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} Cosmdpo tA Vol. XXXIX oo te mee " - A, “ iat a ee = a. tan ~ litan. Magazine OCTOBER, 1905 ra No. 6 ARBOR LODGE, MR. MORTON’S COUNTRY HOME, NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA Paul Morton—Human Dynamo BY EDWIN LEFEVRE Author of ‘‘ Wall Street Stories’’ N a steamer crossing from England there was a man whose face seemed _ so strangely familiar that two- thirds of the passengers bowed, more or less uncer- tainly. They knew him and yet they did not. It was evi- dent he must be some great personage. He was. He was a chewing-gum manufacturer, whose omnipresent portrait adorned walls, fences, magazine pages and newspaper advertising columns. He was the most “successful” man on board, though there were many abler business men, richer men, writers—at least one—clergymen, lawyers, politicians. But the chewing-gum was It. This may be fame and not the American idea of success. But is it not the frequency with which a man’s name appears in the newspapers that after all is the popular measure of success? How else do you account for so many newspaper-made repu- tations? Every few minutes a new man of the hour bobs up. If he makes good, he stays among the permanent successes and gets so many columns a year for life. If he fizzles out, he merely relapses into the old unparagraphed obscurity. At this moment Mr. Paul Morton is one of the most be-newspapered men in the country.

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570 Every day what he has to say or does not say about the Equitable Life is read by millions, like the phy sicians’ bul letins of the condition — of some _ illustri- ous patient. By the time this article is printed, some other man will probably — be running ten or fifteen col umns a day ahead of Mor ton, but Mor- ton will, with- out any doubt, be heard from again. People read a_ great deal about him at the time of the Burlington strike in 1887, and forgot all about him un til Mr. Roose- § velt ap] oInted Copyright, 1904, by Clinedins: him secretary of the navy. The country at large did not know Paul Morton. The country at large did not care a tinker’s damn about Paul Morton. But the Americans take an interest in the heads of our government and have a sense of humor. Here was a man who was not a politician but only the son of a Dem- ocrat who had been in Cleveland’s Cab- inet appointed to a Republican Cabinet. He had been a railroad man all his life; the first ship he ever saw was probably one of the schooners that carried his father over the Nebraska prairies; as a nav- igator, he could boast of two hundred thousand miles in a Pullman. He was placed at the head of the Government’s ship-ahoy department. But also, here was an unconventional President asking a business man to run_ that MRS, successful MORTON Cosmopolitan Magazine same depart- ment in a business - like way and con- fident that the business man would make good as soon as he was fa- miliarwith the details. All that was worth much — space. Miles of col umns were cheerfully written and cheerfully read. The President was fighting cer tain abuses of the railroads. The railroads liked his ideas so little that they had much Mere The had 10 Say. space. Atchison violated the law and granted re bates. = Paul Morton _ had been the Atch- ison’s _ traffic man. Paul Morton was the President’s secretary of the navy and the President must feel un- comfortable and Mr. Morton must be getting seasick in his revolving office- chair in Washington. Miles of columns were cheerfully printed and cheerfully read. Then, after more space was used up in wondering why, if guilty, Mr. Morton’s name had not been covered with obloquy, Mr. Morton resigned his Cabinet office to take charge of certain large railway interests in New York. But he at once became in- volved in another matter. Early in the present year certain squab- bles among officials of the Equitable Life Assurance Society drew public attention to the affairs of the company. Upon the re- ports of a committee appointed by the di- rectors, and that of the state superintendent

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Paul Morton—Iluman Dynamo of insurance, the contending factions has- tened to make peace and unite in order to defend themselves against the most serious, if not incriminating, charges—use of the company’s money in private enterprise, exorbitant salaries paid to favored officials. flagrant nepotism, etc. ‘The scandal grew so that it was heard the world over. Loud were the outcries of agents and alarmed policy-holders, predicting the ruin of the company. The crowd must be put out. The newspapers said so at great length. Copyright, 1924, by G. V. B MR. MORTON Thomas F. Ryan’s highly intelligent coup—some of the newspapers even called it patriotic. He bought a con- trolling interest in the stock, and the presi- dent and vice-president, who started the row in the first place, handed in their resignations. Paul Morton was made chairman of the Equitable board, with plenary powers. More miles upon miles of columns about Paul Morton. Then he was elected presi- dent of the society at a salary of one hun- dred thousand dollars a year, which he him- Then came Mr. IN 7! self cut down twenty per cent. because he had cut other salaries in the company. Who is Morton? What is Morton? He is a Westerner. Not enough Eastern men know what that means. Hetty Green, whose son lives in Texas and who has traveled extensively and lived long enough and made money enough to know what she is talking about, said once: “In the West men are bad only on the surface. In Wall Street they are bad clear through.” In the West, big men do things and wish to keep HIS OFFICE on doing them and other people hope they will. In the East, big men do things, and wish to keep on doing them and other people pray they won’t. In the West men big and little want no favors, only a square deal. In the East, the big men, in the matter of deals, want nothing but favors from political “friends” and presidents of financial institutions, and of all the Com- mandments keep in mind only the eleventh, “Thou shalt not be found out.” Paul Morton came from the West. There he helped to rehabilitate the Atchison, rebates

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rebates. He is now in the East. Let us see whether he will rehabili- tate the Equita ble, Wall Street or no Wall Street. aul Morton is the second son of the late J. Sterling Mor ton. If there is anything in heredity and the influence of en-— vironment, it means that he began being a or no hustler and a Westerner long before he was born. The father was a very remark- able man, a born _ pioneer, the type all Americans are proud of, able, original, abso- lutely fearless, absolutely tender, a man of convictions and of principles. J. Sterling Morton and Caroline Joy French were engaged to be married when he was eighteen and she sixteen, but they did not wed until four long years afterward. He was a graduate of the University of Michigan and of Union College, and even while at college was an editorial writer for the Detroit Free Press; his father was a banker in Detroit, but he wished to start life in a brand-new country where he could be what he made himself, and in 1854 he went to Nebraska, partly by boat, partly by rail, and the last few hundred miles by wagon. The young couple homesteaded on a _ quarter-sec- tion, three hundred miles from a rail- road. The same day he settled there he called his one hundred and sixty acres “Arbor Lodge” and began to plant trees. There was plenty of good red blood in the young pioneer, and plenty of poetry. He grew up with the country, of which he be- came a part, being influenced by the life MkS, POTTER, Cosmopolitan Magazine ELDER DAUGHTER OF MR, MORTON he led. He loved men, and he loved trees. He was the orig- inator of Ar- bor Day. He called himself farmer all his life. His acres grew to a thou sand. He be- came secretary of agriculture under __ Cleve- land. And he did not die rich. The three Mor- ton boys, sons of that mother and that father, are making the thousand acres into the great est arboretumin the West. Paul Mor- ton, the second son, is forty- eight years old. When he reached the ripe age of sixteen, his father of fered him the choice between going to college and going towork. Paulelected to goto work. Why? Because his elder brother had gone into the banking business and was making a success of it. It was an example worthy of emulation. The full force of Paul Morton’s decision is not grasped until the unintelligent reader is informed that this elder brother was a year and a half older than Paul. Joy Morton was _ seventeen and a half and already had done enough to show hé was walking successward. So Paul Morton went to work for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. It is the false note in Paul Morton’s business career that he started as office-boy. It sounds too good to be true, too old-fashioned. But that’s what he did. He began on twenty dollars a month and_ borrowed _ five dollars a month from his father in order to pay his board at a decent eating-house. On his twenty-first birthday he was made assistant general freight-agent of the Bur- lington system. He had a phenomenal

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Paul Morton memory—nobody consulted the rate-sched- ule when he was around; they merely asked him and he told them. His grasp on the traffic business was remarkable. At twenty-five he was made general passenger- agent. Not long afterward he was ap- pointed general freight-agent. In 1887, at the time of the strike, he was the Bur- lington’s official spokesman for publication. Nobody, not the president nor the vice- presidents nor the directors, was per- mitted to say a word to the newspapers. The were directed to Paul Morton if they wished to ask questions and he answered them. He was not a_ college man; the Bur lington is his alma mater. You would not think of a railroad as a training-school for diplomats, but that is what Morton was at thirty—a com petent railroad man and a diplomat. He “did things’ also he could talk intelligently. Newspaper men who have had occasion to lis- ten to older and more prominent men, men of wide experience in various walks of life, will know what a man of thirty must be who talked day after day and never lied and never equiv- ocated, and yet never madeabreak. That’s the remarkable thing about Western men who have not had a collegiate education. They have self-reliance, keen observation, a contempt for pettiness, a remarkable power of assimilating forms of polite diction even while preserving a picturesque individuality of spoken speech; also the American sense of humor. All this and the ability to work —Vveritable human dynamos. reporters Copyright, 1904, by Clinedinst Human Dynamo ih > MISS PAULINE MORTON 573 Paul Morton stayed with the Burlington until 1890, when he went with the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company as vice-president. When the presidency of the reorganized Atchison road was offered to Mr. Ripley, he accepted, provided the directors would make Paul Morton vice-president and his active assistant. He knew Morton, knew what he could do and knew what he had done while they were both on the Burlington. The Atchison had been reorganized, but it needed what was far harder to ac- complish—re- habilitation. It was out of a receiver’s hands to be sure, but it did not pay its debts promptly, and it did not keep its promises. It granted rebates as the other roads. did, but it did not make good when the time came, not because it was wrong to give rebates, but be- it needed the tainted money. It had no credit. It was unpopular with — shippers. Paul Morton’s position was, as he himself de scribed it, that of business- getter for the road; and he got his share. To besure, in 1896 the industrial pendulum had touched the lowest point and was about to swing the other way. It was practically the beginning of the end of the period of depression. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, the gross earnings were $28,999,597, the expenses of operating $22,071,275, and net earnings of less than $7,000,000. Five years later, the gross in- come was $54,474,823, the operating ex- pense $32,262,945, and the net earnings $22,211,875. It was a misfortune to be cause

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574 a holder of Atchison stocks in 1896, and great luck in 1901. Its adjustment bonds were selling then at thirty cents on the dollar. ‘They have sold at their face value since. To-day the dividends on that stock aggregate nearly five millions a year. And Mr. Morton, it is admitted by the Atchison, did much to rehabilitate the road. Boldly stated, the story of Morton’s life does not sound particularly interesting—a railroad man from his sixteenth to his forty-sixth year; then lifted into national prom- inence by _ his appointment to the Cabinet; then made chairman of the Equitable, ap- pointed to bring order out of chaos. And when you come to study the man, you find very little pictur- esqueness of personality, no abnormally de- veloped traits, no “salient fea- tures” in his psychological physiognomy. And yet Paul |X Morton is anex- tremely interest ing man, because he is a_ very good type of a very good sort of Amer- ican, a type which so far has thriven best in the far West. And, let it be said, there are enough Paul Mortons in this coun- try to make a man who has been reading the newspapers and magazines lately feel fairly comfortable, rebates or no re- bates. To begin with, Paul Morton is the son of his parents—the young couple that, accustomed to a life of literary culture and refinement and bodily comforts, settled in a remote spot and worked hard and saw it \ iF an x HOME OF THE EQUITABLE I20 BROADWAY, Cosmopolitan Magazine become part of a prosperous community. That was the parents’ education—from wilderness to civilization. Think of the life of the twenty-two-year-old boy and his girl-wife. If you think intelligently, you will cease to wonder why I emphasize this point. At sixteen, Paul was fit to live be- cause he was fit to work, and he was willing to work because his brother, who was under eighteen, was already a_ business man. This is no fling at collegiate education; it is a statement of facts — the condition, not the theory, that confronted many young Westerners. He went to work for a railroad and he rose steadily, not be- cause of any pull, but — be- cause he earned his advance. He was more competent than the other office be IVS. The be Vv who was scarce ly a boy at six teen, Was amar ried man, witha married man’s responsibilities, at twenty-three. At forty-six he was a_ grand- father. Paul Morton to-day looks younger than his age. LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, What kind of NEW YORK life must he have lived? Why, the kind of life a man must lead who is a grandfather and doesn’t look it. He is a big man, tall and well-built, but quick and decisive in his move- ments. He has worked all his life as few men work even out West, and since he was not working to increase his own fortune, he must have worked because he loved to work. He is one of the men who do things, do them well and do them for a salary. That is text enough for fifty 4t

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sermons to our young men who envy poor rich John D. Rockefeller and never skip the racing news. Morton is never happy unless he is working; the busier he is, the happier he feels. He is of that blessed Western type of man who. will tackle any job and cannot rest until it is done. To leave it unfinished is to be made unhappy, uncomfortable, conducive to insomnia; and it is scientific work, good, sound brain-work, and not mere gluttony for labor—the kind of man, in short, who will invent labor-saving devices not to save labor but to enable the same number of men to accomplish twice as much as before. He tries to finish all his day’s work every day, and the amount he has to do is enor- mous. He has relays of secretaries. He works all day in his office, but there are too many people who must be seen and listened to, who use up muchtime. There are letters to write and instructions to give, so after leaving his office he goes home, dines, and an hour afterward is working, reading letters, dictating answers, et cetera, until midnight. In the morning, before he starts for his office, he has kept another secretary busy an hour ortwo. This gospel of work may be the g6spel of a fanatic or of a Russell Sage, but there is this to be said in extenuation, that Morton is not paid on a percentage basis nor by piece- work, and that he is not only a very clear- headed man but a very strong one, phys- ically, who has always been a human dynamo. To be sure, he is now receiving a salary of two hundred and sixty-six dol- lars per working-day. He doubtless earns it. Other presidents of life insurance com- panies receive more. They may be abler. They will not work harder, The day’s routine of the man must be interesting. How can he work to entitle him to say he can earn more than fifty clerks? What can he do? He is the head of the com- pany; he is the foreman. He gets work out of others. He obtains results. The ability to do this is rare. He has it. The only time I ever heard him give commands to his subordinates I was im- pressed. His voice was not harsh, his manner not unkindly; yet there was some- thing about both which somehow produced an effect of machinery and steel—precise, clear-cut, emotionless, demanding not only obedience but promptness and intelligence in order that the other cogwheels might not Paul Morton—Human Dynamo 575 cease to function. It looked as if he might be a hard taskmaster, a master whose only thought was that a particular piece of work should be done by a particular man in a particular way. But this is not so, for the simple reason that Morton is far too intelligent to be unreasonable. He does not expect his men to work as hard as he does, because he knows few of them can even if they woulds—they haven’t the head nor the physique for it. But he does ex- pect them to work hard, and moreover he expects their work to show results. He in- sists upon it. If the results don’t show, the man must make room for one whose work will. Efficiency first, last, all the time. Not a pleasant thing for the in- competents, but that only means that in- competents need not starve if they will reduce their ideas as to the position they should occupy. Morton, of course, is more than a work- ing-machine. If he were not, he merely would be a freak. As chief ‘“business- getter” for the Atchison he had to help the rehabilitation of the road, to inspire confidence among shippers in its good faith, in its willingness and its ability to keep its promises. To make the public realize that the new Atchison was not the old, he had to be a “business politician, a railroad diplomat. I should say that the diplomacy of Paul Morton might lack the finesse of certain Eastern financiers, but that it is more refreshing, more direct, and accomplishes its object probably more com- pletely and certainly more quickly than the other kind. His is the Western attitude, which assumes that the majority of men are good. He can bea good fellow, there- fore, because he is normal and healthy and an optimist, with a sense of humor. His diplomacy in business is that of the West- erners, to wit: ‘‘The majority of people are square. I’m square. I'll tell the truth bluntly and I’ll hear the truth bluntly. If we agree, very well. If we can’t agree on all points, let us agree on as many as we can.”’ Such men have no time to waste in sparring for an opening nor in artistically producing erroneous impressions. They don’t do business in a subtle way nor by indirection, because they have so much to do before they die. Men have fooled Morton time and again. No one man has ever fooled him twice. He bears this in mind when he is “sizing up” strangers, 42

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57 Cosmopolitan Magazine for he is not ashamed if one fools him once. But the second time the man tries he might better have tackled a live wire. I thought once he might be vindictive—he was so ut- terly without the sentimentalism that even Wall Street men sometimes show. I said: “T’d like to ask you a question. If I knew you intimately, I should not have to ask it. But there is no use in asking unless you answer with absolute frankness.” “Ask it,” he said, very quickly. “How do you feel toward people who get the better of you?” ““My fault for letting them. Why feel?” “Tf a man should say something mean about you?” “Look here. Success is like the sun- shine—it brings the rattlesnakes out. They can’t help being rattlesnakes, can they? What’s the use of getting angry?” “Revenge?” “Bosh!” I also asked him, some time afterward, if he had Ideals. I sought to convey by my manner that I thought all men should have Ideals with a capital I. He answered, “I haven’t any.” “T didn’t mean hobbies,” I explained severely, ‘“but Ideals. You must wish to do something.” “Yes: work.” “Hang it, what is your philosophy of life?” “Did you ever hear the Western advice: ‘So live- your life each day that you can at any time look any damn man in the eyes and tell him to go to hell’? That’s my philosophy of life.” He is not a profane man, and he does not carry a chip on each shoulder. He will assuredly not be misunderstood. Such in brief is Paul Morton—a hustler, blest before his birth in having such parents, blest in being born a Westerner, blest in his early marriage, blest in being a grandfather at forty-six, blest in his love of work and his active mind and his robust physique and his utter fearlessness. He is the antithesis of morbidness. He is emi- nently practical, almost @ outrance, and yet he reads not only prose but verse. He loves his family and his affection for his father amounted to veneration. He knows men; he has seen all sorts and conditions of men, good, bad and worse, under all sorts of circumstances, and to-day, in his forty-eighth year, he believes that men treat you as you treat them. All he asks is what he always is willing to give—a square deal. It is the motto of the real American—a square deal! His success has been due to his traits and to what is called executive ability. He is beyond all question a great organizer. You don’t have to know him very long to know that. It is a difficult thing to describe executive ability. A man is born with it, as a man is born with “personal magnetism” or a knack for rhyming. He works and he gets work out of men, not by kindness, not by harshness, but because he has that mys- terious power. The Equitable Life Assur- ance Society may need a great insurance expert some day at its head. What it needs to-day is a man like Paul Morton. And he is there. I cannot defend Paul Morton in the matter of the Atchison rebates,- for the simple reason that I cannot accuse him. The investigation by the Government did not show that Morton was guilty. Men may differ with Mr. Roosevelt on every con- ceivable subject, but I do not think there are many who know him as a man who believe Morton was “‘ whitewashed’’ by his orders. If Mr. Morton had not been secretary of the navy, I think the investiga- tion would have been carried on along precisely the same lines that it was. He began his career as a railroad man at a time when the railroad business was con- ducted with little regard for abstract ethics, when rebates and other bad prac- tices were deemed necessary evils, law or no law. Paul Morton was chief business- getter for the Atchison, and the Atchison needed all the business it could get and more. I do not know whether he autho- rized rebates or not, or if he closed his official eyes to what zealous subordinates did. But I do know that the son of J. Sterling Morton does not lie, that he does not fight un- fairly, that he believes in a square deal, that he has worked all his life very hard and very intelligently and worked on a salary—that is the way he is’still working —and that when I say “Paul Morton— Westerner,” the man who knows the West knows all that is good and that is bad of Paul Morton.

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faa)f ie. au. P a: | W.W.JAC AVHE old man took up his mug Nj and shifted along the bench until he was in the shade of ¢ the elms that stood before YM) the Cauliflower. ‘The action CANOE also had the advantage = hMeeserry bringing him opposite the SAN two strangers who were re- Bes freshing themselves after the PORE toils of a long walk in the sun. ‘““My hearing ain’t wot it used to be,” he said tremulously. ‘When you asked me to have a mug o’ ale, I ’ardly heard you; and if you was to ask me to ’ave another, I mightn’t hear you at all.” One of the men nodded. “Not over there,” piped the old man. “That’s why I come over here.”’ He added, after a pause, ‘‘It ud be rude-like to take no notice, if you was to ask me.” He looked round as the landlord ap- proached, and pushed his mug gently in his direction. The landlord, obeying a nod from the second stranger, filled it. “Tt puts life into me,” said the old man, raising it to his lips. “It makes me talk.” ; y ‘ “Time we were moving, Jack,” said the first traveler. The second expressed, how- ever, a determination to finish his pipe. “T heard you saying something about shooting,” continued the old man, ‘‘and that reminds me of some shooting we ’ad here once in Claybury. We've always ’ad a lot o’ game in these parts, and if it wasn’t for a low poaching fellow named Bob Portly— Claybury’s disgrace, I call ’*im—we’d ’ave a lot more.” He went on: It happened in this way: Squire Rorkett was going abroad to foreign parts for a year and he let the Hall to a gentleman from London named Sutton. A real gentleman ’e was, open-’anded and free, and just afore October he ’ad a lot of ’is friends come down from London to ’elp ’im kill the pheasants. The first day they frightened more than they killed, but they enjoyed themselves all right until one gentleman, who ’adn’t shot a single thing all day, shot Bill Chambers, wot was beating with about a dozen more. Bill got most of it in the shoulder, and a little in the cheek, but the row he see fit to 577

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578 make you’d ha’ thought he’d been killed. He laid on the ground groaning with ’is eyes shut, and ev erybody thought he was dying till Henery Walker stooped down and asked *im whether ’e was hurt. It took four men to carry Bill ’ome, and he was that particular you wouldn’t believe. They ’ad to talk in whispers, and when Peter Gubbins forgot ’imself and began to whistle, he asked him where his ’art was. When they walked fast he said they jolted ’im, and when they walked slow he asked’ em whether they’d gone to sleep, or wot ? Bill was in bed for nearly a week, but the gentleman was very nice about it and said that it was his fault. He was a very pleas- ant-spoken gentleman, and arter sending Doctor Green to him and saying he’d pay the bill, ’e gave Bill Chambers ten pounds to make up for ’is sufferings. Bill:’ad intended to lay up for another week, and the doctor, wot ’ad been calling twice a day, said he wouldn’t be responsible for his life if ’e didn’t, but the ten pounds was too much for ’im, and one evening just a week arter the accident he turned up at this Cauliflower and began to spend it. His face was bandaged up, and when ’e come in he walked feeble-like and spoke in a faint sort of voice. Smith the landlord got im a easy-chair and a couple of pillers, and Bill sat there like a king telling us all his sufferings and wot it felt like to be shot. I’ve always said wot a good thing beer is, and it done Bill more good than doctors’ medicine. When he came in he could ’ardly crawl, and at nine o’clock ’e was out of the easy- chair and dancing on the table as well as possible. He smashed three mugs and upset about two pints o’ beer, but he just put ’is ’and in his pocket and paid for ’em. “There’s plenty more where that come from,” he ses, pulling out a handful o’ money. Pete Gubbins looked at it, ’ardly able to speak. “It’s worth while being shot to ’ave all that money,” he ses at last. “Don’t you worry yourself, Pete,” ses Bob Portly. ‘“There’s plenty more of you as’ll be shot afore them gentlemen at the Hall ’as finished. __ Bill’s the fust, but ’e won’t be the last—not by a long chalk.” “They’re more careful now,” ses Dicky Weed the tailor. “All right, ’ave it your own way,” ses Bob, nasty-like. ‘‘I don’t know much about shooting, being on’y a pore laborin’-man. ” Cosmopolitan Magazine All I know is, I shouldn’t like to go beating for them. I’m too fond o’ my wife and family.” “There won’t be no more shot,” ses Sam Jones. “Bob Portly don’t know everything,” ses Dicky Weed. “T’ll bet you what you like there’ll be some more of you shot,” ses Bob Portly, in a temper. ‘Now then.” “*’Ow much’ll you bet, Bob?” ses Sam Jones, with a wink at the others. “‘T can see you winking, Sam Jones,” ses Bob Portly, “but I'll do more than bet— the last bet I won is still owing to me—now look ’ere: I’ll pay you sixpence a week all the time you’re beating if you promise to give me ’arf of wot you get if you’re shot. I can’t say fairer than that.” ‘Will you give me sixpence a week too?” ses Henery Walker, jumping up. “*T will,” ses Bob, ‘“‘and anybody else that likes. And wot’s more, I'll pay in advance. Fust sixpence now.” Claybury ’ave never been backward when there’s been money to be made easy, and they all wanted to join Bob Portly’s Club, as he called it. But fust of all ’e asked for a pen and ink, and then he got Smith the land- lord, being a scholard, to write out a paper for them to sign. Henery Walker was the fust to write ’is name, and then Sam Jones, Peter Gubbins, Ralph Thomson, Jem Hall and Walter Hell wrote theirs. Bob stopped ’em then and said six ud be enough to go on with, and then ’e paid up the sixpences and wished ’em luck. Wot they liked a’most as well as the six- pences was the idea o’ getting the better o’ Bob Portly. As I said afore, he was a poacher, and that artful that up to that time nobody ’ad ever got the better of ’im. They made so much fun of ’im the next night that Bob turned sulky and went off ome, and for two or three nights he ’ardly showed his face; and the next shoot they ’ad he went off to Wickham and nobody saw ’im all day. That very day Henery Walker was shot. Several gentlemen fired at a rabbit that was started, and the next thing they knew Henery Walker was lying on the ground calling out that ’is leg ’ad been shot off. He made more fuss than Bill Chambers a’most, ’specially when they dropped ’im off a hurdle carrying him ’ome, and the things he said to Doctor Green for rubbing

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Four Pigeons 579 his ’ands as he came into the bedroom was disgraceful. The fust Bob Portly ’eard of it was up at the Cauliflower at eight o’clock that evening and he set down ’is beer and set off to see Henery as fast as ’is legs could carry ’im. Henery was asleep when ’e got there, and, do all he could, Bob Portly couldn’t wake im till he sat down gentle on ’is bad leg. ‘‘Tt’s o’ny me, old pal,” he ses, smiling at ‘im as Henery woke up and shouted at ’im to get up. Henery Walker was going to say some- thing bad, but ’e thought better of it, and he lay there arf bursting with rage. Drawn by Will Owen BILL SAT THERE LIKE A KING TELLING US “I'd quite forgot you was on my Club till Smith reminded me of it,” ses Bob. ‘‘ Don’t you take a farthing less than ten pounds, Henery,” ses Bob. Henery Walker shut ’is eyes again. “TI forgot to tell you I made up my mind this morning not to belong to your Club any more, Bob,” he ses. ; “Why didn’t you come and tell me, Henery, instead of leaving it till it was too late?” ses Bob, shaking his ’ead at him. “IT shall want all that money,” Henery, in a weak voice. ‘I might ’ave to have a wooden leg, Bob.” ses “Don’t meet troubles arfway, Henery,” ses Bob, in a kind voice. ‘‘I’ve no doubt Mr. Sutton ’Il throw in a wooden leg if you want it; and look here, if he does I won’t touch you for arf of it.” He said good-night to Henery and went off, and when Mrs. Walker went up to see ‘ow Henery was getting on he was carrying on so alarming that she couldn’t do nothing with ’im. He was laid up for over a week, though it’s my opinion he wasn’t much hurt, and the trouble was that nobody knew which gentleman ’ad shot ’im. Mr. Sutton talked it over with them, and at last, arter a good WOT IT FELT LIKE TO BE SHOT deal 0’ trouble, and Henery pulling up ’is trousers and showing them ’is leg till they was fair sick of the sight of it, they paid ’im ten pounds the same as they ’ad Bill. It took Bob Portly two days to get ’is arf, but he kept very quiet about it, not wishing to make a fuss in the village for fear Mr. Sutton should get to hear of the Club. At last ’e told Henery Walker that ’e was going to Wickham to see ’is lawyer about it, and arter Smith the landlord ’ad read the paper to Henery, and explained ’ow he’d very likely ’ave to pay more than the whole ten pounds, ’e gave Bob his arf and said he

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580 never wanted to see ’im agin as long as he lived. Bob stood treat up at the Cauliflower that night and said ’ow bad he’d been treated. The tears stood in ’is eyes a’most, and at last ’e said that if ’e thought there was going to be any more fuss cf that kind he’d wind up the Club. “Tt’s the best thing you can do,” ses Sam Jones. “I’m not going to belong to it any longer, so I give you notice. If so be as I get shot, I want the money for myself.” “Me too,”’ ses Pete Gubbins. ‘‘It ud fair break my ’art to give Bob Portly five pounds. I’d sooner give it to my wife.” All the other chaps said the same thing, but Bob pointed out to them that they ’ad taken their sixpences on’y the night afore and they must stay in for the week. He said that was the law. Some of ’em talked about giving ’im ’is sixpences back, but Bob said if they did they must pay up all the six- pences they had ’ad for those weeks. The end of it was, they said they’d stay in for that week and not a moment longer. The next day, Sam Jones and Peter Gub- bins altered their minds. Sam found a ceuple o’ shillings that his wife ’ad hidden in her Sunday bonnet, and Peter Gubbins Cosmopolitan Magazine opened ’is boy’s money-box to see ’ow much there was in it. They came up to the Cauli- tiower to pay Bob their eighteenpences, but he wasn’t there, and when they went to ’is house Mrs. Portly said as ’ow he’d gone off to Wickham. So they ’ad to spend the money on beer instead. That was a Tuesday, and things went on all right till Friday, when Mr. Sutton ’ad another shoot. The birds was getting scarce, and the gentlemen that anxious to shoot them there was no ’olding them. Once or twice the keeper spoke to ’em about carefulness, and said wot large families they’d got, but it wasn’t much good. They went on blazing away, and at the corner of the wood Sam Jones and Pete Gubbins was both hit, Sam in the leg and Pete in the arm. The noise that was made was awful. Everybody shouting that they ’adn’t done it, and all speaking at once, and Mr. Sutton was dancing about a’most beside ’imself with rage. Pore Sam and Peter was ’elped along by the others, Sam being carried and Peter led, and both of ’em with the idea of getting all they could out of it, making such ’orrible noises that Mr. Sutton couldn’t ’ear *imself calling his friends names. Drawn by Will Owen THEY DROPPED ’IM OFF A HURDLE CARRYING HIM ’OME

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Drawn by Will Owen ‘*1’VE BEEN PUTTING ‘There seems to be wounded men calling out all over the place,” he ses, in a temper. ‘“‘T think there zs another one over there, sir,” ses one 0’ the keepers, pointing. Sam Jones and Peter Gubbins both left off to listen, and then they all heard it dis- tinctly. A dreadful noise it was, and when Mr. Sutton and one or two more follered it up, they found pore Walter Bell lying on ’is face in a bramble. “Wot’s the matter?” ses Mr. Sutton, shouting at ’im. “T’ve been shot from behind,” ses Walter. “T’d got something in my boot, and I was just stooping down to fasten it up agin when I got it.” “But there oughtn’t to be anybody ’ere,” ses Mr. Sutton to one of the keepers. “They get all over the place, sir,” ses the keeper, scratching his ’ead. “T believe he’s done it ’imself,”’ ses Mr. Sutton, stamping ’is foot. “T don’t see ’ow he could, sir,” ses the keeper, touching his cap, and looking at Walter as was still lying with ’is face én ’is arms. They carried Walter ’ome that way on a hurdle, and Doctor Green spent all the rest TWO AND TWO TOGETHER,” SES HENERY, LOOKING ROUND o’ that day picking shots out o’ them three men and telling ’em to keep still. He ’ad to do Sam Jones by candlelight, with Mrs. Jones ’olding the candle with one hand and crying with the other. Twice the doctor told her to keep it steady, and pore Sam ’ad only just passed the remark how ’ot it was for October, when they discovered that the bed was on fire. The doctor said that Sam was no trouble. He got off of the bed by ’imself, and when it was all over and the fire put out, the doctor found ’im sitting on the stairs with the leg of a broken chair in ’is hand calling for ’is wife. Of course, there was a terrible to-do about it in C laybury, and up at the Hall too. All the gentlemen said as ’ow they ’adn’t done it, and Mr. Sutton was arf crazy with rage. He said that they ’ad made ’im the laughing- stock of the neighborhood and that they oughtn’t to shoot with anything but pop- guns. They got to such high words over it that two of the gentlemen went off ’ome that very night. There was a lot of talk up at the Cauli- flower too, and more than one pointed out ‘ow lucky Bob Portly was in getting four men out of the six on his Club. As T said 581

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582 afore, Bob was away at the time, but he came back the next night and we ’ad the biggest row here you could wish to see. Henery Walker began it. “I s’pose you’ve ’eard the dreadful news, Bob Portly,” ’e ses, looking at ’im. “T ’ave,” ses Bob, ‘‘and my ’art bled for em.” “It’s very strange,” ses Henery Walker, looking round—‘‘it’s very strange that all of us wot’s been shot belonged to Bob Portly’s precious Club.” “Tt’s my luck, Henery,” ses Bob. “I always was lucky from a child.” “And I s’pose you think you’re going to ’ave ’arf of the money they get ?’’ ses Henery Walker. “Don’t talk about money while them pore chaps is suffering,” ses Bob. “I’m sur- prised at you, Henery.” ~ “Vou won’t ’ave a farthing of it,” ses Henery Walker; ‘‘and wot’s more, Bob Port- ly, ’m going to ’ave my five pounds back.’ “Don’t you believe it, Henery,” ses Bob, smiling at ’im. “I’m going to ’ave my five pounds back,” ses Henery, ‘‘and you knowwhy. I know wot your Club was for now; and we was all a pack o’ silly fools not to see it afore.” “Speak for yourself, Henery,” ses John Biggs, who thought Henery was looking at ’im. “T’ve been putting two and two together,” ses Henery, looking round, “‘and it’s as plain as the nose on your face. Bob Portly hid up in the wood and shot us all himself.” For a moment you might have ’eard a pin drep, and then there was such a noise no- body could hear themselves speak. Every- body was shouting ’is ’ardest, and the on’y quiet one there was Bob Portly ’imself. ‘Pore Henery, he’s gone mad,” he ses, shaking ’is ’ead. ““You’re a murderer,” ses Ralph Thom- son, shaking his fist at ’im. ‘“Henery "Ww alker’s gone mad,” ses Bob agin. “I ain’t been near the place. There’s a dozen men’! swear that I was at Wickham each time these misfortunate accidents ’appened.” “Men like you, they’d swear anything for a pot o’ beer,” ses Henery. ‘‘But I’m not going to waste time talking to you, Bob > Portly. I’m going straight off to tell Mr. Sutton.” “T shouldn’t do that if I was you, Henery,” ses Bob. Cosmopolitan Magazine “T dare say,” ses Henery Walker, “but then you see I am.” “T thought you’d gone mad, Henery,” ses Bob, taking a drink o’ beer that some- body ’ad left on the table by mistake, ‘‘and now I’m sure of it. Why, if you tell Mr. Sutton that it wasn’t ’is friends that shot them pore fellers, he won’t pay them any- thing. ’Tain’t likely ’e would, is it?” Henery Walker, wot ’ad been standing up looking fierce at ’im, sat down agin struck all of a heap. “And ’e might want your ten pounds back, Henery,” ses Bob in a soft voice. ‘And seeing as ’ow you was kind enough to give five to me, and spent some of the other, it ud come ’ard on you, wouldn’t it? Always think afore you speak, Henery. I always do.” Henery Walker got up and tried to speak, but ’e couldn’t and ’e didn’t get ’is breath back till Bob said it was plain to see that ’e ‘adn’t got a word to say for ’imself. Then ’e shook ’is fist at Bob and called ’im a low, thieving, poaching murderer. ‘“You’re not yourself, Henery,” ses Bob. “When you come round you'll ‘be sorry for trying to take away the character of a pore laborin’-man with a ailing wife and a large family. But if you take my advice, you won’t say anything more about your wicked ideas; if you do, those pore fellers won’t get a farthing. And you’d better keep quiet about the Club, mates, for their sakes. Other people might get the same crazy ideas in their silly ’eads as Henery. Keeper especially.” That was on’y common sense. But, as John Biggs said, it did seem ’ard to think as -ow Bob Port! ly should be allowed to get off scot-free; and with Henery Walker’s five pounds too. ‘‘There’s one thing is,” he ses to Bob, ‘“‘you won’t have any of these other pore chaps’ money, and if they’re men they ought to make it up to Henery Walker for the money he ’as saved ’em for finding you out.” ““They’ve got to pay me fust,” ses Bob. “T’m a pore man, but I’ll stick up for my rights. As for me shooting ’em, they’d ha’ been ’urt a good deal more if I’d done it— especially Mr. Henery Walker.” ‘“‘Don’t answer ’im, Henery,”’ ses John Biggs. ‘‘You save your breath to go and tell Sam Jones and the others about it. It’ll cheer ’em up.” ‘And tell ’em about my ’arf in case they

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get too cheerful and go overdoing it,” ses Bob Portly, stopping at the door. ‘‘Good night, all.” Nobody answered ’im; and arter waiting a little bit, Henery Walker set off to see Sam Jones and the others. John Biggs was quite right about its making ’em cheerful, but they see as plain as Bob ‘imself that it ’ad got to be kept quiet. ‘Till we’ve spent the money at any rate,” ses Walter Bell. ‘Then p’raps Mr. Sutton might get Bob locked up for it.” Mr. Sutton went down to see ’em all a day or two arterwards. The’ shooting-party was broken up and gone ‘ome, but they left some money behind ’em. Ten Drawn ty wilt Owen pounds each they were to’ave, same as the oth- ers, but Mr. Sutton said that he ’ad heard ’ow the other money was wasted at the Cauliflower, and ’e was going to give it out to ’em, ten shillings a week until the money was gone. Peter Gubbins with ’is arm tied up in a sling was the first one to turn up at the Cauliflower, and he was that down-hearted about it we couldn’t do nothing with ’im. He ’ad expected to be able to pull out ten golden sovereigns. “T wonder ’ow they heard about it,” ses Dicky Weed. “T can tell you,” ses Bob Portly, wot ’ad been sitting up in a corner by himself nod- ding and smiling at Peter wot wouldn’t look at ’im. ‘‘A friend o’ mine at Wickham wrote to ’im about it. He was so disgusted at the way Bill Chambers and Henery Walker come up ’ere wasting their ’ard- earned money that he sent ’im a letter signed ‘A Friend of the Workingman’ tell- ing ’im about it.” “A friend o’ yours?” ses John Biggs, staring at ’im. ‘‘Wot for?” “T don’t know,” ses Bob;‘‘ he’s a wunner- ful good scholard, and he likes writing let- ters. He’s going to write another to-morrow unless I go over and stop ’im.” Four Pigeons ‘*HE’S GOING TO WRITE ANOTHER TO-MORROW UNLESS I GO OVER AND STOP ’IM” “Another?” ses Peter, who ’ad been tell- ing everybody that ’e wouldn’t speak to ’im agin as long as ’e lived. ‘‘Wot about?” ‘“‘ About the idea that I shot you all,” ses Bob. ‘I want my character cleared. O” course they can’t prove anything against me —Il’ve got my witnesses—but -taking one thing with another I see now that it does look suspicious and I don’t suppose any of you will get any more of your money. Mr. Sut- ton is so sick o’ being laughed at, he’ll jump at anything.” “You dassen’t do it, Bob,” ses Peter, all of a tremble. “Tt ain’t me, Peter, old pal,’ ses Bob. “Tt’s my friend. But I don’t mind stopping *im for the sake of old time, if I get my ’arf. He’d listen to me, I feel sure.” At first Peter said he wouldn’t get a far- thing out of ’im if his friend wrote letters till doomsday, but by and by he thought bet- ter of it and asked Bob to stay there while he went down to see Sam Walker about it. When ’e came back he’d got the first week’s money for Bob Portly; but he said he left Walter Bell carrying on like a madman, and as for Sam Jones, he was that upset ’e didn’t believe he’d last out the night.

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i ; j i i j i Story of Paul Jones BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS VII THE COUNSEL OF CADWALADER HILADELPHIA is_ expe- riencing a cool June, and in =X a sober, Quakerish way N ¢ shows grateful for it. The FEA windows of General Wash- aw) ington’s apartments, looking vA out into Chestnut Street, are 4, raised to let in the weather, and the urbane sun, not too S%-hot, not too cool, casts a slanting glance into the rooms, as though moved of a solar curiosity concerning the mighty one who inhabits them. The sun, doubtless, goes its way fully satisfied, since General Washington himself is there in casual talk with the Marquis de Lafayette. There is a marked difference to show between the general and the marquis: the former tall, powerful, indomitable—the type American; the latter nervous, opti- mistic, full of romantic heroisms—the type French. The general is speaking, his manner a model of the courteous and the suave. For the young marquis is a peer of France, the head of a Party, and may be held as carrying at his heels a third of French sentiment and French influence. The talk between the general and the marquis is running on Capt. Paul Jones. “Tt surprises me,” the general is saying, “it surprises me, my dear Marquis, to learr. that you know Captain Jones.” “We meet—Captaine Jones and I,” re- sponds Lafayette, in a choppy, fervent fashion of English that carries something more than a mere flavor of Paris—‘‘we meet, my dear General, in Alexandria by the Potomac, when I come north from the Carolina, where I disbark. Captaine Jones he assist very much in Alexandria to find horses to bring me here.” “And you believe, as does he, that the best use that can be made of him is to give him a ship and send him to Europe?” “‘Certaine, General, certaine! Give him AAAS OEY 584 a good ship, and let him hawk at England with it. It should be a quick, smart ship, that they may not catch him. Give him such a vessel, General, and he will keep five hundred English boats at home to guard the British coasts.” “You think, Marquis, that he would make a good impression in France?” “The best, General; the very best! Cap- taine Jones has—what you call?—the aplomb, yes, and the grace, the charm, the dash to captivate the fancy of my country- men.” General Washington walks up and down the polished hardwood floor with thought- ful face. As he turns to speak, he is inter- rupted by an obsequious black attendant —one of those body-slaves brought by him from Mount Vernon. “Pardon, Gin’ral,” says the grizzled old darky, as he pokes his grinning head in at the door; ‘‘Cap’n Jones presents his com- p’ments, sare, en’ wants to know can he come up.” Gener2zi Washington makes a sign of assent, and the grizzled old servitor smirks and siriles and bows himself backward into the hall. There are two sets of feet heard climbing the stair. The quick, elastic step belongs to Capt. Paul Jones, the more stolid tread is that of Mr. Morris, who comes at that moment and, using the familiarity of a ‘closest friendship, walks in on General Washington unannounced. “The marquis was just saying,” said General Washington to Capt. Paul Jones, when greetings were over and conversation, to employ a nautical phrase, had settled to its lines, “that he met you in Virginia.” ‘Ves, General; I had been having a look at my plantation, which Lord Dunmore did me the honor to lay waste.” “Was the destruction great?” “The torch:had been everywhere. The work could not have been more thorough had his lordship posed as a professional incendiary. He had indeed made sorrow- ful havoc of what to me was the dearest

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Drawn by Seymour M. Stone “THERE, TOO, I HAD LOST HIM—SITTING BY HIS BED OF DEATH”

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586 Cosmopolitan Magazine spot on earth. It was there I had lived my happiest years. There I had found a brother; there, too, I had lost hin—sitting by his bed of death. However, it is all of the past.” Capt. Paul Jones gives a hand-toss, as though dismissing a disagree- able situation, one not to be helped by talk: “You received my letter, General?. I was so rash as to think you might aid me in get- ting the new frigate Trumbull.” “Captain,” returns General Washington, “you will understand that my connection with the army makes any interference on my part in naval affairs a most delicate business. I must give my counsel in that quarter cautiously. As for the Trumbull, it is, I fear, already claimed by Mr. Adams for Captain Saltonstall.” “Captain Saltonstall!” cries Capt. Paul Jones, in a fervor of bitterness. ‘General, hear me! [I sailed lieutenant in the Al/red with Captain Saltonstall. I know him, and do not scruple to say that he is an in- competent coward. Since he went ashore in New London after that disgraceful cruise, he hasn’t shown his face aboard ship. He was ashamed to do so. Only Mr. Adams could have protected him from the court-martial he had earned. On my side —if I must plead my own cause—I’ve made two cruises since then, one in the Providence, one in the Alfred. Vve taken twenty - four prizes; some of them by no means unimportant to the American cause.” “Ah, yes!” interrupts General Wash- ington, his steady face lighting up a trifle; “you mean the Mellish and the Bidejford. I heard how you captured the winter equip- ment meant for Howe’s army. You did us a timely service, Captain Jones. Many an American soldier was the warmer last winter, and many a Briton set a-shivering, because of what you did with the Mellish and the Bideford.” “T am glad,” says Capt. Paul Jones, not without a touch of confusion, “to learn that I so much pleased you, General. It gives me courage to hope that you will come to my shoulder against Mr. Adams and his pet Saltonstall.” General Washington, at this last, again dons his manner of grave inscrutability, and falls to his usual habit of striding up and down, hands locked beneath the buff- and-blue flaps of his coat. ‘Captain Jones,” he suddenly breaks forth, “you are a sailor: What do you do afloat in case of a head wind?” “A head wind?” repeats Capt. Paul Jones. “Why, sir, if it’s no more than just a gale, I fall to tacking, sta’board and port. If it should be aught of a hurricane, now, I’d set a storm-stays’l, heave to, and wait for weather.” “Quite so!” returns the general, soberly. “Well, Captain Jones, one may find head winds ashore as well as afloat. Now, in the matter of the Trumbull, I should advise you to ‘heave to,’ as you say, ‘and wait for weather.’ Mr. Adams insists on Captain Saltonstall; and it is not alone incon- venient, it’s impossible, with the Marine Committee made up as it is, to oppose him. Be patient, and you shall not in the end fare worse than your deserts.” Capt. Paul Jones wheels on Mr. Morris. “You hear, Mr. Morris, what the general says?” observes Capt. Paul Jones, his manner dogged and aggressive. “As I warned you in my letter, I shall now prefer charges against Captain Saltonstall—charge him with flat cowardice while in command of the Aljred, and demand a court-martial.”’ Mr. Morris makes a motion of dissent and repressive protest. “My dear Captain,” expostulates Mr. Morris, his manner pleading, yet full of authority; precisely the manner of one who deals with a trained tiger which he is willing to coax, while firmly intending to control—“‘my dear Captain, hear reason! Your charges would be suppressed—pigeon- holed! The influence of Mr. Adams with the Marine Committee is supreme. It could, let me tell you, accomplish much more than merely silence your charges. It could go further, and force a resolution of confidence in Captain Saltonstall.” “Then,” retorts Capt. Paul Jones, in- veterate as iron, “I’ve still a shot in my locker. I shall publish his cowardice over myown name. I think the American people entitled to know the sort of servant they have had in-Captain Saltonstall. They shall not risk a good ship, and a brave crew, with a coward in the dark; and so I tell you!” “Captain Jones,” observes General Washington, who, cool and unruffled, is a contrast to the disturbed Mr. Morris “Captain Jones, as a gentleman you realize what would be the result of a public charge of cowardice against Captain Saltonstall ?”

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Story of “He would challenge you instantly ! ” Morris. “Precisely!” says Capt. Paul att Jones, with just the prelimi- é nary glimmer of battle in his hard “brown eyes. “As you say, he would challenge me. And having challenged me, gentlemen, I should take pleas- ure in doing my best to kill him. I got a pair of Galway dueling-pistols out of the Bide- Jord; they were coming to Lord Howe. If I can lure Captain Saltonstall to the field, it shall go hard but with one of those brwact WE Viarerne Irish sawhandles I rid the = American navy of him. Once Won I have him at ten paces, it will take something more nearly bullet - proof than the influence of Mr. Adams. to’ bring him safely off.” Mr. Morris’ brow colors; General Washington takes the situation more at ease. He even gives way briefly to a grim shadowy smile; for the great patriot, while not so inflamma- ble, is quite as combative as any Capt. Paul Jones of them all. “You have taken advice on this, Captain Jones?” says © General Washington, follow- ing a pause, during which ev- erybody has had time more or less to digest Capt. Paul Jones’s a unique plan for improving the . American navy. “I do not suppose you have gone to this decision without counsel ?”’ Boston rath Jany 177 * Honored Sir Jeng *777 The Captain of the Providence thought proper to dispence with his orders and give me the slip in the Night which en- tirely overset the Expidition—if such doings are permitted the Navy will never rise above contempt !—the afore- said Noble Captain doth not under- stand the first case of plain Trigonom- etry—yet it is averred that he hath had the Honor and that his Abilities have enabled him to command a Passage Boat Between Rhode Island and Providence long before the War was Begun—There is a Fellow who calls himself a Commodore and who keeps us at awful distance by Wearing an English Broad Pendant—he had lately the honor of being a stick officer vulgarly called Boatswain’s Mate in an English Man of War and was duely Qualified for that high station, if Fame says true as appears by his not Deigning to read English. Besides among many evident proofs of his abilities as post Captain that might be enumerated this notable one may, perhaps, be sufficient—for it seems that in his absence he directs his First Lieut. to take aul Jones breaks in Mr. BHA Ps 4 of, Wit acces r 4 a Cem meclnw a Cita. Whire Ll? oD) Roe Reme A. a by ipa s~eaiael pl Lop ia. LETTER OF JOHN PAUL JONES CRITICISING THE 587 tes 12 hg MY] whoo oo wth shea ae ol high Z Aichic&E Deheors —— ge? haf pct teViwy eens ating an ge loa G Calle) was Stich INCAPACITY OF HIS SUPERIORS IN THE NAVY * orders from the Boatswain—nay ’tis said that on certain occasions he takes the Spez aking Trumpet out of the Lieutenant’s hand on the Quarter Deck and delivers it on the Fore Castle to the Boatswain.—To be very serious, that such Despicable Characters should have obtained Commissions as Commanders in a Navy is truly astonish- ing and would Pass for Romance with me unless I had been convinced by my senses of the sad Reality. I am with Gratitude and Esteem Hond. Sir Your most obliged very humble servant

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588 “Sir, I am, as you know, both prudent and conservative—no one more so. Cer- tainly, I’ve taken counsel. I went to Gen- eral Cadwalader; he expresses himself as in hearty accord with all I’ve said. In- deed, it is understood between us that Genera] Cadwalader shall act for me in any affair I may have with Captain Salton- stall.” At the mention of General Cadwalader, General Washington smiles openly, while Mr. Morris groans and throws up his hands. “Bless me! Cadwalader!” exclaims Mr. Morris, when he can command his tongue. “The worst. firebrand in the country!” Then, abruptly descending upon Capt. Paul Jones with all the authority of a father addressing a favorite but rebellious son: “Paul, listen to me! You believe me your friend ?” “Indubitably! I have no better friend.” “Then let me tell you, Paul: In the name of that friendship this thing must end— absolutely end. If you’ve drawn up any accusation of cowardice against Captain Saltonstall, you must burn it and forget the whole affair. You must dismiss this sub- ject from your mind. In Cadwalader you have invited the wrong kind of advice. I now give you the right kind. ) The general ore 4 will tell you so; your friend, the marquis, will tell you so. And forasmuch as you value my friendship, you must obey me.” Mr. Morris in his earnest- ness lays a pa- ternal hand on the shoulder of Capt. Paul Jones, his man- ner a composite of coax and command. Before the latter, who is visibly shaken by eee ee bemeradorw PART OF A LETTER OF JONES CEKTAIN * As I was lately entrusted with a very unexpected Command of great Importance which in the common course of things hath drawn upon me the Envy of certain Individuals: being unconscious of any misconduct in the line of my duty I have determined to bear no Insinuations that may reflect upon me as a Gentleman or an Officer— therefore I earnestly desire an opportunity of meeting the bearer or bearers, Author or Authors of certain Aspersions from Commodore Hopkins Face to Face in your presence, or in presence of the Marine Board. len cte A oom Uneorsecous ee (er ele rea pos g lh TO ROBERT MORRIS, APRIL 7, 1777, EXPRESSING HIS DESIRE ASPERSIONS UPON HIM * Cosmopolitan Magazine the friendly determination of Mr. Morris, can frame reply, Lafayette—who has been scrupulous to maintain a polite silence— interferes. “Our good friend, Mr. Morris,’ inter- jects Lafayette, “‘has been so generous as to refer to me. I could not, of course, have said a word without, since what you discuss is private and personal to your- selves as Americans, and of a character that forbids me, a Frenchman and an alien even though a friend, voicing my views. However, since Mr. Morris has so com- plimented me as to make his appeal in my name, I must—in all respect and friendship for Captain Jones, whom I admire—unite my voice with his. The more readily, since I can take it upon myself to promise Cap- tain Jones that if he will cross to France with a letter I shall give him to my king, a fighting-ship of frigate strength shall be his within the month.” ; As he concludes, Lafayette, a blush red- dening his cheek—for he is only a boy— extends two hands to Capt. Paul Jones as though, fearful of having said too much, he would now mutely apologize. Capt. Paul Jones seizes the hands with a warmth equal to the other’s; and the incident, capping as it does the fatherly opposition of Mr. Morris, puts an end to that < beautiful plan, wrse so full of dire promise for Captain Sal- tonstall, which in their mutual belligerencies Capt. Paul Jones and the fire - fed Cad- walader have formulated. “Say that you will go to France, my friend!”’ urges the impulsive young Frenchman; “‘say that you will go! I wil! exhaust Auvergne, yes, and all of France besides, but you shall have the promised ship.” At this, General Washington interferes. “Forbear, my dear Marquis!” says he. “ Captain Jones shall go to France. But he shall go with an American crew, in an American ship, flying the American flag.” ba 3 9 bane on _ con 7 TO MEET THE AUTHORS OF

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Story of Paul Jones 589 Let us glance eral; a thou- ahead two <<. y eine alr sand _ thanks! years for the ww é wu And to you final word of also, Mr. Mor- Captain Sal- gece ris, whom I tonstall. Capt. A ue A Penge dem) rrerinen 7 Shall never for- Paul Jones, ,. AL. hn. wy hie get! The Ran- prep he7 Cres with his hard- won prize the crippled Sera- pis, creeps into OPirent ff ho ons

Pa ger! I know her! She is be- ing sparred and rigged at Ports- the Texel, and mouth! New, the earliest three hundred story where- and eight tons; with the Dutch and a_ beauty regale him is too, they tell how Ca ytain PART OF A LETTER OF JONES TO B, TILLINGHAST, JANUARY me! Gentle- : mee 20, 1777, IN REGARD TO HIS CONTROVERSY WITH ADMIRAL . Saltonstall, scents * men, I shall be weak, force- less, incompetent, has surrendered the new, thirty-two-gun frigate Warren to the Eng- lish in Penobscot Bay. Capt. Paul Jones hears the disgraceful news. “T have just learned the miserable fate of the Warren,” he writes to Mr. Morris; “and hearing it, I reproach myself. If I had obeyed the dictates of my sense of duty on a Philadelphia day you will recall, instead of yielding to the persuasiors of the peace-makers, our flag might still be flying on the Warren!” Vill THE GOOD SHIP RANGER Four days of listless waiting go by (since the point which we deserted for a glance two years ahead), and Capt. Paul Jones again finds himself and Mr. Morris closeted with General Washington. “Captain Jones,” says the latter, speak- ing with a kindly gravity, “Mr. Morris and I have so pushed your affairs with the Ma- rine Committee, that to-morrow Congress will pass a double resolution, adopting a new flag—the stars and stripes—and ap- pointing you to command the Ranger.” “The Ranger!” exclaims Capt. Paul Jones, beginning to glow. “Thanks, Gen- *I glory in being the first who hath broke thro’ the shameful abuses which have too long been practised upon the Navy by Merceneries whom Self Interest in- duced to be concerned in Privateers.—In consequence of some insinuations which I have heard—I must request you to put the Question to Admiral Hopkins whither he means to disavow the Express Orders which he gave me repeatedly at Newport respecting the Matter—or whither he is determined to Justify my Conduct—yes or no—that I may take my measures accordingly. off at once to Portsi.outh! I must see to stepping her masts and mounting her batteries myself.” ‘Right!” cries Mr. Morris; ‘‘you shall start to-morrow!” ‘Captain Jones,” interrupts the general, laying a large detaining hand on the other’s arm, ‘‘you will go to Portsmouth and look after your ship. Also, while your destina- tion is France, you will wait for orders to sail. I may have weighty dispatches for the French king—news that will shake Europe.” ”? Seven days go by, and June is as cool in Portsmouth as it is in Philadelphia. Cooler, for the New Hampshire breeze has in it the chill smell of those snows that lie un- melted in the mountains. Capt. Paul Jones comes unannounced, eyes dancing like those of a child with a new toy, and seeks the wharf where the Ranger is being fitted to her spars. From a convenient coign he looks the Ranger over. “Nose sharp! Plenty of dead-rise! Lean lines!” he murmurs. ‘With the wind anywhere abaft the beam, she should race like a greyhound! Ah, she’s a beauty fit to warm the cockles of a sailor’s heart! See to the sheer of her!—as delicate as the lines of a woman’s arm!” Up comes a sturdy figure—a man with an air of command, an officer’s hat on his head, and a ship-carpenter’s adz in his hand. “This is Captain Jones?” “Capt. Paul Jones, sir.” “Pardon me for not giving my name. I’m Elijah Hall, who is to sail second officer with you in yonder Ranger.”

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59° Mpa ee thin 4 pe BVYLE. cade! Lor th hag fof LATER APPOINTEES OF CONGRESS® ° Capt. Paul Jones and Lieutenant Hall fall into instant and profound confab of a deeply nautical complexion, a confab quite beyond a landsman’s comprehension, and wherein such phrases as ‘“flush-decks,” “short poop-deck,” ‘‘bilges,” ‘futtocks”’ and “‘knees” abound, and are reeled off as though their use gives our two ship-enthu- siasts unbridled satisfaction. At last Lieutenant Hall remarks, pointing to three long sticks: “There ’re her masts, sir. They were taken out of a four-hundred-ton Indiaman, and are too long for a three-hundred-ton ship like the Ranger. I was thinking I’d cut ’em off four feet in the caps.” “That would be a sin!” exclaims Capt. Paul Jones, voice almost religious in its fervent zeal. ‘‘Three as fine pieces of pine as ever came out of Norway, too! I’d be afraid to cut ’em, Mr. Hall; it would give the ship bad luck. [I'll tell you what! Fit them four feet lower in the hounds; it will amount to the same thing, and at the same time save the sticks.” Capt. Paul Jones goes at the congenial task of fitting out the Ranger with his usual day-and-night energy. When he finds her over-sparred, with her masts too long, he still refuses to cut them down, but shortens yard and bowsprit, jibboom and spankerboom. He doesn’t like-the Ma- rine Committee’s armament of twenty six- pounders, and proceeds to mount four six- pounders and fourteen long nines. The New Hampshire girls, on the Fourth of July, come down to the Ranger and present to Capt. Paul Jones a flag, red, * I hope they will not put me under the command of men who durst not or did not embark in the Navy before the seventh of December 1775—for I assure you I dread such dishonor worse than Death.—I can have no desire to decline the service while the liberties of America are doubtful—it is my pride and Glory that I was one of the first who endeavoured to defend her just rights. Suffer me but to continue in the line wherein I embarked—I ask no more. topes Es, na camike eons were catalan raw feo fi PART OF A LETTER OF JONES TO JOSEPH HEWES, SEPTEMBER I, 1777, STATING HIS DESIRE NOT TO SERVE UNDER THE Cosmopolitan Magazine white and blue, quilted from cloth stolen from their virgin petticoats, The gallant mariner makes the New Hampshire girls a speech. “That flag,” cries he—that flag and I, as Captain of the Ranger, were born on the same day, of the same resolution. We are twins. We shall not be parted, life or death.” These brave words, in the long run, find amendment. The pet- ticoat flag of the pretty New Hampshire girls is the flag which, two years later, flies from the Richard’s peak when Capt. Paul Jones cuts down the gallant Pierson and his Serapis. After that fight off Scarborough Head, Capt. Paul Jones writes to the pretty New Hampshire girls—for he ‘ ever remembers the ladies—recounting his final disposition of their petticoat ensign. He is telling of the Richard’s last moments afloat, as viewed by him from the blood- slippery decks of the conquered Serapis: “No one was now left aboard the Richard but my dead. To them I gave the good old ship to be their coffin; in her they found a sublime sepulcher. She rolled heavily in the swell, her gun-deck awash to the port-sills, settled slowly by the head, and sank from sight. The ensign-gaff, shot away in the action, had been fished and put in place; and there your. flag was left flying when we aban- doned her. As she went down by the head, her taffrail rose for a moment; and so the last that mortal eye ever saw of the gallant Richard was your unconquered ensign. I couldn’t strip it from the brave old ship in her last agony; nor could I deny to my dead on her decks, who had given their lives to keep it flying, the glory of taking it with them. And so I parted with it; so they took it for their winding sheet.” At last the Ranger is ready for, sea; and still those belated dispatches from General Washington for the French king do not come. One cold October day a horseman, worn and haggard, rides into Portsmouth. Stained, dust-caked, reeling in his saddle, he calls for Capt. Paul Jones. “Here,” says that gentleman. would you have?” “T come from General Washington,” cries the man. “ Burgoyne has surrendered! Here are your dispatches for France!” Capt. Paul Jones takes the packet, stunned for the moment by the mighty news. “And now for food and drink,” says the marr faintly, as with difficulty he slips to the ground. “One hundred and eighty 42 “What

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PHILLIPPS VARR. Drawn by Phillipps Ward . >AU TES FLAG, RED, WHITE ; i . ee , »~RESENT TO CAPT. PAUL JONES A RED, THE-NEW HAMPSHIRE GIRLS . . . PRESE} OC. a cea Seauaainaaae om pr QUILTED FROM CLOTH STOLEN FROM THEIR VIRGIN PETTI

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992 miles have I ridden in thirty hours. It was the brave news kept me going; the thought of those beaten English held me up like wine.” “One hundred and eighty miles!” cries Capt. Paul Jones. ‘Thirty hours!” — The man points to his mount, where it stands with drooping head and quivering flank. ‘‘ That is the tenth I’ve had. Horseflesh and hard riding did it!” Ten minutes after the dispatches are put in his hands, Capt. Paul Jones is aboard the Ranger. Then comes the tramp of forty feet about the capstan. Twenty powerful breasts are pressed against the capstan-bars; the Ranger is walked up to her anchors, while aloft the brisk topmen are shaking out her sails. “Anchor up and down, sir!” reports Boatswain Jack Robinson, who has left his Polly at home in New London while he sails with the Ranger. “Anchor up and down!” repeats Capt. Paul Jones. ‘Bring her home!” With a “Heave ho!” the Ranger’s anchors are pulled out of Portsmouth sands. Capt. Paul Jones himself takes the wheel, and pays off her head before the breeze, already bellying the foresails. ‘“‘Give her every stitch you have, Mr. Hall,” says Capt. Paul Jones. ‘We must be clear of the Isles of Shoals by daybreak. Burgoyne has surrendered. Either I shall tear the sticks out of the Ranger, or spread that news in France in thirty days.” ‘More haste, less speed!’? murmurs the prudent Lieutenant Hall; and so, having eased his mind like a true seaman, goes forward heatedly to spread sail. The topheavy little Ranger, under an acre of canvas, heels over until her decks are awash. Then, as more and more the wind urges, she glides eastward like a ghost. “Pipe all hands aft, Mr. Bo’s’n!” com- mands Capt. Paul Jones. Boatswain Jack Robinson puts his whistle to his lips, and sends a shrill call singing through the ship. The crew come scampering aft; all save a contingent aloft who race down by the backstays, claw under claw, as might so many cats. Some of our old friends of the Providence are there—the aquatic Scipio and Cato, with the little red Indian port-fire, Anthony Jeremiah. “My men,” cries Capt. Paul Jones, Cosmopolitan Magazine “we're off for France. We shall meet nasty weather, for it’s the beginning of winter, and I shall steer the northern course. It is to be a case of crack on canvas, foul weather or fair; and since the ship is over- sparred and cranky, we must mind her day and night. To make all safe, the watch and watch shall be lap-watched, so as to keep plenty of hands on deck. This will double your work; but I shall also double your grog. Now, my hearties, let every man among you do his duty by flag and ship. Burgoyne has surrendered, and it’s for us to carry the word to France.” “Shipmates,” observes Boatswain Jack Robinson, judgmatically, as the hands go tumbling forward, ‘“‘shipmates, the old Ranger is a damned comfortable ship. ‘Double watches, double work!’ says the skipper; but also ‘Double grog!’ says he. Wherefore, I says again, the old Ranger is a damned comfortable ship.” Eight bells now, breakfast; and the Isles of Shoals are vanishing over the Ranger’s stern. Suddenly a boyish voice strikes up: “So now we had him hard and fast. 3urgoyne laid down his arms at last, And that is why we brave the blast, To carry the news to France.” Capt. Paul Jones pauses in his short quarterdeck walk, cocks his ear, and lis- tens. The hoarse crew take up the chorus: “ Heigh ho! carry the news! Go carry the news to London, Tell old King George how he’s undone. Oh, ho! carry the news!” “Only a bit of a ditty, Cap’n,” explains Boatswain Jack Robinson; “ the same com- posed by Midshipman Hill, d’ye see, in honor of this here cruise. A right good ballid, too, for a lad of twenty, who hard ly knows a reef point from a gasket.” Vouchsafing this, Boatswain Jack Robin- son rolls forward with walrus gait, chanting as he goes, in a voice tuned by storms and broken across capstan-bars, the hoarse re- frain: “Oh, ho! carry the news!” And so the good ship Ranger plows east- ward on her course. Eighteen hours of the twenty-four, Capt. Paul Jones holds the deck. In the end he has his reward. Just thirty days after the Ranger’s anchors kissed the Portsmouth sands good-by, they go splashing into the dull waters of the Loire. (To be continued)

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PROFESSOR MATTEUCCI STANDING BY A THIRTY-TON MASS OF ROCK, WHICH FELL FROM THE HEIGHT OF A MILE AND A HALF AND NARROWLY MISSED HIM My Life om the Vesuvian Lid BY R. V. MATTEUCCI Director of the Royal Observatory on the Crater of Vesuvius Professor Matteucci stands alone among scientists. No academic professor on earth occupies so peculiar a ‘‘chair” as the distinguished representative of the University of Naples whom we have at length persuaded to prepare this article, illustrdting it with his own unique photographs. He lives in bachelor solitude on the very crater of the most dread and terrible of volcanoes—the awjul Vesuvius, which nearly two thousand years ago over- whelmed the patricians and peasants of the now-buried cities of Pompeti and Herculaneum. We are pleased to be able to present for the first time an account of his curious life and work.—Epiror’s Note. Re ieee LOVE my mountain. She — breath will scorch and wither my poor life ; 1 (Aj and I dwell together in soli- one of these days; that she will bury my é~@ tude mysterious and terrible. house in streams of liquid metal or raze it N The luster of her awful brow to its very foundations. Already she has ¢ lights up the night far out at hurt me, has injured me sorely. Yet I j sea; her moods are many forgive her, I wait upon her, I am hers #3 and various—a mistress most always. f# imperious, whose wrath is She has threatened, but not destroyed. ‘4 more terrible than an army For sixty years the Royal Observatory on @) with banners. Vesuvius has stood more or less intact dur- I could not leave her. I am wedded to ing many tremendous eruptions, and vast her forever; my few friends say that her streams of molten lava have crept this wav 59

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594 and that about the building, yet it has suffered no greater damage than an occa- sional bombardment of fiery stones and red-hot bombs, from one or other of the craters. Let me first of all say a few words about how the institution over which I have the honor to preside came to be founded. In 1841, Macedonio Melloni, an enthusiastic scientist who became the first director of the institution, pointed out to the Italian Government the unexampled opportunity for érecting a building which was afforded by the little hill of San Salvatore, at the foot of the great cone. This hill, Melloni_ pointed out, would, like an ice- breaker on a river, turn the course of the great streams of lava flowing from the crater, so that the edifice placed upon its summit would remain secure, and from it the entire phenomena of vol- canic activity might be safely observed. King Ferdinand II of Naples en- couraged the idea, and the architect Fazzini drew up plans for the build ing, which was begun in 1841. Be- fore it was com- pleted, however, or the necessary scien- tific instruments procured, the official inauguration took place in erder to celebrate the Seventh Italian Scientific Congress, which was held in our beautiful Naples. The plan of the build- ing consists of a ground floor raised on terraces, and containing laboratories, offices, and living-rooms for the director. My house is about two thousand feet above the level of the bay, and quite close to the great cone of the mountain. From the very beginning, this strangely situated observatory-residence was unfortunate. In 1848, the director, Signor Melloni, was de- nounced for his revolutionary political PROFESSOR MATTEUCCI WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER Cosmopolitan Magazine opinions and was forced to flee from the country, leaving behind him, however, scientific observations and notes for future work which were of the highest value. In consequence of Melloni’s flight, the observatory was closed and remained abandoned for a long time. When Italy had won her unity, however, in 1860, a chair of terrestrial physics was instituted at the Naples University, and its director was assigned not only to the observatory of the university itself, but also to that on the great volcano. became director, Professor Palmieri now and gained world-wide fame for his inven- tion known as the “‘seismoscope,” for the production of electromagnetic seismographs He gained much more popular fame for his courage in remaining at his post from the 26th to the 20th of April, 1872, during one of the most awful eruptions on record, when the observa- tory suffered a bombardment of almost incredible fury with red-hot stones from the crater. Not only vere all the win- dows: broken, but the observatory was set on fire, and menaced by tor- rents of red-hot lava, which ap- proached the building on all sides, scorching and withering such little vegetation as exists. In those terrible days Palmieri was com- pletely cut off from the rest of the world, though he made frantic attempts to reach Resina. When, covered with honors, he died at a ripe old age, he was succeeded by Professor Semmola, who inherited from his predecessor excellent triditions and a vast mass of scientific material of the highest value to science. Palmieri’s duties were indeed varied. With the welfare of his beautiful city at heart, and working in con- junction with the mayor, he would cause FATHER AND

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GREAT EXPLOSION OF DECEMBER 2, 1904. SMOKE IS FILLED WITH THE VOLCANIC SAND SO BLIGHTING TO VEGETATION special notices to be telegraphed all over Europe when the great mountain was in eruption, and this brought tens of thou- sands of dollars into Naples in the form of tourist traffic. My great predecessor also formed a magnificent collection of lava-fragments, with crystals, curious bombs ejected by the mountain, volcanic sand, lipilli, and strange minerals not of this earth. By

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596 degrees, too, he amassed a library, as- sisted by Professor Monticelli and Professor Sacchi, consisting of over one thousand volumes relating to no other subject than the history of Vesuvius from the very re- motest times up to the present day. Many times has the observatory seemed in grave danger. You see, it is not as though the mountain were stationary and its physical configuration the same for all time. Craters come and go in a most alarming manner. One torrent of liquid fire, as we shall see presently, may entirely demolish a new crater, or another may spring up in a night like a mushroom. BEGINNING OF A GREAT EXPLOSION IN THE CRATER. The tale of death of my mountain would fill a whole number of this magazine. On the wall at the entrance to the observatory are placed a couple of tablets commemorat- ing the death of tourists and guides alike, who were overwhelmed in the awful erup- tion of 1872. There were many days dur- ing the years 1895-99 when I thought the observatory positively doomed to destruc- tion, after all its years of service.. A secondary crater opened up _ hideously, vomiting fire and ashes, lava streams and rocks, between the observatory and the foot of the cone, filling up the Piano delle I waited and waited, reluctant Ginestre. Cosmopolitan Magazine to leave while my senses were with me; and at last, to my unspeakable relief (I feared for my beloved collections rather than for myself), the great rivers of lava heaped themselves up into a hill of con- siderable height, which formed a kind of bulwark for the eminence of San Salvatore on which my house is built. * An episode that may interest you oc- curred a few months ago during a brief but very violent eruption. On this occasion there was no time for the news to get abroad, but many nativesfrom roundabout climbed up through the vineyards, forests, pastures, and succeeding fields of ashes a: LARGE STONES PROJECTED ABOVE THE SMOKE AND STEAM cinders to witness the terrible and magnifi- cent spectacle by night. One of the in- evitable small boys—Giovanni Olivieri, an orphan of Resina, in this instance—came along in the wake of the pilgrims, hoping to beg a few pennies. The poor little fellow, getting desperately tired after midnight, threw himself on the ground in a vineyard not far from the torrent of molten lava which was already shriveling up the vines as it advanced, in- sidious and menacing—spitting and crack- ling, rattling and glowing. No one missed the child, but in the early morning his pit- eous and terrified cries for help were heard

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LAVA FIELD IN THE ATRIO DEL by some young men who had remained on Vesuvius all night. Awakened by the increasing heat, the boy found to his horror that he was entirely surrounded by lakes of molten metal; which, however, were fast cooling in many places, and had already grown a consider- able crust here and there. Soon a crowd gathered and stood entirely helpless some distance off, the women screaming, weep- ing and praying for the doomed boy. I saw at once that there was at least a chance of saving the child, so I sent an urgent message down to Pasquale Pacifico, one of the best guides of Resina, and when he came we searched carefully for a pos- sible path over the blackening crust of the lava lake. It may remind you people of a treacherous ice- crust—but how dif ferent, and how infinitely more ter- rible, are the con- ditions with liquid fire below instead of water! The heat was killing. With wet cloths protect- ing our faces, and with burning boots, scorched hands and smoking clothes, we made our way— somewhat reckless- ly, I fear — across the bending crust of the lava, seized the trembling child : 2 AFTER THE ACCIDENT and bore him to HIS SIDE IS ONE OF safety. We did not STRUCK HIM CAVALLO, PROFESSOR MATTEUCCI IN SHOWING DRIBLET CONES OF I903-04 dare, however, to carry him in our arms, but distributed the weight by making him run infront of us on his own account. So tremendous was the lava-flow on that occa- sion that in one place, what with flowing and cooling, and flowing and cooling again, it piled itself up to a height of one hundred and fifty feet. I, too, have met with serious accidents. I will, however, deal only with one, which befell me during the exceptionally violent eruption of 1g00, and confined me to bed for many months. When I say “confined ‘me to bed,” I mean, of course, in the city of Naples, and not in my damp den on the crater. I was high up on the great cone of Vesu- vius, not far from the crater’s edge, taking photographs of the different phases of the great eruption of May 13, 1900. The energy of the explosions was in- creasing enormous- ly; and aware that a still greater out- break was prepar- ing and there was not a moment to lose, I ran away from the edge of the abyss, calling loudly to my assist- ants, who followed me at once, know- ing that the condi- tions foreboded a possible catas- trophe. We could THE OF THE NAPLES HOSPITAL MAY 13, Ig00. BY ‘““ BOMBS” WHICH not run very fast, 5

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598 however, because the cone was covered with immense quantities of loose stone that had been ejected during the past few days; and then, moreover, we had to be constantly looking back to watch the action of the great volcano, even though thereby we should court a fate worse than that of Lot’s wife. I remember we fled westward, toward the Plain of the Fumaroli, or smoke-vents. We were hardly sixty feet away from the edge of the great crater, however, when a truly fearful explosion took place. At that moment I had no other thought than that of my scientific work, and so I stopped and turned eagerly toward the stupendous column of smoke that rose into the sky. Myassistant and our guides were farther off. Instantly I found myself in the midst of a shower of hurtling stones. How I avoided them I cannot say. They whistled and screamed like projectiles in battle. I did my best to avoid the larger rock masses, which always fall first. I bent as low as possible, with arms and hands trying to save my head. My camera was smashed to pieces, and whilst stooping to regain its lens, I lost my balance and fell into a mass of scalding-hot ashes. I believed myself lost, but a second or two later realized that the fatal moment had passed. Cosmopolitan Magazine I rose in great pain, gathered up the pieces of my camera, for it contained some very valuable films; and then, profiting by a quiet interval, I crawled down the moun- tain, imperatively ordering my companions to leave everything and come with me. In our flight we lost many fine examples of bombs and scoriz covered with a glittering metallic glaze. On reaching the foot of the cone, I did not at first realize that I was hurt. I was most grateful to have escaped death. The guides, however, pointed out that my chin, and indeed all my face, was covered with wounds and bruises. My clothes were scorched and my hands and arms bleeding from many wounds. Later on I found that I was very badly bruised about the body; my left foot was very badly hurt, and, last and worst of all, my right knee had been struck by an enormous bomb in its rebound. I may say that the molten or red-hot stone masses ejected from the crater are of many different sizes and weights, and ascend to many different heights, according to the force of the explosion driving them. I find that the first to be ejected are the solid masses at the bottom of the crater. Those bombs, which, by the rotary move ment imparted to them, rise to the greatest LAVA HILL IN THE ATRIO DEL CAVALLO FORMED DURING THE ERUPTION OF 1903-04

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My Life on the Vesuvian Lid height —sometimes a matter of miles—are much denser and heavier than the scoriz, and consequently fall sooner. Afterward come the smaller fragments and the lipilli. The impal- pable powder and sand are caught up in the ereat whirls and glcbes of smoke, and are car- ried into still more ele- vated regions of the up- per air, when they are transported by wind enormous distances. My every-day work consists of observing dynamic and meteoro- logical phenomena; not- ing carefully the move- LABORATORY TENT ERECTED ON THE SIDE OF ments and aspects of the volcano, and clas- sifying and rearranging all the existing and newly gathered materials. I rise with or before the sun, and do my own cooking. Naturally this is not elab- orate, frequently consisting of bread and cheese, or a dish of macaroni, which re- quires very little “‘cooking” indeed. How can .I, when my beloved volcano is in eruption, and I should be counting the number of explosions per minute, occupy my mind with thoughts of mere food? Every day I calculate the total number THE GREAT CONE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE LATERAL EXPLOSION OF AU- GUST 26, 1903 of explosions, examine and collect the matter ejected, and take photographs at very close range. Sometimes in the dead of the night, or at dawn, my guides take out my laboratory tent and pitch it on the very verge of the crater, or.on the side of the cone. During the last and present year, Vesuvius has been in what I call a “Stromboli” phase— that is to say, eruptions of projectiles only, without the issue of liquid lava. This activity has kept me on the alert for many months, I have, indeed, many drawbacks in my work. Not only do tourists take up my time, but I am also injuriously affected by

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VIEW OF THE GREAT CRATER TAKEN SEPTEMBER 25, -1903 ‘the electric railroad, which takes them to the Upper Funicular Station below the crater. I am now advising the University to build a supplementary laboratory, for the observation of electric and magnetic phenomena at a considerable distance from this tourist railroad, which, being an electric system, affects my instruments very seriously. One last word about the amazing and sharply contrasting panoramas viewed from the turret of my observatory. Come with me and look first on the heaven of the smiling ‘‘ Campagna Felice,” backed by the magnificent range of the Apennine, and then on the savage and terrible hell of smoke and lava and desolation. What a glory of sunlit sea and plains and moun- tains dazzles uS on one side!. Far below spreads the silver bay, shut in by capes and islands, so as to appear like an im mense lake. Almost all the peaks are ex- tinct volcanoes whose dead craters are in some cases vastly larger than that of my beloved Vesuvius. Over there is the Monte Roccamonfina, far away behind Capua. And there, be- hind Pozzuoli, towers the Monte Barbaro; and again there is Camaldoli, above Naples; with the Capo Misenum and the Monte Nuovo close to the sea; and Epomeo on the exquisite island of Ischia. One never wearies of the glorious scene. Now look upon the other side, and be- hold a view as horrible and forbidding as the other was lovely. Here we have the great field of lava in the Atrio del Ca- vallo, with the driblet-cones formed during the eruptive period of 1903-04. In the 600 background, partly hidden by great clouds of sulphurous smoke, is seen the ridge of the Monte Somma. Three of these ‘“drib- let-cones” burst out almost simultaneously on September 22, 1904, and watch in hand I counted their united explosions, which amounted to no fewer than one hundred and sixty per minute. The little cones whistled and screamed, whilst at the same time the giant crater hissed and roared; and above the hellish din rose the explosions like sharp volleys from machine-guns. The guides speedily came down from the dangerous summit and camped out by a bonfire on the side of the Great Cone, just above the Lower Funicular Station. I, too, hurried down, carrying a bomb weighing about twelve pounds which had just fallen. I expected that the little cone with its crater, which had lately risen from the greater one, would break down under the pressure of the lava floods;. and, in fact, at 6:30 in the evening this did take place. In three great streams of fire, the lava forced its way through the side of the crater, and flowing northwest reached the bottom of the great cone in about an hour. Each stream was about one hundred and fifty feet wide, and fifteen hundred feet long at night. As happens very frequently after eruptions, torrents of rain came on, and these, falling upon the great rivers of fire, added enormous clouds of smoke and steam to the great pall which hung above the crater of the burning mountain. Is it any wonder that I should consider Vesuvius in eruption the most sublime sight in all nature?

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The Real John Weaver Mayor of Philadelphia Goaded to Reform by the Insults: of the Machine Which Created Him, and by His Friends’ Prayers BY WILLIAM R. STEWART STEN OGRA- <7 PHER was not Vy present at the meet- ing of Philadelphia ring politicians which selected W///3 John Weaver for WW X district attorney in pew Wed 1901. Trust- FIG ess worthy account has it, however, that his name was proposed by one Francis Shunk Brown, a Democrat and legal adviser of the Republican city machine. Whereupon Israel W. Durham, insurance commis- sioner and boss, inquired, in the felicitous language of bosses, ‘Who the hell is Weaver ?” Mr. Durham was forthwith assured. “Oh, he’s all right. There’s nothing they can bring against him, and he goes to church.” Church-going counted with enough of the electorate to make it worth a pretension to, but it was not much in the line of ‘“‘the boys.” If Weaver could attend to that part of the business for them, and be “all right” at the same time, he was a man of attainments. The decision was unanimous. Next day the papers announced the nomi- nation of Weaver. In 1903 the ring wanted a mayor, a man with a good record, and a ‘“‘good” that could be interpreted elastically. District Attorney Weaver filled the bill. He hadn’t

done much—and he still went to church, taught a Bible-class even. When the Phila-

MAYOR WEAVER IN HIS OFFICE, PHILADELPHIA delphia papers, in due course, announced his new nomination, their editors were taken so unawares that the most that any of them could get together concerning -his life did not fill a quarter of a column of their pages. The identity of Weaver was still a legitimate subject of speculation. Almost three years have passed, and in the light of their happenings what is now the answer to the inquiry of Mr. Durham ?— reducing, if you will, its redundancy of phraseology to the more simple form, “Who is Weaver ?”’ As I walked the beach with him at Sea- side Park, New Jersey, where he has his summer home, and sat with him for an 601

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602 hour in the pavilion, there was an oppor tunity for observation which the interrup tions of the mayor’s office in the city could not afford. A short, chunky man, with a good forehead and a predominant chin, there were not lacking evidences of intel- lectual strength even at a first glance. But there were counterbalancing weaknesses no less noticeable. His grayish-blue eyes do not look you in the face in a commanding way, and his nose—if you take stock in physiognomical readings—is not that of a FLORAL TRIBUTES FROM CITIZENS: conqueror. It is short and somewhat sprawly, and the profile is distinctly femi- nine. All in all an honest face, but not a dominant one—not that of a “boss,” good or bad. At Seaside Park Mr. Weaver is known as an unassuming man, neighborly and pleasant, fond of yachting—he is com- modore of the local club—and a regular at- tendant at church on Sundays. When he is not out in his yacht on Barnegat Bay, he is certain to be reading in the sitting-room or on the veranda of his cottage. Astronomy Cosmopolitan Magazine is one cf his hobbies. Books on sociology and on government form a large part of his library. These have been mostly added since his entry into municipal politics, An industrious reader, Mr. Weaver often sits with his books until two and even three o’clock in the morning, for his rugged con- stitution requires but four or five hours of sleep a day. A point which impressed me, however, was the lack of originality which characterized his discussion of the works he had read and of political and governmental DAY AFTER THE FIRST REFORM STEP problems in general. His ideas were all the ideas of others. He believes in the city’s owning its utilities, but not until a system of civil service shall make municipal ownership practicable. On this subject he voiced the views, little changed, of Mr. Dalrymple, of Glasgow. Regarding the trusts, he said they were capable of great good, yet were a source of much evil. Here, he agreed wholly with President Roosevelt. Generalities which were not convincing. Not once during the interview did Mr. Weaver utter a vigorous enunciation of

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MAYOR WEAVER AND YEN KAI WAI, a definite policy. Not once did his eyes meet mine, as those of a man determined and sincere. His mental processes are per- sonal, seeing the actors rather than the plot of the drama. Yet Mr. Weaver is a likable man. You cannot be with him half an hour and not see that. He will talk pleasantly with you and indulge in an occasional mild joke, will enter into the frolics of children with all the sympathy of a father of forty-three who is young for his age. His activity toward freeing the Philadelphia ‘‘zoo” to children had its inspiration direct from his own boy of nine and his playmates. In short, he is one of the people, a commonplace man with commonplace ‘ideals, honest and well- meaning if somewhat dull and plastic. An unpicturesque figure to head the most spectacular civic revolution the country has known. But then, he does not head it. He floats with the tide—the tide of public in- dignation, on the crest of which he had the good tact to launch himself on a plank of opportunism, rather than be submerged. The real directors of the fight against cor- ruption are the committees of citizens formed for the purpose; the real brains of the movement those of Judge James Jay Gordon, retained by Mayor Weaver as his special counsel and adviser. A FUGITIVE REFORMER FROM CHINA Accident has ruled the career of this man. It was by accident that the vessel in which he took passage when, at seventeen, he ran away from his English home, came to Philadelphia. It was by accident that he became mayor. It is accidental that he now is a good mayor. But no accident can be foreseen which will ever place him in a higher position. If he aspires to the governorship, which is doubtful, his as- piration will not be realized. The Machine has found that he is not for them, Reform that he is too weak to be their leader. But Mayor Weaver is a good man. That was a condition of his selection by a bad crowd. His impulses are honest. No charge has ever been made that he has used his position, or opportunities, wrongfully to acquire wealth. The thirty-thousand-dol- lar house which he recently bought for him- self is heavily mortgaged. The ethics of his acceptance of a present of a team of horses, and a few like gifts, from ring lead- ers need not be too closely inquired into. The broad fact remains that after two years of mayorship Mr. Weaver is poor. He was born in Stourport, twelve miles north of Worcester, England, forty-three years ago. His mother died when he was twelve years old, and his father’s home and the prospects of his own future were not to 603

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Cosmopolitan Magazine INSPECTING THE CITY’S NEW FILTER-PLANTS his liking. When he reached Philadelphia he was without a penny, but succeeded in finding employment as a messenger-boy, and later a position as clerk in the store of John Wanamaker. Out of the salary of seven dollars a week which he then received, he put by regularly one dollar and sixty- five cents. During his leisure moments he studied shorthand, and, replying to an ad- vertisement, obtained a position as stenog- rapher in the law-office of John Spar- hawk. Young Weaver was industrious, and although his English education had been of the most meager, he had a good head, and his employer suggested to him that he study law. In 1890 he was admitted to the bar, and soon afterward, Mr. Sparhawk becoming an invalid, the principal burden of the law-office fell upon young Weaver. As a lawyer Mr. Weaver was well thought of, being a good, honest fellow and a hard fighter in court. But till 1901 nothing happened to raise the com- parative obscurity to which his natural talents seemed to have destined him. In that year his mention for district attorney prompted the remark by Mr. Durham that has already been noted. At the time that the corrupt Philadelphia machine picked Weaver for its district at- torney, the retiring incumbent of that office was P. F. Rothermel. Rothermel had been “turned down” by the ring because, although fairly obedient to it, he had shown evidences of intractability which no self- respecting ring could tolerate. Rothermel was renominated by the independents, and also received the support of various classes of practical politicians apart from the ma- chine. There is no doubt that he was elected, but he was counted out, in the merry way the Philadelphia ring has always had, and Weaver’s official majority was placed at forty-four thousand. As district’ attorney Mr. Weaver was honest and aggressive, and personally con- ducted a number of cases against alleged ballot-box-stuffing, which seemed to vin- dicate his sincerity. One of these cases, which attained considerable local celebrity, was directed against one ‘‘Sam”? Salter, who was accused of stuffing two hundred votes into a ballot-box during the election of November, 1899. When, some time after the termination of the case, a member of the Salter jury made an affidavit that he had been paid to go on the jury and fight for the acquittal of the prisoner, some wonder was expressed why, if District At- torney Weaver did not know about this, he had been so neglectful as not to inform himself when he had abundant opportunity. The first two years of Mr. Weaver as mayor gave little promise of the municipal upheaval which has since convulsed Phila- delphia and made its influence felt in every city in the Union. For fully one-half of his four-year term the whole government of Philadelphia was located, not in the im- posing pile of the City Hall, but op the eleventh floor of the Betz Building, oppo- site, where Insurance Commissioner Dur- ham had his office. Thither daily went Durham and issued orders for the city

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~ administration and gave out contracts and considered applications for city jobs. And Weaver—he was a ring mayor of the usual ring sort. He awarded: part of the city’s twenty-five-million-dollar filtration- plant contract to the firm of James P. McNichol & Company, in which Israel W. Durham had a large interest. The Law and Order Society accused the mayor of knowledge of the exist- ence of immoral resorts protected by the police in return for their co- operation in election frauds. Two grand ju ries made presentments in the courts sustaining these allegations. Then why the swift and startling change? Was it an illustration of the efficacy of prayer that it followed so close- ly a meeting of minis- ters and pious women to plead with the Almighty for their erring brother ? Or was it just plain op- portunism, which a man needn’t be a Christian to show? Was it that the mayor saw his duty and did it, or that he discerned his chanceand grabbed it? And was there moral justification for throwing over, un- der fire, the men to whom he was indebted for every public office he had ever held? Though as to that, the honorcode among politicians is never finely drawn. When the gas-lease bill came up in City Councils—the bill which was to cause the revolution—Mayor Weaver was in Canada fishing. Some say he was sent there by the ring to get him out of the way; others that he went of his own initiative, because he foresaw the trouble that was coming. The mayor himself says he had no idea the bill was to be introduced—didn’t know officially even of its passing Councils till the measure was sent to him to be signed. The Real John Weaver 605 But meanwhile the storm had broken. The small householders of Philadelphia had risen in their might. And to understand that might it should be borne in mind that Philadelphia is a city of homes, that the three hundred thousand residences which it contains are more than in all Greater New York and London combined. An issue which might not stir even a languid MAYOR WEAVER, HIS WIFE AND ‘SON interest among the flat and apartment- house dwellers of the latter might work a social upheaval among the proletariat of Philadelphia. Such an issue was the pro- posed lease to the United Gas Improve- ment Company of the city gas-works for a period of seventy-five years, postponing all prospect of reduction in the price of gas for three-quarters of a century. The

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600 ordinary citizen who regards with mild complacency polit- ical jobbery whose import he cannot appreciate will rouse to instant ac tion when the “grab” is put in terms of his own experience. Philadelphia seethed with the movement from within. The pulpit resounded. with de- nunciations of the rapacity of the ring- supported corpora- tion; the newspa pers reéchoed the public indignation; children of council- men in attendance at the public schools came home crying because no one would play with them. The mayor alone, by his veto, could stay the consummation of the deal. His fel- low church-members, the pupils of his Bible- class, the lovers of good government every- where, besieged him with entreaty. And the ring had not been nice to him. It had been ignoring him, insulting him. Con- tracts were awarded, city jobs given out, without asking his advice, and his only function was to sign them. When the Philadelphia officials went to the opening of the St. Louis Exposition a picture of the mayor was hung in the buffet of their train, and, in pleasant jocularity, no ring man was allowed a drink till he first had spat upon it. Moreover, the State Legislature, hand in glove with the city machine, had passed three ‘‘ripper” bills shearing the mayor of his power, and making him a respectable figurehead at twelve thousand dollars a year. These bills will not go into effect until 1907, but they were evidence of the spirit which animated the ring. Little wonder Mayor Weaver was ‘“‘sore.”’ He had been chafing impotently for months, but not before had the idea occurred to him to break with the men whose tool he IN HIS AUTOMOBILE Cosmopolitan Magazine was. In his own words, he “had not thought there was any other way of doing things.” Now the other way was forcibly impressed upon him and he saw its advantages to himself. More- over, his natural bent was to the side of decency. The first official act against the ring was his dismissal of Pe- ter E. Costello, di- rector of public works, and of Da- vid J. Smyth, direct- or of public safety, both of whom he himself had ap- pointed at Dur- ham’s dictation. Otherdismissals fol- lowed, and the war was on. Subsequent occurrences are uni- versally known. Throughout it all, Mayor Weaver has shown himself a representative and not a leader. For two years of his present office he represented the machine; for the next two years he will represent reform. So long as there are public-spirited men in Philadelphia will- ing to give of their time and energy to back a well-meaning mayor of this type, so long will the city government be reasonably clean. But let there once be a lapse of interest, and the fangs of the machine may again be fastened upon the municipal throat. The ring is not dead, nor even sleepeth. When I asked Mr. Weaver what he ex pects to accomplish during his next twenty months as mayor, he replied, ‘‘ The restora- tion to the people of the city government, in all its branches, of which they have been long deprived.” Mayor Weaver is honest. He has broken with the gang. But he will need help—help at every turn—if the expectation is to be realized. A great man is not made in a night—and at forty Mr. Weaver had never earned a two-thousand dollar salary.

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Confessions of a New York Detective Made by an Ex-Captain of Police Il DISTRICT LEADER MC BULTO T the warning cry by the telepathic one that, if my hand were forced, I’d_ kill Red Bob, the gang began backing into those shadows and secret places from which they had so __ ferocious- ly emerged. Possibly the prompt production of my KG Colt’s 38 had somewhat to do with their disappearanc e, for your true gang- steris never one to meet the iron face to face. In ancient days there was a party—Py- thagoras was the name, I think, though I'll not be sure I’ve got his number right, at that—who taught how men’s souls, before they were men’s souls, served as the souls of animals. Also, he said that, if you’d sharpen your eyes a bit, you could, in look- ing a man over, tell whether his soul had been a sheep’s soul, or a lion’s soul, or a horse’s soul, and so on. Now I won’t say there’s anything in that theory, for it’s altogether off my mental beat. What I will say is that if old Pythag- oras was right, then the soul of ev ery gang- ster was aforetime the soul of a rat. Fero- cious, cowardly, cruel, hungry, unclean!— creatures born to haunt the sewers and in- fest the cellars of existence!—mere vermin of darkness, with a fear of light!—those gangsters whom I faced were simply rats— human rats. Being rats, that squeak of warning, coupled with my pistol, muzzle flush in their faces, became with them the instant signal for retreat. In a moment I was alone with Red Bob. 07 Being alone, I yanked Red Bob to his feet. Partly from the blow and partly from the red liquor under his belt, he was in a daze. He was all of a fog, and didn’t know where he was or how he came to be there. This sort of thing is a case common with drunken men. Let a party whose skin is soaked full of whisky receive a tap from a night-stick, or get jolted out by any other route, and a first insensibility runs off into a fashion of drunken slumber; sometimes you can’t fetch your man around for hours. No, there’s no danger; but you have to give the whisky time to wear away. As I landed Red Bob on his feet, I ob- served a policeman coming across. It was Scotty, whose beat happened to be on the other side of the street. “What are you goin’ asked Scotty. “Take him to the cooler,” I said. “Better throw him loose,” returned Scotty, with a wise shake of the head. “There’s nothin’ in runnin’ him in. You'll only make enemies and lose sleep.” ‘““What do you mean ?’ “And you ask that question—you, who’ve beena Tammany worker? There’s the election for mayor this fall, ain’t there ? McBulto, who’s leader of Red Bob’s dis- trict, is goin’ to need him, ain’t he? Do you s’pose McBulto’ll stand for this collar?” “It’s the magistrate, has the say.” “Magistrate!” and Scotty’s scorn was un- mistakable. ‘The magistrate has not been put on the bench to throw down Tammany Hall. 2 “Why!” I responded indignantly, “this fellow”—here I gave Red Bob a shake— 44 to do with him?” not McBulto, who

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Cosmopolitan Magazine “followed me half the length of my beat, looking for trouble. He had his gang with him, too; ready to shoot, they were, for one at least had a gun.” “Tt’s four to one that every thug of ’em all had a gun.” “Precisely! It’s the same odds, also, that Red Bob brought them here to murder me. I’d have been justified in sending a bullet through his head.” Here I shook Red Bob again; whereat he whined profanely. “Why didn’t you do it?” demanded Scotty. ‘No one would have objected then. Tammany is practical, and makes no fights for dead ones. If a man’s dead, he’s dead; and there’s nothin’ for Tammany in kick- in’ up a fuss over him with live ones. No, if you’d only croaked Red Bob, you’d be all right. But you didn’t, d’ye see. Here he is alive and kickin’, and capable of makin’ votes for or against Tammany this fall. Remember, hereafter, that for this sort of student, it’s the morgue or nothin’. No key will keep them, no station-house hold them, no magistrate convict them. Your one chance to put them away so they’ll stay, is to put them to bed with a shovel.” “Then your advice is to kill!” said I, aghast at the turgid character of Scotty’s counsel. “My advice is to never forget that a cop- per’s only friend is himself. Put courts and coolers out of your calculations in dealin’ with the Red Bob breed. The moment one of ’em gives you an openin’, skip Black- well’s and make it Woodlawn.” Following this long speech on the powers, privileges and perils of a copper, Scotty crossed over to his beat, leaving me with Red Bob to take in or turn loose as, by the light of his wise advice, occurred to me as the better thing to do. On my side there was no hesitation. Scotty meant well; none the less I should do my duty, which clearly was, as I beheld it, to put Red Bob behind the bars, and take the worst that either he or McBulto might send me. Red Bob, since that blow on the chin, had wholly changed his tune to no tune at all. He was no longer the noisy, threatening rough, but sluggish and sullen, with nothing tosay. Blurred by his cups and still dazzled by my blow, I don’t think he even then owned any clear understanding of what had happened to him. He could stand well enough, and walk in a leaden-footed way; so I gripped him by the right cuff and started him stationward. Why am I so particular to say “right cuff’? That ‘‘right cuff” business is one of the earliest police tricks you’re taught. Always take your man’s right cuff in your left hand. That puts you a little to the rear of him and on his right side, a situation that gives you eighty per cent. the start of him, in case he shows fight or tries to break away. As I was saying, Red Bob and I started for the station, procession arranged as I’ve described. We hadn’t gonetwo blocks when, without a syllable of argument, he lay stolidly down on the sidewalk and began to snore. Nor would he yield to commands, shakings or gentle kicks. Red Bob had gone as far as he would, of his own consent. For a moment I feared that perhaps my right-hander to the jaw had hurt him more than I knew. The least of thought, how- ever, dissipated that notion; I knew all about left hooks and right-hand smashes, and their effects, and was certain that Red Bob had taken no permanent harm from me. No, it was a mere whisky sleep, brought on by his drinks and the jolt I’d given him. Coming to this conclusion, I drew my night-stick—we carried them in our belts, not in our fists, in that far hour—and made ready to give my gentleman the “hot foot.” In those days or rather nights of my novi- tiate, ’'d become learned in certain myster- ies of police work, among others, the “hot foot.” It was by watching Big Ben, if I remember, that this invaluable secret of the beats was obtained. Given a man uncon- scious by virtue or rather vice of rum, and you can restore him to a liveliest habit both of tongue and locomotion, make him walk like a Rowell and talk like a Choate, by smartly beating the soles of his feet. This bastinado is performed with your night- stick. Ten shrewd blows from a sound hickory or lignum-vite night-stick will all but put life into a corpse. It is infallible for restoring drunken men, whose mental lights have been drowned in drink. Red Bob was flat on his back, snoring like a tramps’ lodgirfg-house. Raising my night- stick, I whacked him, first on one sole, then on the other. Under this scientific treat- ment he was beginning to grumble and stir when, as I bent over him to seize him by the shoulder and lift him to his feet, I was wn wsvuousaAe IwoT *FVATTATAIW AA ‘rr7,. TOY F¥ waAT LIFTYaAA Ia TIO’ T ThTtUavdtd “TWATEQYVTC TATU TFOCarTrrT 37wreryy wa'teTryy ryeyry aa TYUNTYTwWw sow

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610 struck a stunning blow afross the base of the skull. I just caught the flourish of the arm of my assailant, but was too late to save myself. Who was it? One of Red Bob’s gang had crept upon me, gum-shoe fashion, and dealt me a blow with a sandbag. It was an effective blow, and would indicate that the artist who dealt the same was not without a practiced skill of his weapon. As the result, my wits were darkened for a moment; I reeled forward and fell across Red Bob. My light couldn’t have been out more than a second or two, for my first knowledge of succeeding events was hearing the bang! bang! bang! of a revolver, fired three times. It was Scotty’s pistol; he was standing over me, slamming away at the fleeing huddle of gangsters. It’s easily explained. The gang followed me as I bore Red Bob away, slipping along in the shadows. Where the sandbagger crept upon me was midway between two lamps, and the darkest spot along the street. Scotty, who was keeping an eye on me from over the way, saw the assault, and got to me before I was dealt with beyond that first dull, stunning blow. “And it was quite as well I did,” re- marked Scotty, when I was again on my feet—tottering a trifle, to be sure. “‘They’d have handed you your medicine for keeps, if I hadn’t come up.” Red Bob had also fled, being able to travel with the rest; my ‘“‘hot foot ”’ treat- ment had been so far successful. I asked Scotty, as he examined my neck at the roots of the hair to measure the extent of my in- juries, whether or no he shot any of the gang. “but better luck next time. It was over- dark, and I had to shoot quick; besides they were dodgin’ between buildings, duckin’ down passageways, and, generally speakin’, makin’ for cover wherever they could find it. I did the best I could.” ‘“‘And pretty well for me, too!” I cried. “Now that I’m getting a grip on my senses, I begin to see that I’d have been a dead man but for you.” My head was buzzing like a hive of bees, and Scotty said that I’d better go home. He engaged to report the case to the rounds- man. There was nothing else for it, home I went; and so ended my first night of regular duty as a full-fledged officer of the police. “Y’m afraid not,” he replied, soberly; Cosmopolitan Magazine IV SCOTTY UNFOLDS MYSTERIES It was four days before I could get about, for I’d stood a harder tap than I supposed. My resolution had been taken to arrest Red Bob the moment I was out. Also, I’d set my heart on finding the sandbagger; from what he did to me, it was obvious that the city would be safer with that mechanic under lock and key. Not that my decision to take in Red Bob and his sandbag-wielding friend had been arrived at without opposition. Foreseeing some such move on my part, McBulto had been busy. He came to me with Barney McGinn. “Red Bob was dead wrong,” said Mc- Bulto, soothingly; “‘he sees it, an’ says so himself. We want you tolet the thing drop.” Barney united his voice with McBulto’s. “Gentlemen,” I returned, after the pair had talked, first one, then the other, for thirty minutes, reciting the political necessi- ties of the case, and the many election rea- sons coming on why Red Bob should go scatheless—“ gentlemen, we might as well come to anend. You can’t square this; I don’t propose to let up on those villains. Red Bob and his gang have done their best to kill me, and I’m not going to drop it for the sake of.a handful of votes, in McBulto’s or any other district.” McBulto stuck his hands into his pockets, and walked off without a word; wearing, meanwhile, a deeply injured manner. I’m wrong; he did say one word—a word of reproach to Barney. “Fine disciplin’ you keep in your dis- trict!” was what he said. “Now d’ye see!” said Barney, who had remained with me—‘‘now d’ye see, you’re puttin’ me in the hole with McBulto. He’s an alderman, too, an’ this racket is goin’ to lose me a contract.”’ I ought to explain that Barney was in the profitable habit of taking contracts to dig sewers and do paving for the city. ‘‘That’s what it will!” continued Barney, with the air of an ill-used saint. “Tt’ll cost me thousands, see if it don’t!— your playin’ stubborn will! It’s a nice game to give me after me gettin’ you onto the force!” ‘You get me onto the force!” I repeated, with the utmost scorn. ‘‘How did you get me onto the force?”

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Drawn by Henry Raleigh REELED FORWARD AND FELL “How? Didn’t I cap for you, an’ square you with the examinin’ board? Didn’t I stake you to the three hundred dollars ?” “You'll get it back.” “But I don’t want it back!” said Barney, softening his manner and lowering his tone. “Tl tell you what! Call the thing off, let Red Bob alone, an’ you don’t owe me a splinter. Come now!” and Barney’s voice was almost coaxing. It was no use; I would do my duty by the public and myself. I would get my man, or rather my men; for I was bound to have that sandbagger. On receiving my ulti- ACROSS RED BOB matum, Barney went his way with a troubled face. McBulto was a principal Tammany figure; no marvel Barney pre ferred not to offend him. It was necessary, now that my man had slipped through my fingers, to get a war rant; it no longer remained with me to run Red Bob in on sight. I can make this part short; my only excuse for making what has gone before as long as I have, is that I wanted to show-you how thoroughly a cop per, in all he does or tries to do, is up against the machine. Now, when I must get a warrant, I went Or

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Cosmopolitan Magazine —according to routine—to the office of one of the magistrates. The name of this jus- tice-monger was Skinn—a good name! My first experience was with his clerk; his name was Lurker. * Lurker was a plausible, soft-spoken indi- vidual; he did his best to talk me out of a warrant. He said I lacked evidence; that I was hurting myself; that I’d better wait. Those are specimens of a multitude of rea- sons which the oily Lurker gave for staying me. I insisted; of course’I could see the hand of Barney and McBulto in Lurker’s reluctance to issue a warrant. On findirg me stiff, Lurker said .that I must first tell my story to Magistrate Skinn. “Tf he says ‘issue the warrant,’” ob- served Lurker, ‘I’ll do it.” The magistrate’s court was in session; he paused in the midst of a hearing, and after a whispered talk with Lurker turned to me with a frown. He snapped out a half-dozen questions; I made my story brief and to the point. ‘As nearly as I understand you,” roared Skinn when I had done, “‘some man, whom you call ‘Red Bob’—I wonder what name he’d give you—spoke to you while you were on duty, and you felled him to the ground. When citizens and bystanders gathered about, to learn the reason of the outrage, you drew a pistol. Later, when—as you say —you’re. dragging your victim to the sta- ticn, or rather when—as the fact is—he was lying unconscious upon the sidewalk and ycu were beating him with a club, some per- son, name unknown, struck you on the head with what you say was a sandbags. NowI don’t know how much of an expert you are with. sandbags; however, it’s quite likely, I should think, from your looks that you are perfectly familiar with sandbags, and tan tell when you are struck by one, even if you don’t see it. For all that, you may be mis- taken, and my own view is that you are. I should rather think you were struck by a cane in the hands of some honest citizen, who sought only to prevent you from club- bing a prostrate man to death. You may go, sir! Your request for warrants is refused. A warrant ought to be issued for you, rather than for ‘Red Bob,’ as you call him. Go back to your duty; and be careful how you come into this court again. You area dan- gerous man to be wearing the badge of a police officer, and I shall keep a lookout for you, sir.” That was all; there was n> more to say, no more to do. As I slunk ir-to the street, I saw McBulto and Barney making for the nearest barroom to refresh themselves. No, I didn’t need this exhibition to know that they had been beforehand with the gifted Skinn. As I walked along, wondering if I hadn’t better chuck the whole thing and resign my position, Mugsey Jones overtook me. Mugsey was firm that I should not resign. “There’s nothin’ in it,” said Mugsey, meaning the resignation; ‘‘only, for the sake of your job, take a tumble to yoursclf. After this, if Barney or McBulto wants anything, no matter what it is, let ’em have = “But my duty as a policeman!” I ex- claimed. “Forget it!” cried Mugsey, disgustedly. ‘“What’s the use cf givin’ usa song an’ dance about your duty, and an election comin’ on?. If every duck was to go chasin’ up and down talkin’ about’ his duty, Tammany would stand a fine show cf capturin’ the town!” Back to my beat I went, ruminating this my first real lesson in what police duty was expected of me. If it didn’t teach me cor- ruption, it at least taught me caution, and I began to be more careful as to whom I took by the collar. On two or three occasions, of mere window-smashing or drunken rows in the street, I contented myself with putting the glass-smashers to flight, or separating the brawlers—a forbearance on my part due entirely to those places in politics which the delinquents held. The critical Scotty said that I was learning. “You'll come out all right!” observed Scotty, speaking in a spirit of compliment; “‘you’re gettin’ onto the ropes fast.” Red Bob and his gang, be it said, gave me a broad berth; I never saw one of them for months. Doubtless, this absence of direct temptation had somewhat to do with that perfect prudence which, following my lec- ture by Magistrate Skinn, I brought to bear upon my work. Being, however, new to my trade, I nat- urally hungered and was athirst to make arrests. I went forth to my beat like a hunt- ing-dog to the field, eager to advance my record for efficiency and zeal. There are myriads of moonshine whisky- stills on the East Side. Sure! as we sit con- versing, there are two hundred in full blast.

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Confessions of a New York Detective 613 I could take you to twenty of ’em in an hour. Why! there are six hundred saloons, any- where east of the Bowery and south of Fourteenth Street, that never buy a gallon of bonded liquor. They keep a lot of old barrels and bottles for a stall—that is to say, a show; but never a cent of revenue has their bug-juice paid. To show you: There are joints over about the Hook where you can get a milk punch, a stiff one, too, for three cents. And if you’re Irish, they’ll throw in an olive on account of the color. Moonshine whisky? The East Side Drawn by Henry Raleigh ’ ““RED BOB WAS DEAD WRONG,’ drinks nothing else. Made of potatoes mostly, with a little grain. It’s distilled anywhere, everywhere—in old dwellings, in tenement-houses. Certainly, the neigh- bors know; but they’re not going to knock. If one of ’em was to inform on a moonshiner, he’d get beaten to a jelly some dark night, or used worse. What I say of moonshine whisky goes for cigars, also. There are cords on cords of cigars that never hear of a revenue stamp, rolled in the regions I’ve in- dieated, and slipped into and sold from old boxes on the sly. But as I was saying, being hot to make arrests I started in to catch moonshiners. SAID MC BULTO., THING It’s not a hard assignment, especially when they’re so thickly planted. I used to hunt ’em by scent—used to nose ’em out. Take any quiet morning about four o’clock—that is the busiest hour for them— with the air lying heavy and dead, and, as you walk the East Side streets, you’ll get the odor of new whisky being made, as plainly as you smell drugs in a drug-store. Having got a whiff, as I prowled my beat, I’d clamber up a fire-escape, or steal along a hall, or creep across a roof, until I’d located the still and collared my chemist. ‘*“WE WANT YOU TO LET THE DROP” As a first move I’d lock up my prisoners in the station, and the next day notify the national authorities. As evidence, I’d con- fiscate the “worm” or some other part of the illicit still’s economy, and turn that in with the malefactor. I suppose, first and last, I rounded up full forty of these moon- shiners. One day the sergeant took me to task. “Don’t bring in any more,” he said. “You’re not paid to do police duty for the government. This department has some- thing for you coppers to do besides chasin’ up fire-escapes, slippin’ over tin roofs, fallin’ down air-shafts, or sneakin’ in and out 0’

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Drawn by Henry Raleigh HE SNAPPED OUT A HALF-DOZEN QUESTIONS ; halls. If the United States wants these moonshine mugs, why then let the United States send for ’em. As the game stands, there’s nothin’ in it for us; it’s not our love- affair.” The invaluable Scotty, likewise, was moved for my instruction: “You're like a cub bear,” said Scotty; “your troubles are all before you. But that’s no reason for going off your beat to find trouble. Now as long as you’re a policeman, forget there’s a United States.” It should be remarked that Scotty’s advice was usually in favor of forgetting some man or thing. “Besides,” concluded Scotty, “no one wants these moonshiners pinched. We don’t want ’em; the gov’ment don’t want ’em; an’ there you be!” There was a certain circumstance, not a day old, that, taken in connection with Scotty’s last assertion, set me to thinking. I have explained how, when I took a moon- shiner, I always took his still, or a vital part of it, and turned it over to the government with my man. The baffling circumstance to which I alluded was this: Only the day before, upon arresting a moonshiner—in- deed, it was the particular arrest that drew 614 ’ I MADE MY STORY BRIEF AND TO THE POINT forth the condemnatory instructions of my “c“ sergeant—I captured with him a “worm” that I had captured two weeks before. That identical ‘‘worm” had been left as “evi- dence” with the Government. And yet, here it was again! How did the moonshiner getit? Plainly, it had been returned to him. I submitted the puzzle of it to Scotty. That sagacious officer listened and _ looked wise. “And you want to know what that means ?” “'Ves,”” “Tt simply means that them revenue sharps are graftin’ the same as us,” retorted Scotty, ungrammatical but clear. “As I say, they don’t want the moonshiners.” While the sergeant found fault with me for my anti-moonshine ardor, I was a warm favorite with him none the less. He, as well as his two fellow sergeants, beamed on me in rude approval. There are, I should explain, three ser- geants ina precinct. Each is on the station- house desk eight hours and off sixteen. . I was a common favorite with the three. Nothing but good words and genial grins did I get from them.

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This friendly approval of my three ser- geants gave me a glow. It’s worth while to be a policeman when one has such kindly and appreciative superior officers! There- upon, with that thought in my heart, I would redouble my vigilance, and run in wrong-doers by the dozen. The urbanity and bland endorsement of the sergeants, for me and all that unto me appertained, seemed to grow with the procession of my arrests. As against this happy condition, my roundsman hated me. It was more than disapproval, more than fault-finding—it was hatred. Also, I could feel that he was hunting me and haunting me, to catch me in some violation of the rules. Song of the Out-of-Doors (To be continued) Song of the Out-of-Doors BY HERBERT BASHFORD Come with me, O you world-weary, to the haunts of thrush and veery, To the cedar’s dim cathedral and the palace of the pine; 615 At the beginning, I laid this enmity of the roundsman to the malign McBulto. ““He’s one of McBulto’s men,” thinks I, “and has been tld to catch me napping, prefer charges, and ‘break’ me.” That did very well as an explanation, until I made inquiries, and learned that, so far from being McBulto’s man, my rounds- man had never met that potentate, and didn’t live within three miles of his princi- pality. And yet I could see that he was after me to take me wrong. More than once he stood me up on my beat and ‘‘roasted” me for some alleged deficiency in my uni- form, or some clumsiness when I saluted. You can imagine that I spent my spare time in wondering what it meant. Let the soul within you capture something of the wild wood rapture, Something of the epic passion of that harmony divine! Down the pathway let us follow through the hemlocks to the hollow, To the woven, vine-wound thickets in the twilight vague and old, While the streamlet winding after is a trail of silver laughter, And the boughs above hint softly of the melodies they hold. Through the forest, never caring what the way our feet are faring, We shall hear the wild birds’ revel in the labyrinth of Tune, And on mossy carpets tarry in His temples cool and airy, Hung with silence and the splendid, amber tapestry of noon. Leave the hard heart of the city with its poverty of pity, Leave the folly and the fashion wearing out the faith of men, Breathe the breath of life blown over upland meadows white with clover, And with childhood’s clearer vision see the face of God again!

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Some Uncanny Tales BY AMBROSE BIERCE A Vine on a House ZA, BOUT three miles from the + little town of Norton, in Mis- souri, on the road leading to Maysville, stands an old house that was last occu- pied by a family named Harding. Since 1886 no one has lived in it, nor is anyone likely to live in it again. Time and the disfavor of persons dwelling thereabout are converting it into a rather picturesque ruin. »An ob- server unacquainted with its history would hardly put it into the category of “haunted houses,”’ yet in all the region round such is its evil reputation. Its windows are without glass, its doorways without doors; there are wide breaches in the shingle roof, and for lack of paint the weatherboarding is a dun- gray. But these unfailing signs of the super- natural are partly concealed and greatly softened by the abundant foliage of a large vine overrunning the entire structure. This vine—of a species which no botanist has ever been able to name—has an important part in the story of the house. The Harding family consisted of Robert Harding, his wife Matilda, Miss Julia Went, who was her sister, and two young children. Robert Harding was a silent, saturnine man who made no friends in the neighborhood, and apparently did not care to. He was about forty years old, frugal and indus- trious, and made a living from the little farm which is now overgrown with brush and brambles. He and his sister-in-law were rather tabooed by their neighbors, who seemed to think that they were seen too frequently together—not entirely their fault, for at these times they evidently did not challenge observation. The moral code of rural Missouri is stern and exacting. Mrs. Harding was a well-mannered, sad- eyed woman, lacking a left foot. At some time in 1884 it became known that Mrs. Harding had gone to visit her mother in Iowa. That was what her hus- band said in reply to inquiries, and his manner of saying it did not encourage further questioning. She never came back, and two years later, without selling his farm or anything that was his, or appointing an agent to look after his interests, or removing his household goods, Harding, with the rest of the family, left the country. Nobody knew whither he went; nobody at that time cared. Naturally, whatever was movable about the place soon disappeared, and the deserted house became ‘“‘haunted” in the manner of its kind. One summer evening, four or five years later, the Rev. J. Gruber, of Norton, and a Maysville attorney named Hyatt met on horseback in front of the Harding place. Having some business matters to discuss, they hitched their animals and, going to the house, sat on the porch to talk. Some hu- morous reference to the somber reputation of the place was made, and forgotten as soon as uttered, and they talked of their business affairs until it grew almost dark. The evening was oppressively warm, the air absolutely stagnant. Suddenly both men started from their seats in surprise: a long vine that covered half the front of the house and dangled its branches from the edge of the porch above them was visibly and audibly agitated, shak- ing violently in every stem and leaf. “We shall have a storm,” Hyatt ex- claimed. Gruber said nothing, but silently directed the other’s attention to the foliage of adja- cent trees, which showed no movement; even the delicate tips of the boughs sil- houetted against the clear sky were motion- less. They hastily passed down the steps to what had been a lawn and looked upward to the vine, whose entire length was now visible. It continued in violent agitation, yet they could discern no disturbing cause. ““Let us leave,” said the minister. And leave they did. Forgetting that they had been traveling in opposite directions, they rode away together. They went to Norton, where they related their uncanny 617

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618 experience to several discreet friends. The next evening, at about the same hour, ac- companied by two others whose names are not recalled by the writer, they were again on the porch of the Harding house, and again the mysterious phenomenon occurred: the vine was violently agitated while under the closest scrutiny from root to tip, nor did. their combined strength applied to the trunk serve to still it. After an hour’s ob- servation they retreated, no less wise than when they had come. No great time was required for these singular facts to rouse the curiosity of the entire neighborhood. By day and by night crowds of persons assembled at the Harding house ‘‘seeking a sign.” It does not appear that any found it, yet so credible were the witnesses mentioned that none doubted the reality of the “manifestations” to which they testified. By either a happy inspiration or some ‘destructive design, it was one day proposed —nobody appeared to know from whom the suggestion came—to dig up the vine, and after a good deal of debate this was done. Nothing was found but the root, yet nothing could have been more strange! For five or six feet from the trunk, which had at the surface of the ground a diameter of several inches, it ran downward, single and straight, into a loose, friable earth; then it divided and subdivided into root- lets, fibers and filaments, most curiously interwoven. When carefully freed from soil, they showed a singular formation. In their ramifications and doublings back upon themselves they made a compact net- work, having in size and shape an amazing resemblance to the human figure. Head, body and limbs were there; even the fingers and toes were distinctly defined; and many professed to see in the distribution and arrangement of the fibers in the globular mass representing the head a grotesque sug- gestion of a face. The figure was horizontal; the single great root.had begun to divide at the breast. In point of resemblance to the human form this image was imperfect. At about ten inches from one of the knees, the cilia forming that leg had abruptly doubled back- ward and inward upon their course of growth. The figure lacked the left foot. There was but one inference—the obvious one; but in the ensuing excitement as many courses of action were proposed as there Cosmopolitan Magazine were counselors who did not know what to do. The matter was settled by the sheriff of the county, who, as the lawful custodian of the abandoned estate, ordered’ the root re- placed and the excavation filled with the earth that had been removed. Later inquiry brought out only one fact of relevancy and significance: Mrs. Har- ding had never visited her relatives in Iowa, nor did they know that she was supposed to have done so. Of Robert Harding and the rest of his family nothing is known to this day. The house retains its evil reputation, but the replanted vine is as orderly and well- behaved a vegetable as a nervous person could wish to sit under of a pleasant summer night when the katydids grate out their im- memorial revelation and the distant whip- poorwill signifies his notion of what ought to be done about it. A Man with Two Lives This is the queer story of David William Duck, related by himself. Duck is an old man living in Aurora, Illinois, where he is universally respected. He is commonly known, however, as ‘‘ Dead Duck.” “In the autumn of 1866 I was a private soldier of the Eighteenth Infantry. My company was one of those stationed at Fort Phil Kearney, commanded by Colonel Carrington. The country is more or less familiar with the ‘history of that garrison, particularly with the slaughter by the Sioux of a detachment of nearly a hundred men and officers—not one escaping—through disobedience of orders by its commander, the brave but reckless Captain Fetterman. When that occurred, I was trying to make my way with important dispatches to Fort C. F. Smith, on the Big Horn. As the country swarmed with hostile Indians, I traveled by night and concealed myself as best I could before daybreak. The better to do so, I went afoot, armed with a Henry rifle and carrying three days’ rations in my haversack. “For my second place of concealment I chose what seemed in the darkness a narrow cafion leading through a range of rocky hills. Flowing out of this was a creek of no considerable size, bordered by cottonwood trees and large bowlders that had been de- tached from the slopes of the hills. Behind one of these, in a clump of sage-brush, I

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bead \ G55 eattee pk Drawn by Arthur G, Dove “FOR TWO DAYS AND NIGHTS made my bed for the day, and soon fell asleep. It seemed as if I had hardly closed my eyes, though in fact it was near midday, when I was awakened by the report of a rifle, the bullet striking the bowlder just above my body. A band of Indians had trailed me and had me nearly surrounded; the shot had been fired, with an execrable aim, by a fellow who had caught sight of me from the hillside above. The smoke of his rifle betrayed him, and I was no sooner on my feet than he was off his and rolling down the declivity. Then I ran in a stoop- ing posture, dodging among the clumps of sage-brush in a storm of bullets from invisi- ble enemies. The rascals did not rise and pursue, which I thought rather queer, as they must have known by my trail that they had to deal with only one man. The reason for their inaction was soon made clear. I had not gone a hundred yards before I reached a large spring—the source of the creek. Immediately beyond was the head of the gulch which I had mistaken for a cafion; it terminated in a concave surface of rock, nearly vertical and destitute of vegetation. In that cul-de-sac I was caught like a rat in a trap. Pursuit was needless; they had only to wait. “They waited. For two days and nights, crouching behind a rock topped with a growth of mesquite, and with the cliff at my back, suffering agonies of thirst and I FOUGHT THE FELLOWS AT LONG RANGE’ , absolutely hopeless of deliverance, I fought the fellows at long range, firing occasionally at the smoke of their rifles, as they did at that of mine. Of course, I did not dare to close my eyes at night, and lack of sleep was my keenest torture. “I remember the morning of the third day, which I knew was to be my last. I remember, rather indistinctly, that in my desperation and delirium I sprang out into the open and began firing my repeating- rifle without seeing anybody to fire at. And I remember no more of that fight. “The next thing that I recollect was my pulling myself out of a river just at nightfall. Thad nota rag of clothing and knew nothing of my whereabouts, but all that night I traveled, cold and footsore, toward the north. At daybreak I found myself at Fort C. F. Smith, my destination, but without my dispatches. The first man that I met was a sergeant named William Briscoe, whom I knew very well. You can fancy his astonishment at seeing me in that condition, and my own at his asking who the devil I was. ““*Dave Duck,’ I answered; ‘who should I be?’ “He stared like an owl. **¢Vou do look it,’ he said,and I observed that he drew a little away from me. ‘“What’s up ?’ he added. “‘T told him what had happened to me the 619

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Cosmopolitan Magazine Drawn by Arthur G. Dove HE TOOK OUT HIS WATCH TO SEE IF HE FIGURES ON THE DIAL day before. He heard me through, still staring; then he said: “My dear fellow, if you are Dave Duck I ought to inform you that I buried you two months ago. I was out with a small scouting party and found your body, full of bullet-holes and newly scalped—some- what mutilated too, I am sorry to say— right where you say you made your fight. Come to my tent and I’ll show you your clothing and some letters that I took from your person; the commandant has your dispatches.’ “He performed that promise. He showed me the clothing, which I resolutely put on; the letters, which I put into my pocket. He made no objection, then took COULD MAKE OUT THE me to the commandant, who heard my story and coldly ordered Briscoe to take me to the guard- house. On the way I said: “Bill Briscoe, did you really and truly bury the dead body that you found in these togs ?? **<Sure,’ he answered —‘just as I told you. It was Dave Duck, all right; most of us knew him. And now, you damned impostor, you’d better tell me who you are and what all this means!’ ““<T’d give something to know,’ I said. “A week later, I escaped from the fort and got out of the coun- try as fast as I could. Twice I have been back, seeking for that fateful spot in the hills, but unable to find it.” A Wireless Message In the summer of 1896 Mr. William Holt, a wealthy manufacturer of Chicago, was living temporarily in a little ‘town of central New York, the name of which the writer’s memory has not retained. Mr. Holt had had “trouble with his wife,’ from whom he had separated a year before. Whether the trouble was anything more serious than “incompatibility of temper” he is probably the only living person that knows: he is a man not addicted to the vice of confidences. Yet he has related the incident herein set down to at least one person without exact- ing any pledge of secrecy. He is now in Europe. One evening he had left the house of a brother with whom he was living, for a stroll in the country. It may be assumed—what- ever the value of the assumption in con- nection with what is said to have occurred—

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that his mind was occupied with reflections on his domestic infelicities and the distress- ing changes that they had wrought in his life. Whatever may have been his thoughts, they so possessed him that he observed neither the lapse of time nor whither his feet were carrying him; he knew only that he had passed far beyond the town limits and was traversing a lonely region by a road that bore no resemblance to the one by which he had left the village. In brief, he was “lost.” Realizing the mischance, he smiled; central New York is not a region of perils, nor does one long remain lost in it. He turned about and went back the way that he had come. Before he had gone far, he observed that the landscape was growing more distinctly visible—was brightening. Everything was suffused with a soft, red glow in which he saw his shadow projected in the road before him. ‘The moon is rising,’ he said to himself. Then he re- membered that it was the time of the new moon, and if that tricksy orb was in one of its stages of visibility it had set long before. He stopped and faced about, seeking the source of the rapidly broadening light. As he did so, his shadow turned and lay along the road in front of him as before. The light still came from behind him. That was disquieting; he could not understand. Again he turned, and again, facing success- ively to every point of the horizon. Always the shadow was before—always the light behind, ‘‘a still and awful red.”’ Holt was inexpressibly surprised— “dumbfounded” is the word that he used in telling it—yet seems to have retained a certain intelligent curiosity. To test the intensity of the light whose nature and cause he could not determine, he took out his watch to see if he could make out the figures on the dial. They were distinctly visible, and the hands indicated the hour of eleven o’clock and twenty-five minutes. At that moment the mysterious illumination suddenly flared to an intenser, an almost blinding, splendor, flushing the entire sky, extinguishing the stars and throwing the monstrous shadow of himself athwart the whole landscape. In that unearthly illu- mination he saw near him, but apparently in the air at a considerable elevation, the figure of his wife, clad in her night-clothing and holding to her breast the figure of his child. Her eyes were fixed upon his with an expression which he professed himself Some Uncanny Tales 621 unable to name or describe, further than that it was ‘‘not of this life.’ The flare was momentary, followed by black darkness, in which, however, the ap- parition still showed white and motionless; then by insensible degrees it faded and vanished, like a bright image on the retina after the closing of the eyes. A peculiarity of the apparition, hardly noted at the time, Drawn by Arthur G, Dove THEN HE TURNED. NOBODY ELSE HAD ENTERED but afterward recalled, was that it showed only the upper half of the woman’s figure: nothing was seen below the waist. The sudden darkness was comparative, not absolute, for gradually all objects of his environment became again visible. The

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622 persisting but ever-fading light served to guide his shaking legs from the spot, in what direction he neither knew nor cared. In the dawn of the morning Holt found himself entering the village at a point op- posite to that at which he had left it. He soon arrived at the house of his brother, who hardly knew him. He was wild-eyed, haggard, and gray asa rat. Almost inco- herently, he related his night’s experience. “Go to bed, my poor fellow,” said his brother, ‘‘and—wait. We shall hear more of this.” An hour later came the predestined tele- gram. Holt’s dwelling in one of the suburbs of Chicago had been destroyed by fire. Her escape cut off by the flames, his wife had ap- peared at an upper window, her child in her arms. There she stood, motionless, appar- ently dazed. Just as the firemen arrived with a ladder, the roof fell in with a loud crash, followed by a blinding light, and she was seen no more. The moment of this cul- minating horror was eleven o’clock and twenty-five minutes, standard time. An Arrest Having murdered his _ brother-in-law, Orrin Mannering wasa fugitive from justice. From the Dunham County jail,in Tennessee, where he had been confined to await his trial, he had escaped by knocking down his jailer with an iron bar, robbing him of his keys and, opening the outer door, walking out into the night. The jailer being un- armed, Mannering got no weapon with which to defend his recovered liberty. As soon as he was out of the town, he had the folly to enter a forest; this was many years ago, when that region was wilder than it is now. The night was pretty dark, with neither moon nor stars visible, and as Mannering had never dwelt thereabout, and knew nothing of the lay of the land, he was, nat- urally, not long in losing himself. He could not have said if he were getting farther away from the town or going back to it—a most ‘important matter to Orrin Mannering. He knew that in either case a posse of citizens, with a pack of bloodhounds, would soon be on his track and his chance of escape was very slender; but he did not wish to assist in his own pursuit. Even an added hour of freedom was worth having. Cosmopolitan Magazine Suddenly he emerged from the forest into an old road, and there before him saw, indistinctly, the figure of a man, motion- less in the gloom—evidently posted there to intercept him. It was too-late to retreat: the fugitive felt that at the first movement back toward the wood he would be, as he afterward explained, “filled with buck- shot.” So the two stood there like trees, Mannering nearly suffocated by the activity of his own heart; the other—the emotions of the other are not of record. A moment later—it may have been an hour—the moon sailed into a patch of un- clouded sky and the hunted man saw that visible embodiment of Law lift his arm and point significantly toward and beyond him. He understood. Turning his back to his captor, he walked submissively away in the direction indicated, looking to neither the right nor the left; hardly daring to breathe, his head and back actually aching with a prophecy of buckshot. Mannering was as courageous a criminal as ever lived to be hanged; that was shown by the conditions of awful personal peril under which he had coolly killed his brother-in-law. It is needless to relate them here; they came out at his trial, and the revelation of his calmness in confronting them came near to saving his neck. But what would you have ?—when a brave man is beaten, he submits to the inevitable. So they pursued their journey jailward along the old road through the woods. Only once did Mannering venture a turn of the head: just once, when he was in deep shadow and he knew that the other was in moonlight, he looked backward. His captor was John Duff, the jailer, as white as death and bearing upon his brow the livid mark of the iron bar. Orrin Mannering had no further curiosity. Eventually they entered the town, which was all alight, but deserted; only the women and children remained, and they were off the streets. Straight toward the jail the criminal held his way. Straight up to the main entrance he walked, laid his hand upon the knob of the heavy iron door, pushed it open without command, entered and found himself in the presence of a half- dozen armed men. Then he turned. No- body else had entered. On a table in the corridor lay the dead body of John Duff.

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, HOW A DRESS IS DESIGNED—ARTISTS AT WORK IN A PARISIAN DRESSMAKING ESTABLISHMEN' Creating Fashions in Dress How American Women Influence Parisian Dressmakers in Making Styles for the World BY ELIZABETH MEREDITH 4I-W fashions are ever being madein Paris. Nosooner has A one new mode been launched } than another is in prepara- tion. An army of workers is engaged on the solution of this great problem—an army consisting of dressmakers, x) their designers, ares fore- women, and the gay Pari- siennes who not only launch new y fashions but give very valuable advice, sometimes, when the eternal question, ‘What shall be worn?” is once more on the fapis. ‘he lips of the skeptical may curl in a smile of doubt at the statement that Ameri- can women are largely responsible in de- ciding what the fair Parisiennes shall wear, which means nothing more nor less than that American taste sets the standard for the world. It is quite certain that such an 623 € assertion would be greeted by a_ polite smile—none the less derisive for being polite—in Paris salons, yet a man-dress- maker, no other than Paquin himself, is responsible for the allegation that if brought to their attention it would prove distasteful to his countrywomen, who would be likely to accuse M. Paquin of rank heresy. Toa question once put to him byan Amer- ican woman as to who makes the fashions, M. Paquin replied: ‘‘ Why, you Americans, of course. You are the people who decide what Parisian ladies and ladies of the entire world shall wear. You thought our own Parisiennes dictated the fashions and that I am trying to flatter you. You are quite mistaken. Let me explain and you will see that I am correct from the point of view of which I speak. Let me point out what I mean and you will at once see how correct 45

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sot 2 IN THE WORKROOM OF A FAMOUS DRESSMAKER IN THE RUE DE LA PAIX, PARIS I am in saying that the Americans make the fashions. We dressmakers certainly do the work of modeling dresses, but it is the American buyers, the representatives of great American houses, who come here by the score several times a year, who decide on the final shape and color-scheme. These representatives come to my house to in- spect the hundreds of dresses which I and my assistants have prepared. “The buyers visit all the great firms and make comparisons. Choosing the _ best models, they ask for certain dresses, but with such-and-such changes made. Once suited, however, they buy hundreds and hundreds of the kind they require, and their selection fixes the mode for that season. “The tradition that French women set the fashions is fast becoming a legend. French women, I regret to say, are losing their knowledge of how to dress well. You have only to go to any fashionable gathering where Parisiennes and American ladies are to be seen side by side, and you will at once perceive that the latter are far the better dressed. There is not the slightest doubt 624 about that, and I am quite willing to be quoted in the matter.” Before the Americans so intruded into the domain of dress, the stage was a more powerful means of setting the fashions than it is to-day. But even now, to launch a new style a firm occasionally avails itself of the theater; still, when possible, there is no doubt that preference is given to society women, who are only too glad to wear new creations to the races at Longchamps or Chantilly, to the Salon or to the Concours Hippique. As a great society leader is sure to be much observed and talked about in the public prints, her dress, if it pleases the public, will be copied. It generally takes two seasons firmly to establish a new fashion. Most of the houses are well patronized by the lights of the Parisian stage, although Sarah Bernhardt has found a way to dis- pense with them by establishing an aéelier de couture, or dressmaking department, in her own theater. The achievement of a finished and well- defined style is usually a slow process. If one could get behind the scenes of a large

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Creating Fashions in Dress Parisian dressmaking establishment, he would see a number of mannequins—as they are called—exceedingly pretty, slender- waisted girls, walking slowly and majes- tically backward and forward before a number of men and women, heads of the firm, the designers and leading employees, who examine them with critical eye, making them turn this way and that in order to take in, from every point of view, the dresses in which they are attired. The de- signers’ creations are thus critically ex- amined and discussed. Suggested changes are made and the process of in- spection re- peated until everything is declared satis- factory. Some- times custom- ers will suggest a modification in an existing style which takes the firm’s fancy, and is adopted in making dresses for others. There is an- other source of inspiration for the fashion of the day and that is the his- torical one— reference to the past history of fashions and of style. Redfern, for instance, ad- mits frankly that he gets many ideas for new fashions by studying old fashion-prints. He isa good example of the class of dressmakers which evolves the new from the old. M. Bouchot, the curator of the Cabinet des Estampes at the Bibliothéque Nationale, Great National Library of France, says that some time before each season large numbers of milliners and dressmakers come to study the thousands of fashion- plates—many of them extremely rare wes tT A FINISHED PRODUCT OF 625 which are under his care. They adapt and modify the dresses of former days te suit modern taste. But it is only by the most arduous research at the great library that one can hope to discover anything new in the way of dress styles. Some- times the artistic temperament and imag- ination are employed in the creation of new styles, but on the whole the dress- makers are agreed that the artist without a knowledge of the technicalities of the work is of little use to them in the creation of new fashions. The great test of a good dressmaker is the manner in which he can dress each cus- tomer accord- ing to her in- dividuality. Some dress- makers make fashions for the hundred, but the greatest make them only for the few. A design is often made for one individ- ual alone, es- pecially if the individual in question has a bottomless purse. Worth’s well- renowned house, now rep- resented by two brothers, only one of whom however takes an active part THE RUE DE LA PAIX in the business, is almost as exclusive as it was in the days of its founder. Designs here are prepared for the head of the firm by the four or five highly paid designers who are attached to the establishment. These drawings are subsequently modi- fied, executed in material and again modi- fied. After being criticised again and again, they are placed before customers high in the world of fashion—countesses, duchesses, American women of wealth, and

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626 even queens, for whom the dresses have been especially made. The showrooms of these great couturiers of Paris are sumptuous apartments, and may be compared to palatial drawing- rooms. In smaller rooms, cut off from the large showroom by heavy curtains, one may see costumes upon which fabulous sums of money have been spent. Here are evening-dresses of elaborate design and often trimmed with precious stones, fre- quently diamonds. These dresses are arranged upon lay- PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES TO A RECEPTION-GOWN figures, and the rooms are aglow with dozens of little incandescent lights, in order to enable the customer to judge of the ex- act effect as seen in a ballroom flooded with electric light. There is absolutely no limit to the cost of a ball-dress, but quite an ordinary price is about twenty-five thousand francs (five thousand dollars). The figure seems large to the general public, unaccustomed to such lavish expenditures in dress, but it gowns must be remembered that such Cosmopolitan Magazine are often of cloth of silver, with a dark corselet thickly sown with rubies. The process of choosing a gown to be worn on a state occasion is also a thing to be very seriously considered, and receives as much attention from a society woman as a Minister of Foreign Affairs could give to the construction of a secret treaty with a friendly country. With American women one of the most momentous occasions requiring a special gown is when they are presented to Queen Alexandra at the Court of St. James. There being no court in France, similar occa- sions do not present themselves there with a woman of such simple tastes as Mme. Loubet presiding over the Ely- sée. Elaborate toilettes have not been necessary even when American girls are presented at the Elysée, which is an affair quite easily ar- ranged through the am- bassador. An American girl who is about to be presented at the English court, will, if in London, make a special pilgrimage to Paris accompanied by her mother, to visit the establishment of one of the leading French dressmakers. Her ex- perience will be prac- tically the same no mat- ter which house she se- lects. With her mother she will be escorted to the special showroom for ball-dresses, where, seated on a gorgeous divan, the ladies will look on while several saleswomen spread out upon a mahogany table an array of the costliest white silks and laces obtainable. This is a long task, and before the mother and daughter are satisfied the tables and other articles of furniture are completely out of sight under their burden of precious stuffs. Finally, when the “very thing” is revealed, the real work begins under the master eye of the great dressmaker

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Creating Fashions in Dress himself, with the result that the problem of how the gown shall be fashioned is at last solved. The detail of the work is in itself an object-lesson in the art of dressmaking to the onlooker. Those taking part in the grave council of trained experts, be- sides the head of the house, comprise the foreman, or first hand, at least three designers, two mannequins, in the shape of two pretty French girls with figures that a duchess mightenvy, and perhaps five professional members of the staff. Very rarely is it that a person going to order a dress of one or other of the great Parisian dress- makers has any very definite idea of what she requires, that is, as regards detail. Fashion is ruled, generally speaking, not by the customer, but by the costumer. The custom is to exhibit the latest MANNEQUIN SHOWING A COSTLY HOUSE-DRESS creations of the firm by means of living models, those tall, graceful, long- with ease and elegance. A_ particular waisted girls who know not only how to _ style of dress, as seen in this seductive way, wear a dress well, but how to move about — will take the fancy of a client. All that FOREWOMAN OF A PARISIAN ESTABLISHMENT MEASURING FOR ALTERATIONS IN AN OPERA-( LOARK

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628 need be done to suit her taste, then, is to make a few slight alterations. Sometimes these are indeed very important, and the result is to all intents and purposes the production of a design almost as new as if the head of the house or his manager had acted quite independent of existing models. The number of visits necessary before the completion of a “great” gown entirely de- pends upon circumstances. If the cus- tomer is a regular one at the house, no visit is absolutely necessary at all after the materials have been chosen and the order given for making up; for the firm is the custodian of the lady’s moule, as_ the figure made in facsimile of her own is called. But in the case of a new customer, one other visit at least is necessary. It has been said that the average woman is incapable of accuracy, which may ac- count for the taking of the careful measure- ments necessary being always entrusted to men, who go about their work so care- fully and with such precision that later on the fair society girl appears to have been moulded into the finished product. some cases the measurements are taken over a closely fitting chamois garment. CHOOSING 4 In Cosmopolitan Magazine Women are bynomeansof one mind about the necessity of going to Paris for style. It is pointed out that, first of all, Americans want to be free and independent of fashions that may please the French women. And it is likewise true that the manner of life of American women necessarily gives them figures quite different from those of their French sisters, who from their childhood are squeezed into corsets designed to give them unduly long waists and narrow hips. The American girl, on the contrary, shares her brother’s games, is an adept at outdoor sports, and develops an expanse of chest that quite unfits her for the confines of the corset affected by the Parisienne. To further the work of emancipation of the American .woman from the tyranny of Paris dressmakers, an association has been formed which has a monthly paper of its own and holds ay annual convention for the exhibition of the products of American dressmakers. It is hoped and openly stated by the founders of this association that in the near future no gowns of Paris design will be comprised in these annual exhibitions, but that they will all be of domestic design and manufacture. MATERIAL

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Photograph by Wilse, Ciristiania ARTILLERY PRACTICE IN THE SNOW BY NORWEGIAN SOLDIERS Tihe Crisis in Scandinavia Benefits Coming from the Split between Norway and Sweden BY HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN, 2d issue between §) Norway and Sweden is purely industrial and commercial. The chief sources of Sweden’s wealth are agriculture, mines and manufactures, while Nor- ¥ way’s fisheries and her mer- chant marine, fourth in size oy as among those of the world, are SUE A her only large revenue-pro ducers. Sweden thus requires the protect ive tariff, now operative in both countries, while Norway’s welfare would be greatly increased by free trade. Moreover, two such incompatible interests cannot be well administered by a single set of consuls. The present crisis grows directly out of Norway’s demand for a separate consular service and Sweden’s refusal to grant it. Sweden’s opposition is from her stand- point entirely reasonable. Two distinct consular systems can hardly be conducted by one department of state. To give Nor- Way a separate state department would lead to separate ambassadors and treaty-mak- ing powers, accomplishing rapidly Sweden’s entire loss of Norway. That Sweden recognizes this is shown by the fact that when, a few years ago, the Norwegian Storthing negotiated an advantageous com- mercial treaty with the United States, the king promptly vetoed it. Sweden has sounded several European governments to secure their coercion of Norway to remain in the union, but thus far only Germany has seemed likely to interfere. To check such a step, Norway invited a prince of the house of Bernadotte, King Oscar’s family, to occupy the throne, but the request was, naturally enough, re- Next Prince Charles, a grand King Christian of Denmark, was asked to reign over Norway, and there is a strong likelihood that his acceptance will solve the problems of Sweden and Norway, unless a foreign power intervenes to force Denmark’s refusal. Ever since Denmark was compelled to surrender Norway, in 1814, after Napo- leon’s defeat at Leipsic and the Peace of Kiel, these two nations have been on the best of terms. To be ruled by a member fused. son. of 6a9

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Copyright, 1904, by Underwood & Underwood ARMY MANEUVERS IN SWEDEN. of the Danish royal family would please the vast majority of Norwegians. many of the Scandinavian-born To Photograph by Wilse, Christiania ee NORWEGIAN SOLDIER TRAVELING ON SKEES 630 FIRING-LINE AN INFANTRY Americans, more than a million in number, admiring their adopted country’s form of government, it has been a deep regret that, if the separation had to occur, the Storthing did not organize a republic, instead of per- petuating the ancient monarchical system. But Norway, it must be remembered, is the most democratic kingdom in Europe. Monarchy has been a matter of form only, and has never oppressed the people. Moreover, a Norwegian republic would be isolated from Sweden and Denmark. Scandinavians realize that the continuance of their freedom depends largely on their presenting a united front to an enemy. Russia has constantly coveted the Nor- wegian coast-line, with its ice-free winter harbors. Sweden and Norway together have a population only equal to that of New York. Imagine that state placed near to Russia and resisting her encroach- ments, and some idea of the perils of the situation can be obtained. Under separate kings all the bitterness be- tween Sweden and Norway will disappear, just as close ties grew up between Norway and Denmark soon after their separation. Common need and common policies will then give rise to a Scandinavian triple al- liance, which will safeguard the peaceful wel fare of the three peoples and permit their industries, arts and literatures to flourish. 45

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The Wider Bounds BY BAILEY MILLARD OW Booker, the big black fighting stallion, came to be the property of Al Rawston, and what hap- pened because of it, may be told simply enough. Let us begin back at the day of the wild-horse idea. It wasa great idea, and it had roped Raw- ston, bridled and saddled him, and was riding him up and down the bleak little streets of Washout. This was nothing new with Al Rawston. Great ideas were con- stantly seizing him. It was a great idea that had yanked him out of his soft desk job in New York to make him join the Okla- homa boomers and stake out a ranch on a desert plain where, as it seemed, rain and existence were impossible. It was a great idea that had sent him flying to the Cripple Creek mines and laid him on his’ back with pneumonia in a hospital cot, and it was a great idea that had lifted him off the cot and sent him weakly wandering to the Pan- handle with visions of a big band of cattle all branded with circle R’s. And always, in camp and on trail, Maidie had been with him, always she had accepted the new great idea as blithely as it had been her own, and always she had had her word of comfort when it had failed, however mis- erably, as did the cattle scheme which had landed them in Washout with thirty famine- stricken steers, three unpaid negroes, four mustangs and a broken-tongued wagon. For Maidie was the truest and most trusting little wife in all creation, Rawston had de- clared—“a heap too good for a haphazard chap like me. But there’ll be big first-water diamonds gleaming from her little pink ears yet, and we’ll own a pile of bricks on Man- hattan Island that will make the Flatiron Building look like a hencoop.” ‘What is it this time, Al?” asked Maidie 631 } when she saw the old far-away look come into Rawston’s deep-set eyes. “Wild horses.” “Wild horses ?” “Yes; there’s thousands of ’em over be- yond the Panhandle, just roaming about loose as coyotes, ready for an enterprising outfit to come and round ’em up and drive ’em into town. They’re worth nothing afoot where they are, but suppose we corral two thousand head, drive ’em into Queen City and sell ’em for twenty dollars apiece ? That will be forty thousand dollars. Mighty good start, eh, for that million of ours ?” ~ “Ves” smiled Maidie, full of her old faith. So the steers went at one of those bargains in which Rawston always got out at the lit- tle end, and in a few days the man of great ideas had bought with the cattle-money what he called “a pretty fair wild-horse outfit,” but which the wise ones of Wash- out, when they saw him and his cowboys and Indian trailers drive out of town, with Maidie’s winsome pansy face peeping through the wagon-flap, were ready to jeer at as “‘a sure-enough crazy-horse aggrega- tion.”” How did Al Rawston, with only twe jim-crow cow-punchers and three lazy Injuns straddling old crowbaits, ever ex- pect to bring back even a dead jack-rabbit ? “But they got one pretty slick hoss there,”’ pointed out Andy Peterson. “That big black stallion. He looks husky enough to run down anything in New Mexico. Wonder how AI ever got hold of him.” “Oh, Bill Hicks was gittin’ too old to handle him,” said the saloonkeeper, “ so he sold him to Al for forty dollars. Cheap enough, too. Booker’s a wonderful beast. Bill’s brother roped him out on the desert three years ago where he was runnin’ around wild. Must have got loose from some band some way. He’s never been really broke. Ought to see him when he’s on the rampage. Killed one man over to 46

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Cosmopolitan Magazine 632 shiver of jet in the sharp sunlight, fascinated her. Beside the mustangs he seemed the king of horses. The arch of his great neck Little Creek, you know—chawed him plumb to pieces. If ever they really do get near any wild horses, there’ll be hell a-pop- pin’ where Booker is, you can bet your shirt on that.” “Ves,” said the blacksmith, “‘there’s a heap o’ jing an’ go in that horse. I’ve hearn a lot about these here mustangs —how they can wear out common horses —but this cuss beats them all. He’s hard as cut nails. Did you ever notice his legs? They’re just like steel. Damned- est horse to shoe ever I got hold of. I tell you there’s good red _ blood in Booker T. Washing- ton.” But Booker seemed peaceful enough to Maidie Rawston as she looked at him where he trotted along be- side the wagon. She could not see why Al had warned her so strictly against ever going near him. She did not believe the story that he had once killed a man. Some drunken cow- boy probably had fallen under his feet. It couldn’t have been Booker’s fault. Booker, she felt sure, wouldn’t kill a toad. Of course he would throw in a few extra side-steps once in a while, and _ wheel about the wagon and Drawn by Frank Tenney Fohnsou A LOOK WHICH SHE INTERPRETED SCIOUSNESS AND REMORSE CAME BROWN EYES switch his tail rather rhetorically over the plain prose of the trail. But Maidie loved horses, and Booker was all pure poetry to her. The sweep of his head tugging at the bridle-rein while his mane flashed like a that bit. INTO You’ve no idea what a—— AS SELF-CON- THE was a song in itself, and his big brown eyes made their own poetic appeal. Yes, from forelock to fet- lock, he was the monarch of horses. And the girl, who was generally docile and obedient enough in a wifely way, was consumed of one great passion as she sat there in the wagon and _ heard the crack of Al’s whip and the jokes of the men, and that was to mount Booker and ride away with him on the wind, down the trail any- where, anywhere over the great gray plain, even to that far blur of buttes that rose miles ahead. For such a horse- woman was Maidie that many a time had she made the people on the park benches turn around to look after her where she sat like a circus-rider on the springiest mount in town. “What makes Bug Miller use that Spanish bit on Booker ?” she asked of Rawston. “It’s cruel.” “No, it isn’t,”’ was Al’s reply. ‘‘He’d pull the arm off from Bug if it wasn’t for ” ‘Oh, it’s just like a brute of a man to treat a poor horse that way,” declared Maidie. “See how that bit bothers him. He’s al- ways champing at it and working it about.”

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634 “Keeps him busy and out of mischief,” said Al, unfeelingly. ‘He isn’t killing any- body when he’s doing that.” “The idea!” she said, with an upthrust of her pretty chin. ‘ When do you suppose we'll happen upon a band of. those wild mustangs ?” “In a day or two, the Indians say. They promise to put us on the trail of ’em before to-morrow night. Then we’ll just keep after em until we get ’em. That may take three or four days, but if it’s a big band it’ll pay us all right.” They forded a little stream and Maidie took large delight in Booker’s drinking. After he had taken several long, deep draughts during which she watched the play of his throat, swelling with the big swallows, he threw his nose from side to side in the water, working hard at the bit and then pawing and splashing the foam all about him. “Pcor Booker! poor old Booker!” she re- peated. “If only I could relieve him cf that cruel bit. It hurts his mouth so.” Toward evening one of the trailers, riding on ahead, pulled up his horse and pointed westward, where on a little rise, right in the flaming eye of the setting sun, some dark distant objects were moving slowly about. ““He’s spotted ’em,” said Bug Miller. ‘“‘Got your field- glass handy, le? “Here it is,” said Maidie. “Vou look,” said Rawston. Maidie raised the binccular, screwed it down a little and exclaimed: ‘“‘Horses—hundreds of ’em! They’re feeding on that hillside. The light comes right into my eyes, but I can see them— such a big band.” “Let me jJook,” said Al, handing her the reins. He raised the glass. ‘‘Sure enough, but they’re three miles off, and we couldn’t do much with ’em to-night. We'll camp there in that hollow ahead—looks like water down there—and we'll sail out after ‘em bright and early in the morning. They won’t get very far away in the night, I guess.” They made camp, and while Charley Feet-in-the-Grass told in his unimpassioned Indian way of how he and another brave once stalked a band of mustangs and ran them down on foot and captured and led them up to the railroad, Maidie walked over to where Booker, tethered with a long rope, was cropping the wiry grass. The rest of 1? Cosmopolitan Magazine them were all down behind the wagon, and they did not see her as she walked straight up to the big black animal and laid one hand quietly upon his neck, while with the other she reached out to him a lump of sugar she had brought over from camp. Booker did not lay back his ears, as he commonly did when a stranger approached him, but he turned and eyed her with friendly interest. She gave him another lump and stroked his nose. There was a bit of broken skin on his side on which some big gadflies were gathering. The flies made him toss his head about and stamp madly. “Poor Booker,” she said. ‘Do they bother you?” She got a switch of lupin and flicked the pests away, and he looked at her with grateful eyes. ““That’s better, isn’t it, Booker? Wish I could stay out here and keep them off from you. But they won’t bother you in the night—no, they won’t, Booker. And what a pretty neck you’ve got. Would you let me ride you, Booker? Only just over to that rock and back. ‘There’s a bridle there on the bush. Let me see if I can’t make it fit you. No, it isn’t that cruel, old Spanish bit. It’s just a plain, easy American one. You don’t want iton? You’re tired and hungry and cross from the flies? Well, never mind then. But maybe—in the morning, before anybody gets up, we’ll take a canter. And nobody, shall know, shall they? Al would think it was awful after giving you such a bad reputation. But you never did kill any- body, did you, Booker? You’re too nice to hurt anything, aren’t you?” A look which she interpreted as self- consciousness and remorse came into the brown eyes. ‘Oh, did you really do it, and are you awfully sorry? Well, you may be a man-killer, you big beautiful fellow you, and you strut about like a lady-killer, too; but you’d never hurt me, would you, Booker? You’d never hurt anybody if they treated you right.” The stallion’s eyes watched her stead- fastly as she walked away, and she did not see the quiet fire in them—the low-burning embers of a tumultuously wicked past. The camp was astir so early in the morn- ing that Maidie abandoned her first idea of the stolen ride; but soon after the team was harnessed she announced to Al that she wanted a turn on horseback, and he as- ;0t dreaming of her wild desire to sented, She was the first ride the reckless Booker.

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The Wider Bounds 63 to bridle her horse, however, sparing him the Spanish curb, and when Al saw her fly- ing down the trail, barebacked and with swirling skirts, he was in instant and alarmed revolt. ““Maidie! Maidie!” he yelled. ‘Get after her, somebody. Call her back and get her off that infernal horse. He'll kill her.” But Maidie only flirted her quirt, looked back bonnily and led the racing mustangs a rollicksome chase up the trail, toward the wild band on the slope. ‘‘She’ll stampede the hull band,” groaned Bug Miller, piercing the sides of his rack- \ + Drawn by Frank Tenney Fohnson BOOKER , a ‘ CHARGED SUDDENLY DOWN UPON pressed fiercely against the pull of the taut bridle-rein, his nostrils flamed, and he rocketed forth, the foam flying back upon his neck and in Maidie’s face. And yet she was not alarmed. It was only when, after a vicious tug, she felt the bridle loosen in her hand and saw the bit hanging from Book- er’s mouth, that she became really nervous. “‘He’s broken it!” she gasped; and for the first time in her life she felt a tremor of fear on a horse’s back. Her quick fingers clutched his black mane fiercely and she clung to him with all a stout horsewoman’s craft and power. HIM, HIS BLACK HEAD HIGH, HIS THICK NECK PUFFED WITH PASSION boned animal with an ugly pair of per- suaders so quickly that the beast humped himself together and lunged forward wildly. “She’ll stampede ’em just as sure as the devil invented barbed wire.” The Indians urged their horses forward, too, but Booker led the way, gaining with every bound. His iron hoof spurned the trail, striking sparks on the rocks and rais- ing puffs of speeding dust upon the wind. But this pace was as nothing to-his wild dash when he saw the herd ahead. He gave a riotous cry, his head went up, his mouth The beast plunged into a little hollow, tossing his head wildly, so that the flimsy throat-latch gave way. He made a sidelong leap, shook himself, and Maidie fell, a soft heap of girl, into a dry wash. While she picked herself up, the broken bridle in her hand, the big brute bolted straight for the herd, crying his challenge down the wind. Soon he was up with them, where they cavorted with dancing heels and tossing manes, and plunging into~their midst, was as one wild wave in a sea of horses. Booker tasted the fierce exultance of

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636 freedom, and sniffed it in and snorted it out with every hot breath. All about him surged the great herd he had stampeded, and he drew in the spirit of this huddling, hurrying crowd as one who had starved in long exile from his gregarious kind. Not that the equine sentiment ran all his way, however, for he at once fell into a fly- ing fight with a plucky little buckskin stai- lion who champed viciously at his throat, tore his mane and sent the red blood flowing down his neck. But the man-killer had no fear of any horse alive. He trumpeted de- fiance, and while the herd ran all about them down the slope, he fought at the buck- skin with his great teeth, while the white of his eyes flashed’ murderously, and many a time did his steel-like jaw close upon the neck of his squealing foe. And so, rearing, tearing down the long slope in a dun cloud of dust, ran Booker, all among the unhaltered herd. Sometimes he and the hard-mouthed fighter that hung upon him would stop, and with heads high in the air they would swing at each other with their stout fore-feet, which struck thudding blows upon shoulder and side. Here Booker, besides his greater weight, had the vantage of well-shod hoofs, but the other horse was the quicker and tougher of the two and he implanted more blows upon the big broad front of the black than Booker could possibly give to his wiry antagonist. Then on they would plunge again, side by side, gnashing at each other, shrilling and gruffing, and stamping madly at each other’s legs. For two hours they ran and fought inces- santly while they ran, until just as the tired herd settled down to browse in a big grassy basin, the mustang fell a little behind. Booker stopped and was preparing to slake his thirst at an alkali-pool, when he heard a snort, and felt a kick in his flank. Upon receiving this delicate attention, he turned quickly, darted forward and seizing his foe by the back of the neck bore him down to the ground, rolled him over and dashed his heavy hoofs into the beast’s belly again and again, as if stamping him into the earth, breathing a hot vengeful breath down upon him the while and hearing with a victor’s delight his despairing death-groans. Booker felt blown and bruised after the fight, but he pranced back to his alkali-pool and drank deep draughts of the warmish, acrid water. He had slain the monarch of Cosmopolitan Magazine the band and now enjoyed the proud sense of being himself enthroned, secure and un- assailable. Lame as were his stout shoul- ders and bloody his neck, he paced forth like a god of horses. From being a haltered slave, bidden here and there and made to do whatnot loathsome deeds of servility, he was now a very Solomon. And, oh, " the tumultuous wildness of the feel of his free- dom! And oh, the joy of being alive on the illimitable desert, in the sun and the wind! He was hungry now, and down there in that strip of lush grass in the deeps of the basin among the other horses he would satisfy his hunger. But soon he heard the snorts of the herd to windward. They had caught the evil news of the coming trailers, for whose scent they were subtly alert, and so on they must go again, and Booker with them, leading the way—free, it was true, but not unassailable after all. Now he would halt, the herd at his heels, submissive to his will, and would look about for the danger-signs. Yes, there were the trailers, always the trailers—two men, never more— one riding behind and one to the right of the band, swinging them about in a great circle, though all unknowing, as it seemed to them that the way led ahead and out of the toils. For this is the rule of the horse-hunt, though Booker wot not of it, that those be- hind, with the compelling man-minds, shall keep those of the less crafty horse-minds ever circling, circling, that the two in pur- suit may be relay ed and rested until their turn shall come again; but there shall be no rest for the herd—no rest, and no grass nor water save what may be caught up hungrily, thirstily, wearily, but only passingly, and all insufficiently, a mere grab at the grass, a sip at the water, now and again. Booker, head and shoulders above them all, would look over the retreating army wavering behind him, and try to charge them with his indomitable spirit. In the trot about the great unstaked course—not a fast trot for him—he had pulled himself together, and despite his hunger and his bruises he still felt fitenough. But the herd had not eaten of the hard oats and clean, sweet alfalfa which had been his daily por- tion for two years. They were not, like him, bottomed and muscled and above all spirited with high living. They were tough enough and rough enough, but they were rackboned and had not his blood and well-being. It was as the blacksmith had said. A common

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The Wider Bounds 37 horse might be worn out by wild mustangs, but a Booker, never. Far in the lead now, the monarch chafed to see his laggard sub- jects waver, with drooped heads and halting hoofs. All the urge of his great virile force cried forth in his commanding neighs. It irked him desperately to note their rallies Did they not see the nearing of the toils? Were their very discernings lethargied by the chase? Oh, if but to them, as to him, freedom were something new, and large and full of vital meaning, would they not keep it at any cost ? He did not know that at that moment a fresh Indian and a fresh cowboy, the one behind, the other to the right, had dropped in to take the place of the fagged pursuers, and that leader and herd were compelled to the circle, always the circle, of which the camp-wagon, with its store of food and force, was the rallying, relentless center. But so it was, and as the long hours of the chase went by and the harried herd, spent with hunger and fatigue, gradually lent lassid acquiescence to the iron wills of the herders, Booker saw before them the long wing of,a corral. He had been acute enough to note that as the herd tamed down submissively, the number of the pursuers had increased. All of Rawston’s men had now joined in the chase, and Maidie and Al were with them. The herders rode behind and to the right and left, so that they were driving the band straight toward the open-mouthed_ enclo- sure. It was an old corral, but a strong one, and Booker’s horror of it, after his new found freedom, was something greater than he had ever felt for any corral before. He tried vainly to lead the herd away from the open mouth with its long delusive wing, but the riders to right and left kept the band headed straight for the fatal gateway, and nearer and nearer they came to it. Booker furtively dodged around a clump of cotton- wood-trees, away from the wing, and vainly signaled the band to follow him, but the will of man was here the dominant power, and only a few of the younger and stronger horses trailed after him. The others pressed forward along the wing and through the gateway of the corral. Booker walked up and down, steadfastly refusing to see the opening, and then trotted slowly to the right, away from the wing; but before him rode Al Rawston, Bug Miller and the other cowboy, with Maidie looking on. So the grow feebler. stallion and his few dismayed followers, still steadfastly ignoring the corral-mouth, went back toward the end of the wing, hoping to round it, but there the Indian trailers quietly headed them off. So back again ambled Booker, all eyes for a chance to dash through the cordon and away, while Maidie, full of pity for the beast at bay, said as he halted before them: “*Oh, it’s too bad to corral him after he has tasted of liberty!) Why don’t you let the poor fellow go, Al? We have plenty of horses now.” “Let him go? I guess not,” replied her husband. “Not after all the trouble he’s made for us. We’d have got the whole band hours ago if it hadn’t been for him. Look out there, Bug! Head up closer.” Booker stole toward the end of the wing again, with the mustangs at his heels, but there was no getting around the end while the Indians guarded it, nor taking of the back trail. So he gathered himself for a dash straight across the mouth of the corral, and, with intrepid swing and a feverish snort, flung in between Clark and Rawston and their vainly circling riatas, and bolted down among the scattered cottonwoods and away over the desert. Alone he did this, for his panting followers fell back and were soon driven into the corral, where the stout gate closed behind them. “Wal, we got all but the big black he one,” said Bug Miller, wiping the sweat from his eyes; ‘but he’ll come back.” “Do you think so?” said Al hopefully. “Ves. He’ll come back to hang around the other horses. If he gets within rifle- shot, I'll crease him.” “Crease him?” cried Maidie. ‘‘ What’s that? Do you mean to shoot him?” ‘“‘No, just graze him on top o’ the neck and drop him. Then he can be roped and led in.”’ And surely enough, after dinner Booker came stalking back, grazing quietly but furtively as he came. For the herd instinct is strong in the heart of a horse as it is strong in the heart of aman. He stood ona little knoll near the corral and signaled in a friendly way to the other horses. Bug Miller, rifle in hand, rode a little way toward him, and Booker trotted off a hun- dred yards and then stood looking toward the corral. The mistrustful Maidie had rid- den along behind Bug, and when she saw him raise his rifle and take deliberate aim at

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Booker, she gave a little scream. Bug looked about—saw that it was only an over- sympathetic woman, foolishly concerning herself with a man’s business, and snicked up his sights, for the distance was a good one for such a delicate shot. ‘“Zwitt!” flew the bullet, and down dropped Booker upon his knees to the ring- ing cry of “Shame! Shame!” from Maidie. ‘Good shot!” yelled Al, riding up. “‘Now get the rope on him.” Bug dashed over, threw the rope, and it tautened tensely to Booker’s wild pull, for now he was on his feet again, his great head working back and forth, and tossing in the air. Bug Miller felt his saddlehorn creak under the strain of the sawing riata, and, braw horseman though he was, he felt that he had his work cut out for him. Whether or not he could throw the man-killer and subdue him depended upon the strength of his rope and his skill in handling it. But what he had hardly calculated upon was what now really happened: Booker, snort- ing freely, and with the red of his nostrils and the white of his teeth showing below his great luminous, murderous _ eyes, charged suddenly down upon him, his black head high, his thick neck puffed with pas- sion, and the rope trailing loosely where he ran. So quickly did he spring upon Bug and grasp his “shap”-covered right leg that to the cowboy his own rapid swing of the horse he rode toward the nearest cotton- wood seemed like the work of another’s guiding hand. But the quick movement was an inspiration, as it bore Booker be- tween the ridden horse and the tree, where The Wider Bounds 639 he lost vantage in the crush; for his head was down, the teeth still clinging to the leg. Al rushed up and struck at Booker’s nose with the rifle-barrel, and though the force of the blow was not great because of the interven- ing tree, it was enough to make the horse give up his hold. Bug quickly put the cot- tonwood-tree between himself and the obsessed Booker. Then the mad stallion ran around the tree, the rope taking a turn about it and bringing him up so short that his head received a smart knock. Bug, as angry a cowboy as ever bestrode a horse, grasped the rifle from Al’s hands and, riding near, tried to strike Booker in the head with the butt, amid wild protests from Maidie. But the threatened stallion jerked back upon the rope, breaking it off close to his neck, and bounded away amid a rapid but futile fire of shots from Bug. As for Maidie, she could not keep back a cry of delight as the fleet hoofs of the runaway pelted the plain. ‘““Good for you, Booker!” rang her vi- brant voice. ‘‘Good for you, old fellow! They'll never catch you again, and they needn’t try.” The form of the flying horse blurred into the twilight, scurrying on alone. Alone, all alone, out on the Homeric plain—the old, gray plain so loved of his wild youth—faring forward in an ecstasy of high feeling, as one who had valiantly fought for freedom and gloriously won. On, on, with all his speed and spirit. He recked not now of the herd behind. For were there not other herds, with other leaders, to fight and conquer—a world of wild companionship in a world of free, wind-blown desert ?

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. From the Deck of the Ruubberneck Coach BY JAMES L. FORD With Drawings by Frank VerBeck Trip No. SHE kingdom of high finance!” —_ cried the Megaphone Man, as the coach turned sharply to the east and rolled on its rubber tires down a-_ stony way, worn smooth by the footprints of generations of those who from their money are quickly and easily divorced, and that, too, without pros- pect of alimony. At the first cor- ner the visitors were greeted by the infuriated howls of a frenzied mob confined by an iron fence to a limited area of the pavement—a wise precaution, as they seemed ready to swarm aboard the coach and commit acts of wanton vio- lence. “‘ Merciful heavens!” exclaimed a rubber- neck from Philadelphia. ‘‘ You New York- ers might call these harmless cases, but I’d feel easier if I saw a few uniformed keepers about. I suppose those are your kings 640 1.—THROUGH THE MoNEY-CENTER of high finance!’—this in a sarcastic manner. “No,” said the Megaphone Man, “this is low finance. All these fellows get is what the kings of high finance leave, and they’ve been going pretty hungry of late. You'll notice that they have steel hooks instead of hands on their wrists, and great prehensile claws instead of feet—the latter because generations of their ancestors have done business while clinging with their feet to the curbstone. The steel hooks are merely the necessary implements of their trade. We are now in the very center of the money- quarter of the town,” he continued, point- ing impressively to the tall buildings that surrounded the little group of sight-seers on every hand. ‘‘There’s nothing here but money, air and philanthropy; and we’re not likely to get a glimpse of any of the three. The air comes up from the bay in the shape of cooling winds, and the money rolls in from all parts of the world in notes, drafts and specie; in automobiles, cabs, leather pocketbooks and wads; by mail, telephone, telegraph and cable; through the subway, on bicycles, and sometimes— when there’s a tie-up on all the lines—on wheelbarrows. As for philanthropy, it’s only within the past few years that it’s been listed on the market and as yet there are not many who even pretend to trade in it. It’s

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Seeing the Rea all brewed on the premises, and resembles in many respects the air that comes up from the bay, only several degrees colder.” “ And what becomes of it all ?” inquired a lady rubberneck from Boston. “The money? Oh, it’s divided equally among the kings of finance, the Wall Street Napoleons and the captains of industry. They get it all—notes, checks, drafts, specie and all—together with the fine fresh air that blows up from the bay and is the currency in which they pay dividends to the stock- holders.” “And the philanthropy?” Boston lady. “Oh, that always comes in handy,’ re- sponded the Megaphone Man. “Don’t you remember the time that they let the honest, horny-handed workingman enter into some of the joy of his lords by accord- ing him the inestimable privilege of buying a limited number of shares of common steel ? Well, that was philanthropy.” The rubbernecks now descended from the coach and were led by their guide into the office of the Manitoba, Council Blufis & Panama Railroad, one of the world’s great- est arteries of travel—that is, it will be as soon as it is built—capitalized at nine hun- dred million dollars and directed by a board of eminent financiers who have never been west of Buffalo. <A large corps of clerks was en- gaged in opening the morning’s mail and sorting its contents into neat little stacks which the officials examined at their leisure. Some of these letters contained money, while others were writ- ten by men who either desired work or were anxious to supply rails and rolling stock or to take contracts. It did not take the officials long to dispose of the letters and their enclosures. The money was placed in the safe, the proposals for contract work and the furnishing of supplies were throwin the waste-basket, and the requests for employ- ment were answered by a letter of stereotyped form saying that there were no vacancies to be filled. “But don’t they ever buy any supplies or build anything on this railroad?” inquired a rubber- asked the 1 New York 641 neck from upstate who had noticed the manner in which the proposals were thrown aside. ‘And does no one ever get a job? Surely they must have need of a vast number of employees.” “The directors take care of all the jobs,” explained the Megaphone Man, “‘and as they’re all opposed to race suicide, there are plenty of people ready to fill every position. Sometimes there are not positions enough for those who wish to fill them, and in that case they create new ones. For example, the place of superintendent of the line be- tween Council Bluffs and Panama is filled by——” ‘“‘Why, I understood that the line wasn’t even built yet!” exclaimed the Chicago man. “No, but they’ve got to have a superin- tendent, haven’t they, whether there’s any line or not ?” retorted the Megaphone Man. “Well, that place is filled by the secretary’s youngest son. Poor little fellow, he’s got the croup and they’re quite anxious about him, but he’s the cunningest little superin- tendent you ever saw. The first time he came down to draw his salary he got the check in his mouth and had it half eaten up before they knew what he was doing. However, that’s nothing in the families of ‘“WHEN IS A POLICY NOT A POLICY?”

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642 high finance. The treasur- er’s eldest son, who’s in Har- vard and is superintendent of rolling stock for the Mani- toba district, gets away with money: faster than that.” ‘* But how about the buying of the rolling stock and sup- plies—who attends to that ?’’ persisted the rubberneck from upstate. *€Oh, they all do that,” re- plied the guide. “In fact, buying supplies is one of the most precious of their per- quisites. See that man at the roll-top desk talking confiden- tially to himself? Well, that’s the president of the road buying a few hundred new freight-cars. He’s just letting out the con- tract tothe highest bidder, and covenant- ing that every one of the cars shall be painted green as a delicate compliment to the stock- holders who are to pay for them. Yes, it’s agreed they shall be a bright pea-green, and now he’s signing the contract on behalf of the road.” ““But whom is he contracting with?’’ asked the upstate visitor. ‘‘ Who is going to furnish the cars?” “He’s contracting with himself, of course,”’ said the Megaphone Man, “or rather, with the North American Green Freight Car Company, which is one of his nom-de-plumes. There! he’s signing the TLE EVER SAW” contract on the behalf of the car company, and now he’s going over to the safe to get his money. ‘That man with the white mustache in ae . oak > > ed ae i ** DOES NOT WISH HIS LEFT HAND TO KNOW WHAT HIS RIGHT DOETH” ‘* HE’S THE CUNNINGEST LIT- SUPERINTENDENT Cosmopolitan Magazine the corner is the treasurer of the company. He’s writinga letter to himself telling him- self to go ahead and build a bridge over the Nowhere River for seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and it’s dirt-cheap at that, for the bridge itself will cost a quarter of a million and there are a good many hungry mouths td fill out of the balance. I see the secretary isn’t here to- day. - I understand he’s just stepped up the street to his office to ask if he can let himself have a couple of thousand tons of steel rails from his own rolling-mill. I hope that you all observed the manner in which the president signed the contract for the freight-cars, with his right hand on behalf of the railroad com- pany, and with his left as the other con- tracting party? Well, that is because he is a philanthropist and does not wish his left hand to know what his right doeth.” “T don’t see,” said the Chicago man, ‘“*how these officers who have never been anywhere near the country that the railroad is to go through can possibly know what to buy for it.” ‘“‘They don’t,” replied the guide briefly, “but they know what to sell to it.” ‘‘ And where are the stockholders all this time ?” inquired a rubberneck who had lost a fortune early in life because one of the best money-making railroads in the country de- cided to go into bankruptcy in order that the directors might buy its securities in cheap. ‘‘Oh, the stockholders are all busy getting money together so that the officers can buy some more things of themselves. They’ll have plenty to do in the next few years. And now, ladies and gents, we’ll proceed on our way to the fountain-head of life insur- ance.” A moment later, the rubbernecks found themselves at the door of the Simple Life Assurance Company, where *they were heartily welcomed by one of its officers, Senator Merrylegs by name, who slapped the guests jovially on the back, at the same time inquiring, with a roguish twinkle in his eye, “‘When is a door not a door?” “The chief jollier of the company,” ex- plained the guide. ‘‘His duty is to make you

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Flee heck LOOK THE SAID THE SENATOR, ‘‘ JUST GENEROUS TO ‘* THERE,” everything simply delightful in the Simple Life. As full of jokes as a farmers’ almanac, and with such a keen sense of humor that he nearly laughs himself to death when any- body takes out a policy in the company. There he goes again! Something awful funny must have happened this time.” It was indeed something funny that had caused the senator to explode with uncon- trolled mirth. A citizen who for ten years had been paying premiums of one hundred and twenty-five dollars for an indestructible, incontrovertible, paid-up, non-conducting, gilt-edged, home-fireside-and - happiness policy, with the words ‘‘redeemable in gold at its full value” stamped across it in gilt letters, had just asked to have it redeemed in money, and the clerk—jolly wag that he is!—had figured out that there were just two hundred and thirteen dollars coming to him. “When is a policy not a_ policy?” screamed the senator, as he dove with his knuckles at the ribs of the amazed citizen who was wondering what had become of all his money. “TI give it up,” the citizen responded wearily. “Well, that’s what you’d better do with your policy, or there won’t be anything coming to you on it!” “Why, that policy seems to be as safe as long words can make it!” exclaimed the Boston lady sympathetically. ‘Surely it ought to be worth more than two hundred and thirteen dollars, after all the poor man has paid in.” ““My dear madam,” said the senator, “do you know why one of our life assurance AT .THAT POINT OF AND THEN TELL ME IF WE'RE NO PRODIGALITY ” policies is like a carbuncle? No? Then I’ll tell you. Because the best place to have it is where some other fellow can suffer.” Rubbernecks, directors, clerks and office- boys all joined heartily in the roar of laughter that followed this jeu d’esprit, and then the senator continued in more serious tones: ‘‘Believe me, my dear friends, I would have been glad to pay that poor man more for his policy, even if it had cost us half as much as we received, but the fact is that the company is poor and our expenses are so great that we simply cannot afford it. What with renting our offices for almost nothing, advertising our business in the most extrav- agant fashion and promoting the study of French in every village in the land, there are times when we feel that it is criminally im- prudent on our part to waste any of our funds on widows and orphans.” ‘“‘Do you do much in the way of charity ?” inquired a lady rubberneck from the college settlement. ‘“‘We do indeed,” replied the senator. “‘We have an extensive system of charity which not only begins at home but ends there, too, and which enables us to do a great deal of good in an unassuming way to some of the immediate members of our offi- cial family. Then a great deal of our busi- ness is transacted in such restaurants as Sherry’s and Delmonico’s—thus advertis- ing our company extensively among the waiters—and I assure you that unless some reduction is made in the scale of prices charged at those establishments, there is likely to be a great deal of suffering among the bereaved this winter. Why, only the other day one of our directors gave a dinner 643

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Cosmopolitan Magazine at Sherry’s for the express purpose of advertising the Sim- ple Life methods, and they actually charged him four dollars a portion for snails with Bur- gundy sauce.” “Well, it’s worth that to run after them and catch them,” said the Philadelphia — rub- berneck. “Then there is our third assistant deputy sub-vice- president who is compelled by his contract to adver- tise the company by living at the Wal- dorf with his wife and family—and very diligent and deserving officer he is, too. You would not believe me if I told you how much his board costs this com- pany. Here, I’ll show you the advertis- ing account on our ledger, so that you may gain some idea of the expenses of a sin- gle department in our great business.’ He touched a bell and a huge ledger was placed before him, opened at the pages marked “‘ Ad- vertising.” “There,” said the senator, ‘just look at that and then tell me if we’re not generous to the point of prod- igality in allowing that man two hun- dred and_ thirteen cold dollars for the paltry twelve hun- dred odd that he had doled out to us. Why, we pay more than twelve hundred dollars a year for trimming our young Mr. Hidenseek’s whiskers and keep- ing toothpick shoes *“ YOUNG MR. HIDEN- SEEK ” ‘* WHY, THAT POOR GENTLEMAN JS IN TEARS!” posing on his feet. -Then consider such minor items as a suit of evening dress for each one of the directors; and a four-in-hand to advertise the company to the squir- rels in Central Park; and a steel engraving and portrait of each and every one of us in that magnificent publication ‘The Solid Moldoons of the Metropolis’; and a private car for our annual autumn excursion to the big-game country to advertise our business to the mountain lions, the woolly horses and | the coyotes; and the opera-box—the only place where the public gets a really good view of Mr. Hidenseek’s whiskers. Why, gentlemen, the record of this page is some- thing awful to contemplate. Here!” he cried suddenly, turning to the paying clerk; ‘don’t give that rascal his two hundred and thirteen dollars.” “*Tt’s too late, sir,” replied the clerk sadly. ‘“‘He’s gone. I held on to it as long as I could, because I know you don’t like to have me pay out money for such nonsense as a paid-up policy.” ‘Well, stop payment on the check then,” said Senator Merrylegs. ‘‘I don’t propose to have this company robbed while I have sufficient pull as a United States senator to prevent it. And now, my friends, I should like to call your attention to our young Mr. Hidenseek, the vice-president of the com- pany and one of the best-known philanthro- pists in this part of the town. You'll probably find him engaged in some work of benevolence at this very minute.” Sure enough, Mr. Hidenseek was found to be in the very act of renting a fine suite of offices to a poor tenant at a rate so small that the Har- lem rubberneck said he thought he’d move downtown and take quarters in the building himself. The unfortunate trust company which was thus en- abled through Mr. Hidenseek’s generos- ity tosecure most im- ¥ quarters ata

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Seeing the Real New York merely nominal rental of seventy- five dollars a year, was loud in its expressions of gratitude and assured the visitors that if it were not for the constant be- nevolence and charity of this excellent young man a great many sick and infirm _institu- tions would scarcely survive the winter. Nor was this the only act of kindness for which the poverty-stricken trust com- pany had reason to be grateful to him, for it was found on in- vestigation that he had given financial aid to the company by investing a little of his own money in it, thus securing to himself nine-tenths of the stock, and also entrusting to its care several million of the Simple Life’s surplus for which it happened that neither he nor any of the directors had any immediate use. The lady rubberneck from Boston was quite impressed by these evidences of Mr. Hidenseek’s warm heart and generous dis- position, and desired to know if any of the other tenants in the building profited in like degree by his generosity. “They do indeed,” said Senator Merry- legs. ‘For example, there’s a restaurant that occupies fully one-half of the space in the ground floor and the basement in order that the policy-holders may have a place where they can get a bite while they’re wait- ing to pay their premiums or to have the clerk figure out how little is coming to them on their paid-up policies, and kind Mr. Hidenseek has declared that these worthy caterers, who are also his partners, should have the whole place for fifteen hundred dollars a year. They doa big business, too, for the people that deal with us are usually hungry and glad to pay forty cents for a boiled egg and a hot roll. Then there’s the janitor on the roof. He has a garden up there and raises all kinds of vegetables and keeps six cows. All he has to do is to fur- nish Mr. Hidenseek with milk for his bath— just a few gallons every day—and his rent is nothing.” “‘Why, that poor gentleman is in tears!’ exclaimed the Boston lady, pointing to an official who was sitting with his handker- chief pressed t> his eyes, while his frame shook with mighty sobs. “ALL HE ’ «} f lf Areal —— On a j\ HAS TO DO IS TO FURNISH MR, HIDENSEEK WITH MILK FOR HIS BATH” ‘‘Poor man!” said the jolly senator, with a note of genuine compassion in his voice. ‘‘He knows only too well how much sharper than the serpent’s tooth is a thankless child. His boy, the pride of his heart and the sole heir to all his graft, is home from boarding- school for the holidays and spends most of his time racing to and from Sheepshead Bay and through Westchester County in his automobile. He is very careless, and, in spite of all that his father has said to him, has already run down and killed several heavy policy-holders, thus causing us an awful expense. The worst of it is that cer- tain officers declare that these so-called acci- dents are acts of deliberate malice toward the company, as the boy has not yet run down or even attempted to chase a single annuity-holder, though there are several on our books who cost us ten thousand dol- lars every year they encumber the earth.” ‘““You’re wanted at the meeting, boss!” cried a boy, appearing suddenly in a door- way marked “ Directors’ Room.” ‘“‘You’ll find yours lying on the table. The other gents has got theirs and went.” “Tt’s a grave responsibility that rests on our shoulders,” remarked the senator, as he vanished through the doorway and returned immediately jingling some gold pieces in his hand. ‘Suppose I had missed this meeting through inadvertence! Why, they might have taken advantage of my absence to underpay some of the officers or scatter

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646 some of our surplus before the widows of dead-and-gone policy-holders. It would break my heart to have anything happen to our salary-list. I’m just going to the ceme- tery now with a check for our medical director. He can’t come for it himself, and besides, the grass may need cutting.” ‘‘ Behold the great works of art that adorn the walls of this spacious chamber!”’ cried Cosmopolitan Magazine the Megaphone Man. ‘“‘See the oil paint- ings, portraits of founders and former offi- cers of the Simple Life Assurance Company. Take a good look at these works of art be- fore we start for uptown!” “Don’t they paint any of the officers that are alive ?” asked the Boston lady. “No,” said the Megaphone Man; “all they hope for is to get whitewashed.” Righteous Rebuke BY G. A. ENGLAND Drawn by E. Warde Blaisdell EWARDE BLAISDEL “AnEM!” the Masher-beetle quoth; “Pray, may I walk with you?” With beetling brows and brazen gaze He stared her through and through. Megilla tossed her shining head, Her dotted shards did shrug. In freezing accents, “Sir!” she said, “J am a /ady-bug! 1»

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Two Girls in a Canoe. BY ISOBEL KNOWLES AM an experienced canoeist, (jbut those rapids on_ the “J upper Gatineau caught me unawares. We had _ been paddling for mile after mile through comparatively slug gish water, when a sudden narrowing of the channel brought us to the head of a gorge down which the river tossed and roared angrily like a living thing. We were two in the canoe, and we had passed the rapids on our way up the week before, but did not recognize them now that we approached from the opposite direction. Then we had “portaged” around them, carrying the canoe on our shoulders, over trunks of fallen trees and through the matted branches of the brush- wood. Since that time we had seen much of river scenery, seen hills rising beyond hills till lost in the distant haze, great silent forests of spruce and pine, and _ placid sheets of crystal lake, and now, toward the close of our two weeks’ outing, we were two days’ travel from the nearest outpost of civilization. So stealthily had the swiftening water 647 above the turn carried us on, that we were going at a ten-mile-an-hour gait before I realized our position. ‘Then the sudden leap of the canoe, the roll and pitch of the water under us, warned that the time to land had passed. There was no turning back against a ten-mile current, no making for either side, where the broken ripples on the surface showed jagged rocks only a few inches below. Down the middle of the channel lay our only course—and the path of the wave was narrow and the rocks harder than birch-bark. Quickly I changed places with my com- panion, crawling cautiously over the camp- ing-outfit stowed in the bottom, while she crept as carefully backward. In a rapids the bowsman guides the canoe, and I was the more expert. But this maneuver nearly brought disaster. A treacherous eddy just before the first pitch whirled our canoe around and we struck broadside on a bowlder, where we hung, held fast by the rush of the current at the bow and stern. The edge of the canoe upstream began to settle, the water grew quickly up the side, and we avoided a spill by jumping over- board, almost up to our waists. 47

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648 This, however, was only a_ beginning. Pulling the canoe to one side and holding it headed downstream, we stood on the rock for a breathing-space while we surveyed the river, above so gentle in the sunlight, around and below so wild with the new spirit which had possessed it. Making a quick entry, with difficulty, from the rock, we again started down, steering our way where the comparatively smooth water showed the rocks well covered, working our arms till they seemed pulling from their sockets. Below us, the dashing spray, the circling eddies, the increasing clamor of the torrent, seemed to lure us as the call of a Lorelei to destruction. The excitement of the course filled us with an ecstasy of abandon; but a sudden dash of water over the bow into our faces brought us quickly back to a sense of the danger which a moment’s relaxed vigilance would bring. With every nerve alert, and CARRYING THE CANOE OVER A PORTAGE Cosmopolitan Magazine guided by my previous experiences with Canadian rapids, I picked the way down the channel, my companion in the stern keeping the canoe straight with the current. Thirty yards of fairly smooth water intervened between the upper and lower pitches, and here, somewhat awed by the spectacle of the leaping white-caps farther down, we attempted a landing. Swinging the canoe across the current and heading for the shore which promised best, we ap- plied our whole force to the paddles. But we had no more than half covered the dis- tance when the futility of the effort became apparent, and we quickly turned and made in- the opposite direction, where, we now discovered, the main channel lay. Even the excitement of the adventure did not blind me to the peril which now faced us. On the lower side, as we bent our paddles to reach the channel, a row of partially submerged rocks grew ever nearer as the current drew our canoe toward them. Should we fail to reach the channel before striking, nothing human could prevent an upset, and, so far as I could see, noth- ing human could prevent a drowning. Although a good swimmer, I could not hope to breast such waves and, escaping them, avoid the whirlpool at the foot. With all our strength in our paddles, we lifted the light bark canoe over the water, and just as the farthest rock grated our side we swung into the channel and boiled down between the bowlders, the current sweeping us on at a rate of fully fifteen miles an hour. But as we swung, my maple paddle had snapped from my hands, caught in a fissure of the rock where I had jabbed it to keep from striking. In impotent despair I looked around at my companion. Until the present trip she never had been in a canoe, and her only knowledge in its management had _ been gained by my coaching and by less than two weeks of practice. But plainly the river and the forest now were in her veins, and the craft of the paddle had come by in- spiration. The hesitation of the city-born was dispelled, and with skillful stroke, scarce noting my discomfiture, with eyes fixed on the winding channel ahead of us, she steered safe through the boiling waters of the second pitch. With a whirl of spray at the finish—for the rapids keeps its great- est waves for the foot, as an orator his fiercest invectives for his peroration—we

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fTHEN WE PUSHED THE CANOE AGAIN INTO THE WATER brought up in the eddy below, gasping from our effort yet thrilling with the joy of it. That was the incident of our canoeing- trip which I am likely longest to remember. There were three inches of water in the canoe when we reached the foot of the rapids, which had come in over the sides as we bowled through the last big pitch. We went ashore and bailed it out, and had a view of what we had come through from a safer point than the rock in midstream. “No more rapids for me to-day,” said the helmswoman who had steered us so safely. Now that the excitement was over, all her bravado was gone, and but for the remembrance of the flashing eye, flushed cheek and rigid muscles which had confronted me when I turned to look back after losing my paddle, I could have fancied her again the city girl who stood hesitatingly with a bunch of skirts in one hand when I first invited her to step into a canoe. A few miles below the rapids, we landed for dinner. It was only eleven o’clock, but we called it noon. It was noontime with our appetites. Bored mortals of the city, where we had turned the millstone of work and so-called pleasure, we were trans- migrated into new bodies, endowed with fresh sensations and a marvelous hunger. We lit a fire of twigs and driftwood, be- tween two logs placed side by side, over which we bent a sharpened pole, with one end driven into the ground. On the pole we suspended a kettle filled with water, into which we thrust a good-sized fowl, purchased from a chance habitant near where we had spent the previous night. With carrots and potatoes, no city-prepared turkey, skewered and stuffed, ever tasted so delicious on costly porcelain as this on our tin plates. We spent an hour for dinner, and another reclining on the shaded bank, lying upon our backs, looking dreamily into the ether of the heavens, which showed in little patches through the leaves. Then we pushed the canoe again into the water, crossed a lake with scarcely ruffled surface, and emerged once more on the river, paddling for miles through an avenue of poplars. How sweet it is in the languishing days of summer to be removed from the strident noises of the city and the brutal struggle of its life. Care and worry slip from us on the river as the water slips from beneath 649

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650 the canoe. In the little bayous, the pond- lilies, caressed by soft zephyrs and kissed by the sun-rays, sparkle in the half-shadows of the trees. Above us the marvelous clouds float distantly, lifting the gaze to the ineffable skies. The canoe is the primal form of water-craft. It goes back to the savage, and all the savage in me, all the instinct of revolt, bubble forth as I paddle away from civilization. The wild aban- don of nature nowhere is so im- pressive as from the level of its lakes and rivers, and the canoeist; riding over its ex- panses centaur- like—for the canoe and _ the paddler are as one—feels a part of the great out- doors. The un- utterable soul of the waters, and of the, trees and the grasses _be- yond, speak, in the strange sweet voices of nature, and I hear and understand. The friendly branches reach out and caress me, the rippling wavelets patter a musical babble, lapping my hand as I dip the paddle over the side, and no voice of discord mars the sweet harmony. Thirty miles a day was the average which we had set for ourselves on our downward journey; twenty miles a day was all that we had been able to make on the trip against the current. The country through which we passed was almost uninhabited, only at infrequent intervals a clearing of the trees, a whitewashed cabin of hewn logs and a barn proclaiming the dwelling-place of some isolated backwoods farmer. Here we would wave a neighborly salute, the goodly-proportioned form of a matron ON THE PORTAGE Cosmopolitan Magazine would appear in the doorway, filling it, and three or four small children would squeeze past and stand in the doorway gaping. The passage of a canoe was an event of importance. We encountered two more rapids before we reached the end of our journey, one of which we braved by running, but the other caused us to land and portage. We car- ried the canoe over our heads, inverted, with the paddles on our shoulders for sup- ports. The por- tage is the one un- pleasant feature of a canoe-trip in a wild country. Through the moss and ooze of the swamp the way may lead, over giant rocks and the tortuous trunks of trees, or along steep preci- pices where a careless step might send us plunging into the swirling river. The camp-outfit, too, and the pro- visions have to be carried, in packs slung over the shoulder, bound together by tump- lines. I have canoed on Florida la- goons, on the deep-running wa- ters of Maine, on the shallower streams of Connecticut, on the Hudson and Delaware Rivers, on the mountain-encompassed lakes of New York and New Jersey, but nowhere have I enjoyed the sport as on the wild forest rivers of Canada. The panorama of scenery which changes from the pastoral calm of unruffled river and lake, fit mirror for the yet unscared dryad of the woods, to the torrents which whirl great trees like play- things and the cascades leaping in silver shafts from their precipices, is not sur- passed in grandeur in the world.

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Copyright, 1904, by F. W. Glasier as the Bison to the Western Plains BY MAJ. GORDON W. LILLIE (** Pawnee Bill’’) *T the very outset I wish to state most emphatically that ‘the buffalo can be preserved and in part restored to its § place in our country, but it is only by the most conservative and careful methods that this 38 is to be accomplished. To G that end must be bent the energies of the Government, and the w ails matter, that now lies in pri- vate hands, must be taken over and con- ducted upon an intelligent and scientific plan, otherwise the bison is doomed to ex- tinction, and that before many years have passed away. It is toward saving this species of our typical American big game that once roamed in millions over the Ac and that at no long time since, that I have bent my own personal energies during these last few years, and in company with some others, I am now conducting a series of experiments which I trust will end in plac- ing much valuable material in the hands of a commission. At present there are less than one thou- sand pure-blooded animals in the United States. Of this number thirty-four are running wild and unrestricted by any form of control, and twenty-nine of these are in Yellowstone Park. In Canada there is one herd of some six or seven hundred, and these are roaming the Great Slave Lake district up in Athabasca. There are nine fairly presentable herds in captivity, and these are rapidly thinning out. The largest of these private herds is that of Michael Pablo, at Ronan, Montana, where he has two hundred and twenty-five of the ani- mals. Nextinimportance comes the Austin Corbin herd, at the Blue Mountain Forest in New Hampshire. James Philip, at Fort Pierre, South Dakota, controls some seventy-three of the species; and my own herd of fifty-five, at Pawnee, Oklahoma Territory, I think comes next in importance. Down at the Goodnight Ranch, at Good- night, Texas, there is a herd of forty- five; and the late William C. Whitney had a collection of thirty-two at Lenox in 651

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652 Massachusetts. Other than these, there are a few herds kept for what we may term professional purposes in Montana. I do not place much dependence on the preservation of the pure-blooded bison at this time. We must place most of our dependence upon the hybrids, or cattloes, as they are called. On my own ranch at Pawnee I have had more or less suc- cess, and I have made numerous experi- ments with the material which I have had at handand which I have import- ed. To begin with, there are | some funda- mental princi- ples which must be taken into consideration. First of all it must be re- membered that the buffalo cow increases the herd by but one calf every other year, as is the case with do- mestic cattle. And another thing, only about twenty per cent. of the genuine buffalo existing are cows, and they are growing less every year. Outside of the animals in public parks and in other zodlogical ex- hibits, there are less than six hundred ani- mals remaining with which to perpetuate the species. These, if taken in hand at once—and by that I do not mean in two or three years’ time—may form the nucleus of a herd that will be of some value. But instant action cannot be delayed, for the animals are peculiarly susceptible to Texas fever and tuberculosis. The experiments I have made in crossing the buffalo with domestic cattle are expen- CAL AMERICAN BIG GAME GORDON W. LILLIE (‘‘ PAWNEE BILL”), HARD FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE BISON, OUR TYPI- Cosmopolitan Magazine sive, to say the least, and many attempts have failed utterly. I have discovered, however, that the black Galloway turns out what may be considered the best results. The Jersey returns the largest percentage of calves, but this crossing lightens the coats to such a degree that the results are not what are to be desired. The big- boned Texas longhorn is fairly well adapted to the purpose, but I have found the Gallo- way the very best. The gen- uine Texas cow leaves a white mark along the back and flank, while the Gal- loway produces a long, silky and glossy robe which is, as a rule, just a bit darker than the genuine buffalo robe, but the difference is barely notice- able. It can readily be seen, how- ever, when I say that we are able to save but about forty per cent. of the calves we pro- duce, that the successful propagation of the buffalo is beyond private means. I un- derstand the Goodnight ranch in Texas has had con- siderable success with the Texas long- horn, but the results achieved there are, I am told, less than thirty-five per cent., so I say, stick to the Galloway. Some success has attended the work of Michael Pablo up in Montana—and he is a full- blooded Indian, by the way, and comes by his knowledge of the buffalo instinctively —and I am told he has succeeded in getting together a herd of seventy-five hybrids based on the Galloway that show every WHO IS WORKING

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Restoring the Bison to the Western Plains indication of breeding true continuously. ‘This is in itself a considerable measure of success for one man to attain. The cost of buffalo at this time isenormous. Ihave one bull that is consid- ered the finest specimen of his kind in the coun- try, and he is conserva- tively estimated at five thousand dollars; and, to be candid about the matter, I would not take double the amount for him. It has been sug- gested that the herds in the various public parks beused as starting-points for breeding purposes, but this I am sure will lead to nothing. Buffalo are peculiar ani- mals. One cannot domesticate them and expect results. You cannot change the en vironment so markedly and expect them to multiply as they did in nature. The con- ditions are all against it. I have a young herd of corn-fed animals that I am rather proud of, but few of them are pure-bloods. It is too much to expect BUFFALO COW AND CALF that one can root up the conditions that have existed for centuries and expect the same results. And so we must come to a more rational mode of procedure, and what more natural or more just than that the national Government should come to the rescue of this one-time monarch of the plains? The buffalo can be saved to us, of that I am convinced, but it may not be PART OF MAJOR LILLIE’S HERD OF FIFTY-FIVE BISON, OR AMERICAN BUFFALO, ON HIS RANCH, PAWNEE, OKLAHOMA

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vee SEES EDT STE aA EE Re Serer S siniaracemieee ree eagep nemateenee tr aanrnarere arses 654 Cosmopolitan Magazine that peculiar quality of grass, known all over the West as buffalo grass, on which the animals thrived and lived their best. This grass serves the same purpose to the buffalo as the timothy hay does to the domestic cattle, and its presence is a sinequa non for the con- tinuance of the animal. He must have a reser- vation on which he can live his own life and or der it as he sees fit, for in a close approach to nat- ural conditions only can BUFFALO BULL ON THE LILLIE RANCH, ESTIMATED WorTH AT LEAst the best results be ob FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS the pure-blooded animal that succumbed to the buffalo gun, the Winchester and the Union Pacific. It may be that hybrid which I have described, and if so it will be even the more valuable, I am led to believe, for it will be quick to adapt itself to existing conditions and in that alone be immeasur- ably superior to its pure-blooded forebears. I am at this moment having drawn a bill which it is my purpose to have intro- duced in Congress, looking to the preserva- tion of the buffalo, for the task is one too infinitely great and far too expensive for any private individual, or in fact any group of private individuals, to handle. We must remember some of the conditions under which the buffalo will thrive, to get a clear understanding of what I propose. The natural haunt of the buffalo was on the Great Staked Plains, and here grew ‘ tained. We must “get back to nature.” In the territory of which I speak, the Great Staked Plains, land can be purchased at this time for a purely nominal figure, and it is there that the hope of the buffalo lies, if anywhere. I do believe it is possible to perpetuate the pure-blooded bison, but I doubt very much that it would be practical. In brief, the plan I shall outline in my bill is this: That Government shall at once make purchase of a sufficient tract of land in the locality I have named, or any other suit- able part of the country, and there establish and maintain a buffalo reservation. That a sufficient sum shall at once be appropriated to purchase outright a sufficient number of such pure-bloods and hybrids as are now existent, with which to form a herd that shall be maintained for breeding purposes alone. 47

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BY GEORGE GRANTHAM BAIN 4LWAYS the same story; ') day after day the same. § The long, rough table with % its great piles of printed § paper, the light from the broad window over the SS Bs left shoulder following the § nimble fingers that ran Za\\ § through the printed sheets ZIBARISNG with swift precision. And bending over the work the tired head, the heavy eyes. And at night the invalid’s chamber; the nurse gone; no one to speak to but the querulous woman on the bed, gasping her life away, oh, so slowly. Sometimes Virginia had a fierce, un- governable feeling that she wished her mother would die. A wicked feeling, she called it when, with her hot head on the pillow, her eyes raining tears, with sobs stifled till they choked her, she reproached herself. But it was not wicked. If she had only known herself a little better, she would have understood it. Work, work, work all through the day; at night, read until the weary eyes grew dim; then lie with one ear open, dozing, but always listening. Those who worked about her at the bureau could not sympathize—they whose health was coarsely robust, whose mothers were probably quite as hardy. Yes, there was one who sometimes spoke a sym- pathetic word—the foreman. He was a rough fellow and usually absorbed in his work, but he found a little room in his thoughts for her, and a little time to make the burden of her work sometimes a little lighter. “T wish I could be in some one of the offices instead of the bureau,” she said one 660 day. “I know I had to take what I could get, and I was lucky, I suppose, to get what Idid. But I hate it so.” She tried to stifle the sob. But the in- valid’s ear caught it and she began to moan. It was always so, she said, always the way. Virginia must talk of her own troubles and worries and forget that her mother was suffering. And Virginia, in her heart even, did not question the justice of the reproof but bent above the wasted form, put her cool hand on the fevered brow and hushed the complaining voice with soft words of sympathy. What were her troubles com- pared with her mother’s? The poor mother! She needed so much and she had so little! To be sure, the little comforts, the wine and the dainty food, the nurse that stayed through the de- partment hours, ate up all of the little in- come. But there was so much more that could be had for money: so much that the sick woman craved and almost cried for— craved with the unreasoning impatience of racked nerves and exhausted brain. She knew that they had lost everything—money, friends, all—when their misfortunes came crashing one upon another just after their arrival in Washington. Her husband’s failure in business; his hopeful trip to the capital from the West, leaving friends be- hind; his sudden death; her own prostra- tion and the wasting sickness that followed; poverty; want; the sale of all their little store of jewels, of dresses; her daughter’s brave struggle, and the kindness of the stranger who had heard of their mis- fortunes and held out a helping hand with an appointment to a place in the great Treasury Bureau where they ground out money all day long—she knew all of these

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things, when she could think. But turn- ing, twisting on her bed of pain, she could not think of them often. She could only feel —feel the pain that tortured her by day and night, feel the want of little luxuries with which her hands and eyes had long been familiar, feel the wish for something—for something different, she cared not what. And so she lay and moaned and wept over her misery, and Virginia wept in sympathy, far into the night. Again the long, rough table, the light striking the great piles of greenish paper, the fingers flying over the sheets, separating and counting them. But the weary eyes refused to see sometimes, and the weary fingers paused now and then. The fore- man, coming by, stopped. ‘“‘You’re not well, I guess, Miss Bartle,” he said. “Shall I get a sick-leave for you from the chief ?” She said ‘‘No,” and thanked him. She would have liked to cry a little, and she would not have minded Mr. Burns a bit. But the others were looking at her and she forced back the tears, saying: “‘I will bathe my eyes. They are heavy and dull this morning.” She came back mechanically to her work. She was not thinking of it. Her thoughts had been with the invalid and with the impossible things that she wanted. The doctor had spoken of a trip to Atlantic City and freedom from worry. She had tried to earn the.money for the trip in the evenings, copying circulars and addressing envelopes. But tired nature rebelled and she had to give it up. If she could earn or save or in some way get a few hundred dollars ? Just to take her mother away from the hate- ful, unhappy place. Still the fingers swept over the greenish paper; still the eye measured off the sheets and the brain counted them and the mind knew not what they did. And then the eye for the first time saw and the brain comprehended and the mind knew what the fingers were measur- ing off—and the fingers trembled. Strange that she had never thought of it before. For weeks now she had sat at the long table, the light had fallen full upon the fingers’ work and the mind had known it only as piles of greenish paper. And now for the first time she ¢hought that it was money she was counting. Her heart grew faint and her fingers slipped. The package she In the Money-Mill 663 was counting fell to the table. She roused herself to pick it up again and the fingers took up their work; but slowly. Money all about her. Why, her very fingers were callous from the touch of it, her eyes ached with looking at it, her head swam from counting it. What was she counting to-day—ones, twos, tens? The inner sense asked the question. To the outer sense they were still sheets of greenish paper. And the tormenting wish to know fought with the mechanical inattention and con- quered it. They were not tens. There were three figures in the corner of the top sheet—a one and two naughts. They were hundreds—one-hundred-dollar bills. Each sheet held four of them. Somehow, she remembered rather than saw that. Four of them. Then each of these sheets was worth four hundred dollars. Again the sick, faint feeling came to her. But she mastered the weakness and again went on with her work. A new thought came to her. There was some- thing lacking in these sheets, she knew. What was the routine of the bureau? Her mind went back to something she had read when she first camie to Washington— something about a printing-office some- where where they put something on bank- notes to finish them. The seal was what she was trying to remember, ‘but it would not come to her. Well, there was some- thing. And another temptation assailed the inner senses, and again she grew faint and again the mechanical inattention yielded and the eye looked from the stiff edges, slipping past her fingers as she counted, to the face of the sheet. She wanted to know if anything seemed to be lacking from each bill. Then a sharp cry came to her throat. It came so far that she thought she must have uttered it, and she started and looked around. But in the busy hum of the big bureau, the little inarticulate sound was quite lost. Other heads were bending over work, other fingers were twisting the great packages of notes until the sheets bristled apart, and then running over them with the rustling sound that some- times sang in her head all night. No eye was turned toward her. The foreman was just leaving the room; the woman who sat nearest to her had gone for a drink of water. Suddenly the fierce desire welled up in her heart uncontrollably. While her eyes 49

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r- 664 still looked hurriedly about, her fingers let one of the sheets slip to the floor. In an- other moment, she was struggling as if to fix her shoe, and by a quick movement she had passed the stolen sheet between her skirts and tucked it under her belt. As she raised her head and picked up her work, she glanced quickly about her. The woman at the water-cooler was just turning to come back to her place, the foreman was not in sight, the busy heads still hung over the busy fingers. No one had seen the quick movement, she was sure. Her fingers ran over the sheets in the package before her. It was one sheet short, and mechanically she began to recount it— then started and laid it aside with the full packages that had been counted before it. The dull routine of the day went forward. She sat silently counting. The other women chatted a little at their work—bending the rules but not breaking them. None of them spoke to her. Presently she felt stiff and, as the helper had not come to take her work to the drying-room, she got up and carried it herself. Then she re- turned to her counting. Only once she had a little feeling of fear. She remem- bered how the bureau had been closed to the outer world from four to five o’clock one day because one of the printers could not account for one number registered on his press. Was it possible that anyone would discover that a sheet was missing from one of her packages? She smiled in a hard, unpleasant way as she dismissed the thought. Then she tried to think of Atlantic City and the vacation with the in- valid. Three o’clock; half past three; a quarter of four. The last sheets were going into the drying-room—the women about were getting ready to go. Virginia did not move from her table. At five minutes to four, she saw the foreman hurry out of the drying-room and downstairs. Three min- utes, two minutes, one minute—then there was a buzz of comment all about her. Four o’clock had come and the gong had not rung. What could be amiss? Virginia looked up from her reverie. She saw the faces all about turn questioningly one to the other. She thought they looked at her. Then in a moment the dogged, sullen determination broke down. A great fear seized her. . It seemed to catch her heart and stop its beating, to seize her Cosmopolitan Magazine throat and choke her, to press on the sides of her eyes until the balls stood out from her head. She wanted to cry out; she was suffocating; she could not make a sound. There was a great buzzing in her ears that grew and grew. Then it seemed to burst with a sound like the great gong that told the workmen and the workwomen that the official day’s work of the bureau was done. And as this sound smote her ears, she saw the men and women trooping from the room, chattering and laughing as they went. Only one or two turned to look at the solitary figure at the table. The foreman had passed her unnoticed a few minutes before, summoned from the chief’s office by a messenger. He came out now and walked over to where she sat alone. “T am, glad to find you here, Miss Bartle,” he said quietly. ‘‘I want to speak to you.” She did not raise her head. She stared straight before her, hardly conscious of his words at first. He looked at her half pityingly—this man whose business it was to suspect everyone, to pity no one and to give no more than justice to all. “You have not been well to-day,” he went on gently and slowly. ‘‘I saw it this morning, and I didn’t send you away be- cause I thought you might need all of your sick-leave some day. But I was afraid of your work and I had Miss Johnson verify “” She started a little. The old fear seized her. Her breath stopped, her limbs grew rigid. ‘“‘There was a sheet missing and we found it on the floor of the drying-room.” Instinctively her hand clasped her skirt at the waist—there was no crackling of the stolen sheet. Evidently it had slipped from its place when she carried the package into the drying-room. But the conscious- ness that it was not there to convict her did not relieve her choking fear. “No doubt the paper slipped out of the package when you were carrying in your work,” said the foreman. “I sha’n’t re- port it.” He stopped and looked earnestly at her. Then he said deliberately: ‘But it mustn’t happen again.” The next minute he was bending over a prostrate figure, calling to the matron: “Mrs. Halton! Quick! Miss Barile is sick. She has fainted.”

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F.T.RicnAaDT mQaes a BY BOOTH TARKINGTON THE CosMOPOLITAN purposes to publish at intervals during the coming year a number of articles on the temptations encountered by young men in entering the vart- ous professions and other lines of work. made distinguished names for themselves ton’s article will be followed by ‘‘ Temptations of a Young Clergyman, of a Young Doctor, $F course, the younger he is, the more temptations he has. The first sometimes is to hide —quite literally to hide. I knew a young fellow once who lived in Colestown, Fink’s Island. Fink’s Island is about three miles long by two broad; it lies off the Maine coast, and Colestown is the principal city—population fourteen hundred (when there is an excursion). This young man Lukens had grown up in Coles- town and he liked the people; he wrote a novel about them, bragging about them, telling all who were willing to read that the Colestown folks were the best and greatest on earth. He brought his manuscript to New York, and a publisher accepted it and printed it. , Lukens was almost ashamed to go back to Colestown; he had written about it so much from his heart that he was as embarrassed as Barrie says a man is who has told another man that he likes him. When he got off the boat, the youth who drives a buckboard for the Colestown Hotel ”’ “* Temptations of a Young Lawyer,” They 2 vill all be written by men who have in these special directions. Mr. Tarking- ”” “ Temptations ‘ditor’s Not looked at him icily and said, “ Well, you’ve got your nerve to come back here after writ- ing that book about us!” “What’s the matter?” trembling. ““Vou’ve defamed the sacred altars,” said the other. ‘‘ You said Colestown wasn’t as big as Paris. And you’ve never mentioned Bangor, nor Portland, nor Augusta. You said Colestown was quiet, and gave the im- pression that there wasn’t a building in the place as big as the pyramid of Cheops.” “But there isn’t!”’ protested the young man. ““Go on!” replied the other. traitor. Sneak!” On his way through the town to his house Lukens was stoned, and the city marshal threw his baton at him. The Colestown weekly paper came out that evening (two days ahead of time) with two columns of denunciation, headed, ‘Treat Him With Silent Contempt or a Brick.” The young men of the town serenaded him all night with tin cans, dinner-bells and resined timber. Lukens was conscious of a 663 asked Lukens, “Vou’re a

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666 strong temptation to remain indoors, and yielded to it. However, his old friends rallied around him and sought him out, bringing him excoriative reviews of his book (and himself) clipped from tae papers of neighboring villages. Companions of boy- hood’s hour, overcome with laughter, came to show him what the Fink County Clarion said of him (“‘A Mongrel Spawned in Our Midst,” it might be, or, ‘‘ Lukens Wouldn’t Know a Full-Dress Suit if He Saw It”) and expected him to see the joke. He was as- sailed by the temptation to assume another name and seek employment in a happier clime. A fortnight later a clipping-bureau sent a set-of reviews from over the country. Many of them loudly acclaimed his work. He had written the book of the year; there was no dull page from cover to cover (so that he might have perceived a certain brilliancy glowing from even the pages of advertise- ments following “The End”); he was well worth reading; he had told his tale in such a way as to hold his reader from the very first pages; he possessed that touch of sure- ness which proclaims the master; he was brimful of strong situations; he was power- ful; he was virile; he had red corpuscles; he wrote from the soil; he was outspoken; he was of unusual excellence; he was abso- lutely unique and original, unmatched in humor and fascination; it was exciting, en- tertaining, stimulating, by far the cleverest, ° inspiring, charming, replete with pictur- esque bits, pungent, dramatic, wonderfully luminous, at once positive and light, the very best for years; and he could hardly be im- proved. Lukens’ chest expanded; he loved the world, and immediately returned to New York to let it see him. He walked down the avenue wondering what the people would think if they knew who was passing, and so far yielded to the temptation to step high that his foot caught in a derrick and he fell, breaking a leg. A week later, a new batch of clippings came to him, as he lay recover- ing in his hotel. They did not refer to his book, but expressed opinions adverse to his evident struggle for advertisement. They Cosmopolitan Magazine seemed to think he had broken his leg to help the sale of his book. He wrote scathing answers, and would have sent them, but his publisher, calling to see how he was getting along, advised against it. “But,” said Lukens, “they think I’m trying to get advertising out of: ” “Tf you answer,” interrupted the pub- lisher, “‘they’ll think you want more.’’ And Lukens put away the temptation. “Ts your head growing?” inquired the publisher solicitously, a little later. “Well,” replied the young man, “they said I was as refreshing as a sea-breeze, and along new lines of fiction, moving, of extraordinary interest; that I was the best in a decade, and intensely human; that since Goldsmith they’d found nothing so persuasively warm and impressive; that I ought to become familiar to the English- speaking world, and—-——” : “True,”’ observed the other. ‘‘We sent most of those out from our office.” _ “What!” cried the sufferer. ‘ But the re- view in that splendid magazine, the——”’ “Yes,” the publisher replied. ‘The man who wrote it did sincerely like your book and wrote only what he thought; but the review may not carry that conviction be- cause we own the magazine.” ‘But there’s that other very favorable notice by that sterling reviewer Blank, usually so satirical 6 “T know,” said the other mildly. “He meant it all, too. He roomed with a cousin of yours at college and told me he was watching your career with great interest. He’s a naturally kindly man, besides.” “T believe I’ve just conquered another temptation,” remarked the new novelist, after an interval. “That’s right,” returned the publisher. ‘You'll have a great many, and the greatest of all will be the one you’ll never yield to. There will be times when your best friends will wish you could, but you’ll never be able to give in to it.” “What’s that?” asked the young man anxiously. “To stop writing.”

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The Occultation of Florian Amidon BY HERBERT QUICK XVIII A REVIVAL OF BELSHAZZAR We are but Sitters at the Table, Guests, Where each drinks more, the more that he protests, Sees, One by One, his Fellows slip from sight, And then himself beneath the Table rests. Some walk the sinuous Crack for Test, and Some Judge by the Thumb— But lo! the Fool continues till the Guests Are changed to Pairs of Twins as in they come! ; throbbing Fullness of the —Imitations of Immorality. ESSRS. BULLIWINKLE -2 AND COX were absent when the time came for sit- ting down to supper, and Mr. Simpson, the Master of the {1 Revels, decreed that no one + was to be waited for. So the » chairs of the absentees were () shoved up, and reminded Mr. Slater, who was quite high in spirits, of ‘““The Vacant Chair,” which he sang to the bass of Judge Blodgett, and a humming accompaniment by Alvord and Edgington. Professor Blatherwick was much affected. “Dis is Heidelberg unt stutent tays,” said he. ‘Strong ant luffing hearts, ant veak hets ant stomachs! Oh, te svorts ant steins ‘ ant songs ant scraps! It is brotuctife of tears ant schmiles!”’ “Especially smiles,” said Mr. Simpson. “Gentlemen, a good time to all!” Now, after some courses of soup and fish and entrées, Mr. Alvord noted the uncon- sumed glasses at the plates of Bulliwinkle and Cox, and with a sense of equity truly Anglo-Saxon, he raised the point of the in- justice to those who had been prompt, of having these two fresh competitors come in late in the middle of the feast. , “Point seems to me to be well taken,” said Judge Blodgett. ‘I move your honor that the wet goods apportionable to our absent friends be set aside for them.” “Sustained!” roared Simpson. And this was done. Mr. Bulliwinkle, fat, bald and rubicund, soon made his appearance. In the course of the meal, Edgington filled a gap by charging that Cox was absent be- cause of his having recently taken passage upon the water-wagon, and was traitorously staying away. Alvord proposed that a mes- senger be sent for him, and when the A. D. T. boy came, a written summons was penned upon a menu-card, upon which progress to date was checked, and instruc- tions given that the document be presented to Cox at his home every twenty minutes until he came—Cox to pay the charges; and the messenger to return between trips to report, and to have the menu checked up so that Cox might note the forward movement of events, and see how far he was behind. When Mr. Simpson rose to make a few general observations ushering in that part of the programme usually devoted to speech- making, Mr. Bulliwinkle took him for the tardy Cox and some friend whom Cox had brought, and greeted them with a strident “How de do!” After this blunder, of course, Mr. Bulliwinkle was logically bound to show that the exclamation was uttered by virtue of a deliberate plan, and so he repeated it from time to time all the evening, until the ordeal to which his late arrival had subjected him proved too much for his en- durance. But this is anticipating. A dozen matches were burning and a dozen Havanas sending forth their first cloudlets of blue, as Mr. Simpson began his remarks. “To most of those present,” he said, “T don’t need to say that this is a sort of annual affair. To our new friends I will explain that this club is an institution of Belle- vale Lodge, Number 689, of the Ancient Order of Christian Martyrs, of which noble 667

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668 Cosmopolitan Magazine fraternity we are devoted members. Pres- ent company are members, ex- or incumbent, of the Board of Control, and a system of fines for absence at board-meetings accu- mulates a fund which has to be spent, and we are now engaged in spending it. Beyond the logic of the situation which points unerr- ingly to the blowing in of this fund, the im- pending happy event in the life. of our treasurer, Brother Brassfield, renders it fitting that this banquet be in his honor. What the devil is that racket? Oh, the boy ! Let the wandering caitiff enter! What says the recreant invader of our Mystic Circle?” “He said he’d have me arrested if I came there any more, and the whole bunch pulled,” said the boy. ‘‘And he chucked the paper out of the window.” ‘‘Let another scroll be prepared,” roared Simpson, ‘‘and go back to him as per sched- ule.” “‘But,” said the boy, ‘“‘he said r “We hold the police force in the hollow of our hands!” shouted Simpson. ‘‘And we will protect you.” “T should say we would!” ‘You trust us!” “‘To the death!” chorused the roi- sterers. “T’ll collect damages from him for your death!” said Judge Blodgett. ‘Whom do you want ’em paid to?” “Divide the boodle,” said the boy, “‘among my grandchildren—ekally. Do I go back?” : , “You do,” said Simpson, ‘‘as soon as another Exhibit A is prepared.” “Tt’s ready, most noble Potentate,” said * Edgington, ritualistically. “Then let the messenger depart. Where’s that menu I had? Hang it, you’ve used it for the kid, and it had my remarks on it. As I was saying, this is Brassfield’s night. Everybody tells a story, sings a song or dances.” Edgington told a longstory which, he said, was ‘‘on Brassfield,” and showed what a regular devil that gentleman had been. It seemed that he and “Brass” were at one time fly-fishing in the mountains, and Eugene had so wrought upon the fancy of the schoolmistress that she had let school out at three, 2nd gone to learn casting of Brassfield. ‘“‘And when they came to the house at supper-time,” he went on, ‘‘the whole family were laying for them. ‘Ketch anythin’ ?’ said the old lady—‘anythin’ more’n a bull- head ?’ ‘I c’n see,’ said the hired man, ‘that she’s been castin’ purty hard, by the way her dress is kinder pressed around the waist. It allers fixes mine that way!” And so on, to the narration of the out- break of hostilities with the hired man, and the flight of Brassfield and Edgington. At every point Amidon winced, as he got views of Brassfield’s character which hypnotism could not yield; and the assembly roared the louder at his embarrassment. The messenger-boy returned again by this time, still unsuccessful, and was pro- vided with a bunch of cannon firecrackers to be exploded in Cox’s front yard so that the invitation to the banquet might not be overlooked. Then Slater told of Mr. Brass- field’s adventures at the Mardi Gras, the story consisting mostly of the account of Eugene’s wonderful series of winnings at the race-course, where he adopted the sys- tem of always finding what horse was given longest odds, and playing him. Amidon was unable to tell as to the abso- lute truth of these tales, but they had such verisimilitude that they impressed and shocked him. He was doubly astounded at the evident enjoyment with which they were received by his friends, and especially at the fact of the hearty and unrestrained manner in which Blodgett and even Blatherwick joined in the applause. His face burned with shame. How had Elizabeth Waldron ever cared for such a man as that villain Brassfield? He must somehow, some time, find a way to tell her that it was Brass- field, not Amidon, who had done these things, and that he, Amidon, reared by a doting mother and cared for by a solicitous sister, and all his life the model of the moral town of Hazelhurst, was as innocent of these things as she was. These thoughts so filled his mind that he heard very little of Judge “3lodgett’s dialect- story. Professor Blatherwick began a Ger- man song full of trilled r’s, ach’s and hoch’s; but became offended at Bulliwinkle’s stri- dent ‘‘How de do!” at the end of the first stanza, and quit. Mr. Simpson now called upon Mr. Knaggs to do a dance, as he alleged himself unable to do anything else. Mr. Knaggs responded, and did pretty well con- sidering the lateness of the hour, but insisted that he ought to have a better surface than the carpet. Amidon dimly resented as an

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The Occultation of Florian Amidon impropriety Mr. Knaggs’s brilliant proof of the correctness of his position regarding the carpet, by a tumultuously successful clog- dance among the dishes on the table. By this time, it being past the hour for retiring, according to the habit of most, sev- eral of the guests were asleep, and most of the rest were indulging in monologues under -the impression that they were conversing with their neighbors. No wonder, there- fore, that the A. D. T. boy rapped long and was not heard. No wonder that the ulti- mate opening of the door was unnoted by those present, or that no one observed the tall man with whisker extensions to a mus- tache naturally too large, who came in after the messenger. Observed or not, however, he entered. ‘‘ Brassfield, a summons for you,” said he, fiercely. ‘“‘Here’s the copy; this is the ’rig’nal. Waivethe readin’,I s’pose. Sorry to interrupt. So long.” Amidon looked at the stiff document as if it had been a Gila monster on toast. He saw such words as ‘State of Pennsylvania, County of Rockoil, ss,” and ‘ Default will be taken against you, and judgment ren- dered thereon,” and sundry dates and fig- ures. Instinctively he turned to Judge Blodgett, saying: ‘“‘What’s this, Blodgett ?” A tremor of panic seized upon Amidon, and a wave of sobriety passed over the guests. Much the same thing must have marked the breaking up of the feast of Belshazzar. The roisterers gazed at the paper, or began their preparations for de- parture. ‘What is it?” asked Amidon. “T don’t know enough about this prac- tice here,” said the judge, slowly, ‘‘to be able to say whether it’s good or not—seems to have been hastily and rather slovenly got up——” ‘But what is the damned thing!” shouted Alvord; ‘‘cut it short and tell us!” ‘Seems perfectly regular, though,” went on the judge. “It’s a summons in the case of Daisy Scarlett vs. Eugene Brassfield in a suit for twenty-five thousand dol- lars for breach of promise of marriage.” Amidon sank back in a collapse which was almost a faint. The little nervous Alvord rose to command. “Now,” said he, standing in his place, ‘I want to say a few words before a man leaves this room. I know something of this 669 case, and I want you to take my word that there’s no more foundation for it than there would be if it was brought against any one of us. And furthermore, there must be nothing said about this. These papers are not of record yet, and I believe something can be done. Every man must pledge me his word that he won’t breathe a word of this, and will deny it if asked about it.” ‘“‘We promise!” came in unison from the company. Alvord walked toward the guest of honor, tripping over the legs of Bulliwinkle as he went, and offered his hand to Amidon: ** Tsay, old man,” said Alvord, ‘‘I warned you that you were carrying on a little strong; and now here’s a——”’ ‘‘How de do!” said Bulliwinkle. XIX THE MOVING FINGER WRITES To the Queen came the guard full of zeal; Haled in bonds the Pretender: “ Shall it be noose or knout, rack or wheel?” But her proud face grew tender. Down she stepped from her throne—made him free: “Love,” she said, with a sigh, “What is rank? You are you, we are we, I am I!” —The Cheating of Zenobia. I should like to write, just here, a little disquisition on Crises. I should:show how all nature moves ever on and on toward cer- tain cataclysmic events, each of which marks a point of departure for new ascents in pro- gression. I should begin, of course, with the Nebular Hypothesis, its crash of suns, followed by the evolution of the star and its system of planets, its life, cooling, death, and a fresh crisis forming a new nebula. - I should end with either Revolutions or Malaria, depending upon whether I should last consider the subject in its relation to sociology or to pathology; but in any case, somewhere along in the latter third of the work, I should treat of Love and Marriage, and therein of the Crisis and Catastrophe in Romance. I have a good mind to doit! But, no; crises in general must wait, see- ing that our particular one stands clamoring for solution. The concrete bids away with the abstraction. None of our friends of this history could be brought, just now, to seek solace in philosophy one moment,

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cern cr aE a Ah Aa i ae ER ERR A: 670 Cosmopolitan Magazine unless it might be Professor Blatherwick —and he is entirely oblivious of the fact of the crisis having made its appearance. Not so, for instance, with Judge Blodgett, who has been busy since the banquet, some of the time with a towel about his brow, searching through Edgington’s library for the law of Breach of Promise of Marriage as defined by the Pennsylvania decisions. His call on Fuller. & Cox was most unsatisfac- tory, Mr. Fuller with some acerbity dis- claiming all knowledge of any such case as Scarlett vs. Brassfield, and Mr. Cox being invisible. “They act,” said he to Florian, ‘‘like people who are out for revenge, or vindica- tion, or something besides money. I don’t consider their attitude favorable to a com- promise.” “Well,” said Amidon, “‘that does not sur- prise me at all.” “Tt doesn’t, eh?” went on the judge. “Well, I can’t say that-anything surprises me; though I was a little taken off my feet by a rumor that something took place be- tween you and the plaintiff at that party the other night. How was that?” “There may have been something,” said Amidon, calmly, “‘but you must get par- ticulars from some one else—Clara, per- haps. You see, she was giving tests, and put me into that—Brassfield state (why, I can’t understand)—and I don’t know what oc- curred; but there was something.” “‘T’d like to know about that,” said the judge, contemplatively, ‘‘I’d like to know. That stairway episode—that collision, you remember—may not.count for much on the trial; but with a few corroborative circum- stances, eh, my boy? Farmer jury; pretty girl; blighted affection; damned villain, you know. But say! she’s got something to prove if she wins, under the authorities here, and there are more cases in this state than there ought to be in the whole world; but a summer-resort engagement, girl of mature years—cheer up, Florian, we’ll win, or we’ll make it a great case 4 “‘Blodgett,”’ answered Amidon, who heard with horror the lawyer’s forecast of the trial, “she may not have to prove any- thing. There may not be any trial. I must know these facts! I may owe reparation. I may—anything! I must know; and no one but Mme. le Claire can help us, and she must act through that accursed scoundrel who has got us into all this—Brassfield! Ge to her, Blodgett, and tell her that she must see us. I have asked for an interview a dozen times since that reception, but she won’t see anyone. Get an interview for this afternoon; and you must be present and hear her bring out of him a full confession; not as my attorney, but as my friend, as a gentleman. If you find out the worst, as I believe you will, I shall offer - Judge Blodgett grasped Amidon’s hand. ‘““That’s like you, Florian,” he exclaimed, “‘and it’s the part of a man! But I’d see her in Halifax first! “Well, I’ll see the madame,” he con- tinued. ‘‘Yes—I’ll see her! I’ll see her at once. I guess you’re right about it, Florian.” Mme. le Claire, too, was keenly conscious of the converging lines of fate the meeting of which was so rich in baleful promise. She was prostrated at the result of her work at the reception. She had seen Florian in a position of utter humiliation. She had ob- served the gray pallor in Elizabeth’s face as she walked from the room, and felt on her conscience the murder of their happiness. She had seen—and this hurt her more than she would to herself admit—she had seen Brassfield walk from a whispered conversa- tion with herself—an'amorous,'’ wooing con- versation—to a secret meeting with Daisy Scarlett; so that she felt despoiled of the hold she had had upon the affections of even Amidon’s false second self, Brassfield. What could she do? She secluded herself and pondered. On this second day, she made her resolve: she would see Miss Wal- dron, and if possible explain so much of the mystery as might serve to satisfy her with reference to the affair of the-East Room. Accordingly, a note went up to the house with the white columns, asking for a meet- ing. And as the messenger departed, the card of Judge Blodgett came in. ‘“No!” said Mme. le Claire, to his re- quest, ‘“‘no, I must be excused! If you could have seen him when last “Exactly!” said the judge, filling in the pause. ‘‘And as I didn’t see that reception affair, you must tell me about it.” When he had been told, the judge walked back and forth in evident perturbation, fingering over the leaves of a little square book which he took from his pocket. “Did you ever,” said he at last, “happen to hear what was the rule laid down in the breach-of-promise case of Hell vs. Maguire?” :

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AS EI NR 672 Cosmopolitan Magazine “Breach of promise!” ejaculated the young woman, inferring a volume from the one phrase. ‘‘What do you mean?” “These facts of which you inform me,” said he, ‘“‘bring Mr. Amidon’s case within the rule in Hall vs. Maguire, square as a die! Oh, I forgot to tell you! Mr. Amidon, doing business under the name and style of Eugene Brassfield, was sued by Miss Daisy Scarlett last night, for breach of promise.” “‘Oh, it must be stopped!” exclaimed the occultist; “‘it shall be stopped! He is not guilty. He was irresponsible. Ask papa about it; he will tell you so. This girl is coming to see me here to-day: I'll tell her how wrong fm ‘No, no, my dear!” said the judge, in a fatherly manner. ‘‘That would never do, never! You may have given a hint as to this matter of irresponsibility, worth consider- ing. Promise of marriage—civil contract; abnormal state—irresponsibility: it looks pretty well! You should have been a lawyer. But this thing of having dealings with Miss Scarlett except in the presence of and through her legal advisers, Messrs. Fuller & Cox—not for a moment to be thought of by an honorable practitioner. ” Mme. le Claire regarded him with a lofty scorn meant for these antiquated scruples of his; but before she could find words, the knock of the bell-boy called her attention to the door. ‘“Miss Waldron is below!” said she. ‘Judge, you may bring Mr. Amidon up in half an hour. I shall then be at liberty, and may grant his request. Please leave me, now.” ? Elizabeth Waldron, in this plexus of dis- asters, found nowhere a gleam of comfort. Her fine chagrin at the thought of such things as she feared might be censurable, as overfree self-revelation to her lover in such things as letters and the sweet concessions of the new betrothal—all this was past, now. Tragedy has this of comfort in it: its fateful lightnings burn out of the atmos- phere of life all the noisome littlenesses which have seemed worthy of concern. So it was with Elizabeth, as she now faced the very annihilation of all for which she had lived—centered in that ‘perfect lover,” who was now worse than annihilated in this descent to a plane which made every act of homage to her so mean and common that she would have felt his status uplifted by some proof of great guilt on his part. And she could see no way of acquitting him. Thete was mystery in it, but no exculpa- tion. Mystery With the idea of mystery came in the image of the strange girl with the fascinating glance and the parti-colored hair. Could it be possible that the occult power possessed by her might somehow furnish an explana- tion of her lover’s strangely base behavior ? More and more did this fixed thought en- gross her mind. She felt that she must know—must see this woman and her color- less father. Desire grew to resolve; resolve bred inquiry as to ways of compassing an interview; and in the midst of the inquiry, came Mme. le Claire’s messenger. Her answer was the putting on of her cloak for a visit to the occultist’s parlors. The two women faced each other like hostile champions in a truce. Elizabeth’s first aversion to the other had been swept away in the flood of righteous jealousy created by the Scarlett affair. Mme. le Claire’s unreasoning feeling of injury had been mitigated by the same baleful affair, and her sense of justice fought for Elizabeth; but no two women loving the same man ever met without antagonism. “T thank you,” said Miss Waldron, ‘‘for this invitation. I think you owe me the benefit of such light as you can give on some —some things—which are dark to me.” A little angry flush rose to Mme. le Claire’s cheek at the tone in which the first part of this speech was uttered. It passed away, and was replaced by a gentler ex- pression at the doleful and faltering con- clusion. ‘“‘T owe you,” she answered, ‘‘more in the way of knowledge than you imagine. I expect other visitors. Will you step into this little rear room? I may be called away from you for a while, but I shall return.” “T need not tell you,” said Elizabeth, “‘how vitally important it is to me to know whether there was anything in your mes- meric influence over—Mr. Brassfield— which would cause him to do—things un- worthy of him—as he did. Did you impose any such thing upon him by your power? Could you have been so cruel ?” ‘Before I answer that,” replied Clara, ‘there are many things to tell. When did you first meet Mr. Amidon—Brassfield, I mean?” “Why do you call him by that name?”

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cried Elizabeth. “That is what Mrs. Hunter called him! One moment he told me he knew her; the next, he denied it to her face. What is there in this matter of names?” Mme. le Claire looked with a fixed and unwavering calmness at Miss Waldron, and answered in a tone of perfect reassurance. “There is nothing in it which can’t be easily explained. You have known Mr. Brassfield long?” ‘Since I was seventeen. He did my aunt and me a great favor, which lifted us out of poverty—about some land we had, and oil discoveries—I went away soon after this, but he has always been very kind and good —unti!l—until this ” Elizabeth walked to the window and looked out for a long time, during which Mme. le Claire regarded her fixedly and tried not to hate her. ‘Did he tell you much of his past ?” ‘“‘No; he said it was a very ordinary past, and that he would tell us all about it some time; and then the subject never came up again. I never cared!’? “Let me tell it to you,” said Mme. le Claire. ‘‘He was, all his life, a man of wealth and standing. He was a scholar and a student of the finer things of art and let- ters. He was the pride of his town and his university. Then all at once, nearly six years ago, came upon-him one of those strange experiences of which I, through my profession, am able to speak to you as one having knowledge. He became another man. His mind had drawn across it a dead line cutting off everything back of a certain date. He did not tell you of his life, because he did not remember it himself.” Elizabeth gasped, and turned pale. “This life of his ” she began. “Was a life which was in every way better —which will add to your pride in him. But you must be prepared for some strange and unexpected things. Now, for instance, a name—a name seems important; but what is it? This loss of personality—of self- consciousness relating to the past—it was loss of name, of mode of life, of all memory, except certain blind, unconscious reflexes, in which the brain had no part. How the name of Brassfield was suggested to this new-born personality of his, no one can tell, he least of all. But - is — is “Then his name — his not——”’ name The Occultation of Florian Amidon 673 Now here was a situation for a diplomat. To say that Brassfield was an assumed name, an alias, was to shock this girl’s womanish conservatism to its very base. Mme. le Claire proved herself a diplomat. “Why,” said she, as if the matter were, after all, a matter of no importance, ‘“‘the name of Brassfield is his, legally, Judge Blodgett says, and morally. These busi- ness names, as distinguished from others, are quite common now, I am told—take mine, for instance. Eugene Brassfield was not his name until five years ago, when this happened. He is really Florian Amidon, son of the chemist Wilford Amidon, of whom, I have no doubt, you have read.” The fact that the name of Wilford Ami- don had never reached her ears, did not occur to Elizabeth. Mme. le Claire’s choice of expressions sounded like the announce- ment that Florian was a prince just throw- ing off his incognito. The subtle sophistry of this way of putting it found grateful harborage in Elizabeth’s hungry soul. For a moment she felt comforted. Then came back the thought that, after all, she had found out nothing of the matters she had come to search out. “Tt is very strange,” said she, “‘but, after all, it only adds to the mystery. Why did he do those things? Did you make him do them? And why did he say that he knew Mrs. Hunter, and then deny it? And if he knew about his past when he said he knew her, did he not know it as well afterward ? I cannot be blinded to these matters by a statement of things merely mysterious and strange. I must have——” ‘My friend,” said Mme. le Claire, “these things will all be explained, trust me. The person tapping at the outer door is Judge Blodgett with Mr. Am—with your future husband. Things will occur of which you should know, and which cannot take place if they know you are here. It will be most honorable for you to stay. Remain here and note well what happens, and you will get much light on your troubles, and on his—of some of which you do not yet know, which I do not understand, but which will be cleared up. You will say nothing, but watch and listen.” Before Miss Waldron could protest, the other woman was gone. Florian and Judge Blodgett were brought into the middle room, and seated with their faces from the portitre behind which Elizabeth waited,

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Pt A iS age eet Minapyh Alien utara cos 674 Cosmopolitan Magazine wondering what she should do, feeling that she had the right to know, and obedient to the mesmerist’s commands. Mr. Amidon began in medias res, too full of grim deter- mination for any circumlocution. “Mme. le Claire,” said he, “‘last evening, as I sat at supper, I was notified that this Miss Scarlett had begun suit against me for breach of promise.” “Yes,” said Mme. le Claire, “I have heard of it. It is most unjust.” Elizabeth, astounded at Amidon’s state- ment, heard her new friend’s reply as some far-off note of succor in doubtful and deadly battle. She sat close, now, and listened. “Ever since I came to myself,” went on Amidon, ‘‘and ‘through your wonderful power found out about this life of mine here in Bellevale, the name of Miss Scarlett has come up from time to time as connected with it. I have always shrunk from having you find out just what our—relations—have been, and the whole thing has been dark to me—dark and forbidding. What wrong I— this man Brassfield—may have done her, I cannot know .without your aid. I must know this, now. If she has been wronged, she shall have reparation, as full as I can give.” “What do you mean,” said Mme. le Claire—and Elizabeth held her breath— “hy full reparation ?” ‘First let us know the wrong! If that exists, the reparation will be. for Miss Scar- lett and her advisers to name.” ‘“‘But they may name the keeping of the promise they say you have made!” ‘“‘T have thought that all over.” ‘“‘But your engagement to - “The lady you are about to mention,” said Amidon, ‘‘must have ceased to care much for me, after what I am told took place the other night; and when she learns of this other disgrace, as she must before she sees me again—if ever she does—it will be all over—forever—except the wrong to her—for which reparation can never be made. I . ‘Oh, it is too dreadful!’’ cried Mme. le Claire. ‘And for that worst thing—the other night—I only am to blame! I put into you the character in which you have become weak and drawn aside by sugges- tions not natural to your own character. Can you ever forgive me ?” “T have never thought of blaming you!” he protested. “‘You? Why, no one ever had to win happineSs here, you gave me. I have lost that—by misfortune. - Now help me to make things as near right as I can. Put me back into the world of Brassfield, and let me know the worst that I—he—has done.” “*Coom een!” said the voice of the pro- fessor in the corridor. ‘“‘Coomeen. Clara iss not here now: den she must be some- veres. Pe bleaced to sit vile I look. Any- how, she vill soon return. Ach, Herr Cox, ve missed you creatly at our supper—eat- ings of reasons and sdreams of souls! Ach! Here iss our friendt te chutche, and Herr Amidon—Prassfielt, I mean!” Mme. le Claire appeared in the arch- way. 4 “Ah, Miss Scarlett,” said she, ‘‘you are early. May I ask you to return, in e “No!” It was the voice of Miss Scarlett which replied. ‘‘No, I’m not going! And if "Gene Brassfield is in there, Billy Cox has something to say to him. Billy, do your duty!” “Pardon me,” said Mr. Cox, advancing into the next room, followed by Miss Scar- lett. ‘‘Pardon me, Judge Blodgett, I have a few words for you and your client. Miss Scarlett has made me agree to apologize to Mr. Brassfield about that summons; and if ’Gene Brassfield thinks I owe him any apology for putting it onto him a little be- fore his out-of-town friends, I’ll make it. But here are the facts, and he knows it: for four years he’s been rawhiding me at every chance with his practical jokes. He had me arrested and detained for a whole day on fake telegrams at Wilkesbarre, only last fall; and just before that he got everybody at the Springs to thinking I was Tascott, and induced a rural constable to take me into custody. Why, Alvord in his worst estate hasn’t been as bad as he’s been. If he’s lost any opportunity, I don’t remember it; and, of course; I’ve got back once in a while, and may be about even. But every- thing has been good-natured and brotherly, as ought to be between members of the gang. And, of course, when the cannon-crackers began to go off last night, I knew he was doing it. I was over in Major Pumphrey’s parlor, where Daisy had invited me during the eruption, and I told her about these things, and wished for some way of getting even, and—and some one spoke of this breach-of-promise suit, and we—that is, I— had so good a friend; all the chance I have. Ri a NR

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Drawn by Orson Lowell got up the summons, and I told Ed Tootle to serve it on you at your orgy—you had no business to expect me to enter any free-for- all inebriates’ competition—you know that, ’Gene! It may have been a little extreme as a joke; but if you’d laughed it off as you always do, nobody would have thought any- thing of it except to chaff you about it. But what do you do? You make as serious a thing of it as if you hadn’t been trotting with our crowd for five years orso. You set this old—my learned friend from the West —briefing it up, and you make a fool of me. Worse than that, you place Daisy in a most objectionable position; and, by George, ’Gene, I claim the apology is due from you, to me and Daisy!” That he, Florian Amidon, had ever been guilty of playing such pranks as the ones described by Mr. Cox, seemed incredible; but his sense of relief at the way his burden rolled away in the light of Cox’s indignant apology overcame all other sensations. He sprang forward to offer his hand to Mr. Cox. “T agree with you!” said he. ‘I do owe you an apology, and I freely offer it. As for the offense I have given Miss Scarlett, I can only say that I have had a very strange mental experience lately, of which my friends here can tell you, or I should never ‘-1 AM TAKING MISS WAL- DRON HOME,” SAID HE as I have—never have taken the matter did. I beg you both to forgive me!” = ’Gene, ” said- Miss Scarlett, offering her hand, “Dm too game a sport to go mourn- ing because I lost out, and you ought to have known—I declare, I believe you’ve been crazy! I told Billy—Billy and I are en- gaged, now, and are really going to be mar- ried—I told Billy how when we were at the watering-place, I insisted that it seemed a shame not to be engaged, and how we fixed it to be engaged for a week, and it makes him furious! But as good a fellow as I’ve been, the way you took our joke was shabby. You people may know some good excuse, but i Mme. le Clajre was not only a diplomat; she was a strategist. Now, she saw, was the supreme moment in which to complete for Florian the good work she had begun. - “Please excuse Mr. Brassfield,” said she. “He is wanted in the back parlor; come, Mr. Brassfield, give me your arm!” Through the portiére ‘she swept, bearing Amidon as on wings. There sat Elizabeth, her face bowed down upon her arms, on the back of a sofa. She rose as they en- tered. “Elizabeth!” cried Florian. ling!” He stretched out his hands pleadingly, 675 “My dar-

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676 and walked toward her. She shrank back; and Mme. le Claire retreated, knowing that the struggle of Amidon’s life was before him. Yet, gentle reader, why should not Ami- don win? Tous, a thousand things might seem to need explanation; but to Elizabeth, all this separation of Amidon from Brass- field was so new, so little realized, that her love bridged the chasm, and nothing was ‘required except the clearing up of a week or two of curious happenings, most of which had already been so glozed over by Mme. le Claire’s generous plea, that what girl in love would require any greater price in humble wooing than Florian yearned to pay? Why, mesmerism alone covers all sorts of odd and suspicious doings. The case, for instance, of—but that is beside the point. The point is, that with half of Brassfield’s skill, Ami- don will win handsomely. “You must let me tell you,” cried the occultist to those who were listening for the explanation of Florian’s behavior. ‘Stop, papa! You are spoiling the story!” Then she told them of Amidon’s life in his old home as she had learned of it, of the strange occultation of his personality, of his recovery, of his bewildered application to her in New York, and how he had been helped. She was a long time telling it, and all the while she was thinking of the tender things happening in the next room. She heard the murmuring of their voices, as full of meaning as the flutings of mating birds. And she faltered and stopped. “‘Papa, papa!” she cried, ‘‘help me out! Tell them the rest.” “You vill vonder, perhaps,’ said the professor, “‘at sairtain egsentricities of gon- duct of our friendt, in his later Prassfielt phace, in vitch he has shown de kvality of sportiness—or sportif—vat iss de vort ?”” “‘Sportiness,” said Miss Scarlett, ‘‘is the word.” “Tanks!” said the professor. “Vell, de egsblanation is dus: de Prassfielt state va§ vun of gontinuous self-hypnotismus. It iss apnormal. Its shief garacteristic is sutches- tibility. Now, if ve find dat te supchect hass been t’rown into te society of people of— vat you gall?—sporty tendencies, he vould gradually yield to te suchestion of dese tendencies. He vould ig [The End] Cosmopolitan Magazine Elizabeth and Florian stood in the-arch- way, unseen by those present. “IT am glad I heard that,”’ said Elizabeth. “‘We must not allow you to return to this abnormal state!” “Mr. Cox,” said Judge Blodgett, “‘do we need a detective to run this sporty influence down ?—or shall we look among the Chris- tian Martyrs?” “Tt will relieve me,’’ said Miss Scarlett, hugging Mr. Cox’s arm, ‘‘if you won’t look. I’m afraid to be searched!” Elizabeth and Florian emerged from their retreat, appareled for the street. Her eyes were shining with a soft radiance; his sought her face every moment. What had occurred was very clear. ‘I am taking Miss Waldron home,” said he. “I hope to see you all again, soon.” Their farewells to him told how much of a stranger to them he had become in an hour. The mutuality of memories was destroyed, and with it the friendships. It was Florian Amidon, not Eugene Brassfield, from whom they parted. Once more, into the house with the white columns went Florian, this time buoyant: with hope, vibrant with the pulsations of a passionate and prosperous love. Now it was not of the plans for the house that they talked, except to agree that they would not build it. But they spoke of far-off seas, and historic rivers and cities, and they two, all in all to each other. “Florian!” said she, repeating the strange name. “I like the name; but think how hard it was to learn to call you Eugene! Do you remember when I first called you that ?” “‘ My darling!” he answered, “‘do you not realize that I know nothing of all that, and except for your dear letter, I knew nothing of you before that day I came back from New York ?” ‘‘QO—h!” she cried; ‘‘and all the sweet things you said and did to win me Oh, my dear, I never thought of that. And you remember nothing? Oh, it is dreadful, dreadful!” He put his arm about her, and kissed her lingeringly. ‘“‘Dearest, dearest,” he said, ‘‘the loss is all mine! And to make it up to you, you must let me say them and do them all over again; every one, a thousand times!”

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Books in the Balance BY CATHERINE MARKHAM ALFRED HENRY LEWIS <a in The Sunset Trail carries Yi us back to the old cattle- trail where we “hit” the storied town of Dodge, in the ‘\// days before it was civilized /7} into an innocuous, no-red- Ze headline type of pale, civic } virtue. Here we find Indian fights, election fracases, newspaper contests, love affairs and priv ate feuds all going on with the vibrating celer- ity of a kineto- scope. “Bat” Mas- terson, the star citizen in the Who’s Who of the divide, is the pervasive and invincible hero. His election as sheriff; his charmed life in that fervid bailiwick where sheriffs are an evanescent breed; his parlous rule until he resigns because he refuses to enforce loathed Prohibition enactments;. his robust in- sistence upon law sanctioned by, his own judgment, for he is cool of head though quick at trigger—all of this makes ex- citing and uproarious reading. Cimarron Jim, “Bat’s” understudy, a person of feverish honor, is a man to “libate” with every time. The book lacks in cumulative interest somewhat, the last chapters seeming not so exhilarating as the first. But as a pro- cession of pioneer types, the work in its grim humor strikes the red. Mr. Lewis is the Tod Sloan of the flying phrase: the headlong rush, the dexterous turn, the triumphant finish, are all in his words.

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Virginia Frazer Boyle has long ranked among women writers as the most vivid delineator of

Serene. the mystic and romantic Virginia Frazer Boyle negro. Se- rena is her first novel, and while it is not, as a human document, so wonder-stirring as the au-

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678 Monk and count, and scullion and clown, all jostle and parley, being set forth with the tolerance and large understanding that mark Mr. Hewlett’s character-drawing. In this, as in Richard Yea-and-Nay, and all other of his stories, the magical, stained- glass quality of Mr. Hewlett’s style softly illuminates and vivifies the most common- place men and movements with rich and relishful life. Philip Mighels, whose taciturn three-year- old Bruvver Jim’s Baby last year took the country, pre- sents in The Ultimate Pas- sion a study of modern politics. The party managers put up as candidate for the presidency a young man who has made a record for himself. With every noble intention, with impeccable per- sonal relations, the ‘‘machine” forces him into false moves, makes him party to swindle and scandal. Love is the passion that seesaws with ambition in the young politician’s heart, and love for a good woman keeps him an honest man, although it leaves him politically dead. The book is a hot blast upon modern political meth- ods, and ought to be shrapnel in the hands of “Purity” workers. The Ultimate Passion Philip Verrill Mighels In The Great Mogul we get a tale of the time when Raleigh was still in the Tower; when the English had just sent the Armada _ dizzying down; when India was the dream of every adventurer. Two personable young Englishmen stalk through the pages, plunging “froliquely” into a thousand perils by sea and land, but emerging in- variably from London to Agra with new lusters and new laurels. Not the least diverting of the characters moving through the splendors and hazards of the hurrying story are the four blithe ladies mixed in the fortunes of the gallant blades. Lovers of Henry James would have a vertigo over this book, perhaps; those who like the pace and pound of things will welcome its whirl of adventure. Mr. Chase’s drawings are full of imagination and static strength. The Great Mogul Louis Tracy Gladstone said, before he died, that the Cosmopolitan Magazine most important work going on in the world to-day is the critical investigation of psychic phenom- ena. Professor Hys- lop, founder of the American Institute of Psychical Research, deplores, in Science and the Future Life, the scientific sloth in studying evidences of a future life, as com- pared with the scientific zeal in ferreting out fossils and sun-spots. He weighs with discrimination the claims of spirit doubters versus spirit believers in regard to certain occult phenomena. Telepathy, the sublim- inal self, or some Intelligence beyond— which seems reasonable? The book isof ab- sorbing interest, whatever one’s conclusion. Science and the Future Life James Hyslop The Breath of the Gods is a book that comes with an opportune lamping of the inner life of Japan. A Japan- ese girl of high class becomes an inmate of the family of a senator at Washington; the senator is later made minister to Japan, and the intimacy is kept up. Through the impingement of these lives we are led into secret places of the Japanese life. Karma, the impact of the occult world—that world to the Oriental ever present, and stable beyond the shows of this—touches continually the spirit of Japan as pictured tous. Honor to Nippon, obligation, loyalty to the national ideal, to the dead who ever lean to listen and in- spire—these are the motives that sway the heroine, the daughter of the Samurai, as they have her fathers for generations. At call of these, happiness is only an incident that may or may not follow duty. At call of these she flings off her clinging lover of the Occident, and weds the prince whose soul she seems to grow to be. At call of these she seeks death by her own hand, that she may the more live for Japan. Beside this intense twi-life, our American life seems superficial, the policy of nations but a thing of time and surface, and the work of the legations but a heaping of sand. Just a suspicion of rococo and burlesque here and there mars the finish of this unusually fine novel. The Japanese landscape is sketched in with delicate Hokusai effects. The Breath of the Gods Sidney McCall 49

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Cosmopolitan Magazine Scale Drawing The Basis of Tone Quality in a Piano The Scale of a piano is the plan of its sound producing parts. . It is to the piano what a plan is to a building, and involves the determining of the lengths and thicknesses of the strings, the form and dimensions of the sounding board and the placing of the ribs, bridges, strings, hammers and tuning pins in their relations to each other. The tone quality of a piano is based upon its Scale. Only with a scale properly drawn can the tone have the dest musical characteristics. The difference so evident in the tones of pianos of various makes is very largely due to the fact that in some of these instruments the scales are designed with a more accurate knowledge of principles than is shown in the others. Consequentlv they have finer musi- cal quality. The Conover Piano A Piano with a Correctly Drawn Scale COMPLETE understanding of the scientific principles of scale drawing is the ° foundation of the splendid tone of the Conover Piano. ‘The calculations are accurately made. Every string is precisely the proper length and thickness, and the striking points of the hammers are exact/y determined so that the strings, when set to vibrating, produce the desired tone. The sounding board is made of the proper dimen- sions and degree of convexity to reproduce in greater volume the tone from the strings and to retain periectly its musical quality. All the other elements which enter into tone produc- tion in the Conover Piano are designed with the same accuracy and care. But we do not stop with a correctly drawn scale. The material is selected for its peculiar fitness to give the essential kind of resonance for the Conover tone. Even with our scale, the material must be of distinctive character —a certain quality of steel for the wires, Adirondack spruce of perfect grain for the sounding board, hard maple for the pin block and the best felt for the hammers. Then, these pianos are built ,by workmen wko have a standard to reach and who know how to make every detail as it should be made. The Conover Piano has an even scale—the tone is uniform. ‘There is volume and power and yet extreme delicacy in its music, and the tone quality is Jasting. It is a piano with which the ear can be trained to the Company 0, best appreciation of good music. Chicago, Ill. %, <2, Send for our Book of Conover Pianos $i iicistan we ee will send our Book OF CONOVER PIANOS and other information FREE, which will help you in making a selection. The Cable Company Manufacturers Chicago Cos. 10°5 THE CABLE Please send your Book of Conover Pianos and other publications. (Name) _

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Temptations of a Young Author By Booth TarKington Cosmopolitan Magazine Vol. XXXIX OCTOBER, 1905 No. 6 | CONTENTS ‘ The Redoubts of Graft and How to Take Them . . Charles Ferguson Frontispiece. ‘ : : : , Paul Morton— Human Dynamo . : , ; - Edwin Lefévre Illustrated Four Pigeons ° ° ° ° . i : W. W. Jacobs Illustrated by Wi 1! Owen Story of Paul Jones . ; ; ; 7 ; ? Alfred Henry Lewis Illustrated by Phillipps Ward and Seymour M. Sto My Life on the Vesuvian Lid. : ; . R. V. Matteucci Illustrated The Real John Weaver. ; : : . ‘ William R. Stewart Illustrated Confessions of a New York Detective, made by an Ex-Captain of Police Illustrated by Henry Raleigh Song of the Out-of-Doors. (Poem.) . ‘ ‘ : Herbert Bashford . Some Uncanny Tales . . . . . ° Ambrose Bierce Hlustrated by Arthur G. Dove Creating Fashions in Dress ‘ ‘ ° : ‘ Elizabeth Meredith I}lustrated The Crisis in Scandinavia . ‘ ° . . ‘ Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, 2d . Illustrated The Wider Bounds . ; ‘ ° ° ° ° Bailey Millard Illustrated by Frank Tenney Johnson Seeing the Real New York ; ° ° ° ° James L. Ford Ijlustrated by Frank VerBeck Righteous Rebuke. (Poem.) . ‘ ° ‘ ‘ G. A. England _ Illustrated by E, Warde Blaisdell Two Girls in a Canoe. . i ‘ : ° Isobel Knowles Illustrated Restoring the Bison to the Western Plains . ° . Maj. Gordon W. Lillie Illustrated Stage Beauties of the Coming Season. _ Illustrations In the _Money- “Mill” ; ‘ ‘ : ‘ ‘ ; George Grantham Bain ated by William L, Jaco Temptations of a Teun faite ‘ . . ‘ Booth Tarkington. . . 665 The Occultation of Florian Amidon. ‘ ‘ ‘ Herbert Quick . . . 667 Illustrated by Orson Lowell Books in the Balance ; ‘ ; , . ; Catherine Markham ; . CH YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 SINGLE COPY, 10 CENTS COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY Published Monthly by INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY, 1789 Broadway, New York Entered at the Post-Office at New York as second-class mail-matter

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Cosmopolitan Magazine The Second W. W. Jacobs Story..... “THE CONSTABLES MOVE” Hlustrated by WILL OWEN The Famous English Character-Artist Appears in the COSMOPOLITAN for November.... The tale can be described only as “side-splitting.” It deals with the tribu- lations of a London policeman among neighbors who have small respect for a guardian of the peace. Mr. Jacobs has so long been known as a portrayer of seafar- ing people that it will be an additional pleasure to his ad- mirers to learn .that he is striking out into a new field and focusing his unique sense of humor upon town and country life. Re-_ member his inimitable stories are to appear only in the CosmMopo.iTan for some time to come. Send one dollar for a year’s subscrip- tion, and enjoy the best feast of humor that the world’s story-telling talent can supply. Drawn by Will Owen International Magazine Company 1789 Broadway, New York

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The three eagles in the above illustration represent bearing the Latin inscription ‘* Finis Polone,” which means the monarchies of Russia, Austria and Prussia, combining to “The End of Poland.’’ Looking more closely you will observe partition Poland, that nationality being represented by the the burning firebrands, the battered walls, the broken cannon, fallen soldier, As the Poles fought for independence, the the burning cities in the distance, and the flag of Poland trail- Goddess of Liberty is represented defending the soldier and ing in the dust, this littie illustration having wrapped up in it the history of the downfall of a nation, This is only one trying to beat back the crowned powers, but Liberty was " c i overcome and falls with broken sword in hand on the shield | of 2000 illustrations in Ridpath’s History of the World It is endorsed by Presidents Harrison, Cleveland and McKinley, Jefferson Davis, Lew Wallace, John L. Stoddard, Henry W. French, Bishop Vincent, Dr. Cuyler, Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, Presidents of Ann Arbor, Amherst, Brown, Boston University, Dartmouth, Tufts, Trinity, Bates, Colby, Smith, Vassar, Yale and other Colleges, and by the Great American People, 200,000 of whom own and love it. These Are History-Making Days. This present year, now half over, has seen a LE ———_: Mew power (japan) take its place among the great nations of the earth; has seen Russia’s Navy destroyed and an open sea port taken from her, for which she had planned and intrigued for sixty years; has seen the outcropping of what may become the greatest revolution of all time, and through which Poland may again be free; has seen our own great Republic take her place absolutely at the head of the great nations of the world. Do you understand and can you intelligently discuss these great happenings, and are you familiar with the rise and fall of nations in the past, and the rocks of disaster upon which every Republic save our own has gone down? In ONE WAY, and in ONE WAY ONLY, can you understand them—by knowing his- tory. A history of the world is a necessity. There is one satisfying history of the whole world, JUST ONE, RIDPATH’S IS THE ONLY ONE. " Failure of Merrill & Baker, pubisers finds us with a few sets on hand of this, their greatest publication, ae which we must sell to pay advertising bills, and for these few sets » ASSOCIATION the price fits your purse, and our terms are so easy as > 394 Dearborn Street to bring this monumental work within the reach of all. = Chicago § Ridpath is in g royal octavo volumes, 11 inches tall, 8 inches wide & Please send me Ridpath and 2 inches thick. It contains 4000 pages and 2000 illustrations, $ Sample Pages and full par- I'he complete set boxed weighs 65 pounds. The few sets at $ ticulars as offered in Cosmo- our disposal are the very latest edition, down to the Fall of Port POLITAN, Arthur, and are beautifully bound in Half Morocco. This is your chance to buy the work at a nominal price, much less than ever before, and you may pay in small sums monthly if you prefer, When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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The Redoubts of Graft and How to Take Them BY CHARLES FERGUSON Author of *‘ The Religion of Democracy ”’ 1%), RAFT is the sale of the public. In a democracy it is treason; there is no other kind of /ése majesté that is proper to republican laws. You may call the President what you please and jaugh at him in the street; but if you make money out of the impoverishment of the public, you are a traitor ) to the free state. You ought to be hanged—if only there were any good in that. It is because this betrayal is so easy that democratic government is so difficult. Never has it really succeeded. All the notable experiments have come to an end—in graft. - It was so with the classic pre-Christian commonwealths, and with the free cities of the Middle Age. The old régime settles complacently back upon its kingcraft afd declares that the trouble with democracies is that “‘in a democracy there is nobody to look after the interests of the public.” Government by the people and in the people’s behalf, requires that there should be in every town, in every ward of the cities, a voluntary association of the people, more compact and powerful than all other associations, guaranteeing promotion and a career to all creators of real values and a swift quietus to grafters. Such an association does not yet exist anywhere in the United States, and never has existed in any of the historic democracies. It always has been in demand but, for a sufficient reason, it has not been produced. The people have never been able to recognize real values. They have been put off with counterfeits. However, if there has come into our day a golden hour of oppor- tunity, its promise lies in the fact that nowat last there is dawning upon plain men aclearer perception of the eternal difference between good work and bad, together with a disposi- tion to judge candidates for public credit not by their professions but by their fruits. There is a growing indifference to dazzling generalities, an insusceptibility to the magic of formulas. We are not caught and carried away, as our fathers for a hundred genera- tions have been, by the passion for abstract political and theological ideas. Our con- temporaries insist upon the delivery of the goods. The critics are wrong who say that this disposition is due to a lack of idealism. It means, on the contrary, that the idealism of America has lately received such invigoration that it dares come to closer grips with the dragons and mud-gods. Our ostensible social system is ripe for dissolution, but a new order, based upon a new and sounder estimate of values, is forming within the old. The characteristic American mind is becoming very definite and concrete in its aims. It asks better food, better clothes, better houses—for everybody. Of every man’s enter- prise the question is, Does it tend to raise the general standard of living? Does it make goods cheaper and men dearer? Does it increase the purchasing-power of an ordinary day’s work? It is held that such questions as these are sufficient to search the reins and the heart, that they involve all the moral and spiritual issues. It is because the mass of men are being put in possession of so simple a criterion as to what is good for the public and what is not, that the sine qua non of democracy—a solid and structural institution of the people for the promotion of the public wealth, has at length become

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Cosmopolitan Magazine practicable. It is a mistake to suppose that there is or ever. was any lack of devotion to ideal aims. The trouble has been in a bewilderment of ideals. Men always mean well; it is required of them by the inner laws. They cannot other- wise live with themselves. The monstrous treacheries of an age of graft will no longer bear to be explained on the theory of demoniac possession. Neither Mr. Rockefeller nor Mr. Hyde nor Sam Parks nor Bath-house John is a devil or a, wizard. If they have betrayed the public it is because they had previously betrayed themselves. There is no reason why they should be allowed to keep the spoils-of treason, but neither is there any ‘ reason why we should bother to blacken their characters. Let them live and learn. Graft is not the invention of a few bad men. It is the break-up of the old order through the spawning of a thousand conspiratiés—sects, parties, trusts,. trade-unions, financial systems—that batten upon the common life. ‘The man who stands for the public stands alone. There is no institution to house him.’ A strange paradox has come true: if a man is honest he will confess that he is a grafter. There is only one way to abolish graft. It is not by spiritual calisthenics or punctilio. It is not by jails or hangmen. It is by the raising up of a public power that shall drive the private armies from their intrenchments. These are the propositions that I would submit: First: Every combination of men, organized, acting en masse and offering profit and promotion to all who will contribute to the prestige of the concern, acquire by the mere psychology of their union a kind of military power, which may be used to levy taxes of one sort or another upon everybody outside of the combination. Second: The extraordinary prevalence of graft in the United States is due to the fact that such combinations are just now exceptionally numerous and powerful in this country. Graft is the price paid for the use of, or for immunity from, the arbitrary taxing-power of unregulated private combinations. Third: Graft would certainly destroy the arts of civilization, would reduce the national life to the lower levels of moral consciousness and to neurotic impotence of will, if it were not for the prospect that there will rise in America a new and unprecedented type of scecial combination—a kind of perpetual political primary or university of the people, which shall differ from all extant combinations in this crucial respect: It will offer pro- motion and a career not to those that are effectual in increasing the power of the com- bination over society at large, but to those who are efficient in the service of the general public. Fourth: This social efficiency will receive a sharp definition in terms of art and science. The immemorial struggle of man against man will be subordinated to the earth-wrestle, the struggle of man against the obstacles of nature. The high places in the social hierarchy will go not to the masters of men but totheir servants—the mastersof materials. The only entirely legitimate government that the world has known will be administered by per- sons whose credentials of authority will be their approved competency in the subdual of the earth and the building of cities. Fifth: The university of the people will be the crown and complement of the American public-school system. It will not change human nature but will vindicate its essential rationality and humanness—delivering the common conscience from the impracticable ethics of pietism on one hand and of individualistic political theory on the other, from the morbidities of self-sacrifice and the exaggerations of self-interest. It will not do away with competition, but it will compel men to compete in a way that is endlessly interesting and useful, to wit, for the mastery of the arts.

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Cosmopolitan Magazine ie y \ THE HOUSE OF KUPPENHEIMER _ AMERICA'S FOREMOST CLOTHES MAKERS If you are thinking of buying an overcoat and desire something very fashion- able—a garment which insures satisfaction and that confidence which comes with the knowledge of being well dressed, buy a Kuppenheimer Surtout. Nothing better or more stylish can be made. There is a Kuppenheimer Label—a guarantee— The best informed clothier in your city has on every garment. It’s our reputation—your a complete assortment of Kuppenheimer protection. Clothes. Our new book, “Styles for Men,” Volume 22, may be of some assistance; free if requested. B. KUPPENHEIMER & COMPANY > CHICAGO NEW YORK . F BOSTON When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine % CARAT QUALITY—A-4 $72.50 OTHER GRADES OF SAME SIZE AS LOW AS $50.00 TERMS $12. CASH. $6. PER MONTH MONGST our customers are man ay vuhe buy on credit choice— not because they can’t afford to er cash. Ask them “why” and they will tell you that gradually paying for an article makes the cost seem as nothing. Of course, everybody must know that there is 8 difference between credit prices and lowest pre- vailing cash prices—but with us the difference is hardly worth mentioning. It’s a mere fraction. We will send you on approval, express prepaid, a half carat diamond with mounting like illustration, or any standard 14-kt. solid gold mounting. If ring is as represented, pay express agent $12.00. Balance monthly. If you'd like to have goods sent by regis- tered mail, send first payment with order. Your reputation for honesty is our security. Catalog No. G18 shows a yeh of diamond rings ranging in price from $12,50 to $743. If inter- ested in Watches, ask for Seca teteie. Both free. orbert c osep High- Class Jewelry & ou Credit House 213 (G18) STATE STREET, CHICAGO Established 1882 Responsibility, $250,000.00 No misleading fancy names are on Root’s Tivoli Standard Underwear. Root’s.“* Camelhair,”’ ** Natural Undyed Wool,” “Lambswool, ”’ * Merino,” etc., are all just what they are called. Strictly true to label, noble in quality, modest in price, For over half a cen- tury always growing in favor. Sold by leading dealers in all chief cities. If not by yours, write to Root’s Underwear 1 Greene St. New York OUR SATISFACTION is our motto, whether you order our cheapest skirt or highest priced suit. "| It is this careful attention to every order, no matter how small, that bas won for us thousands of regular customers who order from us year after year. {[ It is our experience in satisfying hundreds of thou- sands of others that makes us so sure we can satisfy you. We will gladly furnish as references, names of any of our customers in your vicinity. "| We make everything to order, but our prices are lower than are asked for ill-fitting ready-made garments. Fall Suits ..°6 °*25 Style Book and Samples Sent Free Our Style Book ex- plains how we can fit you by mail, and il- lustrates over 150 styles as follows: Visiting Costumes $6.00 to $20 Tailor-Made Suits $7.50 to $25 Separate Skirts $3.50 to $12 Rain Coats $9.75 to $20 Jackets and Coats $5.75 to $25 We Prepay Express Charges to any part of the U.S. Cloth guaranteed, well shrunken, fast color and non-spot- able; over 400 pat- terns, all new, stylish, pretty and designed es- pecially for this sea- son’s wear, Made into fashion- able and becoming gar- ments by tailors who mould them _ indi- Mire ee: A for you- bringing out the = points of your igure. We will refund our money if the fit 8 not satisfactory. by return mail, to any part of the United We Send Free a our new Fall and Winter Style Book, showing the latest New York Fashions, a large assortment of Samples of the Newest Ma- Seniesa ees ~ terials, and simple directions for taking measurements correctly, Kindly state whether you wish samples for a suit, skirt, cloak, or rain coat, and about the colors you desire, and we will send a full line of exactly what you wish, NATIONAL CLOAK & SUIT CO. 119 and 121 West 23d St., New York Mail Orders No Agents or Established Only Branches 17 Years When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine Three of the 1906 Models The Big-Little Car Type G 1906 Model s-passenger Touring Car, weight, 3300 pounds; 35 miles an hour, $1800 FRANKLIN Type G, the new Big-little, Shaft-drive, Three-speed, Four-cylinder, Air-cooled, Side-door car carries 4 or 5 people over American roads more miles in a day or a year —and safer, easier and cheaper than any other car but a Franklin. Small in weight, bulk and operating-cost. Big in capacity and per: > oD > 7 formance. A 12 ‘ Aranklin-power’’ engine which delivers up more actual g | “go” than the average car of 20 horse-power rating. Construction, material, springs and air-cooling that make all the power available on all roads all the year. Costing 50 per cent more per pound to build than any other make of car and yielding 100 per cent more comfort, safety and enjoyment. Type D. High-power Touring Car This is another 1906 model, 20 ‘‘Franklin-power’’ car. We could not build enough last year to supply the demand. ‘This year we have brought it to a point that nothing with 4 cylinders cr less can get by it for mileage, comfort or economy. Type E. 12 Franklin-power Runabout All three cars show a few detail improvements over our former models: Brake and clutch levers put forward—so that the driver gets in and out easily. Force-feed, wire-belt oiler on the dash. Balibearings on rear axle and transmission. And more effective brakes. But not a single change or departure from the time-tried and victorious principles which make /yank/ins the coming standard American type. “The Motor Car of the Future” Send for book which describes all our 1906 models. H. H. FRANKLIN MFG. CO., Syracuse, N. Y.. 1/4. 2. 4. af When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine yy STZ Gg -= — - Pl WWW WM WYNN SIU SUZ WR || 3// Oe UTZ i SIRF RYT Ya VEE UG / WU YW WWW ZAIN 7TIWS \ 7 xs SSS Y N U YN WII IM WW Diamonds Win Hearts The Famous Loftis Credit System.can be made a great convenience for Christmas, New Year’s, Birthdays, En- gagements, Weddings, Anniversaries, etc, It enables you to make beautiful and valuable presents to the loved one without the outlay of much money. The gift of all gifts to a lady is a Diamond. Write Today. to correct Diamond buying is the The Only Safe Guide Loftis Catalog. Write Today and we will mail you a Loftis Catalog, prepaid. We also mail to all appli- cants a copy of our superb Souvenir Diamond Booklet. Write Today. is worth its weight in gold to theshrewd Diamond Our Catalog investor. In the 66 pages are 1,000 illustrations of the Finest Diamonds, Highest Grade Watches and Jewelry, in every conceivable artistic form. Our Credit prices are lower than others charge forspotcash. Write for the Loftis Catalog. Write Today. . and we will forward it to Write to Us for Our Catalog fon by return mail, At our leisure, in the privacy of your own home, you can select the 4 Diamond, Watch or piece of Jewelry of your own particular fancy. You can then communicate with us and we will send the selected article on approval to your residence, place of business or express oftice as you wish. Examineit thoroughly. You are perfectly free to buy or not, justas you please. We pay all the charges; we take all the risks; we deliver our goods anywhere in the United States. Your account will be welcome. Write for the Loftis Catalog. Diamonds are profitable. Diamonds Invest in a Diamond pay better than savings banks. It is redicted, that, during the ee a months, Diamonds will tanenee in value twenty per cent. Invest ina Diamond by the Loftis way. You will have the security in your own possession. Every transaction is on honor-confidential, prompt and satisfactory. One- fifth of the price to be paid on delivery, you retain the article. Pay the balance in eight equal monthly amounts, sending cash direct to us—you will not miss these small monthly ——— from your in- come. Our goods are the finest— our prices the lowest — our terms the easiest, Write for the Loftis Catalog, 66 pages. Write Today. If you pay cash for your Diamond, we will Our Cash Offer give you a written guarantee that you can return the Diamond at any time within one year and we will per zee all you paid for it, less ten per cent. You can thus wear a 850.00 Dia- mond ring or stud for one year and then return it to us and get your 645.00 which is less than ten cents per week for one year. may be exchanged at full price Every Diamond We Sell fora larger stone atany tino in thefuture. Write for a Loftis Catalog, 66 pages. Write Today. Our Little Steel Safe 72%. 23.70%... We furnish one-to every person whether a cus- S tomer ornot. Put the little Safe on your desk, bu- = reau, bench or table and every day drop into it the 7 stray pennies, nickels and dimes that are frittered ont ae — Do hen pena sow oars — yes D ota w ve the first payment r ‘or a Diamon ak x 3. We will deliver the Dicmond atonce while you keep //M\WN ZW 7. 7 the little savings bank at work saving the small amounts nocmneaey to meet the monthly payments as they mature. Write for a Loftis Catalog Today, 66 pages. Write Today. We Give You Our Guarantee Certificate $3i.ty" Stened by fimember ot our trm. The Old Reliable Original Diamonds on Credit House OF TI _ DIAMOND CUTTERS WATCHMAKERS, JEWELERS Dept. L34 92 to 98 State Street, BROS & C0. 1658 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. GS Ue \\Wld, Zl S Wy, YU US p WW \\U iy : Ye S\U/ aa is R \UU/ \ x WNW, UJ YIN TIN iy \\\I 1 rr Dy 4 WW 7] Y\\\i gS We WW oe my WIN Pa =e M7, TX ii) IK LMS WWM YY YUU, MI, SMU, SMU, UZ xh \) Uy C7 When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine Loud enough for Dancing Victor the Fifth $60 with tapering arm Motor lasts a lifetime and requires oiling but once a year. Turn-table 12-inch and can be used for all sized records. Concert sound box, but Exhibition sound box will be fur nished if preferred. 200 needles—separate places for new and old. Black-japanned steel horn with large brass bell. Simple but beautiful, highly-polished quartered-oak cabinet, with hinge top. Motor has triple tandem spring, can be wound while playing and plays several records with one winding. This fine large Vsctor the Fifth makes the Victor Records give forth their sweetest and most melodious tone. It plays loud enough for dancing and brings before you the living voices of great singers in all their delicacy, as well as power. ‘¢ Victor Quality ”’ is the full large clear musical tone found only in the Victor Talking Machine with the Victor Records. Hearing is Believing Any dealer will be glad to play for you any Victor Record on any Victor Talking Machine. ‘That is the way for you to find out for yourself that the Victor is the greatest musical instrument in the world. Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine VC ae eae There are several kinds of safety razors — the Gillette Safety Razor — and the other kinds. Most other safety razors have been on the market for years. The Gillette Safety Razor is a new idea, and is the only safety razor made on the right principle, insuring a clean, sure, easy, and comfortable shave to the man who uses it. One of the indisputable proofs of its success is that hundreds of thousands are now in use. Every one sold and used means a happy, satisfied customer, ever ready to sing its praise. Every Gillette Razor sold (and every day shows a steady increase in sales) proves that the man who buys a Gillette is not satisfied with the other kind or with the other method. For comfort, health, and economy’s sake shave yourself the Gillette way. the other. The price of the Gillette Safety Razor is $5.00 complete in an attractive, compact, velvet-lined case. The Razor is triple silver-plated; has 12 thin, flexible, highly tempered and keen double-edged blades. These blades are sharpened and ground by a secret process and require no honing or stropping. Each blade will give from twenty to forty smooth and delightful shaves. You therefore have by using a Gillette Safety Razor 400 shaves without stropping, at less than 1 cent a shave. Over 200,000 now in use. Ask your dealer for the Gillette Safety Razor. Accept no substitute. He can procure it for you. Write to-day for our interesting booklet which explains. our 30-day free trial offer. Most dealers make this offer; if yours does not, we will. GILLETTE SALES COMPANY 1105 Times Building 42d Street and Broadway, New York Once that way, never again When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine SAN FRANCISCO TO LOS ANGELES fe 3 Ze LL RECORDS This striking automobile picture shows the new front entrance, 30-H.P. Type VII Pope-Toledo, Price $3,200, leaving the garage in San Francisco, July 18, 1905, on its record breaking run of 503 miles to Los Angeles. L.A. Nares, and party, made the run in 20 hours and 4 minutes, carrying full touring equipment. The bes evious record was 29 hours, 31 minutes. In the ot Glidden Tour, Albert L. Pope bees a 45-H.P. Pope-Toledo the entire route with a perfect -—both the 30 and 45-H.P. Pope-Toledo’s gaining first honors in their class in the climb up Mt. Washington, the latter carrying five passengers. Isn't it significant that when two or three owners come together in club, country or garage, Pope-Toledo standing is always granted by common consent? These men may own other cars, but they never think of questioning Pope-Toledo supremacy. BE SURE THE NAME “POPE” IS ON YOUR AUTOMOBILE. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. 20 H. P. Double Side Entrance, ~ - 30 H. P. New Front Entrance, - - 45 H. P. Double Side Entrance, - \” POPE MOTOR CAR COMPANY. mle) Members Association Licensed Automobile Manufacturers. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine In finishing the woodwork of your house only two Finishes are needed; LUXE. BERRY WOOD FINISH for the general interior work, and LIQUID GRANITE for floors, bathrooms, window sash and sills, inside blinds, and for the outside doors, LUXEBERRY WOOD FINISH under its old name of Berry Brothers’ Hard Oil Finish has been the leading interior finish for forty years. It is the same wear and tear resisting qualities of LIQUID GRANITE that constitute its value as a floor finish, that qualify it for all woodwork where the exposure is unusually severe. Drop us a line and we will mail you useful information on wood finishing and handsome finished samples of wood. BERRY BROTHERS, Limited Varnish Manufacturers New York Philadelphia Chicago St. Louis Boston Baltimore Cincinnati San Francisco Factory and Main Office, DETROIT Canadian Factory, WALKERVILLE, ONT. => BRIGHTON Ss Flat Clasp Garter for solid comfort. The newest shades and designs of one piece, silk web. All metal parts nickeled, cannot rust. 25 cents a pair, all dealers or by. mail. PIONEER SUSPENDER CO., 718 Market St.. Philadelphia. Makers of Pwneer Suspenders. d 5%, Dividend This Year October 1, 1905, another dividend of 5% will be paid (the regula: 4% guaranteed and 1% additional for six months), derived from gale of shiploads of mahogany cut from our 288,coo-acre plantation in Campeche, Mexico, and shipped to New York and Mobile; cargoes of products every few months shipped in steamboat owned by Com- pany'’s management. This is the second 5% dividend this year, making 10% to be paid, instead of 84, as guaranteed. 22% Dividends And when our property’s immense resources are developed, and rubber, henequen and tropical fruits begin to produce, 22¢is a conservative estimate of yearly dividends that will be paid ; that is, we estimate that the fourteen acres represented by each share will, after seven years, produce $66 a year, which is 22% of par value of the stock. We have many sources of revenue: Mahogany, rosewood, Spanish cedar and other cabinet woods, alone worth $10,206,000, at New York prices; marketable dye woods ready to cut and ship worth $2,500,090 at New York ; 60,000 full-grown rubber trees; 250,000 full-grown chicle (chewing gum) producing trees; 1800 head cattle; 250 0xen; 200 mules, horses, swine. Stores, mills and factory operating. A Certainty, Not Speculation Remember, there is no element of speculation about this proposition ; no probability of shrinkage in values or failure of development; no chance of loss to investors, as the plantation, with its natural wealth, buildings and other improvements, always will be ample sccurity for stockholders, being free of encumbrance and deeded in trust for their protection to a Philadelphia trust com- pany. Stock isselling fast. Over 1100 stock holders 3 holding one to 1co shares each Shares, $5 per Month per Share A limited number of shares offered at par on installments of $5 per month per share. Make application at once. This is an opportunity to secure an investment that pays more than the 8% guaranteed. By applying now you participate in forthcoming 5% divi- dend. Send $5 or more( but not more than $60, a year's instalments,) on each share wanted. Our managers have matured two other Mexican plantations. Stock of both worth $50 per share above par. Over 7,000 stockholders drawing increasing dividends OFFICERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS 7 Consists of officers and President, WM. H. ARMSTRONG, | H. A. MERRILL, Ex-U. S. Railroad Com'r, Phila., Pa. Pres. City Nat. Bank, Mason City, la. a ; Joun B. BARNES, Pie ES et Justice Supreme Court, Norfolk, Neb. ’ "> | Victor Du PonT, JR. Write immediately and ask for handsomely illus- Secretary and Treasurer,C. M. DuPont PowderW orks, W ilmington, Del. trated paper and list of stockbolders who have McManon, Phila., Pa. i A. G. STEWART, received a total of 51% in dividends, Counsel,A.L.WANAMAKER,Phila.,Pa. | Atty.Gen.of Porto Rico, San Juan, P.R. INTERNATIONAL LUMBER & DEVELOPMENT CO., 720 Drezel Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine + FIDELITY AND GAOUALTY C0. oF NEw YorRnz 1876 GEORGE F. SEWARD, President ROBERT J. HILLAS, Vice-President and Secretary IDELITY BONDS... . EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY PERSONAL ACCIDENT ._ . HEALTH . .....- STEAM BOILER ... . 1905 The owner of a passenger elevator is held to the highest degree of care that human foresight can exercise for the safety of persons riding in it, Judgments have been given in favor of persons injured by elevators in very large sums, reaching as high as $30,000 in individual cases. The value of insurance protecting against this hazard is self-evident, especially when combined with inspections designed to prevent accidents. The presence in an elevator of the Company’s certificate of inspection may be relied PLATE GLASS. BURGLARY. . FLY WHEEL "... BONDED LIST. . ASSETS, June 30, 1905, - LOSSES PAID to June 30, 1905, - - DIRECTORS: 3 GEO. E. IDE, W. G. LOW, J. G. McCULLOUGH, WM. J. MATHESON, DUMONT CLARKE, WM. P. DIXON, ALFRED W. HOYT, A.B. HULL, upon by all concerned as evidence that the given plant is properly devised and in sound condition. ence in the business. the oldest and largest elevator construction company in the country. Our inspectors are practical men of long experi- Most of them learned their trade in the employ of Insurance that Insures $7,393,680.42 20,765,989.03 ALEXANDER E. ORR, JOHN L. RIKER, HENRY E. PIERREPONT, W. EMLEN ROOSEVELT, GEO. F. SEWARD. Q anton A. RAVEN, Principal Offices, Nos. 97-103 Cedar Street, New York Agents in all considerable towns IAMON For Sixty-two Years we have been engaged in the Importation and Sale of Diamonds. Kal Our admirable facilities for Importing large quan- ROS ebm att Mime it -Meael tai Merle Reel am eka duties), and cutting and polishing them here, places us in a position to retail Diamonds at far lower prices than the regular retailer whose prices in- clude both customs’ charges and importers’ profits Our business extends to eyery state of the Union, and we have thousands of patrons, who, having found our prices and yalues unequaled, have be- ome steady customers. : yee liberal terms. eT ieA Down and [()% Per Month ira We sell all goods on the PF ictions are confidential, and with e we give a certificate, guarantee e and the privilege of exchange are the OLDEST HOUSE IN THE TRADE. ED 1843. Send for new catalogue J. M. LYON @ CO. 65-67-69 Nassau St. NEW YORK Slightly Used : TYPEWRITERS At Less Than Half Pric e Thousands of machines, aff leading in use only long enough to insure smooth ere moe $10 to &5. We are the largest handlers of slightly-used typewriters in the world and offer guaranteed bargains such as no other house can approach. 2300 absolutely new Visible Sholes machines, built to sell for $100— our price while they last, $45. Machines shipped for your examination and approval to any polrt in United States. We rent all makes of machines at $3 a month and up. Send today for our big catalog list of rare -REE P ai oe until typewriter _ bargains. iy you see It, Write today before our big clearing sale closes. Special offer to agents. BIG DISCOUNT ON TYPEWRITER SUPPLIES ROCK WELL-BARNES COMPANY 706 Baldwin Building, GHICAGO, ILLINOIS rare When you write, please mention tle Cosmopolitan

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Wedding Silver sa, OR Weddi < 3S eddings, e Say Silverware is 6) So © essential. No- ahs thing is more appropriate or more ap- preciated. Next to the ring itself, it dominates all other gifts. It be- comes the heirloom of a family. Three points, there- fore, should be observed in buying silver. ‘The weight must be substan- tial, the workmanship perfect, the design exclusive. These three requis of good silverware are found in the highest degree only in the productions bearing these stamps :

On Sterling Silver: on ; TRADE MARK On Silver Plate: REED & BARTON 48 (R} Ss . STERLING REED & BARTON Silverware is made from exclusive copyrighted designs, is substantial in weight, and of unexcelled finish. Eighty years of experience and reputation are back of every REED & BARTON production. The wedding gifts your grandparents received and Sold by ail reputable Jewelers, but not to be had your family heirlooms bear testimony to the lasting at Department Stores. A handsome catalog quality of REED & BARTON silverware. mailed free upon request. Ask for Catalog A-7. The standard for generations. REED & BARTON SILVERSMITHS Established 1824 Factories: TAUNTON, MASS. The Oldest Makers of Silverware of Repute in America When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine Surrey,Type One, $1,200.00 Cape top, $100.00 extra. Chain Transmission carries every ounce of power the engine generates direct to the rear axle, without loss. This full utilizing of power makes the Rambler the car to drive over country roads in all kinds of weather. The simple construction of every Rambler part insures ease of operation and de- pendable service. Write for the Rambler catalogue, it gives the many reasons why thc Rambler is the car for you to buy. Surrey, Type One, illustrated above, complete with lamps, tools, etc., $1,200.00. Cape top $100.00 extra. Other models, $650.00 to $3,000.00. Thos. B. Jeffery @ Co. Main Office and Factory, Kenosha, Wis., U. S. A. Branches: Boston, 145 Columbus Ave.; Chicago, 302-304 Wabash Ave.; Philadelphia, 242 N. Broad St.; New York Agency, 134 W. 38th St.; Milwaukee, 457-459 Broadway. Agencies in other leading cities. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine Just Ask WHITE HOUSE Grocer | )a a 3 for a1 or 2 1b. can. (It’s never sold in bulk) Thousands of the best stores supply it; and there can be no exes cuse for refusing you —as it is easily ob- tainable by any grocer wishing to oblige. If you can’t get it, write us full .particulars. Note our two addresses in lower border. * Prquglady 3. = okie = SS THE PSYCHOLOCICAL MOMENT SO That’s the time when, “White House” Coffee actually obtained, you sit with brimming cup before you, and, senses all alert, inhale its fragrance and anticipate its rare de- liciousness. Let no man sell you substitute—lest you lose the charm and miss the moment traught with rare delight. ‘ DWINELL- WRIGHT CO.,BOSTON & CHICAGO. “A Perfect Stroke” How many have you made? A perfect stroke means a “good drive.’’ You can’t drive successfully the enterprises of a life without vim, strength and enthusiasm. These come from foods that are rich in the vitalizing elements that make healthy tissue and clear brain. Such a food is Shredded Whole Wheat It contains all the body-building elements of the whole wheat in natural proportion and in digestible form. There are wheat foods and wheat foods—some “ ground” and some “ flaked ”—but there’s only one shredded whole wheat food. It is not a “pre-digested” food; it is a ready-to- digest food. “ Predigested” foods soon put the stomach out of business. “It’s All in the Shreds” Shredded Wheat is not ‘‘treated’’ or ‘‘ flavored’’ with anything. Itis the whole wheat and nothing but the wheat—the cleanest and purest cereal food made. It is made in two forms—BISCUIT and TRISCUIT, The BISCUIT is delicious for breakfast with hot or cold milk or cream or for any other meal in combination with fruits or vegetables. TRISCUIT is the shredded whole wheat cracker which takes the place of white flour ; bread; Gelicious as a toast with butter or with cheese or preserves. 2 ‘* The Vital Question Cook Book’? is sent free for the asking. THE NATURAL FOOD CO., Niagara Falls, N. Y. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine FOR espeare’s Seven Ages makes a delightful food-drink, nourishing and re- freshing the tired body and wearied brain. More nutritious and satisfying than other fountain drinks, A light luncheon for everyone, old or young. More invigorating than tea, coffee or cocoa for the table. Pure, rich milk and the extract of choice malted grains in powder form. Prepared by simply stirring in water. A nourishing, easily assimilated food in impaired digestion, satisfying without giving any distressed feeling. A glassful hot upon retiring brings refreshing sleep. In Lunch Tablet form also, with chocolate. A delightful confection, far healthier than candy. At all druggists. A sample, vest pocket lunch case, also booklet giving valuable recipes, sent free if mentioned, ASK FOR HORLICK’S; others are imitations. aS) Horlick’s Food Company, 3r d And then the lover Racine, Wis., U.S. A. with his ballad. London, England. Montreal, Canada, “LOWNEY’S” Purity, Delicious Quality, Satisfaction For 15 cents we will send, postpaid, the following Six Sample Pack- ages: Lowney's Medallion Chocolate; Lowney’s Milk Chocolates Lowney’s Vanilla Sweet Chocolate; Lowney’s Premium Chocolate (unsweetened); Lowney’s ‘Always Ready’ Sweet Chocolate Powder; Lowney’s Breakfast Cocoa—and a Lowney Receipt Book. THE WALTER M. LOWNEY COMPANY, 447 Commercial St, Boston, Mass, When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine Cie THE ONLY FOOD SHE COULD EAT Miss ANNIE B. Croxton, Winchester, Ky., writes: “I have lived wholly on Taro-ena for four months, having used over $30.00 worth. It is the only thing I can eat. rave been very ill for two years, u! der the care of noted specialists for the stomach, and I find Taro-ena is the best thing I have used.’’ ; After a thorough comparison of ‘laro-ena and 50 other foods, Dr, H. P. McKnight, Superintendent Camp Health Sanitarium, Southern Pines, N. C., invites any practitioner to produce a case of indigestion in which Taro-ena cannot be taken, retained, digested and assimilated with perfect comfort. Taro-ena is cooked, unsweetened Hawaiian taro meal—nothing added, nothing taken away. Regular size soc., Large size $1.00, Hospital size $3.00, at drug stores. If your druggist doesn’t have it in stock order by mail of us. We pay the postage. Enough for four meals, including a very interesting book about Taroena, ‘‘ The SAMPLE 10 food that digests itselt,”” will be mailed on receipt of roc. to pay for packing and mailing 1 » TARO FOOD CO., Box C, DANBURY, CONN. (wr | ** Chocolates and Confections Always the center of attraction. For sale where the best is sold. 4, Instantaneous Chocolate Made instantly with boiling milk. STEPHEN F. WHITMAN & SON, 1316 Chestnut St., Philadelphia Established 1842. UWA MMM e Econuine : a | Wearever Alum LL housewives should know about Wear- ever Aluminum Utensils—why Aluminum is best and why Wearever is the most | H durable. These are thicker metal and stronger made, in every way, than any other Aluminum [ff 1 Wares. Wearever Aluminum Utensils Save Money— Muscle—Health—Worry—Fuel— Materials . THE rich purity of the chocolate, the Hq . “ ) fine New Orleans sugar cane mo- q They are light to handle, bright as silver, | lasses and the fresh clover honey- ] clean, sanitary as glass, and unbreakable. | this and our own process of honey- 1 : . ; combing give Taylor-Made chips their @ That you may try Wearever Utensils without [ff crisp deliciousness. So good you al- ; expenditure, we offer an Aluminum Sauce- {ff ways want more. { ‘ a ; an for 25 cents, sent prepaid on receipt of price. Pp ; » prep oar pt peice, To any lady who sends Fill it with milk and boil it down over a | | us the name of her moderate fire, and prove to yourself that , candy dealer and five Aluminum utensils are less liable to scorch. = | 2c. stamps es pee Some @ You'll never use any other utensils when Sue fanaa ooumualion Seales tried or Wes oS WEAREVER i our famous confection. xr bear this mark and are guaranteed. 45] TAYLOR BROS. CO Ask for booklets describing our full line. - FAC ware 19 Taylor Bidg. ALUMINUM COOKING UTENSIL co. ‘C}¥S/ B Box P, Pittsburg, Pa. TRADE MARK een ae When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine Our 20 Years of Film EXPERIENCE If there is any one line of business in which experience is more important than in any other, that line is the manufacture of highly sensitive photographic goods. And of all photographic processes, film making is the most difficult. It has taken us more than twenty years to learn what we know about making film. . And in that twenty years we have also learned how to make the per- fect raw materials which are absolutely essential to the manufacture of film—materials which cannot be obtained in the market with a certainty that they will be what they should be. We nitrate our own cotton for the film base; we nitrate our own silver forthe emulsion. We go further, we even make the acid with which the cotton and silver are nitrated. Wherever it is possible to improve the completed product by manufac- turing the raw material, we erect a factory and make that raw material. Five years ago we felt that we were approaching film perfection, but no concern, even if it could make film as good as that was, could compete in quality with the Kodak N. C. Film of to-day. But experience is not the only advantage that our chemists and film makers enjoy. They have access to the formulae of the chemists who make the best dry plates in the world. The Kodak films of to-day have in them the com- bined knowledge of the most expert film makers and the most expert plate makers. The wise amateur will be sure that he gets the film with experience behind it. There are dealers, fortunately not many, who try to substitute inferior films from inexperienced makers, the only advantageous feature which these films possess being the ‘‘ bigger discount to the dealer’’. Amateurs, especially those who leave their Kodaks with the dealer to be loaded, should make sure that substitution is not practised against them. The film you use is even more important than the camera you use. Be sure it’s Kodak film with which you load your Kodak. Remember: If it isn’t Eastman, it isn’t Kodak Film. Look for ‘“‘ Eastman” on the box. Look for “‘ Kodak” on the spool end. EASTMAN KODAK Co. Rochester, N. Y. The Kodak City. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine Ee ACHILD 2 at N10 a ys ‘ Think of It, Madam ! A little child can renew your Piano, Furniture and Woodwork by just wiping the surface with a cloth moistened with Liquid Veneer. When we say renew, we mean that the whole interior of your house, from the par- lor to the kitchen, from a $1000 Piano to a 50c, Kitchen Chair, can be made to glisten just like new, with no labor at all, just wiping the surface as though dusting with acloth, It’ssimply wonderful as a cleaner and disinfectant. It will draw grimy, dusty matter from every nook, corner and crevice and carry it away with the cloth, leaving the surface smooth, sanitary and with a beauti- ful, high glossy newness. THINK OF IT! There’s no drying to wait for, it’s not a varnish, nostickiness, muss, brush or cans, no expensive painters to bother with. Try iton your next dusting day. Use iton your picture frames, fancy gold chairs, chandeliers. You will get nothing but delightful results; nothing but good. Large bottle reno- vates average home, 50c. BOTTLE At Grocers, Druggists, Hardware and Furniture Dealers. Send us your dealer’s name and address and we BUFFALO SPECIALTY CO., 381 Ellicott St., BUFFALO, N.Y. will mail youa trial bottle entirely free. The ‘Best’? Light not only in name, but in character. It makes and burns its own gas—produces a more brilliant and powerful light than electricity or acetylene. Portable and cheap. candle power. Absolutely Capacity, 100 no DIRT, CREASE or ODOR. Made in over 100 styles—every one warranted. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. THE BEST LICHT COMPANY, Owners of Original Patents and S26E. Sth STREET, CANTON, OHIO. Licensee Campbell Patent. INCE '77 we have been seeking your trade in pocket knives, razors and shears direct by mail. A million customers carry our goods to-day. You love a keen blade; we rest our reputation on sending you that kind. No. 34 we call **Qur Masterpiece ”’; weighs only 2 ozs.; 3 cutting blades; will cut a quill pen or an ax-handle; price, with ebony handle, postpaid, $1.25; ivory, $1.50; choicest pearl, $2. Our Jack-Knife sells at 75c.; our special price is 48€., postpaid, 5 for $2. Every blade file-tested; warranted; replaced free if soft or flawy. Razor-steel 7-in. Shears, 6oc.; both Jack-Knife and Shears $x. Barbers’ hollow-ground Razor, and Strop to suit, $1.33. Pruning Knife, 75c.; Grafting, 25c. Budding, 35c.; Colo. Stock Knife, 3 blades, $r. Desk Knife, 2 blades, 75c. <2 Send for free 80-page list and ** How to Use a Razor.” MAHER & GROSH CO. 77 A St., Toledo, Ohio. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine ———$_ $$ —_—___—_ On Approval. Freight Paid Bsn $1.00 sa" $1.75 Be ra 66 o9 aT CROWS WITH OUR LIBRARY 4v FITS ANY SPACE Sectional Bookcase Pronounced the Best by its Thousands of Users Lundstrom cases are made under our own patents, in our own ase and the entire production is sold direct to the home and office, That is the reason we can offer them at such reasonable prices. In pur chasing a Lundstrom Sectional Bookcase you are not helping to test a doubtful experiment, but are getting an article which time and erperi- ence have proven a wonderful success. Our sectional bookcases are the roduct of years of undivided attention to this one line of manufacture, ery book section has a non-bindl: disappearing £0, door and ig ighly finished in Sulid Golden Oak. Tops and bases, $1.00 each, All goods sold direct from factory only a The C. J. LUNDSTROM MFG. CO., Little Falls, N.Y. Write for illustrated catalogue No. 60-J Mfrs. of Sectional Bookcases and Filing Cabinets, Fifty Dollars! Payable $10.00 down and $6.00 per month, without interest, buys a high grade No. 4 rebuilt r ay -Sholes APPEAL TO YOUR SENSE Typewriter. AND YOUR SENSES with cloth cover, box of tools, and instruction book. The No. 4 Fay-Sholes has standard key- The Smith Premier is the most board of 38 keys, producing 76 characters, ‘ ? and takes paper up to 9% silent typewriter on the market. inches wide, and writes a ‘ ; : . : line 7% inches long; has rhe action is quiet; no shift key. light easy key action; is ; fast enough for the Endorsed by mechanical experts. speediest operator; does as good work 5 s ‘ - and will wear as long THE SMITH PREMIER TYPEWRITER Co, as any new machine : es made. : SYRACUSE, N. Y. No. 2 rebuilt Fay- Sholes for $37.50, Branch Stores Everywhere payable $7.50 down, balance- $5.00 per month, while not quite so good as the No. 4 model, are the best low priced standard typewriters ever offered. These typewriters are sold by mail only. The prices are the same whether machines are taken singly or one hun- dred in a lot. No discounts; no commission paid to anyone for selling them—just 100 cents’ worth of good typewriter value for every dollar you invest. It won’t cost you anything to find out all about them if you don’t buy, and if you do buy and are not satisfied you can have your money back. THE ARITHMOGRAPH CO., 109 Rees St., Chicago The Best Cooking Range Made | THE LOCKE ADDER Beene $10 to $20 Saved. : —- ——— FREIGHT PAID. Your money refunded after 6 months’ trial if The CLAPP’S Modern e IDEAL Business Necessity CAPACITY 999.999.999 STEEL The famous Calculating Machine, Enthusiastically endorsed the RANGE world over. Rapid, accurate, simple, durable, Two models: ox- idized copper finish, $5.00; oxidized silver finish, $10.00 ; prepaid in is not 50 per cent. better than U.S. Write for Free Booklet and Special Offer. Agents wanted. en tke tiie enh eae: C. E. Locke Mfg. Co. 66 Walnut St., Kensett, lowa coal, freights and skilled labor are cheapest and best, enables me tofurnisha TOP NOTCH ELECTRIC POCKET LAMPS 3 Steel Range ataclear sav- . & cents (Posta ald) ing of $10 to $20. Send for catalogue of five distinct lines—over fifty ae : S Press the a aod a Rares invent splendid styles and sizes, with or without reservoir, for city, town or country use. . light. Conveniently carried in pocket. Send 6sc. A ; ill mail ne. CHESTER D. CLAPP, 611 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. oe s= — “e a o (PRACTICAL STEEL RANGE Man.) is CEs J Electric Novelty Co., Avenue B, Galveston, Tex. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine A Shabby House Anyone is a Falling House. Paint — good paint—not only beautifies, it preserves. When paint is shabby the building is beginning to deteriorate. Wood is costly; paint—the best paint—is cheap. It is a penny-wise policy to economize by sparing paint when it is needed. Fresh, glossy paint is in itself an evi- dence of refinement and prosperity, while dowdy paint is to a house what doubtful linen is to the person. True paint economy is to select paint that is durable in tint and substance—pure oil paint based chiefly on OXIDE OF ZINC. The NEW JERSEY ZINC CO. An Interesting Pamphlet: “ Paint: 73 Broadway Why, How and When," Free. NEW YORK We do not grind zinc in oil, A list of Manufacturers of High Grade Zinc Paints sent on application. "SECTIONAL BOOK CASES = “YOU DONT GET DON WHEN YOU BUYA GUAM} Roller bearing, non-binding doors, remov= able (to clean or replace broken glass) by simply unhooking. No unsightly iron bands or protruding shelves. Cabinet work and finish the best Grand Rapids production, Sections so nicely joined to- gether the appearance is that of a solid case A handsomely illustrated booklet in colors, “aes how to furnish a library in your home simply yet thoroughly artistic, sent FREE on request. Gunn Sectional Book Cases on sale by all leading furniture dealers or direct from the factory. “ Awarded Gold Medal, World's Fair, St. Louts."* GUNN FURNITURE CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. : Makers of Gunn Desks and Filing Cabinets Write us now while you think of zt. The most com- plete and practi- ‘ cal book on“beau- \ tifying the home’ \ ever written. Worth et $25.00 or more to © ~¥ Elegant new edt- home lovers. ‘ —tion. Excels the 950,000 \ copies of previous editions. Write at once vor above book‘‘The Proper Treatment for Floors, Woodwork and Furniture,” and learn how easily and inexpensively you can beautify your home. Tells all about wood-finishing—how to make pine look like finest hardwood —how to produce all the latest finishes and the cost. Sent FREE by manufacturers of Johnson’s Prepared .Wax “A Complete Finish and Polish for All Wood,” For Floors, Furniture and Woodwork Produces a lasting, artistic polish to which dirt and dust will not adhere. It will not crack, blister, peel off, or show laps. Heel marks and scratches will not show. Because John- son's Prepared Wax contains more polishing wax to the pound than any other, it covers the most surface and produces the best, most lasting. sanitary finish and polish with the least effort. Fine for preserving and polishing oil-cloth and lino- leum. Try it. Johnson’s Prepared Wax is sold by all dealers in paint— 46 1b. can, 30 cents; 1 and 2 lb. cans, 60 cents per pound; 4,5 and 8 lb. cans, 50 cents per pound. Write today for book,and mention edition KS10. S.C. JOHNSON & SON, Racine, Wis. “The Wood-Finishing Authorities’’ Johnson’s Polishing Mitt * For Use On Furniture and Woodwork FREE for label from 1 1b. or larger can of Johnson’s Prepared Wax. To remove label plac? can in aot water or steam. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan °

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Cosmopolitan Magazine ere | Retail Prices, ° SPECIAL STYLES EXTRA Constant Vigilance is OUR MOTTO: the Price of Quality. Our shoes will demonstrate to you what this vigilance can accomplish. @ Leading retailers all over the country are selling James Means’ shoes. ASK YOUR RETAILER. If he does not have them in stock, or if he offers a substitute, write our mail order department (the oldest in the shoe trade), and the shoes will be shipped you promptly. Ask for Style Book 10, and we will send you with it our circulars describing our precision system for self-measurement. This insures ab- solute accuracy of fit. @. James Means’ shoes are made 1n unlimited variety, a large number of which are illus- trated in our style book. Charles A. Eaton Company, Makers: BROCKTON When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan ee ee $2.50 and $3.00 Style 9592 (One of 60) Box Calf Blucher. A shce that will give full measure of service. Price, $3.00 Delivered prepaid to any post or express office in U. S. for $3.25

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Cosmopolitan Magazine A Shoe for Young Men who do not object to perfect comfort and long wear, but who must have correct and graceful styles. Here is a model the duplicate of which you can find on nine out of every ten of New York’s fashionable dressers this fall. The best patent colt upper, extension sole, built on the exclusive Ralston idea, viz: Five distinct layers—leather, cork, felt and rubber, and so moulded as to follow the natural lines of the foot bottom. As a customer writes us: ‘‘It fits like your foot-print in the sand.’”’? Ralston shoes require no ‘“‘break- ing in,’’ and retain their custom made appearance to the last day of their long wear. Send for Our Fall Style Book and learn more about the Ralston Idea that has solved the problem of making a ‘‘Health Shoe,’’ a thing of grace as well as comfort, On request we will send you the name of our agent nearest you; or we will send your shoes direct by mail at the regula- Stock No. 91. tion ¥ $e.00' (plus 2sc. to bay - eer y [pues to ~atent Corona Col- satisfy you perfectly, both as to style an t, or money é: Divche r. Willse- promptly refunded. Price in Canada, $5. Union Made cure perfect comfort Onty the genuine Corona Colt with dressy and slender f Col: appearance forany foot. used in all our Patent Shoes. Ano 1al pattern not ' inna” - other . nakes. Ralston Health Shoemakers 980 Main Street Campello ( Brockton) Mass. MEN WANTED $1,200 to $1,800 a Year taking orders for our men’s Made-to-Measure | clothing. | Work is easy and pleasant. Sales quickly made. | Your commissions promptly paid, Large and hand- | somely illustrated catalogue to every agent. Hundred kinds of suitings for your customers’ selection, Goods | sent C, O, D, subject to examination. Positively the greatest offer ever made. No previous experience required, It’s a splendid opening for ONE GOOD MAN IN EVERY TOWN Don’t miss the opportunity. Write us now, and get the particulars of this wonderful offer before we appoint somebody | else in your town, BENSON & RIXON TAILORING ASS’N 959 to 965 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, Ill. REFERENCE: Western Trust & Saving gs Bank, Chicago. Capital $r, 00 BUY FURS «: MAKER — Furs made by Albrecht, St. Paul, are right in material, workmanship, style and price. They also carry | with them, Albrecht’s 50 years ex- | perience in Furs exclusively and a S a guarantee of quality equal to the uspen ers “ mark sterling on silver. Send for The only gentleman's suspender. Made in sizes our catalogue. It i 1S the world’s au to fit. Prevent baggy trousers. Webbing inimi- thority on fur fashions. It contains table. Buttonholes indestructible. a sales ‘ : . os OVET 2,000,000 pairs. rand Prize. St uiS, 1904. rooillustrations,describesand gives None Seine atti the name ** Ch. Guyot’ Was prices of every thing in furs. Costs the buckle,’ us 50c., yours for 4 cents in stamps. soc everywhere, or by mail, postpaid, on receipt of soc to FE. ALBREC Box 32P. 20 E. 7TH ST. OSTHEIMER BROS., 900 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia HT & SON, ST. PAUL, MINN. America’s Great Fur Shop When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine It is a known fact that the blood conveys nourishment to all parts of the body. It is likewise known that exercise makes the blood circulate, and that where the blood does not circulate no nourishment is supplied. The lack of proper circulation of blood in the scalp, due mainly to congestion produced by arti- ficial causes, results in the starva- tion of the hair roots, and pro- duces falling hair and baldness. Therefore the logical and only relief from baldness is in the restoration of the scalp to its normal condition, thus enabling the blood to resume its work or nourishing the hair roots. It was work along these logical lines that produced and perfected THE EVANS VACUUM CAP. The Evans Vacuum Cap provides the exercise which makes the blood circulate in the scalp. It gently draws the rich blood to the scalp and feeds the shrunken hair roots. This causes the hair to grow. It is the simple, common-sense principles of physical culture scientifically applied to the scalp. Easy and Pleasant to Use. The Evans Vacuum Cap is portable and can readily be attached to any ordinary straight back chair. Three or four minutes’ use each morning and evening is all that is required. It leaves a pleasant tin- gling sensation for a few moments after use, indicating the presence of new life in the scalp. Method of Testing. You can tell by a few minutes’ use of the Evans Vacuum Cap whether it is possible for you to cultivate a growth of hair on your head, and we will send you the apparatus to make the experiment, without expense on your part. If the Evans Vacuum Cap gives the scalp a healthy glow, the normal condition of the scalp can be restored, and a three or four minutes’ use of the Cap each day thereafter will, within a reasonable time, develop a natural and permanent growth of hair. If. however, the scalp remains white and lifeless after the Cap is removed, there would be no use to give the appliance a further trial. The hair cannot be made to grow in such cases. The Bank Guarantee. We will send you, by prepaid express, an Evans Vacuum Cap, and will allow you ample time to prove its virtue. All we ask of you is to deposit the price of: the Cap in the Jefferson Bank of St. Louis, where it will remain during the trial period, subject to your own order. If you do not cultivate a sufficient growth of hair to convince you that the method is effective, simply notify the bank and they will return your deposit in full. We have no agents, and no one is authorized to sell, offer for sale or receive money for an Evans Vacuum Cap. All Gaps are sold under the bank’s guarantee, and all money is sent direct to Jefferson Bank. A sixteen-page illustrated book will be sent you free, on request. EVANS VACUUM CAP CO. 1043 Fullerton Building, St. Louis When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine THE DEAF ENGINEER of Detroit HOW HE REGAINED HIS HEARING. | A few years ago there was an electrical engineer in Detroit, Mich., who was so deaf that he could scarcely hear the roaring of his own engines and dynamos. After an attack of typhoid fever he had noticed his hearing was slightly affected. Years went by with the | deafness gradually getting worse in spite of the best treatment and the use of every device for the relief of deafness then known to science, until, as stated above, he had practically lost all sense of hearing. This engineer was a well-known inventor of mechanical de- | vices and he decided the human ear was nothing more nor less than a piece of mechanism, complicated perhaps, but still just a machine for carrying sound vibrations to the auditory nerve. Then he did just what he would do with one of his own dynamos which was not working right. He experimented in order to find out the best method of repairing or removing the cause of his | deafness. ; The trouble, as in nearly all cases of deafness, was in the natu- ral ear drum, which was so thickened that it could not catch the vibrations of sounds. The result of the experiments of this clever inventor is the most perfect artificial ear drum the world has ever seen. Every one who is at all hard of hearing should | write to the happy engineer of Detroit. His name | is Geo. P. Way and the name of his wonderful in- vention is “The Way Ear Drum.” These drums are scien- tifically constructed from a peculiarly sensitized ma- terial molded to fit ex- actly the opening to the inner ear and are entirely/{ invisible. During thej\ years devoted to perfect- ing his wonderful inven- tion, Mr. Way made hun- dreds of drums of differ- ent shapes and sizes be- fore he got his present perfect drum. Note in the illustration its pecu- liar shape—exhaustive experiments have proved that unless an artificial drum has these exact curves the sound waves are not caught as they should be. Note again how the drum is narrowed down to a small tube just where it strikes the natural ear drum. This feature alone is most valuable as it intensifies the sound waves and makes hearing possible even for those who have almost entirely lost all sense of sound, OF ORU! 1 THE EAR. Remember that these driims are entirely different from any | other artificial aid to hearing, and that these features are strongly | protected by patents and are found in no other drums except the | WAY. If you suffer at all with your hearing write to Mr. Way. | He has been deaf himself and knows how you feel. Prominent Detroit business men, after a careful investigation of the merits | of Mr. Way’s wonderful device, have given strong financial sup- port, and stand behind Mr. Way and his invention. Detroit's | best physicians indorse these drums and recommend their use to their patients. Write a frank statement of how you became deaf, how long your hearing has been defective and how much trouble you have with your ears. Mr. Way will be equally frank with you and will tell you whether or | not the Way Ear Drums will help you. Address your letter personally to MR. GEO. P. WAY, 1074 Majestic | Building, Detroit, Mich. HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS. rings the benefits of the HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, right into your home. WITHOUT the trouble, time and expense. WITH the comfort, exclusiveness and pleasant environment of your own house. 10 SULPHUR BATHS, $1.00. (4 oz. Mailing Bottle, 50c.) SULPHUME SOAP is a luxury when used for the toilet, bath or shaving. All soaps, 25c. the cake. All Sulphume Preparations are GuaArR- ANTEED PURE and BENEFICIAL and should be on sale at first-class druggists. If not, we will furnish direct, express prepaid. The facsimile . on every package of ‘WAAADro4 genuine goods. , Our booklet, ‘‘ History of Sulphur and Its Benefits to Health,’’ mailed free on ap- plication. Special Calendar Offer. We have secured the exclusive right to Paul de Longpre’s new Art Calendar for 1906, containing six new, original, signed Violet designs, 11x15, which could not be purchased at retail for less than One Dol- lar. This beautiful portfolio of Art will be mailed to each appli- cant, postage pre- paid, on receipt of 25c. SVLPHUME CO., 42 VESEY STREET, New York City. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine DO YOU ENJOY YOUR MEALS AFTER YOU HAVE EATEN THEM? reece ee - - - niemiteiommntl = OU NEED MY HELP! MY FREE BOOK ON STOMACH DISEASES is a condensed explanation of each kind of stomach trouble told in plain language. It tells how The Laubie Reconstructive Treatment reaches the seat of the trouble and effects a positive, permanent cure. It tells the reason for my success in treating all diseases of the digestive tract and explains the natural laws on which The Laubie Reconstructive Treatment is based. Remember I do not want to sell you any medicines or tonic to act as temporary stimulants or to deaden your nerves so you won’t know your condition. My scientific treatment is based on nature’s own Jaws and overcomes severe, complicated and long standing dyspeptic troubles. My free book may mean health and — to you. Now is the time to send for it. It costs nothing. R. W. LAUBIE, M.D., 404 Colonial Arcade, CLEVELAND, OHIO. HOW | MAKE THE BLIND SEE AND CURE ALL EYE DISEASES Without the Knife or Pain Patient's Own Home in Glasses Are Thrown Away CATARACTS, and all other eye diseases which produce blindness, are caused by poor circulation of blood in the eye, the result of eye strain some time in the past. It is folly to attempt to restore the usefulness of the eye by apply- ing a knife to any of the delicate, intricate parts. Think of the pain, suffering, blindness and even death that has been caused by the use of the knife on the eye. I discovered several years ago, a method of restoring the natural circulation of blood to the eyes, which is so simple that a child can apply it. When this treatment is applied it immediately removes all strain on the nerves and muscles of the eye, equalizing the circulation, thereby assisting nature in restoring the eye to its normal functions. Glasses are eye crutches. your eyes are crippled. After a course of my treatment you can discard your glasses (eye crutches) just like one can discard other crutches after recovering from a broken limb. book about eyes, sent free, tells all about it, and contains pictures of and letters from hundreds who have been cured. —— card will get the book, and I will give you my free advice if you will write me a short description of your case. Address Dr. Oren Oneal, Suite 511, 52 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill. You have to wear them because Men Should Know More About Pelvic Weakness Waen men begin to suffer from weakened nerve force, constant depression, gloomy forebodings, they attri- bute their troubles to almost everything but the proper ‘cause, which is Varicocele,and there should be noweason for this, for it can be told very easily by its symptoms, If you feel totally unfitted for active business life—always in a state of lassitude, or you suffer much discomfort, partic- ularly while standing—it is due to Varicocele, and unless it is checked at once the evil effects grow gradually until the entire system is undermined and something heroic must be done to avert a complete breaking down. Three Out of Five Have It This has been indisputably proven by medical statistics, but to such sufferers I say, Don’t let quacks get hold of you; don’t submit tothe knife ; don’t pay enormous sums to so-called specialists, Cure Yourself at Home with my patent device as thousands of others have done without any inconvenience, I guarantee it will cure any case of Varicocele pain- lessly, rapidly and permanently without loss of time from business. Send me only $2.00 and receive this guaranteed treatment, sealed in a plain package, with simple in- structions, by return mail, Mark M. Kerr, M.D., 301 Park Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio, U. S. A. You should read my treatise on the cause, effect and cure of Varicocele, which I send sealed free of charge. My non-metal spring, elastic water pad, hand pressure truss, for the hasasdiae relief and radical cure of Rupture, sent postpaid in a plain package for only @2, LADIES to do piecework at their homes. We furnish all material and pay from $7 to @12 weekly. Experi- ence unnecessary. Send stamped envelope to ROYAL CO.,, Dept, A, 34 Monroe Street, Chicago. having Fancywork to sell, Embroideries, Battenburg and LADIE Drawnwork, also to do Orderwork. Send stamped envelope. LADIES EXOHANGE, Dept. A, 34 Monroe 8t., Chicago. SUPERFLUOUS HAIR PERMANENTLY REMOVED While traveling in Mexico I discovered a drug which removes hair from face, arms, neck, or any part of the body instantly and perma- nently, so will send to any one afflicted information. Don't fades my treatment by unsuccessful attempts of others. I have suffered for years with this affliction and now my life’s work is to help others from this humiliating trouble. My treatment is easy and accomplished at home, and I will forfeit $500 if it fails to remove hair. Don't suffer longer. Relief is now yours for the asking. Write now lest you forget my address, DOROTHY BLACK, 1815 North Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. DEAFNESS CURED removed. Therefore Ear Drums and other artificial aids never cure. 95 per cent. of all cases of Deafness is caused from Catarrh, and as Catarrh cannot exist under the use of “Actina,” nobody need be Deaf where the Actina Pocket Battery is obtainable. Are you seeking a cure? Then investigate **Actina,’’? Write today for a valuable book— Prof. Wilson’s Dictionary of Disease—Free,. New York & London Electric Ass’n, Dept. 8 D, Kansas City, Mo. ASTH M No relapse. No return of choking spells or other asthmatic symptoms, Whetzel system of treatment approved by best U. S. Medical authorities as the only system known to permanently cure the disease. FREE TEST TREATMENT, including medicines, pre- pared for any one giving a full description of the case and send- ing names of two asthmatic sufferers. Address FRANK WHETZEL, M.D. DEPT. L, AMERICAN EXPRESS BUILDING, CHICAGO Cured to Stay Cured. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine If you are short you will appreciate the unpleasant and humiliating position of the little man in the illustration, But you are probably unaware that it is no longer necessary to be short and uncomfortable. The Cartilage Company, of Rochester, N. Y., is the owner of a method whereby it is possible to add from two to three inches to the stature. It is called the “Cartilage - System’’ because it is based upon a scientific and physioiogi- cal method of expanding the cartilage, all of which is . clearly and fully explained in a booklet entitled ‘How to Grow Tall,’? which is yours for the asking. ° The Cartilage System builds up the entire body har- moniously. It not only increases the height, but its use means better health, more nerve force, increased bodily development and longer life. Its use necessitates no drugs, no internal treating, no operation, no hard work, ~ no big expense. Your height can be increased, no mat- ter what your age or sex may be, and this can be done at home without the knowledge of others. This new and original method of increasing one’s height has re- ceived the enthusiastic endorsement of physicians and instructors in physical culture. If you would like to add to your height, so as to be able to see in a crowd, walk without embarrassment with those who are tall, and enjoy the other advantages of proper height, you should write at once for a copy of our free booklet *‘ How to Grow Tall.’ It tells you how to accomplish these results quickly, surely and permanently. Nothing is left unex- plained. After you read it, your only wonder will be “Why did not some one think of it before?” Write to-day— THE CARTILAGE COMPANY 102A Unity Bldg., ROCHESTER, N.Y. Reached by the New Jersey Central VESTIBULED COACHES , LAKEWOOD BOOK C. M. BURT, Gen’! Pass. Agt., New York and PARLOR CARS 3 s# Seuouaer oe. ‘. ces ILLUSTRATED—2c. in Stamps When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine You! | = Will You? Not thereby his salary, by improving his spare time. Your pay depends on your knowledge; therefore you control your own salary, If you are getting small pay itis because you are doing a grade of work that hundreds of others can do equally well. Our instruction will fit you for a higher rade in your present line, or in an entirely different line. 3ig firms are eagerly searching for engineers capable of di- recting their vast enterprises, to whom they can pay sala- ries as great as $10,000 a year. The Engineer is not the man in overalls with the oil can and waste in his hand. He is the man who designs the engine which the other man runs. He is the master mind who conceives, plans, and directs the work of hundreds of other men. ENGINEERING TAUGHT BY MAIL If you cannot go to a technical school it can be brought to your door by the postman. Our students study under the direction of the same teachers who have charge of the laboratories and classes of Armour Institute of ‘Technol- ogy, thus bringing for the first time to engineering corre- spondence students the standards and thoroughness of resident school instruction. Students desiring to continue their studies and take a degree in residence will be given proper credit by Armour Institute of Technology. You are no different from the thousands of others who have succeeded by this means, and you can,if you wi//. If you wé//, you will write to-day for full information re- garding the course needed to fit you fora position in the course marked “X.” This costs you nothing; xeither will it bring an agent to annoy you for all time to come. We employ no agents, All money baid by the student is used in instructing the student. Tuition fees are moderate—from $10 up—and may be paid in small monthly payments. COUPON— CUT OUT AND MAIL TO-DAY Please send me 200-page handbook. I am interested in the course marked ** X.”’ Mechanical Drawing Municipal Engineering Electrical Engineering Railroad Engineering Central Station Work Surveying Electric Lighting Ifydraulics Electric Railways Structural Drafting .. Telephone Practice Complete Architecture Mechanical Engineering Architectural Engineering Telegraphy Contractors’ and Build Shect Metal Pattern Drafting Course Machine-Shop Practic« Cotton Course lieating, Ventilation, and Woolen and Worsted Goods y i Course ineering init Goods Course veering Col Preparatory Course mnineering littin:; for er to engineer- tructural Engineering Z ol | Every man can, if he wi//, increase his knowledge, and | Address Occupation , opolitan Oct. “05 pukink iahciclan AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CORRESPONDENCE ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — at Armour Institute of Technology When you write, please 1

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Cosmopolitan Magazine Most Ancient Cordials Liqueur eres Chartreux —CREEN AND YELLOW— THIS FAMOUS CORDIAL, NOW MADE AT TAR- RAGONA, SPAIN, WAS FOR CENTURIES DIS- TILLED BY THE CARTHUSIAN MONKS (PERES CHARTREUX) AT THE MONASTERY OF LA GRANDE CHARTREUSE, FRANCE, AND KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AS CHARTREUSE. THE ABOVE CUT REPRESENTS THE BOTTLE AND LABEL EMPLOYED IN THE PUTTING UP OF THE ARTICLE SINCE THE MONKS’ EX- PULSION FROM FRANCE, AND IT IS NOW KNOWN AS LIQUEUR PERES CHARTREUX (THE MONKS, HOWEVER, STILL RETAIN THE RIGHT TO USE THE OLD BOTTLE AND LABEL AS WELL), DISTILLED BY THE SAME ORDER OF MONKS WHO HAVE SECURELY QUARDED THE SECRET OF ITS MANUFAC- TURE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS AND WHO ALONE POSSESS A KNOWLEDGE OF THE ELEMENTS OF THIS DELICIOUS NECTAR, At first-class Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels, Cafés, Butjer & Co., 45 Broadway, New York, N, Y. Sole Agents for United States, ROYALTY PAID 373 , Musical, Compositios | SONG - POEMS “TERE a striking differ- ence between ordinary ale and the delicious blending of the fra- grant hop contained in every bottle of There you find ale in its best and most enjoyable form. The difference is not alone in the ingredi- ents—there’s the brewing and bottling as well and Crown Corks if desired. Afppetizing, Refreshing, Rejuvenating and Wholesome. Equally eratifying with a solid meal or light repast. An Ideal Beverage for Everyone ANY DEALER ANYWHERE Cc. H. EVANS & SONS, HUDSON, N. Y. ESTABLISHED 1786, DON’T SHOUT! “The Morley” makes low sounds and whispers plainly heard. A miniature Telephone for the Ear—invisible, easily adjusted, and entirely comfortable. Over fifty thousand sold, giving instant relief from deafness and head noises. There are but few cases of deafness that can- not be benefited. Write for booklet and testimonials. | The Morley Company, Dept. 80, 34 South 16th Street, | | BY —_—-34 South 16th Street, Philadelphia. and Musical Compositions. We arrange and popularize. PIONEER MUSIC PUB. CO. (Iac.) B 871 Manhattan Building, CHICAGO, ILL. onN—_—— Here is a Time Stamp You Should Know About No Matter What Business You’re In The Perry Time Stamp, unlike and far better than any time stamp ever made. Prints the month, day, hour and minute on any surface where a rubber stamp can print. THE PERRY TIME STAMP PORTABLE. SELF-INKING. AUTOMATIC Prevents delay in handling orrespondence, orders, telegrams, invoices, shipping goods, etc. Unequale for factory cost systems and timing employees. Guaranteed one year—will last a lifetime. onias See our exhibit, Office Appliances Show, Madison Square Garden, N. ¥. City, Oct. 28 to Nov. 4. acy Write for latest¥edition, No. 35, our FREE 00 2 Tells whole story of the Business Man's Time > On ask for particulars of our Ten-Day FREE Tria‘ Offer. PERRY TIME STAMP CO. 3 W. Madison Street, Chicago 29 Thames Street, New York BRANCH OFFICES IN ALL IMPORTANT CITIES When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine How I Treat Men NE MAN in every ten has Varicocele. This is a fact, established by gov- ernment statistics. Are you, Reader, that Tenth Man? If so, this is written for your bene- fit; to prove to you that there is a safe, sure way, out of your trouble. Why do I cure Varicocele—always? Because I have studied this disease more closely and to better purpose than any living man. And my equipment and facilities for treat- ment are the best in the world, today. Over 15,000 men—bankers, brokers, lawyers, farmers, stockmen, railroad officials, politicians, business and professional men of all kinds—have been successfully treated by my Direct Method. A record unequalled in medical history! A record of practical results, full of encourage- ment for the Tenth Man who is earnestly seeking acure. Manysincere, well-meaning physicians fail to cure Varicocele. Because they make the mis- take of regarding it as only a local trouble. They do not know that it is a disease of the circulatory system, with an insidious capacity for harm almost without limit. That discovery is mine! For I was the first to discover and prove that the stagnant blood in the paralyzed veins sets up the process of toxic poisoning I have no medicines to sell you—no apparatus of any kind—no C.O.D.offers —nothing but my profes- sional services. I give you sanita- rium treatment only, and will not take your case unless you place yourself under my personal care. If you will do this—if you will come here and spend a few days with me—the cause of your trouble will be removed pleasantly, painlessly and restfully. Can you spend your time and money to better purpose? Is there anything on earth worth more to you than restoration to perfect health? I have done my part. _ [have paid for this space to tell you w/y the Richardson Direct Method will cure your Varicocele. The responsi- bility is now yours. And I leave the decision with you. My book—138 pages—4%x9 inches — Leather Bound—contains complete and valuable information of vital importance to every man suffering from Vari- cocele. Price $1.00. FREE to you if you will write me a full description of your case, or will call upon me personally. No letters answered or books sent unless all symptoms are given. Hours 9 to 3 daily, D. D. Richardson, M. D. 22 East Adams St., Chicago And that the result is a contamination of the entire system through the blood stream and nerve currents which flow to every part of the body. - You see, therefote, how easily neglected Varicocele—a progressive disease which never cures itself—can cause other serious troubles: Paralysis, Nervous Debility,. Melancholia, Insom- nia, Epilepsy, Insanity. The blood is the foundation of nerve power. Impure, thin, vitiated, sluggish blood fails to supply a stable foundation for nerve structures. Decay and waste of vital energy always occur when proper nerve nourishment is lacking. When the nerve cells are fed on possoned blood for months or years, you can understand why the injury to the nervous sys- tem isso serious. And you can realize, too, why my method, ap- plied directly to the neu- tralizine of the toxins (poisons) in the blood— as well as to the correc- tion of the local trouble— is successful, where the usual methods of pure/y Jocal treatment fail to give more than temporary re- lief; mere “‘patching up,” which leaves the patient worse off than ever. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine \ rae Talcum "I PN Toulet © pPowder, Patent Lea- Ge : a. e 4 A_positive Relief 4 ther Lace eas ; ie gato yams teat t Boot, Genuine bert: a f | unburn. Be sure that you get the original, For sale everywhere or by Seal Top, Heavy Mail 2c. Sample Free. Try Mennen’s Violet Talcum, Extension Sole, Extreme GERHARD MENNEN CO., Newark, N. J. Narrow Toe. The cumulative skill of modern shoe I Turned Out $301.27 craftsmen is expressed in this model. ) cea cuthss. Mov. Gee P. truwten wetom meas Geass A trifle extreme in style, but fully in Fay plating. Teee. Parker, sdheel tocehes Shenae keeping with good taste. A rare union (-+ - ee ee ee ee” Paes of service an elegance which has won Free—No Experience Required. very: f to be plated. We plate with Gold, Silver, the man who cares. as, cen iam Ue Genes Meer the favor o ai Panto—test, ort aoe or humbug. Patri tfits 8. le Style Book shows "a fit for every LET US START YOU, Write for Cataloguc, Agency and Offer, foot." Send for it. FB. Gray & Co., Plating Works, Cincinnati, Ohio. Most styles sell for $5.00 a NO STOVE BURN AIR-IT’S CHEAP ties: Florsheim & Company Consumes 895 Barrels of Air to one gallon of . ,.. Kerosene. Penny fuel, burns like gas, hottest CHICAGO, U.S. A. ; - fire, won’t explode, saves work and fuel bills. No : coal, wood, dirt, ashes—no wick, no valves, eas = operated, handsome, durable. Gran cooker, baker, quiok work, cool kit- chens. 18000 Harrison Wickless, NS —#40 Weekly. J MAKER. Guaranteed, ali sizes, sent anywhere, $8 up. Write, FREE roposition, 80 day trial offer. Price*i6o. World Mfg. Co., 5909" World B’id’g, Cincinnati, Ohio. 7 : Red C d R t on Household * ul e a es goods to or from Ee Dia mon d S on () pe fl Accou nt Colorado, California, Washington and mg ear Oregon. Write We will send ring like cut C. O. D. $30, subject . ” to examination, to any merchant with good Beekins Household Shipping Co., 95 B Washington St., Chicago rating or to individuals holding responsible positions. Balance may be paid in 30 days, 3 : WE ARE SELLING % off; 60 days, 2% off or 90 days net. Higher or low- . penery Eas, ees wd: ee $1.25 - -, er-priced Diamonds on same proportionate aan - . a: oe terms. Our unique catalog, showing a wealth of WaeAzd\ Electric Door Bells, —_75¢., $1.00, $1.25, Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry, will be sent a Carriage and Bicycle Lights, . ~~: 2,00 to free on request. y sprees es Boches Flash Lights, —_50c. to . 00 icai Batteries, e - . R. CHESTER FROST & CO. : Telegraph Outfits, ora... 215 (S219) STATE ST. = Boy TE aetce tiie ..) * ee ESTABLISHED 1881 CHICAGO 48, Dimsie sc T S0 to 900.00 ee Catalog free. Profits for agents. Ohio Elect*ic Works, Cleveland, 0. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine WINCHESTER . MODEL 1905 SELF-LOADING RIFLE. This rifle is a six-shot, hammerless take-down, made in .32 and .35 calibers, the car- tridges it handles being of the modern smokeless powder type, having excellent penetration and great shocking effect on animal tissue. As its name indicates, the Model 1905 is self-loading. The recoil of the exploded cartridge ejects the empty shell, cocks the hammer and feeds a fresh cartridge from the magazine into the chamber, leaving the rifle ready to shoot upon the operator’s pulling the trigger. The self-loading system permits rapid shooting with great accuracy, and on account of the ease and novelty of its operation adds much to the pleasure of rifle shooting, either at targetor game. The list price of the standard rifle of this model is $28.00. Send for Circular Fully Describing This Rifle. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO., NEW HAVEN, CONN, of#& PIANO Jr all PEOPLE, Q U I Cc K L ¥ D R I E D Gloss White STAPVP=2"A =I: AC applied to a I\WICHER CHAIR || produces a pure white enamel finish. A bright color- ed ribbon and cushion added makes an attractive piece of furniture fit for the best room in the house, For sale by all paint dealers, Write today for color card showing 13 colors, and |} if YOUR qealer|instructive booklet describin — / ep Jup-| Many uses for JAP*=A-LA A- ‘ica ee his NewYorr name and 10 cents to cover cost ss grrr ve we Wt LDALTIMORE [eee same l ji 20. any point in the WASHINGTON | | United States. NowteyY Gato. mo When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine " Ee Pm se , %, JIU-JITSU What would you do it attacked by a thug at close quarters? You never know when you may meet with such an attack. This is only one reason why every man and woman should know Jiu-Jitsu, especially women. With Jiu-Jitsu strength and size count for naught. It enables a little woman to over- throw a big, powerful man, It therefore atiords sure protec- tion from attack by thieves and thugs. You do not have to be strong to win with Jiu-Jitsu. Nor do you have to practice much to excel at it, but if you care to practice this perfect form of exercise, it will develop great strength more quickly than any other method of exercise known. It also teaches quickness, lightness, agility and grace of movement. oe A Free Lesson from the Greatest Master. To prove how easy it is to master the secrets of this fasci- nating art, in your own home, without apparatus of any kind, and to show you the difference between the real Jiu-Jitsu and the imitations that are being advertised, Mr. Y. K. Yabe, for- merly Director of the Ten-Shin Ryu School of Jiu-Jitsu in Japan, will send to anyone writing for ita complete lesson in Jiu-Jitsu free of all charge. What the Real Jiu-Jitsu Is. The art of Jiu-Jitsu as taught by Mr. Yabe is the method of phy sical training, and the system of offence and defence, used yy the Imperial Japanese soldiers for thousands of years. Much of the efficiency of this method is due to a number of simple but easy tricks, by which any assailant can be overcome. Until recently it has been a crime of high treason for anyone to disclose these secrets outside of the Imperial Schools, but Mr. Yabe secured permission to teach these arts in the United States If you wish to learn the art of self-defence; If you wish to know the tricks and secrets which will enable you to overcome anyone; If you wish to know the system which has made the Japanese the hardiest, strongest, bravest and toughest people in the world, notwithstanding their small size; If you wish to enjoy perfect health and to indulge in fascinating exercises that make you strong and vigorous; Write to-day for Mr. Yabe’s free lesson, and full particulars of the art of Jiu-Jitsu. YABE SCHOOL OF JIU-JITSU, 102A, Wisner Building, Rochester, N. Y. FRYER TO ENTERTAIN AND INFORM EVERY MEMBER of the FAMILY EVERY WEEK. The YOUTH’S OMPANION Will bring to the new subscriber in the fifty-two weekly issues of the 1906 volume (the new subscriber receiving also the niné weekly issues for Novem- ber and Deceniber free) SERIAL STORIES, which if bound in book form would make 7 vols., worth $1.25 each. 5 LEADING ARTICLES by men and women famous in all the great vocations. 1 5 SPECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS on sub- jects of the utmost interest and value. 2 5 GOOD STORIES by the most enter- taining of living writers of fiction. 1000 BRIEF NOTES on Current Events, Science and Natural History. 200 ANECDOTES, Poems, Humorous Sketches and Miscellany. Every New Subscriber Who cuts out and sends this slip at once (or men- tions this publication) with $1.75 for The Youth’s Companion for the 52 weeks of 1906 will receive: FREE The nine issues of The Companion for November and December, 1905. FREE The Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Double Numbers. FREE The “Minutemen”? Calendar for 1906, : in twelve colors and gold. As much reading in the year as would fill twenty octavo volumes. AA23, $12,000 will be divided equally among subscribers who secure five new subscriptions. Send for information, Announcement for 1906, and free Sample Copies of the paper. THE YOUTH’S COMPANION : Boston, Mass. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine You’ often see men whose figures would be perfect if it were not for TOO BAD! bow legs or knock-knees. No one need show such deformity. It can be hidden from the public eye by the use of our Pneumatic or Cushion Rubber Forms. They will make the legs appear straight and graceful, they cannot be detected and are aS easy a8 a garter. Attached and removed in a few seconds. Look at the picture on the left, then at the one on the right, same man, WITH PNEUMATIC FORMS. Hundreds of other men are no longer objects of ridicule, thanks to this ingenious aid. Worth while? Write for the book of bona fide illustrations and testimonials, mailed free in plain sealed envelope. THE ALISON CO., Dept. C, Buffalo, N. Y. OXYD O N O Pe avill give you good health and robust vitality without the use of medicines. Oxydonor is a simple material contrivance arranged in compliance with the requirements_of Natural Laws, causing the whole system to absorb oxygen from the air, animating the entire circulation of the blood with the vital element, thus pro- ducing the vigorous functioning of every organ of the body for good health and its fullest enjoyment. ne Oxydonor lasts a lifetime and will serve the whole family. after the purchase price. Write for free illustrated literature today. Mrs. C. A. Huff, Hallowell, Maine, writes: ‘I have had my Oxydonor eleven years. Would not take $25,000 for it if I could not obtain another.” Rev. William Sangree, Pastor Presbyterian church, Carlton, N. Y.. writes: ‘‘I have an Oxydonor Victory which has been in use in my family for ten years. Iwill not attempt to say how beneficial it has been. So far as I have been able to test it, it is all that you claim for it.’’ Avoid fraudulent imitations. The name of Dr. H. Sanche & Co. is stamped in the metal of the genuine Oxydonor. Look for that name. No expense ) U. 2268 (A. Montreal, Can. 61 Fifth St., Detroit, Mich. 61 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City. - S. m i Dr. H. Sanche & Co., 67 Wabash Ave., Chicago-Ill. (A. ‘Montreal Cant | WE All you have guessed about life insur- PAY ance may be wrong. If you wish to know the truth, send for “ How and Why,” POST: issued by the Penn Mutua Lift, AGE g21-3-5 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia HAIR GOODS PERFECT WIG FOR LADIES & FITTING GENTLEMEN Te detest: By My Scientific , Treatment Especially Prepared for Each Individual Case. I suffered for years with a humiliating 4 growth of hair on my F ce, and tried many rem- 4 edies without success; but I S ultimately discovered the True Secret for the permanent removal of hair, and for more than seven years have been applying my treatment to others, thereby ren- dering happiness to, and gaining thanks of, thous- ands of ladies. T assert and Will Prove to You, that my treat- ment will destroy the follicle and otherwise Permanently Remove the Hair Forever. No trace is left on the skin after using, and the treat- ment can be applied privately by yourself in your own chamber. iF YOU ARE TROUBLED, WRITE TO ME for further information, and I will convince you of all I claim, I will give prompt personal and Strictly Confidential attention to your letter. Being a woman, I know of the delicacy of such a matter as this, and actaccordingly. Address, HELEN DOUGLAS, 367 Douglas Building 20 East 22d Street, NEW YORK CITY My PU-RE-CO SOAP and CREAM removes and prevents wrinkles and preserves the skin. May be had at all the best druggists or direct from me. PU-RE-CO OREAM.,...........-50c. and 61.00 a jar, PU-RE-00 8OAP, a Box of Three Cakes........50¢. Stylish POMPADOURS, WAVY SWITCHES $3.00 up. Complexion Beautifiers. Illus. Catalog free. E. BURNHAM, Dept. 15, 70 State St., Chicago Opium Cure A large package of my y* remarkable cure for this 2 death-dealing habit sent Absolutely Free in plain package. Also valuable book (sealed) and confidential advice of specialist who has devoted a life’s study to this disease. The Purdy Treatment is not a “sub- stitute,’ but a true cure, a permanent one. symptoms depart at once. pressing after-effects. duties. blood, one’s All desires and No pain, nervousness or dee No interference with regular Also builds up brain and body, giving you new energy and life. Taken at home without any- knowledge. It has released thousands from the Never fails. grip of this awful disease. Send at once for Free Trial Treatment, Sealed Book and Advice. Address Dr.F.K. Purdy, Suite 35 Mitchell Bidg., Houston, Texas, When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine Good Figure Perfect Health more attractive than a Pretty Face Any Woman Can Have a Clear Skin, Strong Brain, Vivacious Manner You will doubtless take up some special study this year—why not study to make yourself perfect in health and figure with Over 15,000 Women are a clear brain so that you may be useful, at- studying themselves traciive and a source of pleasure to your tam- ily, to your friendsand to yourself. Many a woman has surprised her husband and friends by giving 15 minutes a day in the privacy of her own room to special directions which j.<—~ I give to her for the care of health, face and figure. he Istudy each woman’s case just as a physician studies it, the only f difference being that I strengthen and put in My Method place weakened organs by exercise for nerves and muscles controlling such organs, bring a good circulation of warm, pure blood which I purify by teaching correct breathing and by prescribing the special diet, bathing, etc., adapted to each individual. I strengthen all your vital organs, lungs, heart, merve centers and send your blood bounding through your veins as when achild. 1 develop or reduce your figure to correct proportions, I teach you to stand and to walk with an ease and dignity which at once bespeak culture and refinement. Every figure can be rounded out symmetrically unless bones are missing or tissues entirely wasted away, and the woman who carries Clear Skin and a_ from 20 to 100 Ibs. of superfluous flesh every time she moves Good Figure has my sympathy—but she does not need to do so—and surely it is every woman’s privilege and duty to keep herself attractive and pleasing. As women approach or pass middle life, they need more care in keeping a good circulation and the use of every faculty, so that No Woman Too Old they may be useful and a pleasure to self and family. I have hundreds of pupils over 70 and a few over 80, ‘“*My weight has increased thirty pounds.’’ ‘*My kidneys are much better.’’ ‘«My eyes are —— and I have taken off my glasses.’’ “| have not had a sign of gall stones since I began your work.’’ “I weigh 83 Ibs. less, and have gained wonderfully in strengtk.’’ “1am delighted with the effect of the exercise upon my catarrh.”’ “Just think of it! To be relieved from constipation. Entirely free after having it for 30 years.’’ “Have grown from a nervous wreck into a state of good, quiet nerves.”’ You Can Be Well Without Drugs Drugs relieve pain because of the morphine contained in most of them, but they do not remove the cause of your difficulty. I willsend you my little booklet on howto stand and to walk, free—every woman should have this, and if you will fill out the My Booklet Free enclosed coupon I will tell you what I can do for your case and 1 will send you extracts of letters from my pupils if I have helped similar cases. I do not give the name of a pupil unless she has given me permission to do so. will not work with you unless I feel Ican help you, because my time is nearly full. My advice and information in regard to my work is free. I wish you could read the reports from my pupils for one day—they would do your heart good, as they do mine. eG Susanna Cocroft, Room 42, 57 Washington St., Chicago . FILL OUT, CUT OFF AND MAIL THIS BLANK NOW Room 42 Will you not mark with the letter (X) on the attached blank the points which interest you and if there are any particulars in re- gard to your case which you feel I need, write me about them also, and I will tell you frankly whether I can help you, Too thin Round shouldered Superfluous flesh Prominent hips Protruding abdomen Height Weight Do you stand correct- ly? Thin chest Thin bust Thin neck Complexion Do you walk grace- fully ? Weakness Lame back Dullness Irritable Nerves Headaches Catarrh Dizziness Indigestion Constipation Liver Kidneys Lungs Heart Throat Colds Rheumatism Circulation Blood Is your health or figure imperfect in any way not mentioned here? Occupation What is your age? Married or single? Miss Cocroft, as President of the Physical Culture Extension Work in America, has had wide experience in prescribing individual work for women Learn the Truth Do you know that the main cause of unhappiness, ill-health, sickly children and divorce is admitted by physicians and shown by court records to be ignorance of the laws of self and sex. SEX OLOGY Lise Contains the following in one volume— a Young Man Should Have. a Young Woman Should Have, a Young Husband Should Have. a Young Wife Should Have. Knowledge } * rather Should Have. Knowledge } ¢ mother Shoulé Have. a Father Should Impart to His Son. | a Mother Should Impart to Her Daughter. Medical Knowledge a Husband and Wife Should Have. By WILLIAM H. WALLING, A. M., M. D. Price, postpaid, $2.00 Table of contents mailed free PURITAN PUB. CO., Dept. A, PHILADELPHIA, PA, When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine THE RADICAL SCIENTIFIC TREATMENT OF KIDNEY AND HEART DISEASES. If you or any of your friends are suffering from these diseases I wish you would write to any of the following I have cured, or if the case is urgent write direct to me: Senator James K. Jones, Hope, Ark.; C. F. Freeman, Mil- waukee, Wis.; Charles S. Taylor, Utica, N. Y.; Father Vattman, Fort Sheridan, Ill.; J. E. Hardy, Atwood Building, Chicago, Ill.; A. J. Krug, 598 West 32d Street, Chicago, IH.; John S. George, Milwaukee, Wis. SEND FOR MY FREE BOOK explaining my treatment, and in which testimonial letters from the above named persons and many others appear. There is positively no excuse for nine-tenths of the deaths from Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, and Heart Disease. To my personal knowledge many valuable lives are needlessly sacrificed every year because the attending physician obstinately refuses to heed the plain teach- ings of experience. I have never seen a case of Bright’s Disease, Dia- betes or Heart Disease properly treated by any other method than mine. I have never seen a case so far advanced that my treatment would not give prompt and great relief, and those cases are few and far between which it will not completely and permanently cure. After an exclusive practice of over twenty years I have determined to make my treatment as public and widely ex- tended as possible. I can give treatment just as effectively by mail at a distance as in my own office. I make no charge for advice by mail and my fee is moderate. R. C. FISHER, M.D.., 2003 Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. know you want to reduce your weight, but and conditionof body. At the end of five weeks probably you think it impossible or are afraid you _ are to report to me and I will send further the remedy is worse than the disease. treatment if necessary. Now, let me tell you that not only can y When you have reduced your flesh to the the obesity be reduced in a short time, but , me 6s desired weight, you can retain it. You your face, form and complexion will be will not become stout again. Your face improved, and in health you will be won- Pt and figure will be well shaped, your skin derfully benefited. Iam a regular prac- Mm will be clear and handsome, you will feel ticing physician, having madeaspe- £3 wa =6years younger. Ailments of the heart cialty of this subject. Here is what I ; tA and other vital organs will be cured. will do for you: First, I send youa Ey ae Double chin, heavy abdomen, flabby blank to fill out ; when it comes, I for- * eS cheeks and other disagreeable evidences ward a five weeks’ treatment. VG Ameer of obesity are remedied speedily. All You make no radical change in A patients receive my personal’atten- your food, but eat as much or as often 4 Oe tion, whether being treated by mail as you please. No bandages or tight 5 ae orin person. All correspondence an- lacing. No harmful drugs nor sick- aR ee swered by me personally. Treatment ening pills. My treatment is given ae for either sex. Distance makesno dif- successfully by mail, in your own fr f ference. Satisfaction guaranteed. home. You will lose from to , 2 Send for my new book on ‘‘ Obesity ; : - 5 1 Its Cause and Cure : ’’ — it will con- pounds weekly, according to age at vince you. Address UNITED STATES MEDICAL DISPENSARY, 20 East 23nd Street, New York When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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WOMEN WITH WRINKLES THIN FACES, NECKS AND SHOULDERS I guarantee that the GOTTSCHALL TISSUE BUILDING APPLIANCE will quickly remove wrinkles and unsightly hollows in the face, neck and shoulders and make your skin soft and satiny as a rose petal. You use it yourself at your home. It’s simple, but wonderfully effective. Now, never mind if you have tried various greases and rollers and so onand failed, THIS method is safe and sure. The first treatment will show pleasing results. The thorough removal of your wrinkles will speedily follow and-a smooth plumpness fili the thin and sunken places. Remember, a fresh, smooth, healthy skin is guaranteed. Let me send you PROOFS ina plain sealed envelope, free of charge. Write. I will convince you, and I know you will thank me for it. Your name will be held sacred. PROF. S. J. GOTTSCHALL Dept. C, BUFFALO, N. Y. GRAY HAIR." satsan Is not a dye, but gradually restores Gray Hair - 01 a a panel — pack 4 brown, in or4applications, Cuntainsno oil or grease. etick. or mussy. Elegant tonic dress- 1 please you because it does the work and doesit right. In use 40 years. 50c. ) and $1.00 at all best druggists or prepaid by = E.8. WELLS. Jersey City, N U.S.A. THEOLD RELIABLE Unbeatable Rat Exterminator WHY FEED RATS? Rough on Rats kills them. Being all poison, one 15c box will make or spread 50 or more littlecakes that will kill 50 or more designed for Rats and Mice, ex ence has demonstrated it the most effective of all extermina- tors of ROACHES, ANTS, and BED BUGS, and it is the only thing at all effective against the large Black Cockroach or Beetle. Fools the Rats Tice and Bugs, but never disappoints or fools the buyer. Always does the work and does it right. 15 & 2c boxes at Druggists throughout the world. Rough on Roaches, (non-poisonous.) Rough on Fleas (powder) for dogs, etc. Rough on Bed Bugs (liquid) nozzle cans 15c, 25¢ Rough on Moth and Ants 21b, cans 35c¢ Allat druggists. Too heavy and too low priced by Mail or Exp. OUGH ON CORNS, Liquid, 25c. es §=6Salve, 15c OUGH ON CORNS, Plasters, 10c ewer areca tee Sere 8 in envelope Rovcn ON BUNIONS, Remedy MEISE ore renee on + conan Rouen ON BUNIONS, Plasters 10c. Ra TERRES ote sear 8 in envelope E. 8. WELLS, Chemist, Jersey City, N. J., U. 8. A. ‘ All at Drug- gists or | When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan THE RATIONAL TREATMENT OF SKIN DISEASES is based upon the use of a power- ful antiseptic that, while destroy- ing both the germs and the morbid element which cause the disease, does not injure or impair the healthy tissue. Experiments made by bacteri- ologists have proven that Hydrozone in “which the only healing agent is Nascent Oxygen (near to the condition of Ozone), fulfills these requirements, and that it may be applied externally or ta- ken internally with perfect safety. For over fourteen years HYDROZONB has been indorsed and successfully used by the foremost physicians. /¢s estab- lished reputation ts so high that simt- lar names have been given to con- cocttons containing only water, oil of vitriol, sulphurous acid and inert im- purities. he label on every bottle of Hydrozone bears my signature: Chemist and Graduate of the “Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris, France." HYDROZONE is sold by leading druggists. On receipt of attached coupon, properly filled out, you will be sent a Free Trial Bottle containing sufficient Hydrozone to demonstrate to you its healing properties. Mail the coupon, naming your druggist, to CHARLES MARCHAND, .,¢° write Legibly. 57 Prince St., New York City. ¢ ®° Requests unaccompa- o” WitaDiaicecscssccnsssosnsic aiaeead nied by coupon will be ignored. Only one free trial bottle to each fa- mily. St. sereeseeeee eeecerssecscoeccsecesoses: eeceoees seccsrsevescesees SEALBrcoceees-oeeeee DrUggist werereserseercesreroeeee: ¢ see-nasecccecescosaenas. - ‘9000000

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Cosmopolitan Magazine “The Carmen” Large Wall Fan for decorating DENS or COLLEGE ROOMS. Imitation Satin. 33 HE Colorings Rich and Vivid. A limited number—only 50 cents while they last. Send for Catalogue. Carmelita, 220 Broadway, New York. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine California, Oregon, and Washington, splendid in their climatic and health-building conditions, offer the opportunity of a lifetime for building up a new home. The.division of great ranches affords a fine oppor- tunity to get a small farm that will assure you a competence. Profitable crops of fruit and grain can be raised with a minimum of labor; business is good and capital finds profitable investment. One-way Colonist tickets are on sale daily, Sept. 15th . to Oct. 3l1st, at the rate of $33.00 from Chicago to San Francisco, .Los Angeles, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Bellingham, Vancouver, and Victoria, with corre- spondingly low rates from all points, good on daily and Personally Conducted Tours Z In Pullman tourist sleeping cars. Double berth, Chicago to San Francisco, Los Angeles or Portland, only $7.00. S.A. Hutchinson, Manager, 212 Clark Street, Chicago. $62.50 California AND RETURN Strictly first-class round-trip tickets are on sale from all points, Oct. 17th to 21st; rate from Chicago to San Francisco and Los Angeles and return, $62.50. All Agents sell tickets via Chicago, Union Pacific and North-Western Line If you want to know how to reach the Pacific Coast, how much it costs to go, how long it takes, and what you can do when you get there; if you want to know about the resources, climate, and opportunities of the West, send 4 cents in stamps for booklets, maps, etc. W. B. KNISKERN, Passencer Trarric MaNnacenr CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN RY., CHICAGO, ILL. N.-W. 594 When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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LAKKINGTON LOOTH W. W. JACOBS EDWIN LEFEVKE JAMES L. FORD With the Cosmopolitan’s ee Sata) W. JACOBS first became known a: e i} 7 to the reading public about ten LOW Mer years ago when his deliciously CAS] droll stories of seafaring life be- gan to appear in the English magazines. It was remarked at once that no one with quite the same sense of humor had ap- peared since Charles Dickens was in his prime. About one volume a year of his short stories has appeared since 1896. His literary output has not been large, since he has been most careful not to force or wear out his gift of story-telling, and will not write except when he feels at his very best. For this reason, and so as not to depend entirely on his pen for a living, he has never given up his civil service position in the British Savings Bank Department. The result has been that he stands practically alone among the popular English story- writers of the day for the uniform excel- lence of his work. Ta Booth Tarkington is at pres- AS) ent the most popular American 4) author, it is interesting to note Ss that it was some years before his work received even the scantiest. favor from the very publishers who .are now clamoring for his stories. He furnishes an excellent example of what may be ac- complished by perseverance and courage when one is sure ‘of the ability to perform a self-allotted task. The young man believed in himself; his family believed in him, but nevertheless there was much discourage- ment until The Gentleman from Indiana found a publisher and Monsieur Beau- caire achieved a very noted degree of success. Since then Mr. Tarkington has attempted the short story, and many of these productions are even now regarded as among the finest of their kind in Ameri- can literature. RAHERE is no professional writer yin America to-day who knows ln about the business world os & than Edwin Lefévre. He entered journalism fifteeti years ago, when a boy of nineteen, as assistant financial editor of a New York evening paper, and worked steadily in Wall Street in this and more important positions, until with the knowl- edge acquired and a sense of things col- ored with that money-making environment he found himself ‘equipped for higher things and has made a name for himself in fiction based on financial themes and articles on kindred topics. Mr. Lefévre’s article on Paul Morten in the present COSMOPOLITAN is an excellent example of his forceful style and keen powers of analysis. The reader will note with interest and pleasure how he picks out the essential qualities of Mr. Morton’s character, explains them, accounts for them, shows how they have been put to the best use, and in short, tells a story in which everyone anxious for success in the world is going to find something of value. NS — RQHAT James L. Ford will hold a BES ) high place among American hu- ©) morists, our readers. will agree CERO) when they have finished the first of his “‘Seeing the Real New York” in the present CosmMopoLiTAN. These ‘Seeing the Real New York” papers, fully illus- trated, will appear at short intervals during the coming year and will prove one of the most diverting and popular features ever presented by THE Cosmopotiran. The second trip is through the center of fashion where, it is needless to remark, Mr. Ford’s delicious flow of satirical wit will find even a better channel than through the money- center. The illustrations are by Frank Ver- Beck in his most delightful manner.

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7 Features of the New Cosmopolitan It has really been wonderful—the way the New Cosmopolitan has gone with the public. August issue entirely gotten away from us—an unprec- edented hot-weather sale. September printing, increased by many thousands, is going at a more rapid rate. But what if possible is more gratifying is that the public is not only reading the magazine but discussing it. That is the sure proof that we are getting out something worth while. ¥ THE SUCCESS OF * VIRGILIA” Appreciation of the beauties of Epwin MARKHAM’s great poem, “‘Virgilia,” in the August Cosmopolitan was expected from a limited circle of readers; but “‘one of the noblest love-poems in the English language,” “‘comparable to Tennyson’s ‘Maud’”—to give the crystallized criticism—has attracted the read- ing world as no other poem for years. The daily and weekly press throughout the country has published the stanzas in part and in full. The ‘New York Times Saturday Review,” the most important and serious newspaper depart- ment of criticism in the country, devoted two pages to discussion and opinions of the poem, and kept printing letters from week to week until the whole matter finally assumed such proportions that the following was inserted in its last issue, “With this generous selection of letters from an enormous number lately received touching on the poetry of Mr. Edwin Markham, this extraordinarily prolonged controversy must be closed.” ¥ The clipping bureaus have been hard pressed to keep us supplied with all that has been quoted and said of Mr. BrErce’s brilliant satirical essay, ‘‘ The Jury System in Ancient America.’’ There is no doubt that Mr. Bierce found a theme of vital and timely interest, and what he said has made a profound im- pression upon all who realize the difficulties of obtaining justice under the present mode of procedure. The Cosmopolitan is not going to fall away from this record of striking features, and will furnish convincing proof that henceforth it will be the most valuable and interesting magazine to the general public in existence to-day. Here are some of the features for November and other early issues: ¥ AMERICAN VS. EVROPEAN SOCIETY Mr. Henry WATTERSON has several times within the past few years created much commotion and protest within the ranks of America’s high society by his violent strictures on its foibles and follies. He has just returned from a sojourn abroad, made for the purpose of studying fashionable life in the European capitals. A profound and brilliant article from his pen, contrasting those social phases here and in Europe, illustrated with portraits of society leaders in many lands, will appear in November. ‘It is going to arouse much discussion, and it behooves every reader to become acquainted with his views and arguments.

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® OD - BD FreP : Cap y @s io CO SOE, OSG INES werent maT Y EHV A LT met LL) uvpmnt InLnTOIe nee rm TL) y oy 7 © DID AMERICA PEOPLE THE WORLD? ca Ethnologists, until > ES a) lately, have*believed the North American Indians to be of Asiatic origin. But the matter has always remained in doubt. Some time ago, Morris K. Jesup, the President of the American Museum of Natural History, deter mined to clear the matter up and spent a large sum of money in an elaborate investigation, extending over eight years. The Cosmopolitan has obtained advance infor- mation of the forthcom- % ing report, and DANIEL JAPANESE GIKL IN INDIAN COSTUME. 'T’. PIERCE has prepared INDIAN GIRL IN JAPANESE COSTUME. an interesting article reviewing the whole question. The work of the Jesup expedition will overturn all previous existing theories. ¥ THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE IN FRANCE No event in the progress of government has been so important within the past year. But the step has had as violent opposers as it has had advocates. The Cosmopolitan, to give both sides, has asked a distinguished representa- tive of each to sum up his ideas of the results of the separation. SENATOR CLEMENCEAU writes from the side of the government, while the MARQUIS DE CASTELLANE voices the feelings of the aristocracy and the church party. _ Other articles of timely value, such as the results of the important Solar ae Eclipse of August 30th, will appear as soon as possible. = i SS Un a, RD 19)" ! CPE YD | OTe TWAdL Gall Sp IRD ¢ ‘ : TT Pe pa aaa ; ee a RY OY LAUER YT) PATL AV are ) Pa GOA b ATE) OTT oe Gn The Christmas number will be a monumental magazine. » OUR STORY -TELLERS The second of the W. W. Jacoss stories, ‘‘The Constable’s Move,”’ appears in November. Those who have read it declare it to be a far more humorous tale than ‘“‘Four Pigeons” in this number. Humorous fiction will be a specialty of the New Cosmopolitan. We have on hand for early appearance a very funny tale by Emery POoTTLe en- titled ‘Celia’; also ‘‘The Smartness of Lewkovitz,”” by BruNo LEssING, author of ‘‘Children of Men”; ‘Pelican Smith, Matador,” by WALLACE IRWIN, and other stories by BootrH TARKINGTON, GEORGE HIBBARD, KATE JORDAN, ANNIE HAMILTON DONNELL, and many others. The November issue begins a volume—a good time to subscribe to obtain a full year of the New Cosmopolitan. $1 a year. International Magazine Company, 1789 Broadway, New York : 1b rere cee efers S07 Or MU SS —, a S OH), ret | vAtAIAIE] | ep YT Ue o>, Clevewrtt tl | ATUL ERY cere Tf 5 VL tan ir we Mu TRU TIT yd beacblal wT AS UU ETT 17 [SMMMRATAY 1) SALE | A ol AS 2D OL WS BR) SD b i BY oa - 223 KD LD es >) POP LK, B

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A LETTER FROM EDWIN MARKHAM Landing, New Jersey, August 28, 1905. To the Editor of the Cosmopolitan: It is not my custom to write to editors concerning their contributors, but I am inclined to break the rule in the case of Mr. Lewis who is writing your serial on the old naval hero, John Paul Jones. Any one who keeps step with our eager life knows that Mr. Alfred Henry Lewis hurls one of the fieriest and swiftest javelins in the literary tourneys of to-day. We have not forgot- ten how his "Wolfville Stories" fought their easy way to favor; and we have in recent remembrance the tingling interest and tumultuous laughter of his “Sunset Trail.” He seizes the attention: he dips his pen in the warm color of life. And now Mr. Lewis is giving us the story of John Paul Jones, the most ro- mantic figure in American naval history. Historian and hero were made for each other, the adventurous Sayer and the ad- venturous Sailor! After such a rare conjunction something ought to happen. . And something does happen---the half- forgotten patriot starts out of dust and shadow, taking vivid outline amid the perilous doings of old days. I congrat- ulate “The Cosmopolitan” on this serial, one of the brilliant achievements of the magazine world. Sinweh joo C1 ollarkhan-

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Cosmopolitan Magazine Bath Room Outfit 75” Clean—Sanitary—Odorless— Newest Designs— Best Appliances—Finest Nickel Trimmings THE BATH TUB Seamless cast iron, heavy 3-inch roll rim, 5 feet in length and 30 inches in ————— 9 Width, finest white porcelain enameled on the inside and over the roll. rim. The fittings are extra heavy brass nickel-plated, consisting of Outside Standing ‘* Roman’”’ waste with china index button; Fuller double bath cock ; off-set supply pipes; with floor flanges. THE LAVATORY Countersunk genuine marble slab; solid porcelain 14x17 inch Patent over- flow oval basin; nickel-plated brass rope pattern brackets; nickel-plated brass Fuller basin cocks; nickel-plated brass supply pipes; with air chambers; nickel-plated brass trap (both trap and supply pipes to the wall); nickel-plated chain and rubber stopper; basin clamps, screws; and nickel-plated flanges. THE CLOSET Low tank pattern, thoroughly sanitary and modern in construction; latest eee improved Vitreous syphon wash-down bowl; seat and cover made of seasoned quarter-sawed Oak with high polished finish; seat attaches directly to the bowl with post and nickel- plated hinges; tank is lined with heavy cover and includes a high pressure ball cock and float valve syphon, and has nickel-plated push button action; two-inch elbow connection between the tank and the bowl, and nickel-plated supply pipe from floor to the tank. QUALITY We guarantee every article used in this Bath Room outfit to be new and perfect. eee «60 Phe Enamel ware is guaranteed for two years against grazes, chips or defects from ordinary wear. Any article proven defective within this time will be cheerfully replaced with perfect material. The outfit will be furnished with floor screws, flanges, clamps, etc., complete and ready to set up. Connections easily made. Any ordinary mechanic can install with the aid of our comprehensive working plans and instructions. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded PRICE, as Described, $55.00 Other Bath Room Ovitfits We will furnish the additional trimmings — paper holder—two towel bars—glass shell—bath seat from $25 ‘ 00 to $1 25.00 and soap cup, for $7.00. WRITE US Any one interested in Plumbing Material or Heating Apparatus of any kind, will do —_——ee well to write to us before buying elsewhere, as we have the largest and finest selec- tion in the world, and can save purchaser considerable money—all fully guaranteed. ASK US FOR CATALOGUE No. F 472—On Plumbing Material and Heating Apparatus, CHICAGO HOUSE W. CO., 35th and Iron Sts., Chicago NOTE.—We furnish country homes with complete water works systems. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine Ivers @ Pond ~ PIANOS Our Catalogue Free T contains fine half- | tone pictures of our latest models espec- ially designed for 1906. Our pianos are finer musically and more artistically cased than ever before. In tone quality, ease and pre- The Princess Grand cision of action touch Dimensions: Length, 5 ft. 33-4 in., and durability more width, 4 ft. 101-2 in. : e A delightful little grand exquisitely highly perfected cased, occupying the minimum floor pianos have never been space with tone quality and action sae The DollarWatch made. (Other Ingersolls, $1.50 and $1.75) a (New Ladies’ Watch, just out, $2.00) The business of a watch is serious business. It deals in time, the most precious element of life, the very stuff that life is made of. Our daily movements are governed by reference to a watch and there is just one thing absolutely demanded of that watch,— accuracy. Without this, it is worse than a nuisance. The one great predominating feature of the Ingersoll Watch is its accurate time- keeping quality. It is positively reliable. No watch made in this country or Europe selling under $8 or $10 even approaches it in accuracy. Imitations selling at Ingersoll Improvements Compound Bent Wood Sound- ing Board Bridge and the Agraffe construction used in the Ivers & Pond Pianos add greatly to the volume and vibrating quality of tone and insure durability and tune-staying to a degree not hereto- fore atta.ned. Style 507 The size, price, case design and mu- sical perfection of this model make it an ideal instrument for home use. Our most popular style. Beautiful Case Designs Besides being super- latively fine musically, Ivers @ Pond Pianos have most charming exteriors. These are the creation of the world’s most famous Style 335 prices resemble it only in outward appearance. As time-keepers they are worthless. Wonderful ingenuity, great resources, ex- perience, originality, invaluable patents and tremendous output are the only things that make the Ingersoll watch possible. A repu- tation gained in over 12 years of faithful service as well as the binding guarantee placed in designers, _and —— In case design admittedly one of the Sent the height of fash- most chaste and tasteful ever created, ion in piano archi- while musically it approaches per- tecture. fect on. every Ingersoll watch, stand behind each one. More Ingersolls (8,000 daily) are sold in PIANO-BUYING MADE EASY We can supply you wherever you live. Where no dealer sells our pianos we will mail you our price-list and explain our system of furnishing pianos on easy ayments to any city or village in the United States. he piano chosen will be carefully selected and sent for trial in your home. satisfaction guaranteed or it may be returned to Roston at our expense for rail- road. freights. The mot inexperienced buyer can deal with us as safely as the sharpest trader. Our panes are the best, our prices are fair and plans for asy Payments especiaily attractive. Write us. IVERS & POND PIANO CO. 111 Boylston Street, Boston this country than all others put together. Many of our most eminent men in all walks rely on an Ingersoll and IT IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU! Sold by 50,000 dealers throughout the country or postpaid by us. Booklet free. LOOK FOR INGERSOLL on THE DIAL and accept no substitute ROBT. H. INGERSOLL @ BRO. Dept. 53 51 Maiden Lane, New York When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine INSTEAD OF HOOKS AND BUTTONS ON WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S GARMENTS SIMPLE—STRONC—SECURE “IT DOES NOT'SNAP—IT SLIDES” WILL NOT CATCH OR TEAR THE GARMENT AND NEVER WEARS OUT GUARANTEED NOT TO RUST YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND A NEW USE FOR IT——SUGGEST IT TO YOUR DRESSMAKER ASK YOUR DEALER OR—SEND 24 CENTS In stamps and we will send you by mail, prepaid, sufficient Nottahooks for your Ptacket, also Nottahook Tape Skirt Supporter—OR—SEND 50 CENTS In stamps and we will send you sufficient Nottahook Skirt Supporters for four Waists and two Skirts Nottahooks to sewon your Placket and enough for the front, collar and cuffs of a Waist. STATE COLOR WANTED—Sew-ons in Black and Nickel— Tape Goods in Biack, White and Gray. THE NOTAHOOK COMPANY, 605 Broadway, New York City When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine BANKING MAIL »| AT 4% | INTEREST ESTABLISHED THE BUILDING OWNED AND OCCUPIED 1868 BY THE BANK No matter where you live, you can send your money to us and have it under your own control. Let us send you our free booklet “C,” telling about this large, safe bank and why we can pay 4% compound interest on savings of any amount from $1.00 to $10,000.00. ASSETS OVER FORTY MILLION DOLLARS ‘ke CITIZENS | SAVINGS & TRUSTCO CLEVELAND, OHIO Economy Hot AirPump Will pump water from wells, cisterns, lakes, etc., to any desired place. Does away with the uncertain windmill and the unreliable gasoline engine. Runs equally | well in winter and summer. No explo- | sion; so simple that achild can operate it. Ten Days? Free Trial Send for illustrated Catalogue THOMAS & SMITH, Dept. P. - 17-19 So. Carpenter St., Chicago 288 Hudson St., New York No attorney’s A ’ EN t Sg fee until pat- ent is allowed. Write for “/n- ventor’s Guide.” FRANKLIN H. HOUGH, Atlantic Bidg., Washington, D. C. NATUR® The closet with a slant. There's a profound * simple hygienic reason whic Fv will under- stand after reading our illustrat- ed book. Sent free. You need and Write for free book J THE NATURO COMPANY, SALEM, N. J., U.S. A. SY ula When you read our booklet, “ Hints and Helps to Investors,” you will be able to exercise that judgment necessary to the selection of an investment both safe and profitable. Years of training as bankers has given us keen insight into invest- ment values and opportunities. We now have an investment offer- ing of unusual merit at an extremely attractive price. Full data upon request. A. N. Chandler & Co. BANKERS 111 BROADWAY, NEW YORK BOURSE, PHILADELPHIA ‘* Hints and Helps to Investors”’ is a study of investments well worth reading. It may be had by sending your name and address, which, for convenience, may be written on the margin of this page and mailed tous. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine 100” PER ANNUM IS ESTIMATED EARNINGS ON ALL CAPITAL INVESTED IN OIL REFINING It is the most profitable business in the world. The proof is contained in the fact that the ‘¢ Oil Coterie’’ has more money than any set of men on earth. And they made it chiefly from OIL. REFINING in about 35 years. That set of men leave development OIL PRODUCING to the inexperienced and buy crude oil or their developed properties from them at Bankrupt Prices. Average annual LOSS to the OIL PRODUCERS of America is probably not less than TWENTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS. Average annual PROFIT to the REFINING INTERESTS is estimated at the huge sum of ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS. : Did you know there are a considerable number of INDEPENDENT refin- eries in the East that have steadily yielded ENORMOUS ANNUAL DIVIDENDS ? There will be more successful Independent Refiners in the Kansas-Oklahoma- Indian Territory field than in the East. The MOST SUCCESSFUL will be those first in the field and those MOST HONESTLY, ABLY AND CONSERVATIVELY CONDUCTED. Eastern Independent Refiners PURSUING A CERTAIN POLICY have grown rich in spite of past gross railway discrimination, etc. Let us tell you what that policy has been. (4) Our careful, absolute refining tests Indicate Profits Greatly Exceeding 100% Per Annum. THIS COMPANY’S PLANS AND OUTLOOK: $10,000,000 Capital, Big Plant (one-half completed and to be greatly enlarged), Large Owned and Controlled Oil Production, Pipe Line System, Storage, Tank Cars, No Debts, Substantial Working Capital, Personnet Unexcettep, Very Hicuest BANKING AND CoMMERCIAL REFERENCES. Write TO-DAY for full particulars of one of the BEST INVESTMENTS EVER PRESENTED FOR PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION. It costs you nothing to get “FACTS AND FIGURES.” THEN DECIDE. GREAT WESTERN REFINING @ PIPE LINE CO. Suite 677, Gumbel Building, KANSAS CITY, MO. GREAT WESTERN REFINING & P. L. CO., 677 Gumset BuitpinG, Kansas City, Mo. « Gentlemen:—Please forward booklet, ‘‘ Facts AnD Ficurgs,’’ and full information regarding your Company, without cost to me. Yours truly, Name. Wall OA Apes csccenctsiaatai iain When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine IT NEEDS NO MATCH Teanih IT HAS NO MATCH MODERN MAGIC The only Gas Mantle in the WORLD that lights itself. INo matches required. Turn On the Gas and IGNITO Lights. IGNITO Self-Lighting Outfits are ECONOMICAL, BRILLIANT, DURABLE AND SAFE. They use less gas, give a greater volume of light and cost less than ordinary gas outfits. They PREVENT the POSSIBILITY of ASPHYXIATION Because IGNITO lights as soon as gas enters the Mantle. AUTO LIGHTER Co., New York. New York, June 25, 1905, Gentlemen :—I have had your IGNITO outfits in my house for more than four months, and I require six more outfits to fit up the rooms on the second floor. Send six IGNITO outfits at once, and oblige, Yours truly, BERTHA MITCHELL, 116 East 59th St., New York. The entire Outfit, consisting of Ignito Self-Lighting Gas Mantle, Ignito Gas Regulating and Economizing Burner (Burners are branded “IGNITO”), Ignito Imported Opal “Q” Air Hole Globe, . be had from your dealer or send money order for $1.25 direct to us, and we will send a complete ignito Outfit, with ‘‘instruction booklet,’ express prepaid. Manufacturers AUTO LIGHTER CO., park Ave., 130th & 1318t Sts, N. Y., U.S.A. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine “Listening to the Fairies” @ The phrasing and those little touches of expression which’ have made the names of such artists as Nordica, Patti, Melba or Paderewski world famous are unimpaired in their perfect rendition by the Talk-o-phone @ The reproduction is so natural that one can scarcely believe it the result of mechanical ingenuity. The Talk-o-phone actually brings these artists into your own home where they perform for you. So true to the art of the masters is the Talk-o-phone that it seems almost supernatural. @ The perfection attained by our successfulexperiments is demonstrated by the brilliancy and charm of expression of the Talk-o-phone. Talk-o-phones, $18.00 to $40.00 @ Send us your name and we will advise you where you can hear the Talk-o-phone. We also send our complete Catalogue, free. TALK=O-PHONE CO., 10 Arch St. TOLEDO, OHIO When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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HE difference between the Regal and every other shoe sold at the same price is mostly just the difference between hand-work and machine-work. Hand-work costs, but it counts in the making of shoes. Noth- ing but good, old-fashioned hand-work can take all the stretch out of the leather and make the finished shoe hold the exact shape of the last it is formed on. You can select the particular Regal model that suits you from the 85 new Fall styles—and then wear tt long enough to go through two or three new soles of the best live-oak leather ; but you can- not break down the form of that shoe, no matter how long you wear it. It can’t run cver at the side, it won’t sag under the arch, and it won’t bulge out around the heel. Direct from tannery to consumer—a six-dollar shoe ‘at the wholesale price. Quarter Sizes in the style that you will choose. By mail as well as in the 97 stores The Regal way of fitting shoes by mail is as perfect as the Style 6011 shoes themselves—and the new Fall Style-Book tells all about aoe that carries it. Free on request. Your order receives the immediate and ‘ aadeu cin personal attention of an expert shoe salesman, and we guar- famous King Calf antee that your order will be filled righz. ; leather, with heavy slip-sole, high slope. mediuin-narrow toe, $3.50 [Special Custom Bench-made, $4.]} Some of the new Regals have been made up . with more expensive inside finish to meet an Style 6D13—Special Cus S tom Bench-made“ Peg,” Sy. insistent demand from many of our old and hew customers. We cannot improve the Regal in quality of materials or This same model, except made of the style-correctness, fit, endurance or comfort. The only advantages of the : celebrated Heyl imported Patent leatl ) E ath Special $4 models over the $3.50 Regals arein the fine points of extra custom ; . ‘ finish; they are bench-made shoes that represent the finest handicraft of the 2 D “si with = finish all-round, and special must skilled New England shoemakers and few genuine $12 custom-made < Sy 1and work,—round-cornered glove-calf top, shoes equal their handsome appearances. calfskin top-facing, blind eyelets, medium weight sole. REGAL SHOE CoO., Inc. —_--—— Regal shoes are delivered, carriage prepaid, anywhere in the MAIL-ORDER DEPARTMENT: s r BOSTON, MASS., * 819 SUMMER STREET : a eo oes Mexico, -— a, Porto Rico, Hawaiian and we cf . *hil ippine Islands; also Germany, Japan, Norway. Belgium, l MAIL-ORDER SUB STATIONS: all points covered by the Parcels Post System, at the came calcd ae Factory, East Whitman, Mass., Box L . paces ) our 97 stores, with 25 cents extra to cover delivery charges. London, Eng., E. C., 97 Cheapside, cor. Lawrence Lane 820 Market St., San Francisco, Cal. Samples of leathers on request = T [= Cities R EGAL ee THE SHOE THAT PROVIES When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine Late’ Ze Wi ae N\\ 5 fe Prin Rev ‘ee ASA a | SHOrRORN ie ee es Y T " ae “agg ne Sey a Ae A VY IN NURI am 4 rl pee Sly SN NY a = Beha i : ea Peete hare Nee eM ee ee Se ae ae ees vs sais: ig eee ta Cea RR aL BVH aE a UV ae lee BEAUTY PROBLEMS SOLVED BY THE USE OF PAcCKER’S TAR SOAP PURE AS THE PINES When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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Cosmopolitan Magazine The Prudential Issues the Ideal Life Insurance Contract. Simple and explicit as a bank check. Noconfusing technicalities. A definite “promise to pay,” with ee Aetna gees Rates, Benefits and Privileges % Fad seme 4 Absolutely Fixed and Guaran= v teed in the Policy. Cash Loans. Paid-up Insurance. Automatic Extended Insurance. Cash Surrender Values. Occupa- tion, Residence and Travel Unre- stricted, and many other valuable features. POLICIES MAY BE ISSUED WITH CASH DIVIDENDS PAYABLE AN- NUALLY OR EVERY FIVE YEARS. The Instalment Privilege is a Splendid Feature of Prudential Policies. WHEN POLICY MATURES it may be made payable in one sum; or in from two to twenty-five annual instalments; or in continuous instalments during lifetime of beneficiary (or insured); or the sum insured may be left with the Company as a trust fund at 3 per cent interest, with annual dividends. IS YOUR LIFE INSURED? We have the policy [you want.at low cost on the Whole Life, Limited Payment or Endowment Plan. Write us today and we will send free, particulars with rates and benefits at your age. The Prudential Insurance Co. of America INCORPORATED AS A STOCK COMPANY BY THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. JOHN F. DRYDEN, President. Home Office, NEWARK, N. J. DEPT. 47 When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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The _ Anheuser ~ Basch Malt-Nutrine Department Art Calendar for 1906 Is the finest, most artistic and prob- ably the most costly calendar to be issued for the coming year. It consists of four beautiful paint- ings by Maud Humphrey, the celebrated artist, representing “The Four Seasons.” The subjects—dainty, ethereal figures—are placed in graceful ovals, surrounded by decorative borders designed by C. A. Ether- ington, a pupil of Mucha, Panis, the greatest living decorative artist. These panels are devoid of any advertising matter. The fifth or calendar panel con- taining the months for 1906 is a beautiful design, representing a maid bearing a tray with a bottle of Malt-Nutrine. Each leaf is 24x10 inches, beautifully lithographed in twelve colors and gold, and bound with a silken cord. This art calendar will be sent to any address upon receipt of twenty-five cents, sent to the Malt-Nutrine Department, Anheuser - Busch Brewing Ass'n St. Louis U.S. A. co & lla y- + The most nourish- ing liquid ‘food— moé grateful to the weakened stomach. A necessity to nursing mothers, weak or growing children. It creates appetite and gives health to the weak and ailing. Sold by druggists and grocers. When you write, please mention the Cosmopolitan

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CREAM of WHEAT is the nght part of the wheat for nerve and muscle, is nght in the way it is prepared at the mill, and is right in serving. _It-is- popular, and has the right of way among all cereals. A PERFECT CEREAL—A DAINTY DESSERT—ALL GROCERS. Wp ys qus seu, VY UFCRID OF W lems Ue THE CHARLES SCHWEINLER PRESS, NEW YORK

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a Reason” You may have small care for what the reason is, so long as your food really supports your brain and keeps it healthy, active, and a money maker. But when signs of nerv- ous prostration set in you want to know wy you can get help, sure, from Grape-Nuts Words on the pkg. give the reason one way. Your own brain tells the reason in a few days after you begin its use. 3 AIN of testimonials from dentists in practice attest the unequaled excellence of Dentacura Tooth Paste. It cleans the teeth, destroys bacteria, prevents decay. It is applied to the brush without the waste attending the use of powder. ‘That you may know by” experience its value we will send you free a sample tube of Dentacura and our booklet, *t Taking Care of the Teeth.” Write at once. Offer expires November Ist, ’os. Ientacura may be had at most toilet counters. Price 25c. If your dealer does not have it we will send it direct on receipt of the price. DENTACURA COMPANY, 156 Alling St., NEWARK, N. J. How To Know The Genuine Look for the (de) globe let- tered on the pen. See that it has a Spoon-feed like this WH DA a i with cups in the side that prevent the terminating overflow common to all other fountain pens. The genuine Water- man Ideal is ex- changeable and re- pairable at any of our branchoffices. For Sale by Stationers everywhere and many Jewelers and . is a feature of the genuine. : It secures the pen to | your pocket. L. E. Waterman Co. 173 Broadway, New York 136 St. James Street, Montreal 138 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 8 School St , Boston 160 State St., Chicago Children’s Outfitting. We direct the energies of our enti establishment to a sole object—ft supplying of the needs ¢ children of all ages. Ordering By Mail through our perfectly orga ized Mail Order Departme affords the same safety and sa faction to out-of-town patrons personal shopping. OUR CATALOGUE enumerates 20,000 items accomip nied by more than 1,000 illustratio of articles of wear and use requil in the Complete Outfitting of Boys, Girls and Babies Sent for 4 cts. postage. We have no branch stores—no age Address Dept. 4 60-62 W. 23d St, -

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