “What! Move again, pop?" says hla daughter. She was quite a girl now, well grown up and handsome. “De what your ald pop says,” he told her. “He knows.” So olf they moves to the other end of the division, in the suMMer-resork country; and nobody thought much about them any more till in the fill when the summer seo ended—all at onee the blow fell, and he fuushed back ite the regular line again. Then all together they started raving and roaring: “Bumped! Bumped! He's come back again!” You'd think he'd sat and planned all summer with terrible and diabolical cunning ta get ewery man in the service that had ever laughed at him. Though of course % wasn't so—they got it as it come to them, each bumping the other down; for now, belng one of the oldest men @ the line, Old Dronsides had jumped back up almost to th top af the list when the end of the summer left him feet chocee —and they all went bumping down under him. There was some twenty-seven men and farnilins he got thir time; and thirtern had either to pull up and change the end of the line they lived on or split their family life allt atnithercens with their new rans, ““What'll we do?" they was all saying to one anoiher. "What" we do te him?" And the loeal chairman of the brotherhood went mee talked to him. i “We'll try reasoning with him first," he says, “and = what that'll do.” fContinged on Poge 28) “What Halpin? What's ber fist

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 27 MADE BY THE MAKERS OF CAMPBELLS SOUPS i i ia ar, COE ANSES on 2 1 yt Mey ee a oa Ais ; : ; j 4 » @ a ‘ eT, mae - , eT if a. oe Serra. oem te: Set Vine - p a ee oS Z ¥ een | rt ne oY ie a 4) ar mi ‘ hi: 4 aps a) Pe Tomato sau = FPReLL COA AMY of + Fal i“ Every grocer in America should be prepared for the big demand for Campbell’s Beans next week—the first big outing of the season. People will buy Beans for picnics, boating trips, motor trips, camping, house-parties and the family table. Campbell’s Beans are famous not only for . their delicious quality, but because they are slow-cooked and easily digested. Their rich tomato sauce is another reason for their enormous popularity. Advertise Campbell’s Beans! Display them in your windows and on your counters! Your customers will be glad to learn the special advantages of buying by the case—to have them on hand whenever wanted. 12 cents a can Except in Rocky Mountain States and in Canada LOOK FoR ie H2O2AN Ors LAs LS co a

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(Continued from Poge 2¢) But tt didnt do nothing. “ Did you stand there larfing," he says to the local chair- man, “with the rest of them—when that pig-nosed Nugent eked me out of my good home—or didn't you?" “T don't think [ did, no,” says the local chairman, know- ing full well he hod. “Ef didn’t mean to, anyhow.” "The bulldog breed," be suys, staring ot him, "The bulldog breed. An Englishman's “one is his corstle,” he anya, “and they don't push and bump him out of it for nething,” he aye, “nor larf when they're seeing it done." “Well,” saya the local chairman, “you've had your turn and bumped," he says, “Now let bygones be bey- gonea.” “Not tll one and all apologeyze to mo,” says the Eng lixhman, “Nugent first, in pureon, and then the re mainder—In writing—for what they done ta me—like ruffiana." And the local ‘chairman seen at onee how Ukely that would be. “Tf you won't do it for nothing elae," he saya, still going on reasoning with him—trying to—"do it for the union, ‘You know how sore the other side—the man- agement—is on this seniority rule always, and this will only make mone trogble—for all of us." “Tt'e my right under the rules," says the Englishman, “when a new run is put on, to go and bid it in, ain't it, if I've got the seniority?" "Tt is," he says. “And if it's a temporary run,” he says, “and [ find myself out of a job when it's over, then [ve got o right to burnp back inte the line, where my seniority entitles me to, ain't IT" “You have," saye be. “Then what're you hollering about?" hesaya. “'Them'a my rights and I know them. And I'll keap using them, round and round, till I see fit to stop.” “Suppose the union took action agninst you?" soya the local chairman, getting warmed up, “Let them," he says, “Lf they con! [ know my rights, And DT stand on them when it comes time. For an English- man knows his righta and holds to them—the bulldog breed. And I'm of the bulidog breed, I am,” he says. “LT know my rights. But I always keep inside them too, You never yet found anything against me os a member of the unlon, and you won't,” he saya THE SATURDAY EVENING POST And the local chairman could not deny it, for he knew ‘Prva aan. “Then you'll not atop?" he gaye. “You heard my terma,” he anawera. “They can take them or lump them. But I'll aay thia to you open: Tf they don't take them and apalogoayze I'll keep right on my rights, bumping. And the next time it will be terrible.” They got in a bad row then, and the loewl choirman left him, seelng now just how much good measoning done. He'd got to try something else than reasoning with him, he saw that plain. “There's one thing, anyway," says the boys to him when he come back, “he can't turn himself loose again probably —not till meat fall," “You can’t never tell,’ says the chairman. “There might be some temporary run come up agaln, and he'd go aff and grab lt, and then come back and pounce dawn on uw. In my opinion,” he says, “he's thinking nothing élae but ways of bumping—day and night. We've got to pet sonbe way to get at him aa soon aa we can—belore this goes much further—and some of the boys may do harm!" For they were crazy now, of course, all along the line. But if the men were hot the women were sizzling—and none wore Chan the wife of Nugent, whostarted the thing, you might suy. For this line, toward the bottam af the list, anyhow, and all the une apoken for, when chp arte bumped he waa bumped to the other end of the division—to get anything good whatever. And they left their boy boarding in town so as to keep near the city and his medical school, “But whatever you do," says his mother, leaving him, “don't you never pay no attention to that daughter of that old bulldog Englishman. For she had a snenking underground guaplelon that he wae atill aeelag her some, “TE you do," she says, “and your father hears it, ‘twill be all day with you.” "What could he do?" he says, for he had a mind of his own, “He'd marder you first,” she says, “and then he'd take you out from your medical studies, If you cross him this way you'll be ne docber, for he'll draw off the money al- together, and you know what that'll mean te you—and to me!" she anya. For she'd eet her heart on having him a doetor—with hia gold sign on hia own door and the thin- soled shots on his feet in place of the bragans, May 20, 937 Soshe warned him and went away to the other end af sh. run—sore and seared and suspicious of her own gon Par let alone her own feclings, and the chance of his louie bin doctoring, she saw—even if he got it—what it woud mess to a young doctor, coming up and getting mixed gp ws) the daughter of a man like that—a social olatesst, a lecer you might say, with every man’s hand against bin, threatening him; and him going along with bis head dies threatening back, what he'd do to them the next tine! And about now the superintendent of the diviiion se for the local chairman of the brotherhood again on cu thing, for they'd talked it over between them more this once hefare, What have you done,” he says, “about this matter of the Englishman?" “'Mathing,”” says the local chairman, “T tried remssnisy with him, and I tried threatening hlim—with what they‘ do to him in the union. But it made oo more impress on him than a horgefly on the akin of a locomotive,” "| done the same," says the superintendent, “Leas as reasoning won't do no good." “No,” says the other man, sad and ugly. “No.” “What does he say te yout saya the superinuende: “Nothing. He just atands on his rights—like the bul dog breed."" “With hia head down below his knees, waiting.” “For another blind charge againet us," says the jon chairman. “He has no care for the union por pybli opinion. He enjoys fighting them,” he says, “Hke thy bulldog breed always does, And the worst ol it is, you’ never get him. He abeajs fulfills the males of the brotha howd exactly,"" “The same with me," soya the superintendent “He the beet engineer we've got on the Line so far 2s obey the rules goes—to the letter T. Everything i righ.” | says, “down to the way he combe his hair on Sundy You might know that. For he's an Englishman—e these fussy ones—on every little thing. The kind that x the Battle of Waterloo with their shoes all shined by rele and stil’ new white collars on every dead man,” “What 'll we do?" says the unlon ¢halrman. “We've got to do aomething,”” saya the auperintendes “that’s plain and gure. It's bad enough to run a mila with this seniority plan at best—eapecially now it's got in (Continued on Poge 30) “ho Fou Looe Me Greaety, Tammy t "lAtntt f turt Been Offering to Gioe Up My Life for Fou?" te foyer

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Sa unalloyed joy in motoring 1s reserved for the woman who drives a Cadillac. With every mile of its ewift, easy flight the conviction grows that hers is the unique and utterly enviable automobile experience. Where else could she secure the strong, silken power, the comfort, the distin- guished and arresting beauty, that so charm her in her Cadillac? Where duplicate its dependability, which makes continuous, extended enjoyment of motoring pleasures so definite and so serenely certain? Could any automobile be more respon- sive, more refreshingly easy to control and to drive? Is there any equal anywhere for the - flawless performance, on the shopping trip or the vacation tour, that she knows is hers in the Cadillac? Every woman who-has had even so much as a single ride in the Type 61 Cadillac is unalterably convinced that it is the great motor car of the world. And when she becomes an owner, her delight in the Cadillac is quickened by the knowledge that all of her associates concur in acceptance of its leadership. CADILLAG MOTOR CAR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN Dictsion af General Moeflarr Corporation Standard of the World L A 2

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(Continard from Boge 2! all departments. It's like trying to play a quiet, sensible game of cheaa,"" he says, “with live jack rabbits for ches- men,” he says, “at best—running a railroad the way we have it now—with all your chesamen self-movers, But in all my experience yet, I never had the thing go all loose and erazy on ee before,” “What I fear,” snye the local chairman, “if this goers om, and he starts out again—what 0 fear is murder-or some hig accident. Tet's all over the serviee—half the engineers and brokemen and conductors on the divieion are planning now to get bir in wrong and get him fired onaler the roles. By and by," be says, “what Des afraid of —they'll give him same phony signal or something, and one of his train will hang its end out back of a switch or he'll run over a signal that's been turned wrong for him or soreething, and we'll have murder and sudden death of large numbers, in some great catastrophe,” he says, “For you've no iden how hot the feeling runs to-day ageinst him, Amd if he stnrted blawing if higher by one more bump," be says, “God help al" ; “You're right. You're tight,” saya the superintendent, melding. “I have the sume fear always in the rear of my jiead. It's terrible.” "Tt ds," says the local chairman. “But look,” gaye the superintendent. “Let's go over tt again. You've had him in," he says, “and I'yo had him in, and tried reasoning with him, And that was no good,” "ha "And threatening him." "And that wos wore." “Yer,” says the superintendent. “So far as I can see, we've got to try aonvething else; and that's what I called you in for today.” “What eleeT" “Kindness,” says the superintendent, “We've got bo try kindness.” “What—on him?" says the floral chatoman, “I'd rather kill him!" “Toweuld masell, personally; expecially nights," he saya, “wher I pet to thinking how he's tore up this division. But aa long as we can't do that we'll have te do the next best thing, and try Kindnegs,"" “Rindness!" save the chairman, “How—what way?" “T'm poing to boost him." “Boost him?" he saya. "Yes—kick him up the staira—out of the engineers for good. I°m going to raise him to be an offielal go he'll be out wf the engineers for good ane all." “That seme kind of funny, when vou look at it," says the local chairman. “You'd think it was a reward of violence and villainy.” “That's railroading today, all over,” saya the super- intendent, “They look to vou for results, and you've gat to get them—no matter how, And if a man pots cantons kerous and blerks WL, ou" wok be mene him semecheyw out of your way onder the miles—down Mf you eon, but then if net, up. And thet ain't the only toe this thing has had to be dene in order to get a railroad running again neither, You know that.” “How'll the other boye take it?" saya the local chair- MATL, © They'll like it better than having him around with them all the time in the lobby—threatening them with another hump, They'll ul] like ft better if he's caer settled und sutishedl,"* “Bot what about having him over them?" “He won't be over them in any way, ahape or form,”"" le eaye. “Tl see to that.” So the superintendent sent out for the Englishman amd brought him in. “What do you say to being an official of the road? What do you say to going on up?” be says, and named thn Place, You'd pet 10 per cent mare than you get now, with Ub per cent euler work.” And then he waited, watehing him te see what he'd say. And for a while the old bulldog look atill atayed in his face, and hie jaw muselea were set, and he could almost pee the word “neo” in hia mouth, Then all at once some thing seemed to come over him—a sudden change—and he anawered back he'd take it, "Crone ** BAYS the superintendent, “Good, Om gin you see ft that way,” ond shoal honda and jet him go. Ane yet he dida't lke that sudden look that came on his face either: le had a fear of it—for, of course, under the rules anyone being promoted to ist an official has the right left any time to come back again, when he wanta to, ti the jab he has gone from. But the Englishman says nething, and gora tramping home te his daughter, 1p we gee again! “What's this?’ she saye with her lips parted, for she wis a big, soft, nlerm-spoken girl, that spent ber Gime wait- ing an him and looking seared to death of him, the way thu Englishmen's wives and daughters moathy do, “We're going te move again,” he says, “Rove again?” whe save, a sharp tone, like he'd never beard before, coming in her voice, “What, another THE SATURDAY EVENING POST bump!" she gaye, her bright-colored cheeks getting brighter and her big blue eyvea bluer and wider yet, “Wot yet,” he save. "Not yee,” ‘ "But, father ———" she says, secing there was more trouble coming probably, “Hut, father'—whet?™ he says, laud, “Yow ain't going to get into another how-de-do— bump- ing everybody again,” che says, meme crying. “Why not?’ he says, “We'll show them. Bulldog grit—old English bulldog grit," he aaye. “We'll show them English bumping. For their bumping ain't over yet—by no means. I can tell you that." "But, father ——"™ she says, “Don't but-father me," he says. “Go and do as you're bid." y Bo she did finally, crying; and they started oner more moving aut af town, “We've got to do ft," she saya bo young Nugent, for she was meeting him now, just as hla mother had svspleloned, nights in the park, For it waa there if anywhere—and in the dark too—they both fearing it would pet back to their folks. For the wars af the families of that Romeo and Juliet you hear about in the theater waa nothing beside the fooling of these teo main families in this bumping now, And every hend was cut against the girl with her father—though she wos a grand, fine, handsome girl, soft and most appealing look- ing. with these big, rownd blue eveu—and especially to young Nugent—and even more so now ashe was down and aut, and hated. “Let's end it all," he says to her, “Let's elape. Il get me a job somewhere on some Western railroad,” “What—and end all your dectoring, for all time?" sha eave. “On secmunt of mel” "dund well ploased to," be saya, Hut she wouldn't have [t. “Something will came," she soya. “Something will come forus. Dknew it. Maybe now, with his new poaltion, I can get peaple to forgive hina his previous bumping." And then she broke down, for the feeling against them waa terrible, and she knew it. And ao she went and left the boy, and he stayed there with his sthodying—and couldn't even ran up and gee her for fear of her father learning of it probably, And the enc of the world come close nt bond foe the time being te both of them. But only for two months or so, after all. For bang, in the epring. down the old man came again and bumped the line once more, He went to the euperintendent and eaye he'd have to have his old run back again. And, of course, Under the rules he must have it when he asked for it. And if the previous bumpa up to this time had been terrible, this one was past believing. Either thirty-seven or thirty-right—I disremember whieh—were bumped naw; nnd many af them were pushed onee mare out af the town: and feeling ran high and harsh and terrible. The men threatened violence and eudden death to the father in the lobby, and the children apit toward him on the aidewalke, and the young girls elevated up their noses and their best new hats when they met the daughter on the street. Tf they were on the edge of mankind before, they were pushed over it inte the depths of social os trichism-——as the Sunclay paper sys. And the hate between the two families of the girl and bay grew mere terrible than the pestilence, For once again the Nugent family had pulled up and come bark to town on this hump. And now the mother of the boy—watching those things aa wonven do—more than suspicioned now what Was going on undernenth between her son and that girl. “You know what your father’ll say when be hears it," she saya, going finally to hin in secret, "Let him say" “He'll stop the money for the doctoring,” she saye. “Then no doctor will I be," he saya. “For I'll never lowe her. Tl puarry ler at leet, in epite of all—doctor of ne doctor!" And that atruck her terrible, for she had set her heart on aeeing him a doctor, with his litth: black bog in hia hand and his black shiny shoes on his feet—-all genteel, And she went ond thought itover and talked je with this local chairman of the brotherhoad, to learn what woe going to happen, for she Knew him well, of course, und she'd leurd be was still all the time trying to stop that thing—for it was terrible all over, the feeling and all She come to him, 80 it seema, just after he'd been talking again to the superintendent of the division—and both were in despair. “We can't fire him from the railroad,’ suys the super- intendent, “for we have no ease at all aginst him. He keeps strict within the miles and in his rights, for he knows them.” “Like a lvever,”' sagt the local chairruan, “And io we framed him up and fired him," saya the euperintendent, “he'd go way up over our heads, to the top, under the rulee—and get us overruled.” "Tis the same in the union,” the leeal chairman says, "By heaven,” says the superintendent, “ what'll we do? If anmething don't happen soon te pacify him he'll bump the railroad off the map.” May 20, 1977 "Tome and family life is all destroyed," saya the lo-y chairman, still sadder than him. “All wp and dines +h. division, ‘There ain't any. “Tis wll you can do to prevers the women raging up and dbefigurling bien with ther ct: “We'll have ta de something aaon,"” sage the guser.- tendent. “We will," eave the local chairman. Tt waa just after that that the brotherheod chair Tan across this Mra. Nugent and ahe was saking about i and he was telling her. “We're in despair.” he aye, “We don't keow where | tum. And [wish to God your husband had never state him mut upon this thing.” “| wish that mere than anyone,” she saya, for by th time she had learned of how it wos—her som ond ote havita told her, “He ought never te dene it," he saya “He phous never have rowed him—and the bulldog bread. ‘Tis che worst of all when it's started,” he saya, “for @ mu atraight ahead, in a line, to the end of the world,” be san “And neither it nor anyboiy else knows whore it's headed for until it hapa off in some terrible and destructive cata trophie,”' "You're right,"" anys shee, 2 kre Gt." “We've tried threatening,” he says, “and it's no gel, And we've tried reasoning, and that's useless, And we've tried Kindness—and that's worst and most comtemprille ofall. So what'll we try next—we dunna.” And suddenly he thought he saw something strike he “Have vou tried love?” she save then, “Lave?” he saya, shouting, "pa." “What—with him?" he says. eornened crocodile!" “No—with someone elas," she sage, speaking at; te herself “Roun off," whe saya te him then —"“ pun off x! let me eee what Deando. But don't ask ne questions —ia aay nothing till you hear from me.” And he done so, wondering. * Tommy,” she gays, again calling ber boy te her, seer “vaou'ye acted terrible te your mather—and you're bres: ing her henrt hour by hour," she says. “Let alome yoo deseiving of her ancl your poor father, But let that go she gays. “That's dene, Amd I'm bere to tell you sine thing that might help you In sour folly—with this ey pink English girl—the daughter of that four-peoor devil," "Have it aut, mother,” he eave. “What is it?" "Te's all around,” ashe saya, “that he's just bring tus! again, pething ready te bump ws yet again when the su mer comes and the fall comes, with the change af runs the end of the vyueution time." “T heard it,” he aaye. Yeo.” ale dave. “dud it eonves there will be marc no doubt. But if it should net come—why, then the oo who was known to have stopped tt would be a hero jus like the vietor over” mad, crazy bull," "T get the iden,” he says, “E think,’ “Now, then," she says, “the way you're going on,” sh says, “cantrary to all the best ideas of your perest there'll be no doctoring for you the minute your fache heare of it." “Never oiind hin,” be aaya ugly. “He started it allt the firat place.” "So," she says, going on, disregarding him, “thee only one way you can square it and have the girl and te doctor ani keep your mother's heart from breaking a agulling all ber lifeblood all theese years for you for nothing “What is it?" he says, short ancl wnxious. “Hare | aut—for Goel's sake] “Tf ahe ean fix her father some wast." ale eave, “4 he'll stop this terrible thing—this bumping.” she a" “all might yet be well after all, for all of we." "How could she?" he says to her, "That To don't know," she saya. “Only tha—il 4 loves you truly she'll find a way somehow," she says,” 1 she's Ho women worth the name.” “T don't see," he says, “how anyteedy could fix ir jet alone a delicate, timid, refined girl. Fower af them ce Mallet. engines couldn't budge him when he's omer stopp atill,”’ Tut, nevertheless, he went out and told the girl # hia mother said the next time be met ber im the park. "Tt's aeless,"" be says, “TD know. Hot © had to tell yo So let's run eff tegether and elape—let's end in PP py up the doctoring, and we'll go West, and L'il get aa firing.” “Give it up—just when you're right in aight of get it?’ she gaye. “Nol Never!" "We've got to," he save. "And you no doctor! Never!" sho save. not," * Whut, then?" he ALyS, nnd waited a minute, wh 628 giood silent, “Te you lowe me greatly," she says, Tommy?” “Don't you knew I dot" he says, flushing op. “Ai T just been offering to give up my fife fer ya?" (Continued on Poge 24) “That bestial che “No Lt

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST al Chalmers Fine Performance Proves Its Higher Value In performance, the New Series Chalmers 51x is simply wonderful. That is made perfectly plain in the reports dear in every day, from owners and from dealers all over the country. We knew thatChalmers engineers—work- ing on the basic six-cylinder soundness Ww ‘hich’ ‘the Chalmers has always embodied —had made the six*mean more than ever before, Now we are receiving from many points enthusiastic confirmation of all we felt had been achieved by a solid year's re- fhnement. “On high gear I have climbed hills where I have ay rays had to shift with other cars I’ve driven,” says one man, Another writes, “*IT couldn’t help but notice the extreme quietness of the motor, timing gears, valves and differential’*— thus putting his finger right on real evi- dence of fine construction. **To pull down to two miles an hour in high, and then pick up to 30) miles an hour within a city block, without bucking or spitting—that's wit at I call Aexibility,”’ says a third. “One of the most satisfactory tests is the way she chek lug a hill at eight miles an hour on high,” another says. ‘‘No matter how hard Tz make 1 it pull, the motor will not overheat. “’ Size and beauty, equipment and finish, areéalwaysindications ofvalue, ltisconserv- ative to say that the Chalmers Six leaves nothing to be wished for in those features. But the way a car performs tells how it is engineered and how it is built. On that—which is the final proof of value —the warmth of the letters we are receiv- ing is conclusive. All Models Equipped coith Disc Steel Wheels ond Cord Tires Chalmers Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan Chalmers Motor Company of Canada, Limited, Windsor, Ontario ld ~ ” S, CHALMERS SIX ny

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a2 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 20, 1922 EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS Cost-Reducing Ideas PROPER syatem of cost accounting is the A basis of business auccess, Though no system af calculating coats can of itsell make profits, if can show definite ways to offect savings, and amvings really ore only profita wearing a different clank. No survey in any plant or office can be more than « haphozord examination unless it is carried on in accordance with the indications shown ina carefully prepared cost-aecounting report. A well-formulated cost system not only calla attention to ob- solete equipment that is being used at an excessive cost, but it points out individuals and departments that are below the required standard of efficiency. The right kind of cost report will show what is happening now, while a alipahod report only ahows what has happened in the past, and in this latter ease there le no chance for immediate carrection, Hundreds of companies distribute rent according to the direct wages of the men emploved in ome office or depart- ment of a company, while in correct cost acecunting the rent should be distributed according to the space actually occupied by each worker. One employe may recelve five dollara a day, and still take up twice as much apace ae an executive who gets Gve times as much. Each and every charge should be made against the product benefited, and where more than one item or product is benefited the charge must be divided and distributed in proportion ta the betterment conferred. The methods employed in the main offices of a company ore invariably a reliable reflection of the kind of manage- ment in charge. In the concern bere referred to many of the practices were unique, to say the least, and it seemed that very few bets had been overlaoked. One day the manager walked inte the stenographle department, and after looking the ground over decided to inetall a new system. A week or two later all the typewriting mo- chines were equipped with a measuring and recording de- vier which gives the linage record of each operntor, Fore couple of weeks these records were studied and an average figure was found to represent the daily work of each typist. Pith thease date in hand, the management was able to plan a new system of payment for the typists. In the scheme proposed and mow in operation the ty plata are paid. ont what is known os a point syutem. Five average lines are considered as the equivalent of two hundred and forty spaces, or ane point, The wage baala of this ayeatem ia 1M) paints at $1.70. Eaeh operator is guaranteed her lormer wages, but if her linage record per week exceeds the stand- ard the girl is pald a bonus for her increased production, the additional payment being based on the prescribed rate of $1.70 for each 1 points turned aut. For example, fa typist produces 1000 lines of forty-eight spaces each per day she would earn a daily wage of $3.40. A number of the speedy operators regularly exceed this performance. More than 90 per cent of the typists employed now receive a weokly bonus, and the production of each girl has shown amaterial inereasesince thenew scheme went intooperation, Long ago the eampany found that much dissatisfaction wes cused through permitting dictators ta see letters that had just been typed and had not been checked for errors. Instances were found where bad fecling had grown up between dictators and typists because of the return of letters that contained seemingly inexcusable typographical errors, At first an effort was made to try to solve this problem through educating dictaters to talk distinetly when wing the dictating machines. In some cases the trouble resulted from not having the apeed of the machine for transtribing exactly the same as that of the machine whieh received the dictation. Im other cases the cylinders had not been properly shaved, while in still other instances ‘the correspondents talking into the machines held the mouthpieces too far from them. As a final remedy the company employed a correspondence supervisor, whose duty it is te proofread all copy turned out by the typists and sec that oo letters get hock te the dictatars until they are perfect, In actual operation this scheme hos proved wholly satis- factory. The first carbon of each letter typed ia made ono yellowish tliaue paper which ia marked 'Correepondence supervisor.” All corrections are inserted on this sheet, which, with the original letter and all the other carbona, ia returned to the operator for correction. The unique plan followed in this scheme is the use of numbers as sub- stitutes for corrections. About thirty common errors are printed at the head of the yellow tissue, ond each one is numbered, After using this method for a short time the typist becomes thoroughly familiar with the meaning of each number, and the errors are corrected with a minimum of delay. Not only docs the company take care to prevent mis- understandings brought about by letter writing within By Floyd W. Parsons the limits of ite own personnel, but it exercises even greater cauthon lo seeing that letters written by employes do not create wrong impressions or foster ill will among those with whom the company does buginess. <All the concern's employes understand that each letter sent out ia actually a sales letter and that business can be de strayed more rapidly through the improper wording of communications than it can be built up through extensive and expensive advertising. It was for thia reason that the management adopted the policy of turning over the cor- reapondence of dissatisfied customers to one of several letter writers whose business it is to patch up diflerenoes through the exercise of tact and courtesy, Exporiones had shown that it was dangerous to permit the employe who had first dictated the letters that eaused the trouble to continue corresponding with the disgruntled customer. It ia only human for a person to make exeuses and try to cloak mistakes, Nothing ia more effective in handling trouble of this kind than to admit the company's fault, unless the customers complaint ia wholly without any basis in fact. : Oner a weak the general manager presides nt a meeting of department heads that is far from Incking in animation. Sugeestions that are both practical and interesting are here discumed freely and openly by any and all of the em- ployes prevent, The company's present methods are erltlelzed wherever possible, and new ways ane propowed for dolng things. The majority of the concero’s new prac- tices originate In these weekly forums. The records of recent meetings showed many valuable discussions. Sonve of the points brought out are worth repeating. Try to imitate a cormepomdent’s letter-writing style. This is a form of flattery that neta reaulta, The average person's letter-rending tastea are generally the same as his writing tastes, Study ench letter before you reply, and try to note the writer's eccentricities, Make your reply fit the man's fndividuality. If he writes a brief letter stating only the fewest possible facta, answer teruely. Lf the eor- respondent goes inte lengthy details, give him a reply [no kind, for he will appreciate a letter that discusses all the minute phases af the matterin hand. Try not to wee multt ayllabled words to 8 fellow who writes in monoayllables, If the correapondent throws ina little slang he won't mind your doing the same, If he is opigrammatic pick out one of his clever sayings and repeat it in your reply, acknowl- edjing his authorship. He will be Gekled by your noticing his cleverness. Many compantes suffer lowes of thie and money in sending telegrama. Nearly everyone ineludes In such messages many words that might be left out. Dozens of simple rules for writing telegraphic messages are commonly overlooked, The wire companies allow one signature free. For instance, if o telegram is signed “The Smith Com- pany, Joboson,” the one word “Johnson™ is counted and urged for, On the other hand, if the signature is ro- yersed, “Johnsen, The Smith Company,” the telegraph eompany charges for the last three words. Many senders of telegrams overlook the saving that resulta from spelling out figures. For example, 1670 counts as four worda, while sixteen seventy counts aa two words and fs more likely ta be transmitted correctly. If one writes the “C., B. & Q. Railroad" the name of the line so written counts for fowr words, wheress one can write * Burlington,” which, of course, counts as only one word. The management is rather opposed to a policy of issuing froquent general orders, believing: that such a plan is inferior to & method that places a large responsibility on ewch worker, Such general orders as are eaved are printed on a apecial form of yellow paper, Departmental orders are printed on blue forms, while announcements and notices which are not considered to be orders are typed on pink forma. In every department of the company colors are used actually to signify something. For instance, red lips attached to letters mean “Give this immediate at- tention.” Not long age the general manager organized what is known as a fying squacdron, which consists of ten of the company's Task capable stenographers and clerks. These workers report directly to the office manager and are fot permanecotly connected with any particular de. partment, Each day they are assigned to some special work, according ta the needs af the moment. One interesting department of the company is that which ta devoted to research. The expert in charge of this bureau nat only kimeel! initiates eubjects for investiga- than, but conducta an analysla covering any promising problem that other employes suggest for examination. One report covered the waste of pins, clipe, pencila and rubber bands. As a result of thia report a general order wis issued that caused a saving of approiman; 36 per cent in the quantities consumed of the four articles mentioned. About a year ago a legal situs. tlon arose that made it neceasary for the company to order the copying of a number of old written recon The ink on these old records had eo faded that the writing was barely legible, The research department immelate started an examination that ended in the drawing up of specifications for all ink therenfter to be purehssed by tt. company. The investigation showed thet many of th inks at present on the market are likely to fade, The research department hes even been called in to be» decide the question as to bow long certain papers shod be retained in the files before they ore taleen out and stored away as dead matter, As a pesult of such a etudy freight Trectipis art kept in the active file far ten months, whi: similar specified lengths of time have been established for various other classes of matter. Tt wae the research de partment that worked out a plan for pest periods far wore. era in certain departments, with the result that there hu been a decided increase in the productivemess of the em. ploves affected. In addition to a 10 per cent increas in output, the reat periods have proved a decided benetit ta the health of the workers. Other innovations for which the research department j chiedly reeponsi ble were a aysbem to prevemt the raising of amounts on bunk checks; a scientific placing of de to increase efficieney through ellminating distraction: 1 bonus syetem for the rank and Me of office workers; | sick-leave-with-pay scheme for the lowliest workers; ani dental and medical dispensaries to serve every employe To prevent the raising of checks the company mow woe | code word of ten letters, the consecutive letters represect ing the figurea from 1 to 0. If a check is made out fo twenty-five dollars the second and fifth letters of the wor are placed on the back of the check. If the check i changed the froud is easily detected when tt come: bad from the bank by glancing at the letters on the reversé ade bonus syaterm in based net only on individual pm duction but on the employes’ accuracy. A certain sum | credited ta a werker if no error is made during the tin week of a month, while a larger bonus is credited for eac consecutive week during the same neonth if the employ record continues clear. This plan has reduced mistakes 1 leas than half of the average number that formerly occure In the acheme providing payment of wages to mo employes, the worker ts alowed one day sick leave wi full pay after he has been with the company ont mont! After teo months’ service he is allowed teo days, and 4 on up imntil he has been in the company's employ tar mg months, when, af course, he fs allowed eight days’ a leave. Alter eight months, and up until the end of the in year, the slek-leave allowance ia one and a half weex After the flrat year one week is added to the allowance fi each completed six months of service, After an empiq has been iJ and again returna to work he is credited wi whatever balance of leave remains due him. The syste hos materially reduced labor turnover and absentecist and because of its absolute fairness and impartiality 4 intrtmeed the spicitof good wall in the company's employe The dental dispensary has proved to be one of the be moves the company has ever made. The servier has ms than paid for iteelf in time saved through the prevestil of toothache alone. More than 90 per cent of all ¢ employes examined have needed dental attention. The company bas refused to follow the example of ma concerns which employ a young and inexperienced phy cian to provide medical attention for employes Ti management accepts the view that a cheap doctor waa be the mast expensive kind in the long run. The aimis only to eliminate unhealthful surroundings that mesa the health of workers, but to eerrect the ewils in all pre eed that retard production through causing fatigue al lack of concentration. The management makes every possible effort to @ courage thrift. on the port of ita workers. As o part of su a Plan it bas prepared a family budget book which it hb distributed to all employes who have shown any intert in the matter, A large percentage of the workers own sta in the company, Sach stock is sold to employes on a 4 eral part-payment plan. Interest at the rate of 6 perce is charged on deferred payments for stock, but in ne may the interest charged be greater than the divide eredited. Even in the face of alackened busines, ¢/ company haa not yet reduced wages. The president 513 “Wages went wp last and they must come down = fo reducing working forces the company follows the peli of always dropping the newest nen first. Tt believes (iat eoft handling of employes ig unwise, and tenda to aid morale; but it holda unswervingly to the idea that ec depends on contdence, and that confidence can exist cl where there are straight dealing and fair play,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Peerless almost immediately exhibits its superiorities to those who have never driven it before. 3 It reveals at once those fine shades of behavior which can only issue out of sound manufac- turing principles and scrupulous manufactur- You know that the Peerless is a great car be- cause it reveals its greatness as positively as a man of character reveals magnetic personality. It does with dash and spirit, with effortless ease and certainty, all of the things you value most in a motor car. Supreme motoring comfort, after all, has its chief source in the obedient ebb and flow of a wealth of power. The Peerless conveys that sense of power- abundance and power-control in every phase of its performance. Smoothness is a much abused word in motor- ing parlance—but Peerless smoothness is a real and a permanent thing which manifests itself at every speed and under every conceiv- able circumstance. Disparaging no other good car, it would be dificult for you indeed, to find a better in- vestment, or more solidly satisfying per- formance, than you secure in the Peerless. THEODORE BF. MacMARUS See Pourager Tourtag Car, 42700; Beer Pesuager Aandater, (2700) Poor Masenger Cowper, 0500) Faw Paaeeger fears, #9830; cecee Poseagee fedas, #7790, decree Pourwere Sedae-laeewier, BO, FOL 8. Givi The Peerless Motor Car Company has been acquired and is being operated by R. H. Collins and his associates PEERILES § ‘All that the name implies” MAY 1922

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34 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 20,1922 i: . ‘ af 2 Se” er see = Smale _ = = = — zc Se _ ae ae = = == _ =e = = 4 = eal . _ ae xe” we I | k Sil F woh i o : ; 3 = x xe = a kitchen attractive— aot ; so = ba of “That's a_frne new rug you've got there,” Sata the tceman. : ——— ay “Yer, John, and you have no idea how pleasant and he Ne ried cae Bie == wien af makes way Enteden,”" | size ahie yi “ele dH lv 216.20, USdasecaoshenk hee “a No worder she is enchusiastic. For the darkest kitchen is = at once made bright and cheerful when the floor is covered with a colorful, easy-tosclean Grefd-Sea! Congoleum Rug, A few moments with a damp mop whisks away every gneck of grime from the firm,-w aterprool surface. Your rug will lie perfeetly Aat withour fastening. And with all cheir artistic charm and labor-saving qualities, Crave = ead Congoleum Rugs are decidedly inexpensive, Note the Low Prices lic feec S$ x3 feee [10 Al fmays x 416 feet 1S Look for — x12 x6 feet 200 “a = fhe Gold deal Outig te freight petea, prices wat of Fhe Miata ond in Canada ore Arg der. [ts pasted on the fice of every genuine Galt ven! Row and on every two viridis of fotd Ae! Congoleum By-the Gold Seal ; Tard, ote the liberal money-back auarantee anal con's forget that this seal {printed in-ereen on a endl back grotil) identehes the pemutne Crea Sew! Congres . \ Refuse imitations, He sure en leak for the Gold) Seal, ONE O | Cosgonieisar Cospasy bv eee Mts Philadelphia few York Chica Hosnan San Francia Ry J G S Pvalias Minneapelis Atlanta Kansas Ciey Pitebonth Mancreal . | =" " F Ct 1 xf ct Be Dee patter slinateatecd ts made anle ain the hour large anes, The t lect Deb Gel feer G4,05 Srl] ries wore erakibe In cess Leh Eat Eb eT feet ‘oN to harmonize with ot. |

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST SENSE AND NONSENSE — And Repeat *Nikil dictom quod non dichkim prius’’— w the feller says, | rset wa gia, lobe hereof lhe ages— polit we noreliate, porla and aages; Gerke noe atripe on oir LpeETStE pales forcwhere or other to score! Net Jo be wondered al much if our alftifiode Touching the poe! dent ome of greal grattide! on, phrase we wrile ig a chen or plaii- Soactily acid a before, Moon, if moy be, aha, ride Leviticus, os 0 nae, if he won't a willy cuss, Junnal, Plauiua or Terence or Cato, Lac ot aa oF bed rele or Plata, cor Byron or Fielding or Pope Wey hese put out fhe original mape : fkile, Boeeaceia or Lantton or Lamh, (hiner ‘Goldaanith or Omar Kika Nal i be sponwilered ad if tee foal Sore: jomiedy anid i before! Comal o moment of rare ieptration; Snifly we werile ino gine of erention, Ending, at lant, with @ seme of elation; Thea—and if cule bo dhe care— fom chaser crdiie devoid of cieilit Cle wk oat perag ivith a fendeeh ability, Shoing, bo teach wea proper Aumlily, Sonubady's said tf before, Hehabiwk, Daniel, Hosea, Elijah, Dard, Ezekiel. Micah, Abijah, Vergil, perharpe, or Agrippa, Cornetiug, Cyrus or Orid or Marcus Auretina, Aegamin Frontlin or Bunyan or Brooke, fiihdin or Drekens or Cowper or Cook: Here we're been sucking La Rochefoucauld's droit Ha a ene or Rowsecw or ae Paine: Some rerhous persona of pore— Tomboy said G before. Deduction HAD been raining hard in Aberdeen- shire, The rowis were flooded when Jeems MeTosh drove in his dogeart to the vill where he traded. A friend, Davie MeNutt, hailed him from the sidewalk: “Hi, dooms! Are ye weel the day?" “No bad, Davie. Hoo's yoursel'?" Pail Bee middlin’. Hoo's the goodwife, Jeema jerked a thumb over his shoulder at the back seat. He replied, “She's ahint there,” . “She's no there, Jooms,"' said Davie. “Aye, she's ahint there," Jeqms insisted, But his friend was stubborn. “T'm tellin’ ye ehe'a no there." This time Jeera looked around to make gure, and the back seat was empty. The man reflected, scratched his head, Then he said, “Dod! She maun ha’ been the grand splash |" The Jammer Woods f bribclalretesy is ma wae if af pees here; andaes sunli aan a _— duat, lew Simbike And small, breesea kurry fy, and then io mall pale bree Blue flowers grow beside oo spring, wilh aproge of moidenhir, AN fife seem dormant; Nature eleepe o dim, enchaitled sleep, And in the (hiekela, densely sereened, wee forest crcaiures creep So err thal iol a shir can merk fhe array There tt 0 Ea gerne HO Betti- OF aap Scrapping the Similes Y LOVE ain't bike the red, red rose; My love ain’! like the sea; Afy love ain’! Mike the monniain lop; Whore ain't [ibe a tree. Latthe the aoble wight ed tone ; Otsstralar from i Afy love ain't Hike tke rues: ene: or eke the merry May. My love ain't like the fragrant morn ith dewy freshness prarted: Af len ain't like atifher thing tt all the golaiarned world, —Fronkin Fo Adama. fdeal and Real YS pecan tad dame fhe yeorn for empe- For cruel parle and for flere careers whe copiers and oppress, And sy heheh cry era eal i te Who pte of, af bridge aad gol! amd fairs reaaes, And never makes a geahire tha! diatreares, Nor afepa one moment from conpention's grocer, bore we ne elehing or carrpiny re She dreams about a lover ferce and bold. Are abotirred by ier 2 fined roiece Cries, “Hurry, dear, the fount i is gettin’ old |" | - Thomas Lomax Hunter, 4in Entarged Copy Pay judge, who is not over five ferk in heig hit and weighs Unter a WDER never will conceal that skin trouble, but if you will use Resinol Soap every day as directed, you'll be surprised to see how quickly your complexion improves. I know be- cause I tried it.” Recommendations like this have placed Resinol Soap in hundreds of homes where it is now the favorite. Its Fenerous, Pore-searching lather invigorates and tones up the skin while cleansing it, and the action is so mild it will not injure the tenderest skin. Why not begin today the use of this delightful toilet soap and let it help to cleanse the clogged, inflamed pores,— amooth the rough surfaces,— reduce the oiliness,—and re- store the glow of skin health? hundred pounds, happens to have a sen) wo tips the scales at two hundred pounds. | ae ni ech is ver¥ proud of his ofspring, and ay took him to call upon an old friend itis had never seen him The Hl ig are wearing spells mol eery far Melat' Brea sen request; Dect. §-G, Fesinal, Baltimore, Bid. Ait all drug and toilet goods counters. Ask for si! Well, ape con't help if! Tio Leer tet the — For all alpen lost trivia nem veal a broken Those ocho forestolled wa in acng and in geeterday fa new again, med A rec Oe a ake tory, SW, oe can eke thet ate eee mol eo if we eam do nalking Tor There ia the trick! Ifa files can Jearn if he ae witk the jaze and the pep of madern- Write for fin time if he har or ciernily, Who saa if soid thal Toloment, Hkely, pera pele Saloane or Bildad or ‘ab or Joeiah, ivmrca, Sallwat, Tibwilus, Ausomius, itottus, Collws, Cohulivs, Pelrontus, Thomas dh Kempis or Chaucer or Clough Rakepere—s0he really wratt mighty geneneh tu — Turns, Seal or Wordsworth or Shelley or Thousands of offers and ages aga may une ibe im fhe light o af thin lore: Someta a ered before! —HKennet! Harris, fg, 20 And hopes ore ratio o life again, and fore minced! aoe ely Can cities be, com sorrows duel, wien there i keen content In watching ax meee, hide of tight od sipote are an, hlend * Con there be tol, and rain repre!, aadaricing or a goal, When jue a peeping bff af aky brings anliece do Lhe soul? De dryads tire im ali birch free, do pipes af Pan efill sownnd— And can thal be the print af Hoole apes le hosey ground? There ia no gound, ond yet one hears a eileer elim call, Jind sanhighi, like a magic dat, fies Almeliie over all, —Margore! E, Songater, "ho said the frien, ‘looking from son to father and amiling, “TT see—a block aff | the old chip, eh?" Cramping Their Siple OHN GOLDEN tells as of turn oung | vaudeville actors from Hew York whe went over to London to set the English cape ital on fire. They gave a dresa rehearsal of their clever act before one of the big book- ing agents, who listened to eine ‘from the pit one f iftemeac When ad finished he sald, “Wory ood, boys, but"— glancing at his wrist Satan “Tt runa twentyive arena and that's pretty long. However, if you'll cut it down te eight minutes we may hill you,” “Eight minutes!" cried one of the team, evigh | down at him. “Why, good Lord, we ow echt minutes!"

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TRUSCQN STEEL BASEMENT @@ WINDOWS Have attained immediate popularity and are in demand by builders everywhere, because: sae ae installed | as zaclte In any type of len gouily screened. randatiee lam | amvacri” '-re Pryri Truscen Steel Basement Windows. as little as wood pacer wan eee Return Coupon Below Hames Beildarst? Get gor ueetul Gierwtore free. Deaglern| Gant our proposition open bo all dealers. YOUNGSTOWN, ODO wes Loken Meorrwhers Trucos Steel Company, Youngstown, Obic Send me information om Truscon Seeel Ruse meant Windies, um O contractor Gi “a oienar 0] architect i ee Dell. Pa THE SATURDAY TILL “Why not let me handle your atulf—all af it? all the trouble ane of your shoulders, and to fee thing, bart. apend “Why. ae fl me your output for five fives off. Bee? 1 Semone Ds for aling and mH Feapansi 0 You Tor paymen ou rake in the difference between what ye have to pay your mill and what T pay Dunne what it is, but I'll bet it's ity” = “Um” Tt more attractive to ney than he was willing toa admit. hat's your output? "Conaid'able. Suthin like a car aday." This, as Pett well knew, was act iinet, He knew exactly what Hiekson's mil produced the year before, and it waa title aver half of this, “Three hundred cars, ehT Didn't know it waa so much. Makes pelea een About five hundred bual- nee, MM five would make me etter than twenty 1 ad “hee be didi Bo "twould, Can yo move tha "Like Satie off a log, I ean grab ao bunch of Peters’ cuetomers with that price, and with the aixty cara I’ve got—ah, Puszy cea He thought he knew the market, He was aortsin what tha market would do as goon as Pett began a general onalaught on other folks" custom- ere ere with three hundred cars to sell The bottom would drop out. He would then be able to buy all the dishes he wanted at the figure he wanted to ier acelin Pett holding the bag. Pett was reeponsible, he knew. Pett would contract to buy three hundred cara wt five fives, Sup thera was a market bust—Pett would have to poy more for his diahea than he could sell them at. It Pazzy sofe—out of the fifty thousand dollars of so that he knew Pett had saved. Therefore Mr. Billy Pett waa duly elected to hold the bag. “Tl go you HI loge," hesaid. “Dig up a lawyer to draw the contract, and we’ start to-day." "Suite oe. Only wish you eould deliver mare than three hundred cars," "all it three bondred, and we'll be safe," gaid Pazzy, It was three o'clock in the afternoon when Fett rejoined Ted and Veronica with the signed contract in his pocket, He =_— pleased with his sticeess but dublows of to i Nee, hi he said, “we've got to aell dishes for Pazzy—when we can't ell them for ourselves. We've got to keep his a moving. I can see how we can push a cara week for him— hy taking on Stump Brothers, But for the life of me I can't eer how wt! $8 pois, to unload three hun- dred cara. We're going to get stung.” “How about it, Veronica?” mak | ow mene dish factories are there?" aa ineluding curselyvea and Hiekson's?"* ea. | = “That leaves five. You ani I are going to take a hitth: trip around the coun | visiting dish factories. Don't worry, - Pett. Te ruling the @ tite, We start ine NE PES inc Alby ich t , stopping aver in. next day to sme a customer pr ehgeiaes Paid Wolverine on ta Detroit. in the e bday 3 There they took the Pere regent meee and the following fe WP upon ald man Steffons, of the M P, Company, who received them mg “How's your dad, Ted? Him and me have fit and, chawed each hiatal bari thutty year. ope he's onjoyin ruil of his wicket bile," “He is—in California." 4 And you're punning the business. Um." “With my wife's help,” said Ted, Old man Steffens at Veronica. ore be spectacles and granted. Weroniea ATT "ee da t set much stere by my help, da me che asked. Wa-al, I've soon wimmin that wasn't eo party, "he said. r ‘oe newer enn tell," aabd Veronbea, “by the pattern af the wall paper how many lath are under the plaster." “How's business, Mr. Steffens?" Ted keel, “Rotton. Tf it keeps up—and Pozzy Hickson—I'm again’ to epen One a lot EVENING POST May 20, 1937 THE JOINT CRACKED (Continacd from Page 33) af money knockin’ the bottom out of the market. That dicky-bird's gat to be learned sorwe jedgrment." “And that,” said Ted, “is what we've came to set about, We're gunning for Feay ourselves." “He can't be got with bird ahot," sald Serre ht lephant We an @ gun, but rf need hl help to to it,” said Veronica. yO could buy some dishes at aay, four fives off the current lat and sel rem op your regular prisee—would it look “Tkwould, More profit than I kin make eer jest now" eee Your customers sila Hickson's dishes?" “ Dishos is dishes,” said Stef “Fine! Now here’ ret the iden Tm rekeing my price to Hat," sald Ted. “As soon aa we get back I'm artityins our trade, and giving them forty-cight hours to buy at the present price of two fives of, ‘That's sure eet 4 gore huwiness. If you and the erowd were to do the game, ft would vali in quite a bunch of car orders.” “But Pao cart whether it dors or Hot, "s rae Ted “Becruse 1 can deliver a hundred and any curs at ares fives off, Pazzy Hick= I've got him contracted to deliv cars this year and next, at four fives off and a five per cent COMM ssion.” “Eh? How maariy? “Sureat thing you knew. Bome of “em ‘ll have Sturap. Brothers cheap ef the chain stores. and ness, eens Wh cru teen wie arteen ber at a yaar or es ane 2 the reat of thea manu- the same, we can move the whole three hundred, Get the iden? "Te'll rig sia Ben Take him off the market a8 @ dla chor inet said Veronica. edad eae Now, Mr, Steffens, suppoae Pazsy comes to you in a month ond to ot. 8 dishea, will you gel] him?" ts ae considered briefly, then get you!" be anid. “Who thought this up? Bay! Idd you do it, young woman?" “T cannot tell a, lie. I did it with my little bobbed hend.’* “By ! said Steffens, “When I git home Irs a-goin’ to shear the hair off'n all three of my daughters. price to list to-day. You go and handle Jim Warren and Toot McEean, 1° care of the ether two factories." A week later Ted and Veronica arrived. one mere at home. T had sent out a notice of rise in price, ae —s them, a they aiipared, ced evs for some twenty cara of dishes, These they sent to Pett, with the specications, who for- w them to ‘a mill Old man Steffens sent along orders for twenty-sia cars, and the other mills, they having [alien reudily inte Ine, contributed orders for a hundred cara more. Thos Fett had on hand ordera for a total of a hundred and forty-six cars without taking inte con- Heather whit ad sea oe oe Wy im up more. al a gees ta isprale neat i throug ‘i ‘8 Mii As the total began to mount Pazey ex- perioneed firet delight, then bewilderment, bad fi finally apprehena latter emotion he dropped in at the little office Patt had taken in Boston. = ror s Comet easy, ." said Pett, “Tridn't I tell yoo T wae a Seeman" “You be. Young feller, you've stole custoners from avery fn in the coun- try! Why, you've even pried Giner's away from old man Steffons! "ie. enn't be dane, Be them arders b fide?" " All pau "ve got to dois ship,” aaid Pett. "Hight now you've turned in orders fer ot hundred and twenty-six cara, young feller,’ “And DU have the other seventy-four ta clean up my contract in thirty dag," Pett gaid, "I guess we made a lucky deal.” “What's this about prices goin’ up” “tetas announced a rime, Lt mm." “Not going to have a ing, are ge ' Pett as “Whot MeT I should say not,” Pasty said. “Don't you worry, scnny: But Paszy was worried, cooked gs if he had contracted to deliver a hundred and fifty cor more than be manufactured, acd he was she out where he could t en Ate idn"t like the looks of t a Tse in the m “What you sellin’ f for?” bar asloed. 7; Different | prices. Mostly two fives off,” sald Pett. "The devil be!" Pasey took time to consider this, but he was not a man is show his uneasiness, T'll say you kin sel dishes,"" he but in bis compliment was a note of something that was ot He had to have dishes. He knew he had bare ike ane writs energy be had ayed for years 8 ra) get them. He wired old man Steffens. “How tt cara dishes can you tet me have at four fives?” In thre: hours camo the reply: “None” In turn be wired eoch of the other far- tories to the same effect and received the same reply. He next wired: “What price can you make mo twenty ear?" rhe thine Tos angwer from. sig a wad ous, Parzy’s keen nostrils acented a rat. He apent railroad fare bo visit Stefiens and argued for half a day, bart not a car could be buy for lees than straight list with no discount. He did BOE . He was contracted to de liver at fist four fives, with a five per nll commission. Taking an average of trouble delire:- fiorbitd He figured this several times te sure he had made afin = ape That art hat repay soak peep rm Malti- a Pca Tene ae a tual iif thousand six hundred “2 twice fifty-seven thousand six d eighty-four dollars! Hickson was frantic. He wired Suc rote altel viele terk tok o car of dishes could he buy anywhere at lex than a plas eid two dollars and elghty- seven ofthis nds delivered i Boston, For a Lge he straggted, | while he etruggled the market remaiord stable. He was eliminated aa a disturker. Busingss did not pick up notably, because 1921 was Boe a Br be var, but jobbers who had been ek whiting for a drop eta! fina Rg of the market's stability, and bought acearding to ther necessities. Things were z Up. As a last resort he eal “Pett,” he said, “it begins ¢ to look like I can't quite fill your contract." “Eh? What's that? “T may ron a few cars short.” “You can't run a car short. I've sald every blamed ane, and we've got to de- liver. What's the matter? “T=er—I figured I could pick tp ei Se “Which,” anid Pett, “ia exactly what you've got to da,” “But they won't gell i said Paxy; “nok at a kind of « p “Then,” said Pett, Myou" re stung. [t's up to you, and you're good for it. I'm going to have those cara, and you can bet your bottom dollar on that." * Ain't no way to fix it?" “Not with me," said Pett with a tone so final that: Posy reeagnized the hepebes nese of trying to do anything with the YOUnE Man. "But somethin's got to be dome. As iti I stand to lose filty thousand and better a = ee ain we ts tee eeuraett “But can't fe fi in'’?" Pett The hour was. striking, be mls T moment baad area we id v0 Pp " 7 eB "A dowen tiaves."" ws (Continagcd oa Poge 3)

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7INNERS No. 308 DIXON'S BEG i 4 4 ol a2 } oe - SCHOOL OFFICIALS more and more are realizing what a great influence the right types of School Pencils have on handwriting. And School Officials know far better than any one else how it helps a pupil when he starts his business career ff he com write a good hand... . Right fere lics the secret of the success of the DIXON SCHOOL PENCILS: and here is the reason every School Official should have the DIXON SCHOOL LINE CATALOG and the SCHOOL SAMPLE SET, which are sent free. Write, giving title or postition, ta JOSEPH DIXON CAUCIBLE CO. Pend! Dept. BJ, Jersey City, New Jersey Canadian (Hirribatars: A. B. MaeDnugall & Co., Limited Toronto, Canada THE SATURDAY Um. Might try him again, I tall “Um. t try fi what—I'll run up there with you, aim § interested, because I'we got to have those ears, I'll go along and sem if we can’t tall . besal te a something. We used to be pretty nen anon do no good," sald Pazey dis- conaolately, "Worth toring how"? ently Billy Pett and Paszy packed ir baga and journeyed north- ward that night, arriving in Checkerberry early the next morning. Checkerberry is not a cheering place to reach in the early hours. Dis station is remete from the town, surrounded aa far aa the eye can reach by low gerub and cut-over lands. It is a at cel Pagosepecrintyi ct, and Parzy fa te the sorrow of ones the chi They drave to the hotel, breakfasted, and were in Ted Peters" offica waiting for i when he arrived, He stirveyed ore idn'e expeck to see you here, Pete," he sald. “How are you, Parzy?" m use Peters, we've come to talk baasi- nS [ jwiged. Excuse me a moment. I see my wile passing.’ He stepped toe the door and called Veronica, who entered and was presented ta Pazsy, “T like to have my wile hanely when f taal le hisiness,”” Tod explained, “Cho ahead." “We want to buy some dishes," said tt. “Tm here ta sell them. Got a ware- hat ise Full.” “How many can youu let us have?" oh “Anything Wp bo seventy million “Er—what concession will yo st tn a hig order—say, fifty ears? Tp wnat} Teed asked directly of Pazzy. og! 7 *“het—a—cent,"' sale Ted. “T—aay, listen, Petera—l “You've Jet yourself in,” said Ted, “and you're getting what's coming to wou, For years you've miuseed up this inchestry, You ve sit hack and raked ina nice pradit, and purmmed the works for everybody else, Now you've got to have dishes ta make ged, and wei're net gong to get them from me. “That's final.” “You—don't want te lust me, do yout" “T'd be sorry to s0e any man bast, Pazzy."' “Then—can't you do somethin’ —tohelp oubL” “T krow the bax you're in pretty well, Pazzy, You've oversold about a hundred EVENING POST and fifty cars, haven"t youT You atand ap aot pete than filty thousand a year bye years That's the truth,’ Paszy said hopo Teccalea leaned forward. “TI feel it for Mr. Pett. ID alway liked Mr. Pett, T A wanted you to patch ee up with im. “Pett and [ didn't see things just alike. Tt waa nothing but a business d qreement. Son it happened, dear, but it-did happen.' Rai if, ROE Y salar Mr. Pett w a motery — you—you inti east for old time's sakeT' +" nel stands to lose a Jot of predit,”” sald Parry. “Look hero, Hickson, [ don't want to stamp on you, but you've been a thorn in the aide of the dish boginess too blamed long. The sooner you're out of it the bet- ter. “Mir, Hickson has some kind of a com= tract with a mill, hasn't be?" Veronica gi inbeeen tly. "Tf—suppose he didn't have that com- tract—he couldn't disturb things any more, emuld he?"* Wa? “How much is his contract worth to him?" ; “About thirty thousand a year, isn't it, fieimon hiebded, “Well,” ssid Veronica, ibe he gave up that contract —or—assignedl it. if that’s what you call it, be Mr. Pett. Would that change matters any? “Mr. Hickson wouldn't consider that," Ted said ina patroniging way, 4 if speaking to achilel “Te would be isetter for him to lose thirty thousand in profits he's never hod than te lose fifty thousand in money he's netualiy g@ot,” sid Veronica, “Wouldn't it, Afr. Hickson?" “Do — You don't mean you'd deliver dishes ta Pett if I got out?” said Pazey, “T'd think it oor, “Wall you?" Ted gat bu ‘kk und reflec bed. =," he eald fin ally “T weld” “How abenat I it, Pett? Will you take oe dog-gone | contract off my hands and mn ome? Pett shook fis head. ae my way to come through clean, vor help ome out, Mr. Peters?” "Th you'll jeave the morket wlone,” “nu con bet 1 will, sald Fete, “Hat. Unless [ can Will Graad Coton, Colorads AMfay 20, 1937 “Then, 80 far as I'm concermed,” id Ted, “it'sago. You a r contract to Pett and clear out of the dish busi- aera , Pazzy, and D1 give things lp. “Tl do it—and be plumb tickled to said the Hickson, "The. th try, and he left the office with | a feeling he bad then off eaay. Pett remained te dis “T'm afraid, " Ted said after the door closed behind Pazzy, “that I've lost a good salesman permanently, and 1 hope I've gained a competitor." “Eb? What d"you mean?" “That mill of ‘s will reef at be 3 threat until it gets owt of the han those old wampuse: who've been ase it. It's a good mill, and eould make a bundle of money —Tun On. the same bas the rest of us do," “T never could get their idem,"" said Pett, “Well, here's: fig idea—aor rather Ve rotea's. She thought it up. Bow for the gentleman, my dear. Droean"t she book Tmidest? I've been dickering with the oli birds, Pott. They want to get out of ban nes, Couldn't de anything so long w Pursy held that contract, but I did get an option on their plant. Ni we thousand dollars. It's worth more. the optic in your name.” “My name!" “Exactly, Of you've got the ginger | think you have, you'll make gor, You'r fifty thousand planted—so you teld me They'll take fifty thousand down. You a borrow working enpital, and I*ll bark y for twenty-ive thousand if Sor mse ie i two years you ought to clean it up and ows afine business. Amd the threat of that mill would be removed forever.” “Afr, Peters " -Pett's voice fat tered. “Say, by goah, you're a prince! [Va ago. When do we start?” “Now,” said Veronica, who we alwaye for promptness, That might in their room ‘Ted and Ve Pormbea cont stock of this, their latest enter prise, “We've got rid of Pazey," said Tel "That omnes first.” “Wo ve moved a bunch of dishes af 5 prot,” Verontea added. “We ve put Pett in that mill.” re And.” Veronica sakl in oonebusion, Seove bad the dickens of a let of fun 1 ¥ou can't have fun you might os well quit Hlaying tag. And Tio ve Lag" Sh

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oleh, i = THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE COVERED WAGON apes ce fame ae a Flay Recht I know as @ mountain | datere eaut to Laramnie—and pl eae ar en f"" | And in the morning foll ig Sen tee left Bridger's for the trail, ey parted, | two men who now, in the warm a gold pan a ago. petered || each waving a hand to the chen SEI yeni law ga afta af sag af thrown together, bi the | sinter months of the Sierra ser fot the days of aan June, re by the primitive fireplace ing a midday meal, The older man thir in, who now apun a side af venison ribs on a cord in front of the open. Zl was the mountain man, Bill Jackson, might tell who ever hed seen him, | or he hs thanged but little. t his companion, younger, bearded, dreased also in buckekins, was Will Banion it would have taken closer scrutiny even of a friend to ¢ inn, so posing of these few months altered him in appearance and in manner. Once light of mien, now hesmiled never at all. For ra he Se eee ne ee an automaton, He spoke at Inst to 3 aocent and faithful frend, kindly ws ever, and with his own alertness and Lor. “Let's make it cur last meal on the ew What do you say 7" Wiles eatin’ ye, boy? Gittin" restless a “Yes, vent te move.” " Mhost dices,” “We've got enough, Bill. The last month has been a pohaconi The spring saws uncovered m fet and you koe itl" “Oh, yeh eg Set in one day aln't for han Las that mever had saw year But she ain't yit, With what we've learned, an" | what we know, we kin stay in here an’ git so tich that hit shore makes me ery to think of trappin” beaver, ven: before Why, a ee eee a ee b Ti t's like am wrong—we done hit so dante bake lay ava By ac how hee a is pile We muat have fifty- ehh thousand dollars o" dust burried un- | der the floor, don"t ye think?” f “Yes, more, Etat if you'll a Til ac this claim to the below us let them hove the. Eres hey alfer ity theugand flat, and [t's enough—more than enough. I want two thinge—to get Jim Bridger his share, safe and sound, and Oe ee used i an the: aes 8 EE: & old ni tn, aff a deer ra ag ere one awful on ‘teal, pat a Will? I did hope ose uP here, a-br'i my ment in a yall fireplace; but no matter how plain an ie 2 & Bean's taabew ia, allus somethin’ comes along to bust "em."" “Well, go on and finish your meal in this plain replace * curs, Bill. lt hes done us very well, [ think I'll go down to the sluice 1 while.” Bunion rose and left the cabin stooping at the low door. Moodily he walked the side of the steep ravine to which the eel Hructure clung. Below him lay the npped-open slope where the little trem bana diverted. Below again lay the bared bed of the exploited water course, floored with bowlders set in deep gravel, at times with seamy dama of flat rock lying under and across the gravel stretches, the bed rock, a ald, halding in its hidden fingers the rich secrets of inumemorial time. ere he and his partner had in a few months of strenuous labor taken from the narrow and unimportant rivulet more wealth than most could save in a lifetime of patient and thrifty toil. Yea, fortune had been kind. it all had been ao nas ao simple, a unagitating, #0 matter of-fact! The hillside now loo ‘od like any other hillside innocent 1 Woruun's eyes, vel covering much! Banlon eould not realize that now, young though he was, he Was @ Tich Man. He climbed down the side of the pein, the litth: stones rattling under his fect, uotl he stead on the bared foor of the bed rack which had nde a0 unbelievably prolific in coarse gold. There was a Tp bend in the ravine, and he the be aie teal of the little waters cally ly decp strata of gold-ahet carried and left espe- gravel. Ag musing, Will Banton heard, (Continued fram Page 21) on the ravine side around ne bend, the ; iigpeiment anedier 3 ling from one E to er. It some deer or other animal, he thought. He hastened to get view of the cause, whatever it might be, And then fate, chance, the goddess of fortune which some men say docs not exist, but which all wilderness-goere know does exist, for on instant paused, with Will Banion'’s life and wealth and happi lightly abalanee in cold, disdainful fingers, e tummed the corner. Almost level with hin own, be looked inte the eyes of a crawling man who, . one hand steadyving himselfagainat unk of nieine, the ather below, carry ing a rifle, was pocring frowningly ahea Tt was an evil face, rink ee ecules, not tevilin ita Plata aimantter now. Were narrowed, the full li drawn close, as soma bene emotion naw A elpceres ita ellmax. ance was that ak Chea stretched in some pur-

May 70, 927 Firing and ae at a distance of fidty feet, bull remained not yet mar derer in deed. In a flash Banion gathered and sprang toward him as he stood in y half second of consternation at seeing he victim fall and rise again. The rifle cared buttheoneshot, He flung it down, rwache for his hen if, falsin an afro mg nal the second af rock w hh Banbon fing a5 he ¢] He felt his wrist caught in an ip, felt the blood gush where bs temple was cut by the Last moimeile, hed then ones more, on the narriw b oor that but now was patterned in parquetry traced r , and soon must red, it came to them—and it waa frre! They fell and sur. b an adhe much damage the othe See cantheen ec ia] it open hand hack from the kode sheath or he was done Thus close, he could = no scape. He bt fast and furiously a Lap ta throw, tes bend, to beat back the body of a man alms pose long sustained, aaetrong as himself, and And w ay il When Jed Wiapate now a manige in ran a man and fear. when that ana reser ‘biie-irbeady mii pire- eigoriers ek for a bog waiting only elt sorve his parpoee, surpone jteelf changes his very lines- net a pe A Other men avoid him, knowing uncon- aciously what is in his soul, because of what is written on face, For months most mon had avoided Wood= hull. Tt was known that he wason a man hunt. He questions, hia movements, his changes of locality showed that; and Wood- hull was one of those who cannot avoid masrvernnes, neoding it for their cournge's sake, Now motces ond brooding, maw laudly profane, now crits ba oF How aloof, hia errand in these Mi hills waa plain. Well, he was not alone among men whose depths were loosed. Some time his hour mm ht corm, thad come! He stared now fall into the face of hia enemy! He at last had found him. Here stood his enemy, unarmed, delivered into his hands, Par one instant the two stood, staring inte one another's eyes. Banion’s advance had been silent. Spee was token ag mC had been Wen Wendtall’s to des pu a stand above the sluices, hidden. by angle, where he could command th pl of the atream bed where Banion and Jack- #0n last had been working. He had studied the place before, and meant to take no chances, His shot must be sure. But new, in his climbin on the sheep hilleide, his rifle waa in hia left hare, down- hill, and his footing, caught as he waa with one foot half raised, was insecure. At no time these last four hours had his oppar= tunity been so close—or so poor—as pre- claely now! He saw Will Banion's eyes suddenly startled, quickly estimating, loaking into is own, He knew that behind his own go> his whole foul soul lay bered—the aaul urderer. Woodhull made a awlft apring down the hill, eeracibling, half erect, and caught some sort of stance for the work which now whe his ta da. He snarled, for he saw Banlon stoop, un- armed. It would do his victim no good to run. There was time even to exult, and that was much poetlar in a long-deferred matter such a this, “Now, damn you, I've got youl" He gave Hanlon that much chance te ses that he was now to die, Half loaning, he raised the long rifle to its line ane tooched The report came anil Banion fell. But eVER aa wheeled and fell, stumbling down the hillside, his flung arm apparently had gained a weapon. Tt was not more than the piece of rotten quartz he had pears up and planned to examine later. e thing it straight at Woodhull's face— ah aet af chance, of inatinet. Hy a hoie it saved him. The sound of the rifle shot rang throw: the little defile, To Jackson, shaving bits of sweet meal een thumb asd knife blade, it meant the presence of 1 stranger, friend or foe, for he knew Banior had carried no weapon with him. Hie ow: long rifle he snatched from ite pegs. Ars long, easy ache | Tan along the path whic carried acrods he face of the ravine. Ha Sroaninea rer made he dound. He mae no one in the creek bed or at the long tur But now there came a loud, wordlem 4 which he knew was meant for him. It we Will Hunten's yoice. The two struggling men Soar they ta belo him had no fon af haw fought, It seemed m age, and the nih ment yet another deferred. But t them come the gous af a voice “Git away, will! Stand back!" Thee beth el h, ped, looked ar ey bot oo u bank. The long stl grippe a Tifle, fores ened ta a black point, above it a cold et fronted and followed them ma they warn The crooked arm of the rifleman was m< tionleas, save as it just moved that dead circle an inch this way, an inch back agai Banion knew that this was murder, toc but he knew that naught on earth cock atay it now. To guard aa much ss be coud agains a last deaperate knife thrust eve a dying man, he broke free and apres back as far os he could, f men proetrat on his back as he did so, tri by an cr Sten stone. Hut Sara Won hull was ne upon him now, waa Tat willlag to fox own life in order to kill, one if stant he qd up at the death staris down on him, then turned to rum. There was no place where he could ru The voice of the man abowe him called a ahere and hard: Talt! Sam Woodhull, look at me!” He did turn, in pial in fascination 4 sight of the The rifle bar to his last gaze aamall, round oc cle, large as a bottle and around shone a fringed. mura Ted and purl nee That E have been the « ily ws when he had hele his rire We in is hand, ‘hiing five Imches sho - eyes, the old hunter drew now abou cul it and ard enemy. When the dry de ae and hard in the confined air he body of Sam Woodho erst oe the amall blue hole an inc above the eyes showed that the murders” man bunt was done, ELIF a DING down at oe tes ner Basi @ grassy per Bacte mento, the litth pack train of jg wth Jackson, six hardy mulea bealde the blac hora ani Jackson’ rs Sree pa rece A ti along a ed ala rg swung heavy o fae sermcat two mules might hold =! (Continued on Poge @2)

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Chowder cline Howlilum, mm lama in Hhauillee. “Ta boutnae aeer 100 yeara.”* Underwood Deviled HAM es es | caught the keen eye of Jackso ) horse— he has no lke fn ; ain't lovkin’ for a b‘ar | down in Yerba Buenas. THE SATURDAY (€entinaed from Page #0) or lead or gold. It all was one to any who might have eeen, and the two silent even, the younger ahead, the older behind, ob- ing were men able to hold their cou nd their pro oh smoke of a distant 1 oppangiagont al na he rode, care-free, the burden of a gong. n, Susannahl" admonished the lel yen srinie man, and bade the said Susannah te be as free of care na he hireelf then and there was, “More men comin’ in,” anid he p presently. “WW onaber who them people fe, an’ ef hit's peace or war." “Three men. A Sone band, Two In+ own his own gait, His companion had tied the the six mules together, nos med tail, with the halter of the lead mule wrapped on hia own saddle horn, Each man now drew his rife from the ewing loop. But they advanced with the appearance of confidesce, for it wos evident that they hud teen diseaveread by the men. of the encampment. Apparently they were identified as well as disco . A toll man in - ings and moceasins, # fint felt hot over his ong gray hair, stood gazing at them, bis r tt resting on the ground, Svitenihe erie an unearthly yell, whether of defiance or of greeting, and springing to his own horse's pleket pin gathered in the lariat and, mounting ay bareback, came on, hia rifle high shove his head, and repeating again and agnin his war ery or salutation. Jackson rose in his stirrups ped. his lead line and forsook more Pha 2 undred and fifty thousand dollars—some twrosraile onda of gold, His own yell rose high “T tokd. ye all the world'd be here!" he shouted back over his shoulder. ‘Down see that old thief Jim Bridger? Him Wate left drunk an’ ha last summer? Now what ink bal Brun heret" d mountain men flung off and wae hand in hand before Banton had ei fescued the precious lead line and brought ee mi ae ae i r threw an Th flung down he rifle and cast hia sits calie wide. Both his hands caught Banion’s and in face beamed, breaking into a thousand nes. "Boo, hit"s you, then! I knowed these parta. fre ef traced ye by hin this hundred miles below an’ up mein but I've had no word this two Mastly I've seed that ae when ie here we mir, fire an’ fitten, an’ eee two battles left o" somethin’ they call coggnac Come on in an" we'll make medicine.” They dimmounted, The ted Indians went to the ee ee They erated aa they un- Wie kya cere my up and the mantaa irreail over them, the animals led away for feed and water, Eridger produced ham of yenisen, some beans, a bananeck and some colfee—not to mention his two bottles of fi fuid—belore any word waa passed regarding fubure eR = eye nits, “Come here, Jim,” Jackson after a | time, tin cup in hand. “The other tallawed him, likewise equip “Heft thia patinier, Jim." EVENING POST “Uh-huh? Well, what of hit? What's inter hit?" “Sot much, Jim. Jest threefour hun- pounds o° gold settin” there in them four packs. Hit hain"’t much, bat hit'll some." Bridger and uncovered the ky- ache, unbuckled the cover slraps. “Hit's a true pack!" he exelaimed. “Gold! Ef hit hain't, I'm a putrefied liar, an’ that's all I got to say!" ow, Ittthe by little, they told, each to other | the story af the months ence they had ret, Bridger firat explaining his own movements. "T left the ange mise irri til ~ ntwoboya. Yeneedn"t bea- they touch t the cargo. The gold means nothin’ te ‘em, but lorses does. We've got a food hand to drive north how. Some we bought an" most they atole, but no rancher carea fer horses here an' mow, “We come rte there Klamatha, ye ace, an’ on south old horse trail up from the Spankeh country, which only the Injuns knows. pe aay they kin take ua to the head o' illamette. “So ye did get tho gold! Eh, sir?" said Bridger, his eyes narrowing. “The tip the girl Whe & one?" Lge “rejolnel Banion, “But we car near login i and. more. | it waa Woodlvull, Jim. He followed we in." ‘Yes, [ know, His ©. behind ye on the Hum jg atter yedid. Hewmade Senate, ant ‘] make no more? Is that hit, huh?’ Bill Jackson ala the stock of his rae et not ee rifle in silence. E nodded, He had bern close to tragedies all his. life. told him now of this one. Ha nodd again, cloee Li “ An" ye want courte an" the settlementa, boye?” said he. ““Fer me, when I kill a rattler, pet sonough, Ef ye're foe an" win clean, why, we below ant fix hit. ‘Only Ching ho I dont want to waste no more time'n I kin help, fer some of them horses has a ree-cord that nin't myers a0 plumb clean their own selves. Yo nin't goin’ out enst—ye're goin’ north. Hit's easier, an' o month or two cloater, with plenty io” feed an’ water—the old Cayuse trail, huh? “So Sam Woodhull got what he's been loakin"® fer so long!" he nodded presently. “Well, that rnp up things some." “He'd o' got hit long aga, on the Platte, ef my partner hada’t been a damned fool, ed Jackson. “He was where we could * ‘a’ buried him nach'erl, in the sands, I tole Will then that Woodbull'd murder him the fust chaneet he got. Well, he did— er ef he did't bit wasn't Ho credit to either one Oo” them two.” “What differ does hit make, Bilt” re be bygones, nuh? ‘ha's "Let bygones be bygones ? That's the plensantost way, senee ‘a dead “Now here we alr, with all the there ever was molded, an’ a bull teo les CORETLC left, which takea holt e'enamost better'n Hun ~ rum, Aim’t it a perty leetle al‘ world as with, all with fice plak stripes a hit?" He filled his tin and ak late a rearing BOT: “There wae coo’ eidder which hed barre BOn— Joahnapay, Janes an” Jilin. May 26, (922 An’ ote gol aket, ari" one gol drowned, Ani’ gr par ath cae ine tHE “ Ain't hit funny, son,” said he, turning to Banion with cup uplifted, “haw ef likker allus makes me remember what | dane ergot? Now Kit told me, thar at Laram “Per Ime cit to Oregon, with my wash pan on my knee!" chanted Bill Jack. aon, How sole oblivious of most of his Surroundings and bene not consciously discourtenus to his friends. “Susannah, dan’t tly ery!" yo sat, the central reaoof @ scene wits engl in a world still primitive and yOu one of the three remained aober and silent, wondering, if ome thing lacked, why the world wae made. LF x THE new farm of Jesse Wingate on A the Yamhill the wheat wos in stuck and ready for the flail, his deerskin sacks made ¥ bo iE to market after the threshing. His and weather-beaten fh ato), now unused, at the barnyard fence of rails, Tt was evening. Wingate and his wife sguin ant on their little stoop, gazing dow path that led to the valley road. A mounted man wae opening the gate, some one they did not recognize. React from below,” said Molly Wis- pute. Jed's maybe sent ap es ogi wa it to him, ie ele 2 are moet wonderful girl! Well, I'll call it it Beeg she's a wonderful walker. AID the Prices wos, "Or maybe it's for Molly," she added “Es ahi ever heard a word from either Sam Woodhull or —— “Hush! I do not want to hear that name!" broke in her husband. “Trouble enough he has made for usa!" His wife made no comment for a mo ment, still watching the stranger, who we now nding up the long approach, little aniea BY ingate a8 he sat moody and ISL PANE. "Jess," a ran "Tat" ies fair ane shame the devil. Rae we don't know all the truth abowt Will Banion, You #0 on in the paar Pil tend ta this man, whoever be one she did not, With one more look at the bg iy | Te, she herself rose and fallawed ‘les . As she pomeed she east a awit glance at her hter, who had mot joi them for the twilight boar, Hers wae the look of the mother—mate- nal, solicitous, yet wise and reselyed witha, woman ding worn. Anal now was the hour for her ewe lamb to be alone, mip se Wingate sat in her own littl re through her window at the far fo forest and the mountain praks in ther svesinl Ares 9 many colors. She waa no the tattered emigrant girl In fringed frock and mended moccasina. Ships fram the world's £ ports served the new mar ket.of the Columbia Valley. [t wos a trim niga tn young woman in the habiliments ieated lands who sat here new, leas hair, piled high, lighted warmly in the illumination , of the window. Her skin, clear white, had lost its sunburn in the moister climate between the twa rings (Continwed on Poge #4) to " wa -

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PIPE COVERINGS =— PACKINGS — CEMENT THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Your plant—is it hothouse or hardy? SHORT time age abnormal de- mand was the industrial hothouse in which most any plant could thrive. Margins were so broad and demand so active that factory and plant wastes became mncidental to the more imper- tant urge for production. But today—there ts no hothouse of easy markets. To survive, every plant must be hardy, and every hardy plant can survive, How to cut costs now in 1922 Firstofall, wastes must becliminated. This is no time to have bare or poorly covered hot surfaces and pipes wasting fuel, when each square foot of such surface wastes from 300 to 1,000 Ibs. of coal per year. Again—even a small plant, through leaky furnace and baffles, wastes tons of fuel that could be saved by a few dollars spent on-corrective heat treat- ment. Even suchadetail as packing can by intelligent selection be made to serve as a saver of power, of wear and tear, and to materially reduce maintenance costs on engines, compressors, and pumps. Read the motes in the pane? ar the Hight. Think of them as a basis for a meeting with a Johns-Manville man, along with your engineer. You owe it ro yourself to know what you can save and where. Lee us help you find our. JOHNS:-MANVILLE Toc. hisdioss Avra of Ae See, See Vek bee Beatin we SS Farge Cay om Lunds CANADIAN JOM RS-MAS VILLE fi. Led. ‘Tareas J OHNS-MANVILLE Asbestos «-- _ POW'E R SPECIALTIES — \ == ‘TRAPS Heat Losses from Coal Pile to Flywheel The ape of oot Af hee epee repent whit le left of the energy ing ton of onal of cock ep ip Mw gene © Abter the umavewcahle hero pees have Gewi 2 The shaded portion of eax UTE Terese beamed that are preventable gf cores sien, ond hence fe clear airing Whoa maliaigerl. oltre: = inanlation Q cement fear t ti 33.0% Leos reducey radiasion drom furnace aril bailez Biarfracrory i resist Jiigt ?xpanson > fire lirieke Artice Foiler Wall (Covit- Arable heat ing as sg pt to: ciiekde il agi BE fiche, i D712 Leas Mutikkel of pains Mons lithic Math Walle preecnt short circuiting of pases, pine curled beat lowers ip the wtck Heat available C Joh Mosawville paelorts anil forconversion =, wt kings Chae init: aici meen : ta mfetite] fle oh a and water dr Tie proper discharge o 1.2% Leas iisaliin cunsries -acg enor > ty of live abeam = job of the Judit. am Trp Seclimal wher dae Anratlelile lias Bor delivery bo rita Sine. Fulikign Prom tS Reinnar tlie lane ing Te i D bed Ring Packis OaiEe- Reillc im achkon— re L lary Peroniag! af pewer usually epee dnoiatercning Gietiin between od pacing oul isl ur plenger,

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“aA? Commraut, Ohio, fhe ad! 1aoran eet of fhe wager priced” Surprised on Saturday | —sold on Sunday Why one Ford owner ordered adrum of Gargoyle Mobiloil “E” when he drove back from Cleveland HE OWNER of a gasoline service station in western Penn- sylvania relates this expenience: A neighbor drives his Ford te Cleveland every Saturday, When Gargoyle Mobilal “E" was Suggested he sad, “Te's too high priced.” The service gra Hof minh, Mer. H., replied, “1 would like to take a run with you some time and furnish the gas and oil as my share of the trip.” On Friday nighe the Ford ovner Came around, Mr. H. drained the crankcase, put in Gargoyle Mobiloil “E™ and filled up the gascline tank. The next day they started. At Conneaut, Ohio, about eighty miles out, the owner said, “You'd better look at the ol), a3 | always add a quart here,” But the oil still ran out of the upper peteock. Serprize Now. They drove on to Cleveland. Still no addigional of] was needed, Sarprise No. 2. sSunday evening they started home. Ac Conneaut they looked at the oil. Only a quart of Gargoyle Mabilal “E™ was aided, Saorprice We, 3. The Ford owner insisted that this trip had always required three quarts of ordinary oil, He said to Mr. H,, “You'd better get me a drum of this Gargoyle Mobiloil “E* so T will always have it.” A week's fair trial of Gargoyle Mobilail “E” may surprise you as much as it did thee gentleman who drave to Cleveland. IN BUYING Garey: Mohifed! fram your dealer, tr safc do percht ie ariginal parkeges, feok for de eed dade gies on tke coi neer Tk Varun 2) Company's Clon! apevriei the pride af Gdtgen? Mehited fer cry mele Gad Bede of par, Gare cepe Moblin A de ter correct grade far Pandy, fF wou drie amaiine aenke of par, und for awe kewkl Correct ce Labehicalre. = DOMESTIC BRANCHES: Bend Cavs hem Wak lleston Chicsgn ond ‘Lars (Mane Chior! Dictput Pittsburgh Pheadelphia Minnespois Kanna City, Ran Tndignajolia Dict Moines Dist raged Sh fo MPa Huflake cer ter i VAC __ VACUUM OIL CO) OIL COM PANY | he eonld only | of time, | the elerk of the court of Oregon THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Caontiaaed from ta 42) of mountains. (uiet, reticent, reserved — cold, some said; but all said ‘Molly Win- te, teacher at the mission school, was utifwl, the moet beautiful young woman (in all the great Willamette settlements. Her hands were in her lap now, and her ince: a8: nl Was Grave, a ee woman, her Oriaqgon lovers all said of her. She heard now a knock at the front door, to which, fram her position, she could not have seen anvone approgch. She called out Pasicageh sh but did not turn her hen. A horst stamped, nelghed near her door. Her face changed expression. Her eves grew wide in sore nike association of memories suddenly revi She heard 2 footfall o on “the gullory anes then on the floor of the hall. Tt ragga Her heart almost stopped with it. Some undiscovered sense warned her, cried aloud ay She food theadloor, wide-wyed, az it whe fii open. Will Banion's deep-toned voice told ler all the rest. In terror, her hands to her face, she on instant, then sprung toward him, her voice almost a wall in its ineredulous } will! wil ' Oh, Will! Oh! Ohl" "Mall, They ath paused, "Tt can't be! Oh, you frightened me, Will! It can’t be you! But he hod her in Rie ee aoe At first ‘ko her hair, atrake her cheek, until at last the rugh of life and th came back to them both, and their beth wre young ami, Sho a. (Mee were iE agin. epubup a caress his brown cheek. Tenderly he “Will! Oh, Will! whispered. im ane in. “But it int It to be! Now I'm ! Now I've found mm forbine!" “And [ve had i Bie to think it over, Will. As though the fortune mattered!" “Hot so much as that one chau thing nds kept you and me upart. Now D must te Nie no. no, let be! Tell nee nothing!" melt I must! You pus hear me! I"ve ta] ; for thes!" a Pe Will! You've let me pet old!" “You ad?" He kissed her in contempt "But now wait, dear, for 1 must Tt can't bel” she tall ae I mart andl he knew T was headed up for the Yocnhill, Heasked me toserve as his messenger. ‘I've bern sending up through all the valley set- tlements in search of one William Banion," he said ta me. Thea [ told him who © was. He gave me this.” ” tis it?" And she turned to her lover. He held in his hands a long pockoge, you se, coming up the sae May 70,1922 infolded in an otter skin. “Is it @ eourt Will Banion? They can't have you, Will!" He amiled, her head held between his two hands, "T have a very im nt domunent for Col, William Eanion,” the clerk said to me. “Tt has been for seme thove in our charge, for delivery to him at onoe ehould he come ito the Oregon settlements. It is from Hi Excellency the President of the United. States. Such messages do not wait. Seeing it ot sen tae and knowing It to be mulitary, Ju ane opened it, since we eould not trace the addressee, Tf you like—if you are, indeed, Cal. Wi Itinm Fan- ion’—that was what he said,” He broke olf, choking E- "Ab, Molly,. at last and indeed I am again William Banion!” He took from the otter skin -—which Char- dan ance had p over the oilakin wed by Carson te protect it—the long and formal envelope of heavy linen. His finger pointed—"On the Service of the United States.” “UW thy, Wall f"" He caught the envelope awiftly to his lipa, holding it there an instant before be could apenk, “My pardon! From the President! Not gullty—aoh, not guilty! And | newer was!" rs h, Wil, Will! That makes you a 7 Ww "Thwen't it you “Why, yes! Ba 1 knew that abenys! And I Know now I'd have followed you to the allows if that had bad to be." ough | were a thief?" "Yoa! But I'd be ative it! I didn't! I never did! © could “Wou'd take my est FN all the world—just my word, if [ teld you it wasn't true? You'd want no proof at all? Will you always believe in mein that way? No “T want none now. You do tell me that? No, no! [rm afraid you'd give me proofs! Iwant none! T want to love you for what you are, for what we both are, Will! I'm afraid 1" He put his hands on her shoulders, held her away at arms’ length, looked straight into eyes, *Demr gicl,"" anid he, * met afrald any more." pat her head down contentedly agave his shoulder, her face nestling side wist, her eyes closed, her arms again quite around his neck. “T don't care, Will,’ said she. “No, no, don't talk af things!" He did not talk. Ln the oe of a silence he Kissed her tenderly again an And now the aun ache dink. ‘The light of the whole world by no meana died wath it ‘you mieed never (THE END) Jt, Borfoom's Mosaetery, Greece, Fouaded ta the 14th Crntery

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST = i | ai _— \ Four Doors—All Steel—*1395 Here is the closed car that you have been waiting for—the first all metal, six cyl- inder, 50 horsepower sedan that has ever been offered at—or even near—1395 f. o. b. Detroit. The New Jewett Sedan is of all steel con- struction with four tightly fitting doors that close with snap and precision. The entire back is one solid stamping without joints or gaps in the metal. That means there can be no rattles, squeaks or annoying vibration. The interior is as bealitiful as Artist- Designers could make it. There are wide, thickly upholstered seats for five full grown adults. And you will find, not only the necessities, but the luxuries of the high grade, well appointed closed car, That means comfort and pride of ownership. Then, up under the hood, there is a mighty Paige built six cylinder motor that develops full 50 horsepower. Because it is a six it is a mechanism of inherent balance, overlapping impulses. It will sweep you along at sixty miles an hour or throttle down to three in traffic. That means giant energy and smooth vibrationless riding qualities, And, underlying and supplementing every other detail, is a chassis that bears the stamp of engineering genius. The frame, clutch, transmission, drive shaft and rear axle are perfectly codrdinated units—as strong as tested metal and fine craftsman- ship can make them. That means long life, endurance and true economy. Need we say more about this remark- able motor car value? It is sold and served by Paige dealers everywhere.

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THE SATURDAY 46 ae ee el = “Harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones that Gods own ear Listens delighted” Nilton — Paradise Lost () _ thats what you want in every- | alue ae a buy now-a-days and ar _thats what you get in this in- Calue strument of finest musical quality ~ the STORYé CLARK PLAYER PIANO rices are down~you cant pay less and get an instrument that you will be proud to own for a lifetime~and you can pay a great deal more and not get anything finer in tone quality, design or ease of operation riced within reach of every home~its the ‘whole family instrument for father, mother and the children to play an enjoy “Instruments of finest quality since 1857 The Story ¢ Clark Piano Company Chicago New York Brooklyn Philadelphia Pittsburgh Detroit COIP AND MAIL CLP AND MAIL a a es en Se aad de a | Story e Clark Piano Gompany—srs-37 So. Wabash ‘Ave. Chicago,IL : | Please send your booklat Nome I jaf designs and name of | wrarevt dealer Have yoru a ho ea oa El ee cotceneee | Piawe’? A Ployer Piano?i) City. 2... a et ne rete 1 rr a EVENING POST May 30, 1927 THE YOUNG MAN IN JOURNALISM (Cantinwed from Poge 25) life must be a very young prima ream in the first part of his ima of he aaid, a Likewise, he stirred us up one day by criticizing the use a writer bad mode of the word “manufactired" in deseribing some thing made by machinery. “' Manufac- ture," , “comes from the Latin ‘manus,’ the hand, and ‘facie,’ PE make; ‘manufacture moans tomake by hand, not by machinery oF in any other way. He objected to the wee of “dexterity” in the sense of skill, adroltness, aptitude, either physical or mental, “Orrier" is the Latin word meaning the right, and correctly speaking, “dexterous movements" means right-hand movements, wud the plea. "Where i your Latin?” he asked a writer whe had said that a political conven- tion had inderasd a candidate, “You can- not indorse a man: you indorse a note or a documint by writing on ita back. ‘“In- dare’ is fram the Latin “is,' on, and “ador= gic,’ the back. It is incorrect to use it in the sense of general approval.” Someone spoke up to say that under that strict Tning you might indorst a man by hit- ting him on the back with a club, and the ceitteal lessen ended in Laughter. These criticiams of Mr. Dana's weromade and heeded forty or fifty yenrt a But like many other words af Latin origin they have come inte general use in the ta which he objected. Usage is amplifying the service of many Latin roots, is giving them wider and mote gonernl meaning. * Dexteraus” and “dexterity have come omuman censent ta mean alert. nimble or nventel service of various Kinds, @ use the word “manufacture” for the making of anything, by machinery of chomicnl process: or almeat any way. We indorse men's sentiments or conduct, the action of conventions or anything to which we wish to give the stamp of approval, “Prime” is in constant use to express vigor, beauty, power, fullness of perfection, Eoii- turity, These uses attest the constant , the ex on of our language. There is leas inclination to hold the language to rigidity of root meaning. Standards of Good Usage There were other busy minds in the old Sun office when it came to considering the use wots. Thomas Hitchesek, whe wrote ao entertalningly on finance, signing his articles “Matthew Marshall,” was one of them. Never did the ward ee get into the news columns but he spat it and went after the unfortunate offender. “*Lenity' ip the word. Why do you per= Bist in ing ‘lenieney" when mean *lenity?" be demanded. In vain the vie= time trotted out the cliclionary, which didn’t mahe any distinetion between the wards, but Hitcheock was never con- yinced that “lonioney™ any plover in the Language, nother werd that cis- turbed him was “agresalde™ when weed in the senge of causing a pleasant sensation of mind or boiy, Agresment, he tired, was soncurrence between persons, notthings, A man could nobagree with the warndh of hia te fire, henee it waa wrong to say that this warmth waa agrecable, And there was dear old Doctor Wood, who becnuse of his skill in abbreviation eame to be known ws the Great American Condenser, Wewonder how many hundred thme in his editing be changed the word *Sudience”” to “spectators” or somethin else, “An audience,” he wearily repentet, "15 A gathering of hearere—‘audio’ ia the Latin verb meaning to hear. People who see pantomines, prize fights or cirewses"— there were To movies in those days or he would have included them —"“sare nok gudi= ences” And how many tienes did he change “on” the eteect to “in" the atreet, “ast to “latest,” “observe” to “motice,” a ah a Serepenatis Spat to" arlion"=="per cent means by the futidres 7 he snapped. Wood aceepted Rlchard Grant White's book, Words wnd Thelr Uses, withowt question. Filty veara Bp, and gootness knows how many years before, nearly every aifice had long rinted lists of prohibited words, They hie been repombed constantly ever Sitter it many articles: ar Flere fia cHer Eng- lish ond the use of werds. There seems to “the American news: be a fascination im writing about thetr, You might think that by this time the; were ground into the very soula of news. aper writers. But they seem to be on- eeded, We were told we must say a ca: accepts a post, not @ position; that it wis wrong to speak of a part of the country as a section; region was the proper word that folles did met locate in a region, they went bo live there: that you lend money do not loan its that a residue of anything a remainder, not a balance: that nine times out of ten you give a thing, do not donate it; that you shouldn't say “party" when mit mean “* "anid Ba on ti grat fength. Yet all these words that were a inweleome to the critica of Alty years age continue in commen Newspaper tee to-day are misusard, many of them, but why? Writing for newspupera differs from other literary work in thia: The newspaper writer has littl opportunity for revision. Almeat all articles for daily Bre written at a single sitting. The writer of editorial matter have several hour in which to compose, and vesually they kave a proof sheet for revision. The writers ol short news articles may | and cores their manuscript. But in the big office ao soon aa the whe bb writing an article of any considerable length has finished tern or three pages they are grabbed st Bag office bey, hurried to a copy reader, who revises moss bet he may anc rushes them to the composing room to be setup, The writer deed not see hig again, dota not read them over, even, after writing them, All big news reports— stories of great disastors, foothall matches, public meetings of demonstrations—sr prepared with haste Will froein’s Chassic The playhouse and opera erities wril- under these same trying cifrumetancn, with no time for leisurely thought or re vision. It le difficult, indeed, to write of 1 great ‘ormanes in a whirlwind of hurt. with less than two hours for cdeliberate con- secutive thought. The Freneh critic's way of presenting a news paragraph in the ed- tion follawing the performance, and re ae a carchully propared review for a la ate publication, eommenda itself; but pera continue to print long comments on hit performances tro or three hours after the fall of the cer taln. The opera cries have the advantage of athending. re: of new operss er may prepere parte of the article in advance. but reh are epiritless, for perfermer have not the inspiration and response of th audience, Intensity of thought and comcentmatio: must tngroas the writer, Hoe must prepari himself by aaa and practice ta thres every atom of mental vitality into the work, to write immediately, and without: expretntion of revision, exact! what sbeuld appear in the newspaper. d discipin: jg a great help in newspaper work. The man must achool hinmesclf to work wsder all conditions of mental anguish, phys! distress, heart sorrow or unhappiness o! any kind. He eannet surrender to moods or te whims or to physical sensations. [He must continue hour after hour, day atti day, with the same hurry-up speed. As i: crowded Broadway if you cannot keep op with the procession you must ie trodes on of take to a side street, eo must the active newspaper man everlastingly bees going. Ut is largely a matter of mind dis: pling, of shitdy and practios, of inten mental concentration and swiftness © thought. In ihustration of how men write ance great anguish of mind may be mention the experience of Will Irwin and the Sao Franelaeca earthquake and fre, Drwir wae 2 San Franciacan and he wrote in the ba news room of the Sun office the greater ps of the running story of the disaster a th: fragments of news came along avet th ean wites. He believed that his ws and his sen were in the destroyed roc visiting an aunt. Every effort was made! get word from them, but pot any came. =F not only wrote the story of the destracten of San Francisco but aleo that classic o journalism "Thee: City That Was wit (Cottiqued on Poge @5)

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(Continued fram Poge 40) onder the mental strain of belief that his wile and son were Inst, Every litth: while be stopped, ran his hands through his hair end muttered to himself something that wusded like “My God, if I knew only where they are!" And then he resumed the grinding out of the narrative, Three days alter the diaater word care that they were in San Jt. Pleat do not undervalue the ce lon irate practice—of elses that will pre in saying exacthy what you want tomy the first time you say it, In leisurely writing You —. aha and Boer an cake perfect, bat in news writ ‘iM have one dash only at Ladi heuk mack oppurtunity for revision, Your reputation 4 Newspaper writer on that one effort. You can cultivate the gift of ready ‘h just 28 many a finia arater has B It has been said of President Wilson that early in his youth he apprecinted the ad- vantages of ready a and set about to improve himeelf in its we. He practloed quaking long and constantly. In the se clusion of his room he conducted imagina dehates, talking to himself first on one si and then om the other of aame public uesti rain his ape ty a a dressed wt crags and peaks, the winding rivers, the silent meadows—=all for practice in the quick we of langunge, the shoing sentences and the putting of emphasis on dimaxes of thought and conclusion. And be berame ane of the most interesting and novingng spenkers this country—or any ether country for that rmutter—ever hea mown Now the newspaper writer is virtually producing language in the same manner as doe the extern egis speaker. If he dictates his clea, a of our beat sritera do, there is little difference, for he does little revision. The value of practice i known. bo speaker, [t follows that practio® is ¥ belpfal toward perfec= ton in newapaper writing. But the re Seepaper writer must practics writing at fop speed. Lot him practic in the line of work that he happens to be doing. If a reporter, for example, let him whaorb the facts narrated in a iilty-line report in any measpaper, amd then by a mighty effart of mental concentrabion reproduce the facts af that article with all possible speed, in different language and construction, and with full purpese not te imitate tt. An hour a day of this practice will help to facility of oxpression, to quick construc- ton and, best of all, toe the fest lis berefts of mental coneentration. Vigorous Writing ing writer should seek to rise ibawe commonplace, It wae said of Hachiavelli that “having adopted some of he maxims then generally received, he ar- anged them more luminously and ex- weed them mare foreibly than any other iter.”" The young writer should study the art of taking his words exude the very spirit of he oocmsion—the art of Aeecriinng joyous venta with joyous words and shadowing e wanchely happenings with the anne i gloom. He dheeuld Soule the faculty of making oberare truth pleasing: of mak- ne ive truth attractive." him follow the counsel of a distin- aished critic who says: “Chose con- ‘the nouns rather than vague, abstract, oolly ones. Use straightforward speech wher than circumlocution. . . . Re ember that the first virtue, the teuch- one of masculine style ia the use of the tive verb andl concrete noun. When you te in the aetive voice 'T gave him a Wer teapot,’ you write a aman. When 2 write ‘He was made the recipient of a wer teapot,” you write jargon.” Avoid overwor words is commen pti= ee to young journalists. An article in be Writer haa much to say of waya by hich the constant wee of the word “said” ty be prevented, “Said” sometimes ones monotonous, especially in the clia= fae of fiction, but almost always another th maj be found to express the author's mining. The Writer printed a list of fee hundred and eighty-two verbe found about fifty m né stories which had en weed intend of “gail Frequently Buse of a verb helps te make more con- eas well as to avoid the we of the word aid.” “Tt hurts,’ said John in a com- ining tone,” is not ao good ag “Tt fis,’ John complained,"’ Again, “* Fleas The THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Does your food help me," sald the beggar in pitiful bewerch- py anpenh betterexpresmed by" Please help me,’ the beggar pleaded.” The lan- flage is rich in verbs, Another overworked word, and a slow word too, is the word “show. Tt does Beem a8 theugh the average newspaper writer cannet think of any ether ward when he writes that this action or this event or this conclusion or this computa- tion abows that, and so forth, when he might aay attests, evinces, betokens, bespenks, implies, leovtes, proves, ar any other suitable verb of the twenty-five or more he may find in a thesaurus, Owerworked PArazer Laceeness of speech ia found in the use af explanatory phrases that might be ex- jasingla verb, The verb is the art af language Life, the seul of expres sion. Why, tor example, do we write “He reflected on the situation” when “He cogi- ate would be ee HES a epoke reprovingly to t oy. He chided the bay. He spoke ina mocking, deriding manner, hae His breath came convulsively and bro- kenly. He gus F exchanged idle werda and goasip, Th bbhled. e gave utterances to the thought. He etre! the thought. He waa filled with wander, Hoe marveled, He busied himself with the affaira of his neighbors, Hom i e uttered a suppresend groan. He miaaned. She epoke in low, indistinet words. She mumbled. ; His was an exhibition of empty talk, He palavered, T am aware that these things are tage cai elementary: Lut they are of i Oo young arto writen, Slovenly, disjointed, confused dic thon mubst retard progress. Some of the achoala of journalism are giving practical instruction in the editing of , are giving useful drill in copy reading. But the common lecture in the college English course—the litth eszay on some distin- dished author that tella af hie life, bla White, his intellectual yearnings his midnight inspirations, with a few com ments on hit atyle and diction—is of litth: use in teaching a young man ta write. We were told in the days of fifty yeare ago that overworked phrases are quite as dspiriting to the reader os overworked words. ‘The style booke have told us 20 ever since. Ag alter repeated use a drug ceases to have effect on the human aystem, so words and phrases weer ot alter com- stank repetitian and have but feeble effect on the mind. Tt la eaay te compile scores of these commonplaces, excellent indeed when first uttered but inexpressive because so familiar, The mind does not reflect their true value. How much better to any that o thing ia beautiful than that “it la a thing of beauty and a joy forever": or that a thundercloud was black rather than that it “was black as the ace of epades,"" Yet in recent comment on digarmament o New York rorning newapaper editerial writer weakened an article of less than fifty lines bey including the expressions: “Too ready to lay hie earda on the table"; “Mr. Hughes has boldly taken the bull by the horne": “striking ruthlessly toe the heart of the problem”; “America’s signa eontributlon ta the siiecesa of the con- ference; “leaves nothing to be desired in the way of." Every one of these expres- sions is at least filty years old, Fomilinrity with a teple weunlly results in diminished interest in that topic. It t& our mature to aeek things new. We tire of the commonplace and the obvious, Tf you wish to make your words effective lift them aut of the commonplace, Many a fine thought has been weakened or lost by feeble diction, Study—persistent, lnboriows, intelligent study —is key to success in writing, Oeeasionally a genius startles with a apor- taneous facility for the use of words and sentences, but the nine hundred ond nineky-nine others of us newspaper fer ders must achieve our purpese by the hard- eat kind of hard work. We must shady the derivation of words, the various uses of words. If we are to keep up with these snappy times we must hunt for strong, masculine nein ond rapid-fire verbs and staccato adjectives and sudden adverbs, Almost always we can find a better word fail to meet two vital needs? Yet a recent discovery makes it easy today to have your diet give you just the elements you need ANY a dinner that seems good to you ls really a crime committed against yourown body tissues. Although the food is good in itself you do mot pet full benefit fram it because something is lack- ing. This needed factor is richly supplied by Fleischmann’s Yeast. Because thousands of men and women are adding this fresh yeast to their meals they are find- ing a vigor and strength often unknown for years. Justsupplement youreveryday diet with Fleischmann's Yeast and see how much better your appetite and digestion will be. You will also find that waste matter is eliminated regularly and naturally by adding Fleisch- mann's Yeast to your meals. What laxatives can never do Doctors are agreed that laxatives never remove the cause of the trouble. Indeed one physician says that one of its chief causes is probably the indiscriminate use of cathartics. Fleischmann's Yeast as a food is just the natural cor- rective you need. A moted doctor says fresh yeast should be much more frequently given in cases of intestinal disturbance, especially if there is a constant need for laxatives. Because Fleischmann’s ¥ east is a food it does for you naturally and permanently what habit forming drugs do only artificially and tem- porarily. One cake of Fleisch- mann’s Yeast gives you ten times the amount of yeast-vitamin found in many of the so-called yeast- Vitamin preparations ta which drugs of various kinds have been added. Be sure you get Fleisch- mann's fresh yeast. It comesonly in the familiar tin foil package. Popular ways of eating Fleischmann'’s Yeast Many like tonibble Fleischmann's ¥ cast from the cake a littl: at a time. Some prefer tt apread on crackers of breod. Others take it in buling hot water; stil others like it in milk, fruit-juites, coffee or cocoon. It ia very nourlahing with malted milk drinks. “You will grow to like fta dethective flavor just as You grew bo Hike the taste of olives of oysters. Begin today by eating Fleischmann's Yeost—2 or 3 cokes regularly each day. Place o standing arder with your @rocer. 200,000 groceracarry Fleisch= mann's Feast. If your grocer fs mot among them, write to the Fleisch- ATLA Sferoy im your nearest one they will eee Ghat you are supplied. Send for free borklet telling the fasci- nating story of The New Importance of VWeot in Diet"—what it bos dome for ethers—whatit CoMPARY, Dept. 610, 701 Wohington St., Mew Work, 40

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Pactory and oan oftces & Dudley Street, Providence, R. 1. Hew York—159 Madison Ave Chicuge—417 Seuth Dearborn Se. fan Francisco—38 OF Parrell Surcet And 50 offer dratrebuting porete in the OUneated States ment, invective, ridiculo, sarcasm, than the one that first suggests itself. Almost always we may shorten and sim- plify o sentence if we study it. ‘The word spoken may be forgotten. The word written stands for all time, The orator may move his hearers by eloquence, by gesture, hy faciul expression, by the tacts of public speaking, even though his words be feeble or not well chosen of his conclusions be not convincing. His words may be forgotten’ certainly will not be remem ber unlis Fecordel—bat they have been Teentoresd: by. recs ei quence, maybe by acity of sperch, by his personality, and the met result "n favorable, The ornter’s bluff may serve him well nt times, but the worde of the writer must stund on their merits in lasting type. ‘Type furnishes little emotion. There are few typographical tricks that cause heart flutter or mental spasm. Just plain words alone—words, words nearly every one of which is already famil- iar to the reader—miust make the writer's ‘reputation, How important that every word be studied! The young journalist cannot be urged tow strongly to atudy the use of words. Every word has its correct use; many words are used inburracthy, You will find it an interesting study. If you doubt its interest, be so good ag to open your dic- lignary ta ane hazard p and read fntentty for fitteen minutes. ‘You will find words the existence of whieh you had not known, the uses of which you had not un- derstead. Ohaerve the derivation and thus the primary meaning of the ward und you cannot miss its proper place. You can- not put time to better purpose if you seek oxealletica in Brains enmposition than by shudying the English dictionary a few minutes every day. Ee When a writer is sure of his information, is sincere in his attitude, ond is eager for its presentation, words and sentences usually come to him with ease. It is when he is shaky over his facts or insincere or dis- honest that his words become feeble, lack convincing quality, do not ring true. It is interesting to observe how often dishonest journaliam convicts itself through timidity af diction. ah Some of aur modem ai is practical and easy to understand. The words “cerapped"’ and “junked” seem to have been put permanently inte the language by the Washington disarmament conference. A well-known journal says, “The news- papers were kidding him,"’ and likely enough we must accept "kid" as a verb. The Navy now save of a man when departs that he “shoves off." ies pone to say of a dissatisfied person, according to the dictionaries, that he ip “peeved,” but the use of the word is rather new, Food is known a8 “eata™ and the pleasures of the plpe and of cigara are called “smokes.” A recent headline said, “Flivvers furnish booze to soldiers," Another newspaper transforma “hoews" Loto a verb: “Come plained that she hocused him.” Another journal asaya of some occupation of young- aters that “it gives them no time ta go on the loose.” Editorial Writing Anew invention brings out a new crop of words. We have “automobile,” “garage,” “speedometer”! “limousine,” ““taxi"' “tax- imeter,” “motor boat,” “motoreyele,” "chauftieur™—all useful and necessary ad- ditions to our elastic lunguage. The air- lane has brought as many more, and so io wireless transmission. Editorial writing requires a different rig touch than is used in news narra= thon, It is harder te catch the knack of it. The special orticle or news report gives information only; the editorial article seeks to ade, explain, amuse, It must attract the reader's attention and it is the writer's art of eambining chat, informa- tion and opinion that wing thia result. Ite epportunities for literary perfection are boundless, Every trick of language, arpu- umoer, [rolic, pathos, every clement that enters liternture may be indulged in, and the more atriking the more successful, The editorial page is the most important part of the newspaper. It gives the sheet its: greabest distinction, its widest influence, ita chief reputation—gives the editor his proudest. satistaction. It is here that the editor reveals to the public the true measure of his ability and inspires the con- fidence and the reapect of his community, if at all. The editorial article is a lithe May 20, 1922 @aay on a current topic. You may glorify Taner in tL otcmaeet. lnncoaper ui ots: tanee in the stron anguage at com- mand; of you may minimize it by inane, finbby comments on its weakest features and by ignoring its essentials, You may ve it tine literary finwor of yotl may rool over it. The tricks of the trade come with practice. 2 ot Editorial writing I fascinati Ta wield influence always gives satisfaction For centuries it has been the ambition of otatera anc writers to influence men's thoughts, to direct men's actions. Creative work is perhaps the most enjoyable of all work. In the newspaper it has come to be the most important, An original editorial article summons all the creative ability of the writers Tt i the product of his years ol sbudy and experience. The mews depart- ment may be conducted without an emeess of book learning, for news petting eas be come so sysbemelined it ia dif tte Ib ree a ooew way of treating the news, But before you have been an editorial writer many pagina be will have called inte precious use all your remsoning powers, your philoaophy, all the principles of life and. o ig enripr: you may have : News eventa may be so presented ma to have quick influence. Many readers giance at headlines and scan news columns and an inftuenced without giving them a scrap of intellectunl reflection. ut the editorial writer muat have real merit to influence other men. si He must possess the art of composition, of speech, of carrying convietion. He not only thinks for his readers but also he aeeke bo persuade ta his way of thinking. Lafeadls Hearn'’s Advice In large cilies, where the news are opulent and large staffs are employed, the editorial writer is expected to proctucr one article only cach day. But the number of opulent journals ia amall, and im almost al) American newapaper offices the edisorial ariter furnishes several articles. Always he ia hurried. He has little: time for the stud? of his subject or far proper thought. This horny tempts to o condition of Fouwtice thought, to the utterance of the obvious, to imitation. Hurried writing usually iz slovenly writing, and that is a reason why ad much of our editorial writing is medii- orre. This everlosting hurry is m@ seriou drawback to good newspaper taking: but it a alae an incentive to quick thinking. What haa been said of the politician, thet he must act often before he has mead of thought, is singularly true of the editor. He must understand the political, com- merelal, sockal questions of the hour, met be prepared to hop right inte instant de cussion of them. Te must train himeelf to Use quick jodprvent and to reach quel conclusions. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couwch in ao lecture te the Cambridge students urged them i study writing and to practice it—to write) and rewrite with intent to gain facility i diction and in the fashioning of sen bene and especially ta seek to ea, thelr prove “SeCurate, DOTspicuous, Persuasive, appropriate.” He would insure greater aecuracy hey the study and E tise of words. T E and speech being ing able it follows that we cannot use the humblest process of thought—eannot resolve to take aur bath hot or ood or de eide what to order for breakfast—withou! poesia mn eomeloes bed ppten ‘Word. n fing, he urges, are the currency: in which we can exchange thought, even with MTsel yes, Does it not follow, then, that the more merurately we use worda the closer defect tion we ahall give to our thoughts? “The first aim of speech is to be understood and the more clearly we write the more onsily nnd surely we woll be understand. Not te be uoderatood is to be a sJoven is a an Laicadio Heat urged the students of the University of Tokio to study the eonstruc- tion of sentences—te write them over and over agaln until they were nearly perfect, saying: “A thing onee written ia met liter ture... No man can produce real literature at one writing, . . 3 . To pee duct even a single sentence of good litera- ture requires that the test be written af least three times. . . . For literature more than any other art the all-neresay thing is patience.” He advised the st- dents to write a practice piece and pol 5 away for a week: then to revise it amd pot (Comtiaoed on Page £3!)

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NEW YORK THE SATURDAY EVENING POST TPS E S° METHING like twenty-five hun- dred years ago lived Pythagoras, the wisest and most learned man of his time. He was the first to reason that the earth was a globe and with the other planets revolved around a central body. He made discoveries which elevated mathematics to a science. He was a leader in medicine, music, ethics and fFoverTnment. News of his wisdom and his learning spread far and wide. The size of the town in which he lived was doubled by the people who came to study his dac- trines. Such was the faith in his word that when his followers made an asser- tion upon any subject, if they were asked how they knew it to be true, they N. W AYER & SON PHILADELPHIA BOSTON Pi _gis Hig would reply simply: “‘ tse Dixit’ —"*He himself has said it!"’ The world accepts its ideas—and its commercial products—largely on such faith. The unknown product, though it havea guarantee written in the strong- est terms, fails to inspire the confidence that the known product commands, though it have no guarantee at all. A name of recognized worth is its own promise and itsown pledge. Reputation is the best of all salesmen. It is the business of advertising to make character known, and by so doing to create reputation, It is the power of advertising to make people feel, when they see the name of arecognized manu- facturer upon a product: ‘‘He himself has made it—it must be good." ADFERTISING CLEVELAND May 20, 1979 AHEADOUARTERS CHICAGO bs

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ifaniineed! from Poge 50! + aexyaguin, and to continue the process of miisiotuntil hey could improve it nomore. : his important work mal it repented eines unit Linn nh Fe itions wrth Hewes was quite unlike the flrat. Tenny- sor chasged his productions over and agai. Gray was fourteen years in pertect- ing the Elegy. It has been suggested that Sir Walter 1's later novels, writben ot grat speed, are inferior ta bis earlier and mre | ywork. Samuel Butler's mas- terpaece, ee a All Fleah, was under ratraction for twelwe years, eT; literary history furnishes examples af grat authors who toiled long over their ratuseipl. Macaulay gave more time to ihe Seon Of Bis es than to their writ= ing. Their fuperlority over his history, as terry ucte, is revealed by atudy af both. The history was written more hur- fedly, The essnye are the product of reany one hundred years age, but they 7 serve ta Wlustrate the beauties of thought- fil Language and intense thinking. We look darvhere in vain for more adroit phrasing ce impressive: thunderclaps of climax. hone presen ¥ writers coticize: Machu ky for he lon awn senbences, his reiteration, and his wandering from the nirtative, Yet he was imitated by writers for aly years. His style was the vojue, ind Macaulay, a well, had both praised. ard gritisiaed hia great predecessor, Dr, Samuel Johnson, who had been the vogue fore handred yours, The men of greatest reputations os mite, Sainte-Beuve, Edund Goese, Mae ci@lay, Saintshbury and others, put laten- ave iady into what they wrote. If they wr toreiew a book they mate a study of the subject of the book and of the life and meitaliny of the author, ond semetinves thir produetions were of more use to the word than was the book Itself. Their fue are not so much read in this busy money-making age, lait they are among the mratet contributions to thoughtful liters- ture, and the student af journalism will feed them with at profit. For your own wore is to he thoughtful work—work in- ecded to uacke readers to your own vay of thanlsines. The Style of Other Days The English language is reaching afar, flere are those who predict that even- ce oie le de where. Already |i the Language of more than two hundred illion penple. Tt will carry the tourist wer the globe ay established routes of fivel—through the streeta of Japan and i bazaars of India and the South Sea lands of the Pacific. Tennyson said to Sir dein Arnold: ‘It is bad for us that cgish will always be a speken speoch, ire that means that it will always be laiging, amd Bo the time will come when M1 Beal 1 will bees hard te rend as Chaucer Indeed, the language is changing con- antly, We are eliding letters, loppin [ terminations, cutting out phrases an dlishin= circumlorution, It is not se old larsr age 23 many others, and opportu- 'y for ita improvement exists. Compare, you Please, a moder narrative with e Segemniings af Chaucer's The Tale of To three of Tour Fumes. \ young man called Melihews, mighty and be, begat upon Kis wit, that called whe idee, a doughter which that colled was thie, Upon a day betel, that for his disport & went inte the folds him foe to play. Hk ead his d iter eck hath be daft in-aith hows, af which the dores were fast shot. feof his olde foes have tt eapyed, and setten drea to the walles of his hous, and by che viowes be entred, and beetyn his wyl, and indid bia doughter with fyve “mortal fides im fywa sondry places, that is to eayn, fer feet, in iver hondes, in her cores, in * and in her mouth; and lafte ber for deed, went aay. ind imagine, if you may, how a modern SRLPer copy render erould eumdense the owing bit af Washington [rving prase towne printed in achool readers sixty ra age aa an example of graceful writing felicity of expression: 1 one of those somber and pather neelan- ¥ days in the latter part of autumn when Shadows ef morning and evening almost together ani thraw a glowm ewer Uhe ine af the yoor [ posed several heura bling around Weatminster Abbey. There Seething conpenial to the season in the rofl muaigritcene: of the oh pile; and, aa sacd its threshold, it anomod like abepping THE SATURDAY EVENING POST hack inte the regions of antiquity and losing maysell mmeang the shades of former apes. More than ever & there present-day need for the wae of plain, eaaily undaretood Eng- lish, We live in a money-making age—an age of industrial development, in which machines are doing the work that braing sel ta do, in which voeational and tech- tical education is demanded of schools and colleges, and in which the ery for technical literature is insistent. Only experts under- stand the technical words and language of their specialty, hener the ery for writers who cao translate technical language into Plain English that any reader may under- stand, Dean Weat, of Princeton, haa de plored the inability of many professors to teach orally or in writing in any other than the diaheet of their specialties, Lacking in |: literary training they are unable clearly ta any what they think. Someone asked William T. Stead, the English journalist, whether he would have Gi BSiPoMMeT OF & newspaper writer pre pare an article on sun spots, and Stead's Instant reply was that the astronomer d write it for astronomers in langua that no one cle would understand, but ¢ reporter would tap the brain of the special- ist and go serve out bis knowledge that the ordinary reader would understand. The tendency oF preceni-simi: writing ie to trans- late technical language, scientific terms, pro- fessional formule and medical PI pPressons into Plain, common-sense English. Newspaper English And let not the yeine mais contemplat- ing a jowrnalietle career be persiiaded that newspaper English is not gool English, The men who wrote for the daily presa of the Spanish-American War, for instance, of the great political movements of Europe af later years, of wur great industrial devel- apments and of the world-wide war in por- ticular are the very men who are rewriting these things into price ba When they wrote this information for the newepapera dis- tinguished college professora and critics called it journwlese; when bt appears in the reviews and in books they speak of ft as literature, In praise of newspaper writing as good training for writers, Anatole France has this to say: It is inveterate prejudice to believe that. ono apeils hla pen le wricg for the newspapers. a the contrary, one guins in that way supple meas, ms also ease and that reedices withowt which the phrase doea not move pracefully ond mare amillaa. Ttia a good school, say what one In his illuminating book of essay called Unicorns, ther Inte Jumes G. Honeker aaya of the excellent writing to be found in Tmielerts ewe per: If style cannot be linperted, what then is the rab. ing to do, after & close study of the masters? We should soy, fo in a chastened mood to the nearest oeespaper offer andl apply for a humble place on the atall. Then one wi eome to eripe with Hi, | ci eninge soon atyle, . . . It mim the daily press, w New York, Paris, Vienna ar London, that ono pny fli’ the acuned nat, rnet AeHie prose, pron stripped of superiucus ornament, prose bare ta the bone in fighting trim. But why speak of newspaper etyle whon there isn't any such thing? Almost ever kind of writing is used by newepapers, A kinds of literature are printed in them— the scholarly essay, the article of argument, the expository editorial paragraph, the story of fiction, the language of verse, the consideration of art, music, the play, all sorts of deseription of all kinds of happen- ings in every purt af this polly ald earth— and all are written withowt uniformity of diction or construction, There is no style the newspaper discards. The experienced | elitor sels lt in every calumn, He studies to that efi. Some writing is ao plain that you de nat notice it. Tt is like the well-lressed man whase clathing i so simple and appropriate that if is not abtraeting atlentian wherever he goes. Mérimée said of Stendhal that he despised mere style and insisted that a writer had attained perfection when we remember his ideas without recalling his phrases; and of Saintsbury, the English efitic, it wut remarked that “he alwa thought it of more importance to utter the thought than to care about the form of utterance. . If he had given more attention to style we should have been deprived of some of the benefits of his powledge.” diversity of writing and of | The finest drink you ever tasted~ ROOTBEER made from +g One 25 “package pi Makes 8O glasses | You've never tasted anything so good and refreshing as the rootbeer you make from Hires Household Extract. And no other drink 18 80 easy to make. Simple directions for mixing are enclosed in the package. Bottle with tight corks or get Hires Patent Bottle Stoppers from your grocer. Forty-eight hours after mixing, your rootbeer is sperkling and ready to drink. 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$132 if strung with gut The Dayton Steel Racquet is distributed by A. G. Sbalding & Bros., Wright & Ditson, Wright & Ditson-Vietor Co.and Alex Taylor & Co. and can be obtain in any store where their goods are sold. THE a PATENTS FEA DTHG IM THE UMETED STATES OU can now buya Tennis Racover that will not warp or break, that requires no press, 1s unaftected by climatic changes—can deteriorating in the least. The Dayton Steel Racquet has a steel frame and is strung with resilient steel strings. [cis made in standard weights with standard wooden handles, and is perfectly balanced. section than a wooden frame, offers much less resistance to the air, and ts much easier to control than the ordinary racquet, Invented by William A. Larned The Dayton Stee] Racquet is the invention of William A. Larned, sepeit Sunes national champion, Tt is the result of more than 20 years’ mence and has the enthusiastic approval of all who have used it. Whether you have been paying more or less than ten dollars for tennis racquets, you will find the Dayton Steel Racquet more satisfactory and more economical than any racquet you have ever used. Write for booklet. THE DAYTON STEEL RACQUET COMPANY, Dayton, Ohio } EE ie quet BAD TOREIGH COLMTAES - world that itis troe.”” Macau be used in the rain—stored in an exceedingly dry or damp place for an indefinite period without The steel frame, smaller in cross SATURDAY EVENING POST Indemd, some great newspaper narra- sclvea—grent disasters like the sinking cf vS— a the Lusitania or the Titanle—that the reader's attention is entirely concentrated on the facta and he doea not notice the diction or the construction. No mathber how disjointed or horribly written the narrative may be, he finishes it with the impression that he has read a great article. Neverthe- leas, ev artlele la the better for good telling. erhape no greater newepaper accomplishment exists than the ability to write well, It is of increasing value as the young man goes on to higher work. A little discreet exuberanee of expression is tolerated by many editera. Sengatlonal newspapers do Uttle harm as long a8 they tick toe the truth. You may print your editions in red ink and job type with head- lines a foot high, if you like, without other offense than to exaggerate the importance of your announcement. Typographical we- eal merely attracta attention. It BeT ves Bane PUrpose as does the ora- tor’s violent gesture or the memenger's breathless annodncement: exctbes curiosity, arouses interest. Now there ia such a thing as harmless exaggeration, It entera largely into our private life, Our dreama of th, of ste rth happiness are usually far beyond the fulfillment. We exagperate our prospects, aur ambltions, our promises to ourselves. But this form of exaggeration is bewelicial, for it is a spur to ambition and a prod to The edliter is termpted to sremerratien because a littl: exaggeration mia it a little more interesting. He sees that the ted novel sells while the novel true to life languishes; that the actor who gesticulates and showta has the loudest applause; that the painter who outdoes ature makes more money than the artist who is tras to Nature. Indeed, some philosopher hes said that an rand to succes lies through exaggeration, The man who exploits his own importance attracts more attention than the modest man. The mer who exalts his wares solls more than the man dora nat. Senentionnl Saray, fll churches while Proay ones preach to empty benches. It was § Smith who remarked: "Tt is not the first man to re og who de- serves the credit for it, but he who says it so long and so loud that at last he he ibeeat ail h hose j portraita are perhaps t in which there is a slight mixture of carica- ture, and we are not certain that the best histories are nok those in which ao little of exaggeration, of fictitlout narrative, judiciqusly emplayed." But the editer must we exaggeration with great disere- tion, must mot pervert the truth. ‘(rross | exaggeration becomes downright lying. The Cleveland-Blaine Campaign In my article in Tee SatuRbay EVEXING Past of February fourth was mentioned the exciting election-night scones oof the Cleveland-Hlaine campaign, the mobs around the newer ger olfices and the tumult incident tea. very clase eontest. Returns up te midnight indicated Blaine’s election. It was mentioned also that while Blaine was being congratulated in his Augusta home news of his possible defeat wre flashed and that he wwe overcome by the disastrous turn of affaires: also that he May 20, 977 sont a telegram to his New York campulg: managers, Thomas H. Sherman has written for the Portland shoes sige = ekceedingly in- teresting narrative of the events of that evening in the Blaine home. He wy Blaine's secretary, and was with hin throughout the campaign. “Mr. Blaine sat by my side,” be says, “while the returns were coming in, In my — T wees i tele. greph operator, and we had a private win Ing into Mr. Blaine's Library, Ay about midnight, when the retares ently sho Cleveland's election, Mr. Blaine said to me, ‘Even if 1 should coy New York by about a thousand yotes, | we itectiern tal adverse : "Tam to and poling to sleep, I do not want to be disturbed, no matte whatcomes.” Mr. Blaine had been throogh a: ey Ease 2a ign, He had bees traveling all day, having reached Augusta wat before the polls closed in time to vote, @ said good night to a few of his intimate friends who wore in the parlor and went as stairs to bed. He slept soundly until about nine o'clock next morning when [ wont op to his bedroom with a handful of dispatches and the latest returns. By that time it wes certain he had been defeated. When I we: inte the room Mr, Elaine was in bed. He said, ‘Well, Tom, how do you feel the motming?" T replied: “I cant say how | feel until I know how you feel.! Ut seemed impossible that a man could pasa theourh such & “aay campaign without being visibly affected." Air. Bilaine’s Coolnen "°F lesen vou, Me. Blaine said, *it doesn’s affect me a pulse beat. [ am sorry for the party and for friends, but personally | ain net disturbed.’ No one who wea coe to Mr, Blaine could have said to Mr. Lei that this announcement ‘was like a buck! af cold water down his back" and that ‘be nearly went inte a collapse." Tt was no true. Air. Lord must have confused ths incident with something else, To lr, Lord this Blaing-Cleveland election was one ol many: on met it made such an ij | afd all the ineidents connected with ii a ao clear in mind that I eould not be me taken about this matter. Furthermore. Mr. Blaine did not telegraph the Republican managers to postpone the anmoimcemes! of his defeat. Whatever these manage may have done waa on thelr own in- itiative. To my knowledge Mr. Hinze neither advised it nor knew about it, anda! handled all of his correspondence and tee cate I would be likely to know had one anything of the letnd._" : Kr. Sherman's narration rings tus =| information came from persona in woom had orery confidence, but Mr. Shera was with Alr. Blaine, and he should kee, It would not have been te Mor, Blaine) discredit had he been overcome. | several hours he had supposed he wos il President-cloct—had been awarded 1 highest honor the nation can give Ti cime sldden news of defeat A man, indeed, must he hawe been co ra dhmoeved, Of more fmportane & definite information that Mr, Bisiee sl no message to his New York manages, it it TOMoVes any’ suspicion oF that he had to da with the Abbempis fluence Presa announcements of the or that he suggested any manipulation the returns,

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an THE SATURDAY EVENING POST C. ——r~ fn ET | aa t AScenic Vacation lacier National Park Go to the mountains this summer—to Glacier National Park, the wild heart of America. Enjoy its old-fashioned forms of recreation—horseback riding —fishing —camping —mountain climbing—motoring. Picnic in Alpine mead- ows. Meet Blackfeet Indians. Let your camera record your happy outing in this cool vacation land of joy. Big, modern hotels and rustic chalet camps provide comfort in the wilderness. You can take it easy or rough it, Summer Tourist Fares Greatly Reduced The Oniental Limited, with new modern Pullman equipment, laa aid steel Through train from Chicage vin Burlington Route-Great Northern Rallway, to Glacier Park, Spokane, Seaccle, Portland, Tacoma. Srope at Glacler Park Hotel—Eastern entrance. Alao Through trains from Kunsas (ity. En reute ta North Pacific Coast, Alaska or Callfornia, Visit Lake Chelun and Rainter and (Crater Luke Notional Parka. All-expense toura of Crlacter Purk—one to seven daya' durnution—hare been arranged for convenience of travelers. Longer tripa if desired. For free books or deformation apply fo ony tebe oF uri agent or offices of Great Northern Aoileray dat W. Adnan St. 268 Pron way THe Empire Bldg. LTC army Eechangs Chicago, 11, Mew York, §, ¥, Pitushurgh, Ma. Ka bt, MD a4 Fleanace Bhlg. if) Wewret Bil aly Cleleens’ Nat'l Bank Aide. 14 Wash ae it Philadetphia, Po. Sasa Froacieco, © Los Angeles, Calif. Boston, GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY 4. J, DICK Passenger TrafGe Herne Ser. Pal, Mist, ee nag | ‘ E = ¥

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56 | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST For the Protection of Building Investments Buildings were for ages regarded as man's best mon- uments, Hut within the last 40 years, building prac- tices have been revolutionized by the introduction of plumbing, heating, electric, refrigeration and other systems which are dependent on piping exposed to corrosive attack from within, And these arterial systems are mostly inaccessible —buried in walls and floors—which, when failures oceur, entail record breaking replacement costs. So one is forced to ask: What is the monumental value of these modern structures with their be- wildering network of pipes? In other words, what will be their upkeep cost and their investment value? To answer these questions, look io fhe piping. For the protection of your investment, painstaking architects and engineers choose Byers pipe. They pre- fer tostake their good names upona half century of per- formance of Byers pipe rather thanon the unsupported promisesofcheaper materials. Hence the widespread use of Byers pipe for buildings of every character. Big life insuranee companies so thoroughly ap- preciate the close relation of investment value to quality of pipe, that it plays an important role in their decision to lend money on buildings. Tf you want to knaw WHY Byers pipe bp dependable send for Bulletin Mo, 26-A, “' What is Wrought Fron Ff" A. M. BYERS COMPANY, PITTSBURGH, PA. Established 1B) Now York Philadelphia Cleveland Howesten GENUINE WROUGHT IRON 8 iihaiiataa May 20, i937 _ Some Recent Buildings Equipped with Byers Pipe 1 Standard O17} Building, Baltimore, Mie Avghinegt: Clyde M., Prin, Betrimore, Sid Phorst: ing aod Hearing Systema. Z Sr. Mary's Hospital, Rochesrer, Mim * Arehineee: CH. Jekoaton, Se P, Mion, Byers Pipe inainied i ie Flombiog and Heating Sywiens 4 Liggett Building, Pia Vier Carp Carrere ond Haati Aprcbiteci Sheewe, Lael ard Hinks, Ave ree ae! ‘Pipe installed ja Phamteng abet. 4 Haddon Half Hovrel, Atiangic Ciry. 8. J. Philadelpha FB ims arg are ! | = uw stalied in Plumbing System. 5 Aras Eafe Jnasurance Fldg Tia. Cibie Archi peeta: Raab Endaccti & Rook, Tulse, (kle, pers Pigs marelied ith Plumbing Pig Heating Sysirmas BYERS PIPE

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ure or even request me to appoint. I eden flied the place by a man of my wa cnDeEE, oné not named in that masa of political appeals. ine the personal Appoint of sradectanr WH5 & Tan Whom we will cull Wr Shift He came into my office during the dist afternoon and asked if he might iave time to complete his report of Last pears Wor tk. Why haven't you sam pleted i during be three months and more of thie yeart axed, at aaured me his report contained ach invaluable dvta thot it required great iby am time. ow enuch time T'* “Not mote than two weeks, comumin- iiteeT. "Any report that takes two weeks to rte lll not have time to read, The state nll worry along without your information.” He left, of course ney enemy. Th commissioner if allowed three con- Wectial inepectors. TI had decided to ap- a oy bata lirutenants who hed served talion uvereias. To my surprise that my predecessor, two adinics Doeiisopi office, had filled one of these mibiond, that this man was a Pover- at Fora member of the Property Part: voanything fora Povertist is not consid- red good form, I sent for this inspector, Tle man wid past sixty ani entirely nétied for the work. I asked for his rea- cation. Not until months later did I an why my predecessor had made the ap- mitment, This man was a particular ied of the Powertist leader mentioned i nat rs to the mavernor fit for throne beri a, I od hawe ba Miischerss this Tnefficient an, aad hoped thereby $6 create a break Weeding Out the Payroll Aa it bi ed, im Slechares of th of this man Te a5 2 imax The le: ie nme the highway commissioner; a be Le confidently expected to hava o ronal friend made second deputy. I welt etree: Bsns ir pec I shall know, for, true sees 3 ee he is, te kept ailent; nothin have ol gut chars it, has pasta, Ronee lone pruning, I found, waa necessary. fing the a oP expe highway activities normal, and, like an ee en, ly visited, The three occupants, after Ba ay alli the + cewepapers that they iy dilige reading Und EF cover, besume un-= rit. T is isthe higtorieal department," ane hem said, ‘We collect and tabulate iol new re construction.” iro ft Fequire three of you to: do Oh, yes, commizaloner: there le a lat etail to our work.” Esuugh to require re assistant “; aio enginesran agi eb he ey We Fenlly ahoal have on temeraiies in here." looked at my watch. "Tt ia now eleven ek; at noon today this department (ot of business flled the places af those three employes mp shia pe girl, whe curried an tee work er, and of course at lesa coat. few = aya after taking charge, = ie ty came to me, fighting m ly as eon as tee. T waited with bey to learn the cause, I won't aign t! "a," he said. showing me maintenance roll. “There's a fel- a year, and I've Nor have I, We' iL investigate,” hea Field and Gillett joined us they ded an interesting tale, ‘The man h eto the enpital city yeare before in the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST HIGHWAYS AND HIGHWAYMEN | (Continued from Page 17) interest af a newspaper then agitating an “a phic tion of the department. Through etivities, they managed to ruse quite | a piri but'so far naa I ed ikon nolscely went to jail. After the dust of this inves- tigation had settled this moan secured a place in the department, apparently as a permanent fixture, ; "Why," T asked, “has not this man re | parted to the maintenance deputy?" "He has nothing to do with mainte nance. He's supposes! to collect evidence to defend suite brought against the depart- ment in the Court of Claima.” “Whore is this man nowt" 1 osled Gillett. “Probably In the lobby af some hotel | downtown.” PA iad long has thia thing been going an? “Six years,”" Getting Up Steam T turned to the second deputy, 2 that pay roll under protest, major; it's t last one you'll have te sign with that man's Han on tt, He's fired.’ Field and Gillett left without further words, but with a look that I did mot underatand until I read the papers. sume days later, Surprise, satisfaction, anmety | were min wots their feos By the end of two months the aa =| Tent was pekte at ropapeed.2 Laat | down war contracts beet pat = in work, and other contracta for construction and reconstruction sare Zz foree, We Were doing a8 much or more pine apd le in # ister than uae been poeal uring 1 under wartime eon ditions, and this larger activity waa being carried on at an actual saving in salaries at ara berate office alone of more than | $9000 w year, Leonfess that I did not de all the pruning | posible; there are employes in the depart- | ment ae have been there for ago many | peice that to turn them out would mean | ge shee iturvatlon, I asp en ae one | ven whose i is Ht rg a | past eget fen to trim the edges 1 from blue prints, ing perhaps one hour of work a eagle = a took this case to the governor, “We're mrt piante a charitable imsti- Tae oe dependents?” "Has he any * Yes, governor: a alster, nearly seventy." “Well, bine tg im. a to do?" Paty tough,” I nid I'm going to] fire him The | look that I had seen when he spole | of the mother wheee son was con to death came in to the governor's face, He laid his hancl on my shoulder, “"(h, forts! ae that, Have o heart, | mission He resin’ to his always presaing work. That man ia, I believe, stul on the pay roll. During the summer months there were | iim anes 8 igen as amen employed upon r re worked, oF wer mp poeed poaed to work, seat- tered aver 7200 ea of roads and, in TONSA ones, Proper supervision was impos- ais. This bad condition was made worse by a Vicious system, When I took office no department was sending out f brinted | elips to county committeemen of the party | then in power, asking these bebe Bartind ‘: ished om nd | men whom they Ww ved on ro in. their localities, This a the favorite | | garden of the peanut politician for raising patronage; they gleefully filled the places | with the ancient amet hanornble has-beens | 1h he had » Shingle} that ever | | curls ~ ASFALTSLATE HINGLES of their parts, Could A te ence ve of Pa if am oe "| more Inefficient meth of maintenance than the employment of these scattered | | Methuselahs, who get their jobea not from the engineers under wham they wark but from somemne having mo ofl ronnerction with the ceparbment? Shortly after the war the Federal Gov- ernment gave to all the states a number of army trucks; with these [ solved the prob- lem, I abolished the patrol system, bot continwedl repair work with men su perv ioe by a foreman, Waing the freegiven trcles t both men and materials, I ula aba iahed the printed slipe, the fore men and men on the gangs being appointed | OF the Senerrenenl 8 en a siric decal Ate to do work ew days tay [ taal office, arta ao full ree weeks before there waa any mecesal al These red or green fadeloaa, spark-proof, slate surfaced ahingies are on gale at Lumber and Budlotag Sipply dealers’ a moat everywhere: JF your dealer can't supply you, write wa. The PHILIP CAREY COMPANY 5 Millsdale Ave., EPRI a At Cincinnati, oO 57

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| third or fourth grow THE SATURDAY for them, my predecessor pave orders that all patrolmen for the oo year should be immediately appointed. were! I found dyed-in-the-wool Beuperiie: pateab 5 men grinning cs me upon in the capital ape ent potrolmen cost an st : WETE &tn- Pig septate 6s Bx pense BS the state of more than 350,00. Re member this, Mister Taxpayer, the next time you pay your tax bill, Though wt the time of my resigna [ was roundly criticized on the loot of i the Senate for inaugurating he pane my suUODesSor contin it, alightl ¥ modified, But they have returned ta the virinus custom of the printed slip, Re- eently a Property paper printed the choice Information that a list of men recommen- ded for state highway work had been sent to the highway commilssioner by the local nity Property committes, ether or not these mon will do efficient work or willingly obey the re of “nik engineers a a mutter that the taxp may worm about; certainly it la a concern to the Property Party. During big ey tira first image um office oe a day p T was nok visited least one pollen tt These meetings, auth all classes of tera a part of the tate, were interesting, but they used up time ond in amare Titatan ath Bi i Rpt the ad < ey eame not always to plead for a road, but alten to ask only what chance and in what distant year they might hope to see work started on some badly needed highway, Mischievous Politics My frat delegation carne from the far ena of a rural county: one behind the other & ers ole yin, wis euch man entered ly at me, then, plainly em carraned- We v, L could never undertand—he tured his head away, and mot one of thoae husky farmers gave my hand a firm grip. After all had entered they stood silently about the room “Well, gentlemen," ae “all this is Faw-boned, moved awkwardly forward and, without speaking, without looking Inte my inen, handed me a letter, “What's this?” [ asked. “That's a letter from Jina Smith.” “he's Jim Smith?” | int Ke COMmIMssloner, don't you know | Jim? Jim’s our county chairman!” The | Faw min actually lowked far an in- stant into nig Sie “He's th igpest feller in eur equnty,"" someone in the crowd said, “We thought we hadn't oughter cornet tubes ane tcl letter fram Jim." Without opening the envelope T tore the letter to pieces, ou don"t have to bring letters from any politician to talk to me, I told them. “'Now Iet's get down to business." Their spokesman, with work-hardened finger, nointad aut their town on the eounty map, and showed me that they needed -« short stretch of road to connect. them with the state system and the outer world, Their request, ie given eo difident was entirely reasonable; they had evidently been neglected in the past. [ told them ne io anid that if possible T would put under consiroction that season. Tek gratiude took me by surprise. ¥, gentlemen, you don't have to thank me. To hear you and to build roads for you are the things you poy mer tn foe Uvex filed aut [ heard from the outer offite: a Gosh! Say, he ain't no peoli- tician The oemlesty of farmer delegations was a constant source of wonder to me. Adter the wm countrymen had overwhelmed me with thanks I detained a bright-eyed old fellow who did not seem. ac bagel ne shy. hy is it that you gentlemen are so gratetu for these tnterviews?"™ I asked. You pay for them, you know, through your taxes. Tam not doing one thing for you that you haven't a right to demand.” ‘Wal now, I'll tell ye. [t's becuse you ain't givin" us no political slish, no high= falutin promises, “You tell us tellers yes or no: an’ that ain't usual in this town.’ He pulled Seen at his cigar. “Besides, ibe don't keep afeller waitin’, I've been ere: Lalor. ba bat I've allus had to set out- gicle: Dat baipstaclaa a hull hour, before I could ser the eommish,”* EVENING POST The next I had door stops put on m office door, thereafter it was kept wide Open so that anyone waiting could see that I anes | engaged and not needlesaly wasting weet the end of the first year I prac- ee ae a stop to these expensive visits Ae blishing in the fall a list of the roads department could build during the coming aeason. This had never been done before, and my bulletin created comment: ont paper stated in plain language that the reason for withholding such information i in Le pact had been be give the perky in eon- Sel abperuunlly to deal out new roads a8 a for votes, and not a3 a benefit to which the community had a right. gut what ways do politics mast injure the yer, who must poy for the roads? ot Bee the full arelabe’ af the anenwer yl know that in our state, asin many other states, the cities pay the greater part of the taxes. Our largest city—the same conditions exist in [innis, Rhode Taland, New York, Louisiana und several other etates—pays more than fliy-centa out of every dollar epent by the state; also it is not centrally located, and never sees, much leas uses, the miles of ronds built in other parts of the stat, At the firet conference with division engineers T learned that we had $5,500,000 to spend solely for maintenance and recon- structbon du the coming season. “Pine,” Tanid, “With but TH) miles it gives us over $760 for each mile, and Fioada of court are new. We ought oo the entire system in tiptop ahape with all that money." I saw the engineers smile, all nine of E Z “Well, what's wrong about that?" I demanded. After some hesitation one anawered, “If we head twice that mach we etill couldn't ige miles of ronds that need rebuilding T could net creclit this statement until T had gone deeply into our record, and there at the bottom of the barrel I found injus- ice, waste, and eg beneath these eraiiched our old friend, Politics, These records show that the a: life of certain ol poet verents is but seven amd & f t the state has built mile after mile of af ‘kieieape that were costing #1000 a mile every yar to oer in iisable condition, and that the total eet for maintenance and pecanstrectian on many roads has run over F000 a mile a year. tain types ve definitely zone that vices: of pavements would go to aivder’ iaotne traffic the stute had cece te build such types, Why? Politics. More Miles, More Votes Under our laws certain roads are paid for jointly by the counties and state, but once constructed the state thereafter shoul- ders the entire expense of upkeep. I found — peepee B in rural districts that lt was polltteally ex bent te bald rons that would not could fot stand up, The man with'a political pull from aweh districts would come to the i a aa and ask for a road—say ten miles long. would be, ar should have been, tol ‘dinate there were mot suilicient, eounty funds on hand to build a durable road more than five miles long. “That wan't be no good for my con- stituents, cormmissloner, Build usa cheap, narrow noad; anything’ Il do so long as you stretch her out.” “But it won't last,”" “Alo mone will i, witheut hier Give us ten miles and CU deliver the vo Many of these gentlemen, I eerie ta gay, have been accommodated. There are highways scattered all over our state, built on th maore-miles-more-yobes of Our divikian engineer recent certified that we have over 1200 miles that will re quire rebuilding during the next three years, which sa cl a pecans will cost the wae thee ee he citi li ‘the clea ec es—especia ¥ our largest city—are hit below the belt by heap roads. The department, until the a T took office, was building a ree of waterbound roads, a type that catnar: mot-withatand the action of umabic threa, "Thee roads have been lally ac- cepted as completed one day and given a bituminous treatment the next day or the next week, this treatment being paid for from maintenance funds; which means that one city paid seventy cents out af every dollar this new gurlace cost, while th: county in which the road lies paid is sams Pore than one cent of that dollar, The second Tow 09 ome Ln the thord year when this cheap road requires oiling, re oiled, and the cities pay the pi The knock-out ia lanilec, at hve end f te, fo seven years, when our political sequnint. ance again steps nag the “Commissioner,” | be prow “that road what was built some t back in w dis ae ta the state: [e's Bone all fo pure, eontibpents ain't goin” te stand for it. a anger, We want that road reboh and done right. It ain't got no toundaticr, and it's too narrow The road is rebuilt and widened, and i how given a deeper foundation. But me more the state pe all the oat, and they ian't a referee sufficiently interested eve: bo count ten over the unconscious sity. To put an end to this very neal evil would, I thought, bring down blessings u mi head, I annaunced through as the press that ao long as I WRE Commis. sioner I would build only durable roach that I intended to build the maintenass into the rowd, that though this would ga a shorter the atate would have longer yearage, which would mean an enc TCs to the taxpayers. The how i criticism that followed ws BIMLAZing, I wus Lowel y atlacied as a me having extra’ telty ideas, all bec Fall to build roads—paid for from ir, year bonda—that would go to pieees in ke Ladd Gey godhey hicks, biy the to icy—w bs iy ea reason Inde have time fy you these t Why has a proaperous state allowed i highway system to become so run dow Two reasons: No governor, before one I served under, has had the courage allow his commissioner to ask for an od ate mainbenance a ‘tien, feart the criticiam resulting from a large bodg must buy carload after carload of cx patch, het patel, i pabeting emiulsiors 2) other mater emt of buying o placing ae materials on a worst Trond amounts to pouring the taxpaye money down the well-known rat hole, The Highway Map The highway map of our state i a jon an expensive political joke. Aside fh plo in ee wicklae there Con thes, To eal elmer is (uc there are isola) A Bighorsya te na ta roonnected proved Ways in noe way con a ished parts of the state ot extra expanse of caring for au fragre when to reach them foreman and mes force to travel over miles of dirt ree runs into the tens of thousands each y Of course these roade, beginning now! and ending nowhere, serve but a few 5 ple; & were built in favored weal at the request of som at Or ia a slrong t pu pet there are improved i Hg do ae each rage Salle etre = o state, nat iti airong. been defiantly neglected. To stop thls be IT let no contracts any new Pikad unless it connected with already completed one. But thie did ee rep entugh. These seattered re never have been built for fav politlan if we had ag a oat picky Se and f — Way system, hder our laws ov roms previ ‘cera ean be char at the will of the Srl hes demented Federal aid roods can ted changed by the commissioner with Fed approval. Adit can eee the easy che for ju foe, fugpling. ut & t ste rae bait ing I set about maki bah ps ia show a dedinine and | tem of rods, hoping to have ces ag own adopted mand - age he pra To select the best routes acuatie i division engineer, aided by his om assishaunts, drew a map fer his divs later To connected and ecirdinated { maps inte ane for cee entire state. T) engineers, having ab intimate knowledy their own counties, were well qualifies maken goxd map. They did makes 2 map, but our work and the tarpay money were wasted, ‘linia composite of our highway needs wag Promptly: a into eee heap by a partion hee ] ait became certain that a Poot eect ates Was to Ta gee the hight (ott ot Pee ei)

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‘toa tinedd from Pogw Ff) riment comternation spread among eee A joint Legiala- way Committee was fernatintal Jost what. this committer was coped to-do that first year he ont Knarw ¢ certain; but our highway map gave i deme an eacuee bo carry on dr y the second year—important, a4 @ my lection was approaching. enneeived a wonderful coe T Fig coneived 8 won amap! The public bi think thet they had been elected to rain loos, that they were pot ao well califed to make maps as were the en- sheets, Qrained in that work and living in rary Oouln af the state, Waa it coat the taxpayers, this diteal map? I am told that it coat not i than $25,000. But po-ddalinite sum can 2 piven; the trot amount is hidden in the em “General Legislative Expense," i itany wonder the business man help- aly cries, “Oh, what's the useT' Taough all these ways of wasting the at's funds are bad, the practice of spend- emeney for pulitieal surveya was by lon is the most inexcusable, Before had en commissioner a week several requesta mm made for surveys of ropa that, owing lack of funds, could mot be built, Upon inquiry I found that to make ue grail surveys was & long-established con. A senator, an assem Hf OF fe pervisor is running in a certain county; foes to the commissioner and aska for reurvey Of a road to construct which, both ke and the commissloner know, st i not enough money. In a few a. nevertheless, the people of ea can- lnte's distriet: will eae a Gor my ' oh that road, alghting | gh fastru- otsand waving fags. he peliticinn now lends the light of hia sac to the surveyors and says to his ighted cotstituents: “Yes, neighbors, re having this rowed surieyed, EBlect me 1] will see that it is bale.” dead be & ive Hi 4 Millions Dollar Joke “ya aight think this is a good joke on eeinplt folk were lt not a seriaos mat- for call the people. The records lin our state there haa been apent for fis never ueed and on ronda which efet ben built more than $1,000,000, na because T eould not see the jake in eourveya that I placed a align on my 5, meading: Sort mk fer a aEeey unless momey bo (the road fin hand ond eonddithona permit pl cinsiruction, arly before the last election, In is gn, & supervisor tried to blu making a useless survey. A few days fection, when a Property gove Fon, he came aaapperin into ‘the “Well, eomunissioner,” "he eal ithat survey of mine will be Sade oud that ninetoon-twentietha of the clin's boasted power is in reality anby heapeat wort of bluff. I don't beliewe Lever visited any road we were build- wt someone did not tell me how hard mater ar assemblyman had worked i contruction, while as @ matter of one had ever been consulped. I toads from the ome and only stand- of serving the greatest number of yer. wionally, however, I found an ex- of genuine political power. I told { our en to design a certain j toad, The line of the old road in ie of its length had two dangerous crossings; I wrdered the new r Jalong one aide of the railroad, The ‘iy owners along this mile, with one lon, were Pleased at the change — iree af all costs, the RCL A af way. Shortly before the tana completed an influential politician upon the division ongineer, sisal wrong," he declared; “you wuld that row along the line af the tim acting on orders from the com- wrt he haa told me to eliminate 0 grade crossings.” jon't core what the commissioner he won't be there forever: il you O held your fob pou do as T say. engineer and the politician came to and the latter left the office in fi the affair wos reported to me I| ithe politician's prewumption rather THE SATURDAY mmuzing, but mt the after, when the prop- erty owner resainded their rifts of rights of way, Daaw that the man's influence welght. Thia did not cause a change in the Plans, but it did spur ue to Investigate. That politician hod a brother-in-law living on the old rod, ra Me ria a 7 rowed the cones mE eer ier ar come- tinuous battle T wag agaira politicintes seeking their own vet ae the Latte eR pense, but I could never ateel myself to a calm endurance of the unfair, untruthful attacks to which all men in public offies are a ently subpectedd, ine out of every ten newspapers ln our state are controlled by the ne Property Par Party, heing kept alive th dreds of thousands of dollara rad them every year for fee publishing. semicon laws that nobody ben a Poverty man le op- pointed to any olfice thee sheets are ordered to begin immediate efforta to dis- | credit the new appointee; to make sure that the job is thoroughly done ried erty Party maintains a publicity buread our capital elty from which bowler-plate is aent broadcast each week. It is all very well to say that the public docs not believe this victows stuff, If that ia trae why is it done? I think that fully half the people believe erary thin they ee prin that there is no other one thing that creates ao much mistrust and unrest aa thia mali- cious partisan propaganda, The Saving Ramnrant Literally the Property sheets in our atate stop at nothing! After I had dismissed the man carried on our pay rolls gs superin= tendent of maintenance, T learned for the first time that he was a Povertkt. You would auppose that to get rid of a useless jobholder of my own party would not cause But the Property papers condemnation, As has Baia, to aeisk the ‘he he any criticism, shrieked the man wee sup attorney-peneral in legal actions be by contractora againat the state, papers seized upon this supposition and twisted my efforts ta save the state an un- nesemary salury into a purpose: bo make it for contractors to win their sults. he false staterventa made in camp peeches, ten by prominent men, in & tion to the unbridled abuse from the preas, art the irritating features of public office to which the business man le unaccustomed © and to which he ia unwilling to subject himaelf, When I ph of 7 to maine official, who was being ted even more nbusively than I, gee isboe his shoulders: “Il aahin | Linealn and Wilson had to stand it, why should you and [ complain?" Although the term is fixed by law for five ‘ears the present co is one of a ang auecession ta serve during the = ten yeara. Though on account of t constant changes = other political inter- ferences our high wat ne bb ie can im in ot all Bahl ph he apihe hg 1" is, iin apie al orga mn, it hel together at all is a So hist i thing—the conscientious ven bo the state by its ita Joyal though ug underpaid } engineers, whe from the division engineers dwn to the youngest junior assistant are honestly devoted to their work. The wica, so prevalent, that there is a wrist einai of graft in the buildin roma is happily a wrong one, at only are the department employes earnest in their efforta but the contractors are an honest lot of men who take a real pride in ir work and who strive Lo give the state: a good job, | have had contractors come to me and plead to have a road built stronger that, through legal restrictions, I was foreed to construct as mnginally a pened. When 1 showed them were tied LT have known ration to do extra wark upon their roads at their own expense, During my twenty months in office I awarded o total of 26 contracts and, ag suid before, spent and obligated $41,- OO, bt Iocan truthfully record that on mo ¢ontract did 1, my inapectora or any af my assistants discover any attempt at dishanesty. The grevtest trowble—and it is a serious one—that our, and probably your, highway department has to conten with is the eonecienceless politician who would wil- lingly cTipple, even wreck this greatactivity of a state in order to s en the power a his parta's olitical machine, Wake up, Mister ‘Taxpayer, and put an end to these evils! EVENING POST MERICA PULLEYS N Let your engineers and ours work together NUSUAL" problems in transmission call for unusual pulley service. We are prepared to render that service. Never are we 50 eager to “sell gs we are to make certain that the “American” Pulley will actually solve a given problem. May we also say that cur many yeors of apecializa- tion often enable ws to recognize a problem ovet by wa before in what seems to others a mew and “unwsual"™ condition. Service, however, is only one chapter in the story of “American” Pulley success. A book entitled, “Getting Maximum Pulley Eficency™ gives the complete acsount. That book will help you to a greater saving in transmission of pearwer, oa it has many othera, A copy will be mailed at once, on request, The American Pulley Co, Philadelphia, Pa. ifanufecturers of Sree Salt Tranemieston Foliers, Steel Sash Pouffaye and Preaod Stee! Shapes. For camplete Jist of distributors see Mochae's Blue Baek

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THE “Sensible underwear helps me to keep fit” | be of fellows exercise Tegu- larly and then takeall the good out of it by dressing improperly —especially their underwear, “Don't forget your skin has to breathe. It's no use te open your pores once aday by exercise, if you smother them afterward. "That's why | wear the Topkis Athletic Union Suir, Look how loose and easy it hangs. Hardly touches my body. My skin gets fresh air, even when I'm fully dressed, “Mighty comfortable, too. It really fits. Roomy arm-holes; long, extra-wide legs. A comtor- tionist could wear Topkis withour ever feeling a pinch or a pull. “Does it wear? I'll say sol 1 wear Topkis all year ‘round, and ak for TOPKIS Crdieewcar. it sure stands the gaff. Material keeps sturdy. Fit is laundry- proof. Buttons stay on. Topkis gives me more for a dollar than L ever got in higher priced suits.” Topkis Athletic Underwear is made of best nainsook and other high-grade fabrics. Thoroughly preshrunk; full size guaranteed, Get your correct size. If you wear a 38 coat buy 38 Topkis. No good dealer will ask more than a dollar for the Topkis Men's Union Suit—alrhough many will tell you it's worth more. Men's Union Suits, $1.00. Men's Shirts and Drawers, 75c per garment, 75e¢ for Boys’ Union Suits, Gitls’ Bloomer Union Suits, and Children’s Waist Union Suits. Leak for the Toplois babel Itew ilwetrated booklet tells you how to fudge onderwear. Write for free copy. TOPKIS BROTHERS COMPANY, Wilmingron, Delaware Oeners| Sales Offices: 350 Broadway, Mew Work Ciny Athletic SATURDAY EVENING POST May 20, 92 | Successful al | Avouna man who has reorganized and started on the upgrade a number of sickly companies told me one afternoon that only afew hours before he had attended his fret meeting of a board of directors of a well- known ‘ation, to which be had just been elec and ag he entered the room he had been advised by one of the officers to throw away all his preconceived idens, be- cut “this business is different,” By way of comment on this incident he _ on to : ae have hoon in. all kinds af industries, the way from groceries to automobile, and in every place they say his business is diferent.” But they are all pretty much the same. Any of those joka goes back to picking the right indi- ¥idual, a fellow who can de the trick, who can apply the ordinary rules of business conduct to something he knows nothing aboue, “T say that every job goes back to the individual, Would you not rather have a good mayor and a poor charter than a good charter and a poor mayor right here in New York? It takes common sense to run 2 large business, primarily, although tweet is 2 great help, [ think the ablest man I ever worked under had no tact. He robbed everyone the wrong way, but in aplte of this hia sheer ability waa ao great that he went far. He was a gentleman, bat Ls We inherently iinaarasabie. hee he ae Laney ra agreeable you world ee aot tee antes or eine The man who has both common sense and tact very far. ‘Now take the labor problem. [ om a right Tenchionary as regards all these apd honigahiea schemes. I don't be lieve In them at all and I come right out and aay so. Some years ago [ went out West*to take charge of the X works os a eemeh af thr: bord af directors, They fe eramleine ra cand men, and the ap t among t aig very bad in- deed. The firat thing I diseovered was that the employment Manager Was a dori picked of random for the job, and was pertier Ewen feb papel hundred dollars a year. got a man who Enew some thing tain teat kind of work and paid him six thousand dollars a year.” The Open Door “Thee frat day I was there I gota wooden wedge and drove it under my office door ao that’ t the door would Spon and every- one in the otal could sie me at my deak, Then I put up bis a all aver the works aa that ar griev= ances. Gradually cote Bebo would come into the cormider and timidly peer into my Office. Lf the door had boon shut they never would have come in, but as I continued working at my desk while they looked in, and did not get up to shut the door, they finally screwed up courage to conve im. “Temaliy their complnints were without justification and there was nothing | could cay. Hut t they went aay satisfied, beraws their grievances had been heard, One other immediate effect this practice of mine had waa the OPTIMA of other closed coors, Seme of the wier presidents and subordi- nate officers became lesan excl asi ane more willing ta hear complaints. “A great deal lias been said recently about the importance of foremen in the labor problem. Of eourse [ stocky the fore min sittuntion as senen nw 1 po bos company: but there in another point of contact be- teen the worker and the eampany about which lew hae been ssid. The worker knows the company only through the fore- min god the cashier or paymester, A workman finds who he thinks 1 mistake in his poy envelope ind turne back to the eget window to hawe at eoerected. 1! bawled out it makes bad fr/:, ol aps the payomaster is overgopen: perhaps be has to deal with anreane) le, but a manager who wants enn; industrial relations peeds to wateh tp Pehint very closely. “AL this sort “of thing is hardness: wholly unromantic. There is no panacea about it. But these are some of the pe: Which need attention on the labor « ede d the company is to succeed. "To can't cover everything if a hriel rer. you say that you will make at ei : say that aeoountin really the mew Important end of any 5 eal the nu from. the investors’ atandpeat wt feos When I go into a big corporation | at ona ask about the accounting ened. They se] _ with pride, “Yes, we have a fr countant: we pay him ten of rs Thaleand dollars. or perhaps it 4 fen But it soon develope that they don't peal: know what they are talking abet Th Tan may be all right, he may koe bi business cg the monagement’s attired Lowand hina all] wrong. He is usual looked wpet as a mere bookkerper, Wher ever the contraller of a company is refecre sboin that way by the rest ol the officers tt investor should be suspicious,” Stale Figures MS ice! I believe our system = 4 ig, and that something more like a English method is needed, We should hi a system in which the controller iz not employe of the management or directory all, but a direct representative of the star holders, reporting to them. independest of the management at annual meetin What is needed in thiz country is a sla in aur corporations—that is, by-laws wi will give the controller almost compe independence of the muamagemert and grent amount of real authority. “But that is not enough, nor is that | worat of it, Aeceuwnting: is just a imports from. the nal standpoint a In that of the ehareholders. The vital deli in moet. corporations is. that their accom are what IT call "historical," Here is wi happens constantly: Figures come to | minigement or to the dof direct which are about six weeks old. Expes show a big jurnp orig, al traces it do to a certain foreman, e is called up the superintendent or manager ard av to explain why hie costs are so high | that time the foreman has forgotten about it and he can't give a satielart explanation. “Figures havo no use emcept bo pry the sume mistake from happening Maat jg sei hecountantis are fiat coping histery, which has mo velo epeank of in running a plant. Ther ge ffectiy wonderful analyses of what nippenod, after the trouble is all overs Suc min aren't worth o dollar a year When [ went with one big —_ the accounts were five or six weeks be but aa the reault of much persistence] able to get them only a week old. did I care whether the business wal) ctrics or nutomeliie:? Sueceesetul me ment, as T sag it, consisted in eotebing troubhe before it bees, too seriou, preventing mistakes from happening § ond time," Tt is true, no ste that the numi aero eupubbe of handling large aflaics 4 out conspicuous flaws of policy & 8 It has been said that the work _ men consist in constructing ot of sort of go-cart for wheeling along = inka: 1 ere more rapidly than they # otherwiae got mod that is met ens = ae mal r 4 . tT: Digitized by Google

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST a4. How Can the Home Compete with Jazz Halls and Shallow Plays in point of attractiveness to growing boys and girls? The Plan Urged by Foremost Educators | 4 q | ITSIDE attractions, from the jazz (J craze to the shallow play, are enticing our boys and girls away from home. The effects are dangerous and far reaching. Teas a problem exercising the thought of serious minded people the country over. Now a new solution has been offered. A world-famed musical institution fosters it. Foremost educators and publicists urge all parents to adopt it. Itsobject is to put music in every home, and thus to provide an effective counter-attrac- non to the perilous outside influences of today. Somcthing to think about, mothers A recent investigation among one hundred rls, between 14 and 18, of good homes, re- vealed that more than sixty spenc their eve- ungs at places unknown to their parents— jlaces that they could not have obtained Mrental consent to attend: dances and heatres, not gwesttonadve in the strict sense the word, but none the less dangerous. Recent invessi- gations showed fai af ie 20 per cent of devs anal gerel rate) ipviital there eornines end enferiain (ete fried, AT WOME, Musie i the center of attractor thick sa prompts thew, It revealed that of these sixty, only a few njoyed a musical home-atmosphere. But hat of the remaining forty, music was the enter of attraction, which led these girls to ntertain their friends af Aomie. The Firtuols may be oboiaed de poriews dostrements, ay follies: Home Companion Virtuole . 2 2 . «se FAS Colonial Virrwole in Canway Piano. . . . S98 Petite Virtuoloin Hallet& Davia (4 Ft.4in. high) «= Gas Puritan Virtuolo in Hallet & Davis (fall size) 750 Empress Grand Hallet & Davis Piano, repro ducing Virtuolo,on which may be played exact reproductions of woald-famous artista. . . 2250 Remarkable new terms of payment, Fou ploy ar yom pay Virtually the same condition applied to oys of equal age and number, And educa- Is sa¥ a nation-wide investigation would ‘sent an almost exact parallel. Hence world'sauthoritiesareurging parents tirh te music as a safeguard of the home. But price, unfortunately, has heretofore restricted the enjoyment of these instru- ments to children of the financially prominent. And for that purpose, thesel f-pls nying ple eqaca the instrument most strongly advocated. ___— ir it provides self-expression | d automatically brings -uil ; io the home all "i ic,fromthehits the moment the world’s test com- ittions. Noi amazing new plan to place one in eoery home Now anew plan of manufacturing and financing has been developed. A plan TO RETAIL PIANO DEALERS AND AGENTS On account of the new plan detailed on thas ~ hundreds ofacditional retail oul ets or Hallet & Davislin 2awill be required effect quick cistribution of the Virtuola. Tour Mietrict may be open; write or immediately. Made by HALLET @ DAVIS [eked rate PLAYER PIANO PY / Confidential Information Service In keeping with the usiversal plea for jan of ru Ben Maisie im Heoy Home, a new hye ing and fe cas ag fi eet. heer Yoene of the oldest and strongest player — makers in the world—The Flalies & ovia Pian Company, pttlderrh ofl lee wan lil fasted _ Wirtused, player-pinna.” ft places tbe Sitgene mr in- rine witha the means of these in che most imoderabe cincisetance: Mail onu peo below for confidential lafarmatian [pee and powtpacel, “the Imathnctive which places the new Virtuolo Player Piano made by the makers of the Hallet & Davis Pianos—supreme in musical centers throughout the world—within the means of everyone. Only the world-spread manufacturing ca- pacity and powerful financial position of the Hallet & Davis factories make it even re- motely possible. The plan is wew. It is propounded from a new idea. It is unique both in point of price and the amazing terms of payment offered. It puts a new light entirely on the matter of providing the proper musical environment inevery home. It has been carefully evolved to meet every family status and condition. For confidential information, detailing the entire plan, simply mail the coupon. But you are urged to do so without delay, so as to participate in this new method of ownership. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION COUPON HALLET & DAVIS PIANO CO. 146 Boylrion 34., Boston, Mlasa, Send meconfidential termsof the Virtuols, ee Address Chity

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G4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 20, 1977 The TIRE b « Revfect Balance Here is the tire in pou balance with the spirit of the times, the spirit which demands a full measure of service at a minimum first cost; The new Diamond Fabric with the Double- Diamond tread. The tire built especially for Fords and other popular sized cars. in Balance with the driver's ideas of a tire in its fine appearance, easy riding qualities and reliability; in Balance with cars as they are built today, their weight and their speed; in Balance with itself,each part equal in strength with every other part—the tread thick enough for the body—the double diamonds firmly fortifying the sidewalls; in Balance with your idea of price, giving quality and value to the last cent. SMU e EER Co.Inc” A THE DIAMOND RUBBER COMPANY, INC. Akron, Ohio Owners of Fords and other pop- ular sized cars, this is your tire. See it at the nearest Diamond distributor's or dealer's. Diamond Cire

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freak from the Point, were most valuable shen teaching the rudimenta, and Preaeatt ard he alter an round af drilling rookie eopesins, f themselves at Texspa, Flori i jam shy shark of the fighting, ahen REC? WHS Ths bitter blew wad forgotten when Previdence finally saw fit ta send them both to the Philippines, attached to a sea- soned, e, hard-bitten gang—the Sev- enternth naniry Regulars. hari Ged again tor Agalaalda, good old nalde— Age," ans they affectionately called him. Thay were ry regen however, wWhen— althoagh ope hd ena acmistamed to the stele Mausers, followed be droning the Sh Pee “of giant beea—bot Heaven an rp when there apt exather — to eed of wigicried Wiest Same a garrison duty in Manila, a lone Dest ditch water, and then another magnificent atroke of fortune. The aitts decided to go to the relief of the i logations at Peking. The Seven- teeth marched joylully to t whic strughtiway steamed under draft for the coast of China. “Think what it means, Yank,” dimen ba Feat who hailed from "Monee ehosetts, nalish French, Germana, fan and tik, Yon and me and the zd on Beventeenth, waltzing around ang nesbonchy with the pigtails, 1 ask ta oneybunech ain "E is in the words of Aunt Lacmgbieia pos'ful grand?" Freseott etared back along the truns- porta Wake—a white lane in the flat blue ne of the China Sea, bar! "Tt eure is," agreed exbarly, Jimmy snorted at such moderation. “Let me explain. Thia le a beat. You're on it. Round about is an ocean. &traight head is the big doings. The boat with a an itis movin ig slowly but perceptihty cy ihe ocean to eh @ big doings. a ihe pet ft? “Thanks, awfully,” acknowledged Pres- et. “But look here, I've got a darn weer fecling. I've got a feeling that some ing = going to happen." tg, orced Jim looked at him quickly, then sole with mock ferocity in the mii- “You're right, old codfish ball; as right thin A reels lot's going to nappen im JEKING eme fram the shadows af night in d of the co wwmn, idiera with probing suns that the rth hed arrived on the plains before the ¥ at the end of me ct ony ‘ae fe many, MoM ier om from a hun a1 haul pee the a d blotted them out. The soldiers had landed on the conat im great ships at the aioe of lotus bud- ig. The Boxers had snid that all boo sah before they reached Peking. Now ‘lotus was im bloom; many Bowers had ial their ancestors: the soldiera were toutaide the gates of the city. | twae not po bad to kill w foreign devil etily mow gad then. Such things were sssed with polite t and then for- ten. Bhat to kill hundreds, to drive the ainder inta the legations, and then to uk these eo saer tions furiously alter day! Hlow pan ana How very resadrug [ tie Boxers had promised torid China for- ‘of fore devils. Many had believed o for a thme. Now it was. certain that igh detqila were like the aands of the P-ie-Raaing in dry seasons. The Bax Childrercef folly, arse in the slcins af Witness the naldicns: mnich chawi iL guns wit im the morn fist bay Raaater of Souls had warned bhatt the age: Whe had he mot been 7 With paire lips of Trauatama Buddh 4 epoleen- Even a be heel: pice Rip thingr oe fred, There tes ue ed goooroplashed his Jest fore streets of the capital woul id be I if Liba occ! thleovod: that th fe F hidden @ren the Forbidden City, would know fret ive 5! ia: ete, folly were! CRBS, Wie kveyiien te “Tbe: Master ef Souls, Burtidha. To bk BB i il Ci HE | temple of Gautama Badiha! There the forehend in the dust one eyuld what wae tobe. To the temple then, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE NUMBER ONE BOY (Centinucd from Poge 3) before mn Sedu lifted, while there was time, while the bers—the devil sel- diera—out on the een in the blind white must remained so still. From street to street in the half light of early dawn the whispers tan. Whispers and oe pa patterning af feet. The Room of Celes- in the Peking temple, where the ral figure of Gautama Buddha with its face of peri calm broods changeleas through the centuries, waa the af pattering feet, In the Presence itself tran- quillity might be found. On then, eon of a Tig with the goul of a worm! On, on with speed, for many follow. Tt become a race, 2 race of thousnnds toward a fancied hovyen. Hundreds onl were rewarded. The Room of Celes Bliss was carpeted with prostrate figures, ao that iar eon Lew enter, by the first scant waves of the sen yellow f faces which prewently filled i entrances, corriders and sourtyarnd af the Feking temple. The vast untroubled silence of af (Celestial Bliss remained unbroken. The prone and moveloss res stormed like rows of dew: but round about the temple a AYUrMUr W, & @lant roaurmur. o Volt? Whe Ta in & place Bo sacred. Only lipa moved, yet the munmur grew in volume nnd ait form: “Master of Soule! Master af Souls! Master of Sania" A thicker of relief played for an indtant over the countenance of the head priest of the temple, t had been difficult te main tain the je calm of a high servant af Buddha in the face of such overwhelming and unaccointable piety Hera WE an excuse to ploce the burden of leadership in firmer hands. “They name the Holy One,” he said to an anxious circle of priests and pene "Who then will enter The Room Silanes and respectfully inquire?T™ His only answer was unwinking store: und aslightdrawing back of the circle about him. For centuries uncounted The Room af Silence had been the private atudy of the lama. of the temple. It was not recorded thet any prbest had ever entered there with- out a aimmanas. Lamas of the had heen Pole stare in the firmament of heaven, The present occu rat af The Room of Silence was the blinding sun at mid-day, Yoru: of Buddha, Finger of Foon Koo Wong—the immortal ang Foo ‘Law, Let half the city press upon the temple and call his name: why should sons of worms introdie upon hia awfal meditations? It maust not be forgotten that, being dis- Pleased, he could, with a look of his eye and a wave of his hand, Tob the presumptions of both speech and movernent. The hood priest walted a vain moment for a volunteer, then cleared a path for himsell through the crowd of leaser lights with a contempbhucus gesture, “Wait hers, my brothers, T myaelf will seek the Holy One." A rellewed chorus greeted this stute- diane “ Hopedully we wait, 0 Servant of Bushiha. The head priest gilded Inte a dim corri- dor, paneled in scented wood poen the he trode with unhurried calm, ‘Turni Tight angles he followed another eorri bo darker than the fret. Having archved at a carved and ed doorway, with hangings af heavy ye silk, he paused for a mo ment to summon his uimeat composure. Behind those curtains was The Room of Silene. Within the room was the ealovest soul, the moet tranquil mind, in all China, The Room of Silence had known farnish- ings of extrome splendor in the past. Each century had contributed ~ it a quote of tromeares, “The feredba af the present lama had rrniticbed ances = par a exhibition of ofjels Of this + ecllection only the: following articles now temnined: & reid ih ner table, one cored ahory pe ei one bhi anil yellow rug woven camels’ hair, But the cabinets, carvings, vases, fan, screens, Tags, and so on, which had vanished, still serve in The Room of Silence by proxy, They had been sent the per felicitations years before, wi of the he, cased pag el oung Empress ing. Her Maj a = pleased to aceept the gift graciously, She had been further plensed to have con- ¥ from the rovyol strong room to the Peking temple o plain iren-bound box, the lifting of which required the strength of tee strong men. A slight, a very slight gleam from the gold contained therein was pric in ina of use Foo w when the was opened in pres- ect, dream of a lifetime had come true. The treasure d purchase books. ca apis banleae arena the es deci fe Bg, tongue— more than trae in tha longest of lifatimes—booka, bore att begin their aecumulation at once through notes of exquistie politeness: ad= dremed to agen te Brenig. Conatanti- maple, Bud xeapes, st. Petersburg, Valparaiso, Copenhagen, Sieckhoim,. onal Berlin, on, New York. In return had come, for many years, precious packages, which the lama with ond deliberation always opened himself, The contents of these packages wera here in The Roam of Silenee now, rising from the floor halfway to the lofty celling, aorth, east, south, weet—books, books, books. Their discriminating egilactor sat im the midst of thea ae ihe crater: of his bhie-nnd- ge rug, in his carved ebony chair, at ia red me table, The long lerion- colored fingers of, aa geht pei were dipping inte 0 Fade bow of cold rice in a purely enue for the fingers of his right hand held apen and careaaed the ea W—a book. He did not look up rom his reading when the head prieat pushed aside yellow curtains and entered. “Haly One," the head priest veotured, The eyes of C Foo Low slowly lifted. “Mountain of Infinite Wisdom —=" The lama spoke ft Easy servant of Baddba, Wee elt Smal fa a Oks may be deg mach reflection,” The head priest bowed humbly at the reproof and come wt ones to his excuse for the [ntruaion. "The # fill the temple and crowd ke locuste at the time of visi- When the Pagid is full of fear in heart remenibers God," sald Chang ¥ “Only those before the Presence warship m1 ity. ‘Those without boldly call thy 'So dow man seite the shadow for the edbetancs.”’ The lana‘ fingers rose from the jade bowl te hia mouth with some mer. wela of rice. “ET will apeak to the he decided after a momont's thought, ad mist return to their homes,’ He his book and roae from the table, “They mean us harm?” asked the head pret wickly, icked wp oe riee bowl and or “to A window apa on an inner eourt. He flung the sontanite af the bowl on the plnk stones of the and smiled one ae a ear yn rush of wings. a more than these, he anay nodding at the pigeons which had eeepad fromm roof te peck and coo among the af ht white graing. "Lf they remain they ‘themselves be harmed, Come, my brother." He led the way from Room af Silence to the eastern entrance of the temple and moved out the temple otepa, washed by the sea of Fmd facea— clearer now in ¢ anew ng light. earns piste fall Portions of yellow fucea began to sink, patches here and there. The patches grew until only small ishands of those still stand- Temained, Aé lost these, too, anw the int re in ite naming ow Tobe and crownlike headdress, sank to the level al the rest. The lama moved forward to the very of the steps ued lifted bis hands, lms down, above the aig ia om i volow rang out, the clear, | hinese Saahies falling on the silewce {i bella: "The blessing of Buddha on thy heada, the peace of hin spirit in thy hearts. Re turn now to the which honorable industry and the will of Poon Koo Wang have p , ate there remain. Let no man, Woman ‘or child venture into the strests, for peril will be found therein. Ga then, swiftly, like homing pigeons, for ta gather in numbers, here or elewhere, ia to kee the aword of death.” Instantly they attempted te obey hi but such vast numbera could nat dis oe : aan: and while they milled and jostled the light was growing ee rg el Foo Low turned somber the sea of eves, first toe a noticeable rodianee in the east, gil then toward the watehbowers sues are the sluggish windings of the vy sl eric and brighter grew the sky, but the flat plain beyond the wall etill wore o amoking blanket af mist inte which yellow zealots, crouching along the ancient a parts, strained slanting eyes in vain. Why were the foréign soldiers so stil? The stil mess wes disconcerting, A sound—any sound —would be better, Li Fung, craiticat of Boxer leaders, seized a rifle from one of his men and inte the mist, All along the wall astuttering fire broke out, nervous, acathered, unai Tt died a ones & more impressive silence than bing La, the orator, took advante of the allenes. For a hundred rom where he etocd the guardinna of the wall heard him recount their splendid deeds and splendid aima, The Land of the Dra had been cleared of forei devils, he men had honorably kikeed the aword, The women having first sung a love song to the heroic mune D of inne had felt their white necks snap ie stems, Some, ta be SUPE, Were heft | int the legations. But how thin was the line of baronet about then! A few dave more and then —— It was wall to remember that tha wealth of the foreign devils was colossal, All, oll that wealth waa in the legations. Gut there in the mist were soldier devils, ta be gare; bat observa the wall—how strong, how unaa- snilable, Betectng Ubot this and reenlling the numbers: courage: of the wall's defenders, one ehould apit thus—at the foolish sons of piga who enme to save the legations but would presently join their ancestors. ““Hai, kai, hai!" ran approval along the wall, Laughter followed as Nang Poo, the humorous, shouted a pun about a great granting i in hell as the pig soldiers joined bors, Blewly the light grew stronger, The ki rroofs of Peking changed to roae and and awam clear of the mist against a and of emerald sky that swept the western onizon, Far ok on the plain a tongue of orange flame leaped out and u iinet Hai 8 gash in the gray curtain. ist. The of the pl gs fe n ftom 1 whose throat I BPTEnig Cras merlin agains a gileoee, A shell wailed high above tha wall and ax el in the aquare before the temple of Gautama Boddha. Another’ shell followed, and another, The ancient temple shock at each explosion. The younger of the aeolytes fell on thelr knees, whine like puppies. The older prieats Fimidly nearer the figure tn the yellow pale saleg mouse before the over- broodin But Shang F Foo Low heeded them nat. Hb | in a silent prayer of than rien for the temple and the court and the resis | in all directions were clear ce inti ines by now, The shelle were cia, Babe and clouds of dust, not mangied man flesh. His bayat finished, the lama turned from the altar and foached the group af mouning acolytes, With chattering teeth. they eyed him durably, awe of his presence men away by an ecstasy of [par, tis not well,” said Chang sternly, “to show fear for a miserable body in the pres= ence of The Bleed and All-wise, Get to your cella, young brothers. There meditate upon the weakness of the flesh and the power of the spirit." The acolytes pattered in all directions like a bewy of frightened quail. Many af the older priests followed them more one Fagen fay need of sclf-comeunion three-inch shella shrieked bat the. temple roaf. A seattered few remained. These withdrew respectiulhy to the entrance leading to their quarters as the a turned again to the Buddha, prt ee eee rei "Jet the peace gpirit fill the hearta of those within this holy temple. Bring its walls ont z ‘ate Have its altar from. dishonor. Foo Low, lenst of thy servants, A now metas aid from those who dwell in serene tranquillity within The Seventh Sphere. to therm knowledge of my need; open their cara to my mesage; throw the might of their rotection about these walle to the glory of Him who, loving good, yet in HE unfath- omable wiedom created also evil. Buddha, (Continaed aon Page 88!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 20,197 hurry. I rushed for a car and went to the store. My time was very short. ©) | was only one victim of these @%) exasperating delays. | saw many others waiting. I like to trade in stores that give quick SeTVICE. It saves my time. I don’t have to wait, There is no congestion around counters. The clerks are able to wait on more The National I next went to a drug store to get a toothbrush. The salesgirl quickly showed me what I wanted. ~ Mrs. Jones \ fet (1) | bad to do some shopping in « (Q | rushed up to a salesman and @) He asked him to wait on me. He started to show me what I ff 1 had customers and give better The printed receipt I get a how much I expended. It shows where I bought th and the date I bought ther It shows which clerk wait

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST two stores. @ I gave the salesman my money. ) After a long delay I got my He wrote in his sales book the parcel and change. It was date, amount, and some other getting late. things. This took a lot of time. c= In three seconds she handed me @ My husband is a merchant. my change, parcel, and a printed I asked him why his store doesn't receipt. have a quick system. He didn’t It enables me to keep a record of my expenses. It encourages saving. I keep the receipts in an envelope for future reference. I wish every merchant would give me a printed receipt when I am shopping. nk any, Dayton, Ohio. i 3

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With their own ears they had heard the instant answer of high heaven to the winged words of Chang. foa short moment eilence held, Then it was violently broken. A sound even more terrifying than the whine and etash of shells tipped it to tatters, Nothing i more heart shaking than a woman's sudden scream. The priests scrambled hastily to their feet as a Sut aet. ehalk- | behind her like hounds at the heels of a doe. Eee in the center of the room th Ved her down or, rather, she col - the reaching nacerapl of the leader of the ck had scarcely ched hear when she Las to the daar, low hand twisted into the masses of ber Arion | jerked back her head, A thin knife gleamed above a cream-enored throat. The nit Feialned poised. rs fi “Do not strike.” advan EE Bae ae of the van a ig. compat- i vibly amniled at that Reeouleeat figure, but gee leader, a pock-marked coolie with an mouth, met the gianee af The “Master of Souls without a 4 Release the ae The knife wielder did n ot obey, “She is a forelgn devil” he aaid boldly, “Tt i well to take her life. The high serenity of the lama terooteed unbroken. His eyes explored the pock- marked face before him for an instant. “Who are you to talk of taking life? Within the hour you will be with your Solty, AURAL: gat -Uia tils '¥ y the were i ’ but the head of the Boxer’s victim fall forward aa his hand was snatched from her hair, Down on the floor beside her he erevelhd, hie terror-etricken eyes lifted to immutable face of Cane “Bo, ho, great prophet, | have dane no wrong. Spare me." mi, cannot apare you. It ia written.” A arm in folda ge nec silk ewept up uf became ah gr Three hounds of bell had burst into the temple a moment before, Three cringing d the boldest of them now the moat subeluedl, skulked to the abt through which. they hac come, and disn P » leaving ther quarry be- hind at the feet of Chang Foo ‘oo Low, She was half kneel BR Oe half aitt shaken by gasping sobs; her head her face covered by her hands. Chang looked down at her and waited, As he waited the guns out on the plain beyan to apeak in but the exploding shells no longer the temple, They were drop= fl near the wull, mw mile af more awny. "Minutes paseed while the lama stood silently observing the huddled female figure on the ora ored marble of the temple floor. Gradually her sobs became leas violent. She no longer shook and quivered with each intaken breath, Pres- ently her hands dropped, palms upward, to her lap. Slowly her eyes roso—great | burning eyes. They traveled up the yellow robe of the lama and so come at. last to the minutely wrinkled yellow countenance | above, Some of the horror, a little of the fear left her eyes as they explored the calmest face in mowed calmest face in Ching, i it mere Her lip : —eto Peak — JOOP langage — ip thanks you,” It was a broken whis- lost in the chorus of distant nae bat nit A clear unhurried English came the reply: “Dio not thank me. Thank Buddha. I | | am only his unworthy servant.” Afay 20, 927 She had just passed through = fee) ret yuck bo makati giy buoyant ut youth ia astonis i At the reassuring sound eto her faee lost its deadly ahitheen warmed until it became the ice corm tof her dark hair an evyebtom k English?" “TL epen such tongues 28 I may need” Putling over this she made an uncerta: effort to rise. Then ata sudden recollection she relaxed into helplessness, “That man! That man! That creatur with the knife!" She again covered her Ture with her hands, him not; you are safe. She wept ailently for a moment, fought for self-contrel and had almost wo, 7 when it abruptly fled. She clutehed at the lama’ 8 robe. “He may come back.” “Mot to harm you, my child." The certainty of hia tone seemed to reaacure her. Chan pu hishands under her elbow and bulped: r to her feet. “That poor whirling soil fears for his own miserable life, I told him that within the hour he would be with as ancestors," “You ane gol ng toh to thd him —killed?" “No, my chi thin the hour — hand will strike einen, I, Chang F Low, 30 the shadow of the wings af upon hia brow." She had been staring at him half fear. fully. The serenity of his face was wonder ful and he had just saved heer life. Bout be eyes were like no eyes she had ris Bl ac inta before, Far beyond her ia where in ag! gare gel 5, terribte things might = beard his name her foce alates “Are you Chung Foo Low? I read about vind pay ou are the t propbet eal] you The Master of Souls," e mouth of folly has 2a named me,’ said Chang. “How ma et here, my child? Where do you belon “T have been wath the ot Americas, besieged in the legation,”” she anawered. "T relied past the guard by mistake lsc night. Those Boxera cut me off. I bid under « cart until morning. When I trie to get back they saw me and chased me han Hh were almost on me I ran in ere She looked vaguely about her and dix covered the group of motionless, silent priests, Her troubled eyes tapoiema ore the altar with its silk tapestries, ermal! jade Buddhas and heavy golden ornaments Far above the altar the huge face of the heal Buddha swam in age shadow- Led rrying. Hier eyes Its su aloofness was berrif, quickly to Cha “Oh, what shall Ide? How can I pt Meet arial her thoughtfully f ra Fr thoug iy for a mo ment—her claaping and unclasping finger, her lifted, appealing face _ “Whom ie ae now in the American Legation guard?” “Colonel Bradley “Would Clone! Biniilag ead for you! Would he rik hie soldiers tao bring yo beck if he knew you were here?" “Oh, yea!" ghe emfed. “He'd fish anything. He'd core himself. You see I'm ——" She broke off, her sudden eau: in gone, “But there's no way to tel im. He turned from her abruptly and croese the temple to the western entrance. Sin saw his yellow robe gleam in the sunligh and disappear, Was he attempt to deliver o / to the legs tion? Any Chinaman would be shot in o: tracks the moment a guard Ipid eyes o him. She turned and ran the en trance to overtake him and explain. Befor she reached it she saw the yellow rob returning "Tha are are clearing.” he said whim he had pine her. “The Boxers are at th walls. WW let Colonel Bradley kno where oA ane: "Ob, thank you,” she said, “but how No one could get near the legations.” As she waited for a reply she saw bi aye close, one hand rose te his forehendl he other etretched out and up. alawly charged. i Fc death mask—made of pale, parchment. “Wh-what is the matter?- she stam mered. She received no reply, At laat be lip began to move, but the muffled ("hivos words she heard did not seem to ~cal (Continued on Page FI) 4 Hi fac rumik —| Wwhinkee

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fiuitaued from Page €8) fom them. Sho backed away from the rene swaying FEU pelira wath ita closed, blood- he : for iy er el he T have aent said. che eontinued to back away from him, His face had beeome lifelike again, but in be eyes for an instant after he a ihees had beer something numeless, berri- fvizg. And why did he say he had sent for Coke! Bradley? He was tricking her, She tamed aod made for an entrance, Out into the tight of day she would go, what- ed, “Sten,” she Heard, She wos close te the entrance now. A ew steps more would take her from this place of terror. It seenved sale to halt and pam. “The streeta to which you go are filled with the apirit of macdneas, murder, rape. etd la the spirit of wisdom, gentle and eel am the servant of that apirit. Poor foatah child, keep your lily boy safe in this temple of the Lord Buddha weil your future hushand comes to claim i Hie last sentence wae so asbounding that for a: moment her astonishment was greater than ber Fear, “Future husband | How did you know that? aL didn’t tell you,” knew in na important, but you raat baliewe that I have sent for him. “When did you send for him?" she found the enurage to ask. Ariat sald Chang, “and I will tell pou, She had recovered somewhat from her tacowintable fricht of a moment before, What he had sald about the strects wes trae, and he had saved her life. Flat she giance] uneasily at the priests still stund- ing before the door te thelr quarters, A few Tapid ie by one of them would owt her off from the entrance if she returned to Chang, As the thought entered her mind the lama spoke abruptly in Chinese. The pruests turned and eae al shadows from The Room of Celestial B “Tam alone,” said Chang. ald man. Come," She come slowly from the entrance and halted some little distance from where he a ; * Closer She obnyed peasy: in ace—in my eyes” Bbe raised her eyes to his. Nothing terrilying was in them now, They were iTS, compomcionate amd unsesounit- ally soothing. “You are the sauaater of of a young and untaglat pene” su OE acti oa nothing but pte things. Your tars hear nothing but audibly sounds, mn an ancient priest of an ancient people— knowing a Little of the wisdom of the ages, but much you athe anderstarel. Now I c hang Foo Low, lama the Pekin a a, servant of the of tbe Peking v ha, tell you that I have sent for Cal, Williaa 5. Bradley, of the United States negation guard.” A hand rose out of a relow sleeve and passed before her face, “Shut your eam and hear, Close your eyes aid see... Dn you believe" Her eyelids quivered and closed. For an natant the wat in a dark and soundless amber eomewhere within her own brain, n that soundless chamber shoe heard an itgent though ailent volee: “You belive, tou believe, She opened her eyes and spoke slowed, ‘l bebiewe,” “That is well," sald the lama anftly, Now tell me, why did you leave the leew len mnd go inte the stresta?" As he asked the question she became ware that an unaccountable falth in this ld Chinaman 1a STUWINE within her. To tis faith was ed an , trustin tendliness. She had led a life ao far ttraordinary repression. However deeply 1 sag require a confidant no one here ire nd been able to break down her Now in a dim unearthly temple 1a a heathe land she confronted a with riental on whom she had never laid fore, and felt her abiding reticonon om her like a disearded shell, She tock on fpr Le ee alope toward him os sht answered Bo question, _ did it unknowingly. Tt wan quiet pleats oe in thew last night. The Baxers one to the walls te fight the allles, [ = nt think in the legation. Tt was so owed, and I wanted to think.” “SW otmen do not think: they feel," THE SATURDAY EVENING POST "In emintry they must think too," A little of her impulse te confide in him had | § ita way. “You see, ['ve been worried about—something. I wanted to go out pce stars and think it all out for ‘When a maiden's mother has gone to her ancestors," said Chang softly, “ahe has only the eters to guide ber." ick tears aprang to her eves, “How did you know my mother eu| dead?” she asked brokenly “Eleva clic you know I wanted her so these last feo dave? Vou are a god man—wf tat | man—I knew it now. Tell me, plone father, or whatever they call you— how did you know?" “Gossip has the wings af the swallow," Chang evaded. ‘“Gossipi" She thought for a moment. "Sa," she decided, “I understand how you could have known I am te marry Colonel Hradley—many could have told you that. = ~—my pillows know that I need my I've told them aatiy—late at night, ‘No one beard.” “Someone heared.” “No ane,” she assured him. “The spirit of motherhead within you heard and anewerml. What did it sayT" Blt j ve him a bewildered Lownie, "TT dent unders “You heard the messuge—his hand curved to his cheat—“here. Shall 1 re pent itt’ She nodded dumbly “Oh, proms goby ‘of my daughter you Wil aicken, yeu will die f Hf you heat on the breast af an old man. She flinched, paled, then eried out at him, “You don't understand! You don't understand {"* “T understand this: Colonel Bradley should be your father, not your bride- i." “Listen, please listen!” she implored, ; i wringing her hands. ae listen” said Chang. Gone, gg gone, wae her habitual Teticence. Words poured from her, broken, impulsive, A strange confidant in strange | surroundings! For some reason she did mat find him strange. “T was born in Australia,” sho began. “My parents were Canadians, We lived in | Sydney until my mother dind, My father wasn pet, He reuhs school for a living. When my mother died it is heart and tour his mind a little, He teens looking. lor tng a rg? Jools ng. He clbeed F the Hawaiian I L wis gc him, He said ‘Tulia’—that woe my mother's naneé—aod amiled a rocdiant : IT was left alone, amble and clomed bis eyes. Tend, without money, a child in a eine eae “Bitter with salt teara is the cup of the orphan,” aaid Chang. : put me in an institute for heme lese chil in Hawali—a place with dirty walls, filled with the odors of cooking. At = rots ran about, i I wore a blue denim siren ey als, and that was all—no un ative na stockings, not even a mbboen for my aot faused as woe began to sh Wthe hand, if churit ferds: tha boy and starves the eoal," was Cheng's comment, “One day om Beer Amerionn ater came to drupe the « ‘she went om more the gone ateadily. atom in the courtyard, clean and straight, and askel CES. | | | His boota were polished like mirrors, wore a shining aword."” She was storing unseeingly into the impenetrable shacdiws which wrapped the Buddha. Now her eves returned to the lama’s face. “To me he seemed like trod.” “Poor child, poor child. So turns the wheel,” "That officer was Colonel Bradley. I looked at him firet through a window as he stood quiside in the sunshine, Then I ran out to him and — ut his feet and clasped his shiny tuaked him to save me." 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(Centinaed from Page 71) “You were beaatiful then as now?" Ching interrupted with the same unac- countable imterest. “Beautiful! I waa a thin, dirty, wid- eyed child.” “AR!” sighed the lama. His face be- cnme = y meditative that ashe stood in gikence before him for a time, not daring to disturb his thoughta. “Just ia the wheel," she heard him mutter. And then at Inst, “Cro on, moar daughter." "That was five years ago, I have had since then Colonel Bradley;—food, cloth He took roe from that place in Hawaii; hea took toe back with him to the United Statea: he sent me to school—a convent achoal in America, T spent my vacations ¢ wan ordered to his wife. T asked te be allawed to graduite before we married. He consented. I grad- uated in June and arrived in China just as the Boxer troubles began. We will be mar- ried when the allies relieve Peking." The somber eyes regarded her for a long monretme. “Fate has spread a cunning net for you, poor fluttering dave," Her hand His tone matched his eres, went to her thront. “Don't frighten me, please, Colonel Bradley i¢ an honorable, generous man. He has denied me nothing." “Mothing? Think." “Well, yea," abe faltered. “me thing, He never let me meet hg men. He never bet me go to parties if boys were Lo be there, ‘They weren't allowed to come ta the house. Tt didn't seem fair. I'—her lips quivered—“that's why I wanted mut so lately," she confessed, “I wanted to ask her abowt that before I miarrbedd." She was silent for a moment, The far thunder of the guns on the plain and the nearer though still cdistunt explosion af shells along the walls had continued with- aut interruption while they had talked, Now there came a lull in the gunfire, and then an explosion at which the temple, the ground on which it stood, all China, in fact, BEM to tremble, be “What kcal that?” she cried, seizing im He lifted a hand and laid it for a moment on her head. ““The first stroke oe er eine bells," he said. At her bewil look he added, “They have blown up the Chin Mien gates. The allies are in the city," Her eyes widened and darkened, From qutside came a faint murmur which gow into the sound of many running feet, At last aa ashe listened the sound of them was supplanted by a spiteful crackle like an en string of ignited firecrackers. [nter- spersed with the crackling sounds came sudden muffled screams, to which were presently added hoarse unintelligible ad peice ther eye, mek or mare A narrow, sunken window can [ts inlaid teakwood sill was six from the floor, but a h seat of earvod black marble was just below it. She went slow to the window, Uatening to the growing clamor outside. She hesitated a moment, then mene upon the seat. Stretching to her full height her chin was just sett the window sill, see the soldiers!" she cried. “Gray salditms with spiked helmets." For a moe ment she continued to stare from the win- dow inte the etreeta of Peking— Peking, which row waa ing the priee af Grnorant fanaticiam. “Oh, the bayoneta! How horrible [" She shut her eves and turned from the window. When opened them she gave a sudden gasp, but managed to smother a seream. Oneol the Boxers, trying to escape a fate which had turned her sick with horror, had stolen into the eastern entrance of the temple and was fleeing across The Room of Celestial Ble an entrance on the farther elde He was o tall coolin with an evil, twisted mouth. His pork- marked fase wee the colar of om tond's belly. Elven in his terror he still clun the lorie thin knife which had been at thromt earlier that morning. He was almost to the entrance. He had not geen her! Hewas gone! A thin stream of fire epurted from the shadows in the stern entrance. A sound that reminded her of a heavy trunk crashing against pave ment whipped at the walla and ceiling. The running Boxer faltered in his stride, his lemg lmife tinkled as it struck the THE SATURDAY floor, Round he spun and round Fi then | to p forward on is face. 0 ne of is rew up vaguely and as vaguely straightened, pool which looked like ink erept sluggishly fram beneath his boely and began to spread over one of the aquares of orange marble on which he lay. The girl atared at the » al fi and the diy ysigar The shadow of wings of ae his brow.” The words bao lt thraugh her brain like the tolling of a bell. looked fearfully toward the lama, atill motionless before the altar, Once more ane felt afraid of him. Had he in sore ay cuused tha shot to be fired? An instant Later she leammed that he had not. Gray-clad figures with spiked helmets ap In the eastern entrance, It was a erman corporal with a squad of men. A thin wisp of smoke was still drifting from the muzzle of the unterofficier's nif. Into The Room of Celestial Bliss they strode without a glanee at the dead Hower. As the corporal saw Chang Foo Low he halted. He was in the act of raking his me when bis round blue eyes caught the ge of the golden veasels on the altar. ¢ grunted, lowered his weapon and swung toward the treasure. One foot was on the first of the three broad steps that led up to the altar, one huge hand was already stretched toward the | largest of the gold veasela when the lama, pouring fort atream of raph German, advanced upon him and with a gesture ordered him back The avaricious gleam in the round eyes of the corporal ch. to a look of sur- prise. He lowered hia hand te bring the rifle with ita long bayonet level at hia hip, then drew the weapon back in preparation for its forward lunge. he girl at the window sprang from the stat and jmushed toward the German. “Stop! she oe Fg An instant Later had seimd the rife. “He is a good man, Don't touch him." The corporal looked doubtfully at her for an instant. Who this Big rl oung woman might be wos total him, but she was while and of Shap upper class apparently, His eyes swung to the un countenanes of the lama, They took in his impressive robe and henddress, Perhaps there wad some reason why it would be better not to stich this ald swine whose remained like placid amber lakes an he stood without a tremor before a bayoneb, The corporal barked an order. One af his men moved forward and placing a rile across the brenst of Chang forced him baek- ard a dozen steps fram the altar. The corporal again reached for the massive vesel, Again the lama protested in Ger- man ated never ted te. to get past his guard. “Tion't move! Donk moyel’ leaded the girl. “They'll Kil you." For a moment he obeyed her, Then, sa the men followed the lin a frankie pratbing of ornaments and rleh altar cloths, lean arma rose above his head. “Better | were dead!" he cried. “Thay take the holy things of the Lord Buddhe. Wor to China! Woe to China!” The riffe fire hal died to a splatter out- side, A shouted command came faintly to the gicl's ear, The words gulshable, but they era mh longer strange at beseinde She ran to the marble seat oaks gr nit one more, se se NE troops waa nein fram. a Bide strevt into the temple square ing on toward the Forbidden City. y were not in ray they were in khaki, with, brond-brimmed hats and a roll of yellow blanket behind their shoulders. On their bieeult-shapel khoki-eoloret can teena ake equld just make out the letters U.S.A. She stood on her tlptees so that her face showed clear in the window, Clinging with one hand to the window alll she waved with the other. Fs ‘the top of her voice apa me called at the top r voice apnin again. And then: “Help! Help!" There were nine hundred men left in that regiment, Just one of the nine hun- dred saw that waving arm and caught o glimpse of a white face below it, Not a ‘Matte of what she sold reached hie ears above the tramp of feet, the creaking of amma and equipment, and the deaultory rifle fire. But Ac ptain Jarees Lee darted fram the left Hank of a line of men marching in open order and ran toward the nearest entrance af the Peking temple. He had entered Peking numb with the pain a the first great loss be had ever known. He had marched along its streets in a sort were indistin= - EVENING POST of bitter dream. Now, still in a dream, he wes running toward the temple alone. He said no word as he sprang away from the column, and no officer or man had hap-. pened to sor Plunging into an entrance he ran down a paseanewey filled with faint, strange odors. en he came to a huge dim cavern of a room in which vague figures m he halted sudden in hore?" "T ealled, "cried a voice—p girl’ a voice from somewhere in the darkness. hose men are looting the temple" Jimmy peered tn rely direction af the voice, but ate fh With rowed lids he advaneed vanced cautiously. his eyes grew accustomed The vague fi revealed Vee a rman soldiers at what looked like an altar which # before a tremendous idol towering thirty feet or more from the floor, As the nature of the Germans’ ac- tivities became el to him he walked over and confronted BA idee 8 golng on on hae Heinie?" the man whose insignia shinee hi him to be a corporal. The unter- officier was ewathed in embroidered ta tries, his rifle with bayonet fixed was slung by a strap back of his shoulders. Both his arms were devoted to a load of gold vesasela and jate omaments. He regarded the Americon officer with round, unwinking eyes and made no rep “Do you spenk English?" snapped "Ya, I ahpeak id.” “What are you doing in here?" The German nodded at the figure of the dead Boxer. “We shod dot shvine. Now ve tage dese drinkets." “Nothing doing,” said Jimmy. “Put ‘om back, A dull amazement claimed the heavy features of the corporal. “Vor vy?" he asked at Inst. “Wever mind why, Fut down that Plunder,"* The rest of the ba had now gathered about them. The altar was stripped bare, “Nein,” eaid the eorporal positively, “De C herman Army vill burn und lood und eilayin China. Der order yaa gifen py der Kaiser himsellof."" "Huh," ssid Jimmy. “So I've heard. Well, the Kaiser's a way fram here. Put those things where you got them.” ep fi red on the Teutonie fron st the corporal. He said something to hia men, who turned angry eyea on the American affieer, T vill nod "You ane nod my odficier; fal dig is squad, like the corporal, had slun their r and loaded themselves wit pune. One only, Jimmy notleed, atand- ng guard over a tall old Chinaman in a lone robe and queer headdress, had his weapon in his han As Jimmy's service revolver came out of its holster the mfr of its muzzle care- fully included this guar “Put ‘em back A pct he snid_ There followed a slow anid sullen piling of treasures and ta oT ea upon the altar of Gautama Budd When all waa re stored there came another crisp order: " Assemble your men, corporal,” The order was obeyed. i oa “Vorsaris!" There was a rhythmic shufile of reluctant feet. "Halt your aquad,"" said Jimmy. The shufile ceased. seta the cor poral's command. Perha American oficier would spare at least one af the fiat trinkets In appreciation of the fact t the discovery of the so rich altar had been theirs “Take that dead Chink out of here.” To the muttering of German oaths the me the Boner, its fon ter trailin ling along € , wns { carried dragged from the temple. Before ienaites from the spot whent it was finally fang the corporal kicked it heavily twice. Mentally he was applying his boot to the of & never-to- Fficientlydamoed officler ae eae holstering his nd now, thought immy, a ng n, Who had called what was she ng in a place like this? Belore he could attempt to find out, the old Chinaman in ra dai robe and strange headdress moved slp a nee "Young and honorable soldier, you have saved the altur of the Lord Buddha. In his name I thank you," 73 Ji stared, Rarely had he heard mare perfect English. Never had be beard such avoice. And the face! Waa there ever such tranquillity in a face before? Croce while hunting he had been lost tn a Loaisiana canebrake. Unutterably weary and apelotn a had stumbled por A oy a lying like a fairy mirror in the as leh taf the high watroubled edlsidey lt was a a stretch of stagnant water. He had known that, Yet ita calm radiance that night hed slowly filled him until at last he had lifted moist eyes to the everlasting stars, then settled down purged of the m of discontent ta walt for morning. @ had something of the same feeling now io the presence of this Chinaman. felt ane mene and callow, It showed in his nonchalant, almost flippant acknowl- edgment af the thanks he hod reesived, *Den't mention it." Abeshed os he heard the tone in whieh the words had been uttered, he floundered into worse. “You know"—he nodded toward the al- tar—"T believe shed hide those Phir for a while if I were . You see —— He sta enly. What an ase he rae trimking of pacer But. ae recipient of his advice bowed eau “Tou are wise a well aa brave, I go to —e it is done.” ang moved acroas the great room ia a dices on which a bronze gong restang et pein’ nko ty ina ioreay Rind the the er Att olama's direction they gathered up the ornaments and tapestries and follawed him from The Room of Ce leatial Bliss. But Jimmy gave the proceedings only a glance. He waa peering at the figure of o girl standing on a Peart bench just below the window in which he had geen a blurred white lace and a waving arm. oa called just now?" he ventured. "Tos, lieutenant.” “What are you doing here at a time like this?" Jimmy was vas peering, peering, She stepped down fram the bench and advanced toward him, "T hove been cut aff from the American Legation by Boxers. T ran in here. [ om eting —— e Bhe never finished her explanation. Jimmy, for the last time in his life, was still peerin ag ele came to him, She redtad charupely and regarded hin wie startled oyes A ng is is Elizabeth Darrow. Why do you ask in such a way? He eontinued te stare at her, te drink in i her otaight al eta of ee Be ose or lg it tiigure with lta suggest eg ne look of her throat polly sr ‘the s eelae evil ewirl of her dark hair aa it curved low across her templea and rippled just above the lobes of ler ears. And then ar fhe: Baer laleraler gray eyes — that seemed to ask a spa By now she wes more t seagrh sel was ing angry. i¥ do you stare at me like that? “Den't you know?! “Hrow what?" "Vou don't know,” breathed Jimmy. “T've always thought you would.” " Always thought I would?" she repeated in bewilt erment, “What are you talking Tiny advanced a step ond leaned “Don't you know met" She looked at him intently. “T'm afraid I don't,” she said hesitat- ingly—*"that is, I don't remember meeting you. I don't know your name.” My name is James Pores Jimmy aioe “T'm o poverty-atri lieutenant: taanty-baro yeure icken a that doosn't matter. I never heard your name till now. I don't know who your people an oF WF qu came from, but I know this—I"ve for all life. I've ever since wad enough to think about such thin She ehrank back, the ivory of her face be- eomingafaintrose., Atfirstshe had tho: nt him peculiar, then his insistence and ~ was possibly a stirri math — as she shudion his fe fuer, and half aded her thatahe had met him bere arhape in rene But she never f "eg aces =and what he hod just said ae She knew him now for exactly what he ai “The Joma of thia temple," she said, “whe just thanked you for what you did, is Chang Foo Low, the great prophet of (Continued on Page 7G!

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It is especially recommended for use over Lucaseal Floor Farnish, Wrte Dept. 15 for helpful book on Eueareaf Finishes and name of your nearest dealer, John Lucas aéCo..ine. PIILADELPHEA Sire Tone FITTeEVESH ntach [ftea nt Ta Blab DENYSE, DOA MEMS, TEN, EAVARCH AH, ia JACEE, Wd (Continued fram Pager 72) China. He is a very wise and wonderful old man, but be seems to bave been mis- taken about you.” “ Mistaken?" “He called you an honorable soldier," “Why do you say that?” psked Jimmy. “Tauppoer there ace girls, she explain “who aecept adyunces from a. MRA men. You must have known mer many. But I'm net one of them utenant.” Her humiliation drove her ta add recklessly, “Thank you for coming when I called. I won't keep you any longer." “You want me to got" The rifle fire and shouts and groans out- side had ceased, She looked hurriedly for the lama. He had not yet returned, She heard the reassuring sound of regimental bagpipes somewhere in the distance, but in this ancient gloomy chamber over which the terrifying aloofness of the great Huddho meermed) bo han Hike wll if took all her | price to aaa,‘ re sale e now—I think." There had been | in Jimmy's face aome- bran! hitter, reckless, hard, when he had ia, Sie peared fn The Room of Celestial Bit t had remained aa he dealt with the looters. It had been lessened astonish- ment as he had comfmonted her. Mow it left him altogether. He smiled, and Jimmy had a warm and friend amile. “Let's put tt in the form of a reaclution,”" he said, “Resolved: That James Lee, hav- ing found in an old temple in China. the girl af all the world, shall now out anal leave her. All those in favor say aye, Con- trary, no, No! ‘The noes have it.” He pointed to the brawl lower step of the altar, “Won't you sit dawn?" She did not return the emilee, She did not, pipouge she was almost exhausted, resort to the Inviting altar step. Her voice, how- ever, was mo longer scornful as she ad- dressed him: "You perust in taking me for a ail flirtatious girl. Well, I'm not that. But if I were, do you think I a be interested in a flirtation v Ate now? In the last hour I've Fan for my Beand neaily I lost as i oe best Liman beings lie horribly Chet tenynorect_ I've seen them shot—one vial gies ak my feet." She glanced involuntarily at the | dark pool by the entrance, shuddered with | sudden horror and oe to weep. "Oh, I'm frightewed. They haven't sent for me. I must get back to tha legation. I mast." howd with on effort kept his arma stiffly | oe his sides and montally cursed himself, “You poor littl: thing,” he iad huskily, “T was a fool. It t—well, never mind. what I thought—T'll tell about it later. [ll take you straight to the legation. Mow don"t ery any more. | It's all right. Please don"t ery any more.’ “Thank you. I'll = not to." And now ste Oe id smile, “TI haven't a handker= “Here's one." Jimmy's hond started for a pocket, then ret to his side, “I'm a hegald shortly; “T haven't ether." “Tt doeen't matter; they can just drip. Shall we start?” "TE it’s safe," said Jimmy. “Wait till I look." He turned and went to the western entrance. ‘ue how do you get to the legation ? "hor She followed him to the entrance. “Let me think,” she said, looking over hia. shoulder, “Five blocks down the street you are looking—four to the right. Jimry took his binoculara from his case and beveled them. “Clearalltheway,” hetold her. “There's an English company in the square by that pared thing, Seateh, rashes they've pot kilts" He eur the glosses south, ee bat a Fhe glasses moved Fy is half circle French aver there, It looks all right. Hold on.’ The glosses steadied on a line atralight ahead. “Not o chance. T ie sniping from the roofs— one—two—three—four—five blocks down. There go some our eroaad into a building below, They’ il enfilade them from the rol, That'll make ‘om sick.” He lowered tha rot and turned ta her, “You eun"t ga But T must get back," she insisted, "The colonel will be frantic.” “What colanel?™ “Colonel Beeler: “Oh, ves. I've heard abowt him, They call him the chicken hawk in the Army. Lhon't worry about that bird. One woman more of leas won't bother the eclonel. She had been looking anxiously down the street toward the sniping he had discovered. She turned quickly and faced him. "What do you mean?" May 20, 1922 "Oh, T don't know,” Jimmy evaded. “He's o bachelor, isn’t he? barhehors aven"t much use for wormen o a rub. Now suppose you come on hack in here ond ait down, You're all played out. They’) fix those snipers in ten minutes aed thes we'll start.’ “Lam tired," she admitted. “I'm port being te feel it. I think I will go ond ait down.” As they retraced their steps into the temple she suddenly staggered, “Oh, [am tired. My Kneis ure giving W > threw an arm about ber ebwol oo and got a supporting hand under ber sat ee on," "he said, “We'll make it all Fight, Tt isn’t becmuse you're tired,” he explained ns they returned dowhy to the altar stepa, “It's just the resection alter excitement. I've seen fellows get it when they came out af action. ‘There you are!” he exclaimed when she wae seated at lox, “You'll be all right in a minute.” She rested quietly on the altar ster, wondering about him. She liked hoo now—tremendously., Why had he sald such impossible things at firat? Me was gazing curiously at the big idol towering above them. His chin was lifted and the straight line of his jaw was clear-cut against a background of purple ows, She sud- prong pga where she sat, Somewhere known someont who lifted his hewd just. that way, She made an effort to remember who this someone might have heen, It was useless, He looked down a he peoune conselous of her ibent gaze, and arn ia st rig a Shen What tine eves he had. and what a kind smile! How comforting asd friendly and nice he seemed, An esplans- tion his earlier wildness came ta her, Her legs had given way un ly a moment ago, Perhaps his a had been affected in the same inv thar excitement of fighting, If so, she had mi isjudged him rightfully whe decid ta wie out the memory of her sevahers dium ial, “You ar @ faphd young man, she amied. “You burat upon. an ‘ou ve ever seer before and sa you do? I love you." And fi ve minutes Later ¥ou=lead her to the altar.” He did not return her amile. “Na,” he contradicted gravely, “I didn't may it bo a irl I'd never seen before, A weandnetal ng has happened, I stapped telling you berause you misunderstood But I can’t joke about When you under- stand you won't joke about it evher.” Goml heavens: There he went i He had seemed so normal a moment ; “Yeu. [ know," she said quickly. “[ don"t remember seeing you ‘ore, but we'll talk it over—sometime, Perho ter se unnped firing, Won't you look. “But you have seen me" Ae said it with such quiet assurance that she wavered. “Well, I've certainly forgotten if T have. When do you think [I've seen yout" estnted himself on the step beside her. “You said a while that ewen if you were the flirty kind— knows: I never thought you were—you couldn't do that sort of thing after seeing men die.” She nodded. “Then you wantel a handkerchict. I told you I didn't haveane, 1 did have one Here it ia.” He produced something from the breast pocket of his tunic and spread it out before her. “Why!" she gasped. “It's soaked with Bobby Preseott—my pal. We were rom mates at the Point. Pe wes shot throw the lungs at the wall this morning. He died in “Oh, ohl"’ She beet his sleeve i in @ sudden gesture of pit ‘TSO SOrTy He stared at the ES cee ar “cpceail acTans his hands, “He went the best way a fellow can go. 1 gules; hat de you think I want te flirt?” “No,” she snid; “I think I made « mis take, but—well, of course, I den‘t under stand." _ He folded the handkerchief and laced it In his pocket, “I ak t understan self," he cant But I'm ing to Ba aber: it, Bobby's dea bby fe igang to send this eet idn't give a dann this mot ing aes they got meoor met, but 90 I'm glad I'm alive: I never was se glad be alive in my life. I'l) tell you why." (Ceatleued on Page Fo)

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(titted from Page 78) She became nware that he wes as sane as abe, asd that he wes in earnest, fut ber tremendous curiosity as to what he was about to say was conquered by the knowledge that had no tight te let him I - EN, AG} matt She made an fort to rise from. the step 4 fies hand fell on her arm and om shere dhe wae. “Tot [ must. It's the strangest th het ever happened. It will be eg te rake you believe, [t begina with a dream.” “A dreamt" She repeated the {ascinat- ng word, hesitated, and was lost. “If it's wt a dream TUL listen.” “T bid this dream when I wes a little haver," he began abruptly. “Seven yearns dd, I think I Rise My ndfather had bed sadiden to hia house inthe day net F Besect as death meant othing ta me. I was too y But my sither took me in te mee im ying in hia in, and that impressed me and fright- ned me tremendously. I didn't want to tay alone in my room that night, and my id Hack nurse sat beside me until I went pate. The next thin Baek Being BE TLATHHe. nd saw— well, I aa m mp eandinthe sanding at the foot of used for an ins "Poor little ate ais exclalrmed. ° Bcd yuldn't Jet children see deod jer you terribly frightened?" “Notin the least. [sat up and looked at f= He didn’t look a8 he had in his coffin. e didn't look as he had when he was iva, for that matter. He looked younger a careworn, amd there was a sort 9 ipot, a Bort of pale green light around him coming from him, 1 couldn't tell which, Why, grantipa,’ I said, ‘I thought you ee dead.’ ‘No 0, James,’ he “Te a nto Jive!" che bod been Rejning £0 him intently, wide, lips parted ow ale broke 4 fy: “What a wonderful dream!" "Yea" fe said, “itwaa a wonderful— ram,” She caught up the implication of his baad before the last word. “You think it was more than a dream?" He postponed discussion with "Wait!" d went. om: nky phe from behind the foot of the bed gaw @ little girl with her hand in his, ve found her, "latien he said. “You @ tind her too. Look at her well.’ I tad at the little girl. She atared at me." “What did she look like?" Te took hia eyes from her face and re ded a marble square of the temple floor ditatively. ‘Well, she seemed very pretty toe me, far the 1 nicest little girl I had ever seen, ia droop at the corners of her atk mel Exige, Bray, wistful eyes, Hor waa dark and brushed straight back. the left side of her neck was a long white Ter pa were still half ted, They teuddenly. The pupils of her e pode " ane they ere like the ack pine sunk in grey-green sine tg What Nia you a i = a long darn Ad scar,” he repeated p ‘hand went to the high white linen t which concealed throat. ide it doesn't show," she said gato Yo," he agreed. “That collar hides it, wear high things to hide it now, don't lonecne tabd you." To one told me; how could they?" don't knew, but ——" She agaln at- ited to get to her feet. cee Once more his hand fell on iat i's all s0- “so absurd," ft course; and you know T must get ‘know, I'll take you when it's safe, might a4 well hear it all now. There much mere.” Fell, if there tent much more.” She ined where she waa, but her attitude hanged. All restfulnesa had left her. tgrested a bird about to take wing. fp yrandiather thee gin ndfather = eral itt ew proche and disa ar Hf sitting up in al ctarth staring into the with my heart pounding li pbered the dream for several years, I ieoking for the little girl, But I never THE SATURDAY found her, and when I went aw a dream faded out of ale ple: it penned but [ was busy atk and games and things, [ had no use for girls, I remember, They dawned on me La T wea rired gehen ge Tt was al a ports. Played post tia Have you ever oe Fh Ne. you kee how ita played?" "Yes, I think ao." “Well, T was called out by a girl to get a letter.” Her interrup tion was entirely feminine: “Was ahe ety? “A poe @ WEE A blonde, pink and white, with sort of purp eyes.” oe weld the ivary-tinted brone|tie Who “I nearly died of fright when they weed the F and beft me alone with her, I was wishing I'd never come to the party, Then she put her arma around me bo give me the—letter, and a" letter ia a kisa?" “Ome letter—one kiss. IT guess ashe thought she was the postman. All of a sudden I wasn't embarrassed any more. I in to deliver a littl: mail myself, I wont crazy—sort of. I walked home that night on at, I could still feel her arms poe - st chr lips against mine. I was He Hear e easathice like mo aniff, love—you were nothing but a boy!" “No, "he contradleted “I became a man with my firat kiss. But here's some- thing ['ve never told anyone elee—I've never kissed a woman since—except my mother. el ie believe that?" faeeaee the question. with another: “Why haven't you? "Becnuse that very night I went to sleep eae wae thoughts about Mabel — that te and then 1 grea “Why—yea," he admitted, by her interruption, “Well, in this drewr I seemed to be in a wooda looking for her among treea. Suddenly I gaw a garden filled with wonderful flowers, peculiar flow- era that were warm, like people. Amon the flowers were hundreds and hundreds little naked babies that laughed and held out their arma tome. In the center of the gar en wai a fountain. In the fointain Mabel. She was"—ho shifted his glunce to a point straight before him— bathing. She—well, she held out her arms to me too. I started her, running. Aa I came to the gates of the garden some- one barred my way. It waa another girl and I tried ta get past her, and then I rec ognized her. It waa the little girl with the scar grandfather brought to me. She aie older, but I knew her at once." His eyes returned to her face, He found her lips again slighth parted. Her breast rose and fell at her more hurried breathing. Oren more the rose tint was wanming the rerot her face, at—what did she look like?" “Well, ahe waan't a prett as she had ieee before,” he confessed, “but the min- ute I saw her I fargot about Mabel and my heart began to beat like fury. I tried ta put my arms around her but she avoided me. I said, "Yea, yea, IT must." She ssid, “Not now—you must find me." Then she faded away, and so did the garden and Mabel. I was wide rirare sitting ap ee bed just ns before. But I | swear I voice say, “Find me." is Laut eetibence had been spoken with dire} impress! yeneas, but she for some rem- son flew back to his first words and darted . “You Bay she wasn't as prebhy "Wot thin time,” he aaid. “You see she was pale and thin. She looked as if she'd been crying alot. Her hair was all frowsy and she was. queerly."" She had relaxed somewhat as he had talked, Now she became rigid again. Once Tare 9 pupils of her eyes swiftly con- y?) What do you mean?" e had on a dark He drew—=sort of like a wolform, he explained. “Her logs were bare and she wore sandals." “Gandalal" Tt was a whisper, “San- dala!" It was aseream. And now she was ‘Bet her “Yea,” aald Jimmy, “sandals.” He got ape nhurried|y from the atep and faced her. ol seemed about fifteen then. How old were you?" Her dry lipa moved. "“ Fourteen— Hawaii. What does it mean?" EVENING POST This,” said Jimmy, advancing a step, a shrank away, rer “Path, 7, musto bf" His bands dropped to: bli. aide mid tlanched. “Den't aay that,” he anid harahly. “You haven't heard It all yet. Do you know that all my life you have kept me from every ather girl? Tf I looked at one admiringly when | was awake, if I so much as touched her Loe pert night you tame to me and eprag "TL didn’t. 1 didn't,” she cried, wringing o_o “Tt must have been someone “Someone else?" Overmastering scorn was In the repetition of her words, “I've locked for you for fiftern yeurs. First, in my grandfather's garden and house and | attle: then, later, at dances, on the streets, in theaters, street cara, everywhere [ went. When you waved from the window I was thinking about Bobby. Something mode me look deg way. Something made me forget Bobby and everything, and run in here, I'll have a fine time explaining that I didn't dog it in the face of the enemy to Jook fora girl. That's what I did, as a mat- ter of fact, but [ couldn't have holped it to save my life. All the time I was telling the Heinies where to bead in I wos wondering about you, Then [ saw you standing on the bench and you walked over to me and— oh, no one ean ever know what it was like. Tknew you instantly. I knew every line of your face. I could deseribe the dresa you wore each time you came to me except the nightgowna—they were just—well, night- gown.’ "Nenightgowns!" she stammered. “Yes,” he told her grimly. “You've aften come in i ) ghtaowe- hey've been ewe bow lately," "You hare a mole on your back between shoul der blades shaped like a three-] dover," He had grown white with emotion. The lines in his face had ed. He su ted for a moment what he would loa ike many years later, Amd ahe, ataring at him, as though struck by ab E. "Oh, oll" she cried. “Am I awake? I can't be! I can't bel" "T wond wondered, too, when I ized you, but you" re ‘awake. Oh, you're awake, my dear, She ahreee her fingers to her temples, still starin im. "Then i heer “Why? he asked. “"Beciise—because""—p sort wae in her volee—""I"'m sure [ve known vou before." "(Of SCALP, " he ald [mpathently; teld you “T don't mean that,” ahe whispered. * mean long, long ago—ages ago." ei eae mined bi her with a half cry and Behn girl, I dane "t tell you that; but I knew it from the vory first. [knew it when father brought you to me in my “Tye drenm.”* “Te came to mr just now," sul in a whisper, “It was when you turned so white and looked ao much oleler.”* “When was it we knew each other?" he hadnt with an Iraplaring bug at her an “T can't rem ; perhaps you ean. Think!" Her brows contracted in a mental effort while he waited, scarcely breathing. She shook her head at last. “T don't know, It won't come back, It was—so—Long—ago,” “Never mind,” he said. “It doesn't matter, Nothing matters now but—this.” He drew ber to him unresisting, dis- ambedied. [t seemed te her that her naked pat oh wae toning his samewhere in infinite lips on hers reclathed her spirit i alnging flesh. The Room of Celestial Bliss for a timeless moment was adequately Hare, And then the world—a hideous world— beat at the doore of her mind. She atrig- gled to free herself, “Let me go! Let mee gol" fA aap gil, what's the matter?” Clear o arms she was altogether anic-stricken, ‘Ch, what have I done? ahealel have told you. “Told me what, sweetheart?” There was a sudden clatter in the west- en entrance as it Alled with a arpunat nf marines, At their head was wn officer— an old officer. “Betty!” he erled; and rushed upon them, repeating, “Betty! Betty!" (TO BE CONTINUED) of terror | ‘she told him, | 78 Becmuclinyie Seiad Sealed With 0il ERE’S a fact— H No-Leak-O Piston Rings won'tleak. Their “oilSEALing” groove—a specially cut groove, found only in No-Leak- O Piston Rings, “packs” an im passable film of oil between piston and cylinder walls and seals the combustion chamber tight. Results: More miles per gal- lon and no power-killing car- bon choking your motor. 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BO THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 20,1923 ts h AL Revolutionizing invention~the é SUPERFEX Burner aa that cooks as fast as re gas and 1s absolutely | | reliable. © Coie a ll ee creel ear aT ae Se Pictured above ia the new double-walled, double-deratt, rapid cooking Giant SUTERFEX Burner found only on the latest model New Perfection Oil Cook Store, Aut the tighe ia shown the 4burner model (No. 304 with New Perfection Oven) of thia mew apecdy all arove equipped with ONE Giant SUPERFEX Burnce ane three Seandand SUPERFEX Frurners having the same double-walled, double-draft conatriuc- tion asthe Giant. Orcher models ore —t Fue i-hurrer, Na, yt. and the 2-burner, No. 202, Each model of the new 300 Sevies has one Glane SUPERFEX Burnes. PERFECT] Wridd&siri gat] Pell THEE TERMITE ghee Tht! THES cfioulel 1] ; a . f. ) be dddresred ta The Pertection Srove Clompany, i] , eg 4 i I Emined, Satria, ntaric, mittulm@aturcn in | ‘aretoai im shad ral ie famonwe (lie (Shon Mea lM rf cron Oh) Coal Scoiacs, MOUSEH —,. ip {

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST al at fast! The Kind of Range Youve Always Wanled HE world’s largest makers of oil stoves and . ranges have crowned their achievements with the production of an oil stove that cooks as fast as gas and is absolutely reliable. Its speed and success are all in the New Superrex Burner which grills a minute steak, roasts a leg of mutton, bakes a chicken pie or preserves a kettle of fruit in proper time —fast or slow—for each operation, be it an intense searing flame or a gentle simmering heat. Over four million housewives already appreciate the reliability, safety, economy and comfort of the New Perfection Oil Cook Stove. This new burner adds quickness: and absolute heat control to the sturdy virtues of these New Perfection Models. To accommodate the Superrex Burners and the Giant Superrex, we have constructed a stove that for beauty, strength, smartness, convenience, completeness and all-around satisfaction sets a new standard. Now on exhibition for the first ime — America over. Visit your dealer. These new (Series 300) models of the New Perfection Line, equipped with the revolu- tionizing Suprerrex Burners, are additional to the long established, regular New Perfection Line. The Series 30 New Perfection Models, famous and favored the world over, continue to be the most popular oil stoves made at their price. THE CLEVELAND METAL PRODUCTS COMPANY Als Makers of ALADOWN Uteruils and PERFECTION Oil Heaters 7635 Pratr Avenue CLEVELAND, O10 What you getin this new stove- See it NOWat your dealers. 1. Cooking speed of the giant gas burner—in the Giant Surerrex Burner. Cooking speed of the standard burner—in the standard size urenrex Burner. 2. Abundant heat that is absolute- ly clean and odorless. 3. Greater economy and es of cooking with kerosene oi 4. Operating convenience and new time-saving features. 5. Handsome, sturdy, long-lived stove with higher and bigger Aladdin Quality Porcelain Enameled Cooking SOR and new base shelf for wu : 6. The New Perfection salle standard the world over. 4. Two sizes of Surenrex Burners —one Giant and three Standard SuUPERFEX Burners. 8. A new (more beautiful) Gray Enamel finish on all chimneys. The Giant Surearex Burner is 7 inches in diameter, the largest oil cook stove burner and the most powerful ever marketed. Look for the name SUPERFEX on the Gray Burners. Jil Cook Stoves € Ranges >UPERFEX Burners

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Small-Town Stuff _ By ROBERT QUILLEN Relief for aching feet Dr, Scholl's Amaerion Metacarsal Arch poeta Cornet ca spahonng oe Bt orram — Sa arch aereda the ished) af uke af tle Dr. Sehall's Zinogade peower Tew po) rider fata = Mien. Price, ate a bow. Sample free pacer eres FREE OFFER q Schall Co. t LOS | I Eid er Si, ao j | I I | Please seed me a sample of | j Dr. Scholl's Zinc adn and w £6 7 De. Beluall's ees ts he Beer and Theis Ca tired bodies— this way Why, two or three hours after you arrive at office or store, do you feel your- self“ slowing up”? Why does an after- noon's okt hea, exhaust your you “losing your grip’ eee into the old age class pre- maturely ? The probability is that you are suffering from a condition known as“ weak foot.” The muscles and ligaments which support the bones have begun to weaken—this condition causes tired, aching feet, bodily fatigue, rhewmatic-like pains, weak ankles, and results in run-over heels, corns, callouses, tender soles, cramped toes, excessive perspiration and other discomforts. How to obtain relief Foot suffering of this kind is whally needless. There is a wey—Dr. Scholl's Foot-Eazer way— to obtain quick and lasting relief, Dr. Scholl's Foot-Eazer is a sctentific foot arch cushion, which supports the arch gently and firmly and relieves the atrain and pressure on the muscles and ligaments of the feet caused by standing or walking or inherent weakness. Tt assures positive and permanent relief. It is comfortably adjusted and worn inside the shoe. Where to obtain relief In thousands of shoe and department stores the country aver are men—trained Practipedists— whoa have been carefully tratned in Dr. Scholl's methods and who will assist you in selecting the Dr. Scholl appliance which you require. (so to the store in your town which carries Dr. Scholl's Foot-Eazer for an examination of your stockinged feet. Seck out this service today —and have immediate relict and comfort and freedom from foot suffering. HOTEs [fF yoe common locave che Or, Scholl enone im pour ivy, wie us, ‘eowill send pou fhe name of the nearer thors and an imteresting new bowkles. “The Pree oh tg Thi Gare.” Acddmect ihe Scholl belfg, Com, 210 Schiller 5... ‘Chlrapa, Tl, Franck (tice: 62 Wy, lich. Ge Hew York c ey. For Cunacds, address the Scholl Bai. Go. Lad. 12 Adelaide Se. Ey Dr Scholls Foot Comfort Appliances Toraneo, Lemons T [S seldom that a boy has good fortune to learn three excellent lessons in one | day, and when the three leasone are taught by a person of questionable standing before |} the law the circumstance is traly remark- able. While yet in my teens I walked one day along a country road, light of heart and foot, having quit one job that had become a bore to search for another that a afford variety. As the morning ware on I waa overtaken by a cheerful, talkative ad- Venturer who drove a sweet bay mare tou | buggy. He asked my destination, and hay- ing learned that I was meriy on my way offered the hospitality of his buggy an the instructive chatter of his whimeaical self. As we drove on T learned that he was for the time being contriving to get his bread by peddling maps. “This,” said ae: “T confess to you in strictest confidence. When YOU S68 me go inte action you will observe that I am a person of considerable consequence, and not the lowly peddler [ now pretend.”” We topped a hill and saw in the valley below a nondescript farmhouse flanked by ae a and pu surradnded by ripening whent. A land of milk and honey," companion. “It is my task to milk it. In order that you may fully ap oe the skill required in the process, now give you your first grr in the ov of alan manship. Always know your customer's name. At the last farmbotise [ visited 7 in- quired the name of the fortunate individual who owns this one. IT learned that he i& Alexander Williams, has money in the bank und is ul af his pureb Berkshires. When Peal him by name he will feel flat- tered, When I lead the conversation to the subject of hogs and express regret that so few faormera seem to appreciate the good ualithes of the Berkshire he will be my rend. And then 1 shall take the profit jus- tified id my superior acumen. Aleanwhile ou Will have opportunity to learn another eason that may serve you well in future.” When Willistes hed been daly li- mented by mention of his name and flat- tered by reference to a Berkshires the map peddler became gray Mr. Williams,” said he, "T have been appointed to show a new government sur- “ii of this territory.” ere wis no feferene: bo commonplace no hint of peddling, but only werds of dignity, suggesting great matters—gov- rele survey, appointment. The en- rigement lawn with ao brave a show was developed adraitly until the business was accomplished. e peddier acld a map, inquired the name of the man living in the next house on the read, and swung back into the highway, anid my “Tell me," I demanded, “what lesson I learned there save the value of n snvoath tongue," Won learned. bhereplied, that all mon t the authority of Rowernment, aM | a nok ene dure without w rensan, ala iim to be an appointer of the President or of any ather of I told Willinms that t had been appolnted tashow nment wees, det belwern inted myself, and the appoint: confirmed by me ae éppo- siti, his map is in faet product HM skies ache by Federal auth ity. Sea much fora Kew E inelar Wi conscience. The pice tis that mention of avert Feeeeit wala net a hearing. I. FrOW ols ler ari aie | vel about I ye thi Be Ire “cog 1 af ay nied i i Ef “oleh ool Bit “pL Iders an d all May 20, i939 their works. Men curse an adminstratiog and ridicule an official, but they havy as abiding and wholesome respect for th: vague something that is Government with acapital G, They fear it and homor it, and when occasion Pxyuines they will fight for jy, ‘On the King's business’ gains the right of Why now ms it did when the ety was fim heard. You may, in future years, see prom ise of w profit in foolish in takings, but | aijire you most salemnly, don't you ever monkey with vik Unele Samuel,” The third lesson had te do with ham aed Cres. Noon Lp hel. The Texidie turned to me with his whirosieal smile and aeked concerning the state of my iimumnces [ showed him a few coins. nu them," said he. ing i alwave foolish nding. This neat house i owned by awidew, and we shall be her guests. With her we shall fare sumpis- ously, and though she doran't realize it, yet ahe a hearty weleorme for as, Ther Wil be another lesson in this for you." He drove up to the house, introduced hirwelf and me, and asked if it would he possible to get a bite toent, 7 thought the widow's {ace rather grim, and half te to be turned away, but the peddber ¢ merrily and began to pull the harness of the mare as though entirely at his en, “Don't go to ang trouble for ws," sid he: “just ham and eggs and coffee, or any little thing. I'll water the mare and rut some onts, and then we'll wash up.” The dinner was not a social succes, | felt ill at ease, and the widow refased t tunbend. The peddler was undismayed, however. He talked of crops and of busi: ness conditions in the ecuunty seat, Hy oke wf his home on North Street, ane of £ boy he had in school. And when w had cleaned our plates and pushed tars our chars he offered hia hand to the wider and said: “That was a ee ‘biful banc. and we anere it hugely. yon wil repay me by giving me ens povilege being your How when if YOU viet the county seat. Moy wife will be delighted ta eee you. We are old-fashioned folk, and cling toa the belief that God sends ib eg The widow was dazed, but game. Fos accepted his hand and ventured her fir emule. We were no longer nuiainces, bo meats, and she insisted that we shoal 2 om ber front porch and amoke while diges ing our dinners, Soon after we got on our the peddle gave me directions to reach the next tow and pulled up te take a crossroad. | shook hands and expire mw Teta (hciny “Son,” said he as he took up the reo “dant ever forget this last leeon. I | most important of all. ‘There are ma many people in the world, some gool 2 some bac, and all with ames to grind. Ti will be interested in you only when i see promise of a profit for their pure) their vanity, But mark this: Eee) them haa great reapect for pood mans e_ch wishes to feel that his own mune are food; and few of them will permit to outdo them in the matter of Rae: | hiever dare aman todo a thing. anmounees his intention of clevimg it, remll casually that you know ihe will mot bea he is a gentleman and no well-bred pee would stoop to « thing so unworthy. hh you gol thim. on edge to show their Ge Mminners You have them om the hig He wan full of guile and blarmey, ane have no doubt, come to some bad endt & Lowe him for three well-taaght lesson a fourth he was not conscious of tesck The fourth is that the good hase nomen oly of wisdom, and there is profit ing serious apeeeh ‘of the humiblest wagers se] aes Spend

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THE SATURDAY THE INSIDE STORY OF THE A.£.F. ‘Centiooad from Page 11) rar foros Wholly’ and unreservedly under French tutelage. = et Jpequest that a copy of this letter we furnahed the French Military Advisory ifewion in the United Strtes,” : tot te least remorkuble feature of the \cieriran fort wes the suddenness wit waichitbecameriectiventter weary months al delaws. Lr April, 1818, the A. EL FL was sill ari significant factor in the fighting, ime valor potential, At the end of July the iE. F. was furnishing the punch for the (ed blows, And from then on the mighty rliury achine We had built upin France pithered impetus; it drove ahead with -cithes power. Ones the American forcea we concentrated as an Anverican Army, opuying American methods, the results ured ollexpertations. Pershing’s faith rut justihed; his tenacity of purpose, his fehi pallence under every form of pressiine itil aggravation and political maneuver, cere rewarded. [nm mi opinion there wis wo military lender in the war who upheld te dignity and interests of His country ath braver devotion, He cureliy nsericell palience, Watching besow growth af the A. E. F., our Allies ol pot a few American observers odespair of American aid becoming effec- ive in time. There were auch endless and saddening delays. ‘The available shipping dl pitiably short of needa; we could not ting men fast, enough, let slone supplies cise and equipment for divisions anel ics and camps and railroads and lines of mauwnication, The first ten months in mance would howe brought despair to ineiy-nine Ton out of o hundred, Here is an instance of our shortages: le Erst time cur tronpa went inte the 6 saw a trail of dead horses for miles vt miles. thang ania a ap re iled by shells: they heel alm rir the road fro pd i ad aad died thera sie they were worn out when we gob en. Unpinally these horsea had iseen urht by the French at exorbitant prices an American deelers; they had beer el inthe war until condemned; then had Te HF a need of animals, and we ¢ teen compelled to buy thom back at i? price because lack of shipping pre- ole enough bein gbininable from Bids And we were ara wur soldiers partly Briteh uniform. Hhhe deughbeays did te oof ther mast punishing hikes in glish-made shoes, which may be all = lor that kind of feet, but never seemed oe 'n fact, our purchasing department had e men combing every corner of Allied ope for supplies of all kinds, and ani- kk. Eaek in the United States was nty of everything we needed overseas, ‘owe Bedn't the ships to send if, ever commands the aceun highways ieates the world, The Handicap of Humility ‘t another factor hampered speedy copment of our overseas forces af a tng Machine: it i undeniable that eck and British tutelage slowed Amer- ventieavora, Eseh of these armios had tel out through hard experience meth- al warfare adapted to their needs and % habits and temperament of their sol= % They got sdmirable resulta with Land it wes very natural they should mend their use andl seek te impose jonus, But methods foreign to men’s wrament and ways of doing things— toda repugnant to their mental atti- = Pant successfully imposed on iers in any line ef effort, When a horse ‘sto run he will not do his best when ite to make him trat. any of us approsched the war alto # too humble in heart. That state iebout Americans may stir the risi- a oal our friends, who ore Jonth to tus with humility in any direction: rtheless itis true. Both the people at band the younmper officers and men meing the fret expeditionary wits had an almost reverential attitude mMoour Allies. During three yeara of we had rend every morning and eve in our hewspapere of the achievements @ French and British; they were te the aver American, #¥ [ them, Th ad passed throug and we had not; we felt toward great humility of spirit; sa when it tume his turn te join those paladins in the fight the average citizen af the United States entertalned misgivings, dowbeful of his capacity to measure up be all he had heard of these eoldiers; he went to Frunce | metkly deferential to the others’ knowledge and experience. It was in that spirit the first few hundrest thousands of our expeditionary forces went at the work of training. I was there and | saw It operating—sar, too, what the effect would be, For though nnility may ba an admirable quality from an ethical stand. | point, and the Bible tenches fb persistently, it's no aad hondicap when the rough stuff sturts. Confidence is nearly hall the game in'wer, Che hes only to reflect where an attitude of humility or deference would land birn in a rough-and-tumble fist fight— provided it permitted him to stay in it— to realize the drag this virtue can in war. Fortunately a short contact restored the Americuns to a sense of proportion, They soon ttalized that here were men like them- stlyes, @xcept only for their experlence. And t speedily dechded that experience had ht their associates lessons which hurt their effectiveness, Our troape fexd up with defensive tactica; but meanwhile precloua montha were conauned in over- zealous training in forms of warfare calcu- lated to prolong the atruggie as a defensive war until A. Dh. 9000. And this tee cnreful preparation in stuf he hod grown to de- spise began to take the fine edge off the doughboy's natural spirit of aggresayeness. "Lat's gol’ wes his constant plea, And when wet Inst the lewh woe taken off him und he esuld fight in American fashion he showed cmperh deal and disregard of pun- ighiment. He got resulta, Our Numerical Strength On January 1, 1918, there were 176,065 American troops in France, and none in the line. Ome division hod spp on the front, but only for a short period of troin- ing. A month later we held ten Kilometers ef front in a very quiet sector—and the Allted front extended from the Channel to the Swiss frontier! A pony. puny effort for i great nation whieh years’ menace of ernbroilment staring it in the facel However, I mention these early discour- agemente simply te show the amazing spec with which our military machine moved once it was organized. Perhaps it was ine evitable that progress should be hardly perceptible in the ewrly sages af building. | At the ond of January the French held 620 kilometers of front, the British armies. held 1&7, the Americans only ten. Ey Jone twenticth the Americana neld 106 kilo- miters, against 679 for the French on that date, and 133 for the British—the front head beso extended through the German offensives. We had then 800,440 men in France. The fighting very severe in Sep- tember and October: the decisive blows of ihe wor were being struck, On Chcteber tenth the Americans held 162 kilometers. of front, the Fronch held 392, and the British 193, When the anmistice came the Amer: icuns held U4 kilometers of front and hod more than 2,000,000 men in France, being second to the French armies in numbers: the French held 343 kilometers of frone, and the British 118. These immense American forces, with equipment and aupplies te sustain them, had been transported across three thou- sand miles of submarine-infested sens; arts and towns and camps and railronids ad been built in France for their handling and upkesp; ond all in about fourtern months! time, It is one of the colossal achievements of history. Te get beck to the fighting: For difi- culties to be overcome, numbers of men engaged and Importane: of rewulta, the Meuse-Argonne offensive ensily takes rank aa the greatest battle in American history. The front on which this series of ra- tions took place had remained practically unchanged since it became stabilized in September, 1914. There had been a few mine’ fluctuations during the enemy at- tacks on Verdun in “16 and the French counterenffensives the following year, but the only renl result of these activities was : (fCantinawed of Poge 36) ad been in the war | singe April 6, 1917, and had had three | EVENING POST CWwhat Governor Sproul Be sure to have your dealer show you the Fulcrum Shonider Hoerbangiog Cap Chowseled tmard Alicremetric Precision Al tomatic Adjurtment of Pennsylvania says is endorsed by busy executives and active responsible men every- where-They have found in the New Improved Gillette the solution of their shaving problem.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 85 “Where's Bill ?” Man at ’Phone—Has Bill left yet? We're all here and there’s a big crowd at the first tee. Lord knows when we can get off now! —What’s that?—left an hour ago! (jamming re- ceiver on hook). Well, I'll be—! Bill's in for it when he arrives—that’s certain. But right now he’s wondering whether he ever will arrive. Just took the j car out of the repair shop and here he’s stuck again, on the finest aa Saturday afternoon of the season. There’s a way to avoid many such predicaments as the one Bill is in—ask all the questions before you buy, instead of afterwards, Qne of the most important is ““Who made the axles?’’ It may save you from a “dubbed drive’’ sometime, when you're specially anxious to get a good long one that doesn’t land you in the rough. Axles are not only more important, but more costly than other parts. When a car builder uses Timken you can be pretty sure he doesn’t spoil quality by sparing expense in other parts either. So remember to ask that question: ““Who made the axles?” THE TIMKEN-DETROIT AXLE COMPANY - DETROIT, MICHIGAN Sola Representatives in the British Isles: AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS (0., 3, Berners Street, London, Wi 1. TIMKEN XLES

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If you have one of these handy tools already, you'd better get an extra one for that hard-working hired man of yours. It doesn’t pay to lend a real Stillson. Be sure that the wrench you buy has the diamond oa Ask your hardware dealer for a genuine Walworth Stillson Wrench (look for the trademark). Also write our nearest office for descriptive booklet. Walworth Manufacturing Co, ‘rw Fork Hoven - Chicago Philadelphia - Seattle Pertload Boston, Mass. & Kewanee, lil. WALROETH INTERNATIONAL Co, NEw YORE POEEDGN REPRASENTATIVEA Valves, Fittings, Tools for Steam, Water, Gas, Oil and Air defensive positions whic | same number in reserve, All signs | to an expectation on their | would enlarge the St.-Mibiel operation EVENING POST (Continued fram Page 3.3) the development of a remarkable defense syatem by the Germans, For a depth of twenty kilometers they had eantinucua defenses, and te help out thie elaborate sys- tem there was a gone of devastation an attacking army would have to cross in any move against them. The job intrusted to the Americans waa to break through the auecesaive fortifed zones, the igi yay cag reve or Hinden- burg Line, on the front Brieulles-Romagne sous Montflaucon-Grandpre; etna er en done that they were to prese tow. and bring about the fall of the indenture Line along the Aisne River in front of the French Fourth Army. 1 French army Het to attack to the west of the Argonne ‘orest, [t was 2 tremendous undertaking, the most dificult on the Western Front, but success would precipitate the crumpling of all the German armies in France and Belgium. This region was vital to the enemy: henee the eonverpence of succesalve rendered all that country he held a dense masa of fortifled points; hence the steady flow of hia divi- | sions to this front from other sectors. The reasons for this deapernte defense are plain enough. The German armies in Northern France depended upon two great railway systems, one posing through Litge and the other having as ite vital soc tion the line Carignan-& dienes, with ney coming from Luxemburg, Thionville Metz, Ne other important railroads are available, and the Germans had to rely an the Carignan-Sedan-Mésitres line for the strategical movernent of troops, If the enemy could not withdraw hia forces through the narrow neck between Mézitrea and the frontier of Holland before this line was cut his ruin would be ute, A moderate penetration on this front meant much more than a deep one on an other. If the American Army could smasi through for a gain of eighteen kilometers it would equivalent ta a penetration af sixty-five kilometers farther weet; and aa for the effect on the Germans, such an ad- vanet would be infinitely more menaeclng. That the enemy reali his vulnerability here had been evidenced by his herculean efforta in 1916 to improve his position through the reduction of Verdun, and b the tremendous labora he had put forth aince then in building up defensive posi- tlona., If he were driven back here the jig waa up, and he knew it. The terrain also sided the ors Alar engi there were great natural barrier to army's nivance, The heights east of the Meuse afforded the enemy excellent artil- ler positions for oblique fire on the weatern bank, and his right flank was covered by batteries located in the almoet impassable Argonne Forest. Midway between this for- ext and the Meuse were the frowning helghts of Montfaucon, which had been strongly fortified. Densely wooded tute nesaes and other naturally difficult places offered ideal positions for machine-gun ka And the Germans certainly utilized them So complete had been the success of the St, “Mibiel operation that on the second day of that attack reserve divisions and army artillery unite were withdrawn and directed towurd the Argonne Front. Things were speeding up everywhere. 4a immense Traffic Problem “The movement of the immense num ber of troops and the amount of suip ies in= volved in the Meuse-Argonne battle," General Eustis in hia report, “over the few toads available, andl confined entirely to the hours of darkness, waa oe of the micest jelicate and difficult problems of the wur,’* The congestion was terrific. How they ever evolved order out of the maelstrom af marching troope and trucks and wagona andl artillery that choked thoe roads, all moving in the blackness of night, in tain ae mud, is a bation But they got the nglea straigh out somehow; the art lery reac mut their positions, the in- fantry arrived at their jumping-off places and supplies came along for ther, To meet the American attack the Ger- mans had ten divisions in line. and the oinbed art that we inte an advanes: on Metz, and euceesaful : | | ruses oere carried out to encourage the enemy in this belief. May 20,1522 A violent artillery fire of prepara: opened at 2:30 on the morning of Septic. ber twenty-sinth, and three hours later 1 infantry jumped off, accompanied by tan). The nine divisions which led the a bar were the Thirty-third, Eightieth, Poort Seventy-ninth, Thirt weoth, Wiser. first, hirty-filth, wentysegnth an Seventy-ceventh, There were six division in Lion and the First Army had Sim , 189 amall tanks and S21 aizpla: m4 pelea manned 142 of these tanks and 4 of the airplames—in our previous as tions these arms had been largely manne by the French and British, The Americans encountered a stil problem at the very outset of this bar) the restoration of communications acto No Man's Land, ae four roads were available and d the hitter fgbtiry earlier in the ca & artillery fire Ga virtually destrayed them. The sol ay spongy; we lacked materiak. But « fed are a hard breed to stump; the: rel up communications somehow yo poaible the movement af tur wiley and supplies, ghting waa fierce and degred, (ns each side it seemed to be felt that the ed was near, and each army put all i: ted inte the effort, straining for a knock, So bitterly was every foot of grousd ce bested that in many cases no quarter ww asked or given. Men fought until they dropped, withowt thought of surrecde, With No Thought of Oulttiag The ground aver which the Aerie advanced was exceptionally rug diMicult—ateep heights, danas lands [ntersected by ravines and street with fortified villages commanding all & approaches. It rained, and there wen heavy foga; they struggled ange el te thick mud and the blackness of » against terrific Detar fire and 1 crashing inferno of shells, They moved waves up the slopes of platenus eto ridges were a living flame of enemy in stormed the bastions, . i chat machin n nests and the pn ners. With mie fire an hand grenada and the cold steel they cleared the bo mang out of farm buildings and vila And all the while the world roche uivered under the thunderous claret | ousands of guns, red-hot from the tua speed. Sleep was something to be pootche when a man could get it. Men grew | utterly weary and sick at heart, from oi and hunger and Jack of rest, that dea held no terrors for them. They =e ignore bursting shells to take a nap. Ve aching, worn out, hungry, and desperate thay were, they Tought their may fond and never dreamed of quitti aoa fortitude can rise to wondrous “Continuous gating Was mista along our entire battle front, with — success on the extreme left, where the: ture of the greater part of the Ard Forest was comp — Pershing’: port. “The enemy contested every fa of ronda | on our front in order to rl more rapid retiremenia farther weet 2 withdraw his forees from northern Fua before the interruption of his rr communicntions through Sedan." At this critical time the First. Ar=j 4 eonfrented an an insufficiency of replal mente to build up the worn divisions combat units required aboct pasos 1 Placements early in October, but not f than 45,000 would be available & yember first. Pershing had a the cil humming with appeals to Washingtor. © results were menger, With the British were bwo Amens divisions, and there were two more ¥ the French. In this predicament decided that the American tr Freneh armbes must be recall October tenth. Both were of opin the American divisions were eet the French effort, and that. this ee came speedily evident, for before ric could effect the release of the two d dis in question he had te send the THO seventh and Ninety-firat divisions f= own hurd-pressed army to the wes of the Sixth French Army, whieh = Flanders. The American First Army was son ing wlong a frant of 120 ki ite strength exceeded] 1,000 (Continued on Page £9

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fContinaed from Poge 37} the greatest combat force over weeribled under the American flag. It iease seomaary to relinwe some of the aphausted divigions preliminary to another reeral agswalt. iz an pliack along the whole frant, poached on Cetobir fourtecnth, the atrong- wd on Cote Dame Marie was captured id the Hindenkeurg Line was broken. “onel acd Romagne-sous-Moantfaucon were abe: an advanee was made north of namerance, The maximum gain since be ifeaive opened on September twen isth om seventeen kilometers, amd heen compelled to throw inte any fifteen of his reserve divisions. ‘yor ended one ig of the battle. aod hb local operations during the remainder the month the Finet Corps, under Dick« an, advanced rindpre: the th Corpa, under Summerall, captured the siede Bantheville: the Third Corpa, under anL, Hines, completed the extremely dif. eh occupation of Cunel Heighta: and e Seventeenth French Corpa drove the nade Alontagne. By the end of Octo- rite enemy's elaborately prepared poai- 7, including the Hindenburg Line, had et broken: Argonne Forest was in cerican hands; an advance of twenby= « ilometers had been made: 18,600 axis, 270 cannon, 10 machine guns dagreat mass of material had been ew vd; and the Germans had Increased) the ber of Cheir divisions on this front from ecty to thirty-one, The vital railway ery Ae iedy Lrignan to Sedan waa now veri ‘The demands of incessant battle which [been maintained day by day for more na month rompelied our divisions ight tre the limit of their capacity, Com troops were held in line and pushed to attack untll deemed iinrenhe of furs effort becauee of casualties or exhaws- artillery once ed was seldom Hrawn and many batteries fought until tically all the animals were casualties the guna Were towed out of line by er trucks,” reports Pershing. ‘The riran soldier had shown unrivaled for- de in this continuous Beatin during t inclement weather one Fr many lvantages of position. Th 2X fe =, the Army hal develop into @ ofl and ameoth-running machine, there Wad & BUpreme confidence in our ty to carry through the task success While the high pressure of these dogged 43 WES £ great strain on our troops, it alamitews to the enemy. His divisions een thrown into confusion by our us dasailts, and his morale had bean i until his will to resist had well- reached the breaking point. Once a an division waa engaged in the fight a practically impoaalble to effect iet ie the Piret Army waa battling in the ATONE, ATHETICAN troops were par- ting in attacks on other portions of ont. The Twentysceventh and Thir- iiviions under Major Gener) Read with the British, and eotperated with ustralian (corps in breaking the Hin- Te Line at Le Catewu, the teow Amer- ivigions capturing HH prisoners and cing twenty-four kilometers. ? Purely American Effort Second and ‘Thirty-sixth American ng aided the French in their advance nm Rheims and the Argonne, The n Second Division took by assault ode heights af Mont Blane, the key German position, and then by forg- ead into the willage of St. Etlerme, the en to fall back before a and ylel rc be bad held eptember, 19 sponge to Marshal Foch's nit re- General Perahing sent the Thirty- 4 and Ninety-first divisions in the of Qetober to help the Sixth French n Belgium, although at that time be t know which way to turn for re- ants for his own battered divisions. ith French Ar wis having a hard it, being unable to advance as de- lovember third the Armerlean divi- id driven the enemy across the Es- iver and had firmly established ives on the east bank: they also d Spitasls Borechen, reached the entered Audenarde, THE SATURDAY Marshal Fach made many changes in the detuled plans for the operntions of the Allied Armies as mew itions arose, but the mission of the Americun Firat Army remained unultened. Accordingly General Pg ant orders for a ara attack on OQeba twenty-eighth which would be decisive. This attack was to be meade simultane- oualy with one by the French Fourth Army, and ita execution was delayed until No- vember first. Buzancy and the heights of Barricourt were the immediate ohjertives; then the gain wae to be exploited into a dnve for Sedan. " By strenuous efforts all available artil- lory had been moved well forward to the heights, previously gal by the enemy, from which it eould fully cover and aup- rt the initial advance of the Infantry." — rahing'sa report. “On thia oeeagion and for the fret time the Aroyy prepared for its attack under normal conditions, We held the front of attack and were not onder the necessity of taking over a new frone, with its manifold installations and services. Our own personnel handled the communi- cations, dumps, telegraph lines, and water servien; our divisions were either on the line or close in rear; the French artillery, aviation, and technical troops whieh had pevesouety mide up our deficlencies had f largely replaced by our own organiza- tions; and our army, corps and divisional gtaffa were hy actual experience to none.” In other words, our forces had really found themselves. ; The battle oponed on the mori November first with two hours of violent onlets iss. Bh tlbag nnd moquitted taal! magnificently, the barrages being so well eodirdinated ond so dense that the enemy waa overwhelmed anc i eartaA sub merged by the rapid Mal Gen. the Infantry “— Pershing. . EL. F. MecGlachlin, Jr., i ace the American artillery In this offensive. "“Qur heavy artillery "'"—thia was later—"waa skillfully brought into position to fire upon the Carignan-sedan Railroad and the junctions at Longuyon and Conflans,”” The Race for Sedan The Americans had taken the heights of Barricourt by nightfall of November first, had advanced te the Boia de Ia Folie, hed captured Aincreville and Andevanne. They had broken through the Germans’ last de- fense, overwhelmed their artillery positions and precipitnted a retreat of the enemy forces about to be isolated in the forme north of Grandpre By the evening of the fourth the Amer- ican foros he Neuville, a be Stenay, and had swept through the de Diewlee to the outskirts of Beaumont: to the left kag Moti eight kilameters north af Hoult-aux-Hola; and on the following morning the advance toward Sedan eon- tinued at top a Pershing wanted Sedan. Ata conference with General Maistre, who commande the French group of armies on the Amer- ican left, the French general conceded that the military importance of the capture of ni Wi 50 t the Americans ought to occupy it af they could, regardless of the political ane pateletie foots erations which ea French occupation so desirable. Accordingly, memorandum for cormemand- Leg First and Filth Corps reads a8 follow: “General Pershing desires that the honor of entering Sedan should fall to the First American Army. He has every confidence that the troops of the First Corps, assisted on their right by the bin Corps, will enable him to realize this d sire, In transmitting this message Gen. Hun- ter Liggett drew attention ta the favor- able opportunity for preasing the advance. Mr. Junius B. Wood, of the Ch News, wrote of this memorable event: “All roads leading into Setian were registered by the German artillery. That meane that from the new positions which their batteries ae in the successive stages of the retreat ney knew the exact range for every turn mine roads poastbbe to use in the Amer= ean advance. “The enemy had Lived in that country for four years. [It was all mapped, with the distance figured down to inches. In addi- tion to this, though the German artillery had retired werces the Meuse te the helghta east of Sedan, German machine gunners re mained on all polnta of vantage, contesting every foot of the advance, The race far EVENING POST Selan was nok only a ruce, but p running batibe as well, “Aguingt thin opposition roen fought their woy forward with endurance which wie almost superhoman. The march, alone, which aome of the regimenta made was such aa men are rarely called on to endure, even without constant death stalking every footstep, Jkt was raining. Packs were soaked until they weighed nearer 1d pounds than the regulation TZ, “Shoes went to pieces on the rough road, Blowly tracks from bleeding feet marke each passing company, All the food they leu ons what they vurried on their barks, und that was son gyre. roads, fammed with troapa, could net handle even the artillery and ammunition, which was given firat place, while aupply ‘trains never reached them. At the hourly halts, oblivi- ous to the shelling, men fell asleep in their tracks, only to be awakened to start plod- ding onward.” : he French ame aka straining every muscla to reach tho "At the same ined herr “the Twenty-sixth time,” says Mr, W iment enevenunded by Licet. Calonel Theadare Roosevelt, Jr., which hod been eating Up the kilometers througheut the night, had left the maln read at Chehery, meaved to the left across the Ardennes canal, and advanced up the weat side of the canal and La Bar River, attacking the machine Nl feats and batteries. entualiy the nty-siath captured those on the heights beyond St.-Aignan sur Bar, "The Twenty-sixth, after it crommed the canal, was in the sector of the French Forti- eth Division under General Laignelat. The sudden pppenrance of the colurnns of drip- ing Americuns in the durkness caused urrying of French offleers from ta, and much questioning and many ex a- tions. "Tn a few minutes came an order to halt. It waa not much longer before a French enmmanding officer and Lieut. Colonel Roosevelt were together. . . The French officer explained that the Americans were in bis sector, The American olficer explained that be was on the route given him to réench Sedan, “Hut my onders come from the Mar- shal af France’ “And mine cone from ry commanding atficer, sir,’ sald the American liewtenant ett hey h ‘Tf you try to pags my men they have arders to fire on you," was the ultimatum af the officer. “* My orders are to advance, sir, and the anly way yOUT men can keep ahead is to march faster than mine," WS the reply, and the advaner continued,” Noshota were fired. Probably the French othoer's referenod to his orders was inspired by the flowing fram General Laignelot to Lieutenant audet for t bork to the Arerican infantry and artille brigadea: “The limit given by the hig ohmmand between the Fortieth infantry division and the American brigade is mot the national highway, but the read Chebery- Bulson-Thelonue, after leaving Chehery. I am compelled P a my artillery intervenes there, sy you: my brave neighbors, to call fp to the attention of your artillery commander, whe is making uw mistake." The Appeal for aa Armistice No Amerleans entered] Sedan. They could easily have done so, but orders from the Allied High Command prevented, Noe body captured the famous stronghold, Under French and American artillery fire, the Germans evacuated it, and after the armistice French forces r ceful entry, with fine effet. Hut the First and the Forty-second will together until peemiors come a8 to whieh won nearest to e goal Colonel Reilly, commanding Eighty- third Brigade: “I went over the hill, and the dead of the Forty-second were three inde yards bevond any dead of the rat, Private James L. Strov, Twenty-righth Infantry, First Division: “I went op thit hil] more than once thee day, and could not find any other aeldiera than those of our own battalion on it None could be found alvead of our men." So there you are. By November fifth the Americans forced a general withdrawal of the Germana from the a pasitions they had held ao long on the hi north of Verdun. Two daya later the enemy waa being driven out inta theswampy plain of the Woevre; our troop held the heighte dominating ny We nd vanced forty-one Kilometers in five days aod had cut the Germans’ main line of eammunications. In this deaperate extrem- ity the German High Command appealed on November sixth for an immediate armistice. Foch's orders were explicit: “The en- emy, cisorganized by our repented al. is, retreata along ¢ gentire front. It is important to cofirdinate and expedite our maveninia. [oa peal to the ene and initiative of the Commanders-in-Chief and af thett atmbes te make decisive the re mate Selina ts r ceardingly the Second American Army the enemy along ita entire front. ‘oth had requested the use of aix A‘mer- ican divisions for an attack which the French were preparing in the direction of Chiteau-Salins. Pershing to furnish them, but stipulated that they should op- erate a5 an American ami Soda Goneral Bullard as commanding "Tn the face of the stil Renita affered by the enemy, rehire, and mith the limited number of trowpa at the dispesal of the Second Army, the gains realized reflected great credit on the divi- sions coneerned.” Weatened French Morale The armistice -went into effect at eleven o'clock on the morning of November elev- enth, The guns hushed. A den erin quict fell over that far-flung front. The stillness was so intense after the quivering thunder of months that veterans at ane another unensily, tingling with appre= hension. Evat af Beaumant some deaultary fight- Ing aecurred after that hour, owing to the sar nce ree Ame thoes serenent ng rapidly at that point ot out of taweh. The Canons catendate bitterly about this. “Between September twenty-sixth and November eleventh," says Pershing in his reqeort,. “twenty-two American and four French divisions, on the front extending from southeast of Verdun to the Argonne forest, hg en and decisively beaten forty sever diferent German ivisions, representing 28 per cent of the enemy's en- tlre divisional strength on the western front. Of these enemy divishons twenty hod been drawn from the French front and ave from the British front. Of the twenty-two American divisions twelve had, at erent times cluring this period, been engaged on fronts other than our,ewn. The First Army suffered a loas of about 117,40 in killed and wounded, [Tt captured 26,000 prison era, AAT cannon, HMM machine guns, ancl lange quantities of material. hat the French armies would havefound pee any real offenal ve ikon at our t Waa PPO through- ral the apernunee of Phe SuEIner wa fall 7 1918. Even with victory the Allied arma, French troopa did not seem equal to a great attack without Amer- ican help. On November fifth, with the Germans ¢ for an armisticn, Foch wrote to Pershing: “In order to avoid any brt-uyp a re eee eins upon she enemy io surpe m by a new atte on an, rate g portion af his front, I have bad General Petaln prepare a sur- prise offensive in Lorralne to be made with filteen or twenty divisions, which ia all that French resources now make avail- able, ‘This is not going to be enough to ie sufficient amplitude to the enterprise. Inder these con al I request you to plact six Americnn divisions "-—nabout 180,- GH) men—“in reediness to be added. ‘You would tuke these from your reserves, They would have to make their movement by ind thai at the French had not even now abandoned their plan to break up the eg riania forces and thereby get the bemedit of their ine ation in the French armies is proved by Marshal Foch's reply to Gen- oral Poratiing's request that the six Amer- jean divisions he asked for ine opt ration should be empl nn Amer joan ght d tinder Gen Bullard, whe wil . however, under orders of the tench “Tt is at the present the impossible to conalder the grouping of these six divisions in an American are " Foch replied on Hovember eighth hh the first inetance, such a dispoaition would delay the opera- tion as a consequence of the obligation of (Continued on Poge #2!

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THE SATURDAY Kills flies by the roomful UPPOSE there were 106 flies around your kitchen—lighting on the meat platter, buzz- ing near the milk pitcher and getting mired on a freshly frosted cake. Suppose, inside of five minutes every one of the 106 flies were dead and you merely had to sweep them up in a dust pan. Wouldn't you say “Well, this fs a miracle!" Yet this is exactly what happens when you use harmless Flyosan. Flyosan is a non-poisonous liquid which you apply with an ordinary garden sprayer. A can of Flyosan and an ordinary inexpensive sprayer are all you need. Getting rid of flies is as easy as using a feather duster. Most remarkable of all, Flyosan is harmless to everything except in- sects. foo * dealers! Last summer in Hazleton, Pa., J. MM. Fey with a little bo- Flyosan is equally effective against flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, bed bugs, ants, lice, moths, fleas and all other insect pests. If your drug, grocery or hardware store does not have Flyosan send us a dollar and we will mail you an introductory package containing a pint of Flyosan and a sprayer. COLONIAL CHEMICAL CORPORATION Reading, Pa. FlyOsan INSECT EXTERMINATOR KILLS FLIES BY THE ROOMFUL Cappeipir pqez, Cafanial Chemiral Corporation Flyosan in three months, Fiyosan repental Send us your jeb- ber's mame and we will send you o dealer's price list. | make his | American am all Command, EVENING POST (Continaed from Page &f) requesting Plana and ordera from a a oommander, but the 7, who would have eral, Tenth French Army, who wou those divisions under his command te disposition to have thase divisions operate as far as possible on his and to will for part issue orders for those divisions to be speodily replaced under the accom= Plishments American divisions under had orders are too fine for me not to loole orward for every means of leaving them under your command. The question to-day ig above all te act very speedily in the ar- ganization of the Lorraine operation.” Others than the mill leaders eon- tinwed anxious for the emp t of the American forees in the Freneh armies. The French political chiefs also bestirred them- selves to that end. As late ae November fourth they still clung to the hope that their plan might be adopted, for on that date MM. Albert Thomas, member of the War Committee and ex-Minister of Muni- tions and Armaments, submitted to a mem- ber of the American General Staff a letter which he, M. Thomas, had written to Pre mier Clemenceau as far back as August 22, 1918. M. Thormes wished the joforraation contained in it te find ita way to the proper quarters. “Tf we wish to maintain these 100 divi- trich Tb i iene ince “whi eave togay are incompara among the Allied troopa, we naturally fall back on the ‘hey ea jent af ccamprering their effectives can troope. American nhc of 3000 men per die sion would make 300,000 men—that is the mmoneh that arrives from America in one mont * And gio I wonder if the idea of amal- Lier h which we have insisted so wether definitely abandoned. I wonder hether it is posaible that. President Wilson the Ameriean authorites will persist in sea eee reine Te advantage there ia 100 Freneh divisions whether they will not finally understan the advantage there would be for the Amer- ican troops to receive their in such ivisiona as curs. wis soon as it ia wnder- stood that the American Army is conati- tuted as the United States desires to have it, the utilization of the 400,000 men of this army in French divisions might rasily be accepted by them." On the haf the letter t is this notn= tian: "The idea diea very hard.” French expectations of what the United States ought to do fer France did nat abate; Victory seemed only to fan them. Early in November, M. Fé Tardieu French High Commissioner to the United States, made certain statements publicly which virtually assumed that the restora- tine of Fann. both by American money sind bye e labor of American troops, waa nt upon the United States. The Rou press erly sal statements and p them up to stimu late hop and scien ‘the French people: from realizing their true situmtion. A fortnight after the armistice a report was Wade to the American General Head- uartera that the French had served notice would move mo more large American troop units by rail until further notice. upon these May 20, 1927 This report stated that several ef, been made to obligate the America restoration and maintenance of sri, roads, ‘IT have been struck by the fac" reported Colonel cine that the Frencs appear to u t Fiction esnecine American Taher nd ony 6 bear a cy pat of the burden of bestering mean are but demanding ther jn ues.” On November 29, 1918, Marstal oa wrote to General Pershing: va regan labor and effort. It will be a ey Franes to igh, within the time lc wt f- Be is ecuatee to to it, this labor an; tion a effort after ehe bas been reduced to he = ihe French Army in the zone which it ccs aps will, from the present moment, ee}penu the work of reconstitition by feraishlag 1 ta the civil authorities who are charged with 1, he amiatance of unite at reat, and the uve Wuterial peaources, led pai gi rs Bignes Fped bai Frreel Fmy, o ani unite wileh ate stationed near the thie! regions, or near those which are encomberd bj trench male ram eo forth, could render oe clos Ber tion, I do mot doebe th that your sentiments wil lea you te continue to give . Guorumg: ts riod af the Armistice, the aid which ya ave eo generously given her dering the ve T am equally conv that it your troope ¥i put all their soul into | repairin eo far on the are oble to do before lea noe, what bj Saaneyrnnd been destroyed y tie the cours: operat eon work whieh would be asked a te would be of the aume nature as the whith they hove become durnr th go, The sature of the various cles work aod the methods of epecution are eet ber ike ogee sok - would be very mur liged UW you wl! kind enough to inform me os to what eon end in what mancer it ap to Fou pon to assist in this work by t {petit anlar troope and of the services wader pour ok Very sincerely youre, F. Fecu The note on method which he inca provided for the work of reeonstitct under direction of the French civil sue ties. This work would consist of Alling! trenches, removing barbed wire, cat up cities and villages, sorting and stor mai of all kinds, placing roads u other means of transportation in pre perl temoval of a Frat of barracks, a construction of some they needed; ve ing a Pine sawmills, and so om, 5 LL hav nat “ar able to find that F ahing ever replied directly ta this letter. | he sald in a cable to the War Departs in Washington: “Tt would be unjat them to use our soldiers as. laborers.” also stated at the same time that thet per of the American sold era precladel: possibility of such employment, fo mention sentiment at hame. Pen! recommended that the ee aaa abi announce a clear, definite policy in re] to the return of our troops which 7 admit of no misunderstanding by French. Editor's Note—This io the fourth of o et articles boy Mir. Pettallo, “Tse meee will ap Bf early ieeug, fechler Sonia From Modizon Plateow da Pelleortiendt Katioga? Puri

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Bur the fact is quite commonly overlooked ihat Americana provide for their mehr ud to no Little extent for themselves by means of life mena Many a man feels that ye only he oe erro life inairance and Pik des for his family in ths way it is | right for him to gamble with ihe rest of his money or with a part of it, What may be called the thrift and avetment side of his nature goes inte life "Bat his la not thie whole etory,:. Huiving is is no whole story. wot lite insurance the man has made a ecure investment. But something fatal come to happerd when he dies and a hamp fey of or $10,000 is paid over to his ne or children or nephews and nieces, or cust he haa purchased an endowment hey, when it is paid, to himself. There mi deubt that = large part of all the ets investments follow upon the re- ept of life-ingurance ohana Americans aset distinguish bbe! petra ees and. vierest after the fashion young American who Peoelres Jno) | ieurnnee money from an unele or aa wy part of the latter's elate would aay ah gion was worth $50,000, whereas the would consider himaelf orth enly Er ee aad income or annuity fon the sare, Insurance companies attempt to sell as fm posible policies the proceeda of deh shall not be paid in a hump sum but the form of an income, But though such wrance has no doubt increased in ity it has not been idely wigh to make more than a dent in the wise Investments which follow upon the eipt of the proceeds from the ordinary moof ingurance. Most le want the ey all at onee, and if the insurance apany attempts to advise them to the itrary there is likely ta be resentment l suspicion. The recipient knows that money is left with the company It [be safe enough, but will not cay sore a 5 per cent at the outsi tficiary is confident of placing ts to ter advantage than that, and the tral reaction is something like thia: hat are you ee to hold my neomey k for, anyway t ax have you ta din trying to keep oy money?’ Treasury Seoings Certificates lost of the recipienta are women, the rity of whom have relatively little NESE. experience, and who are often Icious oof advice from legitimate ces although ready enough to listen ie lure of the ateck salesman who prom- an income large enough ta maintain vin comfort. esibly in time a system will be worked iy which insurance will be bought onl nnection with a trust deed in a ban just eocaipany.. In other words, the will not turned over uncondi- ily to to the beneficiary but will be ad- md in her or his behalf by a sound ing institution. Hut anything, us meTy= as this exiats at eg = on Ay at a tive and fragmentary form. MLn= one life-inauranc: company alone out any hundreds pays out during each te of ench business day of eight hours ethan $630.16 in cash to people, more half of whom are almost totally ig- ¢t oof all financial and investment ra aie be eatated with too much em- ithat anyone who really wants a aale THE SATURDAY EVENING POST PROTECTING THE SMALL INVESTOR (Centinurd from Page 7) eta with a, interest retu mecure thin same wi mul or tke President of the United States chased fom y dhee Tysaaay attge Cer the brat tifleate sold by the United “Sigs Cer ment. These are now on sale at Shad by offices and many banks and can be mail direct from the Treasury Department. They pay 265 cent on the money in- weated for a year period. They are nteed by the Government to pay this ure, and nteed against any decline in cecal are beyond question the safest and surest investment available to any American citizen, and if they are not good, then mothing in the world is, There has been a lot of talk and cheap Platltodes about the nocesnity and adyvun= a. ap of thrift and savings, but a man con- net dig a garden without toola and he cannot gave without a secure place te put his money. A aplendid work is done by the savings banks, but they do not cover the entire country by any means. There are millions of people whom they do mot reach, Life insurance ae eee even wider fleld, ‘but it is only part a savings and investment only jartiey Government at the por agency ay that can I to every= and at last, after muc experiment= ing ina dng and following the war, it has devi roaunent form of small invest= preter which is simple, convenient gnd which meets the needs of all except the wealthiest classes. 4a fdeal Investment These rae ares ali, sold wk the ame price, $20, $8 d $800. In five eara they are paid ae if $26, £100 and #1000 reapectively. This is 4d; per cent interest compounded or & per cent simple interest, It is 25 per cent in five years. There ia no state or local tax on these cer- ppsigtie and no normal Federal income tax. pink et pr can buy as much as $5000 year, and the same amount is avail- able to an inenmber of his: family. can ro, Hip at any time before the five years are up, at the full amotint paid, ples at sn cent interest, by sending them te the ‘Tremeury Department. Binet the name of the owner is negistered at Wash- ington the loa of the certificate does nat mein the lows of the investroent. Thene is no risk, depreciation in value or promoter’a or broker's commission to pay, there & liberal interest and an immediate cash withdrawal value. People were asked to buy Liberty Bonds eae the war on patriatic grounds. Al- the bonds have now recovered in wale they declined severely for a time and many people lost heavily. las cae ag ue Government is seciling Certificates ly beeause jt “pill Toney, another reason is to give people something in the way of an investment chat cannot decline in price to make wp for the losses sustained during the war. Lf the attention of the public can be drawn widely enough to these certifientes the steck swindler ehould fall upon lean times. He fattena of eourae from the re- cipbents of the various state soldier bonuses and will take advan of any Federal bonus whith may be paid, Even without considering the p eral nae eomething like get o0 ie is now “pald aut each month in the form af 6 nt 80040 checks to veterans. All veterans who have any form of government allowanea are Bought out, not onky by stock swindlers but Bal eeTianl by every who a 8 to sell on the pec open extent that they can be reached fist the Treasury money will be Savings Certificates a lot saved in this enuntry, Many people are not in a position to study or analyne espe rag any have no time for such jess re is eountry doctor who works day and might and does not have time even to keep up gath the meet important developments in his een science, oak town elty doc tore are little if any better off. Quite often their ineomes are relatively large, and toa often they fall vietime te the get-rich-quick lure. But the doctor can pot his money inte th form of government security with- out any worry for the future, When it comes to the direct purchase of the gineral run of securities offered to the investment public if must be recognized publ one almoet insuperable obstacle ta the lic's greater succrss is the high cost of Fring te te their els ae the legitimate American people have peched life |e on a vat genie be cause the inaurance compuntes found a way of gelling through solicitora to even the smallest ra, and yet making it pay, With sound securities unable te pay the cost of emall-lot distribution the attention of the emall investor is rarely called to the legitimate agencies for their distribution, and he hesitates to approach them on hig own initiative, It _ Beak os Comet — get-rich-quick fit. “Not of he in th the fad wide open to ve rar he has a great natural advantage in that his commission or mar- gin of profit is from the nature af the ease far than is bs ly those who saga an secur ties. is ng andl ar rule in all the fin letra the world than that the more solid, conservo- nd staple the shen, of the an curtty, the smaller the commission. On vernment and municipal bonds it is re uced to the smallest fraction of 1 per cent, wherens on a semifraudulent ail-stock pro- motion it may run up to 60 or 70 per cent. No wonder the reputable investment. banker cannol end salesmen out to sell ten-dollar New York City bonds. A large firm that makes a epecinlt yt dealing in municipal bonda ence cones that it cost |, $7.00 every time it handled ane of these ten-dollar pieces, and decided that lt eauld not ch leas than two dollare for the service, but customers complai after this charge was put on that they wefe being shIng. Competition between the reputable in- vestment banker and the fake stock pro- moter is so impossible that the former is obliged to leave the field almost entirely to the latter, except whore sale is large enough to make it worth his while. This is the: beral f but ches tthe bir rte miober weal ways it Lh nan= Dal intsicate beer Guide al ¢ their a from sock and eat pala he ne ee | organized t particular compan of Lhe benefit of the man of small oe inedhare meand, 20 that he, tes, may clip coupane or draw dividend ‘checks and make more money in 2 day than he has been accus- to make in a week, Small Business Accepted But though the reputable dealer in legiti- mate securities cannot search out the man with F100 or SM it va aie rare that such business is en it comes of its own ts It will be veoaibed that in a urticle President Cromwell, of the ey York Btock Ex , faid in his cpinhon an investor should his mony in thee bark until he had $500, President Howard Beebe, the Investooent Bankers Aascation: sud that he would place the minimum at $1000, and hed ad- vised hundreds if not thousands of persons who had les than this amount ta put thelr money In a savings bank instead of tryin eying to buy securities, althau Fis ee nea of selling securities Although many of the ana ceciciveat authorities agree with this view, there ig ey od difference of opinion on the sub- | ut whatever the views of experts | may tert ‘thera will always remain great | ject. numbers of individuals who wish to invest less than $1000 directly in bonds or stocks. And here another difficulty appears, It is almost impossible for the necpe nee small investor to choose : “ ds of oe meniae ore ‘or sale or mmong the complicated agen which offer them. . There are ordinary commercial banks and trust eompanbes with investment, bond ar security departments; there are dealera in investrent aecurities technically and aa a rule incorrectly known aa investment bankers: and there are brokers who belang to recognized atock exchanges, All three élassea overlap and duplicate to a con- siderable extent, and from all three bonds and stocks of every variety af excellence, or the lack of it, may be had. Then, too, | there are comcerns which are entirely r table that combine the work of security distribution with promotion and even (Continued on Page &8) F money | ain i OLE i / EVINRUDES The Big Surprise of the Industry FYERYWHERE, outdoor folks predicted this surprise would come. They knew Ole Evin- rude’s determination to reach the ultimate in outboard motor development. They knew his hopes had been centered on that achievement from the in- fancy of the industry. They were confident the Elto Light Twin would be the fulfillment of his ideals. Buctthey didn't look for such a marked advance in outboard motor engineer- ing. Even those within the industry en by surprise when the many original features of Ole s latest moter were an- e ecun a year age. The Elta hot 48 lbs. It devel. ops full 3 H. FP. Has improved igni- tion—inestant and easy starting. Twin Linder construction —smooth, quiet running. Tilts autamatically—a big safety factor, Sreera conifers from any part of the boat. Operates at oct trolling speed. Rudder folds orcarrying. A mugged light-welght. A bem 1 motor. Writs to Ole Evinrada's nace orgoatzoation fer descripelre lteranare and mame of che Elta dealer nearest you. ELTO OUTBOARD MOTOR CoO. OLE BVINBEUBE, Pres. Dept, Ml, Miri. Home Bldg. Milwagkes, Wie distined

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* ry 66 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 20, 1922 Bi 1E. car buyer of today is equipment wise. - That is why manufacturers of motor cars are giving great thought to the selection of their equipment and why practically 90 per cent of them ‘have selected Stewart equipment, When a manutacturer uses Stewart Products, his equip- ment is a selling point—not a ground for apology Whine PERHODR- Stewart Speedometers and Vacuum Tanks have been selling points for motor cars for years. They represent the peak of perfection in automotive equipment. Furthermore, with Stewart equipment, you get Stewart Service. There are 86 authorized Stewart Service St tions in principal cities all over the world—%53 in the United States alone. Each station ismanned by a corpsol factory-trained, skilled mechanics, who thoroughly under- stand Stewart Products. Only Genuine Stewart Parts usecl in replacement. J0600—e0G 8 TRIF Car manufacturers are proud to advertise their cars & Stewart equipped. It means a great deal to an equip ment wise motoring public, STEWART-WARNER SPEEDOMETER COR'S The Stewart Vacuum System See wee and the Stewart Speedometer. Giants of the Automobile Industry. Used On 7 Million Cars LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES IN THE WORLD

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST oT De Luxe Model—$22 Standard Model—§19 Model 170 ( Beautiful, electrically operated instrument that protects against Werheating. F.egisters motor temperature taken from the motor irect—not from the water in the radiator. It gives you facts. . green light shows at a safe, efficient motor temperature, Should verheating commence, it flashes Immeciiately to a brilliant red. spotlight is not required to read its signals at night. They are Ways perceptible. The Wam-O-Meter will beautify your car. AUTOGUARDS or absolute protection, your car needs full width, double-bar Auta tards. Wo danger of another bumper slipping above or under- @th them. Collisions in which a careless driver crashes into the tek of a car are very common. You need Autoguard protection ant end rear, The Stewart design is distinctly beautiful. It adds ( elegance to your car that gives it manifest individuality. The stest selling bumper on the market today. REAR VISION MIRROR we minute a driver takes his eyes from the road ahead to look the rear, he invites Disaster into his car as one of the passengers. Stewart Rear Vision Mirror eliminates unnecessary tisk, You ow what is taking place behind you without turning your head makes your driving safer and more pleasant. Fumished in sdiels for fender or windshield installation. The Warning Light STEWART-WARNER SPEEDOMETER COR’N CHICAGO, U. 5. A, De Luxe Model .....$12.50 Standard Model... .$10.00 Ford Model, including a ( special radiator cap.$10.00 =—==PRODUCTS= Used On 7 Million Cars A RGEST MANUFACTURERS OF AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES IN THE WORLD ation = ‘ =a a Z

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This summer underwear is 22%2i/.sscuis ees comfortable as well as cool ‘sie, ey aa ‘Suamrteed dant ; a - " inatead af pl : Webbing belt in ape 4 = ta pre vont ripe. Clesed arotoh stays closed, “Tuars why men ask for Hanes Athletic Union Suits by name. They've a carefree, out-in-the-open, case-and-freedom feeling you never forget once you've worn them. That's because “Hanes Extra-Features” have done away with tightness that masquerades as “fit"; bagginess that trades as “fullness”; and the wrinkles and puckers that nag at moist, perspiring skin. Hanes Athletic Union Suits are studied garments—snug where snugness is essential to com- fort: over-size-fulf where arm-play and body-play should go the limit. ey are only $1.00, 20 why pay more? Get these “Hanes Extra - Features”! ARMHOLES taped instead of turned under, Never a chance for curl or rip—but a friction-free surface that wears as long as the garment. NECK "V" or circular style, strongly reinforced with nainsook. Stays wpon the shoulders without a hint of chokiness. CLOSED CROTCH stays closed. (See illustration above.) Crotch lap buttons sewed on the seam—4 thicknessesof material instead of 2. No pateh used. WEBBING BELT guaranteed two-thread elastic webbing instead of single thread, gives more elasticity and greater strength. Specially sewed to prevent tearing or ripping. PEARL BUTTONS specially selected, sewed on to stay put. REINFORCEMENTS at every point of strain safeguard against alll chance of seam-rips. Wide, full-length knatn. Register a summer comfort pledge today—your dealer is authorized to accept your initiation fee of $1.00 and enrall you for a season membership. The youngaters can also hace Honea comfart and weer, Hanes Athletic OUnron Suits for Boya—sizes 20 fo 34; ages 2 to IG P. H. HANES KNITTING CO., Winston-Salem, N.C, TR ape —— 1.00 A SUIT $1.15 west of the Rockies Hanes Guarantee a passe panne redhat abso. _——_ _ ee utely—every thread, stitch and button. We guarantee to return your money of give ull Cc uf t you a mew ganment if any seam breaks. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Cantinued fram Page BF) para in the electrical which sell their own f and customers. i ne rereeeet Somer euahonniet cuner- Pp je-utility corporations has rcgtenind “Wale Fapidly in the last few years. For the moat part, the salea are a preferred stock, rarely paying lesa than & per cent and generally 7 per cent. The great advan to the investor is not only that he gets a fairly high rate ot pia ha in a whose o ong are familiar to him and in Secured te chic he ean secure ample information, but that the whole proposition is simple and direct, man who uses a telephone a dozen times a day of turns his electric light on and off knows that the company supplyin thest services ia something real nirly substantial, never a mere paper, get-rich-quick or fly- bycoluhe ooops even though mone cases, of course, it may be mismanaged. Morea nlraie e h oral i emp already on the pay r tem. af expense, although by no meana negligi- ble, la not at least wholly prohibitive when. it comes to reaching (the amall aeer, One of the subsidiaries of the Bell Tele- ae system in the Northwest sold 5.000000 of 7 per cent preferred stock in ten days’ time to 1140 persons. A_gqas- and-electric company on the Pacific Const has more than 15,00 owners of its pre= ferred stock, many of them made investors through the efforts of the employes. _ Of course a company of this kind cannot induce its subscribers to buy stock unless it is reasonably popular with them and has a fairly clean record, It is said that at least one powerful but very wn gas-and- ela@tiric com utterly failed te sell any ac arenink a te atock ta customers even thaugh greatest pressure te bear upon the local empl canvassers. However, people who have money to invest and no great knowledge of the subject would generally make no mis- take in asking the local manager of their gas and electric or telephone company if business, direct to em- company or stocks are on sal and at what terms, The great obstacle in the way of small investors getting into touch with reliable investment dealers is that few of them, relatively speaking, will take the initiative. Anyone who writes to the New York Stock Exch or to the Investment Bankers Association, in Chea H00 et a list of members, Membership in auch an organi- ration does not tee the wiadom of the advice offe by the members or the unfailing excellence of their securities. In- deed, it does mot guarantee their honesty. But there is constant vigilance to weed out dishonest and unreliable mem- bera. The fon of owtright fakers and awindlers is exceedingly small, and as the years go by should bocome even smaller. Adoelee of Local Bankers But the investor in far too many cases pays fram the man who gets to him; doos not himself hunt out a reputable dealer, A large bank which sells immense numbers of bonds advertises extensively in all parts of the country on a similar scale, A country merchant in California wrote to the finnnelal editer of a newepaper in New York City for the name of a reliable bond dealer in California, The editor replied that the investment department of this purticular bank had a branch there and advised the merchant to call upon them. As a result he purchased $25,000 of bands, although he had never seen any of the advert nts. This concern, with seores of branches, reaches thousands of investors every day, and it is nae af many engaged tm simi= Jar work. tauch efforts are only a drop in the bucket, which fact often to the apirien that our whole acheme of disirib= uling investment aecurities in thie lagi ia entirely inadequate to meet the n af the fle. Probably it is done much better in such countries as England, Hol- land and France, where banks, investroert trugta and similar institutions play a great part. As a banker who has studied the subject closely said to the writer: “When we are able to reach moore penne with sound investments it may reasonably be expected that there will be less tendency to purchase the unsound, and I have no ATHLETIC UNLON SUITS | doubt that that will be one of the develop- ments of the future, although it presenta he may have rendered a great sect May 20, i927 many problems in the way of expece, orga tion, and so on.” wt it will only bore the reader and afford him no practical help te discuss pho many schemes for improved security du tribution. This ig a large oountry, wht ii & variety operas ated fortyright iferent states. ing comditions as the; exist the most practical statement thet cic be made te the great majority of smal in- veators id to conzult their own local ben before believing what the stock salerman ot stock circular has to say. There are dozena of objectiona which may be raised against such advice. The local banker is not always the most popolar man in his community. He is sometimes regarded a8 a note shaver or skinflint. [) many cases his snowiatie of securities is limited in the extreme. In other cases be dislikes to tell even what little be know for fear the depositor will withdraw mone: from the bank and invest it elsewhere, H- is often too marrow and ignorant to realise that any investment in sound securitie which @ eitetemer makes tends to increas business in general and reacts to the bank) advantage. Even if he ia willing to atv and assist, it ia often im the most perfun- tory and guarded manner. Mr. Sissons Opinion There are a few eases where the eink ewindler has paid a banker @ commission t: stimulate sales, A fairly common practic: in Middle Western mira! districts ts fora stock salesman to approach a director b a focal bank, who holds his position ax because of any knowledge of banking © finance but eign A on account of his having a little youd with a proposition luke thi: “Mr. Smith, we want to do the people o! this state a turn. We want to bey Lowa money in Iowa and we are forming « mew insurance company. We have head that you are a leading citizen and capella: af this town and we want you to bees one of qur stockholders and possibly o director, if think this propesition & all right. All we ask of you is that yo give us letters of introduction to aome of the people around here, and you will pei u commission on every gale of atock. Bo of course get inom the ground floor.” « With letters from the local bank direct the stock saleaman goes to other peopl the neighborhood and saya that Nir. sms has invested in the proposition and know all about it. “If you want to know any- thing about it go and ask him.” Met d them never even take that much troubk. The orere fact that the bank director ke looked into the matter is © for then. They do not investigate any furthe:. But after the local banker has bes damned in every way that can be thowgtt of, the fact remains that most cored abidents of investment aubjecta eoncur 4 the opinion that more lows would 5 avoided if investora uni CONE ite their local banks than im any other 7), The case ia well put by Francis H. Sir, vice president of the Guaranty Trust C2c- pany of New York: ¥i j P sane mind, is analogous to that of advan man when he is ill te consult a doctor. - following that advice many men wee suffer from an inaccurate diagnosis, sdientifie treatment and, per ail practice; but on the whole it i the prom advice for us to give for our physical 4 mands, and the average of service nu will much more than justify it. : Bits I think we can honestly dam _ on the average, prospective investor = seek the advice of their bankers will pros and, inadequate as the system miy ™ it is the only one broadly available 2 must be relied u for such service 25 can render, While bankers at Large ar 5* 100 per cent competent or even lie pero honest, there is enough competency 2 honesty among them as a class to jess the general reference of investors to (he™ “Bankers are in the nature of thine 2 a rule, cauthous on credit matters anc de teal abnuwt new ventures, The = exactly the elements which are nee * advising investors. If the banker de’ more than to make them stop and que=* (Contnerd on Page 100)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i) eS RESIDENCE AND_ COMMERCIAL FANS Dont waste a hot day hoping for a cool night — Phone fora Fan! There is a simple way to make every evening cool, and every day comfortable : Phone for a Fan. An easy way to avoid wilted collars, wrinkles, and ruined dis- positions: Phone for a Fan, Thus will you escape lowered vitality ; sleepless, enervating nights ; restless, inefheient days. Your nights will be full of rest, and your days of pleasant living. So, for combort and health and enjoyment, Phone for a Fan, It YOu wold like attractiveness, Economy, quietness, and tTany hore Conreniena ; i : years of service, Phone for a Westinghouse Fan! “> ‘ Ontleis Make More Correnent Hermes Reliable electrical dealers everywhere sell Westinghouse Fans. Watch for the window displaying a large reproduction af the abowe drawing. Go into this store and ask about Westing- house Fans. Learn bow really inexpensive summer comfort ts. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Offices in. all Principal Cities : Repreinntdtires Everywhere =———~ -—= —

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100 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST uh. ie 5 OO can win a price! Use your inagin- rv 1 F ation! What do you think this woman (What Ls itd is soying to the clerk? She ia evidently ; buying underwear—probably for ber hus if fi li hand—ond she is evidently saying some= ¥ ] thing about Senlpax Athletic Underwear. = What is she saying? Figure it out. There ia no set anewer to} =©_Best answer guess. Yours may be the winner! Study Second Prime . . . $200 the facts pbout Scalpax given below—then Third Prise. . . . S100 decide, in not more than twenty words, Fourth Prize . . . S56 what this woman is saying. Mext Heat Five . . S15 Send your anawer to the Prize Department, Meat Beat Five . . $10 The Sealpax Company, Baltimore, Med. Mext Hest Five . 55 Competent, neutral judges will award exe Fifty (eweh) — gnc anit prizes. The contest cloaca July 29th, and of Sealpox the winners will be announerd in The (in the event of a the fer mny prime Saturday Evening Post, October 28th, 1922. offered, tie tall emoeit of such Think about it—and win a prize! pie atebtdid to beth Pei Athletic Pp C ought to be easy to frame a-prize- Underwear Wining answer to the Sealpax “What Is She Saying?" Contest. Siup- pose wou were boying underwear. What would pou say to the salesman— —if you lenew there is no other under- Wear quite ao cool for hot sultry days, Quite ao comfortable for active people, at Senlpax. M 5 lena 3 en's Seulpax 25 . : (Lision Sale) Se J Ho you knew that the athletie cut, the Nght-and-breezy fabric, the dowble croteh, the wide, roomy armholes and ather comfort features make Se alpax the finest tur svinies EAP a person can slip inte. LE yr Mu Ene w the tk Scalpax comes to WoL [i sched j nindividual sanitary envelopes, fresh and crisp and clean! Think it ove —Wwrte jt down—end wit a prize! Women and children may also enjoy the cool comfort of Sealpax. Lady Sealpax is “Just os Confortable as Brother's" athletic underwear, daintily made in a wide variety af feminine fab Tica, “Litth Brother® and “Littl deter" Sealpax bong “Dad's Comfort te Ded's Kids" — an athlete underwear for children os lonp- WEnTing aa it ia cool and comfortable, Sen/pax for all the faculty! Sold everwhere! Send your contest anewer to x PRIZE DEPARTMENT Children's Scalpax ]™ THE SEALPAX COMPANY, BALTIMGEE, MD, (Costiteed from Pope 8 "I gestion Tay bs the limitatlons of this aig- ally but to my mind it ia a good discussing democracy a3 a scheme re coment in apite of its shorteormings and roigcarriages, it ia the best acheme ao far devised, and we have to fall back upon it to meet our peHlitical needs, and alwaya live in the hope that the processes of educa- thon bia constantly Taine ite standards and ce better results." if ‘the farmer or school-teacher doea not trust the local banker there is alwayva the nearsby town or city of greater size whose banks are perhaps better informed. Then are ute the oie Gin ee bi baile he opptaled to, and the newspapers in the lange cities, Workmen who have no thme to visit bankers in thelr offlee hours an usally ie pomane corunectend a the management of thelr own company w will help them get information and advice, There is always acme reliable, experi- enced and disinterested business man who may be consulted if the investor really wanta to take the trouble, Hoesides, there are about forty states which have blue-sk OF aerurity commissions which of least wi warn the invester if the alering is actually a fraudulent one. Thalset is that the majority of investors who lose do not even attempt to secure information in advance. Actual suryevs covering: thousands of Individuals In se lected arena of the teil show that eloee ea arene me oe no one ak t ally do is blindfolded, with nits and care they would mot dream of showing in the purchase of a house, an automobile or even asuit of clothes or a pairof shoes, Until the peychology of hurrying up, baying from, strangers and falling to investigate hand can be broken down, leases will eon- tinue.at about their nt rate. A preear thon made to the writer vice pr taf a large securities concern waa that investors should get different. esate te suggest a list of securi- ties.and three others te criticize the list and scratch them. “People often take brokers" om jonas oa final,” said this man. ‘That is foolish, What the investor should do is te submit miggestions to. brokers and get them to make their criticisms, which are often useful.” Edward A, Wools, of Pittsburgh, who, as the head of what ts auld to be the bs E lifeingurance agency in the country, bas dealt in a practical with many theu- sands of beneficiaries of life-Ingurance poll- ‘cies, makes this statement: “T have often vised widows whoehave asked me about vestimenbta to take this up with three competent, corefal advisers and make no inveatiment that all three did not roneair in advising her te buy." Blow Sky Laws Finally we come ta what, in the opinion of the writer, ia the least important and spektba method of preventing investment ne operation of laws spe- prc he designed: for that purpose. It is physically impossible for any government tpartmaont of bureau, Federal or state, to pus upon the soundness or merit of all securities offered to the investing public, Obviously the Government should prevent, as far as posible, wetual fraud and mis- ae eens the best t SOAS administrative machinery for t wor d be under continual diseuwsien smd experimentation. But the Government can- not be held responsible for errara of ode ment or for unforescen developments whic | result in boss. The idea that it should gusr= | ante securities is atonce an absurd and a | pernicious fallacy. saan it i nae: renvirkabls hevar wideepread a the Investing og ig Sons upee aa cacenal of a secur or state Seelecen The ae thing is true of a listing on the stock ex- change. All these forms of recognition have their value, but they do not and enn= not gunrantee .perpelgtal success, and the most foolish thing an investor can do is o he mage into * alsa _— ha Leda Geet how, Ti & en one bat tile eof errs Himself can iseneaion what la a prod and what ia a bad security. About forty statea have blacaky lawa in one farm or other. These laws differ wickedly; are of every degree of sever- ity; and relatively spanking none of them have been in operation very long. That the blue-sky commissions have driven out muny frouda and saved great sums of May 20, 1973 money bo leravt or credulous investor: jp rally agreed. But on the other bard raude have ibourished a9 never befee Far ane thing, the fakers have learned 15 operate in or from states where they ) Ho auch somuTission or where it & not ps. pecially efficient. By being very quick ) ere c ay area abel d ber swindler, aye pret TRY Seca i Ponti the meshes of fifty different jurisdictions, Even more important is the fact that th. state authorities canoct reach interstate commenc: and tha ise of the mails, In course of Gime the post office weal: pets the swindler who for a long peste milzuiaes the mathe, But this department a the Goverment is overloaded with ea-+ work. and cannot keep up with the tho some of petty ateck ewindlera whe operate for only a brief period. As H. SN. fod, president of the National Assaciation of Securities Comnussioners, has sald: “Tn my own state of Michigan UF eum mission has a frequently turned down gens. ties os fraudulent, only to tind withle » very shart time that the state was beg flooded with them, It wos an easy matter for the promoter to rent pn offices in Toleds, Chie, or Chirag, ae and, armed with a few city directories and ral cuiling lists, unload upon. the eof the cate securities which the state * officials tad Poe Boycotted States Much of the etl ory or lost is due & the first instance to the laxity of state i corporation laws. There are a few mate that will allow anaem: dep form SOrpane tion for almeet any purpose and ata eas nominal that abadlutely no check is place upon the peneinane tendencies of gicle or i rs erate Corporations a atone laeteria, anne a eRsy Money ne the; mbes | mir Tt is believed that a- ler ration Jaw to take t ote off the state laws would prevent £ nds of worthlns promotions. But u our dual form ¢ government it would seem practically iz possible from a political standpoint to borg ee this reform, Then there are stidenta of the subwvet who une the adopan by the Fede! Gavernment or all the states of a lew ie the British Companies Act, which requir all promoters or distributors of new Scr ties to Me with the Gavernment comps information Fr ding cormumiissives par! ts promoters, and other pertinent facts. [5 9 argued that “Just as the Fare Foo! dt dort not attempt te tell peaple what is eed for them to é@at, just so must i an 4 in security regulation trying te guide th public of to what they should 7 asl What they should leave alone." The ala ip to give uid mle bans pebpsitysst bet the i: veator jade for lime Thia sounds very well § in theory, but t probably would not work out. in practice = acountry a8 big aa this, “Tt weld be lie more than a joke," saya . S. Canrig®. of the Wisconsin Railroad Commie “Imagine what protection it would be = elgg California to have filed in Wiet- an information in reference to all ti enterprises.” The slick salesman would #: the farmer ona fonch im California belor the farmer could write to Washington get an answer back, : ; Sets ane anh dificult dicho egislation for protection nvesior that if it is made strong enough realy werk there is always darices ef’ mnpettt legitimate business, Tt ia a well-kmown li: in financial circles that many of the == reputable investment hewses will not oe thelr securities; in numbers of the ea‘ Which have sever: blomsloy Laws, “We nat only won't comply with all th diversified, complicated, contradictery 2 alten confusing requirements of many & these states," said the bana of a beat af international standing, “but we wi asf the corporationasef high standing r= we sell to subject themselves tozet indignities, Whenever we put out anole Ang wn simply ask our lawyers whic sas “9 can arene in amd which we had tt ter atay wut Now there may be parte of the cous! where a ¢erialn satisfaction is felt ia ue ing out abe Gres ban banking houses ae oe tions whose headquarters are is WL treet. But eg a financial ewiedk bY been Hosted in the last few year o == besie of appealing to local pride, and m=: an investor in atatea far remased from Bt trent would have his maney sow 8

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yereculated interest in the place of vain is il be had bought stocks and bends ie cerporationa of national standing instead if Gstening to the wily promoter who pre- served to bate Wall Street. A coaple df years ago the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey sold through a hanes syndicates F200,000,000 of 7 per ent prefered stock—sterk which has proved profitable to its purchasers because of an increase in price. But there were a umber of states where the banking syndi- reluged even to advertise the stock fe Caen of the bleeaky requirements, These great offerings of standard securities must he sold quickly to meet market con- didens, or the loases which fall upon the bankers are often very heavy. Advertuements must be te ai i a ile oespaperd at distant points and the who Wair cared through in a few daya or hears. This does not mean that the in- restot must buy immediately; the chm 2 pre i a lew ke me is rarely enough to make much difference to him on iis eral haldings. ut ft means much to i backing firm which i responsible far srhape $1,000 40. State commissions, paver, By Wat weeks to investigate be proposition, Ose af the beat-known banking firma in he world refused to offer in a certain atate thee lowe are moat stringent. Probably he newspapers, which of course lost the dvertising, brought pressure to bear upon te politictans, In any caso, the attorney- eneral te shed the baring. firm that cw willing to overrule the law in this atiraler paene: he ace flag a te consulting their 3 en taking no chances. tt im oeneh ght with this particular official, but if a pr ad ministration cane in, anew attorney- eneral might subpoena every member af wifirm and require them to go thousands {miles and spend weeks at some hearing. Aominer but curious complication i ut though advertisements of securities inno be offered in many states without rt petting Permission from the authori- =the newspapers, of course, are at liberty (Mo news articles concerning them. Thus dever publicity man may in this dis- ised form announce the afferings and igh Secure ming purchasers in states tere hia flier fs not legally entitled to it “ip ne. shen that bluesky it i mot to wu t blu Moines are unaware of these de ss, complications and inconsistencies, tan increasing extent the state lawa are Empting Maany a ra and legitimate cape of securities. But os thease exempe ini become bromier and broader there laiways be s number that turn out diy, and the citizens of the state will imé the bhoo-sky commission as bitterly if they had lost their mon ich were frauds from the nning, Mr, Callbreath'’s Testimony Tinesky commissianers haye admitted aly enough that if legitimate business sitirely free, then the door is o bow le to fraudulent securities; and if the ‘is stringent enough to prevent these, nit is sure to interfere with legitimate ines, umes FY. Callbreath, secretary of the encan Mining Congress, recently told ammittes of the House of nita- s that D.C, Jackling, the mining en= ter, could not have gotten a permit er any bluesky law in the country ta e the money necessary for the devel it of the porphyry copper mines wi which the prosecution of the war would é been imposible, “Tsay to you, Hemmer, that two-thirds, I think of developments of the wonderful Cripple ek divteict aleo would have been pro- noel fread by any bluesky comniis- in this country." a the other hand, it may be that blue laws have saved capital which other- i might have been entirely wasted, and tit has been released for legitimate new notions, No one really knows where raw the line, or to what extent restric- laws dio more good on the one hand by ‘enting losses or harm on the other by renting legitimate promotions. here i mo doubt thet blue-sky laws : been passed ly beonus: frauds » not prevented by the lows already in tence. Hut it is a question whether e good could not be aecomplished by arousing of public opinion to the en= ement af existing laws than by the in concerns | THE SATURDAY constant piling up of complicationa In- volved in the creation of new statutes, A lawyer who has successfully ; ted and pat out of business severol of the worat stock swindles, made this statement to the writer: "In my work I have found in every state I have ever visited sufficient laws to convict any body of aay bain that any weil- wishing legislator might possibly label as a crime, The trowble is they are not enforced. To sp plainly, prosecutors general pick out for enforcement those laws whic reflect the greatest political advantage, an you will find it difficult to interest them in the others unless yeu first interest some publication in publicity which will assure the prosecuber | has done something when he acts, “Eve _ in the ae ae lawe oov- ering em ment, gran ceny, petty larceny, and the act of obtaining money by falae pretenses, and it ia difficult for me to think of a case which these statutes do not cover at this time. “What the country needs is an awaken- ing to the possibilities of enforcing laws already on the statute books. A few years ago we looked upon automobile thieves as joy riders, and at the same time the man who stole a horse was apt to be hing if he was not lynched before the court got to him. That was entirely duc to the view- point of the prosecutors, wha were con- zine ean horse ening arts i 6 are through the same thing w the bitten act, and until fie enforce ment besonves more papular we shall con- tinwe to be troubled along that line.” Slow-Footed Justice ivte thrcaghout the county ave |uraued eourls u eounkry are jam with pat sec brought wader Section 216. The reason for this ia that there are not enough ju nor enough prosecutors to try therm. course that is not saying that the judgea we have, and the prosecut- ora available, could not have done more. But we found grand juries te indict, post- office inspectors bo prepare cases, and I Tstios bo fnd ludave und dst ettornes' cr nL ges and district attorneys to clear the dockets. Incidentally [ believe that such a move would do more to put a stop to the wave af erime golng over the eountry, and to instill respect for the law than anything else they could da. An T am equally certain that the delays en- eountered in the trial of eases do more to encourage criminals in the belief that they ean commit the crime and take a chance on ever being convicted. It gives politicians an opportunity to pretend, at least, that they have influence with the court. ie onally, I would advoente that the American Bur Association make a strong showing to the Attorney-General for action along this line, and that they en- eounage bar ations to do the fale thing in local oummiutnities, and that there be an insistence that criminal dockets everywhere be cleared, and that thereafter punishment of crime be made awift and certain. That ia what we need, and that will do the job. "Tam perfectly willing to take the credit which you pass on to me for my wark, but, frankly, my work was never per- manent in any particular: it wae ai to etucatie the public to an insistence for the things I advocate above, and to conviner public authorities that their handling of matters on this basis be wise, polit- ically and otherwise,” Tt is only fair ta say that the present tendency a te be toward a etandard- ization of the blu laws, and the invest- ment bankers and blueeky commisaioners. show an increasing tendency to work toe gether inatead of pulling apart as in the past. Many bills providing for one or an- other form of Federal control are now fore Congress. One bill, which has rather wide support, contemplates a Federal law which would tie together the state bluesky laws to the extent, at lenst, that securities egal in one state could not be sent in from outside, Many minds are worklag on the problem of closing up the meshes, But the question remaina whether each new proposal if enacted would not merely add more laws and machinery te remain idbe: oor if enfarced strictly, whether it “Yas will EVENING POST 4 you at the public will know he | would not #till further disturb the delicate | aa af credit and capital aecunmls- then. extraordinarily dificult and delicate. Prog- Pees met necessarily be made slowly. The problem if not inaoluble is | i HL i you against 101 protect " OU would not think of starting off on a moter trip without a spare tire or a full gasoline tank, Neither would you drive in the rain without chains or with the top down, Then why start off without protection against trouble in the most vital partot the power plant— its very nerve center, i Wmition system ? At any time a plag may become fouled, o porcelain cracked, an of-soaked wire shorted or some one of the man y elusive minor defects may crop up—all meaning trouble and delay. In the mountains, or on a lonely road, far from a garage-—no matter where you drive— you will be protected against ignition trouble if you have an IGNITION Airco GAUGE he Watchdog of the Lgjnition Sytem For All Internal Combustion Engines Instantly spots the plug thats missing —Enobles anyone to bocate the slightest defect ony- where in the ignition syatem, —Unerringly detects short-circuits, breaks and leaks in the high-tensson wires. —Handy size—oot combersome—fits the vest pocket, Small enough to reach the most inaccessible part of the ignition system, —Blunt contact cap cannot slip of plag or wird while testing. =(Canndt pet out of orderno wires bo connect—no shocks—no danger. =Diteetions printed indelilkly on the shell The Airco Ignition Gange has a hard robber phell en- Closing a tule af Neoa—e gag which flushes orange-red when electrified, These ashes are visible through a win- dow ide the ahell. The mature of the flashes tells whaor ond where the trowble is, Be sure you get the Aireo—the original ignition gauge— you cae boy tt ot your dealer's, or fll tn and mail the coupon, AIR REDUCTION SALES CO. The name Airco on this Ignition gauge ebenifies thet fo ethbexlGee all the high aiandands chareepniie of the bwrentyose other peeducts of the Alr Redoction Bales Company, phoneers in com mercislizing the ¢lements of the alr ard farwe manelacterers of eayarn, oietylrie, appmratiis, ete., [oe the otyacety lene welding and cwhting industry. Jet is moet logical that of izetroment relying goceby for lta functioning on Neon—e mire gue of the ale—ehould be holt by an orginlantios of beth apechel bed eapericce.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 20, 1927 This is the Worlds afest Motor Car WE ARE prepared to show that this new Cole Eight Ninety is the safest car on slippery paving—the safest car on sharp turns at high speed—the safest car on the precipitous climb or on the even more dangerous descent—the safest car in traffic where life is a matter of inches and where you graze fenders with fools—safest wherever brakes, acceleration and perfect balance count. Eight million automobiles fighting for position on the streets and roads of America to-lay—miull-racing to eight million urgent destinations— twenty-four hours out of every day, missing each other by the thickness of the paint on their fenders— To keep this tidal wave of human- ity and steel from grinding itself to pieces is the problem of the auto- mobile engineer. That it does not grind itself to pieces is the greatest of all modern miracles, and at the same time the reatest possible tribute to the manu- Fcaicee of motor cars and to the skill of the people who drive them. In view of this situation it is only natural that some forward looking automobile manufacturer should have set about deliberately ta ; engineer a motor car, from stem to stern, on fhe one basic principle of SAFETY, That is exactly what has been done in this new Cole Hight Ninety. Most Accidents from _Skidding are Caused by Brakes that Grab —Cole Eight Ninety's Brakes do Not Grab Anti-skid chains were created pr- marily to provide safety against brakes that grab—non-skid tire: were developed for the same pur pose. We have striven to produce a car that does not require ati and one that is safe even after non-skid tires are worn smooth. In official brake tests Cole Feri Ninety has established new, uh- equalled short-stop records; and on slippery paving its non-skid quality is nothing short of marvelous. The owner of a Cole Fagtt Niner does not get nervous when his wile and children are out in the car.

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Five minutes in this Cole Eapjt Miwey through any traffic or on any wad will convince you that the Cole Motor Car Company’s effort to engi- neer a car on the one basic principle af safety has completely succeeded. This Car Eats Nobody's Dust Make no mistake about this car's performing ability. No car on wheels is more capable of giving a eal account of itself. It | the POWER, the SPEED, the ACCEL- RATION and the BRAKES to ret more miles in less time over give nd take roads. If this does not heck up with your impression of “ole—you simply do not know the ar, and you should permit the near- st Cole dealer to complete your ducation. Don’t be prejudiced—be ‘AIR—get at the FACTS. If this ar, after a complete demonstration, ut-performs any car you ever drove, ¢agood sport and admit it, Twenty Thousand Miles on a Set of Tires the Cole average. If you don’t ant this statement proved to you, int challenge it—we are loaded for u. We have so many letters from vners who have actually got that uch mileage out of Cole tres that ere can no longer be any doubt hatever about this great Cole econ- ny factor. It’s hard for a man who § learned to congratulate himself | to,000 mules out of a set of tires grasp such unusual tire mileage. | = Sa —_ = i THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Twelve to Fifteen Miles on a Gallon of Gas Considering that this is a power- ful, eight-cylinder engine, such econ- omy can not be hevieback aside with- out comment. Many Cole owners clam far more mileage, but 12 to 1g miles is what average drivers get out of this car under average con- ‘ditions. We know of no other car in the quality class that can equal Cole’s economy. You Never Bounce Our of Your Seat in a Cole Eight Ninety The only way to learn what we mean by Cole “road action” is to give the car the third degree over a rough stretch of road, and compare what doesn'f happen to its passengers with your past experience under similar conditions. Don’t be afraid to go into the bumps head on—you don’t have to be cautious — nobody ever yet cracked his head or broke his nose against the top bows of a Cole Eigér anmery. This car is the first to equip regu- larly, and at no extra charge, with that superb motoring luxury— Love- joy Hydraulic Shock Absorbers. Notice How Their Eyes Follow the Cole These ‘‘different looking’’ Cole Euwht Nineties are putting a new aristocratic atmosphere into Ameri- can boulevard trafic. Wherever they appear, people crane their necks rthem. Notice, too, the class of le who are riding in Coles —and if you get an opportunity, ask a few of them how they like their Coles, Zen You will find one thing—that these people, many of whom can afford any kind of car regardless of price, are delighted with their Coles and are proud of the fact that they have **cut down’ on their automobile op- erating expense “‘without sacrificing anything.” Bear in mind that this strictly high-grade EIGHT cylinder car is only $2435. Your Cole Gan Never be an Orphan Behind your Cole to the last mile there will remain one of the strong- est factories in the entire automobile industry—your Cole can never be an orphan. You know where to go for service, if you own a Cole. There is somebody always responsible for every Cole car in existence, and the Cole Motor Car Company's interest in its cars on the road never slack- ens or abates. This dependable Cole service can not be ignored by any man. Ne factory serves its owners more faithfully or cheerfully. —— NOTICE TO DEALERS This company and im product are en- tithed te cream representation everywhere, Our new connract ia Lberal and falr. RIGHT NOW ia the time to get ‘all sec’ on the right busis with the right people. Tt ia easier to sell this car than te com- pete with it. Wire Cote Moror Car Company INDIANAPOLIS, U.S, A. = Write for “Ground Flying ina Cole Eight Ninety” —— delight, wnsoficited feffer fa mes rent an ofdtimer whe Aas “arene: “enna.” 103 | 4 fe WW Bh i “ hen : ’ Af rs i. : f i | _ 7 } 1 ote : ry | . a a e anil : = ' a 7 | lee " f fii i a: P = g | i 1 hi Me *, ft i, - 1 “D ki = r J wh - a: . ‘ ‘i ry 4 et yon a, oi | 7 A ig —— ~ ee sO ha = - a fi a T : . a i a ad a ag 5 a | : - = “ea : a = ~ a) hoe 1 Shur 4 - 4. k om = a q ; = Te ‘ a = ' . es ie a ae = sm 4 =." - %s ae * . = : — —_ —_ S i q ee = r a nt = oes a 7 at a a ae Sr. _ aa a en le = =a i! en = ay a — 7 {ndianapolis

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THE SATURDAY heres Personalit ina Gilbert Cloc 104 a 2 al SN ee i ae Se ye a Sr as =n : 7 aeieigs ns es - ee ei HIS beautiful Gilbert Nor £ mandy Chime Clock is more than a timepiece. Its soft, melo dious, two-tone chime, joyfully proclaiming each passing hour and half-hour, adda the finishing rie touch of harmony to the happy home circle, The rich mahogany case, exqui- sitely made and hand-rubbed to a softly glowing, satin polish, re- veals the handiwork of a master designer and conceals the fine Gilbert movement, which tells the tale of fleeting time with un- failing accuracy. Every Gilbert Clock is a triumph of beauty and precision. Gener- ations of faithful, honest workers have built into these masterpicces af refinement and dependability their own sterling qualities of character and service. Gilbert Marmandy Chime models now cost lietle more than an or- dinary gong clock. The prices range from $1800 upward. fo. reyh = ilheiiited — Sold! Mahogany edie; Soi. wife; do in, Adghs 94} in dial wih. eaten glam) Morand Chorus (Cheder of ites oe poscelam dial: Price, L304. dgnog (Wer tam exer] Ne diti—Some desig, with Cockedval Goeg, Chace of pleer or porcefain dial, Price, USA Ses.co (Cer dee exer, If reac acted be eer dialer, aqrdcc n William L. Gilbert Clock Co, Wimited, Comin. “Wdakers of good clocks simce S07" H | ehilled, EVENING POST May 20, 22 WHEN AMERICA GOES EAST (Continued from Page 15) ae Pagc the other, “it's time we had a ag and this will ave me going out to your house to see ave Vou got any after to make me? ee is: vety voice had an infection that It was no more than the accent of New York, but Ferid Bey was hearing it for the first time, “Listen! he said. “You are not in America now, Be careful, then! I tell you, | must have more money—ten thou- sand plasters nk lenst. Dro you. Under- stand ?"* The young tnan emiled, and it was ap- parent that many of his terth were stopped with gold. He made a movement with his hand as though he brushed something mw Trom hefare biker. oo well," he answered. “Tell me now—whoet fs that. house and garden af yours worth? I reckon it would go a long wily el clearing you." The stallion bounded at Ferld Bey's un- eontciaus touch of the spur and nearly un- seated his rider. The brutal Turkish eurk fetched him up, trembl ing and sweating. When he was still again there was aleo a alime of sweat on the face which Ferid Bey turned an bis tonmentor. “Ay house!" he gasped." You mean—" The vaung man nodded, "Seems to be all you've got,"’ he anawered calmly, "I'm going to write jt off ot a hundred ond fifty thousand pliusters, You'll still owe me about a hondrel theusand,”* vay house!" repeated Perid Bev. His face Wea. white. The words had evoked in hima vivid picture of ull that he had looked upon that morning—the city in-the sunlight, the watera ut his feet, the whole frame that eneompassed and tontainod his languoroua and lovely wife, They would be homeless; it meant part- ing. ‘The blood surged back into his face anil drummed in his temples. 4 Ay house!’ he roared, The stallion wheeled at the urge of knee and rein. (Neo Isak ben Tbrobim: cried alaud: le had seen the Turk in his mood of massacre before; but the young man on the shop board moved only when the long cutting whip thrashed thown across his face, rose aarvel fell again in nw dey liek slash qerces- his neck and shoulders, He wps-cut twice again ere, with his one arm and his crippled leg, le was able to drag himself inte the shelter of the shop. Along the aiiey from both directions the crowd came iy Ferid Bey wheeled his horse pain and hesituted. Te had thoughts of dismount- ing and following the young Jew into the shop, but abe ndoned them. Instead, he put the stallion to a canter and went smashing through the shouting, ECTS N GT crowed tll tee was clear of the Kali Ghiarter, He returned to his home inte that after= oom on foot, He came limping through the pubewiy with that in his fuer which tac the scared servants dodge before him, His wile wus, 24 usual, tn her long © if in the courtyard, her face lustrous in ite wa- changing sailor Under the hel af jer hair. He walked across and stood looking down at her. She smiled hall Hleopily. WellT" she asked, and etretehed forth her bard for him to take, “Ts it victory, my knigh tT And why do you return on Toa +b? He took ber hand and pressed it, “Na,” he answered, “it is mot victory—yot! And I found a beiver-for the stallion, That is all! Lat as goin; | am thirsty ane I should ike some heals. [tut that nerhe, of eourse, nib they cheba ted the situs uo ik ht. Only one tay of hope wus discernible to either of them: The pasha, Fathrna‘'s father, nvust core to the regeue: if mot with money down, then with power. Few thingy: eaulr id (Feo easier to the pasha than to silence a Jews In his time be had profit- ably ailanieedl a food many forever. To organize «little Jocal riot, with a harvest e told her oll, till day- of just two ; it Was a small to ask of one's ettainiow. = They decided in the end to wait for, | week before acting—it comes a9 naturills to § hag Pw to a Spaniard to postren action, bhaca Bria mot grasped the fact et a thing belt undone will sometime 4) , Upon the sixth day of the week they had granted themselves before going te , came to them. He came wit ont ceremany foo, They wore Loge ther in the equrtrard Bh bby caninge clattened to a standstill cote the arch anc he himsel! come fomteiy through wpon them, Dede rim Pasha oy fin ald man: he wie prea! im girth Hh oe plethoric in the face; mt his mildest he pay fiTh in presetdcn that he might af any Ge ment explode. Now he seemed pouthedy to emit fumes. “Ah, youl" he romped at the tomes when he laid eves on Ferid Biy and daughter. “Is it not enough that | chee father a daughter who bares her foo iy a berlot? Must glee also be marred tng ince of defilement like youT May Ab Jah ** “But here the pasha lapsed indy n porect hysteria. of Oriental in that is borely translatable and not 2 J printabls, Ferid and Fathma. hed comet their feet in disorder. “But what— what is fe?" VON Tut ia ot, navel ess thing 1 bursrled the pasha, “Whe was it that d 5 cripple Amerienn soldier with a whip in the pe enee-of hia fori Woe fh nol you, chia of Islam? And nh when there is an Ame! ican -commnisshon at Stam bun, to ‘oho whip racking and money jingling the Hee tan himself dances like a performing ape it was not you who have brought upon me alarming letters from the goverumen an American officer to see sirich foe done? No, it was not wou: it waa your shape. Abomination! Stein ap face of creation! Infidel! Mow, teem at the openin Bt, the ¥ before me, An i Jews and tho reat Shae hi awilt EBay justice in & Ferid reserves to ‘Vigne td ing that 1 made him hom dence, the formality, the nobes of hand, the crap vo Jew as he made ble chai only rmistily in bis am “American citizen” oor MLDeT iy ta that. J Pungently ia the pboture guards of the American mew doll j Plensnnt en to lo ay granite to ap it ether than his ler diet a bird's, and somothi ma iE Ain over the fine Ferid Be ie And at Inst it was ower. _ All peed wae stripped from him, others laft the rogm. Hie: the pasha, who sat, Tully. “But,” broke out Feria B awake from a dream, “* eee The fellow is a Jew {" ""h, fool!" cried the pasha. “Haver not vet understood? 6 ig an Amenat They are all heathen together over thee There is nelther sultan nor slave; & walk together on the ome ot Sah tan claim them for his own! Forid I shook hia head. “But £6 officer —— = began. The pasha interrupted. “He is jar "he said presses ‘And My dauchbaes ai anil we iri endeavor. ta teach and seemlicr ways iving=— | if need be. But Rg temp will a You have nowhere to have yal here. You — Ferld Bey cut him cial “Th trouble about me," he said coldly. know what tode. I ahall go to America! Ami in due course he pent! is

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—]. K. Buri ‘harm, ident af the Cuvabaga Cat Fou 7 any?" UT know ally rcsapang,' rish. “well,” George went on, sett cutie “Buplinghaza has taken a great fancy to gee just tely since Alice came. He doesn't ame aroucd my a very much, but he ct beep away from me evenings. For ghyat 2 vk Alice shocgne he really dic rome here to sr seid mast any other pel would have caught on sooner, but that’s . of the dandy thi about her—she diest‘tecem to realize that anybody could be interested ft her, When she did got win to it had a dewee of a time mottling ber dewnstair at all. And, Lord, how she Gil hang ieicles on the poor cuss! She doegn't want to be mean to him—in fact she Tikes him—bat he's nat going to get a danet bo propense tho her if she can help it.” And he wentons “T don't think [t pays gwooan to be boo honest and straightlor- wand. She dems herself out of a lot of fun. That Kind of woman treata men too well fecause Bho thinks theyre a8 sensitive as she is, But you and T know that's nok so, [a wemnn won't have us it may be a bord kump, but we get over it. We have our kosiness bo keep our minds occupied. But fs ras should trifle with a woman like ral [ don"t believe she'd ever get over It, ‘ot ds be talked he had been watching the anoke of his cigar, but now, with the ques- fon, he therm Purch reached slowly out and knocked br mht from his own cigar into a bowl, “Perhaps mot. be eaid. There was silence between them for a ay “Of couree it haa often strack you, os it ame," George said presently, “that in ny relation between two je ane of hem always has the upper hand" And aa ‘atith nodded he continued: “Even in eee equal partnershipa one of the arinera. ip always sirongrer. Tn Hual- aon partner will dominate herause he ’more of & person than the other, but in mesic partnerships the man will gan- rally dominate een when the woman is ie of a pergon, It lant only that he wtrala the purse etrings but that his poe on is stranger because he is freer, wre outside interesta and ia leas sensitive, bat haa alwaya seemed to me a rank in- thice, What I mean is that men, inalend getting the upper hand of women be- tl th deserve jt, geom lobe af times 1 pet ia or oxactly the apposite Pea — sculbse th "ra Go much tore aeliiah thas air wives, O7 if the wife happens to be emose aeliekh one—al course that some- tea hap too—then she gets the yer hand, It pute a premium on selfish- * suppose,” he pursued reflectively, aan no better af a man's quality an whether or not he imposes on 1 waren cise of hia advantage over her. It's etty hard mot toe do it sometimes. Tuke Pome of a man with a wile like mine. I ita he on my guard against imposing on amgaret, but T guess 1 do impose on her at all the time. There's our parlor out ere, for Instance.” He gave his little ch. “When we mc in bere sha ught that furniture becanse she knew it athe kind of stuff I liked, Alice ks inot in good taste, but Margaroé aoe for it because it’s my sty at she'd have for hetsolf at all thou th fin" realise thet in sae innio : i wise bo it sinee, and as ¥ the matter when business pleke up ttle more, That's one of the things I've wight about while she's been away.” foafter a littl pouse: “Their going ay does give Ws men a chance to think ne, doesn’t itt" “Limagine 2o0,"" Parrish answered, feeling, he spoke, the inadequacy of ae pad te liked George. George raordinarily friendly. Hoe Shed a a sain i Greorge was trying to make him unser fd that be washes! to help him, gael he aw that he merded help, yet here be had aa Uneormmunicative aso Buddha. “Lewk here, Brooks,” he said, leanin ward, “you've been bully to me and | Teclate it. The fact fs, mm afraid Allee hinking of refusing ta see poe at all." “T gathered that re had been a mils- lerstanding of some kind," returned ome, “though she hasn't gaid a word, “s been awfully downhearted—-she THE SATURDAY RITA COVENTRY (Centinged frome Page If} didn't want nv te know, but [ could tell— and last night, when you Se init at tans I got aut of the room an ii amine, die et T eaulda't help kn was crying. T don't mind tli you you | was pretty sore on you last night." “And [don't mind telling you,” Parrish answered, "that I'm pretty sore on myself, Do you think perhaps you could get. her to corme aren and sea mae smut for 2 minute? “Well, I got her down to seo Burling- ham,” ssid George quizzically, “Tm afraid tha papier! cupand with what this is going abe i truth is, T don't deserve to Gant dropped “the e of his cigar in the ark and rose T suppese not," he said. “Of course,” said Parrish, “if she's really agai don't want to bother her. I'l] come “ih, she can gee you all right—if she wants to.” He moved toward the door. “Tl 6 up and ——" ait!" cried Parrish; and as George turned: "Tell ber I've got to mee her!" “Till do the best 1 can, old’ mon." maved on agin. Y But. os he was mtartiag. Parrish following, caught im by the at arm. "Tell her,’ he said in on mee vol “that it fn" L going ta da her a bit of peed to say she won't see me—because I'm going to atick around here until she does!" Hr up the stairs Poe er HE gir came pao ness of one wervaualy sare. ae with bulky furniture, it rege at bog apace for promanading; the only strnight- away was the passage between fireplace and desk, and even that was abridged wt one end by an armchair, so thet four long- stops covered the entire distance. For a time Parrish paced hack and forth aver the samned course, making & cee relte which he had lighted after d ng his cigar; then, annoyed by the restrictive walla and furniture, he drapped again inte a chair, and finding his cigarette burning te a stub lighted a fresh ane. When his second ej tte was oonauned he flung it in the bowl, and opening his case to get another found it empty. e looked shout the room for cigarettes or cigars, but could discover only pipes and pipe behecen, Strange she did not come. He had that would beable to Wade ber ba come natonce, He woshed he had noticed what time it was when George left him, and that the latter would return, if only for a minate, and give him some idea how thin more glee on up there. For lack of or oceupation he wan- dered about inspecting the contenta of the room. In thres group photographs of fot ball teams of the Ohio State University he had no difficulty in recognizing George, and he gathered fram inscriptions an sev silver cu ee on top of the bookense that his shone wt shot putting und tra codoerey The begks upon the shelves below dealt with hunting, fabing and natural bietery, and the upon the deak were aporting peri jails What sould be the matter up ME Abert He went tothe door and listened, but the house was ae silent as if it had been uninhabited. Perhaps Alice had been lying down; per- haps she was dressing. In t case, though, George could casily have come and told him what wos causing the delay. Surely he would have done that. Ac nice follow like Geo would not leave him down here in this horrible suspense if he enild help it, He nist be staying becuise he had to stay, He must be having o bord time with her. Suppeae ashe wouldn't eome? Of if she did, what chance hod he of obtaining her forgiveness when So es suasive a person as her brother-in-law had such difficulty in inducing her merely to come and listen to his plea? He took out his handkerchief and wiped the palma of his hands. Oh, for a Eigurettst e must have cigarcttes, in he fined or them, this time Shite ar as to search ilesk drawers, but te no purpose, He hac resumed his animal-like pacing and was trying fo conerntrate his oughta upon the formulation of an effective append ta Alice, when through the slightly opened door he heard fram aleve the sqen eek ote hinge and the faint sound of atepe. The EVENING POST tread was not George's. It was a worman'’s. She was coming down the atairs. Coming Hlowly. He foal hear each muffied foot- fall on the Mow that ¢ . moment when he would see her, the moment he waited for so anxiously, was imminent, a wave of fear swept over him. Had it been George com- ing to tell him that Alice would not see him his suffering would have been acute, bart hardly more acute than was this panic at the thought of facing her. He dreaded to lewk inte her eyes, By the difference in sound he knew when ral stepped fram the last stair to the fleur. e wadin the hall, coming directly | He stood a litth back from | ena him. the door, waiting, gazing at the place where she appear. The door swung slowly, As their a met he saw in hers the look that he fenred. It was a look that he had never soon before-—how, then, bad he known what it would be? There was no question new of what she knew. She knew! [He un- derstood it instantly and as definitely as if she bod spoken ue aod told him, With her hand on the knob she posed, He waa atruck by the fact that she looked taller, and for an instant that thought stood forward in his harussed mind. Haw curiaus that she ehould lock ao much taller! He waited for a moment, hoping she Pascale that would him to begin, Perhape if he oould site tal sta it would not be so hard he things he wanted to say to her seemed to be a te in his mind at terrible speed, like heel in a power house, Es era seize hold of that dizzying wheel, When he spoke it was as if he h leaped blind at it. you look taller! he said, and wanting why he had begun with such a fatuity. She atecd motlonles, silent, her bond the dear knols aa if at any mament might turn and bag i pana oa lines of her soft dark dress that m look go tall? “Please come in and sit down,” he pleaded: and aa etill ahe did not move he repeated, "' Fleage—eome in and ait down,” She closed the door and,advancing,seated cabteer in the ayant chair; and there waa serena di he way she sat that gave him bbe ng of her i impermanence thorr, won't you forgive met" “Yee Siraha your werd," abe answered without infleetion. “hy word?" He was not sure to what ahe waa referring. "Wo promised you'd tell ope if you ever—Clara gaid you wouldn't, but I be- liewed you." a he cought her meaning. The prom- meant so little to him that it had sipped his mind. Another black mark ngmint him "Tf that + were only all I had to = you to forgive!" be brought out in a low voire. ow am D ever real Tis ta eplat I can’t | explain it te had been aut af ~ mend That the erly shred of defense [ have ta offer—and it defense. There's no justification for it, from beginning to end. You couldn't hate me more than [ hate myself. IT loathe myself! I'm wretched. I'm sick. I never | | deserved you, and now I deserve you less— but I never wanted you so much. I used to imagine I appreciated you, but—why, I didn't at all! Not net all, a T had vou and T would have bewn married long a But 1 had selfish delusions about the advantages of being fret—just ws now I howe o selfish desire not to be free. Gh, Alice, if 4 “T usel to wish bel ba mamrry me, she aaid, still in that wninflected tone. “Now I thank God you didn't want to, If we had been marrbed thia would have hap- pened just the same." "Oh—wol™ he cried. Yea, it would. If T had been your wife you would have been ely about it—you wouldn't have told me—you'd have got me aut af the way just exactly aa you did. But f didn't come down ta discuss this with you. I came because George said you wouldn't go away until you saw me. 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108 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ; May 20, 1922 QUIET SIWEL- CLO Or with Mahogany Seat 3 =S6)) BOB. Trenton TERPECOWeter Closets FOR EVERY PLACE AND PURSE HERE are times when you cannot even pretend not to notice the sound a noisy closet makes. Why let such a water closet stay in your house, disturbing you, embarrassing your guests? Install a Si-w ale clo, the quiet-operating closet that flushes thoroughly with a minimum of sound. The Si-wel-clo is the leader of a group of water closets which The Trenton Potteries Company has developed to meet the needs of every building, from the big hotel to the modest bungalow. While water closets may look alike to the layman's eyes, there are, a5 a matter of fact, several different types, from the simply constructed washdown to the su- petior syphon jet closet with its instantaneous flushing, large water surface, pro- tection against sewer gas and passageway that minimizes chance of clogging. Ni uburally the better types, being of complic ated construction, are more expensive to manufacture and not within the means of everyone. We, of course, consider the Quiet Si-vel-clo the most desirable. For those who cannot afford it, we make other good closets. Into our “ Welling,” “Merit” and m Saxon” WIS have merged aS TAthy of the excellencies at the Silent (Closet Fi be} possible, Each in ity class and at its price is the best the market affords. Each is equipped with a tank of glistening white china, WELLING vse surface unaffected by stain, acid or soil, and trouble-proof Price «+» $65.05 ASE Pee Foner ea We have priced these four closet outfits fairly, f. o. b. Trenton, and are shipping them completely crated to the plumbing con- tractor. We know it will pay you to insist upon your plumber's furnishing them. "hy BOOKLETS—So that you may lear why some closets cost more than aed others and are worth it, we have prepared booklers showing che ay difference between the types. We want you to send for them, also for our bathroom plan book —"Bathrooms of Character,” Edition D. THE TRENTON POTTERIES COMPANY 557.50 Trenton, New Jersey, LU, Ss. A. BOSTON NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO WORLD'S LARGEST MAKERS OF ALL-CLAY PLUMBING FIXTURES

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fCoatineed from Page FO?) an sberration—but it's over with, The thought of it is sickening tome. Even if I ou back Dim gol try ta ave oem Decal T must ain bath ne seil-ree “Ve, she sad. Hr clutched at the amall encouragement worded by that aingle word. “When Ive woo back ray self-respect,” be wanton, “la there no chance of win- ring back your respect too?’ And before she could speak continged: "Dont arewer now. Dhon"é take that hope away fro mée—l couldn" t stand at! I'm nat ssking pou to promise anything; I'm only legging you not to efince me, I'm net ask- ing you to marry me—becuuse [don't dave, Hut won't you put me on probation? Won't-you It me try all the rest of my life io make mytell worthy al ant aneer that elther. I know you feel som, Hight sow it doesn't seem possible that either of ua cam ever get over this; but if we can be patient, some day the wound will heal, leaving perhaps only a tyht sear, That's the way the world is; iit weren't eo life would be unencdureble, “Probably you will resent the iden—but Ems: tell you: [am ackially a better man because this thing has happened to =e re humbled me, and I needed that. And it's given me a new sense of vulies. Iho marhbed me away down and you away up. [tha ahown me the abeolute lalaenesa of the standards I wed to believe in. &o- poetication! Lord, what rot most aophis- lication Bf It took something like this to makeme see straight, But [ do see straight nov, I'm really changed, Changed inside, Oh, [ wish you mould =“ hee it his changed me! He at upon hes breast with one ‘enced hn “ Dhan"t —r ae different to you? Dan't fo serae tT Dent you get something— (mean something Wike—well, ike a mun iho wed te core inte our office—he was a urd drinker, and every now and then he wk gay "I've gone on the water wagon," ind Bement and I would laugh because we mew it didn't signify anything at all—just mporary. Then one day we heard that iit wife had left him. next time we aw him he didn’t sev he was on the rgon—didn't even speak about drink etd somebedy offered him CHELes; then he aid ‘I don't “elie any moore,” and there mae comething about the way he sald it Sa toade we know that this time it was nal, He had been talking rapidly, but now he auned, Since entering the room Alice had shed at him steadily. Though she gave osign of relenting, it seemed to him that wexpression of her eyes was less forbid- ing. It heartened him. “Acd don’t overlook this,” he went on: When his wife left him she thought she 2 through with bim forever, Hot after a hile she sae that he was really different wl come back, They're happy now." For the firat the Alice lowered viel ee, rm hands had been clasped in h Bi is he gaw that they were Siencheal: the wekles showing white in the lamplight. “T wish you'd ga," she said, but her tone chet the cold resolution it had held. He longed to touch her but was afraid. e felt that if he could take ber hand the mething be was powerless to ex in ids must How inte her, charging her with (Understanding of this profound nevalu= min jis seul, And becouse he feared to ue her physically he was impelled by erieee to recall to her the days when they re hap "Tye Aesth having a ghastly time lately, aone,"” he aad. T Night ri night as 9 sitting in a ment or u, wiehion I anit a you ene toe L usec to. Last evening when I was in t depths of despoir, just before I tele. oned, | got te thinking of the time when had the grippe ond rou tame in ery afternoon. You used to fix my lows for me so much better than the ree did, All clay long T hed you ‘te Jook ward to, and [ used to " “Dowish you'd gol" ahe broke in, wring- her hands. "But I don't want to leave you, dear! here ia there for me te got She stiffened in her chair and raising her & looked at hin baal. It was as if ne mem all but dismicaed had re- ‘ned stealthily and stabbed her. "Don't ask me where to gol” she cried th eold fury. “So far as I'm concerned ican go anywhere!" And ag he stood at such an outburst from her, THE SATURDAY Atlantic City! ta Rita ge back to aventry ! Back ta—to where ——" She stopped, gasping as if suffocated, and there was a moment in which be felt him- self quailing before her. Then quickly she turned away from him, aank her face in her arm on the back of the chair and wept. Her weeping frightened him. He had never heard such tearing avbs, He cropped to his knees beside her, flung an arm about her, and drawing ber ta him, pressed his check pgainst bers, “Oh, doen't! Alice! Don't ery like that! Tean't btnrit! Oh, please don't!" He waa pleading passionate y without kmawing what he was saying, But the awful tewring soba continued. With hit arm about her he fele the impact ol each ehock. Never had he eo desired to comfort anyone, and never had he been so powerless, He snatched out his handker- chiel and with a trembling hand tried to dey her cheek, as if the stopping of her tears could stop her sorrow, He felt deapornte: bectrigy it, like ome endenyoring to stanch a wound Her st sloeve was wet, He pressed tha handkerchief into her hand. “Qh, Alice? Dearest! Dearest! I feel like a murderer! Dhon't ery like that! Oh, Please don't! There's nobody ele that matters to meatall! Allee! Vl go—l'll do anything—if you'll ay, stop! Please, sweetheart! Oh, please Again he put his cheek ea tightening his arm around her to fortify her body figainst the successive, racking imyprulses; and when at last she became quister he knelt there, thankful, aleocest hogyy, bold= ing her, pressing her faoce to his, stroking her hair, her shoulder, her arm, as if to aniooth away the paln. She relaxed against him with a sigh. “Dearest !"" he whispered. She gave wp "“Tt'a no use,' "ehe breathed ceepalring!y. "T love you, Lean't help myself.” “Thank God!" he murmured, “Tou love me, That means I've only got to make you glad you lowe me,” As be knelt there with his arm around her and his fuce preeuel to hers there came te him 2 memory at frat seeming! Winns lated—the meneary ef the time shen he had almost drowned. Tt was in Maine li the early fall. He hod arrived from New York just belore twilight and had hastened to the deserted buth- ing beach, Off shore a sloop was anchored and he mate it hia objective, swimimin rapidly through icy water. While he he some cistinee yet to go he beeame oon- scious of fatigue, but the space between him and the bowt wwe now shorter than be tecen him and the bench, so he kept on. The last few strokes beought him to the verge of exhowstion. He clutched at the boat's side, missed it, went dawn, Caornin up he lad to swim a stroke or two te renal itagaln. He put all hia ae atrength into the effort, feeling that showld his grasp Tail this time be was lost. But now he managed to get his finger tips over the low wooden Tail at the edge of the ilesh deck. For a long time he hung there in the frigid water without strength to lift himself aboard, facing the fear that he could never so. But at lost, o little peated, he mus tered the remnunts of his energy and managed to clamber up the side to anfoty. Never would be forpet the feeling of relief that came to him at the moment when he lifted hirself gasping te the deck. Until now he had known po enmation like it. In the moments following that jecparcty, when he lay in the leo of the little deck- house recovering his strength, life had seemed sweeter to him than ever before; he experienced nm sort of vision of the coming ars sprend out like a lovely landseape for im to wonderin. And no, confident that Alice whe ta be restored. tie him, love seemed sweeter than ever before, and his londseape vision of the coming years wis made beautiful by the thought of Ajice with him. In the past he had experienced many Pleasures, vivid but short-lived —sellis Pleasures, glittering little pleasures, orna- ments pinned onte life: but about this new-lound happiness there was a reaching out, a sweep which seemed to make it integral with life: anc the thought struck him that this quality of lorgeness was in some way conneched with the fact that now he was not thinking of himeaelf but of Alice —of making Alice hoppy. three harmonizing notes of a (Chi- nese gong echoed through the house, Albion stirred she continued: “* bis don't you EVENING POST Anti-Corrosive Coats fear per year ef seriire Risaling Culverts Spouring Bieta Lach Tanks Car Covering Washing Machines Anchor Bands Plates Welds Excellently A fax fo itself Welding Roda Knife Backs 4Aunwill Haiee Transformer Tanks Tough, Ductile Cte labor coats Window Fraps Skylights Lorre Resists Shock Engine Stay Bolu Drediie Chains Sucker Aoi Enamels Better Enamel! 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110 Ethics of Credit By means of hard work, courageous en- THE SATURDAY terprise and economy, society accumulates capital, a considerable portion of which is entrusted to banks. This surplus capital, as a basis of credit, becomes a great public utility. It should be employed in such ways as will be of the greatest benefit to the community. That is the moral responsibility of those who deal in credit. It serves most fully the common good in stimulating productive enterprise —in balancing production with consumption — in moving goods from the producer to the consumer with the least cost and waste of effort. The National Bank of Commerce in New York believes that the beginning of a new business cycle is near at hand. Itis impressed with the necessity of economic business practices if the foundation of enduring prosperity is to be created. It believes that the soundest individual credit is that into which enters the recog- nition of these broad general principles. National Bank of Commerce in New York Capital and Surplus Fifty Million Dollars EVENING POST "Dinner, said she. “TI ought to have put the children to bed long ago." She sat up, turning her face from him. “Tt won't hurt them to stay up a little bit later this ones, will it? he asked as ha roan, “Anyway, I must go see, You'll keap George company at supper? It won't be much—the maid goes out toenight—but he'll be glad to have you," “And yout" “T can't came dawn—the way T look," “But you must eat, T'll carry w tray bo you," He fallawed her to the foet of the stairs. He wished te stand there looking after her 43 she ascended, but knowing that ahe pre — peck be onthe Gen casts yay parlor, where presently George joi TT. He tried to express his gratitude. “Oh, that’s all right," said iecree: checking hia stumbling apeech of thanks. “ome on in amd have something te eat." He led the way to the dining room. “ pos by the looks of you a drink wouldn't rt you wither.” “Thanks,” said Parrish; “but first I want to some slipper up to Alice,” “yh, Fil de thet," the other said, “Alot if I oan he pat, you won't!" Par- Tish anawered, mustering wamile, “Tt's the only thing T can think oto do for her right now." Together they prepared the tray. “No, we've got this wrong,” said Parrish when the tray was eet. "We ought to have put a napkin on first. We must make it ook dainty." “All right,” said tolerantly. “Here's a napkin. You go ahead and make it look dainty while I get you that drink." The tray having bean made ready before George returned, Parrish carried it upstairs, but at the top of the flight, not ing which was Alice's room, he hexttated. He enlled her and woe gubded by her answering view to the door. “Came in,” she said, and as ke entered the dimly Ughted chomber she warned, “Look aut for that chair.” He looked for a place to set the tray, and finding «a amall table appropriated it for his purpose, carrying it over to the couch where she waa lying. As she sat up to inspect her supper he suggested: "Wouldn't you like a little more lightT” “T suppose [ll need it. That one over by the dresser, please,” Turning on the light he saw his photo aph, and hoped that it bad remained there ever sine: she come to Cleveland, *Bicbures like this ate too big to lug shout," he commented, “I must have o miniature of you te carry with me when | travel." Then returning to her aide, eager for a acl of his handiwork, he asked: “Well, bow do you think the tray looke?T" “Wery nice," "You might just make aure you've gat everything you want,” he sugpested. “George and L tried to think af everything, but—oh, I forgot the salt, didn't 11" "“Towon'k n it," she probesbed, But already he wes leaving the room. Returning with the salt he placed jt on the tray, and maneuvering to the font of the catich sat down, “T hope you feel a lithe better?" he naked wr ebivibal y", She nodded “That's gee After a little silence, dur which she drank some tea, ahe anid, “New you'd better go down to George—and have your own supper,” Reluctantly he rose, “You're sure there ten"t anything mora I can bring you?” "So, thanks; I have overything I wane," He longed te embrace her, “th, my dear," he began, “how I wish ——* But he waa interrupted by George's volee booming ror below: “Hey, you, Dick! How long does it take you to curry asalteellarupastalra? Comeon to aipper!" “Hight down!" he called back, but he did net move from her side, as May I come up and see you after- wards?" “T'm sorry—I"m afraid I'm too tired." “Yea, of eourae,"" he aaid quickly, his voice full of solicitude. “May I see you to-morrow?" She nedded, asking: “But when are you going back to New YorkT" May 20, 192 "Oh, I haven't thought aheut that. 1° ave to go pretty soon—-in a day or so but Do must wait wtih you're bet ter. Yoo! be a lot better tomorrow, won't you? “Wo doubt,” she answered, “Now yo tially must ron along.” “Yea He booked ot hor hungrily. Pressing by the back of the couch on bi way to the Naor, he ventured to bend on her hair. As he rewched the hall she stepped bin ta DBiek"* ia é dear?" “This lake climate is so changeable—di you bring Plenty of warm clothing?” Ear EFORE Parrish left for New Work h had along talk with Alice. He bere her to him a8 soon a3 possible, an although she would give him no m=ruran: he took with him on his journey thre thoughts to comfort him: She had assente to his coming back to Cleveland a wee hence, ree, & matrimonial enthusin becuse of his own happy experence, his supporter, and this, be felt, meant tho he would have the suppert of Margin also, And raped eae of all, be was worryin E hus tl again, 6 ia her ld finally marry him } - she ‘wali Ta. jaa] could nat deubt. His fear now wea th she would make him wait, What if a kept him weleing six months—or a yew The mere thought af auch ete appalle him. A terrible waste of p tins And he wasn't growing any younger— tha ought to be considered toc. : other arguments presented t dliew in bis letter to her from the train, 5 point of his increasing years. “In a couple of years," he wrote, “T'Tl b forty—practically middle-aged. ‘Youth going. I can ferl myself aging. I cus stand this waiting. It's going to make a old man of me ft you don't look owt.” However, he overlooked the fact that i this argument he was exhibiting a qualit anything but eld: His impatience was tha of a young lover. In the evening after his return to Nex York he telephoned ta Alice, and firdin conversation with her highly satiefarctor called her up again next ad ht, and th night after. Telephoning to her became daily habit with him; the contact thus « tablished made him less lonely; he knet what was pong on out there day by das For example, when little Georgie, lookin out of the window at a storm, remarke that the rain was combing its hair, the mc Teached Parrish on the evening of it Ubberan ce, Again, on the night Marg: ret's return, he wee introduced to her ove the wire; her voice was meweet, like Alice: And again of one oteasion when, Alic helng out, he talked with George, he waz i peers to gather such satisfaction as over might from an exact knowledge + her whereabouts: She had gone with th president of the Cuyahoga Car and Pour dry Company to see John Barrymore. Parrish went to Cleveland the next-week end, Upon the occasion of this vigit he di not n to point oul to Alice that, how ever she might have passed her evenime during the preceding week, he had in variably retained alone at home for th purpose of telephoning to her, Amd he ha: almeat finished reading Carlyle’s Frenc Revalution. Later in the game evening h managed to give her his estimate of Jak: Barrymore aa an actor. Tn his opemici Barrymore was overrated. To Margaret he was drawn at once, &b was like Alice, though mot so beautiful Her face, however, held that same meeet ness, and there was a poignant loveliness i: her ayes when she looked at George and th children, Among Margaret, George and Parris there was no concealment as to his aspire tions; when Alice was absent ther woul: dieruss the tople frunkly, “She aught ta marry,” Manaret said “he ia a born wile and mother. FE supepoee being a bachelor you haven't noticed be tact and ju nt with the children. Marriage will do a lot for her. It will give her more poise.” Soares, sitting on the arm of her chair, locked down at her affectionately. “Yes, dear,” he said. And she glanced up at him and smulec and noeided, This aspect of the matter had not hitherto struck Farrish, but be realized imtant.y {Continaed on Poge I13!

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THE Coence and Tt echanical | Ign funy he Lec acorecl another trump, Ne longer need the housewife wear cue her strength and waste time wit h old fashiened metharls. Theinvention of the wonderful Vacuette has made sweeping merely an incl- dental part of housework, to be done so quickly and so easily that it ceases tobe work. Already nearly 200,000 women have found in the Vacuette freedom fram perping slavery. And every woman who has net yet found this easiest of all ways bo keep rugs and carpets bright and clean and new looking should ak our local representative for a free demonstration of the Vacuette in her own home or write direct to us, No Cost of Operation—No Attachments— No Electricity No wires, no cords, no plugs, no arrachments at all with the Vacuette— tad ae co of operator, The Vacuette is a purely mechanical sweeper in which you have the com- ened advantage of a swiftly revalving reat driven bristle brush and a porer- flair suction. These are put in action a vy by your push on the handle ind the effort is no more than you pive tos n ordinary car et sweeper, In the Vacuertte you have no complicates i mech: unis is the last werd nsimplicity. Its body ts polished cast aluminum. It has“ Parkertzed" rust goof parts. It runs on noiseless rubber wheels, [ts rubber cushioned —it fll not scratch the furniture. The mechanism requires practically no oiling, t weighs only 7by pounds. It is so ltt that a child can use 1tr—so strong hat it will last for years — practically for a lifetime, Priced at Half what You would Expect to Pay From what you have been told about the Vacuette and the amazing work tiles you may imagine-—very naturally—that tts price is high. But—the simplicity of tts mechanism means low manufacturing cost and be buyer gets the benefit of this saving. That i 1S why you py an ly about half what you verted Me rate ally expect to ay for a really cficient and practical vacuum sweeper. Not only does it give fu clean rugs with practically no cHort and no cost to operare, but 1 saves 1 money in the first cost. Andi if you wish, VOU Can DTaAnge fo pay on ens termns—al little e VEPV Meath th. Backed by the Makers’ Guarantee You do not have to be a mechanical expert ta know thar che Vacue the | ie final triumph in devices of this kind. And you are guaranteed that she i you wet will be perfece in every detail when it goes to you, The makers guarantee that every Vacuette has been thoroughly inspected. Pexperts at the factory and that if any part shows a ike -fect due to faule of terial or manufacture they will re pls Le it free of cost ta the weer. Proved Free—In Your Own Home We have local representatives everywhere, Theserepresentativesare employed forthe purposcofgivingevery housewife feedemonstrationrightint shabine * ithout costoranyoh penis on whatever. sunply write tous asking for the a ae tt stration and we will arrange for you. We want you to sce the Vacuette at work—we int you to try it yourself—whecher you buy or not. You can't realize how wonderfully it takes up édust and dirt ara how it saves you from an hing back and tired muscles unnl you tually see it.in operation. You will be f tazed at the amount of wonderh ul werk © Vacuette does in just few minutes—with ictically no effort on ur part—and without ent to pay for power. he Demonstration is - Just Ask For It. SATURDAY EVENING POST 111 f- = The Vacuette er Putting Men Eato : * a Paying Business So widespread is the demand. for the Vacuerte thar we have ageettinyes foro few mere men in various sections of the country to work with our dierrict managers, demonstrating the Vacwette in hones and ta orders for it. Hf Wak) have ambition and “po-pebter™ qualities, this ia vour chance to place yoursel! where VOU can obhin eve lollar towluch your dhility entitles you—ler you can seb WOUr Own pace in money oiking. Yoo are offered the oppartumiy bo juin the sales organization of ane of America’s sounchest, most progressive hHainulacturers. As our represealative, Vou Olter a device which 13s meeded in every fone net only where there ia wo electriciny, but where there. is. You need not bean experienced salesman to BCC ‘| Wf ith the ¥ Ac Un te Wl ill give Wail Cale Accessiry training whic h ws ill fi 2 Ser to show the house wei de that with this device she actu: illy tikes the work outa = sing and always has ber rags and carpet? wondbert uly t —and this without any coat for operation." Bs idon't weed to ben salesman, The Vacuette actually th lis ell, very housewite wall tell you that it is just whit she has been looking fer. “You also have back of you all che power creat miteonal and loca) adve rbisiny G Ligns snl const opers tian from the company. 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(Continued from Page Pld! that what they said was trae, Tho essen- tal difference between Alice ond her sis- er, wide from Alice‘s ter beauty, was that abe had Jess poise, Margaret had the serenity which comes only ‘to thea who are corachous of fulfilling their destiny. One knew that she felt secure, established. Her huabard, her children, her house, even the farniture in the house, aaemed te collab- eeaie to that end. Tt waa aa if the very dain contributed their quota toward malk- ing her feel sure. Thinking of this, Parrish ew atrock by the faney that the furniture in this house, although it had been selected to suit George, and althowgh it lant a sumably | property, seemed to belong more to Margaret than Alice's own torture to het. Why was it that an un- mrad woman, however independent, never seemed so completely the proprietor of her home ond possesiana wa a married oer Now be percelved clearly what hitherto he bad but dimly aensed—that a a wile, aeeure in Bowe gerne angie ap awe her t ba ound. In marriage she would bloom. Suddenly it came to him what her back- ground shoald be, Hkeckinswood! For her wedding pres- iat! Blenkinswood restored, with the old portraits, mahogany and silver back in their places, aosurprise! He would beep it secret from her until he should take pepe him in high spirita. H & project pout n high spirits. He ‘elt enterprising, confident. And when praihinii, Bes supper George and Mar- aret consiklerately went out to a tovie, caving him alone with Alioe, be had a new eveness With her. Toenight she mast iefinttely promise to become his wife, Shedid. She was quite reasonable abot . He wos able to make her seo thot the wk of his probationary period, being in eality an mon, wast lon enmigh. And ah, the benuty of her yielding! It qa the eagence of her nature to yield othiee ghe loved. He must be on his uard always agalnat that. He must apall et—herause to spoil ber waa impossible. ic must teach her to be selfeh— because it ws 8 lesson she could never learn. With the spoiling he could give and all the Tihoes he could instill, she would ever et contriving to give him his own way. Woen at some future time it would seem ikim that be had done his utmost he mest 2p on gearching kt mew contributions bo Y happiest, heaping them wp before her atonement fer the past. Owing her a tht that he eould never liquidate, he must wand pay agalnst it, ao long aa his life wuld Last. A trinity existed in her. She waa olher—sweetheart—daughter to him. vy he wished that he had known her ten she was the age of little Alice! With her cheek resting peacefully upon iahoulder he was for o long time mo clea and silent, The lamplight, sifting righ the outer softness of her hair, weed her with apolden aureole, and this wer and pure luminouwsness about her id added to his awe. Yet he waa aware, in his feeling for her, a duality. Bound up with his almost ipiows adoration for a5 a beautiful Tit was a passion for her asa beautiful man. The two emotions were inter- ned like two vines of equal strength, so upped around each other, so inextricably angied from trunk to tendril, as to form afy cable, on which white blooms and cee one nginst the other, Dnstend of ingling, these vines upheld and made bh other deubly strang. And Parrish se that this duality, this blending of ration and passion, was essential to a it and laating love. fe craved to tell her of these things, but ki only whisper over and over, I love ' Oh, I lowe you sof” ind as he murmured to her he felt. a lble, sareet sulering becnuse ims of ‘ing for her a polace of his thoughts be able to build her only a structure of old n words, low they were lovers again! Yet not in, for this wae a balanced relationship yas had not before existed, This love new, There wae o fullness, o tranalu- se, an tinthinkable glory in it which arted to his apirit a rapturous senae of nand color, afbarescent, radiant. He exalted, A pilgrim, footsore and ty, he had stumbled through the world reached mt last the holy place. With land body bathed he had entered the THE SATURDAY and knelt before the sacred temple In her Jove he wes re ! shrine. Tt seemed to him that George and Margaret hed hardly gone when they were back again, # ing of having seen the entine evening's show. The speed of it all dazed him. He found it hard te speak with them coherently as they pu on their f Upebalrs, “And when we are married,’ he sald as he sat down again by Allee, “there's one thing I want you to let me do. IT want you to let me plan the wedding trip. I want you to start out with me without knowing where you're going, Will you trust me to plan something that will please you?" Though she assented readily enough he was particular to make the understanding very definite, “Then it's agrecd? You will abide by miy plans?" ““Of ecurae. * All right,” he eid triumphantly. “I'll tell you firat part of the plan now, We are to be married about the middle of May. That gives us nearly two months to get She smiled, paying. "Oh, I didn't agree that you should settle the time.” “But I've got to settle the time if I'm tosettle the trip,” he insisted. “I've got to make it seasonable, haven't 17" Before he went back to New York that night he made her see the swondness of hla argument. Again she was reasonable—so reqzonable that he almost wished he had said April. But two months would give him none too much time in which to get Blen- kinswooed in order. One evening a few weeks later, when Alice was in New York buying a troussenu and etary ry hl give up her apartment, she spoke to him of Blonkinswooed. “Tee never been able to understand," she anid, “why you don't take better enra of ft. That is one thing I am going to try ta make you de." Tt gave him great amusement to assume, in anawering, the tone he had ao often taken in the old daye when he used to put her off. "Oh, let's not bother about Blenkins- waned now,” he said aa if the topic bored im. fein sire for eh not to or as hea ,» for were in her apeartoent, and her words had interrupted his surrep- Litimis eerutiny of ber chinke curtains, which he intended to have duplicated far her Foor fn the old) hoi, OrenGr, be knew that the transformation of Blenkina- wood waa new well under way. Not only hadl the shiftiess farmer been dismi Fi and a young couple, the husband a graduate of an agricultural achool, been established in a cottage on the place, but a large force of aie, plumbers and painters wore at work in the house, installing a heat- ing plant and bathrooms, laying hardwood oor restoring the ancient paneling, Chutside, a landscape gardener with a gang of men wis engaged in renewing the lawna, gases and slave-bullt terraces sloping own te the river front; that very day Parrish had recelved from the er a report informing bir that, deapite neglect, the hedges and arbor of box, planted on the terraces by the Signer, could be reclaimed, The boat landing at the foot of the garden was being rebuilt, for a hurried trip to Blenkinswood had reminded Parrish that Virginia was still backward as to rowds, and he met only wished to aveld the rough @even-mile drive from the rail bart. sited that Alice's firet viaion of her home should be from the river. He sould ine the expression of her face when, ag ir launch would come around the bend, she should first sea the venerable mansion crowning the bluff, the sunlight glowing on ita rosy bricks, Landing, they would mount the terrace steps, passing the ginnt azaleps, the wistaria, strolling under the arch wf box, and soup and up until, escend- ing the last terrace, they revched the creat of the Hill, where the house, with ita two long winga extending Ike outstretched arm, Would seer to welcome them, There came a Sunday, the first day of aay two weeks before the date set for the wedding, when Parrish planned toe pack the last of the smaller treasures to be ds to Blenkinswood. Coming ort to breakfast in his dressing gown he found the Sunday papers piled on the table in the dining room. 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Louis Beaten Philadelphia Detroit Tees re oe er a ee ee SOMMEBORM | | | | | R hot summer days Florsheim low | | ed 2 i =Er es —— her arch look at ber conormausly gifted and I intend ta see that | 2 Preto. : aay POST found himself facing a picture of Rita and Daina beneath which, in large headlines, @ read: DIVA WEDS COMPOGER SHE MADE FAMOUS RITA COVENTRY MARRIES PATRICK DELANEY, BEVERAL YEARS BER JUNIOR SINGER'S ASSERTION SHE WOULT NEVER WED RECALLED Stated at Time of Reported Engagement to Ttglion Noble, Domesticity Impossible for Artinta and Marriage Certain to he Failure, “A Woman's Hight to Change Her Mind," She Saye With an interset keen but quite imper- sonal he read the florid stery. For him it had no more significance than if it had bean the tale of some hap ening in a city he had visited long ago. Rita seemed strangely remot. A reporter had interviewed her and she had spoken with a brazenness which Parrish found n@pellent. "Yes," she was quoted as saying, “It ia trite that when, severnul years » Defined the Duca del Valentino, I A tin on the ground that an opera singer should nat marry. But though a singer, | am also a Wwonn, and a woman has a right to change her mind. "Paddy —here the reporter described ne bwéhund—"is he gets the fullest opportunity for solf- . He has never been abroad, and you may imagine with what pleasure I unticipate acting as his guide in my belaved Franee, for which we ani] May twentlerh. “Some of my friends tell me [ama foal te marry, and especially to marry a man se much younger. That may be true. I ean only say that now we are blissfully happy: What if later we tire of each other? al we not have had our hour of joy? Alter a motor trip through France we shall settle quietly for the aummer at Deauville, where T have taken a villa. I intend te show hin how domestic I can be. I shall eook for him, sew on his buttons and mend hig socks, like any good wife." Sitting there alone Parrish burst out hing, He could fancy Rita cooking for a pee caseeaily Doskeimed for the part. And the simple life at Deauville, that Meecea af jaded Parisians, with its casing and [ta one-picer bathing sulta! Poor Delaney, how owt of the picture he mai Ine! © Was ao boyish, Eb ingenious, ‘There was something really foe about him too. ree om sing cor ir out? He t genuinely sorry for rapes 4 7 Breakfast over he took the Sanday ar a to the living room. The floor and walls were bare and packing boxes stood where the furniture had been. Some of the things were going to Blenkinswood, seme to the larger apartment he had taken. He ke sedi tk =r to read. the apers. He them wrap up the aver Ite helping him, aes Then he tur ta the bookcase, where were the portfolios eontalning the old doru- ments and the onravings of the house, The papers must neatly arranged for shipment. Opening the frat portfolio he made himaelf look at the engraving show. ing Blenkinswood with ita new wing— added in 1791. In the center of the picture Wa ruinous imprint of a sharp little French heel. Once he had thought the irreparable, but now he remem- bered a man down on Fourth Avenue, skillful, whe could repair such things, He would send him the engraving and the torn letter of the Signer. When they had been mended the damage would be almost im- perceptible, Pott “AND vou honestly have no idea where A this boat is going to take us?" he asked Alice, "Not the least in the world,” said she, “T don't even know the boat's name,” “Would you like to know it?" he asked, delighted at her I_NOrnLNcr, Alo, T don’t care.” “Do vou think you're poing te Florida — or Panama—or South Americu—or Her= muda—or Europe? Where do you think you'he gol?" “T don't know at all." She laughed. “Wouldn't it be absurd if somecne cone and asked me where [ was goling—and I couldn't tell them!" “Tell them,” he said, pouring aver ler an adoring lowk, to ask your husband!" May 270, 1977 "T know who he is, anyway | she said, and after a quick look about reached out ane pr his hand. “And,” he said proudly, “you know what your name is, don't you, Mrs. Parrish?" She nodded. : “Perhaps that's why I'm not interested) 7 name of the sini a steward carrying a long cardboard bor kneeked at ther eabin yee pear ty, Parrish creased the deck, took the box, 2nd entering the cabin, ape tk, Dt eomtained Ophelia rosea—her favorites—with pets ing from cream toa delicate pink. He took them out, assembled then and placed them in her arma. She buried her face in the blooma, and 2 the raised it there came a little flush of plauwure in her cheeks; it waa ae if the culo of the roses had been transferred to them. Littl: things always pleased her so! She rang for » stewardess, who brogg=t avase; bot the stewardess was mot allowe? to arrange the flowers: Alice most do that herself, although the vessel was now back: ing oul inte the stream, and Parrish, in the doorway, waa urging her to join him on deck But before the steamer was fairly headed down the river she was out there with him, watching the cross currents of shipping and faxing at the massed, competing Lowers of ower Manhattan, etherealized in a hase of smoke, and bathed in the soft light of a late afternoon sun, which shone upen then bile is tested ous oa in the cheat gu Way, passing 6 the harbor, ‘the fresh salt smell became more vigorous and the breeze more boisterous. But though the breeze waa lively, snappirg the sheltering canves at the fore part of the deck, there was a mildnoss in it. It was a breeze af apring—not the false spring of 2 few months since, but the season of pesur- rection and rebirth. When the vessel entered the Narrow: they ascended to the dewerted bogt deck and standing by the towering stuc) watched the black amoke whirl back geroc: the water, It was twilight. In the o> behind them orange streaks still showed, while with the gray of the distant shore was blended a subtle note of mauve. To the north and to the south the evening sky was clear, but the horizon to the east was black and menacing, A great liner which must have started some time after they did Ihad followed down the bay and all but overtaken them As they emerged from the Narrows she v2: entering behind them; through the Lower Bay and the Swash Channel she pursued them closely; and no sooner had thes B made contact with the open oceans beyond Sandy Hook, giving the other sea room, than she came up and passed them arrogantly, close inboard, her sleek blict body dotted with long rows of porthole lights. The stream of sable smoke hurled by her four red stacks, soot banded at the top, wad like a stream of curse: poured a: the humble eoastwise veasel which had re tarded her, and the picture of impatienc was heightened by the nervous, syncopated flashing of a aignal light above the bridg- She was telegraphing with it, talking for- ously. Furioualy, too, her four propeiles lashed the waves behind. Parrish 5 nized that prowd wee cho lenger. He hed croed on her, Mareor= he knew from his morning paper that 45+ wae sriling ari i An knew more than that, for the list of prominent passer- gera that he had read waa headed by the nume of Rita Coventry, “What a benuuty!"" exclaimed Alice, paz. ia serous the water at the other vex! # assented, mentioning the liner's name “But we aren't going the same way thes are," ahe commented, observing that the: own corse had been swinging toward the aouth. And sheadded, “I'm glad. I dont think that sky out there looks any too Pleasant.” : He glanced at the dark line of harbeon t1 the eastward, Then with o feeling of com- plete finality he turned his back upon 1 other ship, and facing the bows of their o=n vossnt, now straightened on a scathes ours, envisaged the calm gen and the penceful heovens, “Well, dear,” he said, “we nesda’t wore about what's out there, where they are going.” And be added, “We couldn't ac a aweeter sky than is ahead of ua." hen, as the wash from the fleeing lirer reached them, cuusing the deck te furet a litth, he encireled Alice with his are stendying her. (THE END)

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THE SATURDAY {SONG IN THE NIGHT (Ceatianued from Page J) anther backs and burdens the men loping along under doy thestrength af a mule. | The life crushed out of pothire, knowing nothing a wha aet monumenta to l slent, and T locked with the deserted dining room a, With strangeness I saw yet ten o'clock. Tt seemed t have gbeck?" ket the vicious little hiss of lrowning in his eoffee cup, ure of bis lean brown hand, can travel," he said, **Lart's 1, Idon't know, I get efi .to think that [ might have ur or so and direeted him y bevasn, I give tad forgotten that he waa every shirt that lent him a. [saw a man like Eip- o«, C. EB, a herole fi és of cvilization—his pre by the emall- nen ark Hotel. And —— ‘hg? OQnee on a Batorda: ee up to the eighteen b, there wae a sunset that the game. A. flat parple Pp an ups its F vast and pale and stained 7, the dar and the le light were lonely somber you like a wild ancl mog- og. And Martha come sanda to wave to wa, one tein that sinister go mber how I burri or Teen, hurrying to be wi ith her: Bathe we lost the Tiner Was Wery sarcastic ihe didn't care for the mid it made her shiver. litth: bird swinging on a int, @ Lorene in @ written better than he tthe weeping—there i about it, wt wot musk ator stoner eee Pu talk— wn-faced painter of vi- atch. With an engaging I said, “What ae we forgot to point out the business section, or =, our well-kept lawns. geness persisted; oddly sturning from far jour- tiliar Place; returning, lutea, to the soft wel- ryes and hands. Have une? Out along Mad- ms were green, The coheed wer horeelike vow and then someone thhor faahion, from a f honeyauekle trailed d the sound of Hits ed out to us a3 we : Hardy that the Nel- eat farnily. ' an | presiceat. of the ing that we should like this, mnd lesa of i factories. What is man wants 7 A home, Gus Harey, and he that’s ao. Hut what you get restless, and rlike it does up here, sitting on your own e,"" I admitted, “for mw!" he pate: “You wgh room ky. It's ails so tight ple all the same, and you dort fit, ‘And nd something hap- ——"" He gestured little thing. You This time i was a i this romantic mabe WeAllister’s house; oped for, = light in ed the car. With a masterly imitation of sudden im= I “Want to drop in here ao minute?" “Huh?” said Gus Hardy, staring; and after a moment, “Here? The MeAllister house did me credit. It was ot 80 large a to be formidable, but it was wide and comfortable looking, with a veranda that seemed te invite and wel- come you. Gus Hardy made no objection: he said nothing at all. Wherefore | shouted cheerily, "“Hellol Anybody home?” Martha's bright head bobbed up at the open window and her bright volee anawered me. [ think I forgot to notice whether Gua Hardy followed, She met me at the door, taught scolding me. his ina nice time of day! I thought you weren't coming, E never core," she said, and wrinkled her ee acy Hal ise rene entrancing impu- ence, “Sitti ere in my Vent mewesk, nicest dreea. Like it? That was Morthn ate: dancing ou lightly out of your own mood Into hers, I wondered why I had thought it waa a rather solemn moment—following her into | ter, feeling a little slow and heavy and masculine, I did indeed like her dreea; it looked like the stuff of misty moon- caressing her, What should I say abet it? I became aware of Gus Hardy's brown impassive face, I anid, Martha, let me present Her clear eyes widened and her dainty brows went up, She had thought, of course, that [ came alone; instantly I knew thut I ought to have come alone. All at onee | knew how a moartied man feels whe cheerily Iecame an unexpected puewt at dinner. t came to me that the business of Even a lover was not so simple as selling real estate; DT should have to put my mind te it. Hinve I said that Martha was lovely? Dainty, the fine and fragrant product tender care. And Gus Hardy, hobo! In- stantly I knew that she could never under- stand the caliph foeling; that for her he must be not less than he bagel with his ve brown face and the di be af his ormewed clothes. Presto! Viv the vagabond: appeared the distinguished nat= uraliat and explorer. ine my ald rien t Hany Logan an, you know, the great Hardy back ye heard me talk ao much about. ack from his expedition up the Aideen ait | hunting, you know. I didn't tell you, T, old man, that Miss McAllister came in on “the same train with you? Ur maybe you saw each other,” I said pysteceaiy thinking of Murtha in her Pullman and Gus Hard erecta nin a swirl of cinders on the blind- atlorm. “That's how Thappened te Pe thentation: Lucky, eh?" a Thad to stop for breath— risuily to break out again if Gus Hardy should fail me. Without a flicker hia pave eye we cepted the nomination: he bowed, a stiff, foreign sort of bow; he looked at me and grinned, a slow easy grin “Lucky,” he said, “bk is the very word T was trying to think oft" How nice! I'm Not even Vassar “The Hardy ni sabes pers thrilled = over ive Martha a voce a remember I laughed a good deal. I mode mental note te try grinning slow that way myself, after the y Grinning WHE od- vanced and I waa properly sunburned, Following Mart inte the room I whispered in his ear, “Great! Keep it up, I") explain later." He murmured, "You den't hunt bugs upthe Amazon, old-timer. The bunt you. Amd I laughed again: “You've been there? Fine! i mean, | felt aa if T had deftly mastered a delicate situation. Eefore Mrs. Me Al ister my vagabond licked hia heels and again; even Andy, the demon Beriies. wis so Impressed that he forget to be: funny alee the unusual splendor of our attire, In Milo, ol understand, evening clothes are distinctly the mark of an oc cms. Dap Z can see it now; distinctly that Mra, "Medllister was Placidly sewing or om idering or something: I anid, * * Anil y, Mir, Logun knows all about ‘Thdlana, Indians that cut men's hearts out!" and let nature take ite course, which left me free to enjoy a little attention from Murtha, 'e EVENING POST f I didn't care if you | 17 To get the most from RADIO WHEN you buy a vacuum tube radio set you invest from $100 up in scientific apparatus. Then you have to buy special “A and “BB batteries to take it work. Right here the name Westinghouse becomes specially signikiceant. In radio batteries, as in automobile batteries, the air brake and automatic raihway signals, it means— the best Westinghouse can build. Weatinghouse "A" batteries are especially built for the peculiarities of radio work. The Westinghouse radio “B" battery is a radio innovation. It is a baby storage battery, rechargeable, that will last indefinitely, that gives quiet, steady, economical service. 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(jueinaed fram Poge I/a) ibe sae ef all the cords, 1 eould 2 exclaimed his mother, at!” lugiel Gus Hardy, ond Asty's hair, “AL penne sci like aa! peer! When you're ee ("Tl teach yom." goin’ bo ive here?" cried Andy gid Gut Hardy, “how old are 1 Eleven? [ll be back in about Yr wind me, will you?” =, bedtime!” spenperly inn. Andy went out, iis feet, Kicking a Tug before him, ke turned. he appealed, “now that's a promise," affirmed Gus Hardy, id and quaintly croseed himself ‘kis thamh and blew the Hiss dé: and auddeniy was prave cody, lar-away look dropping er on hia brown face, in wad, “reckon we better omy word that it seemed nat- nto call me Buck, naturel for vte, like a warulerer returned, MeAliister's house. ‘Yes, m ong-lost chum was too lifelike we'd better,” I agreed, rising I, Ulster and Martha spoke in. ait and were etill talking when “But, my dear man, jest comel"” and “Don’t be e heard Hardy Logan, amd 1 and Hardy Logan for oges, fe got him you're not galing to ay #0 soon!" cist Gus Hardy with my eyes, ire] Hy bemechie theote a's wheently fngre! theetrings. ha protested. “We cole Paminute." 4 a eat impression on An= ra, AfcAlliater, “Mir. Hogan.” entected feebly. + kid," said Gus Hardy. Ido? Isat down again, “1 ay the guitar, Gus," I said, ought,” he said, “some day like that, A regular young edand pug-noeed and pope Play ate all ‘hing, Gua, Tour se like this, on a street like suid Martha, too courteous. ve told her why not; I saw din the eemanal tighten- fool his mouth. wartiness TI broke in, "Sell oe, old man. Get several thow long could you stand. house?" rhis hand frarn the strings ticwn agin, 80 that they ial fram chord to chord aul, nodding, “that’s ao." sur blopd—the tropica,"” I i was jist aayving awhile lnever stay Put any more, eta homesick sitting on his . Too dull, too tight and alter a country where aig sand nobody cares, Eh, id Gus Hardy, that faint ening one corner of his som outdoors, tor enough And the aun goes down amething happens, some them about the woman membering “" Beautiful, « Hardy. ““She wae fat he could sing. They all iched a light bes note, rone: snapped a finger ring it, and plucked the odd provocative rhythm. vs. McAlister he said a circus for me Tl rs the time.” will,” said our hostess, i mechanically. “Play ag.” prompted Martha. ry Bhi explain it,” said was the cook 1m a Mexi- ay out Broadway, you ging around there THE SATURDAY my money gave out, bervuse it was cheap. | No, that gin"t the truth. | wos hun for oraniah— every bendy talking English all Lhe time, ond always in a hurry, Hunery art for something that reminded me of the country." “You said you hated it,” said Martha. “No, ma'am. [suid T knew ID hated it, But you can’t always remember what you know," he aald, and was silent, lila eyes appealing to her for understanding. You'd have thought I was hardly among those present. “You were telling us about the song of the cook,” T said. "Well, I hada big time fora while. Lots of friends while 1 was spending, but af that I—got lonesome. Walking around trying to find a place that felt like out- dears, and I sow this Mexican joint. Got to hon ing around there, spinning Varn with the owner—from Durange Wi, and homesick tao. A fat pay harmed Mur- gla. And this woman to sing. “One song she liked—I've heard it many a time cut in the hills, At night, the stara burning four tinea aa close as they do here, and the mountains big and dark, and off ee the native women singing. Like t ae He huommed, his brown fingers touching | that staceato mensure with the blurred bass. | He bummed; and you felt the loneliness, and beard, far off, the native women Eel EGU. “Made me remember," he sald, looking at Martha, “The old gang's out there now Luyeringe away: taming country God ongat to finigh. Mountaina aa far as you can see, the aun hot and the air thin and eoled." He sta . groping for words; with irony he grinned and gave over the effort and set down the guitar, “So I hit aut," he said, "Reasonable, aint it?" Sing itl’ anid Martha. Still I didn't see what the fellow was doing. I only had an uneertain, childish wish te be orate denne. T said, “sing it! Tt must be won- Simply, without reluctune: or apology, he took op the guitar no. He sang al- nepal under his breath—looking at Martha. Odd, how that melody took hold of you. Tt wie pitched in a plaintive unfinished key—a minor I believe they call it—and it sounded wistful and hopeless. Somebow it told us things Gus Hardy had no words tosay. Apeold, ineffable sadness; moun- tains heaped under a Freak star-nprinkled sky, and astrange, wild, simple people that lived on, bewildered, after their anclent world was dead, I wantel to be near to Martha, to take her hand: but she waa. look at Gos Hardy. Her lips were parted and her abaorbed, listeni Then, then [ knew what he had anc, | I had brought him here that he might show them visions; and he had shown them in- | stead, sharwelessly and without reserve, himsel!—brown and hard and wistfal and appealing, a vagabond with the far countries on him. I knew how sleck and dull [ looked beside him, 1, Howard Pressley, dealt in my little city lots; his were the jungles the mountains and wide plateaus in the sky. His volee deep- ened and softened and died away ai that strange unfinished note, my nlee!"" T sald, and moself waa shac at the harshness of the aeund. "Sh!" aaid Martha, for his fingera were amotir ot | atill plucking at the strings, running up a | little golden interlude, Yes, now | knew that sharp hot thing that twisted in me. It wos rage, hat right had she to look at him like that? And be sang to her. As if ] were on stuffed figure, sitting there—ns if he were alone with her in some star-shining stillness, he | logked into her eves and sang. It wasn't decent. Anverieans don't 2 love that wily. ai saw a high-walled and a lover at his lady's window. A garden very far from Milo, Indiana; a lover who sang though he knew the night might well have eyes of death; sang as a bird sings, softly, hut with a throb that was like tears in your throat. The red coal of rage melted within me, L wanted something, something great and sweet and wild and forever unatinin= able; anc [had « crazy impulse to lough— feeling the absurdity of great longings In that eamnfortuble, well-furnished room. I tell you, a fellow that cin sing like that ought toe be restrained by law. I was glad when he stopped, “Braveal™ T said. You know the startled feeling you have when you speak aloud in an empty room? 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) fellow, go T dressed bim up and fed THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Tt was like that. Martha looked at me, a queer, Vague, misty look: Gua Hardy saat with his brown hands listless on the guitar; Mra. Mesllister sighed and took up her sewing or knitting or embroidery or what- ever it was, and nobody said a word. Briskly, trying to break that inertia, I looked at my watch and rose, saving, "B Jovel I'd no ire i: was 60 late,” though I <r and stood looking about him, for his hat, I eect foe: ting that we fle come bareheaded, I min him; he only shook his beat, ailing that faint one-sided smile, “You'll com often while you're here," Murtha cammandel him, Gust Hardy looked atime, “He insite he hea to hit the teall toe rocerow,”’ T anid. (ue Hardy bowed, murmured “Good Hight, ma‘am. Good night, Misa Martha. Much Weagure,”* and marched out. “Ha, ha,” 1 said lightly, to cover the emude abru ntness of his exit, " quaintfellow, old Gus, This sort of thing's a little out of his ling,"" But the atmosphere sheorbed that effort che a aponge, leaving me futile and fat and , my netugl prese nee less vivid than the kniovtetine that tres Hardy had been there. Under the hall lamp I saw Muartha'soyes still full of the mist of dreams, “ Kartha ——" “Yea?” she whispered, ing Inte the darkness that had srelstel ale, "T think [I'd better tell yuu. Her eyes cleared and cooled and came bo me. “He's justahebo. A vagabond. I picked him up when they kicked him off the train. Out of the gutter," | said, sivagely glad to have it out and amash the glamour that in- cased him. “Ho seemed an amusing ‘ae of him. T don't know why [ brought him: here, That's all." | told us what he is. 1 stood, you might say, wath my head bared te the lightning, but merthing struck, I don't know the man from Adam,"' I snicl, sinking my teeth in the words, I hod litthe practice helne gavage in those days and there was intoxication in it. “He's A waster. A gambler. A ne'er-do-well, But he's seen things and done things and the world's a big place to him, Big," T said, and borrowed a gesture orn Gua Hardy, “do you understand? ig “T don't care,” said Martha; “I think he's nies, Wou can tell it by his eyes. He locks uk ya Jiest like a sweat litte oy, Leet mined he vmeesie e arid ao qrateful.” "Ee!" Drage. “Moy goodness, woman, di dint’ t cd heat a word E said?" : “Oh, yes. Ed Willis tol id me you— picked liters up." Imagine that! Roanewing all the time, and pre teria Foto Rene mber all about a honexistent Hardy Logan. To den't know Which enraged me more, the officiousness of Ed Willis or the duplicity of the woman. “OhI" Tosatd; which hardly covered the Cat. “Tt seemed.a fanny thing for you te de,” shor sad with gentle, unflattering emphasis. | thought ae fest. her ceally was on old friend of yours, L eouldn't imagine your doin rol fur ik perfect Stranger and it didn't help to ison Milo a bit, did je?" And while 1 at trupeled with that she epoke again, tasting into the darkness, "Howard, imagine.” she WLM Fed, “living like that! a alone and donely, nothing ta lonk forward to, nobody that cares, Homesick for a home that isn't any-

where, jist drifting on and on—Il never Lheoght bow it would be, It meant so much to him, being here in @& nice Amer- ican home, _ Du you see him, just looking Skving up every little thing mn be

wking for his hat,"' I mut- “ Howird |" she dad, “imiet he really go away to-morrow? Can't you find some- thine for kien be ade be Well, Limnean, imagine that if you ean. The soft air of June e anne through the OPey door, a big TeAT h from wile Bk: VET od RG nnd the gool emall of prowing things, amd showed me the fechle Heeleseness of Tage: EL had always been like this, It with ubways bie like this She wad a

May Pm | woman: ghe waa like a lo; ou, tent ta live between four wml) | brought her visions ard the bet tes ; a lean brown face and wistfal eyes, Ln I laughed, not. mirthfully. Em oe] pac honeysuckle can take Bad. “Lonely,” I said, anit They loneliness of all is to bring yoe my thea and feelings amd mee them fatie oe wither inte nothing. Time abr ta never seem to learn.” “Et you excited abet, sur | things,” sald Martha. ° ‘Howard, [yy thin Crus Mardy « spoke only fon Br sh | back to the hotel, to mak if we hedge lows in Milo; and 1 saw then | ripping along Muclison Aversa ql filles an hour—I, preddent al Wire Club, that stood for bew if it stood for anything. Again, while he was divesting his borrowed eplendor, be pose pe the depths of moody silence: “Sorry I had ta ran out hunter yarn. "Thought I'd | cafe. On, I. could have talked hunter fora little while, but I'd be sure to lip.” “Tt doesn't muather,"” [toed ie “Te didn't get over anyway. | them who you were.” After a time I becume awore sitting with cel shirt half off, ot spot on. the ru Ww. ell, riI aited,.’ mant “Buck,” girl?’ Emptying m drawer a meat T aaict. Silence, and yet more silene a cigarette and yawned looked up, and then | aoe eyes were shining with the i “Buck,” he said softly, * ike this town.** Yoo, it's a good litthe Lon, not Bogdad. No man ihe thrusé its hand! inion of another's desting. town. It growe. rein bevond the nano ele the electric sign wt ‘the to proclaim to the public thet ; More"? [t just a I I saw it the o es laugh, remembering. ka when [saw (rs Hedy ns he was, and. his: sunken runs clear up to his bir: harcheaded, he tells me. Tt think that | myself thane with the sun. i L usked him if he remershaill and he gabd “Wheat some?” T hurmmed «a few notes: a membered. While be was piano and trying to sing if Into the room. She is sill like that plac, younger ehe intradweed nme te a pu young Hardy who swarm buried me under an avalen calling me Unele Bock, = complacently ower hhh. ab “him, h'm”™ for the words hel I got restless listening. little town, burt too— you ane settled. ‘The ple oe snue all there dent para There's oh old Spanier alape of the Anmces, mow, vse of quiet days. T met b nunininig, down the titlh te A man's country, that. 7 leagues instead of city blogs bors ar not =o mane Boe stranger is & friend. Conia mains door aim hie hese: A tore old fellow is tne Valle: and he hase dy . The stars come ¥ ch haciends in the hile: da a flowers and «a fouwntein thee BME munoboms, me] theme eves are age-old ey! 1 flame of youth: gm pe with longing, greet soe « forever Unattaingahle, Fu trying to sing that song!

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What makes you M Then Tl bump him!" she save in a and sharp, kind of grateful voice, “Right ws: he says, confused, rE “Th the stomach,” she saya, flushing with a sudden anger and vexation. “In the stomach?" he says, loud, For she waa a soft, well-apoken rl, who never used any rough aor alegre! talk at any ody and that waa one thing why he liked “"T mean it,” she says to fe ss he stood staring. “I mean just that. I'll strike, myseltt"* she gays, roesker and more flushed up "up than ever, Hy kn ram a father?" he says, step pin “In the stomach?" oan the stomach!” ele aaye. “The one ace where he never could stand striking. ‘ll do te him what he's been doing him- eelf. I'll bump him—I'll bump him out of house and home the way he's done to so many others,” she says. She started crying with vexation, And he Jet her ery it out, potting and comfort- her. "You've no iden," she then after a while, explaining her idea, “bow it is abel with him—everything so ular especial, It's all the English cooki 7~ must have, unlike American entirely. bacon, fat and seft and English,” Shaping “And all kinds of crumpets and muffins,” phe says, “such as you never see in this country. And if be. don't Bet ae he'd tions partly sickand partly mod BOWE. “Bat it ail eemes te the gare thing in the tea ie And h ae es," she says. “An ave Ho iden what o baby he fb—what a fuss he makes about himself around the house, If he cute himself shaving you'd think there waa murder. And if he bampe his finger with a hammer the world must be drawned and deluged with arnich. And aa for his atomach," she says, “you cnn have ne icion even how delicnte he's made it, just talking about it all the time, and how an Enghshman muat have sound, Sagas! ingurishing food always to keep saya ‘Tormimy. “And I'm the only one that can cook all those different t fia he wants, and livin he thinks he's got to have to keep on ity ae eee," he save. “Gead-by," eays, breaking away. "T'm going roma right now to start on him. I'm going to start. my muffins.” And run along home. “What's this?” says her father, taking up one in the morning riet throwing it 1 ))| down like a ton mht an the table, “And what's this?" he says, taking up a pines of bacon, fried to a crisp, while she HA! | stood, white first and then flushed all over, breathing hard, but saying nothing. "Tt's your warning,” ahe anys, speaking finally. “OY OLE cae ae warning?” he says, dropping knife and fork at once, from where he had | them standing up in each hand, English || fashion. “Ky warning? Of what?" “SOE what you'll get to eat [rom now on," she mye, “when somebody else cooks for ! en I leave youl" “Leave me!" he says, swearing dreadful. “Yos," she says, her voire coming atronger now, and a color like the Task roe: of summer upon h er checks, “The first of this coming wee “How can you— “Tm ok her eye meeting hia and of ng,” ae it for tae firat time in her life. “And more. Se Dm leaving.” "Leaving," he save, burning ave free her eve ‘what he saw there, and taking a different direction. es Ae ie A Then who'll take care of me? Who'll fix your old pap's bacon for him, and get his muffins good for him?” he says, petting kind of sentimental, like he always did when ah got anne about himself to her. “T can’t tell you that,” she saya, hard, “T suppose you'll have ‘to eat all of the Americana do—aut of the bakeries,” she ealen and aelf-controlled outalde, He a“ fluttering Wild inside, “After ["r ng." “Leaving !"" He started roaring worse than ever now. “Leaving! I forbid it! Leaving! What got that idea into your head all at once?" “Bumping!” she says, and turned loose on him. “I'm all sick and tired out with bumping. Vl be bumped no more for you. I've been bum here a ‘ye bean pongo there and [I've been teemped all And I've had ae hand of man and the ton eof woman out against me for this for aS vidio Te lead with you mod with you and wept w you—to no beet So now I'm done. From new on," ca a “when you bump you burp aad what'll you do?" he saya. “That'll be right. Thats fixed al- ready," she on I've got my job all He didn't answer her. His mind was too full. And she went out into the kitchen. | “T never thought it would come to ci he own dt snatching his coat and hat, aughter!" he says, and put them on and banged out of the house, But he couldn't forget it. [t set heavy on hiro all day long—the excitement mud the wrong breakfast and the luncheon she had put up for hirn—all American cook- ing—baker's bread and all that. And by night, with hie anger and that new food he always had been set againat, his stomach gotterrnble. And then he came in and tried to eat the roast beef—and that was worse. He never tasted stuff like it in all his life— all cooked up solid—no blood gravy to it— | just brown grease, He went to bed without a word to her all that syeninn, ut f he looked to have her come around he oon seen he was mistaken, And along toward three o'clock in the morning te awoke with a terribly pain and grinding in the center of the stomach, zal b baba ea satisfied," he anys he'd yel for her te come in. You've killed me. You've taken your poor father's life with your bi cooking," he saya. “T'm gone—cdome fort" "Father. Non- “Nonsense!” she says. sonst. Huck up,” she says, more and more aiirprised every minute at the way she found gag talking to him, "I'm just taking the best way out—and showing you how you'll get on after I'm leaving you." And then she left him there, ying still and careful on bis back, with the hot water bottle on him—and went away. And the next morning he had the same thing ayer peels OT ath ast table—only worse— n cooking now—baker'a bread ond all th that, And he just shoved it a uu the floor, and walked out without & Tt was as bad that night—worse, Keg of a delicatessen store now, that would kill a dog—and just German mustard, And in the middle of the night he hed an- other hard attack, “T'm gone," he saya, “this time. You've done what you were arfter!" And he edrsed then something awful, And a minute after, he saw her coming in with her hat and coat on. “What's this?” he saya, atralghtening up out of a cramp. “Tm going mow," she » "a little earlier than] expected, I can'tstand this!" she says, alluding to his swearing. "Go, that’s right!" he says. "Go—and leave me dying!" But he back before she got to the doar, “Do something,” he says. “Do so aulng quick! I never felt so near death's door, I'm stiffening fost,” he says. “Oh, nonsense, “father?! hs care oing |= oa nea, brow besting him as if hee oo a dane so, bears you men always big babes minute you get a pals on you? Wea've got to learn te eat lke other falls sometiove." But he pel ronnie ane and coughed. And at breakfast he was ao bad he eould just held himself together, And the bacon was burned, and there was only that thin bak- era bread; and the tea waa just boiled copper centa: there was no taste of the vegetable to it. It waa all poison to his mick he hollered her | | The Ansonia SUN WAT( A Compass and Sun. An accurate, reliable Comm Timepiece that doer mai merd & & af and will mot pet qut of cote thin, satin-Bmished brass ris like a wateh. 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THE SATURDAY stomach: he could feel it poisoning him as it went down and settled on the bottom— all waste, poison stuff with ne nourishment | ta. ta so weak he couldn't but just farale pull out the door; and by night, when he come k, he wes gone; notin no pain any longer, but just listless —all gone! “Bo you're leaving me," he soya to her finally, speaking first that night, “You're leaving me—like this!’ fhe ie mud , she wat—next week, Your old father!" hegays. “Your poor ‘And aba sald nothing. hid he ever deny you an ae 8 he m4 ot leading on his talk to ke i ia your lifat poate just arkal hides him pretty for it?" And she said nothing, wrattins though it was hard work—against all nature ond the previous training of an English girl— for her ta do ~ "Suppose says, “suppose I told Tat td I mt i'd, di gat what you want me to? t 1d stop humping them?" Forever?" she ayH, quick —and then “ Yes, 1 I will!” he come bac eager. “T will—it you gay ao—and you'll stay home with mu!" id oo vig tne epee eas tep fe abate fi her Ne earing how pitiful he ere ike 1d, came I onl fl wis Cu PF i . 4 a wish I could. But it’s ‘too late now,"" = "Too late! You wish you sould!" he saya, roaring, his strength ine coming back to him again. “Why carn “T'm promised,” she 63: a hat! a the truth of Pe, d “Promised how?" he come back, roaring harder fb aceTa Led. Fr “To be morted!" he yelled after her. “"This coming week.” “Married [" he says. “To whol" And she teld him, edging toward the door a4 she done gso—bto be on eufeside, And it waa well she did, for he come after her. And she grabbed her hat and coat and come running out in the street, and him after ‘har, Sinan ee doen: shouting deadly curses from Then she run out and s with a girl friend that night, and telephoned over to Tommy Nugent all the partleulara when “T had him," she saya, “kind of wenole . I thought I had him all aur way once. Hut now I'm afraid I've lost hirn—when he found out it was you!" And he went from the telephone and told it fast and anxious to his mother, “Don't worry,” she says, with the wis dorm of woman beaming in her eyes, him work on. He'll be getting his own eerie in the morning. Let her tele- ane to-night and tell him where she ia. Feats alles be can rea het." And glong that next night, when ahe had done so—net in the ma £, but about the meal tho in the evening—the girl went to the telephane—cealled up to talk to him. “Come ‘ome! he says. "Come ‘ome! Far God's sake! <All is forgiven. Come ‘ome—and make me one more decent cup of English tea—or a muffin or a crumpert, Fi she got. there, I'm dying,” he says, “right now to-night, English turn bo he save, “for decent, strengthenin food—that won't all churn ah poison in my stom “Will promise?" ahe aay, for ahe | oa tell by his voice how bad he waa broken EVENING POST OV oe “Alot to bump again—at all?" “T promise," he says, like one repeating nm lesan. “And let me marry Tommy Nugent?" ee rosiiiee? he ¥ marry ‘T promise,” he says. “You can who and all you plense, Tut for God dake come ‘ome and make me one more decent cup of tea before IT die. For I'm terrible ill,"" he saya, “T'm coring right over, pop," and went over right away, And when she bon a square Eng-= lish meal for hirn and it waa over, he ant diorwn en DAEAN dlneaitonine her—and beg- “and " she anys, gin 1 sa ain't going now," he says, get married,” he says, “and leave me out in the: ond entirely? Your poor old British dad?" be “rut of ‘ouse and "ome and food! I'd say aiiot if 1 come with you,” he saya, Ing Piteous, “You can Baty ei that," ne ‘ - noe woul 8 BAYS, smoothing St pelle waited, holeis ba 'd pay it good, "he anys, and named o That's just fine," sht saya to him, "That's lowely," abe save. For she thaught it was almost enough for them ta live on. “And I know Tommy will be tickled to oa to have you fbi pe ‘es me ate Bays, Foing on far and wide, now she Wa startod. * “he always liked and admired you greatly, Only he said he was afraid you might nt like nerd “He's w a the Englishman, “T always li ae says. “He looks ie b. Seung a. English te many bb m Nght up, and ila i nti the English take hold of cee ane bulldog breed," he saya, feel- ing Ester “The bulldog breed. ¥'ll be Lavin them no doubt—before so long,"’ he says, squeezing her arm. Se Den t, father, please!" she says, blush- ing and drawing away from him. Jind then she went and telephoned the news to Tommy Nupe regebat who was waiting: and he gave it to mother, And the on brought their old oat — Nugent—aron working together with the local chalrinaa af the unlan, whe they brought in for the Pur vou started [t,"" he Phan ght te ere “with your cheap practi pa eee di na ie en it Ag for you,” he says to the boy, “go ahead and your education d «ome done—an right re and settle down — “re oneet, For promise you mow you'll be F front the atart. Till you tha loca iia ness of the railroad,” he says. “The dis vision superintendent will sen to that, He told me to “And you mp yourself what the folks around, up and down the line, will do when they red out bgt wer ant be al wai—that supe the bumping when else had fail They'll all come to when they know how it bee Beye For we tried reasonin and ee ‘tried prada ie gs we phe ‘Yindness," he says—" hing we could think of, And they wore all no good, And in the end fi wes just whet your mother said," says the chairman, bevking over at her now and winking. “ "Twas love that done it—'twas love that atop this war and bumping, when all else failed. Aa it always does and will," he says, “dn aecila seulorum—world without end, Amen!" Revolutionize the Tndustry 125 A Single Carlisle | Rope will sustain over 200 pounds LISLE ératded Rope hae 1 8 times the strength anid i | te times the size af the cord | commonly used im cord tires. 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Among leer firat years aubacribera were eight whose orders abe atill forwards to wa each year. For these eight qubseriptiona her renewal prodita in commission and bors hawe arounted, dur- ing this period, to mere than $80.00! $75.00 Extra in One Month Miss Avery finds her work pleasant, CouNTRY GENTLEMAN it is not bo ensy and profitable, “I hove never be woowdered at that their represent- hed any trouble getting o hearing aotives ore usually received os wel- fer the Curt publications," she come friends. Orders are cosy te ob- writes, And when you consider the tain; the profits are liberal. The universal popularity of THE SatT- high percentage of renewals guaran- URDAY EVENING Post, THE = tees the pennanenceof these profts— LADIES HOME JOURNAL and THE they grow Larger year after year, Our Offer to You | The Curtis Publishing Company | Will you represent ua in your | fit Independence Square. Philadelphia, Pa | neighborhood? Don't say “mo” | _ Please tell me, without obligation, | becouse you Jacle experience — you how I can eam extra money in my need pone. Don't say “no” becouse ] atime | you ore busy most of the duy— | 7 : | practically all of our workers hove i | other occupatvona or other dutics. | Maine SSS SS | Don't ay “ne” at all until ou: he nbeult aus offer. The ¢eupes will j ; | berifig Pull details, without obligation to Street or RF, yor, then you realize bere eaay and ] | well-paid Cortie work im, ym will, we frel sure, be genticnia toe get atarted. | Toe es I I State i to Chip and Mail This Coupon a a ] | f iY THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May Hi, EFFICIENCY AND BILL (Centiaged fram Poge #) This mace three apartments ta collect the penta from and oversee generally, and Bull did it, berause George stuck to the advertising buslness and ahi Bill all he eould ta put inte furnishing. He wrote some very clever advertisements about the apartments, too, and put them in rather odd papers and magazines, you might think; but people seemed to sre them. Their next apartment they furnished to auit people who were fond of books and liked a larger library than small apartments usually have. There wasn't any formal rhe, Sabra but there were bookshelves everywhere, and Till took a lot of extra books that Rissa had put in storage in the wd enringe heise, and brought in more than two hundred from our old lib + that wassbored in the cellar of St. Mark's Chureh at home, and had them all catalogued and puton the shelves. He brought in two or three of our old-fashioned pictures too— ates vings of the Forum and things by Bie elangelo, and hung them between the books, and he had father's old walnut secretary with the pi hobea that he used to play post office in brought in by a motor trick, Tt seemed awfully wasteful, thoarch 1 had to admit that the two rooms, treated like one L = cat, looked mma ly come: fortable in un old-fashioned way. “Hut everyone i¢ having [talian things new," Fissa told him, “or eras onan ed“ored interiora, with parrota in the w dow and purple glass jare. Tf you must ron such a risk, why not run as little risk as possible? Study what the decoratore are doing, why don"t yout" "Aba!" Bill answered triumphantly. "'That's just the point, ses! All decorators" apartovenia look alike. This is for the peo ple who don't like parrots.” And they rented it inside of a month to iin elderly gentleman from Philadelphia whe wis writing his grandfather's life, He a a lew for three yeare one afternoon when [ was there helping Bill arrange some books he had bought at a rummage aale, After that they moved away uptown on the Weat Side and rented three apartments in succession to Columbia professors, amd Riesa had to admit that Bill really was in business, Certainly he had never been so busy. Fle went out of town Sundays with George Howkesworth and looked up secondhand furniture and books and pic- turer and china, and they did get the monet extraordinary barguing: comfortable sorts af things, half worn, that really looked homelike, you see, and not like these sam- ple roomea that professional decorators make. Bill said that only women liked those, and that he and George were ad- yvertising apartments that men would like to live in. Barles was much interested, and got him two apartments at onee for doctors who were friends of his and wanted to move, lt was while he was down South buying up a let of oll furniture he had heard of in a litte tewn tn Georgia that the news of Mr. Piyimpton's company's failure and his death came out in the papers. Of course we shouldn't have noticed it much, exeept that we had come so near to being relatives- in-law of the Plymptone, and Mr. Some ton bad practically promised to make Bill general manager some day. Although we never spoke of them nowadays, we nat- urally read about the failure, and we were rather unpleasantly surprised to find it was clearly intimated that Mr. Plympton, whom everybody considered so responsible and clever, was the principal cular of fk, Sarles tried to EXE nin th to mua, but | am not ven! good at business, and all 0 emuld really understand was that Mr. Plymp- ton's board of directora were what is called dummies, and he attended ta everything. In doing this he made some very unwise investments and dismissed a good many old employes whe might have been helpful to the business, taking on in their places a lot of new men whe didn't understand very well gbout things, so that what he waa doing wasnt made clear till the failure eetaely happened, and then it was too late. Tt was while he was muking these changes that Ball wert inte the com any. ks: do yok knew, Florrie, it almost locks to me ae if Bill had gat wind at all this, sumehow, and got out,’ Surle: told nue. “You mean he wasn't willing,” said I. “Just ao. He wasn't willing,” said Surles, “Not that I know this, of course, but it locks that way tome, Tes remember how reserved be wy all? I said to him one the Yin be a thorough Blair, because ;;.- a bit like Mra. Phymptes, und -q didn't seem. to hawe mudd in crensy her ather, and Bill afters ; said “No, thank Grod? 7 theo: ; seemed rather unneecrmarly bre T'll bet you now he knew!" “Why, Sorbes,"* [said “hoe You know Bill ts such @ chit abe mess! How could be gore wis : expervenced men owt there did: “T know," Sarles said. “Tesry 80 funny albowt it. For, of ease know that Bill's all up in tee os" I was always very fond of Wire was the only one of all the ps been in lowe with that I bad reef Of course she was impraciin 4 sponsible and flyway, like Bic, » wouldn't have been much of aw way for a boy of Bull's tempers how could you blame ber fur child? She'd mewer had to lift 7 herself, and Mr. Plympton and hy willed her to denth Mr, Bs literary mun—a sort of port, Me ton do us—and Marjory tod a great deal of his dispeicon, « charming; but you couldnt oo on it, Mrs. Plympton said a: ou wanked to get anvthing die his was what made Mr. Fay suich a relied, she said, Of course T weanted to see thi if there was anything we cocii persuaded Rissa to help me oo even with Sarles to Vike Us © seem bo aocomplish mach, “lr had died of pretmonta very od Mr. Plympton mand Alarjor away, leaving nea addin, o: | left one, there seermed to be getting hold of it. ‘We coubt: advertise or employ a dete reminded us, and soa there dics) anvthing more to de. We judged that. Bill wouwlds anything about it, "way of . country town he'd gome to, os el me not to mention ii & Hee te gomd would it te" “He's Just crazy and react think that he ought to frd 3 marry her now. As he didn’) & when he might hawe, he pres want tao now. He seems inte furnishing game just at jos keeps him busy amd conten leave him alone while the pe | Of course Rissa can always: anything her way. So I pra! that she wae right, though : menn ghoul it somehow, Es that Sarles surprised us. odd; they are alw telling interfere, and to let than fe work out, and numberles that aert. Amd yet ther w. ! interfere in the strangest == When Rissa mentioned | we had decided not to tell § Plympton failure he was med “Do you think that's q= Riss?" he saicl nt once, “T ean't see why not.’ oh all over now, their affair, x ailup again? I do hope yo Mie Judge of this, Sarie:, - out very carefully, o: best." ine “T don't doubt it, my “but T shall vse my om jl And as soon as Bill got ball Bill went straight oot ta found cut in mw fee howre been able to Jewrn in sev hunted up an old bookkee; for years and years with and this old mian tald his urging, that Marjory and | living quietly by themslve at liberty to say where. been sold, and the ered cally satisfied , he said, She | life insurance, which Mr never allowed her to use, of course, bat perfectiy - independent, and had de a complete break with all °h thona and bees im. “Ms been dreudfully shocked the publicity and afl (Com tinea on TT

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A ne Feet Cnr 81656 Tons a Day Au od” eet pear ae — Pde oor foe tel gr fey TLD 4 TLIET CO, PROCKTOS, MLA, He THE SATURDAY (Centinged fram Page 120! “had just picked her up and carried her off, hat was all, “And there was nothing more for me to “aad Bill, ‘ao D come back. 1 was much obliged to Sarles. And really, Flops, [ was a litte surpriaead at you. Moat that ol wouldn't have told me, of course, Risaa or na Rissa." : “T did feel rather queer about it, Bill,” Tadmitted. "But Rissa was so afraid that you would get excited albeout it and insist on. eS ay insist on finding her? he said, wGhe doesn't want to be found, I wish Rissa didn't think everything wos i aval wat shat was lio a areal when Laue. da very smalute Wi T told her abet a Pf ated ier he's growin wise last!" she “Perhaps he'll fall in ~ with one of his elienta next—a sensible one—and actually settle down." For that was what Bill insisted we must call them—clients. He had bought more furniture in the South than he had expected to, and a cleal of iE was bureaus and wandranie add It was this that ‘ile him his next idea, He took an old-f ned apartment next door te 2 restrarane nad made the library din room inte bed- room. Then he advert it a8 a home for four men, whe could get a housekeeper and either have their m embed at hore ami served in the drawing-room, a3 in lodgings, | or have them sent in from the restaurant, | worth's office rented it immedia

) who went with it, and rented it or they could go and eat there, just as they | pleased. Three men from George Hawkes- 1 wi an outside friend, and this friend got them an order for another apartment just like it for bet friends of his. They had no eeper and engage one, so Bill asked oe to do it for him, and [ at them old Baty, who cooked for ua when we lived with Aunt Ella. That gave him an idea, and with his next apartment, which he furnished for an elderly couple who would like carpets and pisegront acca ig ie eaten a tory arrangement in t

after that he went bone. In less than a week he mailed me anew advertisement, It was a meat littl pam- phiet, with a picture of a stout, hook-nosed worn in a tiara and « short-skirted ave- hing cold aa cut very low, sitting in a prim aL Geaiaa Ones with a footman in ering her a big bunch of posses Beneath the picture it anid: if he chormi riod 4 spoil the elect with your owe appeara abc ad you know £ eort requires? Have you ever atindied i your ge dings should =o yours? Sian WEtneld Gane ttc wily of this and orn to consult wae act clients belore taking the first important steps in hore egg Remember, it is not whee you hap ike, bat what actually suite you beat that brlaga cut your goo pointe, Your dress fits your clothes to you: whe Gite your sportment to yout When I read this I ble that Bill was but Rissa felt differently about: it, “ft shailda't wonder if the lunntie pulled the thing off," she sald, and nodded her head several times. Well, he did pull it of! A very rich woman from Texas—her heart was as big as her bank account, Bill toll us—came to him about an Italian Renaissance duplex apartment she wanted on Park Avenue. She was very blond, with a great deal of color, and she weighed two hundred pounds, because she ate a great deal ancl never walked farther than acroaa the room, She had two quite handsome daughters ie nel ~ il themselves up to a re oun French bli nnape ren wid ie e wae very high and mi with her, and refused to do her unless she would be Early Victorian, Seahe agresd to this, and her portrait ina big flowered silk, on a rosewood anfa, with the girls lewnin over it, in white, and some wax flowers, an a wool-worked hassock, was exhiblted with Bill per-— wild success on Filth Avenue. suaded the girls to embroider fire acreena, and ome married the artist who painted them, and the other has just announced her | Crytehley, who | engagement to Sir Wilfred is master of hounds some Hill sys it is all owing to him, IT wee there nell wien he jeeretimdecd the little ink lady: wl with the panty nose ee ahe ought to have what she always called a” Louis” drawing-room, all pink and gold, with little statuettes of Venuses and th rig. Fhere in Surrey. She wanted Jacobean and a great deal of white plaster, but Bill aded her, And really she looked like a clever little marquise in it when it was done, The only trouble was, she wasn't clever at all; but Bill said that everybody had to expect to find some hopeless win his method—aond this waa is! They got so much remodeling to do that they decided to take in a young architect, who could help office when he wasn't busy, Hut after a while he hol loss time, himself, and I used te go in to the office and helps out afternoons, It wos quite interesting to watch Bill handle the peaple, They waeuld Ueten te him with the greatest regpect —which always seeneed funny te me—and even the ones who

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OF shut-Lna mame travelers. mftting prabvlets every one Fn aun ahora J prob: rent roe Ibuage for hours | a the thing, and THE SATURDAY argued with him and held out for what they wanted always gave way when he looked at them quuintly and sai “Of eoure, ™, you will do ex actly as you choose, I, myself, couldn't see you in any but the interior [ have sketched out for you, and T shouldn't feel justified in going on with ft otherwise, But there are dozens of other men, no doubt, who will be delighted to oblige you." Other men! Billi It was too absurd. But after they got that big apartment house on Madiaon Avenue it was quite clear ae seer ary an he meee George managed the ka evenings, and had just about decided to give up his own job in a few months and take up the real- ratate end of things, with the advertising. Mr. Floete took on a t deal of buying and decorating, besides the remodeling, und Bill kept himself free for he clients, berwuse he bight the ony one who could man them, awkesworth said irankly that Pian do sink inte the floor with shame if he should even try it, and Mr. Fleete, though he agreed that he might be able to do it if n , warned Bill that he was more than lise eae to i giggling. Bill was quite severe wit Gingling?” he asked bien. ene ae Ti : ‘0 MeL, Teepe When # wane with frizzy gray Seu ah Ompeer things they're wo a Bort of clusic, one i you agra T eel more like hiunsting inte tears mywelf? Gipgling!" George wrote a coreful advertisement for ae p eeeretaey which seer etwas a graduate angel with a past th la were ‘rhe met, gat then the + aed me to interview the applicanta with them, Ay seemed to me they were very hard to suit. Bill said ari “oretty’ was mot the word © she must be a distinct rest to the eye. nr said that she must have studied modern filing systema mre thovougaly but not be in the eoopth hide them, ond s to ndupt herself ri his, which was rather original, Air. Plewte felt that in her odd momenta she aught te | be able to do a lot of shopping, and Rissa darned intelligently too. all her moments in that office were quite likely to be odd, poor : [began tothink they'dneverfindane. At least, 05 Rissa said, not on this poor planet. But one afternoon when I dropped in, Mr. Fleete was much elated. "She's just gone, Misa Florrie, but she's to call im again to-morrow, and you must be here to sce her, She's a peach, She it ¥ Point about the ae | Tov sleppl d she . Precise fP ied kin oves ping, un ao prods Be and that I've practical ot itoaver. She's awfully interested in the te, Sai hy entre She's mode for the I wish Bill could have been in | ere hall td anhourage. His eyes would have sg a of his head. She landed a client. ate ete ne = a I'd finis iving her the showed her our ade,” he | went on, “a tall, thin, cross-looking spin- a marae H lenthtg a Russian walf- hound a heaalE re oe lee about a letter fram Afr, Wisner,’ saya she, ‘and ['we brought my am ped by ome—oakes fun for _ OB, because I wish nothing in the apart- reesit that is likely to annoy him or get in | his way.' “Well, I the giggles, just as I told Bill I should. You Sep, I could think of was to tell her that the furniture would have to be attached to the ceiling in that. case, andof course I couldn t keep astraight face, And besides that, Miss , there ian’t any stvle under heaven that would have suited that woman and that dog, She was the Sa that wears t and that Pahl ta y shom and awful oblengy fell hats you know—and thin! Thin a8 a chimney pot extenalon! “Well, I to choke and cough and ae rriy hands in the air, and the beast of a oe to growl at me and [ was scared i. death. And just as I thought the garne was Up, and she was beginning to gulp as if she'd a a pint of vinegar, that. a a A 2 atepa out and smiles and lamer isn't im, am, but can Tera wueh idea of what you require, before he comes? What a magnificent cog! Of course anyone could ser that you want a nek simple effect, without any clut- tor— “That i ost It ance Old Vinegar, ts before I'd finished rine aig ieee girl has her all tle in af Gotuie EVENING POST oubfit, and actually shows her pictures out | of a Houtet de Monvel book of crusaders. | She ate it up. Mullionedd ret and carved chests conte of arms ought to have worn armor herself, mate Flore! “Rut | should hardly do in this beau= tiful picture,” suys she, with a glenm of human fotelligence, lacking nt her terrible brown apata. t Faleo would be ashamed of me!’ Hn att you cate paves att af tea gown ike this,’ says the peach, dragging out a pad and sketching a kind petite nig hi thing, “in smoke-colored vel- vet, for instance “"So TI could,’ saya Old Vinegar, very | coy, ‘hut I'm afraid my tailor —— ‘T know a woman who does that sort of thing eye lapr Buys Peaches. “Shall I give od her address?" “Tt was all over. Just, Jike that. You walt till NE Peachis And when she came habs oe office the | next day, It was Flore Blair! “Why, Misa Florrie!"" she ¢ried, ani ran over and gave mea kh She'd taken a business course and dene very well in two itons alresdy. She lovecl business, she said, though Mrs. Plympton samiply touldn' tunderstand it, ‘And hoe did you tanpen to come in, Mise Florrie?" she ski “Why—why—because of—of Fill! 1 atanimered out. “BilT" she suid, wey surprised, "Tn Bil—— Oh, ia he the cUherte ga?" “Why, of course,’ [ aaid: “he onal ut who ia Me. Wisner, thea?" You see, George's name would have told her, But be hed mever uaed it, fe cose his firm mightn't like it, and put hia middle name, Wisner, in the advertisements. Amd of course she never know Mr, Fleete. I wi * ane embarrassed, but the young people aly don't seem to fer) this sort af t hing at all. ian't It funny!" she said. “What will bt aay?" T teck care to get hold af Bill and break it to him, but he was as calm about it as she had been, "Well, well, well!" he said. “Gone for her! Sa Marjory was Peaches! She's got | her first commission fram Etheri & Wis ner, , that's one sure thing!” IT carer in with him when he met her. net Madge!" he suid; and “Hello, Bill!" she answered, and they shook hands ms friendly aa posable, ; We all went up to supper with her and her mother. They had a comfortable little fat uptown on the West aa, and aie yripton managed everything t the Geaistns and enjoyed it immensely, We ull thought she was much nicer than when she was Tich, ‘She had cooked a wonderful supper, and Hill insisted on being the but- ler, a8 he was when he first went to them, and kept us all screaming with laughter. Marjory was just what they needed, She was born for the business, Bill said. Ste gat her old dressmaker inberes ted , and they workel out sketches together, and before long Madame Rose had “recommended Etheridge & Wisner” on her cards. fi ve Marjory the commission on every ree ehe got them, too. She looked so nice [mn her litte white edlar and cule, with her smooth thick hair and her clear red cheeks. Even the clients liked her, because she made no pretense at any period herself, and really showed them of. She was supposed to work from nine till five, but she was quite as much inter- as the boys, and often and often she'd aketeh and plan and write till eight and nine o'clock. Ties wien't so plied at first, but after a while she told me that ehe'd decided that | it woe undoubtedly quite all right, “The best cure for Bill, if he needs any more cure,” ahe said, “will be te have her | in the office like this. A romantic young | idiot like Bill needs a little more illusion ta | keep him in love. When you pay a girl a | Bal to work a typewriter for you, you can hardly make a moon princess of ber.” And I saw that, and felt a littl sorry for it, 1 admit, for T had always likecdl Mar- jory, and [ used to think them well suited, in the old days Mrs. Plymaton would never come to call on us, which was silly in a way, but we got bo iE an went to see her instead, We never spoke of Mr, Epp tet mn Bill told | me that she had gradually come to believe that his business réntles had preyed on his mled tll he wean't really pemarial ] ble for | 120 Why Arent You Satisfied? You realie, of ecairse, that the General Manager can’t pur an wn- trained man bin a trained man ‘s job— con't pay oa clerk whor he would poy on Beene Auditor, Trafic Man- ager, Manager, or any other highly trained executive. And yer, you are mot satished. You want to make more money. Are you in earnest? 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EVENING POST his mistnkes, She tolked more now of Mr. Blair, Marjory's father, and often aaild that Marjory was like him! She was ae busy and contented, and even when Mar- jory Inalsted on getting a maid her mother superintended everything and went to mar- ay te te boys had to er needed more room for all the Seabees Barnples, We had grown used to Bill's success by this time; everybody knew of Etheridge, Fleete & Wisner, and one? a women Rissa - na was the sister of the famous decora- or Many of the other firms tried to imi- tate him, of course, but Bill had got the“ I near irs act, and G George Hawkesworth th euch eh clever advertizing schernes that they ept their lead, wa put It. And then, a8 they all admitted, no one could handle clients like Bill. George Hawkesworth never got weed to it. He would fita of choking and run out when Bill, after a long would pull a curtain dramatically away from a long mirror and ce ig a kind of disgusted sigh, “Look, Mrs. Jones! Look at what you seo pera and tell me honestly, ean you eee that profile in an Italian They al h ey always gave way then. The day before they left the old office they asked me in te tea, and when I got there I waa surprised te aoe Mr. Plyraptan, looking rather in black satin, and some lovely apring Bowers aeattered about. T were going out, firat, they ssid, and wanted me ta come with them and rot old Chicago school friend of Marjory a: 1 should have thought the friend woul eome to tea in the office, but as Bre. Plympton seemed yory excited and anxious to go, [ followed an of course. Bill and Marjory were joking and laughing, but George Hawkesworth hardly said a word. “Is your friend in here, MarjorytT" I asked os ahe and Bill rin Op the steps of a litth: brown ¢hurch tucked away in the riddle of the block, "Y-yea, Mise Florrie,” sald Marjory, eh T thought ahe looked rather pale, for Ts either wholly or in part, without special never authorized, Bumped—George Kibbe Turner The Inside Story of the A. E. F.— Highways ond Highwaymen Editorials Sense ond Monsen Successful Manapenvent Everybody's Business—Floyd W. Parsons. | | - A REQUEST FOR CHANGE OF ADDRESS must before the date of the issue with which it is to take effect, be sent te replace those undelivered through failure to send gach Be sure te give your old address aa well os the new one, May 29, "Then 't stare at 1s, ies going to ise married!" Mate 7 wedding We eat ania are the push 1 ay Bee, Flops” k he sed mf his arm around me aed soils; wy: but Bill can smile, “ft were lucky before, with all the é&) inh desk sets and all, and # you o: th have to send you thing. Ast couldn't stand (the clothes ad ere She rely can't for fittings. Hut this part o-) butt spared diet tt 5 Ss twenty minutes. Li's really srs: id oi oe cat way, * But—but whak wil Bis a ran it the last time: Ey now,"" he suid. I never realized that you cas by perfectly well in a blue jee; & white collar and cuils, would have made a | oT md from Chicago, fer fr gl ag but 70 9 shocked, said that this was te she would ever be mare: = people are changing. It was over so quickly. Bil sy bridesmaids and the ushers gett attanged tha selves long. f makes we And then we came hack to om, Plympton had a wonderful rim, and sandwiches. The salad w thing F Nh ap Tt amen lin 9 ow, Bill, I know you'r enue T've shopped mayonnaise i clothes!" he said. Ami Bill icy They were going off to Virg= days, and George and Mr. Fle attend to the m “T shall think the Chi blossoms," Bill a salle cust" George at him adntrt the thought ey you pid o Erie “Eh ou'd better old furniture, Betty” you certainly are j Hawkemwor: + and thet toe for the Bill was efficient, and nene | had ever guessed itl | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (More Than Two Million and 2a Quarter Weekly) IS fully protected by copyright and nothing that appears im it may ber permission, “The wse of oor 6 Table of Contents May 20, 1922 Cover Design by Norman Rockwell. SHORT STORIES Efficiency and Bill—fosephine Daskam Bacon A Song in the Night—C. E. Seoggina . . an I When America Goes Eost—FPerceral Gibbon. _ . f Till the Joint Cracked—Clarence Budragtan Kelland : ARTICLES Protecting the Small Investor—Albert FP, Atwesd . George Pattullo . The Young Man in Journaliam— (Chester S. Lord. 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Published Weekly ie Curtis Publishing Company rue A, A. Corte, Preeddent ali Whire-Fretidsej asl Trea ure p Callen, Caria! Speie Alora Bebe DT. Fulks Seneere Whees Bleed, Advarticg [irecomr endence Square, Philadelphia Lereiens 0. Menrietis Street Covent Garden EC. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Founded A°D'1728 Sy Benj. Franklin Capowright 1922, by The Coriia Publishing Company im ihe United Sistes anal Great Britela Tide KRegimeredl le LS. Pere Offer and in Foreign Cownsries George Norace Lorimer iTorR hae Churchill ar I i lars, FS. Bigelow, AOA Neall, Agihur Me Heogh, | T.B.Castain, Associate Ediiare Betered af Sec ancl-C Less Memes, irvember 14, 1879) avihe Boat Offlee aa Philadelphia, Underihe Ace al March GARD Additional! Eeiry oc Second -Cleas Marier | at Columbus, Ohio, ot Decacar, Uibinels, a | Chicago, inode, and a: (ndiaine pedis, eal, Entered 2% Second: Cine Mater af the Poot-OMee Deperernt Otewe, Coneds c » oa §e. THe orr PHILADELPHIA, PA., MAY 27, 1922 $2.00 Trnoscriin Number 42 N AUDIENCE WITH THE IPANESE PRINCE REGENT heart of Toto standa a vaat d, surrounded by moate which m fringed by embankments igray Withage Through the ‘cea that top these hoary walla en-tiled roof of the Imperial roils afford the only glimpse le af the capital ever get of nent. No other royal resi- tis eo cealously guarded or am curious intruder, for it is y of holies —the abode af the ser Foaval establishments are ale te the public, This one ated shrine—a thing apart. nperial area iteell lies In the 1 life, ao is the palace—or 2 where the Emperor hap- he very fountainhead of ail existence, In no other overcign venerated to the ains in Japan. Tradition- Heaven, symbal of many the present Emperor is and twenty-second —god- of a religion of patriotism, red. He is the one ruler Hrarhgr. en's Isolation ime miracle went Bolshe- crowd that might burn ' Japan oF the homes of a quid masemble in the plaza st ta the palace and yell imperial master, Here phase of Japan that is at Tokio palace I talked th with the inheritor of The Prince Regeet ia Califor, ?2 prestige, the young Prince Regent, Hirohite, I have had other ralty, but none wes so difficult of approach, nene so hedged in by did any repreent such strange blending af feudal suggestion and ne mere practical things that make for modernity. Carden ta Froat of Homel Mall, Imperial Potoce Prince Tokugawa Precedes Wim By Isdac F. Marcosson pat in the way, theae daimio—as they were ealled—could lop off their heads and pro- ceed calmly on their journey. But there were other reasons why this. meeting with the Prince Regent waa in- vested with special interest. To begin with, it waa the firat time, either as Crown Prince or in his present capacity, that he had received a writer in private audience in Japan. On his European trip last year he was greeted by delegations of nmews- paper men. He even talked to some of them In Landon and Faria. That, however, rested fram his being on foreign gall and when he had cut himeell loose from the rigid limitations that restrict him at home, Once he returned to Japan the lid was clamped down again, Though he has dlaplayed a surprining aenee of democracy he has been obliged te yield in the main te the imme meotial traditions of his rank and herituge, Divine Right Incarnate POU get seme idea of the extraordinary aloofness of the Jaupunese fumily when 1 say that even after the Restoration of 1868, when the shopunute yielded to the actual mile of the royal line, evurt physicians could feel the pulse of the Emperor only through a piece of ilk. ‘Tailors had to guess at Tmeasurements forthe Furapean clathes of the monarch, [n a word, no lay finger could be placed upon the body of the Mikado, Some yours ago the private enr of the Emperor Meiji, grandfather of the Prince Regent, was delayed twenty minutes in the ruilroad yards at Kinto. Thestationmasber immediately committed suicide, because he felt that he was responsible for this slight to his soevercign On the very day that I write this articie in Tokio young fh fanatic was killed by a bomb explosion at the entrance to the palace, From papers found on his person it was disclosed that he desired to prevent a petition to the throne protesting aguinst the present Diet, but that he had also planned suichde becomes of his temerity in approaching the imperial Gerdes of Imperial Detached Pelece at Kosamoagareki preserve. The Minister for Home Affairs and the Tokio chief of police at once tendered their resigna- tions, because, like the station- master at Kioto, they felt respon- sible for what Was Consiicred a deseeration of the Toyal compound. It is an wowrit- ten Law in Japan, stricthy observed today, that na one can look down on the Erm- peror. If he passes in the street—and this

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4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST rule applies te the Prince Hegent— raaunted police ride ahead to warn all persons to deacend from the upper stories of houses or draw the blinds. This applies te everyone, and there is usually a aeampering of atee] work- era on the eteel framework of new buildings ta the ground. Passengers ih tram cara must either get out or alt behind closed windows until the regal procession has gone by. There is still the feeling in Japan outside of Tokio and Kioto that the Emperor is nota conerete personality but an incarnation of divine right. Allsuccess ipattributed tohim., When Admiral Togo, for example, cabled the news of his famous vietory over the Russianfleot at Tsushima he gave all the credit to the virtue of the head of the nation. Every soldier and sailor feels the same way. Bo, ton, with the heroic General Count Mogi. His dramatic suicide was attributed to continued grief over the loss of thirty thousand Jap- anese soldiers at Port Arthur; in reality it was devotion to his Emperor and his expressed desire to follow him into the hereafter. Now you can understand some of the significance and responsibility that attach to the heirship of all this logend and loyalty, As I watched the slight, spectacled, young Prince Regent and listened to his carefully enuncinted words, [ equld nat help realizing that he is destined to occupy a distinct and perhaps lonely place in world affaires Possibly my recent years of contact with the wreckage of old orders in Europe fostered the thought. It is summed up in asingle sentence. The imperial circle, as it might be called, is narrowing. ; Russia, Germany, Austria, Turkey have all posed into the twilight. Ordinarily you do not eseociate the emperor business with Ring nae breause he is the emence of the democratic spirit, and England is to all intents and purposes a crowned republic. Besides, it is fot among the impowibilities that self-determinatian will some day pluck the jewel that Beaconsfield placed upon the diadem of Queen Victoria when he mode her Empresa af India, Japan may be the last of the emplres, The Fabric of Government O FAR as it is humanly poesible to predict anything i in these cataclysmic tines, Japan will remain an empire. The zeol for the royal family—it is almost fanaticism— jeaves no doubt as to this eventuality, Thus, unlike some of his European collengues, Prinee Hirchito is sure of his sucerssion if he lives, He need never worry about radical intrigue. He is Emperor in everything bat name now, Yet omid this adoration for reyulty, the guaranteed perpetuity of its role and the traditional rights vested with the Al-Highest, the Emperor of Japan hos little more real authority than King George. Although Meiji, who has been ecolled the Lincoln of his country, was a strong and foreeful personality, he was swayed and his long and eventful Teign was shaped by the Elder Statesmen, Bit the lenders among these Genra, as they were named, have all passed] away. The Inst: of the lions was Prince Youmogatn, who died on February first of this year, Although there ore still two surviving Genro— Marquis Matsukatn and Frinct Saionji—they were never dominant factors in the rule of the country os was Yamagata, Marquis Mutsukata is now 88 yoars old and lives in retirement at Kamukura, «© summer resort not far from, Tokio, Prince Balonji is younger, haut i is no longer a strong figure in the councils of tho nation. With the regency of Prince Hirohito=it began last Novembor—Japan be- gan to free a erisia that is more momentous than the acute situation precipitated Mala Cate to the Iaiperial Patece, Tokio by the friction with the United States over the Californian alien law. This crisis is internal and affects the welfare of allthe people. [tis therefore impossible to comprehend the perconality and the possibilities of the Prines Regent with= out knowing just how it began, what it means and where it may load. Whatever happens, os hood of the nation he must be a eonspiewous figure in a drama that will affect the whole Orient. Tt all goes back to the Constitution, which was largely the work of the late Prince Ito, the Bismarck of Japan, and fit mate of Yamagata in the councils of the Genro. This document, which was promulgated in 1889, strangly resembles the German Constitution of that period, Ger= man inflaenes, I might add, hes always been potent in shaping Japanese policy, espectally on the military side, Although the Constitution theoretionlly provided for the establishment of 2 constitutional monarchy, and was supposed to mark the change from an obeolute too limited monarchy, it did not bring about the equivalent of parlia= mentary government under a limites monarchy as we have come to know these institutions in Europe. Though the traditions of divine right and absolutism have bem maintained for centuries the Emperor, os | have intimated, has always been more of Jess a figpurehend, his actual influence being a funetion of his own foree and personality. Up to the present time there hes been no parliamentary government in which the power of public opinion eventu- aliy determines the policy of the state, The immemorial right of the British House of Commons or the Amoricon sa to exercise control over ministers by refusing appropriations, for example, which has hed mach an im- portant tnflwenes on politienl development in the Untted States and England, hes no counterpart in Jnpen. If a “imbasader Warren aad Afr. Marcosron of the Amertcos Embosy ia Toklo feamediatety After the fodiens Mey 2, budget intrody-d tt tg, i ment fails to am, the preceding year is coctines The Diet & someting di What it Lacks | 1m) pevirer fs og in nokse. [ts princtal en etiticiam, in which & ang other almilar bedy, Another drowbars ts + mentary goverment —col on the Japanese erik cf tl in a provision of the (4 that the Ministers ol Weg must be ariive w petret the army and sa This has enabled a7 tary party to bring freeze government, for any fall if elther the Wiskor the Minister of Nar; - War Department and ox Office has dictated tbe! ahd behind the We the Genra. Now we come to the present busines, [pt the Hirohito Regency the Genre infuenewe dd The Eliter Statesmen not only named Ministers of War and Navy hit they {ome | constitutional bed renpansible only te the self. Originally they came inte being Restoration, the Emperor needed wer there is no doubt that thelr authority pee exceeded any other power in the land, not Constitutlen. In a werd, the Genro werr the Japan. The Yamagata domination gave Japan ber] sun because it built up an army and navy th to be reckoned with as a great power, Bot Yaornagate died some of his influence begs Wellington, his military genias outweighed | sagacity, and the old war horse—he was ath he died—or rather the system for which be ef lightning af popular wrath, The Dawa of Liberalir )R months prior ta the Washington cox als like Yukio Oraki had thundered arcs armaments, an expanding army, forceful ect tration—all that militariam implies, Thee particularly altruistic about this protet a called for relief from an exeessive burder of from @ policy that farseeing men knew ra aceda of future international trouble. Slowly liberalism waked in Japan. It bag itself, for one thing, in the demand for wim and free speech. [ have seen nearly a box! people packed sround the Diet building | to influence a favorable vete on the sul birth eect on, to ¢& hearing. 1’; many babe Japan, a= a] life hae ber just one oc army aod cl realize whl in the bil Everyet? sigs aod In the & more ao & atirring Pra came Pept incident Ft tion. of tks | tragic blow what migsi popular #l sapere Har. Ext the people sheer cust

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 5 RUST EMILY—A Farce Comedy ting hall of thatsmall house of cheste de- illed by Lady Etanter her country eot- 4 empty as Steers sidled into it fram tide about 9:30PM, Steers carried over William Hunter's dress over- ottident from that hand Sir ater'seilk hat, With the other first fondled his necktie, then ft his waisteost, then redlec- tfew ching, It made mo dif- Meers’ being a chaser—and that bo waa ako a very busy lure yess, din the lounge hall, affecting a looked down at Steera from. of the gallery above, where he dusk. Itwas a short gal- ‘ith bedroom deora, and little the moment the only living er her arm she carried a won f lace and ostrich feathers id Pari Innging be iatiken a little Sbeors” senee dome. i, Miss Parks?" said Steers, self mn grood deal, uid Emily, "Oh, nol It's 1s thought too short for a. -parlormaid in a reapect- ‘tage; and her black steck- hought too long; and her apron and cap, and all, | his few chins. little Parks, passionately uk. “Isn't ita shame some dothes they do; and other othe clothes they don't?" of voles penetrated the of the hall, [toors. ia stand almost beaide ir of being ready, but a with an air of being re- ition 2s butler, and Lady thirping, followed reluct- im; and patiently by the Wakefield, the secretary: ’ by Arthur, the Hunters’ vew ly and richly returned have started long ago, unter was saying. ‘Di- "we ought to have started. We have i think of if you're ever to bea Member this division. Besides, vicarages hate There's my cloak?" oak a little lingeringly from the hands of ' with it towards the stouter form of oy," Lady Hunter murmured, turning (Cyril should fasten the cloak under her fad fewer than Steera, but still, aeveral. ile William. perfect tactician, +atepped forward and iy being dressed bout. go at all," said Sir Willlam. >,” said Lady Hunter, chirping. ‘It's ie to go to the vicarage for an hour's ee Just bought your first Utde country wery neighborly, In town do os you f do as your neighbors like. ‘That! a t it, Cyril dear?" sald she, giving him wer her shoulder. «cl it with a sickly one of his own, and join Arthur, who had already made a reryone wery sturdily and defensively William. ached him, and brushed him lightly. Cyril, acd justing Ais mondele aa some TUT! so wise." Hliarn., Little Parks approached him ee if he had an extra handkerchief in f, Emily; I got my hankshif, thank a, beginning to amile to himself. By MAY EDGINTON FELVUITRATED BY HAY Ton"t Go Shkomo Some Peopie Noe the Clothes They Boy aad Gther People Bost Hace the Clothes They Don't F™ “T don't require anything more, Parks," ssid Lady Hunter, leaking at her rather piercingly. “Thank you, My Lady," murmured Parks. She withdrew, Steers, Sir William and Cyril each follow- ing her privily from the tail of his eyo. Arthur remained his wn sturdy self, "Now," sald Lady Hunter as she flicked all the ostrich feathers into their Places and tried to achieve a sinuous effect with the rest of the ganment—"“now, Arthur, you will rilly try to enjoy yourself, won't you? The girls are in the garden, expecting wou to go out and amuse them, and it's so warm and nice, and presently there will be a moon; altogether just the right sort of evening, I should have thought. Why you sat so long with your unele and Cyril in the dining room I ean"t think. Your unele has an en- gagement, and Cyril has work, poor boy; but why you waited for me te come and fetch you aut! Teh! Teh!" “Well ——" anid Arthur protestingly. “Pull yourself together, Netherby," said Cyril. "Te's all very well ——" said Arthur protestingly, Lady Hunter waved her lorgnette, “No, my dear boy," she chirped, “it's not all very well, unless you go out and talk to them. This littl week-end party hos heen given for you just to meet some nice girls,” “And you're not playing up, Netherby,” murmured Cyril languidly. “Well,” said Arthur—"“well, y" see ——" “Are we going or are we not?" said Sir William, so eourteously—in. his anger—that Lady Hunter at once pro- coeded to the open doors, flung wide to a long, deep, dark starlit garden. Outside on the graveled drive the engine of their princely car purred softly like a sleepy cat. WIESON PRESTON “We are going,” said she. “Don't come oat, Cyril. Stay and persuade Arthur.” : Cyril, whe had followed Lady Hunter, returned laconically inta the room, and seated himself on the arm of on settle warranted genuine antique. Arthur leaned up against the wall, banda in pockets, Steers tucked Lady Hunter inte the car and vanished inte the dark- ness towards the kitehen quarters. Cyril opened » beautiful clporethe ease very languorously. “Te's all very well," sabi Arthur at last, “hut Dfunkit, Talwaysfunk it. It's very good of Aunt Jane to welcome the wanderer home ‘n' all that, and give meshelter while my own littl: place is being set in order— but what docs she do as soon as she’s got me? ‘Tries to mar me of! Aska twin girls and 2 widow to etay in this overpopu- ty cottage. I cant breathe! Give me pir |" "You're used to wie spaces, sald Cyril languidly. Arthur rejoined, “nd no women!" "A man like you must miss half the best things in life," said Cyril thoughtfully. He made the effort, extracted a clga- rette, and returned the beautiful case to his pocket. Then a sound rost out of the long, deep, dark starlit garden. It was human, musi- cal, appealing. *""\Cod-en f"" Arthur started away from the support of the wall, and listened. “That's for you, old man," said Cyril with the dewpest sympathy. He lighted the cigarette. “Why not for you?’ Arthur replied fiercely. “Well,” said Cyril, attempting further efforts in the way of explanation, weari- some as it was, “they know I’m busy, you see, Being secretary to a distinguished knight with aspirations to Parliament in- volves afew duties, old dear; and I've got to prepare Sir William's speech for the Flower Show to-morrow, Come on! I'll Bee you te the door.” Arthur prowled about and kicked furni- ture, He kept a wary eye and ear turned upon the dark romantic garden. “Coo-e! Coogee!" “Hark at "em!" said Cyril persuasively, “T'll gee you ta the door.” “My holy aunt!" said Arthur, gritting his teeth. “TI know I seem all kinda of a fool te everyiody here, but, Wakefield, I tell you, of all the toughs o fellow meets, in the case of a rich man, the biggest tough is woman. And I've teed more or less to steer clear of her,” “You can't." ered Cyril, screwing on hig monoecle earnestly, “No man enn, Only a darned fool wanta to.” “Ina Way, I know that," salel Arthur, administering a hearty kick to the settle, “and yet, in a way ——" “T tell you what,” said Cyril—“you're in a very marry- ing frame of mind.” Arthur looked around him. He looked at Cyril, and out into the dark garden, and back again. He put out a large hard hand and touched Cyril impres- aively on the shoulder, “You're right, in a way," he whispered; “TI did come home hoping to—well, meet the real right girl, you know." "That's you savages all over,” moaned Cyril. “Tough as leather outside; acft as putty inside.” “Dare say," sald Arthur, giving him o surly lock of embarrassment. “You seem to feel that woman's a bit of a humbug,” aaid Cyril sympathetically. “Ah.” gaid Arthur, nodding. “But no really niee woman ever tells the truth,” sald Cyril. “How can she?" “Listen again,’ Arthur murmured. “Oh, hark at ‘em! said Cyril; and ““Coo-re! Coo-ee! Coo-ee!"" came the call outside, Littl: Parka entered reapectfully from a doar on the night which led inte the servants’ quarters and addressed Arthur: “The ladlet keep calling for you, please, Mr. Arthur." Arthur grunted and gave Parks a look of surly embar- fassment, and having done her duty by him she proceeded ta the open doors, wide-flung to the night outside,

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6 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “T'm going to collect the rugs and cushions from the hammocks, Mr. Wakefield,” said she to Cyril. “There's a heavy dew." She passed meekly out, with Cyril's gaze riveted on her black stockings; but Arthur remained his sturdy self. “I'm not a Prince Charming exactly,” said Arthur with very admirable modesty, “I'm a pretty plain-minded and plain-living man. And when women have made up to me—awi'ly fatuous, that sounds, I know—well, when they've made up to me I've had a fairly good suspicion that it was for my money. “Women must live,” replied Cyril reasonably, “Why?” said Arthur, kicking the wretched settle. "Conse!" the voice was calling “Those girls out there,"said Arthur, gritting his teeth, "Mrs, Drelincourt the widow, and the Harmony twins. Angela Harmony seems already en- gaged to be married, but says she’s not going to announce yet who the man is; says it eo happens that it might injure his immediate prospects; and it doesn't seem to trouble her anyway. Now I don't approve of that,” “ Really," said Cyril a little coldly, “people have all sorts of private rea- sons for their public actions, don‘t-you know." “Conse!” the voice was calling, “Damnation!” said Arthur, grit- ting his teeth, and following the voice as far as the open door, where he paused, and hung awhile, "Where girls are concerned I—well, I'm no miner,” aaid he. But at last he went doggedly out into the garden, Cyril into his chair before a busy-looking writing table and chose a pen with the greatest reluc- tance. a -*- “Ladies and gentlemen,” he mur- raured, He began to write regretfully. But there he stepped, put his hands in his pockets and surveyed the otherwise blank page. He sighed. He lighted another cigarette and pressed the bell which he had caused to be installed for his convenience beside the desk. In fact, he had caused « bell to be installed close ta any writing desk at which it was in any way likely that he would ait. Steers entered sympathetically. “Yea, air?" be inquired. “Life ia a dull affair, Steers,” said Cyril. “Oh, Ho, air!” said Steers alter a pause for ripe conaicd- eration. “Never dull."" “But the things one has to do,” argued Cyril. “Tt ia the way one does them, air, that counts,” said Steers confidentially, “In my experience—more than yours, air, if I may say so—mattera can always be ar- rar Cyril attempted to think this over. “But what can I do for you at the moment, sir?” said Stecra. “Well, Steers," eaid Cyril, rising and leaning against the desk, glad to get even this far away from his work, “it's about this Flower Show te-morrow. You se, [im pre paring the rotten old apeech. Now [t would help me an awful lot if vou could tell me here and now whe will pet the firat vier b be prize; the firet—er—er— flower prize: er—the—er—firat wild-fower prize for sehool children; er—er—the Firat fruit prize; and the prise for ladies’ tible decorations “Tt don't seem quite frir to settle it. bofore the goods bins been exhibited to-morrow, sir," said Steors, “What's justlee?" snid cm edie “Whe ever pots it Steers aprend his hands, toyed with his chins and shrugged. He was a very eloquent man. “Well,” said Cyril, “IT could leave blanks for nanves to-night, if I must, though I do like to make a job of a thing when I undertake it, Tell us something definite, Is it going to ber fine?" "Yes, sir,” said Steers, Cyril dropped into his chair and took up bis pen. “Good,” he murmured, “Now listen. How doce this go? Ladies and gentlemen: We have been favored with perfect weather for what I may justly call our aplendid show, in which all exhibits in all classes are, I think we may rightly aay, UneUrpEeeble. The firat prize in the vegetable class goes to—er—Seand-80 Geand-So, flor—er—her worder- ful um-tumea, than which no finer apecimens buve ever graced a show ring.” “Show tent, sir,” breathed Steers, “Show tent,” said Cyril, writing. “Listen, Lady Hunter wishes me—that's Sir William—to say that she has been amazed at the research and industry shown by the school children in selecting and classifying so many brands —— Brands? Brands, Steers?" “Species, air, if you will excuse me," breathed Steers, “How they do educate you fellers!" ssid Cyril, working away like a horse, “Thanks. Species of wild flowers; and “YT Wonder," ‘fold Lady Waaner Mey them over well—Cyril sat and pondered ples little Parks and her ways. Then Steers entered again. He belpel (pray and soda. "Can I assist you further with the compacts aaid he when all was arranged to his meri: | “Ther i a duties of a secrotary, he added, sighing Stoors toyed with ke slightly spread his kode delicate and deprecatiog Rother Coyly After o Poo, “How it ia That Jecretarien @iwoape Foll ia Leow With Tahvir Emplopers’ Pedeeor'’ “We're oll obliged ip days," cab (Cyril, | "More of les, gir.” Sy sympathetically, : their botanical lore is a fine tribute to the painstaking Instruction receive incur village schools. The first prize goes to lithe Thingummybob, for her beautiful arrange ment of wibbly-wobs, You are a very nice clean little firl, my dear, snd your good parents must be proud of you.” i Steers coughed. “Pardon me, sir,” said he, “but it is more likely that a lad-will show the beet wild flowers, sir, "E has more etrength to eollect them, sir, Long distances. are often covered —— “T have a certain amount of influence, Steers," said Cyril, bending to the task wpain. ‘And the prize will go to the best lonker among the little girls.” “Very good, sir,” Steere murmured. “Would you like a whisky and aodat' “To a moment,” said Cyril, “ET will take the table dee rations next: then the fruit; then the gardens; lastly T shall paises On bo thie ennobling influenee df com petitive enterprise, at the sare time touching upon the sporteman= like spirit in which a Britisher loses, and the moocbesty wlth which le wins. Agel Dothink that gets ‘em all" “Wery tae‘fuldndeed, sale Steen warmly. A let m= serve: fell upon him, “Missa Parks, sir." le added, cough= ing—" Afliss Porles in thinkling af entering for tha toble derorntions, J belive." "Whatl? anki Oytil, laying down his pen with a smile. Thon, «till withnemile, he took it up nan readily. "'Totttle Parks." suid te. “Is she really?" He wrote. “What a dear lite thing thit is, Steers." " Agila piel os will go far if she isnt sioppred, sir,” royalties, “Well,” said Cyril, writing faster than he had. written yet, “she’s won the first prize for table decorations any- why. ‘Tha first P Tize—wm—um—pess- to Miss Emily Parts, for ber jowely and tasteful LITangement - “| will bring you a whisky ond. eoda, sir,” Steers mur- mured, creoping cut “Oh, Lord!” sighed Ovril, writing. For a short while after be hud finished his euligey;— leaving Blanks for the names of the Aovwers for which Parks would with her trophy, and then ahsent-mincdedly writing in “lip,” ‘and “curls” as the words formed in his mite, ad then scratching them out again and inking Steere “ear, SOeers was ; the door, and Cyril wa the writing desk, drinling stdin, but still looking § an apparition appears doorway bemcling to thep Hitth Parkes, foshed, Ge cited. Sho wasmmiling. few stripy cushions any hand, and 2» light rog shoulders berenase ahs hi Tears ot = Tae ith She stood sharp. might, mre slew loci of mischief, likes fale ora devil; ora nanghiy a has temipbed a pond [tel haps she looked just Hie woman. Anyhow, they thus arrested Stee" pr door. pull himself together Little Paris looked looked at (Cyril, whol wards them. She enter She was alight with bubbled with some a "Hello!" said Cyril. “ Steers pulled the rug trons “T wonder if she meant anythit NE, what?" gaicl Dyril ci “Begging your pardon, sir," mall dignity, and picking up the eo for thought between exch, I and cushions calleeter| from “So I Bee," i “But —— : 7 “Te is Migs Fourics, sir’ your pardon. ~ Beeing it it, she—ahbe""—hert: he t ied fatuous giggle— "she —— 71 De : thing. sir?" 5 “Well, I know if it was me Ta ally Cyril lunguarously, Steers moved with alae sir,” he agreed. “Yes, sir will excuse this having « Wakefield, but she bas ab men gre concerned. No f knows her power. "3 “Oh, it's all right" aid Cyri were [."" s,. “Thanking you, air," said Site opening it at last. ae Steers was destined, pursuit, for just im thls second apparition broke Tt, too, hesitated on the It, too, blinked at the Fights up. Itwas Arthur, | ine Eteers a on a ‘Wakefield! “T've dona iti" He a “Dona what?! “Tem seloed. a wera. “Eh?” said Cyril after _ power sultable, “Sfew-gr i"

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 7 “said Arthur, Be gulped audibly twice. went oat, coeing ie door with incredible soft- nu | better ait down and take this reatfully,"" said ane hired! again. “There's no use mok- fie sit down," sald Arthur, walking the room, bit second by the writing table to kick it. He por you Rnow, Wakefield, you can coll mea damn fitimestal, ay anything you like—but this ie biggest moment of my Ilfe." iheity of Arthur's utterance impressed Cyril. af" he sald ten apoke Impetucushy and joyfully, looking face: “I've been a suspicious, wrong-headed esort of beaut. [t's wonderful how suddenly 18nd that out, When the woman appears, condemning the sex wholesale, and avoiding pligue—Waketield, tt—[t's like coming inte a sings Cyl, Hoe turned helplessly to his uw lked abstractedly up and dawn, smiling. ‘sald he, “] went owt there meaning to think, Think? G"Lord!" 1 Cyril, brushing the mere iden aside, “1 specially at thes like that." not even hear what Cyril was saying. He rapturcusly, He poset by the settle, and as [f trying to remember what he meant to ie did mat kick tt. t to that arbor at the bottom of the rose aten. “You know—the moonlight doesn't i trees over that path. It's dark, I gat ed. 1 was walking very quicthy—harcn’t retie alight in case the glim should be seen. odo you suppose was there? aid Cyril, hazarding the guess with no air with it. d. "Yes," he said, Arthyr Lene "Tt's he arbor at night, you know," said id Cyril rather dreamily, reat chestowt tree hanging over it." dded Cyril crenmily, “So at firet I didn't see her," said Arthur. “And then I did, and something aort of —sort of—earee over me.” “T know,” gaid Cyril, sighing rather happily, “She was an surprised ws I wins," said Arthur with simple faith, “when after aa. Palate, y keaw, T etepped in and sat down beslde her.” Cyril made a sound of complete comprehension, “T could feel ber trembling,” said Arthur, becoming solemn, “She wanr—was aet'ly startled. She anid "Oh!" and then, as [ sald before, something came over me that here was the—the— you know how [ mean, old man—the one woman in the world. And I says "What!" [ says ‘You! She didn't say anything to that. Tt was, as [ told you, damn dusky, and she was huddled up in one of those hammock rugs like a=a ——' “Mantilia?” suggested Cyril, Arthur aceepted this, “I expect so, Like a mantills,.” After a pouse, during which Arthur prowled aleout, Cyril made further inquiring sounds, and Arthur went on: “Tosnid, "I've been thinking about you.” She said in a whisper, ‘Have you?’ I think she was frightened.” Arthur laughed tenderly, “I wasn't," said he, looking sturdier than before. "I just said, "And now here you are. Don’t Int's waste time,’ [I said; ‘there's been enough time wasted already. Tell me here and now, will you marry me?" And she promised. She promised to marry me." In spite of his sturdy character the recollection awed Arthur onee more inte silence. “OF course," said Cyril musingly, “to every man his method, and to every man a damsel or two, There's some quotation like that, I think—unless it's my own. It might be, Hut you made quick work of it. You might have disappointed her. Moat women don’t mind wasting time that way. They like it, They'll waste days and weeks and months and years that way. However ——' Arthur walked about, smiling, not listening ta Cyril, "Tt's fearfully atrong-minded af you, ton, to leave her so soon,” Cyril added. Arthur looked wp. "Oh," said he, “she left me. The little devil! Suddenly she jumped up and ran.” "What," said Cyril, “directly ——" “Well,” said Arthur evasively, “not—not quite directly of course.” He gazed reminiscently past Cyril into the starlit garden. iy Hh 4 ile : s ans = = = "Tel Tie lt Wer the Fomoa We Thought it Fas, Good Vigkt"" “Aren"t you going to look for her?" Cyril asked. “ER?" said Arthur, dreaming. “Leok for her!’ bawled Cyril, rowed te enengy from sheer wonder. “Aren't you going after her? Ln jour shoes Tahould. I don"t want te get rid of you—I've finished the worst af that confounded epeech—but aren't you going after her?" Arthur roused binvself, “Why," said he, struck by the idea and staring at Cyril, “of course [ am!" “Don't let me keep you a singls moment," sald Cyril, “T wonder where she went?" mused Arthur. “Well, if [ know anything of women,” said (Cyril, “wherever she went she'll be pretty well fed up by now." “Fed up?” repeated Arthur, staring. #5 With you, you poor not!” said Cyril. “Get out with mia! Arthur realized this. “By Jove," said he, “what a fool lam! But [ weaso darned hoppy. I'd sort of lost myself." Then Cyril shot the burbed bolt. “Eut you'd no busi- ness to loge Miss Geennie,”” said he humorously, These words of Cyril's arrested Arthur on the very threshold, which he was even then récrossing. He came back promptly inte the room. : “Cwenniat' * sanicl he. “Gerennie Harmony?" Cyril protested. “Well, my dear old man, you haven't yet told me who is the lady, you know. I surmised Miss tivennie, somehow, but'—his eyebrow delicately lifted in inquiry was the most tactful thing in the world—" but Mrs, Drelincourt'’s most awfully charming. In fact, one of the most charming women I've ever met; and you're lucky. A women of the world, of tact, and discretion and perfect sorcir faire, is what a man like you wants,” Arthur interrupted him. “Eh? said he, with aacared face, “Mra, Drelineourt?" Cyril became o little cold, Hostile suspicion crept for the first time into his naive face. He coughed. "Woll,"’ enicd he, “thore’s only Angela Harmony left: and she's engaged. ‘You are perfectly aware, Netherby, re Angela Harmony is already engaged to someone Arthur put. his hand te his head, “Why, yea,” hestuttered. “You don "t think I'm trying to play a dirty trick on any man, do yout" (Tnitinwed on Page 75)

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8 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i MEET THE WI By EARL DERR BIGGERS T MAY be that you were one of thase who visited the 7 city of Rewton in the old A Ay days before prohibition. Your i if | first act was tosign theregister rail at the Wileey House, for more MERE than a quarter of a century ae | Reuton’s leading hotel. Per- | hapa as you turned away from the deak a busines: acquaint ance hurried toward you, in his eye a convivial light. He grasped you hy the hand, ‘wd “Well, well—you old rascal. | |i} Glad to ser you! What say to ; a litthe drink?" Having signed no pledge you followed where he Jet. He pushed open a swinging door at the right of the lobby, and you stood In the Wilsey's fa- cas ed windows and two more swinging doors hid it from the glare of the street, In the dim religious light within stood. many small tables, deserted now, but every noon surrounded bay loading citizens enjoying the Wilsey's excellent business man's lunch —sixty cente, Along one side of the rooum ran a mahoguny bar, Behind it waa a huge mitror, spetiessly clean, re- Aecting the gorgeous colors of af hondred interesting bottles, and before lt, nine Inches from the floor, a brass rall, dented a bit by frequent contact with many & homing instep, Your guide Jed on through the mast of tobbes, and sou stood with him before the bar. A large white-jacketed man seated on o stool under a bright light pat down hin newspaper and looked at you. His eyes were gray and kindly behind the gold-rimmed glasses: his fnce, chubby and beaming as a cherub's, was surmounted by a mop of enow-white hair, He bore himself with the dignity of a judge or a bishop, but there was o contradichory twinkle in those keen eyes, For your guide this was evidently a proud moment. “Hello, Larry,” be cried, “Shake hands with my old a John aaa John, meet Larry O'Neil, the on “Cho on with yer blarney," Larry admonished him. “Sure, I'm happy to know ye, Mr, Whoozis.” He offered you 0 great paw across the bar, and as you in- trusted your own frail hand to that tremendous grasp you realized that here was no stranger, but aman you had always known. Inside twenty minutes you felt sure you would be reminding him of the story of your life, how you had always been misunderstood, how, if things had only been diferent —— “Well, gentlemen—what's it goin’ to be?" asked Larry. | When you left the grillroom and returned to the lobby you heard a few detaila regarding Larry O'Neil. Thirty years before, be had landed from Kilkenny, green but amiling, and mode his way ta Heuton. Old Sam Wiley, who knew a charming personality when he met it, had taken him on at once and inztalled him back of the bar. This was in the days of the original Wilsey House, a ram- shackle worlen fire trap standing on the same site. Twenty yeara posed, andl Reuton grew to be one of the liveliest manufacturing cithes in the Middle West, with more than a hundred thousand people, Larry's popularity grew with the town. He remained enthroned behind his iar and before him the best mincd= of Hevton—the. beat male minds of course—lned up. With him they discussed politics, finance, religion, weuther and the wars. Not a man imong them but was pred to enll Larry his friend. The little women at home listened seornfully to tales of this paragon they had never even seen, this fount of all wisdom, this dearly beloved pal. Just before the death of old Sam Wilsey the tottering Wiley House was condemned, and it was young Gam wha built the handsome modern building that t still the pride a Reuton. On the day of the grand opening young Sam escorted Larry O'Neil ceremonioualy inte the presence of the gleaming new bar, “Get behind there with that smile af yours,” he sald, “and let me see how you look. Fine, Larry—tinel™ CHARLES From that moment. Larry's cirele widened. Men who never touched the stull dropped into the grill for lunch, and shorthy fell into the habit of pausing at the bar to elicit aword of cheer from ite presiding elder. Young and old, rich and struggling, drinkers and men on the wagon, . they sought his opinions and adyvies. He talked to them of lowe and marriage, the care of the young, the handling of investments, how to get along harmoniously with the wile of the boss. When they were depressed he cheered them, and when they walked the heights he traveled at their side. And always, it seemed, there hovered about Larry and ils bar ao alr af respectability. No rough stull—so your informont assured you—wasa ever pulled there, No man left Larry's presence with more than be eould carry. You Listened to all this with the deepest interest. You had met a personage, a leading cltizen, The best bar- tender in the diactet, aa OO. Henry sald of another, You had clasped his hand. A new and uplifting influence had come into your life, But this adventure, if ft happened to you at all, hnp- pened some geare ago, To-day thet mahogany bor reposes in sections in the basement of the Wilsey House, The bress rail slumbers by its side, Wo hove esenyed tho great experiment. Bill Terriss, returning to Reaton after an interval of five years, was made acutely conscious of the changing times, His train brought him in about six o'clock one warm July evening, and afew minutes later he waa signing the Wilsey FELU STRATE BD q jt BY MIFTeAWREE iy uF ee nth -) il 5 a il = rs eg al ait i BEE i “Ye've not been here fr og “Five ind more,"" cloth and with a familiar = “Will yo try wan of Toa banana sis sweetened ca . sar Hite trace of whipped 7 oe Good Lord, no!" Terr late malted milk, Larry—nat ¥

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Q ga elei Larry. “Well, th’ old order changes, rity Y ait" He took up a gleaming glass and aifeceedlate sirup into ik, “An' where have al hese pear, Bde. ‘Terrisa?™* | wlarry. They made mee gales manager, pe leuck round the plant. For a while all I prust in my office and accept what orders we Thos vere the happy days, Larry." gr they was.” : : grew happy now," Terrisa sighed. “I decided peottenad for a few tripa and see if 1 couldn't meting. You know, the minute the business jam shag some of our star salesmen col- ypunctuned. ballots.” iikey Gd," anid Larry. The chocolate malted. ow peeing With unerring precision from a glass phe nght hand to one held low in his left. A tgif thi, (Often Larry's young assistant ba impress: the flappers with an imitation af it, utwaa soppy floor. “"They's been cases of Hright herein town, Mir. Terrise, Big baredsess asvies Waa big; an" where are they to-day? df tim.” He set the completed drink down on pond Terra cautiously sampled it. womoudy. “Ts it too sweet now, d’ye think?" it sald Terriss. “But tell me about yourself, petch foryou, all this. Did you aceamplish ft or were You shot into it? And how do you that you're here'?T"" dotaw,” Larry anewered. "Tt ain't so bad." bis old creaking stool and sat down, “"Tis foaan't with we thin last few nights at th’ old ighté they was, grand an” big an’ a little ead. OQ meruks, an’ every lad wint away at closin' iwa wan of thim under his arm, light they'd gather round again, an’ weep on Dime Twas a rained man an’ thelr hearts wos ié& Fra time I believed thim too, an’ was d ear round th" home, till Bridget wn‘ th' foume to hate th’ aight of me. Ye're sure th’ caveet, Mr. Terriza? Will ye have a dash of 8," Terriga eamiled. “It's fine, You werr waz wan Lost big night, an* we closed. F'rao fived on me savings an" hated th’ worruld, rajob, but I didn't know what. They wes do. Thin wan day Sam Wilsey sin’ fr me. ean's lunch ia a flivver, Larry,” ho says. finest men alm't eatin’ anny more, I'm amin th’ lel grill," he says, ‘an' I'd like to th’ bar." ‘What bart’ [ says, ‘Th’ sexin ye, nob havin" th’ nerve to look oe in th® fra minute. * Well," says I, ‘it's bottles thirst, I'll take a chance,” | says, Mind fomething of go mad. th’ old white coat an’ re. [had a sour lock mornin’. Oh, yes, | Vt hang ante it. A old room was. F*r fardly seen daylight. in’ yer life in a cellar. ere. All daar we get tof th" cellar an" inte ve itor not, DC cudn't Terriss assured him. lin' ye, Me new job a’ cheerful that be vas happenin” I was etty quick I began h’ real point—of the what I mean? F'r ara I'd been makin’ men. I knew every in th’ tewn. But Yomen, outside me n't sure they wag me over me in @ meet what some iker aex."* ‘Terris. ay that. It was fe’ fren the minm- ‘ T've met thim . wives that was, yr believe, NOW, 1 ladies?" ery of me at firat. thout me f'r years meéll of cloves of nt wonder. But 2 now, an” thes en servin” “em. ur. I notice they if) Coat wide ees by qe? never confide in that young helper of mine—Wally Reid, I call him—what th’ divvle i¢ bis name? But Larry O'Neil! Mir. Terriss, air, it's th” facts I’m givin ‘we— "rn th’ friend of every woman in town!" Terrizs threw back his head and laughed loudly. that's what you've come to, Larry?" “Tt is, indeed. Ia there anny little household hint I med give ye now? D'ye know that oxalic acid will remove an ink spot fram a stenagrapher’s blouse? D'ye want th' name af th' Heaton dector that haa th’ kindest bedside rianner with children? “Have ye heard that thim French dresses th’ Bon Ton stare put over last epring wasfakea? Th’ servant problem ia not ao bad as it was, they tell me. F’r fresh vegetables ve can't beat th’ Relianes Market. That young fellow that came on to teach Latin at th’ high aehool has th’ loveliest brown eyes. Bobbed hair's goin’ cut—'tia too comune ——"™ “Oh, Larry, Larry!" eried Bill Terrisa, setting down his empty plac, “Tia tee, I doen't see ao much of th’ men anny more,” admitted Larry. “vAn' I miss thim. But I have th’ ladies an'—I dinnaw. Things ain't 50 bad. Sure, I'm younger teeday thin [ ever waa." The street dear opened, admitting two customers, and Larry moved forward to greet them. Bill Terris retired to the far end of the counter. He noted that the man whe had come in was not much over thirty, good-looking and well-cLreased, with a rather nervous and aggressive manner. The woman waa young and handaome and intelligent seeming, with a particularly appealing face under a amart little turban, “Good evening to ye, Mra. Frear,” Larry waa saying. “An” have ye brought C. H. in fr a drink?” “Agmingt his will,’ said the woman with a somewhat worried look at her husband, “I'll have one of your speciols, Larry.” “Fine! An‘ you, CG. H.——" “Nothing for me," growled the man, Larry O'Neil's amile was contagious, but this patron was evidently immune Larry busied himself with the special ane placed it before the woman, The man gave it one glance. It was, indeed, rather an appalling sight. “Good Lord, Anne!" he said. oie ou're not going to ent that?” “Of course, Why not? "Tt makes me ll just to look at it. Larry, TU have a ginse of waiter, plense,” Larry placed it beforo him. ‘The man’s eyes tray- ele sbout the room. “Great Beott, what a change!" he snid, We used to have some good f thmes here, oh, Larry? Etefore eet] es The Browugzir Coffer ro Mine de the Libeory, Kine Wim Him oo Awde Tioogeer this prohibition farce waa put over onus. By Gad, I never thought they'd do it.” "Bo you always aaid, C. H.,"" Larry reminded him. “But they did. After adashion. Not that there isn't more of the sbuil in cireulation to-day than there ever waa. Prohibition!” He set down his glass and appeared about to deliver an oration. “No little group can dictate to me what Lehall or shall not do. I ask you, Larry, is this a free country or ——" “There's a good film over at the Strand," cut in his wife hastily. “You really ought to see it, Larry. Such a cunning baby in it!” "Ah, yea, Mrs, Freer. An" how are th' two little darlin's up at yer house, ma'am?" "They're fine, thanks, Betty haa a new bonnet—the cutest thing. I'm going to bring her in some of these days and show you—she was talking about you only to-night, Larry. You and ice cream are all tangled up in her little Thind—and she lovea you both." “Te that so? Sure, I'm flattered." The woman took a ring from her finger and handed it over the counter—a guard ring of emeralds and diamonds, eostly and beautiful, “See, Larry. I got that for staying married ten years. Do you like it?" "Tt's a beauty, an’ no mistake.” He handed it back and indicated another ring on one of the fingers of ber belt hand, a diamond solitaire, a bit old fashioned. “Sure, it seems only yesterday. C. H. bought that wan fr ye,"" he emiled. "He stopped in here an’ showed it to ove in ita littl welwet Caee, “Tn thim days I see all th’ engagement rings in town before th’ girls they was meant for. ‘Will ale like it?" save Charlie—I mean C. H.—to me. He was worried, ma'am, he wae that. “Goon with ye," [ saya; ‘from you ahe'd take brags, an" be happy." Was I right?" “Tr seem a0 lang ago,” the woman gald softly. “De you remember, Charlie? “T remember it near broke me," replied the mann, stand ing. “Have you finkhed that awful thing? How much!" He threw a few colns on the counter, “Good might." “Goad night, Larry,” sald the woman, and flashed him a tired little amile aver her shoulder as she followed ber husband te the door. Bill Terrisa came forward from his serniretirement, “Say, I used to know that fellow, That wes Chaclis Frear, wasn't it?" Larry plunged two soiled glasses Into a steaming bath, and smiled rathersourly, “Well, heanid, “that war C.H.—jes. That wasthechie?,” “The chief? Chief of what?" na “That's what he likes to havethim call him. Let me see—five years ago—(Charlie must have bern man- ager out at th' Burkhardt plant whin ye was here lost." “Yea, he was.” “Thin ye don"t know. Old Jim Burkhardt passed out an’ th’ com- pany incerporated, They was lookin’ round f'r a president an’ their oye lit on Charlle Frear, A fine, modest boy in thim days, an‘ a hustler, I waa fond of Charlie—like me own ' aon. Well, they made him president, att He wasn't quite thirty, Th' young est corporation president in th’ state, t}| T heard some aay." “What happened te him?" Larry smiled sadly. “ Delusions of grandeur, 24 the fellow said, We was talkin’ a minute ago about thim that waa big business men as long as th’ business was big. That was Charlie, Th' bay wender—while th’ boom lashed. Orders come in faster thin they could be Med, an" Charlie give himaelf all th’ credit. He persuaded th’ company to insure his lite f'r a hundred thowand dollara, fr fear he'd be removed untimely an’ th’ business would emash. He took a quite be th' year in a big New York Se hotel, an’ another wan in Chicagn, en ~ Foome would always be ready Pr th" president. Every few minutes he dashed off on. along trip te talk things up—an’ ke always took his golf atieks a Fad “And the directora fell for all that?” smiled Terria. “Dlneetors will fall fr annything etlongas th' dividends keep eomin'— ye knew that, Mr. Terrisa. Here in town Charleset upf'rth' soclety kid. He put theeugh th" new golf club. Whin prohibition come alang he tock anal Lee

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10 it #8 @ insult. His vanity wae touched. No wan eud tell th’ chiel what he should de. They’s manny like that. He never used to-be much of a drinker—mind th’ time a amall beer was his Umit. But now he set aut ta drink in earnest. They say be has a cipboard in his office that puta me ald bar-to shame. Out to th’ club his THE SATURDAY EVENING POST He mumbled aemnething and returned to his precious fideboard. A few minutes later he passed through the bedroom te his dreasing room. Anne saw that he carried a well-filled bottle in hia hand. Sadly she busied herself with her preparations for bed. Her heart was heavy; she waa hungry for a ward of aenti- lecker la th® headquarters froall th’ ram hounds. Hin ment, of affection, for a glimpae of the ald Charlie she had eellar’s averfowin' with th’ tuff." married ten years before. In the “T wonder if he remembers me," — dretsing room ‘Charlie was bang- mused 'Terrias. = wae tng ohowt, making a yrevt fuss. Larry laughed. “Well, as ye —— =“ She sippel on a megligee and know yerself, th' slump come. i cromued the threshold that di- Thim that had sense took off their Tr vided the two rooma, coats an' wink te work. Not C, A. | oa “Charlie, dear ——"“" she be- He ordered a new imported car, on’ Bila ; FI \\ gan, and stopped. Te had his hit trips was more frequent. So was bis drinks, Talk of retrench- ment come op, an’ Charlie cut everybody's solary—but bis own. Teeclay, as @ business man he's th" joke of th’ town, An® everybody knows it but him." “He's still got his job," Terriss “He has—yes, But old Henry Froat, of th’ Reuton Trust, hos lent Burkhardt's a barrel of money, an’ Henry ain't careless with cash, T look fr a change, an’ I"m sorry. Not so sorry f'r Charlie, fond as I was of him once. But th" little woman—th’ wie—there’s a thor. owehbred, Mr. Terrisa, air; an‘ the blow will fall hard on her, Charlie Frear ia a fool, They's thoes I cod wring his neck." “Too hal," exmmented Terriss. “T always liked (Charlie in the old “Ah, yea," Larry sighed, "Well, he's like manny another, He wos a good fellow—whin he didn't howe it." The front dear opened, od- mitting a gay crowd. “Th trade from th’ nvovbes,"" Larry explained, “Drap in aften while ye're here, Mr. ‘Terriaa." And aa Terriss passed through the door leading te the lobby he heard Larry's booming inegniry: “Well, young ladies, an* what will it be to-night?" 1 HARLIE FREAR was driving hia high-powered car up Cen- tral Avenwe, the malin residential street af Reuten. He had nat spokensince his good night te Larry at the soda fountain. At his alde Anmesat, nervously twisting a ring on ane of the fingers of her left hand. It waa net the new guard ring, but the old-fashioned selitalre that, ten years ago, had won Larry O" Neil's admiration from ite bed in the velvet case. Ten yeare ago! She glanced at her hughand weross the gulf thet had come unaccountably between them. Hh hat was pulled low over his eves, his profile wassullen. She thought af the Charlie Frear who firet put that ring on her finger, of his clear eyes, his gentle ways, his laugh that had altered go sadly these last lew years. She aighel, and the lights of the avenue began to blur as they flashed by, Charlie turned inte the drive of a blg handsome house on the edge of town and halted the car at a side entranoe. She waited a moment, but he made no move to help her; so she unfastened the car door herself and stepped out. One of the maids admitted her to the house, She hurried her frat theught for her children. She found them sleeping peacefully an top of the covers, in protest againat the July night. She drew a sheet over ooch, while the nurse whose duty this should have been calmly went on With her novel in an adjoining room. For a few minutes longer Anne hovered over the two cribs, then she went to the big room at the front of the hows. She threw aff her hat, sat down and stared inte the mirror, Had sho altered so greatly in ten years, she wondered, Was Charlie as uninterested in her as he seemed? She heard him sow downstairs, busy in the dining room, then in the pantry. Presently he came to the foot of the staira and enllod loudly, “Anne! Have a little drink?” She hurried into the hall. “Hush, Charlie—hush! You'll wake the children. Nothing for me, thanks.” | jis hig buttered leather hag open on “Von re Aeoy Meat of the Time,'"' Ske Foraderec. edi, Fou're MAtorried #o o Succwsrfal Afton. a chair, and was surrounded by piles of clothing, At the moment he was wrapping the big bottle tenderly in under- wear, “Another trip?" asked Arne. “Tt lacks like it, doean"t it? he growled. He placed his helowed bundle carefully in the bag. “I forgot to tell you—["m running up te Chicage in the morning." “Shall you be gone long?" “How should [ know? I'll send you a wire. “Wou're away meet of the time,” she ventured, “Well, you're married to a successful man. That's the penalty you pay. Rather havea clerk chained ta a stool?" “No, of eouree nol,” she answerel—but she wondered. She picked up a coat and began to fold it fer him. “If I'd known you Were going I'd have had your bog packed." i Here, give me Ehut, I didin*t know it miyfaell until this afternoon,” She drepped back and made no further effort to help. How long had it ben, she asked herself, sinew she hed hac agentio, kindly word from him? Had Larry's talk about the ring roused no memories in Charlie? "Ta it true, dear?” she began. “What you eaid—that my engagement ring pearly brake you?” ee Thot's the Penotty Fou Poy" May Hy He laughed. “Tt seemed. like a lot of Now of course it wouldn't be chichey fee” “But you didn't mind, did you?" Wer tmeny 9 an | not. Here—let me look at it” fy hand. “It's a cheap-looking thing, int y | afford to have my wife wear that wet of to my you put it away, Anne?" “T've put away—so many thing~ tie eorvend and left bin. Wher ahe waa in her bed Ive appeared in to i “Say, Anne—are my golf clubs diownstain? ' “No—I don't believe they are” “They're ott at the club. I'll have in ding before [ go te the offfee im the teaming." i He went back and completed the prepany busine trip. Afper a tine ie turned ost te sought bis bred, Ina few minutes he wa For more than an howr Anne lay awoke, thick things, Ameng them, Larry O'Neil. j Three dag later Larry hud ooemsion to thei was two o'clock, the noon mush at his coaster and only two patrons lingered ther (re dj long, lean, cold propeaithon with prominent cs wi over him, waa Henry Frost. Heuton Trust Company, Mr, Frat ing with bks usual fnagal repest wich and a gloss of milk, Ts evidently been dragged in aguive | he wos a big hearty man we in had never found a soda fountain a in which to emerciee bis tolents, Walter Suteliffe, and he was adj =—— among them the poration, Larry O'Neil had mover been per, but he was not deaf, and it wri} hubs Prost and not cverial of a most io a ling, mirthles hundred -thouasd on the meet mul Tg tle eyes snappel won't want to stg out how things are, You know, I'm sor li I don't believe he has an inkling ——" “He's a blamed fool,"" said the banke. last drops of milk in his glass, “I've se these leat few years, Al wietim of the t= heen someraulting too fast for "em. Lem pretty good." “"Tis delicious, Mr. Froet." “Well, I—no, no, I mustn't. 1 woul week." He stood up. “Anything more ’ “No, I meas not." Sutcliffe cmeped utcliite gms In FUurprise, “nik Larr Mr. Frost obtained both checks and lac the counter. He waited patiently for © When Larry handed it to him he stored 4 leather coin purse with the air of a mao © draw six per cent while it was out of his’ As the two men walked out Lar-y b saying: “OY course [To dan‘t presume te man for the job "His voice traie!: (Cte om Page I)

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Cphive bene simple, so easy for ber to leave ppm, Aida, or to Jean.” Mrs, Perrimain's ir ike the inevitable white tulle in the neck of Aeicate, {ra and distinct. id taleed of nothing all during dinner but the Ter’ Cousin Lucretia Perrimain had by her ijetesold, the proceeds to be applied to her elie, “Leather imagine.” went on Mra. Perri- ioe we not quite herself during those last ew menthusiastic about things to be done for bee outa proportion somehow." ig. en's baband, kept very atill and ate his Thee family dinners were to him part of the apad for marrying his adored wife. imoeetfully: “L wish che had left them to me! nel” eu some In 6 Pear OF 80, heresy," sald Billy eevee. Alicia, his sister-in-law, glanced at expraiog he loatherd, ity, dark, thin, high apldiy turning acid. tpAilly, plainly, “Oh, le, erode Dancy per- an world marry and if tacted, sacrosanct the doesn't belong belong, poor worm |" only aaid, ‘Pearls u, dear. You really eaome, These of ig’ are marvelous." are!" eorroborated f, almost animated, “y Dancy decided, bow his mother-in- ri ahe ewer did let it, Lord, he should inwassuch 4 bundle ed at her fondly, in, who up to this 2 engrossed with ad his claret, took t the bead of * his. zifine old blood, wiraddy. But his ‘cowded out his in- ved for his palate, and waa the ac writy af the Phil- in vintage wines ne pearis,”" he ad- indsome. Marty out most of ‘em. ‘em at her dinner +. Millie, what's mk of hers who cider jelly to go ve |. ever sa38 i, ignoring the ing," aaid Alicia, led af eourse, hundred pewrle. ily good color. ter of canary ' diamonds !'" ad to let therm vly,"” persisted wking back to er Poor worm cy Once again. red on her lipe. t Cousin Lu- it the pearls sale first of all said. “Qhuite 1 public has & , McLean, the e had a little iL He said a ta ereryone, the feller who potatoes and for luncheon. id f*' said Mir. le fervor. By Sophie Kerr “Well, I don't know whe'in the family can afford to buy them," offered Mra. Perrimain thoughtfully. “Of course there's Unele Rupert. But he wouldn't.” “He's got no one to buy them for," said Jean. “Be sides,’ she laughed, “he hasn't any money wef he's pald his ineame ta." “There's no one else. Martin Halatead fan't interested in anything but unique single genes for his collection. It ian't at if the pearls were a cheap littl: ornament—they'll ecet frightfully." “Te's a plty,” sald Alicia aofthy, “that Billy can't buy them for you, Jean. You ought to have at least one plece af jewelry with real distinetian,”' “Wheat Right Toor Fou te Beee Ate ia the Derk Aboot Télage —or Try ToP*! THE SATURDAY EVENING POST il PEARLS Bilby had given Jean a diamond-and-+apphire wrist watch, a diamond bracelet, a sapphire bracelet, a diamond-and- sapphire engagement ring, a diamond half hoop, a pearl-and-diamond tassel, besides various trinkets of jade and coral and amber and lapis. To hear these items negligently dismissed as lacking distinetion wae not pleas- ant. But now he perceived Alicia's purpose. It was she who had brought up the subject of Lucretia's pearls in the first place, and she had artfully worked it around so that she could stick a littl anickersmee of spite into Billy. It made him hot and mad and helpleas, “Oh, Alleial™ cried Jean, “After all the wonderful things Billy's given mel"" “They're eharming of course,” conceded Alicia, her tone driving in her dart and envenoming it. ““Chulte charming, but a little too much like everyone's else: just a littht banal, perhaps. But a string of pearla like this"'*—ahe seemed to mumse—" oh, one would need nothing else, ever!" Billy Dancy's temperature in- ereased, "How much do they want far these pearls?" he saked defiantly, The thin smile came back to Alicia’s lips, "“Treally haven't an idea," she told him, as if the very thought of price and coat and such sordid things were distasteful to her. “I felt sure that none of us would be interested, and so I made ne inquiry.” Hor precise and even intonation, like her mother’s, save that it carried with it a subtle edge of mockery, always roused his wrath. Of all the Perrimains, Alicia had fought the hardest and given in with lenst grace when this outer barbarinn from north of Market Street had stormed the fastoesses of Rittenhouse Square and de- manded the hand and heart of dean Perrimain, She never lost a chance to belittle and to hurt him. Why couldn't she mind her own business’ Why did ake have to insinuate, fret that he couldn't aflord to buy Jean thia rotten old string of pearls, and second that Jean didn't have any jewelry fit to weart Billy longed to tell Alicia that Jean hadn"t got any jewelry from the Perrimains—a measly cameo or two and some other old stuff that looked as though it had eome out of a junk shop. He wanted to thump on the table and make the ancestral silver dance with his rage. Yes, Alicia," he wanted to fling at ber, “I know why Jean hadn't anything. You spend toa much trying to keep up this run- down old hows here in Hitten- howe Square. And then your father ents up another big slice of your diminishing income. He's a walking stomach, that's what he is. Ag for your mother, she'a a shadow, a poor apologetic ghost who lives on such words as “tradi- tion,” ‘aristocracy,’ ‘good blood," and spends her time catering to your father and being awfully genteol, As for you, Alicia, you're ascurdd maid. You were a sharp tongued, spiteful girl, and you seared away the few men who might have liked you, and now you've got no beaux and no pros- pecta of marrying, and your whole life's dry rot, You hate tosee Jean and me happy, and so you try ta apoil it. You're a smart subter- ranean troublemaker. Lord, what wouldn't I give to get you married af to some strong husky brute who'd beat you up now and then! I know your people made earnest efforts when you were younger. That's another reason why you're il] so poor naw—they invested a good bit of capital in hunting

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12 a chance at marriage for you—which was entirely useless, By golly, 1 wish you'd leave me alone! [ hate to feel this way toward a woman, and toward Jean's sister im partic- ilar: There hasn't been one minute of the time since you first saw me that you haven't made it apparent to me that I'm a rough, low person, a disgraceful shadow on the Perrimain eacutcheon, that Jean is everlastingly to be pitied, that everything I do is wrong. that I've no taste her manners Hor anything but a little incomprehensible success in making money, That's you, Alicia." He had thought so vehemently, so eoherently that, a he rounded out his invective, be was surprised that they didin"t all hear him. But no. Even Alicia was still intent on the peuris, “Tf you're really interested T could arrange for you to see them,” she wis -saying. “Of course I den’t imagine they'd like te be bothered toshow them just to grathfy our curiosity.” There she was again, insinuating that he couldn’t buy them, and that he'd have the crust to go and bother folks to show things when he had no iden of really getting them, He thought with satisfaction of the books of the factory and the tidy little surplus they showed, a surplus that he didn't nctu- ally need for anything in the world, To be sure, old Beagley, his manager, had urged him to be in readiness if a slump in the silk market came along, but that was a fixed idea of Beazley’s, and the silk mar- ket showed mo more signs of a slump than Alicia showed signa of amiability, Wo, that surplus. was velvet, and if he wanted to buy Of peanuts or any- thing else absolutely ete ha to the business he had a right to. And wouldn't he like to show Alicia—just once! And then Jean “Oh, Billy,” she cried, “do let's go and look at them! I'm crazy to see them. I wouldn't let you buy them for me, dear, unless they were an enor- mous bargain, really—but do let's go look at them. I don"t care if it does make the people peevish to ahow them; they'll have te be peevish! How ean they expect to sell them unless they show them, I'd like to know?" “Of course they must alow them,’ conceded Alicin, “I only meant—it seema—you know—such a—well—rather commen thing to do—like thoge dreadful people in the cheap department stores whe are always ‘just looking,’ and epend the day pawing over merchandise and trying on things.” “T dida't know you ever shopped in cheap department stores, Alicia," said Billy dryly, He could not help it, “My dear Billy, you must remember that we're not awfully wealthy—with factories and things ta keep us going.” This as they drifted inte the library, Oh, it sounded so harmless, so gentle, Alicia's protest, but it had an undercurrent of clear tntimation that face tories were terribly vulgar commercial affnirs, and that making money was a filthy oreupation, Billy Dancy winced, looked surreptitiously at his watch and began to wonder whether they couldn't get the 9:40, He and Jean lived [na charming little: house of pray stone with blue shutters, out on the Main Line, as far removed from Futtenhouse Square as Billy could find and. still commute comfortably to business, When they were mar- ried the elder Perrimoins had suggested that they take the upper floor of the ancestral mansion, but Billy had refused, in a panic at the proepect of such an uneomfortable ex- istence. Out on the Main Line he could be human and eornfort- able with chintz and oak and wicker, big fireplaces, a sun POON, & garden, an appealing West Highland terrier to stick an affectionate nose under his hand—all new and bright and cheerful, and no ancestral reek on anything. Aneestors—he hated the word! "Well, whan can we see the pearls?" he asked wearily. "Why not tesmorrow?" said Alicia. “Ill telephone to the man who haa them—Mr. Godfrey: he's quite the beat for disposing of jewels privately, froci estates and thirwes like that, Mr. MeLean said—and we could meet wt his office about teatime, don"t yau think?” ““That'll be lawely!" crbed Jean. “l aas coming in town to-merrow anyway, And we'll go out together then, Billy, after welte seen the pomurks."" Billy wanted to snatch her up and cuddle her, she looked eo dear and adornble. a aprite of 2 thing in ber bloe frock, tucked down inte the deeps of a big leather—-un- ceatral—chair. But he observed that Alicia fully intended to be one of the party of inspection, Pod THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Tf you'll give me this fellow Godfrey’s address,” he sugested, “I'l telephone and save you the bother.” “T's no bother,” said Alicia, “If he can't see oa ['Tl telephone you in the morning.” She saw Billy's feeble ruse and checkmated him easily, Then, turnlng to Mr, Perri- main, #ho was indulging in his gsual post-prandlal quarter of an four of satistied silent repletion, she added brightly, "Tt will be wonderful, won't it, father, for Jean to have Cousin Lueretia's pears?” She spoke, Billy reflected, ws though the pearls were round Jean's neck and he was sign- ifig the check, "Oh, look here," anid Jean, — “dont think it's settled, I'm quite sure we oughtn't to afford anything so luxurious ns pearla, yet,"" Billy regarded her with doting indulgence. “Honey, if 1 can possibly buy them for you, any old how, I'm going to, You know it.” After all, there waa that surplus, What i the use of having money unless you apend tt for something sau With Jean Crogadie Alm ja 2 Golden Tip of a fee — the lami Was Throws. b- “Did Foo Loaoe j fy Pearls Pit at Aaliwell*s Toray F* Arked Joan want? He wanted Jean to have everything she wanted. Jean wanted pearls. And there you are, Alieia lotked deappolnted. She hadn't got him in a corner this time. Not quite. It made him feel triumphant and virile. [t nerved hie to look openly at his wate. “Don't vou think we might make the S:d0, dear?" he asked. Mire. Perrimain had been as silent as her husband ever since dinner, beemuse he preferred that she should be. It helped bis digestion if she didn't say anything. The younger generation's chatter he equld disregard, but when his wife spoke, asa gentleman he must attend and answer. He was always. too full, to put it bluntly, to do thia for a Short apace after meals. So Mrs, Perrimain kept his silence with him. But now she apoke, with real feeling but incomplete wniderstanding. “Tin ae glad it's been settled this way," she eaid, “I ao disliked to see Cousin Lueretia’s pearla go owt of the family, and yet I'd hardly hoped —— I shall go over to Unele Rupert's to-morrow and tell him. And the Spruce Street Perrimains, And Lucy Carmichael. And 1° write to Cousin Martin Halstead." “Tin wait until Bly actually bays them, mother dear,” auld Alicia, It was her final atab at him, “Dion bowery about that,” he sald mahly, determinedly. “T guess the old bank roll can stand the jolt." “What an ede idiom!" murmured Aliela. yout pet such quaint expressions? “T pick them up among the shoppers in cheap depart ment stores," replied Hilly agreeably, This petart buyer yess laf through the lrave-takings, and the iyevt able. aceeptanes of the inevitable invitation to dine with the family on the coming Thursday week. On two Thursdays a month the Perrimains dedicated them- celves to theae intimate hospitalities, and to Billy they were the utterly black days of his happy existence. Where da Mey ny, To-night a: they came out Bee acres i ‘eal sald no word of the mighty cheer bp wy ; utter at getting away ao early. Anleee her an unrestrained hug. “T wish you could seo how pretty yay he said. *Pdoc't know how goa tal ’ and prettier all the time, About the yoga settled down into batng a plain old marie we'we been married over a your and—lek g@ nat fair.” “Oh, Bily—you're euch # carling!” mid fp to kis him. “You're the nicest man ln the op “Tftully agree with you, amd that muken fig But, Mra. Daney, you forget thai ther aa before the house—viz., to wit, namely getting prettier before I get pinched or pug thing. How about it?" “Tf I am getting prettier,” aaid Jews sok there ia no corroborative evidence of thin as yours, it must be because I am so heppr. i you're ao good to me. But, Billy—leten pearls. According to all acsounts they're otal and—and—well—I would like a string of woman would. Bot I'd be perfectly satiated) coat a fourth or a filth of what Coosa Laer “For Pete's sake, how much oe Comm crown jewels supposed to be worth, honey me scored in a minute.” *Oh— at Iesaé ehchy ov ervey Cheumell Billy Dancy's hair stood on end. “Dole making o pretense of a» joke. "Yes, of course, funny. Amd that's why Is for us to think of them, If you were gon pearls—why, a little string—mbout eight or ia would be quite good enough. And then peu it from time to time, taking « and putting in aye and saa : * mas and birthdays “That's the way they do it, He was talking against § : seventy thousand dollars hal breath; a devastating di No wonder Alicia bad hee she had let him in for this! him tumble from a dizzy heigl iton purpose. Trawn him on trapped him tight. Hecould gloating over him. And di of it to taunt Him with im he way for months and mouthed “'Yes—that's the way? pearls. Billy, did you tell Ge car meet this train?” “T told him to meet ere 9:18, until we came" ' “Why, we newer get out saeet “Ho, but I'm abwagys hoping) The very station looked good to him — respectful Gratton appeared, correct in as only a perfectly correct chauffeur ca) rose boyishly, as they always did at the # solid proaperity, bis coming wp in the wor was only thirty-one. And he had a solid, th ui a smart house on the Main Line, the Gratton the magnificent, a car which es e ton’s perfection; and added to all this he! the sweetest, the dearest wife im the we fe all himself, with his own beni nice—all t! so much shtat eee It browght it all back. that ate the canar yellow-feathered bi “Now see here, b even if we don't Alicia saya and Right?" ; Jean locked at him Bhe keew perfec he hadn't the le : Pas. * she aa ont want ‘alford" in the — ’ He did not have t ore thi litthe thing, Tlenow | you. dan’. Ther dear, Listen! You pet thts town down: to the factory in m tei fi ™ : wherever Alicia says. That'll = He kissed her and was gone. an hall where he had left her, Suan Piet ea 7) Lugitized by Google ce

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 13 joontrel Billy's swift impetuousness, nor combat mn praot decisions. Hitherto she had been qpaeng Wh therm, unquestioning. But now she . itera mament or two her face cleared. ‘But yich"" she told herself, “ever.” bik Billy, in the train, was hastily running over ert: bot the pearls were in the back of his head. ¢ ona of bow far Alicia’s sneers and goading - The foud between them was ao long- , that it had come to dominate ey in everything i in which she played a fice af sell-made men Billy Dancy had a good mk of conceit. He didn't take Alicia's anubbing ely, He resented them. They made him rd ulteaeaapicious, and kept him constantly bane todhow Alicia. Even though he kept the uleusly buried his fingers sometimes itched, in wl, for a good grip on its handle. ht back over the long yeara when he, a lathy an, in his laat year in the graded achools, had e burden of caring for his mother. His fret aid—wliceand-general-odd-job bey for the eery Company, four dollara a week, long thing too heavy, not enough te eat, growing eto play. But that didn't last. Old man iknew every one of his sixty-odd employes by gand liked him. At seventeen he was head E room. un Gertoer had aaid, “You petter go te night dponé ta night achoal. Presently, in spite of nas superintendent, with as much authority stoner had ever permitted anyone. ‘died when he waa twenty, and ald man hed no near relatives, took Billy into his t, badly rum bachelor's quartera, but not. . The twa worked and lived together in a | that was only emphasized by thelr fre ‘on matters of policy. Billy wanted to drop cotton and lisle heae altegether and go in , an Gertmer ahouted in derision. & the vimmins have all gone crazy vith ret?" he demanded. “There vill never be a ein America for silk stockings." fy laughed and urged old mien Gertner to woods bascaieé moss was growing on him. antyeeight when Gertner died, and when i was read ft was found that he had left ‘fo Billy outright, but so that he could fair price to some unknown Gortnoers, of {man's never=quiteforgotten kin of his ized hia big chanes. He hed taken on the rtgage, ane heaped further debts on him- inery and moore of it, another story on the factory, better and mort modern arrangements through- out. He had doubled the number of machines and more than doubled the employes, His pay roll was over a thou- sand a day. He employed salesmen, stopped selling to jobbers, ond sought the big retailers. He had poid the bill for his improvements, and begun to amortize his mortgage. He wns not oppressed by hisdebts, Eusiness was good— he was making nothing but silk hose now, of course—he could meet the interest on his mortgage and his notes in bank easily. And there was that lovely little surplus. He experienced the pleasure we all feel when we have a good little hunk of money that won't be needed the first of next month, This waan't ao much, perhepa, viewed againat the bulk of what he owed, but it was forty thousand good round iron men, and as such was not without glamour. If that poor old dodo of a Perrimain had that much ready money, reflected Billy cynically, he'd probably eat himself to death within a fortnight. He went into the factory at hia usual quicketep. It waa early, a quarter of nine. He wed to get there at quarter of eight, but Jean had changed that. At any rate he was in Plenty of time te eateh Miss Koons, his stenographer, hus- tling off the cover of her machine. He ran through the mail and then made hia regular trip through the factory. That had been old man Gertner's Practice, and Billy found it a good one; and just as Gert- ner had known all his employes by name, so also did Billy. He liked the people on his pay roll. It pleased hirn to feel that he had done far more for their comfort than the law required, and that they held no secret grudges against him for amall, petty dealing or for gouging. He was fair with Chem, and consclentious, and he was rewarded by the work they turned out. There was precious little wastage in the Gertner-Daney concern, At the seml-inclosead space where Beazley had his deck Billy paused. "Any signa of that slump in silk yet?" he asked. Beazley waa a thick, astute old man, active and power= ful despite his sixty-five years, He grinned at the question. “There's nothing that you might call anything tn hang a teal opinion on, I'll admit,” he said, "But yet—I kind of feel she's coming, and coming before so very long.” Tt was his weual answer, and usually Billy dismissed jt withajoke. But teeday he lingered and answored soriqusly: “You've been saying that a good while, Beazley,” "T suppose T have,” the old man admitted, and looked a litth: confused. “Maybe I'm wrong, [—I"ve got nothing but my suspicions. You can"é get a word out of anybody who's in a position to know, though I've nosed around quite considerable. But—it's in the air somehow.” Raudoe Com eee. Returning to his office Billy sat down ot his desk and thought the thing out, Heretofore old Beazley had spoken with assurance. Possibly there had been something, some vague hint, some underlying unensiness that hac justified that conviction. If such a slump should come the manu- facturer who had a bunch of ready money to buy largely of thread cones would be well heeled for the coming season, would tum a profit sufficiently handsome to tempt the most cautious. But the silk people might have secretly strengthened themselves, got hold of money te tide them over and keep them going. And now Beazley was uncer- tain—and there wasn't anybody in the business smarter than Beazley, That was strong evidence that there would be no slump. We beliewe what we want to believe, and so Billy interpreted what Beazley had said. Ergo, following this through, that nice little honk of eurplua was waiting ta be apent on aomething. He waa mo miser, to bet money accunvulate unused. Better translate it into some of the many things which his growing imagination told him were desirable, And, if in addition to this, he could put something over on Alicia and the whole Perrimain conmec- tion—zip—the money was aa good aa gone! He had just reached this point when Alicia's ooo] clipped voice tinkled toward him from the telephone. Mr. Gedfrey waa at 1162 Walnut, ninth floor. Very well, he and Jean would be there at quarter of five. Oh, but Alicia had asked Jean particularly to drop in and see her roother before they started. Mother waan't feeling very well today. So Alicia and Jean would meet Billy at Mr. Godfrey's office. Yes, at quarter of five. Very well Gaoad-hy. Billy gritted his teeth in a gust of youthful anger as he hung up the receiver, Just exactly like Alicia te butt in and break wp hia plang, hit and Jean's! Nobody but a brote— a Alicia well knew—would have insted that Jean shouldn't go and see her sick mother. He'd be willing to bet a million against a plugged nlekel that Mra. Perrimain wasn'teaick at all; just one of Alicia's hateful little achemes to thwart and annoy him. But presently Jean herself telep “Tm sorry not to come for you, dear,” she said, “but Alicia thinks mother's rather miserable, and I don't believe I'll have time to go from there all the way down for you. Hut [am sorry. You know, Bily"—the words became healtant— “you know, I like to be with you as much as you like to be with ma.’ His good littl: fellow! Sho restored his morale. He could work quite happily now, Wher the afternoon began to wane he breame a clock watcher without shame. At half pest four he signed his last letter, awept a handful of memoranda inte Misa Koons’ basket andl disappeared, But it wes disconcerting to find that the pear-inspection party had been increased by Mr. and Mrs. Perrimain. "Father thought he'd like to [ook at the pearls," explained Jean, “And mother felt eo much better that she wanted to come too,"" Alicia had arranged it, Billy felt sure. She wanbed the whole family there to see him made a fool of. Sixty or seventy thousand! He wondered fleetingly tf Gedirey would toke tha forty thousand cash and his pereanal note for the rest, Godfrey was a good ere: one glance told that, No cold clammy fish he, but a real fellow, Billy warmed ta him, and he, after a2 comprehensive twinkle at the Perrimains, warmed to Hilly, possibly through sympathy, ‘Confined oa Page Pip) The Perrimoin Family ia the Bockgrowad Were Regisreving Wells fred Dige Plediutd at Tait Datboret of Heofion Hefore a Stronger. fhe Jou oa Cheace to Alicia Could oe fedecem Mer Jpnite From Folfure

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Tis etill retain a keen and primitive interest in hunting wild game needs na better proof than the facts that more than three and a half million boners’ licenses were issued in 1919 and that the sale of these hunting ager ileges brought in a tetal of about four and a half mil- lion dollars. If the figures for last year were available they would un- doubtedly show that.very nearly five million licenses had been issued in the United States. A visit to the world's Largest wild-garne farm is certain to leave with every visitor two outstanding impreasionsa: The enormous demand for wild game birds, particularl pheasants, which has deve oped in this country, and the immense expenditures of money and effort toa protect the game birds from the wild creatures that prey upon them. This year fully fifteen thousand ringneck pheasants have been raised on this farm, and nearly two thousand of the fancy variety of pheasants, More than a hundred and twenty thousand ringneck pheasant eggs were shipped in the past season from this farm to the va- rious states and to sportsmen's clubs and associations as well as te private estates and small breeders. This sen- son more than five thousand ducks — mostofthem mallards and purt-blood English calls for decoys—have been raized on this farm. When it is remembered that for sew- eral seasons ringneck pheasant eggs from dependable sources have eeld for more than thirty cents each and that ringneck pheasanta readily bring four dollars each in lote of several thousand, while call ducks bring five to eight dollars a pair; mallards, five dollars; American wood ducks, twenty collars; Canadian geese, twenty dollars; mandarin ducks, twenty dollara; Australian ruddy sheldrakes, fifty dollars; ond ewan, one hundred dollars, it is mot surprising that hundreds of callers come to this farm fully determined to go inte the business and as fully convinced that there is a fortune in it. But a a rule they depart with the conviction that there la another side to the story. This change of attitude invariably takes place after survey of the expense aide of the ledger haa been made. Flaborate Protective Devices OR example, this farm, which contains about five hun- dred acres, has more than twelve miles of woven-wire foncing seven feet high. This fenee requires cedar poeta ten feet high, ereceoted four feet fram the bottom. Attached to a creesoted board or stringer, which is buried about six inches in the ground, be a twe-foot width of woven wire of a mesh so small that a weasel cannet go through it. This is sewed with copper wine to the bottom edge of the main expanse of coarser woven wire, which ls five feet in width, At the top of the fener i a strand of bared wire ta keep out two-foobted climbers, At frequent intervals along the outside of the fenees are drop traps very sbrongly made of heavy woven wire of small square mesh, ‘These will mM ald any kind of animal, from a weasel tooo baler. The cost of manufacturing thes: traps in wholesale quantities is al amit ten dollars cach, and fully two hundred of then quired to protect the birds on this farm. [ut this ts only a beginning in the expensive equipment requirecd to loop iy the incessant warfare against vermin The most interesting and expensive traps used on the game farm are known as tunnel trops, As they are sunk below the aurface of the ground they are made entirely of structural and sheet iron carefully treated te prevent eorraaion. Tunnel trapa are mainly used for protection at opening of the walla or dama where a stream enters or leaves the farm. The coat of ome of these trape is about seventy-five cdollurs.

AGES, it? \s 4 feaon Orcer Her ert Guarded by « Conder, fect = Fanner Water Foe! Fnctoned fy the Weerns ire Fereciag Because this peculiar trap ia autoniatic in its action and of large capacity, big enough to hold quite a menagerie, it often makes some startling revelations. “After a atormy night,” declares the gameheeper, who devotes moet of his time to trapping and ahooting vermin, “T have found a mink, a tabbit and a pheasant huddled together, Why didn't the mink follow his natural inatinet and kill the rabbit and the pheasant? Because he knew that he was trapped. He was only interested In petting cut. Again I've found a cat and: rate together, a weasel iid pheaganta, and a coon and pheasanta. In the animal weld a ehmimon peril will—for the moment, at least— subdue the eavage iestineta of predatory animals." A lirgé number of ateel traps, about three hundred wtopether, are set along fences and on hawk posts, with which the fields of this farm are Ubernlly supplied, Each huwle post must be aet wlth rullrond eplled in order te penmit the gumekercpers to climb them, The central prison ie-which all captive prowlors are con= fine! agolist the clay of thelr final dispoanl is @ ‘com: moins, expensive and highly secure structure of iron and concrete, “The woven wire with which this house is walled isso heavy und at the sume time of =o fine a opesh that oa wine! cannok eseape through tt or a powerful badger horak it, All far nnimals trapped in the open season are comparniively weorthiess; held until the coming Hf mold weathor they fring very attractive prices, In this prison are to be geen mink, coons, skunks, muskrats, weasels and occasionally badgers, foxes and ‘possums. Though the sale of furs from these captives amounte to severa] hundred dollars a year, it fs only a drop in the tucket compared with the cost uf protecting the birds against them. J = By Forrest Crisse Mey th,

“No lara o understand” dete owner of thi fp farm, “how inteoey ponrrt: ie the debe ty birds from thir furred enemis, parsed bas nn lh of provlers wha our fone, night al for a chance to gti Tt costs thousand a year tp ee G underworld evesg ,

worth olf bird mink in a singh ting, slender the blood of Pheasants in ae band or shoal aff took about ta young phe We started will sand young bow in three weeks only twelve hos This was all done by fateh about —— ae “Hundreds of visitors oom without noticing that fenced as to have an cal of about fifty rods ine son for going to this hem to give ta a second & animal which hos been to pass the outer loee to do this before he hae where the birds an “Sucore in protecting merely mn matte; of gua Tt requires 2 careful sted of these crentures of prey it has taken me years oa develop the two tae of fl proved to give the greatest birds because they will actos wily of all animals —weasels and ™ thing to trap a playful and imequisit skunk, and quite another to land « mink by his wits until he is full of wisdom andié escaped mare perils than the Apostle the ammunition and guns teed om this close to five hundred dollars. “One Teason Why thete ane ao mun p animals is that they do not, excepting & upon each other. A skunk, for exam hawk ontilin the last stages of starval not eat a hawk, or a hawk an owl, eating bird: and animals do not prey eaters but upon game birds and anim a upon grains, graset and insects. ‘This creatures o pecullar immunity; man ss enemy which they have to reduce their? they die of accident or old age. “On the other hand, the game bird li hacard from enemies in the air ond oe! pheasant, the partridge, prairie —s a score of mortal enemies where the hawk, the owl or he ; hurvel Lo me that so many plveaaamiei lion, considering the fact that they h cally deprived of their natural defe rather high cover of underbrush fe © partridge: what a system of : dugouts was to.men on the # <—s Our natural coverts for prairies disappeared, excepting in the Mor however, appears to be better pion than any other game bind. Jd tot fact that the pheasant cam be raised § have the reason why this eplendid a substitute for some of the game already is the premier game bird « “Tn fact, the plement inthe o : raised in large numbers bry captivity. grouse, for example, hawe thee

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THE SATURDAY yang, each siiteen feet thigh. These: sai in units for mowing to place in eure drosh eotk pheas- ‘2 or sim ft py each of ments, which cot ait sixteen dollars. The one of moving the entire battery of breeding reround is nearly one theasund dollars, ag pens and fountains this farm must maintain et east thren thousand, about equally divided a field brooders, the breeding and hatching aopen fields, over the fields of this remarkable game farm me thousand broaders, ench orcupied, in the domestic hen and a family of phensant chicles. ers are of durable construction, are painted tet about five dollars in large quantities. ing pens are still more elaborate and consist of emoll floorless house and a yard into which foto dust herself, On the roof of each littl ig a rack or indicator, like a miniature of eators in railway train sheds, which gives the tory af the family or proepective family in to guard againat any confusion os a result bendant quit his post in the hatching season. we made in unite of fort, and cot nhowt ach rill add about tyro dollars to this cot. fine Points in Feeding hing season the services of five thousand to | domestic hens are in demand to hatch the me birds and to furnish eggs with which to nd required by the chicks, Into this custard eda nlao goes the milk of ahout twenty-five This farm has its own switch track, over renty carloads of ea year, and of pieasania and from this aiding. r strains of the fasant and only them apart at ge are the Eng- lack Neek, the the Prince of iVitoge sports— classed ma: ring- fg ringneck hen tty-five eggs in rity. Hens two f age will fall ™ this quota, a3 low as forty = old hen oer] which provides and insect feed iminishing lia= arking from tlikely te fur= season than odin a meager ly possible to ress upon the ple and fresh themant hens ned in a range ndred square whans, for = sheuld newer same ground vasion. To ste invite al- Fowns Lash Any Sense of Wener When Phegsants" Food ty Lying Aroand, , More than EVENING POST Fossey PAsaronts ia @ Foriety of Deootifelly Cofered Plumage one breeder has lost his entire flock and scored a complete failure for no other reason t The period of incubation for trur pheasant cggs is twenty=one to tyenty=three diy, Far this reason the hatching coop in all pheasantries whieh are conducted upon sound the moisture of the earth. acientific principles have no floors andthe egg are placed in a slight hollow or basin of earth, padded with a scant layer of chaff or chopped hay. The earthwork is built up high enough so that it cannot be flooded by an or- dinary rain. If the setting season is extremely dry the little hatching house is flooded with water before the earth nest is built wp. This gives the proper amount of moesture. Before the pheasant chicks are dry from the shell their impulse is to eacape. This is because they are hatched under a domestic hen instead of a pheasant, and because their introduction to the light of day ia under artifi- cial or captive conditions. The prececity of these tiny striped fledglinga is Down a Nook From a Pole Trae bert Tahiag 15 suggested by the fact that it seldom takes them more than twenty-four hours to master a strange lan- guage. When they break their shelle they are all set to hear and understand the pecul- jar calle and warnings ofthe pheasant mother. At the outeet of thelr eareers the eluek of a domestic fen means nothing in thelr young lives. They are belng ealled in a foreign tongue, and thelr first impulse ia to flee from the fussy old atranger who is appar- ently trying to boss them about. Butin less than a days time they have learned the new tongue and obey their foxter parent as if she were their natural mother. There are few if any wild han this, creatures more precocious than a baby pheasant. No pheasant should be fed until it is at lenst twelve The egg must receive hours old and it is better to allow them to wait a full day before giving them thelr (iret meal—a simple custard made of eggs and milk. On the third day their diet may be altered by intreducing pheasant meal, a prepared food somewhat similar to puppy biscuit, into the custard. It is technically known as a drying-out meal. More and more of ft should be introduced into the custard each day; the custard should mot disappear as an element of the ration until the birds are at lenst ten daye old, Aét that age they can do nicely without eggs in their feed, but the pheasant meal should still be moistened with scalded milk. . Causes of Failure | ies COMMENTING on the feeding of young pheasants the foremost expert in this peculiar calling in this country and probably in the world said: “A fertile cause of failure in raising pheasante is feeding mixtures which are too moat. There is just one safe rule to follow: Add enough drying-out meal to rmiake the corabination of a consistency deseribed by the term crumbly moist. This means that a handful of thie feed leaving the keeper's hand as a ball will break and eeatter before it hits the ground. But to go back to the baby chick's ration of cus- tard. “All chicken epge used for feeding young pheaganta may look alike to you excepting aa to dize, Anyhow, they do te moet persons. But the fact is they're not. You cannot go far in rais- ing phessants—provided you are remonably observant—without making the discovery that there laa vaat difference between apes in the matter of their feed value. That difference lies in an element. of which few would think. Epa ' whieh are laid by hens having a free and open range have far higher nutrithre powers than epee from hens confined in pens. Whyt Beenuse the range hens get more phosphorus-producing feed and consequently put more of that element inte thelr eggs. And phospherus-bearing feed ls what the young pheasants must have tomaken quick and healthy growth, Good milk comes next bo eggs in supplying phoaphorus— or I should soy next to eggs from hone having a free range. “ Thesuccessfal raiser of pheas- ants must be many kinds of a specialist, but if he is not a prac- tical nutrition expert he is bound to run a great risk of failure. For more than thirty years I have (Contino on Page Ne}

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16 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FROM McKINLEY TO HARDIN Personal Recollections of Our Presidents By H. H. KOHLSAAT Tr ARLY in 1895 Governor and Mrs, BR McKinley vieltel Mr. and Mra, Hanne in Thomasville, Georgin, Mrs. McKinley waa always delicate and the cold weather aggravated her illness, so the governor gladly accepted the Hanna invitation, and Mr. and Mm. Miron T. Herrick, my family and myself, joined them in the hoepitable Hanna home. Mr. Hanna gent for a number of the Republican leaders in the Southorn States and had them meet McKinley, one or twoat a time, in the beautiful ean parlor of the house, I think, without exception, they were delighted with the governor, and pledged him their support in 1696, and most of them kept their pledge. ; The Atlanta Constitution, edited tor my good friend Clark Howell, got wind of the visite of the politicians, and Howell had his correspondents sending daily accounts of the meetings. Some of the comments were unfaverable, which was natural in an oppo sition paper. I wrote Mr. Howell and in- vited him to come te Thomasville and meet MeKinley and Hanna. Hedidso, and from that day hia paper and he personally were extremely kind to the governor without in any way changing the political policy of the paper. The friendship lasted until McKinley's death, I will depart from the thread of my story to tell of President McKinley's visit to Atlanta in 1898, but let Mr. Howell tell his own atory as he wrote it: ATLANTA, GEoRGiA, December 22, 1921. dify dear Kohleaai : The McKinley incident, ns [ recall it, is as follows: President MeKinley eame to Atlante o tho chief guest sal Pid ata Peace Jubilee banquet civen “sa of Atlanta business mee Ln cl the close of the Specish-American Werte in LEOR, at whieh ban- quet I presided. During the reorning of bin arrival his secretary, Mr, Cortelyou, made acall on me at my office, stating that the Presi dent wished to sea me et the Kimball House, I went there and wos ushered inte the private parlor with the stntoment that “the President ia shaving, but he will be glad to eee you," Only ident and Mra, MeKinley were in the room when | went in. Sho waaaitting before an open fire with ashawl thrown lightly around her shoulders, Tho President sat before a glass ata table in the center of the room, A towel wo around his neck, his face was lathered, ond he was shoving bi He welcomed me, stating that he had sent for me to read § che address he had prepared to deliver to the General Assembly then in session in Atlanta, before which be hed beon Invited to crak that day at noon Ho handed me the address, which I lsherrieair to rend. Every once in a while he left his table and walked to the side of hin frail wife, aclieltcusly fastening the shawl around her shoulders, patting her vereation with me, “Tho feature of the address that [ want you to #ee," anid he, “ix the reference to the government care of the Co nit dernts graves,” in which he stated, In referring ta tha complete ri riliation between the aectiona, thot the time had come when § the Federal Government ahold, toke over the care of the craves of Confederate vetorana, My father, 1 Confedernte veteran, wae then a merniber of the committen that had been appointed by the Fresident tc investi- om the cheek and returning #0 his ecn- te cho growi ig government purchases during the Enandshe merican. About « month ators this, in a better to my. fatbor T bod eup- gested! that. if President McKinley, who had just accepted the invitation, bil: tod in Atlanta, would make an expreesson in javor of the ment's caring for Confederate graves, le would strike a very reaponalye keynote, My father laa me that he had shown my letter to the Preaident, who pleased with the suggestion I theught no moore of it ontil the President submitied his aidtess to me, I went with the President to the joint sension of ed Genera Aseombly thet dag. ‘The galleries were crowded and every mor ber of both houses arose as the President was escort: od ta the apeaker's stand, He was given a very cordial ovation, for while differing with bins politically the South held McKinley in high personel eaterm, There waa nothing uowual about. the first few minutes of bis address, He was rolldly applauded from time to time os he said aomething that caught bla audience, Alter a while be reached that part of his address “ea the care of Confederate graves by the Government. purposely held it no a climax. a a mdpute the sudienes was in w storm of applause. never before witnessed such a scene in our General Assombly, Rath the galleries and the floor joined in an uproar of enthu- #iSAETL, Every oghnh in the hall stood and every handkerchicl went ih inte the air. iii i om recs sarong, &n anly. Pram ‘tt Wiilttam Mehialey Tenora flowed down the checks of Capn- federnte veterons, ond when the Presi- dent conclude dthe 4 particutirly made fi Flak te shake bla tis He saw inate ly eoupht th and bn seer plensed at the result. As we lel fe he paad,* Ther liked it, didnot thay ‘The speech ¢ ‘ing hit theo whi cle South and the moxt day was the talk of he town. cers tht incident as] scull it, Ut was nm long time Sate but ob is ell fresh in my memery, a fhe Re thing , Stent that day that [will te viet forget ard thet kos alwoyn nnidior Pc | Mes Kinker's mem sory ta mo mas the is sauctitud, wee salit atude of this trail fe lie ant By the firealda 1 eordioal perecnal leat, wishes, I um Ti ifmed! atkE JTaaeph Me Lill, sad the rc: hie LO Tri- lmtne, was also in Thomasville in 1894, and jolned in aome Put the conferences. His grandson, Medill McCormick, apent a few weela with him and sent in aorme of hia first efforts asa cub reporter to the Tribune. I think he met his future wife, Mise Ruth Hanna, the idol of Mark Hanna‘s eve, during this visit. [met them riding in the pine woods many times—the slimdark-eyed Ruth inatrim riding habit, riding astride a high-mettled hores, [twas sald she could control any of the spirited horses of Thomasville, for which the city waa famous, When MeKinley left for Columbus I rote as far as Atlanta with him and visited my friends, Clark Howell, Afters, Fillam Mee laley May tn Joel Chandler Harris and Frisk L. Gy for a few days. “Uncle Remus" invited me tos meal at hia house im Peachtree § When we arrived at the front jer in that wonderful musical voice ol ta, Kohleant, weuld you mind our gargs tothe kitchen gate? vA litte wren by her nest in this gatepoet, so we box up wntil the Lethe bide are batched! Ir FTER selling the Enter Ocean, 18594, with my family | iments in Europe. On curren in Washington for a few weeks in th 1894, going to Thomasville iz thew 18965. While in Washington, in Mar-h secured a provisional option on wl of shares of the New York Timesff Charles E. Flint. A block of & aary to obtain complete contra: obtalnablefor some weeks—en tl wae never completed, Druringt tiene for the purchsse of the Times my boyhood friend, J purchased the Chicago Heraldtra Walsh, and the Chicago Time & parties, and merged them ints Thres-Herald. He aleo bough t Post from Mr. Walsh. | On April 22, 1895, aixty days a nequired the papers, Mr. Scoct denly in the Halland Hews Thirty days later I pamchased beh in both papera amd changed Herald fram a Democratic toi newspaper, The Evening Pot pendent, and remained so, i During the year 1595 then quent mottings, held gr land, of McKinley, Hanna. myself, At one of the gah wie asked to go te New 1 interest Thomas ©. Platt, an of Penneylvania, in MM cE ink; One Sunday some weeks later home, We Were sitting in wh called hisden. After dinner whe nekel Hanna what report he | of his. visit to Platt and @ sald, “You can get bod and Penney lvania, po there are certain com they?" Hanna replied. ' 2 Promise thet | pant Tom Pu of the "Tree Want it in w says he hae hi FL cae with one Finally facing Hann me, he saicd = “ThEe are some age that come too President without promicin Flatt Secretary of the educa be President." Hanna remarked, “New York ened Pie dinch the nomination—with the +ote: ols MeKinley said, “I can't doit, Miark.* “Well,” sighed Hanna, “we hare got to make up that big block of votes. but we « At a later meeting, held in the Hered pect Street, while we and our wives «cre mutid netifiel Mr. Herrick that tera gentle set him in the parlor, Herrick excgsed |

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jer 7 beard some-loud talk and then a slam of aa, Benck, flushed and mad, returned to the qn Mark Hanna nuked who they were. tes, “A suple of blackmallers!" oy fave a law in Ohio giving half to an ofeertie not listed for taxation, These two Horch he tad some loans in his bank, The pGarings, on eeeurities that had not been listed. to 2 the paper containing the names and stich be quieth put in hia pocket. Theo raised Becick putthem out, They could sea McKin- aoa Irom the hall, and probably thought dis- ithe better part of valor ater, when Herrick was not in the room, MeKin- Toa would net think Maton had the nerve to nid wa? i the notified the German Government in August, ui omalting the State Department at Waah- tevery American and his property would be » Paris, and stayed at hia post and took over fussan and Belgian embassies, as their min- mriedly, anything can be expected of what alled Myton's nerve, Filr 1295, 2 mutual friend informed me that the I replied, the TimerHerald greatly embarrassed Mr, paper continually insisted on a clear declara- gt St. Louis. jority of the McKinley delegates wore from Vest and Weat, Mr. Hanna was bombarded fon, “Who repre- Kinley, you or the | on the money ws todd that Mir. j, 'Kublaaat is a es oot represent himself.”" FP previews wnder- Hanna and I had cinvtlon for seme fore the conven- a called for June reoventh, I went hin, and spent ith McKinley, tclare definitely old me that 90 cormesponden ce ced him it would dasa. He saicl , editor of the mune, hed been ‘days before on \rizona to Nirew ongly advised anid, "Tia gold do we will mot st of the Mis- return to Wew @ printed the allyrs top to maintoinm old standard“ fumed, bec uee rd is that, and 2nd ao on, and tegram from lof Chicago, une 11, 1BSG: see the word ¢ you should Sol left that al, about ten e twelfth, I inley henacd- the door I =raon, Wasah— ent of the He said, ws Inte that ws out fer ere Marl '". Herrick, Welville EF. ' Merrlam, nator Red- ont. [me a copa ein i av¥ed by inten the m i THE SATURDAY EVENING between “existing and “standard” and then eroesed out again, making lt rend, “the existing standard must be main- tained.” Mr. Hanna explained the plank had been changed becawee there Was strong protest agalnst the word “gold from Indlana, Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska and other states weat of the Misais- appl. where the majority of the McKinley delegates were to come from. Targued [bw coward) oe not to aay “gold "and make the declaration definkte: that the plank they had adopted meant gold te the gold man and silver to the silver man.- Mr, Hanna lealated fe mbght defeat eR inley's. nomination ifthe word “gold"" was putin. We munde little headway for en havir or ao. Finally Hanna said,“ Damn you, Henman, haven't you any compre mige in your make-wpT" ‘Nat an this ismuae, Mark." Well,” he said, “I have no more time to waabe on a crank,” and then be left the room. About three o'clock, after five hours of arfument, tha hated worl was put between “existing" and “standard,” Hanna waa sent for and teld what had been agreed upon. Afork Nonna STATE OF OHED LxeontineDepartinent QEFICE OF THE GOVDRWOR. themnla; Pit AC/F3 Me fan eth wel Cam oF th eate arhet val hay a aaa ae tenettlntors ~ thu Typatsice Gf — Gee of MeKinles’s Letters of Thoake Folleoiag the Payment by Friends of Notes Ve fadorsed for aa Acquaintance YW He turned to me and said, “Are you satia- fiel now, you damned erank?" T sald, “Yea: [don't like the promise to send a commission to Europe to work for birmetalllem, but willstand for tt." We then pledged ourselves not to give [publicity te the plank, as it would upset the McKinley dele gates. who were for allver, After the meeting Mr. Hanna faked mé to comé to his room, and halding both my bonds he aiid: “You probably have noticed I have dropped you. enthely fora couple of months, Well, I want to tell you Dam just aa atroang a gold man as jou ure, but if I had been as cuiepoken aa you we would not have gotten the votes for McKinley, but I want you to know I love you just aa moth aa ever.” He then told me they had over Gib} Votes pledged for McKinley, ane it book only 463 te nominate him, MeKinley oc- tually received ffl in a total af 924 in the convention, The gold plank received BIZ14 votes, and the silver 11014, There hae been much discussion as to who wrote the gold plank. It waa sent owt after its adoption by the con- vention by the Associated Pres and others os “the Kohl- gaat plank," bat I had nothing whatever to da with writing the plank, except to put the word “gold” between the wards “ex= isting and “standard.” Every one of the seven men present wos a atrong gold advocate, but some feared it would defent McKinley Uf the offensive word wis put lite the platform. With the exception of Senatar Proctor, they were all from the Middle Weat. They had com- Wete contrel of the convention and could have posed any plank agreed upen. With a few changes in wording and the addition af the werd “gold” it was the plank agreed upon by Governor McKinley in Canton ten days befare the convention, and was token to St. Louis by Mark Hanna. Saturday, the thirteenth, I mailed 2 copy af the plank to Hornee White, editor of the New York Evening Post, and nsked him not to publish it, but to wire me if heapprovedit. Tuss- day morning his reply came: "Thefinancial plank is sutisfac- tory ta me.” Monday, June fifteenth, I was in Mr, Hanna's room in the Southern Hotel when Senator Lodge, who had arrived in St. Louis Sunday afternoon, came in and walked to the table where Mr. Hanna was reading the speech of the temporary chairman of the convention, Charles W. Fairbanks. Without any preliminary greeting Mr. Lodge aaid, “Mr. Hanna, [ insist on a positive declaration fora gold-standard Plank in the platform.” Hanna looked up and said, “Whe in hell are yout” Lodge anawered, "Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Mazaa- ehusetta.” “Well, Senator Heary Cabot Ladge, of Masachusetta, you can go plumb to hell. You have nething te aay aboutit,” replied Mr. Hanna, Lodge sabd, “All right, sir; I will make my ght an the floor af the convention. "T don't care a damn where vou make your fight,” replied Hanna. After Loge [eft the room I said, “ Mark, you mite a me take, We don't want a fight (Continaed on Page [20,)

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is THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 19) THE NUMBER ONE BO ms HE officer who had appeared in The " = Jimmy found himielf prod oom estia Was @ of (Cel Billion ici the: i RoomofCecctialBiawesacioon, | JOY VOhm Taimtor FOOTE twcomet cama Jimmy noticed. He was tall, slender Gautama Buddha—iles, | and very erect for his years. ar tana FLELUITRATED or * A. 2 KROERMNER Yes, that was it—alore! fe hawklike face with deep-set piercing known what it waste be goss! aurike over g. almost white eyebrows. He took no ending of Jimmy. His eyes were fastened on the girl of | Jimmy's dreams. When he reached i her side he seized her by the arm. “How did you get bere?" Pale and dumb, ahe only stared at ir. He shook her arm anxiously, “Betty, ore jou all right?" She nodded, still apeochless, “How did you get here?" She made a visible afort, “T passed the guard by mistake, « Boxera chased mo here. I couldn't get beck," : “Passed the guard! How could you? What for? Never mind—I'll ask you about it later, You're aafe— that’s the main thing.” The hawk- - like face turned toward Jimmy. * Steel-gray gimlets bored into him. “Who ia this?’ "Lieutenant Lee—Colonel Hrad- ley." Jimmy heard the faltered fatroe duction aa though the words had been spoken from a great distance. He managed to salute, however. The salute was returned, “What are you dolng here? The words were dnapped from bebaeen thin lps. “I'm with the relief expedition, al," Jimmy began to explain. “L Company, Seventeenth Infantry. “T enlled for help from the window as the troops were 7 faa the girl broke in. “Licutenant Lee saw me an “I'm addressing the lieutenant, my dear.” She flushed and subsided, Jimmy had been relieved of the adr eves for an instant. Now they returned to him. Tae Jomber Er of Tike Pabetieonbia Seriane Fiathed Upon Vien Wied che Fores of o Kiam . ——" “As Miss er— Darrow says, ahe called from the window. T saw her and came in. I found some German troops looting. I ordered them out. Miss Darrow was alone and unprotected. I remained with her." “Why didn't you get her back to the legation, lieutenant?” “There was sniping from the roils. was afraid be risk if “You Left sour fégiment whthoawt orders bo do mot" “Yes, sir." “But, eplonel,” she began, and wis smitten to silence by a look, “Who's in come mand of the Amer= ican forces?" “General An= drews, sir." “Who's in com- mand of the Seven= tenth?" “Colonel Blair, Bir “Report to Col- onel Blair. Say that you've Been. me.” A sudden shade of warmth ape peared In the grim face. The eyes teased to boro; they suggested ap= proval. “Pell him lady. toward the squad af marines at the entrances, knee my coming ty this temple was remarkable? Thad no ides where you were. [ simply knew you were gone, and yet [ came straight here and found you. stand it, [t's the most extraordinary ——" The reat of the sentence waa lost in the rattle of arma a2 the marines came to attention and swung briskly into guard formation about their commanding officer and his I think your conduct hes been en- tirely justifiable." ; "Thank you, sir.” Jimmy saluted. “Give Colonel Blair my eompli- ments and tell him that you have been protecting Miss Eliza- beth Darrow—my flan cal "Fianeée?" Jimmy's lipa repeated the ward sourdleaely, Hin eyes groped for the face of his dreama—the ivary face with. the dark awirl o hair above, for which he had peered all those i years. Yes, there it was, * pale, quite pale, but ‘ there it was. The lipa with the little droop-at the corners—the warm, moist tips which had clung to his five minutes ago—moved in apesch: “Tocame to Ching te marry Col onel Bradley, Weexpect tobe mar- ried when —" “Not "when, my dear.” The howklike face becaunve almost tender, "We'll be marrled te-morrow.” “To-morrow!” she repeated blankly in a whisper, “Thank you, lewtenant," sald the bridegroom-to-be, “Come, my dear.” He put bh arm about the girl of Jimmy's dreams and led her “Dio you I don't under= “Tray thoald the Great Decter Morale, of Few Tork, Fasie Wie Faluable Taowghts on the Fgaornat Weather, Chang Foo E.cep 7 ** “of day one can be really alone, he now diseoversd x} litth hope. Jitaey waa without the amaliee fy He moved to the altar steps where they hoi ag had told her everything. He had forced bey Now he knew why she had seemed like 2 bel take wing. He sank down on the altar step hia face with his hanes, premeling his fingers be his eyelids, Itdid not prevent him sesing wy words, written onan oval of black velvet: “ The Chicken Hawk !"—* Fiance !"—"Ty shut his jaws on @ groan that ‘tried to kraret fre “You are in traghle?™ Jimmy looked up to see the old wonderful face and eyes and woice standisy “1 have been sent to comfort you." “Comfort me?" . Jimmy's laugh was not g "Go away, old man. Let me alone.” The somber eyes looked at him paar h, "So speaks blind youth in its folly.” became suddenly metallic. It had a cas “Rise, young soldier, Tha brave meet » : Jimmy got to his Jeet automatically. He ng in a far entrance accom T Celestial Bliss. The light of day! He most He hunehed his shoulders and set bi jaws es to face a withering gunfire aa he moved teen af sunlight, “Where are you going?" Jimmy laughed his uncanny laagh. “Ta hell—if you must know.” “You are already there Jimmy halted and wheeled, “So you've been listening?" “Remain a moment longer, Perhaps rf hope." “Hopel™ said Jimmy. “That's just a only one word that hes any meaning forms “And that word is?" “Tomorrow.” “Theres are many tomorrows,” said 0 aofthy. “They run throwgh all eternity” “Yer.” admitted Jimmy, “but I'l not i “AI The golden voise tolled the we "That ia why [ have come to you now. | f mat ; i = a is

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST gio Mart tart pounding, Jimmy-wondered. habyect! Even a preposterous hope was better pe Abredy be did not feel so horribly alone. poedury Chinaman, that was certain. Chang rf feted beard the name before, Tt had seemed ade had mentioned it first, What else hed 1 Prophet! OF course. Now he remembered. tealetel China. Prophecy! Again, why not? shoe well ke knew, that forces scoffed at by so dda hidden reason firet controlled and then jie. Hestretched owt his hand to a reed, an med, butall there was at which to grasp. . iets are a [oe Where cn Dut if you tell wre day, mew here, {will be together — dianee an you." low,” said Chang Sst (his is writben el: In the blackest: five Fill ever know, ." aid Jimmy. He ied rapidly to the mace and out inte 13 oo Low raised his high dim ceiling of of Celestial Bliss dto his orm be- wh the curtain, heinnorent saffer y may abone?" uF of Colonel Brad- @ American Lae= » Wis attuabedt to din the shadow proper, lsmall, imposing struc- dll Gke no other iheerved in any Tasona and car= flowed the plana architect im tts mault waa as dofa California been planted im liz walla had trie Humngralonay lifted higher, coked with as= their surround= de a growing m™m to the ac- ' ther strange othe roof flow= luted tiles and cpa were adox covering: da. the house hae the American fag strictly with the them-=- - required for ditchen to be colomel gud F post, That ‘are before. * China, in- doerept imtoo Tun the slow cess of over= 246 of a near Ivilization. et yet com-— | a e¢haetic middle stage. The reault i WH @ ling. » for pec which was the heart of ors, real doors, that shut and locked, open or as Girmily closed at the turning the door knobs mo longer stared boldly irunwinking @acse was thearted by tall eons set. for the moat part directly ul roam ome side of the room like ered im residential districts of the intinent. ‘Che. true lines of the room wed in this cmae by long curtains of ped with light—blue plim trees. A rted by uncormpromisingly square legs, ' mantel desigmed and manufactured inna. “Che eouch was hidden, forgot- ming erimaon silk cover on which 4 silk-threaded needle, held by patient Chinese fingers, had wrought a symphony in storks and flower. sia for the mantel, though it bore in the place of honor at the center a photograph in a gold frame, this waa flanked on either side by a row of vases made decorative by the indifferent drawing and marvelous composition and color of the land that fashlaned them. And so it went. (rand Rapids chairs of cherry and imitation walnut; a carved tenkwood seat in the bay wirkiow, A cold green carpet fram the machine looms of Brossels, dotted with mellow, hand-woven prayer rugs from the province of Seechuen. A desk in the exact center of “Dead Come Mcrae Me! Boat Come Near We f°" the room waa boldly plain ond serviceable. Om ita gide, however, hung a amall brass gong rimmed by inevitable dragona; and the lamp standing on the deak waa an urn- like affair of bronze upheld by three solemn mandarins, Hf the living room showed the East and West engaged in ailent combat, its immediate outlook suggested anything but strife, A wide doorway at the aide of the room broken by the bay window led abruptly inte a garden ineclosed by a rambling, inconsequential wall which separated it from the grounda of the legution. Tt was a small garden, which artfully contrived ta sug- gest larger things. A garden in which one became dellght- fully aware that the tlny peal af gaber in the center wes a huge calm luke; that the infinitesimal streamlet dribbling therefrom was a serenely fowing river; thot the ridiculous bridge creesing the streamlet bad the pompous arch of 2 mighty span, Having noted these things it became easy to seq that the winding narrow paths, flanked on both sides by shrubbery, were broad fair roads which ran through frowning foresta to far places of mystery and charm. It was, in a word, a Chinese garden, untroubled by a. troubled world, as chaste, as lovely as the great round moon climbing the sky above the garden's wall. Colonel William §. Bradley was not looking at the garden. His back was toward the open door leading inta its soothing calm. He was writing at the desk in the ernter of the room. His face suggested the clashing of his immediate surroundings. Always that fee hed been hard; now it was also haggard. It had lest o Little of its hawklike appearance. Howlks, aware of thelr ability to sirlke, are aeeured. “This dazed and bewildered old howk had lost some of his mssorance. He signed the last of a num- ‘ber of communications to vori- fs commanders of the allied forens, checked over a requisi- tion on the American baggage trains for supplies, changed the ltem “as much condensed milk ns can be spared" to “con= densed milk, tins, 6000," ad- dressed the recpuisition and struck the gang on the desk, A Chinese servant appeared. “Talkee orderly. Come this side," said Colonel Bradley, in the customary pidgin which serves as a slonder bridge ncross which ao littl understanding may poss between those of Eng: lish speech and the menials of China, A moment later a sergeant. of marines entered the room, crossed to the desk, halted and removed his hat, The ser« geant'siner was deeply scammed, He wes grizzled nt the temples and his close-cropped mustache was the color of an. ancient badger. But his hue eyes held the twinkling youthfulness of his race—which wos Celtic— and hestood, Hike his. command- ing officer, as straight ag a sapling. He hed served that officer for twenty-live years, firet as striker and later as respectful confidant and friend. “Ys, gor, be said. “For Colonel Chabrillane, French Headquarters: for General Modida, Japanese Headquarters; for General An- drewa-— deliver this first."' :""¥is, sorr.” ‘The sergeant looked meditatively at the let- ters in his hand, “And how's Miss Betty, sorr? You'll exs cuse me for callin’ her that. I ean't teist me tongue to the new name vit, sor.” “She's still —indisposed, Tim.” “Bad luck to the yella bellies that give her auch a fright. Will ye give her a bit of a mes- sage from me, eorrl, Tell her the old orderly that's waited twinty years for a missus takes oy in paying his reapecta ta er," The eyes of the two men met and held for an instant. The opinion of others had Tarely interested the hawk. He had tenored them and the subtleties of life aa well. He could ignore the latter no longer. His marriage four days before had plunged him into a growing cloud of doubts ami fears. He had married a child—the one neem ber of her sex who had reason te be grateful te him. Until the day before thelr marriage she had seemed grateful. She had been dutiful, friendly, allectionate even, Sines then Of course she had had a frightfol experienee with those Boxers; nervous shock might account for her desire to remain alone in her room fora time. Bat four days had pessed. And why did she suggest a rat ing trap if heao much as opened her door? He had a sudden desire for an outside opinion of his marriage. The best, perhaps the only friend he had on earth was this Irish noneom standing before him. “Then you approve of my marriage, eh, Tim? doesn't—surprise yout" (Cenftinged en Page &9) It

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THE YOUNG nephew, George Coventry, has caused mé many an anxious moment, The fact that he himself, no matter how grave the outlook, never seems to share my anxiety serves in no way to minimize it. He is wont te to the very edge af the rocks, and then, by some in- . spiration or luck, shift hi helm and bring his ship about, quivering but safe, I know of no youth who enjoys meddling in the affairs of others more than George, He is incessantly bringing people together or separating them, luring them into matrimony —not with himeelf, of course—or driving them away from it. He fancies himeclf immensely, I am forced to believe, in the rile of dews ex mochinn, A good-looking, clean-looking, innocent-looking boy, Goorge is; cheerful, insowciant, casual, with a sense of the ludicrous which I, belonging to an older generation, am often at a loss to comprehend. He is rich and an orphan and a bachelor. I am his guardian. Hence, as Horace— or waa it Terence ?—aavea, these tears. The epiaode which I am about to relate occurred during the summer—the summer that my stepaieter, Mary McKnight, took a howe for herself and her daughter, Annabel, at Fool Harbor, My atepsiater is a voluminous woman With the intellect of a moron. I say this at ance and sharvelesaly, but I shall have oecasion later to refer again to the magoitude of her body and the parvitude of her brain. Annabel, however, is radlanth different, She is alim and blond and colm, and her mentality seems bo be superior to that enjoyed by most women who have benuty, For Annabel is very beautiful in a decent, decorous way. Her beauty, | suppose, was in a great measure responsible for what come to pass that summer, Primarily it was George's fault, for George had intro duced the splendid Robert Gregory to Annabel, a thing that be might not have done had he boen able to foresce the consequences, That George knew Gregory was in no way surprising, for George knew a great many people, and people, too, of all classes of society —pugilists, bookmakers, ex-bartendors, professors, actora, rich mon, poor men, begrarmen and thieves. “That actor fellow, Gregory,” George hadsaidte Annabel, “Like me to bring him around some day? He seema all right except thet his nails are too pink. However, I don't suppose women object to thatas much asmen. How aboutit?™ "Robert Gregory!" Annabel ex- claimed, with as much of a flutter in her voice as [ have ever heard in it. “Robert Gregory!" "Dear me, yeal George assured her with a wink in my direction. “Gregory the Magnificent. Young giclacry for him.” “How do you happen to know him?" "Ob," said George carelessly, “he's net so hard to know. In fact, he's quite eaper to associate with what be calla smart people. He's even gone eo far as to in- vent ancestors for himself, and [ve here him aay that he wished more well-born people would take up the stage om o career." “Well,” observed Annabel, “you must admit that he's one of the few Americon actora that can play the purt of a gentle. man." “That's just what I do admit," agro George promptly. ‘He plays the port of a gentleman very well, He's always playing it." “Bring him into tea,” said Annabel, “and bet ma knew in advance.” So that waa the beginning of it} and, as you see, it wns really George's fault. Gregory came to tea ina top hatand a cutaway, witha white alip edging the opening of hi waisteost and a gardenia in his lapel, He bad an imposing chest which he expanded gorgedualy; be was almest-six feet tall; bis hair = Se eee — a — = THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Moy x4) BERRY WIVE “is a Geatus, I Teli Foo, the Retiercted. “Me Lead waa curly and shiny and gray at the temples; and he had a cloft in his chin. In short, he was well-nigh irresistible, If he had come but once I don't think that any of ua would have worried; but he came often during that winter and spring. Annabel liked him—ehe said so frankly; and Mary, my stepaiater, fairly worshiped him. He had the women at his patent-leather feet. Tt was not surprising then that he was invited to visit them at Fool Harbor that next summer. It waa not aur- prising; bat it waa distressing to both George and myself, for [ need not explain that we had soon found his charma Father cloying—a little too sugared for the male palate. “Ointment on his hair and cologne all over ra George pointed aut “He has his inithis on everything that he owns,” T added. "You're corrnecior than vou think, Unele Foster, He has R. tr, nently embroidered even on his underwear, I know, for IT was ones in his dressing room,”" “That fs contemptible," I said severely, “Foe shouldn't be allowed in a respectable house." But he was. Te went to visit Mary and Annabel at Fool Mar- bor, and George and I went ton, af OL HARBOR is on the coast of Maine not far from the New Hampehire line, It pere- ceases all the neces- aary equipment of an American eurm- mer aort—a coun- try club with tennis courts and golf links; a reading room with private lockers and plenty of frult and cracked len; a lane, ogly hotel; a wayalde iin thot caters to Bours ists: a few actled bourding houses; m quantity af collages for ren¢—and usually all rented; & posh aiien; a town hall; » store or two, ably munaped bythe descendants of the pirates and buccameers of the Niaine const; a bath- ing beach and an adequate supply of indefatigable, in- dustrious young girla. My. stepaister choae Fool Harbor to economize. She never chose it again far that reason. And yet it a harmless, innocent. appearing Village, with merce of the deliberate magnifi- eence of Newport, Tt is frequented mainly by nice, well-mannered poople— many of them oducoted— whe are neither ashamed if Gregory Came Jtomplag Gur to the Ferondo, Loads lag irritergd But Wafeari¢ FrELVITRATED ik OM # Peopte: Me Doern't Follow Them ‘either mantal or physical, revolved. Theal By Gordon Arthur Smit they BF DEREMEAUSXs vung and Ig Matyi wt jn rs 7 fie the topic of conversation, the hour for lum determined by him: and even Annabel, | note, seemed pliable and passive to bis inf fluttered about him like an elderly eorited "T am indeed delighted, Mr. Langley,~ in hia resonant, unctuous volo, “And fares it with our mee "T'm all right,” answered my nephew b I could see, the patronage conveyed in “o "Annabel and I ara whacking che about thie afternoon,” Gragory Hy you two have a round? It's an admirable." “Don't worry about us,"" I eaid. “Well some sort." j "The devil finds work for idle hands tay Gregory with bis rich, deep laugh. The queting. I found, and generally i “T am motoring,” announced Mary, 1 thought tt was her turn to say something. | welcome to come with me—or not, po This is Liberty Hall, you know. There, te ian't ie?" “Te fs," said Annabel decisively. “Dear lady,” Gregory interposed, dom new, The great trutha have remains, even for the moet brilliant « them as gracefully aa we may—to add here and the hint of silver there. But th the same through the ifes—the eter tern that is trut! George, at this remarking that he would “Tt fb nearly time for the 2 st consulting his magnificent ibis Je Promptly at soon," a wet" I ventured. h, posliively!" said pr iin If I did T should haw I ate no lunch I should indesd, we all bathe pr “i “Yes, invitee, en nothing further, . Oe ewes n the way to t braid George é such as Robert Greg “What do you ka matinés idol—gran were mad, I think, your Aunt MMiaury, | if you don't, it's) Pour against the bigamist bog woman admires Pe who | : the man who dupes othes x “Heavens, Unele Foster,” have you been doing all your life ta Woogie /

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THE SATURDAY ehest ey eyes open,” I said severely. “ Now riled, Iwapparent that she is greatly attracted Geery penen, whereas you and T are repelled by jhet,egabounder; at worst, be may be—well, epitg. Inany case he is not the kind of person fie toe Ansbel murry. Loni forbid!" said George. “You don't really pyre thal far, de yer tae ie, but m afrnid, And I'm extremely fond a." iodide. “OT course,” he said. “T'll think meccight—get the old brain working again.” at” Pad, “and for onee I shall be glad to see feiran afair which I suppose is, after all, not ne bosicesa.” ale it my business,” observed my nephew rir po douht that George racked his brain assidu- anendeavor to hit upon a plan te thwart the Aotert Gregory; but for two dave at least there jer even from George's brain—a brain which Hound fertile enough—and Grepory made even fein be advance toward Annabel's favor. Soronany otcasion for that matter, he monap- conversation with the ease and the perfect juteurk thee abcustomed to publicapeaking — ye, conereen and others. He had a pecul- way ol annexing anybody elae's remarks to and of contradicting them: or, at the malldest, gthem into what became a monologue by ov. And always he talked of himself. T have brad a man employ the pronoun of the firet qoectly in my life, Himeelf and his art. tevening of our visit he read aloud extracts by William Shakspere, with eritieal cam- bert Gregory. He eat, 1 remember, in the ht chair in the howse, and we formed what aen—and in the case of Mary and Annabel 4, adering audience about him. His dinner » George obaerved, elegant—a shirk so ad that ft gave the effect of raffles: a broad {than wdging of white above [t; a single ire stud about the diameter af a dime: wnd ame af his trousers. IT have often wondered o't at a rule dress like gentlemen. wio be: thead te the ams vnobler in Me mind ‘r ent ore of oufrageone fortune, inte ayarircet ‘a sea of troubles, weing end then? To div: to sleep: — Here he paused so long that D hoped thet in truth there might be na mare vouchsafed us. He fixed his lustrous large eyes on the chandelier and, his lips elightly apart, shook his head slowly as Lf in aorrow. Then almost in a whisper he repeated, “"Te dle: te sleep: fo more."" And presently he added: “Lt is too beautlful! Mark the simpliclty of it, the simple grandeur, the working up to the terrific climax! "Ne more!’ Tt is everything, and yot it is nothing. Ab, dear lody"'—here he turned to Maryr—"the import of those two simple words bs overpowering, tran- acendent, "T recollect well the day I was presented to Irving. I was a mere lad, a youth just testing my wings for the great flight, ond he was even then an old man; a wonderful old man, a@ glorious old man,” he added generously, ‘But T had the confidence that goes with youth; the confidence which, alas, ebbs from me with every year of my career on the stage, and I recited to Sir Henry this soliloquy of Hamlet. "T shall never forget his expression when I had finished. Never! It is one of my proudest memories. sind the words of encouragement that he gave me—he, the gray- haired veteran who had ron his race, and I, the stripling towing the mark! He said, I remember—and you will pardon my seeming lack of modesty in quoting it, for I do ao only to exemplify the ing penetration of the mag- nificent old man—he ssid, with a fatherly hand on my ehoulder, “Young man, yours is the most astounding inter- pretation of Hamlet I have ever beard.’ Then he smiled and turned away without another word; but it waa ap- parent that he was greatly moved." T confess that Do myself waa greatly moved at this am- higuous tribute, and George waa restraining hia facial muscles with difficulty, But, a George put it, Mary and Annabel ate it alive. That Mary should have evineed auch naire! did not surpriae me, for my atepsister had never been endowed with a trace of homer; but Annabel—that was a different matter “When a woman's in love,” George explained later from the depths of hia infinite wiedom—“when a woman's in lave she'll fall for anything: and Annabel's in lowe with that ham actor or T miss my guess.” That she wos in love with Gregory, or in o fair way to sd belng, she proved to me even mare conclusively when L first had an opportunity of talking toe her privately. Annabel was—aond heaven knows is—hobltuolly a serene, cheerful and frank young woman, not given to hysteria or even to overmuch introspection. She was accustomed to accept life as it was denlt out te her, rejole= ing in the pool chiys and muling the beet of i j the bad ones, IT have seldam seen her cry 1] and. Jess seldom seen her lose her temper, Gregory Jat Does Fery Slowly, Staring at Teetiog Week Wide, Bealidered Epon EVENING POST 2 AE ee at = al But she came near to doing beth when [ ventured to remon- atrate with her in regard ta thia Robert Gregory person. It was on the bathing beach, the second day alter our arrival; w brilliantly clear day such of Fool Harbor can produce so often in August. Somehow or other I had man- aged to extricate Annabel from the company of Gregory and had bed her up the white sand to a secluded spot where the beach narrows bo nothing and the rocks drop abruptly into the sea. In the distance we could observe my sbop- sister bounding up and down in the mild little breakers that ambled up leisurely to the shore; and some distance out I fancied I discerned the black-rubber skullcap of Gregory as he plowed shout with a great waving of arms and splashing of water. George was passing the time plens- antly and not unprofitably, perhaps, conversing with five: T counted them carefully—five young members of the less timid sex: but even as [ looked he unchivalrously aban- doned them for an informal game of baseball that was being held on the hard damp sand. George likes pretty girls, but he seema to have other interests as well, ard this unfortunate lack of concentration leads me to believe he will never marry. At his age neither baseball nor wild horses would have dragged me away from those five silk- clad daughtera of Nereus. Satisfied that [ was secure, then, from immediate inter- ruption, I seated myself beside Annabel. “Wellf" she inquired, clasping her white arma about her black-sllk knees. “I infer you are about to tell me that you dizapprove of Boh Gregory.” Annabel is intuitive and abrupt. Taken by surprise, 1 fiddled about with my toes in the sand and sought for adequate words. “Whot have you against him?" she inquired. “Nothing definite,” sald I. “But what do you know about him? Is he o gentleman?" "Tan't he?" She was aeumlng the offensive. “T don't Hike bbs clothes,” [sald firmly. + She turned ta survey me long and leisurely, and I was immediately conscious that [ waa wearing a rented bathing suit—a gray affair two sizes too lange for my rather lean figure. She laughed, but did mati preset her advantage. “Unele Foster, "she sald, “you're ridiculous. He's a genius, and geniuses can dress any way they please,” "He's selfish; he's aun egroist,"’ [ ohaerved. “He's a genius, I tell you,” she reiterated. “He leads people; he docen't fallow them. All great men are egoista or they wouldn’t be great. Napoleon was an egoist—and Robeapierre, and Cromwell, and Byron ——™ “Vee” T interrupted, “but 1 shouldn't care to have you Marry Napoleon oF Robesmerre or Cramwell or Byron. That's ane thing about geniuses — the less intimately you knee them the more you eon admire them." “’The night woman,” she replied sagely, “can do any- thing she wants with any nian. It's simply a quention of man- agement. You know af well a] that Lf you put the right man at the head of a busi- nest he'll make a succesa of it, where the wrong man, with equal apportuaity, wold Land it an the rocks. Well, if you put the right woman at the head of a man ehe'll make a suc- cess oof the job, otherwise net. Te's only a qes- ton of manage- “And you're convinced that you're the right woman bo man- age GregoryT" Sho hesttated @ apace, Jeaned ever and picked up a bone and hurled ft deftly divte the sem, Then she sald, “When I'm eon- vireeed UU marry him." "TT chor't claaube fe," Tuald, “onal Pwarn vod that if yeu de yeu'll pend mest of your life listening toe him talk about hirneseltf and the rest of (t embroidering mone- grams on his uncderyenr," (Coutinerd on Poge 33)

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22 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A’°D'! 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANLA, U. S.A. GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR Five Cents ihe Copy Feom All Newedealere By Subecripcice: To ibe United Steers god Pomepeshos, Maisie, Cobeile, Cobe, (oem Rio, nahn Republic, Geuador, Mondor, Mawicn, Sloaragus, Salvador, Pasomae eee Pero, 18 tie Veer, Rem by U.& Money Carder, Express Money (hides, Check on by Ovedr, payable in, 6, Funda, To Canedse=By Seteoripidon, FM the Yeur, Single Copies, Ten Canis— Ceredian ae U. 5 Funda, CHhet Potelen Coarse la the Pete! Deten Suberiiptbens, BL tha Year Remiunaces to be by Cereft on oo bank is the U5., peyeble fo LS, tee, PHILADELPHIA, HAY 27, 1922 Cutting the Canyon Forests E HAVE just received the following resolution, which we are glad to publish: FLAGSTAFF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA ; The following resolution is respectfully aubmitted by the Flogetull Chamber of Commerce: Wheres, Agitation has been raised in on attempt to prevent the sale of a large tract of timber in the Tusayan National Forest, on the basis that the cutting of this tim- ber wall detract from the seenie beauty of the Grand Canyon; abd Wherecs, No thiber will be cat cloae ta the highways lencling tothe Pork, and, furthermore, sinee the timber along Desert View road be nat ioeluded in the sale rea und only mature timber will be removed, allawing the thofty young trees to remain aso basis fora second crap of timber; and Wiereas, The sale of this timber will mean a direct re hum in receipts to Coconine County of some 380,008) in addition to other returns resulting fram the manufacture af at least 4,000,000.) worth of lumber; Therefore, Be it resolved that the Chamber of Com- merce of Flagstadl go on record as ¢pposing all efforts rade te prevent the aale of this tract of timber and heartily endorsing the sale thereof. CHAMEER OF COMMERCE OF FLAGETAFF, ARIZONA By T. A. STAWL, President. The forest referred to in this resolution -is the firat of those adjacent to the Grand Canyon te be marked for the ax. But the othera will follow in the natural course of events, inchading the magnificent woodland on the north rim, Which Emmerson Hough has advocated setting aside in perpebulty as the President's Forest. So strong has been thar pressure of local interests with eye on this timber that the bill providing for setting aside the President's Forest covers only onethird of the desired area, and even this has small chance of passing. Apparently eighty thousand dollars looks big st this time, but we believe the sum to be an insignificant fraction of what the timber lying adjacent te the Grand Canyon ia worth, standing, to Coconine County. We sympathize with the desire of our Western States properly te develop their meecurees for the benefit of their residents, but any- thing affecting the Grand Canyon bs bigger than Flagstaff, higgmer than Coconine County pnd bigger than Arizona Tt is a national, not a local matter. One of the great charms of the Grand Canyon Is its setting: of beautiful green forests interspersed with lovely THE SATURDAY EVENING POST little open parks. To pot the ax to these trees at this the, when the real possibilities of the Grand Canyon as a great national playground are just beginning to be realized, is, in cur opinion and with due reapect to the Flagetaii Chamber of Commerce, the height of shortaighted folly. Open Season for Americans UROPE was never more eager than now for the Amer- iran tourist trade, but her people are making a very foolish bid for our business, Hotel men, restaurant mana- girs, government officials, taxieul drivers, retail shop kespers and inderd almost every purveyor with whem the traveling American is likely to come into contact has grosely overcstimated what the traffic will bear; and when knowledge of this becomes common tt will keep thousands of varntion tourists on their own side of the Ationtic until present conditions underge a decided change for the better, Complaints of extartlonate charges, minor graft and barefaced impudence are wellenigh universal among re turning tourists, They are not confined to professional penny pinchers or to frugal students of art and music and school-teachers of madest means. Those who spenk with most bitterness of the way in which Amoricana are treated in Europe are well-todo men of affairs, travelers for business or pleasure, who apend their money freely when wt work and lavishly when at play, but who never- theless resent being trimmed and gouged and stung at every turn. From one end of his Journey to the other the teurist who goee to Continental Europe under present conditions is in the clutches of a money-extracting machine that works with merciless efficlency. He must diagorge passport ar vise. fees net only at home bit in every country he visits, Often these charges are only ten dollurs, but Germany has lately been talking of raising viga feea for Americana to one hundred dollars. The tourist's steamahip tickets will eost him rather more then double what he would hove poid before the war, though a8 a rule the service is not 0 good on it waa in 1914 and the tipa range higher. Railway travel on the Continent be everywhere costly, oaually uncom. fortable and often inennitery. There are a few trains de luxe that are clean, fast and comfortable; but such trans- portation is the exception and net the rule. Outside of Tealy hotel rabes ore Likely to be found high and golng higher. A self-reapecting Parisian would sleep ona purk bench rather than pay the prices that are charged at some of the big hotels on the boulevards that are fre quented by Amoricans, Short-change workers, baggage thieves and sellers of fake antiques abound, and they have gequired a skill and technic that are marvelous. Art ab- jects of every sort that our people are likely to buy ara counterfelted and multiplied to meet the demands of American tourlat trade. At every frontier the American traveler is likely to be subjected to inconvenience, to personal indignity or to both, In many parte of Europe Americans are treated with opan conbempet and mist put up with insolenes thet they are powerless to resent. Europe haa no scenery, no architecture, ne examples of art or craft that can wholly counterbalance or atone for the unnecessary yoxntions by which the Amorican tourist is beset. Experionesd travelera who apeak the language of the countrica they visit, wha knee the ropes and who potron- ize the smaller hotels and restaurants, will avoid many of these: ineonventences: but even they will net travel under prewar comditions, Nothing will improve conditions in urape more quickly than cutting off for a time the summer stream of American gold that every year floods her capitals. “Our Cofontes in America" HERE are oeeasional newspaper references to the widespread Teutonic societies —said to trace back to the gilted Herr Stinnes—ane of whee functions la the pystematic gathering of American trade information for transmission to Germany. Greek, Balkan, Japanese and Middle Europenn propaganda have long since been Mey tn recognized aa permanent inetitutions. Th aos cant fact that we have net yet come bo paler 5; tude of some of the governments of Coriney) toward their nationals im this country. W oy 5 them as tolerated racial groups that we pal xy assimilate if they do mot, in the meartin rq process and assimilate ua; but Old World caries them in different term. With rare skill and foresight Eorope. wo fe ag stances will permit, ships overseas her ker dy citizens, Once on American soil they become they of aayvetematic campaign to make thers weedy! ty th country. She profits by the savings they wed op water, Bhe encourages ther [rmquent return is od they may be freadhly imbued with a sense og hationality and that they may be imi prised wd of loyalty to the land of their birth. Obviously we have nothing to fem from the wi alien blocs in the immediate future: bet 2 cy is pursued for twenty or thirty years, a mere dy lives of nations are reckoned, it will inevitably & that the American palate will find about a om an wnripe persimmon. Facial blocs meting in concert for the fertherssa local interesta can make trouble enough. Ther stitute a far graver menace if they labor in they overens masters. We have tasted similar medi now, and we have not found it th our king. Useless Inventions HE annual output of all the gold, silver asl mine in the world does mot equal in rales} profits derived from American invention. T reason why the subject of patents holds a decid tion for the average person. Almost everyosd with the life steries of Edison, Bell, and other gp ican inventors whose experimental work has worldtamoug. A lot of folka know that the = robber button far garter fasteners earned o million dollars, The originator of a mew ineclen alao received more than a milliom dellers for right to handle thia material in only one cour tr man.dosigned a now style of suspender ands million dollars in profita, The designer ol o shoe laces received more than two million reward for his ingenuity, while a college profs, several hundred thousand dollars for his iro telephone apparatus. Large fortunes were o> inventors of a collar button that turns dows a steel pon for shading drawings, a mew me ing sugar, and bundreds of other mew icra devices, But alongside this satisfactery picture os of the subject with which the publie eho This leza favorable side of the question & a by the saying, “The patent office is the buned hopes.” Though milions of doll earned by inventors and by investors in pace gre Jost each year hay people who have pind to impractical dreams or falas belief=. Ts: the failure of so many patents ia the lack of) eration most Inventors give te the como which is the essential factor im the prome idea, a Everyone should remember that the o compelled to issuc a patent ta an inventer novel device that ia not inoperative on ite ‘s the patent-offce seal of approwsal of acs. sonst a eniterion of commercial walue. As the more fantastic the deviee the egsier a patent on it. The field for improves profitable line: of endeavor, where the me chines used are widely known and well trim reatricted than in comparatively new % theoretical fields of enterprise. Teo moc usually attached toa set of patent panera! other line of activity is it so emsy to gel entation of the truth for purposes of fe ploitation of a perfectly valid but wholis

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 2a he Inside Story of the fi. E. F. THOSE Pam y Aner ie ike setup ioe 6 a tho a thera 1 grim “ike Prenth | press toward the perfectly tht upkeep of the American gpation which Washington tte Allied finanes minis wey met to divide the Ger- If y 8 familiar with what face aod Great Britain reimburse themselves: op anmies of occupation, nored at the time the , ad proceeded to alla oct of the German pay= melves a reparations. de on the part of our late Allies proved a majority of Americans. They were sur- he Paris press and prominent spokesmen mich demanded ta know what the American ing on the Rhine anyhow, and when they ght to eollect payment for ourselves, in- : United States did not join in the peace al the spokesmen who had been mest in- ctention of large American forees in Europe up in all peace settlements were now the ‘queries ag to why the United States kept any at all, méeAmericans, the French view point dowbt= iatter af wonder, and it is hard for them te so. sane a people could entertain euch ex- That they should try to utilize our forces mies was comprehensible, but that they inow to make them an outright gift of the contracted, and should also have asked radidiers to work aa laborers in restoring égions—to the average American mind, ee are inexplicable. oosing Viewpoints views on the war and our reluctance to Joubtleas just as puzeling to the French. of what a people has been taught. One o the information in his possession; and tis molded by propaganda. All national & to propaganda, either printed or by struggle clamored that they fought for a liberty, and consequently neither of a neutral’s aloofness os being. based on dice, Wow, the United States as a ithe war from that standpoint in 1914— e finally went im our soldiers went over: gthat they were going tosomebody's Inited States was in danger from Ger- Tiean in a theoweand actually believed. I. the French were persuaded we ought war long ago, that we were late, that had been figshting our battles. They ward the British in "14 and '15 when trength was slow in making itself felt. bad been fighting for us all slong, ian that the French should look to us By GEORGE PATTULLO BECORATION BF GUERNIEYF MOORE’ to share their burdens? It would be only right thet we should, if we admitted the premise that in fighting the Crermans in 1914-16-16, they were alao fighting the bat- thea of the United States. Few Americans will admit that, however, Victory seamed to have the effect on the Allies which sudden, unexpected success so often produces in the indi- vidual. Tt completely turned the French head, And in the scramble for the spoils of war they forgot how there happened to be any, Ensued a diplomatic struggle with Great Britain, a struggle involving military operations wader various guises, and the threat of more, Immesiiately after the armistion Marshal Foch began to assume a high tone, All the problems confronting the Allies he attacked from a purely French standpoint, whilst commanding Allied resources to make his settlements effective. The armistice went into effect on November eleventh and Pershing immediately tackled the job of returning the American troops home with all possible speed, If became necessary to take up with the Allied commander in chief the question of how many American divisions would have to be retalned in Europe until] peace was signed. Pershing could see no real need for anything brut o small foree, a sort of nominal representation by the United States, Marshal Foch thought differently; under date of No vember twenty-ninth he declared it waa impossible to diminish the strength of the American effectives in France below thirty dir-visions—about 900,000 men—and if General Pershing wiahed for the departure af the Ninety-second Division—a colored division which had been ordered home by the War Department—ho was at liberty to plan for it, provided he could maintain the total number of divisions agreed upon by replacing the Ninety-second with a white division, On December twenty-fourth. the Allied commander in chief set forth the minimum forces each of the Allies shivuld furnish for the fone of the Armies—in other words, armits held to apply the peace terms—and the American Army's quota was fined at from twenty-two to twenty-five divisions of infantry. After the signing of the prelimi- nariest of peace a total of thirty-twe Allied divisions wauld be sufficient, Foch stated in this note, and the Americans would furnish six of these, In reply Pershing pointed out that “our problem of re patriation of troops and their demobilization was quite different from thet of France or Great Britain. On aceount of our long line of communications in France and the time eonsumed by the Oomin voyage and travel in the United States, even with the Maximum «ms Playment af our then available transportation, at least a year must élapae before we eould complete eur demobiliza- tion.” Therefore he proposed that the number of American combat divisions to be maintained in the Zone of the Armies should be reduced on April first to iifteam divisions, and on May first te ten divisions. Several weeks later Foch revised his early estimates und came to the con- clusioh that one hundred Allied divi- gions equld bold down the broken and largely demobilized! Germans, and he requested, the American Army to fur- nish fiftern divisions—more than 450,- Omen, As therateat which we could return aur troops home necessarily left more than that number of divisions in France, any promise along this line Was superiivucus, “We were, therefore, able to keep our available shipe filled," saya Pershing in his report, “and by May 19 all combat divisions, except 6 still in the Army of Oceupation, were under orders to proceed to porta of embarkation.” It if clear why we kept troops in the Army of Qerupa- tion at French solicitation, and that thelr numbers would have been greatly reduced had the French not objected, The Restored Provinces WING to their propinquity to the lost provinces and the part they had played in their liberation, the Amer- ican forces entertained the hope of making formal entry into some of the citios they had helped to free from the Ger- man anmica—Sedan, Metz, andsoon. Forsentimental and political reasons the French desired to quake these entries with their own armies, As it would strengthen their prestige in the restored territory, and these provinees had not long sine: been French, this desire was only natural and everyboly was agreeable to the arrangement. The American command readily met French wishes in this reepect, but when the Allied commander in chief displayed 4 purpose to impress the Gerrana in the same fashion hy mixing American forces with the French armies of occupa- tion, Pershing flatly objected. On November twenty-eighth he wrote to Marshal Foch: “After very careful study I feel that it is most advisable that during the occupation of German territory there be no mixture of units. “Many perplexing problems concerning our relations with the civil authorities and with the inhabitants of the eccupled countries are certaln to arise. In dealing with these problems, the troops of each nation must act in accordance with the laws and customs of their own coun- try. It is as inadmissible that a Freneh commander should act onder the laws and customs of America as that an American commander should have to carry out instructions relative to German citizens, emanating from any source not directly responsible to hia awn Gavernment. “My Government holds me responsible for the relations of American troops with the German inhnbitants, and it ales holds me rexponsible for all euch relations within the Amenecan “one, 0 must therefore request you to modify so much of your instructions concerning the occupation of (Comtinagd on Doge 128)

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24 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Many SINGLE, DOUBLE, TROUBL Dis -werld of sin I craves to leave; De angels sing an’ do nok grieve: T craves te jine ‘em, hand to hand, An’ neveh leave dat heavenly band, HE Wildeat, feeble with leg misery and ailing mightily, moaned his plaint toan indifferent world. Over in another corner of Captain Jack's woodshed, Demmy, the sewed-of member of the duet whose mi tual friendship had been cemented with a flood of sticky molasses, pried the mascot goat's mouth ajar with a stick of kindling wood and propped it open with a clothespin. “ Reveal yo'self, fool, an’ stay re- vealed. Go blattin' round here {"m eatin’ pork'pine bushes! Stan’ still. Mebbe dis learna you neveh to relish dese thistle bushes.” Demmy picked the stickers out of Lily's mouth to an accompaniment of song from the Wildcat, prone on his pallet in the corner of the wood- shind, Heah J is, Lawd, uid my brece"plale on ; Sweep me up on high, Wattin', Lowe, wid my breae’ on? Honia’ fo" my home on high, “You gits on high afteh de front seats is filled. Wilecat, how come you is so soggy-minded? Lawd don’t crave no sweepin's. Lawd sweep yo up wida club, Preacher say think befo you pumps, “Member dat nex' time when you starts flyin’ an” fin- shes muscle-bonined." *Owine to be no nex’ time. Neveh gwine leap no ma’,” “Serve you right did.yo’ neck git husted ‘stead ef only stratnin’ yo" legs, Heah you ‘dulges yo'self in a hight prowl an’ gits chased. Den whut happens? You climbaa fence— sudden. Thinks you knowed de lay of de lan’. Thinks you knows yo' own alley, <All I ses, perves you right." “Demmy, how I know dem neigh- bors was diggin’ dat deep pit fo’ dat ‘cinerator thing? Las’ hund'd yeahs dey hauls garbage. How come dis ‘cinerator pit rage so sudden? How come dat pit right whah I aimed to land? Naw,suh! Ol" Lady Luck los* my name, else she wait wid a helpin’ han’ when I fell. Devil yell, ‘Pick yo" peineh!" an’ Ol’ Man Trouble pick me.” “Serve you right. How come you night prowl anyhow? Some woman some place, seema like to me," “Demmy, you wrongs me. Ain't no woman, Whut fo" [ go prowlin’ afteh some woman? Got me single troubles enough now widout hitehin" on any double extry." “Dat's whut dey all say. [speck to see you hog-tied in madrimony any day now since de word went round you had money." “Ain't got money. “Vested it wid dat hack-pay man whut is gittin’ us army boys de boonus.” “You save. [ strains to b'liewe you, Naw,sub, Wilecat. You iasho’ backslid on de sin road. All] knawe aes is, onee you an’ dis goat was upright. Den you pits de night prowls, loses yo' money, like to busta vo! legs gittin’ loose fm whut chased you, on’ de goat takes to mibblin® thistle an’ pork"pine vines, Yo" misery is richly deserved. Richly deserved an" net half plenty, Heah T stays by de house close, like de town marshal knowed my name, an’ all [ gits is a added burden to bend my back. You ain't dane nothin’ ‘cept lay down. How dem legs? Ain't you able to wrassle dat jag of fancy washin' de cap'n's wife is sendin’ to-de French laundry?" “Speck I kin, Demmy. See kin I." Groaning plenty with every move, the Wildcat tried his legs and found them better than he wanted them to be. When work crowded down heavy a good pair of sprained legs were pretty handy to have, They had served os o shield between him and hard work for four days, and now it appeared that the time had come when Demmy would te relieved of some of the heavy running round, By HUGH WILEY FLLELUSITRATE D Br | Goren. “Whufl! Dat right leg feels kinda gentle, Lef one is able te stan" up. Whah dem cla’es?" "Time you was askin’ whah de work is. You been askin" whah it ain't long enough. I gita de elo'es an" fetches ‘em heah. You Jugs ‘em to de laun'ry. Rise up an’ welk.”

The Felled Frronger Pilowed Nalfear Inte the Mane oF Peraplviag Dancers ts Mavi the Earaged Mognecia With this parting admonition the sawed-off Demmy left the woodshed and meandered up the path toward Captain Jack's house, where on the back veranda rested a bundle of feminine wearing apparel whose fabric had seemed too delicate to be intrusted to the rowgh-and-ready attentions of Captain Jacks Amazon laundress, The Wildest stepped gentle as if time booned him with a premium of bone epayin, He to the corner of the woodshed where the mascot go trying her teeth on an old rubber bot. “Lay off dat boot! How come you git yo' face full thistle bristlea? Ain't you learned whut ia delicate an' whut aint? Stan’ roun® heah!” With a length of clothesline in his hand, the Wildest relayed the abusive and critical language which Demmy

uddenly bbled had showered clown om bhim churizg ths lus toe "“Goat—one mo” step on de sin road ys! hot end of dis rope. Stan’ still!" Lily stood still, About her neck the Wii} the thin rope. He fixed it in position an: id looge knots, and presently the muscu was a complicated net of harness from which pai, line and a pair of free ends, | “Back up!" Lily was boosted to putin iy broken-down baby carringn that stood aginst thy) the woodshed. “Groat, halt! Quit eatice’ ditroe bangs you wid it!" A ly clumsy lnote und Lily va} “Dah you ig! Dah poy de harness! Ponder opel ponder which is whe. Pq whilst mah legs is ailic’ yj haalin’® i dose try & Lome whut ain't got betteh ou eat briers. Serres pu rid Detaimy appeared is ike with the bag of laundry, | “How come de hitehedy Dis washin’ weighs fh.” | “Goat does de hyciic’. mascot wid light waiis wid pig iron befo' [se theogg dat goat. Whah de c's dem raiment? Which laun'ry?" | “Speckle-face worn yard. Same a las’ tine) was laid up wid chilh took it. Woman name Bunny. Ain't neveh wed say she light hwilt an’ a Demmy dropped the! elothes in the baby =] | “Git goin', an’ come |) De kindlin” hatehet 1 Ise busy wid de col 4 till suppeh. On yo" wap The mantie of communi Wildeat had worn at (ag home seemed suddesl; & transferred ta Denny shoulders, but in bis soll for his diminutive ae Wildcat found nothing at Demmy's aseumplm ity. On the contrary, b relish the new busines cll around. "Tse gwine, Demmy- temp'rary wid me an | ailin’.” “Vou be ailin’ sor” in de high. Git gon a back. Don't delay wit! Magnezia woman wiclt laun'ry. Neveh seed br says ahe been hitched to repeat.” “Aim lota, does ate o proof. Lots has aired, pulled de triggeh.” growled his marching | mascot. “Git got’ | collar!" “Neveh mind bows is."" Dermmy called 2 of advice, “Wher d talk begins you f= come back single 'srad trouble, Don't say 0 to no yallah widdaha whut has French oo ‘om. See you at suppeh time.” The Wildcat and Lily, convoying thet = limped their slow way down the length of the alley met the wide street. they swan’ here, without knowing it, they Lady Luck.

iF IX feet high, young, akinny and ci nezia Bunny had chased one forgotten sanctuary of a penitentiary, killed a © process of renting him out as a feld band, aged tn looking for a third victim. tina ivi without much work. In Asemphis were clearing ? # paraded her technical {Centinued on Page 2!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 25 MADE THE MAKERS OF CAMPBELLS SOUPS ¥ i far oa a a — apt at Bam 1 ie cna es, i. ae oe eh i's = ak mH 1 te cd, che Fy he ; | ao. lo oi ta ie oe le ke | Ee eee a lat ri * ¢ a te ; oe) " ; wir ob he +, i F a r i ne ' ai ef =, [ r i = " Al ar 4 Sa r a * Slip this in your outing pack! Time to eat and Campbell’s Beans are mighty good when you're tired and hungry! Just get a whiff of these tempting, savory beans and their tomato sauce. Your appetite will go for them like a trout for the fly. They’re easily carried, already cooked and the best kind of good, solid, substantial food. erve hot 12 cents a can Serve cold Except in Rocky Mountain States and in Canada BEANS 9 HOGS $ Dei Saiz ie D--\) =" TINTS LADS ZL = oer Te. in eee ieee + eee - ae

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26 (Continued from Page 24) competition. She left the parade in possession of a reputa- tion for being the best laundress on fine work for miles around. “Exclusive,” that was her motto. Folks had to be somebody before they attracted her professional atten- thon. Being somebody in her mind meant a commercial rating first of all, no matter what the social register might have to say, “Folks thinks if things cost twice as much dey's twice as fine, I learn dat when I seed my fust man relish a nickel cigar whut de saloon man put in de ten-rent box. Ise learned lots siner den, but it stays de truth, Folks pays big money to be fooled. I fools ‘em. Cost mo" to have me wash an” tron a pair of silk steckin's dan whut de stockin's ves used to cost. S'clusive—dat's me." Toward this exclusive establishment, riding herd on the hitched-up mascot goat and leaning lightly on the handle of the baby carriage, limped the Wildent. "G'long, Lily, gittin’ late. Don't crave to mise no rations, an" dese legs ain't ‘quipped wid much speed dis altehnoon. Git “long dahl" “Bla-a-a!" Lily recelpted for the message, and then, her mouth still sore from an overindulgence in nettles, she held her lower jaw at a cross between ah and parade rest. The Wildcat asked hia way. “Whah at de Bunny wornan live? [ means de washlady woman.” "Nex" do' de grocery at de co'neh. De yaller-do" howse,"" "Lily, git in dat eollah! Step wide!" In front of the yellow-door house the parade halted lang enough for the Wildcat to restrain Lily with a few turns of repe around one af the pickets of the fence. This aceom- plished, he mounted the narrow porch and rapped loudly on the panels of the yellaw door, On the [natant the lifted edge of an upstairs lace curtain fell to place and the Wild- cat heard a patter of slippers on a stairway. Then his ears were seduced with two gentle syllables cooed in the sun- down tone of a turtle dove. i Enter." ial Huh? FF Again the soft voice from within the house, “Please eorre ie.” “Who—me?” A boy never could be too careful, responding to these trap voices. Maybe nobody had said nothing. Sounded some like spirits. Hest thing to do waa to atep down off the porch where Lily and the laundry were real and tangible. The Wildcat retreated one step to the rear, stumbled and got a red-hot reaction out of his sprained knee, “Hot dam! Oh, Lawdy an’ vinegar wid de shootin’ blaze in mah laig! Oof!" The door opened te emit a blast of guinea-hen lan- guage in which the dove accents were completely lost. “Hush yo" mouth, nig- ger! Hush yo" yellin’ befo" dis lef’ wing unkinks a transfer and knocks you f'm heah to whah yo" face isa dimple. Shut up!" This was something that eculd be understand. “Yassum! ‘Scuse de ruckus talk. IT brung de washin’ {'m Cap'n Jack's lady.” “Bring it down de side path. Front do" ain't ne laun'ry entrance.” “Yasser {" Lily was cast loose from her moorings and hazed through the narrow gate and around the house. At the far end of the pathway a wide expanse of clothes. lines, half of them draped with silk and fine linen, met the Wildeat's eye. Laces too delicate to be warped by clothespins lay around in the sunlight, sup- ported on a series of white wood frames a foot from the ground. "Tle up dat goat on" fetch dat laun'ry insidel" “Yassum!" Here was a te Ts regular industry. No wash sehen lady's establishment had ever been like this, Here “Wilecat, Honey, F Beer THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Was @ superior onganization, and the bows of it was giving orders. The Wildcat tied Lily to a clothes pole and groaned & littl: for effect when he stooped over to lift the ten-pound bundle of clothes cut of the baby carriage. “Whuf! Dem wounds sho’ is ragin’.”” “Bring it in dis do’. a "Yassum., Lawdy, but mah wounds pain me!" ‘ ee wounds? White man wound you close to a hen OU “Mis’ Bunny, you fails de mo'tal flesh wid dem words. Dese is wah wounds I ‘ewmulates back in France.” en de back, you say? Long time ago, seems like—dat “These la long-time wounds, Bay'nits, pistil shots, can- non balls, shaprel—one an‘ all T metan" konkered. Lef" me feeble.” The veteran modulated his voice to a tremolo to fit his recital. Inside the kitchen bis eyes fell on half a boiled ham, resting at ease ona platter. He resumed his wild recital of his A. E. F, ordeal, winding up with « burst of eriticiam directed at the mess sergeant of his outfit. “Boy neweh fed wa artall, Sok! de nations an’ drunk hisself to de fo"gettin® point wid de money ev'’ey month. Aln't got mo’ dan half enught op vid mah rations in goin’ on two yeahs steady eatin’. Seema like mah wounds an’ dem wah “fictions lef" me wld de perm nent craves in mah atummick, Ise a Wilecat fo" ham." He looked directly and fixedly at the ham. "Set down “till I gits you a ham ean’wich,” The day was won. "Woman, whet de blade! Omit out de san'wich part, Don't aim to let no bread clutter wp mah neck whilst de ham laste. Plain ham. Bread I tolerates when dey ain't nuthin’ elae," “Ham yo'self whilat T gita de coffee hot.” Half an hour later the ham had sunk without a trace im adesen cups of coffee, “Who! Magnezia, spec’ heaven is a ham island in a coffee lake, wid you wettin'a whetatone whilst T swings de ham knife. Nobles" rations [ eveh et!" “G'long wid yo" plag'in" talk. You sez dat!" “Tae a bullet fo" ham, whinin’ soft an’ bitin’ heavy. Ain't ne me’, is dey? Dat's whut sez! You aho' is de ham- cookin'ist wornan Ise evel knowed!" Fe Taket Fou, etivd of Worrer, I'Cepte Fo" Pieadia' fo! er, “Wilecat, go "long! You cuts yu’ words ts an’ us all wimmin gite de same dren.” “Ain't ao, Mine it. Always ben dow pray waa, Wid a woman whut really keowed ben o.9! “Wileent 1" baal", F + : a The Wildcat was slipping and he knew it. He and buzzed loudly in the web. 7 “Got to be goin’ now befo" Cap'n Jack lets ps houn's.” "How much yo" white folks boon eects like you is mighty anxious te git back." “Depen's, Git none lately. Ain't spoke ma alnee Cap'n Jack boon me wid de blue es y 4 shoes. Gran" shoes.” “Wileent, put on dat raiment an" tend de nisl . Sis’ "Liza's house. Woman wid de hush isl tlhewhah., Gran’ time, with an’ inclots' ald oi you kin drink. Yow an" me. Us goes dot! “Whah de place?" “Fo! gates fm de Black Beauty Livery—yn | place.” "Tknows. I comes an’ meets vou acrifertal | hes" way." “‘Whut makes you so hangin’ back? You aj you, an" decelyin' ?" "Clare not. Tol’ you once. No tag on me Lawd's breas'plate. Neveh doubled non. F trouble widout doublin’."” “You sho’ you comes —ain't deceivin'’’ “Ain't no deceiveh. Got de Lawd's Seea ye dis night. Got to beat de blood! gittin’ back.” Stoop-shouldered with his cargo of hope wi! Wildeat staggered to his feet and hobbled to: deor. At the door he paused a moment for t! lables of a farewell in which were mingled th ham and prayers for the future. The tenor cf inspired a reply from the widow, and in ber sounded the cooing-dove notes which had frst through the frant door of the house. "ow, honey, hush.” Honey hushed, having nothing better to doa barrassed eyes, seeking escape from the ‘aoa manent then gion failed Then he cole batted bees his aves tig the scene [ Then his & mascots is times he tried goat, but o until o ten bong Til of his dry! spesech. “Lig ™ His woe low. The he could 9 volley of e goat, ond bette, "a aac in Wedieck' " — _Pigitized byioogle

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST =e a ' i pret. (3. ag Tees Proof of Its Sounder -Value Medel 22 Instruction Book Se gang Mefel 22 Vepoobles at ch mt fedoy unl me Acre hod ae mong ura for Waal "9 Drttrectimn "Books, Vial di nicer tic dep been printed, Owerrs fd urd LAs book from wa af he Prope. Production of fhe Medal Hf coe! cn fo J—ngld ere Op. Found In the Years Behind It obile this of ite pre- ig not strange that the Hu it should be shattering us high sales records. vers today are scrupulously seeking out ue, particularly among motor cars. “y are giving outspoken and positive ference to products whose worth is iliarly known to everyone. wearty 14 years people everywhere been saying good things about Pusmobie AT Sales Records lre Being Shattered where it has long been spoken of i unusually good car. It has made a ant name for economy and reliability lomg life. le who have never owned it, regard aost as highly as those who drive it ' day. upmo Our January sales this yearfar outstripped any peenens January. February regis- another smashing increase. March not only surpassed February, but registered such vast strides that the rec- ord of our largest previous quarter went to ai the ute increase over the Sarre: in 1921 was 172 per cent: an April showed a still greater proportionate gainover the frat three monthsof the year. Hupmobile owners, as a rule, are not one-time buyers, They come back for another Hupmobile. A great proportion of cur annual production is regularly taken by those who know how much it Means—in savings, in continuous con- ¥enience, and in ace of mind—to drive a car like the Hu pmobile. So it was inevitable that in times like these, auch a reputation and such & record should stand out sharp and clear, and attract new buyers by the hundreds and the thousands. Hupmobile Cuenartt lattey? Fore fells Owner-Future The years of owner-satisfaction back of the Hupmobile are founded on the good qualities which it is proving every day all over the world—real economy, in low upkeep and infrequent repairs; ¢ ock-like reliability: surpassing performance; length of life and high re-sale value that are decidedly unusual. They foretell what the new owner can count upon when he buys a Hupmobile. Towring Car, $1250; Roadder, SUBS; Rowdee Coupl, #1uaE; Coupe, Rigas; Sedan, BS, Coed Tine oe all melee Price F.O0. 8. Detroit—Revenue Tor Eriro Hupp Motor Car Corporation Detrolt, Michigan

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(Centhaued from Page 24! wringer, twisting through ite trajectory, reaped a harvest of lingerie three feet to the right of the goat. Lily, with a look of injured innocence shining virtucualy from her eyes, asked ont question In goat language before she was lifted high above her banquet table by her master's arma. “Lily, fo" less dan money you gits sold to de slaughter- house, Dis time you is et yo'self to de edge of yo" grave. Lay dere, varmint, till IT axes whah de road to de butcher's!" The Wildest elammed the gost down into the baby carriage to which the mascot had eo lately been hitched. “Lay still! Repent an’ ‘wait de minnit of sacrifice!™ He turned to the war-dancing widew, “Magnesia, all I sez fo' de present is words, an "dem words is whut de judge siys when de jury ri ‘Guilty.” Dis de las’ time Lily pesters you wid ——" The double widow, looking at the cringing form in the baby earriage, waa euddenly reminded of the fact that heaven disguises its blessings every so often. ““Wilecat, shower down merey!" In her rind, superior to her rage, flashed a scheme whose success would substi- tute the word Maraden for the Bunny part of her name. "Det goat has et de profits of a year's work, but she didn't know no better. Fo'give de transgreseor an" judge not les'ye be penned up wid hoss'thieves, De Lawd gives an’ hauls back. Ise only a lone an’ downtrod widdah, a elingin’ vine wid nobody loborin’ in de vineyard; but Ise willin’ to fo'get an’ fo'give dat li'l’ goat.” The nobility of Mis’ Bunny's words was all pummed up with sobs and blind gestures. She groped feably rat 4 her tears and encountered the Wildcats arm. “Magnezia, dry dem tears, Ain't nuthin’ Ios’ but laun'ry.”" Sympathy! Quicksand! Tan seconds later, far from feeble, Magnesia Bunny had embraced the Wildeat in a drowning clinch that felt like a session with a cinnamon bear. In his babble of comforting words the Wildcat had apoken no verbal options, but a moment after his last eloquent and soothing phrases had ceased the widow answered him, and her reply was an a@eceptanct of various unoffered things, including one husband. ““Wilecat, honey, I does, I takes you, betteh or worser. I "cepta yo" pleadin’ fo’ mah hand in wedlock. Sho' do, an’ to-night at de party us ‘nounees our impendin' weddin’ festivilies."" Over the widow's shoulder, his hands hanging hopeless and heavy at his side while he breathed with difficulty in the bear-trap cl of his impetuous fiancée, the Wildeat gulped cairlalvely at his sudden fate, He batted hia eyes, The eye batting slowed down and the lids stayed put, a curtain between the fearful present and a future compared to which the present was a sheam-heated para- dise, Whichever way he looked he saw a barbed-wire trouble fence too high to be sealed. “Honey, you is eo cold. How come you so calm an’ steady when Ise all flustered wid de beatin’ of my heart? You deceives me. I bet you is a ol’ hand wid de flame of love; bet you could build a Junelove bonfire in de April Tain. Why is you deceivin’ got" “Aln't no deceiveh, Tol’ you once. When is dese heah weddin’ calamities happen you spenks about?” “"Gagemene is broadcasted to-night at Sis" Liza's party. De eleet folks gin‘ally holds de weddin’ f'm five te seven days afteh dey tella de worl’ “bout de ‘gagement. Dis is Monday. “Nounees to-night an” nex" Monday us gite de preacheh, High noon. Aftehnoon hack drive. Aw, Wile- eat, honey! Lawd, how de time do drag!" The Wildcat saw a temporary out. "Ain't draggin’ now. Release go dem twinin’ arms an" I gits back an’ ‘derns me wid de blue pants and dem yaller shoes sos folks pees me prancin'’ when dis "gagement bizniss is told to-night.” The victim sought freedom that he might be alone in his misery. He squinmed loose, and a moment later, wheeling Lily along at a four-mile pace that indicated a sudden and complete cure of the leg feebles, he was on his way to Captain Jack's woodshed, where Demmy awaited him. He relied on Demmy. He bore down heavy on Demmy, trusting that diminutive genius in this hour of peril. “Dat boy is little, but his head part is all whale ment, like I tol’ him afteh dat prize fight wid dat Haiti boy, Huh! Demmy learn dis Magnezin woman whah to go wid dat hitchin'-bizness talk. Boy git me out of dis like in dat prize fight whah I starts wid one second an" winds up wid ten. Tells Demmy an’ lays back whilst he 'ranges me loose fm dis home-cravin'’ widdah, When dey is six gal- lopera in a crap game I gits double-hiteched—mebbe. Only tuo dice now, an" dey is worked to death makin’ a livin’ fo" me, let alone some lazy manager you is doubled with. Dis heah Demmi ‘ranges me free, Tell Derm how come. Derry fix it." He tried to dismiss the subject from his mind and to dwell upon the happy single past instend of his doubtful double future. The mascot goat, sogged down in the cramped interior of the baby carriage, knowing full well that her stock was under par for the moment, took advantage of a cobbled strip of street to change her bouncing position until her front feet lolled over the front rim of the vehicle. There- after, sitting pretty, Lily enjoyed the busines of being transported without personal exertion. She voiced her satisfaction in a gentle bleat which served to start another evele of brooding in the Wildeat’s brain. "Goat, shut yo" face! Heah I is, thinkin’ of all dem good times us had in de wah, an" you blats in wid yo' eay-60 and brings me back to trompled laun'ry an’ dat home-cravin’ Magnesia, One mo’ blaa fm you an" ws pees fust to whah dey sells goate fo’ slanghterhouse purposes.” Lily was silent thereafter—silent with a fixed purpose that indicated her understanding of the Wildeat's words. Until she stretched her legs and trotted sround in the freedom of the woudahed back of Captain Jack's howe no sound cluttered up her face. That she spent the rest of the Tide gnawing at a rattan spiral ornamenting the atarboard quarter of the baby carriage may have inspired her silence, but this the Wildcat overlooked, attributing her obedience to the perfection of her training. For once in his life the Wildcat encountered a supper hour filled with a subject more important than rations. Tt was six o'clock when the return journey ended, and sixty minutes of life and freedom intervened between the foot-loose present and the moment when, at Sis’ Eliza's party, his entanglement with the tall and spindlin® Mag- nezia Bunny would be released to the listentng local world, “Don't cravenosuppeh. Craveatotell Demmy—cravos to share my woe. Got mea load of grief too heavy fo" one boy. Mebbe Demmy kin lift de heavy end like he always done. Demmy!" No voice answered him, “Demmy, whah at is you?” Demmy, at the moment, was busy in the house, The Wildeat guessed the truth, and with a brief order to the mascot he walked out of the ahed and up the narrow brick pathway to the back stepa of Captain Jack's house, Light from the kitchen gleamed through the screened door. Half afraid that sore malignant turn of Lady Luck's hand might whisk his helper from the scene at this critical elev- enth hour, the Wildest lifted his despairing gaze to the chair at the kitchen table where the sawed-off Wael wont to perform his prodigious feata with food. Demmy was nowhere to be seen, The chair was empty. Except for the fat cook kneeling before the open oven of the long nange there waa no one in the kitchen. "“Whah Demmy?" The Wildcat iP cies Gis boike with: despair. “Settin' de table. Whah you been? Git in heah an’ git to work. Spec" you let Cap'n Jack est alone without qhelp. You gits mo" triflin’ eve'y day! Git dem plates in "de hot oven. Git yo" white coat befo* —— “Women, git plassified! Lissen to whut [ ——’ The Wildcat was Interrupted by een ened He broke off his oration to the cook and in three atepa was at the side of the diminutive brunet. “Demmy, Ise in trouble—bad, Ain't no worse kind,” His whisper rose to a croak. “Ise got ketehed—like you said. Come out heah wid me whilst I tella you.” Demmy sensed the emergency, and the pair retreated into the night, followed by the cook's loud statements of what ahe aimed te do ta both of them, “Stay calm, woman! Us comes back in no time.” ; Lees yeu does I sealda you red wid dis bilin' kittle an’ “Demmmy, don't Hsaen to dat woman. Don't neveh ligsen to no woman. Just like you said, de you-an'-me talk begina at de washlady's, an’ us gits "gaged to git hitched. Party to-night, an’ Magnezia tella de world, All come fm dat goat. Lily et me into dis woe, Preacheh puffo'ms his duty nex” week—den Ise done!" Demmy was ailent for ten seconds, but his twisting face was an index of the intensity of his mental effort. “THs takes epeed, Wilecat. Leave me think some mo’! Another forty seconds of brain work, with closed eyes, Consecutive sbepa of the tentative solution were ticked sal on the fingers bf Demmy’s left hand. He opened his Might work. Ain't sayvin"—sho’ risky fo' me, Seems like eveything I does is risky. Git out of my way! You keep dat cook woman in de kitchen an’ don't let her git neah her own room till after [ gits back. Wait de table fo’ Cap'n Jack. Meets you in de woodshed at eight o'clock wid de news. Keep dat cook in de kitchen—dat's all." The Wildcat’s imperfect service at Captain Jack's table that night and his various sudden attacks of dish trembles served to keep the cook in the kitchen. When the Wildcat dropped oa platter on which was arranged a squad of can- died sweet potatoes the cook's apprehensive mood gaye why to one of undiluted abuse, From then on she was too busy showering down vitriolic language on the offender's bowed head to think about leaving the kitchen. On the part of the victim, he waa too far away mentally to be affected by anything the cook might say, except that now and then at the apex of her eloquent flights he stored away a choice phrase for use on the mascot goat when the time for real language should be ripe. In his dazed mind the Wildeat sought to follow the course and actions of the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Moy 7, gisent Dh =r." striving bo picture ¢ Birh pee Teling af the night’ a drama until the curtain mit: st itl croan of vie tory resting ‘Onl Demos i ‘7 time, at the point where Demmy tcunters iy Ten Bunny, the picture faded and in & tableau of retreat. The retreater wu the Wide § closely pursued by a galloping a: kine bm whoee uptaised hand waved a meat om |abebed # Marsden—Rush.” At the meat-ax stage he batted bis ers ond head in a convulsive attiompt to clear kis bly vision of disaster, At one of these sharing poy lided with the framing of the puntry doe hey ean bed poieh pote ices, “Neveh mind, dey ain't lost. [ em deny aweeps up dem yom.” “You eats dem yamea!l" Fatred ad sory gg the accented you. “Sweeps dem jours up, de Bam! The Wildeat dodged a furled stove ie encounter.the mop end of a swinging mop. “J mud! Git dis hot bread to dat table belo’ | jog? per an" kills me a fumblin’ fool!" “Tse gwine! Yassum!" Through the craven's mind flitted the they unless the night marked Demmy's succen al @ would be one long business of doiging tre thought tamed him, EBltter replies wee Sal before they were uttered. For the time be normally he might have exchanged comploed lamblike and humble to » degree that thats etroy the masterful sentrol and fireside pret had established in the home circle. "Tae hustlin", honey. Gimme dat bread!" “Don't honey me! Git goin" befo" 1 knoe fm yo" gizzard!" “Yassum! [ is!” He was, and while the Wildcat was ambiingy jumps ahead of the cook's slightest wish De ning a personal race with Old Man ‘Trobe Before he had left Captain Jack's oom cuted a quick piece of prowling and em rian which Wells normally oor pbed bar the under each arm @ loose and obstinate bundle} Talment. In the sanctuary of the dark = down his bundles. Then, startled by a sight} far corer of hls retreat, be turned to face ap Phoreseent green eyes. “Whul!" He controlled his feet, “Lawh® gite back | beats you to death fo" lookin’ lien) Ohm yo" 7's so green?” Lily answered with an apology for her rasa ghost; but Demmy, busy with a lantern, deaf to the goat's explanations, Just thal busines! than Ustening to a goat filled be dim light of the lantern he stooped and pickal yellow waist adomed with diagonal black sty minous checked shirt, gaudy with square @ orange, came next, followed by 2 widmanit hat from which exploded a pair of mamive like of which no modest ostrich could have yellow veil netted in the open spaces betwal sprawling purple spiders, and finally s Demmy lashed the sash about his wail folds of the flowing skirt tinder the sash @ place with a square knot that supported 2B 24 big as a dishpan, "Sho' ia awkward! Feels like a fish is al Without fully realizing it ait the m under a suspicion which Pier the reémbled a fish in a net as > did not have fins and gills, ‘see draped a ponderous plush clomke_ Heir forward to the battlefield! "The the lantern, showered down ao ¢ wae on his way. rrr SOUND of revelry by seven o'cloce house, A trombone acrobat on a = give him arm room on the lang notes, a demon drummer boy who had treated ore steak chopping block, a foot-patting 4 drink his likker in action without missog room sixteen by twenty, milling about tim pan, dancing without visible foot me ing freely, forty of the shaded dite of Head and shoulders shows the faney from the knees up,- Aiis" Bf tained a strategic position against an she could observe the front door and comers. A knock at the door, distinct Blues, and the announcer's voice, bayt music: ' J “Mist’ Punic Brawley an* hia Mist" Brawley, followed by his wile, through the press in the wake of he front of a wide tin dishpan filled wih! “Whuf yo'self an’ git tromplin*!* ‘Continued on Page

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30 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 7, Al SENSATIONAL DISCLOSUR HE catastrophe waa (['snenvuntorescen, Some three weeks before his scheduled departure for the national convention Maj. Mortimer G. Lane left River City, and with his daughter Lucy at his side, with his flashy red roadster clutched loosely in one hand, be corkscrewed up the side of Peverill Peak Mountain until he reached his summer home, Hawks Neat— tlaimed by the major's deareat enemies to be well named— an aerie clinging to the side of solid rock. Let into the wide wall of its living room was plate-glass observation win- dow commanding an unob- structed view of all the world that lay beneath. To Major Lane this observation window whe as the telescopic eye of a bird that circles high in air. The major badly needed reat. More, he had to have perspective. Seated in his ob- servation window at Hawks Nest, he could think. There, toward the goutheast, some fifty miles away, lay Wall Street. Toward the south, five times as far again, lay Wash- ington, D.C, In his mind's eye Major Lane could see them; be could feel their aub- tle pull. Seated there the major drew a deep, deep aigh of victorious relief. By gosh, one fight waa over. His delegates were picked—hand picked by him— and every mother’s son of "em unpledged. Unpledged, that ig, except to do what Major Lane would tell them, three weebs from now, to do. The telephone bell rang. Lucey started violently; weeks alter the tragedy she recalled ita ominares tone. Ite sum- mons did met disturb the ma- jor in the least. There wae but one wire at hawks Nest— 4 private wire connecting this retreat with the major’a pri- vate office at headquarters | some forts miles away. I} ; . “It will be Cal Ingersoll," said the major, taking his time wire. Atthe other end was Cal. She told her father ao. “Cal's terribly worried," she whispered to the major; “T can tell it by his voice.” Her, anxious note brought the major up all standing. He eaught the recelver from her hand. “Cal,” he grunted inte the transmitter, “I teld you not—unless —— Cal's young voice, tremulous with the excitement of the moment, shouted the unweleome message into the ma- jor's ear. “Worse than unless!” cried Cal over the wire, “Your Mongol friend is going to run for President.” Major Lane stiffened with momentary shock, “Say that again—and say it slow,” he yelled. Cal said it again. “You see," sald Cal, “he waited until your back was turned; that's the way he works.” Major Lane waa silent. He wes letting ft soak in. Cal's voice was insistent. “Instructions?” he demanded. “None,” roared the major. “Get this, Cal, I'll be in River City in an even hour frorm now." He jerked the receiver violently into place. He turned to his daughter, She wos standing quivering by his alde. “Luey,” he cried, gone tremulous with rage, “there's not an instant to be lost. That wall-eyed Chinaman is going to run for President of the United States," Lacy indulged in no woman's protest. She stood ready, anxious, Willing. She knew there wes no the to lose, “) raat Fou By William Hamilton Osborne FEEVEIFTRATE D ar AUBERT | Alea Ata Per wd to light a mild cigar. a Lucy answered the tele- phone: she flung a young woman's beadinage over the

te Think of Just One Thing, Cal," fold Lecy—“the Pockets of the Peopie'* He was her father’s archenemy, this wall-eyed Chinaman. He was something else, To her this wall-eyed Chinaman once had been an idol, an ideal. Once he had been to her na he now was te the people, But long ago she had dis- eovered that her idol's feet were clay, that the reat of him was mud. Lucy didn'tfhate him as her father did—she detested him; all River County knew that she regarded him with undisguised contempt. “Let's go,” she echoed. And they went. The red roadster took the narrow treacherous mountain path like a wildent; she had a wildcat at her wheel. Mfaj. Mortimer G. Lane, in spite of a certain physical deficiency, waa the apeediest of speed manises, His red roadster and his wind-tossed shock of snow-white hair were infamous on three thousand miles of commonwealth highway. Nothing ever happened, it is true, The major was violating daily every traffic regula- tion known to Ged and man. This time he went the lirit— there was no time to spare. The wall-eyed Chinaman was at the other end of « forty-mile run. The major threw discretion to the winds. His usual luek was with him, He reached the foot of the mountain safely. He swung very swiftly, on two wheels, into the Medway Turnplke. He was fairly on his way. Tt was barely dusk when they rounded a sharp turn and caught sight of the khaki uniform of a state moter cop. The state moter cop, very much on the qui yive, saw them ATATHEW S first. He leaped ix: dle and started in os

Slowly and pad gathered herse! Stunned for thr a girl found that et: been tossed to ote how miraculoy 2 next instant, wii waa frantically og battered car, trying and main to drag! mangled thing til underneath, Shee enough; she cal the caraninck. 2 wail of helpleart the night air farts eop snorted its dashed into imal By dint of soe trick he succeeded rolled the car upa “Ay father—M gasped the girl of her voice, The speed cond a flask of whe a goodly porto @ down the vict There waa a log! agonizing pate warded. Suddrd eyelids fluttered, his face twitched, The som arm waved wildly, as though once more <& "Luey,” he cried, “vo tell ‘em —(Cal =a That—wall-oyed Chinaman. Cal must—at And then the major died, Years before that, on a certain memcesdd to be marked by the blackest of black stom, man was ushered into the private offics Bwilt, editor in chief of the Daltan Daily Tie den advent of this one-armed man occasioned suppressed excitement. A cub reporter from caught a passing glimpse of him, knew hi he was, and sneaked in to the ee iy bulging from his head. The sporting edit all times, was unusually moved. “I'm on!" he whispered hoarsely to thal “Find out if he's got a horsewhip on him: The one-armed man didn"t have a | anywhere, He was, however, not alone. winsome seventeen-year-old girl, Side bye armed man and this young girl moved nla of the personality that was foreordained politics inside out and upside down and Be. a never-ending jig. The one-armed man stepped briskly ™ the editor in chief of the Dalton Daily T (Continwed on Page J

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32 Light cuts costs— To Merchants: Cur Lighting Service Enip- poerd have prepared threc H overing eb. rat fy reg thar . Show Windaws ara! Show Cada. Large Dry Goods and Dr- purtret Spores. Small Stores. Your request, malked vo ch Edison Lamp Works, Harei- eon, BJ., all being you che proper guide or puldes. Your Edison MAZDA Lan Ageet com wpply you wih, the proper Jamps, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST that means lower prices to you "The prices you pay for merchandise include the merchant's costs of doing business, plus his legitimate profit. The lower he can keep his costs the better the values he can offer you. “Progressive merchants today are cut- ting their costs with Light,” says C. J. Potter, Store Service Manager of the Dry Goods Economist. “1. A well lighted store window draws more customers inside. That means a quicker turnover of merchandise and permits a smaller margin of profit. “2. Proper store lighting makes it easier for a customer to select satisfactory goods. That means a saving in returns and less sampling. “3. Good light saves time in making a sale. Four salesmen can, with the =F of Light, do the work of five. That means a saving in salaries. ‘4. Good light is the shoplifter’s foe. That means smaller loss by theft. “5. Good light increases good will and ually’ REpulanon, - “Here ae will find esc ‘ednaa: pro- gressive methods, courteous service” —that’s the message of a well lighted store; and in many of the best known stores of the country that message is ‘\ ». carried by Edison MAZDA Lamps. = igitized by Googkt

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ftaatinaedt from Page 30) be begen, “'ve got a bone to pick with you.” anauilt, of the Dalton Daily Times, possessed ‘foe cf a mandarin of wery high degree. But he haly on this poker face of his that his caller's (ydaeaing him was distasteful in the extreme; it dn be couldstomach. He held up the forefinger eaucustomed to punch holes in everything and phe artétrary, Peremiptary gesture of an opin= ie." he corrected. onthe onmanmed man, “I"m Lane, of River samy daughter Lucy. One of your great ted to fork at you, Brought her aborg,” barrosel by her father’s speech, thished » pulled herself together, She bowed waa decidedly graceful in her manner. af the Dalton Daily Times, did her the rio give her what is technically known a the he gitl was by no menos o benuty, thet wos was attractive in a measure. She had her rand that toned up her face. She had her which counted more than all. sitting at the editor's desk would have risen ot ao Jonathan Swift, of the Dalton Daily this girl was an adjunct of Lane, of River daughter of aman to whom he gave no guar- be ficst brief glance at the girl he ignored her. realian what manner of young woman wea phefore him. For she was still standing; the adeno vfort to accommodate her with a seat. ilwho wore her heart upon her sleeve. There gin her eyes that her father wholly lacked— ijeatiom. She was a hero worshiper by she showed it, Hens was no poker face, g her this silent insult Jonathan Swift, of the Times, was making 2 mistake, For as time femingly innocuous young lady was destined brable part in the career of this poker-faced ore than he bargained for. The thin edge of sisted in the fact—subeequently aa impor- listurhdinge— vas sole wit- onversa thar ing dnd ted, r County, ir for his ew up an- i He took th admira- he stared ve face of rift. He used to Slace. So bthis face: i, basen iia od in faces ajor Lane ltitude of . Tt was sad faces. he highhy a highly Tt hal tllaw y eed aught the 43 44 the he wae ed with had be ings of a teaman. that he * at the alitician was cool “ Mfajor length, T take ‘mele for The major lighted a elgar and took a pull of two, “I'm here to make you governor,” said Major Lane. Jonathan Swift's poker face became momentarily dis- torted with genuine surprise, “To make—me—governoar!” he gasped. Theshock wasswift, severe; but plainly pleasurable. But the editor made a neat and quick recover, Then he smiled that now historic, damnably disconcerting smile of his. ““Mujor Lane,” returned the editor frigidly, “Tt is very clear to me that you're here to buy me off.” Major Lane snorted in derision, “Mr, Swift," he said firmly, “make no mistake. You overestimate the im- portance of your opposition to me. I've been the target for vituperation all my political life, You can keep on amashing me for twenty years,” The editor's eyes glowed of they always glowed when he took in hand his pen. “Twenty years," echoed Jona- than Swift loftily, “I'l keep on for forty years, without fear, without reward or hope thereof, if T can crush the thing you stand for." The girl's face shone, the girl's eyes danced. She was happy now, These were the phrases she hod come so far to hear. Without fear, without reward or hope thereof—these were the stalwart editorial sentences that thrilled her. “Go ns far as you lke,” retorted the major with a grin. Jonathan Swift came off his high horse; he saw he wasn't getting anywhere at all. “At any rate,” he went on slowly, for he, too, was led, “To can sense your underlying motive,” “Tt's more than a motive,” retorted Major Lane. “I've gota hunch. I got it from my daughter Lucy here. She picks withers for me, Mr. Swift. She knows something about men that I don't know. Instinct—somehow she's always got her finger on the public pulse. She knows, some- how, when the styles are going to change. She eats up everything you write, She's listened to your speeches, She's dinned you into my ears morning, noon and night. She says the public as a mas has becoroe intelligent, She aaye it will listen to argument, to theory, to reason. She's hypnotived me into believing that the thowe be ripe’ “wy Siertieg Polat tr Sheriff Jorohk Stamler, Whe Tite There" ad “Ripe—for whet?” interposed the editor eagerly. “Poryou,” returned the majorwithenthusiasm. “ Dinged if T don't believe she's right! [f you tell jt to ‘em straight, dinged if I don't think the people will believe that you're an honest man.” “Tam an honest man!” cried Jonathan Swift, the white light of holingss upon his fare, Major Lane, of River County, slapped bis thigh. "Gosh, Swift," be cried, “that's what I'm looking for! [ want to see a man like you tear this state wide open—on a party platform—telling the proletariat that you're an honest man. Telling ‘em that you're the only honest man.” Jonathan Swift thought it ovet fora moment, A cynical amile played round his mouth, “Major Lune,” he nodded easily, “from what you say [ gather that the Republican Party fn this atate ia driven to put forth » man like me." “Shucka!" cried the major. “The Republican Party in this state can piek any man fer governor und win. You know that. We can shove through any man we pick. This iy a personal matter with me, [ take pride in filling offices with crackajacks. I give the people a run for their money; T hand ‘em the kind of officeholders that they ought to have. If I didn’t I couldn't keep my job. But it isn't that. I want to pick this man myself, I want to discover him— for practical political purposes—for a practical political career, I want to make you governor—and more: I, per- sonally, want to make a man.” Jonathan Swift was foreed to believe the major. Here was 10 bluff, no chicanery. The major had laid his cards upon the table. His great ambition as a political manager was at the bottom of it all. The editor of the Dalton Daily Times bad had a chip on his shoulder. He brushed it off. But he still retained his mask. One thing was te him ab- solutely clear: Here was his only opportunity. He might write himself back in the face with seathing editorials; he eould die of writer's cramp. But never in this life would he have this golden chance again, He cast the die. Without the flicker of an eyelid he got down to the merits of the matter, “Major Lane,” he said, “let me understand your propo gitlon, In the event of your electing me governor of this atate, just what—would you expect tT" “That 'soommensense, returned the major, “and Til meet you fair and unre, In the first place, when you run you'll be ex- pected to subscribe to the party platform in this state. In the second place, let me remind you that as River County votes, go votes the atate. River County will alect you gov- emmor. DT muat reroind you, too, that I am River County. When you are governor [ should expect to have a voiee in the mat= ter of your appointments in the state." “A—controllingvoice?” queried the editar. “Well—yes,"' returned the major, blinking. Jonathun Swift rose— Tose to his full height. His Waa an artistic, striking figure; he waa patrician in appearance, For ten full minutes he paced up and down the floor, as a tiger cat might face, As suddenly aa he hac risen he returned to his desk. He faced the major and looked him equarely in the eye. “T accept your terms,” he anid. In these plain, brief, - aimple words the deal was closed, There could be ne doubt about eonditions— en Jonathan Swift's part this thing meant absolute surrender, On the way back to River City the major chuckled to himself, “They're all alike," he sald to Lucey, “By gosh, Lknew he'd come to heel." Lucy's face was white with sheek, ‘Father, she gasped forlornly, as though this disgrace were Aga Fee ee a

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a4 all her awn, “the man's a traitor! He's a renegade! A fraud !"" The major kept on chuckli “Aes a Chinaman,” he responded cheerfully; ‘but you were right, Lucy. The man's a winner. He's a preat min aa he stands. But hy gosh, Ell make him a greater man than he ever hoped te be." The mujor knew his business. He started out to make Swift governor. The Old Guanl protested, stormed. Here was a candidate with no following; a man who couldn't run for constable and get away with it, Majer Lane, of River County, let them rave. Then he got down to cases; he got votes. Votes were Major Lane's ruling passion. The secret of his tremendous power lay in the fact thet he knew how to get out the vote. He rounded up all his eommtteemen whe Sill Ma perce owed hin favorg—all who could be persuaded, bul- lied, hypnotized. And in the final ahow- down, in the face of all the bluster and the storm of protest, the Republican county committer of River County indorsed this cundidate for governor—becwuse the major had the votes. This waa only half the battle, Thera remained the tussle with the state commit- tee. River County held the whip hand, it is true, Still, there was a horde of dise pointed eandidates to be considered. The major mide no attempt to placate any of these men or any of their friends. He con- tented himself with buttonholing alngle members of committees, one at a time; letting them understand ¥ clearly what would happen te them, one by ono, if they failed to wote right. He broke up a power- ful apposition, intoi ita SEP CRANE arte One by one the major gobbled up the And then he put his man wpa thas etump- Jonnthan Swift waa an orator of purts. The majors candidate stermed up and down the state, appealing to the pro- letariat, flaunting hia ridges dg | his own unblemished character j ace of the electorate in such a raw and fla t mari- ner that Lucy almost hid her head for yery thume. With the steady, practiced hand of Major Lane, of River County, dinecting every move, with the tremendous power of the papubliran organization behine him, this candidate for governor proclaimed the fact, day after day, that he was the people's champion, wale the people's champion; that tf elected he would be no pate mam and no mana man. He kept Major Lane chuckling at his convincing chicunery. He was elected by an overwhelming majority: elected by an enthusiastic bits demrgt that regarded him as the great white hope. As a matter of fact Jonathan Swift waa Clerte! poverner becouse Major Lane, of River County, from the start to the finish of his fight, man by man, ballot by ballot, had gotten out the vote, When Jonathan Swift went to bed at fivesthirty on the morning suceeading the election with the big returns all in, he knew what ten thousand politiciana knew—that he had been nominated and elected solely by a man ania machine. For years last past he had blackguanled that man and that machine for nefarious practices that armelled to heaven. During his carnpalen for governor Jonathon Swift had tiken advantage of all the nefarious practices, of all the questionable operations of that man and that machine, They had done him yeorman's service. Without them Jonathan Swift would still haye been merely the first-class editor of a second-class news pape in a third-lasa city of the state. But ar the of Major Lane, of River County, he would have , forever and a day politically a cipher. What was tho answer? Politically speak- ing, there waa but one, It was for him mow bo carry out to the letter the terms of his dae with that party and that man. e did it a8 mo man had ever done the thing before. Cmee he had taken his oath of office, once he had installed bimeelf in the pubernaterial chair, Governor Jonathan Swift paid them back in his own sweet way, He did it with three distinctive, compre hensive gestures. His first ack was to aweep the Republican state platform into the discard, is next was to turd his back on River County. His third was to kick Mujar Lane, of River County—tigura- Lively speaking—awilth:, squarely in the dunt: In the light of subsequent events it be frame clear that there waa but one reason for this action on the governor's part. He would have mo further use for the ladder by mennis af whieh he hod seabed the heights. tie was the man of the hour. He had THE SATURDAY ordained himself to be the auterrat of the people's breakfast table, He hed arrived. sonfronted with this outrage the ma- jor's white hair Cane whiter yet; the major’ § heart aboned atill The _yellow—wall-eyed— Chinamin!™ rife was the major in fine frenzy. was flabbergasted: he know not what In the history of state politics thia pi had never ha ed; there was no precedent te go by. There was no formula to follow. Governor Jonathan Swift, with 3 Bi of the wrist, with a flick of the relinger, had committed the w able, una nable erime; he was guilty of the basest of base political ingratitude. Major Lane had been responsible for the entastrophe, By his own act in standing sponser for this wall-eyed Chinaman he had robbed River County af the power and the glory that were hers. The Republican machine in River County was a wreck. For the first time in his carcer the mapor was a fizzle. His own committeemen, peeing their teeth, at fret denounced im. Then they derided him. It waa their derision that brought him »: himself; that and his daughter Lucy Lane. Lucy's onetime idol waa built of liow mud. He had never been anything ut yellow mud. She knew it now. Of the two, her father was by far the better mans of the two, this Jonathan Swift was by far the baser politician. It was Lucy's ire that roused once more the major's fighting blood. Her anger and offense, the blazing wrath in Lucy's strengthened him, stiffened his backbone, With the laughter of his own people ringing in his ears he called his clans together, He hoped to face them down—to smother in- subordination, to quell incipient mutiny. Mutiny was justified. The master of t ship had scuttled her: his crew felt it had the night to make him walk the plank, The major called his special meeting of the circa committees, called it while the fit was on him. From the start the meeting was a riot. The major's strident voice could not be pears Then something happened. The major’s daughter Lacy entered the arena of events. She glided swiftly past the doorkeepers; ashe eas awiltly wp hs aide aisle of the com- mittee remm, bent for one instant over the shoulder of Jack Dovell, the committee's seeretary., She ahouted something in his ear. Jack started up; with hie expressive foretin bechomed to one of the major's shnunc supporters. That member sprang to Lucy's atandard, led ber to the reatrum and held up his hand. His motion was unnecessary; the prea- ence of the girl oscasioned instant silence. The riot died. This irregnularity inberested the onlookera. "T move,” nodded the friendly member to the chairman, “that this young I be sneanded the privilege of the floor.” The motion was immediately seconded, wonderingly Lu the op- portunity. nd while Jack Dovell took doon in sbenographic notes her statement she told the story, word for word, of the hase compact made between Major Lane and Jonathan Swift in Dalton some seven months before. "Er have never forngetien that conversa- tion,” exclaimed Lucy. “I shall take the witness stand and tell it at any time. Iam telling you the truth.” She didn’t have to assure them. Her face, her voice, her manner carried convic- tion. They had half doubted the major, but her corroboration clinched his account af the affair. When abe had finiahed her story she , uncertain for a moment. “Can [ apeak a moment more?” she “Go on,” cried friendly voices. Lacy went on falteringly, yet fearlessly. She had come there, not to help her father but to let them know what kind of man this man Jonathan Swift was. She had worshiped at his shrine; she had a achool- irl's grent ideals; she told them so. And is ideals had fitted in with hers, And now—this. And it was time to let the people know. The people knew. This kind of thing waa news—Jack Dowell seattered his imay carbon copies broadeast, The press abe it up. They did more than ri dea clua- tered abet the governor's deak in the vernor'’s sancium sonciorum in the state ouse, and exhibited to him Lucy Lane's statement. The governor declined te look. In fact he had taken a leaf out of Major Lane's book. He refused to read anything derogatory to himself; it crimped his form. EVENING POST “Gentlemen,” be told them, “my record as =r ay governor of this state will = Saag ta Your eyes on me. or the people's sake I am about to drive Wall Street from our midst.” He did not deny the slory that Lucy Lane had told the Republican county com- mittee on that night. But every time it was brought Ens his attention a cynical smile payed about the cornera of his mouth. His was aa the face of a cat thot had swallowed a canary. At any rate, he had done for the canary, Almost done sigh but mot quite; for Lucy Lane’s story Accomp lghed one glorious result on that aocinaltteeasantin night. The instant ev had finished, a friendly member sprang his feet and moved a vote of confidence i in Major Lane. The motion was seconded by twenty friendly voices, was immediately put and carried. To clear the sir and clarify the situatlon the vote of confidence wi nade unanimous, No man, however great hi ip acumen, it wae agreed, could have the treachery of the governor. Major Lane, his feet hobbled, it is true, Etill retained hig grip on River County. Almost he came pepe mare am ar own. years of the governor's fo term passed eventfully, During those t ha years Governor Jonathan Swift inatituted popular reforma to his heart's content: he played to the galleries to the top of his f. But the major wasn't worred, now that the end waa in sight. He had seen reformers come; he bad seen reformers And he made up his mind firmly that t man was to go. The major onee are panied up his loins, once more Eisler or a rey tree oe jbircariat ortu- nately for himself the major fail ogre hia enemy all the credit that was ors he governor had spent sleepless nights—not tossing in his bed. In hia political labora- tory he had apent his sleepless nights. With 8 scientific stickpin he had impaled the astral body af the major; had dissected him, had found him good. He had learned his tricks and mannera, waa Salyer them hisawn. He did other things; he spent his time annibilating a machine, scrapping it. Then he built it up afresh, Tt was a new machine, but it was in no sense automatic. It needed a highly specialized engineer to run it. That engineer was Jonathan Soft; as a matter of fact, he was the machine itself. During all this careful ration he had learned one vital principle. This also wis a feaf taken from the major's book. Jonathan Swift imbued himself with the importance of getting out the vote. He reaiized that a state majority of fifteen thousand meant fifteen thousand single ballots. The people must vote one by one ams vote right; or all was lost. clone a hided hia time. Suddenly, at ts close of is third years he thrust forth his hand; lig ag, Be ashed from it. He raised hig voice: thunder bellowed forth. A bolt from the blue, this—he announced that he had become a candidate, not for governor, but for senater of the United Stites. “Over my dead body!" erled the major, rifting hia tecth. “As River County goes, the state.” oath and nail the major fought this renegade, The major left no stone unturned to beat the man. And River County, too, wis with him; it was mad with Rune For three long Pt River eng la Bae d not been fed. tronage, the f drink of the machine, had been withheld, and by a single owerful hand—the hand af Jonathan Swift. So River County and the major fought; fought, alas, too well, When op battle smoke had cleared it was very plain that River County had smitben Jonathan Swift hip and thigh. No doubt about that. Hut when the vote was counted and all returns were in, it was diseavered, unfortunately, that more He publican ballots had been cast in River County than there were men and women, cats and dogs in its confines. Major Lane and River County for once had overreached themselves. And all to no purpose, The major's ready Blogan was as a hissing and a byword now. “As River County goes, so gocs the state,” had once been gospel. Now it was nit even apochrypha. It was pilfle. For in this instance the state went as River County didn't go. Theastate, by a small but very sure ic ape the senatorial toga ubout the Jean Fie of Jonathan Swift. Jonathan Swift thrust his right hand and his long, lean, gristly nose into May 1, Federal affairs, With both tet 'y @ the arena of national eran The River County vote tu nay 8 local seandal. Jt coaied 1 7h enigger, & nation-wide chucks jy elect Swift shook his should: ie long teeth, indulged hime! i: » laugh silent, lenge sut, * friend Major Lane t & ina bole" Major Lane was ina hie He hole of his own digging. The fe Prosecutor was a Swift apps prseciter here wrt top ay Mf law to be ignored. A wim sy under « lems remomous have Mlcaliy ar il gin i Wag 1 week well to let him die. nine 4, him," elect.

(prosecu office is first geistant. Cpos ders of this first assistant rete] of the prosecutor's office, The wa a corporation lawyer. w idtstg girth his awn. | tee salary, but afford to dio poe tor's me garelal pre he Hah cm on the ul preparation ol i ant. his assistant was 4 yo soa lawyer of some pr pute—with a record that was fame of thie assistant waa 0 soll, He was known to bis inti Cal was a thoron political organizations. He bu publicun machine in River Co Hie chief, < bipir pom the firet step. chambers of o Aol yodgr. a appointee. In his hand the prom ist of Jonathan Swift meu scratch of the pen the coor: om this list. The court called in be handed him the list. “Hand this to the shen?! manded. “Tell him thos ow of the a ‘On the first Moncay of jal grand ay oo airly semen orth met in so and indicted Maj. Mortimer 7. Cal Ingersoll enthusiastically p case for trial. When the scheduled date for month away something hap proeecutar, winking the other| ushered into Cal's office a 7a whom Cal had never seen. l has a bone te pick with al placed mw chair for ke wl “'m Major en Lane,” explained the girl Cal, flustered, nose once mull His heart was in his throat didn't know which way to! “You know, I'm ae ¥ 4 : The eit held up her hand thus no & OEY we it Pell g air facet @ ce - ea placed a ta walkreel "I can’t tell you,” she 6 very important it ia to me tab un nd that I"m just be My father doean*t know. F ba {it Tngesnol,” nm ieve earths A ret cata Ge Lan ch " au pcasg Lane = don’t know just how te goa “Take your time, Miss La gently, ' He swung abet im his ood looked out of the windew 4 composed herself. She felt ina! this man Was one of ber owl ing that, her fear shipped if looking out of the window, = the hour that hac made hi: a cubor; cursed sll the cireeel and ernall, that had corn pelle agitl bke this one instant’ was no help for jt: he bed form—a duty toward soc chief, and, more than

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THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page 34) The girl nodded. "IT waa thinking of him too,” she said. “Your father?" returned Cal. She shook her head. “The other man,” said. “You me you would believe anything I told you. I didn't come here to keep you from doing your plain duty; I'm not going to try to awerve you from it. But I aid eave here to let you understand something of my father’s motives. Per- aonally, Mr. In hed Pe nere RS “Your belief doran't happen to be evi- dence," emiled Cal. “If it were I might have to use it against you. You are, per- haps, a bit too frank.' Despite the warning the girl kept right on, “Mir, Ingersoll,” she went on, Find father has one rule of thumb: end al- ways justifies the means. It is not a safe tule, isit? But it sometimes is effective, Tt should have been effective in this case. Jonathan Swilt should have been defeated Mr. Ingersoll. By any means he ahould have been defeated. any means his career should have been ended, But he wasn't defeated; and his career hasn't been ended. I'm afraid he's only just o."" Cal was Telieved, So long as he could keep her off the subject of her futher he was satisfied. Besides that, he was young; qo Was the girl, She was opinionated: per- haps a bit conceited, He didn’t mind. He was opinionated and conceited too. He amiled at her aacurance, “Why should Senator Swift have been defeated?" he demancled. “Because,” tetutned the girl evenly, “Senator Swift is a traitor.” 22 bis party, possibly," conceded Cal. “To his people,’ said the girl. Cal settled into his chair. Here he was in his element, He tread all the Jona- than Swift newspapers and he knew all about Jonathan Seilt that there was to know. At least Cal thought he did. Un- known to himself pel was in store for this young man; immediately ao. Before him, purposely facing him down, was a young woman who knew. No excuses are here made for Lucy Lane—exeopt that she was young. She was too young; the world was on her shoulders. It is fair to aay that her converantion would have bored ninety-nine women out Woa hundred: it might have made old men very, very tired. As a matber of fact, Lucy was just o bit too insistent, a bit too raw. But over against that were her youth and her youthful magnetism. A few years more and she would mellow into a bewildering young Woman, Still, just a she wos, she dazzled Cal “T think,” said Cal, not unsympathetl- cally, but still antagonistically, “that I'll hear you on the proposition that Jonathan Swilt is a traitor to the veopile.”* The girl squared herself. “I have always had an idea," she started in bravely, “that the mente M and i“ senate s Shing to the people is Che peoples pocket x "We'll start there,” nodded Cal, “We'll start,” said ue, “oith the pocketbook of the individual man—a man married and with a family, we'll aay." "Or without,” interposed Cal. ‘Take me" “You art a tixpayer?” she inquired. "Tam," said Cal. “Equal taxation,” smiled Lucy Lane, opening up her subject. "A great reform," aald (Cyl, “A newspaper phrase," insisted the girl, “intending to indicate that the big corpora- tions, who had paid low taxes, should have ' their taxes raised so that they bore their full share of the burden—and that the individual, whose burden had been, under a mochinemade government, unusuall heavy, should have it materially lightened, and his taxes materially looered.” “Exactly,” nodded Cal. “A great re form.” “You are a taxpayer,” went on the girl, “an individual gerece bel You are the man for whom this legislation was designed. How do you explain that the instant this radical law went Inte efect—how de yen explain that your tax bills went sky-high?" _ She cat talking. She let that fact sink in. it she said wee true, For three years now equal taxation had been in force; the fact was that it had increased the bur- den of the common people, Why? The ple didn’t know. T atill clung to a int phrase uttered by the lips of a fine man. <A surefire vote getter, this fine phrase. Was the law a mere shell—had the executive ignored it after getting it put EVENING POST through? Wua the law an abortive at- tempt to make good this fine phrase? Was it a blind, behind which the executive and the corporations were shaking hands? It made no difference. The t re hadn't worked qut—that was all, And from the lips of this girl Cal Ingersoll got it first, and got it hard, . "How do you explain it?" asked the girl. Cal culped. “Goon,” he commanded. “T like to hear you talk.” Luey eT peat pei for ve purpoes. “Air. Ingersoll," she pecrsia ‘when Governor Jonathan Swift entered the campaign for the United States senater- ship he went in with a slogan: “I have driven Wall Street from your midst." I'rm going to ask you a ey Mr. Ingersoll: hat did Governor Jonathan Swift mean?" “What he sald," returned Cal. “He did drive Wall Street from our midst.” The girl smiled. “Back in the ‘nineties, Mr. Ingersoll,” she sald, “my father aaw that there was an easy way for this state to rake big money. Big money for the state, low tax bills for the people. He threw the state wide open to the big New York corporations, Mr, Ingersoll. He gave them easier terms than any other state offered. The big New York corporations organized in this state. They paid us mil- lions in franchise taxes. We didn't pay thern money, Mr, Ingersoll: they nad tie money. Wall Street never got a bing out of us; we got something out of Wall Street. And by the sum of the taxes they paid us, by that exact amount the pockets of the people were apared, Do you follow me, Mr. Ingersoll?" “I'm listening,” said Cal. He waa not only meg e was much perturbed. “Drive Wall Street from our rmidst— that was Governor Swift's slogan, His promise to his people. A fine phrase to catch votes. What did it mean? It meant that Governor Swift procured the repeal of all my father's corporation legislation; in its place and stead he put a lew upon the atatute books, a law that makea this state no lo an attractive ee place, He taxed Wall Street ao Roel We that Wall Street has gone to Maine and Delaware. The reault @ that our annual incame is depleted by millions of easy dollars. The ptople have to pay just so much more, The people do not know it, Wir. Ingersoll. Th m@uth an celiterial phrase: He drove Wall Street from our midat. It listena well te them, But their pocketbooks have been déipleted: they have been robbed while they listened and looked on. Will you ex nial why he did this to his people?" “Goon,” said Cal She went on. “Mr. Ingersoll," she aaid, “my father has been a political bos for many years. [ hate a boas: T like father, [ have found out why my father held his leadership for so many years, Frankly I don"t know how much of the ple's money went into his pockets. I do know what was done with the bulk of the people's money. [knew that good roads were built with it, that gow! schoolhouses were erected precy ears: My father gave the people a run for their money. He did things for their profit, even though he did things for his own. Graft, maybe. Butin the end, a good achoolhouse, a good hospital, a good road, Listen, Mr. Ingersoll. How many good things have been done for the people in the post thre: years? What kind of a run have the people had for their money? I'll tell you, Mr, Ingersoll, Puree the first: of his term ss governor Jonathan ¢ wilt created seventern hundred new offices in this stute and filled those offices with his friends, That meant three million dollars a year in salaries; three million dollars extra. With Wall Street out. Millions besa each year inincome—millions morein outgo. Why? Seventeen hundred officeholders mean seventeen hundred families—thou- aands of relatives—hundreds of thousands of friends. Hundreds of thousands of people a ra a atate poll for the Hon, Jona- than Swift—singing his ises, chanting his phrases, Why? I'll tell you, Mr, Inger= aol, why he hee done all this, He has taken more than Wall Street out of state politics, He has taken the political machine out. of state politics,” "Ab, said Cal, “now you're talking! Geo ahead" “He has taken the machine out of state polities," amiled Lucey Lone, “and in ite place he has set up an emperor—a czar.” That was all had to say. She was through, Without another word—but with a bewildering smile, a dazzling fash of eyes—ahie left the room. May x She left Cal stunned, He en tively, ag in a flash, that pf doo were true. Lucy Lane bad tae well her 5 ‘a. Tn that brief bree done to Calvin I what ji Swift In ome brief hour bad de» Bhe had shattered Cafs jdd | shaken Cal's faith in the everecs eousnes of his case, Uaknows 9 she was a canny politician, Sr & no appeal te hirn te save ber fu Cal couldn't save her father, 1 WAS ty. No man cay vite ol and women, cats and i ts nity and get away with it. Th n indicted: had 5 di He mist stand trial, He must bey He must be sentenced, “Make no mistake,” the coc eutor amid to Cal, “Swift ay 1 to railroad Major Lane.* Cal left no stone unturned: his fingers to the bone. Day afte well into each night be mt o interviewing witnesses. He kept ways hot with his machine, as their homes, held conelaves ic o Two days before the trial Sa vite unannounced, glided gee al's desk. "T have aaa pte wil he md progress you have _ | handed to the serars basketful of depositions. “T have sweat blood over 14 Cal assured him. The senator's Terre enough to sweat blood,” he remo “but what kired of evidence hove Tn a few brief words Cal wt total strength of his position; | high spots, making it clear hos were. When Cal was throw & slowly shook his head, “Counselor,” he said, “you im within a mile of making ovt a member, you mre charging thi with crime. Not anybody ee." Cal shrag his shou'ers were feverish, his bones wer oo “Benator.’” ha ambed weaniy, * tained all the evidence ther: w’ “Not near enough," said Jol “Tt's all there is," said Cu The senator rose and ms and cloged the door, Ther %« to Cal. “Tngerwoll,"” ie sad, “the a erusied !" Once more Cal shrugged bs “He can't be crushed withot he answered: “evidence ince I tell you positively, senator, th evidence we have.” “Ingersoll,” neddlied the wet this man's mottoes is that isi the means. You and | agr= a must be crushed. The pel demands it. [ demand by fair means—or byl got the evidence— gs A ; al) mated at him. “You acture it?" gasped Cal. “I mean exactly that” Bwilt. "¥ou want oe," weel 0 “to conviet this man or ! mony? Not in ten thous! The senator went to the progecutor ame Cpl in pee “Cal, he whispered, ~: We've got to ie haven't

special case. for Swift.” “Not in ten thousmnd jr se 4 it was prosecutor + tty shoulders. “ Very weil,” be you won't stretch a poist ' yery much afraid thar S==t a whe will.*" ortunately Cal rege and there. Had he failed = have been removed for Senator Swift was a pressed into service a county who would da bidding. This mam rushed in bole! declined te tread. gum imperturbably thr Imperturbably the jury © epee, room te consider Half an hour Ister it 20 courtroom, monechalantly. (Centinged of

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Leading Confectioners and Dragzise in certale becalities, can wil obtain our special Ageney Pr opeaiheon for Ubrit stores. cite for partic alia co pour beasinces letterhead: state principe] Lines of candicn oow bended. th's Chocolates, Elmira, N.Y. Gifts for Graduates Booth's Butter Choc- olates: (Center made with jure creamery botter ood fresh 4 cream, lia frulta, — Sonuts and other deli- {tious combinations, ull covered with rich devia sulk chee late. A wonoderfal Siok packase, Booths Bi olvteet Their Sema. ri linger Popular * with = The (ere- . fection of comdy de- light, Booth's Esther Choe alates: Wou are sure la like them. Each mtce bi a candy sur- rH ore, Covered with " Tau Smicoth Waal: Chocolite, | Rut Cel was not. He ch | aman like Cal for ¥eaTE, THE SATURDAY (Contlaoed from Page 36) Tt found the major mot guilty on every count charge in the indictment. It white washed the major until he was as white as his anow=-white hair—whiter, Tt was all over—just like that. Jonathon Swilt should have foreseen it. A defendant brought to trial upon charges of political corruption ia a hero. Major Lane was River County's martyr. He was beloved of every man and woman, cat and dog in River County. Long, long ago River County had convicted Major Lane, in ita oan mind, of many more heinous ¢rimes than this cha in the indictment. It had forgiven him. It loved him as deeply aa it hated Jonathan Swift, The apeteehit ys Pris merely winked the other eye, and the rest. In other words, it was to laugh. It was aecream, nod Senater Swift knew it for the thing it was. The senntor gnashed his teeth; he ritted them. He cast about him for somet ing upon which to vent his spleen. The major was beyond his reach. (al publicly with having sold out to major, He covered Cal with slime, Cal, discredited, in the depths of despair, met Lucy Lane one day upon the street. She curried hits home with her in her runabout, “Tou're a life saver,’ "eaid Cal “I've got to talk things over." He did, and at great length and to his oan great reliel. Lucy was a very feminine young person; she comforted bim and | petted him: she put new life into him. And fore the talk waa over the major inter- vened, Lucy introduce! her father; it was the first time that Cal had ever met the major face te face, The major shook hands with Cal, donned his house jacket, produced sim smokes, settled into the depths of hig am chair, got Cal to stay to dinner. And at dinner the major looked across the table at his daughter and ashed her a single question with his eyes. "Ts this—another hunch?” he queried | silently. "T don’t know—but what he is," said Lacy, elently as well. | Calwas. When hoe left the major's house at midnight two things happened, When Cal strode down the street he fairl reeled. He was drunk with the major's magnetiqm; he wee. permanenth: ality by the cal apo erful persona So much for Cal n his own park the Mijor was no lesa. exelted. Cal was of the new sehool: he was aoung, he was resource ful. He was a man who concentrated on hia job. More than all, Cal was an idealist, and the major was not. Cal saw visions, the major didn’t even dream dreams. The major needed Cal; he had been looking for Here was 8 man without @ poker face; a man the major could know, could feel. At four o'clock in the morning the major drew a long sig of relief and went to fo tine For at four o'clock in the morning Cal, all unknown to himself, had been irrevocably picked to be Major Lane's right-hand man. Cal succumbed. He had to. He waa no mateh for the major, Lucey helped, relics tanth enough—but helped nevertheless, She wae sorry afterward she did. Her father's will was paramount. bbe sib orders: he indulged in mesmerism. her better judi gment she helped her ather round up Why net? They had a eormmon cause, these three. Wi widely ) varie] motives they were out for blood— the blood of Senator Swift, Calsuccumbed. Inside of atwelvemonth the major had taught Cal all bis tricks; inside of two years Cal hed become some- TE more than an uncderatudy. He had e makings of a newfangled, uupeto-the- aie political boss, mext year’s model. He had concentrated on his job watil the time come when he saw nothing, thought nothing, dreamed of nothing hut one-man power. Power—he was steeped in it. He was gloriously drunk with power. Tn the midst of it all, another presidential year, And in the midst of this, with the major gone upon a brief vacation, Senator Jonathan Swilt flung hia hat inte the ring, He made his bold, unlooked-for announce ment that he was out to win the Presidency af the United States, Jonathin Swift's political successes had all been based upon a series of impudent claims. This was something more than impudence; it waa | a personal Inault flung awiftly at Major ; Lane's neck while the major’s back was | turned. It stung the major to instant ac. tion: it was for him to strike the first fierce EVENING POST blow. He gathered himself together for the spring—and then he died. uey no time. She was still under the hypnotic influence of her iather, and she knew it. She knew also that other folks must be. The day after the funeral she summoned to her home the seventeen ward leaders of the city, the big men in the committer. She told them of the manner of her father's death; told them how his words were ringing in her ears: “You tell ‘em Cal must carry on.” She wag striking while the iron was hot. They caught her spirit, felt the urge. They called a special meeting. Cal was chosen in the major's place—to OF. Cal carned on. Senater Jonathan Swift, with his state delegntes in his pocket, with the prestige of all his sensational political record to back him wp, went to corn vention with head in air. He was state lender; there was no Major Lane tosay him nay. The news of his candidacy had been flung far and wide. He was, one: more, the people's candidate; and once more he trod upon the people's platform: Drive Wall Street out of Washington. He was handsome, picturesque—he al got a hearing. In the convention hall, under the most au=picieus circumstances, he was in- traduced to all the people of the nation. Aside from that he hed a secret ally, Wall Street backed hin to the limit. Wall Street was perfectly willing to be driven out of Washington provi it eoulel be heft to its oan devices in New York. This was the conditien that confronted Cal. He went to the convention to fight a losing battle. But he went there prepared he had concentrated on this job, ® wae ready, fully ready, for the slaughter. He would give them a run for their money. He had much backing too. The major’s sword waa in his hand. A woman's kiss was on his lips. He went forth to do or dia. He didn't die. He “the state delegates out of Jonathan Soift's veet ocket. No matter how he did it, it was one, For six long he hammered at them, traded with them, bartered to the top of his bent. He had an ax to grind; ground it. He stole his way into the grace of other leaders, He learned the secret of the forces that, once put into play, would automatically nominate the successful ean didate. With all the major's instincts and his own to guide him, he picked the dark horse destined to win, For that man and that man alone he polled; for that man he fought tooth and nail. And for that man he forced most of his state delegates to yote, That man waa nominated. Cal's cleverness in picking og tie men in the first inatance, in tying up to him, in fighting for him did one remerwicis thing for Cal. In all the dispatches sent out from the con- vention hall to the press of the nation Cal was mentioned as ope of the five great lenders who had accomplished the result. That Jonathan Swift was defeated was a detail. On the final ballot the senator re- ceived a total of seven and a half votes. A aap in the face, these seven and a half votes. Th him to the realization that he had a new antagonist worthy of his steel —worthy of hia worst tricks and man- ners. Wrath-bitten and vengeful, Jona- than Saft went back to his deak in the Senate of the United States: went beck to bide his time. Cal went back to River County. A howl- ing delegation met him at the station, al- meet cared him upon their shoulders. Cal could have oe ee he wanted now. He was the idol of the hour. Flushed with success, Cal sought Lacy Lar He did now what, for many rea- na, he had never done before. He asked ba point-blank, to marry him, But Lucy, a litth weary with it all, merely shook her head. uy can’t do it, Cal," she said, “I'm through. Through, "Cal qied, “with me?" There was trouble, deep trouble, in her Cal," she said, “To con't help it. a who'd had a drunkard for her father— girl won't marry another drunkard, no mat- ter how much she loves him. She knows too well what it means. Cal, I"m sick to death of living with a boss. Sick of the bluffing, the wire pulling, the whispered conferences, the knives in the hack. I can't help it, Cal. I won't go through the swindle of it, the CLisigrance: afit: not again— net for any man. “But I'm not a awindler,"” pleaded Cal, ogden: “T don't stick knives in people's ne Mey | "You will,” she sad, ei yyr} can't help it. ‘You've got the by father aunt you. And now 2'yp didn't realize, I helped—beine! to get you. [ know the gins ting worse and wore. You's ; the point where, by hook e& determined that. your will, ad: shall be law. Yoru ere drunk do with power, The dickens of + Luzy ae, "TD bove you, Ca Cal cought her in bs cru t lower, was Cal Inger £ all his gentleness, bis tender — pee to bear Spree Bhe fe is magnetism. But she oc) hand and sighed. There wast “But,” eaded Cal, * “Ae We alonye—just ite this?" There was a Little of the oe Lane. Somehew she new alway she was about. She shoo her! "Gal," she said, “I'm guicz | kind of a life. T suppose mot Perit lhe pear ‘aa prig possibly, vain heat ay And I've hopes that there at whe don't. I've got my ere o I've got to marry someledy, children and live in » bo= | atar chamber. I"ve dreamed © must come true,” "How, look here,” ered Cul “ hore that. kind of talk ts you want me to knife the fac children in the back. Ll! poo marry anybody you're gring te Papi takes tero to make 2 oa & He wos see clearly thst Se tion merely strengthened w 1 And at aye cast he had to be "All right!" he cried in abe aoe me what you wart af hing you sny. i tone must have care Tt was the ton: of a man eho thrown away his whieky ja about to make the nation oy “You mean it, Calt” che « “We'll strike the barges Cal. “T" t = anything ; you 8 Lucy" gi owed, “| deimel “iheten't Tan't then life but handing out jobs t oo and withholding them from Isn't there any other goa is “Lucy,” he defended, “!' af them all. But go on—te want," "To want you to think o! j Cal," sold Lucy; “just a pockets of the people.” “The pockets of the Cal, “Cal,” sted Lucy, ~ hero worhipers, Once we s a pedestal. Why did ee dé cause he said he could ¢ poeple. Cal, 0 want you tod what Jonathan Swift has ol . long ba his head. “It's a ora and I don"t tig ae we begin, nor Where it all =. I tr and fail?" uppose you try, =r in her eyes. Promise “By gosh, Dll try!" sus The county oon rt howe | a dinner to Joe Stamber fa tion at the courthouse for years. For m comeideral time het had been wodersheti Joe went to the dinner © evening Clothes that he = years, got hipmeelf coniot contraband and went hea next day was Sunday. new Swiss repenter to th brief period all was merc T » because they oc longer, Joe's wife got ox at have been paid the ee ot to ; ui Wired ini. = Jot Stamler groaned. ~' queried, She didn*t know any = But she brightened up. “Did talk to Mans dinner?” she imquwired Joe nodded listless. nit Forbes and J ealked h| golies. And they praci made a note of jt. Bet 4 i] They've promised many ‘Cootinard o=

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PB, 4 Fareed O87 fie rece Moutlee (rat oil git and oll finhes, Ther ap a pum and g@evest corbott Lrdublis uae be bering off. A the down sintie of the oleate Clee cdl i wipes bobo th: gone Bape the thon wimg ond Wy them drained ihenake ihe tbe lark into Uhe can kbease SPENCER: SMITH PISTONS Bilt by che forever ecafacterers of Matend exrlunieely | ! dan"t a A A mm ee Sri al THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Continued from Poge 35! “Joo,” said his wife suddenly, “why brace up and po to headquarters? Why don't you ga to Cal?" "Cal doesn t like me,” returned Joe Stamler: said besides, [ clom't know him We “doe,” “said Joe's wife with conviction, “vou go to Cal” Joe went to Cal. He saw him. “Or, Ingereall ——" he started in, "You know better than that, Joe," turned the boss. Cal,” nodded Jie, "Auch better, Joe, What's eating you?" snid Cal, "Cal," said Joe miserably, “the minute i t out of sehen! T went inte the sherif's me, li paid me tena week, [ve been ininteiahord now for ten full ears. [ve got six children, growing up. ey re pay Ing me twenty-eight hundred and fifty dol- lara, Cal. T can't quit: I'm fit for nathbrig else, And I can’t goon. That's all.” “Did you gee Lafe Smith?" asked Cal, “Tye seen “em all watil ‘mm tired," said Joo. “I can’t make any headway with ‘em—not a soul, I doen't know why not; it's a turn of a wrist to get a bill through the 1 ature. And I'm @ good man, © "T knew you re good, Joe," nodded Cul. “T ran that office, Cal,” went on Joe Btamler. “Without me there wouldn't be any aber Shaina done, [I'm the sheriff in everythi wt name.’ Cal started auddents He placed tis hand upon the other's arm. "Say that again, Joe," he commanded, “T wasn't listening that time.” Joe said it again. Cal drank in every word, There wage new light in his ey when be spoke, "Tm on,” said Cal “IT geed te be the fide ida in the prosecutor's office in my me, “You sure did, Cal," said Jon, Cal was silent for a moment, an uncer- tain flickering smile playing ubeut the ror neta of hia mouth. “Too,” he said at length, “how much thoes Sherif! Garley make out of his job up Joe knew: knew too well. “Ten thousand a year straight,” said Joe, “and seven thou- sand in extra fees, besides. He makes from fifteen to twenty thousand, sure, a year.” “ And now,” smiled Cal, “just what does Gorley dot” “He nuns a bottling business,” returned oe, “T Know that,” anid Cal; “rut in the sheriff's officee—what does he do up there? ” Nothing, " said Joe, “He has Teaponsibility,"* guid Cal. “Dow het’ grinned Joe. “He's under bond to the state, But T handle all the funds, and I'm under bond to him. I draw wll the checka; he alena any check I put before him. A seven-year-old boy could do as much. “And that’s all he dogs? chomanded Cal. “So help me!” returned Joe. Cal investigated. Then he went for Jie Senin. This time he sow Joe behind closed oors, | “Sturnler,"" said Cal, getting down to business. “Ll want to help you if I can. But there's always guid pro qa." “T'll do anything in rewson, Cal," said Joe hopefully. “You want a raise,”” mused Cal. “How much of a raise ape you looking, for?" “T ean get al sald Jae, “on thirty- five hurdred dollars a year, and not a dol- ar “Wet.” nodded (Cal. “Vee sic Jin, “and that doesn't leave anything—for » AF mat. “To tell the truth, it doesn't," returned re- Cal drummed on his desk with bis fingers, “Joe,” he said at length, “suppose I get you five thousand a year—what then?’ Joe Stamler paved evenly into Cal's eves, “Tm on,” be eeid. “You want all over thirty-five hundred. Am Tright?” And then he shook his head, “Harkis ia willin’, Cal," he went on, “but you'll never get the legis- lature to votre me toe thousand more than Be a maw, hw legislature," "sail Cal, “will do any= thin T say. ore way of," said Joe. “Tf they double my salary they'll hive to double the salary of every under men in River County Cal started to hia feet, “Ay gosh,” he cried in the tone of a man whe has made a great discovery, “by gosh, you're right! I never thought of pane. The thing is big—far bi I dreamed hero's bound to be a howl, ” sald Joe, forlorn and hopeless, “That's neither here nor there,” sald Cal. “The point ia this: Tf I get you a eal of five t d dollars a year will you be satiated?" ‘nd [ll pey you fifteen hundred out of that, " said Joe “T don't want fifteen hundred out of that," said Cal. “You mean,” erbid Joe, “that [ get fre thousand net?” That’ a roe Ste (ee " gald Cal. Will a indly wait until | throw no fit?” said Joe. “Dent throw it yet," pmiled Cal, “until I'm through, There are some things I can do, Joe. This is one of them. But it's got to be done right, You do your part-—-I'll do mine. : “What's my par worried Joo. “Your part,” sai “ia paying me all over five thousand dollars that you get." “My landi’ said Joe. “How much are you going to raise me, Cal?" “More than five thousand,” nodded Cal. “T want your word that I get all over that.” “So help me!" said Joe. “Em ging to raise you, Joe,” continged Cal," — Hi ped tread salary of twenty-eight hundred fty dollars a year to a sum ranging ped fifteen to twenty thousand dollars.” “You —ein't—do—it!" exclaimed Joa, “Tean doit,” nodided Cal. “I'm going to éleet you ahertif jin the fall." The fall was far encugh aw Cal had plenty of time, but he tit fe lenty to accomplish what he had te de. He spent weeks investigating conditiona existing in River Cowerky: then he tackhel River “LL. Then he sent for Chris Goss, the deputy county clerk. Chris Goss" chief, the coun clerk, was ft patent-loather man. Ee h a plant that was always running overtime. Cal saw Chris Goss behind el doors: he mide a solemn compact with Chria Goss. Chris Gora left this conference with eyes popping from his head. Then Cal sent for another man: another and another. When he hed finished with these secret conclawes Cal made up his slate. It was a dimple task te make it up. Et waa gigantic undertaking to force it through. When flashed this slate upon hie confidential eon- frores in the county committee there was a howl that could be heard from here to there. There wae eet reazan for this howl, Cal had a ticket made up of men who hod no qualificationa for their neapeae- tive offices save thet of complete fitness for their jobs. The thing was Taw; it never had been pulled bef Cal pulled it. He had put River County on the nation’s map. Hiver County owed him semething: his alate owed him more, He demanded recognition, obedience: it wie time for him todraw his pay. There was blister, Uhoere were grants and growl, But (Cal waa firm. He slapped his men upon the feria ticket, fat them nmomingted, Ag a matter of course t were elected in, the fall, Four years passed eventfully. Cal, by virtue of a superhuman atruggle, maln- talned His lewlership. But he took on an- other boss——he married Lucy Lane. During those four years Lucy began to play the gume of politics j Hts a eed ef gi with twins, Lucy was just the girl to have twine—and ehe had Pann As those four wears closed, terms of office neared expira- tion. The time had come to act. Cul acted. In his own way, with o fan- fure of trum te (al for the firat time in his jife called a masa meeting of the com- mon people, the people that are always featured in cartoons. He spent hondreds on alvance publicity. Ae announced that. he was prepared to make # sensational dia- clavure that would hit the peeple where thay Vive. He gave not the slightest clew to this aenaational disclomore, bat los felt sure the people would respond. There hed been ugly rumor about Cal for some time now; rumors that he had trken no pains to quell, He guessed shrewdly that thousands would turn out to see and hear what a erocked boss might hove to any. He gueseed right. The erowel waa out in force, Five hundred people were packed about the entrance of the huge auditorium before the door were opened. These five hundred saw something that roused their interest to the highest piteh, At seven=thirty sharp threes huge meter ears drew up at the aide entrance of the Moy ry auditorium. Fifteen stahegt piss, meen emerged, each with @ coctue! sy in his hand. formed tre wnt across the sidewalk, from the bpp, big cars to the door of the hell] Ths Oe eT ote ie Doane car, tan the Paci eight o'clock sharp, in fal They zr = i songs it ey stepped upon in Lend: they seated rai fifteen plain-c othes men, sf] with revalyers, closed in in a half ads i d stopped ple e ban ying, Cabd blithely to the fore, He was nervous, jumpy. Ti eould see that. T. prea! | eagerly to hear what Cal mepht boi He ald it forthwith. “Neighbors,” began Cal—“| hp prom 8 Beneational disdceyy | to you to-night. Before | makes [: say that T realize as mach a yi am stand eh the presence fas af averbur ple. The oats high before, 5 oubled in Car sms cost of runnin Fovernments ba There is no relief in sight. The us forgotten how to aave: is ie. 2 aave if they would, Ali df sic tude— old stuff — not sensations! 4 But it brings me to my starting a starting point is Sheriff for: who sits there. I'm going to cal gational diselmeure about Fries! i The hall was overcrowded, paper table was surrounded by : maignment men, Two af pring strangers; the reat of the Ge seen them, They paid mo ini neighbors. They took does that Cal waa uttering; took i ds takingly, in shorthand note. T were Senator Sawilt's men -cs wanted to have « finger in the “Four years ago last spring” "Joe Stamler came to me. Foor last spring Benjamin Gori: sheriff. He is in this hall lint ipl had full warning of what [ to Druring that ae Benjarnis Gove wae enrich kaye she's sy fi the pe of twenty thousand dal pene B FOrve yr. fhat do you pick on ms? Ben Gorley from the erowd. “I It was mine." “Ben Gorley didn't earn it” Cal. “There was another mot it and that earned it all, Thais Stamler—undersheriff at jee | thousand a year. Joe Stam 4 the work. Ben Gorley wee po thousand dollars of did no work at all. During tht of his term waa sheriff Ars & in seventy-five thousand des ee four years he gave be mS ‘or um Cul paused. He hesitate! m was not quite sure of what be And then he said it—the thre than Swift's men took dow particularity, the thing that 29 Swift fastened on. “Joe Stamler,” went on Ca" five thousand dollars" worth He was getting twenty<ajs B fifty dal for it. He com him get his boosted to af he could live, investigated . you, at that time Joe Stach ical nonentity: he could o- one Vote oul of this River i one, direct primaries and I ‘ was the one man trained by years of experience for the wl Hia friends gould hawe worked! to the bone for him. [1 2% gone for naught, Joe eum © made a bargain with him, 2 eet I agreed to eleet Joe county & condition only. That coil must aotmutt to poe for all hae the five thousand dollars a He paused, There wae te hub. Naturally so. Theomd with the intelligence of a meaning of the words, bot what Cal was driving at. ever, meendbal surith crowd, “Cal's rakemoft,”" grinned puting in loud tones—“ only year. Some rakeoff, Ocl. (Continwed on F

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JANTZEN KNITTING MILLS Pour ann, Onecon To Mechaswae: We an disver to the teailer—can ma Sajeresioe delivery by eapreco 6 Te oT THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page 40! Cal nodded. “In dealing with Joe Stam- | ler in this wise,” he went on, “I did a very | das erous and questionable thing. But I did it, nevertheless; and Joe has kept it mum, and so have. I did it in the way [ did because | saw no other way to do it— and get it over to you. I could have come to you four years ago with a great altruistic idea—with a vision of ‘aatanlat benefit to you. I considered doing it—considered going about it in the way that a reformer naturally would go about it. I rejected the idea. You were weary of reform. You would have t my scheme into the dis- cord, as im ble, visionary; rejected if asrot. I knew there was not one chance in a thousand of putting over what T wanted to put over—except in one Lhad but pet dt in view. Soaps at ie any use in ri en Gorley teen hen ie pave Se the Seema when TL eould get ee game Tesulta with ve. I might just as well throw the extra fifteen thousand in the gutter—or ket it myself, I did the latter. I put tin the bank.” Deep silence now. It was what Cal wanted. He went on to repeat his danger- ous admission—an admission that eould MrT kept my bargain with Joe Stamie my E gain Wi oe T, gentlemen; "eat Cal. "I forced his nomi- nation at the primaries. I elected him sheriff in November of that year. [ concede that fact willingly. And Joe Stamler kept ct with me. He paid the hot.” Silence still—silence that could be cut with a knife. “Gantlemen,” sald Cal, “what T did-in the ease of Ben Gorley and Joe Stamler I did in the ease of officeholder in River County and in River City. I made a secret compact in the case of every man. 1 put my men wpon the ticket; I elected them. They kept their pact with me.” He nodded to the men with suitesses. They slung thelr sulteases on two chairs, epened them. The cordon of plain-clothes men drew near, and nearer atill, Themen | with the suitenses bent to their task. Rapidly they tossed bundle after bundle of greenbacks on the long table beside Cal until they had built two mountain peaks of money. The multitude drew a long, lon breath. Miost of them had never even thought of that much money; most of them had never seen ao much as one per cent of it. There was a picture. Two mounds of legal tender, a bank man standing grim behind eneh mound. Fifteen stalwart guardians, each with a finger on the trigger of his gun. And Cal, “Gentlemen,” went on Cal, “I come to ‘ou with no vision—no altruistic nonsense. cone to you with nopromise, Lamseeking no office, [ am asking nothing of you, nothing for myself. But I come to you with a task performed, come to you with the assurance that the thing has been done. For four years, gentlemen, in River City and in River County, the head of every EVENING POST office hag been pald all the money that he's worth. For four years he has earned the money that he’a worth. What's left is what you used to pay for nothing. Here it is. Cal waved his hand toward the two mounds of money. “Gentlemen,” he went on, “this is only a sample of what can be done—of what you can do, What I have done ones you can do many times, for nan rs. What I have done in one particular, you can do in all particulars for all time. 1 want you to do it if you will. I want you to compel the ture of this state to pass an act—I've drawn it—that will provide oe ing out your seit money an ng ing to show for it. [ want you to do somethi more. [ want you to put Joe Stamler an all the other men who've served you so efficiently —I want you to put them back into office once again. I want you to redlect them in the fall. -The multitude had just begun to catch his drift. There was an attempt at ap- plause. Cal stifled it. oe Beg of River County here?" he ask He was: he had been nd to the for, Of. the tiorm. He stepped to t want the city treasurer River City," went on Cal. hat gentleman rose to his feet, Cal onee more faced his audience. “*Chen- tlemen,” he said, pointing to the mounds of money, “remember—this is but a drop in the bucket compared with the money yo can save if you'll only take the pains, Afr. Outeault," he went on, bowing to the county treasurer, ‘ rer, "this aller pile is yours. It runs up-to something more than an oven million dollars,” ‘Oty Lord!" gasped a man in the audi- ence. “What about the bi ane? “The bi one,"" smil Cal, “ta for Mr. Jacobs here. It totals to two millions and a half.” After that the del The thing was drama of the most thrilling type. 0 erowd went wild. Even the ennui-stricken ladies at the hag table leaped to their feat and howled. Thia thing was news— news of the first rank. That night husbands Wo their wives and told about it; men and women called up their friends at mid- night, shouting the strange tidings over the wire. The pa went to press. Next day Cal's sensational disclosure— a fulfillment, not a promise—awept the nation from Maine to Texas, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Cal set himself to work. He prepared his theket for the primariesa—with Joe Stamler’s name #t the head of all the rest. He drafted the referendiam clause that he had outlined at the meeting. He girded up his loins. The doy for the primaries arrived. It was a damp day. The taxpayers didn't venture out to vote. They went to their offices of course. Some of them got soaked while going out to lunch. They left their homes in the morning, went about their business, came back in the evening, cheerful or otherwise, a3 night th went could interfere with ; But it was tes devihh wt Gal ee corner bo “An ny means to gain the Cal," cried Lucy. “Anys a e people understand thet " cried Ca But ‘By gosh doing it foe “For mé,"" said Lacy, * ne her nervous ‘ And se Cul carcial on The National Swimming Suit EVER BINDS~NEVER SAGS ci es, Jeng Mncing Mille |

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST erybody’s Business By FLOYD W. PARSONS le Methods ia Business 2 throughout the world is tend- and more toward the eatab- {a universal lan which ligible to the people of all eoun- , music can be read and under- ; educated Persona, no het they live in America, Eng- or Africa, In like manner it rotable that one day standard- ga representi SER ial and indus endeavor aye by intelligent hi different a teens un tke customs. quantities me eomparntiss rmore readily grasped thre ithan in any other way. Wale ¢ chart present matters in and save the time of execu st make decisions and j initiate we wha conducta a business me can remember compli- of past performances, and yet y phase of business it is the pee of ag oF years story. e pros inew house can graap all the concerning his contemplated rely glancing at a blue print, cially clear conception could mad by a written description, tun a decade ago the wae of ds was confined almost en- ii technical training. To-day jnot only by business execu- wyers, physicians and farm- and hoping no longer have conduct Industry. The present time must not only business ia doing but be able efi oping dg lb is going to d he tse of es Seal Maan he gra hic chart in his busi fm industrial exeeutive is o: to a practice that was ameng primitive peaplea. wis the orginal ribet! ne th rth exarmples of us With exami gra’ furies old. The weaphe ‘ef picture mat of con= bs, din the form of a column rer eo quickly un ot facts are shown by a le horizontal bars or by ivided wp that each por- hor height represents a ‘inct fact. For example, at a certain cor tion number of foreyn-bom of these employes the pave per cent, the Rus- cent, the Germans forty Itulians fifbeen per cent. much better idea of the he various element: nation ia presented in the rt having four horizontal it from a vertical base. ‘zontal line representing h long, the bar for the : four-fifths of an inch, and three-ffth inches, r would be only three- ig. It may take a min- it the thing graphically, an in picture form t eB assume & greater promi- per impression and re- the part of the reader. ied that ere one y¥ an abomination nta as many difficulties manuseript written in tion to the universal use vercome quickly by an education. It is easily e any reasonable indi- the ultimate theory of ae Ss ee ad On iven r, and four-fifths of the ne, The mualorly 3 af understood by poorle 2a simple problem in itly it is a fact that the winye complicated and erroneous conception which seema to have taken root and grown in the minda of many people. It will not bg many Years gin ests ihe preparation and in i limes of simp eharta and curves will be ht are the public schools as a part of course in arithmetic, is ig: eee racticed In the schools of Newark a nton, New Jersey, where grammar- school pupils are gaining a useful knowledge of present conditions and recent develop- mente in their own cities by a course in pre- pon charts and plotting curves indicat- @ growth, population, industry, and i on. of a cities. ec complete courses in graphic methods of presentation are now one ns lignite i various colleges and universit St PHL those which contain departments for the atudy of business administration and meth- ods, “All this strengthens the opinion that before long most people will acquire an appreciation of the value of charta for pre- senting vital facts, and that the result will be the use of graphic met | ae Bi routine practice £ in the of all modern business firms. Ome expert in industrial organization de clares that it should be as uncommon for an employe in any concern to be in doubt as to the peraon in authority over hima aa for a child to deny the parentage of his father, No corporation that is earnest in its desire for maximum operating efficiency can afford to conduct ite affairs without the aid of an o tion chart. Such an instrument eliminates irritation ihe conflict of author- ity, for w knows perfectly well to be must = pert. In companies where there is ov proper distribution of authority and re sponsibility, hi p executives wently go over the h of officers under them and issue orders to rank file of workers, thus weakening the authority of the fore- men or department superintendents to whorn the general run of employes are re- sponsible and look for guidance, Graphic charts are generally wsed to show com t parts, make comparisons, set forth nterdependent, relationships and a relation of variable el ta and quantities. Among the devices adapted to such Uses are ack olf different sizes, por- allel bara, rec ea, squares and pictured objects drawn to different scales. When pore inet objects are used, much care must taken with their construction or th may misrepresent the case, Tf it is desi to show the: increas at elo ra carried by a certain rai during # month of a year, it is considered best to indicate the improvement by draw- ing the required number of fi of the same a8 eer sna: e bgp the com- parison by plac one large man by the side deena One. In the first case each uniform eure of © man may rep- regent any desired unit, such as one thou- sand, ten thousand or even one hundred thousand passengers. A rectangle can be used to ahow three different elements: If ont side represents Price and another side quantity, the entire area Will stand for the value or the quan- tity times the price. It must always be remembered that the relative sizes of spheres, circles and cubes are not identical with the relative lengths of straight lines, and #4 a consequence the areas of these figures must be carefully calculated in order to insure accu of relationship. The plotting of curves on backgrounds laid off in blocks made by frien apices lines ia the simplest and moat efficient me pore oe relation of varialabe unite ties is mere aha jud ment te necessary in se g the unite on the horizontul and the verticnl lines, For in- stance, if the base line is made to represent time units, and too much space is allotted to each unit, the result will be a flattening out of the curve and a consequent minimiz- ing of the changes which haye oectirred in the months or a fara that have passed. Aga wsuial thing ft is best to plot all curves on cotirdinate paper already ruled in or rectangles to sult the purpose tn hand, dl. One retail shoe dealer who had discovered the effectiveness of graphic presentation becume anneved by the constant neiter- ation on the part of customera that shoe {Continued on Page 47) it h worker | if seine pac er 45 “y Evefy drop a Wakens flavor " @Q1927-H. JH. Ce. EIN‘ Vinegar brings out the hidden favors of the other foods it touches and adds a rich mellowness dinar eaaenl SNE QIGART all itsown. The blending is delicious. The aroma adds keen zest to the appetite. Carefully selected mate- rials prepared in the Heinz skillful way, and aging in wood for at least a year be- fore bottling, assure quality and flavor. Use it on the dining room table and in the kitchen. Four kinds. Malt Finerar—made from barley malt BY hite Firegar — made from selected grain Cider Finegar—made from choice cider apples Tarragon Finegar in bottles Jilled and sealed my the Herre establishment A companion in excellence to Heinz Vinegar is Heinz Olive Oil. Under Heinz supervision this rich, full flavored oil is pressed from selected olives in Seville, Spain. In bottles or tins. Some of the 3 / Spaghetti Baked Beans Apple Butter Tomato Ketchup | ALL HEINZ GOODS SOLD IN CANADA ARE PACKED IN CANADA

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 2: Keeping a Promise to the Smokers of America The following is an extract from an advertisement of General Cigar Co., Inc., published Sept. 20, 1920. “There are no indications in sight at the present to warrant a decline in the price of Havana tobacco. When such time arrives, we promise that the smokers of Robt. Burns Cigars will receive the benefit at the earliest possible moment.” FILLED | straight ERE is the fulfillment of the promise of September, 1920— Robt. Burns Staples—a full Havana filled cigar—a cigar with all the individuality of character and taste—all the distinctive mildness of flavor that you've always looked for and found in Robt. Burns — offered at i | | | Actual size es neon % Bil a pcohinil ry one today. NATIONAL BRANDS Box of 50, $4.75 NEW YORK CITY Ss i ee

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ee eesind toa high, 30 ech to pre ai of the ineta ag he knew than ‘pt beet yerte he used a rectangular chart, vires of leather appearing at the ‘the rectangle, arg 4 from, the ihe bostom to the highest at te base of the chart represented moet remote being at the left, yet recent appearing at the ex- t. Jt took but a brief glance to tereas the price of leather had for the frat seven yeurs, ae imdi- we rie andl fall of the curves, it y incéased for the past three urve mounting without a drop. jon waa true of all four varieties wich of which was represented These cures were distinguished wiher by dots und dashes, ex- i egend placed in one corner of Ths graphle argument of the wa far more convincing than or written explanation could 'e DBT. that employ a nitmber of eknen some i ty in ar- imer vacations for their per-. hat thera shall always be o ior workin available to take nrtant werk, One simple iving this problem is to pre chart drawn on cotirdinate In squares, on which the wecks ate indicated by divi- base line, The names of all ear at the extreme left of the ion period of each worker is ckening in the space repre- eekar Werks mai to him. is nat or each me lsinty when his holiday ia (ho company executives can e which of their responsible eee This aig payee In Mung’ Ger whys, ny ibols or employing colored calble te male such a sheet ids of data, 2s bonvs earned ihsent, daye worked, and so aontal ling aheuld represent id the days of the month are 2 base line, corporations employ a nume- en or maintain numerous lio, Tt is a common prac- neers bo on the inddi- hoor bran Tianagers, ag Ht, by publisht a weekly ing that liste each agent or er of total sales made, The spanies finds it best, in the ha plan, to keep secret the i parson or unit, There is to present this kind of in- to use a chart made up of 1 in columns equidistant 2 at the top of the sheet. k should be half an inch of an inch wide, with ends ‘hed, leaving a blank space each block. aed to ahow the monthly . of the company's an is to assign each mem- Ofinization a confidential known only to the general d the chief officers of the tanding of each member “ce ia determined for the Instead of arranging the a column of mames, this a column of blocks, each ritten in it corresponding i¢ galegman. ‘The blocks Th crag as stated, gives past year, commence - 1 at the top, and read d, and so on, in regular i of lowest standing. At y, the firet month of the it eolumn of blocks is his ease the man who was rating for the celled all the other enles- frat place. In such age the January column Number 7. The other ~ column mare likewise to the most recent stand- inew columns are connecting the ends af ume number. When o ds have been completed r to pick out any partic: imber, and by following gthe columns itiat THE SATURDAY tvident whether the man has bettered his position ar fallen behind in his wark. Busy executives will find what is known a3 the cumulative curve o valuable aid in businesa, for the last polnt on the curve gives the total output since the boginning of the period for which the curve was Plotted. The angle of the curve shows the rate of onto for any period of time under eonsideration. A cornmulative or maga curve never trends downward, Lack of output is indicated by a horizontal trend of the curve. Cumulative or mass curves are particular useful in the study of quantities in eart work, eapecially in road building or railroad construction, Graphic charts known ss frequency curves enable executives to study many in- dustrial problems with greater rapidity and convenience than is possible by any other method, i etic charts which are based on “the number of times a certain charac- teristic is found repeated in a number of ohaervationa,” have been u for many years to represent data relating to physics and biology, but it is only in recent years that the hners of ee char haa . in the y of engineering an. business problems, Frequency curves can be used effectively in such documents as annual reports railroads, where they constitute a satigfactory substitute for tabulated statements, giving such dota as the number of milea of different weights of rails in wee at cb Paslode Serie d : bec ney curves may o o problems such as the time Feguived te ave seerhates calls in va unt cities, 6 like, Comparisons of wages are algo shown elearly by these eurves. By means of careful designing of cards plotting of curves the year af a business can be shown on a al four-by- six-inch card, Willard ©, Brinton, an autherity on the use of graphic methoda, saya that one eon ee cmaccine company wees a four-by-six-inch card, and on this amall area is able to show actual sales figures by montha and quarters, leavin sufficient space for dates, inscription s ather lettering. On the left-hand aide of the blocked area ap the vertical acale of earnings running from zero to three hun- dred thausand dollars, and progressing in multiples of thirty thousand dollars. The base line of the chart showa the months, and to insure absolute clearness thirteen vertical lines are used, so that at the beginning of each card the last month of the previous year can be repeated. It can readily be peresived that the record of several years can be ecorl in this con- cise form, and ‘variations fram year to year noted by arranging the cards in chron- Glogienl order, A num of firma find it advantageous to Dc their pay rolls on four-by-twelye-inch cards. Data for filty- two weeks can be presented in this way, The statisticians of some large corpora- tions bind their charts. However, several of the leading students of graphic methods believe ag aegis a the tage over the Mm. Bay that it is difficult in the enmae of the latter method to devise s system for keeping hundreds of curves in such a that quick comparisons between any of them tan be made. On the other hand, loose cards permit of inetant oom betueer different series of charts for a period of years, if desired. It should be ae arate that no syvetem of curve records should be installed which does not permit of the quick come SO ey eee any other curve in the whole system, Often an ex- ecutive wishes to plan for the future, and in such a case it is helpful if at one time he can have before him a curve showing the record of sales and another curve for the aame period of time giving a record of the company's expenses, When sales increase, it ehould decrease, and yl enpeniee foe ans mrt] and yire | any other condition exists the rae is 1 sound Lepage t isa good ides in preporing ic charts to leave sufficient space at the left- hand side of the card for brief notations covering unusual conditions which have enused @ taarked rise or fall in the curves. Tt ia undoubtedly true that after a couple of yeard have passed, the average individual is unable to remember the exact reasons for caren aap rok pe though at the time of tha ng t uni able. e mannger of a large telephone company was unable for some Ume to re- member the reason for a drop in the curve of earnings of his concern two yeara pre- vious, After much poodarig and soma search he recalled a blizzard of ten days EVENING POST PUBLIC efsz2s LEDGER 47 1 | . mite sane BR te le i roe E. . ap apee ba ay aL. Ie Sere | et eee ; Se: a af pe Bue iE CR ERS ee aay GhAe ; DETROIT JOURNAL publishes daily PUBLIC LEDGER Foreign News “After a carefully watched trial of the Ledger Foreign News Service for several months I want to register for The Detroit Journal a very strong regard for what I am convinced is the most satisfactory cable service avail- able for any American newspaper. “Two facts stand out in the general excellence of the service: first, the authoritative character of the dis- patches; second, the policy of the Ledger in concentrat- ing correspondents where big news is breaking. Because of this policy the service rises above mere ‘feature- quality’ and becomes a great spot news service." (Signed) Grove Patterson Managing Editor The Detroit Journal The Detroit Journal is famous for the volume and general excellence of its foreign and domestic news. Though well served from various sources, its reputation for foreign news rests heavily on its exclusive rights to the full cable news service of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Hundreds of notable newspapers testify to the authority of Public Ledger news and features by subscribing for them regularly through the Ledger Syndicate. PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER News Service Find out whether there is a news- parce in your city which issues lic ger news and features. ————E

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST In Berry Time Remember Bubble Grains Why shortcake ?—why pie-crust?—why tarts? Just because we all like fruits combined with flaky, flavory crust. Then add Puffed Rice to berries. Those are flaky, crusty tidbits, favory and flimsy. They will make your berries doubly delightful. Try them. Think what puffed grains add to summer In the old days children lacked them. Now breakfast brings these food confections flakes in their texture, nut-like in their taste. Between meals children eat them like peanuts—crisped and lightly buttered. At dinner they form wafers for your soups. Or nut-like gar- nish on ice cream. At bedtime they form the ideal good-night dish. like snow- And every serving means whole grains, wholly fitted to digest. Every food cell is blasted, so all the food elements can be assimilated, Whole grains are made so fascinating that children revel in them. And that is what you want. Puffed Puffed Wheat = Rice Steain-exploded grains 8 times normal size June Suppers Puffed Wheat in milk, This premier Brain, when caten whole, supplies bb needed clementa. Here those elements aré all Bibel to cligest. An ideal dish—a practically complete foel—miacke sp ces lightlul that children never get enough. Let no day omit it, for chil- dren need whole wheat, duration, during which time the pay-station Service Was prc ic sally discontinued. It is also a good practice to have each chart show on the left-hand edge of the aheet or card the initials of the executive authortzing [t, with date of signing. It is always ety good plun ‘to fix retpariad bality for the authorization of a new curve, for some eX Pens ig invelved in enllecting data amd plotting curves each week or every month, Probably the rout satislactory acheme is to place one employe in charge af all curve plotting for the entire company. When this if done it ia eagy for thia particular person to be ready for the new year with titles and properly placed upon the new cards that are to be used. At the proper time the new cards are handed to the various de- t heads, who have power to au- thorize the continuation of any curve for year. The size of sheets, lotte oe | of tithes, and ao on, should be standardiz as far as posstb! e, The ritling on the cords or sheets should beso designed as to leave a margin of three-quarters af an inch at the | top and at the left, and one-quurter of an | neh at the bottom and right of each chart. Blue-printing is generally the moat gatie- | fsetory and the cheapest method of obtain- ing coples of a chart. The ruled sheets showld be translucent to permit of this, Some persona use onion-skin paper, either glazed of unglazed, but one well-known authority prefers a light-we ight, high-grade bend paper, because it prints so well, | stands erugure better and dora not crack with age. This same expert recommends olive-green Tiling, a3 it is easier upon the especl ally in artificial light, When no ye, ees are necessary diflerent-colored inks, or water-color paints used in a draw- ing pen, can be employed to distinguish one curve from another. In this latter method the chart ahouwld eantain an exply LAaAbory note or legend, stating, for example, that red representa gross earnings; blue, ex- Pensa; and grees, ne revenue, [In the making of charts from which blue prints are te be produced it is adviaable te use black drawing ink and bo represent ifs | ferent elements or values by varying the lines in some such way as heavy solid, ght solid, heavy broken, hrht broken and com. hinations of dots and dashes. Of course an explanatory key is meceseary on each chart, Different ecales may be used on the same chart. In using the typewriter to mark titles, tabulations, nnd so om, oni charts, a. much clearer blue print 18 made oesible if ping of carbon paper ia plac ed with tha inked side next to the back of the chart, ao that a double printing is obtained. When dealing with very large quantities it is not always practicable to use a scale which atarta at sero and is carried up by ide stapes to a figure representing the high= on the curve. Such a chart would cttier he too lange for convenient handlin or else the aeale would have to ke otilatinnd go that only very large fluctuntions would tet Indicated on the curve. In such a case the beat practice is to sturt the scale at zero and just above this point draw a wavy line geross the sheet to indicate that the acale is broken. This line con te easily drawn with an ordinary serrated-edge ruler, 1s Lise by mi aceounian ins. The stale starts again on the upper side of the wavy line, ata figure a little lower than the lowest point on the curv, and i¢ then carded up by even atepa to a figure a little above the highest polnt to he shown on the curve, The efficient chart clerk will always en- deavor to forests! i questions Tegarding Un- aia points OF CURVES bey ta otling the reason for them on the chart before submitting it te his superior. Not long ago some of our national engi- TEErIng Secieties coperated in establishing a jolnt eommittee on stundarda for graphic presentation. “This committee has already made many valuable suggestions, which, though elementury, are fundamental in pre senting businessrecords in thefommol charts. Here are a few rules worth noting: All charts should be arranged from left to right. Wherever itis possible represent quantities Afay 1, by linear pig esa 8 oe umes are more likely to be 8 kata In making » curve the ses fe appear on the di even fit sary ta show @ wer Pisa hee joo that they Tiss rawn heavy so that ay teen tinguished from other coded: is advisable br to show re nate — a A riche | in rending the diagram, nr dingram should be ders a chart or so as to be sharply clistingnaial ordinary lines The horizontal for om read from left te aes an scale from. bottom: to ploce the figures os ~he left and desirable to inchuade in numerical data or formulas repr numerical data gre mot chart it is aften desirable to gel mation ree rre —s meno fia should be w Bie fi i from the base a= the better the right-hand of the dieg pt — —— @ disgran| made aa clecr complete Subtitles or deseriptions should fa necessary to insane clearness, Any executive who hen vot © of the development of evap keeping and presen lose no time in in convonione: of ach 2 ay chart work cam be established diagrams or the following business factors: Divitena muterial costs, nation of waste, labor ty rd and accident cuiscs. a : permite a speed analysis and gives more informasion or other in parties t ese by a volume perme © InVen ak instance, beet Bang the cent of certain kinds or ¢ on hand, a3 com shack at the same aeeson in pa oS will whether or not co of apeciil attention must beg tain lines of goods in order fs surplus on hand, Net Jon execitive of one large © to -visua his business by series of charts, and on Ince WH roveang eed vote te chart coverin ‘ Puro showed that ri " ward of a undies dollars b new man, and the chert- nearly ff ‘ ninedl ere ’ nearly five hu - nual loss of more than fits lars. An. er ee the diseowery t the « intendent wis aor g in : employment ageney, tion gave the supe COTTON On ey The possibilities of gp tion are unbow un its infaney. Our govern nish us in ne 1; Wee i apie a the useful a ef charts in Visual wal - Statistical pees Pees Un reau of the Cons ec i both 4 cantina Many of this devine The billige igo the e bibli on tensive, bart : Doe peared the af c those Int in the mercial and Indust morrow will demand me = both in mental and physics those executives whoa gence tions of responsibility: will te seriously handicapped iW the lacks a Proper appreciation of dl graphic methods for presentin bei,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST AILORED AT FASHION PARK TUROLE I Mee : std Clie. ALLL bi i. , i - Pa ; KS \\ S EATON Is aA COPYRIGHTED METHOD THE TUROLE SKETCHED CAN BE BUTTON- ORING WHICH GIFES SOFTNESS ED OR WORN HITH LAPELS THROWN LAPELS AND FRONT OF A COAT, BACK. ACCREDITED AGENTS NOW HAVE IT, f ou CE #iITHour REA DY-TO-PUT-ON

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50 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Min iis The changing point of view Doubtless you have observed it yourself—this changing point of view. Thousands of persons have. Constantly, since the inception of the industry, first one car, then another, and then another have seemed by common consent to occupy the fore- most place in public esteem. | That the evidence points to the Lincotn as the car now meriting this distinction is, of course, deeply pratifying to ourselves and decidedly pleasing to LIncoLn owners. But isn’t it perfectly logical; simple as A BC when you remember that it was the Lincotn which brought into actual being the very qualities to which motorists of mature discernment had long looked forward? When a new creation sets at naught all past con ceptions of what a motor car should be, and do; when its mode of action is so much more capti- vating and motor travel made vastly more delight- ful; when it shows a degree of stamina and con- sistency of performance never experienced before, then what is more natural than that prevailing judgment.should single it out for the highest estimate that can be conferred upon a motor car? LINCOLN MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN LINCOLN |

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he Coal Controversy By C. E. LESHER ANY points in the coal controversy gbject to opinionated discussion rthe operators and by the miners’ iat particdlar attention should be » restatements of fact whether y made or made by intent. statement of The Coal Minera" Tet SATURDAY EVENING Post of st, Mr. Ellis Searles, editor of the fine Workers’ Journal, is guilty of aeumber af incorrect statements. jes charges that the operators are rbound" to meat the miners in a peonference and that their refusal ect, flagrant violation” of their and that the operators thus de toreed the minera to strike, wtrect of Mareh 31, 1920, to refema and which provided for a liminary to a joint four-state a2 was broken when, in Au ; niners went oft on a strike which d not under a joint agreement Tictand state ents. Since anot existed mther in. principle The miners’ union abandoned wt when they abandoned the mpetitive Field plan of negotiat- ind reverted to state settlements iget their rate of day wage in- m 36 to $7.60 for eight hours. the miners and operators have ‘g under the various state agree- irated on the joint agreement of 0% The United Mine Workers ontract, not the operators. The striking to foree the operatora a joint agreement, a national ecntrary ta the necessities and = operators. # no doubt on the part of at that time aa to the actual [the Central Competitive Field. eadline Cleveland Conference isruption of Interstate Joint ment, Because of the Compli- | Developed in District 12, the e Workers’ Journal of Sep- 1), concludes ita account of igs with this significant state- its finality: iret was expressed because of nof the interstate joint move- . The interstate jolnt move- pgreat stabilizing influence in stry."" amakes light of the miners’ six-hour day and a five-day that “every person with a ¢ sense knows that this de- nothing these days." The the miners may know that dis impossible, but his con- mt. He fails to state that jary 1, 1922, Section § te constitution of the United reads: id, that mot moore than six nk to bank in each twenty- ll be worked by members of i) ‘article abounds in such tion busters among the coal | "that element among the appears to be determined to miners" union."" He makes nd determined effort to con- ws that the coal operators e destruction of the miners’ absolutely at weeTUanee with ry important group of oper- eaniee coal-mine laber fn ryear has made unsuccessful negotiations for a new wage nployes. the joint interstate method wot, Mr. Searles says that way to nm otiate a wage d that ‘“‘thia is the plan ollowed ewer simce 1298 b lo tors of the Centr. eld, with the exception of -ployment. Soft-coal mine workers aver- THE SATURDAY 1919." ‘This is mot correct. A notable exception waa in 1906, when, following a strike of aeveral months, state settlements were entered into without a Central Com- petitive Field joint agreement, It is sig- nificant that 1906 recorded the only wage reduction to which the miners’ union has been subjected from 1898, when the first joint agreement waa made, The other ox- ception of course is that of 1920, to which reference already has been made. Mr. Searles charges that the operator by “the same old trick" caused the strike, ine- cause they “had millions of tons of unsold coal on hand” which they could sell at "any old price.” As regards anthracite it ia true that the producers held large stocks on April first. But Mr. Searles throughout his article is dealing with bituminows coal, and he absolutely misstates the fact when he charges the soft-coal operators with having millions of tens of timsold coal on hand. An estimate of the United States Geological Survey shows the total quan- tity of conl unbilled in care—that is, in the hands of producers.on April firat—was some- what in excess of 1,400,000 tone of bitu- minous coal and 115MM tonsa of anthracite, The 63,0000) tons of stocks reported by the Government, as of that date, was in the hands of the consumers, Exeusing the high rate of $7.50 day for common labor, which Mr. Seaclas. “may sound to some like a high price,” he adda: “But $7.50 a day does not enable a man to earn a living for himself and his farnily unless he has reasonably steady em- only approximately 125 days’ work in the entire year of 1921," which, he adds, would give an anneal earning of $997.50, Data published by the Illinois coal of ators show that at fifty-two mines de ah the average days the mines hoisted coal was 159 in 1921, all day men averaged 118 days and earned $208.45 in the year, But that does not tell the whole story. Such an average does not show the adequacy of the wage. It is further shown that 51 per cent of these men av 198 days and earned on the average of $1502.85, and that 62 per cent of the day men earned over 83 per cent of the earning of this class. In other words, Mr, Searles neglected to mention that in his averages of earnings he has included with the steady worker the loafer and unfortunate as well. With his average of $700 per year for all mine work- era in the union aoft-coal fields I have no torre), It but proves how unfortunate Bunion mine worker would be were he to be granted all that he demands. His high wage rate is of littl: use to him when he has no work, because the nonunion worker nt lower wages is producing the coal. In the matter of prices Mr. Searles has made two outright misstatements of fact for which there is no excuse. He states that J. D. A. Morrow, vice president of the National Coal Association, “testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission a few weeks ago that the average retail sell- ing price of bituminous coal throughout the United States in Oetober, 1921, waa $10.41 aten.’ The official record of the commis- Bion does not show that Mr. Morrow made any such statement. Mr. Searles also states that “every time an increase is given to the minera the price of coal is boosted to absorb the increase. It is interesting to recall that when the an- thracite miners obtained an increase jn 1920 the anthracite operators added a dol- lar a ten to their selling price in anticipa- tion of the increase, and later added another dollar to the price to absorb the increase that wes granted.” : i | There was but one increase in the cireu- lar price of anthracite in 1920, and that was one dollar a ten to cover the w increase. | Tt was added on April first. No other in- | creast was made, A : EVENING POST She has received a letter. When will she answer it? Ir sue has no personal stationery, the chances are she will nor answer this letter for weeks or months. It's easier to remember to write letters when you have writing paper in the house. to forget to write when you have no social stationery. == Sma -o.2 aa a a SE (OS= nm —- cents (stumps or con), VEL oe ay Slt Social Stationery At drug stores, stationery. stores, and department SROreS VOU Caml See Hammermill Bond Social Stationery in eight different envelope sizes, with sheets to fit. These sizes are for general family correspondence and for men's correspondence. The paper is made in three finishes—linen, bond, and ripple. The range of choice is interesting, The price is from Jc to 75 a box. The same papers are also supphed in writing tablets in all sizes, with serviceable b otter and sheet of guide lines. To make it easier for you to choose the best personal stationery, we Will aed vou samples of different styles and finishes for ten MawmernaliY amy Seyi Seaaiemrey prepared! bp WHITE & WYCKOFF MANUFACTURING CO, Maater Makers of Diplinetive Specie! Seiionery Holyoke, Massachusetts Sl == OSS ee ONS ' a J = Pe Ac = : AeA

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52 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 7, AN | ae ON'T wait to be bumped into buying a bumper. The most expert drivers are ofttimes victims of accidents they cannot avoid. Both rear and front of your car are in need of protection. Save repair bills and dress up your car by equipping with Stewart Double-Bar Autoguards. Two beautiful, sturdy bars which run the full widthof your car. Protects the en- tire front of your car—not just the center. Another bumper cannot slip over, under, or around the ends. m $11 to $18. Built to stand up under severe blows. Tecrease in Weeters Poices. SP ISCONWNECT your horn if you would know how much you depend upon it. Its successful operation means safety for you and others. Suppose it failed to work just once in a situ tion similar to that pictured on the left. You can't always depend upon brakes or a quick turn on a slippery street. There's a real motor in the Stewart Warning Signal that produces a loud, commanding warning. And it never fails you in a pinch a “TULL over to the side of the road” are not words to the driver of a Ford of any other car. Its almost sure to mean $15 and costs. In same localities jail sentences are being given for speeding. Model 136, 58.50. Model 163, 6.50. ee ee When His Honor asks" How do you know you werent going that fast if you haven't a speedometer 7” —youcant tell him you guessed your speed and get away with it 7 Put a Stewart on and be sure you're right. There's a new feature in this Stewart Speedometer, Colored dials which appear at certain mileages tell when lubricate the various parts of your car. A chart furnished with each instrument gives you lubrication instructions Save repair bills due to lack of oil and grease. Inerease the life of your car. Can you afford to be without a Seewart? pee for Fords, $15. Weer Price, 515.50. | Ask for the Speedometer with ™ \ the colored dials. Model 160-K., Stewart-Warner Speedometer Corporation CHICAGO, U. 3. A. SSS SS SS SS SSS SS SSS SE SS = PRODUCTS PROTECT YOU J AN D YOUR CAR 1S A Digitized by Gogh

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5 listener already," she said = 1m all immediately learn to igen" ay then that, fearing the unanswer- ar, L wisely said no more. rr Tevening | confided te George that wcmnvineed our meet glocmy sure yer: true: that Annabel had con- i yelent amd unrensonable passion van Gregory, and that she was in- marrying him. ; that ease,” Said George with a peas that did him credit, “I leave r York to-morrow." comenced pacing the floor of awith a vigor that shook the frail sion of the eat :. itto do?” Las 7 thode! Why, to look up Gregory »! To find out who he is, where he om and where he thinks he's going. he an exsconviet for all we know, have a wife already. He m nor heen anything in the world, wu business, if Annabel won't do fout. I can ask a few questions at the Genial Club—he's weil ere— I can have a private de- tlenk op his record. Give me ten at's your job—keep Annabel un- of ten days, and at the end of that now the waret. You might in the put a few questions to G wind him out a bit, get him talk- his youth.” oly lie about it," [ objected, ell, what if he does? You listen and Tand my detective will ean- with the truth. That way we'll ‘ave him @ liar, which is alwaspa Now I'm for bed, You can Vary in the marning that I waa dled te New York on business— business comnmected with the i be gone before any of you are wel night.** 12 itt ‘elimi tion of his ability to toack promptly on his decision, cellent statesman he would have 2 only been willing to displa arest in public affatre as he di nea! And he was so level-hea ! Admirable George! nis staunch support pestly at emext morning, for Mary, be is unheralded departure, asked [ruitless questions and was so 1 curiosity that she acarcely for her fruit, cereal, cpp, hocdlate. Gregory was beauti- vested, and Annabel appeared spicious., ad denned his Sports suit that preen homesptn that fairly aather and of Scotland. The ts permitted one a view of i ves, and it was with ap- ilty that an orale walsteoat iewelling chest. very where tume were round leather but- ae 3 on him waa new. ?, he said to Mary, “just a the delicious bacon, I think,” wed his overwhelming smile ary received it as gratefully ave received ain accolade, t Annabel, but she kept her yon her plate. I suppose Fopinion that if her mother + an elderly fool of herself it iee's busi ress. 33 ee Ped le eat at hbrenkinst, ¥. “Breakfast is the best ¥, aecording to my opinion.” puting her opinion, she re- ly, addressing herself to if this morning, Mr. Greg- lady, if. Annabel and I ine holes before the swim. ring to teach Annabel my ing. which I acquired from on himeelf, tarry used bo b, my boy, you must follow is the secret of utting. tht him a little tric I have mashie piteh." ies ae one gh gad fair golfer, but he actually newer did the rse—and it is a short one— indred and ten. More and weame convineed that he culiarly inguffera ble aga, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE MERRY WIVES | (Cantinued fram Page 21 | After breakfast Annabel took me by the elbow and led me unostentatiously to the veranda, “Look here, Unele Foster," she said firmly, “just why did George go to New | 4 Fa FE | pf. i York?" “Business, my dear," I answered. “Business—rotl’™ she exclaimed [neler gantly, “Or if it was business I'll bet it | was someone else's. Mine, foringtance.” | “Why, Annabel, what leads you to | think that?" “Tm not blind,” said she. “You and ences ai sphere You're Por of something very clever, you | fa Well, listen to aul I'l find that you're being clever at the expense of Bob repay Pll marry him to-morrow." “May Ged protect you! | exclaimed | fervently. “That,” said Annabel ealmly, “ts a very pious wish and dows you great credit." " Dhoea aour mother know of your in- fatuation?” “She does not. IT never tell mother any-

that yourself, Just the same, mother is very fond of Bob." a Yes,"" I ; “that’s just it. That's why T[ think it's only fuir that she should | be told. I fancied she was flirting with him at breakfast, and—well, she's almost his age and at present unmarried.” Annabel started to lowe her temper; hut having, as I have pointed out, o naturally | cheerful disposition, thought better of it and I detected a srile, nascent at the cor- ners of her lips, _ “She who saith to her brother ‘thou fool" is in danger of hell fire," 1 reminded her. “Besides she oohtinued somewhat imelevantly, “Bob's only thirty-six.” I laughed. “You innocent babe," I said, “he was thirty-six when you were living on milk! However, it makes ne difference, His age, after all, isa mere detail; and as fb myself am doubtless ag old ag he, I ahan’t oon- demn him. When de you latend to haye the wedding?" "That's business,” ahe said, and [ sighed my relief, There seemed no immediate danger at any fate. George had asked for ten days only; and George, as I well knew, wea capable of moving mountaina in ten days. T remember once—no, I shall tell that story another time. Gregory came stamping out to the ye randa, looking irritated but majestic, the way a king probably looks when someone he doesn't approve of is talking in a corner with the queen. “The car ia waiting,” he annownced brady, od cress out his ra rates en ut his arm possessively throu that of Aanabel=he wee foreren brlating her, powing her, stroking her, and all other women, too—and her away. His hat waa of n plush with a small feather in the back of it. Safts quod sufficil. T will aay no more, When they were well away [ started out toward the vi , destination being the telegraph office, purposed sending George a telegram, for we had agreed be- | fore his departure to keep each other posted on any new developments, The message | was brief, well within the prescribed ten | words. He claima age thirty-six, Marriage not imimi- free, I conjectured that George would be able to refute the fellow's lie about his age with- out great difficulty, It was a triviality, to be sure—a lie excusable enough had he heen a woman—but it would be a begin- ning, the first stroke of the pick that was eventually to undermine hia complaceney: the Pelion--if I may vary my metaphor— upon which we intended to heap Ossa. Having dispatched my sa hea IT took my way in an optimistic mood to the read- ing room. It was too early in the morning for most of the renders, and the club was Saris eure fora gentleman called Mather, £ whe was ncing thraugh La Vie Pariai- enne. Mather know no French, but he enjc the pletures. “Hello, Mer. Langley," said Mather po- litely. “How doce it go up your way? How's your lion?" “Gregory?” T inquired. “Oh, he's roar- ing according to specifications,” thing until I have te. You should knew } “You foal!” she said, | |

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EVENING POST “All the women in the harbor are neurotic about him," Mather volunteered, "They're all aglow. Would be, I suppose— actor and all that, Queer People, actors.” ” people, women,” I " aoresd Mather, “absolutely inex- cable, But &: gets ‘om every time. esesking like, 1 guess. All queer. I used to know Gregory's wile veers igo. She was a nice [it woman—quiet, ¥ ou knees uiet and adoring. At least she was then. Speman, ry ntl nal wile!" I exe eavoring— but unsuccessfully, | iia conceal | saprioe and my satisfaction. ‘ M: is “Oh, no; not now. Was, though. Doesn't hoast much about it, I suppose, eh? Well, wan quite a while ago, and they"ve heen ie for about ten years. I saw her last she was in Watch Your Step. Nice little woman—quiet, know. Not much talent, but pretty and well made.” “What was pee name?” [ asked. “Her name? Let me see, Tig prise I remember, it was so lon water gone under the Cate since, eh? It Was an unusual sort of name, too; one of ee tricky names, you know, that chorus la invent for themselves and are fri iy eons of until somebody yanks the chorus and puts up the money rte vr them in Camille. Oh, yes, I have it at Dana. That was her neme— Dann Delorme.” * Apt aieeraren R ‘i aid, and te his evi- dent surprise 1 ked him effusively and oe ae A second telegram to George was clearly indicated, PAVE no doubt that there are certain ‘bi the lives of all of us to which we baek with the feeling that they were omc aca net Beal themselves = often ao illogi nonsequactous that we can scarcely persuade ourselyes they would have during our waking moments, if dreame, of so the igs amazing E are accep canlally and a com-= mionelare. We are ted but not eur- cp ta me ourselves. 5 haing wiih one one: to the cornice of oolworth tower; battling with assassings in a sub- merged submarine; cutting the throats of our nearest and dearest: : Repeneine naked in a ballroom: or--I am no Frevdtan— g love to eee eg All this is prefatory to the statement ae I remem the week that followed ‘a departure from Fool Harbor aa tm ok gt ooh at Unusual things ity—and patron so to hap ~ but Boon grew to secept the with complete equa- nimity. Surprises ceased to eurpriae. opening gun was fired when George's anawer te my two telegrams reached me at Fool Harbor. It read: He wforty- four. Have copy af birth cortificote ) aa prom, Hove traced his wile, Bur <p! Tare | not Danad Delormeo. is elage ae She me Vere Serbod ane lees ins "Yonkers imany ef ain mon arrtarm. Every- thing splendid. GEORGE, Ingamuch ae hea? me on a Thurs- day, three days per eencee sapere jostle ee L conecladed that _ nephew time in commencing his investigation. rcigeei results he had achteved during those three a were flattering ence of his energy. ut the question that confronted me was, what usa should 1 make of the in- formation which I lel seni ry Should I throw jt bravely in 4 teeth and dare him to deny it? Or should I reveal it to Annabel and permit hee to decide what was to be done? 1 determined finally on the latter course, gince I foresaw that in any cae Annabel would have to be told. Gregory, I knew, would be quite capable of refusing te leave the house until she should have ordered him to do so; or if he did leave it befare Annabel knew the truth he an a not improbably H sorter her to go him—a catastrophe to be averted at any priee it even before dinner I invited pat ba ne me in mixing the cock- i “T wanted a word with you alone,” I said to her, “and you are in such demand these that I've had to resort to strate tac to obtain at. Poor Uncle Foster!" she said eommiis~ eratingly. “Where's the vermuth?" May "Left-hand door of the sideband 4 bel, ee ee that Ger claims to be only wld Fy the slightest “incl haga ye il prove that he is actually fry “Not the slightest,” said no: “Where's the ice pick T™ “In the top of the igerator. py on the ice. It makes no difeenr then, that he haa lied te you about kis Sea I can imagine nothing of ls rand, is went or ruthlessly, bring! _ wie te her had a wife wa dp him. I suppose he has told ‘you that "Yer indeed," said Annabel ° me that long ago. Tan* tit a pity? : the cocktail shaker?" There is no bo nye that [ fer, 2h The shell I had rom. my hig g proved to be a harmless dud. over started to tell what sou fondy is a brand-new humorous story ac informed by your audience that the heard it before? If you have you w af the distress and the anscane a, Spence eeize?d) the eocktail shaker en dished it furiously in the air, wheres cover prom came , am ice, § sr i thew egg ad syle pantry. Anna me sham stooped te clean up the mes: 4 ces Gregory pushed open the s What i is this—-what is thi” mance. Pak is | nectar and x my good Lang Tt was not ba and, moreover, I waa not his ras ley: but it was ike him to om ownership of both. “Mrs. Mch-g were wonder diame had becom My dear Anna there iss wh meseitk peal not meg unftortunnte mss." “Thank you, Bob,” said Anns) malicious amile in my direction. So that was the end of that ina T freely confess hcp ]T cerme out af best —perh ¥ third. But the fo ay day— Friday- ee oni tec in the shape a telegram from George. Vers Carton never known as Dane Tiae © peace af Fees Eu Boe Hello, Venus. Am het op her tral betcomes interesting, my dear Wats Bigamy! Well, perha No doubt divorces had ober each matrimonial venture. Eve T faneled, would have been disen to see to that. The question + wife had the fellow admitted Carton or Dana Delorme? Sh not to have asked Annabel = the rat portunity; parti particular! after last night's flaseo I abould § q pee another op nity s ut Gregory —unwitt certain—saved me a deal of | approaching me before junches friendly mani band on o and saying: “Er—my good Ls give me a moment, please. 4 told me that you are taking « lint interest in myself and my dear fellow, don't =a me, e, t beseech jou: but I feel a

father and no brother. male relative, but even J am uncle. She the day stepsister, MN . responsibility In regard to , that interesti ysel! I interest miself ting mys is interested. You are one of He bowed with the grace pai eb said he unmet “Wes,” T agreed. “it is ar | pens, unfortunately, that no" You very intimately, We kr - capable actor™—I saw hire moderation of adjective: precisely all we do

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F tuted from Page 54) {what mare, my dear Langley, do ire to know” ere te knoe, for one thing, the f pour forsper wife.” he sald soely: and again, “ ' A maonible question, my ind om which I do not hesitate to it realli a painful incident of the be eue—aon incident I had wished from the slate of my : mig. meray ea gesture a4 Of one pees ny vom the face of a alate, "" The my former Wife,"" he continwed ads impressive, Pensive pause, “is iba" att” T ened, ia Nobel,” he repeated. hid I been ne Pleo t pre but a » condition I have been by that statement. In aporting I had staked my bank roll on pCurton of Danat Delorme: and rink outsider, a certain hitherto ély called Amelia Nobel, had way with the purse! But, as I ined, surprises surprised me no you, Gregory,” I said. any more I can tell you, angity?" he asked. g—at present,” said I, and, are of the importance of m thim and sought the felngiah rtacled lady behind ig del Pas Me. Lan angley. Upon Lies T was she all, we bra you that's just ec in to “f take it now m George. It said: viewed Danet., She oleo waa his mony tighbeen meantha in arrears. ation ae you mee fit. Will return discover more wives. Danné tives r: GEORGE, wcled Indy 4 a ed,” [ answered, feeling that a] me akin to Bluebeard or Then very cheerfully 1 com- lowing message to George ihout Vera aod Dana weleome, iu tertain Amelia Nobel. Het cund-up complete while you are LANGLEY. t back te the howse for lunch- FE melia must have been more neither Vera or Danal, for it 3 before I heard again from at interval I ventured to ap- el once more, but this time ¥, for I did not relish bei so completely foolish saa T had been om the last occa- rb gakaton not to blurt out the = I did not sa BF tor your man Gregory 8 wesibly a trigamist, or if ha diverced thinse tines.” in a suitable Ar ge hang ae nitly, hae ton -Hae aa you int himmete ‘that you should me with pity and patience me disap- t's for you, fdn"t we ao about Greg- vw anid, “We don’t worry telves, I know that actors |, let'a gay shielded lives; dimired they are the more ted, I suppose, by wild what you mean—that he's techs “that is not ot all pose, for example, that t at he had been married at once, mind you, but sev- ‘en that it would make you % What would you dot exaaperation. Ildn* ‘t believe it,” she said. narried more than once he nme, That's all there is to ter,’ she combine plain- o suspicious of Bob, and king and hoping to find t him. It ian't fair—it enough from this that Fe be gained by saying should return with indis- ll telegraphed George to THE SATURDAY EVENING POST that effect, warning him that in order to convince Annabel he would have to bring with him evidence se pwc enough suade a very partial and opinionated folks. a ba ge oop aa following tang ay [received a rom my nephew advising me that Amolia had been in- spected and had been catalogwed under the zame heading af Vera and Danal, and that he himself was arriving at half past five on the following day, I feared that be might be leaving his task scp half done. Annabel, I well knew, would y eating to believe any acciantion a inst regory based only n George's "But, aa It bacpeend. "y need have had no fears, for George brought with him the most conclusive evidence possible—he peeeghe with him Vers and Danaé and Amelia [ [ went in the car to meet the late after- noon train and George. Fortunately I went alone with the chauffeur; for, as I have said, I met not only the afternoon train and George but also three undeniably attrac- tive young women. Hud Mary been with am certain that she would have BBO ed, George, outwardly cool and businesslike, but inwardly, as he later confessed, pleas antly ans ensive, marshaled Vera and Amelia—and a quantity of hand luggage—on the platform and pre sented me to them. “Mra. Vera Carton Gregory, Mra, Dang Poe Gregory, Mrs. Amelia Nobel Gregory my uncle, Mr. Foster Langley." ‘ed, bereft of spench. 1 bowed | three times, while they murmured the usual iti “Pile it in "said George unceremoniously, “We're al good friends and this is my te party! It might be his party, but it was his Aunt Mary's house; sei gle over, these three guesta had been "Robert Gregory's wives. domething of this flashed acroes toe, but I made no aesais: for I wa #till living in the dream. ee the ride ta the house [ had op portunity to survey the three Mrs. Greg- orys, y differed among themselves aa markedly HA the three ports of Gaul. Voru, who was probably the oldest—and she could not have been much over thirty— waa ao brisk, age ab tailor-made sort of person, neath: clad, neatly hatted, neath gloved, neathy shod. She had black hair and eyes and white collar and cuffs. She sald little, but what she said was to the For example, she said, “IT Suppose OUT arrival will mean the devil of a tow." A woman of sense and perspicaci Dansé was, I judged, an exper anced chorus girl, risen, perhaps, to speaking parts, made conversation in the voice and manner which stage directora of mu- aleal comedy believe to be ap riate to young society women; and ashe did this, am sure, to cover up her very real nerv- cusness, It was a new part which she was shes to poe er and one which she had not he waa plump and blond snd sighiy pe perfumed ‘Amelia Nobel was the naset 5 and the moat beautiful of the three. he, guessed correctly, was a muller actress, and very probably a motion- picture actress out of a job. I confess that pathies went out to her, for she was 8 fall, ap eppealing Ht ey thing in her rather aaa ue suit and her worn-out gloves, She did not seem at all frightened, and yet I could not help wondering what had induced her to start on this ridiculous expe- dition. Indeed, [ wondered what hed in- duced any of the three to start. Curiosity? A gense of the dramatic? Hatred of Greg- ory? Love of Gregory? Or more probably, I ‘We dre simply love of excitement, rew up at the front entrance to the OL fear," T said, “that we are nol e actly —er—exactly expected, Shall tow ts and announce yout" “Don't bother,” said George airily. “We're not staying long, you see. Just an afternoon call—a purely informal after. noon call. I'm motoring them back to Portsmouth tonight in time for dinner, They think—and I'm inclined to agree with them=—-that they'll be more comfortable | over there.” right. pe : one yea, T soe, Quite | agen oped the door, then, T called | we Fisitora, Mary!" I erled, _ George has | browght some friends to tow," Ce SSS... SM af Supere »vvrve» >» Protection “Nao "What a relief! Of course you didn't bump into his car intentionally but—a slippery street—brakes didn't hold—bang! Yet, not asecratch ora dent. Biflex Bumpers averted an embarrassing situation—absorbed the shock— prevented damage to cars—saved tempers and dollars. 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} and said: | several times in | said. EVENING POST T heard my staperntee 8: voice coming carcin Ly freer the livin ow nice!" she exc imed in the bliss ot Orace, card the suave, patronizing barytone of inet saying something in reference to the return of the prodigal George: I heard Annabel order more tea and teacups and muffing: and then we entered. doorway to the living room is wide, so we entered almost abreaat—an imposing mae if the three young.’ women in the center and George and I each on an Mary, a8 was her custom, was shaking hands before she had heard their names. Even after she had heard their names she continued shaking hands—mechanically, I suppose, as a flywheel continues to re- volve long after the motive power is switched off. “My aunt, Mrs, MeKnight,” said George, “may I present Mra, Gregory— and Mrs. Gregory—and Mrs. Gregory? There were ea Amati ect oe mur- murs subsiding into terrific silence, Mary completely incompetent in any crisis, ing, en arms wt lest timp at her sides, er startled a ipdiok paren ae those of a hunted anim to his three ex-wives, Annabel a ailent, mation= lesa, a little pale, behind the tea table. a I hasten to admit, behaved more decently than I should have expected. At least he did mot lose his temper, or even his drawing-room manner. He advanced gracefully to the center of the room, bowed “Th my ease, dear friends, no introductions are mecessa I have had the pleasure—I repeat, the pleagire—of knowing all three of our charming visitors in former Vera, how do you do? Danait, I am delighted. And Amelin— why, it seems but esterday that we said good-by. You are all looking aplendid—all of my wives, | may say, are looking aplendid.” “You've taken on a littl: weight, Rob- ert," commented Vera appraising “You handsome old dear,” satd Danaé. But Amelia merely said “Bob!" in a voice that trembled a little. Then Greqory. addressing himself to George, said: “i don’t ‘thine that it is necessary for me to ask what your pu ia in bringing these three ladies here Their purpose in coming is entirely another matter, and T must confess that I have no a oe Sate iif Mr Me- ight and Annabel will excuse us, we em discuss that in another part of the house. For Annabel, at any rate, the dis- cussion may well be unpleasant.” Annabel spoke at last. “T should prefer to stay, if you don't } mind,” she said quietly, “That,” observed George, “is the iden, There will be no unpleasantness, I assure you—only an unusual situation, and I think that Annabel should enjoy the benefit af being present.” “Mf course," said Annabel; and seating herself at the tea table she asked brightly, “Who will have tea? Won't you please ait down?” We all snt down. I have seldom so ad- ried Annabel. = na began to “My dear Danaé,’ ee ool pu OE dl seem to have somethi Woe bi our mind; supper you, begin. Why ed you come hereT What do you want?” Me hs patted her cpallaiee hair, lowered over her knees, cr her Ly legs. lowered her dresa once more pe gee “Why, Robert, [ came here, 1 guess, for the same reason all of us came! im lonely, and I've missed you, and after thinking it over and taking things all in all I'm sorry I divorced you. I’ d be willing to start again if you would." “Good Lord!" exclaimed Gregory. “So that's the way the wind blovwea !' “Well,” said Danaé, “that's the way it blows with me, and I rather guess Dm mot alone in the eyelone. But remember, I was rae in mr G inl I ee" Bea rego os Jats ber. And you, Vern? Fou re my second wile. How about you? Are you here for the same reason?" The efficient, businesslike Vera flushed a little, but maintained an admirable eorn- pM, "T've tried to Ag in touch with you the Eh few yeurs,” she "You newer Bee me. You never would answer ba a letters which I ad= dressed to the theater. I tried to step you lone on Broadway when you were walking ! alone, but you pretended not to notice me,

May 3, T divorced you, you remember, by aup at was when yo «en work and were too lazy to look Sor That was before you wer fimom are earning now. I will say nothing the arrears of alimony that yu a: me, and if you will remarry me |= to start again with a clean slice g fifty-filty everything that eack of op Ts that fair?" passed his fingers ten through his hair. The straic | 1 faze beginning to tell even on kim "That is fair, | suppose.” he said: ta. My —my lawyer—very of them, cc now sou, Amelis’” She looked up at him slowly. Hi were chlaping and une ne th " er lap. She hat reatlessly in conceal her shabby gloves. “T have nothing to say, Tome the firet chance I could to se » You left me, [ suppeoee you wee me. [ wondered if you were =i) me. IT came to find out. That's “Poor litthe Amelia,” said G a tenderness which I believe She smiled, andl when she quite lovely, “Boor old Bob," said she. try Wad oi basi silenee. An pouring bea and George cog | and muffins. “Weill” exclaimed Mary, “ upsetting! I was td so life. I'll have my ed think, Annabel dear. Ln perhaps for the dear time how she was, she said, “Mr, ener iis an explanation.” “T owe you three, dear lady, Annabel two, Annabel knew a rou see. But unfortunately ther be no further explanation p young friend George has atten and everything t is ladies is true, Ewerythi

fore leaving your howse ‘a my dear Mra. MeKonight, that | ing concealed my marriage: possible excuse is that, having self so frequently a failure as a feared that I might be dis: future competitions.” "Lose ir amateur stacd rugpested eorge. regery bowed in moquiescers "Precisely, my dear = He drew hist thin rita from the pocket of his black-sl« consulted it and replaced it “IT think,” he said, “that lL time to pack up and catch the Boston. [t is a most unfortunat alge aad otherwise have bee i a Dee Meck what abowt me?" den efficient Vera “And me?" echoed Danaea. Amelia, | noted, anid nothic “You seem to be very po Gregory,” said Annabel — “ver epite of the fact that you <x been a failure at a husband” At this Mary reprowed he-, = that the remark wos unealle. maidenly; but Ory all bi pose restored, smiled ber gt them both. “Popular!’ ie exclaimed. Ah, dear ladies, what is pop merc fugitive waif of a breeze in our direction every once ae | te veer about and turn against moment. In may day I have ! tion—I say it frankly—and | day is not yet ower, Aidy means name will fill a» hea So much = with o But behold thee t ree ladies! hushand to all of Given: and rel chose to divores me, J do . they did not have reason, bet | none of them hesitated to doi she did have reason. Is that Ts that affection Ts that ko “One moment, please” Amelia. “There's sormethinc f 1 ought to tell you, Bob, beiow further. Since you don't xq CMM aed? om Raye |

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arserd from Poge £3) taught to tell you that | haven't iyo patdora very slowly, staring at epee pial Ast ayes, pA signe Halaam’s mas might have | the angel. : -hiare—net—diverced met he ‘all ahe bravely: “and I don't you should all take it for granted ive" it for granted! OY cours: I took ved! All my wives divorce me!" tks one didn't,” ashe answered victinn. ‘his handsome face in hia hand- ida, He we obwiowsly a greatly bactor, 20 distressed that he was acting. id have heen told!" he groaned. 30k — fs ever think to ask your "she ventured, ik his head dismally, tkeow. I don't remember. IT vr with such things. I leave all am—never contest a suit.” aaid she, “Tk was only ten a that you left me, and i BLP thought you were just taking a tion. I'm sorry. If you want start a suit right away.” = up sharply. that you id rated ee ater but not soa little tremulously. wart to do that, Amelia?” he %& ber head in silence. Her 2: picking uneasily at the black wr skirt, Suddenly Gregory THE SATURDAY “ Lodios,"" he said, “if you will permit me I will go to my room and pack my things, My wile and I are taking the last train i Boston,” “and what about me?" demanded the eficlent Vera, “And me?" echoed Danad, “Ab,” sald Gregory, “to be eure! Well, in the circumstances | can’t very well offer elther of you remarriage. I fear that you will have to be content with the alimony due you. That, I assure you, shall be promptly paid, now and hereafter." And the amazing man kiseed his two ex-wives paternally on their foreheada, and bestowed on them thot radiant, kindly smile which is so irresistible that to wit- nese it thousands of maida and of matrona have paid two-ffty 2 stut—matingvs two Bra. ite x ELL?" I inguired of Annabel when they had gone, George driving Vera and Danaé to Portsmouth according to his ise, and Gregory and his almost tear- ully happy Amelia taking the train for Boston, "Well, what?” retorted Annabel. “Ia your heart broken?" [ asked. “Gregory isn't such a bad sort after all— for an aetor," “No, he isn't," she agreed with a side- ways smile that reassured me. “But I think three wives are enough—even for an actor.” “Well,” said Mary, “I'll sey this for him: He never had more than one ot a Eimre,*" "Wo. Annabel wdmitted, “and noither did Henry VILL There's a Shakeperean rile that Bob ought to play famoualy.” “Yes,” To murmured—“thot or The Merry Wives.” NGLE, DOUBLE, TROUBLE (Cantinoed from Poge 25) ize disnech her social ory noment, Sis’ Eliza resumed her ations with her dancing part- zmeanwhile the words of the wes: fe a defiak dat you didn’! gif died a senen “cept fo rolled if fo" ny grieren' wer pom uuraided! fa nt me fetugrees” when ay honey & all Hue when de big judge said: 0 from sumairoke aon! pork kim lite raiment! an" akoer de boy's forewell, pou can reack him by yomail wed @ fetter, iby ened! acid ale ewe; in’; mon J feels eller, wi dent dome Afournin' Blues, ck nt the door, and over near expectant Mis’ Magnesia oa following drag, trailing hud trembled the lend half ' the drum. him!" oe r I tells you. Quit dat ‘Let me reach you by mail ‘spec it's my mew flnancte,” e wid dem Jone mournin® n' now I feels better, lone mournin’ blues.” — seeage i died on: ex oaire ter door opened, Oo B ifrom the Dnmdowed door- i=pitched falsetto voice: dis de whereabouts of de + Fe Ise ae ilin an’ leawe me speak yo' gure, veiled and clouked, fitus Mareden. My hus ia temp'rarily retained at ise," In the sudden calm the al Bunny snapped like the c-kunake whip. oe who in, whut dis talk? f nger plowed halfway into ‘iring dancers to moet the or: “T gee my huaban’"—Vitus Marsden, what folks calls Wilecat! Sez me! How come you 80 eravin' to know?" “T akows you how come!" Without preliminary the swing of Mag- nezia Bunny's heavy hand launched atraight for the side ib Bie veiled Agure's head. Bam! The sa one staggered a little and swelled up under the draperies in time ta Stop @ swinging Left, “T Jearns you an’ dat heart-breakin' houn"!" The skinny panther waa upon the cloaked figure, and in an impritmpte circle of popeyed bystanders a battle was staged with all the furry and madness of an over- due cyclone, Fora long thirty seconds the little combatant endured the Aniling pun- shment meted out by the apindiing Mag- nezia, and then, with a quick burst of unexpected eneriy the tall member of the team found herse f lifted head first over the aurging Bhouldera of Misaua Vitus Muraden, Five fant above the floor, helpless and writhing, Mis’ Magnesia poised for three seconds before ahe begun her descent, She came down, aided and abetted by two strong arma, anc her course waa the divin course of an arrow, aimed at the sturke end of the paralyze) orchestra. Bam! Head first into the tight parchment of the drumhbead. A quick recovery and Mig hea sto erect, weaving a littl, but wit her head still crowned and coneealed within the interior of the drum. “Git me out! Take dat. off my haid) Unloose me!" Fumblin har opponent. The veiled Miseus Vitua Marsden, tak- | ing advantage of the moment when Mis’ Magnezia Bunny's predicament had at- tracted all eves toward that drum diver, had vanished into the night, Various nerveless whulfers clustered around the tin dishpan, absorbing quick slugs of Sis' Eliza's nerve tonic, | The drummer inverted his instrument and tightened the anares on the one whin- jured drumbead, | Kiss him farewell, you kin reach kim by | mat, # Jus’ beginnin’ dem lone ournta’ Blues, | iv H T FOUR minutes to eight, through the shadows of the ulley back of Captmin Jack's house, Bigd soe fast, came Sliseus Vitus Maraden, c am plor wf the night's battle. In the obacurity of the high board hands unlooged the captive, | In her sudden freedom she lovked about for | EVENING POST 61 Gives Every Golfer Equal Opportunity Experts say that out of each hun- dred hickory shafts now produced there are not more than two or three of frst guaftty. 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THE SATURDAY : | ing it before AN you buy a silk sock for 45 cents that combines looks and wonder- ful Wearing qualities 5! Men, StvleNo.Go1 has both thes features. with a silk top for $1.00 is also remark- able value. Remember, they're guaran: teed, Notaseme Hosier (o., Phila., Pa. Sole No. 741 NOASEME HOSIERY EVENING POST fenee that lined the dark side of the alley the figure reefed a double handful of fow- ing draperies, and in this new freedom the marching pach was accelerated to a trot. Opposite the door of Captain Jack's wood- shed the rambler's raiment in swung free and a» fumbling hand reached for the latch of the door, ad Bla-a!l" Lily, enjoying the rubber-flavored canvas of an old but luscious tennis shoe, expressed her surprise at the sudden invasion of her sanctuary, ; Qut of the darkness came a reply ta Lily's startled bleating: “Shut up, goat, bef’ I Hee yo neck!" The invader spoke, and where Missus | Maraden‘s voice had been a high fabetto | at Sie" Elisa's dance, now it was the voles of Dommy. The diminutive masquerader 2 | struck a match and with It he lighted the | lantern hanging against the wall. Two min- utes of fest work sufficed to free him of his borra eoatume, He rolled his draperies this time inte one large bundle, and carry- him he marched toward the | rectangle of light that marked the kitehen door, Arrived at the door, he kicked gently inst the lower pounel of the screen, rom within the Wildeat answered: Who dat?" "Dis Demey." The Wildest addressed the «ook: “Goon “long inte de dinin’ room, honey, jan" see is l swept things right. Craves ta "THE eve'ythin' to please you an’ ol’ | ome n Jack.” ] he ek ia bet and while she waa ab- sent from the kitchen the Wildcat opened | the door to his laden associate, “Lawd, Demmy, how come yo' nose bleed?" “Stummiled again’ Of Man Trouble, Dan'*t BLop mel (hot te grit dia elo'es back, “ Straight for the cook's room with the borrowed costume walked Ol Man Trou- ble's saaoeiabe, te return three minutes Lvber ” to where the Wildcat waited for the verdict, “Come wid me to da wootshed, Ta talks free fm folks listenin’,” | ‘Trailing his guide, the Wildeat gained ee wootshed and closed the doar behind * an I free?" He a hia breath, ow ip. tin’ fm yo' ‘maginary fust wile, Dat Wanesia woman dont aim to create no big'my. Single, double an’ ane ral, 9 an iT, Ave, Cla J May tt, oe went through an now you a With a haste nt expinal o ‘Pec had od freed the Wildeat'd he tal " Dey thinks you is marie) —gly is announce a divo'ce aa ane de gravy “= on ie stove,” "Too busy to eat—sees you lat erg irs launched sway x project of the ee a Be pad ait | eee hala inside out, At half past threes in Nite oy wes awakened St House up you. ee dlls. At, eeu ya | zie on? poe Arig arr opped. Dis time, Wil ove Linded on dat tall V her ao. e an” he M di ib é -_ be in’ an dil it all. Yu de be “Deromy, ia T dreamin’? member whut i double trouble?” incredulous oye, “You is a “T p—wid de love itch, oa ea dreamin” jike I doo—to dreams.” ae 5: A The Wildest grunted ment. “You ain't dreamin’, T lirious above de cars and plain Sunup you begin to bray," The critic aweke for te thereafter, “Craves to have me be beg de bes’ man—shows dat mule bes" man befo" he git hitehed | Luck, rally round! Ws needs pam Ss 4 formal Tropical Cardea and Padie im Cae Digitized.b

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 63 CELCB RATED oo EATRA OAT ACT faa Sire PLEO cet in Ties Chg ever dens Li a, ial, Carob, Gide ile kee ore Clicquot Club Co. Millis Mess i It wouldn’t be the same...” ie reuld make a loaf oF bread, : They wouldn't be the same at all," The Master Baker said. “Some loaves would burn and some would fall, And some would not be good, Though each one used the self-same flour And did the Best she could.” DD there’s no secret about making use is pure, cold spring water, drawn from 7 Slicquot Club Ginger Ale. We tell the bed-rock. Nature has filtered and re- Gin ger Ale ye put in it. Other manufacturers filtered it. The carbonation of this water all the ingredients we use. They and the flavoring with Jamaica ginger, Sarsaparilla uy most of them. fruit juices, and sugar make the happy they don’t make Clicquot Club— blend that is never duplicated except by Birch Beer more than a woman with good flour “® /t}§ ot @ Universal taste. R B 4 recipe cam make bread which tastes Why, then, should you drink other gin- oot cer neighbor's bread made with the ger ales if you can get Clicquot Club? fi pur and recipe. Ask your grocer to send you a case. Keep (have one decided advantage in afew bottles onice or in acold place. Serve i our ginger ale. All the water we it any time to any one. They all Ike it. HE CLICQUOT CLUB COMPANY, Millis, Mass., U.S. A. oan oQ) e | GINGER ALE “hee = Go

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G4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 27,4 THE FREIGHT THAT FAILE! Freight That Failed is no piker among modern productions. The coat of putting on this piece in America is more than 3100,000,000 4 year. Oh, it's a whale of a produc- tion, aad makes the most lavish release of the moving pictures look cheap. But the aad box-office secret of The Freight That Failed ia the fact that ite production money represents almost a total loss and every shipper and consumer in the country is di- rectly or indirectly called upon to chip in and meet the deficit. There are no nonassessnble shares in this venture, The public is generally in- clined to think that the railroads pay the freight claims: the fact is the roads are merely the fiseal agents for eollecting the required assessments from the consumers, It's every- body's show, for a freight claim is usually an outright economle loss, Naturally youask, “lf The Freight That Failed issuch arotten show why don't they take it off the road?” That's precisely the point of this story. An organization of theablest railway menin America is now on the job of admin- istering reduction treatment to the freight claim and strip- ping it down to astate of skinny attenuation calculated to make it unrecognizable by its old associotes. It's a huge task and a hard one, but it is being accomplished at an astonishing rate—and without music, too! For example, one road, the Chicago and North Western, instituted a freight claim prevention campaign; and Mr. H, C, Howe, freight claim agent, told W. C. Johnson, one of his assistante: “Take hold of this job and see what you can de toward cuttiog down our freight claims $1,000,(4M) a year.” He tackled the task under a full head of steam and did nearly four times as much as wes asked of him. [itr movie drama of The The Cost of Carelesaneas pees he began his offensive in the summer of 1920 his forces were not really mobilized until the beginning of 1921, and the results of this campaign brought about a reduction in the number of claima presented of 79,946, which is just that many less complaints againat the carrier, and the money involved in this reduction waa $3,742,292, Of course other causes operated to secure this claim reduction of nearly $4,00,04M). There was a material shrinkage in both the volume and the value of the freight enrried. Aguin, the road was not badgered by a switch- men's atrike in 1921 as it was in 1920. But give these ele ments full consideration and there is still a large remainder to the eredit of the claim prevention drive, By FORREST CRISSEY ras Dongercer Mails Polled From Fretght Core Before sketching this admirable piece of constructive economy it is to glance at the freight claim as a national institution, as a nathon-wide assesament upon the consumera of this country. The class-one roads of the United States paid freight claims for loss and damage in 1920 to the amount of more than $120,000,000; in 1919 this drain was more than $104,000,000. The fact that this huge losa is ultimately borne by the consumers will not be questioned by any person having the most elementary knowledge of business practice. Therefore the new war on this insidious freight claim is literally everybody's business. This is not a fight to digequrage the filing of freight claims—it is a war on the practices that produce loss and damage In freight carrying. There is no apparent inclina- tion on the part of railroad officials to pass the buck of reaponalbility for freight loa and damage to the shippers, It is admitted by a high official of the American Railway Association that not more than 16 per cent of all freight claims are chargeable to the shippers. But 15 per cent of $120,000,000 is quite a snug sum. Ita aaving should give shippers a healthy incentive for hearty codperation in the effort to reducer the massive bulk of the freight clalm to skeleton proportions. Experts declare that the average freight claim is in the amount of about twenty-five dollars and that the average cost of handling a claim is about $1.60. Recently o cluim agent settled a freight claim for four centa—which indi- cates thet the race of careful people is not yet entirely extinct. Perhapa the largest freight claim of recent record is that covering the loss and damage at Ardmorew(kli- homa, caused by the explosion of a ear of easing-head gas, There Skipmeats Were Pocked aad Handled Preperly —ond Tiere Were Mot This claim wassettled for}) 9 Another road recently pad yj for the loss, by fire, of Gee gasoline and oil. These bey oo z : ty modities pe products head the list, Noteol 4:19 of the class is fruits an Tefpd with 13.5 per cent of the totaly paid for all freight dsina ing, dry goods and notions | with 8.7 per cent. Greed per cent; coal and coke i25 meats, 4 per cent: fou m producta, 3.7 per cent: toss gars and cigarettes, 3.7 per oe livestock, 3.5 per cent, De not jump to the oa however, that the low os ei coverad by this chassifiet emall moment. Tale the [in ter of glass, glasswure and ¢ forexample, Claims nde} call for the payment of $2) month on the part of 4 class-one roads. Those hi Ping experiences have leg confined to forwarding household goods by mJ, likely to be surprised that this clas of com not mentioned as a champion claim produ total paid out on this score amounts to the respect of $1,600,000 a year. All of which indian commodity is obscure enough to escape carryinj toll in the account known aa loss and damage. Loses Distributed Bur the most vital and interesting analy: dead-horme fund paid by railroads oc [reg from the viewpoint of claim prevention, is fro of causes, Of these, unlocated damage & mie! ing 14.5 per cent of the total losses, and moog runs second with 14.2 percent. Together the | cover almost 30 per cent of all losses, The separation of claims into their three ma of causes shows that damage is the leader of th coniiries 53.5 percent of the total: loss lugs be! record of only 36.1 per cent: and delay bricgs) with only 104 per cent to its credit. Reduce apecifie classification, low of packages take 3 curries a record of 14.4 per cent of the total If the present drive for freight claim prevects save $50,000,000 of dead-horse money in 122 the head of the movement are going to be 5 pointed. One of them saya: “All our researches lead to the eomehgsian th paid on freight claims for a year should not ¢ (Contineed en Page oF)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST : 65 4 4 41] demands this leiooshe Method of Hleatin8~ ORE new homes are to be built this year than in any other year ef our country’s history. Not only are there to be more of them, but they will be better penney: better built and better urnished, Thousands of these homes will be heated without heating apparatus scat- living rooms. There will be perfect freedom af pipes, valwes and radiaters, Every room for the nicest arrangement of furnishings— tall and floor space will be accessible for easy mea will be heated with Mueciler Con- &, unobtrusive system is suitable for the It never makes a noiee; it can never [reese ver causes dust streaked walla or sore tnever brings the least suggestion of urning fuel, imte the house, [t healthful : y Poon while heating it. With all these itages, the Convector is remarkably low t is easily installed in lesa than one day's “onvector Heats Homes Without ruding into Living Rooms contained, easily operated, the Convector he basement, where a heating syetem be- every roam, upstairs and down, through ipicuous register on the frst floor. or makes air take the place of pipes and a fire is started, the air in the rooms ble- vn the quter section of the single register, ets load of beat" from the Convector. sthe air te € ri dpa and rise re the 4e register to the rooms above. armed sir, which ts also healthfully mois- ing through the bhierepal spreads itself over the | as throughout every room, wn. The heat from the fuel burned is ¥ circulating air. It goes every place nethed of heating your home be more morecertainr . . . .« lesapttogive he Convector gives you every known ’, something many far more costly and ems cannot do, and it gives you all i the simplest, most economical manner The Convector’s circulation of warm, clean air is con- stant; it continues throughout the house, day and night. There can be no apotty, uneven heating, ao cold corners, Aud you can Have All the Fresh Air You Need Complete air circulation makes this possible, Fresh air in any amount desired can be allowed to enter any room wt any tine, Tt is immediately warmed and miis- pened see sent all over the house, Think what this means to thi. Perhaps you have been in a great modern hospital heated with a warm oir heating and ventilating system. Physicians insist upon such systems for the ith oof patients, These great systems operate on exactly the same principle as the Convector, except that they must have pore ancl fans te circulate the air suse of the size of the suikding. The Convector, a he ecli-contained heatin systen in your basement, without a singhe pape or fan, wi ive you the same practical results, The advantages of the Convector system of heating are so marked that it would be the logical system to buy even though the cost of installation were more—inestend of iesa—than for any other system, Sluick Temperature Change for All-Year Comfort The temperature of the air in the Convector heated home is governed directly by the amount of fwel burned. The temperature of the rooms can be mused, moe in hours but in minutes. There is never need to burn more fue than the weather demands, This easy regulation makes the Convector the oni- versal heating system for every climate from Alaska to Mexico—for every season, the dead of the winter or a chilly summer night. It enables every Convector owner to be quickly comfortable any time: no meed to dread chill days in fall or spring—and think what fuel saving this will mean on mile winter days, Your Convector Fill Be Guaranteed The Convector ie positively guaranteed to heat comfortably every roum Tt can be installed in any home, new or old, usually itt eg than one oy. E Ea a ed or ye eh ee tis very easily operated—two firings o wi all the house caaily tai Nething pee oe of he rly No expensive repairs, Heats ample supply of water for kitchen and bath. Burns any fuel—hanl or soft coal, coke, wood, gas, oils, lignite, screeni Sizes for homes of four te eighteen rooms. Will heat store buildings, theaters, churches, etc, Takes small space in basement. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 01,9 Better than jewels —that schoolgirl complexion HE girl with aclear, smooth skin, radiant with freshness and natural color, should leave jewels to those less fortunate, for she doesn’t need them. The charm of a perfect, natural com- plexion attracts far more than elaborate dress and ornaments. lf your complexion lacks the beauty which women envy and men admire, don't depend on clothes and jewelry to draw attention from its defects. Every woman can transform her bad complexion into a good one, for alluring freshness and clear color isn't a gift of Nature, but a matter of care. How to have a perfect skin No girl need be afflicted with a bad complexion, for improve- ment is simple and easy. Daily cleansing, gentle but thorough, is the secret. You must use soap, for nothing else will remove the dirt, oil and perspiration which collect in the pores and cause most skin trouble. Choose Palmolive, because its action is soothing, Harsh soap should never be used for washing the face. Massage the smooth, creamy lather gently into the skin until it removes all clogging deposits. Don’t forget your neck and throat. They are as conspicuous as the face for any lack in beauty. Do this every day There is too much dirt and dust where most of us live to make it advisable to neglect this cosmetic cleansing even fora day. Powder should be removed, and rouge, if you use it. They combine with dirt and skin secretions in dangerous clogging. The charm of a than Made from the palm and olive oils Cleopatra used

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST = a Oro Ae aad . a | ay" di nutes » attracts far more fs—it is Volume and efficiency produce 25c quality for only 10c Take a lesson from Cleopatra ITH a world of ancient beauty arts at her command, she depended on cleansing with palm and olive oils to protect, improve and preserve the freshness and smoothness of her skin. This beautifying was not confined to the face alone. The bath was a daily ceremonial with all ancient peoples, and palm and olive oils the cleansers used. Use Palmolive for bathing and let it do for your body what it does for your face. Neck, arms and shoulders are as noticeable as the face for beauty or the lack of it. Keep them sweet and lovely with the palm and olive oil soap. Blended from the same oils Palmolive Soap is blended from the same bland soothing oils which adorned the sumptuous marble baths of Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Modern scientists, with all their research, have not been able to discover milder, more soothing or more efficient soap ingre- dients. But although very expensive, the gigantic volume in which Palmolive is produced keeps the price very low. Users profit by Palmolive popularity. The Palmolive factories, working day and night, and the im- portation of the rare oils in vast quantities, allow you to enjoy this finest facial soap for the modest price of ten cents—no more than ordinary soap. THE PALMOLIVE COMPANY, Milwaukee, U. 5. A. The Palmolive Company of Canada, Limired, Toronto, Ont, Algo makers of a complete line of totler articles Copyright [17—The Patmalies Cu jit

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ager iar Page nia as the right revenues for that raike walle runs about 2.5 per we mangement of every railroad is ing the fart that this is going to be yer year (or figuring as well as wark, Thit pean that classes of which bave been. careless oe ae: a presenting and poasti reight ye gong to be up on thee toes for every Bickel of amall change. sonrsented claims would amount pentofthose presented. This year eo che da not present claims be- sido not wah to bother to do so w they do not know how to go ie going to be mighty scarce. fect af are cree cd i is poarent, For example, one large raul has 2 claim on a shipment eof unting to fifty; cents an animal. af the claim is that the cara were th cinders; that the hogs ate the 2h the result that their intestines tand punctured that they could to their normal purpose of serv- sage cusings. There are many va like this which indicate that ig to be the premier high-pressure ight claims. But in spite of this is going to be a very large and momar veoh of the intensive |rampugn against the causes of ma—a wholesale destruction of which breed freight failures. rect economic eervier to the en- ‘sommmers. Itis on a par with which prevents the destruction hy fire. if task of preventing freight losses is one of the most in- tensive and far-reaching edu- vements aon foet in Americn inot misleacing to regard it as of nation-wide scope and to > tier in rapa is an in this prea ueationa The hub af this ayvetem Lor art of safe and efficient trans- commodities is the group of “id practical apecialista in the : American Railway Associu- mo. wedless Losses H. &. Pribble, view chairman Lewis Pilcher, F. E. Winburn, und Albert L. Green are the {the movement, To vary the these Men 4S missionary have under them a corps of onaries who are devotedly revita amd instructing their gospel of preventing [relight eral hun these miis- nen oof rich experience and paid men who devote their d energies to this task. Of missionaries there are about "hen there are thowsanda of Volunteer workers who per- alar railroad work and give heir own time to this cause, members of the local com- tually all railroad division ithe country. Before the job is i finished mo town that ention in the Who's Who of will be without one of these a committees. It's a syvatem. s the entire country like a web. i which a big freight claim not generally appreciated oughtlesaness on the tht conductor or brakeman company for thousands of ithout enusingg a wreck, nerew of a Southern rowel - with eottonseed oil, All to these husthers. It did m that eottonsercd oil is a tof fuel or lubricant; and Was t into mm tank car “evi lousy filled with crude is little foilure to think + of the commodity they wt the railrond company 111,500. sjassed A) purely physical allure in many cases to itech upon shipments in ile cause of freight claim id paid a claim of $16,000 et spout of 2 tank ear “un oil was accidentally The train crew did pe e car THE SATURDAY A New York line paid a claim of $20,040 on one ease of silk which mysteriously dis- appenred, The investigation sh that the case hac been loaded out of the ship's held to the lighter, Then the troil waa lost for a time. ta little quiet under-cover work among the atevedores disclosed the fact that, in transferring the orn the vessel to the lighter, one bax ha slipped into the sea and was not recovered, mem of the crew on the unloading job generously agreed the best thing to do was to forget the incident. Robbery and pilfering cost the railroads a huge sum every year—not far from $12,- 000,000. This loss amounts te about one tenth of the gine of all Freight: elnims, This brand of locas cerengiris tally. popalas ainee the ment. In het rat half o 1991 liquer rob- beries from the roads amounted to almost si oo tt The total of this loss is decidedly smal idering the peculiar pressure of incentive involved, but these robberies madéia mighty noise in the hewapa pers, “in Ingenious Agent Here is a typical example of what the epirit of claim prevention will accomplish. A certain agent in the Southwest became fincerely enthusiastic on the aubject of pam freight claims. One day # car- of sugar was received at his cen for a merchant, The sacks of the weth 2 were found to be heavily ni pak th fine coal dust. The car cy coal on its previous tri Carefully Hg ann of the sacks the nt found that the dust had permeated sugar to the depth of about an inch. The a saw that the road was going to to pay quite a substantial freight tain. Instantly the agent asked himself, “Is there any way by which ia éalaim can be prevented or muateriall duced?" The problem seemed rather ga lese at firet, but he was ambitious Si that he wasa practical preventer, and so he tackled the problem with determination, At last he had an inspiration. From a store be rented a vacuum cleaner, attached its plug to one of the station light sockets, then sereielly mamaged one af the damaged sacks opening it he found that virtually every trace of dust had been removed, the affected sacks were given similar treatment before bering disturbed, But the merchant, who was called to witness the work, decided that he eouldn't afford to take a chance on sugar that had been once mixed with coal dust. “All right.” responded the agent. “Fut in your claim for 73 sacks, and it will be paid. But I'm going to prove to you that the public will reragnize o job of sugar cleanin ane will mot afraid to buy and use t you reject.” ite advertised t # sugar for sole, with a full statement of the circumstances, Fach purchaser examined the augar in the opened si caran eenee price that. he realized in elvan sale was above the invoice psy net saving to the road by his adventure in freight claim prevention was about #438, But it brought him in a per- sonul way much more than this. Not only did his resourceful act force his name upon the attention of the management of his road but he was probed in the offices of the American Railway Association. Natu- rally be became marked for promotlon, how for a close-up of the campaign by which one road has le to cut its freight claims to the extent of more than $2,000,000 in a year—the methods by which all the class-one roads of this country confidently expect to reduce this los by $50,000,000 this yeur, There is nothing casual, indefinite or conversational about this movement. Tt has both feet firmly planted on solid ground and both eyes sharply fined on sub- stantial if unpleasant facts. This movement is singularly unmechan- ical: it recognizes at the outset that the major element with which it must deal is human nature as is and that ita success ia miinly dependent upon securing the inter- est, good will and hearty coliperation of the human beings out on the line who create or prevent freight claims, Human nature among the men who put freight over the road runs about 100 per cent strong. The North Western has about 40,000 employes, nearly all of them having sorpe- thing to do with forwarding freight. The tagk of ao educating 40,000 men aa actually to influence their actions every workin hour of the day is quite some educations EVENING POST job. When this ibility wes on the shoulders of Will C. Jo non be “ly quick to recognize the fact that he would fall far short of thia b unless he wis able to make an active freight claim pre venter of virtually every man on the road. From this base it wos on ensy step to the deduction that every department of rail- dig at every “freight-handling point represented in ev unit of his educational organization. reheat gine every local committer on the line is com= posed of men from all departments of rail- road activities. Every problem of freight claim prevention on this road is considered from the angle of responsibilities of the departments of traffic, operation and con- struction and maintenance, Mr. Johnson has placed meager de- pendence upon bombarding freight brake- men, conductors, engineers, stevedorea and agents with technical literature, Instead he has recognized the fact that personal human contact with the men who are doing the work of forwarding freight offers alte- gether the best and most effective means of getting the gospel of freight claim preven- tion into thelr systems and arousing their interest to such an extent as bo stir them to put its principles and commandments into practical effect every hour when they are out on the jo Of course it is very much cheaper for a rillrond te sind the missionaries of any movenvent to the men out on the line than to bring the men in toa misalonary head- quarters at the terminal. But this shrewd apostle of the religion of higher economy and efficiency gee ght forwarding hus be the vision that it ia mot ‘fh Syst go to the platen agent and the pee t one aut at the west end of the line and tell its mem how different kinds of freight are handled alter they reach Chicago; that if these men are taken to Chicago and shown the actual operation they will reach an understanding of many points that they could mot visualize from the talk of the visiting misalonary. Object Lessons Conssynenty all the freight claim pre vention literature, bulleting, cartoons and talke to —_ and local committees have been followed b y bringing these committe men from, walk railroad life inta Chicago for S ahowt course On the ground, where they see the final han and ulti- mate delivery to conaignees of the freight originating in their own territory. These Sparse are explained at first hand by the men who carry on their shoulders the reaponsibility of these concluding processes in the eormplex task of delivering into the right hands and in proper condition freight originating hun and perhaps thou- sundae of miles west of Chicago, There la no doubt that this trip to the great eastern terminal is an educational knockout for the men out on the line, It is one thing to be told and quite another to be shown. The records fail to show a single instance of belgie a man from out on the line inte o for the final short course which Shp, to convert him into an active and enthusiastic freight claim preventer, Al- most invariably the men regard these edu- tational expeditions to the big terminal as outings ond substantial proofs both of the good will of the company toward them personally and of ita deep interest in the subject of freight claim prevention, As one of these pilgrims of the great frei ht Mecca of the Middle West put it: he company sure has given us a | time, We've been taken care of right— given the best ents going and treated like ta of honor st a home-coming picnic. ‘d hate ta pay the taxicab ea that the company hes run UP Le us toda Ti eompany is run lot of; hard- guys who are not x etedie the a easiie ere" money for any foolishness. You bet they're not—anyhow, not in these 1 This business freight claim prevention must look mighty important to them or they wouldn't go to all this trouble and expense, You can gamble that preventin freight claims is going to be a big part my job fret now on, They've certainky shown me!" Recently I made the rounds of the North Western's Chicago freight terminals with a local delegation of freight claim prevention students from on Towa division. Although motor busses and taxicabs were used when- ever possible it was ome of the most strenu- ous and exacting parties I ever attended, (Continued on Page Fi) PEARL WHITE, the world-famous screen stan, CHLOR-E-DIXO is my choice, because | know it in the tooth paste for-an acid mowth that never hardens in the tube.” arrilea; ‘Testimony of Experts M™ Pearl Whire is but one of many great beaetes, successful fare and experts in personal agepear- ance who have ungualifedly cadorsed Chlor-E-Cisn becomes it whitens the tooth like peroxide, keeps the poma fiom and hard, prevents the acoumu- lations ef films ane tartar on the teeth, and will not harden in the robe. SuiisGed users in many parts of the emusuiry have cenhirmed by perecnal experbence the stacements of these experia, and ‘athested le by letter to the futidacturers of ChlhorE-Diso. American Druggists Syndicare Laboratories, New York . CHLOR-EDIXO TheTooth Paste _foran Acid Mouth Will not hardenintheTube

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aiken from Page @f) roa wad on its toes every in- rice we tet o dull moment in af. Aeon those present were an vondctet, intion agent, freight- wen, trainmaster, switchman, rca 8 stenographer. y wa pesoaally conducted by ide the masionary bisha eo imprevestion for the North « Atevery halt the man int “i purge of tht apecial work under etpained to his visitors the ote ol freight claim prevention them {rom the viewpotnt of his ded the secretary of the dele- gil these remark in shorthand rporated in the report made by reommittee to the local or home i they represented, stop wia made at the Clinton jirecks, where most commodi- potatoes are handled. From amade a forced march to Tee freight station, where ligt than carload lota—ship- coded for points north of Chi- i alo, perlhable freight for sanneeting lines fs handled, vs af the committee showed “at in inspecting at this point getem of Chicago, an under- ad, eighty-five miles in length, ailway freight terminala with and industrial establishments central portiona of the city. ling machine used in recooper- boxes and other containers +, the center of interest to the ye mek package devise much pac r for shipment at the Grand om and that thousands of dng outgoing freight are not eg teh to destination oputsted! straps around fy this ici snes machine only ao few seconds Sy a ous big freight station cots a ra piece of package freight unless it bears the aber, To do otherwise is to tdaim, We have thowsands zl Leo one cause, Do all chine Tis also ¢ wt head of claims. Again, im of every station and freight hit # line in your territory that the hilling of freight is a bi a. Every freight bill shoul tnd accurate description of the shipment." Werth Anouwing n inspection of the team Avenue, where 160 to 700 are on hand daily. The at the State Street fruit- ‘hich is used only in warm about forty cara of fruit oily und gold at auction 4 crisp talk on the care of the per protection of t during freezing weather the delegation at the out- itate Street, where freight { Chicago is loaded. no charcon!] heaters,” the ned, “is not only deadly mell. Men who inspect ith — heaters should jairs. tg of tine for cape shoul be alowed or ia ope ithe rae given a graphic yper preparation of the ways used in the loading 1t the edges of all these ned the speaker, “are hich will prewent them ia will do away with the cleats in the doorways. eee oY over cleats they be and (reight hen a me eee alipa the salmost certain to suffer nt stop of the visiting the B. & B. warehouse, refused and over freight thia,"” remarked one of he greatest museum of d failures in existence.” mains of an old bury juseum explain for every station agent « road hauled that old THE SATURDAY Titles simply because @ station nt did not have sense enough ta write to Mr. Howe, the chief freight claim agent, describing the thing and asking in- structions a8 to its disposal, Of course it was refused freight. You can sell ten bug- gies out in the country where this came from, ta anein Chicago. ‘The station agent who shipped this to the museum would have been instructed to destroy it if he could net sell it. A lot of fool tricks like this cost the road a heap of money, Money is mighty hard to get in these ays, even for the best and the biggest railroad com- panies, and we all owe it to the company wed the public to put a step to this sort of waste.” The next place at which the little band of plpins paused was the Fortleth Street relight station, where the assistant agent gave a detailed account of the rather com- plex proces Le handling dead freight for ng ag ee finished his talk an His jams t =i exclaimed: “Gosh! I didn't dream there was as much te it aa all that, The cheekera in charge of t gangs sure do ree to use their heada. It's a man's job. Trore. headquarters once tried to tell al about it back home—but seeing it ia different. Now [ll never fi tit, And I've learned a lot of things right here that I can do to make it easier for t men to get freight sent froth my station inte the right car and harder to getitinta the wrong one, For in= atance, I've sent plenty of packages dea- tined ta Canada and foreign countries without a manifest. I'll never do that again,” ruttle trap SK) Teaching by Cartoon Two more stops wore mode by the itiner- ant students better freight handling. On the way home one of these men, who solely spl Rg ee seen fi citi anricat to his seat mate: Sie » gosh, but I never knew before that the North Western owned about three- loner of Chicago! It's some road—our ros Hundreds of committeamen have been brought to Chicago and put ery bt a short course such as I have very b described. Invariably these men to their homes out on the line and a cntinrexiaatn lay missionaries of freight claim prevention. Not only ia the ateno- graphic report of their trip a a at ite the local meeting but it is understood all ‘sas heed line that the committeeman who has given an instruction trip to Chicago ig ready to answer questions regarding freight claim prevention. There ia acarcely any better indication of the fact that Mr. Johnson keenly ap- preciates the human element in his work than his use of the cartoon ag a means of appeal to the men oat on the line, These cartoons are the work of freight-department employes who understand how to hit the funny bone of the average railroad worker and at the same time get a lesson in freight claim prevention acrosa to him. Some af the best of these cartoons are the work of a freight brakeman. This educational cam- paign is tight to the raila from start to nish, and is not over the h of those whem it is intended to educate. T. it is possible that not all the rail in the country are doing this pha ol pag ao thoroughly as the W are certainly making a spirited drive in the same direction. In ahart, this intensive training in freight claim preven- tion is being pushed in much the sama manner ell over America. The typical railroad operating executive is a hard-headed, hard-driving man, little given to theories. He thinka in terms of the load over the road. Hemember- in it occurred to me to learn the attitude of a North Western operating affl- clal toward the freight claim vention movernent. I waa prepared to find a sense that any movement—except of freight and possengers—was a nuisance with which overworked operating executives ought not to be bothered. I picked on Mr. F, H. Hammill, assistant general manager of the North Western, and asked him: “How do you operating men look at this freight claim tion movement?" “T'm glad you have asked just that ques- tion," was his quick reply, * Aor T feel that I can give you an answer with which no real operat ig ag in thig country will quarrel, The rallroad's business is to f EVENING POST sell and deliver transportation service: the business of the operating department is to deliver that service, Our department creates most of the freight claims. We owe it to the patrons of the rand and the public at large to deliver service, That re apongibility reste squarely on our shoulders and no live operating executive will at- tempt to dodge it or to pass the buck. “This responsibility to the publie wes never greater than to-day, when business of every kind ia having ta fight for its life. Now, 99 per cent of our employes want to do the right thing. True, some of them are a bit coreles:, but when they come to jy understand the situation their in- clination is to meet jt like men, I never miss a chance to sit in on a freight claim prevention meeting or to go on one of their terminal-investigation trips. They see this thing a4 an operating mana job. More than that, they are ready and eager to put their shoulders te the task of cutting down the awiul loss involved in freight clalma. “T've been on the rood with division committees of the freight claim prevention anization and know the serlousness with w ich they take their responsibilities, For RAE at ev town at which we made a atop the mem of sich a committee visited the local merchants and business men to learn what complaints exch one had to offer and how defective servien could be changed to satisfactory service. In nearly every such interview the merchant, manu- facturer or shipper turned the tables on his eallers and aaked for information as te how he could eotiperate to keep down freight claims, One dry-gomls merchant confessed that his own esreleseness had been re sponsible for ged creation of quite a sub- ataritial iat is clair and that he had no doubt that his ex vagy ppnreneeeyT wo typical of many other cases. He personally unpac a box of fabrics and found that it was Alport a bolt of cosphtah silk goods, ‘This re= in iting of a in teclaim. The box was dum nto t agement along with others, ontha ieee when breaking up that same box for kindling wood with whith to start the furnace fire, he diseov- ened the bolt of silk hidden under the paper ha which the shipping case had been red, “Another merchant told of finding on unopened case of fabrica among his empty boxes. “A amall manufacturer volunteered the information that he had created a very considerable number of freight claims by using a Package that was not able to stand 4 properly under the atrain of shipnent. o number of freight claims he was forced to file finally moved him to make a careful investigation of hia packages and ¢on- tainers, with the result that he changed them radically and found a correaponding drop in the number of freight claims he was obliged to file.” The Effect on Morale “But to me the most interesting feature af these interviews was tha effect of tha eqrmmittee's visit on the minds of the busi- ness men. Every lust man of them was left with the conviction that the road waa tremendously im earnest in ite effort to deliver to them a transportation service that was 100 per cent good. “One of the biggest Influences of this nation-wide movement for freight claim Prevention reaches entirely beyond the matter of freight claims. I refer to ite effect upon the morale of railroad work- ena aaa body. It is dolng more than hee would believe te stimulate the right kind of ralation between the men and the manage ment. Show mea freight brakeman, enjl- neer, conductor, warchouse foreman or stevedore who is an enthusiastic and con- sistent freight claim preventer and I will show you a man who will stick by the road under severe test. The reason for this ia obvious, Only aman of native intelligenea and fundamental fairness has the vision and disposition to become an earnest freight claim preventer. In other words, he cannot into that attitade of mind without giv- ing careful consideration to the other fel- Low's interest—the interest of the road, the shipper, the consignee and the consuming public. By the same token this movement turna the spotlight on these whe are too hurrow, selfish, careless and shortsighted to help in the job of stopping a big eco Danie waste," ural tis pe the intensely practical n= this uliar educations movement, me us goa litth: further into this phase of ri the subject. Though highly technical dope is fed out to the men on the line in very sparing doses, the researches of the men at head of the movement have developed volumes of scientific data of the most tre- portant and practical character. Take the matter of freight claime for los and damage in the shipment of fruit, for exanple. This commodity, as I haye gl- ready indicated, heads the list on the score of creating freight claims. Melons and other fruits which are apparently in fine condition when loaded are frequently found, on arfival at dextinatlon, to be affected with a peculiar fungus rot. "Claims amount- ing to millions of dollara have been filed and collected on bosses of this nature. The freight claim prevention committee and experta of the American Railway As- sociation, working with the experts of the United States Department of Agriculture, entered upon a searching scientific investi- gution to determina the actual cause or causes of this staggering logs in fruit ship- ments. The railroad claim prevention men showed their practical shrewdness by load- melons in cara that had never carried a load of any kind before. Melons shipped in these cara developed the fun rot Satie ad freely as those tranaported in cars at had seen previous service. This elim- inated the contamination theory, Those whe are eonducting the investigation have arri at the conclusion that the burden of these losses from fun oF stem=end rot is due to the forcing of the melons by the growers. How Skippers Can Help Another important investigation, which has involved much and experi- mentation, relates to the impact of cars in couplin ling, starting and stopping freight trains, and the effect on the freight in the ears feeling the impact. Rough handling ranks high as a freight claim producer, An elaborate series of experiments with cars equipped with impact-messuring devices has conclusively established the fact that under average conditions injury beth ta package freight and to the railway equip- mremt ng it is likely to result from an impact delivered from cara or locomotives moving at a groater speed than two miles an hour. “What can shippers and consigness do to cut down loc and damage?’ 1 asked a freight claim prevention expert. e replied: "Put the street number on all packages destined to cities. Where a shipment consists of several packs number them consecutively so that the contents of cach may be listed in the billing. coe " Donot abbreviate in marking addresses. "Business howe ahould always wae aten- cils in addressing—the larger the better. "Large shi chould make records of all complaints, and study them. averting pened on shipments often invites theft. ea more valuable the con- tents of a package the ber the remson aay it should be sent plain, without a tag abel indicating ita nature. aoee to o naling} axes: For sixpenny nails in the aide grain of the Soler gr there should be a spacing of one and three-quarter inches. For larger nails the spacing should increase a quarter inch for éach pan penny “Fill all space in bowes solidly. "When the record ia lost the freight is lost, Regular shippers should: "Maintain a beparate file of all freight billa on which part of the goods checked arate file of all freight t delivered ta them on proof of ownership: "After invoices have been checked into stock, check them against the freight bills on which part of the goods chec short; “Maintain a memorandum freight-bill file on all invelees checked inte stock on which a re freight bill has not been récelved, showing shipping point and name of shipper, with description of shipment; "4s an alternative, maintain a book record—in the event that it is desired not to maintain a separate file of freight bills. A book record should earry name of rowed, billing point and date, with waybill and proereferenee, similar to the received record maintained in the average freight office. “Those who receive merchandise freight should follow these rules: “Remove the poli lid from every case. “Turk a hiees upside down before sending it to the yard or the basement.” "Maintain a hills eavering —

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “111 never forget the day I discovered what economical and delicious ice cream I[ could “We used to have ice cream only on special occasions; now that we make it with Per Milk we have it as often ag any other dessert. “Strawberry Ice Cream made with Pet Milk ts especially fine. This is how I make it. Heat half cup of Pet Milk and half cup wa- ter in double boiler. Mix table- spoon flour and half cup sugar, and add to one well beaten egg. Pour on hot milk gradually and cookin double boiler untilsmeoth, then strain. When cool, add two cups Pet Milk, Mash berries, sweeten with 34 cup sugar, stir until sugar 1s dissolved, then add to other ingredients and freeze. “Try it yourself. Be sure to use Pet Milk. The richness, smooth texture and delicious flavor of the ice cream will surely delight you. The small cost will surprise you. Seba fe My make with Pet Milk. What saving it meant! “Pet Milk is one of the greatest conveniences and economies of my housekeeping, I find Pet the cleanest, purest, richest cow's milk, sterilized. Nothingis added toit. Only part of the natural wa- teris taken fromit. I use it in all my cooking. [haveasupplyinmy pantry at all times ready for every use. | am never without milk. When I want ordinary cooking milk, I use one part Pet and two parts water. Por extra rich milk, luseone part Pet and one part wa- ter. For coffee, | use it undiluted. “T have prepared more than 100 recipes in which I use Pet Milk. You can get them in the Pet Recipe Book. For Free copy, write The Helvetia Company (Originaters of the Evaporated Milk Industry), General Offices, St. Louis, Mo.” Ey os Digitized by Googh

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yoarsell together," said Cyril id tel me what you are trying good perler pre with ing probly epicted on his face i aaa ited = sore, aia Arthur, ally I-1 i-I fell again into an ized and tsener, abd Cyril's eoldmess pic bp Hes UTS when the d Steers entered with an air ible excitement and a tray con- atte of champagne and glasses, have wr there, &: * sald teers? ing his monocle blankly upon: ithe tray on @ side table with a nile, taken it upon myself to open ie of Pal ‘Roger 1 05," said he, cur best in which to drink to 's engagement.” ; vallewed twice; and held his gement !'said hein a low voiee. at pardon for overhearing the air,” said Steers, still smiling ‘My best congratulations, sir. ded it met-ie-u-lously myself; amie me better, sir, than to an get married. J person :himsel that it is re the 1d, the cork gloriously. iid Arthur, turning frenzied! top him, Waketield Stop Th he PAE Roger hastily and e Po ag an ly inte tee lear fellow," damazement, “you are cer- d—or as good as engaged a ea said Cyril, eying d Arthur ferociqualy, ad inquiringly in the back- fellow," murmured Cyril in mt, “haw should [ know?” 7 Arthur ferociously, “how “absurd, Netherby,” said ne you know ta whom you're his necktie, and locked over Til and Steera. ha, uy don't," ispered Cyril slowly. his w lip with his lower and then his lower lip with and brt it. now, Mr. Arthur?" said he. 1 Arthur, turning to him, ad Tou t."" replied Steers, moving, ntly, toward the door, i akefield,"* said Arthur [ou it wis dark,” i ay slowly. ; ers Cyril after “that 3fau were in a ther pause, © n ‘ent languorowsly to the a glass and drank. Then 1, and laughed till he saw an with w ich Arthur win rar hig Trav the. head all wrapped up,” Lomi pesinns ley A Arch ae e ere laughing: re eee Pan sour ‘ee a fate the devil I wd! Oh, herd: What a ing I"ve done Cont holding his sides. take his monocle off and oe —occurs to me," gasped eee we,” anid he, feebly at- truct the scene, “full of id C . eae, “7 don't know i! It was just that— ame Over Moe THE SATURDAY (Cantinged from Page 7) “¥" know,” eaid Cyril with great pathy. “erent husky, inmecent connibala ike you gren't fit to be trusted owt alone with any woman who knows her job. You aren't, really.” “Aes if a man wants any one of thoee three hard-mouthed, hard-eyed, hard- voiced little dolla!" * suid Arthur fiercely. but y" see,” sald Cyril, “it must be one of t | And leaving oul Angela,” he added distantly abet leaves iwen and Mra. Drelincourt, hat are you going to do?" “Nothing,” asseverated hur. “You rose," aaid Cyril. “T won't,” said Arthur, z Se may come in any minute,” urged yril. ‘Who may come in?” said Arthur. "Mise Gwennie,”” said Cyril teatily. "Or oy forheadarfeate use Arthur had a brain wave. oth hope it's Hhend said he, “What a damnable thing to say, Cyril heatedly, “when belongs to another man. “That's it,” Arthur replied. “I wouldn't rob him." “But,” said Cyril uneasily, “you may she accepted you. And if it's Angela I thi it's the most damnable —— “Oh, make your mind easy,” " said you know the girl ssid Ar- thur. “I tell you I'm not robbing him. If it's Angela I’m safe.” Cyril bit his nail, “I'm mot so eure,” said he reatlesaly; “girls do—do—er ——" “Like money,” said Arthur, “And if I'm richer than the other blighter I mayn’t be so gale, after all, Oh, what a dog-gane crazy thing I've done! I wish I was back in Australia on my farm, and net a woman in sight!" The voice from the deep dark began again. “Coo-ee!" it cried in itlish way; and then louder: “Coote! Cooee!” hur started violently. Cyril bit his nail. “Look here,” said he, don Arthur, "Something's got to be one, and you're the man who'll have to do it, Now what's it to be? You're answerable. You go out in the most senti- mental mood, a reg'lar marrying ever a man was in one, and you find a girl in an arbor, and she’s so soft and nice and ble and all that, and it's dark and a Warm evening, and you start makin; lowe to her and ask her to marry you an all that; and then you get away and are sorry for it, and try to get out of it by pins you don't know who it was and won't try to find out, and all that. But life isn*t so easy -——" The horn of a car teotled very near at hand, and the soft drum of its engine came to { il’s and Arthur's ears. e car!" said Cyril, listening. “ can't be back alrendy." He horned to the open doors and looked into the night. “By Jove, they are!" “Here! cried Arthur. "Don't go! The girls may be in Toinute!" “Cooe!” called the voice from the dark. “T must gol" said Cyril. * Hunter alwaysexpectsmetomecther, She wouldn't like it. I must go!" He darted into a beam of light that waa creeping up to the door from the tec grent Then the doar on the right which led to the kitchen quarters opened, a ittle ele eame in demurely, She stood near the doar, fidgeting —* lite t, Gy Arthur. "Of jense, ittle Parks ditional, think Th hear _ car," Arthur turned and saw her, and was eased. She represented to him comfort, safety and common sense. He did not con- sider her a woman at all. She brought his ahaving water and his boots and oe his bath. One put on no frills wit He nodded. “Have you lost anything, Mr. Arthur?" inquired Parks softly. “No!” said Arthur, growling, “Whyt" “Vou rather look as though you had ao Mr, Arthur,” replied Parks 80 tf ish I were Jost, Parks,” said ead ig rae Saints mrmbatnese “But T may to lose some too, Parks,” said Jthur, appearing a li ing, pathetic in epite of his ‘prevailing sturdij- ness. “To may be going to lose my liberty. I can see it sort of flying off towards the horizon. And I tell you one thing, Parks, and that is: bid never looks se good as it does way EVENING POST “Oh, liberty?" said little Parka blinking softly, “I was thinking of somethin that mattered, like your money or your d- choke tae But Eby pee a8 3 eee men Oo have so much li Mr. ao However, Arthur was not even listening to Parks. One put on no frilla with her. ae ns hy noise of much chatter- outside, he indicated with a eWay naond of the head. “In two minutes from mow," said he hold’ inom indeed, “the whole howse- hold'l] know that I've ee myself into o engagement to-nig eae moved eli htly towards him. “Mir, Steers," murmured artlesely, Wasi ng something about it te ane and me nee, "Oh, was he?" ssid Arthur eurlily, “The ald foal! Taup he told you T proposed to agirl in thedark, and don"t know whoitis?" “Yea, sir,” murmured Parke. She fairly exuded sympathy. “The old fool!" said Arthur wildly. “I dare say you think me a Junatic?™ “ All men are, replied Parks sympathetically. mare than most,” y Hunter came in, chattering, with Cyril at her elbow, Sir William et up the rear, and was approached by Parks. She ministered to him: received his coat and hat, and emiled. Sir William sat heav- ily on the mettle, and watched Parks’ ankles si oy die my cloak, dear boy," ose Poa Hunter, dropping her cloak langw Ly from her shoulders inte Cyril's hands, me Fy unfortunate that we have to come back, but it's the wrong night," ahe added to Arthur, “The vicarage was cutting the bread and butter for to-morrow, and most surprigved to see us. Ten"t it unfortunate?" “Such a waste of your energy, dear lad murmured Cyril. Little Parks came in again glidingly, and Sir Willinm leaned forward to get round the curve of La Hunter and watch Parka’ ankles. He betn about to say “Ber-rerl" to Gyr, whose laconic nature he des : but Parks' ankles soothed him. Parks had disposed of Sir William's coat aint hat, and now she took the beauti- ful cloak so tenderly from Cyril, and so tenderly she c it away Upstairs. The hae from the eT oer it- self “Coo-ee! Coo-ce! Coo-ec!" is hat!" said Lady Hunter, kicking her frally traln about voluptucusly—ashe had evel voluptuous tendencies during Cyril's secretaryship—belore she eat down. at! Are these poor girls still out there? Alone?" she said reproachfully. “Alone? Arthur! Arthur! Ar-thur!" Arthur had not spoken since their re- turn, but now he apa “Tell” em, he said wildly to Cyr Cyril moved forward a little a Arthur and Lady Hunter, who waa getting her lorgnette u "Certainly," he said with a cautionary look at Arthur: “but tell "em what?" Arthur was beyond caution, = “Tell ‘em something!" he said. ‘em anything! Tell ‘em the truth!" Lady Hunter surveyed Arthur through her aorign the tae said Sir William. “What's all is Arthur looked at ther all, one after the her. He opened his mouth reluctintly, and closed it again decisively. So without a word he went te the door leading to the kitchen quarters and passed out, Why's he gone to the kitchen?" said unter. a what's that?” She had seen the ch amp “ That’ 8 HOt m ae ae bottle of Pol Roger 19067" said Sir William, pointing nt it bon, “"Praid it is," said Cyril. “"Fraid old Steers exceeded his authority a bit, but as a matter of fact he was so pleased at what bck happening—please wait: please let me ak—that, that be fetched it up to drink etherby's health Lady Hunter sat forward, breathing pturoualy. “Has anything actually happened, Mr. Wakefield?” said Sir William. ae Yea," he replied: “ard no.’ * Rubbish!" said Sir William. “Nothing ean be “yea" and “no' at the same time, Mr. Wakefield? Rubbish!™ Lady Hunter turned her lorgnette upon him. “You can't engage the younger son Fa Mr. Arthur, at tinves,"* | Vo no | 75 Drink it from chocolate soda to iced tea— Your favorite drink tastes better through a straw, Full flavor in every ap. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST of a peer, William,” said she, “and then talk to him as if he waa a common person. Where's your sayver faire? We're lucky to have Cyril." : Pla da said Sir William. looked recatingly from one to He played with his monocle. iled disarmin “0h, 1" he protested. “Real ha, ha—I'm delighted to be at your service. | But—er—what waa going to say was that Netherby reall hos left me in a bit of a en in ing me to explain this to you. You see, rather a dreadful contre tempe hes occurred during the short time VOU Were away. “Oh, dear me!" sald Lady Hunter. “And 1 did ao hope he would engage hime self to sornebordy efore we came back.” “Ho has,” sad Cyril. “Eh?” cried Sir William, “Oh! breathed Lady Hunter eestati- rally, “Then never mind the contretemps, Oh, if only his poor mother eould have lived to see this day" "OM" suid Cyril feeling. “"M. Well, I fancy the chap would willing y change prlsweess with his mother wry tine. Cyril was interrupted by a sound from the gurden, “(Coo-eel"—perduasive, soft and long-drawn-out, He indicnted ita direc tion, "Then fou hear the irirl, anyhow," be gdded; “fairly fed tpt” “Do you mean to tell me," said’ Sir William, rising from the settle and taking an attitude, holding by His coat lapels— “do you mean to tell Her Ladyship and me that he's left bis fiancie coooelng for him out there? Bring ber int" “Bring her in," sald ow Huriter, Cyril looked deaperntely from. ome to the Hand, Foot. Moertor Machines 200% Sales Gain —3 Clerks Saved! aa your business ts “ different '— but our objective is the some a9 ros,", Mead Johnson’ ‘3, Mann's Py Sere! They want to tmcrease sales cul eer Sa i ges ees are doin i the Addressograph way. cari a Up to April ist, Addressograph-ed betters and circulars have foresee Sa pin ‘My Lady” apron sales 200%), over endire 1921 sales, (Photo of President's letter on neymest.} other. “But, ¥" son, he suid —“ but, y" s+ ——"" Saves 3 Payroll Clerks “Well,” said Sir William testily, “which ) ane ia ie? c seril levied helplesely ut them both, “OT pee — aad fe. He peivinwexd Women's voltet sounded: in othe garden. They drew nearer. Laughter roae outaide. oe eed Lady Hunter, "We shan't be long before we know now, Hed bet a fiver,” esid Sir William with fine Some immchine is caring 3 clerks in ere of Cunadian. Inpersoll-Rund | Compaure. “New. York Conzolidated tos is |} coving 253 clerks with ther Addressograph, 400% Greater Retail Sales } F. H, Dunstatter. Richmond Hill, L, 1, re- | hauler, gives his $37.50 Addressograph encire credit tor 400%, business tecreace this Spring, Sumer toltchine boosted Mead-Johteon's 52000 0 cables 6.295 in 121. Aeermnere es weed racinaieely for getting business this year, Use Their Method Free tf you con handle more business—if you WHA bo ow expone, ance t WOU! the doer if | Vou don't at least ieyv (at our expense) the ——a =— be Angela and Gwennie gr ed peared out ol the darknes: on the th old. They looked slim and nitmphlike and up to anything; and one wore and the other wore palest silver. They looked. re sibly i enti They | ae. backed by Mrs. Drelincourt, ex- knowing in a perfectly wirkesdl work, Sahes orci AY UES Vi Never realized posal be will ee found by ihe Addre baer pe Systems Man near you. The conpon below brings him, Wo obligation. (Branches in principal cities.) $57.50 Addresiograph? Free trial procs pig ta Their eyes roamed the room how it's somimag in. sabes, payroll, auditing, impatiently. T anid “Teh! Teh!" and cost-kecping, inventory, shipping, dividend | gritted their . Then they came in arr ‘He girls entered an atmosphere of ex- pectation, and they brought an atmos- phere of ex them. tion with i haotale he: . sald eo impatene with an adorn impatience that ran over her i bag ae “Everyone's here but Mr, Netherby, ssid Gwen—she was very little— ipaaiinige And Angela drawled, " What, dear Lady Hunter! Back already |" Fas unter stowed up and bashed her ut—for she had curled it. sirenlike around her feet—and got her lorgnette pay: Her excitement made her chirp like hall a dozen robin, 6 "Yes, Gear! Bick already! Tt apie: the ) | wrong evening; were cuttin bread atid but-—— But what does Lo and butter matter? What does anything matter?" She gazed around her, Down.in U.S.A. | i eS Down iv Canada F "i Balance In wT doco a FREE Sabena on— “Mailing lists that Pay" "Payroll shortcuts cm | dl “Quicker Collec- 9a “Did tipen is ca-aesng Feit! Hise tlons" Gwen, alinking across the hall in her gold “Better cost “S frock to Sir illiam, ‘Oh, yes,” said the old gentleman; “we heard you, records" v ou _coo-ceinig. Oh, yes! We heard bs," 26 Just mail eo NL. ray SVs a ct Aa aL oF oe ui a 1 bapa Les arch and COey. * And which of you dears,”’ ssid she in a voice like a dove, “can tell me any thing of Arthur while we've bern aeny 7" She looked ready for any conspiracy, and most encouraging, Mrs. Drelincourt yawned tinily. Unlike most people she had an attractive yawn, Her teeth were as lustrous as her pearls. She advanced and sank into the cushions of the settle beaide Sir William, “Why,” she sighed, “we were looking for him, dear Lady Hunter, Not a man has been near us poor women all the evening. She pouted, i —. 6 #| % £ & is oF a go. i ae st i ‘oll Fo at * + : “1 Pee: hat a *« 4 a a ie lig we we 7 L oe ie oy a aa wt = i Pll 5 * ! ah eo Fe te i way at ha os an “i Se * = ity i Lady Hunter stead, lorngnetting everyone May rt Sir William leaned toward be y sat on the setthe together, tog boot nee into her face. Mr. [relies from his inquisitorial gas upp of haughty surprise. “"Sir Walliaurn !"" abe prise, » “Sir William !"" she sores Sir William looked more piersa ever into her face, “We've been hunting for Mr 4 everywhere,” added Angel She slunk across to the sorts ‘her silver frock, heated ber ells: peepalatee a jade-colored fun 4 a Very pretty picture, Sir Wily at her, stroked his chin, ond woe about Arthur. Perey Hunter turned wml a yea, dear.” said she, ai “hut Fou weren't bone together, now; were “Yes,” said “We hunted for him * But ——" spid Lady from Angela to Sir Wiliam ke again, Gwen settled herself of settle close to Sir Williainy ran her fingers into the hair. =! anne pit said pm and went through solutely everywhere” - Lady Hunter nodded. ~ “These bushmen have the ing thelr tracks,”" said Mew or, a i cent proba finn e ap er by a cog fan Lacks Hunter's eye way br pate erveyet the youth wi co “Did you look in the arpa tense course T beoked in the ec? returnéd. She waved ber fas “Oh, you did, did you" tengely, Mrs. Drelincourt looked toc “T wis t of the arbor, ia fided. keed in,” Hope stote into Cyril's fa proac Mra. Drelincourt ae yoru aaa inte the i “T must Nae looked inte ta the others," said Gwen, ros William's hair, “Somehow it Petal been ota Py over He scared at Gwen, “Yeu looked into the art “YToul™ Gwen stared at Cyn "Me," she replied. She separa Sir Willa ee ee ie upw. Ma state of considerahie | Lady Hunter turned Gwen. “You're no detective, said Sir Williarn a ad his tall: was hosing 2 is maul and too worried that T eae Ss “Wortied, (anit 2 re — nh a gave a fine soe | ‘bel plec, "Yea, worried,” said Cr walking away from Lacy E open door, where he took is “Why has Mr. Netherby - anked wen, finishing a = very neatly, "I think he's frightened Sir William, very dulce ond gers. Mr, Drelineourt laugh “Ohl” aaid she, “Leni | perfectly sweet about wom Sir Williaa tured anche upon her. “So he is, dear; so he is, o Lady Hunter eagerly, “He ] I can’t wait any longer! 7) on ri me, [ sre. bear 5 te (Conatiawed an Por

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A. + wo += " is - ig if 2 " ne A : =. = “a5 i 5 y c - F ft - =) ¥ = i, zi 7 F = — - 2! 4 - = a cS Se SS S——= clear everything u | for, and waa indeed | | | reti t So feboeent a Be EVENING POST (Centinucd fram Page Fé. Cyril returned from the open support Lady Hunter. He ticked a silk handkerchief languidly back into his cuff and looked terribly unnerved, “Oh, my dears!" said Lady Hunter, ex- eltedly addressing everyone. “Don't keep me any longer in this suspense! Which of you ia itt" on iy! preiaecass Sena ron oo hea rein o Lady Hunter’s, an on onto Cycles and hack again, Which of us is it?" she repeated, my tified. Gwen completed a third spiral artisti- y to the topmost twiddle, and stopped, full of curiosity. res just heard a piece of news,” said y Hunter, looking at each girl in turn, ahh has delighted me, but unfortu- nately ——" Hunter to sum mon all her tact, She amiled year “But unfortunately, " subd she, “Twin told uite enough." ows!" cried Gwen, Angela saked from the mantelpiece, on which i she still leaned, fanning herself, “Ts it exciting?" “Very, said Lady Hunter, betraying omotion., Cyril ‘atood up behind the settle. He unter refers,” apoke clear * Lady ssid he, “to Netherby’s engagement.” Fel coer tn her arm from the mantel- a ts. Drelincourt cast her ant ae F stared swiftly at them both. ‘There wus a long puuse. Lady Hunter was busy with her lor- gnette, Sir William looked up at Gwen, and round at Mra. Drelineourt, and acrosa the hall at Angela. He appeared more sturthed than he really was, owing to the new ar- rangement of his hair. took his handicerchiet from his cult and wiped his forehead. He bit hia finger nail, ra. Drelineourt spoke first. “Mr. Netherby's engagement?” said she in a very suave, quiet manner. “Yes,” said Lady Hunter, breaking forth again, “hut I haven't been told which of zm it ia. Now!" aaid she winningly, look- around, “won't the dear girl tell me? Adter all, why this with me?" Sentiment got the better of her, “ iJ will tell you, girls," she sighed, “that [I'm paychic. The littlest hint, and I shall understand; and {t aball be locked in my heart antl you give ma leave to tell every- again there was a silence till Sir William, unable to bear it, coughed harshly, aoand Gwen were eving each other | very hostilely indeed A nitwas Mra. Drelincourt who spoke, do what has Mr. Netherby said?” pilrerbey she suavely and quietly, though giant with ’ ant of nervusness, Gwen immedia earl teat te hostile suspicion to Mts De Drel- incourt, but neither spoke, “Cyril! !" said Lady Hunter, waving her 1 ette at him, understood that in apite of the tur= moil of his mind—of which, of course, Lady Hunter was unaware—he was expected to Tact pre Hy pict a mp ‘act was mostly wha wae his sole marketable attribute, He moved forward, tucki handkerchief into his cuff, and tri fe amile with his accustomed honhomie. “TE it is deft to me," suid he, “to explain a rather difficult and —er—delicute— situation, why, Ill try." - Difficult and delicate, dear boy?" said Lady Hunter. Angela gave another fine unseen sneer at c il aed Lad Cyril aa cel eit," pan addressing ev One, “what actual happened to-night ia—er—that Netherby went out to the arbor to think out a certain problem which he had spoken te me about earller in the evening. What I mean to is—Neth- erby's a marrying sort of man Wf ever there “Boprrel" ssid Sir William. “Though of course, poor chap, sadly sca by his painful reticence,” added “hata iti" said Lady Hunter, once more bubblin oer picid enthisinem, “So reserved. So genuine. He'll make a did husband, me ete a splendid hushand is just what hap’s longi ening to be,” continued Cyril. nee re-rl" ; Sir William. “The action of the tax sarensticnliy, “te book 8p Gta "Oh, thanks, Mims Haro _ with not a bad effect of ars ee greatly no docks | waa greatly attracted | Pek He peneet tor pe Braichcre look noht Mevitie ations attracted!" = unter in ecstasy. “Terribly arr kaggro ciel f ceiving ing jon, “to a—oer Pex! rit alone to thnk job of —er— proposing to ber. Bu got to the arbor, there be sow be pane Hunter sighed with a Mrs. Delincourt was still ke 7 epee wery softly: goin Lad haba foram | tion on Mrs. ) “Well,” said Cyr i ibe find of her, naturally he tea think else; and sitting down beside her} away asked her to marry be er—straightaway consented. Ar up and ran a leaving | Fer ible tte =~

om " affirmed Cyr. he's asking himself, "Was it thought it was?" You see, i 9 the arbor.” There was a dead silence, ¥ transfixed —though there is be) that three of them were think and Cyril ; drew out bs a chie!, patted his brow, walked | d pof fresh ait Et “T don't believe it, Mr Wi marked Sir William. * Hubbel a "Not believe Cyril?” ugitatedly, “If you engage 1 son of a peer ——" “Bern!” said Sir Willian, Pie clit oh!" said Lady as “TE you : ¥ mean it, Cyl a—terrible situation! Except Fake around her with a clea “of course the dear girl brow Mrs. Drelincourt sat pes ermal amile plasing round thal calm smile in a moment of wonders. It indieates that the the canis, All beheld Mr | “ateagg a Gwen ot a toa ber fala was smiling. | holders were thaffied “Won't the Hunter, “Ori Mrs. Drelineourt lifted be har She glanced expressionbessls 4 vag and they glanced exc her. They then looked at ea coun ben cess totally devoid | Mra. Drelincourt gave one | yarns, row and walked slow! door, where she stood loss Thoment into the moonlit d= den. All eyes followed ber dently reminiscing, recalling recently happe moved, She Then Ange and, alinki forward in be threw herself inte a chair. Sy enigmatic smile, Brut part s Hunter and Sir Wiliam we amile anew, Gwen 5 She spoke intrepi dear old Arthur," oe started as if eect hed risen and was careenir | | Fa on the oak bark of gazed pares Sore : Fou Hr er, pel Ing up in spirale: and he te locked such a that peal! gar te indeed that Arthur - said Angela ay aid boy! Fancy wor la Cita son Trrean. Arms "Tl really don" t pr pe t night, my dear,”* 4 I* ve Been Arthur agait.” Lady Hunter said Gwe Unter began ==! i eredly at every body ve - Blows, and wih o ineourt returee! | abe Sea Fe a garden acd are you two little pir: quart “Little girle"?* said Gr Lady Hunter » ‘s =i to Cyril, He » SeWill Mrs. Dorel: rity offer her my wery tak ak anda

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- bre. Premera 9 with an 0 ae ta Lady ‘Sone iek: ti dy about her. She shook her ment," said Mrs. Drelin- ony. “T would rather not ex- aed, Mre. Drelineourt looked! viet,” sid Mrs. Drelincourt, - to keep early hours i in the She looked Oh, 4 oe Hunter. nd, oh, I’ nga * she Patised opis sink in, andi they Sank al al eaing cried Lady Hunter. — Oh, coriuict™ If it's a tations i’ m sure nobody could watter than Tf" ncourt made @ oA ae of ap- a to armared, wait. I'll el if he'll be kind enough without a werd to the aide intique candlesticks antique cottage were set in tone and brought it, Mrs. teod waiting for her candle, fect polse, all eves an her. it, dear Hunter,” she tly to Sir William, “Good a shook her head. “Good 1 i" anid Sir William, rising + settle, curt went slowly to the foot 1, eeeorhed by Cyril, and the es, She mounted a step or di. "Mr. Wakefield." el. eeing Arthur again—yes?" sneourt, Lr tanigheee Insite alas . ag azily, a dag Angela's—"“ tell him it he thought it was. Good gracefully u irs inte the if which the bedroom doors ere she paused to lean over uk tolerantly. ris!" said she to Gwen and i, and disappeared into her e hall below drew a long en was clenching her little d Lady Hunter, “ahe did a," said Cyril weakly, eof retreat intact." itin—Angela’s, “As well mean?" he said breath- you are, Cyril!" said icieualy. meolf “Well, ered, “I—I really ——" t heavily on the settle " said Gwen, staring at ‘akefield aska— What do she, “that I a piece of cheek!” She le and lighted her candle looked on. “* Mir, Wake- r bleakl » the sta =o One with her ‘ll Arthur,”” said she. il re peated thi An cia at the ‘pot of rat him coldly. “You'll iat that woman said, ii inetaiiss Cyril thinly. 1 “Sooo amused,” id Cyril, following ber LiFe. said Angela coldly. bod af Angela's va e all eyes watched aid rch pe Pa Hunter in @ t did she mean?” ime 5 hire. Drelin- tir Willi sred Lady Hunter— THE SATURDAY Bitterness overcame Cyril for a moment. "Oh," he said bitterly, “that's nothing bo a girl if if anything better turna up. tothe. T assure you!" "Teh! Teh! Teh!" said Lady Hunter. “But,” ahe added, “there is something in it. When true love comes what is the mere fact of one's bond to another? J under- stand fully. " She than gave the already un il a very gerous “Wo Soin ie ware sag “nothing would “Cyril pulled Rnscll together. : oh —reall Ke = Renee aly " Really ** ani unter with fervor. "Her-r-r!" gaid Sir William. Lady Hunter raised her in lorgnette. “I have a very feeling for women who have made mis ae eontinued, look=- i rag Sir William. — Gwen broke in upon these irrele- VWanors. ant candle, please,” she stormed sud- oe Fur eundle?" suid Cyril. bile no one wae low ing Gren had atruck an enigmatic pose by the bureau, and oy the retained, » She rep Cyril went to the side table. you any haee considered Gwen. “Have faint dy bu t ‘til ten rap 1 -aaiee the cand] a you, Mr. Wakefield, "said it with an air of worldly ear won in one eo young, amall as well. “If you seq Arthur again to-night please tell him that my beastly twin i is evidently going to rag ua unmere “Eh?” said C “Eh!” cried str William, looking round. Gwen, receivin Gwen began to go Ped upstairs. Her Tanner waa ls ig az Mra. kisi ll or aay Hunter surveyed the throw Gwen paused "BE “But tell him,” said ahe with Pi & confiding smi amile, “that I don't mind “Good Good night” eaid Cyril, Hun night "said Sir William ‘ecbly. “tg pom e mumbled to himself, FS eareaiaad fora aera two after Gwen's departure in nek. Then Lady Hunter gave her train a volup- tuous. kick and subsided nn. tne setts. be: aide her hushand “Well, well!" said she faintly. maw from Australia, you know." at is coming from Australia?” said aa It's a Nothin " said Lady Hunter. “It's eure. ur. It's coming from Australis that does it." Cyril looked at her nig nen ifs lowe a man from Australia,” added she, deri looks pretty good for Australians,” 1 you know," a ‘think he's sa cid Fay Ba rape rou Untamable. * Bhe wicca “at at Cyril, who had uieter. “Tt does. not ap ane appeared ra tll HF pee I am peal to me,’ exceptional. “Bet=pep i" Seid th era ee Sr “will iam his peri dear Lady unter very ¥ Cy il went to the side table, at i want to know if," apaid Sir William, “which woman is it? Who's tellin trut he bi oe Oo one's avid anything yet," rep Lady Hunter with acerbity. “Oh, if on iam, someone would give me the littlest hint! a | "You've ‘ad three ‘ints,"’ roared Sir William, um. dropping the aitches to annoy orm a revenge he thought it repens ¥ to take since his knighthood, poorly die badicrouud "in the War ¥ in ackground, "is the way they saw it, Saw that as long as Netherby doesn't who it was, and there's no witnesses, enybody's word is as good as an: rbody: else "Teh! 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Spark-C is 74 inches long Westinghouse Lamp Company Executive Offices 165 Broadway, New York District Sales Offices in Principal Cities in the United States Ignition Tester Sees all Knows all Tells all About Your Ignition Westinshouse cook in a curious stjfled voice. | “gtayt” said she. Cook THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (‘Continued from Page 72) Sir William also disappeared along the gallery, and slammed his bedroom door. id Y¥RIL was now alone with Lady Hunter. Lady Hunter leaned back in the settle, in an attitude which in a thinner woman would have been sintious, but which now, as it were, made the eontigumticn of the near ew rather hilly and tuasocky. “Ah! sighed she. “Relief! Relief from the uncongental compentanenlD of a man ae a common soul! had really no wish to reply. SF Ha and sit beside me," anid Lady Hunter; and she gestured invitingly to the onbion that billowed around her seated himself gingerly beside her. wna a pause, during which Cyril Some knew that Lady Hunter ex- perienced thrills. “T wonder,” said Lady Hunter rather eoyly after a pause, “how it is that secre- taries always fall in lowe with their em- loyers” wives?" 3 Cyr il ran a fi meatiaaly seri inside his. nelle, He fi "Tt's often m sine qua non of the een, " he replied apa- thetically, “What's that?" said Lady Hunter with a thrilled look. "A prerequisite,” said Cyril, after think- ing hard for s suitable tranalation. "Vou ane naughty, dear boy," sighed Hunter, ae voice from the garden began calling a thought more stridently than be- fore. ‘Tt ‘The dovelike quality was absent from sril listened. "oer that? gasped Lady Hunter, starting violently. “Another woman for Netherby,” re lied @yril, listeni but they" re all in bed," said Lady Hunter, “It can't be, No. I feel we may be watched, dear boy. “You'd Lenni ay that, "wouldn't youl” re plied Cyr “We fle : being 8 Lad Hunter, ey woul sald ieee found out, ied upon," paseverated ing agitation. "t coo about it, y"know," fone that some day we shall be , Hunter, we have t phe ny ours haplessly; “and shan't, either wie aed. He ons postal ae reckless of the uences of any speech boenight. “Who knows,” aad y Hunter very oul, ‘what anybody may ae to?" ush {" Cyril “LI heard some- thing He rose and Jeaned nonchalantly on the back of the settle, his monocle turned upon the garden. Lady Hunter huddled, much struck by the situation, into her corner, Then the cook, a stoutiah person in her cotinine, Ape and cap, appre’ somewhat covly in the open doo . She was aghast at beholding Cyril an Lady . “Owl I'm gure I beg On. Lady Hunter rose and flived her through her lorgnette, “Have you pean Eee to watch me, cook?" aaid she hero The cook regarded them both with a wary eye, and hesitated. : ct " said she, “I'm looking for— for—for my cat." Relieved at being able to undertake any sort of action save that expected of him by Lay Hunts Cyril went down on his knees d looked under the furniture, "Why!" sald he abligingly. Puss! Puss!” No cat appeared, Cook stood fingering her in the doorway Srl!” said Lady Hunter, “You can- not sk the son of & peer to hunt eats, Cyril was on his knees before the settle. “'Praid the poor animal is not here," said he sympathetically. “Tm sure I'm euch obl ire. “Toe turned to withdraw. Hunter looked steadily after her, used. “Do you truthfully mean to tell:me that you were coo-eeing toa catT” “Weil, wey nee M’ Lady?" replied cook, of u a simper, Cyril nai “Tt Aen pees altogether natural,’ be remarked, supporting Lady eo “Poor puss! | Hunter. May i.) "Not na-for!” said Lady Bese « besides, a liberty to mote wo ix you, in my g The cook paused for a weg: Then she replied darkly: ‘ I may be a cook—now: ped ain't the last time I shall ome 2 en, The cook disappeared, barig Hunter and Cyril gang for pay each other. Cyril tesk es turn of tee op ae r a the room. ““"T may be only peated pensively. 1 aye. ripe now. “*But per'ape this im’t the ae shall eoceee in your gardes”™ ade Hunter in staccato accents She made a rapid movement t of the vanished ook, bat Cyr bs protesting hand. “Wo, no!" he . Keep be her! Let her ¥ bike bhemes a] place, Think of her savories.” "Yes, they do suit you, do dear?" said Lady Hunter, Tenet aan, Hunter was walki _ uly agin ain towards Cyril, © = y away, when the dow t wes opened reaper Em ah ra that?” abe gupel, o8 that _ It was Steers. He entered dex but looking : f contrat “Only pa M" Lady.” mci » pardon. I came to see if T et the night.” “Certainly!” said Laity tering ag Geet confusion. Steers went softhy to the ode “T believe we are watched.” Ls breathed in a dramatic whine Piz youth made no reps tired indeed, teers approached. peoasig stick in. cule} & priestly war. Presence. “Thank Ha ae ‘ou, Steers,” mas Hunter. ood night, Cyril” She went agitatedly to the stairs, CytTil following polite: “It's ho Use ing to he boy!" said Lady Hunter. “M on edge. Let me of” "q wouldn’ t think cl detacu lady," replied Cyril languidlr eluctantly Lady Hunt | may In the gallery she paue : Lr was lost i ae butleriy a E n of t blew a icles to ell, who ‘brow in reply, She vanished ah Feausesd Steers in his task carats pa ‘honk & te ated ¢ i of} hin: it. weave they gone, a” confidentially. i “Yes, Steers,” said Cyril the striking of a match. Steers went soltly to the ' he had entered, opened i. © tioaly. Arthur came int wild animal in. the forest. “Oh, hello, Netherby'” & on the settle, he new undowelike voice ! tose before Arthur could rc “Comer! Coo! Coos Arthur started back om ian serio want! = 88] 3Til With great sms Pic aenily motioned Arbker was full, and Am pushed into m Littl room | ardiy more than a de under the stairs, Steers ope the a Poor, ‘and Arthur Lock your door, Mr. An Steers. And don't show floor away from everybody. had birt in mor pantrr. ik teers looked around 159 suppert of- the settle “Ges Cyril went plese al sae his room, just as litth Pare hall in response to Siren Sl “Did you ring, Mr Steam (Continudd on Pa

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atiteed fre Page 82) ("aid Stet in a mellow voice, vant to Parke. “I did, Emily. fot me bert, there’a a love, I've indered all the evening.” oiasure, Mr. Steers,” said the me “Emily,” he said wife Steers!” said little Parks _ patting a yard or two of floor rem them by what seemed to be ia, ae en a little n or you ——" ‘aurled little Panes interrupt- tha gure’. “Ha, hal" mote Fok mi fancy, " Steers ‘aid littl Parka sympatheti- so Lam rather nice, arent 17" jshed another wriggle half ibe aaid Steers with a frustrated vem & shame, doen't it?” Perks. me of the kindest hearts in the saa Steers, “let's kiss you, A girl never knows & mitn d him! . Sheers, lied little Parks ny. “I—I—haveother plans.” vwounded in his sense of m “All the women in this "ouse ane!" he said. to move with dignity toward t paused again at the sound of m the garden, it there mow ?"" said he, iutoured litth: Parka, taut, eremained passive for a few ile she thought upon the posi- .afinger tip in her mouth and avely., Alternately she emiled grave, She looked arqund the ithe gallery, and at the fast- ‘Arthur's little room. At last ick Up books, which had been where, and to tidy up. But or two she was interrupted of a door opening furtively above, followed by a furtive dup me po palate Drelin- over the pa rail to peep and aa there they stood 1 other. court Wee 2 ated confused ck at. seeing she, hesitating. Oh!" nything for you, madam?" aweetly, court put her finger on her wong the gallery like a ma- you," she breathed, avio e halfway down the stair- nearnate. “I just—I just nl someone moving about spered, “and I—I thought Bee madam,"" said Parks = obliging girl, sy, oblig moment he her was you,"' said Mra. Drel- ' herself of Parks’ tact ina parent manner. “And— iow it is you, I was going we all you people in the en aide ainvdeed over the enight."" urt had now arrived, cut- ottom stair, amd there ‘she aon the banister, looking quired Parks delicately. ae, said Mra. Drelineourt smile, ou have your lst as we ave Our. adam,” murmured Parks, [he first to break the news rand me,"" piurste Mrs. dare say all really now, didn't you?” hesitated Parks art- LS rt smiled graciously, lknow," said she. “You shrewd girl, Parks; and enge of umeor!** Parks lemure confusion at this ure," added Mrs. Drelin- | lowe stealing a march on the first with the news fe She became viva- alayful. “You must tell THE SATURDAY me what they say when you bring me my early tea.” Ht a ee madam,” said Parks. relineourt retreated quietly Up wae “Wait a moment,” she breathed, finger on lip. Little Parks etocwd obediently below. Mrs. Drelineourt hurried into her Toom and reappeared with a hat; she came halfway down named held it out, over the banister. “Have you any use for this hat, which [ don’t require any more? I'm sure you have!" "Oh, madam!" said little Parks, receiv- ing the hat, "Take it! Take it! said Mra. Drelin- court playfully. “‘T dare ay you walk out With Steers on Sunday, eh? I hope he'll mire you init. G night. And be sure you break the news for me after all this mystery.” Mrs. Drelincourt had nearly got unolb- served inte her room aguin when a second door opened, and Angela stepped into the lery. She looked very nice and carefully isheweled in a cunning wrapper. “Y=y-you!" said Angela, starting back on seeing Mrs. Drelineourt. “Yea, dear, I," snid Mrs. Drelincourt coolly. “And you?” “I—I left a book downstairs,” said ArT recovering. “Who's that down ere Mrs. Drelincourt replied maliciously, “Oh, only the housemaid clearing up. Good night, dear." She ahut herself into her room. Angela kid down over the rail at Parks, and Parks looked up at An “Oh—oh—you, Par = remarked An- a ae feebly. inp itd me," said Parks. She laid the hae’ very ovingly upon a chair, “Can Ido do anyel ing for you, miss?" dearended. “I think perhaps I inte ok downstairs." “What was it called, miss?" asked Parks, looking round, “Oh, I don't know, Parks,” said Angela distractedly. ‘I'm sure you'll understand that after the mental struggle I've been through I’m peer. Jemented, But so happy Parks! Sa-c-0 happy !"" “Oh, mise!" salad Parke Mth glad sym- pathy. Angela came into the hall, and leoned dreamily against the settle. *Yes, in spite of all, eo happy! [ must tellaomecne; and after al too, aret “t you?" h, yes, miss," replied Parks meekly. | “Give me your hand, Parks,” said An- | gela in an emotional voice. Parke obeyed, and Angela squeezed the hand, “You're a perfect dear, Parks; so understanding; and you know what an awful thing it must be to fall in paler with ideal man when one's engaged "Oh, not cata miss, “Never aatul to fall in yan “You do understand so well," said An- ela feverishly. “And how right you are! ta beautiful, only under the circum- stances I—T hardly like to confess about said Parks, it myself, I Enis ou guess that it's [ who am en o hr. Netherby.”, She : cs! Will you spread the ewe T Tabs t right off my should “ tell paonis! Then—then my boats will be “And Mer. Arthur's boata will be burned, too," added Parks thoughtfully. “Exactly!” cried An “That is mean—well, T had to tell someone! Good night." She squeezed Parka’ hand once more, dropped it, sighed convulsively, and moved away. “Have you ever thought of bettering yourself?” she asked kindly. “Vea, mise," replied Parks, “You seem to me so superior," Angela, more kindly than ever, os she erept upetaira. But quietly ss she crept, Goen was open- ing her door. “Ah!” suid she spitefully. Angela: wha taken aback, but recovered herself swifth;. fous!" said she. “Go back to bed, child y" “What did you come down for?” asked Gwen spitefully, “A book, darling,” replied Angela. “Well, [ can't find my fountain pen,” said Gwen. “Is that Parks?” Little Parks was standing reapect{ully observing the seene from below, “Yes, miss,” she answered. “Nonsense about your fountain pen!" said Angela. “It must be in your room." “Tt fen't, you liar!" aaid Gwen with a ferocity appalling in one so young and at the same time small. BLE Ee es ee ee ee eee LOU rea women, | " gaidd EVENING POST Sor Windbure Fredila FProgeaur Lattin iil: preeral dad reiceee Seiten de WF sief- fecha, J keeps dike dia al ded! domed and S unburh Wind dries the skin and sun burns it. Both are injurious—they roughen and eoarsen the skin, Betore going out apply a little Frostilla Fragrant Lotion. It will keep the skin soft and smooth. 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We'll send you the name of some one who can, together with an attractive miniature catalog of Glove Grip Shoes. M. N. ARNOLD SHOE COMPANY North Abington, Massachusectts Women's Sport Odor Na, Pris EVENING POST (Comtitued from Page 26) She went out, catching painfully at her breath, by the door leading to the kitchen rv aba : So again litthe Parks was alone in the hall. hed a a Snr into her mouth and sucked it She looked around up at the ea ‘nnd at Arthur's fast-cloaed doar. en suddenly she wos across the hall, at that fast-closed door, king upon it aaftly, but with wtter tes eigen “Mr. Arthur," said she urgently, and with utter resolution. Me Arthur! Mr, Arthur!" rei r’; meee = aed h peared rthur’a door opened, and he ap cautiously, in pajamas, holding the door. His relief at the harmless apparition of this kind Fl was tremendous, "Wh, you, Parks!" he kept seri bering. Just you! Only you! Thank Gad! was afraid it was some woman.” "Oh, no, Mr, Arthur!" ing. “Only Parka, Dress yourself!" "EhT Delite a Arthur. “(et once!” said i managing rhe pack and send you ter youl, do home! Or there's hres ladies and a woman who'll marry you a? Fait hispered Arthur, ago- ar ; ar rr Ww + rt : nized. “Eh? Eh?" "Listen!" said little Parka managingly. “They all iow it—that you don't know = i propemed to in the dark to-night; they’ "ye apen the situation. And bag in a Tailway statlon— the 2 | parcel in alogt-property office. Anyone can claim you who gives up the check. And they're all giving up checks— Mrs, Drelin- per Miss Harmony, Miss Gwennie, and cook." “f-c-co0k?" faltered Arthur. "Cook," ssid Parks, noiding, “And the youre, ladies have been down in this ea kin’ for you in negligye that would make a toad passionate,” “Help! said Arthur in o lost voice. "T'll help you, Mr. Arthur,” promised Parks, very motherly. “Trust me," aie mind about whispered pares "Never mind abou F place not ng ready for you,’ t Parks “Home you go, quick!" Arthur tottered back inte his room, sink opp the bed and cought at a pair of socks. ks followed him in to assist him, He | did not mind her, She was Pes dala She | her hands | of that! had seen him unshaved, and preiarel hig hath, He began to put on his soc “LT shan’t wait to dress,” he said, “Better not,” said Par She clasped looked at him, “Fut on your warm coat. Take care of yourself.” “Get my boots, Parks,” whispered | Arthur al chatterin teeth, ka. his riding boots handy to | he feet. uTd eall up the chauffeur," said “but I shouldn't rouse attention if I areal you. What's a four-mile walk across | Zountey for a man in the hole you're in?” “Nothing! Nothing!” chattered Arthur. ‘ae let me get away!" He pecan $4 pe eat prance at his boots. her knees beside on prt back on ane is and watched, A rucked-upr pajama leg enlled for the atten- tion of her neat fingers, and deftly sho tucked it down jnto the boot top. Her eyes, turned away from Arthur, were nit . Her head felt full to bursting know, er . Arthur ——" sald ahe ssid and oink anh ur tugged feverishly at his second oot oe quiet!” he said, “Don't talk to No Mr, ae tec murmured Parks hurriedly. “Only ret want to say theat— that— rhaps you'd like it if you cole, ta pena te tre tk, Mr. Arthur.” Arthur stamped his fonk down. "What?" he asked gr init. Parks swayed dowiy. a thought farther towards him. “ G-gegetting married, Mr. Arthur." “how, said Arthur ar the “ho more I've had enou this evening to last mea lifetime. I've Fast had a glimpee of what might perpen to a man if be let it. I've made a mistake to-night. Dunno what got me; but it hasn't got me now, that's with many thou sh gure. [im net armarryiog kind of man at all." “Oh,” said Parks, clasping her hands and rocking a little, half in a dream and the other half out of it, keeping a sbrewd eyeon Arthur. "Oh, if you were just man- aged properly, Afr, Arthur—if a girl was a manager—tehy, she'd just twist you an, aaid Parks, amil-_ May Br Tight round ber litthe finger, and px surprised to find the of mat jy Arthur's mouth dropped ope: 9: looked at Parke. Bout she eppeae! » innocent, the complete altrust. Nol’ ne 1 een you, mo! [e's all right talkie used to you. You bring my sharcy 'n" all that. But other worsen 1 ce on with ‘em at any price.” Little Parks si nearer, “y too, de ert on with womm fre Mr. she remarkel *‘ ur rose, with alternate ce both feet. He was looking incony sturdy again. He did not tre answer. “A man didn't ought to be moti ened," murmured Parks, purszin; rit ape eae hh a wriggte Ii rest eith a wet pee a moved to the door, “Here!” sald Arthur, look wt you," “Oh, Mr. Arthur,” mourmred “You look at me every day.” “No, I don't,” said Arthur eo eould, but Idon’t. Because I don'ts Parks poutedd, “You seem a darned capable aot said of tal gos the pout. “5 Bbout managing 2 Ai alow net But now th again, d theyll stay off. Cie a oittle Parks passed meekiy hall te the reese behind, iia and things were s Arthor her to and fro, with some dim f=! the slenderness of her black so returned, holding the coat out [ “50 think you'll be abe t for yourself, Mr, Arthur—toms “Tomorrow i" r ted Arthp “Well, said litthe: Paris, cc tiptoe to homwt the coat on ke “things are liable to happes 5 Mr, Arthur, aren't theyt" Arthur stood arrested, he said. “Things,” added Parks, | “ox where they are. They won't Arthur stared forlorniy si 4 realization of possi bilitics. “Shall I come and look ee arti aha then, Mr. Arthur?’ 8 “Atte clutched at the stra Why, that’s an idea'” be = used to you: you don’t seem lo atall. If you can be spared — “Tl ee that,” she rep. urged ee "Trust me, Mr. Arthur,” "T do trust you, Parks.” rf f with complete and dewout gon Tp up his coat ol mechanical feeling of stealth, x creep towards the disor, Parks followwd., *“* (Got yocr ¢ she whispered. “"N" matchs! handkerchief?" “Parks,” Arthur whispered } - obediently i in his, pockets, © a king of a qQuern who Si] ta woman, ‘Here's a ring: if soc thing send it te me, and Is I expect they teach 4c ast thas schools, Parks? i Ting, but if I ean do you a ‘time, let me brea, mat relay arks seized his elbow and to the door. “Stop talking,” said she “Gol Go a phree the going’s ¢ Purks' ad i, pai was juekt as they had parted the ex“ drawn the bolt, 2d were open ate Pe carder a sound of me rom the a above. Pe Arthur out, cai the bolt alk and the curtains fell again reves bai ie moment that Gwen lees gall oa eal Bnd sent a searchy Se who's Sheret™ she @ she saw Par yust thering the wid os n i had bos over her arm, the slippers pemde hand, the hat from the other. T tidy, and, save for Park, eo# "T thought * whispered eyes te ad st loo roa | up at iower i “Tt's only te, mise,” poor ishing. Can I get you ay " Rieep st “Ea = (TO BE CONTIVTT? - = “ ar

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gear again dropped his eyes to in his a got saddenly to his feet. on. You're not a kotowing . You're an Irish leatherneck, ‘min to man. What do you kin, sort," said Tim, “"tis a bit hia all's said an done." it The difference in our ages, sacha: sort, said Tim, “Ye mnt on to explain, “ye've been ‘oid this wan and that wen vin spring for many"s the year, ue in ar ig whin the talk eve loughed wid me aa wan of thim, sorr, and to wid the name they Bane a in Thin [ foind a slip of a leen fore shlapin’ Under yer coat on t Hawali, an" ye sez, sez FOU, . Tim, thet I teak from the iow we'll make aw Indy ay her.’ 2 naded, sorr. The makin’ a [mane, She was a lady born knew that the first toime she youth te me after her face was ation you give her, sort, that alady she was, and a lady she atever, far it's in the bones tad bleed," said the hawk. love av a child he's cravin" to myself, ‘and a father he'll he years ta come.’ An‘ so {| ——" The sergeant hesi- ithe hawk. “Tntil what?” . ‘twas divil a lad near her ould have spache wid. Not fate a8 git a aquint at her, ; of a ather,’ sez I to my- ia you an’ all, an’ seein” her Teme eyes, so to shpake— ae the way ay it, sorr.' d the hawk. Then riage was a misteke?" sayin’ that, sorr. If a mis , tis me notion "twas before win’ kep" eo close, is what I iver havin’ mao thruck wid to be overfull av curiosity ye want me thoughts, sorr. she's had to learn to kape tthe pershwadin' in’ all, but it's yerself t ch that shtopes a vinture- wuldn"t stop one,” agreed ba fartpetone “oii would. 's start shooting too late, 1 the sergeant, “but her a, there'd be no cause for t havin" the. fling that a fore settlin"® down far good ints troubled thought. 7, Tim," he said at last. he chance of some youn vay from me. I eouldn And now I'll tell you ied to the deak and ike int. a eer es on He ainute on A irriage ar a Thad r some igor oi “Then & Tuns out of a, orphan ming child, my feet; and I ine meant to be my wife— What do you think of jard-bitten sergeant of ue to his race. rr,” he aaid aa one states oe a fool." lt in the sergeant seized ished him headlong into ith, 7. that blind I am and ‘a twistin’ me hither an’ sie new page” J oi : l was born nan knows by the feel st ay dead are throopin’ ight. "Tis so nid} aun ould chureh full an’ and ia ould but nothin" ounthry we're sofia + onything can cnow at the praate BY THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE NUMBER ONE BOY (tontinwed from Page If} theirs, right here in Pekin'—this Chang Ene teams, God kape him from iver croaaln me path!" hawk laughed a sudden harsh laugh and dropped into the desk chair. "So you beliewe the tales the ignorant coolies tell about that fakir?" "Tgnorunt coolies, is ut?. Let me ask ya wan question: Phwat sort av a doctor now is the wan from New York over in the legation this minute, a little man wid a head on him like an owl?" Among the Americans in Peking who had eouehe refuge in the legation at the beginning of the siege was a New York specialist with an international reputation. "You mean Doctor Mossir?™ said the hawk, naming this phystelan. "Yis, sorr. Phwat sort av a doctor : ne’ d to be f the "He's supposed to ane of t ent nerve specialist ol the he world, Tim. why “Fe gdenlit it!" exclaimed the sergeant ob! antl. “Phwat do 38 suppose brought him to China? Not a thing but the wish to talk wid Chang Foo Low.” “Well,” said the hawk, “most doctors | pose this one is; but | at about him." | are idiota, and I su I'd hardly belleve t "Té's thrue, sorr; I have it straight as a | shtring.” "How? “The doctor tells Captain tells his shtriker, _ tells C Dolan, who tells Sayernt who tells me. Straight 29 @ Sntrin iting hawk sh his. teeth in a faint "All right, Tim. You can deliver those fi now," Weta vant an’ if you'll deliver the bit av «Tell her yourself, Tim. She'll be all right in a so. "Don't I know Le She'll live to aee the twonv us dead a The hawk's thin lip twitched alightly. “Wo doubt. That's all, sergeant. And the sergeant thease as he turned away, Ye re a blunderin® fool, Tim lone once more the hawk sank es in hia chair with an unaccustomed weari | Not weariness of body—he still en enjoyed immunity fnat that sort of thi proved it during the recent i when nger men had crumpled with fatigue | all about him. It was a mental weariness that touched him now, touched him ao strongly that nls shoulders eigen the weight of it one of the black-an which was the door | Yes, hia wife. aes j wont out of his shoulders, "He steed in his chair. ad always beliey action, To hell with hemming and sper Why should he sit glooming like a tim dl His wife! He got to his feet, walked | quickly fo the door and knocked. | “Yea ho is it?" | | Toon. His wife! "Tt's a nt "T'm still feeling badly, A sudden flush dened the habitual pallor of the hawk's face, He hed an in- | stinct to smash out the panels of the door ! with his fist. He waited an instant to con- | trol the instinct and his voice. | Be tinderstand. I[ won't disturb you | lon May I come in?” | No, Please; rue eome out," Pb sonora 4 and then a shrug of | the shoulders, “YVory well." He returned to the center | | af the room and waited. The door was un- | locked and opened. His labia aiden from behind the screen and regarded great, dark, “Well?” How young she was! A child, a child! The hawk’s assurance left him. It waa re laced by a returning swarm of doubts and | ears. “Come and sit down— Elizabeth.” She took a few uncertain steps away from the screen. “I've been lying down, IT think I'll stand if you don*t mind.” He took a cigarette from a lacquer box on the desk and lighted it. He found that and was trem a 18 ena hut ne aign of it waa in hia voles when he “Now, my dear, I sume, want to help you—you idarstand tha She nodded | (Conttauid on Page 51) yi" | ing eyes ta | gold acTeeH a MR. DEALER: Weise fer 4 dosen San i fe AeOrEMen of Sgeur Thee on approval | LONGER Patented—Trade Mark reg, U.S. Pat. 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aued front Poge #7) a Surely it must be, Surely what a hopeless rdone. He understood now ex- staddoneit. There had been ak about it ameng the senior ered in Peking, to which he githatralmed, heartsick atten- ad even to ask a few q questions. Yes, he under- = undoing had been aceom- There was fo answer ful ‘Hiddle. Why had demoana -they cou ne lees — tame m, all belplesa in sleep? Why iam across the world to her ¢ they gave her to another? er—an impotent, shuddering ge him whenever he thought her. erible room! The spirit of oid, at grips with a new and sn, Heavens, what a room! a rugs on that screaming immering vases on the hope- ight the picture in ig rast of the vases. ra ae at the mantel, As he atood forward to drink in the e room sehind him wee re- mirror. Someone ste notlighted doorray ke Jen, and entered. Jimmy he, He found it im ble simply stood frozen, looking enaw him. She, too, waa aclute stilless, womler into her face—into then a surge of gladness, 1 ing gladness, which went as um. She turned and waa toward the door into the Jimmy, without moving, may.” Lr akan me ust going inte the garden," me from the garden,” said f from the mirror. i going back, I—I—left mw do you do, lieutenant? i chance to thank you filly apeeehes to me." jot his tone seemed erties She took off her cloak the back of a chair. a here?” she demanded redid you come?" | you that T came because way? ch things to me,” have no right. Where is please T"" im mow ?** * Jimmy assured her. , and became crimson ag one a wonla in- you get in?" Jimmy dryly. iimed again. “You mist in't.?* nin helpless horror for a rted to the deak and arply several times. : that?" asked Jimmy. Wy wer?" d silent. u that I have a right ta st be here? to strike the gong again iber One boy," said she. ar eget i rs ni pea with @ smiath wee" —Master af Souls. tazement to follow the ilging e Another ing motionless in the tered silently tal be Foden, He was tal was unutterably calm hwith her first startled Chinese to the other si got to his feet and im. ante old servant Fo Namber One boy? THE SATURDAY rou y You—the Number One bay? | ial hate i ol is hand rose and passed before her eyes. Once more she was in the dark and sound- less chamber within her own brain. "T am the Number One of this aan said a calm voice within that silent c “You ‘are the Number One boy of this house," her lips re ‘You have never aren me before,” “T have never seen you before.” Jimmy was atill standing by the mantel, ao wtherly dazed that movenent of speech ad net occurred tohim. Now he wrene himself free from a sort of waking stupor and sprang forward, "Look here," he ered, " that!" The somber eyes of this unbelievable servant flashed upon him with the force of ablow. A quiet voice that had the quality of thunder in it beat im his ears: you cant do "Tf lowe this maiden and your honor do not interfere.” Ficimy "havea the commanding eyes a Tacment langer with the feeling that this wes unpre ream. Such things could not hap to people awake—and he was awn He was in China. That was it! Things were diferent in China. Before him, dressed like a servant, was a super- Chinaman—Jimmy had found out all ahaak the immortal Chang Foo Low—who with a wave of the hand had just taken away the mind of his lady of dreams. Well, such things could happen in China, evidently, and if he did nat trust this mysterious Chinaman who had given him his only hope who was there to trust? Jimmy bowed SUFFender and fell back te the mantel. ‘That is well,” aaid Chan by. te Cnee more his hand lifted and waved. dam wishes is gal ot shania + girl of Jimmy's dreams gave a puz- gled look about in nooo Her ih rt eountered Jimmy's, "Oh, yes,” said she, her face eur “Lieutenant Lee is going now. Ht he should call again I am not at home,” The Number Oy a ere “T hear your order, madam tenant Lee has likewise heard an order, The colonel, your husband, told him to remain untill he returned." in the vast wonder in which his mind was floundering Jimmy was stricken by her sudden vivid blush, cused by the false position he had led her into. He had done it in a fit of anger at her ferminine pretense of lightness when she had first spoken to him. Now he was "T eame here ptt valtlbaey duty to gee Colonel Bradley," he explained contritely, She turned to the Number (ne boy, her flush subsiding. : “There has been a mistake. You may The Number One boy bowed and left Foor. rb without knowing what he did, fol to the door and stared, wonderin awestricken, after the tall re. Dar and Flous powers were fighting on hia Sere meedill ee ee far . wo t a ie catirely en ond his settee hash cornined to. his sid that would stop ot nothing? “Why didn't you tell me?" a mortified "ae demanded. Jimmy, pondering by the door, was too ie in apeculation to hear. ‘ve naked you a question,” The voice was sharper now. Jimmy to a consciousness of and aoned: him toward her, Tt brought the present a _ bee your pardon. What did you | Why didn’ whl tity explain that you hadn't come to see me “Well, I was angry,” Jimmy admitted, “and [acted like a ool, You soe, you pre= tended at first, and it made me angry.” “Pretended? Her eyebrows went up, _MRaemetiy hal soil preted "" Fin what you're pre ing now— that there's nothing between ots There if nothing betacen That,” said Jimmy, ian"t aa and you know at itked up her cloak as if about to ‘save e root, but changed her mind and replaced it on the chair. “IT never expected to see you again,” ahe said alewy. think I should tell you how sorry I am for what I did, and ask you to forgive me,” at eh tall ta-ane-tibe teak you to me—like t and for—what happened,” “But sinee you are here I | EVENING POST i ty [What time is it? | conga |, gagements, which one of the three is correct? ~~ There is a simple way to remove such annoying discussions from the realm of family life. One hun- dred and nine years ago Seth Thomas began build- ing accurate clocks. Some Seth Thomas Clocks cost thousands, like the one on the tower of Independence Hall. But the clocks for the home cost very much less than you have probably been led to suppose. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST "You mean that you kissed met" "Oh, don’t! It isn't fair, Flease—just forget tt." "T wish I could." “You must—you simply must!" "Can you?” asked Jimmy. She made a gesture of distress, hall turned from him remained silent. “You don't have to answer,” said Jimmy softly; “T know already. [ saw your face in the mirror w You came in and recog- nized me. Don't try to hide it any more— you owe mé that much. I know why you married him. I found out about it all; and rah a crime—a wicked crime, He took ad- His voice became a suppressed cry. 'T found you just too late. That's at T don't understand about the whole hellish business. To find you at last— and then —— "Don't! Don't!" she returned his cry. “Tin ao sorry—ao terribly sorry for—you." “For ome?" sald Jimmy savagely. “What about you? With your life amashed to fieces before it's nm. Dean't be sorry for just me. We're both in this, What are we Some to do?” “ye told you," ahve said with some firm- ness, “We must ‘forget it.” He gave her one look, “T know," she went on quickly. “It seems im ible now, but time makes such a great difference, When my father died [ thought [ could never get over it, but Idid—Idid. [twill be that way about this. Each day will make a difference, Soon— "lL be surprised how soon—it won't" — er hand wert unconsciously to her breast—“hurt so much, You'll go back to Iho friends; and you'll meet another girl. a ited beable r sake it will be soon, [ happy. I—I —— a suddenly t her back to him. dimmy addressed an agoniaed whisper to his soul: “My sweetheart—my own sweetheart!” When she turned to him again her lips ne longer qui . Her tight-closed fists had become hands, one of which she ex- tended toward him. “We must say good-by now.’ Slo,” ead Jimmy, Fust ae, night." “But I shan't see you again before you leave," “Tm not going to leave.” A sudden Teac eared te her eyes. “You're not going with the troops in the roaring?" "A detachment from the Seventeenth WA the guard here. I volun- tered ta with the detachment.” “Under Colonel Bradley?" It was a gin as whisper. “Why did id yor d do that?" tated ie “Oh! Oh! yh! hy "There's nothing for me anywhere else in the world; the 6 other fellows wanted to get hoon." “How can you think of them—when we—when you " She stared at him for a moment, then clutched his arm. “Go quickly now, before it's too late, and say you've changed your mind—that you want to Why should I do that?" "You know; oh, you know!" But Ldon't. I can't bear to think what it would be like if I went. Lf 1 stay here [ can see you now and then; perhaps hear your voice al Nol No! 73 But I can’t,”

You must go—you said Jimmy. She cut me short with a feverish “You u—love me.” ans got a Jogk from him that sent her plunging 7 love, if it's—the right aort—ia— unselfish, I must tell you something. I couldn't have you stay. I couldn't bear it. Now will you go?” This time Jimmy's whisper, as he seized her by the shoulders, could be heard. “Sweetheart [" She only shrank from him a little, but her face ao pltequs that Jimmy cime to himself, He, James Lee, was in the home of his commanding officer.. This girl with the pleading eyes was that officer's wife, ‘Those were the facts. To set against them were twenty yeors of dreams, hind the dreams were rile berg by what he had been led into. at thetr dewilishnesa was that the ‘iam weced much more real than the facts. He could “TO see, | mot explain abowt the dreams and devils | to the world, He could not explain it to May 3 himself, The world of cous wall ne. By the facts. Elks arms dropre) i “T'd go if I could,” be mid iby Tean't. T wohunteered for the dy T ean't withdraw,” “Isn't there some way?" oe Then in a bac feanic, “Thess a some there mt to be a He chock: bit head. ~_ “There's no wh Colonel Bradley. cia The smooth ivory of etnedl as she thought intently for a my "What if you weren't accel Colonel Bradley? a "Why, if he didn't like me bel T guppose, and ask for someone @ ou must ask Colonel Bracks for someone elee."" “Ask him? What reason el! “Make up a remson,” she utge can de it.” "He'd think [ was shir: Jimmy. This left her helpless so far we | went, but she fel cto a appent. PS cg please, for my sake" immy was mov a had a sudden maar Berke tatu thought of sharin ty: le But it must be definitely bee eT ee ee She ch < mised, = thing that will help me doit 5 you, To want to hear you ay i the truth.” The hawk had left the ip sought his home bear way of the p was entirely ummeved by eg ie bode tame gS a t ha Eta § ment over condensed mle | by a puttering old fool, Ashes door into the living room al t his recent unpleasant intercom neral in command were se utricane, from. hia mined. Until that moment he had fs young officer whor he had ont He had even forgotten his «7: have been in the garden. Fol and at the same inetant recalled ta him, He also a co photographic recollection of 9 figures standing alone and in @ great d tlim chamber with oa a eyeless Buddha to ober Aachen ines meat into the living rm rew @ Pap aly young. tantra bes “T was just thanking Lieuters The hawk barely beard = though in the same toon seemed faint, much fainter * voice which kept Pepestind chance -_ had bacray to’ ‘eon in tone i 7 Aa the fain nter present = “He wants to ask a favor The hawk turned a face cf to Jim "He . does he?’

day—in the temple?" a he ged § face —he wae turned her way. Ite ferce like talons, “And you ok to fing a in the tem: es." Herc ae eves inated. “But 1 rust <p the lieutenant was kind :3 you can help him now, if » “Help him, eh? Heip = The words were as meal that went with them. be with pride at hie lady of <- caylr 2 ancl sustained “Yes, he said in tone, “If aatirel sak for ar the detachment I'd a st taal Teangay. I want to i “You want to leave ve Jimmy did the best te - “T have a reasen, <: matter. I don” tC care te =. The piercing eyes explo reason you don"t care to (Cwitinewed om

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"Then what is it?” Jimmy's sudden exultation died, "T don't eare to any, sir,” he affirmed i | want to get away because you've done | J “T've done i) | doggedly. al | “eT tell you," said the girl of Jimmy's dreams Her sudden interjection froze the blood iti Jimmy's veing, "The lieutenant has confided in me,” “He's told me that | he's in love. He wants to go back to the United States because he loves a girl.” If Jimmy had been proud of her before he was now lost in admiration, The hawk expelled his breath with a ws hisaln sound. said he, “is that it?” = te La as though aw little of the quiet pence of the Oriental garden hed stolen into the charged atmosphere of that room of Occidental happenings and cleared it. “And you thought my wile might help you with met’ “Well, I wanted very much to get back, sir," admitted Jimmy. "Vor, that's apparent,” said the hawk dryly, He moa to the desk and sat down ruther heavily in the desk chair, “Ol course you know that someone has to stay and take your place if you leave?" “Yes, sir.” “Othera have homes and families and perhaps girls, they want ta get buck to. ou realize that?” "Yes, air.’ “And yee Fou gealkied my wife te help yc get out of your duty?” Jimmy etiffened. “Tt looks that way, Yes, sir." She tried to rescue him. “Tt wasn't the lieutenant's idea at all,” ashe said enporly., “He never thought of nde a rain. suggested it on account of thee girl.” “You hud no right to suggest sich o thing to an officer, my dear—no right what- ever, Lieutenant Lee hears wm Hlustricetia name, the name of a pal aps soldier.” tes commanding officer whirled suddenly Jimmy. o you wish to be relieved?" Jimmy went red to the ears. “Wa, sir, I - He broke off. Tt was not the appealing hig clutch of her hands that stepped was a revulsion aguinst further scenes and nerve tension. Devils of some sort had gotten him into all this, and he'd get out ihe could, It was all too unreal, too weird, That Chinaman was in it now with his meamerism business and heaven only knew what elaer. No telling what might happen, Best get out of China A uit before any- og elae did happen Sack sir; I do. They've been together ee ae “She rushed to defend him just now." Aloud he | said, “ET shall ask Colonel Blair for another officer. The adjutant will aasign your men to quarters when they come. Remain in officers’ quarters here until you are ordered haek te the | the Seventeenth.” "Thank you, sir.” Jimma saluted, "Good-by, lieutenant." She was holding out her hand. At her words Jimmy's heart strings tight- ened. She wae all that counted on earth, A fine, quinotic fool he had been, to srrange to putan ocean between them. Things locked impossible for them, but there was always the future, They should have discussed that, They must discuss that! It waa too late a He late, i took her hand, air eyes clung together for an ago- nized instant. He bowed and was pone. In the room he had left, the things of China still clashed irrevocably with the objerta of a newer, harsher civilization, But the girl, standing nerveless, utterly undone, still looking at the doorway through which Jimmy had disappeares did not know it. She seemed to in # void in which nothing mattered, nothing could ever happen again, Something did happen, almost at once. Her husband crossed the Poor, took her in his arms and crushed her to him. “You're mine—mine!™ he said. Ehe was startled by a piercing shriek, then another, and another. She was astonished to find that her mouth was wide open. She realized that she waa the one who was screaming. She knew it perfectly well, although she had nothing whatever May 22, to do with it. For some remor sina shriek was pouring from ber thog, S0Me@ reason she coh not eines be te silenee them. Tt femained wy as she contintoed to scream The arms which Pek ber Te wey chen rood God! What's the mused heard. She staggered away from thst BCrenming. Between the shricks she beard voico, shrill as the screams eth 9 words were interspemed. “| wo I want to die!" [Ut was ber oer Blundering against the cour upon it, face down, Beat a = fists, atl] screaming. Rolled of; to the floor and beat at the foo 4 ing, screaming. Stull another voiee—Tim's row old Sergeant Tim. “What bs it, ser “Ask that New York doctor is tion to come here tack, “Vis, sort, Git buck, you Ching not wanted in here," "Betty! Elizabeth! What ii "T want to die, [ must die. | "Get. et. ['we sent fora Qu Hands tried to lift ber from the rolled away from them and get ts Adoctor! That waafunny. She with laughter. “No doctor ee No one can help me, “T'll help you, dearest, 2 yoo what's the matter." Her mouth had closed at iss. coming toward her, He might If he did she knew it would opeo the screums would start. “Don't come near me! Tron’: met" She backed into a sereen. acreen before the door of ber aus ng netaelt of ae duce, just a rted again. pushed t behind her, fell upon the bed the screnms with o pillow. herane wrenching aoha, bot os better than those frightfaol ern A baffed hawk, a flounder: able to lift himself above a doubts and fears, paced op a living room with the soon? sobkling in his ears. At last T owed by a small black-eyed, sensitive, almost effeminate high bulging forehead. “Here's the doctor, sor.” The hawk had an abiding many things which he ments at folderol. Among such thi never had a sick moment in ee eo aa of medicine. He & firat plhoysicinn whem siimimemed, Le Baw To Preialy his opinion. So this was oot nerve specialists of the worl litth: pup of am M.D. if evert Nerves, eh? Of course—w H'm! “What can I do for you, ¢ A surprisingly imeiive vol eves, lon, were keen, mow tial look at them. H'm! A da tone to that second mental! ez Aloud he said, “* My wile } tack of some sort. I think it She's” —he indicated the a aren "in there" “Shall we right in? “re ahr I'll stay here") One quick leak from the 5 fore the ae gred bet: ad “Shall T knock?” "Tf you like.” apere was a brisk rap om © screams basen a “Go away? ype geal ae The door clicked as it. wai A voice cut through the = whi Lash. top this instantly, your Silence and the closing ol al “H'm!"" Aloud this time. almost reapectful infhectior.! reached for a cigarette, cu He seated himself at the tempted to read the 0. D's thereon. Failing in this be ¢ across his brow, then wudde the cigarette. He knew ©> row, ® Struck the gorg & eeetegam & for an answer to betes of ts swmmens. A : interval he struck the gong a He was about to rise frat storm kitchenward wheo be of a servant appearing from |

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reo times," he broke out. “You vou deal! Catchee me ——" edatmy with bottles and glasses wz siienthr toward him. “Ah, tl want, Bet it down here. yas placed on the desk, The ‘aj come Whisky in @ glass and theoda, agree Sin it he was about to a fo his lips . ca savvee | want this?” He ava to the sede ek pital he question, @ glass sank un- wdesk. In his sudden surprise i pidgin. “Who the devil are a Mumber One bay." rreesiowly to his feet. At last 50g with the lefty Orl- at which he had been gazing. }yoa are! Ty Ming is Number ‘entet atom was subtracted mendous total of the servant's 7 cal thus left. I have taken his 4d he leave? ke hour," iyou bere?" As w know where my service is eply, the hawk thought. An fit came to him, «2 you mean the mission ® you a card?” mary mission employment ieed from somewhere within enankeen house jacket, Fis highly recommended for i Number One boy,” it read, i is not mentionml here," y Ming, It will save Your camall trouble of a change.” ei learn ta speak English ughtfully atudied the words r than m i lf. ‘ouphéfully studied the face while consuming the larger «of whishy and soda. A ik, he thought, an untieual f humblenems anc dignity, that he assure the name of wis an odd iden and not a ua trial do you think you © to bring peace to this the master of that house ry. He seniled a grim, an Jessa smile, vand try it. Leave thesr nher One boy bowed and hdrawing. zating figure halted and uo know I wanted ——" ghtly raised. 2. ?oof the servant to antici f the master." tthow did you happen to were?" : ery faint strggestion of wae it frony ?—appeared Sumber One boy, studied the honorable who apoeak in the English amy custom to ring for wy. But your manner of an urgent desire. Of ho a servant may bring food mad drink are sutti- to be so honored. Since direc ar t. Goahead." ng completed his silent, ire, with his new ¢m- him. it Chinks were, thought n unimportant things— l for an intelligent man e women. The thought lack at the door behind pinched grayness In his later the door opened VW?eiclin appearee. he hawk wearily. thing to worry about, it highly nervous ¢of- THE SATURDAY eee physician, after all, thought awk. “So T gathered. What's the cause of this | a lad ates ere “To am mot prepar say. It ia hid- den"'—the spectaliat tapped his prominent brow with a slender forefinger—" here.” “Te mean her mind's aflected?" The hawk asked the question with a feeling of relief, almost of satisfaction. "Not ina pathologienl sense, All mere ous breakdowns are primarily mental. In your Wife's case I feel that a ahock of sone sort is responsible," "Shock!" The hawk leaped at the word. He had been elingrin to the idea for the last four days. “Sit down, doctor,” He was presently describing the affair with the Boxers and the subsequent reecue in the temple. "Why, they had a knife at her throat. | A Chinaman was shot a few feet from where | she stood. There you have your shock.” | The i dat seemed Unimpressed by the recita “Well, perhaps,” he said doubtfully. | He got up from his chair and gazed about the room fora moment; then he, too, walled | over to the mantel and, stooping, looked at | the photograph. “Lovely,” he murmured, half te himself. Suddenly he turned to the howk, “Colonel Bradley," heshotout, “you are Many years your wile'ssenior. You have seen fil to risk the uncertainties of such a union. Let me say to you that your chance for happiness—for peace of mind—ean be utterly destrayed at this time if you fall to understand the peychology of the situa- tion.” “Understand? I've been trying to un- derstand her ever since I married her. Paychology? Rat! It's just a flne mouth- fill nk word, I've got a woman to deal with.” es, [ see,'' sald the specialist softly. “Well, Vil be getting along. I mist tell pou before J that Mre. Bradley roust ve qqulet snd scmunieee reat for some time tocome, Every allownanee should be made for her until ahe is entirely normal. | ““Thanks,"” sald the hawk dryly. “TN || remember, Will you have a drink “No, I believe not. Thank you." j “Well, is there anything T can do for | you while you are in China?" The physician hesitated, then admitted | that be had a problem. He hac been trying | all day, he explained, to see the lama, | Chang Foo Low. ‘eT ha priests," he said, “tell me he is meat | in the temple, and either can’t or won't | direct me to him." The hawk smiled, “T remember now. Someone told me | you had came all the way from the United | Blates just to meet that Chinaman. Is it true?”* | Dector Meessic admitted that it was, "T believe him te be the greatest myvtic, | hypnotist and peychic the world has ever sean, he added. | Folderol, Folderol with o vengeance, | thought the hawk. | “Can a rational man, a physician of atanding, be interested in that sort af | thing?” he asked. | The physician returned to his chair. “T | think Lam a rutional man," he said, “and | I'ye come to see Chang Foo Low because | I am # physician, Many intelligent | hysicians of to-day have given up pills. | e rely on hiyvgienica and mental SunRES- tion, Afew of us po further than that, We are trying to reach and treat the soul.” “Why not try tea cateh moonbeamel” suggested the hawk, "You deny the existence of the aul?" “Why shouldn't [? Taman animal. 0 | have asort of pudding in my skull called a | brain. It t #0 arranped that I can reason with it better than the dog, but the dag's | nose is a marvelous oaffait—much more | effective than mine. I can think—he can | amell, The worms pet us beth in the end," The eyes of the physician grew thought- ful. He leaned forward in hia chair and exnnined the bronze decsration on the deek lamp. “The ninterialistic theory,” he aaid, still observing the lamp's decoration, “works with the certainty of mathematics up to a certain point, but it belongs to the pee For a great many centuries man has abeorbed in establishing his material comfort. An age must eome in which he must realize the futility of bodily security without security of mind. When that time comes he muist tackle the riddle af the uni | verse, He must find out his reason for being, and his ultimate destination,” | EVENING POST a7 How Ice Consumption Varies in Different Months The following figures show an ice delivery in July over twelve times as great as in January. They are taken from the delivery records of a typical ice company serving the residential trade. F COURSE, people need much less ice in Winter than in Summer; but they need some ice the year ‘round. The ice dealer, therefore, has to keep his plant going and his delivery wagons in service, Whatever the demand. This is one of the largest items of expense in the ice business. During the five Winter months ice companies lose heavily on every ton delivered; in the Spring and Autumn months they rarely break even. To take care of the rush demand of June, July, August and Sep - tember, it is necessary to make or have abundant ice and also the men and wagons to deliver it. This requires months of preparation—heavy in- vestment for so short a season, and for four months all the effort which men and horses can endure. This Emblem Your Protection See that itison the wagon of your ice dealer. It is a badge of honor awarded by the Na- tional Association of Ice Industries to mem: bers pledged to give you Pure Ice « Careful Weight Good Service NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ICE INDUSTRIES 163 WY. 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Recommend- ed for use on all high grade cars, ASK YOUR DEALER To sHow YOU _ A BOYCE MOTO METER, LIGHT AND PARKING LAMP ——camintoramatta tits 8 sae 4at i THE SATURDAY EVENING POST He raised his eyes from the lamp, their keenness supplanted by a look of dreamy speculation. "You think that riddle can be solved?” The smile that went with the question was openly contemptuous. is "T think so,"" said the physician, the dreaminesa of his look unabated. “Spirit- ual discoveries are ahead that will match the di of fire, iron, steam and o trelty of the materialistic age. 1 believe the spiritistic age has dawned. I believe this Chinaman is far in advanee of his time. I believe he already knows much that is hidden from the rest of us. Can you tell me how to meet him?" The hawk intimated that he had been too busy of late observing the effect of rifle fire on the Chinese to know much about rei ll or how to get in touch with t 1 “However,” he added, “one af the serv- ants might give some pointers.” He reached aerces the desk and struck the kone. “We'll see," “| hardly think so," ssid the phosician doubthully. “This man is a sort of super- eva among the Chinese. They grow dumb if you mention his name.” He looked up as a servant, a tall servant, to flevt forward and besorne a Ty Mi Number On “This iy ne, my Nom e boys, snid the hawk. “You might talk to im." The servant turned respectfully to the visitor. : Diector Moasir sat up suddenly in his chair and frankly stared. At last, atill staring, he spoke: “You savvee English?” The Number Qne beta benwed slightly, " gi long sear ences ae { agar cian went on Hain. Te with Chang Foo owe Yea savi- the likewse vee?" There came a voice like soft bells chirn- ing. It was indubitably the voice of the Number One boy: “Why should the t Doctor Mossir, of New York, waste his valuable thoughts on the ignorant. heathen, Chang Foo Low?" Qhserving the face of the great Doctor Mossir the hawk for the first time in many hours laughed alowd—a harsh laugh that crashed jartingly inte the after tones of his servant's musical syllables, “He doesn't seem to grow dumb, doc- The physician threw off his bewilderment and regained his poise, “Pardon me,” he said, “I didn't know You were an educated man.” ‘ila the soft chiming of bells: "Education is a boght pebble on the shores of wisdom for children bok with,” The black eyes of the specialist lit with | the sudden fires of the born investigator. | He turned eagerly to his host: | “This man haga mind! We interests me tremendously. Could I—may I ask him te sit down?" Again the harsh laugh. “Go ahead and amuse yourself,” The ician indicated a chair to the Number One boy, who remained erect and motionless. "Tt ia the honorable privilege of thoes who serve to temain standing." The hawk did not laugh as he saw his | quest ; promptly to his feet and with some mg the eagerness of a boy eon- | front his Chinese servant. |. He settled back in his chair with a mix- | ture of amusement and irritation, and was preently Heterink to a most amazing ex- ibition of folderal, is why were you sarcastic about my wish see Chang Foo Law?" “Your country sends missionaries to | show us the way to God. Since yee know | God. what more is there te learn?" | “There are many ways to God. Surely if our missionaries point out the path they take, it dota you mo harm.” “T spoke without reflection. The fault wad mine." “In the United States we are immensely busy with the things we can see, and hear, andl touch." “Your country ——" The Number One boy left the sentence unfinished and turned to the hawk. ‘Is it the wish of His Excellency that I who am his servant speak to his honorable guest as one seeker to | another?" “The doctor is a seeker, all right, Ty Ming. Speak to him any way yeu ike." The Number One boy bowed and turned | again te the physician, to Mayr, “Your eountry b i come meditation wend gr =| what is behind the curtain” “Some of ua alresdy tov I ie : “To what purpose?” “Tam a nerve specie | to cure through the walker ot I went deeper and found the mind—the mind of dreams Woe go deeper still and find the miu!” “Tt will avail you nothing“ od Why not? ei "A soul in torment is bound wi of life, [Dt will remain wo beac well ment sets it free. Just is the whed "You think, then, that a- soul is retribution for pas 3 that it?" j “There are mo (sisdeeds Those which do mot aifert the others are slight. Thos whirs ¢ destiny of others are gram. | which commits grave error & beg wheel of life. It cannot po a at : “But death may interter i ment." “Death will not interfere” “I don't follow you, At del emerge: from the body w hy chrysalis leaves the exon” | : . free spirit leaves the bolp| ta pourne through the § The soul that hues comeumitted Tmust return to a new bedi, and again. No other mind Just ia the wheel." “Can auch a aul be selfy"" “T do not know,” “T know the servant of B "TDecs he credit those just expressed to me?” “As Chang Foo Low sac Seah ee a you thin Ty whether or not an z hel to free itsel{T" j atrange faint gleam fies instant in the eyes of the "He hopes to learn. Asktl ‘tion to-morrow." 1 “But how can T meet his speciulist., "Go to the lama temple eleven, Give your name / Chang Foo Low will be thet “ Perha But will be “He will see you," The hawk had been lie traordinary patience to i He now spoke and brought & OSE: “There you are, doctor. TI wanted to know, Ty Mizg. permission te go.” The Number (me boy b “We have scientific indi mgration—the Paris and) ments alimest prove it. We A further earth experienctl enlightenment? Why mm He got to his feet, stil] moved toward the door. © sonality;— marvelous! [) obout to-morrow.” “Galng, doctor?” “Oh —er— yes “Through this doot tee across the garden,” “Er—yes, thanks.” The hawk watched a a figure moving slowly inch legation through the moo “Why not?" he heard fs nL as Sa) et mirthless laugh seemed © stillness about him. He frowned at the r now well above the garni hardening to silver in it: 5 Paychology! Humps’ af time, though— he's ncbfl made a mistake. Well wel (To BE coed.

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THE SATURDAY TeADE Hae EVENING POST May it, AN AUDIENCE WITH THE JAPANESE PRINCE REGE (Continued from Page 4) Hara thought he was establishing @ prece- dent that would break up the mulitary clique, He did more than this, for he waa op to the custom of individual minis- terial responsibility to the Emperor and sought to substitute for it a joint responsi- bility of the entire cabinet, following the British example, The whole Hara idea was for wider exercise of party influence on na- He | tional affairs. ——— ee = = a — —= = Licht Where’ Needed INCHESTER has developed a better flash- light for you—a flashlight simple te operate, dependable and durable. @ Winchester flashlights have strong fibre and nickel cases, special Winchester safety switch, and the lens is seated in a metal fange with which it is one piece, It cannot fall our, @. Winchester excels in the seamless drawing of metals, and this experience has been utilized to develop a successful seamless zinc battery shell. This shell is extra thick, preventing corrosion and giving longer life, @. Try a Winchester battery the next time you refill your flashlight—you will appreciate the bright light and longer life. @ There are 4000 Winchester Stores in the Unired States which sell Winchester flashlights and Bae terics and other new products.. Look for this sign on the window; THe tiWOWESIE# srore | | a —aed aE WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CoO, mel | NEW HAVEN, CONN, we 4 | , | ay | | TOULS « CUTLERY FLASHLIGHTS »«§ GUNS AND AMMUNITION SRATES FISHING TACKLE oS = = i 6} | Though Hara’s death was a deplorable ve loss the process of transition in apan was too well under way to be stopped. It gained momentum from the Weshington eonference. Viewed at first with suspicion and alarm by the Japanese bureaucracy, it proved to bea godsend to a country whose military obsession was driv- ing it to bankruptcy. e conference put the spotlight on the whole Japanese plan of expansion and gber ilized porne of ita undesirable features. It was anether step toward what many Lib- erula call the emancipation of Japan from ee rule, a Ra @ passing of Yamapate was a further breach in the wall of reaction. The big question in Japan is: «Has the nro type of rule, which made for might at the nee of economic welfare at home und political peace abroad, declined?" This and many other problems of Japan, however, will be dealt with in succeeding articles, The task here is to place the Prince Regent in the moving picture of his thins. [tis evident that he has taken over his responsibilities at a critical period in the rilion's history, and when the menace ia from within and not from without, It is also a time when the personality and re- souree of the head of the empire, whatever they may be, have an un ented op- portunity for masertic 1. D BOOner he assitmed his new rank than he an to justify the hope that he would develop into more than a hgurehend. He displayed interest in large affairs and, thanks to his trip to Europe last year, has boon able to bring a larger world viewpoint to local questions. He attended meetings of the Privy Council and he now presides at a few choice and exclusive gat erings. He took up horseback riding and thus set a fashion for the Tokio smart set. Even in se mild a diversion as this was breaking new nd, for no ruler before hac ever estiblished a precedent for anything. Court etiquette invariably has prescribed every daily task, 4mébassadar Warren IT went to Japan to try to make some appraisal of the consequences of the Wash- ington conference, I expected to find those inevitable changes born of a reversal of international policy, [ not only discovered these but many more. While Europe is slowly beginning to stabilize iteelf after the wrack and ra oof the World War, Japan, who knew only profit in that great struggle, is facing a whirlwind due to infla- tion, profitesring and extravagance, the empire is undergoing drastic economic a4 Well as political readjustment. Binet Prince Hirchito, now as Regent and later on as Emperor, must stand as the symbol of authority in this new Japan in the making—a Ja that will continue to be the compelling influence in the Orient— this account of my meeting with him may Teper as the prelude to the larger narrative of 2 changing Eust. left America early in February, de- termined to get an audience and if possible an interview with the Prince Regent. At that time it looked like a forlorn haope. When [ mentioned the matter to members of the Jnpanese delegation at the Washin ton conference before [ started I was that it could not be done, first because of the inaceessibility of the royal family, and second because there was no precedent. Some of them who were more kindly dis Laaid that if I waited until the im- 33 | garden party, held during the cherry- hae sew in Ape. I = som chance of heing presented with a group. Even that was regarded as a gamble. The war, as I had discovered, shattered a | many precedents, and I hoped that this kind of history would be repeated in Japan. Immediately upon my arrival ie] confided mj ambition ww | Charles B. Warren, and bev: | pay en ment. He tint only it but said he would do eversts his power to help consumms's 7 | tude in this deliente mater Gok secret of his success with the J Gavernment in one of the ee periods in the relationships tecw two nations. From the tome of by he has employed a frank and ope of dealing with a government iy past hus exhibited remarkable my in the art of sidestepping. Heh the short cut in every segotuti audience was a good example agg reread a ee have strom an interminable corresponds would get nowhere. In this comey gotiations were verbal Within twenty-four hours after Ja I had been with bie toe Takahashi, the Premier, aod Com the Minister for Foreign Alas this to show what can be doo > diplomat in a country wheres speech and sometimes of method standing national characters * In Japan everything is dew ment. After Mr. Warren = waned of ton eal cura of two transpired. [ mentioned a ting action to a prominent Japa reply was: “Would you thinkal heaven on the telephone?” the Japanese attitude toward the empire, Japanese Court Dr Innumerable difficulties bea ext. In England or Belgu= kingly presence is mot easy, bot of roses When 1 aa areal Wik & proach in Japah. I have alvad the aloofness of the royal pers wre only ont obstacle, ateod in fear that once [ got § His Imperial Highness mictt thing bearing on imternatioral Finally it got down to two @ Had I ever n presentec 2 court, and did I want an sc for publication? Happily | p Gicien on the first count, = through the Ambassador, I m that baba re ap wote the F On BE iti subject. Meanwhile a wecueh hed pat Fan todespair of success. The owever, kept on plugging — he suceeeded. Cine Morce actly four weeks after | am up the office of the Minn Affairs to find out alout or Count Uchida was prepancz first thing his confidentis! « was, "I congratulate yoo luck.” When IT asked hin = pened ta me he said, “Yor & audience with the Prince Re neay morning at 10:20 o 4 It ap that the 4= been cially apprise gi noon, but he was owt mal! saw him that night at adi me that everything was ur a final stipulation had beec = no questions that would irr in a disctission of polite. F Way Was now clear s instructions for attire atten a Vit were given. In E=c PIM It 1 Clistomary nosed rosea a 4 Cot #0 a daytome & merly the frock coat was used war it has fallen more ot lee | although you can still cal = attired in one. In Janet is rg Ming clara to ma » ST t w the favo eaninet officials and Dye: oe _ In this connection, and [5 Bion, let me im lnte oret that preceded visit Walesa to Jupan. et the ts: in Tekio elaborate prepara: * je for his @nbertsinme:! many garden parties and these occasions etiquette £- coat. (Continwed an Pap Th

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Lise plenty of lather. Rub it in thor- oughly and briskly with the finger tips F | SHE beauty of your hair depends upon the care We gi @ it. * Shampooing it-properly is always the most im sartant thing. It is the shampooing which brings out the real life and lustre, natural wave and color, and makes your hair soft, fresh and luxuriant. When your hair is dry, dull and heavy, lifeless, sciff and gummy, and the strands cling together, and it feels farsh and disagreeable to the touch, it is because your hair has not been aba a properly. When your hair has been shampooed properly, and is thoroughly clean, it will e osay, smooth and bright, delightfully fresh looking, t and silky, While your hair must ave a Eoquant and rerular wash. ing to keep it beautiful, it cannot stand the harsh effect of free alkali, common in ordinary soaps. The free alkali eset dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle and ruins it. That is why discriminating women, everywhere, now use Mulsified cocoanut oil shampoo. This clear, pure and entirely greaseless produce cannot possibly injure, and it does not dey the scalp or make the hair brittle, no matter how often you use it. If you wane to sec how really beautiful you can make your hair look, just follow this simple method: A Simple, Easy Method IRST, put two or three tea- | spoonfuls of Mulsified in a cup or glass with a litth warm water. Then wee the hair and scalp with THE SATURDAY EVENING POST You can have beautiful hair—soft and silky, bright, fresh looking and lwxwriant—if you follow this simple, easy method Pour the Mulstfied evenly over the all aver the sealp and , down to the ends of the clear, warm water. hair and rub it thorough! throughout che entire lengt hair. Two or three teaspoonfuls will make an abundance of rich, creamy lather, This should be rubbed in thor- oughly and briskly wich the finger tips, so as to loosen the dandruff and small particles of dust and dirt that stick to the scalp. After rubbing in the rich, creamy Mulsified lather, rinse the hair and scalp thoroughly —always using clear, fresh, warm water. Then use another application of Mulsified, again working up a lather and rubbing it in briskly as before. Two waters are usually sufficient for washing the hair, but sometimes the third is necessary. You can easily tell, for when the hair is perfectly Clean it will be soft and silky in the water, the strands will fall apart easily, each separate hair floating alone in the water, and the entire mass, even while weet, will feel loose, fluffy and light to the touch and be so clean it woll fairly squeak when you pull it through your fingers. ltt When lla Sheer avet rough your fingers | for your beautiful, well-kept hair, make it a rule ta set When the hair @ certain day each week for a Mulsified. cocoanut oil is dry, always shampoo. This regular weekly sham ive ita good the scalp soft and the hair fine and silky, bright, fres eth brush- looking and fluffy, wavy and easy to manage—and it will be noticed and admired by everyone. Rinse the Hair Thoroughly dear is Very important. After the final washing g the hair and scalp should be rinsed in at lease twee changes of good warm water and followed with a rinsing in cold water. When you have rinsed the hair thor- oughly , Wring it as dry as you can; finish by rubbing it with a towel, shak- is ie and Auffing it uneil it is dry. en give ita good brushing. it a Mulsifed shampoo you will find the hair will dey quickly and even] and have the appearance of being jane thicker and heavier than ic is. Ifyou want toalwavs be remembered when you ing will kee Mey Th O~PROPERI} A Simple, Easy Way To Make Your Hair Look Its Be The final rinsing: shevitd teow al soft and silky in the water | counter, anywhere in the world. A 4 should last for months. Keeping a Chiidi Hair Beautiful HILDREN afoul be taught, carly = roper care of the hair is essential. The fir and sealp should be kept perf You can get Mulstfied at any drug store to insure a healthy, vigorous scalp ani 2 heavy head of hatr. Get your children into the habit of sane hair regularly once a week. Put two or th fuls of Mulathed in a cup or glass with 3 water. Then wet the hair and scalp «it water. Pour the Mulsifiedl over the ba) i vigorously with the tips of the fingers. T= ulate the scalp, make an abundance of lather and cleanse the hair thoroughly. |: a few seconds to rinse tt all out when thee You will be surprised how this reeular # pooing with Mulstfied will improve the ap the hair; and you will be teaching your ¢ that will be appreciated in afterlife bet head of hair is something every man an! mighty proud of.

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aad from Page P00! : jeetative program waa cabled va, fen in India, the answer , ‘Aut neither he nor any member hidadreck eowt, Groat con- iowa, and the British Em- ido wet In a state of concern sequences. At the time I write terns fort ia being made to peum on frock conts declared ‘ait of the British heir. to my enterprise, members. of tie carpe aire required to wear —_ when they call on mem- near Toyal household, re- “ ar, The sume rule obtains pi Hemp it: Paris. This means + trimmings, inekucting the evening clothes, of eo curry o tile. I have i adjection to this particular feet, although I kewp one in ther ip , and a third j: jet thea Kind of state emer- feord in Tokio. I might add i Bragecte hee corms to bee tt He viiting Americana who doctors fonetion that de tual gear. ayia at in Tokiea, but ee arma ler sl Ehat ppeesible, In desperation I Aimoesaedor, who pomened me ef. fam aid Mr. Warren was Beco act of reeroe of this if beneficiary was John [0 rT, Who visited Japan last Hal gure perder waka kee io the Ambassador included af puesta whom he was to toid Mir. Rockefeller, Hew wld have to wear a [rock tthe aon of the rlehert nin i. "DT hove nome with me.” ¢ him, Mir. Warren had an t whieh Mr, Rockefeller casion. Way fo fhe Palace endless rain the morning of oke brilliant with sunshine. [ went to the embassy and imbassador to the palace, I have pointed out, in the imetropolis. rhe ye mposing plaza, fan outer, Tost. eet rounded the imperial pal- unt of the growing need of ce it became n Ad gee feo the dre of ‘Rua Ler shogun, whose ol yea the present Peer tata hy. by one of the feudal ea that he said te him, uch wealth, 20 ] command “ moats around my pel- rout this royal command much to the picturesque- t bankrupted himself eincts eonsist of two in- iin the other. The inner against the entrance of bridges and two der gateways def as it : to the front wing of the fd see the tall steel siete skyscrapers, the first in by a New York construc- » tis waa the secluded ed the ruler of Japan 1 Ages. Dbere waa one of ate contrasta to be en- agh the inmer gateway, a and found ocur- reserve. At the eke bullaing in which dness offices of the im- The officials who occup end oo tee the eel f y but also the tof the im mnperial amily. sman Kaiser, the Em- rancially interested in a os, “The imperial house owna a 6O per cent in- rial Hotel, talso has Large holdings itron-spinning mills and This o a Wea or Rta paint up balan the alace proper. It waa THE SATURDAY formerly the residential seat of the Toku- wa 4 na and origi Waa com pleted in 2466. For more than two hundred and seventy years it was occupied by the shoguna, In a. whee the shogunate sur- rendered to the Imperial Court the sover- eignty held in trust. the E removed here from Kioto, where he had been living in retirement with his court. Up te that time Tokio was called Yedo, It then re- ceived the name it bears towday, which menha “eastern capital." The ce has heen burned down repeatedly, the last time in 1875, when the Emperor and Em- press removed to the detached at Akasaka and remained there until 188, when the present structure waa com eted. Like most typical Japanese buildings, it is low, rambling, bn built of wood, and has an overhanging tile roof, On the broad stair- way was the agar bs} carpet one al- ways associates ra itenged in columns on the stairway and Wel inte th aml hall were rows delai gh ftunkies haiti brecaded costa and all the es- i asp Alsat clothes, ithe silver buckles on their abet i pumps. This co tume, so familiar in Euro palaces and the homes of British nobility, looked rather strange in the somewhat medieval setting. The palace iteelf au ts a bygone ena. Once we div ourselves of hate and overcoats we were led in solemn procession down a series of really noble corridors, The walls were a au on of those beautiful Japanese screens waleh provide the mural detail of so ma apanese houses, In rial of us en fe a chamberlain gor- eortionten ii easily’ replete’. oe oF a in eg resp rai= meant, while four others brought up the "Beira songs we Webel teko'e wile: nificent hall. It was the famous Homedlden, seat Ae bart merle ai pheenix ‘or many years a8 the imperial bird of good omen in Japan. It is always painted or roidered upon the souvenirs of coronations, and figures prominently in most of the royal deeora- tons. This hall is high of ceiling, and on one of the walls are immense paintings depict- ing scenes in Japanesa history. In the ceiling were what seemed to en chrysanthemums, and on the massive lacquered doors the Japanese royal abr bal Was gear in brasa, Through got glimpace pees of the impe- rial deer tiga the plum trees, then in the fullness of their rich blossom, provided a brilliant splash of color for t back- ground of innumerable dwar! pines, A moment later we received our first welcome. ; 1 was extended by. Marg arquis cela, opted son in & the great Genro af Fame name, and Master of Ceremonies of the Im Household, After the greeting he to the Ambassa- dor, “His Imperial Highness will shake hands with you,” The Presentation Ceremony I mention this because at potinezy presentations the ruler, or the acting anately bows, In Japan there is no eet among natives, g8 ane in the form of low ceremo bows, We were advised about the imperial hand- shake so as to be ready for it. At this juncture one of the court cham- berlains closed the door leading out to the corridor, whereupon the said, “His Impesal H Highness is about to pase on his sey Sh the reception room." ere wis also a definite reason for this. No one who calla at the palace is per- mitted to eatch a glimpse of Emperor or ayesha fa the sore person is ready for In oa few drome the door was opened we were told that all was . Bre teded once more by the chief chamberlain, erly p flanked Bide numerous attendants, other series af co OTe and finally posites ourselves at the entrance to the reception room. As we patieed at the threshold to make our firat bows— court ceremony in Japan a9 elaewhere dic- tates that ie bow at the door, and again before reaching the royal presence—I got a awift bird's-eye view of a scene that might have come out of the pages of some roman- tic novel, In the center of a chamber amaller than thy Homeiden, but vying with it In beauty and dignity, stood the Prince Regent at tlrioat rigid attention. He was attired in the buff-eolored uniform and carried the aword of the Japanese infantry, in which he Te a WE EVENING POST is a major. His cap wos preased tight incder re arnt, the bond of which ilo on hiz aword hilt. The only decoration he wore was the star of the Grand Cordon. of the Chrysanthe the highest of all Japanese orders, He Sabai sapeneee en ghee Blight, almost spare gure, with wre almost solemn look on his bo face. Heap much more matured t when Tsaw him in London a year ago, His speech is nervous, Behind him stood General Uchiyama, his chief military aide, It waa interesting to note that this grizzled old warrior, who looked almost patriarchal with his spec taclea and gray hair, outranked as a soldier the royal person in front of him, The Re- gent will not become commander in chief of the Japanese armies until he is made Emperor, Forming a sort of hollow square into which we en were frock-coa er cheng in herbi hh one apoke, After our second the center of the room, the Jinbrestlor stepped for- ward, whereupon the Regent extended his hand. Mr. Warren then asked the conven- tional questions whith must always be aiked in Japan, whether you meet royalty or ordinary folk, They consist of inquiries about the health of mother, futher and when the occasion demands, wife and chil These preliminaries disposed of, His Ex- sng nent atl pac hg i presen at the Belgian court, that I had had many interestin experiences with world person- rasp tiara rect them by paying my ma say here the the Prince speaks only Japanese and that our whole interview was carried on th an in’ reter, The Prince bowed agasent and amiled, I step forward and was formally introduced, Teceiving a warm grasp of the hand. Chatting With Royalty the limitations set upon the eonversation, I waa curious to know what the t would say. Royalty, as most ow, always must lead in dialogue, T have found, from experience with King Albert, for example, who is very slow of speech, that it involves a erable nervous strain. metho f first utterance ra the Regent waa: furans things for oem roa a iT think toatl 6 os an nk i ood thing far both countries.” bet then wind t me how long I had been in Japan and w I expected to leave. When I teld him thet I wae planning to depart within o fortnight he said, “I am ao sorry that you wi i blossom season. It is very beautiful.” L replied that though [ was sorry to miss the cherry blossoms I had had the com- pensation of seeing the plum blossoms and im magnolias, 7 Mt A expressiy regret wou min che chery blosoma the Prince Regent cut aliases Bar to every Japenese heart. During thoae few April weeks when those exquisite here tt blooms flaunt their heaaty Bi avelywnees all Ja ia filled with the carnival spirit. The cherry blo som seems tostir the national consciousness of beauty and sentiment. The country- folk flock to the towns; the most temperate ‘celebrate with sake, and even old animosi- thes are forgotten in the exubemanee born . one d find I. T” next queried “How o you apan qu the Regent. foe cn that I was pleased to find Tenet oases ao busy and full of the spirit of endeavor. There were various other queries and replies at ihe end of which 1 wiahed bim good heal perity. He bowed, amiled a tye and ex- toned his hand for a farewell shake. The Ambassador ste forward, said his ood-bys, we backed out of the room, bow- went, and the audience was at an end. No one can meet the Prince Heare: without carrying away the Impression that he is sincere, earnest and eager to do his best. He has something of the quiet re cone due be King of the Eelgiens. Es some E e n temperament and training he is the exact reverse of the blithe and buoyant Prince of Wales, This anima young hope of Britain was destined from the start to be a democrat among r lived up to the behest, {Continued on Page 108) bones. There ae an earnest | , aod he has | 103 DUTCH BRAND PRODUCTS Prolong the Life of Your Car The pride that you took in your car when it was new need not pase away withwe, DUTCH BRAND wets keep cars new; the resules they attain are often a revelaclon ro the motorige when fitee using them. 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eed fom Page FOF) irhitn, on the other hand, waa icolnest, schooled in restraint, iy eatiiest boyhood was taught «the isplred medium of an gee, Only what seems to be quo etenendlance, enhanced da Eure So with the inevitable cat recy Tue bon the ] for that ke democracy, a personal fac- rank or station. Ver, e celebrates his birthday on ach year, without consi yon which he waa born. world knew practically noth= ce Hirahito—in fact, the law rohibited the publication of 1—onell Errpatatiom began aan top. The day he de d, 1921, was a memorable itory of Japan, becwuse it ch in ernity. i time no crown prince had antry, with the exception of Emperor, who as Crown Korea In 1908,° But Koren dy been benevolently ss- apan, and in renity was raughout the whole long pire no Emperor has ever the confines of his country i went aboard a Russian oseki in May, 1801, thad been made on the life ‘garevitch—the late express the regret of the ince in Europe ome idea of the departure volved In the Prince Re- ad when I say that the en With eontroversy over fervid Japanese journeywd fat the famous shrine of it againat what they con- heresy of the Prince in Ty. A group of one hun- gued themselves together imit suicide if he would ab- Here you get a twentieth- ation of the fanatically on in which members of nest family are held. The m themselves na children ind ag such they did not father to ex hirmuelf, of the out- ‘ent, more intimate per- re of the changes crowd- stin Japan, preceded the . His betrothal to Prin- hter of Prince Kuni, was E i 4 a ene. ie Prince ¥amaguin, who ront of the Choshu clan, - lalate He waa strong Gen. as frustrated he threat- presitestt of the Privy of this all-important aed for ra the domi- ia! affeire that I have The very Fact that he ‘ay Wee one conclusive ype of rule ws on the to the nination of the imperial : Prince abroad at that tation that the physical mperor would soon ne- They wanted the com- something of the world hing eminence would lated journey impos- = onths abroad, ‘he visited England, d Italy, where he waa THE SATURDAY Teeeived by the Pope. Hestopped at vari- ous intermediate porta going and coming, In Paria he had an adventure whi shows that he really has a democratic apirit, He desired to have the thrill of a nde on the subway, so he made the trip incognito. Tpon ne ssefe oe of the sty tions off the Boulevard C ps E he reser peut of the ticket, following the custom of Japan, He had never ridden on a Erain a8 @ commoner im Ja been told of the ayetem, Paris wicket guard, however, called him down sharply, whereupon the Prince handed over t rest of the ticket with a polite bow, It was ie first. ond cubs pate that a mraanbien at e royal family of Japan was ever rebuked, The Prince's return home was marked by a demonstration that in form and expression waa another manifestation of Japan in transition. Under i cir- cumstances royalty is never cheered in the empire, Whenever the Emperor drove by, the was lined with troopa and the people bowed low. Prior to Hirohito's re- turn there were only two occasions when the | ce dep from this custom of silence. One was in 1889, when Meiji passed through the streets after promul- gating the Constitution. For the first time the crowds shouted, The second occasion was when he returned to the capital from Kioto after the victorious conclusion of the Russ-Japanese War. The Spread of Democracy The ovation accorded Hirohito last year | waa far more tumultugus. At Yokohama and Tokio the police parte be ing the movements of the crowds stated that cheer- ing was not forbidden, The result was that there was incessant yelling of “Banzai!” wherever the Prince ap The people hi pee heretol trictly fi Ph, @ PSP horminase he olore sire or bidden Prince Hirchito returned to Japan on September seventh. During his absence his imperial father had failed perceptibly in health. He will never again appear in pub- lic, So along towards the middle of Novern- ber at a conference of the imperial family it was decided to make the Crown Prince, R t. nificant procedure, will ahasrve, cmmemateal frase family eoun- cil. In this respect the royal procedure was merely following the procedure in every Japanese family. In no nation is the family spirit so strong or powerful as in the Island Empire. One reason why you rarely see a ar on the streets in Japan = peceoe tenny pride ert it 0 tory to succor needy relatives. Although the Emperor is hopelessly in- capacitated, the Empress, Sa is a strong and active peraon and atill in the prime of life. She moves about the country and makes numerous pilgrimages to shrines to Pa for her husband's recovery, When in Tokio she resides in the inner inclosure of the imperial palace where I had the audience with the Prince Regent. The Prines wees the ouker palace as a sort of mee and place rg Julbencee and re- ceptions. He resides in the Kasumageseki detached palace not far from the imperial Ce. | The imperial rescript naming Hirchito as Prince t was promulgated on No vember twenty-fifth and he trmmediately masumied the virtual headship of the Im- perial Government. have a y in- dicated various expressions of the nt's audience growing sense of snncacy, a with him was merely another. Five ago, or even two, such an event would ie been absolutely impossible, More important than these personal de- tails is the larger connection of Prince Hirchite and his country with the evolu- tion of the Orient, where during the past few yeara the clash of nationalistic and commercial ambitions brought about a erisis that threatened the af the world, Thanks to the Washington con- ference, this dangerous situation bean clarified and the friction between 1 United States and Japan eliminated, naval holiday is but a phase of a larger respite from, irritation that, at the moment, seems to mean o stabilization of the whole East. The Prince Regent can, in the years to come, by the exercise of the principles laid down at Washington, achieve for him- Belf an enduring fame, Editor's Hote—This |e the first ofa series of arti- ches by Mr. Maorcosson dealing with the economic and political atuathon in the Far East. 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Lyon Spring Bumpers are beautifully designed, strong se perfectly balanced. A. special Lyon-pat- ented hook bolt makes it possible to fasten them securely without altering or drilling the frame. The Lyon trade-mark is on every genuine Lyen Spring B ainper, dccepl no substitute, Over a million in use. $10 to $23. Mera STAMPING CoMPANY, Long Island City, New York Canadian Licensee, B. J, Coghlin Co., Ltd., Montreal, Canada.

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THE SATURDAY Applying Logic to the Purchase of Footwear Tune are two ways of buying shoes. One is to pay so high a price that your selection will be sure to possess a certain degree of merit. The other is to go to a responsible merchant, pay a moderate price and look for some sort of plain, visible evidence that you are getting the value of your money. That is the logical way. FOR Fir * FOR STYLE . FOR WEAR The Beacon oval trademark stamped on the soles of the shoes you buy is selfevident confirmation of their worth, For you know instinctively that when a maker identifies his product in so conspicuous a manner, he has good reason to be proud of that product. With Beacon prices for Spring at $5 to $8, you have a logical basis to go upon. Shoe buying should be a logical procedure. done logically it will be done safely. lf it is We are as Proud of the Prices F. M. as we are of the Shoes! Knowing Beacon Shoct os we do and knciwing wehail goes PL LeTrl, tie A ien- hesiiacingly impress cut tridemark on ewiry parr wilh the Full knowlat pe charg we have been logical, Hort SHOE Co., Makers MARCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE EVENING POST May 3 WILD GAME (Continued fram Poge 15) given studious and intensive attention to matters of nutrition, and, while ['m not a scientist, I ha ye been forced to pick up con- siderable knowledge along this line. This is precisely what anyone must do to make ae aoenred pu wean ah callie Pheasants and eee wild game. "This is a fleld of effort in which success lies in the observation and mas se ad nute d . No matter how much ability be sei have, if you lack the ca- ‘Or ng pains, the patience to taster an almoat Infinite of details, you are always vulnerable to defeat. Per- Bonally I cannot see how any man who is not fia pally fond of birds and wild game would attempt to go inte this business, and I am sure t that any such attempt would meet with failure. It is one of those callings in dar the most important element of capital is an inherent fondness for the thing itself. Those who go inte it penal this essential element equipment are certain to fail. ‘Of course success in this A evamrg? line requires much more than a distinet liki finslal Capital weal youll usiaens: jad n capi esp ju ment. But one may have both of these fh plenty, and still fail from lack of an in- atinetive fondness for the work iteelf, The fact is that thousands of phessantries have been started, only to end in disaster because thelr owners lacked a natural liking for the work. They went into it because they wanted to make a little extra money on the side, because they thought pheasant rais- ing was a light and ble that could be followed at home, or because had the notion that it could be made to dk profita, aFeean y, | would prefer never to sell foundation steck to anyone who la not drawn inte the work by a natural liking for it. I like the birds too well to get any satisfaction from a profitable sale which I know means the sacrifice of the birds as well aa the failure of the enterprise, Of course T sell thousands of ring ae Esorledg to states and clubs wi that they will be ahot—but sae is far different from knowing that the birds will die of disease or improper handling. In ont cast they serve thelr natural purpose; in the other they do mot. “There are really very few persons who are naturall: adapted to the task of raising pheasants. I have already mentioned aome of the major requirements for that work. Another is almost infinite patience. It would be difficult to name another calling which so much of this rare article. irbiseditiee tla lands on Geng bole lace heavy demands on this quality in per of wild game birds. Women a: Phaasant-Ralsers " Pationce in generous quantities and an unlimited capacity for taking pains are Sige? a emlinine characteristics. average woman is ciplined to dealing with amall and rose details meas Hc exercise of a degree of patience w @ average man does not achieve, Therefore women have, as a rule, certain natural advantages over men in dificult and detailed task of pheasant rais- ing. The Belgian women this in the years preceding the World War. They were master hunds at raising the fancy or aviary varieties of pheasants. What ia more, they succeeded under severe handicaps in the of limited for birds. Belgium is densely Populated se gion there is in great demand. The average American living in a town or village has | genercus facilities for pheasant-raiging com- pared with the Belgian, | “There is no reason wh At fe ai — should not be success! one ta. Thousands of peas de eet ly disposed towards it, have need of a home sgh and ae le and a | capacity amall details. | But they pod nat cape qu uick results or immense profits. ey should realize that thia is a business which most be learned. My oan notion is that as a rule women are better qualified to raise phaeens than to sell chen: that they will il on the score of ae business ph ota more ad org st = that | af producti uld, going inte the venture, fortify Ppiosce | against this weakness and know where and how they are to wel] til they have raised “Of cour, the fin acioal eal pheasants is to Pearce, ioe and estates, where these birds gre joel) beauty. In the Old World te § value of these beautilal bed §| enerally appreciated thes ix | ut the owners of gr at be C tepecally on the Ath ' beginning to realime hen nail ! tures of brilliant plumage oo the beauty and intersd fg) Therefore the dernand for thee incrensing and. will, [ thick, fe ily for years to comme, “And this obserration rarer and the more sttrecce waterfow] ax well os to fog? There is, for example, searedy nature more beautiful thas om ican wood duck in fall pb Australian sheldrake, the me ind the ptian gem picture whi is thing possibbe intendents of pari towne, Those responsible tel) tiveness of these public rest — | tlate the beauty of a bell ar they do the ried at bs Theo ont appearance, bor feeling that there is increasing domaand. for bin acter ar may find it sr prenrony He One species of a for nearly two hundred sack Toust, be put away for the | next year's shipments af pl from this interesting farm Chri: Dushel baskets 1 packing. The bottem. side thickly padded with «a cman BPringy grass. Wrapping o pl a ruther delicwte and deft of the solt grass is cupped | the left hand: then thes this, and with « twisting right hand the packer the egg in its soft resilient the basket is filled ond of COLreer grass = tighs eal sewed into place, Pecked & the number of e@gs brome negligible. The most pheasant tk known to disabled 4 er who as high as three th To learn how much 2 plish in gin ita. an apprecia of tt: for game laws and the a it is not necessary ta! reason with strated that it edd would be vj {Cottinecd an Pare ifZ60 Dy . ru | 4

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST [CHEER Michelin Red Inner Tubes being ring-shaped like all casings fit? without stretching or wrinkling. Other tubes being straight, must ~g— Wrinkle in an attempt to conform to the shape of the casing. Ask any automobile owner what make of inner tube is best. Michelin Tire Company, Milltown, N. J. OvAer factories: Clermont-Ferrand, France; London, England; Torin, ftely, Deolers in all parts of the world. Illustration shows sections of a Michelin fube end of another standard make ce- mented together and placed in Aalf a casing. Digitized by Goog — 3 a |

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nied from Poge Od! waaay comfort. He had moth- “Tapers —but officially 1 iron or guest. veut in search of temporary ain the form of a little Tt was decidedly tempo- vt dant the owner learned of he warned me of the property genthwsiaam, Of course | and porhapes a physical sat new men and land own- nmuniy would be a poor way art 8 campaign of ediieation the winning of the Bea as whcle public, There- vt {my pride, restrained m my authority with all rT could aap om a a Seer ot or hotel kee shelter or feed me. I had eet tt and take care of f trouble with hotel and rs I went after those = : the pee 9 cre: a ut still the “ a ar and [ aew that no law df without the moral sup- cople , How to secure this was 4 [was satisfied that ours waa 1 the unqualified sup- canal that every honest Ss that gupport just as soon mathe lew and the inevitable eens: carefully ane task of | changing < oat ig © fay ‘almoe e- aie tinevery county there ‘or three real eportemen adm f intelligent understand- iefta of impartial gumo-law a "ol the ibilities of a p stain tration. It waa y hope was in these men om ther ae a nucleus for entially good sportamen communities with respect and for those responsible = from one county bo an- Peach the tee or three men in hunting arch Thokting the ee 5 anahip, ex- Age t adziinistration beneficial fk cin ee Olio the ) beet game aa possible, and that this accomplished without the istent suppart of the decent faery county of the state.” Ire Public Sentiment | a been better than [ | the outeet—far better! P aighty-elght counties in State contains one Gasiociations of aports- ostimulate the protection ete its ineress:, The ati, for example, has ie@mbers: in Cleveland, six lombis, two thousand four nm Akron, three thousand, ‘and local associations the Ohie Sportsmen's Gambership of more than men who are keenly * aun ideal state for or this nization work Dhio"s annual ineome from is now two hundred and and the law save come from that source w stocking the state with lapeaking® Kot if wed that our sortemen Toctiate into a ns ta be highly oe FE right game laws and in bpd of foolish and ill- ‘areful to ask for only such needful, conatructive and epared. When a member 2 opposes such & measure i sportamen in his county m te explain his attitude. then do some explaining ax a result there are few reneral bly who are das to what the game doing and what legula- make vite work more ig neficial to the people of eohts THE SATURDAY “Now a word about the present-day enforcement of the game laws here in Ohio. The situation is absolutely reversed from that which I faced when the constructive Pesan of game stocking was begun, ere is not a protective association of sportsmen in the state outside of the large cities which is not mainly composed of farmers, At least there are few in which the farmers are not heavily represented. And they are the men who are in position to eer that the game laws are entk ams make no mistake about it, that is pre- isely what they do, everywhere. They are tee the staunchest supporters of law en- forcement, whe “were onee tha reas most difficult element with which the fame warden had to deal, d this change hes come about because the farmer has. made to understand that an abundance of splendid game on his farm is a sub- atanthil asset—one on which he can cash cece a ret the way of selling shootin better yet, can turn to account tol a means of food supply for his own tabla, “Infractions of the game laws have been reduced to so low a minimuro in this etate that it is mo exaggeration to that would-be offenders are no longer afraid of the local game wardens but rather of their own neighbors. So far as being a restrain- ing Influence felt by those who would like to do illicit shooting is concerned, every decent citizen is now in effect a game warden, His moral force counts about as much as if he eneried a warden's atar under his coat." Distribution of Birds “Tor several years we have been buying and distributing both English pheasants and their apes in large numbers—with the result that several counties in the state have now—accrording to the most cureful estimates which we are able to make— about thirty-five thousand English pheas- anta within their borders. I believe this is true of Miami, Clark and Montgom counties, anid several other counties would not fall far behind this figure if a p nt eensiis could be taken, The citizens of these counties, agiariag the allay et are proud af their birds They realize that these beautiful and delicious wild birds are worth a whole lot—first, a8 exterminators of Insecta: aecond, as an attraction to hunters who are fen epi! for the privilege om enjoy eport; and , 558 uxury wh nth th ig their sone and hired acing can enj here are few things which make farm li ife more attractive to and young men than on abundance wild game within easy reach. Those who doubt this statement need only ask a few young men who take part in ge eg = shooting in Ohio, Pennsylvania, or any other well-stoe atate. This attraction counts with them fur more than they are willing to. admit as a rule. It helps to hold them to country life, "Please let me emphasize the fact that pheasants and pheasant egge are not dis- tributed in this state on a political basis, No one needs a political pull to get as many birds for liberation or as many eggs for setting other porate. b aie gape to have. Birds and exes ciate pele handouts seldom gret aes the right nds or really contribute to stocking the stute. Distribution for production is the kind that counts. “Tn Ohio we have Rone into the task of stocking the state with English pheasants on the basis that we do not antec to have an eg or a bird wasted. To this end I have twelve picked wardens, each having supervision of a district of several counties, who are carefully taught the handling of pheasants. They are the faculty of our state normal school in‘ the science of pheasant breeding “These district: wardens are the men who do the setual work of raising the birds on the game farm—and last season seven theusind fingrnecks were raised on our two game farms. Very nearly 65 per cent of the hensarit handled on the farm were tehed and the young raised to matu- isa record ity—which I am told b Ae wbleh Bist “4 arm might be of which any pheasant ud. From the setting of the eggs to the liberating of a buneh af birds on a farm, these men are drilled in every art and device that promises to contribute to the sUcceRE of the undertaking. “Twice a year we hold what I would call na normal sehool or a ahort ecurae for the benefit of the salaried wardens of the atate. EVENING POST As there ace mone than fifty of these men, | not all of them are able te attend the class | sessions. But they get the benefit of the instruction indirectly through those who do attend. It is di t to tell how intensel interested all the men are who take this instruction. If 1 were to find a man who is not interested I would know that he was not sulted for the position which he holds. But I do not recall that a single warden on the staff has thus far failed to show a pene and spontaneous interest. in bearn- the trade of pheasant raising Sof course Ehis is might = Seer = Cause Sah " WHE mie sehraly regarded che aTHeM &4 an Fictor ih Hit birds and in setting allotments of for hatching and in the diffi- bull tas fivale cof eat caring for the young until they are | to look out for themselves. “The work of distributing pheasants and eggs is no small job in this state, for we have eighty-cight counties last year about two red birds were liberated in each county and about eight hundred ages to the county were allotted and distributed “gear be farming sections. Both the birds and t are allotted in advance of the sn istribution and are given cnt an sppinations from farmers, ed a lg in Ohio has what is called sa ¥ hich ia a tract of land on wh ich ee is allowed and which oifers a natural attractive cover for the birds. These peri of refuge are under lease, so far as shooting privi are con= cerned, at an extremely amall expense. The averfiaw of birds from these protected spots is much more than ample to furnish prime hunting for all who take out licenses. “In this connection it should be ox- lained that our open season on sicanante apres days and each hunter is iigaud ti kill three old corks each day. Suppose a hunter bags his full quota—aa ma A them do—this gives him thirty-t pheasant cocks, weighing about three ouwnids each, for a license foe of ome dollar. have yet to find a sportsman who did mot. cheerfully admit that this is as liberal an allowance aa a, hunter could have the nerve to ask f Public Shooting Grounds af" we have sixty thousand acres of gume-refuge territory in the atate. But this is mals a starter. t year the whine passed a law, which haa been ai ed by the moverner, authorizing the pur public shooting grounds, This is a most important step. It puts us in position to Sensis about fifty thousand acres of the wi land in Ohio, which is ideal for stocking with deer, wild turkeys, pheasants and a wild game birds. The proper legislative commitbee has already 1 cted lands oi this character in Scioto | Adama counties. The state of Penn- sylvanin hag set the pace in the matter of | public shooting grounds and has not only demonstrated what they will do te build up the game supply of a commonwealth in the shortest time possible but also the ex- tent to which these grounds stimulate the interest of hunters, “In the center of every public ahooti ground is a game refuge, which is fen and within which shooting is never all For example, the ideal size of a public | shooting ground is perhaps twenty-two | thousand acres. The game refuge in the center of this would be about three thou- sana a a abc tee thief cog three ublic shooting grounds, t TE- est of w rh ‘ataiek about twenty thow- sand acres, "Ohio has 1g, bare a large acreage of marsh nd along the south ane of Lake Erie. Here we me hoot to sow A pagel of wild niece. The efectivences of ia practice in providing wild ducks with - ample eit g ad thelr favorite food has been well proven by the big gun clubs and hunting clubs of the count: “Many persons will be inclined to ask: “Why do we need public shooting grounds?’ The answer is berause the farmers of the country ton steadily incremsing extent, are post a legal barrier against all hunters axteptane themselves and those to whom they may ive or selF hunting privileges. The vi , towns and cities of every state are | of men who look forward each yw to tha famine ot of - acta — rthaut public sh y the well- bolo fvuiitere | of proud. oat and cities will be able to indulge their liking for this cn

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110 This is the number of the lated, ball-tip loose-pin {cKinney Burt.

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If you are planning a home, “Suggestions for the Home Builder,” another McKinney publication, will be of special interest and will help you care for the many little details unfortunately so often overlooked. Both these books will be sent at your request, postpaid, and of course free of cost and obligation. McKINNEY MANUFACTURING CO., Pittsburgh Western Office, Wrigley Building, Chicaga Export Representation MICKINNEY Hinges and Butts and Hardware | lied that he had THE SATURDAY EVENING POST May 23,| THE PRICE OF PEARLS (Continued from Page IJ) “You've got a little string of beads here we want to see," quoth Billy in reaponse to Ged look. “Miss Lucretia Perrimaln's pearls," added Alicia with biting dignity and aloof- ness, "Vom, —a very nice littl: string of as a Mr. Godfrey, rather ignoring Alicin, “One of the prettiest that haa been i hands for some time. Largely col- that great connoisseur, Mr. Hal- stead, I understand. If you will excuse me: ee A worn leather box, faded vermilion, faintly tools ings lifted careful ats th a it a ully with the tips of the fingera—Beauty, ic, Roe mance! Even Billy Daney caught hia breath at the sight; and Jean and Alicia exclaimed d. Frail loveliness, the shimmer of first dawn, the heart of white Mowers, the iri- deacence of sea foam tossed in sunlight memories of just-born rainbows—it was all in these small matched apheres, perfect Saher petinctty: matched and perfectly wa ee Some beads!" said Billy Dancy. "Some beads!" repe ted Mr. Godfrey with a reverent twinkle, Alicia had been mistaken about the Tt was not a cluster of canary dia- monds, but four of them, cut square and set a square, charming, naive in their den luster, They gave a note of old- time sophistication to the pearls. “Put them on, Jean,” said Billy man- r. Godfrey rose, and slowly, with meas- ured, ritualistic atep, af Jean and éelaaped the la in place, If they had been beautiful before, now they become superb, matchless. No woman ever in her lifetime more than one ornament that is supremely, individually her own, in- trinsically a part of her beauty, and not a mere decoration for it. These pearls were Jean's, absolutely, without question. Her fair deli , her evanescent color, waa theirs and theira was hers. Looking at her ae Dancy's heart melted in a painful, choking tendernesa, To think that she, ao rare, 80 lovely, was his own. “They were made for you," said Mra, Petrimain in maternal ecstasy. Mr. Perrimain said nothing. Pearls are not edible. But he looked at Jean atten- | tivel and seemed to enjoy what he saw. were madefor you," offered Alicia, “repeating her mother's words, But she did not gp at Jean. ake pre ay. da may aay a in r. | frey with honest admiration, “I have never before seen a wearer and a jewel so well suited.” There was a silence, Jean looked down at the pearls and touched them ecaressingly, her rosy finger tips living pearls against the gems. It was plain that she lon for them as only beauty itaelf can desire beauty that matches and complements and he- longs. But she would not say so. The motion of her fingera revealed it. “How much do they cost?" asked Billy morals, He couldn't bear much more of watching Jean, 9 utterly adorable, with the things against that lowely throat of hers—wanting them. Suppose they ahould be sixty of seventy thousand! er it should be a hundred thousand! He I sed as never belore how ignorant he was ot the relative values of luxuries like t 4 “Those pearls,” mused Mr. Godfrey, “sre a most remarkable bargain. A per- fectly matched and graduated string, in such wonderful condition, isn't to be come across in a blue moon. They're unfindable. They're not on the market at any price, Only when some collector is f 1 to sell or an estate is to be closed—and then are) s vr Farely—do we get anything ike this. This string is as good as anything I've ever held in my hands." His tone im- ‘Jd many, and of the t. Billy's faint hopes grew fainter. Godtre “But"—and now Mr. fF twinkled | magnificently and directly at Billy—"' Misa Garage Aandware, door Aangers anu track, door batts amd fatches, shelf brackets, window | and torres fardiware, sleet dear mals and wrawgal ipeciaities. ape Paes requested her wane tor, in cme t Plans wert bog t any member of her family, however by mote, to permit the sale at oxacthy the ofiginal cost. She had kept a detailed and accurate record af it, Tar happy to aay. The result is, astounding, tounding ! Even if you could find another such string

of pearis on the marge tela eceat four, probably five tee ae the amount mare by Mle Ler Tmain's penerois provisien.” Billy liched his ‘ips fort dry, hot, 'Wiowke this ble ro Der the point and mane figere! [ie tn have him go prosing on while ley angel, sat there loving the peel touching fingers. “What is thot amennt?™ be ge

ceiving a slackening in the fe Godfrey's eleyoence. *Thirty-vight thousand dolla Billy Daney's beart turned omg of relie® and hilarity. Ob, byt Where was Alicia now! Wheres With histrionbe intent he alley shoulders to shimp, bla mouth do @ if completely focored, fvttened wil prointmvent. “Ohl cried Jean imy Se Tay far too much i" “Of course: it is,” echoed Aes Hain with tntinite longing ared pag “Humph—yes,” grunted Wir ie "T thotght so," Alicea triumph. “TT felt that we -oogntal Mr. Godfrey to bother to shee) us.” Shee imcdiemtacd Balk mw thes rullty wretch who had instiguiel Plaenler: : "Tt seems a qereat deal,” pda wickedly, leading her on. “Tt is, of cotree,” trinkel 9 trey with sympathy and <d Ht be ough they are tealy a spe vestment. f you wished ts them at any time | could aay for a hundred thowsand — pera and twenty-five thousand. Orie them 2 security and advan mare than their. present cost pr "This felhow is good,” ti “Tf you are not satisfied | tion,” continued Mir. Gescing would tuke them to smyon here of in New York.” "It ian't # question of vale sulle. femearked AHce. “Wee trade, Mir. Godfrey." | fr. Godfrey’s twink ooy Alicia. perfectly. “Ah, bet T Perrimain,’’ he ancwered. Billy could hoa bce bbs that gentle slam. But Mire Pee gathering up her wraps, Mi WHS Tec ink for his stick, io ing little premonitery mer parture. “It's been delightful to sell Mra. Perrimain bravely. | Alicia grasped the oppartacal one more dig to Billy. | “Wei—it's been delgnifa _ and they're quite wonderfel that it was useless for ucts om brother-in-law insisted. Wee you, Mr. Godfrey, for your kat patience.” Slowly, reluctanth;, Jesse crept up to unclasp the pea Billy abeprpeeed inte the center “Don't take them off, da “course we're going to Gal wouldnt think of trying Me hindness and patience for poll It aaa deliciows to se howd loss his plunge left Alice 3 word to aay. Billy felt a bw wiggle his fingers at her aed al tongue and aay ““Y¥aht™ But another surprise for tie

fromJean. “io, Billy, oo,” ae “TL won't think of it. Ite Ge [told you ——"" Tit oan ewe wae clheply in earnest, that ber] real. ba F know, dear,’ said Hi thought they'd cost a det “It's too much to spend ment, said Jean cleariy. haps, when we're better = net new, Juet became Eee me and Ll want them—I wo it. It wouldn't be right—ie fair to you.” The Perrimain family is te were Mrgstering well-bred this outburst. of «motion beeen Alicia entile hicet resist lens _= a chance to redeem her epee “Ot course, Jean daria © that Billy con't afford the oe to let him dey it. : (Centinqued oo Pope 10 oy Gee

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Note buco che ale race pay pee fare, fviiday cleaeiag ahraugh poy ag Hamilton Beach ~ Vacuum Sweeper s HAMILTON BEACH MFG. CO, Racine, Wis. | {ual | | SATURDAY EVENING POST (Continued from Page fic} “Please don't interfere, Alicia. Billy can afford them or he wouldn't have said he'd buy them. It's not that. It's just that it soene too mlch—he's given me eo many ape "sald Mr, Gad “you and Mra, Dancy would tke: to io tant it over for a few minutes in my inner of- Within and alone, Jean rushed into the instant ahelter of her husband's arma. “Don't—don't buy them, darling!" she . “It's euch a lot of aoe It ian’t right. I don't care—really! She wan to say to bien, "Don't let Alicia goad you into this piece of extrava- gance, But ahe would not ao belittle him, "Now see here," seancerh Billy, holding ro know that t buys you a hing we couldn't rd, I was so reli an d glad when he eald thirty-elg ht thousand "Billy, smd Jean, “will you give me— your word of honor—that to ay for these airla won't embarrass you? tit won't wrt the business—that you won't have her close, I i a

to give up doi any thine personally want to dot It is such fot of Kceney. a For a mere et an instant Billy Dancy rete of telling his wife every- Ealng, ee exact altuation. But that flicker wanis Why burden that little fluffy head with a lot of dry details that she wouldn't un- derstand, and from which she might draw gira ae the wren conclusion? sae "Jean, i ive tas wi Bi not doing a thing—aimp ng idle in the bank—anit £ on't my it im the besi- ness or for myself. It would give me the greatest joy and happiness to buy these la for you. Tf you could see how you ook with them on! And there'll never be auch another chance to get anything so good abt such a price] Now—did I ever tell ou & lie? . “Oh, I should say not! How can you ask “hay agar bl the waiting Perri They ner abieand. ‘ore the waiting Perri- smiling and con- tan a “We're all set,” apes Billy cheer- fully, “Mr. Godfrey and I will now have a few words j be private, And then Jean will have the ony, tm i ac glad, 20 gratified!" cried Perrimain. “You have no idea, Billy, how thankful I am that they're to stay in the family." Mr. Perrimain also made sounds of joy. Only Alicia remained aloof and silent, and by that Billy measured the keerness of her disappointment. But he did not pay very much attention to Alicia. Her epite, her malice seemed smaller, less important, Tt was Jean her loveli , dean her delight that were uppermost in his mind, and the warm happiness of x aiving her something and beautify His few litthe words in private with Mr, Godfrey were exepedngly satisfactory. “Don't forget,” the agent, “if at any time you should want to dispose of therm I'll arrange it for you very grea to your advantage, Or if you should n to raise money quickly—pearla are very negotiable." "T hope [ wen't have to eell them or raize money on them,” said Billy, laughing. "But I appreciate your information. Five minutes later Jean held the faded vermilion case in her han ee t you want to wear them?" asked Billy. Bi she shook her head and slipped the case into her velvet purse, tucked the purse under her elbow and held the top of it ti ro In the elevator she slipped the hand was not engaged with the purse inta Billy’ “i He squeezed it happily. on "t you come and have dinner with Mire, Pertimain. “Got some fine wild oie from North Carclina,” sald Mr. Perrima “Not tonight, thank ote * said Billy, and swept Jean away. Dine there when he didn't have to? Not /mauch! His last view of the Perrimains | showed hit Alicia's rigid back, an exclarmn- tion int of thwa fell intent. at price pearla, Alicia?" he wanted to call efter her. ee ta - a aweet and heady liquor, d been many drafta of it in Bily Ds Dancy 8 life—his promotions before Gertrer’s denth; his succession after- Bos his enlargement of his factory; his May 37, seedy ay and as oat a young men mi Like himoeett vo pat clubs and urged him to be spars ut est af all, and most deci, pe invasion of the city’s elect and os wcrers Tesllgpieetse most ng Young mes world to conquer and bk ola sin h, be baad mot wanted to eg have indignantly denied <iq = had you asked him nom, & theless it was trie. He bed hu!» 1 for a a ul type of egoist who ft the oy ton of himself ia a dutty to the enjoyed having his scant leis | with no claim om it save thew j to admit. But—he sw Jeon selling flowers at a charity by tlick-elick went the little electric first love, and al aversion bs vanished on the instant. He bought her ofa girtasbed ne wu to her, and he Iaid her wy plete unawareness ain the so would have to bridge to win ber, it turned out to be such a pull, Jean met him halfway accom ee and as surely w ae for men like Billy 0 gle ¢ o not exist. Having anes ved her he courted her nestly; and married her. He done so if ahe had been o found in his marriage that few men attain, there a reason for his work ambition=—Jean. ough he had newer the cat as an aeert to hic hi indeed

distasteful things on account he had won her it become mixed and mingled with the w another sinks net cc | derful she was. = the warp and eh of hs her was pride—pride that she ereature a little above othes own. Pride that, coming whom common acclaim placed she should be this beneficiary could, even so, give to her mal had not. Her trust in him, Te ae. neh iret aia her se like = comm equal but as an adored, shiekis did not know it, did Billy, b complete pattern of the do whose autocratic pion of his species is never “= awn mind. Had he da have been unbearable, Yet with his pride and bit Dominance was @o much thowg nea, a9 much towching kx could never understand the anawering love for him—and® ishnesa so sudden and wt that his tyranny was of even Jean, who was beginel it dimly, would not eo have that he could give to her motive for seeking material here again, with this dogbla! came the thircd—this gift him with Jean's family 2 determined some day to be Bh Superior niche. And as for Alicia—he hed tened her. She might be a: Ethel Montiewte, butt he co! put armor on his vulnerable » at the Perrinmiains’, with Jean pearls, became distinctly "T beliewe wou like then do," Jean accused him sft DOCCAaIOMS. fg I oat de oo, you on ke mad about them. than the pearls — it's you pearls so efective."* ad Oh, of leas the right Dereon, wears t the “Vanity's a terrible thing.” trophized the world at ler. eomfort tome to think that i

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a dewnt litle fortune hanging eck.” ety sich things! It's bad pe—yoo don't believe in ee cy ght taver. “Mo—not exactly. ~sorte Limes I think we've that we're too beseeehat , pane too well. I feel as though ght be envious and send a pes- metbing. rn aren’ child, you're moer- imagine things bike that, 2. th Ay ing as jumpy se it is es ot all beer and skittles 2" ya mean—jumpy?" She wes i . fitiota ane So ppg a rely, “And I kee there—why should bring my ef Angel and blessed, I haven't or in the world—except that end so much time away from {to Jean that their conversa- tier how they began, abways t mak Tt was a pleasant hem end, but—she wondered, were—as Billy hed said— wy was tight, orders tikes and threats of strikes stries, and though the light- t had not yet struck his own {played about much too near, uble in the air, o at it one day at a d Beazley, and the old dump in the silk market's w added angely, “IT got a sen, Mr. Dancy, we want to it's worth of cones we can rea for. 7 es do we can natter what happens.’ eatralght between the eyes. ng at the door long after ft. With eonditions aa’ ad no chance to recruit h had ssid nothing for so ump in silk that Billy had limbo of impossibilities. ell, maybe old Beazley was gain. Bot this time est : That ene ge eix & Possession Bi rarned him that Beagley’s at hand. mush into a broken thread largely he'd have the bul smaller competitors, who in a8 tight coils financally h purchase would cheapen costs wonderfully—for o H course the market would my—why, a lot of other alery business would, and ; he'd lose orders, they'd we with a snap, No, by "t going to get him! He'd lat of money—somehow dibag somebody to get it, Ip a five thousand, twas nothing. wiled out ao ‘he told himaelf. have gh nh about the not Jean that very night t take therm in town and ng. His answer had not any other motive than urface. ain fer you temorrow ke," he hod aaid. “I'm t the jeweler'’s anyway— ay's coming along pretty te find something for her. Bethe n, the one who have to start in d ook at everything in sure of suiting her,’ it a lady with very good rou and help you make d Jean innocently. “I'm d the perfect shopping i I trust my 6 red Billy. “No indy ora for THe. What are -—have your birthday e? If so, your wickel hinations are an utter THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 113 Negotiable! A fine suggestive word, Here In his pocket he jeepers on which a sufficient eum might be raised to lift him out of all hia present difficulties. Only, of course, it wasn't feasible. He couldn't ask Jean for the pearls for ra length of time. He utterly revolted letting her know that he'd been sfriged to raige money on any of her ornaments, eapeciaty AaB her on loved and cher- didn't understand these things. She'd think they were next door to the poorhouse and be terribly distressed. No, he'd have to think of a better plan than that. But—it would be ao easy—so excecdingly, beautifully easy—if he could only doit. If—he—could—oenly—do—it! ing stent it. Hy eollpcekate chase n i golly—what a chance instinct. which ia at all times atra r than reason, led him, when he got off t train, not toward the jeweler’s but teaver! the Walnut Street ce of Mr, Godfrey, He'd just get some idea of what might done, in case —— Mr. Godfrey, a3 olan, as ever, stemmed glad to see Hilly, and offered a tion that was od epee ou think you'll only need this money for a few days?" he asked, "T can't pure," said Billy, “If the silk market doesn'talump, but is tided over, — I won't need it at all. Then I could return | it at ones. If it does slump and I go in and buy cones—our thread silk comes to us ready for use in one-pound cones, you understand—then T'll need it longer, for I'd have to repay it out of my profits, accruing from month to month. That's what puzzles me, I veges the pearla that long on a pretext of having them re- strung. My wile would know it wasn't “Why don't you tell T wife, “gr all about it, Mr. Dancy?" asked Mr. God- frey. “As I recall her—and I recall her ser aeunely ae was endowed not only with far mora than the average degree Pela but oddly enough, with braing Bi brushed that Be fale “OF course she's clever, ee hut ahe knows nothing Pag: resontaay are ” interest in it, It's my piness shield her and keep her away from every- thing pay melee Bars Eland wind ol FuUrELLT a factor and making My wifo—she's, shes ecculaiee-cuncouched: He groped for words and could find none to convey what he wanted to say. But Mr. Godfrey seemed to understand, He did not urge hig iden. "And besides,” Billy went on practi- cally, “I don’ t want her people to get hold of it. Jean's a child about auch things, and she might inadvertently let them And you know how it is with in-laws.” Yeu, Mr. Godfrey knew. He ta with his pencil on. a top of the vermilion box ae apoke w . isely: aS op let me ae here the real pearls duplicated for you, Mr. Dancy. No one will know the difference, At lena, ula! ggiedied Simeiies aim And they | are fare," NO os one t be duplicated?’ The Phage ha raiae themselves auicly ae him. : I'd take them over to New here's a man there whose chief business is doing just this thing. He keeps amarvelous stock on hand. The duplicates will cost you seven hundred dollara. My one and if ay eervices will cost you two hun- | personally choose the pearls et the duplicate string. You will use the ar clasp; it is unique ane couldn’ t be changed, And then I will le dite are forget and thought—"“I will il jen five thouwsa on these, for six months, tistia] interest.” Port -five thousand for six months, ob- tained in aecret, and at no more than legal interest! Manna in pate wilderness | “Oh, but I won't need it for anything like ix months," protested Billy. Mr. Godfrey permitted himself a smile. "They all say that,” he observed. “Now I suppose the necd ia haste, isn't it? I will go over to New York to-day—and to- marrow afternoan you can in and take the duplicate pearls home with you." More and more was Billy's opinion of Mr. Gedfrey ae “That would be bully!" he answered heartily. By all means, the sooner Jean had the duplicate pearls the safer he'd feel. oO it wes arranged, and he went on to his factory—stopping at the bank to leave Mr. Godfrey" promptly tendered check, i Se —— =e ee — rc es They are not Keds unless the name Keds is on the shoe The fora" veri fea ian Keds Vee. Heavy neath ments aad ankle pateh, Smooth, corre gated or aun ae. 2 Oneoftie coat poularals: pu oe Rede Foyplstrest, for forepert Comes alma in r of Jeoda!, For ‘ehdidresagd grown-ups, toa They have become as popular as straw hats N the smallest country towns, in our largest cities, you'll find Keds everywhere. 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ieee bes ineling ofa man who thought he stepping off a high cliff and found:-the aro was only a couple of inches, » He'd | gotten all exerted and worried about noth- 1 ng. The whole thing had been superla- tively easy. Now he. was heeled against trouble from any point. It must be admitted that he had felt distinct qualms about passing off the ficial ls on Jean. © But he counseled himself to‘be practical, The use to which he: put this worth was legitimate, a good stroke of business, and the substitute was to be briefly temporary, He sent cheer- fully for Beazley. Well, how's the slump coming?” he aaled, "Be here within the week,” ett. the old man. “I'm certain of it now. . I'm buy= rp Siro enough cones to Hv ua alas from to day, as you. might say, th thread saleemen are thicker'n a swarm of bees, fairly begging for orders, tryin te etave the thing off. Oh, it's a@ ce Now, Mr. Dancy, “L want te leno just how much’ I can apend when it comes, I don't nee to wait Whoever gets there first will get the. cream.” “You can have fifty thousand,” ald | Billy. “That's all Pcan'spare.” “We ocdldn't. store any more'n what that'll b T don't want so many that the thread will deteriorate before we ean use it, either. Just a. whacking good lot to get right to work on, and clean up pret "* Shoot when you're ready, anid Billy. “Tye got the ammunition.” The day went on as weual. Nothingta seu it but an increased Senge: ag i. ve and smarts Senet No possible devious ways loomed on Hilly D =] soul until that night at dinner, ere in the peaceful f, black-oak: and hited blocked linen nen, ing room—enjoying an excellent! meal Jean opposite him in‘’a golden slip of adres, that turned her into a fairy creature—tha ' homb-was thinown. “Did you leave my peers at els oy to-day?" asked Jean casually enough For a ae rag | second ep hada prone in’a shell hole. fe etn ly. And aes told Jean the first lie he had ever told “Yea.” be said firmly and clearly, “and they'll have ‘em ready for me toomorrow night, and I'll bring ‘em out.” “Oh, you needn't bother," she answered. Br ee going in and I'll stop for them,” Food became suddenly nauseous, and the | | Toom turned upside down. Why in the humph-humph, he kept osk= ing himself, had he said that! Why didn't he tell her that he was too rushed this morning and would take ‘em tomorrow? One question at Raltwoll's and she'd know the pearls weren't there! He cursed him- self and his lack of forethought in preparing a good aljipi. Presently his panic legsened, He would devise something to keep ber out of town to-morrow or get hold of the pearls and tel lephone her by noon that he had them and she needn't bother to go down to Baltwell's. It mustn't be anything chumey, "That bird whe said the descent into hell was epesy remarked a pageful,” he murmured to himself, “Tt' 4 too darned easy ao far aa I'm concerned.” He thought of many things, but none af them would do. At lust he decided to make no reference to the matter for that evening. He was greatly helped in this decision iy the entrance of Kinte and Louisa Heathereley, who had jumped inte their cor after dinner and run dawn fram Brym Mawr because they were dying for a little quirt bridge, And Kate wanted to tell Jean the newest recipe. Tt began: “Take a pound of apri- eobs and a gallon af water! In spite of the protective coloration pro- vided by these guests Billy Dancy spent a thoroughly miserable evening. He was unused te subterfuge. He hated it. And he bud w at hed 1 into the bit of it sa easily, eo UNWwitting! Tn the meine just as he was leaving he gave a good personation of a man suddenty re re ambeting scmething, ‘iy the way, dear—I just thought of it, You asked me last night if I'd taken the pearls to Baltwell's. I didn't go there alter-all. I took "em to old Godfrey. J th tought it wee ald’ t be a bad plan to have him look at them every once in a while, And he said he'd have them restrung.” “Oh, Bills ‘—will they be done by this | afternoon? [ want to wear them to the un ae =

mo ee Outinthe factory production A daily schedule of output << ii we with the name of 1 ry sprang up. At the = stipulations for quality wate Ls ‘Tt looks rosy as hell,” . “Lf nothing don’t hi “We'll see to it that pothcs was Bill ete Pear at Jeaz't a contin reproach to bir Put them away so carefully. acsing her little safe with © that it should be secure, he [el , like a ow pop & wanted to ask ber mot to wera: stantly, but caution warned he any jal inten might trip him inte a damar: He did not trust his power . tion. “You're working too bac hirn often, with a little fro=- he was working! He: fa when the earliest « punching the clock, amd be ¢ until the place was empty. E ing for relief from the load of carrying. It weighed on b= a ee to pe Pear Then , out of a ce aoe ee rene “are those fool woobem eon. stand for = arike now? Th ou ¥ the bel when alien 5 is pi picking. mp, 24 ee it oo bis baad a Ww BS agi wg dull. itd I think they"re = with wage cuts, and so on. beh eae ley— he ofr Oo. mt Le “They got no choice if tbr c: ewe Ways stood by the : ag & “pee alwasas enc. It's the best weapon labers (Continued ag Pape

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116 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST It’s a Gr Now 31 improvements at $655 less Generations of Stephens men have devoted their lives to making travel economical, dependable, com- fortable. Their ideals have shaped the building of the StepHens Sauient Six to the highest standard. Thissingle aim hascreated the Stephens motor—the farthest advance in overhead-valve perfection—and given it ability to deliver 18-20 miles a gallon from fuel that would choke most motors with carbon. A motor of superlative smoothness and efficiency at 2 or 60 miles an hour! Its 57 H.P. has an abounding energy superior to your utmost need. Stephens coach work expresses Stephens ideals in bodies—staunch, beautiful and individual in refine- ment. Full-alloy silica steel springs give you unparalleled buoyancy and luxury of motion. One hundred million miles of enthusiasm! That is the tribute—amazing, convincing—coming this spring from thousands of owners. Now Stephens adds 31 refinements and improve- ments, with an efficiency that has lowered the price $655. You will never appreciate the extraordinary value of this truly great car until you sit behind the wheel. STEPHENS MOTOR WORKS, Freeport, Illinois

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jieeed from Page D4) rattes treatment, But—oh, sig to call up some of those ie and find cut what's what.” ecious litth satisfaction. Yrs, mils expected a strike. The ad offered a new wage scale, =e than nt one. The demanded 10 per cent more ent, There was not the slight- dther yielding to the other. jon’ know what the unions’ ll empl iy yh a TELE F night, and then they'll meet 5 committee and say what ied. Sure—if they vote to itha viva Yoor vote in open dollars feds hnute they will 2—th aa many yur eg aa t ny possibly ran. Your sure to go." is the Te te normalcy 1" nging up the phone receiver iggust. "By golly, ['m up through the fa he waa econ UAdeT current excite ays precedes a strike. ‘There i than usual. A few opera- doggedly, silent, eyes fixed ines, but minds apparently ti with the problem of their dependents would benefita. Billy them in the midst ike him, they were ind like him, t were in conomie adjustment—that Moloch who demands cons to talk to ‘etn, he thou ogo out if the the union orders aml goingtodao?” « ing for anyone to do in like Billy Dancy waited, and ‘o days the morning papers the wool people had gone m to his factory, dreadin seo there, Would he fin v, the machines idle? It ormeia threb of thankful- Bice oper in B rarer a yet, been mae invent of his resources. w big era that he roust ecting smaller ones, Then e the money for the | @ him alemg—for a while. ' prolon he must offer ihe had bought at so fav- to manufacturers owt of s would still be running. it would be only a‘ local tmoney would help, pro areed to sell at too great a bt get by, but the balance would bea sorry sight, for expense would stop there hank, and the inexorable clory mortgage. And his him round te Jean, and ‘pearl. h. Jean would have to oearla for quite a while, a think of it. sometimes worse than ney had braced himself estrike that when, after ervous ‘tension, his peo was mlrmeost glad of it. ein to see mee eda ‘ She pro” £ im., ki, hee. oldest operative, ras toothless and wrin- ‘ted, gmarled old hands ¢ had been at twenty. ly," said Maria. impres- in any strike breakers taueh mo machine, or I nen 1 get back!" st in strike breakers as id Billy. “You better 1 don"t want someone rchine."* thaking her head drear- ¢ shawl and went out. ipty save for the office ret busy,” said Billy, iT operatives here and in two hundred miles iitting mills. IT won't a to out=of-town com- er lose the business. ith am unfilled order And we'll see what we THE SATURDAY EVENING Miss Koons spoke up with unexpected apirit, “You get a new stenographer, Mr. ney. I'm going out in the factory and try my hand with a machine. I guess if I can pound a typewriter I can knit silk stockings, and I've often watched the women out there. So you got one strike breaker tight here.” “Bully for you!" said Billy. forget this, Misa Koons,” nel ery the fight “I won't hegan. For the firet few days it was a wild mish | to secure new operatives, to reassure cus tomers, to discour further ordera but to keep a string to t Was i off. ny hing was in a state of flux, eho ifting from hour to r. A few strike breakers trickled in peor unskilled atacs. gos who not only had to bé taught but also hed to be constantly watched. Old Beazley marched out into the factory and took a machine beside Miss Koons. Billy himself was there inter- mittently during the day, teaching, help- ing, acting as foreman, mechanic, anything a get the work through. But progress wae ingly slow. No more than a@ third of the machines were running, and these at far below their normal outpu Still pe ere elon, By ee Lele sores ® ma to get out a fe few of the . cancer ardera time, th by aa ding epreasing conc cusness of the fm dem ion of frudineea bs had built up eo prowdly, = a, To ao man of constructive temperament and sanguine turn of thought there is nothin Bo keenly hurtful 28 wanton destruction o a useful industry that he hes himself de- ae aes ano a Bil Dancy. He eae ‘At doggedly, untiringly, but with the Fg of af gp laid on his heart. dia whole self was so centered on the factory and its problema that he was ob- livious of all else. He had grown thin to gauntness, strung tight with nerves. Jean, watching him, yearned over him. But he brushed away her solicitude, hardly saw her. Bhe had become in this crisis almost shad- owlike ta him, not quite real, He submitted to her affection, but he found no solace, no reat im it. At last she ceaeed te urge it on him, only saw to his smallest ease and comfort with infinite care and waited for him to come back to her. He only half heard her when one day she renmun him that they hadn't dined with her family seh two months, and that te might they really must go. “Because,” she ded, watching him closely,“ Cousin Mur- tin Halstead is to be there." In his frame of mind Cousin Martin Halstead wea a wraith, 2 wis of nothing. yay did not even remember aving heard of h oT wish I didn't areal rl ar i ¥ poor dear,’ Jean Tyo are 80 tired and worn et og ta with this strike, But mother and father would think it so odd if we didn’t make a point of seeing Cousin Martin, He's such a traveler, and here so seldom. And he wants specially to see—ua.’ Even then mira Martin Halstend did not register on Bill Bg a rag “Th be there on tire," he said wearily, To eat dinner with his relations-in-law was just one more rotten chore to be ehored. The day waa ine and harassing, the worst he endured. One of the working arbi had been put owt of commission by a carclesa learner. The woolen people were still sitting tight, caring nothing for the devastation of the ayrm- pathetic strike. Two of his locnl competi- tors, also hit by the strike, had been able to open up on half time, having by sheer chance got hold of a bunch of newly ar- rived immigrants who were ekilled div tives, Some of his customers who had been pa lr at firet were ting restive, though he was still able to meet his obligations he waa down to ‘the alimrnest sort of shoestring. “And I've to wateh old Perrimain lof green-turtle soup, T suppose, and tell about the best way to make French dress- Ing!" he theught, a he got inte hia dinner clothes at the club, There was no dining at the Perrimains’ without the Tai- mont. He broke one of his studs, and IMU his only clean collar, It was a black world, not worth living in. He was crushed by the sneatice and cruelty of ft. If there was only & person whe uncder- stood, who relly tured! And if he was not oppressed by this ewe t coneclous- nea of his own decwit, ol his ew trickery! In some occult way the pearls were the last bitter gibe of fortane, them in case the strike | itt CLUETT, PEABODY CoO. ING, « POST Send for this Trial box of Apollo Chocolates fruit, nut and rich cream centers. You can get this only by eating Apollos and that is the reason for our trial assortment offer—a full quarter pound of chocolates, all different, selected from the 193 va- rieties wemake, Sent post paid for aq cents and your dealer's namic. THERE is no way to adequately describe Apollo Chocolates. We ean tell you how pure they are, how choice the materials that go into them and the care we take in their making. But we cannot picture the taste—the wonderful chocolate flavor, the delicious ADDRESS! F. H. ROBERTS COMPANY, 128 CROSS STREET, BOSTON, Mass. 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THE JUNG ARCH BRACE COMPANY 452 Jong Gide. pers pers Ohio Dsateri— As inf bia emer Free Book 9 S10 peer fai afi edd kvenr feet iatis il op Laodk for fhae proee Mark ft preafects Var Fane alters : Original ARCH BRACES EVENING POST He to the Deere. in the very nick of ti and not until they were at table did he| é really aware of Cousin Martin Halstead, tall, with keen eyes, gray and Jean and taciturn, with a drooping mustache, hair thin and high on his narrow forehead, There was green turtle, even as Billy had anticipated, and Mr. Perrimain held forth in along monal as to whether or not it contained pufficient sherry. ‘There were delicate little pité of shrimp and oyster Bread tas Hit guincte bey Ths aphetinnan ace: on his the epicuresn gtr crut at the head of the table. Then it was that Billy observed his newly met relative for the firet time. “ou eat too much, Philip,” aaid Cousin Martin calmly to his host, and your food is too rich. You'll go off with uremia if you're not careful.” Mr. Perrimain became apoplectic with indignation, “I have always maintained that eatin is one of the fine arta,” he snorted. oo much nm —too much th have your awn hobby, MartinOwhy be sarcastic about other meee, b be fr fowdeg ian't harmful te my health,” “ And T don't agree with you aha eating is one of the fine arts. Tt's enjoyable, but gomehow a littl wul- Mr, Perrimain ewelled and puffed with ve irs, Peertinuin’ looked agitated, and Ant: tered her hands distracteily. Billy felt dimly: sorry for her, and stepped into the reach. “What is your hobby?" he asked Cousin ao amine phe Ae ES: z F i F OF 5 It 8. with to, too pba ora" isvurrene knows. hardly. I know I've forgotten,” said Billy by; Cousin Martin's a connoisseur In fect " offered Mrs. Perrimain. “He cal- ts jewela—he has the moet marvelous hing: One of the reasons he's dialing * pe us this evening is because he wanted much to se Cousin Lucretio’s Don’t you remember I told that he hought a good many of them for her? But he's never seen the ne hageb atrand,” “They're very fine, too, at this distance,” suid Cousin Martin, cooki his keen eye ri Jean. “And they're highly becoming $0 fan.” Billy Daney's fork stopped halfway to his mouth, and then dropped to his plate. He eould not lift it farther. What had he got into now? His imagination leaped ahead: Cousin Martin—whateconfoundedly | sharp eyes the fellow had!—approaching Jean and saying, " And now let me look at the famous pearls.” The Perrimain family esate ak i; in smiling complacency, wait- for ees ie ae gs a Cousin Martin's start of reat ar bis closer in= vestigation —probably had a microscope or something in his pocket—his pussled “This ip dad!" And his final verdict: “These pearls are false!" a Then cries, exclamations, Alicia’ eprom suspicion of himeeli—Alicia wou what had happened, give her the least little hint—and at last, in his present stabe of wearinesa and disaster he'd be able to put ap no defense, and the truth would come out. Tableau of rage from Papa Perrimain, tears and reproaches from Mamma Perri- thain, malicious gloating from Alicia, and— worst of all—distrust and grief from Jenn, With himself in the star part as criminal in chief forever after. Humiliation on hu- miliation. All this went through Billy Dancy's head like a awifthy run film. This was the last straw, the very, very last! He was caught, He looked around at them all with glazed, Lnseting eyes Then as Morn a grent distance he heard Jean speaking. “But Leegitln aren't Cousin Lucretia's at Mr. Godfrey's, if he likes, but I'll have to confess these are nothing but imitation. There were a0 toany burglaries out near us that I got frightened and had Mr, Godfrey find a duplicate for me. He has the real ones in hissafe. But these are wonderful— they've fooled everyone sofar.” She looked across at Billy, “Haven't they, dear?" che asked, What went on for the rest of the dinner, what he ate, whet wos anid, Billy Dancy was never able afterward to remember. Tt seemed to him that itm fi ane before he and Jin made the journey ts de a asked ber if she was anghe tae her head tursed him, her eyes lowered, He imagine what she was i But when they reached miliar sitting room she faced me "T couldn't teemr it!" she a the words tears bepan to ros cheeks, tears. wneontrollabte, an | couldn’ t bear. it any longer! me out of everything—re thing! You act at if [ wai painted creature who coulds't who didn't want to help! 4 = Ml It's not fair! I'm your wit so—I'm not a baby— i to be dreced up. You make si Nonily D reading h iy Daney"s ing had the famous Teemu dow 4 “Ch hea how all to yourself?" she be miserable with you ta keep me in the dark of try to? Of course you « you 60 I know almost cr think—I can feel every litt These wretched pearls — ob Tl a mistake to buy ther! | bo Billy, Billy, you have me in a) know it. ‘Put Tee heat Pipe tar tial and She was orvine th in hig arms soba shaking her slim sbocida treat me like a toy to be pls ia] piece of bric-a-brac to be be taken care of. : to have you hold me so cheay You let your stenographer rs ines; even she heips joo! We may be on the very veye Se beet won't tell me—you "d rather deceive me—1 She struck ber clenched bor! “Tt was all vant them. Alicia werried you = know! And yet—I[ thougt: gaid so—that it wae all oo night—oh—we had to go the But if you think that I'd bk: tin—or Alicia—oranyone—‘ iake you when you're in each’ it would have served jo: trusting me enough to tel 1 Billy, Billky—how could po. moat! “Jean—Jean!" He warte himself; his throat wae te darling —little fcllaw—_T't mt I'm just an utter fool—t0 you'll only forgive. me—ye “When, they ‘wore calor ventured on a question know they were faler, Jean" “Qh—you looked sa c= felt, somehow, different. = Mr. Godfrey tell me. You you can stand up before a= He held her more coe orious laighter—the fir or montha. "The weight o load broke anc slipped bgt free and strong. If Jear cared 0 much —whiy, be cow The strike—that would com Tt would hawe te come out s make it. sent ages eet it = where, enough to tide over could—if he felt. this wa; morrow—oh, what he'd do: He had gotten His egotism, his selfconhd a arora aigte He a whe ring his grea’ and all the time Jean had sharing it, and when the = she who had been girong, = humbled, yet trrumphass' ing vision of what life wih revealed Jean would te. Re a Lay coat lor af ue the false germ 1 bled > et had so err them, wonderfully, he had the treasure of her loyal pet understanding, the ket ee : at price ec * ful thought. smsiaaia

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST es : "Seiad THE COUNMTRY GENTLEMAN Julycu, The above chart shows the remarkable growth in sales units of this product since its advertising was concentrated in THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, fA 2a ae of 1192% In Eight Years is the record of our poultry chow business,” writes the Ralston Purina Company of St. Louis, feed manufacturers. “Each year, even during the depression, has showed a substantial gain, “This steady advance has been maintained largely through consistent advertising in the farm market. “THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN has carried seventy- seven per cent of all the farm paper advertising of this product since 1914. We regard the results as a striking demonstration of its producing power.” ©The COUNTRY GENTLEMAN RT1Is PUBLISHING COMPANY, INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA irday Evening Post The Ladies’ Home Journal The Country Gentleman 8 8 Se ee a ee = = — = 118

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Write for Booklet Your Gotereat inher the mame of every jrespectioe fracefer, Jf you are comidrring an ode Sere anywhere, rend the information Alank new. Vow twill reeelee the Geoerment’s rafaile deoklet of authentic travel informa. itor and deicriptien of the C', 3, Government ships, Fou will de ander Ho obtigatioas, U. S. SHIPPING BOARD Information Dieake 247A Warhingion, D, GC. } on cur hands. J and unlimited coinage of silver.’ Moy Fi FROM McKINLEY TO HIARDIN (Continued from Page If} Let me show Lodge the Plank we agreed on haat Friday. Hanna replied, “You can f trist that blankety-blank man; he will give the plank to the press.’ L again said, “Let me show it to him and tell him how im pentane it 48 to keep it quiet, sa aa not to have a silver bolt in the eonvention.” : Hanna said, “All right, but you do it on your own responsibility.” I went tothe Massachusetts headquarters, which was in the same hotel; found Lod introduced myself and told him | heard the tilt between him and Hanna: that he must not resent Mr. Hanna‘s attitude, os he hed hav but little sleep for a week: and then told him of the Friday meeting and showed him the plank agreed upon by the McKin- bey managers, and of our pledge of mo pub- licat e read it and said: “Why, that plank is Bll right; the only cha surges T would make is to knock out the words ‘and unlimited’ in the sentence “We are opposed to the free The two Words are Unnecessary. I made the change and have the paper framed. The only words that have oot faded owt of the mimeograph copy aro the words “gold” and “out suggestion of Lodge" —both written in pencil, Ladge asked me for a copy, Lesid, “I cannot give it to you,” He replied, “I want to show it especially to one man whe is going to make a fight on the floor. I vill keep it confidential.” I was weak enough to consent, and his atenographer eopied it, This happened Monday morning about eleven o'clock. The evening papers of Tuesday, in St. Lous, printed a dispatch from Boston giving the contents of the plank L had handed Large, About six o'clock that evming | Hanna in the hall. ‘q He was very angry od od * seen the evening papers? [ ill te eould not trust him, od fe publication caus — } Mek eKinley pranks you are res Fortunately but few sew ted oa the papers did net puis it: they were too full of los! play up outside mews, The obs side Mr. Hanna ‘to make when he read the Boston dig Mr. M. H. De Young, com @ Francisco Chronicle, He said California would ot the old, standard. i remnindel California wee more interested | tective tariff on citrus fruitet standard. The California pag the campaign that followed money eeetnes and strongiy tariff plank. Afterward one of the Bostee ents told me Lodge gave bo BAL: “That ta what T stand for!” 9 He did not cairn he woe later he was introduced at Commencement #2ercisss wi the gold plank and, a thepe “Teceivedl a it ovntiog! Two or three days later 5 sent me a cispatch—whieh 1 me to aend Bien a ware whoch fe and read to his audience writing of the gold plank’ twelfth, He said, “(ive me BS you can, as other Eastern ing authorship.” Editor's Note=—This ip the ce articias by Mr. Echinsst. Tit sem an carly issue. My. aad Mee, Myron T. errick Dicitized by Googie

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alter them. “Sa ® reflected. And fe dee "Tia th’ litth: woman ments ext day, Which so Wednesday, maman came to La ‘She counter = i the raion F gk She brought wer five-y iy ne Hetty, a ot, old-fashboned little creature, ut, Larry—the hat. Anne led emilingly toward the tiny the muilliner’s art perched on head, “Betty wanted you to ed his hands in token of deep ‘It tnkea me breath away, L “Are thim roses, or do me ma? lsped the Little girl, She sat ight on the stool and arranged teabout her, “ Please pass the che = met, and put a @enMencUs pPor= er. While he i her moth- : flected that Anne Frear’s hland unhappy. After a few entired a remark: is Chicago, Theor.” oe Frear said. “But I ex Mtorsaon. This is his birth= ways tries to be at home for tov. Learn frowned, "Is it Br ace, Charlie must be ir Anne finished. Larry “| know what you're think- les — he's pretty young. #8 slowly, “Charlie's et Anne's eyes were looking il her troubles were written. tds were hed hia eounter furiously, g to-day, I'm thinkin’,"” he eve: but at Anne he'll come home tod . birthday, is Ye say—an' of hia directors to-morrow i Anne Freos expres @d. “Oh—I didn't know— " nersisted Larry wncom- een this to 2 * Ti ars Ive stood behind aa Son ee cs] mt p u Prof easi ional secrets ike aime, say, ao if l was o w—I was always fond of dome th’ first day I see _ an’ upstiandin’, An’ it i’am—look out, dartin’!" near to wpeetting the ice , and Larry's strong hand atarted the spoon on the aid Anne Frear softly. It ee anv ma'am, because poor 1h bine, an' feelin’ as I do vou, ‘ton, fr that mat wouled warn th" lad —— ™ act th’ wires all laid o=mearrow this time ES aah thin a rabbit.” Anne Frear sat staring pi fT ought to be mur- ‘but I'we seen it coming alked to him, Larry, but i now—all [ can think of break hia heart." re ee wie eatin dvised, “it will ac help him through—to- hed away her drink, un- ¢, honey T’” she said to i for the nich ict fhe amount of her check Her Larry 2. but she amiled “I how so many arae Te al Tele ow it is. All I can say is that—you're one of iat," smiled Larry, “ye ompany. I'm a proud e stood watching bi by throug ing freely, he prepared 1 drink. #4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST MEET THE WIFE (Continued from Page Fo) At four o'clock that afternoon Charis rear in. He waa now the etter, the a eof pep {leer 7 is hard business trip to "Listen here, Larry,’ he ‘ean. “ey went you to do something or met. This ee to be my birthday —— “Manny happy noe of ——' “You—thanks, Been sway— ai in. a the big news—I'm giving » birthday alt my auniee tonight." "Tp t! tao? Have ye seen th’ wife?” “NMo—not yet. [invited a big bunch of prone by wire from Chicago, and at ome on the train I hit on Leong big play Some party I'm iiving;, Lary. last word in parties round here for quite # apell, I fanevy. I"m going te make such a fool of prohibition that mummies will pat And about my big idea—your part of it ——" "What d'ye TEAM now?" “Big secret—won't tell anyteody, net oe au. But here's what I want you to Wilsey'a attending bo the cater- sab, and there'll be a banch of waiters from the hotel. I want you to come along with them—and bring your white eoat." “MMe, d'ye say? Look here, C, H., Pm too old f*r that kind of thing. Ye'll have to excuse me.” “Can't doit, Larry, Tt would ruin my whole scheme. Come on—you're not going | ba tf me il . i “Well,” Larry gai e waa staring at Charlie Frear, but it was Anne's = aah | ¥ face that he saw, “1'll come, C. c agreed. "That's the ticket, Be at the hase at eight. The white coat, remember. See you ater !"* He ‘banged through the door and disnp- peared rry stood Jooking after him with puzzled eyes. TIF Ae EIGHT o'clock that evening, leaving | he trolley at the end of the line, Larry O'Neil set out to walk the brief remaining distance to Charlie Frear's house. Under his arm he carried a amall bundle, the white coat demanded by the impetuous Charlie. He was in the district of the prosperous: ee trees towered above him nent hedges lined his path; on lawns still he despite the summer heat, ep rinkiers were playing. Through the aks serundied a phonograph, the slam of a Bie aareay doar, the genial voice of a con- fitmed bromide demanding, * "Hot enough for you to-day?" waa a atranger In thla nelehbor- howd, but he knew the Frear house by sight—it wag one of Reuton's show places— and he was shortly ascending its broad steps, He rang the bell and stood looking i ne the copper ecreen into a big eoo Amaid admitted him and az he lingered, somewhat at atoms, just inside the door Anne Frear ran down the stairs. He had never geen her looking so beautiful, She WOPe & hs evening gown; the ae shone alluringly on her blond hair and her white shoulders; she made altogether a dictura that an Irishman could appreciate. eves were amiling, but her face was rather pale. "Hello," she cried. She cintic closer and spoke in a lower tone, “O “How are ye? Have ye had it thar ta talk with ¢. H.f" “Larry—I oequlds’t. It would have apoiled hi Besides—oh, I know how he'll take itfrorm me. He'll he furious. He'll act as though it were my fault, He's not the same Tnore."* “But he's got to knew," es, he's not fit to listen then—in the morning. “o Larry, if I could only have atop ¥! But it was too late; he'd in- a them all—and he wouldn’ t have stopped for mé anyhow. Eut he's going to ® things worse than ever. There won't be a chanee for him after to-night.” Mle what's he up to ——" Larry ® was interru pted by the arrival of ©. H. himself. He was resplendent in evening clothes, and already aomewhat redolant of the cup that cheers, “Hello, Larry,” he eried. “Anne, when those colened musicians here put “em in the library. And tell the girls to roll up those rugs in the living room and clear the of course. 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Cn EVENING POST | foor, Now, Larry, I'll show you where you come in, I've got one big surprise for you.” He walked to a door at the right of the hall. “Come on, Larry—this is your room, right here.” Larry followed. He stood on the thresh- old of what was evidently the lining roam, The table had been pushed ba against one wall, and along the wall oppo- site the door held that which mused him to blink and question his own Good Lard, C. H.!" he eried, “Deo you recognize it, Larn?" Charlie Fn erjed At GT cena . “Tt's mit ar an I arr. ¥ “Part of it, met The ci sipcleiger persuaded Sam Wilsey ig it up owt o the cellar and rush He: up here a after- noon. That was my ge Png Larry —the one I got on the ‘ral: at de you think of it? The Wilsey House bar doing busi- ness again. Who said prohibition? We'll ahow ‘em, Larry—we'll show "erm!" Bilently Larry followed him into the roy intel f up for you," the rail” “Tye hed it all f¢ rowent on. ™ brass B en! DT werried about that rail—I always thought it was fastened to the floor, but I found out this afternoon it's part of the bar, Well, live and learn, what? Where's your coat, ‘man? Put it on— Bites bibs: ‘eee Still without speaki coats. If he pas pieces Mer i die: in = thusiaam his host failed to netier i in his own bubbling excitement. “Get hie gg Larry old. man!" he "Look!" inted toa sideboard standing behind is ar just under a long mirror, and covered with a startling array af bottles, "There's your stock—and more here underneath. Everything you had at the Wi Howse, of ['m a liar, A point of ride with me—I'll break down and cry like child if anybody gives us an order we can't fill. Bat Tdon't think it can be done, Hot water in those boilers—sec? Glasses think?” eas so,’ said Larry. He went be bar, grasped the edge of it with his great hands, and stood staring at Charlie Frear. It was a solemn occasion, and Charlie felt it more deeply, perhaps, than the big fellow himself, For a moment the host paid Siete treat of ailenee. "At 6 said presently, but in a Mabel tone. “The old days, = tha good old days are here took away your job, did es) We Wel | Charlie Frear is iif it back to you here and now, Mix “em terme » What'll you ittle anifter together, have? We'll ay a just to celebrate.” “T don't touch it," Larry reminded him. “Ye know that.” “Oh, yea—I knew you never used to, But now that it's prohibited—now that a lot of buttinskys tell you you can’t have it—surely you won't refuse now?" “T don’t care {"r anything, ©. H.," Larry anid, “Thank ye just th’ same. What's

yours “Oh, [ll wait—if you won't jain me. Now, Larry—here‘s the plan —— Twa small figures in i pales came ruri- nin inte the room, shouting for Larry Neil. Anne followed, "They wouldn't go to bed without see ing you,"’ she explained. She looked nt Larry across thé bur—a long look. Strange ‘ings happen as the world rolls on. Larry blushed. Charlie Frear lifted Hetty to a seat on the polished mahogany. Beside her he placed his littl: son, a handsome golden- aired child of seven. “There you are!" he cried. “How's that? Some day you enn tell your grand- children that you once Sat on Larry O" Neil's bar. , Larry?" “I dinnaw,” suid Larry cnc: "Maybe by that time th' wurruld will have a ape else to talk of," The children demanded ice cream, Larry and his white coat havin ated the iden. Their father was loud in his laughter. "No ice cream here." he announeed. ‘This is no mollycoddle bar—it's the real thing.’ Larry glanced back over his shoulder at the display of bottled goods, He looked at An ne, his rl troubled. “Ye'll be runnin’ off to bed now, like good kids," he sald, turning to the children, d protests rose to smite the air. “Do that, to please mother, an’ to-emerrow at th’ tea room I'll eve yeoall th’ ice cream. can eat. I will ax." Anne lifted Betty down, then the boy. ‘Come now—you'ye seen Larry—you May zr, must go Upstairs. None & Fitcg” aioe bets then oat of thy pes ow here's the idea" Cy, said. “I'm going to knock this boo with my layout. When everytce; I'll line ‘em all up im the ball. pie > signal, and t the portals wida. | thelr eyes won't pop, hey? You & nee ready rae om your bes y 2@ went to the doorway, ad } “Just like the old day, Lis chortled. “Ewerthing jus ws nm _He went out, closing the dion im. Still daged, almost onbeSe-, stared, about him. His o4 te sadly out of place in this iy » quisitely furnished room. a beng risen, ond wae stirring the jo: at the windows. On the quiet liws ericketa chirped. He glanced ow) through the dusk a shadow; aeene, the calm enwirommest of bs eyes come slowly back ta he bo many colored botthes that surroce He sat down on a chair and pe: in his hands. The world was porg From time to time he heard tre: arriving guests, but it was more t an hour before Charlie Prear’s roe him, and the doors to the dining x thrown open, Larry stood beh oe with his best professional eels a He saw Charlie Frear poised i= the er ed ay, B00 back of he ho ol the ing peop of bs ia Te cae weit They credulous at first, then burst o of delight and approval that a glasses on the bar, The neat s0 were crowding into the room, «. | once, flushed and thrilled and “Step up, everybody,” Charles shouting above the mile. ~! have it—the old Wilsey Hoes Lary on the job, Happy dar Are we downbesst pee roared, “Name your prison, "Whisper it to the bartender. | of you to ask for a drink we can Whe said prohibition now?” He did not have to at bs another moment Larry's poo wes bust with an enonmmc= ehaker, and Charlie Frear’s fas was under way, The old bare himself pouring drinks for me one: been his constant patron an instant did he feel that Cho was true and the old days were Wilaey bar had existed to deligt! but here, as at his soda fountar, wives. Gray-haired matress years back grew bitter at the mm af Larry's name now stepped dered "th the loudest. Nonea flappers tested the firewate nounced it the bist they'd bad Larry gave himself no time & went soulingly on with ha come and he was Tesolved to But Fae eee now and the face of C. A. Frear, and ther his own broad countenance of acute distaste, ] Shortly from 2 distant r first low moan of the jazz 'B atrons fled with Lusi of atime the Sha 1 jungle made hideous the = then it ceased, and the bar with oer souls who brow ay beautiful new thirsts. Thost* the dance floor and the bar.

his ts. 4 anything yet. Well, what’ Come on, it’s time for anot tried that gin of mine? eyes after that aynthetic pe on. This way to the bar, ple At midnight the waiters fn House sought to ternps: the vs with mere food. ‘The bar = ment deserted. Then <a: Charlie, dragging Walte- Henry Frost. What’ ll it be, fen tlemes ANXIOUS Lo serve aout. Lars Walter and me, and a glas "You bet I did.” Free: “You know, Parkinson wp tk buying much from us iate.;

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Still—I can't explain it—but his party won't aeerm mo clever in the morning. “He's a young fool,” sald Frost. ‘T've remarked on that before." The jazz blared forth again, and the party took on new life, Larry's feet hurt more and more, the on his face faded and did not renppear. Mechanically he filled the orders of the revelers as they hurried in, flushed and wild eyed, from the dance floor. Now and again he reached inside his white cost and took out a huge Id wateh, He was no longer young, and e thought longingly of At one o'clock Frear came in, at the head of a small group of men, armong them Suteliffe and one or two other dinectora of the Burkhardt Corporation. Charlie rie drunk with eeahedy aa he vr he fe stumbled and “he” ras ae ers imaclf Lo, Larry. Here we are ‘gin. What'll you have, boys? Tell the good ol’ bar- c what you'll have.” They murmured their orders, most of them; one of two allp quietly from the POOR. Neil did not move. For a long tosent atared into Charlie Frear's Hae thought of Anne Frear and the chil- cre and very slowly his head went up, a lightcams into his face, and hestood there ike a judge or a bishop. z ming the same, Larry,” said Frear. “Little ol’ highball.” Larry leaned across the bar and spoke slowly, impressively. “Listen here, C. H. Is it true nah’ old’dava? want things just ns they was in th’ ol why of cure” paid Freer, **Juat e the old Wilsey bar.’ "Ye want me to run things th’ way 1 did there?" “Certainly, What you talkin’ "bout?" "All right, Charlie," Larry sald. He t and held Frear's WAndETINE ~Are. “Then I'm tellin’ ee ve had enough!" “What's that? “You heard me, I'm thinkin". a Ye'll Charlia Frear had started back. His face even red n usual. “How dare you!” he eried. "You old fool! How dare you! In my own home!” Larry's face clouded with anger. Not I say get no more many mén had called him namea and got - away with it. “Your home! That's goo! If anny man had done to home what ‘ve done to ra this night [I'd break min two with me own hands, ‘Your hore f A home ia a hore, an’ a bar isa bar, an’ what it is ye're runnin’ here I dinnaw. I do not.” “Get out!” showbed Frear. “Ty tin',"" Larry » strug- gling with his street coat, “More thin thirty I tended bar, a decent re- spectable man, an’, by heaven, I'm ashamed of me work here to-night. Passin’ th’ atulf to younk irlsa—what will me wife say to that * Lord, I've shot a hole in me “self-respect I doubt I can ever “Are you going?” Frear demanded. “Hotfoot, me hotfoot. An’ I hume- bly beg yer seers rt n to introduce into yer home wan of th’ firat rules of anny respectable bar. Good night.'' Tn the hall he encountered Anne Frear. Oeste is it?’ she cried. = “TL “I'm sorry, ma'am,” said Larry gently. “F'r th’ moment, me temper went. I’m ee sorry—but I'm Insh an’ I can't elp tr" "What happened?" EVENING POST “Tt was C. AH. comin “to me f'r another » drink. He's me ee an’ I fo meself an’ told him se, o her to the door, past the Weta: room where the aes wa sereeching and mad couples dan “Me norves was a bit upset, ma'am, All this te-night—it don't seem Fight to me.” "hie either, Larry. m “T know that, ma'am,” Charlie Frear came suddenly behind them. “Say, what the devil you bop talk- pet “bout? I want him to get out my ‘Hush, Charlie! Anne cried. But no one above the whine of the music. “T'm goin’, Charlie," Larry explained. An’ ‘a sorry I lost me temper T had no call to say what I did in front of yer friends, | an” T admit it. But as {"r you, me lad, ye're ote on the brink of a Voleano, Am rat deve know what I mean to-morrow rile even o ‘clock, “What's tha “Yer wife =f tell ye, Good night.” He was pushing open the screen when he felt a hand on his arm. He looked down into Anne — i Pale, sired Fae ce “ Larry, wil O By i or me?” ina did youd wurruld, ain ‘am,"" he Sm “You tell Charlie—about the meeting to-mo morrow. “But it's no business of mine,” he pro teated. “Look at him," stid Anne Freer. “IT can’t tell him—he wouldn't listen. Not now. But if the news came from gt sacar “Wha's-all this?" demanded wabhly “Want him to get out my Charlie. hoot.” There was a small deserted reception | room at siete. gt big door. suddenly seri Charlie Frear by the arm and himinside, He slammed abut the door and faced the befuddled host of all the e guyety, “Open that door!" shouted Frear, Peni dare you touch me! Open that oor! He lea Larry Gels a“ Sct hie ber the coed shoeiden: and shook Pay ie mere ‘he He aap Bi Ti Mminaries, knew, te Pee but a smashing statement of fact might surprise Frear into a moment of comprehension. “ Listen to me, lad. Tomorrow mornin” at lava! ack they kick ye out of th’ Burkhardt Corporation!" sy Frear blinked. “What? What fay oe h out at th’ plant. preptila ar ey ¥ote se out in TLOrnin .. “That's a lie!" said Frear promptly. "So, it's “fade Ribteral s attention was wandering; ook him n. You an" me used to ents Charlie, good frienda, an’ I'm tryin" to be yer friend mow, Outside yer own family I'm th’ ae best friend ye gotin this i to-night. Tha t bunch out there—they'll drink yer foes an’ dance to yer music, but not wan is man enough to tell you what I'm tellin’ you now —that they got th" cards all atucclond again’ ye, an’ out ye go." “But they can't doit,” protested Frear, “You watch thim. Think et, think. Have had no signs of it? apabla on ife, don't et ¥ i bundred-thousand-dollar policy abe went on this last tri pe left orders th’ pnt to oat “Was it paid pal, rete “No—I d out this afternoon. held over for the board m “An' why? I'll tell ye. fecause th" whole town is laughin’ at that policy. BHeenuse they say ye ain't worth a nickel to anny texdy. "I'm pe to tell ye wan or two things, In yer own mind ye "re a iuai- ant, a big man. In th’ minds of ise in Reuton ye'ra nothin’ but It's ee | “Let me finish Charlle. You was a bright boy once. ‘President before ye Was thirty, An" then good times come aon. n* they was bad times fr you. Ye got started an th’ wrong foot. Th’ big drop followed, as it always does, an’ thim that had been through it before took off their coats an’ got busy. Come back te earnin’ ie that was th’ big ides. Some cud an’ some cudn't. You was one that cudn't. It's like some fellow acid about ye—I forget just now. | Drop a lite “ Freezone" callus for a few nights. ig aching, them shortly yoo li Doesn't hurt a bit. You can lift off every harl con + between the toes, and the uses on bottom of feet “Freeeone ait aoy drug Edward Weshey and Goo te le lest oo Kren gerne gine afl seers Ing apeatcl «aha ent rey dd ace, RITE-WAY Hiding Gare at kee SAVE Le Cowt is pire ola bike & for U2-tnch; 14- inch im, al. i; lmch, it $4. tock. HO (is ak edit 1h s 7 “ah Gocoteeate Dil ie nae by naiost 25 ott 1} ei if iti FE- cis 44 jinn fee | iri beookart. Agente 3? aete— pio LAWSON MLAANLF ACTORS 14 W. daperier Ba ee | RI TE-V CAARATEAT Fl Just Pass the Envelg The “Brownee Pe | | | ere he j aa i ii = I '

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Mewtes, Mam. rr om Jobderes Trosted | denly her anzi THE SATURDAY | who, sure they're all maces, ety a ecg ts i ar le ' Frear," he saye—'poor says, ‘he's wint so far daw Easy Street he can't get back."’ Larry paused. Frear said nothing, but stood staring at him ringly. “Is it all news to ye, ri went on. “Sure, it hadn't oug it to be. Pros an’ now prohibition is wreck, “A victim of th" * Bome called ye. I mind me who that was—old Henry Frost. Henry won't renew thim notes [n th" mornin’ unless thee throw Frear brus hed tie band. across his tae m “Oh, so esr it, ie G7" he said, Done for.” He looked at “And itll kill me in T'll have to start all over some= shave ais elae. Fe “Well, I've warned ye," Larry aaicl gently. “Ye won't go into that meetin’ ators unsuspectin', which ia th’ way ehey wren ye to come Into it, Keep yer own Padova fh I always thought ye Wie , Charlie. Maybe there's a arg Frear ahook his head. “I'm afraid not. But I arene what you've done,” uF rp doar: the rush of atemoker air, the insult of the jazz, struck them full in the zp An’ I'm BOTTY it rough, wit ye—in there whin t aoe Lord, Larry, that was always a rule of the bar.” An hour later the last of the de- incoherent pit ant that as approval for the Charlie Frear stood in the hallway, facing his wife. “Well, that's that, "he sud wearily. last party = this town, Anne.” “Our “Larry told “Yee— he an he a lot of thingse What hurts me, Anne, is that not one these wos kind cana to tip me off, But then—they think I'm endangering their dividends. They pretend to be friends, but have no use for me really. They'll show me no eggs rs t are you ss do, Charlie?" "Todon't know. Take my medicine, I sup I'd like to stay up a while and | thin —if T can, Is there any coffee left?" * eon.! "T just had three cups. I'd like a few | more—black." kissed him and left hi Long, long thoughts they rar Eich ree ing across : " wen Lage le own on the ret dressin ray only parte \ maaed. and & for two Ours. The BUN Was ‘shining brightly when he rose, took a cold shower, donned a gray flannel suit, and went downstairs again. Fortunately they a ower spitz ioe @ firat — : of ie 7} 80 1 adit dihphcaracnd ace the wreckage in the dinin Charlie was silent at breakfast, but it wae was not the sullen silence of usual mornings after. His manner was detached, but kindly. “T believe ‘ll walk down to the office," he aaid when they rose from the table. Anne accompanied him into the hall. Ag “rH the dining nig he nodded, “I send an go man for that right eee Anne aaid nothing. On the porch he turned and looked at her. “Tye been an awful fool, Anne," he said. “You had a let of faith in Te ono, Have an atom of it left?" She looked anxiously into his eyes. at faded, replaced * All the faith in the oe She brought it to him in the Fest 1 rig his th thoughts happy smile, she said, “And, Charlie—whatever hap- pens this morning—it won't matter to me," He kissed her. “Anne, you're a wonder. It won't Thatter 50 _ to me either— now,’ ABOUT the ioe als sti the directors" room the alr wis and o%- pectant. Walter Sutcliffe, as Sekai gat at the table's head, and the president sat at bis ri ght hand. Charlle Frear was alert and 8 , but at moments when no one wis wateblng him he studied the pats gathered about the board. The re and uncompromising. inde studied another face, that of ald ‘Henry Frost, who sat a from the rest in a chalr by the . Mer. Frost wae not a director, but had been invited to the meet= ing owing to the notes he held. Years of EVENING POST Syepepes and of banking made it rather t to diseover any pleasant omen in that cast-iron countenanes. preliminaries of the meetin over, ahd the financial statement for the fiscal year had been read and approved. The latter showed that business was gain- [ng @ bit, but it also rewealed the fact that be the anton oe bo orcre the putes bed the nH Trust Lompany Lecr mist be renewed, Mason, the treasurer, stood up. He was a lean nervous man in whom most feeling had lon @ document in “Gentlemen, I have ‘here an insurance policy on the life of cur president. It was cx We pulley will Incas ie tees nee ago, 8 wi in three unless the mical jum af sixteen hundred odd-dollars is paid. I have been _— to consult the directorm on this poin m4 "Mister Chairman!’ Charlie Frear was on his feet, smiling about him. ‘Pardon Tive, Mason, but I want to make a motion. I move that. this: licy be permitted to torn up and thrown “Second the atte " said a voice from the other end of the table promptly. A vote was taken, and the proposition carried ir pg Charlie Frear re mained standing, still smiling, apparently onaTd like t few words, if I “T'd like to say a few may.” e chairman nodded. “Some of you mr be a bit surprised at my action, in th matter, I took that action for the of the pig ent I understand that this me okes, wind I'm not sur A hun dollars! Perhapa the man In- ured was worth that to you once, but for the past year or two his value has been Th tinu “T happen ta know," he went on, “that you have met here to-day to vote your president out of office. And I know, too— no man knows better—how belegre ou nat be in such an action, Im afraid I "t quite ain what happened to this fellow. " He ped armiling and etood for a moment look ng seriously at the table. Bile rine put him on the job five years -ippet faith in him. And fora time he made good. the big boom came, and it ruined him aa it ruined others. When it was over he was a lost soul, on was on the primrose path, travelin Going on down Easy Strect-—=on an teo far gone ever to get back. leper pha pest two years he has been the in town. Buzzing round like nest in a bottle, making a great noise, getting now . O4f on trips moet of the Had a suite reserved the ‘ear In a New York hotel, and another in Chicago. I may tell you that he cance these reservations by wire this morning. Hut that is ecole vie hot ere the eink is that when emplo cuts In salaré an packs oubled the fee to earn cea eee your oe retest stayed on at the old figure and failed to earn a third of it. He made a great fuss, kicked one of the town's pet | up a lot of dust, but between us here, the | only really big deals he's put over in months have been with bootleggers."” He paused. ed one made a move or | pi to interrupt. our president. " Charlie Frear con- tinwed, “has a contract with you at the abaurd figure of thirty thougand a yenr, That contract has still eighteen months torun. Some of you may be worried about it, You needn't be.” He took a paper from his pocket and tearing it twice across, toased it into a wastebas "There it goes, gentlemen. You have my retigna- tion and I congratulate you. The company is now in better shape than it has been for two oF Rone, harlie,” said Sutcliffe, “just a moe ment —— " Please "'— Charlie's amile returned, and it wea always a winning on¢é—"l'ye not quite finished. Last night, gentlernen, I had a talk with an old friend of yours—a Tan you used to be fond of—a man you had great faith in—the Charlie Frear you put on this job ~ ere a il We tal until f how he'd made a horrible a s ‘hinuel! of late, andl how he'd just waked up to it. 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THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 669 Independence Square, Philadelphia, Peoneylyvanin Gentlemen: How much will you give me to take core of new and renewal aul becrip- oom for you in my meighborhood? IT assume no obligation in asking, but I want te lewow, Mame Set ae PS Hoot Holle ol War Veterant, Fitting Tokens of peter lion fot eee Cialts, Frobeowmenss wh “Chater of Matyles and sccm me Treat Eager prepara fo Pag i fret Saved time and cartare 1p or Ewenks, Cheapest var Way to Go hot aedlrocecotioniacno so Taat ie U ~ Ea oiled Hienze, Seed for PRE hooktet of orfintie deriga Special Deng oe regal. mete the emall paypmence, Hy Pans.) 0p meet a. way bree eal Eu Prices. Ted ee eer. Vibe her car recrricabis fact: Hers are Surrehes tere. Li Ex: BRONZE Mead 2:: ycle eee Ay * Danene METAL Repo € Dept B55 Chicago tee uniog DEM DB. deb HAWOOCE J LAND GIT, BY | } i I ] | when a bartender tells ag. | Anne. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST erack at his old job. He swore he could make god, a fl ity the gh Baht, He promised me faithlu t he was done with the bluffin and moige. And as for the bonne —— “Woll, it's like this,’ he said: “A ) bartender just told me I've had enough, and u that, it's time to Beenise you've had ex Some of the faces about smiling new in a friendly wa Frear looked about him wit oe. “You're in the market for a president,” he finished. “I offer you the old Charlie Frear. I offer Charlie Frear stripped of his nonsense and pretensions. a other man could possibly have his incentive to the job. I offer him at the lary of ten thousand a year. Will you give him atrial? It's up to you." artastd own. aay pect aera ar “Well, gentlemen, i ak my epln- jon," said Suteliffe A nally, “that was # man's-s1ne 5 t know how the reat of you fee ate — S but tot a part I'd be Pat be aulghine: ates glad to have the old Charlie at the head of this company." Several of them nodded vigorously, “Hut of course there is the matter of our notes, held by the Reuton Trust. We are forced to sak for a renewal, Mr. Froat ——" They all turned and looked at the banker, sitting immobile against thewall, his poker face without expression of any sort. ee I may point out to Mr. Frost,"’ Charlie Frear said, “that it would be difficult to persuade anyone elae to take the position at the figure I've named. If this man away with his job the com- pany will have effected a rather important aa in overhead.” Old Henry Frost put his hand into his pocket and took out a small bottle. He removed therefrom a couple of soda mints and inserted them between his thin li "T'll renew for t months," he an- nounced. “Of course what you do is no business of mine, but I suggest ae yo ge him a contract for the same term ell eee if he really means it." “Troan it, said Charlie Frear tly. "Yes, Charlie, I puess you do,” answered the old man, and came a5 near to amiling as. his tertored stomach would it. Half an hour later Charlie Frear had Anne on the telephone. “Anne—l just wanted you to know— everything's all right. I've got another ehanee." “What? What is it? Charlie, T can't hear a word,” » the directors are good scouts, ust like you. They've Riven Tm eae chance. It's all settled h, Charlie—really? That's wonder- ful! [couldn't hear you at first—they were making such a noise. The expresamen, I mean. They've just taken that—that thing in the dining room." “Oh,” said Charlie Freer. “Oh, have they? Say, I'm mighty glad that's out!" ¥ ATE in November, Bill Terriss came Jback to Reuton on another business trip, [twas 9:30 in the evening before he rt advice,""" & ae were , and Charlie Ba new COM Cn, Mer found time to drop inte be Room. Larry greeted ES F “Well, if it ain't Mr. Tere. é a stranger in these pera 4: business, sir?" “Oh, it seem to be nls ie “hy let. How's trade with “Booming, sir. Just i a" “Been here since moeorsing, yy: 4 first chance Ive ned nd mbar 8s rs Larry, it’s pretty chilly tos T'll have etd SE sae todd “I'm afraid ye got another ths) sir. What say to a hot choy deélicicus."" “Oh, all right, Et in bere none of that sickish whipper - "Ee try took a cup mand file! » yeare, sir. “Twill make a sew my “Yes, it will,” armed Te sively’, iy the way, [was out at the & lant this afternoon and they ii arlie Frear hes sien 2 great © Working his head off at a reas and A “As fr th’ booge,” Lary & emi “he's wan. of me rec last night he come in bere wrt carb tecdnt ordered wan of me you aT pg " shuddered Tetra "Mae iris Now I ask ye—cud sé do that?" “He could not," said Terra I'm glad to hear it. I always eg . Bot [ wonder what bb m “T wonder,”” paused Larry a the counter thoughtfully. mét face gettin" long an eileen? Is there a white ribbon sore picontcie® Is there a white ne me third chin?" Terriss stared at him. ok rumor,” he sdmitted. “> ena Mau om, ee Weil.” h LL iT} take it up— "T wan aatan ; quite a little talk on tempers : or two that heard it though: * might have kept on-in th’ pro knows th’ way thing: = plenty to do. However, I decd on me laurels."* Terriss threw back his head [ “Well, [im a hinamnan ' have certainly changed. The | i side down. “You've said it, sir,” Lary street door and a smal neatly dressed woman @ntess! tro tall, handsome youn = cried Larry, “tis Bridget a= th’ kids. They been havin’ a 9 th’ movies. The woman advanced 2m! counter, Larry stood erect o hand—a proud gesture. ~ Me | he aaid, “meet th’ wife!” TUNES oF kde, FES, SPE “r ais We. ‘Mary aad fod Moeuttala, Glacier Fathead! ea i Digitized by@eogie

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(Continued from Page 23} German territory as would place an Amer- fenn division at Mayence and a8 assigns two French divisions to my Army of Geeu- pation." The Allied commander in chief acceded to this demand, and the American Army of Occupation preserved its entity. As @ com sequcne: we were deprived o half of our bridgehund, it being taken over by our friends despite strong protest against this particular action. On its march to the German frontier the American Army occupied Luxemburg, and altar erie left ae ‘the Te ee pie for ths Purpose rding the lines of cormmuni- cation of ite gree on the Rhine. This ore tion proved a ticklish iness, one the most delicate problems that had ale up for solution. Intense rivalry existed botseae! France and Belgium for possession of the little duchy. It had separated from Belgium in 1299, alth Luxemburg deputies con- tinued to sit in the Belgian Parliament for two years more; and in Northern Luxem- burg popular sentiment rege eee fa- vored annexation to Belgium. Op ty this was a strong sentiment elsewhere for an Sprranet i oA Meg ce. pees alli- ance i e majority of the popu= | lation, including the Liberals, the members of the eeonomic-reform movement, and the Intellectuals. Aas eoon aa the Allies had won the war perce’ | became a hotbed of political intrigue. It was reported that the French sont ches hundred officers into the Grand Duchy to create public sentiment for union with nee; and it is certain the ine, hey did their utmost alo Soler got int. Blenned a visit by Albert to uchy, he being i jneiunae yp ar oe he annexationists encountered the oppo- sition of the conservatives in Luxemburg, who wished to preserve the alatwa quo, and also of the bourgeoisie, who were ambitious of overthrowing the ducal government and setting up a republic—but an independent republic, and che a dependency of a more powerial nelghieor The Belgians wanted to send a regiment inte praia They for Lie igo on & them precise AlzacesLorraine: had been Seataned to to France. They wanted Luxemburg, with or without a plebiscite. The Allied comman in chief deflected their move to place a regi- ment in the country. The Army That Jiruck France planned to get the duchy for her- self, Laxemburg was in the zone of the American Army, where it was placed by Marshal Foch, but Foch selected the city of Luxemburg for his Great ssc and sents Pe regiment there ore aba guard for himse also designated officer as a ea armes and gave him authority aver all postal traffie, cireu- lation by rail and highways, and ao on—all thig in the American zone. Marshal Foch capped this with a proclamation to the people of Luxemburg. ; Cn December twenty-third General Pershing informed the Allied commander in chief that he could not agree to the ar- Fangements made for the occupation of Luxemburg. It waa a neutral state, and the city of Luxemburg was in the American zone of occupation; yet i conn- mondial darce: controlled tal traffic and circulation by rail and highways, and the French had- called upon American troops te intervene in some local disturb- ) ances. Pershing pointed out that the American ‘had no business interfering in local political conflicts, Speaking of isco aa emo the ae em Army pro one that wou have fea a knockout in opera houfle. They went on a strike, On the night of December nineteenth the whole gang araded the streets, ran and shouting. iis demonstration was in support of their demands for more pay, less German disci- pling, and one day of a week, Their leaders reported that the French commandant gave them permission to strike so long as a did not kill anyowe, did seem unfortunate, coming on top of the entire absence of American troops In any part of Alsace-Lorraine, and at any of the celebrations in the provinces, | that Marshal Foch should decide to send a French regiment to Luxemburg aa his per- | sonal guard. General Pershing had given isurances that he would be happy to pro vide an American guard for Marshal Foch; and the fact that American troops were occupying the greater part of the duchy m very conspictious the Allied corn- mander in chief’a action in intreducing a French regiment a4 his guard in this region, The step in teal was not important, but as a move in French policy it carried much significance. Pershing’s Proclamation On the entry of American troops into burg, General Pershing issued the following proclamation: “To a ple of Luxemburg—After opie Ht invasion Luxemburg is mow fae liberated, Your freedom from (Ger- man occupation was exacted of the in- vaders the American and Allied armies at a condition of the present armistice. Tt | now becomes necessary for Anverican troepa io through Luxemburg and to establish " maintain for a peti eir communica- ons w ‘our terri "The American troopa have come to Luxemburg as friends and will conduct themselves here strictly in a nee with international law. No hardship need be expected from thelr presence, which will not be extended beyond what is deemed strictly necessary. Your government and inetitutions will nowhere be [nterfered with. You will be undisturbed in the peaceful pursuit of your lives. and occupations. Your persons and your property will be respected, It will be necessary for the American Army to utilize certain buildings, railroads, telegraph and telephone Lines, and peaaibly other public works, for she ‘Iter, transportation or communication; but be | yond that, whatever supplies may be r= quired. will be paid for at a just valuation. “Tt is meumed ai a will a a ions upon the American Army anc wil ti : ot give any information, ald or com- fort toa its enemies, You are expected cheer to observe such ru as the American military commanders muy find itn to make for the safety of their your own protection.’ ‘aoe Third Army continued its march toward the Rhine on December sin and two divisions of the Second Army’ re placed in Luxemburg to guard lines af: communication. As I have said be ‘fore, though lying in the American zone the cit, af Luxemburg waa excluded by Mi cabal | Foch from American control, And in o note dated December fourteenth the Allied commander in chief conferred upen Gen | eal de a, y of Lune eer armes in the city of Luxemburg, contro! of all troops in the d duchy so far as eoncemmed a decree Foch bad issued for the administration of the littl: country. This Pee contained minute restrictions on the | inhabitants: in view of their friend)» at- titude the Americans considered restrictions wholly unnecessary and gratul- tously provocative, Moreover, this dual authority many complications, and t Foch's decree actually ave French gen- eral contral over American troops in ad- ministering aifairs witha; a neutral state, a condition which could not be tolerated of course, Orders were ieeued to the American commanders ta take no orders from (Gen- eral de Latour, and notification was sent to Marshal Foch that the American com- mander in chief did not recognize any me cessity for his decree and could not uc- cept it. ershing to Foch, on January 12, 1914: “The President considers that it is hoth unnecessary and undesirable te publish pny beh Se decree to the people of Luxem- Or. He agrees with me that the A Army @ United States ia threatened with no danger from Luxemburg, If, theref: re, you should consider it indispensable to pull a further decree concerning Ligembu ity, the President would deem it most advis- able, in the interests of all conmeerned, that raised all American combat troeps be witherawn | from the Grand Duchy. "I eet Fas i vi a lt possible to poatpone the eatlon of your proposed decree, But FF yon deem it indispensal le to publish the proposed decree, T must re quest that you make such decisions as to falky | t hese | hreatened more, The a E to cd Blue-jay. A towe = Blue a Then the om comes out. Made m 0 = a pa a = = a 5 Ga oy. it) and in @xtra thm 7 whichever form you Las or the liquid—the achon Safe, gentle. M ade i in = laboratory. 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Philadelphia, Fa. -_ THE SATURDAY the troops to replace American unite as will enable me to withdraw all American eombat troopa from the pacritors af the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg at the carlbest possible date. . . . Linfer . . . that you are of opinion that the withdrowal of American troopa is likely to be misinter- preted. I can sea no reason why such a result should oceur—any mare than in the case of the change of boundary which ex- cluded all of Lorraine from the American zone in order ta avoid difficulties resulting from the difference in points of view," Allied commander in chief t sought to secure acceptance of the seiivabin of ch control by so modifying details as to make it almost unre izable. This trick of augar-coating the pill haa been de veloped into a science in Europe, but ina mitch as they arapley sich methods a good deal, one who had any experience readily recognizes the does. Pershing shone firm; refused to aceept the French arrange= ment in any form or under any guise, Considerable correspondence nerulted and several conferences were held, During a conversation on January twentieth the American commander in chief told Marshal Foch that Luxemburg was regarded by the American Government 28 an independent neutral state, possessing the right to admin- ister its own "people, and consequently the American Government could not aeaence in the reatrictiona Foch had laid down Foch was much exercised over the poise sibility of the withdrawal of American troops from the grand duchy. This would be, in his opinion, a very serious step, be colise it would tend to spread the He that the French authorities were carryi out In the Grand Duehy of Lassmine ue activities In which the Americans deeli to have any part. Sittin’ Pretty General Pershing replied that this belief was ont whith a great many people held g discussion engued, at the end of which the marshal announced he had ala doned the idea of publishing a new ducrel eoncerning circulation, postal traffic, and aoon, And a few days later—on Janu | twenty-fifth—he agreed to inclide the | whole of Luxemburg in the American zone. | Meanwhile our Army of Qerupation bi | sittin’ pretty, as the doughboys say. It | held the bridgehead of Coblenz, and its elements were scattered throughow ue a fair fat land, from a few miles d the | Rhine back through Treves to Tarsansbeiie and Franses. When it marched into Gen many this army numbered close to 450,000 ae Ore Ph, ora are se ate rr EVENING POST men, and it would have been impossible to find a force of similar size with flner disci. Pline or imbued with a keener fighting apirit. They followed close on the heels of the retreating Germans: once or twice, units of the enemy were seen on the other aide of a river or canal, legging it homeward in gladsome relief, the ra aporting flowers in their helmeta and singing as they marched. The boys eyed them curi- ously and grinned. In order to impress the Germans with their triumph, the French made triumphal entries into cities not held by their troops, but ay within the zones of their Allies, Shortly after the ae Thira ‘Army estab- lished in Coblenz, where the headquarters was Ineated, a French oh ita came steaming up the Rhine, with ruffle of driims and blaring of many bugles. lt was an inspiring sight; the French stage such spectacles admirably, The Word That Never Came They landed close to the Coblenzer-Hof, near Dickman's eae pesrters, and paraded through the principal streets ad the «city — nd aed a Tagish flags flung to the breeze. Some of opulation lined the streeta to wateh— chi the young, drawn by curiosity. It is to be hoped the impres- Bion was commensurate with the effort put forth to obtain it, for this sortie into the American tone sat illy on the av dotighbos"s stomach. He is not especially keen on parade stuff and he sized this up aa a political maneuver, perfect right to impress the Germans with their defeat—but why did they horn into American territory to do it? Both in oceu- fied Germany and back in France, where our divisions were departing for home as | obtain. t fast as they could tan, the nationalities farther apart. The instant the of a common dan lessened the need of united action, the in- teresta of each country dominated its atti- tude and the viewpoint of ita peeple, Tt has always been that way. For a while during the peace conference in Paris it locked as thaw ough the Germans might balk at the terms and refuse to sign. Few among the Allies—or among the Germans themeclves, for that matter—realized then the utter helplessness to which the once mighty empire had been reduced. Prepara- tons were mache for a further adyanee inte Carmany to compel scceptance of the the enc waa generally understood that ch were eager for a German re in order that their armies mi re additional terri . From the time of the armistice the French had pressed for Hevilts Tower, 1940 Feet High, on the Carter Battle Aaeld Higheoy Wear Carlile, Fyoming The French had a | YOUR HAIR == eo E be outa Waren h Heve-Pade fear $01 Eighih Ava, 126 . “The eels hah | Cashmere Checkings $5.00 The aristocrat of Caps—character- istically Merton. ‘Ty pifies all that ty histurigus in fine capa. Custom tailored of handsome Seotch-loomed Cash- meres, the downlike softness of which" belies their rugged wearing qualitics, The patterna—amart checks of block ond white, brown end white, myttie green and white, myrtle green and brown. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 130 more drastic conditions of peace than Great 5 Britain, Italy and the geen —— were prepared to countenance, 5 A ae advance into the beaten country were made France might | the precios Ruhr region and even esta ange aot: th do Fe the armies were go— British, American and Belgian— momentarily expected the word. It never tame, because the Germans knuckled under, but i it is of interest to know that — dent ilaon was not prepared to let Marshal Foch decide this momentous question for American icipation. On April teanty- i-General Bliss that the Amer- jean commander in chief should Aa movement of any kind looking toward a further oecupation of Germany tinless in- structions to that end were given hir Se Shae aa in person, not Kall gists s attitude toward French efforts: ' to exploit its help was ably defined in a rz conversation ween an American and a fi “MY PROFITS from Curtis work,” writes Miss French officer, Speasig Nee ee ' te eh 5 ea { Tennessee, ” ce just mistake was ng toed in band a t double the robbs ave receiv Any h relations, I q other sort of work; and sometimes amount to chile ieee ate certs As Ghrob ni Weir tiitsep! we saeicl:" France; on the other hand,’ bag Pe Se soar who have tried this and yee much tos seek from America. If oe other ways of earming money in spare hours were n of American altruism would heartily endorse her conclusion. gl pa French iy a tar in winning $n nited States, pal Our Cash O Y eT win rectarorkies re mericans. r Cash Offer to You Seere ee Bee Would ag ree hours? Subscription repre- cans, to Use m es ae litical sie Poole a Sree er ates o ana a one Sor dae oak gee Conecaconenochons Our officer intimated that American re- serve, thal con bring you such work. You may have sentment was bound to be stirred should $10.00 to $50.00 or more too. Write for full details Marshal Foch utilize his position as Allied extra cash for a few epare without obligation, F ea en Me ief to the game. of THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY | a ai grt agioed answered that he 663 Independence Square Philadelphia, Pennsylvania hay nk SONVERSAHON OVER, Very — ao | The return of the troops to the United " Stites Presented a dificult problem. | Editor's Note—Thhis is thr iat “The armistice suddenly and a fo ap reversed the problem of the Services. of THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (More Than Two Million and a Quarter Wee | IS fully protected by copyright and nothing thet appears in it cay = either wholly or in part, without special permission. The tee of oo) quotations from them for advertising promotions and stock-scling § never authorized. } | INFORMATION COUPON esc shee $1, Table of Contents May 27,1922 Cover Design by Neysa McMein | SHORT STORIES Meet the Wife—Ear! Derr Biggers AMIARD BALDING. HLEGHTS tows a Fare —— Ling LE bid amy ett: ae i kid an ia eee ee ed Exceptionally Low Cost by Building Now Today, when all building costes are low, greater savings are effected in Truscon Standard Buildings 7 2 Wace 8 DM SE BT aT a i than in other constructions. In fact these all-streel buildings are at exceptionally low prices, due to the resent rock-bettem ease of steel. rari = Witee 40rd ae = See | I, Lower first coot is only one of the definite sav- ings effected by Truscon Standard Buildings, Pe caeeeeee wick erection with miner laa bers flarts your building earnings promptly, 3. Thetrloweost red gecs interesteharges and taxes; their permanence saves on insurance and upkeep. #. Easily dismantled, they are re-erected in new loca'teons without loss. Fireproof, davlighted, well ventilated, Truscan Standard Buildings make ideal factones, ware- houses, foundries, service garages, hilling atabions, shops, etc. They are furnished in all sizes, with pitched, monitor of sawtecth ros, Ffu yt hem Mout of Atock foffor Prone Write er Pitre for infarmaiion, Cafeleag, Ere. TRUSCON STEEL COMPANY Youngalown, 0, Worehooser & Sales Offices tn Principal Citles TRUSCON — 1 $TANDARD€@ BUILDINGS Bg 2a - re “dye a as Tounpeicewn, a S Trustee Site! Ce. —— i cy 5 Senil [nfs rreel brio Bell a © # a ie , Bren = art fadcnresier ii ee a ae he The Price of Pearla—Sephie Kerr The Merry Wives— Gordon Arthur Smith Single, Dowhle, Trouble—Augh riley A Sensational Disclasure— Williaa Harlin Oabockis : _ ARTICLES An Audience With the Japanese Prince Regent—Jsaac F_ Mai Wild Game— Forrest Criasey Fron MeKinley to Harding—#. HW, Kohisaat aise The Inside Story of the A. E. F.—Gearge Pa ttulfe awe | The Freight That Foiled—Forrest Crisser . ee SERIALS Trost Emily (In three parts) —May Edginton The Number One Boy (Second part)—_john Editorinis =... Everybody's Business—Fiovd Ww. Parsons. The Coal Controversy—C. BE. Lesher . . . 4 . Taintor Foofe . = A REQUEST FOR CHANGE OF ADDRESS must reach us at before the date of the tse with which it is to take effect. D : be sent to replace thoge undelivered through failure te seme Rene Be sure to give your old address as well as the new one.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 131 “Don’t wait until it’s too late” was your age, Tom, | was just where tolay. T had what was then considered ob in Black & Tumer’s Accounting De- ‘friends predicted great things for me. mother and [ were married and pretty t fo need more money. But when | salary question with the head of the ' told me frankly that the firm was ny work was worth. on, it was a bad night when I brought 2 fo your mother. the same way eversince, Man after aivanced over my head while I have MLE. tr old friends have grown away from could not keep pace with them. I le to send you to college . . . And our mother has been patient and un- it is that a single word would have He Life ! hat was all I needed. ch energy and ambition and as good {the men who went ahead of me, but jobs opened up I wasn't equipped to ntil it’s too late, Tom. 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132 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Mey Allin the days work REGON was having a bad spell of weather —rain, snow, high water, winds. Railroad service was brought to a standstill. Tele- phone and telegraph wires were down. Highways and roads were blocked. Many towns were isolated. Meat foods were needed. A Swift salesman, on his rounds, got caught in a slide on the Columbia River Highway. He was compelled to abandon his machine. But he did not sit down and wait for clear weather, He made his way back to Portland in a small boat, loaded another boat with 20,000 pounds of Swift's products, and de- livered them to his customers all along the Columbia River, where snow lay from three to five feet deep. He thought nothing of it. It was all in the day’s work. Any Swift man would have done the same. That is what Swift Service means to all of our salesmen. The duty of serv- ing his customers was a serious responsibility that he had to meet. We feel that Swift's meats—“Premium” Ham,“Premium” Bacon, and also Brookfield Butter and Eggs— must be de-— livered, whether or no, to your dealers all over the country . who depend on us to keep them supplied with meat. In our packing plants,traffic departments, branch houses; in the office, among traveling salesmen; from one end of the or- ranization tothe other, thereis this same responsibility of serv- ice, this same matter-of-fact, taken-for-granted faithfulness to a trust and a responsibility to find a way out of any difficulties which may seem to prevent the daily service to our customers, Swift & Company, U.S.A. Founded [868 A nation-wide organization owned by more than 45,000 shareholders

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eSe- Comp any A. Carts, President Vio Treaideri end Tes asurer hesctel Pasiness Maneger fh fdlh ora [Bard Advertising Dine vor gare Square, Philadelphis 6 Memiiattn Sareet Garden, WC jc THE CoOPprF crm ihe. te Corea ga Sik THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Founded A’D' 1728 Sy Benj. Franklin Copyright, 197. by The Cunha Publishing Company in ihe United Siates and Greet Britein Thies Kegiaerted ja U.S. Patent Office sad in Foreign Countries 5 PHILADELPAIA, PA., JUNE 3, 1922 George Horace Lorimer EDITOR Churchill Williams, FS, Bigelow, AO. Beall, Arthur Mcheogih, TEA. Costin, Associate Edjsars ee Entered as Second-Cloos Mater, Movenher tA, (A79 wtahe Post Office at Phibedelphin, Diether thee Avorol March & 1879 Auddithemel Eriry on Secomd-Clees Matin at Columbus, Ohis, at Dacatur, inele, a Chicega, Minos, anal ot Indianageslla. bnal. Fatered a@ Sepoeelo last Matter ot the Poot-Oier Department, Oiews, Caneda THE rEAL dep Ferd pepe (eto $2.00 Number 49 Eu By TRISTRAM TUPPER ar WrlhelilaMa@sr TELUS T&R ATE BD C, 5, atop the foundling home—fourth floor, front. Not Dreifl-apeech heaven. No humbugging. The real frebloe walls and oelling: Goudie sibatunce to walk upon with golden trimmings—real eighteen-carat gold; angels; everything. tdgett, who in the beginning waa not a Godlike person. But ed. He the heaven atop the foundling home created—Thomas A. ‘ou, with fine intuition and rare insight, are likely to guess. Yes, attempt te pry beyond terrestrial things into the unknown. Prying, ! There never lived a more secretive person. Yet he hated all lid not share, and determined to know the unknowable. Mudgett, eovering the language of the angels, iment atop the foundling home—concealed and zealously guarded Bax and a favored few—took upen itself somewhet the character tic failure, the Tower of Babel—as thrilling, a5 dizzy, and no if this were mot true there would be no story; or more deplorable 10 lowe story. ne, a dilapidated four-story brick building, was directly across the ‘tant uncompleted edifice that some day, the Lord willing, will be ne. Mudgett was its heed and shoulders, Also, to put it generously, . Though be looked like a vulture he sang the song of the sparrows: i.” By those who knew him well enough to talk behind his back he nett. And this described him—even more exactly in view of a Mudgett was quite young. He was less than seven-and-thirty apped on the walls of his head, took possession of his brain, became wrmured inaudibly to himself on that night. “Well now, I say, i4 taking form. nove, old Mudgett crouched over his secondhand desk like a huge adowa of his office—first-floor front of the old brick building. His tween his bony fists, He was motionless. A single shaded desk wn upon the Hing James version of the Bible, illumined the Firat Corinthians. But Mudgett was staring with unsecing cyes holes, Beads of sweat appeared on the thin bridge of hia nose, oastered him. And ne wonder! ! .wag no parallel to the thing he was contemplating, nothing even inleas one went back to the seventh century before Christ, when, as —— nes ae : - ka SS Ne Nad Not Turaed Arouad, Ne Continued to Dreop Ooer Nis Desk Very Like a Faulture Thot Mod Oropped Dowes Inte a Swier!l Chale Herodotus tells, Paammetichus decided the relative antiquity of the Egyptians and Phrygiana by the babbling of newborn baubles, Unique, wholly unique, and, he told himself, beyond conception in magnitude. He, Thomas A. Mudgett, with all the tools at hand, would solve the enigma that had baffled the ages. Prodigious! He would discover the origin of language! That wasn't all. But start there, Aristotle had bent his mighty brow te this problem, philologists and philosophers since time immemorial— Aristotle to Spencer. And what had they discovered? Nothing. Merely that the Aryan dialects are closely connected —Slavonle with German, German with Celtic, Celtic with Latin, Latin with Greek, Greek with Sanskrit. But what had been back of the four of five hundred reots of Sanskrit? Mudgett hadn't the slightest idea; know nothing about any of them. But, he told himself, way back millions of years ago man had not juat stepped forth from the ooge and slime of things, rid himself of his tadpole tail and said, “Good morning. Fine day, Wonderful view." Of course not. Well then, what had he said? How had language originated? The philologists and philosophers siner time immemorial had been theorists. They had failed. But he, Thomas A. Mudgett, was an intensely Practical man. Where they had failed he would succeed, Old Mudgett put the thing to himself in the simplest possible way. Language was evolved from grunta, interjectiona and imitations of natural sounds. From these words wore formed. Of course. Everyone knew that. But what were these original, fundamental grunts, interjections and words? Ah! That was the thing he, Thomas A. Mudgett, would discover, And how? It waa quitegimple. Simple and prodigious, Mudgett was a practical man. He reached into a pigeonhole and drew forth a used envelope—to sove pad paper— and wrote deliberately: “Bar out the entire world,” That was the first thing he would do. Quite simple. “Bar out the entire world. Isolate six or seven newborn babies In one room. Never let them hear a human voice, Await results." Mudgett mopped the sweat from his eyes. “Well now, I say, what will happen? That's the question. Won't they eventually find some way of communicating with each other? Boys and girls, Say now, won't they? At firat, mere grunts and interjectiona.

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4 THE SATURDAY Then words. A language. Their own language. The natural language. The original language! I say now. But farther than that ——" Old Mudgett dared not go farther. Not aloud. Not on paper, The walls of this dingy old building, this shaduwy office with its dark aleove and drab discolored paper might have ears. Secretive old Mudgett! Yet he could not step that prying mind of his from reaching owt inte the unknowable and seeing a vaster significance in this, his master idea. He, Thomas A. Mudgett, would go farther, much farther than merely solving the problem that had baffled all the ages, Remember, Mudgett was a practical man. So to have any conception of the prodigious thing that was taking shape in his long bony head one must first clearly understand certain fundamental truths. The first of these is: Babies come from heaven. If you believe this you believe it; if you don't you don't. Butit is undeniable that nowhere on earth is this particular truth so palpable os in a foundling home. Alaa, in the outer world the fact is sometimes forgotten, overlooked or even doubted, Inafoundling home, never. And the reason ia this: Babies that come to a foundling home never have fathers. Conceivable that this may happen in the outer world, but not often. In the home not a single baby lod ever had a father, Not one. And even more significant: The babies that came to the found- ling home never had mothers. The conclusion is self-apparent, Mudgett was a bachelor, miserly and mean. He fumed, fussed and jnashed his teeth: he paced his dingy office with ita worn carpet and dark aleave where he bung his frayed Prince Albert coat; he pulled the lobe of = .«-" his left car with his right hand until his ear was curiously elongated; he haunted the secondhand stores and auction roome for fixtures and furnishings criba; per- ambulators: litte wicker chaira: he bought baby bottles with flaws in them, ut whole sale; bought the cheapest cotton stuff instead of fine linen; hovered like a vulture over the public markets: bargained, bullied, beat down; overworked every employe of tha home; got eeulliona from Ellis Island, paid them fairly nothing; brought pretty nurses from Jersey anc Pennsylvania towne and rewarded them with a seng for performing endless labor: Ibe laughed and wept, emiled and sobbed, prayed and whimpered, cursed, sang hymns and jazz in the purauit of donations, But Mudgett never denied an infant its birthright, never denied that babies come from heaven; and never refused te take one into the home. “Why, I say now, that's what the home is for" It wasn't a state institution, nor was it maintained by the city or county. The dilapidated old four-atory brick build- ing belonged to Thomas A. Miudgett. Quasi public, or quasi private to a limited degree; but nevertheless it waa Miuadott's— belonged te him and the foundlings. And—as Mudgett sometimes put it to himself without opening his tight=closed lips—the state, county and city be damned. “Tsay now, it belongs to me and the foundlings. Do what we please with it. Everybody else be damned, unless ——™ And here he would rub his long bony hands together. “That is to soy, unless one desires to make a donation.” Then, in that case, old Mudgett would open his mouth devoutly and praise Ged from whom all blessings flow. Tonight —and this is the manner in which his master idea had come to him—Mudgett had been reading the Bible, a thing he did mow and again, chiefly in public, but sometimes in private for the purpose of getting new armu- ments to use against prospective donors. As has been sald, Mudgett was an intensely practical man. He waa searching feverishly, Work hed stopped across the street on the uncompleted new foundling home. To put it mildly—lack of funds, Again ond ogein in his most teur= proveking voice he had depicted the inadequacies of the ald brick building. His periods had been marked by prayers. Nevertheless all the arguments known to him — and that ineluded all there were—hod grown stole. They no longer moved the ossified consciences and petrified hearts of his listeners, who were few enough, the Lord knows! Then it was he had turned the page ane his shrewd eyes had fallen upon the first line of the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthiana: Though [ speak with the tongues of men and of angels — “Tsay now, I've apoken with the tongue of men, but what is the tongue of angels? What," inquired Mudpett of his intensely practical self, “is the language of the angela?" Unfortunately, he read no farther. His cavernous roind was working. He passed through the first seizure of his master iden. He, Thomas A. Mudgett, would not stop there, The discovery of the origin of language would bring The Head Matron of the Foundiing Home, Jae Wow or Jatenrely Effietene an Old fad gee Was fnigarely Practical him renown, mo dowht: but more important, if he evuld speak to prose pective donors in the langunge of angels money would pour He rubbed his hands together, pulled the lobe of his in. elongated eur, cracked his knuckles, “Irresistible! Money will pavur in!" rn He get himeel? to do some close reasoning, said to his innermicst self; Babies come from heaven: Only the angela dwell in heaven: Therefore babies are ongreis. Pretty shrewd. But it may be said that Mudgett's mind paused not for selfscongratulation; merely took the con- Clusion of this syllogism and used it 8 the minor premise ofa second and even more important syllogism, His mind worked as follows: Babies are angels. This hes been proved. Very well then, no one can gainsay that angels apeak the language of angels, Axiomatical, And the conclusion is undeniable. He wrote it down on the used envelope—atill saving pad paper, Like this: Angels apeak the language of angela: Babies are angels; Therefore babies speak the language of angela. “T say now —— Mudgett glanced coutiously over his shoulder to make certain that he waa alone with his flaming idea. He stared Into the gloom, then rose up like a shadowy vulture and crept to the door. Opening it a crack he craned his long neck and listened, Down the narrow winding stairway from the second floor and along the ill-lighted corrider came curious holes, faint yet sudible—a distant chorus of yapa and howls. He leased the door seftly and hung there, pulling the lobe of his left ear. Hadn't he just proved that babies speak the linguage of angels? Something waa wrong. Did heaven sound like that—those eternal howls? Did it? If he should speak to prospective donora in the language of babies! Say now —— He tried to banish the thought, Yet it persisted. His mind visualized the thing—vividly it pictured him stand- ing before an assemblage of proapective patrons speaking to them in the first syllables that come forth from an infant's lips: id Goo." Old Mudgett made the noise aloud. After all, it wasn't an unpleasant sound. “Goo geo," pronounced he solerinly, “Tsay now, not half bad." “But,” queried the intensely practical side of his mind, “what docs it mean?” Ne —————E——————— ———— EVENING POST June. ° Even Mudgett’s tmaginationn:.. He hadn't the slightest idea wiz: -, meant. Not the slightest, Yo t+. years women visitors bad lene enthralled while the diminztiv, »-; these cribs murmured “ (e." "TT say now, Muay be it has some me. would try it out on someone, Mudgett pushed the batton at i); desk. As always he pushed a vrs» force, a8 Uf trenversdous wil! pow py effort were necessary to mot the o the matron’s room. Old Mudge: » electricity quite its due. No cisais Whenever he pushed the bates appeared. Sometimes Mudgert oe phenomenon. He would ring, thee y his shoulder, and Mix Bax would j ingide his office with the door chee! hits with her level gray gare. But Miss Bax, She never smiled The af the foundling home, she was w = clent as old Mudgett was interest perhaps even more ao, She bad » but efficiency was the greate: | her youth, her youngoes. And d Mucdgett concealed it from. bw! handaome littl PeRRON: carved oot & substance as ivory by a seulptor ¥ery Touch to do except to cones ments such as Exgyptian dusk, 2b hair; and serene gray, which cons thing back of it yet was trans Afudgett had pushed the bel! a) foree, but as yet be had not tured continued te droop ower his ded oo ture thet had dropped down into a swivel cw hand was outstretched holding the stub ul s riys that came down from the desk light. 5 the ill-lighted gloom of the office there hu : slightest sound, Yet he knew Mus Bax ic Closed the door, He could feel her gray ee = Of his shabby alpaca coat. A tremendecs d came to him. Tonight, this very minut #2 iden as a sledge, he would break through 1 | baffling placidity. For a full mitute he did mot move. Hew until she spoke, but knew he could not bey His idea was burning him wp, comsumirs ‘4 very soul of him was aflame, Also, he wart first infant word, see ite effect open ter mightily to conceive of some intensely pra saying “Goo” to Miss Bax. Alas, he bee 1 And 30, laying down his pencil, be turned revolving chair. Miss Bax was standing 3 by the door. Mudgett cleared his throat. “ Miss Bas — ing thought to the hardness of the bear : said he ponderously. “Can you suggest 1) | would have a meliorating effect upon prep Can you?” He shot her a glance, but 44 reply. “Has it ever oceurred to you that if to them in the language of the angels me in? Has it?” He studied her, He cook least movement or emotion. “You cre mean by the language of the angels? Yo! language of the angels is, Mise Bax?” “T haven't an idea, Mr. Mudgett.” “What! Haven't you given the matte! “Wo: [haven't given it a thought.” He peered incredulously through the gio Bax, surely you read the Bible?” He wr atroked it with a familiar towech. “I haven't time to read anything.” > matron quietly, "You don't read the Bible?" i No.** “Mise Bax!" He picked up the B+ then and there read it to her, cover taco" voice he read one line: “Though T speak with the tongue angela ——™ There Mudgett stopped short, cleared 40 his ear. Although his shrewd eyes had cong line he read no farther. He closed the Rad “Tsay now, how can you consider y7 be associated with babies if you dont = After a silence of a moment she repo with them as litth as possible, As yu & is executive, seeing that others attend & “But you love babies ?** No answer. “You love babies, don't you, Mise Bar” “No.” There was a glint in the serene eye, “"T dislike them trememicn: | Mudgett?" Mudgett held up his huge hands # ! “Do you love anything?" = / 47" i —

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 5 efaawer this. Ina low even voice she asked, ebabie, Mr. Mudgett?" were tranquil, unarniling. But there was sone- them, back of them. The curved line of her iphavesiltened a little. Old Mudgett noted acd despaired. He could not for the life of + Miss Bax. Something was there wholly: rtohineelf, Yet, absurdly enough, there came met uneiquerable desire to aay “Goo.” ips it did hove some meaning! He moved ion and, he hoped, dignity to the window, weds behind his back, gazed out from the is offee into the shadows of the street. The midea desolate sound. The unfinished wall iy appeared in the city’s slender moonlight af some Lifinitely forlorn hope. Four years, t wall and those black socketlike windows wkat him. The new foundling home, all aghost of a living dream, Standing there, gofamament past rekindled and fared up es brain, obliterating the pallid moonlit wall, ; foor—what's up there, Miss Bax?” and broken things, the Christmas-tree or- rubbish, Mr. Mudgett.” : ave it cleared out—everything?" He con- ‘to gaze out the window. ‘Use the back or, fir storage.” Swinging around he faced ax, what happens to babies when—when to earth?" ad matron kept her poise, “First they are i them eateh their breath, Mr. Mudgett."" tmean that, What happens? I'll tell you. ontaminated. That's what. They forget howt where they carne fram, But suppose," “just suppose they were never contami- his. Iwantyou toseeit. Supposea number f them, six or seven, did not see a human iemeclves, did not hear a human voice n for two or three years. Isolated, segre- | barred out. Just suppose - bar out the world,” said Miss Bax quietly. inese weal], . Well, now—you shall see, No contami- an faee, no volee gave their own—two tte feed them?" asked Miss Bax, her in- find atework, “ How are they going te bee hanged 7"" pulled his ear, frowned down upon the little matron, and commanding all the 1 his pos er he rac ik I hat he ‘tail his ised hia 1 to ble ish- und lid ong bee aid hy, t. Fo f= d- In i =stial ied, | be as well 1 Miss Pax. sinople yet ent, iiss ni his reeost manner. of the gerentest benelit to the kvalitet of mayor importance to all mankind, e origin of language.” He broke off wed, ** Have you read Aristotle or “Well now, they failed. The great philelogista and philosophers of all times have failed. I, Thomas A. Mudgett, will succeed.” “Ta what? - Succeed in what, Mr. Mudgett?" He glared at her. “But I've just explained; succeed in discovering the origin—the manner in which language started, the grunts, interjectlons, imitative sounds, the words from which language has been evolved. Don't you see? Dent you see, Mise Bax?" he implored, “T—yes, [ think I pee." “Well now, of course you see. Shall we decide upon the number seven? Seven babies. Do you suppose, do you think for a minute that seven bablea alone together for two years would be mute? A mute baby! Think of it, Prepeaterous {" Miss Bax almost sighed with the delightful thought of a mute baby. Mudgett was pacing the floor now with long tneven strides. “Grunts, interjectiona, imitations, words. Words! They will speak to each other in the language"—he stopped abruptly and peered at the little matron through the dimness—“in the language of ——" Her gray eyes were upon him, level, serene, unemotional. He cleared his throat, “In the original language, whatever that is," he substituted for the thing in his mind. “But, Mr. Mudgett ——" “No misgivings,” commanded Mudgett. “Do you, Miss Fax, or do you not wish to assist me in solving the greatest of all enigmas, the Sphinzian riddle that has eluded all mankind?" “Tf you desire me to,” replied the lovely little person by the door, “But have you thought of the eost?™ “Money ——" Old Mudgett strode about his office, sank down at his desk, placed his gaunt shagey head between clenched filsta. When he raised hie head to tell her that he thought he could arrange even the financing of heaven he felt a keen, wnguieting digappointment. His office was vacant eave for himself and his master idea. The officlent little matron had silently departed. ar Bt Bede on the following morning donned his sane- timonious Prince Albert and disappeared into the Subway, At Wall Street he came to the surface, where the March breeze was blowing the spring lamba gently down the grade toward Eroad Street. What a day! Full of wind. Mudgett, with coat tails flapping, entered a Broad Street office building and without consulting the register book an elevator to the tenth floor, where he made his Ne Bargained, Neat Down aad Heggod in Gag Jecoadinad fiore After Another — Bat Houghe Wor a Jingle Article of Furalturge way along labyrinthian halls and came to a standstill ents a double glasa door, He asked for the head of the The wizened office boy looked at Mudgett. "He isn't in, but 1°ll see." Mudgett aat with hands clasped, Job was a fidgety per- son compared withold Mudgett on astill hunt for donations. Presently the wizened person returned. “He'll seo you." They proceeded slowly through a room where an ani- mated young man was hanging up numerals on a large blackboard. Men lounged on a bench. Tickers ticked. They passed into a ahort silent hallway and the wizened Peron opened a ground-glass door, revealing a mauve and mahogany office furniture—apacious, silent. At the far end, facing the door, sat a man whose face had the fullness and color of the sun behind a film of gray clouds. A stenographer, book in hand, vanished through another door, The man at the desk continued to gerateh his signature to a pile of letters. The seratching of the pen was the only sound. Mudgett stood with hands still clasped, head alightly bowed, attempting to read the let- ters upside down. Presently the penman glanced up and scowled at the vulturelike figure hovering over his desk. “Have a seat, Money?" “Money,” echoed Mudgett, He continued to stand. “Haven't a cent.’ The penman continued to wribe, *Wot—a—sou—marques.” With a flourish he completed the last signature and placed the pen acroea the tuska of a small ivory elephant. Leaning back in his chair he took one squint at old Mudgett. “Forget that pose, Tom. You give me the creeps. You look like an effigy of all the distress of the world. Sit down.” Mudgett did so. Each regarded the other in silence. Then both grinned. Concerning that silent gaze of the two men, ending in a grin, a volume might be written. Some of its meaning, however, can be conveyed in a sentence: Just thirty-seven years ago, at the age of one week, both had started life on an even footing—in the same foundling home. Later they had blacked boots together, “Not a aou marquee,” said the head of the brokerage Mudgett said nothing, but continued to gaze at the broker in an inescapable way. The man with the face of a beelouded sun scowled and tapped the gliss-topped desk with his finger tips. His fingers were stout and apatulate, "Say," he suddenly barked, thrusting his head venom- ously forward, “do you know what month this is? Do you?" “March,” replied Mudgett quietly, “March. Haa that any particular significanes to you?" “None,” snidMudgett. “Income tax!" shouted the broker. “Mota cent! Mudgett regarded him with his sorrowful yet intensely practical eye, “Alow much income tax do jou pay \ this your, Chie?" } “Nearly half. Forty- i eight percent. It's an out- 1 rage.” bet Mudgett gasped. That Mee WOU eerie ks ——"™ “Tt means I'm broke!” vehemently declared the wn-faeed man, “ Forty- eight per cent! Pauperized. And you come around beg- ging for money! Charity? Hell, Tom.” Mudgett pulled his elon- gated ear, glanced at the ivory inkstand and up at the face of the broker. Both beeame silent. Ewi- dently something Wie Passing through both minds — something way back in the yveara—in the diye of nickel shines. Chic absently thumbed the pages of his desk calendar, and clineel at his mot too highly polished flnger nails, “Say, Tom, the kids have plenty to ent, haven't they? They're not starv- ing atthe home? Nothing like that?" Mudgett glanced at the thick neck of the man be- hind the desk and revolved a certain matter in his (Continued on Page [46

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6 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST una Tht TROUBLES OF Tile EIOUS of the Capitol at Washington, the House of Representatives occupies the left-hand end of the building, the Senate oeey- files the right-hand end of the building, and the Supreme Court holds down the center. At first thought this would seem to be a poorly balanced arrangement, oa there are four hundred and thirty-five members tn the House of Represen- Latives, ninely-six members in the Senate, and only nine members in the Supreme Court. On second theught, however, one realizes that the weight of the brains of the Supreme Court is equal to the aquare of the Capital's hypotenuse plus the cubie contents of the dome, and that the Supreme Court le therefore properly located, The two ends, more- over, are balanced by the fact that what the Senate lacks in numbers it makes up in lung power and dead weight: while the large population of the House is partially nullified by the almost complete vacuums that exist in the heads of some of its members. One peaches the Howse of Representatives by entering the left-hand end of the Capitol and squeezing into an elevator with a number of worthy people fram Lpheming, Mich., Woodchuck Hills, ¥t., or Walla Walla, Wash,, who have come all the way to Washington for the special pur- post of seeing the Government engaged in a little heavy governing. The sight of a real live congressman in the elevator with them couses their breath to come in short, quick pants of excitement. One gete the impression that if they were to see a Supreme Court justice of a cabinet mem- ber they would require the services of pulmotors to keep them from passing completely away, \ ONE faces the various front doors Gray Congresamen at Work ree wlevator spills out its freight on the third floor, and the worthy people from Ispheming and Woodchuck Hills and Walla Walla find themselves confronting a num- ber of awinging doors, something like the swinging doors which formerly closed the so-called family entrances of that celebrated American institution, the saloon. Each swing- ing door is guarded by a venerable gentleman who is lunged in gloomy meditation, probably over the thought that so many nice-looking people not only take the trouble to pass through these doors each day but even appear to find something interesting in the proceedings which they witness. Inside the swinging doors are the galleries, partly filled with puzzled obeervera. The first impression that the Howse makes on one of these observers ia one of graye, of flatness, of colorlessness, of dreariness, of uninteresting- ness, The curving sweep of seate in the big hall t dark gray; the light that comes down from the large glass roof is a gray light: the ¢angresamen, half submerged among the empty seata, seem to be clothed in gray—though occa- sionally a congressman wears a blue or a brown suit. But just as all cate look gray at night, eo do all congressmen look pray on the faer of the House, Not only do they look gray but they act gray. Some of them stt with their feet on the backs of the chairs in front of ther, same of them read newspapers, some of them allow toothpicks toe dangle nonchalantly fram their lips, some of them doze. When they talk they emit a gray line of talk for the most part. The second impression that one receives is that of gen- eral bewilderment and unrest. Why aren’t there more congressmen in aight? Why de they move around all the time? Why don't they sit stil? What are they talking about? Do they know what they are talking about? Does anybody know what they are talking about? There appier to he signe of lntelligence on the floor of the House, Stenographers hasten busily from member to metober as they come to life and rise ta their feet to —E By Kenmetia L. Roberts DECORATIONS BF GUERNSEF emit a few remarks. The life of a congressional stenog- Fapher can scarcely be a happy one, far a large proportion of the remarks that he is obliged to inscribe in his note- books are about ag important and intelligible as Chinese cubist poetry in the original, Lot us listen for a moment. One of the gray-looking gentlemen on the floor of the House is standing on his feet droning along drenrily on some subject such as the relation of tine and temperature to the killing of potatees and potato mosole virus, Up then geta another gray-looking gentleman and rudely interrupts the gentleman sapraking. “T demand the regular order," says he mysteriously. He makes his demand of a gentleman who is sitting be- hind the high mahogany throne fram which all the aisles of the House of Representatives radiste. This gentleman moves uncomfortably on his throne and says wearily, “The regular order is demanded, Is there any objection?" There is a pause, and then another gray-locking man staggers wearily to his feet and saya, “Well, | object.” Two of three men then talk unintelligibly for a moment, after which another gray-looking man walks down the nisle with o determined frown on his face and says, “Mister Speaker, I move to strike out the last word.” Al this an elderly Eri mon with a small tramplike gray beard geta briskly to his feet and declares firmly, There is ro best word.” He i ignored, however, by the man in the aisle, who elevates his chin defiantly and declares, “ Mister Speaker, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." This, however, gets nowhere with the man with the tramplike gray beard. “Mister Speaker, saya he. “TI make the point of orber that the gentleman is not discussing either the amend- ment or the paragraph under conshleration.” The gentleman on the high mahogany throne claspe his brow wearily with kis hand and gazes at the ceiling with a pained air, “If the gentleman from Illinois presses his point of order,” says he, “ol course the Chair must sus- tain it.” The gentleman from Illinois declares simply, “To make the potnt of order." The gentleman on the throne stiles a yawn. “The Chair sustains the point of order,” says he. “The gentle man from Arizona will proceed in order.” The gentleman from Arizona mumbles a few words Which are unintelligible to everyone in the gallery because of the fact that the other members of the House shuttle their feet, rustle newspapers, whiper among therngelves, walk in and out and around, and clear their throats indus- ‘triously. When be has finished he says plaintively to the man on the throne, “Wlister Speaker, 1 ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks.” Thereupon another man gets up and says, ' Mister Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks of the subject of the fauna of Cranberry Cree ————— A OORE a ne a ee Te eeuird se The man on thé throes and says, * Ls-thereobj hearer," lt is evident that everrome on House: whet to go to sleep, not to be. Up gets a min and waker the throne hobler hateful manner, “Mister Spealer, strike out the fignures $1,100,000, thereof 21, 100,005,"" Thereupon the man on the t that the clerk will read the gray- looking clerk who sits im the throne reads, in a flat voice, “ strike-oul-$1,100,000-and-=insert= $1,100,005." Then the eros-looking gray man starts Pointed remarks, but is interrupted by from [linois with the tramplike gray bee "Wlister Speaker," says he, “I make the that the gentleman in nat cl boat amei gr the Thereupon the croas-looking man tome! him by remarking offensively, “I make quorum.” The man on the throne uncrosses hic lye gp saya. “The gentleman from Lowa will promt The Chair Counts the HIS. dow not imprest the genthemas sneers hatefully and says briefiy, na quorun.” At this the man on the throne ig sighs heavily and soya, “The gentleman § the polnt of no quorum. The Chair will @ Tits eyes take on the glassy stare af one y trating violently, and he counts industri utes while the congressmen souffle and oo Then the hateful gentleman from lows noise about the point of ne querum = life and says, “TL withdraw the point of ne Speaker, | have made some study not @ stitution of this country but ales af the England ™ This brings the man with the his feet once more. “Kiister Speaker," says he, “I make the Constitution of England has nothing creasing this umount by five dollars.” The gentleman on the throne com for a few moments, and then ans “The Chair sustains the point of order” This starts the hateful man on a 7 ter Speaker,” says he venomously, “I Fo querum."" At this point the single reporter whe presa gallery gets up and walks out of The man on the throne bats his and then remarks hopelosaly, “*Theg mikes the point of no quorum. The So he begins counting again. The ghesmen on the floor of the Howse wander in and out: and #pectators in abandoning all hope of finding out t reazon for any of these mystifying : Statuary Hall or to the Senate Cc The dark eloud of mystifiestion and, down on the average observer af the tives is due to the erroneous and almost sion that the House of Representatives the representatives do moet of their B As a matter of fact the average ff the floor of the Howse of Repretes

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 7 leu Hao place to get tangled upin the wath of befuddling rules that have been mirtend and fertilized by successive Con- Merch 4, 1789, when the first Congress of sates began to do business in a aimple and eunner. And he uses it as a garden in nt the little acorna which shall later grow getion aks. Tut he uses it for very eines of the House of Representatives nmitters, Which are nething more or les ongressés. In the beginning there were ammittets; but committees, like every- anected with the House of Representa- wan with such vigor and enthusiasm that stos drag to them they bulk so large ske can be seen. There is a wide differ. nate what ails the House of Represen- House itself says that it would be all ent for the Senate, Tt is true thet the ectly and unjustly blamed for the floun- 2 Senate, Considering the handicaps i House labors, it does pretty well; but are sufficient to make a less hard-beolled cop dead from discouragement. There ings the matter with the House, and all so serious, that any one of them is enough cshike his head and decide te operate, The csuficiently clase to the committee system able to see any other faults, and is apt to the trouble lies in the committees. If an- appens to have his attention particularly meat number of members in Congress he y fault lies there. Another blames weak ef blames the shortness of a representa- fice. Another blames the seniority syater. ‘her things. So when eight or ten persons rten reasons for the condition of Congress wecessarily conclude that meat of them are Wl of them are probably right. Course, grow worse with each passing year. de, the committees, In 1502 there were In a few years more there were elght. re were fifteen, When the European war were fifty-five. If an expert on Congress it there would ever be any more he would teurs and asked to be led at once to the rd. At the present time, however, there Ommitters, Rule by Commitice st popular recreations in the House of ves is introducing bills. Congresamen in- lees amusement all day long. Sometimes write their own hilla, but more often their ir stenographers or their friends write bills are written the congressmen take floor of the House and drop them in a ¥ are printed, ao that they look far more ieial than they really are. Only a few were more than thirty-three thousand 1 the House of Representatives during Such bills include almost everything making mam, They remove the charge he military record of Ozro Flittermouse, Clairyeya D. Eetoplasm, authorize the o grant two condemned brass cannon to ‘le, provide for the survey of Goober Creek and their tributaries in Georgia, ing on Weel using wharfage facilities ‘olumbia, enable the Secretary of Agri- experiments and determine the prac- i paper out of cornstalks, grant an to all persons who have lost the use of © bootleg liquor in the interests of pro- nt, prowide for the broadcasting of 1a by radio, pay Jonas MeNutt for the Jare the selling, exchanging or giving away of any pistol, bowie knife, dirk or dirk knife, black- jack, dagger, sword cane, sling shot, brass or other metal knuckle in the District of Columbia ao misdemeanor, authorize an act extending an act entitled an act amending an act entitled an act to establish a navy yard somewhere in North Dakota, and what not, Though the average bill is meaningless, worthless and practically dead before it starts, it must be webed on by the House in some way. As can readily be understood, even hy thase who view politica as some great detestable dis ease, the House os a whole couldn't pass judgment on thirty-three thousand bill. [fit devoted only ten minutes to each bill it would have to sit continuously for almost four years in order to dispose of ther. Consequently all bills are dealt out to different committees, which either throw them in the wastebasket and forget them or doctor them up and bring them out on the floor of the House, where they are disposed of with neatness and celerity. The seven or twenty-one of thirty-five members of a committee know a good deal about the bills which they bring out on the floor of the House, and the four hundred other members don"t know much of anything about them. 20 the four hundred ignorant ones usually and of necessity accept the recommendations of the few informed ones, which would be a fine thing if the informer ones were al- ways right. Unfortunately they are frequently wrong, owing to the fact that they are sometimes made wp of or headed: by amall-bore politicians with unerring instinets for doing the wrong thing. That is one of the unfortunate features of the committer system. But the House makes just aa much speed when it is wrong a3 when it is right, The House prides itself on its colerity, [t has so much business to transact and so little time in which to transact it that it exnmot alflord te listen to animated windbags of the sort that are permitted to wheeze and blow without restraint on the floor of the Senate, There are plenty of animated windbags on the floor of the House; but when they wish to become windy they must hie them to the claakrooms or to the pages of the Congressional Record or te their homea—or secure an election to the Senate, One of the most fannel-mouthed of orators in the Senate WEE OnCe & representative. He may rant and rave for hours nowadays withowt let or hindrance; but when he used to try it in the House he was given the coarse and unmistakable congressional razz to such an extent thet he was seldom able to struggle to the surface, There is a mistaken idea that a young and earnest con- Breseman can at almostany moment rise to his feet on the floor of the Howse, pasa the fingers of his left hand dramati- cally through his flowing locks, thrust his right hand be- tween the firat and second buttons of his coat ina Daniel Websterish manner, and deliver an impassioned two-hour apeech on Worman, Lovely Woman, or The Passing of the Litthe Red Schoolhouse, or something similar. Such, however, is not the case, A young and earnest con- gresaman hasn't a chance in the world toe get away with any auch atuff. Lf he ina peraiatent eusa he might have a chance to offer an amendment to an approprip- tion bill or something equally thrilling, and to apeak for five minutes in explanation of his amendment. He must, however, adhere rigidly to the subject under dis- cussion; and if he doesn’t the gray-appearing and blank-looking gentleman from Illinois, Mr. James R. Mann, or the dusty-appearing and apologetic-looking gentleman from Tennessee, Mr. Finie J. Garrett—de- pending on whether the young and earnest congress. man is 8 Democrat or a Republican—will probably rise to his feet anel unemotionally make the point of order that the gentleman isn't discussing the amend- ment. Thereupon the gentleman will either discuss the amendment or take a back seat. If limited to five minutes the silveriest-tangued boy orator in the world would find some difficulty in getting stexamed up to a point where he could make any soul-stirring remarks of an amendment to an appropriation bill, That is why debate in the House of Representatives is usually about 1 exelting as casual business conversations be tween the waiter and the cook of an all-night lunch wagon, Much has been said in the past few yeara concerning the general nit-wittedness of the House of Representatives, The truth of the matter seems to be that the House has as many able men as it has ever had within the memory of even the oldest and sourest members of the Them-Was- The-Happy-Days Club, It is pretty generally conceded that at least sixty congresamen out of the total House membership of four hundred and thirty-five are very able men—that, in short, the House of Representatives is a truly representative body. The three hundred and seventy- five other members are pleasant, good-natured, kind- hearted, likable, half-baked individuals with a panting, overwhelming, all-pervading longing to hang on to their joba joba. One of the odd features of the House of Representa- tives ia that almost any one of the four hundred and thirty-five members will admit that there aren't more than sixty able representatives—though some think there ire as many as one hundred—and that a distinct odor of Stilton clings around the rest. Each one, however, figures himself at one af the siety; never as one of the three hun- dred and seventy-five. The Wrong Fellour NE congressman in a contemplative mood recently re- marked that Congress was largely made up of men with ontrack and one-idea minds. Once they have absorbed an idea there is no way to rid them of it except by blasting it out of their heads. That, he remarked, was the reason that so many congressmen, if questioned, would unques- tionably state that Rex Beach is a summer resort, that Yom Kippur ia aaort of herring and that Easter Sunday is Billy Sunday's sister. He also added gloomily that a Massachusetts congressman asked a fellow congressman to attend and speak at a Longfellow celebration to be held near that poet's former home. The fellow congressman balked. “What do they want to hold a celebration over that guy for?" he asked. "Nobody ever heard of him until he married Alice Roosevelt.” For the benefit of the boobs that sent this heeb to Congress it should be ex- plained that the only Longfellow he knew anything about was the able and distinguished gentleman from Ohio, Nick Longworth, It is when one stands in front of the boobs in Congress and begins to cast a contemplative eye beyond them to the reason that give them their power, that one bursts into a light perspiration over such distant matters aa unre- stricted immigration. The boobs are there, nobody ques- tions that—least of all the congressmen. There are congressmen sitting on the Moor of the House whose knowl- edge of the multitude of House rules is so amall that {Continaed on Page 65)

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8 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST faareapoo's Great Rigét Naad Closed Rowad the Wreatler’a Back: Throdt Makie AUL BUNYAN, to quote from a classic of the logging campe, Was @ lad who could drive more miles and pull more stunts in more new styles than any other peavey prince before or then or ever since, Paul it was, as all good loggers know, who dug the Columbia in order to drain an inland sea that lay between the Cascades and the Rockies so he could get out a drive of logs he hod contracted to supply for Noah's ark. Acd Paul it wae who scooped! out the basins of the Great Lakes eo there would be drinking holes handy for Rabe, hia big blue ox, while he was logging off the Mississippi Valley to get timbers for the building of the Spanish Armada, Now the old-timers are saying Paul staged the deep water contest that was the undoing of the big Finn, Toivo Saarenpers. In this instance the old-timers arent holding atrietly to the truth, because Tul took his outtit over to Russia just before the revolution and hasn't been heard from since the last time Trotezky was pasnesinaied. As mo matter of fact, Unele Andy MePheraon did moat af the plotting against the brig Finn. Unele Andy @ an independent luniberman whos: mill is locuted on Yaquina Bay, out on the Oregon eoast. Toivo Saarenpaa, huge, blond, hae aeyind slay of speech but swift of action, bosses a company outiit that operates along the Yaquina River whove the buy, Without doubt there are good woodsmen to be found in other campe. Equally Withauwt caigtst ther boost leige- gers in the world are to be found on the Pacific Coast this by their own admission, And Swurenpaa enjoyed the reputation of bossing the wildest gang of rough- necks west of the Cageaded and of himeelf bone the hardest boiled of them all. Unele Andy did not appreciate the big Finn's quali- ties of leadership. Many a time and oft, slowching in agi emaychair in the lably af the trim little hetel he had built for his own convenience down on the bay, he had apent hours at a time trying to evolve a plan for humbling Sagrenpaa, One day while thus enguged a littl man in uni- form drifted tn and asked for a job. Unele Andy shook his head regretfully, Out of respect for the uniform he would have liked to offer the fellow a place, but what could such a runt doin the woels? Then something familiar abowt the man's twin- kling eyes and high arched, aggressive little nose drew closer attention, “Well, for the love of Mike!" the hamberman exclaimed, extending a welcoming paw. “It's Finnigan! Sit down, my boy, and tell me what's what. By the uniform I know you helped chase the Raiser into Holland,” “T cid,” the litth man admitted, grinning. “With a spud. When I enlisted I told 'em what a helluva fighting logger I was Unele Andy interrupted with a chuckle of amusement. “Did they rahe toe —about that fighting business?" Finnigan's habitu Hh grew more pronounced than usual. “T might have gotten by but for the intelligence test," he confided. “After I had monkeyed with that for an hour of two they put me to peeling spuds and washing dishes, Later I was transferred to the Spruce Division, and there I've been ever since, peeling spuds and washing dishes." Unele Andy chuckled again. “Served you tight for trying to call yourself o logger,” he observed. Ttefore the war Finnigan had been rated as one of the best camp cooks on the eoast, and to have been put to work os o kitehon mechonic—or flunky, as such men are called in the campa—was the greatest indignity he could hawe suffered, Unele Andy continued to chuckle abstractedly. He had to wonder what sent of job he could find for the litth man. “And you didn't even get a chance to learn any- thing new," he commented conversationally, “Sure I did," Finnigan replied. “I learned what a whole congressional in- vestigating committee couldn't diseover. A second Inot who knew where I kept my bottle cached, told me. He said all of sixty-four board feet of spruce was required in the building of an average plane, and he said the Spruce Division hed spent about one hundred and sixty- four million dollars getting ready to cut that sixty- four feet that was needed." Later McPherson gave those figures the considers- tion they deserved. In fact, later he repeated them to Sauainenpaa and teld how much he could have saved the Government if be had been permitted ta get out what spruce might have been needed. Saarenpaa's comment regarding his ability to do that little thing was, as it were, the final straw that choked Uncle Andy's goat, and re- sulted in the deop-water battle the old-time loggers are now attributing te Paul Bunyan's brain work. At the time Finnigan so glibly recited the figures Uncle Andy wns too busy trying to decide what FEEUST RATE 6 = With a Stored Avtonishing for Gee Jo Lorge, Jooreapan Dodged Vader the Jf erring Siade ar Juss 1, nem Fimm Meets Fimmiga By VICTOR SHAWE i= igs TON F Ia kG part ot | “Finnigan,” he said after dur isa: ral good to waste in a kitchen. I'll tell you win Py rustle a partner and I'll put you t work & felling timber." Finnigan appreciated the compliment of [ offer, but time ear experience had tagg: bin’ He was a cook, and a good one. A job ip the another matter. He knew even the poorest df would scorn him aa a partner. Nevet would be reflecting on Unele Andy's “Tye been cooking for so long I’m spoike| job," he sald cheerfully, “But if 1 don’: find in my line up the river I'll be back in at; rustle a buddy te work with me.” Then he hiked up the river to Saarenpaa's The big Finn did not know Finnigan, ode bosses along that coast, amd he bad but sas) the uniform Finnigan wore. With practi appraised the little man’s marrow shoulden 9 hands, white from long immersion in dishwue permitted himself a smile. He liked be jl paa did. "The cook has two funkies helping him,” & Vou cin chaise them owt of camp you es brs Finnigan did not hesitate. By instinct be lal to the kitchen, More times than one he bad | long enough to remove, by stricthy legitimes ook he happened to be belping. Inaiie oe glanced first, from force of habit. at the el range, where he knew he would find a battery eloek, Beaide the slarm elock steod wa He took a flask from his hip and placed it os tf of the clock. “A cup half full, " he said to the coo, before each meal. The cook reached thirstily for the fash. @ repressed a grin. This waa going to be eer hoped. Then he went to the meat block and heaviest cleaver and the wichkedbest-looking « "T'm just back from the trenches,” be | astonished flunkies. “I crave more binci beat it before I go into action.” He moved softly toward them, touring one familiar with his weapon, and hefting the uncensciss skill Ag the noise of the retreating flunkie - distance the cock reuched for the flask aon "Vou're back from whieh trenches’ 4 languid interest. "The potato trenches," Finnigan anew “How many bullies do T peel for in this col The expected happened next pay day. Th due to the influence of Finnigan's fixe perduasiveness of Finnigan's flatoery, good to waste his talent on a banat ot and Finnigan got dinner that men fie: enuee af the improved quality and I Saarenpaa drifted into the kitchen ater th learn what had happened. Finnigan ally asked for an assistant. The Fins Pinn bal Digitized by Google =.

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THE aJhome That Suck Pretty Little Naads Skould Moor to Do Sack Work" ng fine—for a flunky," he said. “Keep ne of days and I'll have a cook down here This time it will be a woman. I'm getting ra new hooch hitter every pay day." an to take off his apron. It was insult dd he wae doing fne—for a funky. But lunkying for a woman was more than even enclure. i Finns get that way?” he inguired with ew but one way to meet open rebellion. ather sorry for the poor little runt, so he netead of delivering the wallop the case tis, he alapped the place Finnigan had Finnigan, his little eyes blazing wrath- cleaver from the meat block and hurled e Finn's head. With a speed astonishing arenpasa dodged under the hurtling blade. le dewil!"’ he said with honest admiration dup. “Se you would if himeelf with a carving egic stand on the fur side F see @ Finnigan who he demanded belliger- ght this over a moment. the Finnas,"' he decided ting, “but I never heard ns before." He paused elock on the shelf above int lnte?T"" he said. “I'd aack to the mill. You intil the woman cones. ® comes you got to help daving thus settled the aatiafaetion he left the his head hopelessly. ‘with gw guy like that, sd how a college boy in doworked one summer ebig Finn. “Mentally vo speeds,"" the college w and alowrer forward, rtninly had been right. rin again. He decided ad for a few days and nd a wag to throw a the big fellow's men- arenpaa, carrying the ne are ws if it were a «l the mew cook to the 7innigan'’s blithe and dohirn. Inch for inch as Sasrenpas; pound ed as much. These { have forgiven her. id blue-eyed and un- t his time book and “Helga Ehlo,” she answered, The big boes made some com- ment in their own language, and there followed a machine-gun burst of strange-sounding vowels and consonants. When this sub- siled Saarenpan introduced Fin- nigan with a jerk of his thumb. “He'll show you around,” he said. “And if he gets fresh bust him right on the nose." Then he emitted a huge chuckle, recalling the ineident of the cleaver. “And you,” he continued, addressing Finni- fan, “move over ta the bunk house and let this lady have your room." There Was a room adjoin- ing the kitchen and the preceding cook had oecupied together. “Tt Lhave a bed and springs and mat- trea sent aver for you,” Sasrenpas added for the lady's benefit. The lady nodded, and looked at the clock. “Tt's time to start supper,” she sald. “How many do I cook for?” Snarenpea didn't bother to answer. With his thumb he indicated Finnigan as a sufficient source of information, then left the room. Whereupon the lady removed her hat and coat, and from one of her suitcases took a capa- clous, well-etarched bungalow apron. Ina manner merely matter-of-fact she began to unfasten her skirt. Finnigan gazed at her for one horrified moment before he started to bolt. “Here, you!" she yelled. Got busy with them spude." Finnigan returned to the sink and with nervous haste began poring potatoes. But he was eminently human— and weak. After a moment's suspense he peeked furtively aver his shoulder, Relief mingled with regret when he found she had stopped with the skirt and waist, and was putting on the apron. "Than't you see the clock? SATURDAY EVENING POST 9 A few moments later Saarenpas reappeared. Under one arm he lugged a bed and springs. Under the other he carried] a mattress, When these were disposed of he stood for a moment in the kitehen door, appraising the lady's proportions with appreciative eyes. “Miss Ehlo,” he eaid, not flippantly but with honest approval, “you're some woman. How tall are youT™ “I'm six feet five, she told him coldly, “And I weigh two hundred and sixty pounds.” "Some woman, " Saarenpas repeated, “The best Tove ever seen." “And | suppose you think you are some man,” she com- mented, resenting his very personal remarks. “Tam,” he told her without meaning to boast. “The best in these parts." He continued to gaze at her with respectful approval. Eugenics was a word not in his vocabulary, but he was thinking that when he married her their babies would be some babies. With the telepathic instinct possessed by so many women of her race her mind registered his thought. Her big round eyes flashed indignantly. “You get t"hell owt of here,” she ordered. Saarenpaa didn't understand why she felt like that, but he witsn't in the habit of arguing. Besides, he didn't want to get her sore at him right at the start. “Yeu ant the boss in the kitchen,” he told her. my way." For a time after he had gone she stood staring at the closed door. “In about three eoeks he'll be asking me to marry him," she said finally, speaking more to herself than to Finnigan. “The first one [ married was like him, and the next one was something like him, and I won't marry another Finn if T never get another man." Unexpectedly she sank into a chair and, putting her arma on a table, hid her face and began to weep. Finnigan edged over and by way of experiment began patting her ponderous, quivering shoulder. “There, lite girl, don't ery," he coaxed, not knowing he was quoting poetry. “If that big atiff begins bothering you ['ll slap him over and put the boots to him. And he knows I'm the lad that can do it." The mirth wrinkles anand Finnigan's eye: deepened as he talked, and he winked ot the old clock on its shelf above the stove. “Do you see the erack tn the door aver there?" he continued. “That's where I tried to split him open with a cleaver when [-had a run-in with nim the other day. I missed his head "'—this with infinite regret—“but the door shows where the ceaver landed." “What did he do to you then?” The lady was human enough to want to hear the end of the story, (Continued on Page IIT} "Tn of cr oe faaranpaa, Carrylag the Lady's Trunk Uader Oag Arm co lf Gt Were o Bee of Flowers, Escorted tha Mew Cook te the Kiet

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10 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By Sam He fEEVITRATESD BY Mt. L. BLE “What good would all the bruins tn the world do against a alugger like Stacey?" Biwi « scoffed Heenan, manager of the Blue Sox. “7 \ ei. Randall, whe had been graduated from Harvard inte Neeaon Was Surpriaed by the Kase With WaAlce = signedly. vi the ownership of the team, by way of a fortuitous mar- Jottherwaite Extoélished Himeeif on Frisadiy ire - what do youd riage, laughed shortly, Terms Wits the Afembers of the Blog Sox | "Mr. Randall,” expla “Tf he was pitched to properly he wouldn't make fifty —- with desperate mau to isolate and anhesl ; [ have made studies at) Camps ame 5 hits year.” ; “Where do you get that stuff?" Heenan tossed his half- chewed cigar over the railing with a movement of impa- "Well, never mind,” interrupted Randall, “We caneven survive his falhire. By the way, Mike, I'm sending a young fellow to see you. Name's Satther- tience, waite. Should be here before you start the trip home." The manager grunted angrily and moved) “There len't a pltcher in the league that he hasn't "Pitcher?" thought better of it.. The strange yo murdered, including Dan Mathews. Brains? He hasn't “Wa” tials from the boss. He motioned E enough brains to past up a piteh-out, but he can atick hia “Outtielder?” to the dugout. “Sit down and tell me all shout i I'll bite." “It's quite simple." Sattherwalie ae steadiness. “I spent a week or monent tie paychoanalyzing the men. The date exeept for your players."* "T don't follow you," said Heenan over again for the kindergarten class” "T have been studying the mentalit believe T have a good conception of the h them, the impulaes that muotivate them “Wo,” returned the owner with a pugzling amile. ‘He's Bn cubpueaser." “H'm. Brainy lad, eh?" “Look him over and judge for yourself. to-night. Write me about him." Three days later, at morning practice, Heenan observed a staop-shouldered youth wearing thick glasses ahambling toward him across the diamond of the Tigers’ park. The wubguesser.” muttered the manager. “Tam E ph rilm S&atthenvaite," an nouneed the neweomer in faint, hesi- bat out and bust one over the fence,” "That signifies nothing,” shrugged the young owner. “Ine kingdom of blind mon a one-eyed man is king.” “What's that?" “You know what I mean, Stacey's brains are at least as good a8 thase of the men whe pitch to him. If 1 had the time,” pursued Randall, “I could get tagether a team of playera—fellows who under present standards couldn't qualify in a Class D owtfit—and In six months T could run away from the best Isyout in the country.” I'm going West “Think sot™ “T kno eo," “What would you suppest,”” asked Heenan satirically: “that 0 release the whole bunch and hire a lot of rale-rah boys whe are at the bead of the class?" “Wau might dea worse, Talking about Mathews —whut's the mutter with him? Is he going te fliv on you this year? ‘That game of his yoster- day waa awful. He didn't have a thing on the ball except the cover, and they nearly ripped that off for him, “We'll be in mighty bad shape this yveur if he blows. [ve been figuring him for about thirty-five games this eeuRson, "He's pot me worried tao,”” acdmit- ted Heenan, “He lowked punk down South, but I thought he'd come to. Walks around ina kind of dape. Never saw auch a change in o fuy. Youd never suspect he was the same fellow that run mw “eG Eat lant aw. SAS but his -utra"s all Fieht, he Fircher, Gored With Jarprice, Bid Me: Heoe at First tating bones, “You are Mr. Heenan? i huve a as “Let's see it" shapped Heenan, sultching an envelope from the shaking lated. The letter read: Thia will Introduce the young man, Sattherwalte, about whem | Bp to you hearentiy. He haan't a thing in the World for you except a penn. He's sizgord for the stuson, Watch his come plexes, “Pitcher? asked the manager. “LT Neo" “What de you doe?" “T'm a peychounalyst.” “T don't care what your religion is,” raegecel Heenan. “Where do vou play? 7 Sattherwaite coughed nervesesly,. “Tn afraid there i some misun- derstanding. While] know something mo baseball, I do not —— Hasn't ‘ir. Randall mh “Alo, be haen't. I thought he was eering me a player, Whut does he Wy sas me to-cho with you?" “Tin a peyelucanul jst idea of what each of them will do-omder stances. Their subconeelous reflemes, th “T believe,” interrupted the manager, ™ ning to make you. As I get it you've b of goat-getters, Eh?” "I don"t ——™ “What I mean i you oneeover acd getting @ Jones—you know Buck Jo reminded that he was ine beating, Spring it on hig | wild. Is that the idea?’ Ephraim amiled tol vty “ Hardly as crude ga: of the payehie jure Heenan threw up his] “Perhaps,” went on Se clearer to you through The manager's alr of rm “Tou said o mouthful # to do itt™ “All I ask is that you. players without telling th Heenan loughed. “That's good. What ia it? A mé to tell them?” “You might say that I aoa 7 timate sketches, That will male for fe

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i » pin very suceeaal ul at the tnarder that my work value ] mat mix with the ged friendship, even eam- mnt bok Tke mach of a nitysaggested the manager. oS emiled Sat- "you will find imilate rather ras you like,” in. “You can't harm, that's a ou might even a's the malter and aeme of complexions, ait ure those are chasing »," said Eph- i wis surprised aw with which established iendly term nbera of the is Gifickenee eas had: ut- i. The stu- 4 lnboratory, hurrasament In place of shyness Iie farnillarity ¥ intimacy, Jest tubes of of the play i with him. wiseught, The team being on the road for ound the cirewit, hotels and Pullmans coped nade the scientist's mixing a simple mat- 1wetks had possed Ephraim's likableness t invited confidences. ora miserable game against the Bruins, ind Mathews staring moodily at the tiles mer of the hotel lobby, Despite a sullen gown company that Ephraim had noted he had had several friendly talks with the natter, old fellow?” greeted the paycho- the bluea? You know how itis, [t gets 1 then suddenly it geta worse." ad up with o sickly, absent smile. pa eet. Dan? I havea few hundred that I could Sak= ioney."* "The pitcher relapsed into surly wae getting nowhere. Ephraim tried got to Kiiss feet, i gone for good, ian't it?" he suppested ose with wm snarl, “Whatthee—" _ Ephraim amiled. This was betber. "You've been doing some mighty rotten pltehing lately. I eould do better myself." “Why the devil don"t you?" “T never have thought much of your work,” nenunved Sattherwalte. “T knew vou would blow up ina pinch. You've been getting by largely on your momentum fora longtime.” Through the thick lenses the sharp eyes watched the other closely. Mathews made a movement a if to strike. Ephraim backed out of reach, “Tm sorry,” he said in his moat soothing tones. “I didn"t mean what I eaid. You're a good pitcher, a won- derfully good pltcher, and T can’t un- derstand why you have fallen dow sa." The anger in the southpaw's eyes died —— snd he slumped back - inte the chair, The pay- choanalyst knew the value of getting In on the rebound, The soil wae all prepared for the fHanting. “How, Dan"'—he faced an arm around the pitcher's sagged shoulders—"it's a girl, jem"t it?" “How do you know. What makes you think sot FR "That's simple enough. You're in good health, though your appetite fs not what it should be; you are not troubled by finances. What else enold be the matter with a handsome young man?" "Yes," said Mathews slowly, “it's a girl, right enough. You're a smart fellow, Eph. Maybe you can help me. She's got me up in the air the worst way. One minute she seems crazy about me: the next time I call she acts as if she's getting ready to fire the servant girl for letting me in the house." He shook his head, “I den"t know what to make of it.” “Merely the mental instability of young love, [ should eng," “T don't know what [t ia, bat she's got me jumping sideways. Sometimes I think I'd be bet- ter off if she'd just come right out and give me the alr. It's this damn uncertainty that geta my goat. She's one swell kid, though, Here, take a look,” The snapshot ho passed to Sattherwaite apparently had “Whos the Matter, Gid Fellow?" Greeted the Paythsanalyet, Whe ihe Biase? Peo Kaeo Wow de ta" been taken on an outing of some sort. Ephraim’s gaze fixed on laughing eyes and remained there. “Some looker, eh?" broke in a voice aome nromente later that rasped Into the oecuipied thought of the pejcho- analyst. “Eh? What?" “Beauty, isn't she? Through with it?" Sattherwaite's hand with the pleture had dropped absently to his side, “Qh, year certainly. Very charming girl. Her eyes are blue, aren"t they? I thought so. The face looked familiar fora time.” Ephraim returned to his test tubes, His job wis ta evolve a pennant for Randall, and straightening out Mathews was an important feature of the job, “Listen, Dan," he said, “You can't go on like this. When we get back home you must force an awe: Yex or no, Don't you realize that you are ruining a wonderful eareer in baseball by uselesa worrying? How much do you think you are enhancing your chances with the young lady by being batted out of the box two or three times a weekT No love is strong enough to condone failure for long. Do you follow me?" ia Ves, hut _ j “Thereare nobuts. I believe lean help you, Dan. Right now T ean’t tell you how, but I think T can work outa plan that will solve your problem if you are willing to trust me in a delicate matter of this sort, Are yout" “Yes, [ am." Mathews streteled out a hand. “You were able to find out what was in my mind; maybe you ean find out what's in hers. Is that your iden?" “Eomething like that. Pitch good ball and leave the rest tame, [can already hear the wedding bella." A half hour later Heenan overheard Eph and a rookie talking. “That was a tragic experience,” said Sattherwaite. "Do you dream of it? Not How about your waking hours? Doss the subject obtrade, rather—that is to say, da your thoughta suddenly turn to it while you are think- ing of something else?" “Bunk!” muttered Heenan as he turned away without waiting ta hear the answer, “What hove dreams to do with that guy's glasa are?” Strolling over to the cigar counter he encountered Radb- eris, the center fielder, nursing a grouch of sorta. “Who is this bird Sattherwuite?™ "Him?" aaid Heenan. “He's a writer.”" "T never heard of no writer hy that nome,” growled the other, “and I know all the news- paper menon the elreuit." “What'seatin’ you?” demanded the manager. “Well, I don't think he's straight." ai Not Lil "No, I don't. We played a Little draw Laat night, and this guy tiles a hand. He knows all - the cards by their first ; funnest," “Trimmed you, eh? “Tl say he did. Had us-all down to the cloth in a eouple of ious." “Whaot makes you think he's crooked? See anything?" “No, wae the hesitat- ing response; “but when ifelow winsevery pot he retsinte, anddreps every hand that is topped, without a call, there's something wrong.” *Notmesesaariliy, He's an outgpuesser,”” "A what?" “Never mind,” (Coatinved oA Page [27 While Mothews fat Silent ond Mereour Esther Chottrd Brightiy With His Friend

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12 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 2s of the Nim By EDGAR WALLACE Thhe Baro FELUFT RATED BF , WILE AM N THE old daye—this is if the steward talking—there Were Seven gangs working the North Atlantic, They fn vored the Red Funnels and the Flue Star mainly, but now and then they worked across in an American boat. But the Red Funnels and the Blue Star were the prineipal beats of the Hor- ons of the Nimble Pack—that ii what the old captain of the Mauronic used to call them. Of course there were, and still are, odd men who work beiween New York and Genos, and there have been parties on the Canadian packets. But there is not much picking in dago ships, and Canada is dan- gerows. Why, an ordinary magistrate in Canady can send aman dewn for ten years and give him the whip! That makes the Canadian tripaounpopular, When [ first went to sen there were about five bunches: Harry Burke's gang, Duteh Frank's, Sandy Havers’, Boy Swindon's and Jerry Machbean"s— that’s five, isn’t it? And all the time there was Boaton Smith. He was a gang by himself, and never had a partner. He laid forthe rich and the silly; business men who thought they knew it all, You've met the kind. Know everything about their own business, but are not quite eure whether Tunis is the name of a German town or whether it is a new kind of chewing gum. Boston worked into tables of five that needed another player to liven up the game. “Six is a nice number for a poker gan, play, Mr. Smith?" “Why, surely; I was going to bed, but I don't mind Paying for an hour,” Nobody ever caught him out. Once, when there was a little disagreement about his holding four aces aguinet four pat kings, he insisted upon being searched and examined generally. They did it tao; and apoliapized. "Very well, gentlemen,” says he, “now if you don't mind we will resume, I bear no malice, and | can imagine nothing more exasperating and liable to tear one's judg- ment to tatters than to be beaten on four Kings, Steward, some mew cards." And the very firat hand he dealt he gave fours lo evory Player at the table, and a low straight fush to himself. It cost that crowd some rooney, and he certainly livened ip the game, He may have been working with the bar- man—your hair would go up if I told you the number of ocean golhg harmen whe standin with card sharpers. Lut if he was, the barman waa certainly an artist. The other crowds tried to get Boston into thelr game, but he allowed that they were too dishonest. It's a fact. Told them plain and straight one morning in the smoke room of the Mauranic. It was Jerry Machean's Iot he wos talking to—the toughest collection of wolves that ever traveled saloon. They would take a man’s last cent, and then go back to his cabin and get the gold filling from his teeth. You never suw them playing in the amoke room. They always got their sucker down in some quiet place—in a cabin as likely Is mol, Jerry looked ugly, but he said nothing. Boston Smith stood seventy-two inches in his stockings and waa a pretty bad man when he was roused, I never suw him that way, but Ive heard. Two voyages alter this row we shipped Boston Smith and the Machean crowd in New York. We had a big passenger list, for it was early summer, and there were a lot of tony people on board. Colonel Vanbyn and Mra. Commbilt, and a reqrular regiment of moneyed folk. I wos bedroom steward of 228 to 242 on 0 Deck, and it 30 hap pened that Boston Smith was, so to speak, in my change. I suppose you wonder why we didn’t warn the passen- gers that there were card sharpera on bourd? Well, we did. We kept a netice posted permanently in the smoking roam: "Passengers ape enutioned,” and so forth, You've seen it. A steward doesn't tell anything till the right— what's the word?—that's jt—payechological moment; and somehow that never seems to come, Bastion wis always very decent to stewards, He tipped well and he gave very little trouble, except that he was purticular as to the way his clothes were brushed. I can say that T have handled every suit he wore, and [ye never found a cord or a false pocket or any of those contraptions that card men are supposed to have concealed about them, Won't apou KE MP STARRETT T Neaord the That nad fom Jerry Hootie Up anil Fall Geer on Mis He was a gentlernan to deal with, always polite und never asking questions or getting into familiar conversations. T must aay that I like a gentleman to be a gentleman, and keep his place, It's there for him to keep, the sume aa it is for & servant. The first three days of the voyage Boston Smith did nothing but loaf in his chair up on the boat deck and read novels that he'd borrowed from the ship's library, He wed to read books by a writer called Meredith and by another culled Jaores. T could never make head or tail of them. I think that books which can’t be understood by everybody are badly written. But that is neither here nor there, On the fourth day I saw him go up the companionway in company with a fellow named Carter Moriaty. His father was Moriaty the New York banker—or it may have betn Fhilndelphin, Anyway, he was dead. Carter M, they used to call him, a fat fellow of thirty who'd never done a day's work in his life, but knew it all, “Carter M.,"" saya Ll to myself, “your doom is sealed.” Thad a chat with his steward next day, and the steward eaid that Carter had told his valet that he'd lost twenty thousand dollars. " He's lucky," saya I. But he wasn't lucky, He lost over thirty thousand the next night. I didn’t trouble to inquire after that—and I hadn't the, either, for that day Mra, Frederick Coleott, who traveled in the royal suite, lost her diamond spray. It was a steal, there was no doubt about it, The jewel cose ble Pac by somebody who hal xs to pet into the ot - i BDray Was pone. Tt was my lock thy occurred in my sertier uw I wos her steward, ani | duty late that pigt-_ ie she went to bed—sri TJ a bit of a cro eg roe the Mauronic would - i wast a Fipple on the rice So it was me for cbs Where waslattwea" 7 I doing at eleven® Dy il strangers on C Deri” the sort of questica [ you. There waa tener officer that ever wei: didn't believe be sep been a lawyer,and th « all the crose-esamins: » Well, the ship wes end to end. The om men who hod a bed sa they were put unde cause the master at oe lady's ahawl wad 2 po. glasses that. they had a they were cleaning dec a by passengers, and ateot ard 1 steward. But there waa ne das We didn’t touch Cherbourg 21 bot went straight into the M that time Sout hampton we: us. Only the South Africas as: Plate boats went there, Ab « got into the Mersey the = phoard and the first thing they come down ta Boston's cast him now, sitting on @ erttes, a ing fellow with brown, clean-shaven fay recall the look of astonishment be shee bulls came in. “Why, gentlemen!" he paid of bet * out of his mouth and stood. up. Hew for shore and there Ws & pore a This is 2 surprise. What can I do tor "We want to search your bag detective, “Go right ahead,” said E again, watching them with am in his eye as he pulled at his Giga They took his trunk first, amd the tray, under some hand mond spray. Boston Smith ja “Geewhtel’ he snid, "| thone?"* One of the splits laughed. “You'll be able to explain,” he at hes_pal, “I certainly should like ta,” threw away hia cigar, “* You'll wal little walk, I guess," he said. “The w planted, and the man who planted it waa sent you atraight to this enbim."" The detective said nothing, but jeroed Boaton followed. I don't know what would bal if they had waited until the Paeengers Fete 2 they landed him. They usually do ths «5 taking a prisoner off. But these police peotoe anxious to get him away from the ship, aod! him down the gungway. I saw it all, beca a them on deck to find out what woe tabs ton's luggage. Tt was an open gooengee walking in front of the detective behind: IT suppose, to see the cope had lost the spray. ; On the landing stage at the ‘ Jorry Macbean. It was the first came on board. I heurd froma b voyage. = Boston didn't turn hia head. bv “How's the trade in diamond I didn't see Boston turn. T heard dinalsle up and fall over on his face ton say ““ Fine!" : That's all he said, and then the _ and all kinds af Proline nner, leaped at | didn't make any struggle; he dropped } fired and there was no need to act rough ef that they did —much.

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THE yovages after that they sentenced Boston T iental Warwleires Jerry was still walking sutehes—and lucky to be alive. Ten years’ inde wea the sentence, I went down to the andaaw the close of the trial, it being the day iled. at hove ta the judge and stepped down. He had a life sentence, only his lawyer got at wleramd gave him & shocking time in the box. us takes a lot of passing. ed to think of Boston, and I've talked about z [ot to other crowds, He was a gentleman. tect things he did when he got control of his osend aboard to me a five-pound nete, my tip. wnitrast to some eo-called respectable people! , and for about seven years, Jerry Machean's ated with me three vowages. They were work- pall right, but I just happened to miss them, oes they were with me was on the Caloric, the ww boat, hen she was torpedoed. That was mar, The third time was last year, on the walked with @ limp and he'd pot a new lot of usually traveled four people. One of these cards at all. He used to sit on deck and make iwith people, tell them how dangerous it was with sharpers, and then he'd introduce them er only traveled three, He was a little thin- tha got the confidence of his victims by had state of health and the arrangements 3 cremated, and Jerry were on board the Sindie when tof Southampton Dock, I heard that this olded, and that Willie's gang had arranged ry any makings that came his way. ebeing a pretty lively voyage. Ewery berth had a lot of good people on board, though it it | was going to get much out of it. That's job. Some voyages you may have a couple to look after, the next voyage you may gen missionaries coming home from China, ‘ve done you well when they show you their sears on their heads that the Chinese did 2 conwerbed, esengers Father reminded me of a misaion- tallish man with black hair and a black id. You may have seen the kind I mean: ‘ery hair fromend toskin, He wore a single black tortoiseshell rim—the only Amer- n wearing one, and he teld me that he had vitzerland during the war. He had made a Sat meats cheered me up—and was going to ‘Neveland, where he belonged. You know J Maver Jae Any Maan Look ot Jerry Looked, how these conversations start: A sort of “Good morning— here's your colle, sir—it's a fine morning,” and then you get on to what happened on the Isst voyage and the people who were aboard. Anyway, that's what he teld me. He didn't speak much, He used to play chess against himself, sometimes in his cabin, sometimes on deck. I mentioned once about Boston Smith. He happened to ask me what was the usual tip nowadays, and I thought it was a good opportunity to get in a Uttle propaganda wark, "Boston Smith?” says he very thoughtful. “I know that name. What sort of a person was he in appearunes?™ "Taller than you, sir, with a sort of golden-brownish hair." " Clean-shaven ?" Wes, sir," T said, "Then I have met him," said he, “in Switzerland. How curious that he should be a card sharper!" I didn't seo how he could have met Boston, considering that Boston had only served about seven out of his ten years, and T said so, “You forget, steward,” he said, “that it is the practice in England to remit a certain period—three months in every year, I think—for good conduct, Strangely enough," said he, “I have just been reading a book on the subject. Tell me some more about this man: I am interested," Well, I told him all that I knew, which wasp"t much. T suppose I ought to have mentioned that Jerry Muchean and Willie Hoffmer were on board, and would be round him like bees round treacle if they got to know that he was traveling in bulk. However, I didn't. But like a fool I told the stewardess in my section all about his having a lot of money, And of course she told the deck steward, and I know for certain that he is a noae for every gang thet travels. The next two cabins to Mr. Danton—that was my rich passenger's name, though we used to call him Whiskers between curelvea—were occupied by a brother and a ais- ter. They had a fine name, Tester-Stanhope, but they hadn't much more, I gathered that they were going out to a fruit farm which an uncle had beught for them, their parents having just died. And the uncle had given the boy and the girl a thousand pounds to start there, and paid their passage out. That was why they were traveling in good-clasa cabins. The stewardess teld me a bit, and the boy told mea bit more. He was one of these cocksure lads that get may goat. He always knew the position of the ahip, and he could tell you what time we'd go alongside, and he knew where the icebergs would be seen, and where we should strike fog, and heaven knows what, [t was no good telling him anything. It was like writing information on the Oy leaf of the encyclopedia. "It's a nice morning, air, but I think we'll have rain,” SATURDAY EVENING POST ' 13 "Rain with the wind due east—rubbish!" says he. What was the good of telling him it was sou'west. Or else you'd say, by way of making conversation: "There'll be a dance to-night tn the saloon.” “T know,” he'd aay; “the purser told me yesterday.” His sister was as different as you can imagine. A shy girl, very grateful for anything you did for her, and alwais anxious to hear anything interesting. I'm not cracking up myself, but there are few people who know more about the North Atlantic than myself—bearing in mind that I am only a steward and not a ahip's officer, And she was as pretty asa picture. Soft and sweet, with a timid, helpless way that made you want to be running round after ber all the time. For some reason these two and Mr. Danton chummed up together. They used to ait together on deck, I don"t know why young Stanhope and Danton hit it off so well, unless it was that Danton was a good listener, On the Sindice, C Deck is level with the promenade deck, eo that I saw a whole lot of what was happening. For the first three or four days they hung together, Danton teaching the girl—whoee name was Eileen—the game of chess, and young Ralph Tester- Stanhope giving him advice. And then the kid wandered of and these two used to be alone, Personally, if T was a young girl I shouldn’t have taken a lot of interest in a middle-aged man with black whiskers, but [ eould see that she had begun to lean on him. Not actually; she wasn't that kind of leaner, I faney she was scared stiff at the prospect of being dependent on young Ralph, and just had to lean on somebody. I heard her and her brother one morning, talking in her cabin. “But, Ralph,” she was saying, “we won't be able to afford a moter car for years." “You can buy "em cheap in America," says he, “and I expect to make at least a thousand the first year. I've taken a horticultural course, Eileen—don't forget that. Anyhow, we can afford ta have a real gexxl time in New York for a week or tea." "But, Ralph,” [ could hear her gasp, “uncle said we Tauat go straight through to British Columbia, It is ter- ribly expensive living in New York. Mr, Danton told me eo, And we shall want every penny.” “Oh, rate!" save Ralph, I'd have gladly paid a penned for the privilege of giving him a clip acroas his ear, “Uncle is old-fashioned,” ; He came out just about then, and I couldn't go into her cabin becnuse she was crying. That same day Jerry Macbean sent along his Shepherd. He was the tout who never played cards, but gathered in the golden baa lambs. He was a man named Michell, a very quict middle-aged man who wore glasses and waa sup- posed to be a bobaecco broker from Kentucky or somewhere South. (Continued on Page 22) a A ie a iy the Fite Had Seddealy firaddied af Iceberg He Cooida't Hoot Beeva More Bored

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mind as well as crime waves, coal strikes and base ball, the subject of stock-market tips and tipsters may seen at firat glance to be rather tame. But atock- market speculation is almost as much of a national sport at irregular but frequent intervala aa baseball regularly becomes with each passing spring. And though tips and tipping do not constitute by any means all there is to Wall Street and the stock market, they symbolize and symp. tomize, ag it were, the whole great drama of the market, whether viewed from the coldly economic or the more colorful human aspect. Whenever the stock hysteria breaks out to a greater or leas degree, as it always doce and has for two hundred years, there is the sume old impulsive action upon the part of the multitude, the same wild, eager thirst for tips, for inside information, for advice and leading. It may be described as gambling or contemptuously dismissed as a ditzense, Tt may be merely the fatal quest. of humanity for the pot of gold at the end of the rsinbow. But always and in but slightly varying disguise it takes the form of a search for tips on the winners. A tip in (teelf is nething but information or misinforma- tion concerning a given etock. But back of it lies the whole elaborate and intricate machinery of Wall Street. It is a word that conjures up not only lambs, bulls and beara, but wolves as well, A tip is but a werd or two, but behind it may be the romance of a continent's develop- ment, the wonder-werking mentality of a constructive industrial genius or the most highly organized and finished chicanery and deception that unlimited resources and trained astuteness can command. A emall thing in iteelf, a tip may represent the frenzied state of mind of multitudes or the operation of silent, pow- erful pools and syndicates, of bankers and resourceful capitalists, It is a mongrel in origin, springing from the irrefutable argument of facta or the far from disinterested mithinations of more or less professional market riggers and manipulatere of every degree, ranging from men with frayed trousers and dirty collars up to mysteri- ous personalities who dominate or influence whole indus- tries, great banks at the heart of the money power, and political parties. W sina the world has Russia and Germany on ite The Thirst for Inside Information TOW, there could be no greater mistake than to diemize the subject of tips and tipsters as being either a cheap oranarrow one. Twenty years ago or even ten years ago the tipster was thought of as merely a lowdown pest wha infested Wall Street. He was aman who sent out, for afew dollurs a month, to gullible subscribers of low mentality or perhapa of the incorrigible gambling type, a hodgepodge of hectic guesses on the Immediate future movement of stocks, atrociously printed or mimeographed, with many exclamation peints, on & amenry sheet of very bad paper, This would be a fair sample of the contents: "On every dip buy Steel at once for a five-point rise, I picked ten winners yesterday. Is this the service you newd The same or even more feverish and flamboyant advice whe advertised in the Sunday editions of a few complal- sant newspapers. The whole performance wus so crude, exaggerated and fan- tastic that looking back upon the days when there were lite erally a hundred or more of these tipsters in New York City alone, it seems imposible that enough suckers were born every minute to support such a parasite Industry. Hut, of course, the tipster guessed right sometimes—especially so since he often advised one-half of his clients to buy and the other half to sell. Or if he had a little more capital and enterprise than the average, he owned more than one service or bureau, each apparently independent of the other, advising purchases through one and sales through the other. Inafew cases he combined tipping with an illicit broker= age business. As the result of a tremendous blast of ad- wertising in the Sunday papers he would receive a bunch of buying orders Monday morning with which to open up the market, and would later raid it after the fashion of the bucketer, Or more often he would work in with a market manipu- lator or pool, placing his clients in a particular for Value received, not from them but fram the pool man- ager. Indeed, a jury in a New York State court awarded a well-known tipster damages and costs for services! Pete dered to an even better-known manipulator six previously in efforta ta boat a stock, The tipater teatl- fied before the jury that at least one thousand persons BECORATIONS ar

relied implicitly upon his advice, and that twenty thou- sand were casual correspondents. But far the most part the old etyle of tipster has gone. There are a few of them left with their market letters, but in the main they disappeared with the great war-bride boom of 1915 and 1916. So many new stocks with sup- pesed)y large asseta were brought to the public attention at that time and ever since, that the old-style market prophet, whe for a few dollars a month would predict an immediate bull movement in Stee] of Union Pacific, found his occupation largely gone. Like many other things, the business of supplying the speculative public with inside information has developed in reeent years, It has extended and broadened; it has become vastly more gubtle and lesa crude, To an ewer- increasing extent the brokerage houses themselves supply their customer with information and advice—or with tipa if one chooses to be eynical about it. Even the cheaper type of gamblers and speculaters, the little fellows, the lambs, pay but slight attention nowadays to the smeary, screaming sheets of gutteranipe tipsters. The typical speculator of to-day goes to the brokerage house where he geta what he calls the best information, which in reality means the best tips. As long as this information makes good, as long as he wins, he stays by the house and thinks highly of its advice, “You ought te get aequainted with Mr. Blank, the head of Blank & Co," said a friend of mine who floats from office to office. ““He has the real dope. Why"—in an awestruck whisper—he is a director in two corporations. He isn't around the office very much, but I heard him aay june 1, LIPSTER By Albert W. Atwood ‘the othe gy the ert 5 Corporat. ‘very large, | hwo: bared of it. That's real service! You ought to go dow to see him. I think he would see pou, and jog an article out of him." A few months later when T asked my friend 40 were going down in the office of Blank & Cy. \y away from me in disgust and without a word ol) tion, IT logked up the steck tables and found tis hundred shares were worth mbout half ther low Another man went to a highly comsrvative {y veatment dealers from whom he had bee = gilt-edged bonds, and asked them to meonmmen stock brokers. They asked him with whom be| dealing, and when he replied they exclaimed =| ment, “Why, that is one of the strongest aed 1 gervative firma of atock brokers in the ctr” “Yes,” he said, “but they do not give me wy The bond dealers had mothing more to ap customer promptly deserted his old brokers, mj an account with a firm that failed during the p fall of bucket shops, “When you call on me for help T like to be a it,” said the representative of another hou | only in bonds, in reply te my question aa to wie of his customers try to get tips. “But im Go afraid I cannot be of much assistance. We attention as possible to the speculative market. rin any advertising as 30 many people do, vi of the dangers of speculation, In other words s if our customers want to eperulate they ka Fight to dogs, In fact, a good many of the | Really Helpful Analyses SUT as we look at the matter, sperustive investment money are two differen: ood We would be just about as quick to thing of stv againat speculating as we would think od aco regard to any of his expenditures, such w/c! “Tf a man wants to speculate, all the gor © world is wasted on him. So we leave the ol our general reply being, if questhored, thas we: anything to do with speculative stock. oa selves entirely to first-mortgage bond” Now, it will not do to be too cynical aboot 5 ment of brokers’ service. The last fiftees ct have seen a marvelous increase in the volume literature and statistien] effort. Masy i investment houses do put out interesting | studies of individual stocks and market = lysts are employed at high salaries to mai exhaustive and careful studies, In adce= of firms are often close to the managers o! 4 tions and keep well informed on corporate <4 In numerous cases the partners or high certain houses have shown an mmacing ath ing out corporate conditions. Not long ae i tive of a New York brokerage house =» GUERH IEF MOORE

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 15 ND THEIR METHODS a manufacturing concern in a neighboring tually persuaded the executive to adopt a ey proves and turn out a new product in with a big advertising campaign. The broker ot all bis customers into the stock and stirred been a chuggish market into furious activity. re way yeard ago members of the Chicago de employed grain experts to travel through cand send in early information on the condi- und wheat. In one case such an expert was uw thirty thousand dollars a year, The hens #, on the basis of the information received, mon the market which the customers fol. to their enrichment. Only the increasing w Department of Agriculture did away with _ ing ramifications of steck-brakerage firms, mifortable customers" rooms, wire service, artmenta—these have thelr good and their reliable information is put out in incrensing vat is not the only kind supplied. The cus- ye extent do not care what they buy, whether vil or steel; they want to be put into some- # somebody, to get a good tip; and as the his commissions and like other humana. is pied to follow the line of least resistance, not always satisfactory, = reputable clasa of howses, those that are the bucket-shop variety, the information st as crude and fundamen false in ita nt broadcast by the old-fashioned tipster, lally aay “TL am telling you to buy Steel for "What it doo is to give an invariably m. Only thefavorablefacteareemphasized. s never advised to sell, He is furnished ingly well-printed and attractive-looking aing what purports to be disinterested eo well-known securities. tonly a few paragraphs in length, and at 1 is a caption reading something like this: ining fast," “New York Central expecta Jinclair making "*" Minami getting Jon," “Midvale coming back,” and ao on twenty items, ‘hen Doctors Disagree ra have attempted to an increasing extent is bo play the market alao by means of rometers, cycles, trends, tendencies and In other words, inatead of seeking tipa ‘ka they have sought to follow the changes tions. ja vast improvement over the uncouth and ef no one suppose that the secret has been the market. The most dignified bureau, te dealing in charts, barometers, trends t found the philosopher's stone or the pot rainbow. Lf it had, its proprietor would rice just as the old tipster would have s, and grow fabulously rich thereby. Indeed the humor, or perhaps the tragedy, of almoat every attempt to sell information on the market to specu- latora has been the fact that so many of the advisers sooner or later have taken their own advice and lost a]! they had made in the business of giving advice. Many a tipster or market forecaster, analyst, student or consultant would have grown rich had he not followed his own in- formation. Men have built up a business of this sort min- ning tote the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, only to go broke by trying to play the market themselves. A apeculator who made quite a little profit, but who felt that he did not have enough information ta continue his operations, subscribed for four services, costing probably about a hundred dollars a year each. After reading their communications for several taonths he wrote to an ac- quaintanee for advice: “From time to time I have requested reports from Jones, Brown and Robinson on various stocks and bonds, and also from Smith, and to say that they are all at vari- ance is putting it mildly. They differ as to the method of handling investment and apeculative funds for profit, in their recommendations as to the desirability of purchases in certain classes of stocks, and of purchases of partheular stocks within each class, And even es to prognosis based on likely happenings and historical precedent, it reminds one of a horse race, “Jones is not enthusiastic about steela: Robinson favors the purchase of U.S. Steel, Brown disparages oila; while Jonea has pointed out that in this depression oils, tobaceos and chain stores like Woolworth have done very well, Brown wants to buy the nondividend-paying rails and industriala; Robinson favora the dividend payers at prea- ent, What todo? What to do? And Brown disparages margin purchases, even if the subscriber could dig up enough to pay in full should the bottom drep out. Jones thinks fairly well of the Philadelphia Company. Brown dislikes its oil holdings, None of the three like the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, because it sawe wood and says nothing. “Would you subscribe for either of these four services and drop Jones, Erown and Robinson, or would you follow Brown and Robinson to the letter, or would you continue to read Smith, and subscribe for the other three continu- ously as [ have been doing and use individual judgment in margin purchases? Of it were a question of bonds alone I would let Jones put me into his superservier, But this is a question of what stocks to buy and when to buy and when to sel] them, all things considered —nondividend payers versus dividend payers, long pull vereus the purchase of selected securities from time to thne whether they ure paying dividends or not, and when to get out from under, provided one Knows whether the decline is a major or a minor ome.” : Now a moment's reflection, provided the one who does it has any common sense, will show that the stock market is mot to be played successfully by any system or chart or mechanical feature, The stock market is the collective mind, and its fluctuations are dictated by the combined judgment of the country. An individual who attempts to harness it to a formula is precisely like a cork bobbing on the ocean, Indeed, the market is an ocean that no man can control Or to change the figure of speech, it bp a barometer of the country’s activities, and to find an in- etrument that will foretell the movements of a barometer is impossible, Tt is all very well to study fundamental conditions and cycles and tendencies, but there is no exact repetition of business movements. There are many theories and hy- potheses concerning the business cycle and ita periodicity. But the fact remains that the depression of 1893 was very long und those of 1907 and 1914 very short. The secret of the business cycle is still to be discovered. Tt is true, of course, that a very few persons do succeed in stock speculation. They are not only the exeemlingly rare exceptions, but what is more important they have passed up through the acience of speculation, if there is any, to the position of masters of the art. In other words, the quali- ties that make them successful are individualistic in the highest degree and in no sense mechanical. Newspaper Counsel OW, it is a deeply significant fact that though nearly all speculatora try bo get tips or information from brokers and other acquaintances on the prospective movement of stocks, and though many thousands of them subseribe for all manner of services which in more or less disguised form indicate what market position to take, it is exceedingly rare for an individual speculator to subscribe for a service which gives mere statistical facts, and only facts, regarding individual stocks. Yet one cannot go inte the office of any important banking, insurance, large investing or financial institution without finding the data furnished by such services in continuous use. Thespeculator would do well to ponder the advice given by the reputable metropolitan newspapers to persona who seek information concerning stocks and bonds, The own- era of these papers are always themselves great capitalists and usually in touch with the inner circles of finance. The financial editors and reporters have many varied sources of information and are familiar with the quickest methods of searching out facts. Yet these papers usually exercise the greatest care in confining their advice te strictly in- vestment matters ond frankly stating that they have no knowledge of market movements and can give ne informa- ton on the subject, As the financial editor of one of these papers saya: “We confine our silvice to investment matters, and fram ten to fifteen thousand persona each year write in to us for guidance. Wo make no pretense of telling people how to get rich in the stock market. We do seek to analyze investments and to save our readers from some of the pit- falla of stock promotions.” The treasurer of an institution that holds in trust several hundred million dollara of bonds and stecks says that authorities whe ane asked for advice on such matters by individuals are put to a very unfair disadvantage. “The individual who asks for advice nearly always confuses and mixes investment and speculation. He ought to stick to oneor the other in secking advice, He ought to block out his position from the start and not force upon the adviser the necessity of pointing out the difference." (Centinued oa Page lal)

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16 Fr RTHUR NETHERBY reached cover about one o'clock in the morning. He crept inte the old farmhouse which had been his fa- ther"s—and was now undergoing extensive repair— through a scullery windew that had been left open and made his way toa bedroom. He lay down arid damp and dust, and thought thankfully how good it was, andfellasleep. But when he awoke toa falr morning he quite missed the erackly cotton vi- sion of Parks bring- ing to his bedside the morning tea. He opened his door and roured, and a terrified per- aon bundbed out of the kitehen below and stampeded up- stairs, “Hey, master!" suid the person, quite Orientally, when iteaw Arthur. It was the farm laborer whom, with a wife, Arthur hod installed in the house as caretaker, “*T'm here, Stoker, sald Ar- thur. “And I want breakfast, and Plenty of it. Amd where is that old stuff of mine I left here that hasn't been unpacked yet? Because these pajamas and that ralneost are all I've brought. And there is something I am going to mention to you at once, Steker," continued Arthur, when Stoker at last brought in a handful of ruins representing an old shooting coat, an old pair of riding breeches, and the battered body of hat, “and that is—you got a wife here, eh?” "Yes, air,” said Staker. “Well” aaid Arthur, “keep her out of my sight, that's all. If there's one thing I can’t and won't stand, [t's women. Arthur passed a very pleasant morning mooching about the place in the old shooting coat and things, and his favorite pipe never left the right corner of his mouth, The world seemed quite calm; fields and hedges and ditches and woods separated him from danger; and he had no telephone. Furthermore, he recalled something about a flower shaw which presumably would accupy Lady Hun- ter’s party most of the day. At noon even the workmen who were hammering at Arthur's house downed tools to go to this flower show; and all was purity and peace. About four o'clock, alaa, a new gun arrived from London for «Arthur, and with this entrancing acquisition he sat down in his late father’s armehair—not only Arthur's father, but his grandfather, in his time, had sat in it—and with his pipe in the right eorner of his mouth he prepared for an hour's really mellow enjoyment, for a new London fun represented to him the acme of most that was truly desirable upon earth, He had pushed the debacle of yeaterday right into the back of his mind. Whon Stoker came in from the kitchen with whisky and aoda Arthur waa sitting rapt in reverle, curessing this dream and this beauty. Stoker lumped the whisky de- canter and aiphon on the table, rousing him. “What do you think of my new gun, Stoker?” said Arthur, gazing rapturously at the shining barrel, shinier to him than any siren, and glossier to him than any woman's hair. Stoker's wife sidled in with the tumbler he had forgotten; she peered round her hustand curiously, if timorously, at Arthur. *"Er's a fine gun, master,” sald Stoker, “and costed a pretty penny, I dare aay." “Sixty quid,” replied Arthur. Stoker's wife gave such a gasp at the idea that Stoker becume aware of her at his back, and putting his hands “Dent fou Think That Would be Rather Wouderfad 7" THE SATURDAY EVENING POST TRUST EMILY—A Farce Con By MAY EDGINTON ILEUSITRATED BF HAF Wiiror “More Thaa Woaderfal,"" behind him he made feree motions to shoo her off to the kitchen. She crept away cautiously with a parting look from the door at Arthur. Arthur became faintly aware of her ere she disappeared. “Wea! Send ber out!" he said atroking the gun. “Send her out! No women here!" “Sixty quid,” returned Stoker, “is enough for some folks to set up ‘ouse on.” He continued to stand subrmissively by the table, net having enough brain power to move of his own volition. “Don't talk about setting up house, Stoker!" said Arthur emphati “Na, sir,” muttered Stoker, “I beg pardon, sir," He had been trying to assimilate Arthur's little idioaynerasy all the morning, but so far had failed. "Get!" said Arthur laconically. Then he called him back, for Mrs. Stoker had roused faint yet terrible mem- ores. “Have you ever wondered why the devil women can't leave us alone?" Stoker thought conscientiously. "Mo, sir," he replied. “A good gun "n'a good dog “n' something in the stable,” remarked Arthur—“that's life for me.” Stoker thought well over this. ‘Yes, sir,” he replied. "Get!" said Arthur laconically. The front door of Arthur's farmhouse opened right on a dear little old red-paved courtyard, where, from within, rows of shining milk cana could be seen. The milk cans were winking and gleaming in the sunlight, and just as Stoker was turning towards this open doar he saw an apparition that stepped him dead in his tracks. He saw a lady in a sophisticated little rag of a country frock walking through the sunlight and the red-paved courtyard towards the house. Arthur, in his father's armchair, sat with his back to this open deor, admiring his gun. He was all innocent of his doom. Stoker trod heavily on his hobnails inte the breach, and met the enemy square tn the courtyard, “Te Mr. Netherby in?’ said the apparition, smiling. Stoker’ 8 yorukulury, though not large, was equal to replying in either the affirmative or the negative, and he was hesitating as to which to use, when, inside the parler, they heard Arthur whistling to his gun. He whistled lovingly and light-heartedly a few bars of o popular melody. For the moment he was tragically free from care. Stoker saw the lady prick her ears. PREITOWN We Said, "Yeo'm,” eaid he. “He's in, Bor be i to see no ladies, "m. There's my cri’ "Nonsense!" cried the lady, “1 stand Mr. Netherby's reason: bo fiat inn ig. | playta “Well? Well?” said she in varying ke | Arthur's face twitched inte a ghostly emis “Er—or—well?" he said. “Well.” Mrs. Drelincourt’s figure undulated, ete takably, She was of the mermaid type. “Look delighted!" ahe suggested aoftls “T—I— a-a-am looking delighted,” Ars “Smile,” said Mra. Drelincourt roguéty. Arthur twitched his poor face. “Ask me in,” coased Mrs, Drelincoor: "ome in,” said Arthur fevershly, “! eourse! Whatanasslam, What must yo # Mrs. Drelinesurt moved like a m== Arthur, and he beat a retreat round bis (yo “Well, Arthur,” she said, pausing tactf!y down, “you know what I think of you.” Arthur stammered without actually coo to speech. "Why," she asked, reproachfully msm “didn't you come to the flower show!" Arthur told the truth. “T wanted to wu! "“T prefer it." “Oh, my dear, dear Arthur!” she call 57 He winced, but she knew men got aver i! easily, and went on: “By dear, dear A= I understand. The perfectly shameiem © mony girls have behaved has put you & 2 barrassing position. But ian’t it a litt ore in ft with you?" Arthur was afraid to put it quite fie 2 measure he certainly “Yes,” he said, “I like to think of abo rassed besides myself."" He kept his father’ 8 armchair in frost! “All the same," said Mires, Direlinesrt # nl 3 been rather naughty, havent you, Anih=” “Well,” eaid Arthur, looking around i the wd he repeated, Imes a man may i: cumstances vehi: whatever sort of nes born with, he's bound to show wp as aq Mrs. Drelincourt looked slowly =i i Arthur's poor father's chair, “T do love these terse graphic expre brightly after a pause. ** "They're lice te take off her gloves and ta ahs with the “Tanmoea dae **

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 17 inine,! she began, “this afternoon I do want a r talk; and that is why I escaped from the flower aid [had ont of my headaches, and was going i: down, Then I jumped on my bicycle—ane worn rides & bicyele if she can help it, though bring the horrid things down into the country — » here in this heat all for you." She looked at th charting reproach, “To pour out your ten, um you ubout—about"—she laughed a little —"ghout that terrible contretermpa last night!" hat Arthur would never break cover unless she ay she went and sat down by the table in the epee. She was rewarded for her kind tact him ahanden the chair and emerge into the he walked about between her and the fire- jagony of indecisions. tyou a silly thing, Arthur?” asked she with a chenent, repeated Arthur with conviction—"it was the fummtic.” sid Mrs. Drelineourt, “but—tt turned out. all titk" She toyed with her gloves, amiling. “aaid Arthur in a grill voice. eo Impulsive," Mrs. Drrelineourt. dint have rushed out in the dark like that to ec—and jumped to conclusions that you'd It was Flaky, Still, it waa the right wontan: well." sa pause, Arthur realized that she had long way, and that the defenses were crum- vw was fairly emitten with fear, while she i, determined and smiling, thur said grimly, “Well, i? you've come to veten, It passes the the; sert of keeps one’s ed, doean"t rt)" cruelly at his poor father’s ancient bell rope. juaint old bell rope!’ Mra. Drelineourt was d what 2 sweet qauint place it is! All those re they pure pewter? If so they should be polizheed,” ioomotice of her. Stoker, who had by now faf his wife, shambled in from the kitchen and stood gazing furtively from Arthur to Mrs. Drelin- court, who turned slowly from her proprietary survey of Arthur's demesne, and eyed him. “Yea, sir?” muttered Stoker. "Teal said Arthur. “Yes, alr,” muttered Stoker, He went out as delicately as pomible on his hobnaila. “Whe fa that funny person?" gsked Mra, Drelincourt, "My odd-job man,” Arthur replied. "Oh," said Mra, Drelincourt fastidiously, “of course that sort of thing's all right for a bachelor, but you'll have to alter things now, aha'n't you?” "Drunno,” said Arthur in a lost voice. Mra, Drelincourt put her head slowly on one side and smiled. Had this attractive but mistaken woman only known it, it was that smile which settled Arthur; that significant, proprietary, mulish amile. It administered a kick—a miulish kick. “TI would like to take this darn woman," suid Arthur's brain, “and shut her up—and shut her up—and shut her up "Arthur's brain reeled, Then it went on, “—— and shut her up—and send—and send for someone to feteh her away.” Mrs. Drelincourt interrupted this pleasant course of thought. “What are you conaldering so deeply, Arthur?" cooed she, “You,” replied Arthur. Mrs, Drelincourt rose from her seat like a mermaid from a wave: and Arthur laid his hand on the back of poor father’s chair. “Y-y-you spoke of altering things,” said Arthur, and he found himself fascinated by the fell course towards which a reprehensible brain wave had hurled him, “Well, will you help met” “Oh, Arthur!" said Mra, Drelincourt, “Will you begin now?" Arthur pursued. “Why, Arthur!” protested Mra, Drelincourt radiantly, “This very mingte?" continued Arthur. “Of course,"’ aaid Mra. Drelineourt radiantly, “I ahall be delighted to help you. It is natural that I should help you, If there's anything in the world that I can do ——" Arthur looked at her eautlously, “Weil,” he asid, the thoughta fairly leaping along his brain, “there are two rooms, opening Inte each other, up- staira, right along at the north end of the house. And T wonder if you would come ane look at “em right now, while we're waiting for tea, and tell me what sort of furniture I ought to have.” “OF course!" cried Mra. Drelincourt. lighted," The farther room,” said Arthur steadily, “has a aky- light only, and presents a difficult furnishing proposition." As he so particularized a hazy understanding came to him of the artistic enjoyment of details which oll really good murderers must feel when setting the scenes with un- necessary but commendable technic for their worst crimes. “We'll look at that farther room first," esid Mrs. Drelin- eourt very gladly and graciously, “I'm going te love this rambling old house; and especially that skylight room.” Arthur rejoined with that sardonic humor which is so featured by the best type of criminal, “If there's one place in this house you'll hate it will be that akylight room.” He ushered her towards the door that led to the stairs and kitchen part of the house. Epos sess sts playfully, “D'U prove you wrong,” said she. Half a minute later Stoker entered with the cloth, and found the parlor empty. He tried the cloth cornerwise on the table and it wouldn't fit; and endwajs, and it wouldn't fit; and he stretched it, and it wouldn't fit; so he left it all anyhow, and turned towards the kitchen again, “T dunno,” he said, scratching his head—"'I dunno how the durned thing goes.” In the doorway Arthur in an awful hurry brushed against him. He must have come down the stair at breakneck speed. He passed Stoker, slammed the door upon hirnself, stood and thought terrifyingly for a brief while, and then Wwaped at the antique bell rope. Tn came Stoker. “The tay won't be Long, sir," he argued mildly. “Hang the tea!" said Arthur, walking about in a great state, “Come here! “Look here, Stoker,” said Arthur rapidly, “I want you to do something for me of a partic'larly private nature. "T'm just de “Hulk Me fa." Comced Mra, Deetincourt, “Come Ia,"" fald Arthur Feoertshty. “Come In, of Course f""

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i8 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Er—outside you'll find a lady's bieyele. Can you ride a bieyele?"' Stoker nodded. “Take it then and ride like blazes ——" A sharp sound cut through Arthur's speech. It was the ring of a bicyele bell. Arthur started, sprang to the door and looked out. “Good Lord!" he whispered. “Hello!” called Gwennie girlishly. “ Hel-lo. She appeared vividly on the threshold. “Tea, Stoker!" said Arthur very loudly. Stoker ran out on his hobnails to the kitehen, shaking his head deaelately. “Did I hear the word ‘tea'?™ insinuated Gwennie, very charmingly, from the door. Arthur seemed to know his part automatically, It was wonderful how easily the lines already came to him. “Well,” said he, “I suppose you've come to tea,” Gwennie entered, She looked very fully, “(Of course I have,” said she impertinently, coming up to Arthur, She put up her face. “Well, Arthur? Well?" Arthur looked down at Gwennie's face. “Well? said he. Gwennie seized his coat lapels. ‘Is that all?” “What do you mean?" said Arthur rather feebly. “Te Mra. Drelincourt here?" said Gwennie, “Certainly not!" replied Arthur firmly. "Then whose is that bicycle out there?" said Gwennie. Tt was wonderful how easily words came to Arthur. "That bicycle,” he answered without o qualm or a pause, “belongs to my odd-job man's wife.” * Really?" ori Gwennie, looking up at him with twe eyes like little gi “ Really,” ronlied A Arthur nonchalantly. “Oh!” said Gwennie with a gusty sigh, still hanging to Arthur's cont lapels, “IT was so angry when I sow it! T thought—you eee, ahe said she had a headache and waa going to lie down, but I didn't believe it; so T followed to offer her a powder, and she wasn't there. Steers said she'd gone out on her bieyele. So if she len"t here where can she ba?" “T wonder,” said Arthur. “A woman doesn’t ride a bicycle for nothing,” tinued Gwennie. “T wonder," repeated Arthur firmly. Tt was awfully disappointing to hang on and on to Arthur's coat lapels; so Gwennie relinquished them and sank down fuffily on thé sofa a few feet away. “Qh, Arthur!" she sighed. “Hasn't that woman behaved disgracefully?” “Disgrace=- fully!" said Ar- thur firmly. Coe qe con= sald Cwennie. uy don"t know how she darel" She looked up at him. “Arent yOu com ing to sit by me? There's plenty of room —and such a lot to aay, isn't there?” She ges- tured very prettily to the space be- side her on the couch. Arthur looked at the epace. “Ta there?" he said cautionsly, “"“Oh, you needn't think you said it all last night,” pouwted Gwennie. “Arthur, aren't Arthur made up hts mind. It was not difficult now—same old signpost, same old rod, Hehad been there oncealready this afternoon, “Tam very glad io see yo,” he re plied steadily. “As o mutter of fact, you came in the nick of time” —he braced himself up a bit for the job—"to help me in a—a certain matter,” “Why, I'd love to!” purred Gwennie. “Up in the attic on the south side,” said Arthur, os brazen a8 brass, “I've found some old—er—tapestry, and whether to throw it away as moth-eaten rubbish I don’t know, or whether to keep it l don't know. Now, just while we are waiting for tea, won't you come along with me ——" “Up to the attic?” eried Gwennie, springing up. “Oh, T love the idea of—of solitude one gets in an attic!’ She gave Arthur a misehiewous look, very inviting. “T'm not sure that you'll lowe this attie!" said Arthur, again impelled by sardonic humor. Gwennie linked arms, “T will," she purred, “Tl love the attic—and you. Oh, you naughty boy to run away, Arthur! Oh, you naughty, naughty old thing!" Arthur and Gwen sort of pushed and jostled each other out of the noon. Vr ARELY a moment of two after Arthur and Gwen had left. the dear old sun-filled parlor Stoker swayed into it again, gripping a tray on which was piled the erockery for tea. He set the tray on the table and looked around in Surprise, to find the room again empty. He eroaaed to the door at the back, looked into the courtyard, counted two bicycles on his fingers, shook his head and returned to his work, which was causing him some anxiety. He scratched hia head. “Well,” he said, “I dunno, 7 dunno.” He disentangled the plates and the cups and saucers. A moment later the clang of another bieyele bell dis- turbed him. He looked round resignedly. There was An- gela.on the threshold, guzing right through him haughtily. “T beg pardon, mum,” said Stoker, who had been well grounded In apelogies to his betters, "Ta Mr. Netherby in?” asked Angela. “Oh, yea'm,” replied the simple Stoker, * a—a lady called?" pursued Angela coldly. “A lady, 'm?" said Stoker, He stopped and scratched his head, being very much helped thereby. ‘* Well, "ni he said, thinking painfully, for even he ariiied RANTLE trouble about. He became quite cunning and cautious. “Tdunno,” he answered at last —“ I dunnoas I cansay, 'm." He shuffled his feetand seratched for help. [t was a bad moment. Angela entered, “Who are you?" said she disdainfully, fine ¢ | “Odd-job man, mus,” said Stoker, “Wy py we does it all between us.” Angela was now standing on the hearhn; the poor place. She looked all round, from thy |, - prints and foxes" brushes and stuffed bird me 4, the dear old carpet in the center of the bres; » "Oh, yes,"" said she. “Yes. Well, tel vs ue Tam here, at onet, please, I am Miss Yur; “Yea, miss," replied Stoker, happy to ge, Once more Stoker was nearly flung peosteat 4 leading to the stairs and kitchen by the ase 5 of Arthur, who dashed in, cunrying two lor, “Stoker!” said he fewerishly. ‘That ich J cx now listen to me." “Then he caught sgt of dss Oh!" he moaned. “1 mean—er—it's you!” Angela stood [ha pretty pose by the mantle, "Whom did you expect to see?” sald she curs rallying Arthur. “Nobody—nobody," said Arthur fevers, aponee to her inviting amibe he drew a i reluctantly. “Wasa vou going to give me an order, jee .- Stoker by the deor, Arthur turned round and gave kim a raw “Yea. Tea, Stoker, Tea! That's allt” “Vea, sir!” faltered Stoker, going out & « bewilderment. Angela advanced with both hands outetrts« as they were really alone, “Oh, Arthur!" she breathed. “Teuppise you're staying to ten?” said Arto “Why, Arthur!" said Angela. “OH eine & delight to pour out tea for you in your own bs: first time.” “That's good of you," murmured Arik, against the couch eo suddenly that he sat dor But he quickly rose again, armed to the teeth ox “So Cewen's not here?" said Angela with o| “Why should she be here?" responded Arts “Well,” said Angela, “she left the flower ih text of taking one of the vicarage chilén= b when | followed to the vicarage just to =. 1 there. So I thought ——" “That she'd come here?" said Arthor sew “Tt would have been just like her!” cc ‘ would have been Gwen all over! You dosti dem will di Anca ae] In Wi = “Lid ee eag

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 19 (EL ERADLEY turned to his desk fated himeelf. He had picked up the hed 0. D's report when the orderly if the doot into the hall. hor ly wilh a jawk ithoat :galuted and retired, itt” nt chit Missy Blacdley. All light?" The hawk extended his hand. “Me take." shook his head. Missy sign chit.” ive chit?” Have no got." ohay master, Mle sign chit?" Be to his feet and swooped upon the chit struck out like a beak and seized the chit . He returned to the desk, signed the sed it to the chit boy. t boy had fled the hawk tore open the its few lines at a glance and became ag tr from which he read, For a moment he fis eves slowly rose from the letter to the screen, Well, at least he was no longer wld act mow—that was sure. He had n action. ked without haste toward the door on ere fastened. He did not trouble to go : he simply brushed it aside with a sweep lwith something of a clatter to the floor. salted until the violence within him had m. He put his hand gently to the door it, The door refused to open at this had not forgotten to lock it, with all her f-restraint departed abruptly, He raised against the panels, hesitated, and spoke th." at “Vee a UF 1 the morning.” : or at once or I'll break it down.” throw his weight against the door when the lock. Flinging open the door he >, Her face was tear stained, her hair 1 asked faintly. to be kind to me, but you couldn't?" itone and the white menace in his face. rt Pt? le eelzed) her by the wrista and drew her ing Toor. “Gandy, eh?" He held the «3, “Read that—read it aloud." FELUITRATE DS By John Taintor Foote EFoOoERERNER BF wT. A. 5. "Fam the folrit of Gaatama Buddha™ She obeyed. “' May I see you again fora moment before Igo? [shall be in the legation for the rest of the evening."" Poor tormented Jimmy! Thos: few words had struck him as sulficlently innocent should his note by any chance go astray. He had found it imposible to write “Dear Mrs. Bradley." He had therefore omitted his signature as well, and so had damned his few lines past all explaining. “Well,” demanded the hawk, “who wrote ib?" She wet her dry lips. “There ig no signature,” "So | observe. Who wrote it?" “T never saw the handwriting before.” “Possibly. But you know damned well who wrote it.” His harshness stung her inte an attempt te face him, "IT don’t know a thing about it. Where did it come from?" “Tt came by a chit boy just now." “And you opened it?" "T did.” "A letter for met" “Cortainly, I didn't want you disturbed.” The strange courage of the helpless came to her, “You seem to have changed your mind about disturbing me.” His fingers closed on the soft flesh of her arm. *That's enough impertinence. I'll give you one more chance. Who wrote that letter?” “Let goof my arm!" Her eyes were a stubborn blaze. They did not melt the icy determination of the hawk. He was impervious to womanly scorm. It was ber youth— her youth alone, before which his assurance faltered once mare. It drove him to a more insidious method of attack. "I'm sorry,” he said. “IT didn't mean to be so harsh with you, But I'm terribly—warrted."” «In face and voice he managed to suggest a kind anxiety. “You see, you're very young, and I'm afraid you'll do something—some perfectly innocent thing—that will get you talked about. Now, about this letter: Of course you know whe wrote it, Cf course you have anexplanation. But I must know what itis. Perhaps, not realizing, you've been a little indiscreet. Such things happen, Well, just tell me all about it, so that I can advise you what te do. That's what I'm for, my dear, to guard you and help you in every way possible. I was angry—I admit it—through anxiety for you. It's over, and we'll forget it. Now tell me about this letter, To begin with—who wrote it? You know, don't you?" She examined his face for a long moment. “T think I do," she said at Laat. “Well, who was it, dear?” "T think it waa Lieutenant Lee." He turned away from her ao that she might not see the spasm of rage that distorted his face in spite of himself. “ Yeo," he said when he eould eontrol his voles. “Now tell me—when did he start to make love to you?" Again she looked at him closely. His face was coldand hard, Wut it waa always like that, and underneath his sternness she had found him kind, "He—became interesbed in me that day in the temple, It was before he knea I Waa going to marry you. He had no idea until YOU came in. That's all there is to it.” “T see. Where hed you met him before? uF “T had never met him before," ‘*Then he atarted making advances toyou— never having seer. you before —when you were alone in. that temple?" al Yes," she ad- mitted. “But it wasn't at all the way it sounds. I con't tell you everything—lt wouldn't be fair to him when he talked to me in confidence that way. I can tell you this much—Lieutenent Lee is fine and honorable in every way. He's done nothing anyone who knew everything would blame him for, Now please give me my letter, and I'll send word to him that I can't see him again.” “You say he's honorable, do you?" "Yes, Gardy." A litth of the poesion seething within the hawk erept into his voice. “A young snake whe comes into my house and makes love to my wife?” "He didn't make love to your wife, It was before I was your wife—before he knew.” » “He hagn't tried to make love to you since?” Her eyelids quivered in apite of her. “No.” “You're certain?” dd ¥ieq,"" She was lying, of course, thought the hawk. The letter proved it. Again he was forced to turn away from her lest she sus- pect the whirlwind that was shaking him. “Sit down, my dear,” he seid as casually as he was able. "T want to think what's beat te do,” “But, Gardy, there's nothing to da. Nothing has hap- pened. Just let me write that I ean’t see him. That's wl—don't you sec?" He had begun to pace the floor. Suddenly he whirled on her. "Then you don't care for Lieutenant Lee?” “Why—why," she stammered, “I'm married to you.” But he had his answer from her eyes. Again he took te pacing the floor. When she made an attempt to speak he motioned her into silence. Back and forth, back and forth pace! the hawk. He turned to her at last, smiling a queer cold amile—a relieved arnile it was. "Very well, my dear,” he said. “You may write to Lieutenant Lee, Come and sit here at the desk.” She obeyed. “Now write what I tell you. Just aay ‘I have received your note, Come here at once.” Don't sign it.” She had picked up a pen: now she dropped it. “You're tot going to bring him here? Oh, Gardy, you're not going to do that?" “Yes; write as I tell you.” “But why? Why?” “Never mind why. I'Tl explain later.” "Oh, please don't, I beg of you."

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20 THE SATURDAY EVENING “Pick up that pen and write.” A little of the hawhk’'s inner deadliness came to the aurface. In spite of shaking fingers and tear-filled eyes she man- aged to obey him. He struck the gong. “Address this envelope “Lieuten- ant Lee, American Legation."" As she finished the address the Number One boy came through the dearway, “T want the orderly, Ty Ming." “Yes, Excellency.” The hawk picked up the note he had dictated, folded it and placed it in the addressed envelope. He returned the envelope to his wife before the orderly appeared. “Mins. Bradley has a note here for Lieutenant Lee. Will you deliver it, Tim?" "Vis, sorr.” “You'll find the lieutenant in the legation somewhere. Deliver it to him pereonally and say it's a note from Mrs. Bradley, You understand?" ““Yis, sorr.” “Tim will take it for you, my dour. Just give it to him.” It was not until the orderly had gone ' that her confused thoughta took the form of questions, “Lieutenant Lee would come here instuntly if you ordered him to, Why did you have me write?" The hawk sat down deliberately on the couch and gave her a Jook that chilled her to the heart. “Well, [Ul tell you," he said, emiling asheering ley arile, “You've told me that this young enake who has you fms- tlnated is perfectly honorable. Now of course I don't. believe thet. But I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt, Before l—step on him I'm going to give him a chance to prove it." “What do you mean?” she faltered. “Are you going to question him?" “Well—hardly, I told you I was going to give him a chance to prove it.” “Prove it? HowtT" “When your young friend comes I'll slap in there in the window, You groet him in an ordinary way and ask him why he wrote you, [ll hear what he has to say." The hawk had called Jimmy a snake, but gt that moment his girl wile stemmed like asmall, defenseless, horror- stricken creature gazing inte the closing jaws of a reptile. "You mean—you mean—you'l eavesdrop?” "T'll listen to a conversation be- tween my Wife and a perfectly honor- able young man. If his conduct is above reproach it will do him no harm.” She gave a choking gasp and was lifted by wild emotion to her feet. “You mustn't da that. You shan't! Youshan't! Letmesee him alone when he comes. I'll never ase him again. He gots to-morrow morning. He asked to go—you remember?" “You mean you asked for him, You said he had a girl in America. You deceived me—didn't youl” She remained silent, clasping and unelasping her hands. “Didn't yout" She tried to choose some sort of words from the torrent of them raging through her mind. She found it impossible, nnd continued her dlenee and the wringing of her hands, “You don't answer. By God! I believe you're as guilty Ls he" “Tam! Tam!" she cried. “You admit it." “We're neither of us guilty of anything.” “We'll find cut about that in afew moments, my child." "Dent coll me that. I'm nota child. You proved it by marrying me. "rm doing the best thing that can be done, and so is he. Please let me see him alone without inter- fering. Just let me manage. I can—I have—will you please, please?" da Na. LE Suddenly she grew quieter. “He's honorable," ghe said slowly, “What you want to do is dishonorable, The moment he comes I'll tell him you're hiding in the window."

thie Came tog Ptee, Bat Kept Her Gase Jteaal « fartly Sefore Her. “om Geling Back,"' Ske Taid “Suit yourself,” said the hawk, “but if you don"t obey me and greet him us though you were alone I'll have him tried by court-martial for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Ag he finished epeaking they heard the faint clamor of the front door bell, She stiffened at the sound, “¥You wouldn't do that?’ It was a whisper of horror. “You couldn't, Tt would be wiekwd—wieked !" The hawk rose from the eouch, "You heard what T said," The Number One boy appeared in the doorway leading to the hall, “Well, Ty Ming?” “Linubenant Lee is calling,” “Ah, yes,” said the hawk. “You see him, my dear. I must inspect the post, Mir, Bradley will seo Lieutenant Lee. Jimmy had been admitted to the house by the Number One boy without the faintest sign of recognition. He was wetdering over this as he waited in the hall. He had forgotten about the Number One boy. He had hoped that his note would bring her across to the legation for the few words which he felt he must say te her or go mad. But they could be spoken only when they were alone together, He had hoped she would read between the lines and POST une 2, understand. In case she had faibed to do wo be bed o along a small jade Buddha which be would wa | necept.” This would serve as am emcuse for ba sep y call if he again found himself under those loath, ing eyes so lately cleared of suspicion. He felt to see if the ornament were ae bs | just as the Number One boy reappeared. “Mr. Birastie, | Lieutenaat Lee” Tie eae besa the game gscty calm. The abi, shared by Jiccrsy was Chang Fo moet power’. | in the wore, Fj Feason he Wn ag his: present buml = ttyonJimmy'ses 80 it ebemmed, 4) the Chinwmas's | In that hoom partially respon hig resolve to king: and ye = regret of the 7 hour, in the few od determinatic; 4 again before he al totally foogome: Here was. a chan hum off and ses to hi heathe where he belong “T leave Fy miorroe,” be sa Wolo, The Chime and remained 4 “When do you give up ya place? asked Jimmy sure! “T leave this house licer morrow." “Good,"" said Jimmy, riers forget. that— prophecy of poy “That. is to be doubted,” a Foo Low, and held aside x the living-room door. Jimmy looked searchin;’9 tranquil face os he passed. [i Ing, and entered the room Bhe was standing by the 4 Her expression and the way sell were queer, Jimmy tha seemed shrinking, fearful. Ha enormous and very dark. Th on Jimmy's in a sort of wkd “Tt was wonderful of yo come,” be began uncertain 5, explain In my note. | bod derstand." “But I don't understand,’’ she said iz 4 matter-ol-fact tone, “Why should you war Everything was settled about your gaing ts So she was going to keep up the preterse 14 nothing between them! It had made him og narrowly missed doing so now, “Yes, it was settled, thanks to you,” =i / a eugeestion of bitterness. "“Btirt after I'd ea | sorry. I've been regretting it frightfully ev) _ “You mustn't say that. I think Colom: j simply ask for another officer without explam requested him to. It's natural you should <u Please don’t worry any more about arodoe Please don’t." Her haggard eyes were pli What on earth had gotten into her, thear'l “My duty? What sre you phe! Sree ae anything about that? I'm "7 the waiting—forever if necessary—for you I'm going to do. Thut's what [ had to tell yu to wait until—but I'll tell you about the: « First, you mustaay what T asked you tosay acd Put it in words so [ll know exactly wtat | for. You owe me that much. You've sho fact, but I want it in words. I'l] love you 2! 4 you love me?” Her eyes had grown larger, darker if pos! wae speaking, Now she tourmed so white thought she was about to collapse and sors! Ag he reached her side she threw bet laughed. As he stared at her she spoke. “Do I love you?" she repeated wildly. Lol sort of exultant challenge, so that it moe room, “Yes! You! Wea!"" Fain came ben then asob. “sind that isn't all. Any seroma that comes to you—oh, my dear—I'll shar «| She was sobbing in his arms when the oc window purted and revealed «a face. For as oo

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THE SATURDAY EVENING won the curtains, inexpressibly cruel, inexpressi- « Bet even the shock of seeing it was lees Jimmy than the sudden knowledge that some- ad seen the same face with the same expression arms sank #lowly to his sides. He became imething added to the clash and unrest of the pad vaguely disturbed him earlier that eve- vimosphere was charged with it. He felt it in of hia being. It eereamed through his brain. tat was it. Murder! His right thumb brushed leather of his holater and remained just there, awk neglected Jimmy for a moment. He come Husthy from the aleove, his eyes on the piteous carl of Jimmy's dreams. hans’ home rat!’ He spat the words in her face ill knowledge of time and surroundings and ‘¢ left Jimmy. An instinet much older than ws, infinitely more powerful than the dis- mick, replaced it. He stepped between the vhad come from the alcove and the quivering o which ft was glaring, at," he anid. oo —" The hawk sprang to the desk and mawer. His hand had plunged inte the drawer "3 gun whe out and his tongue In action, king, or you’re a dead man.” ontemplated the muzzle of the heavy service inkingly, but his hand remained in the lever eles he was, he was no coward. He had desk onan impulse. Jimmy's words, mot his ‘ked the impulse, “Start thinking.” The ng ao. There stood a lieutenant ready to superior officer in his own home. That tenant. And the girl, the gutter snipe who cart out and trampled on it—of the two he » Lf luck went against him in an unmeces- lleta she would eseape acot-free, hand out—empty,” the hawk heard. rawer,"' waa shut with a ‘from the deak. there boy the v's eyes awung ‘his dreams, 7, 28 she moved oneciowaly, her mut te join bis finite space. + breathed. out af this. I Tientsin, I'll L + rtainly, gazing arching eyes. d quite alone. cart," Jimmy ‘thy. “Dt's only moved toa thie + the garden. B ™ Her ace to stare ~waiy into the th its winding dolike broad ands of m38- Peaceful was 1 peaceful new world. lup the cloak e hack of the aad come in hat evening. igure at the had tried to rden. There nt the man- as terrifying did not look She threw er shoulders ide eyes and hrough the oon-lightect, inthy in the iy from the it her band woof his arm. mr The Hawk Sprang to the Dark and Tare Qoea a Drawer, “Don't be," Jimmy told her, “Everything's going to turn out all right.” He deveted a moment te wondering what would be done to him. They couldn't make it desertion; he'd return at once after seeing her safely in charge of the Belknops at Tientain. Threatening a superior officer? No, he'd hardly bring that up. Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gen- tleman? Probably, Dismissal from the Army? Perhape. Well, it couldn't be helped. That was one astounding fact af which for some reason he was absolutely certain—it eouldn’e be helpwed., “Tt had to turn out this way,” heaaid aloud. “It aimply had to,” ; She made no reply, but her arm crept further into his and tighter, In a sudden ecstasy Jimmy ceased to speculate about his fate and became blissfully silent. They walked a block or more before he spoke again. “We go out the Chin Mien gates. We can get a cart there. But it's quite a ways from here, Shall I look for a jinricksha?" "Can't we—just keep on this way?” "Why, ys, sald Jimmy, with another glow of ecetasy. “I'd rather, of course, if you would.” They walked on without noticing, hardly seeing the few Chinese that dared to be abroad after sundown with Peking still full of devil seldiora. The moon was just above the buildings on one side of the street. The front of those buildings wea black velvet in whitch now and then the warm gold of lights would gleam. The buildings on the oppealte aide af the street, full in the raya of the moon, were gray and silver with geometrical purple shadows. Jimmy thought it beat te keep to the darker side. The spasmodic tightening of ber arm in his had done a strange thing to him. He felt tremendously alive and en- tirely untroubled. It seemed to him that he could walk on with her through the moonlit streets of Peking, on past the Chin Mien gutes, clear to Tientsin as buoyantly as he was walling now. Presently, however, he felt her begin to lag. "Tired?" he asked quickly. Grocer Hefere Jimmy's Gan Wor Oud Bit Fas Sad Pluaged late the POST 21 “Neng, she said; “not tired—exactly,” “Tt ian"t so very far now,” he urged. She nodded and made an effort to press on. In a moe ment she slowed down again, : “You are tired,” cried Jimmy. “Perhaps,” she said in a troubled voice, “but I don't fee! tired, I feel—I feel ——" She came to a halt, “Wall, it's the queerest feeling,” she confessed: “I feel as if there were two of me, and I had to pull the other one *Wo'll fix that,” said Jimmy, and looked about him, He saw a jinricksha across the street, Tolling her to walt he darted over to it. The squat and sturdy drawer of the vehicle informed him that he was waiting for a high-born passenger who was passing the hours in honorable diseoura: with hia vener= ated uncle on the maternal side in the august howse before which this, his entirely and particularly private jinricksha, wis how standing. Ag Jimmy reeroased the street he saw that the girl of his dreams was looking back along the way they had come. Before he reached her side she began to move slowly in that direction. Jimmy overtook her. “The other way,” he said. “That's the wrong direc tion." She came toa stop, but kept her gaze steadfastly before her, "Tam going back,” she said. A cold sweat broke out on Jimmy's forehead. “Back? What do you mean?" “T'm golng back,” she repeated, ““T mast," Jimmy bent forward and looked into her face. Her eyes were wide and strange. They continwed to atare fimedly in the direction from which they had come. "What for?" "TI don't know.” "You're going back to him?” eried Jimmy. “Never, never! But I must go back there now.” "Then you're not going to Tientain with met" “Yes, I'l go anywhere with you—anywhere on earth.” “Then eomel’’ implored Jimmy, “Tl carry you if you can’t walk.” “Mot now, T must go back, Will you come too?" "You're mad," orbed Jimny. "We mustn't go back there,” “DTmust,.”"shesaid,and moved away from him, slowly at first, and then with rapid, assured strides, Th a moment she waa almoat running. Jimmy caught up with her. “What are you going to do back there? Do you want to get something? Won't you ex- plain?" “T can't," ashe said. please, please, come!" Jimmy, too dazed for further speech, followed her mechani- wally. “Just a minute,” he said at last. He was forced to seize her arm before she halted. “You promise me you'll never go back te him?" "Sever," she sald again. “You promise you'll let me tike you to Tientain later?" “Yes, anywhere you say—I promise," “ Allright, then, "said Jimmy. “Whatever this ia I'll see it throwgh.” Bewildered, uncertain, fear- ful, he strode beside her as she sped awifthy, feverishly back to what ten minutes before they had forever left behind. "But VI HE hawk had stood at the mantel for a full minute. His eves were fixed on a moon- lighted doorway. The feroeness had gone out of those eyes for a mament, Their flame had been ox- tigulshed by a dark film of pain, Atlsst they began to ream in dull anguish about the room, tofinditempty. They suddenly ctl thelr wandering. The hawk waa listening. “Post Number One, nine o'clock and a-all’s well.” (Continued on Poge [33)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST § SPIED upon from an eyehole in the close curtained window of bankrupt Morley's revidence the young man ascending the leaf- atrewn walk had nothing better to recommend him to admittance than had the three or four other visitors who hed rung and knocked in vain during the past two weeks, His pace was de liberate enough for Claire Morley, kneeling on the window ledge, to inspect him closely, and the embit- tered little girl had already decided against him as she had against all comers, when he rang at the deadened bell. But, the bow window commanding the porch, she continued to spy on him, and discovering the bade af mourning on hia sleeve her sullen curiosity gave plice to a fraternal feeling toward the bereaved caller, this fifteen-year-old warden of the bankrupts castle having clothed herself in deepest blick sinee the de- mise of the Morley fortune; but she waa startled with the unexpected answer toa cherished secret hope when she found the full dark eye af the caller fixed upon her own as if his gaze penetrated the pinhole in the curtain. He did not ring asecond time as the others had done, but, as if assured that his presence on the porch was not unobeorved, he amiled slightly and walking to the bow window repeated his knock, upon the pane. Claire drew back, pressing her elim white hands to- gether: butshe remembered the sober not unhancdsome face, which had lighted so remarkably with the little crinkling smile at the cor- ners of the mouth and eyes: the [bright glance that bad so quickly detected her hid- ing place. And the hope, romantic and secret, which she had bern nursing, of some messenger to thelr distress from the old, gay, prosperous world, seemed wondrously verified, She looked hurriedly back through the door to the library, where her father sat by the student lamp os he had sat all day every day for weeks, staring blindly on o hook picked up at random, but reading only the chapters of his own life between his eyes and the paper pages—the chaptera of induatry, honor, failure and poverty. Some- times during the day he would murmur to himself, stealth- ily eo that Claire might not hear; but at night he would start up exclaiming in his sleep—brief, broken, dreadful apostrophes to Ciod, to fortune, to life. The slngle moment that Claire stow! with her hands pressed together broadened into ages; beyond the cur- tain sounded a footfall; the mesenger of destiny waa departing? Still she hesitated. Then an abrupt peremptory knock- ing shock the casement. Efe was not to be denied, and trembling she flung up the curtain. But the man facing her with now only the glass between did not see a distressed and trembling little maid: rather, a diminutive grand dame with a mess of brown hair piled high above her slender neck, her slight figure taut az an Indian's war bow; her black habit made her face seem small and ghostly. She looked at him steadily, her bright lips compressed, and gray eye: unwelcoming; then, walk- ing away inte the hall, opened the door, The young man came in, indifferent to the little girl's tragic importance. "You are Mr, Morley’s daughter,” he sald: Tam Mr. Wickford Sparks. I have come with the means of floating him again.” Claire thrilled to his yoiee, not a musical one, bat clear and low, and grandly offered a chair; then she went to She Felt the Compoalen of Mer Watch Standing Beelde Wer and Looked Up and rising he paced the room its length & ‘ FLEVITRATE D By Calvin Johnston PULE ER BF WATAOUR BH, announce the visitar to her father, who, secluding himself since filing his petition for bankruptcy, now made signs of trepidation. "A Mr. Sparks has come to float you,” said Claire, The girl was not looking at her father or at the wall, but, with face lifted slightly and a dazzle in her eyes, studying at life which kept in call of the distressed such deliverers os the composed, dark-browed young man in the hall. "Float me!" whispered Mr. Morley. “But that is correct: Tam sinking; I have sunk!” Then Claire looked compossionately on bis gray hairs and round lugubrious face, “You must just brace op and shake hands and listen to him," she urged, adjusting his tie and wrinkled coat; then with a meaning look, “He is perfectly dressed and good form.” “But, Claire, I have no money, no security! He can’t give us things, You will be disappointed.” “Wo,” said abe, shaking the small head with its great soft brown colle: “we will mot." She stepped to the hall and beckoned Mr. Sparks, and, after watching him shake hands with the still timorous older man, seated herself in the conference, “Tou have been a depositor in the Firat National, where Tama clerk,” said Sparks to Mr, Morley, “I have heard your affaira talked of and know that no one accuses you of fraud or deception, Yours is simply ane of the thousand mercantile failures brought about by the panic three years age, 1907," "T have been losing money from thet time,” the other, "Tn other words, you continued the same business on the chance that it would pick up.” “You might put it that way." “And when it did not pick wp,” suid Sparks, “you con= tinted to fling good money after bad." assented “But you are giving btesinesy thy bling,” objected Morley feebly. “Tf you please, we will return ti the your case by and by," observed Sparia He had tee = thon: ta Chores mor inderd loa bers yet bis upon Morley siruned, civic leaned barks in bi went on they have clerked is Natbonallar be pq porting my fats: hota tear hayes sived pheves b Profit of fe af years of my [ile] hurd work” “Biot, my man,” Slottey, Uda far turned the rx @ Smile, “in a ‘wajye—to bee ates, bo thers hischair. “You say a partnership,” hes “and you have eleven hundred dolla 7 but I have nothing; this house has gam the sheriff will turn is out any day.” “T have heard at least three men sg help you; you can certainly find threat thousand dollars in my firm, you to farm one. “You mean borrow —but none of tt console me since my failure.” “Trever yet knew a lender to seek. Sparks dryly. “Tf I approach them what shall T say? know what [ intend doing with the f Wickford Sparks shool: his head, an know nothing. If they should ask, investment, and then you sha in a way be committed to back yom bankrupt friend a thousand and way, and he will never come back for who lends buys himself free of os contribution." — Morley stared. “You speak sagely fet “Tt @ not age alone that mature @ indicating Claire, who leaned forwandl ® her hands clasping her knees, The few! year ago thut of any gay careless chim anxiety, and her eyes im a shadow aa defiant flashes. - Morley understood and trembled. “ posal, Mr. Sparks? The nature of thet ahip?" Sparks’ answer waa so prompt snd vig no doubt of ita finality. “That is secret—e? ] tk ao Cy

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 23 we Tt is a formula and process of manufacture tistrst to nobody." ufetorer of what?" asked Morley, amazed . ey.” Wickford met the old man’s look and then tepirtsequarely; in his countenance was down- aah wphistiated honesty. Claire, with a sighing utecteed to free her heart from prison, answered wk, _ it's come true; "hire," reeaoned her father, “ Mr. Sparks hasn"t— ihedsappeinted!"* He turned to Wick. “You df lam an honest man; then I can be trusted raccret. I must know, of course, what your 3" sins man can be trusted in this enterprise,” re- i positively, “because he would make a gamble ad upon the other arguing that he had newer his life Wiek pointed out: “You have admitted ayou took in business, Business is all chance, , The enterprise is euch that I ar justified in you that I manufacture money. I have a sure ill net risk the thousand I worked five years to thanee, though offered odds of a thousand His was not the frenzy or enthusiasm of the proapeier. thousand is so small a capital." ia¥ four hundred per cent!" four thousand a year on six thousand! elared Morley. slowly: “To offer my record and my references. timy reputation and future for your five thou- ? You will receive twelve thousand a year iwestment." t is a much as my business paid in good I told you somebody would Tn- not answer, and they were deadlocked, when herself standing before them. jeve him, I do.” urned to Wick and searched his countenaner , Half whispering, “IT con't tell why," she eo up and raised her face to her father in d entreaty. “I mustn't be disappointed,” ing of you,” Mr. Morley, beset by conditions that were indeed full of danger to Claire, found her pleading irresistible and yet could not do so unprecsedented a thing as borrow from his friends to invest blindly with this young man, however ahrewd he might be, "You have a host of books in this library,” said Wieck. “Do you read and understand them all?" Mr. Morley nodded. “You ought to be able to read and understand just one man," said Wick, In another moment he m- treated, bowing, really departing the house. “Wait!” anid Claire, and her litth: hand gripped her father’s wrist. Child, child!" he exclaimed deapalringly. “What do you understand of all this—of Mr. Sparks?" ‘i “Yea! Tunderstand,” she breathed, “You mustn't let im go." Suddenly the man, already broken, gave in to her. “God help us, Claire!" he said, patting her head, “I can do no worse than I have done." “T will write the names of the three friends I heard talk- said Wick, and did so on a sheet of paper. “You will sea them to-morrow, Ask a thousand apiece.’ “Yea—yea: I'll ask them.” Mr. Morley shook hands and, the question just occurring to him, asked, "Why didn't you go to a successful man, a wealthy man, instead af te me?" “They would not admit themselves to be gamblere—no- body but o loser ever does —and would not take a chance on me," explained Wick. “You admit you gambled because you have lost, and are willing to take another fling on my honesty and sense." “What would you do if a man came to you with such a proposition?” “Turn him down, I never take a chance,” He moved to the door, Claire beside him. “Don't you believe the Lord did send you?" she asked. Wick shook his head, smiling. ‘He never sent anbeny or anything to me," he answered hosted ap igi don't sev why He should send me to anybody elae ny see girl, He doesn’t meddle in this world at all,” She clowed the door on him slowly, and was drawn to the window to look after, Her father’s question haunted her. Why should she believe in him? The answer came with a threb and hurt in the flat little breast, and a scared blush which caused her to hide her face in her arms. Meantime Wick, reaching his boarding house, fell under the attention of a fellow worker in the bank, who with much curiosity possessed a natural gift of satisfying it. This man, August Framer, was about twenty-five —Wick's ownage. There was an incongruity in his physical make-up, the thin inquisitive face with its narrowed green eyes and sandy lashes and high forehead being miscast above the short thick neck and stocky, muscular body. This evening Framer quietly followed Wick from the dining room and upstairs, and with a single tap on the door of his room pushed it ajar and intruded his head. He saw Wick, bending over his reading table and studying a sheet covered with minute writing and figures, instinctively shelter it with his hand, “Why, that’s the sheet I saw you working up a year ago,” observed Framer, who body hal followed his head inside, “Don't put it away if it holds secrets; I only looked in to offer my sympathy and move on.” Wick thanked him, and Framer turned, but completely around. "Wick, now that the old gentleman hes passed and you're free of responalbility, you ought to be at something better than the bank job. You have a longer head than the rest of us boys.” “I'm leaving the bank job next week,” replied Wiek, his hand still sprawled over the sheet of paper. Framer casually seated himself in a chair by the table; his eyes though bright with curiosity did not stray from his companion's face. “Leaving mext week?" he repeated. “Then you have something on the stocks.” He drummed on the table within an inch of the paper. “Or ig ita huneh, worked out in this Trensure Island puzzle here?" He smiled, touching the paper itself, and Wick almost impercepribly winced. “T never had a hunch,” he replied, his anger rising against the mededber, "But, Wick, I don't get you," urged Framer. “ You're leaving the job, a8 T expected. On your first night free of the care of the old gentleman—God rest him—you have out the plan you've been working up a year or two, Is it your own game or a plan to beat somebody else's game?" Tha rage Wieck did the last thing he should have done— seized the paper and tore it into bits, “Now,” he said, controlling himself, “we'll talk of some- thing alse." (Continued of Page 63) Wt the Bad of the Fourti Race Wieck Jam Morley Come Goer From the Siand and Join Fromer

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24 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A°D'! 1728 FUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE S0UARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, UU. 8.A. GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR Five Cent the Copy From All Newsdesders. By Subecriptiom: To ibe Linined) States and Colombia, Guba, owe Mica, lhominizan Bapuiic, Eousdor, Henduras, Mexico, Sicerayua, Salvador, Fangs end Peru, 62.4 the eer Remli by US Memey Order, apres Moaoey Crder, Check of bp Coreit. poyeble in U.S. Fords. To Cennde=By Subscripaion, Dithe Wear, Slagle Coples, Tet Cente Conadian er U.S. Pura, (uber Forage Ceontrics lin tee Powel Uniom: Setberriplone, $M the Wear, Be minances io be by Direalf on a bank Io the UU. 5., peels In U.S fends, PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 3, 19232 Water, Water Everywhere HE farmer too often thinks that he alone is right, while the railroads, the steel industry, the packers, the labor unions, Congress, the board of trade—everybody else is wrong. He knows how the other fellow ought to run his business. He seldom considers that some of his troubles might be bying on his own doorstep. For example, take this idea of watered stock that the farmer is always talking about, A certain state officer of a farm organization was testifying before the Joint Comeis- sion Of Agricultural Inquiry at Washington last suromer and he made complaint that, aa a result of the Curmins- Esch Bill, in the $18,000,000,000 value fixed for the rail- rofids of the country there wee $5,0900,000,000 of water value, Hut he failed to mention that the farmer is a great little stock waterer too. Take the land boom of 1919, and from beginning to end it was nothing more nor less than an artificial boosting of the capitalization value of farm investments. Lt was speculation, too—much harangued nbout by farm oraters. In the fifty years from 1850 to 14M) the total value of farmland in the United States, exclusive of buildings, im= Hlements and liveateck, increased something lesa than 510,000,000. But in the ten-year period from 190) ta 1910 it jumped from a litth above $13,000,006,000 to nearly $25,500,040, (MM), or more than 100 per cent. From 1910 te 1920 the increase from this $26,500,000,000 was up ta the enormeus sum of $54,903 453 925—nearly another 100 percent. The total value of all fare property incressed from approximately $20,000,000,000 in 1900 to $40,000,- 100,000 in 1910, and to nearky $78 000,000,000 in 10, Now what caused such un enormous incrensse in value? Most of all, it was duc to what our economist friends eal unearned Inerement. This is the increase in the vale of land which is added on by the growth of papulation, The past twenty years has seen a constant and rapid in- crease in farmland values over the country generally, due te this foree, Then came the land bowm of 1919 and within the space ofa month of two the farmer took matters into his own hands and proceeded ta add on te the value of his farma the unearned increment that waa due him for the next five or ten years; added on to his book value capitalization anywhere from 15 to 36 per cent for no basic reason under the sun. In 1918 the United States Department of Agri- culture estimated the value of plowland to be sixty-eight THE SATURDAY EVENING POST dollars an acre, the country over. In 1920 it estimated that the value had risen to ninety dollars an acre, an increase of 12,9 per cent. According to the 1920 census there are 4,982,401 acres of improved farmland in this country. Lf the term * plow- land" is synonymous with “improved land"—and It is approximately—aon increase of twenty-teo dollara an acre in two years, applied to the whole country, would total to the enormous sum of $11,155,610,622. The farmer wrote up his values right on the brink of a period of falling prices, and sold his farma by the tens of thousands at these inflated prices, laying vest sums in mortgages upon them. Came 1920 and 1921, and with prices cut in half he was unable to figure profits on the inflated land values of 1919, though there were, of course, other important factors in the situation. Yet the prairie farm that was valueless when the buffalo roamed over it, worth two dollars an acre when the pic neers cabin was built, was worth fifty dollars an acre when McKinley was President, and to-day may be worth $4) anaere, Provided it has been farmed judiciously it has been improved all this time and has constantly berome more and more valuable. Most of this increase hes accrued to the farmer by the economic forces attendant upon the growth of population —this 200 per vent increase that hos eome in the past twenty years to the land wealth of the farmer—and the rest is due to a writing ap of Ue eapitali- sation, to all intents ancl purposes a wabering of the stock, Against Everything FORMER chairman of the national committee of fA one of the two great political parties was asked a short time ago if the Democrats hed any chance of win- ning the next presidential election. “Nobody ia for anything in this country,” he replied, “Everybody is against something. On that basis alone and without regard to the merits of the case, I think the opposition has an excellent chance.” He went on to say that the attitude of complaint, criti- ciem, opposition and negation seems to have very little to do fundamentally with political parties, but that it is merely a circumstance that might well work for the benefit or injury of particular parties. Politics aside, there is no denying the injury wrought by the prevailing attitude of chiding and stricture. Specific eriticiam aimed at proved and actually remediable abuses ig one thing: mere grousing against everything in general is what damages and destroys. Nothing is more common than a sert of composite attitude of dissatisfaction, dis- content, spleen and suspicion, which is nearly always diverced from constructive and practical working sugges- tions for improvement. Those who are rich or in other respects fortunate too often look upon labor unions and thelr leaders, together with most workmen, domestic servants and employes generally, as robbers and loafers. Those whose work is manual lovk upon the rich and otherwise fortunate in exactly the same way. Inventors and others in search of capital regard the banks as thieves, and bankers quite often look upon those in search of cupital as unbalanced cranks. Landlords and retailers are generally supposed to be profiteers, To those outside of it Wall Street is a den of inkquity. To the city man the farmer seems to be asking for special privileges, the farmer often sees every one else turned aguinst him. Everyone suspects everyone else of raiding the public treasury in the form of turiffs, bonuses, subsidies or other special privileges, Tt would be pessible Lo fo on lin Gils wait indefinitely. Perhaps there will be more straight thinking as the war recedes into the distance and the hysteriag that it wet in motion are slowly calmed. Mental disturbances and eco- nomic fallacies were stimulated also by the business depression of 1920 and 1921. A more reasoning attitude may accompany a less disturbed business movement. But responsibility for the carping, grousing attitude of mind cannot be wholly laid at the door of the war or of the great economic movements over which the individual haa no control, There is no such ready escape for any given man or woman. No one is exempt from the biting truth of this Jane 5 i passage from A. 5. M. Hutehinaon’s nel Comes; “She thought charity meant giving. .. flannel to the poor: she thought generaity meas money to some one; she thougit selfishers 4 giving money to some ome. She had eo ig ay only real charity is charity of mired, the ote =| osity generosity of mind, and the oaly ra! o+ selfishness of mind.” Education and Succes; TATISTICIANS are credited wih an og With an @ementary education your chose ol) auceess ia lin 41,250. With a high-school .-.,) in 1603. With a college education it ix | = (7: are the many compilations which parpor wo): 9 lation between high standing in school of clingy and success in one's life work. Such figures: may mean much of rer ol na many cases the college or high-schoul gradsnte ey eee if he did not have any auch ebieation tence money and family position to start with. [+ =» cases it is not the education which makes te a Lt igexactly the other way around. Having ts J inheritedt qualities: wid capacities whieh iseviio) bo suceess, he naturally seeks an eddeation, Ty 1) able extent those whe po through high sched os a aelecbed group to begin with. Many are no doubt spoiled by eduratir excuse for elegant Ipisure that unfits yoang me hard work without which distinetion asd ceo ment art impossible. Many seer to fee! the ak a muibetitute for work, They look upon te 9 more than a mere tool, forgetting that toe pas tools ia mot the only equipment needed by 1 penter. Education cannot take the pao brains, mttural efficiency and dependsbits, iden! system of education and the moat perfect! cannot equalize the lot of those who are not cel Tf any proof & needed that education | to success it is afforded by the great numiena arrive without any such assistance. Hal ey every allowance and providing for every ee probably true that educetion is the cree sg canbe found for the limited inborn capaci? cap the great majority of the himan aa © 4 Tat. i man of unui tilenta be betier aff with ow formal and conventional education is perme but from any broad point of view a mints question, Such aman gets ahead anyway, Wa (oes is te give those who have it, whether unwsal talents, a start in the race, Nature ig. shockingly undemocratic. other extreme, giving ao fra men marvels Ft ‘She jj mist very littl, Education bs the axcence al) Only a dew, it is trae, can go to the college ties, and still fewer to these which represemt al sive social standards ancl limitations, —aig universities are only one link, amd not the mal at thet, in the whole scheme of adolt eto The great state universities have 05 im niimbers, they are eaay to ener aed ace To the greater numbers who because af St) working from early youth mun forge ree state university, there are many Couns schools of the larger city uni ties mations as the Young Mien‘s (hei thease whe ve in eoaller 2 PThirast ape avallalale in. fi those rea Ven key the state ane bo a variety of private commespe vide slantly Increasing extent mleo che ing education to their workers: suspicious of a eapitaligtic taint he thet his union itself is engaged i with a ‘training of bs own, Anyone who really wante the mae can get it. There ts oo magic about it, life's etruggle that only the boldest acid unlike inherited capacities, Matureha peo

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST a) RSw ket two decades of the past uy witnesed throughout rold usual developments _ csanufacture, agriculture, transportation, trad- unking. The resultant inerease in goods and cme] the basia of enlargement and diversifica- standard of living. The facilities of production with the development of consumers’ wants and he ret in the standard of living, fram the bogin- ieeitury until the outhreak of the war, was a omenon if the firat order. This enlargement ification of the standard of living extended in y to all classes. Though wages between 1910 d not display so high buying powers for staple 1835-19), they purchased many desirables at tand provided goods and services mot previ- ible, As against cheaper staple foods in the ed, one must set the added comforts and of the later period. The business depression wo years provides opportunity for serutiny of tin consumption in a population to whom ration of the standard of living had net yet lized into tradition. Congumption may be measured in three ways—by survey of family lysis of retail trade in consumers’ gouwis, and sales of producers’ goods, The Family Budget et of the family is divided naturally into el and light, tools of trade, clothing, house gs, food, and a group of aceessories, sundries including such diversified things as amuse- travel, ornamenta, coametics, gum, bobaero, cthalic beverages, medical services, church i. Study of the standard of living from the amily expenditure would be definitive if we csentativwe budget surveys extending over time, applied to all classes and incomes in country, With sampling so selected as ta ie we doa not possess: we have only isolated f particular instances, some very good, but nat. Really, we are only learning how to mily budget. Index numbers of retail can predicated standards of living, cannot a ospecific investigation of relations of niex numbers of wages, contrasted with ‘retail prices, offer indications as te leeway By fllonzo Englebert Taylor all prices do not rise in relative proportions, and different families make different readjustmentsa. When prices {all with income all prices do not decline in relative propor- tions, and different families make different adaptations. Rising prices and falling prices do not alwajs point to opposite adaptations, between income and outgo, but give no indication of the directions in which adaptation, expansion or retrench- ment may be practiced when the wage curve rises or falls disproportionately to the curve of cost of living. The index number of the stuncdard of living and that of the food supply need not go parallel over a considerable period. We may compute what a predetermined standard of living would cost a family of set size under varying price conditions. We may work out a series of standards of living that could be maintained on a predetermined in- come. Hut we ore net comprehensively informed of what families actually do in the different classes of aur hetero- geneous population. We need selected and comprehensive data on standards of living, family budgets and incomes. We are surfeited with motivated research, In the direc- tion of income the careful and unprejudiced investigations of the National Bureau of Economic Research provide us with a trustworthy basis. Collection of family budgets ia more a matter of objective sampling of representative groups than of mass statistics, Standards of living must be studied in terms of scales. Before we can discuss what ought to be we must know more comprehensively what is. Consumption is nowhere a unit, It is psychological ws well at material Demands for different goods display varying degrees of elasticity. In theory, the accessory outlays should be elastic; in fact, they sometimes incline to be particularly inflexible, The available investigations seem to indicate that when for a short period the income of a family in ordinary circumstances is increased, prices remaining constant, the percentage of income expended Tor food falls though the absolute amount may rise: out- lays for shelter, light and fuel change little; the outlay for clothing is somewhat enlarged; the expenditures for house furnishings and sundrics increase most of all, When a farnily income is reduced, prices remaining constant, the absolute outlay for food inclines to remain the same, but the percentage of [Income is increased: outlays for shelter, fuel and light remain constant; retrenchment oceurs to Varying extent in clothing, house furnishings and sundries. Lf income be sharply reduced the outlay for food may be lowered by substitution of cheaper foodstulfs; expendi- tunes may be restricted to food, rent, fuel and light. Arcwod fewl, shelber, fuel and light rotate the other expenditures of the family, Food coat is here usually rated at about 40 per cent of the outlay of the family of a work- man. In England it is 00 per cent; in other European ecuntries as high as 70 per cent. But variations in different classes are marked. When prices rise with Income Other Methods of Study LASSIFICATION of essentials and nonessential has C shifted within recent years. House furnishings afford i good illustration. To-day the phonograph ranks asa piece of essential furniture; the radio-telephone receiver may be next. The service that families now require from tradesmen illustrates another recent factor. Under different cirewm- stances and with different classes the reactions often depart from expectations, from theory. Trade gives many illus- trations of disparities in this direetlon. The first imports into Rumania after the armistice were perfumes and eos- metics, not shoes. The first amugeglers into Germany alter the armistice carried tobacco, tobacco hunger exceeding fat hunger. There is much discrepancy in the catalogues of necewmarics: and desirables as grouped in projected stand- ards of living. Studies from the standpoint of family expenditures, unless carried through with particular core and elaboration, need to be checked up by analyses of trade, We distinguish between individual or family consump- tion and collective consumption. Tlustrations of indi- vidual consumption are: Clothing of wool, cotton and silk; shoes of leather, cotton and rubber; kitchen utensils of iron, alurninum and zinc; hand tools of steel; coffins of lead; ornaments and kettles of copper. Illustrations of collective consumption are: Silk belting cloths in flour mills; wool and cotton fabrics in railway cars; leather belting; structural and railway steel; lead conduit pipes; copper transmission wires: tinplating for containers, Col. lective consumption ia largely productive consumption that reaches the family later as goods or services. Many instances of collective consumption the individual does not associate with the cost of living. The collective consump- tion of materinis is more reduced in a period of depression than finished articles that appear in the family budget directly. Several forms of consumption are scarcely meas- urable from the side of the consumer. Railway services, (Continued of Page 39)

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26 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Juana 5, The Print of My Remembran journ in Arizona in order to get ma- terial for the play of that name. I wrote earlier of going back to Missouri, where I was perfectly familiar with the ecuntry, in order to refresh my ideas of its local color. In my opinion it would be difficult to overstate the value of this plan of getting information at firet hand. It was Fred Remington's way of keeping himeelf fresh on his own subjects both for writing and illustrating. Richard Hard- ing Davis made it his practice, visiting nearly every country in the temperate zon in his search for his varied and at- tractive material. So when Charles Froh- mun, frankly regretting his failure to produce Arizona, wanted something with similar color I was glad to go to Colorado to look for it. The result of that trip & not very heartening to write about. I got o play that was heavy and overeumbered with material and dramatic machinery, It opened with a string of burroa bringing ore down a mountain trall a T had seen them do it in New Mexico. It seemed a fine touch on paper and very excellent at reheareals, but when the burros got temperamental on our first night and drew attention from the dislogue they weren't so Valuable. The greatest fault with the play was its scattered Interest. I faney that some time or other every playwright fails beenuse of the very things that he has considered his strength; that is, fails from an excessive use of such things. About 1902 that facile and ver- satile dramatist, Mr, Clyde Fitch, pro- duced a play called Her Own Way in which Maxine Elliott waa the heroine, but in which a little hairdresser girl whe talked East Side slang made the most pronounced impression. Nothing had been easier for Fitch than to write this character bit, and when he found it was so acceptable he said, “Well, if you like that kind of thing I'll give you twenty such characters," and immediately wrote a play in which he did. This was a piece called Glad of Tt in which he multiplied his East Side hair- dresser till she was a blemish. I had been successful with Alabama, = with In Mizzoura and with Arizona in carrying forward a simultaneous interest in two or three different couples, being careful, of course, to have them contribute to what waa the climax of each story, In Colorado I had practically five such interests, and though the material in the main wae good, it failed to foews. i HAVE written of a visit. to and so- Posing asa Mine Owner HE gathering of this material, however, may have an interest. My intention had been to write a play about the Colorado mines, Tio get the material [ had meant to go to work in one of them. I didn't believe that any practical miner would mistake me for an expert. I planned to get something in a elerical way on the surface of one of the properties of in the aheds. Todo this T went by the advice of my Rocky Mountain friend, John ©. Montomers, to the law offices of gx-Governor Charles Thomas and Harry Lee. Harry Lee, who was a man of about my own age, advised againat my project. There had just been a strike in the mines, and there were still a number of secret- service men working under various pulses. "Tn the way you propose,” Lae said, “you won't be in any danger, but the men will promptly put you clowr as o private detective, and though they woulda’, molest you, you would never get near them, and the intimate stuff you are trying for would elude you." There waa an experienced, practical miner, tough man and strike lender, on thelr books by the name of Phil Flyin. He wasa good deal of a freelance, constantly moving ubeut on new proapects. Tf they esuld locate Flynn arc put rie under his care I'd be in the way of getting the desired in- formation. A long-distance telephone caught Flyri Colorado City on his way to a copper district in Sorthert Now Mexico, He waited over a train for my coming. | had had a rather romantic aceount given me of Flynn be. fore joining him, According to the men in Lee's oifice he Penta, wy noua ee Moxine Eifion in “Lord ond Lady Aigy.”! et the Right—Margaret [lingtos ia The Gay Lord Goex"" By AUGUSTUS THOMAS had been etucated for the priest. hood and had abandoned i. At any rate, he had a fashion of quot- ing Latin. ‘lo my mind, wlier | few minutes: with him, he sugrested neither the priest nor tha scholur, but rather the railroad foreman. He inl reac knew Ty hiisiness from his long-distance telephone talk, and as we went along on the railroad gathered my purpose in detail, It was decided that [ wns not to Ose 43 aL pric jel miner but a9 a thine owner investing in properties, He gave mea few stock phrases that would partly carry out thiy impression, and when in daabt Twas to be silent, We slopped ab a Junecian called Trinidad, where the yard foremun knew Fiynn, Flynn tele kim Twos from Leadville. The foreman waked haw things Were Lp there ‘ \h [ could anewer only in the gen- eral way that they were pretty good, but-a main difficulty wis the lack of cara. He knew this, and was trying bo forward campeliess “Where did you get that car abut?" Flynn said as our own train moved on, Iteld him I had seen it in the mom- ing Paper, Well soul de, “Por,” In the evening we left our railroad ata town called Springer, from whieh we had a fea miles' ride in a Shire bo the driver's home, where we passed the night. Next morning we sburted with a taceharse wapon for the foot af the Litth: Cameron—pronounced Simmuroorn. A proa- pector was cumped there with na tent and ow few cattle. Flynn mide his aequaintanes and left oor wagon In his care. Veo wont ap the trail on horseback, At the end of the afternoon we had got as far as the animals eould comfortably ga. They were baw the trail again and started w:: y Flynn explained that there ma way that they could get |=. 7 to follow the little stream vl our trail, No matter bow hey them, they would bring up @% era qutfit where the wagon my The kit [ started with wo iy the stagedriver's home in eg each carried only a blanket, bee tollet articles as one could j pockets of his reefer. Leavig City, Flynn had asked me li I showed him o 238 borer) thought would do. Before ji mining camp he siuggerted dl the right-hand pocket of my reel of the hip, where I had & ] think there would be any Ga though my poet wae boyy copper mines, he wae really gy recover theent claims, which hel had been jumped bey the enphy big mining company ope district, I learned this withoe ing in certain peripheral ner reagon to think it was not bee 4 1 1 A Chilly Recepiie HE camp which wes ard conmisted of a bunk hoo el house, some fifty feet ape cabins. The bunk house bed thons, such as they were, fore Its interior wus divided brad way, say three feet wice, ita) each about nime by six. Ee tained two rough sapliag § above the other, each bunkad than the ordinary double fa with bedding of pine bowpae boughs the miners at night Bj in their army blankets, te= Ee In the cookhowse, bese: amt for dishes and wtensis, Ty woolen table sbout Go flanked on each aed wooden benck. Iz Pa | this room were bee one over Che other i and his helper. Ti cfitektontagtaerk bees ol | Fiynn and mm a Mines came eel work, which = half an beer | rival, there =e ne of the foman the-lcoe early twenia) j duroy sat boots, Bs paces 1 One Do rt There wa oo icon, a third cole] of Latin origin, men. The bor fe om good-natured and peu to be operating for Gee = men worked for the owned the buildings the a and the few burros that carried the oe Goa We were at a considerable elevation. | The place grew suddenly cold st sige the daya were warm. After supper the meen tobaces and played curds. The ook bet j order to get rid of them. When @ went to bed in the bunk howse.~ “Tike and I couldn't stay in the eoolehass wae wrong about that; his ir on the table; himself he was gue of the benches ond some bom tf Without removing boots or am funny sack for a pillow, snd cover slept four nights on the kitehen table outht would have had authority i ne uttemipt to espert tt, "The fies breakfast, during which spoke to us, Flynn and I went an (Continued on Minted

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 27 MADE BY THE MAKERS OF CAMPBELLS SOUPS “__and they’re digestible too!” That’s a remark you often hear people make about Campbell’s Beans. It is one of the main reasons why so many always insist on getting Campbell’s. The secret of their wholesomeness lies in the fact that they are slow-cooked. You can freely indulge in their rich flavor and tasty tomato sauce because you know they always agree with you. 12 cents a can Except in Rocky Mountain States and in Canada LOO FOF THE HAOeAN OA rr LASS Pr Saas mt! - ase .. al ee ak Am

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28 (Continued from Page 78) barrow a couple of picks. The company had plenty in their blacksmith shop, but refused to lend them. The blacksmith, when alone, seemed a litthe more eommunica- tive and more willing to be friendly with Flynn. Wher, alter getting our picka and an hour's walk, we got te the ground where Fiynn had located we found that his identifying stakes and signs had been replaced by newer claimants. These evidences Flynn promptly de- stroyed, and set up again stakes with his own name on them. This done, we put in the rest of our time digging what in mining parlance was called an assessment. This is the removal of enough cuble material to meet the re- cnilveniaat of the mining laws, and we were just within the expiration af the time limit te do it, We were in a singular social atmosphere and set of circum- stances. The cooks turned us out the aame rough meals that they provided the company miners, without any discussion a8 to the propriety of doing ao. The minera ignored us during the meals, although Phil swore roundly at the unidentified thieves who had tried to steal his claims. The cook and his helper were rather poor stuff! and even if they had been friendly, which they were not, Flynn and T and the boy in corduroys, who diplomatically affected an ignorance, all together would have been in the minority against the remaining members of the group. Alias Jim Jeffries LONE each day on the claims, Flynn said hedidn't think any of the men had nerve enough to begin shooting, and in his opinion the claim jumping had been inspired by the company, and the man were not to get much out of it, anyway: ao that his feara, if he had any, were considerably less than my own, which were numerous. On the fourth morning alter our arrival we started on foot down the trail, and to my eyes the landscape grew more beautiful with every rod we covered. We found our horses and wagon with the comping outfit in the litth: valley, where we arrived in the afternoon. Late that night we were again in the atage-driver's highly civilized quarters, which when quitting | had thought so rude. On the way north for Cripple Creek we atoppel off at the little town, at that time the central office of the Max- well Land Grant, where Flynn had to make certification of his meesment work, and where much to my astonishment he filed one of fis elaima as the Little Luke, naming it after my boy and turning over to me the certificate of ownership. The adjoining property belonging to the big copper company wae paying heavily, and Phil hoped there might be a fortune in this claim. To hold it required an oocasional return to the property and aome werk with the pick In that unfriendly altitude of the foe and the stranger. So, though I still have the certificate, the claim of the Little Luke is like the grave of Sir John Moore, At Cripple Creek I met interesting characters and learned much about Flynn, There had been a fire a couple of years before—while Flynn was absent—that swept the side hills and left men, women and children without shel- ter. Flynn returned when the conflagration was over, and to his astonishment his little cabin was the only one left in that district. He looked over the aurrounding misery a moment and quietly went over to His own cubin and set [ton fire. When he rejolned the sufferers he said, “Now I'm with you." As we went through the little mining ety on that first night of our visit we gradually accumulated a crowd of admirers, I was in om fair wilt to make a mistake about Flynn's popu- larity until [ discovered that the interest was in me. I got Flynn in a earner anid made him confess, Someone had asked the name af his companion, AB OH great secret he had whisgecres, “Jim Jeffries." Some two Venrs before Jeffries had won the championship from Bob liiz- Simmons, hae later won from Sharkey asd some \ months preceeding ‘ the time of which I \ write had knocked cut James J, Corbett, On the sidewalks and in the barra much to Flynn'a anusement, men jostled us a little unple agai us I feared that of enthiisidss mounted some lo ‘TS, te iatority eT. ; Hitel Burrymere ot the Time of “* THE SATURDAY EVENING POST would take a wallop at mein the belief that he was meas- uring his capacity against the world champion. Under a pretense of important letters I got back to our hotel. The stuff I got from Cripple Creek waa principally character studies. By the time we reached Leadville, Flynn was thoroughly enjoying the fiction in which we were mutually interested. In that city [ was introduced toa mananxioustoget rid of agold mine. [t became neces- sary to inspect it, and I wanted the information that such an inspection would give. To reach its most significant level we had to make a deseent of eight hundred feet In theshaft. Our vehicle was whet was called a bucket. This was a vessel made of boiler iron, about four feet high, with & dinmeter of tao feet at its rim, used for lifting ore. It waa held by a strong iron bale suspended by a steel cable. The rim of this bucket stopped at the ground level. We three men, the mine foreman, Flynn and myself, took hold of the steel cable and stepped on the rim, distributing our weight ao that the thing rode level. Upon a signal to the engineer the bucket began to descend, The shaft through which we were going was about four feet square. From one hundred feet dawn its opening, a9 one looked up, seemed about thesize of a window pane. When we stopped at eight hundred feet it waa a pinhole in a sheet of black paper. Our illumination was the three candles that we carried, each set ina miner's candlestick, which was some what like an ommamental skewer or steel dagger holding a candle at right angles, and devised to scrape dirt out of crevices or a candle holder to stlck point first into a wall, The alley through which we traveled was about as wide aa i private hallway in a cheap flat, and not high enough to permit of standing erect. One trouble with this particular gold ming was that some two hundred feet along this drift the roof had eaved in. The owners had dug through this heap a kine of rat hole big enough to permit the passage of a man's body, if he got flat on his stomach and pulled himself along like a lizard. The foreman went first; urged by Flynn, I followed, second. There was no retreat exeept confession, and the dark shaft from which we had just escaped. After a cold crawl of twelve or fifteen feet we emerged inte the unob- atructed gallery again. There was no guaranty that the material through which we crawled wouldn't shift once more and imprison us, or even catch ua in transit. But it didn't, and after a terrifying hour we were again on the eurface in God's free air. I didn't buy the gold mine: the best [ could do was to take the matter under advisement. But I was so overloaded with sensations that when I come to write my play I had my villain and his guilty partner eight hundred feet under ground, in a cage om a cable controlled by the hero, who was on the surface with the damning evidence in his hands, When we got back to Denver, Flynn refused to leave me until [ had been given safely into the hands of our friend, Harry Lee. As he said good-by far the time being he turned to Law: “What I like about your friend Tom here is we took this two weeks’ trip together, and we were in some tough

Captain fink," Lionel! Darewiniore ana Jeatie Bustey da “Not Wit Ay AE eye * 4 June 3,5 places. But he never said once, * Whe we pe get out of here?’ or “How long dows this let* 5), right." I confessed to Lee that I'd often thought thas » tions, but had refrained from asking them beage | would in nowise hasten our departure of temo: difficulties; and, furthermore, I didn’t want Pal fp think I was a quitter, which in my beart I wa. Fiynn was much interested in etories of the thane also the things about Fred Remington, and a par showed up unexpectedly, but mot without wice New Rochelle. Remington thought him a veritable nogget, om: all the time with him he could im Fiynn’s tw daya in the Eat. The twenty years that have gone by have preted tired Phil from very active service, but there a in (@olorade, Arizona and New Mexico who rev him and [ hepe atill meet him. Ea-Goveror Charles Thomas’ law partner, Hie now dead, was one of the moat gifted men of be | West. I will quote too examples of his wit if] nc stage for them without too much delay: A dime in the Denver Club at which were toastmacter cod 9 and one orator, who, I had been led to believe « most eloquent in the state, When this spvabe be talk he made three seperate starts at his obj friends regretted the indulgence that lat bo | scattered, and as for the third time be said, 7 eame through here in 48, " Harry Lee rent record's been lowered since then."” The orate the laugh, and under its cover gave way to the petty On one of Loe's visits to New York a club thea Lackaye was interrupted by an English actor, 9 the oratorical friend at Denver was not in full po of his faculties. Each attempt to secre of Lacan mort of a cue than a hit, His continued fails growing a litthe monotocs “I don't know what the game Lawes are is Ne Mr. Lackaye, but in Colorado it’s considered ' sportemantlike to shoot mackerel in a barrel” “Wackerel in a barrel" is noe a Lambs Clb The Craving for Variety MAN nature is eo constituted that the wx from boredom is one of ite strongest motive every playwright is driven into mew kinds of <4 his wish for change. Bronson Howard, after =» of Saratoga and Green Room Fun, wrote To Daughter, Young Mra, Winthrop, and after m<« edy, The Henrietta, returned to serious work = doah and Aristecracy. Cillette wrote his ore Professor, The Legal Wreck, then his serious pu the Enemy, and, after a string of comedies wtic! Mr. Wilkinson's Widow::, Too Much Jobneos an She Loved Him Sa, nwturned to serious wore Service and Sherlock ‘dolmes. Henry Arthor / even & Wider range through outright meloirans ranging from The Silver King to Whitewash Clyde Fiteh, after hi; lighter social portraitc. big play, The City. One will net be accosed a a professional kinahip to these mmsters if | confesses the human side which crawes ssa attempts ranged all the way from mrelodra=s comedies and broad ie the experience with the heaetion we ol the lighter ras Before Colors duced, and © in ierecom oe mes pire Toa H. ¥.1 comme, | coeieet of Cha mans ut ei eLare, gare | aay Ricks My w de | | Watchice oa ®@ boo, ond 5 left the stage ! hoverment om Likes meceding =< Com tice an Po PS Ge RARE, nie Tie Cry

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST a Pee DZ = ae ee ae — a s_ In every man’s mind there is the hope that at some stage of his career he will own a Cadillac. He may declare that ambition to his intimates, or cherish it silently in his thoughts, but in either case it remains a strong and inspiring influence. He ardently desires a Cadillac because he knows it is conceded the world over to be the acme of motor car perfection and enjoyment. But his regard for the car goes deeper even than that. Acquiring his Cadillac is to be a signal event, a milestone in his affairs. He contemplates the Cadillac as a pos- session that will reflect his own tastes and standards, be the outward sign of his success and position in life. He looks forward to its ownership as a form of self-expression, whereby, in the last analysis, he may reveal his innate human love of fine and beautiful things. In this practically universal admiration and aspiration for the Cadillac there is involved a responsibility which might well cause any manufacturer serious reflection. We pledge ourselves to uphold rigidly the standards of the Cadillac, that it may be always worthy of the tribute paid it by these future Cadillac owners. CADILLAC MOTOR CAR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN Dieteton af Ceneral Molara Corporation A OD

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(Cantinued from Page 28) audienoe eettled back in their seata. They had moved forward in their attention in less concerted action; but as they heard D'Orsay approaching for his second seene their intercet was immediate and the forward inclination was tn unison. I called my wife's attention to the fact, and when D*Orsay came on for the third time we both noticed the peculiar reaponse. I felt that the player ac welcome in such negligible material as his slight role offered was of stellar quality. Tknew D' Orsay as an actor who had attracted attention in Captain Marshall's play, The Royal Family, and as an interesting personal figure about the clubs. To describe him in a line, one would have to use the phrase so often applied to him by his erities: “The Ouida type of heavy man.” His expression is the dominant one of dis- tinguished, opaque, English toleration, alternated with bland astonishment, not unmixed with good nature, but always self-confident, self-sufficient and aristocratic. I began thinking about him as the central figure for a comedy that I had agreed to write for Mr. Frohman. On the American stage, to get the great- eat value from such a man as o kind of comic-paper Englishman of breeding, it was imperative to surround him with Arericoans and give him an American background. In doing thia I naturally saw the Americana amused with his apeech and manner as I had seemetherm amused by him in private life; but as I thought more intimately of him I remembered that his funniest moments were his attempts to be ultra-American, This phase seemed only incidentally valuable until, through dwelling on it, the idea came to me to put him in a situation where he would be seriously obliged to assume it al- together, and with the inception of that idea Thad the bent and the impelling factor of my story. The construction would be along the line of eetablishing an Englishman who would have to pretend to be an Amer- ican, and his experiences alter he began to do so, If I were permitted to aay to a dower. English and American playwrights of to- day—FPinero, Jones, Gillette, Pollack, Al Thomas, Forbes, Winchell Smith, Davis, Maugham, and so on, “What made an ultra-E-nglishman in America protend to be an American? Answer promptly,” they would reply in chorus, “A woman." That is the dramatist's formula, and it waa mine. And the dramatists would be agreed on the next step: Find the woman. I felt. that it would be: piquant for the woman te be a grass widow who had resumed her maiden name, Under the proverb this would make her twice shy, while at the same time it would remove her from the Ingénwe clasa, then being badly overworked. After considerable study, which must not be minimized by any ready relation of it, I hit upon the ides of having my Englishman masquerading a4 an American unwittingly take for aufficient reason the nam of the girl's divorced husband. This wus a great find, a8 any one interested in playmaking will readily agree, I decided that my Englishman should have seen and been attracted by this young woman while she was traveling on the Continent, and that instead of coming to America in search of an heiress his trip should be one definitely In search of the woman. Producing the Earl of Pawtucket HAVE more than once in these pages spoken of the value of material which to have no significance at the time of its acquisition. Here's another example: I didn't go up in the Ferris wheel at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 because I dramatized the wheel sticking when my cor should reach the top of the turn. In 1899 [ said so to Maurice Barrymore as we stood looking at the same wheel transported to and set up at Earl's Court, London. “Well, since it's been here the thing haa stuck twice,” said Barry; * ‘one time for twenty-four hours.” A policeman standing by took up the story and told us how a sailorman climbed to the cars with coffee and sandwiches for the imprisoned patrons, “A tot of good stories,” he added, smiling, “fellows with other fellows’ wives, and all that sort of thing.” 1 expressed my yokel astonishment as to how the sailor- man could have managed it up te the topmost ears. The bobby's tolerant answer set.the storyin my mind for all time: “Well, you see, sir, ‘is mother'd taught ‘im to "old on gee and ‘ard, and ‘e did.” The idea af putting two romantic people together for twenty-four hours in the same car at the top of the Ferris wheel seemed ta me excellent preparation for a comedy. When my story was well in hand, newspaper training impelled me to familiarize myself with the proposed arenes THE SATURDAY EVENING POST of it, the three locations in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. I stated my project to the business manager of the hotel, and met a chilling and discouraging reception. The house could lend itself to no enterprise of that kind, So two days later I drove to the hotel in a cab with my wife, and with a trunk and valises. The room clerk hed us shown several rooms and suites. I cheee a suite I thought suited to the earl, The rate, without meals, was forty dollars a day. We stepped only one day, but the forty dollars put into my hands many valuable physical suggestions, as well os the truthful color which is so valuable in a well-known district, It also enabled me to make sketches for the seenic artist and get suggestions helpful in the general eonstruction of the story. After [ had begun to write the play Mr. Frohman had gone to London. I cabled him, asking if I might have D'Orsay for the piece. With characteristic brevity he answered "Yes," My comedy, The Earl of Pawtucket, was done by the time Mr. Frohman eame back, but the cable for D'Oreay fugustas Tkomos ond Pail Fiyaa After Fhale Trip Fate the Mine

had meant to him only the engagement of a miner charac- ter. He was warm in his approval of the play, but declined to risk D'Orsay aa the atar. I could see no other exponent. Frohman generously relensel D’Oraay. Two hours after he had done eo I had completed an arrangement with Kirke La Shelle, who took the play selely upon my description of it, and because he had to move prompthy in order to get time at the Madison Square Theater, where Elizabeth Tyree was starring under her own management in a play not very successful. Miss Tyree was exactly the type of girl that we wanted for the heroine, and she had the addi- tional attraction of being the owner of this lease for the Madison Square Theater. While [ was still in La Shelle's office, La Shelle arranged for Misa Tyree to hear the play, and before she went to the theater that night [ had read it to her, she had aceepted it, and after giving the follow- ing day to the selection of the company we started on the second morning to rehearse the piece, with only eleven days between us and the Monday on which we proposed to epen. Among the company assembled on the stage of the Madison Square Theater for rehearsal was an actor of ox- perience and ability, Mr. Ernest Elton, engaged for the part of the valet. He and D'Orsay had been together in an English company some fifteen years before in the prov- inces, and met now for the first. time since. “Oh,” aaid Elton to DOraay, “are you in this piece?" D' Orsay said, “TT hope te be.” Elion gradually realized he had been speaking to the star. The reported episode amused C, F. We had one of our best first nights, and next morning a fine press; but our performance had been with insuffi- cient preparation. Being farniliar with the script from both writing and rehearsing it, I had at the first per- formance undertaken the office of prompter, and in order that [ might not be more audible than the players stad in the first entrance with a emall megaphone through which I whispered when they seemed to hesitate, In the second intermission a prominent critic said, “I like everything about the play except the wretch with the megaphone." June But feeling that much more depended upon ma> of our tempo than absence of the ocrmmonal noes | megaphone [ stuck to the method. Our sage = the card registered our last curtaln at an hoor the improved upon during the long run of the pies starred in the play under La Shelle’s manageme= years, and at the end of that time returned to \y man to star in another play. Altogether I read or proposed many ply: : Frohman, Some were accepted, many were fo in seript and in projected story. Charkey one dy me: “It's always a great pleasure to refuse because it seems to get the thing off your we have an interesting conversation.” For my own part, as I look back, T oop pleasure was not altagether one-sided, never refused a play or a story without project for another ame. When he turned back the script of released D' Orsay from his company in onder do the play elsewhere be apld: * this is of your mind start in a comedy for Jahn Drew, and Ty like you te put a part m it for Lx Drew had recently had pret « Flay called The Mummy anc th Bird, in which his nephew, Li more, had the part of an Italiar » English words and ventured on ' phrases, but trusted to convey : meaning by eloquent parntomics

Young Barrymore's It THINE Lionel Barmyameorr ) tal ambition in life was mot : iM: player as to be ertet. Eu black and white oar on ciate interests him intensely, and for: years he left the stage to devow the study of color in Pars Is hit happiness is delineating ou he goes wt each new subject or nical interest of an artist interes faces and in the force belonc made his first big impression = by playing an old Boer gener! drama done at the Academy of part was a prophecy of he gal men portraits made notabce in 7 head and again in The Claw. F. with John Drew he had taken | a master in order to be right phrases he hed to ejaculate, : gone into the Italian colony t manners of its peaple. It may F."3 eurimisaion to put im ao ft Lionel centered my attention m obvious commission to get a story for Drees. | to eee Kid McCoy, champion middleweigh: § world, and Lionel Barrymore tagether mo acc either would mistake one for the other, Boc could easily be made if either was seen alow away. began to think of a prime fighter. Is a thoroughly contrasting part [ choee a m- gospel. Twas indebted to the current newspe idea, as there was some young clergyman u the public eye through his advoracy of athle There was no haste for the play. My foe was settled in a little town called St-Len, miles out of Paris, working on his heroic aque of Wade Hampton. Letters from him carried post cards of the city beautiful, [ was a ict! with New York, and mentally a litth wee vociferqus seli-approval of the National Ac My boy and baby girl were beginning to perhaps wrongly, from their uncertain bene Wanted to pursue her musical studies, I thourct fine to have an occasional half day in some Pet Arizona was doing well, D"Oraay was mil Letters of credit seemed possible! Paris! There are too many guidebooks of Pars accurate pictures of its beauties, too many it romantic descriptions of it from Durmas to [ improvement society and of the eomdivioss o premises, says of one citizen: “There & 1 about Brown. He is not one of thoes men = their front yards and leave the back yards =. cane, rusty tin and disorder. No hyper: front yard is just as dirty as the back one” New York has that kind of candor, Whee barks from a steamship and comes through == (Continued on Page Be

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32 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Jane 3 PIONEER METHOD, | moO means an easy task to describe and analyze the industry of the pioneer life. Primarily, it ia a large subject of itself, but it is made larger and more important by the rapidity and magnitude of the whole Western movement. It is so different from what is now seen in the collective occupations of a given commu» nity or state anywhere, that it is diffieult to understand how, onky a half century away, such primitive eonditions could have persisted. And vet, if even the alphabet of our earlier development ia to be learned, some fair comprehension must be reached of the economie surroundings of that day. It is almost impossible to present to the modern student or reader a picture of how these people lived when there waa not a mile of railroad in ey until — 1854, when nearly one ads half of our period bea ee passed away; to realine —— that the people were <= subduing, creative and =; a, : heppy; buying and selling, devising ond making, taking their pay in money when they could get it, but living till largely in the age of barter, to which their forerunners had been almost bound during their tediows journey from the sea- board. Large os the subject is, running, as it does, inte so many Ay SIMPLE as the thing itself may seem, it ia by &

if “wie unfamiliar grooves, making so many ruts which had to be, filled before the present industrial road could be fairly completed—it representa the stare of development reached by its time, From the Alleghanies westward, and from Tennessea and Missouri northward, the same general methods were employed, the same tools or rude muchines were in use, and men subjected themselves to the same hard) training for rewards which, judged by modern stand- arda, seem petty and unattractive. In dealing with education it is often spoken of as some- thing to be written on the blank piece of paper wrongly suppased to stand for the mind of the child. As applied to a sentient human figure the compurisen is ridiculous: but it does seem fairly to describe an area like that of Iowa when, long held back from settlement, it wos at last thrown open. Access to its 65,000 square miles of land, of unknown but, as wees poon recognized, of unexarpled. fer- tility, waa all at once opened along one side. The Opening Up of the West WE settler alter another timidly crossed the great river at widely separated points, generully aa an individual, sometimes 2a a member of aamall group. Heonly knew that he did not have to fight his way, so no colony was needed: he had not even the advantage that his predeces- cor had, as the Indian and the buffalo had not been before him to mark out along the most eligible lines the trail that he could safely follow as the natural path between two given polnta: there were not even enough Indians to do this uncon- etiousservics. There were no houses, only here and there a rude wigwam; no eultivation of the soil except an occasional small patch, planted to corn but imperfectly cultivated. There were no facilities for grinding the grain even when produced: nothing but rude seta of stones for crushing it by hand; no emith or enrpenter had been Been: no vehicle, however crude or rough, had craised the wide, easy-flowing river. No regular in- dustry hac found development any- where within its borders. For the white man's purpoee it waa literally a blank. The Government, which owne! the land, so far a5 it had been ac- quired at all, had not yet passed o; confirmed title to asingle rood; and yet, with all this before them, with no enemy to check or arrest their progress, the ecttler and his fellows were aa distinctly limited as if they had aceess to only a landing place on the river's bank. Each had to do everything for himself, There were To engineers to go ahead and blaze +

By George FELVUSTRATED Me Man Wor Mare Really Treated Thana the Bfachomith FRAN EF ee When tae Pioneer Eoerged From the Forest He Hod Hee fame the Maal Sager t WPoeds man Tica Kadwa to Hittery a trail for him; although he had gone to territory dis- tinctly prairie, he was still in leash totheforest. He had no axman, a9 in war, to clear the spaces ahead of him, There were no soldiers to make roads; he could go only so far as the surveyor had marked his series of artificial metes and bounds, He eould advance only os fast and ss far as he and his fellows were able to carry with them those eog- nate industries which would enable him in due time to add another mile strip to its occupied predecessors, Even then he had to take with him #2 blacksmith shop, a gristmill and asawmill: and he could not go far without a carpenter and a wheelwright. He head probably never even heard that there waa, anywhere in all the world, a plumber or an ar- chitect; even if he hed come from the most highly developed elty he would have had no use for such helpers. In short, the settler really had before him the equivalent of the fabled whibe sheet of paper, and he proceeded to write upon its aurlaee. All his flret signa and marks were material, He had to provide food, shelter and clothing. As he had passed the time when he could find the firat of thease by killing wild animals, be had perforee to carry with him supplies and the simple machinery and the skill required te furnish all things for himeelf, He had his own hands, the raw land, and neighbors, more or lesa remote, united with him; with these he had to work until, in a few he, 24 one of amultitude, had built a state. He could row money for development. In all the financial centera there was no banker who would have accepted him as a debtor, and no government which could do more than permit him, umder the operation of general law, to provide hirn- self with funds. In the passage through the great wil- derness there had been little change in the style of building—it had become almost an order of architecture—em- ployed by the pioneer, It eas invari- ably of wood; whether constructed of F. Parker fTrek

neither have government help nar bor-. loge or of lumber it was af the syaypel pattern, which bad given shelter und taste of the earliest colonists in Virpzun, land, the middle and the new state fF a bused along cha | Come it om | bail! a ry

than te often thoegh. 1: loge chosen for straigh ine even grain, about ts 2el aquare after hewin:. T) eould hew them strait = to a phece of saws tbe primitt ing floors of the best and emsiest worked able. The dovetailing of these logs a the! @ the eorners, with short and mot une would be perfectly squared, wae oe delist finishing process always reserved, either = sight, for that man in the neighborhood! ef eye, the steadiest hand and the most ep<e could give the touch and finish meceswy | tightness which would exclude or temper o Old-Time Cabin Buildieg i bse four walle once up to the proper bd vere seldom more than eight anda halt wooden wall was completed by what wu ‘cl which were carefully fitted, irregular red of wood about four inches thick by fw There were two kinds, inside and outede is, sufficient in size to leave betewwen the vacant apace between the loge. That wel was not so carefully prepared, This done apace between the logs was daubed eth a as the neaghborheod afforded, Buch a house, with a - funda, | otflar under half of it, once finished, prem as eolid aa stone or brick, and because = ! Was a2 protection against storm, beat or ol it was daubed with a good quality d < nisctasary adhesive power, but this ws = of house or for temporary use. If a) room, it would generally be about ort and from the same in length up to tems it would have two rooms of these dimes = aix or eight feet between them, all ander ot though such a house was rare in the earbedl erally came later, with the quick added population and the growth of s md The chimney was the most importar! & built of brick, generally poor in quality, af were scarce, The fireplace ranged from a feet in depth and from four to iz feet 5) chimneys from the beginning of the world, 34 mainly because, from the scarcity of mel aufflclent height. Sometimes it was made el rived out from some hard wood and Gee (Cantinned on Page 1

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Comtiaeed from Page 32) loge of the house itself. It was necessary to daub dyinsideand out, to protect it from fire. Of course qeathe brick fireplace would serve as the founda- ach achimney probably to a height of from five fet, of up to the average mantel, if waa generally made of clapboarda, about thirty gg, fa effect large shingles, rived out with much iwhite oak, black walnut or other straight hard ee and then from the linden or some soft wood, invalved too much risk from fire to justify eept asa necessity. Such houses were built, AE , by the combined labor of the men in rex! ood, When a settler went six or eight fe kad to draw help from this distance, though £ oftes that this was commen anywhere in the because of the Indians, on earher scenes, and Rahit and the necessity for association. sien thus briefly the best of the log houses y were the earliest. They had their gradea— j the finish and the comfort all depending upan al; but for the later pioneer the sawmill often ceded settlement or followed it so closely that fuse goon became the standard. It still had shape, generally one story and an attic, de from the American standard for frame @ bluffs made as fine w quality of shingle dre The lath saw was still longer ont, #0 that laths were split out of ¢ Tighé, Bull Sirong, Horse High ¢ that no distinctive architecture should vut of the pioneer times. Houses, which, like else, had to be utilitarian, were constructed mplest lines, They wore rectangular, os both and nature's linea of least resistance dictated, thout a porch; so that log, frame, brick and ‘ing one another, maintained the original form nee, with only amall variations. Often these terials succeeded one another up to four in he some site, ‘liest days, after the settler had provided the ia af his buildings, and had added to them, leeeribed, according to his needs, he began the his land. By this time, though not wholly the brogd prairke, which had ne tree in sight, then some of the advantages which the larger berland were to enlarge. While croazing the 2 waa limited to a plow little lees primitive al in the days of the Gracchi. There was, sugh level emooth land to encourage the lopment of the large prairie plow for cutting the roote of the native grass, The river bottoms being suliciently extensive to justify the use of thia new imple ment, the farmer and the inventor used their opportunithes, The native grasses, whether they grew on the bottoms or the uplands, rooted themselves very shallowly but with great firmness; experience, however, soon taught that the need was for an instrument which while breaking these roots would at the same time turn a furrow ao wide as atill to leave the operation profitable on an economic trasis, More than any other single agency, the plow enforced coliperation. ut of a group of neighbors each would have from one to three or four yoke of oxen, some of them large, powerful animals, from five to ten years old, well- broken and trained to the heaviest tasks. These would be combined as a single source of power, known a9 a team, and, managed by their owners, go from one piece of land to another until the season waa over. The plow was an effective machine, rather heavy and crude, not much changed for many years in ita form of weight. It waa fitted with levers, had attached at the front two wheels of diferent sizes, which enabled the operator at the handles to keep it in the ground, to regulate the depth of the furrow, and to carry it through brush, briers or roota. A proper plow cut twenty-four inches, and to operate it in land of average difficulty eight to ten yoke of oxen were required, These were chosen, aa to leaders and wheelers, with almost as much care asa coachman would have taken with his team of horses with which he desired to make fancy movements upon the road or ina track competition, The team, could then be completed in the center with animals less well trained, and even smaller, ‘Three or four men were required for the management of such an outfit, and the task of driving the furrow in a falrly straight line across the field was one requiring much experience and a good measure of skill. With his buildings up and his land broken to the plow the pioneer farmer must make incloaures. So long as he was in or near the timber he could do this only by a worm fence, another American inetitution. It grew out of the early customs of Virginia, where, after many difficulties and through many vicissitudes, it waa enacted by law that livestock should be feneed out rather than elther herded or fenced in. There was timber to the torture of all con- cermed, and so it was easy both todevise and te enforce auch alaw. From that time until the timber was exhausted or the railroad overtook the pioneer the worm fence was one of the necessary though costly and somewhat crude agencies of progress. Towa, being the last of the pioneer states, waa also the last that used or could use this form of fener to any extent. Perhaps a brief description of it a3 an actual foree during this period may be justified, As the pioneer went on his westward journey this crooked structure, winding its way over wilderness, river bottoms and prairie, cume to be known merely os a rail fence, often acquiring the nickname anake fence, It grew in elaborateness, and certainly the legal height of four and a half feat, as originally fixed in Virginia, was consider- ably inereased, probably doe to the wae of larger rails or sleepers, or to the grawing size or ag= Eressiveness of the domestic animals included or ex- cluded, until it Vera a when perfectly devel- oped, nhawe five and a half feet, and often ran a foot higher. It was compoeed nar mally of right rails, the bottom one rest rig ii peen sipork faparcted Palais One Jetiler After Aasther Timidiy Croued the Great Alowre ot Widely a5 aleepers under each corner, the latter so buried that awine could not dig under and yet raised enough to prevent decay. It was eqsential to choose ag straight a rail as could be found, fairly large, as it must serve for a foundation. A rail was ten feet long and the depth of a fence fromm ita straight outer line was four feet. A panel of it—that is, the length of two raila—when carefully made, covered a space of one rod, sixteen and a half feet; the size of a field 80 incloged could be accurately estimated by counting the number of comers, or locks, as they were sometimes called farther south. After the foundation had been laid ahead for some rode the building of the fence proper began. Each rail for the various tiers was chosen with care until six had been laid. Crocked rails were so turned and tned that no possible chance remained for the energetic outeide marauder to get in or, when penned inside, to get out. The corners were ac laid that they would satisfy the re quirements of a plumb, although one was seldom used, so accurate was the builder's eye. There was one universal formula beth for the making and the judging of a rail _ fence like that described: It must be hog tight, bull strong and horse high. Pioneers as Road: Builders LL this eure was the absolute neomalty of the time. Those familiar only with the ordinary well-fed, lazy domestic animal have no conception of the cleverness as well as the strength of cach of the species mentioned when running at large, idle and mischievous, often uncared for and hungry, outside a fence, with a rick growth of half- Tipe corn om the other side, only a few feet away from a feast. If there was anywhere a hole that could be en- larged by digging, the hog’s snout would find it, and it took many precutions te overcome his ingenulty, power of calculation, and that persistence which nothing could surpass, Oxen, especially powerful animals, from five to ten years old, when turned out to pasture, however rich it Taight be, seemed to have a genius, hardly to be suspected, for finding weak spots in the fenes, which in like manner waa the only object between them and a bovine banquet. The horse also ran at large with equal freedom. In his marauding hours he developed on his own account jump- ing abilities that would not have discredited the best trained high-bred hunter, come from where he might. As these horses and cattle were almost sure to gorge them- selves, as well as to destroy, it was to the interest of their owners that the neighborhood fencea should be kept in the most effective condition. Probably more lawsuits grew out of such cases than from all others together, so that the primary test of a good farmer came to be the efficiency of his fences. Twice a year—in spring, before planting, and in polos da ps harvesting—they were Inspected for repairs Even in the matter of roads the American pioneer was dependent upon his own efforts, Other settlements of eivilians— fally those in Western Europe—were made after the soldier had blazed the way through the forests and opened, with the most practical engineering talent known to history, roads which, with improvernents carried on in the same way, are still the wonder of the world. The settler had to be his own engineer and axman, to dig, ditch and grade, so fur as these were possible, and thus to carry his roads [rom one mewly organized district inte another, amd from township bo township, dnd then from eounty to county. The territory, after the Indian title had been extinguished in one zone after another, could not do much in the way of making a rond to the interior, It had no scheme or program. It could have neither, boevuse it could not pass, even in an exploring capacity, beyond the land acquired by the Federal Gow- ernment, So as the settler pushed forward he organined in his township, both by custom and under the law, a series of road districta which often long remained the most important political centers in the new sottlement, The governor and council were far away, eo that the settler knew or cared litth abowt them. The government surveyor passed out of his ken aa soon a he had made plats and filed them in the government land offices; but working wnoder general laws, is his predecessora. had been doting for three-quarters of a century, and ready toeotpearnte with all comers, the settler had made roads through the woods for more than twelve

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a6 hundred miles. In pursuance of this object he had felled the great trees which grew in a soil of surpassing richnesa— the gift of producing mud being one of the primary evi- dences of thia quality. He threw the tree trunks into the chosen way, only to see them sink, in many cases, into the almost bottomless morass; he made corduroy roads, the wonder of those who saw, the torment of these who had to use them: and finally worked up to plank roads and, when he found stone and gravel, built company turnpikes and, very properly, charged toll upon them. The enrly roods were of necessity crudely constructed: the only wonder was that they could be made at all. They wert the product of the plow and the seraper, the latter then a rude instrument, with some help from a field roller tnade from a peeled lag, generally of sycamore, because of its weight. Working in a loose black loam, without even clay aa a binder, without stone or gravel, often over a sur- face so nearly level that drainage was difficult; forced by the akeence of bridges to creep along the low, often marshy bottem lands until they came to an eligible site— which during low water would be a ford, and in flomds a ferry —the task was one that would have taxed the re sources and the ingenuity of an experienced road builder working with instruments, materials and men in an old and eettled region. It wae here that the resource and adaptability of the pioneer served him well. With his quick eye both for the practical and for an emer= gency, Without any trained oF technical supervision, he worked away in pa- tience, year alter year, wn- til he had so heaped up dirt over a long distance \. that, at its best estate, either when dry weather came to his aid or the ground was hard frozen, he had something that the king's highway could not excel, Over it the heavi- est load could be drawn or the moat fanvous driving speed reached and main- tained: let the frost but henve up the ground in the spring or the early fall rains soak down to its ut- termost depths, and there were not enough oxen in a neighborhood to draw a, quarter-ton load ta mar= ket or horses sufficiently ewift te drive at more than a snail's pore. Perhnpes, roughly apeaking, under the law of averages, the road was perfect for abowt fowr menths in the year: practically im- passable for another four, divided into two almeat equal parte in spring and fall; and for the remainder wes ogain nearly perfect for use with runners. From mid-November to about the first of March the sled and the sleigh were in we as substitutes for wheeled vehicles. The early fall of snow filled wp ruts and hid imperfections so that grain, hay and wood were carried to market, logging waa done, raila distributed for making and repeuiring fenees, fertilizers scattered over the fields—when indeed alrnost hall! the heavy miscellaneous work of the year was done. This both saved time in the summer and, fortunately perhaps, rendered it unnecessary to maintain the roads at the high state of improvement otherwise necessary. On the prairie at a later day, when board fences had become common, if the snow so drifted in the lanes a5 to make it impossible to break or clear them, a Hleet, soon frozen inte a heavy crust, enabled the heaviest loads to be drawn on sleds over the drifts. This often con- tinwed for weeks together; if the heape in the lanes became too mountainlike or irregular it was exsy enough to drive over the fencea and make a trail in the adjoining fleld, Teturning to the read again at a favorable point. Past Masters of the Ax TAVERY early period, when interior counties were still Thore than one hundred and fifty miles from a railroad or a Mistisippi sbeamboat, twas common for the best farmer to haul to market the surplus products of the year's labor. Loads of small grain—wheat, oats, buckwheat, seeds, corn shelled by hand—or dressed hogs, now and then the skins of the simple wild animals left in the woods along the streams, averaging perhaps over a ton for two horses, and considerably more for four, or even, in rare emergency, with oxen for power, would be drawn for long distances and sold in these remote markets for money to pay taxes or purchase necessaries that could not be grown at home. These were, mainly, salt, suger, coffee and other groceries, or leather for boots, shoes or harness, Such wagons would be loaded both ways, bringing back supplies for their owners ar neighbors of for the country THE SATURDAY EVENING POST store, These journeys often required four weeks and, as experiences, were about as lonely as any that men could have. Camping out or atopping with farmers of their own type, often delayed by bad weather, iliness or loss of a horse, the wanderings of Ulysses could scarcely have been more trying; but, next to endurance, patience was the one great pioneer trait, Mor was it all hardship. Such a man had many interesting adventures. He saw larger, or at least more life than that immediately about him, he ex- panded his business training and experience, and formed with remote and congenial people many friendahipa that stood him in god stend, These business errands had much to do with drawing farther into the state men who, having alrendy succesded, carried their emall but helpfal rescurces inland, to cast in their fortunes with ao still newer com- munity. When the pioneer emerged from the forest he had become the most expert woodman then known to histor. He no longer thought of clearing a farm for himself by barking, cutting or burning trees: instead he began to employ all his skill in wooderaft and to utilize every machine, whether it was ald of ao new that it had been hurriedly designed to meet some particular emergency. Soon the bottom partion of his land became a source of revenue, He was then the farmer, pure and simple, and this occupied hira during the season of planting, cultivat- ing, harvesting and garnering. With the cold weather he became again the woodman. He felled his timber, drew it to the sawmill—which by this time was only less common than the blacks amith shop—either sold it outright ee 4 4 Proper Plow Cot Towaty Four faches, aad te Operacia ft in Land of Teerage Difficulty Elght to Tan Feber of Oxcen Were Regqalred or had [t sawed, by his own ald, on shares, or for money payment, and had the product ready for an addition to his house or for a frame building ta replace the outgrown log one, for bis own fencing or for sale to his neighbors, near or remote. Often in the eearcity of ready money he could only exchange his product for labor, which had a double Value because otherwise his progress toward independence would have been retarded. These river bottoms were covered with a virgin forest, never before seen by the white man. The principal Varieties were black walnut, the aycamore, the white hickory, the harkberry, the horsechestnut, the oak and the white walnut. It was upon these that the American woodman exercised his strength and skill when he found himself in surroundings where handling timber was an industry and mot merely a destructive orgy. An eurly Towa farm, thus divided into meadow and womiland, be came a factory of double capacity for fond and for articles in wood. Its owner was both a worker and a merchant with a market for something that had formerly been with- out commercial or moral value, and he brought to bear a lange degree of skill both as workman and trader, He had the beat facilities of his time for handling his secondary product, and the help of men thoroughly trained in their art. The woodman's ingenuity could only be appreciated when by his skill in ewtting great trees: in handling the logs with the oxen or horses which he had trained into a large intelligence; in eking owt his chains or ropes when, in joading great logs, he would bring the wild grapevine inte servier to reach these remote from the word ronds; in the manipulation of ekids, wagons or sleda: in the use of = —_—_—__——— eee June 3,5 crowbars, cant hooks and all the dewices of tmbe dling, he showed as much courage and aime w ; knowledge aa if he had been in command of im The making of rails, generally sappoeed to be ac process, was far otherwise. The felling of the > moat favorable spot for the uae of the erogeent mow driving of wedges for starting the work of spies making and the use of gluta and mauls; the keow'e how to handle a given cut in order to get just the thape of rail wanted: the calculation, by eye nthe by mathematics, of the number of rails tha: -. expected—all these were operations im which the 5 mechanical workman would be lost. [t was css that the rail-aplitting experiences of Lincoln appes the West—-where every man and boy ksew ste meant—or that they excited mirth of ridicwe is t orin Europe. He had no unusual gift: he mere) part in the life which surrounded him. Even tiv of cordwood, though only inte four-foot length der an art and an experience the absence of which wou) impress itself upon both the spectator and the mock the making of picketa, palings or femce posts —evey indeed, the wonderful training of the Aumericin or, both apparent and necessary. The Lure of the Prairis Ae wet this man was essentially a farmer, f home in the wilderness; helping to make the » a people; designing, making and repairing the roads ing the schoolhouse: and employing the teacher. time organizing the churches, leading the prayer = sometimes preaching the sermon, and very after a in a revival meeting. With such foundations 1 hardly any reagon to ask why this bs @ eounty pendence, of ingenuity and character, of mecha: and of great industrial achien every line of hurman endeara The average age of the : families who went to [owa. | year 1840 onward wotil its {rz were completed, must have be thirty. Moat of them had : already started im life, =m promising farnilies, bus hud Se measure of socess, | demonstrated what cenalid b simple surroundings throug: and stendiness. They wert remote pioneer life for the co sons that then entered into from one part of a new country to smother «! By 1850 the prairie had become a bore: it wae i feared of suspected: proximity and use, as wed 5 tion, had made it familiar, It had become cluc ergy and ability could command their reward ir 2 the time necessary under the forgotten despecu forest, so that the majority of the newcomer soc late! a momentum that meant continuance of o cess. With comparative ease this would carn ¢ many difficulties that had hampered their fathy older scenes. If any figures could be compiled they would « such men, when destined to win a fair memeurr o started by the purchase, often with some defe ments, Wf about eighty acres of land, of whieh 5 like one-third was timber, and the remainder bo “or on the ridge between two streams, It was tf rule that forty acres of this land would be broke pared for cultivation by the farmer himself = wait some yeara for help from his bows, relyirr | ginning almest wholly upon hia own labor, [5 © from fifteen to twenty acres would be fenced oc | pasture. Of the cultivated forty acres about £9 be planted in corn, leaving some ten acres for ox including a tiny plot, perhaps a quarter or ball 2: 4 garden, in which the potatoe would occupy apace, There was no allotment for fruit, bes not yet become acclimated or adapted te the = . the further reason that crab apples, wild plore blackberries, strawberries and grapes grew © 5 fusion, For either pasture or hay there Loy ‘4 government land or that owned by the apeculat« rank growths going to waste, By the time the really enterprising man c= land his boys had come into adoleseenioe and mas these were convertible terms—and the farmer = to apread out, These who failed of beeame cs could sell on favorable terms so far as price Telation to real values; so that the man who bu fully managed his eighty grew naturally and em quarter-section holder, and that without inc heavy debt which both Precept and Stamp =| the pioneer to dread and avoid. While passing into the prairie, invention bac work that the farmer’s personal eficiency == between 1840 and 1860, certainly by 1865. Is : {CeAtinoed on Page 3H)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST thing uncommon for Peerless owners to at they have driven their cars an almost : number of miles without finding it ‘to remove the carbon from the cylinders, : valves, or indulge in any readjust- repair of any consequence whatsoever. be difficult to overestimate the impar- uch experiences occurring as frequently ) with the Peerless. course, spell one thing and only one ot merely correctness of design, but an of measurement and of manufacturing r above the ordinary. experience of men who have always a the highest type of manufacturing o draw upon, it is safe to say that n the world is closer, finer craftsman- applied to a motor car than is being the Peerless. The same principles and practices which keep cylinders clear of carbon over extraordinarily long periods, and free the Peerless owner from readjustments and repairs to a really unusual extent, express themselves also in every phase of Peerless performance. The car reveals its greatness every time it is called upon to do those things which motorists value most—in its smooth, unlabored start, which merges instantly into sweet, even running; in its swift rush of acceleration; in the certainty of everything it does. There is warrant for repeating the conviction that, considering its charm of performance, its luxurious comfort, its pronounced beauty and its economy, it would be impossible to find a sounder, better investment than the Peerless in the motor car market today. THEODORE F, hWtacMANUS Sec Passenger Towing Car, $2790; Four Passenger Asao'ter, $2790; Foor Passenger Compe, @94500; Froe Passenger Sedan, #76350; Geore Parcager Sefer, 47700, Geen Pasenger Seolan-damensioe, BOG, FOOL B. Offa The Peerless Motor Car Company has been acquired and is being operated by R. H. Collins and his associates EERLES § ‘All that the name implies” JUNE 1922 BS ay

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THE SATURDAY (Centinned from Poge 36) also, land and stock had acquired sufficient wolue to give the really efficient man a standing with the neighborhood banker, who, himsel!, had so improved his position that he was no longer dependent upon a discredited currency, and babecern: something other than a usurer or note shaver. The tendency to expand farm was not speculative, leading into the mo Tass of debe, ner was the ownership a thing of boast orshow. It was a real and whole- BOE for the fit with an accession of nature's tendency to eliminate the weak and unfit. This does not imply that all farming or any large ortion of it was | high class, becnuse this never became the case, but it afforded an opportunity to the to improve their methods and made them exemplars for those prone to be care- less or idle. While this process was fairly ieaiattede A the younger generation was making itae felt. Asa rule it stayed at home later than had been the ee bi % sual a toed oe all began to count, so that t arr ton, which in the pice life ins rae real ride, became fixed. There was hard work or the first and second generations— neither yet in middle life, and all still able todo it—and when this was over, markets had come, railroads were on the way, the character of local industries had become fixed, the prairie had justified itself, and lows had taken another step in its making. felantifie Farming It waa to the growing of corn that the pioneer farmer had mainly to devote him- self, and he soon carried on this trade in all ita branches with a proficiency that for the time was surprising, Working on a small scale, without help from the Government or anybody else, they learned the secrets of their trade, not in a laboratory but by themacives, [t has become impossible fully to understand the many farm theories, Reg ere with a confusion of authority; ut before the formal application of ecience to agriculture these early men not only knew the soila they worked in, what fer- tilizers were needed and how to treat and apply them, and bow products must be in rotation, but they had a practical nowledge of the nutritive value of the corm which, fed to animals, would yield the best and quickest resulta. The experiments were unrecorded, but they were tical, and news of them was spread about and shared with all who might be interested in it. The few beat farmera in a given county, seldom more than one to a township, sean became the exponents of these idess and the improved methods based upon ther. They early formed l|ocal agricultural so- cleties, whose annual fairs became features in the serial and economic life of the day. Such men were never content with what ther themselves hae Sried to oa ei: rom man F sources they ke ith the p in touch r tade in their honves. were little given to writing or lecturing, but useful information waa eo passed on from one individual to another that the best that could n as probably distributed almost as effectively aa now—though less widely. f There was such a strong desire to eo operate with all honest effort, such a con- centration of thought and intelligence, that the greatest pains were taken to be helpful. As have ulceads inaisted, it was mars thi: an economic system that was under de velopment; it was free republican institu- tions, and as in the public mind these were eo closely related to every individual, he was encouraged to make himself worthy of his great r It is skcicat possible to understand how closely every industry, et develop- ment in education, every social improve- ment, waa connected with the fundamental institutions and ideas of government, which, curiously enough, were thought te be still on trial. Evernwhere WH heard about the great experiment, the im- portance of making no mistakes, or of doing nothing that would betray to the watching monarchic peoples of — from whose ideas of government it was je sr that we emancipated our- stlves—the slightest suggestion of failure. These could only be avowed by constant watchlulnesa, even more in ermment and political methods than in industry and social systems. Every man was constantly admonished that success depended upon him; if danger was finally to be averted he and his family might aspire to anything EVENING POST within the world's gift. Responsibility was not limi to what each might make of himeelf, but by a curious process of rea- soning it was impressed u him that he waa an Atlas upon whose shoulders, poten- tially, the weight of the world might rest. Been now, in time's long perspective, there is something of the grotesque in this idea; then it was serious, an ever-present reality sed iE Ee hagatek Tene hove boone a p life . Tt may have a delusion, so far os individuals were con- cerned, but if so it was a dear and powerful One, Cotperation was not a cant word, some- thing to be talked about; hs oe beth moant what they said and did it. new- comer was tested by the help afforded him. If he deserved it there was no withdrawal; ne begrudging in offering or giving; he might have seed, tools and assistance until he could get on his feet. If he was in preciative—or worse, if he was useless— and his family were soon dropped, and there was the end of him, aa he would probably soon become a mover-on or a mover-back. This helpfulness to others, indeed to all, has Aig eep down into American life, and it is only when ite lows ia t that its value to society is recognized, It was not an incident of big business, about which so much is now heard; but it was the one quality which made possible every kind of business, big or little. The old custom of the newcomer borrowing seed to plant hia first crop, with the promise to pay at a given rate after harvest, had come down without interruption from the earliest settlements, It saved the settler the trouble of ing such supplies with him and he was able to procure those adjus to his new environment. Under these econ- ditions, dealing with a soil of such 1 ing fertility, the increase in the production ing outran the growth of population and the demand or market necessary to give them a value, judged by modern prices, fairly commensurate with the labor of Ee plas Leoni ea of conditions, then thought favorable, lon confined the Western farmer to 0 starcdasa of suceeas that was much lower, from a money point of view, than that of the artisan, who was ao distinctly the benefi- clory af both the inereage in tion and the favoring legislation of the time. It u rew away from their historic dustry a considerable proportion of the more active and Intelligent of the young anry and drove t prematurely tres the cities. This productian of grain beyond what could find a market at a price competitive with other forms of industry has A permanent influence u er= ican life, one from whieh [t is to be feared that emall agriculture will never again so recover aa to attract the type of men who for nearly three centuries made it what it was, and, with it, made their country and its tnatitutiona. Codperative Threshing Perhaps nothing better illustrated the actual working of a coGperation that was almoet unconscious than did the threshing , No farmer in any given town- ship would have enough grain to warrant the individual ownership of a thresher; so tao active and experienced men, handy mechanics, often blackamiths, woul pure one, and then start out just after the small-grain harvest to canvass the neighborhood for threshing. This done, they would make their pl eo fixing thelr route that they ak double on their tracks as little as possible. Each of these men would have a pair of good horses, well trained for their duty of furnishing their share of the power, which i for ita proper generation elther el tor ten horas, the reat being furnished by the customer. body waa expected to be on hand as ¥ about sunup—"sunrise” waa prac- tically an unknown word —as possible, The owner with all his hands was there, and he hed drawn the remainder of the n labor from his nearest or most efficient neighbor, The assignment of crew, prob ay numbering ten of twelve, waa made with a8 close reference as possible to the known fitness or training for this particular work. One of the owners of the machine drove the horses from the always-turning circular platform, this being perhapa the moat diffi- cult part of the work, The other owner as known a8 the feeder, a oat ee an almost equivalent amount of skill, Along- side of him was the band cutter, who was June 3 generally a nimble, well-truine! oa: grown boy. He bad to bares ment ripened viral acpackstonver eit in er ta a By 2) properly spread upon the cm pitchers from the stack—or fon 9 When grain came in from the me.) who had not asuffichent prodart wi them in hiring the mackine— wr portant links im the chun, wee stackers had the dirtiest job of uf under way the machine would pes stop for more than a few minsces j noon came. The threshers’ dinner made hard days of the year for the boom her help, which was drawn cus nelghbor women, who the dd in the extiperation proces. The real ri between the bousrs neighborhood in the matter of b the best dinner for a dozen mer | by their long turn at work mi locking forward, ready aftereact eB of merit to the co thought to be the best. As aris was laid out for completion mths after which the wok @ old-fashioned circus, pall op « move on in the darkness a 4 Race of Hors Ti This was a strenuog werk i men in both Bie be and © Every workman had be stint, J the whole crew wae stopped | that seldom ha bee was really ' for bisnae!! rite of sr peongh bole = wri or ten or a fortnight, = 3 stack in the neighborhon! | threshed, amd the grain garnece keted: so that the ownen «=< the next township, when act workers would be taken om, an: continue until their season | With fairly crepe the tha job waa modera hucrative a eon conquer the West. The skil veloped in knowing bores pr* atinct, a sort of sixth seme 4 natural history might have = lessons from the Americis po the structure of the hore = = his character and ~ eis mystery in judging him, tt Bein faults, the brutality = po out when owned by another. © ness in concealing them is knowledge used in the ortems a gift now almost lost; the a= position; the suspicion of 5 Vichousness; the quick recon difference in values when te another, and, im the latter = higher quality of ing bis 3 united to make the born q apart David far above anythirg Harum and other mi with this subtle gift. Eve whose ownership was involre were credited with the power @ + oalprede of yi taco ep the proces ident to ao thus of showing off ill or wel © with their to remalz ' owner or to & Rew one. The horse trade si

match—thia was a it put all the trader's pa fick out a mate for an would drive away with a} some other errand whe. was in his mind except om or two new horses: . needs. The art of showing of the most recondite a ¥ Tost interesting ever pr

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Self-Hangin Ve ntilaten [PORCH SHADES ‘THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page 345! pray pet wis oder they mast wanted, Taken all in al rating waa one of the distine- tlre futures to be found in the pioneer life, and often guided the expert to some other branch work or business, It was o natural gift which often indicated to men that eome kind of merchandising was their special forte. The horsemanship of the plonecer was lesa theatrical or showy than that of the vaunted : it dealt with the ani- mal not alone as a mount but for driv- ing. Such a rider did net belong to a type that wanted to become part of a circus or Lo amuse o gaping crowd. He did not affect the singl: horse to harness, but give him the lines over two, four, six or even eight, with the right kind of wagon or abed, harness and whip, either with «© company of merrymakers or a heavy , and he could handle them with characteristic skill. When four horses were necessary to draw a Teaper the old custom of putting a boy on one of the leaders to guide them was iven wp and the driver managed both hia our-in-hand and his machine. It required a coolness and akill seldom browght into Play | in the handling of a coach, because in case the driver had no hel and waa dapeodent wholly upon himself for man- aging both machine and its motive power. ‘The sure-footedness of the pioneer riding hore, aoquired by long practice over ditfi- cult roads and through heavy timber, early attracted the attention of forei tavaiere: Though the breeds did not velop special qualities until the Micean horse waa fairly perfected, these acon grew, out of necessity and use. prion at no time or place in modern history has the horse been ao distinctly oa riding horse aa he Was in America from the middle of the eighteenth cent until the close of the Civil War. This horse, with that variety of galts which has made Kentucky famous, was no wecident, nor was he eo much the outcome of horse breeding as of the uses whieh made ff necessary for the man ond the horse to cultivate and perfect these gaits. The trotter, which came later, grew out of fhe continued devotion to the horse tod the desire to find a new form of an old sport. It waa an evolution slowly reached, and had ita beginnings mainly within the period covered by my study, although it was not to reach ite perfection until some years later than 1870, the period marked y¥ ita ending. Aorse Stealing Along these simple linea the horse was the close azeociate of the man, His treat- ment, even in a period when there were much comreeness and some brutality, wes pec than ee have been expected. Ong SOMe Classes or § of the oo lation this was the result of imitation «of their real superiors and leaders, but mainly from the necessity which recognized the horse to be next in importance to the man. For the moat . he waa well housed and amply thou often somewhut coarsely fed. He worked no harder than bis master, and in the hands of idle or lazy owners he was often better off, so far as mere hard work waa con . than under the owner- ehip of more energetic men. Where he wis treated M/s he generally returned it in kind; he d kick or bite or balk, and often became almost una he, bat in general this conduct would change when he fell into the hands of a considerate owner. Wherever a hired man was kept this merciful treatment was enforced, often at the cost of severe suffering by some in- corrigible robate. Wo faeility ar will- ingress dosave such a man from penabnent with a black-snake whip or the or diamisaal, or With the ploticer the institution of lynech- ing was built up round the horse. He was such a constituent part of life that to steal him incurred the fate decreed, as the clay tubleta attest, in like cases, from the times of King Hammurabai, It aame to men the summary punishment of the offender, without the possibility of successful appeal either to law or to merey, It stood next to ere takin org, Be human life, because it was con- at many livea were dependent oa ats work of the horse, [f the statue ao saink to represent the pioneer should ever be raised it would be difficult to find a subject more appropriate than the figure of a horse under the name of Saint Equus. But the horse did not come inte the ordi- nary definition of livestock, a term reserved for the meat-producing animals—ceattle, EVENING POST ewine and sheep, in the order named. Of these the milch cow stood next to the horse in im ef and immediate value; but even portion was far from ideal for an animal that must make so much of a return to man. Her yield of milk would have put her at the very rear of even the worat herd now to be found anywhere between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers and _ far-off Atlantic Coast. She was generall cy fa in a and had her calf to des: supply: lying her product to many One relief came from ane fact because of the poor voey. fariaee small quantity of their milk etna had to keep two or three cows Ww one would mee With all the facilities | for feeding and keeping cows, probabl acy lt ioashen lenin one; aoth i wis Mm to give away to poor core Lbs sale was practically unknown. If the cow Tailed to within any given year, re gardless of what she had done in the past, she never had another chance, but was fat- tened and the meat she produced was dis- tributed in the neighborhood to be eaten freah or it was packed in a barrel for summer use as corned beef. The same fate awaited the heifer when she had entered her third summer and etl] remained barren. It waa seldom that a steer was butchered for family use; he was too valuable, either as an ox oF for ahipment—often, in succession, for both uwses—to be sacrificed upon the altar of the family. Crude Dairy Methods The vicious cow was more than an ineci- dent, she was an element, in this early life, Adeed to the occusional case of bad temper in the animal was the awful exposure to cold, heat, fooda, noieome and the brave struggle for forage. Worst of all waa the carelessness or brutality of boys or hired men, of more frequently of crom, tired women with peevish children waitin ating impatiently for the milk while it was st warm. Almost uniformly the milking was done in the open, without shelter for animal of human, and the cow, auffering perhapa from an overfull udder which demanded re- lief, with teats cracked from the cold or torn by briers or hy struggles in the brush when eecking food, was expected to bear the roughness of treatment from a coarse freezing Man or an ignorant learner, and then ta stand, thus exposed and treated, until the sage Fn WES Over. In the main the methods of gathering and saving the milk were dirty and dis- creditable; in these days, when the product is offered for sale, they would not be countenanced; but when used at home, in perhaps half the coses it was collected in a WEY 88 primitive aa in patriarchal days when men wandered with their flocks. Though this describes a goneral tend- @hey, it must not, however, be conelucded that i] treatment of the milk-producing animal and slovenliness in the man or Woman were universal, Here again it be came a question of type: the really gow, efficient farmer taking the best care of his cows in the matter of shelter and food aa well agin methods of handling and mille caring for the milk in cool cellars or wells or apring houses, and in making butter, which wea the only form in which the cow yielded a money profit. In such cases the animals were afforded the same good hous- ing provided for the horse, the money profit being multiplied many fold, ond the ex- ample of etficiency spreading slowly down among that part of the population open to influence, The snared panier in his a stages af development has generally he some proluct that would yield ready money. Living through successive genera- tions practically limited to barter, it was a necessity to have or find some article that would enable him to meet da of the bi paeie and to buy the supplies that he could mvt produce 2 or = cee with an accessible neighbor. Taking igen in na mast, in Virginia, tobacee:; in land, the fisheries, enabled him to the circulating medium, which, in eb of his predecessor, was the wampum of the Indian. In the remainder of the coun the awine furnished this ready money, Every- where in the Southern colonies ita flesh became a atandard article of diet in apite of prejudices and attachment to the letter of Scripture, where in those daye of literalness reference to it ag an unclean animal was not easily explained or overcome. In Vir- ginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania it waa ¥ one hthere lume 3,9 universal, and from there it era: - Southern colonies and into ths T= settlement went slowly foward | former colonies and ther ofibow hog—the term “swine” wo seve » use—ran at large, and c of rm an erie ss — of oy ays PecogT ia i inn ia Victina were protected by a tire! @ ment of laws, ordinances, reset proclamations. It was probaly rm sible for more damage clams this = causes combined. And yet in a favorable climay = couraging surroundings it grew ter o numbers but in mips ie adj to furnishing w feed = 1 quantities at a nominal cost for los Lil S006 fade it ta pega ready money. This wm on wild game declined and the | plunged farther into the wildersos n the business, it was aa easy to soke of tht or twenty as ten: ol of this facility, many furie not or did mot grow their om = there was an assured demand for 1 pee at @ price which, thogh i rly remunerative. In the tay a married hired maz rock: | in part with a ham, » shoulder 1) bacon or some lard, which he wx) home ta his family: Or thea ante be traded for something else o& tz at the store in payment for sense ueta from the outside world, The hog was the early acd ar: in paying a debt on the fare, un kinds, Interest on the smal) cei: sary; and its proceeds were wn doctors” bills, the extension of bal additional land as wanted. [t 1 the only meat-producing asima 4 moved bedily as thon ahha from one place to another, Hog- EK ins: Time The slaughter, dressing and cos hog were carnethlne that that the farce learn, just as he mastered the ri corn and the various Process bs hia main business, On the prosperu that day in early Decemter f butchering—after the corn crop ht forthe and preparations wer a or the winter—was one of the Sa im t of the whole ya ae great kettles for beating the = ba or hogs ; ine i slaughtered animals were trier | the careful dressing after they 5 hung on long poles erected forthe their gradual hing together, flesh waa cooled, for cutting icto dl parts; the division into heads !s shoulders, sides, backbones. [1 ofal—all these processes weve 5 with an efficiency or a cariee marked the character and tro rman in charge, _ Often one or more farmen Fi siderable number of animal wa bine, while other meyhborw wis or two would also bring ther a carrying on the work. By ngs thing would be done, the acai was over, and the supply of mal the demand of one of more al and their immediate neighbor time Uhe livers, hearts, mbes oxi would be eaten fresh—the frac natural preservative—the meatl cured with att in barrels or al Spring o » Serving for to 4 Year Bt tas ae this variety a WS COncETMed A The smoking prooiss wu of nance of an old art handed 3 juve tiiry to sy hia conditions was done in small log or fram * of sheds, not far from the hoo wood chips that had been cv from all the choppi g of the put inte a litthe D, euph ba from the same tree: ar¢ it & amoldering fire was bhi never mikted ta come tos: oth house and conte: lost, ao that success [tert upon having smoke without © to be maintained in th fc night. When, at the end @ weeks of watchfulnes, th git out thay were ready to ¢ the assured sustenance = | during the next year. Toe © in their particular form the = (Continued en Part

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The full joy of motoring comes only with complete confidence in the unfailing performance of your car. What is more representative of that ideal than the well-nigh per- fect performance of Hyatt Roller Bearings? Quietly operating at vital points they function so smoothly and so self-reliantly that one often forgets their very presence. Carefree

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He Trained for Bigger Pay Now He Earns $100 a Week Fifty-two hundred a year! And yet there are many men who still wonder whether apocinlized training pays! Tom Blythe used to wonder, too. That was only a few yeara ago—when he was earning jess than $30 aoweek. All around him in the big matin office other fellows his Own Oge were pegging away at their little POUeie jobs an Erusting bo luck to met them by, But Blythe wasn't satisfied, He could nat leave work to attend a resident school—nor could he afford to wait ten or fifteen years for “experience to push him ahead, His only alternative was home-study training, He enrolled with LaSalle Extension Uni- how fellow's changes once he really starts alter th the blumer i] First thing that su ST hie tena fon a n! = out of Se aig ¥ tralning under = Method. Mighty interestin, said. i te ero everyday problema which oie pelled to solve ane fone hicn was the fact that the bigger j omped for waa actually wail- ing for bir! His a ee had been quick to observe betta “— he brie sporti Eons do cri to belp om the mom: important. and to make a long story short, Harris tetving asc how “ee Blythe Tile bo Enloe ida piace ? beat was how Blythe eue inte hie first real rorcetive positional why today i carning «A salary of 3,200 a year. Your Shortest Route to a Big- Pay Typical, Blythe's eiperience, of that of thowsands Of nmelttiow mes who have feumd their pack to auc. ora in the LaSalle Problem Method. Letter after letrer in the LaSalle Ertension University tela the same wh iz story. WE the morn sow in bree-gay joba could eee actual letters, iterally thea eof them telling of renid ad vane: Heit fo poabtiona poyl i000, bo ga Alena S10000 a year, would never rest until they had Bimetered the ‘specialized. training that they aben- hately | to win BEOcEs, Send for "Ten Years’ Promotion in One’’ What are yor going to do with during the next few month? "Wi pertion of it to beet OU SA Feuer Wa. oF Will you continge bo drilt— apare Leni ye i meet tc bigger thing, t—and ne ghee—yott sheald get the facts. The oon being cham bo vou withedt ehligaion, wwethce wit whith particulars af our cenvenient-peyeent Plan; also roy of, has. tnapiring book, “Ten Years cdi cio Ite F. “art Chia besk“* taal a promoiment Chloe earcutive, “even WT vou have to pay Gee dollars for ie" Whe weil ened Gt dee, Mark — Sag — Mail the coapon— NOW, LaSalle Extension | University The Large Donne Troising Inetifvion in the World Dept. o71-R Chicago, UMlinots Piense send me catalog and full information m- pening ee course and mi fs L hawe Srarked with an Xt below, Also a Bi fr! cour keeok, “Tees Weare Promotion in One," withest abligatiog to Bee. OO Higher Accountancy Tralnl for positions as Auditor, Campers, Certified Public Accountant, Cost Acenizntant, cbc. Other LaSally Trafning Comrses LaSalle is the kererat business traising inatitetion im the work), In ofcra uadining for ewery important bedices mec]. IF more bntereated in any these emuraea, click bere: ORusiness Management (Sethe sernarealigy OT rafic blansugecient ORsibeay Aeccueting: & Sintfon Marnkgeeiecnt OLaw— Gree of LL.B, Ee nora irge tly Oilmtustred Manage- ment REfciency O Commercial Spanish OMmlern Husisesa Cor- OC) Effective Spraking reuedenorand Prociice OC. PLA. Coaching OBasking and Pinasce DMirlera Foremanship aod Production Methods OPerscnnel and En. phoyinent Management OEspert Bookkeeping O Business English Name Present Posltjom_ Aaldrees. oe characteristic of the pioneer. | slower than now, duc in THE SATURDAY (Continwed from Poge 40) igen required for home use, for a ange with neighbors and for hos- pitality. They worked into that general system of foresight which made inde pendence the pride and the distinguishing Sheep growing develo dlowly in the ploneer states west of Ohio, and never be came a dependence. As early as 1840 the Old-fashioned domestic processes af cand- ing, spinning and weaving had begun to decline; the American woolen mill was fairly under way. While these processes aurvived it was almost a necessity for each nétighborhood to grow its own wool, but even then mutton did not become a profit- able venture, It ale net fit the apular te ate and it waa long before its zauing familiar knowledge. When the sete woolen ur oer | real Tosa F grein naturally declin Alte the from the woods the ume | incident to this. branch of industry were enhanced. The rank prairie was not adapted to sheep, and the ack of shelter was eo serious a3 a draw- back that even the Vermont-bred merino did not thrive; but the most serious trouble was the dog. Whatever the quality of animal carried inte a new country, or whatever effort may have been ma le to improve b , fo such process entered into the dog. Perhaps as many as ninety- five. of every hundred were of the worst mongrel order, As the supply seemed to be legion—the proportion in both number and badnese bearing a universal ratio to the usclessnessof their owners—thedog, instead of being a credit to his masters, became and remained th: h most of the settlement period in the West a nuisance more de- structive than his predeceasor and relative, the wolf. It became the practice of in- dustrious and enterprising men to shoot dogs on yt tn from cruelty, but for the protection of the community. No 4 govt eed knowledge and even no effort of the imagination can measure the task of caring for animals on the wide-o prairies, where there waa no natural shelte and no time or opportunity to provide it through barns, 8 , high fences, groves or other contrivances ted by neces- ality or ingenuity, All this made the task of the settler a constant trial of work, pa- tience and a age He knew that upon the care of his ateck depended his hame and any reward of his labors to which he salght, sents. e must watch the a f or snow storm, rg proaching rai the to or bliseard, which might seatter his few cattle, or horses to the four winds and often doom them to destruction in their effort to protect themselves, It waa his business never to let them get owt of reach, and no labor or exposure could be spared to insure this = ale a tea Gar by the gentry Oe cottonwood or soft maple, he could have a fairly eticient wind- break. In his dire necessity he thus made bimsell a forester long before conservation and even Arbor Day were so much os of as public movements. Early Trade in Livestock Tt waa well inte the Civil War before hay and animal scales came into ee Line: even in the older West; it would probably be safe to that th id not beeome universal until after 1870, when the region had attained a large measure of prosperity and wealth. [t was possible to weigh a pig or agaheep on the old-fashioned beam scales or stechyards, but there were few even of these. The wright of eattle and hogs when for sale was determi guess, with the usual byp between buyer and aeller, Sometimes the dispute would be left to a supposed expert, but in most cases it waa settled upon the well-known sabre ae tes perhgge practice, After much negotiation over an animal or a drove the seller would make his maximum claim and the buyer his maximum conces- gion, and the sum would be divided by two, As this guessing of the weights of animals was one of the things upon which men prided themselves, sufficient earnestness was generated to have settled grave ques- tions in law, politica or religion, The fattening of livestock was much art to the inferior quality and the lack of knowing how to mix feeds; but the process continued even after the im ement in this respect had substituted Shortharns for native breeds. i Calves, pigs or lambs were seldom slaugh- , the youngest animal that was EVENING POST habitually sacrificed being a three-year-old heifer when barrennesa was assured. There was a pride, inherited fram English habits and traditions, in Saucier to market large animals; but the He rincipal reason. waa found in t ine versal belie! that meat produced slowly was more wholesome and nutritious than that which come from a stuffing process similar in charaeter to the making of pdité de foie gras in Switzerland and Germany. It was the custom te send steera to market upon the completion of their fourth year, when, by 170, with im- proved stocks and atall feeding, the best tie would have reached welghta ran- from thirteen hundred to fifteen hun- pounds. Hogs were kept until they were eighteen months or two years old, and an average weight for many droves of eighty or a hundred was often three hun- dred pounds. Corn was cheap, perhaps averaging, from 1350 to L870, round twenty cents a bushel, and seldom reaching twenty- five canta anywhere, except during the war periad: wo along the river bottoms were available for summer pasturage for h while the prairie afforded free range oF cattle at costa which bear no comparison with modern standards, Village Blacksmiths Prices were correspondingly low. In the spring of 1860, hogs sold on foot within ten miles of Des Moines, the enpital, at two cents & pound; enttle brought three or four cents; yearling wethers, two to three dollar «a head: turkeys of ten to fifteen pu brought at ¢ at Christmas from seventy- ve cents to a dollar apiece: geese, when eaten at all, about the same price; chickens were marketed, when purchasers could be found, for three dollars a dozen, and often for two dollars; were considered high when paid for by the store at ten cents a dozen in trade, and even then the demand was narrow and uncertain; the beat butter brought ten to fifteen cents a pound, and the: price through the year did mat perhaps rise much above the sum first ; pumedl The ability to draw from the outside tools and machinery to meet the ever- broadening demand gave the settler a de eided advantage over his forerunner, the eolonist, in that he carried with him in rd the essentials of manufacture, and had command in hia work of the wider variety of articles that had become either necessary or desirable. He could exercise and develop his domestic industries either for himself or others, so that gradually he could produce food, tools, grata houses, clothing and the necessary ry parap hernalia of his Tite without outside help, his own skill and the finding of the necessary mw ma being the prime essentials. He carried with him, as part of himself, sc is blacksmiths and machinists, wheel- hts, carpenters, spinners and weavers, mil ra, hattera, and others trained in etic trades, Even before the farmer could break his land and raise his trial crops these artisans were ready to set up their shops in every neighborhood large enough to require ther aerviees, They be- lon to ther same sot ia from lied the farmer himself was an—the sturdy yeoman. T were an essential part of the general scheme of life in which they foun Ives, In many instances bought land, although in few casea did they give personal laber te ita cultivation. The most inlepensah le mechanic was the blacksmith his special work the farmer, however ingenious, could nat com- pete. In general he had reached what then passed for middle life, with experience in several tasks in various stages of develo ment. Though the shoeing of horses an later in the season, of oxen constituted perhaps the bulk of his work during the Winter, the summer bropght with it the making of plows or thelr sharpening, har- rows, cultivators, hoes, scythes, rakes and tools used in fleld or garden. He mut not only have acquired a fixed akill—something that “ald always stand him. in stead—but must be able to work rapidly, When something went wrong with a prairie plow, leaving men and oxen idle, or with a threshing machine, where ten to fifteen men and almoat as many hors were left for the time with nothing to do, the blacksmith was expected to rie everything else and, without regard to meals, sleep or rest, to persevere until his task was done. This was the essence of his unconscious contract with his custamers and he must keep it. If there was one June f,5 thing that the industrial leader inj eomumunity direaded nan was that men assembled far should be beft idle while dag weather were running. The neighborhood that service of a really expert and art smith eould eotint tteelf for trade was naturally the primary but it meant even more to kom who was really interested in thy were his constituents and tad peculiar interests. His shop ws nized meeting place, a sonal ve more important than the eoeery « was the resort of bey of all age i. of whom were often gratified 4 to blow the pees & ee bo basil mysterious tool, the great sledpy, aw red-hot heavy bars of iroe wes or ggg ys others were to be mi etripa. Paiaaing matron o es lesked in through the ope: d=) sort of awe; so that the blades either had or might develop the = of the eurmiud wes destine! te CUT or a ute failure, and =a aa well make up his mind te mer Tt waa, however, an the movin an ever-ready debating scmety {es uestions that. the smithy wa oy tinguished. There the late of t:o0 universal questions —baptien, ty tiem, free will, foreordination, ey ination, the persevenca Saints —whatever this comme eryplic phruse might men—9 stant Th dprese To literally earned his living by thea his brow, but i cbc raid WR 1eveT hon day even if far inn tai No true amit gale resist the 2) talk on these subjects, thes i j problems of surrounding hurssy was nearly always active, sg unctuous, in the Wednesdar-coh meeting or in the Sunday cls that in those historic days noe much a8 thought it among powell there could be an undevout back Backwoods Carpecier No man in more really ined a than t the ar His nature united with be rice him as nearly strictly bonet 2 oe Other men—the carpenter, the ci the weaver or the tinker—acd and the customer could pial at the blacksmith ee oe list of a neighborhood. = he bi Md his place there wa L question his position or his prety. seldom a leader in matters “4 import. he was knowing to was going on. Take ‘him all ix nt fine in the pioneer Life, ai a been im che rconing ve boll RIFLE, the preceding we beds His c eter and ite peu > heen overlaid, th its ca even under the lavalike incho2 fetary areterm entirely to bir! The earpenter was a jee 4 re. In the firet , ore mystery about his trade. |: to follow every part of his mot the great tree as it stood int it took new shapes under toe * the sawmill, the broadar « when it finally found it way! for manipulation under the . handsaw, ads, plane, dreet hatchet, It was, comnparalives fin @ns¥ trade to learn acc. = versal demand, its votane +" number. Dt was more oltes hz inherited trade, so that the‘! easier pick it up from be = Pioneer life did mot Jend oe pA yt success to the higher." this trade. Everything ™ there was, as olready narmtt= sence of architectural form ° sed ry that little OPPC: rded for much effort outs ordinary slop-shop order. : windows were rude, with fo torliest days had * them from one anot whe? into the largest frame bows tive in size and design, oi log cabin. The carpenter cs fore Inclined to be mmigrst=7) subject te fitful emplor= boisternuis im habit, and o> ™ the leaders of the average te | (Contiaged # Par i cv it 3 te de: =

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 43 SA oe Containing : following Collection of Quaint and Curious Antiques, namely and to wit: refed Ruff ie starched points wrought grievous both wearer and spectators and thereby erly brawls and bloody enomintern af this picturesque neckwear was forbidden td Queen Hess, vd Borled Shirt we attacked and conquered this fearsome GE and unabded, hurt it Was CLMOMary te heighbours to help, The Society for the pot Profanity abolished it when the soft rec. Dickey orians contend that this quaint device cle of fashianable attire, While others (Wana means of defence in time of war. gehed Cy; f ify starched these primitive and cruel id great woe and misery to malefattors jodie. Said te have been impossible fo in aight when clean or to hide them vr Hat Pomedelled om the Ines of the Missts- Oat funnels, Walked the plank when bat arrived. with Padded Shoulders 6d shoulders of these coats [which bear resemblance to the New York Public * provided sufficient horse-hair to then the eldest d aughter was married. lncomfortable Collar ry collar, stiff or soft, which dors mot P with areceieess may now be replaced With Character—not merely a more pllar—but anew collar with style and terra and fatiered in fi it. ear a soft shirt, with ad For iairdianr aeiiteerp—qg anys i afseta 2b si es fF DDT te 2 yp. bosom, and soft cuffs: Pride he fe rfity ernti, JF rd! eereear dal iha- leis ordinary hers, iy hat; a coat with soft Tfyourdealer cannot supply youwith the VAN HEUSEN Collar is, Wh y ? and Van CaaArT Shirt fa doftwhite shittwiththe VAN HEUSEN Collar attached } write ua for address of one that. can, . Eoim't a VAN HEL SEM niga tr's ar, apa ing. PRU pelos Conporackon, Mickiees Careig Pela Pp me “a these tunes = PHILLIPS-JONES CORPORATION seelimalaa : 1225 BROADWAY, NEW YORK hed. ISEN compared with a Y¥ HEUSEN is the H] lar—nornearlysogood- artest Collar because— - PATENTED ceutst the Worlds Smarlest COLLAR comfort far/ored into it. é OT S WAY C. more comfortable, and sthe VAN HEUSEN ath ordinary collars—

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It scores with Golfers El Ballo is the golf- ers amoke—the ideal cigarforactive men. Activity whats amoke-appetite. The palate is keenest to ap- Preciate fine Flavor, rich bouruet. El Dallo meets the achuity test On the course, or in the club house after the game, it “hite the aepot.” Every polf is sattefoc- tion. That's because E] Dallo is made of finely blended tobac- coo, properly aged for flavor and bouqie't. Woo get El Balke foctory- frock oft of] times, The tindcd!-tissos “humider™ ‘wrapping protects againsl ff “willing” climate changes, [5 Esch cigar in the box ie of oven quality. Prooe the quality with 3 E! Dolloa the newt time a oe, your dealer hoon El ball eond us $100 for the Hamdy Packet Edition Package of 12 large Lavineia Wertheimer Bros. Baltimore, Md. “EACH CIGAR IN ITS OWN HUMIDOR” “Famous jor Quality THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page 42} big Coe alwags Iashig te Min the oem Fr but a having = thalities of the artist, was the cabinetmaker. The number was emall because the demand for furniture other than that of the plainest order was limited and Blowly. This was one of those slow-working eradea where quality was al more important than uantity—with too few men engaged to en- able it to lend itself to distinct characteriza- tion; but whatever articles they made, its votaries worked only in fine woods and with delicate: tools, the ordi prod- _— disap the fashions of the time uired use of et on and rose wo0d and yet it may well be op . within the area under pifies remaing any considerable aeber of the prized household articles of the time. Other than as an item in an exhibit the old four- is as dead as the Creare; the elaborate cupboards would fit only in Tuseums, if any exist; the c WET as antiquated as t furniture of the ancienta and have disap 26 kindling: while the walls and wainscoting, which in an older and more fortunate time the makers would have fashioned, were never thought of and eo did not come into existence, Another historic trade was thus driven out of the i heli time by pipet ro ETE gigant ‘Une ta, often empia to turn out articles with little more character than | an angleworm. ——————— EEE Coopers and Millers The cooper was present, but bis function was never important. He had heads and hirn, in white oak for staves and hes hickory for hoops, the most perfect of terials; but as few products took a liquid form there was mot much for him to do. It waa before the days of cider, and vinegar was imported from great distances, as were all the intoxicants used. The occasional cooper who hia way into un- etbintnd environment turned to his trade Rimeel ‘gradually into the lass of Fea aki interesting poe hae le moiller. There was more of him than could exist in the eg wou or any other artisan. In the first place, as considerable capital was required, the worl- ing miller was generally a hired man, the agent or representative of an owner in the form of a company or at least of a man who seldom knew the technic of the business. Mills, whether grist or saw, were the only factories in the neighborhood or district; if both existed they were often under a com- mon ownership or control, so that their managers never became individual to the degree that was inevitable in the pereonal trades, where no intermediary Wes possible, To the s ator, Unfamiliar with the mil- ler's wor for a lazy sort of business, He had only to take in the grain brought to him by a lange pe a Or Va- riety of customers, keep all barrels separate, after taking out oe Soar oe : toll put one grist after another into t hopper, see to it that his power was rid and kept in , pull the lever controlling the water from the race or atream, and then wait with patience until one batch after another was ground. The customer, pers hapa waiting nervously te get four for the family dinner, or the boy loitering about or bows or below the or in the mill race, or exploring the es of machinery, so new to him, thought this a simple job; but those who knew how many things this one man had to do—the arene: lar but heavy weights he had to lift, the help hee had to give in so many directions— realized that here wae no easy task. In the earliest tebom tame bo a ristom ill penn lone stances, not seldom rom ix les away. One man would tarry to e mill 28 large a load as the roads fishing a would permit, made up of contributions from several neighbors, some other making the next trip for the same purpose, As they came from every direction and often met remote from a village, at the mill, it would be surrounded for aay. with camp- ers, each awaiting his turn impatient to get back to an hborhoed often not toa well supplied with bread, This was addi- tional to the custom of the ‘3 OWN neighborhood, which could not be favored until all ahead were served. The miller was therefore often in a quandary how to meet the most emergent demands; ao that, taken in connection with the uncertainty of water—often he had to wait for it to EVENING POST eee accumulate—the necessity for the burrs from time to thme, the or bad condition of much of the grain , bis lot was not one of unalloyed Mai related to these trades, and in- ble from ther, waa the mechanical ak ] inherent in the great body of settlers. Thére were so many articles that could not be bought—for the double reason that they could not be found in the market and there was no money to pay for them—that ver- satility became a necessity. Ifan = handle was. readied somebody in the neighborhood had to make it. To do this generally lay out of the way of the carpenter, the wheelwright or the cabinet- maker; so it remai for some man fa- Mmiliar with the ax to become an ex in fashioning this particular article. ally ing this man waa a farmer who was alo a woodman. He thus drew from his own woods the material, chosen with a care that was characteristic; and executed his task cn a akill that could not be sur- pees required the choicest of hickory, split-into ao half square or square, con- taining material for two or four handles, then hewn inte Toe shape with the ax or the meee oon ee et a handsaw into ° ind After it WH, ata mek hly shaped with @ hatehet ae tee “ay a plane on a work- binch and drawshave until it n completion, it hes Luife. English mae very sharp pocketknile, ma chs a pags only to be smoothed with asa and polished with various en sand and emery paper from comme to the finest, untilit shonealmost like ivory, oiled, and then so seasoned before the fire that it lost none of its tress or flexi- bility: No or biel was ~* bie — ous stages of progress; mis mi know to a nicety curve and line, and be aure that, when inserted in the ox, it would balance to perfection, Craftsmanship in Wood The making o a = wales from the same fine variety of wood required skill an art. The long alien ece of wood, ran ranging from three to en ne in lenge balan for carrying a Ww ging from six to twenty feet long, reo a to ite uses, had to be ao strong and flexible as to respond to every motion, whether it was in the driving of a spirited four-horse team or eighty or ten yoke of oxen in front cia a a drover plow on th ermine irie, or by ng from the back of a horse a enttle. The fashioning of Peeler rons for a squirrel rifle, whet from hickory or white oak, was another delicate process. The plai ting of a whip of the order that fitted the handles already described was searcely less difficult, Be- ar ina aie way with four strands me ae baer buckskin, calfskin or ses i sometimes dogskin— the skilled aes =n would so practice his art that he ran wp to a5 many as twelve Jane 5, ai Sad rt og me pey ise, As much sparta could have been found in ame pte aan co kaapaeiaon. Tome or im t. icra fur- animals were Prva making mittens, mugs, lap robes, ex articles for last of ormament These lishreents asd ea of a mechanical sort cormed cet wi ple tools, thowgh with the ber = executed with a patience the wu mental and am skill that eoold be lene not taught, to the bes: far every considerable neighbotbond out the whole of the picner as were base on from Sate is oe skill or efficiency, aed bew of the mental and industral oxi ee ee a 7 now, a variety of trade few of the articles this produc 5 mentioned —gave the farm bor m into many forms of useful work nominal occupation a fame The Gospel of Wort Interest in work did net eo general knowledge of it; ba o pated in it. Everybody ret Sry lazy and idle, dem =—if = Hacked to support aod chy tribute to the Sane mock. Th of a garden was universal, anc nal women nor children though: o exempt from ite making an/ ol Probably phe the majority of the co ile, bad pehd beck ihe or ord had ste back to ther po the world every possible sat actual money cost before they wa piece old, and in many cos, uring the Civil War, at leet a years earlier. The work was not considered c it wae @ of the gene # to be gs necessary to tia/ men and women as it wad te com world at all, and the better tif more keenky its heads felt the bilities to society and to then their children, the more afew rigid training. If the groveg routed out of bed early in th either by inclination of insisenm it with the same relative earice a0 that probably no clas of 2! ing th were better pt pu wr their years of ra tt ubject to interference iby the i methods or the outside attracta incident of urban life. Food wa wholesome, thia somewhat 9 well cooked, and in only a ire there exaction. pooner f seldom a slave driver except | very interest in the work of tha in it sometimes | Te Owing to the extreme heat ts early and late, but there were! riptions for rest: much thoor man and beast. There was #0 winter, less in hours than i iri the work im wR never sleep; that which the bocce had produced, the cold eterir# use, foster or _ kt etason of let , of bear accumulated fat; but, a 7 = there was a constant etady a and an hniast2 to learn how ba or improve them, In the pioneer theology o& tention was paid te mortal a by the church; instead, bow le — of their own —anA ing else could be expiated © but nothing could overcome Til health might excuse the val like other people, but only 5 invalid, the idiot, and the od Ti a full share, Were exempt. 4:0 might accept im theory the ca i a curse, but every at . phi both felt and knee it + ted of blessings. Authee’ * Note— This artick = “a ods,” vation, with religéen, eith ote? © conditions, bttween 160 me 1 - = the Civil War. Tt ia not, ay tory, Gut seeks te interpret the 2 Shoverment thet qiacde gecesi Oe Fo velopment of that greet rege

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The steel shan opesthird the air-resistance of a Avertige Phe curtace : the wage Whe ii Tese the how freely te frame olfees beas Dao hed al frame balance tC; the laroer plaving with which it stone fi The Price is $10 (Si 3.50 if Strang with (put) 8 COoOmEM if peailpence, the Darton Its-shayes, Teduces Chen consnler that Stoel k Lop laet bet 1 singing dnd exists only fen dollars, aly ole ceonomical racguct you can hur. Booklet will be lt mone ficst hur the Precis sent on mequest. The Daveon Secel Haegquet Ca. Davton hia THE SATURDAY EVENING POST jun HARD TO PICK ’E! WAS placing an easel in the Wi 7 Doctor Alton cars 9 [s placing on carl in the §= By at Village Movie Man _ ,oac\in~ this spring, showing the pho- "You were ry; Ws ph of a golden-haired young he said. “It's ater | standing barefooted on the Family Rebicsce Fy sands of a island. Her mit | waa ford Yq | clothes seemed to be made up of | a couple of shredded linen hand- kerchiefa tied around her waist. | The sea breeze was making the ae nd= erchiets | In the pekatund of the t h came a hoiry-l ihe | Robinson. Ses He wore oh conventional sheepskin. ulbe a nifty poster, I shouldenay. For better effect I waa about te move the easel closer to a lobby palm. Someone touched mé on the shoulder. “We. Dowe,” said a voices, “dea you realize that such pictures as that are endangering the morals of our children?" Tt was Doctor Alton, our lead- ing Village minister. ‘What do you mean—our children?” I eame back with a smile, eect nie children, and neither have you." abe ily, that's quite true, id But it's my duty. rh know, to guard the morals o the children of the whole com- munity. [don't think you realize how these sex pictures are affecting them." “T don't think you do, either, doctor.” T'm not lacking in reapect for the cloth and didn't mean to be impudent, but I could see him stiffen a little, “Yau reanh —— | “Listen, ipa Pied hele ssfac intended, | but in ten ineas | lieve I've aan pe ae a aCe kids thon | a0 ever know in your life. I've still to learn, at that. You folks are doing | all the good you ean—I know that—but you've got the wrong angle.” [ wasn't looking for an argument, but the attitude of my minister fiend kind of The going. “And you think I have the wrong angle, as you call it, in protesting against movits like that?" He pointed at the bare-kneed me in a e phetoers otograph, I said. “In the first place, wai ieee that is suggestive or has some- thing to do with a sex problem, don't Well, it's nothing of the kind. That's a din clean ficture—nice gs you ever say, Just in and take a look at it.” “Tl do it,” he decided, “but I still can't anteatend your putting out a poster lke that."" "Te's id at that, isn't it?" "Wall, oie fal arephealbyy he agreed, “hut not for Catering to the Kids “Why not? That's exactly the point. They see worse than that every day down at the beach. Doctor, bare legs don't mean anything toa kid. Now I'll shor au Where you've got the wrong angle. You notice that, I'm just putting this poster out, don’t } you? The picture inside had been running for nearly an hour. He had not thought of that. “And?" “Why, I'm putting out this advance Pati f how ao a6 to cateh ind af the old oles for ig es ek ma ink it a sex picture—just like you did at I'll have to take a chance. Beliewe me, though, I take no chances on kids, If I'd put that owt before the matinée there wouldn't have been a kid in the house. Take it from me, doctor, if theres anything in the asl the a kid hates it is a Vamp movie, & seR-pro triangle, or a long love eeene. T know. The surest way to kill a pieture house is to run tive pictures for kids. If you want to ruin your kid trade just give "em sex prob- It's sure-fire. They are wise tlttle owls. They catch the posters first, and if they see any signs of mush stuff they are through for the ree Didn’t ever hear them give one of those long kissing scenes the raze?" He shook his head and smiled, “After that,” he said, step in and see a little of it.” nil what I told him was the truth. All this stuff about Ieids being lured to su tive pictures Fre men pain, It's theo “IT guess I will folks who fall for the lure. It's been more than a year now since [ ran a sex picture in “7 fag I stopped simply because it was killing my trade, and I got my first hint from the kids. They have thy mines and they want healthy stuf. Every boxy does, for that matter, but older people are not ao frank in expressing their tastes. If you will remember, a few years ago the Woman Vampires literature were con- aldered terrib Sey ee folks weren't supposed to talk about, Everybody talks ae a now, and it's always good for a laug Putting vampires in the pictures didn't even splinter a moral in my town, simply cause the kide turned fem into a joke. Kida even invented the ward “vamp.” | don't believe anybody ever took the vamps Seriously, But what I can't get inte my head is where people get all these queer notions about kids and their morals. If Doctor Alton had just remembered himself as a eres he would have been on. At heart are no different now than when we were all kids. Just think back a moment, Did you ever sneak around somewhere to rend a sickening love novel when you were aboy? You did not. If you were like me you got off in the barn and read the daring ‘ds of Diamond Dick and Calamity Jane. I don't know quite go much about gitls, but I do remember that they always wanted te play our and we had a tough time slipping off from ther, YOU @Ver aperrid — own quarter bo slip into the gallery of a theater to see o show with a lot of kissing and love stutT in it? No. You saved up your money for real hestull, like the minstrels and plays like Old Glory Betrayed and In the Cowboy's Cave, Remember how the peanut galleries were packed to see the daring hero batter down the door and shoot up the villain? Remember the laughs in MacFadden's Row af Flate and Humpty-Dumpty? emem- ber how we all applauded with hands and feet and shrill whistles when Little Nell at Into the police station with the telltale message, and the i¢ coppers, led by Lieutenant Fearnot, started! to the rescue? Oh, boy! Yes, and I'm going to tell you aonvet hing elae, If you weren't afraid of being unidig- nified us ta see the same things to- gor ee they had “em. our kid is mo different. |'ve watched him, and those ore the things he—and she, too—wanta to see in the movies. Did it oocur to that nickel novels begun ever to die with the birth of the movies book me back a few vey those adventure»: 4 "OH enarse y7: / Now come round hers & mindte. [ll gre) thing— provided 5 Th by we wre ber he read somethicg on ayes ey Cathe (7 oe hed aver in tbe | hatidied blac nscantan It was an oldjuns novel entitled Dori os ‘The Ba T'll look this one ove Sines I've pu a 5 a kind “rhs ear ts a things az. & always Hiker that ws ning & movie bro town has taught c nl I never eu ori 2a gee ow. My i Td never gest ian job, simply becca take commocplac ously. From her I inherited! » of the ni gee ever to cit They Stat panies out a hry for me, but I got fired out a i newspaper offiee for makinges up type—did it on purpxe & net resist the tempts ing wp the old editor's masiey he wrote a lo ee gresaman in which he sai ‘He te the home: town fadiant ea T used an # instead of an eo It got in the paper that wey. | Pioneer Day After that I worked a oo ery stable, but it didn't of father, who died whea | i Was & Prominent man asd to help me along om his seco a nowse. They tried me in ig then gave me o job eo Bee mitwent We hada ing it out T I many years. I speaks the village amd om seep’ York, about thirty ames I read ete : tonk plane rattled ent night. It was enon & the timid. Even, thee good. I studied the toy up my mind that the = nes. I talked to Bes out. Ae achrnitied be wees § Pony as peo thanges, & hear to selling. His rest amonth and hie picts twenty-one dollars a wee five end ten cents ace (Centiasrd =

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SLIPOVA CLOTHES.“- CHILDREN |Pretty— and | so low-priced! —such a long-wearing middy The girl who wears a “SLIPOVA Middy”™ is Wearing an: attrac- tive, well-made gar- ment—she's wearing a blouse that costs so little it's be yond belief. Any purse can buy it—any girl can proudly wear it. It is full cut, reomy, | with double seams and fast colors. Ask dealer show you these inex- pensive Earmcnes anc other ““SLIPOVA Clothes for Children" i—Middies, Boys’ | Blowses and Suits, Rompers and Creep- ers. If your dealer hasn't them, write Dept. D, McCawley & Co., Inc. 40) FE. Lemnbard Sf, Baltimore, Md. Sales Oboe: 234 (Ghurch St,, %ew York Cary | al Most yYOUr ho 4 THE SATURDAY (Continued from Poge 4¢) I kad about a thousand dollars that I could pat my hands on, and I desired to do a little financing. I had some big idena about what D'd do if T could get hold of a theater. I was determi to open up in opposition ta Ben. After many conferences 1 persuaded a friend in the realestate business—he is rich now—to build a frame theater, seating about six hundred, and rent it to me for a term of three years at one hundred dollars a month, He owned a store on one side of the site and a vacant lot on the other, and figured that it would increase the value of his property, Lt did—about 400 per cent. Hen heard about what T was doing, but didn’t worry, He claimed there wasn't room for two movies and that be had the jump on me, ro ee cent of the movies went broke in those days. : Anyway, I started. As Ben's pictures cost him only seven dollara each and he had a change three times a week, my idea was to get the real classy trade by putting on something expensive and using better judgment in selection. To begin with, T called my house the Elite. Ben's was the While the b id I got | le the building was going on n touch with the proper pd iory Be a etme service. There were two services, but, as I learned later, both were controlled by one head. were oa twenty-onecdollar kervice and a filty-dollar one. would give me three changes a week and allow me = i the Saturday pictures over for unday. , T was in for shocks and disappointments, and have having them ever singe. With everything ready for a atart T en- da boy to run the projecting machine or twelve and oa half dollare a week. Then I en a young lady in town, who worked ot the music store, to play the piano during the performances, for the Bane anount, st proposed to atay in the box office and take in the money myself. had to be around, anyway, to see that everything was run right: besides T wanted to talk to the patrons, I wouldn't have a door ae pee ae suule a Oe patrons walk right in after buying r tickets, My electric bill I figured would be about fifty dollars a month, which in- eluded lobby and entrance one Later T would need hent, and that mured ta cost upc fifty dollars a month. wo you see, my Pletures coating two hun- dred dollar help one hundred dollars heat and light one hundred dollara, and rent one hundred dollars, I had an over- head of five hundred dollars a month to stuart with. Later I had to-get two ushers, who also worked as cleaners, and they coat me another hundred. No matter how I figured, it was nd to cost me about twenty dollara a day. Imemediately I saw why Ben wasn't making so much money i people thought. It takes a lot of dimes and nickels ta wipe out twenty dollars in a And T hadn't figured my eolary at anything. puck the place. Getting Started I waa in arhieg deep but decided to go through with it. I've done many foo things, but I waa never accused of being a pai With my ata en I went to New York—an hour's ride-—to close the deal for my picture service. “Tm going to run a me place,” T sald toa litthe squint-eyed man who came out to see me. He took me inte his offies. "You want a filty-dollar serviee, then," he said, ; “That's the ides,” I told him: “and I want to select my comedies very carefully" “What doe you mean—select?™ "Why, I think a theater manager ought to use a littl more judgment about what to offer than my competitor docs, Don't “Sure,” he agreed; “but there ain't n sich thing as selection for a hick Howse.” “ho selection?" oa | should aay neti he explained. “Why, if every movie man could come in here and pick out his bill how do you think we'd ever get "em all around?’ “Then you make up these bills to suit yourself, and we've got to take ‘em—sight ungeen? “That's the general idea. But we've get a couple guys back bere thot's pretty good pickers. They'll give you in" to knock “em dead.” To make money I'd have to: EVENING POST “Somehow I don't like that,” I said. “Well, friend, that's what you'll have to take, whether you like it or mot. You ain't runnin’ the Metropolitan (Opera House, you know.” “About what will I get for fifty dollars?" I asked. I didn't like this fellow at all, I think [ must have shown it, “Oh, a world’s news feature, a couple trick comedies, and maybe a prairie res- cue—oh, the stull'll Ft a by all right. Your fillums will all + runners, and clear. The twenty-onedollar-a-week fel- lows run seconcds—fillums that's old and chipped. There's some snappy French-girl stuff coming over goon." There being no competitive service | was helpless. It made me sick, “Oh, all right," I gurrendered. “Start me off for a week from next Saturday.” I got up to leave. "How about the dough?" he asked, "1h, that'll be all right.” “How do we know it'll be all right? Gueaa you'd better leave half payrnent in advance, That's the rule. We make some of ‘em pay in full before turnin In those days there waa oo guch thing aa a picture that ran more than one reel. We had no regular plays, as we do nowa- days. Stara had not been heard of, Reg- ular actora scoffed at the movies, he so-called comedies consisted mainly of bint oi. out of second-atary windows and falling to pieces, Then the parts would run back together again by a camera trick. I never knew pow they did that, but it waa considered t stuff, After that the comedians would start run- fing down the street, gathering o crowd as they went, and knocking over fruit stands, apple carts, ash cans, baby , and eo on. The American comedies ple throwing from the start, and, ely enough, it's good stuff today. I to wonder why the French pictures didn't have gis throwing, but I learned that they don't have pies in France. Asa result they missed a lot of comedy. The American tlapatick then to invent me chanical tricks with automobiles and other forma of machinery, They gradually dug up so many new forms of rough stuff that the old-fashioned French comedies—the Pioneera—became pase’, Close Figuring Pda She Ine ot ene that I mad to er in what ought was to be movie of class, = ices The first night, the formal opening, I had four hu dime custom r] eTa.. dol. lara for a single coo made the prospects look o little rosy. In a few days, though, it began to die down. I a Ben _ coment my house one ternoon, and | promptly sent a boy over to count his. I had thirty dime customers and fit kids at an l, Ben had a total of eighteen, ten at a nickel a head. Somebody was going broke; I could see that. At the end of three weeks I was able to get a pretty good line on my house. It was costing a litth more than twenty dollars a day and IT was running but one afternoon and one night performance. This meant of course that T would have ta have a litthe more than two hundred dime patrons of four hundred nickel fellows to break even. And | wasn't getting any- thing like that! e then inaugurated the system, used in nearly all movies today, of giving two afternoon and two night performances, It didn’t work so well at first, due to the crowd refusing to leave after the first per- formance to make room for newcomers. In time, though, they got used to it. Tio boost up the business [ put on @ bill of cheap vaudeville Saturday nights. That was the worst thing Lever did. Peo ple would rather see a poor picture than a poor vaudeville act. It cheopened the tone of my howse—already dirt cheap— and I was farther than ever from the high=- class trade, [ simply couldn't get the women to come. I found that they couldn't stand the loud language and dis orderly conduct of the Hoye. his was a dilemma. If I got rid of the boys I might net have any trade at all, In the meantime Ben's house went flooey. His failure helped me some, but ] was still on a losing besis, A change for the better started when we began to get two-reel pletures, Each of these had a sort of story, worked out in o erude way. They began to interest the June| wornen. The brightest spe ic B58 Movie Menge we Fhe stopper at the box office ov i that they hal eRjoye a prt the story was 80 interesting T: viously pead it tn a magarne, « T urged the distributing mm some more of that kind, but thes was one of annoyance, 7 po ay to them, and by wg pictures. By this time I had to hires yg go h the audience acc (ey juiet. My great probber wus aj Tom eating pranuis, The +oy got on the ladies’ nerve, c! noise aa patrons walled or dq fut shells was an added chjecieg to sweep out twice a day. Keeping the Boyi ia 5 The climax came, though. why mer, w pean ere am thes a eat that PLE ih & Lew coe event @njoy @ picture, he ae chewing tobaceo, Others oc the same idea of enjojee-!. & so particular about cumpedin fi more serious problem tia imagine, After thinking it over | Printed sign in the lobby: Tosacoo CHEWING ast Pass Asméoy Lanne Maree You Hatt Fou It didn't bring about comp) but we eeuld notice an improw stop the rowdy conduct of borw been a atickler. If IT had tee this task would have bees ime In my theater I have ox: @ lowa grow up from babyhoed know that T knew all abeogt the not want to a badly me cause | know their familie. Be te be watched constantly. | my ushers to pick the rowdy reprimand them by name brought to me I give them san (Often I bar them from th: 4 porarily, and that & commis disgrace. My office fs frase juvenile court. | My favorite method of i rage fellows is to ~ call up an nary jo and lay the st raise bet ask for instructions. ment from the theater or @ parents, [ repeat these i rulings to the little cul and frightened face: : pity, bot T haye to foree mee dead ly serious. The main eines oon youthful thes tergoersarey ing their feet, booing the k peanuts, throwing candy mm ft eel other, ine Putting € z the seats. Another favurde at the Pianist, who ooo mistake of trying to cores Not long ago =. bright boy was caught in the acts ing gum where he knee ee ing to ait. A few timate ticked one girl's hair to thea in front-of him. (hildres wy enlage ire more easily i IMaginary conversations = are the American berye. was & handsome, hapoytee His eyes fairly twinkled One couldn't help Hiking bee Fibly minehievwous, though, | had ta be done or JT sho patron. When the bow came eho the usher, hia big bros ened look. Sennen oe phone and T could mot call judge. In a rery sobetin the litte fellow, putting every word. Then T deo achene “Now, young man.” Lee the crime, “| want wou tee the judge's office” —the mm irate—" ahd tell hi jo done, Tell hom the trth joe told me. Then ask hire ton LACE On you.” _ The boy, Dfigured, woulda JUSE BE SOOn £8 be pot oof oe way, the scare would be bem Thret-quarters of an hoor ll terrupted by o eal (Cttitnacd os Age little bor

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| time I had been a moving pleture that talked, Articles in THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page 48} into my office—an unusual occurrence, I had forgotten all about my instructions to the little Italian, and looked up, surprised. But, sure enough, here he was. "Mister, I went and waited,” he an- nounced tearfully, “but de judge he don't ’ : ae ou mean you have been at the judge's office all this time?" ““Yos, mister, but he won't come." He was about toery. “Can I go home now?" Ofcourse Leculdn't hug that littleshaver, but T felt like it. T told him he could go on probation. The incident had a very salu- effect in his neighborhood of foreignera. didn’t make any money for three years but [ held on. 1 knew the business woul be standardized or ayetematized sooner or later, and Twas patient. Visits to the film- distributing company had trught me that the trouble was with the type of men at the head, An enormous industry had up over their heads and [b was of such propor- The tide turned very euddenly for me, Tt turned with one little incident, For some Teading of the invention of | tions that they couldn't see it. * | the trade papers told of a man’s having Uni taped Fide chin dr 0 et an Edjuradr. An active boy needs Educator Shoes OUR sturdy youngster is prob- y ably on his feet most of the time. He needs shoes that will treat his feet fairly—FEduecators. Vou want his feet to grow strong and supple, not bent and crippled by nartow torturing shoes. Get him Educators, scientifically made to “let the feet grow as they should.” They are made to fit feet. Educators, you know, are made for every one, Try them yourself. You will like the perfect comfort they bring you. They are good- looking shoes, too. Send for our booklet “ Rent Bones Make Frantic Feet,” full of vital foot facts. Your local TEL-U- WHERE Bureau will tell you the name of the nearest Educator dealer, RICE & HOTCHIMS, lec. 14 High S2., Bastion, Mass. FD RICE & HUTCHINS DUCATOR SHOE® ' succeeded in synchronizing a phonograph | with a picture machine ao that the wo Vote and the action would beasimultancous. The thing was finally put on the market and an expert came out to see me about putting on a talking pleture in my house, Tam a gambler ta heart, and decided to take a chance. It would be expensive, et a The talking-picture man demanded If the gross receipts. A special man was sent out to rig up the attachment and in- atruct my boy in the projecting Foor how to use it, 7 advertised the novelty exten- sively and got everybody in the village talking about it a week in advance. At the first performanes the house was packed. Women of all classes had come in numbers, and f even noticed the presence of leading business men for the first thine, At last, I gloated, I had turned the trick. The voices on the ph honograph were those of a man and a woman, each taking all the male or fernale voices. Of course tin- penny a voices didn’t sound natural and true, worked—at first. I walked about the reese convinced that the future of pic- tures was the talking screen, Costly Experiment 2 The two machines were hronized perfectly; so perfectly that in the first acene the effect was uncanny. Even if it didn't sound real it was interesting. Suddenly a titter ran over the audience, Then another, I step in from the box office to see what was the matter, Ina few mhinutes the crowd was rocking with laugh- ter. The screen showed a love scene in a kitehen, The hero had just taken. the heroine into his arms, but the talk didn't fit. The girl re herself and went over te the stove to take out a pan of biscuits, As she did so the voice of the min Was SRy- * ‘Look at me again, darling. nstead of looking at hin sie was touch- ing the hot biscults with the tip of her fingers, and sca had bored her hand, “Wy hero," onograph said for her, aM sould look inte your eyes forever. (h, let me run and look after the biscuits.” But she already had looked at the biscuits and the hero waa now tying his ere The film had been damaged and in re- pairing it they had cut it and pasted the ends together, but something had slipped, The loss of inches waa not compensa for inthe ph onograph and itwent right on talk- ing a full minute behind the action of the pleture. Later® on there had been another cut and the thing got worke. Tt looked like a gomd bet that the picture would beat the phonograph to the finish by two or thren minutes. The peoplenever enjc oved ashowsomuch in their lives. But they were giving the picture the razz. No business can stand ridicule. I writhed in mortification. On top of this fiasco I had to pay the man 50 per cent, My profits were no ter than uf oT head run my regular bil with an ordi- nary crowd, he talking pleture, as a new idea, died oh ps death. The trouble T had was typi- Something always came up to apoil the aynehronization. ides, the monotos Nias wires: extromely Uiresomet afber the novelty had worn off. The next day I had several cornplaints from. Indies whose skirts hed been ruined EVENING POST idaho ale es g gum stuck on the seats. the way, I have had so many cases of this kind that I have learned to tell them that benzine will take chewing gum out of * etek instantly. at might be a ‘tip for some ladies wha don't know it. The big crowd also had brought In some new peanut and tobacco offenders. The wife of one of my neighbors told me she was ao annoyed that she couldn't even enjoy the hilarious fun of ae talkin: ng epee This was pretty tough luck. At got the women to my theater, vale * Sco em through the bad manners of my regu- lar audience. ‘One of the habitual peanut eaters passed my place next cig apenas was pointed out to me by an usher. the young fellow well and hailed him. “Say,” [sald to him, “why do you per- sist in eating peanuts in my theater when you cought to know it annoys others?" y “Wever thought of it," he sald. “Forgot ta rend your sign.” “You may not know it,” I informed him, “but you and the other peanut eaters are going to cost me a lot of money,” t seemed to surprise him. “Tf folks can't aad a little thing like that they ought to stay out of the movies,” he . He was not at all apologetic. "You don't eat peanuta and acatter the shells around when you visit people's houses, g “QO! eourse not. I don"t eat "em in church, either, But Ide in a circus,” “Well, my theater isn't @ circus, you “Tt was last alight." The First Five-Reeler The young man was inclined to be he amart-Aleck, I gave uw eae toa naa ag of Sc alieeean: ut he — ee then I recognized forcibly a truth bisat aa been of rauch value to me in the last few years, To make a man or boy act like a gentleman, as a rule, treat him ae if you thought himone. I waa going to make these thoughtless: peanut and tobaccoenters feel as though they were in somebody's par- lor or in a church when they came to my movie, My plan at that moment was to eral hee organ instead of a plano, but a bi ng happened unex and I dj nee canty out ut that part af my acheme for along time, For some time the producers had been talking of wonderful five-reel le days after my interview with the | eater I was notified that m grent Picture had been completed with a famous grand-opera sin ga star. It waa the scremning of one of the classic novels ot enormous fapenst, a hundred thousand dollars; some of them cost a quarter of a gt now. mn nowin willingness to try out new idens feohaal els me to come to New York to see an advance showing of the film, with a wiew to leasing it for a run in my Never before had a star of international fame appeared in a movie. I was eager to see it, Already DT had made up my mind to show that five-reeler if the price was any- where near within reason, The time had come when movie men would be able te select their own attrac- tions. This was a starter, and I flatter my- self T saw it : Epaaag I went to ork full of enthusisam, and waa not disappointed, The picture was a wonderful piece of work for those clays ihey quoted mea price of one hundred dol. lars for two days or one hu and twenty for three days. I jumped at the three-day offer, The bigger movie theaters just beginning to operate on Broadway had to pay more. But of course they w get the first crack at it. The big picture was to run on Broadway for a week before being sent out, just as they do new playa, I was promised it in three works. Now was the chance totry out theacheme suppested to me by the attitude of the pen- nut enter—a way to make my rough cus- tomers act like gent » couldn't have hoped for a better combination of circum- slances, First, though, I took to see that my Thaster pletune wa advertiaed. After hanging out a bi age | I went to the editor of the local weekly and got him to write a piece are that our town would be the rat villa age outside of New York to exhibit corse June i) this wonderful work of Sonu): - took the attitude that tt wm a tray showmanship on my part. bet fol; an honor to Lown aa to the egy helped him a little. then went to the presides: of 4.) a lover of drama and a regular therm I told him what I bode oy of refinement, and be agreed to los five hundred dollar needed » ny Elite a real shrine of art and ecm put it, [never was a piker, so, to male eg I made no artistic slips, | wert vl cern in New York and i in wai purchases mansion «| intawrici dsenenion. @ decided first to put fics = ae open entrance to the lebby 2 walls painted a light ry ah to be eovered with 2 poo) of olive-green carpet. Alltheplurny were to come down forever. For‘ nouncements gold-and-white-fram would be placed artistically = oo We added a few palms and the 5 box office less conspicwou. All ee mind > Nas af than five hun ollars, but I bai money of my own, se out, We also & thick carpet rat renee aigles ina and instaie! 4 wall lamps. We select ee to be placed along the fa Bi at the sce Shag cp Bie pts * gabled i Aa pen to enjoy laying wr my much as I did, * Sate pet be od with aapray of delicate perfume 'y izers, or maybe some incense.” That was going it a littl sa aero Se Sees ‘dg hog oF no « both lamented the fact has able to put in better opera chici the old ones, Also we regretted 1 ity to put ina pipe organ. Be! ey pi ar good for a starter, and d on that for a while. Theold elite nsttee [had the pianist go inte Nev gee the big pieture go os to proper in ta] music. TAe Great Orcein Though the paintin went merrily on we to = the carpet opm war tl) tbe Geet eouldn’t afford to jose the elect the daily customers seeing it 54 You may be sure that weir 4 Sraet oe tere Boikes knee © Lrg ge 4 whi fap over | Several ladies on the 3 inquire about the cianien ere, titude seemed to be that if a6 operatic star was willing tom ik was certainly pood enougi f° sides, these who had never le five dollars @ meat to see % ch | Metropolitan could mow se be or twenty-five cents. Wormer like bargains even in move heal Tt was late spring and I bel tendants dress in white duck | me, the Elite was to be no pol ment! E thing [ had We had shot the works, _ It gives a fellow a woods! have a ahot like that wit. 1] had won the moment the in the doors for the 4 formance. The first wa: a5 two little girls. They weer al 4 if going to a party. The m 22 hit that thick carpet the; mo ber subdued voices, A whol & | sink the tome ower. Ther | talking, [had “em. These ao waa bogs c aime in, and — off their hatse—asan cnheard-2 E] chy also dropped ther tote 4 ike company, The slo! Seaiuad to teumme their voices A couple of steamfittes ami working aa soe and I avis aw found seas. | said cathe he only cm by the way, was from one © later, He declared that | ‘al place too fener that a fel ipa withast | able ta biti He icted that a io o mabe to dropping = would stay away became oT? easy, Als a matter of fact, | ‘Ttrtinned es Fae

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June , They Tempt the Whole Family to be Neat with Trash Nothing is more discouraging (as every woman knows) about keeping a home neat than the eternal “picking things up." Odd pieces of trash tossed carelessly on tables, chairs or A a crumpled newspaper, an empty package, scraps of lint or string, a cigar band, children's bits of cloth or paper—there's no end to the discarded things which are just dropped or laid about to be picked up and thrown away, Sometimes it's just thoughtlessness, but more often it's simply the lack of a trash basket conveniently placed wherever trash accumulates. The whole family would welcome it handy Vul-Cor Basker in each room as the easiest place to “throw things.” And more housewives would have had these convenient pines for trash long before, had they known just where to get the right kind of baskets. Mow there is on absolutely new and ditferene Hine of Vul-Cot receptacles to meet this need, Ofhce men, and business oven in general, have long known Wul+Cot Baskets, Made of vulcanized fbre, they withstand the ro t posible usage—they can't dent or rust Like a metal bosker—they can’t brenk like a wicker basker. They can't chip or erack like an enameled basket; mor can bin of paper and other tragh alfe through Wul-Cots, becouse sides and bottom are solid, This new line of Vul-Cots for the home has oll those advantages and in addition is now made with a very attractive boskero-weave design stamped right into the fibre, and finished in three colors which perfectly harmonize with any of your furnicure— a rich brown and orp green for general use, and light colors appropriate with white : enamel of bath and kitchen. The mew sizes ales ore most convenient: — a smaller ; : basket for the living room and bed room, a large one for che kinchen, and a roomy For the Office clothes hamper. To tes Attached ta every VWul-(Cot is an absolute guarantee to replace any basket that | fails in normal service in five pears, ; Your favorite department store or house-furnishings store should now hawe Wul-Ciots inanock. If for some reason you can'r get WuleCors in your neighborhood, wrine us at once, giving us the name of your dealer, and we will see char you are supplied. An interesting color-booklet illustrates all of the Wul4Cots; gives sizes and many suggestions of their helpfulness to you. We'll be glad to mail you a free copy. Just ask for ie on a poral. AMERICAN VULCANIZED) #0 Wilmington, :. i Delaware VU T- CO RECEPTACL Guaranteed for VUL-COT 15 A MATERIAL OF A MILLION USES — AS HARD AS BONE, TOUQH AS LEATHER, DURABLE ita Ph hall (he J = -_ ' iy ieee = rs ee 1

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aiwed from Page £0) atacrount, But the increase one thin mide up for it. satay to make money, y pretty We | fixed, f sre picture, of course, was a big y home was packed te capacity mance. It was the talk of the the acon day of the operatic- notived a group of prominent wt lobhy, laughing and talking. cand then ask about the next the Warth While Club. That idea. Why not make the Elite jal exchange? yp the peesident of the club. this motioe, in typewritten let= uch enlarged, appeared on the entheal vice advertisements: While Gleb will meet next Wed- oon at the hone of Mrs, John J. gqetad Avenue, The auhjert will risk dl Fieger. week social organizations and began nny me notices of Iran them all free of charge. the Elite was the place to find [news, To-day I run those hey hove been one of my big- (don't know any better farm than to have one woman tell che anw a@ Hetiee about the he Elite," Turn of the Tide regular attendance of the Wt carpets, the perfume and eating and tehaero chewing stopped. The rowdy boys i demlonally, but a severe charment for a week or so rage that. To never hope to . Por ingtanee, [ have never vtirely stopping the practice le of chewing gum under the ietimes on the seate. It ia to mabe people understand chewing anything distracts of the pergon sitting near known lots of patrons to ber on aecount of that on- ioe of well-known stare ane tures marked the big turn ide. Those who were wise ormerly people had gone to the mere novelty of seeing With the gradual improve ing regular stories they be- iate. ‘This brought with it rthe movie managers. The ice recel pte showed clearly a picture that was uninter- culty waa, and is, in know- What to rum. The mere fa certain star or o famil- on pack the house to over- announcement willempty As a picture usually runs i very difficult to find out er, IT suppose that eon- ot, publishers and other «to think of it, if a man to know in advance just wanted he could make a ayear, The upshot of tt ger has got to study the fon his own judgment. the beat guides, and that me so popular. The pa- by reputation and could od idea what to expect. no way of explaining the becaust as a rule we do ut famous stares explain t now, though, the story >whole thing. The pase shound to come because st sight of the public's d is, a big advantage to ie to offer, but it becomes tothe theater and tothe iad, in other words, ifthe * The story is what one to tell another. Poor THE SATURDAY material blota out a atar very quickly. When the eggs are no longer golden the pote is dead. I have found that the sereening of any well-known old hogk—a story that every- ody has heard of —always draws well, For inatanee, aboriea of similar prominence to Oliver Twist, Les Misnrables, Enoch Arden, Ivanhoe, Rip Van Winkle—books that achool children are taught to know aa Classies —are surefire, A lob af people hae talked about these classics but never have read them. It's less trouble to see them in the movies than to read them. This drawing power of famous works is pretty good proof to me that the story counts more than the star in the long run, And the evident desire to see stories of recognized merit convinces me that pec ple—in a amall teen, anyway-—never did want to see the cheap triangular sex prob lems or au tive pictures. They come to the movies ibeeaie Che star was advertised und becnuse there was nothing elec to sec, I listen very carefully to what pee le 8 cing out of the theater, and I also as them bo send in written suggestions. Very seldom have I heard anybody apeak a good word for one of thos: suggestive pictures, of éxpreas a desire te have them put on, For a long time the market was eurfetted with vamp and sex stufl, and we simply eouldn’t get anything else. [ had to use them. Understand me, I had mo particular moral oe against the sex-problem pic- tures, Perhaps, though, IT should have had. I objected to them for business reasons, purely and simply. I also understand how pictures of that nature might go well in some Broadway houses, and still be offen- sive to our willage. Alter socing a suggestive picture young la- dies and their escorts are deprived of some thing te discuss alter the show. Neither can they talk about the shory around the dinner table at home. That horte my business, Children quickly spot a picture of that kind and tell their mothers, As ao pesull they don"t go. They are the best censors in the world, The vamp pictures, of course, were a joke. I don't believe anybody ever took them seriously, Little girls eight and ten yeors oll joke each other about being warps. The real, suggestive iden of the Picture never reached them at all. With older people all that leapard-skin covering and eye-rolling stuff was eo ridiculous as te be laughable. Often I have had to stop the pp of ane of the reels until T could quint the litthe boys and persuade them not to give the picture the razz, as they call it. Bad Taste Reflected Give the same little girls, little boys and old poople a simple, sweet, whol » Jove Miaty and they will ent it up. They all like atail. Naturally, one willask: “Well, ifnobody wanted to see the sex pictures why did they produce them?" I may be wrong, but T think I know, At the beginning the picture business was in the hands of many ignorant, stupid men whose one idea was ta make money quickly and who were carried away with success, pari knew nothing of the wholesome life dutalde of Broadway places. The pleture business gave them money te throw around in those places for the first time in their lives, Their ideas of enjoyment were coarme and vulgar, They knew nothing about the rest of the country, but hac an idem that other people liked what they did. This kind of taste was quickly reflected in their prod- ucts, The cure set in when the public began to discriminate. That type of movie man ia passing out and some of the bigger produc- Ing companies are now clirected by men with broader vision. There are atill many who won't wake up until they are broke. Though we have a free hand now in selec- tion, the picking business is shill mo easy fob, For instance, I change may bill every clay, That means that I must have seven feature pictures and a# like number of comedies and news or educational features EVENING POST every week. T could save a lot of money by running pictures two days, but it doce not pay in the long run. bill at present costs me about four hundred dollars a week. Our admission fee ordinarily is twenty-two cents, including war tax. On special occasions we charge twenty-seven, Woe consider the ronmnin expenses—they have doubled since aturted—and you will see that we have te keep the house crowded to make any money. [am now building a larger one. A great step toward better pictures and toward giving us litle fellows @ standard was the establishment in New York of a firet-clasa theater for presenting the highest grade of mew pictures. With the opening of this theater came the motion-picture eritic. The newspaper criticisms of pictures, T be- lieve, ane of much more practical benefit to outside towns than are the criticisms of regular dramatic shows. Outside of the daily receipts and oocusional mu tiong from patrons, the criticisma are the only thing I have for guidance in selecting 7t- tractions to please my people, I keep a careful index of these newspaper notices, so ga to be prepared when the salesman coms around, Tf a picture makes an unusual hit I go to see it, I have made some ten-atrikes this way, giving my paces ih senestionel pro. duction within a week or so of tte New York opening. ‘Of course it would be impodaihle Tor me tosee all my stall in aclvanee, That's Where [ pely on the eritictamea. Ae Old Lady's Criticism A few montha ago I saw where some eon- cern was about te proaduce a screen version of a well-known, old-fashioned rural p D it is a sweet, wholesome story of old folks and young people in a small tow —miost all of VOU BAW Ub Wien you Were PCH. [ went to the New York opening. There wasn't a low-necked gown or a leg showing through- out the pletune. It was wenderiul. Even the so-called wise crowd in New York ate it ap. Torun this pleture cost me two hundred dollars fortwo days. It was a pretty stiff price, but Dteok a chance. T figured it well worth while holding over for a second day, Tt wis necessary to raise my prices to thirty cents, including war tax. Apparently nobadty objected. I ran the pieture eight times In the two days, and hed to turn people away at ench presentation. Mind you, this in a town of less than four thou sand ! An old lady, an acquaintance since my boyhood, stopped on the way out te tell me how much she had enjoyed the picture. “T guess that’s the kind they like to see, iam"t it?" I asked. “Oh, yer, she said: “gach a relief after all the vamps.” _ This old lady never missed a show—took in varmnpa, atx trangles and everything. She hac occupied the same seat for two ar. “How do you explaln that?" T asked, ansxtioua to draw her out. "T reckon you know,” she said. “You atood right back of me, and”—she poked at me with her parascl—"T aew you wi your eyes and blow your nose when the old farmer found his missing boy on the church step,” “Tt did take ua back some, didn't it?” “Don't you know,” she went on, “that all girls and boys who go to a theater want to imagine themeelves as the girl and boy in the picture? Yes, and we old folks love to forget*where we are and imagine our selves like the old folks that's sitting there in the play taking part." Tt looked aa if she had the real answer, “And,” she asked, “how on earth is an old woman like me going to imagine herself the mother of a vamp, and enjoy it? How's a nice girl going to imagine herwelf sittin’ there on a lounge in a leopard robe, looking wall-eyed at aome Iool man?" I had to laugh, “Young man, they simply con't do it, that's all. Because it ain't aol" 5d ta Eee = Piveds the a * ii beauey af the black-tipped Tunager Chinese rec Super: _harred amor with black maint — gusarantecd 23 years 4. ja ricielllideha estes are Ay a Over-size Pen as they crave a balanced golf stick ONE more appreciates the new Parker Duofold than men and wom: en whe play golf. The moment you grasp its over-size barrel your hand responds to that unmistakable fecl that menns business. Its fit, weight and balance pro- duce a thrill akin to the pleasure of grip- ping your favorite club. [t holds nearly teice the ink of the ordinary pen. And ita lacquer-like beouty captivates all eyes. 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BE A reewy forhing, Wreec e Have you a friend who 1s a printer P Hf you haven't, you may sometiovcs feel that printers are o cantanker- ous Jot, whose chief business is keeping you from having the kina of printing you think you want, But if you know a printer well, you can testify to a keen, marrowy man; a man of agile intellect and sound instinct in matters of taste, There's something in the tracdi- tion of the art of Boden! ane Ben Franklin that at- tracts om hobds that sort of man, We firmly believe that i¢ is because printers are like this that Old Haimpahice Bond is so well lence 1. remember, printers and Old Hartap- shire Bond have had @ strong offin- ity—it just seems os though they get on together naturally ond with mirtual respect. Printera buy almost all of the Old Hampshire Boned thot is made. They buy tt to make into business letterhenids which they design. ane! print and sell te their customers everywhere, We have mever emg mer a printer who “a did not appreciate Ls this fine paper ane a recommend it when. ocver he was called on to supply business stationery af charac- ter and distinction, And af you have acquired wisdom in printing matters, you will take his say-so as the dictucn of the man whe knows, and use Old Hampshire Bond for your letterheadds, For priages opel business men (aiereated fo Soe pope, we hone ome inleeveiag a which ang whol! gladly eat fe ull ere om Unie bread Inlirtirada, Hla GampshireBoud LY ou Loke metiaytcmetata, yo “ONE-MAN" STEEL T TAPE Taet een pire fer eel, ae eB oblige cod Ode tage Gakligg iide qindoalep eed ee, eis i toiier ot order FRICKS: 13 i. JAZZ RA oaul For longer than we can Serene BoC. Tighe grade mo- tera od warkonvehig, Siclodl-piwied bro =e imide ood ont. Bug a poor ae CROGAN MIG. 5. ris ME “yy iF, raw MAM ore Cees” Build your OWN boslness, wholesaling Choco late: Wars: Chewing Guns, Caoody- Mints. etc, | BOSS Attractive faickages, Esclusive propenition. HELMET PRODUCTS FACTORY, Cincinnati, Ohie THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 3, Big Towns and Little One Aw that morning in the Pullman smok- ing compartment the conversation had hinged on a series of very important quwea- tions, to wit: Tf you were going to start in business where would you go? Is it easier to make a living in one place than fn another? Would you tackle a big town or asmall one, and why? All sorta of opinions were offered. A New England man said he believed it waa much easier to get along in the West, where there is not 50 much competition in every line. An Idaho man digeredited this ot dict sifirnicg that if a man wanted to make na eee to go after it in the East, sere. ther ao much more capital. Everyone present had something to = on the comparative advantages of big towns and little ones. The merchant from Arkansas said he had done all right in a amall town, but if he had to do it over sanit he gg bi fe phon ba a big- B ciky. nother 3 er to den thats srnall isin a beak: : se & man con get quicker action; in the big cities, he maintained, it tukes. toc lon etastart. wie we neared the station where hed to get off the determined-looking man who had held the meat next the window againat all comera for four hours was giving his opinion, “Before you go to any town, big ce little,” he snld decidedly, “the rain thing ia to find out whether yf the place. Lota of men are just grubbi ? blg elties who would do better i in towns. And there ane men in emall towns who aught to be in big ones. It's a case of temperament.” The Foung Merchant's Story _ The determined ne * kel et atatios ringing in my ears w e train is pty whisked to the ale hotel by an. Bre een the boa, at cost of twenty- five centa, The town was o nice-looking lace of perhapa six thousand people, the basnens district contaring about it public square with the courthouse in the middle. Retail stores clustered about the four aides of the square, with a sprinkling of farm wagons and automobiles wh up at their fronts. A low-swung mac painted yellow, with te lange extra ines on [ts rear, and operated by a boy who eat on the small of his b back, kept popping into the equare from side streets, only ta race rapidly around the business district and to pop out again. T did net need to be told that he was the son of the town's richest man, home on a vocation. Qeeupying a strategic location at one eormer of the square, aot ap ia mgt ieture house, was a alee ooking retail store. Tts pe at window was attractive with m Ect af unfaded displayed on a = beckereae cripe paper. intereat was Injectind into ae. window display by a life sized cardboard girl, very pretty, who bent over some salable uptickes tn an attitude of wimiration, Such an attractive store could hardly be passed up: I invented some trifling want and stepped inside. The proprietor himself came forward to Wait On me, as wae i NSCCRSALY eauge the only other salesperson in the luce was a somewhat in i geht Pach te oy of fifteen who was on a high ; theaning the elec a tin globes. ge pycted mer= ———— —_ 7 Pont, Bazophose of | Tete Beste ta i ieee, ata anid Srlosth: lo weer chibep, of Ip be nell, Wain aerial marr’ or make Chine, 19 BE dace, Chines | chant was a good-looking man of fled thirty-two, wath affable manners and insignia of three different lodges pinned on ae t coat lapel. After I had made my pura ase I stuck around o little: with the dea of getting into conversation, and began by remarking that it certainly was a nice - for the erent oe ar . © appeared at this praise eom- ing from a total stranger, and replied that he always tried to keep what the public wanted. But he modestly disclaimed the notion that his store was any too good for the size of the town. It wos merely up to date, he said. The conversation thus pleasantly opened finally led to the point about which T had been thinking. PBs besgc th t on do better," T suggested, “if you should locate in some big ah Running your business soa efficiently, serme to me that you ough to go siave there are more people. ‘MU Were In # city of two of three hundred thousand By J. R. Sprague population you would have fifty chances to make sales where you have one hare.” If my remark was intended to stimulate him by visions of possible big-town proa- perity it failed of its mission. He merely Bghook his head. “T know when I'm well off," he me marked. “I'm not cut out for a big city. T belong right here,” Merely for the sake of argument I coun- tered by ing that no one knows what he ean do until he has tried ft, but the young merchant blew up this argument with a single shot. “T tried the big-league stull once," he suid briedy, “and it didn't work. It Just about ruined mae.” During the next two or three ne got the young merchant'a story him and partly from other bu sang sige the town. He had, it seems, been brought up in the community, clerking in the very atore over which he now prea a owner. He saved up a litth money, had @ little more left him, and at twenty-four bought it from his boss, whe wanted to retire. Under his ownership phe enterprise did well in ea knew one in ial and the farmers’ latnilién ba colt for ten miles around. He belonged to the cham af commerce and several | but In na way let these things in with business. He did his sonal work AE at night and attended strictly to his job during the . When he was twenty-siz he got marri Feople began to remark what an effi- clent business man he was. Whenever a stranger would come to town with an idew of locating in the community the secretary of the ehamber of commerce lovarlably hronaghit him into the store to prove that the town's il establishments — second to none. Traveling saleamen, Tmany com plinen te on the young merchant, particularly when they wan co gee le to buy a good bunch of their etait. These things an to have an effect on him. He jot to point where he began to suspect that he was just a little too strong for his home town. ‘A hundred miles away isa city of a quarter of a million population, and on his occasional tri there the you aging looked ie inte at the atores go the busy streets, men- et maki Soubareahe and being lod to the inevitable conclusion that mo mere in the eity had anything on him. Pulllag Up Stakes ~ After one of these trips he went home and ak. thee at ged ie wile, _srousa Why 4 t stay in the poky home town, he argued, when by moving up to the city he would have a ce to do twenty times ast much business? “He waa hot to the least afraid to match his ability against a lie thariguis oerend:-with din} wife ¢ with him in everything he nal, She had unbounded faith in his ability, and, besides, from a wemah'd standpoint the idea of city life had ita attractions, Tho two picture shows of the home town compared feebly with the big-city palaces of amusement with their regular orchestras, electric signs and ok wahera in military-looking uniforms. he ey papers of the city, too, carried whole pages of news about receptions, parties and after-theater suppers. The upshot of the whole ea ares that when a man came or Hel ered the young merchant 5 price for his business he aid cut, bo atock ari barrel. Then, foot loose und with money in bank, he went up to the city to tackle big-league conditions. He confesses that he had a different feeling when be arrived in the city on this otoion from any he hack ever had before. On Hi femme Hine he a nue upen Ie merely a4 a pleasant playground, and livelier it looked the better he liked it. But now, a8 he and hia wile took a taxicab and made their way through the busy strevis toward their hotel, the bigness of the place rather appalled him. Tt waa not a layeround this time, but a citadel which had to be stormed. "Thee big bemisens | which eB the downtew: Gon strong and energetic cortertars wy terests lay in crushing the efora of tious neweormers. The whol of ,: mone serious aapert than kad ons him when he had optimistic) ia booagae to quit the howky tree 1 ore, Nevertheless, he had made ba bs eould not back out. He bee 1) shock when he started ogi to ied; uarters in which to open oF ta i n the home town Be Tend pated dfs; a month rent; in the city the met quarters brought five bund) o month. That was the mye = rental agent told him, and ¢ 4 want to pay it someone de oq shut his eyes and si i leo oda SeCUring 2 pee ‘oe main business section. H+ | place atl in gn patohle fashion. a merchandise anc opemed up fer | 4 Staggering Overkesn He got another little shock & ca ith ought to buy some newsper | sean Gh tae cl eek seen n ome Leese | see about an ad ising fot th Was startled to learn that the pris licity was a dollar and a hall cc = sufficiently large to make | of showing he would have to pe fifty dollars for a singe ete There were three ree hiwapapry - it meant a hundred and fifty dow to tell the peo that a new) was being laun io Cheer seule old home town one could ber § tal in the local newsparer | ars and have @ mews soy | a si FEpenees of operating ¥ eg the young sagt ort fi vy in proportion. decorations would herd oo around him other mercbacts § fi velvet, porting tas buy Carry the Packages bore ted they did in the small torn: lishments maintained deliver: » he had to do the same or lene The store porter, ewen, had 5 upin a cap and bhoe unifecs i ee muitable ta the az these things disarrang=! merchant's plans. He hed fea aoa his etabhishrpent Tey he should have bank up the selling himself, keeping oi of cheap assistants to help ach | Butt it a mianifest thet a not work. His overissl Were 40 great that be con. a of his own effort sell ete otygt to keep things gown, ever: ¢ walt on cistomers eel d time until chosing. heen worse than nome owt sf. 2; ia must OF ganine aon efficent fied LE was hopes to think head unaided efforta he coubd Ldap pay the cost of romeing ¢ Right here vas wher a chant fell dewn. He-Ea: = organication. St tras am men, but ameter thing to they would pay 8 pri Si bet bad nearer bewem. tredeaacet of labor other than todined of the serbes of hal grows: leet his casual) aeeeirepe |) La enterprise he a oy gore he employed mratome: sreae pald sadaries of fariy ora ‘To be frank aleonrt. bt ie a of hia high-priced belp. Thit matter of fas beicr af help wes probably doe to ee young Hp teh wa ever mabhw person, °" Eeesielee have ary t bare ee epee relations with Geer pooper, long way ta svat ae eed This tinge of butik peal hit 2 more agreceble hut it wae dikes ito Ee of handling @ryploysem, 'Sontineade! gar

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Shall They Suffer As you did from film on teeth? SODENT is largely for the coming ‘neration. It brings to adults whiter new protection, But to children it anew dental era. - teeth, perhaps, have always been ated, save right after dental cleaning. iter has been dimmed by film. Film ised decay, no doubt, despite your rushing. dental authorities urge you to fight bove all, have your children fight it this scientific way. How troubles come rm science traces most tooth troubles i—to that VISCOUR filim you feel. Ir ‘teeth, enters crevices and stays. t removed it forms a. constant Millians of teeth are made dingy 1 miliiens of teeth are ruined, and day that clinging film threat- we to the teeth, So able men have 1 seeking a daily film remover. Makes teeth dingy »ssorbs stains, making the teeth look iim is the basis of tartar. It holds ‘tance which ferments and forms wilds the acid in contact with the ause decay. breed by millions in it. They, with tartar, are the chief cause of many troubles, local and internal, Dental science has for years been seeking a way to daily combat that film, It is the teeth’s great enemy. Two ways now found Two effective film combatants have been found. Able authorities havesubjected them to many careful tests. Dental science now approves them, and leading dentists, here and abroad, urge their daily use. new-day tooth paste has been perfected, complying with modern requirements, It is called Pepsodent. And these two film- combating methods are embodied in it, Also starch deposits Starch deposits also attack teeth. In fer. menting they form acids. Nature puts a starch digestant in the saliva. It puts alkalis there to neutralize the acids. Pepsodent multiplies that starch diges- tant, also the alkalinity. Thus Nature's teeth-protecting forces are multiplied. Thus twice a day, in all these ways, Pep- sodent combats the enemies of teeth. Millions of people now use Pepsodent, largely by dental advice. Anyone who once employs it can see and feel its need. proved by modern authorities and PAT. OF F, 4 The scientific Sle combatonl, ap- Papsaodéen REG. U.S. T he New-Day Dentifrice tow advied by leading dentists crerywtere, Each wer brings fit degre” effects, AN dirgaiets sagt piy the lenge tribes. F : Watch the added beauty Send the coupon for a ten-day test. Note how clean the teeth feel after using. Mark the abeence of the viaeous film, See how teeth whiten as the film-coats disappear. The lasting benefits appear more slowly. Bur all wha love clean, glistening teeth will see effects at one. And the book we send explains the reasons for them. The glistening teeth you see everywhere now are largely due to Pepaodent. Learn how you can attain them, Cut aut the coupin now. TTEN-DAY TUBE FREE ™ THE PEPSODENT COMPANY Depe 45, 14S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, TU, Mail Ten-Day Tube of Pepsodent to SS ONLY ONE TUBE TO A FAMELY

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itutined from Page 54! rie gain troubke was that he could cer being himaelf to nip any fault in an dope at the beginning, and do it in an + matterstl(fact manner. Hating dis- jos be did, he would usually let the ¢ go on until it became unbearable. q when hia exasperation wae strong wh to omencome his bashfulness he Dut lowe pnd lambaste the offender ler than PECeaRATY. ge of the salesmen employed by the merchant in hig attempt to build Wipe rpinitation was exceptionally efficient tad guite a following among the ders af the city. When this saleaman came into the young merchant's em- he was a 1 of de ent and wotlike qualities, But after a while he a fault. [t wos not a very fault and if taken at ite inception ibiy would not have gone far. It waa y that be got into the habit of slipping T the etablighment during ines »irouble developed quite gradually. at be invariably got the young mer- ‘s permission before leaving, ond ned each time just what al i called him out, Eventoally, how- he took to the habit of going out uecommet. The first time he did i young merchant realized that he to something, but it was awk- ocall his ifty-dollar-a-week employe oderand what he meant by leaving it permiseion, and ao et it go, ig it might not oecur again. Each appened after that it waa inereas- ander to assert his authority. The e did was to act distant toward the in when he returned, which had no preg Bre egg ate’ im- this irr rity on the of one é did not tend to increase the effi- of the others, blow-up came one day when the nt himself had to step out on some and going around the corner hap- reatch aight of his employe standing igar counter of a drug store, enjoy wake and engaged in casual conver- vith the cigar salesman, Getting his own establishment a little later thant found all the clerks busy with ra, the cigar smoker not yet re- He had, perhaps, ten minutes in o gather up all hia exasperation he salesman came in. n the teaid in public what should have lin private. 7 can't stay here and "tend to "he called loudly, “I gues you ip na er find another job, ig a bum!" : i not meant to make his language strong, because he knew it was Bioown fault; but the resulta were eo. The salesmon reigned on the vo others quit at the end of the 1 the remaining ones were openly al becouse of the public humilla- wt their fellow worker, The mer- Leredit for being a hard man to when in reality he was too easy. alle-Town Competition 1orne in om him that the qualities | meade for success in the home e not enough to cope with the af big business. : +i] the ability to organize, to man- -so they would be a help instead ne, A few months later he hed o unload his city establishment, back te the home town, where are more in keeping with he stion of where to go comes up to thousands of young men from ealleges Into the profes. other thousands of young men aking for likely places in which imsel ves up in merchandising . The general idea seems to be hould go to some town where tmuch competition in his pair- Tt ia assumed that if one poes aewhere he will find some com- t ia just waiting for a man of his tilenta—a new town out Wiest woont of the recently revived ees wits 7 sany community in the United is not supporting its full quota mal and business men I have in serosa it. Usually, in fact, ha surplus that a few are con- cing over the wdges. THE SATURDAY Not long age a chamber-of-commerce secretary in an Idaho town showed me a letter from an ambitious young dentist in an Eastern city. The letter stated that the writer was thinking of moving out West and locating in some growing communi where he activities would not hampered by competition, He wanted to know apecifically whether any dentist had yet located In the Idahe town, and if nat, haw far it wos to the nearest place that did maintain a dentist. It waa evident that he atin bed pin al elbowFroorm. The chamber-of-commerce secretary was obliged to tell the distreseing truth in reply- ing ta the letter, even though it was hia business to encourage new settlers, There were seven dentiste in the town, he wrote, and three had recently left because there wer nol quite enough teeth in the com- munity to be worked on, Atew years ago a friend of rine gradu- ated in medicine from an Eastern uni- versity and decided he would go to a new town in Oklahoma, which someone tald | him wat a coming place. With the asstr- ance of youth he got married the day after , uation and took hia wife to the new | ote for a wedding trip. He wae a little dashed when he arrived there to find that eightewn other phygiciana had decided to seck their fortunes in the nea town, which really made the community o little bop heavy in the medical profession, in aa much a8 the total population was only two thousand people, The Lowyer's Story a friend stayed, both because he did not know where else to go and because he did not have enough money to travel much farther. In time the number of physicians gradually dwindled to half the original number and he got to earning a pretty fair income, He finally left, but it was for temperamental reasons and mot because he did pot do well, The one really wealthy citizen of the community had to have an operation for appendicitis, and instead of parole heme industry he paased up the ocal talent and went to Kansna City to pave nee operated i FE 4 happened sever ago and my friend can apeak calmly about the inckdent now; but leaving that aside he says he would never again go to a new town with the idea of eseaping competition. [t ia better, he claims, to go to w place that hes already arrived, and to hit the ball as hard as posalble, trusting that merit will tell in the long run, On. A roany bigecity people are inclined toe believe that It 6 easy to get along in a small town: that one can just drone alang into preneny without much effort. It would not be wise for anyone who believes that way to go to a amall town and risk much of his money. The young merchant whom I described at the beginning of this article did, ta be sure, go to the big town and make a fizzle, but that was because he lacked the particular quality of organiza- tion, In his home town he is just about as hard a competitor as one would want to find. Tt might be entirely possible that a man who had been succesetul in a large ety could ge te & aroall town and make just as bad a fiznie. : : Ome of my own friends furnishes a case in point. He is a lawyer, connected with a financial institution in a Middle West me- tropeolia, fare charge of the logal end of the business and earning upwardaal twenty thousand dollara a year. Before comi to the city he tried practicing in a am town and could not earn a living. “| was just naturally a flivver in a small town,” be tald me. “For several years adie I ieee law school | worked with a rm in my native city, getting experience by daing the small lan that came into the office, When | was about twenty-eight I decided 1 ought to strike out for myself, “The home city seemed pretty well crowded with attorneys and 1 thought | would have a better chance in a newer and smaller place, The town I pleked out for my operations had about might thousand le and was in the center of a rich farm- Ing community, Twent there, furnished a nice office in the main business: building and gat down to wait for clients. "TL cid net expect to have much of a rush the first year, ond my bs Sia ieee were quite realized. Somehow 1 could not get in touch with the life of the place. I am not a very mixer, Ne matter how friendly I felt toward people I could not EVENING POST 57 “The heart hath its own memory, like the mind, And in it are enshrined the precious keepsakes Into which are wrought the givers loving thought” How Longfe Give Your Children a precious heepsake~The STORYe GLEARK PEAVER PIANO ‘Will teach them to appreciate the finest of music which they can easily play he most desirable and satisfe Duy ei emma ween facdom ue of the year in musical instruments~a priced high enough so that the smallest detail of construction is of the finest material and. workmanship necessary to permanently maintain tts beauty of tone and your satisfaction struments and the term payment FREE! plan upon which they are sold will be gladly sent upon your request Write for it ‘Instruments of finest quality since 1857" The Story & Glark Piano Gompany New York Brooklyn Bee em Pittsburgh Detroit tiful brochure about our in- A Eo ER Pe ee ee i Story « Glark Piano Gompany-se-3s17 So. 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“te Far Infants & Jnvallds NO COOKING The “Food Drink” for All Ages. Quick Lunch at Home, Office and Fountaing. Aah for HORLICK'S., t=" Avoid Imitations « Substitutes THE SATURDAY show it in public. T could sit. down alone with a man be perfectly free and natu- ral, but owt on the street or around the Sayin Aes rst Tote Of aerate P-SeMe in rat pair pants. Iw ee anything to to be able to walle hl sr Street, waving my hand in a come why to acquaintances and calling thern their first names, but that was just the thing I could not da. “T joined the chamber of commerce and two or three lodges, attending meetin regularly, with the thought that I wo get an easier social manner by mixing more the social life of the community. It didn’ t work. Whenever 1 tried tally hard to lente lt T fele I was making a spectacle of “Onew I decided to make a particular effort. Lav apart was the annual booster meetin a chamber of commerce, and T went , pa resolved to be a hail fellow among my fellow citizens. During the business session I got on my feet two or three times to make aprightly hes, aud afterward at the social session forced met to. wes fom Reva Fe grr ete familiar with everyone. ¥ ellorts were not succesful: it was not my rile. I slapped & an elderly hanker on the back and t take it kindly, Two or three of a men whose hands I gras acted aa though they suspected I waa going to try to borrow money from them. To- ward the end of the affair I overheard BOneOne comment on my actions, obsery- ing that I must te lit up, The Vanishing Rube “Walking home pra at night I took stock of Bat hoger waa not fitted to ite in @ ppt community, where success depended so largely on main= taining an easy social footing. I liked a ats ror pees show it stowucoed myself tha gto succeed sould have to get to! BOrnE tion where my work would count wit pe ae help cs social graces which I did not I figured that the beat thing te do vould t ‘be to in With some corporation where I could do its legal work and come in, contact with on a few men who would understand tations and ap iavte the : gakity hae dorglving good service. T had to come to a big city to find such a niche, I gat Di to get a corporation position at salary, and have 1d ag ally worked up to a very Boek thi have got over a good de Bae consciousness, but even now I know I could not go to a small community earn a living at my profession _ In spite of my lawyer friend's experience it must not be supposed that small-town success can be attained through easy geni- ality alone. Country people are no longer countri The rube passed away with the coming of the automobile and the pic- ture show. The amall-town business aligns Tereanaiiiy. bok wa can bond thus Day bp rac 5 can em. pelivering the : It sa trite thing to say that automobiles have brought city country closer to er, but t have done more than that: have core country people more soe irae and loss ape Be the weight af great cities. No one who has seen the scurrying caravane of flivvera golng weel- ward across the waste places evada or | Arizona can think for a moment that their cecupants will be in the least awed by the ot gt of Los Angeles or San Francisco Ww reach the Pacific rim. And when oe get back home it is a foregone conclusion that they will held ther local business men to somewhat same stand- ards of efficiency that they have observed an their travels, In big cities and littl ones the j of igi iness success is = every day for those whe are not willing to pay pay. the price in forge work. It ig increasingly important that a man shall find a place where he fits in best, so there will be as litth: lost motion as possible. ition ia too keen to be struggling againat temperament all the time, One of the phenomena of the last twenty eama sa the United States ia the rise of the ch-manager profession, There have always, of course, nation-wide con- cerns which maintained branches t o out the country, but their number increased during the last couple of d Nowadays one can walk along the streets of Atlanta or Seattle, Dallas or Minneapolis, and gee the same names on EVENING POST the windows of tall office buildings that meet the eye on Broadway or State Street. To the average business man the man- agement af one of these branch offices Seen Bf petty eft snap. The branch manager, pears, is a business man without ‘ie inary business man's wor- Ties. He is surrounded with all the ele ments of authority in the way of elaborately fitted offices corn help. He never has to worry over the coming month's Tent: te meet his pay roll he merely hos to go down to the bank and draw on the home office for the money But the bianet _manager's life has its troubles, just the The home office fixes him up comfortably, but it demands results in return. He is expe to sen business, not excuses. Ordinarily the home office flea a certain quota which it believes a territory should produce, and it is simply up to branch manager to get the business or get out, If a man shows he is capable of handling a big-town office will eventually get a chance at one. it is the amall town for him, Out in one of the large cities of the Pa- cific Northwest there is a young man who is 8 mana for one of the credit agencies of the country, more than making peed ae the job. Up to a year or so ago had been in charge of a amall office where he had done pretty well, and the big job was given him as a tryout. The buzi- ness of the branch had become run down through a series of unfortunate circum- stances, and it was intimated to him that if he could bring it back to normal within six mouths he could have the office perma- ae be lata it was back to the sticks. of the im be ei ape thus un- foliea before him a faekied the job with enthusiasm. He had made in the small town mainly through his ability as a soleaman, and he saw no reason why the big town pond a yield to the same He ma his mind that he would be no male oe manager: the day after he took charge of the office he put on his fighting clothes and started out to show what his personal salesmanship could do, His efforts brought almost immediate Tesults. The business to which a ereclit agen Pianta is Leck fe among bankers and lerper sompbare Roane an0 the young manager's friendly, ean ng main- ner usually got him a hearing from execu- tives of t concerns. During the first three months he put over enough new con- tracta to satisfy himaelf that he oe surely make good in the big-town job A Bright Man's Mistake But complications began te develop, In the credit-agency business the selling of a contract is py Regt pegiuning o of a year af aorvicr to the rear branch manager had not only neld a lot of contracts butt he had sold himself. Invari- ably he had told each new customer that he would give personal attention to all calls for service, and the customers took him at his word, He had a competent office force under him, but the business men to whom he had sald contracts were not satisfied to have eit with anyone but himself, Ii he happened to be out of the office when a car call was made the business man leave word for him to eall back: no ont else in the office would do, It was borne in on the new mang he had bitten off a rather larger sliee than he could chew. He could etill go out and get new business, but when he tried it his Cusbomers complained that they had trou- ble in getting hold of him when they needed service. It frequently happened that he would meet a customer on the street who would insist that he go along to the cus tomer’s own office for a consultation which one of the clerks could have attended just as well. This stata of afTaira naturally affected his office organization. Havinglittle chance to nesume reaponsibility hia clerks nto avoid it when they did have a chance. At firat when telephone calla were mace for the manager they would inquire if someone else would not do as well; but later on this dwindled down to saying that the manager was not in and if the customer would leave his number they would tell the manager about it when he did come in. He took stock of affairs and placed the blame where it belonged, which was on himself. He was, he re , trying to do things in a big city in a small-town way, In the amall town his methods had been that June 5,977 guccessful because the wolume of bores was limited and be had plenty of tre» Beil Fie bese pga ‘te service wo pel at in a city, wi ane ea! is <i m-ha Eo tie sist pana elforta could possibly possibly produce cour! Mie perked hind He pe ed bh curt of his tracks 4 arenes tagenlous se. Going down tes office one morning erage 1) . aesembled help that be felt pret: believed he was in ior & Gol dae He made out a of prospects and oo it te hia twa cutadin sien telling then 1 erthinn all the firms listed and try the to sell new contracts. He merry the office help to tel] all ale that the man Whe tind gies but that all information and service se be given a9 accurately as weal The | went home and pretended to be sick fo week, The plan worked quite well Feg first time he had put responsibility ae up to his ssaistants and left then bo it, The customers who were in the of demanding his personal attentic — that they could get service even he was not there to give it. For i time he had accomplished something i way Of organization, At the end a] aix months’ probation he had gai inital | home office that he was capable of rum a big-town business. What he oid og clusion i, I think, pretty good phi for business men as well as for sale How a Banker Made Good “The man who sells hb own pon too strong,” he commented, “will t very far in big company. 1 thought j doing wonders when I made nyse! = with customers that they felt the doing business with me instead of wa concern. In reality T wea dimits q "Then there is the firm's & well, Almost ev day in my with business men IT hear of apply far posithons Phare l aivanse ment that they have = perenne! which ey can com to any fo employs them. In the fret pias, can't usually deliver as many c they think they ean. In the seed if they decide to quit they can as many customers as they brougst It is manifest that if a man fe: to get inte big business take stock of himeelf to see i organizing capacity, because be will aor a without it. he young merchant whose «yj I ape x fell down in him city = hecause he did not have the if handling his clerks so they eocld = a profit. But urganization does so enmsist ir ty to do the bi attly i things

an ability to do the and getting other peo things eiccenthy. A couple of years ago a banker a ance of mine in @& small town me one of the responsible posiitie 4 city institution at a salary Pe hardiy be resisted. ee accep ad, made good in a big wa ae cently and made bald me wall tad doneit. I could not unde him, how he could have lene ahaut the big bank's eustomers — 1 time to pass on loans intelligent new proposition, I neminded BB diferent from the situation im ks town, where he had » firet-pae ance with practically ewer anal “st ere =naime ca egos mt thing,” he reapanded enengeticnlly. only real bad bust Ll ever pulled of the old home town, when TF meee! a follow I used te go in ab when we were boys together, [1d get any interest on the loan, to mg? aps pode the principal."* Wee eorry to have agretable a memory, Binet | state that every man ought t least one bad bust in bbs past 2 against future indiscretions, But wanted to got at was this: Ts town bank his cogtemers ee irivate otice and laid their ame im, face to face, He leneer ofl oe personally fs wed] Bs financially. the spot he could Say Yes oF Be. ing a4 3. stranger inte w he could not howe this intimate It would take years to aoquine Ey] eguld he pies on loans witht i? (Conttinged om Page @7° — eee

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jteatlewed fro Poge &8! higerity banker never docs have pirt-tand knowledge of his cus- hat the country banker does,"" he { “That is the main difference dty and oti d banking.” mean, then, persisted, "that worker bas to rely on credit-agency lone when be puts out his money? personal note dotan't enter into riunsactions?"" * mean that at all,"" the banker _ “The big-city banker has to hast oat is prea asi as country contemporary, ike personality of the man who jorrowing. The only difference is small-town bank is i through personal contact. The ker cannot do that, He hus got e his gources of information. k ] can ain it from my own , When I first got into the bank- ss i my town We Were 4 cammunity. By the time I got jer | knew every man, woman in the place, a storekeeper the bank and asked for a line of uld tell him te bring in his books ‘eee them. I knew how much k paying and how much business odo in proportion to his ex- could | in his charge _ the merchant et the charges were good an would have to be croseed off the end of the year, With the eit waa the same way, A man in from the country and say he borrow & hundred dollars and él mortgage on a span of mules walk around to the wagon yard ok at the animals to eee if they rththe money, Dknew a arecord: if he waa the kind of iild not substitute «a lest desir= mules in case of a crisis, | took ithe bank with me and gave ley, town grew, and with it the cine we did in the bank, any longer spare the time to every does THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Gl make these pereonal first-hand lnvestiga- tions, T had to form an organization that could do the work for me. I A IVAN. who understood the mercantile business and trusted his judgment in reper tae on the condition of merchants who wanted loana, and another man who knew farming problems to get me information about country borrowers. All I had to do then waa to goover any information they brought me; I could come to an intelligent decision on any problem in ten minutes, where be- fore it might have taken me half a day. _ “My own earning capacity was of course increased in proportion. Somehow the board of directora of this city institution learned that T had a capacity for anal r profit out of other people's work, and I suppose that is the reason they made me the offer to come here, My work is oxe the same as I had developed it in the home town, only it ia carried on in wider compass, I don't have to know the people who bor- row fromus. I only have to know that the Than I gend to get information has sound jud te the banker turned to his desk and showed me a aheal of papers, “There is an example right here,” he said. “A bank in the Texas cattle country waots a hundred thousand dollara fram us and haa sent us a bunch of its own cus- tomers’ notes as security. I suppose these notea are all : but it fe my duty to make sure of it. Among the lot there is, for instance, a note signed by a cattleman who has given a chattel of a thousand steers as security, Right now I have a man looking over that bunch of steers. Lf he re : that they are not in peed shape, or if there is any doubt about r being worth the loan, I shall write the Texas bank to send ua another customer's note backed up by other security, I can’t to Texas to look after the safety of my oans, but [ can pick out men who are capable of doing such things. "I that is about all there is to it. Ii I didn't have the organizing faculty I should have no business running the affairs of a big-city institution. The place for me would be in a amall town, w T eould look after everything personally." rybody’s Business By FLOYD W. PARSONS ait of Letter Writing t you prepare a story dealing high cost of writing a business subject that very few people wut. Nine executives out of opinion that the average cost ordinary, everyday business namountsa to only a trifling y not more than two or three 3 the actual charges in- ¢ majority of concerns in amount to a figure that is e."" the remarks of one of y, and as a result I started ns of others concerning the riting. : : iof whom I d replied tnow exactly what it coat in te a letter of average length e, but he felt sure that the o more than four or five fthat much. Several other ttimated the cost of writing wwhere from four to twelve them had made a careful oof course they were only riIomet a government offi- iven close attention to the aE even tee paler on a corres ence cl in nost recent analysis ah awed of writing # letter in his jington was slightly in ex- , and it was his opinion that ad obtained along this line than these in most other of. inary inquiries were suff- a ee search for more de- lite information, and I am of the facta discovered will : to bhuginess men in general a encourage many of them reeareh of their own. are goo or bad, there is one problem that is ever deserving of close | attention, and that is w and means bo decrease the cost of doing business. Letter writing, a8 will be shown, is an item of no | small consequence. } Fact Number One is: Most business | houses do not consider the cost of produc- ing their lettera at all, the popular impres- sion being that the two-cent stamp aifixed | to the envelope representa the greatest item of expense aside from the stenog- | rapher's salary. | ‘act Nurber Toro ia: The firma which have gone into the matter of letter writing ana socalled scientific-cost-analysia basis differ materially in the itera of overhead charged t the stenographic depart- ment, any smaller companies employ only two or three stenographers, and are part @ in ether office routine, such 28 filing, ledger work, and the like. Frequent ha such cases the stenographic ; ing work is considered as only an important part of the day's work, and therefore these companies do not feel that it ia necessary to isolate costa Incurred in the production of letters, Where stenographers are kept steadily at work dictating and transeribing letters the element of cost assumes quite signifi- cant py ions, One large banking house in the financial district of New York City, on examining the problem, made the | startling discovery that each letter repre | sented an actual financial outlay of forty ctnts, This particular concern pays its stenographers comparatively or lea, ges expensive atationery and occuples quarters for which it pays a lange rental. One of the Insurance companies | does much better than this, its analyzed cost of producing Matters being sixteen — cents apiece for t spe methed and eleven cents aplece for the dictating- | machine method. 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62 = Your Spark Plugs Now Most engine troubles come from worn- outor incorrectly designed spark plugs. If your car starts hard, don't run the battery down; if it splutters and runs jerkily, if it misses on the hills and at high speed, don’t blame it on the car- buretor or piston rings. Probably all you need is a new set of AC Spark Plugs. Go to any good dealer and tell him you want a set of AC Plugs specially de- signed for your car. Then see the difference in performance! Most manufacturers of costly cars, trucks and tractors equip their engines with AC Spark Plugs because they know there is nothing like the old reli- able AC to make a motor runsmoothly, Race drivers, aviators, speed-boat pilots also insist that their engines be AC- equipped. You can't go wrong if you follow these experts. Ask for and see that you get the genu- ine AC Spark Plugs specially designed for your car. Ford Owners :—The AC 1075 for Ford engines is the plug you should use. It has our patented wire clip for the Ford terminal, our new design electrode which prevents oil from lodging in the spark gap and the famous AC Carbon Proof porcelain. If your Ford dealer will not supply you any other good dealer can meet your needs. AC Spark Plug Company, FLINT, Wrehigan OP wt. Bho. BP, Ape EL Pens, LS, Pee. He. L2U3D Feb, £4, 0917 Other Patents Penting The Standard Spark Plug of the World THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Why You Should Change’ t difference in the coat of producing bers by the mien house and the insur- ance company ia probably due to the fact that the financial institution pays ita stenographers etraight cerns while the ingurance company pays its girle, who use dictating machines when transcribing, one- half cent a line based on sixty spaces to the line, the date, salutation and close of the letter counting as two lines, It is rather unusual for to be Id on @ line basis when employed ae by some business house, and so far as | can discover there is but one other large corporation in New York City that pays its typists on this sume basis or rate af one-half cent a line. Both of these cor- Perations we dictating machines. It appears to be an established fact that in the cOncems, W erable typing and correspondence are performed, ictating machines are fast supplanting the old-time stenographer with notebook and pencil. One large educational institution which employs thirty-seven operators, stenographers and typists, has analysed ite production of lettera and learned that the notebook operator pro- duces but 300 lines a day as against 2 turned out daily by the typists working with dictating machines. It should not be inferred from this, however, that the ma- chines excel in all cases. The he stenographer remaing supreme in certain flelds. Many executives use OF para- graph systema in handling their eor- respondence, and in such cases prefer the | touch whereby they can over the letters from correspondenta, at the same time commenting briefly and pri- vately on the nature of the reply to be written. Thousanda of executives do ne more than indicate in a few words the kind of an — a letter is io i na cd aben er is expected to frame the rep scomdingly: But for routine work in a large corporation the mechanical devices for recelving and repeating dictation un- doubtedly posses milvantages. Interesting facta resul from one ex- imination of a large Eastern corporation, where it was found that four notebook Pha eka had all they could do to take the dictation of twelve men, while five typists using the reproducing-machine method turned owt with ease the dictation of sixty men, This same investigation dis- closed that the average niga Hager writes twenty-two letters a day, while the huay dictating-machine operator ture out ALE fia, A large automobilemanufacturing ¢on- cern in raking an analysis of its corre apondence coats found that the expense incurred in Writing an ayer ether totaled nearly nineteen cents. This com- pany sends out approximately SMM) letters aday, and emplove both stenographers and dietating-machine operators. Sixty te mighty correspondents are em ployed, either whole or part time, and there 9a tranecrib- ing force of twenty-five girla utilized to arte ietters from icacistia dictation. vrteaa that a half-page letter was the average length of the company's written communicutions, the following costs were coniplied for letters transcribed from dic tating machines: ALail pocen Sie Lirtation 48 Cylinders Letberhesla Fnvebopes ia Carbon paper | ! anpey stack Typewriter—intoret, depreciation, repeura , AS Dictatingenachine— interest, degmeciitinn, me Fours ae] S Transcr hie Zz iS Sapercieine 0 pace, beats leche. power fi ing ed Tit Aid Tutal HLIES As before stated, the foregating costs eoreer Che chines resi | linge when dictating machines are used, The company in quea- thon found that im tts atberucopertengal ies work, where such machines are not used, most June 5.4 items of cost are practically the moms beth methods, only the conden ei cost, Interest, depreciation ged se the reproducing machines berg» - - The investigation showed thie + coy Btenographie work the const of trim. is doubled when marhines ape = | and of course the charge for for ) is likewise doubled. These chars ) the ie costs shect fy letter written from shorthand «+: compared with #0.1599 with sept machines In arriving at the results state! 14 igatora included ecollectices Ine deliveries to the paost office in rhe mai. agen These also included the ‘aber « in handling incomming mail, oper; ing and Laciplegtahi 4 Much diticcls oxperionced In getting an average | cover dictation costa, because shin respondents are very slow, wh lr othe tate rapidly. Furthermore, it wu gary to a©Frive @f a figure thy ere an average milary [ who dictate letters. As to the » plo h cylinders, this was were on the at each cylinder © aj tain #0 letters. In the matte a scribing it was assimed that 2 bal letter contains fifteen square ir tre includes the date, name, add-em os tation. It waa further ectomasie! 1 average ist costa thirty cect square inches of work done, and ‘1 out at about $0,045 for each jee cost of supervision im diet oa shaving records and the ditnb. collection of letters and cylintes ch for space, heat, light and po h Oo an assumed cost of fa aquare foot anniimlly, and the cpa! for dictation, transcription, filry = ing wae estimated to be aber square feet, or the equivalent is room each side of which would be) mately 155 feet. The filing re based on the handling of ME) pa by each clerk. In every analysis of this moe essential that Cn pPAny Tas investigation shall carefully os i m that will call for an ive a @ach and every item that charged under the head of rosea The insurance company earie- oh which went exhaustively inte t« charges against each operates 4 chair, typewriter, floor space oc an much a Agiiere foot, selary be lockers. In departments wil tating machines. are employed i the machine is added. ‘Tek charges onky $2.25. o ‘year for the feet of floor apace, which oneal ‘mined low. It ia able te writed low charge for floor space be oOMpiny owns ite own building. One authority arrives at them conchusion that if we consider ofa very large corporation out several thousand letters ee that if we further assume that instance the ucing mu quickest meth and hee @ 10} per cent, then sualysis show book dictation is 80 por cmt aot pencil 70 per cent, f selected point 65 per cent i = pens 55 per cent, ashioned steel pen for letter 40 per cent efficient, os ins nadir ame when o : Latng device is employed 1 Few bial rides rs know wha! cists lo wiite the routine outeach day. This is tally matter of sales letters. which oe duced in such large wohume tives will contend that ‘ther only five or six creni= eech — would carefully investigate thee take inte consideration the amy expense which they have peor the cost of letter writing, ther) fstonished by the results of (it At any rate, here i a eho ibout and experiment with 28 ofelackened trade, Tf it coin Ta to write a letter, no wonder tie! lines are congested with busine Jigitized by Gpog

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THE SATURDAY § TROUBLES OF THE HOUSE (Conatineaed from Page fF! even know what is going on be- re when the Howse 1s in session. searly a5 ignorant of what it's ind of what it means os ure the he galleries. fehen uke ne effort whatever he merita of 2 queation for them- their effarta are devoted to cork- an to the demands of people detricts, That is why the or- mands of small special interesta reeeive more attention in Con- he unargan and inarticulate the majority. Many congress- at big enough to find out by antal efforts what it is that their tte have, The frantic efforta tee men to foree on his con- ¢ things thet he thinks they dof the things they ought to tonsa par with a mother who -year-old child eat his fll of nee, mince pie, chocolate creams 3, Such a mother, according ing authorities on child life, confined In some institution vald da no mere harm. The ors for the boob congressman, tely they are almoat never institutions; and the system tis such thot if they suceeed iere for a sufficient length of * automat laced at the nittecs, “This is the celebrated em, which isn’t so bad a sya [people think it i. One of the anmumen ts aye the seniar- that it cam compared to iness comeern, like the Steel elevating a dub bookkeeper n oof agg manager because vith the company six months 1 much more capable man, Bargument is justified. More for the aldest member of a Point of service is, in the most valuable. The only #, arduous and disagreeable tly confines of committe: ivement as a result of fnith- 2 hope of advancement is average commiltteeman be s enthusiastic over his work at would be. af’ Pubile Opinion ly, however, a perfect speci- o family auecceeds in atayi ‘a sufficient length af time ead of m committer that is a matter that touches the thook or something equally der his leadership the com- ily doea the wrong thing. 1 Wrong time. Or else it thing when it sught to be id things. It squirms and des, and everybody hates dsearing intensity, Every- t of the one booh who has se a little longer than the right br twenty experts on but mone of them could in or make him change his two or three boob com= and so-called leaders, the mntatives frequently makes elf. On a Wednesday it is sure, (Om Thursday morn- ittack it wiolently for its inent citizens write vitri- cir congressmen. mn Fri- it changes its mind and st the measure, Hut ft re to come out firmly. It ure im such a raw and that im order ta make it ‘he Senate must tinker it «=, and finally accept the ak apote. : this Jack of courage is as In mar Wants to atay -casionally &@ man comes = te run for reélection. lowever, @re rare. Gen- very congressman Wants 2s. Sometimes he wants ¢ makes him feel impor- ie wants to stay because mey, and sometimes he ecouae the only way in r he to come an in- are ha fo stick in Con- vay in which he can stay beyond his first two-year term is to be Tetlected for another two-year term. Con- sequently every congresaman is trying to be reelected. A few sometinves deliberatel vote for measures that they belleve their constituents ought to have but that their constituents do net want. But the majority of them will vote for almost anything under the sun that their constituents seem to cde- mand. That is the reason for the of the propalen bie, better known as or- Fan minorities, with Congress. If any group of peeple can so organize themselves und so bring pressure to bear on any con gresaman that he is perguaded they repre gent the sentiment of hk district he will almost invariably vote for whut they ask. If a society were to be formed in this coun- to forsee every girl between the apes of thirteen and seventeen to wear light coffee- colored stockings and shoes, and if this society were able to persuade five thousand persons in each congressional clistrict. to write to their congressman insisting that said stockings and shoes be worn by all girth, there would be at least three hundred and seventy-five members of the House to think that these mess represented a a popular demand. In trembling voices they would assure one another that if they didn't accede ta the demand their names in the next election would be Mud or something worse. Unless an organized opposition were made to the nuts who advocated coffee- eolored stockings and shoes some wild- making these things compulsory for flap- pirs and novitiate flappers, and the bill would pasa. The Power of Minorities What bothers these congresemen is how a measure Will affect them, not how it will affect their people of the nation. Yet for some peculiar reason @ majority of the men in the House of Representatives are unable to distinguish between the trwe sentineent of their districts and the fake senti- ment represented by a few hundred letters from the members of an interested orguni- zation, Consequently they are perpetually voting for what they think are porailar measures in order ta get votes In the next election, only to find that they could have voted the other way without damaging their chanees for reflection at all. BL su ices flitterbrain would introduce a bill | Viseount Bryce, one of the keenest and | most dispassionate observers of American litica, wrote of Congress that ‘in the andling of national finance it ts alternately narrow-minded in its parsimony and ex- travagarnt im ita efforta to propitiate same class or locality. The monstrous waste of money on war pensions, a waste for which both partie: are almost equally to blame, was prompted by mere yote-catching.” A ‘ect sample of this same procedure may seen In the recent attempt of the House ta cut expenses by reducing the size of the Army and Navy to a point that imperiled the national defense, and its determination at the same tire to pasa a bonus bill that would leave the great American taxpayer | as bruised as though he had passed over Niagara Falls in a butter firkin. The efforta of congressmen to oper itinte some class or locality,” as noted by iscount Bryee, has resulted in the forma- tion of legislative blocs—the proper defini- tion of bloc, in this sense, eg the arnall offspring of large blockheads.”’ Even foreign perenne are waking up to the delight- ul opportunities opened up to them by the extreme and ever-present eagerness of Amer- ican congressmen bo propittate seme cles or locality; and the logical owteome of this bloe and blockhead business in the not dis- tant future is a House of Representatives mide up of many separate blocs, all block- ing vigorously in different directions, in the manner of corresponding legislative bodies in several European countriea, The proceedings of these European legis- lative baddies, fn which ne single bloc or party is large enough to control a majority, are very like large and successful dog fights. The sounds that come from them are dog- fight sounds; and the results obtained by them are about as valuable, Aresent ChicagoTribune dispatch stated: “The activities of foreign diplomats in the United States in lining up the nationals of theirrespective countriesloronganizingsolid | EVENING POST | was the yearly cost of the O write that two twenty-five dollar machines can save almost 34,000 a year may seem an ex- aggeration. Yet this was the experience of a large New Jersey plant which purchased two Clipper Belt Lacers. Following are figures supplied by the cost equipment engineer: To lace belts by hand cost them in idle men and ma- chine time and material 34,350 a year. Only 3455 a year was the cost of the Clipper method — because the Clipper method not only reduces the time to lace a broken belt but it actually makes a 50% reduction in the number of lacing operations. The Clipper method is speedy. Any operative can lace a belt in three minutes with a Clipper. The Clipper joint outlasts two or three hand lacings be- cause it is anchored by interlaced hooks sunk deep into the belt. We stand ready to supply you with authentic, cost- sheet data from Clipper users which is convincing proof that the Clipper method of lacing belts does reduce operating costs. CLIPPER BELT LACER COMPANY Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.5, A. Anyone can lace a helt Sold by Mill Chics with the It’s free upon request. Supply Dealers in Principal

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6G THE SATURDAY EVENING POST votes in American political campaigns is that’s at least two | being freely discussed in European e¢ir- One upon o time the clea. . « The Italians, Greeks, Ger- sble number : mana, ‘Poles and Czecho-Slovaks all are wished to do en d in consolidating their former na- introduce ti to vote solidly henceforth.” Thus, in time, unless the members of the House improve in character and pee ge oe ple of the country will be ecified by WW. Bloe attting at the extreme | of the House, a Parlor Bolshevik Bloc sit- i ting next, a Daylight Saving Bloc next; and 1900, and four hundred ond then, scattered indiseriminately in the audi- 1910, torium, a Czecho-Slovak Bloc, an Anti- The increases ¢ Bobbed-Hair Bloc, an Italian Bloc, a Hotel rapid increase in Owners Bloc, a Steamship Aloe, a Filipina try. Following Inch dence Bloc, o Polish Bloc, a Three that Maine, for exam Per Cent Beer Bloc, a German Blow, o that New York has Bootleggers’ Bloc, a Russian Refugee Bloc, f an Unrestricted Immigration Bloc, a Fliv- a ver Owners’ Bloc, a New York City Bloc, a Lithuanian Bloc, an Exthonlan Bloc, a 4 Theatrical Managers’ Bloc, ond what not. all keep ber The only thing lacking will be a Native. but that New York shall tae American Bloc. congresamen to take care of be It is a generally accepted fact that the ig my country geta about what it deserves in the is another way out T line of representation, When a city, for she can order that that Dew § example, elects 2 cheap, ignorant, atant her old number of o aa6 a5 ita mayor the city deserves that sort Maine shall drop one - ba f his is try of majorit that the ratio of ¢ They stick to Cinco rule; ani if the majority insists it picelive popalatiat Shall be fF — stupid, incompetent men, then the ma- men are very re ‘ jority is uneducated, incompetent and stu- of their members, however, as pid as well, And it ‘might remarked in of Drop not that ye be not d passing that if the ority ia mot fit to Many men who can afford ]} | determing te own policles poputar govern: Bourke Cookran’s 4 . pare same thing Le true 8 oe oe Pt tea af a : ; Z congressmen, a Congress L fou dred to pay any price for their thas picked o lightweight or a fatheaded or litte short. of shanty. Ei a a poorly balanced congresaman, and has business transacted it passe = « * kept returning him te Congress for such a vent its members frome: talc = cigars prefer Cinco — mild long time that he has become, through the delaying the proceedings. seniority system, an important committee centrated in the hands of o in fl pdaeake tes cut gaia he ieee to eee ae ee ; t t nt f In avor, Tit erate in price. ‘oalartiy: of Denple: in. that .pougressianal House. “They say what legisla district that elected him are incompetent considered and who sh 9 for 15 cents everywhere. | dubs and fatuous hoddydaddies, hoved though the Home el Sitayrat:;Home Voters time, the result being that Th Lin B them the careful though a i ere is a ward in Boston, a city once t e carefiu a OTTO EISENLOHE & BROS., INC, noted as a center of culture and refinement, have, PHILADELPHLA Established 150 ! whose blue-stockinged residents read the The distin andi . bei suaiy Ly le ag with religious fervor, from New York, Mr. | and rail bitter ¥ against the low quality of emitted a wild howl of p 1 the men who hive been known to cbtaina “I know of igen more : foothold in Boston's city government. Yet declared, “than pee ' these people can be depended on for only to-day. It has one thing on election day: They can be legislative body. depended on to stay away from the polls. “Tt ib allowed to dat They are even wore—men and women, of no upon too—than the gullible folk who vote fora Committee on ot egal. man iecause he has pretty hair or arich preclude the melliflueus voice and makes lots of pretty any ' promises; or than the ignorant naturalized Americana who vote for a man because the boee told "em to: or than the other dolts who vote for a congressman merely be couse he supplica vegetable seeds or is ao pension getter, They know how to vote for apa good men, and then don't doit, They de wieldy size of serve exactly what they receive in the mat- iam, d ter of bad government. Eoston is not concentrates alone in this respect. Every American city House in a few =f has « similar ward. quently incur petent — ; Aa has been said, there are four hundred numbers again and give # and thirty-five members of the House, and [Cometinesaed om, af ies oo ae cee ff * CSE ee oe ee ee ae ee [ st STICKTO | > GET n IT'S SAFE | Pre hG. fe a m,n, Te, Fels Fotto on Bechler Rieer ia the Velleasiene i sa Digitized | = — . = ur —_,.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Riser, hins and (4 heir great day over, the fine old clipper ships are still doing ervice. Bowsprits gone, only the stumps of lower masts left, aden with coal, they obediently follow sea-going tugs up and own the coast. * These old vessels, after fifty years’ service, will stand four times as much as new barges. They were Bur/t,” said the old sea captain recently. “I'd rather go to sea today in a clipper ship made into a coal barge than in the finest, brand-new carrier afloat.” "This is a Copper spike from the old J. B. Walker. Exposed to salt water for fifty years and ifs as good as ever.” = Ffroti d fee apaper intermviaw same old metal, Copper the Everlasting, is serving mankind today ag has for ages. sterday, the Copper spike—"“Exposed to salt water for fifty years, §as good as ever.” day, Copper is giving the same expense-proof service in the Copper if (in shingles, standing seam, or any style you prefer), in Copper spout- | in Copper dashing, in Copper wire screening, and—as the principal istituent of the alloys Brass and Bronze—in Brass plumbing and in 38 and Bronze hardware. e Copper, and fifty years from now you will say, as the old sea captain , "It’s as good as ever.” 7OPPER anv BRASS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION 25 Broadway, New York a7 ( ——— ad t. @ Copper, Brass and Bronze are cheaper because you pay for them only ONCE. For Home Builders — FREE An illustrated book of helpful sugges- tions entitled “How to Build a Better Home.” Fill out the accompanying blank and mail it mow, aa i COPPER AND BRASS RESEARCH ASS'N Building Service Dept., 25 Broadway, N.Y. Please send me without charge my copy of your book, “How to Build a Better Home.” Name | Street Number City and State = = a ee ee a i i a a a lc

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Get the facts See Page 75. including all Ford dealers | THE SATURDAY (Continued from Poge 66) of four hundred and sixty, At the present | time a roll call takes twenty-five minutes; “and when the Democrats are trying to keep the Republicans from getting to what they consider an offensive piece of legislation they muse points of and points of he quorum that necessitate seven or eight | roll calla in slow and stately succession. If | the House increases ita membership many more times the roll call will take all day and | leave no time in which te do business. The leaders’ angument in faver of the inerense is that twenty-five members more or less won't mahe any difference. The came old whiskered argument has been ised ever since the membership of the Howse passed three hundred, and haa always been true, because even a member- ship of three hundred is too large to permit intelligent deliberation. Their real reasons are that the twenty-five new members will strengthen the hold of the party in the House, and that sone of the boys want to come back to Congress instead of staying back home and earning their living in the old, tiresome, humdrum way. Con man Nelson, of Wisconsin, blew the lid neatly from the latter group of serious thinkers in the following cold and unen- thusiastic manner: “My first ition is that to evade the Constitution ws the chief purpose of this apportionment bill. Article 1, section 2, provides for an “a tionment according to number" and o “censua every ten years, It is to evade this section that the House membership is in » The mischief behine this evasion conaiata first of sell- interest. “This self-interest arises beratise of the change of population. Thus at the j iftetnt time the states of Indiuna, lowa, | beeialg Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Miggourl, Nebr . Bhode Island and | Vermont, having failed to keep pace jn one member— two— —to other states that have Lt ahead in populution, The members from these states are keenly affected by anticipated Igaa of their seate. No one aid ings er iertinetl will bs vila hr eee generally grow byes r, | therefore, to evade pee Caonatitution by in- creasing the membership. Sell-interext ap- peals to fellaw members for sympathy and Framer's eyes glittered, his face twitched with curiosity. “Some secret!’ he said, not at all disconcerted, “But, of course, it's your business,” He left within a few minutes and Wick lacked the doo Seri. FOMerI RS: Framer had indeed discov him working out his formula a year or so ago, but that record. once written out and memerized had been destroyed; the one Framer had glimpsed ie ht apne been drawn up te consis ey, in case argument unsupport a by evidence failed to draw draw bin |itotireacts Wick glowered aa he locked the Saori but after a few moments with his cigar in his Feraritis chair, admitted: “Serves me right for getting caught; even friends are apes. This ff a onéman world." Yes, it was a one-man world, Wick"s father, > ipa with good soe THs capac and during certain peri pros had often been seined with a mania for taking chances. Sometimes it would be at downright gambling; again he would plunge on mercantile ventures be as legitimate by business men. ick had a dreadful remembrance of hia mother, who had no peace of mind or pleasure during a prosperous period, but was always a careworn, ahivering creature, confidently awaiting the upset which al- wayncame. Three times during those years, clinging to her akirta as a little fellow or standing by her side when half grown, Wick had seen his father enter, throwing up his hands. “All gone!” the latter would say with that ure of defeat. Small wonder that Wick had his one fierce resolve to give his life ably: “Security was his watch- word: and his a one-man werld, He was assured that the business he was going into with Morley would pay its twenty-four thousand a year till the end of time, He never hod any reason to doubt it, and that same business guarantees the aame return on @ aix-thowsand-doellar in- | weatroent to this day. However, with char- | wcteristic caution Wick had mapped his A EVENING POST aid, Usually this eyrapathy ia succesafully wotked, and always self-interest secks the aid of political expediency. The claim is ut forward that by the inerewee of mem- bettship perky success in various formas will asd ey ; 80 that a moat ul op te thus organized with self-interest HH the center, supported by the evila of partiality and of political expediency.” As the House has incressed in member- ship its members have shrunk in stature, In the good old | the Howse used to be as euporant Senate—if net more ao. Everybod that practically all be te Meg e districts that they Feprestnt, ate prominent and important and ular men. In Washington, as the House has increased in size the individual saeribers have diminished in importance until even congressmen themselves fre- quently moan that a eon nm ranks below almost every other form of human life in popular estimation. The country at | knows only two or thret representatives by reputation, Wisi- tors to the House Gallery know about Joe Cannon becouse of hia past exploita, They know about Nick Langeorth, not banow ise of the very bigs ability which he really — ME married Presi- ent Roosevelt's daughter, They know ahaut Volatead, because his mame is at- tached bo the well-known act that put the teeth in the Prohibition Amendment. They know about Bourke Cockran because of his golden tongue. But they stare in un- comprehending silence of ask blankly “Who's he?” when their guides point out to them such persona at Jim Mann, of [linois; Martin Madden, of lilinois; Philip P. Camp- bell, of Kansas; Simeon D. Fess, of Ohio; Joe Walsh, of Massachusetts; Sydney Anderson, of Minnesota; Frank Greene, af Vermont; Joseph FPordney, of Michigan: Frank Mondell, of Wyoming; Frederick H. Gillett, of Massachusetts, the Speaker af the House; Finis J, Garrett, Ten- neste; Edward Pou, of North Carolina; James F. Byrnes, of South igs er ee Ts, of Tennessee: Sara Texas; Charles R. Crisp, William A. Oldfield, aly Cesiang et the latter gentlemen, with the addition Bourke Pet cl of New York, and Nick Longworth, of Ohio, are leaders of the (Continued from Page 21) life with two highw across it; while traveling one he would not neglect to keep the other open, Being now on guard against Framer he contrived a means bo a him; curice- ity wae after all sq profit! Fs pursuit that no man could or would indulge it wt the expense of money and effort. ofitless, idle? Yet a same are born to explore the farthest earth or heavens, so some are indefatigable explorera of other people's business, Das sky line of Midwest City's business district floated in the grays of October dawn; the crests of the elma around the old Morley house lightened, too, and Claire, atill Aleepdnge, sighed heavily with aitogy ps ment of the approach of her enemy, day. Recently her father and herself had gone furtively at dusk in hunt of a cheap flat, where they had hoped to subsist on the two hundred dollars remaining in sicily a pocket, until he could obtain snpky nen A night-long dream still clung in her rain, of the mean streets, the dingy halls and the denizene with their abrupt, noley man- ners and strange, unlighted aces. The girl buried her face in the pillow, then slowly raised up, the gray eyes dar- kling in her ghostly little face. Surely a fig- ure of strength had mounted guard here since yesterday. Claire read into a = a typt as Wick an invincibility against the misfortunes of ordinary people. His oval face with lta round, firm chin; the stemd- fast dark eyes under their bevel black brows; his light deliberate step and habit of im- movability in his tracks as he spoke; above all, his air of breeding proved him a man apart. Slowly emerging from the tossed covers she peered inte the nye at her aroall face in ita masay shinin Bhe shook her aoe over her she Sines and then coiled it oye gTOWwn-Up Woman, but con- face os candidly in the end, “IT am too ugly now for anybody to love me, and have no figure; all skin and bone.” Moving slowly House, Few in the roe 1 of Samuel E. Wind von Wi Witt slat sot teaiatacrtnad rising to | ss One of the reasons for tha ron nowledgre comcerning Ube Hoos part of the general public be = that during the war acd durng on the League of Nations al tr am debates on the 1 maues of the be The Beg babi wi the important mews can be foo a tesult moet of them ad = around the Senate. How and of litthe general interes: kept away from it, This tun went on for mote thas foer yee years during which senaion p aivertising and reptetentative tically nome at all, At the > however, the House, poot a 1 1, ning to look better than the Seca pac eethe val ack to the Howse press while; so there is hope Fergie be better advertised in the ser & There are lots of things the m the Pager Its preg bay a laying of politica a isecauee the otber | Poses thee in onkee Gs hae aek vein party. It is handicaps | large Republican ty, may ones, ‘toa eaall Natentom 2 i it isnt too small it's too large. with a | iS mnapor it ty seems to! too difficult of control by the ps so that blocs spring into © ance of party ‘Then @ are too weak. to be those boneheaded J ae persist in sending no may to Congress. Editor's Mote— This ie the fit al) des by Mr. Roberta. The acm wil) emrly lati. | THE ONE-MAN WORLD toward the window she gazed “He don't believe God | thought, but she ee wi ae eve le uate seihe ppl aa i with handa u fl sprint “But H 2 can’t do 8 ms to be cooked and her father eran oes or he would x 7 i henna, ae ore r. The ok San man was, in fac. b ened, and even after she got © his mission tried to bolt back Claire blocked the door, im tracks even aa Mr. is, cul in bones of steel: ** you = and live in that place we a® evening? We'll starve and be what will LKwcome of met | & The hasdibood er Stages. who Plucked desperately 2 — eet “Claire, wouldn't mT don't know what Id os! try your best to save mi Arm come back home and disappad “No—T'll try.” LS greqint Ei the door and turned the lek 3 era through the woo evening be neta thousand dollars, trembling triumph as he counted it ot! adn my friends didn't ak # said. in astonishment. “Claire asiced, “Did you wl Me She had spent the dx EWEEDING, and after sors | (Centinwed a2 Far

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iatieond from Page 88) ierried into ber pink taffeta and i her hat in an elaborate if rather yy codure. With the long kitchen eenoved sh Would come forth like eis drewed for a party. ied on Mr. Sparks af the bank after horrewed four thousand; but he etogo alter two more. I got one sot was disappointed of the other.” acee, he knew what he was talking | Cire, wow that we have all this cur last resource on earth, hadn't retart up my business again in a ay! This strange young man with i propealtion ———' Pint without anewering took the vand meade a nent package with a erEppe, which she marked “Mr. d ks fi er ready when he comes,” she { proceeded to set out the dinner. expected, Wick arrived soon after, yout awaiting his question she put age in hia hands. He counted the vefully and placed it in his pocket, nan following hia motions with an il feeble gesture of protest, Only ¢he spoke op with the first assur- digeity be had shown throughout. let myself be persuaded into Sparks, no less by your amazing eand bearing than by the threata ighter. They were nothing less! ash my hands of the matter; with ests the responeibility for ry dis- id el this scheme, whoat- & anced wt his ally in this weird In contrast to her father's dubious attitude Claire sat ber hands im her lap, her bend a returned his knot merely os another litthe girl would, but weurance of a truly grown-up s all about a business and all partner who is to take over the nit. very well that you must not bbe ed," she said, died and held out his hand; and clasped it. . i should know," Morley said, qut to be turned from this house. to hold owt at least enough te ment on the mortgage." “flicked from the young man's ave figured only what I must rate successfully. There will be Couldn't you have borrowed las l suggested, Mr. Marley?" me to the end of my rope; the aeked refused me.” | the girl smw that he could rung up to another attempt. mer was unrelenting. “See ve done, Claire, in giving him athe old man. “Now you will ‘hat dingy hell you were storm- maybe to-marrow; to-night raid new," said Claire. y stared, “You've bewitched hdrew her hand, but Wick light shoulder, which had so ttoueh with his own. rtands business,” he replied, Morley, I am leaving to t; in a few daya you will few York address; it will be address, though I shan't be ‘the time. About the frat af at three months I'll mail you ‘ing your dividends for the ath. After that, a8 you will g money so badly, I'll remit the firat month?” sea will be opened and run- ifter I get there. You will thousand the first year, aa owing years, though the alze ances will vary- on, make it a point to see you r—probably in. midwinter. 2 old man's listless hand and lnire te the hall. Her ahoul- garm; it seemed incredible i halt only a step away here i Wick go on out into the ands of miles. She wished question that had come to a t lone now, all by yourself ce your father ied ae E lf in my world, and Tmever will be." He ‘Good-by, Claire." THE “When did you say you'd come again?" | “A year this midwinter,” She was looking up at him queerly. “Won't lever see you in aummertime? | “Sot ever.” And he was gone, Ten minutes later a man who had been ttanding back in the deep shadow of the ai came out to the — and xt ¢ urrying step ran up on the porch and | eneked. vigorously. To Claire, who an- swered quickly in the hope that Wick had returned, the newcomer said, “Is Wr. Sparks here?" He heard her reply that Wick had just gone, with a gesture of impatience, "And he's leaving town, too, ian't he?” “Ta-moarrow." “Can | see your father a moment, miss?" Framer, ial a friend of Wick’s and one af the gentlemanly aort which Claire set such store by, was instantly admitted and conducted to the library, Mr. Morley rose, halding onte the book picked up at Tandom, “I'm leaving town over tosmorrow,"" ex= plained Framer, “and if I'm not able to reich Sparks in the meantime would you please tell him I'll take a thousand stock with him?" “But T shan't see him again,” replied Morley; and then: “Stock? Is he organ- izing a corporation?” “T guppesed you knew," August re- turned cautiously. Then his eyes began twinkling. “I saw you talking to him in the hank te-day, Mr. Morley, and later heard you had been raising money, When I missed Wick at his boarding place to tight I thought of ge him up lere. As for the corporation, well—asinee it's if the way of secrecy for the present, perhaps we'd just of well net digcuss it. Sorry to trouble you'll have to get in touch with Wieck by wire.” He was an enticing fellow, with his twin- kling eyes and hand raised as cautioning ‘hia companions not to say another on Wick'a secret. He hurried toward the door, then hurned back again, 2 maneuver which enabled him to surprise a ata 2 look between father and daughter—tt former's suspicious angry expression bein answered by the calm high defiance o Claire's, “He didn’t leave his forwarding address? No? Well, I'll hear from him, A Framer, one of his pale at the First Na- tional, Good night.” And having seized the strategic moment for intrusion into these people's business he hurried out. Along the street he ruminated, rubbing his hands, “Now that I've opened the dis- cussion Wiek ean say I'ma liar and med der, but old Morley will still have his suspicions and will talk to me, What the devil,” he said, stopping dead, “can Wick have up his sleeve to roll Morley for all that money?" He had stood without the library window and watched his friend count the five thousand currency, through a cranny in the curtain, Hie his hands and ran them despuir- ingly through his hair. i What's nis dope?" he seid indignantly. “But he can't double<deal with me,” anc started at redoubled apeed after Sparks. body. ick Sparks had gone to bed when August knocked on his door, but he rose with hospitable alacrity and shook hands. “Lacking for you a while ; ae paid, You scemel to take w friendly interest in what I intend to do, and I made up my tind to tell you and let you in ona pead thing. [ve worked out a ayebem for ating the races - "Gambling - i "Do T look like a man who would gam- ble? What in my record would justify such a susplelan?" August began to concede that Wick was a liar worthy of respect. “Old Morley « while ago said something about a stock company,” he countered glibly. — “He might have gotten that iden,” ad- mitted Wick, heaping a thousand curses on his companion; but his demeanor told the latter sia hires “How T will take five hun- dred dollars from you and double it every Tt was worth that much to keep Framer from meddling. “Want in?” “Damned if I do!" snarled Framer. “Tt's some sort af a shady game.” "Framer, what brought you in here?” asked Wick. “To learn what you were about, of course,” replied the other with no idea of brazenness. (Continued on Poge 73!

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etinged fro ir ged Fil rm" ui you've [ound out will you id ae lust rernark as intenced pendly concern that I'm being dled. At the same time, it hed bumer: I don't want ta further; you'll have to get out.” : you've just trapped me into a cep from telling me what you're dyin the outraged Framer, af kia burly body awelling as he ep before Wiek's admonishing marl afered to let you in; talked enough for this time, " Witk closed the door upon whostood as if glaring through rawuke late that night prepar- amination for Wick, but when me to the bank the following id no more than ned to Framer ree, And in the evening he IF cand morning following Wicks from Midwest (City the pros Como National, in the Wall ‘ had among the callers in hie ee dark-ey ed yolng Main ily ge by the attendant inte the presence. int, dictating at the moment ry, paused to frown at the vhitefaced youngster of such hionable cut as to move the invari: with jin eye tor the ntistiic. at?” ashed the president, o avy-jowled man with a Noe tweaked down in the center thead: and he poked a moan- et inte his secretary's nobles. who had been empcuting hia Aonchalant flourish, peered Lert. of my own,” he answered hite-toothed amile up at the nm see, the silly shorthand * pué uk ow sips and ut paragraph signs are my vil do you expect to remem= ibe all the words in a paora- ther titerrupted thunder- interrupted, but suayvely, in AOE, Wer kerr certain para- is gna ie, Fl yeRL gel mut; - letter, poess button for waragraph off ice, dictate." i apoke with tremendous hoping to get it all out able interruption. niolly pet your job down so roma whole letter in one vernor?" ‘down here? Mr, Gower! imust I tell you this is a >was quite enough, Hut la ateck sentence, if you bas sige." . : w back in his chair, eying tha hopelessness blended ight. : n slowly, addressing his king at him, “‘have you, unge seorpion in your short, who repays your ian of him, with stings?” ed, and his sen walting teres tet] y at Wick, who + than himself. which I shall nurse has answered Wick, not re- and fixing a steady ap- #2 aon in question. are rough on o fellow,” yer, but his father star- ‘ht down his fist like a get in here?” he de- gident of the First Na- City was announced.” THE SATURDAY "THd the usher aay that?" asked Wick, “He should have announced Mr. Sparks with a letter of introduction from the presj- dent of the Firat National—who warned me, however, that I would mot get to pre sent it. Here it is, sir.” Mr, Gower glanced at the letter laid open before him. “Well, what do you want? DT haven't time to talk te you, Tou got in by mistake. Hore, take it to the cashier.” Wick stood in hls tracks. “That letter is addressed to you, Mr. Gower: I will an- ewer your question. I wish to open an aceaant for three thousand dollars. I am ing into business here, and trust you will Ip me to turn over my profita.” “When you make them! Well, well, well, I tell you—go to the cashier, go to wey acer e young man proceeded unhurriedly: | L { “T have a partner; our profits will run twenty-four thousand dollars a year on an | investment of six thousand dollars; out of | my share I shall wish you to advise me on the investing of eight thousand dollars o “Four hundred cent! Burglary. | No—inssnity." Birack by his en eae | planation rt. Gower scrutinized hia un- weleome caller warily. "If Il make the eight thousand dollars a year you will advise me how to invest 1?" asked Wick imperturbably. The other nidded, humoring him. “Then, if you will permit, I have one more word, and will go out quictly, [To amo an enterprising young Than—about the age of your son here—who has never been noreed in anybody's beoeom, and therefore entitled te your personal re= spect. And I am one of the mass of small depositora who in the aggregate are the real resource and profit of the banks, and therefore entitled to your counsel and pro tection.” He held out his hand; Gower shook it, “T'll be hanged!" he said as, with the smile which had fascinated Claire wrinkling the eornerof his mouthandeyes, Wick thunked him and retired, Old Gower turned on his son. “Take note of that fellow, Algy; keep hirn in mind, ‘Four hundred per cent,” he said, and makes me believe it's a conservative estimate.” "Front," said Algy nonchalantly. | “You say ao because you couldn't go out with aix thousand and come back with your shirt, That what's-his-name Sparks knows the ropes. He's so different from you that I have every confidence in him. ‘Not nursed in any bexly's beasam.” Well anid! Haz take a letter.” Mir. Gowers references to Wick did neat come with this conversntion, and Algy, feeling aggrieved at the comparison, later took the trouble to find out whether Mr. Sparks had actually opened on account, and then to keep an eye on his balance. To his consternation he saw it mount at the rate of ten of twelve hundred dollars w month, and could only hope that the goy- ernor would never remember to look it up, ar he would make comparisons more odious than ever, ; “T should be ruined, rather,” aaid Algy. “Taay, Tmust get that fellow Sparks to tip me to a meint in thia truce of life." He got his tip, but not until fourteen months ate F.. With Wickford Spurksa’ passing from the Gower offices that morning the unknown claimed him for over a year; then he re appeared to Mr, Morley for ten minutes, to Mr. Gower for fifteen, Both were the | annual meetings which he had scheduled. In January, Algy met him in the bettin ring at the Havana track, and the two h the experience which, os gamblers say, made a Christlin of Algy, and sent him hack to his futher and business with a bet- ter ambition than the invention of a short- hand system of paragraph signs. Wiek's share in the experience was a kulfe eeratch on the left breast, received in warning o racetrack crook away from Algy. It waa ‘Ditto “Pay EVENING POST 73 In This Company 14 ‘Times Abour 4 orders a year arrive at the Inter- national ime Recording Company, New York. An average of 20 copies is required of each order. Under the old method, with billing machines, annual copying costs were $4,006.21. © Dhitto cut this to $4,143.24. 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74 merely a mean little scrape gh sat a fea- ture of interest to Wick; the lasting grati- tude and admiration of the end aahion exquisite he always ignored, wit teristic indifference to opinion. a however, never overlooked a chance for Wick's company after that, He hunted wp his rescuer the following summer at Belmont, and came upon him as he had at Havana, standing aloof in the rear of the betting ring, studying in a memorandum “Banking.” explained the student when Aley glanced at the notes inquiringly. Wick touched the textbook in hia pocket and added that he hod put in a couple o months of study st a school of banking ene re winter. “But don't t falem to work indefinitely 7 oked Aly, whereupon the other finite his plan ot kacobig two Foacks tem through life. “Which means,” he said, “that if race horsea all die or bookmakers quit laying odds, T shall have accumulated onoug money 2nd knowledge for a start in bank- ing. I have placed myself in contact with Mr. Gower to peeure this abort,” Al whistled admiringly. “But I cay, Wick ae you'd better never let the gov- ernor be wised te your Tactetrack activis La ties. “T will tell him,” said Wiek with his half don't look on banking as a gamble, like other lrusinesses?"" “Sow thal seu" ye settled down te bank. ing, in a Tesponsible position, do you gam- We? wr “Gamble? While handling other peo a money, T say!" replied Algy with o Fighbened ack, "You have answered your own ques tion," said Wick. By this time Wickford Sparks was known to the betting ring from Windsor and New York to Bowie and Havana. But he was known aa a man of means who followed the game for the sp0r, of it: neither piker nor lunger, he wot or lest ens is bets rarely went above a thousand, even on a horse he liked, and frequently were only nominal, ten or thirty dollars. He © his own choices and, though an affable listener, lad been given up by the toute long ago. Asi tnt ae ae un- HLS ol system play no tate: had ever been placed on his beta by the book- makers ta prevent his re- trieving his losses. At Belmont that simmer day the band blared from the stand while the two FOUN Men WED? CONVETSINE: the shout, “They're off! . teh over them and the crowd in the ring an scampering to see the start. Algy a2 vered with excitement, but Wick at ied at his notes again. “Oh, yes," “he replied smilingly to a ques- tion of his companion, “IT wateh the horses being led aut or warmed up sometimes. I admire a handsome brute. There's one colt, Gold Dragon, well named—a breath of fame blown iote the brazen cast of some ad Greek sculptor—like the casts you see at the museums. he's not starting te-day so 1 can show him to you.” Wick dismissed Alpy fram his thoughts as soon as they separated that evening; nobody was admitted to the one-man world inwhichhewasnow wellsecured, His weak- kneed oll partner and the prying Framer were consigned to limbo. He had called on Morley between traing last midwinter, while en route between New Orleans and New York, and listened good-humoredly to hints that he should increase the sp So de of their business. These hints course, been inspired by August, who, wild with chagrin on wormin e truth about the dividends from the ol man, wanted in, Morley had talked with hands clenching and pale blue eyes gleaming with mage He was still writing letters urging thn Framer be let in and the capital ms cremged: the business that paid four hun- dred per cont hed become a game and Morley, a prey to the alse foray Sh Was himecl! bent on a Killing. Wiek laughed aa he tore up the unanswored letters and forget ther. daire's friend, waited and watehed for a long year, had come and gone without characte, THE SATURDAY siting her. She examined, blamed, eross- examined her father for a message from Wick, but he had left none, In this very Toom where she had given him the touch of shoulder valiantly ‘ua the Gettys- burg of his fortunes, he had forgotten her, “Has Wickford ay Saree ies he look?" Mr, Morley had repen tn ae : na . questions, and replied te them: ford has a dark amile and a lighted head, ike the young noble in the satnting we saw. He keeps even me, his partner, at a distance. Well, genius is solitary and peculiar, and who but @ genius enn turn over moncy as he can?" wows which sketched Claire's hero aa ner too grand to exact gratitude or {rience ip of. She would never hear him called proud and selfish by her father of the outra August, When December came round again she would not go out of alght of the house lest his welcome be below hi deserta and station, At last he rang at the door and Claire threw it open to him. Her father telaphoned Augie: fram his stiacly. Immediately after the eti ie tated: analy have Sasi Setting: Sami disaatisfaction with our ac thersnins NEE E Morley. Lam now ready to buy out your interest." The latter pureed his lips and looked araind guardedi|y; it was the forthright Claire who answered, “We don't wit te break up the partner: ship. Wick looked at her. up. "Tam nearly eighteen, Mr. Spar’ Bil pretty enough ta have fobs ad ben The girl blushed scarlet, but found com- posure enough to anawer, “I have mot; nor want them, My old boy friends dont count, do they?" Wick pointed his hands judicially, “I'm not so eure.” ae Til send ‘em away," declared the mace anaes aur les ae Lare talking business," eT fath or. ree Then you've reached a decision, Mr. Morley?" “Papa, you must not sell!" exclaimed Claire. She turned to Wieck. “Please ate te to hada I want to say, Mr, Sporks,"" Wick Oe eadeea hia hand to Morley, a gee ture for silence. The litter, however, as time to consult usual adviser in busi- ness tatters. "Framer?" gaked Wick, “Show him in. Now, Claire, your objections.” Te was a queer unlearned litte Portin who stood arguing the law of partnership “You are growing EVENING POST before this lardly young judge sittin ke hands on the arms of of be chair and brows bent upon her, “Remember, Mr, Sparks, when papa would have backed out of borrowing money from his friends to start you in business, that I persuaded him. Then, after you had gone with all the five thousand ond the aherill waa coming to turn ua out of home, I took we sea as pins and bracelets that mamma ha t me, and sold them to the jeweler, and we some money and he let us stay on. Claire's wolee wae silver-clear and she leaned a little toward the judge, impressing him with a gesture strange, indeed, to law= oMurt oratory: but ao eloquent was the gesture of the child pleading for whut it knows to be right as to appeal irresistibly to heart justice, But this was not a court of sentiment, “You showed good understanding of the necessities of your position for Bo young &@ person, said Wick. abd the mortgage mari Dow’ ey Only a small endearing note in his voice, a friendly mod that would have cost him nothing, would have encournged her so, As it ap = strung herself for a struggle, her ike Sp r, brane aren't I a partner, too, in papa’a share? Didn't I buy a right with the jewels? And I don't want to aell out!" er father, who had returned to them, nee fuming. “Preposterous! You are a d.""" He puffed out hia cheeks se that ‘his florid wee wns Tound = a flum, ond waved her aside importantly, “If Claire has a case, why shouldn't she state it?" sald Wick without turning his head; his quick sternness compelled a silence. “That's all, Mr. Sparks," said Claire, The form of Portia was no longer that of the child who had stood jn the rose windaw of dawn, agen dl in white, and Jook- ing cuton aw enlightened more b iam presence of her hero than the aun. and straight and rounding, Wick saw it, ee her face lovely with its pearl-like flush and clear gray eyes and shining hair, Her mouth ed as she waited the word of the judge which was to pronounce her fate and his own, along with the partnership, He saw her and yet did not: and his de- cision, already made, was withheld a9 an expression altogether strange to this secure and indifferent man, of frowning and fear, gathered on his face. For as Claire had talked and he hod listened, the one-man wotld had witnessed this phenomenon: A seene Of maddened men showering out money in the betting ring; a scampering to the blare of bands and thunder-roll of hoofs, Wick Lacted Alim fato a Corner fy the Thread, But Claire Geasped Nir Jem, Begglag, * Wieck? He's Sorreadered ** June 19 A shout: " re off! Gel ti. the lead!" Wi steno ase like pg Bako ithe 4 ten trac fg thee i der a blanket with one noing..: on—Gold Dragon!” Wirklart Spary gambling in his thoughts! Suddenly he focused ks [r aye | look on Claire. “I will pot be; wa day," he said. e threw his coat over kis am pf hureied in. Wick modded [5 ue effusive cries of greeting. shor esl tily with the Morleys and me ve But T came to coesult cith jw Morley," urged August: “tc un = differenae: it is not netemary ty the business.” Wick was deal to his erporte'ging they reached the ball fev + | Claire, trembling and blasting » oa phant, helped on bis evat, ber ps: [ng on his ate | resounding = tall struck through os | world ail] started Au percercec +i ene this ms irhy who had baffled thy Pe imvestigass his pe hers oly ak leat | burly body burt: twitched with coz "Tt won't a | declared blinty can't run away “4 tlement foreve 4 show-diget” Tt was nt sz! Peon that. duce TO any Seite self. Wick piel nily on the t-4 it to music.” | went out, [ola of protest. cours, As have ran abt, | held his nat pst laughingly, “omshor 4 he saw Wick = = cals ane step | Instead o gs, Work, Wick hy on hiv track. Ut WES TACIG Li and there he coy spite af Clit! Wes Tot bet pam pee derided ba If the alarm bad) ath ag ge "e wp in him, be a mer. For cs 3 "Den't, madly the posed would neve ps man's many But he was none i less "il himself immediately 4 aIriving at New tea ia Dragon's stable; admired t= with him, watched him wart J With the result that be tu | ferent as the great braze « into the back stretch. Hr 4 experience gt Gold Drago! and packed up for New ic: Long, however, he poodcs nomenon which fad smu. | neta world, With Cur | ng before him and aysins = the mania of gamirg > “And | was as hopeless LE played a sure thing for 1! acknowledged. “ { 3a! with me? And what the co-w! would muse, There waa no solutio: 4 i but he : of his securite, E were requlated sq that n°: eitement could tarestendy sal observed. particularly 2 vel his few fraends, and with stud sed and casting under Mr. ceived bins indifferes! ¥, a8 2 matter of _SCRITSE. dismissed. By summer lowest out the Souther again in New York, bx tal (Cantiagaed ca Par 9 = I Fs ! \ sr Sl a !

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 75 Lay the Facts Face Up ERE they are: leaf tobacco experts ise the highest grade cky Burley leaf to be Velvet. This tobacco, d of fine texture from ure in limestone soil, 1in wooden hogsheads years. It is then man- -dinto Velvet. iAF TOBACCO USED LVET IS PACKED IN DEN HOGSHEADS R TWO YEARS ivep from the farmer, finest leaf tobacco is “ ', untempered state. e various methods of id handling tobacco ids of processes and s—but every poun af tobacco used for s packed away in \ogsheads and aged mg years. ( | IN THE Woop OBS THIS: : Rit’sa cask of'rare ne or a hogshead of * choiceKentucky Burley Tobacco, ageing in the wood gives a certain pleasing mellowness that you can’t get in any other way. The leaf tobacco for Velvet is carefully packed in huge wooden hogs- heads and in such a manner as to subject the tobacco to the atmos- pheric conditions, causing it to “sweat —that is, to throw off the raw, bitter properties, leaving the tobacco mild and mellow. THE COST OF AGEING Is HIGH, BUT— Tus aged -in-the-wood method takes time and costs money. For, after we purchase the high-priced Kentucky Burley Tobacco, it must be stored in immense ware- We have to pay for storage, insurance, taxes, hand- ling charges and interest on the money invested, Is 1'T WORTH-WHILE? houses. V uenver, introduced only a few years ago, has grown year by year in popular favor and it is our honest belief that it is the best pipe tobacco that is manufactured, “We invite comparisons, Jusr pour a little Velvet in your hand: and compare it with any pipe tabacco. There is none that e pale in mel- lowness this aged-in-the- wood Velvet. Buy Velvet - and let your trueand honest pipe decide. raed LIGGETT MYERS TOBACCO Co, oa Pry se!

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Bruck imi 70H MITT family —eerubered 1 pe weuale ap ests j a, — TO ETA Stns Si - a EVENING POST (Contiaded fram pnd Fal condition when he said “I, alone, am." Qutside of Wickford Sparks his world waa empty: it was an enduring world, a sale pakeg shelter and good living, ‘and he pp artes in midseason he beme aware that he was being shadowed, and surmised that the person at his mailing address had been bribed ta discloee his hotel. Wieck observed this shadow at his elbow several times when making his bets, and led him aeide, “What i it you wish to knowl" he asked; and when the man resented the question: “You can ne more conceal what you are than a donkey can deny his anees- try. Private detective & branded all over | you," Thedetective was not plensed, but thought it hia role to become friendly, and said that for several days he had been keeping tab on Wick's beta. Wick grinned satirically, “Come to any conclusion?” “TL cant make head or tail out of it.” “Meither can I," Wiek confided: ‘it's a gilt,” and left him with an admonishing glance. He was not followed again, but ten di i later in his room received a message in t most wailing voice ever heard over the telephone: “Mr. Sparks—it’s me, Claire. Papa and I are here at the hotel.” Pleasing news; we'll moet for dinner,” replied Wick, and appointed place and min- ute on the mezzanine, “You don't mind me coming? They have been telling such horrid things about you that T want you to face them down.” “Tl make up my face, all ready, Claire," lntighed Wick, “I'm so—so very glad to hear you talk like that." Tle met them as appointed ao little later; but Morley iterating and reiterating a dozen times in toe or three minutes that he eould neither dine nor amuse himself with Wick until a difference between them was ad- justed, they drew up chairs where they were, “To must know more about your operm- tiona. I must know how my money is being handed," continwed Morley, Wick looked from the agitated, half-thrent= ening old man in evening clothes to Claire, who smiled back suddenly and waa in the | ahitie inskant as solemnly anziotis ma before. “No doubt,” observed Wick, “you em- ployed the detective to investigate me at the eugeestion of Mir. Framer." "At the suggestion of, my friend and adl- viser, Mr. Framer, yes, sir.” "But he could only learn what I in- formed August when | started out—that I had a eystem of betting at the tracks.” Claire's sobbing littl ery interrupted: “How could you —disappoint ussa?" Wick murveyed quizzically the girl, who ina very agony to keep control of her emotions ipped her hands together and bit her ips, her eyes glistening with tears. “ But tell me, it isn"t gambling,” she exclaimed, taking such hope in Wick's smile that her Vipes mihveree ia: ina smile of her own, | “Lam in good standing with you there," said Wick: "it is the kimakers — the heorsy sports you understand—who gamble against me. As long as they porsist im it they lose. For, however the horses run, iy svetem bewts them." Morley heard with increased excitement. “How dol know how much you win?” he tomanded hearsely, hut under Wick's glance immelintely reqruidinirel his yory palpable insinuation. “Todo net hint that you would cheat me, Mr. Sparke—far from if. You weuld wee our joint capital hon- esthy, Butoon the side—ah, on the side, with your own money? That is another abory, Tt i bs all right as fur as it has gone— hut - Claire had been silent with eyes cast dawn, as if nhething else mattered now that the knightly and talented Wickford of her romance had discovered himself as a race track gamester, for she seorned the fine distinction between the man who bet on a sure thing and the one whe took chances. But as her father talked she asked apirit- elly, “De you menn to say, father, that you will continue partnership in this— ayatern?™ “Ti do as 7 please with my own money, Shut up!" commanded the old man, whose bloodshot face already reflected the paa- sion of the ring. laire was amazed at his rough man- net, and oo little frightened. “Hut why not sell out? Mr. Sparks once offered to buy, and surely this is a business which ne une 3, yr one of our claga and mame can teat wy out defilement !™ ; “You blow hot and then cud, Tay said Wick good-humored|y. “T did persuade you Last winter | in wr draw your offer to buy pope's ther, ie ahe added proudly, “I beliewrd the - the profits came from a clean ond == table business. [t was = sorry day's: that IT interfered.” “Tou need oot lament; your ait that: meeting had nothing to do wets ¢ cecigion. It wis spoken so peti tn thogt Bp te maa it. op tivieys had ay to help gave me a litt to wpeal” “Tt dia if business transaction w based on sentiment. Wick, whose eyes Morley's, interrupted himself: ° “Why ww Framer waiting in the lobby? Ghee 4 the sign te come up.” Morley did an. Deuring that moment before Anger peared in the mezzanine floor Wicks oo in to Claire, who had learse! o ther hero in the last few mince 4 in the three years of their seqocrte He valued not at all that blind words trustfulness of the child wha bad beg and threatened the wenk-kneed ob! by rupt into giving the borrowed mai their last resouree, to Wiek. Hirer’ herself alone had given him he ean 2 chosen career, ineredtds | Seige have ignored the littl Po Jia. “Wickford,” she exclaimed it i ‘tone, oak forward for confirerce i kind ef world do you live im? “The mortal man only really lives lives flor himself alone,” replied W i Borme acerbity, “There are no sacs 2 ws friends and enemies: it ia every himself. To escape the miserie: etic life, and inceseaint plunder by the = able, ome tates own imi workd ard it fearlessly.” She pon ani thi an instant mean you live in your world alone’ Th awful!" “Tt is secure.” "T should be afraid,’ said th slowly; “I should be more afraid th live among folks, even if some bate! robbed me." “You would make life a gambk.” = Wick, amused: “I will mot.” She wat amazed that she could tort to this, but could only adeut “Maybe; but it would be gamboy something more splendid than more security for myself."* “What, for instance?" “Wh, [tienda to lowe me, and ‘ei i Des general goodness, 1 poe.’ ef a7 — 5] ‘ Wick was still amused by be Iva he and let his mind drift a= 2 nto her fanciful vein. Suppo could bet himself; suppose We Sparks and his strong box of a wor : ba: wagered agsinat all outside stakes; what a harerd! Bur tf & honora, friends, tiches, pleasures. he the chance of losing them again. 4 he would only be a beggared 5 gambler at life. Once a gambler, oe gambler, Nothing was secure out = all-men's world; wt eculd keep ite b and p res, There was somes toot Wick knit: his brows, not cobs Framer's approach. . That wll-met's had a curious promise wherec & supreme gamble. For af all the re lwers whe looked up patiently frecs miseries and helped out im the com others because of that promise. r@ knew that it would ever came trost “Wheel Ome life at m time 2 for me," grinned Wick. “I'D ‘i other, Wf there is one, when [ come Wick nodded to Alpust bot * persisted, Allin this world for = the next; backing the promise * A, stiffer ‘gamble than any race ec. saw; give Claire enedit. He eta old alarm. “Something | about ¢ makes a gamester of me.” And from that tmeoment he sucer queerly and disliked her. _ Framer had seated himself art Intertogatory ned from Wieck, a= Morley demands that the hettirs of which he owns five-ainths be d= him." inly." Wick hed no o} letting them have the secret. be two conditiona: First, that Mocs close out his partnership interest tc

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w= thqusanil: second, that no one was wld that himself, Wiek, whe engaged ying it _ conditions were aly agreed the othera, whe ch Sihad of his ready eom- yp well; here it ia. Play second tae wi Six races a day are run at a p. Mr. Morley. Before the start the akera post t e odds aguinst each the aré ton short to play the e under my system, so pick the ixer's second choice to run first. en enough money on him to win dollars, 1a More, 10 for you are lie win just twenty dollara on each, Y your horse in the first race wins done ps tant race é if your horse lowes you play t e—always the second choice and to :—towin back the money lost on race, plus the twen 2 YOu Ot ¢, plus the twenty which will be due ihe sexond race. Lf that horse loses, the third race you have to get hack sea on the first two, ond three venty, or sixty dollars, due you on ices under the system. It rarely that a second-thoiee horse doven't we during the day, though unless oa in the elxth race you will of ave od loss to curry over bo the next will happen, however, that mot a hoire will win a trace for a week or pour bets will be running inte hun il thougands. That's where even am player goes broke unless he has enough reserve and ia content twenty-dallar profit on each race. ant ier" med so simple that ee Framer ed out two daye or twelve suppoe ind in his memorandum book, three second choles to win in that be went over it suspiciously with it's a wonder a let of tacetrack don't work out this system hookrinkers aut of business,” he have doubtless worked owt many ‘agreed Wick; “but playing them rmatter,”" 's more to this, ier a ieaeyty " re ic " Inet have todo isto lay his bets OH s all! Now let's forget business Sci act go to the neni na partner, Wick was e last of him, and with that 3 balancing he maintained of all on, he would not have the : ceptions formerly ac "] Mor heuse remain charged mh a : dale. He wis entirely to the old man and Framer amd though they were in high th him et made conversation and jovially, he dismissed them d forever when the evening waa ised that Claire had gone with . and was annoyed when she ned to his memory; only as the hantom, it ia true, but disquirt- ur, When he should have been Po aaltep, with her childish phi- eral months of the year yet to uying out his partner, Wick waa Mi the purchase price and is usual fund of eight theu- invested im December under rs direction. He chose this the tactical one to close up his ith the banker. sted the latter at once with the ent, “ During the coming year I twenty thousand instead of west, having bought eut my nothecn ted shocks bit yr for the purchase: priee?T’ said plese . , now aseistint ‘artment, had asked his father when Wick made his annual he entered at this juncture aside, his lean face sparkling feos : net N Lace snd e ous apo vble recruit amused him im- ok his head to Gower's ques- price was only five thousand, 4 original investment.” iold an interest yielding twelve ar for five t ii cash? ie the paychopathic ward THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “An additional consideration on my | — ufacture . part was. my formula for the man of money." Gower studied him. “Such a secret exists," he said with astonishing acumen “but it ia dangerous, or even fatal to all but one man in a million." "Tt will probably be ao to my former partner," replied Wick. To the banker, for cantlidly attentive, he explained his system, whose workings were al ther ect ictory to the theories proved by the hanker'’s experience. Oe i he the long he er aded. “You " = n the long run.’ "Lam the man in a million,” reminded Wick. “Now I have another and entirely different business to take up with you,” Rut Algy interrupted. "Governor, before Wick approaches you on hia other ‘proposition I want to state that I'd back him aa the Hoek of Gibraltar; I've seen him in action. Do know what he does in the midst of the lunacy when a race is on? Studies a textbook on banking in a eerner!" “You are not backing Mr. Sparks be- couse he is a Gibraltar,” “Dash it, Tam not!" assented Al phatieally, “Two years ago at the aan Wick risked ry em- avend am ol He told the story with a warmth of titude which touched even Mr. Gower, ut Wiek, with that honesty almost aa is life to save me from n | gon y bookmaker who had robbed me blind. | € showed cnppibaytiey Pn goat srr et i ngainst 2 sure game, Bn my ticket | home. That's what made a Christian | cokies: to himself aa to others, supple | || ‘s account. — fons Algy would tell the tout of my stendy winnings as recorded in the bank's books, and the bookmakers put a limit on 2 bets. Bo T broke up t the combination. eres nothing else to it.” “Wick!” exclaimed his young friend. “Tn sorry a aaid that."" He shook hia head mournfully, disappointed of a hero, The elder Gower regarded him curiously, id re keepi mithon . a Sparks.” a I have made a study of accounting and banking," resumed Wick, “and this winter complete a course in the heat finance school in the United States. I mow have about phir thousand dollars which I will add t ng me waiting for your new | h twenty thousand dollara a year. | Would you be willing to employ me in some executive position or assist me to start a bank of my ownT™ “You foresee that you will be tempted at last and your system collapse.” “T foresee that I shall never gamble," replied Wick, “But horses may stop rac- ing, or bookmakers laying olds, A man is trusting to luck who makes secure only ome way out of life,” "And I am chosen to open the second?" "Tf you are convineed I can travel it,” replied Wick. “As you are! I will take yms and make you, but as you are," @ Cower, ‘After you've made your aie amble I wouldnt trast you with my watch!" Wick, who offered or accepted nothing eondithonally, merely aald, ‘This rownda out my scheme of things.” Himself, as he was, he knew to be a certainty, Te waa on the day of this meeting that he saw Claire Morley again, in a limousine at the curb of the Avenue. He took tho costly new car and the chauffeur and Claire's Heh fura as the natural apoil of the bookmakers by the new syatem-playera, greedier than himself, Claire stared at him haughtily when he erosecd the pavement to speak, “W are you already puffed up with pride anc pomp? Remember, Thnew you hack in the ad home town,” The girl's eyes darkled on him and he wert on, finding amusement in the aitua- tion, “Vou watched me come up the walk, suspecting a sheriff, and had on, 1 remem- ber, a kitchen apron with black smute.” “Till just now T didn't believe we woulel meet again,” replicd Claire with a face of stone. "I thought vou would be ton ashamed to face ws. If the girl could have understood, Wick’s reply was in deadly earnest. " Ashamed ? T ought to be for letting you innocents jn for a trimming at a master-player's r “T trusted you for a long time,” said Claire, “and believed you good and generous till that night at the hotel. Even then I didn't suspect you of belng any ware than selfish and ungrateful,” ‘Coitined on Page 327!) = Pa fees 2s see eee =

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Rabe $) gi day aed op, Arpaia plan, Slabe deer canker noe. Chen June Wfeb. The Trowtdaly. Evergreen, Colo. Chak, Owen, Mar. No harshness— no bite. Why? Get the facts See Page 75 The Rece Woy be the Wosebep Bondy bor the price lig Sieagarils Lo Detiwer Agenis, waried every wher ' Euge- ap To, Pudiamspelin, God. edie pom SS THE SATURDAY (Continwad fram Poge FP) “So much innocence! Such ao trimming," said Wick. Ue a bes 8 should [ warn eve ? Gamble they will!" hate o " she flamed, and went on with trembling lips. “But why is it, Mr. Sparks, that with a system paying a hun- dred thousand a year you gave pape only twelve thousand for hia shareT™ Wick found this funny enough to laugh at. “I will tell you why,” he answered Mico el "TL couldn't spare it!" and bowed himself awa’, aa August Framer, a sublimated August in beavered overcoat and Avenue haberdashery, crossed the pavement, a stick under hia arm. “Fy the great monocle of—oef the Lord High Chancellor,” said Wick. “My old friend!" “How-lo,” said Auguet and lifted his stick to the chauffeur; “Café Pompelan,” he ordered. Wick sighed, on, chuckled; he was not mistaken in vowing that he could feel the inquisitive green eyes squinting after him to see how he took it, mr HERE was oa formidable turnout of L talent and sporting fashionubles on the aecond last day of the Metropolitan epring meeting, The track was lightning fast under n cool high sky, ond the cord an- nounced included a number of famous runners with rivalries to settle. Among theese Gold Dragon was eminent, ond Wick, with his old interest in the horse, intended to visit him in the paddock. The odds for the firat race had been slid hy the hawk bes nnd Wieck, his mone own, was entertaining himself as veitial with the memorandum book, hardly con- acioua of the distant music and rising ex- ettement of the ero as the entrants fpHed up to the starter, Then the first cheer, ways @ burst of joyous harmony, sent them of, and the sport of old kings and old gods, and barbarism ever young in oll of us, was on for the doy. Wick glanced up and sow August Framer running with the others for a view of the race: he had noticed him pei and repeated this old prophecy indifferently: “Such a trim- ming! To Wick's knowledge neither August nor Marley had ever transacted business wl the tracks, The two had, in fact, been shy of sporting publicity, and Morley particu- larly, jealous of hia business reputation and respectability, had decreed that they com- duct their operations in the clihs or among the handbook men found everywhere. They had separated for this purpose for a thme, Framer making his Investments in ey Orleans and his senior partner in New ork. Of course, Wick's twenty-dellar limit of oe an each face had seemed con- wei! 9 piking to them: in fact, they ot his statement to that effect aa a ridiculous lie, and asked each other and Claire epee, why a man should limit himself to one hundred and twenty dollars aracing day when he could win six hundred dollara just a5 easily. They estimated that Wick had wona hundred thousand or so which he had not divided with his partner. So they had raised the limit fivefold and thriven tremendously. This wasin part the luck of the amateur, But the present season at New York opened dismally for second choices: ver few of them lad run in the money at all, nad this dereliction had ealled for iets fata the thousands which almost went begrin among the clubs and handbook men. An this, the day before Getaway, was actually the seventh af second-choice failures, anil a limit had been called] everywhere on Morley. The alternative to. letting the system go amash, admitting ite incompe= Gece, which would never do, was for August to take their beta to the track, A second choice, under the law of averages, had te win soon. Tt did, that day, not only in the first race but in the second, third and fourth: it waa a day of second choices, one even heing declared a winner by the disqualifi- cation af the favorite for fouling. At the of the fourth race, in which Gold Dragon had been scratched, Wick saw Kor ies come aver from the stand gad join Framer. The oll man was jubilant, greet- ing his partner with outstretched hands and laughing incessantly aa he etood gestic- Wlating with his stick and talking te the latter and 2 companion just introduced. The latter was an ex-jockey who had been assigned here to duty by the bogkmaker EVENING POST hardest hit during this run of heavily second chores, gust, hia panama pushed vac ae white serges wrinkled, tie awry Degen by turns to listen to the jock argue wit increasing earnestness with his partner. The crowd's choering had by this time a muttered, snarling undertone; the music vibrated with the hollow beating of apear on shield, and in dull they heared the gust Mor heabs, ee Se ore fg y, fercely, August glowing: blood su fused the PT oft e excited old man. BHeluted mesters hustled them, frantic with the fear that they would not get their money down: and others, trium Tent aa if t had already won, el past with their markers in their pockets. Another gust of hoofs, a howl from twenty thousand throwts—the horus wert at the barrier, “Too late,” said the jockey with on oath: he hacl picked a ringer for them, in this race! “Mal” shriehed Morley, beside hirnsell with this mupre me challenge, “Run, Au- Eg it, rin! The bookmaker toying with his field glasses looked at August hi “Cinders—to winl yelled the latter, tearing through an eddying skirt of the crowd. “Twenty thousand. Cinders. was the second cholee; it waa the day of seeond choices; nothing could tett them, The bookmaker's white fin flashed throwgh the currency; hia assistant wrote on the slip of stiff paper 40,000/20,000, Ang battered and torn, sauntered away arse oe ran third, Wick eying them humorously from a distance saw the thunderbolt of defeat atrike. The ald man, but now so jubilant, etcenel gaping trembling, aetually aging. Auguat, who n looking down ot his empty hands an scarcely crediting that the billa they had so lately held were gone, staggered a step as if from the edge of an ah. and laughed loudly. partner managed a questioni a- thetic amile, but aa se took ont hla bulging wallet und shook it Morley leaded. **No—for God 6 sake—it's the ast! In fact, they had brought all their capital with them ta meet their late eriaia and theugh the debacle of Cinders taken a part of it and wiped out their winnings for the day, there was nearly twenty thousand remaining. As the ald man pendant. Aupust argued; then, He lesening: 58 the od on ee last race, ie oe Morley ac- salascaat smiling: frightenedly, and dodder= ing along with the other as he bet the money, Wick waa tired of them by this time, and the seeand choice losing in the last race he hurried wut of the gate and away without looking back. The spectache of the ruined gambler was familiar ta boredom. His ee did net touch on them again dur-= ing the evening, which, 25 usual, was taken up with a leisurely dinner and reading. He had just put out the lights in his room and atarted te bed, when his phone rang. Claire Morley was on the wire. “I'm downstairs,” she aaid. “Will you meet me—as quickly as you can?t" Wick answered Lt ious! and after o few minutes joined her in the lobby. "Father sent for you,""said Claire. “He's "T wouldn't take such a misfortune for granted,” replied Wick, so calmly delib- erate that the girl looked at him with OFFOr. “T'd forgotten,” she said bitterly, “that you live in a world by yourself—with no thought or core for anybody. Though I don't see how TD could forget it, even at such a tinve wa this,” “Size me up your way,” replied Wick; "I'm mot what you'd eall unfriendly to pea whe doen't interfere with my Hie followed Claire inte the atreet and the two entered the cab which had brought her to the hotel; not a word passed between them until the ride was finished and the were in the Morley home, a Central Par apartment. Morley was in ibed, = pisacan holdin solemn guard over him. The latter stepped into the ball to admenizh the visitor that thesick man's moments were few, and gave ae g noses, onley was at the last kesh though at oan of Wiek's Volo he aetie ly Taised on his elbow, and his eyes were bright and he spoke with the ring of youth. June 5, 9 “Close the door, Now ait pe 4» of the bed. Wickford, we orerpign system; you Were Might in me fe believe vee that jou were ep with m ma Pass, that, Mr. Morley.” tad Tr The other railed un "Yesa—['ve got to make basis Ei our joint mo today: the some went broke, at" —his mid be shot m glance of triumps—"l w ivate cache — five thogsandds 7, | or the wallet under the pillow. 4 Correct?" : “Comect, five thodsand doles awered Wick. He put it is his reat rT "Tita for Claire—it'’s all ths: » every penny. Wickford!” The =s were glittering, the ageing Geu0 "T had a presentiment—a ya day it came in. You ~.. = for Claire! You wil mar it heey ‘all you for WONT Gd Paice" * Remember, she was the ovo 4 suade me to give you your sat little girl! ‘Tio trust you first: to ow jewels for you! Hemember! dts ‘ to forget.” “The sick man's t to wander. “Wickford, to-night 1 saw —na fray from this pillow —the hores a! walking out of the paddork: th o roce! ‘The big bright colt breaiccy the bunch !* “Tell of the investment” ud peremptarily. The old man, already at te | disenlution, straggled up fas 5 down on Wicks wihwr comin ground the bene ether. “Tavestment t ners Dragon to win!" impotent to release hineel!, man's Violent start and =n = cold skeleton grip beld fast. 5°: in the wide menacing blur e=- deeper, till only a apark im wn asa it was out: but the cruel surfa- a the threatening grin and ic ished Wick Sparks of bis os master pon which had chal. oy itself till the money wae dow “Seheh-hi’ The cfack ed wider. “It's me, Wik amer came in. He waa «a sheveled, and clenched an evi tween his teeth, “I got ber om I heard all the talk. That Sr! belongs to the firm. Fork ove” Wick's eyes were on him. seemed hardly aware of ¢ presence. ''T man feasts” wl “Tm ina pecbrta gl “You'll get it off my dead bag, Wick abstracted]y. Claire bewring the voces eu with her sobbing ery the iste for the moment. Wick talked with the phe adjoining roam, svcd then st [a Claire's reappearance; Ac: : station like a guard near the there waa no further conve™ Claire presently camz b Wick told her in a few +. Morley's bequest and instrac “Tt's the firm's mimer minded August. ‘We'll take 2 it. Where does Wick Sparks = "| hate the thought af ge sound of the word' Lom brought ts to. Give me m pal moe go home and bury mir fate "You can't go back to Yio8 August, “where Mr. Morb = thousand dollars we borrow @ investment company, We bt] interest on it, but not a 44 aS: re Pay them what | ban “Tam executor of Mr. Mce said Wick with his uncampr 3 ner. “TD promised to lay his Dragon to win toemorres. F ite ing will prevent me. "Claire, he's mot hone: rs not honest! That he beld = dred thousand on Mr. Morkr - "T will remain bere tess’ arranged with the physics tndertaker,’* said Wick. “T==! ning I will give you the a= 1 horse comes in first.” The girl made a sign of r= even AU wos ~aboel ity t silence ensued until the on @ sent by the physician. (Con tineed aa Fart © af a et Pee

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jcentinued from Puyge 82) night Wick Sparks remained at ‘ . Tuging; once when io had not gone te bel of te ied in te book at her father and rose promptly a r pee al gether ‘a oflorn ir et wrinkled!’ thes and thn- Withe companion of her watch sheside her and Javked up. Her foe get the stern LE rateat a indiferent and cold, tr? ‘That papn sies tis iy all men are convinced of im- ou do not make more ready Tm afraid,” she whispered, awe- “eben I think oe passing the yer: fut a hope, sda one—that to-morrow id oO not reply. ou,” she said, her eyes widening ih "Haven't you any religion?" éhild. I will live here my own ea 1 cute te life sl take it, and out for myself.” gd pot reconcile his candid belief li wilh irreligion, and aa he gaze waa bent upon the 1 tenance of the dead. Sud- by all this, anel standing before Wick once iant little girl of memory, you again,” she said in a voice fd and shrewd and hard; “and Ravou de. It's papa's only ‘belie. And if you're wrong in febody elee con do the praying sand me. Claire had not ant mifar this werld—the serry evi- there on the bed—but for the falone, looked curiously toward A struck him that Morley wns 1 when he spoke his will— it the master jon. “Was he ead then?” mu “Over PAnd could he sce what we a for the master passion, had agon winner and put down in "a hands! shook os man knew better the fatal the gamester upon auguries. ‘of the death watch was the ion, ““Miorley, you were 1 be ace aver and man had pretty nearly He cursed his own excite- would not be controlled or die fez.” he told himself, “and I seat os to a mile this shabby 4 Lig to ban finding ga ing rey in the bi ir whi be @ the front e Wick tai al at Claire's door, and quietly jet by the fire Pons. 58 the kefnst, t to his hotel for and released his room, this Day. is usual self, serenely tndif- hing but Wickford Sparks; ment like that of revenge veins. It is what the total for drinking for a friend; a stacked a oni tee playing It ia what Wick got for Mor. the enlt. ‘to-lay, "Wick told t company an too mach AS chal onl entewn a t moon, and rat cbalanen at the bank but bers limit on hia securities; rack with forty thousand of 4 and the five thousand of . ‘f Mr. Meatasy was Placed ina tthat afternoon, Claire not | her father among atrangers the day should return the him home. The dead bar, waiting on hia Last fy him decently, stood before THE SATURDAY Wick, heartaick, when he «ame to the apartment ghout aeven o'clock, And when he told her briefly that Gold Dragon had come in witner at odds of eight to one, she could only reply, “Why couldn't it have happened ay?" "Tet ia well for you that tt happened to- day," Wick anid, "You are foriy-fiye thou- sand to the good,” “There are the friends who lent us money, bo repay,” Wick began taking folds of bills out of as pocket, but ake stopped hina. ean"e keep it here: I'm afraid of August, He wants to start the syetem again instead of paying our [rienddas." August on waking that morning had rushed aff furiously in search of Wick and had not returned since. Claire was expect- ing him ev minute, “Let's go to the office quickly," salve sald, “wand find out from the books exactly what the debts are, and send the money pena Oy bene by tel ele aS d &t The office, in a bullding near Fifth Pi dg a tree ont, showily furnished; the di star lettered: “ Morley-Framer. Inveitisenie” There waa a desk, a long table, and a eabi- net from which Clore produced the one ledger of the firm. The two were benling over it, and Wick waa copying names ani amounts, when ow preligious shaking of the door and a ehout admonished that Framer had overtaken them. Wick promptly ad- ase him and stepped clear as August “The Dra won!” exclaimed the lat- ter, wil and coming on in a crouch. “T want my money. Twenty-tao thousand five hundred —— “Just a moment,” said Wick, “Take hold of the end of this table and help me push it against the wall." August complied involintanly, “Now, Claire, jump up here. You can"t reason or explain to this fellow. T know hles. The netion that he's won something has to be knocked oat of him. Hold onto this coat.” Auguat threw his own into a earner and the two met like wildrats. All over the rowm they fought, crappllne. breaking, aud the girl thought such blows must Then all at once in the midst of a aon mating Anat, quit. im into a corner by oe throat, but Claire 18 arm, beggin “Tan't, don't, Wick! He's surrendered.” The faces af beth hegre were britiaed and bleeding, but Wick, his breath laboring and eyes dilated with fury, stalked to the and was copying again, when Claire began dabbing his face with her handkerchief. He frowned but could not be il-hamored with ber. Then over her shoulder he shea August ina hang-log attitude but them with inveterate curiosity, mH laire, give Framer a thousand dol- lara: his subscription te the capital as entered in this "’ gaid Wie His commend being complied with he added bri “Now you're a thousand better off . [took the field to win against the Dragan.” August's eyes started from his. hed, “You! Plunge! How - “For forty thousand,” said Wick, aes poe with a sta 1 His lips and nose twitched, his eyes were bright green, “Not a question,” eaid Wick, ‘or I'll murder you.” And in an mony which never quite subsided the explorer into other people's ee Was driven before the stony lace jee from: this half-diseovered secret. and their lives clase upon fim. “We're teady to do our telegraphing, Claire," said Wick presently. The buginess was done and they were leaving the telegraph office, Claire with nearly four thousand dollars in her pos Seasion. “T'll take you safely home, and you can bank lt te-niorrow,”” said Wick. “You really lost all your money? I'm not doubting.” The girl looked at him with pride, "You wouldn't lie, even to August; you couldn't lie, But you must let me divide with you.” He shook his head, “1 never borrow,” Bu what will you do? Where will sc ga * decide that sometime during the neuite, eenrching ih her Kang, aaeerbed salve had left her purse, containing the apart ment ike . at the office, but once there the qe admitted a Tuse, dragged a chat te the oor and seated herself on guard much as August had done the night “What am Tin for nowt” asked Wick. EVENING POST “You say you'll decide what you're going ta do sometime during the night; I'm going to wait u Badia rap ere The hour was ate; soon the building would be feta: Wick did not know exactly how to put hia negative or her suggestion. “You ought to, anal crust go horw,"* he ani “You mean it wan't look proper for me to stay." With her elbow on the arm of the chair and chin in hand she studied him. “But who i is there to care? What does it matter?" “T can "t permit. it. What use would you be te me anyway? “T might not be useful; but I'd be in the way if you decided to do the wrong thing,” she explained, yet. Don't | know what black thoughts rome the first night after you're bankrupt? T used to listen till papa would scream out in his sleep, somedimes with curses; or till he n walking, and then go in to him I'd talk and quiet him.” Wick threw up his hands in exasperation, “But what business is it of yours?” “Wickford, I'm so tired I can't think very well; I anly know that I oughtn't to leave you. won't be seared or drag watching with you to-night." Wick threw himself ints a choir and fle at the Uneompromising jailer, whe q “The loss hasn't got to you | I won't go home, and | away from. | bor hor arms me tried te hold her tired , ¥eTy © a rt r it pr ‘ise you wt net lo make any decision at all tenight, and do nothing eater, and report to you in the morn- Ing, “ivan a don't know what you'll do to night if you're left alone. Why won't you fe Seri on the table there and try to lek gave up andl dismissing her from his mind concentrated abruptly on his own affairs. His world of security seemed wrecked to the rock it wes beullt wren, Had his churucter ieen too unsteadied ‘to found another? Could he regain his strength of will, maintain his integrity of bef ier would he plunge again when ad accumulated enough ta make a thw eavy "ll just be a: tet up, but at his first atep: nodding jailer straightened and her yea cleared anxiously, “Tf Dabent you'll find a way out,” ehe said in a | voice 40 firm that he waa taken hy surprise, and his thoughts rte up for the mo- ment, But he repudiated her su ton and in his chair again reflected rly, “A way out! I've worked three years to have one open if the system collapsed. Now that's closed.” With his resolve to notify Gower in the morning it seemed that life, not as he had known it but ps other people knew it, was ubaut to ‘Fong time him; young man who had not for a known an anxiety began wondering like ba Test of us how to get by—to eacape cure, hardshipp—what course of action offers the best chance! He cursed the word which is the o poate of security, and looked at Claire, whi huddled n the hig chair, her hend fallen aside, asleep. aM ick went over and rowsed her. "If you n't go home, let me make a pallet on the le for you,” he said impatiently. “You're breaking your neck.” "Will you tthe table across the door?" He com age and with o sigh she laid herself down. “If you're having a bad time I'll be sure to wake up and talk to yer. “A bad time!" sald Wick to himself. “What's every minute fram nowon, but a and ape atte: 3. 4hue aoargs veal ip o nea to up an EGambling’s got me," he sid. ie les wor bee h neti g Ming hia hands even as his father had done. ‘All ‘ore! I'd rather be dead a thousand times. "ro me te mysell here now, I'm a mbler.” He cursed softly in wtter frenzy, arting glances at the guarded door, trying a window furtively. “Wick, has it come?” Claire roised her- a a her gra back ‘and Baved ra again. "Wick, ['m dizey and p out. 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aw Pion domen, sic. c8f aaa 2 WALLACE -=m ) she turned in a dead aa. but but gripping his } hee Aa a They touched the | round white throat, Snag tr and fell with her breathing. Th arated ry atill bests ok the fired little | face in its seattered hair, In wonderment When Wick came to a slow awakening soon after dawn, Claire, with her hat on, Was =o pane the Ht window, waiting. We'll fh ines after our sleep," she said an wad invited him to break= ast. Wiek brushed his hair, glanced in the class at his brulked cheek and followed her ou “T didn't decide on anything,” he told her at breakfast. “T ean't see my way back to where I was.” "You are the same Wickford ae al "You know better, Claire. what gambling does ta aman; Dve lost all Faatenre n myself." ines yon ve to go on living!" “Tl be too irigiga fees where no security la to be won. Now come on; we'll your ticket to Midwest and buy a t with the rest of your money. I have one little matter left to attend to; then I'll poe you again and put you on your train this afternoon She saw that nothing was to be done with him; his features were set aa granite and his tone final, Still she stuck. "Take me where you're going, |W behead Dll wait until your business is atten andthe can goto te apart and fey "ll pa ome on,” he answered, It was immediately after this breakfast that he made his visit to the bank, leaving Claire in the lobby while he went inte Mr, AOEeinare that econ Met cee cin: t iti behets other road out, wh ich promised to Keep opan for nat, io o rT Laeerty used to ban rupta with every conceivable tale, w was a little aghast over the “Rad, "he said; “but maybe something ‘else can ‘be done for you." a Pideaiech 3 can be done.” came in from his office and stared afier ick. Lined rear ler heed. "Your friend has plunged! Gone broke!" re the words with tremen- dous concern and, running, came up with Wick in the lobby, where Claire had re- joined him, "T say, you can’ “t leave me with plenty ic t of money, fat like this," gasped isnt done by a friend of mine who's gone broke.” Wick smiled grimly and introduced his com ion. my word, he's been in a fight," A told Claire. “You or explain to me the covernir, 700 must. He's terri- bly cut up ae your fps, Ch him." "Tt waan't courteous,” admitted “Naturally T haven't much to this. morning, but if Mr. Gower believes lanation Tl give it. You cam neue too, Claire." sot sity over ayed, escorted them back and ti ide his friend a9 the latter explained ry, r. Gower, Pir told of Mr. Morley and of the lat- iving him the five thousand to place on eG d Dragon. “The horse won at eight to one, he said, “and paid enough to satisfy Mr. Morley"s investora and leave his daughter about four thousand. I Jost eeiane meney on this race; forty thousand zt What horse did you seo "The field againet the Drag “You took te the track tort <p es nd dollars, and bet it with the b on the fheld Tt" “Not with the bookmakers,” replied Wick, frowning. Gower leaned forward, his finger tipa crawling over the desk, as if summoning apirita at a séance. “Who did you bet with?" "Mr. Morley!" mes Bg a e bey had eatals lubed aeenteetio Gott not aes for, “You took his bet! You didn't put makers up his five thousand with the book maT had gi Mr, Marl promise ik von and oath ttt I would lass that fies thau- | goed on Gold Dragon to win; I took his n Gower went after this witress, =| who arr not reluctant, but who seemed to Jane 3,

Pomess gore sort of evidene wkd not know how agony amaill tga basen ge he yo woman tT" l Wiek cause up to thed i in his friend's cous— ? Ne cgped ‘hands oe Claire Fe De ase prdbcy, iiie Portia, no of lowe. Then his jaws forgiveness became a ; Sek Med turned | to Claire sh tion, bent his brows, studied be. waa not for Claire," he ann } “T had ded Mr. Mone art pin the system: es dvantiting thes caer ool on hb own account with somes I knew all along be couldn't re tation to gamble. Yet I got hi reps ell, here was five th ; iat of the money be sad I figured: it was not for ire. "Oh, Wieck, I'ma so giad’” in astonishment at the clasped py face, “He didn't do & a n't do it for anybody. He cause it was : ft wea nghie Wick" —forgetting the othe, oneelse— “you can't help but a now! Don't you

slider, “is just a promise. chance aoe it aod ower k anoug' lifted hand forbade all fh “That, Wickford,” he oad, awed and still, “tty the 1 Wick followed with aston - form of the old banker asa ¥ his son before him out. of thes here with me to-morrow,” be aa e : Wick gazed back at himself, not her: “Did I do: ye he staked the one-man world waa true? Now he = | caers of the mt: ome of thes Could he her hand, and clashed tt. aT Sy fortune, yet Idan’ t feel eo very "See. You are blessed al-ea2; “Last night while you we with me for hour of bors I thought, ‘tft had back my fa ao nag my a secure So would mot be ppy witho Wick talked up to himself ace; ting a losing fri

wala =e At 4 limped haltingly with a sc en all-men's world, which wx make-believe; Claire obseercec = ing, watching, with so dahg® =| ioe us his face that she bhashec qi Pp pot her arm ar - The door coniad B crack: 4 System Player, unmoved by ¢ bec Fusts of the betting © inte the great security; Claire's bhessent

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THE SATURDAY 00 in | Be at is he sayitag? the winner. Athletic ERE is a woman buying underwear. husband—perhaps for herself—or her children. she saying to the clerk that is making him tum to Sealpax? She must be say- ing something about Sealpax—something important—wAat? EVENING POST She's probably buying it for her The question ts: What 1s Think it over! Write it down! There is no set answer to guess—yours may be Study the facts about Sealpax given below answer may be anything but it must not be more than twenty words in length. Competent neutral judges will award prizes. Send your answer to the Poze Department, The Sealpax Company, Baltimore, Md. The contest closes July 29th and the winners will be announced in The Saturday Evening Post, October 28th, 1922, Think about it and win a prize! they'll help you. Your Underwear ~ceabalellac a nimble-witted citizens are going to win prizes in the Sealpax thousand-dollar contest. But everybody can win the prize of luxurious underwear comfort that slips over a man when he slips into a suit of Sealpax! Get Sealpax for yourself—you can't imagine how much cooler, how much more comfort- able it is until you try it. The hght-and-breezy fabric— the elastic webbed shoulders and full roomy armbholes—the clastic webbed waist- band — all combine to make S¢alpax Athletic Underwear the coolest, casiest underwear that ever carried you through the sultrn heat of the summer months. And we can't speak of Scalpax without emphasizing the way itis sold. Each gar ment is packed indivi dually in a sealed envelope— each garment is delivered to you as fresh and crisp and clean as on the day it was made and laundered. Sealpax is such a wonderful underwear it just had to be made for women and children, too. Andso, " Lady Sealpax "offersto women all the comforts of an athletic undenyvear, daintily made in a wide range of fabrics, And “ Littl Brother" and “ Little Stster™ Sealpax bring “Dad's Comfort to Dad's Kids,''a cool, comfortable athletic underwear for the children, retnforced for long and hard wear. Sealpax for all the famrly—try it! Send your contest answer to Prize Department, THE SEALPAX COMPANY, Baltimore, Md. ET EE ET ST a TT TD, ME MIE a7 prizes Best ya, . $500 “i Second Prize . . . $200 Third Prize. . . . $100 Fourth Prize . . $50) Next Best Five (each) $15 Next Best Five (each) $10 Next Best Five{ceach) 35 Next Fifty (each)—one suit of Sealpax (In event of tes for any prize offered the full amaunt ef euch pelzec will be awarded te cach tying contertant.} Men's Sealpax (Uasen Sua $1.25 “Lady Sealpax't 51.00 ip Children's Sealpox $1400

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Jose 3. euO = 7. a American National Banks Building ; he’ : San Franciaca ‘dl wigs Metal Windaw-Frames and all ‘j theet metal made of galvenced a as # * Armco Ingot Enon Geo. Wl. Kelhom, Architecr Forderer Cornice Works, Sheet Metal Caniracthor ca) \ A) oS ms —_ A, As Ta, ' Hish A of 8! . Th Te aytsyeni Windows are the 5 +7 yy fb Idi ; ltake eyes of buildings ~ A 13 + | is d d a 43 15 1 The massive structures of steel, concrete, + —tal a 5 ay V3 5 a and stone must get the living light through i these delicate “eyes.” Time, and all the a ; a d di ESE destructive elements, attack the windows ae genet and window-frames, for they are the weakest places in the exterior of buildings. Here, then, for window-frames, is an ideal use of “Armco” Ingot Iron, the iron which resists rust. € a “Armco” Ingot Iron is of uniform Se Ra meg ee purity. The surface is smooth and even. fe | The metal is ductile and easy to form. f rR j f C O Internal corrosion iniron is largely caused TRARE MARK of “ Armco ris Ingot Iron. Because of its i N G OT j R O N - purity, it takes a coat of galvanizing and by impurities, which have been removed by a special process in the manufacture holds it. For Window Frames _ Architects are finding many uses for “Armco” Ingot Iron. In addition to win- dow-frames, it is used for grilles, cornices, ventilator systems, skylights, and orna- mental architectural ironwork. ee ee For specific information write to RESISTS RUST The wedesmark “Agmen'* carries the prepabl i thas yo eran lag Mt Company ih emt THE AMERICAN ROLLING MILL CO, ene laid Ligtized by Google

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ilities and building materials are ions in point. Theae must be exti- ysruurement of uction. Con= af tools of —hy which are caress, farm implements, hand Jerement porta of machines, and ao ally best measured from produc- it manulscturing programs are cuted to sennal requirements. acnd method of studying con- iis io survey Tetail trade. Hetail ; never been properly serutinized =e. Some retail traders assemble at ane ol especinl value in eati+ onumption. Many department hein stores, eoiperative stores, 7 houses and its rhinge SOnGerTS display careful records of monthly espite the fact that these cannot aitative af all classes of the po “¢ furnish valuable information g volume and direction of retail . Inclinectly, retail trade can be im an af FOX Mabe way hy car express. shipments, bank clear- specialized manufacture, rd methed of studying consump- measure production. Che must each class of goods the time tenes between raw material and ticle, This being known, if one is cure figures on visible and in- whe, the data on production aunement of the volume of eon- Accurate records of visible and ecks ane kept for some materials odities; for others not. For the rpoee, however, it ia clear that ch estimates of stocks are not "are a ground ib maine ton with regard to them. We 19 with short atecke of most dlian commodities. We hac a wer of bread grains, a heavy mesticated animals, anid abun- and fodder. Minerals, metals, other Tauver sbeclators hack beeen or pu of war. Many of jals Siren asaitahie at once for sumplion. Conditions af pra- ent favorable during the year, e directions stocke tended to in LSES, despite strong revival tion. There was further accu- stocks in 1920. During 1921 been declining, and we ember pat atocks upon a low plane. Se cireumeatance, if we know ion in “21 and the carry-over ‘of that year, We can measure t during the year. And for iof whieh weeurate information not available, figures for con- wel on production will be a nee at know that stocks have “under these circumstances a Humption is mormal we are it 2b beast mormal: if it aeeme ict leas low thon the estimate, Com pensdtion ble, in the purely commuadity eproduction and consumption oom inte the depression. tar we practiced repression of loaf living in a number of mito mobilization of materials Four Purposes af warfare. This certain degree of depletion material sense, and dissatis- »—in the cho Sense. mination the war, in the comparably efficient methods Jit was natural and inevitable wuld be devoted to replacing j obliterating dissatisfactions. wibly we p from the war goods and services to an civilian goods and services. dated supply, since time was wing production hack into nels. Qhor manufacture in y, due to militarization of wilethargy of labor. Prices istent demand and lagging ucers sought to bring supply demand by speeding up the he tools of production and by acts for raw materials over sof time and in amounts in it requirencents. Manulac- twice what they needed jn sbtaining a8 much as they : large extent the emergency als was spurious, Retailers, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST CONSUMPTION AFTER THE BOOM [Contincoed from Page 25} Unable to sativfy customers, placed orders in every conceivable direction, in emecess of measurable requirements, and at high prices. Hetailer, wholesaler, jobber and manufacturer bought and ordered more than they expected to receive or use, Alber the holiday season of "19, produc- tion had gotten well under way and each werk eonsiimers found less difficulty in supplying their wants. Gradually the number of consumers whose demands were sutlefed, of at least not insistent, in- cressed. People of foresight began te restrict purchases. Gradually the volume af production approached that of consump- thon, In the spring of PSE0 Te became apparent that the curves of production and consumption would soon meet, that in many lines production would soon exceed consumption. ‘The emergeney of civilian goods and services waa thereafter not only satisfied but in many directions over- compensated, Overcumnpensation occurred in two directions--in actual production of raw materials in excess of consumers’ re- puremants of finithed gomia after the war effleion had been pepained, and in future contracts and commitments for raw ma- terials in exeees of reasonable consurnip- tion, and even in excess of plant capacity. The Sigaal fer Deflation In the summer of 1920 the curve of demand flattened out, the curve of pro- duction rose above it. With this reversal of the relations of Production and con- sutption what had been a seller's marked hecame a buyer's market. So soon as this Wh apparent, possessore of excess materials attempted to dispose of them, holders of future eontracts and commitments sought to evade them, Manufacturers who were not overextended were soon able profitably to purchase raw materials and offer fin- ined gunuls ab uit prints, Exresa stocks began to appear on the market under liquidation. Contraction of credit fo pro- ducer, manufacturer and dealer accentu- ated discrepancy hebween supply and de mand ona purely commotlity basis. When buyers found they could obtain the moods they did mot really need they awaited further fall of prices; this was the so-called huyers’ strike, From the fall of "20 all factors tended ta operate in the direction of deflation of prices. The entire year “2 ] was characterized by deflation —precipi- tous amd, indeed, forced with certain com- modities, halting and restrained with others, The lest half of “21 witnessed interactions towards rectification of dis- parities of prices produced by unequal deflations, In the early months of ‘22 are observed further reactions in the removal of price disparities and the reéatablishment of nat- u price relations between different clasucs of commaxdities by advances in the price of farm products. When disparities in prices have n corrected it is believed that the eneral price level will be temporaril * abe Vilized at about 150 compared with the prewar level of 100. With some materials, where deflation cecurred early and fully reonvery appeared early, as in the case of wool and silk. In stressing the commedity af the pieture af the buainesa evele I de nat Undertake to underestimate the influence of accumulation ot ge and the monetary patie on. pone. fhan the accentuated ropean demand for goods cane in 19145, this Lat a dewhle effert: Te called forth extension along mormal civilian lines, as in agriculture; jit also called into being new Plant expansion aleng abnormal non- civilian lines. Tie latter was fully devel- eped in 1917, and became tepheayy in 1918. During 1915-16 we competed with Europeans for the preluets of our indua- tries, Diuwring 1917-18 we competed with our Allies for the civilian and military products of our factories. After the armi- atice the competition between Eurape and ourerlaes fer our products wes turned ints civilian channels, but remained intense, The scarcity of raw materiale was largely spurious, @exeept for transient lack of transportation. The scarcity of consumers’ pond was actual but ephemeral, The ying power af EBurepe was low but desperate, The huying Power of air penpile was lower than commonly rated, bocnusr the inereased income of the war years hall been largely neutralize! by increased prices. as hes been clearly shown by the ational Bureau of Economic Research. Decline in price of hoge in 1919 sounded the aignal for deflation. There was sone deflation in 1920, particularly in raw ma- terials, With few exceptions the year '21 presented continuing deflation and decline of prices. There is still deflation to be neeomplished in 1822, particularly in fuel, building materials and finished commicti- ties. The year 1921 presented eontinulng decline in consumption, or at least in manufacturers’ dispose! of goods, in eon- sumers’ takings of pe It is instructive to analyse this decline in consumption, Astudy of consumption is illuminated by contrasting and comparing final enum tion with productive consumption, final eonawinplion we ene 8 far exemple, the purchose of flour by the housewife; by productive comsumption, the purchase of wheat by the miller, For ench material there is a natural relation, in Ghani and Lime, between producers’ gomis and con- sumers' goivtis. Lf imports, experta and etocke are known, figures for productive consumption esn ber to measure tak- ings af consumers’ goods and check the Teaulta of direct measurements. On the other hand, direct measurement of pur- chase of consumers’ goods may be used to check the rea of productive consump- tion, where these seem divergent or lneon- grucus. Tt will be an advantage in the sutvey that follows to take up the study by commmlities. Contradictory Figures BREAD Gratws. During 1919 and until June, 1920, wheat was under the liquidut- ing eontral of the United States Grain Corporation, This corporation delivered grain to the mills, promulgated milling regulations, contralled prices of milling, ja bling and rétallirig, had charge of im= ports and exports, and waz obligated to purchase all offerings at the price fixed by national enactment. Convinced that supe plies of wheat and Tye were neler yegie p in corporation early in 1919 wisely re eased millers, jobbers, wholesalers, retailers and bakers from war restrictions and returned them to the operations of free trade, but retained control of imports and exports. Early in 1919 the United States Treasury eulapenid ed governmental enedits toe the ex-pllied) governments for purchase a American commoedities. The wheat and mye erops of 1978 were large, We entered the yeur with a carry-over of wheat and a small stock of flour, Some time was required for milla to return te normal operations and to reiatablish their brands in the retail market, From the official dota for production, net export and sup ply. the per capita consumption af whent Our weer a peerinel at VRS seen to have been as follows: TKan Pullsoe Fe Carina Wo oiceenaererere reyes 4 ch SS Sie ee ene ee ee LoL a oer ms LLB sa VLA ToLe. tea TEES Mise 17.2 ioc ‘ Le DFS. a) eye te agence ne oe wea pelea 19%] The figures for flour production are ob- tained from trade sources with the same methods employed by the Food Adiminis- tration, During the years '14, "15 and "16, while we were neutral, the av eon- sumption was 216.9 lbs. During the war years '1T and "18, the average coum ption was 186.1 lbs. Brering ‘19, "20 and “21, the average consumption was 1E6.2 lbs, Con- servation of wheat flour waa not gotten neler why until late in ‘17. The lew eon sumption of 'l8—170.6--may be regarded aa the direct reault of the efforts of the Food Administration. With the setting free of breael the figure for onsen pl jen Pin bounded in ‘19 to practically 198 pounds, declined in “20 to below the | of con- sumption in 18, and returned in "21 ta 192 pounds, y The decline in consumption in 1320 1 difficult te understand. It is well Known that four conatim tion fnulla during piros- perity and rises during hard times. The figures for consumption in "20 and "Zi would follow this nile, but the fqzures for “18 and ‘20 are in contradiction, Observa- tion in homes and blic eating places lends no support to the idea of decline in actual uae of prea a wheat four, On the other hand, ft is certain that the lesson of elimination of waste of wheat, incul- cated during the war, has not been for- gotten, Im ev direction In which the subject is to be investigated less waste is encountered than before the war. Tt is possible that inereased fonsump- tion of re flowr might help te explain the lowe figures for wheat consumption. Rye flour production is not known in the aame way as bs wheat flour production; hut one does not see how we could hope to find in rye flour an explanation for the low figure for "20 eompared with "1? and "21, Before the war the we of corn ond rice was receding in the Southern Stutes, being re- placed by wheat. Draring the war corn and ree were pushed forwa Tr "19 the wee of corn and rice again declined in favor of wheat. Corn and rec have been cheaper than wheat flour in the Southern States, With hard times it was to be expected that the use of wheat would decline, the people returning to the nof-yet-lorgotten use of cheaper corn and Fice. Such surveys aa have been made in the South confirm this inference, These explanations suffice to cover the lower consumption of the three yeara after the war: but they give no ex- Flanation for the aberrant figure for 1920, Tt i probable that the grindings of nonreporting mills have been in since elevation of freight rates. Stocka of flowr diminished from December, "19, to December, “20, and remained low during '21. The decline in stocks during “20 must be added to the figure for production dur- ing “20 te reach the figure for epnsump- tion during “20—thnt is, part of the 198 perunds credited to 1919 was not conmumex until 1920. How much this would elevate the law figure for "20 is not computable, By the same reasoning, flour consumption credited te 1917 may not have taken place until 1918.. Consumption af flour mag have heen reduced during these years, hut it is strange to see retrenchment in a cheap staple foodstuff, with use of high-priced foods retained. COARSE GRAINS. Production and con- sumption of cereal foods prepared from corn, cata, harley and rice cannet be neeasired, except in the cna of rice, be cause of the lack of collection of data at the sourcea. Manufacturers in these lines report business a dull in 1921. The public seems not yet to have recovered from the wheatiess days of 1918, except in the South, where the use of corn and rice appears to have nsen during 1920, Other Comparisons Dainy Paooocrs. Consumption of dainy products secme to have normal, mo matter how surveyed. The count of dairy eattle haa been maintained. Through se- lection in breeding, the annual milk eut pet per cow increases every yenr, Sines I919 prices of feeda have declined, and sines 1920 costs of farm labor also. During the war we developed an abnermal export trade Tae a gc Lea nee fallen eipi , though not yet to the pre- an evel. ecrivte of butter and paneae have declined, and importa have [reread The results of these ge in foreign trade seem to have been wholly absorbed In the dermestie utilization af. the milk sup sly, To a remarkable extent the prices of dairy products have beon sustained since the armistice, displaying little more than segacnil variations. Dairy products have been the mast remunerative of imu] tural produce to the producer, and have been abeorbed in undiminished volume by the consuming public, The inflexibility of milk consumption has been given another emonstration during the past two years. Sugar. The consump tleen of auger has remained entirely normal, The United States and island possessions produce about one-half af our sugar supply, and the rest is impeetied from (Cul, llawing the re= lease of sugar from the control of the Sugar Equalization Board in 1919, the price of suger akyerocketed to toheard-of altitudes, The descent was equally spectacular ane distressing. For months sugar has heen (Cottinged en Page 92)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST EN vou visit the show- roam of the Columbia dealer in your city and examine the new Columbia Light Six, your aia s paeea almost certainly will w is it possible to offer this eae atao low a price?” The Columbia Light Six repre- sents a arture from customary methods of developing an automo- bile: it is a new ancl unusual Car made pesnive by a new and unusual ty of choperation qT matron. known specialized producers of Motor Car units. Designed for Dependability Columbia engineers some time ago set out to develop a light- weight six-cylinder automobile which at he same time should be sturdy, powerful, economical in operation, and thorouchly dependable, The did not shop for low prices; each unit selected was the best—built by a long-established, universally recog- nized manufacturer. Naturally they chose a Conti- nental “Red Seal” Motor. They specified Timken Axles. They went to Durston for the transmission. They called on Auto-Lite for elec- trical equipment. Borg & Beck provided the clutch, Stromberg the. carburetor, Gemmer the steering gear, Harrison the rachator, Spicer the universal joints. A Car Made Possible By Co-operation Then the principals of these great manufacturing. organizations were invited to a private showing of the ©The Columbia Light Six COLUMBIA M DETROIT, new Columbia model. Their atten- tion was called to the possibilines of this Light Six if it could be marketed for less than $1000, ey were soon convinced that many thousands of small prants would in the end outweigh a few large ones. They adjusted their prices to a basis of quantity pro duction, cutting profits to the nar- rowest possible margin wtthow sae- rificing quality of materials or work. The Columbia Light Six Built To Fine Car Standards A S0-horsepower Continental “Red Seal* oter of the mast ¢onomical high- t abla bends Faltecniiave tobcienncn, “homepor manifald, cousterbala lateedd hearing crachshate, leat chain. driven timing peura. Read teats show ve beyond 62 miles an hour af omeenst eecelendiom at sodinies ‘Timken Aalua; frome and rear; Duraton transmission, wren Timken bearings; Auta Line atareln & Beck church a dor mienver Scecring bee eran Car weight, 2400 pounds, 450 pounds lest than the average car of equal wheelboer — 115 inches. Steel or wood wheels optional. Tires—6-ply Flak Corda, 31 x 4, = acer weighing HMO poamds The lomgent body ever built on this length wheelbase, mounted directly om the frame—ase in | carr—ita eliminate squrake Genuine leather upholstery; wide, deep-cushioned seate, en crown fenders of 20-gauge winatel ceo Mareal bextiekss, OTORS COMPANY manship, just as Columbia had already pie to do in building the completed car. And in this way the Columbia Light Six at $985 was made possible. A Six at the Price of the Average Popular Four The Columbia Laght Six is the first ab org sont Six that has ever sold or less than $1000. It is a strik- ingly handsome automobile—well- proportioned, roomy, powerful, sound in every part and buile by the experienced Columbia manufactur- ing organization into a smooth-run- ning, durable and dependable whole. At every point throughout the entire car you will find advanced design, high quality materials and generous strength. There has been no skimping~-no compromise in the interests af low price. See and Judge for Yourself Colurobia dealers are now demon- strating the Columbia laght Six— both the Open Car at 3985, f. ao. b. Detroit, and the Sedan (a five- passenger four-door enclosed car, with metal back construction) at £1395, fo. b. Detroit. Let this be your invitation to visit our dealer in your city, to ¢xam- ine the Columbia Light Six, ta ride in rt, to drive it. orm your own judgment from the car's perform- ance, plus the evident i ver that extends to the smallesr details. Decide for yourself if there is any reason why you should pay more for a thoroughly good automobile. ee

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THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page 88 | one of our cheapest foodstuffs, nearly approaching the prewar level in retail price, Droring the years "19, "20 and ‘21 the consumption has bien almcat conitant. The per capita consumption of refined eugar— Willett & Gray—for the last three yenrs in order was 874, 86.5 and 86.8 pounds, Disregarding the war year "1S, the a¥ per capita consumption of refined sugar in the lest ten years was 86.1 mig. Apparently sugar is our least flexible food- atull. Clearly, also, consumplion remains the same, irrespective of price and prohibi- tion. A eompari of curve of consumption with curve of price during the last three years is eonvin ng in this direction. Thera is, however, evidence that the form of con- sumption has changed to some extent; there wags uae of manulactured sugar—con-= foctionery—and greater use of sugar in the home, An extraordinary paper for ordinary use That's MultikKopy No. 25 Meets more requirements of general office use than FRUITS AKO VEGETABLES, Consumption of fruits and vegetables is difficult ta measure, bremuse it is not possible to gate from rural production the production that ones Jalil gad aa au e , perous times rural production of fruit an any other carbon paper. etabbes for home consumption tends to All colors and weights. fall, in hard times to rise. Stocks of {fruits and vegetables were very uneven in 1914, some long, some short. The pack of 120 was put up at exorbitant prices, the pack- ere everywhere restricting their output to some extent, In Ist acreage of the stuple vegetables grown for commercial ag in the principal states waa reduced on rel. ily i ‘ Daring “21 stocks declined and the new garg alla por eae pack waa restricted. The consumption hes 135 Congress Street, Boston, M therefore been the sum of the pack and of . SR ee eee volume of decline in stocks, We enter the year "22 with stocks of packed vegre- tables reduced to a low point. Apparently MARK alae want 20 copits atone typing, wee Molin Koogey Na. La light weighr. TP yow want MOO writings from one sheer, use Multikopy No, $5, me- dium weight, Ask vour statinner for a sample af Mulukepr. Star fran TAADE Muir Carbon Paper cd wind far every purpose the consumption ae be regarded aa hav- ing been normal with slight reductions in certiin directions. Fruits and Meats The situation is still more complex with fruita, The Central and Eastern states suffered a killing frost during the bloasam season of 1921, and the fruit crop was small. The pack was propor tema Te= duced. The heated term during the surn- mer of 1921 increased the consumption of all fruits and hastened reduction of stocks. The crop and consumption of citrua fruite in 1921 were heavy. The freeze in Call- fornia in Februar has reduced growth the present citrus crop. From now until the new fruit eropa appear, consumption af several fruits must be somewhat low for lack of supplies. The importation of ba- hanes has risen each year since 1919. In 1918 we had a balance of exports of dried fruits of 106,000 tena; this was reversed in the following year to a balance of imports 4000 tone; and this last year again re- versed to a balance of exports of 22,000 ; tons. In 1919 the balance of importa of 2 nuts was 75,000 tons; im 1920 if was 136,00 tons, and lest year 106M tons. The fact that the importation of dried fruits and nuts was not permitted during "18 prevents us from using these figures as ‘Rear, lig ee Sab y | fodkeathona of eonguraption following their TRESS CACO En ne Wteress, oO The i porta men are published in this free book. 7 i, sl tad Aaa coe ee herp islstl a neigh little indication that the consumption of Hives teh eer. rita and mai hae ciple dering WENTZ COMPANY that naturally associated with partial crop ETAT Laired Thee Pleat tig, Ph ibis ba failure. Vela Lainie Pre bark | Tn certain lines the faney eS BEE TY 7. feat We. Was f cf eeepc geal to have been neglected. Stocks of fruits # oa : Jay e ™ and nuts, like stecks of packed vegetables, alas : ee Mild and Mellow— PLANTS thrnung hevnt ALitect= bras beasiear incduserial cen ters are operation bolers, Firnaces and erates at jess than SG eficieney, Many exwecurives new realize thar sys tomatic dtl eReorve managemenc— a fiiet quae of bi af harl cansamed— in the basta of cenmomical power peediac- Hon, T firings of a countrpwile Meats. Estimate of consumption of meat and meat production during the last two years 7 largely upon the base lingemployed. Meat consumption has been falling in the United States for twenty rots bee fore the war, from practically 1) to 16h pounds, q The follawing table, from the data of the De ment of Agriculture, gives the figures fer conaimption ef meats, per per- Bon, per year, in potinds. The production of ine cen et nae sar hgh et ata poweds lees ia “21 than in "20, but the esti: = ia mated production of uninapected meat and lard was 250,000,000 pounds more in ‘21 than in "20. In addition, stocks of [ne epected meaats declined im “21 by mere than EVENING POST the difference in production of inspected meat in the two years, anrF reek EUTEGR TEAR ann aun aHD WRAL. ‘LAR Lisi 1H . a Wid. 4 | 7h4 HD a2 [ey , 'la Mh at IPL B45 TO a4 MS es as wo] BSLD a4 WS Ss Gs SS SG Ts Aa.7 aa LE] Eero er a5] AGO Th Ft ee ae a4 AoE rr) Ws je srqies aga 5a a2. iid PR G27 | i,t | ra i Th? ar SUB ee ea TA BAT aa |) | $54 Ea ff 15h) a2 | (0 | a ee 44 B43 aa The data for inspected slaughterings and commercial etecks are accurate. The figures for rural slaughterings and total ment production are estimates. rion the period of decline of prices of livester slaughterings have increased relative to inspected siaughterings. The war brought with it a restriction In met con- sumption: the consumption during the last three years hea tended up . The average eg cnplite eonaumption between "OT and ‘16 was 167.4 lbs. During ‘17 and “LS it was 151.9 lbs, and remained practi- cally unchanged during "19. In ‘20 it rose five lbs., and remained at about the same levelin'21, A allght fall in consumption of beef and veal has been balanced by in- eee in eonaiimption of pork, mutton and amb, Classes Most Affected A local survey of the meat consumption of Philadelphia, Boston and New York dur- ing 1921 yields the same result as that drawn from figures for the entire country— that meat consumption was fully sustalned in 1921, beef commumption having slightly fallen, consumption of pork, mutton and farm slightly increased. But meat eon- sumption has shown no trend to the hi agures of the prewar years. [t is ciomr, also, that during the period of industrial depression there has been no reduction in the consumption of meat by the urban population, Since 1918 the count ef animals has fallen. Though the count of milk cows has been maintained, that of other cattle, awine and sheep has declined materially, The supply of meat available to maintain the plane of consumption since 1919 has been the expression of welling off of animals, rather than sustained positive output through stiment ering operations, though carcass weights in 1921 were good, [t is doubtful if the present count of animals can long maintain 2 ment supply corresponding to the consumption of 1921. This is a blem of the future. Meat eterks are ow, @tcept in mutton and lamb, VEGETABLE O1L8. Consumption of vege table oil is ditlewlt of measurement, be- citer of complexity in stutistics. The supply of vegetable oils—production plus net import—waa high in 1919, fell about 25 per gent in 1920, and another 10 per cent in 1821, the figure for that year approximat- ing the supply in “i4-"l6. Stocks in "20 remained practically at the level af ‘14, but in ‘21 were considerably reduced. So far as if is. ae to trace the oils, it Seema probable that decline in consumption in 1921 waa confined to industrial tses, the table and kitchen consumption of edible oils being apparently little changed. MIisceLLannous Fooos. Coming finally to the consumption of aceessories of the diet—apices, tea, coffee, and so on, it seems Clear that comeumption, ance re- stored from the war level, has proceeded within normal aries. Importations of collee, tea, corona and apices during the last three years afford no ground For assumption of reduced consumption. The eiiee crop of last year waa large. It is apparently up to the American people to drink this crop; Europe cannot afford to 50. The classes most severely reduced by déeling in income were farmers, civil sery- ante and families living on emall, fixed investments, Have these maintained their standards of living? Certainly not. They may have maintained their food supply, but the faet that the per capita food con- sumption of the country is normal does not prove that those groups have suffered no ame 3, deprivation. ‘There ts eridener of g seq nature at ee members ol the lass, 9 ups have To praction retracts hae neler The iy Te fl civil servants had in 1518 1) arg of the buying power of 1213: = still more reddoed for mary grouse. | bonuses lapeed. Farmers rare a from hunger except when crop fe" | man clos: to the mail prouercia bs ‘ay first, and in this he cannot te cress by business eyecles of govermimercs, «| 24 he has not been disposemed of bo | Farmers have had bese of whore foods 4g "21 than in previcus years, but they | used more home supplies, Thia mel mote home-kilbed meat, boreal 9 tubles, farm-rendered lord aoe df preducta; but fewer bananas fila Americn, ceptiges ie Flory gael from Maine. egoee uae hee on the farm, beens hee bee oi in the coun Shore. cope: Chae aie: | 40 per cent of che calories in the Gets farmer's family were supposed te come from the place. This aes to SO per cent in 11. To judge tee ns of the farmer on met ome be ‘or implements, mot for probleme of the Vereen they = dificult and sericus—kLe m fc cost of operations, not in mvbsiste = Is Suwmarr. The fos) cemce during “19, “20 and "21 was enter’ i ne fimits amd the fuctuatioc than often obeerved in mcermmal peas the war, Neither war, posrear, bes depression seems to hawe deme disturbed food comzumption. Our a SUhgistence Bas genereus, there wa | af leeway for netrenchment whe tobe necessary. Bout signs of etre In subsistence are dificult to dass the family inane mcdvanerd Eto | 1920, the outlay for food a litte ow kept pace, apparently, though the 2 outlay did not rise above i) per cect income, What happened darcy varied with the income. For fail incomes remained high the outlay | fell to 40 per cent, or lew, of thy & but where the income waa est) ? the percentage of income expende! | Tine, poaeibly abowe SO peer cent, The Higgest mtrenchment in event! food, shelter, light and fuel. Toots of TRADE. Comsumptim of trade was high im 1919, moderaoe what in ih and declined in 1! mot to give an apptons ry wiighted average of decline © ment of reduced purchases of age: Implements if oltaimed from oc fource!, of those of hardware oc tools from another, and ao on. | clear that stocks declined mater every direction, aumd that theric Sales afford 2 closer appresias mantifacturers’ output, An excl cation of the falling off im tas shown in the decline of sales of ress parts and tires of automobile: Meaning of Dectiac _ CLOTHING anD House Poets is not possible ti separate come clothing from that of househol fo Wool, cotton, silk, leather acd materials enter into both, and cm directly measure decline in firs a tion by falling off in productive o tion, Nor ere theme tero sets of oo to be ated in retail sale. = retailers deal in both. Measure 7 there seems little question the: 7 in consumption churing [Srl ranging from 20 to 40 per cont ent articles, CosseMirtion oF Wo, Corres ae 2 1919 ies Worl jpunis) . Da oy) Sree Cotton bales’ . FG |S Rap Tiles: (sele leonthnr fides} . . 225000 jaoem fd _ These declines have not the Live Meanings, batcauee wel ie in clothing, while cotton and also widely used in produces’ to be obaerved that decline r “== of cotton occurred Laver than -: ' wool, Asin the cas of woo. dec.> (Ceontinged an Page

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?@ “Caterpillar’s"* 'd of usefulness is no means limited fo ding and main- ning roads. There a “CGarerpillar’* of 2 and capon's for ry power need. On m or ranch, in the ting, off and lumber ustries, for snow tioval = 6©and = other c work—wherever ver and endurance at a premium, the tterpillar’’* has no competitor ERpilTap IOLT EORIA, ILL fOCKTON. CALIF. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST a Fr F J Drage sacs iene = Down in Georgia Starting with a single ‘‘Caterpillar’’* Tractor in April, 1919, adding another a year later, the Board of Commis- sioners of Fulton County, Georgia, further emphasized their satisfaction by purchasing four more ‘'Cater- pillars’’* this spring. Mr. Oscar Mills, chairman Public Works Committee, says: “‘We have found ‘Caterpillars’* absolutely satisfactory in sradina and maintaining our dirt roads, hauling rock,and moving heavy equipment— in fact, they are indispensable for all our power needs.” Fulton County's satisfaction is only typical of that of dozens of others in Georgia, where, out of 155 counties, 71 are “‘Caterpillar’’*-equipped. More miles of good dirt and gravel roads have been built and are being main- tained in Georgia by “‘Caterpillars’’* than by any other method or machine, Up and down the state—in county, state highway, municipal, contracting, industrial and agricultural work ‘‘Cat- erpillar’’* Tractors, backed byefficient Holt service, have established convinc- ing records for low-cost operation. In ev state, progressive counties, towanhiae. cities and highway depart- ments are constantly adding to their **Caterpillar’’* equipment for making roads and handling public works of every kind. Continuous usage and repeat orders prove the supremacy of the “Caterpillar’’* in the whole field of tractive power. Our motion pictures show the “Caterpillar’* in every phase of road work froma single main- tenance job to completely motorized outfits. We will gladly arrange an exhibition at your convenience or mail copy of our booklet ‘‘Caterpillar Performance.” Ge I eS a _ eee S, *There is but one “ Caterpillar’ —Holt builds it. The name was originated by this Company, and is our exclusive trade-mark registered in the U. S. Patent Office and in le ie asavest Sod bat country of the world. Infringements will be prosecuted. THE HOLT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Inc. PEORIA, ILL. STOCKTON, CALI Export Division: 50 Church St, New York Branches and service stations all over the world Ba

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a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Jum 1, ’ es ce i” a F Bhs, i a Be. ‘es The Color Tells the Story When you see Texaco Motor Oil poured into your Motor, notice its clear, pale color— whether you use light, medium, heavy or extra- heavy. You know it is pure the moment you see it. Texaco Motor Oils are full bodied They are made to lubricate perfectly all moving parts under the widely different speeds and temperatures in your motor. Save it with Texaco Motor Gil the clear, clean lubricant Run tt with Texaco Gasoline the volatile gas Buy them wherever you sce the RED STAR THE TEXAS COMPANY, U.S. A. 0a Tevace Petrefrom Products Digitized pyGen

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steed from Page #2) securred in 1920: 102] wit- In the case of leather, ing of fides and by net im- reel of leather goods de in 20and continued to decline Pa eel beet m@ is to be attached Ize in coeimption of eotton, des, industrial fats and. other 5 fl animal husbandry. With | deinen must be contrasted ae coral oe of { product. vegetable oils as tf to the industrial uses of thar than to their ingestion ag hat one must look in searching ion for fall in price of domesti- ik , Consumption of accessories sis dificult of measurement, isin evidence to make it clear ies have proved leas elastic ated by earlier writers on the living. The year 1921 wit- rial decline in railway travel nobile travel outaide of com Importations of chicle fell in quarter below the im a 1820. Consumption of not reduced during 1921, Tm of consumption was somo- —cigar and pipe tobacco de- ratte increaaing. The current acco expenditure follows the pwas nob well confirmed dur It is also worthy of observa- i prices of tobaceo were well Wholesale prices fell con= cep lmainufacturers at no or “Zl had to write down n general it seem as thou for accesories sand sundries termined lens considera- income than by particular at In expenditure for rent, mas out of the question dur- ople could not move from where. In sone sections of wht increases in robes oc were counterbalanced by ther sections. The estab- oof 9 per cent in output ars in public-utility plants ‘len on power tee and not on of Raw Materials wumption of raw materials ani a from the stand- adividual, onstruction of ay equipment, and so-on, feed dhuring “20 and ‘21. hiding permits by volume itruction declined steadily i te the be inning of 1921, lie, ancl rn in 1922 had lane deserted two years g during 1921 were uction of atructural z glass, wire and nails, and cars, The year output of coal, sntomohbiles, commercial fh, Veommercial explosives, )ieather belting, rub her in manufacture. | varied, from material to (te S0 per cent, compared of the previous two years. [moet materials, stocks | so that actual con- ewhat higher than the fin the index numlrs Survey of Current Busi- ftraent of Commerce and yaee of the trade. in collective productive ff intting the public plant rn —neplect of upkeep, with population, lawered the enlarging needs of all To a certain extent it lth: to a greater degree, icy. Heavy collective Pe observed In eonstruc- private construction band public construc- =—a6 gn act of policy in gument during the aum- f 1921 it is elear that during bs the standard of live noitures judged hy i ‘not observed with el ad light. Retrench- with some mcoessories THE SATURDAY and sundries, not with others. Marked retrenchments were observed in cutlaya for clothing, house furnishings and tools of trade. From the fact that prices of house furnishin; were roaintained higher than phone of clothing it may be inferred that re- nchment was ripen ir igre on cloth- oe Data are not able to indicate to { ectent retrenchment in volume repre- sented savings in the family budget. Though the nation apparently in aa much food as was customary the family buying was not done in the usual fashion. Boying and selling of foodstuffs in "21 were ally Torn hand to mouth. For everyone ig? the food trades, from producer through manufacturer to retailer, it was a poor year, deapite the normal final volume of eiles. And for the consumer it was 8 poor year of food supplies, despite a normal consumption. “Erarycie Pi out of his stride. It was a of h It were almost better to have eaten lesa and had lems Ieother over it. Two Striking Focts Noteworthy were two phenomena: In numerous directions, and particularly in the use ffs, conservation and Pe pang af waste emi Sore in evidence. avi t a elim rg Waele repre- ara ie of war lessons. I have been unable to find date on subsistence that indicate positive retrenchment in terms of calories; such slight declines in consump- tion as have shown with a few com- modities are reasonably explained as the result of elimination of waste and seasonal fluctuations. age nee fact a the re- tention working classes. In the “tall of 1820, when the Amer- icon Relief Administration inaugurated ite aign for collection of funds for relief in pe, state chai Were repeat- edly brought to face with local unemploy- ment, then miming | dimensions. Men of means were co ed to hesitate in their gilta to foreign relief, by the of the necessity of heavy and prolo relief for unemployed workers in our cities. previous expenences—as in ‘14, ‘03 and "93—it was ce that in most cities un- employment a few weeks’ duration brought faundlies to destitution so severe #3 to demand relief. Lt was naturally an- ticipated that this would be the case during the iar of 1920-21. These expectations happily failed of fulfillment, one considers the extent of unemployment in ndmbers and the period at timaocur wiles unemployment and part pi ee aa have gente during the last eighteen months, aoe nee be extraordinary are Hi fi ited, Ae ng ta the National Bureau of Eeonomic Research the average income EVENING POST sma rose from #723 in 1919 to g1078 Fi i918. F From ‘12 to '20 wages in most lines rose further to a material extent. Since 120 wages have declined in ar progressions. Farm labor is now back al- moat to the prewar level, In other lines, as on Tiilways, the wage scale of ‘20 is still in in effect, while the pay of artisans has been lowered about 10 per cent. ee ai aia ether the wage curt: Emi pHoy es allen os much as the cost index of the standard of living, is in controversy. Data are Pequired, not rae In Poppet it ay Gp peer sound and @asy to a Wipe seal on the index number of a projected standard of living, but we are not ie sufficiently inatructed fn the subject. Ur- ban workers and farmers constitute the large majority of those engaged in gainful oc- eupations. The incomes of farmers in- creased up to '19 more than those of city workers, but the incomes of city workers, particularly in certain lines, were very quently Te gicaectl Tt has been pes quent Aldi n t fasctoes, on haus of siiperficial observation, that the increased wages were spent a8 rapidly as acquired. It is now clear that thia assertion was erroneous. Out of these wages sub- stantial savings must have been retained, and these savings have constituted the partial eupport of unemployed urban work- he In in part roleved by return to the workers return to the country bribes aggit is had gone to the city in response to the wage appeal of war incdus- thes: but te a lange extent the ability of unemployed or y em workers to ogi’ on month after month is explained only by the fof substantial sav ings from the period of higher earnings during the war, Effect of Prokibition There can be little doubt that prohibi- tion has contributed materially to the savings of the working classes in cities, War prohibition, during the time of rising wages, restricted dissipation, and the money weot into goods for house and fami npr oe The same effect of drink control was rved in England during the war. Prohibition during the last two years of lowered em- Ployment has restricted dissipation, and aa i result the recreate f income hast a larger Th if neciaarien, fen that the taate for sleohol peels: an outlet in confectionery or narcotics is mon- sensé. The impulse to waste, blocked in one direction, may seek other outlets, but, by and large, money that is not wasted is spent for necessaries or Two factors have determined the extent of retrenchment in expenditures for cloth- ing, furnishings and sundries as eontrasted with sustained outlays for aub- abstenes, The firat la the natural inelastielty 65 in subsistence, aa contrasted with flexi- bility in requirements of elothing, hewse furnishings and sundries. In terms of ories the subsistence of a people is sus- ceptible of retrenchment to an extent of possibly 10 per cent over a considerable pele of time without observable effect on ealth and with merely nominal diseatis- faction. Certainly this is true of a generous diet such as ours, European experiences daring the last six have indicated urther retrenchment in subsistence is to be accomplished only with extreme dificulty and at the cost of class conflicts. Retrenchment in pure of clothing, ms demonstrated in Europe, can easily pro ceed to £0 per cent over a period of a year. Outlays for house furnishings can be prac- tically eliminated for a year, except for renewals in public houses and equipment of new construction, When one contrasts the demonstrated retrenchment in clothing and house furnishings in this country dur- ing the past two yeara with that im by war on the European pee durin paetenven years, quire hiv slight i Conditions in Europe The second factor lies in the relative price declines. If one will take the curve of retail prices of foodatufls and contrast it with the curve of retail prices of clothing and house furnishings, from the of the boom to the present, one will realize that an added motive for retrenchment in outlays for clothing and house furnishings has lain in the obvious retardation of price decline. The relative prices of clathing and furnishings have remained far above those of foods—furnishings being the highest. Not only was the demand for clothing and house furnighings miore flexible than for subsistence but retail prices, declining less rapidly, failed to meet the expectations of consumers and buyers retreated. The depression waa the sequel of proa- perity ae S nie had no such boom had no such depression. Defeat- stricken nator wt Magra have eat passed through the ness eyele; the almost equally stricken France and Italy have also largely escaped The neutral countries of Europe, that enjoved first a el poe then a boom a with. the combatant countries, have posse through a cycle like ours. In many re- apects the cycle in those countries has bean mor severe than here, and complicated ipa by local circumstances. In Feb- this year the official fans for sneeileneient in Denmark was nearly 10 r cent of the population. During 1821 food orice Teer fined Inthe United am, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland, Semntinavia and Franee. Prices in Italy have remained almost stationary, apart Peg from seneonal fluctuation. Food oe in Germany have risen by two-thirds above the level of the close of 1920, Prices in Austria, Poland and Russia have soared. The recorded price il gi reat largely on monetary developmen Americans should Sethe that the dem- onstrated retrenchments imposed on us in the period of depression have been moder- ato compared to those being austained tn Europe. In no single country of Europe ia the food supply normal, judged by figures of either prewar or war iad. ‘There ia unlimited food for the dollar of the tauriat; that is an economic situation, not a sample of the food consumption of the natives. The majority of Europeans are still on abnormal bread. Dairy products are scarce. The meat supply i much below normal, The coarse ¥ ran es predominate in the diet of large classes. Importations of food o large amounts are Wired to ineure meeicann af supply. Europeans euffer in nearly every direction, Our Betray complaint ia not that we are lacking, but wate the prices we have had to pay for at we consumed. In Europe the protest 18 against price and lack, But ene must be careful in drawing ener ns between costs of living here and in Europe, i pri ive promise of resuming soon their Lia relations with each other. This accomplishment is easen- tially the result of the gold standard of currency. With depreciated currencies and consequent state subsidies, price relations aed grotesque distortions, The rents in picket are now 246 per eent of the in- the working classes; before the War, oe aD per cent! But what the workman may eave in paper money in the direction of rent be loses many times over in other directions.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE PRINT OF MY REMEMBRANCE (Continued from Poge 33) atreeta, whether from Hoboken or the North River side of Manhattan, he has a ride thraigh a front yard that prepares him for all riage? pa of the rear, broken pavements, dirty gutters, tumbled tene- ings; and then through our necessitated but oppressive cafiona, where the skyscrapers shut out the sun for all but a few minutes of the day. And if he happens to be a home-coming American from Paris he groans inwardly with a de- ir that he knows no effort of his own ilfetime enn lift. Having made one such round trip, I looked on Paris for a second time with a knowledge of these American features and a wish to find the elements that made the great contrast. One principal item is sky line. The building laws of Paris fix the limit of houses | definitely at alx stories and twenty meters, reps ed feet, The Mansard roof is an intelligent effort to observe the letter of this law and yet steal a few additional vortical feet Mee etle eee tect aie As property is valuable, the leg Fait is uniformly reached; but monotony avolded becnuse the race of architects turned out by the Besux-Arta, where we send our Americans to learn the rudiments of their profession, has found a variety in the unity that makes for restful beauty. Again, poverty of Paris in ita water | supply seems to result in another blessing. he waver Uh some of Ly once is at potable, as they say, pas de ia source, the Parisian is as lavish with It in the streets and fountains as he is economical af ita use in hia bathtubs. Every morning, in every block, a street cleaner turns a little rivulet through the utter, dams it into a little lake with a ted ef burlap and with his long and homely broom of osiers sweepa it over the wooden pavement levels, washing back the débria ta the run and gradually extendin rivulet and lake until he has accomplished his block, The morning gutter and the eky line call attention newly to each new nd then this third item: Intelligent ris recognizes and admits the aye BS an organ. It is not to be more lawlesaly agaailed than is the ear. No man for com- mercial purposes shall without restriction assail the passers’ attention with his blatant demand.. The twentytour-sheet stand, the barbaric threesheet ro do not exist, becuse the municipality pute a tase upon every sheet of paper that solicits its attention. Advertising space is relatively a2 Valuable on the walls ag it is in the news- papers, and so posters are artistic, of more than ephemeral value, and are in the main confined to handsome littl: kicks set up at intervals for their accommodation. 4 Lesson From Paris When will America learn this value of pel right? When will all the unsightly cards that confine our railway journeys to hideous alleys of proclamatory and man- datory attacks be regulated by proper sesensment under state domain to things of tolerable sightliness and sources of revenue to the poor public whom they afflietT When will unoflending citizens be per- mitted to travel and look from their car windows on refreshing landscapes without being commanded to use Startum's 1 CG or Sokum's Condensed Milk? Why must there alwaya be inter ni the ruminative individual and the stenog- fiphy of his Maker the commercial . suasion of his fellow man, money adh cae one eran for the Lider Paris ig always rich in suggestion, Little plays that have not the Tiapartanes to get inte L'Dlustration, or even inte the printed brochure, dramatic bits that never make their way to America, are at the amall theaters on the boulevards and the back streeta and in the Quartler and in Mont- martre, more than half of them containing euch some littl: suggestive, facile acene that educates and urges. When I had my Drew-Barrymore play finished I sent it over to C, F. by mail under the tithe of The Pug and the Parson, and under that title it wea announesd, Tut before I ould get over to rehearse it Mr. Frohman had received a couple of letters from Protestant | Ministers proteating against the association, : a g z i He had @ racial reloctance to rai thee Pleasure, and although | stout!y oa the title, feeling that the wors * pe Was Not eo &acTORAnct thet on muy lt it, his wish of eogre preve called’ the play ‘The Other (=! Cc. gn ae prone £5 pet | Hite the Part preacher, horew cause the character, fo beta in the play's value oF in the wreey not from ite very kind compew we character of the pugilict, He tele) Barrymore, again associated with =.) abide would lead thee wis 4 superficially te proclaim the roocps the better actor, when the fact wa that in this play, a5 in The More the Humming Hird, be bad cxly oe ahowy part. It was therefore dea! keep Lionel as the paugilist act pg available leading man in the pet 4 been meant for Afr. Drew, Frick! ing was ¢ngaged for this, and | ew SO & Manager move with mor | Biaam to get an adequate compar imitating Eld Mets Tam sorry to forget the name olf in which a very besutiful girl of th had made an impression. Ths Drina De Wolfe, the wile of © Wolfe's brother, There was om “Osea gee —— _ Bd adies not agreeable te each oth | Wish to see them both in the of piqued Frohman's sense of Sumer) that he set about the seemisg! oy task of persuading the two lake | result that the valushle mio both actresses was obtained. Siraj who had been a favorite New Tol woman when she mare! Eds Royle, was induced to take os po what more mature than thea | previously shown in. For a porter, Richard Bennett was cpg such excellent actors 23 Josep) Jr., Ralph Delmore and Joes’ | pecs with Jessie Busley ot elding, then one of the great= of the vaudeville theaters, w= gaged. The Criterion Theate:, c' were ultimately to play, was poe all our rehearsals. That ome sea tion this may pustele the lay. conditions are not a peo think the rule is to the cont) majonty of plays are moved abcd Te ia from one theater to aca occasionally inte some hired be. a grent advantage in rehearsing 2 howse in which you are to oper ting always the proper tonal vibe relationa that are te | sed and worevised. As soon a8 Lionel knew be va the pugilist he hunted up Ki passed much of his time outwdr = with the champion. This acco reciprocated, and when the == hi came often ta sr be = resentinnt. One difene are and MeCoy was chr hair was as curly as Lionel: st For a period in the early rom! and for all I know during ali was in it, Lionel had he ke! curled each evening in ode © present this international favo" _ T have reason to believe oc jag indicated by Mr, Wheeb<t. pereona @ character pei = the table where he had unde tion under the influence of first time that phenomenor ©2| in the theater, The use of ioe 13 ah anesthetic dates foc 8 since the Civil War, and e = with most of the plays profey'! time. In the reheerm of 8 Wheelock more than eos ool render his Part, belhevring that onstrations To wns mses a 4 etaggerated and unreal; fst 4 taken ether, and I'd had ten = Bo With the help of Mr. Froboal finally persuaded. In Paris, Alfred Sutro bed !-= delighted attention the nev?“ Merrick, who is related t& S7* these stories is called The P= =~! Harper. It relates an ast?!

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of Miss Porgy, even to the saucy ° her chin and other apparently tricks; the great hit in sl London in the author's PUnnImo comment of upon those delightful character- in Upping and the like, and the great good “hpi in finding an who possessed them and thereby piece from faihare, eines sire sual experience with playwrighta _ positive Heas and who direct plays. ve written.in earlier pages, I waa go back to Paria a day or two sal at the Criterion; but be- Barrymore's success was so pro- ind h& identification with the ad so permanent that Frohman what I thought of featuring bim . (feourse, with my admiration ¥ i =e older friendship with i, a5 well aa a senae of justice, I ted with it. The Other Girl was ate in December, 1903. Ethel wa at that time playing at the heater [n Cousin Kate, I saw llowing summer at her Unele ‘e house at a Benpion: The ui perience 6 report to inight in midwinter when leav- bon debe lad dg she had ‘ on Brondw Bien i oo a great # starring Liane her brother. Ethel said she aed that tears sprang to her jable to tell her ¢ her own aCaptain Jinks at the Garrick, ther and T leaned on the bulk- bat theater, ea were full of tear as he aa said, “My Gad, isn't ahe nd she was, tesunter through my recollec- hrough the contemporary twere about me for the Tare for the Drew play, my atten- ¢ the first time—went back to institutional Point that I had Mr. Palmer. Tt was unsuited «, but its ultimate usefulness he overlooked, After leaving ict with Bishop, which h piration for the little piece, I on and more intrigued wi The basia for my information sties of booka written by Dr. ikon, of which his Law of vamena was the first. I was ya considerable interest in the and tired af Doctor Bulrd, an, and cok and ok lta en, and occasional et was on the ealen inHg aris I would go inte the Indi- the Sorbonne and hear some rchology. teur Telepathists i double purpis in this. To French the philosophic and abuleries are much more 1 than the vernacular of the oor that of the street and ime convineed of telepathy i a force, but adopted only he responsibility that it im- erin anywise felt the slight- Pexperiment on what he geressive or therapeutic side rene rehearsing. The Other a many evenings with me ry quarters at the hotel and often hia brother Jack, not launchee upon his career, There is in both the boys a y for everything approach- and the forceful side of ‘or them a profound attrac- little ineldent in which we ied, so isola aa to have eclentific aspect, but never- In the old Café Boule Avenue near Tonth Street, > tear a section of the floor, vel of aome aequired addi- + the asoent of three or four 2oon that Wttle mezzanine, to somebody's statement tion of the possibility af iin front of one in an audi- af the gaze of another at a him. The proposed To i aaah teal they an in the fore juet who sat with back lus. We agreed upon her THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i) by hat and furs, and the like, ane ge | conforming te instructions—instead merely mentally commanding the lady to logk around, we in our minds “definitely | dramatized her doing so and thought and attention on the lady. In the time in which one can perhaps count ten, with a gesture of great annoyance the lady faced squarely about and glared at us. I have referred in earlier chapters to a patron of the theater whose theories were ao reassuring, Mr, Thomas B. Clarke, a connoisseur and art collector, Men who know Mr. Clarke, and know him intimately enough to call him Tom, will understand my taking any excuse, however risky, to hove an hour in his company. For some reason during this winter, 1903, in New York he wanted me te meet hie inend. Mr Frederick Gebhard, As [ remember, Mr. Gebhard had requested the meeting, which was to be at a very amall dinner at his . then on the eastern side of Park Avene at about Thirty-ninth Street. I went with a fairly keen interest, wondering somewhat fatuously if Mr. Gebhard knew | af th at my St. Louis newspaper reports is visits there, As I recalled them, they or rather complimentary than otherwise, exeept for a hideous woodcut issued os a goth ige But a man about town would ardly invite a person to a small dinner party in order to assault him for that offense after ao many years had intervened, It was a fine little dinner, arranged by an ex cellent chef and accompanied by good wine. The Germ of a Play I had last seem Mr. Gebhard in 1834, twenty before, then wearing the title Soi eet mits He was now a | middle-aged, reserved and serious gontle- man, talking entertainingly and modestly on questions of art and literature. He was at the temples, decidedly modeled as to face, a litte henvier as to figure, but. athletic still. Over the mantel of his living room was the picture of a beautiful woman set in a large oval frame, The men of the | small party regarded it with admiration. “Where did you get it? Clarke asked. “You've seen that before. That"a Lulu.” “Not the Eastman Johnson?” “Yes, Gobhard answered. “I had vane oover it for me, change the color of t Ay “But why?" “Well, one doesn't go on living with a portrait of a divorced wife. I'm ao damn poor I can't afford another pleture for that apace. [ had the coloring changed, and it makes a decoration.” I knew nothing of the divorced wile, have learned nothing since, nor of the circum stances. But the attitude of the lonely man, the seyninal philoso sa that made that one oh oe eee a oe ee tn explanation Te, was ing for the sa gat unde rvered idea for a play for John had kept the eontract with Mr, Frohman when I had furnished him The Other Girl, but the Drew project. tomy delight was still before me. A dipareé, and such a definite diroreé as Mr. Gebhard, for a hero, with the intriguing Idea of the | repainted ‘portrait, made | eo a starting | point. The cause of the divorce must of | eourse he a woman. The outcome of the | play would be a return to the wife or a | marriage with the other woman. Of those alternatives, I chase the woman. My prob- lem was to have her the more desirable of the two; to have her innocent of any trans- jon and unconscious of any charge. wile would have to be mistaken in her suspiclona; the matter would have to be setthe| owt of court. And then again my recollaction of the lonely Gebhard sug gested having obstacles to the second raat riage. found those obatacles in a dispari of yeors, ina addon Pa sulbor far the girl, in an angered and belligerent father, wha unlike the girl was mot in ignorance of the charges, and so on. Aa one May aurmise, mith story both se from the portrait, I material enough, When the play, which we called De Lancey, was finizhed I was In F France again, John trew had come over to visit Froke man in London, and together the two came to Paria to have lunch with me and listen | to the manuscript, Our apartment at 109 Boulevard Montparnasse was over the Café du Dome. John felt that he should have a cocktail before he climbed the four flights to the luncheon, and Frohman, who didn't take cocktails, stood little café against the bur of zine, while | (Continued on Page lof! and the eyes." | with him in the || KEEP CONTENTS HOT 24 HOURS: COLD 3 DATS. 3 From Greenland’s Icy Mountains to India’s Coral Strand — LL over the world, people depend on Iey-Hots to keep food and drink hot or cold in most extreme temperatures. In the tropics, refreshments keep icy-cold in Iey-Hots despite intense heat. 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fotiowed fren Poge 091 in a long French dialogue got such ls substitutes for the right materials mal stock of French supplies af- The corktail, made in a gz am and with a spoon, Was warm and long table, but after a hard day in ha night crowsing of the Channel sornlng a Boulogne, it wed. When t reached our apart- aat down on the wooden

sag beers . tating a large cock- wus FT first-class Mar- ,and the best materials E t not disqualified.Drew. : in Foe! 6 Theater, and lator 7 on the Post-Dispatch, aahington University in Ing man principally engaged ‘hi iencl of many of the men * h, some of whom took nm him. Oecasionally he Tames name of this coal ters enri Du He later fle went inte heb serview of Mr. witzer, Sr., 1 think as private sec- He added to his knowledge of m, anil later in his home city en- ithe Parisian pres, He held a ifauthority on Le Journal. Dumay or the theater. I don't know pieces were done, but Mil i a was one of them. In : and L renewed the friendship cn in St. Louvis years before donally reinforced in New he was a few frthree and a half yeurs’ resi- mo my wife and I found it fo agreeable to leave France ton and the spring artistic over, go to London for a few fio Antwerp, and take a boat omhen the tide of travel was opether in the other directicn. jt at East Hampton, near the : he water comes (Brazil to break upon the sand coast, have for me the moet omer climate in Americn. Cn Dumay came with us. Pdinner parties one ermine I ‘some other listeners at Enet adinner attempted some ten tour howae in New Rochelle, der dinner ten questa were faking &@ total party of twelve. Pwere expected fram New York waa a blizzard on the duy set, ily guest to arrive was a lady Ww hos helle. She did not reach anti] nearly nine o'clock in the was then im the arms of her The. eoupé im which she had fy an hour trying bo cover a iomile was stalled in the sncw= ‘lawn. iting in a Hox Stall e lady waa thawed out and daa we faced the Bowers and Imonds, this solitary guest a id to my wife on my lefe, * pet this on the stage Raha ‘e it.” ta feature of ar He that flective property in a first act, i Role aor aighteat inches ‘h eontrary to the expostula- ocnd carpenter T had cut in the 2 table. In this opening was wr pan that caught the drift fountain that could play over ems when we had visitora or tal ourselves. It wos a perfect 9, regulated under the table by no man olght to expect a wach, and it worked satisfac- nee out of ten, oF until a bit of i paruatis insect got into ita i Then it 8 rie eccentri- i‘ regular fool thing. Francis ib ea ge atten: mp And Was ing ot a took one of _ tam struck fair and square on n of his dress shirt and made a sen a roof. Company table z, and before I could get under THE SATURDAY and find the key = mood deal of water went Mr. Wilson's way, it didn't interrupt his story. He turned wp his lapels like a Bailorman on the bri and held hia place. We ubandened the fountain aoon alter that, but the Francis Wilson episode always impressed peraons humorously when we tald it, to explain the patch on the table where the copper been, and ane gentle visitor said, “Mr. Thomas, you nuigae Eo pet that in a play.” premenend Sis material to Durmay he said that ne playwright could make more than one act of it, and it was upon his banter that I etarted out to show him that the material waa sufficient, with ite thon, te furnish forth a threaet comedy. Thore was at East Hampton an empty eox stall in the stable, with windows set ao high that one couldn't look out of them. T put in only a kitehen hair and a amall pine table from the village general store— not even a calendar to distract attention, My play material to start with waa a suburban house, isolated by a storm on the arene 6 of a 3 pres paired inner, Penis once t dan't easily leave, and only the aturdy and the heroic could arrive. weation: What ba the best use te make of that set of conditions? Answer: The ex- pee of a person or who would ike to get away and can't do ao. What person would be the most elective figure under such constraint? A git! 4 Frotman Dress Rehearsal Ttook the proposed-and-interrupted din- ner party indicated, made it in hone of the girl, a gueat in the house; 6 the lady neighbor who waa carried into the house by the coachmat the girl's unidentified rival in the affection of a young man wha hed been temporarily cast off by the girl becouse of a acandal of which both he and the married lady were innocent, but which was suffi- ciently distorted in its first presentation, Then I drove the young man, an architect, into the house from a near-by job to tele- phone, unaware of the girl's presence of of the projected dinner until he arrives, With the people living in the house and the father and mother of the hostess and the jealous hughard of the married lady T had people enough for astery. I cannot repeat a play, not even a plot, in these pages, but believe 1 have herewith given enough to in- dicate the sprightliness of the subject and the sufficiency of the material. When the comedy wes done, after some six weeks of rather intensive writing, we called it Mra. Leffingwell’s Boots. oh man immediately accepted it and told me he would wire me te Paris when time and a place in the theaters were ripe for it. I care over the next midwinter, when I found the radiant C.F. with another one af his extraordinary casts, It was a with Mr. Frohman to see unrecognized ability in ayoUNg Woman and quickly give her op tunities to prove her worth te the public. Thoigh these opportunities could be de vised, it wasn't always possible to make the oe accept the lady at hia estimate of er, My recollection is that when the public had failed, however, C, FP. was more nearly right than the general jury. Sach a girl had come under his attention at that time in the person of Fay Davis, a most intelligent ackress, aith a metho pahane a littl: too delicate if anything. It had more the quality of the miniature Painter's attention to subtleties and te de taila than is effeetive tn Hees Parnes, which responds more readil fy touches, Mir. Frohman h a her in Lady Rose's Daughter, featured her in The Whitewashing of Julla and in The Rich Mrs, Repton. To my great profit and de- light he found for her in the young girl I have referred to in this story of ynine what he thought was a rile worthy of her atten- tion. Ad then, inorder te give Miss Davis # perfect support and companionship, he assembled a eae cae included these ex- cellent pass TH! t Ilington, then SrOInicientte in Binge lic affection; Jessie Busley, one of the best of the comediennes; Dorothy Hammond, a very pretty leading woman: and that ¢xeellent actress, Annie Adama, mother of Maude. Among the men he had two leading men then as now ofequalrank— William Courtenay and Vin- cent Berrano; alas the popular Jack Barnes English actor; Ernest Lawford, who had been featured in some Frohman produc- tions: that excellent Amerlean comedian, Lauis Payne; and that almost last of the fine old American gentleman type, the late John G,. Saville, The remaining EVENING POST members of the company in the minor Files were more than equate, €, F. turned this cast over to me, with the Savoy Theater, where rehearsals would be un- interrupted. There waa nobody to replace in the company, no fevisions of corrections o be made in the text, and ©, F. never came near wa until the night of our dreas. rehearaal. Tt will be interesting to record a typical himan rehearsal. He sometimes departed from his rule, but his custom waa to have euch a reheareal with nob in front bot the author und himself, Even an assistant director or aman who hed held a book and was supposed to have some interest in the setting waa not allowed to com in frant of the curtain. 1 remember such an intrusion by a perfectly justified stage manager who came into a of the Criterion Theater when we were doling The Other Girl, ; C. F. said to him, “What are you doing there?" “1 want te look at the aeene, Mr. Froh- man,’ "We'll tell you about that,” and the functionary disappe Qur dress rehearsal for Mrs. Leffing- well's Hoots wae ut the Savoy. C. F. and l were alone, The presmntaiacs proceeded exactly aaa firet night, with every formality observed. When the first act was over he sald to me, “These people aren't acting.” "They're mogr' “Wo, they're living!" Tt waa a pretey compliment to the eom- pany, and | tried to steal some of it for the author; but that was entirely a men- pea Suir When our last curtain fell, C.F, had it taken up again: the company wis called on thé stage and in a few heart- ening and sincere phrases he told them how highly he estimated their work. There Waa no need at our frat performance to reverse his opinion. T like te recur in my thoughts to that engagement and to that happy ne of players, and I like to write ahbowe it, ose ldeal conditions are what every saver dreama of when he comes inte the theater and what every playwright has in roind when he sete down a line, Nothing is so health-giving and beneficial as this full, unimpeded expression and interpretation, 4 Dignified Frost In The Enrl of Pawtucket, of which I have written above, D'Orsay’s success was roarked. When he played it well into the third year and there was only what waa called the small time open to him he grew anxious for another vehicle, and felt that he could make better monetary arran ments elaewhere than he then had with La Shelle, Mr. Frohman had revised his roeasire of D'Oraay ond now regarded him as of stellar magnitude. I wag coni- misgioned to write him a successor te Paw- tucket. D'Orsay's ambition made him ask also for a more substantial purpose in the play: The firat version of The Ermbasay was, in consequence, a four-act play, mainly athempliing comely, but with a quite setiods mote at the end of its third act. Qur firet night waa in New Haven. Mr. Frohman could not attend. He said he would base his opinion of the play en- he upon my telegraphic report of its mee Hon and not upon the notices or opin ons he wiuld get from others, I wired him, A dignified frost.” There is little value in going into the reasons for this result. One of them, how- ever, has interest. The end of the third ach was a well-defined conflict between a sinister interest in the play and D' Orsay, who had the heroic element. The climax of this conflict was dramatized by D'Oraay's tearing fram seme diplamatie reeard the leaf that was the vital issue, This he did under the rhetorical encouragement of the character played by that excellent come dian, Harry Harwowl, D'Oreay ecom- plained that his support mt the serious moment was not sufficient. Thera was sone justice in his claim. Harwood contended that there wan't material in his nes te evoke the applaus that we expected. In my own opinion the fate of the piece was ao well settled that whether Harwood was fight or we were Fight ewlld net affect the ultimate result. <and Mr, Harwoodd's of- fectiveness along the linea of hia own wark aa a tomedian i@ too well known to re quire anybody's reenforcement. At Hartford one night I tried on Har- wood's wig, and he generously consented 10! to my golng on for hia character In thaét performance, With the peri treatment of the stump-speech material the ant Apt the calle that it potentially held & Value of this waa only my own assay of the stufl, beenuss Harwonl's association with the enterprise was worth much more than the material in question. Frohman saw the pace in Philadelphia and was depressed lay reader should understand the interesta at atake. To fail then was to throw an entire company out of employment in November; to give in a measure a black eye to the reputation of the star and to leave on the hands of the ig nt an expensive production, in- eluding scenery and costumes and a fuir stock of printing. Despite its feebleness aa theatrical text the play had shown us that D' Orsay was more acceptable in his proper comedy work than he was as a pseudo leading man. The Frost Thawed Out Ag C.F. and [leaned over the bulkhead _ the Chestnut Street Theater I recolled ences in rewriting the Crane plays J or Money and The Governor of and lesser work on the unsigned scripts that ©. F, himself had called me in bi ‘pats or carpenter. I thought I aaw my to make a threeamet comedy af what a ad. Tteld him so, My family wis in Paris. [ was a bit uneasy about them. I[ said if he would lay off the company for four weeks that I would jump over to Paris and back, and T thought we could sulvage all the investment entumerated, with the exception of the four weeks’ time held in the theaters. C.F. wae delighted with the proposal, D"Oraay and I took the same stenmer for the other side, he going ostensibly to see some member of his fam- ily suppoeed to be i]. I bie on the boat and worked ry In three weoks after ee New York, D'Orsay and I again took a same steamer for America, where we were two ina total of five first-cabin fase gers. On the at I finished the revision. Two days af landed we had script and parts t ped anf began rehearsals, with that delightful eter, Farrest Robingon, added ta the caat and asociated with Haryowd. The threo act yersion of The Embassy Ball, a purely farcical attempt, was successful. We played it two years. Paris lacks the ocean, but with this ex- eeption it has as many suburban entice ments as New York, and the Parisian is as accustomed ta running away fram the city for a litth: one or two day vacation as any metropolitan that we know. To change the idess—ehanger les idves, aa they say— is with them a frequent act of mental sani- tation, We meade a party of some twelve or fifteen Americans, children included, who were at the pretty hamlet of Montigny aur Loing in the middle of April in 12: on one of these wdop ted racarces, The ter- race of the Hotel Vanne Rouge has ite retaining wall of stone, washed by the slow waters of the River Laing that meanders by, held palmost in lakelike retardation by the panne, or water gate, that accumulates them for the near-by mill. This little ter- race, some fifty by fifty feet of graveled level, with ite circwlar tables of aheet iron and wetherproof chairs, sets like a stage to the low and theatrical facade of the toy hotel, where by a fair jump from the ground one ean almost eateh the gill of the aeeonel alory window, On Wednesday the trippera had gone and our American colo had the place to ourselves. A very obvious bridal sa erly ool une nt even: the young man with the Fren of the period, the bride in the preted ee and now antiquated ecatume of the date, both oblivious ta the strangers who wert speaking English, After a littl rowboat trip in the twilight the couple disappeared. We were at café on faifen the terrace on Thuoreday morning. The children at the holustrade were seaving the swans when the small diamond-panec comicopera windows of the upper roenrm opened and there appeared the bridegraom in a aule of lavender pajamas whose new) laundered and utterly unruffled condition invi attention. Dr. Tom Robbine at our table eaid, “See these immaculate pajames on the new ple Alllooked and aomeone remarked, “ Yes, a new grog sleeps clean’: an amusing ling, but net so tengetets as alone bo fix the Thursday morning of that nineteenth day (Costinged on Page Mpa!

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THE SATURDAY 104 " every 2 ecient pontine « Makes 2 gives of toast hove: Z 3, S+heat sn giwes on hi A miediuan or bow hawt a @. Stowe [rere be bai staal eoppercd, sichel-plabed and hoghly polished. 5. &. . Gene Bher fect protect the table ‘top fremn. heat or scratching. - Deep dish of cal pookichend abe fall Taf unchem le conmnot cheer rao: 7. Sicaw io nickel-plated and highly polished, with rounded comers, &. This second deep dish inverted aver Na. 6 gives pou a precocal amall oven O Alumiftivan: cake griddle when ured above hoemin ter. Alea cover Jor derp dishem ur ay i ea a inal OF ii. i ile rill ih i : 4 Summertime Comfort You Can Serve a complete meal from this sturdy Table Stove—not a “snack,” but a substantial dinner for 3 or 4 people. For example— —Let's prepare hot muffins, broiled chops, browned potatoes and coffee! =—put reflector (9) below coils. Put one deep dish (6) above coils. In- vert other deep dish (8) over it. When hot put muffins into this little even, using aluminum dishes (/0). Allow usual time for baking —then broil a couple of chops (lay them on [/) below in 6, while potatoes aimmer or brown in & above the heater, Use 9 cimartnnd a4 8 COVer —finally, make coffee on the grid (2). Control heat with awitch (3). Isn't that interesting? And practical? And worth trying? | The room is not heated, as practically every bit of the heat goes into the food when you use the Marion Table Stove. You cook right on the dining table, enjoying the meal with your family, and serve direct from the Marion Table Stove. Meat dealers poll! he fe demonstrate Marion Electric Seroants. Uf your a canned apely ge, ae The coupe, Rutenber Electric Company, Marion, Indiana Rutenber Electric Co, Marion, Indiana Enclosed is check for $13.50 | for 3-heat Marion Table “4 Meme | aves aeantly Ge alone My Addebrees | Identical outht $12.25 with: | | out sary = | EVENING POST {‘Centinued from Page JOT} of April, The event that did that was the arrival of the morning paper relating the catastrophe in San Franciaeo, then called an earthquake, but by common consent since Teferred to as the fire. One of our peelings party waa Mra. (Chase, who hod been a Miss Mizner, sister of Wilson and Addison Mizner, Californiana, Mr. Chase was still in the States, and the reports of the devastation included terri= tory in which the family had important financial and sentimental interesta. Other Californians were in our party with par- ents, brothera and sisters in the stricken city. The blow made everything else for- gotten; not only those directly and per- sonully affected but all the Americans knew their vacation was over and their stations wereat the lines of quickest communication, Tt is rather fine to remember the p= ness with which the Americans in Paris acted at that time. The American Chamber of Commerce assembled the next morning upon a. call frorn ite president printed in the Paris New York Herald, It waa a crowded meeting, attended not only by the members but by many sojourners and transients. There waa aome littl: personal informa- Hon, net much; the eablet were blocked. TRUST EMILY (Continued frem Page fa) born with, and however truthful he is no- turally —— ae murmured Angela sympatheti- Arthur was glad to be interrupted by the arrival of Stoker, who walked swayingly in, bearing a plate of bread and butter in one hand, and a plate containing a coke in the other. He pr anigrgt the tuble nerv- ously, and set them thereon, watched by Angela. Angela moved to the table. “Let me show ae * gatd she, “how I like a ten tabbe sat," "Vea, said Stoker, “Vou will ensily Journ," Angela con- tinued, “Put the cops out in the saucers ao. Then group them Bt. But you have bh ake too many © ups. Yea'm,” said Steker, glancing hope leasly round, and counting on his fingers. Arthur seowled at him. “The bread and butter is too thick, you kent," plireel! Angela very kindly. "Yes'm,”” said Stoker, dust then sotnds of muffled knockings arage and penetrated to the parlor, Stoker stared unemsily around. “What's that Toles?" inquired Angela, “The workmen,” replied Arthur calmly. “After tea you ghall show me what they are doing,” said Angela, The ne cares rantinued, seh scratched his head, “Please sir,” te “ehall T go an’ ——" “Stoker! said Arthur ferociously, ay ‘on “I slay in the kitehen ard Come fens riing for, T hat" ‘s wll just now." ** Wes, sir, mud Shoker "Kettle boiling?’ Arthur added fero- elinraly, “BRetile: ain't quite bitin’, sir," Stoker, and he went out quickly. “Since tea is not quite ready," Arthur, turning to Angela with a very iit le: anitle ud the lek bes girl hitt known it,“ T'd tike te show you Part of the house, beginning with the cellar.” “Beginning with the cellar?" echoed Angeln, “Yes, said Arthur. “It's really an aw- fully interesting cellar. "& a matter of fart there are three i ‘lors, Two outer ones nnd in itit lr ERT, Angel shuddered, replied Sail "Oh-h-h!" shivered she, “They ll be dark.” “Er— yes, assented Arthur. “T'mafraid so, But it can’t be helped," he added erimily., "Toll bold my hand if it's very dark?” “shed Angels 1 charm ingly. She moved iim- pillsived iy in hil im. “Er yt, sald Arthur, edging to the door. “Er—lT mean, yeal Angela followe d hilin; with bermutifal wp- incd-down flickering of eyelashes. " Funny Arthur!" suid she, rallying him as she pee thr en the doar he held open far IF, Tt was barely half a minute later that Stoker wandered in again with a dish of jem. He looked around him and hh jaw dropped. A trembling tan over his frome, He shook his head, and the jam dish fell June 3, Men of prominence and pore uli the company, and ronnby tre % after the American mame ie by nite action i Be the a Hation on tee oles howusands of dollars pry ter Pledged. The ma of Se: fa wii. telegraphed. hen. ater a pe two or three dag, the rather pa fairly self-reliant reply wa resis outaide subscriptions Were ost tej American chamber met er money waa diverted tom hon fucd to auch Californians oe Foosd ter in Paris with their their sources of supply destropel were principally students in them) the Sorbonne, the Beauz be musical institutions. But bw spirit, how ie tthical apactty te its cn t =, wer lke the ti ta Editor's Note—'Thia oe Ube of twelve articles by bir. Thee Pm Peer in aon early bee i from his hand to the table He his head— but received mo neve und again. To “Tim gure I A revelation alent caution he wheeled, one bi ~ Arthur: dashed in Shae entered by the other, He tinctly distrait., “Stoker! he | “Stal “T'v0 “id ‘em! said & pd eried Arthur, cycles," said & “What for? ered “Tt soma Samy like,” re earnestly. “Te just seem tio bank: oker ie ‘es “No, sir! Not me, sir!” with the stout a iH aj Tors aad Arthur a know where sty Williaa ote, “breathe hn ed, Sir, ‘Toke “Then tuke one of thos Arthur, “and rice an § T William’ ‘8, and ask — ea, sedan rt” og he ran paust: Ai lady Sere pr ioiee tyes one worn mere ee ile Both her | low a Bo 4 ter sat im Pt. {Continged on ® Digitized, py. Google

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 105 A Dead Engine , ona Live Street FEW sputtering knocks—a convulsive jerk—a sudden stop! A Up with the 5 oars frenzied, futile fussing with plugs and wires. Meanwhile, streets jammed for blocks —drivers yelling—horns blowing — policeman raving! Annoying—irritating—inconvenient—yet it all shrinks into insignificance beside the damage done to the engine bya single mishring spark plug or a short-circuited wire. Worn and loosened bearings, scored cylinders, piston slaps, chattering gears, loss of power and noisy, jerky operation are the inevitable results of neglecting even the smallest defects in the nerve center of the car—the ignition system. You can protect your car and your comfort by testing the ignition system regularly. It’s no longer a complicated task—it now can be done quickly, easily, cleanly by using the - IGNITION GAUGE System the Watchdog of the ignition Instantly spots the plug that’s missing Locates short-circuits and leaks in high-tension wires This handy vest-pocket instrument is small enough to reach the most inacces- sible part of the pgnition system. Its blunt contact cap cannot slip off plug or wire while testing. Cannot get out of order—no wires to connect—no shocks— no danger. Carry one with you in case something goes wrong on the road. AIR REDUCTION SALES CO. The name Airco on. this ignition gavage sicwifies thet it eovbodies all the high standards characteristic af the twenty-one ober products of the Air Reduction Sales Company, fhictecrs in. ae the elements of Che alr ane) large manulactorers of oxppen, Gietylens, apparatus, ete... for the otyacety lene welding: anil culting fodustriy, ° Dl in mazat bogical that an instrument telying solely ise iis fuacioming os heon—p rare gas of the alr—abowld be brallt by on organization ol wach specie cepenence. For all internal combustion engines

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fottued from Pope roa) rheld his head, which was begin- che. Hlesighed. ' Where's Parke?" i “Whereis Parka? Why doesn't e and help me? Everyone comes =o be thought reaentiully. ‘came : ae teapot: and ged behind him, trying to ave eye, With the hot-water jug. Her its were Watched interestedly b eter, Suddenly Mra, Stoker fe thor'sohservation, whenshe turned ‘ed out ike a rabbit. Stoker, too, rowed his way into the kitchen gracious!"" said Lady Hunter. ia always run like that’ rally," replied Arthur severely. “i er ace me.” ox Lady Hunter musingly. peted about. “I—I appt eeidloale eiheaul jel. cd?" ejaculated Lady Hunter. ily—er—simply had to go,"* said ¥ untersighed., “That feelingaeema hing in my household,” said she. it it Ghee that ton,"* started wuiltily. wks?" he nUPTUred et her," said Lady Hunter. ealked about. He gave the sofa him a good kick, and felt better. nockings came ‘down regularly p, and as regularly came up from ile from the attic on the south what might be taken, without a female voice faintly calling. hed the table leg. t Parks,” repeated Lady Hunter. a?" gaid Arthur nervoualy. “She me the sart of girl you couldn't ay if yea wanted to. Alwyn aye Tight on the spot.” btaining the wh e day off for show,” aoatiniad Hur- ave me a month's wages in lieu never saw anything so shame- wnident. I pressed for an ex- you be sure; and after a id she felt a call to go into the 1 ch an who confirmed her The clergy are very insidiows." ried to repress a groan, but he said. ‘Parks off to Dur- * nedded Lady Hunter. sontinwed afters paiwse, “there's he echoed. ter nodded again, “Cook, As heard you'd gone she said to ay. she aaid, “I must follow im if it's ever ao."” allowed nape + coming here?" he asked un- lear boy,"" said Lady Hunter. sent for i ght oh whit vin Be upon her, 2s lawyers do, : ith cook that has to have rend to her to keep her, and a cle , all in one day.” |ked about. He eould only sand her defection. ter of fact ——" he began er interrupted him in a tart matter of fact religion is evi- e thing it was for the lower 1 told me to insist on my tte church. ‘When in the iid, ‘that is the thing to do, on’t walk send therm in the Spread them out. Two don- would look well." And I'm mat Cc doesn't know the do; but etill, what does it gone ane lost Parks to a Thor bent with the Fegu- rand Lady Hunter's atten- Tom el She listened hen turning she fixed Arthur sugh her lorgne tll of course, throughout in that sooner or later this ‘Orme, and he had his words iff, Li he smid with an @x- (of the hand, kindled. ae!" she cried. “But, my brings me ta the ablect of of visit. Now elneagt vy have Ter, J mrousrt: under ons I hape you mu won't go on THE SATURDAY EVENING POST with all those alterations and repairs with- out consulting a certain lady. Not a tin tack should be driven in without her con- gent. For after all a home ia a place very | “T wish I knew some place sacred to a “Now isten to me, my dear,” said Lady Hunter, looking at him very earnestly through het lorgnette, “listen te me, for we must disctiss very carefully the whole awful situation. oa lay awake all night thinking of it. ‘o-day has been miserable. Lunch was tragic. None of those poor girls has spoken aotherallday, And all left the chow on pitiful pretexts. I know somethin of women's hearta, Arthur, and I cou gucss where all those poor dears are at this very moment.” Arthur reooiled. "What!" he ecelalred, “Each,” said Lady Hunter solemnly, “is lying on her bed, locked in her room, erying her little heart out.” She sighed. swallowed once or twice. “I darn well wish they were,” he replied, “Arthur!” said Lady Hunter, appalled, “Arthur! You brute! But," she added, “that ia what all theae poor girls lave in you—the brute. We women ——" Arthur kicked the sofa, interrupting her. “T don't know what to do," he remarked, rae that"seosimple, my dear,” breathed Hunter, “Simple?” repeated Arthur. “Just do it over again,” esid Lady Hunter, with a proud look at her imp ingynalis: ty. Just do a over again?” repeated Ar- thur fain “And this time, dear,” pursued Lady it ad softly, “be sure to ask the one you ic ye bah love anyone,” said Arthur, at Lady Funter dee shrieked. aoe pan to et cried, ata an VEry angry, an her t saptaba nod tly on the floor, "T dag mr cg ly 7: Lady unter ETew Vi 4 ita rhe situation,” she panted, Ada impale es Fa FF “Improbable,” said Arthur grimly, “but not impossible, Nothing of this d is im etome. I don't love any —— You shall love oe ee? Lady Hunter breathlessly, ‘or won She recklessly delivered this ultimatum to Arthur; it waa her own fault. Also the mtg went on distractingly all the “What!” said Arthur. “Do you mean te tell me you won't leave here till I— “T won't fect 21 it's all settled," replied Lady Hunter flatly. Arthur pave a very long musing look. After all, i why not two? If two, why not three? If three, why not four?’ "Ab!" said he in a quiet voice. "Then there'll be lots of time to apare, and I would like to show the linen cupboard. Mother left 2 lot of linen.” I do not care how I occupy the time, Arthur” said Lady Hunter wrathfully. "The linen cu by all means." “Then come on!" said = tesa She rose without a gave the qualms of her first anger. an when Arthur opened the door vielen ay abe walked past him at a great pace. ones more the ee eat het oo thia ea and the gun, and the stuffed birds, and eo on. Stoker had been reconnoltering outside, listening in a condition of _ fe the u 0 fet Op raised voices. Now he stale and looked i iatotharocm. He Heaaw only fi the aun, the man, and soon. Heatared trembli sae peat granite Mees aes ri Fie rou out hope. * dunno,” he sald, quatllng. Arthur das in sual and saw Stoker, who recoiled, and would have run away, but Arthur checked him. Bd Sine he ee unwilling accomplice droa rent: the door links past ¥e sete ae i he whie- Li don gchate Fee pointed outaide to wher the car lolled Th the sunehine. “You go ant gt right in that car," said Arthur ferociou “and tell that chauffeur to drive to Sir William Hunter's and fetch Mr. Wakebeld. Mr. Wakefield! Do you hear?" (Continued on Page 109) Get True Judgment of Corners and Distance The more an owner uses his car, the more he needs plate glass. The active car gets the close shaves of the road, and its users reckon most with turns and distances. Plate glass in windshield or windows makes safety more certain. It is clear, smooth and free from ridges and ravines. It hasn't any curves nor depressions. [t doesn’t sag like com- mon glass. It is slipped into place—not pushed. So it doesn’t break being in- stalled. It does serve the eye truly, be- cause it never distorts the vision. Busy men put maps under plate glass on their desks. If they used cheaply made glass, a sideway look would in- stantly make a confused mass of colored inks. For windshields or windows, for safety'’s sake, plate glass is essential in motor car replacements, Piate Giass Manuracturers of AMERICA (Nothing Else ) te. is Like it _ © 107 y

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 1, % GENERAL flmericnn Bebdge (oo, Ametican Car & Piry. On Amcticnn Harilator Co, Baideln Lecomte: Wioties The Barnett Oo tamtion Bridge Co I. 1. (Cimt Finw Works Lehigh Pore Lick Belt. Ga. Paaithonal Totes Coo. Palma Co Ghrifi & Co. MW eehbur (roel STEEL SFRCTALTIES Laawid Lugrion's Gene (oo The Jeffrey. Mig. Co The Truacon Stee] (im, Wee Then. Pipe Wire dad 2! qlier sarrialiép fre MACHINERY MAKEMS Ametican Clay Mack, (Ce Bullard Mach. ‘Tao ao The Pattunies (np, Inetrect| Rand (no, Lodge & Shipley Ode Teva Co Wegener i ver apy depel 20 cee pie dees pdr OL REFISNERIES A luie Puefining foo Pldadard Ol Ca Phr Troms Co deal 2? aller al! pola A Few Famous Users Sbtpard Elec. Craor & Hoist tn, RAILROADS Baltiomien Be Cis lag Poor Caralian Mavbenal Minols Central New ork Central Pemiqel onda Hock eland Gata Fe Seog t bes Bench Tac fer and 7S odie redirodda SHIP BUILDERS American Inienmational (orp. Bethickem Shlpbeiidlag Corp irmat Lake Eng. Works MeDaugall alush Co Mire Degdeck & Repair Co ewe Sewe Shiptellding Cn. Kier Vek Sliletoilding Co Peagy Ee Joe (in. Submaring Howat ia Union Conetriction Ca. dad 44 ofker pai p bilder AUTOMOBILES & PARTS Cheialet Mator Ca, The Crowhy (Co Furd Motor Cm Hydraolc Preseed Stee] no Rictond), A Ca The Mash Motors Co, Pariah & Hingham (a, Pee¢hess Mocor Cae no PSeece-Aunrew SMoter Cur Ca Remy ecini: On Timken-Detroet Aste Oa WM igre rer lad to dan FY other paris madeers Can You Afford to Waste What These Firms Save? Does 1922 look so rosy that you can afford to throw away that which these world leader we so carefully saving? Can you afford to use cumbersome mveting @ 9 join pieces of steel which they would weld @ half the cost with a Lincoln Welder? Can you afford to throw into the scrap heap worn or broken equipment which they would make good as new at a welding expense af = few dollars? Can you afford to discard for minor defecm castings, forgings, and stampings which could be made sound and perfect by arc welding? Can you afford to go merrily along without erent Knowing what are welding might do im yout plant, when such firms are continually asking) Lincoln Welding Engineers to advise on them problems? A Lincoln Welding Engineer will glade inspect your plant, study your processes make you a complete, written report, shom ing whether you can use are welding. | The Lincoln Electric Com General Offices and Factory, | Cleveland, Ohio | The Lineoln Electric Company of Caonmada, Toronto-Montreal New Work Olew Deecrils Ta a he Let, Burman MI Ae a peeks | Clicinnarl Columbus Chertons, St. Chirage Petishur gh Levee [ee

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ied from Poge JO?) “ond Stiker abjectly, But he ating ieploringly towards the » ato t + “Don't ‘en fe!” ude for him. ear Pol wife for a mik- — He awoke the chauf- ed into the lazy cor and fily, ur was alone. sow Pegunded to dim knocks hey made Arthur shiver, He al to the mantelpiece, leaned hisbrow. He thought iy nerves were all anglaw. a bird ‘atwitter. Thin Ireeemed to him awl thet A man should come from Aus ve these things happen to him tirally no fault his own. ali into the fireplace when meone knocked on the door eseen the Hunters’ cook. He or twice and shut hia eves ned round and saw only a@ Senger. ejenced ane of those mo [whith are almost too great tretebed owt his almost od the telegram was thrust he said weakly. ke waa alone in the parlor, ® Wemed loneliness was, but ow that it must be of short put the telegram into his tl leaning inet the man- falter his trial, when again ker sounded. This time he ng & certain stout and pas- ght of hand in the making of probably heavy to suffora- flows, He wondered w stirred bo aoe os fits However, he atly and ie furtively irks, vir 4. So did Arthur, He just and smi b Was BO nice who didn't really count a4 a nd waa innocent of all fell e hat looted from Mrs. d adorable it looked, too: shoes and atorkings looted ut she had an ulater over She carried tenderly o Arthur happily, alter a ul “Oh, no, Mr, dite see how comfortable hur felt with her. He ap heut fear, tsnid heartily, hen he noticed that in her ‘arried a baaket haldall, i by the wall where it ? way ne didn’ t you come be ur, ow, Mr. Arthur,” Parks e flower “And fram what Mr, me this morning when I —T rather thought I wis Nir. Arthur."* She dis- : triumphantly. for ladies" table decora- iur, giving the thing a show!" said ving ie planet ‘events you Arthur," he replied si pergne in the center of rthur.** bur, giving the thing me,” said little Parks. vy, faa ting i ine, SOUT e parlor iy those dim Leak fenodle for the last nning again “f hae listened euri- to distract her atten- Etter all, it could not be THE SATURDAY EVENING POST long now before aid arrived in the person of Cyril, who, earning his good living simply by the exerciae of tact, waa abeolutely the oan to one for. lg * said etl eh isn't the ay t rham, ¥ Nena Mr, pe ad said Parks. Then she began to laugh. They looked at each other, and Arthur began to laugh, too; ra morogely perhaps, but still he laughed, “Durham!” said littl Parks, ‘Dhad- durham |" ahs gureet and gurgled. “Er—er—w you like 5 ai down?" said Arthur happily. "Thank you, I. Arthur,” murmured She seated herself beside the table ani ee . domesticated eye over lis arrange- eo fidgeted about reatlesshy between the table and fireplace, an eye cocked at “You—you're looking awfully well," he ‘ vethank Mr. Arth ahe replied, oe Ff. Arthur," ahe replies are "You've dra me before in ae m ave youl Arthur about. “No, he ssid. "That—that's a cute little hat, dant it?" “Cute's the word, Mr, Arthur,” she re- ied triumphantly. Arthur gazed at Mre. Drelincourt’s sacri- fice. Then hi eve wandered to Angela's, ae I say!” aaid he, “Silk stockings! | | PENNANT SALTED PEANUTS Eat them daily for hungeraza’ health “An army travels on its stomach.” So do all travelers. No matter how fast you may travel, your body will demand a little refreshment. And when diners, cafes and lunch counters are miles away, that little gnawing of the appetite demands attention. What could the traveler carry with him as an emergency ration that is better than “All the way up, Mr. Arthur,” said little one or two bags of the big nutritious Parke with ture, i n> tot sdb ie as in cashmere,” Planters Pennant Salted Peanuts “Oh, Mr. ‘Arthurt” said little Parks, Good! Refreshing! Stimulating! That's “Planters Pennants"! Roasted by “Planters” own particular method —in a combination of rich vegetable oils — “Pennants” have such a delicious flavor that you'll eat them whether hungry softly amil ae "You noticed!" “Well, I dunno," gaid Arthur, musing: “at the time I didn't know I noticed, but I i ht I did. | lena say," remarked Parks, “that every man's the same at rock bottom." Arthur recovered bis sturdiness with a jerk, ‘Well, he said, “don't let's talk about your stockings." Parks pouted a little. or not. Here's a tid-bit Tibecrpbetey vere m ghe ‘Fepliad. that’s a treat; besides “What do they say?" asked Arthur “Planters Pennants" aid ween: muffied knockings mintiaied in oP Nothing, Mr. Arthur,” replied Parks, glancing around her a litthe curiously. “Nothing? ted Arihor “Well, how can they?" anid Parks. "Tf nae helps ‘em—and I'm not going to, she added cryptically, “though there are: posh who may think otherwise—if mo- the digestion through their ne content of natural Nourishment? The: delicious “Planters Pennants” are as nourishing as beef. A 5c bag contains, by actual test, 250 body helps "em, Mr. Arthur, t don't = b know what's what, or which is which, or calories, the same as a slice who's who.” of roast beef, he neither dio I," said = Arthur, = ape a evs me oe Sie. idk Buy” Planters Pennants” any- ami moet shrew = fH eee Mr. Arthur! Oh, no-o-o-o! Because, you where—Sc a bag. pie |" —ale eee in her chair and leaned Planters Nut and over he ‘ed hoa Mr. ncou it's her and knows it wesun't, fox all cho guesses the one it wes Chocolate Co. "n' If Miss Harmony “Wilkes-Barre, Pa. wl] ss proof; says it’s her and knows it wasn't—ditto; and if the twin does ditto, why—ditta!" When Parks had brought this out with a delicate alr of finesse ashe eat back and arded Arthur, e considered rapidly, on his part. Suffolk, Va, Boston New York Chicago San Francisco Wy ay bee iT curcta and aa pd nothing I’m saved!" hy” ald Par dreami “I wouldn't Bay ‘saved, ‘cause, after i, you Hea 8 going to have you in me pa unt. Peg regarded Arthur very dreamily in- "Tt's pretty oatul, isn't it?" he groaned. “ih, A etal Mr. Arthur," ghe waren eoinpatheticaly. ol: Seer only one owt of it,” said Arthur gloomily. Little Parkes apake ve Ally, although pie sige at heart one of those sweet ma- irls literally without mercy where ME PEANUT PEG_ELS. PAT. CFF. i Bex ia comece "T don't know that I'd put it quite like | that, Mr. Arthur,” tem she, "Help!" said Arthur, “Yea, I'm here to help you, Mr. Arthur,” said little Parks, “and to gave you from the ether women." | “How'll you do it?” asked Arthur des- | tely, for it seemed a4 if ale had SEEN im pers only to snatch it away I You engage me as Jad i abe replied. Lvepwhere i ie "Red Pennantbags”

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110 ry Spark PLUGS THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

One INCH firing surface if PATENTED DOLLAR Gertificate | To order to introduce the ) OFF RAC in Sere" bea widely throughour the country we hare aocher= | ized Fyrac deatera to pre- sent Fou wlth a eeriA- cate Forth $1 on w set of Fytace for your cir. | Toke advantage of ula #| offer while le laste, Give | your moter the benefit of | ) 6 Fyrac In every cylinder, aod ave §l now, Lf your dealer canace Gl your order, write ia—we'll seo you are supplied on thla hacela,

PARR TAAL Hi ‘They are buying FY RAC in one firing POINT SETS OTORISTS who start to buy one spark plug, stop to buy a set of FYRACS, Everywhere FYRAC is selling this way— one FYRAC for each cylinder, Why? Be- cause of one INCH firing surface. One INCH firing surface means multi- apark—a volley of hot blue sparks over an entire inch of stout, strong wire. Multi- spark means bigger explosion—igniting all the fuel vapor in the cylinder. Bigger explo- sion means more power. Is it any wonder that motorists want one INCH firing sur- face in every cylinder? You can SEE multi-spark in action. Your dealer will demonstrate it. He will show you one INCH firing surface with its broad- side of hissing, crackling sparks. He will tell you why YOUR motor will be smoother, aweeter-running with FYRAC in every cylinder. He will explain FYRAC'S much longer life, its freedom from gasoline- formed carbon. He knows. Ask him. See one INCH firing surface demonstrated. Ask him, too, about the Fyrac Dollar Certificate. Go to your dealer today,

Write ws for bookler, "The R fo maze One INCH Firing Ar Way wrfoce” FYRAG MANUFACTURING C0., Rockford, tL Canadian Address; CAMPBELL AGENCIES 2 Richmond Mdg., Toronto, Canada There bt ao Pereoc Plog for every motor made

| present. What terms?"

Arthur was staggered. He began fruit- legaly to object. But T don't want one," said he, “No,” suid Parks, sweetly but firmly; “no. But you need one. You're the kind of man that wanta guarding. And if you engage me you would have nothing to fear” —abe =""from any other fe= male, Yes, you're “the kind man that a looking after, You want managing or. “Wall, I"ve managed my own life for my= self pretty well, so dar, thank you," said Arthur sturdily, “Ab,” she murmured, “but when it 7 to women sine Fa he paused significan “You're Aight!" eaid Arthur, "When it comes to women ——" oy on want helping,” she continued. "You're the aort of man that wants blind- folding and then pushing hard." Arte ur started nriclently, he cried. "Eh?" Little Parks caught herself back from the edge of disaster, She knew the dangers of being premature, Yes, she was one of those eweet maternal girls who make a bee line foraman and get there. Hut he never secs her coming. eee | ae Arte eid bland She she 1 “DoT consider myself en oon cit "sald Arthur, i a ie Tape all “about him, “since I last saw you, oh things have hap the which you ace nothing about, and the job will be of a tem nature only: very temporary. But I shall certainly glad of you at "A pound a week—at present,"’ mur- Parks mured : Ane ees be hie eofthy:; not that she ey think you're darned c pad Arthur with enthusiasm. And "m sure I hope you'll be happy ‘a’ comfortable, Parks." He paused for the suitable reply which he expected, but he did net receive it. ‘Parks." he added repetitively. Little Parks locked at him. “hie look was demure, but then was something in it. pe aiely pulled Arthur together and riveted u ae situation is lady housekeeper,”* she repli Arthur started violently again. There was no doubt but that she flustered him, ““Oh—er—certainly, Miss Parks," he said lamely. And scery, Mr. Arthur,” she added. repeated Arthur, “Gentlenen often have young secre- taries, but not often young househeepera," she me ihat ae at a lot you know of the world, Miss de," asid Arthur lamely. PT ae Cee Ean: Dae A Pons Mr. Arthur? the continued after a ‘ a room?" Arthur repeated =" “What OF Fe “To sleep In, please,” said Parka very emurely, “Oh!” said Arthar, “Oh—sh—yes, of course, The kitchen's through there.” He indicated the door. “And there's a woran— er—who eooks who'll show you the bed- | PTS, Little Parke sat up. “A woman?" she exclaimed. “Tos Hut married," Arthur replied peacefully. “Teeth drawn.” “Ohl Are they?” said little Parks. “A married woman has nothing but double molars. Will you kindly ask her te take my things to my room She indieated the basket holdall, and Arthur's glance followed hers, “T brought very little,” she edded, “de- pending on B te in the baker's cart. My box will follow." ee continued looking at the heldall. He could not exactly have explained why; but there was a subth menace about the thing. That e ne, too, kept staring at hire the tab "Certainly —er— “Misa Parks," swered at last. He seized the holdall and carried it to the kitehen, while Parks remained sitting by the ten table, exercising admirable self- con over her gur He returned, looking very interestedly at her, on his way hack toe the hearthrug, She was the first to breck the ensuing silence. “And now," said she, looking very sot- tled and happy, ' ‘the question is: What are you going to dot" he an- June ; Recalled to realities: Arth=s : heavily in his father’s char. [fe ; favorite brier from the neal a mentable comt. He spoke more Laconically the possibly have felt. “Dot Met “MM said Paric: de" “Wothing,” Sarin Be jer He filled his pipe “ Nothing?" reathed Pano He lighted his pipe. When bt it in the night corner of bis mm: infinitely better, ‘wheer and safe “You can't, Mr. Arthar” rps earnestly. “T ean," sald Arthor. “Taf just as well os anyone ac 4 through with women, -l> Parks. I'm through with ' pir f “Vou know, Mir. Arthur,” : with a soft voice, “there! »: women “And women and women os! added Arthur. “You don't o- mé." A knock sounded just cnoe “Place seems full of “em. But Psi Litthe Parks croged ber ici Arthur mused onoe moore bret stockings, before he exerted oo and turned his eyes away. i pete aofily, “Ida: you know what you're mete “Here!" said Arthur. “Youu ing to octal me off to anyone, _ not, Mr. Arthe,” She smiled. “Ce ite There was o pe fitled hye] to which again Parks listened ‘What are those nome, Vr’ she aeked at Inet. “Oh, nothing! Nothing!’ w "T mean, the Liew about them. I"ve got peer you." ty Oe BP Savey. beers sound of the car bearing C372“! hut the sound came not. ey 5 new gun. What do you thi irk i Then tenderly he fetched 1 the corner where she leaned, he got his hand won ber be‘ moment, hia troubles, He boost to Parks. “Look at her!” said be first; six, seven, four and =z Let me describe her to yo darling, fan"t she, if ewer ther! He stroked the barrel with 2 = “This is Whitworth eteel: mi! here he moved his loving fom the breech, speaking wth = charcoal iron: and tesa lines a are gold: they move—I kre terested in this—and by ther 9 knows at a glance if the bam fired. This "a be the stock walnut. will lax | weighs exactly six pounds = and four pennseretghts. Ob* tothe gun, “Oh, you pemcs ful peek!" After a moment litth Pace @ “Tt Stns «a etul =e that to a gun,” she remarked 79 here was something w= comment. Arthur ntured : i

er. “De guns cost moch?™ set “Sixty quid,” said Artscr | a8 aff from the pac & MSixty quid!" ered Paris could have a lovely wecddcge Arthur turned in heete. echoed irascibly, “Core Parke! What do I want == “Oh, you don't want ome. replied cirearnity. “but et-L - et wie << met his look sqgeum fazed inte his, “Just a minute.” 62 bee hurried, ™“Den't - L be wonderful to have so longed te you; and wht cared thing you did: and Iered re: (Contiaerd « Pop

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a —— : R1C T offer you @ Hew centeption of road en- in B49 friction-proofed tire. ked for years to perfect it. Now we lbe- © era in tire service has been reached. i Whe operotes a moter car, for business fire, is wrged to get the facta, Friction—the destroyer the greatest enemy of tire life, for fiction at. Ane beat destroys rubber. fires. It mmoakes them sustepbble to stone fy. puncturing. It lessens tire life one in running, friction is constantly created. fiettion heated in gaining rood held. A ¢ brake miultipices tt. ia a ocemetant fight, between man-com- rials and the natural element which de- aan 100 ere charged to [riction—to roacl New we 84% overcome if ser an 84 friction-proofed tire! iction Proofed ights Road Burn tradicts all previous conceptions of tire service TT ION DESTROYS RUBB j _— . ~——wa it embodies the experiments of years. Of consul- tation with world-experts. Of innumerable test proc- esses, at which expense was. cisregardedd. The 100% friction-proofed tire may some day be gained. But we doubt it, for it would effect virtually everlasting service. Bae mics, we believe, such tremendous rama en durance that thinking men will scarcely aak for more. Hence in this new and greater Brunawick, the ultimate of today is being offered. Standard prices Note, too, the friction-proofed Brinawick conferms to the stundard bet. Tt ig delivered to the consumer at the price of an ordinary tire. Tt is a product that lives up te the traditions of the House of Brunswick, an institution kmown, more than 76 years, as the manufacturer of super-quality products. See this new Bruonswick—in either cord or fabric— at your nearest Brunawick dealer's, Then enjoy multi- plied serice—a minimum of tire trowble, and you will never go beck to o lesser tire, TWICE - BALKE-COLLENDER CO., General Offices: 623-633 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago Branches in Principal Citien of the United States BRUNSWICK TIRES - §84% Friction-Proofed THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i ah ER! Frectiom, fhe primiiioe means af crecling a %, lame, if faday Ihe ig __ a problem in fire mak- = rap; the tource of road-forA, of 85 Bea diets in JOM, What 446 Friction-Proofed Means Friction is the enemy of every tire in service—the saurce of 93 blow-outs in lial, By special Process, Brunswick Tires are 84% fricdon-proofed, A mew con- ception of tire mileage is thus effected. Service is multiplied; road troubles reduced to an amazing minimum.

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112 CG The ee, Grand Pn IZ Mice ef fran Prine a Pua ama Paeifie sia iliam: a Hrusela; af Milan; aad fori Highest Award of Feet ee THE SATURDAY EVENING POST VACUUM CLEANER Never in all the years of our experience has any Eureka excited such favorable comment as the new 1922 model, recently announced. Almost overnight it achieved a popularity so widespread and so spon taneous as to exceed our own expectations. The basis of this popularity is easy to understand, The performance of previous models in over 300,000 homes had securely established the Eureka’s reputa- tion; and the winning of more international grand prizes than all other cleaners combined, soundly forti- fied its good estate. So when 3300 dealers announced an improved, refined, and beautiful Eureka, women everywhere were eager to see what our engineers had accomplished. What they witnessed was a literally amazing EurexA Vacuum Creaner Company, Detrorr, U. 5S. A. Condion Faery: Kiiehener, Quarip, Forge Areech, 9 Fisher Street, Wodbormy Lomdon, F.C. 0, Emghond demonstration of thoroughness, speed, and a7! ease in vacuum cleaning. They saw the 03 suction remove every trace of embedded or the thickest carpet; they saw the detach | action brush whisk away threads, lint, a- clinging surface litter; they saw the surpr=t venience of the improved nozzle in clean c and along base boards; they saw attachmes! prisingly simple and effective to use, Though many have pronounced the new Do hitherto unapproached achievement in vaqwe™ = design, we urge you to see it and judge tc: the effect of its refinements and improve! Five minutes will suffice. VWiait the © Eureka dealer today. Or write ws for bj

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stinwind agen Page Ifa) dped you; and—and comforted «a were il or worrled; and tea when ou Were poght you all the world? Don’ t at wowld be tater wonderful?" aa be was by this unwelcome shur had stamina enough to Ir renly. rahi A ™ he sald, d little Parka, biting her lipa se"timpesible, Mr. Arthur,” aid Arthur. “I shall be very pated Parke ely. i A. “Well, when I ‘meet o can love I may think so," iknow ber when you see her,” espera panguing % with yourself, don't be Hove te ever Seen i vour know LY ye," choked Parks. “You've er, it I'd notice, [ll swear,” said aiid litth Parka, beside her= ! You don’t notice her—not slaway. He drove his hands of hia disreputable breeches, ‘in the right corer of his i be heartlesaly, “she's lost itis. I'm off to Australia," ‘ery slowly, leaning against epoing back?” ahe breathed, ‘waid Arthur, “Qhuick as I up my mind this afternoon, a your job was only tem- hat,” said Parks. there, Mins Parks," said reat big farm that started eone; but mow you ould into it and lowe it, And "—_he waa flattered to see ke listened—"that started : house, and was added to groom and a altting room, ma, and a veranda and a ind a gaurden, and a bath- dd. And I'm the architect, ‘Ss Mine, And just ‘beset ches at and in it is the only sor Parks ae: " she though tide," Baid reere urmured Parka. id Ime- “But “Tis a iful mare,” returned I said to her, ‘Isolde," I to stay In England I'll esi i ut I ehouwldn't SATE k te you,” And 1, sou know "—bhere Ar- ing quite sentimentally iat she really meant waa, Int be surprised either.! ttle devil! She knew iorse,'" gaidl Parks quite tly Arthur smiled! ing better?" he aud, “I 1 of op-op-op-opinion,” 1 infuriatingly compla- aaid, “I've given you opinion. And in my like, and I sit where an I like, and I have two i whe make me darned the only female thing rut is Isolde.” ini lonely? " said she. ir repea with searn, ord, no! ‘There's my er foot and bit her lip ad. om wr, “is there anything “Tsolde.” im are!" mused Arthur, ingly. “"INow, Isolde,” ironic. INeither is the alk to you in the eve- ee ur. pes like dogs,” said rou'll go back to him, THE SATURDAY Arthur nodded. “Yes. There're no com- plications in life out there," Bt faking cout think you'll leave a good ‘ gaked Parke, biting her aol lip eek Arthur grinned, ay hope so," he replied. He waggled the pipe in the. right side of his Taouth. He began te feel quite humerous about it all, now that any moment might eis Cyril—with that inimitable tact on which pAb 2 life hung—to the rescue. In an aoa spirits he began to sing, burlesquing a song which was to little Parks—or to any other nice girl of her ik—sacred. Kearney sang Arthur], “our day ig Ended th hs d-r-reream divine You minal go-o fah-ck to your life [sob], J aust bah-ck fo mine! H-h-kow" (Arthur sobbed) “crn J lire | weilionl Fd How con f let peow po-ooP™ A seream from Parka stopped Arthur in full song. He turned and saw her with her arms on the table and her head on her arms, He recolled, feeling terribly apprehensive again. eT Oh, dear!" wailed littl Parks. ‘Oh, dear | ‘Oh, dear!" She sobbed piteously. [t almost touched Arthur. “Eh?" he said, “What's the matter now?" “It's such —g—be-eau-tiful song,” sobbed Parks, “It makes you think,” “Think what?" vad Arthur. Little Parks lasked up. Ob," " trembled she, “w-w-weuldn't you re-r-really like to be with she irl who loved you, by “this fire- aids the stackin’ basket a sitting opposite r— ing— ng You don't kn-kn-know how nice things “No!” yelled Arthur, “Step it!" rd ts rocked te and fro, “ Well—that's Ff Boat said Arthur bris Cleari the the dubious points dente chi “twet ri ere anything else?" Well, yeu know," faltered Parks, “there's a sort of—sort of glamour in get- re hescae!* aid (Acta ngeling. | our !"* ¥ his pipe enthusiastically. ‘Glamour! You should see our sunsets. Getting waeried’ ‘a | nothing to 'em.' Parks faltered on, weak but purauing. ee oe do at nig rou do when you feel—when you f “When Ih I feel?" prompted Arthur help- fully. "Romantle," quivered Parks, "tr don't,” said Arthur. me ir you might,” quivered Parks stub- "I should Piny na yea = sing,” said Arthur, Wand th d we'd get rid of it dint way “A banjo, too!” reed Parks in a voice of utter deapair, Arthur nodded, complete.” He waa relieved to see the poor girl aud- denly pull herself together. was desperation on her face, but it was calm. "Wall," she said, “that's that,” Arthur was glad to find her so open to | reasonable conviction, and he waa ready ta Basuage any normal curiosity. “Anything sop he aseked_ Parks sat aren “Yea, Mr ur, at “Out with it,” said Arthur eneourag= i 2 ittle Parks amiled with extreme sweet- ness “Tou once said you would repay," “Repay whom?” sald Arthur, “Me,” said Parks, “For saving you | from being marred." Arthur agreed to this heartily. "I've been thinking for some time of leaving England,” anid little Parka; “of ny ting to the colonies,” turned her innocent trustful eyes op to Artie “Er—er—whiech colony?" asked Arthur, beginning to walk about rather uneasily | aL “Australia, " replied Parks softly but | inflexibly, Arthur walked a little faster. | an —you want to go to Australia, too?” | eaid Mt nodded Parks, “I'm copable ond | strong and moat domesticated. My health's good. Perhaps you could recommend me "Yes, you eee—I"m EVENING POST Tir Dadi Choe Sarl showiders amd beck mmitles fm ee a ee pride, 114 Cherrarigkel 2? aalmeiee a ae F. of fhe Dguly Bhai fo ae! ell nid Eee bok Ber acm -ilores, emu igded, half-alined The Fait Dee Gach Buta eae ee F. ja done ead Ten Minutes’ Fun a Day Gives You Health, Strength and Vitality—Free Record Proves It. GREAT and new idea— ane more fun than a game! You cannot appreciate the fascina- tion, the glow health, ihe amourt of “pep™ you acquire from exercis- ing to music until you have treecl it! Ten minutes a day of genuine fun will keep you ft. Walter Camp has made it possible. The famous “Daily Dozen" Exercises of this great Yale coach—exercises that reach and strengthen every muscle in your body—have been set to music on phonograph records, with Mr. Camp's special permission. You put a record on the machine and the lively, spirited music carries you through ten minutes of the moat exhilarating fun. Youaresweptalong with a buoyancy that willamaze you. And the result of this ten minutes’ fun a day is a glowing health, a glori- ous Vitality, a springy step, a bright eye—and, in short, a whole, healthy, breathing and zestful man or woman tingling with the very glow of life. But the famous ‘Daily Dozen” do not stop their wonderful work there. Farfromit. If you are over- weight they will reduce your waist- line. 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Free men oie Record and Chart Bees FREE! 5 HEALTH BUILDERS, ™ Dept. BBs Oyster Bay, N.Y F be Dtralch famous : é » plving “er Walter Campa fh Balkice Record, “Dally Doreti™ chum exbhon phe AL yobs ten and eimple direrckones for dhe a Quarter ld 4 come In sham ‘This dora pot oh late sample record aed tbe Lhe Pio Er ot a bia ey powtage, wie fic in ony way whatever ond Ehe Chart ae mle bo Pleo, —_———— = (Ficasc write plainly) Addie

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Americas Foremost Cigar ‘your nerves for a post to one of your neighbors if you are fully suited yoursels,”" “EAT said Arthur, “Yeas, of cours. thirty miles away." Porks gulped and recovered, " Deda they ler dameatic servants horses in Australia?" she asked, losing and regaining in a breath a fine steadiness of Vice, “Oh, Dexpect so," said Arthur, wagglin his pipe. “Do you wish to take wp riding!” “T would be obliged to," said Parks. “Well, Miss Parks," said Arthur, “there's no doubt that [am rateful to you, and so Please consider any help [ can give you at OuLr service. But I say—the expense of passage —"n * all ou hove to think of that sort of thing, my doar girl, haven't youT" Little Parks was perfectiy brave. “Tv saved a bit," she anewered. “IT shail go steerage.” Arthur hovered from one foot to the other. ““Were—er—were “ia thinking of going on thé same boat?" he h ed. “Thank you for suggesting it, Mr. Arthur,” answered Parks very grote fully. “Mo?” said Arthur. “Suggest? I don't. Br-<don't let me influence VOUr choice in ae way. I just asked a ¢yuestion.”" ut ¢he held on her way softly yet in- flaxibly, "Perhaps when you arrange your awn passage you would be kind enough to ur range mine, Mr. Arthur—me having no traveling experience. Arthur was not clear in his own mind why he did not like the trend of this con- versation, but like it he did mot. However, gratitude is gratitude, or should bee. "Oh, certainly,” ho replied, “Tt's a little thing to do for you after all vou've done for me." Parks rose quietly fron her ehalr. "Thank vou, Mr. Arthur," ahe miur= muped. Arthur lagked at this niece obligin tg girl standing so unobtrusively and gratefully there. He looked at the epergne shoe hod brought him. He mused again upon her silk stocking. His mind seemed less clear and his will less dependable than usual, “T gort of don"t—don't like this steerage iden,’ he said obtusely. “Towonder why, Now | wonder why I don't just like it." He pondered at her silk alockingrs. “T can't think!" said she in tones of acid despair: for there are limits to every worm- an's forbearunce. "No, I don"t like tt," mused Arthur, “Still—I daresay it’s not eo bad nowadays, Tl came and look over at you—and ['ll chuck some apples daw mh Fors moment Purks fooked gt Arthurin wrathful silence, Me was still pondering at her atockings, and knew nothing. She Genched her fiat inv pote: nthy. She looked round for relief, Sizing a fate from the table she cast-it with concentrated force upon the Moor, where it lay shattered, Arthur awake wWolenthy, " Ap-ples!" said little Parke very slowly a littl fidgety. My nearest neighbor's between ber locked teeth, ““-e-pood heavens!" stuttered Arthur, logking: at the smashed plate, Parks walked with extreme violence ta the door and back tipiin, and faced him: “T'd like to know what AOMe Men are made of!" she geitted. “Ape les!” Arthur hurried after her, “ How ean they be m-m-made of apples?” he stutbered. "Dent be silly." Parks hurried away from Arthur, clench- ing her hands, beitingz her lips, and elim p= Ving. She had bet go. = s

the things ¢ is eg dot they dont do “ Listen,” said “T couldnt what I think : ing about vioker keep uw “Tt's a pity we can't dai continued Parks, tn bewiing, | ean'tl" “ Please!" cried Arther, Parks took up the saigarh it to the flour. “From the highest to te she, “just the same! Free f ls the youngest, all the same! ‘em! I know * em!" q “Good heavens!” shoted] side hime! Parks stamped up and & had let je. “T loathe the lot!” crind ‘em! ‘There isn't @ man sie She snapped her fingers mge faci, “Oh, it's «8 pity we col de And ag for you, you ocuget @ of yourself. All men ought ushamed cf the msl i Ob, Please !"" said Arthur gy “But shame ["" cried sim feel it? Nol" She smashed plate after ph and Arthur had to duck ton missiles. “ Apples 1" "Tsay!" said Arthur | "'T'D fetch mo things,” round at him. tape shouted Archer she cried, £ "Aden!" cred Parics. “Please! Please! Fi Arthur, A perfect hiricon af & broke out abowe and below fin reponse to the belay Parks was falsing, Ard i listen to a word he sud chap from the table, It waa light and crumbiy, “You go to perchin” | And she hurled the cake and caught hie fair, moe hia fas again she ea Po For @ short while Arthorm with crimbs, with bis feet cevie Sane Seneee He felt on extraordinacy ® ; ey his — 5 ae unpl why eno pipe commer of hts ¢ mouth, ane bed looked at it thoughtfully. lonked from the pipe to Parks had departect, amd bee ant down on the #dge of che Never in his life hed he b He smiled onee more. “That's a—a bowel “That's @ lovely gai!” (TO BE CONDLEg

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 115 Ni My cal fll Fin ie aa Mii 2 | Vy od Hl I Quality Always! — NATIONALLY ENDORSED — As evidence of the superior quality of BADGER TIRES, following is a list of representative concerns distributing this meritorious line, | l j a Julius Andrae & Sons Co, : Chas. Tfeld Co. ES a $ | a -- rapisisssnay ols Santa Rosa, N. M. | |e iu Arkansas Dry Goods Co, Kelley-How-Thompeon Co. re ect A eee wi Batesrille, Ark, Duluth, Mines, ia: ML | Ty Appleby Bros. & Whittaker Ca. Harrisburg, Pa. Badger Tire & Rubber Co. Spokane, Wash, Barker, Rose & Clinton Co, Elmira, M. Y. Cook Tron Store Co. Rochester, N.Y. Thomas P, Deitrick & Ca, Richmond, Vo. G. W, Dickel & Co, Lidgerwood Auto & Machine Go. Lidgerwood, NW. 1, C. MM. McClung & Co, Knowle, Tenn, Motor Hardware & Equipment Cao, San Diego, Calif, Norfolk Motor Equipment Corp, Narfolk, Vo. Purcell Wholesale Grocery Parcell, Okla, Philadelphia, Pa, Rapides Auto Co,, Inc. Federal Sales Co, Inc. Alexandria, La. i Buffals, . ¥. _ : Roes-Frazer [ron Ca. General Motor Equipment Co. St. Joseph, Mo. Mitchell, 3.1. ; Roy & Titcomb Gritith & Turner Cao, s Pasi Arie Babineore. Mid. Hermann-Sanford Co, Springfield, Ala, Horrocks-Ibboison Ca, ties, Wi, ¥, Chas, Ilfeld Co. Las Vegaa, MN. M., Chas, [feld Co. Albuguergue, MN. MM. Schwabacher Hardware Co. Seattle, Wash, Stewart Wholesale Cao, Bolas, Taha Watertown Motor Accessories Co, Watertown, &. D. Wetmore: Savage Co, Boston, Mass. Is not the foregoing sufficient endorsement. of BADGER TIRES? Sold at a price within the reach of all. THE BADGER RUBBER WORKS MiLWAUKEE.WiscONsIN

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116 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ee K- Piston Rings SAVE YOU POWER When you “step on her” and your car | lags back— POWER is being wasted somehow. It's a sure sign your gas isn't THAT CANNOT CLOG J doing its work—can’t do its work, and | the cause is usually leaky piston rings. No-Leak-O Piston Rings won’t leak. A specially cut groove—the “olSEALing” " groove—found only in : No-Leak-O Piston Rings—packs an oil filmin between your piston and cylinder walls like “packing” in a pump. The oil “packing” seals in all the expanding gas. Every drop must work, The same “film” not only prevents oil from working ap into your cylinder heads to form carbon but keeps “unburnt” gas and kero- zene from seeping down into the crank case to weaken lubrica- ¢ tion. No-Leak-O rings often restore power in old motors when other rings fail, ! For more gas mileage, less oil consumption, fewer re life and more power, tell : repair man to ade gia pe a and Piston Rings in your car. They give perfect oil control and com- u pression in each individual ring. Write for interesting illustrated booklet, “The Piston Ring Problem and Its Solutions” —telling why No-Leak-O does what no other ring can do. NO-LEAK-O PISTON RING COMPANY i ‘a fe Dept. P-1 | > Te BALTIMORE, MD. READ THIS SIGN Nar | Remember it—Look for it. i =i ; i a ae a Price During Eight Years of Continued Success q Goreze, or Tumply Store > One eae For All Cars—50 Cents And Up Garage Man dousn't daplay Aim you most Ae No-Leak- Rings for your nex! overhang ware of onifatrons. |“NO-LEA PISTON RING —— —OFL SEA WON'T LE A because they're sealed wit!

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vet Why, little girl’ —npgain ged at he chock— "why, little road him with the cleaver inile, ord in two aeoonda I had i begging for his life, That," i, keting bis humor min mot et, “we when I made him eawoman took, [I'm a re am, amd I ike refined com- ut cook Was a roughneck, so at. Taat's how ah , New poll are here," & Gul= itr, “'T going to see that y rough stuff around a oe womer like I can see you pood-bearted guy,” she told jorasl beginning to pat the iheen patting ber shoulder. peced to glance at the clock. e exclaimed, forgetting the burst of a moment before, fy at them spuds! And if le" —this, the way, was eway of offering insult ta a rman—“if that big Swede rdon't butt in, I can handle mH Belt. iter Finni made hinself lady for life, She had re he task of cutting bread for ind a9 a slice fell away from af the knife slipped and cut e said indifferently, reach= - loaf. But Finnigan had s, From a shelf above his afoll af bandage cloth and ile T fix it,” he commanded. he continued aa he defthy nage, “that auch pretty Nd have te do such work, fussing with nice silks, or met hing.”" un toe wonder how much fie would deere pit before cut, However, the lady of bawling him owt. In- blue orbea became misty w-hearted guy," she told ere ann sang Bin don . Finnigan , sue ng hia desire to grin, “I dof tender-henarted yotur- he bandaged hand a part- the sight of blood makes auyhe you'd better your strength back." L “Tt ain"t the sight of fea! like piiara She ao 1 enraptu gare as he msink te steve and from orand back again. a smart man like you vour time In a kitehen," shame?™ he demanded, gh to produce a greasy, book From one of his t that if you think it's a d TI have made it easier w figures entered in the iidispuised mdmiration, theugand dollars!" she that's enough to start a a Testaurant or sone ‘inn eal with ‘ac to de that wery thing ‘ting alang terward forty for me to be settling atendy. If I just hada mare ——"" Hiv. Unele Andy Me- ered to lease him the non the bay, provided rniture and equipment, amily at the bank book F. ’jast man I"ve saved ' she told him. "Be- soon save @& thousand « his life's ambition does not always con- sat. Finnigan did not immediate cost. He at she intended to in- @ rDomery'- demanded. ef able arm. snus into her THE SATURDAY EVENING POST EN FINN MEETS FINNIGAN | (Continued from Page 8) papas lap. A few cine eg later, vee e felt he must something appropriate te the olny tald her shee we, the first woman he hac ever kissed. He won- dered if she would fall for such old stulf. Apparent! ahe did. "T could tell that,” she anid comfortably, “But I'll teach you. I've had experience.” Paring the following weeks but one shadow darkened stanlgen anticlpationas. That was the shadow of Toive Saarenpas. Ocensionally the big Finn would come into the kitchen and stand silently admiring his statuesque cook until she ordered him out. This always seemed to amuse him, but invariably he obeyed ber without argu- ment, Helga seemed undisturbed by these visits, but in Finnigan's mind a haunting huneh grew and persisted that Saarenpaa had decided to take Helga himself, and was simply awaiting an opportune mo ment, ¥ Teputation he knew the per- sistence of the Finn. And he alao knew the mentality of the man—jeared to tro spedds, slow and slower forward, and no re- VETER, There came an afternoon early in June when Saarenpaa wandered into the kitchen—and Finnigan knew hia worst fears were to be realized, “Miss Elo," said Saarenpaa, “there are pring to be big doings dawn on the bay ourth af July. I'm going down the river now tose McPherson about the : A big time, we always have. ing, and races, and a ball game and everything. I'm going te take you with me." Helga turned and folded her arma over her ample bosom, ‘Who said ao? she asked. "T did,” said Mr. Saarenpaa. Finnigan stopped his dishwashing and dried hin hands. Watching the big Finn with a malevolent glare he sidled across the room and picked up a long carving knife. He tried the blade on his thumb. A parenky he was not satisfied with the eenncess of it. He began to stroke it up and down a sara pening steel that hung suspended above meat block. Sasrenpan falled when bo notion Finnigan. He was still gazing at Helge. To his noe tion she was well worth looking at. But he waa beginning to resent her attitude toward him. Iga continued to return Samren- pun's gaze, Nevertheless, sho kept glanc- ing apprehensively toward Finnigan. The morment he oeased sharpening the lang knife ale interposed her bulk between him and Saarenpan, “You'd better get t'hell owt of here," she said to the Finn. Saarenpaa grinned, “T like to see you mad," he told her. "Some day I'm going to take it all out of you." Sone breath es#eaped with a long warning hiss, Helga turned on him hastily, "You." she said sternly, “go over to the sink and ico arta ries - Saarenpas finia is mestage. He os net intercsted in what he considered Beis payer troubles with her flunky. "You be ready to go with me right after breakfast on the Fourth," he told her as he tured to leave the kitehen, Finnigan remained beside the meat block, gazing at Helga with hurt, indignant Baze. “There now, dearie,"’ she «aid sooth- ingly, “don"t be mad with me. I could see you were getting ready to do a murder, and we can't afford to apend all our money for lawyers and judges and auch," Finnigan was not immediately pacified. sums I sure met A a lot,” he decided, "ht gu butting into my private quarrel ke that.” . Helga stooped and kissed him mostly, "TI know vou do," she assured him. "And there ain't no need for you to mind what he “yr Because he's going to say it, anyhow, retty soon now that fellow's going te try to marry me, and then you'll eee whet happens when a Finn meets @ fr rR “And what happens when a Finn meets # Finn,” the little man declared earnestly, “jan't & circumstance to what happens when a Finn meets a Finn spirits un to sink. 4 Nog But later, busy with the dishwashing, his | “Slow and slower forward, and no re | verse," he kept thinking gloomily; “and the big bruiser can't go any Blower with her than he has been going." A Thrifty Car for America, too HE chicf concern of the European motorist is: “What will motor transportation cost me mile, and how can I obtain the finest and most dependable service at the lowest cost?" He 1s not so much interested in first cost, as aiimateoost. His living expenses are budgeted. He knows to a penny what everything costs. And he spreads it over a period of time. He considers the average American car owner Tiotously extravagant. Experts Have Agreed [t is by such study of international problems In motor transportation that the Marmon has developed inte the new-day standard of com. bining thrift with elegance. Marmon designers have anticipated today's trend. It 1s no mere coincidence that it has attained such perfect balance, such absence of vibration, such ru construction, Tt is ho mere coin- cadence that the Marmon has a simplified six- cylinder motor, suchas Rolls-Royceof England, Renault of France, Mercedes of Germany, Fiat of Italy and Hispano-Suiza of Spain. Automotive experts of international repute have agreed upon the fundamental principles which insure the finest form of transportation at the lowest cost per mile. And Marmon typifies the American attainment. New Economies To depart from the realm of mere claims, we have introduced “Standardized Service,” a nation-wide, flat-rate system of maintenance. Every Marmon dealer now offers you known. prices, lower prices and efficient handling of every Job, Thus all guess-work is removed. Thus every Marmon owner knows exactly what his car Costs. He knows hove economical it 15 to own. “The Foremost Fine Car,” Only because of the inherent superionty of the car, ous because of the study made of thou- sands of laterlay Marmons, ts such a daring offer possible. But it was inevitable—the out- growth of vision and the desire upon the part of a great builder to give the pabue what it is rightfully entitled to: the finest form of trans- portation at the lowest cost per mile. MARMON CThe Coremost Chine Car Mileage Costs Now Interest Americans as well as Europeans Prices Reduced Marmion prices, resendip reicined doses, are; Tourisg Cara F185 Coupes $3995 Sedans $4245 Wine wheels, sbork aheorbhers, and ooiu- mere, Bilao! Price fa, b, Baiian- apelia, emcee Gem be owt merc (ie compen mew Jor the nicut iter: eabing boobled pom Agawt emer read a tke wudgect og” om fonigttiia = puintr- SHIRA Sete, Ff ahewa akg ane mre able fo make this revelulton- airy anndner: meen! amd any fie Mernuan ia frat to adop! Stanedord- ite! Serene. The fookied de annt Free bo ell icko mak, Simply all owt emu par and mail if. Marder & Marmhob Cx Fapoliiahed F495 ledigeg pole. lode Gentlemens Koad) p veered ae og cep of Abeer Trasepenagen Cope," drectibing in dell ria now epee of Sourdacl- ized Serb ‘awe City hate : t i + 4 street H i | i a Z . * Cre eee ie

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How Do YOU Heat YOUR Bathroom? Is tt provided with a permanent method of eating on chilly daya—by a gas heater that ibn abeelutely odorless —that harmonizes pers fectly wath the Gnest bathroom Axtures— that ts always there ready for mstant wee and never in the way? Hoot, YOU are missing half the comfort of a mcdern bathroao. Reznor hathrowm heaters have been designed to fll this long felt need and are the only appliance of this kind on the accepted list i the underwriters’ laboratory, established amd maintained by the National Board of Fire Underwriters. false mods fer alectricits) Write For oar free bookiet of complete inferimatjon. Then trait your archix Bett, THoihel ling or fombing contraicbor. nel Te wise fue” i te E lerater vow imatodl. Reznor Manufacturing Company 10 Main Street, Mercer, Pa. When you go a-trav- eling be sure to take along CosyToes— you'll enjoy their snug comfort. Appropriate atylen fermen and cdl dealers”. for omen, Fen, At leading Beokles upan request, STANDARD FELT Co, Wert AlKambre, C feltwear California's Qualiteed Slippers FROM SUN-DLEACHED WOOL MOTOR. TOURS BOSTON NEW YORK: WASHINGTON PHILADELPHIA: CHICAGO -HAVANA Superior Cars, Superior Service The only way -Interesting-Economical | i Maps and Ooides Gee at Toist Fa or mailed 2* for each diy . = iT SS + ) more—and the meaner he is THE SATURDAY Sonrenpan, when bia littl mesage bo Holga had beun delivered, went down to the boat landing and untied the company's launch. Two hours later he found Uncle Andy McPherson in the lobby af hig hetel ing a number of cronies with w de- tailed review of the activities of the Spruce Division. “T mare money out of the war,” he was eaying. “More than I had ever expected to make. I"m mot Genie that. And I'm hat saying the railra the Spruce Divi- sion built won't be a benefit to a let of us timber owners here along the coast. But think of spending all thoee millions Just wetting ready te got out a little s ITU for * Unele Andy snorted his disa: — “why,” he continued, quoting quires Finnigan had recited for his benefit several weeks carlier, “only about sixty- four board feet of spruce are used in build- ing an average plane. Six and a half million feet would have been gufficient for a hundred thousand planes. In a month's time with my outfit T could have cut and milled that much of the finest epruce in the work." Saarenpaa mulled over this statement for amoment. The point of criminal extrava- ganee Line Andy was trying to make entirely escaped him. He was a literal- minded man, the Finn was, interested only inf facts pertaining to his gem voration. "No, you couldn't have gotten out that much umber in a month,” he contradicted stelidly. “Not with your outfit. But I guess maybe 1 could have with mine.” An eminent writer has said the only way te anfue with an east wind is to put om an overcoat, A less eminent Missourian hes aaid the only way to argue with a mule is to use a club. The Missourian’s philosophy is the oftenest puted in the f Compa. Several of Uncle Andy's friends ex- changed furtive glances of amusement while they wai for the good-natured old lomberman to answer, But Unele Andy simply shrugged his shouldera and pews speaking about the coming Fourth of July celebration. Aa they di t Bion wt of sporta he kept studying the big inn with speculative, rather peeved ex- Pave,” he said when moat of the de tails had been , do you think you can throw oy mill best" “Sure,” Saarenpaa said complacently. “Didn't I throw him twice within half an hour last eng “That's ri you did," MePherson apr ot th this yeur I'm going to give sere hanes te im and a3 many mon bullies aa you want to. I'm rene bo anchor a scow o86 in deep water oul peng the beet of your men and Pll take tof my men, and we'll put ‘em oat on the seow and let them throw each other of. The last man left on the deck will be the best man, and the best man will gol a prise of two hundred and fifty dollars.” Sopronpaa considered this new matter eravely for a time. When finally he vis- ualized the possibilities —his roughnecksen- Ah hand-to-hand conflict with Uncle vi forty or fifty huge, hairy, loggers struggling for individual mIpTEMAcy on the flat open deck of a scow anchored in deep water--he smiled in on- acca pat ria: es there'll be sore fun,” he said. “And T think maybe you can give me that two hundred and fifty dollars now if you want to. ghee need that eB Pretty soon I'm getting married, and I'll have to build a hese a everything.” “Til egrapaas: you when you get married,” Unele Andy said none too cor- oid “and I'l give you the money when sPeices bustiiall preceivally every} ore ni Pr. ¥ VERY lOREer along the rivet had heard of the battle Uncle Andy had Fiemined Bnet. practically every man was hoping the big Finn would fall dead before ‘ourth, For Unele Andy had announeed the event would be open to all comers, each man for himself, no teamwork, no boots er other lethal weapons, and no glory of cash for the men who were thrown overboard in the straggle. As soon as Unele Andy learned Saaren- paa had definitely aeanititied himself te par- cons in the contest he went post-haste riland, the nearest large city. There he hunted up a fellow lumberman of kn aporting proclivithes. “T want you to find a professional wres- tler for me," he said. “He must bes hig fellow—two hundred and fifty pounds or e better I'll OWE | ike him." EVENING POST “That'll be the toe-twister, Joe Shultz- m,"" the sporting lumberman declared, “Joe ip ao big and so mean he hasn't hed a match far more than a year. And I know he needs money." When McPherson met the noborious tom twister he wasted ne time in gerdng San te business, He told of the contest ataginig and of i be was offeri How much will there be in it for mo? the wrestler asked. “Tao hundred and fifty dollara far golag down with me, and the two-hundred-and- fifty-dollar prize if you win it.” F I'm on,” the toetwister declared. “When de we start?" “Today,” MeFhersonesid. “And you'll have to work in the mill until the Fourth. My men would get gore if they found I had run in a profesional, and if Sanrenpaa's ian should get mest they pau ont ikely gang up om you an you death.’ There occurred but one litthe slip in Unele Andy's preparations. To make a place for the wrestler he had to shift his mill wateh- men tranether job. Oneol the toe twister'sa new duties was to check out all tools taken fom ed one day that Uncle Andy’ t happened one t nele 8 mill boas, the only man along the river who had ewer dared challonge Snarenpan ta physical combat, started away from. the storeroom with a bundle of ax handles for a aang 9 who was driving out to one of the in the wns, “Here, you the wrestler yelled, * back and. si The mill was in too tak past then to return, and one little remar ed to another until the toetwister [ost his temper. By sudden assault hethrew the mill bess, Then he waceremoniously dragged him to the edge of the loading wharf and ann into the river. Poa men at ager who saw cor belt (oe were fair judges man power. Within twenty-four hours a rumor reached the other outfita along the river that a con- tender for Saarenpan‘s laurels was working for Woele Andy. Saurenpaa heard the rumor in due time, and permitted himself a smile. "t he tried his strength with bully from Vaneouver down to California? Amd had he ever met a man who could worry him? Hehad not. So he permitted himself a smile regarding tha newcomer. He was more interested and just a4 certain regarding the quteame of hia little affair with Helga. In preparation for the time when he should propose to her he had had the company's launch overhauled and painted and Polished until it looked tile anew craft. He wos planning the matter carefully. On the mornin the Fourth he would run the launch down to the bay himself, with Helga aa his th geen Undoubtedly b sis ne. they reached the bay ahe w en ey would enjoy the day’ 3 pelts And after he had thrown the last man off the bh scow he would take the prise money an with the | start. for the big city. He had made up his mind te de the OneyIMocn thing Fight, even if the trip oat him all of the two hundred and fifty he was sure of winning. The rmeorning of the Fourth dawned clear end tranquil and aa delightfully cool aa only the mornings of the On comet can be. Early in the harder ont of the river boats came whistling up te ompAny wharf to take the crowd down to the At the sound of the boat's siren Helga, in holiday or honeymoon attire, accompanied by the poueec but loyal "Finnigan, heft the kite “Sow mind," ahe cautioned ag they ap proached the wharf, “it's bound to come. And don't you butt in, I won't need no beellp."" anna, watching for the lady, rose and striocked the ashes from his pipe, then stretched himself like a contented well-fed cr blond and blueeyed grizzly. elpa went to him, seeking the encounter. To Sauron this betokened a FAraapeer apirit. Taking ber ann he led her ceremoni- ously but hastily to the launch. He hoped she © tigers! t start anything before the ero “Untie us," he flung over his shoulder Manion obeyed reluctantly, But h nigan uctantly, But he cig Hadn't the lady told him it was bound to come and that he shouldn't in- terfereT He untied the line and east it in a neat coil on the glistening deck. ss he did #0 he decided impulsively he would go June ', abeard and if mesemery delet op, with his life. He Bt oc Fey anything over on a Finnigas Saarenpad, Unaware thas the U=y nfact im the situation, eis: + actor, temporarily at beget by pay brawny hand against the wear! 1 careless showe propelling tie be=-s hundred feet. out Imte the rire eon a turned dejected’, ouse, Got df deto-q foe he had left bo te, 5 Now he knew the affair had ter =— ter of brain Terma frve-_ a eotld think faently it prem a lant? Later, on board the | the eclebration, he Poured a rercstes who were quickening their mar nace in a similar manner, The other sporting erent o! fy the foot races, the gem, ta matches and the logrollicg preliminaries, formalitwa perc! tolerant good humor of the oe heal jnberest. wae centered on hs ‘= fcow, open and wnrailed, anchor on the placid water of ee hundred yarda from the shore Promptly at teo that gic- & Andy stepped into a marbesl asi off from the shore a few yard & tract the attention af the eons ag he could make birself beced }-; the conditions of the costest “Every tan for bims “Boota, anes and peaveys ate le men temming wp will be dino boats will stand by te pick a = iy Cats last man of =a a the prise money—va- and fifty dollars.” ‘a Immediately there wie a rey Water, and soon the big acow tare with eager men. Some wer a bathing sulle; nothing else. tues ones, comservitg | those who could pot ror out in motor boats. McPiux: pected forty to fifty men to ess teat, but word of 3 of the prize offered bF, bullies from. as far morth as P= ee hinted Atoka Gur one hu mor ia trial of strength than exper print, made their way oat to tr there, impatient for the age f start the fray, milled and psa praised ong another. The tot-twister, waiting onal clamorous for actc= 4 fering down to the beck. ik moment he had insisted uper @ prefeional attire of his calre i his appearance im felve Tiare of appa ro Was more prone to app Laabel., ae rage aes =| nips Tare mar, J ial ling muscles, the gs splendid limbs, But “| and the tom-teister, yal pee hy d ust before he stepped Ee beat Dnele Andy a 4 | “The big white fellow of. Sal of the scow is your man, W him, throw him so hard he J & “He'll apatter,”” the tats: As the boat put off from voice hailed him: “Fellow, I wantin bei - your name?” _ ‘The wrestlers gealken accel § t. “Joe,” he a ical amalle. Then another putting my wp Again Jing of alc ads SUAPET ak, stood in his corer wrutizhiing And he watched ertthest cel indifference. Tohe-diag ce spoiled fcr Sore oak PB cond m= ia livid seratches Sha eas) aS ee where Ale ao had cored Ss! way down 4 Fiver, be Boe driit lone ncugt te Tore WE &@ SUpeestion of => om one tyra, ‘That wae secs Fo fet had connected whem fa to seeept a betrotiel Kise omo big Finn waa bea itn tee the treatment be had eee (Continesd om pare 3

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ftoetiaond from Page 1/4) ad ustethered his northland goat “pcbal whipping she had adminis- He repstered rather slowly in E a Lieown language he was capella at fuleperd. And at hadi own language. She had au, with unlagging earnestness time be gave Up his attempt to unt they Mached the bay. She umenced with the his' of hig wild Finn Peo By had recited alogy generation generation edt, TT Taiyo, son of Toivo. pared the ‘gtanenitelion of his line, tea by with a mere pitying sneer. vier the launch was Ged aft the the bay, just aa he was formulati eply to her tirade, she had wal m him and he hadn't seen her ee no way to treat o one to marry pan, i marked, ‘Was In no feative humor. ire than one logger could have oe, WheT & est ike Saarenpon iget mad somethi ng was going ng to arenpaa had deci the thing poling to bust waa Unele Andy's He stood atolidly in his commer it aeant heed to tha men who e another near him. He had waste no effort with anyone but who had given his mame as Joe, jalence settled over the waitin while they listened for the gi one on the seow gave heed to a bantam of a man in dripping io crouched in the corner acrosa iv Finn. From his attitude he e been a spectator who had iy pressed] forward into the field 2o far aa the spectators on the compared he waa utterly wn- all wave Hel She alone had innigon Be dived into the the firet rush of men. She had i dong cary atin knife waa eon- where in pe inging wet. over- che had left Saarenpas at the oorning until she saw the crowd. Tt ta t beach she had aayed fon of a room in Unele Andy's oon her merthland gods to man. With Finnigan crouched acow she had ne bt Saaren- id already been written in the sting. She hoped Finnigan le to do the deed undetected. gan had no knife concealed. any definite plan. He wos an fighter, Finnigan was, and his sation of a man who fighta uwe—or, in his particular ease, mbitian, a Lost hotel, e that had settled over con- apectatora alike was broken dy. t yelled, “all sett" came an answering roar from ‘ent. Hairy bod desea with There were no to govern. men chose ‘echations holds. amith, weteran of many o ly, preferred his fists. With Wop he drowe a luckless vic- 1 inte the bay. A roar of fup from the crowd on the two men, locked in love E down inte deep water te ber roar came from the crowd. o became general and ome by ay two the men around Bel f the Som ble ts e ® process of being aualedd the i al nen newer ine youth who cherished a ‘c against Saarenpaa waited momentary opening among hen rushed the Finn. Seem- eifoart Saarenpan met the routh for an instant in ching embrace, then negli- he winded body overboard, mmediately rebirned to the ~, By watching the wre ‘ning somethin 2 mill boas, t 1 man Joe thrown ante the cht had, idy gave the signal to go, twister, hoping to regain e had charged with hands rant of him. Like muscled twister hacl caught one of ands, had ducked under the m. had grabbed a leg hold, all in one eon tinuous mighty straightened up with the ss gerosa his shoulders and THE SATURDAY had heaved him viciously toward the edge of the scow, Two innocents who struggled in the path of the hurtling body went over- heard with the mill oes, Joe had gone out to the scow intending to gave himself for a conclusive bout with tha Finn, but he liked to manites ‘ern, amd his eaay victory over the m ] bose. was aa blog to a man-water, With bead lowered be bween ul shotlders he went into action. His technic did mot vary. outstretched hand waa all be looked for, He would grab that outstretched hand in a grip of steel, duck under the outstretched arm, grab a leg hold, straighten up with the bedy of his antagonist across his shoul- ders, and then heave. He aimed so his victim would hit the ¢ edge of the seow be- fore going inte the water. Man after man followed the mill boas overbourd, and the crowd on shore screamed itself hoarse with Flight. ligh aia er of five men in thi manner, then step ‘or a moment's rest; stopped and remembered he better seve his atemath for his last victim, the big white run Slow and slower forward, and mo reverse! That was Sasrenpaa. But even a slow mind can sometimes aolye a trick if tha trick be repeated often enough, Saaren- pan, watching the toe-twister, gently flexing his muscles. The time came w but two gladiatora besides the toe-twister and Saerenpaa remalned on the seow, Twa other gladintors—and Finnigan, But Fin- nigan did not count. He might have been a schoolboy out of bounds, a hitching cleat, & nothing, 60 amall and colorless a figure he made. The two haat in per rt so ea ng, ting, ching. fought a glorious battle from a | vlewpolnt. But one of them nbs and fell. The other, bhing t man by the feet, pulled him to the edge the acow and with a final effort plan of P eiaeetian kad impatient. duri n impatien the last movtienke eet fay. amd without thought of affording amugerent to the wilked over to where the exhausted! conqueror laboring for breath. With a gentle push of his big palm he shoved the man into the briny deep after hia own vic- tim. The ay of at wis done ao easily, with so little display of effort, that the crowd was se titinend tickled went back to his eorner and oe ae center of the deck the ta twister waited “Came on, y" big Swede,” he invited. Then someone on the shore shouted a cern, it snappy—the tide has turned.” T'o Joe, inland bred, the How and ebb of the thdes meant nothing. But ngewiy, canta hasty glanceseaward, rote ry: evenly, irrenistih inte the came the firet white-creg ve of er bd returning tide, The big Finn realized there would be no opportunity for stra’ once the scow was at the mercy of those choppy whitecapped waves. With a ruch he went ig action. The wrestler moved forward meet him, Saarenpaa came with his fete ee hand extended, and Joe grinned. He grabbed that huge paw, ducked under the extended arm, grab the reliable old leg hold and straightened baited To those on shore the action seemed all one swift con- tinuous sir movement from. the instant he Baarenpaa's hand until the Finn's body lay across the knotted strain- ing muscles of his shoulders. But for even & trained giant like the toe-twister it was no sitaple matter to awing aloft the welght ofa man like Saarenpaa, Joe did not pause when the body lay aeross his shoulders. Mean to the last, he intended to spatter the Finn. He stooped somewhat as he was ward, and his herculean effort, leaned for- d with a final gigantic heave re- Sntaeniniee 3 In that same sari Saaren t right hand—a hand that coul tes a wilver dollar in its terrible —Hashed downed and closed round the wrestler’s back-thrust ankle. Joe never knee quite what happened, ex- cept that fis leg was suddenly jerked from under him and that the foree of his own tremendous effort threw him face forward upon the deck. Until that moment no man had realized ewift im action Finn could be. Anchored solidly to the wreatler's ankle, the force of the throw spun him in a half citcle through the air, But he landed upon his feet—landed on his feet and rebounded in the air and came down like a man-killing horse with his knees grinding into the fallen EVENING POST wreatler's back. Then he buried his fingers in the eorded muscles of the man’s neck and t high, and with incredible strength lifted. the still ogee toe-twister at arms’ length above his head and advanced to the edge of the scow. Aa th abrupth sig ward on the creat of the firat wave he flung the body into the white teeth of the inrushing tide, For a moment the crowd remained alent. The thing had been too swift, too stupen- dows for immediate gene of applause, Then before the people could begin to ex- preea their lation Finn raced up acrosa the tilting deck, Tintil that moment Finnigan had had no plan of combat. But he knew that what goes up must come down. Ewen as he reached the center of the deck the ecow began to dip downward into the trough. Saarenpas, watching for the wrestler, balancin with the downward-plunging d exhaled ios sie when he saw the toc-twleter come bobbing to the surface, At that instant Finni e . Bilently the littl man launched his flying attack—a wildeat giving battle to a grizzly, Wi th a dull Aba ri of the scow where the big Finn stood slapped into the bottom of the trough seein ve. waved. With a dull grunt Finnigan, k heeacl and elbows bunched, slap into athe proen Unstspecting back of Toivo Saare With a dull bellow of astonishment Saarenpaa slapped into the crest of the Hest wave, On the shore the crowd gasped. Then came the high-pitehed voice of a small boy: oe POY what a belly bugter that guy Retcay snickered. The snicker was follawed by a choking giggle, Then the gale broke. crowd ia Finnigan waited until the round blond head of the Finn diss: under water. Then he turned ene hand held gracefully over his heart and with the other raised aloft in the approved Sara of the gladiator triumphant, ute the plaudita of the raultitude, But e maintained a discreet watch over his shoulder, and when Mr. Saaren appeared, oaths, he dived ramptly toward the shore and to swim and secing he was net pursued, sw. out of the water and approached nele last man on deck," he said, and held owt his hand tively. Bes Unele Andy, still red fe and ale. a ter, counted sit aries toate aa 3 fa that wing, Mr, Finnigan," he said by way of congratulation. “ It's raina that wins, even in a rough-house with the roughnecks." This was for the benefit of the bystanders, ‘Then he leaned down and whis in the little man's ear. “You'll ba looking for a new job after this stunt,” he said. "Come down and gee toe aed [Ul find a place for you." Mr. Finnigan was equally secretive, con- fidential, “"Tt'a not a job [ll be wanting,” he whispered, “But when you have time I'll want to dicker with you for the leuse of that hotel of yours. And mind, I'll ba talking mroatly cash. Then he plenead the beach, One glance waa sufficient. Helga towered head and aha above the other women gathered there. With arma akimbo ha weniger over bo where ahe stood, ere, old lady," he seid, “here's a bit of change to put gre the family sock." Helga accepted the money as her due, and tucked it away in her hand bag. “Now, deare,” she said solicitously, eee better hurry and get inte some diy clothes.’ Finnigan aemiled tol “Huh! he snid. wal rf. & regular pled Buy. don’t feel natural unless his legs " Helga nodded, hut, nevertheless, ahe took his arm in her expe able hand and sree been erected along the wharf. 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When he came back before the lunch bugle went he had won eighty-five dollars, ite ca ‘ he says er Miss Eileen about playing cards with i bedien “You can't pat bridge; and they are friends of that be tohaceo mon,” Can't sharp at bridge! I could have laughed. It's got poker lashed to the fast from the sharper’s point of view. They needn't stack the cards. They've only to ignal what cards they're holding, to overcall their handa—if they are partnering the victim—or to revoke, and it's picking up money with all the chance of winning honestly thrown in. Two night of Sandy Hook t ci a inte poker, He knew all about poker. They got him between tea and din- ner, and the first [ knew about it waa when Miss Eileen‘a bell rang and I went in to find Mr. Ralph lying on the bed sobbing his heart out. “Will you Please fetch Mir, Danton, steward!" she says, and she wos terrified, I guessed what it was all about when I aaw the revolver on the Moor, He couldn't even commit auleide without fe ng her and telling her how well he could I picked it up and shoved it in “may pocket, Lf there's one thing we don't want on bourd a ship it's a ul of that kind. I found Mr. Danton; oa was dressing Was, I'm not a listener, and curiosity was nares vies of mine, trl ed manner Ey ge I could n elp ring, eape- cally as [ waa rubbing up the paint work in the al ay. Well, 1 could have robbed it up in the morning, but I felt like doing it just then. "He's lost every farthing we have," saya Misa Eileen in a lew voles, He hs cmt cards h A “Ha aying wit T. Machean,"" she sa She waa very quiet and very stendy, was nothing weak or timid about her then. Mr. Danton didn't BAY &. for along time, and when he did he waa oe to young Ralph. eiiceest ere, my young friend, you're not going to mend matters yf blubbing. I'll go at—what's his name, Macbean? Per- haps I can persuade him to give you some of the money back. ‘That sort of roused Ralph and he started | talking about debta of henor, and how no gentleman could ask another gentleman for money he had lost at cards “T forbid you to see Mr. Macbean," he gaye. “TI leet my money fairly, ey ) couldn"t have cheated me without my knowing—I'm not a fool." And eo on and so forth, Danton and the girl went out on deck ani T suw them leaning over the rail te } meth er, aa lose, and her: mate red through Ais: hat I gueaser lehe wasn't like iy to starve in Nem York City, In our mesa we bed had ribicr pe dinner —at least, oery member a but me. I newer did care for tube when it was fresh: and thee mhooy out of the freezer, 1 mentios the fall because the gave Me an oper peeing Act GO, 80 to epeak The | steward sent for me whilst te —_ were at dinner, "Finwhed your work?” be mc Ves, sir," E Hl L. "Then go forward to the amoing) and report to the barman; Balog | mate are down with ptomaiw tome Did you notice anything funny a os rabbit pie?" Ita that the whole mem ¥s/ with this ptomaine poisoning —1oc se with a “p"—amnd as I'd bed a from the chief of the first vers:- i smoking room IF got the duty for thery It was about nine o'clock when che ple began ta drift back fram doo almost the first man in was Wher, ing very distinguished, as the Frengl in his black eyeglass and brood Fibbon. Jerry came in later and ] ew having a long conversation. Whe! up te them to take Jerry hin coffe, iene. Mr. Da | “Tm very sorry, Mr. Dantas.’ “hut I don"t know what I a: @ wouldn't have pla with the por T thought he couldn't afford to bom looked at Whiskers with a tein) eye, “The beat thing you can de. S "ls to geet into mw little Qaor arc wa all that he lost: my luck’s turned | mea The: pl ker | nai ven" played ef [or F Mr. Danton, “and although | oa afford to lowe than Mr. Stanhop, | care to play." Well, Jerry kidded him along and! see Danton was weakening. He @ Polishing his eyeglass mervoudy, a with Jermy"s kidding and the tt a lot of people had gathered were listening, he seemed to more ratthed, weitil wt Lest they The gang gathered round and an qutsider just to make the a 8 the game a genuine mppearat -. ig Danton won at first, Couldn't de = they let him take mone were out for a killing. © oe leet. He bet op totes dollara—they haddealt himapa:-sl and on the show-down was beste: § fours. That made him look deni and count the bills that were let. He won a little jack pot a! alte @ when they handed him the caré:| I saw by the signs that the had commenced, ['ve seen plenty play, I've known the gangs for pl Wa “am at practice, [t ou: @ before my eye WES educated op wil pack changed in full view of the Quick? ‘That's net the word pan are up Pa from the it across, You may never eye from it, but between the maul cards are picked up and the mom reach the dealer the old perk bs ha eted, and a new pack. has been put in its place. The I saw each i was Jerry Lift ‘d forgotten : next hee anak they were is : but it wasn't the same pack! ” Danton seme nervous. | “Ta it my deal?" he asked. “Your deal, sir," says Jer time I’m going to bet: if [oe air of fours I'll bet. The ivening up. I looked over Danton'’s didn't see anything except. ‘tse’ monda. Bot he fue bo cards. | did Je “Ty. oa

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And then the fun started, The first man te call made it a thousand dollars—it's | funny how they alwaya bet in dollara on the outward voyage and in pounds on the homeward trip. The next man raised him five hundred: Jerry put it tp te tere thousand. The next man made it twenty-five hundred, It was three thousand when it came to Danton. “Tl od that, " ao he. But the man on hi left raised it five hun- dred. It was four thousand when it came to Tkunton again, one man having chucked in his tarda; he was it a Li z they'd brou in to Ss the sixth. "T'll see that," says Danton. fut they weren't letting him seeanything, ahd it was 81x thousand dollars when i came to Danton's turn to spenk. He was more nervous than ever. “Bix thousand is a lot,” he said doubthully, “but I've got a real nd and I on't like to go oray. chien in his pocket and pulled outa rll of roll of ils and counted therm. “T'm playing with strangers, Bays Danton, ‘tend without wishing to cast any reflections I'd like to be eure that I am seks betting agains words,’ A Jerry planked down a wad of He must gang did the same. There wos a a bigger erowd EVENING POST As he didn't draw cards at all, I thought Danton would mention the fact, But t faced the cards they were all Not one too many, not a single card dupli- “Let's deal again,” said Jerry, breathing ets nt think I'l! pl. fd on"t play any more,” aa Mr. Danton, and d stuffed th the money into his pocket. ‘I will give you your revenge to-morrow, gentlemen." But the next day he was not well enough to do anything ‘but walk with Miss Eileen and her brother. Jerry trailed him all over what ia said. oe Si ie eg bets PT of the gangway, and Mr. Dar-> » the ! Bat) i. ood paid ting tr! teciag, § po | ae. 1 radirt | i Ep. L teal tral d @ Way ay the table 7 than I've seen Pg since Manty Ben- ds Bon, the | : a ete iquat ike for a hun a of ba point—and that's ve going back a few the: an ho make thr sh a limit?" osked — — the 3 Danton. “See Here, My Foong Friend, You're Mot Golag to Mead Matters by Blobbing. kal 9 “No limit— Pit Ge fee That — Whore His Nome, Mochean F ee | raise by thou. : = sands if you like. Double stake when I[t geta to ten thousand." “Well, I'll eee six thousand,” said Dun- ton with @ si sigh. "Seven, maid the next man, “Eight,” said Jerry. “Aline. dad Ten,” It came to seen agin, ) ““Twenty,"" a B. The next man a een away, and I think | Jerry either funked or else—and this waa mare iikety oe Enough that twenty thou- sand dollars was about Danton's bank all. “TLL gee that twenty thousand," he sald. “Tye got a straight aoe king high." | Danton put down cards: ace, king, queen, Knave and ten cil a ie. uni- beatable, I never saw vex Sheapar: look as loolesd. af ee et suddenly str sda an ieeberg he couldn't have | roore "Ag traight flush—ace high?" says he. He couldn't beliewe his eyes. “That's so," said Danton, and began to gather up the money. Then Jerry laughed. “Let's face all the cards on the table,” he says, “I have am ides that I threw away | the ten of diamands when I drew." the ship and was outside the amo oom eg is nails and waiting for nbon We ee tee veut nine, actly bec n't see that night's re cause the regular amoking-room steward was back on duty and partly becatese it wat the night before we got into New York—we passed Fire Island at one o'clock in the de src though I wasn't aware of the fact. From what I heard later Mr. Danton won about ten thousand. But os I wet i ne ae Are about wins happen t, At one o'clock se steward was be , and the purser steward and second aieer were te to discover who was the man who ad gone into Col. John Widdicombe's suite whilet he was promenading the deck with a little English widow that he wes crazy about, and pinched a pearl necklace that he was taking back to wife, The pearls had gone, and the colonels presenta- tion wateh and a gold Case. That sort of am, a happens just before a ship arrives in port. ‘The thieves wait until the last moment, because it aren very little time to make a thorough wasn't in‘my section. It ap- the colonel had drawn the near from the purser overnight, so that he cy tw it Felix,” he an 2 fe eet (ls bill into my was 50 aetonished at he a Christian name that | de: s until after he had gone. fasengers whe knew me ol a TIE. “Tin traveling to Britis: Cd said, “* Mr. gee a = mapas! she turn ie. teh = " guessed where the partze OTe left a pair of shos @ he said, ing bi ree have them, and thet ® hair dye in the locker. 1" © teseful."" Tlooked at him hard. Ero that gentle emile of Boroe [ve often wondered bew ey to get His hair | how he explained jt to the I will say this of Bostot was thorough. He mus | months in cultiv ating how! his, and another three found the right voyage to Twelve years Jerry whiting for a chance : ie Boston, Jerry swore be rE that the jewelry had >= = bag. I think he wes rig? hea

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time last night,” resumed the “tha bird stands pat. He opened _ i draw three cards to a pair af wot hook three typewriters. Sat- e passes the bet, T shove out a jars and be lays down a five full : without l. What do you that?” ] jodgenert." n't took Tight ta me," peraleted as nosympathy fram Heengn, have telegraphed your full in a ‘ee. He just read you right, that's ; thiake ——"™ idil Tracy begin thinking?" re “Tan ~ “You're just a bum let Besides, that guy Suttherwaite your mind a block away. He's a di" And Heenan atro AWAY. g, after two other members of Leena ae peal op sot ah rat the poker game aavanSen oF thelr wilerian: the toss hunted up Ephraim. He 1in amiable conference with a concerning the latter's likes and ralora. about the game lost night?” nan bluntly. “The poker game arta” Poe? Sreplied Satthenvalte. “Here,” lin his pocket and pulled out a “I think there is four hundred * I[owish you would have it ithe boys in some way,” the idea? Wasn't the game on ' Did you stack "emi" know what you tmean by stack- ut taking their money was little ft, Are wou aware that you have of moat obvious minds on your something is the matter with You just read “erm, eh? Where ‘nh to a rd poker?" vl feay moanths ago, when I this work for Mr. Randall. I the game moet valuable tri emen on the different teams, eetllent opportunities for ob- to traite of character. The dare dowbtless aware, ia bore: of mind agninst mind than teards, IT muy even assert that sart of the memoranda I have you wis oeolleebed at the poker FF et, Roberts tells me, Satther- ou laid down a pat fu full dit yen draw of his. ere? ee —slowly, " Roberts—full ea; TL recall it now." Ephraim iTesetiona were quite easy to d Prdabde pert Lost several large mse gr he bet—that wos cipate in patting the chips in the table, the tightening of rudely apparent effort not to re—= ll mogmecle it plain as day- had obtained wo very, ve 1 planned to make up fora iawoop, Aa a matter of fact for fours, I would have let ar ane thing.” that?” cessary For the aake of the th how well Roberts kept his rol, how he actel in the face awhat his reactions were to ithe like." domuan. He appears to ab ant without grent los of fa head well. I should say, mentary data, that he is a ayers for. an uphill fight. kind." apres Heenan. lowever,’ added Satther- hit suspicious, M one apt to ws than results.” He again noney, ‘IT would have re [except for the fear that the fended. Perha apeyee rr or. the aq ware, didn't yout” wy say r te miy mind is per acute than theirs," lookout,” growled Heenan. oo the jack. Tell:me sore work you're supposed to be erie THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE OUTGUESSER fCoatinuwed from Page IF! “Tm glued you spoke of it,” replied Sat- therwaite. “My data are about complete. I've had a talk with Mathews," “Tiel he tell you why he has blown up?" 5, “Tub?” The manager's eyes were wide with surprise. “It's a girl She will and she won't. However, I've offered to find a solution for his troubles, and I think you'll get some cir Playing out of him on the rest of the rip. “Damn these skirts,” acowled Heenan. “How did you get him ta talk?" “Tt was easy enough, He was just look= wg for an opportunity to share his per- plexities. However, Mr. Heenan, please regard this as confidential. It would never defor the men to know about Mathews and eel peti. Via hil traigh "Te ou think you canetraighten him at “T think I have—for the present.” Sattherwaite drew a memorandum book from his pocket and for the next hour read to the manager matter relating ta his ob- servations at the training camps and among the Lape Sox. Heenan did litth but nod. course," explained Ephraim, “the walt is not yet. complete," “You sure have the lads sized up," said eg anes 2 a sort of dazed admiration in “That physical analysis of yours is ee art ot sketch, “Psychic,” corrected Sattherwnite. rir ATHEWS rode to the ball park with Ephraimthenextafternoon. “Heenan is sending you back at the Bruins to-day, at my suggestion,” sald Sattherwaite. “What are you going to do? "SGive “em the trimming of their life!" snapped back the southpaw. “T'll show them if afm 's gerne, "Good," applauded the peor i "That's the T like te ou talk Everything's going to work cut Ane: Dan." “Have you thought up anything?" eagerly, “Bot vet, but I'll guaranter te set your find at rest goon after we pet baer" During the game Sattherwaite sat in the player's pit, watching every movement on the fleldl through the thick lensea, Ocea- baer er, « jolted down a note, Mathews was pitching masterly ball. The Bruing were well-nigh helpless. His fast ones sare hy their belated buta while they lurched forward and twisted back in vain efforts to connect with his sharp- breaking curves. Heenan glanced once or twice at Sattherwalte, but Eph was toe in- tent on his field observations to note the strange look of respect in the manager's Fa, set the ninth toning, with the Blue Sox one run to the good, the Hruins managed, after one owt, to get two men on through field errora. The next player struck aut readily enough. A short possed ball advanced the runners to second and third bases, and Stacey, the heaviest hitter in the leagues, manne to bat “Matheows will fag hin ull right,"" mut=- eta Heenan. “That boy has sure got ‘om Suttherwuite shook his head dubiously. “Na: [ would meingeypset that you take him out and send i in Frazier.” ““Wihat ped the manager. ‘That reckie! You're crazy. Besides, he's wold." ; EO hbase I wish you would do what ask, Without another word Heenan sprang from the dugout and ardered Mathews In. The piteher, dazed with surprise, did not move at first, but on a second signal from the boes weaved slowly toward the bench with a puseled acowl. 2 matonishment of Frazier, who wos sitting against the fence some distance away, when geatured toward the box, waa even more ound than that of Mathews. Tt was evident, ton, that Stacey wis ata los, not to mention the cat of Ss eens and the crowd, TF mi tosses Frasier atin ane bo thar batting behemoth. The throw was so wild that the catcher waa cor- pelled to leap high into the air to stop it with the tep of hia mitt. Heenan growled something toward Sat- therwaite, but Ephraim wasarniling blandly, The rookie’ a next pitch was high and wide, but Stacey swung and missed. The next on he fouled into the bleachers. The fourth throw, high and wide also, the bat- ter missed by a foot. “Just as I thought,” remarked the psychoanalyst "Haw eliel yo dope that one?” queried Heenan on the way to the clubhouse, “T would have figured that Stacey could have killed anything that that kid d had. Frazier hasn't a thing in the world, as a matter of fact, and besides, he's aa wild ag a loon, L was figuring on letting him go this week." “He isn't much of a pitcher," a Battherwaite, “and he is hardly worth keeping, but he has served usefully in a laboratory experiment. The teat [ mace is hardly in the field of psychoanalysis, but this early in the season one may properly tuke a risk.” "That's all right, but —— _ “Stacey,” resumed phraim, “has what is known as a mind of slow adjustability I made it a point to study him closely at Jacksonville last taanth. You will recall that each of the four times he faced Math- ews he continued to get better. It ia true he made no hits, but it ts also trae that he wes beginning to gauge the throwa more aecu- rately, Of course, there is no way of know- Ing, ut the probabilities were strongly in favor of his making a hitin the ninth inning.” "Law of averages, huh? But why Fra- zie? ‘Thompson and Allee were warm." “Frazier,” explained the scientist, “is haps the poorest pitcher you have, but i ciel ip Heaney instanes he was the moet desirable for the reason that he does every- Thee in the box that Mathews doesn't, Sy FEpeer perfect extremes. Mathews og & left-hander, Frazier a right-hander. Mathews is quite tall and elim, Frazier ex- ii | short and squat. Where Dan has tendency to throw low, fast and inside and is noted for his control, Frazier pres slowly, high and outside ‘and has ithe control. Their movements in the box, too, are at wide varianes. [t would take an unusually agile mind to adjust itself to the two styles in a few moments. Stacey hues anything but that. He was mentally pet for Mathews, and he was still set for Math- ews when the game was over.’ "Tages." euicl Heenan slowly. “However,” went on Satthorwaite, “I wouldn't advise you to make use of Frazier inst Stucey again. After facing him about three times he would probably rcpta all the fenees in the cireuit." "You're there, boy! admiringly. “This is about the firat time that I have been able to follow you all the way, but when that kid went in cold, [ ——* “Ah, yes,” interrupted Eph. “I didn't explain that. His coldness was a point in his faver too, I wanted him to pitch as naturally ws possible. Had he been warmed up he might have been amenable to the eatcher’s signals. It was essential that he throw them high, wide and wild, his normal galt. It was quite obvious that with men on second and third and two out Sta wouldn't try to walk. His mind was made up te bit at all eeate, That clear?" “T make you, "One of the things that I can't under atand abut the eo-called atnart muinagers,” continued Sattherwalte, “bs their insistence on keeping a pitcher in the box until he is knocked out, A little observation, it would seem to me, would permit them to antici- pate the brea keitnge point. Why carry six or tight pitchers of varying forms of delivery, rliaaben and the vain tn out making use of chologi = We ain't = - Nien comploxes, kid. ld “There is no question of complexes in- volved. By the way, Mr. Heenan, I want to ask you about Morton. Taee by the offi- elal figures that he bets in the meighbor- hood of 200, Can you find out for me—are the figures available—as to where he does his beat hitting—at home or on the rowd 7" “That's easy. He's a “100 swatter on the road, GComeon in, We con get the dope in the office." Heenan obtained a baseball guide that went in for exhaustive statistics, and thumbed the pages, “Here,” le said, handing the book to Sattherwaite, “Here's the do on last season, Look Jit over for yourself. 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aafiewed from Page I27} Saag On there. T remember. Tell me, Mle. Aloenan, is there an sent af Beauty Soap at Lizard the one we have in left fleld at now —the girl holding the bar of > yellow-nndl-bline sign." gait the manager, “there's one fit? What of the field?" cara is, beft fleld." iknow whether the Vamp field know the rest haven’t,”" ey haves't any. There isn't a al all.” weat I thought,” said Satther- ave Chat sign taken out of oor ain do nothing with the other ve Urs, however, and I predict n’s hitting will improve. nk sa? T don't.” 2af ft, The trouble with him is o his oye on the girl instead of . The picture has too much ar him." r."” hegan Heenan. quite obvious, Where the sign well, Where it is, he doesn't, hel Morton closely. I never vith more confidence or better ie plute, Also, T hawwe merticmd es are constantly wandering ibcture, even when he is out in ” nodded Heenan, “Tl try te | taken down.” ot sean ie On Wednesday ph stopped EF ing happened yesterday. You 1's girl lives here. I gaw ther her. She's a dead ringer for 'y, hott and all, Can you the pay choanalyst. fia Sox came home leading the he lust two weeks of the trip he straight victories to their E: ey them full three: ff the Ti In view of litting o eeann a crew had d the pitching, with the ex- thews, rather indiferent, the in the lebhy of THE SATURDAY triumph was distinctly one of Satther- waite a methods, as the manger somewhat daxedly wdmitted, Heenan's strange tactica in shifting about players, taking out pitchers at the jmiast aa edan Seabees agar and removing TL hattera in the eof their sessions at the piste puzzled seven ma ra, hun- dreds of thousands of fans and the Blue Sax sr gar themselves, but Sattherwvaite, Randall and Heenan kept their secret. The newspapers speculated, joshed and admired, but never found aut, An example of Ephraim's amazing gift was furnished in one of the games with the Lizards. In the sixth innin inGarland, aheavy-watting benchwarmer, to pinch-hit for the pitcher, He fanned on three plate cutters. “It's my fault,” said Sattherwaite, “T should have known that. red would have had the effect of destroying the eoditdinn= tion between his eye and brain.” “Red?” spluttered the manager. mean yellow, don"t you?" “Quite the contrary,” was the calm reply, “His reactions to yellow are quite favorable. You must understand, Mr. Heenan, that colors have a marked effect oh the hurar mind, You inslinetively shy wwey from certain. tints without ence knowing why, while others attract "The long green, for example, e oo “Cree may, in your cue,” gravely went on Ephraim. “Fed, larly bad for Garland. The color is asao- cated with a moet d ble event in his fife, yet it hos a strange and baleful fascination for him. You ha noticed his neckties and shirts. You "Yeh." laughed Heenan, “I've even seen him ragning with that redhead flapper at the hotel. Say, what's all this about? ‘Where dees the come in, anyhow?" You saw Harlan's red undersleeyes, didn’t you? Garland couldn't keep his eyes from that bit of color at the pitcher's wrists. Instead of watching the ball he was muaing, hall half-hypnotized, at the edge of the You may have noticed that he That isn’t his In fact, I have awung late at ev pitch. normal fault, you ehh heard you tall often of his promptness in menting the ball," Heenan shook his head in puzzlement. "Gosh, boy, this trick atull of yours has sure got me pola.” Heenan sent | "You | siceeensienniae however, is particu- | ve probably i Druggists are making FlyOsan EVENING POST out of dead flies A new chemical discovery now checks the howse-fly menace and the mosquito pest. Thanks to a non-poisonous product called Flyosan, flies can now be killed by the roomful, and homes freed of mos- quitoes in a very few moments. It is absolutely harmless to man. 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was the rep build know what fd ical ar up & agieal ronment —" “A what ae psy chol ) haven't iratud “What's that?" “Tt's the study of the mind. It enables one to know just what a person will under certain circumstances and, what is more important in your cose, it permite one so to work upon the mind of a subject os to make it favorable to the reactions you dhesice,"" “You can make ‘em do what you want?" an shiarmagad udied it? ] “Have you ever at tT?" eagerly. “A bit, was Sattherwaite's modest reply. “Listen, Eph; how would it be for you to come out to the house with me some eve ning and when the—what did you call the moment? You know, th "The paychologieal moment.” “Veh. When that comes,” hurried on ical ee Too bad you &--—_— Satan ‘why, you give me the office and £4 “All well enough,” amiled Sattherwaite, “but paychological moments are impatient affairs, They don"t wait around. By the time I pr you the sign and departed the young lidy me ht aeree a dozen mental reactions, F tell you what I will do, . Il you "Il take me calling some eve- I make a study of the girl and I will alae bat able to give you som informa re that will help, Will sour That’ a fine. I know you've of a bi sen brain, and I est I'm a umb=bell when : comes bo women, ind are at all of us. However, [ll be glad to go with you." eat how glad, Mathews didn’t know, ‘iu more thas he knew that Sattherwaite had already invited himself to call on the girl of the picture. “How will to-morrow night do?” asked | Mathews. “Just a you ‘ “Now that we're back in town,” said | teen to Sattherwnite a bit later, “is ee over that skirt rm "Are you ning oe be able to keeq hina in line? If he bs again we're through. The Tigers have just bought Swanson from the Litards, and that boy aure hua the Indian sign on our lads, That was a pretty wabbly Dan pulled yesterday. Looks like -s78 ali ipping § pain. Had that dopy look he wed to “fy pr = thing will ae out all | right," phraim. e has vir- tually a oak fe fue abavdown from her. The only thing that bothers him ia Uneer= tainty. Even if she rejects him he'll be all right after a few days." “What ig sheT’ asked Heenan: “a thorus lady of a pearl diver?" “Neither, I don't know her, of course. I've seen her picture, however. To-morrow night [I'm going calling with Dan." “Looker? “Wondrous,” was the reply, “Huh! Under Heenan's quiszical poze Sattherwalte reddened, Biwabing Some thing he walked away, just ax Randall the young owner made his appearance. ow's the outguesser?™ was his first question. “Bossa, that boy's got something.” jane Kota dill, faphed the roe every Rning— bbe while universe, ine here: di ra Fan isis F “At enollege, He wag be: tell by the way the prof mee: -, what epee neti ipid Festa: , where he come from, gin’ thes “The woods are full of pe, - ay agreed Randall; “but Eph a«:- - know whe combines abetrart i- © the human mind with a cones. of bausehall,** “hiot a ladies" man, i¢ be"* “T laugh," sald the young oo ¥ T 8:30 Tuesday evenicg tc A and Aiathews presenies (rca the hame of Esther Have. Ts had told the truth, bat only a eta et it. It had given a trae are laughing eyes, abundant cco! nothing of the di: rake and the rich fu crushed-strawberry lips While Mathews sat silent ox Esther chatted brightly wr 4 Thesprightliness and intelip- <4 versation completed the eo=-:) fection. It developed thats» u the pitcher siner childhond, 4 in before she had returned ai Ti ers school, Psychoaru.; her, & artly al ber eleven ode departed | guess nene of them py ta ments showed wp," said Macher “Eh?” Then Ephraim laaz4 “With me in the room? 5) takes two and a moon, | img velop them in this cose. ‘Did you find out agyth-: “Hasn't she wonderiu! feat. Je Ephraim obsently. “Vou didn't pd to go tFs that out, did you?" ome a | They walked along s “To tell the truth.” = slowly after a spell, “from Fs was able to observe, Miss Hav regard you rather in the uc: than a lover, Of course yoo 3°) after one superficial etam)—4 your permission [ will rat: 4 week—alone. You wnibersiac: + undivided attention | cir “ All right," cut in the pied The next day a succession § row with a couple of wall ‘© sod mensuire gent Mptibews t-1 in the second inning. Sati Heenan plainly worried. “Damn these skirt,” 7 r “Can't bs do = blows we loge the pemmist + you sare trick stall roa out her favorite color asd = Straighten out her menu T Or his." uy? ll do what [ ean.” ec It wasn't much. Mathes ik more helpless wits #7 ! wo weeks later, an theme Dean was to depart ot ibe send trip, Heenan recei waite, lt rend: I have solved the Mather 7 would not migiry him, aed eo her to remain a veatien to. her myself, We leave for }4 Don't pitch Mathews for a <1 Heenan looked wp, to fr Oo 1 aa Where's owner, “Out,” said the manage =" ing." Sattherwa.tr'”

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THE NUMBER ONE BOY (Continued from Page 21! joonfidenteame the sentry's asstir- iw repeated by a farther sentry: Number Two, nine o'clock and enfant asanecho: “Post Num- », cine o'clock and a-all's well.” wk alowd with more than ual harshness, The laugh wea similar ta Jimmy's laugh fourdays the temple aff ate Buddha il found hineself al a'rlock and all's wall he a ame incredible that wl parsed since —— He tu por to sen if it was evident that hoor he had become an old, o aye fell on the photograph in the © This he clutched in a sort of tturmed his reflected face in the 1 brek red. sof the photograph waa shat- nt the corner of the mantet. hack of the frame was ripped frame and back hurled into the ‘he photograph followed in many cand retern, And now—enen raph being gone—the hawk, ) four daya before, was alone, ou @ difference, Jimmy had ely helpless, The hawk wae by elpless, The destruction of the asymbol. The greater destruc- it typified came next. Juat how ish ik must be thought out, many ways. If was a question the hest—the moat complete. saci the floor. Onee more his iptite bys cold, remorseless veins on his temples were con- the arteries in his neck. The of his fatigue tunic began to He went te his room and re tunte, substituting m smoking ft his throat free. tothe living room he resuned i greater physical comfort at halted by the desk and stared his brows in rigid welta, the tlean gray jaws working eon- cat's it," he decided under his reuched for a sheet of paper 1 Peer ith imk, The pe Wo me the paper before he had Hed in his chair. sithout troubling to Fing, he ta orderly: . Timt * said Tim, appearing a mo emiel onl a Still traveling across the arrest made. I want ike two men and arrest Lieu- ae, detailed to the Lagnition Company, Seventeenth In- u know himvT" officer that was here already one.”" ve him.” ena writing and reached Here is the gave the colonel a puzzled the order. Fted, sorrtT" is desertion. like gunpowder,” Tim de- ‘the order. He looked up Ye was here not twinty rr Lee has deserted with a ehowk. They will leave ntsin sometime tonight, ough the Chin Mien gates Tor ses at once and ride to k you'll be there before the ‘h. If you are keep your f out of sight and follow sin. Keep well to the rear ‘miles—all the way down, 2en You are near Tientsin just as he mrrives at the of the sergeant gleamed rstanding. It would have tier to sew that the young ive Peking. But his hide ently, That Waa why the ven rope. “The fact must ao 8 noOnecom was be make af a commissioned officer. saicl al oud. THE SATURDAY “And, Tim—be very careful. Neither he nor the woman with him must see you or suspect that you ribs following them a te rake the arr “Shure [ know, SOIT, what’ il I do wid the woman?” ow her. That's identify her, You knew her at's why [ want you to make the arrest.,"" “T know her, sore?" "The sergeants eye lida harrowed suddenly as the plot began to thicken. “Who might she be?" “She might be anybody," said the hawk. “Bhe is—my wife,” “Holy Mary!" The sergeant's weather- stained, tanned-leather countenance be- came a wine color, “You don't rane —" “Tomean the dirty litte waif that I lifted aut of the slime and guarded and cored for and married—last. Thursday." “Not Miss Betty?” “That's what you called her" “That's been up and goin" to school and all, under our eyes?" “Yes,” said the Baik a pale aa the stammering serpent twos red, “She went to sehool. I'll tell you what she learned: She learned to treat the man who sent her there like a leper because he wasn't as young a& he had been, She learned to skip out with the first young beast she came actu, when | caught him making love to er.” The red had left the sergeant’s face, His eyes amin mA i “Tt ain't thrue.” The hawk roae, astounded, menacing, ta his feet, “What's that?” Hut the sergeant Iaced him aecroas the desk. “You may think it's thrue, serr, but there's some mistake. If she's wink, as you aay, "tis for no harm. "Twill be out av the Innocence ay her—her bein’ kep’ wid niver a look at a lad. “T'Ll set these vag ee wis twinty years gettin’—D'll bet me life on it.” The hawk relaxed. “You'd lose both. You have your orders. Carry them owt.” “Can T gay wan word, aor?" “ Make it short." The sergeant tapped the order for arrest with a blunt forefinger. “Ye've got a charge of desertion here. "Tis plain dy you let the officer go clear to Tientsin, He seems a foine, upstandin’ boy, but he's nothin" te me—the evoart- riartial can deride abut him, But if ] arrist him at Tientsin and” —the sergennt “prall, know who happens to wid him—it'll be the rooination af her, aorr, th’ everlastin' roolnation,” The hawk nevlietably brightened. “Quite right, Tim,” he said briskly. “Back to the gutter she goes, where she belongs.” dd An! cpuired. He got a look for a Ey Tt was enough. “Well, then, what about yerself, sorr? Think af your reputation, Your name will be in the mouths of all, from the ranks to the Sicr of War.” The hawk smiled, of rather his lips stretched sufficiently to show two rows of surprisingly good white teeth. “My reputation,” he repeated softly. He leaned over the desk, his smile gone, the velng at his temples standing out like cords, "Tim, I'd give my life—what she’s left of it—to see her in hell."" The sergeant was beyond his depths, He ye mane thot, ser? Tim in- knew that now, and acknowled it, “T'm nothin’ but a noncom. I ain't got the gift of words. Won't ye git an officer [rind to advise vet Give me his name and Tt have him here in wo whisk, Colonel lair now = Fh “Sergeant!” "Tis, sore.” “You liwe your orders for the arrest of Lieutenant Loe at Tientsin, and the iden- tification of whoever may be with him. Carry them out.” “Hut, sorr —— eee more word and your stripes come olf! The old marine jammed on his hat, etif= fened to attention, and saluted, For a fea momenta he had been Timothy Regan, the man; he wat now Serpeant Regan, whe clearly understocad his orders and wuld carry them out though the heavens full, he wheeled and may ae ape ang A tall Fe ap roielessly in Che moore directly In his path. 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The eyes of the servant became dark welle that me merged and wid- In a flash they were a huge black cavern into which Tim Regan plunged headlong, down—down into darkness. In the darkness a voice spate, a quiet and soothing voice, like soft bells chiming: “Plemain here, sildier: you know mot where to go." Another voice, a loud harsh woice: “Ty Ming, have you gone 1” And then, “Tim! What the hell's the matter with Knock him down, sergeant!" “Tim!” Why, he was Tim. “ Knock ot down, sergeant!" That was a come- Commands must be olseyed, He ie back his fist The salt voice 4 And arm, soldier." suddenly that something appened to his arm. The f oFn ioe Fy hole must have done it, It did net pain him, but when he seleed it with his left hand he found it numb and useless, In his surprise he exclaimed aloud. “God help me. [t's broke.” He must get to the infirmary with his broken arm at once, he thought, and took a step to do so, but the soft volee apoke: "Soon it will mend; stay here and— © again: rest." He sank quite gently into a deeper and mort silent darkness, e hawk stared at the motionles, azed—pyed tof marines, still ng his arm, then at the undisturbed face of the Number One boy. He spoke at last in a dry whisper: | “Pam are yon t to dot™ gee “T gm trying t peace to house," said the ete ber ne boy. The hawk was moving bd the door. “Til ring peace ite you with a firing sepaad?" “One moment.” The voice was no longer bell-like. The hawk turned at ita trumpet tone. Tt went on more softly, “Reflect! The rifles of your guard will bring me | But you?" The voice deepened and Peearae a note of doom: “You will be left in darkness and in torment,” “Torment,” repeated the hawk softly. He stared at the strange Chinaman who had for some reason supplanted Ty Ming that evening. What was the reason? He had hypnotized Tim like a . Am ae Pilar | trick. And why had it been hy were oe} own heartetrings still vibrating at the words an Oriental fakir? What the devil was it all about any- way? His curiosity was stronger than hia for a moment, “No more tricks now. They don't im- press me. You are not a servant. Who are you "T am the servant of the Lord Buddha. My name is Chang Foo Low.” “The lama! Impossible! ines should you be masq ing in my house “The maiden who waa st wile haw served my master in hia temple. You would destroy her earthly happiness, That isanerror. I jsent to prevent it.” The hawkh’'s curiosity was in & fresh fire of rage. The aura’ temple business again, eh! Well, prophet, Master of Souls, no Chinese fakir can creep into my home to pry and — and tell me what todo.” He ead Bo ar desk peg? ten less. aneeringly, reports show tried ta Fie order in Pekin during the the recount trouble, That is why I give you one minute to get out of here before I call the ard.” ive me ten minutes, Excellency." “What for—te watch you take rabbits out of a het?” “Have you, then, all the wisdom of the “No,” admitted the hawk, “but I have Common sense” A amile like a faint light across the face ang Foo Leow, is yolre when he was more than “You have been crushed gat Gees ly the wheel of life, despite your common sense, That order you have given to"— his faint amile re for an instant as his glance took in the motionless sergeant of marints— “the soldier who waits, will bind you tighter to the wheel.” | ame the deeper note in the voice: in une 5,5 mé help you find the knot pm -_- , OFre Vou can. Te, “Tve got no time to Bete: 1 hocus-pacus.”” “Ten minutes is all 1 ask ~ i= taken from eternity “ Eternity [" ccbadid hs tae Get out!" sold eT | Lo a heart” tapestel tebe Ee turn to smile. “De you thoi] i) of yout Tho you think pou nc te me the way you did that foc ry there? Go ahead: start yor un see how far you'll get with 1~ “Pirst take back that order,” des Cha e ; ell, not exactly.” “Tt can remain here on th= i»; soldier can wait outerde, J: -- | can eall him to enforce a . The hawk thought this oe ‘vs stant. Wery well, he dendel “4 going to palm itt" The Chinaman did not reply. Ee to the helpless sergeant. T) . bent or] elick of thumb aut palm. “So ends your rest, soldier” The old marine chook he rice like a dog emerene from wate T of u gq Was seater; before he had ttarted for ther dos “Tim,” agid the hawk Tk halted, turned and saluted. “Le that order.” “You revoke it, sor?” The hawk erushed the bope : Wait outside for exactly tex o-~ The sergeat at his watch, glanced at th face of Chang. “Tin minutes: He saluted and withdrew. The hawl seated binsell at ths laid the order upon it. He a» drawer into which he hod plone gomé little time before. in “= occasion the hand was pot ery eame from the drawer. “Here ia the order,” be =- im * He Laid the revolver ic "And nothing will pes | Now what?" He loo = ad ae arte of Chase “Fint—with your pernnumc leney—the lights.” A eee Fe Fose and waved onoe at the boos the desk. In. pany Sosa ac) ik Paes | intemt of the The lamp flickered bet re trangply ant om the trangul a> stra y set on the trangal ter foe's itd it done? the hand waved. Th ng lamp im a far eos | fant i. flame and expiced. There were no other ligt & but only a dimness followec | moon. was now high is ark the soni tg ah pene way [rom the F Lora window, to bathe the room ¢ light. The source of that light, 1 culled with satisfaction, ®t © warth. It was in the une thousands of miles away, Heo alitthe. Of course the lamp boo trick, but he was unable te eo and he could not account for ne ing that the air of the room =a heavy, that it was fillisg #5 ish-colored mist. He tad is revolver and lifted it fre— = the feel of it he threw oT =! eusiness and laughed be hit - “T have you , (ba still have—the moon” The hawk did not press th revolver, He simply paca sat, for the moonlight +e = room like smoke at the moc drawing chimney, leaving t= ° pene the most impenri— Hehad necge tides had jmourh Hie | eae he blindly, my the rae found that the fc “9 cast which had bees pote | mold of his set binete pra te an wheoluate idity. He eould barely feel it in ke oo" lying on the desk. There *” (Cmentiaeed aa Pap 1!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 2 | N y ol! a matter of proper lubrication. That is why the Alemite High Pressure Lubricating System which puts lubricant into bearings under 500 pounds’ ressure) is the best investment a car owner can make. J 2 mae automobile repair bills down is purely ‘o have your car completely Alemite-equipped you hould have the Alemite Lubricating Spring Cover. ‘his cover encases the springs in a flexible armor of ‘ad-coated, non-rusting steel. oiseless, neat in appearance, it retains the lubricant, icludes water, dirt and grit, prolongs the life of wings and adds greatly to the resiliency and easy- ding qualities of your car. ; illustrated above each cover is packed with lubri- nt by means of the Alemite Compressor and Hose. ice installed, the Alemite Lubricating Spring Cover comes a permanent part of the car. It will pay for elf many times over in the added pleasure it gives d in the wear and tear which it prevents. ITE: This is the only all-metal spring cover on a2market. It is not affected by grease, grit or water, iil coupon for full details. Al Product of ‘E BASSICK MANUFACTURING COMPANY Chicago, [limois Alemite Products Company of Canada, Lid., Belleville, Ontario jl | q E a aie [ — Cut-away section of Alemite Ladricating Spring Cover showing spring encased. a ae Lay # ait a a Alemilte Larbricating, Syatem Abenvte Lubricating Spring Corer —— Autitrema Make and Model of Cor Dealer's Nome The Hussick Manufacturing Chicago, [lines Gentlemen: My cor la — Li FE __ Menolite—eqalpqeedd. Please aend me information regarding the

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Good Buildings. . a ae a, ae a i: The Corbin Unit Lock ITH the Corbin Unit Lock, there is no groping in the dark—no guessing at the probable distance of the keyhole from the knob. As you grasp the knob, the keyhole comes to meet you. There is no better lock for a door than the Corbin Unit Lock. It is Good Hardware. The first ones made have been in service for more than twenty years and show no sions of wearing out, Lock is, as the name im- Lack, knobs ane escutcheons leave the factory The Corbin Unit plies, a complete unit. screwless Hitretiorae eles Wordnet ftir at Se rilscsiee the Cortimn Cit Leck" June 1.) serve » Good Hardwat with the keyhole ¢ in the knob 1S in one assembly, a single unit ready to be applied to the door. ‘This lock, in appropri- ate desizns, is finding its deserved place on front and other outside doors of residences. In the opinion of architects and contrac- tors, it is the lock for hollow metal doors. When you build, don't overlook the secur- ity, the simplicity, the strength, the smooth dependable action and unequaled conve- nience of the Corbin Unit Lock. The host of friends this lock has won is evidence of a growing appreciation of the idea that good buildings deserve good hardware. and for local Corbin dealer’s name P. & F. CORBIN Awwrioan Huarelave EW ORK Li. cele thw hesttole in oie kris F since NEW BRITAIN LH. CONNECTICUT = ‘ar prord Twat, SuUCCe Sse CHIC Ags) PHILADELPHLA Good Hardw Te is iipetiwibbe to aga ee eee in wach s =e Buat ie will met eee ie bee The corpener cane a tlot in the de Ta. (ithe the lock ome! diiwen she operas thro al the oe corheons, He com. putes fee oo elehe (oti Le Locks tn dhe titer iz noes eo Pt of oo co her hoi « of any of biectky

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gatloued from Page Idd) fim wal in the hall. This mudeafool of him a moment be- be t could at least call the ith all the power of his lungs he the sergeant. The result was a is peeierable, Your Exeellency laine Rebello, eatati be tawk's throat so thet even the i ime the voice, Uke the middle fule sturbed; Your Bixcillency- You your eyes your ¢ara. Tse * The voice dropped into the et of a flute and grew in volume. idha aheve me—Jet the heen tenter this unworthy body, that of the centuries may be lifted at widows silence the hawk hat the blackness about him ia to the faint green mist he before the moonlight had been It was thickening in the room and like emoke was drifting the direction from which the ome. As it gathered at this leraad well above the floor inte nore brilliant oval of pale green n that ey of light a face ap grew BW until it face of cor Foo Low, flowt- rounding darkness, pallid, set, resin the aie were closed m, but the lips began to i those lipa came a volee, deep, otating. It was as though a ad suddenly been given human spirit of Gautama Buddha— mi one Gol ew Phed seg eanwiig te ruth to & od, do speak in the English proclaim. That in the year inning of the earth life ty: rist, there li in the ‘ktard, in the shire of Essex id of Britain the scholar and rt Warren. Now I, dha Oe again in the ¥thesoul of Gilbert Warren." SOc Song and its rever- | away @ green mist was d, It began to drift awiflly all of the room which the ng. Where the wall should e mist formed a billowin t curtain. Behind th ute Eneen eth intensified gure ap al tant as the ligh ape 8, Dela gure of a man. He was vooden bench at a primi- on which stood a lighted 3 reading from a ehiment. ound sticks. As he read he parchment from one stick on the other. Than Was: en black velvet doublet and . About his neck tele ae which Hamed dul uttering candle. t cad from his reading an , Unsecing]sy, inte the eyes hirt before the face wpe Lee, Heutenant of [n= in the 1900, had such the nostrils, and the finer forehead and around the ra at least before his ahin- tad lost ite luster and be ‘h streaks of gray, but the ecalled m crisp arresting ed into that face. “Start re a dead man.” He felt am their sockets, % again rolled forth: i face of that body of long i it the gentleness of the ans filled with compassion en. He wae beloved by ‘ed and disappeared as the m a windowpane. The loved Gilbert Warren the held by his young wife, ioe, Look, then, upon her nel another face wants’ face, With soft! ar and joyous. The haw! at dark hair braided into ‘alling on each side of the a net of silk and pearls. was fuller, rmore mature, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST under its long-sleeved, orange velvet robe, ) go but in the eyes, alter all, was the must startling difference, so shining tl so unwisttul, so unufruid. The how lips tried to form a name: “Betty! “Beauty and joy are hers," said the great voice, “Joy in her husband's love; joy in the know of the fruit of their union, for in that body of the past were two souls, the soul of Constance Warren and the soul of an unborn child.” The figure with ita ree shining wor- an's eyes wis gone, Another figure grew eee in its art coca ; the disap WODETS oO that bein be wae the “were, ‘a still fount Matt haughty Baron Hubert of auc n the green lighted panel a steel basinet Tesently gleamed. elow that a face ve a face of early manhood, but already [t was forbidding, cruel, with the fierce eyes of a bird of prey. Below the face was a cloeefitting coat of chain mail. At the walt was a linked eelt of iron and leather from which hung seabbard and broadewerd. "Fierce a4 a hawk,” the volee went on “restless as a stage; hard as the armor upon his breast. Sos the countenance of a man whose soul casts out meekness and charity and gives itself to error, As he Jon five centuries ago, so looks his foce to-day.” The man in armor, with his weapon of the past, melted away, His living counter- part, bound in an armor of darkness, his modern weapon in his helpless hand, re- mained. “Now [, Gautama Buddha, loving trath as I do God, tear the veil from past events so that earthbound eyes can see. Look, then, into the manor house of Gilbert Warren as it stood under the moon of heaven five hundred years ago." The panel of light lengthened and wid- ened. A dim high-ceilinged room stole inte being. It was a bedroom, a phantom bedroom of the past. Within it tom figure of the Lady Constance Warren, if that waa her nane, sat before a dreaming table on which were two tall lighted tapers, She was braiding a thick strand of her long dark hair, Her lips moved in silent phan- torn song. Presently she finished with her hair, but not with her song, for a she teesed the braid over her shoulder and glanced into | the mirrer her lips still moved, smiling rt.) moved, The little song of the Lady Constance p her mu And the words of the small song now led ber straight neress the room to a small ouken cheat, which she unlocked with a brass key. The chest contained a wonderful and seeret trensure which no eves but her own might look upon. Inte the chest she gazed, hang- ing all breathless above it. Presently she dared to thrust her miser hand within, te touch, ta fondla, yea even to bring i view a bit of the treasure, It was a shirt of closely knitted—ah, ao closely knitted— lamb‘s wool, a ridiculous shirt that could be only in inches, a silly garment for & Bonn ska to hold against her breast and her lips upon. These things paatt oolish phantom lady struight- "Brases ntly, with the chest safe locked f, the knelt on a hassock before it and i ted her eyes to the wall above, where hung in agony a slender Christ with thorns : on His brow. And now again the li scape | be octane moved, though then 0, crap pringe snow and then to the chest below the ipl deal feat, she accomplished a divided adoration. Her prayer finshed, she rose and went to a tall window and threw the lattice wide. Outside the window was a small baleony with a stone balustrade. Standing on the baleony she for a moment at the moon, half hidden by flying silver clouds. Returning to the room she threw hack the eovers = the high canopy bed and turned to the two candles on the dresser, She had raised a snuffer to the first of these when she paused, listening. The snuffer fell ta the tap of the dresser and then to the floor, as the hand that held it went to her throat. For an instant she ste immovable, her eyes. widening, the ivory of her face gone pale, Bo might a woman stand who hears blows, curses, ecreams, and the grating clash of swords in the dead of night. She was ing toward a door when it flew open and the lord of the house ap- peared. His look was dazed, hia face be wildered: he still clutched the parchment e phan- | Useli On Your Worst Roof First ! Your old badly worn roof need not be pulled off. It fur- nishes an ideal base for Stormtight, which will make it as food as néew—leakproof for many years. 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138 The we UMadera-Silent Closet ry Consult the plumber MORE in regard to sanitation and youll need the doctor LESS Thii mracege da the fetervor af rhe ifinmbine cenfrarfer is obilghed by a firm the dee pated tke eeerpies af horse pem- eraness fo fie depelopment Beettary furteres for fhe boo — bs | | | ial vs » Fo . 7 at Pb eels DEL Dall HOSIERY _ for MEN with F | MHE dealer Me whoa you consult about Shawknit Hosiery is now, better than ever before,equipped tosatisty _ mast exacting tastes amd PeQUIPCHEHES, ’ T ot i SHAW ST¢ EE] BG Ls a, luous i, Aelares THE SATURDAY EVENING POST he had been reading. Then the parchment, like the candle snuffer, fell to the floor, the arm of the Shaqloes lord went about his phantom lady, for another door bulged, split and burat open, and there poured inte the room, silent aa shadows, a phantom crowd of men-at-urms, In their midst waa a knight in a coat of chain mail with a basinet on hia head. For a moment he shox) among his men- Sterem: his gleaming eyes fastened on the lady, a grim amibe on his thin lips. At lost he spoke, At his words the face of the end te paler still, and the arm of her | tightened for an instant about her waist ‘ore he tore a da from ita sheath and ewung her behind The phantom in ul Elowly drew his sword. He amiled again at the phantom in worn Re rig thc pe tdae held ® pitifl ince of mail once and only once before the sword flashed up and down. The Lady Constance looked at the body of her lord gat her feet, then fell om her knees beside it. A white hand flashed out to the er oon the floor, the dagger rose swiftly and as swiftly plunged toward the ge eolurnin of her throat. The ake with the bloody sword, = ar ag tooee rd like panther, The de- ect alae ad tha dhepees tesa idee down the side of her slender neck. He otced the dagger from her hand and lifted her to her feet, then crushed her, bleeding, gpa geo Dl i en aegr The men-at-arma followed through the broken, splintered door, And now in that phantom room was a prone fi in worn dark velvet, stained with red, It lay moveless, huddled before a well-locked chest. No mortal eyes would ever faz nwithin that cheat; no hands would touch the treasure it contained, for through the broken door a cloud of smoke began to roell—ameke and the glare of — ] died Th @ pale away, e& pressing dnetneie The great voice, silent i a time, boomed forth agnin. "So Gilbert Warren. at the hands of the aide and ravisher, Hubert of Audley, So waa d henor of his wife, and later, her life, and the life within her life. Now I, Gautama Buddha, servant of the one God who created all things, the laws of the flesh and the laws of he spirit, do proclaim: That the laws of the it were enforced upon the aaul af Hubert af Audley, who committed grave error, This was and is the law: The soul of Hubert of Audley has been, and will remain, bound to the wheel af life, wntil through sacrifies ft stones, The souls of the victims of his error shall be spared the j jprnay S through the seven apheres; being eo spared Bhall serve | they | | for that time on the earth plane, that the anerfies may be & and their fulfilled. Now I, Gautama Br , being af the pil dao Peo That the lawa af the spirit will be enforced against the ubert of Audley for a hundred hundred centuries if the sacrifice be not made. [ have spoken.” The lips in the denthlike epee aol : Foo Low coused to move, || in which it was suspended dimmed: slowly inte darkness. There was a falnt click. |. The hawk wees staring across a. lamplit desk into a calm, untroubled face. ia hand, resting on the desk, held a heavy servicer revolver, Close e the band Was an for the arrest of Lieutenant Jamea Lee. The order gliramered white in the lamplight. So did hand holding the revelver, but the faee of the hawk was whiter than either of these, gested Chae Foo te joel _ ner aug ang Foo Lo June 1,5 ‘Yea, eaid the hawk fis “4. hand hos the desk, the =r into his pocket, and rom, =| notiam, af course.” He picked =>, from the desk and tore it mre, pieces. “Why do you do that, Ers2.- The awh stared at thi bcs} the desk for an instant. Atlee & up. “Because [ recuembered,” br md whisper. " Chinaman, Chingme: Ah,” said Chang Foo Low sty of lial Wad thee" Mutter! Ip they will oon be here” You are sure?” gaked the Era; "Tam sure,” said Chang TLL mnutes ae wp. It was Tim. The bow: hed fe Tim. Ten minutes! Ten yea -5 turiea ori gral tol rad Be | and walked to the door "4. Sergeant? and paar. vie so’ “Fou mre toe Later,” The hawk turned to the door. |: aT he wibled sergeant drs trou if i watch and examined it. “It's on the dot, [ am” Hew Se EER Te ST Oe f= | en, "Wait out here, " hlise Betty!" “Yes, Tim,” she said as ube ete walked slowly past him, be m= ise Mears lnew- hom toy cae um apes by Witter toce Tost ite strained er Fl “Now I know what —_ she said. “T felt you ealling. ihe did send for me? Why oe ‘1 id. mat reply. She had to westion him in wie oh report aoasd them Be postal te caer as 2 toward im spr one Co en in hand. came in enothe - Ta net room tigi: TH ing. Ne saw first a tall old Ching then the girl of his dream: will ened, but unharmed. 1 . I thought it was you,” be ail She o wis a looked at kim, # r/ d Chinaman who your weapon, va Your Rss Be hour is past.” Jimmy o mechanically w eared, walking on tiptoe, of ack over his shoulder. [t wa BAO EVE meisging Soph om bi-ter} the room | came must mot "Miss Betty! Miss ay frat | "Oh, what ia it, Tim?" The old sergeant saw th om officer, came to attention, an: @ ar 2 nee, teeta Bralley's dead fei’ * Tepes lanka rie bi ae “i own hand. Yi, art 3 The girl of Ji =| alightly and crumpled into a4 Jimmy did not move teward moment he was aware of pot 9 in that room—that room wo anchent inscrutable (hina, pe whelming the things of a s=r Sern civilization, As be alle abiding tranquillity of the fea) Foo Low the somber qe lifted. The lips moved & speech. “Just is the wheel.” | (THE Esq _Vigt

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 139 @etien on only panty conver the Imonenualry of poland plane They cover hondreds of scores, Thele srdine qquigment gives Standard a anaque alvantage a eng Selec enjoyed! by Standard owners, inibed Body sei! Asie Plane, Warcestr. Mom EIGHT The Car with Airplane Lubrication OVER 500 MILES PER QUART OF OIL IRPLANE lubrication—an exclusive Standard feature—marks one of the greatest forward strides in motor car engineering. Economy of oil, yes—but more important are years of life added to the motor—its guarantee of velvet smoothness—its assurance of increased power, greater gasoline economy, clean, cool oil, and the consequent avoidance of carbon. Ride in the new Standard Eight. Drive six or sixty miles an hour, or faster if you wish. Note the absence of a “point of vibra- tion.” Pistons, rods, shafts, fly wheel and all reciprocating parts are scientifically balanced. Visit any Standard sales room. Your instant impression is a motor car marvelously designed and beautifully finished. But of even greater consequence is that which is back of the car—the resources of its makers, their ability to build well and to merchandise successfully. The immense Standard plants, with almost limitless resources and unbounded manufacturing facilities, afford the quality-car purchaser a guarantee and a safeguard for his investment. All vital units— motor, transmission, axles, frame, springs, bodies, ete-—are manutfac- tured, from the ore to the finished product, in Standard plants. This economic advantage is directly reflected in the selling price of the Standard Eight. Open models, with equipment, twenty-one hundred and fifty to twenty-five hundred dollars, Closed models, twenty-seven hundred R y STANDARI = and fifty to thirty-three hundred and fifty dollars, All prices F.O.8. 2 =—— factory, war tax not included. THE STANDARD MOTOR CAR COQ, PITTSBURGH, PA. We invite correspondence with responsible distributors and dealers:

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140 : () " a + KOHLER of KOHLER * Kotler * ee oe ai -in Bath Ore Byer ere al eae Erucrrreled Flumbi Ware is exclusively distin- watthed for (1) the beautifel, snowy ehitemees its durable ‘enamel bee rales pyrrole very fixture (5) the name * Kehler” dein ity: bok letters pecorogpiowwunty’ but permanently fe imo the enamel for your prulection ae. ae * ims + +, Oot a Hi a. + — “ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST XO A MIRROR OF PhadeASANT LIVING + I is as natural for Mother to place her shimmering, white bathroom next in importance to her living reom as for Father to place it next in importance to his cellar and the new furnace. The bathroom of a home is the silent, intimate mirror of that home's family life- ts ideals anc self-respect. The pride, the pleasure, which comes in showing a guest—whether friend of long ago, or stranger—the built-in “Vieeroy ” tub and shower, row of crispy, folded linen, pedestal lavatory and the mirrored cabinet. lt ts as much as to-say, “This is our own, our true idea of pleasant living— enjoy it with us.” If yours is a home with but one bath- ToOM insteacl of CIPLC for each hecl- chamber Andif this bathroom ts semi-modern: Kohler Co., Pewwdes AST7, BRANCHES I N Kohler, Wisconsin FRIWN € that is, with old-time tub, marble-top wash-basin, and whistling plumbing— Now is the time to enjoy the happi- ness and convenient comfort of a modern bathroom- For the cost is less than you realize— And the space needed, as little as five by six feet, is practically taking an ordt- nary sized closet and building it over, at asmall expense. ‘That is all there ts to it. There isa Kohler plumber a short wavs from you; in fact, at the other end of the telephone. He will be glad to study our an estimate of the small cost required to install a Kohler bathroom in your home. Why not talk with him today? You will find him a splendid source of infor- mation On all matters which have ho deo with sanitation in the home. Possibly he has some suggestions which may bring an improvement in the kitchen. Shipping Point, Sheboygan, Wisconsin rPAL " _TrIeEs

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strath that this all leads to is Mage sprulator dees not want toinvestments, What he does hort cut; he wants to be snved 2 of investigation. A tip, or often called inside tnformation, thing but @ lazy man's excuse a bad investment, if the bottom of this whole evil that action is much easier than fis very much easier for a man lat gomeone else tella him to do his dwn head. The writer asked #oone of the most powerful titutions in Wall Street why wtips, We were sitting alone om, and upon entering it the aid his hat tpen a table close ‘took our seuts., The financier nly and sharply a he pointed e your hat,” quickly to look at the hat and i teached out to hand it to him. why ple follow tips, They retold, They are waiting for them what toda. They want do something. They act on blindly follow the herd. The e the tip the more likely they it, At least half the men who is room would hand me their ai realized what they were poke to them positively’ and peta cea gucases 3 to substitute : 8, mysteries, tips, inside and information, services, leacer- ¥—anything and everything— | Judgment in the making of - It cannot be done. ind ey bringing me tips,” Tal a nking institution at of the money power. “But a only the beginning of investi- ould be a hint to look up the average epeculator doesn't ing. @ doean't care if the ie oor intrinsie merit. All he w is whether it is going up. fre hina. He won't take t e himself the loss of his own ly sormething could be done beget hg pare gpehed ipa a ut when people really get in hen their imaginations have there is no stopping them.” Neoger Can Tall 4aoof @ company with which Hisinesa for years,” said an- “come to ws recently and vere doing so well and be- ible thot they thought it to put their stock on the ater on the Steck Exchange. eral of us if we would like a in‘ired shares at 10, and we then put it on the Curb later ft went on the Stock early 30, where it is now bellewe is worth the price. ‘ally good tip, and I have re fiwe like It in my life, ious pPurt was that the tip o buy that stock before the na. Lasta of fle asked me af it and I replied that it Wl rigtht, and of course it . think of the thousands of «other bankers have said as mill right just because .42o made the same remark we really didn't know any- the trouble,” T remarked. tell; in moet cases o tip ood information, but once business of the investor or 2" was the quick reply. Hf eormmon knowledge that pee culators lose in the long + speculative public is con- This is certainly not to we lise the preat majority extensive operations in qeerest irresponsible riimor, sould not spend ao much wwn business without the 1 extensive inquiry. The al stock operators, men THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ILL STREET TIPSTERS AND THEIR METHODS (Continued fram Page 15) who make a real business of it and who make their living that way instead of losing in speculation what they have made in business, ustially profess a scorn for any- nats opinion snd a passionate desire for acts. Now it must be admitted that there are times when all tips make good, even in their crudest and most extravagant form. This gives the advisers, students, analysts and all the rest of the purveyors of market information a tremendous reputation, But the public does not seem to recognize that at such times it could make money in the market just as well without as with an information. Tips abound in a hig bull market and sinister rumors are almost a frequent when the whole trend is down- wards, But in point of fact, information of any aort is superfluous and unnecessary at such a time. The speculator merely Fides with the tide, but doea not seem to knew it. 4 Curious Explanation Ignorance and foolhardiness are no dicap when currents are flowing fast. Indeed they are a great asset, A newspaper rhtr one: book a tip toa great financier when the market was boiling. “I want to tell you, however,” said "oe journalist, “that that piece of information came from the biggest fool I know," “That's just the kind I want," was the reply. — At the beginning of a bull market a member of a banking firm, who had pre viously been the man of several Indu trial he phe a eae pas for an important merger of automobile companies which was consummated in due un ne day he received a call from a cheap faking aort of tipater, who aid he was able te give the banker the real reason for the advance in the stock of an automobile company in which the banker was a director. This com- pany was to go into the merger, but the tipster did not know that any merger was even contemplated, “Tt i this way," said the tipster: “A very rich man beught one of your cars and found if Unsatisfactory. He was so gonoyed that he sold the stock short until the company, finding out about it, gave him a new car. This pleased him so that he begun buying the stock, and that is the reason why it is going wp.” Yet if the tipater's customers had bought the stack when it was rising they might have made as much on the basis of this nhsurd rigmarole as the banker or his Trienda in poasession of the facta would var eee had really “T have: good inside informa- fon only half a dozen times in my Ife," eaid this banker, “and then my interpreta- tion and action u it were about $5 per cent wrong, so where does the difference come in, anyhow?" Wall Street does nat lack altegether a sense of humor, and knows how to a fun of itself at times. There has never been a bull market that did not uce a crop of Btoriea concerning the ludicrous ignorance all ou and in many cues of their brokers, When all stocks were going u several years ago o favorite type of such stories had to do with the speculutor who baught Allis-Chalmers becatter he liked the Chalmers car, Unaware, of course, that the Allis-Chalmers Company makes heavy en- gines, ace and other machinery, and nok aubormobiles at all, But Allts-(Chalmers also went up, 50 it made no difference. More recently a man who had been In Wall Street for more than fifteen years ex- pressed Lhe opinion that in view of the radio developments all the low-priced « i stocks were a buy, and nareed armong others the Habirshaw Electric, then selling: ak slightly mare than tro dollars # share, But this company manufactures cables and wire and has no connection with radio. On anether recent oceasion all the oll stocks began to move up, among them one by the nante of Barns . Two brokers were heard discussing the question of whether this Was 2 movie ora chain-store nempeny- When stocks are rising or falling the ameculator does not have to knew anything: all he needs is w commitment on the right side. But his ignorance and rashness almost

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But kethouka are short-lived. ple often y the right thing at the wrong time and get ti of lugging it along. Hrokera have a saying that early information will break anybody. This may seam puzzling at first glance, but is ex- pinned Lite a financier who is a srctor| in aie mporbant cor tions in this ay “There is such a thi Lage 7 Pip ome «| information too enrly. know mouths ahead ing heh dividend action of certain railroads. We make our commitments in the market accordingly, and then there ia no action, The market lage and we often sell out at o lo. Tam a director in the —— Rallroad and know what dividend will be declared next month, but I may make more money by waiting until after it is announced than if [ buy it now. No one realy knows when to buy. rf broker said that he had bought the stock of a chemical company months age on advance information of-a new process, and after holding it for many weeks sold it in disgust, the upward movement begin- ning the e day at sold, The most a speculator of the day was quoted not long ao aa saying: " First ‘fin the line of leust resistance, Don't buck the current, Make your play and then sit down and wait. It is a case of patience, patience and then more patience." Twisted Information Real inside information may become garbled at tines as it is from mouth to mouth. On a very stormy’ Christmas night or perhaps it was Sunday night fol- lowing a Christmas that fell on Saturday, more than ten years ago, the writer, who was then financial editor of a New York City newspaper, was called out of bed to the telephone just after twelve. He still remembers the anow coming in through the window and falling on his bare feet as he stood at the instrument, A vole sus a distance inf him that the Rock Island company had bought the Lehigh Valley Railroad and would declare a 10 per cent dividend on its own stock from the rich aaseta of the Lehigh Valley. The writer went back to bed disgusted with this apparently open attempt to rig the market, he mext ping, at the opene of the market Rock Island stock shot up from S049 to Sl in lesa than five minutes, falling back to 0 in almost as short a time. The authorities of the Stock Exchange upon investigation suapended the broker who had executed the orders, but was, of course, unable to reach the wealthy principal who had put thern in. tock Island stock never paid a 10 per cent dividend, and, indeed, the company before long went into receivership. But the same plunging capitaliat whe wis supposed to be responsible for the strange gyrations in Hock Island had been baying, £0 it was eis only a few daya later, inte aon pe also, and a yeur or two later the Lehigh alley’ did setiially incrense its dividend to 10 per cent. There certainly waa inside information in that pahad it tip, but anyone whe had fol- it literally would haye lost. his shirt. Indeed, a fundamental difficulty with the following of tips or market information of any sort is that so much of lt is put out originally for purposes of deception by interested ona. Macaulay in his fa- mous account of the first great speculative crazt said that “monstrous fables were circulated for the purpose of raising or de preseing the price of shares.” The state- ment is just as trae to-day, No investor or speculator should take anyone else's ad- view, no matter what position the n holds, unless itappeals to his own ju t and intelligence. of the great mass of information and misinformation concerning stocks June 4, arises in a par innocent sed tka /s Anyone who boys or » pi chy chop shes Pir Ei i a has shown ied ial and wanting io imprise other pears his wisdom imparts the t-formany them. But there is mock thot ag explained in quite so Karrie u oy “Wher TD first come dows her I my think all this talk about the ‘iy making and unmaking thy fark dishing the common people wm al & said a man mssociated with copra terests of the first magnimce "Xj course, some of it is bunk. Condicieg to be right and major cores aay bucked with safety, But vou bom very close to this game to realize hew manipulation it FOE oe whee tions favor, Even (People very hgh the financial world eannet coc the most careful inquiry who & | Various stock movements and og I recently asked a Wall Stree: tan dent whom I know [sttipately & | facta for me, buat he could pe | ther than I.” Uneertainties of 0 "Wow take what we wil al | penta sii ee fae it pany. BP Sore ry istt ie they certainly struck it net 7) paying of t eomwls. Tayi.) § ae ou eyity eee er we gem ogists ay aie ory to three months to go. ard ti: 5 be exhausted. Wet the, i Sos declare a beige dividend, havirg e a famous manipulator, Jans h 4 Tun the pool, and prerhape the. = for listing on the Siro: LE uban a big fo wane for tk oa worked up and, of cours t\~ em distributing it rapidity. lo sow down to five dolla 4 oP. ® present price as any ' u Pi aa pool ig so powerful that neo d the stock short, for the pe: | ast to almost any figguare—70, su cc 8 the inevits erash core “Then there is the Black tO I think Blank himeel!, who msi hit own cattle business, wus. of he discovered a Tittle of] under and got in touch with Will looked it up and found what « fleld that is, and then I discvme put owt nearly a million shaw) which they expected to rin up wl the movement was on, tp = thick and fast that the price wa] I was getting ready to sll f= for a dead certainty that it rag gale, when the exhaustion of thew me to lt, and the stock has § few dollars a share, where i beer “You know the old Wall =>" Daniel Drew, who waa =m tribute a block of stock, Herr! of his church that it wees pe but that the information we and must not be posed on Wie course, the rector told ever unloading. acne the rector earmpisined | he was sorry but it had ber : jes ment arvel the stock was tt ® he thought it wae." There is no substantial ea Bie ait story of Daniel Deere | ern market riggers ust oq distribute their wares: but tho! boosted by the aid of rama ol lated by pools in order to get r= | any bull market or the bax r= one sani ss of not the mogt ta bats, Fst ce The Moketaken suckers, get sccy ! niet conditions change m&: quickly follows prospentr. T© ference is that some of to: - wait and afford ta hire mot Unlond their atecks wheo « °<) more favor, At the time of this entre = the stock market has boc 4 4 tinuous rise for some weeks oot sound reasons probably i: 1 oa tion from an overdone ~~) improved business cond. oc have ako been artifes _ efforts of a rerfal group a “a make a mark et for the stork. t 2] prmpany. which they acc | ht and rota eT, is. a areas In ths poo Gone: an Page

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EVENING POST {Continaed from Poge I42) company is an important factor in its in- dustry, but what value the stock has is prollematical. One set of financiers they honestly beliqwe the stock was and is worth 60 or 60, and another growp ae well informed described the whole gigantic operation as asheond-story job. ‘Time alone will tell. There are all degrees of construction, charitable and otherwise, ta be put upon manipulated et operations. But ul- ways there are tips, the regular old game of spreading the glad tidings of good news in order to get out from under, Ewen where banking ayndicubes put out conserve tive bonds there are certain tricks to the irade. Tt does not pay to allow bonds to aink at once to their natural market level. Investors may be easily frightened. ‘Thr iden it te Keep the price only a fraction nheve the original peti Lo about one- quarter of one percent. Et would net do te put the price too high, for that would lend many investors to sell, Onesaquarter of cae peer cet ia hardly more than the commission the holder would have to pay for selling, and it te oun aidered safe therefore to keep the price up by that much. Usually tt is only the cloa- ing price for the day that ia manipulated, far that is the price the investor usually notes, [ imaghne a careful atudy of the activities of the great banking and invweut- ment firme at five minutes ta threm oclack in the afternoon would often disclose sore rapid telephoning to various associated firma for the purpose of establishing a atrong closing price. From this we go clear to the other ex- treme of manipulation, ‘the giving of actually falae information or the sencling in | to brokerage howsea of fake orders. The | laws of New York State prohibit the giving of false tips or the circulation of false ! rurnors or information of any kind demued to aflect market prices. There are at least two sections of the Penal Law, Sections 26 amd 962, which cover very fully the giving of false information intended to ele- vale of depress the price of ateeka and bonds, Under one of these sections it has been held a crime knowingly to circulate a false rumor that a receiver is about to be appointed for a corporation, Effects of Manipulation Though there have been several cases where who sought to depress the price of stocks have been prosecuted, I per- somally have never hb of anyone helng indicted for seeking to raise prices. Most land manipulative operations could be rought under the law only with great difficulty, because usually the information given out is not actually fulse, even though 106 intention is to afect the price of stocks, Indeed, such operations have been defended asa form of advertising, as judicious prepa- ration of the market or os o od of Psirhe hed securities to the public's attention. Tt is a form of wire pulling, “The fine art of buying and selling stocka to the best ad- vantage,” which is defended aa being legiti- mate as long as it does not carry prices too far from true values, Often the actual information given out, theagh true enough in itself, is only a partial truth, and the ateck la being dis- tributed by insiders berawst conditions as a whole are unfavorable. Then there sare caus no doubt where the information is perfectly legitimate and the pools ntl syndicates are thematives acting in god faith toward the public, But financial and liitelness eoncditions change ao rapidly that they are unable to carry out their plans of corporate development, and are obliged in order to save their own aking to get out from under aa fet as poaalble It somectimes seems as if a grent amount of time were wasted in analyzing the values of atecks. On the basia atatistical studies @& stock may appear to ba worth this or that figure, but such analysis can go up to the point where manipulation begins, and no further, What advantage to the investor and speculater art the studies of a | thin pale-fa Harvurd or Columbia Ph.D. in economics, surrounded by his man- tials, maps and Interstate Commerce Com-= mission statistics, if a grewt oanking house has secretly employed James A. Sharp to place buying orders far thirty thousand shares threigh ten diferent brokerage houses, and selling orders for twenty thou- gdand ahares through ten other howsea? Ag sald before, intringle values and prices | almost always approach each other in the june 5 | long run. Brot the ren may en; minably long, the milla of the gop ind so slowly before James Bosker is kind have finished amd tee vicu restored, that thousands of specs: iq investors an well, may bare ax) » di and wt a foam wt do mot jump ter Berl 1 oy clusion, reader, that the itor re their time in bilking the pero. ; They do, mere of fe, tut dle oy eghatantly doimg ome another er: selves. A man repoted to be wors or twenty million dolla wu oa extengively, and apmare"). ge a not bong in the arian time he, single , porderien movement in a. boweprioed bet a This was not true perhaps ic ‘od of the United States Steel [9 if it existe today ft ie ao ak! as to defy ordinary detecte:. | Would seem to be tree of eomcae Standard CHl and the Ameriar 7 a Et reader i tag 2 panies are beeing iit fan faten to add that the average § man Weuld not aaeribe this come unéerthly wirtue on the part of a directors and bankers of thee 0 Perhaps theese gentlemen x: | way, Gut it is ale tree that Sr = are eo large that pools cis t2 them. The Steel and Telephone oom have half a billion dollars of bow stock, and the operations of ab or of a bold pool would & © ooman. Lf amyone gucerede -: boosting these stacks far alo value he would bring out so= > i him. sa en, boo, £ corps that there ia wer hittle mews their affairs. Speculation :*-* upon ‘tery, sine, of corse. 5H gm. operations langos= 6s nomystery. If easily avail «3 OnCeInIng 2 Company's ee exhaustive and auathortanve *@ its point entinelsy. After bates porta of the Steel amd Tete soe! the average speculator wk! | ally dealing in hints, pueme= icf The Standard Oil Compr apread forth ita affaire in es is quick to deny rumors aed: = apprehensions, t would be a mistake, bee pose that all artificial operi: . 4 are harmful or gre uwnederts. worthy mitives. [ns «few ov | bern organized to keep op “4 Btocka | ¥ because the) 7a been induced to buy st a over

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yand directora did not want to qrall owners suffer, ritzer amusing fact, also, that vin have often enabled the retional holders of securithes to favorable pricea. Universities, foundatsone and insurance com- ich for oh Fee or another ell large lines of stock, try to opemuons in order to catch a Suppose John Smith, Ale tiewing Gum Trust, turns undred million dollars in high- @ to an institution for the care dilden, Then along comes the vue andl save ft is a menuce to cof the people for this inetitu- e stocks, and that it must sell dnveat only in gilt-edged bonds. thon i.given five years in which f the stocks. treasurer 2ell when the market ot an that you would notice lat us aay, 20,000 shares of ey. He waite until a atron weirs to operate in Lehig then secretly unloads. There pool so fears as what is known i barrel, which usually means | Company, charitable founda- uty or big estate, But if the iget afew points higher for his sand crippled children may be etter cared for, and the pool is position to myuenl, There are cations to the financial mar- at people ever dream of. Svirtne sometimes is able thus phant on the prostrate form kemarket mysteries, tips and tally full of danger for those jo with them, whether of high Suid an official of a lange ae in ila li er they are the harder they taken me yeurs to learn to ings alone, A few yours ago od conservative bank asked ranything about Sky Blue mot seliing you ta buy," he i know & president 7; the al Bank, dont t you?* naming din financiers in New York. and ask him what he knows isa director.” + the bank president and he wing account, and sent me ort, Which I never read. I | hundred shares, and it hin wn BVer Since, r occasion I was called inte well-known bank president time after | came to New said, “One of the oldest ines in New York is Silver, They are putting out the razy Screen Pictures Com- are letting me have seven tat 27. Would you like te amount at the same peice?" inxiows mbowe it, but 1 wis travel in the company of wer, and didn't want to be er. The stock is practically wing if Safe eformed. I slip u vet d to get rich. ow Loan rin New Work but in other ned pref atocks that nt dividends and are selling its below their real value. current earnings, and look tho are running the com- find out what is back of it itience to work that way, hig money init, But I le more money this way : ior day I bought the pre= the nber me honal Mens a 6 r oent am ot it pti had m hard ick utter policy was conservative of cash and quick assets, iw dividends on the com- couple of years, but there common now, he are and left, and my friends , to be setished with the lave learned my lesson.” by th “ (eet ereet neenpaper it as favorable a position rmation as the financiers doubt a mummber of siderable sums in the tis more or less of a curse THE SATURDAY EVENING POST on such money, and newspaper men have been mo freer from it than others. One young reporter earning hardly more than twenty dollars a week began to gumble vt the beginning of # big bull market. His atory is vividly told by an older newspaper man. “He was always saying, ‘Buy yourself some Blank.’ ‘(h,” was my reply. We old-timers never would bite, but the suckers heugkht and mude a lot of money. F esd he gave up his job, bought himself a big limousine with a chauffeur to go up a down town in. Then he got inte Bunkem Tire and cleared nt poor bn three hundred thousand dollars sr i pats pa more before the erash came. an office of his own with hia ait on the door, with strings of curb brokers going in and out, and his deak covered with comparison sheets and a battery of telephones. Then he put fis money into another stock just when the big decline started and lost it all.” Mr. Horriman's Announcement A newspaperman who had never felt the | lure of speculation and had never taken part in it, with the for many years in active touch with the Wall Street markets, was once relating an experience to a financier as keen and able ag he ia con- Servalives “Early on w hot August afternoon in 1906 we sll learned that E. H. Harriman Wa to give Gut an announcement, We filed inte the board room and sat down around the directors’ tuble only a couple of mo= ments alter the last of the directors had left. Then Harriman himeelf cane in and eying ws sharply sat at the bead of the tabhy, Without more ado he told us that the directors had just voted to in divi- denda at the rate of 6 per cent on Southern Pacific stock and te inerenee the rate from 6 te 10 percent on Union Pacific, The news bureau and evening paper men rushed out a2 300 #8 Harriman would let them leave the room, but, of as the Bigs es paper mien were in me ail Taember as distinetly as if it are Regent yeaterday how hot it was in the eorridor af the old Equitable Building as the Herald man and T slowly sauntered owk toward Nazenw Street, “Why, [ wonder if Union Pacific stock won't go Up on that announcement,’ [ remarked as the thought struck me for the first time. “"Perhapa it will.” aaid the other man “But that was the last T thoaght me it for several hours. What a fool I was not to min inte a brokerage office and buy my- self some Union Pacifie! For by that time the next afternoon it was selling nearly 20 points higher,” : “So, you were mot foolish, said the financier after listening quietly. “Da you realize that if you had the temperament that would have led you inte a broker's office that afternoon it would hawe taken you there a dozen other timea on what would have proved to have been mistakes? I once heard one capitalist complain to another that he nee: ‘i an ood infor= mation from him. * main ad- | dressed, “you can ort Soa in in my | strong box bo for what | for it, and Twill be well satistied."* In conclusion, there ia mo more ifieart fact to point to than the pet he that the New York Stock Exchange exercises aver the advertising of its members. It opposes any advertising that attempts ta away the eens af customer by more OF less positive predictions regarding future prices. That this censorship is curred out | so completely as to include every piece of literature published or lettera written by members ts contended By no one. [bt is pei that this would be physically impos- sible, The London Stock Exchange is even atricter, brokers being prohibited from ad- vertising altogether or from addressing anyone but their own customers. 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EVENING POST une 54 THE LANGUAGE OF THE ANGE (Continued from Page 3) own mind, Should he lie? He had lied many a time te get donations: Hed with a en eet peste ane cue money to it going. An c always fell for one particular lie—hunger. He was gofan epicure. Tt dated way back, Hunger. Hehad neverf tten thee d eould? And old Mudgett knew that all he had to say was: “Chic, I"ve perim scraped, haunted the public markets, bargai , beat down and ged: bat it'a come to necessities. The mi bill isn’t paid. Food, Just lip inate the dormi ,aecond siti sep alter sup ear them— ol visualice those walied bends mien a pen over a large pink check— ee purest, He had no compunetion about lying, none in the least. It wasn't that. He started in “Chic, I've scrimpedl ——' But there old Mudgett stopped. Some- thing he had never felt before stopped him; an invisible yet physical force, And some thing prtat 2 fondo his head: “Well now, what kind of xen ee eo be one to build—founded on a lieT e founda- tlon for heavern—lies!" “Tye scrimped and scraped, Chic~and, well—they have plenty to eat,” said Mud- gett. “I want money for something else.” Immedintely Chic became intensel; hard-hearted—his natural self. He push the calendar away from him serosa the glise-topped desk with an impatient pes- ture, “Not a cent! Do you think I can | build whole blocks of houses? That's what you want it for—that monument to your- aelf! Think I'm going to build monumenta to Thomas A. nindgats| Net a sou mar- ih Imagine! 4 peur per from whom OvermMmeot is ng hall his income building a monument to Tom Mudgett! That's too thick, Tom. Not a cent." "Tt ten"t for the new home," said old Mudgett. But _ here his new morality ep pes aco. “Money,” sold he, “for poems were! I Bat to have the fourth floor fix hismoralit slipped— an entire tient this time. “ We—we're overcrowded. Say, Chie, suppose — just suppose a certain foundling home had been overcrowded thirty-seven years ago this August." Cut it out!" sruapped the broker. “Vou "ne tebeckrrual ievgg "Just suppose repeated Mudgett shamelesaly. "Not a cent! Incarre tax. I haven't got n cent, [ tell you t sheeorily read the thoughts neg the sudden pallor of the man be hind the desk, and with hardly any effort at all the intensely practical head and shoulders of the home triamphed over all ineanventent moral qualms. couldn't you cheat the Govern-

"Chie ment a little in your tax return? Just a little?" “Cheat cur Government! I—me!" barked the breker, “How can you be so damned naive?" He threw back his and choked with mirth. “Cheat the Gov- ernment a little! A—a Ilttle! Tom, you ald—you—you —— Bless your—your pure and innocent heart, I'd give a check in se ir pl eer F peabr 95 and—and L nor I'd ——" He pulled bis aries out against his am- pe stone and expecting » a large check k jabbed the cork-handied pen into the ink. “A hundred dollars a word. That's what I"m dolar to give you for that. A hundred dollars a word. Count the "Chie — au — cheat — the — ewe Ne a me return ? Just—a—little?"" ee , seid Mudgett sol- om iiteen hundred dollars,” sald Chie, He started to write, but bis stomach, shoulders and hand were shaking so mirthful iy he had to give it up. "Fort ty," he managed to enuncate betwen Sn “Por char- ity! I—Tom, you one pi got to tell this in the Street. . For charity! A chea he irvarnnmte alle charity?" He scratched his name to the chock ane comi ern his desk nded old Mudgett on ehoulder aa the latter made for the door, “Keep it up, Tom, Cheat, iis, seal blow up the U. 3. Treas- but * Mudgett turned at the door, Pe now, if you knew what thia check is to be used for Rae wouldn't laugh. gong be too happy to laugh. I'm going to build a kind of heaven on the fourih 4. No humbugging: the real they ‘ blue walls and—maybe a ince p - mitig— you know, + heme gt look." nH A THOMAS A. MUDGETT i ig hee bcp ee t treet @ Mas i Hfted his derty and salled i ima ha i Mud ot made agrab, miei. grr ee by the the transfixed by > then step ta ioe then step over t and te this remarkable miracle the bore the derby with ite hind foc ao4 y reaching down picked wp baw bc fs putter, “Well now, well now!” aid Yi) astonished and delighted. He wiped the gutter water of » | could, straightened the brim, we slightly broken, and entered the « Shackelton, Buck & Garvey. Shackelton, Buck & Garver wi architects who during the pars ‘a had made and altered foundling home. Mau However, Mr. Buck marmtas fain this waa significant —as a arnbition of Mr. Buck, bomaccr Mudgett had paused at the c) Mr. Buck's office, holding bis 7) under hie left arm. He pull: ‘J then without further eons sing his a like some. “dust a little piece of wor’ | building, Mr. Fuck, Cheap Moe on ar the front—light, «2 aif three—light, surshin = free," Mr, Buck reminded his the front of the old the babies: saber te paved walls, Portholes high op = room and the antectat® wore other things: (me more: bath Yea, he wanted that “oe end bath. And, he had sins ki hen. C seary lence F ‘be nenobece i, oe epg pe inital ges eee of his vet © intensely practical and somw™ tious manner pulled forth « ! ameaothed it out on Mr, Best: ! “Tye got to have enougt : OG furniture and furnishi Mr. J Rottd raises a chet E pon ae He made 1 ions, sent for a young mac 4 dent, refi (0 = ual udgett, refusing to bar looked close, then glance 2 broken derby and cleared t= = ‘Ths tears eee ae in mac! a +! shrewd crestfallen chert ' this for, Mudgett—the four ° ou bo thee it for? “4 Old foing to prepared | cittar itis, Geni eee oa (Caontineasd en Pay 1 =

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 147 “T° FHEN traffic again veaches a normal quantity much freight wll go te pieces In transt by reason of tnsuffi- cunt packing unless a very material improvement tn packing is effected.” The above paragraph from the report of a division freight agent of one of the leading railroads of the country wall suggest to many busiviess men the importance of checking up on their present methods of packing their goods for shipment. a Lf 1 a At the left are shoumn a few specimens of faulty crates—by no means exceptional instances. Tou will find scores of such crates at any freaghe terminal, antytime. They help pile up the claims for damaged freight which every year mount into millions of doflars. The services of a Weyerhaeuser crating engineer are available to any shipper who thinks that his packing methods miche be improved. Does the Proper Packing of Goods Pay? SK any jobber orretail merchant what he thinks about the value [ proper packing. The chances are he will name iose shippers whose products Ways arrive in good condition— ady for immediate use or sale. ‘o needless repair costs; no dam- fe claimsand allowances to haggle rer; no lost parts to replace. Hewill probablytell you thatthis one reason why he likes to do isiness with them. ,HIPPERS mm all lines are find- ) ing that proper packing makes ling easter. The elimination of mage claims and allowances 2eds collections and increases afits. Wery frequently, too, they ve found it possible, through sci- ific crate design, to reduce, ma- ially, their packing costs. Ine large manufacturer has ‘ed 28% in lumber on one crate, ® on another, and more than 4 on a third. His total savings lumber and shipping weight ount to over ten thousand dol- (a year. And in each instance redesigned crate has proved -e efficient than the one formerly d. roper crate construction is no longer a matter of guesswork. The engineering principles upon which it is based are now thoroughly es- tablished by the experience, ob- servation and experiments of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory, the railroads and many large ship- pers as well. In the same manner that merchandise 1s being designed, tested, redesigned and tried out, so, too, are the crates which are to carry these goods being designed and *UCHESE ilhstrations how bow a few im- A, portant details of com: struction Gun increase +, the strength of a crate. In the upper picture note that the [frame = members are held by two nails driven in a row, while tn the other, three nails are weed aod they ore shagfered. Greater balding pow- er is thos obtained ond the donger of split- ting ia materially reduced. The double mitre on the diagonol brace shown below also gives a bearing against the upright frame member, thos transmitting any thrust it might receive directly to the frase of the orate rather than te its fastenings, a would be the case above, The proper size, thickness and kind of lumber, and the size x | i una spacing of mails, will *, ana | vory with the require: \4 ments of each individ: | ual crate. “The strength of a orate cin often be i inerewsed when neces- sary Wwithowt Increasing the amwint of lumber lined. ‘WEYERHAEUSER FOREST PRODUCTS SAINT PAUL* MINNESOTA Producers of Douglas Fir, Pacific Coast Hemlock, Washington Red Cedar and Cedar Shingles on the Pacific Coast; Idaho White Pine, Western Soft Pine, Red Fir and Larch in the Inland Emtpire ; built to meet successfully the hazards of transportation at a munimum cost. The Weyerhaeuser organization has for years been at work on this problem —collecting and analyzing the facts, so that every foot of lumber it sells for crat- ing purposes will deliver LOO% service and at the same time effect the greatest saving for the shipper. As a result, this organization now of- fers to the industrial user of crating lum- ber the services of a practical crating engineer, Without cost to you we will send this man to your plant, to check up your erates, and with the co-operation of your shipping department to redesign your shipping containers to fit in each case the products to be packed. Lumber is the standard material for shipping containers. For this purpose, this organization offers to factory and industrial buyers, from its fifteen distrib- uling points,ten different kinds of lumber of uniform quality and in quantities ade- quate to any shipper’s needs. BOOKLET, “Better Crating,” which outlines the principles of crate con- struction and explains the personal ser- vice of Weyerhacuser engineers, will be sent on request to manufacturers who use crating lumber. We verhapunes Forest Products are distributed through the established trade channels by the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, Spokanc, Washington, with branch offices at 208 So. La Salle Street, Chicago; 1015 Lexington Bldg., Balti- more: and4th and Roberts Sts., St. Paul; and with representatives throughout the eouniry. Northern IFhite Pine and Norway Pine in the Lake States

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"Wetwek vetld PATENTS USEFUL INFORMATION AND TABLES, husiness mes, bedficiers, ic ar Sunil magi cll sa yp wlll be moaed ot peeript ‘of 50 comria, 2. AHL, Be Woh St., Kew York, M, 5. C. JOHNSON & SOW, Dept. SP-6, Racine, Wis. | (Gonadiaa Factory— Bransford) “The Wood Finishing Authorities" T ‘ORDOWNERS! EVENING POST (Caniinued fram rata) The invisible force he had felt in the Broad Street office hold of in, ing him inarticulate. He down at his dilapidated derby, atill wet and streaked with gutter water, He hadn't been able to tell Chic that the foundlings were hun- What waa coming over 7? It was ery. expedient, necessary to lie a utile how and then. He argued with himself—he had liad, after all, to Chic, told him exactly what he wanted to tell Mr, Buck right now: “Overcrowded—the home's overcrowded, no more room.” All he had to do was to repeat thia in order to touch the humani- aise teat Sos eat pee He arpa E at the clear, & ed eyes o the architect. Again he opened his mouth, just aa something whitvarel inside himt “Heaven built upon a foundation of lies.” Old Mudgett trembled with the ane going on inaide of him. “No,” he against his most intensely practical uae, dudg. ment, “there's room enough, bu : His derby rolied to the floor timated: d; he leaned his wide flat chest hard against. the walnut desk, “T know you'll keep all I'm going. to tell you a secret until—until the nt's finished. You won't say any- th ng." And he told Mr, Buck his Sonate ci: Before Mudgett had finished Buck had risen, looked with unseeing ie at the sepia prints of cathedrals, sit down again _ ean = elbows if Serre lating now and again: “" nberpating _ tt, it is an idea! Why hasn't sody done this before? Interesting! sen Now look here.” This was when Mud- gett had finished and waa reaching un- certainly to recover his derby. “To put it squarely, you want the fourth floor, front, to look as much like heaven as poa- Bible, don’t you?" “Yes,” admitted Mudgett, “I didn’t say so, but that was in mind. T come from heaven. You believe that, don't yout I aay, Mr, Buck, you belleve that, don't you? oral Mr. Buck did not commit himself. much like heaven sine i " “Mudgett glanced at the architect a little suspiciously. “But re merniber— ches Buck laughed, “Leave [t to me." “You'll fix it up—cheapt" The beads of sweat were standing cut on the thin eee oe his nose.“ Azure-blue walls and Ce ing’? Ww “Azure blue,” repeated Buck. "Light, sunshine, air?" "Glass across the entire front, facing the south,"” declared the architect. “All the south side will be fixed so it can be thrown open.” But even in his ecatasy old Mudgett couldn't refrain from singing his sparrow song: “You'll do it cheap? d you won't forget the listening nppetitas and— the portholes? I got to see and hear, keep records, be out of sight." “Leave it to me,” insisted Mr. Buck, “Nothing will be left undone, Tnterest- ing.” He studied his shrewd, patron with a whimsical gaze. “More in- teresting, [ think," said he deliberately, “than you realise, Anything else?" Mudgett pulled his elongated ear, fum- bled with his derby, arose and leaned over Mr. Buck's desk. “Just one other thing. Gold trimmings—real eighteen-carat gold- enf trimmings. I'll pay for it,” he Iped. "Just a little sormewhere around walla—gold leaf." Buck continued to scrutinize him. “It's ing to be interesting,” said he softly to imeelf. “Why the gold trimmings?” “Well now—well," faltered poor old Mudgett, “it used to be sort of my idea of heaven—s touch of gold somewhere," “T understand,” said Buck, and pushed a carefully creased bit of paper toward his p "Don't forget to tales take this, Use it for furniture. You'll need all ef it." Mudgett atared fneredulouslhy, mel his talons closed on the filteen-hun ramp check. “You mean you'll bill me for “N "ead Mr. Buck, "I'm goin build is heaven for your foundlings w the out charge Mudgett hung there, gaping, then put the check in his innermost Heo: moved! toward the door, fumbled with his derk “T say now, I'd like to pay for thet d leaf myself." 1 Buck did rte Hille’ : oe Dom : a t oor t ment at the sepia print of Notre Dame on the wall | facing his desk. Jum 3 ee ee “ "te gee Wha eEperimest w prry to old Mudgett himself.” id ‘Te ALL outward appearances |i t the remaining part al ts noon hodledi ight to his dept, a « atill to his ¢ He allowed tims blown in the direction of Fue £,) there, on First Avenue and Avex in the side streets and alleys, be ba beat down and begged in one me gle article of furniture Al the moment in each bargain, wee » and shouting boarsely and vires was shoutin 1 Tie like windmills in a» tormado, ‘ reds end tho os “srraeany by & ng,“ Well now, pn iets Th cee tek he would darart oe Fe astounded merchant gasping a! His lips Sang his apartow soy cheap, cheap but bis exver: was hea Hadn't he a de pocket? ‘aan't Mr. Bark gauc the fourth floor, free? That wa matter? Mudgett couldn't sue question: merely stalked int. secondhand store and etarte! all over again with the mums : purchases, At ty-sixth Street a Pel shabby cemat Bg ¥, Hoga Prieta @ solid-locking 3 the are light = Hi up at the sky. Drask * aver the city, Lights were tc Streams of people were crowds) streets. Suddenly he wanted « at the foundling home, He n Histon Saag station, but walking = At the corner of the meat © eaught his eye beckoning: 7 phone. He paused. Somethoy to enter and phone Chic that is Saar wat not crowded—u! mpty cribs; urged him to «eh now, hadn't he lied belon pec What harm was it? Hea pocket with the check and boo As nite. lag: Sify sie th: 5: at a te ¢, long-legged gait, tm distance the thing Tnside © fs cep fen ge ae his pare at th chil with a brace on ber kz wis made of misty steel and a Old Mudgett spoke to &- tiged away: bat nthe Se her hand and the ald, was Line walked for a way together. : eR ei to evade that ore As he skirted Central Park bs aman walking the curb anc == land Pony. A small boy was b Old ances pireale « aireet, placed the boy on th shook his bony fist at the = he switched om the ligh: standing inside with the dc Some inward, ineffable t- audible Bovine, — i iiomer [ik 8 thing hurt—dull and hea; ist Bex geared at bor + gray eyes. “Mr. Mudges, © anything to cat to-day” “Eat?™ he echoed rape: his innermost pocker be —

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heck aml examined ft, “I've the finances, Did you have the edeaced out, everything? Did Bax?" Mr. Buck, of Shackelton, Buck a to fix it a And” —he da " He began to tell ar jumble of words, ling to have a room up there, or dun. I told Buck I wanted be said Ie"d do it free, I told room and a bath with ik That be said anything.” Mucdgett iis with emphasis. “You be I say, don't you? You don't -I'm saying something that's ‘ equrae I don't." to be sure, berause—I"m going cig nee himaeli!” short: stop imself he tell Misa Bax? He didn't her. But say now, wasn't she 1 the experiment? Shouldn't had lied ta iss Bax, you Il believe re as this experiment has something i battom wat it. You know what 'E pl sh toa atron waa silent for a mo on't believe I do know what But you mustn't let it worry aint copes let ome supper. Mor. Adu tT" T tell Set lied to get this oth were silent, ludgett up, me loss shadowy, self. BR ete all."" is mitron in blue percale move, “What did on aay lie, Mir. Mudgeett? asker. n ¥—"" What right had she sucts mod desde? Neverthe her, “I suid the home wis a I knew there were three bird floor.”" you tell hin that?" asked perturbed, —this morning. If you think lie, then—then ——™ think it is wrong to lie, Mr. tr she no we—" * pleated Aes ia foundlings were brought to third wae brought eg a few The home is crowded Fr st authority obtainable = built in six But ine that back in those timen bricklayers’, plasterers’ or ns; mo strikes; no building obtained; mo inspectors to vith in diverse , one may well that ecomditions the creation of d have been delayed some- walking delegates would rather the non n eight-hour day. : The creation of a heaven ont miatter from the erea- .-o Instead of six a it re 4. Begoun in March, it was ay—a very fine heaven in- © blue was the ceiling, im- the door, porcelain the imbing was insisted upon floor was clawilike in its pet, but padding beneath om position that could be lamp cloth, Hygienic was wholly utilitarian, Across ved huge windows so that sight mame wnobatructed meshed copper screens, ie touch been forgotten. the novaliling: around the radiater d note the ixtures! All was new. r curtains that could be windows to keep out the ase first-hand at a repu- ad wrestled with his foe, w, what's the matter with dhand thing in heaven!" ate whiteen criba unset the wall. er silenced all sound from woe. Etigh in the wall of were five peepholes as nd made of crystal-clear at the side of each hung a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST listening apparatus by means of which the slightest whisper in heaven could be heard. he room of Misa Bax was ment ond nurselike, Finished in soft gray, it matched her eyes; and relieved by a warmer color, a shade of roae, it matched samething conceded, nodoubt, beneath her level gaze, Aaloining was her own, her very own bath; near the bed a litthe instrument, like theae in the anteroom, brought the vine of the angels within reach of bor dew: How can one mention the dietary kit brichaa, a complete plant, in connection with these celestiol things? Heaven was locked and barred—at the foot of _ ataira leading up te the fourth floor: and again, the door of the front room itself, A auatelnine with keys hung from the matron's slender waist, another set of keys wae deep in the baggy pockets of old Mudgett's breeches, PD pay with only one exception, heaven . Tt lacked nothing—save the angels Not a faundling came ta the home in May. Mudgett paced his office ane se istiae tag has if at phat her ault, "Another psd Bi ou haven’ t a baby on the fourth Aoor; not one," Climbing the three ig old Mudgett would peep in through the portholes at the endl, immacilate rath ita seven empty cribs and azure walls, test the listening apparatus, enter heaven itself, gin- gerly across the soft cloudlike flooring, turn e water in the bath, try all the faucets, hot and eld, Then opening the huge windows he would lean his forehead net the copper sereen- ing, stare out at the uncompleted building —— the rer atreet lose himself in gloomy thou “Hot one: mot an Wasn't Wf of babie ha in heaven.” propos month for the abandonin vies in the vestilbules of rich men's homes, in the dressing rooms of Pullmans, in the hushed naves of churches? ee a Ge that hed req hed a bitadised erous Pp at required a hun years in the building; he thought of the cathedral’s vast amazement at fin upon. its Immutable stone steps a ting, aquirmin infant, Curious thoughts same ta Mud= gett in this spacious, cool, heavenly rox, but not a single frantic telephone eall eame from private home or police atation. Not ane, fourth floor, front, held out its arma, its sunlight, its silence, ite gold leaf and open plumbing, but the lure of its all- ee heavenliness was to no avail. ore and more shadowy beeame old Mudett, hen came the fifth of June—just an ordinary June day: sunlight, lazy shadows and a pen leaves, At the time Mudgett town hanging like a Spb over | Leaded d med | a pbc mathe. k, agrsniate yl gabe th ough the par wa B children. roller-akating, and arrived at the home Late in the afternoon. Miss Bax met him at the door, He was perplexed by something unusual in her tranquil eyes. The bundles slipped fram his gaunt arma. say now—you don’t menn a baby has come?" She nodded her head and started to warn him of semething; but Mudgett had rushed past her, Up the narrow pruning sa stair old Mudgett leaped. He unlocked with a trem- bling hand, pulled himself together before entering the unteroom, tiptoe im, and glued his eve to a pecphole, The first crib waa occupied. Mudgett was transfixed by the sight of that bit of humanity waving diminutive fists above the smallest of white pillows. He wiped his ineredulous eyes, strove to clear lis vision, "T say now ——" But there waa no mistake about it—the first angel in heaven was black as the ace of spades. eenaticany old Mudgett placed the listenin, aratus to his elongated ear. Fle coutd | Fa noge: not a ery, but o gurgle, Delighted, he fumbled for the pene attached to a shelf, just the right eight, on which was a roll af writin paper. Again he listened. “Ya-ya-ya." als ge wrote caret “YY a-ya-ya, ya , POOH, aT say now, What does it mean?" He hung there until dusk came through lh south windows. Miss Hax en- he anteroom noiselesaly. felt she was back of him, beckoned placed the apparatus to her ear, whis "It's talking! 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He plucked her hy the aleeve, whispered excitedly, “Boy or gir)?’ “Boy,” whispered the littl matron. Presently he drew Misa Bax through the shadows of the anteroom out into the hall. ae you terribly disappainted?” she Disappointed?” echoed Mludgett ely. en the first angel is black?” “T ag couldn't we call him—brown?™ ey aaid the little matron. “He's bla “Well, if you insist we'll enter it that Let's down and make the titad iss Bax had duties in connection with the first angel. ag on Mudgett pres ently in his office. He waa leaning over a huge book, “Date: June th,” wrote he, “Date of birth.” He glanced questioningly over his shoulder. Pr haere June firat," she in- aon ft rainke the entry. “Color.” oP is cuir a littl, “Black,” insisted Misa Bax. Obediontl; he wrote "Black," “Sex: Male. Father and mother: Unknown. Found.” Again he glanced over his shoul- | der, Where had the firat angel core from? Misa Bax looked at him uneompromisinely, “Amsterdam Avenue near One Hunedr and Fourteenth Street; the back yard of a grocery store.” Old Mudgett mumbled ane a Mr. Mudgett? dia t q YOu BaLy, r. u La “T said, white or black, they all come the same place.” Wavertheleen. tre he wrote at her dictation. “Now, "said Mudgett, “his name?" “His name?" echord Miss Bax, Mudgett pulled his left ear, age his throat, but did not meet her ey “Tt's natural,” said he, “it's logical that the first thing they say is of course their name. That's logical, isn't it, Miss BaxT™ She did not commit herself, nor did she protest. Mudgett made theentry Name: Ya-he," and ecloaed*the book. “There are two things,” Miss Bax pro- natincanel determiiediy. "First, that — I can't wear it, [t gete in the way. Hola it five times while I waa bathing June 3) en That little black imp—Ts-be ° - } oa =| wr: in his chair, “Deport s-| on it. Not a human ros, set: face for two years. It's the exx-- Eclat arth ee + ot ele the part of Miss Bax. Ac altoge idea popped into Mudgett'’s bea! always believed,” said be “Tse . maintained to myself, ert gins remember, that nurses shook) ws You un 7 LT my oe, ype A veil to recuse the cto ell, now—I didn't meas ts “I won't wear a vel It «- practical.” “Tf you won" g" sald “Tl know you ised ap te a es Set i he ty I between bis hands, Miss Baz reached ber bende: + him, almost touched lim “P= eould tuck it im. [ll trey tacking : Then there was the aecond mocve pose the building should catch - © rth floor locked and bare? “T say now, the home is “No, it isn't, Mr. Mudge: | tive ian't ut the new home will be” & Mutestt moun es a ieee to leave the keys.” “Tl always be in whee ps o decided Mucdgett. “I'L taxe v-» after them." “Tou—taking care of be: “But I say now, why ms” And for the firet time ir < .» the lovely Witte matron smu ‘WG you wear a veil?” en pa Old Mudgett changed the «c= ~,, = (TO BE CONCLIDE LLEN'S if DOT=E ASE] THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (More Than Two Million and a Quarter Weebly) TS fully protected by copyright and nothing that appears in it may be mo cither wholly or in part, witheut special permission, The use of ou otc quétatons from them for advertising promotions and stock-selling stoail never authorized,

Table of Contents June 3, 1922 Cover Design by Elbert MeGran Jackson r SHORT STORIES Al The Language of the Angels—Tristram Tupper. | || When Finn Meets Finnigan—Vieror Shawe . 2. . The Outgueser—Sarm Hellman | The Barens of the Nimble Pack— Edgar Wallace - The One-Man World—Catvin Johnston, . . . , ARTICLES The Troubles of the Housae—Kenneth L. Roberts . , Wall Street Tipsters and Their Methods—A/bert W. sheueoces: Consumption After the Boom—Alengse Engiebert Taylor . The Print of My Remembrance—Augusfus Thamrtas . Pioneer Methods—tGearge F. Parker . . . . . . powder - \ Hard to Pick ‘Em—S8y 2 Village Movie Man ey for shows that pinch and for tired, * Big Towns and Little Qnes—fJ. R. Sprague . _ . . aching, awollen eer, corns, bunions, ¥ blisters acid collaupes, J ; rif SERIALS

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ; 151 FResioeST JUROR, OR APA Be COMFULTING ENGINE I ! 1 J Engineer and manufactoren who did notcansign to the waste basket the copy.of “That Slim Gray Pamphict ee mnf ahem ar ask ing fur frorn if fn bo copes. Fill im che coupon und ome copy will be mailed iis for ctantinadon, ‘Thin booklet should be wn the hane fe of everg man. who is responaible im any way for pi siping eye iui ent & af any kind, hig or in ale, Name AA ad reat ee CHIEF OR AFTERAN That Slim Gray Pamphlet t!" exclaimed the Chief Draftsman, “it can’t be finished in days.” e,” explained the Consulting Engineer to the famous sugar tho had called in person to demand greater speed, ‘we ok on the Refinery plans and put every draftsman onto -uban job of yours.” nen! That's your look-out, not mine,” declared the Presi- “Both plants must be modernized before the new crop Every tenth of a cent a pound in production cost means i day.” ne everything possible. You can’t get the trained drafts- oe +e i don’t need college professors to figure a few hangers,” ‘resident. “Didn't you answer my wire ten days ago and ill ready but hangers'?” iring types and dimensions of 10,0co hangers is some he Chief Draftsman. ve the plans brought in so he can see what it means,” isulting Engineer. ites later a keen looking youth laid a roll of tracings on d with them a sheaf of neatly written pages. “Here's ingers on that Job,” he said hesitatingly. tangers [**—"'Where did you get it?"—" Who worked it hat kind of hangers?” cs—like—really looks like a complete schedule,” said the ingineer as he turned the sheets headed—Pipe Rings— Steam & Hot Water 5 Heating Equipment yin kler Humidifying and Drying Equipment Wall Coil Hangers—Saddle Hangers—Pipe Rolls. “Who did this?” “T did,” said the boy sia “Took them right out of a slim pray pamphlet.” “Pamphlet—what pamphlet?” “Why, the hanger book.” “There's no book you can get this kind of data from,” said the Chief Draftsman, turning to the Consulting Engineer. “* It's a matter of careful calculation by experienced men, “Just a minute, gentlemen,” interrupted the sugar magnate. you mean a climes pamphlet. Where did you get it?” “I got it out of the Chief's waste basket,” he replied, drawing the slim gray pamphlet from his pocket and handing it to his questioner. “My waste basket?” exclaimed the Chief Draftsman. “Excuse me again, gentlemen,” interrupted the sugar magnate. “T'm overdue at my office. Please "phone me in half an hour if this lad's schedule checks with your plans. I'll bet a hundred to one it does. Companies like Grinnell don't print booklets like this unless they've got something valuable to say. Good morning,” _ * * & “Boy, Half an hour later the Consulting Engineer told him over the ‘phone the figures checked and that blueprints. and specifications would be jgeu=" " - bids the next day, and added, “We are specifying Grinnell sijtistable Hangers. Their use should cut the time of in- stalling two weeks.” Cut out the coupon. Send it in today. Or simply write and ask for the Hanger Booklet. Address Grinnell Company, Inc., 702 W. Exchange 5t., Providence, R. I. Power and Process Piping Fittings, Hangers and Valves Pipe Bending, Welding, ete. Uf it’s Industrial Piping, take it up with us

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Published Weekly » Curtis Publishing Company rus H. M. Cortia, Peesident Diem Bord, Adversteing Direcior adence + Squares. Philadelphia spilt £5, ip ibaa Sireet Covent Garden. C, THE SATURDAY == EVENING POST Founded A’D' 1728 Sy Benj. Franklin Copyright 1922, br The Curtis Publishing Company in the United Staten and Greet Britelin Tide In US. Posen: Offiee sad in Foreiga Counce 194 SFC. Toe ie Comeca PHILADELPHIA, PA., JUNE 10, 1922 #2. 00" THE FEAR George Ho race Lorimer ees Williaras, "Fr 5, Bigelow, Wi Neal, Acthur MoHengh, - B.Costain, Associate Editors Entered a3 Second-Clei Mater. November 14, LASS, af the Pod Clfice of Fobdedelphis, Unda dhe Acct of Mlemch 93, 15: Addivienel Day as Second=Class Mates ot Colambus Oh, .01 Peon, ML, at Chicege, lL. a Ende polis, Ped. and ot Deo Mobs, Ie. Eniered os Second- ‘Clea Mater af ihe Posi-Olftce Department, Crier a, Canaeche Number 50 fy Sufi 2e Reminiscences of a Stock ll Or—By Edwin Lefévre them behind. Some of the stocks began to break whole points at atime. Once the man by the ticker yelled “T, M. 51! S044! ly! 497" and then, as though all their heads had been pulled by one arket wae ao weak that you ould see the eustomera counting their dead Presently they would enter upon the second stage of the most tragic eeping in the workd—the translating of paper ioeses into actual tions. But the first step came harder, becouse stock-market gamesbers peowith all their might. Clerks walked about the room almost on tiptoe ailty—as though the fatal bull tipa had come from them and a reckoning el. But if you had asked one of the customers about the weather outside f anewered that it waa mot yet three o'clock. were posting the quotations on the board, slipping the green cords inte itiful little snaps, They told the battle’s story in mournful numbers, the t! ‘The falling fractions were shots striking belaw the water line, and the nith. its phantom freight al hearts’ Gesipes, Wha sinking. Paper profits! al a! as the speculative favorites that crumbled, like Siam Oil or Acme Motors, the pieture became that of a Satanic torchbearer racing down an ficles, setting fire to one after another, And how they blazed! Up in emoke! The quotation boys had to hustle like mad now, You could see that the ticker wes leaving SK pbs of pis a= r cr Pet ae string, everybody turned te look ata sharp-nosed, thin-lipped chap with tortoiae-shell goggles, Then they all looked away, as though it were indecent to watch his face, He was long five thousand shares of that stock, and had often laughed at them for piking. It brought back the old days to me go that I could have sworn I heard onee more the exultant yells of the winning bears in the board room. And I saw again a seething mass of winners and losers—winners pushing their luck, and losers bent on mot losing any more than they eae help— help at the top of their voices, a AWARE AWD PYCRE op Cesbery Wedaso ne

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4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST A carnival of audible greed! Fear straight from six hun- dred throate! I remembered the Northern Pacific panic of 101, when I had heard and seen —— "Te reminds me of old times, Bill," I told the head of the firm. He was sticking clase to me, I suspect, ao that nobody would be ill-bred enough to ask him embarrassing ques tions—for instance, whether he thought the break had goné far enough. But he ahook his head, "Times have changed,” be muttered sbsently, as though this were the first time in years that the ticker had relapsed into ancient vices, What had happened was that after a dull, drooping market for a few weeks the bulla had begun to tell them- selves that the worst was over, The litth daily bleeding of the past fortnight, they hoped, would obviate the need of total amputation, Then—the erash! Unexpected, a al- ways, by those who having expected to win had forgotten everything elae. T took another look at the customers. [saw men young and old and middle-aged, short and tall, thin and fat—and all of them strangers to me. Not one of dozena who hed traded in that office when I had an ace there a fow years before was left. And yet these, their successors, were curioualy familiar. It waa the eyes. They all had the dazed, hurt look of men who dread to admit that they are wrong. A parasitical office man, extremely well dressed, ax all salesmen of bunk naturally feel they must be to hold their jobs, was circulating about the room, skillfully registering both condolence and resignation, [t was really too bad, but you had to expect sudden showers in April! Of course it was a beastly shame it ahould pour on the holiday that you had planned to go to the links, He did it very well. Practice! One of the customers was moved to speech, He asked with a cheerfulness that anyone could see was sheer bravado, “Say, Fred, what's the newsT"' “No news,” anawered the omnisclent Fred, who in balmier weathor always begun his remarks with “I hear.” Lawrence Livlagsion’: Rald ERHAPS the customer remembered this habit, for he asked, “What do you hear?" “Nothing,” anawered Fred. The customer frowned, Fred, who was poid by the firm to abstain from silence, went on: “The less you hear the better. It's all bear lies anyhow. If you listen you'll hear nothing but calamities,” He paused. Then slowly, impressively: “I'm a bull on the country. You can't make me believe that in twenty-four hours the soil of the farms hos become barren, the springs have dried up and the sun has gone on a strike. No matter hew hard I look I can't see any change in the erops or in the steel trade or in ——" “There must be a reason for this break!" the customer was gouded into Interrupting. "Reason?" echoed Fred ecornfully. But the eustomer’s face made him add quickly: “I'll get in touch with Jame ton and find out what they say over on the board.” And @ lett. Some of the other customers had listened to the colloquy apathetically, They were beyond the rescuing stage. Only a miracle would help them; and they had fatigued them- stlves praying for ome. The office man, Fred, came hack. “Ht eourse!" he announced fram the threshold. “I knew it! I said so!" The customers resentfully watched him advance to the best oraterica]l position In the room—beside the frantic stock ticker. If he knew and had said ao they had not heard him; and eo they had not sold owt before the break; and so he was to blame for it, “Lawrence Livingston is raiding the market!" he eried proudly, The years fell off my shoulders. I was again young and enthusiastic, and life amiled on me, even in Wall Street, I laughed for sheer happiness, Fred turned quickly, a frown on his face, Re membering that I wae a friend of the boas and therefore 4 petential cus- tomer, he un- frowned. But he could mot help turning a brick red, The custom- era stared at me: it wae the first laughter heard that day in that office. My friend, tolerant by temperament and tactful by profession, turned and asked me aflectionately, “What bit yaw?" “The vanished past!" [ answered cheerfully. The customers politely looked away; only a man who already ots his brokers laugha when they call for more in. “That's a little more obscure than usual. I guess I am getting too old for your epigrams," said my friend. “And I am getting younger every minute, listening to Fred's,” I assured him. My friend, by reason of his calling, always played safe where his customers were concerned. He scented unpleas- ant observations on my hobby—which is that no man can consistently beat the game—and he intelligently fore stalled the dangerof anyone else overhearing me by smiling benevolently and remarking, “(Come along, my boy!" I followed him inte hie private office and closed the sound-proof door, He motioned me toa chair, I took it, He looked resigned. “Lam net going to seold pou for letting your customers overstay the bull market," [ assured him. “Ko, but I suspect you are going to speak a piece on the stupidity of professional men in Wall Street, I haven't got a soap box for you, as T heard Robert W. Chambers say they supply you with at your eryptlike club, but I'll bite. Why did you laugh?" "When your young man Fred, whose job seems to be to keep the customers fram thinking, announced so posi- tively that the slump was a bear raid by Lawrence Liv- ingston I felt that I waa in Wall Street in the late ‘50's or early 1900's, when I was conducting my Wall Street column in one of the afternoon papers.” “But Livingston wasn't operating then,” protested my friend,“‘who not only is literal minded but is also-one of the moat useful govermore of the New York Stock Exchange. “He's always been in Wall Street," [ said. He looked so puzzled and then so perturbed that T hastened to explain: “He isn't a stock operator, he's a stock excuse—only his name has changed slightly. It used to be Jim Keene: and before that, Charley Woerishoffer; and before that, Daniel Drew. You commission men early discovered that what the average sucher—that is, what your average customer— wants is not reasons but excuse:—excuses for his trading, for his taking unbusinesslike chances in another man's game, for the inevitable misbehavior of the market at an inconvenient time, for his own imbecility and that of his broker. Any explanation except the truth will do to ac- count for the obvious—when the obvious happens to be that the customer is an ass. He loses his money, but gives you commissions. So, when the end of the bull market comes and the profits are not taken the commission brokers have to excuse themselves for not calling the turn.” "Say!" interjected my friend, “You know it's ne use to tell your customers to get out. You might as well save your breath, and let the old mule kick them.” “T have no fault to find with that," I said. “What T object to is the habit of telling the public that some big operater ia raiding the market whenever the natural alumpe come along to prove that the bull market is over, Do you wonder I laughed when Fred esid Larry Livingston was raiding the market?" “What makes you so sure that Larry Livingston was not ralding the market?” My friend used the excruciatingly polite tone of voice that humorless people use to squelch frienda. It's bloodless. But T answered with a grateful smile, “Common sense makes me sure, This is a bear market, and too many weaklings are still long of stocks. The break is too violent and painful to be nelished by men whose margins are near. ing exhaustion. It is, nevertheless, legitimate—that is, logical, Merely to suspect Livingston of selling stocks in bulk at this level is a blood insult to him. You talk as though he were a room trader in the old days gunning for steploss orders, Why in blases don't you tell your cus- tomers the truth?" "De you know Livingston?" asked my poor friend. Jute my) T was willing that he should deriv wig could from my ignorance, tT maid *[ do nn And sure enough, he smiled! “Tthought ao!" hesaid. “You mayor tiny has changed since you quit ft fifteen years apy: that it certainly has." “Hang it, man, [ write a yearly article ta 9 haan't,"" I protested. “T"we done it for yen” "Yes, yer, I know, And they make ms | doubtless meant my articles, “Where are they wrong?” [ asked tim, om ny naciously, “The principle ia wrong. You pack out ike ‘nay never change ——™ ; | "I pick out stockbrokers, their custome, the ogy of all speculators ewerywhere, the teary dy tion, the amazing short=sightedness of the Son & governors, and the fact that the enbeatabls po speculation remains as unbeatable w 4 ee 9 customer, without whom there would be brokers, to-day ia amooth shaves, asd try re wore a beard or an imperial. But become i on the same errand and quits loser, just a:b And if you are a fair sample, [Tl say that the brokers have not changed either, Whit brn say to that?" j “Only this: ‘That I know Larry Livngen i the market.” . “And how de you know that?” “T know it!" And he smiled most apex as though I were a customer. “Are you one of his principal broken?” “No, but his brokers have been big sels / | Who War Wall Street's Biggest “7T'S o persistent delusion of men lite yo 4 operator's buying and selling can alean In Governor Flawer's time everyboly ner wy buying becouse he wished it known. But nob when he was selling. Can't you image ¥ when people like you thought they knew doing?” “Livingston's selling, all right,” insted ar ing my look he added, ‘I can tell.” { “Well, if you can tell, he must be an ax”! true friend, “And I've heard be has quite a you'd eall it.” “He has. That is why I know be ia tad He is the biggest plunger Wall Street eve a “There you go again!" I esouldn't bes “Nobody really and truly is the bore: Street ever saw. happens to be the moment becomes the legendary bere of» T remember hearing somebody remark thi: J ishoffer waa the biggest plunger of all. Deas who in his prime was himself no paker, we declared very impressively that Jame RE an equal in Wall Street for magnitude brilianey of execution. Then old man Sc Forty-niner, chipped in to say that al ¢ were shocetringers alongside of Anthoay 4, hero of the Chancellorsville rise—in [564 | And he mentioned Henry Keep, who we © the Silent; and Bill Travers, who alter 4 Siamese Twins a long time turned to P. 1. asked gravely: “EB-b-brothers, I s-p two Jeromes, Addison and Leonard. acd never even heard of, whe had beer Nano in their day." “know. But the country is richer oo are on 8 proportionate scale," he sald pir “Well,” L reminded him, “it isn't eo Te’ one of the famous Chicago crowd told me” player of the bunch, bigger than Joho ¥ was Loyal Smith, who lived and died a= you brokers. But no reliable figures Fe

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 5 here Was a Great Camp Meeting Walkers hed once had money, and the glamour hat vanished god hung round them still. To ure, they gawe ne obtrusive signa of poverty rumor hed it that the wherewithal for keep- dg wooden hows ich fenoe and the with colossal balls need pepair and o cleanly white ifich relatives up cea ones Lavra. ler Visited twice a ye returning with ew sonpa and the tiptop fashion in hats. ume, the Walkers . Theugh the tbe painted and erage cut regu- were mo horses in aave the one old supported Major his daily airing nally bore Laura t feathered hat ag riding skirt, : third eousin ioved Ashby ie just: beyond And instead of retinue of serv- were now but pick, the ma- id thatold crip- unt Zilly, inthe e eould aocuse wajor or Laura moaning past major—Major wrenet Cusths ve him his full gnomen—sat on the front d the Maxims wid, a volume v by heart and troduced into tion, holding achrnan to be eatest philos- intellectual ily ride, three 3 m lay, each i tocldy, an- ‘or nightcap, ie ty of hia TJ Or wea a xy mind well erran. Pelle, lilting wt Im a foam dad te be back," she said aloud to the sweep- aches above her and the crooked brick She sidewalk. “It's good to be back! Good aimess, Didyou think I'd gone crazy, talking etheodist minister, blond, ingenwous, bash- 1 the ld his hot in his hond. Tho sun on his nto wn aureded Saint Francis. mirigt, Miss Laura Belle,” he stammered, c fceot tothe other, “Ll—we—I[—I'm very hecorme again. D-did you have a pleasant grunge ged her shoulders, and in spite of his riage Wman was aware of their soft, delicious rthress, their elegance of line beneath her aiggehty qiad to be back though.” rer Ler father's glad to have you back. And —— aa rad so is—everyone else.” He gulped. e @* Aand soam I,” bot Laura Belle's poise heed the avowal. “I've taken the liberty ye) Eruajor several times in your absence, “a the song: By SOPHIE KERR FLEU ITRATED Br JA MWES a, = ee “He Tilt Time Meet Peer Pell A be oe Leak on Troe hig Bote Poe few Some of the French Télage'* Misa Laura Belle, Last night—last night I was intending to call, and had walked up that way, when I beard you sing- ing and knew you had returned. I would not intrude on your firet night at home.” "Father said you'd been coming—he says you're a good listener. He was pleased te have you. Did you like my song—lnst night, Mr. Baines? It's one that's all the rage now.” She regarded him inmocenthy, but tiny flares of mischief were lit in her dark, long-lashed eyes. “Tt was beautiful—beautiful! You have a most melod)- ous voice, if l may aay ao, Miss Laura Belle." The flares of mischlef widened ever so Hitth, “Came in some evening,” she said, “and I'll sing it to you. It's ealled Darling, Kiss My Eyelids Down.” With a little nod of dismissal she floated on up the green- tunneled street, her white ruffles burgeoning about her like the petals of a rese blown by summer winds. Agron Baines turned dizzy at the sight, and the recollection of the words “Darling, Kiss My Eyelids Down!" He blushed and wriggled, in an ecstasy of embarrassment and PREFTOM delighted digeomfort. Slowly he turned back to the por- sonage and entered the bare room known as his study, where, on an uncompromising plain deal desk, lay the pages of his sermon for the next Sunday morning. He waa to preach on the need for fellowship and unity, taking his text from Ephesians, fourth chapter, fifth verse: "Ome Lord, one faith, one baptism." Subtly by this sermon he moant to weld some mounting differences in the choir, where Miss Teeny Spalding, the veteran alto, waa conducting a feud with the organist, little Miss Mamie Pride, who, though young, Wasapunky, ane hal declared that she wouldn't drag the hymns for any old worman with a mustache that ever lived. Also, there wae dissension in the Ladjes" Ald; Mire. Elihu Staley hold- ing views on basket socials quite diverse from thoes of Mrs, Wesley Higgins and Mrs. John Richardson, Ta all these warring elements Aaron Baines was address- ing bimgelf through this Btrmon, wirning them of the dangers of dissension, and describing in stern de- tail how unbecoming it was to the humble Christian heart, But now the aquare sheets of white paper danced be- fore his eyes, taking a tan- talizing likeness to the worldly flaunees of Laure Belle Walker's dress. And Laura Belle Walker was an Episcopalian, and therefore neither of his faith nor of his baptism, He had made notes for appropriate hymna: Blest be the Tie That Binds, as a matter of course; and Giver of “Peace and Unity; he hoped Miss Teeny and Misa Marnie wouldn't glare at each other while they were singing it. The third hymn he was not quite sure about. Should it be How Sweet, How Heavenly is the Sight of Blest be the Deur Uniting Love? Perhapa the latter was a little: too much like Blest be the Tie That Binds. He tried to consider therm, looking up each in turn in his hymnal. Even as he did ao the memory of Darling, Kiss My Eyelids Down, murmured in Laura Bello’s soft cool voice, flicked across his nerves and turned him blind to the needs of religious decision. Involuntary words came to his lips: “Behold, thou art fair, my love. . . » Thy lips are like a thresd of scarlet, and thyspeechis comely. . . . Honey and milk areunder thy tongue. . . . Hestarted guiltily as the deor a f Tt was his aunt, Mrs. Hallett, a widow of advanced years and querulous wrinkles, who had been snatched away fram the cozy fireside of her favorite daughter's home ta serve as housekeeper and companion to her nephew until such time as he should marry. It was an event she longed to hasten, Unavoidably she went at it the wrong way. “Mig. Staley's sent over a lovely twin-mouuntain cake," she said, “Miss Eve made it. She's got a wonderful hand for coke," * Aunt Lucretia,” said Aaron patiently, “Lodo wish you wouldn't Interrupt me when ['m at my sermon. [t's very kind of Mrs. Staley and Miss Ewe, but you could have told me just ag well at dinnertime. And anyway, 1 care very litth: for cake." “Td like to know since when," complained Mra, Hallett. “You ate most of that raisin loaf we had last week, ond

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6 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST it was heavy. T simply cant teach that girl to make cake, Oh, these darkies they're so stupid.” This was her continual grievance, and Aaron sighed as itappeared, He could not say to her, as he wished, that if Mrs. Staley wouldn't send so much of Miss Eve's cooking over for his enjoyment, and go determinedly throw Eve into his society, his life would be much more carefree. Miss Eve was a nice girl, a very nice girl; and Elihu Staley, her father, was a deacon in the church, and liberal: but beside Laura Belle Walker's dark beauty and assured, sophisticated way Eve's childlike fairness was in- evitably blotted out, After a few more words as to the inadequacy of negro help Mrs. Hallett withdrew, leaving Agron with his ser- mon, His left ear burned and tingled. He robbed it absently. Was it a sign someone waa talking about him? Laura Belle Walker had only a littl: way farther down the street when a girl darted out from be- hind a hedge of flowering quince, ex- claimed with pleasure, and seizing Laura Belle gave hera coupleof hearty kisses, “Lovely thing—I'm so glad you're back! Come up on the porch and visit a while!" “Eve—dear!” They kissed again and, arms entwined, paced up the walk and found informal seats on the Staley porch stepa, Laura Belle above, Eve perched adoringly below. "Oh, Laura Belle, that hat! And listen—is it true that crinclines are outT" Laura Belle nodded solemnly, “By this thme next year we'll all be as lank as ironing boards. I've seen some of the French things—you wouldn't be- lieve how funny they look, And I've learnt the sweetest nen quilling, fora sack, oF in points on an underskirt! Would you like to try on my hatt” She took it off carelessly, and Eve received it with reverent finger tipe. “Not that way—a little farther for- ward—your chignon isn’t quite high enough, But it's most becoming. You ought to have one like it, only with a blue ribbon to mateh your eyes.” Eve hed run inte the hall te seo herself in the mirror of the hatrack. She came out smiling. “I'd adore to have one, but pa'd never let me wear the daisirs, He says it's sinful to imitate the Lord's handiwork.” “Oh, pooh!" Laura Belles perfect underlip registered seam. “Your father's notions! Well, it would do nicely just with the ribbon; streamers, too, of gouree. Come over tomorrow and we'll tall about it.” “Tell me some more about clothes," begged Eve. “OY course you've got a lot that's new. This dress is a dream. What's the stuil?” "Grape marefz, It has too many ruffles to be clegant, but Iso love ruffles I cofldn't resist them. I really haven't mich—a white alpacs With an wederskirt of purple wilk, a morning dress of figured muslin with straps of Clony and sulphur yellow ribbons run under, a gaze de chombery satin- striped in blue, You must see that! And I trayele!l home in one of the new spotted winsey suite, Bismarck brown, the skirt so short it shows my ankles! [ felt downright bold init, but it's thefashion. [thas aloose sack, and lone hanging eleeves. A little brown Neapolitan hat with metallie acorna and oak leaves goes with it." Eve Staley became wistfully envious, Oh, to be you, Laura Belle] You have such stylish things; vou go up Nerth and see the sights and get acquainted with new people. ["ve never been farther than Baltimore in my life." Laura Belle gave a sigh and a half pout. “And I'd rather slay at home with father and Toothpick and cross old Aunt Filly. And of course Ashby, Heavens, if Ashhy could only get his mortgage paid off! He's so proud he won't ask me to marry him till he does.” “How—how can you talk about it—like that!" Eve was blushing for her. But the eolor in Laura Belloe’s amooth cheek did not waver. “Tf T didn't talk about it like that I'd ery my eves out and red eyes are hideous. Well, forget Ashby. What about the young reverend—hmh? How's he coming on?” It was at that moment that Aaron Baines’ left cor began to burn. "Laura Belle, he's just gorgeous! He preaches the mint eloquent, moving sermons! Everyone likes him so much. en “'pieone Don't Rook ae if Pd Sinpped Fou Pim Oaiy Bolag Whot le Reet for Pow "" Weren’t you—weren't you talking to him down street just now?" “Then you were peeping from behind the hedge! I thought so. We simply said how d'ye do. And [ thanked him for going te see father while ] was away, He eaid he'd heard me singing last night and since [ was feeling rether wicked I asked him if he liked the song—and told him ite Mae, ‘ban ghould have seen hia face, Ewe—I waa singing Darling, Kiss My Eyelids Down!" Sho trilled with laugh- ter, lnughter that she could not check, even at Eve's shocked surprise, “Oh, Laira Belle! What did he say?" “Te blushed, just like you're doing, He's a goose!" “He tan"t{" Lavra Bellic clapped her hands, "Se the wind's In that quarter! You'd make a perfect wife for a minister, Evo." “Daon't—don't! How can vou!" [ve pressed her palma ever burning, scarlet, telltale cheeks, “It"s—it's im- Tmodest.."" Laura Belle berame grave. him—L can see that." Eve's childlike eyes turned to her trustfully, She whis- pered, “I wouldn't tell another eoulin the world—but—oh, [dodike him—I da! Only—he doesn’t care a thing about me, He's as stiff asa poker with me, and all the other girls, just the same. And mother pushes me at him—TI get so whamed. Laura Belle, what do the girla Lip North do when—when they like a man—and he doesn't even look around at then?" Laura Belle rose, swinging her wide hat by lta Aying streamers, her smile belying the seriousness of her volce, “They run after him and make him lovk. (jh, Eve, ifa “But vou do care about woman's clever enough she can get any man she wante! Yes. che con. | know it, ‘The man has net hing bi aay aban." "Dean't, Twish T could. You've bad so many beaux— show me, Laura Belle,” it. Laura Belle was already trailing dawn the walk. “TE the chance comes you'll knew what te do and need no una 5, showing. Bamides, | bor ip my cleverness te getdbby most pig headed —in pome: perfect fool. ‘That'rwty Ti Her delicious laughter figs summer air. “Come ome eee my tollettes, And Pang new songs for you. I'regu te the grocery and get scale for Zilly, so she can make amg dumplings for dinner.” The Reverend Aaron Ba flecked and dappled by | shafts of sunlight that through the leafy guard d maples, Presently that tron, her mother, appeared: door. “Want that Laas & have come out, but Iwag midst of patting mew tee spareroom pillows. I'm ers yet.” “Yes, it was Loum - hock yetterdar. I'm jay her new dressex, Ms, obe ba lovely hat—but it's get D'you suppose pa weal! got one like itT It looked me. So atylish.™ | Mra. Staley pursed ber i wholly sided with Eve, bet a generation to whom ishment of “Wives, obey bands” was mot “T'm afraid heweald, ¥ he dos go on over thie and—I dent knew—! Mr. Baines feels the amr set your heart om it~ Seal changed the subject. "EB Kelle, and how's she ness, I don"t. atich husband w says = Ashby, She said ita "For all sakes!” M smash hance. =“W with Ashby Walker? Poor as poverty; andl of his down to skin and bone, as you mignt with his mother's temper—and all the Positions likered pepperand vinegar. He some at, either; sodark and glum. Miagrbeshe sae) “T don't think so," "It's a queer way for a girl to talk, fools she's had plenty of real nice young mane it’s not a case of last chance. Eyve—tT cake over to the parsonage." “Mother—I wish you wouldn't." Bat glad. There's nothing t in # little neighbor Don't be silly.” Mrs. Staley divined the a neath Eve's protest. “If you'll pee the & : new lawn I'll run it in for you this after “All right. But before we decide about th want to see Laura Belle’s things. She ideas," “That'll be nice, Lottie | Rick dress. I°d like yours to bed They went within, mowed by ¢ sound competition, Tf (Lorie new cress, and the Richardsons* the Staleys', then Ewe must Without a spoken word ‘they knew « At the same moment it occured fo that if Miss Walker was going downbosm: she would inevitably have te come hurried te the window and was diss could see only the shortest distaumes in afl that it would be practically impossible ta young lady in time enough for him a traverse the front porch and walle too - Vague plans floated through his ental his hat and went up toward the Wylie done last night? But no, he must meee aimlessly, and it would be Irard és Besides, there was the danger of m flack—an almost certain danger, since § greatly in the majority in the Eietle fom a Di cd by Google Te ie il el

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 7 ybe stopped and subjected to benevolent inquisi- ung Baines bad been in the Arborville pastorate gh to know that he could hide nothing from his There were times when he wished that he had aoldizimulation. That thought—undoubtedly ee's wilkes—obtruded itself at this moment. echad to see Laura Belle again! He wondered he might legitimately call upon her and the et too goon; he knew that, for even his visits to win her aleence, had received unfavorable com- oed hadencons, It had been suggested that attention to one of another faith might be mis- by those who were not so understanding or so ed as the faithful friend who pointed out his (his Aunt Lueretia had asked him sharply how and that: pretentious old wind hag. ondered these things, gazing abeent-mindedly window, he was stabbed hy the sight of Laura ning: returning, and walking rather swiftly. “the grocery clock had reminded her that ahe with the saleratus, She swam into his vision ain before he could do more than blink and che was beautiful—ch, she was rare! Her ribbons waved behind her, alluring follow-me- felt the urge, if mot the definition. Yet, how how exquisite! manly woman, Miss Laura Belle! Didn't the er the most devoted daughter a man ever had? lid, not once, but many times, and Aaron never tired af hearing the phrase. mt you mooning cut the window for? de retia Hallett, making one of her sudden, dis- ppearances “T've called you te dinner three tinking about my sermon," he replied with ys were absent-minded, even saa little boy,” inated him. not see him as anything but the tow-headed d left to her core by her dying sister. All ider than he, hed petted and babied the lithe he had never quite outgrown that sheltered, Idhood. For all he tried to be grave and impressive in this, his first charge, he was aware at times of an amiable indulgence among the older members of his church. But he raged against it, not knowing that he unconsciously provoked It, For in spite of his years at the seminary, and his ordina- tion, in spite of his unquestioned serious purpose and his sincera goodness, in spite of a certain compelling power in pulpit oratery, power that waa based on conviction and honesty—he was still a boy in heart, in character, Life had been easy for him. He had had none of the hard knocks, the bitter emotions that mature, that slay youth, He was innocent about women, and shy with them, which caused the older ones to long to mother him and the younger to long to marry him. Girls made him uneasy, and ao he was, even as Eve had told Laura Belle, uniformly etl in his manner with them. Secretly he hod rich, vivid dreams of a rare and beautiful woman, to whor he could offer a heart's devotion and from whom he would receive a melting, adoring, playful tenderness. None of the plens- ant pretty girls who crowded his Sunday school and listened so attentively to his sermons fulfilled this dream. But Laura Belle Walker—ah, she was different! He had met her when he had first come to Arborville. Very shorthy after, she had gone away on one of her peri- odical visita te these unknown magical Northern relatives, She had made a profound impression on him at first, and her image had been a fastness for his imagination, blurring and obscuring the other nearer figures, making it easy for him to ignore their innocent, bold importunings. Now she was home again, and lovelier, more compelling than ever, He had seen her and talked to her, and she had been amiable, though a little careless of him, and he was not blind to the fact that she had not hesitated to flout, though not unkindly, his cloth, in asking him to hear that warmly titled song. He waa net quite sure whether he waa happy or miserable, It wws his first, his very first love affair, and he was thrown into a strange disorder by it. While he ate a generous slice of Eve Staley's toin- mountain cake he was still intent on Laura Belle, and he wondered avidly what she had tof him. He was afraid he had seemed not at his best this morning. Had he been too awkward—too confused? He remembered that he had taken off hla hat and ateod with it in his hand, a Pleasant Southern custom he had observed and gladhyr adopted when he had first come to Arborville, for it ex- pressed gome of Tile reverence toward women—in the abstract, thet is. But it expressed so little of his reverence for Miss Laura Belle! What had she thought of him? If he only could know! What was there behind her smiling, impersonal regard? Surely, a need ao imperative as his, an interest so profownd, an affection so burning—bhe admitted those daring words to his deacription of his state—must awaken some alight response from her. But she had been inscrutable, Properly maidenly of her, no doubt, but not very Batisfactary, He would have been wounded to the quick and abased in woe if he could have known that Laura Belle thought of bir not at all, save casually as Eve Staley’s certain prey. Laura Belle was thinking entirely of another man. Her firet question on reaching home had been “Father, is Ashby coming to supper on Friday night?" To which Major Walker had somewhat testily replied, " Ashby always comes to supper on Friday nights. I have eA no notification of any change In his accustomed abit. And Laura Belle had said no more, only reflected that it was a long time until Friday, She contemplated taking the major's hack and riding out to see Ashby, aa she did occasionally, but on second thought she decided to remain at home, unpack her trunks and freshen her wardrobe eo that when he did appear she might be irresistible. She directed Zilhy to have mock terrapin, hot beaten hiseuite and peach sherteske for Friday night supper; Ashby's careless bachelor estublishment was not strong in the euisine. Likewise Laura Belle resolved that she herself would mix the teddy that night, and raid the majors beat bourbon for the purpose, Before Friday arrived Eve Staley came, intent on fash- ion. Laura Belle took out everything, and the two girls eat in her great airy bedroom with its bare whitewashed walls and ald resewoowd furniture and discussed style: with animation, Eve tried on the dremes that appealed to her, cut the pattern of a sleeve, made a rubbing of an eyelet edging, drew her delicate brows together over the folds in the new quilling. Laura Belle directed and (Continged on Page JOT) ir fer Leora Belle, Lifting Down the Firect [a a Fooum of Walte Roffled, Ske War Ai Coateatment, Quite Vafelgaed

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5 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST juan i,q OAN OF ARC SMITI “Son Nave Sebelled flafere,"" The Joye, “Cader the Leak F Hot Eoen Unie fhe Leadership of a Weak Woman" By George Kibbe Turner male and female, said the fat foreman, all up and down—inveati- gating, advising, helping the worker, There's fewer than there was back in the war, yet plenty still; and never will this feller I'm telling you of —this Brawny Bill Wolfert, the big fellow worker—forget the last one who camo investi- gating just here this spring; that one with the bobbed blond hair, without no name—and what she done to him, He was up here in New England at the time, organizing one of them radical cotton=mill strikes, when they come to him at strike headquarters and says one more of those soclal-lnvestigation parties had blown in. For he alwaya had them come to him—the local union—to handle all atull like that. “Young or ld?" he asks thers. “Young,” they says. “Ahal™ he says. For of course they are mostly all that—these investigators and advisers—under twenty-five anyway, just lately owt from some achool or college. “All fernale?" soya Bill, giving thern that steady glare he had. “Or just two-thirds of them?” “There's but just one man amongst them, and him an advanced retired minkster," they tell him. "Take them down,” saya Brawny Bill, “by Bloody Bridge and The Row and Turtle’s Misery, You know!" “Sare!™ "Only hold back,” he says, “on The Row till the wope’ dinnertime, and they can see therm lapping up the marc- sroni and the little devilfish, or some other starvation sloppy mesa.” “Sure! they saya. “We'll see to thot.” “And don't forget the bloodstains of the Syrian at the Bridge," he saya; “nor the tenements at the Misery that the board of health condemned and the sheeny got the injunction heaping open." “Thon"t worry,” they says. “We'll show it all to them.” “See you do,” he says. “Don't forget. Feed it to them raw,” he “ “The rawer it is the quicker they snatch it from your hand, For that's what they're here for—investigating, The more they take away the more, they give them that hire them for their money.” “Sure!” they says. “And don't be afraid what you feed them neither, for they'll never know the difference." “Sure! they says. “We've had them here before," and went of with therm, down to Turtles Misery, and ty Lc VESTIGATORS, showed them the dumps with the water in the cellar and the blinds lopping off. “Ts it possible?" says the advanced retired minister. "It's not only possible but it’s there before your face,” says the thin one with the brown face and the tight mouth, "You see it, don"t you?” "Te makes my blood boil—bail!" says the one with the blond bobbed hair—the big fine-looking one that I was telling you of. And then up they come ta The Row at dinnertime, when the Dagos are in messing with their loose and crawly food. “Hi, Tony!" says the union boys te the wop, hollering. “The squid he good, hey—like the roast beef?” “Ah, what you do," says the wop, spreading his hands, “when you got no work?” . “Ta it possible?” saya the advanced retired minister. They called him that, the boys claimed, because he got advanced idess on labor, and then went and married a tich woman and retired. “Do human creatures subsist on such food?” “T told you what to expect,” saya the thin brown one with the peckish nose, “didn't 1?" "You did. I see you did," he says, bowing slow and thoughtful. "But what will we do about it?” saya the big fine looking blond one with the bobbed hair. “That's what I want to know. For it makes my blood run. cold." And then they took them on to the Bridge, and showed thern the brown spots on the walk and side, “You can ser for yoursell,” they says, “what they done to him!" "This ell need some explaining!" says the thin brown one, poking them with her finger—"“some explaining |” “Waa it true he thought this striker—this Syrian—was — drawing a knife on him?" says the advanced minister. "Not a word! Nota word!" they says te him, “I goes you must have seen that in the newspapers!" "Exactly where I did see it—exactly!"” he saya. “We're trying to tell you the truth," they says: “not mo pack of lies like the papers. We just let you see it for yourself." “Towarned you; 7 told you what to expect,” says the brown-faced one with the bitter taste to her words. "And they call this civilization!" she says. “I'm shaken—definitely shaken by this!" says the ad- vanced retired minister. “Tt's Gove]! were" pees the lively blend ones" And get up and do some fighting over it. We'll be around for TLDS arin ©. Dh Pore | aormye days,” she ave bo the be showing them. “We're gang te and probe this to the bottom” FF “To the muddy bottom!” a] brown one. "Sure! Came round any ti”) them. "You ain't seen the had round and we'll show you what you wan 'terk newspapers. We'll show you the bare, nakel says. And then they went round back to Breezy 7 quarters. “You fed it to them raw, huh?" be say. "Bure! We gave them the trath.” they an “And they gulped it dowm just like [ tobi po "Sure!" "Aw, what good does it do?” says one dom that trouble—for them things! What goo 2 after they awallow it?"* “They spread the truth,” says Bil "The bunk, you mean!" sags the man whe a on the outs with Bill. ** Who'd believe en. “Who'd think anybody'd believe all the boxe) talista jam inte their hand-fed prew,” hem eat that upall over, don't they? What dots a it—the public—one way or the other? [1 ord with us," he says—“ with these investiga 7 to investigate—that"s how they make the = we want to have them, and spread the teti-® “Ah, what do they know about t-te § porters, either onel How can they, ech oe! give te ie?" "What do you care," saya Bill, “= low # apreading the truth for us? And tomer! them more of it to apread,”” he says. “Be-| right, don’t fret!" So tomorrow, in the morning, they act" told him that one of them we there werd © personally’, a "Should I give her the time?” says Breer = is she?" “She's the one with the bobbed hair Fe F7" of,” they says. “We didn’t get her nam “What is she—the usual?" he syn “Not by no means," they say. “Sher sloppy sisterhond," they eth ys. “che Po eg =a carries clean pocket. handkerchiefs. Sh+'! She's a looker, You'll want to see be, B- * for he had quite a reputation with the eum “Show herin. I'll tend to her cos.” an and stood waiting, stiff and staring av! ben! 9 she came in and shook hands, her eolot Sf) © shining. And she hit him so hard fron oe © sat there all the morning filling her ep ©2>" wager and statistics and war stuf!—ie: bloe seldier dope, al"

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 9 bey tell you what these same strikers down this ce Valley done for their country during the war?" ae. “Did they tell you the exact statistics?" the saya, thousand of proper war age," he says, “and just ."hesays—"in the valley. And three thousand ant to war and fought America’s battles for her!" ceeible?" she says, opening up her eyes. them, twenty-two hundred-ld—I just forget igures—were wounded!" he says, and stopped, eway he did at them, wesible?" she says. forget how many killed,” he saya. “But ind new they"re murdering them again by iges, and threatening to use the militia on nm boys that just got through fighting America's her!" ee my blood boil—boil!" she says. “They “What these slave rm and fight them back.” the wsual," he says. do to their wage alavea—here in New Eng- ir! They tse the workers for cannon fodder new markets; and then they use what's left as odder for filling the foreign ordera they fought for them." ber eome more etatistics on the wages and to ‘them to stop their picketing. ey don't knuckle down,” he says, “and qmashes them they're coming in and golf with the militin, with the very orkera themselves had in France.” pad, she says, “run cold! Run cold!" fiat I seen when I was a boy in the F da, * nave fo her, looking distill, “you'd mup.” And all about the him in jal. pitalism,” he iat it doea for ‘hat's justice, em up, then their wages.” t they give "she says. that line of we out,” he ot being able Hl geeeoda at houwt cutting a lie on the if it wasn't, be their wad nt fat thing f the worker fighting in a—he made n't he?" * she kind ne fmwors,” ¥ pity from is Our Own, ith our own ob bend of!" ~ working n between e ask is for 7 *F rings that, =r feet. itice F°* she p, ane her big: bright lie of her one orm ic justice! that al- ~ sar sat ach- Tl saw fo Brawty = will be ormic Jus mln mmd lendid | i yo orl the oe | 2 a 25 f your -e to wstand- Brawny gtraight "Can I—ecan I stand and work with you and fight with you,” she says, “shoulder to shoulder—starting now? For economic justice? Will you let me?" “Let you? Bure!" saya Bil, still and ugly. “Come on! The more the merrier! The more fighters the more jus- tice!" he save. For he seen he had her going. “Tl do it!" she says, springing up and staring at him hard, her breast heaving. “T didn’t get your name when you come in," after a minute or two. “Wo, she saya. “I didn't give it te you—that's why!" “Oh!” says Bill, "For I'm not giving it out—yet. Not my real name— for certain reasons, For I don't want certain persona—or a certain person anyway—to know I'm here," she says. “That's all right. [ understand, We've all got a right to our own name—if we want to hold it back," he says, locking hard and experienced, “IT ought to know that, if anybody, after the way mine's been used.” And then when she was gone he sent some of the boys te find out from the others who were there invertigating with her what it was. For, now he'd seen ber, he was more than willing to have her around. “She can fight shoulder to shoulder with me all she wants to,” he says. For he was, like I said, an old hand with the women. Being separated eo long from his wife, he was like a bachelor, and he knew @ looker when he Been one. But the others in the investigators couldn't help him neither. “We don't know who she is, She just came and asked if she could join our party and we said yes, ehe could,” saya the hrown investigator with the acalding tongue, says Bill “Te ft Pesstbie F" Saye the Adennerd Baetired Mialatar, “Ets Wot Galy Porsibie Bot tee There Before Four Face ™ “She's a mystery,” says the advanced retired mintster, “She has so fer refused to divulge her actual name to anyone. Soa we merely call her Misa Smith,” “All right,” saya Bill. “Let lt go at that. Leave her case to me. She put the miss in mystery—and I'll pick it out maybe.” _ For now she'd come to him and told him she'd made up her mind ahe'd etay right there and fight with them. “For that motto you gave to me, For economic jus tice—for man, woman and child!" she asys, looking at him all flushed up and excited. “You couldn't have no better, that’s eure. [t's been my motte from a boy, and always will be," says Brawny Bill, looking back at her stern and hard and indifferent, the way he did at them when they got that way. So then on the third day the other investigators had done their investigating and gone, having got the thing al] settled in their heada, But she stayed right alang— tokeep on with thestrkers. And right away she wanted to get out and get started. “Let me speak to them," she saya, “Just tell ther how L feel and how we're all going to get economic justice for all, high and law, man, woman and child!" “Right for you!" he says. “Start after it!" For he had had them before, and he knew how the news- papers yelled and pleaded for them, to get stuff with women in—hot, throbbing stuff with women in—from the selling of the first national bond tied with « blue ribbon down to shooting strikera. And he'd had all kinds of women agitators and invéstigatora around in the radical movement—advertising—and he knew their worth. But this one surprised him at the firet go-off, showing up in the meeting on the commen with a blowd-red dress on, and going after the mill owners and their wages and the lack of justice and the threatening of the militia. " Let them beware! them wateh their step!" shesays, “How they send these militia agninst these men here—these workers! They're mostly ex-soldiers, and they can fight. They have shown that. All they need ig a leader who'll do the game, and they'll have that. They'll have that,” ehe says, her face more and more red and reay and ex- cited. “For if no one else will lead them I will! I'm not afraid! I'm out for economic justice for man, woman and child! And no one can scare me down!" The reporters were walk- ing up and minning around by this time, pleading with Brawny Bill and the othera to tell them whe it was so they could put it on the wire right away. "You'll have to ask her," says Bill, short and ugly. “Tdon"t knew. She won't tellmehername. And ifshe had, I probably wouldn't tell you," he says, insulting them the way he always did the newspapers, yet draw- ing them on so much the rare by doing it. So they walted and went up to her, crowding around. “My mare?" she eays. "Lean't giveittoyou, [t's & secret—for now any- how f" "Oh, come on—do! anye the newpaper boys. “Give us something we can call you anyhow.” “Call me what you want,” she says, tossing back her mop of bobbing hair like a foothall player and looking fine and big and handsome and earebess. “Call me what you want, Call me Joan of Are, why don't you?” she saya, laughing. “She was out leading, fighting the sol- diers, and maybe I will before this is through and we get our justice, (Conmtinwed on Poge [38) Bae

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10 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST LOODHOUN “THEKEILie is ti te Bi 19 a {a a= otding the Profesional Criminals of America Ja Taéat the Jory Coald Piainiy Read the Tietw, He Opened ite Book EXT!" The dejected file of prisoners beneath the N teste indows stiffened and limped forward, There were twelve of them—the same number as the minor prophets, the apostles, the tribes of Israel and the officers of King Solomon—a bullet-headed negro in a red sweater, charged with vivisection during a crap game, bringing up the rear. The line humped along beside the iron grating like a caterpillar, those behind butting forward those in front, turned the corner by the jury box aed dingorgecl taro prisoners before the bar of judgment. ft was the first Monday in January— pleading day. “Wext!" repeated Phelan, the court captain, standing inside the rail, to McNamara, his whipper-in. “Lively now!" MeN amara turned ta the head of the line, “You two there! Step up here!” Mr. Dougherty, the tiny, bald-headed clerk with the big mustaches that made him loek like on animated mush- room, Picked up the indictments on the top of the blue pile in front of him, "Patrick Moa: if officiating at cand Daniel Mulligan,” he intoned, as altar of the cathedral, “POLL are me of burglary in the third de- + degree, aseault in the first ade and carrying concealed degree, receiving weapons. How say youl | Do you plead guilty or not guilty?" F Nei “the too made reply, “Have you counsel?" sang Dougherty. “Got a lawyer?" hi erpere bes Captain Fhelan. There was a elightrustle on one of the nearer benches 1 @ heavily built man with sideburns came forward. HT appear for both defendants, Your Honor," sale bee, “They plead not guilty, Will Your Honor set the case dewn for the twonkyeline: for trial?" The judge nodded and made a note, and the stout lawyer turned away, about to resume his seat. “Next! shouted Phelan to the world ntlarge, “Next! The taller of the two prisoners—a plug-ugly—wheeled from. the rail and etarted on the return trip, The other did not stir. He was much smaller man, hardly five fect six, and of a different make altogether. He might have been your plumber, or electrician, or the grocer’s clerk who takes your order at the side door: and though his de- MALO Was more timid than nny" af these it iia, neverthe- lees, defiant—aome apark of courage, or at least resolution, still surviving after his year in Ging Sing. “Tudge— Your Honor,” he said huskily, rapin his liars —"' this man dant Pe Pee TE. got any lawyer.” twisting his ‘Thavent By Arthur Train FLEVITRATED AY ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN Old Judge Watkins peered down from the dais at him over his reading glasses. He then locked after the retreat- ing attorney. “How's this, Mr. Hogan?" he asked. “I thought you said that you appeared for both defendants,” The attorney paused with a half smile, "By I did, judge." “The prisoner Mooney says you do not represent him.” “They're indicted together—for the same offense, com- mitted at the same time, The defendant Mulligan's sister came to my office yesterday and retained me for both of ‘em “Tudge—Your Honor,” repented the man at the bar of justice stubbornly, “I don't know this lawyer and I don't knew this man ['m Indicted with. I never saw him before that night. I’m innocent, and I want a separate trial with my own lawyer." Captain Phelan holsted a blue shoulder and grinned at Mr, Dougherty, It was the old game—the old grand- atund play—of seizing this opportunity to make a vigorous denial of guilt in the presence of the panel of jurors, newly aasemiblead in court for a month's service, in the hope that by so doing one might avoid going on the stand later at one’s trial, and so eseape the disagreeable necessity of wubimitting to cross-examination upon one's record and earlier history. "Toonly got out of pron Saturday, Your Honor,” eon- tinued the prisoner Mooney, “alter serving fourtern months—with an allowance off for good behavior. I'm in fa Hurry ta get back either, believe mel Sunday night T was walking home, and this defendant, Mullignn, here, came along with a bag. and began talking tome. Just then a teal furmped out and drew his gun on us, Clubbed me, into the bargain! See thet lump on my forehead? He rapped for his side partner and they yanked us.up to headquarters, and when they found out I'd been im stir they eaid I was due for another bit. Then the first cop said he found a gun onime, It's a plant, judge, I didn't hive one. What would I want witha gun, judge? What Iwant ia a chance to earn an honest living!" THe made his plea doggedly, yet with ohviews hopeless. nese, for he no longer had any faith in “the course of justice.” Judge Watkins, sent down from Utica by his friend-the governor to hold a apecial criminal trial term and ao re lieve the congestion in the Tombs Prisan, beckoned to Mr, Dougherty, who elevated himself upom his glossy little Hptees and held a whispered colloquy with Hia Honor neross the edge of the dais. Behind the prisoner-on the first row of benches a homely girl in a gray shawl, her broad o would wait ten uacre iif carried her out in a box feet: had lost all faith in the ape the law. For Paddy because be had swatted Micky saloon, Micky being heir apparent ofl friend of Bloodhound OBrien, the am ee ee cee oe ee Paddy Mooney was a building, without political member of the union. This he now p a pricvous lopee, due, however, En. they had sought to bully him into i Judes Watking enw the tonesd who take part in it. For the dane 8 the youthful p aan public service seeks an a trict attorney, is that in the passion af viction and punishment of s¢ ‘ criminal may seem more important a the strict preservation of his own inte ing maintenance of the principles af Digitized bys

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST il go fee simply beeause some foolish law pro- cay evidence of the proving of more than one ttheame ime? Should we not praise, rather jem, the young enthusiast who is willing to i Tirtoe, his ideals, his very eoul in order that wieay bang? Should we not pay tribute to one ling to be dammed for the glory of God? Watkins locked searchingly around the court | is eye cama to reat in a far corner. wagn Mr. Ephraim Twtt to the case," sald he, yaummon: the old lawyer arose from his seat pipe hat in hand, approached the bar, moment the door was pushed ylolently open the Bloothound, surrounded by his minions, ioclent enemy faced ancient enemy. it not be presumed fram the foregoing philosaphic jon that we intend to lay any floral offering eof Willam Francia O'Brien's moral reputa- rom it! We desire to provide for him no apol- ation or excuse; and the reader may perhapa we has hitherto at sundry times been described in these pages as “the yellow dog of the dis- 4's office," for that waa exactly what he was— log or human bloodhound, as you may prefer, wed it a3 his duty to his God, his country and onviet by any means at his command every ofant brought to the bur of justice, his pertinacity, his resourcefulness and his te he had achieved great notoriety aa a pro vers feared him, defendants shuddered at the ‘tof facing his merciless crocs-examination; ithout consideration to the former or sympa- latter. He had no bowels or mercies. To ad be astutely made use of a veneer of appar- of naive enthusiasm, that often made him 2 merely a blunt, well-meaning blunderer. sno guile of serpent he did not possess, no his teeth. 4loodhound, as he was called, was a more mre in the Criminal Courta Building than ney John Heory Peckham himself, who was ve it so, since he shared the widespread be- had to bea crook in every law office, whether public or private, In fact, he found O'Brien more than Amere convenience, partic- ularly because he could bile Bios = ae The rete oe 7 Ase Guy Geos“ always eount Peon hits fer aconvietian ia any dificult ease, As he used to say to his confi- dential friends: “If the Bloodhound haam't got the necessary evidence—he goes and gets it!" Hence, because O'Brien was absolutely an aesct and a valuable political go-between, the Hon. John Henry Peckham smothered his permonal dislikn for the dog and encod it ta lick his hand. He also was forced to put up with his noise, and his over- bearing and ewashbuckling ways. For out- aide the court room—as well also, to be ace curate, some- times inside it—Billy the Bloodhound WHE & SW ing, blustering sort of legal brave, wherever he went pre- ceeded, sur- — rounded and followed by a eobort of ayeo- phants, clerks, PrOCess Servers, police officera on special detall, and admirers, who ran his errands, carried his books, bag and papers, bought his the- ater tickets, did his telephoning, acclaimed his coming and did hits lip service, much as we may imagine some Roman senator of the same type to have been accompanied by his bodyguard of lictora who shoved the crowd aside at his ap- proach, All this to Billy the Bloodhound as as the breath of his life, and he played the part, bellowing down the cor- riders, shouting from the devatora, kicking his alaves in the shins and then handing them out cigars, whispering out of the corner of his mouth about the big fellow and “the one neat,” with se effective an air of mystery that he had every= body buffaloed, and the crowd all swore among t lves and to him thet he was the greatest litth man on earth, He was thickect, bullet-headed, with closely cropped reddish hair and freckly andy akin, and his short aquiline nose and square chin would have made the features of a cigar-store Indian—alas, poor redakin, he de- serves.an apology !—senm filled with the milk of human kindness, Everybody feared and kowtewed tohim. People who wanted favors a Peckham went firat to placate O'Brien, who was supposed to have the boss in his pocket; copa and de- tectives sought to have him handle their cases; judges were apt to try to conciliate him as a coming man politically, and as possibly the next district. attorney. Whenever a star case, a copa cide, or any matter attracting public attentien came into the office, O'Brien sent to the ehief clerk for the papers, and grabbed it. He had even been known to send for the papers in a case already assigned to another as- sistant, and grab thattoo. He gave out interviews to the papers, as- sumed the office of “acting district attorney" whenever Peckham ab- sented himself, and likewise fre- quently when the latter was there, and constituted himeelf pretty much the whole show. If one etood for him he wasn't so bad, and if he hadn't been a crock he might easily have been a power for geod instead of a power for evil, It was not easy tooverestimate that power, for he waa the grand vizier = oof the most powerful public offiee- P= holder in the United States, not even excepting the President him- eclf, He could make or break a cop or blast the reputation of any man in the eommunity at will, This the Honorable William FrancisO'Brien ! ABTHUT glob i a, how "ae “oA, Jie, The Begeed, “Dent Lat Them Frome Him i ** Alaa “the law's delay, the in- solence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the un- worthy takes"! What price be- aside him, poor old Ephraim Tutt? But walt! There is life in the old dog yet—old Tutt, we mean! So far Billy the Bloodhound has but opened the door and entered the court room, and Mr. Tutt haa but turned to gaze at him, Let ua reserve our lamentations until we see what will happen when they meet. Will not the gods lend courage and strength to the kindly old lawyer, who never yet did aught but gowd, although may- hap he may have done it in queer ways? And who never retired wholly vanquished from the fleld of honorable battle? So, heralds, your fanfarea! And summon all to the lists to behold the contest between the Bloodhound and the knight of the stowepipe hat. Blow, bugles, blow! Set the echoes of the forum ringing for the legal joust! Court officers, bawl your best, with “Oyen! Oyes!" and "Hear ye! Hear ye!l™ pound the railings and shout the honest burghers out of their hats and into their seats, make them move up and on, close the windows, lock the door so that none may eseape, and let all who have business in our honorable court now with due deference draw near, give your attention and let Mr, Tutt be heard! nr ILLY THE BLOODHOUND strutted into the inclo- sure infront of the dais, bowed tothe judge and preened hirawself before the gaping crowd—the little czar, the Pooh-Bah, the high-cockulorum of the Sessions—as the old lawyer was in the act of consulting his new client. Something about Mr. Tutt inspired Paddy Mooney with instant confidence, and while the court waited he hastily explained to him the circumstances surrounding his arrest. He had no witnesses, he said; he waa being framed and he wanted to be tried at once, O'Brien swaggered to the bar. “Well,” he inquired roughly, “how do you plead? What are you going todo? You can't talk there forever." Mr. Tutt smiled with the old-time courtesy he invoked when in his moat dangercua mood, “T am sorry to have unduly delayed the proceedings, Mr. O'Brien. We plead not guilty, and we ask an im- mediate trial,” It was at this moment that the devil, in the shape of Delaney the cop, leaned over the rail and plucked the Bloodhound's sleeve. "Sat, Mr. O'Brien! Put the screws on him and he'll Plead guilty. We' ve got him cold, Here's the gun I took off him—loaded.” He shoved the revolver into O'Brien's hand, and the latter, always wlling to oblige, slipped it into his pocket. "Has he got a record?" he asked sideways. “Sure! Just out of atir, Caught him with a valiee full of stull he teck out of a cigar store. He's an old-timer Gas House Gang. If he won't plead, stick him right on trial, T's a pipe! A conviction sure!" The Bloodhound nodded. "Leave him to me! Here, you!'—addressing Mooney and Mr. Tutt together and as one—"“ plead guilty and I'll give you attempted grand in the second.” Mr. Tutt gravely shook his bead. [Continued oa Page 133)

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Zz THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By alcatel S. COBB GcRUEGER rFELUITRATE oO F. kk. NAME is J. Poin- dexter. But the full name is Jeferon Exelus Poindex- ter, Colored. But moat always in general I haa been known aa Jeff, for short. The Jefferson partis fora white family which my folks worked for them one time before I waa born, and the Exodus is be- chuse my mammy craved [ should be named alter somebody owt of the Bible. How I comes ta write this is this lt seems like my experiences herein New York is liable to be such that one of my white gentle man friends he says to me I should ‘take pon in hand and write them out juat the way they happen and at the time they is happening, or Tight soon after- wards, whilst the memory of them la clear in my brain; and then he'll see if he ean't met them printed aemewherns, which on tap of the other things which I now is will make me an author, with money coming in steady. He says to me he will fix up the spelling wherever needed and atbend to the punetuating; but all the reat of it will be my oon just like [ puta it down. I reads and writes very well, but someway [ never learned to puncture. So the places where it is necessary to be pune- tual ta make good sense and keep everything regular and make the talk sound natural is his doings, and also‘same of the spelling. Buteverything else ia mine and I sake credit. My coming to New York, in the first place, ls sort of a sudden thing which starta here about a month before the present time. 7 has been working for Judge Priest for going on sixteen years, and is expecting to go on working for him as long as we can get along together all right, which it seems like from BD PeRriinets that ought te be always. But after he gives up being cireuit judge on account of him petting along: se in age he gets sort of fretful, by reason of not having much te do any more and moet of his own friends having died of on him. When the state beging going Republican about once in so often he says bo me, kind of half joking, he's a great mind to pull up stakes and meave off ame 0 live somewheres cle, Rut pretly soon after that the whole country goes dry, and then he says to me there just maturally ain't no fitten place left for him to go te without he leaves the United States. The ald boss man he broods a right amart over this going-dry business. Being a judge and all, he's always been a great hand for upholding the law. But this here is one law which be cannot uphold and yee go on taking of his eweetening drama steady the same as he's been used to doing all hts life. Ane from the statements which he lets fall from time to tine I gleans that he can't hardly make up hie mind which owe of the two of them—law or liquor—he's going to favor the most when the pinch comes ad the supply in the dine-roam cupboard beging running low, Every time he starts off for a little trip somewheres and has to tote a bottle along in his hip peach instead . ee ee Thee He Soy: to Me How Woold fF Like to Take @ Trip to Bee Fork City? Ff TAlahe Ne Moot be Foaalag af being ahle te walk inte a grocery and refresh himself aver the bar like he's been doing for mighty nigh sixty years, [ heara him speaking mumbling * words to himself, [ -henrs him sy linge it's comme to a prebiy pass when a Ken tucky gentleman has either got to compromise with his conscience or play a low-down trick on his appetite, Off and on, it certainly docs pester him mightily, But just about the middle of the present summer he gets a Jebter from bis married niece, her which used te be Mise Sally Fanny Priest but is now married to a Yankee gentleman named Fairchild and living in Denver, Colorada, Miss Sally Fanny is the closest kinfolks the old judge has got left in the world, and ahe upa and writes te him and invites him te com: on out there where she lives and stay a apell with them and then toward winter go along with her to a place culled Bermuda, which, tt seems like from what ahe says in the letter, Bermuda is one of these here locali- thes where you still can keep on having a teddy when you feels like it, without breaking the law, So be studies about ita while and then he says to me one night he believes he'll go, which he does along abut four weeks ago, leaving me behind to sort of look out for the home place owt on Clay pbnect. My wages goes on the same as if he was there, and I has but little to da: but the place seems mighty lonesome to me without the old boss man pottering round doing this and that and the other thing, I certainly does miss aseing the sight of him, Every time I walks through the front part of the house, and it all empty and closed up and amell- ing kind of musted, and aces his old umbrella banging on the front-hall hatrack, where he forgot and left it there the day he went away, I geta a kind of a low feeling in my iin the part af the Deion from whieh ee coctas com- *NMote by Jet's aime: Fe heals, anid ameeig hia react, the ward “otumbling plant, pecvishness, r querulcus utterance, COLO mind. It's like having the t where there ain't oo tooth to bow And I keepa om thimbcimge abou the | when he'd be setiting: ont om the hight thne come on, ‘with scm othe friends of his dropping in om im, el ing them drinks frome the 2d a complete utter ich a in he thinks maybe he can attend Ge. he says he'll write a letter to the i Digiti = a =| Dy if

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST : 13 atup and he's pretty sure it can be fixed wp so" He says iE] don’t like the job after [ gets there ey way back home again any time I wants to bis the old fudge netds me, cither one, He says lopting me; he’s just borrowing me. y kas liked Mr. Dallas Pulliam, him being one tirsshanded young white gentlemen in town. of and on, I've heard the reat of the white folks iim behind his back about the way he's handled remoney which waa left to him here a few years ke paw died. There was that time when he gar plantation down in Louisiana, sight onseen, ie Went down to see it couldn't do ao without ita whole heap of bailing out firet, by reason under three feet of standing water. Anyway, [heard tell; though I reckon [t wasn't nownys wme of the white folks let on. And there was ime only afew months back when he decided a buggy factory, I overhears Judge Priest out that one day to Doctor Lake. ing man, Dallas Pulliam, certainly is a sage formeecin® person," he says. “Jest when auto- got so cheap that every hillbilly in the county yon at least one he's fixin’ to go inte the y busines on an extensive scale. Next time im ['m goin’ to suggest to him that when the soem to sort of slack up, ex possibly it may, ff layin" of his handa he should start in to lintlock muskets fur the 0.5. Army." 1 that Judge Priest or somebody must have . Dallas along those same lines, because he othe buggy business, after all. For the past he he ain't been doing much of anything so is anes pranking round and courting Miss rrell, folke may poke their fun at him unbeknownst, manners suitable to make him popular with + kind of a white gentleman that's.this here ear a new necktie or a fancy vest about three and then he'll get tired of it and pass it on to hat comes along. Moreover, him and me is he same size, and T knows full well in advance just from looking at him that Sunday evening standing there on his porch that the very suit of clothes which he's got on then will fit me without practically no alterations. Tt's a checked suit, too, and mighty catchy to the eye. So right off | tells him if Judge Priest gives hia free will and eohaent I'll certainly be down at the depot when that old engine whistle blows for to get aboard for New York City. Which be then asks me for Misa Sally Fanny's address and promises he'll write out there that very night to find out can I po. Tt's curious how news does travel round in a plaice that's the right size for everybody in it to know everybody else's business, Before night it has done leaked out somehow that | is seriously considering accepting going to New York with young Mr. Dallas Pulliam, and by next morning, lo and behold, if it ain't all over town! Wherever [ goes pretty near everybody I meets, whites and blacks alike, ake me how about it and allows I'm powerful lueky te get such a chance, Mostly, in times gone by, when my race goes North they heads for Chicago, Illinois, or maybe Detroit, Michigan, or Indianapolis, Indiana, Neo sooner do they get there than they begins writing back saying that up North is the only fitten place for colored folks te be at; wages high, times casy and white folks calling you mister and everything pleasant like that. They writes that there is not no Jim Crow cara nor separate seats for colored at the moving pictures nor nothing like that. But I has taken notice that after a while moet of "em quita writ- ing back und starts coming back. Some stays but more re turns, and is verging on shouting happy when they crosses the Qhia River coring in. From what T hears seme of ‘em say after they gets home and has got a full meal of vittlee inside of them, and ao ia got more time to talk, I has made up my mind that so far as my own color is concerned, the main difference from the South is this: Up North they calls you mister, but they don't feed you! Suill, New York City ain't Chicago, Illinois, nor yet it ain't Detroit, Michigan; and besides, working for Mr. Dallas Pulliam, T won't have to be worrying about when does I eat next. Still, even so, I says to myself that it won't be no harm to inguire round, now that the word ia done leaked cut anyhow, and learn something more than what lithe [ knows about New York City. But it seems like, outside of some few white folks, there is not nobody L knows who's ever been there, excusing a few head of draft boys which went there enduring of the early part of the war, and they wouldn't scarcely count, neither, on we- count of them just passing through and not staying over only a short time whilst waiting for the boat to atart. Howsomever, they tella me, one and all, that from what they did see of it they is willing to recommend it very highly. One or two of the white gentlemen which [ is well ac- quainted with, they tells me the same too. Mr. Jere Fair- leigh, he takes me inte his law office when [ meets him on the streetand speaks tohim aboutit; and he gete a book all about New York down off of one of his shelves and he reads to me where the book says that in New York there is more of these here Germans than there is in any German city exeept one, and more Russians than there is in any Russia city except none, and more Italians than there is in any Italy city except one, and more Hungarians than there is in any Hungry city at all, and so on and so forth. I saya to him, I saya: “Mr. Jere, it seem lak they is mo’ of ever" nation in New York then whut they is anywhares else. But they docs not "paar to be nothin" said "bout "Meriking. How come, suh?"™ He says he reckons there's ao few of them there that the man which wrote the book didn't figure it was worth while putting them in. Still, he says ['ll probably run inte some- hey once in a while which speaks the United States lan- ELLE. "Most every policeman does,” he says. “I understand it'a the law that they have to be able to speak it before they'll let ‘em go on the force, so as they can understand the foreigners that come over from the mainland of North America to vislt in New York.” The way he looks—so sort of serious—when he saya that, I can't tell if he's in earnest or not. I judges, though, that he's just having his fumdiddles with me. And then he goes on and tells me that the biggest of everything and the tallest and the richest and the grandest is found there, (Continaed on Page 1227) a Me's Very Cheering ia Mis Ways, Telling Sr, Daltor That He Meat be Good Friends Wits Afr, Bellows and the Three Cadles

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14 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Juma Pm SOME MISCHIEF STILI his muddied shoes on the rubber doormat, Mr. Weldon mechanically arranged his features in that expression which his thirty-two year af matrimony had demonstrated to be infallibly provoco- tive, If he cume In wearing the look of a repository of inviola- ble confidences ha eould be certain of an audience actively and singly attentive, of cross-examination that gave him the center of the stage. BE wt Otherwise, even auch — news ws he bore on this oceagion would fall atly on enrs only perfunctorily heead- ful. He came in al- most furtively, as onm who would prefer to aveid notiee, In the doorray. of the room denomi- hated as the library, he paused to inspect approvingly the erect and energetic woman who wrote at the old secretary. He hal never lost that pro prietary pride in Carrie, There were foree and decision and adequacy in the very eerateh of her pen. She did not lock up, but she saw him, he perceived, with the back of her head. “You're late again, Arthur. And just look at yourshoes !" Her pen apedon. Mr, Weldon dropped an apprehensive glance at his feet, and was reassured. That was just habit; he hadn't tracked in any of the mud from Phil's back yard, He coughed with intention. If be didn't answer she'd look around presently, and rise to the balt of his guilty exeuntenanee, He oberrved that the pen slowed, hesitated, Carrie turned sharply, her shrewd, alert eyes instantly accusing. “You're trying to make me think that you know some- thing I don't," she declared, “Are you ready for supper? Tt's been waiting." Mr. Weldon preserved a bold front. on, then." She prolonged her inspection, He could see her succumb to that infallible look, see her eyes turn wistful, like a little girl's. His conscience pricked him feehly, It was ashame to tease Carne—she detested being in the dark about anything. She surrendered just.as lie was on the point of volun- teering his sensation. As she adjusted ber napkin she narrowed her eyes, "You've been at Shirley's, Arthur. nae rT He paused to pay a pleased mental tribute to tration. Sharp as they made ‘om, Carrie. “Chickens.” He liked the eloquent brevity of that, As he saw his wife's blank bewilderment he waa distinetly aware of a kind of gratitude toward his daughter-in-law, Poor, dear Shirley! After all, it wasn't her fault that she'd been spoiled. "Chickens!" Carrhe’s tone conveyed the sug@eation that, prepared for almost amy other revelation, this one had taken even her in an unguarded quarter, “Vou don't mein that she's going to keen He nodded, buttering a biscuit, “She's subacribed to a Corres poncbenece course in 1h; you shark w ith t a he Ine Bod wl rocster and surprise your huts arid by pay ng ol the mart. gage and buying a marble clock forthe parlor, Showed me a photograph of the woman who did it —and the clock too." Carrie inhaled audibly and eloquently. “(Couldn't you talk her out af it? She—she surely husn't really bemun?" Mr. Weldon chuckled. “Oh, no! Shirley never really begins, does she?” . The delicate irony of the reply brought a delighttul consternation to Carrio’ book, He des AN HE inserted his latehkey and aeufled * All right. Conve What's she up to her jeee- vinikle FEELUPr TRA TE GD By Hugh PaGeNeIE Kahler GEORGE E. y i "fort on Lief diag Here for Supper,"* We Geclared, “'fuat's Lief “e Met, Coreie"" to wait for detaihed interrogation, There was no doubt at all about Carrie's attention. He could afford to be gener- ous with his news now, “Found her standing over Abedmego--out behind the garage, building a coop out of the piano box. Right apang in the middle of the asporagus bed Boo, Vou ought to have seen it]" : He waged his head reminkeeent ly, “Towee there this afternoon teo; and she didn't say o word of any auch Carrie's lips tightened, “She wouldn't, of course, I'd have put my foot dewn on any hare-brained nonsense like that in short order, and she knows it. (Chickens! In a plano box! And that lovely house!" Her tene changed. “Did you hear about the four-jeeter?" ir, Wilden huge bored slurred his negative. Furniture was apt to lead te detailed deseription and narrative. “Don't worry about the pian-box part of it; | fixed that all right. [if she's bound to fool with chickens she'll do it Fight, ae aa I made her aee thot om firetecless plane weld ihe more apt to pay, He winked, “Yow. can't make Shirley drop an idea, but you can moat penerally get fer tae bet ich help, if you pe canny, We're gang to buthd « nit up-to-date chicken run—together.” He winked again, almost anxicualy this-tinve, as he ob= served the symptoms of preoccupation in’ his wife's eye bras, ‘She wus going bo put that benutiful four-pester in the spare room: Just because that fool Lyddy told her about old Martha Sprowl dying in it! She told me that her quests wouldn't know, and that she did! I declare I al- moat boa my patience with that child sometimes! Alfiber [ epent four years wheedling that bed out of Martha—a perfect Hepplewhite, you remember, Arthur,” “ Abpat that chiekedt scheme," sald Mr, Weldon, cling- ing to an ebbing hopefulmess; ‘I'm going to keep-an eye of it so that she can't lease too mibch or worry Phil with ib, Logot Brewer up and we figured-on a aid ‘Slee was going to have frankfurters-for lunch. I came in ust in time tostep that, when [was there this morning. After Dad teld her fee dangerous they are ton,” ir Wr lebori ele lord. He Weta Id fas ris a? rjoyed toiling Larrke about tne chic and the wire runs. sind i a | Kiem bevuse he thought wistlully of thee fee which Phil haved abroet bad foe bee eouldn't convince Care the op weren't niacesarily polo, “ Te dns the mingy, | ber,” Cassini aah inew | sald to yeaa, day, Archer pretty wed but — thee he ana cadres a ‘apeilel tear! Youd bein Chat apf HO Pieeet eel i could Syme gtebbers Tosae-pamter! come al pen) I dide't 4 “Strodl mu| ee beast She thabesea ba,” Weldon, bg rt Perdoctiy lia make & ogy plano hex thee worn: En thee tee it. Good thing tor Pel) spare the time to baka One moss alter anothy WorkFE didn't.” | “Tes mean ti eel al thisway." Carnie * After all, she's o dere devoted to Phil That deal, And she’ kore | pra ent aa “We can see that she doesn't ge bo Mr, Weldon reflected, “Tt isn't anit business. I can keep an eye « aa eaay aa not. If I was still different.” He brightened, idea for that house, C; “She's never had Carrie, “and she's tor thing she wants to pf Remember what she wagon till her father could you expect of a | can do is to let her lon don"t do ber any m iss! a “tia ways keep an eye on. isa: need one. Lydidy Kad’ for a month!" _Mr. Weldon clicked “Brewer told me a tune the plans, Carris. — swapped horas, Wank the other good and enongh bo be nee clearly as Carrie did. “Tye ie knew ['d think ofa living room. that's the very had a place for tt. chicken propact as conve as his last attempt went wren pushed back his chair. The evening dismaying perspective; it was = long ieee he thought,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 15 anng pet Was duller thant usual. He glanced abort ite tim at Carrie, knitting resolutely, her 2 hasseck. , ; ; fine tight, Carrie. Kind of.a pity to stay in the tat eay we go take a litth: walk—get some air?” af im calmly, as if to make it clear that the de- transparent. He returned the serutiny defiantly. culd stop af Phil's,” he proceeded, unashamed, few minutes.” She tightened her lips. “You wure that bare space and see if the tilt-table'd Idd, “Comeon, Carrie, Deo you good." erpd the knitting. “Well ——" your hat." He had a sudden inspiration. “It's ightout; you could help Shirley with her dishes." feet eft the haeeock with a thump. “IT should forgot all about that! She'd wash the silver in iden clickelicked sympathetically, and moved ark, iT {ING in Shirley's look gave Mr, Weldon pause nist important stage of his discourse regarding one cutter. He stopped, and fumbled for a ch he abandoned before it emerged upon his e, Shirley's deep opaque eyes held his fast, vw amile dared him to disappoint it, Shirley's chel bia lapele—a trick which brought her h to whisper, couldn't be sensibly severe with Shirley, he maelf; it wan't her fault that she was so—sq » They'd spoiled her systematically all her eexrpected everybody to keep on apoiling her. aa well eeald a butterfly for not being a bee, ed that he was grinning back at his daughter- ad of reminding her that this was her chicken d that, after shamelessly leaving all the work started to a man who had advised her against t place, she ought In mere decency to show a fin ite SUeCeEE, the moet won-der-ful aeeret to tel] you!" sper foated on a Litth: laughing undertone, weet and smooth, that always made Mr. k, absurdly, of cream. He strove to rally a wavering common sense, She had announced the chicken project in exactly this fashion, he remembered. “Whatare you up to this time?" Tn apite of an honest endeavor it sounded indulgent, almost approving. He struggled against his grin. Shirley laughed softly, ex- etal, "Tm notuptoeit=[*min it! T kept it all to myself until I got the deeds, And you're the very firet and only person I've told.” "“Deads?** The word had an ominous sound, Deeds could only mean real eatate, and buying property was, in Mr. Weldon's code, the most entirely solemn form that human: business could assume. He felt his jaw muscles slacken and his brows lift. “Deeds—what deeds?” Again Shirley laughed. "The deeds to that darling Kittle lodge—at the turn in the read over there.” She re- lensed ome lapel in order to point. “At least I've always called it a lodge." “You menn Ham Calhoun's shanty?" Mr. Weldon was aghast. That tumbledown relic that Ham Calhoun had been trying to eell ever eince it got too rickety for storing corn ! If she'd actually bowght that —— "Yea: I wanted it the first time I aaw it, and now I've got it! IT had to wait till my dividends came in.” “Ham Calhoun's shanty!" Mr. Weldon heard in his woice the thickened diction of one who talke across the horder of a troubled sleep. “What on earth did you want It for, Shirley?" She twisted her face into an absurd counterfeit of a scowl, “Oh, dear, 1 did hope you wouldn't say that! I hate to have people ask me why I want things—ass if wanting was a crime that could only be excused by ex-extenuating cir- eumatances! Why should [ think up some tiresome senl- bly reason for wanting what [ want? I know I want it, don't 1? And isn't that all that matters?" A dim relief expanded in Mr. Weldon's troubled apirit. After all, it wasn't so bad as it might have been, She couldn't have paid very much for that shack, at the worst of it, and ae long as it wasn't just a preface to another of her nations —— “Something in that, when you look at it,” he conceded. “TLonly meant toask what yousimed todo withit; thought you bought it to—to use, aome way." Shirley beamed on him. “Oh, [ see! IT thought you were just—just criticizing. But you weren't; and you gweased that [—or haven't you guessed what I'm going to deo with it?" Mr. Weldon felt the jaw muscles relax again. He man- aged to shake his head. Shirley seized his lapels. “Tm goling to start a waijtelde ian! Of course I'll have to fix the house wp first, but [ know—I[ just know it's going to be a perfectly gorgeous success. There's ever so much travel on that road; even now, when summer haan't started, there are heaps and heaps of cara going by. And there's no place in Grimfleld except that horrible Battle Howse and the awful Greek restaurant.” “A—o wayside inn?" Mr Weldon contemplated the announcement stonily. This girl, who couldn't be trusted to wash a dish without Carrie's eye on her! He must plant his foot firmly and finally on this project; if she ever tried any such crazy schome —— Shirley, who could be brow- beaten inte abject. submission by that sullen yellow wench Lyddy, every time Carrie turned her back! He examined his vornbulary for fit wards, “Now, Shirley—let's talk this thing over, you and ma, before you go setting your heart on it." He observed symptoms of m powt and a quiver of Shirley's sensitive lower lip, and panic woke in him. “Don't you go get a notion that I'm against you, because I'm not. Didn't IT back you up on this chicken business, when they all thought it was crazy? No, sir; I'm on your side, same as always. But it’s Phil I'm thinking about. Strikes ma you're forgetting that he needa a lot of your time." “I'm not forgetting! As if T could! But Phil's away all day; and I'd always be at home when he was.” “That's eo, of course.” He felt that it was diplomatic to agrees with her as much as possible, “That's absolutely right, Shirley; but how about the house? Who's going to run it if you go and get a restaurant on your hands?" Shirley purgled joyously. “You're so funny! You just ask mother about my housekeeping! She's too eweet to tell me, bot she knows. [ve tried and tried to learn, but (Cantinued sa Page Fi) Me Jiruck o Motch. Fhleley, Reslde Wim, Fea tied a Deldighied Cry at a Lftter af Bincorded Furslfure

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16 THE SATURDAY EVENING FROM McKINLEY TO HARDIN Personal Recollections of ralatin Ix uUry, ioun ELVILLE E.STONE, general manager of lat: the Associated Press in 1896, was present during tian, the, conference of the Me- Kinley managers in the aid Southern Hotel, June 12, 1338, when the gold-standard plank waa written. Mr. Stone, in his interest ing book, Fifty Years a Jour- Talest, wribea a9 follows: The "Major," aa we called KMeHinley in thoae daya, was a friend. Four of five days be- fore the &c, Louis Convention he had asked me te come bo hia home at Canton, and I went there, Wie xat for a long ofter- nema an the poanch of his cot- tage. He hed received at the bands of Mir. Robert W. Pat- Chicane ‘Toltaes, = pened capo une, & pr plank for the platform to be adopted at the &t. Lovin Con vention. It referred ta the monetary quewtion and aie- clared in g modified way for bhimetolliam. | was dent of the Globe National Bank of Chicago at the time, and be did me the honcur io dak my vlew of Paterson's proposal, T ; q prompdly tok hin that then waa oo auch thing as binetallien posible. oT used the well-known illustration of the yardatiek, and assured bim that two yardatieka of different length could not be. In truth, Major pee | had po aetiled opinion in re- apect of the matter, ond he said he was convineed that the financial question would, after all, not be the iesue of the com- ing cm ign. I challenged this view, and, havi in mind some thi that had happens said that meither he nor the National Cenvention eauld determine the faue, and that the pai would inthe end dothla, Finally, be (old mo that (Chorles mory Smith was drafting the Matform, and ho asked mo to sen him in St, Louls and try te setgle the matier, : The thing that had happened, and whieh foreed me bo beliove that the allver question and not the tari! was te be the ise, waa the action of the Peorla Convention of the Democratic Party in Dinos, whieh hed already eld. The controlling forse in that convention was a very astute politician, Governor John FP. Altgeld of Chicago. He bad thrust the laswe of birnetal- liam inte the Peotia Convention and secured the ol & resolution declaring for a 16-to-1 standard. But for the fact that he was born in Germany, and therefore ineligible to the office of President of the United States, it in not unlikely that he would have been the sotional Democratic candidate that yen. The story of the adoption of the gold-standard plank at the Ropublican National Convention has bath omelet bean told, ye Tecet lw acegrately, When [ arrived in §t, Louis [ found deal of confusion, T wae called into a conference of Major McKinley's friends, These Hard were HH, H, Kohlaast, editer mf the (Chieape Timea-Herald: ex-Governor W. RB. Merriam af Minnesota: the Hon. Myron Pr, Herrick of Chia; Senator Red- field Proctor of Vermont; the Hon. Henry 0. He tet ef hii- waukew, and ifark Hanae. As man for the McKinley farce Mer. Hanna found himeelf in o dificult position. Severn Werlern states were cornestly for fremsiiver coinage, Br. Hanna, therefore, while personally a gold-standard man, was unwilling to take the responsibility of actively participating in the fight agminat a declaration for inotta diem. After Poponted eonfcrences a reacdution committing the Republican Party to the gold standard was agreed to, The: cet ae gy gala orn | aiivocate of a gold Blank waa Mr. Kehlaaat, My icy part in the framing of the plank was te write in the word “inviolahle” in the phedge po “maintain (invlolatbey the obligations of the United States at the exielng standard." eFd; ris, but Tr Ct oF atatesonta shall donmprutulate mygelf that paras bation: fe not raguired of cw, Our Presidents By H. H. KOHLSAAT to my nasa fp connection with the Seerstaryahir of tha Trias- a it prupor to eaye-= That [ have not hesn tendered appointment to that posl- Sheeld that ofilea be taniered Bt ibarty to dvuclinme it, Tt or" the Treasury Portfolio, but ed] finally determina upon some ether min fer thet AL h office, I shall ferl no senae of disappointment or chag= Alter che wording of the resolution had been finally apend pon it wake necessary ta submit it to Major McKinley, A len distance telephone line between the Southern Hotel in St. Lauis and the Mckinley cottage in Canton had boon established, and Mr. Hanna and 1 went to the St. Leuke end of the wire in the basement of the hotel to read the plank to the waitiog candidate at Canton. [Tt wos es new expersence for Air. Hanna, and ha could not make bimself beard. I therefore read the resolotion. Major AicKinkey asked if that hed been fully agreed upon by hia friends, to whieh [ replied that it had. Reluctantly he acquiesced in tt, but asked if ic was not posible to introduce a hicelliving phrase pledging ther Republican Party to promote an international agreement for the dren coinage of silver, In obedi- ence to this sug¢eetion auch « phrase was introdueed, god the Plank was kver adopted by the Convention. Mr. MeKinley’s campaign, carried on from hie cottage at Canton, War a temarkable one, Although ke had never given the financial queetion Ha Agel rc congieration, anal cere had no adequate conception of the business when noitinaled, he delivered speech after sperch of such copenty aa bo command the aitention and admiration of every ab nt of finance, x N 1912 Horace White, editor of the New York Evening Post, wrote he was clearing up his papers at eighty, and was returning to me the following letter I wrote July 1, (Sth, ten days after the convention, as he thoughe it wuld be interesting alter sixteen years: Homacke Wintt, Esg., The Erening Post, Ki. ¥. Clty July 1, 1896. Afy dear Mr. iWhite: I hare quar Tead the enchosed orticle taken from the Evening Post of Monday, June 29th. I[ do mot know Mr. Angell and never heard of bim, but he is evidently a friend of Mr. Herrick and the plank wos probably sent to him hy Mer, Herrick, The article: is correct in overy why, excopting that Senator Lodge saw the plank i ta have it printed on the Monday morning, He anid it suited him perfectly with the one exception that he would strike out the ton words ‘and unlim- ited.” He thought that che plank would be stronger if it read “wean oppoded te the free coinage of silver,” Heaale that waaall the change he would make and asked me flora copy of the plank, POST o-fed now currant in the publio prose eo =6, © should got rack ‘Kinley to econalesring: ay meme in c.ninction with eaorifier in many dirs Juas iG fT, a a ipmas J. Gage T beunded biz. ie enclose to ps struck of copes stand that Me Lege te dithersne. wes He: Irae beet ae pod header cet S| Te ewan thomgtr 8 stronger tn ij “5 beved the eremg [ erd. shewoli be So eo Gorermo Mrs 4 wes change ‘“ June fith, the ret eens of Mow Towa end Neu mypeinet wing th in the platfors: * it wel qed 2 of es planation 1.4 a Peopde walt ol Thiol the sieeotd ver and paper Maney and that nothing bes 4 circulation, On Friday in the conference the phunk reed “Se exeting standard should be muinioined.“ Toactt of the earnest appeaks of men fross +! 2 ae Of courac the gold standard could ao ry ail from thoac states was lost; sone are | grest weight. There were sewer in the conse + oli a it wos perhaps Uneasy LO eae mitdie western states in the face by lesertigg eo eonirary to their wishes, [ feesig cher poetiion Foe anidice not to yeut the word ‘“gieded " in Pestacey the words “existing standard tment eel Let better have a straight-nut fight med avoiel dette enoe lasted five hewra ind at Lhe end of thas fo put in aa you see iin this origina! copy Oar mutual friend Mr. Af, E. Sicee tp eal change whith reada “te the extent oly a Se ee ean be malntabwed and alee for the word “soa lant ne you will see that the worl “secede = “al the present standard, tha standunt ef — a" nations of the earth.” This wae thee eee Proctor of Vermont, a wary freend of Mekca@ eastern mon in the conference. The seat eal dime he put it in that the etrongest words pete aa every word in the plank ought in wee 2 T have been somewhat surperioce! of phe: Lodge and Mr. Platt that the East dicted Mechinkey managers bad 664 votes i) mee sary), to pasa a plank which wohl sieopls free colnage of elver and in fawes cf eacbtanat Haindard. They also could fiswe ackectat whee bee plank. The 35 Words of oper Pigieel enosylvania wero simply gdead to the eae a already controlled. You will notices that in Mc Hh inbey s epee committer he took oesue}on py bo We OUP credit, which = told mea week age he woulal do, ea the chief executive to tmaintai: (hs tee ee have no eympathy with the deruagegh: ape of the peo le against Cleveland inciee every patric man should de ond neko bold mie that af the Hepublieas party of =

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST invember it would bee elvelr firet diavty wean coming inte adopt Megures to provide sufficient revenue Lo FuB nent ahd pay olf ite indeboedness—that he would wut an office antil he had satisfactory legislation, and legislation could become operative be would war all vested io the President te maintain the gold reserve. io necessity for hin coming out weal saying ‘Bo et this were you, Mr. White, wo hawe a batile on our hands tien of the country and MeKinley must de nothing from fie popularity, for that is one of the wetora of Ble mpooess. I honestly believe that if Mr. id beta nominated on a gold platform it would have sible fer us te carry Ullinods against Altgeld and iree geld is extremely strong with labor it. turn this original draft of the plank, oa] wish te have nd preacrye it. I wodld not part with it for conalder- Yours ¥, (Slened) H. H. Koeaaar, w York Evening Post printed several editorials liculing the claims of Platt and Lodge that they gold plank, EI *, 1896, the Democratic National Convention Chicago. The dominant figure was Governor ligeld, of TWinoia. Born in Germany, he was or the Presidency or would in all probability the nominee. He was an ardent advocate of and as the Democratic State Convention, held fow weeks before, instructed the delegates to lronvention te vete for free ailver by something ‘votes for gold, Altgeld had the backing of his inois for his heresy. t speech of the convention was made by 6 virile young fellow, William Jennings Bryan, W Hia “Cross of Gold” speech set the eonven- ea PF, Handy, chief of the editorial page of the Id, on his return from the hall came into my at excitement and said he had just heard the ech of his life and predicted Bryan's nomlina- y. Bryan was almost unknown until he made Few of the newspapers had photographs of ‘umes-Herald was fortunate enough to have one. I sent for Mr. Von Hofsten, our beat rtiat, and asked him to make a five-column imran and do his best, Dt was printed on the ider the caption “Probable Nominee Today's ‘ punning across seven columns. About five morning some of Bryan's friends ordered five tes, Which they took to the convention hall, them on their breasts and fastened them to arched round and round the hall, headed bya “Bryan! Bryan! William Jennings Bryan!" told me later he thought the picture had a 4h his oOmM- — shoe g ‘inal fs wae sich a Wore. ign the in the ‘eet ost oon us3 the 7 Fi] a bea | praly t my bie bx i z to Ors se a oe oe aw t ate, Ki 2p di rer ne rail rom a tx ut a =| Hey ia see es pe rth as pent Winwiam Me Kenicr Caton Oem Sabena A: a Siew Vi dds aah, * sa awe ¥ rela, ae a aca Ae war, Vague avcatlins * Spel tial snalecovel Soe yreaaneny Ne aces aoe orate: es we oh Mee artic die ‘ aT. pth barat claws mich money waa spent, and, [ believe, legitimately. Thore was no purchase of votes. The ailver mine owners contributed a huge sum to the campaign and paid for the elrculation of a book ealled Coin, written by a man named Harvey, It was written simply and quoted treasury figures which to many were unanewersble, I paid Harvey to write a column a day, reserving the right te print a parallel column in reply. Prof, J. Laurence Laughlin, professor of political economy in the University of Chicago, answers] Harvey's anpi- mente daily, After the articles had been running less than a Weel Harvey come to see me and asked who waa anewer- ing him. He was told Professor Laughlin. He declined to goon with his contract. Governor Altgeld delivered a speech in the Auditorium; the house was packed. I read his speech while he was delivering it. He made auch a strong argument I tebe phoned Professor Laughlin to come to the office, After reading Altgeld's effort he said, “If the governor's figures af the condition af the treasury were correct the epeech is unensworknble, but he has deliberately lied and given false figures. The Times-Herald printed the speech in full, but put Professor Laughlin's short statement in a box at the head of the column. A few days later I met Altgeld in a street car. Hesaid, “Kohlsast, that was a dirty trick you played on me." The gold-standard people organized parades all over the country. Toward the end of October heads of business houses, bank presidents and men of large affair, Demo- crats and Republicans, tramped miles through the streets, followed by their employes. As Election Day drew near business was paralysed—the banks declined to make loans, fear took possession of the business community. Every voter waa called upon te go to the polla. Election night the streets near the newspaper offices were packed. When the returns at midnight indicated McKinley's election the clubs and hotels were filled with excited men. There was no prohibition. Volstead was un- known. Long after midnight in a certain Chicago club one of the world’s greatest merchanta started the old boyhood game follow-thelender, He was joined by bank presidents, merchants, Chicago's foremost men; they went over sodas, chairs, tables, upstairs and downstairs, and wound up with dancing in oné another's arma, A little after midnight I rang up MeKinley in Canton. His nephew, James McKinley, answered the phone, I asked him to let me speak to the President-Elect. After some tinutes” wait young MeKinley esid, "I found Unele Will in his mother’s room. The old lady is kneeling beside het nan | jownat. Jae i a ke 1a \pnsit,| re cawticlonweatt | fad : sony Canak ayer eek be mony aed Vier, yak alee Cf, Arerincan Obingn, | spe deve Goth Adene sabe “f aff 7 Bie. Aerie, ak Marea mya ap dernatd a yer wre ie é , ant ib qos awit parte eln i ae ee pow ae oe danwialhe a Cha darth, Mae AL LAY ey Oe. ME. Vella at ceage, dl. 17 the bed with one arm around the governor and the other around Aunt Ida, praying. Al] I heard was, 'O God, keop him humble" : noe xT WO weeks after nomination at St. Louis the notificn- tion committee went to Canton and addressed Me- Kinley on the porch of hls modest two-story cottage. His aeceptance speech reassured the country, aa he stood aquarely on the gold platform. About ten days later I was on & Pennsylvania train going from New York to Canton and met Mr. Hobart, the vice-presidential nominee. He Was going to read his aceeptance speech to McKinley be fore receiving his notification committee. After breakfast in the MeKinley home we went to an attic room. Tt was bare of furniture with the exception of a plain pine table and one chair. Mr. Hobart orcupied the chair, MeKinley and I sat on the edge of the table dangling our legs. As Hobart read his letter of aeceptance we both made suggestions, McKinley ripped it to pleces; eo it bert ttle resemblance when he returmed to Mee York to the letter he brought to Canton. The next few weeks Canton waa the center of attraction to the newspaper correspondents. Mr, Hanna, Mr. Her- rick, Col. John Hay and other eloae frienda were weekly visitors, McKinley was very solicitous aa to who should be Secretary of the Treasury. It is not generally known that Mark Hanna wanted that portfolio, but MeKinley hesitated, first, bascnuse it would look too much like paying a political debt: and second, chiefly because he did mot think Hanna had the training necessary. He aaid to me, "T don't. think Mark knows énough about governmental finance to fill the position.” Nelson Dingley, of Maine, author of the Dingley Bill, was Offered and accepted the post of Secretary of the Treas- ury. Along about the end of January, 1997, McKinley rang me up one Saturday night in my home and told me he had received a letterfrom Dingley saying his doctor had told him if he took the tremeury post he would not live two years, and his family insisted that he give it up. He asked to be released. MleKinley aaid, “That knocks my cabinet into a cocked hat; [ was building it around the Secretary of the Treasury.” The papers published the news of Dingley’s declination the next morning. It occurred to me that Lyman J. Gage would be an ideal man for the place, He waa president of the Firat National Bank of Chicago, a gold Democrat, and well known to the hankera of the entire country. I called on him Sunday afternoon and suggested it to him. He shook his head and said, “I have no political ambition.” Tanwwered: “That ia just why you should take the place, if offered. The country is nervous over the money ques tion, and faith in the man to be at the head of the trewsury ia vital, MecKinkey knows nothing of finance, he has been weal on the silver quea- tion, and con- fidence is of supreme impor- taneo especially at this critical pe- nod.” But he was obdurate, That night our neighbor, O. W. Potter, gave a din- ner to Sel Sraith Russell, the co- median, and his wife, My wife ard I were invited; so were Mr. and Mare. Gage. [took Mrz. Gage out to dinner and told her of my visit to her hus band that after- noon. She was greatly interested as L drew a picture af a cabinet offi- eor's social perai- tion. Before we separated I had a friend at court. Next morning Mr. Gage and I walked to business together, I urged him &o reconsider, He said, “ Why should T give up a perfectly eaey job (Continued on Page iO) onic mall await anak) “ pm | tie Case rnd. as soe

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The Language of the Angel ay Black Angel was Ce the sole on | cupant of the heaven atop the foundling home throughout June. But July waa fruitful in balltes. Two girls came to keep Ya-he com pany. Thelr names, La-lo-la- ln —abridged La- la—and Goo, were derived from the sound each per- sisted in. They cried very little, Then came a howling male, a great fellow who should have been ashamed of hir- self, for he said nothing eave in protest: ond was dubbed by Miss Haz the White Crow, He made a noise like that, and therefore, officially, his name was Caw-caw. The fifth angel, a late July entrant, pronounced his name Gar-r-r, Then it was that the little matron, a close student of such matters, determined their respective nationalities. Ya-he wes unmistakobly African; Lo-ln was French; Goo, a Puritan from New England; Caw-caw, a Norse- man: while Gar-r-r, with hus Semitic features, was a young merchant prince from the ghetto, In August carne the sixth angel, weighing exactly four and a quarter pounds, She could sit comfortably in o teacup and would have been lost in a quart measure. Such a tiny thing! Yet she had difficulty slipping through the door to heaven. Old Mudgatt pondered whether he would allow her to enter, but could find not a aingle imperfec- Hien, A wonderful miniature, Her heart couldn't have been larger than the ruby in a finger ring, and her wide eyes were priceless emeralds, Miss Bax hung over this latest arrival in away which might have indicated a good deal, had not the little matron herself told ald Mudgett wiki Kack in March that she disliked babies tremendously. FEELUS TRATED ar By Tristram Tupper THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 4 ah AN ‘say e. 6, Wretlia wf "I'm afraid we better put her on the third floor,” decided Mudgett. “Get an incubator or something for her." “Wonsense!" said Miss Bax, gazing op with eyes that, if one might believe one's senses, were quite liquid and soft. “She's going on the fourth floor, She's mine.” And that settled it. Mudgett was secretly delighted, The difficulty was ta decide uponaname. Though delicate the instrument at his elongated ear, Mudgett could not hear the slightest noiee issuing from the sixth crib, But Miss Bax, with veil tucked in aa she leaned over the little mite, could hear the most delicious sound: “Con-co-o0," She named her the Dove, The seventh was a ewart Italian, hardly less of a bruiser than Caw-caw. Yoo was his name, and his voice would have filled the Metropolitan Opern House, All eriba were now oceu- fied. Miss Bax moved efficiently and noiselessly each day's routine; Mud- gett peered through a peep hele, the listening inatru- ment to his ear. The greateat linguiatie experi- ment of the ages was launched. And, take note, the door of thiaheayen atop the foundling home was. sn- curely locked against the outside world. No peossi- bility of contamination; na, hone whatsoever. Also, listen te poor old Mudgett boasting: "Tsay now, there'll be something to show at the end of the first year!” Autumn: Heaven has in= Cressed amazingly in avoir dupa, Wa-he, the Elack Angel, and Cawscaw, the White Crow, are vying with enxeh other to breale the bathroom seales. Gar-r-r, the Merchant Prince, without taking any thought at all, has added a cubit te his statune. Early Winter: La-la breaks all records of the ome hy exhibiting a teoth at five months! December: The she, pallid light of dawn creeps in through the windows, The seven white-enameled criba are silent, the angels etill are sleeping — VY a-he with his arma across his ebony face, Gao with her nese buried in ber pillow, Knees doubled under her, the Dove with one exquisite foot sticking through the bare of her erlh, Yorn with his mouth wide open, All are sound Wiat Did He Aeon by Tablag One af the Botlier Gat of pte Crib? The Bove, of Taaot ! asleep, Al are unconscious that this is their first Christi. Old Mudgett in the darkness before down has slipped inte his ridiculous bathrobe, pulled on bagey through the intricacies of © hay Jum 24 = . They Beeame faterected in che Podewtitie alee aad Apporoter of the 4 ster breeches and crept like a shadow to the fo wits in the darkness, with eye at op the break of day a silent sermon—peace on thought conceerna the little matron, "T say now, how could she miss = sleep through their first Christe on thought pops into his curious mind, = parents of these foundlings, somethin mothers. “What will they think when @ Christmas morning?™ The light grows stronger. He strains bee peephole. Something unusual about heaves o ing bores inte his consciousness, the appearance of the room, gives it o beg something about the cribs. He blinks hig now!" OWwer each of the angela is a new eich He is sure the quilts weren't there lest a preceded him? “IT say now, they cost sm covered down quilia. Seven of them. ini her salary.” Old Mudgett becomes the bers that the litth matron has been waving & fur coat to keep her warm on her walks # “Tsay now!" And the sun beging to shine, Fir Tae fourth floor front presenited 3 in March of that first year, Heawe fours. The angela had sprouted mo wil discovered that their knees amd stor tutes. Their language, too, so growing apace, June woe the first Iniverssiry experiment, Late in the aftern month old Mudigett climbed to #1 carrying a square pickage the another package ne longer t of going to the anteroom dietary kitchen, where Miss aily at the strings that hound ment the litth matron effep cutting of a string, according oie, was a crime against econan furnble with the knots, “7 “There,” said he presently, and ks ™ and determined. ‘Miss Bax regarded & He met her glance, then looloed away. less boldly, and frowned down at the bere Miss Bax said nothing, merely Looted curious, “Do you know what day this is?” ated “June first. Tuesday.” “Tis—I mean the significance of this dep “Wo.” She hadn't an ices. : _ Digitizediby.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 19 aredhisthroat, “Tt's Ya-he'sbirtthday. [thought— _you remomber—he was the first—I thought we eebrute his birthday." Mudgett removed the dexhibited tothe matron's astonishment a huge sted layer enke, His hands trembled. He ripped r from the second package and revealed one red “There.” fax said quietly, They can’t eat a crumb of it.” tt drooped over the wondrous confection. An etohim, “They can ser it!" He stuck the red to the atnter of the white frosting, pulled down 1w hades and struck a match. Miss Bax moved ser in the aoft dusk, Wumined by candlelight. lovely coke, Mr, Mudgete; but, " she added “they can't ent a single cramb.” can see it," he repeated. “They can see it. Put ion something in the front room where they can amazement of heaven upon beholding an artificial evinced, wnexpected|y enough, by howls, fright- ts and the scurrying of bare knees across the floor. The angels seattered in all directions; mouths gaping, eyes shining, they gathered in a mutual protection against the wall near the 2s Etox placed the candle-lighted confection on a and lifting Ya-he in her arma showed him hia teake. He chung to her with his small black Qed the whites of his eyes, his generous mouth th a sound of astonishment, ““Masag," and re en. Presently he exhibited his entire diadem of th. Ya-he was laughing: “Ya-he-he-he." The ls crept closer. Their mouths also opened with mt. “Maaag."” They pulled at Miss Bax's all kinds of noises, fought, each with might and lifted tp. Fighting, alas, it must be admitted, requent in heaven. with his eyes to a peephole peered into the dusk, watched Miss Bax move efficiently her veil tucked in, took notes on the aounda to his elongated ear. Presently he donned his iy, descended te his office and opened the secret ning the language of the angels. made an entry: tsoiund caused by the lips being tightly closed, lin astonishment.” He thumbed the pages of ame, pored over still another tome, Finally be i) write: “From this sound, * mag,” comes the .mayros," meaning ‘magician"—one who as Yerivatives: “Magic,” ‘magical’; also ‘magi,’ and priestly caste of the Medes and Persians, jeent,” ‘magnitude,’ words derived from the 18" —great,” ett apent an hour enthralled by this pursuit of dewht abort jt the origin of Innpusge woe eel “Ach! was s common cry of pain on the , an ej jacwlation which was almost exactly gg) was another common ejaculation signifying gis." And “blub-blub" was their word the water in the tub made a noise like | Afuacl ret ffrom this had come Iiatoapoeic Shh ** curved ig them. But more thrilling than any of these wos that firet of all baby words—"goo"; something that pleased them, a sound indicating pleasure—" good.” No mistake about ir, “ poo" meant “good,” and “ good" was a derivative of the Anglo-Saxon “God.” Trace it back! “Goo meant “God,” and “goo” meant “good.” Take note! That was the firat thing that a baby said, the first thing that every baby says: "“Goo-goo." That wis the message they brought with them: “Chod ip good,” Pages of this fascinating language of the angels old Mudgett had seribed in his secret book; and the babies were just beginning to talk! On a day in that June, Mudgett paced the anteroom. He was never more excited, Now and again Mise Bax slipped out of heaven and handed him a sheet of paper on which were a few figures, Old Mudgett would scize this, pore over ft, then transcribe the figures on a large chart. Heaven was being weighed and mewsured—each angel. The great experiment had proved an enormous sueceas, not alone in words but also in pounds and inches, Caw-caw, with Senndinavian ancestry, had outstripped them all. Whats tremendous giant he was, how powerful, how magnificent, This infant viking steod thirty-four inches in his bare feet, and weighed thirty pounds! The Dove was still the smallest angel. She was delicately and beautifully formed. Her gym weight was exactly sixteen and three-quarter pounds. Miss Bax tried to squeese it to seventern by leaving the heart-shaped locket arcund the Dove's neck, but to no avail. Her height was twenty-one inches, a fraction over the height a baby should boast at birth; her little chest was a perfect fourteen, five and o half inches smaller than Caw-caw's. The aggregate weight of the seven angels was one hun- dred and fifty-six pounds, Old Mudgett wis beside him- self with delight. The records for ten years showed the average gain of babies at the home during the firat year wis twelve and a half pounds. On the fourth floor it had been fifteen and a half pounds, "Teeen't that prove it? Taay now, doean"t that prove that perfect quiet, no visitors, the elimination of all con- taminating infiuences is the right and only method?” He might have added a word about the care Miss Bax had given thes fortunate babies, but that did not ovcur to his absorbed mind. The litle matron had not left the fourth floor for an entire year save only to tramp for an hour and a half, rain or shine, each afternoon down to Central Park, and around the winding paths and back to the foundling home. i Frit HE first bolt of a whimsical Providence struck the fourth floor that August. It was late in the month. Miss Bax appeared noiselessly in Mudgett’s office. Tae SJaston Woman Modes «a Gras for One of the Fleling Baten, After: Bay Fan te tee Chita, When he glanced around she said but one word— "Measles," Heaven had the measles. Each angel had It in turn, Not all at once; that would be too mich to ask, even of heaven. Assoon as one angel became convalescent another began to acrateh. Tt stretched over a period of three months, during which old Mudgett took up his abode with a cot in the anterocom. He moved through a fog. “T gay now, how could it have happened—measles? Miss Bux, you haven't been anywhere except to the park; there isn't a sign of if downstairs; [ haven't even been inside the front room. How—I say now, bow could it have hap- pened?" Poor old Mudgett! He was wholly nonphiesed . "Perhaps it came in through the windows,” suggested the little matron, almost as mystified as Mudgett. “You ean't keep the world out, You just can't keep it out, The world is sure to creep in—eover or under, A Chinese wall wouldn't keep it out.” "Tm going to keep it out! Taay now, I'm going to keep itoutl" Poor old Mudgett, wholly befogged. La-la was the first. She was carried to the little gray- and-roge-tinted room in order to segregate her from the reat ef the babies, Six daya later Goo began to cough and sneeze, Her brown eyes became weepish. Mucdgett, ludicrous in his abbreviated bathrobe with a veil over his face, solemnly maintained that Goo merely had a cold in the head, Shortly the ned spots appeared on Goo's face and neck, Caw-caw was the next to fall, The others followed. Only, in Ya-he's cose the red spots were not discernible in the pigment of he ebony skin. Another shift was mow made. Miss Baex's room being overcrowded was fumigated and the babies with measles and thease who had passed through the ordeal were moved back into the front room and the remalning angels moved inte the small bedroom. But all precautions failed; the epidemic went through heaven, end to and. Mudgett was marooned on the fourth floor with the clenr-visioned, efficient Miss Bax. He was too absorbed, however, to note her lovely hair, like Egyptian dusk, her ivory complexion and large, unamiling gray eyes. Also, it may be presumed that the exquisite littl: matron was far too busy to give old Mudgett a thought. He hung like a great shadow over the tiny eriba, he paced the anteroom at night, he pried into the food Miss Bax waa preparing in the kitchen, “Tsay now, what's that?" No matter where the little matron was working or what she was doing, he wis always there and always in the way. “Don't you think you better get a rest for a day or two, Mr. Mudgett?" she suggested. “Don't you think you better go back to your own room?" “Why, no. [aay now, I couldn't let you do all this work by yourself. Don*t you want me up beret" “Yea. Of course [ want wou up here." She made ne further protest, merely went about efficiently doing everything. Many were her extra stepa moving cut of the way and walking sround poor, befogged old - Mudgett. et (Continued om Page 78) “roo Merta'tr Dea Foo Dare (""

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20 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June i0, 9 TRUST EMILY—A Farce Comed} Pil RTHUR NETHERBY at length roused him- self from the pleasant reverie into which he had fallen, sitting on the table with his boots in the milk, and began to look about him. He enjoyed the sensn- tiona of a man who has juat awaked from a particularly lovely and luscious elntarn. 1 A lovely girl!” . he waa still mutter- 4 “A lowely i it girl!" , fe But exerting his i} 7; atrength of mind | js) ee he tried to think af ii others than Esmily | Parks; and to brush | the é¢rumbe from his person, He had never had opportunity of realizing before = how pervasive is salt icing. He gazed around him at the débria of the tea table. The room lopked a wreck. And under his feet Angela still hame- marred “A broom f"" Arthur muttered to himself, He went tothe kitchen door, opened it a few inches, put his hand rownd and called, “A broom!" “Eh, sir?’ snid Airs. Stoker, thinly from a distance. “What kind of a a “Don't talk ta mewome|n |" yelled Arthur, “IT don"t allow it! Give me any broom!" A broom was pushed into his hand hy invisible ageney. Arthur shut the door and commenced Lo sweep up the place, He eollected everything into a heap, and won- dered where to put it, He realized for the first time that when you have swept a room, that is not all; something must be done with the litter, Butafter he had swept it this way and that for a while, wondering on the proper corner to hide it in, he had a brain wave. “The fireplace!" he muttered. He pushed the stuff there, and placed the fire sereen before ft, just as that sound for which he had been anxiously listening for what seemed hours brake upon his attention, The Hunters’ car awooped up to the gate and stopped just outalde the courtyard. Arthur leaned on his broom and wiped his brow, Cyril atepped from the car and wandered into the eourt- yard in his most dilettante fushion, as if his errand had ne urgency at all, He looked languorously at the ae cans, and entered, but was arrested by the sight of Arthur leaning upon his bream, “Wakefield! said Arthur. “Good man!” “What's all thia?” said Cyril, pausing distressfully, for from Arthur's attitude it appeared that there might be some work to he dane. “Come in!” said Arthur. “Put that away, then,” replled Cyril. auc placed the broom mently in a corner alongside the gu au ts ate ‘he sald, pausing. Cyril came forward, looked around, and saw the sols, “Say it] he replied reaignedly. He lay down gently upon the sofa, but was much dissatisfied with ita apringing. Arthur began to stammer. "H-h-has it ever struck you,” he began, “how-how- how darned-darned wonderful she ia? “Whe” said Cyril resignedly, dirthur etammered. “Little Parks,” he replied. Cyril fanned himself with his hat. “You may as well ask me if I'm in possession of my eyesight,” he said

By MAY EDGINTON FELUITRATED ar eA. FiLioxr “Sometimes, dive Weet On Moreuriag Delicately, "Tae Cry Becoore They re So Ape" exhaustedly, “That girl—eyes—and halr—and ankles. Can you beat “em?" Arthur stammered a bit more. “She haa—a—a eort of litte way with her," he said hesitatingly. He began to smile again without knowing that he was doing it, "As old Steers asid to me,’ " added Cyril confidentially, “she'll go far if she isn't etopped." “T don’t want her to go any further,” said Arthur, suddenly becoming truculent. “Wo further at all." Cyril held up bis hand for qulet attention. "Your appreciations of life, old man," he began, “vou've got ‘em somehow pitiably wrong ——" Arthur held up hia hand. It was larger and more deter- mined than Cyril's, "She's here!" he said sublimely. “What! erted Cyril. Arthur nodded, unaware that he was smiling. “Give me a piece of bread and butter,” said Cyril. The bread and butter had eseaped the storm and atill graced the table, ao Arthur handed it to him, Cyril took a slice critically. “T don't know how you doit, Netherby," he eaid, biting inte It, “I den't knew how—you—da—it.” “T don't do ft," said Arthur. “It happens. Look here ——"" A really terrific volume of knockings and muffled voices now rose, a8 if all the poor prisoners had been gathering atrength for a last onslaught. Cyril started, “What's that?” he said. “ThatT” asid Arthur, “That's what I sent for you for. That's your littl: bit—your job." The knockings continued, PREITON "T'm “damned if I do smother stroke of ech day,” aaid Cyril pettishly. Arthur approached him and stood meas over the pofa. “YT ou will 1°" “Look here," said Cyril tranguilly, interest in the comumotion makeiding, “py murder me, Netherby: bart arork Twill ant. Ty from platform by seeaty son af val said you wanted me; brogghs bey explanation; see yoo weeping | a; it's all eo foolish.” He coed oo “The flower show was very =>y added. “Can't you baw the stp 7" Before Arthur eould anewerttr a door burst violently oper, unc | entered wildly, if rehactanthy p-4 by his wife, who pushed b= behind. “What's tha?” oi 4 very eel pean the <a “lan | Bir, moat “She wee nc longer | out?” Mra. 34 locked reat busbar! ic | Lat a abe panies ' Wwormet, 16 Not worsa Cyr ees and reqari Stoners wal 6d ee monoele j weil mts heat a Stoker, pul Sioker bump wii af bia es | handieet ain't aed “he real we wcra | intrepec hl “Cert Ere TS ll a amie, C577 | * Let a cred Ma She stamped and ground her teeth at Archer kept behind her hushand, for all that. "For the love of Mike, sir,"* moaned Stove, out £!" Very slowly Arthur fumbled im the poche deplorable coat, and extracted three ken. [& ther to Stoker without a word. Cyril watehe! ceeding with a critical detachment and eae: | Arthur's ¢alm waa astumed. Arthur =a: 2 Stoker turned and scuttled hastily out, foloe malignant gaze. “Who are 'they"?" said Cyril patiently. Arthur looked at him. He turned and walk! @ the door at the back, and stood looking blisdb 4 milk cana. Very slowly he pulled out his tobact! meneed to refill his pipe, Every pestore of be ral with real interest by Cyril, and each p= fraught with foreboding. Arthur filled aod @ pipe. No word was spoken, (Cyril sat, fairly 27 the subtle mystery of Arthur. He come back ct! gingerly in his poor father’s chair. Eveso 7 did, indeed, was done very gingerly, And «T= | nilent. Suddenly the door on the left opened r Angela ran in, sobbing. Her frock, her hands, her farce —were élthy. “Angela!” cried Cyril, galwanized to life He sprang up and approached her. “You here!" wailed Angela, sobbing. “And you!” ered Cyril, “Where is hel" wailed Angela, Arthur spoke quietly from the armchair. “Here,” he said, smoking, Angela saw him. “Oh! oh! oh!" she gasped. could you?" “You tro’ |

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 21 ed to comfort her. “Don't ery," he said, y. Tell me all about it." He followed her looked quite flercely at Arthur, who ant fm- ‘What has he boon doing?" icked me into the cellar,” wailed Angela. far!" exclaimed Cyril fercely. dork and b-b-beetly,” wailed Angela. “And —— And I f-f-felll down She aank cryin worst enid Cyril, cutr: Hook at reel" wept / , turning her face tina manly fashion up to Arthur. pour perfectly diabolical conduct,” he ordered. ‘there, etoleal and eruel, smoking, “Well, she and J beguiled her into the cellar, and locked ould send for you.” el. “Oh, you were sending for me ——" said ‘id Arthur, aa distant thumpa and cries were their ears, “a a matter of fact there are more ont why Twas sending for you i there bewildered, hurtin tra from Arthur to sone on the left flew open, and Gwen broke in She was dirty, disheveled. Her frock was Ee and gibbered with rage, She saw the used. she aid, beginning to ery. ved round and saw her twin. he screamed. “You snake!" ok @ pepeperfect sight," aniveled Gwen. her?" ‘ied Arthur from his quiet corner, which was ind dim now that evening elole on. ‘sniveled Gwen, peeping at him in horror handkerchief, “Oh-h-h how kK like? Oh! Gh! Oh!" She wept an dol ' said Cyril, turning from one to the other, ieked Gren to Arthur, ‘‘d-d-did you lock full of and — th nite a i table, *) waa f° pat urning other. od. oo bee nt the agrain, rtably nd in trelin= ‘ike a uiling, WHS i er im ane i" «do on im of ‘pair. sone rt f the ceafual oked we Pe She f little aA — ining * FR. peor cru cll oud out timed . =o: 3 or ” he ime Lt qecd : etill cr in “Che Con aad Will fie fort Like Gther People," Fala 4 oka. ‘Atenteattic,” sobbed Gwen, “full of dust and dirt— and furniture—pitch dark—and ——" She was unable to —£o on. "Oh, this is too pitiful!’ said Cyril feelingly. Mrs. Drelincourt then moved round and treated An- gela, on the sofa, to a prolonged survey, “And you, dear,” she remarked—"were you in the attic too? You look like it." Much as she hated this most feline woman Angela had not strength of mind to save herself from another lapse inte weeping. “She was in the cellar,” replied Cyril feelingly. Mrs. Drelineourt lazily nearer Arthur, She got hetween everyone and Arthur, He held tight to the arma of the chair which hod helped him with her before. “Horrid practical jokes you play," said ahe lazily to him, “Naughty boy you are, aren't you?" She then seated herself opposite Arthur, on the other aide of the fireplace, as calmly aa possible. “Jokes!” cried Arthur bitterly. "Our littl tea party a¢ deux seems to have been frus- trated," said Mra. Drelincourt cooingly. She gave the twins a look full of malice. "You are behaving abominably !" said Angela in a low tense voles. “T, dear?" murmured Mra. Drelincourt, affecting sur- Before this could develop into a fracas, however, the door on the left was thrown open onee more, and Lady Hunter tottered in, tearfully. She was in a sad condition of great heat. The fret person she saw was Cyril, standing in the center of the room, trying to help everybody. She tottered to him and fell on his shoulder. “Cyril! ahe breathed. “Oh, my dear lady!" eaid Cyril, embarrassed, and staggering. “My dear lady! Ob, this ia too awfully pitiful f"" Lady Hunter leaned on Cyril, while Angela regarded with an angry aneer the touching tableau that they made. “Where is he?" demanded Lady Hunter, "tay ara i, ee» I ae “i, Cook." “Om! Thank Fou, We. Arthas," Repeated Cook Arthor again apoke with the perfect calm of the ultimate despair: " Here,” “You pep-pushed me into the I-linen cupboard,” aaid Lady Hunter in a broken volee. “You cave man!" Cyril was terribly anxious to be rld of her, especially in the presence of Angela. “Dear lady," aaid he, “rectiminations will not help us. Rest. Sit down.” He! pushed her firmly down beside Angela on the sofa and ateod tactfully behind ther both, Angela and Lady Hunter looked at each other, Lady Hunter's hat was on one side, and Angela was wholly deplorable. Gwen sobbed intermittently. Mra. Drelineourt—very deverly—presereed her attl- tude of amusement, opposite Arthur regarded this disposition. ‘He held his head. “Don't let "em settle dawn, Wakefield,” he sald bru- tally, “Don't let ‘em settle down. Take ‘om away." Lady Hunter screamed. Teal" she cried violently. She began beating her toes on the floor, a habit which Cyril knew and dreaded. She always let go thoroughly when ahe beat her toes on the floor. * Cortalnly,"" he said soothingly. “Tea. By all means Tea at once, Netherby. I"m surprised at you." Arthur was beyond protests. He extended a hand and prilled the bell rope. "T shall never be surprised again," he remarked. Stoker crept in. “Fetch my secretary,"’ gaid Arthur. “I mean, my housekeeper." While he had been sitting there he hed thought of little Parks upetaira, fetching her things. He wondered if it wert faintly possible she had not fetched them yet. "The last lady, sir?’ bleated Stoker. Yes,” said Arthur. And with the proapect of little: Parks he heartened hirn- self, and got up, and etood-on his own hearth, like a man. Btoker crept out. Mra. Drelineourt broke the ensuing silence. “The last lady!" quoted she in an un- usually high key. "A secretary!" streamed Lady Hunter, beating her toes incessantly on the floor. "You sald a howse- keeper," said Gwen brokenly to Arthur. Angela apoke brokenly from the eafa: "He said a sec- Arthur stood among them, a sheep for the shearing. “Well ."gaid he, “if she wasn't so young she'd be a house- keeper, but when theyre so young it's better for them to be aghast. man know what he's doing?” he thought. "Or suing?” “Who's them?" acreamed Lady Hunter, “Housekeepers,” gaid Arthur. “Tau aaid seere- taries," said Angela. “T don't know how you do it, Wetherby," murmured Cyril, ap- palled. “Idon't know how you do it.” Arthur replied with that extremity of calm which has been noted before: “IT don't do it. Tt happens." "Yes: but look here,” said Cyril hope- lessly, “Attempt some explanation, Netherby. Just at= tempt ft." . ftlentinacd or Page &F or

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22 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 16,9 THE PIONEER FAMIL) neer family was the woman. To whatever class she belonged, the tale of toil was never-ending. Whether wife or daughter of the doctor, the storekeeper, the farmer, the mechanic or the laborer, her devotion ta the industry of the time was incessant, Husband or son might get some respite; she had little or none, Lf one order af her work declined, there was always something to take its place. Her home required unremitting attention. Her house, however amall, or however it, Hke her farnily, might grow with the passing years, as the center of this home, always had ita list of insatiate de- mands, few of them for herself, almost wholly forothers. Until her children passe out of infancy, it was imposible for her to procure any steady or regular help. From. the time her daughters wore eight years old, now and then ahe could save heraelf a step, though seldom a thought. Her boys were, perhaps, more useful to her than to the father, until at ten or eleven they were drown off to the more exacting outdoor exertion to which destiny called them. Even then they generally relieved herin what Isabella Bird Bishop had properly termed the difficult art of milking cows; but if this relief came, if, a3 a brsl- ness matter, she could turn ever marketing to her hus ie hand, these concessions were accompanied . by an increase in the purely household du. ties incident to her expanding family and larger house. Indeed prosperity, however much it in- creased, brought little relief. It involved = new and heavier responsibilities, mot only reund about her but also ln church, charity, and in sery- jee and anxieties for those nesrest her. It rather added to her burdens than eased them, as within the whole period no effective outeide help beeare available. While the necessities of her home remained, its amenities made encraachments, which, though gradual, were irresistible, She must have homemade carpets and rugs; more atben- tion had to be given to curtains; the demands for warel- robe increased; hospitality, with its exacting dutics, pressed upon her as she carried cut the determined policy of the true ploneer in seeking to make life more attractive for her children than it had been for herself. Even her larder, always plentifully aupplied, waa gradually enlarged as new of strange tastes were adopted —tastes that pressed from every direction. To these,in line with the demands of the thing called progress, ahe was always athentive. The fropresion is often emphasized, in these modern days, that this woman and her husband were mere drusdges, without ambition or owtlook, like the aver- age peasant: but they knew betber, anc she especuilly recognized that she had a mission in life and that she must do her part with devotion, intelligence and enengy. ‘Thal she did these things well her life work attests. She builded better than she knew. If many of these early housekeepers were ag parte i= lar that a spring cleaning might” have suggested the painting of the rose: if they were often credited with having scrubbed themselves inte heaven—they were only per= THtuating, unbroken, the tradi- tions of their type. [oe one constant unrelieyved worker in the pia Simple Weddings Ye in the pionoer life were almost as simple, as devoid of ceremony, asin the days when marriage by capture was the prevailing mode, In the days of religious rigidity, when the dance was etill a signal that the fires of bell had been relighted, there was but little chance for this form of gayety. Moat marriage ceremo fie Recognized Thai Ike Hod « Misrlom ian Life By George F. Parker FLLUITRATED BY _ FRANK <IFCTICHK

purely social events. Wedding journeya andl formal honey- moons bac not come down in the social descent; ao that the couple went at 4 once to a new home and began life with ns little regard as possible to friends or the pub- Hie. Inthe evening intimate friends would drop in—music bves eg absent or forbidden —to make an uncertain anoint of noise with tin pans and any other available instruments of torture fitted for making night hideous, until the doors, when opened, disclosed a prepared treat while merry- making in its parsarted forms went on Among the more digniffed sart it was prear- ranged and understood, and ria had the qualities of theirkind. : é Tt took the place of the time- honored wedding breakfast and its successor, the genteel rice and slipper throwing: but. like other sectal customs it had its series of imitations, rough and rude. Tt was the time-honored eharivarl. In its descent it was maintained, in their dialect, aa ahivaree, and often became a boisterous display of roarseness little, if at all, above the dignity of a mob; generally friendly, but sometimes drawing the rowdies of the neighborhood, and ending not infrequently in fights, showing or bexlily injuries, That open, conscious ining of material things in marriage which has become one of the sad- dening features of modern life in old societies was almost wholly abeent: acd yet na belde of eplrit and inde- pendence would howe thought herself entitled to marry unless she could bring to the partner- ship the proper trousseau, significant fn all times, and the supplies of bed and table linen, jams, jellies, pickles, dried fruita and other articles the produce and proof of her skill, She thus stepped out f her parental home equipped, so far as her Tesourcea would permit, to take her place as

nies were performed at the bride's ae Beer: the bead ofa family, Her new life was an expan- home by theaquire or the preacher, coterie sion, often a modest copy of that she was leav- There was no temptation to hove a -Lewe ing. On one day ehe was pureulng her house a church wedding, mainly for the Homes Knit hold funeions tn her mother’s home: next reason that churches were seldom found, sehoolhouses, whieh sto in their stead, never being used for ij

Veoh Weep morning she took up automatically the same duties in fer own. Almost universally ehe was young, becnuse the girl wuomarried at twenty

looked upon herself, ard was disminsed by | as a recruit in the army of oki-muidhoe girl, howewer deficient muay have bern bee judged by modern standards, was a well mine matronly duties as if she werd ten years older, ber © having been an uninterrupted lemon, ff me) be a real women she head already preched thy ; The wedding present had mot yet become a | of extortion of the outward expremie; o mo The useless silver, the impossible books, ware or china, no two pieces akin of af | the cae | each staring the other out of countenaor, ¢ a bride in ragged Hian array, to tax ber + for stermge or her pocket for return payne coming years, What wis meeded sad cou without pressure was bought, mac the sew bo amall and humble, started on its war © either real or invisible, upon its laced w +4 Now and again there was an heirloom 2 of a piece of solid gilwer or fine gan © had successfully made the long jo: a in more settled surroundings, perkape the seas; but in the majority of taocks cles were unknown. If Feoaemeed they eer away somewhere along with the weld the fine blaecle silk dres—the proper, in peesion of every worn, Houses were for tse, not showroom 4 broc, As properity came, and with vived) tastes, the how women, like that a sonality anywhere, wda; new @onditiors, = lx wv | amenities Were copes Period when even aera sels were till plain it en that individual boo have ets shility i mature the oie ture, aca; Cee Genoa woe of Lhe be neces) were the | mie, lar gratific- tastes biding their time. The form of the 24 used throughout all the periods of civilizats: 4 covery—probably about the time that the s- doned his primitive habits—upon howe cel cry of the conservatives of the day wae deshie were made before knives," had littl. The Old, Ofd Servant | REAT progress had been registered whee ol with three tines succesded that with os 7 the fork itself was comparatively an innovat © had, fairly early in his wanderings, g chor matter. If he could not get spoons made o German silver of the day, or @ similar amas his ancestors, he must be content with == | according to the the or place in which be ie It was seldom that, outside an inhberitasc. & or even see a Piece of real pererber, that shoe being of a cheap imitation order, The problem of the domestic servant —i 50)! the help or the hired girl—was almost = eo early times in Massachusetts when vais 22! made to institute a selective draft among |S Virginia and the Southern colonies there r= | from this difficult condition owing to the a tion of slavery, both white and black. But! 4 pioneer came upon the seeme the sentimes <i tude had become strong, while the mocoe tice system which had supplied the bear: 4 gradually came to complete failure owing | material and a broadening human spirit. - to utilize the assistance of aunts, cousins, 22 relatives, who were often relieved fram toes 4 fate by the demand for wives, accentuate » -| disparity between the sexes, There was no fixed class from which eo }/ drawn. The element that furnished the hice: 9 men waa notavailable, It was all very = ‘° 1 go into any other man's field, but for the © = order to enter somebody's kitchen waa t* 4 often she could scareely be induced to w= | The inducements offered in wages were = «| = ot het hash . —— a

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 23 fen the earlier phases of settlement being abut week with board, Tt must, however, be borne tat at this time a man worked for from four to filty to seventy-five cintsa—a day and found othe poor housewife fared on as best she could, thout ceoadag with erode tools, under many dis- nts, and showing a cheerfulness garnished by her duty and her belief, accordant with that of ber vd her the, that ahe waa one of the heralda of ‘or humanity. g with social conditions aight must mot be lost that attention fs centered upon the various ements of which it is composed. Generally must deal with the best, because it is only nm that constructive features can Ie found. anders: all others followers or imitators, This problem did not concern the two lower classes; t knew ner could deal with what, if available rank luxury. The same conclusion applies to ‘living. The only general consideration is the ed for work: even here there are differences of going about it and in the results attained. Housekeeping Facilities ‘ER mechanical sid might be available was land well cared for and made to last as long aa il, following the traditions of the American, eded by some improved article which was g or made work easier, The accusation that eer mith availed hinmwell af improved facilities oris a base libel. Nebody could look out upon wider open for any possible help than did the neer woman, Wher the cookebove succeeded h oven and other archaic devices, a step in rresa had been taken that made it necessary time for any decided iraprovement in dormes- » Tt earned with it attachments for baking, ag, frying, and heating water, which, by en- carry of many operations simultaneously, tpanded her working power. Additions were de, so that it required no long period greatly equipment. In this, as in other matters, the ath independent and progressive, She soon county fair, or often even in the stock emr- nterpraing storekeeper, the improved arti- © making she had familiarized herself in the ech paper or the widely read weekly from city". Money, scarce though it was, could | for any- peed labor iz. Iman oF ae, he was seldom iticlined to meddle ion Management: he had his own pan belies and responsibilities. Besides, ima terested in his wife as a holper to pro m3 thing that enabled her to do more work for the woman, she did not have to ask jiities, because if the means could not be j= exrelinary budget there were plenty of in- qe asing iE when the return in health and a see assured and obvious, foe grements in a ploneer house would not ter in thew diaya al tenement-houge in =e forms of interferences with individual nmilies of ten or twelve would live, cook, iri a single room of maderate size. Such tepek ed seldom continue after the firet year ©. we hen a4 shed or lean-to would be built a * caroking and laundry purpeses, Natu y 372 ars the Prosperous man would live tn qassess? expanding in aize. In the extreme gee: was also relief when the larger boys made dormitories of hay- mows. The beds were of the old-fashioned feather vari- ety, the material being slawly gathered from the home-bred flocks of ducka and geese or fram the wild fowl that fell as victims to the man's gun, great care being taken to sep- arabe, for wae in pillows, the down from the feathers. These articles were a source af great pride in the howse- wife, and it was a sign of low caste if chicken feathers were 4" aad. The beta were wide, «| generally one old-fashioned four-poster in the main neem belng capable of accommo dating, in addition to the father and mother, ane,some- times two or three, af the amaller children. Under- neath would beshifted during the day, to be withdrawn at night, the inevitable trundle bed, 2 epee aair flexible ws to accommodations, The cradle was generally full, while the elder children would be in # gar- ret with sufficient openings to utilize the heat from the great fireplace. Blankets were dear and scarce, their place being taken by quilta To the male mind the making of such 1 i, a bed was always among the insoluble . mysteries af Wife, When the howe ex- - panded into one of several rooms, the A: = parlor, which was a sort of holy of a bel belies, suid the beet bel room, & pom poe : looking structure, combined to atbest Be the universal hospitality of the time. r ‘hen company did actually come this latterroam was duly ained ; otherwise it remained there unused, in the minds of the children a thing of awe, an exciter of wonder about ita mission in the world. The methods of living, ao faras food and itaprepa- ration were coneerned — mot only so far as these related to the pioneer, but all alang the line of our eclonial and general de- velopment—have been subject to much misrep- resentation during recent years, chiefly due to the ignorance ofthe deliberate misrepresentation of the 7 sehaatlonal qevelist of a bebe day, These writers, dealing with the part of the population far below the average in prosperity, outlook and social standing, have carried the impression that the living waa limited mainly to ealt pork, the most indigestible of saleratus biscuit, made from cast-off garments, the worst of coffee or tea, the coarsest these bedcoverings being the of sugar and salt, and eweeta beneath fruit of many a jolly quilting The Piosser Woman Was Vet Daveld Either contempt. In other words, the pioneer bee, These were supple of Tarte or the Dealer te Adorn Nerecty has been put down as a lank, half- mented with heavy comfort- era and sometimes with coverlets in some fancy pattern. Only a single sheet was used, and if a blanket chanced to be a fortunate possession it was placed immediately over the body, [ta warmth being welcome. When hot weather came the feather beds were retired to packing boxes in the barn and their places were taken by separate bedticks Med with the choieest of cat straw taken from a special stack carefully preserved for this purpose, Often the straw bed took on the character of a mattress, and with the surmountlig feather mountain, re- tirement for the night sugaeetend an ulhlete's leaya or a ladder as a means of approach, The modern mattress was unknown, While the stringing of a bedeord ao that it would have beth solidity and flexitility when the beds were placed upon it was almost entitled to rank aa a work of art, a atrong and skified neighbor often being called in ws an abd. futh a Chl Bee come aa interdoted fpectator Long Before lt Was Faiely Gut of ite Firat Order of Clothes starved human being, the dweller in a Vast outdoor slum. Of course, the writers or travelers wha prompted this idea little knew the lavishness, verging upon waste and extravagance; the nervous care devoted by the housewife to cooking; the regard for wholesomeness; the knowledge of dainties; or the amount and variety of food that day by day loaded the table in an average family of industry with its resulting prosperity. Food the Prime Necessity WPTSIDE the tests fined by churacter—thoee that creled round the coveted position incident to good citizenship— thefiret question asked about a husband was, “Is he a good provider? and ubowt a wile, “Isshea good cook?" These reflected, with accuracy, the standards of the community. In the provision of food the firet concern of the pioneer was bo make sure that it could be obtained, On the way through the wilderness the prudent mover would not settle ina place of remote that it did not afford a sup- ply of fresh meat. If at first he had to rely upon his faithful rife be would only live within the areas where deer, wild turkey, wild geese and ducka, prairle chick- ens, quail, squirrels and rabblts were found in suficent numbers to afford him an assured reward without hav- ing to range over so wide an area that he could not feet the wanta of bis familly eithaout undue loss of time fram hia regular work. He did not hunt merely for sport—in this reapect he was still the primitive rian. Nor did he hunt in companies — the game he hed to get was too wary for thia—hence the contemptuous proverb, applied ta all the operations af life, abowt hunting ducks with a orass band. Naturally a modern bat- tue—in which game is shot to satisly an instinet for killing, or for associe- tion with fellows, or for vanity and show— Was Unknown. The pioneers hunting was as much a pert of the business of life as plant- ing of grinding corn or milking a cow or raising hee or enttle, The true frontiersman waa not much of a fisherman, and when he ihebulged in it he fished as he bates] — for use, not for recreation. The streame that he crossed or along whleh he lived were not generally remarkable either for the quantity or the quality of the fiony life they contained; besides, fishing was altogether too slow a thing: for hirn to follow. Tt did not yield an adequate return in the way of food to justify the expenditure (Continwed on Page 54)

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FOUNDED A°D! 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE S0UARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANTA, U.S.A. GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR Five Cech the Copy From AQ) Meedeelers, By Subscriptions “To che Unieed Santee ae Possessiona, Bolivia, Golnmbla, Cobs, Coem Tira, Beminian Republic, Gcusdor, Hondurss, Meslo>. Nicarsgue, Salvador, Paneme sod Por, 18 the Year, Beil be 0. 8, Money Ondev, Esper Maaey Order, Cheek ot by Dead, paqrable ln 0, 5. Funda, To Conde =—By Setberripcion, HM Ge Yeu, Slogle Copies, Tom Gene — Canddian of 1), & Fonda, Other Forel gn: Goonies be the Pow Unies: Sobecripeions, 4M thee Your. Remittances 6 be by erat on @ hee be the 0. 5., peyeble in O. 8. food PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 10, 1932

Our Runaway River XMAMINATION of the conditions that made possible the recent devastating flomis that took heavy toll io life and property the length of the Mississippi Basin, from Cairo to the Delta country, affords a9 clear a case of cause and effect aa is often to be found. The wonder is not that thousands of square miles of fertile territory, epotted with densely populated towns, were at the merey of the runaway river, but that men ehould have ever closed their eyes to the obvious fact that the recurrence of such dis- asters Is inevitable as long as water runs'doewnkil] and causative factors remain unchanged, fs a conspiracy of malevolent engineering experts had been formed forty years ago for the express purposs of so treating the Mississippi Valley as to make recurrent flood and disaster a moral certainty the conspirators could have senreely brought about a set of conditions more favorable to their project than that which now exists, The surest known way to produce floods is to see that all rainfall runs downhill over steep surfaces without hay- ing an opportunity to sink inte the soil. This is most effec- tively accomplished by cutting down ovory hillside forest and removing all porous forest carpet, euch aa moss, mold and decayed leafage, that might check or absorb the smallest trickles of rainfall, Flood every rill and runnel with the rains of spring, and the creeks and rivers will take care af themselves. This is just what bas been done—not through the plotting of foreign enemies, but by honest, ball-playing Americana whose hands are never raised againat. their native land except when they go into a forest with an ax or commit themselves to the feeding of a pet sawmill, Eventually they learn the evila of reckless deforestation, but not until their timber has become joists and shingles or sad, smoking mins. Downstream in the Mississippi Delta country there are these whe appear to entertain the theory that the way to prevent a boiler explosion is to clamp down the safety valve as they did in the paleny days of river racing; for acting by analogy they have closed the river's natural outlets to the sea Without creating artificial ovtlets to relieve the nesult- ing strain, The consequences are precisely what might have heen expected. Flood, like taxation, is most effectively controlled at [ba source, Plow furrows in Wiseonsin or Missouri can hold back tiny streams which, if allowed to march down into Louisiana, gathering retnforcements at every bend in the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Fiver, would form a terrent that the stoutest levee cannot withstand, Levees are all very well aa far as they go and aa long as they stay; but when the big river is on the rampage man-made walla are as futile os he who would bind behemoth with a hank of baby ribbon, Inasmuch as the broad valley of the Mississippi yields nearly ninety per cent of the iron, eoal, food and cotton produced in the United States, it would seem aa if economic as well a5 humanitarian considerations dictated the imme- dinte study and the early solution—in practice, and net on paper only—of the very vital problem here presented. President Harding has already expressed lively interest in the definite and clean-cut remedial program propoed by the experts of the New Orleans Association of Com- merece. In addition to a more adequate aystem of leween and controlled outlets below the Hed River, thease propoe- als outline a comprehensive system of source-stream. ron- trol, The simplest recommendation Is that of general contour plowing—that is to say, plowing hillsides round and round, so each furrow will be o miniature dam that will held back the thin trickle of water until it can sink into the ground. Reforestation on a large scale, by eor- recting in part the blunders of the past and by restoring natural conditions, would reduce the strain upon protective engineering work. Diversion dame in the Upper Missouri and works in the Ohio and Its tributaries, such aa those reported by the Pittsburgh Flood Control Committee, for retarding and avernging the run-off, would prove of in- culeulable benefit; and great basing for the retention of excess flood waters would proportionably take the stress from protective works below, There is no mystery about the methods to be employed. The questions are: Will Congress take the matter in hand and authorize the necessary work and expenditure? Will it initiate a well-considered comprehensive engineering project, or will its appropriations be parceled out to moet political exigencies? We have long vaunted ourselves that the East and the Middle West are finished country; that they have all the Failway facilities they need, that their streama have been bridged, that their roads are good and transportation is gentrally eaay: but the boast will not ring trae wntil the Mizsissippi drainage system has been put in its place with valid assurance that, except for minor outbreaks, it will atay there for all time. Substitutes for Men 1 A PITH the death afew months agoat theage of seventy- eight of a modest and self-effacing but brilliant and fearless journalist, the newspapers with which he had beon sseociated pointed out how the eventual downfall of the corrupt Tweed Ring in New York City politics had beon largely due to this ome man's masterly handling of the opening assault a full half century before. Onkby a few weeks later Dr, Charles H. Parkhurst, the clergyman whose crusading efforta did so much to defeat another corrupt political ring a generation later, reached his eightieth birthday. In speaking of the crime wove which has disturbed the metropolis for several years he said: "Tt is true that be’—the police commissioner—" has summoned to his abd an enormeus multiplicity and variety of instrumentalities, but we ought to be discriminating enough to understand that the power of an executive does net pestle in the machinery that he sets in operation but resides in the man’s own interior geniua of command—as when the Almighty said "Lot there be light, and there was light," That ft executive power. All else le the simulathon of power, and so evidently counterfeit a5 to be ineffective. "T learned that lesson twenty-five years ago in my treo years’ conillet with the Tammany superintendent of police, Thomas Byrnes. Lf he wanted a thing done he said “Let it be done’; if he wanted every rum shop and disorderly leneet in the elty te suspend operations he simply said ‘Close up"; and they were all closed up and remained ag till he snid ‘Open up." Every now and then we are told by someone whose Poaitivences is equaled only hy his lack of historical per. spective that all the old-time leaders have gone and mass of group action is the dominant foree of the day. fume "The great editors, preachers, lrusiness met aie have pasaed away,” says one exponent of the vs "We don't think of Rockefeller in od o@ of Cr steel, We just think of great compracsie: and mo But common everyday experience peowes the statement is untrue. Just because promines: 4 industry or reform of journaliem are pamey | eighty or thereabouts, why necesmarily jomp p Clusion that the work of the world ts bring rare! only by compantes, syndicates, masses and pos old conspicuous leaders are always pacing vi. are in process of development. "The imyportans of and the group ia net belittled merely bere » pices of work, no real achievement ia posmibl ©: devoted effort of one man or a few individak Victory over one or more of the world's mr has been achieved largely through the effora ¢ liberally endowed foundation for medical reer we nscribe this to the foundation itself, to the et massive institutionglism? Tommyrot! AD the = given by a single individual who happened c's in an important industry, and the aectual wor, ing and combating the causes of disemae has be handful of scientific specialists, a dogen at te - Does any city clean up ite crime, does acr o: clear away its calendar, does any Fedew & make a record, does any state charitable fer stantially reduce the sum of human misery, don drive out commercial frands or financial) pred a few individuals or more commonly a lore exercises real power and works for a dedred esc of his own comfort and leisure? Por that ssc= banker lend freely to a corporation, des ay group believe in aatock or bond, unless thes 5) and trust in both the integrity and the abi; group of executives or even of a single execs Whenever a busines enterprise falla opor « and thousands of them have in the lest year © one attempts to diagnose the trouble or pree—> without first making sure whether theese is a= honest and able or dishonest and incaps>'« writer and lecturer who says that the great ls passed away would not think of investing ks in an enterprise whose executives he positive’) without qualities of leadership. Onky a mens would dream of deliberately intrusting moor known to be totally devoid of such qualities. It has long been sald that if you want to peta go to someone who is already very busy. Wi in every town and village a comparatively ma people serve on nearky all the committee: = burden of civic work? In a town where thee’ childless married women with ample means. 9 ants and good health, a few busy mothers off dren, in none too good health, with rebatively? and only part of the time of one maid, are come to undertake various forms of work for the se Why? Because everyone knows they have ‘ qualities and capacities, If leadership is a thing of the past the cot indeed. But the evidence is strangely tan labor unions, where group action is mar: utmost, have their leaders, and very able. = conspicuous they often are, Indeed berk & and England « fow labor leaders hawe ber recent yeara of running the country, of veto government itself, of forming a supesgove— ist parties have their leaders, men whe <2! heard, and even in that paradise of probes ship, in that Mecca of the downtre<ddien there setm te be a number of astute leadera—Lenine, Trotaky, Tchiteherin, Kiseed Human leadership is an inheritance of the to the possession of superior qualities, or af standing qualities; and thoer qualities in in some men and net in others becatmee of af evolution through untold ages. new forms, but the thing iteelf nature of man. One might as well tole tions doing away with hunger and with kere.

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LNG a recent visit in Americn | vag frequently faced with the vation: “Are conditions as bad eand the other Scandinavian countries a3 in AmericaT’’ Both in the Ewstern States e Middle West the business men were anx- wortied, They wanted me te tell them in rhe peried ef depression aflected the coun- thern Europe and what means were being giin a secure hhalance In natlonal affairs, at Americans generally appreciated the fact est of the world was suffering, but T think 1 the belief that America was burdened ‘ily than the countries across the Atlantic. wv unwise to make a sweeping statement ul Northern Europe, but I am sure that on the Scandinavian peninsula have been hard as Americans, Tt has been a terrible aevery Viewpoint—the worst in a quarter ¥. culties In Sweden and her neighboring na- been very similar to those in the United th the wave of depression came unparal- cement of labor, each month witnessing ca in the number of unemployed. The rouned under thelr burdens and bitterly wir governments, Arctic winds brought eratures than had been recorded since roze the lines of water traffic ao solidly ig remained paralyzed for over a month. eof influenza raged over Sweden and da host of minor ailments affecting the d their share of torment. Such was the general terms. It was a gloomy picture, 2 Inspection there could be seen high ight apots. An optimist would etreas the » MES IN SC By IRA NELSON MORRIS ough the adversity of the present will evolve erstanding of the problems that have apgra- 2 and governments for years, while in a broader t bond of sympathy will be drawn betwoon hrough their mutual suffering. Relief Measures he greatest problem of the period of depres- leandinavia was thot presented by the huge employed. In the summer of 1921 the vari- e affected by hard lischarging employes, : concerns in the cities tafis to theminimum, ae winter get in there en over 0,000 job- nark 64,000 and in y 50,000. These fig- rapidly through the and during January of unemployed in to about 160,000, a to the population, 7,000,000, made the work less very heavy. @ unemployed num- re about 100,000 out ilation of 2,000,000, the figures reached a population of judging the extent yorerit, however, it — weimd that the fig- onlay those wage out of jobs. In » hawe dependents. | exam ple, it bs emtl- L__ ,0oO0O0 unemployed | Minister to Sweden The French Jivamer Rodfere Encounteriag Bifftculiesr Wik the ice in the Seond have others to support, in moet cases bwo dependents, making a number of people suffering through the closing af factories or the reduction of staffs close upon 900,000, To help the workmen during the period of depression the Swedish Government decided to appropriate a large sum annually, to be doled out in allotments to the jobless. This appropriation amounted to an equivalent in Swedish money of about £127,000,000 last year, ond an appropria- tion twice as heavy is asked for the forthcoming twelve months. Whether this method of dealing with uwnemploy- ment is benefictal for all concerned is a matter of much foedicht Tee Breaker Mo. FF Arriciag te Aatiet Toe Soedos Sreamers Caught tn foe for Four Weeks THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 25 debate. It is complicated by many db- putes over the individual payments and the status of men employed upon tempo- rary work conducted by the state and municipall- thes, as well aa the right of workmen locked out by their employers to be classed as unemployed. Proof af the worth of unemployed allotments by the state will develop only after industry has recovered and it is possible to observe the effects upon labor gener- ally. The heavy approperlation required for the al- lotrmenta was one of the burdens shouldered by the taxpayers, whose complaints against the measure are aa strong as those of the American taxpayers agalnst the multitude of their difficulties. During January of this year the Swedish Government paid out a sum equal te $1,350, to the unemployed, with no hope that the drain on the treasury could be lowered dur- ing the ensulng months, Conditions in Denmark LTHOUGH the taxpayers complain, at the same time they feel a deep sympathy for their less fortunate fellows and they express that sympathy in many practical experiments for the benefit of those who are involuntarily idle. Schools for the unem- ployed were opened in Steckholm shortly after the first of the year and at the first session, held in a theater donated for the purpost, over S00 were on rolled for the term, The courses covered technical training in a dozen different trades, lectures on art, musle, Ilterature, economics, and classes in lan- guages. Noted professors, actora, musicians and lenders in various industries gave their time free for the benefit af the workmen enrolled in the schools, To each member of the school for unemployed a ticket ras issued entitling the holder to a free meal. The plan waa adepted in other cities and will continue as long as the number of unemployed makes the venture worth while, In Denmark the unemployment situation has been greatly aggravated by a fierce contest between the power- fulemployers'soriety and the labor unions.. Employers were faced with two problema, just aa employers were in Eng- land and America: First, thoy determined to reduce wages; and secend, te inerease output through the extension of working hours. In their proposals for wage reduction the Danish employers announced their intention of heavily lowering all wage acales, and simultanecualy de- manded a relaxation of the eight- hoursday law. To enforee their terma they instituted a lockout, thereby adding to the already large number of unemployed menrly i0,- OM others who might have con- tinued, af least on part-time work. The result of this ight is unknown as this article is being written, but regardless of which side comes off with the victory, the eflecta will be hard on both. The lockout has already cost Denmark $10,000,000 according to the estimates of the offictals, while the keen competition from neighboring countries, expe. cially Germany, which the Danish employers seek to overcome, grows apace. Scandinavian shipping has been dealt blow after blow byt trade con- ditions, by the elements and by the rapid decline in freight rates. All Inst summer the Swedish, Danish (Contigged on Page @f}

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FF. E TRA IL—By Nina Wilcox Putnam N ANOTHER year or so they are going to need traffic copa on the Santa Fé Trail all the way from Broadway and Forty- second Street to San Ber- narding, California. Amd it is for the benefit of those whe want to join the crowd that this article is written. Having made the trip my- self and suffered upon it from lack of certain knowl: edge, it occurred to me that perhapa a lot of folks who contemplated motoring seroes this trail might like a little practical dope on the trip. Se here you are Tear this out and stick it in your wallet. You can de- pend upon its being the real thing. To begin with, it is pos sible to eros the continent by motor at any time of the year, but it is not probable. Take it all in all, the beat bet for general good weather and good road conditions is from the firat of June to the first of September, I wouldn't, however, advise making the atart from the East after September first, as on the Lincoln Highway anow would very likely be encountered on the Con- tinental Divideand through the Rockies. Aa for the time it takes, George—that" 8 Imy hishand—and I drove across in eighteen days, actual driving time, without any night driving at all, taking our way in Jeigurely fashion and seeing everything as we wernt, In talking to prospective motorists about the transcon- tinental journey I find that two principal terrora loom largely in their minds—to wit: Crossing the desert, and the fear of not being able te get adequate supplies for the motor and for their living. Both of theee feara are chi- meras. There ie a gascline atation every seventy-five miles all the way across the desert, and other supplies may be purchased anywhere along the route. There is no Sahara stulf about it, except that which ia derived from the Eighteenth Amendment. Oner sou have made up your mind to go, the question that follows in natural sequence is, Which way? There are Ho lesa than six main roads fram coost to comst, and the first thing to do is to obtain a good rond map and look it over carefully. A good one is the Transcontinental Map of Main Traveled Roads teued by the American Aute mobile Association, which may be secured from their national headquarters, Riggs Building, Washington, D. C., of their New York office, 601 Fifth Avenue. This is not only a clear and well-arranged map but has a great deal of valuable detailed information printed on the back, In the Far West good maps are te be got through the Auto mobile Club of Southern California, Figueroa and Pico Streets, Los Angeles, California, FROTS, 7 COUSTORY ie The Route Fram Coast toe Coast VERY trail is werth taking of course, but the route offered for your present approval isa good one fora first transcontinental journey. Here is the itinerary, Read it aver, ahd then look at your map, and you will see why it is so gone, New York to Unease Maryland. Baltimore to Wheellng, Weet Virginia, Wheellng to Columbus, Ohio. Calumbus ta Indianapolis, Indinna. Indianapolis to Terre Haute, Indiana, Toute to St. Lovie, Misequri, St. Louwia ta Columbio, Misscauri, Calumbia to Kansas City, Kansas, Kanana City to Punch inate. ra Lap decrt to Syraciae, K. tera ta Trinidaut, Colorada. , inidad to Las Vegas, New Mexican, Tas Voges to Albuquerque, New Mesten, Allwqiergue to Magdalena, New Mexico, TH aT PO i ae aT:

Gutloek From the "FAlie Nour" Clif Dealhlag in Conessa de Chelly, Kear Cafiop, few Weeice alena to Springerville, Arizona, g spriny rville gall Arizona. t to the Grand Cation, Grand Cafion to Seligman, Arizona. Seligman to Needles, Colifornia, Needles to Barstow, Colifornio. Barstow bo Riverside, California. These are comfortable jumps, that any average driver can make, and are based primarily on the fact that excel- lent hotel accommodations tan be secured in all the places mentioned, I especially recommend the Santa Fé route for ite in- finite variety, Beginning with the charming Southern city of Baltimore you will next in order come upon the quaint little town of Frederick, which looks exactly as though it had been plucked bodily out of a eet fora Civil War motion picture, It's all you want and expect a amall Southern town to look like, and then some. Next you get a good glimpse of the Western Pennaylvania coal flelda and min- ing towns of which you read in the newspapers whenever there is a big rumpus going on in the coal industry. Leaving this behind you will come into Wheeling, West Virginia, a charming city, alive, yet with a touch of quaint- ness, too, and from there to Columbus, (hic, This is agricultural country, and ao much of a muchness as there is of it! From there you go to Indianapolis, During the rainy sexson—or any other season for that matter—it is quite possible that you will find mud in this district, but there is always a way to get through, Carnfields in Ohio, Indiana and [linots are not meas- ured by the acre but by the mile, and the growth not by the foot but by the yard. One passes literally through forest of corn and, [ might say, shoals of pigs, There is a richness about this entire stretch of territory that is enheartening ta the Essterner, to whom bugaboo of Bolshevism and labor conditions are constantly presented. From Indianapolis you come into St. Louis over the Mis- sissippi bottoma, a fertile flat land which in September is a blaze of golden bloom, St, Louls is a true city in the sense in whith we know the word in the East, The rest of Missouri is interesting chiefly because here begins a suc- ceszion of beautiful litedle cithes which are, ao far oz 1] know, unique and which continue from St. Louis through and bevend Kansas City to La Junta, The next stop is Kansas City, which truly calls itself The Gateway to the West. Almost imperceptibly the whole journey fas so far been leading up to the great change from the Eps Wert, but bee = though the eurtar taj denly been Hie os Fuay btw! You leave Bees: 0 Hutehinese a prema endure enormes en ol fist country fon wheat and sotsy wheat, but a a me fact Eanaaa is ze | Most Varied stute Unban, and ore c! th scenieally dvama'r Trinidad rena pq from this place ce the Flaten Pua oa Rooekies, a decree oo on¢ to moma | over extracricact Planned pain re | safe toad. Gere that are like somes Rave dreamed abot Ales, wack that | have to ay da Velous & couSST 4 Mexico, bat if w <4 that the road ‘sn much to be desina! ig = great geal 1 ach over the oo substance wht = 4 State & hard & is the leet, and thee an intersticg aa to cross wn exiret | cone heaped wc! bowlders, it ia not good motoring. But & = ws trouble to reach the eity af Santa Fé There is situated one of the most interesticg ml tant institutions in the country—to wit; Tee lor American Archeological Research, housed & } that are perfect reproductions of old Span wt structures. The original Spanish governors preserved in character, From Janata Fe to Albuguerspit Ase the finest of the prehistoric ruins 20 de los Frijoles are easily accessible from the 4 tremendously well worth seeing, even though =) = nary to stay over an extra might in order & excellent road leads right to the edge of the on elif at the bottem of which a prehistorme comes lie, and to sve this at sunset ia te find gadd=ly feet the civilization of a bygone age, revel! magic, in all its strange beauty. The town of Santa Fé is itself remarkably bac picturesque, replete with old churches and wile One is reluctant to leave it. I note with interest that none of the big road © tion the La Bajada grade. But believe me =) haa once been over it is likely te mention it—cm Tt consists of a series of sharp turns, and i 5 shoot-the-chutes at Coney Island you will be = In Santa Fé they told me it had originally be trail used by the Indians and Spanish os far bel and all | can say is that it sure was some =="! made the grade, The drive from Santa Fé to Alboquerges 0! Prosperous town, is a dramatic one, good fe 27 but in the event of 2 cloudburst in the sometimes impassable. I have known of com between washes for twenty-four hours at to go either back or forwards. In Albuquerque one must decide which mex Holbrook, Arizona, and to de so is an thing. If your time is somewhat limite! road isin good condition I would suggest a aa it makes the Laguns Indian PFiuserrsien accessible, and there are no Indian village trail. Los Lunas is the turning polat make one's final decision. As a matter of are interesting, although, all things candder € (CHtitucd om Pape 2A

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THE SATURDAY EVENING She's a dandy how: Se I anid, care ger For she's a Campbell's housekeeper And has her soup just oo. “—and they lived long and happily ever after.” Let Campbell's Soups help. Every taste of them puts an extra sparkle in your me —they're so delicious and nourishing and tempting. Go to your grocer today and select an attractive Campbell’ assortment, including your favorite soups and several “new” kinds for variety. Then see how much more everybody enjoys their food. Campbell’s Tomato Soup is the favorite of millions—the best-liked soup in the world. Taste it and you'll know why! [Luscious sun-sweetened tomatoes—aristocrats of the vines—give to it their pure tonic juices, enriched with smooth, golden table butter and the most delicate of piquant spicing. A bright spot in any meal! 21 kinds 12 cents a can Leper pee f ate eet THE GREAT BREAKFAST FOOD—GOOD HOT SOUP POST 27 Delightful variety in Campbell's Soups Asparagus Mulligatawny 7 Bean Muti Beef Ohr-itail Bouillon ; Pepper Pot Chicken Prntanier Chicken Gumbo {Okra} Tomato Conasomme Tomatolkra uliercue: Vegetable pale Turtle Vegetable-Beel Yermicelli-Tomato Your grocer can supply any of these soups

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28 (Centinued fram Poge 78} route is perhaps more picturesque. On the southern route the Datil Forest offera a relief from the desert country and is extremely beautiful in a friendly and more intimate manner, and one rides for hours through great cathedral-like columns of fox-tail pines, an uncommonly atraight tree with red hark and dark green needles. This route is unquestionably cooler than the other. From either Winslow or Gallup it is possible to go out inte the Hopi Reservation. On the map you will find a large square marked Maqui Reservation. According to the inhab- itants themselves this is incorrectly named, as Moqui means Dead Indians and they like to call themselves the Happy People, which ia translated Inta Hopi, The surrounding country is the real Had Lands, full of color and Pictureaque, ‘The Hopi villages on the three mesas are really primitive and unapoiled ws yet by tourist travel, and can be reached only in good weather, as there is, properly speaking, no road out to them, but only a trail leading through the sagebrush. It is inadvisable to attempt this trip without a guide, but perfectly safe if you take help along. It ia necessary to camp overnight at Oraibi or Walpi, for there are no hotels or accommodations of any kind, Mot Like the Sahara ‘Ts road from Winslow to Flagstaff is through a moun- tuinous pinsclad country, and both roads up to the Grand Cafion are passable but not good, having sand in many Places, but no very bad grades. But from Williama to Needles, California, is perhaps the moet difficult part of the trip, for the roads are undeniably poor and it is desert country. Kingman is the only large town en route, It is one of the biggest mining centers in America and is the focusing point of all the mining interesta for hundreds af miles around. This is gold country, ellver country, and one af the principal districts fram which capper, zine and our seml-precigus stones come, California is going to be like, for there are palm trees in the square and the eolor in hag been heretofore. There are tw ways toreachitirom Kingman. One wkali desert, through Yuecs and Topock, And the other is by way mountains over very bad ronda and dangerous grades, but pass- settlements that bear ull the earmarks of a gold boom town in ally careful driving i ceriain)y necessary hereabouts, for the rowrls a long and usi- ally muddy land approaching fi the Colorada be ferried on this route, The other crosses the alkali streteh, ff much proach to Needles is over a bridge. | Needles the real desert, the part of most petople fear, is still before one, the work of that tstonishing organ- mobile Club of Southern Calis attempted to lay a hard read over ert. In point of fuet it has actually Bucceeding at times indifferently wading through heavy sand for a ately out of Nee — djles one comes Needles gives one the first glimpse of what the mountains is more intense than it is across a rather bad stretch of of Goldroad, directly through the ing through several real mining a moving picture. Exception- are full of blind turns and there is stretch of bottom- River, which must route, which longer, but the ap- When ome reaches the trip which Tut here begina ization, the Auto fornia, which has the face of the des- done so, though | well, and after few miles immedi- Pugtlo Jadiang, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST upon this paved boulevard in the middle of nowhere. It is an unexpected sight that ralaes one’s hopes unduly, for the character of the ground is such as to make a perma- nent road little ahort of impossible. Nevertheless, their attempt has resulted in good stretches, although the fre- quent sandstorma have completely buried it in places. Very likely even sa I write this condition has undergone a tremendous improvement, but it is true that the terrors of crossing the desert have been greatly alleviated by the work of the club and you can now drive and still look at something besides the wheel and the road immediately ahead of you. You mustn't expect the desert to be like the Sahara, because it's not. There is growth of one Kind of another on every bit of the stretch aeross which the road passes, except that one piece of alkali country between Kingman and Needles. It is mountainous country, instead of being flat as one naturally presupposes, and oceasionally enor- mous dead volcanic cones appear upon the horizon. Some people fear the desert, and some, having crossed it, dislike itatill, but to me ft seems almost the only part of America where man has not yet interfered with God and where your soul can get out and stretch to its fullest extent. If you can see nething else upen the dewert be eure you train yourself to perceive its shifting color and the weird tricks the light plays. More than this I cannet say. Df you can't see what i there I can't tell you about it; it is one of those things that everyone must find for himself. From Daggett to Barstow the road is difficult; sandy, rough and high erowned: ond from Horatow to the head of the San Bernardino Pass is aleo poor, the roadbed being boo —Janciearls, the Lourdes of Neo Mexico Jane 3,9 of loose gravel, and the grades stil. Bot at the! ¢ past the miracle of the California med tena iy very summit, sharply divided from th =» - though a knife had cut the black tar rhbon of ung the paving starts, and from there on inte Sa: Bee, and thereafter, the beauty of the roads and thy +e the scenery both exceed the Eamer moire: oy dream of perfection, The first question which comes raturally to oy mind in connection with going anywhere pW: wear? And it's the truth that the choice of coches transcontinental motor trip is @ good deal of » query To begin with, one wants to be thorougth mole through the day, have a change for the every if one intends to stop at hotels, mand plenty ol lovey ing of the difficulty of getting owernight laced; dos against these necessities atancds the ever greater cami for making your baggage as small in quantity = o@ An overburdened car heaped with bag wi «iq blanket rolls, and go on, in addition ta the necese7) appliances for the car itself, is enough to deny pleasure of the trip—that is, if anything co: bom WaAat Fomen JAould Weer AST of the Mississippi George and I found «oad bo wear just such motor clothes as we would cag home. But we both made one sericus mecuc—j We started out in dark clothing. Believe ss, be gone very far we found that what you want sé clothes, West of the Mississippi khaki for al § comes positively de rigueur, Ader we lel put on a pair of riding troweers, and ob, the pap T need not sing their praises to any female them, but for the encouragement of those whe allow me to insist and reiherube that thing to wear in thorough comict Hockies, Evervone from anappiest chicken in the that you pass weurs ‘em, [Ds of going without a pair. F ment store that boa goods department nov and knickers of khax well as for men, and 2 remaricably remsorabie chasabbe for as little w ond believe me ther hundred dollars’ = fort and eas | ladies, that yoo a the best hotels thaw Wiest in the afore without the alighted ment, and the cerk © emiile after your back #

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST _—— Long-Proven Value Now Breaking All Hupmobile Sales Records The story of the Hupmobile business since the frst of the year is an inspiration. In all the 14 years of our history, there has been no such succession of shattered records. WNever has the factory been called upon to meet such a tremendous jemand for its product. n January the increase in sales began Imeost witha rush. That month was the ‘reatest January on our books. April Outstrips All Previous Records ike a huge snowball, sales have kept on alling up and up. February showed a 9 Per cent increase over January, and ve Mlarch business leaped ahead so far vat it made the first quarter our largest y all odds. hen came April with 3806 cars shipped, (us outstripping all of these 192? records, Jl AUNLSUL AU EAPAVVOUESUOAG GAP ET ATE ARATE STA and registering an increase of 180 per cent over the first four months of 1921. May orders in hand as this goes to press indicate still another record-breaker in the greatest year the Hupmobile has ever known. The inference to be drawn from these facts is perfectly plain. It is the Hupmo- bile that people want, now that buying has settled down toa basis of real dollar-value. They want it because for 14 years it has been known as an exceptionally good car, Because today itis proving its greater value by what it is and what it is doing every day for its owners. In economy, the Hupmobile stands al- most alone. Records carefully kept by business houges which operate fleets of cars show its upkeep and running costs below those of cara whose chief appeal is price. In performance, it is known everywhere as the remarkable equal of cars which cost a great deal more and are therefore expected to do a great deal more. New Buyers by Scores and Hundreds The higher prices which the used-car markets put upon used Hupmobiles— when they can get them—indicate the preference of their buyers, and the higher . value everyone concedes to this car. All of these things, which are known to other owners almost aa well as to Hup- mobile owners, are working together to attract new buyers by the scores and hundreds, and to make this year the greatest our history has ever recorded, Touring Car, ERO; Foedater, FRO; Roadater-(ouph, #r pid; Cousr. #9niy Sedan, #9823, Cord Fire on all moxivls Prices Fo 0. BL Deb red — eer Por Etro Hupp Motor Car Corporation Detrolt, Michigan Hu ile NEO CENENACOOAATAMOELALOVOU ORC ADOTEUENTE AVEDA AEOOAOAVENUY NEUEN EOL AT EU TAA ON ENON ONENOST SVE TEMPE ONEN PE ATEOEO PAPE AYO ONE RLOUAV GHOST OHEN TAVERN ENA TAN GOVT COUAT AGEN UOT GAES EET AN ONES EUOU ANN etna

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Bae THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Continued from Page 28) protects the back of the neck. [t is easily folded away into a small rubber envelope, which comes with the set. These are much cheaper than the ordinary raincoat and if you are driving an open ear you will probably find more use for this outfit than for any other one item of your wardrobe, even though you should have very little rainy weather, ns ee are light in welght, windproof and of course dust- proof. * So many women have aaked me what clothes I took upon the big hike that Tam moved to give a list herewith: i Gray-brown-mizture tweed Ault. 1 Medium-wei af topenat, 1 Pair low-heelod oxford tira, 6 aie ot asin tailored ahirt 1 Silk. re i. if erred craps dress, high ni iE 1 Khaki-colored flannel shirt, boy's model, 1 Small motoring hat. 1 Plain black evening gown, of silk, wnt abla | 1 Pair a dese alipperra, Divi Oves., Khaki ing clothes. i Fair high boats, af La type known i Rubber f fishing shirt. Small compact tellet roll, Underwear, and a pair of 1 Boy's tweed cap, with visor, eoggles, These last are eapecially important and great care should be made in selecting the proper sort. The clothes George selected after the usual hushandly performance of packing and repacking hia bag not over seven times and constantly interrupting my own packing ba ¥elling owt quéstlons such ae Will | take the old gray sweater or the one Cousin Mary knitted for me? and other equally important queries, were aa follows: 1 Cloth con. 1 Pair khaki breeches. 1 Rubber fishing shirt. 2 Poim ae meoeiihge 1 Medium-weight overcoot. 2 Pairs 1 Swonter. 6 Soft shirte with collar at= tached, Underwear ond socks. dor of cold croom. l Tweed-mixture lounge awit. 1 Dark suit for ovening. 2 Flannel shirts. This last item may seem a curious article for a man to take along, but the action of alkali duat upon the akin makes It necessary. In the Southwest it is an excellent plan to start aut in the morning by rubbing in a small quantity of cream upen the face and allowing it to remain. throughout the day, a3 soap and water are not a aufficient agent a a cleanser, and besides, without it the heat and dust make shaving next to impossible; or so George says, Tools and Equipment ONOT turn up your nese at taking something fresh and a little dressy te put onin the evenings if you are going to stay in the, hotels, The midcountry towns are not hick Villages, and you will need and want one attractive cos- lume when you hit Columbus, Indianapolia, St. Louis, Kansas City and many other points along the road. Furthermore the refreshment that comes from abath and a change at the end of the day grows to be an absolute nectssity¢ on @ long motor trip; so don't make the mis- take of thinking you can live in your motor clothes doy after day. Camping is another matter, but even tn that cose | would suggest taking along some costume, no matter how simple, which you do net wear in the car, You can pretty nearly pack your bag in sequence for the trip, ao that it is unnecessary to disturb the garments in it until you tome to the part of the country where you ape actually going to wee them. Start out with your Eastern clothing on top and your khaki things below, and you will have the comfort of nat being obliged to unload the car com- pletely every night. We had our bags ao arranged that they could be pad- locked to the running board, and sometimes for two or three days at a time it waa unnecessary bo take any- thing inte the hotel exeept our dress. ingtases. The first law of long-distance motoring is one big bag apiece, and that's a generous allownnes, Don't take good new luggage, for it surely will be ruined; and cover what you do take with a tarpaulin. So much for whet the well-dressed motorist will wear. But all the equip- ment necessary for the trip does not go upon one's back, Though there are many faney moter seceasories upon the market, the inventions of numerous ingenious persons, begin- ning with the devil, these are mostly hekum, and can be perfectly well dis- pensed with. However, there are a few tools it is foolhardy to go with- out, When you read the list af thers over don"t get cold feet, because you're not going to the North Pole, although T know it reads that way. =a - These are the tools of commen sense, The art wiaiar fara Crim, and you will be glad to have them along before your trip is finished, or I miss my gud, To begin with, you must have a complete set of chains for your tires. Four chains. That's what I said: four. Of enurse you may have great luck and never be obliged to put them on at all, But through the high-crowned dirt roads of Indiana, Ilinoisa, Missouri and parta of Kansas, take my advice and put them on instantly if you get a gadden shower, no matter how light the shower may be. The soil all through this part of the country is so consti- tuted that a light shower makes more dangerows driving than a really heavy rain. Take along a good atrong tow rope. We used cura twice to tow somebody else owt of a diteh, and once to bind on the spare wheel after the lenther straps had breken. A good rope has many uses. A block and tackle fs a splendid thing to hove along. Next you need a collapsible water bucket, preferably one with a spout. These come made of watertight canvas and take up very litte room, They are practically necesiry if you have to fill your radiator from a brook of # spring. Then—perhapa moet important of all—is your desert water bag. A five-gallon size will take good care of your ear and is about as large as the average automobile con carry comfortably. This water bag is abeolutely essential, and should be filled upon every powible oceagion. If you don't do ft, just as sure as you're born you'll spring a Jeak in your radiator; and the desert water bag must be carried on the principle af an umbrella in fair weather if on no other basis. You will principally find it useful on the steep mountain grades, where there may be no eprings and where your car will very likely boil. Don't forget a tarpaulin. The three dollars that it costs will anve you twenty times your investment, A folding shovel is also moet important, and 0 is a strong practical ax. The above-mentioned are all essential. If you have therh you can safely ignore the fancy additions that may be offered for your consideration, Now there is a third cluss of personal equipment that it is well to consider, and foremost in it is the vacuum bottle. You will not want to drink from your water bag, and a very large vacuum bottle is indispinsable. Koep this full of something cold to drink, whether you think you're going to need it or not, because you will, A compact plenie cose isa goud thing to have along, and when you are at a hotel or in a town where good food is easily obtainable it is a aplendid idea to havealunch put wp. I would further sug- gest that the car be equipped with iron rations at all times, We found fruited crackers the most satisfactory thing. Chocolate is impractical because in the intense heat it melta so quickly, A few oranges kept in the car help a lot, both for thirst and nourishment. There sre several types of excellent gasoline stoves on the market now, and these are splendid if you are going to camp, but we were at no time so far from hot food that we needed one. If you want something that will give you a quick and ready flame the gasoline stove ls, however, better than the compact alechol ones, and you have your fuel right with you in the car. Hf you do not take a luncheon kit be sure you have drinking cups, and, apropos of nothing at all, 1 highly recommend carrying a pair of field glasses. You will frequently come upon a wonderful bit of seenery that you will bee able to appreciate far better for them. 0 Sitio Pepe Largest Wafural fridge ia tke World —J0p Feet Nigh, 770 Feet Ipon june 165 And now, last but not least, be sure shy s Sy gallon of oil and five gallone of pas perked iow the car, I know you think you're not going toe We thought the same, but we know beter now time we ran over a stump im the middle of the don broke aff the oil pump and would have been whl) to move without that hitherto unused and rather extra gallon of oil. At another point we beac 5 ested in the scenery we forgot to wateh the pu in might have remained on that delectable mey-t:2 the present writing had it mot been for the tive ply gas tn ite pretty litthe tin box. I kemow thas all tee obser pedicure rhs them covered with newspapers of someting ¢ atop thelr spelling the rest of the articles in Pag take them, just the same. You never know yar o And oh, [I nearly forgot! Be sure to ter a pod light and a couple of extra batteries to fit. Tae be a dark night when by its aid alone you ci: cal) light to ahine. T suppose that every cor made is capable of oo continent. This is certainly true if we ate te belie the advertisements say, but everyone knows the | the advertisements say a lot, advertising woe | sessed of that great human tendency to tell only So they want known. And anyone who haw eve be autemobile ia only teo well aware of the fac = marriage, a car hes got to be tried to be mds one but the car owner, if he is alas the cor dee every little thing about ita moods, its fits of little meannesses and its bursts of generous pod by TéAe Cholce of a Car [RSONALLY I have been wedded tofearmis _ mobile, diverced one of them, two hawwdie! a Tam now living with the fourth in as muckpes nes 6 can reasonably be est pected from a raed = costing in the neighborhood of three themcd 4 I have also learned that town merit is not coe in a car, and that there is a tine and plore for ype of bus you want to mame. The high-priced, powerful and heavily automobile is not necessarily the bert cor c | eros the continent, A sturdy medium-pricd ¢ desirable for the transcontinental trip and wil! just as long as road conditions are uncertain. To begin with, ont must have plenty of oa many of the roads are high-crowmed; asd clean important where mud is encountered, and w/ necessary to ford a river. Strong aprings are oo Important item, as there isa great deal of roogay reasonably deep upholetery is likewise detrahs is sitting upon said upholstery eight te ten boo upwards of fifteen days. Tt ia a fact that the garages slong the Sas ar! on an average only seventy-five mile co some districts of course ane much closer topes! nearly any one of these repair shops will be cal make light repairs. Of course running expe! be considered, eapecially ag through the deen 0 Hon facilities are dificult and the cost of pe co! one hundred per cent, and sometime: mor Springs, Arizona, we were even obliged to oy for the radiator, so dol cic is it to obtan Rarage is, at = coneedes Obliged to import woe one hundred mile aex Aa far os the or type of body poe. of yet been invented thc the good old-fashione == the most practical ox: | for long-distance travel 4 sedan has many exe its favor so far as ro it concerned, and thay continental traveler s_ 3 ably find the journey == able with the top up == ! the really practka: == body has yet to be eves the lomg grades all cher | But whatever bes pu © journey and howe = facilities for its care ie I would suggest that r= SGMe @tra spark pra =) belt, and a set of suc which are the mat cal obtain along the way —2! make certain that yoo = tains @ complete eee extta insulating wiror 2 addition, as is a pecker 4 (Conmtiaerd os Por!

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7 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST VALVE-IN-HEAD The Special 6-55 Sport-Touring speed, endurance and make touring a pleasure and not an uncertain adventure. A patrician motor car with every appoint- ment found in the finest automobile— And, with all this—the certainty of Buick performance, Buick sturdiness and Buick power. The Special Sport-Touring is built m re- sponse to the demand of the motorist who seeks Buick’s kind of motoring with the intimate comfort and refinement of the sport design. Wo detail of convenience has been omitted. Wo effort has been spared to include every eomfort and every appointment that could be sought in any motor car. The rugged, powerful, Buick driven chassis gives it the smoothness that ‘The Special Sport-Touring is finished in dark Buick maroon with wheels to match—which with the beautiful trimming, binding and finish give this special model its tailored appearance. Nominally four passengers are accommodated in the roomy body but five can ride, The demand for this handsome model at the remarkably low price will tax factory pro- duction to the limit. Consult the nearest Buick dealer for detail specifications and delivery dates. Additional Equipment of the Special Sport-Touring Khaki top ofexclesive Buick patented design with no bows fe cbatruct Walon; khaki adjuatable aon: shade; two-piece full ventilating windshield with Wiper and mirroscope; gisse-covered idnifron and hghting ewitch with push bution dash Jamp; oom- Bination gasoline gauge, ol! pressure gauge and amnmeter;combination clock and apeedameater, cigar lighter; handsante, deavily nickel-bound leggage trunk mounted on permanent specially designed base: Buick design drum-type head and cow! lampa; frontanubbers; carpets in both front and rear com- partments; walnet ateering wheel with walnut contra! Jever knob fo match; Aeavily nmickeled readiafor, afep plates, geard rails and al! other At- tinga;Toaro atee! wheels boilt fo Boek specifioa- Hiona are optional equipment af an added coat of £30.00 ff iastaled at the factory; exfra Nres or fire covers nal ineledind, BUICK MOTOR COMPANY, FLINT, MICHIGAN Bbelrion af General Motors Corporation Pioner Buikfers of Pokodin-Neo Afeter Cora WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, Branches in of! Principal Cites—Dealers Eoerpwhere BUICK WILL BUILD THEM al | $1785 f. o. b. factory St ——

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST une 16, TWO-JOB GIRI

Thm Barhiag TA OFF Bafore Diag af tlestio Cliy, Waere We're Spendiag the Werks kad Noosymson ATLANTIC CITY. BAR AUNT CECIL: Permit me to pre D gent to you Mrs. Stephen A, Sheridan, née your beloved namesake, who's been and gone and dene it proper, Steve and I were mar- Fled at two this Po. [t's now 7:09, and I've been married all of three hundred and three minutes, Can't say | feel any different. Nostrangeseachange. Pulsenormal. Tem- perature falr and warmer. Gay on top but sort of thrilly away down deep. Steve looks rather solemn, I'm dashing this off before dinner at Atlantic City, where we're spending the week-end honeymoon, The family thinks I'm all wrong. I know I'm right. You see, this is the point: Steve's salary, at present, is not big enough te support two, and eo I'm going to continue my job as secretary to Old Joplin. And that's the mb. They all want me to wait. Papa's agin it. Mamma'saginit. And, wort of all, deep dewn in hia heart of hearta my Steve's ngin it too. He hates th! Doesn't want his lovely young wife to be a sordid, money-grubbing wage earner, Wants to support said lovely young wife himself without pecuni- ary ald or assistance. Aren’t men funny? And the nicer they are the funnier they are. We had one of those fine old freefor-all family rows, with everybody stlcking In and handing out free advice, and wanting to settle my matrimonial hash; god the upshot of it all was that I settled it for myself: Namely, to get married and to continue with my work. Why neat? I'm free, white and over twenty-one, In fact, I'm twenty. three this month, And everybody's doing it these days. Self-expression, economic independence and all that sort of thing. Why hasn't a woman as good a right ta go on with her job after marriage as 2 man? She has! It all boils down to this: We couldn't marry on Steve's salary, of account of the heel. in New York and Steve's work keeping ws in the city, but we ean on his salary and mine put together, [I've got it all figured out. Henee and wherefore, Q.E.D, But that's not the biggest reason. Dollars-and-cents reas are never the big reasons, The real reagon is because I want to, I simply couldn't endure this business of going on being engaged indefinitely year after year. And so [ logked and then Steve and [ leaped together. We FLLUSITRATIORN By Elizabeth Frazer AF FRAN EF spend the week-end at Atlantie City, and on Monday Steve gets up and departa to his downtown job, and simul- taneously Mrs, Steve gets up and departa te her downtown job. And that’s that. So here we are, sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, e¢ pluribus unum forever—and the great experiment is on! Don't you think I'm mght? I know I am—but the family don't, So stick up for me, like a darling! Your loving namesake, CECIL SHERIDAN. PLEASANTON, IND. ¥ DEAR NIECE: Heartiest congratulations upon the leap! Give Steve a buss from hls new old-maid aunt. I'll give you youngsters something more substantial when I get around to it. Just at present I'm up to my eyes in making apple butter and taking care of two lovesick girls, This business of being resident house-mother and chaperon at a country club for the week-end parties of young people is nasinecure, My hat! [ could write a book on the present generation that would curdle the conserva- tive blood of your poor old father and make him believe wet were golng headlong te the devil—and yet, even at that, [ can't ser much difference between this generation of girls and the last. These talk more at their petting parties and wear lesa, but fundamentally, at bottom, it's just the same old, immemorial questing girl, Let her quest, Leay! Just now, in addition to getting the house to rights for the eoming jamborees, I have two bad breakdown coses on my hands which I'm trying to coax back to life— one a fine little girl who tried to kill herself over a good- for-nething fellow mot worth his aalt, and the other a thoroughgoing little egolst enten up with self-pity. About your question: Dol think you're right? Well, it makes absolutely no difference whether I do or not, if you're sure of it yourself. It's your party, not mint. I'm not much for butting into other people's private affaira. You have a good headplece; use it; [ guess you do. Asa matter of fact, however, I do think you're right—thus far, Right ta get married, I mean, and tackle the odds. For ITPRADLISG you've got odds against you: don} =i little fact. I see one big risk in pal now on you're a twoejob girl Au a jobs is going to take you out of ise sd I'm only a tough-grained sportey << of the last generation standing on the side omy while you're a combatant down in the tty. 4 want to cramp your style for a second by ofl tions on how to play your game. But ldo mt the issues clean-cut, for I'm placing my bev 2j the big trouble is, these two jobs you're bi 9 mw antagonistic: eweh tends to cone ehaach and swimp and eeallow up the oti | earning job demands a certain expenditure 2 al and vital energy. Your wife job also makes Sm and vital demands, Each job has its own ool And it's you who must fit these tao sets ol ol together each in ita own place, and exe that) =! a wrong of it, Mind, I don"t aay wou cant cy you have twosets of rights or neceeitie. ac natural inclination to awallow up the othe eo to you te maintain an even balance bets = @ there's your danger. Can you hold the — Of course I don't know all the ine aed 0 - ticular case, and why you chose to m= al working rather than wait. But anyhow, oi 7 I believe that it will all plot owt right in the + your parenta objected. They"ve had =» he r ends meet on a meager professional salary. <i they should see the harshness of the road <5. | over, and want you to walt until it's a oiled. Never mind us oldsters, But reserS 7! the chief ingredients of sucerss im marrage. 29 thing else, is brains. You won't be pomaloes * gray matter, Tell me about Steve's dzps- deal may hang on that. ot 9 P.S. Self-expression? Yes, we had tha: = but we called it having our own war. 4k AUNT CECIL: You ask nd taken inte consideration the fact th! two-job girl. Why, fora whole blessed m**! uf (Cantinoed om Page IF

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 33 he Big Job in 1922 is SELLING ie Biggest Salesman at the Lowest Salary is Lighting i sell books, hardware, drugs or “shelf goods”, the interior of your secomes One vast silent salesman. piece of merchandise tries to call lividual attention. Permitting any item of stock to become hard to its label hard to decipher, means ' much valuable salesmanship re- from active duty while it still s on the payroll. y make it hard for a customer to What easier or less expensive way e to aid vision, examination and in. than by driving out gloom, glare idows ? ‘stigation shows that even the stores frequently have less than five “foot-candles"” of illumination, while careful tests show that ten to fifty foot- candles are usually none too much, That "too much light” is rather difficult to attain is shown by the fact that in a shady spot outdoors in the summer time the intensity is 500 candles and upward! For satisfactory lighting of the average store, the rules in the next column may be followed, or more detailed instructions will be mailed on request. National Lamp Works of General Electric Com- pany, 305 Nela Park, Cleveland, Ohio. "The “foot-candle* a a measure of intensity of Tlumumation, Tt a no more mysterious than inches, degrees, gallons and other familiar unite of merarure. Auk the National MAZOA lamp agent to have foot- candle readings taken throughout pour store. Each af thee Gisrls peepee: a Eater Divines nepal io gir a complete Gebriag arene, One Recipe for Good Store Lighting For moat stores the following rules point the way to excellent illumination. Firgt—Use 300-wart Mazpa Daylight lamps, or 200-wact hlazpa C lamps. Mazpa Daylight lamps are preferable, under most circumstances, because (1) shew colors more accurately, and (2) their light blends more agreeably with natural daylight. Sande The space berween lighting uniss shactde greatly exceed ten feet, Third—The lamps should be properly shaded, Shades and reflectors, when made of » Should be of dense white glass rather than clear or : glass, and should surround or enclose the lamp. Fourth—Clean the lamps and shades once a abe XTIONAL MAZDA LAMPS

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aa Jim Henry's Column Do you believe me ? An advertising expert told me the other day th: Lt if every man wha reads my stuff should ‘believe it and act upon it, the avalanche of orders would probably put Mennen out of business. ] guess he's ight. Im- agine my whole audience of ten million men all deciding overnight that they wanted Mennen's! I'm puzzled. I'm wondering how many of you fellows do believe me— how many of you I can get to Con. fess a Benue interest Mm Mennen's Shaving Cream. I wonder how many of you I can get to gamble a acne to prove to your everlasting satisfaction one of two things. Either I am the possessor of a high speed imagination —or Mennen’s 15 the greatest preparation ever produced for reducing a growth of he-bristles to a rate of pitiable non-resistance. Fith Pes believe me or you don't. Tf you do, you probably belong to the select class of men who are enjoying a blithesome Mennen shave every morning of their lives. Now, if you are in doubt, why not at least put it up to me to prove my case? Forget reason, prejudice or habit and act on your regular-fellow instinct. Obey that impulse and send me a dime for my big demonstrator tube and dare Mennen’s to give you the kind of shave you've always wanted, Dare it to flower into the most gorgeous bank of lather that's ever decorated your facial landscape. Settle ance for all this question of my veracity by using three times as much water as usual—and try cold warer if you hke it. Let your razor sink into the snow drift and dare it to give you the best shave you ewer had in your life, That's all I want. ['ll go you one step further. When I get your daredevil dime, I* il send YOU alon a sample can of Mennen Taleum for Men—a real man’s talcurn for after shaving or bathing. It’s fine for the skin and it doesn't show. f you're a sport, come through. rf bes | icc (Menaen Salesman) see THE Mennen Company feware, PL WSLAL al which as he settled down | hung ja rend a Tat THE SATURDAY Nice of him—waan't it? He waa trying me out of a hole, and he landed me in Bec) one, for Stent amellod a nat right as he closed the door, Fanny guy! Acted a8 though he knew art ‘ey strolled aver and sat down in the identical overstuffed chair that Smith come to collect the bill for, the springs gave a sort of lugubriaus aqueak, as if te say, “Could I ig He said thoughtful but speak instead of aqquenk, [could tell | You, young man, what he eume for!" “Don't you think he acted funnge?"* ce- manded Steve, Here again was my chance to explain, but now ot wae harder than ever: for the man had stood by me and I was bound to stand by him—waan't 17 And go I said, “Well, now I think of it, he did look a trifle surprised.” “No,” said Steve, atill thoughtful, “not surprised, It wasn't that. That guy come for something. [ got that, clear asa day. And then when he saw me—or, rather, when he looked behind me and saw you—he sud- denly stalled, backed down, and invented that yarn about looking for a man by the name of Smith. I'd give a itd oe Know what his. reuctgtert ow's thumb "The thumb feels like two centa, a aun does its owner. Steve, how would it be if we eold out all this junk—did you notice how that new aah has, taken to squenk- ing?—and went to bb “No!” said Steve a loudly—and I knew I had reminded him of his homeleaa days and his mother. I felt like the woman in How She Lied ta Her Husband. But the funny 7 ae aleout itis this: Tf my thumb hadn nocut, and if T hadn't been tired, and chs dinner hadn't fizzled, I shouldn't have minded telling Steve at all. It waa just the darned climax of it. iarinals, ‘Elbe 'Y DEAR NIECE: Your two jobs seem to be Hr ear hooks in you, But keep a sti Try to find a gol, reliable, middle- cusekerper who'll take all the responsibility. She come high, but she'll be cheap in the end, and that's the only solution ao long as you work outside, Of course 1 think it would have been far better had you told Steve about the collec- tor; but as you didn’t, the thing to do now is to remove the cause of further trouble by squaring off all the rest of your in- debtedness at once. In order that you may do this, if you'll send me the dem'd total I'll loan you the amount—at the usual rate al interest. diene ule f I'd Jet you sow your own lithe financial wild oat and reap whet= ever ig coming to you, but seem. to have your hands overfull already, what with Joplin changing into a aatebire old snake, and Steve developing an antimother complex. I nate cred eg ay ae uestion about Joplin. ie t does he loo ie? And what is his age, st I figure him as sort of Tike one of these unserupuloua, domineering, big-business pirates of Wall Street that the atery-writera of Tue Sat- uRDAY Eveninc Post tell us about—a hard, mean, impassive guy, with an over- a trap mouth, cold, narrow-set kind that has no friends and never forgeta a foe—a combination of Sitting Bull, Napoleon, Old Serooge ond Simon rolled into one. I don't know where they get that stall, for T never saw } a big or little business man book like that— but, anyhow, that isthe picture I've formed of Old Joplin: the man with the cast-iron face. Am Tright? Your Arrr. Auwt. PAR AUNT CECIL: How on earth did zon ever get that motion of Old lin? I read your letter down in the ce, and I burat out laughing right under his nibs" high-bridged, aristocratic old nose. No, you're not might You're away off, Before I was married [ used to think he wos the handsomest man I knew, and so kind and just and fair. Now he's showing up in his true colors, As to looks, he’s tall, age rather clegant—aomething of a dandy, I fact—with thick, curly chestnut hair which he has hard work te keep smoothed down, dark blue eyes, often quite merry, a big mouth, but not a bit traplike, nice hands and voice, and a very spontaneous laugh. He must be all of forty-aix—twice my age!—but he doesn't logk ft; and he ifuneet about with a sort of false spright- iness, pretending he's about thirty-five. Why can’t old people admit they're old? EVENING POST About my job—well, if you must know, roa haven CE gone very well; on the oon- trary, t gone ateadily erlaaecroea, It's AT 0 Joplin # fault. He's elt in his head that I'm slacking and that it's his duty to keep me up to the mark, And he's doing that little thing. He used to tell me that I ran his business better than he did himself, But no complimenta now, Oh, no! The change in him began the very mooring I told him I intended to be mar- ried. “Well,” he replied after he'd co tu- lated me, that meane I'll have ta aut fora new stcretury. And that's bad —right now, rican don’t ee look pus foe sone unless you eapeei want to," I laughed. “How's that?” he asked, genuinely sur- prised, going to be married —that's truce,” I explained, “but I've planned to keep on with my work.” He raised his evebrowes in an ironical manner he haa, : “Oho! So you're that kind of a girl!" He added soberly after a puuse, * Youn the money, I supposeT™ "Partly." I said atiffiy. "But I'd keep on, anyway. I don't see why a lusiness woman should give Up her career after aeaae any more thin a man, It's hore aby unfair. e smiled rather grimly. “It makes precious little difference what you or I think. Nature's the old girl that holds the trump cords here; and she'll play the game along her own lines, no matter how much we equeal. But there's something elee to be considered here. This job's not going to grow any lighter with time. I'm ex- panding this business, reorganizing some of the old departments and adding new ed Jt tl take all my brains and vitality the thing across. It goes without si that I must have a secretary I ean rely on, and even overwork at times.” He ' “at tie hard. tarkle that?" ter T failed you thus far?" I asked indi magic! ou’ ve done fae, but “Well, then,” I said, ' Then going rs iin right on doing the same thing, and if at any time I fall below grade you can fire me!” Tlaughed when I said it, but he took me right up. al B “4 Will” he assured me ge nially, “With promptitude and. dispateh, There's a lot of money invested in this n= terprise—not oll my own. And I can't take on a single ounce more of risk. So if you Eeep the job you may be prepared to be the s paearientueeretur om a hard-working aan beggin " from t Of course T agreed, Well, Aunt Cecil, he's been even better than his word! It's been drive, drive, drive. The very firat te alter my return from our week-end honeymoon that man kept me until seven o'clock —and he'd have gone on indefinitely he hadn't seen something in my face that made him pull up short, glance at hia Watch, burst out laug ing ad cay, “God Lord, its seven o'clock! And you've just achieved a husband. He's probably tearing his hair out in clumps. IT certainly am sorry. ell, tell him we're reorganizing. If he's a business man he'll understand. And I do my beat thinking when it's quiet at the end ofthe day. But I'll see this doean't happen again. Tt waa your expression put me wise, By Jove, your face was ws long as my arm!" And he laughed ngain—but just. the some, Aunt Cecil, away down aren. he waa irritated through and through Be can't fool me. I ean read him like a book, He wanted to go on working while he felt like it, and he wanted his secretary to go on too, It's perfectly true that he works bet- ter at the end of the day when the office is atill. And before, I didn't mind. It wos ever Father fun. He ean concentrate jist like father, But the devil of it is, he insists on concentrating at the end of the day, just when it's time to begin to think of getting ready to go home, And when he starta one of those séances along about five, I just can't help eneaking a glance at my wrist wateh. UT course Old Joplin eatches me; then out comes his lower lip, his draw down, and he shoots me a steely, blue look, keen as a razor blade, as much as ta gay: ‘Ts this time P ator of have IT beaght and paid for lt with eeld exsh?" To have tre: pans at my watch as a gentle re- minder niles him like old Ned. But what am [ to do? There's no such word ag “stop” in bis bright lexicon. He's detained meover and over agaln. “Think you'd best Jue $0, eps Steve, y ome below | Even when "old J Jop in dou ieep =e, beatae me an beowr, And thar'i trouble! He hates to come bome and me gone, I know how it ia. [t's way I used to feel as a child whee come polting home from school, bei our books and make a bee line for = sitting room. If she wasn't m hat’ tomed chair by the window, sewing © ing, we hed o divtinet sense of diy catastrophe, alarm: and we'd po coy all overt house, beg Mot berg We just wanted ta see her, to amv a selves by locking at ber that al = © with the world. [ asked mother th. cif day if it was sheerly by accident thet satin that phere chair at thet pest ular howr all through those yean "“G panine Fgura ahe Sg js “l made special point, Was at 6 org aly Lexcused myself and came away. | wal to build up in you the forling of conti that mother was always there.“ And it's that semee of ponenes, a mentary dismay that I[ fancy Ete when he comes home and finds me om But I can't help it. [ can’t charge { Joplin's habits. I tried to! [ mogpel to him one morning that he de his be thinking earlier in the day, after lo You should have heard him gor “Now, Mire Sheridan,” sand be bet his words off short, “don't try fitting and my habits on to any liith pum Procrustean bed of yours and choppamg? of where ] don't mateh up with pow) mestic echedule; it wont work, “As I this proposition, the pe dowen't belasg rou; you belong to the job, The jet ia cut and hacked and added te ae tracted from te fit your own privated personal convenience; it's jou whe fit your private convenicner to the mente of thee job." One good thing—we now hare a eook. Mother shopped ang f her for i—an old Prenchownc3 Philomene, who adores Stewe mand be fore concocting new dishes to tempt he @ tite. I'm glad, for these days, with | Joplin bearing down harder ond hes I come home too exhausted ts doo but crumple up on the sofa. She stay day and sleeps in the house, That oe extra pay, extra food, and the rent a extra room, But she's worth — of price, for now Steve and | have nome ff to ourselves, and we've even given 2G ar twoand had some friends in for si supper alter bridge. OH course. this drain, we're not saving a singe be We' re going with a set of young = people the hushands of whom have @ in business five or ten years, ared ee 3 urally, have bigger aries then Sa Steve says we're trying to beat the bis fare by competing thus socal beyond our class, He eg Prine to telescope five y ears, and : that it's my salary which bom aecelerator, The other day he brought boo phish and wher | scalded him for the wane he Fes Labia “Want to kes wvaghe it? netting betwee 1 two paren i ree an & to change into a doll it's the e ‘Purpose of thn to expunge th mitt purchase was pure inspire we've had some wonderful Sunday country, with a delicious cold bameh paar Puts up. Those Sunde me alive, Steve incrensingly work, But he dosen't say a word TF Steve. Some nights I"m ready todes nerves and fatigue. CH ecurse, beat physically — but that's rust a Dorn between bao contending ise 9 lin trying to abeorb tur at phage : Steve equally determined that shall not interfere with his home warof twostrong personalities, aed De iton both sides. Old Joplin's sot cir aaqguare deal. His character, a before, has utterly changed, Hee Jar sla river, acarcely ever | BOTINeS Won't fwen say good All the old cordial feeling be completely gone. One or twice, when he's shown keeping me late. I've had to gay. a “Sorry, Mr. Joplin—but aren't wi overtime? I have an en a Abate al . 5 pricking a cared flare. [t's like pric caged = almest growls out loud! [t's tae ke® (Continued on Page 2 Hit uEey. em al

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HIS brush cleans more thoroughly because the tufted bristles reach between the teeth. It 1s easier to manage be- cause of the curved handle. It is more sanitary be- cause it always comes in the yellow box. It wears longer because of the quality of the bristles, Four visits a year to your dentist and daily use of the Pro-phy-lac-tic Tooth Brush insure good teeth for a life- time. Adults’, youths’, and children's sizes. Madeinthe United States. FLORENCE MFG. CO. Florence, Mass. is, taal feo RCE Mfc on ER jez af a9 Fo = x | ol a THE SATURDAY. j (Contiaeed from Page 38) like a horse himaelf. But it's hia business, | not mine. Good night. Your Lovisa Timen-Our Gimi B.S. About that furniture loan, It's all | right—thanks just the same. u it out one night to Steve, and I needn't tell you he waa a prinee. Of sourae he kidded me some. Steve's some kidder, He ad- mitted, moreover, that he had exactly the game luxurious streak in him—which made him willing to may me before he could afford me!—like a black zigzag etreak run- ning sarrh pore Carrara marble—his \ simile, not mine!—and so we made a solemn compact: He's to keep an eye on me and I'm to keep an eye on him. W eaun"t Old Joplin be aquare like that? M: DEAR NIECE; Dancing, dinners, flivwera, bridge—you and Steve seem to be having a high old time. Who's paying the piper? [in my day the firat few yeara married life were largely given over to the practical undertaking of paling a family; that was the chief investment of those first tad it was @ woman's major responsi- | bility, her major contribution to life. And 1 during thet period it waa the husband's business to earn the living; that was his job, not the woman's; she general | f hands full inside the house. at's the eternal trimngle: Father, mother and child—father out rustling the grub, and | the mother, of necessity, sticking prett elose to the child. It's on that trian we've built up our lawe. Now, up to the present generation, that's been the normal rule of life for an American family. The husband's the natural provider; if he foils to provide he's liable to @ severe man- handling in the courts. It's a thing in | American we're rather atriet about. 2 agg of ge so had com ike agro ry is so dense pu an Pt sOUTCES canlaibad dare to the vanishing point, that every moderately placed wornan may be forced out into a gainful occupa- tion, becnuse the man, working alone, can- not eam enough to support a family. That's how it is with the working classes in Europe right now. But that day in America has net yet arrived. The average, moderately placed young American woman hasn't engaged in a gainful occupation after marriage because she hasn't n finnn- clally forced to do so, and because she's been otherwise engaged in raising a family. But and Steve seem to be starting in at the other end of the game, You're inveating your time, money and vital en- ergies, as nearly as 1 can make out, in having a royal good time, and I'm wonder- ing Hal nd oof a balance sheet of net AIRE you'll show io ten years from now, ind, I don’t say you're wr0ng Thore are thousands of young marned women who are doing exactly the same thing; trying to make a go of marriage and of business life of the same time; wanting the double experience—and also the extra cash. I don’t blame them. Thanks for your description of Old Jop- lin, The imperial, ineflable arrogance of that man astounds me. The only theory on which I can explain his ogreishness is that he's not in love with Steve, Which explanation doesn't get us unywhere—for why ian't he? I give tt up. The real trouble la, to him his business is life; to you it is aeweekly envelope. He feeds him- self to his job, You make it feed you, A slight difference in the point of view, Be kind to the doddering old gent; he can't help loving his business more than Steve, YOUR AFT. AUNT, Sundry weeks later. Y GEAR AUNT: Lf I've not written before, it's because these days I seem to be pulled all wave at once. At night, if we're not outward bound, I turn in after dinner whilo Steve site up with his work or to read, Things are going better with hin financially, A small raise. I think Old Joplin right raise me! Steve came home as excited and jally and mysterious a3 a kid on Christmas Five, He'd phoned Philo- mone to prepare a paneup dinger, and sent home a bunch of roses. Amd over aur eoffee and ac—thanke to FPhilo- mine's epeclal ami, a purser on a French boat —Steve sprang hia littl aurprise, He announced his roise, and then—and here's the joker!—suggested that I give up my job. Aunt Cecil, you could have knocked me down with a pinfeather. Juat when things seemed to be golng more smoothly! “Why, Steve!" T gasped, “We con't do that—not now!" EVENING POST “Why?” demanded Steve, with a glint in his eye. da by hse Ae Ww oF » #0 on—trot out your becauses.” “Because we'd have to start in all over again at the foot of the ladder,” “That all?" “Because we'd have to atop giving par- thes and having tn friends, and start to save und scrimp. And besides um "What would I do with my time—not to mention my brains? I don't know how to cook, and [ loathe housework. And also, now I've got Old Joplin just like a trained dragon so that he leta me go on the dot without letting out a single roar." "All right," aaid Steve atifly. “Have it your own way, But I'd like to know one thing: When we were married you sai be were going on with r job because didn't earn enough. at was simply a little bluff, eh, te what you want, to have your coke and ent it too? Now come across with the straight goodls—is it the job with Old Joplin you can't give up—or 1s it the extra cash?" Well, Aunt Ceeil, I thought and thought, and finally I said, “Honestly, Steve, I can't tell, [t's about fifty-fifty, I guess. But one thing's sure: I don't want to start in at the foot of the ladder again. I hate to scrimp and save," "All aga suid Steve, with a poker face. “That's settled. I just wanted to know where I stand.” And then, Aunt Ceeil, I suddenly thought of another reweon, And just as o flyer suid, “Besides, why haven't [as much right to self-expression and self-determination in @ career as yout" I don't know why that should have made the Hid af Steve's temper blow off—but it diel. He stood up suddenly with a kind of bie vee violence and he almeat yelled, “Whi can't you be ingide of a room and out of tt at one and the sume time? Why can't you be married and single too? Why can't you live at the North and the Sou Pole both? Why can’t you be my wife and Old Joplin's secre , and mingle in so- dety, and give aparkling little dinners, and presi yourself generally all over the map? hy doesn't too and two make ninety- eight? You can self-express yourself from here to Halifax and back, and I shan't say i Bi word." And be flung himself out of the room, leaving me too astounded for words. But I know I'm right! Yours Lovina Caen. Y DEAR NIECE: Don't be forever harping on your rights, An American woman these days hos the right to do just about anything she can get away with, short of homicide. And I've known her to et away with homicide—with a male jury. elfdetermination ig a very highfaluting word. T almost wish it hadn't been intro duced into the best circles bo a certain brilliant man; he started a whole lot of trouble just with that one word. [t's some= thing. like ealling a werkingman Nature's nobleman, Maybe he's a nobleman, and may be aman he's nothing but a lazy loafer, br Laie to bogaioy a ee ala ae Be ees a3 [ve seen them work out in life, usually mean doing what you want to when you want to, and lotting the other fellow pay. In your particular mtua- tion it's for you to decide whether the game is worth the candle. Nobody else con settle that for you. And T know of no better way of diseavering just haw high a price you are willing to pay for the particular brand of self-expression you seem to be going in forthan ss based gs you're naw purauing— namely, y actual peraonal ial ng trying it on the dog. Of ewurse it's rather tough on the ding, hut that's the dog's affair, YouR AFFT. AUNT. AR AUNT CECIL: Who's the dog—Old Joplin or my Steve? T know what | am—a little buffer state between two big encroaching powers; and when both begin to squeeze me—ugh! And I know what Old Joplin ia—a big, surly blood- hownd with hia nose down ta the ground keen on the seent for the trail of gold, How ean he think so much of a littl extra cash? A mere money-grubber! But I don't care what Pied to him, and that's not what I star to say. Aunt Cecil, I'm nearly frantic with worry! It's about Steve. I'm afraid some thing terrible is happening inside of him. I'm not absolutely gure. It may be nothing but my own silly bragination: ho's been talking = 4 sleep. And when he's awake te) ci tum. And how he threia mosey us, o put it baldly, 1 fear Steves oe o taal mcbioneca the finan su; i ir, nn to where he z a — mused, "Why, Stewel’ [ gamped, ao hos the tears sprang into my eye. “De you actually want re prvadera ate oy that I earn with Old Joplin by the mq my brow? “What's sauce for the gander: mo the goose," said Steve. “Whirl ge your, but what's ,ours appewt to te own, That's unfair, I've pot rg stl{-expremsion too,” His coolness took my breath omg WSS 80 petty, so—eo UNgeneroe und 9 “But, Steve,” [ faltered, “I -1/ entre for that. Of coors yo coy) it all, “So,” said Steve dogredly. ~! want it all: I only want Tie Hia share—of my momey! Ast | I thought my heart would breal. And here's another thing: Stee friend, an artist, called Bill Eames | who la a pretty | judge of those df saya Bill is @ fine artist, beat bes | tough time financially, He pono & of stuff that won't boy him o dary but that'll bring bir fame when br Steve gaye be can't belp it, that be) that way. About Tour years aga les a girl, and just for his cen emo taught her to paint. Now bere os ironic twist: & uncovered in ber talent, not for his. kind of art bet ‘s mercial advertising, picture of Ba shaving soap, and so on; asd mm was making ten times wo ill, whe'd put everything «= = stage-manage her, be ber erracd out and buy her points acd pk stuff to the firms, He stopped be! push her, and she became a best cess. [ve aeen her. She's a oo feveriah, ave, bi i woman with « big nose, A burma: @ This year she divorced Bill, gry son nonsupport. She said be bao tributed a dollar toward her ==) two years, and she was tired ol bar forever dipping into her pum. 4 course, sided with Bill kus bow ing him home toe dinner abogt fre 5 the week, just te buck him up, ad lent him some money bo get on be Steve and [ had a grand decom the whole case, He that co in the game houwsehald betwee o wile is the death of love. I wore eontended that the proper ios 4 for a modest, self-doubting char | wat one of these has, walt, little girls who would bring out ee of responsibility in him and mab lieve he was the finest fellow o 5 ip eh ar care apy Bit a ink she head a good t to ta wanted to—and I'll stick te that = But it makes me sort of sick © OF) be at odda with Steve, ft Hover fur ie it wise for the ordinary woman to take the = responsi bili of the average. husband if she wants him to recul provider, a8 the saying goes" Your Lovins sun i | i ¥ DEAR NIECE: What 7 , about your friends is mart ing tome and ["ve been mulls | my tiilnd. Sometimes an inmoct! stander like miyself gets a few = active combatants can't ee. Fre tell you why in my judgment the! didn't stick. It's been my obwr™ inevery real union worthy the no a he and ashe, the attractio: o ™ man's g be-man anc th | a8 shewoman the probabdlitie | they'll pull through thear difSea "i the man's a soft, woman-netod | the woman Weurs the pantaloo = for that’s the saume eombicatic U1 way around. But if it's a mer = man-minded woman theres to | for & merger, being mothe * (Continaed on Page ©

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THE SATURDAY (Centinued from Page 74! they're two of a kind. And that, I suspect, waa the case with your friends, As to this business of competition in the | game line between man and wife, in my a RR nnn Se ae ee ark it’ ; o highly pie thing. Only a very big man en a very big love can get away with it. Partly it's because in Amer- ica it's the tradition that it's the man's job to support his wife. If he doesn't mIpport her it argues some inherent flaw, some lack of manhood, some yellow streak in his na- ture, We're not yet civilized up to the nas an arlatecratic point of view that a a dashed good right to be sup- d by his rich wife without soiling his ands. We may be primitive, crude, gar in this respect; and then again we ray be nearer the etraight biologleal narm, the deep guiding race thnet whieh runs truer, stronger in a fresh vital young nation than in an old worn-out stock, So aaah ee ae wane to suppor uring t rat years of your married tL life and flares up, don t it on te him individually; lay it on to the ican tradition; Jay it on to race instinct which commands that a male shall take care of his mate wher she's otherwise engaged and can't take core of herself. The faet fron individually ore not otherwise engage does not alter the universal law. ‘And don aa t worry about Steve. He's probably giving tha experiment the intellee agce- over—and testing you out too. YOuR AFFECTIONATE AUNT. P.5, What does Steve say in his sleep? DEAR AUNTY I have been Ul] aad im bed ten day, Nothing aetiois— a nasty cold aggravated by nerves. It's really not bad, resting like this, for it gives me time to think. I"ve made Steve Seere tary of the Treasury and of the Interior and Foreign Affairs. It's now a one-man show; the strain of my being sick ts telling on him; he] a bit gnunt. To add to his afflictions, last week his mother landed Tee) on us without big ar fog m for money to go to t ot Springa for acure, don + know what Steve said kat, or even if he said anything; he may have just looked at her; but she decamped the game aflternoaon—sana cash, Steves char- acter la developing a bite—but no bark!— at the rate of a toile a minute these days, Old Joplin has been most kind—for him. ie sent rile salar his Sion Doctor Hoyt, a poverty woman, with four children and. par para inced husband to su port. Her histery ia interesting. While she wae still a ag student she fell in love with the man who was giving one of the leeture courses—a very brilliant but con- servative research doctor. They were mar- riad, but he objected strongly to her prac- ticing her profession, so she gave it up, had four children, and at the end of ten yeara ha had a atroke of paralysis—a judgment of heaven, I call it!—and the entire burden af the family fell upon ber, There was noth= ing for it but to resume her profession —ten years late, Now, Aunt Cecil, don"t you think she did ish hee bb in to that reactionary, hide ald Turk, who wanted her all to ee I want your fat answer—yes or no. Jt seems to me, tending between the lines of your letters, that you think I'm wrong in continuing to work for Old Jop- lin, but ai jean alraid to come right oul plum Now I'm going to call your ba “Hands up! Right oF wrangr— which do you any? C ECiL. EAR SILLY-BILLY: You and your little abetract rights and wrongs! Don® te know yet that what may be all right for Sadie Smith may be all wrong for Sally Jones? That circumstances alter cased, and that each case must be judged on ite own merita, in relationship to the por- ticular facts? With regard te your own concrote case, all [ have to remark ia this: You've got there not one right to adju- dicate, but three, each separate and dia- tinct— your own, Old Joplin's and Steve's. Now you may try to fit those throe rights together, whittling each one down @ bit so as to give them all a fair show; or you may aink your own rights; or you may aink those of Joplin wi Steve and play your own Up stron t's your game, not mine. “Then ploy it, “But clon" be ao muaddle- hended that you can’t see the real issues invel ved. I've aleays believed it was a fine thing for a woman—or a man, for that matter — to have an occupation, means of which she could gain her livelihoed in time of EVENING POST need. Nothing ao broadens her, ahows her the actual practicul stuff out of which life is made. It teaches her the value of money, ives her the discipline of Jar work and ours; it takes the conceited crimpa out of her nature by showing her that what ashe considers ee enough and what her em- ployer considers goml enough may be two vastly different thin But whether she's to go on With her job alter marriage is a matter of prudence, advisability and plain common horse sense, The doctor manifestly studied her particular problem from all angles, looked at her right, her hushand's and the public's right, and de cldéed that her major contribu lay in the home. Yes, I think she was right; I think that, taking it all in all, she made a wise investment, as the result amply demon- strobes. But her case ia not Four cee. Thore is staying with me now o teacher, a brilliant, accompli , Magnetic woman, withareal fairfor her vocation—delights in her work and wielda great influence over the girla—the rare cose of a round in & round hole. She is happily marr as husha three children, has con- tinued more or leas irregularly with her work. Juat now she's deeply disappointed aver a splendid pealtion for wh she's eminently fitted but failed to obtain—on account of her children. It was in a la private girls’ school of excellent standa and reputation, and the principal liked her immensely— beyond all the other appli- conts; but there wos also to be considered the responsibility to the students as well a8 to the parents who were paying a heavy tuition te have their daughters prepared for eol] The absence of a brilliant teacher from er classes, of her irregular attendance at a critical period, might dislocate the entire course and prevent some of the stu- dents from paring their examinations. The principal thought deeply and finally she said, “How many children have you?” Three.” "And their ages?" “Four, eight and eleven.” Just the disease-cntching age! The petncipal continued, even more thoughtfully, her questionnaire, “And in case one of your children fell sick, which would you chemse—your duty te your child or F duty te the chen! ?" duick as a flush the teacher replied proudly, "To my child —naturally." The principal meided. “I think you're ahaolutely right!" she agreed warnuly, But notwithstanding, she did not engage the larly for her schol! "They penalize you for having chil- dren!" said the teacher bitterly, recownt- ing the etary ta me. “If I'd no children she'd have taken me like a shot." No dowbt—for then the situation would have been materiafly altered, As it stood, the two sete of responsibilities clashed, and both the teacher and the principal were Fight. Now—would I have that brilliant woman give up her teaching? Lord, nol Would To have her give up ber children? Ged forbid! But I would have her realize that she can't have the privileges of murried life without accepting its disabilities; shoe ean't be married an single at the same time, Each sinbe curries its own advantages and ite own disabilities, YOUR Arr. AAT. Old Joplin to Aunt Cecil, ¥ DEAR MADAM: Your interest. in r niger must be my apology for intruding my personal affaira upon in this Gemineactinnel fashion. ut ore her marriage your niece was wont occa- sionally to rend choise ions of letterd aloud to me, and quality tive common sense which I ao Tired in them ia the quality in ther owner to which [ now address these words, The fact is T arm in an awkward predica- mont concerning Mrs. Sheridan, and I should be deeply obliged for your advice, To be brief, my business ia amplifying by leapa and bownde. It necessitates my ab- sence on frequent trips, and during such absenoos | must have in my office someone who is absolutely competent, absolutely devoted ta interests and willing to take fnfinite palms. Hitherto F niece been sutlsfactory in these three im t re specta; but since her marriage | am bound to state that this ia no longer “the cE. E ing aa a private individual, I do mot blame her; on the contrary, I admire her more asa woman for putting her marital sibilities before her responsibilities oherjeb. Nevertheless, the fact that she does an lands me, as her employer, in a June i, my hole. The candid troth othe be pag less to me commercial se be Ear than she wae before i mot in ber work: 1 caa’t pe) pinch, In addition, the Ba. al craig . taal ioe On my secretary andj <a raise the salary, Now here is my quandary Ti gi natives present re: Fin diamise your niece, and, fack!y the meet practic eure: w- find for ber a subsidy peas: = office and place setmebody ce os | a course which | bare no ditt ar | would deeply rewnt. But 2 b=. apparent each day that my a | be rin merely os a side wee « ga gi be roeew, 15 a Seg the very ang reli tertaln for her personally thai tea to disclose my pridtsertes Ing i I remais, sincerels 5 zy STSMFTELD Sturt hel Aunt Geeil to Old Joplin, Y O8AR ME JOPL deeply sensible of the be: m paid me in thus consulting whit 9 poet te term my “ native cet “al ne bound to say that [ cann on how to run your Geabuarat I can advise my niece oe bev & + and her job. How ce: looker, with just this ros Se speak, over your shoulder at and without knowing what ok advise you which sult to pay? There bs, however, the tomy = eral way: More and more yore: women who don"t aheodutely = for a living are going into bus sem and [ cant atop t of tum bere For better or for wore, the oo already under way. Marry a women profoundly; some it leas tically untewehed. Persocally doubt in my mind that some poy ean hold down a busines job alzen in a. thoroughly competent mc | fashion—and that's the e+ 4 Which you, aa an employer, ay ol Tt's equally tre that some ee Tt all depends on the yourg sca cat 18 & Bpecial case, And | way of discovering which ao can't, eave by actual apes ere the business world, Some of the and continue their jobs; t: | marry and drop out. You za hard on the employer to baw o on you. But is it any harder ta bright, up-and-coming poorg =e you've come to rely an, secon] wider opportunity and leave ps course it'a mot! But poo're oar! eonaidering his own self-interest | so it dorsn't seem stich a5 eos Now to which category doe | belong—to the fairly small ie | who after marriage cas ani 4 te ewing their bustmess job dustrial world with competes and poise; or does she blog |)! large class of girls whose con , in the home wate o terest in their owbside job wae” you and T know the answer ts Sal even better at this point that! ma she has common sense oc | Fey et") give her an au | she'll d her own wa peere ee belones. Fac fat in Very sincerely yan. Ceo Os PLS. Why not offer ber = responsibility, emoluments oo 5 Old Joplin te Aunt Cec M. DEAR MADAM: It: extensive expernence Fi | of secretaries ["we newer vet ics didn't comaider be of she t= ' and just a trifle more, thar T paid. IT dowbt if your rier ® a ky to the rule. [t amy she hus already bitten of reote| can chew, and yet you propor ai offer her a bi r bite, Ard Ts! were a sensible woman! ie ma! Telegram from Auet Cec * “You asked my adverse. Th EAR AUNT CECIL m= a regular blizzard of bes my part of the world « = (Cantianeed on Part ©

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Of eourst I knew In worth more to him than he pags! Why, 0 do about everything. Half the time he just sits around, waiting [or me to jog his elbow! For a while 1 was too staggered te do any- thing exeept gape at him dizzily while wutlined the new duties which went with the increased pay and to wonder where the joker was. For 1 knew there was o joker somewhere. Old Joplin’s no plaster saint. He doesn’t consider me a howling suicstas where now Dam sinee my marrage: then why should he suddenly offer me ao bigger position with better pay? There was more in this than met the eye, I needed time to re it out, and so I Faid Hehicge "Mr. Bee ae I can't deny that I am de empl gale with your offer— think, because it shows you mil ve confidence in me, As to aeempting it it wouldn't be fair to you unless I could devote ta you considerably more energy and time; it would mean giving up house keeping und going te board; it would meun—well, a reshaping along the whole lineless time at home and w concentra- tion of in interest here. I'd like to take time to think it over—if you don"t mind.” “Take all the time you need," he said with a amule, Old Joplin’s arnile is net half haul. ei course nothing like so sunahiny a Steve L think T could pall it off all right," a Oh plied Old Jopl et] "Wh, yee," repli ] oplin quietly, “wou can do the job all right—or 1 wouldn't haw: a it to you. t's just a case of paying the price, And it's only you who can that. ‘This is your little ship and nebody can ateer it but you, Well, Aunt Ceeil, he was eo simple and friendly and—yes, human—aa if he knew il] my inside troubles. [ mean—aa he sat there staring meditatively out of the win- dow in that immaculate get-up of his, that without warning the tears rushed into my eyes and spilled over; 1 choked up; and without any reason at all T suddenly borat out crying like a kid, Why? I don’t know. [t was just os if he hacl touched some secret ch or put his finger on a sore spot which had been pain- ing Te, unaware, all the time. And in one single clear Mash of vision, between the aet of pulling out my handkerchief and blow- ing my nose, [knew I eoulda't make the e. IT eouldn't make the grade beenuse I wouldn't pay the price. And | wouldn't make Steve pay the price. He'd paid so mich with bis mother that it seemed aa if he'dl earned n littl leeway with his wile, Old Joplin pretended not te have meted the sudden shower, so 7 pit on my things and slipped out. And as 1 closed the door I heard him mutter to himself: “That aunt must be a remarkable character!" Some character in a novel he waa thinking of, T suppose. For 2 business mun he's rather well-read Well, in the Subway on my way home I decided I'd be an idiot to throw up the job with all the extra pay: and all that day and the next [ chopped and changed ancl played with the idea of taking or leav- ing that job the way a cat plays with a mouse; and [ didn’t say a word to Steve, He's been ao preoccupied and glum and secret of late that To obeyed a litth: inner voier which said “Keep this business to yourself" Chir cook has left, and we've heen going out to meals, Steve silent, | moody, with a far-away look in his eyes, “Steve,” I said suddenly one night, “BL Bee weuy boarding for a while?" Steve low up from his book and favored me with a long quulet stare, then without reply dropped his eves bo the page, I let the idea sink in. “What for?" asked Steve at the end of half an hour. That's Steve. “Qh, nothing special," I suid lightly. “More efficient, that's all, Less expensive, Lees wear and bear on the nerves when we | beoth work.” “What would we do with all this junk?" He apoke carelessly, but my heart gave no great lewp peel 0 nearly aprang out of these were the sleep! He had turned over and muttered a@ distinct aa could he: "Sure, Separate. That's the dope. But what would we do with all this junk?" I suppose I whitened—who wouldn't? But I saw 1 must walk softly, like Agag, EVENING POST for one false would be fatal, and ao Tlaughed as Dead, “Why, Steve, it wouldn't hurt my feelings if we seropped every blessed thing in the place except mamma's linen and dad's beds.” At that Steve rage, game and atood over me, his blue eyes boring me through. "You know! You've known all along— you star-spangled little fraud!" “Oh, Steve!” Io made a wild guess, judging it must be some good luck by the powin eye. “Ta it —— It ig!—a ralee!" © nodded, “Then why have hed kept ik ao secret? Why didn't you spent [ was still miles away from knowing what wag going on in hig “Well. he replied soberly, "TO hawe been figuries an this married-and-atay-in- business elull from the husband’ 4 point of view; and the way I figured it is this: If I've no right to stand in the way of your seli-development in a business career you have equally no Fight te stand im the way af mine. That's logiead, isn't it? All right, Then suppose my self-development re- quired that I accept a bigger job out of town—let's say away off in the desert— while yours required that you stick right herein town? The aes reault is —sepora- tion, Well, when I'd doped out the logical moves OF the bourd thus far, what dors the ehief do but call me inte his offer one moming and tell me I'd been promoted ta he manager of their new plant ——" teve!"" [| broke in, grabbing him. “How glorious!" *——autin Arizona,” he finished Aunt Cecil, have you ever gone et fa one of those express elevators that drop through apace at such insane speed that your whole interior system seems to surge right up and your eyes feel popping out of our head? That was just the way I felt. saw the whole situation then in ome swift flare, just as I hed in Old Joplin’s office — but as sheogh a glass, darkly. "Arizona !"" I gasped. “Quite so!" said Steve dryly. “A. hit too far, @h, to eemmute in from Arizona te Old Joplin's ay mich day} Old Joplin! Pd completely forgotten him and his raige, It wis on the tip of my tongue to tell Steve, but I decided that dheep. One mix-up at a thie. “ dt nd—and SOL ‘he ital tat there?" I giientt trying Legh tec straight in my heal. e WIL att ll a kink in Steve's sind. "Td like to see anybody try te atop me!" said he. “And—and what about mar? Have you figured out that move ton?” "Sure!" he replied, “LT've no right to stand in your light any more than you have to stand in mine. Ergo: I go to my little place in the aun, and you stay night here with yours, With me out of the plot you'll have more time to devote to Old Joplin, You say his business is incrensing. Inside of a month I wager you'll land a raise.” “But that means T just couldn't get it aut; my voiee, in spite of me, broke, Steve still stow over me with a hard smile. “That's right,” he said. "You've got it. Spit it out." Llooked at him, but he hed on his poker face and even the expression of his eyes FvaafTlescd rene. June 16, 4 And —and that's why yo; exes i off all this stuff?" “Well, BE gall Skrve. sor 1 pail hard, “no wse paying sora: Us | well c Up as WeEa sy Dy beds. That might tab ) igi bad. Tl tell wou what A 6 and 1'll keep mine- «i: 7 th Sort af symbolical—eh? Ct pag the morning papers: Crue. Tapeh Twin Beds, Twin Bes, Oras! 7 Together, Forred to Seas: Their Master and Metre. - fy Business Carerrs!™ I don't know why it ais to but that last silly remark pos oy ished mee: although | bn thoy joke somewhere I couldn) es ou finger on it: 1 Laid my bev? dog pillow and began to sob, Sg and began to comlort me. “Cheer up?" he said prewersy 9 “They're net separated ye "“T thimk it's frightful, tad tug on stich subjects,” | tole be knew you were making it up ull di “To wasn't thowgh.” mi: “ee “T's all Gospel trath—joet os |} I've had the refusal of tho = weeks." “And you're going to tale i! Tmanced, For reply Steve fished in be brought out a letter, adds “Here pou are—bere's tk side" “But what?” T cried. "Can't you guess?" weled Shee “You've never tare! if 4 — 1 heave!" sald be wih “Don't look eo tightened only job on this planet, Vy I'd force you to come with rs” i go without you? Netarts | | to prove to yeu that ths exprtssion worked off ta. © between man and wile i a |. sieve, Tf love dopant mear + oi ger than the sell-expresicn “oe picsyune personalities, the Dg ay Off some morning acd sal word for the feeling 1 bave for ya And so, Aunt Cecil. on atabal that IC didn't even tell tim sho lin’s offer at al]! You s= te time. Steve's chief had 1 q sion the next day; and df s+ ma to pack up and get off imide da course it waa sheer mos giving up his chance on wo aplin. 1 aucemeded in convoy T might find means of pelt erpaa Arizonn as well as bere, Sr 0% T got Old Joplin or long de-usa him that important busines - 4 de home the next a Ac | pee in taward the end af os mim ead that was my lost ofte esd Joplin. He'd saved up guste «I for me—trist Old Jop nett. shining hours!—and that fs we ie just the same a any oteo the new secretary, @ eer": competent, I fear. I cau" 4 dictation, sneaking a dom .° wateh, from which | augur | So to-night, Aunt Co, 4 aleep for the Last time in our listen to the melancholy - horns down the tha breaking off with oid 3 Fog absorbing. He was an = i don't know what he'll do = That other wo man won't sci ba me ge ei iis aan plex t rig ut Gt | ieked it A time— haves: rolR Lowina, Fros-Noe-" GIRL, F DEAR NIECE: ha! ence what [ think ifs! right As Old dege = 5! own little ship and pobkets ° | ip You've given up yor WWE wou mage med Morrow: &o don't lean ta Mm meeting you Um phe ee

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 43 This ewrians, febrows rock er ihe for for al! JodnssAfanes ite Asifes Roafings, Jt grees them fire-tajety, of course, ara, in aidiven, Winrahiiity ana pernid- meocé, ff keeps roofing coer coor, he could have prevented this with an Asbestos Roof What Type of Asbestos Roofing? This chart will help you decide Brand or Trade Tyee of Ashestos Boning ‘oer Kind of Meilding Slate surfered roll Stmall buildissgs 2K from the chimney flue..... difference is less than thirty dollars. It 7 Se ills on the roof.....a tiny, 18 worth it, iss Bint surlaged roll |, Fletatone . 5 A : welling roofing or Let green; flame. .;.. and soon the whole = For the same indestructible rock fibre nso Foon oe rag aileeite | a ecru ablaze—betrayed by the roof thatgives Johns-Manville Asbestos Roof- ; ee i oO i ings their fire-catery op ere Chwelli Mogi!) aabe-s Ira thick — ree, pposed to protect it ings their fire-safety also gives them per ee: gee tuse somebody grudged the few manence. Weather, rotandcorrosion have lentes tessary to make that roofareal little effect upon asbestos. These roofings i. The cost of a few shrubs never need painting, refinishing or other lawn would have given that protective measures, and they should fire-safety of Asbestos Roofing. last as long as the home they protect. ithey didnot know this. Many There is a roofing of Johns-Manville e inclined to think Asbestos Asbestos, either in shingle or roll form, “pensive because it is always forevery typeof structure. Select yours Colerblencdes —Sie- floor, broam withor gilboot red or ay aoodcntals | Pid) sakewtos shingles Threllings $25,000 opeerds John Mille ALaleta bons J Reotlng or Eualt-op Booting Factories, shops and mille—Miordier and Sqetesth rools* Sor 4 ply ready roofing dobins-Maowille Built-ags Mowing Flat roola— 08 buildings" Built-up roofing spoken of. from the chart on the right. Skeleton frome | Corruguted asbestos | Johns-Mamville B Ne : balding — a. roofing wih steal Cnerugated Aaleeatca 41s mot so. Anybody who can Ask your roofing dealer or builder for standard conilitinns*| peinfarcement Buuting oe et up four walls can afford to samples and prices of the roofings. Each sm with Asbestos Roofing. On ts given the highest rating in its class by ase as that in the picture the Underwriters’ Laboratories, Inc. Steele tion fraser bik - ig cinarre bem perature or coten saline tunica" Tebna-MManville Traostelorroge led Alsberabem Woot Rating Cormugebed ashertes reniing wilhoud sieel reinioromres nt, "Nate—Indestrial buildings call for expert advice, JOHNS-MANVILLE, Inc., Madison Ave. at 41st St., New York City A rooflog expert iy awailable af all Johns Manville [ranches Rranita fa 26 Larer Cia for Gunadear CAR ADIAN (ORNAAARTUILLE Ot, Led. Torosss HNS-MANVILLE sbestos Roofing

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at THE SATURDAY For June Days These Bubble-Grain Delights In the Morning Mix Puffed Rice with your ber- ries. These flimsy, nut-like mor- eels add a delicious blend. (Consider how Puffed Rice tastes served with cream and sugar. It is like nut bubbles. Then imagine what it adds to fruit. Po A Afternoons Lightly douse with melted but. tere for hungry chiklren alter echool. “Then it forms a food con- fection. Use as garnish on ice cream, as leading chefs are cloing. Use like nut-meats candy making. Also as toasted wafers for your SOUPS. in home At Night The ideal dish for children is Puffed Wheat in milk. Whole wheat, with its 14 elements, forms a practically complete fol, Whole wheat, with every food cell blasted, easily digests. Puffed Wheat Puffed Rice Whole grains puffed to 8 times normal size Made by Prof. Ancerson's proc- ese, Over 125 million steam ex- plostons are caused i: every ker- nel. Every food cell is broken, so digestion is made casy and com- plete. High heat makes them fla- wory. Puffing makes them thin and flaky. So these—the ideal fowls for children—are the foods they love the best. ' The Quaker Oats @mpany Sole Makers ee eee —E——E—EEeEEE————————E—EEE———— Eee — EVENING POST Juans 1, Everybody's Busines By FLOYD W. PARSONS * Household Facing ARD times ended the orgy of 5 ing. Personal incomes were reduced. Nine families out of ten must even jet give thought to ways and means to get the most out of every dollar, The chief expense af the average American is in malntaining ahome and supportingafamils, It follows, therefore, that the greateat opportunity to save ties in reducing the outlay of each household for the so-called necessities of life. The wisest kind of economy is that founded on the fuller utilization of the things we use rather than doing entirely without them. It bs also a facet that the peal waste in the home is from little ks that are cumulative; not the glaring loses that are plainly evident. Fiontl ia lt ineipal item of expense moat homes. ‘Through improper bandiin ng large quantities of vegetables and f stuffs are wae: Here ore a fow simple suppestions for every saving: Lay in quantities of pill ta , for later ter. Keep potatoes in a cool, dry, dark place. Edib roots such a8 carrots, pire snips and turnips should be kept in earth or aand hae a ne in. re cellar. a potatoes can pe ye unti ae cleaned, dried and packed in chall, Toma- tocs can be kept for some time if gathered immediately before frost and placed on straw-covered racks in the ca Celery should not be cleaned or washed until the day it iste be ¢ateh. Oranges and lemons should be w oh oh in paper, for their aking provide a fan wecling ground for mold. Sugar ig t kept in tin; salt in wood or eratkery. Cornmeal gpotls Tore ay than flour, so it is to buy it in ama quantities, Fue, tapioca macaront and practically all the dried fruits should be kept in covered crocks in a clean, dry place. Breakfast cereale and crackers remain fresh longer when kept in air-tight recep- oo boxes of jura—in a cool, dry Ace. Every household refrigerator should be supplied with a thermeameter, which should be read at frequent intervals. The growth of buetena in Ponds Lo creases rupriclly when he eapereies wf the jot box gets above Bo°F, In a large howehold where the refriger- ater has a capacdty af more than one hun- dred pounds of ice the side-icer is best. The box should pt in a dry otmosphere, and not be exposed to drafts or rapid changes in temperature. Clean the with cold water and washing soda, followed by a rinse with clear cold water and a care- uldrying. Much ict is wasted through the frequent and unnecessary opening of the refri tor door. Investigation showed that the temperature of an jee box rises abowt two ip, rel hited time the door is opened. The t part of a refrigerator is always the coldest. Ice is useless in a refrigerator whless it melta, Covering the ice with a blanket is a bad practice, Dollars are wasted through carelesaness ineooking. Nomatter how furiously water boils, cooking does not proceed any faster. | Many people waste gas and oil in paint | keepin away tore water than necessary. e in= stant beoling ins the or oil flame should be turned down as low aa it will go and still continue boiling the water. Equip- ment that permite flreless cooking is now logkel upon with much favar by people whe praction economy. The combination fireless cooker and gas range not only eaves Tuel but helpa keep the Kitchen cool in the aummertime., In auch a sywtem the cook- ing continues after the gas is armed off, for the ovens of these ranges are insulated, ‘and the final cooking is accomplished by the retained heat. An oven regulator or ther- mostat attached to a an Tange wave time, energy and fucl, besides insuring accuracy in cooking. The flow of gas is regulated automatically by the oven heat. If an electric range is wed the howsewile should cultivate the habit of turning the awitch to medium or low, instead of always it at high. Kerosene stoves are generally used in homes where gis and electricity are not available, In using a herasene out alos take care to see that the stove is set level so that the flow of kerosene will be uniform. Instead af trim- ming or scraping off the tope of wicks, press the carbon down evenly wit j : Pett i : t is always possible to comers | Planning meeala with referer i gj whoee preparation tales the per 4 steaks or chops are to be weed wes tables which cook quickly ot the to stove, like beled potatoe or p= For meats covked inside the ico) ms Tonsts, use the oven al the es baking potatoes or for preparicy on dishes. By following this pu- tire heat meeded fer cooley ths fully wtiliged, In the came o! =: slew on top of the stove it fo os on rice or other things on : "Distitiane suggest the pote fresh or dried fruits, with cereah Raisins, dates, and the like, as » with the cereal. Sirupa mur stead of gugar. The bouwsewde a ways ask for the timming 2 ies buys, for soup end like porpen case Of a large family if @ ofte: ts buy the whole carcass of 2 me Bargain hunters ane often nome is mo economy to spend corfare ut or more of time traveling to. éou ket just to save ten of fifteer: wen One expert contends thit a around at cash storns & no a economy. The trade of a sn! appeal to ome grocer or butr divided up among a number o! ba no one of them will be greath the patronage. A cash scktiad a 4 returned. In dealing with ow in in each line follow the practice “+ every wilted vegetable or ose factory article, Give the coed understand they can have 5 long as they come up to the sid have set, The campaigns to save fia 3 during the war have been bop; | if we ore to judge by revi contents of garbage cans i) ee Many fate can be clarified ox eooking, One scheme i to or ‘ sinall picces, cover witk wate: a to soak for a day. Change‘) the during that time, and thes ¢ empty the fat into an irc | E Fl npg af skim == pound of suet. This is cookrd « oll sounda of boiling entirely oo the mixture has cooled = of carefully, ‘This fat may = ha butter in many recipes | baplessent taste or odor. Le: elting point than beef iat » thorities suggest adding one pol lard te four or five times ths: sue to make a softer fat A material los meeulte [roo orca Rid Shoes, clothing =: furnishings, Shoes whee © ruined by being placed on ase of too clase to a fire, Wet ob ow dried slowly, Insert ahoe tres 2 shoes solidly with paper. £52 tleaned before being put awa. be stored where there is orc Castor of] will male shoe sw proof, and ia a particulariy for patent Jeathers, There i is a true saying that two pais of & alternately will outiast the j consecutively, Woolen clothing or fas ac dl bir ag bruffaho beeetbe end eo i reventing waste : ack things, is to =: thostaleh cleaning before If possihbe, it & fred * have auch articles steam-r authorities claim that if the tuken furs and woolen © packed away for the gure pastebourd suit hemes br om the boxes with — ad de paper pasted over t ears b protective eoverin fora snd Tusa child be oe! atored. To get rid of bewtle the floors with crack-fillers, 4 Cleaner is an enemy of the! furnes Will destroy pests. ADO of sulphur to each thee! space to be fumigated. Ge aed to destroy beetles oe (Contiaacd a Pape

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 45 % ME urtherlacts - fg Back of Oldfields (|. Increasing Success [/| LDFIELD successes in 1921 are being outdistanced by the achievements of 1922. In the first four months of this year, 216 established tire dealers—leaders in their communities—adopted the Oldfield line. In one week eight distributors ordered carload lots of Oldfields. To date, there have been 98 of these carload buyers. It takes a carload a month to supply users in Mexico vity alone. From November to April, the number of Oldfields sold nereased 165%, and tubes 174.990, over the same five months wf the previous year. Every important 1921 racing classic, including the In- lianapolis Sweepstakes and French Grand Prix, was won m Oldfields. This year at Los Angeles, March 5th and April 2d, Tommy Milton was again victorious on Oldfields, setting a world's ecord for 50 miles in the second race. Covering 150 miles at 102.8 miles per hour without stop, immy Murphy on April 27th, at Fresno, Cal., broke the torld’s record for one-mile track in his Oldfield-shod racer. Everywhere such striking examples of Oldfield superiority re being recorded and an increasing demand for Oldfield uality is making itself felt. THE OLDFIELD TIRE CoO., AKRON, OHIO 2 Bt, 2 Gidfeld Warchouses The guaranteed Oldfield “999" the Alcan, Obi Tice Apieclen market's biggest value in light car equip- Atlanta, 1165 5. Figueroa ment. Built of four-ply Wh ounce 320 x oo 20 Walker Street Saint Franceco, + q " an 1 Chicape 1414 Van Mess Ave, cotton: fabric—with rugucd freedom = Ful Size 1920 Michigan Blvd. “Minneapolis, tifically designed to prevent skid. The same Anti-Skid | Dallas. 444 Stinson Blvd. notable value in both 30 x 3!4 and 30 x3 3121 Commerce St. Mew York, inch sizes. Bo Kansas City, 1871 Broadway 2001 Grand Ave. Beattie, 1518 With Ave.

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46 What Are Basement Windows For? 1 i bu for elise oretolet nd slight and re one prin- S exivilin gu get throush a given win windows dow opening, tha you buy basement to let in the daylight The ats com- 4 ; anying il= a! fan b Pus con Steel ——- || Basement Window and a wood wins doe Bex: thos ecteid Seal cies Note the differenes in the amounts pen light ob- tained, With Truseon Basement bd there is a gain of 30 to 80°), depencix the size of opening. So you are buying ax: light ot » greatly red cost. to —- out weather ual Fel eHni- rf ly odmit the light, b must shut out | the storma. ‘¥ will develop : cracks and crevices th which wind and rain can enter, The continuous overlapping double-contect weathering around Truscon Steel t Windows makes them tight against even driving rains. for ease of operation Basement om windows, ing Tear the damp gr the effects of moisture. Truscon Steel Basement Windows, be- ; ing made on- tirely of steel, cannot warp or swell or atick or lose thear ahape. They & easily under all conditions. lecks them automatically. for economy in cost With all their advantages, Trusnon Secel Basement Windows ae- tually cont aa litle aa the old-fashioned wood win-= dow. In some Localities they cost consicer- ably less. For rown sate ishection fill out the t saa te In pa me You can saat Winds trom om We or declare Return Coupon Below! TRUSCON STEEL COMPANY YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO Ii cee oes = fa Principal Cities Dealers rp Saree TRUSC BASEMENT Yer price. revarn coepon or adh deaier g cost sheet, ruscon Steel Base WINDOWS eae 29. eee P Truscon Steel Company, Youngstown, 0. Ae ec SFO on | riaon bee Send inf T Spel i Basement Rindaws, I am ie OF srchitert [J contractor [J Laie : ine # Addfrenn — ee Se SEPT Pee | notafford a mothproof ced N STEEL THE SATURDAY (Comtnued from Page #4) have invaded rugs, carpeta and upholstered furniture. Take The articles out-of-doors, saturate them with nescipe and keep them outside until the gasoline has evaporated, The sbi on practice at ty aera ichr apera under carpeta and ruga to Phone tron aawecta tien lek ci Placing furs in cold storage during the summertime tends to restore their glossi- ness, for the low temperature ia that of their aut element, packed away with cRyenne pepper, tobaceo or Insect powder are fairly safe from beetles, [fa family can- ar chest a substi- he using red-cedar shavings or chipa in an ordinary ‘dea et aay ai my pane top, Man boxes are made of cedar, and t utilized by some housewives in “hese ar themselves with the moth-defying seg Ants are a destructive peat in ibn: 30 ealities arering the warm months hese insects usually succumb te kerosene, tur- pentine or quicklime, An ant mest con ben deatroyed by boiling water. Powdered cloves keep away red ants, while all varie ties dislike camphor, One remedy is to make an ant tape by soaking an ordinary cotton 4 in a solution of corrosive sub- | limate. making the solution place an | ounce of corrosivesublimatein an unchi nite-ware vessel and dissolve the poison atratty After soaking the tape in this ailution hang ituptodry. Later wind the tape around the legs of tables, refrigerators and other furniture used for storing food. The efficiency of the tape will last for at least a year. Do not let the sublimate so- pen come inte contact with iron, tin or tute may be im: Mildew is ao fungous growth found in places where there is a relatively high temperature and poor circulation of air. Lf a are attacked by mildew wash im- trediately and expose to aun and air. In every household there are many articles made of rubber, and although these will last for years if handled carefully, they can be destroyed in a few weeks by failure to observe a few simple rulea. Heat and aun- light hasten the deterioration of rubber . Waterproof coats, rubber shoes and ct-water bags are frequently ruined by being placed on radiators to dry. Oil destroys rubber, a4 is well known by the owners of automobile tires and inner tubes, Rubber articles are best preserved in a cool, dark stm aaa Weck Many things are OuiEe~ wives which could senile and cheaply bbe produced at home, Any number of articles are thrown away which might be recovered and utilized again, Gasoline, benzine and other liquids used for cleaning fabrics, after serving their purpose once, can be used over nal ae ee fa ce through filter paper, Which can be procured at any drug store. There sre certain eee of oat se are poor economy. One example is hoarding of old medicines, Many medi- cines lose their potency after afew weeks or months, and are without benefit when used at a later date in a similar illness, The very nee of a bottle of medicine in the ouse Is kely to cause it to be into pressed. serviet for some apeciie ailment for which | itis entirely unsuited in strength or dosage, Even with two people having the sane complaint a certain prescription may help EVENING POST one and harm the other, It la wisest to throw away all unused medicine after ill- ness, unless it ia a standard vanety which doea not deteriorate. I[f saved, each bottle a teins should be labeled with the data reactiption, the disease and the the patient, One way to offset a contraction in the family income is to apply more thought to intelligent economy in the home, eae Gas Saving A pteiniad ia one of the moat iei- our resources. It is one thing in which every cithen haa an igi and should take an interest, Every cub foot of gan that is wasted is a lowe to the whole nation, for it is a valuable natural asset that cannot be re alter what we have is gone. In the words of one en- gineer, “Those who now waste the gaa do so at the expense of othens who would be glad to use it efficiently," The public-utility companies that supply gas aie to customers have no corn the efficient utilization o ‘he pr fact { they aell, In this particular, servies differs radically from practically every other kind of public-utility service, Gas ia when, through carelessness or ignorance, the consumer fails to see that the gas l@ properly mixed with the proper Proportion of air, Other wastes result when the mixture is not completely burned or when the flame is poorly directed to the object to be hea natural gas ia completely burned tarhen dioxide and steam are formed, For each cubic foot of gas that is burned, two cubic feet of water vapor or steam are produced. It is water vapor that causes gaa ranges to rust, and the walls and windows of rooms where #85 is burned ta sweat, When the gas is not completel burned, as is the case when the flame denly strikes a cold surface, such as a hot- water heater, carbon monoxide is formed instead of carbon . Carbon dioxide ia the gas that is exhaled from the lungs when alr ia burned in the human body: carbon monozide ls a polson. A few points consumers of gus should bear in mind may be stated briefly as fol- lows: In order to burn gas efficiently the cooking vessel should be placed about one and one-quarter inches above the holes in the gas burner, In other words, the flame should be one and on ard ine high. When a higher re ed, saiacti of the heat generated out horizontally and downward, and is without effect in cooking. The tip of the flame should herely touch the bottem of the cooking VeESH flame should never be per- mitted to lick up along the side of the vea- eel, The gaa should burn with a pale-blue, nonluminous flame. A luminous flare mot only deposits soot but is wasteful, In order to get the proper type of flame it is neces- sary to exercise care in admitting the right amount of alr. In the wintertime the press is usually low, In meeti ty & the bu the cocking it is advisable elther to rm or to lower the Position of ! rma ee : Lia patna sciee the UFher . In this way it is possible to make the tip of the short fame touch the bhoattem of the vessel. At times the pres- sure is ao low that the flames are less than ene 16, oy one-half inch in he. Ble th still be burned efficiently : jen the position af the cooking mex 3,, the burners or lowering the tonics a, not a difficult job, and a: pe done by the man. of thi house Contrary to genetal belief --. value of Frenne at A ti : the gna decreases, Tobe ene; value of gas goes up? Pee cers fs iol of decrease in the temperater -! More gas is used for cooking ip a-+= in summer, net because the tery the gus is lower bat bersuse tty tmp ture of the food and water is 4) vessel is ao much lower in the +... 1» and more heat is needed to brig “a and water to the rei fz more, the tem he L: kitehen is usually honor during ts than in summer, and comsaqaey heat is loet through radiation o = 4 In order to wet the greatest mle a given quantity of ga, os 5 drafte, so the flames will rot = x and the heat fail to reach the pa)» gel. Newer burn the ges wie: « on papacy ua ik whdes tops. Lf there any re fn oe flame adjust the air eh. the vease! ready to place in pe: = lighting thr gas. rm od th oe the vessel is removed. A ce. -) cannot be made any hoite = commenced: ae When bhoiicg leg flame should be lowered, Coc burners frequently, Deposits c!- bottoms of hot-water tanks o; ¢ of scale inside hot-water bere tate the use of greater quanti 4 heat the water, Hundreds of small towns t!- + United States, too small fort : tion of manufactured gas, ure” = with a bounteous supply of marc. rhany of these towns the ai © cheap fuel is accepted asa ci and not fully appreciated, Th: = many these communitoc 2 who are guilty of wasting oe limited resource. Greater rar 2 eervance of a few simple rie © tend the life of the nation’s pau to twenty years. In many towns in the fe incandescent-mantle lagen 2 ath ae well aa on br uae all the time—=: i Three of these lamm oc» sway hate enis hh ges in terse supply all the light and fuel average household, Another »~ of gaa results from. Leakage = Ec the gas fittings are fauly. [ cubic foot of gas per boar leaks ani ect gas cock, thi ra> of 2760 cubic feet of nat e month or so al = should shut off all the bus house, and then note the mo« pointer on the small dial attecs- meter. A reading on the du terval of three of four hour Whether of ot. gas is beng eer leakage, and how much, The waste of natural pe companies has been mat through education and ler-4 earnest effort should now & = vent the householder from = cent of the gas metered into: el

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 47 The Coming Car The Knight-type motor is coming into its own in America through the Willys-Knight car. Europe long ago adopted it in some of her foremost cars—the English Daimler, the Belgian Minerva, and others. Now Willys-Knight presents itto America in a car, itself irresistible in grace, beauty, worthiness and comfort, at a price which brings it within the reach of all—$1375. And the results are everywhere apparent. You see the Willys-Knight blossoming out every day in the streets of every town and city, and on reaching country roads. The Willys-Knight motor is the highest development of the Knight sliding sleeve- valve principle. Everything that motor engineers have been searching for for years with WILLYS-KNIGHT Touring, $1375 Roadster, $1350 multiplicity of cylinders, complications of valve contrivances, and ingenious devices is attained in the Willys-Knight through simplicity. Just two sleeves connected directly with a shaft and sliding on a film of oil—a smooth, even, solid, uninterrupted pres- sure of power al all speeds; instant, sure response; economy of fuel and oil; quiet- ness; and aboveall, freedom from trouble. lt actually improves with use; carbon, | that deadly enemy of poppet valves, merely builds up its reserve of power. Coupe, $1875 + Sedan, $2095 fo & Tededo The Willys-Knight Motor Improves With Use DD F.0.B. Toledo eS = rk Jey Pn ae _ 1 re ee — eh | it L? hf

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No more Saturday rest ups - You want to shave every day with Williams Many men have the sort of skin that must be humored a bit, that every now and then says, “Oh, let me alone!" Many men shy a lietle at an every day shave. When Saturday morning comes it's easy to say, “Oh, well, it’s only half a day. Let it go! My face needs a rest now and then.” But the face that gets a daily lathering with Williams’ never says this. You want to shave every day if you use Williams’. For the Williams’ lather is lather for the stir as well as for the beard. Its lather that meets and overcomes that difficult and all too frequent combination of a tough beard and a super-sensitive cuticle. Give it half a chance and it will moe only soften every hair in the stourest beard, but it will also prepare and lubricate the skin, make it flexible, make it ready to yield gently and evenly as the razor edge glides smoothly over it. And afterward a face that is glove-smooth and blooming. Williams’ Holder-Top Stick is one form of Williams’ Shaving Soap that furnishes this perfect acti The original Holder-Top—the stick in “the holder that olds." The metal collar that holds cach stick, both the orginal and the re-load stick, does several things: It prevents loosening or wobbling. Tt makes it easy to remove the stub—a firm stub that you Cam wse the last wafer af, It makes it easy and quick work to put a Re-Load Stick in. Re-loads save you money. Get one and keep the original box. Moisture-holding lather from the perpetual stick im the holder that holds. There is no more perfect product. Send 10 cents in stamps for a trial size stick in a full-size permanent re-loadable box e_ * illiams Holder Top Shaving Stick no 5

THE |. BA. WILLLAMS COMPANY i Dept. of, Glastonbury, Cone. | Send me o trial length Halder Top Stick ina Ligr peslintdlible bea. i | | l | 16 cent cite lied, Murese | I I | 1 | i | tdulrcag EVENING POST Business Chaperi ° the Movies — By HELEN BULLITT LOWE oe bend = of the mighty ta ankin L who are asking prosaically, * Ves, brat will the financial returna justify the out- pate instead ol uttering a dashing “ Hang t a = yer So endeth the last flicker of romance that had managed to fick inte the twentieth caucary. Ww even wars wore conducted on a German-elficiency basis. Into his- ‘s back yard of disillusionment have slid the glorious days of easy money in the movies, along with the gold mush of "49, For these bank persona are the financial doctors that have n acquired from sober world of tried old business, to teach the industry how to live within ita in- eome—now that that income is not what it ued to be. Net that enutious capital, when it is investing its moncy, has never had a way of putting an unemotional finan- cial adviser in on an emotional board of directors to watch ita money. And it waa so gome two years ago, When the big money wae golng inte the movies and motion= pore stock wes being put on the mar 2t—when the workingman and his family were doing their nightly motion picture. But now suddenly—and by a turn of the dice—these financial advisers aeem to have become the caliph inatead of the grand vizier, E nickel that és bring spent has to go through their hands, Tired business men are running the art of the motion pic- ture, And maybe you think [t waa an enay Jol that confronted them—this new thing of putting the huge, lumbering, unorganized, extravagant industry on a business basis. And of course the first thing that they thought of —I use the term “they” because the various financial experta placed in the various companies seem to have gone through identical experiences without cal- laborating—was to place the whole outfit on a business budget—as would any nice young rian who had ever read an earnest usiness-administration magazine, oie A coupon or taken a correspondence-achool night course, Bankers in Control But when they n inate up their budgets they found themselves faced with an industry in which all that you buy with your money is the intangible personality of stare, of directors, of mob scenes, of con- tinuity writers, of press-agent-made fame, and of somebody's temperament. And all that you have on your shelves to show as your merits are miles of shadows on miles of celluloid, Those orderly gentlemen from banki circles, with their pasts full of balan ledgers, found themselves in a chaotic world where the value of the product you've manufaectu as no especial relation ta the amount of money it has cost you, Tush— that last little item of five thowsand dollars in the cost of the picture may be merely because that asure-eyed chit of a star de veloped tergperament—when her dressing room had net an outside window—and re- fused to oct while the mob scene you'd engaged to act with her ticked up the meter for twelve hours. (rr nh, ¥ou may not have wasted a nickel—but the fans may just not take to the way the curls curl on the forehead of your hero, Dun and Brad. strect themeches would pause for a reply when masked to render a few snappy esti- mates. Yet how these hard-headed, unsenti- mental financiers haye managed to shake the rudiments of n business aystem Inte this t, overgrown, genius-shet industry orms one of the most dramatic chapters of modern fnaece. Ah, but those were the swashbuckler days of romance, in the hours of the haleyon | sowing of dollars and of the even mare halcyon reaping. When the season was over and the harvest gathered, a simple mathematical problem wa ‘corned. The expenditure wos subtrac from the income, “The vumber that came aut wes the | profits. It waa a nice business—that is, till the May of 1921, trouble about this pi dj waa that, if

ber is known as the deficit. Tt was then—and not a hankers began sticking the bright milloe-dollar ; i sioned di rs. [ndeed, tha a of the loans and the bankers} “throughout the industry—yea, of the dealer in gents" furresing 9) B conservative bank bad joon +] pre sand dollars in the heyday of the 1 clientele, When the note ame = dealer returned to the bank &) as renewal, and ingtead recerned av dothing business didn’t look & pa stison to conservative bars=: “But have you ever been ir business?" the dealer "Why, oo, sir,” meplied the to-o3 Wall Street dignity; “as ym a" in the bankin ines.” uu Vell," a the dealer with ma BIve re, “ou | ener hse hy the clothing busines before, bo: -s the clothing busines now.” Not otherwise came the bar.- 2 business of at least one of the oop 9 Ing COMPANIES. The High Cost of Tempercs ye Lo comptroller of ore the picture para fs ex-cashier of a innge hank Nes Yi the holy of holies of another very well got neady—that war a ~ ain worthy of a pre-Wells b- huge salaries paid to some of thc hot af tconomic sin, becawe | 1 really did have much valze wv | cords, and if you did mot par A else would. Business admisiecs—1 nizes the sacred law of supply anc! But tho way the stars wee of waste the time of the othe: 2 1 oor | a pad company was such an ere that we t to print fail th~ advisers, Now there waa one whoa = they tell, required that she be ‘at every scene of the entire pt director finally compromise two complete seenarias—ore !:- wiew for the star, the other {> epoca ge j peat — eee pos oul at one medion tad bees PUL on eontract te = part, worked ten days and wm: our hundred dollars—for the & waited, And there was soo"! was getting fifty thousand dc» Every day, so the p poe ol in about our P.M. 7 compa Bitting around waiting for ber i: Tt is noteworthy, by the wa; this star went out on ber c= producing pictures on ber = she did not need a financia me Wall Street to get her there ior in the morning, When still another star's 2 demanded that she be pre i (Continged an Pape

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 40 At the Height of Success We Adopt a New Motor No Advance in Prices Look far the White Triangle No car ever had a more famous motor than wit z the Super-Six. More than 125,000 owners know its performance. Its reliability in long, hard service is outstanding. Then How Great is the New Motor = td iewtomse + li to Warrant a Change at This Time 7-Paas. Phacton i745 . Cabriolet- - = 2295 All the patented advantages the difference. You must - Coupé-'- = = maith are retained in the new know the latest in motor Bee ee ae sae Super-Six motor. Without performance. And you Limousine = - 248 them the improvements will like the new Hudson Freight and Tax Extra would have been impossible. in other advanced details, Even Hudson owners mar- Come drive it. You will velatthe change. Discover be surprised. A Ride Tells All [uDSON MOTOR CAR COMPAN Y DETROIT, MICHIGAN

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THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page #3) wear Fifth Avenue clothes in a blight-of- Broadway production, it was an economic sin for a director, who knew she couldn't Sidn't pp with it, to let her. But if they n't t ge and bet her do three Lucileelad pictures Indeed, and the sa ot. her wa the least of leit a Sega atar son atar ing & private business. sf hn re conducted her temperament. hich om got the firnt of pees ble quality ish den in ee ee t agit may, the whale outit took it over from the camera man to the hack electri- clan whenever they wanted a raist of sal- ary. They over the technic of the Italian diva and of the Slav impresario— piin Anglo-Saxon and Hebrew persons rom Indiana and Brooklyn, That was the year that one star found that her tempera- pene would ne ek her to do a bie So- scone Wee in alee net ys 20, oa = ee : Wt the moat ex Ve Lemperament o all was the unbudgeted temperament of Not that it was his fault, r dear. His was manufactured for him bythe agent too—to be securate, about the year of 1918, when a director had produced three pletures of such draw- ing power that the management decided to star his name on his pictures as a trade- mark. Then what one any had done all the other companies had te do. This is the best little b extant for the game of pectin Pe ltelie eerrescel Every com- pany looked around among its litle things and picked out a director to star. And it was alter his name was featured that the director really discovered what | money was meant for, It was meant to

| it interfered wi \ a budget a: build the glass floor for a ballroom at the coat of eigt ty thousand dollars for a scene that was displayed for just three or four minutes, It was meant to pay the oe Seer, salaries, while the director « | for three-quarters of the day with the light- betel oo ing problem. Tt was mennt to | times as much film—which means four | times ms much actors’ salaries and over- head—ss could ibly be used—because the direwber's tempera- ment not to work spontanecualy, The Drop in Salaries It's a good thing that there had not been the past for somebody to balance—or some of our most ng young experts would be by now n Bellevue, For + those fool direetora were doing was working for immortality! Bo much eo, indeed, that the stances apent. with the stare by the business administra- tion have been tere child's play compared to talking the director inte living within to the Sompainy's income, “You can reach a star sometimes,” ex- plains one such gentleman, looking cal tiously about to be sure that there is nobody sige “by apres pealing to her with tears Ue ae oye s enough of a trouper reached by a piece of sentiment if you'll broaden it.” Moreover, in broaching the sub, ot af the star's they were helped brave old law of supply and demand, A stopping of the works out in the city of lywood—where the press agenta are peak us the motion-picture colony di- vides its time between work, Christlan Endeavor and home eooking—did more than save the money that would have been nt preducing ee Tt brought down ole wage scale from overpaid stare te oveeaaid carpenters, And if it wasn't a plot—at least it was a good idea. The salary af a good sea-folng ater has dropped from eighty-five thasand dollars a year to sixty-hyve thousand. That not sound like ironing your handkerchie on the window-pane and washing out itu silk stockings in the washstand 1—but twenty thousand dollara ia twenty thousand dollara—eapecially in these new and eru=o] days when a departmental head at one company indignantly insisted that a dozen sheets of carbon paper be transferred from hia books, as it brought down his economy record. Sic aenper gloria mind, Generally 9 , the wage seule now stands about like this: A leading woman, not a star, who was getting seven hundred and fifty dollara a week has her new con- tract made out to the tune of four to five hundred. A ffteen-hundred-dellar leading Make Rough Koads Siioorh man—beautiful young ren with cupid s- , that do not make you suffer EVENING POST when you look at them, by the way, are just that much eearcer than leading ladies with oyelashes—now brings down from seven hundred and fifty to one thousand dollars. As for the stars who hed contracts which have not run out—well, per- onal business nta of the atara aren't advising their chenta this season to get sick so that their contracts can be broken. The salaries of directors have dropped in portion. Those who were getting four thousand dollars a week now average twenty-five hundred, while the twenty- five hundred to three thousnnd dollar o week men have come down to one thou- sand. The directora etood that blow bravely from the business administration. But where they went all to pieces was when they heard about the budget system. Ah, well, in most instances it was a matter of take it or leave it. The new prosaic world of motion pletures haa no room for the brave adventure of not knowing what you are golng to de tomerrow., When I beheld next year's schedule for the productions of one company, and saw that auch and such & picture was golng to coat one hundred and hnccant de dollars, and auch another two hundred thousand Collars -and that it was going to be com fifth—well, what's the u use of going on liv- means d where romance cing on i men wear derby hata? Not only is there a general schedule in at least two of the large producing com- panies, but each picture now has its work- gachedule, No more may an actor draw a a cela for ten weeks who ia needed for ten days. The picture is acheduled so that those ten ¢ occur consecutively. The Pleturé is scheduled eo that the director mitist furnish a reason why if he runs behind his schedule. Perhaps there were four rainy while he was on location, Per- chance the star had a pimple on the left ene of her nose, That pimple would be as 2B ectly good business- eiriniatyatson ibi—provided, I should add, that the director explained that he tried to paint it out and its geographical location wasn't propitious, Neither is a director held down to hard and fast hours. If he wanta to spend three days gating = certain expression 06 & SA's face, that’s all according to Bovis, Perh ead Bees he can cateh up on ts achadtile. Or he can put in some night work. “Te's just like the war,” explaing one practi picture man who had also been a practical war man. “They gave us an ob- ee we went over the top, but they had ta depend on personality to get us "Therefore is the director's schedule not anut in bulk in the New York office, Buch and such director does his best work alowly—then he la tig Tore time be reach that objective. All really efficient hedules are custom-made. And the tailors of the schedules in the final analysis have actical motion-pieture men. For one of the moat interesting findings of the resent months of Intensive reformi is that the financiers must make the broa outlines of the picture of the penitent prodigal aur but the details have to be filled in by the actual workers with the financiers, forsooth, them brit a d fin the rear ta son Bb tiene inking oe new details. Or ae die ase thelr faving on Scenery The practical men are still telling with gusto of the business adviser who inter- cepted the go-get-it man—which means the person gic purchases he AES proper. ties—on Ls twenty. anlar worth of rede A pote ci “Get t pet chips for five erdered the reform administration. Twenty Serie sent day ih hs Th en t wis set, bling hell waa ready, as wera all tha enizens. The camera n, And then they found oe the seas chips would not stack. Exactly twenty-lour hundred daol- lara was mee f in time while the it man went to purchase twenty-five-collar e es there is nothing that those so- culled practical men get ao reuch fun out of doing as telling you privately that the art af the motion pieture is being stifled by crude business men, And yet—and yet—what makes them so certain that pictures aren't going to be better? There waa certainly room for it, Nor did money succeed in wawing art in the fume a days of spendthrift ire 1 than mor can buy love. oy: the first time in hostory, ox recreate havleg face =a fifty thousand dollars. In a ree: tion I beheld what may be the o new era. Instead of the bur, taken on the old-time cap v- walls, the effect was obtained bp Up just one side of the room by te of one side wall and the bat w the third wall was by a & table that the tail of t ee could pick up. Dy egers room caplay' Teal. When Taylor, the z director of i a ie fame. me provided for him, be refed 1 Piece. And yet so succeed scheme that only the forecno what had been done enabled me the mechanics of the thing. hdios t mechanical oe a saving on seenery of exactly 3 ie what's more, | found met lay that contained som « d ightful interiors shown oe Somehow the wore 3 payesalogy of t t hes been stated 1 needed to be ae bi enough propertie: to 7 all—=and mot = euit of x of dragging ic: may be the old system of unlimited fie Cautious Finance willing to o pend. wen a carefully million—if ae have a tendency anyway to | number of vicious t-aegentes evry Vicious picture is a specc osition,”” ni te one bard-b ey ce ey Sie Bam er the “Tf it geta by the censor you = acaba your money, but ther chances of your product by destroyed.’ Sia, even if the pel for its babe ia rican vice, fime ia going to do a lot af th it invests hard cash in SUPPLY There is a tendency, world of cautious finance to uy vein of commercialized Nest waa produced on this ws on the iden that there ie a= public which would actually soaateiing reapectable and bi an riser, rs sughty—aor came the circulation eae 3 = nes? Big business bo lieved in opening up mew tern of course, always are there c be met with in such adventum difficulty that is being encoos business of commercalizing + the exhibitor who mums the selects the pictures shown has we on the shyt OF one rather tragic svg j self-made industry is that ¢ hibiter—there are, of pesca has a cruder eex outlook aod culture than has the average ence. The classic of the pic- Therefore is it doubly bard = financially such a ure a T But at this peat | side light on big business. The the money that wo books say, on Sentiments! (Conmtaard om Page .

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST =i The man who puts the bubbles 1n it OU have perhaps noticed the silvery bubbles in Chequot Club inger Ale and that they stay in it a ng time. “Putting in the bubbles” is an im: wtant part of making Clicquot. The fing water, drawn from the bed- ck through aluminum pipes, is quite Id but not cold enough. By refrigeration, the temperature of & water is forced down almost to ezing. Then the water is carbon- dd. TAat'’s what makes Clicquot so ely, so full of sparkle. Warmer water would not take the ‘bonation so well, nor would it hold §1 Quo GINGER ALE t BLT MP ASURL ESE TLE OEE PAST PESR CLOT ei TOR eel, ee > EP itge Cuma, de FyT rule it so long after the bottle is opened. So the man who puts the bubbles in Clicquot watches the thermometers and keeps the temperature just mght. And every part of the making of Clicquot Club is just as carefully guarded. No ginger but real Jamaica ginger is used; only pure cane sugar sweetens it; and the happy blend of Clicquot is made with the addition of fruit juices. No wonder “They all fike rt."" : Order Clicquot Club Ginger Ale by the case. Should you desire a change Gdvcar dk Groe Ginger Ale in flavors at times, you can get a mixed Sarsa parilla case with Ginger Ale, Sarsaparilla, E Birch Beer and Root Beer. Birch Beer Root Beer THE CLICQUOT CLUB COMPANY, Millis, Mass., U. 5. A. aw wile Gwe GINGER ALE Keep

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST jul Take a Kodak with you It’s all so easy the Kodak way, and the pictures, precious _the time, will be priceless to you later. You can spend your! cation and have it, too—1in pictures. . Autorraphic Kodaks $6.50 up Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N. Y. Ze Kedat

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fartinued From Page 50) cl invested in prestige. Evidently wet is going to allow us a feta “igh pares. puame getthman who let Tommy ip the business of flaring wratli-= g pelegram that ha just reached ithe Western studios, where the was couched in the terms of letter idener, With I-beg-to-state'a amd rgards. And he was planning niply be an object lesson, sinee it [the one word “Saturday.” cet motion-piclure people just don’t keow the first principles o eer, Tapeak oon no lees authority of anafieer af a producing com- who hae been pot in be the at bad been loaned to that cor- ane of the New York office goes Horna if newer wecure to him but ithe drawing-room— which costs chets. It never would occur to eanrthing but a lower.” ephone rang for the fourth time kali-hour vet. For the fourth iponze: “Find owt first if that yet More MOney. really think T could handle their habits,” he sighs, “if T could just one week without anybody bring- pew bboa. : : en years tht: motion-picture in- y been aut in the market to pure Wal braing. Amd what's more, im. But when a bank or an pmanufactorer or a ahoe shop in the brates lt buys one mae rodue dens to four good steady anny coat the fides, this business,” goeson my friend resident desperately, “they are their own i boy the time the If carried out— ace all full of that would cost me some more hey make me think of children th “their Christmas toys, when is has brought them teo many concentrate a half hour on any. tin the shoe business a travel- in expects to keep on eelling the ear after your. Hut I can't keep m interested fn acing one pic we than two months, “The trade he big money oon a pieture must ithe firet two months alter its ight they are—and I think I eason why." that there is something wrong whole queer industry wherever something that the business in ia trying to change bmeause ‘the etockhokders money. Amd fe about that not all the elergy- wt are coing ae much be remove lelement from the movies as ie usiness efficiency. ide Siow Aacestry sono Place for a dineetor's report to stockhelders,”” ta the ich reorganizer sums up thor ‘Tgsue, ‘Thus it os that in one ‘hen a picture faila to make iveutigation 19 made of the re- tiween the director and the chosin, Aneather cour BRE iz iperon the movies by crenting artment which has te pass on in made by a director. are having their troubles here enartcvents, In a amall corm- ineraties in Mew York City the well diseoverad that the girls thin were being held up by ‘he head of the company wis was the custing director: eo mint cating cirector, Finally tion trailed down to the deor- he whe had been holding up nbe him of to flirt with kim. ‘an organization are a4 strong t link. sere details of reorganization. ko of the business administra- arious companies haa been to by on a credit bass, Which hat the producing company bo count with teasonable core recdit account with banks, to auctnig mext year's preiuct. weetments, such as studios, i such, @Fe sup to be by the stockholders in the deck. Erut all business ven t they be shots, groceries or te dependent for their exist- edit system. THE SATURDAY Hence the real reason why the rotion- fucture industry must be whipped inte re murs aba eroanamicil orgineation and enrning powor, is that it may join the sober sxciety of unapeculative industries, And, of course, the degree to which this credit haa been extended in the year 1022 has capended on the condition of each indjvictyal company or corporation. Ah, woll, the new-rich industry has come up in the world —that wasn't the way ite financing began, Try a cut back—no, not to the days of new-rich epending, when everybody waa tiking a fl in movies, even the New York Stack Exchunge--but back to the simple old sunbonnet days, Beare it come to the city ta be made a ri i ya Twenty years ago the sideshow exhib- itera of froaka were the financters of the motion=picturt business. Heing smart guys, they saw in the pictures the chance to syndicate their Siamese Twine and their Living Skeletons, After it was taken the ficture was shown in the arcade penny- acopes. And te give the long-lost misslog link as to why the movie saciety scien to-day recalls the seeond aet of A Kiss for Cinderella with its hokey-pakey cart—out of those arcedes came three of the moet important men in today's notion-pieture world. But anyway, nobly was having the audacity to refer ta the art of the motion picture then, arto develop temperament and that was something. Nor yet in the next chapter, when the financing waa done by enterpetalnte individuals on the tity- filty basi. Fininelng waa conducted on the sleeping-purkner technic instead of on the Wall Street thee. Maybe you lost UP Toney, Taybe you retired on am in- come. When a producer named Tyler had a hunch that be would like to produce The Christlan he needed just five hundred del- lars, And be happened te hear of an old Biropraphse who had exactly that five hundred dollars he wanted, at picture the motion-picture annals, cleaned up the first half million dollars in | Delegated Authority The industry wea traveling on a shoe string and conducting itself modestly oe- cardingly. Indeed, up till 1914 the fabuo- lows stuns that were paid to stare were the invertion of the press agents, slmon-pure and simple—about we spencuble os Confed- erate money. There wis a certain amount of homemade efficiency in the days w AMS” names were in the synthetic making, instead of so made that the stars them- stlves forgot where the fame come from. The man who hed borrowed the money wreemilly oversaw iis spending, beraus e knew that, when that thousand wos gone, he had te get another thousand. Trdeed, the birth of delegated authority wie Teglstered when one director-producer announce! suddenty, “Tt going to atop doing everything. ou fellows Haare me a society man's Fifth Avenue library by to- marrow,” He returned to find a ching spite toon in the middie of the set. “Can't T turn my back for one minute hut you spell everything? he roared. “ou the that little china splttoan out af | that society Thin's library ari gel me a i : 7 h i i But in spite of this first disappointment | great big hundseme brass. ond," delegated authority had come to stay. Thus grew the motion picture out of the weople, by the pens and for the people. “hus grew it in ita might anc in ita peasant strength, re cil And yet the banking interests were still holding haughtily aloof, as banking inter- | esta will. Instead of gobbling up infant lndustrica, Wall Street hae a way of coldly asking applicants who come to moma, ** fell, what have yuu ot?" For bankers are very wary of now businesses, Tt. wee thus when the autemebile industry came knocking. It was so when the greot oil industry waa mew. The bankers employ experts to pick out the weak places before they'l) even nfbble— much lets gobbbe And the weak signet thit they found in the precocious motion pie- ture was that same fotal extravagance. True, it wasn't throwing away so much money prior to 1917— but thet was for the very goad reason that it did not have eo much money to throw. And there was also that weak spot that, in the final analve the mascts consisted of that shelf full of celiuloid. And celluloid on the shelf brim, to the expert on weak apota, a simple cellu- loid was to bir. Fe EVENING POST > It is a pleasure to have attractive, Lyonized teeth— and easy as well as safe. 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54 THE SATURDAY Shafter ificcn Poder of fap mori L—Raravt in * bwocked oi vier Hirt rein “rae B= J ui ond Sauna cf aor! fo, prernl ja IME. f3— Ratchet Teetk. with the “YANKEE Bench Drill” “No hand feeding with the ‘Yankee’ Bench Drill, The ‘Yankee’ friction and ratchet feed does away with feeding by hand, The pres- sure is automatically regulated for all drills from the smallest up. Think of the drills I save! “One hand steadies the work on the table- the other turns the crank, That's all the attention I have to give it. “Friction feed rapidly runs dmll down to the work. Ratchet feed then goes into opera- tion. Automatic throw-off prevents Jamming. “To never knew what rapidity, accuracy and convenience in drilling meant till T got a ‘Yankee’ No, 1005. “My ‘Yankee’ Chain Drill has the same Automatic Friction and Ratchet Feed.” No. 1005 (illustrated). Two speeds; Jjaw chuck; holds drills up to lin. diameter. Entire length, 25 1, Extends below top of bench fin. No. 1003. One speeds 3-jaw chuck; holds drills up ta lg in. Entire length, 18%; in, Extends belaw top of bench 444 in. “Vankee" Vise No, 990 Designed for wse on “WVankee™ Hench Drills, Machined true on erly, bot: romandsidcs, Swivel jaw for taper work, Jaws open 4 im. Some other “YANKEE” Tools Steal Setirilivers Linck Return Spinal Serouwawirivers Ratcher Screw tirivers lain Screadrivers b's co Sin, blades Fuatcthes Vhand Trilla Ratchet? Chain Drills Hatchet Breast Drilla Phitn Faeose Dells Kiteenatic Pus Drills lbewwety Wikes. renova bbe at Ohad TOOL BOOK Mailed Free Lilustrates anil - de nl give -in- a WiiBeen ! for gaving 2 gid labor. Write toe it today! “YANKEE” TOOLS Wake Better an Dealers everywhere sell “Vaonked"’ Tools Norru Bros. Mec. Co., Philadelphia | EVENING POST And that is why the motion-picture in- dustry had to be the filth in impor- tance in the United States before the big banks of the country had given it a look-in. Tt was not until movie palaces began to rise in every city—well, banks can see real estate, So it was in the industry's glad days around 1918 that conservative money began going inte the movies, Then arena rmotion-picture house, from orchestrat Broadway peace with urns of red roses, to the Jewel Theater in Junction City, was packed to capacity and running over. On paper, at lonst, not the most enterprising expert on weak spota could have found a weakness. When they subtracted the out- go from the income—behold the difference was millions and millions and millions. There was eo much money coming in that exhibitor, ucer, star, director, direc- tor's little friend and investor—could all be enriched beyond the dreams of Ponzi’s clientele, What matter if some of the juice af the melon ran out on the ground? Thus precipitously did the new-tich in- dustry begin breaking. into financial sa cety. But there's Wall Street society, remember, and Wall Street society. Some companies merely ted on those in- dustrial notes furnished them by banks. Others were incorporated and the atack of them was sold on the curb, and one com- pany made the ting ae Siikgeg Ex- change—as is possible only when a grou of rexporndille bankers undenvrite the stock and issue it. Net until the fall of 1919 did this ultrasmart thing happen te a member of the new-rich business. Otte Kahn was the banker who believed in this industry and interested other bankers in it, in- dustry had outgrown private capital, even as had our railroads. So it was that big business became a part for better of for worse of the motion-ficture industry—and the motion picture a part of big business. ' fell, better it was for the industry, any- way, if not for the bankers, [f it had not been to somebody's interest to steer that fleet of big, topheavy, gold-laden, unsen- worthy thin Jarcoga the storms of last summer and fall and winter there might not be a surviver left to tell which wave had struck them, Mor is the storm of financial depression over by a long shot. Last summer just about fH) per cent of the | theaters closed down, Some of them never opencd again. Yet others, that are still THE PIONEER FAMILY (Continued from Poge 23) of the required time or enerey. Hener it fell into the hands of a semi-idle class who eould afford to make it a business, often the onke one they had, ‘ithin the i after settling the joneer hard assu the future supply af ood necessary for himself and family. Even in the forest, next to impenetrable— when in any given fall or apring he had fixed upon it a8 a p for a home—the next twéelveronth found him reaping in succession, amid the stumps or the charred trunks, a harvest of vegetables, wheat, eorn and oats sufficient te carry him on with confidence until the harvest of the following year, rea from an increnscd area, brought him for sale a small surplus beyond the demands of hisfamily. He grown enough hogs for his own pork con- sumption and same to sell to incoming neighbors: had increased his stock of cattle and horses; grown poultey in all its forms; | and, however i-provided in the beginning, was on the way to ah assured prosperity, ¥ | time, health and strength being the on | elements to be taken into secant, The hunting, gradually dropped, became for the first time the amusement of habit or an idle hour, or the resource that brought a change of diet: and generally speaking, as for him, the great fighting pitts might swim in sifety back and fort by his door, os if te say Came get me," fut his supplies of food were not limited to these chunees or te this foresight. He and his family had only to walk out inte the woos, or, Woon the prairie, down to the river bottom, to get all that was needed — and more—of the wild {ruita prowing there in profusion. There was the wild grape, with its great vines, which with bis ustial dis gard for the future he pulled down in order the easier to despoil them of a fruit fit for the gods. In the future days, when it was gone, alvays it wae pronoauneed superior | to snything the Concord, the Catawha or “cumstances, It oly claim to emails ¢ Jame 16, ary extant, may fail during tha mer. The fans have not vet come bulk to their beloved pictures. What of it? Good 1 de pretend to still the wares of boat to weather the storm. And whl gayes are dashing, the pilots gre not the their hands fn the helms of th either—or the etical tmothr:-segy men eould still ek Ae wterk =| the summer is over, For, fs) be devices again, it dors look aso ths d would do just what he's always ch Meet now the meet extravagen! in captivity. Every extravagart f the dead past was repeatet - cus production as his wabudgeted pon on mounting wp toe a mien colar president the compaty wa + 9 surprised man in the movie tr: vig diseovered that his director sm poli one get at the cost of one hard-ed ot thousand dollars. But with va reform beroperament the direcor aewed up his @miployer by bnprecu own face, a5 one the acon, = 4 million dollars’ worth of Gln The getor had become unfirable. ‘The alt of romance seemed to have come bet But those were the days when en:, elae was doing it — and nobsdy i cealing it—-while the amasigg pri fl last money rmigciness hot been Chet cle lights on Broadway are tellg theo “Cost a million dollars” “How do eou dare do it of the offieial= And serene)y he repli gre one of the few com ourselves. Tf we hued ete that pdverti-sr vel be done, Itut, us shame to alsoor From mee on & sedately on the tra al system: In shert. ' - expense What. tie retoene 4 making this «i Ls { a 4 | Haya, without knowing ju ing te da for them the he is gol tee comiinute clean up the wensorship | public conf: i rest hours. “And personally,” ‘i? cole adviser, whose tuume shall be Sed "T'm not. sold ion this Hays ie” | Clinton could show in what ro i the time grape. ‘The wild ple, o there, had a like reputation TF apple, perhaps when eaten rv t and most disa ble of all ke worked into delicious jellie and and ite manipulation was the © often the secret of efficient bows The wild cherry, of several va other tree that grew on the among its branches, ‘There ©2 black haw, delicious for eatcy the first frogta, and the red Samy though @ coarse product, felt its gathering. The blackberms, size and fine in flavor, were fcnd) patches on the bluffs where th grew: and nothing more att-act palate ever care out of the 5 the wild strawberry, ready for! and the enting, along the some bottoms, No piece of ground am 3 ig known by the term inten as the farm garden, [t was fifty to a hundred fect squint inclosed with a fence of picks set close enough together, #2" pointed teps to exclede ea nimble of fowls, however well train gry Ma Bae great a depth aa peoatbbe, eo Ca where necessary, ite aol] worked hoe and rake and enriched 5 known and available fers feed the various plants, “Ti garden were specially gra) a neighbor by rchaee oF Imported from the outecde perfect of them used: snd sprouting on this plot of B tothe southern aidewhen to and the cultivation were a (Continged es Pape

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 55 WATT ER ; More Important than Gasoline Because if you run out of gasoline your car will stop. No damage is done. But the loss of water, due to leaks anywhere n the water system, can inflict ruinows damage on the engine, cylinders, pistons, bearings, and internal parts. A. P. Warner, The Man Who Gave the World the Speedometer His name safeguards car owners. He has never permitted his name to be connected with any .automobile product that was not 100 per cent quality and satisfaction. No name is better known among motorists and none represents a better guarantec. . nation-wide investigation shows Mr. A. P. Warner is an alarming failure among car owners to realize ritally essential is the care of the water system. Are ne of them? 1a Vague way, people know they need water in their ors—but, few understand that this water must con- uly circulate through the engine, and that its cooling aon is of the very utmost importance. The loss of through a leak can quickly overheat and damage the vorking parts of the engine. iy Car, Any Minute May Spring A Leak very day car owners suffer this sad experience, be- they are unprepared to instantly stop leaks. Eepair are full of cars needlessly damaged in this way. A eak has started thousands of cars on the way to the ile, ow, A. P. Warner introduces this absolutely reliable and economical way to stop leaks without injuring ring up the cooling system. Order a can at once. It is as foolish to think you will never have a water leak as it is to think you will never have a flat tire. Be prepared. One car owner in Boston paid $85 for a new core to mend his radiator, A can of Warner Liquid-Solder would have saved him that expense. Make sure that never hap- pens to you. In Detroit, the cylinders of a lawyer's car cracked, due to lack of water in the circulation system. A can of Warner Liquid-Solder would have saved $400 repairs. Get A Can—It Will Save You Money A woman was driving from a visit into the country near Cincinnati, alone at night. The radiator began leaking. Stranded, and frightened, she had to walk miles along a dark road for help. A can of Warner Liquid-Solder would have stopped the leak instantly. Those are examples of thousands of similar, unneces- sary and avoidable troubles and expenses, Why wait for a leak? Put Warner Liquid-Solder now in the radiator of your car (new or old), and avoid leaks. Warner Liquid-Solder is guaranteed not to retard the flow of water or injure metal or rubber. It is not affected by heat or cold. It is time-tested and endorsed by engineers and car owners. It overcomes the common objection, because there are no sediments or solids to cause trouble. It is sold on a money-back basis. Beware of imitations. Use coupon below. Finds Leaks and Stops Them In Radiators, Hose and Pump Connections, Senet Etc. facts are mow bemg closed. Warner Liquid:=Solder rNew Product Coming eo ea mocesory about to 4. Tet offers a wonderful for ane local distributor itory. Write for firat-hand immediately, This shows an automobile radiator with ped times more beaks ia it than wild ofdinarily hapqin Just becauae you have a new car, do not put it al, Use it te avon? leaks developing, It posi- tively Prevents rust and scale that cowie leaks. If dealer commot supply you, use the coupon. 16 ounce can $1.00, Ford sim 75c. Prepaid anywhere. Dealers will refund your money if ye ere not satiahed. MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY WARNER-PATTERSON (CO. Mater of Fuse Pottersca Lear, Legal Eeerychore Sid South Michigan Ave, Chirage, Jil, Euclored pleare find (_ ) fer @ com of Parmer Lignid—Solder. Nome = a — wo) of The eoere radiator after Warner Liguid- Smlder has been added. Ad fhe Denk Toon State hove been stopped almost instantly. Srrer

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56 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 10, 2 ly Ave | Dy Dependah! e : hampi pions i X WH Ly Last You Lon ger bps for Ford Champion x now 60¢ Cha anit on Re egular now 75¢ Champion construction 1s simple an effective and the ribbed core 1s traly unbreakable and practically foal-pr ASK YOUR DEALER TO SELL YOU A FULL SET CHAMPION SPARK PLUG COMPANY ‘Toledo, Ohio

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gotteued from Poge 54! cent the family at odd moments ei. This was the spect eure of rife, and though she did not do re, alter the Preparation it wea as being the only task with any ) the sail which a woman was or expected to dao, the atory of pice eoolkin a repetition of the individusa Se time, most of them hid away mories of igi when sometimes frac eomimlni= y to the intelligent and inter- rinquirer. Some were, however, looms, a8 mysterious as a secret za bhncper always insisted et-culin fects were only ae- M ahichnd brick oven, while ed that the nearer the approach methodaa fire between two better the resulta. But the useful eooketove had come in— at some curious researcher does sand write ita histery—and sa utilized, even by the most con- What the trained cook, always fe oc her helpfal mother, could cara was ont of the wondera off work. prospec the family, the bet. ing by origin and position, the the husband was in everything hemore work the wife-wns doing :hael, the neighborly charities, aruction or the wholesome ern- of her own children and their more kKnewledge there was, the ril to the family kitchen, cement with a bit of corn meal milk, assisted by the witechery mind and hands, and aatewe iwood fire, would have shamed reneh chefs of the world. Het nude ii a skillet—for her the vet. ta come—hot bread cut ware hunks, with every child vw the corner piece with its best of all food, a hard bread ae, which, either eaten hot or tet to the trained taste than ke—a blessing that had come the Indians; ond finally hot sa porridge with milk for eup- (for breakfast the next noorn- erved in unlimited quantities Etoite digestive qualities over- impossibility —t are only t articles growing out of the ) products, at once palatable oe, all furnishing material for rat chapters in the history of ‘Time Hospitality og implied a measure of hos- vase matched only bey its genu- soften so general as to impose den upon the woman as ita not only relations with the lateral members of two fhumi- large in numbers, and with even remote neighbors, but 6 its influence the curious or (ranger from afar, mnerally some one farnily in hood that drew to itself the ch visitors. The governor or for governor; the senator congress or the legislature, or r these places; the chairman. he political committee af the the family, no less than the eresbed: the bishop id= ence: thre iding elder or ar; the editor of the party v from where he might: and ni elements that enter inte e welcome. There was ne ‘tian other than the peri= Fcial traveler, the drover or 3) all others were cared for pandible, never-filled house who wes both worker in hia the local magnate in direct a more pretentious but never © predecessor, whe lived tn hall or in a showy mansion - tof some old town ina coun- ink and caste. Nor was this elopment; i was found in head as it grew into a char- mn, however, is to be given ff living or the order of hos- leseribed was universal or But the example thus set i the different depreea that. THE SATURDAY entered into the make-up of these communi- ties, with aa much fidelity as ore like exam ples everwhere else, In this secluded life the standards of living were a5 various as anywhere, and the workings of an exacting taate were acarcely leas in evidence. The average cooking was so bad as ta be be neath contempt. Many women were sint- ternly; sometimes they were coarse a dirty; children were ill-mannered and bois i any men were lazy and wa less, shading inte the ornery: houses were ill-kept; farms were scratched, not culti- vated; horses were beaten and other live- stack neglected; crops rotted in the fickds, or when gathered were left as the prey of vermin; men drank whisky overmuch, and women smoked ill-smelling pipes. In short, this pioneer world was so very real, there was in ttsuch » yuriety of men, women and things, that the effort to attempt a descrip- ticn of it in all ita ramifications scarcely sotme to be necessary or desirable. There was ne reason, inherent in the aur- Founding conditions, why any man, woman of child should go hungry or lack clothing, shelter or paying work, It as when Cassius exhorted: The foull, dear rufus, is aol in our slara, Buf tn oureclpes, dhol we ore wrderlings, _ soit was not the fault of the pioneer life if it carried upon its bosom so many elements and forces that it did not know how to take advantage of its blessings. in Age of Barter But the best showed a high average, apecey when material conditions are con- rule , and these were the firet, the inevi- table consideration. The majority lived well ao far aa quantity went, though on ne such eeale ae T have set forth as pertaining to the best, They had plenty to eat, as whole- some in quality and os well p red ag they knew how to provide, and their stand- ard improved from year to year. Often their plenty had in it rowel of rudeness, but at ita woret it waa remote from the miserll- ness of the t. They were little given toselling their best and living on the waste, or the worst that had small commercial value. They had their varying grades of ri they aia ibaa and when it waa in t could raise the scale. They were God's com- mon people, a hast great in number, owt of whom there was to come in due time so much that was both human pnd good. In peace they worked and worshiped in their own way, not always the highest: in war they fought for things which they had been, taught or had learned to believe, Measured in money, the cheapness of living wnder pioneer conditions was so sur- prising as to be almost beyond. belief in our modern urban life, But even the reader un- farniliar with a methods haa only te consider the simple stery ted here in order to ask what use there eculd be for money when all the food consumed by a family, with the exception of sugar, salt, tea, eae and apices, was home grown; where only the materials for Sarai | had to be bought, with no outlay for ma leaving only and dress goods; part of the return for the farm; when al- most nothing wes payable as interest: when schooling rend nie bills the amall amount paid for taxes, which the majority cecuped entirely. and that for bhowks: when the great mnss of artificialities, now thought cceentinls, did not exist; and when content Was measured not by an outward show of money, oF even by what it would buy, but by real values, Even many of the items thus named have no place there. The old groceries were almost uniformly purchased by the barter of by-products otherwise unsalable; cloth was bought with pee sree fleeses: shoes with hides aald oF exe : bakes Were par aften bh extrih disposed of in the only avnil- able market—the near-by town. Indeed, it would have been next bo impossible to apend any considerable suma to command even the high standard of comfort then peesible throughout the pioneer region. _Ganged bey present-day standards, the pioneer farmer, like his predecessor, the colonial, was the most poorly paid man known to our history; at the same time, measured in real returns, no man of the aame genoral ability and standing will bear comparison with him in service to his country and time, and in individual and collective happiness. Nothing in history more diseredita the much-vaunted quanti- tative th of money than that this eoun- trey, fram the days when wampum passed el? | wastes trae then | ink, when rent was a | EVENING POST : Consol for the Ranking high among the industries of America, is the great Textile Industry. This industry, in 1919, consumed $2,727,000,000 worth of raw cotton, wool and other supplies, and from it produced $5,180,000,000 worth of textile products. To accomplish this great in- crease, 6,000,000 tons of bituminous coal were consumed, Because of its high heat content, cleanliness and careful selection, Consolidation Coal is ideally suited to the requirements of this progressive and efficient industry. And the same high quality of ore, backed by the sound principles of production which render our coals so acceptable to the textile industry, ‘guarantees equal satisfaction to other industrial CONSUMES. THE CONSOLIDATION | COAL COMPANY INCORPORATED Munson Building - New ‘York City FIRST MATL BANK BLDG, Detes, Afich, UADOM TIUST BLDG, Hfocbepen, O00, 1k? MARKET STREET, JPortimeuth, AYE. FISHER Bic... Citeogs, fifinetr Aloveveanr, Hfat SIGN CENTRAL BLDG. (Cinemnncdil, Chie Heaton, Ah FIRST MATLBANS BLDG, Fea CONTINENTAL BLOG, STATE MUTUAL BLOG., , Avfcm. nade, Fo. LAND TILE BLDG. Par o Pa, {WORTH WESTER FUEL O0,. MERCHANTS RAT L BANE rr ge Paul, Mies. Sake Agents; NORTH WESTERN FUEL CO. ROCKEFELIER BLDG, ©: ger EMPIRE COAL COMPANY LTD. SHAUGHNESSY BLDG, Montreal, Quebee

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THE SATURDAY | ) | Everything That a Good Golf Ball Should Be The true test of a perfect golf ball lies in its abiliry to perform in every department of the game, with every stroke, off every kind of club, over a long period of usefulness, with unfailing accuracy and uniform dependability, Public preference has set out the /62 as the leader of the Dunlop line— a ball which excels in every uality that makes up a perfectly balanced golf ball. ‘The more important of these are given here, | c “DU NLOP | DXistanee: Resiliency ts the enslest igi ino hat ld into @ LF ball. But to temper resiliency, so that ic ts equally The largest ee Sleahla for the high-powered, arose atroke and a the Impaor Golf Ba lighter but frm blow {according fo the necessity of any | AGW. particular abet, i an achicvemeat attic only frei lone expemence and skall, The Dunlop s62 has always delivered ; distance. iach Direction: To get maximum distance a ball must hoki a Three Sapa truc.eoursc in ita fight and have a pericet trajectory. It must have sufficient sla amen fora long carry, but must net soar, awervc in ita Aight or duck. Direction is largely controlled by the balance of the ball, and by the correctness of its markings, The depth and spacing of the Dunlop recesses are the outcome of careful labdratory and ‘Geld experuments over a period of [5 years, Putting Accuracy: Golf balls which are untrue in shape or balance connot follew atraight line pute. Dkmnlops are Aoated on mercury to feat the dearee of rotation, which proves whether the Center af a: FAVILY 15 in the Cchler of the la I, Controlability: A ball that is made prim arily for resiliency Qocse tenon winding) i too tively in the short gome, op- preaching and putting, Even the smallest depressians or ohstaclea such os a worm-caet will deAece gaucho ‘hall from: tes FFG OOS, The rigehiedy wend core of the Dunlop fe wall Ret compress ures. a light Idow, anc ie cain therefore be plaved firmly on ond around the putting green, The ~ That Mageun--large | The DUNLOP Wareick BIS he OF Durability: be is skillia) application and Pecan in aclect- Lt CEM Es to pinch the deprce oF Feat let Ci iF « ach ihe Frbcular ball that gives Ti Dunlops: their fitte 7 aquiaaliting “% ak al ia ibility tit cay to penind out af shape, he cuE oF split. Ehnari lange | covers are jut onoumber hydraulic pre sale. The mites percha slic i penetrates the core fo a considerable depth anid air lubb ES, the 1 carehully IT Labe, the Dunlop YACuum process siateyd frequent cuuise of aplittsng wath dalle Visibility: Dhan a ate distinguish is AD ocr Leek af paint is maintained for the practi sea purpase af bility; a bloish paint, as commonly used, looks well in close-up appearance bur loses itself too aah ugninst the sky or un the turf, WIS nt S$c. each gare oo nly shizhel 1% best vrade domestic brands. il ob the phe ivipore el ole Ii price, Dhuaruli ips In eXcess the Compared dowith ne balls Dunlop offers a material savine, ‘The ‘Duskis Merwick (really much superior to the average hall) sells for lle. The diitterence a Dyinlop adds to your pome makes it an item worth IFRS IS ED RSEE Lipson. | DUNTOP TKE & RURRER CORPORATION OF AMERICA Golf Hall Sales Deparioen T? Feimt 42cidl Stewart Dhetraburere: Slew Work icy Canailiat | apinner and the weaver who | obey or disregard the EVENING POST from hand to hand, grew, lived, proapared and was gradually occupied mn indus trious, contented population, almost with- out the ust of money a5 8 measure of value. The housewile, though no longer the mate woolen and flaxen cloths, still remained the aole, the universal tailor, dressmaker, senmatress, milliner, hosier and haberdasher of the community. [fshe could not cut and make the clothes of her hushand, herself and her ehildren, there was. nobody to whor she eould turn to have it done; and even if representatives these various trades, now minutely divided, had been present, she would have had no somal SD to pay. for their eerviews. She icon work with a nelghbor or a and thus form.o sort of society which held its: 2 mores at the hiougea of the members, though many mother, confident of her own anid fen own p in her nature, preferred to solve erown problems as ro she might, (Oillten. such a one rather resented the prying eyes of an outsider in eo sacred o thing as new ¢lothes, preferring, where costume was in- volved, that element of surprise so clear to the female heart. ‘and sewing Home:Made Clothing Under such coiperative methods the housewife most proficient in ewtting ¢ iar ments would devote herself malnly to speciality, and othera—there were seldom more than three or four within the same J eocial circle in these gatheringse—wou baste or sew or fit the resulting garments upon the hapless boys and girls whose play was thus interrupted, It was before the ina of universal palierns when the human figure, of whoetever age or size, can be cov ered even if not fitted, As families were generally large, and if not, all shapes and Baines at loa would be found among those belonging to the eo-ordinated workers, the chis were designed from vente, in use somewhere, always making d lowance— te penereny meant ani antici tion of growth in the unfortunate ai Which often produced an incongrvocus effect 20 far 22 ap Pree wae Goncerned, The responsibility throst upon the howe wift in the purchase of goods for clothin was always serious and heavy. It involy a general knowledge of textiles now almost lowt from disuse. If intended for winter ear ments, the principal consideration waa te determing whether [t was all wool and a yard wide, as well as its capacity for shrink- age: and the way the goods were pulled apart and their warp and woof examined wis alten the despair of the storekeeper with whom patnnes Whether natural or mexpuiredd, hwi te be a virtue, In prints. or ginghoms tht one question was, Wall it wash? In this line the knowledge of the seeker counted for jess; but the seller's penalty for mistake or misrepresentation wie likely to be imposed even mare prreempely than In the case of woole wna, The choice of linings was also one of more difli= ca nen | culty than now, because the variety was eo roatricted gs often perforee to produce ridiculous resulta, On the whole, however, the pioneer wearin, wher there wos a choles, had quite ut much natural taste, aa aharps an eye for wale teria be CIS UES OF results, a her more fashionuble and mone pretentious Bisber in older communities, This ie not tosay that the pioneer woman was proof against the attractions of the fashion bb ook, of the dese Sie Bie af prernis and lingerie —hew she would have laughed at the use of this word a8 & name for under- tlothea—which made their way, in how= ever scanty supply, through the local, politival or religious newspapers that found subscription and study in her family, But it was only ta lack and to lanpuish for something as remote ot a jewel cur full of pearls or cliumonds; 1b was mot ewen to die Tenth (ommand- ment. The making of women's garments was Mo wir mipler than it B now, What with the [repentiity heceaary to cover a hoop skirt or a bust! r, besides fairly fitting the figure; the keap "ing up with the inevitable ch Anes. 8 ta the length of the train; or hat ‘thi ty af male mystery, the fixing of he wattle, andthe absenee of abds in the mia def Auris ar models fer giady OF Use, a skull was required that taxed the ingenuity aan taste of the maker. She did not have to euisider the thing called d’colleté—bhow this word, ton, would have puzzled her, the lowe-neclk dress being not pit unlenorann bat } an abomination if mentioned —or many of sa i i 5 g " : zu i t kn | Sich tape atin flannel, or sometimes of Cente henry cotton goods with meee all cut and made wt hor shirts, generally red or b cloa-huttened collars nat adorned. with a ee Sm ear fur or cloth cap, with amples the historic comforter—be Cratchit—which was a log] neck wrap about eight locke from six to eight feet in lengthy forter was worn by persone wrap round many Cine into the comt in front or tied bel in, addition, the legs were : the modern p-uttie, over tobe which were the henviest-¢ tain socks, and then a bu alo skin wil when to all theses the coverings of the h : to meet the arctic conaiiaieel ded or horseback, om aes f any other errand that sp with the thermometer r to thir i s below 3 quired for dy man: eo ton rival dance, an paring for process eiiggrested the TEV PCAN emmy, Pp Summer The working costume f all the contrasts that Lempermture could suggest. : ' Be | plowing began the man's ¢ thinge. By the first of Ja succeeding four monthe question Was. thot Kew be worn, but. how bathe a sure docency and « foot season on fully 1 of all orders and cond , the check or hickory ah ; if 2DppPearanee: the pe and was only carried intot tection Freres were a light thin denim) = times by two sus enders mu material as the shirt—and bem tuch goods can be—but very one; whatever the purer t ways palluses, out. of which@ “Oh, be is a pp ar ‘ An expression conbempe mt er social position i far was not encom bend, 7 anything els: of oma Digiti

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Friction — heen Emenry 0 Producten in Your Plant, [o any Plant Executive . — blessed with a boring-in mind if assistant to the country's foremost producer ind exporter of lumber says of his chief: “Ae mut ahwayr be shown, Ale wants te see things for uml. Je aways gets at the bottem af everything.” ¢ have yet to find a plant executive lo concentrates on the subject of lubri- ion and gets to the bottom of it with- t being richly repaid. This does not mean that you put on walls, or spend your evenings reading hnical literature on lubrication. lt means simply that you let us place ore you an authoritative Lubrication dit of your plant to show: hether your engines and machinesare ing helped to greater ‘eduction by correct brication—or are being malized by unscientific iphazard lubrication. Such an Audit would also include accu- rate librication recommendations based on world-wide lubricating experience with all types of mechanical equipment. You buy and use oil for one purpose only: to reduce friction. Do you know the extent of friction’s menace in your plant? When you check friction’s huge an- nual bill in the form of slowed-down machinery, fequentrepairsand lost horse- power, we believe you will wish to put a guiding hand on the choice of the lubricating oils used throughout your plant, Meanwhile, a Lubrica- tion Audit will give your mind something definite upon which to focus: De- tails in column at right. Lubricating Oils A grade for each type of service SCUUM OIL COMPANY THE Lubrication Audit EXPLAINED STEP BY STEF tin Condensed Outline) INSPECTION: A thoroughly expenenced Vacuum (ij Com- pany Fepresentanive im co-oper- anon with your plant engineer or superintendent makes a careful survey and record of your me- chanical equipmentand operating conditions. RECOMMENDATIONS: We later specify, in a wrtten report, the correct oil and correct application of the oil forthe efh- cient and economical operation of each engine and machine. ‘This report is based on: — (1) The inspection of the ma- chines in your plant. (2) Your operating conditions. (3) Our $6 years of lubricating experience with all types of mechanical equipment under all kinds of operating condi- tions throughout the world. (4) Our outstanding experience in manufacturing oils for every lubricating need. CHECKING: If, following our recommendations in this wudit, you install our oils, period- ical calls will be made. to check up the continuance of the desired results, For THE ABOVE FREE ShEVICE nddress Our hearest branch ofthce, Domenie Brasco! New York Chicago (dara Gin! Detroit “ihe I is 5 Philadelphia tdlianapolis Pittsbungh Minneapolis Buffaln Bes Moines Rochester Kansae. Cite, Kan, Albany Ballas

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THE SATURDAY EVENING The dealer who sells you a pair of Selz ‘Six, at $6, is making a sacrifice that can only be appreciated by himself and by us. In no other way could a fine shoe of this stand- ard high quality—a Chicago city-made shoe —be sold at this price. We beheve that the public’s appreciation will repay us both by greatly increased sales to make up for the smaller profit. Already this appreciation is evident—Selz ‘Six sales are larger today than those of any other sincle shoe of its kind. You will appreciate this unusual value when you inspect the Selz ‘Six. Ifyou don’tknow aSelz dealer, ask us. Address Selz, Chicago or Pittsburgh. ~ at SKY, ZF 192 h il | al MAKERS CF Gehl SHOES RETAILING AT #5 Ta 0, INCLUDING THE FAMOUS "ROYAL BLUE" Cli AGO a4 PPD TS BURGH = June i, my I X| Ail leather, made of genuine fuil pram Cords Caif Goodyear Wing feat Rubber Heel Goodyear Welt Natural Frnshed Oab Sole, éringing longer tear Six different hightll models —three uae

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ifentinaed from Page 58) mnerally completed by a straw hat yon at home or in the neighbor- ind as the season came to an end big ventilating hole in its crown. to the ferocity; of the sunshine, it jsafe to go bareheaded, so that in award sunatrokes some kind of mise bend covering had to be d. It & probably a safe estimate money cost of a man's average king summer coatume, from toe to sus considerably wider two dollars. footwear for men waa the old- ed tapeboot—a. first cousin once or wnawistl baled pk wellington he ive-year-oll began with o etl arned with ah red tops ts, the moment of acquisition re rever after the figure of speech to ithe ultimate degree of human lov. ame in all qualities and weights, t for raugh wear for men and boys de af cowhide. The capacity of ither for absorbing water in heavy in the slush mace by the melting w unbelievable. If left on the feet dter the day"s work, their removal hardest task of the whole twenty- irs; tf taken off in this condition mitted toe dry before the fire, Re mon was often next te impossible, rat operation the bootjack, now an orgotten aid to the male toilet, wes nade article, generally somewhat finish, made from a piece of board inches wide and a foot long, with ting clewt just back of the wed BE from it. Tt was put on t i thus became a clamp for clutch wot just above the heel. The rest tothe main strength of the wearer. sence, the growing boy took hig or brother's boot hetween his len g propelled by the other foot of the ecame the boot extractor for his ‘hile the brothers did a like service other. emest part, the average boot waa and by reason of ite welght and i most uncomfortable. For Sun- rthere was a culfskin boot which i presentable and easy. Jt was wing made to order, while its everyany brother was generally rt summer came oll boys and young it barefoot, a concession to the ms which was seldom openly made ead of a family, and never by a man in a proaperous etate of life, en, girls would eschew all footwear ees cpp al ec af comfort with regret as the young-lady . Carrying tha hoot or an walking along a road and put- On at @ town waa approached— he settled customs in old New as well as in modern Russia—was ‘cedure probably dates back to tent antiquity, Women's shoes heavy a1 sirong, thou not so ith large, low, square heelsa—com- n apite of the tendency in the the mex there ag elsewhere to wear timber or so smaller than the foot. dom that women’s footwear waa the local shoemaker, his function, inday boots, being limited mainly ig and stretching. The Boy's Best Suit nan and boy, outside the lowest sor white, had to have a best suit, knawn, in the dialect of the time, ago-to-meeting clothes. For the he became seventeen or eighteen, : modification of his school suit, in a better quality of good put off when he came home and took wp that two or three houra idden under the deceptive and ame “chores.” This best eult— » indicates—was almost a sacred , 2s outgrown, went down succession, a8 did all other male or female, from the oldest ungest, until in its downward it had finally to be worn out asa rorking: suit in the fall or spring Tearing it was resented aa a form so that ite life was prolonged out e, Perhaps it was never pul on keept to go to the circus or the mist 7 hada successor When the up to aeventeen or eighteen, be- that, after all his gibes and bash- rls were really interesting and THE SATURDAY important human beings. He would be pro moted out of his mother's hands and sent off to the nearest tailor, probably in the eounty-seat towh, with a piece of cloth made in the adjacent w mail, prob ably from home-grown fleeces, in order that there might be fashioned for him a tail coat, commonly known to this country, though not in England, aaa Prinee Albert. That it came out as one of the wonders of sartorial art is a statement that need not be denied, as no could or would dispute this judg- ment, ut aa it was no more ridiculous than those examples worn by his mates, the standard, whether of achievement or of fashion, would not be disturbed, and each boy could laugh or be laughed at in his turn. very man that either had or was any- thing at all must have a really beat auit for outside use. It, too, must include a tail coat, accompanied by brondcloth pide 4 high vest, white shirt with high attach enilar, fine calf boots, woolen socks, but often perhapa of white instead of colored yarn, some sort of necktic, almest inde ecribable because it waa in the ch Lis stage, hanging between the old-fashioned stock, which had tormented several genern- tions of men otherwise rational, and the simple black thea that preceded the devel- ga which has been under way during & intervening half century. Perhaps ne generation of men clad in res let cea tumes were ever more uncomfortable than those of the the under review. They hadi to conform. They were quite as much the slaves of fashion in their plain ag if they had lived in the period of Beau Brum- mel! and the Prince of Wales [George IV}; but they took their clothes, as the early English were sald to take their ‘ with a sadness that nothing could conceal or overcome, ‘There were Brey never more than from two to a dozen swallowtail conts and an equal number of fashionable stovepipt hats in 1460in anave county; but according to the fashion of the time these men were well and fashionably elad in suite that when new had, like modern dress conta, an unusual expectation of life. The ofd-time bandanna handkerchief had not yet gone out of fashion or the fine linen one come in. The Day of the Paper Collar For probably twenty yeara the large, ware, shawl waa an accepted article af apparel for the school-teacher, the doc- tor when on dress parade, or for the lawyer. It was a legitimate successor of the old- fashioned cloak, and had all its conven- ienee and warmth. Many readers will recall pictures of Lincoln in one of these covering rments, Early in the war period came the paper collar. It waa another i on the way to an improved appearance. If there waa one thing in which the pioneer howsewife's fail- ure Wwrea conspicuous it was in laundering the white collar and its connected shirt. Sonvehow she could seldom acquire this art, and it wes probably this fact quite as much a anything else that brought into existence that really funny product—the paper collar, Tt came in almost without warning during the early war days along with shoddy and many other articles thith- erto strange. It waa cheap, in both cost and value—two esaentially different iy a came in a Variety of shapes, in paper of ten, and was at once hailed as a boon. Many a manly neck which only with cliffi- culty had bent itself to any sort of collar aon found iteelf, according to the fashion, incased in these curious pasteboard bands, thus arousing in both beholder and wearer a sense of the ludicrous not always so agree able to all eon . It was the precursor of improvements, including real col- lara and eventually real laundries, an al- most unsuspected passion for cleanliness and an enhanced desire for neatness; but while it lived, which was perhaps not more than five or six years, it was one of the really amusing concomitanta af the male toilet, A word ought to be added about jewelry, Long strings of beads were still worn, mainly by girls and young women. Most women Wore earrings and had breastpins, bracelets, brooches or lockets, generally rmther heavy, old-fashioned articles in solid gold. Diamonds ond other precious stones were conspicuous only by their ab- sence. Rings were not eo much in fashion; even the wedding ring, not being a meces- sary gecompaniment in marriage cere monies, was so far from being universal that it was hardly general. Few watches EVENING POST were worn—almost none of them by wermen—anid these were generally set in heavy silver hunting cases, When the sun shone neither they nor other indicatora needed for telling the time were worn, a8 every man, Wornan or child more than ten years of age asked nothing better than a doorway —all byildi were seb square to the four points of the compass—a tree, a tow af com, a fence post, or wanting all these, hia own shadow, when standing erect. in the middle of a field, to give a fairly aecurnte ides of the hour, Discipline for children was still pa- triarchal, on religious li firm and steady, full of a real affection that was tempered by recognized duty, seldom fitful or wavering, but practically devoid of show. “Train up a child in the way he ehould go" and “Spare the rod and spoil the ehild™ were orthodox, and better lenrned by heart than the shorter cate chism itself. It would be safe to wssert that corporal pun ent was universal, regardless of sex, alraost without respect to age, up to and including majority—often beyond it, Tt was probably the most widely distributed habit of the time. It was celdom severe, but as the doctrine of total depravity was never questioned, so the effectiveness of physi punishment whe not doubted. Unrestricted CAlld Labor A family once started did not long re miin & burden, however great the nurber, if only its new members could stand the preeaure and liveatall. Even before direct rontiais power came, they paid their way by caring for each other. result was that, amen fle beth industriaus and prudent, the langer the family the ber the placa Therefore, no study that should overlook or belittle the economic contribution af children to this life would he wither true or complete. This fact was ao much in evidence that the average age in industrious families at which strong, healthy children, whether boys or girls, had repold to parenta their actual money: eost, including medical attention, food, clothing, housing, education and all other possible expense, was not more than fifteen, As it was rare that, sve for books, any real money waa expended for education between this period and their majority, the haltf- grown or full-grown child: waa ao much profit. Taking the value of farms and their eg nt at any given census return fram 1240 up to and ine uding 1870, it would be safe to assert that one-fourth or one-third of the whole was the product of the labor of children under the age of nineteen or twenty. As the | left hore for an average of another two or three years, they bly earned for their parents, in | this extra service alone, far more than was distributed te them in the shape of a pee of colts and sometimes a emall farm, often nominally a present, but sometinves ao seri ously handicapped by its lack of improve. ments that either 2 mortgage or tiresome waiting was required to give it value, Kobody, not even the boy or girl whe put in fourteen houra a day of bard, un- relieved labor for nine mont _— with scant pocket money, often begru with ait f three months in school, accom- panied then by many hours of work each day in return for the privilege, ever thought about it as an imposition. But under this Profitable system talent, ambition and in- dependence were meyer before or siner so successfully turned into enforced though willing sacrifice, Aas parents had through it, it was not thought of as exact- ing or unjust of as child labor, in the sense that this term js used as to mill or cotton fleld, where the hours ore tempered iby sentiment of law to the recogni aVGrHge phialeal atrength of its participants and somt systematic play is provided; buat it was in their own homes, doing the sane order of work, often performed under com- pulsion or threat, or crowning it with a de- votion and at the same time a simplicity that was monumental How they came out of it all, why they did not » are among the wonders of a rigorous but mar- yveloustime. And yet these tusks were done with a willingness, even an eagerness far greater than that shown under more fivor- able outward surroundings by the average wige comers of those times or any that have succeeded them. The spirit behind these young people was the same a9 that shown by their parents— the stern, indefatigable men and women NEVER BINDS~NEVER SAGS 61 “C’mon, let’s go swimming” ET crowd inter- ested in swimming this summer. [e's greats — and just twice as much fun when you wear a real swimming suit, the JANTZEN! Wherever good fellows get together, you'll Jantzen the popular suit. You see them, eve f Jantzen-stitch gives per- manent elasticity and utmost freedom of action. Never binds. Never sags, Comfortable asthe towel of a cool brepce. Jantzen is the only suit that has the noe-nip eroach ond bow trunk a, mot forgeming a flexibly rub- buon that goes a thousand Himes through the wringer withos Worn and endorsed by holders of world's records and winners of Olympic games. Ask your dealer to show you why @ Jantren ts best, Styles for men, women and children, im fashionable Janten colors and stripings Ef pou de nod find them, rite its for the 1922 Sevle Book oad same of nearest dealer. JANTZEN KNITTING MILLS PORTLAND, OREGON To merchaece: Ye ell direct to f = no mike inmndars rhe . @elaary by capress. Write or wine. The National Swimming Suit Cepright 1¢22—]. K. MM

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Name : : = = a EVENING POST who, whether by choice or fate, were work- ing out their destiny in the belief that they were making and saving a race. This army of children, uniformly numbering probably onmfourth of the active workers of the community, were not doing t grinding pate ad pilinaplet ates because of _ ope that, ng t On, sprang eterna in the breast of the pioneer, born in him as the inheritance of many generations. They realized, often quite early, the hardness of their fate; but there neither waa nor could be any other, and they cheerfully bowed their necks anew to their appointed work, the prisoner in the galley bends his back i ors. 4 epg 2 are all prone to sing peans of praise to the hardy and courageous men and women Whe went out te conquer a wlilder- nese; but wheo we do this I should like to hear at least o word or sa of chorus to | celebrate the sufferings and the achiewe- | ments of these youthful heroes and heroines | whe, between the ages of ten and twenty years, added, without direct compensation, the extra touch that marked the difference between existence and living, between pps ——— 0 did it in the face ) of a neglect of t or Test to them, of the charwa of thee Natere which = were too worn to eee in all ite beauty, and of the educational privil that was more than unpardonable—really the result of the indefensbility of ignorance. It wes a child slavery far worse than that de nounced —olten with the exaggeration due to the zeal that marches arm in arm with ignorance—and hos finally been forbidden by low and opinion in the post quarter of a a la pte cheae high, alm j Ae » Blenost un jum able Manilicg there were con npatione absent in our time. In this simple life boys and girls were able fairly to know every= thing good or interesting which, within its narrow range, the time offered. Long be fore they had reached their majority they were known to their elders all about them almost ax well os to their parents, On the one hand, their industry, energy, ambi= tions, outlook upon the world; of, on the other, their laziness, Peaness and their lack of spirit were ao measured that their future place among their fellawa could be fairly predicated. This was true, too, whether elected to remain within their Oe LaIrew environment or went out inte a world which, if not larger, waa at beast different. The opportunity of knowing what so many parallel trades meant gave to the boys who did mot look forward to the farm a8 4 CHreeT, & perapective, an insight inte these other branches of useful work, They eould see at firet hand and thus know from ocular demonstration how the blacksmith, the wheelwright, the carpenter, the shoe- maker, the weaver, the storekeeper, the miller, the editor, the politician, the doctor or the preacher did his work, how he handled his material or utensila or that more important tool—his mind. When they were freed from the farm they could choose, with some approach to intelligence, their own careers,

Learning From Their Elders Then, too, children were admitted pretty freely to see ond know whatever lay in the poe af their poets. From early child- ood, almost from infancy onw » Chey abe at the same table, where manners and quick were im upon them; they went and came freely whenever, indoors or out, there wea company; t and knew eve ing that pertained to business or religious or social affaire in all their ramifi- tallons, and were thus intreduced ton wide range of interesta, which gradually w into the thoughts and ways of their elders, these means they knew well, though seldom prematurely, many things that could not have come te them under the workings of the usual policy of exclusion — a fact not only interesting and important in itself, but carrying strong evidence of the propriety of the language used in farn- iv or social relations upon which I have pindre net _ As the work of these neighborhoods, both singly and in omhperation, was transacted in the open, the children, if bright, curious, really social beings, had an opportunity to know every movement in the mysterious process of making o state from the moment the first family came until, within ten ytara, the average township had nh to about six or seven hundred people, com- | prising all conditions of men, und the June 16, mix comnty had made a place fer ite! Go a child beemme on intersted means long before it was fairly ot ois ty order of clothes. It beard al) the ee sions about schoolhouses and echecs goog Toads aind bridges, about preactey inc » vivals, about government ond peice in ite simple way would take tt: seer the various elements with wick 2 a5 inte contact, Df there weeany poe from a shooting match to 9 burt for y be thief, it would be first a spect y a prematurely, actordiey t. ve mt or ty, & fo Hf it wax incl to the bad pasion might hear or see now and thes mos things, but woe to the man o pox S whom such offense had come if the ng discriminating elements in the ped hood should discover the gtresi demorulization. Such a child, in spite of edocs drawbacks and ences, woud pi real knowledge of the work, far aor ts ful to it im ite later days than the © could possibly came {rom the mor es and tious training that some de child aequired in urban surrom life, in spite of hard, grinding tollsten inc reality chat owned Sagetelp in ty t : pores which have given to the ean the aboormal development = accounted ao reproach to oor fie, Strong Family Tiss

a knowledge | af the defects ineepecra ble from ther educational outfit, They wer fers likely to learn something real shoot g ruphy ud fooking up in their at places of residence of the visitors my they had listened with open mouth than when t wer remerizing tha ; i a he capitals or rivers inuls

somet about manufactures from| a reaper factory in Chi nis peeing fe shop in indiamn wes il of shoe factory in M ' they had from the meager, mmdirerts digisted rencding aboot such ese the fugitive accounta that pai their eyes, or even be Eres their lives by nmeghect or ors op uniby. he ties that bound familie = were unusually strong during the | tive . Sentiment sll =m blood relationship in a way almost a ing afin the biblical time: open re many customs and manne wer ei Families followed each moe making of new ta, the me hel each other in their word, = each other's likes and dislilbe, ard © eral were helpful, “Farmily™ tie! both sides, that of the ee of the wife, The mother-in-low )o nok acquired its present wogor, a = CHSes. the wife's mother was of 3 reliance in time of need. If me 1 lagged behind in life's race it we 4 eaat oll, but was sided ao long at a desire and willingness to belp <= children settled down in the sumer hood they generally did so in m= modest homes, where without = co of money, which few had © they made their way up as the before them had done in ont Fm after another. Often they were ol command that advice and mateo are so much more valuable thar & money. In this way they could emenmncies that coiperatae _ tnabled cach te benedin the othe | placing of a cow of o hore whe accident, disease, theft or strut timely aid in haying or harvest of f the going for the doctor—all thee " functions were discharged withers! regard to the fact that they houses rather than in one, other days, _ There was a strong feeling gun ried sons and daughters continasy in the paternal home, the feeher © pendence dictating a separatioc © tment £0 COMO oF als proverbial that no two wour ©! (Continued on Page

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FING Ta) OIL INDIA REFINING COMPANY. INC, ———— “T Look for the Havoline Sign” “| bought my first car nearly twenty years ago—a two cylinder road- ster with a ninety-six inch wheel base. I used Havoline Oil in that car, I’ve insisted on Havoline for every car I’ve owned since. “Tt only took one experience—back about 1906 it was—to teach me that it pays to use a good motor oil. That time I couldn’t get Havo- line, or [ didn’t ask for it hard enough. In any event, I learned my lesson once and for all. “TL learned that Havoline «ser give increased power and greater mile- age, that it dees reduce the amount of carbon deposit, that it doer, over a period of years, save hundreds of dollars in overhaul charges. “My regular dealer always brings out Havoline for me. When I’m touring I look for the Havoline sign—that blue one with the red bull’s-eye. It's a darn good sign for any motorist to believe in. There are thousands of them scattered over the country. You're never far from a Havoline dealer.”’ INDIAN REFINING COMPANY, Incorporated, New York Branch Offices in P59 estes 63 [AVOLINE OIL RES, US, PAT. OFF.

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THE SATURDAY my he thought—but the executive A with whom he had the engagement s gone. And the caller realized that the clock in his home must have been fifteen minutes slow! It is surprising, isn't it, that any one should tolerate a lying clock, when for a hundred and nine years Seth Thomas Clocks have told the truth. The Jeweler whose store is near your home takes a positive pleasure in showing Seth Thomas Clocks. Their beauty tells its own story; but the story of their accuracy he can tell, illustrating it from the expert- ence of Seth Thomas owners in some of the finest homes in town. A nonestriking clack to hang on the bedroom wall is illustrared below. Al splendid time-keeper— one of the fine T-jewel movement clocks which range dn peice from $24 oo $35, Above is shown one of the fifteen Serh Thomas chime clocks, a group of clocks that are unexcelled anywhere. They chime che quorter-hours and scrike the hour, Prices from $60 no $110, A SETH THOMAS CLOCK [5 4 GIFT THAT MAKES PLACE FOR ITSELF IN THE BRIDE'S NEW HOME.

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EVENING POST Continued from Page 82) considerable measure of authority should Hive in the same house. This prompted the sententious saying that no house, whatever ita ize, had ever yet beeen designed or bullt that was big enough for two families, ond mone too small for single farnilies thet wanted to be happy. When boys or girls went mwoy to school or out into life the parental watchfulness ibe keen and the feeling of pride universal and strong. Per- hapa the roportion of family quarrels was amaller than in a more acnivabitleana’ Boe elaty, There was not much opportunity for differences about property—the laws pro- viding for ecypual distribution prevented this; besicles, ns there was nol much prope erty to quarrel about, it was easier and pleasanter, aa well 28 more independent, to earh it than to yearn for it by inheritance. Perhaps the strangest incen tive to family unity lay to the faet that there waa little going awny to school or for long and dis- tant visits, and that the latter, when made, had an interest for all concerned, the ro- ports of them tending to relieve the tedium incident to isolation. They were all driven to steady work, with no kilera or favorites, ao that there were miny motives to draw them together and few to drive them aaunder, Everything considered, isolation tended ta promote family peace and unity, andl at each community waa a collection of families, there was litth chanee to brew dissensions or misunderstanding. Limited Amusements Though the ploneer came into duties and surroundings in which he had little time pnd Jess inclination far hunting and shoot ing £3 STLeemorts, he Rainer cy ae Lest his devation to games—espocially with his children. Some of these were new in form or adaptation, but for the most part they were so dd as te be time-honored. In Bonne cases they partook of the nature of both sparta and games, and in others they re- lated themselves. somewhat intimately to the practleal business of life. Lf the tee attended a boro or a house raising be was there prim|rily to tla his part In the Prochss al give and take. It was practical coopers tion—a return for fowors reooved or reisible anticipation of favora expected. Phe question af getting or giving pleasure wis secondary, but tn his somewhat prim. tive way he idl net disilain enjoyment during the few hours. of outing and eloee feociation with his neighbors. Being work, there was little room for the rowdiness or horseplay inherent in the man of the rougher sort, even if he had beet se in Clined;. but menerolly speaking he had little leaning in this cirection. If he insisted upon turning the scene of a house raising ar fogrolling inte a game, he soon found thet he hed no business in that galley. When the work was done it might be fal- lowed by some rode fun in the form of wreatling, jumping, running, shooting at o

| taark or supper at a neighbor's house, but if so they were only incidents. A prairie dirt cain hardly be listed among amusements, but i was at least both spectacular and dramatic, and on occasion it drew aut all the men within reach. How such fires Were aLarted was quite as much of a mystery as arson is always and every: where, tink g rally there could be next to no doubt in the majority of cases what the was. The motive wae not quite ao but- in mask inantg it probably lay in mire for excitement father than. in mere ulterier. “W hen in the earlicat he fire came tt hud befare it an ex oot unkim tbed , without: a howee. ae Or ‘athe robstruction. It went on un- til-the wind ehanged of it had reached Its limit or. the banks of a stream heck it. As settlement pro ulions wert taken against its plowing a. wide strip round

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eng and hay and grain y ones this wae badly done, toc [ake, sc Laat ge fire onee jump this strip and go On destruction within 2, Then ntighbors a ould tt it vor, by setting back fines, or by direct fightin g, to check "tt was one of the exciting epi- life when such 8 crisis eae HE to its smtclacilar tate T= al brought into strong relief the qualities incident to helpfulness and codiperation. The pioneer “hay di id not need any hia tory or handbork. of ¢ ite tel] him of heir exiatence or bo te im how to play I ¢ his predecessors, knew how fess

hone 16, ee to employ himgelf with them od oa. had done, to suggest a change o mals improvement now ond the: Bei i long romp cross Gall @ cociooest ie not devise a game wholly new. ‘Theaey oe game did net mech Gi] though—I suggest this with Sutied j serv — ice hockey may pothape bape out of lacrosse. Then, every boy played; schol gem] pation was univ erea!. Even the wagh the crippled could find o plow et gi panions, while the strong onl wee might be cast out if be bene oo There was mo room for the meee Every boy, ossigned to bis alo

chosen place, was expected to de ky otherwise the scheme would: be bra The playgrounds about the ach were generally large, oot af pene the schoolhouse ited, mo tim every ame bist az = ie place; a bo ee from everything, he must Bets or hesitate, Some gone 9 inclusive, a = during 1 minutes oll might play ti A reference to pioneer inceaneeee did 7 ingenuity pioneer fmt vising and making of p dren. Balls, betes jocks, o and whipeboclés, Ie whistles for the mother generally pr girts—together vice then known for am children, had either to b to be left owt of then proces hod almemay gro penne on Bo t come hereditary. The caught some idea of ob able to take up the task fe the younger children in farnilies in the neigh thiskind of work wi beas skillful man

80 that in most families, 1 : edly poor, everybod pe be beast a of ti glim at eee Oe He way into the older parts af the cart? Little Play for Jill As those toys were used up inal they would be Passed on, [ce sctemdl to those otherariae deprived a! aoc that universal bitsimess of childboed rit play. There was no Christma be Santa Clius, but the making of pom New Years was not wnoorumen, em from universal: but in eome wey. oe and often maysterious, by duly & rather thin on special oecassans, aa L blance of seasonal joy wae broogh minds of the children. The story of sports, both for chiles adults, relates tteelf siemoet whollyt The separation of the sam: & 8 charches and at play wae oo strc! girl was thrown back upon the Gol of sex, ane the Pioneer wom 7 clasely beleaguered im ber hous had little thme or stren gth, eves of had Inclination, to salen ay deceial in games or diversions. Her natal of sacrifice was satisfied when | wert amused or interested. Thi one so disti nectly devoted to thea that the ve ry diversions all thor fae Woman, ber in bending with Rer =! had in them the great motive cd ol feldom of play for ite own sake The great variety of game Ge to which a girl now hes seco OO seemed to the pioneer woman set & improper as discordant with the ml sta. Besides, it most be booty that men hove ao long precticed ga they are expected to devi ar well them, It would, perhaps, bo 2S FLL any game generally in oe =| invented by a women ond the ae and by her sex. Sport. Hike =a somehow to have been the bo Se]f-assurmed Lord of creation. Agthors Mote—This artic: op ‘Ee Family and @ ptevicgs ese co So have ben <ntrecte:d free as dake uipublisheed. mtucgr emai ‘iege Be = American Pismenr. [ip Gitlin, the pepulation origins ef the Wat, an a with political life ond one Oe! with education, gimel with coi come | HEM opel CATO, them bowed tlie ee fet in any seoet «formal biter, Gee! interpret the philosophy of the oe made posible whe groerth eeu diessicgemel prest region. her Hiized. by Cabo

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HARD TIMES IN SCANDINAVIA ryegian feaeoted pletu Fea with the forahelter. The result was bry lng the latter part of February wire- for help werecoming tothe comat- 15 from vessels tightly wedged id ack ice. of the litte fwel and many were short ce breakers—specially con- its with powerful enginea— from the southern porte of from Denmark to aid the help- but these heavy blunt-nosed ind) the fee too thick for them, oo, becume teebound, whound Shipping expedition was organized in dispatched upon one of the breakers in this part of the eel whose breadth of bow is » that of an ordinary freighter. low in the water with her nose forced with steel plates riding it she can push up over the until her wei he breaks down The cruise of this ice breaker iol te the Cattegat will marine history of Sweden. idavs and three nights to int wuthern point of Sweden inte hood of the helpless steamers. mow, blizzards and ion ue a aeries of bat! each aful conelusion, but involving i | THE (Continued fram Pages 25) fot Breaker Ne. If Fast in the Fee Packie this long stretch of pack lee that delayed the shipment of American relief supplies to Russia. Some of the ships “the Cat pres food were ae the heading for the Kiel Ca oP formed. pele wintry pr harbors, others proceeded on their courses ai nee caught. surround shipping of oer s rig ing Ser altic wag the ice blockade. The las th C and southward every bor as far aa Dentele waited for the lee breakers to clear the outward paths. Communication be twee Germany and Sweden was inter- rupted and at times stopped altogether, the big lerryboats finding it too dangerous to risk the stand through the floes or the equally hazardous movement through consbintly necurring foga rising thickly over open water, which sent off a vapor when mere Er frigid blasts from the northwest. governments of the Scandinavian countries have gra rolls with the period of depression vallant in ct ped possible to lighten ‘he bur burdens of in dustries a2 well as t of the individual. Huge sume were for the relief of rh pnd just at a time when na- tional revenues were decreasi The task of each government was to find methods of ereenee the revenues without sil ee! too mur recuperation. with commercial or industri To meet the situation the SATURDAY EVENING POST Swedish Govern= Mint proposes to prohibit tempors- Tily the importation a coffee, tax au erase thet and & taxation The Dani a Govern- ment has presented to parliament an entire new program of tax revision, in- volving a new method of catching the profite of restau- rante and eating houses by lewylog upon the arn ings @& LO per cent tax. In budgeting for the your 1922 the finance ministers of all three Seandi- navian countries a= pressed the hope that the immediate future held forth promise of better th mes. C oh r io usl enou Ace ny upon gies reports ro the prospec ta of bet- : ter Uiraeain Aivaricas The SpErpsnins required for 1922-28 are lower for last year, the reductions vindicated mostly upon the t of America showing the earliest signa of re- cuperation. The interest in America's economic condition remains intense, each trifling indication of betterment being me in full, but there is reason to dis- eatin tha: optimism over our affsire voiced by the finance ministers of the northern neutrals. Financially the Scandinavians are in better shape this year than last, and if the exchange rates can bt taken as 9. real thermometer of financial conditions the situation is getting better. The relation of Swedish currency to the American dollar was very near normal during the early months of the winter, Denmark's loan of $30,000,000) flonted in the United States has helped her financially, the effect being Tunifested in a more favorable ex- change rate in New York. It le hoped that the normal tendencies of exch Tabes will encourage trade between America and the Seandinavian group, Bolshevik Contagion One of the greatest problema of the Scandinavian countries during the postwar ok has boon the operations of the Soviet ublic. Hie disturbances created by k experiment and later Ly po ade famine cannot be estimated. political tur- moil through- out Northern Eurepe and Upset trade to such an ex- tent that pre- dietions af future opera tions along any given in- dustrial line in the Baltic EquUn-Ties are Worse than Useless, The question of how beat tng the spring as the pro- parsed trade agreementa will then be under dis- cussion, Thenegoti- ationsciSwe | den with the {Contlaued on Poge G9) | enleulutions | 5 4 |! 4 ay | 4 4 : 4 7 4 | 4 1 + Ai | 4 4 4 + 1 We'll telephone immediately after you have reached your room to make sure that you are comfortable and that the room and service are saris- factory. As our patron you will find us CVer ready to make ¥YOur WIsIE a pleasant one. You'll feel at home in a Keenan hotel because of its beautiful and homelike appointments—its cheerful air of comfort and hospitality. From the moment vou enter one of our hotels to the moment you depart, you have at your disposal every con- venience that is within our ability to provide and the services of a cour- teous and willing hotel staff. ‘That is why people return to our hotels year after year. Should you want to go from one Keenan Hotel to another, we gladly wire reservations oO that OO Maly be assured of the best accommoda- Thon. Excellent cuisine service. Reason- able cafe tariffs and room rates. You will find it to your advantage to Wisit our hotel when in any of the following cities: Toleda THE WALDORF Milwaukee THE PLANKINTON Fort Wayne THE ANTHONY arknowiedged Leaders KEENAN “Hotel SYS TEM

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The P-A-X augments and completes but does not sup- plant nor connect with local and long distance telephone service. Branch Offices: NEW YORK, 21 E. 40th Street PHILADELPHIA, The Bourse Buildi BOSTON, 445 Tremont Bldg. WASHINGTON, 905 Miuunsey Building ROCHESTER, 612 Mercantile Build: PITTSBURGH, 608 Fulton Building CLEVELAND, 415 Cuyahoga Building CINCINNATI, 1913 Unien Central Building COLUMBUS, OHIO, 518 Feria Building DETEOIT, 525 Ford Building EANSAS CITY, 1001 New York Life Building SAN FRANCISCO, 37 Cali- fornia LOS ANGELES, 238 San Fer- nando Budding fin Canada— Address Nerthern Electric Co., Ltd., 121 Shearer St., Montreal, P. @-. Abroad — Address International Automatic Tele- phone Co., Ltd., 60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C. 2, England fn Austrahia— Address Automatic Telephones, Austral- asia, Ltd., 207 Macquarie Strect, Sydney, Australia ¥ THE SATURDAY hese are ‘some of the things the P-A-X will do away with for your organization~ il “Never mind that call.we cant wart all day, get Smith- Jones on the wire instead” “Lcan't understand the delay, [ve had things charged here beforec- The P-A-E eaves thee nad monty, aod preven raatomer-iilelon. Semme of Ue moet Im mocelik 00d imac concer in Acurica by Ite credlt-checkiag feature and other ecrvicoe 1 cannot afford the time, money and good- will waste of doing without the P-A-X! The saving which results from any one of its various uses will pay you for installing it. Among the concerns who testify to its universal EVENING POST Lins Ehisesy fiafieas waiting for your overworked Operators attention ™~ | Tl have to have that in- | formation looked up a eall you back” =—j=— cp it A Pie acd pete) dla) vie Be cherk anal pet hat Intomerion, will hla clienk be che ging wine, AG deday ll eo calling Gack? Eesti eervice i 2a | = A) “Much as ld like to bu on fies prves, havertt the | authority and our board | ()) doesnt mect for two weeks Through tre P-AsK amy number of actives may a cone Pty withowt beawing ah bens naamaber. June 9, me oo 1) Employee wasti bei time talking over i | telephone. 7 Hamiteds of wiee execetives wr liste ey Os weate ana boc dosricdier feo eo te PA-Mi=en. ipl eretems for iteria cat- has done away ee a ton T i in the United States and abroad~ user-satisfaction are some of the most prom: nent in practically every line of business. We suggest that you get in touch with our nearest representative. He will tell you more about ez the P-A-X% can do for your own organization Automatic Electric Compan ENGINEERS. DESIGNERS & MANUFACTURERS OF THE AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE IN USE THE WORLD OVER HOME OFFICE AND FACTORY: CHICAGO, U. 5. A More than a pe telephone exchange—the Automatic Electric Service! of the P-A- include and co-ordinate interior telephony, code call conference, watchman service and all other inter-communication ne

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‘fathead fram Poge @7) iavernmment regarding a trade a ave been concluded and the ict has been submitted to the par- ited debate hes developed in the er the ment a8 submitted, arvative Hements claiming that it far beyond real trade matters, It at protecting the rights of Swedish and shippers engaged in the mada and re izes the Boviet egation as the only representative body in Sweden. ormvay has igned & trade agreement with the imilar in nearly every respect. to matted to the Swedish KR . may arrange for negotiations ing cared the firat movement ta vat discussion, but breaking off » Soviets demanded that sation be recognized as the “only ative Russian body in Denmark.” assion af the political settlement et Rusia has been deferred by linavian governments until after a conference, : these gov- expect to present separate reports decande ef each, ea CT ta tol lowes invelved in con texl Tremindous hopes art based outcome of the Genoa confer- : Scandinavians want the Genoa : to be decisive and the mreana of t peaceful economic and political cetween all sections of Europe. io graup of countries in Europe ds more solidly for universal n than these interrelated the northern penineula, and they rd to the Genoa conference as a tunity of proving that they are merely lip service to the cause of reconstruction which they fos istly during and since the war. « Cosperatios Spirit sethoda of friendly cotiperstion nongst the Scandinavians eh rt pada plate “7 ty ations in reali praght i the wor of their Inter- ary committees to such a point af the important legislative i are carried forward simul- in all three countries. Pe dl ey 1h interchangeabl in each country, and ‘a ‘ben on a par basis despite the in the value of their paper ll dines of communication are ‘th h the efforta of each e other a ahare of ita nowledge and experienc: Al- : of indus has an iin each country that circu- ation and sends representatives ‘al meetings beld in each coun- ively. Such movements are rithouwt any clash of natlonal te the fact that all three eoun- a the keenest sense of self- d national pride. The political | Seandinavia has been alon weal damocracy, a9 svidenoal Tbe T a ar fhonlag Hee the Tee Piles Up THE SATURDAY Dark as the past winter has been, there was never a meoement when the proapects for the future were not in the minds of the leading men with whom I have come in contact, There is such boundless room for development, such wealth in natural re BoUTceS and Bo great an incentive to move forward that the period of depression com- bined with the rigora of this terrible winter meant nothing more to them than tempo- rary hindrances, The year holds cut ma jses of achievement. Shipping wi in moving early in fy night ater its long st ui carrying t eastward, Within the past four years trade with America has brought into the transatlantic BErvic® a great of commercial and pansenger sleamers, Peg pe hy veg navian firms, to foster trade westward. In addition, there is a thriving comstwise traffic. One Stockholm oe hag mansty ssncaip oni te BA which great majority are coasting boats especially built to ha handle the eae from Sweden to Finland and the Baltic states, to Denmark, Harway, | and the eoasta of Sweden. There are 126 regis tered firme of ahipownera in Stock alone, while in Denmark and Norway hun- dreds of other firma are seeking, when con- ditions will permit, to build up the trade between the northern group of states and the reat of the world. fcandinaclan Free Ports Facilities for handling commerce have been increased steadily until to-day Den- mark and st ei spe af ae free: aie unsurpaseed In equipfhent in any part o the world. In Copenhagen and Te Stock- holm shippers. from ews country can un load di or northern ports, atore their cargoes in absolutely fireproof and thoroughly guarded warehouses, and after sorting, the goods may be shipped out in a dozen different directions. All this takes place without paying duty to either of the countries operating the free harbors. In other words, aps 5 set aside a strip of water front, ful with machinery, warehouses an ounre wherein the shipper has extraterritorial rights, Throughout the period be stress. and doubt the Swedish free port has been grow- ci new dep ltr 5 ie piel myini- ery and greater len quayage ‘ing added regularly, There ia now ao faut of 1925 feet dock space with o depth of thirty feet of water alongside. bese the year the docks will be extended int where the water is thirty-three fatd , thus making provision for the Hg nes and handling of the heaviest freigh The available space for the free hor is a 000/KM) square foot and if required an additional 2,000,000 square feet will be added in 1929. A apace has been reserved | for @ terminal to aceommodsta a new service between Sweden, Fin- tstia, which in the course of time will be one of the important interna- tional ferry connections across the Baltic. Americana visiting the Scandinavian eountries, aa well as thoas who have lived forward move ment of these peckise and now that they will recuperate from the years turmoil follow- ing the war, They sre set- tling their enced, hia and OFeleT ably. They have put fort every effort to assume thelr share of the vars in na alt face the alot couragesusly, firmly believ- ing their of- fort will keep them in the front ranks of the progres- sive nations of the earth of distress and | political differ- | both | EVENING POST i he ZAY-TEK Blend in Eatmors is a Chocolate treat for you Tear open the big red tube of Zay-Tek Eatmors. Place one of the Eatmors on your tongue—and realize how truly delicious milk- chocolate can be. Of course Zay-Tek is no ordinary blend of chocolate, or it could never be so satisfyingly wholesome, so much in accord with the particu- lar American taste for which it was created. 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it's boo lab You have te live in a jen you're young if you're ging bo at running one when you're yp. And the only time I ever really ia hows was that winter I apent mia John aad Aunt Esther." it’s harder to run a hetel than a he persisted, vaguely afraid that might reveal Carries comments on + domestic qualifications. “And weh the same thing tea." wine. Hut] know all about hotels gand such places, I've lived in my life, except that one winter id end muma went off to Feru. Fou"ve iat to be convineed now! a ight it all owt, and you haven't.” I don"t say ‘re wrong, but" — ba head ander well-founded forr~ “but T don't guess Phil's going to ng ha wile keep a public hotel: yothes _ aE thil won't say a word. He under= e, And be's modern; he knows e's no prejudice against married aing into business any more, Of ant expect mother te like it, amd yitold you first. You can always Tound when you want to,” ddon smiled ferbly, na at a come it managed to shake his head. sscume suddenly serigus—ab- ofabily seri cUs. tinge bE Reecaninse L's so terribly bed to be idle, father, Unless [ve hing to Keep me busy I'm just ret into scra Ar ae don underwent a pang of ap . He had a deep respect for ull ly expressed nthe, a lively dis- on observation and belief, of Satan Wes adept at proving ronemployed hands; he glan ‘o with a stab of ansiety. A aghtless child, with nothing to af immovable sweet obstinucy nd equneel, After all, there was n this tavern scheme: at the ld waste a litth money belore aloof it and drapped it. what [ can da, Shirley." He andkerchiel over his foreheqd, ed him on each cheek. you'd back me up, father. Now see what's got to be done te the loeed heaps and heaps of ne m poing to have no end of fun ewer and that funny plumber,” jon started. If he let Shirley rewer ard Lafferty unciceronmed ihed—his bankchooled bonagi- led before the prospective mse money. He wont submissively a6 the pasture lot at the back of that separated Phil's house iw EOnygr to bother you this time, were such a darling to help me then house that I'd be ashamed t be a bother,” said Mr. Wel- Jit a lief fool around with Ts pas not And Brewer's o rp for you, Shirky, You better e hin for you." sduced a key to the padlock the front door, and they ex- sremises minutely—the four whitewashed roe on the the two aslant-cornered cham- Kir. Weldon admitted that ad as he'd thought; the frame 1 plunnb, alter its cent and 4 need a new rool and floors, ther gumil paint. Hestooped ta e attic over the kitchen wing inspection of the venerable his. shin discovered a ar » struck a match. air mitted o delighted ery ut a ardecl furniture—a spinning tancd bed, the ruins of rush- irs. welyi™ Shirley clap her ‘!T mever thought at etek ray (Calhoun said the attic was a, beat he couldn't afford to the price I paid, so [ said I'd bt mayeell! on't mother be though! We'll move all this <3 axel fix up that south room jel another match, by the | shhe investigated gingerly. «ee there was a raffle of mis- er, im whieh she discovered o THE SATURDAY EVENING POST SOME MISCHIEF STILL (Contiftusd from Poge Is) few funny old evlored prints af early Preai- denta—Tyler and Polk and Monroe and Jackson. She clapped her hands again. "T know! We'll use that south room as a gilt shop—antiques, mostly, We've got enough right here to make a beginning, and I'll get mother to pick up some more, She can buy them awdully cheap; and we con sell them at simply piratieal prices! Father, I've got a feeling we're going to make a witked Lot of money out of thes," Mr. Weldon dusted his trousers and fumbled for the stairway. Shirley was happy, and after all there wasn't any harm in letting her have her way, eapecially aa she'd get it anyway, He discussed altera- tions with her soberly when they were downstairs again, pleased that ac cepted his suggestions ao readily. “T just knew I waa right,” she declar aa he fumbled with the rusty padlock. “T've always thought that I had a natural ft for business, and now I'm sure of it, ust see how well I've done with the chickens, after nig? Aan laughed at me for wanting them! Even you tried to per- euade me that I couldn't, father! Own up that you were wrong!" : “Looks like it,” said Mr. Weldon, grinning. : She didn't even realize that she hadn't had a thing ta do with that chicken venture since the day when he had overruled the inhebox iden, If he hadn't mon lt far er——= Well, let her think she'd done it all. It pleased her and it didn’t hurt him. And he and Carrie, between them, could keep her fram wasting too much on this tavetn potion, He half closed bis eyes. After all, with proper mainagenent there mint be money in the scheme, The Grimfield hotel was pretty bad, and there wasn't another within twenty miles in either direction. And the moter traffic on the main road waa Cling bigger every year. If he and Carrie nicl thie thing it wouldn't lowe much, at the worst of it. And it would keep Shirley from getting into mischief tox, There waa more confidence in his tone aa he repeated tia promise to talk Carrhe around, He felt vaguely sore that Carrie wouldn't need much penviasion when she understood. aes “T SIMPLY con't dare leave her alone a L minute, There's no telling what she'll do if I'm not here.” Carrie apoke briskly, as always, but Mr. Weldon observed that she wore the peculiar sile he had come to aasoclate with Shirley. Somehow yal couldn't epeak of her without that look and that spreading gesture. Erven Phil did it, he remembered; and Phil waa abjpectly in love, “Tt's all right, Carrie. T know. I don't mind. We've got te look after her, of ovurse. I'll get miy ape here too, Sart of loneseme, home.” He glaneed abowt the cheerful low room, admiring Carrie's trick af decoration. Everything in view waa for sale, and yet it looked extraordinarily homelike, not a bit like a shop. He eould hear Abednego alnging, ln the kitchen wing: “So goo -by, droulde an’ paip— Gernna hearem ond motrin’ frain— Afy gin been toben apg!" Carre knew how to handle "em. He haul overheard her remarks to that shiftloss rascal ten minutes earlier, and marveled that Abednege didn't throw up his job at the first sentence. And here he waa, singing ag if he hadn't a single sore spot! tt was a good iden of Carrie's, bringing Lyddy and Abednege over here te the inn and leaving Shirley's housework in the enpable hands of that Jap. Shirley eouldn't minage thia pair a bit unless Carrie stood at her back, but petit alon well enough with the Jap, who didn’t n any supervision to speak of, And that Lyddy could certainly cook when she wanted bo. He smiled gently at the pleasing memory of the figures. He and Carrie, betwoen them, had made the inn pay a pretty rolit, especially when you considered how edo kepe down the cost of alterations. Those signs browght business a long way; he'd driven over the roads for a terenty- mile radius to nail them up. And Carrie wasn't afraid of charging, either. The prices che got for meals and for antiques! "Tf I hada't been here this afternoon she'd have taken fifty dollurs for that four- poster of Martha Sprowl's," esid Carrie suddenly. “That woman from Philacdel- hia happened to aay ahe'd been lookin or one, and Shirley came right out a offered to well hers before I could stop her." Currie's lips closed firmly. “I got two hun- dred for it, though. And it coat me thirty- one-fifty, including the refinishing, Shirley thought it was. outrageous te wk more than fifty. And she keeps telling ma that she always knew she had a» gift for business!" Mr. Weldon grinned reminiscently. “Said that about the chicken house too. And if IT hadn't interfered Brewer would have soaked her eight hundreaid—and extras! But it tickles her to think she's doing it; and it keeps her busy. That's the main thing, alter all. It's = bad idea for a girl like Shirley to be left with nothing ta de. here's too much mischief for idle hands, mother." “There's a car at the gate, Arthur, You go moet them. I'd better keep an eye on Lyddy."" She vanished through the swing door, and Mr. Weldon went out to the stoop, He didn't mind weleoming Shirley's customers, although it hac pricked his dignity at first, hese people were only strangers, whose apinions didn't Ereaty matter, Grimfleld knew that Arthur Weldon and his wife didn't have to keep a hetel for a living, And meat of these molensis were nice, agrecable folks, too, pleasant to meet. He shook hands cordially with a lean, sunburned man im knickerbochers, with a jolly plump worn who made him think af arrie, a litte, and a sober girl of twelve or ao, whe seraped her foot in a curtsy. The plump woman exclaimed delightedly at the sight af theshow room. Mr. Weldon explained, aa usual, that the whale thing was just a aaniey: of bis daughter-in-law, and discovered that he had employed the stlfaame spreading gesture that Carrie used. They were nice people, he con- cluded. They seemed to understand at onee that it was juat a pages . Kot a aertous business, He beguiled brief walt for their dinner with the shory about Sim Rendall and the hearse, and, encour- aged by applause, related as an encore the anecdote of old Sam Dixon and the surner boarder. Grimfield people were forniliar with both these stories, but transbenta generally shouted when he told them, He antl Carrie ate their dinner in the pantry. They'd got inte the habit of doing this on busy evenings, instead of going back to the big empty house. Mr. Weldon didn't elypent: it waa aort of fun te plenie over here, and you couldn't trust Abednege and. Lydady to serve oo meal without some- body ta eve an eye on them. Carrie talked briskly of the day's events, She had sold twe rush-bottonved chairs an a seb of whale-oil lamps, besides the four- poster, and they head served lunch for twelve ple. She had heard about an. auction back in the hills, and must manage te get there somehow: it was all she could ilo to herp enough stork an hind, the wa people kept buying. Mer, Weldon listened, mentally calculating profits. “And she really thinks she’s doing it,” eaid Carrie. “That's the best part of it; she's so Pleased and proud that I'd never have the heart to let fad aut." He agreed eager] . If Shickey ever suse pected how little had to do with the Wayside Inn she'd be sure to [oer interest and think of something else to do—some- thing that might be a worse Chan this. Let her think, by all means, that she waa singly responsible for this, as for the chicken busses. d 2 The guests were explicitly content with Lyddy's dinner. The plump lady frankly confessed a desire to kidnap the author of the corn pudding and the architect of that noble boefstenk pie, Currie received these tributes becomingly, explaining that she had trained the servants herself, and that, of course, they were better than the disin- terested help you found in ordinary hotels. “And now if we could see our room,” the plump lady continued. “My little girl's sleepy, and we're all tired.” ; “We haven't any rooms,” said Carrie. “Tt's just il pA ge ba a8 You can see; but there's the hotel downtown.” Her tone ris to her opinion af the Battle House. The plump lady looked faintly aggrieved. ri "Qh, dear! We thought that there'd be Touma. The aigna—I thought an inn always had rooms. And that hotel looked perfectly imposible!" “I'm sorry.” Carrie shook her head sympathetically. “It's really pretty bad, by all I hear. But you could go on to hiinster—it's only twenty miles or so—and there's a very niet hotel there,“ Mr. Weldon'’s eye encountered that of the solemn little girl, and waa detained anc onlightened by the intensified solemnity of her expression. She looked mssigned, he thought, ta thease twenty miles, but she foresaw no pleasure in them. Under his in- spectionsht becamesuddenly self-conscious, and twisted her hands in her lap and turned in her tors. Mr. Weldon had an iden. "T tell you what," he announced, “you ran come up and sleep at our place, We've got plenty of room. C4 course” —he en- countersd Carrie's aghast contemplation and spoke hurriedly—“of course we don't do it ss a regular thing, you understand, but—it's part my fault, about those signa. They'd ought to plainly that this inn doen't rent rooms, for a fact,” : The little girl's solemnity abated slightly. The plump lady hesitated, but the lean man voted promptly in the affirmative. "That's mighty gow! of you, alr. But we'd want to - As long as your daughter- in-laws Funn ne the inn perhaps you'd et us her for the ancuminiudalsons ton, I wouldn't feel right about it ——" Mr, Weldon was about to protest, but ae intervened. enn by Siar on t; you can pay nn for m an lodging both, Hut of course you undersian that—that Mr. Weldonand I wouldn"t-——-" “Qh, ofcourse!" Theplumplady beamed understanding. “It's awfully sweet of you to take pity on us, We're just tired out." Mr. Weldon rade aver te the big house on the front seat with the lean man, and told him the story of Luke McNab's throe Pigs; and the other one, having to do with the elder and the bootlegger. Carrie put them in the three west rooms, apologizing for the diamal disorder, which seemed to be invisible to any eye but hers, Presently, as Mr. Weldon listened to Carrie's comment on hit mad oct, there was a step on the stairs and the lean man appeared. “Too early to turn in,” he explained. "And I thought maybe you had some more of those eateries." Mr. Weldon leaned slightly forwurd. “Have you huard the one about the twa Yankees that. ped horses,” he inquired, "Mo," said the lean man. “What is it?" When they had driven away in the morn- ing. eene: two express ka in the drawer at the Waymde Inn, Mr. Weldon wie plensonthy aware of e slight hoarseness. He made light, however, of Shirley's contrition. “Want a mite of bother,” he declared. "Not a mite, Turned out to be mighty leaant folks. Fact is f osked “em to stop over with me and Carrie on their way back. Got a nice ae ae Made me think of ¥OHL, some ways, Shirley." She waa not eaally eomforted, though. "T feel just awful about it—making all that work for mother! It isn't fair; it's my Inn. "Don't you worry about it," he said, narrowly aptinnlge an incautions relerence to the faet that Carrie apent seven or eight hours a day at the inn, and that Shirley herself visited it chiefly in the sapacity al an obaente: lindlord. “Mother kind af liked having ering if you wank te know. I could tell it tickled her to hove that Mrs. Phimmer see the hooked mags in deg hive room, and those rope beds and al oF He cleared his throat cautiously. Shirley was partly consoled, “T'm glad if ahe didn't really mind. But it’s too bad to fill your house up with strangers, father, I just won't have my customers innbester ng wits your comforts,"" “Ch, I kind of liked it, myself, if you come ght down to it,” he oonfesed. “It's a sort of change, talking to strangers. Asd Mr. Plummer got me talking about Grim- field folks—sat up half the night, we did. Don't you fret a minute about it, Shirley. We managed fine." ‘ She tugged at his lapels. “You're just saying that to make me feel better, pa dear old fraud, father! I know you! And I'm going to see that it never happens again.” (Ceatned on Page 7a)

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74 (Continued front Page FI} She overestimated her powers of precau- tion, for it happened again in less than aweek. And this time Carrie herself pro posed the solution. Mr. Weldon Fy curios discovery in the course of this see and evening. His prize anecdotes were received with far less acclaim on the part of the two gentlemen from Baltimore than they accorded hia narrations of Grimfleld epigodes to which no native would have listened at all, He also discovered that the world is a relatively small planet; it de veloped that these wanderers knew the Plummers, and had encountered them this very week at the Blue Mountain Howse, over in Vermont. There were other emergency hospitali- a bead eye intervals after this. Pet i! of July it wea exception when he and Carrie didn't have some of Shirley's under their roof. Carrie didn't complain much, considering all the trouble it made for her, and she gonerally referred comfortably to the effect of these visita- tions on the t-and-lass account at the inn. Mr. Weldon himself kept the books of that establishment and drew off trian) bal- anees every Saturday, He never even cracked a smile when Shirley plumed her- self over his neat figures. She didn't dream that ahe wasn't doing it all hersel!, But it troubled ber to let Corrie turn in the money paid for lodgings, in spite of Mer. Weldon's reiternted assurances that he and mother kind of liked having company once in a While and couldn't think of col- lecting money for themael ves. “Tits not fair,” she would say, “It's my inn, and T ought to take care of every part of it, instead of just the gift sh the meals, I haven't any right to feel proud of my ae if some of the money comes from : coin renting her rooma to my guests. "mn it," Mr to keep } to think Up a way to sto itably respectfal face when Shi a suitably ‘ful face when Shirley gave one of her imitations of a person irkey & act of thinking. It waa a thing he had a senee of humor, he told Carrie, Hf it waan‘t such a joke there'd be more work than fun in this conspiracy to keep Shirley out of mischief. Even Phil was deluded by the fiction that Shirley cid it all. He bragged openly to his long-suffering parents about her: mighty few girls Erought up we she'd been, could take hold of a business and make it pay this way. hey never been altogether just to Shirley, he thought: of course they'd never said anything, but he had per- celved that they considered her a frivolous, flighty litth thing sometimes. He'd even felt that way himself before this inn experi- ment had shown him what a level-headed. little geniua she was. Mr. Weldon and his wife encouraged this hallucination of Phil's, but they shook their heads over it afterwards, and exchan glances of faintly guilty amusement. In mid-August t ow descended with- out warting. Shirley led Mr. Weldon ta a corner of the show room at the inn and seized his lapels srirhiregt fe He had learned to interpret the look in her unfathomably gray eyes, and he was restive under her restraining clutch. "Tve done it, father! I've eelved the room problem absolutely! I just knew I'd think of something !** Mr. Weldon slsnced apprehensively at the kitchen door, beyond which he could hear Lyddy's browheaten rejoindera ta a running fire of comment in Carrie's com petent tomes. Shirley taok the hint and ndepted her creamy whisper: "7 don"t see why [ never thought of it before, It's been standing there for years, just waiting for some te realises the poesibilities—and I got it for just simply nothing! Aren't you thrilled, father?" She jerked at the lapels, Mr. Weldon moistened his. lies, “What you been ap to new?" "You don't guess, even ofter I've as pont a3 told you!" She envel him in eremile, “I've bought the old post-road tavern, of course! It's the very place! ‘There's TOOM enough in it to take care of thirty le. Mr. Wa don felt his jaw sagging. The old tavern! Av yision of its forlorn decay rose before his mind's eye. It had been empty sinee his bovhood, a gaunt, vener- able ruln of rateing floors and sagging row! He managed to peach his handkerchief and mopped his forelpead., “Now, Shirley, honestly; ——' She refused to listen. “IT know exactly what you're going to say, and you needn't THE SATURDAY say iE! l'yve proved that I can manage a business, haven't 1? Didn't I think of this inn all by myself and start it, even when you and mother kept telling me I'd just throw my money away? And hasn't it paid? Just because IF can't mp hietiane you think [ can't do anything, you old stubborn darlings, but you've got to admit that I can run hotels, haven"t youT Just look at the a I've sueceeded with thia!" r. Weldon pinnoee again at the kitchen door. If Carrie heard thia flattening in- telligence from Shirley she'd certainly for- tand say things. A summer inn was one ing, but a thirty-room hotel —— He' have to get Shirley away and break the news to Carrie later. "Let's go and look it over," he ope jean “You—you'll have to pul a sight af repaira on tt, Shirley.” r Shirley skipped delightedly toward the oor. “T just knew that you'd say that, you ald dear! You always remember about repairs and little things like that, that I'd forget. Come on and ser what we'd better do—unless you're tired of being bothered with that tiresome Mr. Brewer. You'd say ao, if you were, wouldn't youT I'd never pick hl myself if T made any trouble for merther with my littl schemes, I al- ways tell myself that when [I'm thinking. And that's why I bought the old tavern. I just couldn't stand it to have you and mother worrted by putting up all these tourists. [t's all on your account, really, so I don't mind asking you to help with the aiterations, you see—if you're quite sure that you don't mind.” “I—I'd just ‘a lief “a not,” ssid Mr. be ag “Just "a lief "a not, Shirley, hon- eat in 4 haven't told you the best part yet." She squeezed his arm aa they went throwgh the gate. “The inn's only a summer buai- mess, you see. As soon as the roads get bad there won't be enough travel to p it running. But if we can get the old tavern fixed up we can keep open all winter. of peop le are getting tired of going South and come North instead, And this would be splendid country for winter sporta— snowshoes and skis and akating and tobog- ganing—lots more fun than playing golf on and greens, and ever and ever so much healthier tow,” Mr. Weldon shook his head, appalled at the utter futility of speech. “You see I"ve got so used to being busy this summer that T couldn't stand it to go back and be just on idler when we have to close the inn. And this will give me some thing to do all the year round, won't it? Let's hurry! I ean hardly walt to get Mr. Brewer at werk on those aire.” _ Mr. Weldon made a noble effort to re- sist an unworthy temptation, It would be sort. of fun, planning those alterations and chaffering with Brewer over the contract, but he had ne right te let that ignoble im pulse influence him. “Now, honestly, Shirley, you ought to think this thing over before you go getting aero all tangled up in it. This hotel's und to make a sight of work for —" He caught himself just in time, and was re- lieved to observe that Shirley didn’t sus- pect that he'd almost named Tie, Camie would have the whole thing on her hands, of course. “Oh, T thought it all out long ame. sald Shirley. “You said that very thing about the inn, And just see how little of my time it's taken to manage that! Why, I've seen just as much of Phil as if I'd never started it at all, You see,"" she explained Rind: “keoplng & hotel looks a lot harder than it really is Unless you know about such things, And [ guess I've lived in enolgh hotels to know about them! Besides, it doesn’t matter how much work it makes—L'rn ea F ae aa Ft PEIN: EVENING POST going to do it; [ won't have you and mother bothered with putting up my bour- ists in your house a minute longer than | have to, That's settled. I just won't listen to any tiresome old ments about it." Mr. Weldon than her, iF i | CAN'T possibly home till after dinner, Arthur. minute Do turn my back something] goes wrong, and you know it.” Carrie pursued Abednego with a glance that seemed to exert 3 gtceraee stimulus on his reluctant guit, and teamed ber atten- tion to the big yellow bowl of whipped egg. Her sleeves were turned back to her elbows and she was envela in a vast white ron, but it occur bo oa beatand that looked nger and—yes, ier thas aines Phil's wedding. Eo s sniffed ap- provingly at the blended amells of the wide, warm kitchen “Just ag lief atay here for supper,” he de- elared. “Just "s lief ‘s mot, Currie, if you don’t mind, Shirley going home, 1 sup- | FF Carries lips twitched. “Oh, She doean't believe hotela ore Fore oF Young married le. And she thinks that sim- pleton of an Asa Thorne can manage o place like this! [ wouldn't trust him with a crea ae Mr. Weldon nodded gloomily. Alter suffering acutely over young Mr. Thorne‘s warped notions of bookkeoping he had solved the blem by taking over that department himself, “Don’t get too tired, Carrie. Strikes me you're doing a mite more'n you have to over here.” She diamissed him with an absent wave of the egg beater. “Dan't bother now, Arthur. I've t all I can stand as it is. You out root and tell ‘em about Sim Randall and the hearse; maybe it'll keop ‘om from thinking too much about this meringue.” Mr. Weldon grinned. He had been at some paing to conceal his preference in favor af the big cheerful common room at the Webscott Arms—Shirley had chosen to mame the tavern after herself—but he suspected that Carrie waa not wholly de- ecived, These folke who came up here and paid money for the privilege of freez- ing their fingers and eara in zero weather had redeeming qualities, like the summer tourists. He was ing so he could tell that hearse story better than ever these da lic slid out of his fur coat in the gloom of the cupboard below the back stairs, re- hearsing the opening lines of his pet ane dote, a premonitory chuckle gently nudg- ing at his diaphragm. He heard the door of the office open behind him, and identified his son"s voice. “Of course I'd rather go home, Shirley, but ft doesn't seem right. You ought to be on the {ob here." Mr. Weldon stood still. It always am | him to hear Phil's innocent Ideas about Shirley"s part in the conduct of her enterprises. That was the spice of the joke—that Phil never gu who them pay. is don't need me a bit," said Shir- 's round little yolee. “Mother's logking ter the kitchen and alve'll send father out front te tel] his stories," “That's just it, You're leaiig it all to them, Shirley, and it isn’t fair. Of course I know you don't mean to impose on them, but you de. You let mother plan the neala and manage the servants, and father slaves over the books aa if he was hired,” There was a pouse, Mr. Weldon held his breath. Phil was beginning to see through this grindstone at last. If he waen't stopped he'd apoil all Shirley's pleasure in

im 16, 9 het harmbese little concette. He we om to interrupt when Shirley's Voie fous him very : ea grandmother, Aor we paar itth eves you've got!” [t aw er much in ‘Shir vs. morta! pitier something in the affectionate + caught Mr. Weldon's ear ae difersr: sees something, Philly dows, ble bo bn He's finding out what o terrih scheming deceiver he's gone anc fase Starting hotels and a and all srs things and taking all eda ast eush whilt she lets his poor old pares: ed ee all the dirty work for ber! “Don't, Shirley. It's serious M she been putting in just about all be ore this blessed tavern of yrowrs: ond furee here about os much as she mw. You is renlize Ht ; * Don't [7™ arley laughed. [t wor regular Shirley laugh at all, Mr W- « thought. It was short and—aed a= bitter, “Phil, where was the big durep in the living room when we care ‘bi from. cur ding trip?” "Where— what's the davenpar Fe le with this?" Phil spoke blankly. “Ie ing abeut the hotel, Shirley.” ‘Where was it? So am I!" "Why—in the corner, wasn't =" | ve that you didn’t like i ts

a | “Where is it now?" "T don’t see—in front of the fireple course —but ——" “Good. What happened when ths ; low gitl Lyddy wee insolent to me ex: disch ber?" ey ly, Shirley—oh, all right - smoothed her down, af noun ie knows how to handle darkie:” “She doe." Shirley spoke wits dese “One more question: What Kind of « was in our room, and where dd « - from?" “Why—oh, you mean Martha Ses old four-poster? You were ally ss that at first, Shirley. What did it = who'd died init? And it was a buily 7- ever. I thought ['d get eroond & <a we'd better have it out and | fhen I come home with you I por 's your father and mother. I thougtt —2 girl ewer got such a perfectly dari-s of in-laws. But after a couple of wea Phil, you're net a woman and youl -: quite understand, but even you os what it meant to be nothing but ae of visitor in my own house, Your = my servants and they took or from her—they wouldn't de what | thers wrles backed me op 5 Planned the house, bought the fo=- arranged it, and if [ changed « thirg . to get her permission—if 1 could [| + she did it because she loved us both. = I just couldn't stand it, Phil. Lf it hed) on there'd have been trouble beras- all. [ got so that To wwe afraid to we | father come up the walk—=—[ knew ro what stories he'd tell me. And | oJ set the thermostat to suit mys! always set it back, mo matter what | u “But you only had te tell thee —= “No. It would have hurt ther oa age care | ho matter hes pol inted. You're all they've got. Pet I'd taken you away from them. [ aak them to stop making a pla;thog of us and our home and our life—: = only think up some toy or other that & be perfectly sure to take away fom t iengate leave them with exept ands: they're perfectly oprtair wo mischief, i hands, no matter b+ they are, Andit’s worked. They're tat and it hasn’t hurt them a bit. The Mr. Weldan‘s faint merged in a wave of amazed aces The cute litthe—— Who'd have there was anything like that in ber little head? Why, even Carre was “Don't, Phil—let's go." He cos accurately, He heard Shirley's == littl: laugh. Onee more it made k= of ares ee cream. “Core oc you'd better! We're having francs Mr. Weldon heard the doar gar gust of frozen wind. He emerged retreat and stood hesitating = tell Carrie? On reflection he derde it would be better, all groucd. to ¢ the birch fire in the common rows =: those city folks about Sim Randal .- secondhand hewrse,

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Alsoa littlefuller's earth, if you have a cone clutch, may prove migny wseful in case of sere rs t tet thot ogi high « ape it wo necessary to rea the car- buretor, but we did not do so, preferri to run alowly until we found a tances | grade. However, both this and boiling with those who are not to mountain running are to be anticipated and prey for, beginning at the Cumberlan mun- tains, although the altitude reaches ites climax on the Continental Divide, _ One safe road rule to have constantly in mind is that, notwithstanding your five- gallon can of extra jaa, it is wise to fill your tank whenever you get a chance, whether you actually need to or not. This holds equally good for the radiator. Fill when= ever you see water, even though she'll take only a cupful, The stitch-in-time principle Teaches a high af importance on & long moter trip and it ls better to be too — than to be stranded, The one real danger of the roads between Hutchinson and Winslow, and then agai beyond the Cafion from Williameto bar stow, is the washout. During part of the summer eloudbureta are frequent in this art of the world, and a road that was per- cle gore of an evening may be anni- hilated at some point by a rush of water from the mountaina during the night. It ia not at all uncommon to find a bridge washed out or that a big piece of road has been gouged by a temperamental river changing its course, These washes are not always eo bod as they look, however. We found that coming down slowly and stepping on the gas hard at the very in- Btant we struck the bottom we were al- ways able to get out. Never under any circuimstiners attempe to & Wash, If you do you ram the nose of your car into the solt sandy aoil or clay at the bottom, and araestuck. This ia a really serious mat- ter, as washouts usually occur far out in can’s depend ‘upia siwaye nding’ brush can upon always to cut if you're mired at stuck in sand, and a large heavy tarpaulin, which folds and tukes up ¥ little apace, ia especially suited for = brush substitute in such a predicament. Another thing to look owt for through the Far Southwest are the numerous old washes ned by little bridges. These are same- times barely wide enough for one car to enna, Hy mode of wool, and often most unstable, ‘You dart upon them before you know it, for there is usually no warning sign of any kind, Life in the Wilderness Just a word about grades. George and I arts awhile accustoming ourselves to driving without warning signs, Back home in the East we have now and then eomplained about the advertiaing signa that infest our roadways. We get sick of looking at Whosiz Liver vei atk pe fii Clothing Store, and are -very fond of saying to each other, Wouldn't it be lovely but for this? Just the same we had uneonsciousl become pretty dependent upon the know edge that very often thes: signs are warn ings of dangerous curves or grades. Farther West we came choee to more than one bad adecident before we learned our lesson. The A. AL AL has marked the Santa Fé Trail with directlon markers, but there are few peat aye until you come into the territory of the Automobile Club of Southern Cali- fornia. A mighty good rule to chserve is— slow up when you can't see ahead; You never Know What is going to be just beyond that charming horizon line, And for the benefit of the transeonti- nental novice let me insist upon the healthy axiom that brakes are of no value on a bad grade, You must have good brakes. of court—they are execedingly important; but through great stretches of the West they are more important to-beep you from flipping downhill backwards than to keep you from falling dewnhill forwards. You will have to make all your bad down grades in low, plus brakes, and even then you will do well to slow up at the summit and begin your descent very conservatively in second, gaing inte low when mecemary. 7) experienced motorist this is an wees warning, ite ge Abel tag yp aster by paying attention to it An hid wo intial corteatts lor ea ata who expect to roaodl grand red in just as well ge ee miasma of horror and dread that springs up at mention of provinal ea. A Ing liy, the rooms aure better «gus cleaner, better cared for: and a ta food, the ‘transcontinental v7, A be able to get an excellent bunch w éralé price in pract 1 which you choose to stop. B at Syracuse,

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‘jouss up their back yards, and one top where there is water. However, 1gh Pennsylvania, Maryland, West a and a considerable distance into Ticultural belt ag far as Missouri, if ia trie camping. irectly one leaves Kansas City and pon the great Southwest, camping ona change utterly, Water becomes . Shaded Vea are rorer, IRn tead comes the municipal camping . These are hideous, almost without on, Ag a rule, the only place the tourist finds to leave his car is in a roofless garage, or corral, where he is fo camp in company with anywhere nto two dozen other automobiles ed na closely as if the ac Were B in truth. Water is usually supplied r with some imitive sanitar ments, but all the jaye of camp life if cereaialy lacking. : there is literally no alternative, mater appears upon the earth's sur- Haces jag” Screin apart the camper choles, ides this, the prairie ert arm mighty lonely places to v's camp at night unless one hap- be an Indian or a Mormon home- The average tourist needs to wnt hisatock of supplies constantly, Fy tewn through which he well equip to help hin aut; the running down to the store for the n yeast cake is not eliminated on a itinental tour except by the most ved and hardened campers, and ently it is absolutely necessary for ‘age oitht to park [teelf within a tle distance of a grocery store, wle the public camping grounds are it is not uncommon to find that a t made for use of them. 1 think it ‘to give full warning of the diffi- o be encountered by the camper. ature lovers who have planned out on this trip on the 4 Aa going to be a grand free life in the in for a dhock. : ea of recommending that one take any special feature along a route ust chock-full of scenery may at ce seem rather absurd, om the one leaves the tidy streets of Balti- ind and beging crossing the friendly ious Cumberland Mountains scen- mmething that practically cannot uw Wonders of the West plete with interest aa the whole Trail is, and ineweapable as are ies t , Lam still going to am the advantages of certain side * are easily made from the main 1 without which no transconti- ir is complete. ough the Middle West you will the trade names of familiar arti- ag across in front of their home you will find a welcome from y¢ all these concerns if you care em. I would suggest that when- ble 300 do ao, inasmuch as ac- ing the tremendous scale upon 16Tica manufactures goods and ariety of articles we produce aids in forming » proper concept of yr aa a whole. s does not give the external ap- of a packing center, for ita reai- fetis uncommonly handsome, and & an exceptional art museum. City is an object lesson jin home amd the a Easterner will le«d at the uniform beauty of its lewelopments and the interesting which arens are restricted ta a ef architecture, The plan upon boul are Iaid out also is ci the planting of the parkws ~¢ them will bring joy to the er and the tree worahiper. vmisas City to La Junta I know of mr objects of interest to recom- cially. However, if you are a THE SATURDAY pole: and are making the nap in a leisurely | ashion you will have amp ephortanity af playing even in many of the amaller towna, all the way from Washington ta Bytacust, Kansas, the St. Louis municipal eourat being especially worthy of atten- tion, as it is one of the finest. public courses in the country. Even in a small town like Garden City, Kansas, a nine-hole course is uaually available, and though these ore | Western hospitality makes littl: difficulty about permitting the stranger to play. La Junta is the real starting point be- yord which a variety of interesting side trips may be taken, beginning with the comparatively short run up to Colorado Springs via Pueblo, where the road in normal times is excellent, and from which aj be made back to the main route via Agul ar te Trinidad. And of Santa Fé with its prehistoric ruins and Indian villages I have olreacdy spoken. The Department of the Interior at Washington, 0. C., provides, upon request, an excellent decorative pamphlet covering all the national parks, as well as automo- bile and motorcycle regulations, standard rates for trips, guide fees, bedding and pro- visions, saddle-horse rentals, and so on, and these pamphlets are extremely useful and suggestive, Write direct to the De- partment of the Interior, stating just what territory you wish to cover, as each section is described in an individual booklet, Al these folders contain splendid maps, which are kept up to the minute as to road con- ditions, and ay on. not commonly municipal lin , cu The One Great Side Trip Below Albuquerque allow yourself an hour or two at Taleta, an Tadien village, which is one of the cleanest and most gelf- | respecting of the Indian centers but which | has not foregone picturesqueness in favor of blue jeans, as so many of the professional railway-station Indians have. Then between St. Johns and Holbrook you will drive directly through a corner of | the Petrified Forest, and you should allow | plenty of time for a stop-off there, On the northern route from Belen it ia a short trip to the Enchanted Mesa, while Ha, peters the moet noted of the Webloe, if ulmeet directly on the railroad) ut. is axreediely Picturesque in apite of the fact that it is the most highly com- mercistized of the Indian villages. : From Thoreaa there is a splendid trip to the more remote Pueblo Bonito, and | Gallup offers the starting point for numer- out beautiful side tripa, notably the Zuni Indian Reservation and the far-famed Cafion de Chelly, which is perhaps the most dramatic trip of all. On the northern trail the Petrified Forest is Teached by a ehort trip from Adamana, from which point a run can easily be mode to the edge af the Painted Desert, _ From Winslow you can go down to the Roosevelt Dam over a somewhat difficult but exceedingly beautiful rand, of north to the four little sky cities which til the last stronghold of the Hopi Indians. Even though you pass up every other side trip from. coast to coast you cannot, must not, pass up the Grand Cafion of the Colorado, With Kingman, Arizona, the gold coun- try begina, and the & basing used for eeahing d by methods are onl one of the anny intereating things you will want to step and ape, From then on to Barstow there are no aide trips of importance, and the only thing calculated to delay the traveler, who has by now become thirsty for a glimpae of Cali- fornia, are the marvelous iments in dry farming for which this district is famous, : Upon leaving Barstow I age advise making straight to Riverside, California. | But there is no news in that; I have from La start been advising you to go to Cali- ornia, EVENING: FOST 77 every bristle gripped everlastingly IN HARD RUBBER! they CAN'T = releyssl- out!/ for either the- professional or the “occasional” RUBBERSET COMPANY (RB. a CL PoCa., Preps NEWARK, New JEnSey, U.S.A, LTT MA GE they leave no bristles F brush : RUBBERSET COMPA NY TORONTO AND CRAVENHURST, AN ON the worlds standard

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73 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 0, SS oa — |THE LANGUAGE OF THE ANGELS A PAGINA 2G S. (Continued from Page 19) exes tiem = Ya-he, the Black Angel, was terribly ill, o dove: eae cee aso That was ta te | His waa the worat case in all heaven. It name. She was her ems, cre i} was eerious, Itseermed hopeless. Mudgett over. Old Lfudipett necked lerae el ped the anteroom night after night. She made other noises there is the dn hen Ya-he got better, the worst liquid lovely sounds. He told tome! ) passed, and Mudgett tried to sleep. understood them—understeo! rer, He Jay down on his cot that night, but she was saying. She wos talking « enullal ape Lae i eyes. He rose up, and he understood. He, Thoms r teroom, saced the hall, He Mudgett, understood the : : ipa foi or the door that led downstairs, snasts ! Say now—another idea’ | Motionless, he gazed into the darkness. not? "T'm glad Ya-he's better.” He moved _ He held ber up in his arma, lee: =| dawn hall te the matron's room, put her, whispered her name: “Como his elongated car to the door, listened. All The Dove answered: 9“ Coc-on~ was silent, He wanted to knock at her “Of course she knows her earns’ door—an almost unconquerable desire. He was Selignted. strange thrils pon He wanted to talk to someone. “About through the mou the new home when it's finished " he told i himself, He stood there u ed, vacll- cilia sles th bay: He wanted to ix | lating. “I say now, just about the new the new home was going to be S:.'e « home and about Ya-he getting better.” that ‘Yo-he was better In the gloom of his mind other and eu- Presently he whispered, a riow things were revelvin cue n Dear: That waa a3 near as be could ome wv round be had seen whe _ Le Dae cee eee eee ee “Th a thing he had wanted ieee ia good." thing on earth, a thing he had watched Goeoo,” replied the Deve. until dusk brought out the revolving will- Say now, didn't she understand! 2] a eee lighta to mingle fantastically esheT Old Mudgett became boot is bel with barbarle etraing of music. He wan thought. Presently be leaned ee, 3) something now, wanted it like that. He to the little mite in his arma “(Goe” formed the little matron's name, but did whispered. “Goo— Wee not utter it. Perhaps if he just stood here understand that? Wow i shel Ep thinking about her she would come out. peated, ieierioum en He walted. She did not come. “Just ae” = =; about Ya-he getting better,” he muttered what ho. he waa ae baa to himself waited longer, And the Dove replied, “Ga-ya But no sound came from Miss Bax's Rei a si room. She and the babies in there were udgett, trembling with 2 fast agleep, He thought of ig aoe held Me close to him, formed on tried to Imagine her eyes when th pa . Whispered it, waited for ue ‘ closed, thought of her lovel qu, ut no reply came. He placed > told bicnaes | el were like @ mirror pated eat. cine +9 bee Lips, The Dh that an. ene si inte her thum eae en So "I say Ponntiy bn recsheal ont and pl But the sear dark ma- illow, placed it actos his knees, bol ry + | cater within his mind continued to little Dove on it and covered ber »<! | || revolve—will-o'-the-wisp lights, distant blanket. "In a few more months | ommunication strains of music. He visualized a woman's now ——" He thought of the x= * alluring hair, like Egyptian fea, Sh able delight of conversing with + fore! and theirown language. He kepi th. Fiesj he imagined that Egyptian dusk ost thinking about it. Mis gaunt form oy A ll LUNGS ce ON ge ko a a Be ee gti eS P - Z re ‘ONASEGES

E ps ace a or ue se Macatee the smooth whiteness of a pillow. “I say He cowed bis child. * Ya-be's Se ict-Running Koya eve t ave achieve ec is eyes. in ithe ultimate design of typewriters the final word ||| Od Msdgt cuted slog the al and Es eit ender eh of in simplicity, balance, strength, practical quietness the dark be hia sar tow listening poomied ber way to the babies Bea and speed. And the gratifying results it is giving to- instrument. One of the baubles was crying, ahe was stopped in her tracks by + day in hundreds of Peevey managed offices He knew the cry, knew the ery of each of of get poeay man drooping over scsi more than justify this ak. the babies; each was distinct, ummistak- on ap She refused to credit ber Cc icati f th Ah she. leas the ory of the smallest angel She mores closer. The Dove! Ta ommunication is one of the two great agencies that ven—the Dove. mean King one of the baa! have made mighty nations out of struggling colonies ‘i melon replaced Ng oe pr ite exib? he bs ve a that Se aiuage gooenmiaiomhag ett wom ah ery orate pat hls bead] Votorger Law lute; galled fas war _tlig Unck t0 Ae frome paces. bot ters seh ule . And on wh ben a carne ean reigned I got to ale fo someone she ust stood there, Heer gaze bea systems of communication is the typewriter! It actually about the new home," he mumbled to him- tidied mere prepares the majority of business messages and authen- nik bullding- fivetrp. ze locked, Bi turned away” roll “5 ani ticates most of the others—“confirmation to follow." gaunt jaws, with determination. “It's se room. Ww here remo i: 4 1 FF No miraculous invention made this new Royal pos- ean : call para Cheat? gag to h ikee: che S00 cae sible, It is simply the result of a long, undiverted || be finished! Lie? "I say now, it's ides habien rw (eather ‘kicks waenitd quest for the one typewriter—without complicating || to be finished.” These thoughts were tole Mudgett; and the Dove is entre) embellishments—that would so nearly approach per- lowed by a great void of darkness in his p nee, ae mind. Into this vod came n the f= fection as to stand unequalled for years to come and carrnuisel-wheoling through oe tein He OX THIS day Oba Madea: d probably never be surpassed. trees oat hie gaunt pete the wy down from his heaven atop 2 7 Ba toa whee: ; wanted most in world, then ng me, went out into the oui The Light Running, Quiet Running | Royal is the pulls himaelf ther, rose up and hung over public agg typewriter of the future available today! Pesta l dow n, Halfway he vulture, bargained, beat down snd § ‘Cur fifire-sis pare back, The Evolution of the Typewtiter", | turned ah _ yeas to the anteroom. Once again he sang his spares beauclfully dhascrared in caliar, will be mailed free an requesc, the Hetening apparatus, onanien cneees chan 1” and with cl Address [hopartment § Whe Dore wer wll-oxs crying. t] i mie . hed — : Old Mud entered front room and patrons. To | little avail, the eed | ROYAL TYPEWRITER COMPANY, INc. Sone © over the crib of the rey angel in pe pestered them with prayers or 364-366 Broadway, New York [eve heaven. Awkwardly he patted her with tions. He sang hymns and jax § Branches aed Agemciae the World Oeer continued to cry. and wept. But when TE came to a | dat he lifted her up. She stopped could not. No credit to Mudge “Compare the Work" crying, “Why not? Say now, why not?" where, somehow, he Tad lost ip Box would never know o one lying—and | deplored the = Soe ee ee ee ee : hepaaccd Ge oa i : : : a amoved with the Dove in workmen © ad acrom = ' LIGHT-RUNNING QUIET-RUNNING his arma, and entered the anteroom. He which meant that someone hac = Closed the door of the front room and the rid of old Mudgett. Bot o regter 4 door leading to the hall, and seating him- workmen were. Picked up be cd self on the edge of his cot he rocked the the loafed more than they laborrt Dove in his arms. Against the rules of the Tibald jokes at each other home? Well, hadn't he made the rules? jocosely from the ef the bc Hadn't he? Couldn't he break them if he their fellow laborers cole! oi wanted to? Who was fe to ‘a pee other inanely enough: “Hey te | from rocking rif say in his — durb-bell!"; answered with err | now Any aay, Bax neat amazing rofani anity—celle ot Bast know, hellhon "In short, they = | @ leaned over the tiny mite, She wes Mudgett to be on a» rowdy habe. waite a strange noise—the sound from expense. He fumed, he fretted. ~ ich come her name, like the noise of (Continued om Page £!

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80 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “g Don’t Forget This When you order Pork and Beans The Van Camp experts have delighted millions with a new-type Pork and Bean dish. You get it when you buy this brand. It differs from ordinary pork and beans in a dozen important ways. It will change one’s whole conception of this dish. When first perfected, thousands of restaurants and hotels bought it to serve to. men. The men told their wives about rt—the wives told other wives. Thus the fame of rhisdish hasapread. Now milhongs of homes enjoy it. And Pork and Beans, once a rare dish, is served many times as often as it was. Don't forget the facts we tell here. Be sure you get Van Camp's. For you, like all others, want such Pork ond Beans as these. Qur premier creation The Van Camp kitchens are the finest in the world, They cost $1,700,000. Famous chefs are employed here. — Pea lester te 4e TRE, Also culinary experts—men with college training, Also experts in dietetics, Also a Domestic Science Expert of nation-wide repute. This entire staff worked some four years to perfect this Pork and Bean dish. And thisdish made us famous. We are known for many delightful food creations. Qur cooks are masters of the culinary art, But the dish in which they most excel is Van Camp's Pork and Beans. Other Van Camp Products include Ven Camp's Soups Von Camp's Spaghetti Peanet Butter Van Camp's Evaporated Milk Cafuerp Chit Sauce Chile Con Carne, Efe. Prepared in the Van Camp Kitchens at Indianapolis June 10, Some Van Camp Surprises You'll find the beana extra-—flarery, and plomp. That's because they arg on stuched ecile, ch im Chivas os es) is analyned before we start to oon, The skins are tender. That's brome water used is freed from monk Ff water makes skins tough, AL flawor ie ievtct. Thact's become ee! 16 sealed containers. None are ereped of broken Ths a to ateam ovens. “The beans are tind lite steam under Pressure, With: ol with the beans. beans easily digest. Thar » .» hours of baking ot high bear, Scam make this possible without cusp a bursting the beans. There is tang and pest. “9 due bo re Camp utes td creation, [ec wat perfected by ys ccnithess formulas amd blends Ti w is baked with the pork and beara, e0 granule shares TE. Order a few cans of Van Camp's 2@, [ pare them with the ordinary, Loom wood this dish can be. Cans of three size Digitized by Googi¢

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‘pation from Page Pal} rom his office window, he vctreet, Carsad them to their faces c his buge woud fist under their ‘an ved mit alt ther, signi gnity | ister ator Lin crew would ap bre and there. Again the aln the Bh ae be “dumb- smabvbell” “hells until ise Mudgett wonder- yift conspired to pad epee? of the new foundling dd carry a sick, leaden thing— te the fourth floor, there to be the sight of the seven angels and amt little guardian. = {with ani ind tribulations will blame poor itt for the serioits mistake od the end of the second lingulatia iment. [He bon- ak t piri oper of a motor for of an @ & WLo th was March. Moodiy pac suddenly wheeled and station aimet the windowpane, A motor infront of the home. He gaped Jtimmings. Pale lemon eolor relul body of the car, Mudgatt had paused aye Ad ag 5 iad would soon d chauffeur alighted und Arya ah out, glanced up at the building, frowned. No wonder Hen of these cf ad! What a contrast! This home and this young radiant ha gray toque til epee ae ithur, She was wrap iber of ce at eg tat ator ao held the strap, of her pper. wit robbed his eves, Waa this a hallucination? Women came frequently enough; but they ein pairs, and always wore flat len stockings. Ehould he rash atow hall and greet thie visit- bresheld? Intensely practical, grabbed his Prince from ealeove and im his haste oblivi- iit on over his alpaca cont. ¢ himself in bis ewivel chair, fan to write importantly with " he called, even before there Hock at the door. opened and eloaed. Tremven- wer alone made it possible for continue for a mement to ien he turned be had the feel- F inte the emerald sunlight own through the leaves of Her eyes were upon him. She ee with dignity, buttoned the y Albert to his alpaca, ond ard about his work—said so sad brought the firet unsolic- (old Mudgett had ever re- to make it foo some day; a ich help; ee a gy ich against the ru oF ies? "1 a0 love kiddies, oe Mudgett.” iddies, Mr. Mudgett."" ying pont the emerald gun- 3 waa playing havoc with the ves im old ud sith heart, thim? Poor old tk? No ver smiled at him e that, Dazzling upward glances, igling: He fumbled for the fide of his desk, to call a he visitor through the home. 7, I'll show you through ray along nae halls that fe selatalsr a an itatue of a statesman, hand eoat, while she leaned over fand whispered pretty sibl- older shi Singer, She arel. ni. & J Taust ‘And what a@ funny old, ator fed scarlet. It never had ted. But, he boasted, ee m5 home the Pome in Arerica. be another like It, THE SATURDAY They had reintered his office. cy) eae caliad Lis dleceatod’ nak divuleed ‘ae bey and plans, tit eeout ths dee ac atop Pe “There are more babies!" She could hardly beliews it, Her emerald eyes were biorh with surprise, “I haven't seen them "Seven more,” Mudgett informed her with tremendous iimpertance, “Seven. And think of it—they haven't seen a hu- man face siner they came here; haven't even heard a voice!" She was incredulous. But Mudgett con- vinced her, 1 tape the book on his desk, opened it; Ap : pen “ oid Mudgett hung Born aby wor udgett hung goer ag tues then" bit “Im must. set them ! ti i pec a. et nat to go; but Peer were say OW, on will yout" “ae at the curb old Mudgott re- trance long after the vale repeal motor had vanished. He was oblivious of the March breeze that flapped the coat taila of hia Prince Albert, oblivious of the workmen calling each other durnb- bells and hellhounda —_ the way; and alas, earl Pe the salem a erey ae that were a own upon him the heaven atop the foundling home. As motionless as Mudgett was now standing, Miss Bax had stood since first the eT ieped ti To the nary oie mings u curbing, Miss Bax had seen the a puny little toque, the Beelpind pales moleakin wrap, and had thought of a certain raccoon coat she had dreamed of lon Bebe ney ing there, four flights up, she a faint elusive fragrance, and tage caught the eparkle of a rhinestone button on a gray subde elipper. She had stood mo- Hionless amid the walla, the laughter and tears of heaven for beariy an hour, Her Teward—a glimpse of that appealing face that had gazed up at Thomas A. Mudgett @ Moment past. Poor old Mudgett! She knew the droop of his shoulders, had seen them droop like that once ae twice duri these years. And she knew the nee us at aR expression upon his gaunt fea- When he turned slowly into the house iss Bax slowly from the window, Silently she went through her afternoon Troutine—bathed each the babies, fed them, tucked them in at dusk, and after her the room for the night slipped eemply gloom of the anteroom. gh: esired no supper, Wearincsi—the weariness of two years that she had never admitted even to hersalf—deseended upon her She undressed, removed her trim little corsets, slipped off ber lishe stockings and allowed them to lie in a limp heap on the floor. Blea akon Sie Ee er bed gazing at her nicely modeled foot and thinking dully of suéde purnps and silken stockings, Presently, wearily, she put her small foet into flat-soled Japanese sli with pom- Pons on them, donned a faded kimono that poorly muatehed the pormpons, stood in front af the mirror for a moment gazing at her hair, her eyes, her throat and shoulders, then, without further ado, lay down on her narrow bed and wept. I yee ry ghee the pale yellow motor in front of the foundlin bees d Mudgett was unable to nes himself. He rushed down the narrow hall, and was greeted at the door by a nicely dressed young man with a dent in his nose. All too patently Mudgett's disap- pensioner Was portrayed in his gaunt fea- The man laughed. “Not Miss Saxton this time. My name's Norton—Max Nor- ton. I'm her representative, Mr. Mudgatt.” pereon he proved to bouint cba iiecy ne pono he rere & suite commanding. From the moment of he FA nee thi began to happen— He fired Mudgett’s imagina- don with the nthe of Rial father donation. Misa deeply interested in the hao ar big Oe Say m0 Nudgutt engarly tanslated cs now" —MMu eagerly trans into a reality—"we'll put it ee the building fund,” For an hour they were closeted, heads ta- . And undeni- ‘8 secret book of the language of the angela was EVENING POST ing, sincere, When shown to the fourth he kept his eyes to a peephole for half | an hour or more, and babtnine wr with enthu- | BLAaT aden old Mudgett on a mar- | mcr trip that very afternoon reat experiment! No daubt about ik; greatest in history! I tell you,” said Norton, * eve you've accomplished oars big I don"t know anything about it, but 1 tell you, Mr. Mudgett, I sure this experiment ja woique, and and | be- lieve it's big.” "I th now, I think it’s big too." talked as they etrode along. ie dog Tade an iene x eo iy “Why not get two or three ogists, real ane, nom the b uae tes? He “Would they Corte tothe oat asked Mudgett. “Say now, do you think they would come to home and sea it for themselves tT" | Norton was confident of being able to arrange it, “And if I succeed you won't have to wo Gans more about the building fund. It go bi He went into de tails—the he kind of new ; shories, And still another brilliant came him. “IT have jt! It's going to be big. Why. mot on that occasion—say it is big—when philologists are looking on and listen- ing—why not let the babies hear someone's voles for the first time? Enagreple recorda. Phon phie reeorda! tell you, it's going to be big. Wwinst willl they say in their own language when they a voice for the first time and see a human face for the first time?" r | could get the mi; lene | “Laay now! I say now!" Mud t was earrled a with the idea, “Could you"*— be hardly dared su: E it, but minted srg curd sete gg aimee mal at evening gaun tt. blinded by pin aceat § mae his war ta the fourth floor and told Miss Bax. She faye no sia sign ot ae havoc his words wrought the calm gray spores ad af her She listened, seemingl: ted, then turned away and b ot | earily in the dietary kitchen. After all these months, these years—another woman. She had taken care of them, watched over them, and—and they were to see aomeone else, hear some other woman's volor. She wondered who thia other woman was, and the more Miss Bax wondered the more she wond The following afternoon before taking her tramp through the park the littl: ma- tron called for a number on the telephone, and, later, said to Mudgett, “I wonder, Mr. Mudgett, if you will take the evening wares Bien | is coming to see me. ae barca Lad OV eg, an Mudgett 08 sine his oor nervously, “I Say now, is There waa no brand in the little ma- | | | ait an UNnnecy= tron's make-o Eigse ian"t married, but he's old enouw Eto be father," An old, ol frlond he eed, the ship-news editer of one of the | dailies, he came | that evening with ao v¥, substantial | tread and the sound of a cane along the narrow hall to the mag Rag sa affien. “Helen,” said he was inside, patting her hand, “you're prettier than ever. I've a vag! ,to forgive you for treating me shabbi “But I havent been out of the house, Jit, except sor a walk in the afternoons; not for two He was 4. age sien, carelessly ipa: with iron. . He eatin to her hand. “Can't believe it. Not with t calor.” He hesitated, “It's teal?" “Yes, it's real,” laughed Miss Bax. “You don’t mind that I dre you way up here? It's important.” waited for hicn to seat himself comfortably in Mudgett's ewivel chair, She remained beside tha desk—standing there, looking down at him in the dim light. “Twa want you to tell me about some aa Rhea , alterwards, we'll plan the litt promised me on the | press boat. Who ia M Misa Saxton, Jim?" “Never heard of her. What's her first name?" Re i . . » Flora May Saxton.” He regarded her with humorous Incredu- lity, a Ceinkle in his eyes. “Don't you aver read the papers? The little matron blushed. 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Th: Martford Fire faswrance Company and te Hertford Accafeet and [ndrm- nity Campany write practically ecery form af fagurance exeepl fife, the THE SATURDAY I (Contiaued from Poge 3]! | “Well—not an unusual e; only— | she's prettier than the rest. r principal role—the one that made her famous—waa in connection with a breach of promise or | alienation of affection suit or something of | the npg taig gg re bombo i Then— | there were other thinga— alter the trial, headliner in vaudeville. Let's talk about somethin ce ete for instane. | You've noti beginning to use a | eane, Helen. I* s till unin I'm | begins to use a cane, Helen." | he put her hand Inte his and he patted | it with tenderness, | “There's someone else 1 want to know i about. A man named Norton: Max Nor- | ton,” He breame interested, “You're dealing with characters, What's back of this ates tionnaire? Are you writing a What's the plot?" “Bu that's what I'm tring to find “ig a ed sold Miss Bax. “Who is Mox Norton? Do you know him? "Tye him ever since he was a go on. gaa ay She waited. “Please | What is he now?" | “Ofhand, I'd say he’s an architect— | the things in castles in the air, That is, he builds seldom have founda- tions. Norton—well, gay someone wante a | feputation. Max will ‘build it for a ¢onagid- eration. Nice fellow, keen, succesaful—one of the keenest press agents in the keesiness,"" "T think that's all 1 want to know," said dee Bex in an even volte, ee en vi about the garden on Long nd and the men who go down to the sea in ships,” "Let's talk garden,” he insisted, rooting in Mudgett's desk for a sheet of pepe. “I'll show you how om plantin year." he An to draw bate itch Some days later Misa Bax received a note scribbled on copy paper. With difficulty she sees = this “breathless piece of information: Asparagus is up. Jai. FP. &. Flora May Saxton is to make her début on the screen latter part af this month. ae go with mae? feture ealled The Fennec lirag. B | EF IGHT in the little room adjoining heaven, yet far removed therefrorn. Thia & the inimaculate room done in and old rose, But it is ni ie and ther lit mae, with fingers in th her head, is gazing up into the dark void above her narrow bed. It seems to her ehe ia not looking up, however, but down into a well the fathomlens waters al which niner vague, disquieting pictures. the faces of other women's children—-chil- dren hg Mie abandoned and she haa loved. That is one of the things she sees— her lave for them eat up for months, i years, aes a ayll never a sigh te tel ee eifele clearly, gazing into th out yen more clear - Ba nto the ness, she eee the foundl . far hoa, Mudgett, heaven itself joke to Hs yertise the wares of Flora May Saxton. She tries to imagine the stories Max Nor- ton will write about the first woman these bablea are to ee cade anit al rg the gestures, the liqui nis that will ! come from their thronts as they cling to her | with bewildered ip She tries to imagine these stories a ly in print—Mudpett's | records pi two years, college professors, | phonoerap ha to give them authenticity; rf months of weariness and love, t! t home, Mudgett, heaven itself, described in the papers to advance the notoriety of some WomAn—such a woman! The little a restlesly unlaces: her fingers, ropes 10 hale ‘the ene d ap tins at the si it to her ear. Loa! One of the an icp goatee It's Ya-he, | pie Hee Angel, He's laughing: “ Ya-he- Bhe contindes to listen, Heaven becomes the littl matron t presently they open wide silent. Determined! closes her eyes, again, i into the versely enough, she cannot stop her mind fern TrOTEIE: She is thinking of gaunt, helpless Mudgett, Her thoughts, however, yea. Bhe aees contain no demeaning adj him as he is—not his acta, but his motives, And her vision is very clear, aa this too, if strange—she turbed inte the darknesa when her irs hadley | him a8 a gaunt ungainly man begging bullying—=penurious, miserly, ey EVENING POST She lowes him for all three qunlities be- caune— well, use, She can't explain it to herself, but there is something noble even in miserliness—when it is for a pur- pose, raat sm) eee moe isn't ait, He what people thin it's it 2 aes enn Satine nine bs in cing bo at is boner 5 ie the ings peaple think— counts for more,’ Then, too, aren’t theae qualities the read- able record of the things he has suffered— a life aa lar, hard and shadowy aa he himself? this exterior is a portrait of his ‘Glas al is its portrait of hisllife—his bony fista, those gaunt shoulders. "Epine ibe another curious pivaned er: ** a spacious, gloomy heart | Ang has Bhe thinks of ita vaettness, ita simplicity; and remembers that a single ted cake had grime ite ac eon a frog how easily ae A spacious heart, but Again ie gropes for the listening instru- ment. Heaven is silent. She asks herself a question: Is love ever unselfish? Her lovel Suppose he should lave aome other woman: sup it were ble to transplant all the fooling she a4 for him inte this other woman, leaving li empty, would she do it? Did she love him that much? “Yes,” she whispera presently, “I love him that much. But I wouldn't do ttf" Tt fan't a fair question; she has put it merely to torture herself, "I couldn't do it because it would leave me just = empty shell." And she thinks of If as an empty shell lying at the bot= tom of the deepest of oeeana, Once during this tortured night she sita bolt wpright in her » her gown falling from her shoulders. She will dresa! She will tell him who these people are! Now! She can't wait. But presently she sinks ricki among her pillows, Lf she told him be re Ach a aE aie oul rooping and with that per look in his eyes. No, it wouldn't do, it wouldn't do, He must find it owt for him- self, He himself must discover them. How? She knows not, When? She cannot star But he must discover things for ree ahe ligtena, hoplng for some si from heaven, But there is none. The angels are sleeping. She places her head in the elbow of her arm. “Wo—lI eouldn't do that. I doen't want to be an empty shell. I want to sail like the novtilus over the surface to the end of the wide orean, then—=then with all imperfections left behind to sail on and on—together.” Dawn reaches in with its alender finger and closes the little matron's soft gray ve NEE TER. came in the April of this so it will be fee fe ante ot eat Good Friday, the date set. by Max Norton, three distinguished scholars met in the dingy office of Thomas A, Mudgett. The culminating event of the great linguistic experiment was about to take place, Mud- gett was snd hg In his Prince Albert, o stiff ret and nigh winged collar. He had strutted ating them chit regalia, vik t eatie ma ira ae g orders But now Ving he eleageed left ear, aearing his his th ront, and ul in up an effort to explain the magni- eofhisexperiment. Almost incoherent, = was boteching it terribly. MNortan, at the desk amiduously making notes, turned and shot old Mudgett a glance, “take ho periods Norton explained what ett was uring to say. The three ene wee ed politely. Now and me the Po headed man sitting by the window crowed the other knee and pursed his lips, but he listened; now and agnin the large man near the desk shot hia pray, arted. a little farther out of ia collar, but presently sank back in his eo and listened: oecaalonally the sallow man by the door smi and hia per 5 twitched behind thick glasses, but still he listened. All were listening po- Itely. Tt waa clear, even to old Mudgett with his brain a hopeless muddle, that all three were agnostic to his evolutionary theory of language. ; doubted the value of his exper , doubted him, his angels, heaven itself, Agnoatica. Finally he could stand it no age "I got it in the book! broke in upon the smooth dissertation of Norton. got it in that book—there!" He hung over irl shadowy, vulturelike. He rose up and . June 1 ae toe you don't bellevs :. t in a book—written dows,” the book on a table and “i dreds, four hundred and y mune combinations of scunds. = te they use again and again And te Meaning he beck of them, A Abst. Mitel ae The first L co it. ean talk it, and they = tal It's thelr tanguage. tctacherte | other; not everything, but eug— everything. And I can can undereoad | é — rrghl up, Si aeed thant tahanite. ho oe wel ing. “IT say now, [im not a sacar I understand them. [ don't mew |] or Sanskrit; bat [ve tobe: doe aqunds they make and writte: dor they mean and traced these soo) inte the common everyday werk body uses right bere in Americ Language came from this, and Gk from it, Sanskrit, Latin, all the logy You don't belleve it? I'm gorge ej it! They've never beard a beeen) not a single word, But you're hear them talk—say things, © each other. You can take note, o Phonographa will take note tox we'll come back to this book od) eee for yourself, That's all. I'm take you up there to hear for nove language. I'm Euing to OS elas now. I"m not going tc Right now, That's 21” oe Not quite all,” put in Noro. ent i een more interes oe ™ he told then Ee alvely: iy today for the first tice & lives these children ore gomy & | ere face other than thy ing to see 4 Wome: of fitting at bementifea woman. You i witness their reaction. Carel! 5 graphic records will be takes o i sounds they make when she enten have given names to them—e ‘thing they have You may quite properly ask will be their name for woman? T in the original la: fore ore this worman?t We ae iia! will be here in a few momen & you have Heard of her—for the o | men, concededly the mast beautiful in America. I shall wait here acd Oe war: gael tt e gists seth (peo faded OB heated) ] tones a certain brand of pre © Reaching the fourth floor, howe became interested in the scent: 2 Tent and apparatus of the octerel when they ood the receiver © eara and t eyes to the mr holes all three became : would not? The babies had but reontiy a from their nap. [t wer soil ¥a-he, the African giant, aod Ce the White Crow, were having 2 # cen a the far corner over 2 pods. “They were granted! oe ‘rebate looking tag to pull Caw-caw's hair when or) resented 7 . Foss wae ices] we, seated beneath a windes. =i ing to a rag doll. The teo che were still in their cribs. Misa Bax, trim and efficest, ¥ell and fray-blue uniform, 1 a of the four pairs of eyes watching 5 anteroom. Qrietl; she wert duties—making up the crite. crea baksies, Liptay thom on the foc Her thoughts were not of the pill at all. She was thinking reels " nay, Was it met @ serpent thet om enter thia Paradise so corfu) | from all the world? Her mont natural digression. What wool web Eaaal ne oan? Meching ecyuialls ga The babies having beet . cRRese clothed, Miss Bax threw wir windows, converting the ream 27 was quite as and beak’: @ tected jporeli. stood there St ment Bitches pra ts cow bel heme, slowly compart afternoon and the sae ae noisiest— pod. shocking profanity from te sidewalk. The litth matron best to close the window: a days, Having done so, all wa for the climax of the w utd Miss Bax atood motionless (Ceoatinwed oa ae

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(Cotthued from Poge 44) down upon the seven baubles, then We anteroom, ard for the finst time: Hy two years left the coor of heaven ma freee PHOTREMEE ta areret. The dilogista, standing on the s the portholes, peered Into the front The bewhis hiskered man was taking Mudgett hued to the top of the iy. A woman's voice was audible; acai! I'm all out of breath, And dics, how are they?" rathed the top af the steps and against the wall, careting yer breath e gasps, her er breast. it’s snoulders drooped as never be fe be gazed with rapture wu this il creature. Norton was still on the y; only his beaming face with a dent ne ond be seen. “Big! It's iy, Mudgett." He squ 1 past, roing phonon canis himself Le in ographa. tes Bax’ "a mat ciaes view af lay satan, The matron had re- ver gray Weil and was standing in rway leading to the narrow 2 ld abe find it in her heart to blame Honal “tidag! ee poor old Mudgett's re ton was pretty; no Gi Nor = she biesire in eloth Clingin pe meleor she wore, Seg ey removed, Her hair Pe Her eyes —— Invol- the little matron closer, the eves of the woman who waa # things to gaunt, shadowy Mud- -where in the world had she seen 2? Where had she seen those un- : emerald eyes! terminated this perplexed mus- vthing waa ready, he announced. ring machines were sey, Pies e angels’ name for Flora May fay floated past Miss Bax with- ‘her, and entered the antercon. logista. glaneed down fram thelr She amiled at them with the hery that had befogged old Mud- Lao doubt auch in his cen mind about artemis, ig "Doha: Latin and Sanskrit hich might express this voiant But that wae for the angela to ortholes, and none H fire pinay fis Tiss ax. The little de her sade to herown room. At w ashe looked down upon the 22 foundling home, where the dren were playing hopacotch. inown them «ince they were these years, Yet she could not neof them. Mist clouded her She wiped away the mist. “A no right to ery,” she told her- Zahe 18 Very, ¥ old ar very, . I'm metther, Um just very, °° She smoothed her hair at cirror over the dressing table, the top drawer for a fresh f, then, being also very, very on the edge of her bed and iny listening apparatus to her y had entered heaven. This need by the mishing here and angels—their small bare feet. the cloudlikee flooring. Heaven ‘moil. Adisa Bax held the re listlesaly, She could visualise what they were doing, where imilar scenes hud been enpeted de a few beginnings, and then the women imparti sald, “it would be quite Pasy to you ll singly, y"know. il” eried Crwen. "T know!" ced at Gwen furtously, inderstand perfectly," sighed pl everybody," said Ar- wn the little Taver * with which defense was met, arcane Cytila shinnmed lool. dear Arthur,’ in. “ [t's just that you have bce Lady Hunter Mrs. Drelin« : THE SATURDAY before when something had startled them— a few howls, and the scurrying of bare feet and bore knees. Now they were silent. Allof them. a sound. She could visualize their wide pate cay laa ha cn’ E eo for mutual protection against the wall, the cribs. hesondered if the phonographs bad recorded the ire utes hows, La-la oo began to All the Neg in aympathy nto ery, “Kiddies is he voice of Flora May Tose above the di din. “Kiddies ——" There was shocked silence, breathlessness. Flora May rege "Kiddies, what ia your name for me? You mustn't be frightened. What Ia your name for Flora MayTt" “awecaw, the White Crow, the offsprin of vikings, let loose an ear-splitting wail. And all the angels in sympathy began to “But, kiddies! Kiddies !"" Silence. “You, mniuaten't ery like that, ['m just a worn,” aand Yoo howled in unison, Miss Bax smiled. Then the amile left her eves—suddenty. “You're awful!" came the exmaperated volce of the Saxton woman, But it was not this that caused Miss Bax to clutch the listening instrument so tightly to ber ear. She detected amid that babble an un- wsual sound, a combination of sounds, a word. She could have ehrieked aloud “Take her out of there!" She whispered, “Ch! Oh! [t's terrible! Tt's —— If they atop their howling ev it hea will hear it— a pas ogists, the phonographs! Ob! "Kiddies "—again the voiee of the Sax- ton wornan risen above the babble, again there: wae silenee—“what is your name for Flora?" A soft angel voice answered before the uestion was completed, "Ell," said Ya-he, the Black Angel, trying out a word, “ell— el] — ell — ell — ell — elloun — elloun —ell- oun wimade it 2 duclogue and got the a ” we Tellhoun -hellhoun’—hellhoun’." ast angels took up the ery in isa Bax dropped the instrument, rushed from her room, along the hall, inte the ante chamber, The bald-headed philologist waa shaking with mirth, the bewhiskered one was chuckling, the sallow youth was taking notes, Poor old Mudgett with his Tower of reali about arg slongaten oe aa oat ti now aay now!" Nor- a ah the angels, was wililying the oh aeeaeaphi in his frantic effort to get them turned off, lt was ‘too mee The litthe matron hardly paused. She burst into heaven. chan. Pandemonium. All heaven was vilifving the woman. The angela were aweiring like parrots, The Saxton woman in her bewildered desperation made « grab for one of the fying babies, She caught the little Dove, “You! You littl ——'" Miss Bax ran to the child, stood over the WORMED. “Yeu miuatn't! Dent you dare!" But her threat was unnecessary, Some mysterious thing more potent than the little matron had laid a restraining hand upon the woman. She over the Dove, transfixed; a drawn expression, al- moet a grimace, came over her lovely face. She Toorened her hold on the child, = oor io her feet ond gro for t Sas The litle matron led har Rin to he anteroom, where Norton, now grimly TRUST EMILY (Cantinged from Page 27! “Everyone, said Mrs, Drelincourt slyly, “neods a little sense of humor." She looked at Lady Hunter's het and at the deplorable pictures of the twina. She began to laugh cruelly. “Ha, ha, hal! Forgive m-m-me! I simply e-c-ran't help- —hn, ha, hal” “Knowing, taid Arthur, trying ‘tu fol. low up bis ittle advantage —~ knowing— er—no one would want to—er—meet the other—er—when you all kept coming, I— T—had te devise some Meats straightaway of keeping oa all “Man's a fool of a liar!" murmured Coat, wringing hig anda Tact was now Before Arthur eould sturnble on, hew- ever, the Hunters' cook appeured th the EVENING POST silent, took her in charge. followed the philologists to the stairway, expostulating, “I now! T say now!!! iaa Bax retatered the front room, Sho closed the dear, She was alone with the babies, her babies. “Mine! She held out her arms to them and they came running to her, clung to her skirts. She got on her knees among them, and the smothered her, sobbing and ae ine!" She was no longer mute, The pent-up love of months came to her lips in words and to her eves in tears. “My babies! Mine!" lt was dusk before "che little matron could quiet them and get them into their eribe. She leaned over each in turn, Firat there was Ya-he, then La-la, then i ee nve its first kiss. Mae e Thay t oy thoug nt it it J amusing ind to be kissed ad never been kissed fore, They ye and imitated the aes with their lips. Next there was the giant, Caw-caw, who thought it funnier than all the rest. He lag’ even louder than Ya-he. Then came Gar-r-r, the Merchant Prince; then the Dove, sixth crib she leaned for a long, bey while. The Dove waa silent, looking up little matron. Miss Bax atudied the large lovely af the Dove—like emerald ight coming down through the lraves of young trees. “TD wonder— I wonder——" And presently she said, “You are going to be mine. I'm going to adopt you. As shestraightened, a curious object came inte ite ai—a gaunt, shadowy man igo ailently by the doar in the dusle. roold Mudgett! His a eae were drooping. He seemed peholly bg “[—I'm going to adopt her the little matron. ett gazed through the gloom, and ‘he shook hia great “No, I aay now, Miss Saxton's down in the affies— crying, She wants her,” iy can't have her!" said the little etre ted Mudgett Th aa F 7 me Te a u a i ic] hemvinkhee eos something ta her—to me—to all of us. It's chan her. I ean't tell you what ahe tolal me. [say now, she told me everything." “She can’t have her! She can’t have her! She tried to use you, these babies, heaven itself —— “That was Norton,” sald Mudgett.. “She eouldn't tell him—net tl) just nee, When she fret came to the home something drew her here, She couldn't stay away any longer. She thought her own baby was here—and it was," “She can't have her! her! She can't have her!" “Listen! sald Mudgett, He moved through the dusk and leaned over the sixth crib, “ Listen!" From the Dove was coming & lovely liquid sound: “Goo—goo.” “What does it mean?" asked the little matron. whispered She cant have “Te fs the first thing that every baby BAYS, It means," regali¢ i lama "it means, ‘Cod —is— Silence. Drusk. And the silence was broken by the sob of the little matron. “I want her. I—I want her.” Poor old bef Mudgett! “LT say now," he faltered, “why don"t you have some babies of your own?” "Hr. Mudgett!" "T say now—lI mewn —why don't we— we—have some of cur own!" And heaven was atop the foundling home—fourth Aoor front. (THE END) doorway, dim but definite in the waning twilight. She, too, had left the flower show, and toiled, by heaven knows what route of lanes and short cute and stiles and thorny hedges, to Arthur, She hed arrived late, owing te having traveled entirely under her own steam; ‘hut she was there, Ped H, HELP!” said Arthur. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Lipton Bo appalled re rapt tpl Mir. Art! coyly and shes tepped in nd sit down!” added Arthur with sudden determination, for it waa revealed to him that if it had to come, really it were better that it all come wt ones. “Ow! Thank you, Mr. gl mmuir= mured the cook more cory ic She crossed the room lowed by the eyes of everyone present, She waa still breathing hard after her arduous journey, for she was most generously built. Nature , in fact, endowed her with far more than any sane woman could wish far. “She cannot sit!" said Lady Hunter, ou d. “Oh, how distressin’!"* Cyril murmured sympathetically. “She can and will sit just like other peo- ple,” said Arthur. “Sit, cook.” “Ow! Thank you, "Mr. Arthur,’ re peated cook, Bhe took ao little chair against the wall, from which resting place she glanced bliss fully round her. ee hice solid little "ome, fen"t it?"

Lindy Hunter ed angril "Dear Lady, i hiaparad: Cyril, soothing her, acme Dem It's the ony thing you'll ever get Sir filliar into neni on." Before Lady Hunter could reply the door from the kitchen opened very quietly, and in came littl: Parks, in her ulster, carrying her things. Fora moment, so unobtrusively had she entered, no one saw her aave Arthur. Then Gwen mnught sight af her retiring figure Gwen stood. up and pointed, The others looked. There was a tenee silence, “(Cy-Fill" paid Lady Hunter, turning te im. “Mo,” said Cyril, nearly pettish by now, “T can do nothing.” There was an ap ppalling pause, all eves atraining upon little ke, who stood very

“Foo Hirt Let Me Try ft an, Sear, One Day," fying Gees's Frock Dreamity Jina 15, eg ulet and demure. People tre! » 4 things: n, and stopped. i ed. “No, he pce ig "T do not know how—he—dos- * “T don't do it,” growled dnie He kept looking towards Paria | smiling a very litth. He could w=; geen of just two lithe front tect ex y her parted lips, "Demand an explanatie'” qg- ¥ Drelincourt quite pees to Laz; Bo “Cyril! cried ae ian ter ae sidled away O, tea | ly firmly: “no, I can ds ru My aapoir fire is at fait.” hen Arthur spoke very aertis 4 he fuged at his collar a bit ar i+ | more a "Ty think you've all met Mis Pare, will kindly give us tea.” "Oh, if you please, Mr. Nether Parks, gasping a. aa "Poggi | you [ was going! et You shan’t go,” said Arts & "Didn't you promis to help oe All stared through the dusk a: Fico Arthur. “Die you need me, then, Mr bea asked slowly. ee I sree tine: med ly gruffiy. “Drop that thing She put the haldall on the 1 one saw her amile. Lady Hunter recovered ¢r«' spoke in a staccato voice: "Parks!" "Miss Parks,” aaid Arthur fre: Litthe Parks emiled, [t wes then that Cynl feces finesse, and gave everyont a kai 9 the cook, who sat in a highly ces petrified state wpon the little rhs “Gee afternown, Misa Po” pee very charmingly. “Ths p Tai nee Cael.

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you, Mr. Wakefield,” smiled sid Lady Hunter. ineourt and the twins huddled arirg. v mide a move which hal to sor later, She was a fearless eed off her ulster and stood re- a from head to foot im the loot. before. . ’ e frock!" cried Gwen in a be cried Angela, peering down t, incourt said nothing, but her pa ea ot the cute litthe: hat, “T'm surprised to find here before me! In all my id, No, l never, never did.” at Lady Hunter's ‘ely. fe” sab Mrs. Drelincourt, sels Parks moved oblig- ou may remember DT to d glast night. Have you —— 1 Parks very slowly. i Mrs, Declineourt—“ well— 3 iid not answer, 4 told anyone, Parke— Migs 1 Gwen excitedly. Gwendolen,” replied Parks an fo tug seriously at his eol- k from one girl to the other. ing up and intercepted Gwen. ed in a ring upon Parke, and inote hew loving and friendly One, d Parks" honed, but Angela 1eF, 8 Parks," aad she brightly, imaghit aught to better ne! Th pnt lemdid.”" -you, Sigs Harmony,” very obligingly at Angela. nat looking quite yourself. hing for you?" d Angela softly, “there was iked yeu to do for me, wasn't Mmurs= i Parks’ shoes and stockings ‘arks' gaze followed hers. p thoughtfully at each other. mperceptibhly, if. seemed —so i she =f rks broke through well-wishers. She emerged opletely, as it were, and ad- u wish me te da anything in Netherby?" Arthu t. “dust pour out the ? must be peurec out.” cried Lady Hunter pite- oo faint te care.” ef otat before the tea tray, pitable tea, and Parks was i ind sha did not suggest a induce the visitors to stay “Teh! " eried Lady Hunter. witlon's full of absurdities. ust spe ak out and end iti" imed Mrs, Drelineourt, t her, She recovered her weret,’" said she with de- id but great gignificance, no ty Miss Parks, Let her lat the knees and his jaw 6a blow under the belt. It expected awful thing that to him during thease two Parks knew forward. Ves," she said cantly aa Mrs, Drelineourt, ows. et her tell!" + Emily's arm a loving nip. nice girl been so warmly round, feeling himself now 1e were gagged and temund, '' shrieked Lady Hunter. fiss Parks knew all about sid Gwen, pushing post « Drelineourt to fling her # neck and give her quite al Lady Hunter ke learned forward of the east her bomb into their . Tell, dear, tell!” _ from sheer necessity, piece, His condition was iTks. As has been noted - THE SATURDAY EVENING POST before, she had her maternal instinets | strongly sees Byu: ne Hs gave him an av shoulders. He] n'a embracing shoulders, He just saw hor two small front teeth glimmer, “T came here to save you, Mr. Arthur," eaid she very softly and soothingly. "Tell!" uttered Mra. Drelineourt. “Tell Tell! arged Angela and Gwen, storming a wpguinst each other. “Tell!” shriecked Lady Hunter. “Tell, me love!” said cook sublimely, Totking on the little chair. Arthur tried to say “Nol couldn't, “Shall I begin at the beginning?" little Parks was heard to inquire very meekly. “No, the end.” ssid Lady Hunter. “Begin just where viru like, dewr,"" mur- mured Mra. Drelineaurt, “Thank you, dear,” replied Parks, Mrs. Drelincourt drew herself up, while the dusk hid Cyril's smile of appreciation. He was so seldom allowed to enjoy things like this. “And don't—don't hurry,” bepped Arthur hoarsel F you,"" ad- rat at Mira. mat” brant “And won’ ‘t let anyone fu vised Angela, looking daggers, Drelinewurt, then at Gwen, “No, Miss Harmony," said littl: Parks very fully; “no one shall flurry me Lady Hunter subsided again on the sofa, lorghetts on the narrator. The twina and Mrs. Drelincourt were poised tensely. How jealously Cyril watched Angela! Parks sat domestically before the tea tray. “Last night, about seven ———" she began. “Yes, Yos-se!" hissed Lady Hunter. “Yes?” nxided Aire. Dralinecurt. "VYero-87" whispered Angela and Gwen, “WeaT?" said Arthur, [rosen to the muurreee. “Yor?” oncouraged Cyril. Porks paused for a litthe while. She really had not prepared herself for this emergency) but she trusted to meet it samehew 24 the tale unfolded. Of the wert eam te the woret, she was absolutely and gaetually capable of telling the trath; but, naturally, she hoped for no such necessity. “Last night, about seven," she b again, “Mr. Steers snid to me, “It's aw full moon ge and there's bound to be goings "Really! "said Lady Hunter, starting. “And T said to Mr. Steere,” the simple girl continued modestly, “IT said, “Don't ou envy the om?" And he said te ite, Thank heavens, in some matters there is no class distinction,’ Pitan =a ye wih east , alber a come Sared Lave is Tor nL Little Parks looked areund rather dream- ily. Everyone muatnifested impatience, ie inner,” she continued though fully, “the ladies went out inte the gar oa Mr. Netherby following later.” “Go on!" cried Gwen, nodding. “Cook came up to me in the kitchen window,” oontinwed Parka. The cook drooped her head @ trifle and might have been seen to smile, Here little Parks spoke more dramati- cally, “"There he goes," she says to me. "A beautiful igure Chea got, hasn't he? He's Australian. Arthur writhed. A low simper broke from the cook, and Lady Hunter instantly lorgnetted her. "We heard the ladies coming,” added Parks. She paused again to consider the end of her tale Lady Hunter "And then?" tensely, "Cook lost the cat,” replied Parks. in great simplicity. Lady Hunter nodded and glanced round. The tale hung together, Tt was veracious. She remembered the cat. “Yorn? she whispered, “And then? *Cook went into the garden, boo,” anid Parks. = Arthur made weak signa for her to stop, hut he continued tbo answer the questions queried put to her, “Whyt" gasped Lady Hunter, "To find the cat,” replied Parks in great sim plicit Lady Hunbér sighed and hit the floor with her toes, “And then?" “Thad to bring in the rigs and eshions | from the hammocks,” answered Parks. “YeaT" gasped Lady Hunter. “So T went into the garden,” selranited | Parks. Continued on Page 92) “Nothing but a Tonka can satisfy me on fit” ae I never did anyething more strenuous than walk to the office and sit at a desk all day I might be fairly comfortable in Most any Union suit. “But when I'm sprinting across a tennis court, of jumping after a fast, high ome—my arm stretched to the limit of my reach —Il'm glad plus glad that I'm wearing Topkis. “Not a pinch nor a pull—any- where—no matter how hard a game I play. 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For every piece of furniture in your office and home, there are the proper. Bassick Casters, Ask your dealer or write us for descriptive leaflet. Bassick _ Casters THE BASSICK COMPANY Bridgeport, Conn. For thirty yeare Fie feoding makers of igh grade confers for fhe home, office, Aoapital, wardhowse. and factory, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | (Ceatinoed frem Page #9) Then Arthur suddenly drew himself | ereet, and stow] away from the supporting mantelpiece. His hands had been elut in the pockets of his ruined ennt, but now he withdrew them. In one he held a tele . He tore it open and took one look, “A!” he roared, "Stop!" The attention of everyone ia the room | Was diverted instantly and completely to | Arthur. He brandished the telegram. “Thank heaven,” he said loudh, “that T opened this in time! It came an hour | ar, Hie gazed round at all their startled jtoces, Little Parks’ face was os wholly startled as the others. “Thank heaven,”: said he devoutly— “thank heaven that no one's invelved yet bat myself!" "What is itt" queried Lady Hunter, "Tag anything really happened, ran?" Cyril inquired tactfully. Dnneticed iy veer ne litthe Parks rose, distraught, her hands clasped on her breast. "Hos anything happened!" Arthur sordonienlly, "Oh, please, Mr. Arthur,” chokily, "ohat's the mathber?" “T—I ought to know,” said Mrs. Drelin- court, Cuming her back pointedly on the twins. % : “I've had news from Australia,” said Ae heed Cale pled the telegram said this he erum the and pushed it back into his pocket. He seemed to de it unconsciously. He continued, “As I rene this came a while ago, but | was so—so busy — Bo pre occupied—that [ didn’t open it. Now I have opened it I—L certainly feel you"'— he looked at Mra. Drelincourt, and from ae vaguely to. the twins—"you shies il t to know.” He took a devp breath, 'm ruined, rustling} pause fell upon the room. “Ruined?” repeated Lady Hunter. "Dear, dear Mr. Neth "' said Mira. Drelineourt with much hesitation, “obese — Please—explain,” : Arthur explained with a traly admirable fortitude in such calamitous circumstances. Ne one could do other than eteem him. Little Parks sat down woobtrusively gain in her sent behind the ten tru, Mo one mow noticed ber, She hoc lost her repeated recent brief popularity. "All my sheep,” said Arthur, ae © had foot ret; I dewkt if theyll save half af “em I dowit if they'll save @ quarter, ‘There BEETS, also, to have been at teussh fire which—er- ~spremd, to some new progerty gr a err ‘ climinary sounds of grief were already heard from cook in ler little chutr. And te eran all, avid Arthur si berly, “my mine's floxed." "Ow! Owl Dear!" said cook, erving. Tt was quite interesting to observe how promptly the situation began olvicusly cn present itself aa one of great delicuey [ro which everyone must try to extricats fig self in a nice way. This fecling begun te fun over the room in sympathetic air waves. “Things seem complete, old man,” Cyril. “Com lete,” Yes," suid Arthur: “I don't se that there's anything te add, But if oyou think there is [wide it.” ante anid nothin sae to he anid, my oy, Bal ¥ Hunter agi- tabedly. For rafew momenta she bad been stunned inta utter speechlesarics “a must com and see Unele William, and talk it over. HEut oh, dear! Oh, dear! [ hate these come-downs when the family has only just got u prise it's terrible terrible! Comp ete, as yTil saya. Oh, me Oh, dear! I eau't think what to do iron like the book of Job," cook, weeping. “T haven't a eolitary bean," sald Arthur, licking stealthily around him, ee) yet the stromgrt hy nese F Inte leis: Kress. There was, very suddenly, a eo und in tee ronm-—s rustle, a wave of impending de LITE, “This ts ton terrible!" Lady Hunter was T= aaid wrutlinges and Mrs, Drelinesurt was siching, (ih? it's all too awfully —s: df? Aad they were all drawing on their gloves. Mra, Drelincourt began; and then Gwen, ohe serving her, did likewise: and Angela, who throughout the imbroglia had kept step for step in her tum, followed suit There seemed to be a kind. of feeling that whoeyer had her gloves on last would have te stay longest, and everyone made haste, cried Parks . mae M1 “Buck up, darling,” sa io dulcet tons ta Gwen. _” Aver iL young and strong —— Gwen turned on ber moritly “T Was fever gs sro oe cried. “Fos ore engaged girl te a mid pores s gent ae fi = ‘Angelarsriied at Cyn. e. al y her ¢ r “Ves! he ara “ten ne | He rolled an eve Pound a ingly in Lady Hunter's d=" ad ashe a peace ee thing harl to be. 4 yepil seid Lady Hus*-..- Her emotion was covers". | tinuing to Gwen: “You ars engaged ages. my dear. 4 Must try te cheer upe Arthur “T don't know what vos =: Gwen, “It's Afra Drelitaw . gaged to Arthur.’ “My dear little girl,” sait COUrt in a @o0l Woiee, “wWrata take! U've been longing ( “2g when | eould congratuln > In spite of the awful erees ceived, and the blight it he « Lady Hunter clung te [\- cy. She wished above a ~~ > this situation. “ih, yeh Cyrli" shall we all do?" "Go home," said the youth wor For he wae ery for Ars j wanted his dimmer, med, thet the full] moon, the arbor in Lai = en was dark, and be reckoced got Angela now, stone eoid When Arthur heard (yr sr | fie hia forehead relheveds “Yeu" said Lady Huztur a “dear boy, we'll go. Asc 4 Must come and see Lice Wo is morning.” She embraced Ar Tim 30 upeet !"" gece &. 2 “Thank you, Aunt Jas.” = Arthur. Mrs. Drelineourt was at touching hia arm with « “Good-by, Mie. Netherby,* smc ay womanly feeling - comlortiing words gre so wai a | your quaint hear house!” ] She: im ered from hic Le @ and found herself by Forks Fig Chee" looked at each other. 7 Forks smiled reassuringly, aa en her lips and nodded: ood Mig Cott bins seid LPL. | “Gwen's Staying, Lady ie | Angela Tier | don't see why, just bec: Pg everyvth Lig ake wd be fat i An geile ignored her ali — peanched AFlhur with a fz a i = Ly “I'm meti™ Cwes POP Me rine the awkward joel which. site h Sa | jimat i Vee tet et a] “ocd by Mr. Netherby,” ‘Owens o self ish jtthe thing lieve how I feel for pou.” absolutely chirp to bis fool “Thank vou,” muthered Acie Ar ln 3 Tr ¥ el away, ara later was looking coutiowsly af] rose, nodded, guve sileni 5 CTech, hl Srl repo: She wilt a temarkable girl “otl-by" whidaperedl Ame there sany thing [ con ewerd Thank vou, Miss Ela Whipered back, “but jam helped tris faf more than } os Angela joined irs. ps threshold And the Shean : yard, seeing he p=? = cil his eT Le Borne ix Laer pe. TWF Gime, Douting. to fl “Lim not selitzh o bt, Beg she whimpered. “1 =e yo, IT. 1 wma] Sais have lett woo m2 : Sour IB & . oma man! ioe d-by. 53 oo ‘Oh, thank you, thank ja Arthiior. Gwen lingered boy Parks she whispered gum E ark, = ca ou oo a im rosbed out, for ber Peete a | Dicareicale en Poo

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faniisaed from his aphids Be She went, carping, Fou gd And thia left Cyril momen- ar Arthur | tuck, id thi , suid Cyril. H vagally ar itis Parke sighed, ere stated against the wall, paked stated at the table, and ng them both from the Tas at once the cook rose Eh riba agita midehe, “Ave you nat ink left?" ing,” said Arthur positively, ak looked around. ‘she argued, “it's a nice solid to be broken up," replied Arthur. ear! Ohv, dear!" said the cool, dresh. ared with me," said Arthur, in, having ota start, wae now in ng order, * your admirer, Steers, naire.” sk bridled, and it was obvious howghts began to cast about in a alii B me,” gald Arthur, observing the hs words, “I'm going out to agnin to carve my , aimeng ra who'd ag aoon tomahawk you you. Sooner[" ar! Ow, dear!" ssid the cook, agitated. ‘ ‘A boa woman,” eontlnwedd ain "erm on aight.” "oral thing you're not o an,” said the cook, making for "Many a8 frogs troubles are, at it covers al hed the door, The party outalde disposed themselves in the ear. give me oe lift ‘ome beside the ‘said she, She threw a kiss to i “Good-by, Em'ly. You're a thing."" incredible speed ik ran eg & court nd ite Parks wer were alone. And ke till they heard the sound of *Parture. work,” said Arthur. furmunred Parks. =x wt quite still at the tea table, wr Walked round her. He aur- rom all an and the more he the quicker his brain — clng: and te Arthur, alarmi &, however, sat stendfast, wit the tea tray. said Arthur at last, “I don't much you know; but you ly going to give me away, wore dup anickly, i replied id Arthur, ing,” she murmured hurriedly. ‘'m not the sort of girl to give ays itehed her. He found himself raptured. He could not get trancing Wisien of her as she ecuee over him anyhow. He it ” he said slowly, ‘I suppose Arthur,” she replied in a low inw,! m broke?" suggested Arthur. hy,” said Parks, hi looking very w the cook had sald, a dear ald hardly believe his ears, ant exhibition given by three ‘ai with bated breath: “Rut Ts quite a lot, y'know. All la wanted wae a rich husband, ¥ ic" ef little Parks in a sudden iort. “And aren't they fools!" ur could hardly trust his ears, : aalel brestienty "T don't agree with you, Supposing, © girl were married to me, and er—aa [ am of course’ *—here enly at her—"“why—why— ae shed have a pretty poor ? deviated an inch from the whereon ahe had set her feet oes, Her stockings wore silk 1, and there is no limit to the th which a fact like that in- in. “Findings keep- THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “No, she wouldn't!" she eried with a laugh that choked a bit, “You'd have this house: and"—her volee quickened — “ghe'd manage for you, and she'd make the best of everything; and never —waste— anything!" An emotional pause followed during Which ahe gazed dreamily before her at the ten tray, and Arthur gazed straight before him, at her. It's hardiy necessary to say that Emily recovered firat from this emo- tional arena She hurried on, with great ecstasy: “And the best of being poor is, your hus- band depends on you; he can’t do without you. you help him with everything. You've got te. And the chUdren ——" “Chi a?" pepe tae Arthur, starting. “Th depend on , too,” ks Tur- mured dreamily. " ey"ye to run to you all the time. If they hurt their little fingers it's mother they want, and mother's always there. That's where the work is; "cause ahe'a got work, No, I don't envy your rich woman!" Arthur gazed at her with tremendous solemnity. Never in his life had he felt eo solemn. For his mind had made itself u n apite of him to de an awful thing. knew now that if he could only persuade or trap of lure or threaten this unsuspocting girl into the fell step he was going to marry or. ae wished to to marry her. zs yo 'Te poor man's wife," deesmcal: little Parks ecstatically, “you're just someone that can't be done without.’ Arthur found he could no longer trust himself near her without betraying his feel- ings. The metamorphosis was as complete as it was staggering. Hardly had that iced cake hit him, such ree while ago, before the change had begun. He did not want to alarm her prematurely. He turned and walked cautiously to the hearth, whence he again surveyed her. He really had never geen anything so Ryall tee illy and pattered Fei Foe Eranquilly and pa. actoss to the old ail lamp that had served Arthur's family for two generations, She lighted it and adjusted ancient shade very prettily. The parlor was now all in a solt glow. Arthurs heart was all in a glow, too, as he saw "bow sweathy she went ane this pe Fray ae creating these en- Unconscious @ as ut,” she sighed, turning to look acroas at him aa sive etood beside the lamp, ‘I was only (aes pretending: Besides, you're ane ee ack ile Australia,” mL?" said Arthur feveredly. Emily illest the curtaina acroaa the window and shut out the evening The parlor began to take on a nlce ao of soft oriracy that (t had net enjoyed a little aici aie Finedly from the hearth Arthur wate @ wished that he had had more practice, a. saw how "terribly i inna cent 8 The stream of callers was net over yet, for almost at the moment that Emily Parks finished adjusting the red curtains over the window a stoutish figure with a dignified carriage came through the court- yard and rapped on the atl-open dow engi Will gent you a little presint with his onan and sym 7 ympathy, Mr. Arthur," said Steers; “and if there's any- thing he can_ do be will do it.” ht" Arthur, looking round at hirn. antly. "Kind of him, I'm sure, him malignant tn” Steers came ip, carrying a little hamper. “For a minute,” vrthur ad Steers rolled an eye round at Parke aa she abood beside the amp and the red cur- tains; and the sight evidently distracted him. “Sir William asked me what were the best thing he could do for you, Mr. Arthur,” he went on alter a DRO, “and J ‘Well, seeing the place he's gone to, send him something out of the ‘ar er to go on with, sit,” Soa game pie and a couple o” ais oysters, we having had a barrel down rh ing to on rgd Air, Arthur," | said Emily ay ae Steers look rom one to the other in | ailence, and caressed his chin. “That may | be, Miss Parks, but something in the way of simple luxuries —— “1 can manage ‘em!" cried Emily in a thrilled voice. “But why should you manage every- thing for me?" fmquired Arthur in a yery soll, swimmy one, " B-b-because i'm not going to be beat | by two Chinamen!” eried Emily. 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featicoed From Page BS! amen?” said Arthur, “Oh! Ah! gure yall Chey're not la the same ith you. Not in the—seme qntesmile. “I wanted to make hat,” approached her, fairly aching all ro's anything. cleo you want me bo wits” ra asporteman who had enjoyed he did not grudge it to others, henever minded a novice talcing isbird. That was the nies way he life. So when he had just glanced to the other he only sighed d bene almoat negligible, seek- hamper, fiam suggested » bottle of cham- r, Arthur, so 1 have it here, a price!" exclaimed Parks. 's not the price, Misa Parka," 2 with a very kind logk, ‘It's “nina the darned champagne, s!" eried Arthur. take t the hamper through to the rl" shed Steers, looking about i A waved him to the kitchen door Ye You!" Cem He was a sportsman If have to give at es Ea MLE 1 you kmow,"" little ‘aris, chee at pe gio ¥ou're ‘Sid Arthy ely. “Oh! sale wr vaguely, “Oh! + pulled himself together ond “Tf you'll just sit down and pre- ove [ll show you something.” it to the sofa and sat down, Gwei's frock over her knee, bedde her, a litth nervous but fe handed her the fateful tele it silently three times before she id: “Your breeches are ready to ny time,” hal erted Arthur. “Ha, ha!" breeches," murmured ha te ready to be ——' | inspiration I got, don"t you i Arthur. “It did the trick all ‘tit? Eh?" think you had the brains," she ¢ ily. Tew more pleased with himself. too bad when you get to know i he sald eagerly, vayed a little aveay from hina. ets fer re still rich. Arthur, delighted with him- guess I'm not exactly on the i) He looked under Mrs. Drel- ft. “Ek? Aren't you pleased?" know,” said Eomlly. wnt now?" echasd Arthur. 1 mean? o glad you were poor!" Emily nately. named, men!" he said wildly. don’t understand ‘em! ok her head forlornly. assy too,” sighed she, “"S very ad "Pon I aned Arthur. =] oh, dear!" gaid Emily, bit- ‘groaned Arthur. “IT tell you, 80 bbavdl.”* this he touched her hand very and at the contact they looked t, immensely startled. : ee this moment to enter again, air of discretion it is true, but indeubtedly il-timed. He had r, been able to help hiraself. nd the kitehen tenanted by ad Stoker; the clasa of people vuitlers of repute do not frater- dand kept his eyes away from using: his gaze upon the table, mgratulate you on your beau~ = Parks?" he said, smiling the epergne. a anaweredl3 distrait, not look- r the epergne, “ ‘Tan't it just any little trifle I can do for thur?t" said Steers, studying placed long ago by Arthur's pon the opposite wall. “Con youT I were told to ask. I wer in the higgage cart, and THE SATURDAY EVENING POST though I shall walk home you meet) uct mind heeping nee longer, sir, “Tm here to do everything for him!" cried litth: Parks, and she began to cry. Arthur had heard her ery before, and it had not touched him. Now the phenom- enon aflected him ioe savaleing Pret pr ne was terribly distressed, for the Ae tore. sake, don't!" he eho: “Or tell me what's the matter.” ny N-nothing’s the matter," sobbed Parks, "Nothing!" graaned Arthur, “But you ean't ery for nothing.” “They can, Mr. Arthur, they can!" said Steers delicately, interesting himself now in aparting print. “Something must be the matter," con- thawed Arthur, irs Loring the eniganalic girl. “Sometimes.” Steers went on murmur ing delicately, * “they ery bocnwese they're so a A me help!" snid Arthur. “Tell me about it." “They can't, sir, m whispered Steers i in the ,backsround; ” ‘they can’t tell sou, said Arthur, Little hig shook her heat <2 “It may prize has upaet her," whispered Steers Parks rose suddenly, controlling herself, and turned to the table, “All this to clear and wash up!” said she | vehemently, “and [ sit and ait and ait!" | “Steers will do it,” said Arthur, fallow- | ing her ‘No one but me will clear this table," she replied, She piled the few Eenisining articles of | rot together and carried them inte the kit , Slamming the door behind her | Arthur stared after her in dismay. ! “Women! he waa muttering in = lost | voice, ‘'They—they—they ——" Steers approached him and stood near. | A very human look illuminated his face, “Dean"t take it toe heart, Mr. Arthur,’ | murmured he. “No offense meant, Par | don mr." Arthur a his brow. "Tm not offended, Steers," he said sadly. | “T dare “ in some matters you're a wiser | pecttrar i said 5 “Oh, tio, sir, fe," teers, waving the impeachment away out of + ne respect, es a problem, Steers," groaned Arthu “Pat 1 Tech, cps said Steers a eately, " 'm sorry to ear you say that If I may be permitted to generalize, sir, a4 Tan to man, there ara some men, Bir who will make work of play. Beautiful ae And from what I "ave taken the I ray ta dyad ‘that is your trouble, if ey peal groaned Arthur, "Her ery eeying like thet has unt unnerved me a bit," he add “ Apdtull” “Awtull” Steers exclaimed warmly. "TI was a bit unnerved myself far a moment, standing there not bel able to do no good, as it were, Pity | was here; or o pity you were here, one of the other. A sweet girl like that erying and two men in one room is just stoopid “Awful! Awful!" muttered Arthur. “Cheer up, air," Steers exhorted, | “T don't know what sort of a chap you | are, Steers,” said Arthur, “hut have you | ever been at all—er—interested in women?” | The butler sighed, but not unhappily. “hs Mr. Arthur he anid amply. “Oh, gir!" « “Tye ern a few men here and there | interested in women," added Arthur, mus- | ing. T and I ‘ave known a few, too, sir,” plied Steers blandiy. Little Parks brake in, snatched the tea tloth from the table, and waa out of the doorina twinkling. There was no stopping het, “Ch-Chinese house boys!" said she, still - somewhat futtery af voice. "You want a Worn Fourie uy “Tdo!l I dal! cried Arthur hastily, He dashed after her in time to have the dear slammed right in his face. Steers observed these phenomena with- out surprise. "Ti's all very well," sold Arthur, fever- | edly stamping back. “You may be a wise chap 'n' all that. But answer me this: How the deuce is one to start breaking it ta a gitl who hasn't the slightest idea of any- thing? Wot—the—slightest—idea?™ He walked about yenemently, "Pardon me, sir,” said Steers, deduec- ing all, and perhaps more, “but if you reat fr re=

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“T do mean!” replied Arthur fiercely. “Then it had ought to come naturally, sir,” said Steers. They looked stemdily at each other. “You've mal me a good denl, sir,” he added. "Hut here's wishes!" How- ever, he had taken the champa . o the kitchen, “Che beatae “en all, beats ‘em all.” : “But how the devil am I to break it te her?" demanded Arthur. “Well, air," said Steers, “cheer up. You got the oysters, gir. They're courageous things, oisters, And you can't do better than that champagne. In came little Parks again, sort of shak- ing her skirt straight as if she meant to slay, She closed the door metolutely, and ahe closed the outerdoor. She looked ot Steers, She looked at Arthur. She went and sat down on the aofa, where she sat twisting her little handkerchief about. “Are you better?” asked Arthur, very swimmy of voies ones more. He towards the couch. “"T don't know,” said Emily. “Tt may ie the prize,” began Steers in a duleet tone from the background. She gave him one look. “Mr. Steers," shesaid, Steers attended, "There's r hat.” And she indicated his hat lying obscurely on a distant chair. For a mement Steere stood stupefied. “Tl was about ta take my leave, Mize Parks," he remarked when sufficiently re- covered, “but She gave him a leok. il open the champagne ourselves, thank you, Mr, Steers," sald she with quiet resolution, “And the oysters." “Lt is quite time I started on my walk home, I am aware, Miss Parks," said Steera feebly. “De aaldehe, “Destart. Goodnight.” “Good night, old Steers," added Arthur in an Unfriendly fashion, He was looking at little Parks. The arf was all in a soft glow, the red curtaina dra’ “ead night aie, Steera faltered, He turned for h “T know human na- ture," said he rather sadly, “but there's some things ——"" He picked up his hat and stick. Arthur wae looking at little Parks, Another knock fell on the doar, “There's another damn nulaance!" said Arthur impatiently. “Open the door an inch and send it away, Steers.” A second knock followed the first per- emptorily. S Lotte retrented nervously into the aati "Please, sir," he impl “if sou'd keep me just afew minutes longer, I mean to say, sir, perhaps you'd open the door yourself and send it away, sir. “Eh? What's the matter?” sald Arthur abated. for he was now entirely leat to all troubles save his own. “T've got a nasty feeling, sir,” said Steers, nning to gibber—'"a very nasty feeling indeed—that a certain lady friend of ming, a wonuin 18 seems to feel a sort of right to fall back on me, sir, quite unjusti- fied, sir—if mee anything I've got, it's taste—and I'm not quite certain, but I shouldn't be surpri i a find as I-I-I'd heen follered, i “Followed?” muttered Arthur, looking at Parks, “Yes, sir," whispered Steers. “Of course" —he threw an ironic look at Emil upon the safa—" you don't know what [ft is te be followed, sr—dogaed from your pan- try to your bedroom and back agnin, sir. It stopped yesterday evening and this erie diverted itself, so to speak. But T shouldn't be at all surprised i it Was Pe newed, "Ark at that vee ri ee “Tl ahaa it, Mr. sald little Parks kinadl v. Bi no!" said Arthur, detaining her. a it." “Only an inch, alr, for pered Steers. “Only an inch He retreated to the fireplace, out of of the door, where he cowered nerv- na Arthur opened the door a aml pen and immediately a foot ond arm were thrust over the threshold, Arthur ed the door valiantly, examining these imbes, ; Then the voice of the cook was heard, saying, “T know the way that door's being eld. I've "ad your pantry door ‘eld against mc like that, coming in.” Steers almost obliterated himself agalnat the wall. iia whis- ‘ave, Butit's no use, I'm Jue i, ag ‘Pook! said Arthar, bolic, gguinst her, “Grood reid cot Bre again!" The cook squeezed het fare riiis4 Mr. geen Ye, here I us ap. thoug tc we pau a [net if 3 cart coming this way, ged | goo. feur to stop to set me dower a i -; evening of anyway. And woe | =") door being “eld against me i = “Oh, Mr. Steere!" muro = Arthur bad had aboot = =“ delay as he meant to susc 9 butted in: “Tae, old Steers, you neal: £2) up to the scratch, on‘t you o ! take her hore, Take — ber—-bome ea cial ae e her bh = _— | “With my best wish. Me sail Steers, pulling himself tar commendable dignit , pee tea? * saw all waa over, and realised iu drink of the cup, and that wes my best wishes I will tender ).. 07 (Cente aa Page |)

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A aweet little “cart.” Arthur followed them up eloaely, He | was sick of them, “Good night!" said he stridentiy. Steers vacillated on the threshold, “A onan Mr. Arthur. For the sake of old tines ——" Arthur urged him on. He pushed him on. “Good night, The bull may help you out. Good night." : He shot the bolts. He made a job of it. “"Ciracrdinary,” he said, “how some pecple don't seem to feel when they're not wanted.” ; “Nooo,” murmured littl Parks, Arthur returned to gazeuponher., “Still, it must be a horrid thing to have a woman peel you like she's chasing peor old teers," “Yes-s,"' murmured Parks, looking down. “Tt's awful,” snid Arthur. “Oh, 's awful,” murmured she in a very anmall alee in : “ Aca fellow likes to de his own chasing,” continued Arthur, aes ; "Soo I-I've heard,” said litth Parks. There was one of those pauses, Arthur ewallowed two or three times. “All the same,” hazarded he, “it's dim- cult for a fellow to begin telling « girl—a rl who hasn't the slightest inkling —has— a8—TeVer ven oe “Thought?” asked ks, “Of—of getting married," said Arthur, “Oh, do you know such a girl?” breathed | Parks Arthur nodded. “Oh, d-do you know such a f-[-fellaw?" Arthur ded. He was vers husky, “T know him too." ; “Well,” soid litth Parks in a brave te “what dots he want to tell the tT 5 pede “That he loves her," sald Arthur de- | spain ly. “And can’t he?" whispered little Parks. “Well, you see,” said Arthur, “it's a bit af a job, isn't it? Telling her, 1 mean, when ahe'a never thought about anything af the kind, It might surprise her so,” “Tt might,” she agreed faintly, There was another of those pauses, Ar- thur leaned over her, “T don't know," he began, “Uf T ever mentioned te you that [—I—break all my own bores,” “Not” she murmured, "Do you?” He nedded. “Yee. And—I toald you aleout the house I built, didn't 17" “Ves she murmured. “Aut why —" “Why da DT tell you?" said Arthur. "Tecouse | want you to know that I can do something. I'm a pretty useful chap in many ways: it's just this—er—eertain job that stumps me. Parks murmured, “A certain job?” “T've been thinking about it for a good hour now," said Arthur, kneading the sofa cushion with both hands, having really to do something safe with them. “That's the kind af chap TD arm. When I do think at ull T think quick; and I think hard!” Little Parks glanced from the corner of her eye at Arthur and the sofa cushion. She knew precisely why he wid manhan- Wing it. Oh, Tt seemed te her-stich a silly wiele, When then: she sat, aid the door Juas (6, 97 was shut and the curteing were Aas. » the edge Prac epchrntngil tert mel wt YOU Mike Gp your ==: che it?" said she, sighing. "I roy mind op.” mi: ity “bat T-D' mn stall worrying abons 5 iy ft: and for the life of me | n:: ay Only thing I lencrw is, it's pot c: dy Don't you see?” She saw exactly, "T-I don't know,” she repliec * | like you to explain tore coeeriy* Arthur wiped the anuiow mer § his brow. “TD weth | eoeld et: cs oy thing here and now, Bot pertos & easier alter wopper to tell yoo what} been worrying about. |: tills my mind every bit of moe so that [ east ht another single thing. It Qcom oom igshock toyou, | suppose, Bus theres ter a tiny silence she said fam » Analy, “You'd better tell me be pj peg, Mr. Arthur.” Before supper?” repested drier can't.” In his own mind he ww ott straws of wiedom flung by Suen mee the qualities: of oysters and a | teedore di best “ Before 5 ppe i tr pet Ee eontinwesd Parks ins latake, as quiet, aymipathetic vrobice, but all all that, “You oughtn't to et wih thing on your mind. [t's bad ‘cr pe was a silence. "Well, you see —" paid bot "What do I see?" reclied Puria,|i Hlingly inflexible, "You sor,” said Arthor fering m| creeping upon him, “I don’t beter |) before supper.” “Try, whispered Parks. Arthur dried up completely. "T can't,” he said, He turned away, walked to th = piece and leaned on it, head in tar a tle Parks looked after him dice eould have Donia ge teed, aod she cried. She began to sing. She sang im a soft and despes “Dearcal, the wight in poown; Waneth the trembling moon She looked round rather de Arthur, for all was in the bale = hummed on through ting 2 trembled, Arthur pulled birsed oq he looked rownd at her, “How can I live witht Little Parks. "H-h-how coun [let yo Still ehe looked ot Arther He is cue, He swallowed once of Te plunged, So they were singing tegethr “ow that J bore ao wel oor, Yow that J worahip Arthur reached the sola in a er little Parks catight ber breath “Take off that hat,” be omcre sly. Parks sighed and pulled it of threw it away anywhere. Joh leaning over the back of the sal. 4 put her head against his shoolde “That's the may to tik.” = Tapturously and with perfect am “You touch,” said Arthur ica woice of discowery, “like that a °7 forget—in the arbor. 1 could t& § million by the touch of you.” “The woret'a over,” mune oo, ‘ "ou ve sel if Fo on't min =n it agar “It was you, oy, wt! “ML,” she said, And they tial Kissed again. Steers was quite! it all coming naturally. “Ad only get to talk to me like you gun, " You darling? raved Ar eh! You beautiful peach!” ee You sor?’ turer Bech heal on his shoulder, “ ‘6 Very easy. 3 (THe fa) Digitizedtay Google a ee

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ~- 101 THERE WAS A GREAT CAMP MEETING {Continued from Poge F) dl. video lf she 1 costume up to herself and de to know Which, In Eve's opinion, most becoming. [t wos hard to tween the gaze de chambery and a gundie, at once crisp and diapha- kthe organdie," sale Laura Belle, lowly before the mirror, “The ereuch of a toilette.” kat?” asked Eve, tou be a clairvoyant and read m think a person can read an= wns mind?” asked Eve hope- Halle became sibylline, “TI can now! u want to read Mister Aaron. aines’. How's that af- on! ied ot te take a class in Sunday iter prayer meting last night. * face clouded—"he asked two ytie Richardson and Elsie Wil- v2 all said you'd do fe?" rec, He'd asked 1s." a mistake, You should have er two consent, and then coolly ntly declined. Then he'd have siade you. Aran likes a no he me better than a prompt yes" tthought of it. I'm so stupid, e, Well—I might tell him I've ng it over and have decided that elle smiled majestically, “Too : your difficulties for the next le docen"t like a rehash of a thing settled." ow ao much about men, Laura simply amazing!" ¥ kevew rrpore ! ried on that note, but Laura ed it when on Friday night she he canary organdie for Ashby's ‘You little iaid te the titan t he ‘ actos think you ion bee ve him. Oh peed tit vt ey ap | "me nope ad a double ther about tissed her girl in the ran down ttle bronze ing out the ‘agitation. our his ront porch, er father. ent out to copped to ble, spread amask, Lt hine of the 2F cancde richly by ie old. ates and TOses In vl. Heavy goblets, , awaited todd y an e sheen of g¢ through » (Laura he tinted, d, picked id carricd 12h. sthe new e cried, lad to see u're hun- +". “te his down tf ark face, wiyve af ickness, tle with gh he i | hirneelf . ry fie ~ ee = r TV ; - sh against it. He was shabby; he was, even a4 Mra. Staley had said, hareh and moody of temper: but there was eomething gallant and clear and quixotic about him. Ashby had come home wounded and oexha from stirring campaigning with Jeb Stuart, to a ruined farm—his vee, his atock, his implements, all gone. Aas soon aa he eould hobble about he harnessed his cov- alry horse to the plow and went at the teful business of earning a livelihood and crawling from under a mountain of debt with the same determination with which he had followed his dashing leader. But it had turned owt to be a long and galling business, and his apirit had warped under it. Still, he clung to hie determina- tion that until the mortgage waa paid and he could see hia way clear to obtaln a de- eont livelihond he would not ask Lauro lle to marry him. ; Her steadfast constancy, her willingness to share his threadbare poverty were at once Kis banner af hope and his torment. Tt made him harsh with her. To see her, after these long visits North, drove him frantic with longing for her, but he would not tell her so. He tried te steady his volee ta the eom- aonbines of compliment. "You're just ooming as ever, Laura Belle, Did you have a time up among the Yankees?" “Only fair. I'm getting too old for gayety. Lought tom and settle down." e Wa rockingly aintive. ‘Here's your toddy, father, The aroma of old bourbon and lemon, iced ame sugared, reached the major’s moe trila gratefully. The two men took their glasses and bowed to the girl in yellow. “Wour ¥ health, dear,"” aaid hir father, and dipped his white mustache in the goblet, Ashby said nothing, and drank sabstemiously, his eyes intent on Laura’ Belle, “You've been at my private cloaet 1 ee complained the major, setting dawn the empty glass. “But the result condones How fhe War Home a pada, and Looedier Thaa. Lever = has created This Book for Motorists Nation-Wide Discussion Have you sent for your copy? 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1] THE SATURDAY EVENING POST the theft. You can mix a teddy, my cear, better than anyone in the world, Is supper ees, kd a el you give me your arm?" rH ruressingly on his worn coat Se Pte the satisfar- tion of feeling a tremor of the stark muscles beneath. “You're looking thin," she told him an they went in ta the dining room. “You're working too hard, Now I'm back you'll have to step it. I’ve got to have somebody to beau me round." Aghby did not answer, The major took up the tale that had been interrupted by the teddy: “And I really think the young Sets the gentleman, although he iso Methodist and a parson. His aunt, Mrs. Hallett, is a genteel-looking lndy—but the name Balnes—Haines—there'sa nothing to indicate any pedigree: in that. It sounds like a tradesman‘s name. His given name, too—Asron—hopeless! My contention is that a male child should be named from the elagsjca—ar the family." “That's a ¥ eenvenient belief for you and Ashby," said Laura Belle. “But hon estly, I think Leonidas is os bad as Auran. Who waa nifas anvewny, father?" "That's scolded the way she talks to me, Ashby," ded the major dotingly. ““The youn enetation has no respect at all for t Hg older, Laura Belle comes back fram the North a graceless chit." “She always was a esa chit, and you made her ao," affirmed Ashby, smiling. “Even you turn on ime, Take the mock terrapin around to Mr. Ashby, Toothpick, and Jet the offering be as of fire on his head. ell has Rochefourauld said: “Most young people think they are natural when they are only boorish and rude." Laura Belle and beg oaned her. “Now you've started fi i on ef oat cauld," she accused him. “Father, I ahan't aing for you be elpht if | hear another word of that old. Toothpick at this moment created a diversion, He had gone to anewer a knock ut the front dear, “Mista Balnes heal," he anneun “Ah! Now we ‘ll havea little truly sensi- ble conversation,” promised the major, and left the table to meet his guest, " Aghby,” commanded lure Bella ake ae “look atime, une you glad that I'm back?" "Don't, Laura Belle.” "T must—becatise you won't.” His hand wavered owt toward her, then was drawn decisively back. “I have no right. “You have every rent. ¥ou lenow it," The major fee penne bringing Aaron Baines triumphant with him, The young minister waa ru and enntes " Major Walker—really—TI° ve had my supper. I had no iden ——" ‘A place far Mr. Baines, Toothpick,” quoth the major, “You will at least join us in the deasert and coffer." “Oh, but you must," added Laura Belle cordially. ou know Mr. Walker— Ashby Walker—Mr. Baines?" The two young men shook hands and the unhappy Baines subsided into a chair geste for him by Toothpick, You complete the square, sir,” de- clared the major, rubbing his hands. “We ane now a partie carte, a8 the French say, The vacunt side of the table was waiting for you, A litthe of this mock terrapin— I presume your cloth prohibits you from tasting a drop of some very excellent toddy—quite so—I appreciate your scru- ples, though I have known many clergy- men whe partook,” "Old Doctor Henderson got tiddled once on communion wine,” supplied Laura Belle with a naughty giggle. “How shocking—how outrageous!" buat inveluntarily from Aaron Enines. “ dnd what about Noah? "nursed Laura Paeile, "Don't mind sie anes a confirmed tense,"’ interposed Hut young Baines spar nol hear a werd againgt his idol. “Gh—I'm gure Misa Laura Belle didn't quite— didn't. quite— understand — or imply ——" he floundered, “But I did," said Laura Belle. “And I've no doubt it was because Noah loved his teddy that he had the vision to build the ark, and the animals went in two by two—but he wasn't seeing double,” “Laura Belle!" roared the major. “I positively will not have yeu talking in this abandoned way. My daughter has moods, aif, in which “ineorrigible' is the mildest word I ean truthfully apply to ber." "To like frankness in ladies," declared Baines, turning toward Laura Belle, = june PO, mt Her golden dress, her pode: teen smile—all dagtled him He fe: up headed. daring. Ashby, watehong += Sy acroas the table, divined he fay oo and amiled wryly. So Lae Bale § colibely another victim Ard whe | tae one! i i With yoo, ar,” ool sullen Ene he wit od ccet woes 5 eels ati their folly than thor sme “ Rochefoucauld !" emclaiteed Ash's y Laura Belle in unieon. The major swept them with s Sy glance. “A cup ooifee, Mr. Base i some of this peach shorteake [eos fruit, the ch. [Tm often cee to think the four a ie | food, Spring, for instance— wars | Strawberries, Surmer—pearie = young fryers, malig = mouth —— ] forretcting a minded Ashby. “A common, too exuberant Tl not for the epicure,’ “But what about soft-shell crab" Laura Belle demurely. tL you two wold sel hoe me. Where was I? Autume— winesape, purple grapes . “Pork tenderloins, chanted Laura Belle. “And in winter —let me hominy, Mince pues eweet petal baer “Father, you are posit sep et Shall we go into the ‘ She led the way, allowed | diversa men, diverse but all of then a on her, and she quite aware of i age ll play you the very jatest pod,’ Te's called The Aurects. bel il re ot new Strauss walts—La and Fritechen, Are you food og Mr. Baines?" He bung over the Sargent te oa cated than if he taken "T's fond af _— -_ I Tay ‘a leaves," har said, only flamer. “Too that Laura Helle memory,” said Ashby. Young Baines mubsided. a he had been bold. He aed fOf he had annoyed Miss Laz is pone fre But mo, she seemed) in yer aeod humor, now she began to play Odition he could see the ewitt = | er fingers, the entrancing lit am her wrists, the gracefil way i aaa bent her head over the kev = she took the runs. Her eyele never before realized what dei shadows they made for ber soft ep the = penciling of ber browag dusky deepa of her hair. “Thy flock of goata, that from Mount he indignantly rejected the sini idea of comparing Miss Lacra ta a flock of te! [t ooructed | Solomon had said some very How much better was “Ju of ny, ia— = ocke.” And—and—““Thy nei tower of ivory.” With Violet « wrenched hinuwself < away On from force tal quotation. ura Belew truly a lady to be thought af ib i= 3 terms of Solemecn.

The young ticking of tha ome clock, and it rec. : eel “He tala t he said. geod = Fs major accompanied him to t (Ceatinused on Neier i

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Sie ahi to sagt you With ud fo migee to Bay Vol you in Jeb Stuart's place,"' said Laura tobi, why are Ahh [no use,"" said hy. ~#T don't alers in my hogs, smut in my ake he killed my clover, And ice like a atricken fool and look ue ean't have you! [ wish you dup North and married there. a be plenty of men—there have here, God knows—alter ee ie you've drug this | tonight, He couldn't tale his his nlf yen,” mtabout me? demanded Laura o you think I find happiness In bout protesting my affection Bd o leta his silly pride keep h sping it? Oh, by, you're a it does the mortgage matter? CH head I'd turn your luck.” "T won't make a Oe saieeeiea “Very s the last time, I've gone as sway as Tenn. I've been bold, immodest, daring. Oh, I know 2 would say about me if ny me unin waelf on you! do it pean: you ever make nd that you care less for your vlf-coneeit than you do for sel[-comceit—it is self-reay m it? Until you can make up that you care bess for your respuoct than you do for me, I nly hereafter leave you—un- Tih Cha, an wae chasgedl with t en ed at herself, “But yet—l Tt strikes me that I'm being you. Wo, Ashby, on further n, I'm afraid that I have no if you have. I think I must be a brazen ag ie r returned, and by rose to t laok out, or," 3 anid; another candid te for Laura and heart in that nice little {hoy whe's been coming round quote your favorite dace ruffed. "Lord bless i ag ‘ethedist parson! Den't hat T " commented Laura it be a ool, Jshby." ere for sup next Friday gue my foolishness with ity lahby, “Let me remind tochefoucauld aaa that * t folly is not so wise as : laughed and waved his hand ‘in the glimmering night. wna slowly in Ar e, The of late June and early July steadies into the gultriness of a endurance a habit. the morning, and then the and stira, front doora and opened, walks are sprinkled susewives and their servants and choose the day's sup schatter from porch to p mation which presen the Fun evaporates. Then shut- a are again, no one is | Ie an occasional o ers wagon, chickens wallow dust of the deserted roadway, che street motionle appealing leaves a “my n. With twilight epee it spell, New a little breeze 1 ruffles and teases the sup- couches them with the cool [ dew. Shutters and doors airy gay frocks blossom like porches. There are errands ie, to the drug atore, to the ®, and comment on the tem- 4 eve converantion, »me this is the hottest spell werished today: I thought reliminary the gossip of the iged—who is sick, and who ie ane ene is jaca and y: “Have you any ont the _ young minister and alker?"* deepening of the summer's aad and became more open of Asron Haines, He went ° ae often as he dared. He here wre a gaunt whiteness that was piteous, Hin eyes ishnesa. He wes a man THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 105 gripped, held, devoured. It was there for all to see who cared to look. And everyone carted to look and, having looked, to talk. It was the town's drama. “He's simply about her." “But she won't ave anything to do with him." “T hoard the pinay had asked him not to rane a ae “Oh ahe auet have led him. ont Laura Belle ec always been o flirt keane Aet ret always declared openly that She an "Sha bee AT "t have been ac open about it if she'd really wanted Ashby. "That's ao; there's pa reasen in the world why ahe and Ashby shouldn't have married long before this if they'd wanted to. They're not really cousins—exeept in a distant way.” a aay the deacons in the chureh have talked to Mr. Baines." "Yea—the ones with daughters." “He lowks stricken: he's really a sight.” "Tt's shameless; he ought to be reported to the conference.” “The conference ean't prevent @ man from falling in love." So the wave of talk washed i and forth, a tide of surmise, of cri amitsement, ofsympathy. Gentieand kin’ -ewmbate the townapeopla could not help t sympathize with the young man's etn reas. Wet they were not blind = ita droll implications and facets of com- aur a felt these last acutely. She phe goune® man ‘sagitation, marked At last she spoke to hen aie: “You know that my father and ["— she dra fin the major's nome to share her stund—‘‘dislike to seem inhospitable to pataarieg But we feel that it would be better if you did mot call here quite so often. It will deprive ua of the area of your socety, but it wll—it will give the eritles of your congregation no further ground. Tt is for your own sake I aay He sire riscppichiait woe it to her . “Vou are 0 8o COD Pet be had exelalned af palina'e perl Fein I should not aay eo, but there are ew in my flock who are congenial to me Here I am happy—happier than I dare tell you.’ Laura Belle listened, was startled by the revelation of his words. She had prepared her little speech carefully; she did not want to wound his feeli But ahe aaw that she had to be more blunt. “Even so—I think I must esk you not to come ao often,” she said. “It can lead to nothing, as you know, and makes people talk ps vagy The mere fact that I"m the roe ehurch than you"—ashe cast — of the major—" makes tham talk." He was so inex ced, so bewildercd by emotion, he did mot see the obvious. "How often may T comet?" he demanded. Laura Belle felt her patience slip. The | man was simply a fatuous idiot; he made ae ere — her greatly prefer at you cid nat Re at would ares d. Then, relenting a erate ‘nee Plena do sgn tera if ‘d alap "i cing what is beat for a “You're not—you're not telling me I'm never ta see you? I couldn't bear that.” She thought he was going to cry, and hor impatience increased. She was used to men, not lovesiek qaplesents. “T mean exactly that,” ashe exclaimed, “Fo os us both abwurd. Don't you nee it? go and don't corns pace . She a a a litte a: which she in- stantly cheched "t be Senobia, the | tragedy ent ehe told herself, 7 Balnne sald nothing, only looked at her ae if he would fll his eyes ond his heart with her forever, At last, without - word, a waking sleepwalker, stunned, m chanical, he left the room, Lauro Belle rs Pai out to her father. ; “You were a coward,” she seolded, “to leave it all tome. Tt was just like etriking a child. I wus so sorry for him, and yet so prow 2 “But he was not—insistent?" queried id passing by the slur on his cour- “a No, but I was.’ gue “ie ance hig head re unhappiness in world ca tncert aifeeticr. “' A gentleman lave like a lunatic, but not like a beast,’ he quoted sententiously. For Those ‘WhoTake PrideIn Their Complexion It's fun to get out into the sun and wind, but if you are not careful too much of it will bring rough- ness and coarseness. To keep your skin soft and smooth, to keep the pores clear of dust which brings to the skin a dull unattractive appearance, use Frostilla Fragrant Lotion. Frostilla Fragrant Lotion gives the skin the neces- sary moisture which the wind whips out and the sun dries up, Itis not the least bit sticky and after it has been rubbed on, it quickly disappearsleaving a cool- ing, soothing sensation and a delightful fragrance which is the rare combination of many flowers. 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It's nothin THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “According ta Rochefoucauld, then," said Laura Tolle. acidly, “Mr. Baines is a perfect gentleman.” She awitehed her figrure-l mitslin with the sulphur ribbons indignantly upstairs, chose a white chip hat with me fine poppies and went to the Staleys’. "Lat's go up to your Toutt, "she anid to “T must talk te you." Aa soon a the door was shut the two girla faced each other. In Eve's face was reflected Aaron Baines’ suffering. "T don't see what use there ia in talk," she sald eullenly. “Now don't be pervish. fault.” "No, but"—Eve buried a despairing Bars? in her hands—"it killa me to see him suifer ao.” “Tt probably kills you because he's suf- fering about another woman than you. Eve, this isn't the moment to be sentimen- tal and missish. The question is—do you want him?" Behind her fingers Eve made muffled reply: “What dora it do for me to want him or not? He's run after you until he's town's talk. You let him do it. Oh, it waa shanveful of you, Laura Felle! a sent you learned auch things up North.” nt blame the North for everything, Remember bend dear Mr. Baines is a Northerner." . “Oh, [de think this le the Chetr Take down your handa and act like a grown woman. I've told him he mustn't come up to the house any more. now, on the rebound, is your chance—yours or some other girl's. on't. ¥ou be a ninny and ery and mope. He's not in love with me, and never was; he's ee in love with the idea of being in love, you'll be sensible—ancd aritul—you can Laas him you. He ayn pathy. an pres vise Gee tear-drenched, appeared et sal wonderful. “Te 1 only “thought bli course it's true!" Ehe awept Eve along on nthe torrent of her will, “Lf you love him as you you do you won't sit and lot him drift inte anybotiy's arma now. He'll over his alight infatuation but Puppy, lowe.” im doant’ Eve waa Eve. [t's not my Mees saphils talk ind: “Te's goer if you can get mad about him—I'm glad. Spunk up, Eve. What a want with him I can't for the life of Awe Tes viliaed coos aid i law, are apirited enough w me, We're a in the same case, my dear—I want Ashby and you want the Hekaby Aaron, Can't you make an portunity to see him—often? When al EB Camp Meeting open? Aren't I don't tase why you should want +e going? Gek your mother bol invite im and aunt to stay in ur tent, Then ‘ have him right there, par- Then you! * ven Ashby na any man is sieallaathe: Even Ash nearly own he loves me after a pper. “Do. you really think it would do any Not if au fo at it in vat frame of mind. heb I've said my aa I'm going. Don't hate me, Eve. [t's not ry fault that the man hankers after somethin someone whe ian't like all the other pies id the town, someone who'll tease him a» little, and laugh at him, and play a schottish to him, I suppose you lure him on with Rock of Ages—a very nice tune, but one he's Bick ine Oh, why can't you treat hie lilos beau? gm’ the miiniater—like a beat” Unheard-of daring Gracious mercy, what is he but a Prune, and & young man? And a very green young mam too, let me tell you. He has es; every man hes when the right woman geta hold of him, You could de wonder with him, Ob, how he needa a wile and p manager!" ait ae tongue rund away with ve alter a pause, “All this— "it emai _ ura Belle's white chip quivered with mirth, “If you can make up any better plan than getting him out in your tent, right under foot. every minute when he isn't on the preacher's stand, please let me know. The more I think of it the better I like it, Get him there, and then—grab ae ee bene her pretty «tists to 2 quick, pouncing gesture, Eve listened’ while the figured mualin rustled down the stairs, hearc the shutting of the frant door. Something as definitely Juss 6 check apd dot Seopeneee cheek an w her childlike facial conto. So on find her mother, Laura nae eolhecnete ah | went past oe the She had a feeling thatehet miserable man, rh know anything fee mare of Aue hie. un eyes of the town. “Silly mured, giving & po age front ss iat Aaron Fits tr | the not have overted atudy he was kneeling upon his chews, pr not stim night no be hea siroeent oe 7 her love ime, ‘tae te had uth 30 There foresd | tion that he had | ned offered p bit the leading ministers of ing for & common seme (Cantliaed ae Pap

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iaeed From Poge Dog} ald camp, this one of Bethel, val existed, with its square of ‘d benches grou about the | stand from which preacher aatled the eon tian with ymin. Round about thesquare awduat-covered promenade, und after service the young “in endless procession to est clothes. and thelr latest Beyond the promenade were -rough two-story shacks of inks, wide open to sun and with odds and ends hauled amp opened and carted back ‘terward. ‘There was a little ation, and some of the front nee curtains looped and tied ribboms, but these were a worldly by more austere cormera of the square were aund, upheld on high posts, id werd Laid lightwood knots, urky radiance tothe evening n big tin kerosene lamp hung P's stand. i the benches about the id, between the tents and were the old trees of the | pine, sweet gum, white th, towering far beyond the stered armongst them. They 1 plaice a certain grace, wu Fable beauty, where none been contemplated by its p flocked the farmers and fn, bringing furniture, fool, vant to attend them, but , to spend ten days in reli- for the camp io on a ended one week from the ay. day wats the seene of the its miceting. Tt wes then lye testimony, aml those rofessed conversion came mourners’ bench. Under is contagious fervor many ly sought the light. It was @ efowning elfort of those camp, and for this it was Some leading preacher, ler perhaps, gave a power- repentance, warning and who Were not yet nume- yw elect that the cliy af yer misar, Younger minis« lay brothers and sisters e erowd, urging the falter- rad and openly teatify to a. "“TReee at the mourners’ nseled os to the way of ‘oof heart. At list, some d rise and shout for glory, light, and this one would med by others, converted this example a@ through ion. ‘Then, amidst singing thusimam weuld run high, til the garnering of this ° heawen—part of which 4d eut to chafl—was @ Kiel the biggest, strong- of the county ita pastor as [orotngonist of Bethel. i lowed forward eagerly © currip mecting until the requited love fell upon become a weight on his ent cure. He wished, oh, were over, so that he re to luxunate in his - Jomverw that was why he er, ksut it was the real ess. He found the con- : descons, the eonsidera- jruisters, the proper care the presiding elder al- =ncdurance. As for pre- owri sermons—that waa He would have to eid ies imspiration. He di pprepriate texts, | ‘atching him anxiously, -ht be going into gallop- "2" hank gominess,” she ssle3r On their ils to the th his ten days in the open » Kir I'm really wealth orm the North find their 4 oweery trying,” repl ar, Sut, eye to eye, the fiers tly agreed that per- ‘rorm § the wiles of Laura j bee: 85 beneficial as the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 108 fresh air, And Mra. Hallett was affection- ae familiur to Eve. OF this Eve herself was quite aware, and she met Mrs. Hallett a good hallway: but she had a devastating coneclousnesa that Aunt Lueretia might amile at hor forever and she not be advanced one pace thereby in Aaron Baines’ heart. She was very forlorn, was Eve. At times she almost regretted the precipltaney of Laura Belles will that had mode her run to her mother with the demand that they ask the minister and his aunt for the camp. All the same, refected a little leas mournfully, it was some comfart to know that he waan't going tea at the Hag nebo ge Te ith a courage fosters er despera- tion she forced herself on Aaron Baines’ open attention. She sat beside him at table, she helped him to choice tithits, she asked his opinion af the various digeauraes and tried ta open discussion with him about them. All the time she was conscious of a rising anger agsinst Laura Belle —not per- sonully of course, but that she should be mich a witch, such a charmer, aa to have blinded Aaron Baines to every other girl. And she wis conscious, too, of a growing devotion and tenderness for him. +e WHS so Unhappy and he was so painfully thin! His eyes were tortured eyes. If had a man under the pain of Laura Belle's dismissal, so Eve becurme a woman in longing ta console end eomfort him, Her lowe for him, at first no more than a Tomantic fancy, wointo @ consuming, yearning worship, halfloverand half mother. Yet no matter what she felt, no matter what she did, she waa honest enough with herself te see that she made no hendway, He Jeoked throayh or past her, never real at her, save with the same unnoticing wistfulness that he gave to everyone now. For all she was angry and resentful against Laura Belle, Eve would have Hked to talk to her, She wanted to wsk so many things in which Laura Belle, of all Arbor- ville, hud wisdom. Might it perhapa be that there wos a subconscious antipa between a man and 2 woman who were bot blonds? Did Laura Belle’ d erearnl- ness make a real complement of the Rever- end Aaron's blondnes, which Eve's own fair color could never hope to do? Might that not explain? But no—Laura Belle herself inclined to Ashby, dark as a crow. It was ed fi = 3 And didn't people with broken hearts sometiones die of them? At this thought Eve felt sich a pang in her own heart that she had to lay her hand upon it to hush it. Oh, i he should die! She would not want to live herself. Or—perhape she would die tes, She sincerely thought she might. She hoped so, Eve found that it wns not hard te go bo ew service und appear de ideal attentive, she had so many en ing things to think about. And she could always look at Aaron, on the atand among the other preachers, feasting her eyea on ~ him, hoping, despairing, reveling in un a Waal emotions, desires and fewrs, stich os per before had invaded her quiet maiden- ood, “T just know,” said Laura Belle to Ashby, on the oceasion of hie regular Friday-night supper at their howse, “that Eve's going the wrong way with susceptible young Aaron, Ashby, you must hiteh up your buggy and take me out to camp on Sunday night. I'd like to see what's going on." “Tauppoge you metdled with Eve—gave her the nent ef your worldly wieder I Th Se the pricking of aur conscience “Tt wasnt my worldly wisdom at all; it was id plain common sense. She wants him: I said to her te grab him. Are you going to take me out there Sunday night?" “T suppose ao, Will you ee with ws, major, or dows Rochefoucauld ban cump museLinges 7" “My dear boy, [ believe he would have enjoyed them—nss a spectator, not as a participant. But I think I won't go. I'd rush ura Belle'a furbelows, and the roads are dusty." “T enn take the surrey instead of the buggy. There'll be plenty of room for Laura Belle and you toa.” “Even so—I"m better at home. I do net care very touch for long drives at night. T shall be interested to know, however whether my young friend has recove from the influence so disastrously wielded upon him by my charming daughter.” He bowed to Laura Belle. “I don’t want to flatter you, my dear, but T don't blame the youn oF g man. “TL find it all very silly," said Laura Belle. aE EE pe lubricant PUBRE SOLIDIFIED OTL OU cannot keep your car prop- erly lubricated unless you fre- quently use pure, fresh lubricant, free from all harmful ¢grit and acids. 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This wonderful durability is due to a method of knit- ting the toes and heels so they give perfect freedom to the feet, but resist puncture to an astonishing degree, True Shape Socks are also noted for the trim way in which they fit the feet and ankles, and for the way they hold their good looks after repeated launderings. Ask your dealer for TRUE SHAPE No, 152 TRUE SHAPE Hosiery is made for men, weenen and chal- dren. Lf your dealer cannot wapply you, write us direst TRUE SHAPE HOSIERY CO., PHILADELPHIA = 0 a Sa rE cree | crowded, jumbled. Carria EVENING POST “Ah, well,” said the major, a8 a passing #hot, “I fear he is too young to know the truth of the saying of the immortal French- man: ‘We are never so happy or 20 un- happy 85 We suppose," " “T'm for him," said Ashby. "I know what he feels," . Laura Belle snapped her fingers at him. “You! Ashhy, how de you have the face to say such a thing?" “Tt is quite trac, But I've learned to conceal my feeling. He's not so fortunate. Miss Walker, I'll iy the patie $0 call for you on Sunday evening at half past six, with my bugey newly washed, and a brand- new lap robe. Please br ready on time.” “Come in eaclier and have supper here.” “Nos two suppers a week here would make me fat. "t wear your yellow dress; it’s far too dashing for a camp meeting.” “Then you like it, and I'll certainly wear ft." a She was as good aa her word. It was in the yellow organdie that she stepped into Ashby's buggy, nay wished, as he had promised, but an old ramshackle affair even ae, The lap robe he had vaunted waa the cheapest of thin gray linen. "The vehlele & not worthy of your eplendor, but it is the best I can offer.” "So long as I am with you," she replied, “T don't mind if we ride in an oxeart.” “Laura Belle, you are shameless, When T look back at the wreckage you've caused! There was Haley Pritehett. And that fellow from Church Hill—whot waa his name? And your Centerville beau, Ned Brown. And Billy Hackett. And the doctor from Philadelphia ——" ‘Wait u minute. Please note that they're all happily married now, ao you can't call them wreckage. And that’s what's going to bappen te the young minister.” "You think Eve will—grab him—as you so inelegantly advised?" "What is elegance when you want some thing? Women should be more primitive, Ashby. We're too restrained, too hemmed in, too bound down." Ashby's frowning seriquaness relaxed im gentiine laughter, ““You, restrained! You, bound down! I love the picture." Laura Belle disregarded his mirth, pro- duced a little fan and waved it, “Whew, it ja dusty—and very hot! Father was sensi- ble not te come. And look, Ashby—look at the crowd, The whole county's here! Where will you hitch?" " Ag near out on the edge as I can, so we won't have any trouble getting away when it's ayer. You don"t mind walking int" "T mind—hut what's that ta you? Oh, Ashby, I hope that Eve ——" “T don't believe you really care, Your vanity would be immensely flattered if he'd bt eonetant.”" “Ab—doers it flatter I'm so constant to yout’ g : He would not answer, busied himself selecting a convenient hitching place. At list he helped her out, and they strolled slowly through the presa up toward the center of the camp. It was all confused, were coming in in droves. [ere and there a big farm waren drawn wi mules brought a load of young people taking the occasion as ome for nayety rather than plety. The Firs Were helped dawn with little squeals of laughter, and after they'd shaken owt their light {rocks to the fullest circumference and col- lected wraps and fans and such trifling im- pedimenta, linked arms with their special swains and made what haste they could to the promenade, They were viewed with indulgence or with reprobation by their elders, according to their benevolence. Laura Belle, on Ashby's arm, watched it all curiously. The two were marked res among the simpler folk: distinetly obsery= ers, not participants. Ashby's shabby cont could not make him naive or rustic, and the suave finish of the girl matched his look of experience, They did not pause at the circling walk. 3 "We'll go on and get good sents, beside an aisle," she said. ‘It's a renl miloe.” The air of the whole camp waa filled with dust, which under the waning of twi- light took on soft blue shadows, belying its promises of grime, From the lightwooed flares just kindled tee thin spirals of a mounting straight, for there was no wind. Heat like a smothering blanket lay close over everything, enervating, relaxing the mind and the will, "Give me your fan,” said Ashby as they gat down. your vanity that June 5, In his srr maak toate ietin eoolness for fare urd toma looked about ber. People wey pal for the service, but there wa js} Eve or any of the Salen 1 ville poeple she saw apd paved «, os oad hemae! itn mere ou t | : little organ. ‘Visitieg mainstay sweltering vaobly in| they last came the iding ee. zl) pressive, and with kim wu toe By the time the fit bre 1 people were packed sold & = and in the alsles. ‘The proces: / give way to the devedt. Fear -| gtory of the little woods t- | many. er asscii te w = cr ality getting place: setams there brooded a tere ematie. expression. The fervor of te ; tested to this eager expectunr. | alwaya an electric affair, len a in semidarkness, and with op tude waiting for the ie touching, comeunicating vival becomes an inte due) in its potentialities, Under the bi

ters offered the opening thrilling voice, full of and emphasis. They sang artis preniding ler The presiding elder wu : a fuce that denoted heaty + | self-will, but bent to - 4 of fanatie stuif, Mit 1 i ace to the ungedly | this thy wickedn—-. He stretched bh: i 1 his hands as thee’ = force the wicked ¢ out to them, not neunciog, Bol alles: s+ buat picturing ever. the recalcitrant, 21 ror and of woe. Ji. +! found them gure. ov! He wielded the lance fim of assured rebuke, A: sweat that poured do> eollar and made his oir q intent only en the pres 5 > he wast building una o> @ peak be would wtiline in hs aca to be saved. The grove was vey | on. Ewen breath ite! cas lest it disturb. The ape: -- ‘4 tranemd, helpless before: =. | Walker's hand moved == 4 little Muttering fan that b: +4 for the comfort af Las ts outside the preacher's ) ing them for the flict. He retlected that ty “1 have made a first-rate an demon for fighting, wou: 4 using the saber. Hy the .-! held back Laura Belle fr ‘4 ing, kept her also sores | that she could motice th pas! af Agron Baines oo tr 4 eoverthy keep wp her ie " In a. last far-flang --- 5 speaker reached ks do— 4 lent in. the living silence. 1°! patise he stretched out t= = 4 | bees tA iL and his great voice be le s- the crowd: “Now is be = The choir, at the worm =*- and took up their dary. .> a little shakily, the oo as voices in the audaco * 4 05 I am, without one pes The crowd moved, == the breaking tension, #— © A young girl burst ins - = sign of coming grace. i" | ministers come dewn = ' and mace his way iowa - ~ Was Tipe, As the hymn wert © seen here and there c th 4 with. straining, drawer fa forward and keel ato =" and sisters im Ia! *- "4 encouraged them. A 4 from down the cous = 5 (Continaed e= Par | ha

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ataued from Page 170} hard case, faltered to his foet, ed hi er Rr him, schbed with souls seed the light Bene: ie SRO CTS ch, and others renting forward. Tremors of ran through the erowd; they stronge fields of emotion, pene he ardora of the her, enn lity in their movernents—they wmselves, but beings wrought vocstasies, palpitant with mys- -pibeons, pete pian atimulation. ed gut their Ss aan ark gestured wildly, -aat in mute immobility, sunk themselyes. The hymn went | by the aaothing murmur of ss, when suddenly through a ned a ery of bitter » any, of pain, through eg ic trim rees murky Joweri me t _— af Aaron mering Senge “] himself from, his stupor, ane edge of the platform, a man fished by his soul, struggling he amongst you!" he erted kneeling penitents. “I—I wm a wort sinner than any of wos so sure of myself—ant here—and cannot lead myself. ' graaned, “have mercy on linte the snares of a woman— staben Wp with desine af her-— rotten everything —who would ‘thing-—who would barter my a majesty for her." Feverieh i sunken eyea sought and Helle in her golden dress crowd, “tis you,” he cried, ive done this! O Lard, pity ie Telegsae." l beer allence for the presiding wt deeper, more significant si- People were frozen in their 5 appalled. The very sinners ara’ bench raised their heads, ing ere bon extraordinary dl: ele own ears and eyes eived them, So testified their rprise, p stricken man stood, facing her out, Laura Belle got pin her place, and her cool of struck crisply aerom the hat held thom a ie and dreadful of to Aaron Baines. , she “You are ied, answering her, “2 clo mot ' blame myself. I am un- a aimner to have cared an Hi A coat T arn - ae , drop groveling to f horitl . Ard with that, ne up, the amazement was d voices mingled in ejacula- aro rig. the wearing, agitated press ne, stendfast, intent, brish- neecpuently out of her path, Belle had prophesied, when wl come she knew what she faltering ahe é¢limbed the agcher's stand, knelt beside raised him and pillowed bis shoulder. »smid te him, and her voice as ae ee wad been, i sin. ave M iat you love ber, Tack a s well worth your love ao shel return it. I eould com- you, You must feel tr.” maze stir, his of fn= nen ahe felt a little tighten- on hers, a clinging, a pres ic stgrmedngt her throat. And at last he had found her, weakly, but be hac found lized her, In her was his y. She helped him to rise. sou take his other arm and er to the tent?” ehe asked i the preening elder him- a toa he ec him to the Staley tent, ot. A doctor was called. ate wreonsciousnes, But helel tight to Eve Staley's mew thot he would never THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Tt was of no wee te up the fragments of the revival. hey he had scat tered and vanished in the grenter sensation, The congregation dissolved into groupes of Passionate comment and deacription, amd at laat, moved only by the extreme lateness ef the howr, seaght out their several yr hicles, and took their ways home, replete with drama. Nothing like this had ever happened at Bethel Camp before: nothing like it wauld ever bee uguln. it was the event of a century, They felt themselves: magnificently fortunate to have Pea- ent. It would make a tale for their children and their children's children, Laura Belle and Ashby had not Ilngered for 2 moment. In o strange, rather fint restraint they made their way out of the press to pares and thence hi the starlit iT Scar At last ra. Belle g “Perhapa it waa cdreadfu of me," ahve said, but with all that going-on [did foe that it peed a word of plain common. te acemes." "T ." gaid Ash thoughtfully, “] shen “_ up and deman ogee ele faction of h ‘or making # ahee a before everybody, but I was so kn over by the thing. I sat there waits your fan, open-mouthed ike a zany, and let you do the talkin He was out of his mind." “Oh, well, Ee ‘sallright, You saw EveT" “You, Lsaw.” Ashby fell again inte that curious restrained silence. And then he ee thle velwement speech, “Hut he waa right, Laura Belle—he was right—to love yon tiie that, I mean, What [ saw in his face and heard in hia voice I've felt—how often! And he made me see—that I rust have you.” “Ashby! She turned to him in [n- eredulous rapture. They flung their arms about each other and kissed like children. “Aghby! Ashby!" She said his name over and over, sobbing againat his shoulder. “T've bern hard on you—but it wes a million times harder on me. All the other fellows that have dangled after you! I've been ao near eommitting murder! Laura Bele—how will you atand it, with me? I'm so poor. No more visita up North. pe more pretty frocks. My ves girl, it tright. But now—I can't help it. I'm fost Wes your little preacher, Tean't helpit.” ae mopped her eyes, straighten * Ret p your afr : Bt around me, ard I iT tell you a secret. aven't been going up North to pay icigreone visits nat ainee the firet time, that is. I go twice a year—and—and I design aya! te in a big establishment in New York. I'm very clever at it, really, Ashby, And that’s what keeps father and me going. Cousin —dear manuma’s cousin, you know— give father an allowance, but I iain t let bim take it. He can take it new, [don't core, T won't have to share It, But all my hets—and frocks—and prott things—I make them, Ashby-=they don't eoat much. And I'm so esick of being a drudging old designer—and I was so afraid I'd have to keep on forever and ever and ever, You must never tell, for no one here has the least suspicion, and father would be ao disturbed if people knew I worked. Oh, how I've been tempted to tell you!" bund hia turn to be incoherent. "Laura Belle! I asm ashamed. I'm in the dust." “Yes, you are, There's ao much of it to-night.’ They drove along serenely eee i the night. Even as Eve Staley's hand ec Agron Baines’ se did Laura Belle's aoft fingers cling ta Ashby's work-hardened palm. They were tremendously at peace, appy in visions. aura. Belle spoke dreamily: “I'm Paine ta give Eve her wedding hat, and he'll lov her ever after when he sees her in it. 1 tell you, Ashby, it's just a trifle mortifying that I—tmust take you as a gift of the little reacher’s hysterics. Was it only that? Wouldn't you have told fie S001 —any~ wayT I want to think as.” Ashby, released from his pride, from his a fears, wae generous, offering the accepted | lover's commonplace without a quale. “You shall think whatever you want, and Tl) swear it's true,” he answered, “always and always.” Laura Belle laughed a little, deelved the tribute at its true worth, undecei hut uncaring. “You had to aay go. Ashky—what a» life—what a life I'm salne j to lead you!" = S Z * FORE ! Basuion, thank our lucky stars, has come to her senses at last. A mere wisp of a girl may now be comfortable and stylishat thesame time, Those of us who prefer to ride lazily at anchor with the rocking- chair fleet, in the shade of the country club porch, can wear eur Sport stockings as well as our sisters who swing the brassie and niblick beneath the broiling sun. One no longer has to be a Kellermann to wear a dainty bathing suit. Some of the most stun- ning ones I have seen were never meant to leave the beach, Sport clothes are the thing this summer and sport clothes are both good-looking and easy to wear. So while you are busily planning your wardrobe for this summer's conquests, don’t overlook that impor- tant item, stockings. Burson HeatHer is a good name to remember when you are doing the stores, For golf, motoring, tennis, hiking or ordinary, every day street wear, these new Burson stockings are the best look- ing, most thoroughly com- fortable stockings | have seen in all my shopping ex- cursions. Colors? Just see what you have to choose from: oxford, cordovan, tweeds, russet, camel's hair, pastel, fawn. How's that for a good selec- tion? These stockings come with or without clocks, just as you prefer. Made of the very best materials; they fit perfectly; they are kind to the feet and they wear extremely well. The prices are so low they will surprise you. 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Be Sure to Take = Tom Wye ? Pack YOUT Ton 1 Wye What's the weather going to be ana he prepared, Scorch he sche -T mixtures. At Men* § | Wear or Sporting Goods Stores. TOM W YE, Toure freee, Winchendon, Klass, en ee ee ee el no | make money. MM EVENING POST Juss 10,9 THE REMINISCENCES OF £ STOCK OPERATOR (Cantinagd from Page 4) “T don't belleve the man who told you knew what he was talking about.” "THe didn't keep Mr. Roekefeller's books any more than you keep Mr. Livingaton"s. But my guess is that your guess about Liv- ington ia wrong. If you wish I'll make his acquaintance exclusively to ask him,” “And he'd tell youl" he jeered. . not?" "He doen't talk," he said, “Then how does he tell the waiter what to bring him? What you mean is that he doesn't blab. That fact and the report that he has put a milion or two in trust against the possitilit fe the game ie him some day, a9 it every one of your euALoOMmerd in the end, make me quite unx= ious to meet him. I understand that he never gives on on-stecks, but never hesi- tates to say whether he is bullish or beariah and why, and also that he never talks one way and acta another—a luxury that no man can permit himeelf unless he has an intelligent conception of the big swings. My own opinion Is that Livingston will saree ich mae that stock speculation, can- aa leg! as parformanoe, is an unbeatable “Sure! el ay millions playing it.” “To don't know ‘hae he playa the game a4 8 epeculator. Moreover, he has made and loet several fortunes and he evidently thinks he may go broke again or he would net have away that million ao that the sume ticker that gave shall not take away. [know there ip always a reason for his operations; and thet mason will thea “He we erage about the market, but He ithe t talk about himwell,"" ingisted my Tien "He can't talk about the market without talking about hia methods of operating. His market philosophy is himself," 1 sai Brokers do not listen to abatractiona. i t all right. He's made t did some of their customers m Fritad said earns “He has always red a lone hand and 1 know he is a heavy trader. He has friends, but not a personal following such as all operators had in the old daya of which you are so fond of speaking.” The Ciningston Perronality “Then he is really able and alas honest, and therefore exceptional. My dear chap, on the bear side all the following an oper- ator needs is to be right. But you are, as usual, wrong. In the old days the only operator | recall who really a following wis Governor Flower, and he waa not, strictly speuking, an operator, but a pool manager and promoter of syndicates oper- ating in an unusual period. There never io ard chs es re another a mane t is place in the ar and the conditions that. maine jicbehie is leadership will not recur. Keene, who is the nearest approach to w ecossor af Liv= ingston, played alone hand, But he did net disdain to accept company when there waa need. And it waa his pools that hurt him mew, and Ib was a that made his inst Wall Street chapter so inglorious, But I have to thank you for one thing, and I am ¥ery teful. “For what?” he asked suspiciously. “For my present intention to see Liv- ingstor, that he may prove how sound my theories are.” “Tour theories!” smiled my friend. "T never heard you say that they were yours, I Tanariond quite mildly. A mutual friend told Livingston that : wished to meet him, I do not know w else he said, but he once wpon # time waa : | newspaper man, At all events, Livingston ) sent word that he would have more time to ive me if T took luncheon with him at his ome on Sunday, We suid then spend the entire afternoon bogeth er. I was there at the appointed hour. It Was a sumptuous home. Its owner, whe had newer done anything else in his: life than apiculate, obviously lived in the height of luxury—liveried flunkies in the hall, Old Masters on the walls, and all that. It was mot the blatant sssertivenees of nea millions that obtruded itself, but the ines- eapable evidence of guessing correctly on the stock market. fier tae | of stork specul rae et @ iia Want Pointer, vumany the pink of econdition—thi & © | mene human being. He dd sc o = hia bringing. He howe! f, no traces of the worres anc oj ve bring premature old age o of Wall Street professionad, 0 ral dence that he had ever lived owe! the chief im L tereree! gy mind — worked both babeton)) gy w His was neither dica=} dial, but hia neutrality wa oe 9 ascribable to a habit of sete o than the mere shadow of a com - brow sonata opi aman fy comm. his, gues at hile taicieanons Acct, alee a “| was about him nothing to make oe! the lightni decisions be wa cen| ng on big market daye—dn volving millions of dalkars. 4 Pointed Garstice We shook hands, still meutrs. | to teil him why | hac my Aa T talked I kept are eres or, il ju the effect ag eould net tell what bi praieloa a indeed, whether he was thincrs es were fall of that bafficg = t you gee in the eye of soy They were of a clean, clear, hue j 80 steady ae they impremed oe greatly helped hi | apy grea e ies in. bia [aster ives ben sr Bot bate ia Henry or memind! rg Henry A. Flagler, the bate Jame Tt was rather that the sendieg ol his paychic wireless was not wl face had the quality that goes wal inqiertarbablety rather than 2 immobility of exercised sel/<ort it not been for the listesng =) oven have called it ity pout the gar ie had pera ti Et speculate. Ss the ha nOy of sperulaton. ~@ He read some of your arte He eneiee ao noncomunittaly “Wellt™ “Well, you are one writer eh a to tell the truth, even aed | the brokers” business to bel “But the truth doe 2 brokers’ busines,” I anid. He merely modded. “I'd like to ask you == 4 I aaticd. “T'll answer any questie: p™ he said confidently. “AGO sree 2° | ace There flitted acrose ho fav 2 of reluctance. It was plan the! in the properly loquacious o comes onky when a mas bee! and becomes thinkts arin T had beard from the Velisa| of course nothing had bees =! 5! it—that Livingston had need ing letters from cranks wks tet his alleped bear raids on the: arb had been sore baud brealcs = end of harrowing stories ol ook the public. J argund that a ‘| is family im this bower the ch throwing could not be ge however he prea be. The problem was to pir = of talking unrestrained!y ub< by first inducing him to 25 - - ee one pink Saul prac. “= wanted to see wou was thee © the weakness of the marvet bes! due to a bear raid by po | (Ceontinaed ex Pape |

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Pee pour a beadih's eke pow ghoald have a opp — od for today and dem the heahh way of mooring. Eide cay wih Hoody Hydric Shock Absorbers. Tur Hoopaice Company, 1426 Weat Avesue, Buffalo, New York Manvadscrured by the Hoede Engineering © Cunadian Distribeor; Ceeadlan Fairbanks Mor Co, HOO-DYE SHOCK ABSORBERS (HOU DAILLE 3 HYDRAULIC Caf Te Lol kere for Owe Near Diaridater Lid., Wonttenl often among B en sprees THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Continued from Page 114) that you your selling orders ion of liquidation b Le 8 resaice iquidation by t ni fie. How aur itt” S om Sure enough, his face flushed. “T never raid the market,"" he said quickly. “It would be useless. The market raida (teelf when a lat of people suddenly diseaver that they ought to have sold out ten points higher, or when a lot of insiders dis stecka they couldn't land the public with, or when brokers have loans ealled on them. But they alw blame it of the bears. As a matter of fact a bear market is 100 per cent legitimate, [t 1 without the need of manipulation or thim- blerigging, and it continues without having to be nureed. No man or eet of men can smash amarket dayalter day. I mightraid the market ones, But what would that dome? Tt won't stay down if it isn’t a bear market: and ifit is a bear market I don’t have to raid it, da I?" He looked at me, frowning. “Wo, you don't," [ said, Merchants in Wall Sireet “Personally Ud rather play on the lon side. It is gine cri it is mu nicer bo with others, Tite Prabe idodty, to short The public does selling. For one thing, it ia easier to be optimistic, to believe w unt it pleases a man to believe. And then, as [ sotd, everybody boosts a bull market, bankers and suckers alike, Nobody speaks about the misdeeds of the bulla or the misetatements of insiders about their companies. Bull tips are mostly anonymois, T have an idea that if the popers published only signed bull do there would be much bess money lost by the Public. Fix the maibility. But don"t talk about bear raids as though they really were the cause of the declines." “I don't think anything anyone can do se Bisa 2 man in whom tukea the tion,” I said. gai 7 —the kind of perfun ate | & man Lien when he haa only half heard but isn't interested enough to ask for a repe- tition, His next word proved it. "T am tired,” he said, “of hearing the public and the papers blame Wall Street for peek foola from their money. Take the losers. They are not the piker suckers, who only lose what they risk— pennies. It's the successful iness man, the shrewd merchant, who i6 the biggest gucker of the lot. He has made a fortune in his own line? How? By being on the job for years; hee erie 8 then: was to know phot it; by reasonable chances; by utilizing hia peer re todge and experience to anticipate probabilities. He wanta to I[n- crease that fortune at a faster rate and with less effort, He decides to make his money work for him—at high wages. He sseures himself that as he is taking the risk of loging every cent he pute up it is Aig Als to make more than his waual profi ¥, that man doern't lose his mots on Wall Strest. He loses it in his own office, It isn’t the game that beats him; he beats himself. I ri le looked as if he really wiahed to heer my opinion, aa T sald, "Absolutely?" wis one of my own favorite pxrints, “That man expects to make money in Wall Street by using methods he wouldn't dream of using in his own business. That ation can't help much, avg: a man from wanting to ie for nothing. If all the i pe were suppressed and the public pro pe crooks and againat ita own greed an al ignorance, ger nobody eauld mane: who blazes could make money? tar poucht at the bot- tom, from whom would he buy? Who would gel] 7" “Precisely. That's one polnt all the in- vealiguling committees overlook," I said. He wont on anrnestly: pi ne aeuket play es alana: £88 same : ‘Oo make easy money. t is why specula- tion never changes. he appeal Samia? Greed, vanity and laginess, The merchant who would not dream of buying and nore Egg oF pels on the advice of [ all Street anil cheerfully rks tn or money on the aay-eo of men whoee interest is mot his interest, oF tipsters who have not grown rich at ‘the ame they want him to play. He thinks is margin will take the place of brains, vision, knowledge, experience fale ad ieee gent aelf-surgery, ether the stock mar- Rot goes his way or against him, his hope is It june 0,0 alwa x inlining. Sarg 7 Ee profits when he erg losing less that lreps bom ave Paes st be wl hl bat Tweak, “Even od ins | sonilainrt t bear to take gi" trading in several clocks at cee | sh him a loss be would px in some account that thowe; t= | ; That way he would tel toe! | hadn't lost money, that he ‘or wrong! The foxiest of all tort ce in his day eouldn's bear the oe “. lows, and he wasn't « saws i the average sucker!" “Yea. He ia the kind af ey beliewes the reason stocky deel =) cause [ raid the market,” ait |, — It was plain that so far it tat » grievanoes that had been lopers, that he himself had been liteary 5 sare grievances. But | waa is 5 hear business aphorum thes | om tke sopenee teeta t I asked him about his method would ask him abewt himself —o came clear that be waa far mor =) with determining the directx tion of the big swings thar w* moves in specic stock, Ts trouble about making bg mone opitator's position waco © or instance, go down in a Sw As bear conditions beeome oon defined the operator mat ; stocka in seccordance with ‘» which the hard times develo c in the various industries, Ewe € ita turn. He himself etude = the time. It is Dart ‘al ki de? eons before he has his breaker the various market rp oy e as well aa in the tride paps how apt are the wiseseres im theo houses. to be wrong and how a © man carne his successes, in Unodeserved Reputcl The United States Work Tre tion, With @ capital eteck of a waa formed to operate bb piu eountries. Tt owned “sees merit everywhere, trolleys © plantations in Guatemala, bel plants in Bolivia, banks @ Po the spruce | world: over fell off, the 1, = remai firm. Other seeds | declined, but the public rene the company’s business sui the world and so could due Moreover the directors wer th! financiers in the country. Ther tinued to pay ite regular quar The bear market develo. 2 i severe declines in scanty © ool after another was foreed = .&. W. T. stock deacendec 21 and leurely manner oa bette, cratic directorate. One day val of the market displayed a tg U. &. W. T. stock md idea. and tan of ties 4 delegated by his fellow president of the company. “There is a fume thal 5 are going to pass the divided | sadly said the newweat was no disgrace: other compel doin ao On mceount of the samt! ta fuews to me," gaid oo That didn't mean sayust eben finanedial editer, whl Has there been any focal @ prot about pasmng the 20 “Wel “Or about reducing it!” 4 “T might answer that «Bm business what our dreco 4 mally or informally. Bet | you that there hag been © 3 about it, and na desire ot reducing of passing the 2" hope we may never have te © J “T hope the same thirg «2 the gpd A ® papers poblebs “> denying on the highest © president's —that the o=resy {Centinggd os Pag !

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; ident twas ‘knewn to be a gthful man, respected even writers, who have very bout presidents with tickers iving, Shewspapers did not know this lump, for the presi- re mental made it dirk icult elling ! pela! writer who procured the (tom the president teld me at the & great shock to him, { entertained the highest the: eT oof the president, ex to be a particular friend of think he lied to you? price!" oanewered the T knew it wos useless. — 1 at the price. of dave later the the United States 4 on met and on- ‘inarket closed. that in ded conditions, financial, ‘industrial, the world over, decided to conserve its : peo not declare the he Insicte Story f rang with the jeers of the P The directors sold out their Gwent short. The rawest deal real editer who had secured the ‘tom the president elected that to a tha Ananias Club of Wall estab ioe the president £ eT Tae acroaa him uptown and, 7 a true friend did not walt for Ht @ blames did you have to den eny re going to pass the dividend?" ire he said doggedly. B th! When I made that stute- ae ees tely no rd ividend. give you my Ww nghes before a cae (waa not one ivectoe ote who a i the board's action might be." rw L am your friend,” I said, ind that sticks. Whether ran af jail, I am strong for you. Ou ervey 7 ide not have te tell me you . [believe you. But it smells ivery. Who sold the stock?" worse hock!" sith such sincere regret that | n again. ispered ; “Which director had science to se Em swore that they were not em aleyays do," I remarked, iiexpect, signed confessions?" said the president seriously. ‘director was guilty this time. 4d my statement our business Suwiy dropped cur at guts on gut of sight; ple of revolutions and a lot d a aniaeneral failurea all over s alteagether one hellish state e are going to need a lot of res a long hard pull ahead naturally decided to keep as i hand as we possibly could, widerable neon tion to lend, but t ‘ll never make Wall Street tory,” I assured him “he said. Then he exploded: tht five thousand shares miy- rat break. It shows me a v8 this minute.” di t have talked to report- THE SATURDAY "y tat not after this,” he promised Dan about th i [ t worry t the next a pe him, “They will never you any’ questions. And if they s ther “oe ‘t t the anewers. Not after this.” pened several weeks before [ aid on resian The ati he told keoping an the export trade and on conditions in South America and the Orient. The future waa Fie took Things were bound to CPE. @ looked, in accordance with his usual Pee hk Ratify Tie ecteled o Vare aas ns n ¥ opinion a c con- ditions, thers waa United States World Trade Corporation, selling way up. He got the annual reporta of the company for three years, and then, when he knew all about the company finances as well as the underlying conditions in every one of the company's divers lines of business, he sold short ten thousand sharea of the stock. He began at 110. The next morning he fied the president's statement, It had the effect on him af making him sell another ten thousand sharea short, and the price broke ao badly that he waa encouraged ta fut out an additional shart line of ten thousand shares on the third day, the time he was short thirty thousand shares ce was in the &0's. re was nid inside support to speak of, and the room- traders on the floor saw it and eid it sa recklessly that the ateck had a good rally on their covering. Then come the Innt grand drive, at the opening, on the day tank aiteantaae of thd hig a innate take Valt af t ig ¢ in hia hoki fs trifle nine bo. “TI made a killing on cele stock, I didn't nemd any inside nis nishext. "And the beauty of it is," T TR “that Wall Street accused the dicta of specu- a in their own eharea. Do you remem- shriek the newapapera let out when the stock broke after the president came out with a statement that were noe going to pass the dividend? roe did not that it waa your selling. i Bapoen to know that the decizion to pass the divi- dend waa not renched by the directors until two minutes before they took a vote on it. “Waan't it? Well,” he said ly. “I Tea it for them two weeks before they voted. I read the ident’s statement. T didn't hope that they might never have to poss the dividend. I knew they must; if not this time, three months later, If they had paid the regular dividend I would have sold short twenty thousand more, because their action would have been proof that they didn't know their buginess or that their stock-market commitments obliged them to do the wrong thing; and with the help of the vanishing export business I would have made them let go their holdings before I got through with them. I knew the directora were the richest bankers In the country, but | alsa knew that ne man oF set of men could fight conditions.” Studying the Wheel That is the inside history of a typical Wall Street episode, I told my friend, the Pemehint what Livingston told me. His remark was, “That's very interesting; but I doen't expect ever to live down my repu- — nf a consclencelesa atock gambler,” Livingston and I diseussed other 1 market topics. He told me many illuminating stories about buying and selling stocks at other than the exactly right time. Also he diveoureed at length on tape reading and on numbers and thelr meaning, which en- abled him to base operations on what one might call behavior. Time and behavior! He waa very keen about these, “And ft ian't only in stocks. It holds true in nearly everything in the world. I was cheap @ Southern resort, and some friends took me to Gridley's. [had never played ena So after a while I did.” ligt pes beat it? dd Yea,’ WOUR, My heart sank so that I almost heard it, I had developed a very fair degree of ad- miration for this stock operator, who in the o alace he he had a eer with his winnings ina my contentions about the tate of a all ttock-market players, I had seen in him the honest- THESE: hero of no end of exciting Wall Street yarns. And now he had to go and spoil every Ehing ! “To you mean, T esked ina eaeual tone af voion, “that you have a system for heal. ing the roukette?™ in & matter-of-fact EVENING POST Tt waa too bed, after pietalehig a0 much! “No,” hit answered slow 1 TL haven't aide pe a ving the game at certain wheels at atein cites “Meaning? “T'll tell you what I mean. I stood at one of the tables and watched the wheel, I jotted down in a notebook every number that came out. I can't tell you how long I was at it. that certain numbers o much af- tener than and that certain numbers also were very very apt to come after certain other normbers. To make the at short, I fownd gertain sequences. I waited for the right thane: ep then I pla according to the result of my observations at that one table! I figured that the odds were in my favor: and sure en i, a won” "Did Site always "Oh, Th | Whenever’ thing didn't come out as they should, I'd q Wa ho sense in arguing. Sontathing had gone wrong. I might find out the reason later: but he Liner need gem cih ia wrong ia ming ui went to Gridley's a good bi and etudied his tables, I earned that the runs of numbers varied not only with the wheels but with the dealers. There were times when the same w and the same dealer would not run true ta form. Probably they had oiled the mech- anism that afternoon or had done some- thing of other. to alter conditions, eden hole thing was simply one of t c vior of individual wheels, and the ical ities of each dealer, I watehed for the r tions, As I told you, I always cut my Insets, No wheel could take more thane two hitndred dollars out of me. By the time I'd lost that sum I was gure something or other had ch , Which rendered valueless all my prev observations. But often I won quite a little, At the end of the season 1 quit a small winner; say, three or four thousand. But that wasn't the thing. The reason I played was to learn whether my obeervations were accurate.” The Techale of Interclewing The English-speaking man suffers from a purely conventional reticence. He seldom talka frankly about himself or humanly about his hopes, and the ehief problem of the interviewer is to make him cease to think of his auditor as an auditor, A man who does not wish to be quoted must be per- suaded that he will not be misquoted: and the bext way to achieve that is te conviner him shat ou tg shy better than he can f, because it is your ny to know men —us it is his to be an unusual person Serenant A talker as a does not crave on but a doer often loves to talk. ~ man of deeds is convinced that you will not confound the certainty of knowledge with the dogma of egotn or that you are intelligent. t enough to be deeply interested in his pet bob oth achievermenta—he regards you a8 his other self. Talk about the femme incompriae! It is the super suc- | cessful man who is most vulnerable on his | nonunderstood side. Of course, before he can be eure of the value of your apprecia- tion—bhe does not crave d. ff. studies you, tries to see the real you, even as | you are after the real him. All you have to do to win out is really to understand him. You will best make this patent by listening accurately rather than sympathetically, for if he iso a Be man he doean't need sympn- t prove your for hin to ic oeaialiiaadls not waiting for him to finis a remark, but finishing it y put his own thought more paral eh by cally than he himeelf would “ie done, will find that he invariobly repents alter you, as the understood you! will not talk down to you after that, hr up! You even interrupt, urging hirn to ga faster, He will forgive your impolite ness beeause it proves that your interest makes you pest, to hear everything he has to say and hear it quickly; a thrilling story. A quick-gaited mind finds its greatest borture iin rgb de to moderate ite atride ta aoe up with ft, With men | he heirs Reese Roosevelt, James J, Hill of ssp W. Aldrich it was no trick to get an anawer to any Bort of question after you once proved your ability to keep pace with their oxtremely rapid-working minds, To be understowd, no mather what words he uses or how quickly the thoughts succeed | But I kept the tally of hen | dreds of plays. I studied these and saw | praise—he | | When I brand my name and the retail price on the solesofmy shoes, |] assume full responsibility notonly for the wearing quality, but for the fairness of the price you pay, [have been manufactur- ind Emerson Shoes for 42 years with the sole aim of making my shoes so satis- factory to the wearer that they will bring him back for another pair. I brand a fairand square retail price on the soles at the factory based on the actual cost of labor and materials, as my personal guarantee of honest value to the wearer. You are always sure to get your money 6 worth in Fmeremn Shoce, Wistt the local Emerson Store or Agency and see our wide va- riety of emart styles for Spring and Summer, If there is none in your vicin- ity write for our catalog of Value Guaranteed Shows, Hook for the Erverse Shor anit the folr price Homped om fhe sole. bihew ©) Gonescenes For Men and Women $5.00 $6.00 37.00 $8.00 Junter Emersons for Boys $5.00 and $6.00 Aboes made ith seeming Piet bid fin- fuga; orca smpperts; tuber nln aid other orthopedic amd custon details, $9. and $10.00 HONEST ALL THROUGH. RockLanp, MAss. —— Se ee 116

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Tnetend he proceeds to talk to him- self in your hearing; for even the most self-represeed captaln of industry or banker or poet finds pleasure in your listening when It compels him to justify your rare appreciation of him. Often he finds him- eel for the first time crystallizing his own opinion of his own acta. The man who does big things is less afraid of being blamed than of being misunderstood, He doesn't ask applause from you. His one prayer is that you should understand him as he wn- derstands himself; because then you will realize that it is natarnl for him to be what be is, And he knows what he is] This digression was intended to make | plain why men who seldom talk about themselves will at times talk freely. A politician need or need not talk about him- self, He can bea Roosevelt ora Quay. But astock operator should talk only about the market, and at that only when the talk helps him. Livingston had no axes to grind on the stone of publicity. He needed no pine a ne votes, Hie hae f3 vanity to tify by epeaking a His Suncoast, i the detailed story if published might mean mereby mort threatening letbers or even bombs ofr midnight visita. It was less his philosophy of tracing that I wished to hear than the story of bis life—the rea- son for the Old Masters on the walls and the exquisite pearla about his wife's exqui- alte throat—the man himeelf, aelf-painted by his autobiography. Alife habit of play- ing a lone hand was not conducive to garrulity. All during luncheon I was think- ing of this man's ateck-market life and how to induce him to tell it ta me. : I have told how I received no definite impression of Livingston's personality ex- copt that it was bafflingly unvibrating. He || wae peychicnlly inert, ag it were. Tut soon | I perceived that he was testing me—as all | men who have sary Ipaents do when they are interviewed, It is always better for the interviewer to reveal bi fat once instead of waiting to be sized up by the | sitter, whe is lea apt to be an expert char- | acter analyst, Livingston's secretary brought in a cer- tain document. I was about to move away, when he sald, “No: it is nothing private,” | After the secretary left, rememberi that Livingston did not know me, I said, “Tt ia very interesting to aee how your mind works.” : “How do you mean, sect" he asic sharply, "Thott" T said. “Seo! I could tell by looking at you." Thea Business of Belng Right 1 deserted how he looked when he turned his mind from our diacussions to the new matter, how he concentrated, how he forget hing except the point he wea studying. [then told him how I read back from his aetiona to hia thoughts, and why in my opinion he had decided to do what he told the secretary he would do. He listened intently—as all men of al- fairs do when you talk to them about them- stlyea frankly—and nodded. But after that the change of attitude was noticeable, He was now quite aa much interested in his own talking 2s in ay Sanit We had hecome acquainted. Those ten seconds of understanding were the equivalent with him of a peer 8 aoquaintanee. After Livingston begins to talk heemuse it is you who are listening to him, it is impos- sible not to realize that he hes the kind of rind that makes him the best tape reader aod consequently the best technical trader of all the big stock operatora of his genere- tion. [tis a decidedly arithmetical mind— not indeed of the type of the lightning eileulator who is nothing but a lightning caleulater, but of a man who reads numbers on the tape aa an astronomer reads the stars in the sky; and remembers—both the numbers and theit meaning according to the time and place. So marked was this, ao obviously was his uptown life drab 24 com- pared with his daily five hours downtown, that one wondered a trifle dubiously about his grasp of human nature and human emo- tions in general. For it was as clear as day that he took no interest in men who were merely human beings, whether butchers or | powts. It was the people who played the samt game thet be did who alone mattered. Plungers or pikers, they were all of ae of his problem. For their human weaknesses he had neither sympathy nor condemna- tion, They were stack speculators who June 16, might help or hinder bee pun accurately, who might retard ot tax hour of he winning. Later, when be teeld me shor experiences, | wae mot scree b onoe did he volunteer gy mpren the people with whom he i He deacribe the physical or mental cs istics of men who had played pax career, He either never i not think it worth while ree was alwoys what he did o wy said—that is, what made bm o.5 did at the time. But be teal ishing detail the facts of he Gx exact number of shares and the ; stocks bought aod sold tweety » fore—that is, all about bS burs business of being right os the sissy Lam giving impressiom dene words in the course of a talk of ue grew more peer a8 it peor cumulative effect of scot af J revelatory flashes, For inrace gathered that he had the oem mind that a great chess player be born with it. “That is the rear » what to do by instinct. He ke * normal degree, the ticker ame aey haa the fighting metioec reporters the news aenee, He om his game as Mozart was bern foro Cobb for baseball. He cam: ivtof fa : aoe a a i Mor veloped his ches pay has | oth studied and practicel own succes, his very milo, » rou shall later see, that mot eve eat the unbeatable game. Fo does ia not to gamble or specu sent in which Do wae “speculation is, the continuo practic: of ke selling stocks in expectation of 4] change in value. He does what ful merchants and manuflactoress road men and prisefght prom Pioneers do: He anticipates peal And: thot is mot @ mere euphe gambling. It connotes a vital di Traders of Various Tx It waa moet interesting to hew own lips that with oll) his nature vated yw pment BS Bn oOperecr he tied to get something for sok the stock market, or followed ty tured in other markets on aactbe he invariably fared oa doth the & has lost millions by making woe He admits it painkessly, if 7 = mistakes he wowld be cme of the ti in the world—like many other He has the marvelous memory of that wpe of mind, He wmes bers and fuctuations imdefizstely tell what a stock sold at when | bullish or bearish on it filters 5 Profesional chess player wo every move of m complicated a years before. Only the other cay player who — Or may not be = champion a5 these works are = acTibed exactly bow the ball 4 missed a certain shot that ede Fun ab 2 certain tournament be « That sort of memory is of vale trader who remembers the ber by mailes upon Tubes. of tichoer tag Relatively few of the tag me Street have been good trade Jay Gould, who was a greet genius, saw in the market 2 me end. He rade and jost eco speculations. In his manipeb: tain control of companies he w= ul. But that was quite ac One of his chief brokers woe 2

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in told friende he was afraid Pier- ald never make a banker! When dthe United States Steel Corpora- ntrusted the market manipulation proven shares to James R. Keene ive been told, always regretted the of having to develop « speculative or them, Of Mr. Morgan's - never beard any aceused of being ilarly good stock-market trader, exception of the late Ww a man af unusual ability and on, Who Was & t and natural aker and took Kindly to the stock rhere he could utilize te the full | reaaurers. j. Hil was a siceessful operator in which he was interested, but constant or | idee “ most Picturesque personali * met in Wall Street. On "the d, E. H. Harriman was a very er. His huge fortune, won in a n Years, Was n out the thy trading in stocks but by high aaniptlation of entire capitaliza- it he could read the tape very early career on the floor of the hange gave him the needed ex- [ remember once being in a ice and one of the greatest oper- ever lived looked worried. Ticker Sense ithe matter?" I asked, scenting sat is, front-page news. me been foreed to change some id a friend the other day what do, and he beught twenty thou- iaf—of a nin stock. I[ dont cher to let him know now or ou are entirely out?" I said— . 80 that he wouldn't shoot. @ said frankly; “untl some Is are out." twenty-thousand-share man a rien 7 very." fr dad t's E. H. Harriman,” he said, land tald him: “Don't worry He's out,”* vou knowt"™ ; the tape: and if that ian't him a = wasn't enough, ao t teat F Meg Nii opernbed fn Wall up E. A. ‘oi I suggested, “when he Chim if he hae it yet." did. He told methat Harriman dh, I sold before yes g the looks of the market.” He ie turn on the minute, Tene, of course, was an artist iter, and @ eonaurnmate reader In his later years he interested yin campaigns in single stocks, method first em nge by John M. Tobin in nest, which consisted of care z the affairs of one company ing upon the knowledge thus bin was Commodore eT= roker in the famous Harlem 4. He and Jerome adopted ie principle of concentrati ipo one pommel, One stocl aene, of course, traded in ind he alao had, very highly THE SATURDAY developed, what I have called ticker sense; that curious instinct that saved him more than onee. He was a brilliant manipulater and a daring plunger, He did not care to direct a company's affairs, but he could analyze an annual report as accurately as an expert accountant: and ten times faster. It was a wonderful equi nt that Liv- ingston had been born with, and I could net help comparing him with the aY¥eTaee man who gocs to Wall Street after easy money. I recapitulated the sources of loca by the public. Speculators’ Weaknesses Motive. The sucker wishes to get some- thing for nothing. He is prompted by blind greed or by the excitement of gam- bling. But Livingston cared only for win= | | “Foot-Fitters” Have No Cork Filler ning, for ane nght. Money was merely the proof of it. He sees, Then he seeks to verify his sight by actual operations, It was the hot passion of a cheas master for chess, however cold-bloodedly he may play the game iteelf; the irrealatible wrge ta find Bilutions to problema, And his were all ateck-market probleme, f TRADING IN AND OUT OF SEASON, Liv- ingston had lost too many millions and had Jearned to wait for the right time. Too Boon is a8 bad aa ton late, Hore. The average sucker does little more than hope, whatever official reason he may give to others or to himself. But Livingston doesn't hope; he thinks. He makes mistakes, but never the same mis- take twice, for he has toward the game the personal as well as utterly im- pict personal attitude of the artist toward his | Shoes are 40 per cent work. Oneof his aphorismsis” | never argue with the tape." He is right or he is wrong; hope has nothing to do with it. And even when accidents make him lose money th don"t prove he's wrong. So his attitude is unchanged, his confidence in himself un- shaken, And that mokes the millions! Lack oF KNOWLEDGE OF THE GAME. Lack of knowledge of market movements, of gerteral trade conditions, of specific con- ditions affecting specific stocks, of values, of money contributes to make ed élose. But Livingstan knows and studies all the time. He rends trade papers, and hires experts, and gets reports, and is forever on his own job. INEXPERIENCE IN THE Stock MARKET. Tt is the one business Livingston knows, He has been in it since he was fourteen. TEMPERAMENTAL LUNFITNESS. That is back of many failures. But Livingston has experience, a remarkable memory, eodrdi- nates accurately and quickly, has ticker sense—the inetinet for the game thet a man must have to be a master, At times it proves to be o trustier guide than his reasoning, for that may be vitiated by ill health, nerves or special circumatances, But the instinet is never dormant, And yet Livingeton loses, He was 2 dis- cha bankrupt for millions, as late as 191 In two years he had paid all hts debts with interest; and two years later was a multimillionaire. How did he do it all? How did he make his first million in 17? How did he lose all his millions in 19157 How did he get back? And even more interesting and valu- able—how did he make his firet dollar? Editor's Note—This ba the fret ef o atrire of articles by Mr. Leftvie. The seat will appear in an carly issue. Torta, Fest, aces Leng Late, Cresta Comniy, Michigan EVENING POST Between You aré not receiving full dollar value if the shoes you buy have a cork bottom Aller between the soles. Such shoes quickly lose their shape, wrinkle over the vamp and form hard lumps on the inside as the cork is squeezed out of place by your weight. The staunch shoulder-channel insoles used in Edmonds “Foot-Fitter" heavier than generally found in other makes of shoes. They fit tightly 121 Ad atithe Wen Piodinks ‘ay pi the Soles against the outsoles, Thereisnoroom nor need for a cork bottom fller. This is one mighty good reason why your dollars buy more shoe value in Edmonds *Foot-Fitter’’ Shoes than in many brands. There are six other strong reasons. Any ‘Foot-Fitter” dealer will be glad to show you these shoes in either black or rich mahog- any calf. If you have any difficulty in locating the “' Foot- Fitter” dealer in your town, write for his name and address. 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Any one or all of the following booklets will be gladly sent upon request: I, “Golf, the Game of Games" (4m intro- duction te golf, } 2. “Stepping Stoner fo a Golf Courae™ (Pelee auggtations for laying oul a new cOLerase, 3, Complete General Catalog. 1 lg Me aca eo io Meridian iMorking. MACGREGORS Ald ORTHAIT if ao come Alenaly 1anfwing @5. oe mode By o profranomal pAadograpaer. icture of your HE OLD FOLKS AT HOME await al | ees In the chubby features of their grandchild t | ey wi them, Have the ba photographer—one who can produce photographs that make you say “How natural!" Have yourself photo graphed at the same time. You may not want your picture, but your friends do. You cam ddemeisy Coliday mowHtings by fhe Gah Leaf trade-mark aa the fee. Aferitioe “lek fora! ia your pbs fografker and Ae eit Enow Jhol yuu desare dhe beet ke 278 gart, Nearly all professional photographers encase their pho in Collins Oak Leaf Mountings for the same reason that ful fewels are mounted in appropriate settings. COLLINS Photographic Mountings “Add Charm to Every Portrait" see you. Give them us Pienes it is due by's picture made by a professional pis auti- ALM. COLLINS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Philadelphia | June 10, ms J. POINDEXTER, COLORED (Continued from Page [3 ) }- and if 1 don't beliewe it ie T can just ask any New Yorker after | gets there and he'll tell me the same. So, taking one thing with another, I"m mighty much pleased when the word comes along in about 2 week from then that the old judge says I can go and sends me his beat. wishes and a twenty-dollar bill aa a parting gilt and friendship offering. He Saye in the bebter, which Mr, Dallns reads to me, to tell me to be sort of careful about sampling the stock of liquor-and cigars on the sideboard of any New York family when ['m in thelr house, and also not te start in wearing wostrange Yankee gentle man's clothes without telling him about it first. He says people up there probably don"t urderstand local customs as they have ever prevolled down our way, and if [ ain’t coreful firet thing I know there'll boa skinny black nigger named Jef locked up in the iris jail hollowing for help aid not no help handy. But that's just the old boss man's joke, He always is been the beatenest one for twitting me about litth: things around. the house! Mr. Dallas he knows how to take what the judge saya, and so does 1, and we has quite a laugh together over the Letter, And lessen twenty-four hours from that time we is both all packed up and on cur way, New York bound, me wearing one of Mr. Dullas" guita of clothes, which I figures he ain't had it on his beck more than five or six times before altogether, It's a suit of a moet pleasing pattern, too, and cut very atylish, At TN ee morning alber we gets wecross inte Ohio Mr. Dallne he fetches me into the Pullman car where bes riding. I finds myself more comfortable there than T has been riding up front in the eolored compartment, but leserr eney in my mln. L enjoys the feel of them soft sents, and yet I gets sort of uneasy setting up amongst so many strange white folks, Still, there ain't nebedy telling me to rowst myself out fram, there, ancl after x while 1 prety rere jel being where [ now & Abe | quain with two of the porte, | on our car and the one on thee hitched on mewit bo to, When they busy we all three gets oot & the porches betwixt the corp acd me! gether. Course I don’t let on tothe all the time [ studies them tea The on@ on cur car, whieh ke name & Gabe, is short and cheng “fl of fatted owt; he’s black op the owertul nappy: headed heaide & ooks like somebody has don diz a ketth: of grease ond then toy handful of buckshot af it ood f stick. But be's smart, [is om service, [sees that plain. With Gabe it's thi way: 4) on board the car. No soomer i down and begin to fumble with the than Gabe ts standing right o her holding a big paper bag in Bs opened out for her te pot her lee keep Tt out of the dust A geethes ting in the smoking room reaches pocket and gets = cigar oot. rightly can bite the end of fof Gabe at his elbow with o mae This here Gobe. he ast waiting for follos to ask hie fore ani then have them getting ale whilst be's running to tind whale they wonts. No, sir: noth with the materials almost beler | made up their minds what it iiiey next. He just naturally beat oe which I'll tell the world thatsae He's powerful crafty abort be oe When he dors something far and the passenger reaches get a littl: piece of chicken bee hand over to Gabe, be smiles oc ied his hand, “So, sah,” be save to him, i funds whar they now ib, pie There ain't na hurry—we're po | (Cattiqaed on Page 125 “F Taber Netlee That When We Gets te Wy Room Ne Recor Dongping Sel Jigitized by Google)

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mthioed from Page laa; ece together, When we gits- to ta off, ef you is puffec'ly satis- 4 whut ia been e in yore a you kin slip me a li'l reward nind to," me in confidences that workin y be gets dollars where he woul wea, He calla it his deferred- lan. fie says some months his ree times what his wages is. I'll boar baby i certainly got some- ‘ = besides sockets for hia - porter, the ane which is on the hind, is a8 different from Gabe from night. He calls himself itt cbf a from looking at e's too old for such a fancy as that. ‘Cause Harold is a aime amongst us colored, and ; must te rising of forty is Harold is yellow- he ain't the pure high 8 tore the sei om orchied Ba singg He's lity. And I furthermore takes the aka rena Mb rhe ari fe up egete. He quite ; — j sit “Yas, aih,"" te Wwe lenin Cincinnati. He “Thanky, suh" and he starts and yet dank you" in such a way it he was actually doing you a apt your two bits. © starts ; to passengers which com- something. He acts more rrudgeful until it looks like it y¥ hurt him te step along and ‘which semehody on the train Along about Pittsburgh he's hat [ keeps watching for some tise up and knock that boy's round from the middle of like hia side entrance. But ‘that don't happen, antl [i i urprised and marvels greatly. elf, I says: I saya, "I aims to git yore fi in my mind, because [ erment “at you min't goin’ be o very much longer, an’ I able to remember how you ou is gone frum wa. Sore of ou is Folin’ git yore system ‘t bein Ly on Word way i you is dur to wake wp at e run all uniead to attend "lL. “as, sun, Man, Wen you »werleana you'll ‘a’ been daid irs. I kein jest shut my eyes * sec the cemetery sexton the face wid a spade,” im about the way he acts. net come right aut and ask I leads him up te it it. THe tells me he don't aim run over him. He tells me imeaelf just as good as they - He says he lives in a place ‘ita, where the colored mace den rights and if they don't > and contends for ‘em until 1, I asaya: "Harold," I says, been about nowhars much t trip, an'T ain't never seen 3uat excuse of my ign'ence; looks to me, I'd rother be it niggers than tmiser'ble olks. © ain't I got no respect for ¥s to him I is got so much hat I ain't aiming to jam ces whee 1 an ain't homage n't the point, is ct to to stand ‘up for the nm ere comes Ea ue ites ae ing from getting m © says ta me rit find : ean long up North that of difference betwixt Ken- Jersey. I says to him that he 24 Tight. And then he co kee careful about speaking cr." Hesays the word ain't pore amongst colored folks hh : - Pica il s “Hut” T says, you eall a bey a along wid him friendly 1iffe=rent when I is strictly » color, but that I mustn't aercord “nigger in front of qee~wrer allow no white man ned get away with it. aren ef is wu'kin” fur all it to you to hurt yore THE SATURDAY feelin’s nor to demean you, but jest soz it sociable an" so-and-so?" He says, "Not under na circumstances whuteomever."" T says, “How i is [ goin’ to stop him?" He says, “With yore fists, or half of a loose brick, or ie ja I save to Harold areld," I says, “you re wig fight jest now wien you notrated ‘at they wuz a difference betwixt ait an' up North. Well, live an’ learn,” 1 says—"‘live an” learn. Only ef I aims to learn frum you T has doubts se VU live so ver? much longer.” talks some about making money too. It en like the closer you pets to New York Ci the more you thinka about money, IT noticed ft then, and [ notices it pri ae eg He saya to me that some ot the Ai sl del the sleeping-car portering "t depend just on their w si — their tips alane. He says they another way for te pick up loose Tobin He says he don't follow after it himself; e says he has got one or two other boys in mind which he has talked with ‘em and knows how they does it. T saya to him, T aaya, “Specify.” He says: “The way these yero boys gits they money is ‘nt they gits it late at night alter ever y has done went to baid. Most gin’elly a man ‘at's travelin', he don't i track af his lose change. Anyhow, ort keep near en close track of it ex he do wen he's home. He's buyin" hisse'f a cigar yere an" B paper-hack book there an’ a apple in this Place an" a sand- witeh in ‘at place, an’ he jest stick the change in his pants ket an’ goes on about his bus'nes, Well, come baidtime, he turns in. We'll say you is a porter on ‘at train. You goes though the car till you comes to his berth. You parte the ecur- taing jest ez easy ez you kin an’ you peeps in th'ough the crack an‘ sees ef he's sleepin’ good. Et his pants is all folded up smooth : better ramble along an’ leave ‘at man . Folded pants is most gine ily a sign of a careful man w'ich the Shaiiona | is he knows how much he's got to a cent, Hut ef his pants is kind of wadded up in the li'l’ hammock or flung to one side sort of heerless lak, you reaches in an" you lifts ‘em out. But fust you wants to shore he's sleepin’ sound, Them wich sleeps on cod back wid the mouth open is the safetest T aa ‘bo him] Yea, but a’ it fortes upr er BRS ott fatale’ Found ca raclh of hia berth. Whut then?” “Oh.” he » “tha's all purvided fur in the ritual. 1 ou sez to him: ‘'Seuse me, mister, I a mistake. I thought you wus the pen'l'man ‘at lef" a ear F off at Harrisburg.” But moat in gine'l he don't wake up, He you aia hs his pants out into the aisle an’ gors t ‘em. Et he's got somewhare round ah dollars in lanse change in his Pockets you teke Alty rents, 90 mo’ an" no besa, an es got somew ars round ten dclinen: i in chicken feed an" in ones an’ twos you assesses him jeat one dollar even. | Ef you Flay yore system Fight an’ don"t git greedy they ain't one chancet in a thousand fi he'll miss the money w'en he wakes up. But," he says, “they’s one fatal exception to the rule. Wen you come to him don't touch a cent of his money, ne matter how mouwech he's carryin' on tim, “cruse ef do he's shore to mek a hollow the very fust thing in the mornin’, an" next thing you know you's. in trouble an’ they's beckonin" you up on the « ‘”" T saya ts him, [ saya, “Wait a minute," I says, Theis Be ak I can'erene se the exception my own set, The excep- tion,” I says, “is the wite man wich he earties all hia small change in one of these eke li'l’ serewed-up leather purses, Ain't ‘and he says yes, for a fact, that's so. But he says how come I is knowing 50 much when I ain't never done no portering my own aelf. Amd I saye to him a man don't need to be wearing rallroading clothes to know that any white man which totea around one of them hig tighit, patent purses knows at all times, sleeping id waking, just exactly how much money "a got, Well, when we gets to New York City it's morning again, and when we comes out of the de onto the atreet T takes one look rewnd and T allows te myself that these here New York folks certainly is got power- fully behind someway with ‘thelr hauling. Excusing the time we had the. down home, [ aint never in ry whole life = en you. slips ee pants hack whar you found ‘em an' go | EVENING POST ROOTBEER is the finest summer drink when made from 125

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126 ice cream, ices ane sherhets\ I Frocen produces, in bricks er bulk, dee liticusly flavened wath YW arcl's Orange Crush, can now be obtained through- oot the United Statesand Canada, One leading ice crear firm in esch principal ety and foam is exclusively licensed ww use Orange(Crosh and ba companion flavora, Lenson-Crush and Line-(Crush. Just asthe “Crash” deinks are the moe delighthul of citrusflavored beverages, im you fail] find ice crear, ices and sherbet favored with the “rushes” the race enjoyable od froten dainties. Be sure te get the genuine Bayon made by compounding Imait oils and juices ebtained from the acrual fruie, with U.S. certified dood aslor and came eigar. Ak acy retail ice cream dealer. Send for free booklet, “How Orange (rash bs Made." Prepaced by Orange-Crush Co. pohicago, U. B.A In Comada: Orasge-Crush Co, Limited, Winniper For tur Oxon Protection earn How to Tell Genuine : oe =p Look for the woven Burlap Back All genuine linoleum is made of ground eork and onidized linseed oil, pressed on BURLAP ana durability, many Hevible EHorrar back, eives linoleum its strength che ic act eoPT pie fae making tt ditheule te tear Years ta 1ts service, JUTE INDUSTRIES, La PDs, 320 Broa New 4 a strong, and adding cla at ATR your merchant fe shew & aire vwvYY —_ Vor hie Toes THE SATURDAY EVENING POST seen so much truck and stull and ep moving in all different directions at t Ame time, And le—whoee! E which-a-way I LT can eee is a roulti- tude of strangers, And I sayn to myself there certainly must be a big convention in town for the streets to be ao full of visiting delegates, and it's a mighty good thing for t. Dallas is done gent a telegram on ahead for rooms at the hotel, else we'd have to camp si with some private f ¥ Se as they does down home in county-fair | week or when the district Methodist con- | ference meets, The white gentleman that's going to fix up what | writes, he told me that I should set down my first impressions of New York before I begina to forget ‘em. He saya they'll make good local color, whatever that is, Which I will now do a9: The thing which impresses me first and foremost is a steamboat I sees on the river which rung alongside New York City on the side nearest to Paducah, She is mot no sldewheeler, nor yet she ain't = stern wheeler, which all the steamboats I has ever seon before is naturally bound to be one or the other. Ags near as I ean tell, she had not got no wheel at all, side or stern, Tt wauld seem that what runs her ls a kind of a big humpback timber which sticks up outof the middle of her hurricane deck a works up and down, and which Mr. Dallas tella me is known a8 a walking beam. But it seema like to me that's certainly a mighty CULT Csr to rin a steamboat, and says to myself that wonders will never CeHee, And the thing which impresses me next most is a snack stand on a sidewalk where ef is selling watermelon by the shien— it the middle of August! And next to that the most im ive newt ia when T sees a gang of black fellows working on a levee down by this same river, only it's mighty flat looking for a levee. These boys is working there, roustabouting freight, and thera ain't a single one of ‘em which is singing as i i back and forth. When a river nigger nour way don't sing Whilst he's loading it's a sign some- thing is wrong with him, and next thing he knows he don't know nothing by reason of the mate having larmed bh aches the head with a hickory club. But this here | gang is going along just as dumb as if they was White. I wonders to myself if thereby ing to fool somebody into be- is white. I will therefore state that these three things is the things which impresses me the most highly on my first arrival in New York. 1 also takes notice of the high build- ings. They strikes me as being quite hi hut of course when you atarta in to buil high building 7 fois ia naturally iat you aime far, aint it if bce ca we gets te New York is the day , and we has been on the go so eitaier since and I haa seen so much it seems like my ideas is all mixed up together same a8 a mess of scrambled “e The way it looks to me, the mainest iculty with an author, eapecially if he's find of mew at the authorizing business, is not so much to find something to write as ‘tis to pick out the special things whick should be wrote up and just leave the rest be, So it is now my aim to set forth the main points which sticks out in my mind, Well, first off, soon as we Reta ir we rcs to the hotel, Beforehand Mr Dallas he says to me it's a quiet hotel uptown; but when we arrives at it I takes a look around and I to myself that if this here ia a quict hotel they shone miust have to wear ear mulflers at one of the noisy ones if they hopes to hear themselves think. To begin with, she don’t look like no hotel I've ever been used to. She rears herself away up in the air, same as a church le, only with windows all the way uw although the weather is pleasant, t ere is not mo white folks setting in chairs under the front gal- lery. In the first place, there is not nothing which looks like a gallery, excusing it's a | little glass to-do which sticks out over the pavement at the main entrance, and if | anybody was to trie prime Dag: there the only way he could save hia feet from being mashed off by people trampling on ‘em would be for him to hove his lege sawed off at the ankles, You'd think that being uptown the neighborhood would be of quiet. with shade trees ancl may be aome vacant lota here anil but no, sir: it's all built up solid and the crowds is mighty near as thick as what they was Jue) Cows. seemed: ie mi 5 mue a BUrry to get to when they is bound for , cis on every side a motel ik find of a country Over at the clerk's Codeter gentlemen is wai us, which each re ee ing aotiae one! ine ae dress-up dain «> i ing cal a h he was firing tae bet = eaiding or seta th ing else extra special gd fie it’s summertime, there is net ae ing raund there in hin shin den yer there ain't! One of the palibearing ges the book round for Mr. Duala :-+ name in it, and the second o> & for a keys, Med the third ore eee if there is mot mater ri for him, [Ut takes no beeen o ra three of them white roma , > clothes to escort Mr. Dallas, fourth one he grabs wp my a= pa ry Mme On an é@levaiot to the ee He don’t have to run the exit Tiedt There's another bar that alone, and all my wh» do is wrestle my baggage. | time in may ie ever Pasa s fon boking m cae | peer me fi oy ere heen I takes note 2 gets to my Toom be keeps ° rs ng with the window ehscr mi thing and then another, arr w ont of the bell boys af the bore oa He's lingering round unt, > pi For quite a spell I lets sm suffer. I lets on like I dont = he's hanging about that-a-sa: I slips him two bits, and | it te him neither, accoust | such a satisfactory fencg | toning a white boy. I says to my that ct. 2 annex where they bord -- help, what must the main pes where the regular guests 2" 4 Because my room certs i stylish looking and fullel ¢ But I ain't got no time ti there and enjoying the fer I knows Mr. Dallas will & = to come and wail on him &.! out to find him, and it ser la half a mile through thes 8 I does ao. He's po abiewt-3 fi himself, and a» faskiensb'e fr special bath and a a gece I bt: to him, I s F. Dallas, thee shore Tal strous set up over havin’ me hotel fur to stop at. Loca iF oon a as any turned a} =] stairs im full regaia! Led mouty nigh broke they 5 you in in due state! An >" done gone an on Jago i ber an" give you t be apes yore own use! It pintes, at they sets a heap af ster? *! He sort of laughs at tal EH Lams Jeff,” be says |= is a fine cue sro ae other suites th foes here?” Teays, “LT ain't cravir & J Sen sweetness “nuff cc > if usin” wa roble.” He says they show: bs noble, secing what the pr (Centinacd e Part Te ta teatieved thet | * Mote: a

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Good Business The instructions I got on shaving cream By V. K. Cassady, B. 5., M. 5., Chief Chemist The makers of Palmolive decided to use their soothing oils in a shaving cream. And they gave me these instructions: “The men we go to are all using other shaving soaps. Most of them are satis- fred — some are wedded to them. “You must create a superlative soap, conspicuously supreme, Otherwise we shall mever tell men anything about it.” We asked 1,000 men Our first step was to ask 1,000 men what they most desired in a shaving soap. Then we set out to meet their require- ments better than others had done. We are soap experts—that is our busi- ness, We have studied soap for decades. We have won millions of women — won the topmost place in toilet soaps — by creation of Palmolive. Now with those same oils—palm and olive —it was for us to make a shaving cream as popular with men. Tried 130 times We worked 18 months on the problem. We made up 130 formulas, and we tried them out on every sort of beard. We knew soap chemistry. We had the oils which had held supreme place for 3,000 years. We had made the finest facial soap that women ever knew. But we fell down 130 times before we satished ourselves on a shaving soap for you. You are one we tried to please. Now we ask you, as a fair return, to give this soap a test. Go back to what you now use if we have nothing better. But find out what we've done. If you have something you want tested, well do the same for you. Dagprigh: HlI—The Polesshiee Da Lee Enjoy Ten Shaves FREE Just send the coupon and we will send a trial tube. See our conception of what a shaving soap should be. See if it is mot better than any soap you know, The Four Things Most Desired Men wanted ample larhet. We made a soap which multi. plies itself in lather 250 times, Acting bir—only one-half inch =suffices for a shove. Men wanted quick resuiles, Within. one minute, with this ScKaph, the beard absorbs 15% of waren, Ard that makes the toughest beard cut like wack, Men wanted Jasting lather, The lather of Palovolive Cream maintains its creamy tullmces for ben milnunce on the face, Men wanted nive attereffects. Here the palm and olive blend soothes all irritation. No lo. tion is required. The skein ds Lefe in soft and velvety condition. These arte the resules that you want, Letus prove that we've attained them. Send this cou- pon for our tenswhayve tube. ——— OS Simply inert your mame ond address and mail te The Palmolive Company Dept. B-283 Kdilwaukee, L!. &. A.

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126 Floor Covering You Lay with a Brush KoverFLor—the floor cavering in liquid form —resists the weather anil the wear. Tt protects Aoora of wood or cement, inde or outside, fram wear, Water, and the elements of decay. Because it is proof against ail, alkalis and Time, it is wed on the floors of parapes, factories, hios- pitals dairies, bathrooms, kitchens, cellars, stores, theatres pestaorants, porches, etc. Rover Fioe comes in attractive colors. Its cost per square foot applied is small. Ask your paint or hardware dealer for Kovearior —or send ua bis name and. ad- dress and receive the Roveerlor Sample Hook, STANDARD VARNISH WORKS ath Awe, New ¥e 6 City A al. STANDARD COOPER: BELL Co. ioe Feder) Saree Chleaga, 1] ifaw facter- cru af Varninea Eomaoreln and i AliMed Ae ate aver lid: arerpfrad afoodards in Elation: Warae than forwerhe mrchit J & reine, Kew ichwiek gee speek ial Cie be applird 5 hie ged Che need Satingtic Enamel fistige while eae jinn 7 there's not ne need to wa place to which we've come at THE SATURDAY (Continaad freom Poge (28) us. He says, “Do you know what I'm paying Bere for the aecommedations for the two of us? I'm paying twenty-seven dollars and a half,” I says to him if that's the case he better let me clear out of there right brisk and skirmish round and find me a respectable eolore:d boarding house somewheres handy by so's to cut down the , because, T don't care what anybody say, twenty- seven dollars and a is a alght of money "Ha SRYB, ee ee ‘and a half a» Now ie ho Boric ona = ew York now, where runs _ a ead stands me twenty-seven and a ay -pirdey = ther Ee pecale tans toe “Mo wonder t de fan ear aenite fur ail the havea y Keeps bara fur the eage whar th clerks penned up. Mr. D “Tt shore is in® re clarag er th'ee times a day in awder fur to git cnr money's worth whilst we's boardin’ yere." He saya, though, for me not to overtax my appetite aie on on Bova bgt because the eating is we pays Titan iten dollars 2 a a : hall 3 day just for Our Foor. T saya to him, T ,' Mr. Dallas, let's mit out of yore befo’ y begins chargin’ ua up fur the sir we breathes! He saya, “You're too late with your sug- peation; they do charge us for the air, The air is all cleaned and cooled before it comes into thease rooms."" Then I knows for sure he is burlesquing me, Who's going to hold the air whilst they cleana It’ And the pood Lord himsctf can't chill the alr te order in the middle of a August het spell, let alone o lot of folks running a hotel, canhe? [asks Mr. Dallas them questions. But he just laughs and saya to me a » because he sron's be wbayicg Hare, oe yi ao, He says G: Revner. hia principalest : o in New York t ory the one which he's thinking about mean RCIne inte bites with, haa done devised to hire some furnished quarters. still higher uptown. He says something about ‘em being Sublette quarters in a depart- ment house: leastwise that's what I makes ant of what be exys. Whieh it la news te me in more ways than one, becwuse in the first place [ didn’t know any of the Sublettes, which is a very plentiful white connection in our county, had done moved up here to live; and in the second place it seemed like to me there just naturally couldnt be no more uptown to New York City than what [ already had done observed from the taxi- hack coming from the train. He goes on to say he is oxpecting te hear from € "and then man almost any minute now, he'll know better what the program is. Almoet before he Pilea the words out of his mouth the tele a ane bell rin sure enough it is here Mr. Raynor which ison the wire, and it turns out that the place where we're going is for us now on acorn af the folka which owne it having way aooner than what they expected, my the further tidings is that we ran move up that sume . whieh, we does—along about an hour before sup- per time. I notlees they don't make near us much fuss over ue goelng thence from there as they did whilst usherin | judges the man what owns the hotel must. be feeling kind of pug out about losing of all that t ere Money which we'd be paying his ha id we ‘a' stayed on. Woe gots into a taxihack and we rides for what seema pope te it's several miles, and still are not nowheres near outskirts aa far aad can Ridge dge, and when finally we geta to the menage thon T has another astoniah- ment. For here all day I” ve been pn ee we'd land et @ private residence = oo ee like no private residence to me. It's more like the hotel we just left, only more bigger and mighty mear as tall. In all other re- snects poditional it certainly is a grand establishment. It's got a kind of a private road _so's c arth ayes can drive in under shelter off the sidiew alle, and “way back inside is a reund piece of ground all fixed up with solid marie benches and little trees and flower teeda, ike a cemetery. I thinks to miself that maybe this here is the private vurving plot for the owner's famiys but still there ain't no tombstones in sight, excenting one aver the front doar with words cut on it, and since I figures I hos EVENING POST done showed ignorance enough for one day, I don't ask no fool questions about eae The help here alao wears dad oto poof dita I'm glad of that, be- Sin GInuE Toliy oes ar heaee, Still, just from his conversation T can place him. There was too just like him which was, brought South once by a Northern famil i in our tows: They didn’t foe & amongst us. n't he place, and no more the place didn't like them. They clai they was genuine Weat Indians, whatever that is, and they made their brag conatant that they also waa British subjects. But Aunt “Dilsey Turner, she always said looked nore like objects to her, Aunt Dilsey, which she was Judge Priest’ oo ad ng on twenty woah ia mighty en about folks and things which ay don't t faney, and she did not fancy these two none whatsomever. When we gets upstairs to our section I'm pri of disa erat ra ae furniture n't new nee ty what I naturally bt Most of it is kind of and eee nd ta hacked-up-looking. The curtains at the setting-room windows is all frayed-like, and mighty near wore throu in apota, And a Sublette farnily ue ‘a' run out of money before they round to buying the carpets, because they is not no carpets at all, but only a 7 af old faded rugs scattered about the floor here and there, Some of the chaira—the best company chairs too—is so old they is sping decrepit. I'd say that by rights they belonged in a secondhand store, or leastways up in the attic. Moreover, they ain't no upstairs to our de mh nor et there is ghia no auras ra nor no oel but i eel — aed pantry ary che cece ta the elp all, rune on one floor. But Mr. Dallas api oe self like he ie satisfied and it ain't for me to be finding fault if he anes Athen not te find any. Anyway, I is so busy for a littl while fying round and getting things unpacked t I has ar time to utter complaints. Pretty wi ough. I hos to knock off hanging up Bf fr ge ‘ suits to mix a bateh of cock fi an brought along with hin in one of his trunks, because this Mr. Raynor he telephones he's bringing some of his friends for a round of drinks bokeg et za ae none Mr. Raynor says they'll ride out in his motor ear to a road house to ‘amo some dinner. the hone and T takes his a knows that's what hesays, surprising though me—eating dinner when it’s already mighty near past au me, and eating It at a road hous# toa I says te myself th t New York City is getting to act more curiouser to me every minute I stays init. Because the only road house ever [ knowed of by that name used to stand alongaide the tol ng Roel outside the corperation limits on ! agp road, and the old white man which pollented the: tc name being Mr. Gip Bayless But the gate is done torn down alnee the publle govern-= ment taken over the gravel and any- how, even in its most polmieat , none of the quality wouldn’ caer think of ping there at that little old rusty house for their vittles. Mo, air; they’d mighty near as soon think of having a picnic out at the heruser, Pestill an and notwithstanding, M ain't indicatin ng surprise when I I conveys to him what tyne says, 20 T reflects to myself that if late houses up here is in. ion ta everyth ing else this one whic ‘re a-aiming to go to must prob- ahly bs t the size of a county court= house, with a slate roof on it and doubtless a cupola. So f just iets busy and mingles up a batch of powerful tasty cocktaila i ihe oe I knows they is vidi from - fle of private eamples which I pours off for m out in the pantry, My experi- ence is been that the only way you can tell is & 2b eet one gli time to time as you ee foes ae Immediately Mr. Raynor with his fede which there is four of them, besides himeself—one other gentle lived in it, hia | Dallas | man named Bellows and three ladies. One — of the ladiea is older than the other twa, but decorated more younger, if anything, Here's a “marke! fp" the jump you aheed of ty oe Next time you buy Shoes wir hy good judgment that direc +y ness affairs, Joes yout moret| merely spend it. Avoul tne ge " Don't let ace trlecvernde the common tells you to guard healr above all things, Tite ror pantnership, instead of fc mrt continue at irritating cow with body, mind and nero =) Treat them like the powrt they should de instead of th liabilities stiff-arched, footwear makes of aa EfFE! Put them iam «| smartly swinging, plant: 4 ROU) RIPP! WALKING SH Real Shoes for real Mem o& ciate the value of real Um know real VALUE when th Thee famous ORIGINAL ree ing Health Shoes are butt on a | incom ble ponople of oem str t inside line, fal: ei swing and FIL ENIELE ARCH fe with a trim, firmlt me ness yer flex naturally we im every Fl at every step o— q and nok through full-croscle= = unrestniected ci rculanen Ther 24 give you a berter i? bil es 2 carry life's load kghel Only the very Pies of Po bag oc! manship f° into GRO foe! auniformly hi wee m7 money's ou'll ker “so hoe ;— sch Spt ee tao ea 8" Fashion. (Made also for Women ou J GROUND GRIPPER S02 141 Brookline Se, Eee Lem | Eecute Seen ie Preche 02 OF tere cee a is peer decay, peed ae oe ee | Erjuse +f We have just recs! ow Carol the Peet lt eoe- Raina many facts of vrol Bo awry bree j Bee PaaS ine) won 4 Send for ia— \ IT’S FREE! % ee eee (sili.

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wapped a gold ine for a can of Edgeworth e Wilam deln't know how much was in the mine or he wouldn't so high a price even for bis. hee. earths rites the story with dead pencil cola map— a Lan & Bra. Co. qotice Tan) going to bet them iL pubs owl that Aramtrm [thins wis al aocompetitive Erie's prol- ect ora by aheit lonesome in eve clas; cause Ubey're fost Uin- wav alo side of me, what traded the Diddyrod country one Lime feof Edgeworth, seerdough what got the claim fot the Edgeworth took eighty lollize aut ol the growed what k was in it. William Crasgie *nsl offen the most capensive can of hat ever was bought. We have many betters fram cur friends who have fone to great lengths to get their favorite tobacen, We prize them all, beat. this one has a particu- larly warm place in our hearts, We don't want any Edgeworth smoker to have to pay more than the regular price for Eclgewurtls. We do want | every ppe-amoker to try Edgeworth, and it's just as | pleasant for ws ter ples. to any pipe-smoker ms it moker ta hand his can over o's run shert. hh devan"t suit you, it's mo tell you any. Tf it dees, the eon tell you, and you'll be us—hapypbest with a pipe of ween your teeth, if mare and address on a ou want to help us further, ne of the dealer from whom Your Doha, as We Peceive your request you pemerous samples of eth forms—Plug Slice and ug Slice comes in flat cakes, moist slices, One slice the hancls makes a fragrant tady-Rubbed t exactly the mt ready to go into your sold in warious sims to ements of many different h Edgeworth Plug Slice teady-Rubbed are put up as, in attractive tin huanl- rs, and in Various quanti- ina: SIS, amples, ackiress Larus & y, 1 South 2st Street, wee Aferchowls: If your yply you with Edgeworth, Company will gladly send arcel ogo one of lwo. any si of Edgeworth | idy- Rubbed for the same | ay the jobber. | THE SATURDAY than what they is. Introducing her to Mr. Dallas, Mr. Raynor saya her name is Mira. Craylord, but they all calls her Jerry. She's pretty near entirely out of eyebrows, but she has got more = ee ee which is all kind of frozen looking and cured up tight on her head. Tt don’t look natural to me, and [ knows [E ain"t natural a litth bit Inter when Mr. Raynor sets down oon the arm of her chair and throws his arm around her sort of offhand and sociable like, and she up and tells him for heaven's soke to be eureful ane not Ty her up. because? she sa “i ana only just that day spent forty dollars and four hours Peas fig a permanent wave putin, At that to myself, I saya: fell, betwixt w"ltes an" blacks we sut- tiny ismekin’® theworld safe fur them beau doctors, Niggers down South spendin’ all the they kin rake an® scrape to- are gittin’ the kinkiness tuck out of they aids, an’ fashionable ladies upyerespendin’ theirn gittin’ ft put in! It's a eompliment to one race or the other, but jest wich [ ain't purpared to say. The other ladies is named Miss O'Grien and Misa DeWitt, but it’s kind of hard for me at the firat to remember which from which, seving that the rest of the party scarcely ever calls ‘em anything except Pat and Hill-lee, They is both mighty nice and friendly, but they is exclusively different oné from the other. Miss Pat, she’s got her hair chopped off ahort like a little boy's, and she acts oy of like a boy does too— fret and easy and laughing a» lot and smok= ing a cigarette so n that it's like os if she must “a” been born with one in her mouth and it lighted. And yet for all that I seema to get the Cen peresuaiicin that way down miderueath abe's kind of tired of her- self anid ing arvand her But this here Miss DeWitt, she is tall and Blender and kind of quiet. She must seh rag feeling poorly lately, hecause her & la just dead white and her lips is atill bright rod from the fever, and when she seta down in a chair she just smi te bined oie fall back into it, all limp like. She ain't ag te much with her mouth, but ahe does a aight of keri with her eyes, which bs big and black sort of lazylike most of the time, She sure is decked up with jew- elry like the Queen of too, She's got bi staph dai necklaces round her neck and preston nee in her eara and many ela ca te th her arma. She's Pablege got two bi igetthr clamped round of her ankles, which I judges she didnt have room for ‘em nowheres else and ao peut bs ee to oie iene, re ‘em: ane when moves. the jewelry g ‘freely and advertions her. She walks with kind a limber, swimming gait, soft and glide ar Of purse 7 ain arnt like tea ming, and yet that's only way I can designate what her walking ‘puts me in of, She weara dead-black clothes Es, EE 7 Black Cabs Caoaght by o Voval Badia Man at Epak, i fonka bets Pedy ee ei, EVENING POST that makes her paleness all the more ao. It comes out pretty soon thatahe'aa movin pe actrisa lady, af and on, and so isa CO Bnien. i Pe, pecan a the first jump I can see that allas is drawed to her wl, ard think to nyeeit that if he's fixing to favor this here angpulel lady with his atten- tions it proves: he's got a ngeet tnste, use she ain't nothing at all similar to Misa Henrietta Farrell, which she is the one that he's been courting these past few months down in Kentueky. In fact, ahe's. moat teebotally unsimilar. This Mr. Bellows which came with Mr. Rayner, he don‘t detain my attention much. If he wasn't there you wouldn't acarcely misa him: and when he is there ¥od don't searcely chserve him. He males me think of a neat haircut and nothing else. You just appreciate him bei frement ane that's all, But I studies Mr. or every charce T cate, tha wire savieca ¥ because he's the one which fe more or less Pespsonsi- ble for us having come North. He's very choering in his ways, laughing and whoop- ing out lowd at everything and poking fun and telling Mr. Dallas that he moet be friends with Mr. Bellows and the three ladies, bicause they is all four of ‘em his friends. But [ takes note that when he ir he don"t laugh with his eyes, but on rnin to himeelf quietlike, it puta me in mind of a man drawing a knife. I enn't spa loch ee having a kind of a feeling when Well, they | imbibes up all the cocktaila that I haa waiting for hem and a batch more which I =o by request, and then shay paces up a couple of bottles—one Scotch and one bourbon—to take alon with “em for to refresh themselves with a the road and of they puts. And the last thing I hears aa they goes down the te ig of bis pala still ] ghing poe af to is @ sickly one, fon, DoWitt'e sr ah and things all ling like a road gang. Mr. Dallas he ral ae to me from the elevator that [ needn't wait up for because Jt is linhbe to be pretty late when ee in. But it's a thing I docs wait up, dozing of and on between times, because when he arrives Teck along about half past three in the morning he certainly does et my dasistance getting his clothes off nim. Not since dryness come in has I seen a young white gentleman more thoroughly overtaken than what he is. And we got aplenty vigorous drinkers down our way weet ae Eo Gress did jg bass on Pa bed myself, and so that's the en our first day. And he fol » which it yeeterd the day pn lost, which I will tell pe t that next. (TO BA CONTINUED) with bis mouth, and when he sort of | ‘120 Every Shaft Is First Quality “ETS Carre te said of hickery, for hickory varies. Two golf- ers playing with hickory shafted clubs have not the same opportu- | nity, for one may have first quality hickory and the other fifth qualiry. But when two golfers play with Bristol Steel Shafted clubs, they have the same opportunity, for Bristol Steel Shafted clubs are all of the same quality—equal to first quality hickory. 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One symptom they don’t discuss N°? matter how well you know a persun—may- be even Your very closest friend—there 1s one subject you instinctively avoid. You may discuss the most intimate things about your family, your business and your most personal affairs, but thisone topic youdodge. There is something about halitosis (the scientific term meaning unpleasant breath) that seems to forbid honest conversation about it. Yet the insidious thing about hal- ihosis is the unfortunate fact that any one may suffer from it and in nine cases aut of tem you are not con- scious of it yourself. So unless you wie some sensible scientific precau- lion you may go through your day or evening uncomfortable and con- cerned, wondering whether or not you are offending people about you. Unless halitosis is a symptom of some serious organic disorder which a physician or dentist should correct, you may easily put yourselfupon the safe and polite side by using Lister- ine, the well-known liquid antisep- the, In most cases it is merely local and temporary. Meet halitosis in a scientific way —with Listerine. It is the ideally effective mouth deodorant, Fastidious people everywhere make Listerine a regular part of their daily toilet routine. Simply use it aaa mouth wash and gargle. It acts quickly and pleasantly. It halts food fermentation in the mouth and leaves the breath sweet, fresh and clean. Your druggist has handled Lismer- ine for years and regards it as a safe, effective antiseptic of great merit. It has now been on the market for half a century. Start using Livterine today. Put your mind atease. Don't be in dowbe another day abour your breath, — Lambert Phormace! Company, Sates ants, Afo.

THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FROM McKINLEY TO HARDING (Continued from Page IF with a twenty-five-thousand-dollar salary to accept one at eight thousand dollars and spend three times my salary to live in Wash- \ingten?" Next morning we walked pa I noticed si | had eviden of weenie Mra. been at work As we parted I ssid, “When you get to your office send me a note by messenger and tell me just what you will do.” An hour later L received the note, which | read: “After thinking of the matter I can- | not af preaeni give you the answer you want. HH The underlining of “at present” con- winced me that he did not want to say that he would accept a position that had not been offered to him. So I up Gay eruor McKinley ee aif Boog “1 avo f& Secretary 6 lreasury [or you.’ Bt stools : presi of the First " ent of the National Bank. ee ld Democrat. He will Reprenenis the go Democrat | in your cabinat, is appointment will show @ reciation ein fir votes, as you wou ave been defeated without them." “Have I ever met himt™ “View, mitt him at a reception given by Ferdinand W. Peck on Ohio Day, at the World's Fair in 1893," “Did he have white whiskers?" ii Yea” “Gh, L remember him, Hold the wire a reanetlt That ia an inspiration. Let me think.” After two or three minutes McKinley sald, ““I will send Charlie Dawes to see him Thursday. Prepare him for the visit.” The next morning the papers announced that great. pressure waa being brought to bear on Governor MeKinley to appar Lyman J. Gage, of Chicago, Secret the Treasury. Mark Hanna came fr Cleveland to Canton and said, “Where tn hell is the great re? I never heard him mentioned for the place!" McKinley told me afterwards he received more te ms and letters of commenda- tion on Gage's appointment than on all the other cabinet places combined. Col. John MeCook had been slated for Attorney-General, and Judge Joseph icKenna, of California, for Seeretary of the Interior. McKinley had a way of throwing out names for cabinet places and watching the reaction. If the man met with approval he sent for ni if the cn aaa stirred u ae eB waa drop Parben J McKenna, now Justica Mc- Kenna of the Intted be jal bceckapecabig was suggested, the California m both as unstinted in their praise of him both as judge and a4 & congressman. Kinley rent for MeKenna to come to more’ On his arrival he lunched in the McKinley cottage, McKinley told me the following story of the McKenna appointment: “Well, judge, they have been pretty EMESy with your name lately for a cabinet “McKenna replied, “Yes, governor, but I don't believe you realize what you are doing. [ am a Roman Catholic and the Protestants will never mit a Catholie to have charge of the ella Misalons.'" erin continued, “Without talking sg fruit hia I said, “The place I want , has nothing to do with the ie iis ne, I want you for Attorney- eos ‘Twas misinformed," said McKenna. ‘I! you see fit to tender me that honor T accept with pleaaure.’" Later McKinley laughingly sald, “I dan't j suspected that [ switched believe the judge him! We were in Congress together several years, and it never occurred to me that he was a Catholic!” Next day the Kenna waa to be Attorne brought Colonel Me? West Virginia to Canton. He said, “I understood [ was to pe Attorney-General!" MeKinley said, “Oh, no, colonel! You are to be Secretary of the Interior.” “I don’t believe that place would mult me," replied MeCook, Wel ," said Me inay) “we will try to apers announced Me- -General. That hotfoot from find something equally as good later on. McKinley thereby illed two birds with one stone; avo the religious imue and pleased Mark Hanna, who dis li MeCook. eee McKinley tried to get Mark Hanna to acoopt a office, but he refused. He kept oh ii open for him until thirty-six hours before his insugura- tion. Urging Hanna to accept he said: “Mark, you Bill feel pretty bad to see the ship of state sail away on the fourth of March and not be on board aa first mate!” At the last moment Mr. Gary, of Balti- more, Was made Postmaster-seneral. Two daye after it was decided that Mr. a was to be the treasury chief Frank anderlip came to eee me. He waa oe re porter on The Eoonomist, a Chicago finan- cial weekly of a high order. I think he owned per cent of the stock, and re- ceived a salary of [1 dollars a week. He had been financial ed Tribune, He asked me what [ thought of his going to Washington with Mr. Gage as his private secretary, Lae ered,:? “Frank, you are too big a Tan to be anybody's private enone tary!" “The experience will benefit me greatly in my work on The Eeonomist.” ell." I answered, “you would be a good choice for Mr. Gage, as you can be of great serview in handling the | politicians and newspaper men." Next morning Mr. Gage telephoned me to atop for him, He asked what I thought of his takin Vanderip. I told him what I hed told Vanderlip the day before. eee see made ari Matt tary the Oreaiiry, at @ mi ort five hundred dollars, more money than he ever received rayne He ag esl Nadas te great assistance r. Gage. ey come Intimate friends and the friendship has insted to this day, When the National City Bank of Mew York purchased the old United cre Custorn Howse in Wall Street, Mr. oti turned over to Vanderlip all the React tions for the Treasury Department, which brought him in contact with the elder James Stillman frequently. Mr. Stillman sald to Mr. Gage, “When you are through with that young man I want him." Vanderlip finally went to the National City Bank, and Mr. Stillman told me afterward he showed him hia desk, gave him the key ta It and said “Now ina something to do, Your ar will fifteen thousand dollars o I have watched many notable careers in my time, but I think Frank Vanderlip's rise from a forty-dollar-a-week reporter in 1897 to the presidency of the greatest bank in the country in 1909 ia the moat remark- able of forty years” experience, Editee*s Mote—Thiis ia the third ef @ series of ar- ticles by Mr. Kohlaaat. The oext will appear in on early iaaae. 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THE SATURDAY THE BLOODHOUND (Conatinwed fram Page Ii! vreplied. “TD cannot let an inno falely admit that he is guilty sundrona."" foce hardened oral!" he snapped back. “Lf ie'll get the lirnit."" res he's convicted!" murmured neared his adverse. “You an get him off, de you? Don't ft Ita a dead open-and-shut waorwon't you? 1f you won't his way Up the river by two s blood bothel and tinged, District Attorney," be paid w I ask if you have exami its of this case?" i the acl witnhees there ia!" frien. his man is an pe 3 picture is in the A bow htracks, He's guilty all tae “'s got no more chance than an mS, it talked to him? Have you * Have questioned the rated him?" want on the ole otf And I don't intend ta!" rien shortly. “He can tell the stand—and if there's any- é@ ab id Heng aequit him." as he to have the sim if you brin out the fact heen in * psked Mr. prison?” asl i) hopelessly prejudice them be" better plead ye ella call that justice!" cried Mr. juivering. “Well, put him on ‘distin to 1 laughed O'Brien, "I'll put ten minutes—as soon aa the ~ And then"’—he bent over and leered inte Mr. Tutt's en be damned ta you!" rt officer marc Mooney aa hand pulled Mr. Tutt by He turned and locked into “2 of the gicl in the shawl. ihe & . “for God's sake ni frame him! That b L witness against on his 's Morrison's man. They've minds to railroad him. Oh, i! He's a brave, good lad ned anyone, I know you're and don't bother with the "she lowered her voice ta ve eves inet nety dollars, and 1 get — alt! ‘ted ber All right!" "he said sooth- my beet, but not for your Aten name, my girl?" rhy, ; mv the man Paddy worked waent up?" m here."" nied away and Mr. Tutt his sent. that fellow ina corner," he O'Brien as ho swaggerrel wa God have mercy on his rm old med leval days ou ves pe rl bee habit of urticularty unru of m yard howe and then leath swith The serl ame hael very little chance, e had a fair stuart, and the we oa ball and chain at- But in the coming coures, a of law would run down they ceoruld, he was handi- ays: First, he had a ball 1 leg im the shape of his viel secon, in addition ta O'Brien entertained for nel preaticularly for those rms in Prison, he was Pies Bou tors 3 L mali be defended by Mr. ate a one @elebrated oecasion up for what he waa, ~ fed fat by years of earar Wu iced: the nee wyor's ded £ resent inst gts Or nat gil ty fanned hia pate mind his ager of his anger against Mooney to poisonous serpents. To be in a: way foiled made him # madman, ae here!” he growled at Delar him inte the corridor. flea a Lanna on this fellow! [ll teach that canara gente ald oh ai lesson he won't forget in a hurry!" The heart of Delaney within him. That was the bally boy! He would have another conviction to add to his scroll of honor, and maybe the D, A. would write the commissioner » letter of commenda- tion, praising his services in sending up ooney for. another bit! a ae cky Morrison wouldn't fa Promotion dazzled him! He could have kissed O'Brien or licked his boots—which latter alterna- tive moat of us would have preferred. “Listen here!" he said, fawning upon the prosecutor. “It's a cinch. I cought this guy and ers gun— Mulligan—wit' a bag of goods. ye eee enon Teak off him er Pull a "ll turn state's evidence for a suspended sentence. Every- body's here! You'll eat him alive!" “All Ub Tell Mulligan I'll use him; and take him up Inko one of the jury rooms and go over his story with him. I don't want any slip-up now! I'm doing you a favor oy. trying this case myself." “T know you are, Mr. O'Brien! I know you are!" declared Delaney in those tones of unctuous adoration that were as parmacety to the inward bruises of the Bloomihound's soul, "Tis the next district attorney you're to bee! hen get busy! Get busy!” ordered the court O'Brien, atalking back tow ee. : The reader might well be pardoned were he incredulous of what O'Brien and De laney purposed te do. Fortunately such proecutors are rare; but once in a Re ] eratlon— SE pte even more often—they arise; an nat their villainy judges and lawyers are gies: worioas, for their assassinations are hidden beneath the cloak of law and the pretense of public service. Figs did the judge upon the bench wot of had he done = he ave arisen and rent his official nts. But Mr. Tutt knew, and his rt turned faint within his old frock cont, O Justice, what crimes are sometimes com- mitted in thy name! a i ¥ Tee lost disconsolate in the file of prison- ; = vraag mart guilty ana ump ack to t nm pen; u listened to the manifold i cewicala excuses urged upon him by talearen reluctant ta serve; the crowd in the court room had thinned; it was twelve o'clock; the holo caust was about to begin. The Bloodhound arose and strolled to the district attorney's table in front of the jury box. . “Have you any case to move, Mister District. Attorney?’ "asked His Honor, and at O'Brien's nod added to the clerk, " Fill the box, Mr. Dougherty.” “Take your places, gentlemen,’ called the latter, drawin twelve rime maypsidly from the box. ‘eople aginst Mooney | Patrick Mooney, yo are indicted for bur- glary in the third degree, grand larceny in the first degree, assault in the firet a receiving stolen sons and carryi eto challenss cealed weapons. Tf you desire to challenge any taleaman you may doso now!" One almost expected to him continue "Or forever after hold your peace!" But Mr. Tutt did not wish to chal anybody, and smiled so genially at double row af miscella nus cities, sun with such an air of gratification declared “The jury is more than satisfactory,” that every man of them expanded his chest and lifted his chin a fraction of an inch, con- vine! that Mr. Tutt was a man of porta, and became bis friend for life Then the Bloodhound summoned them to their duty of sending men to prise, The es 8 a pao. Dae n piewession of the pr of a eet committed but a few moments be- fore his arrest. He had a bonded pistol in his pocket, which he had sought to draw fh the officer, who luckily reduced him to @ timely submission. His fellow criminal would take the stand and testify against him. It wasa cu <dried case, a routine affair; and they would have noth- ing to do but to convict. 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The coupon below wall bring full details, including our big free booklet descrip- Send it-in today. tives, NATE TOW “ET Wek cent wank bo omutilvke your-copy of The Pose tive of the plas. (FF -----CLIP HERE IF YOU WANT MORE MONEY----= The Curtis Publishing Company, 687 Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania STREET STATE How if you Gentlemeco: Please send me full details aboot your offer to subscription, representa- I aime no obligation in making this: request. use o postal card instead, | the witness chair; and the cop made good the prosecutor's opening in every particu- lar, He describe! Mooney's attempted flight, his effort to pull his gun and how he had frustrated it by felling him with ar night stick. He then identified the which O'Brien prodaced from his at. (Cross-examine! Mr. Tutt asked but two questions: ey you know Micky Morrison? "Do you belong to the same club?" "T dol” defiantly. “That is all! And the old lawyer waved him from the stand, Then Mulligan was brought up from the pen and put in the chair, and swore that everything that Delaney hed ssid was oapel « pdmitted that he was a pro feosl ama) eo lar, but allowed that on ocea- sions 8 r could tell the trath, and that this aus one of them; and he supple mented the eop's atoey by Fria in the most eae detail ooney and he had planned and sornemated the’ the burglary of the cigar store; but, his imagination be- ing limited and his general intelligence even more ao, he made a sorry exhibition of himself under Mir. Tutt’ ree he yet searching crom-examination, Indeed, he soon became so involved in contradicthons as to Mooney's part in the affair that no man in his senses would have convicted » dog of the lareeny of a bone upon his testi- nese of evidence, however, pereainad an unshaken— Delaney's testimony that he had taken o loaded pistel owe Minoney's apo gt ‘and Delaney had not been In any discredited under’ cross exnmination, Guinkiy O’Brien shifted his position. As a-strategist he had no equal, “Tf Your Honor please," he anid, “I do | not feel that the jury should be permitted to convict the defendant of burglary or larceny on this character of testimony. Theeo-defendant Mulligan isan ex-convict, besides being confrasedly yuilty in this case, and his stobbments should not be re eelved without stronger corroboration. I shall therefore ask Your Honor to with- drow from the eonsideration of the jury all the counts In the indictment except that for carrying concealed weapons, He spoke as if with an.earnest hope for salyation—and the jury viewed him with approbation. The fox! He knew that crete could met meet the ck ne aL eee taking the stand and admittin, t he had been in prison, although had "i the cotints been left in the indictment the jury pe well have been led to render a dict of aequittal, owing ta the cpiond unreliaiility of Mulligaass | testimony, “The People rest,” said O'Brien. The jury turned to the defense, “Take the stand, Mr. Mooney," directed Mr. Tutt, while the Bloodhound licked hia lips. Paddy Mooney felt his way round be- hind the jury box and to the witness chair. He knew that he was innocent, but he knew that he was going to be pilloried on oroee- examination and utterly discredited, He wad an ex-convict. That would be enough to send him up again. But unless he took the stand and denied that the weapon was his the jury would have no choice—would have to convict him. It was a slim chance to make hia denial, but it was worth taking. Palco iste giving up witheut wm fight! Deamediy under Mr. Tutt's lend he de- nied everything that had been testified to against him, including that he had or ever hod hada revolver, Mulligan had joined him, he swore, unsolicited, and when De- laney bad appeared he hed made no ot- tempt whatever to cecape. Why should he have? He had done nothing. “Your witness !"’ said Mr. Tutt with a bow towards the jury box, The Bloedheund ere towards the wit- ness chair with the stealth of a panther about to epring, At three feet he sprang! “Mister Mooney, have you ever been convicted of a crimel™ “Vero” anawered the defendant in o husky vobee, “OF what crime?” “Assault.” "Abt Amd yOu say you are a pPetacen bh: Hort of person T Le, i & 4. “When did vot pet out of jail? “Last week.” The fury looked at one another, The poison hat begun to werk. But the dose O'Brien intended tte As he would have ex- oing to give him ‘the elaney to the rail, might he too small, take no chaness, pressed it, he was gall. He beckoned fume 16, “What have you “Give it to me “He's an - 7. oe my in their holy office. Now thee av stolen B's ceed awh tat featriction, which i sppanel ee ts eS defendant accused af to the utter and Mr. Tutt, both afs should yary’s eyes. tantamount te) particularly after be hed eee ap t fair-mindedsem ! jodge to quash the b counts im the imdictmenrt The issue now hung in police officer hued sworn te fee the aiethont attention a : ever convin under they might hawe been’ Ih cult. Any hint ors was a professional ruendo- to 0 thas, = he ota a on the please impotent defmct on animal driwen inte - | stake, Only when bis ope ae dong, those ¢ iS at fh pte caught the looks that 4 Canttard 7%

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x, it is Te _ = = - | | oi . r = = { | . ==" c — F : = | E : s : pS : . tt : —— 2 r = : To : = = F 2 — # : a c _ = ar as TIPE : a mae | this THE SATURDAY (Ceaiaued from Page [34) ; and scowled. That sort of thing always had a bal somehow. He strolled b He must “can” it ack to his place and fared Mooney sgh “Vou sae betea the Gas House District, darn't you?™ he asked. “No,” replied Mooney “Tver hear of the Gas House Gang?" "Ves, but I'm not one of them.” “Oh, you're not, eh? T didn’t ask you that, y did you hurry so to slip that fl me “Tobject!" interposed Mr, Tutt. “Such ‘pa is improper and prejudicial.” Judge Watkins, who despised techniccl- ities, waved him aside, “T will permit the question. The witness volunteered a atatement. He may be examined upoo it.” Mr. Tutt apace reer panes, “you: Were tryin to make te ha ic I was. iH Rate be jury thnk palrferiene ithe Bloedhued erty a a at the ba Hs con- “Now, bow many tines have you victed ‘af crime | n other states?" “Nerve !'" Mooney. “And you can eet it either.” ‘be T can’t it,” admitted ay Bier easily » but," added inginuat- ingly, “I ean aniihe how many times you have commithed burglartes—aay, in a treiabled und be graiped ooney's [Aw the arma of his chair so tight that his B hands went white. He turned indignantly to the ju our Honor,” he protested, ° “hae this man got the right —— “Answer the question” admonished His Honor. proper cross-examination.” “Well?” sneered O'Brien. “T never conumitted any ‘lary !" “ho burglaries! What kind of crimes, then, have you rer E 7 ‘i “T never commi crimes!" incor 6 in his seat te his. jaw. Tt was all nute for O'Brien. “Oh!” he laughed. “You didn't, eh? I thought he were just out of Sing Sing!" "But I n't committed any crime. “So you were innocent that time? Just ator Alaim te be now!" Delaney Falraaded me for Micky Mar- The Bloodhound reddened with anger. “Strike that out!" ordered Judge Wat- kins. “Don't volunteer. Answer only the meations part to you. Were you innocent that time? "Yea—[ was!" declared Mooney with such obvious sincerity that O'Brien he had not asked the question. So far he had not scored heavily, alth hia ad- pee was getting . At that ingtant retin tered t erocm and approwched the tel il with ne lee book in "eet!" he whispered to ¢ ‘Brien, hand- ing over the book. “Ast him if last Decem- her he didn't smash Sugar Grady's dewn on Hudson Street with a blackjack: an’, Bay, ast him if he wasn't one o the bunch ‘at beat up Inspector Boyle with brass knuckles over behind the engine Ouse, The Bloodhound’s eyes gleamed. Real atufll! He put the ‘aieetlona to Moon i th an indulgent fe fry, the latter's em: hatic denials, and t mig wpe had seen his fenenee with officer, made sure that a deaperate th pus seated before them, while Mr. Tutt, a autiric amile playing about his withered lips, Yowed vengeance deep and dire upon the unserupulous O'Brien, But the Bloodhound, frenzied at the seant of An gore, wes now resolved to rend Mooney limb from limb, With all the gleeful malice of a Spanish inqulaiter about to tear out his victim's benting heart with _ pair of incandescent pincers, understudy of Satan saun- | tered encki antly up to the witness and, holding the Professional Conia oe of America ao that the jury could plainl the tithe, opened the book and Aiake we his finger down the paige os if to mark the place—and looking from time to time as he Beane or ion what he there had found—put to the hapless being in the moral death chair before him, a if acl- emniy declaring the accompanying acriisn- tion to be true, the following question: “Did you not, on Sauer prety nineteen undred and seventeen, ny with Red Burke, alias the “Hoach; ‘ony Savelli, otherwise known as Tony | the Greaser; and Dynamite Tom Meeghan, EVENING POST mace the ae ue the Sunes nm and Bek at way, New cana wich six thousand dollars fe waa no deubt about O’Brien’s having caught the jury now. Just as John Hancock his name to the Declara- tion af aeiepesienc ® so large that oe a need use apectacies it, eat Moone 4 screamed Pini ge cru eB pe id loud rat even the dead dead lane & well have "Tes < a jie!” he yelled, jumping up and shaking his fist at O'Brien. “IT never knew an a people. And I never was in ; "80 ¥ say!" the Bloodhound taunted him. “But don't you know that both the Roach and the Greaser testified at their triala that you were there?" "Wait a moment!” interpolated Judge Watking, “De net anawer until your counsel has time to object. Mr. Tutt, do you object a the question? at you do I es ary shock ha tn r. "Ty prefer Tutt gravely shook hia head. | "T know nothin reaper it at all!" bested! ota nee more he tu to aur Honor,” he cried, “he's the bench : hiags re istina be banged his gavel. athing a’ "Yau will have your chavien to explain on the medirect,” he remarked coldly, for he, too, wea now convinesd that the ‘wit TRS WHEE Bh cory pre fe te criminal, "That is all!" declared O'Brien, as with an air of triumph he threw the book os- tentatlously on the table in front of the wy box, The defendant was cooked. hat question about Red Burke had done the trick, driven the last nail into the lid of his coffin, He sank beans ant into his chair. He had ‘em on the run. e Madl ant could conviet without lea the i There was nothing left for old Tutt te do hut try to extract additional denials from his already discredited client. But the old lawyer made no euch move. Instead he remarked: “Mr. Mooney, you were asked whether you had not been previously convicted of assaule, and you replied in affirmative, Il now ask you whom you were ch with assaulting?” " Micky Morrigon."" es ane arrested you for the alleged a fol ae “OMierr Delaney." “What! You mean this same officer who has just sworn that he found a pistol in pocket?" OY ag air. Fr Mr. Tutt drew in his lips “That is all!" nid he, Pvithout further attempt to rehabilitate his client. Then aa Mooney left the stand Mr. Tutt addressed i Fatking: “Tf Your Honor please, I had intended calling a character witness —a former em- ployer—in behalf of the defendant, but what has transpired would seem to make any such testimony immaterial." He hesitated for an instant, and ta O'Brien came the sudden ey that the old lawyer mi Plead ie at ie te ee up at nge an Pivad 15 clie ilty after Hut to his astonishment be he Tutt : Fnac pl is one thing, ee ate wilh I invite the court's attention. prosecutor has ed are which he my client's possession. the charge against him. Yet the district attorney for some reason best known to himeel! has not offered it in evidence, Unless this is done, in view of the fact that the pistol has been exhibited to the jury, I shall ask for a dismissal." O'Brien rose languidly to his feet. “The merest ht, Your Hener Here ia the pistol. 1 offer it in evidenon, a) “T object,” said Mr, Tutt—“‘unless it appears on the record from whose cus' it is produced, how it got there, and that is in the same condition as when received. i . Tutt is technically correct," nodded His Honor The Bloodbound's lips curled. “T got it cer Delaney this morning, and me had it in my pocket all the time. It is exactly as I received it, Does that satisfy you?” “Net uoless css yO ao testify upon the answered the old lawyer, looking ly at O'Brien, who experienced a sick- ening sensation. “If Mr. Tutt insists you will have to be awarn,” ruled His Honor, “But it is a rather unusual demand for any. lawyer to make under the circumstances,

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Use prefer, plasters = action 15 the Suite, de in a world-famed by all druggists. “ ck, Chicago, Dept. 70, Seat Care of the Feet” eT dud THE SATURDAY "Thia ia a rather unusual case," retorted Mr. Tutt, unper i O'Brien sifted his Teat Uneasil . He did not like the idem of facing Mr. Tutt from the witness chair—not in the least! Still— there was no help for it. With the pistol | in his hand he ascended the stand, took the oath and without rpg Bahu yr Tepeated oh tether shaky volee what he had just said. “Have you eross-examination?" aaked Judge Watkins. "T have,” replied Mr. Tutt arid a eu- rious silence. at could the ald eodger be up to? os ne-qubl "You an one of the public prosecutors of this county?" he asked quietly. “I am," shot back the Bloodhound. i nd you are sworn to upbold the law?" er es,” "To te those of whose guilt you are satiafied Sarvngh the introduction of legal evidence in a legal manner?" “Of course." O'Brien's uneasiness was nines But Mr. Tutt's next question momentarily allayed his anxiety while aposing his irritation. here were you born?" “Wew York City." Judge Watkins frowned at the tlaner. This procedure was not af all ac- cording ta Hoyle. “Gos House Section?" One of the j wry ani - His Honor e admonition. "Ta this an Eine r. Tutt? 1 do not wish to erltielze, but eis question seems. rather trivial.” Mr. Twtt bowed, “This ia croas-examination,”” he replied, “However, I will withdraw it. Do you know ene: Micky Morrison, Mr. O'Brien?” “Yes, scowled the Bloodhound. “How much did you eet for your ap polntrnent as assistant district attorney? O'Brien turned first red, then white, Watkins brought down his gavel. hat. Sloe dal" Abacic ala “The jury will d | the question |" If bbeed anor plowse," > eplied the lawyer “T have as much right to attack t uietiye t credibility as he had to attack prem rng a I press the ques- tion in another form: “Did you not ie ore thousand dollars to Michael Met to be delivered to Micky Morrison im consideration for his. BECUTINg POUL i cap heanioal a8 assistant dis- trict a “I did not!" shouted O'Brien, “And you knew it! Your Honor, are goin ted in this way?” nee te to be insul ut a porded if not actually eed dered look had settled upon the learned justice's countenance. To coin a distinctly new vhrass there wie = faraway look in his uray eyes, know Red Burke, allat the Roach; Oe ny Savelli, otherwise known as the Gresser; and Dynamite Tom Meo- gbhan?" “Mr. Fetes errata Judge Wat- kins, *" a ay have a technical right to ‘teat hia wits credibility, but the matter is within my “Gicretion and ——' "That is the precise question he ashed my client,” replied Mr. Tutt coolly. "What it sauee for the gooee should be sauce for sat = nder,"" e may answer question if preas. it," aequi His ‘Honor “ta there must be a limit to BE sort of thing.” afew more questions, Your Henar. Mr. 0° victed nen, have you ever been con- ¥i mat “Wol" valiantly answered the prose- cutor, now gray a5 a ghost, for he saw his doom advancing upon him. “Have you ever committed one?" OBrien choked, “T won't foree yor tb shewer that!" threw in Mr. Tutt gallantly. “Have you any basis for that question T" demanded His Honor sharply. Mr. Tutt smiled an at the jury apd then at Judge Watki "Your Honor," ‘he replied engaging manner, “you and pee long toa generation hich has d- Taabiemed ident of honor. [ admit that [ hove had no basis for se of the questions which I have just asked this witness, Honor demanda that I should de aa; , ina sense, honor demanded that I auld ask them, al- though I malght Inter have, to disown their since wt, air —and his old voice py a me ae and vibrant—" but, air, [ do mot gg hea Upor ‘this witness’ aoe tpillty ot hae but one more question to ask of him, and upon his arawer I stake tien Bee EVENING POST my clients lipase: Let this witness but answer he may see fit—yes or no, I care not a Be —give any reply at all that | may be officially teconded here, and not hereafter be disputed or denied by him and these twelve men may return a verdict againat my client.” Bomething in the ald lawyer's tone drew the tei | as one man toward the front of the udge Watkine was gazing intently at eit Tutt. The faces in the court room surged up and down like ocean waves be- neath O'Brien's amarting eyes. He wos galled himeelf. “Sic!” thundered Mr. Tutt, point aecusing finger at the miserable apelogy for a Man now cowering upon the sta "Sir! When you took this book in hand "—he lifted Jones’ Professional Hite thals from where it lay upon the table— “and purported to read from ite pages, were you actually reading what waa printed there or not? Yea or no?” In the silence all could distinctly hear the ticking of the clock upon the rear wall of the court room. “Tiek-tock! = Tiek-tock! = ‘Tick-tock! Yea—no! Yea—no! Yea—no!" it went. O'Brien squirmed, looked down at the | rocking Moor and turned faint. rn “Tick-tock! Tick-tock!" alternated the ock, “Yea—no! Yea—no!" answered O'Brien's dlse, p Bescything WHA ering hleek ane shite, and great pulpy gray spiders seemed gra bing at him from the ech suman boat alr. If he mat the sore Rina tn rough and answered "Yes," Inslsted that he had been reading from the book, that old woll down there, would put the book in evidence and ieee him Ry Urer, send him up! A band of eweat oozed from beneath hia red skull- rake of hair, Yet if he answered No," ad- ‘ted that he hed made the whole thing up—that there was not a word in the baa . “rp Mooney at all—it would be nearly as ad In his agony be almost clutched the flirnay' legal straw of refusing to answer on the ground that his reply might tend to degrade of incriminate him! But thia would leave him in an even worse position, No, he must aneoer! Tick—tock! “Tick—tock! Yes—na! Yes—no! Which—what!" He moistened his parched lips and swal- lowed twice. He eoughed—for time; and farebies for his handkerchief, After all, he ad dene nothing that was not strictly rh He had not cha that Mooney was a professional crook; he had only asked him the question. That didn’t commit him to anything! You could ask what you chose and you were bound by the witness’ answer. A gleam like sunrise fashed acroca his seething brain. Ah, that would save him, perhaps! Old Tutt would be beund 1 his answer. And then he saw himesecil tricked again! Yea, Tutt might be bound in the case at bar—althou ough his muddy mind wasn't quite sure wh he would be or not—but he himself would be forever bound by the written record. He could never get rid of the millstone that his yes pkey matter which he uttered — wou aaa ste his neck! Old Tutt, like the an of the Sea, would forever be upon his back! “No,” he muttered at last in a woolly voice, so low and thick as to be hardly audible. “T was not—reading from the He bowed his head aa if awulting the hendaman's stroke. A hiss—a score of hissea—writhed through the sir him from the benches. “Snake! Snake!" Captain Phelan made no attempt to stop You mean ——" wits Judge Watkins siasetalnnale: Then with a look of disgust he turned his back upon O'Brien. “Yeaanake!" This time the tense sibilant was that of a woman. Mr. Tutt gazed at the Jury. The Lord hed delivered his enemy into his hands, “Wow, gentlemen,” he said with a depre- cating amile, “you may convict my client if you. eb broken “The we ill!” he suddenly ox- loded. “The fellow we want to convict is ‘Bien t" And in the flurry of involuntary applause which followed, the ancient Dougherty was heard to murmur: "Hearken unto your verdict a9 it stands recorded. You say the defendant is not guilty—and eo say ye all!” | Put every reened 1a7 card in Bain Bight ‘where a Bip-ol be finger cpecs 1 bo ¥iew Instantly = | i hes KARDEX Use Your PresentCards Make them more useful and more used. Put every record card in its own Eransparent-ti pocket where it is readily accessible—where your cye in- stantly locates it and one finger exposes it fully. 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Weer buf Chovbaasan, 11 E Pepe, Chinkpa at d strike headquarters. | that THE SATURDAY EVENING POST JOAN OF ARC SMITH (Continued from Page #| “But whatever you say about me, don't forget this,” she says, talking now high anc serious: “Don't forget to aay I'm Brawny Bill Wolfert—I'm out for eco- namie justice sie PT and alwaya, for man, woman and child! So they went off to the telegraph office and sat down and filled up all the yellow paper there with that heart-throb woman stuff, and sent it in to the editors in the city, where they sit there always in their hig costly armehairs, sighing and sobbing for it. And they all jumped up when they seen it, Book their coata, and put | it inte all the papera the next morning with sa a a mile bab. # eh “The woman o myntery, By Bays— “who is shetT Such is the question on all lips in the great Manumusxit Valley strike te-day, Young and tall; strong, athletic, yet divinely fair and strangely beautiful; of evident refinement, yet in the blood-red guise of anarchy and socialism; though refusing all information of herself bot for the statement that she may yet prove the Joan of Are of this portentous Beebe beri ing and allurin ire ia the goal o in this ney silent center of whirring looms and bobbins now frame one anxious ques tion: Will she, if the militia is introduced here, lead the workingmen to the point of war and bloodshed in this peaceful valley? The mill mana nis are quite evidently nonplused by this new appearance; and the strike leaders, though reticent, are clearly expectant over this Seamatic turn in the sit- uation, and new developments are awaited " ‘s apreading some truth for you!" says to Brawny Bill Wollert at the “She's a wonder!" gays Bill, not ahow- ing it, though his heart waa full of io and pleasure, seeing what advertising this was starting bringing him and his strike, “That woman last month that stripped off her diamond and ruby rings and gare them to the cause," he says, “was just the first letter In the book to this one, She's the best I've seen.” EEE “Vou ought to know, Bill,” they saya, for he always had hie string of women doing stunta for him and his cause. He was A ind—hard and still and desperate— that the women always full for, raceraef the lonely, dissatisfied, investigating kin He worked with her the usual hard wae urging her to go on, by giving hinta of he'd done for the cause, = “Don't let the police bluff you," he says to her, for they were all threate now bo lock her up. “They're a pack of boobs. Noize is the moet dangerous shite they have on them. Take it from me! | know from experience. If you've got anything to do don't mind them. Go and do it,” he saya, pushing her along, and ao she went and dane it. This time, when ape hee up to speak the next day, ahe started after 1, wild and fierce, on the question of the militia, giving them the statestica Bill handed her about the strikers fighting the battles of America. “Threequarters of these men— these strikers—were in the war over there!" ehe gays, Teprating his dope just aa he handed it ta her, “And twothinds of them were wounded, fighting aur battles for us. Such is not the stuff of economic slavehood, she says. “And before they press too fur with their threats and their militia, let them beware! Let them look first!" she says. “Men have rebelled before," ashe says, “under the lash! And even under the leadership of a weak woman driven by a power beyond herself!" she says, alluding to that Joan of Are thing in all the papers, and all the strikers on the common laughed and hollered and cheered her until the police came in and hushed them up. And after that all the reporters come up and begged and pleaded with her to give them just the initials of her name if noth- ing more, for the public were clamoring and restless for it. And she sald no, though maybe she might later—give them the in- itials anyhow. But she wasn't sure, for a ticular reason, and that waa r farnily—her father—would be dead set against her coming into this investigating work and all this radieal work when he knewit. And she could not have him know that she was there—not yet, But ome thi she would say, now and all the time, an never let ther forget it in their writings: That she was always, like her great | Ae! Brawny Bill Wolfert, always out for just one mottio— that same motte that he always | had—economic justice for all, man, woman. and child, share and share alike; orclse there would be bloodalved or worse, and she was going to tell her father that some day. So the reporters went a well pleased ays abe was holding back her name yet, maoking more mystery easy Wl for them for some days yet, perhapa; @ went over and sat down in the telegrar office and exchanged their notes, one with the other, and got their stories out; and then all went back to the place where they wera Playing poker again. And in the mor all the papers came out with miles and columns and tona of ink, starting in under full mourning headlines: Serutinized by thousanda of when, dressed rf the blood of Ingenio’ exes revolution, ahe preached the most I t does trines of Marx, Robeapierre ond Bakunin; ber identity etl undeciphered at the end of on- other twenty-four haura eeplete with thrills for all who participated in the great strike of the textile workers in the Manumuxit Valley to- day, and finally warned by the police againat violence, the beagtiful young weran now known through the confines of ¢ United States only a Joan of Arc Number 2, declared that she would lead, if necemary, a pew eru- sade—based, she stated, upon hra Bill Wolfert's famous motte, economic justice for ane and all; ond, if need be, would go dewn to death defying the state's soldiery. hid alagia gl ogc apeegghe an rooe ta tact qusation ur, Noe 80 far every ine ventigator, It wos learned from ber one-time tea that at first she called herself Smith, though this, she now maintains, “woa used merely to conceal her real name, which later— when her father should consent—she might in part, at least to the pring al initials, reveal. Asked if they bad further information on the subject of the morsterioua neweomer’s person- ality, the mill amet professed laorants indifference: but y were clear] urbed over the developmenta of the str! ing about this stra ¥ strike beadera, ine ng formation, ope formation, © great in trembli ini will aa ipa ah twill the morrow bring to ws? Shall e second Joan of Arc be leading us to chvil war with on all but religious fonoti- clam? "Ta she petting # from a little, Bil?" says the boys at the strike head: quarters. f “No,” he says. “There'll be no fighting; ou know that, The worst she can do is get arrested and let us bail her out, and in the meantime we've got all the papers sitting up and hollering for our stuil that she's handing out to them,” ae preading more truth,” they says to him, “all over!" “T'ye been twent years in the buai- ness," says Bil, “and I never seen one like her. She's the queen of advertisers, She pute more into self-advertising than any woman I ever seen. in the radical move- ment,” he says. “And that's high praise. That one here a month ago," hesaya, “that | took off her shoes and stockings and walked up and Main Street to see how the Polack women felt going arcund in the wet wa a piker to her. She never came back for the second day, But this girl is a raving genius,” he says “But just the same,” Bays, “Tl keep my eye on her. They're all light in the bead =a os a A igen way, and they need a em, man to Bui And they laughed, remembering Bill and all his other women he'd guided. And he went off and epoke to her, and held her back just a bit. Brea he says to her, “What do you mean?" she ee pr “Ease up? Heep back rey pole BoInomic justien for one and all?" “Or do you want to get into the cala- boose?” he says to her. “What do I care?" she saya. "“T'm telling you this,” he , net for my sake," he says. “For me it would be good—miore than i deta So I'm telling you just like I would my daughter,” he says, sturting In with her the way he did with those gone high-spirited ones at first. aughter {* é “You're a8 as my father is," she enme snapping back. 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Bd he says. “But may wile took her away from me years ago—when Pat gag etext, at all! ee not aber eee one or the other af therm for years." gel dy ‘nt martied," she saya starting up and moving aay from his hand like aq of them did at first. So he told her how i Wad. “Yes,” hesays—"to my sorrow! I don't apeak of it much. But I don't flinch it ran a oe no ye tome eee ee n in no at was shits eetamdine aide I sacra! could get with a woman that held me back. bab ee brains,’ Halen aaya, “and ne sora, vings,” appenling OF, telling her hia treaties | like a man with his ence does to the woman he's pleased with at the thyae. But he didn't ch her much, he could see, She still took t news kind of hard. "So you're married,” she says to him again, her voice harder than ever. “Tf you call it so, yes—when I haven't secn her now for sixteen Fede nor seen my little daughter neither,” he says, looking down long and sad. ‘but here," be breaking off finally with a wrench and going onte another more agreeable subject, “I'm Phd the talking. You tell me now,” he “what's your name? Who's your father?" he asks, but withowt mesults still. For he could feel the flesh of her arm aor where he tried to put his hand again upon er tell you that raya * she “Hay you still wan went to hear if. eve Big Fag be somatine I saight bring may roa face to face with him,” she saya, “and et you see him plain and nal, And we could go over and consider all this stuff on aoe nt Ipc end all that i sakac ve him a kind faage "Te ‘might do him good—and us too may be. aes Lead me to him!" time! at tar leaving it there, seeing it wn ee no use ples drei on further for that dae So out she come the next day in her apeech and sung out louder and louder yet for theeconamic justice and therevalution — and blooed iol, y war, if as pees “Will you not give us Peal des mame ae reporters were ng around on For she Wee stil before her speech. unknown as the abt king of in et . crazy and clamoring for Eid, “from Maine to California. At least ig Seen eee like you “HN raped ge thinking. “Not yet. But's arate not so long after I will give it to you. For I’m now," aa “And I've been thinking heavy of do what I should—ol going to my father appealing to him person In this eouse of oe justice, and if I do I'l let you all I now, “You'll give it out all even to us if dot aareone il theteparton: “Will you?" For she waa a grand thing for them. They could go off and play poker all in this mete place they'd found there, and when the time come work in ther and send thelr aut and report the etrike in ag pclae got from. her, ie would —all even, with no Pisco hag ee they went out in a over to the blero offices and done the SAW ak ny reas Il she the strikers against the oat they writes. “This, on this eves ning fraught with possibilities, after a day more than ever threatening, is the deep aqueseion of poy hour in the minds of the cusands who stand waiting, watching tensely, in so eras of the Manumuxit in- dustrial atru straggle, the figure of the unknown, athletic and utiful woman leader wha, although. ving her name ag Smith. still, ur ne ” ood=red hanner af Tolstoy, “Brutus and Garibaldi, defies the police and the militia of the sovereign state of Massachusetts under the assumed Wore eerie popular name of Joan Of Are, *" Economic justice for all—man, woman and child'—the motto of Brawny Bill Wolfert, which she haa proclaimed for hers alas, has here become the watchword of the howr, on what may vot prove to be the eve of the clash of arms in what the leaders EVENING POST of the strikers describe as the upheaval for communism, and French syndicaliam throughout ae Uried States and civilization as a w And so that next day, when she goes to Once More upon the common, the head of the police, after once warning her desist from sg up the crowd again communism and gen arrested and led over ta in the basement of the elty hall, where ahe alte in her blood-red dress, tomming back her bobbed yellow hair, defying them, until Brawny Bill and the rest come over and bail her at the officers, Sigs you do now?" says the re- corey BD ateppi on their Will your state- ment to the pres woWill your give. sour name out “T will not,” she says. “Thou I ah ; th soon, I may soon,” she saya when : drew in peat to her for thia reason: "Foe I may have finally to bring my father inte this, after all," she saya. Por Tam greatly much in earnest since my arrest," she says, “and willing to take ay means to enforce the motto i Wolfert, that noble leader, justice ‘for all—man, worn and child. And giao " ” she says—" though Thave with sige, He ou before for ai reasons af = brated and powerful man, who could do more for the economic justice which I have come to be eo inter- “arabes , She says, “than I think any man I¥INg. “So for this reason,” she says, “during the hours and minutes of me Fags aaa hers TE. tare seorkeed oak tule » Hf my leader, Brawny Bill bales consent, she says, now turning to h “Congent!"" he AaYS. “Did you ever Boe me flinch yet from pod haat J sage to me for od gs Justice ne worker?" I will take she with me,” ‘ate Mh ey bring you face to face with my father, Bo that between us we can con- vince him, no doubt, of the rightness af the | demand for full economic justice for man, woman and child. Will you come?” she ys. “Why not?" says Brawny Bill. “ Who'd hinder me?" “Only this," she saya te him and the re- porters: “For justice to my father, who might not desire to be drawn in, nor impli- on in this ides, you'll have to do this: You'll have to go some miles with me in a taxicab, consenting to be blindfolded.” “Blindfolded?” says the repo look- ing at one another with a happy smile, for pene. bel Bee = ei and es of prin mostly, as Were, on plece work. And Brawny Bill, though he loo whier and ‘he at than ever ou stood shining brighter and brighter irechde him, for he ahi what a genius he had with him, and what advertising she waa getting out. day after day for him and his strike. "Yes," she says, answering them back. "For it's only fair to my father that he has the right or not te say whether his influence and name is used in all this thing— ae where of not we conviner him, For, af ‘d be the one, not him, that would ba into this war for eq level economic justice for all, if he waan't let ta decide this much for himself. And so no one, not even Mr. Wolfert, should know who or where my father is until he meets him face to face, and Jets him decide whether he will come in with us and lend the influence of his great name to this face we are speaking of,’ ‘she says, “But f he does," she says, “it will have great weight in getting him. For I'm telling you no lie when I say he is a catty celebrated man, and his decision will have Geciding weight in this matter that I'm after, still and all, that is his option, and ita or may not hear his name after all," she sak! to the panpeters, “That will be ae- fo to how he sees it. 1 you do this then—will you with ma oe feet eee A Bays now ra ill, stretching owt her hand. ies) 4 muscles of muscles of his. it hack and forthe do you consent and agree, on your Boritt as aman and a leader, if we do not get my father’s consent nor convince him, and yet you learn afterwards his name— you will never at it out?" "IT do,” says son me is cuitin 1 he be aye ving fhe big ible final 4 aligm, anar- | out, scowling | | Drop a Little “FE fillus for a fe ROE, Cee Sheree iT. 4 Deein’t hurt a ba TR. F. E. JORDAK a = | extra money eer local subseripetiog represcsied Satunrcdar Erening Post, | i | Home Journal! onl The t Gentleman. 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Rare- Way be the L i] ver Ae ta, a een | Wonder Bool Big diseoiinta bm ane) ewer where THE SATURDAY | "So the newn fand movie boya wih the GA see ei ine took their hetogra | of them shaking handa, and Bra ‘Bi | blindfolded, and her with a pair of culls han Spe her wrists, showin she had orig thle arrested, and went bak to the telegraph office and wrote more umna on the yellaw paper onl this thickening mystery with a woman in it, throwing more strong searching light upon the question of the strike “Who ls her father? This query —now in every heart—may serve as the turnin point in the immense and terrible industria warfare still ge revolution at the Gleaing af the imax in the t industrial drama in the Manumuxit Valley to-night, rs before epeaking to the multi- tudes gathering eagerly in the sncient | CcuELnVan se foa to await until in her familiar red garb ehe would no doubt urge them tinder her leadership to withstand the | authority of the state's guardsmen: thrown inta prison; bailed out hy Brawny Bill Wolfert, veteran leader of the strikers: confessing that her name wes not only not | Smith, but that she was the anty daughter | of an international figure of t celebrity; planning, with Wolfert blindfolded by her side, to ride and plead with her father for economic justice, which he is in a postion bo secure—such were the additions made along the far-famedt blood-red Joan to economic his ot ate beuighten today, e 5 "Awaiting this visit, which may or may het settle a desperate clash between the strikers and the militia, the whole valley sleeps fitful and uneasily to-night. This unrest has even reached the capital of the state. The governor, when a ehed upon the matter, said in an exclusive in- tervbew with your earrespondent to-night: ‘While T have no information on the sub- ject whatever, I beliewe that something not occur to change the gen- af events tomorrow.’ “What be this you're Pulling? Ins this | thing on the level! Are we going on? Or | is this all a stall?” Brawny Bill when they were by themselves ie by this time ahe had him thinking f “Certainly we're goin she says, nok turning a muscle in her face, though it was flushed still, and excited, “‘and it’s no stall." And he wondered naw was he crazy or was Yet, nev ertheless, he let her put the blind- folding on, and: they started out that night in aw bog machine, and whirked around fo good luck till they were sure t had shook the machines of the reporters finally. And then the old ark of a hired limousine they had laid down close to the ground and went somew ag ae a a wa most Sshonishing & , Fump an i turbing and bumping Brawny Bill half insensible when he laid hack and tried to get a nap, after he'd finally given up the idea of getting her to tell him where they Were pon. It grew better a a then, and he knew now he was slipping into the streets of a big city, hearing the noises and feeling the stronger lights of the street lamps as they flashed by on his blindfolding. “What's this?’ saya Bill when finally he feels them stop after turning and twist- ing through the streets of the big city for some time. For, though he couldn't see, it didn't sound nor emell like the high aristocratic section that he thought to find himelf stopping Bt, at, and he was beginning to get a fit nd then ibe gets ‘oe leads him blindfolded up into a “Here's some stairs,” she says. “ Look ue.” And he come on, for he couldn't back out now, mo matter how leery he was getting. a > EVENING POST “And here's the threshold.” And hie steqaprestd over it. “And here we are! a aan he heard the door close in behind im. “ dund now you can take the blindfelding off,” she a: heey ‘thn 1” hee h rprised ‘What's this?" he save then, surprised, For he stood Cooking at a figure in a mirror: one of them hig dark mirrora they used to put in their yours ago. <And- it moved —the figure—when he moved, And he seen now he was just looking at himeelf. “What the ——" save Brawn Bill, not finishing the sentence, when he loohed around the room. For it was fitted up nothing grand like be had expected—out- side the mirror—but more like a poor city boarding house. And then, staring, he | re of that thin small Wont, | Been. the atanding white and shrinking behind the big old-time Hlack-walnut bed, “Don't you recognize hert" saya this big Joon of Are, standing stil, watchin them, breathing hard, yet with a plenty o eqlor in her cheeks too, MS he says, eerie: "Min! For of course, naturally, who it wos facing h him after all them CITA, “And you!" he aig Gna rsing, and stopping when he 2 inke upon r face—this Joan of Are’s cm “You ought to know her, too, Hill," SaVE the older bub with her voles trenmi- | “Ye othe acre ay Fea Mf Ase that'll do nicely!" says the one with the bobbed light hair like Bill's, stepping over and stopping her | with a kind of amall hard amile w her “For I'm afraid of no one when I'm | right,” she aays, holding her heacl upright. “And my motte," she to him, "ia economic justion, acual an woman and child. The Inst two just like | the first] And it's a good motto,’ “she says. | "1 et ee from my father.’ he ate still, growllng in bbs |

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thee torn between the longing to smash | her and the knowledge that he could not neither, "So now," ‘she saye, going on when he did not, “I've kept ray promise. u l'd bri ather, and I've done eo." And followin the direction of her pointing, he loo mi aie himalt aguin into that big, dark, = mirror you'll see in therm old | mansions that are rade over into boarding | houses. “I've brought you face to face with him." And he stowd there, watching at the face across grow mad and red and ugly in the mirrar, “ father," she aaye, poin now in the other direction, ae ee for economie justice!" And the small sick-looking woman across the room sat down sudden and weak in an old boarding-house bedroom : “Cut out the comedy!" saya Bill. “What do you wanti" “T want," she says, “just what we came here for—a talk on economic justice for ane and all, man, woman and child, “Sit “down,” she says to him, where he stood staring, his face redder than it was healthy for tt to be, “Maybe I ought to or in beliing you from the firat just how much eronamie janes has come to us4twe eo far,” she says ang coe she went on and told him with th that high-headed look at stil higher on her and the faint still hard in her voice. “For, no doubt," ahe saya, “you will want to hear the whole stary of what we've dane," she “since jot jumped 4 ane left us, with that other woman,” “and how we fared for economic Bays; juatice.”"

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THE OSTER MFO. co, Clavelond, Ohio THE SATURDAY EVENING POST And when she said this the older woman over on beyond the bed shrunk back and dawn tll she was almost out of aight in the worn and tattered boarding-howse arm- chair. But she went along herself, her voice oe growing harder. he faet ia," she ays, “my mother and me have been batting and slamming about the world for the sixteen yours since then, unseen by you, with no great economic justice from anyone, and least of all from you, and it's about time we had eome,"” she ays, And then she told him how ihe had herself through echool and co lege, by er own work some, but more by her mi and had come finally to ais all these eeonomic cyliess Ligeia the day, and investi- pate: them, and finally get some money om doing so, "And ao finally,” ahe pein mane in the paper on that line so mu seeing how you made your living by re I come to the conclusion, if all was to have this economic justice you swore ao by in the public press, I'd grab off and secure a little af it fer ee ee and "So thon rought you here to see whether we get some, It ail depends on my father," she says, speaking in a sweet hard we he decidea—whether we'll And he sot there honing a 3 at her his ae red, scarlet face showing eating and drinking and ia be “af etl at meen te oar and more, and hia fard, wiet, bl het eves upon her, for naturally he understood how ashe had him cornered , “Or shall I feed it all," she says, “to the fierce and wild and rerenlnig Es sie ag whole mad wild tale of Joan re Semi and the motte of the economic justice for all, which she took and from. her grand and celebrated father, and laugh you cut of the labor movement and the world, a Ive got the stage all set to oT “How much an you want?” he say, snarling finally, and she told him wha thought would be reasonable, considering what he had been gathering in all these ter years for hia work and lecturing for eco- nomic justice. June i, Ponca how soon wil yoy pe ce Not over tro hours fom the =, your check is good.” he an So he gave it to her and were a to Manumunit by train. "OW hat did Vieew sucoesalul?' el father? And whut dst bs gel ine reporters all ¢ x when be got off tore a _ "His ane yoo'l never levee." " _ He did not mention it ser did “Bit where ia che?” the on dees she not come bark wis. "Tis a long story,” beep 4 ist of it is this: We did not peng & was tee much for me fe oe 5 he commanded ber to stay, me 5 her no more in this strize tor ys and that's all I'll say, “Only this—only this! be wn his. throat kind of gf ed sols eallar: “With her or witha body else, we stuned bere for erg tice for all, and we'll rae be os nae roa] went ay. eS See tomy ts el oh ont hed nh to wave d Wes ahe what p speller = a coldly calculated fepotor"” 4 “That is the doubt which th ol unexplained disappears, we yy sensational cobs eadera of the strike, of the ow of Are, who waa at om to i Smith, has forced open the ns yes population of the Wj) Val uring ‘the clearty wins vi ‘tentile strike, under th & the pier gp Maple ey Brawey = bt | the radical, toni And Brawny —_— tf headquarters, stared, garer ¢ with the gt asi a corners, or newer scarcely been mear kim all the i He seen pheady the Grae c | for the go mej wad all Geet = not anly with he px 3 she'd idl ed his. strike, one of strikes he'd ever started, find?” “To Wheres = quotations fram them for never authorized, The Bloodheund—Arthur Train . 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The whole burden of this youn eecomes out of that land of sav- By Eleanor Fram lim Egan woman's alnwet incessant babble ae ; jand sorrow with a story to tell, burden of complaint against the “damn Lihe facet that no two eteries are Bolshevik." dike even in general tone merely serves to prove that the No matter what occurred that waa displeasing to her ahe laled it snot a simple one, that it is many-sided, excendingly prayerfully at their door, If the lights went out and candles had ovocative of numerous and cordilicting emotions, and to be produced; if fuel could not be obtained and the stoves 3 © VEO‘ appeal la vauously constituted ineli- got end: if there waa nothing to befound in the markets to eat but a bit of stringy, sturwed-to-death sheep meat: if the water pipes froge and burst and household activities were temporarily suspended; if the price of bread went up mnother moteh; if a thief got into the kitchen and stole some food—all of which happened in the eouree of a week: if it anawed some more; if the day wis dark and dreary —it was all the fault of the Bolsheviki. I shall never forget the sob of roingled: sorrow and exasperation in her voice when she would Ail}, * Ah-h-h, dese-n damn Bolsheviki, dey all time make bad!" One day [ questioned her, “Ano, T said, “where do you come from? Where did you learn your English?" “Mel she replied in grieved astonishment. “Tam American!" "What!" Lexclaimed. “You an American?" Tt hack net occurred to me to Suspect thut she might be one of the returned. In all the texentiniae she was such a simple soul, amd up to that time I had encountered only the eum plex and so-callecl intelligent variety, “oa,” sho replied, “I go live New York three year.” “But why on @nrth clic you wer come back bo [tas 7" “Jus damn fool! Two yeur now | live Russia! They tell me in New York Russia make fine; ev'thing good: all poor people get be rich people; me, I get fine house, fine dress, ev'thing fine; no gotta work; Mussa poor people heaven |" taf somewhat important contributors to the dof information on the subject have lent rigorously to the defense af the aystem thut ished in Russia and, aceeprting the pram- performance, have written about it aa ere a realization at last of Utoplan 3 having led a considerable citizenry ve souls to fear that there is some hie in the philosophy of Bolsheviam re that the best thing for a sane isto avoid contact with ik. 1 likely to leave the United States time for almost anywhere it that my little cirele of associates [my announcement that | was vw for Russia than was entirely maueed therm to unite in a very st, Their primary objections vere due of course to the some and sometimes well-defined! early every scmcrtlled normal ith regard to the Russian sit- ter [had induced them ta stop i their minds the risks [ was tnection merely with may per- ey all began to predict that I | “ld morally and spiritually. In | would go into Russia, place my- tion with a lot of wild radicals yself as one of them. Anna Went Back rom the character of the evidence etting from persons of our own itish and Amercan—who were tn time or who hed beon in Russin, this ied to be happening to nearly every- vself wondered if I, too, would have @ & really convincing promise in the m,onoee I saw itin actual operation. I was Ax poe myself bo the contaglon alanng with @ that go with Bolsheviem—and tried to per- iat I was entirely open-minded on the subject. owever, was to believe nothing but my own eyes, at once that I have found even this exceedingly JAattered Illusions HE began to ery and wach of her short sen- Lontts wren convulerya aok, "Tcome; uae all my meney; they tell me no need have money in Hueeia: got two chil'n: baby girl: awit" purty; ani’ saeet; Bolsheviki take away; put big house forschool; not. can have now, no more; gotta work or starve; last year they come get mie; some sal. diers: make me clean streets! Now [ want go hack Amer- irat not can,” By this time she was weeping bitterly and [ had toset myself ta the task of comforting her while being coreful not to commit myself to a promise that T would help her to get beck to my beloved country. That 6 what the returned almost invariably ask ras one of m3? first surprises I think I must begin by Eleansar Franhiin Egan, one todo. And it is astonishing how many of them one meets. I had sishevik,” “‘Beolsheviki" and "Bolshevism" are words Protegraphed at Petrograd no iden there had been such an exodus of Russians from the hears in Fuussis, though they are not regarded by the ia “Coothes Proof’ Clothes United States. They are everywhere in Russia, and in all kinds of selves as being in any sense terms of opprobrium. They employment. And they are particularly conspicuous in American nm and take great pride in it, but the simple fact is that the party in relief circles; this being because their knowledge of English makes them useful in the is the Communist Party, and for purposes of ordinary conversation one relief work, which is directed exclusively by Americans. nunist or a Monecommunist, When two of them meet for the first time they uwrually ask each other: “Did you ough, the words Bolshevik, Bolsheviki and Bolshevism are employed return to Russia of your own accord of were you sent?” hose Ttussimne who are known ag returned Americans than by anyone When I heard this it struck me as being exceedingly funny and I laughed with lue to the faet that most of these unfortunates are newly converted ta) = great enjoyment, but I soon learned that it is a serious question. In radical Russian sterpretation of what Bolshevism amounts to and make use of it circles it is only natural that our deporteos should be held in somewhat higher esteem ay of relieving their feelings. than those who withdrew voluntarily from our unendurable midat. The deportees at ho used it oftenest in talking with me was a maid in the employ of the east took an active part in the campaign against the accursed American capitalistic =ttain American relief station. She did the bedroom work and waited tyrants and oppressors, and therefore are to be regarded as veterans of the world 1 personnel residence, where [ happened to be a guest fora while. She revolution. They have won their laurels, and that very few of them have obtained Snglish and what she had she evidently had acquired in a most anything inthe way of visible or tangible rewards proves nothing against their philosophy nvironment. She knew a lot of cuss words and seemed to think that and detracts nothing from the nobility and sacredness of their principles. This is indispensable prefix of all adjectives, to say nothing of other parta more or leas the way they talk when they are not talking about ways and moans of

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4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST keeping soul and bexly together in Hussia or of the vague possibilities of getting back to the United States. But to goon from where I started: Be- fore I left home my friends had grown tired of asking me Wf 1 couldn't think of some better country than Russia te go to, and hed begun to ask me if I wouldn't, Please, as long as I had to go to Russia, try to write something about the country that a gentle reader could get his teeth inte. They complained of being fed up on glittering generalities and learned analyses, and, being for the moat pert distressingly bourgeois and disgracefully Prosperous, they wanted to know what they might expect if the same sort of thing that has eventuated in Russia should eventuate in the United States. And all at once I realized that I, ton, wus strangely unenlightened. Though I had followed the Russian story in a casual way in the daily press, ae per the average citizen, had read nearly all the current books as they had eome out, as well as a good many books about Cammunism in general and Russian Com- munism In particular, about the Rosssian revolutions, the Russian economic situa- tion and various related subjecta, I sud- denly discovered that so far aa really illuminating information was concerned To had aceomu- lated very little. I had no picture in my mind of what life is like [n Foresila as a result of the communiatie experiment. I knew that in communistice theory the ele- ment of personal incentive is omitted from all the calcula- tlons with regard ta the common activities, but I found myself unable to visualize the effect of this ombssien in specific instances. And this must be what so many Rus- dans mean when they say that eonditiona cannot be realized by those who have only read about them at a safe distance. The situation must be seen and felt and lived in. Lhknew the Program of the Third International, and had done my share of boiling with indignation about its brazen impertinences. I knew something about the propagandist activities of the [nternationalists in my own country and L knew a lot oof the patter of the tribe that has riatn among us to destroy, and that—iteelf being anything but pro- Ietarian—makes ite appeal to the least sanely and soberly thoughtful element in the world body politic, Al Self: Styled Proletarian FONE grants the existence of a world body politic. And one does. DT myself am an internationalist within the limite of the necessities of international aspociation, but internationalists with a capital I," forsooth! It is my opinion that this kind of internationalism is for same persons @ lo- crative profession, but Tor very few an homeat belief. The Flussian Com- munista are the lead- ers, the vyunguarid, the chiel proponents of Internationalism as its nims are directed against the national existence of other pec ples’ countries, but T have never met one of them whe really un- derstood what I meant when I asked him if he would support In- Lernationalism at the expense of the national existence of his own ounley, You sec [ am not very intelligent, ao I find it dificult te grasp the iden that, once all the capitalistic- bourgeois govern- ments are overthrown, in the International organization each country would con- tinue te he itself while being a part of a per- fectly blended and ecerm pletely harme- niows whole, under the direction of an all. wise central authority. AAP \ he AVERICAN ADMMISTAATION Aa wimericon Belle? Admintetraiien Qerfit Unloading Procisions If you ask upon what happy spot they expect to effect their centralization you are told that the headquarters of the International are in Moacow. “God bless and save us!" says you to yourself, If you ask from what source they expect to draw their supermen for the superjobs in the International Gavern- ment you may get nothing but a smile of patient tolerance, but the anawer is likely to be, “From the proletariat, whoee interests are above all other interests,"" T was talking one day with a man in Petrograd who holds an important position in the government as a repre- sentative of the Central Seviet at Moscow. I asked him these questions, and these, sketchily recorded, were his answers. Then I said, “Just what do you mean by the proletariat? Are you a proletarian?" “Certainly Tam!" he replied. “I'm o sailor!" He bristled when he aaid this, and drew his eyebrows down in a heavy frown, and I suddenly remembered that his proud boast was that he had more accursed bourgesis blood on his hands than any man in Russia. But I was not going te be intimidated by a mere growl. “No, you are not,” | said, “You are a government official, just like any other government official. You work here in this fine office: you wear goml clothes and have plenty to ent and drink; you live ina fine house in warmth and comfort, and incidentally you are a great bossa; in your Rerlas Chlidren Walting af the Eatraned of a6 American Dining Room tain Fy official capacity you bavearge: «= anyone who offends yos in uy wy He looked at Tee for & eaaee- wk odd sort of gleam in hineve, y=: = queer faacination | felt I wie penn add, “ Moreower, 1 um told the: 5 = ercise this right on the gighter =>, tion.” It waa a god deal fiw tau food calories with on marcy He continued to regerd ee [si -= With a question in kis ee, the =) “T'm a representative procure: * “Oh, I see,” [replied Those: 4 in the least, and was thereir: vq As Wallace Drwin's Japases o-.5 would say, f asked to know: “ls 9 a proletarian, what am [" As |) 4 ta | 7 Hw “Certamly not!" be goes, with just a little more seore tha: -- to express in such ecommerce | have newer worked with por tu: & I waa gled they were poo: in in comparison with his they ex, badly kept. But I waa log vg down among the submerged sos where, aside from the lack af fs £5 the easy maintenance of th ~-% was too full of a number of ha mit of concern about incomes merely exterior eects. I felt an urge to defend miself, go fates cr back dewn the years of my life, | exclaimed: ~| se [ have milked cows and hoed potatees: and c- -. and washed dishes and scrubbed floor ad coe ter and raked hay and chucked it in the barccw 9 Bigs and cooked for harvest hands and mende! = made my own clothes and ——" 4a American “Peasmat” WAS out to enumerate all the things | Soe with my hands, but » great light broke apo © he interrupted me to aay, “Oh, [see Tou aay intellectual."" T sat quite stil and looked at him fora mee l asked, “Have you ever been in my cucty’ He seemed to be plemedsd to be abhe to awe never have, Tam not a returned /Americar ~ “Well,” said I, “ina way it's a pity pou west | is an lofluential member of the Internation « tion it might be useful to you to know thst 2 ‘> States of America they ain't no such apical es» He smile! upon me with a superior ak oi = in his beard, "Merely a difference in terme” “Wot a bit of it!" I exclaimed with moe hemence. “The difference is a difference m poo fundus: i the word sa ization #4} diferecs 2 backgrore © phenome practich is] i eines eal” Hee ing Erg! 7 of be hy -4 epent mec! Engiasd Bhoe i that apres om my fe T wanted ° from whc ff Peres ae he had aS whetke " woukl tu ' in £6 atte” lot-o! 49 farme-t! theme . = deb = Rina = at bog 1 quel Cea" then a= & mer "= the ag “= in the i* Cargr Cnet nat Pay é = EP §

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 5 HE EAGLE AND THE WREN By ROLAND PERTWEE af. W at intemal for genius to he sturdy, and fartyn Saville was very sturdy and it ardly be denied that he was a genius. jeas by the thousand, and o practicn| ‘orrealizing them. ou he Waa HO nor were his |n= wholly centered. sional achieve- eday beinvented oe fut, perfectly nile but eo sens3- otrived that bt Jode at the mere i falling leaf, his flled with joy at m the monthly th a faultless wo. The truth rtya was simply ad on uncanny lowing what was lhow to make it, maponaible for a helicopter, and : further along ‘al construction idesign the fret hush gir fleet, irtue of speed, pacity, stability to hover indef- he ether would fare ao devwas- ect that no sane d hereafter eh- ligerent enber- identally, the ental plane was in inexplicable ped, as fiftesn ambetones bore Only three of uped with their artyn Was one ® rescue party him sitting débria, & Puz on on his face. ids were char= Here's a damn get it right left of the ma- iwamped in Tned to ashes; very simple or may prove man than he is not healthy sa where the ng is at stake. Saville, with a broken collar bone -wehini put rer out ‘of the question, set to work upon the ype Bin a tight little office around the doors tered plain-clothes detectives aa plentiful as wheat field. mething in the very nature of secrecy that ition. Fatima would never have wasted a luebeard’s ¢hoamber had the door been left firm of the magnitude and importance of ews & Brandling is a magnet to espionage, mployes numbered over fifty thousand, the nite of an entire neighborhood answering to of the huge siren from the central power ronging the galleries, workshops, stores and he mighty concern. Diplock, Mathews & le everything from a dreadnought too lady's In mn sense they stood for the might and the gland, and were as much a part of its gov- « eabinet fteelf. It follows naturally that i attracted the notice of the entire world, neivilized; and it would be no exaggeration millions were spent yearly by inquisitive to ascertain What waa taking plice in the industry sheltered behind the twenty-foot ralla. war it was generally understood to be an ‘tlee to ask questions at Diplock’s, The ing an answer Were remobe, lrut the risk of ull cracked bey a shifting spanner amounted tainty, assuming that no more permanent rFREUSTR ATE Do oF Mi ata That Fight George Paedderten, the Frallaa, MWoarl, aad Foo Other Mea Conedroed Tegether ia Low Tense: Gail! tte Doon penalty waa exacted. Quite a number of very plausible gentlemen whose bearing and accent were seemingly as English as a length of Harris tweed faced a flring party aa a direet result of overmuch curlosity in that quarter, But these be matters of long ago, and at the time in which these incidents take place the watera of the world run smoothly, overybody is minding his own business. Thoughts of war excite the blush of shame, the scarred barrel of the Hege gun is relorged into the shining plowshare. The dove of peace has settled upon the Lond, and Messrs, Diplock, Mathews & Brandling have reduced the personnel of their detective staff from a war establishment of three hundred and eighty-six to a permanent cadre of three hundred and seventy-nine. Here ia matter that apeakes for itself. In the genernl way, the individuals composing this force were given every latitude for private investigation and private action; that is to say, they were not encouraged to trust one another unduly. Very often half a dozen would be working on the same case oblivious of one another's presence. The results were satisfactory, for what one man failed to discover another might very well find out. There wae a central bureau under the charge of a gentle man named Butterwick, but in the main he interfered but little with the doings of his subordinates. Butterwick was a aiall man, seemingly of nervous habit, A person of aver- aie height rarely saw more of him than the top of his head, aince it was his custom to keep his chin on his chest and his eyes lowered, He appeasred to be everlest- ingly examining his shoes, hypootized, as it were, by the bright spots of light upon their tors. He said “Ves, yes, yea” nearly all the time, and be smiled o great deal more than the humor of life would seem to war- rant. He could not tolerate persons whe gave reasons for their findings: being in- terested aalely in reeults, His grasp of any subject coming within the aeope af his particular avecation was miraculows, but of the ordinary affairs of every day, of literature, art and home politics and small talk his ignorance was abyyarnal. Apart from werk hit only sources of relaxation and entertainment were eon- tained in enting walnits ane playing bowls, in both of which practices he showed no-amall still, With the exception of Mr. Diplock, Senior, But- terwick was the only man in the finm aequainted with everything that waa go- ing on. Prior to beginning on his disigns for Type B, Martyn Saville hed an. intesdew with Butterwick in that gentleman's private offiee. liwas a email] room with double walls and windows looking out upon a narrow canal, into which fowed the waste profucts from the workshops, awill from lathes, engine drippings, paraffin none whe down from the floors. The oily water treacled slowly over its. surface os colorful ge pe rainbow, Mr. Butterwiel: declared that he chose the room. oo aeeount of ths view. “Love opals.” he ssid, and those eoal-tar dyes." But the real reason was the pri- vary insured by having one's castle protected by & mridkat. _ Martyn Saville set forth his program frankly and mi- nutely. Belng caentially a medern in the way of apeech he was ashamed of the inevitable technicalities, and garnished them with up- to-date formulus, Thus he spoke of jolly old dibedrala, and not infrequently addressed his audience as Old Fruit. Butterwick filled in the gaps with more than the wsual Mitnblishment of Yes-yes-yeaes, apd never once relaxed hisemile. Atthe end he remarked: “Wonderful. I e' pose you'll de it,” ‘ "Bet your life,” said Martyn. "Yes, yea, yes. Nature's very odd, revealing auch an idea to 2 herumescarum fellow like yourself. Should say you're always getting into trouble?" “Tm a bit unlucky,” Martyn confessed. "Tes, yes, yes. So our responsi bilities increnes:! 3" poss you're aware that this preventive weapon of yours would, in improper hands, constitute the greatest menace the world has ever knownT" "Sure thing.” “Yoo Seema a pity, really. However, must take our chanees. Allin the way of progress, You're beginning at onee?"" “Just waiting for the flag to drop.” “There'll be a lot of bother about this, Yes: oh, yes, You know, of course, that the regular service is being informed ?"" , By the regular service Mr. Butterwick referred to the scent forees af the Crown, "Tt's an H. A. F. stunt,” Martyn replied, “So they were bound to be in it.” Mr. Butterwick shrugged his shoulders and cracked a walnut between his finger and thumb.

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6 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Aa if I couldn't manage much better without ‘em! Oh, well, UM take care of you, Mr. Saville." “Stout lad," eaid Martyn. “But ty and keep out of mischief." "T wall.” Mr. Butterwick ate his walnut in silence and dropped the shells into the waters of the canal. Then he said, " Yea, yea": and added, “You won't.” Martyn Saville turned at the door, laughing. “TU be marnylog goon and settling down." “Him! Why not marry first? Tackle this job afterward, eh? Hey?" "No jolly fear, old top. Want a bit of rope ofter that event.” “Much safer,” enid Mr. Butterwick, and cracked another nut. ar HEN Martyn Saville con- feed to belng a bit unlucky he in no way implied that Fate had set her frown against him. Tt was merely that some of the scatter- brained enterprises in which he en- gaged—alwaya with motives of the high- eat altruism —were wont to react upon himself in surprising fashion. He belonged to the elasa of indi- viduals that are ewer ready to enlist in hazardous causes for the betterment of friends. He could not persuade himself to stand by at another's funeral, buat would hustle the bearers aside ond lend a shoulder to the cof- fin, even though previous experience had taught him that ft not infrequently slipped and de- livered its weight upon his toe, Per- sonal risk was with him rather an ineen=- tive than a deterrent, and danger was the little spark that ignited the slow gases of life and made the old world spin. His happiest years were between 1914 and 1919, when the pleasant odora of fire and brimstone were borne upon every breese, De net imagine that Martyn Saville liked being shot at; he hated it as cordially as any other healthy-minded man, It was the reason that brought him under riffe and shell fire which intrigued him to the extent of forgetting these unpleasant addresses, Imminenee of death is an admirable tonic for the wits and abolishes the dull vapors of every day. Tt was therefore with no un- alloyed delight he read of the armistice and realized the end of the greatest adventure of all. However, time heals most sorrows and having completed his mourning duties for the old Jove be sang her requiem and betook himeell to the wooing of a new. Leslie Kavanagh wes the first serious affair in Martyn's life, probably because the girl bad o serious turn of thought and expression, which made her smile better worth winning. She was grave and lovely, and very alncere indeed. She admired in Martyn the very characteristics which he held in lightest esteem, Martyn admired himself but ns 2 sportsman, as a game and inarticulate male of 1921. His own inventive genius and constructive ability he digparaged o8 being asseta moore appropriate to a grave and reverend signior, He knew himself to be extraordinarily gifted and was ashamed that he should bese, having a healthy and modest distaste for any outstanding feature that distinguished him from the standard man. His eforta to avoid notoriety in any shupe or form, except as a sportsman, were 1s unceasing as they were fruitless. Popularity he loved —notoriety he abhorred. He would blush with pleasure all day should he hear That's Saville, who knocked out Billy Watkin in the Amateur Championship"; but should a whisper go Mawat ———— round to the effect that he was Saville of the Naval Gun Works, who invented so-and-so, he would bolt in shame and affright, His philosophy in life wes “to put to proof Art alien to the artist,""a phrase for which Browning was responsible, Incidentally Martyn used to read Browning with secret delight, but it was a practice he never indulged in without a copy of the Winning Post convenient to hand wherewith he might mask the volurse should a visitor intrude, @Wemed With o Drink Ne Disposed Aimoeif Eawurlously, FAtle Maortya Neoved Clothen fate @ Copaclour Gladstone Bag Having possessed herself of the allections of this amiable young man Misa Leslie Kavanagh set about to regenerate him, and it Was a task of no mean dimensions, She pro- posed to turn Martyn from paths of adventure and folly inte the graver avenues he waa reluctant to purewe, Leslie herself stood about five foot nothing, Her hair was bobbed and curly, and you could have weighed her on a chemist's geale, Of such proportions are lion tamers made. She was one of the litthes who goa long way—a homeopathic dose of pure and crystalline womanhood, Of course Martyn didn't stand a chance, for he was six foot two, and there is an old song about that which speaks the truth. The line of ber eyes was exactly level with his heart, which gave her an unfair advantage, aloce it will not be denied that the women who can control a man’s pulses will inevitably overrule his mind. Leslie established herself firmly before dictating terms upon which she might consent to an engagement. In saying she established herself firmly, deed rather than word of mouth prevailed. Martyn's enelreling arms wrought irreparable havec to the flimsy escalloped frock ehe was wearing, but she apoke not in reproof. Martyn'a head crushed the pretty French flowera at her shoulder and brilliantined them, but she did not bid him beware. And even when he kissed her nose until it was quite shiny she smiled with her eyes at a range of nearly half an inch, It was.a wonderful evening; never before had they known auch an evening: the air had a nip of frost in it, an oily drizzle hud drifted up from the sen ond there wes a touch of fog. Thus for their wooing they had need to seek refuge in a bathing machine which smelt very powerfully of damp towels and seaweed. Wherefore it was a very wonderful evening, for there is nothing much the name » that doean"t mind getting its feet wet, Jee ee Martyn had kissed many other girks in hip et snony past, but these were affaires of paper lntes tories and distant jazz bands hespeaiiey thes. . | turn to Swanee. They were part, in fact, of in mn without which no man should be free of the = -| fellows. Memory of these did not stir his ie! ¢ of day, but on the morning after be wd Lele | thing, ra cdg bobe: ated fey by tha onl Martrs aan rushing af ss forall he oc thay ck uae TUBE Et Wet ctocte! heap ete: | pronounced | ment apuet ¢ bioly exped 2 "Bak sp 3 formation is complete—her ewery atitede co organieed; for although it may not be widely more than a kiss separates a savetheart iec § a nurse whose first charge is the man ¥> = imagines himself her protector. “Why, you great, clever, stupid old this “you don't imagine I'd risk you as you a> “But, dammit ——"" said he. "T wouldn't. I hardly know anything abs: 7 “But there's nothing you can't know, Im | fool a bit and ——" "Oh, Martyn, not that sort of thing. [ci-" euch a flibbertigibbot. Never in the same 52° seconds," “T'll settle down first rate after marnage. )~ honeymoon in the Rockies? We could ber = the if you're fond of climbing and shooting © “There you go," said Leslie, wagging 3 Sor “Don't you realize you're a frightfully impor: you've got to be that?" "Chuck it,” he implored. “You're thirty-five, Martyn.” "Not until to-morrow, I'm only thiny-* “And you're just as irresponsible as as “No, I ain't, my dear."* “But overybody says so."" “Rate to 'em!" “You are! I should be terrified every time! “ of my sight, expecting you were doing 2 l- slong the telephone wires." “Wouldn't mind—if you were of the ota: get married." “No,” said Leslie: “and until ve #12 of improvement I shan‘’t even allow the ewer” announecd.""

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 7 it case about that the sugar of engagement was ipon Martyn's nose with the strict injunction that kisi up and behave himself if he wanted to hear & “paid far." tis a very sorry thing for ony young man to be jasingle semson not only the pursuit of Diana but iam rt know whet it is," said Leslio, “but I do know tremendous job of work on hand, so it'll be much severyone if we don't see a great deal of each til it's fivtabed.”* good Lord!" he protested. i Nab af engagements too." huck my work if you ees your engagements, iked at him aeverely. italk ike that, Martyn,” she sald, ‘end not even write.” he moms. you" re Teally good for two months you shall fice for Christmas and perhaps ——" nonths is a lifetime, old girl. I'd die." 4, you wouldnt," oy soul,” said he, “I believe you're sick of me “TT go wwey fret! T love you,” she answered, va, said Martyn, “is that your ides is a rotten be ataying with Mra, Conyrgham at the La Cyril going to be thereT" 5. '" suppase he'll be wanting to run you around.” iin't have the chance if you were there.” bat?" ‘TP de" coked at her gravely. “Oh, well," he allowed, ethe best terms you can offer, a‘ pose [ must put em. All the e this paray- meagement., probibition,. ill finish ‘ery good 7" you desper- Leslie, i Martyn wading six ely loki irten hours nerty-four. ar strc = a ink, wel- int and wis a dif His entire ‘rwent @ a of con- sspatched his mouth his eyes thier. He haching igined ta own difti- flowed in iead to be d, exarm- lo oor re Tain con- are, Chir —An ine .a higher eriticiesin id finally i making it rarely Fuments ermulaa. ? DOcAn= sis mind feulties, instant jhadaw it, The tk were dangers wd, dic If a very ordinary fly could haver indefinitely in the sir, what was to prevent a man from doing likewise? This was the question he asked, and had pledged himself to find the anawer, But that was not enough. The hovering fy made a deal of buzzing and doubtless expended a lot of energy. It was Martyn's ambition to invent a machine that nelther buzsed nor expended energy. In the ideal achieve ment the only energy wasted should be just enough power to prevent drift. He had an agreeable vision of anchoring in the sky, of being able, if necessary, to remain in one atmospheric aquere for days on end, too high up to be observed, too silent to be apprehended. Tha project waa attractive. It had attracted othera before him. He drove his inventions department exhaustively, and it gave him but one solution to the problem—an association of gas and metal: and upon this principle he worked, The eventual result of his labors was extraordinarily simple, and differed in appearance but yery slightly from the original type, which had crashed go disastrously. It was in fundamental principles that the change lay, Had the two blue prints been laid side by side scarcely one man in 4 dozen would have spotted the difference between the machine that had failed and the one that would succeed. Martyn's finished drawings were miracles of neatness and leteness. On a single sheet he contrived to set forth not only the design of the whole and of every moving part but also the formula of the gases to be used. From AtoZ theentire mystery was revealed at a glance—a work- ing drawing ao comprehensible that any mechonie of aver- age skill could begin operations forthwith, Bach evening at 6:40 Martyn put the drawings in a huge aafe behind his writing table. The door of this was secured with two keys, which in turn were placed inside another smaller safe with o five-letter combination lock. Then he rang @ bell and one of Mr. Butterwick’s men entered the office and touched his hat, "ood night," said Martyn. And "Good night, sir,” said the man. =a i ‘ , a i : a a. li i b ie He Spoke of Jolly Ofd Dikhedrals, ond Not dafroquantly Added His Audioace as Old Frwte On the step outside two other men would offer him the compliments of the evening, their polite salutation ayn- thronizing with the click of the latch and sound of a bolt being shet within, Martyn Saville would then turn te the left toward the general offices. Proceeding down o long corridor he would enter the study of Mr, Diplock, Senior. Being well assured that no one was about he would greet the old gentleman in aomve such wise as this: "Te's a fine night, James." And Mr. Diplock, whoee Christlan name was Stanley, would reply “Yea, yea; to be sure,” Sometimes, by way of vuricty, Martyn would announce, “Looks like frost,” Again Mr. Diplock would agree. On one occasion a clerk entered unexpectedly, where upon Mr, Diplock said “I hardly think so." So Martyn had retraced his steps to his own office, sent the detective to walt outalde, occupied himself for a moment with the combination lock of the second safe, and returned to his employer with the words, “That was silly." sae ao, sald Mr, Diplock; “very silly. Good night, ville, It was not until the designs were approaching comple tion that a third party was admitted to the secret of the safe, This person was a gentleman in the employment of the secret service, who in pursuance of his calling went by a variety of names. To hi intimates he was known as Old Wedderton—the “old applying more to his amis- bility than advancement in years. In appearance he waa for all the world like any middle-aged guest at a shooting purty. To be more precise, he was of medium height and fairly heavy build. His complexion was bronzed, his hair dark brown and his mustache a light sandy color. His eyes were very blue and rather emall. Outwardly he seemed os comfortable, good-nutured and lazy a kind of fellow as you would wish to meet. “What la your friend Mr, Wedderton like?" Leslie had asked, for Martyn and George were old associates, "Lord, don't sak 1e— nothin’ in partiewlar,"* “But what's he look like? she insisted. “ Forty-tive,”” replied Martyn, and bit off the type to « hnir. Easy-going and affa- ble, George Wedderton strolled through life with his hands in hia pocketa, picking up ac- quaintances by the thousand. He could be all things to all men, His honest simple coun- tenance soaked up confidence like asponge, Comparative strangers, beholding in him a tol- erant and sympathetic listener, uninvited re- vealed their mysteries and their woes. He was so kindly and so obvi}. ously harmless thateven the most astute failed to detect the possibility of another side to his nature, Women adored him, for he possessed to a singular degree the power to make them Fool like nieces. When asked what he did, his ustial reply was, “I just fool round a bit—travel and thatsort of thing. Dull life," Had he spoken the truth, however, he must have confessed to seme thing far removed fram dullness. Very few men had looked down the barrel of arevolyer more often than Old George Wedderton: or, for that matter, had given others the opportunity of do- ing likewise, His part in the Great War was not perhaps conspicu- ous, butit had eertainly {Continued on Page 54!

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8 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST SZCRIET man—secret and educational. The —" world is full of them to-day, all whisper- ing and pointing and drilling up the worker for the great secret revolution which hangs beetling over us now. It minds me of old Mike Slattery and them three radicals there this spring in the D. LU. tower. ‘Tis @ lonely job and speechless in them towers—especially one like that one where he was, out there in the woods six miles back of nowhere. You get fed up with the yelling of the frogs and crows and all them he kety-dids and bull insecta, till the sound of the human yoice—if only from a passing freight—falls like soothing sirup ona raw and wounded Boul, So, naturally "tis a grand spot for conversation—w when you can get it. And Slattery got all he could by fair means or foul—though strictly speak- ing it was agin the rules to let others up there with him in hin place. And more than all else he'd try to get them radicals up there, talking all their deep and secret plans for reva- lution, for then he would be sure to get his fill of human speech, the radicals furnishing the speech and him the tobacen, He was sitting there this day and the local freight hed dropped a driv- ing rod from the engine and been shoved in on his siding, and three of them different radicals was up in ° there with him—two shacks, or brakemen, as you'd call them, and this here Russian gandy-dancer, or trackwalker, that stepped in there now and again. And Slattery was getting them going on one of their radical arguments—to fill and satisfy hie craving for the pleasant noise of the talk of men. "What show has this man Foster, the old ateel-atrike man, got raiding old Sammy Gompers with this new secret boring-in scheme of his?" says Slattery, aiming hia question at that Twohey, the radical he was satisied was working in with that boring bunch in the Trainmen Brotherhood. A tall elim fellow he was—a good alick talker, with still amall smile at the far corner of his mouth, and a mysterious look down deep in his eye. “Tf you want my opinion,” he says, “he's got a damned | show." And the Wobbly brakeman and the Russian said nothing yet, “Tt's a slick scheme at that," says Mike, persevering on. “The way he plans to werk it." “Tt is,” says Twohey, “with all them nuclei.” “Them nuclei?" saya Mike. “Ther nuclei, yes," he says. “Them one thousand men he wrote them secret organizing letters to in all them one thousand towns and cities—one only in each place, each one a good and reliable and red-blooded radical that cin be trusted not to be a company dick or apy." “You're right, probably," says Mike, watching the others from the carner of his eye, “And from there, in them one thousand cities, each man—each nuclei,” says Twohey, continuing, “builds up his hand-picked bunch of borers, to make their own branches again—each one of these last to work and bore in soft and secret inside its own particular union—until they eat it up and con@ume it and take it aver." “And [t's in the railroad unions that they're starting first, they tell me," saya Mike. “Tt ia,” he says. “But that's only a start to baring out through all them millions more.” And now Blattery turned his head around, for he seen at last he had them going. “A swell chance that pie-cart artist has got,"" saye the Wobbly, talking out finally in that hard, rough, encering way those Wobblies, or 7. W. W's, as you'd call them, talk. He was one of them old-time boomer brakemen with a hard-boiled eye and a amile hard a8 a crack in a china plate. Smear, they called him, as a nickname, "You don't think he's all there is te this thing, do you?” saya Twohey, staring at him, and chewing hard and hostile, Sinem movements—said the fat fore- FELEU SFTRA TE D By George Kibbe Turner a F DBOUGE a J “From There Fou Come Fate the Faedaratien, Through the Mine Workers, by For the Biggest Untow" And just then, when he had them started, Mike had to turn, for they waa calling him from down the line on his telephone, He talked, with his back to them, and swung round again. Jind then he seen them there—all three silent, The two shacks just sitting there, and the Russian staring out the window that meek and humble way he had. “That's strange and odd," saya Mike then. “They've stopped thelr arguing!" For usually by now they'd been tearing the tower down. But instead this Twohey, the borer-in, the minute Slat- tery turned back, started in talking to him, nnd not ta the Wobbly—talking and kind of holding onto his eye. “You know what the big secret move that's framing up all over this country now is, don"t you? Or do you?” he siya to Slattery, low and mysterious, "I dunno,” says Mike. "What is it?" “They're raising ua up to where Europe is." “Raising us up to Europe?” says Slattery. In what way?" “By organizing the workers together, way down deop— so they'll get the power, the way they've got it over there.” “Ts that it?’ saya Mike, still with bis eye held in his. “Tt ia,” heaays. “All them milliang—all together. And do you know how bad they’ve got us beat over there?" “I do not,” says Mike. “Take England,” he saya, going on giving It to him, "Take England, for instance, with her one union member to her every six of the population; and Germany with one to every four and a half—while here we have a mere paltry one in twenty-seven,” “Te that right?” says Mike, listening without avail for the Wobbly to break in anc argue, But not a word. “It is," says Twohey, going on holding him with his eye “And vou know what that would mean if we were fixed up right in this country like Europe.” “Pdo not, What would it?’ save Mike, wondering more and more why this one was doing all the talking alone, “HowT June 17093 MOVEMENTS “From twenty to twenty-fy —jj workers, all banded is toprie - =. of the mere paltry four o@ five nos split up, like it is mow," “Ia that right?” yy Wis. - ing his mind up new bed ow eve away when he mgt -'= Silence of them other mn of him—or the Wobbly, ijtn getting more and more pre and oppressing. “Taren ty millions at the 3 saya Toohey, going o b's tery’s eye back, “And de rn) why it in that Europe's ba fo—and we're so bebindhes! = country?" “Go on,” says Mike “Te "It's the old-time ovp = he says, “splitting o wl uy | million pies, For of af ts this one country alone preer old antiquated and molt = just erafta—all the rest bens ised industrially —thar b + big industries, and not bls and fractions of then” “You're right withoat o 4 says Mike, hearty, bot cia and wondering, "To am," be gays, “As! ¢ known. For here, more too rest of the world, the p= all bound together in thes huge Wall Soret mice their great enormow 25 we toilers are all mit = these little dinky craft = 4 now We're getting togetie capitalists, and we'll bore : these old unions of the =a came over on the Murs George W. Washingor Stroy them—and ach the worker by industrm » by eoun tries, and then by ts like they're doing now = | “Is that right?” an “i of aheent —but keeping k= ing and orating. For now he'd been em a look at the two bebs! | seen them—the Russian still staring out the ca and innocent, and the Wobbly sitting staring ot and neither one paying ne attention to this = that was running on, spreading his ideas, aloo » out contradiction. “What's going on here?" says Slattery to bes and more suspicious. "They ain't arguing t- “We must all reorganize still and secret. 2! says Twohey, now talking over to the Wobbh seen Mike looking around at. “Am I meh" “You are,” he said back, And Mike gave a still worse jump inside—*: | two agreeing on anything! “We must organize right—by industric. = * hive long ago!” gave Twohey. “What's heen hindering 30m then, a] the aays Mike—to say som rer. “Rank, rotten and cimbolics) deceit? Doce: hery of the worker, Jim [ right?™ says Teco now again to the Wobbly that he'd ae Ss Won Onee More. “You are,” says the Wobbds- right aw And Slattery could sea gow sakes ante - thing was going on there wrong, Amd grows ube mare and more restless ad wre and eo still and careful around, Slattery’s heart so = den bounce in his bosom, for he seen mew whi He had his comt hanging om ite regular of 2 side wall where that Russian Huon wos bois and innocent through the window. It kerr "= inside out, and in the Inside Pocket of * money —that three hondred diollers he kad oF the savings bank that morning to pay off o = that night, = “Tita gone!” save Slattery to himself sas: inside—but by no means outside. so ther 2 Them radicals have got it!"" and he thous": r self for his foolhness, He kept his eye out alweass, materafy ¢ rudicila were in there, and Specially thatt = AY 4

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 9 ‘ed Rossinn—for he'd suspicioned * than ome before on account of things that would turn up missing as fone, Andeveryone knows what *bhlies gre—then boomer brakemen we, that wander on from one road F, raising hel and taking a epeci- ‘et everything but the right of way when they move along. And they wohey was nobetter than heshould 2 of all his soft talk. And now, ia hen, Slatery'd taken his eve i wad of hi chen they were all in now, naturaly, it was gone! IT do?" says Slattery to himself, them they kave got my roll!" at still—and made no sign nor © he seen what lay before him. one of them three radicals had knew, Eutwhich one? That was h—pnd what he had to dig out re whoever it waa could up and For he evaldn"t naturally accuse af them at once—or he'd have muncing on him together, calling ‘thieving lowdown liar; and he'd wut his three hundred but handed hy murdering besides. 2 what he sn he had to da—he I, with his face smooth and inno ew-planed board, listening and iderneath, while this Twohey, | radical, went on explaining free slippery about what was going rm deep under in the framing of folution in the country. limdlering us," he says, “from ght? You know what's always ig us, don't you? It's the American Federa- r, ain't it? [t's Sammy Gompers and his tid and nefariows network of general and izers, and trained spies and politicians all Avnd then also the big fathends of the rail- ioecle, with their marble banks and their in- anies and their Wall Street salaries, Therm that count the votes for them in the different ra Mike, eving him—for of course that is the i now all over—that they would be in control ion, and the brotherhoods probably, if they counted out on election, saye. “But, thank God, that time's about wt final breaking up of the A. F. of LJ!" rfht?™ says Slattery, striving always to get i he could at the other teo behind him. “Is jom coming to ite end?™ ays. “It's standing and shivering to pieces «2 teday—from its own weakness. They'll ier- flattery Was Geitlag Them Golag on Gag of Thole Radical Arguments know it just as well. And that makes it all the worse for them!" “Wore? says Slattery. “Certainly,” be says. “For they're going after them old-time unions, and hammering them down with insane and foolish haste—each smash driving the poor old dodder- ing federation lower to its knees—and their murdering bloodshot system of capitalism with it, And both to-day are starting on their way together in this country, stagger- ing on to one common grave, like crafts unionism and capltaliam have done already there in Europe.” “Ts that the case?" sayy Slattery, still striving to look back of him unseen. "Te is," he ays. “For crafta unionism ia starting now to go down here—as it done eight or ten years ago in Eng- land, just before the toilers there started in making their tremendous strides they've made sines. And it's going on fast here now, with the falling and crumbling down finally of that old Noah ‘s Ark, the American Fodera- tion of Labhr.’ “The federation's gone then?” says Mile. “Tt is,” he says. “They're fighting and quarreling already—the inside gang— amongst themselves. And every day the whispers of it are growing louder and more public, For the first time in years they"ve had a real genuine contest far the presidency. The tried-and-true staff of paid organizers and professional politicians of Gorpers’ have been out on extra vacations to save money for thebusted trensury—all grumbling ngainat theic master for having to do so on account of the money he wasted during the war. The old inside political boas of the closest run political machine in the land—after a good lifetime of continued office—goes tottering to his fall, and the eyes of any man can soe that the time is close at hand when old Sammy Gompers will walk no more like a little aacred duck at the head of American labor, uttering wise-sounding noises.” “Ts this right?” aska Mike, thinking un= easy of what that Wobbly and Russian might be doting behind him, but still not able yet to get a good clear look at them. “Tt is," he saya. “And taking advantage of just this exact and critical moment, the wiso silent boys in the know inside start now their boring-in plans—their great far- spreading secret movements,” “Secret movements, yea!" says Slattery in his mind, and gave a atill secret movement of joy inside, himself, For now for just a sec- ond he got his eve loose from Twohey's, and ht caught good and plain for once what the Wobbly was doing. He was motioning and waving at the Russian, who was beyond him at the window— shaking and threatening at him with his fist, and trying to catch his eye and point him to the stairway out, and having no luck at doing so, for not a motion did the Russian make at the window that showed that he was seeing him. “Abal” saye Mike to himeelf. "So that's how it stands!" And he felt better, for now he had his roll located. He seen how it was, probably—just as he suspicloned it might be at first. The Russian had been pulling out the wallet from his coat pocket, secret, for himaelf. And they'd caught him doing it, And now they'd got to get him outside some way and get their slice out of it—before their train pulled out, and also without Slattery's getting onto them, So by winks and nods ond silent movements while he was telephoning, they had without a doubt di- vided up the work of doing this between them—this Two hey, the trainman, going on eloquent and blandandering on the revolution of the workers, while the other one was to sign and motion at the Russian to come out and divide up with them at onee—or they'd murder him and mash him and leave him to for dead the next ion time they ran the across him, But the Russian ow atl] stood there at wr the window—pre qLTh tending not to see — Hor notice him, er— with thatsad hum- ore ble way those ma Hunks and Wops ink all have of never oF noticing mor wn matt derstanding what al- they don't wantto. he “Secret moves me ments,” this Two tls hey, the train- pt man, was going on om when, with one of awit and noiseless rs look, Mike was a tuking all this Le in. “Secret move ments. And you a may seo now what — they will be built and founded on." '- "What will they?" saya Mike, 1 drawing his eye z back and fixing it & again in haste on F hia, for now he zy seen whit he mist & do. He must play a in from now on l —— — (Continued on a Tork the Machialste ond the Faderation Clathiag Workers and the Others That are Radical, They're Rory ao Majordiy™ Page roe)

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10 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST @O . | : | F , | Squire Truman Turns @ hai terrei pat ee By Clarence B aempron Kellamd wun" ™ showed signa of wear, “ cale’- “Dre! What we eT lates to take notices thediapasition FELU eG FRATE o ar Ion £ PH E£R SB shot witht” ofevery dawg ln Amity Township,” “Buckshot. “But, expostulated the youthful attorney, “no court can “Shows Ve POL ae ene left. New dear out of here, “Tn the head,” agid the muire, nhs Df take judicial notice of a dog. 1 refer your honor to——" all of ye, andl as fer you, young epriggina"—this to the “Tust to the noth of Jnhala Boed's bere™ “Can't, ¢h? Can't, eh? Waeal, young man, you jest attorney —“when next you come practicin' in this here “Punny place fer Jake Moartow to shoot bie Bf keep your eve peeled onto this proceedin’ and you'll see it court, check your college learnin’ at the hotel and fetch dawg, Seema like neither of ‘em had angels done, That'Ildo. Setdown! Verdict “ Jolin yn he ert aw fer the plaintiff. Seyen dollurs ‘n’ 2 half ‘nn’ oete.”” Both lawyera, young men imported from the coby bo try this cower edldiee, traped to their feet protesting. “TT want to offer evidence —— “Ofer it," sipped the squire, “some ores lee, Df you young fellers has got the time and inclination to ligten ta witnesses gubblin® wall cds AY, why, take em ove r tothe barbershop. Next case. constable," “T shall take an appent,"”" declared the defendant's counsel, “This court cannot ride Fougl ahol aver the F right of my client to present his case, squire Truman put on his glasses deliberately, and the crowd which packed the court rowm sighed with relief, It had come in the confident expectation of rare entertainment, uit the sept éhudshown wonexam pled patience with the youthful counsel, and had ended the proceedings with what seemed to the crowed yunfmirsud- denne. He allowed the pisintill ta testify iow hin dog hack been shit. At this point he interrupted counsel to mek a question of the defendant. "Jake," he demanded, “dea you deny shootin" the critter?" “TL shot him. squire, but — " Shet iyo! [know this hore duwg Ranger. The’ hain't been o day in months [ hain'tatoned himawav from my awill pail, Kiwew his mother be fore him, and, if murkin's is any token, | knew his father, He never harmed nobody and never afered to harm notedy—thatdtdn"t come a-prowlin’ in the nighttime." It was here objection was made to the court's taking judicial W othe character of a Ce. The quire put on his classes and the crowd be came hopeful, They were glossed with rectangular lenses such as old gentlemen used ta wer some filty Years agro, Indeed these had been worn by anoid gentleman fifty years I efore, for the Squire inherited then fron his father. Fersonally he had no need for them exeapt for judicial purpemes, for his @yesight was of tha heencel, When he put them oon he of the dow to Jibs Seal there mnore’s it dd ty hee “Mebby oo, Mebby ay night, wa'n't it? “ Dharker'n 5 stack dv " Jake mores fost dark, didn't het” * Mi wet "a" been lack ™ “Or o jack fight” ot "A jack light ghia =a eyes. “Now what 1 wast tle Jake went theme boul jack light... . Hag Johala's bars. Thet Roo fust-cliss watetdawg. , heard tell of a ma pec) before. Cur'om” “ Webby,” gold (is, * On & appetite fer dawg ca “TL don't Iie for folien ie IT can't understand. ele “Al rterios in in the a aanees. ("ve a domed gam to Hea @ sume og Mainteinin' & Deere During this callogey) painstakingly studying ond carefully imitating # and change of expres did not mind: he wml upwards of twenty yea been giving a cones sonation of the old p somewhat diffieit wim Siders that the api @ and six inchs mn ee while Ollo wa a =e aleo that the aqeire we mast rokeast a bunds! © pounds to Ofo's two t teelye, But in theo leers the comstable wr BL eres. Both he and 4 a bristly, painthrsh be and ‘belligerent. Boll = lip, under Hp and jowa LU w matice was enteful to act them ao far dawn his tee Liat they ewutd mot teterhere ath hits vision, ad when he pret then ORL dake Miele am iit Ounieeqp ences. “77 Fou Chosge Your Mind To:morrow, or Mexi Month, or la Fifty Fears, Come Bask On the ‘wioke it made i Appeal ick yen soy) YOM EON anal Rap on My Door ond Pll be Were" Be Bernard that | Ad ih aL When this here “ourt makes fox Lerrier, a cle vision it cale'lutes it te be Gnal, | don't tolerate no your briins, sich as they be. Looks Tike youu was so plumb "Jake," cald Ollo th the feistice’s voice all appenia. The courts of this county's got plenty tode'thout full of statutes-and det 4 that they've kind of crowded cabo resttury borrowed dimom, hb princes ~ tierin with things Dimoaimply able to take care ad tight your intelles' ual through your cars. , . . Next ease, to do nothin’ “thogt = engl” here, When I El (DS Verdict cb ses ek regis. | haan t conatale,"" “Come to that conclusion, have 7 ck ever 4a finan ian dab vat sasasititlveslot ak Tiftany's Justices "Tim Finch agit Susan Brigis, ceplewy," bellowed Ollo “Tl kind of study it out,” said (iGo. Guide pack me eoculdn"t git to the meat at it: New don't Toowely, “So do, 6 do," satdl the aquire, go quetin” no hiw tae ae? Tim teu Poller Titans se “Tovolves w silver cornet, don't in?" asked the squire, During the remaining eourt proeice & org's fe rome iy a line with what's fair and right, and “Th-buh,” said Glo the squire was most ao deme ms ft Wi" ma hort disagree: Tb den t- kine whit The syuire five Jim Finch with a stern eyes, hove been gocusedd prec aoa ie dws good fue Amity Township after livin’ here sinty-twea “Now you look here. Jim, your house hain't more'n sbout Jahala Bond Eieowme mot thinker = Hear, Tere vent Kin be b AT hotter dollir nooeuurt forty fifty feet from cine. Think I'm gein' te tolerate a comet nection with the murdered dog: Aut the ch nile ties. Youne feller, 11 e won't be ne appeal,” in: tk’! You'd m yowlin’ into the thing continual from him of her affaire having come to he & ‘TD vea rltht toajpyesnl The statute: governing practiot imornin’ till night, You kin take your choice, Jim. Either barn. Everybody Wha Libre justiess” eeurts give me the right to appeal.” dismiss this here mise ar git fel fer contempt oof court. Jt elevnted her to the atatua of a local ce ‘Cmi-tut You wet atighttogevlerkin'in a gracers-store Of blowin’ a cornet in the court's ear hain't contempt, wes prowd of ibe celebrities ia ah et foe rth ib might te hetter-forcull eoncerned if vou Tone odoumimed if DL kivuw what kj . Next cose, contained all the elements dear to sch loaivail yoursel? of 7 tut you den 'ble ft. Uh-huh, constable, those of the litth town: Lowe and seve ™ I; This Daarread foe thie chafendiact—" beard my perclicl Te metioned to Olio with bis finger and Ola bent over periidy, mystery and courage. Tt wa: ee rg NE the cleak becuse Amity bad withesead the actual a ich To. Hl “Alighty int restin® cise — the dawg shootin’, sald the several parte Tt wa a seria), continu | a puri ‘wit fram month to month. " L

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fe Truman remembered the day was born. He could give you the n which ker perenta died. There was * could not tell you about her, or ny other raident of his Bb, Hera was the sort of one could not expel from olghte, The squire had hem the dormalities. inci- | the appointment of ‘prague a the guardian aon and property, and sa tinfed of the wisdom ection. And later, when in long dress and piled adant hair high, as a emuin should, he mobted faction bow Jabala and young ague some ta select each ply, ag if bysome natural law. 3 notaa mucha courtship as it aolding: together of taro young earcdained to union. It waa a r perfectly in tune, simple, 1 with a sort of inevitability You could not imagine Paul yvhody but Jahala or Jahala lowe to anyhody but Paul. tprague, with the approval of te eourt, invested Jahala's ne of seme fifteen thousand food farm mortrages, con- h the aquire as to the moral el in each transaction. . . . ) frowned and waggled his THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i Johole aad Feung Pool forague Seamed to Fee lect Rach Orher, Simply, on if by Tome Foterai “What kin I do fer ye then?" he asked. “T want you should gro adil Paul, and the aquire put on his hat and went with him. “ Aek her te come aut here," Paul said when they arrived at the home of hisaweetheart. Sothe squire @atered| her door without rapping, which was hia custom, and alle. - She came out to him, hiding a4 best she enuld her grief, for some- how grief, in Amity, ig a thing which muat not be displayed, Jahalu was not re- sentful, Her mood did not accuse her quardian; tt wepe for him. “Paul wanta you sh'u'd come out,"' snid the squire. “Poot Paul! Foor bay," she said—that wae all, Amity is not effusive. She offered him her lipa when she cameup to him in the yard, brat with me to see Jahala,"’ ' 8 quick, squirrellike moave- Law vas remembering the reputa- ibity which Fabius had earned and deserved in 2 man's word was as pood as his bond, wt before Jahala's twentieth birthday, her as killed in his planing mill, With awful sud. was snatched out of the march of events, leav- o go on without him, incapable of making or explanations, amay and astonishment Amity learned that gues affairs were in ao involved a condition ptey would have been inevitable. Tt was even leath was not aecidental: but that Squire used to believe, What, to Amity, seemed suicide was the astoungling fact that Jahala itance hed vanished. A number of mortgages ue at once and been paid, the money being 1 the an k h in- Twa | his had e toe ash, een lara. '‘ be was AL feol= Ing his ome re ter not ce hy for Sat ed m= ned eu ae nicl of al. =n = aif Fj he would not accept her proi- eres re fer—ignored it. Ree “I'm going away, Jahaln,” ' nt. said Paul. “I've got ta go e i away." mils She nodded. i ‘When shall I be ready?" she asked simply. At this his eyes became hungry and his clenched hands oponed and shut. Dt was the utmest she could have done. Nothing could have been added to it. He waa going; she aflered to accompany him. For a moment he did not spank —eould not speak for the amazement that filled him at her fineness and her fidelity. Then he shook his head, but his eyes were not dry, “T con't take you, Jnhala,” he said. “I've come to say goxl-by and give you back your promise. There's that in “Ne Knew « Geod Maa Stays Good, He Kaew a Maa That Wer Honest to His Backbone Dost Torn TAtes * my blood that makes mé unfit to marry ony woman, you most of all. It's blood that mustn't be passed on to othens,”* This was an amazing speech, for in Amity one does not refer to unborn generations. She waited, knowing him too well to attempt to disagade, "Wed both remember always what—what he did," Paul went on. “It would stand between ws. You'd be watchin’ for it te crap out in me. We'd be watchin’ for it to crop owt in them. “Every week money'll be comin’ to you—every cent I don't need to keep body and soul together—until it's pald, principal and interest.” “T don't want the money, Paul," she said, and he under- stood what ale left unsaid. She didn't want the money; she did want him. “T'm obliged,” he said in the idiom of the place. “I fetched the squire te witnessa—and, If you need advisin', to give you advier,” "T need no advice,” she said. “What you must do, you must do. You know that best, Paul. But if you change your mind to-morrow, or next month, or in fifty years, eome back and rap on my door and I'll be here, Paul, waiting for you." “Good-by," he said, not offering his hand, not asking for the kiss she would have given ao gladly. In ite morality Amity is austere. In matters involving honesty it is hard and exacting. "Good-by, Paul," she said, and stood watching him until he passed out of the gate with the squire, and until a turned the corner, which seemed to shut him out of her ife, That was two years ago, the squire recalled, Every Monday alnee that day Jahaln Bond took from the post office an envelope containing & money order in her name. These she accepted without question, even though she knew the sacrifices and privations Paul underwent in onder to send them. She knew they were privationa she had not the right to deprive him of. But she did not touch the money. Every penny of it lay In the bank, and she regarded it as accursed. Jahala went to tenching school; picked up her life at the point where it was broken and carried it on in a manner considered by Amity ta be admirable. She did not com- plain, she did not pine; but neither did she take on again the lightness and gayety which had been hers before Fabius Sprague's death. She walked steadily, but quietly. She was not subdued so much as grave, and dignity so sat upon her that she seemed older than her years, Amity knew, a3 Squire Truman knew, that she would mot change. Neither would she be faithless to Paul, Each year would nid to her age; she would merge from maidenhoxd to spinsterhood, and that would be her Bt 5 “Ollo," said the squire, “did ye ever think how many innocent folks suffers, while guilty ones slipa of seet-freet" “The sing of the futhers," "said Ola, "That's Scripture fer it." “To owonder if Giawd interds ib eu, sale the fus- tice, “or if it's jest. the reault of hu- man fumblin’, Man has under- took the job of ladlin’ out punish ments, Nour's | kin see, the idee ia to hurt aomebasdy, it don't matter who. Kind of a gen'ral gettin’ even, as ¥e might say. One man up and commits a crime, and then justice sort of lashes out regard- lesa, “thouwt lookin’ to see who it hite.” "Thinkin' of Jahalaand Paul?" “Uh-huh,” said the squire, “On account of a mat- ter of twelye- fifteen thousand (Continued of Page Jd)

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i2 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST WOMEN fh Elaine HERE have been more beautlful girls | than Elaine, for I have read about them, and I have utter faith in the printed word, And expect my public, a few of whom are—juet a second—more than two and a@ quarter million weekly, to put the same credence in my printed word, When Tsaid =~ there have been more beautiful girls than A Elaine I lied. There haven't been. She waa adarb. Elue were her eyes os the fairy flax, her eyebrows were like curved snowdrifts, her neck waa like the swan, her face it was the {uirest that e'er the sun shone on, she walked in beauty like the night, her lips were like the cherries ripe that sunny walls of Boreas sereen, her teeth were like a flock of sheep with fleeces newly washen clean, her hair was like the curling mist that shades the moun- tain side at een, and oh, she danced in such a way no sun upon an Easter day was half so fine a sight! If I may interrupt the I should say she was one pip. She was, I might add, kind of pretty. Enchantment was hers, and fairyland her exclusive province. I would walk doom a commoanplice stroet with her, and it would become the pri path, and a one way path at that, with nobody but ua on it. If T said it was a nice day—and if I told her that once T told her a hundred times—she would say, Isn't it? My very words to Isabel when I telephoned her this morning!" So we had, I said to myself, a lot in common, And after a conversation like that I would go home and lie awake and think: “If two persons ean be in such harmony about the weather, a fundamental thing, a thing that prehistoric religions actually were based upon, what possible diseard ever could be between uaT For I have known families to be rent by dis- agreements aa to meteorological conditions. “Tent this,” my sister used to say, “a nie day?" "Wo," my reply used to be; “it's a drend- fulday. It's blowy, and it's going to rain." And I would warn my mother that my sister was likely to grow up into a liar, But, aa I have tried to hint, beauty was Elaine's, and when she spoke of the weather L used to feel marry for everybody whe had lived in the olden times, from yesterday back to the afternoon Adam told Eve that no matter how hot it was they always got a breeze, before there was any weather at all. Tt wasn’t only the weather. We weed to agree on other things, Once when she met a achoolgirl friend in Hyde Park whom she hadn't stew since a year aga, out in Lake View, ahe said that it wos a small world after all, and I told her she never sald a truer word. And about golf—she didn't think, she said one diy, that ft oa a strenuous aa tennis, but it eertainly took you out in the open air—well, that was how T felt about it too. So you see it wasn't just the weather, though at that time T thought that would be enough. Well, one day we were walking along, and she looked at me and sald, “I wonder if you'd like me so much if I werent pretty." BLANCHE FLLUITR TED ar Torr “Whenr'er I take my walka"'—you know ‘The rest—"abron,” I al Elaine or Mads oF Anne or 4, Belinda, Blanche or Marguerite; And Melancholy, bittersweet, Seta seal w mo when I view— Caldly, and fram a judgment ant— The women I'm not marrind to. Not — the sigha for Lon of mine to mourn the o *e. With Burne and Shelley, Reata and Pon T have no yearning to compete, No Dead Sea plekled peara I eat: T never touch a drop of rue; T boust, and drink my pleasure neat, The women Dim hot married tol Fate with ber celebrated blow gently knocks me olf my feet; And Loe ber dies box chucks a throw That oe has moe beat. Yet although has tried to treat Me rough, award the kid his doe, Look at the list, though incomplete: The women I'ta fot married to, ieee. h'kN For My dears, whom gracefolly [ greet, Gase at thean lucky ladiee who Are of —to muoke this thing conerecte— The wemes I'm not married to. ELAIWE It came over me that I shouldn't. should gay navt." “Noa,” I sald, VOT Mf By Franklin P. Adams WRG MARGUEBITE AT: The first honest thing you ever anid to me," she snid. June 42 2D TO “No, bt Een"t,"" I saad, "Tt is too,”* was ber rejoinder. “Tt's nothing of the kind” | at “Yes, [t int" she said, ber pete: ay getting the better of ber. So we parted on that, and ]ofue ==) = lucky I am te hawe escaped from fay =, distrust of honesty, and from ber peace: j pusionate bem per. Maude AUDE and [ might hove ten a together. She waa not the b=: couldn't be candid with. She weds 2} admired honesty and sincerity above all othe m she was deeply interested in me, which waa nator ey ae. [ had no reservations, no reticence fromber [ &J that when you cared about w gurl it wom wroeg | secrete from her. And that waa her policy, too, though now eel oe carried it ten far. One day I telephoned. ber ax | her what she had been doing that morning. “T've been reading the mcert fascitating bow said, “What book?" [ asked politely. “T ean"t remember the tithe,” she said, “bet 2) a man in love with a girl, and he ——" “Who wrote it? DT interrupted. “Wait a minute,” said Maude, I waited faz ci “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” she mid “I 9 the book. I thought I left it in my poom ad | ol around for it, and then [asked Hulda if she'd wr | she said no, though I asked her that the other dy something elae, and she said no os found out that she had seer, it do a drawer, 50 [ went to the [hor a book wasnt there, and ther | we tomy room and looked again, ee * 9 eoming back ta tell you T mck when here it is, ques where, F = telephone stand. Whowrete rt" [ay is the auther, A. M. S.—na wil ute—A. &. M. Autehinson, not Fo There's ann in it. Two a's re TeLH an tt betwen the ¢ and thes it's Hut=chin-son, and not Hut-ch = what's the difference who wows long as it's a good book?” There may have been more ‘4 Teasonably certain that the asthe was Hutehinsen, 60 [ hung up the receiver, thour' I felt at the time waa that hanging was too poo I had dinner with her that night at = rests “Coffee?” asked the waiter, “No,” [ said. And to her: ‘Coffer kee of If I tenk a cup now I wouldn't close ax eed Some folks can drink it and met nevtiow jt, bet cok [Cofttinued oa Paoge 34) Sfii vi

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By Dorothy Parker (EN I Freddie BOY!" people aay of Freddie, “You tought to meet him sometime! He's int, that's what he is—more fun than and mort imaginative souls play ly with the idea, and say that he ia = = tana barrel of monkeva. Stillothera =“ thing from a different angle, and refer i being a8 funng asa cruteh. But I el, mysell, that they stele the line idle. Satire—that is his dish, ee you have, really, one of Fredd- test cromes. People steal his stuff left. He will sag something one the next it will be as good as all over the city. rtime [ have gone to him and teld him that ard Jots of vaudeville acts using his comedy, f pute on the most killing expression and says wt suchly!" in that way of his, And of course » laughing so that [ can’t say another word ‘he way he alwaye is, just laughing it off when bat people are using his best lino without even aword of acknowledgment, [ never hear any- here ia guch a thing as being too good-natured" think of Freddie, a knew anyone like him on a party. Things ging along, the way they do at the beginning of Jwith the early arrivals sitting around asking have they been to anything good at the theater is it any wonder there ia so much sickness ithe weather so changeable. The party will be Plucking at the coverlet, when in will breeze ifram that moment on the eve- tehort of a whirlwind, Often and theard him called the life of the have always felt that there is nat of exaggeration in the expreecdan, vy about Freddie is that poise of i come right into a room full of d be just as much at home as tf ! through grammar school with nashes the ice all to nothing the 2 intreduced to the other guests gto misunderstand their names, tem something entirely different, tectly atraight face all the time ar realized there was anything at many people say he puts them eter Keaton that way. at a loss for a screaming crack, wks him to haves chair, Freddie ick at her with “No, thanks; we home. Df the host offers him a cigar, bse vill i flash “ What's the matter with it?” If one rows a cigarette and a light from him, Fred- i that dry voice of his “Do you want the ' Of course his wit is pretty fairly caustic, ‘er getta to take offense at it. I suppose re is everything in the way he says things, ihe is practically a whole vaudeville show fioro RAF MOND NOT FLLUITRATE DB Br ToNvYF FARE Noa matter where my route moy lis, No matter whither I repair, In briel—no matter how of wh Or when T go, the boya are t On lone and byway, street. ond square, 0 alley, path and avenue, Lid Seem to spring wp every where— The men Tam got married to, T watch them as they pasa me bys At each in wonderment I stare, And ‘Aut fer heaven's grace,” T erie “There goes the guy whose name ['d bear!” They represent no species rare, They walk and talk os others da; ns Bi fair to see—but only fair— The men [am oot married to. I'm sure that te a mother’s eye Is coch Atiolly o bear: Hut th at home they rank oce-high, No change of heart could 0 declare. Yat worry sibvers pot their hair: They deck them not with apriga of run. [t's curious how they de not care The men FT an pot meerried ta, Se For In fact, if they'd a chones to shore Their lot with me, 0 lifetime through, They'd doubtless tender me the sir— The men T om net married to, OLIFER MORTIMER in himael!. He ia never without a new story of what Pat said to Mike as they were walking down the street, or how Abie tried to cheat [kie, or what old Aunt Jemima answered 13 when ahe was asked why she had married for the fifth time. Freddie does them in dialect, and T have often thought it isa wonder that we don't all split our sides. And never a selection that every member of the family couldn't listen to either—just healthy fun. Then he has a repertory of song numbers too. He gives them without secompaniment, and every song has @ virtually unlimited nurm- ber of verses, alter each one of which Fred- die goea consclentiously through the chorus. There is one awfully clever one, a big favorite of his, with the chorus rendered a diferent way each time—showing how they sang it when grandma was a girl, how they sing it in gay Paree and how a cabaret performer would do it. Then there are several along the general lines of Casey Jones, two or three about negroes who specialized on the banjo, and a few in which the lyric of the chorus consists of the syllables “ha, ha, ha." The ides is that the audience will get laughing along with the singer, If there is a piano in the house Freddie can tear things even wider open. There may be many more accomplished Tusicians, but nobody can touch him as far a being ready to oblige goes. There is never any of this hanging back, waiting ta be coaxed or protesting that he hasn't touched a key in months. He just sits right down and daca all his. specialties for you. He is particularly good at doing Dixie with one hand and Home, Sweet Home with the other, and Josef Hofmann himself can‘t tie Freddie when it comes to glving an imitation of a fifeand-drum corp approaching, passing and fading away inte the distance. But it is when the refreshments are served that Freddio reaches the top of his form. He ulways insista on helping to pasa plates and glasses, and when he gets a big armful of them he pretends to stumble, It is as good a9 a play to see the hoetesa”’ face. Then he tucks his napkin into his collar, and sits there just as solemnly as if he thought that were the thing to do; or perhaps he will vary that one by folding the napkin into a little square and putting it carefully in his pocket, as if he thought it was a handker- chief, You just ought to see him making believe that he has swallowed an olive pit. And the remarks he makes about the food—I do wish I could remember how they go. He is funniest, though, it seema to me, when he is pretending that the lemonade is intoxicating, and that he feels its effects pretty strongly, When you have seen him do this it will be small surprise to you that Freddie is in such demand for social functions. But Freddie is net one of theat humeorists who perform onky when out in society, All day long he is bubbling over with fun. And the beauty of it ia that he is not a mere theorist, os a joker; practical—that's Freddie all over. Tf he isn't sending long telegrams, collect, to his friends, then he is sending them packages of useleas groceries, C.0. 0D, A telephone is just so much meat to him. (Continued on Page 42)

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HE day was Saturday—pay day. My envelope I'd brought home with me from the insurance offices, the place in Pine Street where I worked; and I was meaning to give Josie hers for the house, after which I'd hold out the usual five-spot I was tucking away ench week in the savings. Lert Gerken, though, was giving» purty that might, it seems; and Sadie, his wife, she'd ealled up on the Phone asking Josit and mito gro along. Bert was putting up for the tickets; but I'm no sponge — | was through with standing him wp like that. Tf Josie and I went along again I meant to fpuy my why’, “We're going, aren"t wet" Josie asked me, I wasn't sure. T wanted to talk it over first, Tt would cost us a goed fiveapecker, Twas certain; and the way Bert und his wife were spending maney— the theater first, and a rabbit after- wards, then a cab, maybe, Lo come home in—for all I knew, it might fet us back ever Tore, "But it's only this enee," pleaded Josie. “Besides, we haven't been out for days." She'd been making a dress, it seems, It wasn't a new drees, I mind, but one she'd turned and made over; theigh that's neither here nor there. The dress was ao much like a new one, she was just hankering to have some- one Bee it. “Geel gheeald. “D'll pot it an te ahow you.” She was running out of the room when I called her back again. “IT guess we'd better not go," [ said, And Taaid, too, I remember, if we went we'd be kept out ill late; and with all the work I'd been doing down to the office I was pretty tired, “Besides, Josie," I told her, “there's all that money it'll cost.” The look she gave me I remember yet. “Then you're not going, JimT" ; It was what I meant, all right. The bills, the household accounts, had been pretly stiff that week; and leaving out the rest of it, I'd been a good deal worrted, That wasn't all of it either, What with all the hard times going on, down at the insurance office they'd been laying off men night and left. Jose, though, turned away from me while I was talking and went toward the door, “Boker was right," she said, “What he saya is true!" “What's that?” said [. Boker, I'll add, was fellow the Gerken knew. He was a Wall Street man, a bird who dealt in atocka; but it was news to ma Josie had ever heard about him, “He says that all your life you're going to be a clerk,” she anid. [t wasn't what Boker had said to me, though never tind. What Josie said fixed it. It was because of that, the Monday after, that I went downtown and did what I did. if CLEERE all my life, wos what she'd told me. That wasn't the first time, either, I'd had it said to me. The kick in it, though, was that it was all etraight goods, the truth. T'd tumbled myself te what I eas, FEEUSFTRATED By Maximilian Foster iY 4ARTAUE Wilil aw

ft War Wall Street That Scored Near, The Noda" Gugued the Riek J Far Taking That Saturday night I still remember clearly. It isn't likely, in fact, that I'll ever forget it. Josie gave me my dinner; but it wasn't much of a meal, I'll say. She just aat there, looking straight before her; and as for myself, T didn't have much appetite, either, After the meal wus over and she had cleured away the things she came into the front room where I was trying to read the evening paper, and sat down and began to rock. She was still just lorking straight ahead of her; but after a while she spoke, “They're just starting new," ahe said. [ knew what she meant, but I said nothing. A little later che spoke again. “The curtain's just going up," said Josle Testill kept silent; and Josie went on rocking, her eyes fastened on the wall. <A while afterwards she estopped reching, and got up from the chair, “Th we keep on saving,” said Joe, “maybe in filteon of twenty years we can buy a farm somewheres out in Con- necticut.” She was at the door when ahe said it, As she went down the hall she spoke again. “We might as well be dead,” she said. T thought so tea. Anjway, alter she'd gone I laid down the paper [id been trying to read; and for an hour then, like Josie, I ant there staring before me at the wall. If you're @ clerk, a chap like me, stalling along on a salary, you'll understand, I wouldn't wonder, what went on in my head that night. As I've said, it wasn"t all of it new tome. A year before, a friend of mine—a fellow down at the office—had tipped me olf to where I was heading; but it hadn't sunk in very deep. That month I'd had a raise to Afty per; and at the time it had looked to me like all the money in the world. Let that go, however; I'll get to it later on. Just now I'm telling what went on in my head that night. June ng E BUCKET BOOE It was myself 0 thought of. of = OVER Wears now, pearly wight, I's ben 9 ing down the job; and the sever pan, | BROWN sat there mulling it over, weet by oe & paitice * Fete a Face fe Out out fis fare 5 a Fer © ic ot | seg nr 1 fb i CT fi a Tag hea over of ac. Thr Brat ine] bet f Wr rg Beers te Wiis * my co hen in Youg ec thou! ail kaw gy Cetia fod fir a a day aur i a he ing [= did the | als tat = [= 1 wool wi of ie 2 ce if teat, & aio chia - 1 a hire barr | tkata 1 ‘Tre = [a Ps to 2" wea’ = wee a". 4 day i of, lis mec 3 that. I got to thinking of Bert Gerken ext t) Bert eould give Sadie all she wae getting © I give it to Josie too? Under my collar [ be: 4 Iremember, Gerken I hated. It was the ac u roll he was flashing nowadays, that had mew trouble for me. Bert was clerk in another insurance ofa 1 he got only fifty per; but Sadie bad all the mew clothes she wanted, and she was keeping ae girl, besides. Bert had a car too. “Sav, how do you do it, Bert?” I asked Se He tipped me a wink. “Boker,” he said; “Wall Street." I can see the ewagger he gave. A cheapie learned since, puts on a lot of bugs just be stocks. It scared me, I'll say, however office Potter, the head clerk, always wna playing the market. If we emg at we understood, sia "Rate!" said Bert. I made him sick, he smid. ' Potter said was bunk. It was the regular handed out to clerks like us just te h elutehes. I could ask Roker if I didn't Boker, however, [ didm't have to mak, I'd begun to dope it out for myself. there in the front room of the fat, I i more. Then, getting myself a pencil ad fell to figuring. If Bert, a big boob like away with the game, why couldn't L struck; and I still sat there firuring. It wasn’t the first time ['d done that } I'd been doing it: and between tiene dowd I'd been doing it some more. [+°s the er fact, With the boobs and alms, the bo ee Boker trim. The evening payee: | &. a open at the financial page: a4 =a: |

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ihe market [rom the week's range of prices the we Flew hundred dollara was what Joele and I ed away in the savings; and—on paper—-[ was oy uchit would have been boosted into if I had tat weak and played it on the market. You see, iomake pore before T did anything that I knew as docg. They all do it, you know—all the Ieeaeota: and if all that money, the fake tind lice myself roll up on paper, ever became w. it would bankrupt the country to pay it. thing, though. Along past midnight I threw penell 1 waa using: and getting up from my ged hack to Jose's room. wit!” I piped. fring there, her eyes closed and her hair all in ihe pillows. Just a girl she was, a kid yet. he'd gune to bed: but as I turned on the light I erfac, It was all stained and streaked where herself to sleep, T sow, ed hereyes at me. Then she closed them again. you wouldn't wake me," sald Josie. idon’t understand,’ Tsaid, Again I told her at?" ahe asked. to get on our feet," T answered. slover on the pillow, turning away from me. to sleep," she said: and after that I said no it I didn’t go near her again. In the front eup a bed for myself on the lounge; and in zshe found me there. She said nothing, (neither did T, All that day—Sunday now— aking, I could see; but what her thoughts In't guess. Along toward half past two that ntup and went around to Bert Gerken’s flat, locks away, but Bert was out, He was up the Fiteeeme: and it waan't till late that night— rso—that I found him. Boker's office?” T asked him. ee. [twas in a big office bullding a couple of there Deworked; and after I'd talked to Bert ack to the flat. Josie had gone to bed again; ’ T made up my bed on the lounge. fen o'clock that next morning—Monday— ren te Boker's place, the bucket shop. TIF ole, I wouldn't wonder, will grin when they a “The boob, the simp!" [ can hear them Il right, of cours; vadd, too, that I'm get away with any to duck out from eS fd eas i ai vs —_ ee ee Aer Pan fet. “2 A0@ Market's Cleaned Me Oat, and Moe Lort Eoary Red § Ned™ 15 a Jat TAédsre Ail Crompled Up. under, What I'm trying to make clear is only what hop pens to the simpe, the boobs. It isn’t just greed, you know, that makes all the come-ong so easy. Ask yoursell, for instance, how you'd like to have a job like mine star. ing you in the face the rest of your natural. Lf you have a wife how would you like it, too, to have her up against it like Josie? At nine that morning a3 usual I was at my job down- town. The time clock was in the basement; and after I'd hung up my hat ond coat T got inte line with the others. There were forty or fifty of them in all, fellows like myself: and the grouch I had on you cil hawt cut with a knife ike a London fog they tell about. “Hey! Quit dig- ging me jn the back," the fellow in front of me sotd. I didn’t say anything back to him, though it's a wonder, When I got to the time clock I shoved my card into the alot; then I gave the clack a smash that rattled the works inside, Say, what's eaths" you, anyway?” said the fellow shead. Tstuck out my jaw, I remember, Then I shoved him owt of the way. “Get upstairs to your stall, you horae,"" I said. I thought for a moment he was going tobiffme. Hedidn't, though. I could see his face change, his jaw drop- plog; then he slouched on up the staira to his desk. He was thireing; and whet I'd snid, I wouldn't wonder, hit him harder than if I'd given him a poke in the riba. A lot T cared! Old Pot= ter, the bead clerk, waa sitting there, waiting, as usual, to aot we got to work; and afterId slammed over to my desk and rattled around a bit, making all the noise “UF Fow Tell —" He Whispered I liked, there was a sudden crash. It waa old Potter Batting the desk with his ruler. “Order !" he snapped, T slammed the cleak just to show him what I thought, That was how I felt, you know. Afterwards I fell to etudy- ing Potter the way I'd been dolng for a fortnight past. He wus a seedy, worn-out old fellow, For twenty-five years or more he had sat there in that room, drudging away at the job; and the more I looked at him the more Tsaw what I wos heading for if [kept on as I was, Potter, true, was head clerk in the office; but aa I figured, if for twenty-five yeara or a0 [ was ateady and careful, and if every morning [ punched the time clock regularly, why, at the end of all those years the best I'd get would be a job like his. And even if I did, too, that waa no license I'd go on keeping the jeb, Already, in fact, there was a whisper going the rounds that they meant to put the skids under Potter, He was getting old, and they meant to give him the gate. I wasn’t much good that morning. The work I did wasn't worth the ink [ wasted. I just sat and atudied Potter, Added te this, there was something fishy and queer that day about him that began to catch my tye. He had a newspaper apread open on his deak, and he seemed to be figuring something from it. Every time, though, any of the clerks came near him be would shove it out of sight. I wondered what he was upto. Then, along toward eleven o'clock he got up from his desk, tucked the paper in his pocket and scuttled to the deor, That settled it forme. He hardly was out of sight when T was up and out of the room, Five minutes later I was over at the bank, the savings, where I'd tucked away our nest egg. It was a joint account Josie and I kept there; but the whole eleven hundred I didn’t draw out in a heap. A hundred was all I got. [ wanted to go slow at first, you know. I remember, though, I shook a little as [ took it from the teller: and aa] went down the etreet, the hundred inmy pocket, [ had my mitt an the money, The joke was I was afraid someone on the way to Boker’s would get it off me. “Why, hello!" said Boker as I pushed open the door of the place, The room was upetairs in an office building. A big blackboard ran across the place; and the beard was fled with columns of figures. At the ends of ft, too, were o eouple of stock tickera clanking and stamping away; and at the back was a set of other rooms, the private offices. It was all pretty swell, I'll say, its furniture new and shiny, and on the floor a big expensive rug. Tn front of the beard were four er five rows of chairs; and on these sprawled a lot of men, the customers, met of them talking and emoking. At the back and sides stood ather men. The place, in fact, was crowded; but the minute T opened the door Boker had seen me. He seemed to keep his eye on the door most of the time, I'll mention; thaigh [ won't take time with that. "How's the market?" [ asked him. (Centiawed en Page 57!

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16 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Ty) ho o Zh .@lom ISCEé tor Mostiy he phileaophized about the market. Now I wanted Jews of his mature wisdom and more of the early Larry Livingston. Ut would help me to understand him in his prime, One evening when I epoke about his unusual ability ta read the tape he merely nodded, But | persisted: “You were born with it. But bow cid you come to develop itt" “My carly training. The first job [ over had,” “T'd like to hear about it,” I said. But that evidently was not enough, friendly aa we had becuwme It is not duiieult to start a man ot tulking. But to get him to narrate vou must work on him when he is in the mond: Any professional writer of fiction knows that there are times when story-telling comet easier than we others. “There ian't mutch te tell," he enid, But [sew in his eves that he suw in mine that 7 was listening with my very gowl, And then I knew the story was coming, He spoke in a. matter-of-fact voice, un- hesitatingly, remembering facts, unconcerned with people, At times I asked questions, and he answered without the slightest impatience and wert on, steadily and emotionlesaly as amachine, I have suppressed some of my questions, leaving his answers. “Twent to work when Twas a kid out of grammar school. I got a job as quotation-board boy in a stock-brokerage office. [was quick at figures. At school I did three years af arithmetic in one, To was particularly good at mental arithmetic, As quotation-board boy I posted the numbers on the big board in the customers’ room. One of the customer usually eat by the ticker and called owt the prices. They couldn't come too fast forme. I have always remembered tgures. No trouble at all. “There were plenty of other employés in that office, Sure, [ made friends with the other fellows, but the work I did, if the market was active, kept me too busy from ten a.m, to three Pow, to let me do much talking. I don't enre for it, anyhow, during business hours.” | SAW Livin ston many times in his offeeand at his home, Learning te Read the Tape “DUT ao busy market did not keep me from thinking about the work, Those quotations did not represent Prices of stocks to me, so many dollara per share. They were numbers. Of course, they meant something, They wert always changing. It was all I had to be interested in—the changes. Why did they change? I didn't know. T didn't care, I didn’t think about that, I simply saw that they changed. That was all 1 had to think about five hours every day and two on Saturdays; that they wert always changing. "That is how I firat came to be Interested in the be havior of prices, T had a very gomd memory for figures. T could remember in detail how the prices had acted on the previous day, just before they went up or down. My fondness for mental arithmetic came in very handy. HPECORA TIONS ar SR “T noticed that in advances as well as declines, stock prices were apt to show certain repetitions. There was no end of parallel cuses and they crented precedents to guide me. I was only fourteen, but after I had taken hundreds of obgervations in my mind I found myself testing their accuracy, comparing the behavior of stocks today with other days. It was not long before I was anticipating movements In prices, Miy only guide, as [ say, was their past performances, I carried the dope sheets in my mind, T looked for stock prices to run on form. I had clocked them. You know what I mean, "You can spot, for instance, where the buying is only a trifle better than the gelling. You can see the gradual overcoming of resistance, the carrying of defenses, A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telesrope. Yu can depend upon it seven out of ten times. “Another lesson I lenrned early ts that there is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old aa the bills, Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again, I've never forgotten that.” “Wa,” I said, “you don't forget what has happened. But you also manage to remember when and how, You carry the precedents in ‘your head and can utilize them. That ia experience—the fact that you remember." “Why shouldn't I remember?” Livingston asked simply. “No reason,” [ said with conviction, and thought of Paul Morphy"s memory. Then I thought of the mind of the average stock speculater. No wonder! Livingston went on: “T got so interested in my game and so anxious to anticipate advances and declines in all the active stocks that I got a little book. I put down my observations in it, Tt was not a record of imaginary transactions such as so many people keep merely to make or lose millions of dollars without getting the swelled head or going to the . By Edwin Lefévre ce BLUMENTHAL -— pourhouse. Tt was rather a sort of record @ op mies, anid next to the determination of pol ments | waa moet interested in verlyag © observed accurately; in other words, whether | “Say that after studying every fluctuation Sagar [ would conclude that the steck was he always did before she broke eight or ten je I would jot down the stock and the price oc Mil remembering past performances [ would sri! it ought to do on Tuesday and Wednesday. check up with actual trenseriptions from te “That & how I first came to tok oo message of the tape, The fluctuation: weref nesociated in my mind with upward od - ments, Of course thore is abways o reason er but the tape dasa not concern ftself with wherefore, It doesn't go into explanations, 7 the tape why when I was fourtesn, ad 1 today, at forty, The reason for whet oer today may not be known for two or three dg or months, But what the dickens dom thal business with the tape is now—nol tomo aon can wait. But you must act intently ao and again I see this happen, You'll remember! Tube went down three points the other day 3 of the market rallied sharply. That was thei following Monday you saw that the directory dividend. That was the reason, They kb were going to do, and even if they didn't themselves they at least didn't buy it. There buying, no reason why it should not break” Livingston's First Tip : ELL, [ kept up m3 Little memoranden aix months. Instead of leaving for bo @ I was through with my work, I'd jot dow & wanted and would study the change, shear the repetitions and parallelisms of beharcr read the tape, although [ was not aware of = “One day one of the office boys —be wm 4 came to me where [was eating my bones 208 the quiet if [ had any money, “Why do you want to know?" [ said “Well, he said, ‘I've got = dandy tip & T'm going to play it if I can get somebody too “How do you mean, play it?" I asked. 71 people who played or could play tips were be old jiggers with oodles of dough. Why, =~ even thousands of dollars, to get into like owning your private carriage and bays! “That's what I mean; play it! he wl 7 you gotT" | “How much you need ?* “'Well, | can trade in five shares: by 22 “How are you going to play it? “"T'm going to buy all the Burlingum tt will let me have with the money [ give b= he sald. ‘It's going up sure, It's Eke poe) We'll double ours in a jiffy." “Hold on!" T suid to him, and polled ox

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THE SATURDAY EVENING wan't intersted In doubling my money, but in his at Borington was going up. If it was, my note git toshow it. I looked. Sure enough, Burling- orang tomy figuring, was acting as it usually did pect up. | hed never bought of sold anything in aed Loever gambled with the other boys, But all poe wae that this waa a grand chance to test the acter work, of my bobby Tt struck me at once y dope didnt work in practice there waa nothing worry it to interest anybody. Sa T gave him all dowith oar pooled resources he went to one of the tychet shopa and bought some Burlington. Two ewecshel in, I made a profit of $4.12," repted Livingston. “You remember, exactly?" I Il, se it waa your first trade?" [ persisted. ge T remember," he said, ‘was to learn that Livingsten simply can't forget it is ag though he carried with him photographs quotation boards or milea of ticker tape. that first trade," proceeded Livingstan, “I got ta won my own hook in the bucket shops, I'd go rlunch hour and bug or sell—it never made any tome, To was playing a eystem and not a fa- ck ar backing opinions, All I knew wos the taf it, Aa a matter of fact, mine was the ideal erate in a bueket chop, where all that a trader bet on fluctuations as they are printed by the che tape. not long before T waa taking much more money bucket shops than I was pulling down from my brokerage office. So I gave up my position. bjected, but they couldn't say much when they [was making. I was only a kid and ofice-boy anot very high. I did mighty well on my own interrupted Livingsten. “Didn't it go te your ke so much money?" ‘hy should it?" He asked it simply. ion!" F said again, fy not,” he went on. “The money wasn't any y. [remember when I had made my firet thou- id the cash in front of my mother." iwere you?" all in the bucket shopa?™ ‘months tT" dl head taken home other money besides, My ied on something awful, She wanted me to in the savings bank out of reach of temptation. ras more money than ahe ever heard any boy id made, starting with nothing. She didn't tit waa Teal money. She used to worry and . And I? Oh, I didn’t think of anything could keep on proving my figuring wee ght, 2fun there is—being right by using your hewd, when DT tested my convictions with ten shares nm times rigghit er il T traded ina hundred shares, tat having moore margin meant to me—I was mphatically. More courage? Nol No dil- il have is ten dollars and I risk it, Tam much shen I risk a million, if | have another million feating the Bucket Shops there I was, at fourteen, making a living oul o¢k market. I began in the smaller bucket he man whe traded in twenty shares at a clip of being John W. Gates in disguise or J. P, ling incognita. No! Bucket shops in those igy down om their customers. They didn't e were other ways of parting customers from ven when they gucssed right. The busines waly profitable. When if was condurctect I mean, straight, a9 far aa the bucket shop stuntigns terol cure of the sahoestrings, It such of m reaction to wipe out n margin of irters of a point. Also, no welsher could in the Fame. Wouldla't have any trade. t have a following. | kept my busi- lt was @ one-man business, anyhow, awaan'tit? Prices either were going «] thern out, without any help from ners, or they Were going the other iy could stop them out of . 1 couldn't see where | my business to anybody ‘riends, of course, but my always 8 OnG= hat is always and. didn't =. ia bucket shopa to get sore on me for beating them. I'd walk in and plank down my margin, but they'd look at it without making a move to grab it, They'd tell me there was nothing doing. That was the time they got to call- ing me the Kid Flunger. I hod to be chang- ing brokers all the time, going from one bucket shop to another, It got ao that I had to give ao fictitious name. I'd begin light, only fifteen or twenty shares. At times, when they got suspicious, Td lose on purpose at first and then sting them proper. Of ecurse after a little while they'd find ma too expensive and they'd tell me to take myself and my business elaewhere and not interfere with the owners’ dividends. Once, when the big concern I'd been tracing with for months shut down on me] made up my mind to take a little more of their money away from them. That bucket shop had branches all over the city, in hotel lobbies, and in near-by towns. I went te one of the hotel branches and asked the manager afew questions and finally got to trading, But as soon as I played an active stock my especial way he began to get messages from the head office asking who it was that was operating. The manager told me what they asked him and I told him my name was Edward Robinson, of Cambridge. He telephoned the glad news te the big chief, But the ather end wanted to know what I looked like. When the manager told me that T said te him, “Tell him T am a short fat man with dark hair and a bushy beard!" But he de- scribed me instead, and then he listened and his face got rel and he hong up and tald me to beat it. ‘What did they say to you?’ I asked him politely, "They said, *You blankety-blank fool, didn't we tell you to take no business from Larry Livingston? Amd you let him trim us out of $7001" He didn't say what else they told him. “Tl tried the other branches one after another, but they all got to know me, and my money wasn't any good in any of their offices. I coukin't even go in to look at the quetationa without some of them mak- ing cracks at me. I tried to get them to let me trade atlang intervals by dividing my visits among them all. But that didn’t work. “Finally there was only one left tome and that was the biggest and richest: af al]— the Cogmapal- itan Stock Hrokerage Company. "The Cos- mopeliten ia ha rited asf A J and did an corres bviasl ness. Ut had branches in CY ers’ SL EL = facturing town in New Eng- land, They tovk my trac ing all right, and T baaght POST 17 and anld etecks atid mide and Tost money for months, but in the end it happened with them ss usual. They didn't refuse my business point-blank, as the small concerns had. Oh, not because it wasn't sportsmanship, but because they knew it would give them a black eye to publish the news that they wouldn't take a fellow's business just berause that fellow happened to make a litth money. But they did the next worse thing—that is, they made me put up a three-point margin and compelled me to pay a premium wt first of a half point, then a point, and finally, 2 pom and a half. Some handicap, that! How? Essy! Suppose Steel waa selling at 0) and you bought it. Your tieket read, nor- mally; “Bot ten Steel of 4." Tf you put up a point margin it meant that if it broke 8944 you were wiped out automatically. In a bucket shop the customer & net im portuned for more margin or put to the painful necessity of telling his broker to sell for anything he can get. “But when the Cosmopolitan tacked on that premium they were hitting below the belt. It meant that if the price was 90 when I bought, instead of making my ticket: ‘Hat Steel af 9016," it rend: ‘Bet Sieel af orig.” Why, that stock could advance a point and a quarter after [ bought it and I'd still be losing money if I closed the trade, And by also fnskting that [ put up a three-point margin at the very start they reduced my trading capacity by tere thirds. Still, [ had to accept their terms or quit trading.” “And you beat the game at that?" T asked Living- ston. It was more than interesting, more than in- credible: it wes positively uneanny. “Yes, Of course [ had my ups and downs, but was a winneron balance. However, the 0 than people were not saliehed with the awlul handicap they had tacked on me, which should have been enough to beat anybody, They tried to double-cross me. They didn’t get me. I escaped because of one of my hunches.” Lncanny Tape Reading N PREVIOUS conversations we had discizesad what pee ple call hunches, Livingston described it a3 a distinct message from Che tape, a feeling that the litth paper ribbon. is telling him to get out and stay out until the sky clears again. Later, when he told a half dozen stories in illustra- tion af his meaning T eume te the conclusion that it waa the curious ticker instinct to which I have referred. Livingston has it toa greater degree than any other operator I ever met. But James FR. Keene possessed that sare sixth sense, and although he always cented that he acted on blind impulse I am convinced that the only reason the Whitney-Ryan group didn’t get Keene on two historic ocemsions wee that Keene smelt the trap. Born operaters of the type of Keone and Liv- ingston urt often uble to do the right thing instantly because: they do it inatinetivealy. Liv. ingeton wert om: "The Cosmopolitan was my Isat resort. It was the richest bucket shop in New England, and a8 a rule they put no limit on a trade, I suppose [ was the heaviest individual trader they hod—that is, of the steady, everyday cus- tomera, They had a fine office and the largest and completes! quotation board I have ever seen anvwhere. It ran along the whole length of the big room and every imaginable thing was quoted. I mean etacke dealt in on the New York and Huston Steck Exchanges, eatbon, wheat, pro- visions, metuls everything that wis bought and sald in New York, Chicago, Boston and Liver- pon, "You know how they trade in bucket shope. You give your money to a clerk and tell him what you wish te iniy or all He looke at the tape or the quotation board and takes the price from there—the last one, of course. He also puts dewn the time on the ticket eo that it almost reads like @ regular broker's report—thet is, that they have SS bought or sold for you s0 many + shares of such a stock at such ao price at such a thme on such a day and how much money they received from you. When you wish to close your trade you go to the clerk — the game or another, it depencs on the shop— and you tell him. He takes the laat price or, if the stock has mot been active, he waits (Continued on Page #3)

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18 Vi [THIN Chicago, great bulging town that it is, are many Chicagne—like raising in abun; and a bun which, say many folks, ia net eugared, or even properly baked, Be that aa it may, chunked together like shale and sandstone, quarts nnd limestene, granite, «at's gold and gravel are seg- ments, suburbs and sides, sireeia and neighborhoods, locales, seetiona, subdivisions, additions, districta and parks, so that old inhabitants grow confused and make comparisons that are peevish. There is Hyde Park, beautifully gray and Gothle to ite south, and unbeautifully diseordant and rattling to its east. There is Evanston, where culture and human nature have a daily boxing match. The Wilson Avenue district, which buys silk stockings for ita ankles before ever it puys its kitchenette rent, Ravenswood, soul mate toa Flatbush. Butchers’ Row, whose rich butchers, having climtsed their little while, are now for the moet part dead and will climb no more, There is Austin, home of the newly married young business man from the Loop. The preoccupied Loop itself, ping-ponged with skyscrapers and great green busses, The Gold Coast. The Rialto. Ghetto. Mich" Boul’. Cottage Grove—oh, ghastly misnomer! May- wood, whose woody adjacences bloasom in May and eleven other months with constabulary brightly ready to pluck speeding joy-riders. : And, out north, beyond the candy and florist shops of Wilson Avenue, ia Edgewater, where Blanche Perkina was born and attended echool—public school, Lithographs of Blanche now hang in every North Side drugstore. Phono graph shops all over Chicage are particular to keep her records in stock. The world has changed sine Bible times, The modern prophet collects all due honor in her own country; provided foreign musleal journala carry full- length photogravures of her in a chinchilla-and-rosc- velvet evening coat. Not many jeara ago the old-fashioned cable cara of North Clark Street clanked at Edgewoter's back door, while the cold lake winds tore across high prairie grass to its front, Ten-year-old Blanche Perkins used to whimper tenor- fully wintry moons as abe breasted that cold wind seven blocks from the schoolhouse to the Perkins five-room cot- tage on Hom Avenue. So Rance Whitely used to walk four blocks out of hia own way to hold his overcoat in front of her black curls and soft pink-whipped face as wind- break, For a decade or ao Edgewater teased up ornate six to ten room cottages and twoeflat buildings as a white-coated individual in a lunch-room window tosses flapjacks. The eable cara were finally discarded and became a memory; along with marble-topped bureaus, board side walka, Altgeld arguments and kerosene street lamps. The strip of frontal territory between Edgewater and Lake Michigan took on, decoratively and aa windbreak, a series of golf links, a Sheridan Foond connecting even as far north a Milwaukee with the Auditorium and the Fine Arta Building, and along the road numerous stone mansions whoee well-to-do inhabitants could afford to make remulor use of links, road and Fine Arta Building. With the years there came, too, other changes than land- soape pnd architectural. Between blue-eyed Berry Stay, racing her black roadster past the links, and two feverish motorcycle persons who had caught her, Rance Whitely THE SATURDAY EVENING POST oice of Blanche By IDA M. EVANS FLLUITAATES AY EEFLIE me BEAT ON He Called Her Seery! Faice oad “dy Dear" had to act one autumn noon a somewhat amused, some= what annoyed buifer. "fond I had to say you were suddenly taken ill, ready to faint, and Jest control of the wheel,” he objected, “Lam never ill! I am not in the habit of fainting!" stormed Berry; ae waa of the valiant and healthy younger generation, “If [I'd heard you"'—indignantly—*“ I'd tald ‘em it was a lie.” But there was the kind of gratitude in her upturned dark blue eyes, ridiculously candid, ridiculously long-lashed eyes, which caused Rance Whitely to flush in a slight awkwardness and to pretend to look at something forces the adjacent professionally green turl. A man doea not Mush awkwardly ond pretend not to have seen it when he is anxious to get euch a look of grati- tude from young blue eyes. Presently he asked Berry to let him out—he had an appointment on his way back from hunch to business. Berry had pieked him up on his after-lunch way to his place of business, the Whitely Plumbing Supplies. She often picked Hance Whitely up—on his way some where or back from somewhere, This in spite of his four- teen years” seniority, and as well in spite of her having heard, from several different people, all about Blanche Perkins, Berry lived in one of the newest stone houses on the road. The Stays had bought it considerably after the flapjack period, Tt was during the early years of that period that Blanche Perkins left Chicago, thereby blighting Rance Whitely's life, as he grimly felt and os Edgewater gossip declared. Edgewater did not blame her for leaving or for the blighting. Nor did Rance Whitely. She had a right to go, Her voice was her right. [she had not also had a face —— At ten Blanche had been a soft, pink-cheeked, plump thing with long black curla who was always called upon Children's Day or Christrnas Eve to sing We are Happy ohare or God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen—or Angels’ aral, At sixteen she waa a tall, lovely white thing with a great knot of lustrous black hair at the nape of a perfect neck. She had copied the knot from an operatic pose of Frieda Hempel. Sundays, after the morning servies at Second Church, when she had sung devoutly Love Divine, All Love Ex- etlling—solo—many young men of Edgewater went to their homes of rooming houses and spent the afternoon figuring Just how much a cottage on Hood or Rosemont Avenue, or a beeeflat building, would eet; monthly pay- ments of course, thirty-by-one-hundred-and-fifty lot, which allowed a nice space for cement sidewalk, eight tomate plants and a young onion bed in the back yard. Possibly a gorage later. She had a contralto vole of remarkable range and clarity. [t had a peculiar birdlike note. Tt recalled to your Gace, Aad Ne— Ae Nalf Proposed Tune 5 ak 2 a tulips, orage without Wa and suck ial Sw tool ‘thy of grand when she wae Goes) wia when sho bem soloket of the choy Her career was & in her mind whee fifteen and a kell when she was became half pg Hanes Whitely. | She told hirs casi a whole: : , be fair to her any = ' to him. She wood seo first with bere! Af and children and 2 pe toe be lighted early of on Edgewater morning { r coffee and eggs did not appeal to her. For quite a while Rance Whitely, reg dite young besides, hoped that the probable wou- impossible. He tried carefully wo explain the: a make her happier than might ome Signor Gam living and active at thet time. Flaunce’s facher be died and left him the small Plumbing shop on Nat a which might in time grow into = murrelen “Well, if you really love me yoa"ll wait.” “Ten years?" he wanted plaintively to know. & boyish voice and forehead and a wellchaped om “Even then To wouldn't be twenty-eaght ae pointed out Blanche firmly. “Wo, you wouldn't. Still ——‘™ “And either [ll have been Brunhild by tae T won't." Her glowing young eyes were as black — ghe was well-built too: even at sevrentem Se chest capable of the proper development. (ice well picture her as a handsome and success! Rance Whitely's mouth comers went dews Humpty Dumpty of well-known tale, ! While he continued to lay before Blanche eradicable beliefs of men—oh, the men who same to other glowing-eyed, talented young father and mother were doing what they Thaneus Perkins was a house. His income therefore cin be a my Neither his life nor that of Blanche’s mothe pleasure. Blanche was ten years old whe paying for their five-room cottage in E their only living child. Earnestly they marry Rance Whitely—or some other Fdpeet mun—and settle down in a monthiy-paymensi two-flat building on Howl Avenue, where thes the advantage of her and her children’s oo cially for Sunday dinners. But most parenta know when thelr hope Even while advising, suggesting, com secretly saving on laundry soap sme b wore the game overcoat from Blanch day to her twenty-third, It fell He complained that the material wap to sue the dealer who sold it to him. *” Eestatically, on their savings, she de York, for attninment, for that realical! ness Which all ports and many highs most politicians try steadily to explain large, as beyond poor human reach P Rance Whitely dipped recklessly into hoe oT rent to taxi ber and her fowers from [me

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 19 pod ber trunk to Canal Street, and the old dingy tation, [tis a most dingy place for the hopes and that have come and gone from it in its day. sped agnin, desperately and unwisely, considering aeven of that day, for a dozen great pale pink d five pounds of Wilson Avenue’s best candy. a wee ed with wide purple satin ribbon, the thred. istation Manche buried her lovely white, antici- jin the pinknesa of the roses. But she did not care indy, She suid practically that he ought to have ped that candy was bad for a singer's throat. goat the window of her day coach—she would berth, preferring to put the money toward future woe—ehe told him not to feel unhappy—she'd ctohim. Someday. He sould rest asaured. She . Inepite of her aseurance, in her birdlike voler, jack from the station to his work sober of Ince, ail arountl his arnall plumbing shop as though he and all its paltry mechanical contents, dull with his friends, silent with his customers thormore. So that Fred Ordwood, whe waa a | custemer both, deemed it necemary to tri yrace him into normal state, ip dest not always make for wisdom. Fred tle unwisely': ick, Denll it, But don't let her going away spoil ad man. There's another girl or two in the may be hundreds, for all I care. And please ch words ma ‘low trick" in connection with leparture from here, She merely left to develop as she had a perfeet right to." sing, can't she?" This sharply. jaing.” said Fred with conviction. “I'll say ing On the Way to Madeline, One Silv'ry Night che Evarta" girl" party that night. On the way diy got the question out before Minnie Hale tin my arms and wanted to know if I'd just - pale blue oatmeal paper in the dining room." tations of his friend on a natural event were ‘proffered that Fred hastily changed the sub- howest estimate for open plumbing for ix rooma, including hot-water tank attached to the furnace and to the gas stove, When Fred Ordwood had departed, whistling over Plumbing and Minnie, Rance wretchedly returned to a disk drawer the dead pink rose concealed in his left hand, He had slipped one flower from the dozen after Blanche's face at the station had been pinkly buried in them a min- ute, and at Intervals since he had taken ft owt for wretched ation. In the immediately following yeara Rance Whitely be- camé older and «@ better business man, In growing Edge- whiter the plumbing-supplies business at that time was an excellent and absorbing matter. He did set grow wrinkled exactly, ar gray, because young men seldom do either between the vital ages of twenty-one and thirty-three. Especially in this current century, when airplanes, wara and Quatrated Sunday newspapers flutber arcund and kenp life interesting even when it is mournful, But he became rather a serious man, youngish, not young, and he kept one of his desk drawers locked. Sadie Gustafson, a typist who had more lust for informa- than than henor, pried it open one noon with a hairpin and afterward fold its contents to the Whitely shop force: One dead rose, one copy of the Edgewnter Socia]l Club's Musical Eventa of 18-10, one amall gray silk glove, one lace-odged handkerchief and thirty-two pletures of Blanche Perkins, mostly snapshot or clippings from newspapers and illustrated magazines. But that is irrelevant. Sadie wis afterward discharged, That was irrelevant ta Sadie, The war was on and wages were high and typists could ainly choose their typewriters. In the year following Blanche’s departure her father took te amoking his pipe Saturday evenings only, He said firmly tobaeco hurt the heart anyway. Then, coming home on the street car one evening, he blushed beeause Henry Huston, whe lived next door, caught him reading headlines over a woman's shoulder. Thaneus Perkins’ overcont pocket held ne evening paper. Nor thereafter. The spring following he watered the small strip of Per- kina front lawn with an old leaky cofeepot. The hoam for such purpose had worn out. No new one was bought, and Blanche's father explained to the neighbors that it really was handier to water gross with a coffeepat, It was that firat summer, too, that he began to talk discursively with acquaintances on the evils of too much meat ion the ordinary American table. At church he had already minimized his regular weekly contribution, drop- Ping a nickel instead of the former quarter, This with a stiffening of the back of his middle-aged head, as if to defy anyone who might be peering over his shoulder ta note the aize of ein. As time went on, too, the lives of Thaneus Perkins’ shirta were ao unduly prolonged that on either side of Hood Avenue the neighbors pointed silently Monday mornings toa line of painfully patched garments. In time, therefore, Thaneus Perkins, hitherto an ordinary-appearing man, came to exhibit that pinehed economlzing-every—day-and- Sunday look which is like the wrinkles of midforties in that, once painfully acquired, it is seldom eradicated. And perhaps Blanche’s amall, thin mother got the look sooner than Thaneus. Once Blanche had stepped on that departing day conch, Mra. Perkins could not have bought an actually new article of clothing for many a year, The drew which at the time was her best, 2 brown cripe, she turned and pressed and aponged and cleaned and retrimmed and returned and eut over and dyed and remade so many tinves that as the yeors rolled on Edgewnter ceased to take interest in its lemeth of wear and accepted it as something perpetually enduring and unpreposseasing, like a rusty water hydrant, Her gloves were mended almost hevyend mending. Her old blackened best shoes were sad sights, She never bought anew pan or skillet. She said, with a fine assumption of abeent-mindednesa, that abe did not care for that bright aluminum, newfangled stuff, which waa just then flooding the market and which other women were cordially buying. These same other women, however, went to her, when in a pinch, to learn how to make ment balla withowt ment, or puddings without sugar, or cakes without too many eggs. “Ege! she would say. "Oh" —wery positively—" ane em is plunty for any coke.” Never a quaver in her volre, “Thaneus and [ both think eggs make a cake too rich, We prefer ours without any at all." Like its two Inhabitants, the Perkins cottage on Hood Avenue took on pinchedness, shabbiness, signs of strin- gency. It meeded paint. The front strip of coment walk (Continued on Page 85) eo Listes Wik Seok Interest oad Jympatsy, Reace."" One WAlte Finger Played Softly Up aed Bowe Three Rusalag Black Keyo

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IM HANVEY was not at all the type of man one envisions when the word “detec- tive” ia mentioned. Hewas immoderately large and shapeless and his cheap ready-made clothes flapped gro- tesquely about the un- gainly figure. Above a collar of lneonsequen- tial height but amazing circumference arose a huge head which eon- tained aface of incarna- dined complexion, scant and unkempt hair, pendulous jowls andtwin chins. His lips were lange and loose, ears flappy, and hia eyes —— The eyes were the outstunding feature of Jim Hanvey's topog- raphy. They were strikingly lnexpresaive; great sleepy orbs of fishy hue, impressing one with the idea of sightlesances. 1 seemed impossible that those eves were capable of vision. Theysatglassily in the red pudgy face beneath a hedge ofover- developed brows, And Jim's blinking—as a matter of fact, he didn't blink: he ywened with his eyelids. An inter- minably slow process of drowplng the lida over the dull-gray eves, of holding them shut for a moment, and then of uncurtaining them with even more maddening deliberation. Jim emenged heavily from the dilapidated taxicab which screeched to w halt before the or- nate portals of the Han- aver Apartments. He turned hesitantly to- ward the taxidriver, who made no effort to eonetal the vastness of his contempt. “How much [owe you, aout" The meter was eon- sulted—a mere matter af form. “Dollar forty.” Jim Hanvey whistled in protest as he counted out one wrinkled dollar bill, a quarter, a dime and a nickel. Then as he waddled into the Hanover he ahook his head slowly. “Dellur forty! Holy smokes! An’ T thought I knew every professional crook in America.” He walked uncertainly through the cheaply magnificent lobby. The ebony lad at the switchboard eyed him in- eolently. Jim paused, toying with a gold toothpick which hung stirepended fram a watehchain of hawserlike propor- bons, “Mr. Arthur Sherwood in?" “Veh. Who wanta to see himt™ Hunvey's beshy eyebrows arched in surprise. Tae, af course.” “Who you is?" “Hanvey is my hame. Mr, James Hanvey." “Huht” The boy plugged in viciously, and then, inte the transmitter: “That you, Mistubh Sherwood? . . . ‘There's a uy down here wants bo see for. Saya hia name is James Hanvey. Yeh! Hanvey. : All right, sub." He turned hack and wouchsafed his information grudeingly. “Mistuh Sherwood says come rightup. Apahtment Fo'-twelve." Hanvey moved a couple of steps toward the elevator, then turned for a moment. “Son!" "Uae?" “BNoxt time I eame remember I ain't no guy. ['m a feller.” Sherwood answered Hanvey’s ring in person; a slender man af molium height, distinguished in appearance, ex- quisitely groomed, very much at ease. He ushered his “Why, FEEUSEFTAA TE Oo THE SATURDAY EVENING POST U N By Octavus Roy Cohen i F ERWSWE SS TF

“Peu'ee Piaylag a Lone Haoad, @riheur, Bait Faint. Beal Detectionr Meoer Do" visitor into a richly comfortable library, where he mo- tioned toward a chair, into which Hanvey thumped grate- fully, He stare] about the room in frank approval, “ Awful soft, eh, Arthur?” The host smiled, exhibiting twin rows of even white tecth. “Rather comfortable.” “Business must be good,” “Tt is. Very." “Hmph! Hanvey yawned with his eyes, inspecting the rich furnishings, which gave testimony to the unerringly fas- tidious taste of the owner, Still gazing Jim produosd fram a tarnizhed almost-silyer cigar cose two projectiles of pro- found blackness. He handed one to Sherwood, who ae- cepbed it gingerly, smelled of ft suspiciously, and then emitted » single exclamation of protest. “Tt ain't the worst in the world," remarked Hanvey. Sherwood produced a bottle and glasses, Hanvey joined him with gusto. “Here's to you, Arthur. May the judge give you a light sentence.” Sherwood smiled with his lips, but in bis eves lay a faint light of apprehension, He made no comment upon the detective's toast, For a few minutes silence maintained between them, Hanvey draining his liquor at a gulp, Sherwood sipping his with the relish of a connoisseur, It was the visitor who broke the silencer, wate gonna be pretty tough, Arthur—givin" up all of June i,q S I LR “Ub-hoh. But you shoulds't tem 4 | It was patent that Sherwood suo a on guard, “ Dome what?" FUSS R "Steal them jools af Mm. Hale; ol Thats "Yor & a prety a | Work, Ark: iy Waas't god Sherwoss say himsell : Bi arpest me [or Sa affair.” "You a“ 4 thing. Asd ira Ine Wihest @ | evidences a viv IL have o i dia ppeins ing poured AGeules sicae | Ariel mals Haste? t agresme: | * 7 awtel jibe Arthor” Hii Ward ints ca beter fred dic) pteal the didnt ya" “ Beteres § “Uh-oh “Ye | al

secure a conviction. What you need, Jim oo and evidence is the one thing you can't get. ly me and say that I confessed [°ll simply deny m0 will you be? You need proof, my boy; preil”™ Hanvey reflected heavily. “ Reckon you'reright, Arthur, Twas hopes put me to all the trouble of gettin’ it. [wan be away on @ little fishin’ trip." Sherwood was more at ease, “What muller I got that stuff?" " “T don't think it, Arthur; I knew it I and then I checked up. I'll hand you oo of you sure are—what-you-call-it?—an ¢ “Am It" “Youare. I'm handlin” this affabe for the Mrs. Haley's jools was inmured in, and Pre oe N'Y awlins checking up. I reckon I ke Sarr | alfair than you dio" “That's interesting,” “Aint it? An’ seein” Chat wou we bees eo 8 admit that you done it, p'r'aps you'd lke & | I know about it myself, eh ? i Y'os, on Jim's voice, flat and expressionless, soe | expensively furnished room. “Startin® at the beginnin’, Arthur. t= Grover Haley, wife of the president of the L Railroad. Hulbtw traveled the usus! s<® | wealth—engine wiper, fireman, engine: «2 Then be made a killing in of). They efca. = of the road. Worth cloge onts tee; =

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 21 Chicago. His wife—she ain't exactly one of these i. He married her when he wasa fireman. He's of tte rad now, Lut ahe's wtill a fireman's wife. i) the time $0 rlae up, but not suceeedin’ 'ape- L jee Min. Haley ain't strong on polish, but she's ambbh by the tail on a downhill pull, Far sarnner B concerned —she ain't got any. She's eam opholatery atyle that Iam. An" the rhe craves in this world is society; mone of your ety, ther, but the genuine stuff; the kind that vty millions can't buy. For seven years ahe's gto jimmy into the real crowd, an’ moetin’ with much success as an oyster in a hurdle race." fbriefy, “I've got it pretty etraight so far, Arthar?"™ emanamiled. “That much ts fairky common iitis, Well, to go on, this here Mrs, Haley om Chicago about a month ago in her private d for Palm Beach by way of Memphis an' She corres with ber a maid an’ a chef on’ a io she carries with her about one hundred and nd dollars’ worth of foolry which ahe plana to ome time, fast to prove that she's m lady, An‘ ime she makes her plans a certain Mr, Arthur who is playin” the racea down in N"Yawlina, itand decides to make a play for them stones, can see, Arthur, you started owt without any 1 Opportunist—ain"t that the word I used i feured that all you needed wus to get close wen jools for a long enough time an’ they were so, as soeclety is your fad, you went an’ had neraved which anncwnesd that you was Mr, wll Stoneham, said Mr. Stoneham bein’ the f the most exclusive families socially in New they have society as is society. tthe train at Memphis ond just after leaving rd goes back to Mrs. Haley, an’ that dame dead with joy. To make it bebef, she lassoes 2 great Stoneham family and makes him her ika like the firet real break-in she's made in wit gives her an elegant excuse to drop In on itoneham when she gets to New York next time. And so Mr. Sherwood, alias Mr. Stoneham, gota an awful warm welcome on the private car, an’ Mra Haley wears a hundred and fifty thousand dollars’ worth of joolry every tine abe comes within range of his eyes." Jim lighted another cigar, “Wasn't your fingers itching to grab them stones an" ron, ort" “Tm very fond of jewelry, Jim." “Sure! Or you wouldn't have taken all them chances, I've checked up, you see, To get ahead: You reached N'Yuwlins at eight o'clock, You had been down there at the races, an’ you had gone to Memphis to mect that train. The car waa going out on a Jacksonville train at six the next morning. An" you akhed Mm. Haley woulda't she like to go for a sightseeing drive, You went out an’ hired a big touring car an’ you went for the drive. You give her an daful good feed at Emil’s—they say you know how to order a swell dinner, Arthur—an‘ about ten o'clock that night you showed up at the Spanish Fort Inn. “Cut there you had a awell time. Bein" known to the head waiter, not ta mention the proprietor, the sky was the limit. You had cocktails an’ champagne an’ maybe even a liqueur or six, Poor Mra. Haley, thinkin" sle was in Rome, done as the Homan did, an‘, to put [t mild an’ polite, got awenthy apiffiicated. Not drunk, but terribly happy. She found herself sittin" on top of the world an’ didn’t care who saw her, You left the inn about two in the AM. an’ Mrs. Haley insisted on sittin’ in front with you ao's she could drive the car, You waan't particularly keen about it, but you didn't kick hard enough, becnuse same ig what ahe done, the shoffer reclinin’ in the back. “The old dame had started aut to prove she eould drive—an' she proved it. [reckon she must have baested sixty sev'al times comin" into the city. Ol' gal was just naturally havin’ a helluva time, That ia, ahe waa until you got "most home, It was there that somethin’ hope pened—because it was there, Arthur, that a cop seen the speed you wae goin" at an' tried to stop you. An’ poor Mrs, Hal, not carin’ nothin" for no cops, with a bunch of drinks inside her, ran into him! "What happened then, Arthur"—and Jim Hanvey shook his enormous head reprovingly—“was downright unfortunate, The cop waa etunned. You stopped your car, an" just when you did the cop moved, indicating that he wasn't so terribly hurt. With which the missus allpped inte gear, stepped on the gas an” let ‘er rip. Cop fired one time in the sir an* you were free. Mrs. Haley drove that car to somewhere in the French quarter, you got out an’ slipped the scared shoffer a nice plece of change to keep mum, and bork you bent it to the private car. "That's where good luck played into your hands, Arthur: right plumb into "em. Bein" an opportunist —— Say! That's 2 swell word, sin"t it? T got it owt of the dictionary before I come here. Bein" an opportunist like I wae sayin’, you'd just stuck around with the fat dame, knowin’ that soaner or later you'd get a chance at them jools, An’ kerflooie, her cop-knockin’ experience puts everything in your paws. How? Because you knew darned good an’ well that sholfer was goin’ to lay pretty low on account of what they'd give him if they ever found out it waa his ear, The farther away he keepa from the spotlight in connection with that case the more com- fortable he’s gonna be, “An of course Mire, Haley ie now a fugitive from justice down in N'Y awlins. “You took her back to the private car. She hed sobered up more than a little, but the strong stulf was still there inside of her. Her nerves was doin” a ehimmy, an’ you gave her plenty more to drink. Finally she went to sleep. When that happened you grabbed the jools an’ hopped the cor. Mrs, Haley didn't wake up until she waa on her way to Jacksonville. It was a couple hours later that she found out the joola was gone—an" you too, The old gal nearly went nuts until she remembered her insurance, then che figured she was sittin’ on Easy Street. An” it may interest you te know that the insurance: money hes already been paid to her; ont hundred thousand dollars,”* Sherwood sat motionless, staring admiringly at the portly detective, By no alightest physienl sign did he give indication of his genuine enthusiasm for Hanvey"s deductive powers, although he marveled at them with the frank appreciation of one brainy man for the aecomplish- ments of another, Hanvey's story was correct to a detail. Sherwood knew the exhaustive search that the detective must have made, the pulnstuking probing, And now—" You're working for the inurance company, aren't you, Jim?" (Continued on Page 30) Whea He Opened the Deore With a Master Key it Wade to Faterropt on Interesting Tableaa

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FOUNDED A‘D! 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATUBDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, LU. S.A. GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR Fine Gents the Copy Free All Hewredealiere By Saeheoripalon “Tio thee Cotied Sixties ond Poserestons, Bolivia, Colombia, (ube, Cosm Ripa, Dominican Kepoblic, bowedor, Heaters, Meraico, icersgua, Salvador, Pines ane! Pera, $)4the Weer, Remy by U.S. Meney Order, Express bheeey Ordew, heck cor by Derate, payedle fa U6, Pundi. To Carede={Hy Sebecripéion, Ei the Your, Single Coples, Ten Cen Canmidian of Uo. Furuse. Onher Feenelgm Counoes in dee Poata! Dahon: Sobeecripons, Ob tthe Year. Bamitences to be by Drett on @ benk in the 1. 5., payable ba ES, 5. fends, PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 17, 1922 Sunday in the Country UN DAY in the country, Wo one lives within walking ot S easy motoring distance of the city, ia mot a day of peace and rest. Cn the contrary, it is a day of brawl and battle. On Sunday one dare not leave one's farm or country place unwetehed and unprotected for a moment. The whole countryside is aawarm with Nature lovers from the near-by city. First come the makers of forbidden beverages, trooping geross fields and lnwns, picking the once despised dande lion and anything else that happens to be loose; then the happy motorists in long proreasion, embowering their cara in the spoil of orchards, woodlands and wayside shrub- beries. If there are no flowers near the read Ehese free and easy visitors will penetrate one's garden and break off the blooming branches of the rhocdodendrona or lilacs or what- ever other bush happens to engage their faney. With trowel and spade the woods are looted and sometimes, if it looks safe, on unwatehed garden. Following come shy maidens, in twos and threes, daintily pulling up the woodland flawera by the roota—arbutus, azalea and hundred little blossoms that wilt in the hand that picks them; and everywhere are bancks of half-grown hoodluma helping in the spoiling of the countryside, The bolder spirits are usually those who come in motors, They cain destroy more, steal more and get away faster than the man on foot. They meet remonstrance with efrontery and resent the notion that a hick has any rights of property and privacy that they are bound to respect. The flowers, the shrubs, the orchards, andl oocustonally the unguarded gardens are their prey. They camp ibeaide the woodland brook or the shaded spring, hack the trees, trample the flowers, and turn the spot into a garbage hole with their greasy papers, tin cians, bottles and refuse food, Then up and away to the anug flat in the big town, throwing out the wilted flowers as they go. It takes a brave man bo live in a countryside thot is accessible to the city, and o hopeful one to beautify the rondside with shrubs and flowers. For these city vandals set beauty only to destroy it. Sometimes this is due to ignorance, eemetioes to thoughtlessness, sometimes to wantonness. But none are so quick to resent an intrusion on their own rights of privacy and property as these same petty highwaymen and women, Sunday night in the country—that is the time of rest; for then the Goths, the Visigoths, the Vandals and the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Huns have gone back to town and a few days of com- parative immunity from their raids are ahead. The high- waymen will be tied to the office until Saturday noon and the STE ail be heuay makeing hooch from their dande- lions, The countryman may plow and reap, trim up the broken shrubs, prune back the torn branches in the or- chard and cleat up the mess and litter in the worlland against the return of the Nature lovers at the next week-end. The country would gladly share with the city, welcome the flat dweller to its woodlands, if so many of thou who geek ite roadsides did net defile and destroy their beauty. Until the mannera and morals of this element improve, the countryman will view ell trespeseers, the just ond the unjust alike, with auapiclon, and delegate the pleasure of welcoming them to his bulldog. Commercialized Athletics “OMMERCIALIZATION of college athletics haa long been a poculiarly fruitful topic for debate becouse it offera auch abundant material for honest difference of opinion and because the extremes of opposing thought are so far withdrawn from the middle ground that lies between. College football long ago rose from the humble rank of ao mere eport or pastime. Gate receipta from football at one college are ssid to average half a million dollars a year; aod the total fram Eastern collages alone has been estimated by competent authorities to be in the neighbor- hood of five millions. Captains of industry aro neteriously well paid; and the magnates of the gridiran, the coaches, are no exception, Their emoluments may not seem great in comparison with thoae that prevail in the inner circles of the steel business; and yet, measuned by the campus scale, they are lordly indeed. Beginning where the full professor's salary leaves off, they run well into five figures. The coach who will nest year receive, directly and indirectly, in pay and per- quigite, about twenty-five thousand dollara may not be the most highly rewarded man in his profession, but he is commonly admitted te be doing rather well, Even some of the smaller colleges have managed to pay thelr coaches considerably more than their presidente: but if all parties at interest are content it is mot for alien hands to pry into their family affairs. The best of these couches are men of rare and quite extraordinary attainments, Their duties are peculiarly exacting and they perform them with uomazing skill, Merely to declare that they earn their pay would be to damn them with faint praise, when the truth of the matter is that it is their high-pressure zeal in attracting promising athletic material thet has brought them and their methods and the by-products of these methods so much into the limelight, So great ia their efficiency that from coast te coast ne outstanding young specimen of brawn and sinew is entirely tafe from them. There is no husky lumberjack in the north woods, no barrel-chested cowboy on the range, no prep-achool giant beginning to feel at home in long trousers, who may not be shanghaled by the hypnetic crimpa of the coathes and wake up same autumnal morning with a aplitting headache in the fo'e'sle of a college gymnasium, plucking at the matricwlation papers in his breast pocket and learning for the fret time, a9 he neaine consciousness, that he hes become a freshman at Siwash and has signed on for courses in Semitics and the History of Art. Salt reassuring words will silence his protest thot be is practically penniless and lacks the wherewithal to pay for such impending grandeur, If that master of destinies, the head coach, has marked him for future athletic greatness all will be well, For him not te reason why. Fer him to be out for practice at appointed hours. At night he may make merry or even ply hla books, but he must never, never break training. If hia activities on the parallolo- grams compel him to cut lectures and the professor of Semities forms a low opinion of his scholarship there are plenty of willing pundits te fill him with enough Semitic lore to qualify him as a major prophet, or at least to en- able him to avoid a condition wt the forthcoming examina- tions. And on the side lines or in the stands at the big games there will be some sleek and proeperous alumoaus ea | happy in the thought thot be bas “pgis2, get an education,” that he has helped pe 4 on the map, and that he has theteby airy... a and glory of his Alma Mater. Defenders of this system are able ty naj, , a ener for it, Gate recel pte from Foothall dees. «+, a deficit and make possible track athietin, ra, PI and a degen other wholesome outdne u; unable to pay their own way. There cas be high athletic standing, maintained yew pv advertises the college, attracts young me - the creation of a deep and lifelong interes: i--. hy keeeey west and otherwise, for Muty pocay : academic aa well as athletic. And yet there are those who have hey > 4 system is one that has the defects of fy ey on concede its power in upluilding, maintacsy » 3 wating great athletic centera: but they part aio creations are net, after all, the primary pros ip tions of higher learning. They share the feng raged Nature every tree they see the to! oy & Fully alive to the benefits that accrue fron ce! og advertising, they still appear grwiling wu deed publicity from figures that indicate winarg hess “Take care of the stadium and the dao care of teed!" is an asiom for usiversety pee which they put litthe faith. An Enstern college has lately rejected the p= a drastic houseclenning. This action on the oc governing authorities was a nine days’ wate has been the indignation expressed by a large ac | tial wing of the graduate body. The qaec: v4 whether other colleges will lave the urge acd | to follow suit or whether they will quetls 9‘ they may by this one’s voluntary revuncater <a desirable athletic material. The chances are that for the long pes eo be settled in accomdance with the prepondeie i abt opinion. Our universithes are beoecy of dependent upon their alumni bodies for oe om inadequate endowments; and in ety &! other field, he who pays the piper qusly ood the tune, It would appear, then, that the whos mf lem, which is now more acute than eee by eventually solved in such a manner as to from! mate aims approved by the greatest mane @ graduates. There is mo compulsion that a: -0 lege of the future to either extreme. [t oe! inte a great athletic center that merety oso? ence of a few starved students; nor ned = unreliceved aggregation of anaemic grinds = a” whe regurd the pigskin with supercilioe 24 this issue as in every other there isa happy 24 and there is no reason to suppose that the = sense of the college world will mot ultimats; ground and walk safely upon it. a | eae

Little and Often OR some months there has bees bei providing that on and after the it a7 all postal employes of the United Ste on a weekly pay-roll basis and shall ere sation each and every week, The 2 = excellent measure: ancl its passage wo) mt that should hove long ago been put into. es Considering the technical knowledge employes, the trust that is reposed in sponsibilities that are inseparable from OO are perhaps as modestly paid as any @ = anta. Private business commonly recyt=? that the lower the pay the more imqem™ pay days. It is high time that the Govwertm=: and be guided by the same axiom: fors:™ the inconveniences that the change =! secounting and paa-roll sections, they = 7 those suffered by our great army of pots! the old syetem.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ipires of Busimess By Robert Crozier Long he Coming Em BERLIN. ERNMENT by business, for business ad through business ia revolutionary emany's one Contribution to the science of rule, nea state is to supplant and annihilate the polit- — National representation will be constructed nat wertain bases of parties and politics, but on the fined, straight and frankly egoletic lines of oer rifewionsand economicneeds, Bo say Germanys e, the Rathenaus, Stinnesea and Mallendorfls; ein effect Article 165 of the republican constitu- se which the all-German parliament of business, pwirtschaftsrat, has for two fruitful years debated gated in the sessions hall of the abolished Pros- eof Lords, Tt is no aecident that Germany here we than other nations she suffered from mere nore than others she flourished when she stuck sally to business. She @ naturally, therefore, Furspean movement to liberate business from servitude ta polities, and to give it a serure nl place 2 an independent, and probably later t, element in national life, the first, Germany will not be the last, Fevery- rend of government is to be depoliticiwed, tu he into economics, In international relations this oo far become mest plain, At Genoa o first (business conference took the place of the teal conferences which followed past great ely oe in thelr time polities! conferences po. eeumenical councils of the churches as the if expressions of international solidarity. To this development ts natural, The mest im licte both in Europe cenerally and in particu- fare no longer conflicts of frontiers, religions hey are the opposing interests of international and national business, of creclitor states agninst debtor ttates, of agricultural states againat industrial atates, of exporters and importers, producera and consumers, of in- dustrial, commercial and financial interests against one another, International conferences will not reqralate the international aspecta of these vast igaues in a day, but regularly organized business legislatures, from which polities és entirely excluded, may satisfactorily settle them at home, The Chamber of Economy HE parliament-of-business system to which Germany resorted in the summer of 1919 was designed as adviser tothe discredited political Reichstag in theaolution af every question directly or indirectly concerning the national finances, commerce and industries, The deskrn is that busines: shall no longer be guided and controlled by a chance assembly of unbusinesslike individuals, elected for their political views, and grouped logsely according to an intposing but largely fletitious solidarity of opinions about everything and anything. On the contrary, business will be controlled by the expert representatives of business tloaees, of industrial branches and of professional oecupa- tions, chosen specially for this special aim without regard to peitics, religion or geography. The all-Germoan bualnisa parliament haa aa @orservatives and mo liberals, Fick FEE archists and no republicans, no mutocratists and no bolshe- viks. Jt has formers, manufacturers, merchants, shipping THE TAIL COLI WITH THE HIDE ad men, financiers, and representatives of the business aide of the professions, the arts and other earning occupations. It is an assembly of the material interests of the whole republic; and though, when taken separately, these are frankly pocket interests, when taken together they express the collective interest of Germans as a people engaged mainly in producing, dis- tributing and working, which as such has a common interest that economic affaira shall be ‘ruled expertly, impartially and with a view to the flourishing of the re public as a whole, The Reichswirtechafterat—which foreigners usually translate * Federal Chamber of Economy,” and which Ger- mans shorten into “RB, W. E."—is now an essential part of Germany's constitutional mechanism, It has already powerfully influenced and in some casea practically dic. tated economic legislation; and its power daily grows. It has ita own policies on state finance, transportation, manus facturing, foreign-trade control, national feeding, labor, social insurance and reparations. In all these matters its eriticiar and initiatives have greater weight with the more serious part of the public than the policies of the polltical Reichstug. It is 2 standing advertisement of the rightly acquired predominance of business interests, [ome politics, it reminds Germans, has been killed by the soaly= tion atone blow of all those questions af authority and liberty, clasa privilege, (Teotinwed on Poge 80) \ | 7 4 i Ta aRInGs a SHE Room ‘4, | ) to Or ABATTOIR

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THE SATURDAY EVENING June 7 qe LL, in the morning I arranges a anack of nu- turious brenkfast on a tray and takes it In ta Mr. Dallas. But he ain't craving nothing solid to eat. He's just craving to lay still and favor his head- ache, Soon as he opens his eyes he starts in groaning like he's done got far behind someway with his groaning and ia striving for ta eateh up. And I knows he must ‘a’ felt powerful gond last night to be feeling so bad this morn- ing. Misery may love company, a8 some say it do, but I takes noliet that very often she don’t arrive till after the company is gone. He tells me to take them vittles out of his sight and fix him up about o gallon of good cold ice water and set it alongside hia bed in easy reach, and then I can leave him be where he is and go on out for a while and seek amuse ment looking at the sights and scones of New York City. But when I geta to the door he calls out to me I better make it two gallons. Which I knows by that he ain't ao fur gone but what he still can joke, So 1 goes on out, just strolling along in a general direc- tion, alooking at this and admiring of that; and there certainly is a heap for to see and for to admire. The houses is ao tall it seema like the sky is resting almost on the topa of ‘em, and it'a mighty near the bluest sky and the clearest ever I seen. It makes you want to get up there and fy round in it. But down below in the street there aint ee very much brightoes: by reason of the buildings being so high they cuts off the daylight somewhat. It's like walking through a hollow betwixt steep hills. People is stirring round every whichaway, both on foot and in automobiles; and most of the automobiles is all shined up nice and clean like aa if the owners was going bo take part in an autemobile parade in connection with the convention. Everybody is extensively well dressed, too, but most all is wearing a kind of a brooding look like they had fomily troubles at home or something else to pester ‘om. dnd they ain't stopping one another when they meets and saying aln't ito lovely morning and passing the time of day like we dors down home. Even some of them which comes owt of the game house together juat goes There Was Considerable of a Cood Waay Thlage Boas Phere That totorday ond Sunday By IRVIN S. COBB FELUSTRAATES aFr F, RF, bulging on by without a word to nobody, and I remarks to myself that a lot of the neighbors in this district must "a" had «@ falling-out amongst themselves and quit apeaking, The children on the sidewalk ain't playing much to gether neither, Either they plays off by themselves or they just walks along with their keepers, And there Is almost as many dogs as there is children, moatly small, fool-looking doga; and the dogs ia all got heepera, too, dragging “em on chains and jerking ‘om up sharp when they tries te linger and smell round for strange amella and confah with passing dogs. Near as I can make out, the dogs here ain't allowed to behave like regulation dogs, and the children mainly tries to behave like they weal aioats growed up and the growed-up ones has caught the prevail- ing glumness disease, and I is approximately almost the only person in sight that's enjoying being in New York, Allof asudden | hears the dad-blamedest blim-blamming behind me. I turns round quick, and here comes the New York Clty paid fire department going to a fire. The biggest fire engine ever I sees goes seovting by, tearing the road wide open and making a most awful racket and epill- ing live coals out of her fire box, Right behind cones the heck-and-ladder wagon with the firemen hanging onto both sides of it, trying to stick fast and put their rubber eoats on at the sane time; and right behind it comes a big red automebile lickety-split. Setting up alongside the driver of it is a gentleman in blue clothes and brasa but- tons, which he's got a big cigar clamped betwixt his teeth and looks highly important. But he ain't wearing a flannel shirt open at the throat, but has got hia coat on and It buttoned up, so [ assumes it can't be the chief of the department, but probably must be the mayor, And in lesen no time they all has swung off inte a side street, two squares up, with me taking out after ‘em out in the middle of the street fast aa I can travel. GRUGER Now every town where I've been at >- this, when the fire bell rings everyteety G- | they bs doing and goes to the fire, Else se 9 York, enjoying fires is one of the mac = people: but pretty soon Tis surprised to = | pretty near the only person which is tra - | the department. Whilst I'm still wonder: cumstance, but atill running also, a police pm arm and asks me where is I going in ewch a: : | [tells him I is going to the fire, And be = I might as well slow up and save my brea) © | linble to be quite a long trip for me. [asx * = and he says the fire is probably three orf - - here, and maybe even considerable further - I saya to him, that must make it mighty ~~ all concerned, having the fires so far away /- > house. At that he sort of chuckles and t-~-! my way, but to keep my eyes open and ace | nibble me Well, as [says to mysell, going 165 I may be green, but I is getting some e>-- being here, which ia more’n 7 can say for acm thes: parts, judging by what I has sen =: present moment. 50 I meanders along, looking at this an2o- 4 ing corners @¥ery onee in w while: and oo 8 comes to me that I has meandered myrexi! > ingly different neighborhood from the oce | from, The houses is not so tall and is mow = looking; and there's a set of railroad mc through, built up on a high trestle; sed si 2 been a falling off in dogs, there has been a2 © in children: the place just ewarms with ‘ec. ehildren is running loose all ower the sidera/ the streets, too, but it seems like to me i time quarreling than what they does playing ~ sounds like quarreling becmuse they has t on account of all the noises which is occum= I decides to go back, but the treuhle +! == know which is the right way te turn, [ve fe" 4 {Continued on Page I)

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26 (Continued from Page 24) about so, first to the right and then to the left, that I ain’t got no more sense of direction than one of these here patent ogg beaters, So [ rambles on, getting more and more bewildered like all the time, Ul [| comes to another police, and [ walks up to him and states my perdicterment to him very polite and tells him I needs help getting back to where I belongs at. He looks at me very strict, like he can't make up his mind whether he'd better run me in for vagremey or let me go, and then he says, kind of short, “Make it snappy then. Where d'ye live?” 1 tells him T haa done forgot the name of the street, if indeed Lever heard of ft; but from the looks of it 1 judges it must be the chief resident street where the best families resides. T tela him we has just moved in there, Mr. Dallas Pullinm and me, and has started up housekeeping in the department house which stands on the principal corner. I tella him it's the department house where the inmates all lives in layers, one "Pon top of the other, like marting in a martin box. “You mean apartment house,” he saya: “department store, but apartment house. Well, what's the name of this apartment house, then, if you can't remember the street?" That makes me serotch under my hat, too, “couse I pointedly doen't know that neither. “Summine the name, boss," I saya, “jest you, plemer, euh, tell me whar"beuts is the beadin’ apartment house of this yere city of Noo Yawk; that'll bo it—the leadin’est one, "“Caimee Nir. Dallas Pulliam he ia accustom’ to the best whar'ewer he go.” But he only acts like he's getting more and more im- fatient with me, “Describe it," he says—“deseribe it! There's one chance in a thousand that might help. What does it look Hee?" So I tells him what it looks like—how the little private road winds in and circles round the little place which is like a family burying ground, and about the hands downstairs at the frant door all being from West Indiana, and about there being two elevaters for the residenters and one more for the help, and about us having took over the Sublette quarters and all. “No use,” he suys when I gets through; “that sounds just like most of the expensive ones." He starte walking off like he has done lost all interest in my case. Then he elle hack te me over his shoulder, “I'll tell you what's the matter with you," he saya—“you're Inst,” “Yas, suh,” [eays, “thanky, suh. Tha's whut I been a pielonin’ my own ge'f,"" T aays, “but I'm much oblige" you eerees wid ome," Still, that ain't helping much, to find out this here police thinks the same way I does about it, Whilst I is lingering there wondering what I better da next, if anything, | sees astreet car go scook- ing by up at the next craving, and I gets an idea. Tf street car in New York is anything like they is at home, ster or later they all turns inte the main street aed runs either to the City Hall or the Union Depot. So I allows te myself that il goon up yonder and climb aboard the net ear which comes along and stay on her, mo matter how far she goes, till she swings back off the branch onto the trunkline, and I'll watch out then, and when she goes past our corner I'll drop af. Deing it thataway, I figure that sooner or later I'm bound to fetch back home again. Anyhow the scheme is worth trying, spe- cially a4 I can't seem to think of no better one, Sol aceording= ly dle ae, But IT ain"t stay- ing om that car ao very long? not more than a mile at the most, The reason I gets off her so soon is this: All at once T obeerves that I is = THE SATURDAY EVENING POST skirting through a district which is practically exclusively all edlored. On every side I sees nothing but colored folks, both bigand little, Seemingly everything in sight is organized by and for my race—colored barber shops, colored undertaking parlora, colored dentists’ offices, colored doctors’ offices. On one corner there is even a colored vaudeville theater. And out in the middle of the street stands a colored police. Exeusing that the houses is different and the atreeta is wider, it's mighty near the same as being on Plunkett's Hill of a Saturday evening. | almost expects to see that there 2Zaop Loving loafing along all dressed up fit to kill; or maybe Red Hoss Shackleford setting in a» doorway following after his regular business of resting, or old Pappy Exall, the pastor of Zion Chapel, rambling by with that big stomach of hisn sticking out in front of him like two gallons of chitterlings wrapped up in a black gunny sack. It certainly doce fill me with the homesickness longings! And then a big black man on the pavernent opens his mouth wide, and, nigger like, he lnughs at something till you can hear him half a mile, pretty near it, which it is the first sure-encugh laugh I haa heard asinee I hit New York, And right on top of that [ catches the smell of fat meat frying samewheres. I just naturally can't stand it no longer. Anyhow, if I'm predestinated to be lost in New York City It's better [ should be lost amongst my own kind, which talke my native language, rather than amongst plumb strangers. T gives the sonduetar the high sign and I says to him, [ says, “Cap'n, lemme off befo’ [jumps off!" So he rings the signaling bell and she stope and leta me ef. And verily, before T has went hardly any distance at all, somebody hails me. I is wandering along, sort of miscellaneous, looking in the store windows and up at the topa of the buildings, when a brown-complected man atepa ip to me and sticks aut his hand and he says, “Hello thar, Alfred Ricketts! Whot you doin’ so fur “way from ole Lanchburg?™ T saya to him he must ‘a’ made a mistake. And he says, “Goon “way, boy, an" quit yore foolin’! This is bound to be Alfred Ricketts "at I uster know down in Lynchburg, ja. Leaa'wise, ef "tain't him it's his dupllente twin I tells him no, my name aint Alfred Ricketts, it's Jeif Poindexter, from Padueah, and T ain't never been in oo place called Lanchburg in my whole life es 1 knows of, He looks at mea minute in a kind of an onbelieving way, and then he saya he begs my pardon; but his excuse is that I'm the exact spit and image of this here Alfred Ricketts, which he says he's done played with him many’s the time when they was boya together. He says he ain't never in fkaees He Mutt 'o" Felt Poowerful Good Lot Might to be Feeting So Bod Tats Morning fee i, 1 all his born days seen two fellows whieh they wor :- to each other and yet which looked so moweh err» and medoms. Hesays the way we favors eart ic, absolutely unanimous. peat ipaeaeaidaicon genial, Bars! ao, atid then he gaye te me,“ Whar bouts you frum?” T saya, “' Paducah—tha's whar.” He shakes his head kind of pocczhed. "Paducah?" he says. “I gin’t never beard Whar is it—Tennessee or Arkaneaw?" T pithes his ignorance, but I tells hin where Pic. located at, It seems like the very sound of the sc tains hia curiosity. He just ahoote the inquiring -. atme, He wants to know how big is Padhiewh oy its main business, and what river is it om or coe: what railroads run in there, and a lot more o--5 seeing he's a eeeker after truth, [ prucnpes him f. him we not only is got one river at Paducah, wr er and I tella him about what railroads we've got n- and about the big high water of 1913, and abews ch rider troubles some years before that. 1 tedls b= else besides; mainly recent doings, such aa Joc having retired and the Mines Central harcy «, their shops to double size, Then he excuses boo! more and steps away pretty brisk, are goes ipso a billiard parlor, and I continue: on my lonesome =) But inside of five minutes another fellow speuc and by my own entitled name too. Only this me = of a pale tallow color, with a lot of gold teeth 9: very sporty dressed, He comes busting up to me like he's overjoyed : and aays, “Hello, Jef Poindexter! Wen ded pee You shore is a sight fur the sore eyes! How». everbody down in ole Paduke? An* how dos,» eoppendaity seem to sagashuateT All the time he's saying this he’s clamping my ba affectionate, like [ was his long-lost brother or sm [ tella him his manner is familiar, but that [ «a: him. He acts surprised at that—surprised a: hurtlike. He aske me don't [ remem ber George Hom down home? -I tells him the onlwest Georp of color [ romembers is an old man which he doe for the First National Bank. And he spec « prompt and says that’s his uncle, which be & ro him and used to live with him out by the Dh- « shops, He says he really don't blame me so mors placing him, because he left there it's goirg « « hing years aga, just before the big high wate claims he used to meet me frequent End #637 the theme wh to be wri Judge Pre sais he's ee Pecngnined = ‘a met a7 | in Chine = New York he's beer = Worth for spell aoe owner of a pres = the thiifee = happezes home =! breakcs ic gases fhrsr = he keer & track cf oe dow t= he's Exeo= longs aur. 2 =. fom: a PP ea a” - J 2 +: Goce “i os a.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST U Its Dependability Proves Type 61 the Greatest Cadillac Factory Service for the First Nine Months Has Been Less Than One-Third of That Required by Any Previous New Cadillac in a Like Period Was ever an automobile so amazingly dependable as the Type 61 Cadillac? Ever since its debut nine months ago, the car has been the subject of an ovation in which Europe and America have joined. Now, with more than 15,000 of the Type 61 in the hands of owners, that advance favor and faith in the Cadillac is repaid, we believe, by the reliability record it has established. As owners of preceding types heartily testify, the Cadillac has always been singularly free from even minor servic- ing requirements. But factory service for Type 61 Cadillac cars, in the first nine months, has been less than one-third of that required by any previous new Cadillac in a like period. Even this pointed tribute to Type 61 dependability is overshadowed by the positive expressions of praise from owners, many of whom have attained high mileage under all conditions of travel. CADILLAG MOTOR CAR COMPANY, In numerous instances, owners of the Type 61 report that their cars have re- quired no servicing at all beyond normal lubrication and occasional adjustment. They pay glowing compliments also to the increased power and quickened ac- celeration of the Type 61 Cadillac, as well as to its beauty, its comfort and its gliding smoothness. But the one fact upon which all seize, and ardently emphasize, and recur to again and again, is the new Cadillac's amazing dependability, which they insist has never been equalled or approached be- fore,even by the fine Cadillac forerunners. In fact, owners of the car are unani- mous in proclaiming Type 61 the greatest Cadillac ever produced. What bears them out in this verdict, and establishes completely Type 61 preémi- nence, is the fact that all former pro- duction schedules have been exceeded and that numerous cities report the largest Cadillac sales in their history. DETROIT, MICHIGAN Hirtsion af General Matora Corporation I A OD L

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28 (Continued from Page 26) ‘at on “count of rendin’ the papers eo stiddy streak of luck comin’ to me this ver’ day. I'd lak to tell you "bout it, Poindexter.” “B, : ed," I says—"" pereeed.”" “I'm goin’ to, he says, “but s'posen fust we gits in off this yere street an’ sets down somewhars whar we kin be comfor'ble an" not be interrupted. Trouble wid me is," he aays, “1 know so dad-blame many people round yere, bein’ prominent in business the way I is, ‘at ef I stands atill more’n a minute somebody is share to be comin’ up an" slappin' me on the back. Does you feel Isk a light snack, Poindexter?" Well, it's getting to be close onto eleven o'clock now, and T has not ef nothing since breakfast excepting fifteen cents’ worth of peanut candy; so I tells him I is agreeable. We goea into a restaurant run by, for and with cal- ored, and we sets down by ourselves off at a little talle and he insista that he's do- ing the paying-for on ac- count of my being a boy from his eld home town, and he says for me to go the limit ordering. So I ealla for a bene sirloin and some fried potatoes and eofice and a mess of hot bis- cuite and a piece of mush- melon and one thing and another, It seems like, though, he aint got much appetite himself. He takes just a cup of coffee, and whilst [is eating all of that provender of his penerous providing he tells me about this here streak of luck which has come his way. First off, he begins hy asking me has I heard tell about the colored Arabian prince which he i now stay- ing in New York. I says no. He says then I will be hearing about him if T so journs long, because the col- ored Arabian prince is the talk of one and all. He's stopping at the Polvee Afro= American Hotel, and he's got more money than what hecon spend, and he's going round the world studying how black folke lives in every clime, and he's got thousands and thousands of dollars’ worth of jewelry which he weara constant, But the piece of jewelry which he prizes as the moet precious of all, he lost it only yesterday; which it fsa solid gold pin shaped like a four-leaf clover, with a genuine real Arabian ruby set in the middle of it. This here gold- tooth nigger he tells me this while I is sauntering through the steak, and I can tell from the way he eays it that he's leading up to something. “Yas, sub," he says, “yistiddy is w'en he loge it. An’ this mornin’ he's got a advertisement notice inserted in the cHlored newapaper sayin’ ez how he tan" newly on" willin’ to pay fifty dollars fur its return to the hotel whar he is stoppin’ at, an" no questions asted. An" yere "bout half an hour befo" I muna into you I'm walkin' "long de street right up yert a LT ways, an’ [ ates somethin" shiny layin" in the gutter, an’ I stoops down an® picks it up an’ ef it ain't de colored Arabian prince's four-leaf-clover pin, dog-gone me! An’ Vert it Is, safe an" sound." And with that he reach in his pocket and pull it owt and Jet me look at it a brief second. Amd I says to him that I don't begrudge him his good luck none, only [ wishes it might "a" been me which has fownd it, because fifty dollars would come in mighty handy. Then I says to him, I saya, “DT s'pose you ls now on yore way to hand bim back his belongin’ an” claim the reward." But he shakes his head kind of dubioussome. “T tell you how ‘tis, Poindexter,” he says. “To begin wid, an’ apeakin® in confidences, et one ole-time frien’ to ‘nother, I probly is the onlvest pusson in this yere city of New York w'ich the eclored Arabian prince might mek trouble fur me ef I woe the ene wich come bringin" him buck his lost pin, Ever senee he's been yere he's been sendin” his clothes over to my ‘stablishment, w'ich it is right round the corner frum the Palace Afro American Hotel, to be pressed. An‘ ef [ should turn up now wid this yere pin he'd mest likely ez not claim “at I found it stuck in one of his coat lapela an" taken it out an” kep’ if. An’ T hag a sweet, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST the chances is he'd not only refuse fur to pay over the reward but furtherme’ might raise a rookus an’ cast a shudder on my good name, w'ich it suttinly would hurt my perfessional reppitation fur a colored Arabian prince to be low-ratin'’ me ‘at-a-way. He's lak oo wealthy pussons is—he's suspicious in his mind, S01 don't keer to take no chances, much ez I craves to feel them fifty dollars wermin” in the pa'm of my hand. But ef a pusson wich wus a pullec’ stranger to him wut to fetch the pin in an* say he wuz walkin’ “long an* seen it shinin' an* picked it up he'd jes’ hand the reward right over widout a mumblin" . 1." “¥ns," T says, “tha's ao, I reckin.” “"Taln't no manner of doubt but hit's eo," he says, “Poindexter,” he says brisker like, “I got an idee—it jest this yere second come to me: Whut's the reason wy you He Begias by Acking Me Hoo f Meord Tell @bout the Colored #rotlan Priace Whied Ne le Now Staying in Mee Fork enn"t be the ordained stranger wich teks the pin back to him? You does so an’ I'll “low you ten dollars out of the fifty fur yore time an’ trouble, Whut aay?" I studies a minute, and then I sayn I is sociable to the notion, He says he'll go along with me and point out to me the hotel where the colored Arabian prince ia stepping at, and then tarry outside until [ gets back te him with the money, T says I'll go past as soon as T has et another piece of mushmelon, which the first piece certainky was very tasty. So her waits until T has done so, and then he pays the check, which comes to oneeighty for me and ten cents for him, and we gets up to start. Rut just as we gets bo the door, going out, he takes a look gt a clock on the wall and says, “I can't go "long wid you, You'll have te go by yo'me'f.” I says, “ Whyfore you can't go?” He says, “I jes’ this minute remembers “at [ got to ketch the leven forty-two fur Hartford, Connecticut, whar I is gittin' ready to open up a branch ‘stablishment— tha's whyfore. I been enjoyin" talkin" wid somebody frum my own dear state 20 much ‘at I lets the time slip by unbeknownst, an’ now I jes’ about kin git abo'd the train at the uptown station ef T hurries.” He acratehes his head. “Lemme see," he says, “*Whuteall is we goin’ do "bout “at now?" “Then it seems like he scratches an idea loows. "T got (bE he gaye. “Mainly on “sount of my bein’ in sech a nesh, an’ you bein’ frum my heme town, I'm goin" mek you a heap sweeter proposition ‘en de one wich IT already haa made. I'm goin' halfen this yere reward wid you—at's whut I’m goin’ do, Yere’s the plan. You jes’ hands me over twenty-five dollars now fur my sheer an‘ "en you Keeps the ontire fifty vw'lch he'll pay you, See? I knows I is a fool to be doin’ it, but gittin’ to Hartford on Jane i, iy time te-day'll mean a heap mo’ to me jr he +) - whut de diffunce in the money would, Ha... EE T says to him that it listens all right tomy: , hire the twenty-five in a minute, oriy lacs): + ,, me. When I says that his face fale wo farhs .-, mighty near grazes the ground, and the: em. 7, how much is you got? Is you got twersy —- = fifteen?" I eays I ain't got nothing on me in the m- ' cash, only car fare. But I saya [is pot wees -; - that's worth a heap more than twenty-live ¢ 5 And he says, “ Whut ia it?” I saya, “It's this yere solid gold wreck” |. [hauls it out and waves it before hiseyes, “[+) x forty dollars,” I says, “but I ain't needic’ = -- havin'aetoie: —_- . one My ists we WUE fivt to oe milters of thew yeahs ago fez. - 1 wie boy bie om ee the pet eu | You tek the w= 2 Me, gay, tes as I saya, at | feward an’ tas. 2 ws'll be mews’ =—s says, “ou ps the wate) anys then be saya tha: a: ain't doubts = about the wo worth that sor + etill, bosines o ty and before bers=4 have to take t50s store hall a ecu the street aad si9 wed. T saps to bo “Tha's 6uiist. | oe i | wuz in 8 per train?” “T'll tek the = Bays ST bie tern it. Come tot" aays, "at ras? the uptowt cu ‘Leven fiftr-! forty-two eee from does. Tm rat td =, “false 4 it’s the gece Tt mout possibly be," I says, “"at they so ™ yere clover-leaf pins floatin” round loose a ~~ imitation, By havin’ it zarnined “long wid =. | both plays safe.” He stops right dead in his tracks. “Look yore, Poindexter,” he says, “whet 7> ‘is yere projectin" round an* wastin’ of to” | me," he aay, an" I trusts you—tha's fais teks the pin an’ collects the peeard. Titec! sells it fur whut I kin git fur it. Le's clo > & I pintedly is got to hurry frum yer” “Hold on!” L says. “How “bout my tec. = “I'll mek it five,” he says. “Gimme the five,” I sys, So he counts out five ones and yells s- about the Palace Afro American Hotr = 2 down the strect about half a mile, ont & and in another second he's gone from tev ! nearest corer. But I does not po to look for mo Afrede - 1 nor yet for no colored Arabian prince te Beema to warn me “twould only he = ea instead of which, as I steps along. I fro T stands in the swap, and it comes to t*= extent of five dollars in cash, also one c 4° cents’ worth of nourishing vittles, and a > which it must be worth all of seventy o7>! price of brass has took a big fall. T is out to the extent of telling one l* it little boy from drowning and alas one “4 watch cose without any mechanical een | and furthermore, I can imagine the io tooth nigger’s face when he gets time toc 4! witiiaed om Page 72: i aa a 7.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘you seek cars comparable with 1¢ Chalmers Six, your search will ievitably lead you to a much gher-priced class. 1itsown price-range, the Chalmers regarded as a car apart—a prod- ‘t far above and beyent the neral run. other words, it is being awarded distinct place of dominance in e minds of buyers and the gen- il motoring public as well. 1) the score of beauty-value alone, s position is firm and sound. * the Chalmers is an unusually tutiful car—in design and in ish, with its disc wheels and eral equipment. engineering-value, it represents a remarkable degree of six-cylinder perfection, dere ing possibilities which have long lain dormant in the six as a type. But it is in its wonderfully fine performance, that Chalmers value- superiority is clinched once and for all. If you will recall the smoothest, most satisfying six-cylinder per- formance you have ever encounter- ed, and then imagine the smooth- ness and satisfaction, the liveliness and Hexibility, increased a good 50 per cent, you will have some meas- ure of Chalmers Six performance. One short ride in the Chalmers Six will reveal how much more it is, and how much more it gives, than ts usually expected at its price. Al Models Equipped with Disc Steel Wheels and Cord Tires Chalmers Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan Chalmers Motor Company of Canada, Limited, Windsor, Ontario CThe CHALMERS 8

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30 a a r Jim Henrys Column What every Father ought to know +L: about Babies 1 suppase women who read my column will sniff at the idea, but I really know alot about babies, and | didn't learn it all out of Aunt Belle’s Raby Book, the excellent work of reference sold for 25 cents (35 cents in Canada) by my Company. For a haraher of years I y eintalacal relarions of intimate personal ser- vice with several babies and consider myself an authority on what may be termed their external problems. There are two major divisions of a Baby—stomach and skin. Fathers should not attempt to influence the care of the former, but are pretty certain to enjoy ample opportunities to exercise their judgments when it comes to keeping a Baby's skin in good condition. I am trying to discuss this matter in a restrained and delicate way, but when [ think of what a helpless little Baby is exposed to I am under a strong = ptation to express myself in plain nee without polite ambiguities. What a Baby's skin needs is protection, Until Mennen procuced wonderful Kora-Konia, the only mat- ter which seemed to Soar Brea and nurses was to protect a Baby's immediate surroundings. Kora-Konia protects the skin. Tr places on inflamed little le a velvety film of soothing, cooling, healing powder which sticks, Kora. Konia is practically waterproof and very adhesive. [tis not easily rubbed off, thus giving lasting protection, Kora-Konia 1s in no sense a talcum, but possesses definite curative vir- tuc. Tt will seem almost miraculous to you, the way it clears up rashes and prickly heat and restores chafed skin to normal condition, So any time you fathers crave sleep both for yourselves and for Baby, dust the littl body with Kora-Konia. And, by the way, Kora- Konia i 15 equally efficient far adult skin irrita- tons— -chafing rcaused by colliding mus- cles or perspiry clothing—or sunburn, If you would like to try it out, I will send a sample for 10 cents, : Hamre (Mewaen Salemman) deen THe Mennen Comeany Neweaar, FJ. USA u 4 4 4 : i a 2. — : AG OoTHE = BL re | jewels in t identify you neither, | them a-plenty. So she's in the cloar, you've | got the jools, an’ we're stung. us plumb angry, Arthur; bein’ rode for a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Yeh. Han Was very open about it. “We've al paid the money, but we'Te interested now in gettin’ the jools hack an" puttin" you in atic. That's why I COnLe to See yuu. Sherwood amiled, “You're not going to arrest roe, Jim.” ra Why nett" "Recast you enn't Erove a thing.” Jim grinned. > to mot just yet, Ive talked to Mrs. Haley. Bein’ 3 social climber ahe ain’t any too keen to let it be known apie that ahe wae iroposed on by a faker, That'd make folks laugh at her. ‘Ant if, in wddition to that, it was ever known that she was the woman who flat- tened the N"’Yawling cop at the end of a wild party it'd sort of queer her about aa queer as could be, An’ since she aln't sul- ferin® only a fifty-thousand-dellar loss amy a most certainly wouldn't identify re Tse, Arthur, it's thisaway: T spotted you easy enough. You are known owl at the inn. But nobody knew the dame who was with you. An’ it was her that hit the cop. Also, I'm confessin’ frankly that the eer an' the chef an" the butler ain't gonna Mrs. Haley has fixed hat makes hundred thousand thataway. It just nat- urally puts it up to me to get you an’ the La pir yo wha “T hope you enjow you trying, Jim." "T been havin" a good enough time a'rendy. But | ain't particularly keen about the job, You're too good a eresk to he in jail. But, by to osh, Arthur, ua never ahould of fooled with nO Woman Sherwood was unimpressed. "You can't find the jewels, Jim.” “Roeckon I can, Reeckon I can land you "Hiowt LJ ome a crock can't get away with it if the ters ane singe aller him. You've slipped somewhere, It's just up to me to find out where.” “Tm surprised at you=thinking I've et ou ain't ne diferent from other erooka, Aras, except youve Es ve pot pore sen." Well" — oatentatious] y= "T reckon you ai to trot me down to head uaerters."" o, Certain] arresting you not. Ain’t no wee of my Jess You're going ta ala e Ae times you're a real humorist, mM. an “Ain't I? T'm awful cute oeraaionally, What I really come up for, Arthur, was to tell you how muc now, | want you to Bee just where i atand. I figured you'd be willin" te help me all you could." “Certainly, Jim, cortaint Just drop around any old time and ta : things over, T'll do all in my power to hinder you." ian Arthur. I counted on you for at.” They shook hands; slender, iromarcu- late, polished man-about-town and the mammoth expressionless. detective, The contrast was striking. Ehervood ushered Hanvey ta the door and bade him a cordial farewell, Then aldne, the criminal dropped into.a chair and mopped his forehead with a silken handkerchief, Hanvey had startled him—just aa Han- vey had intended. With uneanny intuition Hanvey had pieced together a story so | nearky approximating the facts that Sher- wood was amazed. And he was now very much on guard, The one hundred and fifty thousand dollara’ worth of jewelry nestled in a safetydeposit box at one of the Man- hattan banks, It was a box Sherwood had possessed for several years, holding it againat just such an opportunity as this. It was rented under an assumed mane. Immediately after the jewel robbery he had boarded a train for New York, but not before he carefully bad unset the gems and pitched the elaborate platinum settin inte the cle: tha af Lake Pontchartrain. T ir little: chamois sack were safe, From the outset Sherwood had realized that he would have difieulty in diaposin, af the gems. He was content. A stake of that size wus worth wailing for—twe veurs, three, five. But he had not anticipated that suspicion would so readily attach to himesell. Now that Jim Knew the story, Ie felt that he must redouble his precautions, HOMESPUN SILK (Continued from Page 21) The Mm. Haley end of the situation was safe, He smiled at recollection of the pitifully gullible wife of the railroad presi- dent; the blatant, rather vulgar woman who hough te get into the mst eae social circles by a display of jewel (Ge had been eo eagerly responsive to his is chattering about inent New Yorkers, had #0 warml med bis eaaual invita. tion to telephone when next. she came to New York in order that his supposed par- enta should have the opportunity of enter- a eg * add understood oe the value of social position rs ey. For years she hac struggled gamely, mounting with horrid slowness. She was jealous of her trifling successes. This story, made public in the newspapers and expanded in the dirt-slinging weeklies, would ruin ber for- ever. saiety was possible to her in only one a eB must not identify the man wha been her guest on the private car, And Hanvey had reared him on that point, That had been the single doubtful link in his safety chain; and he | now that it was one of the strongest. He'd have to watch Jim Hanvey for a inva It Tags ere an a Heeler game, aughing tn fis sleeve as Hanvey ba his fat See d against an end siiemen of brick walls, Eventually Jim would tire of the search, and then he would dispose a the jewels one by one, Not in a group course—they were of such great value t ot the attention of the police would imme diately be attracted through the kind efforts of stool plpeons—but singly, at distant points, and with utmost retion. The more Sherwood contemplated the plan the more assured he became, He felt for Jim Hany “Nice fellow too. I hate to see him fal down on the case." As for the detective, he apparently did not share ‘a fear for his mon- seston If he had a worry he pan ceelet it eeedingty well behind the pudgy f Tao, he fll inte the habit of valling casually on eno P hag at odd hours, an discussing the "Hello, Jim, ‘Hows old Sherlock Holmes getting on?” “Sera, Arthur: just #o-a0." “Haven't gathered any elinite informa- tion, have youl” "You know durn welll haven't, Arthur.” "You'd better get them to shift you te something else. You'll newer get the dope On me. “Maybe not. There ain't no tellin’. Sherwood leaned forward and rested a friendly hand on Jim Hanvey's knee, "On the level, Jim, you're wasting your time. You know me; you know I'm not af “Sure, I know that.” “And you knew that I've taken eve pose Fecaution. [ was careful enoug ‘ore: [rm doubly careful now, With FOU on the cast, Jim, 1 wouldn* t take a chance for anything i in the werld,.” “You're terrible com limentary." fe know you, Jim. You ain't half the coe he lavk. You couldnt be. Now, hat I don’t expect to cash in om this little eal for four or five years, and be "You ain't ever going to cash in on it, Arthur.” ‘The narrow, rather ascetic face of the eniminal broke into a br in. “Trying to make me apprehensive?” "Bo: just talkin" sense. You know the I'm working for. It ain't so much the undred thou" insurance money they've shelled out as it is the principle of the thing. They're just butt-headed enough to be willin’ to apend money an" time to pet An” maybe sa, “Tet's impossible," “WNothin'’s impossible, No matter how clever you are, you've slipped somewhere,” “"T haven't slipped.” “Vou think ave haven't, -An® ws for you cashing in, you never will. You're playiz a lone band, Arthur, but I ain't. detectives never do. I've got the police of the country helpin’ me on this thing, an’ every stool pigeon we've got is watching for them jools. They're going to keep on waotehing. An''—Jim Hanvey leaned for. ward earnestly—*‘you ain't gonna cash in on this deal, Arthur, because there ain't # livin’ human bein” who'd buy them jools offen you. Not a single living soul." Sherwood laughed shortly, He was im- pressed, and tried not to show it, ten thousand dollars. tae I, sy “We know every fecce wid tj-*.4 deal of thet sim, Amber Foe “ud them. An" theyre all bes! we.+. : ly little Jools chom"t matuer, be: phe = a of them big ones shows cp—wes - trail, An then Mr. Steward «4 stretch — -worse hack.” “T'll wait." “So will we. Waitin ig thy bec | do, We're just naturally bound -- ; I'd be doubtful if there wus a) — ; the world you could sell them «5- ig there ain't. Notaone We'vess. g of that. An" the comp'sy be us: =. @ aky's the limit, Besides, Ar- oo aint a0 GLGomin” Tainy peace jj) hid Hagen Lge AUD thee thm: vee a we're w Yoo can't get cen o& The minute [ was sure it way .i Tt Whe Just a question af oe * 5 landed you with the ope, Nos be ‘tay Willin’ to make a clean breast . Sherwool threw back ff: a | laughed. “Jim Hanvey! Tb _— ot of you than that.” "VATright.”” The detective bine: jf gelf from the depths of o leat = =_f "Have ft Our own way, Ame. ‘ sure do wish it wes some aune | you. I'm awful strong for » “T know it, Jim.” Ther « | feeling in the other's vores, “Ts little game; you're on one ci ef pas ere Sh ous has eo an m plumb soerry it's you” Alone : 4 cheno, Wirt & window, w chs etood josey & WE Central Park. Drosk was mersr im inte night. The shadowy wees ei treea were dislimning in the =". a ing gloom. ‘There floated ep: ©) 2 commanding screech of acter. -.- = the clangof passing Eighth Averw vores Of g group of chidres T=: the picture bulked the slouc=-y i= Jira Hanvey. Sherw waotehed the tee interested|y. Ele saw Hance =u park and pause to light ecg. 14 something almost pathetic 2 oS hulking man, a humblenes “'. 09 cepiive to those who did pot ca intimately, Too, there was a {aod squarencss which made him t.—© the higher class of criminas 17> he was on the level, He tore © | advantage of them. He pair clean, “If ['we got to be caurs i Jim peng Seapes the pirch. “4 the idea: they wene proud of or} ship with Jim Hanver. Ther = | with him and he with them. He « for them after he arrested te- a Were fiven m@ square deal: ¢ them when they were doing tc: | man, Jim Hanvey: bi feasts tee | panty anid eagerly Fy ends stood high in the oa register. Onutside the uncer® :- | no intimates, Shemvood saw him walk or: 7 lumbering gait of a man to: > feet, And gradually the bic ff--' in the gloom. We wos the ( Sherwood turned away from ‘i 9 “Tt's a dirty shame. He wove 1! a wonderful crook,” He ndered over he w= tion with the detective, Jor: were worthy of serjous refect not given to trickery of spe! he knew Sherwood too wel t a a understoml that Sheree > Waiting game, Sherwood was willing, bo 1 > turbed, He hadn't anticipate: ‘2! rob traced to his door # F d been mo opporticc) of even afew of the gems Avd too well supplied with exsh. © dim) watching: every mov impossible to pull another a tolay low and take things eaty. wa Jim was right of core there was ne one to whom bk old jewels, No professional feo “i die them, wand. if an smoatecr ' jewela he, Sherwood, wok, b “a “ted, § them mo fer that; not if | haw 2! He visited Jim Hanver 2 hile later, “Tw been think nice aed talk, Jim."* “That's Good. (Cainttinged sa Pere 1.

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THE SATURDAY “Suppose | handed the jewels to you, | would = ae forget that you knew who took them Vish T could, Arthur, but it isn't pos- sible. We want you." Sherwood shrugged. “I'll just have to | walt then.” “That's foolish. I'll later. You might as we | start serving your time now. day you putit off is just that much Taine araatod. “T've pot plenty of time, Jim." "Veh, reckon ao. I hardly thought ; you'd “fess up." "Not a chance.” "I'm real sorry for you, Arthur, All that trouble, all that risk—and you ain't gonna get nothin’ ad af it. “Tl make out very well.” “Nope. You can't sell ‘em, an’ there ain't no other of realizin" on your in- vestment of time and effort.” Sherwood knew that he rouet hold on nie a long, long while. It waa awkward, | necessary. He was too clover a parformet to worry about financial stringency, Jim (wast after him mow aa keenly as he waa | after the jewels, even more so. Of eouree he bad nover intended turning the jewels over to Hanvey; had qui him solely ‘for the purpose of finding out whether it was the man or the jewela they were seek- ing. The fact that it was the former made | grenter caution imperative, Jim was using the police ton, That wos further poibarruscmnscrt. The police syetem bothers criminals, it is no extensive and pan het a aystem of surveillance that eventually wears aman down, Pla | ing lone han ee Sherwood knew that the vantage would always be with the crim= inal. But fighting against the individual brillinnce of a detective and the inexorable ' patience and seope of the nation's police | departments, a man had to watch his step 1 pretty carefully. | Sherwood was willing—but it was | deucedly uncomfortable. Jim hal impressed him. There waa no | one to whom he could sell the jewela; not ’ for several cy af any rote, not a soul, | TTnlesa, Sherwood nodded | (Continaed from Page 30)

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perhaps —— “It's worth thinking over," he imself, Two days later Shervood'a telephone buzzed, and Jim Hanvey’s monotonous droning voice came to him over the wite: That you, Arthur? es," " vehi is Jim Hanvey." Yes." “Bey?” | ENot particularly.” “How "bout deena! over to my roenms ' a minute, I got somethin” to show yous | gy eae ree interestin’.” I aL ht, pie ight a | ge Right away A tax, a awift journey uptown to West staal Street; Jim Harvey's threetocm ment—a stuffy affair grotesquely fur. 5 oe and vilely kept; three rooms which sagged under the heavy odor of Jim's cigars, Shereoad awore fervently and threw up the windows in the tiny parlor. "Jim, you shouldn't.” “What?” Smoke those cea indoors.” “Oh! Them? Gosh! [ like "em, “The other tenants don’t kick?" "Dunno. The janitor done time once in Joliet, an’ him an’ me is buddies. He waa nawful rotten vege, buat he's aewell janiter. j ! ay, you ajn't interes Aohim: n't me neltner for that matter. 1 got i Sia to show jou,” "So you eal “hy Tere.” Sherweoed trailed hia host inte the dining room. Jim motioned him ton choir, “Just got one thing to ask, Arthur; thet is that YOu Wse your eyes—not your hands,” “Whatever you say, Jim.” "edd." From the eapacious hip pocket of his voluminous trousers Hanvey ex- tracted o little chamois sack. Shervood's eyes narrowed slightly. Chamois sack! ewelry! Hanvey, phoerents unmmindfal af his visiter, d "Jiest you watch, Arkin hut femem- ber, hands off." With a quick deft motion he opened the sick andspilled itacontents on theimitatlon- mahogany table, The fishliike eyes of the detective were focused vacanth upon Arthur Bherwood, who hed started inwaol- untarily from his seat. Then Sherwood — ee

EVENING POST caught himself, _contralled his nerves with an effort and to amil “What's the idea, Jim?" ’ Hanvey's eyes were turned to the table top, u which glowed and fthomed a handful of magnificent gems—matched pearls, diamonds of rare cut and brilliance, a huge blood ruby, twin emeralds of enor- mous gize and clarity, deep Oriental sap- Biren, The eyes the tive closed slowly, sleepily, then opened with madden- ing letsureliness. “How you like "em, Arthur?"- Sherwood appeared at ease, but bia nerves were under a terrific tension, “y ery much." familiarT™ Bherwood nodded frankly. "Yes." They were familiar; atene for nn they were the jewels he had stelen from Mra, Haley—etolen from her, gah sarki their mountings, and which at that mo- ment he could have aworn were safe in o box at one of the city’s largest banks. There wie no erg api ruby, the big diamond with the odd workman- Ip. “What ara they, Jim?" aa " grinned genially. “Paste?” “Sure. Can't you tell?” “Where did you get them?” “Had ‘ern made from tha hia ini the insurance cornpany has. I think they look grand —for pasate, Sherwoxd stared at the plttering pers gems as though hypnotized. And while Hanvey's huge hand went out and wept them back Inte the chamois aack. “Awdtul good imitntions, I think, Arthur." 5h A dang el weakly. “They are, ihe miele waa returned to Hanvey's chet. “I got te be trottln” along dawn- tonn, Arthur, That's all [ wanted of ou— just to show you them imitation joo Sherwood was nervous. He more ‘than half expected toa be arrested, and he drew a deep breath of relief as he stepped into the street. He walked awiltly toward the corner, turned sharply, and saw Hany peng! oor) Ft ag bea heen and fa ow t frown comuga éHminal’s. forehand. He was frankly worried, Hanvey was too insistent about the ie ameatied ‘ie. ity of the gems, Doubt masa Perhaps they were the genuine stones. was impos nt a Were imita- tions they wert wonder uppoee Kan vey tae had discovered as location of his ety oral ee box and the name in which it was he Suppose ha had actually se- cured the gemal Sherwood hailed o ng taxl and en- tered. As he did so be saw another cab ease around the commer. Jim Hanvey over- flowed the back seat, cigar between his briver lips. Sherwood apoke awiftly to hia tee i see that cab yonder?” Lose it and you get twenty dollars,” ft a eG t the same moment Hanvey was se ing with his own driver. en that cab up abead —the one the goxd-lookin® feller ig just tha intoT" “Faller | it an” you get five dollars.” The chase started. Both cabs seu into Riverside Drive at moderate Sherwood's driver playing a careful gare until such time as he might find an o ortunity to elude pursuit in a traffic as Along Riverside they went, turnin: eastward to roadway on Seventy-secon Street, thenee down that thoroughfare to Park Circle. It was there that luck played inte Sherweod's hands. His cab crossed Fark Cirele just as the trafle policeman raised his hand. It took Honvey fully 2 half minute to exhibit his credentials to the policeman, and by that time Sherwood had aped eastward on Filty-ighth Street turning downtown on Sixth Avenue an doubling back uptown via Fiftieth Street and Ninth Avente. Sherwood was confident that he had eluded Hanvey, but he was taking no chance. As a matter of fact, additional precaution wasunnecesaary. Hanvey's taxi reached Fifty-eighth, Jim glanced down the avenue through an endless line of caba, touring cara phy tench and motioned his driverto a halt. “Needn't go no farther, son. They've got avay. How much?" “Dollar schty. him a twedollar bill, Hanve " Foe change." Then, as he started Jame i gs acrodt toward the Subwer ia, at his watch. “Threethiny— -- He entered the Suirry an: town. When he alighted ¢ ww u Central Park Wet acd sac +. steps of Sherwood's spartee-: . was smiling alighthy and they y:--. pact acl gi a raat is kis dee " erw proceeded w= = lous care, He left bis tad & fe fourth Street, book a moan " Pennsylvania Hotel, entered : be via the lobby of that howtels, re <9 town and thence to his beri, post access to thesalety-depcu: himself under the alias of Rope His examination took but 1 The jewels were there, every ‘on them. He sighed relieved. i 2 left the fae he foand kine! a , He reoliged that Jim Hanvey to: deeply ulterior motive, that b ‘a+ gone to the trouble and eqpeter of ez the paste duplicates without ru. » 4 ean Ry a | esi part af an elabarate iis ra = frankness had been disq- ! | Hanvey, made from + pr] company descriptions. Fel. “aL told the truth. But whyt Shere rt Ken Here poieted ement the criminal was usb» - stand. Until this moment he bed! for Jim Hanvey's bey Hoo his bovine indifference and ts reco But now —— Still serking a solutes: Shes uptown on the Elevated and t-- a to hia apartment. As he tome door the monster figure of oc n hholketerl itaelf from the marble fem. “Hello, Arthur.” “Tim! Wing 1-3 “Waw! I'm over in Bren h- = for the other end of the bidp.” Shereood took his friend by ' “Come th ire a minute, ns to chat with you." Hanvey selected the mos ov! chair and crashed intoit. Sherwe. to the window, put wp the whacde an: toward the Gargantuan figure of Sherwood's face was in shac- *! the deteetive in the full gisre cups ia txpressionful a4 pate. “Dye been trying to fig = litthe play, Jim.” "Have you?T™ “Yer And I don't git About the only idea T cas we © was that you showed me tho —) to make oe Be down to the ve. * have the real stones to rear © “You're hittin’ on all izle “And that you'd trail me the © out what box -——* “Arthur Sherwood! I'm pict inted in you—keoeckin’ me os Ma don't ts think J thes trail you through the streets a o9 "It didn’t seem so, Jim-== were attaining your seqond chu I eouldn’t figure owt any othe © and you did try to follow me Hanvey shook his head cer) “In that taxi?™ “That waeen"t my idea, An detective's big spatulate fing 5 lightly on the table, “Al I ra Arthur, was to make gure oa | tryin’ to shake me!” “Aap Slerwrnd’s the - Hanvey waved pee to over," Sherwood thought it over. Tot Io was trying to shake ym. *= that get you?" ; “A heap of places, Artha. | cid "Causét the minute you tne! = “7 T knew good an" well you = becouse you was heeded fc where you had the jools bei i*! is a vault— no crock of yor 53 would hide “em anywherst e minute sou we me the es back here an’ wai ited far yo i Shere = | Tt why? rd “Recuuse, Arthur, T laid ©: = trap for you, an" yoo fa = con't tialevel otha ° zu, Arthur? I meally do 2 wful fod stunt J plied” Just what was it, Jim" Hanvey glanced at hs @r= = “Just this: At scorns Lime [ere 4:30 this afternoon wou wee? BD box. You signed your =i-# {Continued aa Peg

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"la boninees ower OO yeara.”* Underwood Deviled H AM THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page 32) aliag, of course, An‘ tomerrow mornin’ I start. out inapectin’ the vault cards of every bank in New York. I'll get hel from headquarters, an’ eventu we'll check up on every man, woman an’ child who entered a bank box in that three | quarters of an hour,” The detective grinned in boyish approval of his own acumen. “'Tuln't gonna be auch an easy job, Arthur, but it ain't gonna bs ! a0 hard neither—moe not carin’ particularly about the in this case, Of course | know the box if In a Manhattan bank, because you got back top quick ta have gone to Brooklynoreven Jersey City, Jerry Nasch= haurn, chief of the headquarters identifica- tion force, will let me have a few good men to help. In one week, two weeks, mebbe three, we'll check up on evervbody who entered a bank box between 3:45 and 4:40 today. An’ when we've done that, Arthur, we'll have you, See?" Arthur saw. ““I wish someone eles waa on this case, Jim. You're too blamed paingtaking.” “Better "fess up now." “No; DU take my chances." “Ain't gonna get you nowhere. You can't sell them jools: there ain't a soul in the world would bus ‘em offen you,” “Maybe not.” Sherwool opened the door invitingly. “Sorry you have to be going. Jk." m tm sorry myeell, Arthur.” He turned at the doorway. “I'm kinder cute yet, | ain't 12 “T hape not, Jim,” was the answer. Tt did not take Bherwood long to realize that he was nearing the end hia rope. He might have known that Jim Hanvey was going to trap him, That had been a clever trick of Jim's, and it promised definite and fairly immediate reaulta. Hanvyey was right: the task of checking up would be a slow and difficult under- taking, but Sherwood knew the police system sufficiently well to understand — and fear—ite tireleseness. Eventually they'd eomplete their check-up, and when they did —— ; Sherwood admitted to himself that he must dispose of the jewels, Thought of transferring them to another box was aut of the question. They'd discover that Seiitaali The thing te do waa to rid himself of the gems. But Jim Hanvey had insisted that he could not #el] them iecause there was mo mar- ket. Jim hada ntruly. No market. “Oh, confound Mrs. Haley and her pla jewelry! y 5 caught his breath sud- denly. Mrs. Haley! Puffy, ponderous Mra. Haley! The poor, bewildered, sellf- sufficient Mra. Haley, who had lost one hundred and fifty thousand dollars’ worth of jewelry and been partially re- imbursed with one hundred thousan dollars of the ineurance company rari Sherwood smashed hia right into the palm of his left hand. There's my market! I'll sell the jewels back to Mrs. Haley!" : He paced the room, his brain running rink with the sardonic daring of his acheme. Le knew Jim Honvey was not infallible. Jim had been so confident that no one would buy the jewels—so | confident that he had completely over- | lomked Mra. Haley. And Mrs, Haley would buy. He'd make her buy. Wo one would think of jooiring: to her for the gems. She could have them set in new mountings and ne one would ever be the wiser. “d sell them to her for fifty thousand dollars, and she'd be fifty thousand dollars win- ner on the transaction. Then Jim Han- veo could search all he pleased. fe telephoned Mra. Haley. She was decidedly disinclined to meet him. He assumed a threatening tone, She eon sented fearfully. They met at Port Chester, he going there by train and she by autemobile, She refused frankly to have anything further to de with him, “Very well, Mrs, Haley, When they arrest me I'll tell the whole story. What happened in New Orleans for ore thing: then abowt your refusal te iden- tify me—I know they've shown you my pears lt will iy pal nage for the newspapers, and a wonderful story for the gsoclety weeklies, You'll be laughed out of the country.” “But if they find out that I"ve bought them hack fram you——" The woman was on the verge of hysteria. She was | horribly frightened. EVENING POST hey - You're the last person on ¢arth they'd think of in connection with those jewels, You buy them. T cam search all they please and they can't get the goods on me. They won't even arrest me because there'll be no evidence to con- viet, And you will be fifty thousand dol- lars to the good.” "Ty can't. F ou eae. “Well, Twon't.” A stecly light crept into his eyes. "You will! You must!" Eventually she consented. There waa nothing else ahe could do. Petrified with terror, fearful of losing the tiny bit of social recognition for which she 50 valiantly struggled, inordinately afraid of arrest in connection with the New Orleans escapade which hac assumed Brobdingnag- ian proportions in her eyes—she agreed to meet him in the private dining room of a = hotel, bringing with her fifty thousand ollara in cash, which was to be exchange for the jewels. And then, apprehensive and nervous, she left him. Sherwood returned ta the city, exultant. His plan head worked. It was safe, eu- premely safe. For, even should she be eventually dizeayered In ‘poeerien of the Jenelt, she would never dare tell the true story. But Jim Hanvey had not been idle. He made careful investigation and then spent the entire afternoon chatting with the presi- dents of the four New York banks where Mrs. Haley maintained personal checking accounts, “She'll cash a big check here in the next few days," explained the detective toeach of them. “A thunderin’ big check:

PROTG. Gf dod. dia OSTA, Ghee Twila Falla—Glacler Naotlenal Pork ene IT an” ahe'll take the money & le win Minute she does, telephone my iam Agk foro feller named Henry low take the message an’ get in tours w: And then Jim Haswey perees., « unto himself the task of wat-n-; Haley. Tt was not difficult, Suge---; Vellance Mra. Haley conduc ---. that a blind man could have eaca Mrs. Haley's single maior acm was the stubborn refusal of s— » to take up hia residence in New | = apartment was a sop, and dur»; sional sopourn in the metres. pended a vast amount of efor .: of letting people know tha: ake ay. beady. Purple limousine, uncor- feur and footeimn, shrickiry - diamond-studded lorgnette oc spas Henny sa l-spbeantectan simple. And om the morning v-~ + day following, the man called J r= his Bu Perior that onli gw few © ac ously Mrs. Haley had pereca her check for fifty thousand d._.- Jim received the report wt a waa lolling comfortably ina tox » by the police departmert ac one of hig own operatives. “Ye somethin’ was about te break | '¢ her down to the bank an‘ seer ters wentin. She's in yonder pow in the general direction of the s--- + apartment house—‘an" sh | out directly, Beat it, Henry ~ Henry beat it. The por- appeared. So, too, did Mra, Hie minwdtes later she entered a poc— town hotel, Hanvey waited i- re a gc aa ort op and disap into Then he followed and ext; dentials to the manager, n> that startled dignitary a bi: information. “There's m man im that pe ing room already, int Lee *: Yes, Sir, "Good, I'll trot slong ic 7 He alowed them amp © versation. And when he ors°- with a master key furniss-: Management it was to cu teresting tableau. By the table stood Mr. fF, ing in her two hands the sacx ay Shere was busily engaged a ing the money she had pe Neither moved. Hanvey closed the door pretty wide-open, fishlike eyes blinked Te |. umazing slowness, Airs. Haier d Bruktered and collapeed mite @ Sherwood"s eyes met Hanrey't bi The ciminal was a tly “Dm # prised at wou fo: such a simple thing a". The reason To lenew you we! them jools back to Mire Bon” cause [ suggested it to +> “You suggested —*~ Trt smiled in frank edmirat. YOU Miggested it when ya i Sure,” interrupted Ha antly, “when I kept reper * wasn t nobody in the er bell "tm te—I meant =.= ' Mra. Haley,"

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oo ee | the reat of your | | havin’ you leave | aquire. | aquire, © THE SATURDAY EVENING POST SQUIRE TRUMAN TURNS A PLANK dollars stole by Fabius & two young folks fie that hain’ t got ce at todo wit the atealin® gets smash to me if Gawd was strikin’ a pales between tan innocent lives and twelve thousand dollars he'd doa dif'rent. That's why I lay the con- ences to men.” “Mebby eo . . . Mebby so. “Tf men was able to see what was done aa clear ae Gawd does, and to understand what wos done, mebby they'd be able to handle it betber. But they go bangin’ ahead in their ignorance, and so long's somebody gits hurt they're entisfied.” This was too abstract for Ollo. What ins terested him in this world wasfact. Specu- lations which were not ponderable had no power to arouse him, ee “What's itchin’ toe," he said, “is what in tunket Jake Morrow shot that dawg “T aim to find out," said the equine. “Turnin’ over Iacts is sh turnin’ over an old plank behind the barn. Never kin tell what sort of fuga’ll come runnin” out.” “Jake hain't nobody's fool," gaid Oils. “Ola,” said the squire presently, “ know the river out here runs downhill, don’t ye? Wa-al, supposin' the’ was a flax and it made a backwater or suthin' so that in one spert it looked like the river waa climbin’ uphill. Would ye go round life ‘believin’ the river did go uphill ingtid of down?" *Cale"late mot." “U-m! You know it's light in the day time, but s{posin’ the’ come a storm, and it got pitch black at noon. Would ye main- tain all the reat of your life that daytime was dark?" ane yo talkin’ about?" demanded a. “T waa thinkin’,” said the squire, “that maybe folks dent place Thos nots a thine on what they know, ow @ thing and then eed comes. somethin that makes it look for a mintite as if it wasn't ao, and from then on t don't hilays the thing was so that they knew in gittin’ mere int'rested in in that dawg, Olle, agi ttin' the iden that not knowin" a fact enough is the bug under Li caragh es ga Jake's not t way. If he knows a thing he keeps right on knewin' it's so, ie? when it's proved to him that it ain't.” “T'rs takin’ that into consideration,” said the s wire. “If I'd ‘a’ been Jake, I'd ‘a’ ae that dawg. Shootin’ it was a mistake," The squire and his constable left the court roam together and walked down the street side by alide—a fox terrier and a St. Bernard, T Hire carried his head well forward, eo that his beard became a sort of row: Olle m even more of a prow of ia whishera. The squire walked with short oppy’ impatient pian The wa all Ma bl l= Irt ™l ave apie alll oe eke bs rao in & Mag uae f+ seg "said the aquire, “your wife's tind: ‘timid nights, hain't she?" "No," said Ollo, “nor daytimes nuther.” gee could be, couldnt she, Ollo? Tf it hecesdary you could reason ber into bein’ timid, couldn't yet” "She hain't never istered ad ee in Dunno's start What fer, & = “You're goin’ to # a night from home, and I don't feel jeat r wife alone,” auld “Say did it ever strike you aroun Paul Sprague tight ‘g" what father dene with Jahala's money? That mebby that wos why he waa so tarnal anxious to git out of town?" “Don't believe a word of it,” said Ollo sip laer I'm opin" Inte the bank,” said the it Your summonses served and a hustle back to the court room ahs. squie entered the hank 4 and by right of position as a member of the finance committee behind the grat- ing and up to the bookkeeper's desk, now vacant by reason of that functionary’s absence at lunch. For half an hour studied certain accounts on the ledger and mate notes in his memorandum book. Then he went to the hotel where he hod lived for twenty years and attended to the demands of his own hunger. After his (Centinogd from Poge If! meal he went to the post office and held conversation with F maint Lpstrap. “Tahala in karate be "Cashed one af them money arders [nom Paul, “said the powlmaster. ‘Lemme se it," said the “Dem! Fifteen dollars. Come from den. Muek . Ever hear of any trouble betwixt Jake Morrow and John Chase before this hore dawg-shootin' ont call nothin’ ta mind," said the Postmaster. *Recollect what Jake tember?” wae doin’ two ago, Say im Be "Bookkee ale vena for oleh wire. am-=- Sprague,” said be wining ee shale Ftond's door. He was just in time, for she was comin down the steps on her way back to ach a8 he opened t aaa te. “Howdy Jahala,"’ he said. “Goel | ripen, equine," ll ti aa in to ay that bd ye BEE anything in paper about ye tomorrer, of hear ary aay i jeat a a Fr mouth tight shet, deny net — “But what —— "Be ye goin’ to i as you're told?" he said sharply. , yea: ‘shu ead t pais ae No need you Frid qoue re stayin” eo Ollo Dinwey's = ae eepin" he don't know it pit, but you np ‘Site’ hain’t goin" to be ame.’ “What att yout up ty squire?" "T' jest secin' w ind of a bug'll ran out fram under a plank when I turn it over,” he said. Whergapon be he turned his back abruptly and walked a He stopped a moment in the offier af tik the Amity Clarion to give a bit of mews to the editor for his personal erie. “Ole Rey 8 goin’ to gh absent from hort a a court b usiness,”” he said. chat d's goin" ae ceo the night with hiswife. . . Oh, te be sure, and here's another: Tahala’ 4 got te feelin’ kind of thmid about ied alone in that house, so what's she done but up and bought her a dawg. White bulldawg, she Baye. Comin’ vi ex from the city. Expects it Satti ow I eale'late the'll bea” al] kinds of trouble in town, dawg fights and sich. Print ‘ ry prominent, to the top of the column, will ase the editor. “Te be sure,” “Now,” aaid the aquire to himself as he walked hack te the court room, “if some= body don't hear opportunity rappin’ on his Ponty then I'm jest a plain, imaginin" ol’ Th consequence of these transactions of the squire, and as a sequel to them, a num- ber of conn happenings took place on Friday night. Ollo Dawdy drove out of town toward the west, foal at Heovwer's: farm, left his horas in the and walked back to Amity th h the woods, Jahala Bond took supper with Ollo's wife and went to bed in Ollo's spare bedroom. Squire Truman, thankful for a dark night, ap- preacued Jahala’s house devious and hadowy oki ae pArkcacr pe toed effected an entry by mea the kitchen in the rear. all he gists! on Ollo's foot amd slictaat startled the conatable into a fit. " hin’ quiet yit? "asked i the squire. ain't even heard a rat stirrin’. They sat on the stairs and waited si- lently. From time to time it was for the aquire to admonish Olle, for i leer was ghawed by a hungry neity, "Listen [" said the squire finally. Unmistakably someone waa moving stealthily outeide the dining-room window, They heard the sash lift slowly tear and a sound as of someone draggin legs over the sill. Then came Sots atepe on the body-Brossels and the figure of a man passed between the squire and the parlor window. Enough of the silhouctte was distinct to make it apparent the man was amoothly shaven. He made a eincuit of the room, ing close to the riléres behind which, the pauirs and Olle urked, and they saw his face. It was Paul Sprague. Across a corner of the room a haireloth eola, Youn E poreaue moved ft out quietly, got behind it and pulled it back into place. Then he crouched nin hiding. Ollo quivered with ex- citement. The squire tugged on his beard. Joe fe Another twenty minute ki squire and Olle held t thelr — lh allway; ignorant of ther rearcre #, Sprague crouched beled thy o sofa. They waited, motionem T: out a warn spend a peril a “ Mebby you'll be some belp x on » «Mow, Jae, p-e8 a a

| » a Tl oll anythin you may Icin bbe used ars m, if you dast bold a you! hav oka mie to settle with! | ie ee ier mute, as as the eng *“Cale'late I’ lt have to tea v7 U- the uire, “Wou came te.- kn a fact ay alles a Tact NY <t that a thing ia allus so if ism. ts it, Jake? You come ‘cau } ras fidence in your own ae = of the rest of us hed Jake continued to remain mo BEE Fah ™ galicd the eyuire, “i=! 4 ht te make you'r " ibe shar T don't understand.” sed Ps “He knew a gowl man “asl knew a man that was hooest © = bone don"t turn thief, He im 2 ean't be night even if a thusdes— up to | it look ao. Ha=:*- Jake?" , “I dunnea what you're tas © TE a, sai, ikl. Hs “T didn't come fer nothic” “Toe Ise sure—to be ere ai deine acall. Howdovwitn * “What's here?” d “Now you listen, Jake! [s'7 man, and I kin overlook a= 24 irritation. Wouldn't lke ts #7) * . Where you went mel rea Sle. eet a lech ee = ia ‘a! ot to thinkin’. : @ tried te bite me,” 92 it fhe Rind of sakes =": Jake? Wa-al, I'll have to de r= fer ye. ‘When T make a me atl me right. . (ree aE to the time when Fabes 24 killed. Kind of shaky aarp them was. We even had w& here goin" to the wall. Cal ra = cussin” that with Fabio’ *— mind the day he drawe! pare money out of the bank’ 7 - moves you to make a face, © ‘ kn he did draw & along with him at the tis ; do it up in » bundle are And a little while afteres: (Coatianed e« Fay 2

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We all thought he used it som‘eres to bolater pec agin. Bug you didn't didye dake?” ack agin. you didn’t, ye pri “Course I did, same's eve body e "You knowed he didn't, A pol | sean he eculdn't. You knewed, Jake, the’ was nothin’ in heaven or earth that could make a thief out of Fabius Sprague, and that's where you was some better'n the rest of ws. What you knowed was that he never atole ft, a then when he was killed and the money turned up missin’ you reasoned it out, and says you to your- self, ‘Fabius Sprague drawed out that money ‘cause he wae afraid of the bank bustin’. He put it away some'eres safe, and bein’ killed sudden he never had no chancet to tell neboey 5 ehioniee That's how , Inke, d you was right. re'd he hide it? You know, “T don't know nothin’. “Someeres in this room, wa'n'hit? You come here faust “*'Tain't nuther."" The eguire turned to Paul. “Got any idee where your father might "a" hid away vay suthin’ as important a Jahala‘’s money?" “I haven't, I never knew of a hiding place, “Jake did. Somehow Jake knew the’ was a place. lie’s waited for things to quiet down so's he could come and git it eefullike and "thowt any trouble, From! Seema to me you was @ mason winst, Jake, years ago ‘fore you got to And I re keepin’ books, ead Fabius put a lot of trust in ye. neers with him, but he donmean .. . , did ye ever help Fabius make a gale place where ha d hide valuables? Afeared of fire, he was. It ‘ud be a kind of a fireproof place.” EVENING POST “Never done nothin’ of the kind," said Jake. “All right, tog 5 a minke took out his watch. “We ki n pull the house down if nec'ary, but we don't aim to. I give ye two minutes. If ye tell I'll let ye ye go scot- free. If ye don't T T'll see to it ye git the limit, and that's a number of years, When the court hears how you, knowin’ the facts, ict ak iniocent man suffer under this here and how you ruined hia son's life, or a Sahain’ s life—wa-al, I eale'late any court'll jedge that to be an ageravatin’ circumstance. One minute i "You agree to lemme gor” J Tanded. a and T never go back on Jake , consarn ye, it's there!” maid pointing ta the eke ae out the s ake." ake walked re uctantly to the stone wate Under the shelf he fumbled for a moment; then his hands came away bring- im a sizable gene of granite. The squire held the lar ng inte the eavity saw the stee al asmall wall safe em- bedded in the masonry behind. “‘Um-m! Happen ye gotthe combination? If I know ye, ye never put that in "thout findin"® how it warked." “The combination was wrote a red tag hitched to the handle, * snid Jake. ‘Open her up then," the sq Jake's wna hands feablel with the dial. It would not nd te the firat or the second rire t at the third the door swun The squire thrust in his hand an ee it out fall of papers, ineitreno policies and the like. A SEOOn pP brought to light an oblong package wrapped securely in Manila paper and tied wit ori Levee we got siithin® thia time,” he eaid, and han it to Faul. Might see what this here is, young man Faul held it in hia d incredulously, He welghed it, felt it with hia fingers, ane FA "There — there's writing tx it "Let's have it,” sit ty ** This package, read Pup! agin belong Be ionym ta Juba Few t was put ran could reinvest it. af ras, , It's dad's writing,” maid Pod sy ty: whisper, “and his name's timed y+ ° The squire turned to Juice, "Evenin’, Jake,” be tad. “Wie = th don't quit travels’ til pro's x | e state, (Court's edjoene Nope, wouldn’ rouse. Paul. The tome there safe, but | fi ‘hala's sce hee to have it come to hia writin’ and all. She's mies =—" bat Teale late sri ws Tt rr e t along bay Take os She's up to Olllo’s buuse, Hele - ae window. If I hasn't me wei you A ic off as soon's she px tke | woulda "sent for pou, (a! The he Hy watched the voty ta: » part. he turned ta Que “Wa-al, that plank’s tune or of we ketched the bug,” be sud. Be smal, “Tf this here hadn't been discover = t wat too late,"' he seid, * ‘Yolia ‘cx ite y have laid it to Gawd’s door, | bass Fy for keepin’ it secret. . . . They ws blame themselves a mite Sea! re] see, Gawd's too busy Fnncs” the cow to have time to pint oot to foc rar obvious and plain to the naked ee" "The Soop sare Te ae rem aparrer fall, be Yea," eth ayuirr, 2 | familiar with no verse peatr so | Teaches out to ketch it before? ho Te a job He leaves to you 'n' me's ob sate the folks, dependin" on oa te be Hs gam catchers.” “Huh!" granted Ollo cna} that young coot gor: bellens cet winders : wife's apt to amy 34 water on h "He'd never feel it. tonight, Co. ‘a the equine, WOMEN I’M NOT MARRIED TO funny that way, and if I took a cup now I wouldn't close an eye all night. Soma can, and some can't. I like it, but it doesn’t rig ns Ha, har : wouldn't cloee an eye might, wre on't get my sleep—and a good ef ‘ht howre at that—I'm not At for a thing all the soil Hs It's a pretty important thing, sleep; and ——' a al imiece sane bo laude, self-centered thing that she was. Here waa I confiding to her sarething I never had told another soul, and she wasn't merely dozing; she was asleep, T gactied, nite Agee: plate, and she awoke. It was a good thing I found out about her in time. Anne In winter, when the ground wos white, I thovght that Anne would be all right; In summer, quite the other way, T ket she'd never be 00K, aot liked to go te the theater, but what ehe went for was to be amused, as there was enough suiinees in reul life with- cut golng to the theater for it. She told me that I ™ just a great big bboy that all men, in fact, were just little boys grown up. I took her te a movie show, and she read most of the captions to me, slowly: read them to herself her ling moved. She never took a drink in days of old when booze was sold and barrooma held their sway—that ia my line, not Anne's—but now she takes a cocktail when one is offered, saying, “This may be my last chanee,” ; : Women, she told me, didn't like her much, but she didn't care, as she was, she always said,aman's wornan, Just the same, folk said, ahe told me, that she was wonderful in a aiek racer. And eo, what with the movies and one thing and another, the winter passed. She was glad | was a tennis player, and we'd have some exciting sets in the summer, No, she sald games. I should have known then, but [ was thinking of her hair and how cool it was to stroke. Well, one May afternoon there we were on the tennia court. It belonged to a frend of hers, and it hadn't been rolled recently, nor marked, though you could tell that here ae line and there a aervice line once bad (Contisesd from Page fd) T asked her which court she wanted, and said it didn’t matter; she played rottenly ly on both sides, Nor was that, I found it, snares things. She served, amd. called “Ready T" before each aervies. When she sent a "all far outside ehe called “Home run!" or “Just out!" And if I served a double f fault she anid either “Two bad” or "Thank When the soore was deuce ahe cal it "Tule!" And when I beat her 6-0—as you could have dene, of you, of even you—she said she was of her game, that it was a lot closer than the score indicated, that ahe'd beat me before the surumer waa aver, that didn't the net seem terribly bow or sore thing, and that [ wasn't used to playing with women or I wouldn't hit tha ia BO hard all the time. Little remaing to be told. Anne ly now the wife of a golfing banker. Wednesday night I mat her at a party. "Golf?" she peoed “Oh, That is, I don't play it; I play at it. Tennis is really my game, but I haven't had a racket in my hand in two years. We must have some of our gures my T nearly beat you last time, remo Belinda REMEMEER Belinda, She was ange equally ing with another young woman about the car fare. “Let me pay," said Belinda: and she paid. “There,” T mused, “is a perfect woman, nobly planned,” 1 moet her shorthy after that, and she eens through many a test. Onee I saw or. yo UP up to an elevated railroad station, ven in anickel, and not say “One, plenee," Once T asked her what day ft was, and she end “Wednesday without adding “‘all day." Bhe spoke once of a culti taste without adding “like ollvek," and once said “That's another atory" without acdd- ing “as Kipling says.” And once—and that was the day I nearly begged her to be “aon —when she said that something had Ake gpa get she failed to gig- gie the report of Mark Twain's “a you see Belinda had points. She had a dog that wasn't more intell t than most human beings; she wasn't forever saying that there was no reason why a man and a woman shouldn't be jet ped ahe didn't put me at seer, te ey othera did, hy Jooking at ow fo & minutes and t saying that pe la didn't matter much to a ma oe take didn’ and when re mre her oor take it an Form" = sen ye Par Se when you might ve broug®: = ra D. Rockefeller.” And she ocr: al she couldn't draw a ht Le 8 she had no card sense of sabe cl write a decent letter. . s She could write a decent ette. 52! Leta of them. To me ton Be we best letters I ever read, They wo =? gent, humorous, and=w.hy mus tell the truth t—ardent. Ferni= st Candescent is not far od Asc Set I lost her, “Fars i "P. 5." she wrote. and all of them." ia A few weeks later Belinds a 4 rate [ write you, my letter mel large drawer by this time “Why,"" I aaid, * L born the: | all burned, = “IT never want to see you apt # saat dl — 2c bt na my -hy woe Ube et we cation between me and Belinds Marguerite ARGUERITE was a: or strove, and not withet = please, She bate? - chee bein: 4 coul "pt one or | Eut I had theories, 5% 3 farguerite, and | wantec lo" she was jn ‘sympathy with | Prt i theories was that a | 7 sharia could be aroitied. Pp his business hain a ne he sine a confidante, a P= ant, of his wife. I had ere women whome beomet it was he °* brings buzeiness: inte the boom. So Lused to talk to Mane © theory. When we were mi it be better to discus the 7% husiness day at bome with be! zs see simply talking abou: * something, and maybe = (Ceatinged os Paget © per that

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 50 Horsepower—6 Cylinders—%1065 The big word in automobile circles these days is Jewett. No car has ever made a greater or more instantaneous appeal to the motoring public. And the reason can be summed up in another single word— Value, In every section of the nation this car is breaking sales records, and not only winning friends but holding them. It is telling the story of economical six cylinder power and smoothness as it has never been told before. It is setting a distinctly new standard for comfortable, care-free, spirited motoring. The fifty horsepower, Paige built, six cylinder motor is a revelation to the man who has handled more sluggish power plants. The oversize springs make every road a boulevard, Genuine leather uphol- stery and broad, restful cushions assure comfort for five full grown adults. And underlying these elements is the chassis construction that you might expect of the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company. There could be no stronger or more dependable units than the frame, clutch, transmission and rear axle. Such is the six that you can buy today for the price of a four—1065 f. o. b. Detroit. Tt is sold and serviced by Paige Dealers everywhere cA Thrifty Six Built by Paige Sil

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“Where ‘has my economy gone?” Some Ford owners cheat themselves —and don't know it ‘Back for economy—run with extravagance,” tells the story of at least a million Ford cars now In operation. But every day more Ford owners wake up to the fact that a Ford meedn't be repaired often, needn't be frequently cleaned of carbon, needn't be constantly ‘pumping oil” or fouling spark ‘ae oe A Ford owner in Greensburg, Indiana, bought his car in Igt4. From the start he has used only Gargoyle Mobiloil “E." Today his mileage totals ¢a,000. He says that the engine “runs almost as smoothly as new.” In Kansas City a Ford owner added a quart of oil every day and cleaned spark plugs every hundred miles. Trouble with transmission bands was continuous. He changed to Gargoyle Mobiloill “E." Consumption dropped to a quart of “E” per week. The spark plugs went five months without cleaning. “Chattering” of transmission bands stopped immechately. Many of those little engine troubles you put up with may be due entirely to inferior or incorrect lubricating oil, Wherever you find Ford cars you will find Ford owners whose first can of Gargoyle Mobiloil “ E showed them how efficient a Ford engine can be when scientif- cally lubricated. How about your Ford? In the differential of your Ford use Gargoyle Mebiloil “CC™ or Mobilubri- cant as specified by the Chart of Recom- merdlarians.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Cantinued fram Poge 78) help. Yes, that was what a wife was for. should a man keep hia thoughts bot- tled up just because his wife wasn’t in his office with him? No reason at all; I agree with you perfectly. About politics: Wasn't this man Hard- a good job, and weren't thin ing looki , everything consi ered? “He eeralnte te eat thvey eestalaly was Marguerite’s adroit i up. Well, I had ‘thectien aoc abou and child wie and pictures i elam ehow- derand Harry Leon Wilson's stuf and music and the younger generation and cord tlrea and things like that, and she'd agree with eve ing I said. en one night, as ina vision, somethin fame bo me had a Lines dt that it woul be terrible to have somebody around all the time who agreed eect about every- ching) aeuens agr another th Don’ an agree, I put it, that we shou dn’t eet at all well? And never had she TORE ready I thought she really put her heart bo And we never should have hit it off, either. Flo HADN'T geen Flo since she was about fourteen, so when I got a letter asking me te @all T said I'd go. She waa pretty, but 1 older I get the fewer girls I see that aren Of course I ought to have known. The letter waa addressed with a For" preced- ing my name, and inatead of “City ar the she of the town, Fle had written “Loew! Even eee detective should have known Jena 7 ay Tt was jost ber refined + gent me reeling into the dered where I “ resided Hees ihecotad “beer we something: she said “ mennt "dread"; i

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—— r The Poets’ Cornd Compensation ¥ LIFE ia not a large auccese, Measured in term of gold or fame, The greal world does not know my name, I am mot mentioned by the press; Aud theae things bring me no distress, Nor make me fortine blame, Remote from. inde and flownle With friends of kt rh and foil, ‘i wl agate in pdt aot, en m this green, & counirysi No enry here my heart can epoil And make dissatisfied, ded alubeettd vedic " nor a fine alear pane Be Reb tse tae pri I hare old books fo read again, Old friends from whom I nerer part; On whom, in aay mood of Kear, I call, and nerer call in rain — Frataaare, Jify good old gossip Jifp wise ald friend Monlaigne, f dave-met sailed ae ihe 1 Home ‘ov on eer or Renae. IT keane Lhe me anlaele And oll te hills o raieted nae frees, ind every nated, nymph ond gnome Thal does inhabit these. I knew the wood birds, ahy and wild, And thoar tkot mest by, haunia of men, The cofhird, robin and the wren. Today my rustic heart beqwiled = * Nor lhe languercws |r ef tht 7 Nor the bee fo the Lal Nor tae mocking bird with ki 5 Al the end of the long lear) «9 And never the flax flowers Mer May dran your feet to thro And never a whispering vied ™ Your sou! where the deat And never a word J may ipred - ll Again tm the time of row’ Bui when & pring ia bor Wik a ¢ housed be r= And the ghoat of a dim pope Where the lore! foe or Cor goa. une thet hn em With the voice in year ae

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Jobbers and Dealers Wot: for Diieounis ond Sales Help Phe Carter Gaeciine Goupe for F more ealiy a! bet tich bat ad te i= jose. r NO OIL PASSES THROUGH TUBE OR GAUGE cenrte ana ACCESSORIES ne, 386 Pearl St, Buffalo, WY. Write imesh | Cobar lis ep 4G Pearl i. ¥. Fnickeerd fod leleck. Monee Creare) Ear §—— Sipe we peace) peed. perje sald. 2 r 7 Sumberordacnt Cater * lage Pet Tie, houmbeer eat keen) rE a cH Change — Cheyvpoder Tet Biche —————————— Sunere Fa. Tom and Stow Beales Name Add ree ERP chia roa pm ig used by fealer, we vill end shipment CoO Fi incbeding o supe of adieerliting hieratuec: elec a ie ak io pad ieg. display aunt with oder lor ate daeen ie ‘ri ‘a lebber drecribing your ¢saecdiee Tiauee ibot oper- gLite oo que prince os your Ce) Ceo Prem Saterday Evening Post THE SATURDAY EVENING POST MEN I’M NOT MARRIED TO I don’t believe anyone will ever know how Taueh fun Freddie and his friends pet out of Freddie's calling them up and making them guess who he is. When he really wants to extend himself he calls up in the middle of the night, ang may teak (pee the: weiee tester: He uses tome only on special occasions, though. It is pretty elaborate for everyday se. But day in and day out, you can depend upon it that he is putting aver some up roariqus trick with a dribble glass or a loaded cigar ors pencil with a rubber point: and you can feel completely sure that no matter where he is or how unex le yom may come upon him, Freddie will be right there with a funny Ine or a enmparativel new story for . That ia what peo marvel over when they are calking nberut him—how he is avers ee the same. Tt ia right there, ly, that they put their finger on the big trouble with him. Mortimer Sse had his photograph taken in his cress aut. Raymond J LONG eee keep him well inland ond give any trouble. But when he gets down to the seashore he affects a bat ink suit fitted with little sleeves. On wading into the sea ank he leans over and carefully a speties hs hand- fula af water te hia wriste and Charlie | curious, but no one seems to be able to recall what Charlie used to talk about before the country went what may be called, with rsh open Eee dry. OF course there must have a lot of unsat- isfactory weather even then, and I don’t doubt that he slipped in a word or two when the talk got around to the insanity of the then-current styles of women's dress, But though I have taken up the thing in serious way, and have gone about among his frends making inquiries, I cannot seem to find that he could ever have got any any farther than that in the line of con- vergation. In fact, hemust have been one of those strong silent men in the old days. These who have not seen him for several years would be in a tlon to be knocked flat with o feather if they could see what a regular little chatterbox Charlie bas come. Say what you will about prohibi- tion—and who has a better right?—you would have to admit, if you knew Charlie, that it has been the making of him as a conversationalist. ; He never requires his audience to do any feeding for him, It needa ne careful leading around of the subject, no tactlol questions, no well-timed allusions, to get him nicely loose up. All you have to do is say evening to him, him how everybody aver at his house se iat along, and give him a ¢hair—though this last is mot een tin] —-and silver-tongued Charlle is gone for three hours salah on where he is getting it, how much he hes to pay for it, and what the chances are of his getting hold of a couple of eases of cn Pineh-battle, along around the middle of next week. [ have known him to hold entire dinner par- ties spellbound, ine cocktails to finger | bowls, with his mon Now I would be OT dine among the last when it came to wanting te give you the impression that Charlie has been picked for the All-American aleoholic team. apite the wetness of his conversation ha ia just a nice, normal, conscientious drinker, willing te take it ar let it alone, in the order mak I don't say he would not be able to | get along without it, but neither do I say | that he doesn't get along perfectly splen- | didly withit. [don't think lever saw anyone whe could as Touch fun aa Charlie can out of splitting the Eighteenth Amendment with o frien, There is a glamour of vicarious romance about him. ‘You gather from his conversa- tion that he comes inte daily contact with any number of picturesque peaple. He tells about a friend of his who owns three un- touched bottles of the last absinth te come into the country; of a lawyer he knows, one of whose grateful clients sent him six cases of champagne in addition to his fee; ora man he met who bad to move to the {Continued from Page 13) country in order to have room for his Seotch. Charlie has no end of anecdotes about the interesting women he meets too, There is one girl he often dwells on, who, if you only give her time, can get you little bottles chartreuse, each containing an individ- wal drink. Another gifted young woman friend of his is the inventor of a cocktail in which you mix a spoonful of orange marma- lade. Yet another is the justly, proud owner ofa pet marmose: which becomes the prince af good fellows as soon as you have fed him a couple of teaspoontuls of gin. It is the next best thing to knowin these people Hea ba to hear Charlie te about them, He just makes them live. Lt is wonderful how Charlie's circle of aequnintances has widened during the last two years; there is nothing so broadening as prohibition. Among his new friends he numbers a eohdueter on a train that runa down from Montreal, ant a young oe who owns his own truck, and a of chaps who work in drig stores, sad t cin *t know how eg ta Pio of bh little res- tauranta the basements of nme houses, Some of them have turned out to be but fair-weather friends, unfortunately. There Was ond Aap cies whom Charlie had looked upon prac ically ly aa a brother, who wet particularly ‘bad on him. Tt seems he had taken a pretty solemn oath to supply Chaclia, 25 a personal favor, with a case of real Gordon, which he said he was able to we through his wi th social connections on other aide, When what the young man ealled nominal sum was paid, and the ease was delivered, its bottles were found to contain a nameless liquor, though those of Charlie's [rienda who gave it a fair trial eabed Storm King a8 a good name for the . Charlie has never laid eyes on the youn ‘man from that day to this, He is still unable to talk about it without a break in his voice, As he a ee ape quite Tightly too—it was the principle ol the thing, ut for the most part his new friends are just the truest pala a man ever had. In more time than it takes to tell it, Charlic will peep. you right abreast with them— sketch in for you how they are, and what they are doing, and what their last words to him were, But Charlie can be the best of listeners too. Just tell him about any little formula ou may have picked rp for making it at ome, and you will find ne the most sym-= pathetic audiences, and one who will even go toe the dattering length of taking notes on your discourse. Relate to him tales of unusual places where you have heard that you can get it or of grotesque sums that you have been told have ex changed for it, and he will hang on your every word, leading you on, asking intel- lignes questions, enesuraging you by refer- ences to like experiences of his own. But don't sedae bythe get carried away with success. attempt to branch out June 1,5 into other topics. For you wil im © in & Minute if you try it But that, now that | thick 7 - « probe be the very idea FOU wer, n mind Lloyd Luovp wears washable =#."... Henry Awe would really be surpeec y 4 number of things that Hie ist a shade more about than p =| oo, Naturally he con't bps. --) gout himself, but you mm’: «- = minute that he has let it Sf} = contrary, wa the French so we. | has no ened of pa thence mith cite. . is always. vee tio Oversee j doing, and to offer them uns © comes ta giving his time ar: = there is noteody mba cou cat a Honry is generous, Toa fault, | ac: “ard people go so far as te say If, for instance, Henry bappers : i" ch thee Ay his pire: a Fagg ang through a all ac ris oe in and take athand, there! i their playing in comparison to 5 | Henry draws up a chair and sci... y with a kindly emile, Of coum ~~ then he cannot restrain a look of ja- exclamation of surprise of even a laughter as he listens to the bise*, 2 never interferes. wently, aft-- 4 | has been played, te will bean one oe crag way tell the players ld have done instead, asi ' = might uate weed throw his hard: +-| there, but he alway fe! pes any more active part in the por Alevrnall ye, when o imi ely Pniaata* made, | have seen Henry thras = aside and pace about im speectles @ ment, but for the most part be 2 of} b self-controlled, He always PT et afew cheery words to the payer og them to keep at it and met let thence a = get discouraged. And that is the way Hens =: everything. He will stroll] over ta 4% eourt, stand on the aide bres i T am sure must be t personal --« innece, calling words of acter ocr & tion for seta at a stretch. | => known him to follow his fre: u Way around a golf course, ofeccy structive eriticiam on their {orm w T tell you, in this day and gro: don't find many people whe el 5 | out of their way for their friect: » | doe. And [ am far from being the who says 80 ten. Lhave often thought that Be=; = the boy whe got up the idea a esr! world a litth: better than ke ince f he never crashes in on his [res 2 Only after the thing is done das ok to you how it could have be ©= a dash better, After you have =o lease for the new apartment He you where you could have ot on of and sunnier; after you are all cei 9 the new firm Henry explains to jderd you made your big mistake in i ole cme, Tt is never an Abeedyi hear echt people telling that be icon about muah pada rt ary bedy Shel saw in their lives. Ae TP don't remember ever ere Henry give them any argument i: aloe FTER Joe has had twe ors wants to go up amd bat 4 drummer. After he + boa theve a fo get raonal about the trad shade of the necktie warn by the # man at the next table, Oliver LIVER has ao a és mouth to one side, by me serted forefinger, explaining to 5 * while, in necessarily obecurrc 3 4 work which his dexvtiat bas : plished on his generously rv 4 teeth. Albert eer sprinkle: poeederec 4 sliced tomatoes,

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EXPOSED TO BOLSHEVISM | (Cantitiged from Page 4! waved this question aside with a wt of the commer of hia mouth, ag atosay that the agricultural bloc in jted States Congresa was the least int amang a number of things that yall about; sol realised the useless- trying to get on from that point vented myself with saying: “You a have a very wholesome respect fareers. They happen to be, on the ast about the most intelligent ele- iat our Government has to deal its governing processes, and it ave to be a pretty nervy govern- iat would attempt to any with them—aor away from them! ow just as well as the rest of us do y constitute the only element in ilathon that could put into prac- ct your soviet alogan of "No work, ' They ane not hankering after in the nature of a dictatorship, jolly well wouldn't tolerate dicta- 1 any other “factor in the social lon," either; and I'm afraid they Be to be rather an ehechre. blox y of any foreign atbernpt to impose United States what you call a 1ip of the proletariat,” [ had him away out where ho im, #o I brought him back mente] toes sonia play with the ehiles of his own experience—all ¥ he had killed officers of the old irreconcilable priests in the revo- fo had a long talk and afterward oe home in his dove=colored lim- hich had somebody else’s mono ta doors. aoone thing have the Ruslan ate been able to unite under their (a considerable majority of the wople, and that was to repel vasion of Houssian soil. If the and British governmenta and the at of the United States had ove all things to consolidate the ‘the Communists they could mot en a better way than they did. d have done no better than to 6 ageinat therm, aa they did, and , 48 they did, the White forces omen at Holehak, Yudenitech, bd Wrangel, Communists’ Appeal Ieee were not, in the main, -Cearist or antirevolutionist. antl-Red, anti-Communist, anti- alist, anti-chaos; and if any generals had af pie alone, ze 0. support and cofperation, be ould howe gone farther than any ardid. He might not have suc- overthrowing the Communist » but at least his operations have served so greatly to it. He himeell would have rengeth os he went al , and doubts this he should talk with ferent kinds of Russians as I @ are literally millions of men teday whose chief complaint ue of foreign interference in Urs they had either to support ny oor remain ceotral in what wit civil war, National con- nd Pure patriotism one mant- ain no less a degree than they nited States or Japan, and dur- aoven years of terrific national uble they have developed into ly amounts to a cheep-stated nunists in Ttussia make thair peal to this national feeling, nortinity to impress upon the rerabed ideas o pene dan- ‘ign aggression and the neces- ted stand against it; yetat the hey pompously call interna- seea of international wildmen itely procecd to out a auiled pr m for over- imerican Government, among ev“iarly the American Gov- some reason—and the inch- ‘country within a universal of the world proletariat, by iean, of course, a dictatorship junist International, which is sary jn its methods than any wal staff ewer got to be, and ein its relationships than any wer thought of being. THE SATURDAY What is more, they go ahead and work at their schome; work indefatigably and somewhat effectively, at the same time seeking association with us because th find they cannot get along even with the job of destroying us unless they have our material support. They ask our posresai- capitalistic peannen they : to recognize the purely class governmen af proletarian eommittesa they have auc- ceeded in setting up in Fusssia while their paid agents continwe to sow discontent among us and to debauch the minds of 8 y who succumbs to their influence with class hatred and with paganda that for deliberate falsity and downright crooked-mindedness exceeds anything world hus ever seen. : , oot aoe aeneetion ae is one cn in their favor: They are en frank. They admit that they aft and that therefore and because of certain imes- a) economic considerations they are willing to make a limited retreat, But quite specifically they reserve the night te interpret scoording to poe own teen tions any engagements t Ek nh to make with us and to heeaie thers it at any the they should prove to be an In- convenione: of should encumber in any way the path of Internationalist progress. Russia Sill Communistic All of hort will ly epee haps my proparation was for making # visit o inguin in Russia, I shall be rightly ac- cused of taking with me all opinions and conclusions, but I must claim for my- self that I was prepared to be convinced that all thes opinions aod conclusions were mistaken, Acd 7 mast add thet Russia for me was not a wholly new and unex- plored region about which I knew nothing at all Before the war IT knew the country fairly well from Vladivestok to St. Peters- burg and from St. Petersburg to Odessa, Several years ago [ survived a violent at- tack of intense interest in Russian apes | literature and art, and many picture af o d Rugsia lingered vividly In my mind. And what a ers and wonderful country it was— pith all the blots upon the esecut- cheon of ite rulers; with all its tremendous. defects and deficiencies. It was not a country to be destroyed. It was a country to be t up and developed on a truly Russian broad-gauge basis. That was what one expected Kia in the long run. And it muy just be that the Communista will work it out, But not ss Communists; that is one thing sure. They have the wast material plana magnificentl made even now, and they have all the talk, ex. cept the sane tall of sound economica, that with them, Gut as Communists they ave put inte operation nothing but de- sar hie br ok rare the ground for the shining edifice they propose to build, but in doing ao they have de- stroyed the better part of their building material, lasrioos hate calerewrhicgud e eeed mane oF We sckmow a rainy a their errora of judgment; that the soviet. government has repudiated the program af the Third International and effected a compromise with its own political con- scene! —or claimed to have done ao— ors puanits Oe eens at isaue between itself and the eonstitutional ernmenta of the reat of the werld, terrible experiment in proletarian dictator- ship ia still in progress; make no mistake about that. And though it may be drag- Bing out to ite inevitable conelusion, it dragging out in the unimaginable suffering of ite victims; ite evil effects ape the only effects to be observed, while the good it may have done is yet to be pro I can ser phases of eventual good, but the good is not enough to justify the evil and, such a8 it is, it might have been aceom- lished in a better way, Moreover, the encatly convinced and fanatic supporters of this experiment, ther with its hand- ful of proletarian and merely Communist boneficiaries, are etill true to it, and not even Mr. Lenine has the power to make a magic that will reverse their thinking procesies, Not even Mr. Lonine has the power to stop the tremendous machiner of class-war agenda which he himself | has done so much to get in motion through- out the world, Though it may just be | wt in Russia the ot EVENING POST Digestion in sound working order This depends upon the daily meals you eat OCTORS today will tell you that they rely less and less upon drugs and more and more upon nmght eating for getting the results they desire. 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Like cream cheese it combines well with jams to make a sandwich. It is refreshing in milk, fruit-juices or soda. Ever sa many like it just in water. You can easily eat it before leay- ing home in the morning —get it at noon during the lunch hour—or have it at bedtime. Two or three cakes regularly each day. And be surcit'sFleischmann’s. Youcanget it only in the little tin foil package. 20,000 grocers carry Fleischmann’s Yeast. Lf your grocer is mot among them, write to the Fleischmann agency in your mearest city—they will sce that you are supplied. Tf you prefer you may buy six cakes at atime. They will keep freah for two or three days if kept in a cool dy Send for interesting booklet telling what yeast cance for you. Address THE FLEISCHMANN COMPANY, Dept. 6172, TOL Washington Street, New York, NM. ¥. = ee |

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They ore net, any of them, if mot most of them, ere honest men with minds and souls distorted bey an unparalleled fanaticism, When they BPI an Ompine pod proceeded te remodel it on plans and specifentions of their own they were undoubtedly inspired by a pro- found faith: they believed their work would hold together and prove to be the andest achievernent in the history of umankind. And they still believe they were right in principle and that their mis- takes have been mistakes merely in cal- culation with regard to certain human tendencies and certain basic factors in eco nomica. Their purpose was to wipe out all elasa distinetiona in the social organization, and since there wos ho way to do this ex- cept to wipe out certain distinctive classes shay proceeded to destroy—ruthlessly and with a thoroughness beyond all precedent in destruction. If the result had been a general beveling up with the great mass of the people mani- festly benefited 1 think most of us who belong to one or another of the classes proseribed—eomprehensively designated as the aristocracy, the intelligentzia and the hourgesisie—would be willing to acknowl- edge that our right to exist hac been right- fully challenged. But the leveling. has proved to be a leveling dawn, with the high- est clams transformed into a clase of hope less and helpless ars; with the middle classes become a class of sorinl vultures; with the lower classes sunk in deeper deg- Tadation than they ever dreamed of, and with genefal morality at a lower ebb throughout all classes than it has ever been in the history of any nation. In their views as to what should be done there is wide division in the ranks of the leaders, which i a fact well known to all Russians, Lenine alone seems to have the ability to recognize and the courage to ac- knowledge the impoasibilities, and because of his unchallengeable power he is able to impos his decisions upon his associates. But among themselves they murmur dis- renting opinions and continue to act in thelr several capacities very much as though no change of polley had been made, if Lenine Dles As I begin to write there a persistent Tumor rireulating nat only int Russian but in the world outside that Lenine is about. ta die, and this rumor strikes fear and fore si a the hearts of all classes alike. Especially ia he clung to by the chesses he has persecuted, They have the intelligence to appreciate his ability and to realize that there is not a man in Russia who could take his place, Conservative men and wamen who hare sullered moet and who lone for a turn in the terrible road that will lead the country back to sanity look inte ome an- other's eyes and say, Uf Lenine dies, Gee help us! ‘ocall ft all a queer sltuation ts n litele~ minded thing ta do, but our minds for the micet part are comfortable little minds that hesitate to plunge aut inte the vastresa of the lncomprehengible. It & a queer situn- { ion, but tn its innumerable ramifientions and its possibilities of influence upon the future of the world it is the most important situation that has ever been created. There are those who will not care to have a look ot Russia with me. My eyes, they will say, are blurred with prejudice and blinded with bourgesizosity. But my eyes are clear enough perhaps to see a atone wall before it becomes apangled with stars for me as a result of violont contact with my head, What one inevitably does in Russia is to imagine oneself groping around under similar circumstances in one's own ecoun= try, and I tell you this is net a thing to think of without horror and fear. What has happened im Russia could not possibly be in the United States perhajs. 1 he ieve it could met, The American people are intelligent, educated, proudly scli- appraising and about as submissive as so many mules, whereas the Rugeians, on the whole, represent the utmost in ignorance and docility, Rut we con't want anything to happen in the United States that bears the remotest resemblance to what las happened in Russia, and it is therefor une i, ppey that we should hope that soi, done to save the Amys ipericer: the complete fadure it tow i rise headed far, There are several prmetdities for §, in the immediate fisture, (ee os cee, nition and stipport of the goeerice-1 + her leaders propose to do seay ac: ; cna re Blow PectrEty ule @ Seems to mee Beoreties tal om admire we least are micet & ie | estimations of ws. But, canes) wl developed in qurectyes a cera a of good will teward other peo a do genuinely wish to be Felpls “oa te them, na patter what her cay of ws. We have never pve oo of nor even unit) we felt i, fut es ey Bpsoabepeald encugh, perhape acl 6 fe given we have given [rey a! out conditions sawe that wr be soy bo supervise ibs distnibutict tunately, we have had toc we tight be sure that ott ' ficlaries really beret tel We have been feeding te mToost of the eountime 0 enough for their peoples eanvineed that our piilanthrop merely g Glogk desenei | J aims, They began by saying Oey We Were seeking commer = with a subtlety and art why OF world's experience of that we “_ ‘deo kar 3 of unprecedented idealists 1 They were not quite so pals that, bot that expresses moe a they meant to say. [t was es bo A tare ine just what we ert to, so severally they kept aes us until they were compe | that we ore a sation & idealists anc imbeciles. bol wee ang. taken by and large, Lutiy u re. But in Russia the beaders, 1 regret the necessity for our benevolence, here oot their minds with regand t 2 other day Mr. Trotky oto audienes in Moscow ae Ore? teeth—some of us being *™ doubt ae te the sincerity f= ~ He said he could pot eco were in Puissia devoting m= the services of many ™ help Fussia over bet to to the & drowgit Volga! He was sure 2 3 a8 an expression of our exusr he knew fora fet? men high wp in the Ace Mint tion entertains: <= FOVEtnMent sentime: & monity, and that, fart was feeding the fightics 7" in Wrangel's arms unthie wholes he pele ahmy the destrtute Rom Constantinople and athe phat i Ceatiswed ot Pep?

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Capel neta from Fin pt a6! aid he was not all gure aboat our mubatihoped cur friendly perform paid pin the ond te be qiite as Hecate tirparkedt to be, mind, Said an American iie- Hee, OTrotciy's uncertainty with gor mnvet decane iterfiere wilh ties, Leiay sittiy-feur more hel baby food—an average of ma ate tyr tome te the tran ‘i i iram the porta: oti Aone epgroxioately ninety-five Son OL CR rads, ad every lest foe hye Bpreed to deliver in ang ecwew hers, Dt larkedl liloe ine Unilertuking, and it was ewe ee pot it beaker: eo Mr. Saint tonnierstand it doesn't t eo fone oo he doesn't block that’s all I nal aheut.”’ And wat wapireasing the exact. spirit of the entire Americun por- a Cnesiaaout of consideration bern. the wunerican Hellet Ad- faving no political or selfish : being pebmted by nothing b impiiisee and principle, fe; motives and vee PX-= array what i Purparis bo Oi pitied ai ecient jen ives ad-thoes peoples with A broken formal relations but © between them and ws beds of : Bice in an apprecishle de fire a human history. Future min Europe will talk about “the Peerite aici tt in their peminis Foes ae Cee of the dominant ibe fetors of conservation fafuetion in ealaltarne operation period Of chacs following the (SOUR i Administration, The fitiaiced, from the beginning, Bhi the initiola A. A. A. apellerd into & word in the Buropean the reault that the Or gaint foo es the Arah."" ePer spenks of the Witcial Annoyances brewiated designation is a nice md and hes tquite sufficient digs is properly pronounced. But un- 7 eome Of gur beloved American re are the kind of Americuns to think then: in someething une about the Latin “a"—-not to ting downright immeral. The aking terme with the “a™ as it “ache,” ““aetial,” “against” and but when ib comes to balk unless broadening it hap- absolutely unavoidahie, And Irs that one hears “the Arah" a “the Error’ just as often as the worst of it ts thit there is rean do about tt. To correct the on of athoroughly self-eateeming Fisk bis astonished displeasure, nrnifie murder with some relue n Russia where murder is looked inor offense, Bhat Tf will say that dan American in Russia speak ah without wishing to remove ask him what part of Goil's hailed fram. They also make ling and long-suffering city of ewith the way most of them he word “narrow.” And they that itis wery “narra-tminded"" mit myself to be inpresed hy casing to help to popularize this se F do not like it. It offends fatter how it is pronounced, aving told about it, T shall not tin. ‘Trough DT will say that it is ajure with in Europe, and that the initials which form it ap- my revealing orders: and iden- wre wae a thing for me many duly thankful for. who goes to Russia under the o A. FL. A. ie routed from Lon- id and from Ostend to Riga lum, Germany, West Prussa, Corridor in Foland, Eust qania and Latvia. This is an ute and affords one a aplen- ity for observing the various oyed by various peoples in the i-determination. : ans evident! J determine ta ing just m2 ficult and un- he Poles as lies within their THE SATURDAY power, while the Poles on both their West and East Prumian borders have put in operation systems of retaliation that ex- hast all the possibilities there are of mali- clogs invention. The Prusaiana nvultiply obetractions andl eta fons for the Lithuanians, while the Lithuanians de all they can to irritate the ish OT) ce border and to give vent to a fine spite against the Latvians on the other, The Latvians, net to be outdone, work overtime thinking up new ways of annoying the Lithuanians on their weat frontier and of getting even with the Russians on the east. All of which tends to make traveling | among them something that nay rightly be deseri mo anexpenence. The defense lesa outsider, related to none of them, knowing none of their inexcusable language ani sharing none of their grouches an oe tiices, has a hard time of it, and at eac frontier as he goes along he ia likely to be told in one language or another that if he thinks he is being badly treated he better fale iar tid bie iets over among Che brigands whe inhabit the adjoining country. Haw they do lowe one another! Needless Discomforts 4 On each side of every border the traveler must submit to a thorough examination not only of his baggage but, on the exit side, of his person at well; the idea being that he must net carry oat of a count more than a specified sum of that country's money nor any article the export of which ia ff aba, and veer Le must met Sr? ai eteuriry without Ag gucy on everything dlutinble he may happen ag in his pos session. And it makes no difterence that he is merely in transit—a through passenger. He touat pay duty for the privilege simply of carrying dutiable articles through these eruntries, : And just by way of making everything a8 pleagant for him as poeeible they do not examine his. hand in hia corn ment on the traln; t By gather it all up and take it inte the baguace ream of the station, where they either dump it down in a heap with everybody else's Or eratter it about, a plece here & piece there, all over the place. There is hothing for the unhappy owner to do but follow it and search for tt until he has found it all and gathered it together in one dete then he mrust stand by and wait until an ine tor comes along pracy aa though he had arrived at his destination. é After they have finished with him, hav ing taken him finally into a litth: room, counted his money and pawed him all over te see Chat he ia net trying to get by with some article of contraband concenled upon his person, they tote his effects back to his compartment, whereupon he hes two or three porters to try te get rid of without hitving a fow with t over the aiee of the tips he gives them. Which is one thing he cannot do, because no matter what they get they impudently and insistently de mand more, All of which, however, fs about a traveler with a first-class ticket and 2 compartment in an international sleeping car; and there are not many such, Not enough to warrant the reinetitution—on this line, atany rate— of trains de luxe consiating of aleeping cars anly with dining cars and other luxuries of travel. All trains are made up for the most part of second and third class cars, which are invariably packed and jammed with the kind of people who sew themselves inte their clothes in early winter and make no change until they begli to sulfer from the heat of early summer; who have the herd instinct and who travel with their helong- ing done up in innumerable baskets and bundles of every conceivable shape and SIZE, These peoplt are native to the region, belonging to one amall state or te another, and the examination of them at a frontier is an amazing thing to witness. Each per- fon—man, woman and child—-carries his or her own duffel off and onto the train, and each person seems to think that if he doen't hurry up something unpleasant is likely to happen te him. Some stagger distractedly along under mountainous and unsightly bundles: same are weighted down with basketa and bnga ariel and ends of wtensils and howse- hold articles; some drag old trunks or pack- ing cases or big tin bowes noisily along the Paverent, and some have nothing but a ermal] ppchaye Lh extfa pair af boots, per- | haps, canied by their strings, or a loaf of | a black bread tucked under their arms. They EVENING POST 40 “Play on! Let music make joyful my realm” is a standard which must be kept very high unless is the only consideration. (Quality In aa Lg one of the ‘Price STORYe CLARK PLAYER PIANO you get an instrument which is built up to the highest standard of quality in beautiful ex- pression, design and ease of operation~not one that has been built down to a price. 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Two facts no motorist | can overlook IRST: the price of the latest and finest Marmon is now $3185, which is back to normal. Do you know of any comparable car at such a saving? Second: Two months ago we announced “Standardized Service” —a nation-wide plan of maintenance economy. This is a rare com- bination. It reduces jirst cost and w/timare cost to a minimum. More money cannot buy a finer car. Nor can costly upkeep bring greater satisfaction. Can you afford ef to drive a Marmon? MARMON Che Foremost Chine (ur Fhe coe pon for free copie of “Modern Tramaper- br fion Conia.” Noguyvee de MarkMON Cour PANT Farmbdibrd 572 ISAS APOLIS, [SDLARA Graikmen) Kindly end me a cepr of Wieder ‘Trinapoertaricn Comte? deectibiag in detail poar rere I a of me Service. 4 a ae Ee ee eee Se THE SATURDAY jare all warmly clad and they all look ae | fectly well fed, but also they all look | worried: a nd tired and just a little bit TarrebacenG, There is nearly always some | dined af trouble over the inapershons a loerowd gathers; ‘bel at once and Soe © confusion is ewileting pists passenger from the | stands beside his rocdety luggage waiting for his turn with an inspector, wondering what it {a all about and pondering upon the state of affairs that has come to pass in this one-time most ord of all worlds, Bo eames onde a thir inthe cour wa journey wou engugh, but when there are any number of them, coming one after another, one eventually comes that is at least one too many. Alter which there are more—each one consumin dey one and o half to two slow-posal At the eastern border of East Prussia, a Eydtkunen. You have heard of Eydtku- nen and been warned that there is where hey are likely to take all your German oney away from you if you have any— all. but but five thousand marke, ba ei any money at your extra shoes your camera with [te German lena: your German field glass if you have one; and any number of other things. So you are not sorry when at the end about two houra you are thro with Eydthunen and on your way inte Lithuania. What you have mot d is that the station of the Lithuanian frontier town of Virballen is about ten minutes from the station of Ey thunen: that the border, a8 a matter ier cuts through what = virtual ba ont fairs Sat of tsliog 9 os have thought of ta phases your rub- | bers and mittens and settling down your train stops again and another crowd of porters—dirty, odoriferous, grunting—swarme into your + hime and na to fight for possession of your belongings, You surrender them without a word, follow them once more Into yet another baggage room, where the whole rigmarcle has to be gone t h with again, It is unbelievable! Good. Matured Latvlans And if all this would happen alw in the daytime ge mig ne be > bails 1k might ye mous pbltonoblea ty: pe as be ‘a work, ut they have thee hana scheduled so that as often as not it happens in the middle of the night, when the necessity for crawling out of a warm bed and faring forth into the bitterness of zero weather is added to all the other seemingly unnecessary necessi- Cea. In my own experience this made a par- titwlarly unplensant impression upon me, and was the cause of my arriving in Higa with a bad sore throat and in a frame of mind to be thinking principally about how fortunate lt was that I Pnal ESarES ae necessary aftfangiments 86 that my ra and assigns would have a minimum of trouble in straightening out my affairs. Lapent just one day in Riga, but in Riga one day ig along time. Which is mot to that iti is not an attractive city. Indeed is; anditisa very beautiful city. I wanted very much to explore if as 2 tourist would, see ita historic treasures and learn about ita perk anchent buildings that make one think of medieval guilds and olden days commerce wns not so Dre aa ermeneoted from ideas of picturesqueness and beauty and tha ranger 2 ornamenta- tion ef life, But I was reminded at once that my business was to see warehouses and docks and shipping records and feeding stations and great crowds of youngsters eating bean soup, corn grits with Bugar and milk, and good white bread at the expense of their Uncle Sam. : You see, the Latvians permit us to tse the port of ne and their railroads for our operations in Russia, while in exchange for these courtesies and their ci thoan— which, incklentally, is active, sincere and unfailing—we undertake to feed forty thousand of their n children. This undertaking on cur part ta not altogether in _ the nature of a bargain, however, because | to be consistent in our purpose to help all the destitute and undernourished children af Europe, regardless of their race or ma- tionality, Ey —_ —_— EES we would have to be feedin | these little Latvians anyhow. But it is pleasing, nevertheless, to be working for once for peaple who are cheerfully assisting ua in anether joh, by which they qunnet | hope to profit. EVENING POST Tha T arrived it waa ten below mero chert = city lay under a blanket of en _ But | was to Aecover that, taiwan T It t feel about it, it was a very mild ere was an old ‘ porter in a frayed uniform in the office of the little hotel to which | was taken at the bewitch- ing hour of six A.M., when the train soably He spoke perfect English and was quite at talkative in several other guages, and later in the coring. when he har was helping me across the icy sidewalk to the automobile that had been sent for me from the office of the A. BL A. he anid, “It is fortunate that you arrived in auch p ant ‘wien If you had come a few days ago oat afraid you would have found it | ie down to thirty-five below, | i it myself, though I don't ml dio via call this a warm dayT™ kee. of asked no, not exactly warm, but very mild, very mild. The back of the winter is broken.” “Oh, it is, is it? anid I to mysell as I drove away fi in an “Well, if anybody should ask me I should ‘tell them | ib nt even bent!’ But my went experience taught me that | a had out of of going ate I ee tend probably should have suffered irom some members of the A. BR. A. perecsins: © I went down to-mee the place where the food cargoes came in and to have explained to me the processes of handling them. The port was frozen in— for the first time in twenty-seven years, | believe it was. Is it not extraordinary how places one goes to with visions in one’s mind 3 af thelr normal conditions, only to find that these conditions are different for the first time in the memory of the oldest Accompanied be inhabitant? It was nothing in the nature of a | to me to fi frozen in, becaume it waa rather won | to stand —literally—in snow on the un- used tremendous granite dock and look away out and out across an unbroken field of ioe, then up a wide frozen river fringed on either side with steeples and towera and poniesaa, uneven, snow-blanketed roof But the conversation was not about these things; it waa all about how much | | our shipping operations would be retarded preg tells Scr ate of immediate necesaltion | the food-distributing stations in Russia | were, Although the ships scheduled for Riga were unloading ciway transport, out —o delay waa in rail liaf jroukars were plain ye Pe with great hopefulness on i speculated te ahus to ten i aration below zero and ¢ lose wrectiatipn that there would be no more winter. | Hardships of Travel In A. B.-A, circtes in Rigs the perso who comes along en route to en] a temporary importance that is exceed ar ! intetesting.. At I found it mo. at the nearer I should get to Rusala the lees diffieult the difficulties of | thing there would become and the Tess | Cangetous the Bi id cli | appear to be. But not at all. You walk up to the cloud hangea upon the frontier of sway ele expecting to see it lift and ‘ore your eyes, revealing to Botte ; cae ile placeness which will, as per your usual rience, turn your ‘taste for ad- venture inte dust and as im MLE mouth. Instead of which the cloud na and proms heavier and darker, and you begin, tively fbealing, to breathe with orter breaths yoo get into the hualvedd i atmosphere in’ which its immediate 0 ee live. Riga rears vf speek of going in and com- ing out as th Russia. were some vast chamber of ‘ain. containing etrange fas- tlnathons ia thas sce things vague and unimaginable that men wish to investigate but hesitate to approach. You moet ao atranger. in Riga—an American, that is— and. tably his firet question will be, “AS you going int” os," say ot, and then you ask him, “Have you been int Tf he has he is pretty sure to bate his breath for your benefit and make a noise li a aurviver, while if be has not he will say, “ Nosuch luck!" and begin to tell you how he ia stuck in Riga superintending the unloading of cargoes or fing taba on (Contiaurd on Page &7) a which | £ unha ad | Take this new raciuet is 7 oe | hand—swing it It gripe just Ltke the finest wooden becouse tt has the wart handle, is mache in the mal ared ba perfectly baleen And yet ie’s a better The steel frame offers wh than a wooden frame, | the facpuet swings [at om allows better ciming: mad Invented be! William A. Lame The Dayton Steel cmd Invention of Wilham A ae! a heacr vation! che pi i a4 reult of teentr a | of or experiment Age Your Deala This new racquet is discbonell A. G. Spalding Bros, Wrelt Dinen, Wright & Dinos) Company and Alex Tiavder Company. (Go to any aor thelr goods are sold and oo the Dayton Steel Racgeet | yourself. Price $10.00 | Priced at F100 Gi Strung with gut), the Dio Racquet ee Th Cah brig 4 A Bo he ince ee —— = - : = i a Wl in copy oof cap che will: be ‘scst on: rerment The Dayton Steel Racquet! Daron i

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 51 Indoors and Out these Rugs are a Joy Nothing ke Congolenm Rugs for fi A, F : E J summer-lime. They're so easy fo keep clean and nothing seents fo harm them.” thee hh | Art. io. he 60 ft. sive is only $8.10, On the porch or indoors—ofd_eal Congoleum Art-Rues are surely the ideal summer floor-covering. Their cool, cheery patterns add charm to the seashore cottage, bun- galow anil mountain CALIF, nna besides they are low priced and extrémely practical. They hug the floor tightly without fastening of any kind, never ruffle or Curr up att edges or COPMers. Water doesn’t hurt them. The sun doesn't fade them. No need to roll chem up when rain threarens. And they are so easy to clean—it's done in a jiffy with a damp mop. Truly for the summer home there is no floor-covering so satisfying and economical as Gold-Sea/ Congoleum Rugs. GUARANTEE G6 ox 9 feer £48.00 The rug Wlustrated ts idigxd feer 2 30 bypeercts get ary oa Tilggn @ feee Loa made only if the five J | fect 1.0 Yo» | feet Wd large sizes, The amall rouge 3 walefecr 1.50 j CMO Stal win Gy WMibs feet b4.13 arc made in other designe 4 ~ “teu feet spat old Seal DAMP CLOTH Go om 92. feet bec to harmonic with 1. 3 36 feet 20 Ouiae to Freight rote prices in the Sooth, weet of the Mlienaelioel aadin Canada ore Aigher than those queted, Gold Seal * Profection ft fmifations | m buy a Croff-Seal Congoleum Art-Rug, see that it Sold Seal similar to the one shown here: Genuine mi Rugs jure absolutely suaranteed hy rhe Grold- ge, “Satisfaction Guarantes| or Your Money Back.” e Gold Seal, in a larger steve, identifies the dealer who fine Goledl- Veal Congotle uti Rugs and PlenrCey erings. ConGoreum Company Pe PSE AT ECO Hew York Chawes Gin San. Founcseco Dalia abeles Ato Kancaa Cm Porbore! Moura! 1!

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52 ‘THE SATURDAY EVENING POST A LaEr Pe 2 PULLEY 6-6" Di4A.4 20" FACE oO FM. SPECIFIED:- GOODYEAR BE TYPICAL BEATER DRIVE MN THE CROCKER DIVISION MILL OF THE AMERICAN WRITING PAPER COM AOLYONE, MASSACHUSETTS f8=-6 PLY GOODYEAR SLUE STREAK SE; DRIVING PULLEY, #°8°A4 20 °FACE, (25 RM DAIVEN PULLEY. 6-6°X 20°FACE, 90 BPM MAXIMUM A P-50 Aiuegerfeat abetch af Goodyear-belled beater dice dm the Cracker Dieiien MN of the Ameren Feriting Papa Company, Holgote, Mowe, and inecri plstogranh of the Crmcher Odedafan ily Twenty-six Eagle-A Mills and the G. T | The American Writing Paper Company, of Holyoke, Massa- chusetts, COMprises 26 mills throughout the country, making the nationally celebrated Eagle-A Quality-Standa rag. of printing papers. The belting equipment and requirements of their every pla rt, invalving hundreds of drives, been analyzed in the past two years by a G, T. M.— Goodyear Technical Man. have As a result of fig Vast survey, this Company, which is the larg- eat fine paper-making institution in the world, today is in pos- session of a tabulated record al every belt in each of its mills, complete data on dimensions and grades of belts used on the various drives, and specific recommendations for the types of belts best suited to the Varying duties. continually by the plant engineers and by the Purchasing Department in choosing different sizes and types of belts. The report is used ** This analysis of the belt equipment in each of our 26 plants is the most comprehensive and valuable work of its kind that his. ever come ta my atte =mtion, oe 4h Tlie | flr |. Moles, Chie E Niele r af 4 the Ar TUF a WW rit IT P: a er i OM Pay. The actual Le T. fw. wer ke Fequt ired ete together with recommendations submitted by the Goodyear Company, comprises several volumes." A great deal of the equipment installed on the basis of this expert analysis is Goodyear Blue Streak Belting. This is par- ticularly true of the equipment of the great beater drives, and the final report, * ] which transmit the power from the main shaft to the pet | revolving cylinders where numerous knives beat rags om) stock for the paper machines. | Two of these Goodyear Blue Streak Belts, |8-inch, +e) | were installed in the Crocker Division in Holyoke, in jet 1970. These two Goodyears have been in constant operat) for two years now, and have never been touched. [hep never required taking-up or repairing. Mr. Moles says ef are as good today as the day they were installed, thou 4 they have been working on this heavy drive for 24 boon) day, six days a week. Aundreds of other Goodyear Belts in American Ureap) Paper plants are giving correspondingly faithful, trouble-teme and lang- We earing service. Ther efficient and eo performance is a tribute to the quality built into them aol | the correctness and exactness with which they are speciaed to their jobs, This ts a splendid example of the work of the G. T. M3) working of the Goodyear Plant Analysis Method, and hep Goodyear Belts. You can have a similar ere Ait, at for Manoe al made of your transmission or conveying problem. Ther® a G. T. M. in your neighborhood, and you may rely = recommendations and on the quality of Goodyear Bele further information about the Goodyear Analysis Plan, © to Goodyear, Akron, Ohio, or Los Angeles, (Calibornm. : iotzed By ie LE JHZ60 DY \aQoie —

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ffeatinued from pee te and that sort of thing. ne (or all the world of wartime in growled about being hung or at gn & 0. §. joba or something like in all the exelterent and a fel- ince to get in were at the front, members of the relief organization ig fo Mrecow at the same time I fhe London office had asked the Government to give us a special arringt. Typhus was raging every- d the Hak one ran in traveling in mAveyEnc Was mot ta be exag- [am sure the Latvlana were fend uz anything they had, but pot fleh in rolling stock of any the best they could do was a irty little wooden second-class car sone shudder ta look at, It was it or a bong wait for a wagon-lif out on another job, however; so dtorak it. They told usa that the it comé back fram Russia but disi - Nevertheless we | evidence of a considerable lack hness in the disinsecting process; i@ sprinkled it Hbherally with naph- awder, after which there waa do but hope for the best. in hour watching a plucky little ying to dlimb a naphtha Alp \ placed in his , Singing to i while: Fone gender ty r. ‘ip, with your hair cut just as ine.” But when my littl play- ¥ fell over on his back and gave gle my faith in naphthaline 1 &ttablished. Th Te the Land of Famine fate cor of ours, which would rand. if rained from saying bout it except that it was a was attached to the Moscow aul this was locky for us, be sant fast traveling. It is six {forty-three miles from Riga to dit took us only three nights rs to make it. To people who with facilities for meveng in Ft fram Chicago to New York teen to twenty-three hours, and fork to San Franciseo in ye, this may seem a bit alow, ilearn later that it was really y service, On ao trip to the 'T found myself saying: “Lf it ially favored person ten hours tiiles how long ehould it take ona?” And I waa unable to how relief operations, having | the pressure immediate id requiring a tremendous ansportation, eould be carried tT shall not take this occasion mind with regard to national- lines of comumunication under ement.. oo Russia: We were traveling n government mandate, to af being provided with Rellef m and other American pa- standing all of which, when e border, we had to submit to rutiny of the soviet officials. r, I did not object to in the .fince they were the first real <i I had encountered I was iterested in them than they ‘be in mae. Boy first thought American soldier would sen- 2 the guard house if he should out looking as Hew 4 did, Fey and bedraggled uniforms features. They were a kind THE SATURDAY of dark, mustard-colored, coarse wool cloth ahd were red, of course, a8 to eollar taba and cuff bands. But what made this unl- form unique, different from any uniform the world has ever seen, was the cap that went with it. The cap is an atrocity that was invented, I am told, by Troteky, and is known a8 the Trotzky helmet, It is made of the uniform material and isa hood, really, with both helmet and cap charac- teristica—that is, it has a visor and aolao rung up at the top in a floppy sort of peak. Tt makes ita wearer look both flat-headed and low-browerl, and just above the visor on the flat spot there is either a red star or a crossed hammer and sickle, these being the emblems of the Communist state, The boys, however, were nice snougt. quite courteous, and not in any observable way different from other chesty youths exercising ee de authority. But I did havea feeling at once of being deaplaed and a bit too clean and well-groomed for the occasion, which was a fooling | was destined to carry about with me all the time I was in Russia. We had no sooner creed into Rusia than we to see horrible sights. And this ia the truth—I was not expecting it. I thought the horrors were confined to cer- tain areas and that I should have to go and look for them. But there ig no area in Russia today that ia not horrible: at least there is no area in which horrors are nok te be encountered. Amd though the soviet authorities spare no effort in trying to in- duce the world to believe that the famine is confined to the Volga Valley and that it if due solely to natural cases and cates over which they had no control, there is not 2 man, woman or child in the eountry, aside from a favored few within the govern- ment circle or who have money enough te ay the fantastic prices that are demanded or food, who is getting enough to ent. This alse is the abeolute truth, which no- body who knows the situation will seek to At every railway station there were seothing mobs of the most awful people | had ever seen. They c up under the windows of cur car and wailed a pitiful wail with their hands held out. I asked our Latvian porter, who apoke both English and Russian, what they were saying, and laughing a brutal laugh he answered: "They are saying, "For God's sake give us bread, give ue bread!’ He was remembering the Bolahevik invasion of his own country and the ruthlessness of it, He had no sympathy for Russians, Cold and Misery Most of the people were trying to get on the train; they were going somewhere, any- where, I suppose, away from where they were. There were Red soldiers stationed at each end of all the cara, and only these whe had permits to travel were allowed to get a ; but the others, in uncontrollable masses, struggled for a foothold anywhere. We had one continual fight to keep them aut of aur car, but we had to keep them out; our hearta might ache for them, but they had on them one thing we were afraid of—earriers of disease. We locked our doors, but they kicked against them and beat upon the windows with their fists, making piteous appenla, They clung to the steps and the trucks and crowded t er im care on t coupling ping. And it was cold, bitter cold. The regen was just one vaet interminable stretch of blinding white silence; the vil- lages were buried up to their thick-thatched Paves in snow; ris of the men and the mufflers of the women were hung with EVENING POST icicles: ft was all a terrible picture of human suffering, At ong station I stood looking out of o window as the train began to move; it gathered speed; there was a surge forward in the crowd and a frantic shout; then I felt the car under me lift and twist itself with a sickening grind. One of the young men I was traveling with came up to me quickly, turned me away from the window and said, “Don't look! We ran over a woman. She alipord on the icy step she was trying te hang on to amd fell under the wheels!" The porter, looking just a litthe bit shaken himself, sud, “Yes, and she's better of! Kindest thing you can do to a lot of these people is to kill ther. We don"t often make this run without killing two or three, but it don't stem night thot t should nearly always bo women,” © killed three before we got to Mos- | cow—all women, I once knew Mloeecow as one of the most eolorful cities in the world, auit was happiness and even its muszhiks were round and rollic and blessed with unfailing good nature. It was not a city to approwe of particularly; it lay under a weight of wasted yeara and ite moral tone wae Unhealthy, but at least it was cheerful. Also it was well kept and had an air of great pride in itself, Gray and Dismal Moscow My impression when I arrived this time was that it had grown su old and dismally gray; that, moreover, it had lost its grip in its sad d itude, ittin iteel? to get filthy and foul—a Lctrecsisd drab of a city. station, toe dirty to be described, and with its atmosphere too thick with the hideous amell of human un- cleanness to be breathed, waa filled with people one shrank from im fear, while outside waa a ewarm of and mere idlers through which to thrust one's way was a thing to dread, he city lay under a thick mantle of dirty snow and ice, while overhead hung a heavy ray pal of somber cloud, They told ua it had been two weeks sinee the aun Dae ee ep rag oi a many people ambling aim ong Soin nothing and, aa I aihcoue learned, with nothing to do. I looked into their Tages and saw only wearlness: hot even resentment—only weariness and a kind of hopeless submission. On journey in, my nerves had been shaken a bit and, os anyone would, I had suffered thrills of heartbreaking aympathy for the people 1 had seen, But Ron «see Oe sion began to settle upon me. Nobody in Russia eecapes this; reasion is chronic; feels it and @ talks about it. It isa dreadful thing to live with day alter day, here were gungs of women; terrible women; women only, cleani the ice out of the street-car tracks with pi shovels and stiff twig broom. them to be gangs of conseripted labor, and I felt sweep over me in their behalf a wave of hot resantment, But it was too soon for me to begin to feel resentful; too soon for me even to say to myself aa I did, “So this ig part [L'a of ‘na ; was to go a long way yet and learn in the end that the women who clean the streets of the cities are fortunate becnuse they are fed. I shall wait until another time to go farther and see more in the grand old city of Moscow, Editor's Note=This js the firat of o scrice of arti- clea by Mra, Egan. The oext will appear in an curly TERE. THE BUCKET BOOB me by the hand; and with he was aqueezing my elbow ng-loat friend. I was afraid, toon te the way I was shak- | me, remember, to be in hose others. They wore the to men, the traders I'd been Boker, too—tal about ran to be a little ashamed, ndred phanks was all I had 1 wondered what d too—when I flashed that Fg great | a anid Boker, of a few prices from the that he began to give me [Contincued from Poge 15) what he called the dope. A tip was out on Mex Pete; and there was a tip out on Studebaker too, A lot of talk, besides, he eaid, was going the rounds on Steel, If anyone went shart on Steel they were end sure to make o killing, he said, “Short?” I said. “Yeah: sell, you know," said Boker, Tt wae all Greek to me, I was os green os any hick that ever stepped out of the Grand Central into Forty-second Street. How could I sell be when I didn't have any to sell? The lavk Boker gaye me [ can remember still. Tt must have been hard for him not to laugh. Steel I sold, though: twenty shares of it. This meant of course that Wad. on a margin of five pointe ashare only: and that in itself ahould have warned what kind of people T was dealing with. No reputable brokerage office, 1 know now, will carry a client on any soe! a like that. There you are, though: and my hand shook aa I handed over the hun dollars. Boker hurried from the room. A moment later he was back again. ed," he gald: “T filled it at 83." I was astonished, I hadn't even seen him telephone. All h Tis chief pur= | ed done was to take | a walk around the room at the back. That i oe Light Twin Outboard Motor Sportsmen Everywhere Are Talking About It The Elto Light Turin is causing a big stir in the outdoor warld, It iseven a bigger seneadion chan Ole Evinras eB first ourbexard motor buile 14 years age, Sportsmen everywhere are talk- ing abour the Elto, They had locked to the “Father of the Detachable Mater" for a highly developed motor of this type and they welcome this great ad- vanoe in the imdhssr ry with gen- uine enchuslaan. Fro all parts | ot America and foreign shores, letters are coming te Ole Evin- rede's pew organization highly com- mending the Eleo Lighe Tain for is original end pracecical feared. 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54 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Why You Should Change Your Spark Plugs Now Most engine troubles come from worn- out or incorrectly designed spark plugs. If your car starts hard, don’t run the battery down; if it splutters and runs jerkily, if it misses on the hills and at high speed, don’t blame it on the car- buretor or piston rings. Probably all you need is a new set of AC Spark Plugs. Go to any good dealer and tell him you want a set of AC Plugs specially de- signed for your car. "Then see the difference in performance! Most manufacturers of costly cars, trucks and tractors equip their engines with AC Spark Plugs because they know there is nothing like the old reli- able AC to make a motor runsmoothly. Race drivers, aviators, speed-boat pilots also insist that their engines be AC- equipped. You can't go wrong if you follow these experts. Ask for and see that you get the genu- ine AC Spark Plugs specially designed for your car. Ford Owners :—The AC 1075 for Ford engines is the plug you should use. It has our patented wire clip for the Ford terminal, our new design electrode which prevents oil from lodging in the spark gap and the famous AC Carbon Proof porcelain. If your Ford dealer will not supply you any other good dealer can meet your needs, AC Spark Plug Company, FLINT, Wichigan Li, G. Ras. so. 104h 737, Apatl 1 iFLS. U.S Mat Meo. L220 Beb. 14, 0017 Gideer Papeete Proding The Standard Spark Plug af the Morld waan't all, though. The price he told me, 83, Waa & Food three-quarters under the figures on the board; and he'd pyped me out of that, I was about aa green as they make “em, I Tt was helt pa civ epand when I left Boker's; and I' the door Se 2 Rene art Hy wee and wes starting down who should I san coming up but ad man Potter! I dodged out of sight pretty quick, I'll aay, He hadn't seen me, however; and I hung around to see where he'd go. After that I took my time about getting back to the office. knew now why he'd been figuring over that newspaper he t hidden in his desk. It waa the same as ['d been figuring—the fnancial gy a One o'clock, though, was striking ore finished eating my lunch; and after that lita cigar. Twenty sapleped later I lounged os to the goat ‘5 ee tter was waiting ae aan, e began bristle as walked Ln. "Can it! [ gaid to him. “IT know where you were this AM." “What's thatT heaaid, “What's that?” “You were down at Boker’, I told him. You should have seen his face. It grew as white and moist aa the belly of o fish, I felt sorry for the old boy. He'd seen, too, what he waa op t; and to try to get aut af it he'd Se ethan, hig job inchadind, He ast there ha crumpled up. “If you tell ——"' he wh igpered. T wasn't to tell. I knew they'd sack hiro onkon T went back to my deak. Moy oa who knows can tell you what elk to a bird who gets dealing in the et. I waa no exception. All I could think of that afternoon was the money I'd put op at Boker's, If the market went own I'd win. Tf it went up I'd lose. I had the chills and fever all right. In fact, I waa half beside myself till I the newsboys yelling the early editions in the street below, Potter watehed me as I got up and dusted cut of the room; but a lot I cared now for Potter. I got a paper from a kid; and the moment I sow it I lot out a Yip. Steel was down a polnt and over. Aas it figuned out, - cleaned up twenty-five bucks on the da: I'd like to-apeak of that. It was winning like this, the time of all, that put me really to the bad, Tf I'd lost I might have stopped ta think, I'd WOH, aap sgt Po that fixed me—I had the fever in me brood When I went upetaira to the office I ounged over to old Potter's desk. “The market's off," [ ‘said, awageering. Tt wos the same sw r I'd seen Bert Gerken give. I wos on Wall Street stocks, you Keree —elonliteg in the market, “3b-B bhi For God's sake!" said old Potter, turning white. That afternoon, when I went home to the Ant, the world was mine, ir toward six o'clock when I ubway at the corner and headed down the side street, Under my arm | had all the latest Wall Street edi- tiona; and one of thease I'd been reading aa Ll hung to agtrap in the train. I felt pretty cheaty and ig in fact, a I studied the financial tting on to aie [ was a regular Street man. figuring. too, how the folks who saw pie a ina thin what aawell l was. The Wall Street paper wan't all of it, either, On the way from, the office to the Subeawy I'd atopped in at a couple of places and got myself some other ing matter, One piece of it waa o list of winter tours—tripa down South to the big resorts, The other ece was an automa He=roael map. I hadn't a car, of course; but that day before I left the office I'd been doing a hit of iin alo Twenty-ve bucks a day, if you count six days in the week, is a hundred and fifty bones; six hundred, in all, for the month. T WAS alo It's no wonder, in fact, that seei with that amount a month I thowght the world was mine, The trouble, theugh, is that I didn't stop with that, If 1 used my elegy that ax hundred plunks a month, to more stock, i ina month 'd be making ain or seven times what I was making now. : got cacy with hele heat after that. ‘io oe ong I saw myself—on —ro anyw heres from five vunanes os a thowsand very wock, At this point, though, I called a halt. To be on the safe side | set down what I'd make at two hundred and fifty a week of thereabouts—call it a flat three june i ag bundred, ‘Thavt made tueivy buss lars a month, I maid: ond ect ee aA open oll of New Yoru fi, nT cieacet Phowaaght [ owen it deen car for Josie was the firs wy f: and it wouldn't be any Ge ice « The car, before [ got throegt igo it, was one of those nickel god cars: and by that tio. ehaffer in livery at the wheel Ter all, though, I lmid in for Josie tha» On my wey Lpriown in the Seca Gerkens had a colored pri ts them: but To wouldn't le fae o anything like that, | wast pry her stick on, eliber, in that sang by-four flat we were living & | « out that we'd hove a Set cc & Drive, and a cook, a chather be a man. The flat, too, weal eight roomea mri w couple of tats could see in my mind's eye to when we asked them in for the - Josie would be in a new ll cee knock your eye out; and she ws, epee all her wrell new jews; 4 oh ie -looking kid; and lo with all her awell ring and ibs dangles in her ears, Ther, 2° eaten, we'd take the Gerioess + in that mew car I'd coeaght. i would have on the fur coat Id ¢ Tt wouldn't be the fur sens eo, been talking shout » lon piece of rabbit fur sbe' Amsterdam Avenue. [1 he : ooda—sable or something; a: :. 9 f Pictured Sadie Gerken tency | when she got her eye on it were a lot of thing [ 2 whole heap of them. They wre s ning in my mind when [ mop 4 atairto the flat, and put my key "Hay, Josie!" whooped, Then I stood there, gapint The flat was empty dark, ha too, as if doaie Kadn’t been ic thes morning. All around, the place ex orien just rT] ae a it boars ap papers. rop an a tat without takin aes bata ee on down the ie It was the first oe ‘ mes Td da home like that and found sa ow 4 for me. I felt queer, [ know, w | Jolie's door and looked ineice The roam, like the rest of the Sc disorder, The bedclothes lay Sony footboard; amd ail the bureau were open. I got o shod & them. A Pp came out of me; cs to the et T feoked inece maybe, what [ wat tory , though, was there; and =! it | caught my breath. | bs! thought, of course, that chee ¢ thing like that: but jost the amy relieved After that I to pet beta the scare I'd thrown bets oe waa I, all and bobbie I'd pulled off that day, a : at home, ready to hear me tel oc I got hotter and hotter = ia the parlor and lit the light. Le eer and tried to read the h I had it oe ra n't read it long. Alters ¥~ other seare. Why had he gs = teft the flat like it waa? Whry.t snd away so long? Ldvopeed = hum back to her host = There was her bag, thoug= bureau and the closet, to. ver things. Then, as [ stood thee. . = front door open, “Say! T anid. “Wher bo an a She cooked at me a momect | was Pale, and she wae al! lage limp. ‘Tve been downtown,” her Lknew ahe had, She had. = in her hand; and [ figure ==: flat Ih & tress ao she couli pee the shops all day. [was ery = turned cut. “That's the dinner,” s = down the parcel: "Tl pot mt oe a Well, that was piling 1 on, !! the town I'd seen a lot of thee w= OHE Im the shops as cor till the last minute to beat 2 ooo alice of ment and a paper of 7 ea | their husband's dinner: = - what I thought. She wus ! finished. (Cen tlawed ea Page /!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST VELIE-BUILT MOTOR WINS AGAIN a" hs 7 a rm Ane link in the long chain of Velie Victories was added when a stock car equipped with the Velie- built motor climbed Mount Wilson in 27 minutes, $1 1's seconds, breaking the record that had stood four years by over 11 minutes, and winning the Los Angeles Express trophy. This unparalleled performance was made possible by the Velie overhead valve construction— Velie automatic lubrication— Velie motor solidity— Velie cooling — Velie dirt-proof construction—and a score of other features built into this matchless power plant. In 943 miles the car driven by Walter Lord made 144 turns in the tortuous ascent of 6000 feet. The motometer showed the water at only average summer temperature when the car reached the top.* Every purchaser of a Model 58 Velie car gets an exact duplicate of this motor in a beautiful car of long soft flowing lines and curves. Richly finished and completely equipped. Four new body styles, open and closed. See your nearest Velie dealer. "The aiffefal accoual of the mountain elieh ool be senf on request VELIE MOTORS CORPORATION MOLINE = ILLINOIS VELIE-BUILT MOTOR

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56 Numbor Se most popular pens in the world ha, wit Ele Fiche auill, leo Ene pecintedd stub pen Ol Geicraus aise, are ahnin Helio Ate nl ned with the a fF and ames Gc. tign of mm Jong, medium- | ine pent, Choo from the dealer's Hii play cos, order byt en her for safety '’s eee, and bie bo the bow —it js red. The Esterbrook Pen Mig. Ca. 72-100 Debware Ave, Camden, fi, J, Camadian Apreiss Beows Yens., Led. Toronte THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page #4) “Twasn'tshopping,” she said; “I wasn't ata mevie, either. tel | wernt downtown and got back that old job of mine." Eek could have Acnnclcad me down with a feather 7” ‘You did what?" “Just what I say," she said, Tt was the fact, what's 1 more. Before we'd married, Josie was a stenographer in a Broadway jobbing house, The pla He twenty-five a week; and to think d gone back to it now—well, I just turned hot and cold. If she'd hit me I couldn't have tanen it ae Fi t was my you see, Anywa had the same pride a clerk would ee about a thing ike that: and what laid me out was, first of all what they'd at the office when they heard my wile had had to go back te work. In my mind's eve T eould set them grin. “Elis tr she had to go to work,” they'd say. one thing an- other I waa prett ‘sant beside myself. Josle didn i eitany the eaaler for me. T wouldn't atand for it, I teld her, A wile's place was to toke care of ber hus- band's home, I said; and she rigaigte at me for a moment. aoe he's able to hep | a wife,” she said w Whine’ 5 that?" I shot back at her. ou heard me," she answered. “A wife ihe just trots round the house and does nothing is a luxury, Jim. That's why I went and got | back Aon job, I figured you couldn't afford a wife, Then, before I could say anything, she gave her shoulders a hunch. ; “T'm alek af all this, anyways. I've gat round this flat, dusting and seeping and cooking the meals for you; and what have I got out of it, I'd ask. Mech it ane wheres; you never take me to a show anything: I hg drudge and slave, or wouldn't do it for any man. I made up my mind since you couldn't give me anything — or wouldn t—I'd go out and get it for She had spunk, I'll say, She was only a kid, at that, ten; but she had the grit; and ri haa n to come down from my high horse “Listen, Joaje,"" I sald. “1 don't wish to listen,” she answered, “T'm through, I'm finished!" I told her then. Ina word or two let on to her what I'd pulled off that: down at Boker's, You ahowld have seen her! “Tim!” she eaid, After that it was as if the sunshine had burst all at once through the walls of that bss a flat we were living in. Jim I just took her in my arma; and she hung to me, shaking and catching at her breath. ¥ T WAS one grand night, that night, I'll mention. It was a o tren ve bucks, the piece of change I'd raked down that day at Boker’a, was as many thou- sand: inatead. Outside of the pay envelo I'd lugged home every Satu it was the first money I'd turned up in the six yeara we'd been married. To Josie it looked even bigger than it did to me. @ thought I was made, that’s all. The dinner we rattled through with os if | it had been a» quick-lunch order downtown. The janitor downstairs had a phone; and while Josie waa putting away the plates I bent it down to the basement, "That you, Bert?’ [ called, when I got the Gerkens’ flat. I waa feeling Be cheaty and important, too, I'll say; ough I didn’t jet him see it. “Josie and I, we're dropping round to a ehow,” I said: “and we thought maybe you and Sadie would like to go." Then, before he could say anything | added, offhand like, “The tickets and the eats afterwards, Bert, are on me.” Bert said they'd be ready when I got around; and 1 dusted back upstairs. "Put on your dress, vhs 1 told Why, Jim!" eaid Jos Her face was all lit up aha she skipped bark inte Her room to get rendy. We took a cob at the corner. A street ear or the Subway would have done wa ordinarily; and I remember the squeak Josie gave as | beckoned to the taxi, The last one I'd paid for was on the day I'd driven her away from the church where we were married: though never mind. She wmuggied up against me tonight as we sat inside; and I eculd feel her quiver, I guess ale'd been waiting a long while [or that taxi ride. EVENING POST Bert and Sadie were at the door when we got there. “Anniversary!” grinned Bert os he saw the cab. Tt made me sore to hear him. I'd let him see, I figured, that he wasn't the on ane who could spend money; but it Bert a while to get on to that. “What're we takin’ in? he asked. “A icture?" “Cut it out!" I growled. Tt was to a theater—a real show—we were going; and the seats | got weren't upstairs in the gallery, cither. neon the tax, the four pasteboards set me bac eleven dollars; but after the firat shock of it, and the curtain went wu af how the ehow I forgot all that, I just sat back wit my chest stuck out, feeling grand and lordly. You should have seen Josie too. She was like a kid out af achool for the holidays, her face all shining and ; and it wasn't just being at a show, either, that had bucked her up like that. Every now and then I'd catch aay pon at Bert, and then ahe take a peer ahe did itl re hes se aot the light, le oe ei into her eyes an It was sat soni t when she and I back to t the tie, igh ” “Timi" she ald, "Yh, Jim!" In the hall she flung her arms around me Te tight. The evening had set me back a heap. After the show the supper had cost me another good ten dollars; and we'd come home after itinacab, That and the cigars Bert and I were smoking had cost me four dollars more. All this waa potiies though. Josie had her arms around m “Isn't it wonderful, Tim?" ‘shi said. "That so?” I grinned at her. BP ae we're getting on at last!" she a That night, Ate is and I didn't mention nen ers she'd gone that jo and taken back. Ps pre Morning we didn't mention it, either, Bhe came to the door with me when [had on my hat and cont. “I'm so proud!" she whispered. I was of proud myself. I'd turned the trick, anywaya—or so I thought; found the way, Ttold self, of getting owt of the hole [ was in. And that, a8 live paid ia ‘what must make it so for the rare the Wall Street bucket shops and all, to Tt isn't just like sei sp Sain Panb pt t wat greed, n, tha us into their clutches, “ta man ha, ti Ge me, a wife, he wants her to think he's a somebody, doesn't he? I know I did. I was walking the mountain topa that morning When | got down to my job in Pine Street, rr OW listen: In all of this F mnt toying to knock any clerk just because he a clerk; I'm not trying, either, to ake any fellow sore on the job he's holding down, il Ta eying 10 6 is what gets so many of my sort into the hands of the bucket shops. Along with that I'd like te make ae what hap aa when th there. There was nothing wrong wi job. he trouble, hee Wis with me All these years I'd just set at weer leak, letting my my feet take root and standing still, What s more, ey of fellows, eres like » bad made good while [ was sitting there. I could name a dozen. Ferd Backus was one. Ferd had the desk next to mine. In the office a lot of us used to laugh at Ferd, Sometimes, too, we'd get sore, Ferd, anyways, was o for work; and that’s what got us. If work in the office waa slack, inatead of loafin the way we did, Ferd would hunt himse something todo. “Afraid for his job!" was what we said: but Ferd would only grin. "That's what you say, he ssid, Then one day he quit; and we learned what he'd been up to. Instead of being afraid he'd lose the job, he'd been learning everything he could about it; and now he was setting up for himself. What I'm getting to, bem rie ia that when he quit Ferd in partners with him. t was an agency Ferd was starting. The office, though, was in a town upstate— Harrisville, oa "ll call it—and though I had a bit saved up myself, what made me back mk wasn't the risk of mare, the money; it was—well, Harrisville, come to sous city from a dump, a Sedna like that, see: amd Jitth: ol’ New York I wa nt leave, The city, [ tald Ferd, wos the place for a batsiness man, You should haveseen the look he gave me. "Yeo," anid Ferd: “all the clerks say June rm | “What d'you mean, cere” | 5 back at him, getting" huffy “| mean,” said Ferd, “that kok; York, as you call it. i just whet op af clerks what they are.” I didn't get him at all it wie? Greek to —, fa 4 * paid Ferd; Fa on me a line HB pete year my T hadn't drop epee Sate Nes still booked gr to me. In farts had looked better than now. Lied York! The jazz tunes [°d beard before on Broadway were regi c That day, though, nine ode’ had struck, and [ was 2 good ower) utes late when [ peomecteed thr ice in the basement. A lot T cored bs Upstairs old Potter geve me a boy Lewarpens a my chest ot; bet is WOrT over him. | ween) worms anything that had to do wih = What wenton in the office that ax: 4 a piece with the rest of the dn followed. For a while I made o bla? of pc work, Jt wasn't for long, howere o'clock drew near I began to ergy | L knew, the Wall Strect market wrad Aa flak back on pow fr when lex bling in Wall Street. Once yx'= the game you're good for nothy However, to make o story Gs ten o'clock I got up and ted oni office You should have seen old Potur' ne it down to t however, af ine getting into my « coat when I got a j _ amar. | ike geen irorn the ball aoove—thea starter, it wast—came moocbing = building. ne of them was woman Eine clsuned Up our plac & take me, like all of them, anet aah f and was dipping in on eah," said the starter, thd clean-up. Next month she's qui and goin’ back to her home = f “How are they coming wth = eae him. fy Were coming good, it =a pois fe hundred buelcs ahead of She and already he was figuring oc place somemheres up in the om=7. ‘d had his fel New Tait Place for the kids, sad. "And how are vou making it?” i Itold him. When he beard, tod ioe he Ler RC © sai you want toget on. Steel's goin’ up!” He had a tip on it. The tp & from a friend who got = fou § fellow who worked on the heise = ker'a office, You should have see I made for the door, By the t round the corner into Bre = running. ; ht, though Thr Tt was all rig already hadi cpa but Stee! bas It was still where it had dosed before: and os soon aa Id breath a little T told Boker ta r trade. “Switch” is the Wal = for it. “T've got a tip om Steel” loaking important. cic Mion have = a bard Pp bis face straight. wasn't the first of the ae talk of tips. He went into ther os rolling over in his j a ways chewing: and in half back. “Your order's rik ad nj; though he hads*t pos Phone, Once more, too, t =. sense to see it, he'd = quarter point on the trade. The (Cimtineard am Page @!

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WELLS WORTH PARE—EST. 1h) THE SATURDAY EVENING POST CE CONAOOO JOENOSOOOOOANARP OOOO By degrees comes fight; and man's conerol ovr the conditions of Aas fife grows greater and greater Out of Ages of Experiment MEE darkness and helplessness held man through dreary ages. Then it dawned on a human mind that experiment was the key to human betterment. With the vision of a prophet Roger Bacon declared that experiment would lead to engines of navigation, engines of tremendous speed on land, machines that would trav- erse the air. For this unholy idea Bacon was imprisoned through long years. In his cell he experimented with glass and discovered a basic principle of eyeglasses. That was 650 years Three hundred years later a group of open-minded men in London formed the first society to encourage expen- ments. To the Royal Society of London we owe the multi- tude of scientists of the greatest genius who have opened erevices of light and brought near that day when we shall all have “complete power over the conditions of our hives.” One notable group includes thase who have de- voted themselves to releasing man from the many defects of his eyes—defects which check the energy and clearness of the mind. The improvement of your vision, as Roger Bacon first discovered, is produced principally by the surfaces of lenses —their curvatures—not by any magic in the glass alone, When your eyes call for help and you go to your Optical Specialist, he works with all the means of precision he pos- sesses. But up to the present time he has been unable to tell accurately if the curves on many kinds of lenses have been ground by his workmen as prescribed for you. Now, out of years of experimenting, comes the invention which meets this great need—The Wellsworth Lensometer. It measures these precious curvatures with the utmost precision. This remarkable instrument is a product of lang scien- tihe experiment. It again verifies the wisdom of George W. Wells when he established laboratories at his great optical works at Southbridge, Mass., and brought scien- tists there to study. During his last years he charged his sons and fellow workers to spare no effort—to leave no experiment untried—to make Wellsworth Laboratories the center of optical research for the betterment of human vision. Your eyes can have the benefits of the work of the Wells- worth Scientific Staff through the services of Optical Spe- cialists in your community. Consult one of them now; make sure that the most precious of your senses is profiting by the ages of experiment done in its behalf. American Optical Company Southbridge Mass USA Wellsworth Glasses eAll that Science can give all that edriistry can add UN U a = TOW ne : it ] a | t | ‘e om: [> = =| = OU UUUL A Wi TOU DUCUOUUY UU UU UU UUs QUO UU CU OU ie

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Haitian | "The Man iw the Palm Beach Suit A dozen years ago he was conspic- uous, except in the South. Other men, hot in their woolen suits, looked at him and thought he was funny. He wasn't funny. He was cool. Like Jonas Hanway, the first manin England to carry an umbrella, the first citizen of any town to wear a Palm Beach Suit was a pioneer. He was unusual, but he was cool. “Oo

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST In 1922 e 1921, G, Woe H SUIT The Men in the Palm Beach Suits Today you can see thousands of men wearing Palm Beach Suits. The Palm Beach idea has become popular because it means coolness, You can’t “pick out’ the man in the Palm Beach Suit, for two rea- sons: First, the wearers are so nu- merous; and second, because Palm Beach Cloth is made in such a variety of shades and patterns— browns, blues, greys, stripes and plaids. There are as many varie- ties in Palm Beach Suits as there are in woolen suits. Not all summer clothes are made of Palm Beach Cloth. It is well to know this. All suits made of Palm Beach Cloth are identified by the Palm Beach label. When you see the label, you can be sure of the genuine Palm Beach Cloth. The style and fit of the suit depend on how well it 1s tailored. Some makers take extra pains in the tailoring of Palm Beach Cloth, and naturally this means better style and better fit. Golf Knickers made of Palm Beach are cool and good-looking— prac- tical and durable. THE PALM BEACH MILLS—GOODALL WORSTED CO, Sollag agent; AL Rokaut, 229 Fourth Avenue, New York City decid Laie noe

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oisegelgar Page “ taho at afternoon, however, sa op polnta and a half. I'd he market agrain—a boob's luck; veo cock I streaked it uptown in "“goatralght home, however. Subway at Fiftieth Street. Alley, me they enll that part my, begina up there; and for a : my time figuring what a hae ce pockets filled with ee before I headed for the flat; ani made Up my mind, The car proueht a couple of thousand ’ “lego hoof course money meant ome, now that I was rolling it in, \T hadn't that much cosh for hight, though, Bert Gerken Ppay a couple of hundred down,” j you e'n get you a car on time." fe way Gert had done. I made nd T'd do it too, hin exid Josie. I was just won-

me, ht when T came home to the away with needle Er , her fingers I grinn ] Bae eaotiver good day down- ieer's. 5 pone up another y “remember, I remember, too, pwns looking worried when I gat (ihe bucket shop. As they my ins et, The suckers mel GA vay, was a bull market and al) Boker's te buying he had a reason to look et shop, you know, does not buy stock the way you tell them to. pocket pe money soe bet against you're wrong. But let that F. a off re sg He wh ‘half a day, We were going out ithe Gerkens, ml" she said again ss she went owe the hall. a lot more like this that with hut T'll cut ft short, We went ight with the Gerkens, and mast it for a week or =o afterwards, it was still going up, but before int golng with it. What hap that I'd awitched once more on ‘egular story, this. Day by day wild see, waa getting more wor- what it was all about I didn't ry day he'd tell me, I remember, ter get out of Steel and make a nething else. All the time, too, rime to put up more money at if I wanted to make the killing # talking of I couldn't do it on t he said, That isn't all he it lagk like a i a tinhorn ‘tae dubs,” dub, If dg I'd known it I + pier and dub as any of the at Boker was handing me ular atuff. Then one day at the office, ainst the rules up there for a over the phone during office Boker knew it too. <A lot, rt that stop him. he said. “Get down here on th fright. appened?" I spluttered beak he said, and hung up the lar part of the game, I've then, to throw a scare like boobs, peepee like me; and ke a babe ardiy im fact: bot when I rattled te the bucket shop he didn't as excited as I'd expected, It a he saw me rush in po ia feet ony the table in the back vat pe ng out to meet me. “Tou want to get off bs “i just got a tip the bears dy to bust the market!" tip of his—having a tip, you ced]! mec. T figured if terhed 2 » know. The same afternoon went Up another two points d that wasn't all of it either. what Boker had talked me ind the oil stock went down sfore the close, bowen "tt 80 gay sia We and t out on Broad pee Sorat, gal” takes 10ue: THE SATURDAY I didn’t tell her, of course, [ wasn't going to let on, you know, that part of profite I'd lost. Bert Gerken, too, didn't seem aa lively that night a9 usual. We all wont Lng ei me enanayy and that nieect diay a n to hap to ma down in Pine Street. = The firet waa when the boas, the head of the firm, cme me ~~ on the carpet, Old Potter hadn E peers on me, though. It was the time clock I'd been punching later and later each morning that pave me away. “Tou get here ¥, d'you hear!" the ous warned, I knew what the warning meant. I'd Hever been & fired; and it scared meso I was for a couple of hours, in meee “then L to wr le and get un- again. Before the lunch hour I got up dusted down to Boker's ™ Mes Pete waa off aranthes Point and a half, Added to that, Steel that morning hac croamed 90, The bucket shop was filled up with the usual crowd of has-beens and seedy wisen- heimers that bh in places like this, Some of them were roa chatty and gay, talking hig about stocks and all; but some of the othaes looked sort of moochy and out of pep. These must have been the ones like myself that Boker had in right—right for Boker, you know, As soon aa T a myself at the door Boker bounced up to mt, his face in a grin. “How's the boy?" he ped, slapping ree on the back. "Feelin" pretty good, one E a wasn't ce cas at all, The Mex ‘ete was fall iiag our rom under me waa ning to get my sand. I spoke to Boker about it, and Boker gave a auED. Mex Pete was all right, A was Wor ing in the stock, and the i eee ibs id Bae to shake gre cig tinhornas, ich it was going to zi “You'd better take a another block,” said Boher. [fell for it. Another hundred I drew out the savings that day. The same after- noon Mex Pete sold of two points more; and that night when I got home the little flat never looked so small, so dingy and mean. I sat there hating it We didn't id out that night. The Gerk- ens had said : Bay evened: Peer ey wouldn't. Eomesn ng. act, seemed be the matter with Bert: but ar it waa I eouldn'’t guess. If I had known, It was jost what was happening to me. Phi a while inal Fe ie talk. ral hip working on that dress far the auto, it aa for me, I didn't care much to alle, me I said, “I'm trying to read the paper. "It was at the financial page, of course, Thad it open; but I wasn't ting much of whatiteaid, After a while I fell te biking may fingers, When again Josle tried Tlit-out at her, “Can"t you see I'm thinking?" I told her It waa no bunk. I waa thinking, all right; and the next night and the next it wis the same. By the end of the week— Saturday — I wasn't fit te live with, "Jim," esid Josie, * hat 3 wrong with “Wrong? What're you talking about?" I snap back. She looked at mo, astonished. Then I Saw a scare come into her eyes. She gave a gag ent You haven't loat it?" she said. ¥ your money? I told her not to be a ninny. After that, though, she put up ie quto dresa she was making, and sat there quiet. She was thinking hard, too, I could see; and getting more and = scared the meanwhile, tt ma made: mit " Aw, for the land ‘a nake!" tT growled, Thefact is, Mex Pete wasstill going down and Boker was calling me for more money. Half of the two hun I'd put with him was gone; al] my profits, too, of course. He was threatening if I didn't come across to close owt the account, Then, the en ey coming, Mex Pete began to go Up again. At the market's close it was up three points; and that night when I rattled up the stairs to the fat I was whistling. “Hey, Josie! I called. we're going out, She stood and looked at me a moment. “Tm mot going, Jim," ahe said. I eouldn't believe her. Here she was, a girl who'd been digging away at me to take her out every evening, and now she wouldn't go! Could you beat it? I asked miself. “Come Of, EVENING POST Then she began to ery. “T'm scared, Jim—seared,” she said. I was go taken aback I eould just stand and gape. Say!” I said, It was Wall Street that scared her. She hadn't guessed the risk I waa taking; and for that matter, neither had I], [t wasn't just set risk to our cab though. The a Ld been gain f on—biting my thumbs and lying awake all pent he got on her nerves, it seer. was the way, too, rd Snapped out at ie or every tiene she spake. “Td rather be poor," she wept. We didn’t go out Monday night. We didn't go the next night either. It was on that came day, it happens, that I got the jolt, the alam that was coming to me. It was the same slam that landed so many other aoe: ¥IF fis day wis Tuesday The time clack I'd etd lnte aga'n ones more; and | was upstairs at my desk, musing a bluff to get to work, when the oy told me a fellow wanted to see me outaide, That, too, was against the | rules—having a caller, anon in busi= ness hours; but a fit grid like that wouldn't stop me now. Im the hall Bert Gerken was mabe wha he say me, but the He gave a grin wasn't wh stop tas wes marty: , dim,” said Bert, “could you lend | me a ten-spot for a cou le of daye?"" I waa 30 flabbergasted I eould only gape. The way Bert had been throwing ten-spota arcund on Broadway, I'd thought b he en have his clothes lined with , though, Bert had come ee of his bluff. “Tm b Jim," be sald, ket's cleaned mt out, and I've lost red J had. That ain't all of it either," went on: “I owe one im t—the rent, the tradesmen and all: and this week the office fired me I stood and aisck: if it was [it'd hap pened to I n't have been more scared, aoe did it happen, Bert?" I asked He told mo as well as he eould, for he was pretty nearly crying. All pers e'd been gE money, buyin as the market kept up ut th finally Boker ts got him ta ort—to sell, you know, rer — ae gic had gone against iva: and fi nal, sien e hadn't any more to put up, oker had clone him out. a ee a Laug ¥ You cou ¥ tell tk fete asob. The car they had taken away from mre the day before. The furniture le, too, from whom he'd bought a lot of swell furniture on time, had ia and u'll lend aif, hb ll len = that ten edith aed Bee Then he said, Sadie and I fd for breakfast this il Was pome coffee.” I gave him the ten, T hadn't been cleaned out; and with Mex Pete still going up I had money coming to me again from toker. What's more, I'd fixed it the night before that Boker couldn't close me out for want of ng. duet the same, when I went back to my desk I waa ae limp I could hardly walk, TA It wasn't ten minutes after that when the | office "Ta called me out again. lephone,”” he avid. Tt was Boker on the phone; and IT atood | there, the receiver to my ear, sweat on my face, and may going out from under me. The minute I apoke to him Boker sailed into me with all he had. I never heard a man swear and threaten like him. “ Bilk,”* “ghort-card,"* "cheap akate:"* and “ewindler” were just a few of the things he called me. I felt for a minute or so that he'd gone batty; and then I understood. Tt was the bank order, a draft on the savings, I'd given him the day before. The gut he'd been handing me—all that talk about a killing—I fallen for at last; and though Josie eri ofr oo eng hi handed Boker an all our savi Oe na Rep than dollars left in the b ker was calli Gre Nett esha Sf pine Pipe “The order's phony!" he swore at me. “You haven't any funds in the bank!" I wonde now if I was erazy, I'd given Boker the bank book along with the | order: and there waa nine hundred in the bank or elae I'd lost my mind. “Nine hundred, nothing sneered Boker. “The book shows all you have is a measly dollar bill!" Won cmt sil rae Le ag ad Let rou (ale i. ot Wal of eee Lig Poke 2 ey <3 E erro! af “er a ie ir 5 spots dew ar To. sala af ia eras dep 7. OLEMA! AS THE af HCA, sane - Thee pro ahi Philedesasdian 0 Tron Sk AEAT mats ah pipte OLE a gute cok EK 1 oe Foapan, ¥-b- h tiee - ‘@yiite re tire LAMP CO- « Andel 61 or

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Too much air! and your car rides like a truck with solid tires Not enough air! and you weaken the side walls of your tires and lose mileage When you are not sure of the amount of air in your tires, the chances are you have too little. It doesn’t take very long for “not enough air™ to do a lot of damage to the carcass of a tire—weaken- ing the fabric or cord construction. Own a tire gauge and know how much air you are carrying in your road tires and your spare. Don't depend on borrowing a tire gauge. seldom borrow You a gauge until you are afraid you need air. Maybe you have needed air for days. Ir so, you have The Schrader Tire Pressure Gauge costs $1.25 and with proper care lasts for years. It is compact, accurate, and easily read. been injuring your tires for days. Own a Schrader Gauge, use it, and you will save its price many times in mileage. Sold by garages and auto supply dealers. A. SCHRADER’S SON, Inc., Brooklyn, New York Chicage ‘Toronto London. SCHRADER VALVE CAPS 5 literally seal in the alr. A. deme- thaped rubber washer reinforced by anarched metal plate fits tightly over the valve. Thevaly ve pincannot bede- pressed. This Valve (cap is simple and effective equipment for keeping air sealed im tires. Five caps In a metal box, 2 5c. SCHRADER TIRE-PRESSURE-GAUGE He began to cuss me again, and | rhs up on him. The next minute i had and coat on, and was dusting it over te a Subway. I ‘had a hunch at what had hap pened —something besides Boker and what went on at the bucket shop; and the minute I got to the fat, our place, and -~ the door, I knew I'd guessed it rig Josie wasn't there. Her bag, too, this time was gone; and on the table was a note tien, It was short and direct, I'll say, “Dear Jim," it said; “I write this to tell you I couldn't stand it. There's some cold meat and things in the ice box, and I've fixed it with the janitors wife to cook cur breakfasts and make up your bed. ‘ye gone away fora while, and I'll let you hear from me. I'm awiul sorry, Jim." That waa all, “Your loving Joale," she'd igned it, but T didn't get much from that. ter a while I went down to the janitor’s basement, but they couldn"t tell me any- thing. She'd gone away rae ear said; and ashe hadn't mentioned w she'd be back, She hadn't even said she would; and I went downtown in the Subway, It was half past twelve, I remember, when I got back to the insurance office. T was raging. By turns I'd turn bot and eold; but just the same I knew what I'd do. She could look out for herself, I made up my mind; and if she could treat me like that [ waa through. On an envelope I'd done a little figuring in the Subway, There wos about three hundred and fifty dollars Bong: Fas eigads expel a; and ina rd or #0, we were going up, doubl ble it, 1 Aured That fl ngured would, you oer and with that poner, when | got it, I'd figured also what else I'd do, I'd chuck my job at the office, now that I didn't have to worry over Josie; then I'd settle down to playing Wall Street She'd bee sorry, [ told mysell, when ashe saw I'd rolled up a fortune. The other clerks were out to lunch when I came in. The only one in the @ Waa ald Potter, that seedy has-been. He sat hunched down in hia seat, ble jaw open ond his face the color of cheese, “Oh, my Gos! Oh, my God!" he was saying to himself; and for a moment my own troubles I forgot. “Here, what's eatin’ yout" I said to him. The old boy put up both hands to his face and looked at me oa if [ was a ghost. Then he began to shake and cry. “It's all gone, all gone," he salid—*‘all we had, my wife and me.” Then he choked Lg over noe ial down his head on the “all ne, al Fon "he went on. nha J gone?" I asked, I knew al- ready, though. "3 'd money, my savings,” he drooled; then [ got the slam, the wallop that was coming to me. “Boker's failed,” he said; “he's lit out, with all the money; and the Police have pinched the place. rer REE minutes later, the moment I turned the corner into Broad Street, I got wind of the ha i ini It sounded like a Tiot. A bi of people waa out in front of the place—men and some i too: and the't most of them were stru | ta get inside and up the stairs. Aroun the edged of the crowd atowd a lot of othera— clerks, bank runners and office boys; and a lot of these were laughing and ta ing, al an having a lot of fun and excitement. fle that were mobbing the bucket as ean "t seem, though, to Petting hop fun from it; and the minute I bust my way in among the firat person T saw and ized wae the hell man from our building, the elevator starter who'd given me the tip on Steel. With him was a woman, an old lady in a bonnet and a worn weather-stained dress and shawl, Tt was the scrubwoman that helped clean up our place in Pine Street. She was being shoved to and fro by the crowd: and avery mow and then the elevator man would put an arm round ber shouldera ta keep ber from being knocked off her feet. She oaan't crying, She just looked crushed and dazed, as if ahe was inn trans, I muicss maybe she wae thinking of all the nights she'd flopped round on her knees in the suds, laying ap the dollara Boker had trimmed her out of. “There aint a cent left," said the ele wator man to me. "Boker's lit out, they say, taking the books with him: and all they've found in the safe was a pair of over- shoes pod eleven cegta. B must have eveTiogked 'cem," suid the elevator man, uptown; and eros told what 2 qe oe nee a wife, a big bloede— Boker'a wile got j come, [dl sey: ake F wat te that. I wasallin. 1 was dese I didn’t go back to the office cb T hung around with the others Th all the time grew bi and beg marge it seemed, hi been wor oat Be ieee ik orm hate gone after ae tradesmen: and along we) shopgirls, seamstresees, here use cooks an pend too: end 5 BMS minister oradoctor, [Lf Boler got anyone with o Little piere of peony d ring them up on the phone ory af hia fellows up to see them T they handed them wae the == handed me: “You don't want to all your life, do you?" t was along past five when another face | knew. The felics clerk from our Pine Soreet office, came over and & = Tce Tre, “Th ‘re 1 ing for uF 4 Bali I didn’ t care. T didn't care fora now. All I eould think of sow © back to the flat, the tewo-bytoo called home, It sounded like « jel just now. Biles oe at fellow, gro Baker ating you too?" gtin was what got me, o moment | set to swing at kim. [i a flash, though. I slunk owe: crowd, leaving him grinning often hadn't gone far, though, when the alir from the eee; and T heard call out ay Dene “Hey, it shouted. “Y: Jim f™ I didn’t know if it was I whe # called. Then I heard another racs The voice I knew all right. “Jim lt" it gang out. “ Jom!" There waa Josie, With her, ton fellow I've tald you of—Perd Ba one from Harrisville. [ just gape U'll be short with this. There a bit ta tell. To Te, though. / wonder, it's the » biggest of all ¢ ‘pened. I'd , anyways, loos at it mow. ea was Jom: £ come back to me, “Tt's all right, Jim!" she ow “It's all right, don't jou bear*” “Tea: buck up there, Jum" i saying ton, had me round the come fight trom l there J and cing tow together. “Tt's telling: mee; rat ae nine hundred's here in my walt.” [t was no news to me: Fd ¢ from the first. “Yea,” said Josie, “] leew 5 yOu meant to give it to Bole; = owe masely," { wasn't thinking of the mot My head wae all in a whirl “Where have you been?" I a “Where did you go, Jame, shen me?" She was laughing amd cor "Ty didn't leave you, com ewered: “] just took s train Then she gave a = be “Wh the wave a gasp, a isk = As I didn't—as I still couldn) ma of Ferd’ -Josie came cart =ct* = ‘a come doen to pet 5 said; “you're going into baste Ferd together. Well, that's all, 1 gees.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ave this New Way Make the money you work for, work for you. And make it earn more interest. Investigate the new savings system offered by the U. S. Treasury Department. IH1S tells how $20 soon becomes $25, how $80 soon becomes $100, how $800 soon becomes 0. It shows you how to earn 25 per cent in five . And all with the greatest safety. Jnited States Government, through the Treasury Post Ofhce Departments, has developed a new igsSystem, which has received a spontaneous wel- ‘from men and women throughout the Nation. System is simple. Begin Now Ivantages of this system are many—too ous to list here. But everything is ex- lin a descriptive circular obtainable your Postmaster or by sending direct to ited States Government Savings System, essed below. me of the outstanding advantages: Any ual can buy up to $5000 maturity value wury Savings Certificates of any one id if desired can have them made pay- another person in case of death. The ates are exempt from normal Federal ‘Tax and from state and local taxation estate and inheritance taxes). ll the advantages now offered by this ings System. See how to accumulate aster. And with complete safety. Once ww this simpler, more profitable way, surely adopt it, as thousands of others eg throughout the land. ow Dollars Grow are shown the results of investment sury Savings Certificates—how your grows when interest is compounded It consists of new United States Treasury Savings Certificates, yielding at pres- ent issue prices +2 per cent interest, compounded semi-annually, if held to maturity. They mature in five years, earning 25 per cent for that period. 1 3/0 on Savings (Certificates | ay eokectod, aad vestment, fully t with a liberal rate of interest. Each dollarsaved earns 25 per cent in 5 years, at present prices, which Is at the rate of 4% per cent & year, com- pounded semi-annually. If withdrawn before maturity you receive interest at the rate of 34 per cent, semi-annually. Treasury Savin present obligation of your govern- ment, the soundest Investment conceivable—backed by the of the Nation. Your principal tag interest are utely elimi- Certificates Bre regis tmced tcl your nam at tins of purchase, protecting you agalnat or ‘ject to market flucouationa and cannot te in value. They are always worth what you paid for m plus the interest. Payment on Demand You can withdraw your || money at any time, withour waiting until marurity of the Certificates. oy lee Gover any emergency. Govern- ment, however, conmot But they can be redeemed at any time before ma- turity, at redemption prices which increase from month to month, yielding about 3% per cent com- pounded semi-annually, so that your savings are con- stantly earning, and yet are available in emergency. Invest to the Limit U. 8. Treasury Savings Certificates are issued in denominations within the reach of all. You can now buy a $25 Certificate for $20, a $100 Cer- tificate for $80 and a $1000 Certificate for $800. If you save less than $20 per month, you can accumulate Postal Savings Stamps at 10ceach, or Treasury Savings Stamps at $1 each, both non- interest bearing. Or you can open an interest- bearing Postal Savings Account. Then you can convert such savings into a Treasury Sav- ings Certificate when you accumulate $20). U.S. Treasury Savings Certificates may be pur- chased at Post Offices, Federal Reserve Banks, banks and trust companies, or direct from the U. $8. Government Savings System. There is no red tape, no formality. Do not delay in becoming acquainted with this simpler, more profitable system of making your dollars grow. Make the money you work for, workforyou. Sechowquicklyitearns25 per cent. Afef this coupon with remittance to the United States Gowrnment Savings ere Depi, a Application Fie Treasury Savings Certificates, New Issue —— SS ft | | | | them se redemption before | inually. A show fa ww to mi ra he marurity nelosed find Check, Draft, or Money Order for— | you Work for, work for you. Anda ¢ with absolute safe ty. Observe how -— —Feee eae Od each § _ | rut will Cart 25 per Cent at present } _$100 Treasury Savings | rices —in only 5 years your 320 ; Certificares, Price $40 each 3 | ; P25, your $80 becomes £100, your UNITED STATES f $1,000 Treasury Savings ae GOVERNMENT conor — a —!? E = s_ == ieafter Rael: Vai after Value alter Maturity SA\ TINGS SYS M | Register in the name of and send to (Name) | Lees Se) oo I E | = —— o7o $21.45 $22.20 | $23.00 $25 TREASURY DEPARTMENT | 2.80 B5.80| 88.80) 92.00, 100 WRIA Se. | Sereet address | 7 De i = , State 6H 638.00 SSh00 | 92040) 1000 LU cE | | a

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE VOICE OF BLANCHE PERKINS (Ceontinudd from Page IP) haf and tumbled, and looked worse ; Thaneus used a homemade dirt filling ie cracks But he was insolent to the pavement inapector who ecarme along hen sent him notice to have [it fiz ery, side the house there were correspond- gutures. The carpet of a amall sitting j wore slick, like digenlorad wax. Twa oe Kitchen curtainag came ta be far- patched, yellowed articles. Table- a were darned. Chipped plates were eolaced by unchipped. daughter with a voice needs money. eeda it interminably, conatantly, For r bed, city board, eiky woo OFS, p, reading matter, clothes, recreation. ind are like on ondiess iron pipe an? long. Parenta cannot fill that does. No matter how much goes we must follow. ice Whitely once offered Blanche's aloan, E ater h Wis expanding ao hat Ha eal berely raphe plied ; enlargin umbing dealers. Ee pate) 7‘ ' Fd rather do it all ourselves," sald us Perkina with dignity. “We don't she's our flesh and blood, And neus did mot finish. But Rance tood. It waa quite on the boards surceaaful young Woman might nat ark to an old beau. Bhe ought not tigated to him. Farents were dif- 4 year or so letters came to Rance Blanche's parents in equal propor- In fnexpensive—at firat—but pink 1, aah her great sprawling writ= mont that time very firm of crossed dotted i's. : Tote long, frank, interesting lettera Bat home. She waa ne niggard of She told of the high cael of New iorolate amd relia; of her narrow lroom; of her colds; of one veral who tried to make love to her; of who wea always on his guard ae women pupils who might ve to him; of her professional ace aces; of her promises of eventual Frater was a section, not a city. e#in the Whitely shop knew when F got a jetter from Blanche, His & watched him grab it from the pile of mail, slit a pink end, read eediy, slowly get back to the other Whitely plumblng-aupplies shap and so did the force of em- « Edgewater grew mushroomishly, yvoone of that force—and indeed very one of Edgewater—knew ithe great sprawling-lettered plnk ' began to come less frequeptly . People knew when they went kly to #emi-monthly, to monthly, apart. hruary, Mabel Metz, of the sales 1 Lal Cooley, at a typewriter, had reument. i, Lil! Call mea liar and be done one last month!" int, @ither. Those pink things olf links beourd-of-clirectors' an- ate. Trade your two eyes for amps. She loops her y's and i's ‘ante to splash on an ink shortly after Blanche Perkins Faria that her letters became In spite of her inexperience, a a foreign concert tour had been ‘¢ was after her first important rane, as Agucena, in I] Trova- hey became—not montaly: that time her personal letters dgewater's only means of learn- lanche was doing and where she « had been first of all two or blue—moorked items in the Man- isical Cours, Her parents rogram—La Premiére: Les here appeared, vear by year, tz im the Paris Tempo: in the Cimes; inthe Chicago Record. do to any eyes, those pictures, ietle rruore mature than when it as lovely as ever. Espe ® giectuire with a fur neckpiere. a gent hor the imitution white- «© Christmas, A second mort- wca lise of a first mortgage, had me on the Perkins eottage, and Mra, Perkins said she was sure that Blanche wouldn't buy herself any nica clothes becnuse every cent from vocal lessons was grudged. ao she herself determinedly kept fteen dollars of the mortgage money and bought the white fox for her talented daughter's personal adornment. ere cane tidings of succeas in Paris; of a successful coneert tour in Italy; of a premidre im London; of a lang London engagement; of a New York engagement. ack in her native land Blanche did not come a8 far aa Edgewater, She sent her father and mother ticketa te come ta New York to hear her sing, Mra. Perkins hustled and trembled and murmured the word “Metropolitan” os though it were golden. Afterward Mr. and Mra. Thaneus Per- king returned home as important, excited and garrulous as two parents well could be, Thaneus wore new clothes from the skin out; his overcoat, in which he moved consciously, waa a velvet-collared marvel of real chinchilla eloth, Mra. Perkins, plok- faced, tried not to play too ostentatious with the jet fringe of one-piece biae charmeuse dress as she stopped in a Devon Avenue meat shop te order a porterhouse hae for her and Thaneua’ first meal back cme. Rance Whitely that month was very busy turning double sa ms into four larger rooma with an addition for stack surplus. Besides, Blanche had not written te him for nearly a year, _Thaneus met him on the street and told him friendlily that Blanche sent her regards and would soe him sometime when she had 8 chance to get out home between engage ments. The meseage was acknowledged with quiet thanks, _ Theremaining eee |r obey etn Tidden cottage was sold that year, and Thaneus Perkins bought a , brighter house three blocks east: suitable for a suceessfial daughter's visiting in the future. “Could have moved a year or so back," acknowledged Thaneus to friends, “but we waited till we saw Blanche in peraan, We was afraid she waa ekimpin"’ herself when she began to send usa0 much money," There was no need longer to fear that. Blanche Perkins’ voice was well and widely admitted. Her pictures in sel ad and magazines came in multiple. Chi _ surrounding Edgewater— ted in type black and large, that it had borne her. With a renewal of interest which hod been a littl: pressed aside of late years by different matters, Edgewater regarded Rance Whitely with inquisitive eyes. How was he taking it? And what was he taking? The Interest presently became so insistent that a clerk in the post office had to inform several persons that he was strictly for- bidden by Federal Government to give out information concerning private pink en- velopes, or any other color. Blanche was then using very fine satin twill for her epistles to her parents. Ey that time the esleeroome of the Whitely plumbing-supplies establishment were muunoth: all glittering white with bathtubs de luxe on a raised white dais. De luxe enough to guarantee annual profits of some twenty-three thou ollurs to their owner. Rance Whitely belonged, too, to five clubs: Edgewater Golf, North Shore Country, Business Men's Improve ment, Better Chicago Polithes and Chicage Athletic, His fore aa ho longer a ish ome, The firet time Berry Stay saw him she said to another girl that he looked as if he didnt get enough to eat at his home or club or wherever he lived, His eyes were too serious for a well-fed man. We & modern young person— posen thatis. Pretty enough. A wiap not of red hair, lovely blue eyes, a arse unsedlptural nose and a very red and curred mouth co her, She was five feet four. She weighed one hundred and ten pounds in her bathing suit—and in that one-piece blue silken-knitted garment was. no extraneous material. As has been said, she lived in one of the latest stone houses on the road. Before neoving into that she and her parenta had lived on the West Side, which la farther from Edgewater in a way thon Nebraska is from Lowa. Henry Wilaon Stay was a poor man of poor judgment who belore the war had his cellar overstuffed with oils, paints and other stock of similar nature which cuostom- ors of his small West Side shop above had refused for years to ny When the war got heady, like a mon- atrows keg of home-brew which has fer- mented more thin ite makers ever expected, he realized four hundred per cent on jare of stuff like hydrofluoric acid and up to eight thousand per centon certain colors of painta, Excited out of all judgment, he put his Unixpected profits into war babies —Steel Uncommon, or something which sounded the same—and saw his bank book bloat enormenaly beyond his station in life. But his only child Berry, belng bern in 1904, became affluent before she had become to being poor for life, and she was able to take command of any different station, She belonged, better than did her two flustered parents, to the class best able to uncerstand and participate in these analy are the times of the Young irl. She picked out their new stone house, She learned te run ber frat ear ao well that her father and mother wished that they were poor again and needn't sleop nights tay cae a Spee 100 ne ambulance are ing ome. But they were very prow af her chithea: eaperially her large collec- tion of sport silk sweaters, and they bought her the one or two odd shades which she had overlooked in State Strect shops, Her vivid blue silken or pink or golden- striped shoulders became familiar to all Nerth Shore links, garages, tennis courts, tea rooms and soda fountains. And pres- ently—presently the Stay stone house be- came to Berry the place where she stayed when she waa not anne orexpecting to see Rance Whitely—who did not go at all out of hia daily way to see her. She forgot who firat told her about Blanche; because several other people a told her. She opened her blue eyes wide and distastefully, and did not at all like what she b . She was depressed for several days, Later, having played golf two mornings in one week while Rance, al- though busy with threo men of his own age, Was quite within her horizon, she took sone private Pleasure in looking over views of poima donnasa in a book of phonograph records, She ssid to herself that they were mostly, using the kindest word, a pretty plump lot. Still later, she saw a Sunday supplement and became quite cheerful. She sald to an Lotimitt—herself—that it was extremely unlikely any honest-to-goodness opern singer who er picture in parts and an erming-and-moleskin wrap in all the Sun- day pe would ever return to lock uo an a bean in Edgewater. She repea this—the second time a lithe doubefully, Borry in her beart’s bottom could not help cao, likely that this one quiet-eyed Thain might cause even a prima donna in ermine and moleskin to run untrue to form. She went back to the many plump portraits for comfort, and glaneed down at her own slim limbs with youth's own egotism of satisfaction. She had her mother ask him to dinner as often aa she dared, and she kept her dance card in very plain sight whenever he hip med to be at @ clubhouse evenings, ‘This utter happened often enough. Hance Whitely for several years had not cared to spend his evenings in the lonesome quiet a an culo Foor. sd fie r wt in time he came bo nega erry wit aemall pucker between his alder crib: She was a nice little girl, a pretty girl of course. Wo normal man could setually have disliked her. Her lovely eves and red mouth and clean young skin forbade. He thought of her a good deal as she continued to put her pretty, insouciant self in his was; his thoughts were half amused, half toler- ant. He may have begprattee’ that he had net known someone like her years back— when it woull have heen worth while to him and to her, However, being older than ed he pesied engegenvernta to some of her dinner Vitatlons, and he managed to keep a fritmaiship static, Rerny angrily employed ae word, She hed it from high school and ica. 5 t remained static for four months, alx months, twelve, Past thirty, the years step Wang swiftly, Under twenty, years can crawl like slow and black beetles. Berry Stay with curiously aober blue eves tapped a gold-moaunteld pene] on o@ gift enlender one Christmas and hoped that the next year would mot—would not be so beetlish. An evening in March her foolish young heart beat high, like a moth's wing at a white candle, She was sitting in an Edge- water drug store, consuming a hot peach drink in liew of better employment for a wet cold hour. Because spring waa belated! she atill wore the gray satin-lined squirrel dolman whieh two complacent parents had given her at Christmas. Its great sloek enveloping collar made her face seer rather emall and wistful, in apite of a diamond bar pin visible where her throat was V-exposed. Perk because of her earlier yeurs Berry could at times, in spite of most luxurious attire, seem a forlorn young person. Hance Whitely entered the drug store in search of sunething to break o chilly feeling. He was not ill, but he suspected that injluenga's forepaws were reachi out stealthily to infold him. He a clerk for quinine in fivegrain capsules aa repellent ammunition for an undesired FR AL, Upon Berry's inskant recommendation he tried smilingly the same sirupy hot drink which she had ordered. He rode hore with her, in a mood te admire the deftness with which in her cur ahe teak Edgewabter's March puddles and corners, He was far enough from being a well man to welcome sympathy and even coddling. At the big Stay house, somewhat too big for ita family of three, Berry's mother hal gone to bed and her small thin ray-haired futher was in the library. erry took Rance"into the dining room and made him a toddy and then enseoneed him in the meat comfortable chair in the lving Foc. It happened that three or four hours earlier in the evening Hance had read a amall paragraph on a late triumph of Blanche Perkins, Mew York newspapers had passed on to Chicago sheets the item secured from the Madrid Heralda, In a very short bright blue silk dress Berry at hand was a young and charming and not triumphant person. A your, charming and attentive girl with eyes bles than her short smart dress can be a most desirable companion to a discerning de- or an undiseeming depressed mar. fe called her “Berry” twice and “my dear” once. Amd bhe—he half proposed. Just half, however. Berry waited anx= ously for him to finish a sentence, Poor Berry. It was at that moment that Heory Wilson Stay, ordinarily the mildest and most tactiul and unintrusive of parezts, began te play his phonograph in the adjain- ing room. Since he had come to late middle age without having bed much pleasure, Henry Stay's capacity for wild pleasure was limn- ited. It fell far short of ita opportunity with Henry's acquired dollars. His fuvar- ine and worst dissipation, ote of watch- ing Berry buy silk sweaters, was playing fn ornate phonograph in a brand-new library with ma expensive aalt-toned it He liked old songs beat. Most men of bis age and habits like them. He marveled weekly at the appealing voices ont could buy for a phonograph. He hardly ever remembered the names of the singers, but he had an obliging your woman clerk pick out the best records « his favorite sengs and send them out, charge, monthly, Now he contentedly ton My Ain True Love, sung by—but e didn't know that—Blanche Perkins. With the first sweep of the accompanying strings Berry recognized what was coming. She had played the record herself—onece. Whether or not Hanee recogniaed it so soon connot be known. What records he was in the habit of playing on his own Phonograph in hia own sitting room was not a matter of his daily conversation. eure back, Elanehe'a Ou rner eoLeR with its birdlike note had suggested to hearers Shelley'ssky lark, dew on pink tulips, peri ae and such things. Now, ma- tured, lovely aa song itself, it reminded hearers of the same things. Its notes came clear and thrilling, love yearned in them, passion poignantly fell from ther. My, Ain True Love was followed by In the Gloaming, sung by Clarence White hill; The Kerry Dance, by Mime. Schomuann- Heink; Annie Laurie, by Nellie Melba; (Cattinued ot Poge oF!

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THE SATURDAY {Continued fram Poge 65} Kathleen Mavourneen, by John Moefor- mac: My Old Kentucky 4 boy Alea Gluck, After a silent interval Rance Whitely said he must be on his way home. There was no music in Berry's half inaudible “Good night, Mr. Whitely." When the front door had closed her father came into the room, pecring apolom pescally over his new gold-rimmed glasses, aying ng hair somewhat untidy. “I didn't know you had company, honey. didn't disturb you with my ecu she was that kind of daughter ene sive and indulgent porent’s feelings, Berry lied arta and courteously. “N-no. CY course not.” And that same week Blanche Perkins came hore for a visit, Berry Stay pene the ae cable. Five Chicago nmewspa news pa it. She read it outside a newpape Matic her on the street, Haner itely wws faintly but decisively less intimate an acquaint- anet than he had once been. Hig manner wis Unmistakable, for all tte hint of great kindness to a pretty, foolish girl. It was a late day in March hei Blanche arrived. Edgewater was slushy and cold, with other parta a ean cruarreflig itt pl her bier quarteling wi um Writing "letters to Populi over the creat Ht ‘of its street cara, streets, arc lenpe and aldermanic elec Bat it forgot that the itl held sluah or Vox roe soon a8 it glin Blanche, her lovely amiling face half out a tuxicub window aa she ve eagerly tose her old hborbood, old friends, old nn To le 3 h tay saw that face her own proved ao little andl her hand unsteadily relaxed on ite wheel, ao that if a truck driver hadn't likewise been staring bace Sf Blane bes wit whom he had onee fone blic school—he would ‘ee een thunderatruck over —hdanger of a bad collision. Blanche wore w fox- trimmed wrap, which many persona had SPOT) In wi magazine picture of her. Her low fuchsia velvet toque did mot: si | hide a lovely white foreh r her great glowing black eyes. She sareiad: a shred of a terrier, and a sheaf af fawers which admirers had stent Lo meet her train, Old Scoaanetanien would have known her anywhere was older, plunger, more richly garbed, that was all, “There = Photographers and supucters in. her t in her eara, a certuin poliah satisfaction—net unbecoming changed + bat enghem i she wies Bn ehi . a Ape Tenson Jnr Rance whiney algo on the atreet that | morning, te stop abruptly and be com- to swallow @ littl Pa at sight of The pearl earrings had been well Sunduy- supplemented. The long white line of throat was familiar to him, too, shreve” magazine half tenes; so famillar ‘that hapa his were Justified i in their a at actual ph ‘ht. The eab wit th er and her tuo raptly ado parenta whirled on, He telephoned an hour later, somewhat uncertainly, Her voice came in reply, graciously and Triendlily enough. She him to call— not that first evening, but the next, She was gracious and friendly, face to face. A crowd was present. The Perkins living room was filled. Blanche'’s parents wore that ecatatic look, of eet happiness. which is so seldom seen in this bomdrum d. They listened quiveringly while Blanche told Rance and others present of | her experiences; her endeavor, her disap- pointmenta in general, her swecess, She proved mot to be one of the great ones of earth who wrap themselves: and their accomplishmenta in reserve an hauteur, She talked cordially and freely to all who had known ber formerly. She might have been the litth pink-cheeked, black-haired girl who sang every Sunday | at an Edgewater church, in - EVENING POST She promised now to sing at church one Sunday while she was at home; asking these whom she promised to be gute ara reticent, or the church might be mobs with Chicagoans. Ehe promised, should she lengthen her visit beyond original plan, to sing at a ene eee ah a women's club to which her m After a while her eyes greg rather di- rectly to the corner of the room where Rance Whitely gat. A few minutea later, somehow she made room for him beside herself on the divan, At her beckoning smile he came quickly. Later, other callers, aa if si as a hint, departed and left him in And somehow in “hall an hour she swept away years and her own negligence in letter writi Before the one bi ended Hance tely was farniliar with of Blanche’s life mince she left home. “7 suppose I've got used to success!” she said in an amused interval when her father had gone downstaira to attend te the fur- nace and her mother was in®the kitchen aterniy flying a maid orders for a

a eo Tée Drea WAlgA at the Time Was Her Beot, ad Brows Crepe, Phe Teragd and Preaed aad Jpeaged and Cleaned aad Setrimmed famous daughter's breakfast. “To tell the truth, it's rather a bore at times,"" Then she surveyed Rance with a scrutiny which error det ae to redden a litth even while he "LT must have forgotten how nice you are, Rance! Now that I see you in and realize how interested you are in listening to all that's happened to me He interrupted with some awkwardness: "Tt'd be queer if I were not interested, Geo on— please," She was no niggerd of details. Some of them were known to him from the inex- aged Fink envelopes of long hack, The LE

ce af her chocolate and rolls in those ‘ane New York days; her firet nar- row, uncomfortable hall bedroom: her fre- quent colds; the vocal teacher who tried ta make love to her: the veeal teacher who always was on his guard lest his young women pupils make love to him; her first early promises of real sucess; of accquaint= ano who encouraged and acquaintances June x who discouraged: of two ta-=i-. methods were all wrong wc .:- learned. “T cried ao often ome monk os ruined my threat,” she ade 5 low musics! laugh. Flatce mary: eos ing of her red Lipa; older ope te 2 ogee tially changed since thet owner was When he rose to go an gees: ny made for luncheon the betta, jew roe She wanted to ee toe carp, | _ The next morning Rance Whi: som Berry Stay and did not a p= Sa winked with both bhoe ees a= 1- the waa arrested for mesics - ¢ North ¢ hone. At luncheon in @ well-koce= | taurant Blanche Perkins tom 2 ter cital where she had beft of = before, She todd abe te VOyagC gcross the Alleges Clas, Sh Mae 6 oc org brance. But shemegerers: a and several first-cae peg heand of her voice afd ari y her, These elderly wore | that they were ad teal tr tiken pPusge on the mute . 3 she was worth their pamage =o i i oe eee As they hiaricbeeel, abe wilingly enough, of t had wanted bomarr he Ty ber A fellow boarder om Sint r teacher and a tenor aboci wt time: @ commercial tar ow steward on that int =: +4 Voyage: in Pars, tee ft +. 4 awine dealer, a Pees w= a. Vicomite in Broek, a7yo-~= in Doablin, an imprmafin c, Wm a stout count on Lumet": The Liat of comqueste wi: believmbly long. Ramee U~ o glance, whieh may of roo - been o& jealous glans, = lavely white line of theo black eyes, to the ool el! a just visible under the fete: a toque brim “Some tet," “And none — hegidinen: o

=| =m: iin mga 5 of “em, Her wie TY ring of pq tgif, She dy te the inf time i hu | her to learn her first unexpected -.« new opera. “Tn bess thme than any oth 9 singer ta thes perience, aad Tc a director, she told with a parton: - | Mf boasting. In the restaurant, although th * = fashionable and the tables ooo and Rance escaped recogeiice Whitely did not give thought. He himself was nol oe: stared Bt in a downtowns restaci even in one in Edgea ater He: Fi laughed Little ae they heeft "This has been rather ppbtmes afraid I'd be mobbed as ws + She lunched downtown with her mother and some ck a was not so fortunate when he came in the eves i wor her ermine and-moleskin c7." | OMIT Papel re cognined hrm." May we Per and TE = rters had stir ged. A yousg joining table had rasta for her sutograph Sie “a:°! able to eat enough for a starce Rance Whitely must have c=#- 27 compliment that she saved a sl ning for him alone ane asked ~- = tell anyone elee that she wees ¢ 1 The Perkins living room, ew = hows, waa an inary ecu | Westernroom, But Blanche jo peenane oblitersted ss the leche er successful personality. b-- = and black hair, her expens= (= @ adler were enough to make may} lace and time. ike its predecessor, this evra out yoars and unfolded tvs = biography. Blanche admitted = % aintment. She had not a co. plana voice, And contr. eo ones favored by Providence: = 2] Opera scotms and audiences oo Ba portance to the first kind of vee "T don't admit our compels a dence," amiled Rance. Hestat<d (Continued om Page * the Th on =e : oO eee an @

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‘Contined fram Poge ga) <a find no faultwith ita coloring of — She was pleased, “But I have eT heless."" went on to tell him of the director tien opera howse whe had been the premind her that the contralto ia not a atau os her higher-chorded sister twee ah impossible man. Not at all ibe. Faney—he wanted to aubeti- nigknewn worn for me on one af rings. Of course he had some nierest in her, IF hed a cold an @ [wouldn't be able to get hrouae itact—it waa Rigoletto, But de- aight hoarseness I sang to the last He soid—fnney!—it was outrageous @ audience ought to have their back." She sighed. “In a career ne so many digagreeable Incidents ippase so,” said Rance with ready hy. ang for him after that, aecompany- zlf on the amall new nd plane ‘haneus had rushed to buy BS EAMOT ui arrived to herald her own 6 gave him bits of Carmen, a, SRigeietto, At the last, a low song not from an opera, ‘ten by a porters in Rome. She 1 to give her the advantage of peaple to hear me sing it. I"m t for future repertoire— concerts; er plaintive, I don't cure to give privately for a while, But, for aproperly appreciative. “LT won't fee" cat, glancing thoughtlully over Ider at him before she began to Do you know, I'm just realizing it 1s toe have someone around to can talk unreservedly and con- ¥. The road te success ia rocky, I dare say oven you could mot ad el how rocky." ei “You Ihster with such inter- pathy, Rance.” One white finger thy up and down three running ‘ Her lovely black lashes lif lowered slowly, ““Perhapa—in yeare—I'd forgotten you par- don't know why, But I don't ing ¥ou now—now"—her con- words came in a pretty, lilty tat Tee yeu again, | don't see wld hawe then a even OF all the folks I've met fer ars now"—she spoke thought- Oe ETL the mist—there ia no fd for it, but there is an Italian, ® most interested in hearing tgles, my troubles, my success, ored with her the next day, nened to be funday. She wanted ‘augheut Chicago and note the her years of abetnce, North in Road they took Evanston eding obliquely to Ravenswood hrewugh the rush and glitter of 1 Avenue district, heginning-bo-grow-=preen spring As if Shares simultaneously, : putting forth green daffodi pears, and the Chieugo Sunda put forth dowble ilhastrete: erning Blanche Perkins; her shred of a terrier, her beauty, tnt in Paris with ita high-backed all chairs, her four maids, her er foreign motors, her chiteau nd, ber niles and her gracious ay veranda with its protecting » Pillars Berry Stay was aitting @ daffodil spears, with a heap apers in her youthful lap, when ely's car whirled by. She rec- low fuchsia velvet toque, the profile turned toward Rance, two youthful white foreingers alls mo if to press back the ation which visited those is, and then she passionately «ral Sunday sheets and flung its off the veranda onto a omed gereen lawn that had that sathy raked and trimmed by a ther found the fragments later 4 the man for untidiness. with the proper spirit of mod- dp, the man betook himself Aiiss Stay. When American ‘an, Sparks may fly. Berry dis- bef ore he could retract any THE SATURDAY EVENING POST of his worker's a ae epirit, She told him sharply that well-kept lawne were not a hobhy with her and she would throw any- thing she pleased into any handy yard whenever she chose, She dully reaumed her seat in a oormer By aatone pillar, At that moment Rance ‘hitely was skirting the y adja cences of Maywood, and Blanche Perkina wos amusedly discuming her parents, “T think they're disappointed beraiuse T haven't married a count, [ nearly mar- ried one—but he had two children and he seemed to fancy I” d be as devoted to them aa to my career," | To any man it must have seemed half lnerédible—her return and rendy renewal of an_old relation. Rance Whitely drove | unseeingly through neat Austin, , diverging mechanically to the wordy adjacences Ma ri edate in attentive silence whirling back toward the Loop ping-ponged with its eabbatically quiet se bei and sab- batically crowded great green busses, He more alewly ricaate quiet y- stoned Hyde Park. Blanche was telli him mirthfully of the jealousy of various and numerous women whoee paths in life she had crossed. At times she had been somewhat ham- pered, although she tried not to be an- hoyed, by this recurring jealousy, There had been a Mme. Arconi, in Dresden, — gat ina box whenever Blanche hissed. There had been a little san countess in Italy who tried to bribe a mistro not to engage the American. i pie’ two of the most voiceless women !"" 2 flung out her two black- gloved kaiite in a graceful litde foreign ture—at least it was of a gracefulness reign to the public school which Blanche had attended in Edgewa’ She went on to tell him of several oper- atic feuds In which she head a major rile foreed upon her, “Hut"'—again the small ture—"“‘one has to expect enmities to orm about ome, Such are part of the price which mowst be paid.” “T guys #0," hie agreed. He cre ied her face. No magazine page d flattered it. From any photographer if Sandie only the merest justices. The apring wind whipped a rose color inte ita lovely pallor; the contour was as charming as the beautiful roll of a gray-blue wave far out in the lake. They had heen maked to have Sunda venir. with the Ordwa wage. Minnie Ord= _ f-conscious with three childre her stoutening thirties and a brand- ay taffeta , Was unwitting foil to : B ehe's perfect polse and gracious- nest. Well—perhaps not at all unwitting. Minnie afterwar mused coldly f or Fred's benefit: “That one jade bracelet cost more than my overstuffed davenport. But alot a woman's arms are fit for bracelets when she hes a cneanes of a twoflat build- ing to look after daytimes, and a laundress that skips every ter week where there's three children and four tablecloths a weelk,"" But while Minnie thus was reminding Fred Ordway, as wives take bitter solace in reminding a husband, of all she sacri- fleed by ivan with him nd bearing him children for him to auppert, Rance Whitely | and the wearer of the jade bracelet, having | forgotten entirely the Sunday-night meat cakes on which Minnie had spent an entire Sunday morning, were conversing inti- mately in the Perkins living room. Blanche's parents were not in the room. | — diet not miss them. He was listening y¥ to Blanche, watching the play ink lamplight on her white profile, alt hg that fe lovely black knot of hair was slinilur to the knot worn when she was sixteen years Years change, but not artistry or beauty. An hour alipped Inte twos tro went inte three. Af Rance could repent to himself an intimate conversation which lasted three lamplighted hours. Well, ta be | exact, two hours and fifty-six minutes, Not word for word, perhaps, It would be quite a feat of memory to repeat a con- versation of such length word for word. But in the main be went over it with ae- curacy —ae i aman has gone corefully

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OSP ce. Scoffissuelowels ®. CWE? © CUED 6 CUE. 6 CUE.) © CUED GC | Bev THE SATURDAY EVENING POST {Continued from Poge 7.3) lakwism ee ee a heap of * ‘tention itor the fust assistant deputy su wich I'm," 1 gays, “hire.” Saying thus, I gives him a savigrous look backward over my shoulder and walks away, stepping kind of light on my feet like a cat fixing for to pounce. He ain't saying a word; he's just standing there reserving some mare Of course 1 ain ‘t really aiming to start no race war. Always it has been my constant aim bo keep out of rough jame with one and all; but, even so, I fignares that it’s just as well to get the jump on that there Japanese human siphon and rea him tame and tlocile from ee abla Next thi . Dallas begina feulting the othes he jteccke along with him from home. He saya to me they ap peared all right when he was having ‘em made to order for him by M. Marcus & Son, corer of Third and Kentucky Ave- noe, Which that is our leading merchant tailor; but he can see now that they ain't the ens real New York anap to ‘em. = engulne word is that one of them awell Avenue shops is oper, hima a full new out Wek, 5 mea a nag teat mie from the up: it's a sign to me Pm about to inherit And the next thing is that he invests in cases of fancy drinkings which a white man fetches it up to ws Tea orien OF the sakkcnnas I sens Mr, Dallas counting out the money for to pay him, and it certainly amounts to an im- tsum. I sin’t questioning the wis- dom of this step, meither, sewing that the stock we fetched along with us from the ae is Vanishing very brisk and the new ly cught to last me = Bre for no ing how long if we The trouble with Mr. Dallas, though, is he ain't careful. Searcely a hag pases eet sae of his ree be fade Pping in on him and sop highballa and cocktails and this and that. Tos at there Mr. Taallgure te ices tt cur tacet bap Oe ae fall he oe eps on empty a Lae a hall bottle ane etay there eae iness and the fullness done ean aces. Also, when it comes to ee Ege cat of somebody else's liquor, nor has got merita. And Sia) Me ‘Dallas iver cpany which ha does frequent and often, the wines and such just flows like manna from the rod of Aaron. Still, that ain't pestering me much. When white folks lives high in the front parlor niggers gets fat back in the kitchen. Then on top of all this he imaelf an automobile and hires a white chauffeur for to run her. She's one of these here low- cut, high-powerful cara which when you wants to go somewheres in a hurry you atepa on her, and -r-z! You is done armived! But she's plenty costive to run. Every time she takes a deep breath there's ue r half gallon of cet ne gone. If the miley sy is own, i Daren pets only bought one car; he's bought two But we don't see the aecond one, which is a dark-blwe runabout, only when Misa Bill- Lae comes round, because it seems Mr. Dallas has loaned it out to her for her own use, him paying the bills. Betwixt themeelves they speaks of i a4 a loan, but I thinks to myself that this probably is predestinated to be one of the midst per~ manent loans in the history entire ore, a 4 it goes very day, pretty near it, delivery boys comes knocking at the service door ringing this and that for Mr, Dallas. Lf it ain't half a dozen fresh pairs Of shoes it's a eacktul of these here golf utensils or some new silk pajamas; and if it ain't another motoring coat or an elab- orgus smoking jucket it's a set of silver- brushes and combs and bottles and things for his toilet table with his initials cut on ‘em. It seem like he must stop in somewheres every morning on his ue ene downtown to business and buy axmething. So I judgea the cn must. be coming in mighty brisk at the bunghole, because it certainly is pouring out mighty steady from the spigots. Tt also must be a powerful handy and oN tea busines to be i af fed not only oos it appear to pay eo well but it cally almost rune itself, itt Mr. Pallas ain't starting downtown till the morning is ‘most gone and sometimes he gets back home as early as four o'clock in the evening. Come Sat he don't go near the hea quarters at all. "That astonishes me riny the becouse down home on a Saturda storea all stays open till late at ni to waste none of his money uray = with us Saturday is the bomet 4) ~ week. But seemingly mot se in tha, In fact, oo far aa J ‘deny folks up here haa got a system of their own for dong everything. More siieea'llgn sexes this past month I Base low there West Kentu

We rides Mr. ci vel ee ie and the permanent-wary n lord, along with us. Miss De® cm cx O'Brien i alao headed for the ere | we is, but they comes in the booe roo paveline close behind uw By sw done learned not to expect Mr Got ring a husband with he. fh en she can get ‘em but she aot oe She's been married three time = from what I can hear, be ie hauled off and died on ber anc thea one kind of strayed of asd sve back. I ain't heard * om say whet a practi ain pemrtin B be bearing up ve? = = a times. If she mises oo oo Weil, we loads up the cot ett folks and with vwalise: and pol ec one thing and another and ecu | country. Etut I must aay fore 3 totally unsimilar to any country s© has been used to heretofore To yards which we passes all boots | owners must take ‘ema in. wt tga the mornings brush ‘em of g | rsd Reeve tramps ” what he looks like te me-= '" born salad-dressing mixer.

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ut we don't arrive there until it's ger. on towards four o'clock, by rea0n of ws sing for quite a sojourn at a tea house g the road, Leastwise, they calls it a sauee, hut its principalest funeloms, & al can note, 1s to provide accommmla- far folka to dance and to drink up the siovents which they've fetched glong ‘om in pocket (laske; and you might hat fea if you prefers to, but it's the of tea which now sella by the case, for down, afl ia delivered at your house ark. at's mainly what our outit does dance ancl refresh themgelvea with. the gentlemen brought along on their From where I'm getting in the eur fo | can eee ‘ern weaving in aod out ret the tables whilst a string band jazzing tunes for ‘em to dance by. fr Dallas don't appear to be gettin ng ol itea very well, and the chaul- vho’a setting there with me, he allows iy the besa ain't caught onto these aw dancers yet, eto him, I save, “Huh! Does you anew daneey" a3, “Sure—the niwest one of “em ‘bat's the Reitgenburger grapple. t hit town," I save, “Then it shore piust ‘a’ long time on the road gittin' yere, niggers down mi way,” 1 says, ancin' ‘at air dance fully ten yeahs nly they dome so behind closed L says, “bein’ ‘Teared the police aim disawd'ly conduct an’ step ‘em wes, td you ever dance itt” sto him, “Who, me? Many"s a Jirt mot lately," T aa it Thacke you step?" treligion,"’ T saya, wis also considerable careless done at the Banister place that dearly the folowing morning, In re waa considerable of a pool many ene there that Saturday and Sun- ints and golf and horseback riding ands and pool and going in ewim- i private lake on the premises and a card game which they calls it bridge, and eating and drinking king. Ewerybody is so busy all Ying clothes for the nest event £ moe very much time for the thing at the time being. But when the & comes the ladies strips down ta and all hands just settles in for fuvorite sports, which ls dancing and drinks, both long and short. 1 thiraty gentlemen before in my to the best of my recollection I er encountered no ladies that marched like aa one or two of theses sdoes. I'm thinking in partic- fra. Gaylord, She certainly is Form mh seyore attack of the gern- iments, wt [tl say this much she's doing her level beat ta get We taking the ordained treatment. iturday evening whilst 1 is up- 4dr. Dallas’ room laying out his es, Line guests, about a dozen of in the front yard setting round 3 where I can see ‘em from the wd every time [ passes the win- kes out it seeme like she's being ia litthe bit more, She carries it ful, though; she certainly has personal admirationas for her But next day when she comes she acts dauncy and low- awhile. She's got on a fresh . te be sure, but even so she of wenather-lbeaten arcund the tufte “em when they is cither cold or ela: pormanently young, “ning is ainars the moat telling- 1 ‘erm. Well, several of tho t feeling the best in the world, ‘hat Sunday when they strolls te breakfast ‘long about half . Tt wos after three o'clock dispersed, and some of "em ¥ got over it yet—they ia still wersed looking, if you gets my lay Stinday is just like Satur- wis— only, if anything, more Sunday night the party busta 27S ane we starts back to town, © elects for to ride back in the ith Pvlizs [bill-Lee, so that OM Brien, the one which they short, into the big car with the rowed Starting alf, she qugr= part with Mrs. Gaylord. sh they was partners at the yeeurt of the time and they e HiLYE, Le THE SATURDAY the way each one of "em handled her cards, The more t seandalizes about it the more onreconciled they geta too, Dt seems like each one thinks the other don't aearcely know how to deal, let alone play the hands after she gets ‘em. Batting en listening to ‘em agit i on, I thinks to myself thease here Northern white folks Tut hate te lose even. a little bit of money, I site oe Fats =e couldnt "a" best much neither, eard Sir. Raynor saying befarchaned they Was going to play five cing a point. But to overhear ‘em debat- ing now you'd "a" thought it had heen a rea) Stiff game, like dollar-limit poker say, of setback at six bits a corner, Alter a while Miss Pat she quite fy- ing and drops off to sleep, and Mr. Bellows he likewise drifts off into a deze, and that leaves Mrs. Gaylord and Mr. Raynor talk- | ing together in the back seat kind of confidential, But the hood of the car being over “om it seema like it throws their voices forward, and setting up with the chauffeur I con't keep from eavesdropping on part of what they is confabbing about. Presently I heare in Raynor saying? “Well, you never can guess in advance what » sap will like, can you? You would have thought he'd fall for a kiddo with a —_ ood, strong, up-to-date tomboy line, like little Patuy here. Rut no, not at all! He takes one ook into those languishing eyed of our other friend and goes down and cut for the count. Funny—eh, what? Weill, it only goes to show that while the vam atull is getting a trifle old-fashioned, it still pays dividends—if only you pick the right tustamer.”” hen I heara Mrs. Gaylord saying, “ Her system may bee a bit pone, but you can't aay she doesn't work fast, once she gete under way. Clever, I call it." “Chovor?™ he eays. “You bet! She works fast and she works clean, tidying u ad she goes alone and burying her own dead. T always dic say for her that when it came to bring a gold hunter she had the original forty-ninera looking like inmutes of the Bide-a-Wee Home. Fast? I'll say so!" “She has need to be fast, working oppo sition to you, Herby dear,” says Mrs, Gay- | lord. “Speaking of expert blocdsuckers, | shouldn't exactly call you a vegetarian.” "Hush, honey," heaays. “ Lot's not talk shop ont of business hours. And anyhow," he save, “'T clon"t mind a litthe healthy com- petition on the side. It stimulates trade under the main tent—if done in maodera- tion. “You should know, Herby," she says, eert of laughing; “with your experience you should know if anybody does." Then he laughs too, a kind of a low and meaning chuckle, and they goes to talking about semething else. But I has done heard enough to set mee to studying mighty earnest. Neither one of ‘em ain't specifying whe they means by —_ and “ 3 uit I can cee foe Pope to mysell, I H, “Ub-bub, ub-kub! oe FR Stee folke might think it was my bounden duty bo go straightaway to Mr. Dallas and promulgate to him these here remarks which I hears betwixt them two on that Sunday might coming | back from the country. But [ does not by | ne Mews see ny way clear bo doing so. In the first place, f ain't never been what you | might call a abi promulgator. In the second piace, I figures the time ain't Ap to start in telling what [ belteves and what I suspiciens. f., the third place, I don’t know yet if it ever will be ripe. Some white folks, seeme like, is just sear | beset with a craving to bust inte colored folkses" business and try for te run their prereeenael wllairs for ‘em. Air. Datlas he is net. gaited that way in no icular whatsoever, him arabe been rh and raised South, and naturally knowing better, anyhow: but same I might mention ia, So), and even =6, most white folks don't care deeply fer anybedy at all, much less it's somebody which is colored, te be telling ‘eat onpleasant and onwelcome tidings. And he is white and 7 ta bluck—and there you is! Amoether way I looks at it is this weg There's a whole heap of white folks, mainly Northernera, which thinks that because ws black folks talks loud and laughs aplenty In public that we ain't got no secret feelings of our own: they thinks we is rewiy and willing at all times to just blab all we knows (Continued en Poge #0) can’t got reconciled with one another over EVENING POST The Road to Prosperity Tf Business is on the road to prosperity. It is a long, uphill road, but business has climbed it many times before and will do so again. A period of recovery always means hard work and close economy. Reserves must be reéstablished, dollar by dollar; unemployment abated, man by man;new markets won, customer by cus- tomer, Sound business policy will not seekeasy avenues to success but will organize and develop resources of money,equipmentand selling power for a long, hard pull. Above all, there must be frugality—in individual business and national expendi- tures. ‘The world is poor and self-denial is prerequisite to its recovery. The National Bankof Commercein New York believes progress toward better times depends upon industry which creates more than it consumes, upon business which thrives because it serves. The reéstablish- ment of prosperity demands general accep- tance of the principle that what is best for the country is best for business. National Bank of Commerce in New York Capital and Surplus Fifty Million Dollars

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78 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June it; OC The Stars and Directors of America’s ‘Finest | PARAMOUNT Srars who have armies of admirers! Directors whose reputations are built on scores of suc- cesses | These are the famed bearers of Paramount's great banner, each a great artist, each dedicated to better pictures! Some have played in Paramount Pictures, or directed Paramount Pictures, throughout their brilliant careers. Some have been attracted to Paramount by the lure of a world-wide audience. The greatest screen artists naturally seek the greatest ‘field for their genius—the plots of the most famous authors, the unique equipment of the biggest organization. Like a precious stone their genius requires setting. Paramount sets it. In fifteen thousand theatres daily it shines. It scintillates to the whole civilized world. See it at your own theatre. ’ Tell your theatre manager you want Paramount Pictures. He 1s booking next season's program now. : Cecil B De Mille me cr rn ak 7 ays Ailfiaea ole Mille

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‘ ~~ IN CAS ADA: Toes iv Gaheeteed by Demiliion Bee) Metal Coipecatiog. Lod., Higiillon, Cine. Falriraied de The Pedlar People. Lad. Oebdera, Ont. EVENING POST (Continued from Poge 77! into the first white ear that by. Which I reckon that ia one of the most monstrous mistakes in natural history that over wie. You take a black boy which he is working for a white family. Betn eloge relations thataway with ‘om, ho's hound to know everything they does— what they is thinking about, what-all they hopea and whateall they fears. But does they, for their part, know anything about how lhe acts amongst his own race? I'll say eontrary! They misty be might think they knows; but you take it from J. Poindexter, they positively does not do nothing of the kind, All what they gleana about him—his rel inside emotions, | means—is exactly | what he's willing for ‘em &o glean; that and no more. And usually that ain‘t so moch. es, sir, Ehe pun of colored folks is much more secretiogs than what the run of white folks gives ‘em credit. fer, IT reckon they lina been made so. In times past they has met up with so many white folkw which taken the view that everything black men and black women dene in their lodges or | their churches or amengst their own eolor = was something to joke about and pole fun at. Ll is perfectly ‘willing tea Iavtigrh with the white folks, and I an lanigh to onder for ‘em if the oreagion appears suitable; but I in not filled up with no deep yearning to have “em aor ne at me ond my privabe doings, specially if it's strange white folks. Moreover, apeaking in particular of our wn cee, what night hae | got to be THE COMING EMPIRES OF BUSINESS (Conthived from Page 22) race domination and religious antagoniam which were the chief objects of politics be- fore the war; while international politics— ral diplomacy, colonialism, mariniem and militariem—bhas been killed by the saving magic of defeat. Through defeat Germany became the natural laboratory for the ex- periment of rule by business men, ebected narrowly on a business hosts, for the man- agement of business alone, Parliaments of business are not easy to cregite, Oe rman} ‘9 pame inte existence only after an acute controversy in which democratic dread of clas rule and con- servative dread of socialism played equal though contrary rile. The Reichswirt- echaftsrat plin was vehemently condemned on the ground that it contained the begin- ings of state socialism, and equally vehe J mentdly condemned on ‘the ground that. it meant the return of privilege, and there- with the loss of the political guins of the revolution. Tt was seciilistic, said con- servatives, because it proclaimed the sendid em pare af business, and embedied the Marazinn “materialistic conmeeption of hiss tory,” the doeetring that the elemental struggle for food, housing, clothing amd cormfort has always dominated and ought to daminute the world's development, [t Whe PoeLChioenery, subel those in the Oppo aite camp, becnuse it meant repwiiation of the sacred democratic principle of the exypual aid universal vote. An economical farlioment, with bankers, farmerm, manu= fucturers and traders all orpanieed and marshalled in their separate groupe, would be merely a moeiernization of the medieval eqlatesaH-the-tealm ayetem with lta enol leqes of nehbes, clergy, burghers and pens- ints, each concerned only to vindicate ita intercats or privileres as an clas, To one this of Germans, therefore, a. parliament | of baste wasa reckless parable in radi- calla: to the other class it wee a petorn to the Middle Ages, The foun de raof the Reichewirteachalterat did not take these objections very BEF |= eMule aly. They had aru reenia of their own. Lt was un an omaly and a monstrosity, they declared, that the most essential fact in the life of every citizen—his trade or eer pa thon —sharuba be igme ed in state constptu- lions, while arcictental faets—his place of residence, his nominal membership of a (uP O Pie do higere ligine i—ehouled shape the Whole weber of representation. Politicians might fairly claim to regulate politics: and the religions, in or outside of the political purties; chaht ter regulate nelige aba affairs.

But there wis ne reason why o Baverian botiiise hae waste Catholic should be pe aquired. te ve te solidly with other Catholics question af the fore 1 loan, or why a Hi: LOVE beat ihe wants back: the Jue gy

intimating to Mr. Dalles py pers about the charucheey of do risk whack fa bhangra aig thick with since we erie ies seene? Flight from the bee | be own personal convictees pho ie he's in with. I has made uy ey ma ey gin’t the cues Pa eae is just o aE, bgt imitation of the real pe ead Vs ain't doing things wo much mt they i doing * ‘The way | len c beara the game relation to repeat tony folles which a tin minnow depts, enough Hive bait. You mayte mics fish with it, but you coukde’ fod je at ba for so very ae | ain't Fives’) ut alll, eof. gi wo tee, | haterathy can't Mating 1 raga bo Mir. Doalles without be Gy practically ei bess tee fire 6 ho ae ean [? Bet if hoe fimeds it cet bor eee pte me, that's « ras } another calor, So I patiently waits on lectisg } " take lie coarseness, and act meee about s month and a hal (i Ys Luck she starts in shootieg «b= seatter gun of triable, hath bervh And. thon ft is be turns to soe aia Pgh ipo Thich -[ -will go iste de kd about all that mem the sett tne! my pen in hand. (TO BE Coxe Guelph kings shewid vote oi te other Hannoverian Monefchet question of the eight-hear tay inediiciency and nine-tenthe of i tion of modern desyocwlic oe af the cabinets which they oad ceed from the prevailing coum tlee ond basinesn. [cient specialize thor ate the elements dj Religion and politic wn egg ral in the more edvasces oe today this at aration s hoe ee of entree, itty yeu hen, a Stinnes to the Federal Cal C A t, 1920, “politica wa t tarifls than matric ti | tate the curricula af oi The advantages claimed tion of o parliament dl balan | from this differentiation: Politics and busines: wil a ey checker, baspert & foured. Feonondc contlicts, wha and rightly conflicts of sll-cie decided by the prepandesst all the nation ecomomic wae every great ines interest cd minority ma mgainat the i settlements con to ther wh interest will be evodel: Political imme wil 2 oe tlonal representatives, epee <saroneas g settle thee mele ines OT Corruption will be pholiabet : sen tends —— == mands of imcdust feat ae tt times not less powerfal haeded snployes influence polite dishonestly in favor a par claims. In a parliamest @ capital and later, both summers, woul be « = the or defense al thect “el and suspicion of 1 or ip mlitics with big business © bt ardly arin, On these principles the Fi o2® of Economy was crested. Da avowed|y and exchadvely i! assembly of business; i= in @ comprehen oe | and it has a sharply of work. Ita 32 Te cee dustrial produces, meaan and consunvers; but they oes siona] men, and em po so far as the profesnoe == material interests. Law? represent only Law go far on oe of fees and asiaries; metooale tives Similarly mp = dan's interest in gaia {Continond «4 here

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(foohaced from Page 60) eicor ecentifiec aide of these roles. we BW. Ft. has aa little to cho ms it h he cb interesta of a banker very aerupaiticn pursued i . making living counts #4 an part of the national economic ma- ind as such site and votes, Some a therefore call the R. W. RB. Am Arte, or “Chamber of Work." weaition—and equally its sphere of tes embraces all kinda of work uli. sartbarnientt of business is a sober nonpolitiea) sense, conservative The result is a constitutional —hecotiiae the initiative eume from dutionary » plese Hardly hadl Fibelm fed over the frontier off when every communist extremist ny wae clamoring for adoption of ian syebem of aovieta, Soviets— ermans called Mfile--sprang up Iv and seized locnl power; and id the communists, must em- the coming republican conestitu- theidemann and the moderate then in power rejected sevietism position of the R. W. R. nemieer oof the cabinet,” snid annin February, 1919, "thinks or thought of embodying the soviet the constitution in any ehape." wed definitive; but within «2 Scheidermann Wis compelled bo his megation, The new fact was unist general strike and riote in ich ao terrified the cabinet that a mmuniqueé promised that * *The 8 Councils —soviea—“will in we Fecognized and embediel in jiution.”” Following Scheide- wise, Article 166 of the Weimar L , eeceanes for a cre B orkingmmen's—alsa employers’ fd established at the same time Reichswirtschaftsrat as unifying nt Berlin. “Social and eo a oof prime importance,” con article, “‘aliall hefave subanitesion islature be submitted bey the inet to the Reichawirtschaftsrat lion, The Reichawirtachaftsrat ave power to submit bills of ite mar Conatitution lett the exact 1oof the KR. W. BR. undefined. communists demanded Jocal ind an tep a central chamber— rely labor eompoaition and. so tercige the dictatorship of the on pure Bolshevik lines. The sould ibe deprived of power not t political body it was unsuited ment of business but because urgcecis institution, This com- wis entirely foiled, The H.W. o exisbenoe as an onan of basi- t regard to class, An influence > prowing trusting of industry, r state compulsion. To Wir Llendori, then Assistant Min- astry, the business parliament wif largely as an instrument of ment for business.” The trade al regulation which ‘a ition since the war has made euld be taken from under con= Jans wind intrested to business ep dal grime interests vere ribumn or judgment on the liege ward duties of each sin- AGGWendorf therefore in- ach grest branch of business -parately represented in the nm gFroup of men from its own rclared against any such terrl- ement a4 forma the basia of tions. The banking interest speat, without regard to ite aver all G from Fast festphalia; the iron interest rman interest: the consumers vere one, Each, through its group, could champion its w Parliament of business, and 3 fogrether, representing Ger- .comomia unit, should decide ve done, inciple uw the composition of Flach of its ten groups eon- ied, unchangeable number of 4 thie number ia neither arbi- ‘ulated upon the number of ogrecd im Che inibereat, but is. aetimate come to by the THE SATURDAY R. W. E.'s founders of the interest's na- tional importance, The whole A. W. ER. consista of; ROCF nt aes 1. Agriculture and Forestry 2... 2... iis * Ciardonieg and Fishing . . kn eee ee i a. Industry os pict al 2p) wiceceee tal ae OE 4. Trade, Banking and Insurance eat 44 fi. Communications axl Pablie Usedertakings d4 Be Bla We on qitecreieeccn va ae a A ee | at] 8. Cifficiahdon sed the Profeseone =... Ith 4, Nominated by the Reicherat. .. . . Iz 1h. Nominated by the Gowernment . 2... _l? 126 All these members are elected, except twenty-four whoure nominated from anvong eminent economists and experta, The Reichsrat is a representative assembly of the separate states, roughly corresponding to the American Senate; and ite right to nominate teelve mem is based on the fact that though territory is in cones ignored, certain state areas are associated with particular economic . In ae group, including the two nominated, half of the members represent employers and half the employed. Election is indirect. The corporate interest, not the individual interested citizen, decides the premio . Most members are elected by alre existing bodies —by chambers of Poarieren employers’ unions, the special associations of great industries, and, for employes’ rep- resentatives, iby labor unions. Farmers’ associations, among them the all-powerful Bund der Landwirte, which largel =a Germany before the war, and the Laborers’ Union, choose the sixty-eight members of the agriculture group election syetorm of the induntrtal group of sixty-cight almost entirely ignores the op- position of capital and labor, in that most members are elected by the Central Com- munity of Industrial Employers and Em- ployes, an institution founded in 1918 in the cause of good relations between capital and labor: but seme industrial-group mem-= bers are chosen by the Industry and Trades Congress, and by the Federal Coal and Potash Councils, which are aie jotat capital and-labor bodies, “The consumers’ grou ye ib elected by the Inter-Municipalities Con- gress, by associations of consumers, coop- eratives and housewives, and into it is sandwiched representation for domestic | rahi : hat Bg. a hundred cogptahier neluding the representative organs business in the whole of Germany, take part in the elections; and there is therefore noe occupation or distinct economic interest that is left without a voice. Aimost a Parliament The BR. W. KR. is almost im full sense a parliament. Ita members draw salaries and traveling allowances: they eniey parlia- mentary immunity and cannot be called to account for their speeches; their votes | are free; they cannot be bound by man- dates from the electing tione: t ait fietiarge but by vote of a twethi majority they con sit in secret; they can sear ig papetts to help in their committee ples, Gee singly, but the collective sr dg of group is separately recorded, ao that the decision of every oup sc a particular quanta: ia publicly thot them must be submitted every mew ai CONC TINE business before it is presented to the Reichstag; they must be consulted by ministers before any important atep concerning business is taken; and they can require ministers to give them explana. tions. In one matter only they not constitute a full parliament. Though he nanien initiate, nee wills ened t or rejection a and ape prove of or condemn a minister's acts, they connot absolutely veto a ball and s prevent its submission to the Reichstag, and cannot foree the Heic to sanction one af their own bills. They are a parliament of business, but a parliament te which for the present is conceded only the preroga- tive of advice and pa ae This limitation of R. W. R.’ & POWerS has provided Germany with a critical and controversial question; and if Germany's example is generally followed the same critica] question must everywhere arise. Without a complete constitutional revolu- tion, a political parliament and a business parliament, each equipped with absolute power to ganction and veto, could not exist tide by side, European partianentariam reqiites that cabinets stand or fall with the success or failure of their projects, Had | | EVENING POST Barron's White Dyanshine cleans. It does not cover up the shortcomings of a white shoe. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST a political parliament and a» business par- liament both absolute power in their re- tive domains, the question ta which the executive should be responsible would intely arise. Lf business legislation is more important than political in modern states, the business parliament eculd fairly claim to be maker and unmaker of cabinets; and with that the political parliament's importance would dwindle tonothing. Dem- eeratic sentinent not. tolerate this, if, 28 in Germany, the business parliament was ¢lected on a nondemocratic-interest bets and if the ess parliament was ted by direct, equal and universal votes lai due lgei b ere ge lokay ge Gah parliament, and would cease to be an pert assembly alified for control need with this dilemma Germany decided for a noodemocratic but expert business lament; and as eoun- terbalance deci that the democratic Reichstag should have the ultimate vote. In theory this enatarioel of the Reichs- wirtachalterat's powers is today in force. But the theoretical age a emponag of ulti- mate power by the Reichstag has p the new business re rom becoming a serious rival, ' tag, having , & able to do without reputation. wenong tures eae ‘ pend ing in no power, is obli upon prestige ee eatio a “i :: ed hat ore en for impart a ex- pertness and devotion to the whole nation’s Interests it can influence and even coerce the Reichstag. This reputation has been med: and She nonezpert, nonhuginesa ichst thinks twice before rejecting the RW. B.'s advice. The source of the business parliament’ : Sc Rises mposti Wee is the personal com on. three hundred and twent: " gcc or i fg ck of ny's leaders in practical theoretical economics, Ite moet tmembers are Stinnes: Wal- ter Rathenau—at present, as Foreign Min- er not ricediocmgs part; the Nesepab aid king, expert Vi the head of Hs Elanabetieg: eT; a van Line: Gune the former Finance Minister and bere ‘pargermelater Wer muth; the ex-Ministers Schorlemer and Yon Braun, for Agriculture; the ex-Minister of Industry, W vied, to whom the R. W, F."s existence is largely due: the Labor leaders, Hue, Imbuech and Legion; the socinlint theoreticians, Lederer and Karl Kautsky. With these sit scores of expert financiers, municipal and social workers, tation orator workshop ofgan- izers, and innovators in Spiliad acerre: Moet are men ical achievements: and most had iraltily hee outside of mere politica, for the reszon that politica in European eountries ia an unproductive waste of time, 4 Conclliatory Spirit The Reichswirtachalterat's defect is not too littl: reputation, but too much. For that reason it is the subject of angry and ous criticism, in part from the dwindling ranks of the stalwarte of majority democ- , in part from the extremer socialiste ‘communists. Discontented laborites prociaim that labor has been weakened. is is a par because labor is better represented in the BR. W. RK. ropes mest democratic legisla In a Reichstag elected directly by the whole wlation of men and women, not one member out of five is a manual worker; but half the businesa parliament's mem- Se aid and ee De rasa) workers or o or bs Extremists hoped that this rat ar division would create a violent capital-labor op on. The re- sult was the opposite. Capital and labor both proved unaggresaive and conciliatory. Capital doea not domineer: labor ia not obstructive of ineendi Shae lies in the nature of the R. W. R.'a powers. In a oi gry which haa no final deciding the political system of overw ing majority vob no senae. Exeept through abstention from voting af some members, a eolid ca ital or labor majority could not be attalned; and much a majorit mini ee ee ‘show of on tha i: Tiebers ichstag cou Po ore it. hahaa ec hprihcpy carried ghd nonpolitical prin a bargains: oti ar not & single decison has been 20 by clear-cut vote of capital agalnat seep or the . The employers" representatives’ ranks contain many men of proncuncedly progressive views: Stinnes fans a | himself directs his previest snes on the Rhenish- ‘Westptalias & Lactnesy pany. in collaborate wih . socinligtie: and Labor fan alorind on Stay erntes, very few extremists ood, of mere experts. Some of ture a | are not workmen, ctill lem erie art experta whe by Wirt of eterna sympathies were considered God gs ion labor caises more eflectoyely okeear could champion thee eel _ The group ovien al Prpeestatiog tire this conciliatory mark. The law declares that members precy resent the interests of Gemny gan Bo far ae the eight elected grace particular business interests, thes gig expected to differ on the capital date The agriculture group Tepes ia ths irige interest 18.8 whe Wig: gl, bes ‘ af the domestic appasit ion het wee and hired farm worker, thor furry weed unit. The sae is irl & of trade, of banking, Scooping the Reichstey | That this empbhesm on the & Hich poiiet Pr Chg te eopriol leer ESI, Germany Hesecrered, fo experiment mude simeltenseandy RK. W. HK. The steel, onal ond po tries are all controlled by pt labor eottneils, in whieh ree of employers aed emipieyed a Bide.. ‘These ccurcila tend to debe parese ee industries, and in inurw shor quarrels to he settled by means. When capitals pepe the councils declare that pine raised labor's representatives wm thelr support. Higher prices, mean higher wages. In ao eogk this praiseworthy harmony may to exploitation of the commer fact. the steel council baw be attacked on that score. Ly the E exploitation is prevented by thell sentation af comeumen.- Un consumer has only thirty meth nearly all the producing anc @ Erotipa ane consiimen bt other group; snd the moe thirty-six labor and employe tives regard themselves of om of all. The RR. W. BR. boo thee given enemies cause to pee a! ti Pee In some qumrters hs ie n whlettered Athenian vole ot ps of Artetides merry was tired of hearing the wane called “the Just." [ti thomia distrust the whole parliameni innovation asa blow aimee cieneh Pesent ite reputation fer ae the Reichswirtechat fou I for only a few weeks thix jealey far that members were putes of conspiring to cmt the Be tirely. The Reichstag—istest the majority-democe, ue said the RH. Ww. F's bac) manently kept in the shade Te talked only of the busine and the Heichstag, realizing © that politicians who are iar ae flouted ond superseded, hed game take offense, The necesay ool procedure of a legistature co only advisory power wal Ty this. An advisor legisketee | Menwures. before thew are corte deciding legislature. [mportactat divulgence to pariiament in cher on 16 2 freat news event, are fo dealt with by the re ptenstanes © nes. Before the oo a! the mesure has ‘ exhausted: gna by bhorn of its ae rateorse and revelations, of the public mine. In the ngaieed ol reseritativrs al conference: “TH before the BR, W. Aa of happenings and vohed a thine dig ae followed with dts matter later come Dem tistermentis al Chel ignored. ‘The Bete it back in ome oh a 20 mot been : Parlisoment sp 5 supplant popular governme Tt Wat attacked o@ mo ters replied that the & 6.

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sive confidences firat; but the pdemoctats were NOt fi itiated, ‘en the RR. W. BL. has continued to its power; and she ct, pronbony lip guspect dnd resent, prop inte the hands of a nondemocrat aresentation will ultimately pass emé governmental power. a thes is real danger, tian ig the Obrigkeifsatact, the | rity, the country to which liberty eunts for leas than and pras- usd if a chea-elected business par- ie bbe celyaeninortte ana Wi | dermacratic system Ca more ti vag equal, Prominent moderate- ceenee sae BO a es ~ ament's power ng wonk= veould be stren ad Threo \eaders, Kalisici, ax Cohen and ribel, lately for the ahah eth enh R. of pyri vole. 8 sphere BELon, Id be mere] a ig This wou ovennele shelving af the Reichs- pra important ahr are nd the unim- e regulated by the state diets and ities, finances, tariffs, trests, rations, only the business parlia- ii have a say; and a majority- ) except for local and petty affairs, 1 altogether to an end, re that the business-parliament Hl spread. Austria has a plan In the old Austria-Hungary before the war the complete of political and economic law- wi sue ted as the only remedy impotence of the Vienna “The Austrian plan waa ly pon an unrealized initiative of Bismarck actually created a iliament for Prussia, and sub- cam pl@te scheme for a similar wrliament for Germany. ed conservative, Aa wmer, he held that tics and uld nat taal Mt tl a in har- 3 Th 8 that notion of a chamber oe ie Sn all eee majorit reecracy ori wnehing his program of protec- legislation and financial reform, 1878 that either the Reichstag placed by a legislature elected on oncupa tions or that it ahould be by establishment al ide it. of ature, He begun wit Prussia, ished m= Prussian Volkewirt- ranilg aatney b ty five members only industry, trade and agri- is Chamber actually sat. Tt was das the business tution ay by inclusion of members f= jan states, Bigmarek's in ee He brong H tis pian ive iative tt He insisted upon rm ing en; and as workingmen to sit without pay te es die tastariaieit of all mem taeda ce Toney bo the ind the cag, only own destruction, atone The haumbeer scheme never got fur= ‘ussian chamber opposed His planes; and the first parliament ied a sudden death,

THE SATURDAY In Russia, Bismorck's scheme waa for- mally taken up by the great gh ato Witte in 1902, Witte's proposed Soviet Pro- muishlennosti, or Council of sodhairy, was designed to forestall the demand for a Duma, which—only three yoars before he was compelled te convoke a Duma—WNich- olas II declared he would never Fant. To-day, Bolshevik Russia actually business parliament, marred, like all Rus- sian communist initiatives, by class deapert- ism, corruption and Incapacity. The Vuishi Soviet Narodnave Khogaistva, or Supreme Council of National Economy—barbar- ously mutilated to “Sovnarkho:"'—was the first constitutional ereation of Lenine and Trotsky in December, 1917. Of ite forty-seven members, ten are chosen by the sham political parlament known as All-Russian Central Executive Committes, Seven evik ministries, and the remainder by the local economical councils and labor finial With an entirely com- munist composition and with the complete exclusion not only of capital and expert know but alsa of genuine dah, the Sovnarkhoz is only a puroly of th of Bismarck and Witte, But even Bolsheviam learns; and it lntely showed its learning by publishing a plan to admit the hated capital, while still ex- cluding the even more ated genuine labor element. Bolshevism is not a model to any civilized state: butit ia no chance thet the ee most populous countries of Europe— Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary— Teapectively attempted, conal and actually realized the separation in some measure of business from politics, and the transfer of the immediate man ent of yearn alfairs to persons directly elected or , Wenern Surspe has so far done pithy : n Englan é party of Gui Socialists, Scie take citizen cannot represented, an that only hia interests can, stand for the creation of a parliament af ocenipationa. France has too many other cupationa to harbor such sc ef France is the original source and origin of the business-purliament idea, The French Revolution’s leaders stood emphatically for a parliament of work. o Mirabeau and the Abbé Sieyés this presented itself aga modernized estates gya- tom, Mirabeau, by declaring that repre- sentative power should be based on the importance of intereata;, and not on num- bers, foreshadowed the system today in schenves | force in Germany. The dreamer Saint- | Simon planned an economic parliament; Proudhon in 148 made the same demand; and fifty years later the Fimickriin, Charles Benoit, published a complete scheme for a central legislature composed of eight oecu- pation groups. us in the business-parliament move- ment meet such heterogeneous elements as French idealiam, Bismarckian conserva- tism, czarist o nism, Bolshevist anar- chy and m German constructive statesmanship. Nationa with nothing in fer pst ps parties which by tradition are irreconcilably antagonia- ue, ave agreed in principle i the same remedy for the apecliis ailments of parlin- mentary democracy. Unless this coinci- ce is an aecident, the separation of business from polities is likely to be the mext great task of constitutional reformers all over the world. EVENING POST

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86 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Jane ity THE GENERAL CORD TIRE Winners in Kiddies’ Coloring Contest Marne Age Address Ist Prize $150.00 Albert Mullinix 11 West Allis, Wis. 2nd Prize 75.00 Harold Ridley 11 Jersey City, N. J. 3rd Prize 25.00 Geo. F. Heimberger 9 Bayonne, N. J. Winners of $5.00 Prizes Name age Address Mase Age Address Irene Ahrens [lL San Francisco, Cal, Marjorie Keniston 21 Sheridan, Wyo. Robert Belling i) «Oak Park, IL Kathryn Leonhardt {1 Latrobe, Pa, Henry Bernaten Il Washington, D.C. Dorothy Lucker lt Benten Harbor, Mich, Manning Bouknight 10) Abbeville, 5. C. Mary MeGavin 10 San Antonia, Texas. Geraldine Cadaw 10) Albany, N.Y’, WW McKeown LL Chicagn, Lil. Francell Chenett Il San Diego, Cal, Robert Paul MacNeil 110 Laurium, Mich, Rarbara Chichering 11 San Diego, Call. H. McReynolds Li Ventura, Cal. fora BE. Crawford «tl Koekeme, Ind. Jimmie Newmarch 11 Fresno, Cal. ‘eter De Young 10 Kalamazoo, Misch. Ceole C. Parenteau 10 New York, NL ¥. Richard Dilts 11) Yakima, Wash. Gladys Phillips 11 Sheridan, Ane Borathy D. Dorsey 20 Indianapolis, Ind. Earle Port ii] : Bipianicter a Tite z Geage Drame 1h Denver, Colo. Lois Power ll Nacoploches, Texas, Catherine Elcorn B& Hat Springs, Ark. anise WV. Rate Ill Canton, Ghia Virgil Exner 11 Buchanan, Stich, ussell Remig I] Sn, Manchester, Conn. Ellana Foster 10) Astoria, Ore, Elizabeth Reynolds £0 Fe. Smith, Ark, Shirley Gibba 9 Mars Hill, N.C. Marion Rosa It Dion, Bh. ¥. Marie Gilson 11) Latrobe, Pa, Philip Santry IL Swampscott, Mass. Allen Haren 11) Lae reid, Pa. Wanita Schaecder mM MM arisen, Wis, Tone Haunson 11) Atlanta, Ga, William Shepherd of La Grange, Ga, Walter Hodge 9 Worcester, Masa, Forrest Seaythe 11) Portland, Ore. Torloel Helmes lt Eau Claire, Wee. Stanley BR. Snider ll New Orleans, La. Oliwer Hooge Vi Auflalo, NO. Kenneth C, Stevener 11 Fulten, NL ¥. John Toches 10) Fort Wane, Ind, Helen White tl Greenville, Texas, Edith Johnstone If Chicage, Til. Lowell Wieting li Flushing, M. ¥. David Kenisten & Sheridan: Wye. Lillian Walliams 11) Fe. Worth, Texas.

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THE SATURDAY ‘What is nt T waptig? Best answer . $500 Second Prize. . . Bet Third Prise . . . 31@ Fourth Poze . . . §50 fiewt Best Five , . $15 ext Hest Five . . Psewt Meet Five . . ext Fifty feachi—one suit of Sealpox fd Beinangine is 70 fined answer to guess! Your iden of what this woman is saying may be the prize winner! What is she saying to the clerk that is making him turn to Sealpax? Study the picture—study the forts about Seal. pox below. Then, write your answer in not more than twenty words and seni it to the Prize Department, The Sealpax Company, Baltimore, Md, Competent neutral judipes will award prizes. Contest closes July 29th, 1927. Cintheevent of theafor any prime And winners will be announced in The fered. i oe amoant of winch Saturday Evening Post, October 28th, 1922, 9 Pt “ill be awarded to each Sealpax Athletic Underwear ‘HERE are men all through the country who do not have to read about Sealpax to know what the customer in the contest picture is saying about it. They wearit! They Anow that wonderful free-and-casy Sealpax comfort—that light- and-breezy Sealpax coolness! Why don't you slip into Sealpax and treat yourself to a new summer comfort? The snug athletic cut—the cool fabric— webbed shoulders and wide roomy legs—are.a revelation in underwear comfort. You begin to appreciate Stalpax when you buy it—berause it comes to you packed ina sealed sanitary envelope, crisp and clean as driven. snow. Wornen and children may also enjoy the cool comfort of Scalpax. ‘Lady Stalpoex" for worsen oa Tis t aa Comfortable as Breiher's” athletic under- wear — just 14 datity as awe could wishittobe. “Little Brother” and * Little Sister" Saale tel bone * " Dhads Comfort to Dad's Rods cool, con fortable athletic undervear for children, reinforced ta weer tone and well, Any aiaee for all the Farrnirds aald eerie Sey nf Bed your oxtest answer to PRIZE DEPARTMENT THE SEALPAXN COMPANY BALTIMOGRE, MD. | | they were EVENING POST Juss ing THE EAGLE AANND THE WREN (Cottifoed fram Page F) provided lively experiences, That be ever came out of it with a whole skin was litte short.of a miracle, for he knocked about Central Europe fram the beginning ta the end, He had an extraordinary faculty for remembering names and faces and the os- sociation of place and event in which he eam inte eontict with thelr owners. He contrive to make a mental dossier of every one ie met. “Their looks and actions, fame or ill fame, record past and present—he had it all complete and isolated in his brain, and ready for production at any moment. ¥ EORGE WEDDERTON'S official ap- ance upon the scene togk place nearly a month after hiv actual appearance. Ditring. the precedin er dave he had Gespied & a post at a in Number Tn this caine he went by ite name John Slave, although he ha privately confessed to on agitated political circle which gathered nightly in one of the lowest pubs in the town that his real name waa Johann 2lavenski and that he was a Pole, He took ne part in the rebellious con- versations of his fellows, but it had been remarked by several keen observers that Johann's hands twisted and his eyes blazed at the mere mention of the word “soviet.” For the rest, he behaved with his custom= ary calm, nodding gravely at the world's injustice to the worker, taking his glass th the reat, and earning the respect that tsvally falls to silent men. Thos he came to be spoken of asa dark bores that might | be worth watching, and once or twice over- tures were made inviting him to attend | workmen's erinee privately held in secret corners of the tew | But always he "ahaa his head or an- swered “I ama quiet man, brother. I do not wish to exeite mysell[— yet." There were men of every nationality and persuasion at Diplock’ ‘sj It could not very well have beon with a pay roll of fifty thousand, In the course of his aojoura there Geo Wedderton recognized m faces which he had come across in other assorintions, and he added a variety of new ones to his collection. Prominent among thage to whom he me special attention was a weedy litthe lian named Paolo Mossi, Mossi was an exquisite craftsman, & i work in one of the er machine shops. His ability with a lathe was astounding and ao highly valued that little or nothing was said when he absented himself from work sometimes for sag end, His face was remarkable for on of thick, hushy eyebrows which, unlike the usual kind, turned downward and almost en- he wore a tirely screened his eyes, thin, stragely beard. An inner sense assured George that Po and this man had met on some previ occasion, but it took him three days to Abie re- construct the incident. The man's face de feated him; it waa the little steal upon | which he sat that brought the affair to mind, It was a kind of milking stool, fash- joned of com wool, but legs were astonishingly we turned and as perfect. in outline as an Etrusean vase. | “Got itt sald Wedderten, “Got you! The dossier of Paolo Mossi was before his eyes, The Trentino in 1917, a village called Fugi—a little salone shad awed by a cyprus, At the door, seated upon a ateel with benu- tifully turned I . amall, eeunpp rian man wi hy eyebrows ing fiercely rath The name of the man waa Bagso, He 0 three children—twe girls and a bo uinted. His wife was si Sa ¥. ae and talked too much. He ape pe with a silver cap. He never ee place was used as a billet fer | officers. The generalissimo was mundered in his bed movement orders affecting | the entire front were stolen, Subsequently discov in the possession of | the § sigham Hazes, but not until their cen- tents had been messaged to the enemy. | Hasse waa present when the papers were taken from the lining of his wife's skirt, and | to prove the depth of hia patriotiam he | shot her vip th the heart before the search incidentally George him- self, But canabot Suspicion was mot en- tirely arrested by fa extraordin dis- | Sia, af justice. herefore Basen blithely , carrying with him an exact hee t of the strength and re | of every regiment in the district. In short, a lively ad bye q Presence al the f= gf 7 Mathews & Branding Tw oat Pe i sa acta ad qonfidescn George reatos tal ate ‘a cepling his own imprwmices " firmative @videnc, and ber vy q where confirmation wil rai 4 Very unobtrushyrty be vin: * Tan's private room, and ie faction that he poses 4 - (eer Identity bs ng th. George departed, emilizg ts The means by which be » dence of the amiable Moe to bimeelf. [1 i probable ka ity to keep counsel wos the thereafter he and | tus many even ra ors i ae ‘ Goorge staring at the onl Pression appropriate to ths outraged and exiled Pole, x ing him through the tangle ; turned. eselrows 2 a oot ute They conversed bot Beh tol aesaiona, the few words they ws spelen if & fitogs — 7 wie. evident that they w ings of each other with that prod known only to perscma eto b upon thelr heads, The war was fought for nothing] Mossi one night, and George sodiel} “The peome’s war —~ be bee checked himself. "Tit will come,” sad Moe, “eh weapon is ready," George Wedderton tock a doe lange. "Ta it cit bbe ‘hig forged ever mw] he tilted fis bend toward tbe (el neys of Diplock'’s, beectieg i flames inte the night. Mosal laid o finger to be bo el were-ailent for a long whik inal asked, “Flow did yon ett! “Wariousiy, “Behind the guns?” “Behind the guna,” (Ceorpe opie a slenificant inflection “Him!” Another silence | have met befare, bart Ls ‘i George, although a har! min, in the excibenest @ ™ the Trentino, would eocabe tes heavily mustached [tolue sal Which character he was sppeat_ hare pemunetennt,” | “T should (renee. "Perhaps pot in the feck The gallery af photegraph—ieeeet we should do well to oor OE fellow workers, Alt one time! lal study that gallery very domiy, T= not know, af coors.” Not for nothing had Geen 3 knocked sbout Central Eoroee war. He fixed the [tolian boxy ; it ia finished mow.” "Finished tT “Broken wp.” "“T do not understand.’ George leaned forward ae | bate ae ‘Hauptmann Strasee, Wane The little [talian did sot aya his eyes narrowed elmast | -_ "Late," said George, 2 = Mosal came with imeiee® where they ebool far 2 fom the flames licking apward aS "So you knew the weapar = forged t i aa knew." Z “For whom do you know herae "For myself.” | “But you sea pes Fraternity?” George grunted. 1 “ Aleo.”” sail he, “pe money te jingle ia mr pa Tt was a sure thre pathetic pressure of upon his arm. : Ah! we must tok eg a Patriots, bit maney zt George Wedderion pt ™ = pockets and rolled dows le® — ¥r ( N THE fourth of Dem # Saville finally compete and blithely sioner the or Btcond safe, The drew cI Contineed o@ Par ad

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Has special galvanized tank. snenl? ected, extra efficient Fairbanks. a vital feature, Waser for the st sole faraily and for every meed at a few conte & eee Capaciry, 200 gallons per hour Quality of pant pearance by the name, Fairhanks-Alorse Ea subetitut ee If you de oor know the Socal Fairbanks: Mare Tepresentative, write for his narne, See this plant. Literature sent free UPON request. Write OS at once. FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO. Manufacturers THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Chicago The Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Co, Ltd., Monereal ‘Cantinued fram Poge #8) } Types were securely fastened in the first, his period of work was over, hia collar bone restored to excellence, and in a week's time he and Leslie would be courting by the Mediterranean shores. His conduct during the ing months had been pear iE ia e's zokoig ee sr dg! spirits were world was un- folding olny Pg like a blossoming rose Very cordially he slapped the detective on the back and ala his hat upon his head. With overcoat slung acrea his shoulder, d ite a fall of snow, he turned toward Mr. plock's office, singing as h> went. Throwing open the door he amiled ex- pansively, " Finis,” said he. and iat pipes. repented the wend, gravely A on SUPP ose you take a spell of holiday “A few ion with ad Charlie Pearson knocking down pheasants, then presto for the Hiviera.” “You're an extraordinary youn Aren't you going to wait for the AF F. Board? The Air Minister is to be present, and there'll be some pretty speeches about you.” “Tam not,” replied Martyn devoutly. te drawing speaks for itself. I bate retty speeches, and I'd rather stick an orange on Margate Pier than be slapped the back by the entire cabinet.” “T repeat," said Mr, Diplock, “you are a very queer young man, but I suppose you are the best judge of your own tastes." “You can bet your life I am." "My life," said Mr. Diplack, “is a amall stake, but if you'll accept the advice of an older man you will take care of your own "Lord love you! Who'd burt me? I'm fed to the tecth at being wet-nuresed iby a whole regiment af * tera, and the thought of eseaping from ‘em makes me want to sing. "In that omy Saville," Mr. Diplock amiled, “let me lore you not te de it here. Get away ne ek yourself," sf "T will so, and bless your heart!" said a He was struck of a heap to find George Wedderton amoking a pipe at his rooma we Where in blazes did " i] are pri cg aaa “ My dear lad,” said George, "Lve blooming in this he row for the pe got weeks, only you didn't notice me." way of business?" Team Your business," “Not another at om!" Martyn implored. nat ms Suppose you represent official Eng- Something like it. You're through, *in chan the Lord, I'm through!" “Good! Ishan't bother you much. Just rT couple af questions. Here's my author- ity’. Te threw over a paper bearing half a locks, signatures, among tr. Dip fara B “ Fire away. BI “Drawings in big safe?" “Um! pes." "Pretty alike, ain’ "t they?” “To af amateur.” “Any distinguishing feature?" code reeled off aome technical differ- a “Hight. WOU are “Ven” in Nantes Two gafeT" ad oo wiPhat was quick,” said BE H “Tha Was quick,” sai artyn. “How did amu sip Es a otk Fa Toe. o miysbery. Well, that's all [ want, old f joe: except a whisky-nnd-soda, If you like I'll sit on the bed and watch you pack.” Armed with a drink he disposed himself luxuriously, while Martyn heaved clothes inte n capmciods Gladstone “Pleased with yourself?" he asked, “Yes, rather! Charlie Pearson says the birds are plentiful and I've st ber t ear Their come-up i simply beautiful, Try And | he Pushed over a new gun case for his ‘Extra eck A Ginn “ Extraort nary ¢ ap," * eal berly. “You think no more of cheowing tid up this new machine than a baby of being sick. Ewer golng to grow up?" “Hope net, Here, give ua a hand with this genr, I've a train to eateh,” As they bumped hy Snare downstairs Martyn asked, old’ Butterwick know you're ba ‘hist en una if Pre "Ti he con't abesdy bi bee Martyn Jerianed. "He will be pleased” anid be oF as far as the gg 2 Sal ing "Blo, thal. cle " hes in public gt oe met fost shew "Then bow di "Oh, | Live oa otherwiee engaged,” wath Fr HARLIE PEARSON'S thooting was o real wiener, being ral stout, lacks, true sportemes al ut plenrvert of girls po emeelient bs = — they hoseitated neither ts thre ’ through mire and bramble = gaye tn until umpbees o'dock foregniee paragmge & oi-. tranecript from a better Mar : a Leslie, the delicacy of style bey lp sively his own, Fearing greatly that be for kh is remarkable engineering ee Mares lost ne hy in “ies of os a pe nee of t neath this bospltabie neal fee wpe acclaimed bey emenlbent a finest dancer that ever words of praise beetle the tedium of mtting aa, bs capacity bis Appar merisy! = ; touched with disposition, waa viele ble maidens, sense of them with half hoops of dismende ea 7" fingera of their lft an, y= misgivings 23 to the discmitin a | choice in the mth ae mt two ladies who had alrendy ioe © a dbepe gad! gerne then tees aed peel) the composition of their imutest: i ishes hit o emai A The truth was this, yearrinas for the tis sweetheart: and whe tar fe be she ~ ' him 28 a presey for L fe es ree disposition and mele od sere al ratio to the likeness they bers So love, Once or twice, i i tres indiscretion entered ints hs - for example, when be brah! woo the cheek of little Mus Phyis. fx litthe Miss Phyllis was sad aboot aml or other, ond Martyn, who om 0 man, knew no other meas o melancholy. Purthermare, ty et playing Avalon at the time, which me one knows, is euflicient coco be eee. ¢ Hightecus wal at him for his beberle Mat ton, but here again be wae blame. A maerned womaal happy with her husband bi into her eyes an expremas et & misunderstandi hook, la chusrwarl _ trouble, thank but a Considering the ks aren to pei eident an behaved Gncomm the reatler mist af discretion waa o ee rf and pepper a px rerte i mt ra my Sem . rodld here .- if he pact" t. Whatever shades of recto’ have been born In the bee 9 * plan were speedily dissipated itmance at the next ay: = judgment and t& were pet tag at the end of the albert auf larger than an chen He el speciale iin dificult ebote, 74 most forlorn hopes with doce larity. Nor was any man ies oe he, and oven th cy @ “*= which hes been the ender o = gentle instinets, belt him mooey * the direction of the chance bier trigger. several of his bis attrib prowess of his neighbor thorteig¢hted man wal ancdunted to a cartel And this his want of tyn's cheery “Nora / fair. Moy shot waa l poached," Bo convincingly were the that before the end dt = (Continegd Parr uf we —_

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92 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June (7 Gleaming Cleanliness The Fuller Bow! Brosh makes light of No store sells Fuller Brookes, an otherwise disagreeable task. Perfectly penenced demonstrators cal ae shaped, with bristles. that will not mat explaining their many uses a8 or separate and cannot scratch or mar + new methods of household ¢ finest porcelain or enamel. It may be Fuller Man is a aidan f washed, scalded, shaken Ole, Strong lis- mitted oe] the hest homes. He infectants will nor loosen the bristhes. make housekeeping casmr by = short-cuts and easier ways mie T he F aller Beach ‘Comey Brushes, each performing efficiently some siete. him by the Faite personal or household service. We are ; i — There are forty-four other kinds of Fuller Hariford, Connecticut the largest huyers of rush material in the May we send a Fuller Ma oe world, therefore ger better quality at lower and also send you a coppal” 2 prices, So do the users of Fuller Brushes. Brush Book"? Write a Fuller Brush Company, Limited Hamilton, Conoda Branch Of6c00 in ower 3 Li Sule cedepiene diets ued FULLER BRUS,

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iontinaed from Page 90) . all, shortsighted gentleman had al- weuaded himeell that he was a bit rod with the gun. : anal! graces readily win popularity coe the first twenty-four hours Vartyn had the joy of finding him- gtel as an eminent inventor and io the ranks of the all-round goo It & probable the few daya at Peargon's prior to his departure for id have passed peaceably enough an wiforeseen incklent, On ht af his a burglar entered aom where Charlie argon lay bly at rest with hie wife, and stole nkets from the dressing table, operty lost was not of such value ee much concern. On the other uclie Pearson was angry that auch mld have happened, my oath no one could get in from ai he. “There's a sheer drop y feet from our window, and on face no ladder could stand up." lroari in question was situated in ing af the house, which had been he top of a little cliff. in by the door,” someone sug- tlocked and the key was on the ible, The mists isa bit nervous Barb had a gl ee 4 iy is three hur Vera ol ake a devil of a lot of copying. iow “ud the chop get into the asa lively discussion about it. the stuff he pinched,” said Mar- gine he was only a second mater, lis man wouldn't be content le baw) like that." me, said Charlie Pearson, “I alf a8 a a Bleeper, amd D'd bet ane could move abowt in my we waking: moe," rable part of the morning was the work of detection, in which, many fancled themselves, but | aki] waa betrayed, dl, shortsighted man, who hal am pa ata Sherlock Holmes ited himself with a tape measure et lena, and armed with these hinelf at the foot of the cliff, haustive microscopic examina= lesser ingectivora which inhabit ae el from farther research titin fe hand severcly on de that lay concealed beneath o fallen leaves. ss Phyllis had attached herself Saville, and walked at his side gor ening circles rowned the haved decided early in their ae that he was a hero; it was only refare, to look to a hero in mo AT Rency. . Saville, de tell me how you it,” she besought, iow, kid; through the win- emule he?” “a ft," sald Martyn mysteri= reyes opened wide. think you could get in through Mr. SavilleT" , cant the cheery answer, lis clasped her ha : ft be just too wonderful if ain Khe was asleep—for fun, id Bf artyn. ch a topping leg pull for Uncle Charles,” Martyn aemiled. you thinking about?" unno. Think it ‘ud be worth Phyllis was wise enough to rvation. A mere glance at her ma enough to show that the viready at work. Martyn‘s doen the bedroom window and » bee menuring the distance d the opposite wing, a matter n feet, perhaps, with the deep rene intervening, ~ uncle aleep with the window Rliss Phyllis nelded, her in- heart thumping against her et artyn. “Hal” eally going ta de iL?" nme.” THE SATURDAY ae Phyllis sucked in her breath ecetati- cally. think you're simply gorgemia!" she And Martyn laughed. Tt waa silly of no one eae to have thaaght of it. They had concentrated on how the burglar could have ascended from the ground. It did not occur to them that he might have walked across on a plank from the flat roof of the appaeite wing. [t was in such matters Martyn scored, realizing the obvious at a glance. There would be no trouble in getting on the roof from the front of the house, Any man of average lity eould shin up the ivy in a doecen different places, Ne did not even bother about a plank, being morally certain he would find one waiting for him hidden behind the erenelations somewhere near the apot at which the burglar must have erossed But what Ma did not expect to find when, at four o'clock the next morning he an along the leads, was the burglar himself concealed behind a chimney stack ina very advanced state of nerves, Walk= Ing across the ipl overnight had so re= duced his stock of courage that he had simply stave where he was, trusting that the natural fortitude needed for raking the deerent would return to him before staryu- thon claimed another victim. The fruits of hia raid cotter, pathetically, were laid upon a loose bri tm a aide, ane ves artyn came upon him he appeared to ie weighing up the relative virtues of material possession and physical hazard, He showed no fight and almost seemed glad of com- pany. Sirice Charlie Peoraon had not informed the police of the affair and Martyn himself was reluctant to spoil a pleasant hotida bay acts of righteous judgment, he lowered the himoraus marauder over the parapet to where Misa Phyllis waited beneath. “Give this old asa a plus of beer and somé brew and cheese,” anid he, “Then turn him loose, I'm just going to put those trinkets back on your aunt's i ing table. Tremendous lark, what?" Leaving Misa Phyllis with her eves full of kisses, Martyn, who had removed his shoes that his presence might mot be be- trayed, shot the plank across the se t- ing If and achieved a nimble Blandin act Which delivered him safely on the bedroom floor, And Charlie Pearson, who had Jain awake puzzling how the burglary could have been committed, pencured a neat automatic from beneath hia pillow, took a careful sight at the shadowy form ard fired, Martyn Saville said “Hell! very dis- tinctly and sat down heavily on the floor, for the bullet bad cut a nice clean groove in the fleshy part of his upper arm. Somewhere below, Misa Phyllisecrenmed, lights were turned on, guesta and servants thronged the corridors, und simultaneously a | moter car drew up on the gravel outelde the house, delive a gentleman of small stature, who eried out that his name was Hutterwick and that he de- manded to ser Mr, Martyn Saville on a matter of tremendous national importance. wir etre ot alter Martyn Saville’a de- ' paurture for he eae George ee erton, appearing in his own personality of the engaging middle-aged Englishman, called at the office of Mr. Butterwick. To the man on duty he gave no name, @ cir- cumstance in itself aufficient to insure a speedy interview, After a minute the man returned and invited him to enter. Air. Butterwick was standing with his back to the grate, t hifully peeling the quarter of o walnut, George came in he flashed a single pane at him and im- mediately lowered his eyes to their usual level. ey were strangers to each other and it wae characteristic that neither of them was anxious to speak first, However, when it came to a competition in silene George was certain to be the winner, a fact Butterwick realized by instinet. “Yes, vos," he said, “Wait a minute; I'm trying to place you.” And once aguin the twinkling litthe eyes flashed over George's fexturea. “Ah, to be sure! You work on a hond drill in Number 16 Work- shop. Arrived early last month. I hadn't Laced you satisfactorily, Let's see then, Va, yes; a member of the official service, 1 suppose," ; “Well done, Mr. Eutterwick,” said George. “My real name is Wedderton— George Wedderton. You penetrated my EVENING POST disguise in record time, Curious, for I Hever saw you in the shop." "Tam not very often asen,"” cume the reply, with a towch of self-entisfeetion. "Still, we have met before.” "T think not." "T'll refresh your memory, Kimberley, LE82, Usel to occupy a kind of sentry box near the entrance. I. D. B., waan"tit? Be fore that vou were sal ed as handwrit- ing expert for Floyd's Honk at Manchester, Lowt your wife in "88, no children. Hobby, bowls—won an open event at Blackpool, ae Tse you're still fond of walnuta.” Mr. looked at his visitor with open admiration. "Vou mace soma: inquiries!" ‘Of my memory.” “H'm—yes—very amart, very. Well, what ia it?” “Need IT say?" “This Saville business?” "There's golig to be troawbbe,"* "On the contrary, [ have the case in hand.” “We have the cose in hand,” George amended, Mr. Butterwick clicked his tongue on- tagonistically, “T have bean making some inquiries, Georg proceeded, We have been making some inquiries" — from Butterwick, “Which point to the fact that the new paar inter h to be stolen at any moment.” “Tt yon't be stolen.” “The man to be feared is a ius." “Whatever else Karl yon Klune may be he ia vertaindy not a penis, “Karl von—— My dear Butterwick, you're on the wrong scent.” “lr. Wedderton!" “You're making the ald mistake of con- eentrating on the agents of Central Europe. Germany is neither ready nor willing to Undertake offensive warfare." “T do not care for polities,” “The Germans are farsighted people. Our new enemy is shortsighted,” “May I el eat that I contre] a force of three hundred and seventy-nine skilled and trusted detectives?" “Rly dear sir, it is utterly impossible in this corrupt universe to trust three hundred and seventy-nine persons, Hy the way, that fellow who admitted me—who was he?" “THis name is John Brevies." “On the contrary his name is Ohlsson. He was employed during the war circulat- ing antl-British propaganda throughout Beurvdinavia,” Mr, Butterwick cracked a nut flercely, “This is mere ——" "Fact," George interrupted: “and I am leo acquainted with at least three of your Butterwick raised his head ond | permanent still who attend communist | gatherings in the town." "Possibly. But in my interests,” "T venture to cowl it." Mir. Butterwick seribhbled » few names on a serap of pauper, then took from a drawer the nominal roll of hia stall, "Which men?” said he. George ticked off the ones he referred to with his forefinger, Whereupon Butter- wick jerhed the scrap of paper toward him, The names he hind written were identien] with the ones at which George had pointed, “This may convince you that I know what I am about," be said, smiling none bios insterllaat “T have never doubted it," said George, “hut it is impossible for one man to curry all the correct information in his own head.” “Tam surprised you should think so.” The tone was distinctly hostile, “We will net quarrel,” gaid G ] have given this matter a great denl of thought and I am morally certain that Ba or another that drawing will either be traced or stolen," “As long a8 it remains in my care I have no such misgiving,” said Butterwick. “Tt remains for ua therefore to outwit these folk rather than blockade the port of their ambition, In a word, it would be better to allow them to imagine they have siceeeied, Do you follow my reasoning? “T do not,” said Mr. Butterwick, “and I cannot disguise the fact that I consider your presence in this affair is peeing tiresome, ly are defined, @ pase for this weapon are to be protected. am going to protect them in my own way." 4 George Wedderton shrugged his ahoul- ers. “My orders also are defined," he re- plied, “and are issued by the government This palck driven eight months by Skhurte Trossfer Company, Hamilton, Okie Stall ft tise 42 x 9 inch truck tube patched with Any big blowout or small puncture in a passenger car, truck, motorcycle or bicycle tube can be patched in the same way, without vulcanizing, with- out use of gasoline or any tools. The Las-Stik material consists of a layer of white (pure) Para rubber that has been carefully cured so that it is elastic and stretches with the tube. This cured layer is faced with an uncured sticky layer that will keep fresh for three years because protected with air-tight, glazed linen (Holland) of extra quality. Las-Stik adheres instantly, becomes vulcanized by tire pressure and can- not then be pulled off without tearing the tube itself. Trade-mark stamped on every inch of this guaranteed patch. Tf your dealer does not have Las-Stik, send 30 cents or $1.00 direct. $1.50 for ample sheet for large truck tube blowouts. DEALERS: Write on your jetterhead for sample can and send your joblece's mame. Put the below pictured display on your counter and tie up with, and cash in on, this wilvertising. JOBBERS: Las-Stik being pure rubber docs not detertorate in three years, Conee- quently makes good for consumer, dealer and Vu. Our soles policy protects yeu, Write, Las-Stik Patch Mfg. Co., Hamilton, Ohio Compiele auifils, S0 cents ond 31,00 sizes Look for this display on your dealer's counter ——S>l*Eb]====an>EES

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Never Cirle These red or green fadeless, spark-proof, slate surfaced shingles are on sale at Lumber and Building Supply dealers al- most everywhere. If your deal- er can't supply you write us. SATURDAY ASFALTSLATE SHINGLES ‘CAe PHILIP CAREY COMPANY Department — vy [Mole faisbacs @ Cincinnati oO

EVENING POST of this country, which takes proeedence over private enterprise, Lf you prefer to work alone I have nothing to pet except that I must ask you for an authonty which will insure my ireetiom from obstruction by any of your ataif,"" Mr. Butterwick took a small silver badge from his pocket anid threw it on the table, “T regret,” said he, “that I am in no pestion ta refuse you. Take it. Between the two of us I have little doubt we shall have a fine muddle. Good night.” “Good nate Mr. Butterwick. [ under- stand eclings and and sympathize with ‘em, we shan"t meet for some time, for th there's a devil of a lot te do.” At the door he turned and tock an en- from his pocket. m leaving you this,” said he; “it contains some interesting finger prints. Keep “em ao : eon may find they come night in useful. He left the little man pacing up and down his office, chin on breast. The amile that usually played round the corners of: hia mouth had departed, That night George Wedderton, the Ital- ian, Moss, and two other men conve together in low tones until the dawn, rir T TEN o'clock the following morni e Wedderton presented hime office, Mr. Buttervick's silver badge Hest ik itted him and also served to dismiss the man who was on guard within. Since the dawn he had grown a handsome beard and had also increased eansid- erably in the matter of girth, He wore a fine coat with a Persian-lamb collar ane had the general seeming of the director of a prosperous business, He carried a stout cine and were gloves, which he did mot remove, His first care was to lock the deor andl lower the window blind. This done he turned his attention to the ernaller aafe, which still opened to the word “Finis.” Taking owt the keys he unlocked the lorger anil al BF roducing the two drawings laid them y side upon the table. At the firet rae there was littl enough to distin- gusts one as the other, and his brow corded as he puzzled over them. ae had explained minutely eno pi aee differences lay, but George, alt one very falr mechanic, waa aie Pulte it ta for himeelf. He shook li Leae coed 4+, hatin icking up one of the drawings re- it, Scrawled in pencil across a corner in: Martyn's handwriting were the words Type A. He picked up the second and in the same place was written Type B, George smiled, : “silly wes," * aniel he. “Why didn't he r BO, inst of making me sweat like thia?"" Taking a piece of India rubber from ao pen tray he carefully erased letter A on the first drawing and substituted B, and having done so replaced it in the safe. The second drawing—the real pe Fi, the machine destined to revolutionize the world—he put in an envelope, then looking sg ray loka crossed to a bookcase and slipped it behind. “That's that," he murmured. “Now we'll just close the safes, and there we ane,” But before leaving he did one other rather curious and apparently meaningless thing. Projecting from the wall near the mantelpiece waa an old gaa jet, Kis BATiCe out of use, having been superseded by elec tric ae He unscrewed the burner, dropped it in his pocket and turned on the tap, The supply bad been cut off yore before and there was no hiss of hen he unlocked the doar and p Hut into the thin December sunlight, the three detectives giving him morning aa he ¢ ty yards away a laborer was mak- ing a clearing in a big heap of serap iron and packing cases. Standing beside him was a oman in the official uniform of the local gas light and coke company. In his hand was a chart cross-patched with dotted and ruled lines in various colors, “Just abut bere,” the man remarked aa George came by, Wherent the laborer fell te with pick and shovel and began ta dig a hole, The heavy beard he was wearing con- veniently hid the smile shat pared yatta George's mouth as he mar past the industrious duet. An hour later, in the character of John Slave, he was working the hand drill in Number 16 Workshop. Jone rig When the sites sopsded jx =~... and the Italian, Mossi sa: st site - on some balks of timber jx construction yard. mie. % ow almost deserted at this soc of ., "So you succeeded? [ pane: - ig this morning.’ ae tealsae anodet. “Tt was a8 | eeperted The -")-. old gas mals were at the aes, 2 house. [ have a friend thee a. - easy. The workman carried th A & bag with his took, Ard you" George humped kis shackle tioning names. The | the tap turned on" “Geel, Then jt retest; sg af the tea at the door.” “Which i arranged, ja" “At two AML all shold bere: by bt fails then— whi!" And be tase | hand stiggestively macros bia t>..: George shook his head. “We must avoid that,” sagt & “Tt ia againat my pingpes to. = ‘Ten minutes past ten, the “Tonight.” He hesitate) a= -. “ And the payment lor ths’ a: "Depends wpa sere” “The risk is great ether wy.’ t 4 overniment and all oe pore rq tion, To satisfy aoa q is ace i / caused to be rounded up a ra icin characters, whom be ¢ wader eseqrt to various remot 72" British Isles with politeadvice:- +! back in a hurry. All this was very bad wet=< 4 knew it. At three o'clock in the aft rs 5 sonally visited Martyn Sa fi satisfy hirnself that all we c * man on duty within anncyec + ae a constant repetitie: af = " verything's 0, K., che.” In his mood of irntaties ¢ : term O. K. tm converter : im inence, ‘Nothing unusal bape manided. a poching, chief. Evers You came on duty of — = one AM., chief, Ngtt=="* “No one been bere™ = = it “Qmily the entleman ye I examined ps ae ‘“Be damned!” explode! * wick. “Why tot my 4.1. - wi Who was this gentleman" : The man diwcribed Geri * minutely, as it were reletest | ACInES#. (Continaed oo Pert ™ ae af

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 85

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St CThe knock that spells R-U-I-N —ioOr at “ruin” best, costly repairs—the Bovce Moto-Metea will have warned you of an overheated motor. The bnght red column of fluid will jump to the danger mark fully ten minutes before the damage is done —signalling to stop and investigate. ONG before you hear the knock that spells That is why more than 3,000,000 car owners consider the Bovcer MotoMerer the moet necessary instrument on the car. Tt not only saves millions of dollars in repair bills each year, but reduces motor depreciation ta a minimum—lowers the cost of maintenance. Your car deserves one toedey—to-morrow may be too Mate. BOYCE MOTO METE! “Your Car Deserves One” The inatrament shown cn the lefe in the Saandard Model, Recommaceded faa wee op all heh grace cues. of dealer carries the Te METER in stock, Trade with the dealer who offers service. Look for the BorceE MoTo-METER Service Sign. Your Buray Boyce or can quickly obtain one for you. Seven Models $2.50 to $15, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Continued from Page #4) “Wore a beand—what sort of beard?" “Gray, ehbef."* ; "Yos, yes, yes. But was it real?” man hesits “Tt looked real, chief." “Tut, God blesa me! I didn't aak if it looked real—but if it was real!” "Seemed ao, chief." “What was the number of his badge?" "Q. atroke, three nine elght.”" Age!" gold Mr, Hutterwick, "Tt wag a alse beard and it deceived you. When on earth will you fellows learn to look for joins instead of effecta—when on earth will you look beneath the surface instead of on the surface? If you can't snvell apirit em in the daylight, what can you smellT what did this precious mountebank dot” “He was in office about eight min- utes, chief." "Alone?" “Alone, chief." "Then understand this: If he or any more like him come messing around t quarters I am to be se, Ha before they're admitted—even if it’s Mr. Diplock him- self, "Very good, chief." Mr. Butterwick flashed up and down the little office, his eyes everywhere. At the writing table he stooped and picked up a piece of India rubber. "Who's boon using thisT™ "Not I, chief." cic and I sill a tauppose you meticed it “"Pratd [ didn't," “When the relief comes you may report for a change of duty.” The detective looked very glum and chastened. Piri — oo Min Tauisecwi turned, and oie more the smile was playing at the corners of hia mouth, “T'm in a bad mood, Parsons,” he sald, “A very bad mood, Upset, Iam, You're not a bad fellow. ‘Yes, yes, yes. Don't On ‘he step outside he halted, cast his oyes Tound the landscape and pointed with a bony finger. “Who's been messing about with that (: unk heap?" he deman “That gerap a been turned over," e were two men from the gas works here this morning,” replied one of the two entries, at the quickness of his chief's eeption. , “Haw o you know where they came FORM “TL asked "em what they were up to, and aw their authority.” And what were they up to? “ racing & len, chief. i “Ui, VES, VES, VES, He walked to the spot.and stood a mo ment examining the litter of boxes and rusty iran oddmenta which had recently been disturbed. An indescribable sense of warning whispered in his ear that the key to a possible mystery lay hidden beneath his feet—that it would be wise to procure workmen mind exans ie the serap heap very thorougt ly. But all day long these whis- pers hod been disturbing him, amd Mfr, Butterwick wos not a man who allowed himself te be ruled by inatinetive Wirhins, To yield to such would be aw betrayal of his aon ideal—the ident of eold, relentless rea- son which wies the laclestar of his being, With avshrog of the showiders he marched away inte the humid mist which was set= thing like a eoverdet pan the land, EF “Towanta tonic,” said he Ad: bevads being ¢ HE of season he re pPaited to a tittle ekittle alley some small dlintz ince AWAY, where WIth no other sackety than hi fowl if devoted the rest of the Any pm n part ad Lhe nig het rele ritlessly knoac k= ing ¢ amit Lninepins 7s though they were the hitterest nition of Man. x ERE are a few notes made by George L Wedderton upon the three detectives ) who composed the night guard at Martyn Suville's oilice, between the hours of terelye mickmight ievd ain’ ALM: THowas TAUIMIIDEE: 42, of & Beal Billd- MFA, NFR, no children, Teetotnler, Ex Tndian police, served as inatructos af physical eal dusiig the war, Powerful, reliable, ini ihe, FRekive Inside {he offiee, | tues: 3 af 22 Beal Buildings, rit oat oooinipmomy. Mlocberabe L pink beer hefoes coming ony se 2 ide done of Fiving Sed Marine -Strert Lote arsreant in Rival I bls nue VE rom nun cat VE, Jame 1,2 Brio to present emplopmest ay “Private [nvewtigations Lid * ofboe. ALBERT FLAVER: 74, of] Wiens 7 Unmarried, meeberute drinker, Feo: os - Soriety, OV TOE ous to be horre fees =. af try. Newer refuses the = aa | bright eyes, “Trustwortky in i ret wom Suspicions ane active braised i duty. Served with the Heavy i-2- “a mobilized inte present expleyee: "i ] i | i 7 | outside office, This was the infermatiog i P| George in the hands of Moet as done so he left the matie df ip - disposal exclusively to the Biel ':, genius, with the sole Proviss fe: methods should be sclented Tt was Mossi who worked agi tes sel of the campaign with his oote,- and ingenuity. "The difficulty is to ett hee men dmultanecusly .. mk i be by no ins inn poomerats ly io earrore precisely ten minutes alter teem = gure they are all unconseioad. The: v- get to werk.” The disposal of Tewdtde wh posted insile the office, was obec | vided for. Tt was the two shen wv: quired akiliful handling—szed pee E he communicative Ames bed + flaint to register a guint the of served him by the Tandl ord ee Seud on this particular sight, Tr! striped mug from which be wewn = hung on wi rill just imide the bert 4. 4 wae known as "Air, Amen mea ing the daytime the door steed. ope, fo One Was BSc of the bars had presented eer during ib noon and volunteered to chi we tainly no one saw him dren e irr 7 inte the blue china mug, the whee ‘s sented hime! oe a willing ean alt . crystal was (lavorless bet pote: if eluant readily ermigh is beet, t=: & i matter of twe hours before tn ia in the human system. Mo are done ao, however, than its eet wl mediante, consciousness being wipe a vanishing with the rapecity of a eoin. Mir, Ames collapeed in ks try box aa the clocks were erat t Nor was the case of Albert Fa the less porlous. To him the 4-0 been atiministered otherwise. in toe fi a hypodermic injection, [ea lees.s ut Borat {evar a Dh ie ned opt ma ct Plewsantly engaged in slatiee 3 - rosy cheek of an unknown Gores « hours earlier had fallen a ret © charths. She had beetoweld ber 9 his with o pretty end modest gree 86a CONNOSCUr Was quick tose enjoyment bad proved somo be that he barely noticed the mera x gt her waist that scored bis boot not often sa pretiy 2 birt cette B net, and Albert Flaver wie tribute to the gies for ihe Gee stowed upon him, Wherefore was the door of villo's office protected by twoseapay while within the third fought it a Very mysterious fashion indeel Puala Micexnd did not opens rt gas cylinder until he bed sem, 8 crack in the packing com tat him, the sudden ee Bt system. Here was a pee & which George wos wously better to have = ocr oe you fram within than tele without, and ft seemed | pose that the firet thou i oxperiencing the nemation would be to get inte the Nor wae the a Thomas Taudridge ons aig two sales: when oe a asmarting of the eyes. thing TTL) horemre sound aa it passed the poisoned thie gir, | A horrible dizines: oo = tective as he sprang to Le at ta his companions og » ne taking ino great draft tat to paralyne is voice sad aia it Predigious effort of we ee in sthigpling meros the a a te = back the bolts - He flung open the door, cool night air ena for a moment on his bela and pitehed head! ' : It was George Wed _ : mechanic's aban a k= leaped out of the siedeae to he fell, and ot he ee

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ined immediately by the Italian, Lally one & black bag. i handkerchief over his mouth he o the affice, threw up the window pe this bretee it will be clear In one wat the minute putting Ames and wesitting positions in their sentry woiridge they Picked up and car- was coon as the alr was breathable. ‘ail Mossi, lowering the blind ig the door, “you say you can aife without knowing die camer You may have five minutes ta fyou do net succeed] —— the sentence unfinished, but tid alde a variety of oddly designed jo it," sald George. “But don"t alled Jimmy Valentine had given ea. The hero of the piece was. every sensitiveness of his touch the eorbination of a safe with- dye of the key word. It would jen difficult for George to ex- ‘actorily to his companion how me inte on of the key wee he tributed ta him- nen bent Th h before the safe was excellent idoushy convincing, He ummed lunceasingly, and at the end of half minutes said ““Al!" and the door, As a fact he might , himself the trouble of these iistrionics, for mever once had looked at him, being too busily ting Up @ camera and preparing ful of magnesium, e the keys," said George. ed interferin cha sda ron 2 contenta grain nan seieed Span “the he drawing y the light and t bh grunts of sat ful, wonderful!" ah he. “Set upon the glass of that framed in George took from his mouth owing gum, & rolling it up all pieces attached one to eac e back of the drawing. This wed the corer upon the aur- Hases, said he, t litte time in soe le George appointed hinesell ihlight opparutus, carelessly y small quantity of stata “upon the floor. At a of pressed the trigger and there inding flash of radiance and a smoke, a, a ae Lake MeDencid—Clacler National Park THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Good,” said oasi, rest to you, When you have done come ta te appointed place. You have a rag and the aleohol?" George nodded, "Clean the door of the safe and the aur- face of this table; also wipe off that chair back and the traces on the picture glass. ‘There must be nofinger prints. You under- stand?” “TL understand very well,” said George. "They should net. wake for another aaa af - hour. Supping his camera and other apparatus into the black bag, the little Italian passed out and vanished into the night, But George did not carry out the orders he had received; indeed, he neglected them disgracefully. ‘In removing the drawing from the picture glass he carelessly loft one of the pills of chewing gum sticking to the furface, and evidences of the others were caay to ‘detect, Curiously enough the adhe- sive left. no marks on the back of the draw- ing itself, a circumstance which he noted with aatiefaetion. Then seating himself at the table he rap- idly ¢rosed the letter B which he had pen- ciled in earlier in the and replaced it with the letter A. Thia done he crowed to the bookcase and from behind tt rescued the drawing he had hidden nel. conveyed both it and its fellow to the larger safe, replacing them in the exact position ori nally occupied. He closed the door with hia elbow, lo it with a rubb loved hand and put the keys in the ae safe, which ae astened with the approprivte word " Finis." But this was not the end of his labora, Armed with a pocket torch he made a care ful examination of the chair back ond the surface of the table, and had litth difficulty in finding a few ff finger prints, But these he made no effort to remove, and in- stead collected some fine dust from above the door and puffed it lightly over the in- criminating impressions, a performance which greatly increased their tangible evi- denee. “A very satlfactory evening,” he re marked to himeell, and posed out of the office, pausing 4 space ta examine the twe guards, who were beginning to move un- eaaily in their sleep. Somewhere in the distance he caught the sound of approaching footsteps, It waa the workshop's patrol on thelr nightly round, He listened for a second to mesure himectf of their direction, then pulling his cap over hia eyes he turned abruptly and broke into Py me tsi keeping well in ~ irr ancl ayotlin fh Apaced, Wil KE the arc sta edarda that muavde a mock ot night. (To BE CONTINUED) "T shall leave the | APOLLO ADDRESS: LK Westinghouse Battery Service Siia- theta wand frais bu fulhll any panel abo ms Tawa ‘a ESTES (HI! ak ATTEN TiN a eu- Teriat eervice for all ules od barteri. Sy It's a trial box of the famous Apollo Chocolates—a quarter pound of choice pieces, selected at random from 193 varieties, to prove to you how delicious Apallo (Chocolates are. Every picce is different—rich, heavy chocolate coatings; centers of the choicest nuts, fruits, honey and cream—dainty, tempting and delicious. Write for this trial package today. [twill provearevelationin candycxcellence. 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Then the bucket shop would deduct both buying and selling commissions and if arou bought a atock at 20 the ticket would read 204;. You thus had only 44 of a polot's run for your money. _ “But the Cosmopolitan was the finest in New England. Ut had thousands of patrons and I really think I was the only man they were afraid of. Neither the Keiiing Fremiure nor the threepatnt margin they made me put ap reduced my ding much. 1 kept on buying and baer” ga much aa they'd let me." “How big Aline did they let you carry?" “Ever?” be asked. ia Vou! “Oh, five thousand shares," said Living- nara haehet ah h i a bucket shop, on a threepoint margin, which was supposed to be unneces- sarily big?’ He nodded and went on: “Well, on the day the thing happened that I arm going to tell you, | was short thirty-five hundred shares of Sugar. I had seven big pink tickets for five hundred shares each. The Cosmopolitan used big slips with a blank space on them where they eould write down additional margin. } Of cours, the bucket shops newer ask for more margin. The thinner the shoestring the better for them, for their profit lies in your being wiped. In the amaller shopa lf wanted to margin your trade still rther they'd make out & new ticket, so | they could charge you the buying commis- sion and only give you @ Tun ‘jy oof a pint on each polnt's decline, for they femur the sclling commission alse,” # Tieklirh Situation ‘Wall, this day [ remember I had up over $10,000 in margins; not so bad for a kid who looked several ytars younger than "How old were you then?" " About twenty-one." "And you hod made over ten thousand dollars by then?’ I asked, “Oh, | was only twenty when I first accumulated ten thousand dollara in cash. And you ought to have heard my mother! You'd have theught that ten thousand dollara in ensh was more than anybody earried around except old John D., and she sel to tell me to be satisfled and go into seve lar business. T[ had a hard time convincing her that [ was not gam- bling, but making money by figuring. But all ahe could see was that ten thousand dollars was a lot of money, and all I could SM: WHS MOTE Margin. “T had put eut my $500 ahares of Sugar at 10613. There was another fellow in the room, Henry Williams, who was short 2500 shares. I used to sit by the ticker and coll out the quotations for the board boy, The peice behaved aa [ thought it agubd, It promptly went dawn a omuple | of points and patised a litth: to get its breath before taking another dip. The neril market was pretty soft and every- chine looked prominin. hen all of a sud- den I didn't like the way Sugar was doing its hesituting. I began to feel uncom: fortable. I thought I ought to get out of the market... Then it sold at 1053—that was low for the day—but instend of feelin more confident I felt mare wneertain, i knew something wad wrong somewhere, hut T couldn't spot it exactly. But if some thing was coming and [ didn't know where from, [ couldn't be on my guard against it. That being the case I'd better be out of the market. “You koow, I don't db &-p T don't like to. Dnever dei fo o,, IT had to know why I shag = = things. But this time [ tag - Peason to give te myaelf asc re 1 vy Uncomfortable that | exce-: - I called to 2 fellow | crew. Die 5 i and said to him: ‘Dave, pa *.. = ace here, To want you to ds o- or me. Wait a little before e _ the next price of Sugar. Cel sae 4 i tis he ibang and [ ¢ 1 gave fi my p i the ber = could call out the prices for the be took my seven Sugar tickets ot @j pocket and walked over tu the sore where the clerk waa whe marin: “te ty when you clowed your trade, = | reudly know why T should we acd market, ao [just stocel there, led against the counter, my ticket a 80 that the clerk ceomalein't sew the acon | the clicking al instrument and | saw Tom clerk, turn bis head quickhy om Then [ felt that something comm, hatching, and 1 decided not to wall longer, Just then Dave Gree y ticker began: ‘Su-—‘* and sccl flash IT slapped my ticket in front of the clerk ou Sugar!" before: Dave had the price. So, of course, the } close my Sugar at the last ~ Dave called turned out to =

How They Worked !r “According ta my dope Sop al have broken 108 by noe. Tx «= wan't hitting might. I bad the ‘eo there was a trap in the neghbore all events, the telegraph ineromei now going Like tral aed 1 pociceet thal Burnham, the clerk, had eit or & unmarked where [ laid then mi listening to the clicking as ¢ b= == ne for something. £0 [ vk = "Hey, Tom, what in hel ae po for? Mark the price on thee toe Get a gait on!" “Everybody in the rosm heard al began to look toward us and ai oo the trouble, for fou sft, whe “oy politan had newer laid dow-, 4 tellin and # run on a bucket start like a min on a bank. Lf «>a ts suspicious the others fu @ om looked sulky but coo marked my tickets ‘Clee & shoved the sewen of them over tot He sure had a sour face. “Say, the distance from T-= the cashier’s cage wasn't ore -c But | hadnt got to the eestet money when Dave Wyre ty ellod excitedly: ‘(osk! fem ut it waa too late: so | jaz 2<3 called over to “Tom, ‘It didet 67 time, did it, old boy?"™ Livingston paused no look 0 - saw him—in the bucket shor 7 before, a sandy =haired kid = eyes, laughing wat the dace" eteers, There was nothing = L~ | voiee to show that he ever ‘uo eyed indigestion oF reac i the Cosmopolitan, . The ge ame he head fi aot 18 pay 2. th a aquare deal and ea © alike, being conditions am #2": reckon. He went on: "Of course, it was a pata * Williama ancl [Oo together werr « thousand shares of Sager + — shop had my margin and H- there may have been a bt o shorts in the offier: ghey eit thousand shares in all. Sopp= = $20,000 in Sugar map enough to pay ther te = market on the New York 3 and wipe us owt, [n the od a a bucket shop found iteell sel many bulls om a certain stock ¢ THOR Practice to pet some oc! down the price of that ston 2 wipe out all the costemen elit. This seldom coat the be" than a couple of points oc 0 shares, and they made tham=5 (Contingard of Pag - ii 7 * |

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ifandiaoed from Page 58! it was Whol the Cosmopolitan did ne and Henry Willlama and the jgar charts, ‘Their brokers in New in Up the price to LO, OF course ght beck, but Henry and a lot of yere Wi oak, henever there wexplained sharp drop which was by instant recavery, the nows- a those days used to call it a hop drive. the funniest thing,” continued an, “was that not later than ten the Coamopolitan people tried to es me a New York operator did of over seventy thousand dollars. 1, who waa quite a market factor fand a member of the New York whange, made a great name for aa bear during the Bryan panie le was forever running up against change rules that kept him from out some of his plans at the ex- vs fellow members, One day he at there would be no complaints vr the exchange or the police sif he took from the bucket shopa do some of their ill-gotten ins. itance | speak of he sent thirty. lo act a8 customers, went iain office and to the bigger Ona certaln day at a fized hour iall bought a much of a certain the managers would Jet them. instructions to sneak out at o wit. Of course what he did waa te bull tipa on that stock among nnd then be went in to the floor wk Exchange and bid up the wd by the room traders, who ‘Was a sport. Heing careful t the right stock for that work, no trouble in putting up the tor four points. His agents at shops cashed in as prearranged, ¥ told me the originator cleaned ’ thousand dollars net, and his le their expenses and their pay He played that game several ver the country, pesmting the iet shopa of New York, Boston, ‘a, Chicago, Cincinnati and St. 1 of his favorite stocks waa nion, because it was so eosy to ninective stock like that a few rdown. His agents bought it figure, sold at two points profit, and took three polnta core. , 1 reed the ether y that that oor and obscure. Lf he bad dived rout have got at leat a column page of every New York paper. 2 got twe Lines." ¢ Weeks in New Fork thwmenm the diseovery that the in Stock Brokerage Company o beat me by foul means if th licap of a three-point margin -and-a-half premium didn't do 's that they didn't want my thow, I soon made up my mind ¥ York, where [ could trade in some member of the New York nee. I didn't want any Boston -¢ the quotations had to be tele- ranted to be chest bo the original me to New York ——" were you?” I interrupted, west twenty-one.” didn't | it?™ 2 mot. : ch of a roll did you bring with twenty-five hundred dol- tel - had made a lot more. You wand dollars when you were OUT margin on that Sugar - ten thousand." uways win,” said Livingston. Was it your system sometimes etimes lost? ? mt it. Bly plan of trading poligh and won much oftener If I bad stuck to it I'd have rhaps as often aa seven out of nu fact, I always made mon eure I was right before t beat me was not having 1 to etick to my own game— yw the market only when I waa precedents favored my play. spr cee ah eeu sane | that is precisely what beats im Wall Street who are very se in the main sucker class. lain fool, who does the wron mes everywhere, but there is THE SATURDAY the Wall Street. fool, who thinks he must trade all the time, No man can alwnys have adequate rensons for buying or selling stocks daily—or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play. “T proved it. Whenever I read the tape by the light of experience | made money, but when I made a plain sucker play I had to lowe, I waa no exception, waa 17" - He asked it almost indignantly, “Mo,"' I gratefully assured him, thinking of what [ had written about the unbeatable game. “You would not bide your time.” Livingston said almost apologetically: "There was the huge quotation board ataring me in the face, and the ticker goin of, and people trading and watching their tickets turn to ensh or to waste paper. Of exirse | let the craving for excitement get the better of my judgment. In a bucket shop where your margin is a shoestring you don't p far long pels. You are wiped too ensily and quickly. The desire for constant action irrespective of under- lying conditions is responsible for many lowes in Wall Street even among the pro- feslonalz, who feel that they must tuke home some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages. was only a kid, remember. I did not know then what T learned later, what mode me, fifteen yeura later, wait two long weeks and see aahieck on which [ wos very bullish go up thirty points before I felt that it was safe to buy it. [was broke and was trying to get back, and [ couldn't afford to play ealy. 1 had to be right, and ao I waited." “When was that?" “In 1915. It's a long story. want to hear it?" he asked, The Boy Trader Goes Broke “Sure, later. Now let's go on from where you left of. You, with your unusual mathematical mind and your remarkable memory, with your exceptional aptitude for the game and your years of practice at it, you the Boy Terror of the Bucket Shops, making a living out of it, you let them take away neoat hihi winnings?" I asked. Livingston nodded. “Right! And with my eves wide open, to boot! And it wasn't the only period of my life when I did it, either. A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself. Anyhow, I came to New York with twenty-iive hundred dollars. There were no bucket shops here that o fellow could trust, The Stack Ex- change and the police between them had succeeded in closing them up pretty tight. Besides, | wanted to find a where the only limit to my trading would be the size of my stake. Tdidn't have much of one, but I didn't expect it to stay littl: forever. The main thing at the start was to find a place where ] wouldn't have to worry about tting a square deal. So I went to a New ork Stock Exchange howse that had a branch at home where I knew some of the clerks, They have long since gone out of business. 1 wasn't there long, didn't like one of the partners, and then I went to A. RB. Fullerton & Co. Somebody must have told them about my early experiences, be- ease it waa mot long before they all got to calling me the Boy Trader, I've olways looked young. It was a handicap in some ways, Wut it compelled me to fight for my own a9 ina nied to a sent tage of my youth. The chaps at the bucket shops seeing what a kid I was, always thought I was a fool for luck and that that whe the only reason why D beat themso often. “Well, it wasn't six months before I waa broke. I was a pretty active trader and had a sort of reputation as a wiliner. I fia my commissions amountecl to some- rane it ree ap ry ayeeaint quite m litele but, of course, in the end I lost. I pl carefully; but I had to lowe. I'll tell you the reason: It was my remarkable success in the bucket shops! “| could beat the game my way only in a bucket shop, where I was betting on fluctuations, My tape reading had to do with that exclusively. When I bought, the price waa there on the quatation board, right in front of me. Even before I bought I knew exactly the price I'd have to pay for my stock. And I always could sell on the instant. I could sealp successfully, be- cause I could move like lightning. I could follow up mi luck or cut my loe in a gecond. 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q | mediately in a jiffy; or I'd take half a point. On one or two hundred sharea a day, that wouldn't be bad atthe end of the month, what? “The practical trouble with that ar- rangement, of course, wae that even if the bucket shop had the resources to stand o big steady , they wouldn't do it. They wouldn't have a customer around the Place who had the bad taste to win all the time, "At all events, what was a fope a BYB- tom for trading in bucket shope didn't work in Fullerton's office.. There I waa actually buying and selling stocks. The ‘ice of Sugar on the tape might be 105 and eould see a thres-point drop coming, As a matter of fact, at the very moment the ticker was printing 105 on the tape the real on the floor of the Exchange might 104 or 103.. By the ag order to sll a thousand shares llerton"s floor man to exectte, t ree might be ) still lower. I couldn't toll at what price | had put out my thousand « until I got a report from the clerk. When I surely would ve made threa thousand on the game transaction in a bucket shop I might not make a cent ina Stock Exchange house, Of course, [ have! taken an extreme cose, but the fact remaing that in A. KE. Fuiller- ton's office the i der always talked ancient history to me, ar as my system of trad- ing went, and I didn't reolize tt, “And then, too, if my order wae fairly big my own sale would tend further to de ress the price. In the bucket shop I didn’t have to figure on the effect of my own trading. I lost in New York beratise the game waa altogether different. Tt waa not that I now waa playing it i bs that made me lose, but that I wos playing it ignorantly. You teld me you thaight I was the best reader of the tape youl over eaw who was not a member of the New York Stock Exechar ier ton lonkes at me. IT nodded and You are,’ wall = he went on, “reading the ee like an expert did not save me. I might have made out a great deol beter if I had been on the foor myself, a room trader In a particular crowd perhaps 1 might have adapted eystem to the conditions im- fore me. But, of course, if I had got te operating on such a seale ag 7 de now, for instanen, the system would have | equally failed me, on account of the effect | of my own trading on prices, “In short, I did not know the game of slavk spectlation, Il knew a purt of it, a rather important part, which hus been very jyaiuable to meat all times, Boat if with all Thad [still lost, what chance doe the green pucker have of cashing in?” 4 4 Change of Base Te didn't take me long to realize that there wis somthing wrong with my play, bare [ couldn't spent the rexnbek trouble, “There were times when my syetem worked beau- fully, and then, all of a sudden, nothing but one ewat alter another. I was only twenty- two, Remember: not that | was so stuck on myself that [ didn’t want to know juat where I was at fault, but that at that age nobody knawsa much of anything. “The pane in the office were very nice bo me, enuldiat polurigre As I wun bed to bernise of my margin requirements, but old A. BR. Fullerton and the reat of the firm were ao kind to me that after six montha of active trading I not only Jost all I had Enright ane all that I had mune there but Leven owed the firm a few honedrods, “There | was, a mere kid, who had never before been away from home, strapped, Of eourse there waa only one thing to do and that was to get back to trading. I studied Jom fnilure to make pood in Fullerton's office, | was fist broke, but what was the mae of petti ng het with anybody? [ leew tere wasn't anything wrong with mot only with my pli iy. I don't know whether [ Tike mijn ui plain, but I never lose rey temper over the stock market... I never ane with the Lape, Getting sore at the nmaairket deesn't pet you anywhere, Tweea-sa anziots | to resume trading that Iwent tooled man Fullerton and said to him, Sovak. HL, lend me five hundred dollars.’ “OW Tine for?” says he, Ma ye fob to have. some money," ON lume for?" he sys again. ae OP Maret ty al course,’ T said. “Five tusdred dallara?" he said, ane frown ved. “You know they ‘ed expect you to keep up i 1 per cent margin, ad that means one thowsand dollara on one hun- dred shares, Much better te give you a erent

Juse Fey oe T said, *f don't wee here. I already owe the try What [ want i for you to bend a= ty dred dollars so I eas go out and pr ; and come back." "How are vos going to don" pb.

take age I know that I havea ee know just o [ went wrory ten what I need now ts that bye bye lara.” “He let me have it, and wre! Bucket abe ap A ey : coulda’ po tars oq Sectiise wink tan ot ie aes take my business. New York ru a the question; there weet iy of business at that time. They tr. ow se the *0's Broad Street and “ee oer full of them. us. Sante errs 1a T needed Uhem in — & a soe thinking I deci ul tual lsnacte® ol bee domcores thin tar Shani Reon on tetas ‘» | dle West. Their profits mot jun 9 huge. They had branch offers = 29 towne. In fact [ hed bee; tou ed WERE FO Concerns in the Ean shia Se end phen pepe os thers without any qualms. A | Gaal re Sleek Fie sone: 2 ee * CAMs Wee & View president of the. ca af Commeroe, but that colds ' <5 / in St. Loui, At any fate, thts went with my five hundred ¢: 1 24 back a stale to wee as margis ci Adoenturer ia Jt, Loew “When [ got to St. Lows | wert hotel, w up aod went cor lt shops. (ne was the / 6 mpany, and the other was 8 ry Co, knew 1 could beat them going to play dead sale eonservatively. Aly ome fra somebody might recamire m= away, because the buchen shoo had heard of the Boy Trade like gaming bovis and eta af the “Delon was nearer than Tem went there first. 1 was bopicg | allowed to do busines 2 oa tov they told me to take my tad ele. IT walked in. [t wu: 2 es Place and there must have be a couple of Hundred peop’ “FF gt the quotations, [ was puc - such a crowd IT etood » bette being Unnoticed., | anoud ac and Looked them over cr [ picked out the steck for my = "T looked around and cow the at the window where rou pt money and get your tivet ‘He at meso I walked up to him "Ia this where you tracr it wheat?" “Yes, sonny. says be - “Can I bay stocks toot “You can if you have te cm “Oh, DT got that all iget, @ said, like a beomsting ber ely ou have, have your a smile, "How rouch stock raz handred daljars?" | asked. 5 “One humdined: if you got chr “"T got the maeires: es hun tool’ T wold bi “* Oh, my ! (lad he Sit "Just you buy me te: I said sharply, *“Two hundred what?’ be now, Ot was busines. “I looked at the board Wisely and told kim, muah. a." “*All right!" heeaid, Benet eMuinbed it and wrote out thet "OW hat's roar oe sag 7 “ae burt I answered * gy “He gave me the cate il and sat down among the oo ae for the roll to grow, I gt ge © I a severe rainy pe =; TEA day boo, Im two capt eight hundred dollar, od | ral fComtinerd oa Pape

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T. ‘the elerk aaid to me ‘Say, Mr, Rent, the boss wants to see you. “T knew the game was up. But I asked | him, ‘What does he want to see me aboutT’ “T don't know. “Where is het" ""Tn his private office, Goin that way.’ And he pointed to a door, “T went in. Dolan was sitting at his desk. He Swi around ad aaid, ‘Sit ae Livingston." ‘He pointed & to a chair, My last hope wanis I don't know how he discover who [ was; perhaps from the hotel regis- ter. : “What do you want to see me about?’ im, “Listen, kid. I ain't gt nothin’ agin yeh, see? Nothin’ at all, 7 "hig, I font see,’ I said. “He p from his swivel chair. Hae wie a Ww hig pay He said to mt, * Juantt ocenl rete ore, Livingstan, will yeh? And he walked to the door, He opened it and then - pointed to the cugbonmera in the ee a yeh ee them?" he asked. "See win ' Them Take a look at ‘em, kid, ‘There's three indred of ‘em! Three hon= dred suckers! They feed me and my family, See? Threehundredsuckers! Then yeh come in, and in two days yeh cop more than I get out of the three hunclred in two weeks, That ain't business, kid—not for mé! Tain't got nothin’ agin yeh. Yer wel- come bo what There ve got. But veh don't get any mort. + aun "t any here for yent' gee ¥, wet a 1 anh ser eet come in diy di before sear : dn't like yer looks, the level, Tididn't. Tepotted yeh for a ringer, called in that jackie there’—he pointed to the guilty clork— “and asked what you'd done: and when he told me [ said to him: “I don't like that guy's looks, He's a Finger!" And that piece of cheese says: “Ringer my eye, yes! His name is Horace Rent, and he's a rab-rah boy playing at being used to long aires He's all right!" Well, I let him ve his way. That blankety-blank cost me any © ‘ht hundred dollars, I don't prudge it 1, my boy, But the safe is ocked for aan al for yeh." » I ay look here, Livingston,” he sald. awe heard all about yeh. I ora coppering suckers’ bets, and don’ t belong here, I sim to be 2 sport and welcome to bobcat in pried off"n wa. ut more of that would make me a sucker, now that | know who yeh are. So toddle along, sonny !"* What Happened at Tellers “T left Dolan's place with m Uren: eight hundred dollars’ profit. ‘Telle ted wis in the sume black, I had irun oat that Teller was a very rich man who also ran up 2 lot ral rooms. I decided to go to his bucket shop. I wondered whether it would he wise to start moderately and work to a thousand shores of to begin with @ mcg on the theary that L might not be able to trade more than one day. They pet wise mighty quick when they're losing re I did want ta buy one thousand B. R. T I was sure [ could take four or five points out of it. Bhat if they pot suspicious or i too many customers were long of that stock they might not let me trade at all. I thaaght perhaps I'd better seatter my trades at first and begin small, "Tt wasn't as big a place os Dolan's, but the fixtures were nicer and evidently the erowd waa of a better class. This suited me dewn ta the ground and [ deciied to boy my one thousand B.R.T. So] stepped up to the proper window and snid to the clerk, *"T'd like to buy some B.A.T. What's the limit?" “"There's no limit,’ said the clerk. “You. ean buy all you plase—if you've got the money. “"Buy fifteen hundred shares,” I aa and took my roll from my pocket while clerk starts to write the ticket, “Then IT saw a red-headed man just shove that clerk a from the counter. He leaned perce gald to me, ‘Say, EVENING POST Livingston, you bauerle ito Dolan's, We don't want your ines," ee I said. “Wait until I get "L: just bought a little BH, “Yau get no tieket here,’ he said, By this time other clerks hed got behind him and were looking at me. "Don't ewer core hereto trade. We don't take your business, Lrderatand tT “There was no sense in getting mad or trying to argue, so I went back to the hotel, paid my bill and took the firat train back to New York. wanted to take back some real money, and that Teller wouldn't let me make even one trade." Livingston Panu possibly for aym- pathy. Hut said, “Well, you «could searcely blame him." “Why nott" “He had to live,” 1 snd, “Weil, [ bad to live too,” said Livingston, agerievedly. Tt waa his firat show of feeling. “And then what did you do?" T sald, “T got back to New York, paid back Fullerton's five hundred, and started trad- ing again with the St. Louis money. I hod good and bad spells, but I was doing better than breakingeven, Afterall, [ didn't have much to unlearn; only to qrase the one fart that there was more to t of stock apeculation than [ had considered before I wert to Fullerton's office to trade. IT waa like one of those puree fana, dolng the eroas- weed puzeles in Lhe Sunday supplement. He isn't satisfied until he gots it. Well, 1 knew there must be a solution to my puzzle," “Wet necessarily,” I interjected contro- veraially. Old MeDecitt's Tip Livingston stared me then he said: “Tl there ia a reason why up or down, then there is a eon. tir to the problem of a money ot of anticlpating advances ordechines, Lt may not be an easy eolution to find. At all events, I was done with trading in bucket abope.”’ “Aud you newer rated in a bucket shop after that?" IT ask “Oh, yes," ' Livingston inughed, “Broke again?" “No. That wasn't why. About a couple of months after I got back to New York an ald jigger came into Fullerton’s office, He knew A. BR. Somebody suid they'd once owned a atring of race horsea together. It was plain he'd seen better dave. I waa in- troduced] te ald McDevitt. He was telling the crowd about a bunch of Weetern race track crooks who had just pulled off some skin game out in St. Louis. e head dewil, he said, waa a pool-room owner by the name af Teller. “"What Teller?’ | wsked him. “Hi Teller; H, 5. Teller," “*T know that bird,’ | anid. "He's no good,’ said McDevitt. “He's worse than that,’ I said, ‘and I have a litth: matter to setile with him." "Meaning how?" “'The only way I can hit any of thease short is through their pocketbook. Tean’t towch him in St. Lowis just now, but some day Twill.’ And [ told MeDevitt my gnevanee, “Well, save old Mac, ‘he tried to con- nect here i in New York and couldn't make it, 30 he's opened a place in Hoboken. The word's gone out that there ie ne limit to the play and that the house roll has got the Reck of Gibraltur faded te the shadow of a bantarn flea." "What sort i a place?’ I thought he meant pel roy Bucket shop, said McDevitt. "| Are you sure it's open?! "Vea: [ye seen several fellaws who've told me about it." “'That's only hearsay,’ I gaid. "Can yen find on positively Uf it's rinning, and alsa how fh euvy they'll really let a man trade? "Sure, sonny,’ said McDevitt. "L'il go myself to-mernow morning, and come back Feri: and tell yee," “He did. [t seems Toller wos already doing a big business and would take all be could get. This was ona Friday. The mar- ket had been going up all that week—thia wes twenty years agro, remember—and it was a cinch the bank statement on Saturday would show a big decrease in the surplus reserve. That would give the conventional excuse to the big room traders to jum the market and try to shake out somes sia weak commission-houss accvunts, would be the uzual reactions in the Laat half hour of the trading, particularly in stocks It was tough. 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Milwaukec, Wisconsin mod Ant, clocted Oe er SITYLE $20: pT chee tea Srvne 518: Silé, Lartestined and clocked ecateiduin sobs elt Inc., Harrisburg, Pa. while he paid off the EVENING POST in which the public had been the most active. Those, of course, also would be the very stocks that Teller's customers would bet most heavily lang, and the ahop might be glad to see some short selling in them. There is nothing so nice as catching the suckers both ways; and nothing 50 easy— with one-point margins. “That Saturday ma I chased over te Hoboken to the Teller place. They had fitted up a big customers’ room. with a dandy quotation board and a full force of clerks and a policeman in gray. There were “about twenty-five customers, F get ta singe 4 the manager. He asked me what he dodo for me and I said nothing: that a a alle could make much more money at the track on account of the odds and freedem to bet your whale roll.and stand to win thousands in minutes instead of piking for chicken feed in stacks and ha to wait days, perhaps, He be yan to tell me how much safer the stock- market game was, and how much some of their ek We ie ons bere hake it was a regular broker who ¥ boug and gold your stocks on the exchange—and how if a man only traded heavy he could make enough tosutlefy anybody. He must have thought 1 was wns hewded for same pool room and he wanted a whack at my as before the ponies nibbled it away, said [ ought tea er et aa the caurket closed at twelve eck on oer gt That would leave me free to devote the entire afternoon to other pursuits, I might have a bigger stake to carry to the track with me—if [ picked the right stocks, “TL looked as if, naoally pot Last a he kept on buzzi iw eles theelack, At 11:15 et maid ‘All right,’ and began to give him selling orders in various oo. ut up two thousand dollars in cash, and he was very glad to get it. He told me he thought I'd make a lot of money and hk T'd come in often. “Tt happened ust as I figured. The triders hammered the stocks ne which they figured they would uncover the most st and, sure enough, prices slid off. I cl out my trades ust before the rally of the last five minutes on the usual traders" covering. “There was fifty-one hundred dollars coming te me. I went to cash i in. ie ari glad I dropped in,’ I said to the mia a aun gave him ean tickets, i says to me, ve you all of it.” I Taree looking f bh a Tun. iat nae he here for you, Monday morning, Sure “All right. But first [ll take all you have in the house,” [ asi ¥ ou'ye got bo let me pay off the little fellows," he said, "I'll give you back what. you put up, and anything that's left. Wait till I cash the other tickets." So I waited Ik sate Teller wraldort new my money was safe. Te dint welsh with the office doing such a ee business, And if he did, what else could | do better than toe take all he hed then and there? I got my own two thousand dollars and about eight ht hundred dollars besi which wos all he had in the office. I tol him I'd be there Monday morning. He swore the money would be waiting for mer,” Jetilfag ana Old Score “T got. to Hoboken a little before twelve on Monday. I rae a fellow talking to the | Manager at I had seen in the St. Louis Siriee HP NE Teller told me to go back to oT came for the balance of my money," I said to the manager, meee this the man?’ asked the St. Louls chap “Ves anid the manager, and took a bunch * yellow backs from his pocket, "Hold on|" said the Bt. Louis fellow to him and then turns to me. ‘Bay, Livingston, didn't we tell you we didn't want your business?" Give me poy aceite f first,’ I said to the manager, and over two thou- avian four fivehundreds and three hun- be What ¢ cd you suy?" T said to St. Louis. "We me we didn't want you to trade in irs wes,” I sald: "that's why T came," “Well, don"t come any more. Keep away!’ he snarled at me. The private policeman me aad came over, eazual-like, St. Louis ah fist at the manager and yelled: ‘You ought to've known better, you oor books, than to let this tinta He's Livingston, You gi aes a i dae une 7,3 eee man. “This isn't 3t. Loum {-. old man's going to hit the eury a. hears whoit was. Haveabeart, Lor “!7'l go eaay,” T prom, “! Listen to remem, won't yo." 7 « love of hated gr ae Gove aa & to 4 Start. i ay don't want any d thai Le was hvusti nest the newt time | » di beft him talking to th mo: at at thet rate of a million a mines, | Bome money oat of them for the ws treated mé in St. Lou. There ver! fenst jm my getting bot or irycy’ them up. [ went back to Pulser. and told MeDevitt what bad «cs Then | told him that ft ew ae him I'd like to have him go tv ° Place and begin trading mn twrh ©! share lots, to them weed te b= * the moment a up big, ['d telephone him” Teller Trimmed Apes "T gave McDevitt a thoou: | and he went to Hoboken ad cco him. He got to be on of te Then one day when | thoogit [ break impending I slipped Mac te and he sold all they'd let b= |i twenty-scight hundred doles tha alter giving ate his — ond iit fitele bee of Wis core’ besides Lom month after that, Teller chased ha fi branch. The police got bory. Ado it didn't » though I only ame twice. We ran inte a erocy bel! when stocks didn’t react encugi i out even the one-point maps | course, all the customer wer & winning and pyramiding. komt d regular bucket shop. | dor’ oo) a one shop in operation ory whe rivst the old-fashioned kind.” *“T heir game hoa “hi Livingston. “Trading in ap bucket bop be had some deeded! ats OVeEr Space in o reputaa | officer, For one ¢ ing, the sutras out. of r trade w he ape the exhaustion pant was the atop does order, You cocks @ for more than you had pat = = was no danger of roltet eer ders, and so cas Here in hee = Here they used to lent the p on certain stocks cee two points, Sugar ene Iron Wer meng these. Ne Ea moved ten pPoinks in ten rina ae only make two on one ticket. T: that otherwise the costane re too big odds; he stoad to oy - and to make ten, And the ° times when all the shops. =: biggest, refused to take oro - stocks. In 1900, on the day be Day, when it was a a J that ‘McKinley werd win, tx land let hia customers buy pee election odds were J to | 2 © By catia ing storks on egos fy rom three to sn p=. man could bet on Bryat i and make sure money. Tor t= Telused arders that day. " “They refused mine all Livingston. “Tf it hads't te ** never would have stepped macs And then 7 never would woe 7 there was much more te the gi" speculation than to play fc of a few points.” ace did you a gow said = But Livingsten mee: ile shoulders, as I looked abou: = room. Editor's Mote=—This # thee = articles by Rie. Lefiyerr. Teer’ carly poe.

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And then when once these two pulled aut he could have the Flussian there to himeself—and amash hiro alone and ful! “What will they,” he “be founded on?" “What are the big secret radical leaders striving bo doa naw,” he says back—"in the firet place? p x “You tell me," says Mike, still making talk, “What are a “They re bringing in and starting up the new wise and universal labor ideas that they've worked out in Europe bere," “T seen so,"’ says Mike, "And would you know,” he says, leaning forward and engaging atill more earnest Mike's eye with his own—" would you know what the new lenders of this all must do te bring this advanced, united and considered labor movement in Europe here into this barbarous, backward and de graded situation here?” "T would,” says Mike, h Si a! Se move, you might say, Europe ere! FE “Move Europe here—with what?" says waite here tod ‘t it?" he “Tt'a here ay, ain't itt” BAYER, “All over—in the minds of the European worker that's everywhere in this eountry today, That's doing all the work—the real actual hard work and producing of this country.” “The poor seleaor-billa!" gaya Mike. “Call them what you will," he says. ‘Tn scor of carclesantss or contempt! But they are the real downright actual procduc- ers—that create by their labor all we have. The real bed-rock protelariat.” “The protelariat?" says Mike after him. “Ag eall the real worker—those wise theoretic boys that have it all figured out over there,” saya Twohey, going on. “And you can any what you want, It's them and their labor that everything is built up on. And they're just the that are wise to that fact to-day—coming aver like they da, from Italy and Russia and the new Polak kingdom, with their grand new modern education on such things that they are getting all over now in Europe—how we workera have got to be all bound up together in one grand central mass af the toilers. ‘ “And so, a5 [ was telling you,” be says, “that’s the guy that these t, etill, wise lenders. are starting in with here as ela where—lounding the new labor movernent on the great knowledge and hopes and underatandings of the grand, noble, humble, strong European worker that's come over here. It's the foreign European toiler that we all "he says, and stopped, For all at oncet there was this strange and Sere ipa nose a el pe nt and a grosn—that sto in a ae cough. And they both had to look around, “My foot slipped,” said the Wobbly, his } face red and fiery—and kind of mad looking. “My foot slipped when I was eroeang fy legs, and IT guess I must have kicked him. Hut T guess there wasn't no | great harm done, was there, Hunkie?™ | “No, says the Hunk. “No hurt me!" And he turned and looked outside again— only flattened up against the window now, more out of his reach. “Oh, that was all, huh?" says this Two- bey, starting up and going on again. But Slattery seen him give a dark and warning glance at the Wobbly. And then he went on to talk some more in that fine, polite, pleasing way he had—and Mike helping on, | even more polite than him. “And now,” he says to Slattery, “would you koow the real, honest-to-goodness dope on the mew secret way these wise new lenders of labor are framing up wncder- neath in this country everywhere—in ull these labor troubles you see nbowt in the papers now to tuke charge of this old dyin rotten carcass a@f the old federation, an the rest of the dying old cralta unions here—and put it ante the new modern argunization of labor by industries and countries and the world—where the toller, instead of always getting it im the neck, his all the say-a0T" “Towould,” says Mike. “You've heard of them radical elnthiog workers of New York and Rochester an | Chicago and elsewhere?" SECRET MOVEMENTS (Contiaeed from Poge &) “T dunno but I have," saya Mike. "4 Russian Jews and Italians—full of them grand new Russian and Italian plans for the workers. With the wisest and most farseeing leaders in the country, winnin strikes when all the others lose them. A all organized, and hooked in like brothers way down underneath, with the leacers of the great new ruling protelariat in Russia. And all organized and constructed in the way they've worked out there—by indus. tries and countries—so that when the day comes to take all over for the workers they'll be there in aections—all ready to be hitehed together like a train of cars, bo one grand and universal world movement. of the cy by a few known and simple fi ane COMLMAE “So thermn's the ones?" saya Mike, push- ing him on, and still watching back behind til “hipaa " ay "That's the chief, a , practheal atart- ing point,” he says, and letters thought he seen with the corner of his the Wobbly look back quick and ugly when he said it, “That's the place where all them educating, driving movements are coming out from, seeret—the Enest Side of Naw ork, “And from this place just lately the bright enduring fame of revolt is spreading in the new il textile workers’ move= ment that's bursting forth now in all them old baronies and tyrannies and hell holes for the foreign European workers in them New England factory towns."" “dre they all Hunka and Dages there, aa well?" says Mike, rm tare,” he savs, “and they"re in touch all the time with them clothing wark- era in New York, who were, in fact, the ones that organiwed them first." | “Then it all goes back there into New YorkT" "Yeo, The real practical place —where they've got the rai money and the back- ing, and the connection back in with Rus- sis, and the push and enterprise to go ahead. sind it's from there that this new poner thing of thie Poater vou was ask- ing about first, is starting really—this edu- | cating and boring-in plan in the federation and brotherhoods, which is all working on the European toiler."" “Tte headquarters,” says Mike, “they claim, is Chicago.” “Yea, but it's started and backed up elsewhere. You know who it was that hacked this man Foster up most in organ- izing the European workers in the great steel stoke?” “Who was it?” gays Mike. "The other unions in the federation?” “Tt wie not,” he anys, “They never come across one-half so much and so hearty as these radical clothing workers back there in New York. Why should they, when the buneh at the head—Sammy Gompers and the rest —knew Chey were done for if it once got going; that it was only the same plan of boring in underneath with the low-paid European worker that’s pein of Here, end that the Soviet of Russia leaders were all the time planning for. ; Ss matecenll: on ph ig Bide—work= ing for the idea, just as they are ay — were the faraeeing workers for the new industrial unionism, working with the trained, educated, understanding toiler [ram Europe. For, as 1 was telling you,” he saya, ‘it's all founded on the grand, noble, patient, understanding Eurepean toiler, that we're learning every day now to know and appreciate and look up to more. The grand, noble, patient protelariat,” heanysa— and stepped ri. For at that both him and Mike gave a quick sudden jump, for there was another | strange unearthly sound out of the Mus. | sian—not loud, neither, but kind of deep | and terrible, ag if it was knocked out of something, like when you hear them killing ats with i at, ' ; “Tt's my foot slipping again,’ save the Wobbly, tight away without waiting. “It mist it something on the soles.” “You should have gone to dancing school more when vou wae young,” saya the other brakeman, sarcastic, giving him a short and evil look, “and got trained so you'd be safer with your feet." uae apt ag you one of them! aya t obbly, giving back as SR reese attery saw it with great joy, for it was clear to him now that they were on the COMCSTLL, Ae j oH the LU pated Sia base broiling thio Ye “ey (nen cverying ln: in tatach. with the wearke, De Forest Radiophoss) are ecepenclally deslgnell i te ) tebepleoee teem wie krecewhedige ol email ame — Ex 20 Pooeting rit brig & z i roils: hee Apne: cr ot Sion [2 = Be . é 5 Ean ME: ia none of a cs ferret a bee omar ep al ) drpendahle eakere, | Get Wireless En dhe y Witt oes ler Leet En gf Fioprent (Pe, 0, De Ty ae or ic, the imi frrbl, Pople wipe itis ata inal with, eR A ha a ps Pa ce oh. 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For in the first place you ace now how still and quiet it's all going through arg hid beneath the general contempt and carelessness of the enemica of labor. For the fat bourjaws at the head of capital in America, and their paid, pampered and prostitute press are all passing up the movement in ignorant and foolish and studied silence, while underneath the still, sure, secret forces of the revolution are eating onat the federation and the brother= hols and all like that til their founda- tions are all hollowed out underneath "You don’t tell me," saya Mike, more wishtul than ever to keep him going. “T do," he saya, v Alehoug any fool who ‘s studied as much h as you'll find in the almanse knows that radical move- ments start all over after wars—for ten years, thow, like they did in this here ecuntry after the Civil War, all through the ‘70's, romping and raging among all the workers.” “30 [ seen once in a paper,” Mike, a Sa him on and on, einen t & time. ‘he anya. “Only now Lb will be far different from the "70's, For the world has moved on since that time, capl- talism has grown rottener and rottener and riper for its doom: and we are today poe a nation of ignorant bourjaws and Lace iy netr ptasonis, but of wolpntat dismatished clase-conscious work more an more 80 under the a ae af men who have got their strings out now, and well and deeply laid among all the toiling millions— the 98.4 per cent that produce everything in America today and have it token away from them by the 1.7 per cent." And while he was saying this Mike shot another look behind him and seen them still there—the poor patient Russian stand- ing stat off, and the other one sitting back, a3 if he was cursing under his breath, ready to give up the whole thing lis gusted—and just amash him and gol eee hillions this Twohey was “pd with his own explaining. “* andl | more millions—all getting more seth jand united every da a “Do you mean it?" saya Slattery. “Todo, he says, “And you can count Starting, where you should sturt, with the f European radical, outside | the old-time unions entirely. Taking the clothing trade and the e workers } and all like that—the real European in- dustrial type union! And there's one mil- lion, without a doubt." “So much as that?” says Mike, “Or will be aon,” he says, going on. “And from there you come inte fi tion, through the mine workers, by fur the hippest union there—practically a igh jeala, and organized already the ri why, os ‘an ana —and not split up sees crafts, Areal bound, just as soon as they can get looee from the wiles and tricks of them central politicians, to run free and wild and radical. And that's another halfa wr A ini more!" "Te is?" saya Slattery. "Yes. And with them the railroad unions and the federation-~who are tuned up in just about the aame way. And that's ny aa i million _ eer, more, i ie? “Tein, And with the machinists, and the federation clothing workers and the others that are radical and modern in pettke dad they're easy a majority of the Amer Federation of Labor, which they'll make short work of controlling, a8 soon as. this Foater and his borers-in shows amd educates them how to handle them politica! trick- stera in control there now with their own tricks.” . "T belleve you,” says Mike. EVENING POST “Bo there's the federation,” ne says. “And that’s four million more, they claim. Or put it three and a half—for sake of being conservative,” “Sure,” says Mike. “And then next, when that's done,” . them railroad brotherhoods will fall into line—all smooth and eany. And there's two million or so more," “Making seven, about, in all," says Slattery. “Yeo. he saya, now prowin and more enthusiastic as his rill rolling in. “And from there we will go apn into all those great unorganized millions that have never come in, never will— like it waa in ig ET pi we give up the ad out-of-date en, and vee them a em union organizution that's worthy of the name." ; “So there's ten or twelve million more,” gaye Mike, helping him out. “Twenty at the lewt,"" he says, “if we go by England. And if you go Ger- many, twenty-five. Twenty-five mi Lions — or more,” he says—"a all bound up and united,” he saya, and stopped again a third time. For there was another sudden thump and a groan, followed by a kind of clank. And looking over, Mike seen what had happened. The Wobbly bad taken his ald hile brake club, that, he'd had lying by hia chair, and thrown it at the Russian, ealy and disgusted, taking him fair in the “Say—what is this?" says the other gigi ugly and ineulting. ih, paPhlie much,” eae the Wabbly ina tind at reckless, careless voice, WH just trying to seo if it was alive. Some are and some ain't!" And Slatter arn it was what he theught. He n't made no impression an the Hunk; he'd eet till se gat t tired au | and disgusted. And he'd finally heaved his atick at him, and jet it go at that. But not a word out of the patlent Russlan toiler yet. He stood there, deaf and dumb, You couldn't get a sound out af him, biy, if you run him through a meat chopper, eee, all the moet sensi- tive parts first. ed still stand there patient and arable, at silent to the end, ty=five millions!" soya Mike, starting keeping them moving on. much as that?” “Twenty-five or more," saya Twohey talking on now at random ikea and kind °Y; | Sand downhearted—and giving one last warning book at the Wobbly to try Once | Twentyive million,’ he went rambling on, like a man who had got ek and worn out with talking, and wos | et shooting aff ae memary words he'd athe times before, “Twenty-five cited marshaled in and marching on under the grand old T. 0. E. L." “The T.U. E. 1.7" gays Mike, “What's that?" “Tf you want to know," sa the Wobbly, Ere tne now, taetls aim sane i "it's a piffiing piece of punk, li iit the saa: Westen feeding you—alsout the sewer fate and the crawlera ancl the borers-in and the communists ever uniting up the workers of this country inte one big | union.” And Mike saw now finally it had | come—what he had been waiting for from the iret! “Ta that i ing back at him, resolute and hard and bloodshot. “Tt is," says the Wobbly. “As you'd know and admit if you ever rewd or thought anything half so senaible a I horse." YT suppose yee think,” he came back, “it will be the * that will be build- ing it up." "Te will,” he aa Herr and personal. " And long before er and his T, UB. L. gets more members than con be counted by an idiot child of three." “They're off!" soys Mike te hirmeaeclf, And now heslip over to the tep of the stairway—to head off the Russian from taking a sneak while all this was going on. For he seen he had them going now for goul—starting in one of them old-time radical arguments over thelr letters and initials. “What about the dying membership of the I. W. W. today?" says the borer-in, “It's got twenty tinvea what'll ever come in under this T. U. E. L. campuign,” says the Wobbly, Smear. ae “Hold! Wait!" gays Mike. “What is this T. U. E. L,7" “That's the poor fake and cumouflage that this Foster and his Kikesand Wopa are | tT" saya the borer-in, star- J iustrased Cainhapuse apt regent NOW! i $4 nt the end of trol An Extra $10 SAVING If You Act This Offer Expires July Ist To all who have been plan- Tung to buy a typew riter, we make this special announce- ment—up to July ist you can save S44 on the fans S100 Oliver, the price being $55, After July Ist, the price will be 865. Prompt action saves you the extra $10, Total Saving, $45 | This offer is made by the Oliver Typewnter Company itvelf. 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| linia THE SATURDAY EVENING POST working under,” says Smear, the Wobbly, “handing themselves salaries for breath- ing. The Trade-Linion Educational League, they eall it, trying toe put out this boring-in scheme under the general campaign of the R.T. UL." 2 waitupl aays Mike. “What was that One youl ot. off" “Thi Booed, Prade-Union Agri ahaha = says the Wobbly; “that thing they cooked ap over there fast summer—to hitch the labor unions a the world back to the Comintern.” “The Comintern?” sayt Mike after him. And he seen the Russian now at the win- dow turn and stare with the other brake- man, "The Comintern, in Moscow, where they"re uniting all the grand, strong, power ful ‘trade-unions of Asia and Africa and Russin together—in the RB. T. U. L, under the strong commanding right arm “of the tC. E.G." "The C. BE. C.7" says Mike after him. But he passed right on now, getting warmed and interested over hia initiala, “Did you set that stuff the members of the P. FP. W. 1. U., No. 450, brought out,” saya the Wobbly, turning now straight and vicious on the borer, “about your d of mindiering isssins? What Fellow Worker Williams had to report showt that gather- ing of whiskers and sashes there in Moscow last July, when your poor silly RH. T. UW. I. wis foomed directly under the hand of the "Hold! Wait!" says Mike. “ Must you talk like two madmen learning shorthand? Let me in on this.” But they just passed along over him, "Ts did not,” says the borer-in, answering harah and firm, “for | knew in advance what tt would be. But did you read youlr- self what the Unity Bulletin had to say against Solidarity on the report of the Cana- .B.U. delegates over there—and the prarul world-wide work of the BR. L. U, 1.2" “What nonsense is thisT" says Mike to them, getting curious and then mad him- self. “You sound like a manifest clerk reading the letters off of freight cars. For fhe love of heaven, talk slower and more in fu But they whirled on regardless, scatter- | ing: tnitlals all ever the place. “T ask you thi,” sil LE loge the borer-in, of the Wobbly: "Did or did not the I. W. W. send a dlegate to the pre- sesclon ofthe C.C. ofthe KR. L117 And did or did not thia firat delegate sub- aeribe to its theses?" “More initials!" says Mike, standing at eae how—astriving no more to follow on the different letbers the million of more of them radical societies, each one se to unite the workers of the world, He stood now and listened to the initials tolling on—and watehed them with the Russian. And after that he watched, cautious, the Russian himself—for fear he might take a notion to make a break while they were talking. And he seen then he wasn't intending ta do so now, for he just stood there sturing at the other two like those Hunkies do, still and quiet—with thelr little hilty eyes and their wrinkled-uj foreheads and their little turmed-wp toes, with Chat still, suspicious, puzzled, sour look they have The prelim inar eegsion of the C. C0. of the BR. L. WU. 1..." the Wobbly was saying. “Don't make me sat [" he says, "You'd think, [ suppose,” says the other one, “that the F. A. U. D. would unite therm better. , Or the F. R. A. U7, D., as it shentlal he & pelle,” "TT don't Peed out of the hand of the Third anyway!" says the Wobbly, increas= ing the rapt te die talk. “Wor the Two and-a-H Nor any of vem whiskered political buma—red or yellow, all alike.” "You're an anarchoayndienlist!" says the barer-ln. “And a decentralizer. And aes Wobbly yee. You're a centrist and a chipmunk!" nays tt ths Wobbly back. i separativt, and a de- featist! date leper dirty dualist!" says the borarciin. “And you're a liquidater and a murderer of women. And an all-round maggot and cowardly sewer rail" save the Wobbly, © And you're full of the infantile sickness of ieftisme” the other saya, and stops for o minute, with Mike and the Russian staring. And as for the cowardly communista yer uniting anything,” saya the Wobbly, going on, “they ean't erawl out of one of their underground dugouts where they For they're a | live, and hold a mith; 5 ~. cellars or fan ins |, they anenk off to meet into = few bendred mrp ; . P. and the (Pid de: = Kise We. ! of A.—ard thee that have split off lately,” And Slattery gave a gar ++ once be heard @ grunt like as: .. he seen the foce of the Rama ay with the puzzled wrinkles ¢- d forehead—staring and ope; if he was going to butt wo 4 all that silence, “For the love of heaves." w+ oy to himself, watching him, “bec o-y eet re is the kind of lego sj “Linite the world!” the ® - sneering on. “Wink te & working under the (EOC ye ' intern? They coulds't pete a seg stamp to a letter,” And Mike looked tack a= heard the Hunk give ancer =- “They're torn. up, mong * “haem says the Wo i The ©. E. C. spend ter they've eaten up the { sari peel frog. the famine doz plans and diagrams how ts eex- tion fromthe & 1, anc the & A. 3. and the W.0.—and a th real genuine rewolutionists a: heads up everpwhete now, 2: > eve of throwing over the edict: y uniformsa—the driveling. ou the ©. E. (.. and tke sever’ “And the eighteen B ; thirty-one ¥. M,C, Ave! “Le ing to himself, giving gp : crazy language that notexiy Z anyway but o medical, He pu was thinking instead what would have alter the othet cwtis train time ane belt the stil pat Russian, with his three bunt: him. But ea gare ha ir est jump, for at one te Fiussian hollering, breakisg = the mouth, ; "Liar!" he gaye “Deg! L The S. KR. and the W, (). all >. Tusain | All bad mera! ‘Ve a them. all!" be says, raising 2 ha “Will you listen to ths Wobbly, Cnr The dead The © and the C.F mens, All geaxl for other po. Russia,” he yells, and brieg: or 3 ATH again, and goes on arp a But, after this, Satter; we" @ "Sainks reward wal" be apd ill to himself. For when the Rosas‘ os 2! he heard something soft hl vr! down he seen hie old me" rolling down the stairs whe = "al ing. 2 Hunk had & perce hasty somewhere in. his orem and now when be got euste: = lution he'd shaken 1¢ lo ace oo out upen the floor. There was a kind af woodes a | the of the stairway © 7% and Mike ducked dow me" grabbed hia wallet, and oper aten. Aun the three hand's Fe © And then he ducked upagm © . them—and they were still s=4 ing and bawling out. thet in -< the Russian, for they conde’ “In Russia—in my pepe § | today. The C. E, 64. fine! Oh—all re: * good !*" he was hollering, et -| around. And the other two t=! him off—and mot able te: Pe 1 fl a = Doh. ee 2 a8 8 OB EBS 4 =| j i he Tad 1 ee Un “Shall I hold hie be = considering, “till the other © him up? or he certainly sho2: = And then he emied, io: “Say,” he SATE, jumparg = the Russian. “What ¢2 | going to do—stay bere © to you bellowing std basi E Up the alphabet’ Get outs “* crazy scissor-bill!" Anc 25°: gave him a shove down the 4 And when be dames, ass °" ing down, he seen the other ss. af jawing away at oner. and ¢'! ook at one ancther—w bf S" that they would. “Well, sa long! both together, And with no mor eS down the tower stairs av: - (Centinerd a Far + t i = my

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| ahead—walking fast. a straight | stopped him, g¢ THE SATURDAY (Continued fram Page Tit) | Slattery stood watehing araund the corner of the window. The Russian was ai ee then the two came out, and the Wobbly started hollering at him, and the trainman anelng up at the window where Mike stood ond looked down at them, And then they started on after the acissar-bill, walking very fast and stiff, but never running, for fear, no doubt, that 7 | Mike might notice them and premerniser when he finally found out that he'd been trimmed. And on a Russian was walking, fast and still as well, but never Filnning neither—no doubt with the same idea in his nut. And so, not speaking a word, they up to the siding seross the road till the Russian, looking around wick, ju in back of the freight train iloall and wut of aight; and the other two after him, darting in just like he did, when they got up to the cover of the cars, Secret movements," says Mike to him- gell, standing wondering what they'd do to him and to one another when they got to him und found what they were going after wasn't there, He wondered after the train pulled out— for he seen them no more—and all that night nbowt tt, util the next —when he Tun across the conductor of the local freight on the street in the morning—and he aeenved quite excited. "Say, Mike." gaye the man, “what waa going cit yesterday over in ‘the ‘tower tT" "| dunne,” Bays Mike. “What was?" "Say, listen,” he says. “I seen some- thin ‘never seen before,” “Whit wae that? saya Slattery, “A silont, speechless fight," he says, "Goon," says Mike, ‘ ‘ell me about it." So he dome a. “T waa sitting there,” he says, “in the caboose, waiting for them to patch up that driving rod—all alone, for the shacks were out somewheres; I thought, over with you in the tower, And then I heard the aaund of steps and TI looks out, and there they was eure ta ot ere Russian trackwalkers wu ind the train. And just Shen I looked they stopped short and horled themaelves » Tight underneath me, withaut a word, "Without one word?" says sy Mike, "Sor a loud noise,"’ he says. “You'd hear only the stifled sounds of straining and lifting and grunting and tearing.” "Ta that right?" saya Mike, “Yes,” he says. va fight without one sound. but Erunting!* “Tt must have been," says Mike. “"Therea must have been some reason for it.” “There was, without a doubt," he says. “Some reason for keeping it still, and not drawing attention. But that wasn’t all, nor the strangest of it!" What carrie next?" says Slate “At first,” he suvs, “they hu them selves, the two shacks, upon the Hunk.” "And what did they do to him?" says Mike, Ser etre didn't da nothing,” says the fel- ea ‘lt was the other way rou For ail net more than three or four grunts the Russian had them down, and had anatehed the brake stick from the Wobbly, who was carrying his, and was beating him some thing terrible," "All in silence?" save Mike, "Wes. But that wasn't the half of the me shite [it oO FE sily's “Not half," bery. he save, "For suddenly, in the midst of his pounding and beatin them, for some reason the Russian etop ghort and put his right hand on hia chet—aa if he was looking for something tre ‘ed just thou * Did he fin t of." it?” aeks Mile, EVENING POST “He cid not," says the other man, “if actions are any guide, For all at onecet, after feeling once or twice, he jurps up and begins pemee himself all over—and up and down —disregarding the other ital they both standing staring st I see," saya Mike. “And what did they they him again?” d not—noer run which i is more FAL save the man, “considering how ear he'd banged and battered thers. They stew there—all beaten up and torn to ploces, staring at him—kin ested and anxious, And then they went in and ary him, patting him all over before and behind." “And not a word yet?" says Mike. bam § “Not one,” he saves, “And he ston stock-still a they was doing it. But alter that, when they didn't find it, what- ever it was—he let out a low snarling, moo- ing soon like a wild mad bull, o softer. And he come at them, And almost mixed in then from I was watching, concealed, around the corner of the car—for I feared murder.” “But there was not?” says Mike, “No; for they signed to him they would do just what he wanted.” “And what did he want?” says Mike. “He wanted to search them, it seems, like they did him." “And did het “Did he?" says the conductor. “To the taking off of moat they had an!" “And- did they find it yet—whatever it “They did not,” bapaye: ad cack other alow. And then searching up and iomn the track behind the freight train where they had been run- ning. And when they found nothing yet, it looked terrible bad. For they all atood off and glared, each suapiclous at the other, And all at once the Russian came chorging them ugain like a mad, roaring luna- tic. And the two came jumping into the front end of the caboose, carrying their shoes and pants with them, where he'd made them strip them off for searching Pe And did he come on after them—the aid, asaya Mik ia he “He yes; u te t oc t conductor. “Till ba seen me! And the igs Ay ce re me—ascared, it looked like, to have me just see him there. And there was nothing out of the ae esi lane i wore: hey won't explain nothing—except they got arguing and fighting with the Russian. - ‘And what did you say te thatT’ Mike "Th pete (alee chat they went Seg I fight, oS says, ‘with “De you always rt," “wi your shoes and trousers off nie must have been a ah fight!"" saya “Tt was," says the conductor, "Both hot and mysterious. And for my part, I ve mo elew to it.” “I have,” woh Mike, “They was over in my place ja and arguing ju nist before, In one of or radical jawin “They was?" suya the con eer “Then probably know what it was all absut." “I aaa "gaye Mike, “Mot unlose it wha one of these seeret movements they have now all over—breaking out finally into open revolution." “Revolution is the right word," eave see ther conductor. “You'd think se if you'd them at the hoight of it1" “Yes,” saya Mike, “without a doubt. That must hat it. “Twas the radical work= era, probably, uniting and getting together in one mass, the way they're doing now, all up ang down the known and civilized wor

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The fellow who if satistied to mix with second-raters will never climb ta a high place j in bysimess, even though there is in him gsuificient latent ability to handle successfully the bigger job. Many a natural-born athlete who might have berome a t star on aome famous varsity team frittered away his time playing a mediocre game at som emia! eel where he wag nat abliged to extend himaell in order to be betoer n the average. Farmlllarity with inferiority tends ta make a man inferior, Keen rivalry resulting from competition always brings outa person's best efforts, It haa ever been true that men and women react to their environment. Such were the remarks of the president of one oof America’s most successful com- mercin] organizations. Consistent with his expreased beliefs, this executive has surrown hinesell with the best talent money ean procure, Dt is his idea that the Digwer the men arcund you the bigger vou wi sourself: the more credit you give to others who work for you the more credit you will reflect upon your- self. Aga result of such a polly, the oor- poration headed by this executive is a live organization with a munagerial personnel noted for its originality, efficiency and initiative, The president has never permitted his In- creasing Pesponalbilities te isolate him and cause him to low touch with his workers, He is op posed to long-distance rule, with thid thought in mind has two deska— one Where he can devote a part of each day to working among his asoclates, and the other in a more secluded office where he can transact business or consider important thatters without being disturbed, It is his belief that an executive benefits. ly from. claw contact with the rank and file of his organization, Trying to manage a corpora- tion witheut getting acquainted with the employes ia like trying to operate an automobile on a country highway alter dark with the lights aut. The motorist may succeed in avinding a ditch, but it ia certain that he won't travel very fast. This president makes it a rule to limit all efforta toward expansion to the sin Lime: and style of businesa on which t poration’s success has been founded. Many failures hove resulted from efforta on the part of a management to expand in such a way that it was necemary to transform the character of the business and areely stil elimi- nate the one feature which h the early profits, One of his preonpeis is: “Don't devata tomorrow to hunting yeaterday's mistakes. Finlsh each day the tasks set for that day, and see that the work has been done right, BO that tomorrow haa a clear field for its own jobs,” Ever since starting in business this suc- cesaful executive has made it a daily prac tice te record each and worthwhile ideo gathered either from reading or from observation. First, he used only memoran- dum books, but now he employs an idea file which contains thoughts and clippings on varinis phases of business which may not be used for months or even years, Ideas that are worth little may be life- savers tomorrow. Workuble ideas are the | food of buslness, and if is well to keep the larder filled against days of emergency. The president attributes such success as he has tttainad. first, to hia Pan of making prom pel derisions so that the same matter will not come up twice; second, to his policy of transferring all minor and many major tasks to his able assistants; and third, to his practice of providing a personal schedule far each day's sel and then ra peat rte Bnvihing exce a om o vital beprcanins to jntectace with the, ing out ot a SLITWE a a Bil: ts that © bdr of angoone pre ad where and how he [a the Pew with unnecessary work is to ait down each morning for a week or more and prepare a daily scteadule that divides up the per- son's time. No one can py te a sey in a business that Everybody’s Business By FLOYD W. PARSONS of thought without paying close attention to a fixed schedule and ita relation to the minutes on the clock. Tt was my privilege to sheerve seme of the practices used in the different capatte ments of the organization. Of much in- terest were the methods employed in fixing the limits of eredit for exatemers and the ealection of aecounts, From five to twenty per cent of the capital of every big retail corporation is tied up im accounts Teceiv- able, For this rewon the credit man of the large commercial izations today is Siar tinortint individual. In this partic= ular business the credit man is with collecting never leas than sixty-five per cent of the outatanding accounts each month, Experience has shown that the earlier the bills are got out the greater the tare of accounts collected, 1t is quite important to have your bills first in the hands of the debtors, On the other hand, It is not advisable to clase the month's aec- count before the Inst day of the month. Much care is exercised in extending the proper amount of credit to new customers, n sizing up a Tan's qualifications aa a eredit rile the individual's character and ability are placed before money, In fixing the limit. of tha risk the credit man basis his decision on the three C'p—character, capacity and capital. A customer may have both capacity and capital, but if he lacks | character there ia ne certainty that he will pay. When character and capurity of albil- ity are present, even though capital is lack- ing, the risk is a good one, for the man con create capital through his capacity, and his character will cause him to obligations. e method followed by this particular compuny is rather unusual, The name of each customer is written on a card, and the cards are Paced in visible files. The limit of the eredit allowed each customer is pasted on the card, and is fodirated by a enlored disk, Ao blow disk on the cord mens that the customer's credit is limited gt twenty-five dellara; black indicates a. credit of seventy-five dollars: yellow in- dicates one hun and fifty dollars: and ) three hondred dollars and up. When 7 card contains a reel disk it sijeriifiess that the account is closed, The aothorizers are furnished with five rubber stampa, and by means of these stampa every cha ticket bears a notice of the account's Limit All billa are pete daily, and it is heretons for o biller to note when a limit of credit has been exceeded by any customer, Whenever an account has passed the limit of risk the matter is brought to the atten- tion of the credit manager, and he either 0. K."s the enl jt risk or sends a polite letter te t ie customer asking that rae account be reduced before any further are made, The letter alao sug- cals that the company would be pleased to review information that might lead ta the extension of the credit Ibmit. The credit man always endeavors to meet new customers personally and form his opinions first-hand. He also bears in mind at all times that credit customers are more eriti- eal than cash customers. In collecting money the entire effort is based on courtesy and human interest. The practice is followed of having a definite understanding with each customer at the time the credit is extended as to when the account is to be paid. Under a new plan recently in ruled ench customer is asked to sign the sales check at the time of making # Partai: No accounts are per- mitted to drag along. The first collectlon letter ia. al only with the firm name, for the oversensitive customer is likely to hold the signer of a collection letter personally responsible if he thinks the letter carries a ating. Esach individual account is handled on its merita. Threats are never to in the first two letters, The language used is cordial, and an attempt ia made to peat out to the customer the fairness and berality of the howe, at the sume time indicating the necessity of the com any paying strict observance to a fixed a customer replica to a enol tion letter, and promises to pay on a certain date, the credit arkment immediately acknowledges this letter, mentioning and a eg the customer's promise to thera are never for pay his | FREE | TT; Trial strip : of Tirro. Mia] eey- pon bebow, a ke Stop that leak | _ this new way | ww To mend leaky hose; the neck ol «ow ater bottle; 4 broken Crot kery: torn sheet music: to wrap a gall elul: ta lanulaee wines; to nec! Preserving jars—tuse Tir, the new waterproofed mending Lape. Bauer & Black—special- iets ip La pes lor 2S. vears = fmbake it. I-xtra strong, extra alicky.. Clings to | ae glass, metal, rubber, # ee i paper, china, Mends some things tent- porurily, others perma: nenth, Ole Aloncdy Achy | of the loner ane Para ‘ You can color it to mateh the article mended. Try it. “Wanderfull" you “lh say. Taree Sigess Newell, PSc2 dium, fic; Large, Fos a Dry Shore fe. For Free Strip BAUER & BLACK, 2300 Dearborn St, Chicago, Mail me o strip of Tira. CURR oi eta sremtenrerere sie 2sichobecesatatae HE name VENUS is your guarantee of perfection. Absolutely crumble- proof, smooth and perfectly graded, 7 DEGREES 25 soft & black H med. hard B sok FH hard F firm 4H extra lard HB medaam—for gener) tse (fe per Gube of 12 belay Z ashes for 252 EB yoor dealer canna upely yoo write om American Lead Pencil (Go. 218 Pith Awe., Depe PL Mem York ik wo aboot the new VENUS EVERPOINTED PENCILS fedoc WEISS Gree bans ist Hmnn ge earraa — in eet che, or kan aly by Trade ioral Forces a maine money teaching, we ae ee ie seakeen, Chasis

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Feith the India is built for two ARTICULAR people choose the India because it is roomy, easy a ag and distinctive im appearance. like its and its carefully measured handl ae t : le eng the view. broad spread that doesn't With its ten amar? tibs (extra ribs for strength) and flexible windproof tips—the India can't turn inside out, Say India to get these exclusive India features. ROSE BROTHERS COMPANY, Lancaster, Pa. India vmbrella Ouarantecd "The litde wenbrella with the big spread" fps PO aNeé je y )) lection letters should al such a practice indicates plainly to the customer that the company has many wn- | paid accounts, A personal collection note | rather implies that all other customers pay up promptl one of the letters sent out by the credit man ask for a remittance by return mail, but on the other hand always stale a 8 ified day ar date. Tt is also policy of the company to avoid caging the impression that pay- ment ia requested usa the concer is temporarily in need of money. When the debtor gels a poll ager the request for payment on the news conce©m, even though he pays the sit he will likely wait again before paying subsequent bills to see if the company is a ieee ee situated. Caol- be based on ted in the pre~ Under no cir- the mutual obligation stipu liminary sales agreement. ‘| cumatances is it advisable to be apologetic in asking for the settlement of an account. Collection letters can be specific and dig- nified, while at the same time containing Ne aubject matter that is worded diplomati- cally. ‘onalderable suecest has followed the careful use of the telephone in collecting gecounts that are tyro months or more over= due. Moet people like to be considered busy, 80 the telephone call is based on the faumption that the delin id neglect to settle the bill has resulted from his pre- occupation with other matters. All excuses offered are carefully investigated, and when an untruth ia diseovered forceful action is taken, The fundamental thonghts hore in mind in writing collection letters are: ah es interest and compel attention; impel to prompt action; make it easy to remit. In order to effect the last-mentioned object, the company recently om nbd a plan of aving a check form at the bottom of each lection letter with the exception of the first mote mailed the customer. The idea ia that the check will be Med in with the amount duc, and the debtor will write the name of his bank in the blank space re- served for this paps the check. While the plan haa ht fair returna in the way of Srenittanenen it la said to have Ener fited the company to an even greater ex- ume i. The company’s sellicg met: «4 .- up to the minute, and ame . vised in accordance with the sea. on the subject. The concers, f= 5; one absolutely fixed price for ex L Whenever a sale ia j an elear out a line the screrte: - are bona fide. It ip the peolie | pany to refuse to handle any einai th eset tks Gea : y to mislead patria. stance, the noes ghoe that is machineroede oc the stamp “Bench Made.” A. le have beeen ir portant Laces Se Sear faired matter of the ssle, brut wat tie on ster it 15 jirced A geal me: » within. it oppartas eore ees, woe care i fot gay truth sfully tbat the eal stand behind its Among other things, the emma erdera for goods over the tees hours. (Customers reading the « advertisements in the erenicg pq wishing to purchase certais em out having to wisit the store the: can telephone the orders up ac! in the evening and ret ux> goods will be delivered to th- dey in nemrtpee cases nearly aes Ployed to sell to women 2: men. The men’s clo taken a leaf out of 1) selling women's clot hes g models to display Ties san! overcoats, hats, Suite, and = selling rule in practically el ope to describe each article as ie wi before showing it te the eas is that the word deseription m= appeal to the mind, thus evra. arcs — tea a when onee they are ta perience hast sahown that the 5 more quickly and affirmatively .: tent by creating a definite impulse in the to the ear than to the eve | mind of the customer to pay the bill. game — ibe first and eel aur » men, little folks and for a YO SEND US THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS: 1 Would you like to have more money? THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (More Than Two Milllon and a Quarter Weekly) TS fully protected by copyright and nothing that appears in it may br rom either wholly or in rere. without special pecmission. The use of cur ete quotations from them for advertising promotions amd shock-srlleg so never outhorized. ? 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ecroce the Bull of the pomful cullowers aad tuit Der, Scholls An- zl Arnch. Suppare wail st iFun ¢ ink aie 0! buriend! donc eo aceite bey he nia of *Flow, Price, 29 cen fom Reducer emer ween, frcecrace phe eoonzl gradwmoly re- Price, 745 cenis he Sreare Heel Puals {oan overran heels ody" nacigh. Prov, THE : | Ob Scholls Foot Comfort Week dune fF e 2g qe Scholls tol Comfort | Heef Foot troubles corrected easily, quickly SATURDAY EVENING POST Walk out of the store with feet made new! Tins is a ise you can believe —its truth is attested by hundreds of thousands of people, No matter what form of foot trouble you have—whether it is corns, callouses, bunions, cramped toes, tender heels, weak arches, tired and aching feet, or even an extreme case of flat foot—there is available to youa scientific remedy er appliance which will bring you certain, positive relief. Between this coming Saturday morning and Saturday night of next week, the week of June 17 ta 24— Dr. Scholl's Foot Comfort Week —a nationally organized effort to promote foot com- fort by bringing relief to every foot sufferer, in which thousands of leading shoe and depart- ment stores are participating, is under way. No matter what form of foot trouble you have, you can obtain relief in your own town — row. The work of a noted foot specialist For the last twelve years, Dr. Wm. M. Scholl pl ad himself almost entirely tothe specialized study of foot troubles. Thousands of cases of foot troubles have been examined, Aund out of this study, in laboratory and clinic, owt of this scientific searching for the under- lying causes of foot troubles and means by which can be corrected, have been developed methods and appliances and remedies for the relief of every form of foot ailment. Thousands and tens of thousands of people have already benefited from this work —mullions will enjoy the boon of foot comfort in the future as a resule of this modern science. Dr. Scholl's Foot Comfort Service in your foun Not alone content with having developed and perfected these foot comfort appliances and remedies, Dr. Scholl has devised a serrice— Dr. Scholl's Foot Comfort Service — which is avail- able to the public through a nation-wide organi- zation. In thousands of shoe and department stores are men who have been carefully trained in Dr. Scholl's methods, men who can determine the nature of foot and shoe trouble, who know which Dr. Scholl appliance of remedy will correct that particular condition. This service—this assurance of complete and lasting relief — is offered you in a apecial way this week, June 17 to 24. It is Dr. Scholl's Foot Comfort Week, Go to the nearest shoe or department store in your town that is headquarters for Dr. Scholl's Foot Comfort Service. See the window display and special demonstrations of Dr. Scholl's appli- ancesand remedicsandask to sce the manincharge. * © Then and there you can have your foot trouble corrected—no matter what that trowble is. You can walk out of the store with your feet made new! _ Examination over your stockinged feet. No charge for personal fitting service. So easily, so quickly you can have again shapely, active, comfortable feet. Take this Opportunity wow. NOTE: [f you canmoe locate the Dr. Scholl seore in your ciey, wrine us, We will gend you the name of the mearesr store and am ineereating new booklet, “The Feet and Their Care." Address The Scholl Mfg. Co. 713 WY. Schiller Se, Chicago, WL Branch Office: 62 W. 14th Se, New York City, For Canada, address The Scholl Mig. Co., Ltd., 112 Adelaide St, E, Toronte, Dr Scholls Foot Comfort Week June 17-14 Dh. Scholl's Foor-Eeseer eeliewee reved feet, genily eppeete pac arch and dee frituica the dediy"s aaraghe, Laghe and oem borin Dr, Soho sa Home Toearmenc tecdetes Bhe gheee neceuccicn for Foor Fev unal eam find — OF, Se hell's Pedico Fore Soap, Pediee Foot Baim and Pedico Fo Poweler — for duify wae. Price compen, fa.oc Dy. Scholl's Zino-pude protect and religes corr, Gallows, dani dou duced. Prive, 39 comes 7 FREE OFFER | Scholl Mig. Co., Depe. 1008 | 213 W, Schiller G0. Chicage ! Please atrul me a ample of | Cr. Scholl's Zitus-packs ame 1 a cope of Dr. Scholl's bowklee, | “The Beet gerd Theis Care," po i Man

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THE HILDREN fret as the weary hours drag on sultry summer days and nights. Even the elders crow irritable under sustained clis- comtort. But in provident house- holds the soothing breezes from electric fans spread cool comfort for the entire family. In thousands of homes Robbins & Myers Fans preserve health and happiness during hot weather. Qinetly but certainly they make possible repeated nights of refresh- ing sleep and days of cheery living. Cool, clean columns of air, gentle SATURDAY EVENING POST or strong, are always available from R&M Fans. For twenty-five years, now, RaM Fans have been providing summer comfort. Every R&M Fan is powered by a genuine Robbins & Myers Motor, insuring long, un- troubled service, Look for the R&M symbol —the sign of a breeze—on the guard of the fan you buy. It is your guarantee of satisfaction, Good dealers every- where carry a complete line = of Ras Fans in all types and sizes for homes, offices, hotels or clubs. Robbins & Myers Fans and Motors © THE ROKELNS & MELBS COMPA T SPAR O PLE LD, Olio - BRANT EOAD, Or jah 17.

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OW clean and snowy-white they look! And just a few minutes ago they were gray and soiled. There’s nothing like 1 Ami for cleaning white shocs—all kinds execpt kid. Put it on with a wet brush—not too wet—then rub it off when —and every speck of dirt and grass stain disappears. Bon Ami aésorés the dirt. It doesn't paint it over with a thick, ky coating, and it doesn’t fll up the seams. When the original white has worn off, avoid the pasty look leaning your shoes with Bon Ami before applying a whitener. Bon Ami Aas many uses—read the lit appestte, THE BON AMI COMPANY, NEW YORK Bon + fox white shoes. etc Principal uses of Bon Ami— for cleaning and polishing Batheuhs Winders Fine Katchen Urenasls 9 Mietors White Woombwork Tile Alurtinum Ware White Shera Hrass, Cepper and The Handa Aockel Ware linoleum ond Glass Baking Dishes Congoleum "Miva? Seratched re" Cake or Powder whicheoer vou prefer

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Do you want your teeth ™ to ache and get ugly? Proper care now will save you from this spectre of the future. ' You may not realize it, but the chances are that “‘Acid-Mouth,” a frequent cause of decay, is already at work on your teeth, eating into them slowly but persistently. Nineteen out of every twenty persons are said to have “Acid-Mouth.” And so you have a slim chance of being free from this condition—unless you do something to guard against it. Pebeco is the tooth paste that counter- acts ‘‘Acid-Mouth.” Thousands of men and women use Pebeco night and morn- ing to keep their teeth clean and sound and to check the destructive work of ** Acid-Mouth.” - In addition to protecting teeth against decay, Pebeco chases disagreeable tastes fram the mouth, leaving a sense of refresh- ing cleanliness. From the first to the last squeeze, Pebeco rolls out of the tube rich and creamy.

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B ST S3 mustrated Weekly he 8 6y Benj. Franklin - aan. 4 — wif ie, Fs ' _ _ = ; ) Sak é ‘- ~S —— JUNE 24, 1922 fel ce =e CA ; te Ee ae i; F | : | Parker —

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Pla ormcin Dei, Mewrn Fruit [label = pemeved) conte pads ine bucket in equal parte ebvewpypeted dees morn seal pomer de ~ ed in leyern. Let sured 3 became, Take out can: im- Yo merecin bot water for am metent aqly; her ager cuwaihing ariad gale chaely under top RIGHT IN THE CAN No preparation ~ No freezer required ~ No lurning “A Turn cut a fir eylinder of Examen Trait — ready for iamping, conveniend pers Sele Lo Oany Cee and ume Unie! bol-weather det : = Nate Dhrer baits be beer far ftergieg, aa trad) Ceri Surteb ort if a prefett oplinder Wf rag prefer i) hander, uae mare seh a freepe ot leager of etiee— Gb colt cer lees fae phn. Sena jor Aacse Abr tee Anodes Write the =~ ul au: mew dul CUM fmy cpecralowaye ta | could be more delicious — what mare htti | dainty summer dessert or salad? Yet how simple to prepare —by this new Da idea of freezing fruits right in the can! Simply plas of Det Monte Fruit— Peaches, Grated Pineapple) Apricots, Blackberries, Loganberries, Raspberm Strawberries —unopenéd—in a bucket of ice and Leave for three hours and then turn out one of the ina frozen fruit delicacies you have ever tasted. Whatew the variety, it's refreshingly delicious — sliced as a sert, cut in cubes in sherbet glasses, or sliced on lett with mayonnaise, as a novel frozen salad. But be Sure they're Del Monte Of course, thisis a distinctively Det Moorre recommend J you know, there are different grades of canned fruits on thee kee—each with a different quality of frost and a different net af the sirup in which the fruit is packed. But De. Most is always the same—a definite, dependable standard. The frat has the same perfection; the sirup is always nich enough oie perfectly; and, more important, to taste night for a dessert, walt sweetening, just as it comes frozen from the can. _* That's why an ever-increasing number of housewives ate al It so important to insist on Der Mowre Products—not only oem cial uses Like this—but for thrifty, every-day service all year co CALIFORNIA FACKING CORPORATION San Francisco, California

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 1 No Aighway engineer or road official should be withowl a copy of our fafestomannal, “ Raga Matntenamce eh Tarde." Our nearest office well oladly send free copy on request. The Future of a Community often lies in the Road Commissioner’s hands— Although the Road Commissioner never This popular road material is unequalled for ‘heads the ticket’? on Election Day, there are building new roads, for resurfacing worn-out few public officials charged with duties more macadam, for repairing and maintaining im- vital to the public welfare. proved roads of every type. Special grades are Good roads are indispensable to the progress marth 200, BpRGIe aes, and happiness of every community, With good Tarvia roads are an indispensable part of roads, getting to town is made a matter of minutes every Good Roads Program. They are com- —not miles; business flourishes, hauling costs paratively low in first cost, and are so much decrease, property values rise, children enjoy the more economical over a term of years that the benefits of a central graded school, community saving makes a more extensive road program and social life is broadened and made more possible, enjoyable. The future holds forth great promise. If you want smooth, dustless, mudless roads -Throughout the country our engineers have in your community 365 days in the year, write demonstrated to thousands of public-spirited road to our nearest office for free copy of our illus- officials the great saving resulting from a definite trated “General Tarvia Catalog.’’ You'll find policy of Tarvia construction and maintenance. it interesting. | In order to bring the facts before taxpayers aa well as road au. | da Litt! ie ; 1% thorities, The Barrett Company has organized a Specal Service | ||! ie Hh Department which keeps op to the minute on all road problema, i A } Gomchal Sardiée Dapatinent i ~ i \ if | yf | 1f you will write to the nearest office regarding road condi bi: tons or problem in pour vicinity, the matter wall have the prompt attention of experienced engineers. Ths service is free for the asking. If you want defer roear and lian fers, thia Department can greatly asst you. shoei Tokdo Lattebs Hethichem: Elimibeth Buifala Omaha Denver St. John, NH Malifaa, NM. 2. ons 2RETT COMPANY, Limited:

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June M4, Chicken Crogucties with White Sance 2cophels cone! chickce I teaapeondtul ietnon juice ty (heaaneenlul wal fraspennal aceageed onken Le bere unto celery salt: fil desized!) 1b coplul white 2 _ "Miz ingrelils be the ureler ae (Coo! the mictune. Roll in bealen cee, Caen ig. crams kee hid y hat Ceteee The white sauce b oronde as i alla 1a: F tabibes| eee — t TiS f etif fuel mit i babies poten on Tu Sak and poppet bo be Met: Cris = add Hoar, elinrieg tn a kon th paste. “Then wth ne “tk gtadiually Siar ever the fire isl lemonih amd thick. Eno irving The ceequethe ae sitchen Crisco to. fll the Letrle aks me ter st balerha lull {We sugecst that you order J werds.) Pet the Crisco iy ot it bettle am dj healt 1 grodualiy tneil 4 cnum bal Tread dropped into tt becomes aoe bien in 4 esconds, Aotsoe Uke Conon dors aot. eputber or bell qver @hem the crequeties are dimpped intev That is beraues it contains no murleture Fried Foods! * AnA BC Method for securing All Three Yes, you can use thrifty Crisco again and again. After decp: frying simply strain through a cheese-cloth to remove any parti- cles of food, Then Crisco is ready to bake light, tender cakes— delicious and digestible pastry. N TALKING over cooking matters with I women, we find that the thoughtful housekeeper thinks further than the favor of the food she serves. With: woman's mother instinct she deeply concerns herself with its digestibility as well. A crisp outside crust, surrounding @ tender inside, is her ideal in fried foods. For there she has flavor combined with digestibility. Thousands of good home cooks are daily attaining this cooking ideal—and very sim- ply too. They deep-fry in wholesome Crisco. As an example of their method, we sug- gest that you treat your family to some- thing very particular in chicken croquettes —following the recipe given above on this Page. Now let us give you the reason for the resulting brown, savory crust and the tender inside—with its fresh flavor of real chicken: Crisco (of pure, vegetable origin) with- stands 455 degrees without smoking. Nat- urally, such extreme cooking heat quickly New Digestibility New Fineness of Flavor New Economy seals the outside of the food with a crip brown crust. Then the fat simply can't soak through to the inside. Notice, too, that Crisco leaves behind no tell-tale frying odors. New Variety in your Menus You will find, we believe, that Crisco deep-frying will introduce new variety into your menus. For example: Doughnuts— with an old-fashioned New England flavor. Patties—with a taste to waken drowsy appetites. Different and tempting ways to serve potatoes. Delightful and econom- ical ways to use up left-overs. And, of course, you can effect a very welcome saving by following this simple rule in making light cake and flaky pastry: Wherever a recipe calls for a certain tity of expensive butter, simply use }s less of economical Crisco. . When you order Crisco ask your grocer if he knows of any other shortening which stays sweet and wholesome indefinitely without ice- box help. An exceptional cook book for 1c Entitled “A Calendar of [heners," ik was weleten by zt inn Harris Mell. bearer wiking wlitue of Cle Lachurs" IE ome foeefaal Et gives tb5 exclusive precip. Ans com- plete clinser memes sgn lot plete Cooking. timc table For delicious cakes which stay fe hint l il co Ll a fresh longer. E av ew ms mi He yee are lt ma beg bet E = =| er ima Seale line For digestible and flaky pastry. frabol Alngerueh this cok erweke ro. th ke Be ry 1 a ¥ F pa ‘ormia, store Lhan 306.8 For crisp, digestible fried foods. inne ls = Cris fer 10a: in large: oar Oren iM nile Ba See. i . ae ee Small, medium and large sized cans Crisco is also made and sold in Canada ea Oa CXS hy ES Swi sae

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—_———— Publlahed Weekly Comp he Curtis Publishing. TH E SA TU. RDA Y peur’ Lif “= goign ae goes KVENING POST Founded A°D' 1728 4y Benj. Franklin ml Gemdaan, WC. Coprrigh:, M22 he The Curris in 5 Ps Cempeny bn the United Soaice and Greet Britain Asbvorthainat Tires ior rpehdence Savard, Fhiladelphia Gtenriens Sureet = he - ie 194 de. 72s corr Title Registered in U.S, Patent Offices amd im Foreign C canaries = PHILADELPAIA, PA., JUNE 24, 1922 $2.00 THE FEAR George Horace Lorimer | EBITOR | Churchill Williams, FS.Bigelow, | A.W Neall, Anhur Mech oogh, | TE. Costain, Associate Editors Entered af Second= Clase Petter, Movember 16 ETS, 09 the Pod Gllbce at Philadelphia, Winder the Act of March &. 179 Adedbiena] Entry os Second-Class Matier oi ] Cobombos, 0,03 Feeretor, WL, ot Chica. LL, | #1 Ertl regratis, [rol opal at Des Moline, be Ensered as heaend- a Blatter at the Per=titice Deperteee et, Ciogere, Canale Number 52 HE CHANGING EAST APRIL TENTH, exactly five onths after the opening of the ‘whington conference, five hun- ed Japanese troope sailed from in the province of Shan-tung In full kit and with tiny em- the Rising Sun fluttering from sof their rifles, they marched anaport that conveyed them was the first atep in the actual .of a strip of land thet had i interest of the world ever ‘igning of that recipe for ruin cown ms the Versailles Treaty. inconsiderable areas of earth he eye and stirred the lmagina- toples. That valor-enshrined ‘fick and soil known as Verdun, ¢, Was long the barometer of anes, Ypres and Amiens once opea and feara of civilizathon, tice ended anxiety in these With peace the trouble of really began. limitation of armament, with riant by-products of peace and the Pacifie, waa the ovtetand- (of the Washington conference, centre a larger sentimental on ite fate not only depended degres the future American wards Japan buat peace be n and (China an well, + sailing of those five hundred ‘copa from Tsing-tau repre ret fruits of the historic gather- the vision and statesmanship Harding. Like the conference, nt from Shan-tung was only a Tremendous difficulties lie in a translation of the Washing- ' conelliation and concession Wlities. rganized China WG itself faces freah complica- | develops from the fact that ed to Japanese acquiescence tingtom agreement. Japan's npensation for her improve ! leased territory will make sat of the railway—approxi- 1 million dolara—which waa | that China thought that she > pay, a detail. This impend- bill for improvements will arly fifty million dollars, ied and bankrupt China isin no position to meet this obligation unless she Japan. This would only tighten the already strong Japanese economic ung. Business retirement & not alwiis coincident with military withdrawal, ike from adding to her already heavy indebtedness to Japan, and is un able juately the nook Bat zone, then the Japanese will feel justified in detaining troope to protect the mortgage she holds. oting her best energies to the patriotic task of raising the funds to buy out Holy Province—Confucius was born in Shan-tung ntanglements of antegonlam and suspicion, and the highway that leada eady strewn with problems, many of them difficult of solution, The peace, calls for eodperation. road = wisiired concession that marker discussions and treaties mustanimate mt of their significunt dictates. For tolerant internationalism i# eseential ation of the international economic and political structure. e American who threw his hat inthe air when the conferenceadjourned, and everything in the Pacific was over but the shouting, has another ques AE the very moment that China By Isaac fF. Marcosson Firat Uchida, Janonere Minteter of Forelga A ffales coming. Theat next twelve months in the Orient will be, in many respects, as deli- cite as these preceding the conference were ticklish. What are the consequences, go far, of the Washington meeting? That they will he more constructive than the results of the Versailles deliberation almost goes without saying. At Paria the element of nationgalistic polities was the paramount motive. At Washington toleration was conspleucdus in shaping policjes, Wheres disillusion and discontent have been the heritage of the Paris treaty, the docu- ments formulated at the American capital have stirred the universal consciousness to the realization that in intelligent oo- operation lies the salvation of the human rice, I went to the Far East to find out the actual eltuation. From a Europe rent with an unrest miscalled peace, I shifted the ecene of obgervation to an Agia on the eve af' significant evelution, I expected to find the astern world agog with epecu- lation over the work of a conference that had saved a obnaiderable portion of it, cpeciaiy Japan, from bankruptey or worse. [ixeept for the thinking class in Japan, and a much smaller Western- elucated enterie in Peking and Canton, there waa very little genuine interest, Instead of rising to the opportunity cre- ated by the immense moral support that she received at Washington, China, for example, through the jealousies and in- trigues of her two principal war lords, had been converted into an armed camp, Reaction in Japan is fighting army reduc- tion to the last ditch. Ewen the people of Shan-tung are more disturbed abet pratt disclosures and bandit depredations than any kind of realization of what the Amerti- can people have done for them. So it goes, Diplomacy of Good Will HESE are merely a few of the immed |- ate consequences of the Washington confertnen, Likewise there ara many compensations, even at this early date, In this and in succeeding articles an at- tempeé will be made to interpret the results in Japan and China. T journeyed to the Orlent with an open mind. The moment you mention Japan the worda “pro” and “anti" rise up, There stems to be an unwrithen law that everything written about the Island Empire must fall under one of these two heads. But there i¢ a middle ground between the adulation of junketeera for whom the Japancs: stage every phase of thelr life, in order ta create a favorable impression, and the blind prejudice of those whose opinions are formed before they leave their American port. It is this middle ground, based on the facta as [ have found thern, that I shall take. Jiist as Germany alter the war had te bet analysed) notin the heat and peumcioon, engendered by the conflict but in her relationship to a larger economic structure that ia permanent, aie is facing elvil wer, 80 must Japan be viewed aa a cog in an international business atructure that must know ach to the Washington conference was cluttered up, eo te spenk, with the neither caste, color nor creed, Plain honesty is the one requirement. A distracted and disorganized world, weary of the ravagea of war and the no leas disturbing bickers of Perhaps these twelve months of grace and the gospel of a new diplomacy of good will will go down in history as the Year of Reorganization and Recuperation. Polltical peace will mean economic peace, Before I enter upon the real narrative two preliminaries must be disposed of, One bs toexplain the difficulty of getting at anything like o real estimate of the Eastern situation, The other is the political and economic approach to the Washington conference.

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4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Tnnumerable obstacles beect the path of investigation in Japan and China. In Japan you have, frat of all, the language barrier, Many intelligent Japanese think they can speak and understand English, but they Isbor under a delusion, Even when they do apenk English the habits of evasion and indirection frustrate frank expression. Few Orientals are frank, This peychological handicap bs helght- ened by the Japanese desire to put something over. Ut is like the atrong sense of curioaity— it is really eeplonage—born tn every son of Nippon. Even the fairest-minded alien in- stinctively puta himself on guard the moment he arrives in Japan, and keepe fk ap ntil he leaves, When you talk to aliens who have lived there or who have been there, you are caught between the Japanophobes and the Japanophiles, In self-defense you fall back on your impressions and stand by them, In China the task ie no emsler, Nearly every foreigner has a pet tuchun—military governor—or a favorite minister. Out of long contact with it [ used to think thet German, French, Hungarian, Folish and Czecho- Slovakian propaganda held the world's en- durance record for persistency and prevaricn- tion, but it ts amateurish alongside the flood of inspired wtteranece in the land of the Celes- tials. When an alien has lived for ben yeours in (China he either becomes a propagandist or an adviser. If you are in doubt about the status of a man in Peking you are safe in labeling him an adviser and betting it go at that. Poor old China has had to pay the over- head frelght for all this expert advice, which extends from finanee to sanitation. Inci- dentally, if ever a country needed disinfer- tanta in its public life, that country is China, This, however, i another and later story. I could not have gone to the Far Enst at a more opportune time, Like Europe, the vast domain that teema with one-hall of the human race, and where population is doubled every fifty years, is plaatie as never before, The influences at work today will shape the coming centuries. Moreover the future of China, Tndla, Ris- sia—for the Slave overrun the north of Asia— to aay nothing af Japan, is of immense signifi- cance to the United States, Aside from the Americun finuncial and commercial stpke in the Orient and our stewardehip of the Philippines, we have a definite moral obligation to China, growing out of John Hay's enuncia- tion of the open-door policy for her. That socalled open door long conatituted one of the maths, and [ might add, the jokes, of the East, Up te the Washington conference it served mainly to provoke Platitudinous professions that only camouflaged selfish aggression. Tt was like that traditional helping hand held out to China, that invarinbly bid the itching palm. Most European powers openly preached the Golden Rule, ane privately practived the doublecroea, You do not wonder that a hearty dislike for foreignera grew up in China, and that Japan, prize imitator that abe is, laid her aggressions tothe uplifting precedent established by Germany, Foussia, England and France who pinched off chunks of China almeat at will. Bayonet and Sample Case ST as delay, compromise and petty politica have been the postwar curse of Europe, a waa the conflict of national assimilations, which always masked commercial penetration, the bane of the East. Ching has been the hattleground of most of this commercialiam that masquer- acded as statesmanship. Everybody but America partic- ipated in the great game of grab. Tt followed that in China business leaned too much on politics and too little on permanently constructive initia- tive and enterprise. It helped to aggravate the squeeze, or graft system. In the same way big business in Japan hes abways been tied up to the government, a3 waa the case in the Germany that was, It was really fewdal in spirit and organization. But there was a fundamental difference hetween Japan and Germany: Japanese efficiency in com- meter and industry is a vastly overestimated quantity. With the Germans efficiency was the real thing. Now vou can see why Far Rastern politics and business became entangled in just the same way that they are in- volved in Europe. You cannot diacuss one without tread- ing on the toes of the other. By the same token it is imposible to deal with China without involving Japan. What immediately strikes the observer in these parta ia the extraordinary mistake that Japan made in reading the paycholagy of the Chinese. Japan's whole economic well-being depends upon fricndly relations with ber nearest and biggest neighbor, who is abso her biggest customer. Fiuceunt Takokhorhi, Japaaene — SS Fle ener Yot for years she has ape parently done everything in her power to antugonize her. The wsurpation hy Japan of aact hority in Sham tung waa merely one evi- dence of it, This antagonien jeopardized peace in the Pa- etic and, together with the mid and suicidal race for armament, would have even tually precipitated o serious erlsis, anal perasl aby Woirrat, This leads me to an observation hearing on Japan that may aa well be cingenec of here as in any other place, ee = We, Clang Fee FI, Premier of CAlaa In brief, it is this: The real Japanese prob- lem, whether in China, Siberia or California, is funcdumentally an economic and not a race problem. Touchthe pocketbook and youstart trouble. Japan's misfortune ia that there are two kinds of Japanese, One is the type you meet in Japan, who ean bold their own socially and commercially anywhere. The other is a lower eaete, which seeme to constitute the bulk of the penetrators in foreign countries, They are the small tradesmen and farmers who not only segregate but set up in their little worlds abroad all the institutions of the homeland. These inchade the vice quarter, without which no Japanese com- munity is complete. This is true of Shan-tung, Slheria or any other place: where the Japaneso take economic root. Overshadowing this is the fact that they cut inte the business of the white man, and the inevitable friction, born of trade rivalry, develops, The Japanese business penetrator in Asia has usually accompanicd the soldier, This has been especially the case in Shan-tung and Siberia. When the sample case follows the bayonet the commercial envoy is net inclined toward tolerant amiahility. He gets his hooks into concessions and ties up leases with military authority behind him. Hence Japan can aflferd te withdraw in various quarbers and not materially disturb her economic domination there. When you study the Japanese at home you also dis- cover that just as there are two distinct grades in trade exploitation so there are two distinet states of mind. The Japanew on his own heath is, in the main, a more ablinac= tive person than the average Japanese you find abroad. The moment they leave their native shores the Nipponese seer bo acquire a pride and cockiness that have helped Juma 2a, | to aggravate the tense bogge be the commercial condition that | bon described. This, however, @ incidental La » take the highroad to Washgne: 7» real milepost was eet up when Jopes the world and conquered Chea There is no doubt that Japan waa depe the fruita of her vietory largely thoy influenes of Fawesia. A vital pert oi fruits wae the tip of the Later he, Thssia padd a bey price for ber ces berause the germ of the RumoJusuee was thia bit of Manchara dominated » Arthur, which Fiesta beter led, lowt to Japan in the stragghe of 1M ue in whith a great white rece bowed for ¢ time to the prowess of the peflow cum. With her triumph over Roms the sion of Japan aa a world entity bye is no need of rehearsing ber eorch-& rise, The AngloJapanese Alhanre. wt really a coalition against Resi pe her progress and enabled her tem 20 row of the powers that be. Asiatic Politics SDA entered] upen a new era, wrk - the dominant agency. She bors the same relation towards Asiatic devel that Germany did towards Europe. | for expansion was keen. Being feodal nnd conception, she naturally enpley or lesa feodel methods, (Germany be model, militarigm grew into o fetm, rama bese Fase: began to rival the cry os the national emblem, There are many well-informed pe beliews that if Japan im her greet bes tery ower Russia had made as dis China, promulgated a Monre: [ex Asia, and nude herself the ieeg speak, of the integrity of the o inetead of Ivseoming bitten wu inlistic ambitions for a Paoli would have been spared oo international peacthon au Behind all the Japon Farwer and territory weer! reason. De grew out a! become a vital work pm day—namely, the pee and growing populates inadequate food supply caee of Japan she peeded 9 food. Hier native and ai and steel remain totaly = for her indwstrial sees. T) v/ reason for her penetration | where she control thre/eci iron mines today, Jigst as the | war was fundamentally peep the Teutenic desire for word domination, so waa the situates © East, which made the Washingto o necessary, due solely to Japan's need room in the race for a commerca © that was not without. its aggresive ad irritating features. Then cume the Great We was expelled from Asia, and Japan, her acolyte place in Shan-tung. The trouble that Russ ' herself in Manchuria was duplicated by the wb Japan sowed for herself when she sought to perpt self in China. Had she withdrawn gracefally 9 have avoided much of the suspicion felt wer America and elsewhere. Excen ber treaty colle land, underwent a change of heart. It i no secret now that the Twenty foisted on China were partially inspired by a fre belief that Germany would win. (Onby med ' would have fostered such « momstrom: me Japan, as most people know, made kay whie & of war ahone, Ewen before America got inte o capitalized civilization’s hour of tragedy eth s expansion that was followed by an ony of gee inflation, for which she will soon pay der. T economic collapse which hes towched every 2 with the puncturing of the silk boom is Jom This also is a later story. The big fact eb = here is that with the signing of the Vere Japan stood at the crossroads of her destiny. Wh wspirations were at that time, a mew Asiatic de! = With Russia in collapee, with the Germe / world domination ended —both of ther mao pires had been potent factors in the Far Bac ' of national antagoniem, and with them ow = (Cotinaed on Page #7!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST § ESS THAN THE DUST ‘BIE THORN ran distracted fingers rough her dark cropped curls, protest ifn in her eyes, I'm telling you she's hopeless!" she ed vehemently. “Out and out hope it's barefaced flattery to let it go at that. You in about it either. [f anyone asks me what I call that mousefaeed infant on us in the middle of the (Ltell ‘em I call ita rotten outrage. Her ——* to the best of my recollection, mo one has asked dear child.” commented the fannel-elacd gentle wing beside her, “Good shot, Pete. Oh, in a ny met the train, did you? Well, you shall have es, Now get your breath and pull yoursell te d tell us just exactly what is the matter with this ror. You have an attentive audience—or am ating. Robert?" recoageerating,” replied the man leaning against grimly. “I don't give a whoop in Hades what are talking it ['H give olla. apiece Iking. You pr nokee than ick-headed n with the charming ed at him jen) ly, is golden, ‘ll, the poor Thorns pre- e silver of f party last sbert the the Lord's pool, ‘ou Later," mal!" eom- od Thorn ly Al ng quali- a With a certain ky an thew- es if he skull on n of the wouldn't (le copper i hand- al wreath Td even long pur- rk with ‘il ends ng tasty ma is our roidered iiddle in whic let- lo think let him marked ntively. re hooch on the one can dower "t ndeed,"" brother wiry cae i apiece er last mpeg me ike four dear T"" | plens— FLEUVUIFT RATED By Frances Noyes Hart Br Mar Witrow "And it's none of your business that it didn't happen bo be four. Four is a very good number ——* “Tf 1 ever catch you taking four cocktails,” he asaured her, “your diet for a long, long time will consiat entirely of certified milk and the very best bread that money ean buy." “Oh, stuff! Six nights a week you don't know what anyone in this place is doing—you and your everlasting paper, Anyway, it ian't just a hang-over that he's got: he and Polly had the best row you ever heard out of an animal house just before lunch." “Charming, charming eouple, the young Grahuarnes. Life of the place, arent they? Is it indiscrest to ask what caused the—er—discussion?™ PREFTYTON “Tn tte Gleamiag, GA, My Dariing, When the Digits are Sim aad Lew —— “Discussion? Oh, boy, if this waa a discus- sion, the Battle of the Marne waa a debate!" Bahbie wrinkled her absurd scrap of a nose in luxurious reminiscence. “Believe me, you eould have heard what Robert thought of Paula right aut in the middle of Texas, and you wouldn't have had to strain your ears any, at that. That boy surely was shouting pretty!" “What abet?" “Oh, because Polly'd sold The King. You know—that police dog he waa eo mad about? Well, of course she had two perfectly god reasons: Bob had absolutely refused to buy her those long green earrings she sent home, ao she needed the money; and then Ramen had given her the most. fascinating animal, about four inches square, called Black Butterfly; ashe says it's a dog, and she was worried that The King might ait down on it by mistake and ——' “By heavens, you women!" cut in Rodman Thorn, a far-off note of passionate resentment shaking his low voice, “So ehe sold the poor devil's disg, did she? The only thing on God"s earth that gave him a mo mont's happiness! I swear you pasa belief, the lot of you—and every Last one of you can stand up in front of an altar and take an oath with a straight face to love, honor and obey ua till death do us part! Thank God for the mistakes of othera! TI know one fine young fellow who's going to profit by them." “You fancy your- self a good deal as Roddie the Ironelad, don't you, darling?" inquired his sister in- dulgently. “ Well, be- lieve me, the day's going to come when you'll fall so hard that you'll break every hone in your beely, and your head too. It'll probably be for seme Iitth: fussy= haired queen out of the third row at the Winter Garden; aul serve you bally well right, at that, Speak- ing of queens, that prize from Paris is due to turn up here any minute. Slve waa com- ing over just ws fast as she could skip from one set of horrors into another. (h, lady, that blur sait—I con see it yet!” “But what did you find so particularly agitating about her, dear child?" “Well, the fact that she was alive and moving araund waa enough toagi tate any- one with two eyes. She wears skirts down to her ankles, and her hair around her bend in braids, and mo more powder on her face thana—thanaclam,” Babbie's vivid and sophisticated amall countenance was brushed with stern disgust. “Ugh! | know the kind—nasty, low- minded, holy little boasts [""

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fi THE SATURDAY EVENING POST june 24, 5 “Now, now," yon'l' / murmured Hod Te bes warningly. “The San Frases i mere fact that It's yor * you consider fie, oy ae Godiva an evil- "Apres minded prude for oT oe not bobbing her al pe hair la ne reason of me le | for branding this time,” pr child of the Old the treats World ——" don “1 “Qh, shat up!" PE et The overwrought BOGE: | eritic searched woulda’: feverishly through me with her meshed silk chatter a hag. "Give us a meerctacm light, darling, and had o rie; don't talk so lyicg bes much: you with ‘Che havent seen ber, arrived ¢ Just because she's from Fi been out of Amer- printed rm fea for a century fold toes OF 50 if 10 excuse “Ob, a for her turning Tragedy, | into a Manchu ratily Joy peasant ora Pote- ss gonian serf, ia it? Babbie= : She ——" Wiig “God forgive Darer init you,’ said Rod have ye, compussionately, ber” “Mr. Wells never * aes would. Thestudy Miss Ca of the social aya- interent tem has obviously purely p never claimed barry. your attention, “Mir little one. Also weary “tor I've been given to jue art understand that day fron the young person too: all is a purely Euro moo = pean product. to pee Possibly the her Fes French conception “Ka of the jewne fille een fe: and the British of - eters the flag pper "The Staff Fou're Getting Aeay With Glee Me a Pala TAatd Tura Neuralgia Fate a Treat" Moti would “Wika i “Oh, hire ao hall!" advised Babble whole-heartedly, “Tt's absolutely sickening the way you're getting to talk, Rad. You may be a dramatic critic, but that’s no reason for using so many asinine words that everyone thinks you're an agent for some new dictionary. , [t's darned embarrassing for me, I can tell you. Joan's the only one that ever sticks up for you, and she does it because ahe me - make Pete madi I wish to the Lord you'd cut it As for your jecne fille, no one called Sarah Anne Canteins hed had better try pulling any of that Continental stuff around here, even if she has a dead American father and a live French mother. Oh, Joan! Jo-an, come on in and watch the tennis; Pete's got two sets straight from the Western Wizard.” ‘Good stull,” commented the lady named Joan, hauling up her pony sharply, and swinging to the ground. “Take him home, Barker, and tell mother I'll want the car at seven. Hi, fellow citizens! You're looking rather fetching in that orange affair, Babbie, my girl. Don't stop playing, boys, Afternoon, Baldur the Beautiful.” Rodman Thorn grinned at her, unperturbed. “Back at you, huntresa of men, and delight of my soul. Want a cushion?" “Wanttwo. Anda cigarette; no, on second thoughts, a box of the littl: darlings. Anything to drink around here, honorubele Ioestess 7" “ Etienne’s bringing out some ginger ale pretty soon, and the Wizard brought a flask, bless his blueeygs. Joan, have you seen hort" “Seen whol" Miss Joan Claridge curled her diminutive self up compactly on the searlet cushions, struck a match” en the sole of one tan boot with professional dexterity, and bestowed an approving glance from her sea-blue eyes on the man beside her, “You're disgustingly good-looking in flannels, aren"t you, Hed? Still no hope for an honest, hard-working girl?" “Nata hope,” confirmed the impervious Red, “The line of aspirants still forme to the right, however, Do these unaerupulows little curls grow around your eara of their own free will, Joan, or do you get them there by brute forceT" Pike power," explained the owner of the honey-colored curls. Her minute dalntiness turned! the workmanlike polo costume into purt travesty—in a moment, surely, it would fade and dissolve into pale taffetas and foaming --™ God bless the Latin race!” back her ears or not, lnees—the brown erash was os absurdly incongruous os the harytone voice which seemed to emerge from the depths of her shining boots with all the startling effect of ventrilo- qubsm. Miss Claridge could ride os hard, swear as loud and drink aa competently as any man of her acquaintance, but no stain of hardness or recklessness or weariness had brushed the fairylike loveliness of her small countenance as yet. Her indifference to public or private opinion waa as genuine as the rose-petal eolor in her cheeks; the only thing in the world that she feared was the possibility of being considered even remotely respectable by any mem- ber of the widely assorted elrele of friends, enembes and acquaintances that made up her world. No breath of such asuapicion had clouded herserenity for some time, however, “Lud, Babbie! Are these instruments of torture doped?" “T think maybe they are," replied the proud owner of the cigarettes hopefully, “Ramon locked awfully mya- terious when he gave them to me, and murmured some thing about poppied dreams," * More apt to be popecyed, if you ask me; aig hk io what o taste! Since when has the Argentine Apollo be come Ramon te you, my good child? I thought that our Polly had him roped, tied and branded.” “Well, she has, rather," admitted Babbie frankly, “Tye only known him for about ten days, but it dors seem sort of awanky to go on calling anyone Sefior Mendoza when be calls you his littl rose of darkness—eh, whatT" invoked Joun with fervor. “Tt'll go right ahead in ite sunshiny, benevolent, whole- hearted way, whether Polly gnashes her teeth and lays It's a great consolation to me, though I couldn't give it any silver cup aa a judge of te- baceo, No use struggling—I'm belng driven to the strong man's refuge! I saw a perfectly maddening pipe when T was in town yesterday, lying on a litthe: aofa of white velvet all by itself in the jeweler'’s window, It was black as Polly's heart, with a green jade sash around ite precious tummy, and it was exactly the right size for me. Are you listening, Rod?" ~ “Breathlessly,"” Rod agured her “But my interest ie purely abstract. Tam in oo condition, financial or emo- tional, to shower trifles of ebony and jade on any creature that breathes. I have a nice brown meerschaum that's entirely at your disposal, however—pretty a thing as ter, Babbie—is she devastating as all that’ Vx though you were going into erape any minute © we Devastating!" lamented the stricken Habb« “he's the worst dud you ever saw; I coulda’ c= if L tried a million years. You know those hick ¢ we used to pile over to so Lest fal] —the ome 0 St. Elmo and East Lynne and DUnele Tor’: «1 tent, and that we got thrown out of beesce | hysterics, and went on as though he had wives all through the most sickening part af the | Remember? Well, I give you my sacred wrt that she looks as though she'd been hired ta the heroine, and the manager was thinking ol because ahe wasn't good enough. She was too I could yell when I think of ber.” You'rs certainly taking a great weight of © said Joan languidly. “One more siren in our oi just about break my spirit; I'm thinking of mow mental anguish aa it is. But why all the apr: Didn't I hear somewhere that Mrs. Carstairs ‘. Canada?" “That's why all the agony,” explained Rev hly. “She went yesterday: her stepmother optrated on tomorrow, and she had to kerr & awful hurry without arranging anything—emet! made me promise te look fier this — this mm the creature might feel strange and uncamiertah® she'd been five years in a convent and bede® in America since she was two. She mace po down and meet her, and take her to the lub acd and the races. Thank God we hado‘t gop ret house, or I'd probably have had to take kerb to bed. Ags it is, Mra. Carstairs’ howe 5 have that job. Mra. Carstairs hardly kmowsa & her. She's really Mr. Carstairs’ niece, poo been dead ao long that he isn't exactly: a mie tion, But I ask you, Joan, if it den"t the comet | thing you ever h 1" “Well, hardly!" said the Dresden shepherde boots, “But it sounds like a good bit of abort. | get out of it?” “She most certainly cannot." stated Es bi Nothing that Babbie could ever do cock pom Mrs. Carstairs for her kindness. She's pecd of more attention to Babs than most people do = daughters these days—given ber dance. uw

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zs ——— —— ; THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 7 oand California—and Babble is certainly going to aything in her power to see that this girl has es good vas poaible for the next week. I don't want to hear wore nonsenee about it, and that's flat.” iman very rarely took that tone with his highly un- lined small sister, and ahe stared at him blankly for a nt, wavering between indignation and surrender. wl, he wae her only asset as a family, and she hesi- to tern him into a liability. As a combination r, father, audience and companion, Rod had done well in the last ten years, She decided to swallow ath, though the look that she bestowed on her ¢ was one of acutely Injured innocence, |, for Pete's eake, what have I done? What tl done, if it comes to that? Didn't I meet the min and smile all over my face when I saw her, in- i giving one piercing scream and dropping dead at }o Lknow what Mra. Carstaira has done for me ag anyone, but you needn't think that it's going to run around blessing the day that this curse came riife, I'm glad that you're feeling that way about gh—you're going to have a darn good chance to oble and as holy as you want to in about three . ‘The littl treazure’s probably romping on her w—just long enough to get her face washed and pher nose a litth, and stick ber hair back from her ishe'll be with wa. She's yours from then on—and, me, no one's golng to yank her away from you eaned over, bestowing a ewilt pat on the curly dan enchanting smile, which he curried in spite iw against concealed weapons, on the expressive vace Lifted gloomily to his. Te turning my blood to les water," he said cheer= But I'm at your disposal, no matter how congealed. he program, my sunbeam?" e going down to the pool for a swim after a while,” we sunbeam dreary. “UAnd tonight we're dining uh. You get one alde of her, and [ bet whoever ither won't speak to me for a month, You needn't grin like that—believe me, you won't be grinning by one o'clock to-morrow morning!" "Tf L ever grinned at ona o'clock in the morning it’s be- cause [ was in a comatose condition, and had loat all con- tral of my facial muscles, Up to twelve a.m, all T noed is curls to be Pollyanna's prize understudy, and after the witehing hour I'd be out of place at anything but a first- class wake,” "It's a pity you picked dramatic criticiam for your life work,” murmured Joan with a amall but ostentatious yawn. “Think of what a milkman you'd have mado! Polly and I'd give up going to bed entirely to be milk- maids, and wake you at dawn by throwing dew in at the window, Wouldn't we, prechous?" "Wouldn't we what?" drawled the tall and tragic young permon misleadingly addressed aa “ precious,” “Now, now, Polly! What's the use of crawling up be- hind people in that sinister fatal way if you don’t eaves- drop? You've heard every word we've been saying for the last five minutes, you wonderful black panther! Come around in front ao we can see your hunting costume for the afternoon—there's a good vampire.” Thanks,” replied Paula Grahame seftly. “I'm quite comfortable where I am.” "Very, very disobliging, if you ask me! You ean sea if you just turn your head half an inch, Rod. Attaboy! Well, what's the news from the front? Has the leopard changed her spots?" "You ought always to wear purple, Polly!" remarked Radman with flattering conviction, “Especially with a lace well that trails a little, and 2 parasol to lean on, and a deep red rose. It's simply ——" "Makes your senges reel, doean't it, old dear? Wonder- ful what you can do when you set your mind to ft, Esn’t it, Polly? Who was it that esid that genius is nine-tentha hard work? Carlyle? Ruskin?" Rodman grinned reluctantly, “Bet a dime you're the author,” he said. ‘Come on, stop deviling Polly, and be- have yourself, you littl: demon. Lote of room, Polly—asit yourself down and fall te, A good time is about to be had by all, A minjestic form is approaching with tall glasses. Here, sit by me!" : "There dosen't seem to be anything but ground to sit on,” murmured young Mra. Grahame. “Well, there's nothing solider than ground, my dear girl—you'll have to admit that. A chair would be nice, hut it's elmply out of the question, unless you can seduce the bearer of glasses. Of course there are cushions. You have more than your share, Joan—cash in, Babbie—one of mine a a special concession. Mount the throne, lady!" Paula seated herself on the edge of the pile of cushions with majestic caution, and turned the somber magnif- cence of her eyed on the menial with the glasses. “Anything in them, Etienne?" “What madame seea—geengaire ale, lee “Thanks,” said Paula hastily, and her tone was not eloquent of gratitude. “Mone for me, Babbie.” "Pull yourself together, darling,” adjured Joan, deftly removing two very tall glasses from the tray. “Toke a nice big glass and park it beside you for five minutes, and maybe the fairies will put something init, Do you believe in fairies, woman of misbery 7" “Tl believe in anything that will put something but ice in thia ginger ale. Who has the flask? You, Rod?" “ Noaair—not that I don't appreciate the pretty tribute. The gentleman from California who has just taken two straight seta and six atraight games from the well-known Peter is now approaching, bearing gifts, Draw near, Lochinvar—draw a whole lot nearer] An admiring throng is eager and anxious to drink your everlasting life and happiness if you'll sprinkle just a drop of life and happiness in their glasses !** “ro to itl" affably advised the brown young giant nme- joleing in the name of La Rue Sinclair Tolliver and less formally referred to as Friseo Tolly. Babbia patted the ground beside her invitingly, her gypsy color a little deeper, and he sat down swiftly, with on expansively Tespansive smile. “No, wait a sec—it's in the polo-coat pocket, Bay when, Joan," (Continued on Page 38) =, PL Ly \¢ ‘ lee “lead Them Back Phen TAhcy'oe Nad Their Combria Tea, WI Fea? if Thay eer Coma Gut of Thetr Traace We'd Like ‘am fer Glawer"

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8 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST T ran acres the photograph of a rather nice-looking little boy, and when I turned it over I found written on the back, “ Ellis Parker Butler, about J8T6, aged 7," That did interest me, you may well believe. There we were—the boy [ was and the man I am— face to face, and if we wanted to we could say what we thought of each other, For a man to see a photograph of himself as he was forty-six years ago is not ao interesting aa it would be to see a photograph of himself as he will be forty-six years from now, but it igsomething. Forty-six years from now I may be a wabbly old gentleman ninety-nine years old, taking nourishment out of a soup spoon; or I may be standing in line at the window of the supply department to ask for a new G string for my golden harp; or— but I hope not—I may be looking af a thermometer that regiatera 2687 degrees above wero and saying to the man next me: “Trlooks as if it would be warmer today if we don't have some rain, and I'll bet a million to one we fart" No one con guess what a photograph of himself taken forty-six years from now will show. If there is anything im this transmigration=ol-eouls biisiness, as the oll Druses believed, a twelve-dollar-persdozen cubinet phete of me taken forty-six years from now may show me asa Rocky Moun- tain goat or ss a Peruvian llama or as a plain but dignifted ox. On the whole I don't believe I will care to be an ox unless the pasturage is fair to middling and the work light, but I would rather have my photograph show me an ox than as something in the fourth-dimensional-space plane—soy, a8 a transparent parallelepipedon marked A,B, X and ¥ at the corners. For a man who has always been rather proud of his looks, a photograph that showed him as nething but an invisible whifl, represented by the formula 7A+3ER(—242X), would be quite a comedown, Tie other day, among some old papers, My Photograph in i968 VEN if the photograph showed me resolyed into my constituent chemical elements, [don't believe [ eheuld care much for it. [ should hate to go over a lot of proofs with my family and have my daughter say: “I don't like hat Would the Boys We We Think of Us Now? this one at all. The He) hardly shows at all, and the car- bon and iron are sa prominent they make papa look like the inside of a last year's etovepipe.”" Even if the photograph showed me as an angel—and that is almost more than I dare hope—someone would probably study ita while and then say: “Yea! Yes, itis a good likeness; but why didn't you wait until you were through molting? Or did you need insect powder?" On the whole, though a photograph taken forty-six yours from new would be interesting enough, I think I like the one taken forty-six years ago, even if the boy in it docs not leok at me with enthusiastic pride. This seven-year-old boy in the photograph is sitting in the photographer's plush chair, sideways and croes-legged, with his right elbow on the back of the chair and the fingers of his right hand spread out like the raya of the Cthter's Hondas By Ellis Parker But FEEGC IFT ARATE D Tae Boy f Vaed to be Decited That Ye Weert be Oo Dlackemith, F Coafen I Have Failed the Foung Wan Sig Worren Joes Ciorte ! Worres ond Melee im _ fa ond Taiey Hold Boch June 24, xy . & SLOMER TES sun. I ean still feel the moist tod sd photographer as he lifted one fag 24 another and put it exactly where be wey lt ta be, exelaiming, “There! Gon: Thy fine!" Then he jomped bark te bs ony and hid under the black ehoth and too slay at me and jumped back to mr w mee 9 finger an cighth of am inch south by ml —— “Now, ready! Don't move! bs 7 proofs will be ready Friday.” His name waa J. P. Phelps, Arar 5 tographer, Muscatine, lows, the ari aj I have a memory that be waa sor y hairy. The interior of his gallery ww 24 smélled Like ain oversterilined bop 9) you were posed a large iron clas; muy the back of your bead. In thaw dom) photographer was as fussy as the mda! and being photographed was almae & | some aa heing undertaken. You & decide on the spur of the momer = photographed, and dash up and baw 24 and dash down again. The fant of talking about it in June, and darcy Joy) August held sensu) tations with th sed trying to decide which pbotagrart= 5 to. All of September and part of (ctor spent trying to decide whether t al dozen carfe-de-rimiie size or half a doo a newfangled cabinets with the jr of Short of the Mart Y THAT time the photopipte 4 had moved to Davenport a dss oj neighbors had te be called in ager. &' anew photographer had been char 1 mae wae gt hand, and the photagrete| net promise to have the pictars dor 5 New Year's Day; so the whole boos put of until spring. Iam sorry to say that when this boy in the 17? 9 graph faces me he has a somewhat resentful c= this is partly due to the iron clamp that boos back of his head and gradually pulling th= “9 by the roota: but [ don't know that [ blame = anyway, He is probably looking me over xe = up, and it makes him feel sick. Sitting there = hat Z| chair the young Ellia ia a pretty finelooking 0% a nice forchead—a mighty fine-looking forebec-o skull looks as if it had a good brain capacty. Se4 the sort of boy to grow up and be President fel Frank A. Vanderlip or the Bishop of Eaters Po yania or some other great of wealthy or feeee = the time he is fifty-three, A boy like that, seven years old in 1876. mgt! @ bert Hoover or governor of [ows ofthe poe Columbia University, in 1922. He might ee " La

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Napoleon Bonaparte and president ‘onfederation of the World, or chair. the board of trusters of the In- nal Consolidated Hook and Eye y, Incorporated; or even—if things it—a blackamith. A boy like that bt ta look forward to being almoat noble and great by the time he is « He hosevery chance that Edison ‘hackeray, of any other man, Even nes wae ony a seven-year-old boy waa seven year old, worries me is what would think if we hap- mort. It is hard te en-year-old boy; it is ‘ool your doctor, ang fellow in the 1876 oh im evidently all in bis Sunday clothes, ever knew in lows id that neat and tidy k day unless he was party or to be photo he could not have it would have killed ould have expired in This boy haa on a i suit with gold but- his shoes are pol- ept the heela—and he ist everything! iber those buttons; ovely buttons, beau- bright. There waa tach Lapel and a row df and a row at the & knee. No matter oy sat, he arose with tree fringed tidits © the buttons, and 1 plucked before le (to go forth. I remember that broadcloth ait. acther made it; she bought the broadeloth and sult and sewed Lt and bound ite edges with silk ta a noble suit, and its only fault develaped wk it to the litth German tailor to be pressed. fron heavy encugh to crush down the seams. feuid it wes a fice soit and would wer a lerige ¥, maybe,” he said, “it wouldn't be so ensy to big boy upelde down by the heels already when want to brush him.” Being Pisrgranhed War Aimect aa Foare rome of Being Unaders token. ‘undaysGo-rtosMeeting Finery that because the boy's mother had happened to cloth with the nip running the wrong Way, Evi qember that she ever did hold the boy upside * heels to brush him. Probably she took him wit before she brushed it. The little German wot have thought of that: he moy not have ght. Or she may have brushed the sutt before boy inte it; there is more than one way of E. that auit eo well because it was such a hig E boy's life, First the broadcloth had to be Lit is enough to drive one crazy to or ft shall be blue or black or brown. ideloth had to besponged and preised. to be cut out, lying flat on the table, iTS eating through it, allevw ing for sare @oing “crenk! crenk 1°" wa they bit na with the boy's mother stopping suddenly with a cateh of the breath in sadden fear that she had cut out two backs to the trousers and no front. Ehe had! Ti seems to me that the boy spent several yiare— long aad torturing years—standing on a stool and trying on that euit, He had it pinned on him in eparate pleces, and tried on in basted sections and in every stage of development. Sometimes he tried on oe sleeve and sometimes both aleeves: some times one pants leg and sometimes two pants legs atatime. Then it would be the coat with- out the sleeves. “Please, please!" the boy's mother would beg through a mouthful of pins. “Do please hold up your arm" Then she would gather up a fold of broad- cloth and stick a pin in it and, inadvert- ently, into the boy somewhere, and when he yipped ahe would ait back and say she didn’t know what she would do if he could not stand still a quarter of a minute at a time; she waa just about disesuraged with the sult as if was. Te must be admitted that it is difficult for an amateur tailoreas to cut an armbole to the right size when a boy keepa his arm clamped down tleht and giggles every time he is touched, exeapt when he is erying; but after a boy has tried on a auit a couple of thousand times he begins te think it is monotonous, He wishes he was an Indian and could wear a blanket and a couple of ready-made feathers, IT remember the boy's blue-and-gray- striped wool stockings too. His grand- mother knit them, but she did not put in the santl-bur tips and other stickers—they were in the yarn when she bought it. The boy did mot have to try on the stockings; all he had to do was stand and sigh while he beld the hank of yarn as it was being wound inte shall, This wee lot of fun, like chopping kindling when you want te go fishing and bringing in wood when you want to play marbles, and if was o pleasant change from trying on broadcloth coats. When the boy waa tired holding out hia arma to have armbboles cut it wae a relief to hold them out while yarn was being wound off them. I remember the necktie too, It was, I believe, the moat beautiful object the boy ever pressed Ina phetograph the full elegance of the He does not appear, the color effect being lost entirely: but the tie was What, in DE76, was called a Roman atripe, The Romans certain) y lleed thelr When an SATURDAY EVENING POST 9 ho one wae discovering new and more gorgeous color, and then he wove in a little good honest black to show his sad- ness. The black sort of set the colora off and made them more shosy. The boy's tie had fringe on the ends, and he admired the tie with pure unblemished admiration. It was worth it. Ne matter what elae the boy wore, he was all dressed up as soon as that tie wes around his neck, and everybody within a mile knew it. When I picked up this photograph of the boy I was forty-six years ago I thought | remembered the gold buttons; but I could not be sure, ao I got a magnifying gloss, and sure enough, they were the very same buttons, with a gold knob in the middle and little gold dots sacal- loped around the edges. Then I looked at the shoes, but they brought back no memoriea; I auppose that waa because they were polished—they did not seem natural. I seemed to remember the shoe strings, wrapped twice around the anklea and tied ina hard knot; and the mud on the shoe heela—good old Muscatine clay that stays where it is put—but the fancy loops of stitching around the shoe tops meant nothing to me whatever. Revelations of the Magnifying Glass TIS remarkable how faulty one's memory is. The only way I canaccount for it ison the theory that perhaps they were not the boy's shoes at all, but borrowed shoes. The metal taba on the enda of the ahoe strings seem to suggest this; they are all there, and I cannot remember the boy's shoa strings ever did have tabs on them one day after he got them. A large portion of the boy's life waa spent wetting the ends of shoe strings in the manner most con- venient and then twisting them into points that would reluctantly poke through the eyeholes. But perhaps these were brand-new shoe strings, purchased to be photo- graphed in, I waa having a grand time with my magnifying gloss. I looked at the striped stockings to see if I could discover any of the stickers, but they were not in elght—they were inside, sticking my legs of course, Then I raised my magnifying glass a fraction of an inch, and my eye came to the bottome of the pants, where they met the stockings, Here wae another thing I had not ramemibered: The edges of the bay's beauti- ful broadcloth pants were worn threadbare, and had been overstitehed quite earcfully; but, even so, Uttle edges of white lining shawed through and wispe of lining ravelings hung down here and thers. The Sunday auit was on ite last legs. colore numersus and bright, i iA I eould work up something architect began to build « Homan stripe ApRAr rather pothetle about that, I be he was fair to all the Romans, Ff one ! ol lieve: something abowt the dear Roman loved searlet he pat it-in, and if another deted an orange yellow he put that in, and if the noxt liked grass green init went. It was first come, first served, butany time a Roman diseovered a newer and brighter calor the weaver ran it right in and waa grateful. The only times a Roman etripe weaver was sad was when little lad trying eo bravely to look (Continued on Page 42!

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10 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST DIFFERENT SHADES OF ROSI By Eleanor Franklin Egan HE proof of the pud- [eine being in the eating thereo! I went to Rusia feeling confident that if anything gordi and desirable had been proved In applied communism tunder the soviet eyatem of govern- ment I should have no diffieuliy in observing it, ance it would be plainly manifest in the lives of the people. Nobody pretends ta believe that the social orgnnization as it has formed itself during the great period of rapid industrial development throughout the world is in any of ite aapects wholly satisfactory. On the contrary those of us who take time, in the midst of our por- petual occupation of making the best of it for curelves in our several whys, to pause and look at it from as many angles an may happen to be visible te our minds, find it a good deal of a hope leas muddle from what- ever viewpoint it may be viewed; and we know perfectly well that any syatem that can prove itself to be better than the system upon which it is bawed is bound to win sooner or later, no matter what mens- ures may be taken to defeat it. There is something very attractive in the communistic principle: “From each according to his ability, to each aceord- ing to his need"; the great diMeulty being that human nature is human nature in more ways than one, Moet of us are drawn to this idea largely because we nee a great deal and have very little ability, Lenine’s Definition 1 focal everybaly has given some thought to the theary of communism, and groups of people here and there have actually put tt into mone or leas satiefac- tory practice, but thee peeple haye in= variably been regarded by ordinary folks a8 belonging to the great universal brother- hood af the partially dlemenberl, ane I am sure that nobody—none of the ordinary folks, at any rate—ever dreamed of the pooeeal bility that an experiment in com- munism would be made upon the na- tional life of ome of the strongest peoples on earth, Strong numerically, that is. There are more Russians in Rassia by many mil- lions than there are people in the United States—including Russians, The high-tanee, eommiunistically emmorvrative and ordi narity respectable communists ure telling ws new that the Russian ayatem is mot communiam. And one can readily beliewe this, because the renowned advecabes of eorm- munism—back through the yvenrs since the beginning of the nineteenth century—have been aceredited by common assent te the highbrow section of the world's catalogue of intellect, and it ie so difficult to believe that any really intelligent man could ever have imagined that euch a a¥etem as pretends to be in operation in Foussia Lawak? could possibly be made to operate, No theory is proved until i is-demonetrated, of course, and there is this to be said: When you are working ona formula you never know when, by accident or design, same element may be intraduced into it that will change ita character altogether ancl couse yoru expeericent with it (er fail Hiamally or tend in one epecticular catastrophe TOTES, Whose ne more willing than the us to com prone with brutality, bestiality wellishness The go al Peat i = The Homelew and Jtorcing Gathered From the Jireer at a Place of Refage. Abeoe — Fomine Refugees Camping by the Wayeide and crime in all ita phases, aay that it ia the element of Bolshevism in the Russi experiment that is responsible for the herror and the hideousness of wt, but they faal for some reacon to tell us exactly what Holaheviam is, Bolshe viam @ nothing more nor jes than the majority opinion of the Russian Social Demercratic Labor Party, and, aa such, ia Nicolai Lenine’s own interpretation of the Marzion theory that. the slate has developed inte an Orgmn of clase dominution and oppression, and must therefore be over- thrown, The state, which most of us think of loowely enough as beeing a social unit resting upon an aecepied constitution, upheld by a eneie of laws and functioning under a parlis- mentary form of government, ia defined by Mr. Lenine as “the preduct and the manifestation of the irreeoncilability of class antagonism." And UC should like to hear a freee from anybody as to how many of the class to which Mr. Lenine makes hie appeal find this definition wholly intelligible, Jans 34, i Ee r E q bet gels 5) cE Pig No. 150,000,004 oratory of the exper peace ao " we . j The theorists who hedeae pes aN the split in the Russian Social™ ite OT eee as Leninites. af the majority, th aolid fret, whereas a | ae subdivided beh remodel the work” ' The Rolshevike were re variety and they had for a be energy and amazing resources above all things in the effiencet™ nobody would ve comes to disseminati ae his aystern ig wither = = 7a embracing in its detail ' 3 it can See oremergency; it can — be emp! 7 ee I ’ AF, Te if y =) ii Lote ed ut

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i |. . sdedred exd; it is umi- in its scope, ard for its | suppart there is no to be thought of that wseeither Lenine of any syiranta to hesitate, 190 oeward the Hol- gorked incessantly and pala This fact is os 1, They were organized s under diferent nanves ithe world, wd the busi- ach nit was to spread ay oranother the world= ary doctrine, They welerground always: iand secretive, obeys tonders—that is, when working consciously wiki, They gathered a jny henchmen who were: ichmen without kmow- They were the sappera remy of arganined so= ring the mine that was eventually to explode, rhe? variously and un- utalinses, but they worked together. They were fd, because for the most part it served their pur- to disguise themeeclves in thelr propagandist in different shades of rose, and among the prodd- by-praducta of their labore there appeared aa tine many strange phenomena. ‘these [ think [ am justified in mentioning the m parlor socialista and the little groups of serious w delightfully presented by that whimsical ring- our many-ringed elrews, Mr. Don Marquis. Not etend to beliewe that all these were the result, stor indirect, of the Holbhevist propaganda; but re whe could meazure among them the extent of evist influence? "he Latest Thing in Propaganda wat propagandist maneuver of the Bolahevilki iofan effort to overcome the popular conception dsm; to substitute in the general mind 2 sort of tea that the fear of what Bolaheviam stands for heen universally felt is without foundation, and ard Bolshevism as a menace is to display a very vlligence. This being true, | easily can imagine whle leader of a litte group of serious thinkers ore or less after the manner of Don Marquis: ithe growp has taken up Bolshevism seriously, “loan hour to It this afternoon and it was ae zr! We 8 auch z Rus- bshewik Tt wees élieve ! spirit- ily ul. e has onder- it one hat he l. He f such Hence. othe: mae iildish vale Ts hie man SE = ur- «chia a 7 3g= ‘She am “he aaa oo oe oe wd Pee | on a? Uo _, wit at Commuaiat Citisens Walting ian Line for cisliioniead BPermite to Eat influenced, because, alter all, we had no way of knowing the truth when we were being overwhelmed all the time mith antl-Holshevist propaganda, Propaganda ean be so insidious, you know, and we ought really, for our own pro tection, to be on the alert for it in everything we read or hear. “The anti-Bolshevik propoganda has been the work of n few syndicates of international capitalista—you know it eoets an awful lot te de that sort of thing!—who consider nothing but their own interests and who are too sordid and merely commercial to have any concern about the soul of a people. Amd isn't it too dreadful that America, this country that ought really te be everyteody's eountry- becouse, after all, vou know, as history is written it was only discovered a little while ago; and though I ara just as gol an American os anyone I can quite see why America should still be looked upon by the world brotherhood as being in a senee common property; it & ao much broader, ee much more intelligent, eo much more in keeping with the inevitable trend of history —if you know what 1 mean—to look at it in that way—but ian't it too dreadful that this great new country should have produced the most heartless capitalists, the most ruthless exploiters, the moet unthinking oppressors in the world? “Mr, Tellitallsky didn’t finish explaining to us the principles of Bolshevism, but he convinced us that we had been shuddering all these years at nothing at all, and I felt aahanved of myeelf; T did, really! Of course we don't want 4@ Typical Crewd of Ruarian Fillage Children communism here in our country; net yet: mot wetil we are better prepared to receive it, Mr. Tell- italisky frankly admits that we are not ready for it: but that's ho reason why we should turn cur backs upon a people who have secepted it and are trying a6 bravely to make a success of it in the interest of the masses. "Tf we can induce Mr. Tellit- allaky to meet with us again next week we shall devote an- other howr to the subject. It's perfectly fascinating! There is an undertone of sadness through it all, but in another way it's awfully funny. It's tke wall- ing right up te something that has simply thrilled you with terror for ever so long, only to find that you have been terrar- ined by a monster of straw, It gives one such an opportunity to laugh at oneself, and that's always such a very healthy thing todo, don't you think?" I beg everybody's pardon, and especially the pardon of Mr. Don Marquis, for such a weak imitetion of one of his aeveral inimitable styles, but I myself have actually heard more or les that kind of talk, And the parlor socialiste, thoee earnest anc devoted bridgetable and dinner-party studenta of world problema whe began along sometime in 1917 to suffer from an acute attack of dimin- ishing interest in socialistic theories, are beginning now to come back into their own. The Parlor Socialists’ Geolevarce NHEY all beliewe——with an ethical belief, of course, not a commercial belief, They abhor the very idea of sordid commercialiam, even though they do cling tenaciously to all the advantages that have acerued to them through commercialiem—they all believe thet the United States thould recognize Soviet Russia, and regard it as being inexcusable that a supposedly enlightened and so-called liberal government such as ours purports te be should obstruct the way of a great people atruggling to be free. They declare—with an air ws though they wore daring you to call in the police—that there is nothing particularly aacred about the American Government; that, ag a matter of fact, almost any change in it would be a change for the better; that the soviet syatem should at least be permitted to prove itaelf one way or another, and that if it proves ligelf te be better than the established failures to which the world ia now sub- jected they are all for it. And all welland food, says 1, But I wish [ could gather up a little eempany of such Americana—all of them, mind you, either tinalterably bourgeois or irre deemably rich— take them to Russin and com- pel them for a period to live in the midst of the Russian experi- ment as the aver- age Russian is compelled to live. I should take them empty- handed, thereby saving the saviet authorities the trouble of empty- Ing their haridas, thrust them forth a5 mere people among the people, and ask them to play the game ac- cording toa the Files laid down, They would mot find any of their admired leaders or revered teachers doing this; but aa. (Cantinned on Page 114)

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12 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST OU con take it from me that » champion is al- whys a champion, ho matter where he is or what company he is in. That is, the stuff that made him what he ls and keeps hin there is stuff that is recognized even by folks he chances to meat or be with who don't happen to be acquainted with the fine points of his specialty, or maybe don't know anything abowt it at all, Hestands outfrom the ruck, and there ia something about him that lets you know he dows. Tell me what that something is and [ll tell you what makes him a cham- pion, But [t's there and everyone knows it’s there. You might eall it person- ality. Personality—get the idea? Now I'm not reaching for eredit in the way of making anyone think I dug this line out of my own head. A manager who has piloted a ball elub up to and through two World's Series, and alms to do it again if a certain deal goes through, can stand on hia record without wasting his time trying to bat in this guy Einstein's class; I mean the fellow the papers were so full af a while ago who doped out that the stars and the earth wert near relations, and not even the highbrows could eome back at him, because no one knew what be was talking about. No, I saw it demonstrated; I mean that champion iden of mine. And, like most things one gets by experience, it coat me something. It cost me the best batter the world ever saw, next to Babe Ruth, and © figure you'll agree with me when I say it was Hab Schniteler, Remember Bab? If you den't you never had a passing acquaintance with the national pastime. I got Bab from the Three I League in exchange for a pitcher who had put his fast ball back in the trunk whore he kept his first toothbrush and a utility infielder who carried the only elastics he bad left in his sock supporters. Bab— which was shortened from Baboon after he had put four of the Grays’ regulars on the hospital list for insisting upon the full tithe—was not highly regarded in the bushes, in aplte of his size and strength. But English MeCune, who does most of the seouting for the Grays, figured that if Schniteler, who threw left-handed and batted right, could be turned te the south aide of the plate the fences wouldn't keep the balls he hit inside any more than they would a flock of blackbirds, I don't know just how he doped this out, McCune is a close- mouthed bird and isn't handing away his inside stuff. Maybe what struck his eve was the thing I was speak- ing about when I began this saplel—the personality, or something, that seta out a champ ahead of the bunch. I don't know, Anyway, the manner in which Bab, after I had sweetened him on the bench for a season, broke into the Grays' regular line-up and made opposing pitchers wonder whether the outfield had shrunk is a farniliar story. If you remem- ber, he made twenty-two homers in his first ceason of regular play, the season we won our first World's Seriea, and then came back the | next year and waved thirty-two good league | balls out of the various Iota. \ Oh, Bab could hit! And he could field. He was a ball player, the best I ever saw or heard of. I am perfectly willing to hand him this bouquet, and wherever he is I hope he auflocates when he inhales the perfume. When he came to the Grays I take one look at hin and then a long, cold look at McCune. “Mac,” says I, “haven't you got this ball park mixed up with the Bronx Zoo?” "Oh, no!" replied Mac, who can see everything but ajoke. “Mo, I ticketed this bird correct.” “Bird! You mean a grizzly bear." FLLEUSITRATED ar ToOeyrF FARE Se Took oa Tor Hold aad Soung Like o Wiodmill Maybe I was flattering the neweomer at that. He had a chest like the back of a jitney bus, and above [t a big tousled head with heavy eyebrows that met in the middle, He looked about as human as a coonskin coat. But his legs tapered as on athlete's should, and amidships he was flat as a prize fighter. Taking their cue from me—and I'Il hasten to say it was a bum cue—the coh boys were jocular about the rookie, “Where's your glove, Baboon?" ingulred Rats Finneran. "On ther ground near where i you're going,” was the reply, se = Tt was even so, and Rata had . nothing on the glove when it came to lying atill. This qulek com@=-back of Schniteler’s made me suspect he 1 Wasn't ag bushy aa his eyebrows, [ was sure about a minute later, The Reboon Tar Tiere PorEndiag the Ceffereor June Me NEVER CAN TELL By Lawrence Perry divided-fall part of the motto or mot. Well, axyte already said, the name by popular vote was redo ay lable. No, Bab wasn'ta slow thinker. He was one of hoe! guys whose ideas come quicker than be can let rx 9 they're coming—eould think faster than be could 1. hadn't hed much education, but he could reed oc all right; and when it came to figuring in a pinoce or eetimating his exact value as 2 ball playe be moe the bend. He never said much about his past life, protet= 4 oning the less said the better. But you would: px his table habits without knowing that Be was seve in the home ol a bank president. | remenber thet at the hotel Bab ordered a squab beceoe Ge) attracted him—he was always that way, ae O When it come be picked it up and swallowed E quinine pill, ordering the waiter to bring halls dsm of those little birds, f But, as Tsay, he was eager to learn and fairy gel too; but only one thing af a time. (On the ball tell) hotel, wherever he was, whatever you wattel © him fav to be slipped singly. Gisre him peo thane about at the zame time and the big baboon aoppel = ing about anything. Give him three and bow ie who has kicked over a beehive, All you had to do was be patient. waa I that cave man Like a father, aud I will say be wm © had no bad habite—that fs, no: ca F curds, And pinochie is newer a8 ioe wis sistently as Bab Schniteber di was a natural left-handed bhi manager had ever let him b yet have pitcher's hand } aweet a lead-off man as ever choked a bat; Pe == had hit for more singles than amy man in the = years running: then Larry Boyle, an oe : and Bab in the clean-up compartment. Thee four men who were harder for a piteher towark = gave the Grays an attack that promised t ke a Behind them were other murderes. In tho G waa outside of a park, blindfolded, | sald © whether the Grays were at bat or mot by che aco

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i3 made as ft met the ball, And flelding? Those Grays ged the ball park like a Billy Sunday tabernacle, fe wes nothing to. the league race in those days. Mact I got pretty heady over the situation, I got the (hat bo one man waa indispensable to the club's suc that everything was due to tear play, and, over and pall that, to the managerial genius of a mon whose jwould be recognized aa my own if it were apoken { Tknow better now. Now [ know that the strength arch 2 the keystone, the solidity of a building its lation, the greatness of a ball club a single nucleus 0 whieh all the other parts gather and form a battling (Bab Schnitzlor was that nucleus in the Grays. all myself enough credit to think I really knew this be was With the club. But, if ao, [ didn’t digest tha ge sufficiently to get it circulating through my it No, on the surface, I just took the Grays aa a fuck out my cheat and felt good. Maybe I'd be the same today; maybe the Grays would be up ghting in the first division instead of pulling « life- gth duel with the Plaid Sox to keep out of the Wit hadn't been for that English trip. In fact it's ithey would. y time I think of England I wish somebody would orth of Viadivostok and forget to anchor it. I gave Ve winnings at the track to the Irish Republic fund a, hoping they'd go aver there and cot Lloyd halt for him. That's how I feel about England. for that oily, fat-fingered little guy, Cephas Pratt, tthe Grays over there, let it go with the simple nt thot I hope I live long enough to meet him face a3 a class, I haven't got anything against press T have used them once in a while when I didn't way the regular newspaper guys were treating me Ihr. But I've got a let agalnat this bird Pratt, Yo, ifress agent. If he soos this it will be getting back a little bit, because that deseription of his par- Gofession never made any hit with him, Standing et the bar at the Savoy or Claridge’s or some of thlown places in London, aticking out his litth: and chest like a powter plpeon, twisting his waxed @ and piffing out his fat cheeks, he would talk l, as long a8 someone was buying, about his Ea press agent immalistie—what a ‘oh, yea, a jour. o if ‘a plenipotentiary: af of international ei fand developer ' on wnderstand- g¢ the nations of | Mia | . Oh,hehada || = We | . ht! Wish Teould H ey) ee } ' Pmore of it. 7 f he j ; iy} s one of those twould rig up a — i — Pisakett Lande it Iquare on Tactaat After Bob's public movement, get a Tot of snuffy old millionaires of millionniresses interested, and then land ih a swivel chair before a roll-top desk with plenty of push buttons and a fat rake-clf. Come to think, I juess: Cephas waa a plenipo- tentiary, if it means what Judge Connolly, the umpire, aaid it meant the time I asked him, All I'll say is that Cephas couldn't have meant what Connolly sald It meant, But then the judge was prejudiced, too; he was on that English trip. This Pratt didn't figure in the deal at firat; at least not with us. The first we heard was just before we played the World's Series and the news papers began talking about a great eymposium of sports to be held in London with the ido of bringing all the notions closer together in the brotherhood of abetter understanding, not only ns tegards sports but politic and everything elae, Smooth idea, what? Each was to learn all that could be learned about the other's sports and carry them back to the native lend and push them along, so that finally all the world would be playing the same kind of games anil there would be inter- national leagues and all that eort of bunk designed to bring alien peoples closer together, If I'd known Pratt or any- thing about him when this stuff came through ["d have timbled quicker than o hod-carrier who thinks a plank ia three feet longer than it really is. As it wis, I fell instead of tumbled. Bo did everyone elas, the news- papers included. Ttwas a great program. The best ball club that the U. &. A. could boast wis to go over—at its own ex- pense, mind you—and play ball, The English were to show the fine points of cricket: the French were going toa tip the world off CMe a: on handball and croquet; the ig ge Finns were golng to throw the —— javelin; tha Spaniards were going to throw the bull, oraorme- thing, and so on, The owners of the Grays fell harder than anyone, Mag- nates somehow are always anxious to show off the national game to the workd, and have pulled off more than one world tour. So it was agreed by old Wolverton of the Grays and Galvin of the Reds that the team that won the World's Series should go over, picking Up an opposing nine from the clubs of the league. A lot of the Grays, in- cluding myself, growled Wiadaiil Cops the Raeferca Ma for the Baboon, We Crabbed Gaede Fork aad Mewar Eat Co of lt Vo Matter Wheat Come ond Weat aver the iden at firet; but by the time we had copped the series and the money was in sight there wasn't a man whe wasn't keen to put in a month on the jaunt; while Wol- verton, our owner, had ao many volunteera for the opposing ning that you'd thought war had been declared, The newspapers of coursg made a hurrah shout the trip; made so much noise and printed so much that no one scemel to motier the fact that the International stull—all this. proposed big explosion of international sporting epirit—had boiled down to a visit of the Grays to London. Good as Cephas Pratt was, he eouldn't get the French, Spanish and the rest beyond the polnt where they were willing to tallc albout the idea. Beyond that, the mere faet that they would be required to finance their sporting bour was more than sufficient to epike it, Thi bird Pratt of course had been behind the whole scheme the whole time. He hud gone to London as bally- hoo for an invading Broadway musical-comedy troupe, and finding that the dear old English loved to fall for his particular brand of bunk he remained there, cultivating a London secent, clothes that needed shaving and a bank roll. When the foreigners fell by the wayelde Pratt simply howled more about the Amer- leans —the Londoners had never been much impressed by the French, Spanish, Italian, Finn and Greek stull anyway—and drew down what he called his honorariima week by week with cheerfulness that never failed. Schnitzler balkerl at the idea of the trip at first when he learned juat where England waa and what you had todo to get there; but when he heard they fed you four meals a day on the stearubhip, with five o'clock tea besides, ho changed his mind and was crazy to go * Look heré, chief, "he sand the day before we sailed, shov- ing over a newspaper, “what's the ichea?"* Conttinagd on Poge Go)

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14 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Si By Ben Ames William QOUNG Carl Van Wert had never before been north of Bosten, and he felt like a pioneer, He had gone to sleep the night before on the Pullman, from wheee windows he had beer able to look forth secroas a familiar countryside. This morning he saw bold and barren hills, brown felds, leafless trees close reefed for winter's gales, and everywhere the warmth and color of spruce and fir and hemlock and of Pine. There was, about the towns where the train stopped, an air of impermanency. The houses were of frame construction, narrow and high: they sormed flimsy. He thought a stiff wind would have toppled many of them. As a matter of fact, a stil wind was blowing that morning: dry leaves seurried in panic before it, for it came from the north and there was ice in ite breath; but young Carl Van Wert, in the warm Pullman, had no hint of this, He began to see, on the platforms along the way, men garbed for winter in kersey pants ar felt boots and heavy, aheep-lined coata. They repelled him, for they did not look acrupulousl,y clean, and he had been taught from baby hood to brush his tecth twice or thrion a day, bathe at least once a day and tend his nails. These matters had been insisted on ao strenuously that they had assumed in his eves mere limnpor- tanet than they deserved. So he did not like theee soiled-looking men; but they interested him, and he wondered if there were any here aboure the train, and decided to inspect the day coaches and Eom The coaches offended his neatrils, and on the pint- form between the last of them and the smoking cur he stopped to light a cigarette; then opened the door of the emoker and was immediately. grateful for the precaution. The car, to his firet glance, seemed full of men: enormous men with wide shoulders and broad faces andl mustaches and greasy hair, The air woe foul with the smoke from their foul pipes; the floor waa littered and stained so that he could find no clean place to set his foot; and the odor of many hot and steaming human bodies, each swathed in garments bow long Bart, struck hit like a shock of horrible and nauseating fear, One or two of the men saw him and grinned good-natured|y; and then the brakeman care aeross the swaying platform at his back atid stom beside him in the open door. Van Wert welenned this brakeman as an ally. “Who are they?" he asked, “Crew going into the woods," the brakeman replied. "Lumberjacks?" Van Wert had seen the word inabook. The beake- man grinned faintly, but he nodded. id Yeah," The young man, with no further parley, fied back to his Pullman. The experience had been a shock to him: he weighed it in his thoughts and waa faintly appalled. Por he, too, waa going inte the woods. At Princeton he had decided on forestry achool. His father weighed the idea, asked acutely, “Sure you want that kind of life, son?" His son was sure. Then 0! tell you," said old Van Wert. “I'll fix it up for you te go inte the woods for two-three months—see how things ure doné on the ground. Tell do you good physically, ane you'll learn something; and you'll know whether you want to go on,” It had been so arranged. When this train should pres ently atop—he looked at hia watch and saw that i well be less than ten minutes now—he would be at the pimping- off place. There remained ahead of him a beng automobile ride, a motor-bont trip, probably some tramping before he should reach his destination far up im the sprice forests. He had expected to enjoy himself, but the sight of his potential fellow workers in the amoking cur shear dis turbed him, “They say even a pig, given a chanec, will keop hinelf clean,’ he thought disgustedly, “They're lower than swine; they're eloda,"" Remembrance of them made him go inte the lavatory and wash his hands, Then the engine whistled, the tram began te hiceup on its brakes, and he knew it was time to get ol, The porter helped him an with his coat, bore away his bags. There wae also o steamer tronle in the buprure ear ahead: but lay the time he had alisbied that enel mk the platform was thronged with the men from * so he made no attempt to claim the trunk uncil they shoulel have disappeared. Theit vVoirs came te him—hoares, shouting: yet strangely musical yolees, A young man in ecordiirey knickerbockers and a plaid Mackinaw feel ret tern, wi checking their names, shouting at thio, grinwiny in timelaa ci: +f Uy FELUITRATE D Br cCLlaR Ee Par Tie FPiamer Were oring Fore wae Peery Ioifeiy, a Prerriag the Mean Bock Treponse to their jeste. anewering their loud calla. As they answered to their names they climbed into Lunge-bodied motor trucks that world tranaport them on the firet long stage of their Journey inte the wilderness, Van Wert watchin from a vantage at the other end of the platform, and when the last of the trucks was loaded and had lum- bered awny he was not surprised that the young man in condunoys turned in his direction. This young man looked at him for a moment, then said pleasantly, “You're Van Wort, aren"b vou?" “es Van Wert nodded, “Dred vaw come te meet met" The other held out his hand. “Qenks is mv name. ] name clown ta get that bunch headed in the right direction; and the hoes told me to bring you back, [ve Bot a fiweer around behind the station. Hage you didn’t mind wa icing?” “Tou hmbmy sympathy.” Van Weert smiled. to te fnendly, but Jenks seemed surprised. *Svmpathy? How's that" “Oh, having bo handle swine like that!" Jonka enuekbedd w-irttle, i They re nots hae ¥ ciehd fa Stull wept NE Retr: Those were good men, They were Up here wll [aed winter,” “Ac pineal haat of the em hed drunk more fer them, Van Wert suggested "Half?" Jenks toughed. “Lord, all of then!" Fle was inspecting the trunk to which Van Wort bac led him. ‘That yin?! “Ses — EP sou tin meeps He meant Sa Boine af tha L know ‘em, than was geen fame Ba, PyTa CLODS "Oh, trameportaction's the best thing eal up. here, I con take your stall met = fivver. There's no one gong Gp wl Trunk on the running board and the other stell L He turned away, “1'l back ber in hore to the cle! Ten minutes later Van Wert's luggage was b Jenks had promised, The train mearwhile bel ahead into the yards. As Jenies thed the leet boot i rope that held the trunk a brakeman | rear platform of his train and yeled) him. When Jenks onewered, the bee shouted, “One of your gang’) me the emoker here.” Jenks amiled a littl and strate way. Van Wert hesitated, dGeaiey wait where he was. Hy and by J the brakeman appeared, dragring bs them o small, sciled and sbborred, The man’s head angged and eraped from side to side. His @umbig dragged along the cindern, Ther beg him dawn the track ane etofied bes be inte the tonneau of the car. Van Wert had moved te one mde, the way, but at thin he aoe ~ you put him in there?™ “Ho was asleep on the floor b two eens,” Jenks expelmimad, “Thea probably theught it was o joke i) him. [ll take him up with ma” Van Wert sald slowly aod “But he's so damned foul yak donks looked at him with quick then looked auny. “Well, it's my job to get bin! way. He ought to have goo tee but they're on their way pow “T shouldn't think currion lke worth carting in,” Veo Wet ’ and Jenks smiled) that peady anile “He's a good hand with a=” pled. “And he con drive a he's a first-rate mechanic” VW must have seemed inecredolem, know le dowsen't Toole ft." Jenks “But he's &@ good man.” ! Their Uitte car rattled throagh the and began the long climb bey and toward the crest of the bl stopped so that Van Wert mgt s splender, The strong northarly wind wea water into whitecaps, between which bay dmepest Sas mountains behind them and up the lake sheud = blue as the water, cio GF Amalia - cudding, shadowing clouds, — "Cold," Van Wert it's cold as the devil in t Jenks, starting the ear, nodded. “Wind bolds that way, we'll be fromen up There was ice in the coves this morning.~ They dropped down t Soya aga ge marvelous road bullt f " miss slept, with loud snores, : bis stopped ioe ent ot went into store there; 4 ape a dozen miles farther on, w idly along the veranda turbed Van Wert. Tho men When Jenks came out and Pant Farm, Van We : Jenks looked at him. si Ley “Why, See ee white He saw the other's movement o Meg a hand lightly om his a “To it, son,” he ead paternally, Van Wert. “You cun't £6 red oe hooks =p Se Feen dome pretty seedy—looking bimms turn. work.” He jerked his head backward. = That 2 hack seat there—he's 9 Polack, or something: | Aaname We enll him Toe Tack. He wus Army for a while; but he deserted first chane ke Digitized, by. Ggpo!e|

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 15 owe here somehow and tried to get In with our chen we took hold; but they wouldn't take a ao him. Tom's a good man; can sing like the devil ork like twodevils, But I don't suppose he'll take talk from sow till apring." oght to be made to," Van Wert sald hotly. theyre pot men. They're children. They can't op thevaclves, Wou have to tell them what to dao, promt them to keep thom from getting sick, and em amused and see they don't stumble over their 4, They're not half so intelligent as a good ma- Hefooked at Tom Jack, snoring peacefully behind “He's a clad!" he said, and liked the word. “A waa not by nature argumentative. He pointed where a flock of partridges fed in the road, mov- fy to ane side to let the car go by, like rather tame _ A little farther on they jumped four deer, and tur bounded through the forest beside them, amy on a tangent, for a hundred yards before peared, By and by a turn in the road brought i inte view ahead of them, and Jenks pointed. “a some Little hill,” he commented. Jert, by the stark beauty of that uncouth and le, was aileneed and made breathleaa; littl more ani so presently they reached Plant Farm. i midalternoan, when the early dusk af a cloudy already upon them, Van Wert began the next iis journey, The manner of it was none of his be found himeclf in the hands of destiny in the datt Riley, who was in charge at the Farm. He by motor boat up Bummaenek Lake, a thirty- and with him would go that crew of men wha his traveling companions on the traln and whom oks had passed, in the lumbering moter tricks, yto the Farm. Tom Jack, awakened from his ad rejoined his companions, The motor tracks rthem on to the foot of the lake; Jenks drove over and turned him over to Chiswick, who had af the boat in charge. rt lowed out aeross the tumbling waters of ik with some misgivings. The wind was blowing ver colder; he was glad he had found an oppar- change into rough and warmer clothing. He ce along the shore in both directions, and thick coves and a acum cf ice out toward the open in‘t be able te run this boat much longer," he ick, and the engineer nodded. ig ice now all the time," he grumbled. “They ying back and forth up the lake so fast sho imme bo This rine’ ll 7h ome anal in out gave al in- » the ms to 1 the if the s mae ad a dinte i men , ane in aft { the her here cor and My mis- tuil par- ler. w of aseore of men had packed into apace fit for little more than half that number, He meant to stay with Chiswick, prefer- ring the fumes of gasoline, which hung heavy over the craft and eapecially heavy in the engine cabin, to the reek of the human bodies, When the men were oll aboard they got under way without ceremony. Jenks, from the wharl, called “Good luck, old man,” to Van Wert. The engine, cranked painfully by hand with a long iron lever, barked and caught, and the broad-beamed craft turned ita noae through the slush ice toward midlake. It was about three o'clock in the afternoon. “How long shall we be on the way?" Van Wert aaked Chiswlek, and the engineer sald, “Ought to make it by eight o'clock, unless something happens.” Van Wert smiled o little at the pessimistic tone which seemed habitual to the other, “What' a likely to happen?" he asked. “This rotten seow—you never know,” said Chiswick gloomily. “She's a child of mistortune. Nothing ever eurprises me. Bursts of laughter came to them now and then from the men in the cabin forward of ander its lee in the waist. Yan Wort stepped out to fill his lungs with fresh air and the cold wind whipped him etingingly. The sky, he saw, was ecvered with clouds now. "Snow?" he shouted in to Chiswick, and the other nadded sulkily. “Yes!” he assented, Tom Jack, the only man in the gang forward who was an individual in Van Wert's eyes, crawled aft and went in to see Chiswick. Van Wert, outside, listened curiously. The Pole epoke, he discovered, fair Engliah—under- etandable enough. This surprised him: he had expected a torlated, foreign tongue. “How she hitting?’ Tom Jack demanded, grinning gond-naturedly at Chiswick-and pointing to the engine. “Now and then," Chiswick told him. Tom Jack nodded in cheerful understanding. “Same ol’ goat, she is,” he agreed. “Sha soun’ lak hell.’ 13 “Why, say," erled Chiswick, warming to the subject, “she can think of more things to do that she oughtn't— it's wonderfial!"* Tom Jack capped him on the shoulder. "Tha's right," he applauded. “You tell"em. Well, you all right thia trip. Tom Jack fix her if she go bust any." Chiswick actually grinned. “Sure!" he agreed, Shouts arose from the men forward, and Van Wert saw they were looking at him; but he could understand no Hae Ware thie to Entimote Thot They Bad Seea o Foil Baif Boor ia Thott icy Water Before the End Come word. Then Tom Jack climbed out of the engine cabin and yelled at them in jumbled syllables, bending to explain to Chiswick. "I'm go'n' sing them little song,” he explained. “These boys crying for me." He winked at Van Wert and climbed along the rail beside the cabin, Van Wert heard hia volee uplifted, mweet and dear and rich of tone. The words were meaningless, the melody strangely disturbing. Van Wert found himself responding to the charm of that voice, shivering @ little, Then the men burst into es great guifaw, and he guessed that the song was ribald, and was disguated with himself for having been aflected and went below with Chiswick again. Darkness began presently to thicken about them. Two or three of the men, grinning apologetically, sidled into seats beside the engine, by their gestures indicating how cold it was on deck. Van Wert was driven into the open, and went forward, picking his way. Overside, bite of ice alid along the aide of the craft, and he could see that they were running through a channel, in some places narrow, in others almost as wide os the lake; could see that every- where ie lined the shores, The whipping wind was dead in his face when he looked forward, but he was warmly clad and welcomed the clean sweep and scourging of it; and he climbed along the rail beside the cabin to the very bow; found there in the forward end of the main cabin a smaller compartment he had not marked before, In which a man tended the wheel, This man slid open a window and shouted to him, "Come on inside, You'll freeze out there!" Van Wert liked him. He had a round, freckled face, and he had a scrubbed look which Van Wert thought pleasing. There waa barely room for two of them ingide hia cubby- hole, “T didn’t spot this place,” Van Wert explained, “or I°d have been begging shelter before, These chaps aboard here are too strong for me in close quarters.” The other laughed apy dal "Right you are, aon,” he agreed. He added, as y gnc it were an unimportant afterthought, “Roberta in my name.” “Van Wert's mine.” They shook hands, "Going in?" Roberts asked. Van Wert nodded. "To learn the game," he explained. “I'm green aa “Nothing much to learn,” Roberts said casually. A gust shook the boat. “Ain't this some night, what?" he aaked, “Surely is. Froem up pretty soon, dan't you?” “dng day. This wind stops, it'll freeze overnight." They fell silent, staring ahead into the darkness. Roberta turned on a searchlight set on the roof above hin head, and its rays iumined the tumbling water, The shores were dimly to be seen on éither hand, thelr distance un- guesaable, Dark was almost fully come. Darkness had quite come when, half an hour later, the throb- bing of the engine became uncertain, reluctant, and stopped. Reberta grinned. "There she gots again,’ he anid ensually, “Ti bet Chiswick is awear- ing. Well, time for a pipe" He lighted it. Secure from the wind aa they were, Van Wert began to feel cold, far there was no heat in the tabin. Roberta’ pipe glowed. By and by he asked, “You know haw te steer?" Van Wert nodded. “['m going back—asee if I can (Continued on {Page 113)

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16 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FROM rir RESIDENT McKINLEY was Pisstaursces March 41607. A few daye later I took supper with the President and Mrs, McKinley in the White House, Mrs, MeKinkey insisted it was supper, and not dinner. The food was of the simplest kind, such aa ia served in thow- sands af homes in the Mid- dle West. [noticed the eol- ared butler walted on the President first. Mr. MecKin- ley saw my book of surprise and, when the man left the room, «aid, Thatis.one of the: things [ cannot get used to, All my married life Mra. Mc- Kunley has betn served feat, but it ia a eustom and we cannot change it. We are governed by White House etiquette, handed down for generations. The employes puss from one administration to another. Some have been here over thirty years.” The President assisted Mra. MeRinley te the living rooms above and rejoined me at the end of the hall, where palm trees and rattan furniture gave an effect of summer, Neither of ua spoke for ten or fifteen minutes. Finally McKinley, with a whimsical amiile, ssid, “Whot ore you thinking about?" “Twaswondering if you would be wear- ing the same sized hatband in u year from now.,"" “Do you think Tam in danger of a ewelled head?" “You would be more than human if you were hot influenced by the adulation paad you by 24 per cent of your callers, Not more than 2 per cent tell you the truth!" “Well, if you see evidence of an expan- sion, Please tell mee." About a year later we were sitting in the same ploce, smoking. MeKinley saicl, "Have you soon any evidences of my hatband expanding?" "Ho, but Lam still watching i!" The President told me that on return from the inauguration exercises with ex- President Cleveland to the White House, Mr. Cleveland said, “Tam deeply sorry, Mister President, to pass on to you a war with Spain. It will come within two yeora. Nothing can atop it.” MeHinley themght it could he avoided. His pacific nature could not visualize war. For the moment he was supremely happy. Thirteen months later, April 21, 159%, Mr. Cleveland's prophery came true. The firet sign of a break in the Me- Kinley enbinet wes when Seeretary of State John Sherman gave evidence of mental deterioration. His memory {nile him on matters of vital importance, which embarrassed the President very much. When war with Spain was declare! McKinley felt he must have someone in the State Depourtment on whom he could rely; so he wrote his olf intimate friend, Judge William FH. Day, of Canton, and asked him to accept the position af Assistant Secretary of State. [To was with the President when a telegram was handed bir. He said, “Lt is from Judge Day, acoepting the Assistant Secretary of State, He gives up fifteen thousand dollars 9 year to take a forty-five-hondred-dollar position. He would not do it if he did not love me.” Judge Day's acceptance wos o great relief to McKinley. Seeretary Sherman soem retired and Judge Day became Secretary of State, until Ambassu- dor John Hay came from London a few months later ard assumed the office. Colonel Hay told me it was a great disappointment to give up the ambemadorship. He loved the London life, but he added, “Tam asoldler ard go where | um sent." xr ERRUARY 15, 1898, the Maine was. blown up in Hovana Harbor, [t stirred the evintry aguinst Spain In April [ received a wire from Mr. Cortelyou: “The President wants to see you." DEPARTMENT OF STATE We SHIN GTON Former feerstary of Jrete Jota Hay aad « Foerimiie of Cae of Mla hetier: te Mr, Kokdiaai At ULarper’s Perry a telegram invited me ta dine with the President and Mrs, McKinley, My train wos two hours behind time, making it teo- late for dinner, eo I wired I would fore ad Boer a poaaihle. There was a place recital in the Alue Room of the White louse, Mrs, McKinley wasseated near the pinnist, lonktng very frat anel Ul, The President was inthe center of the rom on an S-shaped setter, There were eighteen or IWenty fuests present. As Doster iin the dooraay someone sabi, "Phe President in tring to cateh your ove," He motioned me to ait by him and whispered, “As soon as ele is through this piece go and speak to Mra. McKinley and then go to the Red Ream doer. Twill jal you.” T did as requested, and when he had shoken hands with snot of the late arrivals we went into the Red Room. We eat ona large crimson brocade lounge. McKinley rested his head on his hands with elbows on Fevees. He was in much distress and said, “TD have been through A irying period, Kis, MeKinley hes been In poorer health than usual, It seems to me 7 have not slept over three hiwirs a night for over two weeks. Congress ia teving bo drive ws into war with Spain. The Spanish fleet iy in wllgne Ba, rca NLEY TO HARDING Personal Recollections of Our | Presidents—By H. H. Kohlsaat) Cuban waters, and we boven’ | ammunition on the Athurtic fire a salute.” He broke doen ool oled Bel of thirteen, | put my bare on der and remained mikerst, of tension would) be relisweed ber be As he became colen [ thrice te that the country would hark tak course he should purse 1 He finally said,“ “But I moust return to Moe Mei atone, She is omong aaa” “When you open ther door is room blew your nose wely hand Ti will force tears inbo yours, will think that iw comes the He [acted on this sugpetion wae no small blest. After the musicale the Prema wentinio the old cabinet resale ntl very Late, Congress wobed to put Gia lurs in MeKinley’s hords— wa on it, War was declared ApS Ten days later, May 1, 125. the of Manila was fought. I President « few days after the ’ MecKintey said, “Whee warm eable from Acieniral Desay | taking of the Philippinen © lea their location on the ginbe Lee have told where those darsed & were within two thousand calles!” months later he said, “DL od Tem just sailed away when be om Spanish fort, what o lot of oe would have saved um,” The Battle of Santiago war I July 3, 1898, and saw the Sp sunk, and the amr soon eke McKinkey tok mom they be Schley on the carpet tocerts for disobedience off onters © Porto Rico and going '& his succemefal Pa subject of ouch —— Chicago T posed the 15 pear cent | claiming it had heen and New Mexico, Ser free imports from F opposition, and Jy deer Kohtegal: that [ am eorry defiance,” Fe

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 17 aston the facta and of be Chine gies sa ara dam doing off T can “can bo = ae ell tall wee fa id Shove BOeTCuees to “py coma Of course heme 60 Blane ard on for dour years, bot ae is nearly up ond ‘for all party discus- "for dave not been oui of theay party bere ane STATC OF New ToRK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER ALDAKY 1s Kohlsatt, Timesicrald, Chicago, Ill, fuipust “BO, 1899 2 : may how much [ am obliged to you. Somebody thought- ful z nent men marked copy of tileon Hutchins’ paper which anid I wna dying of remorse ond shame in Now Hampshire ond that the wer of it, an that it br a 1 job for the country Wf FT had died long apo. These things ore said with euch evident ecar- neetoess and sincerity that I ometines Wonder if they are not true. But when ‘Loe what « fudichous person like shen you hear of my My dear Mr. Kohisatt:~ soa the ent to live om awhile. ing Porto Aico aa an : Il thank you for yours of the 14th instnt. Give my compliments to iat pagel ry Your advice is as sound as a dollan—a good deal sounder than a forty— matics and believe nmakeup your mind @ight cent dollar, When the President requested me ta go to Ohio, of Sincorcly yours, fopdigraronaldr course I had to go. That is all I shall do. 1 have, however, con- Joun Hav, Lop the agitation sented to give the gold medal to the returning 10th Hegiment of Penn— avi ay Up rege sylvanta troops, because that was something that seemed appropriate and HE Hay-Pauneefote ran give me all the proper. However, it ia not yet definitely determined that 1 shall treaty negotiations be~ sk tate it now go there, gan in DMM) and were finally cerely jours, closed Ln aint a first M. A. HANNA. ; treaty was defeated in the ne) Faithfully yours, 2 Senate aaeatee oraker Act, mak- i : eee et et of senators strongly Rico imports free Frsccare (lor objected to the nonfortifi- reo 2, 1902, went cation feature. They did t April 3, 1500, not believe the world hod he paaage of the Bil I asked Sen- na to tell me frankly why he took the position he laughed and said, "I'll tell you exactly, We re- tice from two hundred and fifty thousand cigar at if we admitted Porte Rico cigara {ree of duty he two hundred and fifty thousand would get ef union men to vote against the Republican jovember, TK), making one million votes against VT President MeKinley and Secretary of State Hay thed the powers dernanding the open door and ortunlty In China. announcing his Far East policy McKinley un- plans to me, His great ambition was to create ets for American producers and manufacturers. do to keep our people busy. Hia motto was, employment, good wages and education bring and happiness." John Hay, as our Ambassador in London, met sadors and stateamen of the world. He wos y popular with them, which greatly aided his efforts to bring them and their governments to an agree- ment on the open door. I apent some hours with him in his library and promised to aid in creating sentinvent anvong the people of the Northwest to urge their sena- tora and representatives to back McKinley and Hay in their Chinese negotiations. The treaties were ratified and have been the means of creating new markets for our goods and bringing about o better understanding between the Far East and the United States. The following letters were among those received during the Open-Door negotiations: DEPARTMENT OF STATE Wastixetos, March bi, 1900, Afy dear Mfr, Kohleat: Allow me to thank you most sin- eeroly for your editorial a» indie of our Chinese no tHntions, Your strong and well-we do words, ond Wellman's orticles will put the matter in ite true light before the great North- western public. Your action is most valuable to us all and Iam cordially grateful to you for it. Yours faithfully, Jon Hay. Newnurnr, MN, H,, Aug, 11, ‘OO. Dear Mr, Kohleaal: T hawe received your kind letter of tha Tth and the inelosed leader from the Timea-Herald. I nerd mot advanced far enough te ward tniversal pence to permit leaving the canal unprotected. Their feara were justified In the World War of 1914 to 1918, when the news was recelved that a German raider was sinking ehipa in the South Atlantic, What would have happened to the Panama Canal if it had not been fortified? After the Senate defeat Messrs, Hay and Pauncefote amended the treaty, authorizing fortificutions, and reaub- mitted it to the Senate. It was ratified with little delay. Lord Pauneefote, the British Ambassador, died in Washington the next year, May 26, 1902. He was greatly respeched for his personal charm and stateamanship. T was in the old cabinet room with President Roosevelt one noon in June, 1902, when his barber brought in a skeleton reclining chair. Taking off his cont, but not his collar, the President reclined om the chair. The berber lathered his face and began shaving him, but Roosevelt did not stop talking. I said, “He will ewt you if you don't atop making faces and talking.” The look the knight of the razor gave me for even suggesting such a thing silenced me. (Continwed on Page If) Colona! Aeaeielt aaa Some of Hit Famowt Rough Riders

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18 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 24, J. POINDEXTER, COLORED SEEMS to me it's highly suitable that I should get to the edge of telling about Mr. Dallas" misfortunate visi- tationa on the thirteenth day of the month, which, as everybody knows full well already, thirteen is the unlucki- est number there ie in the whole alphabet, When you propeeta with Old Lady Thirteen you flirts with sudden disnster. With Mr. Dallas, though, his troubles don"t come on all at once, like a stroke; they comes on sort of fradual, one behind the other, like the symptoms of a lingering complaint, Up to a cortain polnt everything with us has gone along very lovely, the same as usual, with parties oecur- ring regular at the apartment and the Japanese boy cooking up faney mix. tures and me serving drinks by the drove, Thankagiving time we has a epecial blow-out with twelve setting down to the tableatones. But Christ- mas is when we cuts loose and just naturally out-to-doa all previous to- dine. All day long folks is dropping in to sample the available refreshments, and most of "em likes the sample so well they campe right there till far into the night. [mingles up a big glasa lr full of eggnog, which iteeeme to give speci! satisfaction te one and all, The way these here guests of cure bails it up you'd think they was in a sinking aki half a milo from shore. As he ladles out the first batch Mr. Dullas states that thia here eggnog ia made aecording te a recipe which has been handed down in his family since right after the Revolutionizing War. But when she's took the second help- ing, Misa O'Brien, who's got amighty peart way about her of saying things, qllows that it sure must be older even than that. She anys she's willing to bet it had a good deal to do with bringing on the Revolution. Of all the crowd that Mr. Dallas is in with Tlikes ber the beat. She's got a pow- erful high temper ancl ls prone to dare up when matters don't go to sult her; but it seems like to me she nin't de- voting so much of her time as some of the othera ia to seeing what she can get for nothing. Sormetirnes [ catches her levking at Mr. Dallas like as if ebe's sert of sorry for him on account of some reason or other. But to look at him on this Christmas Day, doing his entertainingest best, you'd think nothing had ever bothered him and that nothing ever would. As long as that eggnog holds out he's bound and determined the party shall be a success. Which it is! But Mr. Bellows he ain't got no storage room for eeENOE. Beeringly he figures that all of them eggs and that rich team and Sliger ahd stuff will take Up space which i nerded for chambering the hard liquor. He just sets off in a corner with a bottle of Scotch and a bottle of squirt water handy by, curing his drought or striving to. He may mot be such very good company, but one thing they've got to say for him—he's a man of regu: af hunhits, You may not like the habits, but they certain|y is regular. I hears Mre. Gaylord saying once that Mr. Bellows can hold any given number of drinks, sort of pressing jer voice down on the word “given.” She don"t need te sayy ib bwiee, neither, eo far aa I personally is concerned, | pot her thi firat tine. It's maybe two or three days after Christmas —ariyliow, it's somewherea around the middle of Christrias week— that I firat takea notice of a sort of a change comming over Mr. Dallas’ feelings, When there's nobody else round jar just me and him he acts plumb bothered. His appetite is more picky and choosy than it wed to be: and by these signs I can tell something is on his mind a-prev iris Cn New Year's Eve he goes forth with bis friends for a party, but first they all stops by our place for what they culls appetizers, and whilst they is gathered (ougether {1 comes out that him and Miss Bill-Lee is now engaged. Not no remilar annowneement ie made: but all of o pedde seems like, everybody present appears to kmaw booy | ings stand with him and ber. Also Miss Bill-Lee stars in treating him mere or less like he belonged to her, DT dou't secures!) know how to state tt in worda;: but it's like as if uy ust By Irvin S. Cobb FLEVITRATESD BaF F. x. GCREUGER ai oma et i ‘3 it

*'F Don't Wont Tips," She Joys, “FS Want Faces ip ana Pm Going to Moor Ties Fert and Noo = oad Fram Faw f* now she's been holding a piece Af praperty under mortgage but tias finally deeided forte foreclase on it and ts eager for the papers to be fixed apoin order for to begin making improvements and alterations, She's whatcyou might call proprietary.

Well, [ enn't ay the news id much of a shack to me, secing what has been the cencral drift. of events sinee inst August when we first got hens But, on the other hand, neither, TI oran’t say that, considering everything, I'm actually: overcome with jovtulness an Mr, Dallas" personal neexmunt lL con't keep from thinking te mised! that e's fixing Lite tarry himself af inte a mighty diferent set of folks from the kind he was bern and brung up amongst And I can't ketpr Irian thinking. what a oe wf di ffercties there is hebwixk th apie Miss De Witt and Miss Heniistita Farrell. cabal niger i before, be was courting her before wo moved t ae Ys TH. Dae of em sort af pulsine in mind of o rosebud picked ut of the Sea in tha dew oof. the Ore, and tlhe other, whieh [To omenns by that. Mise DeWitt, reminds mo Tone of these flere hig pete magiilia blooms-which thas growl on the edge of dawimp. Lotn"t meni ne disre ellie havi these th upote? only Dotan't beep from I reckon it's having therm ideas floating round = & we which makes me study Mr. Dallas specially chloe tha: So Year'a Eve. For all that be's loughing and jer; « carrying on, I figures that way down deep imete « «= he ain't entirely happy over what's come out. By =, = culations he ain't got the true feelings which a lors-< bridegroom should hue. Ae se: | Lean judge, he ain’t bopefc » -..: ne he's sort of remigmated. Als furthermore [oewr ie, be pet of a pusaled-up, bethastreted ind | his face, as if he'd been took @ by something be sreen't ay i pecting bo happen so soo, Eig It pin't exactly surpee ond E exactly harwildedinert, bot B's thing that's distant konfoiks t by of “em, =x NWA, that's thet oo sale up bere. I will now pom what comes to pass aboot a ater om. All mlevrag thurcamplh thet Mr. Dallas don"t fap oe young man should whbch he fy; ing out in the new yer Gell cheer and bright propect: A catchword pores, he a’) of At the bhrenkfost tbl whee | fassing things to bins bee's ofa ing hard at nothing atall Ey his thoughts t far away, eo! very happy in the place where strayed off to nelther, Well, on this particular dey, it is getting slong toward them of the month, he don"t get downtown until long afterd and when he doo a scarcely touch a mmomnel boil: pecks at the vitthe Adve over and the dishe: washed =] through the hall on the way ae. ing bound for the Poti Gp conmultate with one U. 3 & colored, touching on cor eas affairs. Mr. Deatiow had doa at dinner that | could keve te ning off, and there was mot me why I should linger on Buty passes the aetling-room dew 2 in and he's setting thee hunched davern im bis chur. « elbows nesting on w litte t face in bis hands, suming lon ere.

He sort of starts and looks up at & miserableness staring forth from = ¢ now, He speaks to me then, and 9 with a jolt. Because this plan "Teil, why bs it that white p ip suicide on aceount of thelr privn hear of a darky killing himself f ‘i I studies for a minute and ¢ “Well, Mr. Dallas, I reckin f man gite hisse'l in trouble an” be e to git shet of ft An’ so he acta d thinks an* he thinks, an’ after we nigger man gits in trouble on* bes an” he thinks an" he thinks—an" s sleep" He smiles the least Hetle bit « ne regulation amile—it's more of one. “But suppose you're brooding so he ays. “T ain't never seen no nigger oculdd sleep ef the baid wuz Many “vantages in bein" black, ¢ il organized," T saya, “but this in utes net ian culler has it the best." Hie don't say anything back at ma. So after litthe bit I starts to move on out, ond then then Maliith-4e prom ptings leads me to open “Mr. Dallas,” 1 gaye, "sometimes ere of our pestermints ef only we tales "bout en ae oft, Sometimes,” I says, “it's keepin’ an = Lae Digitized byGooate

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST pal the insides of ua wich meks the burden bear down wy. Wue they anything else, suh, ‘at you wished for ee me! oem (ike my words must have put a fresh notion in ad. A” be anya, “you're right. I've got to confide in ody—or ee explode. Bealdes," he sayu, “IT figure ‘there ig one person in all the five or six millllen in this town who's likely to be a real friend to me, 1 And while my talking to you probably can’t do onl, it certalnly can't do any harm.” . Baling." [saye, “Tis your frien’ an’ yore desperit cher besides. Sence | been wukkin’ fur you you ued me mouty kind. LT ain’t never had nary speck in of complaint to find wid yore way of treatin’ me. “ite an’ Lia black," I saya, “an" sometioes, seem ¢, the two races is driftin’ fa'ther apart day by ar, that ain't benderin’ me frum havin’ yore bes at heart. An‘ so, suh, ef you fecls lak givin’ me iidences I'm yere to heed an’ to hearken an’ do my bat level bes fur te ald you, ef so be ez I kin.” jeve you,” he sais, “and I'm grateful tayou. . if, to put tt plainly, I've gone and got mynell op ina bed mess. t way, suh?" I says. vo ways,” he says. “In business—and in another been an ass, Jef—a blind, witless asa, This life st different from any I'd ever known—so different ‘weclnating—that it just awept me off my feet. drifting along with my eyes shut, having my ing today take care of itself and with no thought row. As Tlook back on it, it strikes me I always amore or lesa of a drifter. Down youder, among seonle, there always waa somebody who'd atep in while and check me up. But op here, in this big wedy bown, among strangers, ['ye had nobody to e or to show me where I was making o fool of And, believe me, I have made a fool of myself. hat T need ia a guardian—only I doubt whether the money eventually to pay for his services. was free of these—these—well, these entangle- él! you right new I'd be willing te quit New York and take the next train back home, where lies a minute and then he continues to reaume. he says, “I'd head for home in the morning— It haa taken a hard jolt to open my eyes, but, @, they’re opened now, The chief trouble Is, though, that even with them opened [ can't see any way out of the tangle I'm in. Jeff, the big mistake | made at the start was that I tied up with the wrong outfit, I thought I was joining in with a group of typical successful live New Yorkers; [I know now how wrong I was. There must be plenty of real people here; people who take life in moderation; people who are fair and kindly and reason- able; people who can find pleasure in simple things and who don't pretend to know all there is te know, or to be what they're net, Huot T haven't met them; I've bean too busy running with the other kind.” Down in my soul I says to myself there's a chanee for him to pull owt yet if he's beginning to see the brass work shining through the gold plating which has so dazzled him heretofore, Yes, slr, if he's found owt all by himself that New York City ain't exclusively and utterly composed of the Mr. H. ©. Raynorses and the Mr. Hillary Bellowses and such, there certainly is hope for him still. All along, up te new, I"ve been aaying to myeelf that it looke like the only future Mr, Dallas has to look forward to is his past; but now I rejoices that he's done woke up from his happy trance. But of course I don’t let on to him that such ia my feelings. I merely saya to him, I says, “I ain't the one to 'spube wid you on ‘at pint, sub, Naw, suh, not me! But whut's the reason you can't pull out from yere ef you'sa mind tot At that he lit in and the language just poured out from him like a flood. There's a lot of rigmarole about business, and some parte of thia [ cannot seem to rightly get the stralghe of it into my head: but I'm pretty sure I got the hang of all the malin palnts clear enough. To begin with, [ learns now for the first time that him and Mr, Raynor ain't actually been selling ail downtown; they've been selling oil stocks, which aa near aa [ can figure it out, an oil atock is the game kin to oi] that a milk ticket is to milk, only [t's Uke as lf the man whieh sells you the milk tiekets ain't really got no cows rounded up yet, but trusts in duc time he'll be able to do so, Still, if there is folks seattered about who's willing to take the risk that the milkman will amass some cows somewhere and that the cows won't go dry or die on him or be grabbed by the sheriff and thereby leave the customers with a lot of nloe new onuseable milk tickets on their hands, why, the way I looks at it, there ain't no reason why their craving for to invest should mat be gratified. Tt seems, furthermore, that Mr. Raynor ain't actually been selling as many oll stecks in the general market as he has let on, Leastwise, that is what Mr. Dallas suspicions, 19 even if he can’t prove it. When first they went into part- nera together last August Mr. Dallas tells me he put up a large jag of money for his half interest. He was content to let Mr. Raynor manage the business and keep the run of the books and all that, seeing as how Mr. Raynor had the experience in such matters and he dido't. Anyhow, he felt amply sathefied with the gratifying amounts which Mr, Raynor kept handing ower to him, saying it all was from the profits, But this very day there's been a show-down at the office growing out of Mr, Raynor haying culled on him to put up another big chunk of cash for running expenses, and whilst all the figures and all the details ain't been made manifest to Mr. Dallas yet, he's got mighty strong reasons to believe there really wasn't no profits to speak of, and that the money he's been drawing out all along was just his own money, which Mir. Raynor bet him hawe it in order to keep him happy and contented whilst he was being sucked in deopor and cecper. And ao now, Mr. Dallas save, that's how it stands. If he goece on and on along the way he seema to be heacled it's only a question of time till all his money will be plumb drained from him. He tells me that he'd be willing to pull out now and take his losses and charge ‘om up to the expense of getting a Wall Street education, only, he says, he can’t. I asks him then what's the reason he can't. And he says because when the papers was drawed up— by Mr. Raynor—he obligated himself in such a twistifed way that it seems he's bound hard and fast ta stlek to the bitter end, Of course, he says he might start up a lawsuit and throw the whole thing into the courthouse; but, even so, he's afraid he wouldn't have a leg left to stand on by reason Of his having tied himeelf up ao tight in writing: and anyway, he gays, before he got through with a lawsuit moat dotbtless the lawyers would have all the leavings. To myself I says there is still another reason. I knows how much it would hurt Mr. Dallas’ pride to have all the folks down home finding owt that be's made another dis- aaterful move in business. By roundabout wayne it has come to my eara that he's been writing back down there about how well he's doing up bere in New York, and now if it showld come avt in the papers that he's mode one more bad bust-up on top of all them finance mistakes he committed before he come North, and he should have to go South again, broke and shamed at being broke, I reckons it would just abowt kill him. Besides whieh I knows full well fram hearing Judge Priest talking in the past that even (Continued en Poge #0) Christma ic When We Cate Coen ond Jor Matorally GeteTo- Der Al Prevctoes Feros

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20 ditiona that cluster around romance, hut it le equally dangerous te disturh truth in the interest of romance, Possibly this difficulty ex- plains why the real story of the affair between Stephen Cotter and Jeanne Buckinghar has never been told. The truth forces, at the very beginning, the admission that when Stephen considered the possibility of marrying Jeanne he was not in the slightest in love with her, Tio offer as an apology the explanation that he was handicapped by the fact he had not then met her only complicates matters. It makes a bad beginning. But, after all, that's the whole atery. Cotter was a curious fellow—a little bit tao practical to be a port and a littl too much of a poet to be practical. He came of a good but none too proapercus family in California, and was strug- gling without much euceesa through a sun-kissed univensihy when the summons te war made a wel- come break in his life. He served his country creditably, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. He was then shipped to New York, given his dis charge, and transportation offered him back to the land of coiperative sunshine, but he preferred to remain where he was. He had never seen the Bast and this seemed like a good opportunity, It was, ina way, and yet it had its difficulties, Merely to see, one must subsist; and on a few hundred dollars saved from army pay this ia not long poe sihle—not, at any rate, at the Hote] Vandemore. Whether from the riotous dreams of his grand father, who had crossed the plains in ‘49, or from the somewhat more sober but mo less grandicee expectations of his father, who speculated and consistently lost in Ban Francisco realty, or whether from the golden atmosphere of his native state, Cotter inherited an attitude towards money that had cultivated in him extremely expensive tastes. He had really fine sensibilities in the mat- ter of his dress and surroundings and, perhaps unfortunately, had both the physique and manner for displaying these to advantage, Tall and elight, with fine features Fe taining en ough of the rugeed strength of his New England oncestora to save them from insipidity, with jet-black hair and black eves containing a lurking smile, he was always noticed. He had, moreaver, on sir—a self-confident pobe—that & supposed te come only with comfortable security, Nor waathe illualon disturbed when he spoke. He was intelligent and talked well, with a careless amile that suggested a background. He could do that with no more than fifteen canta in his pocket, Hesuw New York by strolling downtown after a leisurely brenkfast at nine, swinging a light walk= ing stick, eitting over a cigarette for a forenoon in Washington Square, watching the children ot play and often enough joining them in a game of tag, to the delight and admiration of the nursemaida; strolling back to Central Park for the afternoon after alight lunch, and spending the evening over a geod dinner and an agreeable lounge in the hotel lobby, where there was as mich to eee an at any of the theaters, at a considerably lees cost. It was here that he first saw Jeanne Buckingham. She came in with her father, evidently from a train, with half a dozen bell boys to carry her luggage. The episode waa something worth watching—this stern-faced, autocratic, important- looking guardian giving her the proud protection which she did not need and to which she was utterly indifferent, While her futher registered and had even the blast Vandernore clerks standing on tiptoe, she turned and calmly surveyed all her natural enemies in the lobby, including Stephen Cotter, with ber tidy chin well up and a challenge in her eves, But she was trig from head to toe—alim ancl trige and perfect! In those few minutes Cotter took inevery detail und fixed them in his mind as worth remembering. Then she vanished and he sauntered over to the register, where he read: “Tota A. PUCKINGHAM, “JEANNE BUCKINGHAM, Hoatom, Ames," i WOULD be absurd to say that Stephen Cotter followed Jeanne to Boston, He did not, brut when sone three days later he saw her and Joshua A. go out with their bags to catch the one o'clock THE SATURDAY THE CL [iccvtvinne By Frederick Orin Bartlett T'S cnSs FELUITAATE D Br Jf: fe WEEE "Fat, feooss, Bos*t Foo tee Ff Got ot Art by om Teich Fo" EVENING POST Borough of Manhattan. nad way he had made one or two aftempa jp ae employment in New York, but quite wither ces, and it occurred to him that he might a better chance in the amalber city. ft bed increasingly evident that eome sort df cusses necessary. And so on the apur al the soment rushed upstairs, crowded his few belonging his bag, pald his bill and was fortunate meer RECUEE tL seat on the same train and, by ee in the same car. He found her not tee @ away, but that was all the good it did kim « that it gave him an opportunity to epprecie) a Httle more in detail— to stucy the fee} about ber nose and mouth, to mote that bem were a deep brown, and, whem she terse ber upon him, to realize that her arm resting Geer chair was quite symmetrical, and that bere gumpsed in the siske, were unueully ool shapely, Ever now and then Joho Ao him making these observations and gine! When at the South Station a wnlflored oe met the pair and escorted them out of mgt ing Stephen to find quarters ms best be coll strange city, life suddenly struck hin wens cold-blooded propeaition. Tt waa, of coon unreasonable te expect the Hickcinghars tie) more interested in bim than they were—wile not at all—and yet, to change the siteste, | litte more waa needed. A comusl ino however perfunctory—the sart of thisg have been able to arrange at home & a different formal ways—would have bem @ to carry him over that first barrier sor efi nable, Cottier was no anarchist, He believed &) conventions. But, like every law, they a defeated their own ends. Often — permitted, as a matter of routine, ine that should never have been allowed. Ga | known plenty of men with whem be’ y core to hove hin sister masociete who eG passed on from one group to another ead had met every nice girl im town. (On tie hand, many a decent fellow Kad beeen ker lutely because he had had mo initial ope That at present wos his own situstion Cotter, however, was not ead enough t that an introduction to a girl bile 2 harm wae all that waa neceaay to immecdinte and intimate no more than enter him in the field w have the privilege of making good Bi) him. But this wae all chat to ask, and this much, es now whe that dhaaet matter of chance and tha cumatances he did not bes Tt come like a challenge. That first night Cotter next day he secured a fr house and started fin to he whe not a pleasant t his loneliness, As long the position of a pies where he might find | Bought admission to minty be wns wor: me He exeept hie army a onby of negative va had he any bees offer. “He was mm job, and there were a such, It waa an extrac | depressing days the dee Buckingham should haw This young woman wi ing if mot [art oblivious of any noch But that was not img « ; ge oe made a favorable inipetaaion wheel n personal interview, that, sfortumamely. Digitized by pogle.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 21 ‘io och or mot enough. Tt wee too for the minor position of offlee bay, and pe enough to qualify him as @ vw And there it seemed as though ii the good-looking Pudkin. The other, C., was short and stout and more ad in the detaila of office management than in 1 prospective customers, conveying them by hile to cholee building sltes and making them ite the beauty of adjacent shore and sea and te younger Pudkin had a pretty knack of ratreled into the Basten office of the firm thout hope, attracted by the name and by the tion of the words “real estate" and “shore nthe door, It suddenly occurred to him that | had no personal experiences in the real-estate could at least claim something by inheritance. heard the business talked over enough at though on thoee oocasions hia mother did quite talking aa his father, She had been urging inior for twenty years to drop it and take up ror market gardening or portrait painting or promising ot least a small element of profit- rT, C. looked up with a frown from his desk when tered, but the next second made his feet, ‘The i laid eyes on that tall, neatly dressed young id visions of selling that ten-thousand-dollar rth Cotuate which had bein so lon a his enry C. did not often geta huneb of t titthat time. The only Sere pahor “peal was to keep it long. he inquired politely of Cotter. er amiled pleasantly—the sort of smile some lhave given a fortune to possess, king a long ee he ore “Tt oceurred wis going by at t ia time of year you ible to wae a salesman.” maped Pudkin. ther is in the real-eatate business In San Fran= ter offered as his only recommendation. an you want a job?” asked Pudkin bluntly. n—hanged|” murmured Pudkin. own agaln in his chair and motioned Cotter to neighboring one, This waa more encourage- the latter had received in a week. Pudkin ray glowea and spate and yellow walking stick. “What kind of job do you want?" in- quired Pudkin cautiously. “Any kind,” declared Cotter, “I'll sweep out the office or manage it.” “What you been doing?” * Fighting. aa "Eh? re “T've just been discharged from the Army." “Oh, Tsao, Didn’ t know but what you'd been in the ring.’ "No; I'd have more capital if I had been,” smiled Cotter. “Ever try selling anything?” “Only my secondhand elothes in eollege." “Know anything about the South Shore?" “Tt's on the Atlantic Ocean.” “Yea, admitted Pudkin. “But the Atlantic is a big ocean.” “Youbet. [ve just sailed across it.” “We're interested here only in that ae tt lt that hits the shore,” ait," The South Shore within easy cor- muting distance of Boston.” “That eliminates a good chunk of it all at once,’ said Cotter, “Farty miles from town isp our Limit.” “A man ought to be able to cover that ground without much trouble,” “And we handle only the better class of property.” = “Another chunk gone," ee een eee Soe ee ™ you knew the territory.” *T'll learn it.” "You can't do that ina day." They made ae him a distinct impresaion. They in- "TI know the aky and the sea. That's two thirds of It. apired respect and confidence. And, what was more tothe The rest ——' point, the young man wearing them backed up this suc- The rest is what wo're selling,” interrupted Pudkin. coaefully in his general bearing. If he was able to acoom- “Right. If you'll give me a list of your offerings I'll plish this aa a total atranger for Pudkin, why would he go over them.” not be able to produce the same result in the case of “Got a cart” Pudkin's cliental When all was aid and dane, respect “No.” and confidence were os important as a knowledge of real “Any mosey tT" estate. That end of it be would look after himself. “No.” (Continued on Page #0) fhe Terned ond Cataly Sereryed AN Her Noteral Eacmles im the Lobby ee ees ane are eae Net li “2 coat “FE ame te Ae ia ite Faa't a Park, Foong Maa,"' Beckingham Deelared Steraly

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Za THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A‘'D. 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE SOUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, U. 5.A. GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR Fs eee ee ee From dl Mewedssier. By Subscription: To ihe United Stra aod Poseesions, Argentine. Bolirls, Goleta Cube, (oete Rica, homewicon Kepublic, Easeeher, Hietefetea, Meahen, i lonregue. Sele dor, Spale, Pasar aod Pera, 22 the Vear, Remit by |, & Maney teder, Eapeeis Money Cinder, Check on by Trat, payable lo 0. Funds ‘To Canada —fy Subecripdon, BM thee Year, Secale Caples. Ten Crit Canadian es US. Poe ‘Osker Porelen Centres In ces Postal Union: Sebecripsices, 8 the Fear, Ramimances to be by Dri on a bank in Gee UU. 45., papebts lo U.S. foceie. PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 24, 1922 The Direct Primary N A RECENT interview Senator George Wharton Pepper ia quoted as suggesting modification of the primary-election law to define the status of the “organiza- tion.” The senator urged “constructive thinking” along that line in order to avedd in the future euch confusion aos eceurred in connection with hia nomination. Wo fail to see how any changes in the primary law can affect the fundamental question involved, for it is purely ao omaetber of one's conscience and convietbons. Onganizu- tion for political purposes ia oecessary and desirable, but there is no reson why the voter should swallow any or- ganization without question or analysis because it beara a reputable label, That label may be counterfeit and the stuff behind it bootleg of the worst quality, It is not in- cumbent on anyone, no matter how strong @ party mon, te vote for the candidates of any organization whose prorm- isos Will not stand the clouest scrutiny and whose aimas are ao dewbtful that they admit of na doubt. Those whe will weigh promise against performance and platforms against recorde will not find the anewer hard to reach. Asa matter of fact, average men and women are in amall doubt about the statua of the average political organiza- tion, and they openly declare themselves for or against it. That is exactly as it should be. Benater Pepper's problem may be one for the eondidate, but it is not one for the voter. The primaries in Penneylvania and in Indiana are the most significant and important political events of this gen- eration—not particularly because the women took part in them, though that is important; nor because Pinchot and Beveridge were nominated, though that. too, is significant; but because they indicate that beth men and women are beginning to realize that the fight for good government must be made before and at the primaries, (Otherwise, nine times aut of ten the voters are offered a choice of hand-picked ond boss-picked nominees, There neal be no surprise if a vigerous campaign to abolish direct primaries follows the spring nominations. Heretofore they have net worked oat very well in practice, because the voter has not prepared for and used thom intelligently. But to the hanes of on informed! and carnest electorate they will be a powerful instrument for clean and horest government, To abealish them, to use Ehem tabled y ind wnintelligently, is to confess our total unfitness for the duties of citizenship, The real problem of the primaries is the failure of so many votera to avail themselves of o THE SATURDAY EVENING POST privilege that has a direct and dally bearing on their homes, their earnings and their lives. It is not amendment of the direct-primary law that is needed, but education of the voter aa te its possibilities, Lame and Halt and Blind HIEF JUSTICE TAFT, according to press dispatches, is spending his English holiday in a close personal study of British judicial methods, with a view to making recammundations to the Americin Bar Association lonk- ing toward the speeding up of our own courts, both state and Federal Gur own practice is deficient in two re apecta: The almoat interminable delaya that ensue be fore enses con be heard, and the dilatory tactics that are permitted in open eaurt. The subject of Mr. Taft's etudies is not anew one, For at least one generation our lawyers have been perennially aware of the thoe-wasting procedure that has been getting a tighter and tighter strangle hold on American courts and has been making litigutlon of every aert progresalvely more costh: and protracted, with a general tendency to enrich attorneys and impoverish clienta. Every year leaders of the bar heave directed attention to the un- favorable contrast afforded by comparieen of our slaw- footed practice with the apeed and efficiency with which similar business ia dispatched in the English law courte. There has been no end of talk about the adoption of more expeditious methods in thia country, but only in sporadic instances have substantial reforms resulted, This matter ia not to be numbered among the academic technicalities that are of interest only to members of tho legal profession, It ig, on the contrary, a live iseve and one that coneerns every citkzen of this country; for no man is so peaceable or so obacure that he may not become involved in a lawsult, or so innocent that ho may not, through untoward circumstances, stand accused of crime. The more elaborate the judicial proeedure in which ho be- comes entangled, the smaller is his chance of getting sub- staritial justioe in the end; and, as ft works out in practicn, complicated and dilatory procedure almost inevitably ac- eentiates the unavoldable disparicy that exleta between the rich litigant and the poor one. Mr. Taft has long had at heart the situation of the poor man who must struggle in the toils of our cumbrous legal syeterm like a gnaton fy paper. Only a few works ago in a public addresa he impressively called attention to the high cost of litigation in our Federal courts, and expressed the hope that conditions might be materially bettered, The classical conception of Justice was a goddess with bandaged eyes. In America we have gone the Greeks one better and have made her lame and halt os well as blind, Li, a5 a result of Mr. Taft's studies and recommendations, she can be prodded inte a saafter gait, and if her feet can be set on unobstructed pathe, he will have performed a great public service and will have made his holiday as fruitful as hia working days. The Neglected Science HE average man who makes en occasional inventory af the furniture of Als mind, In order to list those branches of serviceable knowledge that he most conapicu- ously lacks and of which his dally need is greatest, is either very learned or very self-complacent if he cannot find serious deficlencies in hls mental equipment; and it is commonly true that the wiser a man ia the more acutely he fools the pangs of his own ignorance, If all the business men of the country equld be herded inta ont great examination room and could be put over the educational jumps by a stall of apecialiats the chances are that the one practical and e=entinl study in which the lowest scores would be made le economies, Nor would that result be unnatural, for a science that haa a scant century and a half of histery and tradition behind it can scarcely be expected to have acquired the momentum of these older studies, such us reading, writing, arithmetic, geametry, logic, philosophy, whoee beginnings trace back to the philosophers of ancient Greece or antedate the Pyramids of Egypt. ome 2a, The eighteenth-century poet who wrote the -t proper study of mankind is man” wae dead acl pee fore economics blossomed out inte an aorepiel me = recognized utility; but the line wae ms good fer ie ‘| - aa forthe past. After all, econmormbcs oy ltttle ele toe study of man oa he goes about his daily tale of ew reaping, hiring out his labor or engaging that af o: tracling, mining, minulacturing, bani, Sling. pe transporting the products of his om bands of of chy doing hin: beset tice keep fl tight foot camer his head and ic: ing every nerve to provide for his children and we > same overplus of savings wherewith to stake other ses would engage in enterprises met immediately probe If there be any study more homely, more doa than this, any that clings closer to the sod] op les ser man's bone and marrow, it would be hard to com yet there ia many an inatitution of hewrning, wha ment of economics is admittedly weak, thet » or considering the catablishment of courses it will-pex Big, lea-Poom muandgement and Ceo lca woo Mr. Thomas B. McAdams, president of the L-« Bankers” Association, lately mace some ee re on our national ignorance of economic science & & wi that deserves a wider audience than that alerted - raomiul of Texas bankers to whom he speke. He pe were primarily directed against (hase soft-moury =: tinkers whe speak with the tongues of sirens = 1 of their private systems for making money eey % 5 worth littl when got: When you see men of such outetarcding @-- Thomas A, Edison and Henry Ford serious); aim bringing inte play in thia country the ieetrame’ perhape, hae produced more chaos than the war Europe—that is, the printing press for creaticg a is the time for the conservative busines men to 1 and aay “Nol” Of the ailver movement, weit 2 proposed a concrete metallic basis for mone, wx = as unsound, infinitely more important is it tor proposing intangible credits as a currency hers Upon the soundness af our money denenca ‘- af our business life, Currency issued in keepers volume, with the actual needs of constructive a= and industrial operations, and, as to quality, on! ready redeemability in gold, is sound meoner. Ga isaued, on the other hand, simply on the tase of ber of tevolutions the high-geared wheel af presses are able to make per day can lead oat sult—business demoralization amd This is not a matter of abstract theory, i of oft-repeated, conerete experience in ' the world that has tried the flat-moner are to be a farseeing and = growing peopke = better educated in the sound principles of govern business: just as surely as the lows the world welivein. Economic u thinking and sound methods, : Mr. McAdams was not afraid te bint hae themselves might profitably learn wm lithe me own business, and he made it clear, whet et hind rail of window knows, that banking job or an intelligent participstion in he: world-wide science, The increasing college men whe have majored in snapped up by progressive banking insti the most hopeful signs of a more general the indispensability of this science in mexkees and business life. Amerikanski Again HERE is no more galling reading in than the well-displayed interviews hyphenates who resent ewery effort mace protect our own people from the whad European slum-dwellers. When the ex Fer Cent Law was under discussion, tek pen in hand to denouner it as “on @ proposal was made in the House io register, aliens again rose toa brand American.” Strangely enough, all over were editors, well-meaning and patriotic lowed their colurons to bee ward fier the propaganda. Americans and Amerie cola to gay what is "American" and wists "u=-4s=°

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 2a io Compromise With Bolshevism FAS ool about two jours ago that sensible hard- king people in Western Europe as well as In this intry were thoroughly frightened by the specter of lution, Indeed revolution, of strikes approaching a violence, were sittempted in Germany, Italy, and nece and England. Nothing quite so extreme was a this country, but several large etrikes had a ly radical bearing, and the sir was filled with the it shouting of agitators who wanted to see this or yjor industry taken over by the workers and who amore of lesa revolutionary change in the form of under the name of syndicalism, one-big-unionism torship of the proletariat, westward sweep of Bolshevik ideas has been To many who had looked upon the Russian aa Workman's paradise came disillusion, At- revelutions were defeated, Albortive, ill-conceived wtered out. The excessive appeal which revolu- Heat had for many minds gradually diminished, wy extreme idess always do. The Russian Bonfire it @ just as grave a mistake today to minimize uly the danger of the revolutionary disease as it yeirs ago to exaggerate its portent. Forces are work to undermine the foundations of civilizmtion ress, Tt takes an eternal vigilance, which receives appreciation from thow nat directly concerned, on ist only of the police and Federal authorities hut of the labor organ beat bers themselves, bo prevent the tearing down of the entire social and industrial structure, merely for the glee of seeing it fall, For though it has required the painful effort of many centuries to achiewe what we have tlay, there are those who would destroy it over- night, just a8 there are fire buge whose greatest joy is to soo a stately building consumed in flames. It may be a onesided and partial view, but the stabe- ment is certainly correct that the foundations of society seer very weak at all times to thoae who are in really intimate contact with the long and arduous struggle againet the social paranciac., But this atraggle has become far more severe, a hundred times more dificult, since those whe would destroy have before therm the maddening vision of the Russian proletarian dictatorship, that vast destruction af a nation, It matters not that the Russian revolution has resulted in misery, barbarism, tyranny, degeneration and slavery. To many disordered minds it is the verbal claptrap, the theoretical and rhetorical humbug of a Marxian philes- ophy that counts, rather than the hard practical outcome. Tt ia the (alee slogan of the class struggle, the verboaity and professional patter of doctrinaire socialist quackery, rather than the facts of a tragic failure, that etill appeal. The Russian experiment turns out to be little else than a bonfire of Russia itself, But it is a mistake at once strange and dangerous to assume that large numbers of people do not actually glory in a bonfire, no matter whener the constituent fuel comes. The brighter the fire the more their disordered minds are affected. Thus when Samuel (om- pers, for forty years preai- dent of the Amerienn Federation of Labor, draws atten et bon mgs and aguln te the efforts that are be-* ing made by Russian RESP AN EFE OV THOSE INFIDE, TOO revolutionlsts and those in their pay or in sympathy with them to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over bo the red international, the attendant circumstances make his statements worth listening to. One may think what one pleases of Mr. Grompers. He may be old and, as his enemies assert, behind the times. But to deny his ex- perience, his knowledge of labor conditions and his sources of information is patently foolish. The Radicals' Chance UT we do not have to depend upon Mr. Gompers to learn what a constant struggle it is on the port of any labor movement or organization to prevent the solid, sub- stantial gains of years of struggle from belng lost berause of the interference of doctrinaire revolutionista. The plain, obvieuws facts are that whenever a labor organization strikes or threatens to strike or in any other way, wisely of unwiely, attempts a brash with employers the radiculs rush upon the seene and usually bring about the defeat of the labor movernent as such, because of their extreme, excessive, impractical and often actually insane projecta. The true radical, the one who looks to Foussla for inapira- tion, is discontented with and sneere at any labor leader. Even these whe hold socialist bellefs are shouldered aside if possible by the extreme left, by the truly militant. Fidelity of service and the sum of gradual steady aceam- plishment in improving the lot of labor are not what the Bol- shevik inspired radical really wants. [ndeed he is not inter. etted in labor at all, His real (Continued on Page 45)

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a4 «xf HE Honorable Mra. Conyngham was a lady of unshakable purpose and un- THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE EAGLE Al By ROLAND PERTWEE

Jom Moy [D THE WREN soon they would walk hand in hare © ape, ous inarticulate paredise of ther 2 |. swerving moral rectitude. It is presum- he would behave just lke a pete i, pe able that throughout life she had never once PELGUSTAATeE B BF A. as Moo fF #4 T they would run together on eran ae found oecasion to Oat very late =e doubt her own infalli- and paddle tay og telity, and here ia an after dork ocd bow neset and a cauae for Very priou ay congratulation it is about cvicg c gl impossible to over= and Pere heme gy estimate. She awoke silences Als, om of a morning know- would mn rary oa ing full well the right A great dee is. g thing to do, and she warlounly— "oa retired at night with of icimmes: ther wal the pleasant con- have, that ing sclousness of having ao fond ol —i dont it. In many stark at gr roca instaness her seru- and trove eri pulously attended-to quirlegecss 4g duties might, ta por- weep proms j gona of gentle disgrosi= everyote ay thon, have proved ton Also, ote = palnful and disastrous speak te §- =] to contemplate. But flute me - a notaowith Mra, Con- future, ad) yngham, She reveled af) thet wes =i in unpleasant dutics, pected of b= i willingly confronting what be cac : the rudest obstacle earn he ant | and sweeping it ma- what she om. oi jestically aside, Aga earo he. Asda result she bruised the if the eos ta susceptibilities of rightly they t= many, bot never of vew ihe bere herself. Constitution- of ther breacs ally she was a kind partieglt 9° i woman, but always art inspires or on her own lines; ane sentimer: = a if, sa waa often the breast. enee, her kindness To bene proved unwelcome cr word ofr oes even hurtful to others matters! Se it was never varied meenent eos 4 on that account, En coene 71h Her juggernaut woll- prove wo meaning fattened out pard & at many ahe had axnght too reed=s = oe to roise, but Mars. Whersicr ill Conyngham did not Ravacag:. St | mind abowt that, for close packs she knew she was : : wae Kicipatce. =| right. fe Would be die to Foggeet TAat Leelie Kavanagh, aso Modern Young Lady of Keen Understanding, Was ey laa | Her deceased hus- Unaware of the Tenderness She Had Inapired in Cyriits Berem perfect ts band hod been a litthe hooked gat 9 man, born with a bright and sunny nature and given to the habit of laughter and of jest. A very short while after marriage the sun of his disposition set prematurely and did not rise again. His laughter was frozen at the main, his jeat annihilated. The white ship of his ambition foundered on the recks of matrimony, and like Henry IV he never smiled again—if we except the fact that fora reason best known to himeelf he died with a amile on his lips. Tt will have been observed that Mra. Conyngham spelt her name with a gy, an odd elreurstance indeed, since i was the dominant letter in the lndy's alphabet. The foregoing may give rise to misunderstanding, for the Honorable Mrs. Conyngham was not self-centered. Had this been the case the world would have been a gainer. It was Che steady rafale of altruism she directed at her friends, relations and acquaintances whieh made her a scourge for their backs, Ina drawing-room she vould emplace herself like some piece of heavy ordnance and discharge her shells in every direction, heedless of the splinters that ricocheted from the emitten targets, Having no children of her own, she had adopted a nephew by marriage, Cyril was his name and, although outwardly he was a presentable and engaging young man, inwardly he had the makings of a thorough-paced young raseal. He was as unscrupulous in the matter of sin as his aunt in the matter of aalvation. He apent his own money and anyone else's be could get hold of with equal prodi- gality. He was utterly, wholly and magnificently selfish. He had mo affection whatever for verity or admiration for honor. He infinitely preferred socks to truth and a well- cut pair of trousers to an honorable tradition. Indeed, if he worshiped any gods at all they were either sartorial, aport- ing or thoes epiritual providers dressed in white who shake up cocktails in American bare. The few virtues he possessed were his by accident rather than by will, Thus he could not help a certain reckless courage that had earned himthe M.C, He could not avoid a quality of generosity that allowed him to share his last bean with whorver happened to be about, The fact that he probably came by the bean in questionable fashion does not affect the situation. Also, he was distinguished in the fields of sport and played whatever game he might be en- gaged in te the uttermost letter of the law. Here are quali- tes not to be denied. His plausibility earned for him the company if net the confidence of men and the society if not the affection of women, As may be imagined hia deal- ings with the latter were various and torrid, escapade fol- lowing escapade with clockwork regularity, and concluding in the general instance with the most unwilling disburse- ments from his aunt. The kindly disposed may feel for Mrs, Conyngham tn the possession of such a nephew, but their sympathies are misplaced. Cyril's wastrel ways provided the good lady with an unrivaled stage for the performance of her talenta, and it is very doubtful whether she could have contem- plated his regeneration in a spirit approaching thanka- giving. They were extremes who met in daily conflict, understanding each other to a nicety, and thoroughly en- joying the resultant clash of arma that sounded throughout the engagement, Tia the Hate! La Rhone, Nice, at the invitation of this ill (Catia on Page ie

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 25 —@& Fe eh AME) Just wait till youre hungry! And then treat yourself to a heaping plateful of Campbell’s Beans as they come hot and savory to the table! You'll say you never tasted beans so rich in flavor and with such delicious tomato sauce. Eat as many of them as you want, for they are slow-cooked and easily digested. 12 cents a can Except in Rocky Mountain States and in Canada 7 LOOS FOI Tres BEDLAN D+ sf rJJ ws LADS ZL r b hie ; =F oes rot oo a

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26 (Comtinwed from Page 24) herself, and carried it off to be refreshed in her water ewer before the others were dawn. That Cyril refrained from drawing attention to the error speaks volumes for the good resolves to which he had pledged himself, “Tye hired a moter boat for today, Lea," you care for that sort of thing.” “Love it—ripping!" came the reply. “We might take lunch, then." " Rather ["" “Splendid! Aunt, you'll be able te amuse yourself?" Mr. Conyngham reviewed the prospect critically, “A motor bart is far removed from my idea of enjoy- mene, "Yes, that's what [ thought,” Cyril butted in. “There's anew band playing at ——" “But,” said Mrs. Conyngham momentausly, “alace the heat hae been hired T may a well sacrifice my own feelings pit oecupy a seat or chair or deck, or whatever it is one sits on.” His aunt's presence was the last thing Cyril desired, but he knew her well enough to accept the inevitable without protest. Mra. Conyngham proceeded to weed out the princi pal features of the expedition one by ane. “We will not, however, apend the entlre duy in this manner, dine: neither Leslie nor myself is proved as a ler. "1h, I'm right as the Mail," ssid Leslie. “Never sick." Mra, Conyngham flinched a litth at the word, bat let said he, “if it peaee., “Tt would be a mistake, for example, to lune on board." "Yes, but ——" Cyril began. “Todo not core for sandwiches, as they always tuste of the paper that wraps them up; and to eat 2 Lomute with- out the aid of a knife und fork hos been the ruin of more dresses than | care to contemplate.” “There are knives, forks, everything, aunt. ranged all that.” “Balancing a plate wpon ove's lap is distuteful to ne," said the lady, “We will lunch at the hotel. Indeed, I think if the erutse lasts longer than one hour we shall ull hawe wearied of it.” Cyril's temper was beginning to go. "Tf you'd rather cat the whole ides ——* said he, “Perhaps, after all, that would be the wisest course,” came the reply. “After yesterday's pol 4 Leslie auld hardly fail to enjoy a day of complete reat I've ar- Ther THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Thus it came about that the cruise was abandoned and the entire day wasted in mooning round the hotel garden and listening to a band in an atmoephere of chaperonage disastrous to the cause of inspiring love. It would be idle te suggest that Lealic Kavanagh, ao a modern young lnody of keen understanding, was unaware of the tenderness she had inspired in Cyril's bosam. She guessed his feelings almost as rapidly as he realized them himaelf, nor did she make any atrenwous effort to dizeour- age them. On the contrary, after the fashion of all true members of her sex, she was very kind and gentle to the th. Women have « sure insight in thes matters, and it & rare indeed for them te hold up the traffic of acdmira- tion with a warning hand. Hopeless affection is a form of nourishment upon which every healthy-minded young woman feeds, secure In the knowledge that she f never likely to overeat of this forbidden fruit nor produce in herself a love sickness in other than the right direction. Women are the governors of the universe, and to govern properly it is casential te maintain a number af subjects, Hf perchance the subjects are enlisted from the wicked ones of the city, so much greater ia the credit. Your willing slave and voter is all very well in hia way, but can hardly in interest to the cuptive of the desert, rounded up from his native fostness and breaght meekly to heel with gyves upon his feet. This practice of guthering moss from rolling stones is not unattended with hazard, else would women surely allow to their menkind the opportunity of behaving likewise. The fact that they resolutely set their faces againat any auch proceeding apeake volumes in faver of the superior fudg- ment and control of women overmen, It turna on a matter of sex equation and, os all must ugree, men habitually ln hablt gones fur too near the Equator to admit of their wutry into the Royal and Ancient Society of Moss Gatherers. During the few days before Martyn’s arrival Leslie Kavanagh sistered Cyril Conyngham with untiring sweet- nea, She listened tolerantly to his econfessiona of past misdemennorm—ao favorite topie with men—and gave ad- view that should insure future amendment. And when Cyril, at the hour of retirement, took her hand in the hotel corridor and blurted out, “I'm not really fit to talk toa girl like you,” her smile was an absolution in itself. Soa much so that Cyril, whose conduct of speech ond bearing had throughout been a mere series of stunts designed to excite pympathy, repaired to his bed gravely cloubting whether he was fit to talk with auch 24 she. Wap Pain fed aad Culluion of fie Aived Parties

fame 2 girs Ah, errant Cupid, how several are pour mim oe variety of darts and arrows your quiver bedda- bs . your aim, how capricious your device! Your tes) arch of an eyebrow, your fléches are emiles who po dipped in the sweet poison of a maidens glans <r [* WAS the workshop patrol who came wpm te. - sclous guard and raised the alarm. Firet ape iy .., was Mr, Butterwick himsel!, sleepless aud re . ; y lust to these inner warnings that all day hom bad eh ae in hisear, Ho was not two hundred yards avay w- 9 heard the shouts raised at the discovery. atdre- , , fastest he burst into the midst of the amall er: - -) of men at the door of Saville’s office, Tero of ‘ve oe splashing water over the guards and appl-z ore ea, Ames’ cyes were opening and Flaver gaaim, -.. , tongue against the roof of his mouth. Butterwick flung himself at the door. ‘That = a turn of the handle excited an exclarmater || -.= Sprawling beside the grate lay Taudridge, be moving up and dewn in rhythm to his motey brea: -, 1 ap pened bo be corming to, and as Butterwick sort +=) the shoulder and shook him fiercely be opened be y= blinked. “Bere, sit up. Pull yourself together, Aaw- 9 What's happened?" But Taudridge was not capable of coherest = | continued to blink and work the moueckes of 2) a painfully. Mr. Butterwick awiveled round. “Keep outside!" he shouted to the patrol, ote uf om woe an the point of entering. ““Roeep outmde' te! runner to the gates, Noone to be allowed to kare Mr. Diplock on the phone, Ask him here atone Vs my car and driver, Send for John Slawe, f Cece Street, and—wait a bit—for George Wedderom to. they won't come willingly, bring them under eso Ta Palmer and say [ want him. Shut that door The door slammed and Butterwick with beet =a sniffed the air. From the floor come the gnexpected woice of Tu. og “Chief, the alr—gaseed me —same as Wipes In an instant Butterwick sprang to the gas toual sniffed it, caught a faint odor, noted the tap rm af (titinived of Page 2! Fy

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HE truth is that all the other vital parts of the Hupmobile are just as ceptional, in their way, as its wonder- | motor. ‘long as the motor functions—and eryone knows it does function for ars—yjust so long does the frame, for ex- iple, retain its sturdy, rigid strength. st so long, also, do the front axle, the ivy steering pivots, the steering gear, > driving pinion and ring gear, the »peller shaft, the wheels and wheel rings, and so on, faithfully perform ir duties. ere 1s no one outstanding virtue in pmobile construction. All essential ts work together with the same long- -d, repair-proof dependability for ch the Hupmobile ts so well Known.

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26 (Cantinuaed from Poge 28) the burner missing, and saw the clean brass thread inside, stood back and cursed volubly. “Who opened the door? 4 “Me, Last I remember —choking — opened door." “ And letemin! And bet ‘em in!" roared the litth de tective distractedly, “See anyone?" id Na.” “Stay where you are.” "Chief" "And don't talk." There followed a piece of breakneck reeonstruction. Butterwick wasted no time bothering how the two men outeide had been dealt with; that didn't affect the cage. He wantel to know what head happened Inside, and before ten minutes he had the entire series of events set up and ordered in their actual sequence, Indeed, he discovered more clews than George had provided, For example, three tiny in- denta on the surface of the linoleum where the tripod of the camera had stood, The magnesium powder he hod already collected and tested with amatch, There were the finger prints, toa, amazingly clear, unpardan- ably sa. A sudden flash of mean- ing made him search hia pocket and produce an en- velopa, the one George Wedderton had given him a day or two before. To find that the impres- ond on the paper and those indifferent parte of the office were identical, to have been forestalled in knowledge by a member of the official service, to have received be- forehand a proof of identity of the very man who would make an attempt to secure the plans, and to have failed utterly in frustrating the efiort—those were matters of such intolerable distress and humilation to Butter- wick that he almoat failed to observe the marke on the picture glass where the drawing had bern offimed, The arrival of Mr. Dip- lock synchronized with this discovery. The old gentle man had Jost no time in coming rownd, having been wiked wp seme ben minutes before the patrol hammeneed on his door, by an inexpli- cable telephone coll. “Veo,” he had asid, “I am Mr. Diplock.” And the anewer came: "Dent worry —privately.” It was very peculiar, especially in view of subsequent events. Butterwick ignored all courtesies. "The safee—want ‘om opened." And while Mr. Diplock fiddled with the lock: “Who knew the combination besides yourself?" “Martyn Saville and ——" "Yes, amd oe 7 Mr. Diplock hesitated. He had received instructions from eo high an authority that the ordinary standards of truth were in abeyance. “Just Martyn Saville." "The pling have been photographed." “Wo, to, fin,"" Butterwick raoed over the old ground leading to his deduction. ‘ “But it's impossible.” He carefully examined the inside af both eafes. “As far aa [ can see nothing has been dis- turbed., Here are the drawings os [left them the day before yesterday after showing them ta Lord Wallingfard."" Butterwiek flicked the drawing out of Mr. Diplock’s hand and held it over the four dabs of chewing gum. “Geel Tt ita, doean't it? It fite, Now am I wrong?" Mr. Dipleck looked very grave indecd, “Butterwick,” he anid, “if what you say has really tnken place it may well prove the first step in the most frightful tragedy the world has ever known. Ruin to civilization, red revolution and a world gone mad." THE SATURDAY EVENING POST He stopped and took a pinch of snuff, a habit he rarely indulged in publiely. "But [ pray heaven,” he added, “no such calamity will befall, After all, there may be an explanation to all this. T have only one thing to say—we must keep our heads.” The door opened and the man called Palmer entered and said: “Neither John Slave nor Mr. George Wedderton are anywhere to be fownd, chief. Your car is waiting. The main gates are closed, the station's watched. Denver ia telegraphing the port authorities and the boys have started a big round-up," Butterwick slapped the envelope containing the finger printa inte the man's outstretched hand. “Chaar em Get of Tel, F Woat ie Evomles the Place Alone" “Bind the owner of those,” he said, “if you put every single man of my staff on the job, Find the owner of thoee,"”” He plunged out of the office, leaving Mr. Diplock, Senter, fastening the door of the armaller safe with the word “Worry “But why the devil I shouldn't worry in private," he murmured to himself, “beats me altogether,” ENT RAY dawn waa showing in the east when George Wedderton presented himeelf at the place Mosal hod appolnted. As the district headquarters of » movement claiming to bring light and freedom to an oppressed and benighted world the premises themselves were cheerless and dispiriting. Access was obtained through one of a hundred arches supporting a railroad that bisected the town with a score of tributary lines, The arch in question was weed as a dump for a quantity of old government war stock and was therefore practically free from observation or protection by the authorities. Beneath waa a series of cellars, damp and ill-amelling, which nightly accommo- dated a8 big a set of rofflanes as could be met anywhere in the world. Political outcasts of every notlonality, men of violence, anarchists, crooks and fugitives from justice— gathered together in a common fraternity with a single object —chaos, June 34, ig Gazing down the lines of faces on githe sede of ths treatle tables, listening to the wild etme yo 4, ened by the fist-banging orators, one might baw mapod oneself back in the lawless days of the Preset Parra Yet not altogether waa the liltemem omelets A a fierce patriotism ruled those long-dead timation 1 ag) rough justice signed the warrant for the bleed they om But here were men of o different Samp emer § their own failure in trade and achieversent, ormgeiony disinterested in a real cause as paid punme:, imeorg) for the sake of gain, agitators to be booght wy roan gathering of mercenaries to who the bose of Lies Equality, Fraternity meant no more thes lows The a Fy ay SIcke and fen) and rank with the beoetios, Ay hey amseeel amcte (Georgy wih oa lence of w blew. Hi tcp bis haved iss preety gave the words of on! lovers bip: | “The ward eet ‘sa brothers. ~ } There wH mal bewtio! bs the chore af thet followed Th WHS be elecite woth Tent oo the po trembler onl By o George gathered ‘ul Tealion, Meme, bad tha comnpaury a lx com. Bat & wad error thas the verest for, childees of me though they mugh be brothers, wah am Cuse, trasted oe but little. "Has be aft ee rapped. | “Sohens,” bo = design. A bright light shone through it surface waa stretched a sheet of the finest Ber “In two minutes I shall have Gnished OF Wait." George waited in silence while Maxi r= care completed his work with a fine pen cpp! =. "So." He removed the paper and bed = George's inmpection, “Wot many would wr > well." George agreed, for the tracing secured "= © good. “fund the negative?" he demanded. Mossi raised his shoulders. “By order it is to be destroyed.” “That would seem a pity." “The orders are clear," George ruminated in silence, then: “lm 2° friend, this negative is of great value anc — are poor men." “Hush!” said Mosal warningly. “Cares = “One may be too careful,” be grombe The Italian edged a» little nearer and bee * toa whisper, “T had been thinking ape!-'* quietly made—there are plates here Ne er" you and I,” George smiled slowly. (Continasd on Page 74

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J0 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Jan Mos Grover Cleveland as Governor of New York = By George F. Parker HEN, late in October, 1881, less than a fortnight | before the election, alter many declinations I consented to accept from my neighbors in Buffalo the nomination for mayor I had ne idea that [ was thereby entering upon a belated public career, I not only did not seek the place but did not want it. I bad never been better satiated with myself or my way of lite, I waa noarly forty-five yeara old, had reached a comfortable financial position, was more than contented with my place in both profession and community, and was looking for- ward, not to retirement, but to steady continued work and to opportunities for study and a falr amount of personal comfort, Indeed T con say to you with perfect truth that I did not indulge a single ambition. Though willing to doa service to my community when it came my way, the time had long since passed when in my belief such a demand would be made. “LT was a strong, unyielding partisan, and though I saw the unfavorable conditions found in our local politics, as everywhere else, I never thought even for a moment that I had either a call to cure them or the gilt for doing so. The outlook for success was unpromising, and at this distance from the event itself [ comfess that | accepted the urgent call thus made only when reminded that [ could not honorably decline it after the favors that my party and my neighbors had bestowed upon me. “The prospect af election was so remote that it did not look alluring, so that when within a week the conditions had so changed that there was real danger of success | suppose I was the most surprised and perhaps the most careless man in Buffalo, Onee elected, there was nothing but to accept the office, and then ao to do the work that it should accord with what I had tried to make of my life. From my frst day in offiee it never occurred to me that even if T had a whole cluster of ambitions I was taking a single step in the direction of satisfying them. I soon found myself interfering with things as they were, and, aa vou knew, thia ia never a promising or comfortable thing to do, especially in a amall community where everybody ao knows everybody else as to promote jealousy and mis- understanding. “The work of the mayor's office did not take all my time, but even then 1 did not give any part of it to thinking what [should do next: Although I had not known any of them in person, so far as I had been able I had studied the distinguished men whe as governors of New York had brought credit upon the siute, withowt so much ws harbor= ing the thought that I might be called upon to succeed them. But as I had never run away from reaponsibility, I finally consented to accept this one, though never with any idea that it would be tendered to me or that, if pre ferred for the nomination, | could command election." The Letter of Acceptance URING the many yeurs that [ was privileged to come into clos relations with Grover Cleveland he spoke freely of the many phases of his opening public career, and Thave only condensed in this quotation conversations then noted. Tt willserveasa text and willshow how this man who wis to rise so high had lesa than no thought that for him aweh a fute lay among the possibilities, Our history as a coun- try, and that of every state, perhaps all the history of free government, might be searched in vain to find another example of a man with leas aspiration for public distine- thon. Most men start oui with some ambition, or at least with some willingness, They go to the legislature, they aeok the state senate or accept places on managing com- mittees—local, county, district, state or national—or push themselves in aa delegates to this, that or the other con- vention of popular beady af aome kind. But here waa a man whe neither sought nor aceepted a place that seemed to lead te another or served to put him ahead of any of his meighbors in any relation outside the profession in which he had chosen to work. From that late midsummer day when the friends, with- out regard te party, of the then mayor of Buffalo met at a clambake on the farm of George Urban, Jr., and it was proposed that steps should be taken to present the name of their friend to the forthcoming Democratic state con- ventlon, which wis to nominate a candidate far governor, until on the first Tuesday in November, when one of those whirkwinds of popular opinion had declared his election by a plurality of more than one hundred and ninety-two thousand, perhaps the least excited of all the electara who participated in that contest was the candidate who in the meantime had succesfully run the hazards of a party

PRG, G7 Bc ROSA TEP Grover Cigcdiond aa Corvracr of New Fork, )ais aaa, & nominating convention and un election. He had formally accepted the place thus tendered, but had gone on about his official and professional work without attending a rally or making a political speech, without making a journey inte any other county than his own; without going to Albany or elaewhere to consult with party managers: without vislting any of the great figures of his state; and without so much as making a kotow to a party boss of any or no nationality. Perhaps there is almost no other example of a man coming up with so little of looking down, giving so little thought to the average method of seeking support. But be did not come to his bigh place without knowledge of what lay before him. Though he had not bad occasion to think of it, chance had led him to measure himaelf for a few exciting moments with the man of whom he could not then foresee himself as the successor, The Flanagan par- don case, into which he had been drawn without a thought of resulta, had stripped the high dignitices of any semblance. of mystery, and be had seen that he was not unworthy to show hia power over a man in authority. Once nominated, Mr. Cleveland's position became easy. Being ae new to politics, he had not aroused the opposition of factions, Tammany and the canal ring and other yuri- ous bodies and influences that had opposed Tilden and his régime had no excuse for enmity or opposition to the successor designated by the latter and his friends, In due time he prepared and submitted hia letter of acceptance It contained nothing very striking, but reiterated the Principles enunciated by him while mayor; expressed anew his interest in civil-service reform, upon which he took very strong ground: announced his adherence to the doc- trime of home rule in the government of municipalities; defined his thought about the laboring classes; pronounced firmly against the methods by which the Republican con- vention had been managed without using any offensive language; showed an interest in and knowledge of the canal question, and took atrang ground against the expen- diture of money to influence electlons or secure legislation, and again emphasized his doctrine that public office was o public trust. Perhaps his most important utterance was that relating to 2 question that had just recently attained importance, his position wpon corporations being an- nounced ina parugraph which even at this distance of time seer important enough to bear repetition: Corporations are eroatodl i the law for certain defined pur- poses, ond are reatricted in t i ir operations by apecifie limita- tions, = Aeting within their imate aphere, they should be protected; bat when by eombination, or by the exercise of Se pe they oppress the people a perce authority whieh cree hould restrain them and protect the rights of the citinen. The law lately passed for the purpose of adjusting the relations between the people and corporations should be exe- cuted in good faith, with an honest design to effectuste its objects and with o due regard for the interests involved. He made no epeech other than o friendly ate & e\ a serenade tendered by his meighteors; he toot so | management except as an adviser or litener, mi oy at a distances, and applied birmwelf eich bin ee! 2! ey to his duties as mayor. There was perhapa less opportunity for a ameter, | do anything outstanding, other than convey to uny other campaign known ta the political bistery WG York. Indeed the Republicans attended to that. Tio = manifested by their action in the convention; tot om a4 this body adjourned it seemed they were ot loge locally and tn every other way. In the preecey 4 there had been the Conkling and Platt regqq¢ece 9 the positive refusal to reflect these genthemer icp | substitution in their places of two weak men, bot eo ing to the faction that had long been in the moo, The Blaine influence, which had been impared & | death of Garfield and the retirement of the Serex5 State, was either hostile or eocupbed an atitede of ol ence, thua refusing te become interested in be Fd campaign. The supporters of civil-service nic | already sensed the situation, and finding that the at Democratic candidate who was o friend, they wm ot against the Republican ticket mot only ma to its ool but ag te ita methods. As there were state Gome likewine faction ruled in almost every courty. & = tended to unite the Democrats, and Mr. Cleveiesc’:s heed in politics made divisions in that party dno 1 to impossible. Nobody was therefore nopreed tr unprecedented plurality wus re Even at the risk of hinting at history, i connect ba to refer to the political a Than when on January 1, LASS, he become gover state of New York, long after the offer had mood importance scarcely realized even by tts soccer and still less by the people of the state, who == @ form the habit of seeking to push their kede> co» preaidency—the etrange held of Virginia in mm oo with Pennsylvania being still too stromg for the #0 grown in population, wealth, enterprise and mort all unconsciously to thself it had become the Freon | in reglity aa well as in name, but could mace =) tige onky so long as it held real leadership in mee | 1E82 any one of its people might have looieed bec hundred and five years that had posed mec St the first governor took office and responsibilty, mi! counted on his fingers, with little overplus, thar om made ita traditions and led in ite achievers .! venture to gather up anew and in a fee seo names and services of this little band of pove= Governor Clinton's Linigue Recor EORGECLIN TON was of long Americar boa! of whose mature years had been spent im the pu tivities of the colony. Coming inte office in [7 2 uninterruptedly until 1795, and then returned {> ol term during the early years of the ninetant: =! There are instances in our polities, both Fede =! where a man haa held some emecutive oer fos! period, after long service in state legislate = ° or House; but it has mot been given to ety to 4 fill an executive office when he hod to sebet oo and over to the chances of election. Th == =~ 4 service that George Clinton rendered, bexoe <7 retired from the governorship he was for eg eo Preaident of the United States. In September of the year thet Clinton beam John Jay held in Hingston his first tem a oe 2 the state, engaging during the remaining == ! Revolution in diplomatic work, Fle took an et’ @ the making and adoption of the Constitetim =<! Washington President he was teder= of cepted the chief justiceship of the United Sam “= first holder of this office, which be soo: rea 4 1785 was elected as the auceessor of Clee ro an office held by reGlection for six year. The next important holder of the pere=™ Daniel D. Tompkins, who, from having bers = both his important p ten years. This was a vite! time in the betad 2 while the second war with England was esd not only the actual conduet of the war thet ot a considerable portion of which passed oo te = York—but the Political management ale. | k= the time that the Federaliets in New Engacd

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rd Agents speak up THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 3 a ene — eae a see a Lat x. = -_ “\Mobiloil ; az 2 eae | Make the chart pun guide i nn AUTHORIZED Sard Why they advise Gargoyle Mobiloil “E”’ instead of merely “a quart of oil” | Warning: * PROGRESSIVE Forp acenTs have a favorite oil "E" te our customers, we made very extensive : letter in the alphabet, it is the fifth one—"“E", tests in our own cars. While we had been satisfied oe misled by at is why you so often find the Gargoyle Mobil- with from 40 to 50 miles per quart on all of the oils scan ssa sign beside that larger sign which reads “Au- we had been using, we find without exception chat container for the cor wized Ford Agent.” we can obtain from 100 to 125 miles to the quart rect name Mobiloil “he Ford agent can ill afford to have many com- ints or calls for free service on a new car just put of * E* — fo hay nothing of noticing a wery consider- (not Mobile) and for able difference in the condition of the engines.’ be. fad Giergoyte: Don't believe false poperation. He must fully protect his customers Why not begin today to get this greater economy si rci hte Cink acsail der to keep his own modest profit per car from in your own Ford car? ois oil is beset ig wiped out. io ol ‘his Michigan Ford espe ; typical of a growing Not a gasoline by-product oil. Can fo ng ‘entage eh dealers who sell Ford cars. ie Do you realize that ¥ our of 10 lubricating oils on Vacuum Oil Com- e always fill up a new Ford with Gargoyle the market are simpl Be by promce in the manu- Sac rg eh blades viloil "E" and try to get the new owner to take facture of gasoline? The refiner secures all the gaso- subd itader mci aoeees gallon can away with him. We know then that line he can from a good gasoline “crude.” He then name. as started right.” ‘hy “started right"? issouri answers. A Ford dealer out there says ahh hake ceitee A Pepe pe de a a ah 7 a ag ol Cruce di 1 Chaser th Csargoyle Mobiloil 'E* IT find that we give cially for /ubricating values. Gargoyle Mobiloil ‘ct piston seal, correct lubrication, showing “E” is a specialized lubricating otf—not a by- ‘or aascncchant value, more mules pr gallon product. asoline. We have never had a complaint from of our customers on Gargoyle Mobiloil "E*." Ford agent in Minnesota explains why Gar- practice. Gargoyle Mobiloil “F"—like every ' Mobilail “E" saves dolar: by the year. other grade of Gargoyle Mobiloil—is manufac- ‘p until about a year ago,” he writes, “we were tured by protesses designed to bring our the highest = opinion that one oil was as as another fabricatrrg value—not the greatest gallonage of Tor Before we started to sell Gargoyle Molbil- gasoline. Domestic Branches: New York (Main Offer) Boston Chicago Philadelphia Detroir Pittsburgh Indianapolis Minneapales Buffalo Bes Moines Dallas Kansas City, Kan. ‘ACUUM OIL COM PANY makes lubricaring ol fram ae: is left. In che mak- ing of Gargoyle Mobiloil “E” ever product is saibbirdinaced to the atti of t ig Bus obtain- Tt is produced ai lnbacetiit apesalites who are recognized the world over as le in lubricating

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Cotinned from Page 30) adtetake any active part in the war and indeed were y cases, ges the Hartford Convention ah its dh pg oppocents. Few men have better deserved the . by their state than did this outatanding & service still further recognized by his election aV 6 President. Te Witt Clinton, nephew of the first gov= having been in Congress, from which he Sepeeass sanyor of New York, auceeeded to the Tt was his privilege to carry out the vision dito his uncle and to Washington when g together acroas New York, In seelng sand finally in executing the scheme of Erie Canal. f weeks in the governorship Martin Van i to become Becretary of State, Vice Presi and term of Andrew Jackson, and, aa his : ident on his awn account. In spite of the of his term, he was aleo one of the important iorshin. mL Marcy held the office for six years. He, too, Bhed predecessors, had been a judge. In atatos Secretary of State in the eabinet af sand there made many precedents fora mign policy. (turn was. defeated by William H. Seward, dr four years, had a long term of service States Senate, and in his turn became fol State under Lincoln. ght, who, as was commen in those days, re- distinguished service in the United States ma governor, was a worthy suceessor, Binined at its highest estate the dignity and ions of the office. On Fish succeeded to the fag end of a term as vor and then fora full term aa governor. ‘to the United States Senate, and ended a career by elght yeara aa Secretary of E. ‘Gran et outstanding governor wus Horatio Seymour, jected in 1852, defeated at the end of his “years after his first election returned to Seuowe service to the Union cause during = one ith A. Dix, who ot the age of seventy-six was @ Republican, after having been a lifelong 2 furnishes the only example in New York d to high office by a party with which was slight. He was defeated when he hart in Rr esite of this brief term he must be E the real men who have held thls out- was suecesded by Saniwel J. Tilden, who ome the moet influential igure in the modern New York and af the country. f course mot possible thot even so great a state ays have available euch commanding figures os fT have enumerated, To make a long story fig the one hundred and six yeara between 1TTT ve office of governar had been filled for aisty-nimne irs by these twelve men. Traring this period the of the United States scarcely surpassed the ip of Mew York ss the refuge for character, | high statesmanship. Naturally, during the 4 there were a large number of mediocre men. were soywenteen of them, but their whole sery- regated thirty-six years, Official Life at Albany ANT with the times, each of the men was called cand authority only after the most exacting vip. Here was one who had sprung up almost nd eas he hienself, with all his inexperience and ow what they hid done, it was no cause for ‘assumption of their responsibilities at a ) problems were awaiting solution should hing of a task, Neither he nor any of even his intimate friends could have pre- alte show himeel{ fully the equal of any d this preceded him in this office, nor even wns there Tiny Tins to teeliewe that he would aman who, after holding it, would be noml- feted President of the United States. Cleveland was ready to move from Buffalo e free from the wounl tyranny of furniture even of wife and fumily, there was not o pick himself up and go. He declined to of public farewells, but when the time the mayoralty, moved on a few miles Jer tasks of the governorship. On the 1882 he traveled to Albany with a Sartner, Wilson 5. Bissell, and was ready ar before him. P phe wees walking to the mayor's office in ’ athe next he was pelting the same exercise three or four times dally in the mile between the executive mansion and the capitol. He no more put on aire in Atbany than in Buffalo. He was there the same plain man going about his work, helping a cripple, a woman or a child across the street, Just as he had done all his life. He made his modest arrangements about taking up his residence in the howse provided by the state for his orcupancy, inatalled his unmarried sister, Rose Elizabeth, as its mistress and brought William Sinclair from home for steward. But when he settled down in the exequtive mansion it wae not to ie all work and ne play. Here, os elsewhere, he never forgot the amenities, but recognized them, believed in them ond knew how to use them. He began at ones with proper entertainment of his new friends. He saw them at his house as well aa at hia offiee, and there waa for all that good cheer that goes with trained manners and a wholesome mind and body, He took part in the life of the old enpital town, where he found himself euch an impor- tant factor. He attended dinners and receptions, and only avoided dances and exhibitions of youthful gayety, but was ready ta go te his real frienda when tine permitted and they wanted him. In this he and everybody who went to Albany in those days was exceedingly fortunate, Mra. John V.L. Prayn John Joy, Fleet Chlef Justiee of the Ualted Itctes ond Governor of New Fork ia rout had been the social mentor of many governors before Mr, Cleve land, os she and her daughters were bo be of many of hia succes- ors. With a tact that waa fault- lete and an experience almoat LMS LT pda “to in the history aed either state or national capital, without display or ostentation, without came of offense to offi- ela of to people, che made far herself and for the gracious hoe pitalicy that she dispensed oo place that will long distinguish her as the highest development af an American hostess, In Grover Cleveland as governor she found an apt follower, His nuture fitted him to accept and to assimilate such a leadership, and the discipline through which he had passed under his mother and his aunt—something I have already deacribel—gave him a facility which would not have been looked for in the loneseme fraternity of bache- lors, Bo though the executive mansion did not become a center of unreliewed gayety, it did dispense, under the influence of the governor and his sister, a hospitality that waa large, dignified and consistent both with iteell and the standing ef the great state which it represented. Not a single feature that was elther necessary or desirahle was neglented, Tt would thus not be too much to say that this lonely bachelor demonstrated here in thia high post, aa well aa during all the years of his Buffalo life, his liking for all these with whem he canve inte contact, so far as his thee and tastes permitted, He wes to demonstrate this for years te come in the White House, and here again the executive mansion in Albany might be treated as in the nature of a preparation for the higher duties that were to fall upon him He thus devoted himeelf to his new work ws if he had done nothing else and expected to keep at it during the reat of his life. Reaching his office, he was ready to seo George Clilaten, Gaorrnsre of ew Park ta trae ad everybody who had busines There was no exclusiveness, no listening to some important case or man in the execu- tive office only to clip out for a whispered conversation in the hall with some cheap politician from upstate. He thought things in the apen and ae did them In like manner. Perhaps but for the fact that he went to the executive offices earlier in the morning than his predecessors and stayed Inter at night the average attendant would hardly have known the occupant of one day was a different person from the one there the day before. Perhaps the most con- apleucus difference waa that he did for himself aa many things In which other governore had recpulred assistance, Handling Pardon Applications A eh yet the work [teell went on with a difference. The legislature and the public found In the first week that in both houses every movement was watched a litle more closely than usual, Though thera was an absence of any- thing resembling either bargaining or dictation, it was apparent even from the first day that nothing would be overlooked or neglected, There waa no room for doubt as te the attitude of the executive about any of the business of the state, so far at either the legislative or departmental branch was interested in his policy. He showed at onee that he would take nothing on trust; that he must know everything that related to the business of the state which had been intrusted to him. Curiously enough, the first business that engaged his attention, after the inauguration exercises were over, was pardons. lrestinet as well as his experience had teld him that of all the duties devolving upon him by law and custom us gowernor this was distinctly his job and that nobody could tell him how todo it. He had been a rigid disciplinarian where criminals were concerned, with nat ao much a a suggestion of softness, He had suceecstedd a governor whose polley it had been mot to ewe or even seriously consider a pardan unlest it was foreed upon him by judges or lawyers. True to his character, he went out of offices without even so much as oponing—to say nothing of considering—a number of pardon appli- cations. Though the new governor did net have to look for work, oot of fis fret acta, after appointing an efficient as well as sympathetic pardon clerk as mucetseot to one whom he had dis- liked on sight, was to take up the pending cases. Finding from the ap- plications some things that struck him as probable oversights or possible injustices, he proceeded ta clear them away by the most direct methods. He probed all of them to the bottom. In some of the coses tried years before he sent for witnesses, practically re- opened the moat flagrant, sathefied himself of the clans or changes mace, and then actel with a promptness that surprised al concerned. There was no cell emptying, no indication that he intended to invite new of wA- necessary applications, no intention of interfering with the courta; but he was able both to correct mistakes and to serve upon courts and lawyers noe tice that so far as he was concerned he had tried to avert future danger and thus save himeelf and hia auec- cera much work. This particular policy fs worthy of early notice in thus dealing with his work as gov- ornor because it not only marked the Principles that were to govern him during ten yeurs of the most serious executive responsi. bility but was to have a far-reaching influence everywhere upon governors and Presidents, This interest in pardons and his way of dealing with them were developed after he attained power a9 ~owernor. These qualities had perhaps been heightened in their devel- opment by reason of bis experience with his predecessor, Governor Cornell, in the Flanagan case, I have already told this story in THe SaTurpay EVENING. Post for August 28, 1920. They were illustrated to me by a con- versation with Judge D. Cady Herrick. In the courts of Albany County a young man had been convicted ofasaault upon a woman. Tt was charged by hirnself and his counsel that he had been railronded to serve twenty years in the penitentiary, After some years had passed application was made to Governor Cornell for a hearing looking to the grant of a pardon or commutation. It waa this governor's fixed determination that se far aa he could avoid it—and his methods were really those of bis pardan elerk— though such applications might be received the applicants had to be unusually energetic and pushing if they expected to get a hearing: and a good deal of pall or influence wos necessary Lo bring this abut, When the new governor came into office the case in ques- tion was taken up again by the young man’s counsel, and

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a4 Jim Henrys Column My Comfort Trio Samples of all three - 10c dtetet THe Mennen Someany Foe, PLL Uae Fs ; Cheers Dalvsmae) q | | success. The | up into the Central Park | abouts there was ae et THE SATURDAY the district attorney of the time alao inter- © Jan eabed hinmeelf tn it after he had convinced himself that an injustice had been done. Wheo reclaiming the Papers in order ta bring the application to date it waa dis- cove nok been opened during the Cane l term. They were re= called, revised, new facts appl ane then presented again. Time had so mg te at Me Cees ot u ar Fy aL? applican himanit. which was usual with him #¥hen possible, and went to the bottom in seck- ing the real facta. Although the supposed assault had o-- before, the governor curred some years to work all the forces of the state then available in the way ph useratite and other jes. These sought out the gui women in. the a disco ee ther the accusation was the result of a conspiracy by a dizeolute woman under the lead of the mistress of a questionable house, Not only wore all steps taken to get the Information in the way Ot affidavits and statements in every form that could be obtained, but the governor haled to his offiee all the available perons, held a henring in | dots ox- amined the staboments they had mauie, procured a confession of eget employed and the motives that Iny back of them. Upon this the young man was pardoned, Whether the rick tat was able to bring the re Fy ts to justice is not told. Perhaps this lay entirely out of his purview; hut itis is an example of the way in which he dealt with pardons both in the governorship and in the Presidency. He took ye word for anything in relation to a where an injustice, a lifeora breach of trust was involved, No work was too great and aie too emall to attract aint ~ Te Man Was ever ac requiring utmost proof. From bis inh experience at the bar and from innate knowledge he waa fitted to know just how he it be ir- posed upon and to realize the danger such things meant to society and to justice. 4 Courageous Vato Te some this may seem almost an ¢xag- fo tre devotion to a dull office routine, t from the beginning to the end of his career aa an executive this man insisted that no more im Lor vital duty was laid upon him that growing out of this particular method of earryving out a policy to which he was attached, Rut the new governor soon had to deal with matters more important than a thing relating to the rowtine of pure executive dut The ianagement af legislature wns throren upon him New measures vitally affecting the interests af the state hed to be considered almost at once. Among these was the bill reducing farea on the elevated railroads of New York City fromtentofivecents. When thesestructures wore built there waa grave doubt as to their on of the city waa in a mere or less chaotic panini The downtown districts were overcrowded, and removals to other districts which were in= | termediate or uptown were always clogged | by the lack of transit facllities. The old-fashioned stage or omnibus was only just disappearing, It waa before the fa oof th étrett enrs, Broadway Tit ae entirely free from this method “of transportation, while the older car lines on the east and west side streets of the city wert primitive and imperfect. Sowhen the elevated roads were finally fairly completed regia and there by which the probable returns could be measured: but aa the roads were extended it was found that | the properties gave far more than the ex- pected return upon the investment, and aa hs finally reached or approached Harlem the upper parta of the city the increas- ing distanes did not impair this somewhat rated return. When this discovery was made strong popular movements were soon under way te force the redwethon of fares by coving them in half, ‘The question had been deo with by previews governors, re] movement went forward it gained momen- tum, and reached this development just as Mr. Cleveland was entering upon hi ditica, The bill for the reduction of farea was therefore passed, and awaited the pa of the governor before it became a ay This action was taken In Febru Mr. Cleveland having become governor EVENING POST . The discussion had been pro- d, angry and exciting, and the pres sure for the lower fares became so great that beth housea of the legialature sur- rendered to it. The bill finally reached the governor towarnls the end of his second month, and on March second, In a long and careful memage, he vetoed the bill, He naturally expected that this actlon would make him exceedingly unpopular, In order to meet Lk Aha reine raga br re, Hei apon wery NE it, & knew what he had to meet: he knew that to this papular pressure was added the feel- ah that these properties had fallen inte the hands of speculators who stood upon the verge of being oo financial pirates. Tie that every side of the whole question and ed accordi In bis veto he outlined t steps that had been taken, reviewed the obligations of the city, asaumed under the authority of Ast oa given te the railroad com he also argued in full the relations t ete bore ta the growth of the a gk ait to the tonveniine: of the people aside from that part of it svmpnthiing with the nesds and demands of the city was really based upon the obligation af contracts; so thot certain passages in the veto Mcssagr, prepared th great cane, without consulting the lawyers or meas res gee ha iit oe ree bee a0 iy and ofthe wit theduties of (boty iets pani rather than with their ngh ee ret fa “ ie Pbs Ls | lik Tistea- sity and etal fig the development of valuable to the people "ahold be pecogaet by conservative conduct om the part fiale porernment. But we hare eepereally in our keeping the honer and pag faith of & great afate, and we should eee to it that mo suspleinon attaches, through any act of ours, to the fair fame of the enmmonwonlth, The atate should not only bo but acrupul f mel im a Ae eae every legal and Es obligation should be can be dont oniy try legislating without vindletivences deat bese and with a firme determination ta ee and ay with those from whom we ss am — ree dtl of the fact chat this bill ted in response to the demand of a lance partion of the people of New York for cheaper rates of dare between their paces of emplo ment onal their homes, and I reolize fully + desirability of ay ola to them all the privi- legen poesible, bat of other states teaches tha = must keep within the limits of law and goed faith, lest in the end we sa the Ato | whom we peck to hen ad protect a hardakip which mist surely fallow when shes lienite are ignored. Theae utterancea have in them all the old-fashioned ring and rea embodied in Webster's er the Dartraouth Coll Case and in Chief Justice Marshall's d Bion. They Lily exerclaed more in fluence in emphasizing the intelligence and the courage af the new governor than any other act of his whole career. Unforeseen Results this veto took on an entirely different color from what he himself ex- pected so far as public sentiment was con- cerned, it did bring upon him the abuse and malediction not only of the traditional enemies of niente in Hew York and of the followers of the political machine, but it drew to him almost instinctively the Bu af the conservative people, not only of the state but of the country, shall have oocasion [n another place to gauge ita Influences upon his future ep- hing that from his own attitude and from his study of conditions he could not bly foresc, co & charge wae a ae paki that this mnaneeee , the ong and important one that he hed sent, was not his own. All sorta of reports were made, the favorite nuthor to he it was credited being on It was alleged that he had not had = icient experience to carry on and write such an argument. His ovt- ssp position a8 a lawyer was not calls recognized, although anes ae aiulik with him knew even then that nobody could write anything for him to tign. Just before he wos to submit this veto message his friend, D, Cady Herrick, upon wham he had begun to rely even thus early, called by request at the executive office, when the governor said: “T have something here that I want you to hear. Hehe! have not submitted it to any bear or asked anybody's advice about it, || but [ want to knew jet whe | going to do, a 5s te = n pecordance wi friction: all his responsible curse, be mt | friend and auditor from hit ort muro the whole of the message jut w « oy) transmitted . To the end of his life Mr, Covened aa to say that when roing to bed thr +» after he had submitted this od tong te him from every pes of state and also from the country x: Le highest commendation both far « and for the solidity al bbs epinin rev is rasaltae : oe ee ot i ances he was inclined ta din fe @levated-railroad veto was pro et effective in attracting ater pite of the fart that be himself bai : at the deen wheter ton point of view it was anythieg beer deliberate suicide. = Doing His Best, Regordien “In the general rime af =} — Sed ig te poe oe ae if gene confused @ =r 1 oppesition ta private progerty, | fe option the merits of the geet ie we din nt tos pt home om. and T am thankful to belie tur coming just of the rght te | direct attention to the large feetc= whole imac ard thus sasist in the p clear thinking so vital at the iswt any agitation inwolving fundamer:. ciples, The ingtant response © fram @ part of the country -« me that This es jon ih a Pe Ltterance had ¢ t! people to think er ah and “3 a fn orLan oe public bono, ([t va long after this sxeertion of of ioc @ the five-cent fare wus ke af ¢otiree and become the bee o 1 8 universally adopted.” Ab no time during this sasc 7 | legislature did he ever depart fm a fural to deal with any quecc oa hamporary, personal, demagane Sa mict all labor questions that == ‘a up during this session witk a courage that had characterieed “= * others. He always seemed to bore that he ought to om and do ch could and bet ogo on and do = | sonality take care of themeetes =! hia fret gremt and responsible eok * ! himeelf and everything ee etoor | ge he kept on fairly his party, he r were most wanted by ite ede Mr, Cleveland bad fone to a little knowledge of party const Manning, who was the specu! r tive of the old Tilden inte== elementa that had chosen the wt enor. He could not have food oe man. He was owner and mame Aieny Argus. Argus, which for macy >a zed ona | dayrt tenet been doniuct = al t bany regency, Fae d changed its form, bac > 5 _ its roior changed its method aDer wae a sort of poo @ crete all ower the state north of the River, Mr. Manning #idos =at! pepe, and yet nothing weet ine # did net practically cices = & policy was involved. No editor! away from the wonderful © : thisman. His poner af analpais steadily, and as it included bet and business, which he bine as a banker, the combinstrae , to be almost ideal. He «a and carry owt a policy, to = everything he undertook fom ning (Comtinesd on Page 5

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tol. Fenatt | Hoek! Tade ani Sop erry Eyhes Dsl att epi Lee op be oe, 1, (Fbd, Mop Footed THE SATURDAY (Continard from Poge 34) Every man of importance in the party came to him, and that not only as a fol- lower but with original ideas aa to what. ought to be done in a given county, district oreven ina town. He unders all these from the point af view of the highest intel- ligence. He bore no resemblance to the modern besa, because everything that he took up had two enda to it—that of prin- ciple and that of policy. Me had no pecuniary interest in anything that grew aut of palities other than his own business and that of his paper, He had been for many Yenurs & ing Man, Hever ce but always solid, He never made a speech, he guessed at nothing, He had come in course of time to be Mr. Tilden's right- hand man and hia suceesscr in the chair- manship and management of his . He was mot the kind of man so to pay lavor- ites a8 to create a series of es in eWeEry county in the etate, and yet the men whom he followed, like Seymour, Tilden and Cleveland, bad a genius for making enemies of bad, dangerous or designing people. Net only did Manning have these char- acteristics, but he became a student of economics, so Chat he knew all questions as they affected the prosperity of the great a soca erat i band? could always be de gpon for seund= ness upon ell Trae ie nt He could always be relied upon as the Spanien of the greenback heresy and of the dlver ques- tion when it developed. In other wor he was thoroughly orthedox from the al | Democratic point of vlew, and had become a dominating force at the capital of the state at the very center of its politica, and had thus acquired a position and influence that ean hardly be understood now. Tt was fortunate for Mr. Cleveland that kuch a man had taken an interest in him from the beginning and had had the fore- sight under the advice of his friends to push for the nomination to the governor- ip. He had no onal knowledge cf him other than what he hod obtained th h Manning's brother, who ee pico inent in Buffalo, and through the industri- ous and intelligent work of his beutenants throughout the state. lt was only natural that when the new governor came bo Albany, with eo Tittle knowledge of details, he should in due tine come to rely upon Manning, This was all the more natural because he belon bo the relishle type of man, the type of man whe never deceives his chief or tries to get nny favors of a personal character, These tao men soon found themselves congenial, Manning had been fighting Tammany and all that rt meant for ra, and he had also heen antagonizing mischievous local orfan- izationa all over the state. The canal was his enemy, as was every other kind ring or body that undertook to use the party machinery for bad purposes, ao Pelations With Dan Lamont Before Mr. Cleveland went to Albany he hod been familiar with the organization inown in New York aa the County Demac- racy. Atnong the few friends he had in the eastern part of the state was Hubert @. Thompaon, who was the head of that organization. The first trace thet T could ever find of him in the great city was during his term a9 mayor, before he wes even theught of for the nomination as governor, when he came on a vicit to his friend. It was then that Wiliam C. Whitney anid Thomas F. Myan first enw hira—men who in auch different wayrwere to be closely allbed with him during the coming years. It was easy enough for him to take on from Man- ning and other associates the color of his new Burraundings so that nobody could deceive him about the bad influence that emanated from the old Tammany organi- gatlon in New York. Entirely aside from this, he was saved from mistakes of this kind by the reliance upon the fries right at hand, As the result of all this, before he had been a year in the governorship, the two men under special consideration were not only related in politics, associated in everything that was congenial te them ' Iboth, but they were working hand in glove, The influence of the Argus was at Cleve- land's serviee, while the power of the state wan ready for Manning's use for the puraes to whieh ft could be devoted, This associntion browght him inbo pela tions with Taniel 5, Lamont, who com- manded fair and prompt recognition. When very ng he had become a clerk in | the ssgombly and also a reporter on the 3p RS ES EVENING POST Argus. In both these relations, which fitted into each other, he showed himeclf efficient, faithful, quict and worthy of con- fidence, ond eepecially skillful in knowing the men who meant something, with an almost instinctive power of separating the two classes. Upon the recommendation of Manning, Apgar and other men in the party organization he was made military secretary, andl agen he became private sec- retary und iin many reepecta the right hand of his chief and the representative of his friends, ae Being a born politician, he was thus in a position te separate the worthy sheep from the unworthy goats and to send each to its F sr? place, Not even when Mr. Clove and waa President did his secretary etther push his own favorites or repel unnecessarily those to whom he was opposed. He waa too shrewd for that, even if his fidelity had per- mitted him to resort to such a method; but his knowledge aeemed to be innate. The Falthful Taree I howe never known a man who had mo much of that insight, amourting almost to the instiinet attributed to women, 25 Daniel 5. Lamont. He could listen for half an hour if necessary and never give a sign that he either heard or cared, and yet it was plain that he understood everything. Tt was only when he knew his man that he became responsive. He would then speak out plainly and tell more genuine truth in a few than is generally found in politics or anywhere else. Perhapa of all the men who have been secretaries te Presi- denis be has never been surpassed, and parhare only equaled aa a wise adviser by liam BH. Lewis, who bore a similar though somewhat emaller relation to An- drow Jackson, When, in JERS, the Democrats of Lee state began to book around for a proper candidate for governor the initial work was done by Edgar K. Apgar, who for many years had occupied a peculiar position in the politica of the state. He was the close friend and confidant of every leader or associate in the Tilden organization. Fe wrote editorials, made s hes and had put himself inte teweh with & large nur ber of the lewlers in the various districts and counties, He was one of that wise, for- secing order of men who are never satiahed unless they are discovering something new in any work congenial ta them. Appur first sensed the situation when he began to hear about this new and wonderful mayor of Buffalo who was burning things upside down with vetoes and other activities. He to tell Mr. Manning about these and betone long he hac his chief interested. He wus Lhen authorized to make clower inquiry and finally ta write te this misterous figure and shige. that shapes the: L Democratic Party might look to Eri County for its candidate for governor, Although this suggestion was mot engeriy accepted, it waa not repelled, and thus came to fruition in the Syracuse conven- tien. When the new governor went to Albany there was Apgar, not looking for a job, ee eaaeat to ie his Lary when party rie ta the advuntage. This com caer the tria of Manning, Lamont an Appar. who were always at the governor's call, — With euch materials and beginnings the second year in the governorship came to be rather eaay. A right start had been roade in the first year. From that time forward the rest wie a matter of detail. When the time came to send to the legislature the second message there wis no hesitation. In other words, he then knew his way about, and beth the Legis oboe and the people knew what they could expect in the matter of politics, and also pretty well the methods which his work would be carried on. eB boone oem a ntoe ht mors pA itv ing morals in the plain & that Ral chacaabariead him at Buffalo. : One veto was almost savage in the few words in which he declared that “of all the defective and shabby legislation which had been presented to him, this was the worst and the most inexcusable,” The civil service commission, which had been appointed the year before, had started ita work; while in like manner the railroad commission, which waa also a part of his first year's work, gave him an opporbinlty ta review much more full than he had ever done, and with a know!l- edpe which was increased by daily associa- tion with ik, a relation to the railroads, ta the people, and the emphasis upon tha June 34, ey lies which had been se ’ mnartnent of the law. orteal et a A good deal of ra! werk, mot bes be Gumarniad ose a many questions, With & a, be a

in ona neat thus put hirmneelf late chor per with the people of bls state, fo: 6 cepted mo unvitations ogtvide 4 5 and seldom made a reference io ok iazues. In short, he we goer 4 York and nothing more When he first become pee Cleveland declined te Guedes ot nominations oF even with the bre with the exception of the (yur herein narrated. He malstae & tothe end. Hut even the racer = the results of [S82 ond 1253 wes to defeat his party in dhe eee 4 York. With the eteeptam of the oo for secretary of state, bemar EL, Ms who waa defented on the liqur ce the state ticket carceed throeg: 2 shape. After thia particular o/ fo His strength lay in the fet the been able to @niuet the upc - especially the farmers, if amor wWithowt emeaihn = never any let-up with bim i 9 pe Felitie:: whether an eects ¥: tant or unimportant, it wea '~ him, He never remitted bo = ever might happen, so that soc ™ retired from. pelitie: aed Vr came in aa hia beneficiary they © tered through the upper coc @ York perhaps ten thousat a wothers thoroughly deyoiet & = which both these men pao -

gh subject fo me and li @ country deetor, failed. In like manoer al i ool ew York and Brooklyn tt 9] thies were enlisted m dere: po) always in harmony with the = 4 lying mowement upatate, Tt was this element that aoe

unfriendly forces after be best in 1381, He himself co 12 about this a ization, aod lee management, but be did aca was to find sup for ‘cot Pelicies he had in mad 2 among thea peapke, and ther him with the same loyalty ot with which they had greeted eat salty termed thei , Ti the ing years. The boliies the new pores better this organization Eked Sam cliser they clung to kee—e waa shown mot onby is the he was able to command = oe te homination and elector

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| =, a ee, 2 ay ea a a ee ey a he |: Soa aye ( Se Vl AL a FTER Pecrrey knetked Carpentier for a row of Chinese as it doesn't seem pomsble that any htweight could whip a hearpweight. et thousands of motorists are placing their money on lightweight. And they're WIRRIng, foo, Of course, you understand that I am refecring to ght weight pistons—and particularly the Spencer-Smith Pistons— a apres to the clumsy, over-weaght, lumbering pistons that bangle about with their excess avoirdupota and cost motor. ists mere infitetion than a corey of motorcycle cope. Naw, a heavy wht piston i fine if ital slip it inte a woolen sock and wee it a8 a blackjack. lt makes a farely caackory paper weight if your desk can atand the strarn. Hut that's about where the letical uses of a heavy poston stop, Now, T don’t want you oo fee] that T am anti-aveirdupoia because [ happen oo tip the ice mana scale at JIL, am all in favor of weight when the coal man drives his wagon across the plarform, Amd for a well Jeaded down waller my admiration koows no bounds. And speaking of wal- lets, yours will be a lor farter an the end of the year if you invest in a set of Spencer- Smith Precsen Paton, Why? Yea, [ knew you'd ask that queacen. Well, in the first place, a special desagn and a pean ae of casting makes Spencer ith Pistons weigh a lor less n ordinary pistons, The gives your motor lee deed weight to hock, Lesa dead weight gives: more mileage—and with gasohine selling at 2 dollar a twat on the pump, that means something, In the second place, theyre machined and measured so carefully that I think I'm in a watch factory every time | stroll through the finishing room, Spencer- Smith measuring machines traure a perfece fit. Aperfeet fit meansa perfect seal, And a perfece seal means no compression leaks, And in the third place, beneath the lower ring of each Spencer-Smith Piston you will find a ve which traps the col drom the cyli wall on the down stroke, This groove ts drilled with sufficient holes te promptly drain the cal back into the crankease. Result: Yes, hold your breath =—fo carbon knocks, mo greasy spark plugs, no amake gereen behind your car. If you're really curious to know other reasons why Speocer-Smith Fistons wil give your moter more pep and wigor uae subscribe for our COnrespomibe nce COUR, “Making Your Pistons Pay a Peofit,” The boss ia the author—and he shove a nasty pen, He has cot down che paper aa thar the entire course ts available in one lesson, and without a nickel’s expehic 19 YOU— pot even return poseage, A PHAGE eard wall bring you chia Jiberal cducation, Address me care of the Spenece-Smith Machine Company, owell, Michigan.

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THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page 32) in the senate by failure to confirm nomina- tions or by obetractiona of almost every possible order. He was ssked to name Set ae ae meds to be ess rh ft ty wi ispespect of every in a er, abuged in open selon and met by every- thing that could be devised by a strong and ingenious faction. He was patient out- wardly, though boiling over inwardly, Finally, before the election of 1884 came on, he concluded that patience was no jonger a virtue, The most tantalizing man that he had to deal with was a g and Pushing state senator, Thomas F. Grady, who wae active, popular with the followers at the Taroman STERALER HOA, glib and effective in a , and whally out of aym- pathy with fima and ideas of the gov- ermor and the forces back of him. He wis perhaps the most active and able of Kelly's agente, and ap Ely fully intrenched, e had pushed the most useless or the worst men for appointments only to find himself at every turn, rebuked in private by the governor, without any word in public. Finally he avowed his motivea when his candidate for an im- portant place was discarded. * 4 fpoke in Kelly's Wheel Then he apologized, and in explanation said, “Well, there's an old man in New York who says come and we have to coma, and go and we have to go." Ag thig referred to John Kelly, the leader af Tammany, it gave the governor an idea upon which he finally concladed to act. ile the state campaign waa under way, leas than three weeks before the election, the following letter wae written and aent: ExecuTive CraMmnen. ALBANY, Oenaber 20, 1EBd. Hows. Jos RELY. Ady oecr ate: Tt ia nat without hesitation that 1 write this, | have determined to dasa, how- ever, becouan T ase mo reason why I should mint be eatirely frank with . [Fam anchous that Mr, Grady should Tok tae Sedtinae fo the tet aonaée., I do oot wiah to conceal the fact thet personal comfort and satisfaction ore in- volved in this matter, But I knew that good legislation, based upon a pure desire io promote the interseia of the people and the [mprove- ment of the tive methods are alo deeply involved. I forbear to write in detail of other corneidorationa havi relation to the wellore of the porty ond the approval to bn eccured by a change for the better in the chor- acter of ite repreacntatives. ‘Thess thinga will occur to you without suggestion from me. Yours very truly, GROVER CLEVELAND. Helly indul in mysterious outgivings alpaut the she af the letter, but neither | he nor thé governor gave it out for publica- tion, The beat looked around, knowing that if he nominated Grady in his own district the Latter would eat him and | thus humiliate the orgunization. He soon diseoy that oven his own followers would not permit this action, and after one or more futile attempts to find some other district where the risk would mot be ao prea he gave up the unequal contest and rady did mot return to the state senate uetil two or three terme had intervened, which was after the clo of Mr. Cleve- lane's first term as President. During the reat of his life Mr, Cleveland often spoke of this Grady epluode, THe expressed bis surprise that he had finall wor himesclf up to it and bad been ab to curry it owt as he did, Out of various conversitions on the subject coming at odd times I glean the following: "Eefore | was ele governor I had become familiar with the treatment meted out in the legislature in both houses to Governor Tilden and his euceesaor, Lucius Robinson, by the representatives of Tam- many, acting under the control and direc tion of ita bead. Remote from it aa I was I had felt how humiliating thle attitude of theirs rat be ba the rane gr by both rey and people with such high reaponsi- Eiittes, I yo no idea or suspicion that [ should ever stand in their shoes or be in @ position that would bring home to me EVENING POST the realicies of the case. IT had not been long in office until the shame of it was brought awt in a form oven more shameless than before. These people seemed to think that they eould go to any length with o governor new to them, evidently upon the theory that he would not dare to rmesent or rebuke their methods. "Hut I had only a few weeks to wall. De detraction worked in the n, all the underground sinister meth long familiar to this order of polities and much tort effective for creating dissatisfaction, were with an energy that was in- by despair. I soon saw what I had to face, and so gave anxious thought to ways of meeting it. I waa helpless either by denunciation or by any attempt to dive inte the sewers of politica, I made up my roind that open and direct appeal ta the public was the only road open tome, How te do this caused me much study until I hit upon the method finally resorted to, As T went on doing my own work and gradually gaining the confidence of the people it became clear that I could throw upon these Tammany leaders the respon- sibility for the recalcitrance of one of their chosen tools, I did it without advice, and, ga Tl avowed, with extreme regret. I took inte my confidence nobody except my sec- retary, Colonel Lamont, and he advised net it. “In the end the act, which in all frank- neat I should characterize as audacious rather than bold, fully justified itself, and fram that time purely mischievous intra- opposition so declined that I had nothing mare to fear. If [ had indulged ‘any ambition it would no doubt have seemed a fatal policy, although the re sponse was so immediate and so favorable that even this danger hea always seemed to ma remote or abeent. It waa not dane out af pique or resorted to at all until I saw no other way cut, no posible relief foe ncn government and honest party politics. “Tt could only be used then or in the future when a consistent public policy with ample time to carry it out lay ahead. Unusual, almost desperate, as it waa, I have always congratulated myself that [ was able thus to set a precedent for deal- ing with such men." Playing Mo Facorites Tt waa ot until Mr. Cleveland came inte the governorship that the world gained some idea of him and his personality. Before that, in apite of his known ability and the activities af hia profemional career, he could be fairly defined as an obscure man. But the day after he came into this promi- nent he wis just om modest as he waa the day before, Hoe did not develop any of the mESOrtiveress so common to amall men. eT he head taken fair measure of him- self all his life, so that when his scope was enlarged he did not have to change his standard, When he became governor—the impor- tance of which hae been underestimated or neglected a4 a step in his coreer—he wae compelled for the first time to make a choice af zen in any | way, There were then presen to him iopertant bles. to which he had given thought within his own range without any idea that he would have to deal with them in a practical way. His knowledge was theoretical, not prac: tical, and it was only when he was forced into Teapemsibility that he had demon- etrated that practice and th traveled not in tandem but in pairs. Only when he cane into state politica, with its | re sponsibilities, did he have to adjust himself to the acceptance of help, He had come into contact with o few men in his own particular district; the moment he went to Albany there were standing before him men from hundreds of sclf-goyverning communities demanding and deserving attention. In the main they were of real consequence, and though a minority deemed themselve: so, they al] represented, in thelr way, lileas, interests, localities, the narrow or the broad aims of Jihe Mo ambitious Pretec oF grows, ep thy complied to dimcrimmate betwee rs Thus he bad at once to deal wehbe: | good and the bed, with the eSiseer pai 5 useless or the designing ——s were, they were diflerent from wis wis seen or known. Li he needed tes lpg at every turn, be bad only t op te] He thus drew upon hin moses poy discriminate between the pele iy that would be idle and the real be 4 would be usefull. In these things his poditios wa, 2 from that of any predesgec, a> great or Litthe. "These bad bees sas, all the minutia of New Yor Su y national polities, Fram yout’ theo: = among them had indelged cm some of them boundless. Tra - Waa supposed to keep thee fo: Heir iran (na the contrary. Ws cx land had to study and to adjec = =-.©: affairs of the Empire State Tes: too, many thew things Le the rec lagera Park, the organize 2 duct of the railroad enemmiccs & : civil service commission. Tt ec leas than astounding, in the igs: a experience, that such rela oo: i tained in a state where ite pour! legislature discuss with cocines 17 budget of two hundred mili then find extreme difficulty & > absolute abaenee of a git for self before a world keenly deo all abouwt him and always ox te for instruction and leaderniip = aeustante or fellow oficak, = pathetic, were mot put or ke: the conduct of personal of ganda for hia bene’t. [rt ww * (Tettiooed on Page ©

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Shee Jt deve. hi. wide. Qe. high. Avorn ate ee pledge be Dhepa, Pa SHEED RIP ETE POURED RES lela E = * = = = = * = - = — = = = = = a a = - = = i SERED EE SESE EEE EE BE EEE RE THE SATURDAY (Cantinugd from Page 24) their duty to hald him op to the view of a waiting world in sone of Hany hewapapen. He rarely submitted to un interview, and often declined to entertain al hia table even | the moet impertint editors, who on the con- Ss trary were sometimes treated with seunt COUT aay, If his associates had been so disposed and had known how they would have stood in conatant peril of having all their work and thought go for nothing—wupset haps by some word of denunciation of what he deemed journalistic impudence or dis- honesty. or by some still more potent oct of neglect when dealing with aame man who deemed hlovelf an iimpartant figure in the state or country, These were far more Lier to be his fate than te would hay been for him to attract attention of te command friendship, So he passed out of his two years a5 forvemor, and even on inte the presidency, with a Doctor Johnson sort of reputation for being bearish rather than otherwise. No kind of artificial puflery could do any- thing for such a strange person. He must go on ane, in what he called his own blun- ring way, doeverything for himself, He Tus aomeherw work wut owh a0) vathon. This was the neazon why duriag a recent EVENING POST and t outstanding fi r world cribs nee after he win dead: miltions of people whe during his life had bitterly op- posed bin on rdipola § lines or were Indifferent i every ow it career while he waa here dolng TRett work with honesty and efficiency were impelled to ery out a with ant volee, “Oh, for an hour of Grover Cleveland!" : In analyzing this twoyenr phase in the life of Grover Cleveland I have sought to deal frankly and concisely with the most intensive political aiprentce ue known to our public life or patoany other, As Tam not writing chronicles, | have shunned that routine so aften filled with maneuver and intrigue, and have sought to detach him from the detatla that overwhelm most men in high and respongible places, [I have written of him af aman who was forced by the necessities of his position, and whether he willed it or not, to werk friends and supe porters among the unknown thousands of good, well-meaning People in a state filled with them, and-—as must always be the ease with strong men—to welcome in hun- dreds the keen unscrupulous enemies al- waye ready ta put te foul use the machin that has nm out of our institutions. He did nat ong to the type whom Lord Rowebery deacribed in hia eplgram, “The Jane 3a fe man who dose pot at nical sin mothing.” bait wae one who gdm: had rather more than an greg ice oT for blunders. He wanted thy a. | would get the work of povener: 5 honestly and efficent gi some bi these two years of obedunorw thir use af heared toasters, his own come -, ies to emerge inte Petponaibciey tow y if never eo mich as thooght ff ip a i hunidain prose bilities. His succes, coming withest theo which has ham Gey 5 gesta the thought that peta is clined to owerlook o greet its armies and navies, fod “+ back him up if aT a Fs lawful claim of ber A few afternoons rr = beri bre took o tra wd =: over his propert wai! towards the end of My. ree in full awing, The prem 8 " and the trees theagh > passed the timid wubb ear 'Tontioogd es Pat &

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST It was inevitable that out of the two basic advantages of Packard experi- ence and Packard equipment should -ome such a car as this new Single-Six. 'n the fabrication of really fine notor cars there has probably been 10 experience so exhaustive as -ackard experience. 30, too, there is probably no equip- nent in existence, dedicated over a ong period to that high purpose, so SINGLE-SIX SEDAN. LIMOLISINE exact and so effective in its applica- tion as the Packard equipment. With these for the foundation, Pack- ard has built for itself, among cars of its own calibre, a leadership so out- standing as to be unmistakable. Carried beyond the best and most beautiful in Packard tradition, the new Packard Single-Six also sets it- self apart and alone, as the most vivid example of value in its class. Five-Passenger Touring, #2485; Seven-Passenger Tourmg, #2685; Runabout, #2484; Spart Model, s2640, Coupé, #31775: Five-Passenger Sedan, #4275; Seven-Passenger Sedan, #3929; Seven-Passenger Sedan Limousine, #3579; at Detroit The Packard Tuin-Six ts recognized as a superior cer, which performs m a superior uaay, Packard Trucks are recognained as the unequalled hauling investment. Packord standardized service now insures an even lower cost of Packard upkeep 41

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42 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST His Gift To children— Bubble Grains Prof. A. P. Anderson gave to children the finest cereal dain- ties they have ever known. It is he who invented Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice. And every day in summer they bring delights to millions. Think what the bubble grains, flimsy and flavory, have added to summer joys. Cereal Tidbits Puffed Grains are food confections. So dainty, so delicious they seem too gore! to eat. The finest breakfast dainty homes have ewer served The texture ts like snowflakes, the Haver is Tle Muts. There WHS TeWer a lish Pune enticing. Yet scientific, whole-grain foods Yet these are whole grains made wholly tigestible, Ewery food cell ts exploded. Over 125 -muillton cx plosions occur in every kernel, The ideal supper dish—Puffed Wheat in milk Thus every granule ix fitterdl te feed. All the clements become nutriment, The supreme foods for summer iF Veil belie LF i thai children nee whole-grain foils, this iz the way do serve them— morning, noon and night, This is the way to moeke them tempting this is the way to eet their value — Puffed Wheat Puffed Rice Mix Puffed Rice —flimsy, flavory, mut-hke— in every dish of berries (Continued fram Page 40) ecurse the season did not officially open Rempechoute any aie ih yg Day, an. Increasing num summer colonists were Teabtna tradition,"owing to the ease with which their places were made accesible by the automobile, and going down as early os the weather permitted. Cotter stepped off the train at Cotuate and was obli to inquire his way to his own place, A bus driver offered to take him there, but he preferred to wall the two miles, and every step he took maude him glad der of his choice, Through the mild air, fra- grant with salt and filled with the mel of hidden frogs. in the marshlands and the twitter of sleepy birds in the bushes, he strode with a high heart. It was like a foretaste of paradise. Even though this was for him a new country, he was here not 2 a stranger but aa a full-fledged etizen.. He was now a property owner, and ao these ronda were aa much his roada aa they the roads of the oldest inhabitant. reds of Joba Buckingham. rigres Si roads o tau, Fi am, It gave him 2 friendly feeling towarea them and they fn ARN rue eenmary fot ln, to toameiee tab was necessary for to i way now and then, and this he did conveniently by inquiring his way to the Buckingham cottage. It made him. smile, but it bred an incronsing sense of intimacy. He meant to take no undue advan but, after all, it was a fact thet Buckingham, whether he knew it yet or not, was now his neighbor, And neighbors were neigh- borg. | the game sky, the same sunshine and clouds, the same i hey apien they i were parts of the same. ty of it he waa now in the same sclousness with Jeanne, ond not even Joshua could prevent thet except by mcving, In the some field of consciotienem— that was a heady thought! Even now he was sharing with her this glorious twilight and, if to remain Late ne might even share with her the stare » the deep breathing of the night ocean. Tt made him quicken his pace, The ron to climb. It was not a steep ascent, but it was a very si cant one, The country to the right and belt waa more or less fat, but in this one place it ree to a-point where thoae who dwelt thereon looked down upon all the rest. In five minutes Cotter stool upon the sum- mit and saw epread out before him the mighty Atlantic, saw nearer a group of charming aummer residences, aaw iin their midst one vacant lot. He walked te this with his chin up and passed, in their garden, Joshua Huckinghum and his daughter, They both glinced in his direction, but wherexs Jeanne immediately went on with her task of pok ne arcund among the rose bushes with a light rake, Joshin continued to stare at the intruder, Cotter sat down on the grass — his grass—nand calmly lighted a cigarette, e had sat there perhaps ten milautes when Buckingham came towards him, "This fant a park, young man," Buck- Ingham dechired sternly. Cotter rose to his feet, “You're quite right,” he agreed with him willingly enough. “Tes private property," Buckingham explsined further, "BEyoectiv.” navdded Cotter, “Therefore you're teespmssing.” "In that I think you're mistuken, Mr, Buckingham,” suis Cotter with his smile, **T'we: jibst purchased this lot from Pudkin & Pudkin." *You—what?" exploded Buckingham. “The lot is mine. My name is Cotter.” He offered Buckingham a card and the litter accepted it with caution. “Hut lack here," he sputtered, “I ine bended to buy this reyeelf." "Really?" “Tt's atitragemss of Pudkin to do this! why — ; He half turned ta be is daughter, “Jeanne,” he called, The latter looked up indifferently, “Jeanne,” he repeated while Cotter held his breath. She came nearer, rake in hand, “Pudkin has sold us eat," he and, "This fellow " “Cotter,” the latter reminded him, te moving hia hat. “He—he has bought bere,"" “It's always changing, © “Theres a d@enc me oceans, he gad. “TL epee and the Pace art eaten, Tt's easy to tell one iron te =T don't belere 1 en” “"T whe bor on the Picts well, fact In woeddering F thes to know about her a sooet oe A servant ame copy ditsk. d “Supper i served,” we kingiam. a Came, Jeanne,” he bro in relici. ie But before Eran whe Spee more, Tt appeared an in leave him like this, The meme to offset such sen a to be ws polite pemoaly oe right to be. { ‘Ag neirhbors we ne * even in the house yoo Oe: until she disappeared ix the i he eat down again on the and lighted a cigarette. ¥ 0 SUC nituation which permeitint § who was a total what was aces the following week Lote = times, and he woe ol objectionable of inte’ © like a Tet Ee oom: . challergre quotation, which » #== better than to do, fas"

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THE SATURDAY =. (ss =" Sets SSOUNss: SHOuNes. SSOSN SEOeses Look at that stack of unanswered letters Uwansweren letters have a habit of piling up ata great rate—particularly when there is no social stationery in the house, The way a lor of people manage to answer letters promptly is by keeping a supply of personal note paper on hand. == OS hE: : : SN Social Stationery At drug stores, stationery stores, and department Stores you can see Hammermill Bond Social Stationery in eight envelope sizes, with sheets to fir. These sizes are for general ‘amily correspondence and for men’s cor- respondence. The paper is made in three fintshes— linen, bond, and ripple. The price is fram 3Sc to 75c a box. The same papers are also supplied in writing tab- lets in all sizes, with blotter and sheet of guide lines, To make it easier for vou to choese the beat personal stationery, we will send vou samples of different atyles and finishes for ten centa (atampa or coin, Formers! Bead Sociel Shiamery prepared’ by WHITE & WYCKOFF MANUFACTURING CO. Maurer Meters af Diviacive Seelal Stvtiomery Holyoke, Massochuserrs = F(O=5. — 2 (® BEST, co @ eal 2AGz@ = se = TALE 5 | | house rested, The rool waa t EVENING POST {Continued from Poge #2) “Well, that's something in a neighbor.” A neighbor?" enorted Bu uckingham. “We'll see how long he's a meighbort™ That very day Buckingham wrote a letter to Mr, Stephen Cotter, In care of Pudkin & Pudkin making an offer of fu- teen thousand dollara “for the lot of land adjacent to my mimmer Poca which I understand you have lately purchased.” He received a reply the ‘cast day which read as follows: Deo Mr. Buchinghem om our cederstandiog the that I hare} lately pur- chased the lot te which pou refer in your better af May reife While rar alfer ot £ 7 Slee tha ee sa T have no Saale ciate ever bo mell, Very Penpectiully yore, "Theeub! snorted Buckingham. “That simply means he wants more, Intolerable as matters were, however, Buckingham was not pi = at that mo- raent toe go beyond this As a matter of fact, atter did want more—but not more no He wan more of Jeanne. A lonely dreamer dream- ing on a Cli will dream strange dreams. Tt was not long before this amall plot of land took on for him all the identity of a home, This came first with the aenae of re correct in | posession. This little portion of the earth | was inviolably bis. Tt waa tha first time had ever owned any part or parcel of of the globe, and when he ae a2 eons what it meant the fi awe, Down oh the Sh ae a billion been in the this in had bought a or more, this land making. Im buyin bit of creation, and so linked himself up with all the history that had ever been— those terribly silent early years, then the crawling years, then the monster years, then these ghastly white years when the glaciers sullenly ground their tedious way to the aen, then the melting and the slow genesis of a new life a roillion years were but aa a aingle day. Loney that was a lot to buy, it was only the beginning! Man could not count the fol- lowing centuries when this bit of soll had lain im Shs = a —this same | gun: and then under atars at night— theae eame etars. I[t had played a part, a | passive part, but a neceisary part, in bind- ing the world together, while men abroad were fighting through h the een of civiliza- tion like beasts, an ke mon, to the end, as far as he oP , that he might alt here croes-logped and undisturbed and call this his, This waa the foundation upon which his haga which had been even before the earth. A man could not think when he attempted to the meaning of that. His mind was Tok not big cigs 2 could blink snd say the . The four were the limit of his visian—north, east, south and weak, Living in sich a home it is small wonder that Cotter found it dificult to understand the arbitrary boundary linea which Buck- ingham seemed to establish between the two houses, He did not even try, except as far as his legs were con thou lega are an important and useful part of . Sgr ne are rap means all. Yet the aw, in ing wi ass, coneiders | alone, It does ere rt jtself with te eyes, which, with all they connote, are the lef trespassers, Cotter aay Jeanne often aa she glanced at odd times from her window which ae ie eee in tin cae on the south, se she lown in easy-chalre on the broad piazza facing the sea or toiled in the rose garden at the rear, Every time he saw her and she saw him } he felt A rape Every euch time he felt, oe hat much closer te her. Whether he a chance to speak or not eno difference. This visual con- tact alone was establishing them more and | more clearly in each other's field of con- And nothing: on earth that Buckingham could do—except to carry her of—could prevent that. Cotter was now taking the affair very seriqualy. He shoved Buekingham farther and farther into the background. Jeanne herself waa all there was to the “problem. He was assuming a good deal, to be sure, to ap that her feelings were at al! Kindred to his; and yet it is generally what a man does asstime until he is given proof vt mn contrary. It is doubtful, too, if, yp speaking, he had any Hight to call fin love with her. It was more, he he that, given an opportunity, love would jaar Ma sy follow, A man could mary y and bank on the fut, Sah dideged na would take the ching Whe. a! al and dome Chat is about the tow coe ip Man, OF any Worms athe g. In the meantime bt ions rma were improving rapidly. Poti: mistaken in the value be bai wee Cotter's appearance and pemes ry quality, tn be mcs which Pudkin was Dok 6 seme ‘ intelligence; es 24 a made his sale And sale ate im el mas pecmmed almost a8 that alist ts easary was to tors a cient ove u Cotter™ and allow the ter a dy “4 shore and a sale was sccomeion. often enough Cotter took it ste » a ieee another thousand te the mmsh a meted a pity net ts lew es Pay more w el ae explanation Willing?" exclaimed Pudi-, “W do you do— hypnotize them? “No,” answered Cotter serienty “i it's a wonderful shore the od Metered | made for you, Mr. Podicia i 4 half appreciate it pourelf. | de! ig any angi on earth where poe wil: = variety. of ef and mand, df = beach, of colorful roca and pose i, There fen"t m potnt betwee bes y Fiymouth where a fan ott ool eee a hundred Pe ar it is wonderful. And wher the i: raters blow in ——" Look here,” demanded oii: @ "you trying to wl ee" "T ast on poreh antl sacs | night, Mr. Podkin.” “On whatt” “yh, the ch wes all th | a have te build tt But—ere oo at midnight?" i fa] “ tito, It's gecsa la bierre im Deir. ~ “Vou ou makes you t Well, the man might be mat Pa concluded, but as Linenin aoc il he'd like to discover the peur 5 he used, and he'd have adam eo 8 vr NW THE tenth of Joly, Boocome order te put an end to the wid made Cotter an offer af terri) oa Cotter refused it. He we! oe fifty thousand, because the cnc In the meantime done for s= 1 thing. He had been seated 5 ood hots: watching an intersic pod coml-black clowds over tae ° | waters, The gods were dome were working themselves into 4 = He hmew that trouble was beeere & did not expect it so soon. [a= =f secomds—wind and rain al * bent his bed; net. the Sev & ments and held on jaminetsd re a Volee to the left. He fom rection and saw Jeanne Ha obeyed ber call anes es ne oF stood wet and happy by bes Buckingham porch. “Didn't you see it comisg" sim ag | Pai ke wind drove the ta © raf the porch. “We'd better go in,” ae 22 He would have muck pes where he was, but as she oper | cowed her. Sire Borge" anxious, was seated befor i ™ a middleaged woman wrt 17 and delicate features. “Mother,” said Jeane. “= Cotter—our next-door sth" Mra. Buckis iets come. Her husband, & == toan. Cotter was sorry. ra i mot like to feel that be Fe = tating advantage of ke onl other hand ee = ingham a good deal a = assuring her that he did i Rouse would be either ess of blown inte the sea. ane “ contingency he could oly Probability, but concerted = coal could speak with author “The wind p the wreg Ei? ing off the orean.’ "But it might hice the | She shuddered as a peo = Pust rattled the shot (‘Contionnd o Par =

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 45 ‘ie sage 2 8 \ a \ JONES & CO. \ =i i. jot ok oe * ce | Way-Stations for Mileage LONG main-traveled highways, the motorist strength of the Firestone Cord carcass and the finds well-kept and dealers’ stores bear- wear-resistance of the non-skid tread. ing familiar orange and blue signs—Firestone Tires. It has been demonstrated to him, too, that the Here he knows he may buy mileage on a sound = dealer who links his name with that of Firestone assured basis, free from speculation or risk. In the stands for the value principle in olin ro Firestone Cord he purchases values that protect his — tecting his customers, giving Most Miles per Mar. purse and insure his comfort and safety. Locate the dealer nearest you, whose store car- He has learned by experience not only toexpect ries this name. Remember it when next you need i delivered at the lowest cost per mile, but tires—and all it implies in facilities and experience to sim easy riding, unmarred by tire troubles. He give you the best tire ever produced at the lowest does not need to be convinced of the superior price at which true quality can be sold. MOST MILES PER DOLLAR

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LA. FRANCE SeTTERS al = a7 .+ a i [ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Unusual Beauty in Moderate Priced Silve a Good Salverplate thet fas long-wearing quality far in excess of fla moderate fiftce. lis guaranteed wear value 1 the manuhachirer 3 obligation bo Wo, Tempoont ry dor. $1.75 Medium Konwern , + dow, SO Cue Shelly , cach F4 Medium Forks doz, 340 Pickle Foaks . each $1.00 Wany other af agile and fancy Peete. on the same modest tol basis, "THE BEST AT Bie a Rogers & Son | I ese Z LTS Se el, ||) obliged, of course, to be (Continaed fram Page #4) Vea," he admitted, “it might. That's where my house hos an advantage over yours, The elements can't disturb oe "Your house?" j He sow Jeanne amile. "That waseall he sired Before he could reply the broke in with, ~ Mother, it’s late, but mayn't we hove then. ily “Yes, dear, ‘Will you ringT" Tea was served, and th A Cotter was | conscious of his somewhat disheveled pesreiise he could not remember when ever patel a more enjoyable half || hour, By that time the storm had cleared and Buckingham had arrived. He waa palite, but by no stretch of the imagination eould he be sale | to be cordial. That, however, was perhaps net te be epeted under the circimetin oes. In thinking over this new devel is during the next few weeks, Cotter, a oddly enough wa mot lt Up to this point he had been an absclutely frow nt. Owing nothing to mi Eee he had been at liberty to act in all respecte as he chose. ‘The moment he crossed hia threshold a5 guest, however, there were oer isin onizetions which could not be ignored, nd these come at a most inoppe time. If Cotter up to this point hed made his # wn ts the beaee of Suen with oa deli that could hardly be ealled romantic, ones fairly within her sphere af influence thar found rege quite changed, With ing day it berum: increasingly aiieale a him te reson conservatively or to think In actual contact she appeared more won- derful than in his wildest flights of faney he hed imagined her. It was easier to keep his hend when he dreamed about her eyes than when he waa able to look into their brown depths. Tt was one thing to tents pee the little that could be gathered from a passing glance of that fine nose and those delicately senaltive lips, | and another te have them before him os living realities. Without either design or effort ahe tempted a man to throw disere= tion to the winda—os sometimes when he stood on the edge of the cliff the ocean tempted him to jump because he could | sorivte with tte aresing beauty nething bat pentlendens, And just because of this newborn emo- tion ho must hold himself steady. Up to this paint this had been an amusing ad- venture: now it was something more, Ha felt a reaponsibility towards her as great as Buckingham's—the responsibility of a friend, a gentleman and a lover. He felt it the more aa he saw her eyed brighten and her cheeks flush in reaponiae to the un- epoken secret of his heart. There were other guécta in and out—many of them— during the course of that summer. He met them and often became merely one of the group surrounding her. There were thape a dozen such upstanding young fel llows, with a degen more on the ot- shirta— moet of them brothers and friends of the pretty young girls who made up the somul life of the colony. He was awept into their midst, and though because of his business dutica he could mot participate so actively as they in their sports, he hed enough: maro than enough, for ae forced him to share what be would have iiked al] to Timeelf, He walked with Jeanne and danced with Jeanne, and seated on the broad porch to which the nor'easter had driven him he talked, sharing the ocean with her, And tor September he knew she knew what he knew, thouwgls he had kept his life sonlesd, He liad kept his lips sealed because he realized that at the start he had not been culties honest—that he bed tricked himself inte her | life, Night after night clter leav- ing her fe had tried te argue himsclf aut of that belief. He had called his: contention yitinotle and overstrained, which waa all very well until the next time Ie met those Loishing ‘ clear-visiened brown eyes; and thin be bose bin Eee Heim all over iyrLin, Ono evening in September, Cobbher cume down ta his place ard found Buckingham alleurte: in his rose gurden. He strolled over to the fomt-high hedge that separated the two Jota and awlonished that gruff gentle man with the query, “Do you still wish ta bus this Jot, Mr. Buckingham?" “Th sent want to gel] ?"" “So, | don't want tosell: but I think I night sall,"" Buckingham thought rapidly; then he Pulte this ways “TM pay you thirty. thou- unl dollars and pive you five minutes. to juny Hays decide, This ig final | went wt. another darned cent if yoo wus ty, Ss “T can’t accept, Mr. Burkiee),- swered Cotter, "Then you go to blag!" "T can’t become thirty i... «5 is over the market value of the k-: | pus “T've forgiven him, but at could have choked him [t .- 4 ‘That is all?” “Tt was all then. ss lal more now! But Jenm—--. -* you see T got it all bya “ht She did not reply, so white: =i 5" or not he did not know, "There wae nothing lefiifere:: 1 give it all bbock.” ““Toa—to dad?" What, in reality, be sed © anawer to that question, bac be = Buckingham? ‘This strip a n° what of the ocean and the sic 1 up two-thirds? And what df “7 = embodied in this women by hise>" * he had not sold those for this p> He had particularity refosed te than the market value of the i: rendered wnte (Cassar the tha + Camar's, and so was que wc rest—he must give heck te ber" he received them. That wai or Tt was simple justice “Jeanne, he whirpered “* which came from you—ithyor * take itt" “You—you want to give! “For you to do with whit p-- answered humble. “But, Stephen,” ee exeli=-- are you going te do with mr } | | ee se ee The dusk had deepened be * WAVES Were singing on the sy - Stare WEre ainging im the sy “Keep it forever and fort - fet me,"" he sald. Her lips were near to bee “Jtanne,” came Buckinghes'- ~) But he was too late Te © | ment which technically asd ley *-* It a cae agrond thet yr " Ay generally Most attractive houses @ Te! - is the one located next to th eotlage occupied by Cotter! Cotter, of Pudkin, Podseé t=

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Sore iy a a 2) a eG Aa ae = | liberty, Some | ot the peophe le inta chur THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June Moan NO COMPROMISE WITH BOLSHEVISM interest is political, Tt ia not the improve- ment of the condition of the inborinig, sans: It is a wholly new form of barbariem that he igafter, In the last few years there have been etrikes in half a dozen of the basic indus- tries of this country, the radicals have tried to get control in nearly rey cit, ahd in practically every case the empl eel ade era have won. Naturally. A vast mee oa af = people of this country are not more than they beat Aref contro and they do not aeapewe Pt to see any soviet experiments tri simple fact is that the spirit of Amer- ican institutions ie neampatible with com- munism, the one big union, the proletarian dictatorship or any other form of dictator- ehip. The any peat the Amer- ican citizen in gone give up his individual eo ibesty Bik propose 10 to any organization stronger than the Gov- ernment itself, and so vast and powerful that on military dictators can opera it oa at all. But that is precisely and what those who argue for communism uild socialism, Bolshevism, gin and revolutionary forma of dicalizm, almilar irri overmment are n im u bor, It haa been Oe gn iosee than a hundred million people in Russia; why ahould it mot be tried here? That in substance is the radical argument. The Appeal of Bolshevism Now it must bo ized that, just on many e are willing to burn down houses oe tha fan of St. bo san more ane ‘Sattaly spond to to thoes ib intellectuals, so no occupation save t iH led, whe bave al ot tllowi one fad after ar o that comparati large group viduala who are un or unable te face the realities in their own lives, who | have failed to solve their peraonal problema and who cerapemeni An for thie failure grandiqse achemves of world revolution. ap of course to a few men of mentality who see the opportunity of bulld- pee sore own carcera upon the rulns of the ICappeals obvi gofombete Fenieng ewntrodden jpor- tions af tere which ie never known the working principles of this country— gprs opportunity, Men the squalid peatholes of Europe an without # ever learning or | becoming farniliar with the rey and sree ti of a large pikeranrt br cop tly wh wholascmms body politie theories which pete arisen on another centuries eontinent from of misery, tytanny and atarvation. Finall the hideous eommuniatie and Relshevist doctrine appeala to many of say wis Recauaa of maneal and moral defects ore so beaten in the game of life that they can find no hope or attraction in soe except the most desperate and schemes. Such are the forces, i Sr the supporters of revolutlonary Tania, and though a few thousand haye gone back to Europe far greater numbers still remain here to fester and germinate, But what in brief is this experiment that so inspires ective and unwelcome elements of our population? Surely great main facta are known, ine se eined! wer: we when he sent a band of ay to fairly @ tee ed by th out any Plans have many theories and ey them. Hut there have been no @ and there is no post * pape no freedom a the press, of 5 Pg of assemblage. ramen no authority from a his pular representative national assemblage Large portions of the penau- Istion have bean extenmimited, or terrorized submission, Fewien stecoists hal fing different theonmes hive ben per: Beruted mo less thin members of the capitalist or middie classes and auch intel- lectuale a2 did not swallow the program

(Continued from Page 23) whole. Even labor unions have been supe i and workmen fo to labor at ag of the raid 4 ompers has gone 20 50 far as Reet a un cHUBe entire of the Be po syetem and of the fright- ful suffering it has inflicted not only upon labor but por the entire population of the country. a nuceerS resentative of lalbor, former bor William B. Wilson, has sad: *In Tie avidence presented to me 7 the Martens cnet oh ten clearly shown that & group of mon themselves. com- munists. had elle pa miitary dpa in Russia; tha ad camouflaged it under the name of a ptotirmicr of the proletariat, seeking to con ae irni- presaion that it was a dicta by the "lbadanid a that it had by forse Pata tne troduced com: ‘labor, in ether words, slavery, inte . that the proletariat were compelled “og ‘work at occupations selected far them at meager wages and long hours imposed under the direction of the military musters, In other words, the Bolshevik experi ment has struck at the f na of democratic institutions ‘hich arikghbanad zoe bate SU iro ohe ag Lloy , who coh t a2 ™ ET] sry man to bridge the chin gig ld said just before going to tathet Genoa Rusia, sad, it ere was never aman ao complete a dictator aa Lenine.” But this ia net all. Even while the Russian Government has been countries, it hus sought to stir up revolu- tins in those lands = Bir fave aroun again the soviets e announced that they did rt not. intend nT own to ios vd iokdanna hp They do not even international ees cow then it is said ase the “Bolsh leaders have capitu- lated to talian, But they deny it fast enough ‘ee = Waste While Millions Starve The chief delegate to the Genoa con- ference stated while there: “The moat far- secing statesmen of the capitalist world to tame ua by commerce, ia George’ siden We have, then, taken ie it. But our way is not that of Lloyd . Both of us want trade, but we differ on future results. We await the disintegration of the capitalist system. George awaita our conversion. We presente ba —, into an abandonment of istic principles." Pe re te afew months ago Lenine himself t concessions to capital were only porary retreats and that the true revo Rue applies all means to attain his end, talked of the class struggle, af other governments being bourgecis, an of commerce being merely the main ee “whereby we will surel the economic and aocialiam. FItOee tak Sinadtl ones aia chapter of bourgeois parliamentarism and is now open- ing on one of proletarian dictatorship. "In the United Statea and in all Euro ee countries, as well as China, Persia, dia, Turkey, Mexico and even in South America, soviet agents have been repeat edly caught carrying naa Pitlaat ' sir hc the purpose of ropaganda,” 98 Mr, Gom- pers. “While an eg ture is degen- erating for the lack of plows and even af gickles and seythes; hie the laborin icctie, whi ths from the d ican ones would have us bebe Os business revival. is 5 al ips are mich

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medium-size lawyers is plenty costive per- zona bo hire for an important lawsuit, asd naturally in the biggest town of all, where the lawyers run bigger, they'd cost a mighty heap more. When he gets through specifying the situation to my understunding I gets an- other notion. “T wonder," I says, sort of casual like— “T wonder, Mr. Dallas, “z it woe “at Mr. H.C, Raynor should ‘a’ picked this per- tie'lar moment fur callin’ on you fur a big A bunch of cash, seein wen ef he'd kept ailence you'd ‘a’ prob'ly gone on wid him, mever suspicionin’ anything wuz aie ; “Oh, I'm not a atupid but what I can figure that out,” he “7 “He's afraid ao much of my mon | be spent soon in another direction that he'll be deprived of the lion's share of what is left. He wants to mip me down close while the stripping ip good. 3 “In ‘nother directlon?” I says, kind of “T wonder whut ‘at other direc- | tion kin be?” “Can't you guess?" he says. “Yas, auh,” [ says, “I kin; but I didn’ think "twould be seemly fur me to start in guessin® along ‘at line wideut you opened up the way fust. Sita esays, “IT feel like a low-down dog to dragging in a Woman's name, even indirectly; and so I guess the best thing I can do in that direction is to keep my mouth ehut and take my medicine. It appears that here lately I've acquired the habit of committing myself to serious ob- ligations at times when I'm not exactly aware of what I'm doing. At the moment I don't seer to remember how it all comes about; then I wake up and I find I'm signed, sealed and delivered, I may be the damndest fool alive, but at least I’m an I was raised that way. Where my senge of ‘ honor ia con- cerned I'm going to tick, no matter what the costs may be. I've been fed fat on flattery; now it's time for me to sup on Sorrow while, Dio get. dl fet" “Yas, suh, I think I does," | says, “ Mr. Dallas,” I says, “acuse me fur persumin' to keep on long “a yere track, but is you right downright shore 'at you solemnly engaged ofse'f in the holy bonds of wedlock to the ady in question?" “T suppose I did," he says. “[ must have. She assumes to think so; everybody ele assumes to think so. And a5 heaven is my judge, I never inten to lead anybody to believe that I wanted to make a marringe up here. It—it just hap- pened, Jeff: that's all. I can see now how a lot of things have been happening, and why. But what con I do to clear myself from either one of these two flea? I've asked, the question a hon times BINTe Toon , and there's no answer, I ean't lick Raynor at his own game. He's too wise: he's covered his prints too well. When I hinted ato lawsuit this afternoon he laughed in my face and told me to go ahend and sue, And as for the other thing—well, unless I go through with it, against my will and my better judgment, it means a breach-of-promise suit or [ miss my guess, Besides, I still hove some shreds of self-respect left. I can't deliberately try to brenk an engagement which I suppose T must have made in faith.” "S'posen' the lady herse’f wuz to up an‘ brek it on her own "sponsibility?" I says. He laughed kind of seornful. “No chance,” he says; “no such luck for me! ['ve walked blindfolded into every trap that was set for me, and now it’s up to me to pluy the string out till the last. penny is gone, At the present rate that shouldn't take long. But see here, Jeff, 1 wonder why I[ sit here Wnber ening my wees on youTt I know you would help me if you could, but what can you do? t ean anybody do?" “Mr. Dallas," [ says, “you can't never tell. Sometimes the humblest he'pa out the tea". Seema lak I heared tell ‘at oncet pon a time ‘twos the gubblin's of a flock of geese Wich saved one of these yerr upstate towna—LTtiea, or maybe “twas Rome, I don't rightly remember now whut “twas nailed “at town. Mebbe 'twus fixin’ to go fur William Jinnin's Bryant—sormethin" lak "ak, An ; the geese gits the eredit in the records fur tee savin’ of it. An" ain't you never read whar a mouse come ie: FRLOE- eyin' ‘long one time an’ gnawed a lion loose June Ma, er from the bindin’ ears wiek «= Se, ez I YOU Can'T mever te. But I wonder would yoo dome. es favor? I won would you teed us oat of a auttin® book ef [ wus to ty you out of the Uberary, a’ ws done ‘at, ef you would go oe te be try to Gon pose VOTE Mls Bf Pl ees ar “What's the idea?” be aan “BHlummine,” | sors Wa fetches you the book.” Sal and gets it deals where it belongs. [t's the | of a long prow of big shiny which all of “em hes got deter But the name of this oma: Vi He taker a look at ft when [ls hirn and be sain, “ Why, thaws the encyclopedia! What bea j have on what we ve 2 "Mr. Dallas,” [ says, “poses offen seen ole Pappy Exall, = pastor of Zion Chapel, struts mat streeta of Paducah m times goes. © the Rev'n Exall may look ak ote o baby elephant runnin’ loom, } toll you, auh, he ain't fotedy One time yere some yeale beck hisst"f into a kind of «jen et ‘count of some of "em ben’ mo a dissatisfied wid the way be wa the funds fur to buy a new pe & church. Nigh as they could iepe § he'd done confisticated the erga pussonad an’ = ee Bo ® oP 2.

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EVENING POST (Contineed fram Poge FO) think better when feet waa been [reed | from them binding shoet, When a nigger boy ts fixing te run his fastest he's to | anateh his hat off and sail bareheaded, and I'm much the same way about my feet when I craves to think. So, my shoes being off, I just reara back and sets in for to give the problems before me the fullest considerations, Ef HE way it looks to me, here ia Mr. - crap ary one of the mae free- hearted, good-willingeat young white gen- tlemen that ever lived, about to be throwed to the ravellng wolves. He's elected to be the live meat, with a two-sided race on to see Which one of the contesters can a and clean him the quickest, And so, if he's going to be saved for future references, something is got to be done, and done mighty speedy, too, alse there won't be nothing left but the polished bones, I therefore splits up my thinking into two parts. First I studies a spell about the one proposition and then I studies a about the other, To tell the truth, though, I don't need to have so many con cemings over the case of Mr. H. C. Raynor, I did i ete to raat hee wit was passing t mind, but at the v Sime inatant wher he turned to me for help alter telling about the row downtown at the oil offices with Mr. Raynor I hit ap on What might turn out to be pro cine ad what alla the wi a ca t nse ¥ ong, setting Chere in my room by m Mend befere the Pepe we ‘te rid: f routine ttself out and look like something. With re to him I*m going mainly on the facts that he's like a lot of these here Northerners which ain't never been down South to speak of, and is therefore got curi- ous ideas : the South in general. Long pe: eote AEN I has neers |g he inks a eo person na enjo being called a dam black rabbit or a worth: less block scoundrel whilst he's waiting on white folks, Also he can’t seem to get over my failing to say “Yas, massa" and “No, massa, when Mir. Dallas asks me a qwes- pons sree can tell as sein af put aut use I don't go round a ‘al a8 dis niggas this and dis lace that ont aie ni the other thing. In other warda, [ alt si up to the character of the imog- inary kin a Southern-taised black man Which he's been led to expect I'd be from Teading some of these here fooliah books which they geta out up here from time to time. I knows full well what bis sensations is im these matters, not only from the look on his face but from one or two things which I haa overheard him saying in times past. So now T just puts two and two together and I anys ob migeell that if he's entertain- ing them misled ideas about my race he doubtless is also got the notion in his head that every cquality white gentleman from down South, and more especially them which huils from Kentucky, totes a pistol on the flank and is forever looking for a chance to mossacrete somebody against which gs took a disfancy. I remerm- bers now that he asked me once how many feuds there was going on in our part of the tute nt the present time, Rather than dis- appoint him I tells him several amall ones and one large one, And another occasion he wanted to know from me whether they ever tried anybody in earnest for shooting some- body down our way. Secretively, at the time, I pities his ignorance; but I ain't undertaking to unlearn him from his delu- sions, because if that’s his way of thinking it ain't beholden on me to try te eduente him different. Looking back on it now, I'm mighty glad I didn’t try, neither, be cause in the arose situation I figures that his prevailing beliefs is going te fall right in with my plana. Ingide of half an howr [ is through with him and ready te tackle the other matter, which is a harder one, anyway you look at it. I takes my head in both my hands and T aays to myself, what kind of lady is this here one we got to deal with? With her ralsings, What does she probably like the best in the world? What dors she probabl hate the most in the world? What wou scare her off and what would make her mad, and what is it would pebadly only just egg her on? What would she ahy from and what would she jump atT Fe well she be reckless and where would | ahe be coreful? And sa on and ao farth. | All of a suiden—bam!—a notion busts | ight in my face. Casting round this way and that for a starter to go by, [ recalls to

June Ba, ger mind what [ heard Judge Prise se, years ago touching on a fusty wi wo | Fich man in an sdjcining i om drawed up on bis dentine, sed koe th Tow over it was fit oot in coor: esd » that I aaye to myself. 1 eays, “Hate: , to my soul, ole problem, | shore don Tleve Ise got jou whar the wood doe i ne me ef | don‘t!™ t's getting on towards elem : when | puts my shoes back of aed co to see what Mr. Dallas is deere He: setting right where I left bem w>: book infront of him. But bis eye, mes me, is beginning to droop o ctl. U- there ain't nobody living coukd inp hours over them Veta to Lyme withos: p ting all drowsied up. “Mir, Drallas,"' I says, “T thinks tr :, light 4 startin’ to aft bp thar akin" clouds, [ seems to me a oy streak—in fact, a cou of sireci, even so, I be got to bef” fre we © things aut my own way. Is pos tho ape able, sub?“ " Jett,” he sg "Tm im peer bmw There's no one into whose banc | put myself. What do you want me & “Well, sub," T says, “fost I wire — fur to go tek off yore things ep &" settled in baid fur the night. Thai starter. me 1” he saya. "Well, neat," 7 gases, “0 dew’t war’ «a ta go downtown a-tall to-morrow, | me you fur te atay Fight whar you tore the mawnin" keep ‘way fram the tee w Ef [ ain't vere te miwerer it pee! rou Koga let [t ring tts haid of ae" doe: fo mind. In rid afternoon you may t. ‘portant visitor grswerin’ to the «-- mints of Mr, H.C. Raynor, Exqure fe he gits yere I'll tell you what's t cm off betwixt you two, purvided the per - nary ‘rangemints, ez conducted by re os wukked out all right. But [ sist ou tell you the full plana yit—teo mot) times. to happen in the mean Teor | plenty time.” to my room noe,’ “Walt jest one minute, pleas. « says aa he gets up. “Mr. Dalian j= . ownin’ no pistol, is you?” “What would I be doing with o> he saya, sort of ed, “| newt one in my life. T don't believe [ evr a one off in my life.” Then s cul aij shamed smile comes onto bia ioe ~S Jeff," he says, “you aren’t taking =o what [ ssid early te-night abet o ron etd You needa't sor. fe thinking af shooting myself yet avin” | “TL ain't worryin’ “bout ‘at,” | am rps i cone Reanta sant I ‘On in toa ‘ sles. Meveelens, though,” | say, “2 the contrary notwidstandic’, == = ain't got no plstel, you's goin” te hom cder—a aa “Just aa you say," be says “Te pa | | befo' you is many hours shiny fretful-lookin® one.” uf tam I to do with toftel nee Dall ai her. as," I aa in fies Ink vee coaee ee tea ache now clear down to the quick. jaf answerin® my own questions ™ Lapeaks this to him just bce br 20 boy and T is his nurse, and of he poe a el a wore-out, desponded, ankapyy ¥. =n 5 I LOOES back on it now, oe Passing of two weeks, shat > = to me Do never traveled an feet ad eal a0 much ground in all ny bon Ge don the next day following along after this here night helm while you just naturally colle for the duat. In the first place, right of time I glides out ond | as ee [ puts up ten dollars for oe thereby T borrows the lms af == ertra apare revolovers of di = Sahagense person nated Feu ae Bin, Which it is his hobet Ge = colored dist rict= dt be = 2 < being the coroner's friend amd, gunn ards i aa tia with. [ roel — folkees he's killed ia he Ee bury his dead where & min't never hed none inted aut to me, Bet fed on both luis tipo gt makes him onload Le ad tar! one over to me, berenuse [ & ot chances of that thing pare © (Castiaacd on Page J

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I totes. this hhore lures and nolisnces tucker chunk of dark-blue harlware back to the apart- ment and stores [t in a aafe place where I can put my hand wean it on short metic, Then [ wattaontil Mer. Dealing is in the both- roam. with the water running eo as to hide the sound of my voice and [ goes to the telephone and [ calls up Miss Bill-Lee's* number over on Riverside: Drive. She must've rose early so as to have her com- plezion Laid on so it'll get set good before she comes forth for the day, because it's her which answers my call instead of the maid. I tells her it's me on the wire, and T ashes her as a special favor can I run over to her flat soon aa it's agreeable ta apeak with her on a very important matter, She saya yes so eager like it must be she's ex- ting I'm fetching a present from Mr, allas game aa] has dope quite often be fore this. Sheaays I can come at ten o'clock. Ten o'clock and I'm at her door. She's in her gebling Poom wailing for me, She looks sort of disappointed when che sees | nin't brought aleng no flowers nor no candy nor mo jewelry box nor nothing with mr; but she welcomes IH wory kine te I don't lose no time getting going. " Afiss DeWitt,” Taays, making my voice as winning as [ can, “now “at you an’ Mr. Dallas ia fixin’ to git married to one "nother I been wonderin’ ‘bout whut's goin” become of me in the shuffle, I ‘preciates “at he lakes me first-rate: but he idolizes you so deeply ‘at I knows be wouldn't keep on keepin’ me nur nobody else round him wideout he wuz ehore “at you laked "em too. Tha’s whut's been worrying me—the question of whether you felt disposed agreeable toe me. An" a0, after brocdin” over the matter fur goin" on it’s nearly a week, I finally is tuck the liberty of comin’ ta apeak te you "beaut it—yas-eum |" " Jefferaon,"" she &a: a, eine af (ndifferent and yet not hoatile, “TD have nothing against "Wome: It kee fiat downed upon Ihe rolisbrer An eras Chat Ubrough the preceding pages of this narrative Jedt's more or lees phometic rendering of thas waa on cfort on his pert to deal with the Gallicied presusciation of an English dienimicive for 8 COCO proper name; bo wht: Bally. “He. Batted. F Sows, “'F te EVENING POST vou; Infact, I rather like you. Lf your serv- ices are eatisfactory to Dalles [ shall have fot the iy objection ta hie keeping you on a8 his servant." “Thanky, ma'am,” [ says, “Hearin® you say “at frum yore own lips suttiniy teks » big lond offen my mind. | strives ever to please. ‘Sides, I got a mighty winnin’ way wid chillen, IU come in handy w'en it comes to he'pin'’ out wid the nursin’ an’ all lak ‘at."' She sets up straight from where she's been kind of half laying down and some of that chain-gang jeweiry of hers gives a brisk. rattle, “Children! she says, plenty startled, “What in the world are you talking about? I answera back [he I"m expecting, of course, she'll understand, ey, T sage, “the chillen wich en- shores ‘at Mr. Dallas don't lows out none in the final evttin’ up of the ertate," I sa By now she's roe bolt wpright on her feet. All that longuicdeome manner ia from her and her voice is. sharper than what I ever Sar erat it before, “What's that?” she says, quite sn . “What's that you are saying? Do yaa mean to tell me that Dallas has been mar- ried. before—that he has oe child—or more than one child—hiiden away somewhere?” “Oh, nome,” | says, very soothing, nothin’ lak ‘at. Course Wir, Dallas ain't never been married, Up twell now he's ractically been heart whole an* fancy free. pas-sumn! I wus merely epeakin'—if you'll please, ma’am, ecuse me—ol the chillen wich natehelly'll be eosin’ tong e= pur- vided for under the terma of the ole gen'le- man's will, you know. Tha's all I meant,” “Will!” she says, “What will? Whoee will? Here, you, give me the straight of thisthing! [ haven't the faintest idea what it's all about." : “Slow, thar!” I says, acting like I'm overcome with a sudden great regret. “Ain't that jest lak me—puttin® my big foot in it, gabblin’ "bout somethin’ w'teh it ain't none of my affairs? Most doubtiess, Mr. Dallas he's been savin’ it all up eq happy surprise fur you, An’ now, in my Innocence an” my ign ance, [starts blabbin’® like I'm seared ball to Pat call for no. great amount a pete it fo'th unbeicnownt, Lene yere, please, ma'am, She * deeper “en whit comes ailing are bad a at me. Them big “J (Continned os Pap Peer Friaa' aa’ Pere Beoperli Weis Wilsker Beales ™ Digitized by Goo

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(Canteued from Poge 34) rt, cether, berause she has done shed jzires’ and all her silkiness and all ithned sume aa a blue racer sheds nis the spring of the year, and ahe's a et-up dangersome self dest er apa Paced Nip T enya (do trus' an’ pray ‘at youu purtec! nr. Dallases’ wrath won her finds ime apilt ever'thin’ so premanture gel it?" she says. “Tt strikes me vont who needa protection if any- we. Now without any more dio hocking ge give me the cold truth, and? Wo original embroidery af m, @ther—the cold truth, all of it! L find out afterwards that 4 uding beck a dingle detail from that she sop shart ano pire ert] meyers of hers, [ can't hardly keep ching burk from before her. If she met it'd be high time to start one unds of to the nearest drug store soothing ointments, because some- rtainly would be due to get all . Rejotcelul though I is inside of » how nice ahe's grabbed at all the ich T has dung out to her like fish- , one alter another, I'd be almost 'T waa outside that room talking rough the keyhole. Hut it's shore Lon me to set easy and keep on ig and not make no elips. Thi well, but they haa got te go still t if she's to ewallow down the = TI READS out beth my huncds like m plumb cowed down and licked, I sturta in handin ot to her the h Ud spent half the night before together in my mi It's a so kind of romancing, if I do aay tl of eee apecially that. which ts built ap on what IT re the old judge having told te curious case which come up that eof the adjoining counties. Hut "at, inel the most fanciest ich aa Mr. Clarence and the ald ly aunt and the two seta of trip- |, has been made up right out of id, and I asks credit. whilst I'm setting there telling id watching her close to see how AES pa ou r onloading eich FM a nono it-aln't-308 on an onauspecting d-up lady. And at the sume ipiig the spirit of Mr, Dallases" ted “Yather, which he wes one ft, quietest old gentlemen that ed, wan't come ba'nting me for his memory so scandalous, well oe mist be turning aver in aster and faster every minute s, IT only con trast he don't see am it. Witt," IT save, “liseen, please, 1] knwow all. You see, ma'am, 1 ‘is connection datea back to in Mir. Dallasea" paw made his Ome 8m oF seven yeahs ; ‘ou dowbtless has learned befo" the bigges" part of the estate know any such thing!" she ne im again, and even more hon before, “Do you mean to = is not the sole master of his armmmers and hesitates like I'm iat she don't know that part hela hanging back only makes fierce to F the rest. Ll @ows: on to say when fats able to blow clean up if I de- “the renal facts of the cose is ictually got no property a-Lall ay. He only draws down one- at frum it. He don't get nigh me, neither, ez whut folkses “urn his free way of spendin’ tht an’ lef. Ez a matter of we Strictes’ confidences, Miss a8, “he ia moe’ gin'elly alluz e trustees by reason of him nel Bout "course," [ says, "at > melither yere nor thar, ia it? sw aanta to aluther his pine that ever’ dollar he aspen ders lak [t's ten of twelve, ess. Lemme git back on the es san noe: wus apecifyin’ =: will, wuzn" this: W'en ‘lle down 4 te terms of the will they THE SATURDAY wuz a heap of ‘em said ez how the ole gen- ‘alman's mind must "a' went back on him in his last sickness fur him to be layin’ down any aech curious "quireminta ex them wuz, Yasui, aoe even went fu'ther ‘en “at; aome went so fur ez to aay it wus the streak of onaarity wich rung in the Pulliam furn- bly ereppin® owt agin in w fresh Place.” “Oh, oo it's insanity now!" she says, “The longer you talk the more interesting Llearn, Go on—go on!" “Yassum, I says, “I'm goin’. Tae sum, they wue, quite a host of folksea wich conve right out an" aaid Mr. Dallas and Mr. Clarence, ary one or both of ‘em, would be amply justified in contestin’ the will on the nde ‘at the late lamentable wuz out of ia haid at the time he drawed it up. But no, ma'am, not them two! I figgera they hnowed they own dear paw "null to krow the wich he toted in his mind. "Sides w'ich, all the members of the farn- bly ie sort of techy on the subjpec" af the 1i'l' streak of onsanity ‘at flows in the blood— wich I reckin they natchelly is to be scosed fur that—an' ef one or the other of ‘om went te the big cotehouse tryin’ to bust W = will on the claim ‘at the ole gen’ didn’t rightly know whut he wuz doin’ to'des the last it'd only quicken up the talk ‘bout the craziness strain. An" ao, of ‘count of the Pulliam pride an’ all, they "jest left it stand lak it wuz. An’ "en on top of ‘at Mr. Clarence he turned sort of onsatisfactory in the haid an" he strayed off an' wun" heared of ag'in till yere recently. An" "en, soon aa Mr. Clarence wuz found, Mr. Dallas he come on Up yere an” you an’ him met arn “In b heaven's apis, quit arocine and get somewheres!" making her words pop like one of these here whiplanhes, “What did the will aay?" ““Yna-uim,"” I says, mi, I jest thos reached “wt pint now, The will say mt the estate is to be helt in trast far the time bein’, an’ ‘en wen the two sona comes of nge they is free to marry, only they is both bound to marry somebody or other befo" reaches they twenty-fil’ birthday. in” the one w'tch has the most chillen to his credit at the end of five yeaha from his weddin’ day, he gets the main chunk of the Property whilst the other ia cut down to J ” “The roet children?" ahe aaya, only by now she's saying it ao aavi that ahe practically is ve ing it. “" reat ——" ““Y ge-s0MEL," rT Baye, ““tha'a [t—the moet ehillen. You see, nua'aimn, they seem to mun to chillen, Somme w iby, the Fulliamaes does. When a. Pulliam lta tmarried—look out fur Daly Sarraaws, ea, tha's all. They don't seem ave ¢hillen by driblets, neither, lok some e does, They is, mare ajst to have ‘em. triplets, They ls two com plite seta of trip an record in tines gona post, and ever’ generation kin be depended on to perduce ot leas’ one set of twins, or even mori! : “Now, Frinstunces, you tek Mr. Dallas an’ Mr, Clarence— twins. Tek they father befo" ‘em an’ they maiden aunt, Miss Sarah Pulliam, de = bywing some mo", Only you never heared much "bout. Miss Sarah in her lifetime owin" to her bein" kep" onder lock an’ key fur spasms of a kind of wildness comin" over her now an’ then. Then ag'in, amongst Mr. Dallases’ own brothers an’ sisters, tek his two little twin sisters, mot to mention the four or five singles wich come ‘long right stiddy an" lar, but alluz, in they cases, one at a time. Yas-aum, it's been "at way in the fambly fur ez fur back e the oldest inhabi- tant. kin remember. “But the gineration wich Mr. Dullas belongs to, it turned owt sickly fur the moat purt, an' a0 by the time the old gen'el mon corm te bie all his chilben had dled of on him, ‘seusin’ Afr. Dolles an’ Mr. Clarence wich them two wuz all they wuz left out of abigswurm, Oh, I jedges the paw kn whut he wuz bout! | reckin he craved ‘at the Pulliamses should ones more multipl freely an’ re oth the earth wid a who multitude of i'l" Pullismaea, An’ so he pur- vided fur a healthy competition betwixt his two 2ona to see —— “Wait! she saya, “Let me see if I wnderstand you. You say that by the terms of that old maniacs will the bulk of his estate wae tied up ao to go eventually to the gon who had the moat children five years after marringe, Well, then whut does the remaining son—the loser—get?" “Ho pits a bundard 4 an” fifty dollars o month fur life-—I think tha's whut it come ‘Laas, “ Mebbe it mout be » hunderd an’ sebenty-five, I won't be shore, An’ he EVENING POST alac drawe down fifty dollara a mooth ext ge Tur each chile he's got livin." But tha's The home place an' the tobaceo bus" ness an’ the money in the bank an’ all elec, they goes to the winner, onlessen each one at the end of them five yeahs is got a ek'el num- ber of chillen, in w'ich cose the ratate is divided even-Stephen betwixt ‘om. Yas- sum! FF “Then why didn't both brothers marry ae soon a8 they came of age?" she asks me, eort of suspicious. But I was expecting that question to come forth sooner or rasag and T ia now prepared beforehand ‘or it. “Well,” I Hr “wou see, IT meclidin Mr. Dallas figg when’ no need to be in a rush, seein’ “at Mr. Clarence wus so | kind of ondep aaah, Ef the truth must be koowed, Clarence wit swans Alghty. He had “spells w' en he'd furgit his own Tame an” go erin’, Wasesum! An‘ i li go ay come af age he took a specially Hl an’ he gauntered so fur ak 4 they ine lost truck of him, Jt wasn mst ia at he wuz located og'in. it ve lnk he'd been detained somoewhars out West e a sort of a home whar they keeps folks wich ia liable to fits of chronic uneasiness in the haid. But now, suddenly, his refreshed memory had done come back to him, an’ the doctors pernouced him cured and turned him loose agin; an’ the latest word wuz ‘at he wuz thinkin’ ‘bout gittin" tattied down in Texas or one “em other Places out onder-waye. fo Mr. Dallas must ‘a* re “at "twuz up to him to etir ne ard i igs an’ git hisse’f married off too: et he had Hone pee his twenty- ehh th h irthday the month befa’ “Well, seemed lak he couldn't find no young lady down home w'ich wim sultalle to his fancies, although some folks did say quiet lak “at they war a lecul prejudice springin’ up on the part of parents ag‘inst havin’ they daughters marryin’ him. But bebeizt wou an’ me, ma‘am, I never tuck no stock in ‘nt, ‘causo most of the time Mr. jaa is jest as rationable ex whut you an' me is. It's only w'en he gets excited ‘at he behaves a i'l' peculiar lak. Well, any- ways, Mr. Dallas he come on up yere an’ he met you. So now it looks lak ever'thing is turn out all right, an" mebbe we'll t out Mr. Clarence after all, in wich case Mr. Dallas won't have to be at the end of five yeahs "bout whar he's goin’ to rake up the cash to pay back the money whieh he's averdrawed out of the eatate, nur nothin". “So that's how come me fo menthen chilles wes T fut come in, tim'am. An’ | trusta you understan'’s." And with that I amiles at her like I'm expecting that now Bhe knows all the tidings, she'll ted over the prospects ton, But ae ee smiling. I lay shat ain"t got aarille left in her entire lagi She's mighty alah ene rere ae it min". no happy emotion ed uw with, If you was a blind ia you roid" * tavid that much from the sounds she's veialding. She's saying things fast and sera ra at the ments all jumbled up together so they don't make gool sense, And yet, notwithstand- I still can follow her thoughts. I catches the words “moetchildren"'—shedu- plicates that several times—and “twins” and “tripleta" and “inganity" and “one hundred and filty dollara a month.” And all mized in with this is loose odds and ends of ae Which seem to indicate she thinks somebody has been withholding something back on ber or trying ta take an unfair ad- vantage of her or something. She certainly is in a awivit. A littl more and she'd be “Allo sua i of All of w sudden she HUE the room, iaekt nee unl thin ing ell at ae sounds like a Punawey mol wagon, mighty near almost, und she makes ie the telephone in the and T can hear aur murier | | her eying vty frantic to Tung up. For a minute my heart swarms up in my throat—anyhow, some of my organs swarms up there where l can tuste ‘em. I'm ao afraid Mr. Dallas may forget his prom- ise to me and come to the phone! If he does the whole transaction is liable to be busted up just when I've strove so hard to fix everything nice and lovely. That's why my heart climbe up my windplpes. But after a little bit I ean breathe @ Sonu more, be cause it's plain, from what I overhears, that Central tells her she can't get no Fe sponsives from the other end of the wire, So then, after one or two more tries, she gives up trying and she comes back into the 57 Will not harden in the tube weet ee uate hi: OSCAR SHAW says: I consider the care of my teeth of the utmost importance, and so luse CHLoR-E-Dixo Tooth Paste. Investment in Health Cy in recent years has medical science folly recognized the seri- ocusness of diseased com- ditions of the teeth and qums. Ta safeguard the health the regular use of a reliable denthirice is in: dispensable. CHLOER-E-DIXO keeps the gum firm and hard and prevents the ac- ‘cumuladon of film ond tartar on the teeth. CHLOR-E-DIXO whitens the teeth like peroxide. CHLOR-E-DIXO will not harden in the tube. CHLOR-E-BDIXAOD eweetens the breath. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | sebUing room still spilling mumbling worde— but “children” continues to be the one she aoe bo favor the mevtt—aond she sai bo me that she has a message to send to Mr, Dallas which she wants me for to take it to him stil playing my part, I says to her I pal hopes there ain"t going to be nothing in message Which will put Mr. Dallas in a bad idan y pion gba ae pear to hear m voiee. ‘a ES set down at a little seriti desk in the corner and ale's got a pen in hand *, and she's writing away like a house on fire. 4) | The pen is squeaking the same as if it was +)| | in torment, and them five or six bracelets on her arm is clinking sweet music to my enor, I ain't no seventh son of a seven mun. ae re! tells me they faa aa he gift prophecy laid upon then ak ; nor fecal rape gta Tdon't peed bot ann that ut one | gies we the Cote intaice of what "tia she's ae ite through quite only hut obe alngle sheet of paper—and she it up and creases it like ale"a tying to mash se periph and abe fara it in an see er ane the enveloper and ay caine ae ani ) Madly rm mai ain —there’s The Sailor E WHISPERED oa word or beo, an Gray raat, and poor, on a summer day f jaar Dyrag, In the county poor farm, in rage. him ag One word: amd a emile come info his epea, And his look was odd: any in @ pleased Surprise, he hod th God. His} aoe waa furrowed and lean And hia skin was fanned; A murmured, “The things I've She wos wn undermanned ; bet ane drought her gs ir ald eyea clowd, smiling, he looked Your eye cannot see it but your feet will know U lace up a pair of Glove Grip Shoes. A delightful feeling of comfort steals over your feet. It is amazing! Amazing, because to the eye, these are normal, fine looking shoes with all the grace of the new styles. Yet, your feet realize that there is something peculiarly restful in the feel of Glove Grp Shoes. This is due to their patented construction. The wonderful Glove Grip feature that ratses the arches of your feet instead of pushing them down. A gentle, natural support for tired foot-muscles. A charming oxford for women is “The College” shown above. Tt is made with a low heel and shield tip in a fine grade of tan calfskin. Illustrated below is “The Avalon" for men. A conservative model with exceptionally fine lines. Selected dealers throughout the country are now displaying these and other Glove Grip models for men and women. The name of your nearest dealer and an attractive miniature catalog will be gent on request. And "Shipa” wre the word ke murmured: “ Skips—and another seq. And if seemed, oz he aad, that I heard Z ferent. cry, ofa sailor's aonj; and Ais porting ee Waa joined ta iat distant ainging, ae » Mt A, He had leaped to the windloga bar and heaved again, | af dichar ap, ta an ald refrain, | They buried Aim there in the paler a field By the aide of the railroad trac, Hows which ke hed slowly wandered with his blanket pack Strapped fo his bowed jrame. ¢ in oO ome g hel = wap ies by vee a murmur of roving song, om the mi j And again oT her his poice os he soya fo me, “ Shipa—thank God! There are ships— and there (2 another sea." —Bill Adama. I The Lady Spring HES . Hike a beeely lod, i Bye Sine world's aid es Touching it with mew Healing ils hurls in Thrilling dim atreeta with ol Fi, Sweeping dark waya wilh mirth; The Spring, like a lovely iady, Sings fo Une waning carih: M. N. ARNOLD SHOE COMPANY Herth Abington, Maasachianttes i ‘a Oeford The Avenhi June Ma Se doing, she says to me, “They: nth take this note tothe mas wr 4 r? ghe iv =i So L goes right out, leaving ber sil an ing it at the top of her voice. 1) mens. me it's ‘tine te , if not bayer, be neers Lee da, huh ie ore The Poets? Corner Tams the fos apr, fo am a lyric written On an wndarnised page! i This ts Sprin Springs te “Tam the foam the dows 1 tm the dm of I cero Sh hea ant FOmeEnct aerany Deep in the soul of poo! Over the fava whe dome, High on a Bill ahe god, Holding @ peoes of Moon Jn Aer while, ontatretehed bos LAY tm bed. [ heord eet Cry oul, * Today— today) eye Tiakesieed. 1 I kepe ey. be Were washed in pals pink xc Al [ thowgh that [ did ao! con flaogim bed. A Linley bree Come hurrying among thi Pert And, leaping o'er the windes r= Crept close beside me aad wer e+ And then @ bird heges 2 ray ! y: Wake upf Wake ep! Fou aay f tumbled out of my worm bed - OA! The aky wor os e—oe And the world trembled, acy flaughed, And kiseed my == —Maery Gee

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It was an article telegraphed from Lon- don saying that all British cricketera were looking keenly forward to the trip of the iwo American bal] clubs, and that it was doubted that the big | era could prove mB make for the best of the English encket elu = "T thought," added Schnitzler, “that wer was going bo plua baseball.” “Sure we are!" | said. “When you read something in the papers about why wou bat the way you do, or why you did some thing or didn't do aomething in a game, what do you think?" "T think it's bunk," saya Bab. “Well, bunk ian't confined to this town,” T saya, “You'll pet just as much in Lon- don. That's what this urticele is—bunk. That's all." That wis just where | was wrong. Hut I didn't know it af the time, and maybe it wus just as well for this guy Pratt, In fact, | krarw bE wea, “What is cricket? asked Schnitzler, My policy has always been not te let a hall player know that you don't know any- thing about everything. : “iricket,"” I says, “is like baseball, ex- cept the pitcher throws the ball with a stiff elpoow."" “A stiff elbow! Ts that so?” The Bab stretched himself, und I saw Fight then that are by hind human power was going ta keep him from trying to ehow thowe English guys up al their oan pastirne. But at the time | had other troubles on my mind, Old Wolverton ceveloped his favorite malady—sristicon ot the lsat minute—aond howled with pain every time ha tt ‘ht of the damp Atlantic breezes. The result was T was put in ch af the trip, ‘The ball players would have been bad encugh to handle, but thera were four newEpuper guys dong with ua, To say that much is to say enough. We left the last week in Getober, a fine warm day: and the send-off, what with flowers and apeeches and handshakes andl a tug filled with fans following us wut to sen, Was all that heart could desire. That is all of a favorable nature that ean be said shout that trip. Not a one of us had ever been acroaa before, and the woy the shi fi to act as stet on she hol loat aight of land made me think someone had tipped off the old beat to that effect. The captain was heard to remark that it was fine North Atlantic autumn weather. I think he was a liar; but if he rendly liked it, then he waa the eusiest pleased man the world ever ured, _ Bab Schnitzler passed out first. He was in the saloon wt dinner the first night, way- ing bis knife over a fillet of beef, when sud. denly his eyes to stare and hia face turned green. next minute he was gone. It took four stewards to curry him io hia room. It was a good joke to the rest of ua—for about an howr, Then we stopped laughing muiienle Therewfter the onby thing to prove that there wus any hig leaguer on the bowt wis the lat of names in the purwer's office, It wasn't until the last day of the ron that T got out on deck, and at that I waa a good twelve hours ahead of the rest. And when the ship tied up at Liverpool the out- fit thet came down the gangplank looked more like convaleacenta from a Loulalana fever camp than a selected bunch af the world's greatest athletes, It was then [ first met Cephasa Pratt. He was at the plier in undertaker clothex— plug hat, skirt coat, gardenia ane all, With lim wae a committee all drewed up like o jorae, with face: aa serious as though we were the Pregident and cabinet of the United States. You can't beat an Einglish- rai for acting up te an orewsion, “Ven we're the ball players," [ says to Pratt, in answer to his question, adding that old Wolverton wus sick sevd that T waa in churge, “iruite ao, quite so," gmilel Cephias, raising his lid. “Then perhaps you're the fumous Mr, MeGann." “Guite ao," T counters. Amd then didn't he become the pe litthe Live wine of that particular dock? He waved up the bunch who had etood bay een betaug ci and introduced them us the members of the Royal and Honorable Cricket Club of London, appointed ta make us welcome. They hadn't egy nothing collecting that committer, Lib tell the populace, There THE SATURDAY EVENING POST YOU NEVER CAN TELL ‘Continued fram Poge FT! was Lord Duffie, Lord MetQuarrie, Lord Chichester-Burke, (Col. eek Saab tele Sir Michael: Finucane and a lot of other top-linera that don't come to mind, hey tried to be nice, and in their stiff upeatape they were all right enough. But they clidn"t speak our langu ae all: that is, none except Sir Michael Finucane. He waa a sure regular guy. 1 knew him well by reputation because of the lalela on his Seoteh and Trish whisky boteles yur Wei to seein every barreoam in America. “Have ye had a pleasant trip?” he aslted. ; “Look ws over and take a guess," I save. net feeling in especially humar. “Well, well," Cephas Pratt butted in, “we'll have to son chat you get your land : eh, Sir Michael? Forsusaialy there will be nething on hand for you until Sat- urday, today being Thursday, You'll have a good chance to rest. Sir Michael has graciously requested the honor of entertain- a? four of you at his country place, Faugh a Ballagh." “The name aounds good to me," saya I, brightening up. “Excellent! Thea if you will be good enough to selert your companions"'— Cephas rubbed his ae litte handa—" the other gentlemen will be put Mp t the a and fF secialsle Cricket Club, where I'm aure they will Is: comfortable" “They'll be comfortable any plac: that doesn"t move up ancl dawn,” I brought up the invalids and introduced them round, at the anme time doing a bot of quick thinking ubout this pucwt business, Most af the Grays and the picked team were clean-cut young fellows, several of them college men, and I knew they could seqgon the eficket-club buneh: thet is, they eould if I kept Bab Schnitzler away fram them. For aa acon as the Baboon got his appetite and his spirita back I knew what would happen. So T plehked him as one of the men to go to Sir Michael's place; then chooalng Judge Connolly, the wup, a quiet littl chap, and Tim Holliday, of the Plaid Sox, whe wis captain of the tear we'd brought along to play lin ies, Raporten? Sure, shoals of them; o anully-logking bunch, very series and earnest, I made « few modest statements: and then, having ne time to bother with , turmed them over to the Baboon, Rats Finnegan, Hill Pitt and the rest. At the time I didn't pay much attention to what the ball players eaid te the newspaper mutts, but I found outall right when tread the pers next morning. When we reached London most of the bunch got into automobiles and were taken wut to the cricket club, while Sir Mike and his four guests piled into his big limousine. As [ have sald, this big divuller was a regular guy. He was known all over the warld, ineluding the United States, and net only becnuse of his whisky either, For there never wus on advertiver like Finu- cane, Tf figured this stunt of enteriaining me and the other thr was merely a part. af the game he was playing to keep im the Public eye. He was one of the Rockefellers of England and one of the P. T. Barnuma af the world, who had improved upen the circus man's famous dope to the extent of making it read that a aouse and a sucker are born every minute. Alter about an hour's ride we rolled into a big gateway, with wo little stone hows standing beside it, and drove a mille or so among trees and bushes, until finally we allo in front of a euatle. “What armory is thatT" asked the Halwmen. “Faugh w Ballagh,” suva Sir Mike, with a waved his hand, “Let's your home while yora"re in Eimglanct," At the duor was the butler and a couple Wo movie guys in short pants and velvet conta, With white stockings, whe grabhed our bags and started for the stairs. Sir Mike said he suspected we'd like to teary up in rooms, although there wasn't any real neveaaity if we wanted to park by our- selves. [ told him ft was fine the way he had doped il, and packed Hab as @ Foome- mate, Hyguring he'd mel mone watching than the other ted, The man who carried up our bags un- packed them as we lolled around watching him work, and then he told ue that there would be tea in the drawing-room at f:40, with dinner at eight. Both prepositions made a hit with Bab, who hadn't had any heart for lunch. “This is a fine country," said Schniteber wiowe came up from tea about &:40 and begun to climb into our soup-andefish suite for the dinner. “They feed the way o mun likea to be fed. Say, what was them litthe fishes they had on tosst down there?" “The way they went down your throat,” Tgays, “IT think you'd call ‘em disappearing dmelia, And aay, did you have any idea that when thet plush-pents fellow posed you the dish of enkes he wanted it back again” “Did he?" grinned Bab. “Well, he gut it back, didn't he?" “Ysa, he got the dish. But I wanted one af those cakes myself; so did the rest, If you don't want to be called a baboon don’t act like one." Bab only grinned. He waa feeling fine about being off the ocean and living in a cuathe, with all the food and drink he eould alow aw Tn fact the way he strutted about rade me think be had had something stronger than tea, But no, “Thad you eee that blond pappin?" he asked when [ ps my suspicions up to him and demandil to know the cause of his harman, “You mean the one that had you off in the corner, laughing at everything you said?’ T asked. “Where do you get the Bippint She's a dame of forty." he Baboon locked at me bi G “T forgot to ask ber how old was. It didn’t make no difference, anyway, Died you get the colar in her ‘face? “The potnt is, where dic she get ot" L lanyghs, but Schnitzer mised that one, “And,” he goes on, “her yellow hair, [ alwuys liked the yelom hale ones, She's a regular lady, believe me, bo! She's mort than that; she's a duchess—the Duchess af Bonnicastle, I don"t know what that meons, but I knew it goes big in this et ak Se bal like a queen,” "Aa gree “That's straight, chief; the absolute goods. I knew was something as acon as 1 gave her the eye and ahe batted right back atime. T gues IT wasn't the baby Fell af that party, na?" T eoulda't come bark on that. Str Mike had had quite uw party of men and women albling in on that ten, und before five minutes Bak Schniteler wos the center of attraction, He was so American, they said, but beyond that he was such a great, powerlul-looking block of humanity that the women especially couldn't seem to take their eyes off him. He was just what a great athlete ought to look like, they said. And laugh? Oe got a hand every t he opened his mouth for food of to say" sone thing. That waa before thia duchess carried him off to a corner. They stayed there until Sir Mike pried them loose and set Sehnite- jer up for everyone bo bew] at again, ‘Say, chief'—the Baboon strutted and sireteled—“T guess | didn't make no hit, what? Why, just us | Bas comin pes [ made the duchess along in the Fac hall. She received ma fine, chief, Everything is eertainly jake between me and that dame. She suys the only thing in life for her is men af action. I gota date to walk with her by tlle tonight over the downs." Schnitgler grinned. “Say, chief, what is the downe?" “You'll find out if you go monkeyin with Sir Mike's friends," I said. “Tt wa be over the down-and-vuta for yours,” “Ts that ao?" saya Bab. T let Bim get away with his come-back becuse, slice dinner was tu be wt eight, I fgured on an hour and a half ta get Rab into hit bauguet clothes, bet alone mine. _ But's suit being reudy-made waa just a litth: tight for him, and brought out his Sundow build like a bathing suit. He waa as much a hit when he came inte the dining room #8 he was at the tea. Sir Mike put him nest to the duchess at the head of the table, and me and Judge Connall wit on the other side, where we couldn't help him tone. Ln fact, looking at the mating tools, L figured Td hove all | could do to help myself. There they lay beside the plate like bats in front of a dugout. The ju whispers for me to work from the outsi in, and whether be knew what he waa talk- ing about, or guessed, I don"t know, Any way he was Fight. 4 for the knoe, he grabbed one fork and never let poof tt ne matter what came one and went. Once whes if locked as: ps one of tine short-feunts gore wie prey sist Bab gave bam @ deni rd to: © beat it. ID suypeomr fe Sgrored c! ee - & one he couldn't make as muiny cor if he tried all the poesibilitie As 5 believe, he got gery ath it! Othervise, aside fram bu fork many Bab surprised me. | mean the wa 5 ante himeelf, He hard got the ign bean thet he was in with real pew « he had sense enough to do wha: ' and [ was doing —that @, wae - someone else did before we pep then giVe & correct imitetio: That showed the stuff that wm farmer, Why, back in the States * do everything bat make mou: » of parm, gnoeer af corti of a plate ol AsparagusT Say, Lhey weete core a gruppied with them! As fur tt. =: chestra and his sword sellansy had kidded him out of them been with the Girrays @ week The duchess —-she waa pees os all right: I towne that ost froms: ¥ had the time of Ker life. Sh- 2 eyes on the Baboon, wate | - -- make a crack, and then @he< oo o blush and put a flewer in ho tor and ect like an old cot that’s pre and thinks she"s m kitten mur There wae pbcail twenty af te ce and they were g mice cro Tie. » what Sir Mike culled the hente¢ = county, Toay-cheeled woenees woth « ¢ and ankles, amd fire bag mes. Lat Holliday, who wouldn't come ¢ nnd ate out with Jagger. the bee me Chat the butler had told tie S ‘ HL Eb. bachelor. He sand thos a Bab's was known ox the sporurg o3o a wicow with a pile of 5 ‘es fl ey Sir Mike waa looking to eoret "Thess e elear to me what | fe @ eioned at dinner: that Firecare 1 relishing the comedy between Hob 2 duchess. Of course be play Sr laughing at the right time gnc te; marks around the table and free” time roe on the merry cori 7 at his side. But all he Te 1c the shoulder, while Bab never se 2 tention to him owt all. Even at the time, | decuied Pa os acling in © way to @arn Finceere , tude. Well, anyway, Bab sod to haired old dame went off for be over the ups and Gowns, and or feo eit bore rest sat in at __ of bnd La pounds, but Judge Connecy um proper. I'd have enjoyed th moe and alept better if I hadn't te: ‘a over the Baleoon ancl hia buts love affair of m Like percent pot | like Sir Mike, Elabh cgumee io boog cor asleep, and in the morming t= 2 pounding his war, with so ban @ clinched in his big right pow “What's the idea of the vod asked, shaking him awake. “Weeds F his is heather bao down picked it for me” “Gwendolyn “OW Ry, Gli abcess ! IT wouldn't fatter him by teliy thought. But 1 hadn't any =a “= downstairs then J foeaond offs = beskie: Bab and his doches om Pratt had showed up bright ent blag bat. fuardenia acd all, Weill.” he Saye, Tubbing | “everything's et, ‘Y quise seve Det You're to play at the Land ie morrow ."" “Sure! Laays, “But poo eae baseball, We're over bere “Fe we've got and we'll do if ® shaking up thene bees have Soe OF pact there wouldn't be a sch! the (7. S. couldin’t beat ue “Lunderstand,“sayske (= —s are referring to baseball Nez. =! You are not Polng to play bose le going bo play cricket gyrase! op a eleven. Ft is = He hesitated “Go on," saye | vous etd but you're mut saying aurtheng He wentomn. ail sich ho ym ewe that Hittle, fui. four-tsakrg pe hed done? He had siborcreated Sm ball angle off our sesct to he ere hed got all Fingiarnd rosary onl mate ceetwees, che be aa Ceaniscawed as!

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BALTIMG RE Mim, THE SATURDAY (Continued from Boge @0) United States and the best cricketers in E He had filled the papers alter we boarded the stearnshi p with sce yaraaing aa to how we would make out, and every ne tae aes the stuff whole, Thats ther-headed. r serious Aritish way; and, os [ learned later, even the American. papers had fallen forthe the slant. ize papers in mi hand. t hada't louked at them before talked with esa ge full of sanefigd ber hg not more t a 1 baseball and a mile of Foye alee cricket, The interviews that Bab and the reat bad ven out hadn't helped the couse of base alll either. All Hab knew about ericket waa what I had tald Py and he had ta get that off, of counme, The papers. quoted him just the way he talked, All [T want,” he said, “is to stand up there against them stif-elbow tossers of yourn and lean peels: a few of their dew- drops. I don't know how Zgiors balls they bring to a » but rg tke et fetch a motor truck full ll the day we nay” And more of the same stuff from Rats Finnegan, Trott, Pitt and the rest, Of course, a lot of it was kKidding—not from Bab, but from the rest —but did the British equills getit? Ask mel But getting back ta Pratt. “We'll play no cricket," I Ve came here principally to play baseball, and if baseball ain't what they want we'll go home." Pratt came close to me. “You're in pretty aot here, ain't yout" he asked. “You're at the prize country house in England, with all the food in the world and a cellar where, if you stood in it and saw all the bottles, you'd think you wie in heaven. The rest of the boys are living hi at the Hoyal and Ancient Cricket Club," “They'll be hanging high after they try ta ai cricket,” says Hangin’ nothing!” smiled Pratt, “Do you ein nn tag about cricket?" ‘T ca “Well, f Pratt laughed, “it will be as much of a cinch for you big leaguers as one old cat, All you have to dia to learn the ae bony diay thiats “Do you mean to say think we are cricket players?” 1 drew back my hand waiting for his reply. "ha, an they got the idea somewhere that ition the side, and that base- | ball is closely related to it anyway. As o matter of fact, your men at the cricket | club went aut last night and did a little practicing. Lord MeQuarrie, who was resent, aald their form was awfully Anver- ean, but they certaindy could hit and fheld, cnectalhy eonsideting they had drunk as much a they had." “Ta that ao?" “Yea, it's oo." Pratt backed away “You play the game, MeGann, und 1 be on velvet, As for me, m divicsc ha have ended, T’ve closed the o- American Sports office, drawn my remuneration and am leaving for Paria this afternoon, All Opinions in sorts of luck, old top.” ; He ducked out the secs in time to miss a right-hand wallop, I'd have followed it up, pure - Mike appeared at the time, ami so I ae an e final stages of the file ae a good-by wave to the fat-faced ttle shrimp. It hadn't taken me a minute to see that whatever bed Pratt had made for us we had to lie in it. There was no chance for crawfishing now. All we had to do was play cricket and then look up the next ateamer hore. IT returned Sir Mike's good morning cheerful as I could register, and while it may not have sounded as cheerful ms it might, yet it waa [ike a thousand lnughs corn to the bone of his greeting. f. MoGann,” he said, coming to the int at onee, ‘ye “yout friend Mr, Schnitz- er, you lenaw He Lay ar d arid I filled in with a low- y lau “Yes, Schnitzier, I been meaning to spent to you about the Baboon, Sir Mich- abel. He's harmless. He's just a big what we call busher, whe doesn't know anything but how to play baseball—and cricket. Don't worry about him at all. Him and the duchess, that's nix, underatand,” “Quite so, quite so," he comes hack, forcing a laugh. “Tam not worried about my clear frend the Duchess of Tonni- cutie. She patronizes freaks os a fad. In fact, just at present one of her protigdés, EVENING POST the heavyweight champion prizefighter of England, Joe Plunkett, is training at a ent on her estate, which adjoins mine, for his next month's fight with A Jack Than." T nods and he hee Bil on: “T am speaking because [ don't want Mr. Schniteler’s d turned of et fie like that. The duchess is a very ees woman—what we call pag Ee friend, I judge, has not rein. what? When Fdealt that card 1 was holding back a Be lok In other ‘ ty would ‘a had to be thicker than I was to miss the fact that Finucane was anal rinks The thing that r Tht was why he ehould turn a hair over that big orang-utan that waa providing a quick-witted, tem- woman witha little amusement. Then a lig thought landed square in my mitt, Even before he left the United States, the Baboon had been getting jake with himself, what with the adulation of the fans, the j janes rinning here wasn't anything I that would dohim more gol than the well- known sock abowt four inches below the ear on either side. In other words, I saw a way to put myself jerry with the great dis- tiller and at the same time get Schniteler dewn to a point where he'd, ve-thousd thing less than a seventy-fivet nid- dollar contract for his next season"s pla "Don't you 8u , Sir Michael," says I, “that you "arrange go's Bab cou walk over the ups and downs with the duchess while fighter, Plunkett, waa sitting on his front atepa?" Finucane atarted aa though I had hit him and then grinned a little, “Tt might be arranged,” aya he, acratch- fog his beard, “unleest, soe molnd, something letter doran't offer." With that be choked off short, but he didn't have te tell me that something bet- we hod offered already, this timer, toweling hungry, J went into an roakinst room, While Sir Michwel and T hod been talking the duchess’ big blue ear with ifs comt of arms hed swung into the drive and pone aroun to the side of the house, And there was the duchess in the room, having the time of ber life, watching Bab eat! You see, over in England they straggle in to breakfast any old time, at least out in the country whe - the «¢ astlen are, And there is the food on the sideboard, resting en litthe heaters, keepdag warm. Onrdina- rily I would be eter is for the iden. Boot let a hornpout like Sehniteder get inte the room frst after a sgt night's sheep and it

watt the poorest dope in the werld, For all Lhe rer spi the rest of the household world j t would be only something that isdn 't ha rep notosppaen Bo tie buster, “iV hat din wht think of my rayr man, Michari?™ savas the diches, “I lave to see tibtle chaps turn up bright-ryed with nnappetiie in the maming, ” Sir Micha grunted, while I lifted up the cave iT ot AP HVOF dean fh 2 Ix oolke 1 AS though

Bay ohout ‘it fs tha! it saya “hari emptier Chun the rest. “Anew, Sor Michael,” T erinned, “sau had ought to be thankiul be left the dishes,"

Finucane gronked apenas, then called the lit itler and orderek ita to tell the chef te bring ip hia reserves, The chiciess laughed, cnaling an acdmir- ance at the Bathe, who sat there 2 Lhe ellen ‘P anil looking like nh dali far it belted Norfolk 1 te and s t collar

she an nounced, “are tole Lute mncl 0," olf anu Litthe motor trip into Surrey wholes vou hve seme plans for him today, Mr. Mei Wn. ; “UIE cautse T have plans," aaid I. “The Last thing Dadi | lass night We te i] telephor |e over to tl eocricket cub opdering the boys to practice éricket today, If I don't guess WED E Tbub will need it more thin pny= ore, “On, clear! The duchess wrinkded her brows aed glanesd atthe Baboon, whose face told me without words chad there wis eaitig to be irneuhordi:natlon tn mainte, "Hab aad hind plained gy litele neater trip. Agus e tenlivy practic, Mr, Melann?”™ Wises iommbier of fart, f dunt care much ‘hier dpe paren lice? or onok, ikcuring that har bi wl better have oll his bewinner's luck thi avy eof diweomateh, So ] said it waa up toh n LT he w Tia a te take a monkey of Wiel vw the {hat d, ill t rieht. ume tu, ea went. on the trip. Afar a7 i ne Sir Bh Michael took me ad Ts 9 yup to the Lord's Gruma ws che ed game wa tm be gaye There we met a bunch of mt iy who were minning the shew, [des - = me two mindtes to wiles ie the that cricket and ee pe in common and a lot that wase'L Ca who had been named a ote ol tie mes for the morrow's yume, adn’) eats minutes In resign the Be tay touch of iumbago, ad se compelled to memain seray from on gy altegether. As for me, there's eomethoy » system that hes worked me fre co guess in the Jong ran bas doce or a ood, 0 mean. beung game to tobe ge could pee that so far we bittrg Was concerned we might grt by. es fielding looked to br a cinch: = ma that I didn't even worry sbeet big bowlers. I would stick Norcos ant a in what they called the creme ice them bounce the tall op to the wruria whatever “Fo e@ouilel pak on T felt even ter whe | ran doer = cnicket club with Halliday mre fy The boys wos waiting, end | me ones that cricket didn't mean a) tog of the way to this bamech of locum y didn’t care what they ployee wo | they could go on living at the e there was individual batiles af 5-25 at every meal, and plecty @ om . “Boys,” I says, “you ve mes or and know what "we got i i eke ge for what we we fey So fe far as that 7a Hs Trott, captain of Gra hel “tne is will feel the same way tomo 5 We had ce yesterday, ond | pos would all be on ur way bore ore that the club meembers who mecoe never got onto the fact we wer gel cricket t, “IT guessed as much,” ap & “from what IT rend in ihe pee ports aud you were warming =p a the South American game py told "em theat?T™ “We all dia .” Trott grinned. * tell them aa “All right. IT lenaewr [ meme >: in leaving you in charge, Hakty get out there and praction t park

content. I"we give ones eo manager bone chat ie ‘it's meet fo outaide rs exe | Sir Michael, yer watered to with me ond ‘walled ecco hoya helpful pedriters, schtin 1h wes just at well T bad desided & practice secret, [ agreed wth Ee) “So for a@ Tn concen, gil we left the cluh, “tosmoroe 1 pee rich. IT weuldn*t mine it for ioe your Volttiemd Act” [let that remark po for aati it turned out, the were fich in a wey eld Fuse! expected. Alowewer, [dds cout a base om : this story, ‘so TT go etl When ‘an Fut back to ra ik after the practice Bab bade ¥yel: and Connolly, eho =m 0 tiring little: guy, went <5" saying be had an old got & wold die if she dich": see bee me to wire bitty im Dados afte had stopped and we wan sed baseball. Bot from the aap knew be newer expected t pl not about beable looked for wus a henge oy = we his influence with | eador to get in jose tales Rab blew in jest = duchess stayed in the ar ol oe with tt. “Hello, McGann!” be al @ time for us to go up ol et Tur ie, things T hiy word, = La lavtes}* I looked at him kee Ee kidding: he waa-azviom Hee in the air and he = Gee cigarette on his wriet lke Forel woite sourced ws thomgeh be bol pack of oni ine tohecrs io be ree al the usual anotunt. "So 1t's tine to get mat -7 things ta it, you bie hick? lo marrow youll xt = = » things and plas cricket, et lal VOU Prulie ¥ roma 1] get 4 a 6 a Centinerd eit Page ©

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Blaben Co., Philadelphia Birabechea Tl power LABUN ART Linoleums (Cantianed from Page a4) the wall your salary look like a hole in “ Fleally !" he aye raising his eyebrows and walking out of the room Really! I could see what had beer hap pening. The duchess had been workin os the rough edges of her cave man. And, has already been noted, give Bab one thing at a time and be could learn anything. If ou could only have eat there with me and the card that cactus crusher talk that after- | noon you'd have been willing to hand that TVOETY,, dvr pr painted-up buzzard even as much as I did, That night Sir Michael didn't have any company in at dinner; that is, outside of me and Bab and Tim Holliday. The old main wae in a great mood. “Tie. Schniteler,”” he opens, “have vou ever met Joe P lunke tithe pr fize fighter?" ae Le replied Bab, “1 sec —aawn— himeon the chai thie nvorning. Gwendolyn potted diim et." “Gwendolyn! | could see Str Mike ehewinyg incler lip “The chichess, you know," "OT couresc?” Pintcane meided, “What do you think of him!” As be speke be fipped the wink at noe “never seeh—sawh kind of heavy-footedd, “He can bit,” frowns Sir Michael. VW hat's the use of being able te hit if you ent find nothing in-front of you to wul- Bop " the Baboon pring. “In the States they “cl hist hittin if that bs ind frorn behind t. “Oh, You're a fighter yourself?" aske Finuenae, “Siok o professbonal," saya I, climbing gkheard, “He's benten all the rar beret of the Giriys, one and two ol a tine “T could “a nen a pront that if T hadn't liked ball playin” better,’” announces. Bah, aticking out his chest.and doing the thing he could next best to bat, which was throw- ing the bull. “Tae” Finucane bats his eves, “I been ondering, Mr Schnitsler, P erluaps if iy ier a Fine in the ballon, Sumida fight and invited a lot of fr: da yeni img aa be willing to go through a lit heat with Atr Plunkett “just emake, you konerar, The due hes weld enjoy secing you, 1 am Hakrar Atthe minute # pit Itecl peach dipd skidched from under Hab's dork. He-couglt i with his teft hand just before it reached my ehirt [ront.and then naided to Sir Alichael. “Anything that auits you I'd be plumb crizy to-do: You certainly boon giving me a jake time." Rnowlip the Baboon, and being as ans iis af wos Finucane to cinch the bout, I pu led a serious face. “Ia Plunkett poling. te have one hand tied behind him, Sir Michael?” Finticane lauehed, “Plunkett sugested it. Satd he yi a Lik tee ire Ao bo Nuee the American, Dawu d syeak to Mr. Schaiteler he Enboon's fase wos red, He was thickeakinned, but at that he was mo rhi- Aue erie, “Ts a it eo} Who is this guy Plunkett? He SOF the rt Lam plore eh ngland Wliat's Engin di? Wi iv, T went chein aendes it in the automobile to-lay. It's like the cham- pion of Ni wili TRE Yor 1 te ‘ld t hig bombrey Flunkett that he “iL neced all the hands he's rut Su aw nighe* and, “4 the duchess used to EALy that him work, Looks "The. J cs Clay! exnre Lise erickek mabeh, leit quys, who were mob. se cel Chem, hod tumbled to but ca atl des “dl oto be i that everyone whi mises ahiona) test wanid: bi 7 socmleinings plewie tk, amd ali of it itl. Tecnico way Gtol miaclr THe unt to liek the persans avho fod ibogit tl Hine mld ill one of Hut PWN tear tarvad iritoming that nentioned in Ei nge- uo heraler (bo will draw a tnore-= lwh i SeTies craw, taut ecuuee theyvpeinds woulda’ fh hatin beef tbe pcarwias hitleing ool aid they were Va Pa Ue Lett oir, ares hie Frairol) Saurinl'y 1 lelort nme ig hiaee and earls ond marquise acd mari |-; eounta and no-moogunts wotll poy m:- - reat. The Duchess of Botturuct vy, a prominent » Si Michel wt ber a, So waa Joe Plunkett, the prin figher ‘ could see the duchess was all for ths a which didn't seem to bother Fina ¢ It bothered the Babooa all “Por two cents,” he eid to oe “!: humet, that iknow what be ts, walk over there and zh ht now. Do you the duchess tried to intrate. He wrinkled up his oe re Ae soe : it =tewnin wad. re I didn't have. time nervous ancl bod been Ea! my time looking fora bobe in the lene - I tald ab he could show whether be a. alive in the cricket game, od thee over to Lond Abercrombae, whens be oning tome. He asked bow many kee we abould play. When I says “Oh, the tama] mune nine” he fave Td a book. is Are you gene be sti; “ti mA imine tH ficet b & = = entire afternoon, if hot Beoing FE bel ‘taunt eee erred gi told hina te pebede the smmmbeer, ged jo he thotight ome each wold do | tel ks | thought so too. All right, oat al coe he wotthd jot ts take forest et bet. | these | him, and then when be piso be oe! watched and drew down o Giagram, wid [ gave to Trott to wee in the fete There came o silence jest le whee i Wimp atepe cut with re hat off to amma | the batteries. ‘Two pitchers—o bowie they called yaad py Uimpty-Scmetig BNO SOMOS hose Lane scm cae on & Rollover Hunn, went to the wc, at | knowing what elae to do, | desided tae wur pogular batting one, Fes el) Now Hats bad disappeared o few bom] after we banded. 1 think be wor coe] temporarily insane by the shoot of oe discovery that all one had to de ee drink in London wee to tom mga oe from the sidewalk, secordimg to be oe] tion you were going. ‘The esocn wai Ga) harder becaiae Rate had bec the ce Sl prohibition was worki-wide, They ay -~_ news pever ki Ths, and Fir feos ee | hit only by a squeak. He cre & =) grevuriils: straight from the beaapital ! Pinnegan went to one wie it Bill Pitt to the other, Fitsee Se) first. As the teowler rome ke 2S al) twisted himself and bet go the ie ial] just stood locking af it a i Brot a ground, and then bouncing ap icmiocciued Sl topa-of the wicket behind tm. | Knocking the wickets t the gmt ba) Ha uF Hi Lr ing stunt... It waa like string a in baseball, «| “Why, the ‘ball was on the 7a yelled Finrvegecn ‘oheen they booed ben ie out He went overt and iniercee oe ump while the cowd book Whe Gy ump éxplained, Fate deshed bis og oe ground and stamped on i. Th =m to hit the ercwed ges fermeier then (iam Chaplin, One fat mn wes oo ee no ambulance. Trott replaced him at the welt ahepiy il Ut to treeet the ball pfeil | ae could get back the Wickets = ball sand knoe ke the wee a “Stumped! yelled the cnowd witae So he was out ancl there was anor ment Then Boyle went in, Tae struck him below the knee. Hr er the limp, king what he gt at © The timp 4 anid he got an ool besos & sstanricda cng in front of the wicket wi bal] bit him, Dt took half ear tract a Larry away from the ump ; Now it waa the Baboon's tam. | forward, hands upon my ine, = him a line of Cincinnati oe if he and Bill Pitt fivvered te es foing to be mone of joke evs arte nais* i 2 batters hm pitched balls, onl wae ouLs to go, ten Ln all, I ; runt in the offine. “7S [ must say Tab looked dollar os he shod there ike There newer ‘wos a fis hig fellow-in etic. Hie ) wide of the wicket, Hab see : it. Mow, fm riche the geal ee at the wide ones and theres ¢3 one? that gre coming siruight sought br wicket, just the opposite oc “What's the matter? r= = Hab asks the bowler, = ho | cee Hike, ** Phat one over! Contiawed «a Page 1 |

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With the fat paddle he had in hia hand he couldn't have misaed the pill with bis eyes shut. While the crowd gave a flutter of anguish that ball to travel. If it ain't floating somewhere in the English Channel today I'll eat the mate te it. Well, Bab and Pitt started to run be tween the wickets, aa the custom is in ericket, touching the stakes with their hata to count the runs, when the ump said they needn't tire themselves. He gave Bab aL Fura. “AMl right, old boy!" yella Pitt, who now fot @ chanee ta bat in the second ‘over,” “"Siip be te me!" Pitt was a chep hitter, like Wille Keeler. aie ner hitting was patented for him. He hoked the first 7 where ha one waa, and he ge an nde eight tive runs, more or Jes, igen me Was led out, Harrigan took his place, But re tot the Baboon, he never got out. If the game had lasted till now he would still be in there walloping, 1 reckon. Alter each five balla pitched the bowlers would reverse their stations and try again. The felders, who were set in all sorts of ridiculous places, would reverse Pane the bowlers: bat it waan't any use, Anyt that came within reaching distance oT leaned agalnat and it waa good-b Harrigan hit for sixty runs, and then he was Called out on some technicality. But they weren't catching Bab. Evidently he hud Jenrned ull there was to Jearn about the hitting rules from the duchess. In fact she taken him down to Oxford to practice, His hundred-and-ninth run came when he hit =. lines straight ot a guy they coll the long=oif, This fellow was game, but foolish, | He tried is catch it. Tt went through his hands and hit him in the stomach. Every- bedy stopped for tea, and they changed bow while the ambulance was taking | him awar, This gave the duchess a chance to aurm- mon Hab ta her box, The Prince of Wales was passing at the time, and the duchess, putting ont hand on the Baboon's shoulder and the other on Plunkett's, smiled ber two-ree-movie-vampsmile at His Highness. “My two apr pra sive slmpered, Thao Prince emi then, actin Pike he could just recall Gwendolyn, while Bab gave English champ a aco, Bara night,” he says, os though to "there'll be only one champ. Amd it'll be alive, all right,” showing how little it took to get my star batter all chested up. Because he was busting cricket balla he'd got the iden be could bust anything, even a champion box fighter. Well, anyny when the wepire called it e a day they ‘ht outa on us, and Bab wee. sill ah fgland with lopsided eticket bal he scorer had got cramps counting ne we'd made, but it was something aver three hundred-odd runs, if I recall; anyway it was something -breaki The ert team fad used up all its bowlers and a lot that had no protense to being such, while the fielders had ran them- selves ragged, their tongues hanging out, trying to shag such balls a3 remained within the grounds. So they requested that the 1 fs tae apiece! inning, put over until Monday. I agreed. In fact Ld have agreed to puteing. it over inkl newt weer, and you won "t blame me when I ok you how you'd like to sit at a ball gume lasting five houre, with nothing | but home runs by one siche, The hero of cotirse was the Baboon, Pb! Prince of Wales finally remembered he bad known the duc’ and Jet her present the big fellow, and the two kidded each other like a couple of pals. In fact Bab and he had their picture took standing together, with the duchess between. And you could see that Joe Plunkett, sitting alone with Sir Michael, liked the incident just as well ws be would like a wooden bey. That night there wos a dinner at the Royal and Honorable, with the American aI ador, whe for some reason or other had been of us up till then, making «a speech, and then a British cabinet member, and then a lot of other guys, whe told ws that while our form was rotien we were 1) per cent efficient. Tt was large, that even- ing. EVENING POST I doen't know when T got home, or how, All T know is that when my head ached me back to consciousness next morning and I lamped Bab there in the next bed his appearance didn't tout him as an od bet that he would stick four rounds with the champion of England that night. About ten o'clock up come a bunch of flowers to Bab from the duchess’ own hot- houses. They might aa well have been a atack of carrots for all the Baboon knew of cared, He was in, that bird. Toward noon Sir Michael, Tim Holliday, ee and a couple of guys walked over hac ace, or at least to the where Joe Plunkett was training. The ame herself showed up just as we take ch a Mie looked OK te punch the e ; he Gad shown be didn't aa br Pie aaa ‘manent but he worked good, and waa about aa well built for hia trade as any man in the world. The duchess treated him different from the way she handled Bab, She was the great lady all the time down in the cottage, and Plunkett was as polite to her as one of her servants "You understand, of course, Plunkett," she said, “that this bout tonight is merely friendly ‘and for, the pleasure of Sir Michael and guests.” “Certainly, yer gryce," Plunkett, and hits the bag an extra bard wallop. Sir Michael tipa the wink to me and I tips it back, Then be leaves ws watehin the fighter while he and the duchess stro] of through the deer park, she leaning on his arm and Finucane with his chest out and head up as though he was keeping o date with the Queen of eee: When we arrive back at the house, there iz the Baboon up for air. “For a man,” I says, “that's siming to box with the champion of England to night, you look like a sardine.” at's ao; I ee et to box tonight, ain’t—haven't [?" Bab looks thoughtful. “Well, it's only four rounds, and this bird aS es won't last ome.’ a ty the a a lang look. bb," says I, “are you only kidding or do you mean what you say? This guy, Plunkett, is a champion.” "OH England — —sure! Say, chbef, 1 want bo put rau wise to something. I've the rep of the best scrapper in the aE leagues, aa t—haven't [7° [admitted it, and he wenton: “Well, you don't know it, but when Jack Dempeey was touring with the burlesque last winter 1 went on with him for three rounds out in Peoria under a fake name—of course the champion knew who I was—and he said I gave him the beat workout he had had in a year. He said I could be aa big a fighter aa a ball player, I told him sure I eould, but I liked te hit something aaa regular busliess that couldn't hit back— meaning of courae the old apple Well, this leather pusher, Plunkett, would drop dead if he sat in the same ring with om “He Aromiieed the duchess," I says, “he would make it a friendly bout." “So will 1," loughs Schnitzer. “I'll knock him for the cireuit right off quick, and not carry him along, punishing him until I get ready to put on the crusher the wey & lot of mean-natured champs do.” aw it waa no wae te talk to him. Any- way, there was a lot of newspaper men, American correspondents, waithig ta get his views on ericket and Lloyd Gearge and the Eling and perce #0 Tim and | walked away and let him rave. The duchess sat in at lunch. She kept looking at Bab the way a woman looks at a man that is moing ta co electric ¢ But when she talked she was sprightly enough, evidently figuring to keep up the Bab‘s confidence. But there is one thing I don't quite understand.” she says. “Did you challer Plunkett to this bout, Bab, or did he cha sic Sega! you? Just what did happen? I are uricus.' The ‘Baboon ined . “Oh, Sir Michael asked me would I go on if he eould arrange the entertainment, and T anys, ‘Sure! Alwuys ready to oblige, you know,'** The duchess didn't say anything, but she shot a glance at Finucane that I didn't get the meaning of; nor did Finucane, I guess, Anyway he logked thoughtful the rest of the meal, She asked Bab what he was up to that hit wri se] said o little training. He was in goed condition, barring last night's shindig, and he thought he would run that fame 24, 937 oot ee ae ee ais two with Holliday, wie wie 4 hefty lad himself. Sir Michael had a date ts dew on, where for m musical ahermor gf os, place, ao that bef me and Bab ans £ alone. We got in a roadster tha: &ir y — a had left for us to use—thet =, T= ,--° got in and let Bab ron afterug cue "s. we picked him up out of thermadin = . him home. When | say “pieced | oe pleked, “Well,” he Tater in the diy ete + had punched Holliday oll erpend be cy done some shadow stuf and woesc = 2 a hot-and-cold bath, “I'm & aed owe "You mean ‘you're ready te be Taaye. He swings at me, thes bose “Quit your kidding, chiel. Boome vee NGL BOSS Me Step tonight oes | be a new duke running her cute, es <2 ean take that from me The janes i : for mein the U.S. A. disin't they" be ou never seen me fall for thee co "Hl hand it to the Bab that | seve =: “Well, that's beecatase they wasn't ‘the -e I was waiting for royalty and | ca told ber sa," “The helyadid! What did she ar" "Oh, she laughed—the wy a wen would, you know, when she ge the pe ing up-and-up.” “Bure T keow!"" I ganys, winkteg o T= That night there was a bg ceet = © dinner, and after it was over Tix mo: : who eae nominated fi Bab’) ee went wi wi im to peepare b= be the funeral, I'll hand it to the Bas-c the extent of saying be wee’! ey ce nervents than be would have beer um © petting rend to go Up sguiet 1 we ague pitcher. But then, Dern Tee thing you'd have to dig pretty dey = the Bab to find. He had bought @ ring sutit @ Lew the previous day, before the owes poor and when he waa rigged up yoo ae = down he looked like a fighter, eve : °r pond take him oe sen rot we. ite runnin fie be Pe or, to the buff, and ind I'll bend it to ke ! had about as fine a body a Nasa rs built onto a pair of lege, And. specs | legs, the Baboon was there, sha 123s looking him over, I began to low = -s nal idea of wanting to see bic bee “Bab,” I ak y “ you've fe ie | against that English etl, darned ©. a2 think you have!" Then o brgtt tog came. “Bab, you bored rgz-aea sarlioet Tim. (Can you bor from ti @ “No; why?" * “Nothing, only it's too bad aa Gk to moe, bot” “Al right, I'l have to. Renee = represent the good old ie ae = and knock this guy for a string & wurst." “Wateh me!" grins Bab. "Well, come on then.” Down we went. The boot = on in the ballroom. [i eam ete? pe In fact it bit me = Te de mba oe ard thet I pulled up in the cot stepping on the Bab’ 6 foot a - = alt and a growl from him. | bests lots af fights: im fact mui )e officiated as third man in winter te but never head 1 Seen & gight or th There was a ring with saber pag 8 ite ropes, surrounding a stretch foe a big chandelier overhead. A= in gilt « chaira were about & the men in full dress and the van aa ne che and no sherves. The Goce ight back of Babs corner, wite a =| at her side. And fhonkies 2 = ed Were passing cigarettes and op There wae handcapping at Bea 3 und [ stepped through th === regular wp Toar a tmiloute aoe oe

kett and his handlers appeared Sanpet with one eyeglass and a iep = oe and Sir Michael hel d the wales al Flunkett Peeled off t his beth afd appeared in ab joe jersey =a = tights. Evident: he wan't Sa? hard work, Hight alter, Hab steme robe. Then there wae ii Tose, 44 at al Even Plunkett started bac obeS j = Tein =e Ce build i ta & tended to walk ower - Take it from me, Bob bok - wae playing Ht bp eel oe r= set on top of o bedy od noes birds who carve statue wok - money to copy It ook a act ot a. and if she dads oes (Centiaeed an Page 7 3 jel i ized by Gooall

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 6a _ What other method of heating will give you all these advantages ? [ee in price, guickly installed, easily operated ind remarkable for wel economy, the Mueller Convector ffers advantages not btained by other methods of heating, o matter what their et, You see all of this mipact, efhicient eys- amin the basement lusttated. Mote the feence of unsightly, et-wasting pipes, The entire house is heated, stairs and down, through one register. Living oms are wholly free of heating apparatus. Can any home owner afford to overlook the lowing Convector advantages? The Convector Ventilates Your Home While Heating It Ventilates it—just as mexlern hospitals are ventilated— their great ventilating systems. They use exactly the Te principle as the Convector, excepting that they must ve pipes and fans to circulate the warmed air because the sage of the lutlelings. Without single pipe or fan, the Convector gives you time practical reaults, Fresh, warned air is con- ith circulated to every room in your house, There Sct spotty beat, mo cornera filled with stagnant, ¥ air. low can you have healehful ventilation in winter, un- tia provided by your heating system? Open windows Funeven, haphazard ventilation that wastes fuel ane ses cold drafts. Demand a beating system that fur- ies osilive, ma tural circulation of air with even beat— and the Convector. The Convector Provides Healthfully Moistened Air I air that is warreed in your rooms in winter should mietliately moistened, The doing effect of warrecd, imistened aur is harmful to almost every object in your is. Natural piesture is removed [rom Hoors, won]- Earl furniture, causing them te warp and creak, : finishes are marred, wall-poper is lonerned, musical Winents and even fabrics may be harnved. amnotstencd, heated air drica the lining of most and th, throat and lunge; makes you susceptible to colds, chitis and headaches; causes you to be nervous and ible, Ask your physician. i Convector automatically meistens all the warmed nour home, The amount of oeoisture is eclt-peyru- g—the air naturally taking the proper amount, : Convector Keeps All Radiant Heat Out of Your Living Rooms fo forma af beat are used in heating bormes and builel radiant heat and heat of convection, Radiant is that thrown off by an open fire and, in great de by the hot metal of stoves. Heat of convection is tat absorbed by air moving over a hot metal surlace, ery (hooe should be warmed by heat of convertion, int heat always makes the temperature uneven. [t is ful, for it passes readily through windows and is ¥ absorbed by walla. From 40°> to B09) of the beat from some syaterms fs radiant beat. Inthe Conwector, all radiant heat is changed to heat of convection, used to warm the air, and sent to every room in the house. This is one of several reasons the Convector saves tg no loon fel. Ut is also the reason for the name, COUN VECTOR, The Convector Operates in Any Weather - Without Fuel Waste In fall and spring, when many systems waste fuel and are hard to regulate, the Convector never falters in its economy, 4 quick fire, a little fuel, and the chill and damp ore gone from a cool October day. No wating for the Convector te “warm up"—it responds at once, You regulate the temperature directly by the amoucit of fuel you burn, What satisfaction on mild days to know that you are trimming your fuel bills—that you are et burning more than is necessary. This direce fuel burning regulation makes the Con- vector the universal system. 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faniued from Poze ae approved of Babs “bull rl try Woutguess @ rival man pte ybeut Eien pounds itches than and an inch or so tal ee ee ere on vances! but I—not being o lady, mite wba the E lish bird"s cheats raed with the back museles ‘not to metition his thick neck, long, dk ann and strong if not particu- anda Be ene ne r ideo | ayuare, high-cheehed vith ston-blue eyes and a head vad, bat meither from age nor from . He wasn't paying much atten- eset fon bused. whereas rg the admiration of the women, iy = the ripe tom Wa une ind, ia Way Of apenking, shaking ith himeell the wa Curpen tier oe Dempeey handed him hes fa Tadie- dere: made a little aplel, sayi iwoafrendly exhibition desi ihe progress of Wir. Plunkett in hia ions for hi great coming battle amg at the Landon Sporting Clubs, ordered to the Baboon a8 a t aathicte who had had the es in tea sports, and chose ane — hase sot have to add," saye he, “that iitzler's name is 8 household word od today, after his 'stronery exhi- the wickets afternoon.” i¢ told the two fighters to gn to it. wld see at once that Bab wasn't waite any time boxing. What he ing for was an opening for one right wallop, and not bout the to know how to fopen wi his left he just waited ayo , Fhiskets, ~ was just a little He wasn't any too sure that big ont of him wasn't in His sim was to feel the oe shag ae tne deca nina yt in the way of a in started a light left, then pulled rand jumped back, He wanted at Eab would have done had he thed the lead. He saw. Hab's over in what would have been 2 Ee — Plunkett stayed within we all ght, but tt care alow. iat you mught call a ponderous lnikott's «yen lghtened, He with his left, catchin Bals = dh ducked Bab's night hook and iow right into igh place that itn treating so well ever since fn in England—nomely, his foon's grunt was the kind of Bear at the coo at feeding time, id it to him enough to say that otherarise ots a jee gia: Efecting Bal to drop, didn't pquick an be should have... This chance to raise his right a i bring it down on the English- in a hundred per cent pure rab- Plank wes still stooping. ie thought the chandelier hod @ Engli n when that Gun- landed. The first thing that hit 6 his nose, quickly followed thy len, relerce began to count, Bowman t out by any means, I Pe hie heed to make sure it was Moon all right, and then he

THE SATURDAY jumped to his feet. Bab rushed him like a bull, Plunkett ducked and the Bab did a dive right over his head and under the ropes. He slid back into the ring, climbed to his foot and rushed in with windmill wallops, Phinkett backing up and straight- ening wp his man et every rush wit nifty a left as you ever saw. Talk about noise! No fight club in the States, in a last- round mix-up, ever did any better than this ee high-lifes waa doing. The ed in a clinch. hab came back to hia eermer, fighting for wind and mac clear h “Bab, you're doing great!” I said, "Play him more with ir left. I mean book him ms he beads. on't you bead, Lit him force it. He's the champ!" "Champ!" Bab g¢ at me. “I'm going to make that guy jump out the sping next round, and when he gets out the Em going to chase him out the iad: rl im who's alive!” “He careful, Bab," [ warne. Tim Holli- day chimes in in the sume vein. “Ob, Cl be careful, sure! Say," he saya, ee fae tid you sae Gwen- dalyn's face when [ had the on the floor. She waa beating sir Mike on the back like he was a cab horse.” “ All el an wateh your man, mot Gwendolyn," I says. The bell rung. Aa they squared off | could see that Plunkett had learned what he wanted ta know about his man. He midvances, pt with two hands, but not hitti , until he ad the Baboon tied u all in nota j in his own corner, Then wit a cold grin he slips back to the middle of the court. He bad been finding it hard to in with his right because Bab was using e Jeffries crouch, his jaw well covered up by his shou The answer of course was to get him cout of it. He fiddles around for about thirty seconds, everyone holding his breath, and then alter some feinting he opens Bab up and cores in with the well- known onetwo. Both blows landed, landed hard—left te chin and ri ig a ribs. Bab windmilled with both han then clinched. "A couple more wallops like that and it will be lights for our hopeful," [ whispers in. Tim. nos just as the ref rushes in bo break the clinch, Bab doing the hanging on. He had no more than got there Bab releases his right from around Plun- kett's neck, jumps away om starta - roundhowse wallop. Then, a5 the English would gay, a “atronery thing happened. As Bab starts his haymaker Plunkett steps in wiih an awtul right book and lands it 7 bad ain instant alter Babs windmill eopa the referee aquare on the jaw. Just blim! Blam! Honest, | grabbed ‘Tim's shoulder to sen if [was awake, There on the floor lay the referee, the rim of his broken monocle over hia meee, his shirt front busted out and mouth open. Otherwise he looked almost as natural a3 life. Then, draped across him, the champlon batter of the universe—at peace; absolutely at peace. In fact there was a stile on Hob's faee, ag though the frist canary of the world was einging a dwet with the champion nightingale. The ballroom was a rict—al laughter. Men were slapping exch other on the iach and the women was fawing at them. @ir Michael was sbancing if, holditeg ante his sides and hee-hawing like 1 Georgia mule. The referee, Sir Thomas Somebody, Wed EVENING POST 71 to as I lifted Bab off him and me pulled him to his corner, Slowly the ref got to his feet and then tot up to nkett, who had been standing in a ee | “Plonkett, d a yen strike me?" | At that the cane dawn again, while the English bird tried to aap ust what happened to His lordship. In the mean- | time we was sap ae nal act bo Bab. Suddenly h “What's the ratte? ke i: except (t's all over.” “The Jight,’ ae i | “Tha eft “Bab, struggled to his fort. "Tt ain't bogun ye es With that tae eit for Plunkett, and we e-him and fores him down to his seat, More laughter, Then something happened. I saw Sir Michael, fighting free treat, the duchess’ shoulder. Like a flash pushes him away, then rises and comes to the erin and

for the Job” ropes. Heaching through, she grabe Bab's heaving shouldera poo dear by “Van “He thinks ahead, Ae peta in Ads [" she abriehs, i } parte Sea? boy ‘ve heen making a spare time stadying. me! Of ec re , OL here od] Ere or eae Cmiherring alc the Hing for the orstenine thought that great brute was only going te bax with you!" With that, like an empress, ahe turns | bo Pree. “Wil you be so ood to take Mr. Sehaiteler out of here Have hes dress, I shall be waiting in my car for him, Hurry, | m men—at once!" ere wasn silence as we led out the | "ivead Baboon, and no one spoke upstairs as Tim 2A I patched es up and got him preset: wea punesh » tapecially about the body, poh gains sort of dazed, Then down we came, through Sir Michael's puesta and delivered him over to the duchess, That was the last I saw of

my circuit clouter for a long time. Ad Sarees game at Marylebone in the rain before | Asgto Courecs about a hundred and filty spectators, we | Barklne sors ee ee word that Bab and the duchess had or (pre og nh married at high noon that pats ; Wialaeat English s Plumber ? quietly, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, an Re taker. -wintieee had gone to Switzerland, cre cng nieer Bacio Eagiaear Concicte Engines Balewtnuan Last month, after the Plaid Sox had beat | Dain Far pecretarial us in a Saturday game, a peanut seller | Bicindan an tage called me into the stand. There sat a | —estieal Engines 0 irecteral faded-out blond lady, rigged out like a | Bere Slangrmcn Tol movie cuern’s bus, and a great big fellow Fig ey yd T rh ta ina light suit that needed a haircut, purple bigiesy Beem a he necktie, spats and.a plumber's kelly, He Te ae eet Ane Seance dope Manf had three chins, sleepy eyes and a pannch like a grizzly. “Surely, Mir. McGann, you remember me, the Drecheas of Bonnicastle? And my hushand, your old friend, Bab?" “Babl”’ [wae eo paralysed I didn't have the aense to be polite. ‘Bab Sehniteler !" “Harya, McGann?" he yawned, and reached cut a pudgy hand. “Thought I'd & sort of look in on the place, domcher know. | """™ er Bally well had to. Couldn't be in the | Full Asdrem States without a dip into the ald graunds. | 7" Tram punting in Mit badly? Hawthor! Geoing'’s just a bit thick, eh? What? What? Look ‘us up score time when you're in London, dear boy," He roe slowly. “Mow, dearest." he says to the duchess, “we mostnt keep the motor waiting, you know.” Away they went, me on. the sirm. Wasn't that Rab Schnitzlor?” he asks, "TE was,” save LL, United Y¥.M. Cc. A. Schools “<7 Mew York cr Wis hiaat obliged iog me, ERPs! thecnrerin Age and Dlecupation

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THE SATURDAY ‘eonse amd Nonsense Peroratlon STHCE al the peaeath asmall Maine et sat called Spon to perform his rage ceremony. Alter rei had the wel ted, the young couple eon- tn stand before if expecting inther FRE. wupa: the justice stammered out, gperale attempt to round off the wih somet of a religious here there, it's all over! Go and sora!" The Bostonian'’s Bull TON man was on his way Weet on ortant busines. In the o sank | the Fullman sat a aw wancg woman with four nie aie fond af children, and feal- ; for the mother, the Bostonian de friends with the kiddies. pext morning he heard their c tand the patient “Yes, dear’ of eras che ried to drese them: and, vit, he ate small, white iat eyo e opposite curtain. Rn the aisle, he took hold fre and begun to recite: itte pig went to moerket: this itayed at pee ard gon tle pig had Ty this bitthe pig had cried ‘Wee! Weel” all th the why twas suddenly withdrawn, andi liet voiee—that of the mother— it 3 quite sufficient, thank you," 4 Grace Mistake 7ORNTA artist sold to a vlyess ) two years one af his é lady aitaeaerhad had the eel ‘tired of it, and te an- t, who dined with her one night, think that new picture of mine ation. It needs life in it. Would lling te paint for me a2 man or that. 5 that runa through the grely!" he ied. And he took ipe home with him, made the ppg hp it the next morning. the pointer of the pleture, a — Bg fd to alter a an the other day. It was the ‘ot eold the Pasadena lady. She cure in it, and, te oblige her, I old pensaant walking down the t down the road!" esclaimed “Why, that wasn't a road! iver." Scattered T was employed on an engineeri a few miles out of Los Angeles, carried to his work by an express train, which secuummodaticante slowed up near the sorne of his labors, One morning, however, the train rushed through the cut without reducing spor and superintendent of the job looked in vain for Pat. At last he saw a much battered Irishman limping back down the ties. Helle Pat!" he cried. ‘Where did you Pat turned stiffly, and waving his hand toward the steep embankment sighed, “Oh—all along here!" job Familiarity Breeds Contemp? VERYHODY in the movie world knows that Ceell and William De Mille, the prominent directors, are brothers, Ceell has a charting young daughter. At a Hollywood tea recently she was In- treduced ta a Jay who aaked if ahe were related to the “grent De Mille.” “And did you aay he waa F father?" maken ee prowdly, when ashe told him of the inciden “Wo” replied his daughter; “I anid he whe my U Mot Passed at the Time NEW YORE salesman was stayi a Texas hotel where be observ old-fashioned Faller towel, “Say,” he asked of a man in the wosh- room, “iloesn"t the oener of this hotel know that it’s agninst the law of A state of Texas to use roller towels now Pi knows it all right enough," said the nm add “but I reckon that low wae “t passed when this towel was put up,” x Cheering the Patient Te eminent physicians who had been called in consultation retired to another room to discuss the sick one’s condition. In the closet of that room a small boy had been concealed by the patient's directions, to listen. “Wall, Jimmy," ssaked the patient en- geal alter HY physicians had gone, “what "y oat tell you that," said the boy. “They used such big words IT didn't under- stand "em. "All T remember was that one doctor says to the other, ‘Well, we'll soon find that out at the autapey.’" Linediie Falla, Plegos Mationnt Forert, Morti Carolina EVENING POST * PILL s in name. ad a@rene, ewlufahoe god dar THAD Ri ARON on form [enery Dre hfat ar mur ieprriiner — are toes A gee, Cletefamd. BE, Ti Depileeies, Lk WiEled in Alsi seer, doer, rales, em diirhl ie om poy dace, dte.— imprints or addresses ning ae ying! Gomrral (Oiler: S00 W. Van Boren Ee. 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a. i ie THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE EAGLE AND THE WREN | “Poor men must look to their own needs. Give me the plates and the negative. The dark room is —— “There. Chemicals are all ready. Ee quick, [have much to do. This"—he held up the tracing—“must be prepared for dispateh."" : ae will it travel—a single messen- "By relays, Tomorrow by myself, ns far ns Dover. At the quay it is ta another who will carry it across t Chan: nel. A third conveys it to Nice "Nice!" George repeated. “There it will” be retained until the im- portant one ——" “From the Thirteenth Communal?” "Exactly—comes to claim it." "And how will the messengers recognize each other?" 4 signs and numbers. Each will re is own inakractions, George nad {edge an8 iced up the negative and id be “Thorough, suid in alg form will the tracing be carried Amean distrusting are into Mosni's eyed, “You question too much. That ia out- side your concern. Do what we have de ehded and get to the dark room quickly." “Very well," George grumbled, and turned sharply on his heel, Tt is almost impossible te believe a man of George's intelligence would have falled to look where he wos putting bia feet in that ill-lit cellar, On the other hand, Mossi was equally to blame for corclessly throwing down his cowt, The fact remains that fenieh Wiha over the obstacle and measured his length on the stone floor, smashing the precious hegative to emithereens and destroying all hope af securing a duplicate. "Roafa!"™ roared the little Italian. “Fool, ie sre Shall T work with such aa you!" learly it was up te to a ig oma and that fully, but he did no such thing. For the two minutes that followed there wast oot one single opprebriqua epithet known to ae on of Northern Italy of familinr to nhubitants of euflering Ses cg ney ae at and ex- change wi a portner, To the observer unacquainted with the Continental method of adjusting differ- ences it must have seemed inevitable that cal ae ES would proceed baryond mere an knew the wee he was beet ai knew the Wa. portraying, Tad he beha ‘differently it is certain that the [talinn’s suspicions would have been a They were apared the nocrseity of draw- ing a conclusion from the argument by a knock: at the door and a voiee outside witch announced imperatively, “He is ere,”” Tt waa Moeai who shot back the bolt and admitted the visitor, a amall dark man with black eyes that glittered. He came in ke a rabbit ducking inte ite burrow. In the brief apace while the door stood open the distant chimes of ne Town Hall clock eould be heard atrikin “The negate, tli he, "it has been Mcaal polnted at the broken glass upon the Boor and nodded. “And there 2 no duplicate?" ail None."* “Cn the budge of the soviet you will wpe to that." pulled owt a small nickel badgé at held t aloft in hia right hun, The visitor turned to George, "And you ton,” anid he, Unhappily George woe not in possession of the soviet badge, but he de it un- wise to mention the fact, After all, But- terwick's silver authority would do just as well. He took it from his pocket and r ted the Italian's action with all ." gaid the ack bag brim- Waiter, and spent! a armall fulof Bank of England notes. IF T WAS a little after 4 A.M. when Butter- o his sensational appearance at Charlie Penrson's and found the entire hosthold in astute of turmoil, [t-would be impossible, he was told by an agitated butler in a dressing T, for him to see j anyone, A burglary been committed, solemnity’. “T have the authority to {Continued from Page 78! srvernl guests murdered, and it was probe able that the hotise was on fire, But But- terwick did noe allow — aa nent wee tions to weigh wi im. Sweeping the man aside he rushed wp thas ituiremiie ts the wake of litth Miss Phyllis, who had pelted round from the back of the house at the eound of the shot. She eaally outatripped him along the bedroom corn amd hung herself inte her uncle's roam, Martyn Saville was sitting on the floor ginny sheepishly ond mssuring Charlie warson und a stmicircle of servants and guecsia that it really didn't mutter wt all, “My own damn fault, Didn't Know you were so good a shot, old feller.” “You sas—you blazing, blasted fool!" roared Charlie, his face purpled by con- fieting emotions, “I might have \cilled you And then Miss Phyllis erin aloud that alee i Mi bes ae hi sas though by a projectile into Martyn's arma a 1 noi Violence she would restore h Mi dering badd," he implored, “af you. sige this, stick your head in the other shoulder, It's in better ition." And then came the voice of Butterwick riaing: high shave the rest: “iit, Saville, you are warned at once. Avery terrible thing has oecurred." Martyn turned and blinked at the In- truder. “T say, good people,” he asked reps hier bik SheEeL chan ha eae ave ni rotigh the bh ‘harlie Pearson was first to demand, "Who the devil are ree “My name is “Butterwick. Saville, get af eatin with aes ar Q tive waa the tone that Mart: fed to his feet. es fo it ia you," be sald. “What's we 1 tel Butterwick step forward and whis- pened a few eee rely hig our “Wy Lord!" Martyn hand meres. "aia forehead, OP hatographed, eh? rl comet at once. ot a cart” da owns “Right. Awfully T can't expluin— but sornatitag —— You must just take my word I've ‘to get.” But Miss P Perlis barred the way, “He's been shot,” she ori, *and ho doesn’t move till I've seen the wound. He n't move—he docs" move!" Nor would she let him move until the eoat had been taken off, tha left shirt sleeve mailed u up, and a thin scarlet lane that bisected hia deltoid had been a a a with disinfectant and bandaged wi ec tion. Even then she was not satiated until Charlie Pearson, in most matters the moat. generous of men, who would lend you everything he eas in the world ex- arti af apparel, waa corm pe tod a recently purchased silk acarf which he prized out of all prenortion te ite virtue. Meanwhile Mr. Butterwlek atood firet onone leg, then on the other, and irritably eacwlated entreaties for haste that were ignored. Ten minutes wer occupied over these demonstrations of devetion and the quar- ter had struck before at last Martyn was bundled into the car and born away, Miss bib openly wept upon the steps, ‘The small sh hted man with the taste for for deductions parce ager ie that he dered the whole ma wery fishy indeed, and would never have allowed a soul to ihe sigs house until it had been rly clear sides Mier obo Peareon, who appened to overhear these observations and whoee nerves were distinctly jangled by recent events, ao far forgot aa to round on his guest and tell him to go to blazes. Someone elae suggested he should keep his temper, and two of the female servanta went inte erica. are therefore the ill-fortune and dis- i ech upon an act inspired by light- eortminest and a taste for adven- ture. ‘Thus was it ever so, and thus alwa did the wise Fates conspire, and cone in vain, to discourage Martyn Saville from foolhardy exploits, Mr. Butterwick's car streaked along the moonlit country roads at a reckless forty- seven. He had taken an hour over the out- ward journey and designed to accomplish the homeward in less, Meanwhile be talked wey betes & very much to the poet fe meres George Wedderton, who bed Geer and in ro besa. mermumcre be mecradeel hme. Martyn lay beck om the custom, tec dizzy and sick from the weenned be bor = ceived and the mews to which be feces It waa het blamed no one and accepted the sma: bic Beit eee eee tet ad defeat in a. chars realises tock eee = eg theft was a kind of boggy,” But inside he felt very sare inte! “Suspect anyone in particular’ * reread a his own preewierrre! fe waa as painful to Butterwick m mormy tooth owt. However, be bead the foe Martyn whisthed. “The deuce! Awleward began ts =. 7 aA ares Eke tet, be thing, eht A res bogey to oe down.” andl sant “Ves that plan sufficest c =e work from? * Lard, | Rather! Shea’ Gee» wa man Weddertan, jail i ‘im me “Prom here te Stym aod be” “You would? Yes, yeu pat | c know a6 much." “Is there a big Boledhie cm! o ° ee “The town! Whole world sibs a | Martyn himmeetf, “Then somehow, old beum, ware pi get hold of that negative and ey they've taken. Cant, quite me wis came and fetched me for.” “T came," Botterwcd ted “in the hope that unknown toi jo = hare . a his “Matter of fact. [ did work of re I stunt, but I"m afraid it's s wane! Hier, i you say, both dawg = the snfe and they're sure te baw -© graphed the pair of ‘em. It's be! .= Amoment Later they paxsed Sac main workshop gates and drew zy = Butterwick's office. There were a number af me b= 5 and out who galuted ther chi =» = from the car. The man, Palmer, was seated Oe w a crowd of paper slips before be © comer near the anthracite steve f= = hounds stretched ot come “NewaT” Butterick “Nothing satixfactory. ng i neta reports Senesn, bear bot —— ever mind them Whe teers # dogs? vl did, chief." | Yes, yes, but what. are ther door & faren"t they out?” emascent 3 give ‘em a scent ‘Whose clothi “John Slave's, chief." Butterwick's seuath ope = Bigs ts to discharge ares torrent of ss P| ‘tenia. 2 slates ddenly” cloned but ther mar r in that: Tan's expres ‘= 8 E ! th the name Jee ort "Emi" he ejaculated. “T= such a fool, Palmer.” At that moment a min come o a Pp “Had some trouble ble getting =~! “Got the blanket from bis bed 1° © “Slave'st™ from Botterwice Saville, Palmer, the bloodhec+ =" and a dozen other men arrived 2 4 ane Martyn‘’s office, Here whe undone and its contents pas dogs. Liar poked it aboo: <7 / ing di the lama apa appre.” 2

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ome out of the kitchen, ladies! —after your day’s cookery—with frocks as dainty and fresh as the morning NTY, fresh frocks and then work! =—who would the day would ever come? te is a range that doesn't it the kitchen; that keeps id pans clean; that cooks ve precision of an adding e; a range that takes the inments and the drudgery ‘cookery. us tell you about it—this cooler way. . Flowers On The Oven! led che Esrare Electric Range. lever there are modern kitchens, re relating the wonderful things designed this range, we wanted tly co satisfy the longing for the ns. tested a cooking cop and oven enerate the hear directly upon fe Results are astonishing: Searcely ang heart radiares into the room, So lirtle erga ll fact, that in our dem- onerrarhans we keep fresh flowers on cop of the oven while aking bread! A comfortable kitchen on a Summer's day is now a joyous realiry. How We Simplified Cookery But we knew, too, from investigations, that what women wanted most was a range that would give perfect cooking results withour constant “pot-watching." So we evolved the Estanm Method rail detc and Temperature Cookery—a men elimudnares all giepiennk, Time and Temperature Cookery —the Way of Today This new way embodies a chart and a chermomener, Note the shit ibuserared abowe. Ir lists every som of food, from a Roast of Beef to an Angel Food (Cake. Tells whac temperature and how much time in the oven @ muse have. And an ac: curate mercury thermometer on the oven door plainly registers those temperatures. You simply follow the chart amd the thers mometer, Between the two, you can't go wrong. Aesulis are cevtain., Foods are unis formly done — just So} they taste better, look better, are more delicious and nwtnitious, Mail the rag below for booklet which explains the how and*why of this Simpli- ted Way. Shows how oo cook with the skill of a chef, pet save 255) of your time in the kitchen, Where To See An Estate Ar your bal eae Lining Company's —or your dealer's Made in a atyle and S22 60 Meet your awn requirements; cight madels, including a combination coal and qhonte range, which affords a plentiful of hor warer at all climes, and keepa lechen warm in winter, Aut frst=mail the coupon. Ger the facts about Time and Temperature Cooker Then inspect che ronger The book is FREE. ELECTRIC RANGES iy Tue Estate Stove Company, Hamitton, Onto—Buiitpers § A Stove, Furawace Ano Rance For Every REqQuinemMENT Woop, Motus Estates. Coaoktne Ann HEATING Witeu Coat, Since 1845 Or Gas Ano ELectaiciry 75 Cooler Cookery! —fresh dowera on top of this oven don't wilt while bread is baking inside. Cleaner Cookery! —no flame touches cooking utensils, so alumi- num ware stays bright and shining, its newness mot butned and scoured. Simpler Ci —hote text below for ¢he sf ol Today, Selentifie Cookery! —no gucsa- work, ma unetttainty, Perfect re- ules crery time. (COMPACTNESS added co che other good qualities of Esrare Electric Ranges. This clever appli- ance does everything thar the larger ranges do: hos aroomy cooking top, | bake oven of ample capacity for ordinary requiremends, and broilin device in the oven. Can be ape | on a kitchen table or on o metal stand which we furnish, Se ee eee THE ESTATE STOVE Och (100) Mf ard This Sood me free your bookler, “Cooking by Time aod T eeutuze, ace inioemation abet Estate Ele cele Ranges. “The rave for eleceric cook bing ninere in thas cory pcs, per kw. he, Ok wf ral foeereed in che Esace Elecoic , Blew check bere, Ha Street or BR. FD. Clryand Sere ee ee he ee me ee mee

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76 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 34.95 Poel Here’s a treat for you: Try these cooling summer drinks and dis- cover new, delicious uses for Pet Milk. Into glass of cracked ice pour Pet Milk until glass Black Cow is one-fifth full. Then fill to top with sarsaparilla soda, Stir thoroughly and serve. Proportions may be varied to suit taste eee y cana tn Iced Chocolate Melt one and one-half squares Baker's Chocolate in pan over hot water; add one- quarter cup of sugar and a few grains of salt, and gradually add to this \ one cup of boiling water, Stir until smooth, then place pan directly over ¥ fire and boil one minute—then add one cup of Per Milk and two Cups of boiling water. Cool and serve with cracked ice in tall glosses. Iced Coffee Make your coffee as you always do—then fill tall glass with broken ice, and pour the hot coffee over the ice, Add Pet Milk as you weld Cream and sweeten to taste. TMi a ea PLOP Tn Pet Milk is a great luxury and a great economy. It perfectly meets the daily need for both milk and cream. You will find it so rich, pure, con- venient and economical that you will prefer it to milk in any other form. Get the Pet Recipe Book—/ree—and test a few of the hundred prac- tical recipes it contains. They are fine. The Helvetia Company (originators of the evaporated milk industry), General Offices, St. Louis, Mo. ret ed ree nea a EDO Pe PO nl ed een ee ea

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(fantleued from Poge Fa) owed along and crooked scent under w of sheds, over slag heaps, between pis of timber, until eventually the pused at a certain spat to leap high aa agiuimt the twenty-foot apike d wall surrounding the works. Hera were ff and the entire dog and all, climbed over and sh a stretch af waste ground be in the scent lay strong in a vil Boe that bed to some Ibrick frelds. ere itturoed at an abrupt right anc’ pat the door of ina the constructed oe box. Seemingly the dom n= [to find their quarry withi Bot feop-throated duet that ‘start have it terror to the stoutest heart, jock securing the hone box had weed and there were fresh evidences isel on the woodwork, tho entered and picked up the rr ik, Exchange. Did you have a call this number about three houra .. > Fou did? , Can you the ntem! Deep CONE Sv See § double OF - Thanks.” He dwith a puzzled expression on he ‘he hint had gone forward, and was wring over an Undulation of ground direction of the railway embank- Martyn picked up hid heels ond ‘owas a infe out of breath when he ap the field, ygood?" demanded Butterwick. He rang up, What's old Dip srivate mambver ? 5 # banded." 1, I'm damned!" said Martyn. tis tima they had reached a series ay arches severally used as stores, ea and sheltera for out-of-date ial every kind. The hounds were gon the leash and the men who #1 Were ‘tried to keep pace. ung warm, ir!” cried Palmer ex- “TD Lay a govercign I know where nt leads.” nord were barely apoken when fowr weged from an arch some sinty way, AE the sight af jan the me ‘tongue fu netantly four took to their ae but the lived back into the shadows with rem!" shouted Butterwick, “Get i" But Martyn's voice, mighty as nt inatructar's on parada, yelled tis 7 (an Ehcrel The man we want ia came thieller warning. Butter- ree numbered fifteen, and opposed 1a motley rabble af aver teenty, ad pont in pursult af the three the battle would surely have gone be remainder way arch was blocked on tie far far a high barricade of packin efore, the tionaries re it to accept frontal attack. Ags th's men eame abresat the open- ured out from un th knives, bite of wood, a piste da variety of missiles. iision of the rival parties was if surprising. Martyn was with- ipon, and his loft arm was in a the esncution he achiewed with ue little to be oat Mr, jumping on a packing ‘perations viciously Ticked pci at the enemies z Oreanieod baton charge ‘from did wonders in clearing the S bricles that trapdoor,” shouted Butter- Uf a dogen of you get below." the revolutionaries os were not ithe fight or had not vanished fly morning mists rallied at the tanling to the cellars and fought ? protect it. in the forefront of the attackers rover the head that sent him Palmer took mM aan as in and a a2 shat 2etommch amd fell t o thee ground athetically, who liked a clean fight with weapons, turned his d ta aight, and in that semen a aay qarkable bappening. 4, Boel oe flooring near the ontrance was: punt ushed upward and aside. nd appeared, encircling . a Sy i: aly Pigeon—to the beg ts attached what looked like a mn. Jt was not a yard distant THE SATURDAY from the spot where Butterwick was stand- wat was Sooumnite Maca welied poll te saa abe dg too | ate in tuation aoe harmlessly into the paving as the aa the bird row on the wing and he sky, =F T THE moment G Wedder- AN ton on oe bee owing the two thousand one, ‘alien ‘or hia ahere wor in Various af hia a the of ps plc rolaed. ae The Last thin had elther eres for oan ice Waa me utterwick's gang at this seiner juncture, A mo ment before he had been enjoying bimself beyond bounds, On many previous occa- iat bene he bat meagre oppanen’ never before hud he left-handed mervices been so generouly rewarded. o thou sand pounds is an attractive sum, and doubly attractive when it hes been wrung from the f of u society one has dedi very earnestly to withdraw ry all record of wim Hlavenakd alian Tokn Slave, and in the pri of hia own << ee ‘indulge ins ‘ote hi- +r oolong he had other greater gers carrying moment. The Passage stolen documents from one country to an- other ia ever attended with risk. Having he wiked to aamure himeatf that irahould arrive safely at ite ultimate destination, In short, be proposed to revert to the charac- ter of George Wedderton and in that un= Masai, to second, blend shasaliie through a panel eolled for five men to guard it with lives, Then seizing a box with perforated Bides he ed! it and took out a pigeon, George's hand, “Quick, take it!" Another moment and he had twisted the tracing round the bird's leg and secured it ine with a iy a bandage. They mae bile uf the cagee and the Ttalian aprang to the top, fumbling at the roof above his head. # Give me the bird." A. faint square of light wae revealed, through bop the i was thrust. From above sounded shota fired in rapid succession and « volley of curses from But- " Missed!" cried the Ttulian, and ing to the floor made a dive for the second doar, And so enchanted was George at the whole proceeding that he scarcely noticed that the door behind Mosani's retreating form and the bolts shot home on the far side, He was too late to ent that or to follow his partner's lead through the second exit, As he rattled hopelessly he could hear footatepe epee Aad alon tunnel beyond. But there was little time for regrets, for in another inatant a rain of blows sounded at the main door, There was 4 scream, 8 rending of wood, and the whole structure fell inward, reveating i in the aperture Mar- tyn Saville, Butterwick and two other men. ee yenr hand iu" cried Butterwiel. “Tf you move I shoot!" Tie litth: eaahier waa ct gir rag! in the shadows, but he obeyed the o dar veal 3: ear ‘em out of this. I want to ex- ining the place alone.” EVENING POST It was Martyn Saville ——_ Fags hand shut like a vise on “No ve cn business,’ fags =n "a ot Soe re, Keeping his head low, waa jerked inet fe dae af the cellar beyond, where the main body of Butterwick's men writ thle tea ith it part age of the game it waa no of George's scheme to be handed over to the au ities and to rev he reason of his sence in this situation. To do so would probably emilt in his tote aalens’ diseavery of the manner in which they had been tricked, and possibly of his true identity, Also, he did not want to give a public ex anation. He did not want to set Butterwick’s mind at rest. Ha aia desired that Butter- Wick, and perk aville, and certainly everyone concerned, shuld about the worke wearin ince. and draped in the eolora of me ‘doing this would warn the ‘ii Ale the revolu- tHonaries with false fires and convince them of guécesa. In the rush of recent events George had failed to notice Martyn had one arm out of commition, Had he been aware of this he might have tried to extricate himself from the grasp upon his collar, but a lively ap- Precation of Martyn's prowess as a man of muscle heptane any itch effort and he “i Lown or reel nearer and dearer to | The tunnel at the foot of the steps was pitch dark, with only a faint gray square where the trap opened under the Ge later arabe ink Mts ae Ti oreign artyn, who dearly loved the sound of his own "voles, ane vie. Phe up a pinning fire of amiable ad- he result sounded like a duet be- soda-water factory and a rowing Steady does it—good lad. Who-ah “a wjentegll" ES pee prot the atufl an Then suddenly ‘out of the darkness: “ Wartyn, you aes | Sane tetas quick,” Martyn ato wh erk, ied Wedderton?" he cried. you idiat? Here, give “im to me. byl naide, You're wanted,” Martyn felt a tug on the hand that held hia eaptive and heard a fresh stream of heathenlsh invective, “T've got ge my beauty," said the volee of ¢ *Buck to the farther cel- | lar, Rapid ato!" Martyn released his grip, turned about and divel back along the tunnel, while George shot up the steps three at a time. tag roan on guard above, unprepared oF ¢m beneath im and as ant recover ira hia surprise in time a single shot at the running mark that disappeared into the enc vhile Martyn had returned poat- ony haste to amaller cellar. ftalloo, ?T" he cried. siorethorend ah was benny a ee before the the “ik wingietegitive:— —amaashed,"" he jerked out. “They tock a tracing—India ink and frame on table there, li * Bosc ene one tracing. New pi aor with @ single sheet missing. ek piper pace past Where's the prisoner, John Sine “Handed him over to W ping Butterwick roa slowly to his feet. "You what?" he cried. Martyn repeated what he had said, adding, ** has him all right.” Butterwick t up his hands wild “Heaven protect me from fools!" cried, "John Slave and George Wedderton are the same man.” <=¥r Faroe, You are familiar with the name? Tio be gure. It is a household word to all who to the lure of waudertille. London, ara, Vienna, New York, it would be im- possible to think of a city in this little ode af ours upeamn whic ma— Alma butterfly toes, Alma of the aimee od ail ee not shed her light. vey famous ballerina, gentlemen, La & Petite Brésilienne. _ in sealaieal ie wise, Fashing Specks thas barman ree , found his legs swept from | | Merton Roughings 3 Here's class from shape to make—a Merten cap all the way through. Good to ase; good for years; good to wear. You'd surely want one if the photograph above brewght out the beawtiful oolor- ings and mellow texturing aa well as it doce the amart abape. For Reughings are a Gever idea in fine cappings; all wool, of cours; exclusively Merton. Hardy under hard wear: foe enough fer the finest. Fich praya and browns, with of without neat overcheckiigs— at your Dealer's. Tf yoo dew} Geel of icrton Dealer pear yen, fend np, colar Ed ri hao rl or pos ore ihe Jessen feetrir over CHARLES &. MERTON ZO Fifth Arenie, New Yorke ERTON SPORTS | CAPS [CAPS © HATS| ae

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78 THE SATURDAY Organizing ability required [i seems a simple matter to deliver ice at your doorstep given hour each day. And still that simple act, multiplied by hundreds or thcxiseiis like it, performed on time, in all kinds of weather, would be impossible without organizing ability behind it. In the first place, the ice dealer must make or stare enough ice. Then Linthefall | he must provide extra wagons and men during a hot amd winter months he must route and re-route wagons to save expense. A never normal business Ice consumption varies. In January, for instance, ice delivery is likely to be one-twelfth of what rt is in August and the cost three or four times a3 much. In hot weather demand may treble ina single day. P pared. They need ice all at once, and they need it A big responsibility rests upon the ice dealer, Just think what would happen on a hot day if the ice delivery failed ; what a food loss would result, what discomfortin homes and hospitals, what a menace to health. And still, failure could easily happen—through a shortage of ice, a breakdown of equipment; horses or men overcome, The fact that failure occursso seldom is due entirely to the organizing ability and foresight of the average ice company. It is indeed 2 respon: sible servant of its community, le are mot pre- It isa certificate of fitness and reliability issued by the National Asse- ciation of Ice Industries to members (and dealers whom they supply} who live up to the high standards set by the Association. On an ice wagon it signifes that the owner is pledged to give you Pure Ice ¢ Careful Weight Good Service NATIONAL ASSOCLATION OF ICE INDUSTRIES 163 W. Washington Street, Chicago, UL “ICE IN ALL WEATHER | ae measure of farmer EVENING POST Ferrarcs—Ferrarcea. And on ‘her sae mieres— those napturous return visite after unendurable abwtnceesa—the flowers that poured over the orchestra rail and flooded the passages to her dressing room would have dowe honor to the burial of kings. She lay in the hammock fit by slanting rays of the aun, her raven hair stirred by an attentive breece. One felt that a goddess waa aleep. The blue of her eyes shone through half-clowed lids. Searlet hibiscus eould not have inearmined her pouting lips, nor the glow af evening have sweet- ened the peach bloom of her rounded cheeks. Whiter than lilies was her skin. : M. Foussereau, of the Rud de la Paix, prince of coiffeurs and gram? maiire de foilefle dea dames, a man to whom queens had confided the y of their com- exons, eane'y admitted that in Alma rraros he touched the pinnache of hia akill. "AL dour, mesieurs,” he would say. old—a ia Pele Tt is not very clear why be Pet coe enne claimed Brazil os origin. Waggishly tt hed a a ‘evans that a fondness for nuts wan Cae, elor being lent to the su jon by the aseociation of her nume wi t of a well. known captain in the guards, ‘The regis- trar of eta and deaths for the partsh af Howndaditch haa a record in his books abil aoe the Brazilian myth at o “a glance. Lgeer thay tals was a Pole wit a ect gen oF et dress Sy ienther sare Spa iy, Bad ; seg ad out of the Fish into Tailoring. Alma's first parsed rill to Terpsichore was at the corner of Middlesex Street, when she danced to a barrel ornn and wna occasionally rewarded ‘with penny by admiring onlookers, By natural baie a gravitated to a Dre i alors thereafter j joining a traveling troupe in whose compa and saw the wor ans attractive eae from the proprietor of a cabaret in Hio detached er | from this dancers, placed a bu g crown of laurels a her brow, introduced her to a society male and female libertines, and altered the tide of her entire existence. From her former companions she had learned fellowship, courage, generosity; from her new she lewrned extravagance, caprice and avarice. At a a end she left Rio for Petro St. Potersburg—bearing with ill-fame exya distributed. An insensate and insatin desire for jewelry and excitement drive her into a morass of excesses. oney amd adventure-—these were the gods who de- controlled her with a rod of platinum, diamond set. But Alma hed fallen upon evil days, Fresh stara had risen in the dramatic firmament, and her glory was inning to wane. [by the hum of insects she had fallen inte a and it wae with ne goed | nature she awoke to the touch of a rude hand upon her shoulder. “Gh! Don't maka de noise!" said a voice imperntively. Opening her eyes she looked up at a man in a deplorable soupespotbed dross gait and ieee Ss and dirty linen. hair wos black, coupé en broser, and came to a hideous peak on his low forehead. His chin was illshaven and blue, and a tooth- brush. a he jected fiercely from a short w Pp. is hand, hidden ll : epee was a leather-bound bore threw a furtive glance over his shoul- derand, satisfying himeel! no one was abut, abruptly thrust book into Alma’s hand. aka de book. Just arrifed. Lie pt “T'd like to know what the devil Talking about,"" sald Alma. “I saked ene gine Negretti gave an an gesture, but his Bias dropped av A lied, "“Don'ta be fool. a de book, T irty- Fase. Alma started and her eyes lit up with excitement, “Then this ia —— “What wasg sy eo Engia —the plans—the ——" Alma sNoddied and turned the book slowly in her hand. "But this is a book. Browning's Men and Wormen.”” co between de poges halfa way “Tee. H'm! Good idea, And Iam to take this to the Thirteenth Communal?" Andrea shook his head. fume 3a, pty “No, anuder. He arrife scor. Hr macs tomorrow—[ dont inn You listen to what I toile, don’t &** “Go on. “He introducks hinwelve Ee « warn a while carmen.” “A white cofnaiion! “Ah! He spr ka dese word “Wie = your plans?” He may “What me Ff plans?’ Den you giva de book | “Hm” said Alma T a! i as for on it goes, bot whal's bo : Andrea Negretti fidgeted with bo be and moved his shoulder unm: “No number. Nota have one “Whet? Bot all of ce hove semke He apes the tmatruckeh. It's ico mh. mo, Fe ira 't, my ty, cod A ne *Te's far from — i od get these orders? y Waa writ on a sipge & finda in der book. After | reed | pape in fire.” “Aed howe cid gee | aay Alma's e7ei Were nent granttic. “Who brought it?” ™ Forty-seven. L come gow [ho atation.” “He gave it you thereT” aa i in, na “No one sow?" “No. He elippe de book & ay = Wasa only out of de train a minis” Bar t woes all the paper mee” “You're lying, aren't youl ihe = a ner and yo" we ee “Tl I hata forgot it was all itt me nymce he wer— Wh = pe yon needn't repeat i is eundl, — ae eae i wrong you'll get it. That'll do. the F secre and I cnn dhe ec = Sony antes knees. Anires waved Sie with both hander “Ta it you wot mad, tj what for dey use f parasol = final ms the fall of © “ul Padle rang on, his egrett] swury on of toward the k , Ca co besiege the did not naar waa. absent £ ire af his abil “had | gering breath. But all worst of it bing’ that : ts of nrequited. Teenie i victim; Cupid's mart, Armed with a ou guthered in Leslie for « tion, lenving the unhappy deviors, He had done his best to & shopping movernent amd bad extort ' ms a rebuke and sore eas! ce ity. Wherefore he decided t == Oon—hot Unattended with « few = comforta—and problem of “ll engin ope be iy wos a day for lovers bravely, sea and sky were © qdoise and sapphire, beds ace (Contiawed com Page FP! ous

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80 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ume Damp TO-DAY ~ for ic records = the Russell system af indexing ering Service: Pre end writes card records Tronsfors aocounts from books tocardledgers. Relieves you of the clerical burden of installing new card ond filmy systems, Send for booklet No. BEE Stotitical Senece: A unique server io business executives. Prepares atatishics Fron figrires ped boy arry bue- ness. Send for folder , oo 2. Specialized Departments DAY~ for general bu Bon ee eet No, S06 TO-DAY— siness — a ae ate Index Send for booklet Na. BI Spindle bills 1876 1922 File profits a ‘ a, Bas Library Bureau 46 years | 1876 spindle methods of filing were standard. Essentially, filing had not advanced in centuries. In 1876 Library Bureau was founded. A short time later the constructive energy of this organization began to revitalize filing practice. 1892—Vertical Filing —Box files were in generol use. Papers were leid flat—heritontal fling, Library dag conceired the then r utionary j filing papers on rtd timg fail Al one stroke, Library Bureau coffimed the fling achievements of all inva histery. The world to werti- eally, Uhanka to Library FEAL The years passed. Numerous sevelspme.te Bs vertical sling sprang from the primary idea. Morsetivientalpknbatie mimere subject and other systems came into being, most of them created by Library Bureau, And then— 1912—L. B. Automatic Index —Admittedly the one notable correspond- ence filing inwention of the present cen- tury. This L. B. System eliminates #0 of commen alphabetical divisions and by an ingenious double check actually prevents the file clerk from making errors, Library Bureau's ever-widening service has recently embraced that most difficult of fields—the systematizing of public records. 1922—Russell System of In- dextng—This system mokes the usual tecious and offen faulty searching of pub- lic records « matter of certainty and min- ules, Already the estounding benefits resuliing from ite use have won the aec- claira of the legal profession, title com- panies and the general public, In the panel at the night arecrys- tallized the full scope and extent of L. EB. service that can lower over- head and increase profits in every kind of business— your business. Send for booklet, “The Newest Force in Business Building." Library Bureau Founded 1876 fasurance Department ee Send for catalog Tin. BID Schools of Filing Send for booklet No. Sl L.B. Service includes the planning of ore -spenegy yetegenel praia rma im equipement, lar ing out fling and record departments, the preparation of confidential informaiton 3. Filing Systems atathe hee fling syste that beat suits the needs of any boxes Send for book Mo, 704 or Russell folder. 4. Card Record Systems L. B, Sales record— sales infer- mation at the sales manages’: t-lips.,. Senedd for fcc - nee 615, L &. Steck recerd— eliminates over-sinckrr Z or under-stecking. Ser! for folder Mio. 605. iL. Bo. Card ledger— saves space, Gime ad money, over bound or boose-leal hedgers Send for boaklat Ne. 711. i. B. record =—combimes ur featore of cards with visible fembure af the book index. Send for folder Ma. TI. 5. Cabinetsa— Wood and Steel handler ae 1S, 7 businesses, L. B. quality ; 1 12 atandarel, i L. B. has originated many labor-saving dewres Send for catalogs Noa. TOT and Toe. L. B, Record Safe. Send for folder Na. TE 6. Supplies sic iL. B. Carda—Over Po a day More then 10000 stock: fereen — new for theedr wailers VEE Ceo es smcoth edges. i. &. Folders mete ewery kind; cotably the : ‘ F famous LB. Reinforced folder which saree Boston New York Philadelphia Chicago vahaeblar dpdice: tii Ge dcaebiere: Albany (Cincinnali Ezine (Lewiaville Pitta i Dallas, Parker Bros. Allanla Cleveland Fall Biweor Mila aickeo hea! al eee oe LB. Guides inchade plain, pruned, oeka- fe ‘Columbus Hartford Minneapolis Providence = Portlond. 0) loided, removable label and cetel tn Barminghars Denver Heuston New Orleans Richenend syacee F. Ww, Weatworth &t & re Bridgeport Dire Keilcanes Indisnapolis Newerk Sa. Loin Wi ssbringten Los Angeles Send for calalog Nia. Flim Buftals Darirusl Kanan City Sa. Paul _ Worgesber hickon & Wentworth Fomipe Ojfieer—Londen Manchester, ,,, Birmingham, .. Cardifl Paria Salt Lake City, CO, Adama

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ated from Poge 78) 2 mephyrs rustled the leaves over- Cyriooted these mattera, but t e# fan not, He hed bad o half siti bis lunch—te no avail. He bad adoubic kimmel at a single pulp—it io difference, e walked down the gravel path he bis coshiona at the nodding heads rn. Fallen petals of Christmas roses his passage, and the broken stems ues dangles apoke of a apirit in gecd a walter, whose eveni Feae joked particularly vile the and imored the te“ M'sieur"" J i med through an archway of aloes rd acromt grass to the spot where mock was suspended. Ten feet he flung the cushion lowed it with the paper “Oh, blast! ummeck was oeccupled, He had vated by a woman, A frilly sveed her head and most of her | that was visible being a shart wn tightly over her knees and two promortionad ankles wrapatully md terminating in & pair tows with acarlet heela. Rhythmie y revealed the fact that the lady » A small hand trailed on the wad a Left hand, but there was no ring on the third finger. Follow- ilar lines of deduction, the astute we hazarded the belief that the | three fanea, for the finger in wr encirelad with two diamond sand a mest imposing marquise, lly speaking, the sight presented that wenld ‘hardly have failed to Cyril feelings of interest and m, but hove of Leslie had robbed ptaste for promiscucus adventure. ‘ed the lady's presenes, singe she him of what be cored for most in aed ttisting te oreneded ns and pro Tig he sprew ed and bunched the om ead. The sun was in his 4 mone to read. The grass la mosquito stung his smile en thie taf rising and chuck- MnLonte een & caueheneel philosophy, when a mi atanned and genial face appeared eh threw a glance at the ham- his shoulders, murmured pulled a newspaper from his i down on a tree stump a few ing in the newecomer's appearance on to converse. He had the ‘mpathetic listener. ste unting?” said Cyvil. “Was fame, thing myself. Sickening, Very t nm at with that one, y'know.” rcomer smiled. 't dispute your elale." ot first, you mee." Lie broadened, if you're nervous." bit. You stay and talk. Too w te read. Just arrived?” before bunch.” ityou were new. Motordown?" From 4." ( iad idea," Cyril nodded, “Can't Continent trains, See, I don‘t romrrn.” comer ya Oh, my name. George Wed- ‘o have heard it somewhere. acer. Staying with the fh, 3ou kre. yes; saw you in the visitors’ rable Mra. Conyngham, You At his head. eo Gaed of Cyril. peed lari 4 intignate knowledge af the pretty well every attaché in every legation and conmilate. tity was proved. In much the he had mterrogated a dozen guests, durin the ate! time tral. i A e of chang- ‘® at mens he would saonm be th the paren affairs of moat etait. fi si onby a toather of people told him all about them- shifted the subject to another THE SATURDAY EVENING "Who's the pretty girl at your table? j ry looked ac gu tht Fe let the question Sounctialbec No; paar a Miss Leslie Kavanagh." " Eth er y the fellow wha father naive. couldn't help being frank with im George shrunged b hi: *y Iders. | ohh shou "You asked me to Cyril amiled. “Of course it's all on the q. t. at present.” “Just so.” George rose and stretched One “You on your own down here?” “Don't know osoul. Expeectin' a friend this evenin’, though. Just had a wire to say so, Fellar named Saville.” neeere You know Martyn Saville? “Tntim “hunny. latter of fact he's jing our party, but we weren't lookin Bighicc ou the day after tomorrow. coming today?" "Had a wire to say so, Think I'll try and find a chair somew. This stump | ain't overcomfortable. Sen you again, | perha ai Sure ‘to"" George moved away a half dozen pacea, ner Sane caving bout th a at new ar- rival?" be asked. “Wo, Whe d'you mean?” “The Brazilian dancing worman—Alma ‘orraras."" F ' Cyril started and sat up abruptly os though he had elt i lg not altogether purprising circu You foe here!" “old so, aa stars! BF “Know her, then?" Cyril hesitated and half shook his head. “I've an idea I met her at the embassy Hardly at the embassy,"" sugested Be So I was there at the tinve.” “T aes. From the embassy. Was there b any talk about her—ever hear—apart from or cin’? "A gon deal, [ believe,” Cyril replied with a touch of pathos. "T meant, waa she mixed up in politics and things of that kind?’ "Not to mor now. "Ah, wills: just won Libis mall o With a smile and a wave of the hand he turned away, choosing a path that led to the back entrance of the hotel, where newly arrived guests’ lu was pled await- pe ee os ager peso ree a positive passion for ng bs labels; it interested him to knew people had come from, and relieved him of Ae necessity of axking questions, Nothing in the world is more character- istic of its owner a hat box or Glad- atone bag. It is a Danaport that all who have eyes may read, an open book whose pages are crowded with personal revela- ona. The sound of G a Tetreating fowt- steps had barely died away when Cyril aprang to his feet and exclalmed “ Damn!" He sald it three ti and at the third apeteia added the “Of all infernal uc yu And he had every excuse, What could afer ticmarbrigcgl oot eal Alma Ferraros! ark nae WAS enough to wreck ambition. Alma, the most Segrant of all his wild associates! Alma, whose interment three years before had cost as much aa all his other follies put together. And she was just the sort of woman who, if the caprice suggested itself, would not admit she ‘iad ever heer given decent burial. She would rise again and think nothing of it. Like Haralet'a father ahe would burat her cerementa, and with hiea for partner insist on revisiting the glimpeea of the moon. [t was damnable, Tn his agitation Cyril stam on the box of chocolates, which broke beneath his foot with a laud report. The sleeper in the hammock started stretched her arma with the parasol at full le , opened her eyes, swung her feet to the ground, smiled amazedty, and said in a voice that sounded like one very expen sive orchid sddressi cig natal "Cyreel ! Tt's my Cyreel. But lovely! And to stand there so quiet till 3 wake." With hands outstretched she rose and earme toward him, ¢ glance, but | ated itp — POST 81 “A laundress and a valet taught me the way to buy my shirts,” says Tom Bruce “Be sure they have this label and you'll have no com- plaint of my laundry work,” said Sarah Kerman. Lon BRUCE is a_ bachelor. He hag apartments in Phila- delphia's most exclusive hotel. “Harry,” he said one day to the hotel valet, “your laundress is a jewel; but she's a little rough on my shirts, Here's one with the buttons off, and another has shrunk in the neck-band.” “Beggin’ your pardon, sir,” said the valet, “IT noticed last week that some of your shirts were not wearing well and I spoke to Mrs. Kerman. She said— “"Tell Mr. Bruce to buy all his shirts with this label and he'll have no complaint of my laundry work.” And the valet held up a shirt, pointing fo cusheeri to the Emery label. anced —atriped march is cule, froma, anc I looked ower | pigirme sieve ingle Sleeve ple your shirts, Mr. | Sis Bruce. It's just as Tak neck bands, Mrs. Kerman says. sora amar mae henge ected. #0 7, The ones with the Emery label look | Why Emery Shirts are equal : ade Parems im mich shire perfectly ball diet J ho prewar moar he might. Closes gitehed waa, ‘Cheer Uniwsckabta benenlolan just as good as new. The colors haven't faded. The buttons are on tight The materials are wearing fine, and they haven't shrunk a bit.” Emery Shirts fully live up to their reputation of “equal to custom- made.” They fit comfortably. The patterns are distinctive. Emery refinements of finish are found only under the Emery label. Yer Emery Shirts cost no more than otdinary shirts—$2, $2.50, $3 and up. lf there ig no Emery dealer near vou, we will see that you are served, on receipt of money-order and name of your dealer. Mention neck - band size, sleeve-length and color preferences. | We. OM. Steppacher & Bro., Inc., Makers of Emery Shirts, Philadelphia. Nek-ban-tah

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We GLARARDOS fo PebUTA Your money or give you a new garment if any scam breaks. Full Cut ATHLETIc UNION SUITS | sorry eee nl thine nice titi bape THE SATURDAY EVENING POST " As an honest fact," he replied, backing a step, “didn't know it was you—and— thought I was making rather a — Alma shook a finger and "Trying to wake a strange lady. I am , YOU are worse than ver. It waa no time for beating about the bush. She mist be made to understand atraigh that her reign was over and there could be no question of reinstatement to the throne, His only hope lay in firm- nese, immediate and uncompromising. A false move now and all would be lost. Al- he could feel the spell of thoan blue | and ustrous eyes, hard eyes, that softened | only to astring of pearls or a human frailty. Already he eould feel her net enmeshing his unwilling limba, the subtle enveloping quality of her volee which wrapped a man up as neatly as o chemists parcel. He moved uneasily from ane foot to the other, ae taxes gentence gave him the cue he “But you do not seem half so pleased to coh foe cv. Ok, ii! I wae afraid I at bese ‘said Cyril. “You ought to ha ae f AB f ou. re gone bo. snaeiee Boe hotel, This one ia too ma broke into a smile that was like & Bond Street jeweler’s taking down ita shutters, be like ld Pecis will alter that, Cyreel. Tt will eB And oe pint os nt hands ecstatically Cyril planted his feet firmly and fi his lungs. “Tm sorry to disappoint you, old girl,” he said, “but I'm down here with the aunt.” Alma nodded her head wisely, “We shall arrange, my Cyreel, you and I; we are very wise people, oh, yee." re oe ee Ey eer eee nothing. “You don"t want met" “Tdonot. Now look here, | waa thunder- ing decent after that Paris ‘affair. Did all I could, and more, Now be a apert and give me a miss." we a aie J ‘a 7b aigécrhim, ant all att ws “Any risa," aie rep aaa; don't know me. The aunt is a bit of o etickler oly ite it’s very well, But : “Oh, it's very ah I am much too to part with o friend." uae Sa op: “Knowing me wont help po broke to the wide.” “Nom | ae “Not a cent.” “ Nothing?" ; Abestutaly on the bene “Oh, cit dong ery well the i: shall be ban for heer Wie Cyren will return his—what you aay! - sar ity. She will be pleased” _ he were getting depute Ti a abner uatinw ten teak oer Alter all, Cyril reasoned =m 5 eg oe ime wi “Jolly ripping of you, and al tha: he, “but it won't work, There's u staying with us here thet [rc ie want to marry—and ——" “T am de irop.” "T hate to say so. * But it's true.” to bem me alone, se, ay Me ph Ramee we dificult. "S very hard. Alma’ sasumed the look of A 5 REBT Awakening. "T'll think about it.” "Couldn't you bes bat more cr =. [t's a serious thing with me.” She looked at him tte oe Gaynd or of her expression bree co . of diamonds, “T promise anything,” ane cst * give me a kiss.” oy kina? ao "Yes, a kiss.” “T say! hale oe that neceeey “Anything if you do that: 2 nothing Oe: wery well, T suppose = ter much,” But he was wrong, for the E- Mra. Conyngham, who = cite © extraordinary moee for findrs awkward situations, cm cleft in the bushes at the very oc Alma slid an arm reund Cy=2 drew his lips down to bere. Mra. Co peed mb: the kis purged ite course woabase: she retreated ollie res la the cas which had inte the = of this Me aitine e spectact. (To BE CONTINUED = Pow io — a it = ay WHAT WOULD THE BOYS W WERE THINK OF US NOW: (Coatinged from Page 2) tie Photogre fine, Mawes ta tek need tie owa— ani not let on that his little heart was almost broken by the thought of the fringe on his boy's ate, not J, PL Phelps’ pantsa—and I gentle mothers and rong. harsh pote hide their faces in their h and sob until | rushed! pea pe ag ry to send t ie bay p panta; but, for one , the pants would not fit me mow: for another thing, that little 1876 in never felt any a of the sort. The only Sunday-pants te that bey ever had were that it i a dee-tone atte shame he had to wear them on Bi . Ne; the only way to pathos out of — photographs af sovencrear-vid ba ye we were is to wonder what they would think of the way we have lived hn to their expectations, ng at it that way I do feel rather we Were, They were auch hopeful little fellows, When he is seven years old, or about then, a fellow begins to speculate quite a lot on what be will be when he is aman. He does a a aoe ce man he will be aa exactly as himaelf. He is only ii Sie but thin other fellow is going to be a man. He begins to look around amon the gods and heroes to pick out the sort o men he hopea to be. He takes a look at father and decides that father is a fine man, far and away the finest man he knows—you can’t beat the loyalty of a seven-year-old boy—but he hes to aieolt that father ia not abeolutely perfect, He has to adenlt that in one or two littl: matters George Washing- bably did surpass father a wet mike. Father is father of course; but it cannot be denied that John L. Sullivan had a won- derful ight arm. There ia usually, it is truc, a spare half dollar in father's pocket had the Father is a a young fellow he is compelled to a: such men as C pher Coir falo Bill, Abraham Lincoln, Lee ing, Ful man of eeren, leo ture, has a night @ «ft t of the man he = to become i fale ba = J Of hs mora) bee cae [ am ashamed to say it bs: have failed the young mac ee a blacksmith The got of blew hg man had in mind == > quantity of black baat “25 a complete jungle af it on bs eo His main occupation would o° * piece of white-hot iron wick au mer while he bet the sparks 5 no More concern than ¢ = flakes. Now and then be the water tub and shift ks cheek. To wary the comets occasionally straddle tee i- = horse, holding its hock becr= while he a red-he: fom sole of the hoof. A wht 2 (Citittioard aa Page © 128 -_ sates eo oe

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST A good automobile driver is, first, the driver whose mind is free from all wornes and anxieties— whose first thought is upon driving the car. A good automobile driver is, second, one who has confidence in the car which is being driven. And confidence comes only from a thorough knowledge —a tested under- atanding—of how the car operates. She, who knows just what happens when the clutch pedal comes back and the accelerator pedal is depressed and tons are movedamoothly, swift- ly, and majestically away—is a better driver than is she who does not know these important things. She, who understands the generation ofthe power in the motor and its noise- less delivery through the transmission (or gear box); through the propeller shaft protected by its universal joints; how it is reduced at the pinion; and how it turns the corners at the differ- ential, to be transmitted to the rear or driving wheels; she will be best able to handle that car in every cir- cumetance which arises. A good automobile driver must have confidence in the vital parts of the machine, with a mind free to meet every roadexigency. Asa confidence- biunlding knowledge of the car in- creases, 0 will increase the faith in Timken Tapered Roller Bearings to protect every horse-power, to elimi- nate every possibility of delay, bring- ing that assurance and peace of mind that goxwl drivera must have. That is why the driver of the Timken- equipped automobile is a more con- fident driver—and a better driver— than is the other. ; And that, in turn, is why more and more women are asking him—the car salesman, the husband, the brother —"Has it Timken Tapered Foller Bearings, and where?** For women today are just as much automobile drivers and automobile buyers as are men. The Timken Roller Bearing Company CANTON, OHIO TIM KEN Tapered ROLLER BEARINGS “Ask him to explain it" ARE WOMEN BETTER DRIVERS THAN MEN? “During fhe rears I Aare stodied traffrc radran f Kare aleaye fou, Chat Sori ef are mere careful drivera than men; take more prods in ther driving; are as off- Chent in eovergencies; aired a a coneegaentee have seas aoor- dents attributable to them,” —Former Safety Director ©. NW. Sparks

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84 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST on Ten miles and more of silken strands go into the making of a pair of Phoenix hose. While other natural fibers are at best only a few inches long before they are twisted into thread, the filament of silk as it comes from the cocoon is practically endless. And that is why silk makes the strongest of all thread. The Phoenix method of converting the | finest of silk into the finest of hosiery has, for a full decade, insured to the men, women and children of | America longer hosiery mileage and greater elegance at low cost. PHOENIX HOSIERY wine re ai ee eh a ae it rr

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\Cantneed from Page #2) ithe apart out with @ sizzle, perfum- fegir with a delicious oder of burnt Whe the horse moved the blurt auld shout at it sternly, using @ ei+ipned worda: Ef the horse was o ee shout louder and the words fli tr acesith would loan re egainat h and slowly pull the d rope of the friae bellows, turning yd thes to pat the coals with hia sand addressing some witty to the amall buy booking in at the ach as Well, bub, what do your [olka call ‘your name by when at home?” or “Well, sonny, how's oppery-tptics today?" or even that umacingly brilliant query, “Well, |, how does your corporogity seem to aie this morming 7” ally, because of his admirable quali- cm in frock coats and high silk wh erive and make the bla uth clof the United States, conumander of the Anny and superintendent of soipal Sunday achool. The black- vould then put a for-rent sign on his ike asword around his waist, don ita of Pythiaa hat with a long white plume and go down to Washington, oveto the bOl prohibiting boys from marbles for keepa. When ge died val promeaslon would be thre miles 4 hove four brass bands, and a nation would ereet a statue of him, akind but stern countenance and troustre that were too long and ten all tp ra] art bot aie toda boy I was I k he woul er ss a stare of ctiae unrecogmition, ould stare; but when he realized he would burst right out erying. Nol" he would sob. “You don't clike a blacksmith!" wait |" a would beg. a — * be secaikdl exclaim. “You were he enough to be a blackemith, but “Wait wetil -done the beat you eauld— —you ane He the United States." ut oa! le rou are commander in chief of the you've not entirely betrayed Cm not ——" 7 would stammer, think of an excuse. commander in chief?" the boy y “Stop! You have already tv heart, but perhaps you can or two of the pieces. Tell me you st something worth while; do not in suspense—tell me you are at + nies of the Epiaropal Sun- vould have to tell him I was not -not even a pirate or a tweegiun ireman in a red shirt: not even a a millionaire or a senator, Then, he would give me one final look hand go out behind the wood- fal a grecn apple and die, ching Yourself Parade 1 has a seven-year-old son he ite that son a a Se ea i ge to a lot of subterfu palette that boy's belief that o:; but hardly any of us give a the bay we were and what he kofus. We owe something to cig owe something to the faith how we would faced if all ne Fe OTe Were, Who so tst we possibly could be, should + somewhere and look us over. ey were all lined up along the housands of thea seven-jear- it was elreus “ied and the bia expected to heave into sight ’ Little Els Butler would the ittle Warren Harding, and little wer, and littl you, and little ith, and litth Johnny Jones, , little seven-yearolds we once would all be, eating double nuts and pink-and-white pap ely, and leaning out as far os iui, § our necks and now and & te the middle of the street to ld eateh the first glimpae of us narching down the street in the from far up the street would cst weird tootle of the steam d then, nearer, the first blare THE SATURDAY of the brass band at the head of the parade; and one littl boy would jump up and down and shout, “Here they come! Here they ge I see “erat” en the head of the proceaion would come in aight, und every little would be ten tines as excited as before mi not having seen yourself for years and yeara! I would turn to you and “You just wait until you see t I've become! You'll see something worth while, I bet you! D'll bet I'm splendid— just awfully noble and rich andl kind and aos honest and everything!" “Yes, but you just wait until yoo aes BEE me!" you would “You'll know me the minute you see me! I'll be the governor oF a millionaire or the head of a big cor- Patution, or something el ate We boys on the sidewalk would not have the least doubt about some things, The men we had become would all be fine, stron men with our heads held high—brave a Heh and succeasful. It mould not be other- "So along comes the brass band, tooting and drumeing, and all the little boys that we were stand on tipter and dance with engerness and excitement. We're going to be a proud lot of boys, | bet you! Erass band at the head of the procession gota by. And who is this in a bi mobile, with a alk hat? Little Warren Harding on the sidewalk gives a loud ery of joy and rushes into the street. happy! It is true that the man he jaan be rome has no red-white-and-hlve gash around his chest, and he does not wear a gilded eword, ahd he hes no cocked hat with a nights of Pythias plume; but he is Presi= dent of the United States, and that is something. So litthe Warren runs along beside the automobile and big Warren sees ae flne apens the door of the automobile _ inand they hold each other's honda dat the parade moves on. Giving Little Ellis the Stip And now the rest of ua on the sidewalk are eager! These are the big men, at the head of the parade, and we scan each face eagerly, hoping one of these men is the man we have become. And here and there, up and down the sidewalk, a boy exelnieres joyfully and runs into the street and grasps ao man's hand—he has found himaclf, And they go marching by. All the successful Ten march | men who are thor oughly worth while. That pert of the onmes to an ‘1 And the rest of us now? We are so anxious we grow tense and stand in utter silence and just stare and wait. You—well, I don't know about you—-but I am there in my browdeloth suit, with ae shoes all polished except the heels, and I have on my striped stockings and my beautiful Roman-stripe te; but Ido not give them a thought. I'm looking It is a rather ital lot, thia remainder of the paraders. Here is one man with a blog fase and a blackened eye and mud on his ragged clothes, and a littl: boy in o neat blue seergucker suit and a chip hat with a blue sailor ribban—a sweet little if ever there waa one—sers tho man recognizes him and begins to ery, He puta his hands over his face and backs away from the edge of the sidewalk and turns and runs, His heart is 1 brokex, all right, and he ia Boing around *k of the woodshed to eat a green apple die, And the man he has became does not look at him; he is ashamed to, And presenthy I begin to be nervous as T stand on the edge of the sidewalk. So few of the boys are running inte the street te take the hands of the men they hove beeome; ao many of them de net recognize the men they have beeorme; eo many of them are hiding thelr faces ‘and Ruirradingr wany to find woodshels and green spl And, marching down the street =e fram far off the wistful small bey in the broadeleth suit with the brass rr aa and the striped stockings ond the ge Roman-stripe tie standing on the ed the sidewalk and waiting for me. I ont know what you do, but I eige over toward the other side of the streat and slip out of the parade and down Sycamore Street and through the alley and take the firet train out of baw. I should hate te meet that boy. It would be mighty hurd te explain the why of a lot Or Fron ie eho Ii Ainaeiea a onan ears | wa TTT TT fram what Mr. Freud culls an inferiority EVENING : RUBBERSET the worlds standard SHAVING BRUSH Te E ONE BRUSH in the world so ait: went eae so fav- | every £ orably known, ,|’ ed | BY NAME and | | 9. § ipped S BY QUALITY, /| ly ever as to inspire | a widespread |, imitation! POST BERS TRADE MARK itl vie ih iy Lh ‘ iN vy gti TN i Ny, ri Sih, Lainey aM ait i ‘Tie oun Pi rus tr In all the hdstory of basst= mess, no trade-secking fhanufscturer has ever wilfuily and persistently IMITATED, cither in trade name of manufac- turing process, any article lof conunverce which had not | dready proven a SUCCESS, Of the esteem in which FUBBERSET. brushes. are held by manufacturers other than ourscives we may make, wathout fear of question or cen- tracictien, this frank statement: Tie modern maker of shav- ng, paint, and varnish brushes wiho ts WO T progitiy et fo an appreciable extent by the use of more or less con- fusing aodificatioana of our frade name or by an ostens!- ble duplieatron of owr man facturing process, or by a combination af both prac- frees, #8 the EXCEPTION rather than the role: Such concerted endorsement of Ou products om the part of knovew- ing competitors ts most eloquent in camying the conviction that GENUINE RUBBERSETS — “ol the onginalor true steck''— are your beat dependence in the field of brushes. 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Just stopped in time “then SMASH / HILD darts into path of oncoming car. Driver stops just in time. Then, smash comes the im- pactofthe carin the rear. But they're safe all ‘round! Both cars were protected by Lyon Spring Bumpers, front and rear. With Lyon Spring Bumpers on your car, you can drive with peace of mind and meet the emergency when it arises, The Lyon-patented two-piece over- lapping front bar and the open “looped-ends" yield to the blow and absorb the impact. Lyon Spring Bumpers are guaranteed to take the full force of any blow at the rate of 15 miles an hour without injury to the car or its occupants, Insurance companies grant reduced rates on Lyon-protected cars. These reductions will more than pay for the bumpers. So why take the chance of being smashed up? All Lyon Spring Bumpers are artistically designed, strong and perfectly balanced. They not only protect, but add a finishing touch to the beauty of your car. A special Lyon-patented hook-bolt attaches them se- curely without altering or drilling the frame. the Lyon trade-mark ty om every genuine Lyon Spring Bumper, ciccept no substitute, Over a million in use. $10 ta $23, Mera. Stampinc Company, Long Island City, New York Canaaian Licensee, B. J, Coghlin Co,, Ltd., Montreal, Canada Lyon Convex Bumper ON RESILIENT BUMPERS | dotted lines, and the formula on THE SATURDAY EVENING POST complex. As I understand this, it is some thing like a — palise aa gets inte rocranium and keeps croaking awa at and de . “I'm no good! IT can't o it! What's el & use ing?” until you be lieve the little liar, at is a bad sort of aiophibian to have in a cranium. It would rfora man to fill his cranium with eae be aiet wget dfish in it. Whatever E the goldiish's lack of ee OS Pal ability, a has to admit that it doesn't iscouragement all day. ™ aan oe songs of de- spair, h that sang songs af ree I cad 5 Wink dfsh neck—if it had a neck, The trouble with most Americans—if we have any troubles—is not an inferiority complex, but inferiority aatisfaction. This is a new term, and I invented it myself: but it ia a gon one, and will ptabatiy be Weed in all the new textbooks. It is a little dificult te explain, ike Mr. Einstein's theory of relucivity and why it is that your collars alwaya come back from the laundry with sow edges; but in a» gen- eral why, when a man has an inferiority sabieiaction it means he i content te sit in the aun in the bleachers al] his life, when he might, if he hustled a litthe more, have a box just back of the home plate, and a Benen ticket. In the book T am writing, entitled "The [nferiority Batislaction, of Sticking in the Mud While the Other Fellow Goes hy on Horseback," the whole business: i @:- plained, with diagram and mapa and ne ET shows the thing al glance, The formula is to this effect, if no wore: qa Li—yiA. DL 1sT8.} 40262 (FL 000, 000 This, you will see at a glance, gives the whole matter in a nutshell, because if yOA, D. LET6) representa. a young-feller- me-lid sitting on a doorstep In 1876, it must be perfectly clear that he will never get verv-tar if he Loats on the job too much alter he ia eld en ougl iteshave, If, then, we bet OO represent the sent of his trousers, and #4 a6 hotest day's wark, ane A an hour, the formula shows that if a man is satisfied to Be ura three hours a day on 0, loating or daydrenming, Hades—repre- carer Les iy L—will be froxen over long be- fore he has one million dollare- =Fepreaented by SE 40 ,000-—or anywhere near it, Way a Ship Rocks Mr. Sperry has invented a gy roacope to put in the bow of a ship to stop the ship from rolling during storme atosea, Por sune time pe op ile have oHidered the side wits Tolling of a ship more or less of o UIA nee, espe vially alter meal, When mit ian a ship and the ace comes up amd tilts the whip over to pared tintil the tips af the tiatninast hits a porpoter on. the tloraal fim ond unother wielion oof oeean Cones Wp on Lhe ebier side and rolls the ship eer bis Hiarbourd wmtil Chee tip ofthe mairi- ) mast run pick ups jelly fish, even & anilor myik Cab fowl pierdix tly ding gusto lt ia alaa dishtmrbening fori gunner on a 1 battleshin to nim oat on enemy und have his veal rall meer urital the muzzle of his Cac points. at thi botte HT of the sea and he shikite avery expensive ahell at an entirely neutril Heri nial, Ath i ext shot have the ship coll turk so that the mext shel ploy aholein the Milky Wi, Jone M,Z The dificult; in = oe the ring ¢ aship hos always been ps Yee would stay on diy bared it cold be wae up oun it snes oe Pa tn te prehearing re re is an that when the waves bargin to ral thes g an awful lot of waves, ond whe we @. wave—each with thousands d is « water in it—oonmves. rolling cp spear 5. ship, apps her ower and tpporg be tat asa would seem that she jot So ot man would think thet with o jee ship rolling from side to cele ocd Se sands af huge waves pring kr : nothing on earth oowld stexty be; iy gyroscope big enough to steady ho oy have to be bigger than the a 5 That is rat ao: mot of ali! Theo scope Air. Sperry wees to ieee @ tteady, with ber masts stride! oS alr in the rollingest iim of a, »—iege nortion—no bigger than om ole ai urrel, He fools the ocean Living Incr by Inch The trick bs easy when yo bo dopa mot let the ship | Hi to ra ship i i gyTeope og 2 oe ahi eh Poli Ag hie = fh ing moder than & oomarmptin ’ lagen could step the ‘Trancoctioel prea. That is not the ten ot ol By the gvroscope in the ship end well first wave, One wave cos hardy wll ahip at all: Ll [en oF iy at grt tee The rolling has to be worked woe works Up og swing. The ova handle that first wave easily, = ido that. The fret wave slices borrienly the ship and the ship ie stil] steady | along comes the second wor, et ie wave had not beudged the ship, ml ond ware le only * =p le, —— Brae SS wae, the 7Tranoo pe can handle thet ol se That fb how the gqyroscce eeu does not have to fight all the wera oofin gt onee, Tt takes the waves one ats hoe ES effect. of the first one, and woits forthe and kille that, teo. It me bo hearin to reall The failure or near-fai to look hack over his see how his life could h eT clowns ee jure wis ll yea oftes | iv! bere & The succesful man, looking beck, life as a clean, taut white ood from the seven-year-old boy he wm man he is now: the other mac oe 12-0 loose and knetted yarn, of ee ravelings and tanghes—as ; [hing —ond he dbes not have kept all that length of yoru oe White end clean. Ay notion, alter having cls pH bullirogs and silene pas ad G and inferiority santisfartios, & way to live bs Fach by fsck ened he One iich at o Cine we con hand f WOVE 20 o Lite, qd af ape furcmt ie OTe Gay ae The lazy main i newer lee be baile + sete Lie 4 by the ¢ day | or 2 going to get busy anc busta bet there tc no hurr ¥: he'll jot to little tasy ‘bodmay And tht = oo Before he knows it. the dacs areal And there he pe! The that. & on | he The bere By. pr Wath a = wis When he ws seven, omel the ashamed of him elf

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@, a aro ol for the Table 1, The Hotpoint Percolater —knows more about making uniformly good coffee day after day than any other percolater in the veo 2. The Hotpoint Waffle Tron —looks like a waffle iron, works like a wafle iron and really bakes waffles aia walile inom 6 3. The Hotpoint Turn-over Toegster—you da not hare to touch the toast toe tum it; the noaeter does that for yOu. 4, The Hotpoint Radiant Grill—baoils, omoils, fries and TOAST, any CWO operations atthe eame time. The Hotpoint Ovenette (not illustrated) is a baking of ronting oven which fits on the Grill. Bokea blacwits, pies, cakes, etc. Roasts meats, poultry and small game nf all kinda, 5. The Hotpoine Teapor— continuous heat. Tea is served without jumping up to reheat the water. : Be a a “2 Mothers place is at THE SATURDAY EVENING POST == _ the table j bse all well enough for the family to say ‘Do sit down, Mother, and enjoy your meal.’ But she can’t be in two places at once. Obviously, if Mother is to be at the table, the thing to do is to give Mother facilities at the table to do her work. So easily done, now, with Hotpoint Servants for the Table! For here are electric cooking appliances made for practical day after day use. Made with an understand- ing of actual cooking require- ments, And full knowledge of what electric tableware must do if itisto be more than a novelty—pretty enough to look at, perhaps, but... . These are Hotpoint Servants —designed by housekeeping engineers to broaden the service of electricity to the American woman. SERVANTS EDISON ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO., Inc. Boston New York Atlanta Chicago 5. Lowis Ontario, Cal, Salt Lake Ciey Canadian Edison Appliance Co., Ltd., Stratford, Ontario cd “=

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST OHL2= 0H : 4 a Is This The World’s Longest-Mileage Tire? We believe it is. We have sincerely and persistently tried to make it so, and compara- tive tests and mileage records prove we have succeeded. Mohawk dealers believe it is—judging from the reports from these dealers all over the Mohawk users believe it is—and they know from actual experience. Ask any one of them. If this is the longest-mileage tire on the market, it will be worth a great deal for every motor car owner to try one in competition with other makes and prove it for himself. The remarkably high mileage which the Mohawk Flat Tread Cord is giving is not the result of any mysterious method or secret process. It comes simply from the firm deter- mination on the part of The Mohawk Rubber Company to operate its plant and its organ- ization so efficiently and economically that it will be able to put more rubber, better rubber, and finer workmanship into its tires than are used by the average tire manufacturer. In the present era of drastic price-cutting, which is invariably accompanied by an era of cost-cutting and quality-cutting, it is important to know a tire manufacturer who is strictly adhering to high-quality manufacturing principles. THE MOHAWK RUBBER CO., Akron, Ohio BRANCHES: Fanaa (City Mallos New Tork San Frencisce Lor Angeles Chicage y Jires — r ——— a Jem ap

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THE SATURDAY THE CHANGING EAST (Cantitudd from Page 4} nic interests, Were imminent. Japan wh te sober t ht, for she hed af Teutonic mode in the (defeat. In addition she had wit- the ree of the United States to nding military prestige, which was heering sight. Up te this time there castrong feeling in jingoistic Japan ethaps etican Mmocrney Wad moa with mminble Ulescence bo [t quickened nati aggresalye- wr the Californian isaues, Sober- Japanese, however, will tell you hat the moment the United States the World War the jingo bubble The ela the stupendous e machine that we reared po swiltly atk the men at the front, together careaponding realization that such t was absolutely ‘ther Po= of Japan, did the business, ypan preseeded with her prepared- inst a hypothetical enemy, which construed only aa America, despite that the 8-8 naval program waa ymf her financial resources and mbarrass o fizeal system reeds disaster. It beg! sp et fa st unfortunately be 1 | “bluff. An enlightened id ging from its swaddling clothes, for disarmament, but it was a tiny t amid the militaristic din. : Workington Conference was a definite reason, littl known ca, for this bristling Japanese pre= a. Since the Washing confer- # it a quietus, it is well worth here, As I pointed out in the te af this seriea, Japanese forci wo always been dictated by e co instend of the coe ‘i due to the rule of the Genre, the itesmen, whe not only nf the tof War and Navy but were an- only to the Emperor himself. ided an immense authority, and vently frustrated the will of the ey made party government a ating Japanese militariam, the nt every energy and employed aurce to build up a strong army * When the people protested vw drain on the public purse the iieamen, or their mouthpieces, ath the American menace as the >more soldiers and ships. It was would cnjl a campaign ery and > proved effecthye. at Prinee Yamagata, last of the Genro, is.gone—he expired al- the last gasp of the Washington —and in view of the arma lim- aeerma likely that the American Japan will get a much-needed is brief iotate sod can see the for the Washin conference. r position in China and Siberia, making herself an increasingly urce of ittitation. England waa ary of the Anglo-Japanese Alli- democracies were to shake den of armaments. A revision of reial game as played under the tional interests was imperative, ation with a foothold in. Asin at woless there was some kind of erstanding, combined with a ay, there would be either bank- var in the East. Yet so deep is al suspleion—and all the sacri- aghter of the Great War has not it—that not one of the powers involwed had the bo id, It remained for the United nstigate a gathering which a iterity can only as a def- in the progress of the world ‘tyr ard safety. a foreword an examination of ‘esulte: isin order. Since Japan's « for trouble were among the huhory causes, the first task he is affected, and get some lina ‘e action, The first is compara- but the second is more d It ere elements, developing fram between liberalism and reac- aching contre. Japan i in «eroemt. If liberalism triumphs, yowill be easy. The conference 4 the hands of sincere liberals who had urged disarmament in the face of discouragi ition. Washington showed Japan what she could do and what she could not do. The truth of the matter is that prior to the eon- ference J; faced a slbuation elmilar to that whieh confronted Germany in the {nte- ful summer of 1914. [t was almost a case of revolution or war. In each country the burden of taxation for militarism made it imperative to get action on the overhead art people were paying for a spectacu- ar Happily for Japan she learned without serious expenditure of blood and treasure— her part in the Great War waa compara- tively sien a PW a tragle leaaon that Germany ed at the price of her power and prestige, This lesson lé that national progres can mo longer be achlewed through force. Tt means that in the Enet a4 in the West, eeonomibe ioperialism, like ite full brother, political imperialism, hh gone into eclipse. Jupan must henceforth —_ i peaceful penetration without SPANCIAL PTT Wg, : ory appeaeel of conference results must include at the outset a consideration of the Japanese diplomatic attitude. Later on in this article her leading apokeamen will offi- cially declare her position. Unfortunately Japan's cs rie om, the last twenty ' ite relation to China, has exhinited at times a sonaider- able variation between promise and per- formance. Though it is unfair te assume that her diplomacy will continue aa of eld, at the game time it ia hard te conclude that a change of heart will be sudden. Honesty and alincerity of parson wre absolutely casential in making conference a per- manent sicce. Fae The important phase seats wngerre ger is Japan's new attitude towards the main- of Asia, How have the resolutions adopted at Washington helped or hindered her aspirations there? Whaat Japan Gained Japan's new policy towards Chine proper seems to contemplate an amount of eco- nomic and if possible o sufficient politica! control to insure an uninterrupted supply of row materials. There is no disguising the fact that the disposition towards Man- ehuria involves a much larger of domination both politically and econami- cal Manchuria is 2 vast tremeure house of raw materials, and through the acquisi- tion of the leased termtory t a2 8 prize of the war with Russia, Japan has already a etrong foothold, Japan hopes to see Siberia develop into a weak atate, noncommunistie in character, where she can obtain commercial privi- leges which, if net entirely preferential, will give ber nationala the advantage in cam- petition with other foreigners. Japan al- ready her hooks deep into the Siberian const, and is intrenched economically in Viadivestek, Following her seizure of the northern section of the island of Saghalin, as a result of the massacre of Japanese soldiers and citizens at Nikolainvsk, Ja nese big business fastened on the valuable eoal and oil deposits there. Japan today holds the key to the vast valley of the Amur with its rich stores of fur and grain. Although pride fostered much of the Japanese objection to the naval-limitation : at there seema ta be no doubt that the idea behind fleet expansion waa to make the navy 89 etrong that no country would dare attack her, no riatter what ahe might do on the Asiatic mainland, I have ready pointed out the almest crushin financial burden that the naval arogract would bave imposed, Though Japan some of her naval prestige, she gets at the same time almost complete immunity from assault. The restriction in capital ships, together with the nonfortification of Guar and the Philippines, removes any parece menace from the United States, and affords Japan much better protection than her fleet would have done, and at a greatly riduced eoat. It is now well-nigh impos- stble for the United States to use force or even threaten Japan in the Far Eaat. At the time I write this article, which is | towards the end of April, the Indications are that the prenter pert of the money saved on capital ships will be deveted ta other construction, such as smaller ships, quciliarics and submarines, while there ia = iE Ee ee ee Nee ee et a ee Eee . ee . EVENING POST i ae soe = oe a Through raghing chan of wind onl witer, shee ined the ahore on che wery top of che billew! SLIRF- RIDING! This is Jantzen Week from Maine to Waikiki ‘ROM where the tide comes booming in oon the Maine coast to the sunwarm a of Waikiki, 5,000 miles away, Jantien ia the popular awit. Swimming is now recogni as one ri ape lls peg eset gla It isa body-building exercise that has mo equal. The Jantzen gives a perfect and permanent fit. Its elasticity allows complete am. of ac. tion, Jantrens are worm by national and Olymple diving and swimming champions. This week leading department stores, athletic stores, men's furnishings (wherever Nortetahablc Rubber Auris ewimining apparel is sold) are displaying Janr- Shaped. an give zon suits for Men, Women and Chi - All form-jir are pure wool, Ask your dealer oo explain the non-rip crotch, bow trunk pattern, mon- breakable rubber button, and other EXCLU- Faranad bow SIVE Jantzen features, ranks youve Be sure to get the original Jantzen. If you do oot fnd them, write us for the 1922 Style Book and name of nearest dealer, JANTZEN KNITTING MILLS PORTLAND, OREGON fee Patented aanerip cepnck The National Swimming Suit NEVER BINDS ~NEVER SAGS Copyright 1922—]. KM.

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THE SATURDAY 2100 degrees Outside; Only 300 degrees Inside! HAT a new standard of excellence has been attained in safes is shown by the fact that it required five and one- Quarter hours, with o heat ranging up to 2100 degrees Fah- renheit, to cauac a temperature of 300 degrees inaide the New Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe, This great capacity to withstand heat surpasses by 30 per cent the requirements of the Underwriters’ Laboratories, Inc., for their “VA" Label. The extra one and one-quarter heures of protection when the fire is hottest is why this safe takes ite contents clear through the worst fire to be ex- pected, In adcdition te this great fire realatance THE NEW Herring -Hall-Marvin SAFE ja cepecially designed to stand ahocke from falla, explosicne, erashing debria, and sudden cooling when at white heat, Aus im tte capecthy to resist heot there is likewise o maorgin of aafety in ite stowctaral strength. A new standard of excellence in asafe; a new measure of postection for your records; the adequate protection you should hare | The sizteen latge Hare bear the “A Label of the Underwriters’ Laboreteriea, Ine.) the al small aired bear the “HB Label Enterchangeable Aling equipment for the interior fo welt your reqalre ments, The safe may be oqaipped with a borglar-peoof chest if needed Gold by represcntative dealers. Mrite for folder, tion Ever Built,"’ “The Most Complete Fire Profec- and nome of dealer in your ety. eee HEREING-HALL-MARVIN SAFE (O., Hamilton, Ohio Geaidners and Gulifers af Safes and Bank Vala DEALERS: Write for fie Herring -HHati- Marvin agancr prap- Darl tir EVENING POST ory of a substantial increase in aviation. Thi the benefite to the tax- payers are deferred. [t is worth while to ephe ih paming that the budget for 1922-23, passed on Febru fourteenth test contains no reduction im porkance n the army appropriation, and only a cu! own im naval appro oristine It is like however that a epecial session of the Fiet will be held this summer to Tevise the budget. The four-power agreement has not been received very seriously by the Japanese newspal and people in general, It is eonsidered to be a sulby engineered by England and the United States to do away with the Anglo-Japanese Alllance, The scrapping of the alliance with Britain wis asevere blow to Nippon, brews it was one of the old-style offensive-and-defensive kind. Moreover, it had orginally given Japan a gran seat in the concert of powers and had strongly stimulated her spirit of race pride, The Four- Treaty presupposes ‘, justice and fairness on the part of the nations involyed. Economic necessity alone will probably sid and abet an honor- able interpretation of ita principles on the part af Japan, but it is well to remember that the eo-called liberal Ghuma Govern- ment, though bound by the terma of the alliance to acquaint En Jand with all diplo- matie en enta with other countries, signally to do so in the case of the J Miil an ca ng pacha apAneTe tary Agreemen the secret treaty with i ii ay 1916, Will the new apirlt of diplom acy pertain such double dealing in the | future? My observa thons in Japan lead me to say that I believe Jape paste ta follow the | letter and the The Shan-tung sottloment was really master stroke by Japan because it relieved her of a question that was causing increns- ing enmity both in the United States and in China, in Siberia, her nationals ach economic privileges, and as | have intimeted, troop retirement and a relinquishment of the control of the Tsing-tao-Tsi-nan railway not aeri- ously impair Japanese vital interests in the eee Peninsula, esi he Japanese people in consid China as peculiarly Her kapiing for exploitation because her domain ia the most convenient source of their sorely needed raw material, Eve ‘here in ean I have found the attit towards in auimed up in this sentiment: “We dintrimst Ja - She must first prove friendship for China, This means o foe eee ee i t can preferen= tial khts in sete oo M lia." Peace and prosperity in the East depend o wil n China and sanee: the vere sacri we put the apo so searchin Bh ae a Ja aces gs in Chin ean teed other couree that 6 of respect for her neighbor's territorial and political integrity. Commercial Stabilization Only a word is necessary abowt Ja in Siberia, because there are other vital mat= ters to be dealt with. The Siberian venture has never been popular with the mms cd the Japanese people or w majority civil or pe the cabinet. It has _ almicet en an project, in whic the prestige and pol cal power of the niet were crowd contin interwoven. If the pare roc in ita in- pa gla then the rom Siberia will be mh pc pbk But in Siberia, an in Shan-tung, the real Japanese job is already epsatee. ape ed because eco nomic ener has done ite work. Ort permanently i Important is the new Far Eastern economic line-up growing out of the conference, Political conflicta, like ae, are passing phases, but business geen on forever. Taking the broad cor:merelal view there ia no doubt that the conference has stimu- lated all economic devel te ines interesta in the East feel that at any rate Washington got at the root of the evil that has hom the movement of trade and development. Anything that reduces the hazard of war makea for confidence, ar this confidence in turn makes for eee ince em entof money. Abolishing spheres of influence and monopolistic concessions, vivacherpst| the hate and suspicions of na- tions breaking up the great gume of Jume ta Li hed iH] stabil allen roe prpene ay alee Just as Japan stood at the cams her tical pare ah 18, im teday at et tam of her industrial if . a poe Santen Chica io er ead ing ing Japan with Chitee rt de nese muarhorts, ‘ this. pare thee work and live for lesa the Chinese can overeor; ‘all a, the Japanese. Another prom oa: = PRCeRVeG o etet of peods=.- sak her new tra ration on Japan wil oot fie wy ahe is in the chron of pars deuremsioe doe to inflation gral mere Her wages are BM) to 408 per ee oe + than before the war, tiaras — finues unabated, and the meng on = man has not written off be bs balance of trade ig etree yt gure: | she t3 losing her goid reserve af Gs we one million yen—mapprecinaiely dred thousand dollars—a dep, Se further ae. a i totter: juaiment toe ta t mkingice = ence, for tens of thoussdi ef eagles shipyarihs, arsenals ace) Glee al le their jobs, In Jeg ithe = dictates that no workmen ee without whet is keen niowanee, It ip note emily thm A bonus berms |t soeien) Eee premium on inedcieney. Tou ae sel understand what Viscount Este tion to the Haron Adenia) Ge heoded the Japanese delegates gt ington—who is head af pposttion Party, revel, wham, fa me at ‘Todi, “Japan os porte and confidence abroad of the coy eeanomic unrest and foseible ecce aster at home.” Safeguards for China T have tocched only the aap | Japanese economic situation wi © eaential to this prelimiary = fuller explanation of ber Tee & —_ problems, and espectaliy the: changing from o parely grevics & industrial mission and of fpeey] characta - oof her merchonie gd with the stey of br eo eS system, will be mace in eee ra One pe nabie innoretion mu i i bere, Although possibly a stip © 4 nese reactionaries, tt is nef mally} what-might bbe called 9 comeercal gt will suc ceed that other and wares tinct pulitical geno wa =e country for yeara, Tt wil era the Hines of the commer! er advanced Germany te ber pa =) before the World War Te Jupan will probably be al of J. Inouye, gcverner of the Jian, who Teprele th und progressive apn le ie This genro must hove al attain politien! sffiliethone i Hion. Lf it comes ini 3 stabilizer of imumens vale. much towards divorcing ra from the mars or los the Foreign and War Otiem When you tum fom eae & ference results in China ale “| arainat «a well. nigh baling Pree Practically the whole of Se. af the republic 26 me ay. F tional finance bagged m@ oe miil aiiministration, ch ae distinct governments, « == solved, mot of the mami coiinet sbaent, gle 2 bankrupt treasury, you ds mt * it i practically impamte capitalize —cerioinly pol at ee menses moral gapport and peal S got at Washington, Te be then an an anti-(Cbre eveioped. Almost against ber it ale moral pressure the W ae i automatically nafegoareag OSS warning by the Washingt = tion that no fox: oe (Centiawed oa Pap ©

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 61 Nesdde Ghoro “™* GINGER ALE t For those who dance and those who don’t (OME like a fox-trot, To others a waltz is still the best. Even the one-step has its followers—and some don't lice to dance at all. What-a difference when it comes to drinking Clicquot Club Ginger Ale. They aif ifke st. There is something bewitching in the sight of tiny bubbles leaping from the bottom and sides of the glass, dancing up through the clear, golden liguid to sparkle and break at your lips. And the taste—who shall describe the taste of it? The only froe description of Clicquot Club is—a drink of Clicquot Club. Clicquot is made with water gE LEBRATED Acaps\ | ‘no EXTRA ORT INGER ALE ET PLASORE 1S ve PUD OLeteS S CLiCQUOT SPe GS Mer Ce s Eee, we Cd Joe aoa bee reer euch equot Club Co. Millis. Mass from bed-rock springs, Only real Jamaica ginger is used. The other ingredients—sugar and fruit juices —are just as pure as can be found. The blend never varies, so that every bottle of Clicquot tastes like the one before and the next, It i a most dependable, friendly, happy drink. But you needn't be limited. You can give everyone the choice of Clicquot Club Ginger Ale, Sarsa- parilla, Birch Beer, or Root Beer, The flavors are as different as their names—the purity of all is the same. Buy Clicquot by the case for home use. ‘ THE CLICQUOT CLUB COMPANY, Millis, Mass., U. 5. A.

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Colson Wheel Chairs and Cripplea® Trcrcles Ricoh for All Sheed The COLSON Co, WS24 Caden St., Lyris, 0 i is unified, but it is a unification | Gaverninent is not on | | | birth of a really and truly united ci | traveler these laat years, 8 | iio where the high coat of lbvin | live more cheaply i } will make perh i property to be j ) atwill. China. un uit THE SATURDAY (‘Caitinaed Fram Page 90) without the knowledge of the American a blaw te Puropean militarism but enge to mushrenm | capitalists who have financed with shoe- strings in China and elsewhere, Every now and then you read that China that only wi the breach. You also hear it stated by parlor upliftera that China's funda- mental needa are railways, the improve- ment of communication, currency reform andeducation, But what China needa more than anything else ia a moratorium an mill- tarism and a drastic control of the tuchun system, Until this is done the country will not only drift on to a oo hopeless divi- sion but will probably fail ut to realize on the supreme opportunity afforded by the conference. Take Shan-tung. If the prea- ent disruption continues China will not be able adequately to resume her asl aon there, With the departure of the first Ja nese troops an era of banditry began. he Chinese allege that the Japanese instigated it, but whatever lta source, it is a menace te order and Chinese restoration, With eivil war on, China may be obliged to turn to Japan for aieaiste policing in Shan- tung: and Japan is no philanthropist. These are the plain blunt facts about a country for which we all have a large senti- mental interest, coupled with a correspond- ing amount of ignorance, marvel is that China is able to function at all. Depts all the plundering and dislora- tion that I have deecri the ancient Colossus moves on. The people live and nae their Ee Even new banks are and famine prevention om ial way, It is probably due to the fact that China, as someone has said, "is a civilization and not a nation.” In kinahip with the Halkana she seemea to be able to withstand the roughest kind of treatment and survive, Like the proverbial poor, her troubles ablde with wa always. She will survive the present crisis, which comes unfortunately at a time when the world expecta more from her than civil etrife. Optimists maintain that the chaos and usion that this year con- stitute the travail that means the See inf, Even if this is true she is losing the sell- ing point for outside help which would have eame het on the heels of the conference, Thus ale will have to fall back on that traditional self-help which haa ao long been a theory and not a condition with her. The principal self-help in China ao far haa been nmong corrupt officials who helped them- stlves ta the public funda, Living Cheap in Ching bie saa led the ier atfkiel te unable to gras opportunity the ini a cogs jg Rami —_ compensations for those who tarry in her mit, 8o far as observation ia eon- cerned, and I have tty steady is the one as a After extortion in Landon, aw York, ing te bi ce een you are con- atantly afraid that 7 wake up and find out that it is all a mistake. You can in China with @ greater degree of comfort than you can in any other part of the world The outlook for China is not altogether . The Chinese are fundamentally democratic, and some day they will bring about a reall autonamy in the provinces that s for a United States of China, America bos always been the ideal of the intelligent Celesti L can best sum up the situation as it now shapes by quoting what a man, of American parents in Ching and who has lived there all his life, snid to me in dia- cussing the plight of the nation. In commenting on the almoet incessant eivil war, which is merely a sueceasion _ conflicts between the tuchuna for personal power and plunder, he declared: “So far only the intelligence of the Chinese people has been insulted in the struggle between the military governors, The time will come when their persons will affronted, and when this time arrives they will rise up and make short shrift of the overlords who have | regarded the country a2 a piece of personal etd wits and fought over Mexico, does not need a dictator af the Ding type, She merely r= quince: the exercise of a united will, which for the moment, seems dormant." stran ariel like a dream. ci EVENING POST This swift survey of China and Ja after the conference would be incomplete without a reference to Huasaia. ai in Europe, she remaina a hat Kiine w The ghost of the Bear that Ki sa aboar still stalks through cher Fan East. homeland He haunts a 1 despoiled by the cancer of Bolshevism and ran its Si= herian outposts seized by his itary entmins, the Japanesq, you see the Russia of the old school these days you also see tragedy. Nowhere ia it more Bn i fee than in Asia. Exiled and im are hangers-on in ce Fal where once De thee But this sentimental digression is not the nt T want to mane. In nearly every istian in the East burns the desi: re for on cage first for the humiliation dan gen in the war of 1904, second for geet “they aa me tion in Siberia. in the hour of thet Being the But there is another reason. nd the Russian desire for a reckoning is the hope of an ultimate restoration of the ice-free of Dairen, the same onetime Dalny that waa te have been the capital of a commercial and political Asiatic empire dominated by the Slay Japan ia alive to this remote Russian menace and has undoubtedly sought to Sine tn Russian military and politica collapse in the Far East, In her pre Tess ros pore the Melanie States was no @ oon ypothetical enemy. Whether the apanese show-down eimiis of not, Russia remaing an indetermi- nate factor in the balance of power of Asia. Premier Tokohashi's Message For the final aL capi ter of this narrative let me reveal the chief actors in the drama of the changing East, and bet them have their aay. Take firat the Viscount Takahashi, who succeeded the lamented a5 r of Japan, I went to see him at his official where, by the way, nobody re aides, He is rotund, ns an fiserutabbe tues, and looks like-a bronze and bearded Buddha. Unlike Ll George he is a man of practical ness experience. American ankers know him as former president of the Yokohama Specie Bank; later as or of the Bank of Japan, which does ‘or Nippon what the Bank of England does for England; and still more opie, How Minister of Finance. Moat People, aw ever, are not aware of his romafti from poverty—his eye WR -" aamurai—to wealth and political sal Born in Sundal, the Boston of Japan, he pe to California in ee earlier oe ex- ng one of the pioneer Ja students, When he arrived he dianivaced that he was to be a servant, and not a student, in the home of the American who itl him to come, He worked so faith= that his master sent him to college. that time Viscount Takahashi's life was a series of adventures, He acted aa interpreter to Prince Iwakura, the first Japanese envoy to the United States, and wie later the dupe of a German get-rich- quick artist who exploited a nonexistent silver ting in Peru. Returning to Ja he was stcemmively teacher of English in a college, founded the Bureau of Patents and eventually got into banking by way at Deum eaperratentert of construction of the new af the Bank of Japan, Oneo in finanes, his advance was rapi Like most Japanese, Viscount Takahashi aka many questions, He was much inter- ested in my Super MEnCeS with General Smuts, That he hos a sense of humor is rf age fe gr this littl: episode. I told him tha met every European Premier nt the outbreak of the war, amd that it George was the only one who still held his job, Instantly his almost mashlike face Telaxed inte a amile and he asked, “What is hia formulaT" At the manent the Opposition Party in Japan was trying to smoke him out of office, and nearly sucoreded ‘The Premier declined to be interviewed in the usual fashion—thia is pF obably the result we Pie Xperience a8 wi ra agreed prepare a statement sent him the anette, T did a0 and included ii vest for a message to the American people wa the result of the _ veahinghen conference, His statement in full ig follown: Peace hos now almost completely bern asured by the apaPPy conclusion of the Quad= ruple Agroeme ] mr Selfish nationaliem wus uealy i. | . of the diplomatic thealinggy of ome sacs po | anat This age af national = wwhed upon the go gine ference peerage 4 pore deal erree ; this spirit of the age. x The peace COVerEIES!, prom! bo ardent desite to see an eller pine - ibs Cheat ey. hha x i mee, keasly rea pen oh ‘ unbicatbon peacelal i, st la ewer peadly te de ber ete nl fare of the four bees? neag — fio Sees che tar a| civilization, ee The Japanese poverimest bo = o ll sion interfered with tha be irterma oes il Prussia, but bas strictly adhere ttt 27- = of abectute seutralicy strifes of the Hossiars, ane 7 faithiol to ber frequent pledges ov: her troope stationed bb mee ao ples ory Province mapas hb tee ee ane stability in Shera. tae ly concerned over the preview in iberia ond Hossia, and & ze a Re T: 1 i to jpn aga thas tt had enough of the glorew of e-aled and are geeking with an esthomem o dented in thelr histery the realoucom Os and politics! Liberals, I ean reiterate varcthereyt. thn lena Previous eteate ment ther the war thet national developmest bo ine through military forse. Kev bh of the Ja aE a peaceful developement of the o mort age felt Force oa = = hated. Gur people were willingly he: GEneCOUs concen vv troversy, 5 Eas agi on gm —T aman & rithing that . Faran's tcieee lornegt poly Fukicd by the princinies of hs éof peace, make wi shal oer nomic and financial codperasion woh bors aa well as to her general come foreign countries. The veil "at trisandenasting owed the relations of Japa end te States wea completely cemewed by in conference, dinom it a = + hemor tn me resulting in a glorious eaccess for i peace in the Parifie and the Fat Eat Lam particularly be coo ae ll vings regarding the ros See a ee E and hes downed = my pegion of the acitie but on the woul ay the ip oof inten timent to which we, the tr nations, belong, draw os stil coer the coming reign of equitable psa ing peice, T Alt the Foreign Offic ext eames: the Vex @ Japanese Minister of Fores: 4 him I fownd the suave ond : attuned to ewery note of aatutr d = Edueated in Germany, be wae = sador to the United States, ant ' the same capacity at T had several talks with | brick Foreign (Office, which che call the Gaimusho, As] et ® Paperstrewn desk I ar matic secrets that it bed ? histerle gray structare m Oe! sitase in Kerlin veer oe hand welded an empre : with international inwrst Ga ture where Japan's wort! rae i fContinned oa kage

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Statler Buffalo - Cleweland - Detroit - St. Louis Anew Hotel Stather (01 potas, 1 100 tat les) be nici Inuilelitag al Auffale-— ta apen early in Dt: A aclelitional rooms will be alba loter. -It Begins with the Room-Clerk Ay E. M. STATLER—being one of a series of ads embodying instructions to Statler employees. QOD personal service, in any first-class hotel, begins on the A sidewalk—with the carriage man or doorman. But the mest. important person in the hotel, to an arriving guest, is the room-clerk. So we Insist, in these hotels, that it isn't enough for the room- clerk to be merely “courteous” —courteous as a matter of form, The fact that he is constantly weleoming people, hundreds of them every day, shouldn't make his weleome to you anv less real. He's there, really, to be helpful te the people wha came to us: if he isn't helpful—and good-natured in his helpfulness—he's poor roomeclerk, We can't afford to have poor room-clerks of uninterested rom. derks in these good hotels. You cansee, ly the attached instructions, Ghat we consider the room-Cerk an important nin te aM ore bon, Amel wr believe that you will have oo trouble in doing busine<. with bem, plensantly arucl satisfactorily, whenever Poot carat Lao fps June Moan Instructions to Room-Clerks “Tn the first place, you lave to toke seriously aml literally every word of instructions in ‘The Statler Service (oles, i “You have lo peamember thal vou are sever wong oomnn a faver in selling him o room. 1 hove seen room-tlerks who lovked bored, or superior, or patron: ing ~gruntiog actknawbealgements, «dictating terms, working grudgingly. Fut T want to say that oobealy van ile that mn our hotels amd stay am thie jis, “You won't always have just whaila man asks for al just the mowvent he asks for it, af course. Thue are the very tines when it ideasy Por the arrong Eau Otel of roomelerk to give a customer the iden that Ive bias what's wanted, but won't sell it bensuse be prefers to sell something ele. Wateh, particularly unl especially, the way you handle people who want, the kind of rooms on whieh you an oversald. | know, and you know, that the traveling public pets a spare ileal at aur feom ceaks; bet it is quite easy—deradl eaay—for you ta give the custmeecr an idea that he ian Et petting a osypuare deol. AU die bia dis junky hy, WO aint, ia one jateree fa Bia Prpinee, Wateli yuursell, “TE pemgle find UW dificult ur auigdeasan! tio ihe TMisigess al the room cbeak, that’s q ire sign af a peor nenen-erk, : “Think of the men anc women @ ho mone be ps ne being yowr guests, in your howe They re invite! to come here, vou koow, wed thew have rerry ope | eqqeect a courteous anal endia) interest in theer wane “Tf you can't meet and care for peogle is the “junit. if vou con't or wort be courtesans ein] (hele fol ond grocicus god plement wb eery step of joa work —and with VoOMF feller amnplorees fio wel @ wall awier eats cleat lew fay he @ niesenerderk ler P0020 Ls

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itetliued from Page 82! val, My second visit to the minister atheday alter the monster demonstra- in front of the Parliament Building, a bundred thousand men sought to ace the Diet in favor of the universal. ge ball. The Foreign Office was still ‘heavy guard. wount Debi bemonned the fact. that pan the er and his cabinet are ‘aj to sit in the Diet ns a continuous tor the heekler, This is unlike the hevatern, where the various ministries patlamentory secretaries who act ag amen. Japan’ Foreign Policies waa the case with the Premier, the er of Foreign Affairs preferred to out his statement for Lent age s important rpg yet y all ae statesmen pp Then they hat they will Le ake misgqueted. Cin, w before To deft Tokio [0 reeeived nt Uchida's replies to my ae wert mainly devoted te the future ar foreign policies. This is what he vorld owes a deht ot eathoda to the in Government for initiatives on the leadership it has token in calling shim = eonference and making it o oO y the Wiadom and the statesman Teal fen who had the vision to foresse faith to believe that greed memalts might ved hy a gat If the conference hea done in ne cmd will epee ees aad Peon the world, certainly it hel a1 for the betterment. of Bed site of felations, Wiany queationa of pe vieret to the tro countrios were idjusted ond evil influences which hove the ie of their cordial yan wore to their uarters, if mot awept rely. We refoice with Americona thet an Ty understandings have been reeched of the grave questions which hove e bended to drive our countries apart. sult of the Washington ——— we ned the om of ng o hasse of on and aes] deddeseea ting, in- indulging in talka af conflicting in- From the atand point of Amerlea and ec crowning achievement of the eon- ald io ite moral ond educational : hes aime ond sapirationa inknown or ill Tepresented, and how much of ignorance ond misgiving. Japan all know that Americo ond ithe two countries which can be d should remain eo, We hove long dene that. if correctly informed, the piblie will find mo cause for alarm. dg agalnat Japan. The difficulty we wae that Jimeries was auch a big dosountey with auch an enormous. i consisting of such diverse elements, m were too busily occupied with tre scasibilities within their imnmdiaty ay much attention to or make an hings which were going on outside of their own domestic activities. In le, they seemed to have mo time oF ind care little to know about other ir prop lin, exoept perhaps fer curi- py indifference of the American pub- o have been noticeably replaced by cent interest aince the Washington which was marked by frank pag onest publicity. ) America and Japan hove core ent. wence bertier freesie than they were ae aE, and the pile of both eoum- fa future of renewed hopes. It as @ aagurmnce that the interests of Amerien de not clash and that the wth eountries are actuated be the for pence and friendship. that these reaulta alone have made gton conference worth while, and that no backward ste ever be shew road upon which we have en- ect to our relationa with China, the | conference hoa heen equally geati- given thf On opportunity to ehaw | Tir and demonstrate the fact that hing but @ friendly feeling towords ighbor of the continent. Japan, in hee ether powers, haa tried, as , te help China out of her preacnt > Nine Powers Treaties relating to id policies concerning China ond Susterma “Tari? and several other shich were concluded or passed at ce, fairer treatment of China has and relations between the great intiona that trade with China have ized, thoreby removing much of = arising mot only berween China that power but between all the wir commen relations to China, the case of Japan, by conclusion with Ching ra es - former wl territory af ju, whe of the moet Steen eee in and (China, bering of this kind could . THE SATURDAY Tn all these arran Japan hes made to China posable con- crasion, the extent of which is in f belies beliews, much ter than what any othor power could or | prea would make, She dora not nip id it, for ahe believes that the agecriflera she hea made will not be in vain, in the greater couse of interno- tional friendahip and good will. Japan is fir are, to carry out most faithfully ond ossiduouly the apirit as well as the terma of these treatine and resolutions. Aod [ believe Chinn is no lon earnest in her endeavors to do all thot is within herself to ep the fruits of the labors of the conference, which have accomplished ao much inher faver. Te is trae, ae was pointed out by Mr. Balfour, that Ching must werk out ber owe destiny In accordance with the changes of the changing wort that all other fa can sot ja to rae aT her slang ber 5 path: that whe has ttle to gain advien; and that it ie rs SOUReRA . agrongth drawn from within borecl? and thease alone, in the leet reaort, that she must f hea bees ond is reody to do whatever Japan she slit to help China alomg ber path. She how rood Wie for China. Not only has she inyere th - Page ee - vitally interested in ce and untty in ch iil ay re oi rire iy deve ment ot her vast natural resources, | you briefly | ao and Chins are clam nelghbora, But | their esonomle relations are not the samo as the | economit relations between the United States ond Maxico, for example. Tho great country of Americn has everything within ber own wast territory. In the case of Japan it is different. She herself in an extraordinary poaition of being dependent for eo much of her trade on a single eountry—China. It is te this Asiatic d that we a look primarily for cur raw materiale and f jartured peste marketa far oar manufac aking ne-clatm on thie att al interference in the t Ching Ja conshders it, , an obvious fact that ahe hea oo i wny | tran iy a at the seme time a4 ane extrnordinary interest. in China ah acne and welfare. is not af oars pevkion, Tt as | nani by the fi of j population Y, ahabiting a few pers situsted of | the const of a Yast continental country com- parable among the states of the world to India alons in eee gtk to numbers, and whose ports l the avenues to thelr o ean but entertaln a unique Li altogether — terest in ite affaires, If the islanda of fiat Britain were lying off oo a an indopendont India it is impoasib opie that the United Kin m would ae fete acl aspects) internet in Indian affairs. The United States hes from time te time evineesd on espe lal interest in the West Indian affairs, up to tho int of intervening in Cuba, Haiti and San . merely for the sake of securing and settled government in those weigh: Sack historical fenie—-and wwe sould an multiply examplea—prove that the aeuinee one stabs to i Tauet in the po things depend lar the ar andy andl rance of = hat the low vuriea with porallela of latitude fe an geuurehial ition thet needs oo reluto= ‘tion. the application of the law differs gecording to the circumstances of the cum in equally self-evident. Conditions that bap pet ars momentary uneasiness toa distant uninterested state may be a matter of life and death to a near neighbor, The rela of related ict the Unined Kingdom are 4 determined By eormiderations of Soe Can The Taphical position of the anal makes the relations of Britain to b very AT pene from what they would be Egypt were in Borneo, The proximity of Tons to Algiers made the attitude of Fraoce to Tunis Tecmmarily diferent from what it wold have been had Tunis been in Palestine. Let un apply these principles te the cose of J =. Sinky years Japan was iolated, supporting art contained, Not b her on secking, but rout © the Invitation Pee een haa now mit bo & Enel extent rat indisstria!l nation, depending a ae _s af tet of ei nay. The The sealer pect of ae Pa Fr talons ait “The maja place with exuhangs Te ia thua cident’ that a reasonahly ante, fous and contented Ching with which abe ran Sount on an uninterrop normal intercourse, is for Japon an economic administration Tightly regarded aa an unpardonable interren- tion in the eoncerna of a free and independent wiate—Japan nevertheless fecla that it cannot fairly be denied that ake and her myrlada of people have an interest in the peace ond welfare of her great eoighbor which ia far tranacendont of that which con be aacribed to any of the fomoter and lem deeply concerned nationa, To them the orderly development of China mieana much of means litte. To Jnpan it mean ererything. 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‘Cotisued from Poge 95) ae these Vital coge in Japan's well- iad functioning governmen Tea to the lige thea of China 7 = Ap iarety. But this ia precise yt a we now = In Mr. Liang §) : i “hold omol the primary causes 0 ehetwern the two war lords, Chang jand Wu Pel-fu, which haa brought tothe vere of a really serious elvil pow Shih-yi is soa aoerallend EK ane nd is reputed to be one of best men in the republic, Like his «, Viscount Takeheshi, he is a finaceler, for he is the real force the Bank of Communications, and vated in many other profitable en 3, For twenty years he has alter- ei re t and private olitical itlon ee mein he Thee a a well ed mattress to fall back on. In hia PT] posit many exciting parta. He ely amocda with Yian Shi-Kai sat giro mperor ntleman tried * himself China in 1815, lta Ay to Hong-Kong for hia life, -organized political movement in ines the overthrow of the Manchus ly been complete without him, As tof fact, his occupation of office has varied and hectic that it is often to know when he ts in and when he Early in April he was continued as mier” while Mr. Chow Tze coal his trusted lieutenants, was i] “Acting Premier.” Only o ) the throes of her present almost cgi sy aca eqld project the two separate and distinct operatht ” different Shih, iewed se h where he Saino iy idishment oceupied by one ai the Sines: conoerma that he controla, qablue brocaded robe, over which iblack avtin jacket, he looked aa Lf epped out of an old Chinese print, epitomizes craft and siecle = at unfailing courtesy which Chinese almost first among pera of . He was erturbed over the crinim that, or eae no Eh he yer brought le speaks no ‘lish and cur long jon was carried “00 through an ie Aoiiiization Necessary the Premier to explain the chaos and his reply was: “Unification prevented for many reasons. In were not strong enough to put Southern | “8 In aig both F) unprepared when the oppor- ther came. The real os unity ia the de and the tuchuns, which keepe the i continuous disorder, With a arliament and the widespread that prevaila today, unity is at step towards the unification # to disband her armies. Only sons should be maintained ta . This demobilization will not des must make concessions. I * of retiring both presidents, ea- i temporary onal w ealling together the porlia- 7, revising the constitution, and ig a president. During this in- ‘ermier could function as bem- (China's real lof the republic. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST hope and salvation lie in federated govern- with al the | ment iberal autonomy in proviness, In this way a United hearer of China could be achieved, with Peking as the capital. The American system is my Su olen sith aide will mak a pose neither make corneas iW T asked. “Then we must use force," replied the Premier, “Wu Pei-fu ia the one stumbling block io ve unification of China, and if he refines itace he must be put down." I might ‘ada vé this ba mig what Chang in told me at Mu I the Premier what he When thought of the results of the Washington conference he o : “The conference pointed the way to a new moral obligation on the part of Ching, We ere conscious of it and eager to show that we appreciate what is done for us. We cannot doit, how- | ever, BO long as Ching remaing an a oa How about Shan-tung?" I[ ‘peat queried. ge nnn ee ne nted the rely eet la more than the tranefer of a lway. [et iso big moral step that proved te China that ahe the moral au of a considerable part of the world. Hut we must de our pert in justifying the resto- tation.” represe | umph of right over might," waa the Ano Japanese Relations Reatitally ane ‘nee next question related to the mew atti! an towards China. To this Mr. r-taane 3 h-yi made the fal- ha. are two in this capil A new Japan. One ia Rep ie of diplomats, who profess a heart towards us and who talk of er The other is the mili group, which is unregenerate and whi still wants to Sens int Japan eager to an on W Mencburie’ ike the one she now Het South Manchuria. I hope the United States will not permit this. “Unfortunately there has been a minarity in China very [Mendly to the rapt This section & dwindling. ig, am glad chet Woe want to be economical polities i free of Japan, for, aa I before, we still fear her militarists." “How about the future? was my final question, The Premier puffed at his cig few moments and then res the inevitable tinification will came ero nomic order, We Chinese realize the folly of all the deruption that now prevails, We need financial help ond we know that unless we agree among ourselves we can- not loans, China is rich in rescuree amd instinct is for peace. I believe the t crisis will show the way to ultimate aw and order,” for a “Wwe vs ea calm ‘is a hatied by a a itieal| Sera in China and the social economical up- heaval that ‘ates Japan, Yet all this digarder may eileen a be the natural dis- location toe to a grad ual break-up of the aid ardersa. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ene Ba LESS THAN THE DUST Never!" replied Joan fervently. “The word ‘when" isn't inclu in vooabu= lary. Pour till it spills. That's the idea! I hooked a glass for you, Pete, but I'm rather inclined to hang om to it. Cocoa's about your speed. Let me be blasted where I sit if you aren't the rettenest duffer that ever served doubles. You can have your ring i bark any the you want it—disamenda can't pay me for the vaare af agcny and | shaume that 7 mee oF realed before me.” | “Eland it over her late fianot ) lightly; but Sa that wed hot entirely mirthful touched ie flushed young fare jand friendly hazel eyes, “Can't say I blame ec and it'll help me ner af a filthy hole. I've lost everything, includ | ing g my shirt, to the gent from alifcrnis, | and it might buck him up to see something soariin eave it over this way.’ |") haven't got it,” replied Joan blandly, ePunching a large piece of ice between her small square teeth. “Lost it at craps last night to Ramon. Gad, that's ead! Hold my nl Frisco, before it freezes.” You're joking,” sald Peter Leeda | sternly, the flush dying in bis face. "And j | it's @ poor joke, if you ask me." "And you're § por judge af jokes, if you ,askme. Pulling o chair out w Berean | starte to sit down is your idea of a really [ Read one. But this is the time you go to | the foot of the class; your diagnosis is all wrong. That iho a ea pure up against grim reality, love! mon hasn't presented it to someone olsea—w9 while warm-hearted, I don't believe that he'd go that far—he certainly has the ring. | Vile luck, children. One thousand dollar | and a diamond ring sitting right out in the | moonlight, and litth Joan, the child won- der, proceeda to crap. Two ones—count ‘em—two. (I'll never believe in Santa Claus ot sterka or hell-fire again. Some thing died in me—but it seemed to give | Ramon o good deal of quiet satiafaction. He caid it waa more thats just a ring ta him-—it wes e ‘seernbell." “You gave that fellow pitas: Sl Young Leeds’ voier cul the warm envy mir like a knife. Joan did tok even Lift her golden hend from the tell clas, “Your ring?” she inquired, coolly in- adlent. “How d" get thut wey? My ring —or was ita loan?” By a the boy pos- on," warned Rod swiftly, an orm about his shoulders, “Here's M now; keep your head, old boy—don't bet him see he's got you going. Here, finish this, Joan, scr eONe ought to take a horse — we aa

slonately bad pat wooder-ful | Youd ‘res perfect a lth a hore whip, This t ae oe ront Paris with cur Ramon? Pretty pleture—everythin | that grandmother wore but mitta and | spectacles, wick worker theugh. You | have to hand her that! Look at on'a glorified expression !"* ~‘Aerosa grern space of lawn that sloped from the house to the tennis court came two figures, very slowly; so slowly | that it waa pomible to take in certain | Peering details of the emallor figure's ong before it actually stood before | them. Three incredulous paira of feminine jeves riveted themselves on the floppy puraaal with ruffica, the even flonpier bag with more ruffles, the pale pink muslin dress with ruffles ‘and ruffles and ruitics, the enorme drooping straw hat with ite wreath of Foeoes and | Hack velvet streamers, the elghteen inches of black velvet fibben that went around the only small waist that Long Island had seen It fiftern years, the knot of fonget-me-nets. and fe ey that hell the demure fichu demurely Lee, and the lon bleck ribbon from n which ¢ dangled a small abject, araying slightly before the dazzled gaze of the behoalders. “Joan!” whispered Babbie, clutching frenziedly at that lady. “Joan—look! Do yousee what Tsee? Joon, that thing on the end of the ribbon—that isn't a locket, ia bet" “Sa help me Mbowes!"" gaid Joan, “It's dull gold—and it's got a half pearl in it— and it's heart-shaped—and it's a locket!" “Here, cut lt aut!" said the gentleman from San Francisco unexperted|, “She'll heres ou. What's the matter with you any= He scrambled hastily to his feet, (Centnaecd from Poge fi pel al the trio of critics, and Babbie's ay laugh wavered. No; but look at that parasol,” mur- mured the tragic Paula, galvanized tu interest. "She isn't real. She's stopped to pick a flower. Do look! What's the matter, Tolliver? Do they grow them like that in the West?" “T wish to God they did," replied the

late dispenser of cheer viclently, “I awear I think the world's gone cuckoo, Juat be- cause a girl's got all clothes on ™ “We : she's probably showi exoollent aR ably, * y's oo gilt if you've got knock=kreos, Cr Hurry wp, your head and stand at attention— rose in the rosebud gard en of girls is flutter= ing your Way. | Introduce us to your lady Fue, The superb ya men animal with the satin ert i display ea nen a and im- pudent dimples r gravely. "Meee Carstairs, you permit mel Mees ares Meesees rahume, Mees Thorn, — "T"ve met Miss Curstaira,"' sud Bab- bie briskly, “More than you have, ['ll bet, Ramon. Boys, this is Surah Anne Car- aieirs, Airs, Carstairs’ very best niece, come all the way fram the convent te show us how little girls ought to behave, e're a roughneck gang, Sarah Anne, but we're going to do our beat. These here gentlemen are muy brother Hodman; Joan's young man, Peter Leeda, who's got a mad on her; and Mr. La Rue Sinelair Tolliver, who came out of the Weat and haa ta mad onallofus. Sit down and tell ua ow you picked up Ramon.” "Tl wae 0 fortunate to meet Mees Car- stairs’ thother one, in Dinard, though Meca Carstairs was net there,” vouchsafed Ramon stiffly. “On what you eqeupeck her to seet, if I may ask?" “Tl try to pet a chair from the hous," said Red briefly, but Mr. Tolliver of San Francses pas. read under WY. “Oh, please," said Sarah Anne Car- stalra—and the small clear voice rang as startlingly lovely os o fairy bell—*" please do not bother, You see I found a gentle man by the swimming pool and asked hirn the way to the tennis court; and he said that be would immediately bring a chair. And then 1 was so fortunate as to find Seiior Mendoza on his way here from the house, so he showed ma the And here comes the chair now. Thank you sa very much—one thousand times I am afraid [ do not know your name." “My nacee's Grahame,” replied the taci- turn Ft in ao amazingly cordial tone, "Tt waan't any trouble at all, Want o no behind yout Hew about another That all right?" "That ia quite pies pertect,"" replied Sarah Anne. She did not speak with any marked accent, but something strange and exquisite touched her words, flawer of a butteriig’s win T was, and now to sit with ¢ cae great soft cushions all about mo—it is like heaven, Tk did not tire you to carry this so enormous mir? Crrahanve laughed indulgentiy, “Wall, lardly." “AR, you are streang,”” counmured the occupant of the ao eaermeus chale gravely, She leaned back, surveying the seone about her with wide dave-colared e er anal pale face looking at ance d meat aid brave under the Ssical af the gremt hae, The young person fram Trance was ecr= tainly pat witiful. Her hands, with the litth black velvet bows defining the slim wrists, were beauti- ful; the low voice was beautiful too. Noth- ing else; Babbie had not born so far wrong, after all, “Hut this is a most lovely garden. Alter that wicked sea it is good to see the trees and the = grass and the kind Utile flowers, am glad indeed that we are neighbors, Barbara. Fron my aunt's porch I can quite well aee this tires, ane if 1 turn my head [can amell your roses, That is lucky for me. Deliclous they are, your “Smelling foxes is one of our great out- door sports," remarked Joan agreeably. “Wo goin for it by the hour, Just mow, though, I'd rather smell something else for iL change. Flask empty, Friseo?" "Wo," replied Friseo without enthusi- S31. “Want sone more? “Tl aay ao. Have some, See Carstairs?” “But what ia it?” ™Aoech. “ Haockh 7" “Fire water, my chid: the foe. fruit: the breath of fe, Ge wards, "You drink aT" “Weil, Leer when os ie Tor some bad hours i onsy aut it, but, by ace Large i “pepe tion to say we drink it. I tuice leaves you cd?" “Vou are kine — but no, I w= = any. [te armel! is “You're the ome t's ee The fewer the merrier,inthngeee = ng of smells, just what partiestes bre Yyouusing? [t's dememord Galle mu stuff [ve been ploming myself co = a really food orchestra. Wks try it, Miss Carstairs?" “Tt if most tempting ~ mae &= all iad you ahem be oo ke & Te, Gt me, | wi have a will have good Tis A arn ba She len forward Hlce Ae sketching a ermal enpandve c- one lovely hand, Babhie prosce : (Coatiacta om age Pl “rae —

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Keep Malaified in A : Fourfrarrliingbag. — e HE a pPedranoe ane lrealaliy comalition af your hair depend largely upon the care you give it. Ff your scalp is allowed to e hard and drv, if dandruff is allowed to ulate, falling hair and baldness are verv result. aring for the hatr, Proper shay WHEE i the most important thing the shampuwing which keeps the hair anid wealthy; besides, it brings owt the real 1 lustre and takes your hair salt, fresh and luxuriant. n-your hair has been shampeocd properly, thorough, clean, th wad] Le glossy, life. ight and fresh looking & your hair must have frequent and recu- hing te keep tf in good condition, tt can- 10 the harsh effect of free alkali which is tin ordinary soaps. The free alkali soon pscalp, makes the hair brittle and ruins it. is why discriminating men use Mulsifverd t of shampoo. This clear, pure and greaseless product cannot possibly in- dg it does not drv the scalp or make the tle, no matter how often you use i, want te see how well vou can make your ¢, just follow this simple method: A Simple, Easy Method ‘wet the hair and scalp in good warm . “Fhen apply a littl Mulsihed cocoa- shampoo, rubbing it in thoroughly all scalp ane hair. r three teaspoonfuls will make an abun- rich, creamy lather. Thie should be 1 thoroughly and briskly with the finger 6 to loosen the dandrutl and small par: Just and dirt that stick to the scalp. you have cone this, cinse the hatr an roughly. using clear wart water. The a) rer application of Mulsified, applying it oe forme. he final washing, the hair anc scalp rinsed in at least iwo changes of good ‘er ane followed with u rinsing im cold you have rinsed the hair thoroughly, kly with a turkish towel until i dry, it a goood brushing After a Mulsifiesd lhlow to Keep Your nlair Inlealltlyy lFresln=Loolk- ing and lLuxuriant Keep Mulsified ia your locker. Uae if aith your rAomwer. Wothiageorefrenhe ing after a Agra day's work of « Fan poo with Madrifted, shampoo you will fine the hair will dry quickly and have the appearance of being nuch thicker and heavier than ir ia, Make ita rule to set a certain day each week for a Miulsitted cocoanut ol shampoo. This rewulir weekly MAL are will key thie savsalyy sole anal the fur fine andl silky, bright amd bresh looking, antl in will be noticed and adiminal by ever Voie, You can eT Viulsifer! at any drug stare oot botlet goods counter anywhere in the work. AC 4eounoe bottle: should last for months. Teach Your Boy To Shampoo His Hair Regularly T may be hard to per a boy te shampoo his hair regularly, but it’s mighty important that he clones an. Get your boy in the habit of shampooing his hair regularly once cach week. A boy's hate being short, it will only take a few minutes’ time, Put two or three teaspoonfuls of Mulsitied in a coup or glass with a litth warm water. Then wet the hair and scalp with clear warm water, Pour the Mulsifted evenly over the haic—aned rubit in vigorously with the tips of the fingers. This will stimulate the scalp, make an abundance af rich, creamy lather ancl cleanse the hair thoroughly. Lt takes onky a few seconds to rinse it all out when through. You will be surprised how this regular weekly shampooing with Mulsifiel will improve the ap- pearance of iis hair, and vou will be teaching your boy a habit he will appreciate in atfter-life, for a luxuriant head uf hair is something every mun feels mikhty iia all, WATKINS ULSIFIED | REGUS. BAT oFF, COCOANUT OIL SHAMPOO | = Bae Mulrified a giars ing, Don't det dust and dirt remain ia your hair. wt), THE A. Lw.co

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100 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 4 nz The Playboy — by Jordan A remarkable motor car which caught the Lines are Jowand sweeping. Cushions hug fancy of the American people, young and the floor. Wheel is tilted to a position of old, and justified its alluring name. relaxed ease. A car for beckoning hills and open roads The hood slopes away toward the enticing —a vigorous companion for those who, hav- road. The rear deck gracefully says ‘“good ing traveled, love to travel more. bye’’ to the people you pass. Full of life and color—sturdy with admira- The Playboy is the car for the man who ble strength—it thrills that happy man who Knows how to play as hard as he works— ean throw away dull care, beckon someone for the boy with the roving eye—and the for whom he cares, and has the imagination girl who loves the range of the open road. to say, “Come on, let's go somewhere.” Step into this brawny car—and make for the ’ ; land of S ther have longed 2 Tt is a practical car as well—a personal com- aims Sonik” jubilant panion for the busy man and woman, : - es Three years ago the Jordan Playboy ap- oe peared. Itset the style, It fixed the pace. Ir dominates the open road. It has never beer surpassed or even equaledin charm of persor- ality, feats of performance and fascinatin:- appeal. x. eu Se yi — & Tre-Shousand-year-old cypress trees— Frofeigae aad masscre—ornd toed and ragerd; fieeitleis distances; grav rocks dul. a worked againe the moet wenderfil + eee Pa Spa oy fr fer word —amd vont, full ef mie . aeloaf distng, Taal s ie Adoaterey Drrce —* on fhe curve of the Coliform Coan,

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‘Contineed from Page #4) ty want's house, the good Marie who yewoh oe from France, she has pulled chose green shades In the drawing-room, hat it will be cool and fresh like cave. jb the window to the veranda she hos a etle table, and on that littl table has put a great tall pitcher, all frost de, ond Inside all am tea, and ‘racked, and litthe cold wispa of freah ‘eave And three plates, with eand- my too—cool and green—ceresa and cu- her and lettuce, wane & great silver of straw , aod a great silver et of little white cokes. And me, I put ona white dress with green ribbons, 1 will eat in the deep chair by the sore, abel then I will light the tall candles sing to the piano until I om gleepy. then I will take the tallest candle and sto my bed, and I will sleep and sleep Beep, until the morning comes in gh my curteinga. Now that ia not ao ait? ad" said Robert Grahame. “T's olding out a glass of cold water to a fing of fever, Wouldn't you let a ve just a sip, Miss Carstairs?" at surely,” mud Miss Car gently. “There are many deep chairs jereeing- soc of my aunt, and that itis very tall, Mrs. Grahame will Ito, lahieg af kink not. The patient will probab! better progress without ma. Let's of, Ramen. to nat shove off," replied Ramon. Pirie if 1 am more than you Jet me light canh- rit at music? Onew in Dinard, you ber, [ hear your my ning.” : how wonderful to remember!" arah Anne, and the small itary as suddenly gay and sparkli shall choose . aE Woe. sha two aongs—and we will sing our- back oo: hat ao happy room in We ne now? the pitcher hold one more glass?" | a Rue Tolliver thiretily. “Here, | still some left in this bottle, deen, Im of after something gowl and a magic pitcher—it holds for all wld. on int Wait, you shall see! I not come, Mise Claridge? Not barat You, Monsieur the brother | a tks, mo," salel Barbara's brother tho ty Hewirs, nl wish you moat eet awinni= ou, too, swim, Mr. Leeds?’ turmel to her a bitter, young face: vim if hs fea wants to tie a stone Ww meck 22 fram the nest of cushions and varda abe amar = pale and her aofthy ruffled ou are net well? art Iam BOrTY. same with us, and we will all take Leare of you; see, it laa ain. this in aw remxir for just a little iomust come: bt see Te #000, #O0F, ot be lonely in that great gba Bh commented the dazed ant out commented ‘hare. “Send aan back when ad their eambric tea, will yout er come out of their trance we'd we dinner, We can meet here on tat T:30. Come on, Joan!” n, ctirled on the aearlet cushion, r, She sat motionless, only a. ‘es following the little Four eat: ily across the lawn to e, the small pink Pi with ge head almost con by the weil Eos closed about it. The penitent the wet gr rl Rue Sinclair Tolliver had tha bag, Grahame the misogynist f her his hand to help her across mal path; and pea june Areal abave the fading voices, Peter's out. ned to the echo of that la dle noved. She turned her flower. ‘the three who stood watchin weath the troc—Babbie’s roun eyea and parted lips, Fanlee 4c arriase rent, a horn inst the tree wit saat ala eyes amd a alightly sardonic psa—and cree to the group ‘be fan a0 edt ‘commented Miss sivelyee was made to the their midst for the next two THE SATURDAY hours. had undressed, bathed and dreaded at the pool, and ted the per- formance in the seclusion of their reapec= thye homes in dignifbedd silence, The silence had beon maintained for some fiftenn min= Lies on the moonlit terrace at the Th where they sat grimly listen sounds of decent reve ing from the Carstairs drawin airs Music there was, and lights, and aug hter—a murmur of voices, from which errant bree detached an occasional sentence, floatin lt aeraga the intervening apace to unwill- br A Sure you aren't tired?" Grahame's volee rang out, rich with solicitude, "Oh, but not too tired for this! This I love; the tiredness shall wait. Now once more, very soft. Mr. Tolliver, you shall be ao kind to do that beautiful second; you, Mendoza, turn the leaves again—never ee T seen one ao quick and sure—never. on— “In the gloaming, oh, my darling, When the ligkiz ore ‘dim and low ——" “Oh, oh, oh!" cried Babbie violently. "You" re a man, Rod— why don't you make them stop that yowling? "That! ( he third time—and it's ten minutes to eight. Why in there and tell hem to shut don't you their mou and come to the club? I'm starved."" “Better not send me!" advised Rod lightly, “You'd probably never see me again. It's been years an yenre ahiee e one has encouraged me to sing. When the started ‘Just a meng at t auf very aunee of strength I had to kee in this chair. I'm totally exhausted; remson I'm sti Wal awe “Ww l, LT thought I knew my fellow man," said Joan grimly, “And then along air li! this wee little bundle of ruffles “An, sar fe ht you knew them, ee oaks elee came’ ide that Sadan bundle of rafilea— | i a new and old as the | hills, socinthine wh that made them remember | that ankles might be elusive and waists | would be soft to en and that a small enough to put an arm about, and that hands too fragile to hold a Sp l cu | Chins, might be forbidden. A girl came in that pouile of ruffies—and we re- rariionad what @ girl might be like.” "Ure you claiming that none of you ever seen a girl before?™ "Well, not for quite a time, Polly! Not a sUbdeb or a flapper or a good pal or a cule of a vamp or a fascinating young marred thing of an even more fascinating g de-married thing—but a | Kind rl whe used to git on the porch stepa in the moonlight and smile when pou brought a bunch of violets or a box of chocolates—and smile wgain, when you left atten. Nowadays, if a don't supply a roadster and a quart o and a hundred cigarettes and a jazz band. you're B and you know it in a h The kind of girl whe never abe twen ollars’ worth of atull ms amo in her life. If she wanted pi arty she cooked it for you in a reg ih re at eleven o'clock, and put pink onan on her frilly apron te show that ate thoughe it was a privilege. ‘The kind “Oh, shut up!" cried Babbie viclently. “Are you going to collect thos P Ee or am 7" "The kind of girl who let you pick up the handkerchief and button her gloves," con- tinued Hod unperturbably. “Who —— “T should think the helpless little angela would have worn you to the bore." “Ch, they weren't really helpless. Just helpless enough to make us feel that we were some good in the world! They'd ort as though ft were a miracle that we should spend tro asconds picking up their glovea— but they'd take two hours to darn our socks, They'd —— "Hey, how do voll get that gi et de- manded the indignant Buabhbie. mée, Methuselah, no ea ever anit aa socks. ih lala you know all these girla Ww a “Ch, our fathera knew “em,” replied Rood lightly, but there was a cu leam. in is dark eyes. “And our grandfathers and pa great-grandfathers. Something ¢ than our memory knew them—our blood and our bones and our dreams. And when Sarah Anne Carataira came across the lawn this afternoon ——™ The silver votre of Sarah Anne Carstairs drifted across the moon-washed space be tween thom. EVENING POST “Well, then, just one. Just one because you have been so good and kind, each one of you. Let Un ie, what shall it be? Ah, nerw [ have it!" There was a brief pause, ao little chime of chords, and suddenly a voice was alng- ing —moonlight and atarlight and falling water turned to music. “Lest than the dust beneath thy chariod inheels—" sang Sarah Anne Carstairs, “ese thon the reat that newer slained thy eieord Less than the iruat thou haat in me, O Lord Even leas an f—erent leet ore fh" * Hold me!" implored Babble frenzied], “Someone hold me, quick, befare I at and froth at the mouth. If they that I'm going into a convent!" an Dee es en that grows beside thy bese the speed of hours spent far from. Leas than the need thou Aaat ie Lie ie of me — Even ters am [—eren—lean The fairy voice, the ai ehords trailed slowly off; and then from the aj- eae there rose another voice, Js bominacregce n its eagerness, changed mo t mo one could say Whether it alien to Peter, or to Robert, or to Ramon, or to La Rue. Perhapa it spoke for them all. waned again!"* implored the af UT I do not ped these dances of which you speak," Sarah Anne, with a small pathetic aR nig She was veining bad back ‘in = great wicker ir on Mrs. Carataira’ ad veranda, with five green cushions behind her back— Peter Leeds had put them there—and too diminutive slippered feet perched like a aaa of white mice on the stool which bert Grahame had provided, She was pevetiing Over a paller court than usually uth about her at five o'clock, aa a polo game bad lured some of the faithful to another part af the Sond; dey eth resent four gen en ¥ a sorted in contemplating their hostess, and sate ladies equally absorbed in contemplat- the tlemen. Sarah Anne] the cing ping in Hot noel leded work, in ile of the fact that her filmy muslin ewepet its snowy lengths down to her slim ankles and up ta ber slim throat; even Khe. sleeves fell and wide over her are But something about her—possibly onl ogy spect ig ag the small eal orless fnce— eJoan(] ‘s Dreeden- china daintiness look a trifle feverish, for all that her green tennis frack had no sleoves and very little walst and even less skirt, and Babbie's vivid gypsy face Figing out of the childish amork of tan linen seerned pealtively sultry, though the aleeves were rolled high to tho shoulder and the trim stockings were rolled well | below the knee, Sarah Anne's smooth head, with its wreath of pale braids, was bent induatri- ously over a peculiarly hideous piece of embroidery: an elaborate design of roses, shading from blush pink to deep erimaqn on & snow-white Testernand, with a rend. istic: garnishing of nine distinct shades of PaVES, She wae selecting the innumerable silken strands and turn them inte blossoms with a reposeful tnesa that Burbank or Caglostra would have envied, “Your shimmy, your jazz, your tocddle and your wobble—no, no, not one of them. 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102 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Peter Leeds turned on her viokently, his ! = pleasant countenance darkly red, brut “eG ae | Anne spoke firet, Lifting wondering eyes : | POM hag iy: 2 fot understand you cared so pet ¥. lieve me, 1 did not understan Joan swung off the veranda railing with a Jowd clatter, Planting herself! squarely in frome of the tranquil enemy, her hands deep in her pockets, Se flower-tinted face on fire “Well, I don't so greatly care. See? But I'm petting on to you—see? Ane the etuff you're getting away with gives me a pain that'd turn neuralgia into a trent. And keep any more of that holy stuff un- tT get off this porch. Lay off it, you hear me— ["pa fed up for life!" ane bere ioe fi menace ing glare on the assem : ny, clenred the Falling with a brief flouriah af skirt and a neat click of heela and hg peared into the shrubbery before mnrone on the veranda had recovered breath, Ramon Mendoza spoke first, an ugly curl to his fine Hibs: “Feeshwife!” he remarked with venom- "Mo, no, mo, men amit, I will not have Ou use euch words, She is tired and un- appy, that poor little Joan, How often have [ teld her that all that smoking, all that drinking, all that riding, will do her harm? Now, alas, something breaks in her pretty head—it ia a madness. Peter, you shall min after her, you shall bring her bark,” Peter disclaimed this program violently. “Nothing doing! i aoe can drop dead in her tracks for ante . Handing out that line of talk to “Mel Of at re I, Peter? No, no, it is of little Joan that. we must think. She is unhappy. Help me, oll of “Well, l must say I think it’s jolly decent af you to take it that way, Sarah Anne,” earn a bed arial honest. “Ti 1 were you I'd be thinking of the quick- rl wait te choke the bean owt of her, She hasn't got any right to go off her nut like that, no matter what happens. Everyone knows she's got a dirty temper, but it's shout time she learned to hang onte it. Let her alone, It'll serve her good and right if no one goes near her, Don't you think so, Rol? “T think that Miss Carstairs shows al- most superhume|n forbemraner,”” said Food thoughtfully. Sarah Anne gave him a iat ‘lance through her short thick lashes, sk ed aw gesture of de iation with one alim hand, and resumed her tranquil labor with the 1.4 “Now you laggh at me," she murmured, “T think that brother of rs likes to mock at me, Barbara. He koows all too well that about me, who am small and weak and af an entire and clisgusting toot losis, there is nothing super hustan. | wonder if perhaps there is not in him somewhat of the © me as well as Che critic?" opt " Babbie aaeured her with a small yearn, “ Hod's a blooming tdenlist—aren't you, darling? He doesn't fall for that eynic stuff either, There was a girl here last month whe told him that there was something deliciqusly sinister about his eyes, and he walked out on her without another word—planked her cold, didn't a nik "The YOURE Woman Waa ap ily in othe last shines af itt es ly plained Rad agrecably, “Tt lonked to toe as though she needed] more professional maitanot than | waa able bo render, ao, as Bablle so praphical puts it, I planked her ead, Will good enough te tell | me just what the plans are for this evening? I don"t want to waste one precious minute of the princely holiday that haa been lav ished on me by the prees, eo if someone will set me straight I'll be everlastingly grate- ful. Dinner dance at the club?" “Weill, that's what we've done ever Wednesday and egtiee! hight sinee Noah ran the ark,” said Babbie, “But if it's ] . prpthine like the last one I'm goin HOSIBRY = (232550558 Dis F just closing your eyes? I cer! wreck the esi eel Se “But, Babbie, you st Secs wicked child!" cried Sarah rary her brows im homer deoe" (POntineed sa Page ' ha hi

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ifortineed from Page JO2) z, a sgigsicaoagt ray! al “ih uyusing, like a very dear lit heey are rt, ‘al lace and tela boy, wears, not party clothes—no, now a! Did leay more than that? Did me a pa in those sharp, cross litthe sorry that you are ao bal o » and bad litten oyed the occupant of the halt somewhat sombverly Fight, all right; ale don't fuss. is Polly anyway? We've got to attt tonight, Did she tell you when pover, Mendoza?* loca flushed slowly and deeply 2 dark skin, avoiding the insolent. at Grahame turned leisurely on How should I know? I have not seeps Grahame since—aince the peame before yesterday." e's atare of blank navman es e that the flush deepened a 2 the day he before yesterday? “W We ut in esiual hut sharpl ‘2 of somew > with a o bry out bis ter, I know," remarked Sarah Anne thought- lbs silken strands in her fingers t frown, “Wo, I do not think ie with Mr. Tolliver, Now which wo would lock more pretty on the of on lire terrae ‘pale mink? ® Pink or rose pale pin TY ahould take —— ‘'you know she's not with Tolly?" 1 Babbie, and at the subdwee { her tone Red turned in his chair Anne, however, did mot lift her ithe bright strands, do net know," she murmured nd preescpied, “No, mo; 1 eid think. How if we try both? First imla = then, why do you think she ternbed Babbio, her voice slightly rious Sg subdued, her eyes omin Tune threaded her needle deftly, ise smile, heavy with memory, ber lips, ut now who knows why t or that or the other? For ao aon—for none at all—I am prob- wrong, but etill I do not think is with Mr. Tolliver this after- glared at her for a moment, | speechless: swallowed twice, shoved bark her chair, oF fot, erybody—TI'm off." jabbie"—the soft voice we ith pretty bewilderment—" we aa about tonight! (Hf te ialfway down the steps, turned 1 bo fling a glance fraught with the direction of the inquiry. find Joan!" she replied in her ning Voie, and disappeared corner. i took three diminutivestitehrs pink before she spoke. thhie, she is my poy!" she re dy, eting her brs brad-wreathed side m5 8 cally ins a k. ‘Oh, but my joy! So o most enchanting a ataboli Yes, I chose wisely that pink. , it waa the one. Peter, would niable as to hand me the gray » that I see over there in the there. A thousand thanks." garding ita eontenta melita ment, and then, with a slight ornd@rs of her lips, selecte 2 paper, gave a delicate shake tHhed foiintain pen, and with a y oom nded of ap anal aeted the attention of her four Pats. i, I am about to give a party — 2 perhaps noted that [I am the invitations, I ask one doana for my very great rude & moet, most important that hey should be written with al forgive me—you will con- lemonade and ext litth cakes dll for just five minutes? Just 2! IT am forgiven? Good!" vered in the air for the brief- » and then pounced on one of and :sheeta of » flying acrosa ie With lightning celerity, ergusaly to the next without THE even a alackening of ita amooth haste—to the next, to one en —two— three— it executed a amall discreet flourish, and colla med apd inte well-earned inactivity. murmured Sarah Anne softly, “To Joan, to Babble, to Polly—yes, all there, Now are going once more to be kindness itself to a small wretched nuisance that will not leave you tranquil! You are going to be so heavenly good as to see that these three ladies receive their invitations within the next half an hour. Ob, but with- out fail! Tt is of great inv they must have them in plenty af time to dress for dinner, and dinner is ateight. You will have to hurry, but you alao will have Plenty af time to for dinner—you need not bring back the anewers." “Who is going to bring them?" inquired Peter with interest, somewhat dazed hb the audden executive talents of the irhgile eccupant of the aemelair. Sarah Anne sank back inte the cushions ze a err aril os betel jicking up dery frame bra a Teluc tantly ns though aha found it et "Oh, bring them hiner ii I have ther tu Gas kind ea te do it at ones when they receive these, There may be one or two emall little matters to be discussed: I wich would have it, natu " My dear child,” asked Robert Grahame incredulously, “vou surely don't believe for one minute that those eit Fla are golng to come meekly back here within hall an fcar to accept Hee dinner invitation?” “But [ bellewe it for two minutes,” nm jel Sarah Anne serenely, “Fer two urs, ie a whole long [ife! You do nott" “That's understating it. I dan't believe it to the extent of being willing to bet a thousand to one that you won't liy eyes on them this even: arening. "Allin ed Sarah Anne regret- fully, but betind hor lashes her wistful eyes danced, “Ales, I dio not bet.” “But Bob's right, Sarah Anne," Peter her earnestly. "For the Lord's rom don’ “go makin any plans for a party bone ht. ¥ don ie now Joan.” i ‘nt, And you who know her so well! Still, t think that ahe will come to toni ht. You will come too? You, Mendoza? Mr. Grahame? Mr, Thorn? Good! It will be a most beautiful party— stints see!" tern young face relaxed suddenly inka i boyish grin, : be a most beautiful ating party, you will se! owEve©r, we won't nes more than one lady, and she's bound to be there, siner she's giving it. Where are we to find the guests that we're to serve these notices ont" Sarah Anne was onee more absorbed im the problems of horticulture, “Ah, that I leave to po Lawk, Men- doza, you do not think that little soft. pink exquisite? But the deep red next te it— no, give me scissors, and 1 anip it out quick, There is no harmony—none—I went blind in my bead when I put that in— it is monstroi when they scream Lopether like that. I take —— “H Hey, Luly, Listers implored Peter, "Yoo cont mean that you wut ExpoOck ws to go ont and around the country ale ae we ran inke one of your invited guests, do yout Sarah Anne paused bong enough to gather up the motes with a faint catch of laughter. “Ho, 20!" she replied soothingty, ‘ Burt af eourse nots there must be method: aa always You are right, Peter. Here, you will take this one, and give it to Joan: Mendoza, he will find Babbie; and Mr. Grahame, he will find Polly. _ That way it will be ao simple aa Grahame fFallieed fret, oil ii sardonic anlle at the stunned faces of the other on Perlectly simple nena — only difficulty is ws to where to look for them. 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If you are building a garage, let us send you the McKinney Garage Set Booklet, which liareates complete sets of garage hardware, each set conveniently packed in one box. Write today for these books. MecKINNEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Pittsavecu Western Office, Wrigley Building, Chicago Export Representation MCKINNEY Hinges and Butts and Hardware Garces Aardware, door Acwpgers and track, door deits amd latches, afelf éracketi, window and screen Aaradtoare, tte! door-mats and trough specialties. eyes THE SATURDAY EVENING POST re still absorbed In lemonade, “ Seis Tharabe anes sucue to lock ios bose Ssecstaire "0h," sha cried gayly, “if the very best brother in the world had fifteen moat be- | loved sisters, he would not know where to look for one single one of them—would be, indo np ied Mr. Thorn, stirring th ae oe rep a lemonade gently, his eyes on ‘the two men pearing around the corner. “Not one Frans, you nest Therefore I send ere, you sea! Therefore you, who are so deeply her admirer thet should find ne in three minutea—=qui than that. £ pages to be dark, so it should be nea she not show me o most lovely saiiall oer that began ‘When in the night, my little rose of darkness ——'™ “She show you that?’ demanded Men- doza fiercely, “Hah, she do not know a jest when che moet one! She ——" “T'd eut along if I were you,” advised Rod pleasantly. “You can tell Babs to cultivate a sense of humor when past fap ome riots a a rere brother with mo t the short all have to locality to epeak of, I'd phen bo the boathouse, ary; ker Gihers have Gale: & uthrt-int you." Mendoza scrutinized the im rbable potratanace vdarectt towards him with un- custiee 4 Hip , and then, with an ly Gallic are. took the profencd advice pepe cut alon { aia Pim rela ‘into its most di isarm- helped himeelf te teo small “Latin courtesy’s a great handicap out these ways," he remarked conversntionally. “If that promising th had poured his roke off, contemplat- Barah Anne, once more industrious aa Penelope, with a pale of meditative dark By the way, am I detaining youT™ “No, no; indeed no. I must walt for ing | my answers. It is a pleasure to me, and, with candor, a surprise, that you desire to stay still a little longer. I have noted—oh, reluctantly!—that it is you who af ever the firat to go, Mr. Thorn,” The wide eyes lifted suddenly to his—lingered for ae " beaath of time, clear and Frets, and eens and ewept softly back to their task. finished the sandwiches, looking a shade more meditative. "Well penbaif aed ia in order, in engi aay regret your oheervation. relia pale dm ae in a good old loned rousing eander for the = few minwtes, Carstairs?" She yielded him instantly a grave and exquisite attention “Oh, but most ¢ willin —like two friends! You have something you wish to tell me, perhaps?” “Well, not precisely; I have some things I wish to ask you. You aren't going to thitikk me i dnent?" Se ae ae tales cause T"" er & orgiveness for the mere au eh a fantastic agin andor and courtesy should inseparalile RuWiienilce Benes Sour Marie vec Was most rigorous in teaching tua thet: [ think perba: eee be eee t to us. repre will not give es the anguish of steing fhoccaseatanees this time! Rod grinned a intively, a minute more tik Tis Pass e fe boy than the sa y brilliant critic of a hundred luckleas i “That's as graceful a rebuke aa I've re- celved in a tog Seve of them, Miss Cnr- stalra, and bleeda for you and the twins—but Tn fm to wrench them apart | just the sare. Wout it be too much to ask you to put down that unspeakable atrocity and give me ad undivided attention fora few minutes Sarah Anne considered him with lifted brows; then with an adorable eure. of ol wr a ae inka hag and folded in = ag | her velvet honda i in her la "You do not eare ‘ie rosea?" she in- quired solic boualy.. PM ada L I'm extremely fond of eT “But theae—but these, then, you did not find sufficiently realistic?" “Realistic? Cc stairs, they're That's not | the trouble, however: the trouble ia that it's pei difficult to rivet anyone absorbed ether te use Foe pink of yel- re pale pink down te anything so definite 4 ] | at Le penperese Les | Lay eae) “Toever heard each rot cut in violently, semlek te hair. “Babble ought to "Ho, but to hear ber tel =: Ub horn and toot the born uti wil about the la golfer who — ‘if ’ that litte de shouted Red, “I'd beek v= bbereek Anne's lipa parted = = “That is how Babbe === felt about fer—any of them — wha! om one but lowe you, that yro shell break all their emogt iz = : “T'm not talki a nha replied violently from shouting a leg alone the imp of Sater t= be my sister. If I had ber bo - ia iindentteck” ‘that EE iy 3 Saad wished, perhape, to spare oe ‘Cotinesd « Fae

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THE SATURDAY 108 — WITHOUT any charge your banker can now furnish you with positive protection against check-raising losses by giving you Super-Safety Insured checks. These checks are insured for $] 000,00 for each bank and $1,000.00 for each depositor against loss through fraudulent alteration. Insurance beats all the ingenuity ever devised far protecting checks, It is the posifive profection that the cleverest of crooks cannot deprive you of, Ask your hanker for them or write us for the name of one who will gladly accommodate you. The Bankers Supply Company The Largeat Afasufooturre of look Checks in the Wael AW TORK ATLAS TA CHICAGO DES MOINES DIA S34 PLA BCLS Cvery Super-Safely (insured Chech Bears this Design | continued Sarah Anne serenely. | story. EVENING POST fContineed from Page Idd) The eminent critic pentose his lemon- ade the wrong way, choked, ee harenes and a obegrn effort recovered _ Spee ust in time to prevent «2 further i the situation. Please let's drop the state of my non- existent heart, Misa Carstairs, and go back to the plain questions. I wasn't j ulging i idle curiceity when I asked what you meant by saying that you had reluctant! that I was always the firet to go, wondered whether possibly you'd been looking for an opportunity to clear some- thing up popes me! “Clear up?" repeated Sarah ARTE blankly. "You. call that one of those Plain questiona, Mr. Thorn? But to me, I | asure you, it is black like a cat. What in all the whole world should [ have te clear up with youT “What, indeed! Did Babbie, by any chance, en a any Hght,, other than amatory, on y past career ‘No, no, I eA nok think AB he had sa little time yu act, when she had finished telling me how you had no heart—no ea, rota oe the love of heaven, you"ye hawen't you? chowgh oo ee “details es I thought ave conveyed somethin ight I touched on them, She tide’ fn anything about the wart Not Honestly, Miss Carstairs, do overdo you | it when you look as blank as that. Well, a rt ain; here's a ve ea les try cps ts the head of theciae: om What made you think that Tolly wasn't out driving with Paulat" “Because his new car is out in the garage of my Aunt Madeline," replied Sarah Anne with commendable docility, “And beenuse at net quite four o'clock be told me that he was going over to the golf club to blow out his brains. “Wh at?" "Oh, but I do not think that he will," ahe assured him soothingly. “Have you any epecific reason for think- ing ar he won't?" "In yes, the best of reasons! You ovo T told hits that if he waa sil allve be eould «ame to dinner.” Sheamiled seraphically, and Red mopped his brow, with no for the amenities of civilization. “He could not take the car with ei be was in so great a hurry to go that he broke up the self-starter. “Was that why he was going to blow out his braina?" inquired mily. “No. Ob, no, thet ems not the reason!" _ The seraphic smile was siddenly dipped in reminiscence. "And mig I ask just exactly what was the reason “You ht ask, Mr. Thorn, and I mig | onlght tell you that it waa because he could net get something that he wanted quite ye because = al ae of thom so ry apolled, ao very a men ahs think that if they” cline: to their heads some foolish ied ral quickly give them the last tha of jam ae rg Forlag hoard and the poor out eg ber: This time he did not get the gh | think that he will come b “this evening to aoe if it is still here “Tid you know, by any chance, that Tolliver was extremely devoted ta my slater before you arrived?’ inquired Food with ley politeness, and an effort. “Nao, I did not know it by any chaner," lied Sarah Anne, smoot the ane folds of Wer dress a little aig 4 thully. nt ¥ Joan and knew it because T Polly and Peter vat Mendoza and Mr imahame at much length and many, many ; They had different neasons, h “ ‘eren ai for talling i, but they had all the mame ow he met her in Santa Barbara last winter—how he came all the way from San Francisco to see her this summer. That Tolly, he ts truly a most romantic They were perhapa secretly me “No,” replied Rod curtly. “They were not. But I think that for the first time in her life Babbie was actually intersted in a man, and he ha to be the kind of a man that I particularly woe to see her interested in—deoent and healthy and gmoed=-tempored, with plenty of money and plenty of ambition. “T want to get Babbie out of this whole crowd anyway; she's too young for it— and too fire, under all that silly cheap- nees and hardness." June 6, mz: “Babbie I sdore—but Babbe di love this young fescue, Mr Ther 1, aay were hot tage” h, nonseme f Babtet waa i oe about him as any girl ond be be o ragged the hint tdi ; fs is death on =r | cca ie They'd rather be caught merkrey i gp than exhibiting one aio of bere 5 ness! Any fellow that ome en— along can have ther hunds w ha: | their lips to kiss—they collect vie op | chereine refer to os tholls the wy used to collet fee. op eg cheerfully die ent they'd deer | that what they call lowe pos iy ber than soe finger tips. They reprd try mg Little murticies char hep: too soe 6 toa many toddbes gut tm nny! gin fines. It's what Tee RE ts wut ae bi fea certainky gettin “Yes— well, then, if that inal eo* “ie you who say it, it is not L rem. § then?” “Well, then, Habbie—Babbe j) § different, You car see that cat yn" “Oh, yes, 1 can-see that” Sy eo forward, cupping her chin & toy smooth han her dreaming cys le “T can see that they are alla litte Teun see that, too. You acax" ¥ itis no matter; can you we tia’ Ce see what poor, Poor sports they me ate every Womsh, ery ar at see that?’ : Sinclar Tolliver he wants to smot Peter Lends whimpering aecst oi! that Adam about bow he mever wu taken it tinless the naughty bce cil made him—oh, those men they oe more cross than these girla’” “You amaze me, thoggh | eam oo would amace those men or ave YOU communicated your cr to them, Miss Carstain’?” Sarah Anne dismineed | information with a» laght dice re an impatient wave of one eee “But what have they . co you— what have they dome? Lod Biid, i are tired and we m=” good old Porridge that peapr Lie oF years and years and yen away quick and give ws semettee strange and different—quick, et when they find that what tey = ata sd hae and baring S27 t © litile Suen Geen tric and they are cross with Se ai each other, and all the tier 7 fight, fg ht shout whoee fsek ie | sis of the situation, Mim Carman have any solution to offer™™ “No, no—why a solutert [ic amall and insignificant anlsotr above all, realize! But there "= lady—an old wise — whe bos excellent solution bow =? children." "Please gO on: youre = more than you know Sarah Atine contemplate! b= © and limpid eyes. “You are kind. od be in a book which be dea a dramatic critic, All dram-a ® iragedy, farce, satire, Port find in that little book Wabet dear to you, undoubtedy.u= I confess that ['ve =e * what i In the oo ‘thirty 3 vk | “Oh—yours is the ba *™ h— Well, that old tacdw, oe b= ~

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-aember what she did with those foun chidren that she had? Listen: on them soo brodh aiff any bread, wtiseed them all soundly and pul wake Beal! > other gity children if for a rile word away their porridge vr pottage, and gave them instead hunger, and a little pain, and a lit- poese— they wotild eat quickly what before them in the morning, and wforittoo! You do not think so?" er mind what I think,” replied Rod “lm trying to find out what k. [tsinstructive, to put it mildly. ty you're in oursell ga wi edeputy of the old lady, Don't you at you've done about all the pun- wt is . or am I going to Lio convines you cp ibtedly . t you aay is undouk reft= ramriced darah Anne plaintively, sales of my ooet lamentable sti conveys nothing to me; but noth= give me. Yow pe aned forward, his lips narrowed, langerous. y to be clearer, Don't you think Fan's ahd She repo the word hope- ian intelligent child atrugeling 2 incomprehensible lesson. “No; a must patient with me still, try hard to understand. Tam not ‘greatadunce, It ia perhape the ing @ little madness in head. be too much trouble if [ asked ik for my fan? Of green gauze— iat wae in the ewing. Not But é ate SS! La f have slipped behind the cush- ‘e's gormething—no, it's a book, ad's voice was suddenly eloquent . “Something you were reading, irs?" ¥—or poesibly something of my ive you the fan?” iknow that Mrs. Carstairs went tind of thing,” commented Rod, ‘leaves thoughtfully, "No, it's neof yours, There's an inserip- th; let's see if mine's gone clean smost exquisite of small com- ter, 1921." aut right?” Fight; it must be the one from imelie. When we were in the were like two sisters: I am atill my heart when I think of her!" tar Amélie haa an interesting and a curious taste in books. f the convent. It's apparently 4: did you care for it?" rn, about that book it Es most mélie and I, we adored La Ivestre Bonnard; we adored pss It was a romance, and idden, of course—but Amé ceived it for a Christmas gift lit back, ond hit it me, You have read it, per- ape” i rape iin coe {S grace an Hess — iio, ike Bowers, that book! Like rif far off tobaceo too; but re. ons and dijecner were done, we could not wait to get out TH trees, where we could sit mn our shiny black pinafores, oench other's braids of hair, sold Monsieur Bonnard and nty-tweo times we read it— elgr’ g to miysell,” Rod assured remembering how wo loved t me this Easter another imsie@ur wnatole France, and ne one quite famished, But :is like when you ask me if . Nir. "Thorn; tt is written ‘hat F do not understand. w, but they make no sense. s and joages in that book make mny tail or any head ad," comdoled Rod. “Per- you out; I know it fairly THE SATURDAY wonder? You do not think that it ia time | that they should be here? “T think you win the Prix de Rome and the Pris Goncourt and the Prix des Con- servatoires and the brown derby,” replied Radman Thorn with bitter conviction. “I | don't know whether a ought to make imaginative fietion of high comedy on the elage F life wark, but you'd certainly be a not in either of them. “To bt able to evolve little dear Amlio under the cherry trees out of a compromis- ing mascitline inscription on a more thin compromising French novel gets out of the candle light of talent into the arc light of genius, Only it just happens that you're wasting your genius on the desert air, LUn- pete nately for both of us, Miss Carstairs, fm on. "On the contrary,” replied his hostess soltly, her eyea two lakes of gray ioe, “I think that you are of—quite entirely off your head. Be an good aa te dispense with what you consider wit, and explain what yOu mean" ae ee a making me talk like a hoor anid aoecnd," said Rexl wearily, “Let's " through with it; Um oot the one to do the ek alnining, after all you know! But don't let's bicker about it! I haven't the remot- eet idea what your game is, and I'd be in- clined to lot you play it through if it weren't for Babbie. You're obviously not any com- mon typo of adventuress. You're ——" "Yes—whatam I?" She leaned farther into the cushions, her hands clasped lightly before her, her frowen eves Wo weVer- ingly on his dark face, "Heaven knows!" He rose to his feet and came over to where she aat, small ariel fragile and undaunted beneath the shadow af his height. “But heaven and [ both know that pou aren't what you are pre- tending ta be. Can't we clear it up new onet and for all? We have plenty of time: yr guess aren't going to turn up this evening, obviously," : “You are wrong,” said Sarah Anne evenly, “Tt seems to be a habit with you; a bad habit, I think, My guests will be here in cight—no, in nine minutes, for then the half hour will be up. Now what is it that you wish with such frenzy to clear up? | Be quick, | have not much time." Pa want to know who you are.” Rod Thorn leaned towards her, looking sud- denly young and desperate and enger. “T've half mad trying te figure it out ever since that first evening—and I don't know one single thing about you except | that you're not any convent niece of Mrs. Carstairs, and that I've been looking for | you for seven years.” “~ "This time, Mr. Thorn, you are twice wrong. gone—it is all macd—etark and staring and raving mad. Will tie go pom os to tel! me why you look for me for seven years?" “Teenie: it's bern seven years since | heard you sing in the rallroad eanteen in Paris,” said Hod, Sarah Anne spread out her hands with a small sigh of pure pleasure, “Then it was there!" sho cried, softly exultant, “It was there, and I could not, 1 could not remember where it was. But you wore a blue uniform—a most old, a most dirty, a most beautiful blue uni- form—why? Why, mon [teuircnonl, was it blue, that uniform?” Rod stared at her blankly, incredulous. “T was with the hob i Legion. You don’t deny that it was yout" Ri at But why should I deny? Al- wave I knew that somewhere a, seen Your eyes arolling at me, but T bee forgotten bow tall you had been —how brown, how tired, and how you laughed! How you laughed above all those poor, sad, broken little poilus huddled there wniting to go back into nightmare. [ hod for- gotten how you laughed, aon lewteman, Da you remember how, then, 1 cried?" “Yeo,” he said, “I remember. You climbed up on one of those crazy tin tables, and it was cold as hell and aeme of the glass __ 5 Sap one af one ae tas ent and the gray veil on your little fur hat kept blowing out behind you—and you sang- you sang—with the beara running down ut face, and your voier as gay and reck- as though there were no tears in the this Part on page sev-\ world. stretehed out her hand rose clancing beneath her have mo time—not now! ladies for: my dinner, I "You sang all their dirty marching songs. Pulte Toukinetse and Auwprés de ma Blonde and Ee Pit Blew." “They were thelr 1’ whe ered. “"Theira—theira—what else should [ sing them?" Io am Mrs. Carstaira’ convent | niece, and it is not half mad you have | | EVENING POST i eller than Youd Tie Yourself ! 50* TWO FOR oi bo: MR. DEALER: Witte foe J deeen fameple Asaowemnent of Spur Ties approval on ie Patenial— Trade Mork Reg. LOS. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ot eee meee eee . I tell you: were standing on a table singing Peed pus sonia a 0 lok ot hall stecarsioen - diem. You were ao chan when you cume acroda the lawn that [ wasn't even seb iS He ae Oa I wasn't sure until I ea ae ca he b wet une oid leuphter welling: in ‘her throat like a little ag am. Ee sage I'm out of Plime and dr st swung over the veranda pes ae see at Sarah Anne's side, pantin “Whee! Tran all the way trots the house—every durn step. Misa Antbera Thorn accepts with great pleasure the kind invitation of Misa Sarah Anne Caratalre for gelioe ateight sharp, That all right, Sarah nn “"Thak is fe abohey my Babbie. Mr, » be eo kind os to ring the bell—the one by the door, . . . Let me see—you, Babbie, Mendoza, Peter, Mr. Grahame, myself—that will make six for dinner, Pat- terson.” She turned a speculative eye from the portly butler to a elim figure coming leisurely across the lawn. “No, seven. Ah, and here ia little Joan! It will be eight. I forget no one? No one? Oh, but te be sure—Mr. La Rue Sinclair Tolliver, Nine for dinner ate Patterson—at eight es he " finished be he We “ave just fin un 4 t “arp, Tris. ‘a we put if fn the large drawing-rogm "hh ass ts the large drawing-room, Faula, 1 am delighted that you come to my Pt Fianks,” drawled Paula. *Whint ahall I wear? Are we going to take turns at the “a rpae “Wo, no," laughed Sarah Anne. “It is harp from. Pere meen pelife old Litt | senda me eo that [ ehall not be ton me dap ules aon Sines noes ee ta] & fi nh Your ac ee hair. You shall ace, tt will be a rete You do not sit down, Joan?" anid Joan curtly, “Ido not, I vol al Com- ean ‘th plied Bub cheerfully. * ane, re ab » Polly; it ata takes you a half hours to doll poitnelt How "bout ; holt" Rod impatiently. “No, don't wait—I'll be over later, Tell Kato ta get out my things— —there's a good kid. a began Babbie, and at rd “Well, bot ——" the look on her brother's face broke aff, slaring? blankly. “Oh, all right, old dear; oo ou later, nks,"’ said Rod briefly, and turned back to where his hostess stood, swinging the pink-taffeta bag and smiling a little gravely, She held out ber free hand to him with a pretty pesture of dismissal. "Tall eight, then? You will forgive me— T must hurry." “Tl never forgive you! You can't go like this without felling me anwthing mere, You cart. "Oh, but, believe toe, I can."' She me teased her hand swiftly and gently, still bah th that aniall grave arnile. “fey is getting lite: there is-nea more tine for mopsteries. I have many other things to do than talk to tall stern young men who frown and frown in the twilig hé— toll young men who have no heart! | will see you at eight, Mr, Tham,” "TL beliewe that you're a witeh,”” aecused Raltman Thom lightly, but he thrust bis hans deep inte his pockets, and his velew wos not quite steady, “A littl pale witch, creeping up out af the darkness on velvet

I find where they have pet my =n will sing for you. Twila ici will -stand quite, quite que) E After a minute the roc ga ga BT ever fe my ‘var “Then I sing. What smal <t thing sad?T ¢& ey: have it: I wil sing ta you tt = the song thet I sang the tex =¢ Waa Than the [ac | memiteer 7" mt aa os. “Tt is a most sad and beet I am sorry that | kaw oo =! the last warms, T will aig ee only for you.” was a tinkicg eny7 7 ™ from the harp, and then dear.) 7 the distant magic of a rant 4 Sines J omy lord, om othe ot See, here, thy seord—/ mai"! bright! . Lave's last reward, death omeaa = -"" Farewell i Rod took o swift sep tema mb a nel ae on a high ringing sete valedictory and a challenge, Tee startled ripple from the pa ae - . other more mirsical ' | the harp, softer than ta belts—lom iter. He stood gee ing to ‘it fy the ata after it had drifted inth aieot hung in the sir aboot bot ghost of sound.

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* Rowrta explained, “You stick i tere and keep her hended right we get onder way, Chiswick don't etand the temperament of this en- sother assented and climbed out on ow of the boat to lef Roberts pass, te went aetetn. The workmen in the cabin raised a shouting chorus of Van Wert eaw a dozen men clustered the engine ¢abin, through whom ta pushed hia way; heard the voice man Tom Jack as he climbed out on Tom Jack shouted something tn hia tongue, and the other men laughed thing that happened came very ‘. First a man's startled oth; in- ra louder ory. Van Wert thought was more light aff than there had Then a small sound like the ripping ndkerchief swelled till it might have 12 Tipping of the very fabric of the a, and flames showed, A man i, screaming, into the water over= # was the noise of a puif, like the lon from. a pais lungs, and the Jter part of the boat was disrupted cand of liquid flame, roaring flame. Woert's senaes were perfectly clear, muscles would not function. He in the least frightened, but he was ed. He eould not move, could not old not ery out. Yet he aaw with ‘ol ¥iden which was plo hice iwhe erled out, moving franticall hout aim to and fro: aaw little ick beating tentatively at the vith a blanket from the masa of + amidships. Other men erupted teabin and raised their yoires in a Asin poi sridit Ang moved rr inary and frui spond: a vere unnaturally loud, with an 18 like «a shriek, » Tom Jack again, withdrawn + mass, busy with some peculiar 1 littl: man had step to one of the turnult, and had taken off From the t of his coat he ething whieh Van Wert could not ay it in his cap and jammed the yon his head. Then he looked he darkness toward the shores on le, Still Van Wert ateod par- He was not yet afraid; but he aself immensely interested in the ts of Tom Jack, imes were moving forward very iressing the men back till Van id himself in the center of a thick hem. One man was crow olf ita the water, and bobbed thera, ‘and clutching at the sides of the i while, and then Van Wert did im any more. He perceived that af the boat was lower in the 1 thought with dull interest: We're sinking! How are we et ashoretT" ‘om Jack began to shout: and vas mot, a the others had been, ¥ dowd. It was merely firm and en no one paid any heed to hla ie began ta sing: and that wes that. everyone. jushed to listen, i Jack ones sign and spoke ulekly, half in English, half in mgue; and Van Wert saw that ainting toward the right-hand hen he was done speaking a protest and outcry arose. The of the flames illumined them all. inged and twisted in a mass, and is mass Tom Jack picked hia iere Wan Wert stood. To Van id cheerfully: ter take asvim now. No boat. * go away from here.” He ownward, frinuin amiably. ver there,” he added, gesturin shere. “ You better come along." “t's lipa moved stiffly. ed, **.All right!" k newded. oocd,"" he assented. "All right! doin m motter-of-fact way and. nm the edge of the deck at Van , and turned around so that he * himeelfinta the water, Van seen him kick of the rubber rhich he wore outside his felt Von Wert took his knife and nm laces and tossed bis boots THE SATURDAY EVENING POST A USE FOR CLODS (Continued from Page 13) away, Tom Jack was in the water, mov- ing toward shore, and two or three men had followed him. He turned to shout back some lnughing remark, and a dozen | men laughed with bim | jum inte the water, Van Wert ¢ ed his cont: then he slid gingerly over the side, It was as though a sharp knife cut him where the water touched hia flesh. He shivered, was Instantly too cold to ahiver, and began to swim, welcoming the exertion, Tha waiter about him waa dotted with the heads of men, Other men on the boat behind screamed and ran to and fro in desperate indecision, ; t swimming Mtn came presen to ice; thin ice that would not bear their weight. They broke it away in front of them, leaning on it to rest a little when their exertions were more than they could bear. Van Wert heard something roar behind them, and looked back into a great Jare of light, which vanished to leave only lackntas and the sound of anguished cries, which lewened and cessed. Then Tom Jack's voice from ahead ahouted en- coreg ney, and he forgot the leat boat and pushed forward, thrashing at the thin iceangrily. A tman at hlashoulder strangled and cutehed at him and sank while Van Wert inatinetively shuddered away. He was a strong awiramer, and the men ahead of him were breaking the lee, so that he had littl to do, When they were wea ried and fell to one aide he posed them, and so by and by found himself shoulder te shoulder with Tom Jack himself in the bitter water, Tom Jack looked at him and grinned as cheerfully ns ever, and said in a stend tone, “ you come along! Tha's all right tool" b : Yan Wert nodded etiffly, his terth set: nna with pars the sense of ruthless, sim ‘a f "T's cold, he aa: : Tom Jack crushed away the ice before him, pressing shoreward. "Cal" encugh to put some ice on the devil's whisher,” he agreed cheerfully. “Bes to work ver hard and keep warm eo." The man seemed tireless. Van Wert watched him for a moment with a wen and indifferent admiration as he method- cally broke the ice by bearing his welght upon It or by beating it with his fists, and thrust the floating cakes behind him and hed on, The competitive instinct awoke n him and he bomen to keep pace with the other, driving himself hy sheer will, His efforts were clumsy; once he splashed water on Tom Jack's head and the littl man turned on him fercely. “Don' do that! I got matches in my [* he cried. fee Pi fan Wert remembered his glimpea of Tom Jack on the boat taking something from hia pocket, stowing it within his cap. 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The water, leas disturbed, had had more three in Sree. Ae could, hear ue men stru them. They ha hein to cali OnE to Tom Jack; and Tom Jack answered, heartening and encouraging the weaker ones, | Hoe was able to estimate afterward that | they had been o full half hour in that i end came, It came su denly. He perceived that Tom Jack, on hands and knees, was owt on the lee and that it bore hia weight. Then the little man shouted something over his shoulder, added to Van Wert in ag Gi make — ore. ick come along quick," an ni craw awiltly over the shore, his weight dis- tributed upon the jee. Van Wert himself was heavier; the crust atill broke with him: but ntly another man ecuttled away toward the shore from point at one side; and then another; and then he found the ice would no longer break beneath him, and he dragged himeelf for- ward across the crumbling edges and lay on | his atomach, breathing pingly, till the | scourge af the wind woke new agonies in || his tormented body and flogged him toward beautiful to his leaping up- an interval when his senses. reeled drunkenly; when he was conscious of a great heat and o great cold, like two monsters fighting for this of his; when his garments eteamed scorched above his aching fiesh. Seventeen of them, there were, about that fire. There had been many more aboard the motor boat when she atearted on that trip up Summacook, Chiswick and Roberta h been in the engine cabin; the othera were gone in nameless, solitary ways with mone near to fat. where a fire, gloriqusl ice-rimmed eyes, was te Ba, py Jack again, for while the ttle mis wer . | mrt regia Ta ppoitied plsey = oy | Van Wert was ated pre jas tenderness and cate, bot & 4 een delirium. But whes be wai bis Ve Tx | aught out the other, for be hy: — bo aay. Tom. Jack sow him coming and = and beld up bis hard and caled “fia: mister? You feel better nou'* Wan West. gripped that bend, ind earnestly and hy “Tom hak, come up bere to Ty, a Tom Jack at him wee “Tha's new ont on me” te “I just want to tell you” the hey wardly explained, “thet | think man, a real man; and Um poe! & youl, “Sure ['m aman!” Tom ject cole in bewilderment, * Anybody ca am cues, q “T couldn't, first tine | ow pe* ee ioe re warm With the - T amends, “'[ theoughit rat much, just because vee ooaial * Tom Jack stared at be: the] ehuckled: then he “Hol” he ered 1 2 Wert waa burt by bs lonebes ‘ert wae bart by he . the bh oe err arm, Tha’ mister," he sai poathingy . “ko would think sn when | wu 5 T am nat me a E real dirty, you sre; | wad when I need il, every time” "Sure you dol” Van bei ee a ic opened bis bank bail orm Jac \ oe preselve pesture. “oo, ¥ ' fm J explained, “Lf you had keen oe washing ft would kave bes & or. we are fr'en's.” : Van Wert laughed o ltt, me the other's hand again. DIFFERENT SHADES OF ROS (Centinwed from Page I)! | skncere and enlightened reformers and earn- est experimenters they might be relied upon, pechaps, to retain their mental honesty for af least a sufficient period. And in the end they would come to realize that th-- had been helping to twist the rope with which it was des that they themselves should eventually be hanged. Whether or not Mr. Lenine waa belo supported lye German money when he an is ool in 1917, plunged Russia into the chaos in which Russia is maboning noe is of very little importance. He probably was, but if he was he was accepting this support not in the interest of Germany but in the interest solely of his own project. ae ue have ere compunction about ouble-crossi a bourgeois-capitalistic- autocratic state than he would inva alot: killing a counter-revolutionist. He hated the German Government no lesa than he hated all other governments, and if the German Government chose to help him back into Russia and to finance him in his rpost te -e the capitalistic war on the Ttussian front he was just that much closer to a renlization of his desire to overthrow the German Government, If he aecepted German assistance these were his thinking processes; there can be no doubt about it. Everybody will remember how, when the war began in 1914, the socialist parties in all countries were aplit up into many factions warring among themselves over the question a8 te whether the socialist stand against war—approved in solemn realutions on Tany otcasloni—was to be maintained. Everybody will remember that a majority of socialists in all countries ) redeemed themselves in a large moasure in the eyes of their political opponents rallying to the sup of the war wit everything they had wnitedly or individ- wily to offer, Lenine, alone among the great leaders, standing in the midst of the wreck of all he had helped te create, pe ples. He openly condemned the war o5 being @ capitalitic wer, ear your i a plunder.ont: re world proletariat would pay, the dsie would reap o Tet It ia @ curious fact that enep Fem aia ia concerned Mr. Lene == ineapabl: of thinking m tom oo flea, He thinks onby in terme of com He rallied round hime? ti = com pany 7 adber=3 tenants, and bean system) SS discriminately to sow the a ¢ and diseontent in all umes. Stra” in the utmost obscurity aoc ore pe ever heard the name af Lewcs © hia retreat in Switzerland & =o subtle or merely inflammatey ery which penetrates = & © and which was especialy "© with acnrers in aorta Propaganda was revolstont) waa to change the war 4 inte civil war; of, more cre, world war of clam apne om himself to nobody, and 7 ty with him to his advantag int anee of their own ends it pai oe the selling, He made ie GP* poets slaves dove = ¥ t shia pew pit oF sa oppressors” and advised then * these fiends incarnate aod dee, Just when he begs bility of putting bis then = practice TC doubt if ayhey as the strain of the we PP greater, as the casualties a StS able sacrifices piled up ad ae ® ness of the world grew beat he must have dreamed pre © wonderful it would be db» S=* (Contineed a= Pare

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: sedition our punishments are ms (Contiaaad from Page iid) to acramble the whola business and set Ger- Thins to Frenchmen to fightin nebimen, Britons " fighting gh t fe Una thet all Gis ieerecua a cere, wl) the ministers of state, all the buyers and the bankers, all the sellers and prof- jteera, all the silly women and the vain mon, all the preachers and the teachers should be done away with, while the Tom- miss and the balls. the dough and the Germans, Ttulians and the Belgians— they must all have hed pet names of some kind, but I don't know what they were— should return home, possess themselves of all visible ions and begin to run things to suit themselves, He would have failed to consider, I immn- gine, that a great of these victims of exploitation of all nationalities had either Ppebsae or Longa sue er ey the Parl xury er that they get into the trenches, and in hia loving attitude to- ward them as a whole it would not have cru tered ipo: cc ene themselves they ie n ben ty erred to one an- other in terms of affection. As I remember Sheen em they wer yanks and frogs, beef- boches, wops and willles, and sine like that, And for the most part they were not fighting because they were compelled to; though one admits that eventually they Mei neunpelied to fight. They were fight- for a great love of something; for 2 dee even though indefinable principle; fought withowt reckoning their sac- died by the milliona without cening to smile, And tak oe why at en & that an should ever have profited: that is w oe cease much more to ie envied than the war rich, a it were not that tremendm thinkin world than there are exploiters and o Besar pelle and pirebee, Star ode ta sone excuse for Bolshevism has nothing more to eter ee oh B reversion to chace, The i had a better excuse for upsetting their own social world and were ences of less prepared to bear the consequ it than akg other people on earth. Their discontenta were duc, a8 was their eventual expression af them in extreme measures, to undeniable abuses. But let wa be fair ax Tater devel Many of the abuses in their later opments were due bo extreme of the people but on the part i orgeaae 6 Ptope on the p Q agitators—which not only threatened th overthrow of established muthoetty but ad- vorated its abolition and the eee of anarchy, unbridled and undisguised Detained for tha Public Good or dah ehh oppressive, It on, Far be it sutocracy in any form, though it may be that is the matter enough of it; threatened by Saar ape pbapas : were any =u 8a threatened the aaeerniient of the Czare for so many years our Government would resort to repressive measures no les severe than the severest that eA Russian ever thought of. No SA things better t han ay else. _ We will not tolerate so much open criti- clam and opposition even new, not bey any means so much, as the Russian Government tolerated over a long period, while for rank drastic as we can make was admit- an inexcusable institution, but ita awk- B B nisin iteelf waa mot truggle to if | ree its inexcusable offenses. Yet it pon the sob features of that 1: | was atruggle that Ba Bolsheviam based ita most beg Propaganda, ‘hich reminds me that I wish I knew wont the political ings are of certain n writers who ones upon a time wrote with such excellent effect about the horrors of prison life in Siberia. There is no doubt at all that their pictures were drawn Jane Mom with absolute and unfailing mpi b . truth, but I should Lhe ta them now into the | ol Sere Ea ey that are main’ | for people af cae clase: maintained for the moat pe ex-polltical prisoners seocuniel ieee cases. with just plein bewial cee There were only tero cllering Gooey in Russia after the grest. comet iy wos established. Orme of them & log the bourgeois amd the other m Ge & telligentzia, ‘There were a few oper to be sure, but mot eeecegehs cof thes tee 20 @iperoment if coereercccces pes. Te hourgecisie had most of the mong, sik the intelligentzia put =p Ge cope Lrpument againat oom ieretong i ol oe ing order inte chaos: so che bocrpeane ii the intelligentsia went to jail tepie: Gj Bolshevistic, socialistic, CORSE, archistic—cal] it whet peo wl—oe ganda the “comnrudes were aba eee and “thrown™ into p fo, thes oy invariably "|ergicte" = The lee against the communitic oo 2 oe “Haced. under restraint md “ieee in the interest of the gone! wee ifanyhody should come along eel ler of these a chance of exile to Sere ws occasional aquere meal end the poy of washing his face, if only i: tom think maybe the offer wrk w= coniderably, The Bloodiem Recelstin No doubt the soviet aoibotie ol Kke to trent their peniitical = than they do. They would Ge @ oe them warm and clean pert, = oe ¥eTy acarce and eo few come De chop wood. And probably they ee to feed them, too, boi ft wk & shortaighted on their part & oo food on offenders agalreet, the geal fare when there are so mesy "oe hoe: “4 rt in line by preferestial tee thought | was pane Gee ws bet historical sketeh ootil [ bed oe upon the Czar deposed; the prevail ernment established: the meter a | a Lenine and ‘Tro tzky wil a henchmen gund colleages; the ia ment of the soviets—not coe im, but wnder Kerensky ect incompetence: and wild de 2 per stone gowernment:; the come Rerensky: the peneiratca @f fe and the sovicts by Robbert ae the promise of * peace and thn ie“ friction between the prot con and the Petrograd Sart Tt Sodicre and Peasants’ Dept, ied rific clash of opinion with Wes oes | posta and -duty in bes id © urther penetration of Bobeberst ganda; the creeping paralysis of Ge visional govermment; tha Eornilay to occupy Peta Se peeniclals le brceoqee mull bo estab! a dictatorship: the [sts] weak a @nsky, who would not screeds premacy of guthority; the = of the HRolsheviki to the Pere to rally to the support of the sou days of utter suspense whem knw whist the other mde might be to do; the gracdwal oompeinen EG sheviki of the government cla a one: the feding wey of the ; Fovernment: Rerenaky’ . ad um phy of Lenine! I thought I should goon a lis = at least very bere! detail, ee a a sufficiont hackgroend, a picture of what come afterec to be looked upon We all remember how pe 2 with the Russian Fevckethe a! 1917. [t interfered interests: it promise i: armies in the east ood ive Tmhimediate concentration Sa in the west, but neverthei the overthrow of the Russian gutccricy and yar iw the most important event tory, even in thos toes wa setting & record that we aml to Place in a clo by nl pe es tin pure eked, and alt ther undeareble The March Revo Hosdless and was with complete acquit that ts, except an ip of irreconcilable — crate. We cocumented gpon Se time with wondercmet sell proval, congratulatizg ta 2

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alle to accomplish such an undertak- ‘ke eo much regard for the niceties, ee fed Gp on ut for two very important reasona salcton Would have succeeded: fol- which there Would have been eatab- a Aussan gorernment that, however die in fis character it might have qld have been recognised by other ments to the od that Mussia today pesent a vastly different picture, these Trasons was that Kerensky mously limited as to vision, was fre- ‘wrong when he should have been 1, and-almost invariably week when dd have been firm, Theo other wis i Hokheviki had a fined purpose and nine ag thear lender could command ities of such men as Trotaky, Kam- dnoviev, Stalin, Bukharin, Tichit- il many others, all men trained care of active participation in the alshevistic enterprise and any one | was better as to sheer ability and Inet for that whieh he had to do chet Kerensky had behind him. uslan Secialist Federative Soviet ‘wis established! Tremendous ambracing reform were immedi- ititutel, and to these the great. he population inatantly responded, B perecbered that the Her iis densely ignorant an ry | stclotariate together with the wning ‘Peanantry, had been ine » insidi Pll = eh th sea operandi or rs, wit iew that they would be t vi to support the prineip m if a time ever came when an ty would be given them to do ao, diate “reforma™ consisted prin- unlocking all doors and laying y wide open for plunder and the everaal of the acecial atatusa of the lasses in the body politie. gat this point that one pauses to the colossal stupidity of the acl- atelligent men who were direct- stupendous eventa. According purist pregrum the overthrow sxsecapltalistic government and shment of a dictatorship af the is to be followed in each instance al withering away of the state, at not rather a wonderful iden restingly phrased? What does [presents a picture to one's mind, picture that is very difficult to a words. In any case it presup the sudden collapsr of a state is icipated, adern’ Mircalculations nition that the bos Boleheviki ny oof monomaniacs le founded wonder that they should have me of the things they have as their beliefs, Being highly ten; being sane—supersane— vision, how could they have the possibility of the gradual ray of a state? And how, in- could they have persuaded o believe that humanity is so that onee all the restraints of der were removed each ine He begin right weay to con- 2 general welfare according to ind that nebody would ever 0 take except in exact accord- need? Oh, Bloomingdale and Bughouse! But do not forget he gremtest peoples on earth way today under the impasi- theories. . Lenine counted with more an Was entire justified on iracteristica of humanity so inifested im mass submission cessity. w#ilse T think he had ree of faith in the aan ence on his joh, Nobody iore definitely than he the alists, and I am sure he did om the sudden collapse in- dual withering away of the He muteat certainly have numbers of men in govern- nd ain governmental employ e institutions all over the vy at their posts and to dis- 2phicm] remdiness to adapt the situation and to obey ider_ =n ge bang mi aaepen to cevetop, ar whe oclid this, but the reanization os a whole went THE SATURDAY EVENING All ministers and heads of departments were naturally d by the Bolshevik coup d'étal, but there were harmless, neces sary undersecretaries of various kinda: there were clerks and accountants; specialists In finance: apecialiata in interior affalra: ape clalista im Fand navy administration; apeciillata in the administration of justice; apecialista in railways and other lines of committiratien: professors in universities: scientists in state laboratories; o whole internal and external revenue outht; vari- ous kinds of officials in provinces and counties, townships and towns —just think what the gradual withering away of a state would invalye! Even after the overthrow of the monarchy and through the feeble days of the provisional government the Russian state waa a going concern because the men who were responsible for the de- taila of it remained at their But with the triumph of the B iki they quit—in sufficient numbers, at least, to produce a collapse—saying they would not work under the domination a band of thieves and traitors. Under Bolshevik Rule Tn writing all this I am more or less quetinn numbers of theas men with whom have tuked. Most of them have spent r } or another since then; they have lived through amaz- ing times: they hove suffered the confisca- months in prison on one ch tion or gradual withering away of all ever pomessed; they are like gentle men whe have | degraded through some vied or terrible misfortune; they are clothed in the remnants of a former re- epectability: they button their onetinee amart conte close up across their cheate and wear litth odds and enda of mufflera or atocks round their collarless throats: they are dirty: they had some to the stage of hunger when [ talked with them—many of them, that ia: their families were in dis- tress, and nearly always what they told me about themaclves was merely [neidental ta an almeet breathless and an alw nile and apologetic question as to whether of not To might be able to arrange to have a food package sent to them from the United Sites, If you should ask mo who these people are [ should tell you that they are every | body of a certain class in Russia, the class with which any ordinary American of good standing would naturally associate, If among them there are any exceptions, any who have esca the wrath, I neither met them nor heard of them. But if I ehould mention any names I would be ex- posing ta further persecution men and women Who have suffered enough. The Reign of Terror is supposed to be over in Russia, but it & mot, and I think I talked with nobody outside governmental circles who did not ask me to forget his identity and te regard hint merely aa a type. The average Husslan letarian and rrasint is wholly Diterate, and at the time when the Bolsheviki came Into power this kind of man had his mind fastened upon nothing but the golden opportunity pre= sented to him to loot and to seiae; to strut and to swagger in his new-found place; to satiafy his lusts of every imaginable vari- ety. Yet it was on just this kind of citizen that the Bolshevik prosidium—the little coterie of fanatics af the top—had to de- pend for administrative service in govern- ment and upon whom it bestowed its spoils af victory. T have no intention of going on with gen- eralities and writing net 4 ht history, but there ls another piece of background ta Ie ett in, without which ne picture of Com- munitt Russia without a definite understanding af which nobody would ever be able te get an ade quake cone piion of what the Hussion situa tion means to the rest of us. T am not pretending to be a discoverer; I am merely aeuming that a great many people have ceased to remind themeelvea in so many words that such and such things are true, Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Nico lai Lenine set in motion forces that were to destroy the national life of a t empire together with the individual lives of mil- liens of ite citizens: and while these foress gathered mementum, while Red Terror raged rownd him, growing redder and more terrible, while millions of people fled the wraith of him ane his kind and other mil- lions sank before his eves into unfathen- able depths of misery and degradation, while his country was being looted and ravaged fram one end to the other, while ite would he complete and | POST FE, i == os & = PC) a k " "s oT re Ly ; | The History of the Pneumatic Tire 1—Squaresveren fabric — Invented in 1888. 2=(Cord-fabric=Commercialized in 1915. rubbing of one cord against another is reduced. 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THE MAJESTIC Ca, And Get Rid of This! HUNTINGTON, IND. “Underground Garbage Receiver Out of Sight « Odorless « Fly-Proof « Sanitary THE SATURDAY | Lenine repudi | tian of EVENING POST lpated and its pro | ones coetrneen wtaien erties destroyed, while in the world outa war was being fought and ce waa being made— Nicola] Lenine sat in his high place nursing his monstrous obsession, Tio him the destruction of Russia was a mere inc- dent, His fixed and fanatic desire was to destroy the whole world. a may be some who will question judgment in holding Lenine always to the ‘orefront a8 an isolated figure, but it is thus that he appeara to my mind. He seers to me to be as much a figure of com- mand in everything that has oecurred in Rusala aa Napoleon ever was at the head of Kis armies: ard in Russia, in his own eee of Moscow, one gets this impression. im. Nobody else gap in the eom- mon mind a pomion in any, way. com par= able to his, ky is a big ‘hotering Penta in com cane hin. Trotzky in Lenine is feline. Trotzky can be cat at; he can be barked at nt lhauricn; e can be loved or hated, approved or dis- approved, smiled with or or Laughed at at: hei is a keen-eyed, whiskery tual motion ‘tht may fill one with fear ut never with nameless dread, He is o Tauch more capable man than Lenine when it comes to anization and apeecifie ad- Sly eet soar 16: ieunin todee tart only ¢ eoncern in Russia t —but he is too visible to be awe inspiring, even though it a invariably dificult to determina ee he is up te of why, To take advan- with due acknowledgment, af the motfonspiture simile, Lenine does a per- petual fade-out, He is asick man; his eyes are tired; Loh face ts drawn in lines of wetiness: and only his hand, with a firm grasp on the reins of authority, j is in perfect forus and always in full view. Tt will be remembered how, in 1914, in his diatribes against the imperialistic war, inte the Second Interna- tional because of ita conservative stand on the immediate questiona of the day, a ieee isbn he characterized aa thy i, Me called na He would have called names and hurled bit- it moderate socialists Then, in 1915, at a moeting in Bern wi the s _ exiled, pate gee as fugitive members the Russian al Desiocratic Labar Porty whoa were pre pices Europe at the time, he an- ee is intention of organizing a Third International, And think, if you can, w it would have meant to him to be able at that moment to dream of what eventually transpired, Three years later as one of the foremost figures on earth he launched the Third International in Petrograd! And whila the whole of Holsheviam ia the overthrow of establiahed forma sa ernment and the substitution > rian dictatorshipa, the shocouasile gi was a minutely etal oot and AF ann of 1 FeYie am renotest of the earth left out af consideration, none ue be. Lenine'’s Sweeping Program A prominent member of the high-up a shevist group was making a Se oe. in Berlin about Fourssia’s problems and a ficulties. The Bolsheviki were at that time engaged in their s le for af the on the Baltic Sea and were get- ee Letts, Esthonians, Lithuanians and others who would have mone of them or of their doctrines, and this gentleman, lashing him- self into a state of great indignation, 2x vy resale the Letts and those tobees de- manding the right of selfdeterminntion! Next t ng we know the Eskimo will be ris and asking for home rule!" Ww fe only to show how inconsist- ent a Eolshevik can be, This insult was widely quoted in the Latvian press, with the result that the noble Letts were sorely wounded in their pride and their backs ae just a little bit stiffer than they were ore, The story waa tald te me in Riga by one of Latvia's political leaders, and at the mo- ment my mind could occupy itself with no icture but a pleture of ine standing stfore a meeting af the oranization con- fips of the Third International outlining in ior the proletarian conquest of the Ao e would whip into line aa irre file Russian every amallest atate that hed ever been attached to Russin, but at the same time he would graap the power rercemenied in an international organiza- proletarian revalutioniats and usa june te it to overthrow estghubed gos - every country large o mea” p dependent, rich or poor, nepeey: generate, on the face of the ars. wela at his knowledge of geo; mental held wpon the bead ge political affilistiong pnd sees hips. His misd eweem ton earth a2 as though he were the i, Jew himself with the trate of - of personal experience rared Iv, aa an errogant with the c ‘anatic and never-analpeed ¢ - it is therefore that mack a wu: gay is only remotely related t a fact He would aim directly at © af all the major ciate, bo ic time he would strike ot the spurafbtlities i they baary c F ities if they haeary cs he talined before the OPER! =r - the Third International abo comirndes. im Drdia, the Drstch fo the Philippine Islands, the Ain encies, Seuth Sea [dares 1 remote but im 4 ond beri: ealities should have bees moor British, Duteh, Americ, Fre : and other colleagues ieay be shuddering disgust, Bat it vw this only goed to prove thet | Borneo are not the only ra apeciolice in the proderion ol « Lam quite aware thats ao this is merely a peoee do tory, but I think lam rest ul | in believing it bo be a revure ui forgotten truths, and itp pat as everybody should conticw t very vividly why Hy sig r for so long and held away ts 4 world aa something to be fears that within the past few me Lenine and all his pack ave H 8, bat it is much safer > iefly bey a mitepicion fest ir ont on sheep's clothing. it the Genoa Confer: It is mot at all unliiely cos can get into print a gor a have been made in the «:. heaven knows I hope so! [: = will be such changes @ Fo = present concern to appest f* if they should happen te = = would involve my country o 1° in ite attitude toward Bost: cern would be only deepes more profound. [ de not bes etiment will be ia any im t oe: Eno th with regard w Soret - now there are powerful EF Bolshevistic mor Fussias, = stantly in operation ff We the object of bringing abet = Moreover, at the Gena = Bolsheviki, as usual, par: r natily clewer game; Mr ak that probed aa ment that net + the difficulties bby which th ¥ Various observers infherece whe penlly have more ino poabay have in the ood of ™ Pecan ve In hs though it might bappe © : nar 8 own. a ore are comesponcerS are baiting the Bolshevic & splendid time with the. == with entertaining bewtr: regard them with grees analyres them, er attemcts | every body that = conference would be an > affair. (ml! Pegler lac them os mind. He pial ry apg ene eon; "The conference ta ahevists with a bigs = nn a mighty sounding bo Lae have used and propae mest," I -waa in Moscow when © ra acd and one of che mS Ltt expected toe ot ceed gaid: “Asa confer * means for petting o hearty Russia, very decidedly - _I thought when the me tien started on their way. *™ thing it would bare bee world —with o full keer were te represent, of = witnesmert their depart : old city of Moscos Tt m3 (Continged oa Per

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THE SATURDAY ROM McKINLEY TO HARDING (Continued from Page IT} u Loeiiler, an appointee of President % who hac guarded Preai- door ever alice, announced, “Sec- of State Hay, and Mr, Raikes, of iteh Embassy." Roosevelt said, them Inte the brary, major; will mina few minutes," out turning his face he aaid, “I vhat they want, John Hay has : Raikes to thank me for putting at half mast on the White House ld Pauncefote died. I didn't do it he was the British Ambassador, wae he was a damn good fellow." VIII NE, 1895, Paul Morton, at that vice president of the Sunta Fe Ruail- Jephoned me he had offered his arte Governor Rooevelt, of New gp to the sg Ridera' Reunion ¥ , New exico, Ronsevelt | Martens offer, and asked him to ete go with them, this time neither Morton nor I had ernor Hemwevelt, We left Chicago Jotk one evening and sat up very ‘ar the colonel tell his Cuban War 3. Next morning at seven o'clock “din Kansas City. A few train couulaed Roosevelt and shook ih him, A short time after cross iver we stopped ata water tank i [twee a wonderful June morn- corvelt was abounding in \ wizen-faced old woman in a bonnet wee the only human being She came out of a tumbledown lke up the track and looked at . He gave her a hearty “Good * She made na rary bis aame to dheld up a hand like a sparrow's mid "Shake, Teddy." Roosevelt pretierest hand just as the train ie cocked his head on one side ied the old sunbonnet until we t of sight. queer twat of his mouth he said, 2 that ia meunt as a token of but even my wife calls me Theo had wired the Santa Fe agents was on the train and at every ds gathered around the car to ls and hear him epeak, He made peech at each town. In several jer cities the men had printed cin their hatbands which read tin 1904." wit, Kansas, the home of Wil- White, a brass band escorted to a apeaker's atand a few hun- from the train. | am not sure, k it waa the first meeting of ind White. it we left Emporin, Roosevelt, [I talked until midnight. Roose- suzzied over the “ Rooovelt #, IT tolel him the people were ve McKinley a second term in he, Roosevelt, was evidently for 104, — ing of President McKinley he finley has a chocola clair I told him he was mistaken, dated how he had practically y¥ the chance of the presidential In 1886 when he declined to m Platt the Secretary of the wet in Feturn for the wote of ind Petia ears This story in deseribing Murk Hanna's t and Guay in an earlier chap ‘elt said, “By ge, is that back my remark about his | him of my years of friendship ley, that he had not made a ide of Ohio for seven yeara er wiring, telephoning or writ- sending me his speeches to jelivering them, ling at breakfast [ apologiaed bosastfulnes and him up against me. Do you know what I thought to bec? I wondered if you samme thing for me?" ams med Ietters thet follow sequent relations, lay a delegation of Colorado ur party in their own sleepers Leas veges. When we arrived s New exlcan Lown a great 3 at the station. There were real, live cowboys in- the crowd. They yelled and waved their hate when Roosevelt appeared, and shot off their revolvers. The town was alive day are Sok the three days we epent there, Everything waa wide open. No pen ean doacrilse velt's eathnusieamn. e bub bled over every minute, Chur ear was filled with Rough Hiders, who told lurid stories af experiences in Cuba. One of the cow- boys with a big sear on his face snid, “Colonel, do you remember the night it rained hell and wildeata?™ " i George, waan't that a bully storm!" and the white teeth ana r We left Las Vegas tht same sort of demonstration as on our arrival, Roose velt stond on the back platform and waved his cow sombrero until the foothills shut of the view of the : One of the Colorado delegates, a high state official, Fame Inte neces ear anil me, wank to w ize to you,"" 4 wine for?" i ti sais “Well, you put the word ‘gold" into the Republican platform in ‘96. nk pave Colorado the worst blow she ever had. We faced ruin, If you had come to Denver or any other Colorado city at that time you would have been mobbed. We have been together for four days and I want to apolo- gize for the hatred [ bore you." The return to pacaas was quieter than the going west. At night we discussed na- tional and industrial affaira. Roosevelt was very much Interested in Paul Morton's views of the railroad situation, and the legislation necessary to carry out the re- forms he suggested. They were later put inte effect w. Rotevelt became Presi- dent, He offered Morten the post of Seera- tury of the Nayy in 1904, Morton at first declined the posithon with the remark, “The only ship | know anptiing about is the irie schooner.” velt said, “Don't worry alwut that. I know all about ships, What [ want ia your railroad knowledgr."" m Chicago, Roosevelt went to Mil- walkee to deliver a speech. Next day I joined him and went to New York, We arrived in Laporte, Indiana, as Roosevelt waa ready for bed. There were about a thousand peor at the station callin for him, fe did oot hear them until opened his stateroom door. Hastily qulli on his trousers over his pajamas he rush to the rear platform as the train started, and yelled, “Good night and luck !"" early Dake morning we arrived in Buf- faln, here was no cheering crowd to seceday him; only the train men were nbout:, ds Shab yge ts you ae at home,” e anewered, “Yen, George, th know me here.” ; wee During the day I ay ted he aened a telegram to President McKinley telling of the sentiment he found in the Weet for his renomination in 14M, and the prodfer of his personal support. [ wired the Asano ciated Press correspondent to please meet the train at Albany. Roosevelt gave him an interview and Tead him his message to MrKinley, A fow dave later I received a wire from him saying he had received a telegram from the President to bring Mrs, Roosevelt and spend Sunday at the White House. BTATE or New York EXECttIVE CAMBER ALBARTE My doar Mr: Koblecat: Wee on MeHini Afp dear Afr, & =! mem MeRi interview all right? z iid Remember me warmly to Mrs, Kohlasat. Incidentally, mt me te remark that you Are a pune and no mlatake! Didn't we have S pool Week together? Faithfully yOUrA, THEnDORE Hoosevent, State oF New York Executive CHAMBER ALBANY At Overen Bar, N, ¥., July 5, 1899, fydear Mr, Keblaaal: | thank you for yours of the 2d imet. ane] wos jest f interested fn the clipping you sent me, Pam delighted that you like my interview, T cannot aay how | enjoyed meeting you, and indeed, our whole trip. Tam now receiving numerous invitations to go Weet at different times, out this summer or fall again: Dhoos ft Agaln heartily thanking you, I hhh THEODMLE Roosevent, io yout T shall conaylt. you before | acepding any. 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THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 6097 Indepemdence Jquare, Phikdelphia, Poon) renia Gentlemen: How much will you give me for my epare the? IT assume no obligation in asking, but T want te know, Nance —_ Street of B.. F. D. | iad think I had better hee state, What do you think? THE SATURDAY EVENING POST STaTe of New York EXECUTIVE CHAMBER ALBANY At Overes Bay, NH. ¥., Aug. 7, 155. Afy dear Mr. Kodlacai: [ write you for two bite of advice. 1. The Minnescta League of Republican Clubs wants me to come out there on Novem- ber 1. I de not feel much like galng at thla ras, I do not eee that the good that T could o would counterbalance the atraln and effort, pmy Weatern trip | for some future thee, ‘Whee do you thinkT 2. How aleout trusta? [ keow this ia o very large question, but more and more it seema to me that there will be a good deal of importance to the trust matter in tho next campaign and T want to consult with men whom [ trust as to what line of polley ahould be purmued. During tha ere ey plier a I kewo been growing Glormed at the growth of popular popular distrust on this question. unrest and popular ond baseless, but there is a very unpleasant side to this overrun trims development and what [ fear is YW we do moe havo some consistent licy to advocate, thes the multitudes will Follow the crank wha pdvorates an abaurd policy, but whe dors advo- cate something. Haye you thought rae on about the matter to whether any | . tion, and Wf so, what, should be underta Or, whether there is any other remedy that = be wisely applied, Palthfully yours, THEODORE Roosevent.

TELGGRAM Oveter Hay, Aug. 11, 1898. H. H. Kou.aaat, Timea-Horald, Chicago, Chic people want me to open carpalgn, bo make one | Seema to me T ought to go so an McKinley's own Plomsn wire reply. THEODORE Roosevelt, Western speech, and that in

STATE oF NEw York Executive CHaMaen ALBANY At Oveten Bay, Aug. 12, 1856. My deer Mr, Kohkiagat; T acted promptly cat tlc about tha Cis eatepelee. oa June M52 Now, ob medier" wil aire = enclosed i"

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=—s : — < 123 ill he be proud of you when he grows up? believes in vou with all his heart—whe sits so atill as you read te hint at night and whe calls o" Daddy in away that thrills you te your very l—will be be proud of you when he grows wpt Why, youd give your right arm fer that boy, vou hak? hing in your arms—as he snuggles choc that irresistible wav that yvoungeters have—yoai vw that there is nothing you would not do to make 1 Happ. [ “isis little boy of yours—that litth: bey whe “olay, in his childish eyes, you are the greatest dy of them all Don't let him lose that regard de years go by aod understanding comes. ive=ten—fltecn years from now, will he be ud te introduce you as “iy father" when che awe oon to the house? will you be able to buy the things you want him te have —to peovede him tthe education you missed as a bay? he answer depends on yoursell, If you are net ing ahead in your work, it is because you lick thing that employers everywhere are searching frageing!—the ability to do some one thing aylbee you pot a bad start. ens oof thousands of young men enter business weer without the slightest trating for the work are te de, Mest of them take the first position comes their way, believing that af they jorst along they wall, in seme mysterious way, becoore see faal. xu can’t do that any more than you can hang out shingle without any previous training and swe- a8 8 tor, These dave you've got to stucly lifferent branches of business just as thoroughly nm would study necdicine, or law, or engineering. f the problems of business are just as com plex — ‘ewards as large fer forge!) for the pecn whe fy an specialists in seme branch or branches of aeorcial work, “EF. all, there are very few geniuses. Remem- ger, the great business men of today were not rm great. Ac 20, 25 and 30 most of them were 2 most ordinary occupations, un TN. Willys was a Jaundryman. Frank A. erlip, “the moet aeereeirve nance in Armer- as mo machinist. Thomas E. Wileon, of Wilson wie a railway clerk. T. Coleman duPont was John H. Patterson, who founded the ® - | miner, National Cash Register Co. was a toll collector. Charles M. Schwab was a grocery clerk. Allof these men were born poor, Many of them had greater handicaps than vou will ever know, But sooner ar later every one of them woke to the fact that in himsel/—and in bimeself alome—lay the power te do the thing he wanted te de and to be the man he wanted to be And that sane realization must come seaner or later to you. You can, if you will, keow the poy of eciting ahead in business and in life. ADL you need is the will to do and the decision to start now. OW need not worry about the method. 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124 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST What if somebody gave you a live hog? What could you do with it? What value would it have for your But when it appears as pork chops, or “Premium” Ham, or “Premium” Bacon, it's a different matter. It is worth something to you then; you can use and enjoy it in that shape. This is just a little illustration of what Swift & Company means to all of us. This is how it serves, by turning live hogs into meats that you want, and that are good for you; making them valuable to you, and to the men that raise them and want them converted into meat. Swift & Company buys hogs daily at all large packing centers; dresses them under conditions of scrupulous cleanliness and Gov- ernment inspection; cures and smokes suitable parts of them; keeps all these meat products clean and wholesome by handling under refrigeration, and distributes them by a thorough system of car routes and branch houses to cities, towns, and villages throughout the country. Not only that, but Swift & Company treats the world to two of its greatest delicacies—Swift's Premium Ham and Premium Bacon—by careful selection from choicest animals and by ad- vanced methods in curing and smoking. Swift & Company, U. S. A. Founded 1868 A nation-wide organization owned by more than 45,000 shareholders fear a az What could you do with a hog?

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Americas Blue Ribbon Sport Car dane iat mde om dere TF hee Mvevidobrn da Gevenied ao per Hirynes on Sahel ner uta iu dhipped fron the fae- teh, rel seedless phar ghee cor Aus Poe horn oughly muopecied ond feited. fe cerigfes, tom, thie che Mure 4 Sewanee 1c sivedhoer oy macy pect nm 4 Spewduirr schich wus aeivesd bee | Reda ieed WY ol oon in das fuencese rim ‘hen Howard Wilcox established the ‘formance record for the strictly stock ynes 75 Speedster, he demonstrated the rth of the high quality of steels and ver materials used in the manufacture of 3 fast sport car. e mechanical reasons which enabled . Wilcox to attain an average speed of enty-five miles an hour, are the same ich give any owner of a Haynes 75 edster dominance on the road. th a car of such phenomenal power and iina, only a very small portion of its icity is employed in ordinary driving. imeans that the Haynes 75 blue ribbon THE Haynes AutTomosite Company, Kokomo, Indiana - Export Orrice: 1715 Speedster will give more satisfactory ser- vice for a preater number of years than the car whose maximum power is re- quired for every day's use. The liberal use of tested steels and drop forgings makes this car safe at the high speeds the Haynes 75 blue ribbon Speedster will naturally be driven by its enthusiastic owner. The blue ribbon award for speed, stamina, power, reliability and endurance, to the Haynes 75 Speedster, is a fitting 2395 Pk B FACTORY ¢ | By HE ) >} " a Pe | / : i ‘ a gt ic \ i eit 1 = i = vas , f ' it f * HAYNES 75 SPEEDSTER *€ On Thursday, March 9, 1922, 1 drove a strictly stock Haynes 75 Speedster Ly 4 over the Indianapolis Motor Speedway course at Indianapolis, Indiana. I attained sheeds ranging from seventy-four (74) to eighty (Bo) miles an hour. The speeds were clocked officially by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway elec tric timing machine. In my opinion, the Haynes-built 75 six cylinder engine is a remarkable stock motor. It has the necessary sbeed, stamina and get- away to mect the requirements of the most exacting motorist, and at topmost speed it showed a@ decided lack of motor vibration. It is the sturdiest and fastest stock sport car I have ever driven to date.99 (Signed) “Howpy” Witcox POWER, BALANCE, SPEED —a Mile in 48 Seconds Fewaed Wile, iriternatioally knew Tacag drier, aul winner of the Indi- a Seite ee Mirena ferme! ‘ tribute to the famous Haynes engineers who alone have the distinction and honor of designing and perfecting automobiles for more than a quarter of a century. The Haynes 75 blue ribbon Speedster is a strikingly beautiful car in appearance; its owners are deservedly proud of it. In its class it may unhesitatingly be said to be the greatest value possible. See it at the nearest Haynes dealer's showroom and place your order at once, so that you may secure delivery in plenty of time to enjoy the Haynes 75 blue ribbon Speedster through the season. Descriptive literature will be mailed promptly on request. Broadway, New York City, U. 5. A. A f éf a O-|

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