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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Copyright,1905, by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, Founded A°D' 1728 by Benj.Franklin Entered at the Philadelphia Post-Office | in the United States and Great Britain. as Second-Class Matte: Published Weekly at 425 Arch Street by THE CurRTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY London: Hastings House,10,Norfolk Street. Strand,W.C | 4 Volume 178 PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER ll, 1905 Number 90 “An Antiente Greate Companie” By Arthur E. McFarlane HERE are few of us but feel the romance and for this end to } melancholy in old ships Every port has its device taken by the ¢ deserted, moss-bearded wharfs where they may \ cin fe a \ be found forlornly 1 g, garrulous patriarchs with avail themselves of the infinite things to te { none to tell them t But the heather rf ( i t i ‘ irenoust t here there be-lee th Not f the ont ood « { the pride ar er h of se oO Hi J el it enterprise, iniat or ¢ ne ea now there is in them almost that emptine if Already, too, they } d old water-mills from which the stream ha For war had broken out bet | long since diverted But —and tl despite ‘ too, surely are melancholy and romance of favor historia: 1 il For, be certain, never wa the Ad had 1 ! ‘ re wv hy of the nar the arr t t la motion some man did 1 the French ¢« } pe ‘ vholly, building his life elves of those castle ly T i more of labor and yearning it were, between frier | } ‘ have been drawn from him by little naval engage nt 1 ‘ I | fame and the love ot women But of every trader ce 1d not re I amed I r tnat | red of those kingdoms, ninety have that a certain ill-minded New Englander in charve of d away with the first generatior A a Fort Hays’ twenty-four pounder— which had f second generation and not three have thoughtfully been provided with onl umn remained enough to hold the powder i ts plac | ceeds 0 Why should this be? We know what make good the lack with broke ii tt forces send the bravest bark or brigantine assaylantes should have not or ye daylighte a into a lonesome superannuatior They have mitted into ’em, but that ve same might their limit of existence Have, likewise leaded and be-glazed from which unprincipled pur all trading and trafficking, along with th: pose he was horrifiedly re Line | ) " } romance, their allotted time and span of Court of Adventurer "as the London ¢ mittes life Or, on the other hand, is there no all- the Company was generail known, made a governing reason why they should die at all of 225 guineas in dividends to King W t This whole field of question is one which we find them explaining with patr inction tl has had curiously little plowing. In the hope of turning up some stray, placer truth those common enemies of all mankind: Frenche it is our purpose, in this and the papers that follow it, to attempt a study of some made it le than it might otherwise have beet memorable companies launched here in America a century or more ago. As the times Yet we can see from the first that as Adventurers they were very her nh cautiou compelled, all devoted themselves in the main to the fur trade But in men and nes rheir governing idea of tr ! vith th upre is to have tl ‘ methods they differed exceedingly. One was typically and immovably English; another and trade with then Pheir *‘ factori ere all alike fortification nd th facts was as dashingly Scotch, or Celtic if you like Another inherited the Franco-Spanish and ‘‘chief factor did their trading from the top of battlemented ll Ihe instincts and commercial practices of old St. Loui A whole buckskinned group were hauled up peltries and goose-qu bear's grease eum at one end of a rope and frankly of the uncombed and dauntless West. Another, which died in blameless infaney, let down their equivalent in dry-+ isa har ire at the other he howed ne was of purest Boston and Harvard inspiratior And the last- and for a time it desire whatever to explore that ind spoken of as u vne" which made up thei promised to be the greatest of all —was guided and controlled by a New Yorker who was unmeasured principality. In 1691 Her Kelse an apprentice ith of eighteen undoubtedly the most rem ible business genius produced by the opening years of | made a precocious pilgrimage into the lerne hers ea Ver e little David the nineteenth century Each of these companies, after its own manner, made a_ he slew two gigantic bears; thereby, t I on the heart of the loveliest daughter of seemingly successful fight for existence; each had its adventures, left behind it the the Misstopashisbees and brought her ba vith him to the fort, much to the confusion tale of its experiences, illuminated by painful and joyous anecdotes; and in turn each, and scandal of his reverend senior rift eal ter another ‘‘Compa mar save the first, passed away, slowly or with violence Samuel Hearne, made his journey to the mouth of the Coppermine. But for our And since it is good modern patholog v to seek the sources of life and death in the own part we feel that Hearne was better fitted for pl opt than ¢ rutior W still living, with that first enterprise shall this series of studies begin a visiting delegation of Crees removed most of his possessions he We have to deal not merely with the oldest of six companies, but with the oldest of journal that ‘the weight of our baggage being so much lightened, our next ourne all chartered companies in the British Empire, probably the oldest in the present-day was much pleasanter And his guide, the aged Matonabee is a philosopher of world. In 1664 two Huguenot Frenchmen, Pierre Radisson and the Sieur de less merit He it was who advised the use of women as porter I he Groseilliers, having shown an uncommon boldness in opening new trade routes in the women were made for labor. One of them will earry or hau ! has t region of the Upper Lakes, were by an appreciative governor of New France mulcted And, albeit they do everything, the ire maintained at a trifl expense | 10,000 livres for ‘‘exploring without a royal warrant.’’ And, doubtless because they always act as cooks, and the very lich of their fingers in scares had not 10,000 livres, we soon afterward find the pair in Bostor There, by their tale f ( of the wealth that might be made from northern furs, they greatly inflamed the But of necessity it the } of the } e group, the govert imagination of one Zachariah Gillam, master of the Nonsuch ketch. Zachariah wa must afford u erea pre ible observ: t Sv wh unhappily, possessed of as little of the root of all evil as either of those doubly bankrupt were they able to build a |} e Which has usted for t hundred and th Huguenots. But he seems to have shown |} faith | Salli ther t I ) \ ! yr nt ‘ t ! And there they fell in with eighteen ‘‘London merchauntes” who were simply waiting Prettyman and James H nd the rest of ther anhungered for the offered opportunity In 1668S the Nonsuch steered a course into rving old scheme When thev could no longer have Prit R Hudson Bay. A fort was built, guardedly topped with a row of eight ind nc} he e the 1 ! I le, Jar ) a holdful of mink and beaver skins sent back to Gravesend hit e Lord C} I 11) fM In those days, however, the primal requirement of every new company was a royal patriotic things against the French, it I ise they I charter And this, by the intervention of Prince Rupert, chosen as first ‘‘ Governor a hue bill of dar r hich the ter inte) was with little difficulty obtained. Nor wast r illiberal in its terms Ye into collecting for ther When the f Gouvernor and Companie of Adventurers of Engl: “ading into Hudson Bay” were — of ‘going after whale’s bone and « given sovereign monopoly over all those parts of North America not already held by to the increase of navigation and the breeds mer France and Spain or comprised in the plantations and colonies adjacent to the Atlantic persuade the savages to wear cloth it i his meant something more than one-third of the entire continent! In addition, too, considerably advauntage ye en trade } to the actual grant, the ‘Adventurers’ were solemnly empowered ‘‘to make war or But there was in those muy antiente ger peace with any prince or people whatsoever that are not Christians, and to be permitted them, something much more that irface craf Edit Note This is the first of three articles by Mr. McFariane on the old tradin mpanies ning we find them rejecting their n pre

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traditional belief in London that savages would give all they possessed for a few beads and a bit of red cotton But they ask Radisson about that, and the Sieur de Groseilliers, whom they have somewhat dishonoringly translated into ‘‘ Mr. Gooseberry.’”” The Frenchmen assure them that American savages are imbeciles for only a season or two. And the Court of Adventurers act accord- ingly. They determine not to send out gauds and baubles, but such things as will assist the savages to increase their annual captures of game, and make easier the curing of peltries 500 excellent fowling-pieces, with powder and shot in s. 2000 hatchets, and also Thus their second ship contains proportion, thirty gross of knive brass kettles, coats and blankets Will not the savages use the guns and hatchets against the traders? The Adventurers have observed uch deplorable turns of events take place in French Canada; but may not this have been because the savages were not treated according to the proper principles of trade—prin- ciples which the Adventurers hold to be axiomatie alike for Cheapside, Timbuctoo, Hudson Bay, or for that matter Mars itself? Only reliable goods are to be handled: there must be a standard and unvarying scale of exchange, and all bargains must be lived up to with punctilious exactitude his should make the savages their friends And we all grin at such blessed simplicity. But —eecce mum ! it did make the savages their friends. For two centuries the Adventurers controlled the greater part ol Canada with never an “Indian trouble.” Again, the contents of that ‘“ygreate iron cheste”’ being a constant reminder of how evil a thing is war, those chauntes” resolved not only to live at peace with the natives, but to have all the various tribes they dealt with living in peace as well “Tell them they wrote to their agents, “that it doth nothing sdvantage them to kill and ds troy one inother; that thereby they may so weaken themselves that the wilde ravenous beast« may finish those that sur advice not appearing of quite anot her sort i nt the next ribe that began hostilities was not to be ‘London mer- to be potent, a note ipplied with powder or shot for a year and thus their enemi ll have the ter of them, and quite destroy them m off the earth rt must work terror among then And it most ertair And from their fir ho Adver pr ered like gre | e If hey traded fairly, it must 1 be pposed hat the same prices 1 ntained in Fen- hurch Stree and | \ ny For lve beaver skir the pave a large gun, ve ‘ ! ne pound of powder and twelve of shot; for a single beaver kin a-large and small hatchet, or eight knives; and other prices were in propor- ion We learn that, in 1676, when the loop Prince Rupert was hawsered in for ts annual sale at Gravesend wharf— all purchasers being afterward treated to a er of fowles and sacke at Ye Steel- arde-—an outbound cargo which cost £650 aint realized £19,000! But it is quite ascertain that ich 4 hippe was and Assiniboines as had been able to exchange their superfluous peltries for inventic of steel and wood } me marvelous than any medicine-man I ad ever dreamed of, believed that, verily, if there were ever children and fools, the y were those white men! At any rate, we soon find the Company beginning to pay dividends of fifty per ent In 1693 they rose to seventy-five per cent. and they felt justified in increas- ing their original capital stock threefold . vs } n spite of that, by 1720 their dividend were again running at seventy-five per cent., and again, with no great risk of »vercapitalization, they were able to treble their sto In 1727, even Russia became jealous of the amount of fur they were taking, and Peter the Great appointed General- Admiral Apraxine-—whose name was given to one of the varships recently gathered in by the Japanese —to 4 forth and study the possibility of founding a second such ompany on the Pacific shores of America And at the present day only thegreat Ru n Fur Company exceed he “H. B. ¢ in the proportions of its trade In 1747 the Adventurers were emploving 300 trader ind factors. In 1770 from York Factory alone 30,000 eaver skins were sent back, to say nothing of other con vit in kind. The yearly ship now brought home a igo worth £40,000— £50,000 £60,000 Well might that London Court of Adventurers invite their captains t and make them presentations of silver-gilt flagon tigh nd taking no risk y rehar ho ever gned he Avain ce the vear of ne Chancellors of the Exchequer THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Company had been brought to the test, too. In 1721 it had undergone as searching a trial of virtue as ever a thriving corporation was subjected to. For that was the year of the South Sea Bubble, when almost every English enterprise that had earned a copper penny was increasing its capital ten, twenty and one hundred fold. What, therefore, must have been the temptation to a Company which had been paying dividends of seventy-five per cent.! The Adventurers sat in their grand council- chamber, and their flesh ached at it. But—but—well, as has been noted, they had trebled their stock only the year before, for which reason they could not now, to be absolutely certain, count on more than twenty-five per cent. per annum; and that, in the opinion of the Adven- turers, Was parlous tetchy reckoning. They hesitated, and continued to hesitate. And when, a few weeks later, came that still-echoing cataclysm, we feel that the lesson tayed with them for one hundred and eighty-four years. For, as we follew the Company’s history, ever and always we see one thing, and that is an eternal, all-cautious conservatism, something almost more Fabian than the country itself in which those Adventurers were bred They might be continually calling for greater activity upon the part of their executive officers, declaring bitterly that some of them would rather “lie abedde of ye scurvie than, by curing themselves with white spruce sap, be in case to return to their laboure.” But the committee which governed things at London came as near sitting November 11, 1905 It is probable that in every kind of business whatsoever, real and lasting prosperity depends upon some one prin- ciple or group of facts inherent and peculiar to the enter- prise in question. All men in business know that, whether or not they may unswervingly compel themselves to act upon that knowledge. Those Adventurers of England had invested their money in something which from its very nature would seem to be the most transient of all sources of income. The valuable fur-bearing animals disappear before the advancing Caucasian with a rapidity which is almost incredible. In the seventeenth and eight- eenth centuries two trained cou or bush- runners, from Montreal were equal to ‘“‘making a clean dish”’ of a thousand square miles of the richest beaver country in five years. And we have our modern instance in the case of the Alaska seal. Yet only in the present vear does the report of the Hudson's B that the general volume of furs brought in appears to be falling off! And this is because the Adventurers came early to realize that the prosperous longevity of their y Company confess particular business must depend almost altogether upon the maintenance of the sf » of natural conditions as they found them They took the risk of introducing firearms, but they would go no further. They gave employment to no white trappers of any sort. From the beginning of time the Indians had preserved the balance of biped and quad- ruped; and, those Englishmen reasoned, if let alone they would in their own interests continue to preserve it. More than that, any policy And They Did Their Trading from the Top of Battlemented Walls e been IX penerations ol ir governors not only famo: railroad systems; yet the fir n b O ¢ ut heir phie oane sided gal t Be e the p ent ¢ wr A iS a i to headship, he had served apprenticeship of f ‘ ea ind had ssed upward through as mar rat of rank as would have made him commander of an army Moreover, at no time, either, does any singk ypear to have been thought capable by the Adventurers of exercising a preponderant control and that would rob the natives of their essential t beyond any doubt me: ernal enmity and war. Nor would the Company chance the altering power of any heritage mu + et other forces upon their copper coad jutors When they realized how deadly was the effect of brandy upon them, they saw to it that what little they obtained, when they made their yearly pilgrimage to the forts veak enough, and that they tool 1one back with them. While treating the Indians with justice and humanity, systematically discouraged they as \ nissionar) efte | 7 3 id a belief, whi the ear] history of French Can: had gone some distance toward confirming, that an excess of missionary zeal made for strife; and, as iforesaid, the one thing they a 1 for wa peace Also they did not want “‘ civilized field-tilling Indians; they wanted them left as hunters, even as they themss left them their hunting-groun } too, did the Adventurers opp mi- g on! They declined to t t the limits of their jurisdiction and responsi- ; I bility any element atever over which they could have no control What did they consider their responsl- bility? That of planting a new growth in America with as little interference as was humanly possible with what was rightfully there before it; that of not burning and laying waste the surrounding forest with the idea of giving their plantation more growing room—too much direct sun-glare is not what wise men invite—the responsi- bility, indeed, of live and let live. Within a hundred years the Company had made itself almost as much a part of Northern Canada as the Laurentian rock. And when, at the end of the eighteenth century, there came up against the Adventurers the most fiercely powerful of rival companies, after almost a generation of battling, they were able to throw it off and destroy it. The details of that struggle must be left for the story of that rival company Enough here to say that it was a struggle which changed the character of the victo- rious corporation itself. To carry on the war, it had had to follow its rival south into what is now Minnesota, north almost to the Arctic, and west and southwest over the Rockies to the Pacific slope. Thus, after many years, it came at last to occupy its own territor It had now to hold it And now, too, with the strange quickening power of digested victory, it underwent a saving metamorphosis It proved that its conservatism had not been the con- ervatism of pighead ts doors to all the most brilliant and active spirits which had fought it. And ime it adopted the be edness | y opening L It had at last determined to possess its empire, and in the governor who stood forth in 1821, Sir George Simpson, it obtained a typical empire-builder. He began from From the company ‘s once great rival he borrowed a new system of promotion. To that he added a scheme within. if his own for rotation of sé ce and another of regular eavesof absence, so that every emp! yee ould broadento ae

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his work as he aged and mounted. To asystem of absolute Golden Gate It was given up I Ist ’ ed chief liscipline and established grades he coupled the wholly factors were ure f that fa democratic principle of profit-sharing. Where previously 'é awe newead 1 iia anil oe , Dou By a complete plan of intercommunication, of regular Re can | er than the \ e Cor collections and distributions, he gave all the various re

branches of the Company one individuai life. There were Eve } posts so remote that it required years to get goods to ii them and return their furs to Lond But even the most \ ‘ ‘ outlying finger-tip was made to feel the steady pump and } draw of that far-off central heart \\ ‘ ‘ Being mindful, too, of the Napoleonic maxim that ( } ‘ army travels on its stomach, S mpson and f marshals now made their infant industry le to feed itself About i | every post was established a farm. The‘ H. B. ( new ( Al] | that wheat could be grown far north of the Saskatchewar ‘ | long before the Government of Canada took cognizance of | } that fact. At the mouth of the Columbia it established f pret , salmon fisheries. On Vancouver Island it mine coal. . hy From Fort Garry—now Winnipeg—every year there went ! ( forth a great buffalo-hunting expedition; often twelve } " ‘ hundred Red River carts took part, and in time the Com- ‘ Ys , f pany’s notes became like wax paper for pemmican greas« i ‘ q ’ f \ : Between the years 1821 and 1846, during which period : ( ar the Oregon boundary still remained unsettled, the Company \ , t crossed the Divide by the Missouri and extended itself Ds : Ya : \\ rn ( } far down into California. To handle that Pacitie trade a : Phe ¢ it soon required SIX Vessels and more than twenty posts —} } ! ‘wo thousand miles to the north it was within the Arctic A Circle at Fort Yukon F MacPhersor As far to j ‘ ) the eastward was Fort C I rado! The nar of | t many of those posts have their own import, toc We have } | ich Fort Reliance, lence, Fe Good Hope, Fort | Land Enterprise | be a map commemorating some They Did Not Want ( stubbornly | l TheCompany could number “ Civilized,” Field ha one hundred and ninety fully-equipped stations and more Tiling Indians } | i than three thousand mer It now divided its territory ee, rer } into four great provinces, and to visit them u uccession - t gave Simpson a life of uninterrupted travel At the head of Lake Winnipeg, and m following winter he f himse } Hudson Bay, he set upal i ‘ r e ( } J House, and focused the tri Ure I ] t \ ! He was at this time, in the po ‘ he ' I \t I the commercial emperor nu S) } , ' But greatness is not in magnitude And is as if the had abandor bout " Company had now determined to found a sort of new and ected him | er the | | ‘ I Roman Empire, one of peace and fairexchange. Swarmsof adraft for $ Won Lond irht Russian trader u er the auspi of their Gover ent t i close i t te fu rat le had established ther ‘ t n Alaska, and pror edt ‘ noticetol j ‘ t t the ] t ‘ ‘ eh | uch troubk CTheCompany entered int narrangement from Hu n Bay territor } ft re , to provide them with fresh provisions from its it farm Chev cut our ron } Farn} nad on the Colur \f years more and it wa i ‘ ‘ l-be compe { J them to } lr iit in reftusi bf Lo t i i i rt t I ‘ ar \ \ i the ; I t i thie ij \ Another ten years and the ¢ ir decided that he could witt Nort ‘ ot |} iunthr } ‘ } prolit cali home his ov tra i ta i il I l ‘ i of two thousand sea-otter 4 s, lease ou their privi Lhe ae ed a tead t be adr t the trife r } lr } J eges to the English corporation! of the 1 cou , | t ear hye 1 headed , hich it The Company's att tude was the same toward 1 Ameri retiring eit t kt weet rt the t f the inner t rn} can rivals now rapidly advancing northward from St. Loui office, and st! 1 } vreat 1 of prit e filir \ { ent Cor if it could not make treaties with them, it at least never cabinet Phe ire ve f cha ; } } read Frat and pursued any policy of retaliation. In 1S24 one Jedediah he sa f they had been in the har of ar ee i t! t nd | th ( Smith succeeded in diverting down the Missouri a large whieh e th mere ul e stuff for? { , Brit } ther ed { hich 4 i taking of furs intended for Norway Hous f not actual In the fort the California departmer ‘ the Company t its charter « , , m hia ind t} rol . stealing, it was exceedingly clever busines The owned a freehold farm of a HE death of the great . Among those present, as I re j | English actor, Henry Great Actor, Good Host, Pleasant Companion cia: nies tuaiieds ade: © Irving, so soon after that Carman, H Cair of the great American actor, Jones, of Nevada. M Joseph Jefferson, is the last of B H N among the few ladi« re many coincidences to be noted b 4 e W E I think she st re the in their long careers. They were of Portia dé eril nearly of the same age. They Amot hers in tl | began their labors in the theatrical profession about the It was my good fortune to know Jrving well during the ung curate, who had somes t tJ same time—Irving in England and Jefferson in America last fifteen years of his life, and I count it a great privilege, Cathedral and made an ¢ ement ‘ t | | They achieved their great reputations from the humblest not more because of | unquestioned ger than | how him through the place, ar ' of professional beginnings, advancing in popularity almost reason of his delightful per i I first met him in great tre I wasomitted, not} \ ' step by step together. While their réles in the dramatie London when he was plaving Shylock to Ellen Terry lt is presiding } { art were essentially different, they were much alike in Portia in The Merchant f Ver t | believe t wa the ’ There many things in private life, but in nothing so much as in test of his produ , ‘ yn | tir ent tean the strong hold gained by each in his own country, and marvelous support from M err | eed toadd him feel that he } retained and growing to the day of his death, upon the — that I was delighted to rece nvitation to the bar ‘ t ol t warm affections of their fellow-countrymen. which he set upon the Lyceur ave after the performances , It is safe to say that no two men in the world had as many vas over. | wasa stranger | ind forge I | friends and as few enemies as Irving in England and that procured the invitation for me, but it was probal eve t nd tk | America, and Jefferson in America Irving had the ad- J. L. Toole, the celebrated comedian, another friend of other the ‘ f vantage over Jefferson in the fact that he ted America mine No man was more gracious in } reception of fterth more frequently than Jefferson visited England Qn this Americans than was Henr Irving He had been gener ello niy nd lt account alone can it be said that Irving's personal popu- ously received in America and seemed always anxious to it I ar re | larity was more widely extended show } ense of appreciatior I Americar isl!

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evenings of my life, as I wended my way to my quarters at the Savoy Hotel. Bram Stoker, Irving's manager, was much in evidence. Between him and Irving a perfect and cordial understand- ng always existed. Stoker was the very opposite of Irving in physique. The latter was a dark, delicate-looking man, past middle life, quiet, suave and exceedingly precise; the former a strapping young blond, filled with life, jollity and heartiness. Stoker loved Irving devotedly, watched over him, kept bores away from him, fought his battles, con- ducted his diplomatic business and delighted in the task, as if he were a strong young son caring for a weak father. Irving, on the other hand, admired Stoker as possessing the lustiness of which he felt the lack in himself, and trusted hint implicitly in all things, as well he might, for Stoker is one man among a thousand. Stoker and | were fast friends from the first. Our greet- ings were cordial at another supper a few days afterward, given to Irving by Toole at the Garrick Club after the close of Irving’s performance of King Lear at the Lyceum. King Lear isa long play. Many of the guests were assem- bled about the banquet table, drinking hot Scotch and discussing the performance for some time before Irving acrived. I recall that Mr. Knight, the celebrated Shake- spearian commentator, sat to my right. From the walls around us the portraits of Shakespeare, Garrick, Siddons, Kean and many another great leader of the dead dramatic hosts looked down upon-us. Conversation naturally turned to Irving’s rendition of Shakespearian plays. All agreed that he was a marvelous interpreter, as indeed they well might, for the power and depth and shade of expression which he could throw into every sentence of the great master was a revelation, even to the closest and most enthu- siastic student of Shakespeare. Yet, that very night and in Irving s play, 1 had seen, in more than one mediocre supporter, a sad tailure to make the best, with intelligent comprehension and expression, of the humbler parts, and, insignificant as they were, they made discords with Irving's true conception, tending to mar the play. Somehow, it came to me to express my views, and, although according to Irving the full measure of recognition of his genius, I took occasion to Say what I had often felt, that there are few of the historical plays of Shakespeare which are not greatly crippled in their presentation on the stage by the inevitable limitations of the stage itself; that, though the stage of a theatre is adequate to the representation of a society play, or even toa play of the class of The Merchant of Venice, vet the attempt to produce plays like Macbeth, Richard Il] or Henry LV, in the cramped area of a theatre, however large the house may be, with the mediocre talent available to support the star in the many parts of such a play, inevitably detracts not only from the grandeur of the play itself, but from the power of a master like Irving. For my own part, I added, | would much more enjoy hear- ing Irving read the whole play, leaving it to my imagina- tion to supply the details of scene and actors, than the best performance of it of which any theatre I ever had seen was capable. An enthusiastic American friend present cried out, You are talking treason! How dare you Say sucha thing with all these ancient worthies looking down upon you, und surrounded by actors? You ought to fear that you will be struck dumb for blasphemy Mr. Knight leaned over and, speaking beneath his breath, aid: “I quite agree with you, but, of course, in my posi- on, I wouldn't dare to say such a thing in this presence About that time Irving arrived and the whole current of conversation was changed. It was delightful to see the deference and real affection shown Irving by the other distinguished members of the theatrical profession who greeted him He entered into the spirit of the fun of the evening with as much zest as any of the younger men pres- ent, and nobody applaude d more enthusiastic ally several capital songs rendered by some of the younger men. There Was no attempt at speaking, but everybody was called on to sing a song or tell a story, and Irving acquitted himself very well in a little character-sketch showing the peculiar- ities of one « f the local celebritic 4 whose name | forget Never Too Busy for Friendship remained in London, and it surprised me that a man sy with more important matters had so much time H E WAS exceedingly civil to me in many ways while | » bu lor attention to a stranger lhe g year Irving came to New York It had so happened that, on the invitation of the late A. M. Palmer, I had addressed the theatrical people at one of their annual Actors’ Fund entertainments at Palmer’s Theatre. In the peech I made to them I had elaborated the ideas above set forth coneerning the limitations of the stage. and the pro- ceedings were printed, including my address. The whole thing, however made very little impression upon me. It was one of many that had passed entirely from my memory. Of course, I called upon Irving as soon as he arrived in New York. He and Stoker were the same congenial friends I had known in London, but what surprised me most on my THE Sir Henry Irving visit was that, within fifteen minutes after we came to- gether, Irving stepped to his secretary, took up a printed copy of the proceedings at that Actors’ Fund meeting, and proceeded to say: “Do you know, my dear Wise, I have just been reading that speech you made to the Actors’ Fund meeting? I am very much interested in it. It expresses the exact thought I have had a thousand times, and the effort to make the stage adequate to the representation of the scenes and to obtain people who, in supporting me, would not make both Shakespeare and myself ridiculous, has been the greatest struggle of my life. Of course, what you say about enjoying hearing a play well read more than seeing it performed is true with intelligent, educated, imaginative people, but uneducated people and unimaginative people would be bored by the best reading of Shakespeare in the world They never will comprehend him fully. The best we can do for them, and they are the mass of people, is to present Shakespeare's genius to them in the most attractive garb in which it can be presented upon the stage in the hope that they may learn something, if not all. I realize, even more keenly, perhaps, than do you, the necessary limitations of the dramatic art. I never leave the performance of one of Shakespeare's plays without feeling bitterly how sadly it has fallen short of conveying the full meaning of his words.”’ Killing Czesar with a Revolver RVING was an artist in the true sense. He hada painful sense of fitness in all his productions. He was sometimes ridiculed for his exactions that the minutest details of his plays should be made to conform to the general design But the fame he achieved was due to bis contending for these things. When incongruities appeared in his plays they literally tortured him; at the same time he enjoyed immensely what he called ‘ American anachronisms.”’ I remember telling him of a benefit which I attended in Washington given to Edwin Adams shortly before his death. It was in the hot summertime, when little care was taken in selecting the support. The pall-bearers who bore the King’s dead body in the play chewed tobacco on the stage and expectorated on their own shoes, so as not to attract the attention of the audience. That amused Irving greatly, as did also the story of the Texan play, where the conspirators who killed Julius Cesar used a five-barrel revolver Jefferson and Irving came together at my house, and it was delightful to see them. Each sincerely admired the other and delighted in the other’s company. Both re- fused to talk about theatrical matters, saying that they had too much respect for each other to talk about such uncon- Jefferson took excellent care of himself He had no taste for late hours and dissipation, but retired early. I think he told me he made it a rule to be in bed by one o'clock when he was acting, and much earlier at other times. But Irving was a perfect night-owl. He told me he ate dinner only once a week, meaning thereby that on ; other days his theatrical engagements prevented him But his onee-a-week dinners were great affairs, and when- ever he was in New York he gathered about him every Sunday night a company of his friends. On other nights he generally had a hearty supper after the performance and seldom retired until the wee sma’ hours. genial subjects | SATURDAY EVENING POST November 11, 1905 In an article which I recently wrote upon President McKinley I| deseribed a famous supper at which Irving and a number of distinguished men were present. Irving hada way of selecting one thing at a banquet, which he considered the best, and confining himself to that. When he came t my house he and Stoker both concentrated upon South ampton ham. I have never seen two people who enjoyed it more, and on one occasion, when they were leaving for England, I had my Virginia cook prepare and send on the steamer for them ham and biscuit—-two delicacies which they declared to be unequaled on either continent. An amusing thing occurred one night at The Lambs Club in New York. It was the night of one of their gambols and Irving was present. It was the custom of the club to travesty the popular actors of the day. Harry Dixey, who is an inimitable mimic, was brought in dressed to represent Henry Irving. He had Irving's walk, Irving's voice and Irving's mannerisms down to perfection. He came in with a tin-bucket, walked as Irving walked, to an imitation pump, and pumped for some time without getting any water. Then, looking up with the very expression and intonation of Irving, he said: ‘‘Ha! Ha! We—never miss — the — water — till —the— well—runs — dry.” The thing was so ridiculous and so like Irving that the guests immediately went into convulsions. Irving sat there with his elbow on the table and his hand under his chin, watching Dixey with a curious grim expression on his face General Horace Porter sat next to Irving and nudged him, saying: “Irving, what do you think of it?) Do you like it? Without changing his pose or his expression, Irving replied: ‘‘Ha! Ha! I say I do, but I don’t.” I remember one occasion at a dinner given to Irving by General Horace Porter at the Fifth Avenue Hotel There were very few of us present, and we drew Irving out upon the subje ctof thestage. He spoke freely of his views as to what the stage should be and what it was capable of, for good or for evil. He explained his idea and his motive in the great outlay which he insisted upon in the presenta- tion of his plays. He dwelt, too, upon his aspirations as interpreter of the great men whom he represented. The man’s ideals were of the loftiest. His ambition was honor- able. His purpose was to elevate the stage and improve the intellectual and westhetic calibreof the patronsof thedrama No man could be with Irving and hear him talk without realizing that the influence of the stage is greater than the thoughtless are wont to concede, and that every instinct and every aspiration of Irving was toward a higher standard The Man Behind the Mask HE last time I ever saw him here we were disappointed in several social engagements. He wasso occupied that he could not come except late at night and then was phys- ically unfit. It was necessary that he should nurse himself One day I received from him a very large photograph with a pleasant inscription begging me to dine with him at his hotel on the following Sunday night. I did so with the greatest pleasure, and, now that he is gone, it is a double pieasure to reflect that I saw him, although it necessitated eanceling other engagements. He made Mrs. Wise the guest of honor, and, as usual, had assembled about him a number of charming people. Discussing the delightful entertainment on our way home, we agreed that Irving was a curiosity in his way, in his attention to the minutest detail. He was punctilious that the soup should be hot, and found one of the wines too cold and another too warm. His entertainments were as near correct as they could well have been, and his hospitality never was surpassed by that of anybody else. There was a touch of sadness in what he said, something unexpressed but apparent, the subtle expression of a feeling that we should not be together on I shall cherish his picture, because it was in the very character in which he died —that of Becket. Casting back over life's friendships and acquaintances, it is a pleasant thing to recur to the few really highly intellectual people whom we have known, in whose life and conversation there was the least of the grossness and sordidness so often seen mingled with great qualities Henry Irving was certainly one of these. Refinement was ingrain and ever-present with him; sympathy and courtesy were two of the most prominent of his characteristics; thoroughness in everything and the demand for it in others Was an essential part of his life. He was a man of great learning, of individuality, and, indeed, of an appearance so emphatic that he was Henry Irving no matter what he said or what he played. But he was always considerate, affectionate, charitable charitable not only in the open hand that helped so many quietly, but in his judgment and in his speech. The stage will always cherish him in time to come, and through all time, as perhaps its greatest man in hisday; and his friends, whose name is legion, owe it to his memory to place on record that he was one of the truest and best fellows that ever lived and died. Comforting, indeed, is the thought to those who loved him best that Irving’s ashes are to rest where they belong, by the side of Garrick, in the great Abbey, with the greatest of England’s dead many more occasions oan,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 5 THE BOLTON GIRLS “POSITION” By William Allen White HEN she said she would like to “accept a position” her eyes floated in tears of happins he thought of suc!

with our paper, it Was all over Detween u After O* If she ould only ive a chia that we knew that she is at least highly in vely mp rand nd she kne probable if not entirel pu ‘ Bu t Ni eth } r } have expected i I ( ner 1 la t ide Tt ] I \\ Maybelle Phere t much to be 1 in he went o ! wk i Maybelle’s favor a er She did not let go — of toolseap hich she had wr I ll I prea sata We could hay tood it well enough 1 . Wher Memory ara al lt the ‘ i! ill ‘ rhe she had limited her campaign for a job on the papertoan chamber, revealing the pictures Me a nr ne ad ‘ I ‘ r ot ve erday, lying ou a i r \ I Wi t T t t I irc ili th to rid e « LD —_ : | ol ick to | Me j , " h Ma Me WI " no one ever f i \ nee t he loc le } } il met es he ' j her , te , it ' , \ th } pa randly ¢ At the f nd id Ye lt I ea I } i handhold Wher 1 be to cor her hands, I notice she has must pbrair ' But Maybelle returned ‘ | me ind n We ex] ( t ! wanted wa hort iter yor three eS ¢ } Bestowing the Same Passionate Fervor on Her Hemstitching | reference o home d ymethir telling and Tucking that She Wasted on Literature ho has company, who i t who 1 puttir les on the barn « I on the | ( Ar l he { ! iid “‘Oh, ves! OT ‘ tha eemed h th , { is though she would bark or t tre te ( her ) } but papa the table (ne Telt lke ta her \ l t 1 i i | ia i hands and p r eat : hed The next tir © cal n sk j ‘ u I | ' : ive her methit » ¢ i ( \ iid \ L : he could show us how we he could doi Ona ( And tl h. Thaw fths aS . venture, and partly to get rid of her, we sent her to eetest thir n my } : | ‘ i e ther bf } ‘—f* 4.3 CRUGER,, the district convention of the Ey th Le eto Th ist tir ‘ ‘ | ¥ Leould ‘ ! ! | na dunyeotr vhich told her who were the triends we liked most to obligt bor imple senter t the se ! eof) home from a the banker, for instance, who carried our overdrafts, the uid that th nam were Vhat ‘ ed ind ru } | bird she ng advertiser, the n of the printir mmittee dropped her eyes and 1 mee QO ! i I k of f the town council ndw rf ethema rv she 4] } | fora? } : it we couldn't do something for M Bolton she could ing of the T. T. T gir ila ns! nad PO Da t fal teach school: indeed, she had a place in the Academy and vet the name \ he ent out the Your Prine >t ‘ } And j _ noth she ‘‘loathed school-teaching She had always felt sitting t the window with I pence behind | ear ind it ¢ t ‘ i ead ‘ u that, if she could once get a start, she could make a nanx his leet on the table td | Lsne for herself fudge! And She had written something that she called ‘‘a eritique uch lovely angel on Hamlet,’ which she submitted to u nd wv deeply food,” putin M | | pained when we told her that we didn't care f editorial Larrabes who matter; that what our paper needed was the nar of the was busy writing } people in our own country town and county, printed a up the Epworth = | many times a day ora wee nt t! ( 1 be p Le 1e@ ¢ | In type We tried to tell het more por ? is thar tior | the influence of the Celtic element on our national life and Mi Boltor literature, was the fact that John Jones of Lebo hatisto name wasa say, red John, as distinguished from black John, or Jone among the the tinner, or p Seca “orp Possum Hollersettlement Was in we printed of the town with a load of hay. “* Others,’’ weexplained carefully, guests at the while she looked as sympathetic and intelligent as a collie Entre Not ther papers might be interested in the radio-activity of Dancing ¢ iranium x; they might care to print articles onthe psycho- the Imperial 1OL 1 il phenomena of to } } he ed eager Car Clu ‘ ement with her eyes ‘others, with entire propriety, ‘Giddy Y« be j 1 in inor I r »] ( j } hi r ( cheeped * Y« é h feverish it bu our the Art Cl little local paper we cared only for the person who could tell and the S$! our readers with the most delicacy and precision how many peare ( poons Mrs. Watkins had to borrow for her party ho had But whet he the largest number of finger-bowls in tow: vhat Mr came? to the Kersey paid for the broilers she served at her party last office she February, and the name of the country wor ho raised full of them, and why i that all th or i i to mal he fr f ! recipe for sunshine + yor ne ‘ rie we These are the things that interest our peop } heo } Vhnocant irn in t\ o or three column «lt i ol items set t Tr i! Le ting forth these things in a} od-t! t 1 Vv i , ha the ( y? } I persons mentioned will only grin and wonder who told it, he fel iS LOO Tor ter dol ir. of our n t eve » I y night ! i l ne

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST s Mollification 9 November 11, 1905 The Story of Selma Pederson’s Steady By RENNETT HARRIS “Who is he?” she asked of the patchouli-scented young man who had just turned her meekly around in a ‘Him? Oh,that’s Buck Murphy! Ain’t you never seen him afore? He broke in 'thout a ticket an’ took Henry Smolenski by the neck an’ slung him agin the wall when he **Why don’t they throw him out?” asked Selma indig- ‘Him? Not on your full-length enlargement—not unless they called in the patrol wagon. When Buck gets started there's suthin’ doin’ in the emergency ward.” ‘* He iooks good-natured ,”’ said Selma reflectively the red-haired young man’s affable grin as he conversed , noting ‘He's good-natured enough when he gets his own way,” ‘*He wouldn't get his own way with me,” said Selma with a shake of her pretty fair head, and her partner laughed rhe next dance was a waltz. Selma noticed that the redoubtable Buck waltzed well—as well, perhaps, as the bushy-haired youth. Certainly, she thought, he must be good-natured. Every once in a while she could hear h mellow laugh above the buzz and chatter of the room No one could laugh like that and be of an ugly dispx 1 But, alas! it was not more than a few minutes after Selma had indulged in these reflections that there was a sudden confusion over by the orchestra and a hasty scatter ing of the dancers as a man shot out from the centre of a group, sprawling on his hands and knees. One of the g screamed and Selma recognized in the prostrate man her erstwhile partner of the waltz. Half-crouching over him, his square jaw rigidly set, his gray eyes blazing with wrath, As the bushy-haired youth essayed to rise, one of the gers caught Buck’s arm. The terror simply placed his hand on the interventor’s chest, and, with what seemed the slightest push, sent him staggering backward. oo” ‘You let him alone and behave yourself!’’ she said, stepping in between the furious man and his victim. For a moment it seemed as if Murphy would strike her as she stood before him, pale with indignation, but fearless and unflinching, her dimpled, rounded chin proudly raised, her gaze steady and level. Buck stared at her, and, as he stared, the anger slowly died out of his eyes and a humor- 6 measured waltz step. tried to stop him.” nantly with the cerise belle. said her partner. as they chasséed to the opposite couple , And how particularly strong he looked Buck Murphy Swaggered into the Hall Man is but wax, though he may Often like marble appear; Woman he has to obey Ever, from cradle to bier Though we rebel, it is clear 1 wield 7 . . . We must acknowledge her sway muscles tense and fists clenched, was Murphy. still, by a frown or a tear Woman vill ha e her own way. f} mans B J 1! Tyrant Womar oor-man VHERE seemed to be nothing wrong with the dance. The music, by Kahr orchestra, was perfectly At that instant Selma spoke. lovely, the floor was waxed to the highest possible iegree of polish, the beer did not seem to be In evidence, 1 as Ine McCarty, of the Ribbon Remnants at Feldchild & Sigelscott's, pointed out to Selma Pederson, he Notions in the same mammoth establishment, there wi tno tough crowd.” ma felt reassured She had come with some mis- giving o tell the truth, having ideas of her own about but no function could have been more is It had inti ed } 1 One of } y her cant ith h a va b nar iit ad ist plen exceptionally pretty and consequé been able t ‘ only twoda i sf Cc The is I he should not « again, she reflected Just at that moment sounds of a disturbanes proceeded f tk t 1 *h, manly ce said, ‘‘ Aw! fergit fergit it!” and somet! eemed to lammed against rtition {"} ‘ bui headed, red ! ( ca ittor ouhg man with a very ide r ith ery sq re jaw and v y detert ed expres- d int he hall and smiled comprehensively e Somebody 1 . It’s Buck Murphy. I'm goir duck be e the trouble bevi , Mr. Murphy, seemingly quite indifferent to the sensation he had created walked up to one of the fluttered floor- unagers and spoke to him A minute later he was bow- v 1 backward scrape of his foot, to a young woman ‘ colores ock, the most conspicuous beauty on e fl Just then Selma's partner claime le. and n st iw t Murphy arid red girl d rin the next set. It was marvelous the way that young man danced. His energy was tremendous and contagious; it infected the he g partners he swung them; ay business about it. He swung them ithet >in a whirl of skirt, petticoat and stock- ing, heedless of breathk remonstrance When he b: anced, the weird jig-steps that he executed, their admi ble precision and clean finish, fascinated all beholders. ous twinkle succeeded. It was a perfectly magical trans- formation. He actually smiled. ‘‘Just as you say," he d agreeably. ‘‘But you'd best take him home. I’m him if I handle him agin.” You ought to be ashamed of vourself said Selma severely. ‘I should think vou would be Fergit it,” grinned Buck Places all! he shouted, as h late adversary was led away. ‘Say, what’s de mat Start up dat music! Where’ ] “round: then, as the to play, he followed Selma a he said. “You've got to ‘I'm engaged,”’ said Selma coldly ‘So’m I,” he rejoined pleasan my girl's quit me, and I don’t see nothin’ o your feller. Here’s where we set de pace for ’em.” His arm encircled her waist and the next moment he was whirling her through the dancing throng, her head was r a) broad, firm shoulder, her cheek almost on the lapel of his coat as he bent forward How easily he moved! How exactly his step went with hers! How skillfully he piloted her, and with what absolute support! You've got ‘em all faded,” he said i when t it ; a corker! I’m glad I come here ere ain't a fairy in de bunch can touch you.” le music stopped. ‘‘Say man and smiled. ‘‘ Where are you going to?” she asked, for Murphy was making for a door. ‘To de bar, 0’ course,’’ he answered. ‘‘ Ain’t you dry?’ The girl drew back and relinquished his arm. ‘‘ You're goin’ alone then,” she said decidedly. Not on your life He tried to take her hand. She looked at him, and he abandoned the attempt with a laug! that was a trifle shamefaced. ‘] guess you're all right,”’ he said. never here afore, was you?” No,”’ answered Selma, ‘‘and I ain’t likely to be here again. I'm going home now.”’ ‘* Aw, fergit it!” said Murphy. ‘‘ Well, if you’re going I’n agoing, too. “ Say, you wasn’t ‘*Did you come in without a ticket ?”’ asked Selma, look ing at him. He was entirely unabashed. ‘‘Sure,”’ he answered wit! his captivating grin. “Then go right now and pay for one,”’ she commande gravely. He stared at her “i you want to go out of this place with me,’ nd Buck Murphy turned on his heel and hurried to see! the doorkeeper. ’ she added Selma was at her place at the notion-counter the follow ng afternoon when Buck Murphy, appareled in checks th a baby-blue necktie fastened with a flashing diamond d his hat very much on the side of his head, appeared iddenly before her. She looked at him without recog nition —stonily. Say, dis is a frost,’’ remarked Murphy with exaggerated ejection. Then he added: ‘‘Aw! be a good feller.’ Was there something?” inquired Selma, ignoring the friendly overture } + ’ a ‘‘Sure,”’ answered Buck. “T'lleall you. What have you got?’’ He looked at the trays on the counter before him and with great deliberation selected a card of hooks and eyes, a pyramid of pins, a spool of tape and a darning-egg Then he looked up at Selma with a twinkle in his gray eyes and the girl laughed in spite of herself. ‘*That’s better,’’ commented the young man. Selma's smile faded. ‘‘Twenty-two cents, please,” she said in a businesslike tone. She took the five-dollar bill that he skinned from a roll of greenbacks, rapped for a cash-girl and sent her admirer’s purchases to the wrapping-desk. He waited a moment while she serenely looked past him into vacancy. Then ‘Ain't you agoing to loosen up?” he demanded. “I told you you weren t to come here,” » said Not even when I want hooks and eyes?”’ Selma’s cheeks were glowing and her eves bright She looked at the red-haired \ oung “Was There Something ?

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“Tl see that somebody els« waits on you ther } : in her decided way. ‘‘ Here comes your packag: Now lea An’ when it « ! ‘ 1 f int you she

want you to go.” tor The young man went away with a somewhat crest faller If you’d been ] in the t tu | Cr \ I { air, but when Selma left the store at six o'clock he was or be all right, aid Selma maybe l ‘ t id eed tor )} the sidewalk waiting for her and joined her in a matter-of you now ‘ lifting his hat course Way. She made he to the « I a “Who said so?” she asked. helped her to a Ml “Oh, I had a hunch!” he replied ai “You've got another hunch comir yr then,” iid the girl the ice-crea and fruit « por ‘ tt

} 5 1g, id g i if I don’t want you waiting around for me, that traight street been agivin’ me Ain't you got nothing better to do than to loaf around all At the curb she sh« her arm free and face , l mu to t the afternoon ? can gor she firr Here's 1 ca ‘ ‘ if | t de dub wi “Not a thing,” he replied I don’t want you should ge ! mi f h de back of

“Then you'd better fir ething,”’ she s harpl I s to " P } A ** Ain’t vou got a trade? attempte o rer ‘ } ‘Sure, Mike; I'm a machinist. But I ain’t w n’ at it ) he « } Vou , ‘ steady.” force and grinned } ear , \ , { vou **Why?” with one more ste1 ad ‘ } ect el “Got a better graft. Work don’tagree with 1 anyway rts and t al i I ! I'm too strong for it.”’ n t to follow, but at the u ro? spect « ad. neither Selma flashed him a contemptuous look and then jumped — back he stopped, and the « tart Yet, « » kine You ain lightly on to a street car that was waiting at the corner young 1 tood ¢ ng blar ur itt ‘ } Ifawent Mu phy followed her Che car was crowded with tl 31X- I reath, the { rl, who ont rear i \ ! i pentiemal o'clock rush, but Selma was used to standing She reached turt nd, smiling at I M ed }

, for a strap. “Say! wouldn't dat jar you 1 Buck in ton msical sidelon 4 **Say, pal,” she heard in Buck's mellow voice, ‘‘gitupan’ _ profoundest ipefactior n she hur 4 give de lady a seat.” ‘ he ntinued The man addressed barely looked up from his newspaper Selma had rather more than a vague expe ion that to the dance and then returned to its perusal with renewed interest. The hy would be a i her « ide tl deat} ’ instant following the paper was } ou interp struck from his hands, and Buck’s forward-thrust face with its set jaw - ———____— —— LL — rday. That was within four inches of his own, 2 - | t eat if he Buck’s gray eyes fixing his in ar / ¥ i | angry glare / { vit **T was speakin’ to youse, see?" ffi ; | nd I growled the terror of the Eight j ‘ Bue eenth. ‘I said l £ } ' | ht y + r I »stopped abr | ump ! was on his arn oT nay Pi x» < r a ' i } i] f I M | } Bu al i ‘ ! i I t | , t vt I \ } | ‘ he | } | , : 1 | Mo uut on U piatiorr id | p f . if warm up then,” retorted Selma, s we ‘ * ed smilir everthe Sn mo = ne I don’t need to now,” said When He Swung Partners He Swung Them yer B smiling hap I and two transfers, p TI t was to the conductor.” ever ‘ “I didn't ou to ] I fare S Selma t vounr mar t} fe to his por of th . I kne 1 didn’t have to,” he rejoins Y ne hurts n 1 } e to t re é ( 1 he \ M Lime Die nr é ik i i ] cent an ot hot t tr ‘ { at ( CT? mo! 1 line unt ' } ‘ i It’s mine,”’ answered Sel I don’t kno re \ } I get off at.” rather t t i **Tdon’'t neither,” said Buck with agr “That hat ‘ ind |! te i to i fe been akeepin’ me guessin’ ever since last night. Say! 1 Selma felt a momentary f! stuck on them little curls around your ears; dey’re as cute 1 nized tk repre le B as a spotted pup.’ I t’ought IJ “You don’t get off with me,’ continued Selma, disre- you man cheerfull H ] | garding the compliment evel ” ; . Guess again.” “I'm all right,” : ered \ ren ed “Well, you don’t.”’ do ere? he “You've got one more. Give it up? We t’s you an’ “a exercise. Dis is me fav'rit« \ t me to an ice-cream joint when we hit de cedar blocks I et ene ‘ ni 1 me lu t \ t i buy. Den you figger whedder de Temple Roof or de Chutes ve List i'r portir Maybe it for dis evenin’.”’ much as it is de gir J lat ain't 1 l I met “I think I see myself,” said Selma scornfully. ‘‘T like Which way are you goir asked Selr biting he | lu i night ar Wen’ s«

nerve, but vou suit me too well.”’ ‘Same way \ re gol repli au prompt Thursda I

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nearly de hull We ve got suggested Buck “Tt's a good thing I get my sewing afternoon,’ or I'd rejoined Have you seen that s lately?”’ she added What goil’s dat?”’ asked Buck The one you was dancing with Tues- have never Selma girl in done heartlessly. the red dre lay nignt iy, I'd forgotten all about her.” She Vas pretty Pretty as a picture | bet she'd go to the show with you if you AaSK¢t | her ] bet e would Then why don't you ask her?’ Buck stopped short Aw, you make me weary! he said ‘“T ain't no doll- haser; don’t you never think it. Not now When I see de real ting I ain't no ten-cent, cheap-John not on life!"’ Let walk a little faster," your suggested Ain't I never to walk a block yoing to set ou from de cat I've told you to walk with me I don't car.” that from the vou before want Den what If you h t with ie morrow ou want to go to the park afternoon--and you k you can behave yourself — you can,” wa littl wk took a deep breath and expelled and hi $ irresistible seima ish ecstasy, strong, hite teeth flashed out in an nile Selma laughed at him, and _ his chimed in Where do I meet vou?" he You don't meet me al ellow barytone r asked vered Selma c i ventieman Holy Smoke! ejaculate d the your yman with her gurglir l yo agi your muddet! Perhaps it would be better for you to ‘ } omebod ha lere iid Buel I air ifraid ir mu t but she may not be struck on me put me ise L) de house now, ain't it?” THE A Matter-of-Fact Roma rhvily ere both very vou and bot! } CGood-by THE SATURDAY EVENING POST } contralto You call at Dat means a date won't like yay , vou | eS ee November 11, 1905 ‘ For a Moment it Seemed as if Murphy Would Strike Her She ran up the steps. Buck made his flickering removal of his hat and walked back to the car-line, his red head in the clouds treading on air, The interview with Mrs. Pederson was not so embarrass- ing as Buck had expected rather worn-looking woman in the black of her widowhood, less substantially built even than her daughter, and with a trusting look in her eyes that Selma's had not, so Buck thought. There Was one thing she aid, howe ver, that might have { mbar- rassed a youth less ready than Buck I understand you are a machinist She was a Mr. Murphy answered the captain of I sure am. | machine would do ‘‘Yes, marm,” his precinct humorously. don't know what de wit’out me slip some cogs, | guess.’ At which Mrs. Pederson smiled sweetly but uncomprehendingly, and came in all the glory of the party Swiss and pink ribbons, with a hat that floral diversity, and they presently set forth soon Selma was a miracle of remembered. upon have It was an afternoon to be Buck active treated was in high spirits and bent pleasuring. He would fain Selma to swings, pony-carriages, the boats that, laden with exuberant makers, swept through the ramic banks of the old mill stream,” all regardless of expense, but beyond watching the Selma th showing a mdes in holiday pano- crowds would ve none of preference for zodlogical rest arch, accompanied with pe anuts, among the animals. It a disappointment to Buck, but he bore it nobly, much as whimpered when Selma insisted on making a tour of the greenhouses. He brightened perceptibly, though, when the red roof of the and the girl accepted his suggestion of ice Still she was and never so refectory rose above the trees could not be persuaded to had to working | way to the ceream eat more than one dish, so Buck himself by returning console counter r.} paper-bag and laden with fruit in glazed boxes of candy. and white Then the two wandered off along a shade flecked gravel path to the lake front, where the at on a slope of green turf, whole vards bet thing them and any other living the and veen al Selma took off her hat and let blow her hair his elbow and watched her watched the streams of vehicles passing He had suddenly become silent, but Selma chat- tered away gayly, him of her life in the perfect loveliness of Miss Bernstein, the smartness of Mr Tabin, the floor-walker, and the too-mean-for-an\ breeze about her face, Buck leaned back on as she along the driveway be low. telling store, the thingness of some customers It would have been well if Buck Murphy had been con- tent of the light and sparkle of the blue eyes that looked at him in so friendly a fashion, the the full, DP to sit and listen, taking note meanwhile curves of blooming cheek and FOLLOWERS He found himself at Chateauneuf from habit he had lived in | each mid-May had ind } ttle llaye at the edge of the forest ferent from othe ur It was this vear at? rt had been Or t I ! vi r you take it ' eit ( nateauneutl | Lust he had rown 1d } dic the n mea ¢ . tt ms wur t here e othe t ‘ ithered = ar nattered ‘ f tine, the other man had gone away, and he me a he rd (ot course, he ha ] ric ( t t that rt nat ee WwW l : e} 1") » to Chateauneuf OT I ‘ ‘ ! ita I na J ‘ sre t ne t i ‘ r iu nt ( he me 4 1 t ( t i ‘ I} ~ or he « , P } . ul I t ( ‘ } t ’ } p } | P ‘ rhe ot | ’ ‘ thre artes ! if ‘ ‘ ‘ more ‘ i | i ‘ \ ely ol the r ‘ it ‘ ist could | ‘ to the eart withou Vell ( lid ha teeth and claw without heir a fox She added the teeth and claw nished the And Looked Down at the Stars in the Water By E. NESBIT poem and went to bed Che poem under her pillow seemed tender pal ho to radiate a lovely red even her In the If you must wear drean morning she tore laughed willows, n at least don’t ear artificial ones I] dare iy there are plenty of real willows at Chateauneuf There were She did not go in the morning, after all auneuf when were overlaying with fine g. And she ; of the su reached Chats the leve gold the well-tilled patches that lie between the station and the village At the first touch of her hoot on little hotel dining-room she had com Not that her home ho had sand on its floors, | restless, unsatisfied millior its di iwa This 1 the threshold « t rvthing at (hateauneul from the cal old hoste ho bade rinkled smile ind kind old eyes, quare bare bedroom looking out on the garder The garde sped ply dow? there were tree and trees and trees — n¢ onscious tre e the ones ir the Luxer yur arce trees beautifu dressed for a t, and prir th the company manr hat one wear the to } tres me, hap} ind unafraid. lear ( e tor ott and tel ch other how long ti vinter ha ‘ nd how dear sprir \ t sid Eva and yet I saw hi: ‘ n, bright with purple flags and budding peonies, slopes down to a grove of trees more intimately close than those above ind thro. them ves no What was the gleam of running water could one ask more ' }

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Phis,’’ said a weeping willow at the water's edge All the English ladies in the hotel had gone to Paris for 1 the day , Madame told her Would she d was perhaps large for one Ine on the terrace The sall mand little lady I | “The English ladies, were they young?” she asked , | “But no, mademoiselle—they are of the age when one | no longer has any age. They write letters and occupy ; themselves without end at the knitting r “So I can tell my aunt I’ve heaps of chaperoning, if 7 she makes a fuss about my being here,” she told herself f She dined alone, on a shabby stone terrace with a broken balustrade. To the light of her lamp came night-flies and moths. y A bat fluttered by in stealthy, circling flight. At iW the other side of the garden another lamp gleamed, and { some one was whistling very clearly and sweetly The } 2 ne ; ' words of the song sang themselves in Eva's heart . This is the last, last time we meet : For I must leave thee, O my sweet The fault was mine, be mine the pain To never see thy face : I wonder if he felt that aid Ev: Was there some secret reason— oh, it’s no use thinking! I'll go to bed She went But not to sleep rhe very quiet irked her, accentuated as it was by the far, low note of a nightingale, the folk in the street, the chatter tabbies, the kitchen. She missed perhap { country arrival of the dishes in the the loud lullaby of the ing feet, the the city she had so hated The night grew country pe ople The plates were tling from the Only distant rattle of tram-bells, the heat of the throbbing heart of stiller and stiller Ihe had yore home tt bed all washed up Che whis garden had ceased long ago the nightingale and she were awake But it's ‘ to keer a nightingale’s business,”’ said Eva mine awake at night; and it’s not She turned her hot pillov rhe nightingale was 1+ i ilent now s no use said Eva, and threw bac the covers When she leaned out of the window, she ! wondered how she could have wished to sleey \ lhe spacious night seemed to reproach her Con oO come « {4 4 1 will,” said Eva Oh, I will!” Am set almo uid Wait for me!” to the ightingale She dressed quic | I\ As she crept along the corridor, she noted the three pairs of ladvlike boots at various door a pair ol manly shoes at the door of number 13—the sho of the garden-whistler, she upposed i So he was safe out of the wav, as well a every one else 1 expect 1 am the only person awake in all Chateauneuf,”’ she said as she crept down the wide, bare stairs stood alone in the dark village | street. In all the silent length of it no least No singlk Then she sound stirred window showed a ‘ crack of light Which way?" she And does it asked herself. herself answered matter which Wa\ ways dark and lovely and mysterious? try to find the river.’ She found the river—the way And she leaned he r elbows on the old, rough | stone parapet of the bridge and looked dowr joyously: ‘* What Aren't all the Let's Was @CAaSs\ ; at the stars in the water. The bridge invited her to cross it. On i the other side tall trees met over the road She crossed the bridge and walked on into the shadow. It was somewhere away hers to the right that the nightingale was singing . Y ou The darkness was full of sounds now —the rustling of pines, the crack of a twig broken under the light, quick F tread of little live woodland things, bullfrogs resonant chorus from hidden ponds or marshes and always the nightingale i ‘*] seem to be going through a forest,”’ said Eva like a) the youngest Prince who sets out to seek his fortune. He Ne always comes to a forest i Greeny glowworms gleamed in the deeps of roadside } Ss adow. ° I have never felt like this before,”’ she said It is the ' best thing I have ever, ever had Yes,"’ she insisted, as memory brought back all the hours spent with him who q had broken her heart, ‘*the very best, because that was only to end in misery, and this ca? able to remember exactly She l Eva has never been thinks it begar thatched hut Dut no door N« door oO afraid part of the wood where she began to be there was ; no door to it A doorwa SS THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Scones keep anything that might be inside from creeping out reached out with be and coming after her her ba And the green giowworms began to make her thi ol N ne a a wolves’ eves In stories wolve eves alwavs gleame \ he greel forest cover rhis cer if Wi there wolves she could ot reme an | ! ! That doorwa\ Nothit could have come out throu he du Perhay oe } ‘ it. She stood still and looked bac Nothing he tel dog ha ha } If anything had come out she would hear its footstey following her he « ‘ She stood still and listened Nothing he sof , ‘ fut ther have beer omett Shi i back She turned ide three st ul ‘ | ‘ If there anythir here ‘ } there were then, if she we bac I } Iw Oo ¢ " " ‘ } of gettir back W hout tur t t the forest was still as death 1 She had ‘ ‘ \ last frog-pond half a mile back, and the nightingale ha She . stopped singing } And then she heard — hard a sound u the S ghost of a sound, and it wa ke the ound of t} } that followed her through the da \ i \\ | | ‘ | } | } | | \ } | ) | he } \ } ‘ \ ] } af WI H i} } - 4 , } e he { ] ’ bel ‘ | ‘ ' } ( } ly { ‘ ‘ nha } ird to | har } } I t t ered J ! eT W own + Geers ‘ ‘ She £ ‘ ter ‘ \ | ef ‘ | ’ or t} nana cinenmaneneanen ie a eee 4 Meant to Stay a Week. I Meant to Stay Three Days And Here We Are!’ 1 : \ ‘ Don't be a fool he told herself sharply You cur tee ist he happe to be ky } frighten yourself into faneving anvthing be told that her idiot ter? uy ir fa ‘I'm not 1 didn't 1 heard it herself answered Neither spoke He had nothing t But she tried not to hear the answer raye that had killed her terror found he ( And now she trod softl ipon the oft i! ir the ne Na e could be ¢ r pine-needles, and listened, listened, listen¢ flicult to wound a pe n who And far behind her she heard, be ! ne ‘ | the } sound of footsteps that followed, followed, followed that id Eva was not a coward But her broken heart had pla ed | ner decent of hu »> have troubled tricks with her nerve If it had not been for that dar Wher ey} adoorwa\y ide hit No Ou istr rur he said lup it ( ( t Come, pull yourself togeth« And it ( ‘ letting it cate? 1 ul It may be or idru ‘ n 1) ‘ oh, L hope it is! But if it’s something else —1 must } ind let it go pa \r I sl knc ‘ hether | human or N ‘ i ‘ She ground her teeth together tepped aside fror ‘ : Lint gt bbon of the d into the black of the forest

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10 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Eva, leaning out of her bedroom window to feel the cool l of the night on her hot cheek He has ind | hate ; REE months can repaint the world ) na her Knew exce pt him!” thoug j / Was rather nice ¢ yes , said: but he’s a conceited brute il At those months He is nicer than any one | ever His thought had long ceased to be a had clothed its dry bones with the flesh and wd of emotior had borrowed the rainbow raiment of | ! had ce nto its hand the wand of enchantment 1 | his da The broke hearted one had pent those three month ther. With every possible regard to the proprietic idequate accompaniment of casual efficient chaper e from tt H tting tabbre bu et together And ! 1 me 0 ch companion hip But he isedi to tet ‘ thought change he Was not going to lave al mirach Her thought should be her thought r, self-conscious, unemotional He is very nice; he icer than any one I eve Krit except / ‘i here are thir to do at Chateauneuf. One can wander “e r ne cal ketch, one can read aloud even " can spend ta mornings in a punt moored in a green eaming, leaf-screened backwater One can sing, more or ess, to the accompaniment of the jangling asthmati little “id piano in the hotel r Incidentally, one can nice to the tabbie make tea for them, feteh their arcels from the station, and help them with their knitting vhen they have been dozing, dropping stitche He and she were in the boat, under the willow Has it ¢ vhat good Yes qu Better fr frien¢ te olten, wndas, 1 ver struck we rik er been with ever Yes,”’ she said th ne before I expect CAUSE I've never ha iends with any one | warly four months.” And you meant to s tay three d; 5 Ye } Here we mtentment mething.’ i ‘ ud are And here we are and he \ he familiarity of are ough she a i so welore tava ig he sighe Well placed between the Mr. and Mi ind ft ime initials had uppl Hesides, he told himself, I ery unlike Eva \ he said ind ‘ Uy le ave You remember that ever ou told me his name Ve and ve told me | rié What | ant et » each other tot The questior as not hap] eard it t t onfession My dear bk. C., | don't | torget he said wil Very we ‘ l | t vou. It's not of th } So 1 perceive an deena t flush of nn ince ‘ he the t Ot he t ind me d dear hur ‘ | her Ll meat he 1 instead, ff being friends just beca rot } Ot course not ahe heartedne Not even v in th hy P r f vou He laughed. St} d seemed vTO Diue You mean it Mi vt that’s all ret I've ot The Shall I read By “ali t } Hie ht at least } ® pur rated his th ‘ he By al ‘ ud It was that night that tl Figrure ‘ ‘ Mad Ls i j : t agentier i t i — ‘ t t the hotel demand co Mone i for the Lion DO l ‘ but their name are nd Mademoiselle who 1s 1 in the All i Ve re ached he said suddenly curiou ly enough we an, th an either of us has Vbody cist har never struck dded hastily, ‘it’s much I've beer time to be here weet I meant to “1, here we are d too, a sigh ot int to ask vou tiffness of Christian formal ied a felt want V. did not ound for more ling on the bridye d to ash oul orget ther ily phrased She that he had r now that | wa mn thought Id t t consequence Shropshire Lad in my pocket a ‘ hbiect have elab n t He read eve happened oiselle d old Madame har } nitable fluttering "ye T ‘ be ind ‘ } ‘ ' ‘ 1 1 t } , ’ t , hy } y " f \ ‘ iow r a ud Eva, from pure politeness, strolled into the billiard-room and read the ink yet fresh and the sand still stuck on it: his name — below it his name again with Marian before it. At dinner she was white and hollow-eyed. The tabbies remarked it. ‘‘T have a dreadful headache,’’ she said. When her four months’ friend came in a little late, he also looked tired and pale ‘Don't make me talk, what we talked of that day on the and he’s married. This it the table on the terrace! ’ she said softly “You know bridge Well, he’s here ‘Il hey’re is their honeymoon I know,” he said, passing the salt And the woman he has married is he It's a rum world -——and a very small me Don't let the tabbies see vou cart Make yourself tall She did but she got iway to her own rooms as soon as she couid It was too much. It hurt horribly. She wanted to be to look at her wound But was surprised and annoved that the worst from the memory of the angry eyes in the white face of the man who had wanted to help her to forget / How frightfully he till! The night was dull and misty when she Was alone she wound came cared . there were no nig! ht when there tingales as on that nig had been nightingales, Eva was wakeful. She spent the evening in her room. And just before the hour at which the hotel lights were out she went down to in the garden now. But, ; Se! 4 oe ‘Maia “ae o| : «© y af t did not ocet You're a Heroine, and I ~~" ¥ Adore You from the Top of ° e needn't leave Your Darling Head to the ise I've d the Soles of Your Darling Feet" ‘id with he r saving the itely wron the kitcher Perhaps a few words of Madame Leroux’'s vay will alte pinior heery gossip would turn the current of her thoughts, and ke sleep possible ‘ When he hed the She found the maids already gone and Madame alone Ah, Mademoiselle,’’ she said, rising weightily from her mw chair | the stove, it is the hour of the This good M. Clifford, Marie and I have this newl charcoal but I have the heart heavy. much. Divine what This lady rhe lisquiets me who comes to-day, rried — it her portrait that Monsieur Clifford had in i frame of silver very ornamented and big like a dish. He he habitude, on his first arri\ the hotel, to place lowers before this portrait as or altar. Marie remembers the tace of the portrait pe rfectiy thous he Goes it : ant eek omcnane +4 al a anid and without loubt in the rir t will reeommence anew. If he is ll arm yr the ii nen come the pring she added ir iV Eva asked quickly \ he remarked in serving the What do vou mean Mon- linner that eur Ciittord is of a paleness extraordinary He regarded this lady from time to time with eyes— oh-——but with eyes! ‘ , uu yuld ive ud a ret He has gone out at once November 11, 1905 after the dinner. we shall have in the hotel a crime pas: ‘Or de ‘Monsieur will make to jump his own brains. He hasa Marie dusts it each He has not returned. Without doubt ionnel. Or ” revolver in a case of shining wood. day now?” asked Eva But by and by Is it in his room Yes, Mademois take it.”’ ‘Can't you hide it? ‘Hold! It is an idea before she he will return to ” Madame shutfled reached the foot of the stairs along the yassage, but Clifford came in, passed her with a good-night, brief but kindly, and went up, and Evain the kitchen heard his door bang ['o-morrow said Madame, ‘‘I tell the police For to-night, Mademoiselle will do well to lock her door with double turt It 1 vy be that he seek to kill us all in his e of d beast. I} arned the other ladie | i aid ot lock her door On the contrary, s! kept it open a careful inch. And she did not go to bed. She sat fully dressed on a chair by the door, and waited and watched and listened How well she had understood what he had said in the boat —and wl he had not said. Old Madame Leroux was a wise woman. And Eva knew that people did do dreadful things when they were in love—desperately in love. He would never kill anybody else, like French peo- ple did when they got angry, but he thought of the river. Suppose he should go out —now Oh, why hadn't she said ‘‘ Yes’ when he asked if she wouldn't help him to forget the other! She would have done so perhaps— if he’d asked it a little differently “You know you would,’’ she told herself “It was your idiotic pride. And if you'd said ‘Yeos’—well, it might have made a little differ- ence if he'd known ‘ A click in the night-silence. The cocking of a pistol—no, the q latch. Through the crack of her door she saw a light, saw it go down the corridor carried in Clifford’s hand. It went down the staircase. The front- door bolts were beir gy withdrawn in his des pair. withdrawal of a She stood up, struck a match and lit her candle ‘* Yes, I will I'll follow him! He followed when he didn’t know who I I'll follow him now —te him. where are my shoes? Oh, why did I let him think I cared about that other; did I make myself think I cared She knew stairs, who it followed his footsteps along the street, the little road to the bridge On the bridge he stopped He leaned his face was t me once, even was, to help me save Oh, why bare as she stole down the wide was she cared for-—and she jown she stopped, too. his elbows on the parapet, and irned to the hotel she told the ‘I expect it’s all nonsense, really black shadow of the old shivering in the t is all that remains of herself, broken arch tha pate-house Suddenly he moved, leaped to the parapet, ind stood there He was going to drown him- self! If she called out, he might not know her oice- it might startle him into doing that very thing, that horrible thing that she had come out to prevent as no time to think. She put her ‘ eaped up—‘‘ Esmond!” and fell, straight as a lance, into » river, ten feet below Che splash of her falling was but an instant ash of his dive. ut the night was gray with the white was beside her There w inds on the parapet, screamed in advance of the There was no moon, b diffused, silvery light of stars. Her hin in a dozen strong strokes he dress guided breathless but ‘How such a little idiot!” She did keep still -wonderfully still for a He put one hand under her bead and swam They waded out through the s under the willow among the boats that groaned and rattled ‘Keep still,” he said, stern could vou be would-be suIcide owly to shore illows and landed as they were pushed aside hey stood together on the landing-stage, and the water from their clothes dripped through the chinks of it into the river. He caught her wet hands How could you?” he said. How could you? The water was very cold, ? was all she said I should think so he said indignantly Go in and vo to bed at once!’ teeth were chattering, ‘not till No, ne id, and her vou promise me that you--oh, how could you be so wicked! But I did save you, didn't 1?” Chere was a dripping ence I know," she said I know how awful you feel about her being here married to the other mar but one does p

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Tulip for Rubelik ‘ t } interviewed at the Manhattan Hotel } me one from one her} } of the New York dailik nd, the story of his ear trug- | gles and determination having been gone « r, the tall them for referer ind 1 ‘ to } turned upon his tastes and dislikes and peculiaritic At d he I length, coming to the trivialities which give color to th nto the hor of her friend her numerou M ‘ 4 verage interview, the visitor said rr into th ards of riot isviur nd | ‘ ‘I must ask for your favorite flower, Mr. Kubel Mrs. Mac rich he is, has a deep-roote ‘ n-th People always wish to know one’s favorite flower waste, and } es on to othe everytt he ( era!) Mr. Kubelik did not understand, and looked appealingly herself \ of | ! I int his supporter, a member of the managerial suits The books on probation are kept o1 i *Violets,’’ answered this man i! tantly Then he he here alone re { ! et f tated a moment, lost in thought No,”” he said refiect- of the current publicatior Of these almost 1 M | ively. ‘‘Wait a minute. Violets were Paderewski’s fiction. Mrs. Mackay has very little time left fr Madr hter, wh ur favorite flower You had better say tulips! serious reading for novels, and what she ha ! M | vorks of established merit rather than to new ] | Mrs. MacKay’s Color PP ste a eee es eae a Too Much Snow for Bailey — all society women have a fad for some special out of ten receives the indorsement of a spx YENAT SAILEY ! re | IN lor, and indulge their tastes variously in introducing and is graduated to the upper shelv Mrs. Mach ‘ Ne) ‘ t } elicat the favorite shade in their belongings. One of the most mands of eve one that it sk be a real « | I . unique of these niceties has been hit upon by Mrs. ¢ en human thought before ! ed t he | of | I I th. Mackay, whose liking is for lavender Her stationery, but, once there, it is there to stay and to become a cor nt ! ! f the ! a j made in Paris, is of a pale shade of lavender, with her mono- working companion of its mistre ! ! ! fter sli gram in a deeper shade of heliotrope on the paper, and a 7 th gle violet embossed upon the flan of the envelom Rat 5 = tg 7 re it ne aera my ig te ras Oe" “ Where Christy and Gibson Work — nvariably using three-cent postage stamps, these being C 1S interesting for those who follow the careers of ( he | ‘ th enator the only t mps which harmonize th the | Dana Gibson and Howard Chandler Christv t t the } nd came lor-sct 7 hree the 1 } ' De re pret ne ( r ps ! In her home a Roslyn, Long Island, Mr e |] \ re M Kay li ( ried « t t { er \ I \ « \ ton For exam] he ele rin th I { ‘ rag nr 5) red lave ‘ ‘ nad ( nber ting-roor I \ M en |} } rst lite are of lavender | The carpet f ] ! t And er, t partme ‘ ! ithered velvet in all three roor ind there are u ul \ve ‘ 1 it i ley h 1 ‘ \ t ‘ | re to i ing about filled with heliotrope orchid ) rt | ‘ t tr ist ach rm ' ; 4 n the salon is the port of Mr M iv dor ( har Mr. C} ! | an, and in this ne W ir iwhite saisiieies eileen ta soe i eee eB a i oe : | ’ ° . ee ie : vo sheng sete he pes count: Matha teook: ‘Ts ald oes Edison's ** FaKe"’ Cigars ] Stone of Destiny, they gave it a binding of pale lavender Mr. ¢ n, on the other hand be best reme ! Wh IEND of th tor that T} .. Edison The personal libraries of most society women are either — by visit } ite] 1 the Life | ! 4 ery f f metimes he sual collections of the popular novels that happer reve, loftv 1 ! ha I rr ! I rin ! ! th } fo ts that to come their way, or else of correct ‘complete editior ( } easel. ; tabls 1a fe chairs 1 " , " ' " of the classics, calculated to make an imposing displa r furniture Most not i of the j he ! t t } eee behind beveled plate -~zlass doors, rather than t« eread [ not a r } t © ¢ ‘ ! ‘ L por ( ur r the their owners. But Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, althoug} ! ne f | of tr th which t ‘ ‘ i i} too rich and handsome to need to rely upon intellectua | y for distinction, has an array of well-worn volumes in her ee 2 7 thir hat | 1 the ‘ I | own little red and gold den at Harbor Hill that would do On« Spaniard W ho Kine w Us ed the t mat hat t to remedy credit to a philosopher Q)™! fther remarkable m¢ han 6 Here you find Plato’s Republic, Karl Marx’s Cay ‘ Henry George s Progress and Poverty, Locke’s Essay Cor Muruaga, the § 1 t W cerning Human Understanding, Descarte Meditationes Hist de Prima Philosophia, Robert the y + ‘ logical studies of Profe f John Stuart M

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST November 11, 1905 LADY BALTIMORE 4 “ f le ee > “y ~ ad q a 7 me | iJ * +4 Up the Silent Walks to the Silent Verandas V. THE BOY OF THE CAKE NE is unthankful, | suppose, to call a day dreary when one has lunched under the circumstances that I have attempted to indicate; the bright spot ought to shine over the whole. But you haven't an idea what a nightmare in the daytime Cowpens was beginning to be I had thumbed and scanned hundreds of ancient pages, ne of them manu eript | had sat by ancient shelves upon hard chairs, | had sneezed with the ancient dust, and | had not put my finger upon a trace of the right Fanning I should have given it up, left unexplored the te rritory that remained staring at me through the backs of unread vol- mes, had it not been for my Aunt Carola. To her Il owed constancy and diligence, and so I kept at it; and the her- | spent at Court and ¢ hancel Street grew worse i knew better what rarely good company was ready to Kings Port, this little city of oblivion, lavender and pressed-rose memories, i handful of people who were like that great society of the world, the high society of distinguished men and women receive me Thi who exist no more, but who touched history with a light hand, and left their mark upon it in a host of memoirs and letters that we read to-day with a starved and homesick longing in the midst of our sullen welter of democracy With nt hou ind gardens, its silent streets, its tas of the blue water in the sunshine, this beau- Winning my heart and making it ache Nowhere else in America such charm, such characters, such ad place wa rue elegance a here and nowhere else such an over- vhelming sense of finalitv! the doom of a civilization founded upon a crime And yet, how much has freedom done for that race And apart from theory, how much better off than the slave was, are the poor of New York? | could have shaped (we all could, you know) a better scheme for the universe, a plan where we should not flour sh at each other expense, where good and evil should not be husband and wife, indissolubly married by a law of creation With such highly ne sug! as these I descended he steps frora my researches at the corner of Court and Chancel Streets an hour earlier than my custom, because well, | couldn't, that day tand Cowpens for another irner of Court and Worship the peopl tly into church; it was a sweet, gentk t { had intended keeping out-of-doors in the gardens, to bask in the soft remnant of sunshine, to loiter and peep in through the Kings Port garden gates, up the sil But the ead, into church with the deeply-veiled ladies of Kings Port, hushed in their perpetual mourning for not only, I think, those husbands and brothers and sons whom the war had turned to dust forty vears ago, but also for the Cause, the lost Cause, that died withthem | sat there among these Christians suckled it walks to the silent veranda low stream of people took me, inst So a “Yio A 4." By OWE Author 1905, hy Th in a creed outworn,.envying them their well- regulated faith: it, too, was part of the town's repose and sweetness, together with the old- fashioned roses and the old-fashioned ladies Men, also, were in the congregation — not many, to be sure, but all unanimously wearing that expression of remarkable virtue which seems always to visit, when he goes to church, the average good fellow who is no better than he should be. 1 became, myself, filled with this same decorous inconsistency, and was singing the hymn, when I| caught sight of John Mayrant. What lady was he with? It was just this that I most annoyingly couldn’t make out, because the unlucky disposition of things hid it. I caught myself craning my neck and singing the hymn simultaneously and with no difficulty, because all my childhood was in that hymn; I couldn't tell when I hadn't known words and music by heart. Who was she? I tried for a clear view when we sat down, and also, let me confess, when we knelt down; I saw even less of her so; and my hope at the end of the service was dashed by her slow but entire disappearance amid the engulting exits of the other ladies I followed where I imagined she had gone, out by a side door, into the beautiful graveyard; but among the flowers and monuments she was not, nor was he; and next I saw, through the iron gate, John Mayrant in the street, walking with his intimate aunt and her more severe sister, and Miss La Heu. I somewhat superfluously hast- ened to the gateand greeted them, to which they responded with polite, masterly discouragement. He, however, after taking off his hat to them, turned back, and I watched them pursuing their leisurely, reticent course toward the South Place. Why should the old ladies strike me as looking like a tremendously proper pair of conspirators? I was wondering this as | turned back among the tombs, when | perceived John Mayrant coming along one of the churchyard paths. His approach was made at right angles with that of another personage, the respectful negro custodian of the place. This dignitary was evi- dently hoping to lead me among the monuments, recite to me their old histories, and benefit by my consequent grati- tude; he had even got so far as smil- ing and removing his hat when John Mayrant stopped him. The young man hailed the negro by his first name with that particular and affectionate superiority which few Northerners can understand and none can acquire, and which resembles nothing so much as the way in which you speak to your old dog who has loved you and followed you, because you have cared for him ‘Not thistime,’’ John Mayrant said I wish to show our relics to this gen- tleman myself —-if he will permit me?” This last was a question put to me with a courteous formality, a formality which a few minutes more were to see smashed to smithereens I told him that I should consider myself undeservedly privileged. Some of these people are my peo- ple,’ he said, beginning to move The old custodian stood smiling, familiar, respectful, disappointed ‘Some of 'em my people, too, Mas John, he eannily observed I put a little silver in his hand. ‘Didn't I see a box somewhere,” I said, ‘with something on it about the restoration of the church?’ ‘*Something on it, but nothing in it!’’ exclaimed Mayrant; at which moderate pleasantry the custodian broke into extreme African merriment and ambled away. ‘* You needn't have done it,” protested the Southerner, and I naturally claimed my stranger's right to pay my respects in this man- ner Such was our introduction, agreeable and unusual N WISTER of The Virginian pf fyright Great Rritat A silence then unexpectedly ensued and the formality fell colder than ever upon us. The custodian’s departure had left us alone, looking at each other across all the unex- pressed knowledge that each knew the other had. Mayrant had come impulsively back to me from his aunts, without stopping to think that we had never yet exchanged a word ; both of us were now brought up short, and it was the cake that was speaking volubly in our self-conscious dumbness It was only after this brief, deep gap of things unsaid that John Mayrant came to the surface again, and began a con- versation of which, on both our parts, the first few steps were taken on the tiptoes of an archaic politeness; we trod convention like a polished French floor; you might have expected us, after such deliberate and graceful pre- liminaries, to dance a verbal minuet. We, however, danced something quite different, and that conversation lasted during many days, and led us, like a road, up hill and down dale to a perfect acquaintance. No, not perfect, but delightful; to the end he never spoke to me of the matter most near him, and I but honor him the more for his reticence Of course, his first remark had to be about Kings Port and me; had he understood rightly that this was my first Visit ? My answer was equally traditional it was, next, correct that he should allude to the weather ; and his reference was one of the two or three that it seems a stranger's destiny always to hearin a place new to him he apologized for the weather—so cold a season had not, in his memory, been experienced in Kings Port; it was to the highest point exceptional I exclaimed that it had been, to my Northern notions, delightfully mild for March. ‘‘ Indeed,’’ I continued, ‘'] have always said that if March could be cut out of our Northern climate, as the core is cut out of an apple, I should be quite satistied with eleven months, instead of twelve I think it might prolong one’s youth.” The fire of that season lighted in his eyes, but he still stepped upon polished convention. He assured me that the Southern September hurricane was more deplorable than any Northern March could be. ‘‘Our zone should be called the /ntemperate zone,”’ said he ‘But never in Kings Port,” I protested; “with your roses out-of-doors —and your ladies indoors!’ He bowed. ‘* You pay us a high compliment “If the truth is a compliment! I smiled urbanely There was a Total Absence of Obscure Grocers Reposing Under Gigantic Obelisks

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‘Our young ladies are roses,"’ he now, with a touch of pride , admitted Don't forget your old ones! I never shall There was pleasure in his face at this tribute, which, he could see, came from the heart But, thus pictured to him the old ladies brought a further idea quits into his expression; and he announced it Some of them are 1 without thorns What would you give,’ I quickly replied, for anybody man or woman who could not, on a ecasion, make themselves sharply felt ?”’ To this he returned a full but somewhat absent-minded assent. He seemed to be reflecting that he himself didn't care to be the “‘oecasion’’ upon which an old lady rose should try her thorns; and I was inclined to suspect that his intimate aunt had been giving him a wigings Anyhow, I stood ready to keep it up, this interchange of lofty civilities. I, too, could wear the courtly red-heels of eighteenth-century procedure, and for just as long as his Southern upbringing inclined him to wear them; I hadn known Aunt Carola for nothing! But we, as I have said, were not destined to dance any minuet We had been moving, very graduall and without any attention to our sur roundings, to and fro in the beautiful sweet churchyard. Flowers were ever where, growing, budding, blooming color and periume were parts of the very air, and beneath these pretty and ancient tombs, graven with old dates and honor able names, slept the men and women who had given Kings Port her high place in our history I have nev country,seen any churchya ble to this one happ ( sleep amid such blossoms and conse ! tiled here cration Good taste pre distinguished men lay beneath memorial stones that came no higher than your waist or shoulder there was a total absence of obscure grocers reposing under gigantic obelisks to earn a mon- ument here you must win a battle, or do, at any rate, something more than adulterate sugar and oil rhe partic ular monument by which young John Mayrant and I found ourselvesstanding when we reached the point about the ladies and the thorns, had a look of importance and it caught his eye, bring ing him back to where we were. Upon his pointing to it, and before we had spokén or I had seen the name, I in quired eage rly Not the lieutenant of the Bon Homme Richard? "'andthen saw that Mayrant was not the name upon it My knowledge of his gallant sea-tight ing namesake visibly gratified him I wish it were,”’ he said; ‘“‘but I am de scended from this man, too He was a statesman, and some of his _ brilliant powers were inherited by his children but they have not come so far down as me In 1840, his daughter, Miss Beaufain I laid my hand right on his shoulder ‘Don't you do it, John Mayrant!”’ I cried. ‘‘Don’t you tell me that. Last night I caught myself saying that, instead of my prayers.” Well, it killed the minuet dead he sat flat down on the low stone coping that bordered the path to which we had wandered back—and I sat flat down opposite him. The venerable custodian, passing along a neighboring path, turned his head and stared at our noise ‘Lawd, see those chillun goin’ on!’ he muttered Mas John, don't you get too scandalous, tellin’ strangers ‘bout the old famblies.”’ Mayrant pointed to me. ‘He's responsible, Daddy Ben I'm being just as good as gold. Honest injun! The custodian marched slowly on his way, shaking his head. ‘‘Mas’ John he do go on,” he repeated. His office was not alone the care and the showing off yard, but another duty, too, as native and peculiar to the of the grave soil as the very cotton and the rice: this loyal servitor cherished the honor of the ‘‘old famblies,’’ and chid their young descendants whenever he considered that they needed it. Mayrant now sat revived after his collapse of mirth, and he addressed me from his gravestone Yes, I ought to have foreseen it.”’ ‘Foreseen 2°’ | didn’t at once catch the inference ‘* All my aunts and cousins have been talking to you ‘‘Oh, Miss Beaufain and the Earl of Mainridge! Well but it’s quite worth ws THE Knowir y hea e | nw t , I kept « Why t Phe o ti here here the t | ‘ } flawiess spe met Of IN40 repartes H . " Wrae Wiak aes ak Smet eee . about the same date All th better for I ex ed But the blue eves of Mayrent were far away 2 shadow P it I he 1, ver ‘ quietly hen he looked at me with the . ee that one sometimes ha % ; sorrowtul cor etior 1inst which one ha p P gle Poor Kings Port he affectionate repeate , hand tapped lightly two or three time ipon the stone upon which he was seated Be honest and sa you think so, too,’ he demanded, always with hi But how was I to agree aloud with what |} ent hand had expressed? Those inaudible tape on the stone sp clear! enoug! the | Here ‘ k I’ Be Honest and Say that You Think eae! So, Too,” He Demanded — John Mayrant wa mii ind looh il the grave Ye that t that illit, her ed Youdo understand lives Kings Port. Outside of tt s our true death, on the But I had to finisl flight ich quiet face ‘ vacant wharfs, in the empty treets All that we have one now 1n the breathi competi Nortl j ) left is the immortality which these historic names have n between the clashing trades of mer won How could I tell him that I thought so, too? Nor nd the clashing jewe ind chande th was Las sure of it then as he wa And besides, th isa wives while yours have lingered « pared | iW youny man whose spirit was, almost surely, in sufferir id versity And that wi | iu 1 po» ill fortune, both material and of the heart, | seemed to l when they follow mune i iuse the re tne ast of the j pect, had made him v d and bitter in these immediate nd, the end of the chain, the bold o nal stock, the day and the very ion he was exercising hurt hir race that made our glory grow and saw that it did grow . the mor deeply. So I replied, honest as he had asked through thick and thin: the go i nat lood I he pe ou are mistat } pendence That's because you haven't been here enoug! I sp ea ima i i ! t t he declared ind my tener’s fa howe rds had Over us, gently fron ymewhere across the gardens and where meant word ilwa ’ home to the heart Bu the walls, came a noiseless water breeze, to which the rose he merely nodded at me H nod, however, telling a t moved and nodded among the tomb The y gave him a did of a quickly established a rd between u caused me fanciful thought Look at them! They belong to us, and to bring out to this new acquaintance till more f tho they know it rhey're saying, ‘ Yes; yes; yes,’ all day long thoughts which | condescend to expose to very few old I don't know why on earth I'm talking in this way to you! one he broke off with vivacity But you made me laugh so SATURDAY EVENING POST Vi IN THE CHURCHYARD t \ \ \\ \ \\ ‘ if na \ \ } j ) | j Ml | } } \l } \ } “ , | () j { ’ ’ ; i ! 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14 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE SATURDAY EVENING POST REG. U. 8. FOUNDED A°D' 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 421 TO 427 ARCH STREET GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER II, 1905 Single Subscriptions, $2.00 the Year. In Clubs, $1.25 Each | a Five Cents the Copy of All Newsdealers | | Foreign Subscriptions: For Countries in the Postal Union Single Subscriptions, $3.25. In Clubs, $2.50 Each | Remittances to be Made by International Postal Money Order Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy @ We never know how good a thing is until we see the imitation @ The Jap does not fear the open door in the East so long as he is the doorkee px r € Mr. Rockefeller in his new wig welcomed the American humorists: a Wig-wag occasion, as it were @ Genius is the capacity for taking infinite pains, and vanity is the patent medicine that kills the pains € Possibly the wonderful Mr. Burbank, of California, might cross the graft evil and make it produce honest fruit The Business Situation SARLY autumn saw an unusual condition. The volume 4 of business in August was the largest ever recorded in that month. Few years have shown so high a condition for all the chief agricultural crops. Orders on the books of the big iron and steel concerns made the largest aggregate known, and the output of pig-iron continued at a rate that promised a new high-water mark for the year.- Money wa: avundant and credit easy. Bank clearings over the country reflected good and increasing trade. In short, everywhere appeared the signs of an extraordinary pitch of material prosperity; and a fair-weather sailor could scarcely have asked for a clearer sky Yet someway nobody seemed particularly enthusiastic about it. A person accustomed to following such matters was struck by the extreme sobriety with which the organs of business expression accepted this halcyon state. Years ago a prevision of this condition would have been a startling as aglimpse of Paradise. Now one is tempted to say that people are bored by it; that the national spirit turns awa) from it, se« King some experience that Is not to be found in the hackneyed increase of wealth The more the matter is studied the clearer it becomes that all the tangible signs—the so-called barometers and wide-gauges of trade — tell very little of what is in the mak- ing. They give the record of yesterday, but only a feebk clew to to-morrow. The real business situation is a state of mind. How to Get Yourself Noticed JECENTLY, in the Middle West, there was a large gath- \ ering of clergy and laymen for the purpose of consider- ing a subject which seemed to them of the highest spiritual and tempora] moment. Naturally, reporters were invited to attend, in order that the light generated by the discus- sion mith pre ad afar Now it happened — very unfortunately for the conven- tion and very fortunately for the reporters — that two dis- tinguished delegates quite lost their tempers and spent some minutes in making heated remarks to each other, with appropriate gestures, until cooler heads succeeded in separating them Thus, in the next morning's prints, the meeting got the column and a half on the front page which all members who had the good of the cause at heart had desired; but the articles were taken up with lively and light-minded descrip- tions of the fierce altercation between the two delegates, with a little paragraph at the end saying what the conven- tion was about There was a picture of Delegate A, but it had no reference to his thoughtful speech on the weighty subject in hand. On the contrary, it was labeled, in fat, black type: ‘The man who called a liar.”’ Truly ‘‘ one touch of nature makes the whole world kin,” and nobody knows it better than the city editor. It is un- certain whether the public is really interested so much in the disfranchisement of Maryland negroes, or autonomy for the Filipinos, or the incorporation of moral training in the public-school system. But that its discursive attention will be instantly caught and riveted by the spectacle of one elderly gentleman pulling another's silvery whiskers is perfectly certain. Your novel and practicable plan for settling the railway-rate question may be ignored. A fatuous world may shut its eyes to the obvious advantages of your scheme for reforming the police. But if you think the public has no interest in you, just start a divorce suit. Modern Cannibals BRUNETIEREF, who was a great man until he discov- ¢ ered it himself, has come out flatly for war as not only necessary butnoble. He will hear applause from America. Once there was a cannibal tribe which, under the influence of teachings from what a great many members of the tribe regarded as a more civilized source, began to abandon the ancient and honorable habit of eating human flesh. Up rose a stout defender of tradition, a most excellent, cultured cannibal, and cried out: ‘‘ We have always eaten human flesh, and we always shall! Further, see how much stronger and more virtuous we are in every way than our non-cannibal neighbors. It is because we live off the mighty man’s meat of human flesh that we excel in valor and in virtue. If we left off we should become snivelers and weaklings!”’ It being impossible to dispute this wisdom, the tribe fell upon the advocates of snivel and weakness, and killed and ate them Under Suspicion HE public pillories now form a long, long row, and each pillory is occupied by an eminently respectable citizen. And each citizen has his eyes cast meekly or indignantly heavenward as he protests that he is the victim of popular misunderstanding, ferociously unjust. The opinion of a man upon his own conduct is entitled to a hearing. But it is not conclusive. It may be that some of the “kings’”’ and ‘‘barons’”’ and ‘‘Napoleons’’ are unjustly accused. It is unfortunate that they have kept such bad company, that they are in possession of so much property of which they seem unable to give a coherent account Alas, the situation recalls the epigram of the late M Goblet. ‘‘ How is it?” said he. ‘‘Some men are always under suspicion; others are never under suspicion.”” Pub- lic sentiment may goastray ; but it, too, isentitled to justice when it persistently agitates about certain men. As a rule, clean men are never under suspicion; when a man is habitually under suspicion it is because he has fallen into the bad habit of being ‘there or thereabouts.”’ The Trouble with the Cooks HE Russians and the Japanese who attended Mr. Roose- velt’s brilliantly successful peace party are still wailing about the food they ate at it--about the “infamous Ameri- can cooking,’ as one of the Russians phrases it. Any one who has ever been in New England instantly knows what the trouble is Nowhere else on earth do they get together such fasci- nating, deadly, delicious pies, cakes and varieties of hot bread asin New England. And they look so digestible! One feels that at last he has found the dreamed-of combination of that which delights the sense of taste with that which benefits the health. The unwary Russians and Japanese fell before these insidious allurements. They are victims not of bad but of good, altogether too good, American cooking It is not the rocks in the soil of his farm, but the rocks into which New England pie or hot bread transform them- selves -once they have traitorously gained admission to the body that discourages the New England farmer into flying westward. And he takes hisenemy with him TaKe a Walk T IS important that those of us who lead sedentary lives should take exercise; but it is no less important that those of us who live chiefly by manual labor should do likewise lhe man who uses one set, or one group of sets, of mus- cles all day long will inevitably become deformed, unless he corrects the tendency. If he is to retain or to achieve symmetry he must take just as much exercise as the man November 11, 1905 who does not use his muscles at all; but, of course, 1t must be of a different kind There is the value of the open-air and other gymnasiums And there is the value of the walk—for, in walking, as 1 no other form of exercise, except perhaps swimming, 1s the whole body properly exercised Give Us Sleep HAT sleep is one of the prime factors in long life, in resistance to old age, in health, in cheerfulness, has always been recognized by everybody. Yetis there another fundamental right that is so persistently, so carelessly, and with such impunity violated as the right to undisturbed sleep? Among the rich, among the poor, in city, in country, wherever so many as two representatives of the human race are found, undisturbed sleep is all but unknown Bells, dogs, roosters, hammers, whistles, carpet-flails, to note a few of the worst offenders, all make their sleep- murdering noises at untimely hours. A few people know the cause of their habitual “ below par’ condition; the great mass, used from childhood to disturbed or curtailed sleep, does not know it But all suffer. We know a great deal about acoustics; many are the machines to enable the ears to hear better. But why don’t our scientists, with the assistance of our clever inventors, devise machines that will suspend the faculty of hearing when such suspension is desired? Surely such machines are possible, when dead silence can be artificially produced in a laboratory by a system of interferences with sound waves. Give us sleep, men of science! The Yellow Benefit HE Chinese imperial edict revolutionizing the civil serv- ice examinations from the famous foolishness of the alleged wisdom of their ancients to the useful and true and, therefore, splendid —-sciences of modern times is an indication that China is not merely awake, but is sitting up and taking notice. China is on the eve of a transformation to which her long history offers no parallel since the Manchus con- quered her and imposed upon her people pigtails and perpetual slumber. As all who have studied the Chinese fairly say that they are a fine people in respect both of mind and of character, the life of the human race will be vastly enriched. Chinese industry and ingenuity, Chinese honesty and perseverance, cannot but have far-reaching consequences—and for good only. There is a theory to the contrary; but that theory rests upon the barbarous and ignorant notion that man lives by preying upon man, not by helping and being helped by his fellow-men. Saving the Clerk N EXTENSIVE industrial concern has scored heavily on Chicago by alleging, as a reason for moving its general office thither from New York, that the many young men in its employ would thereby be rescued from a cor- rupting atmosphere of speculation. This tends to create an impression that the air of La Salle Street bears naught save the sweet scent of new-mown hay and the grateful odors of the dairy--a suggestion which does scant credit to numberless gentlemen who have certainly not spared exertion to keep an interest in the ticker alive in the finan- cial centre of the Western metropolis. As a matter of fact, to do it justice, the most inveterate habitués of the stock- exchange draw breath there without the slightest fear of contracting hay-fever The incident is interesting, however, as an illustration, among many, of the employers’ natural solicitude to pre- serve the conscience of his clerk in all its purity. There are various devices; but the one that has probably given the best results, taking it by and large, is an example of purity in the employer himself. In the city whither the industrial concern goes, an employer—the head of a large corporation—once dis- charged, with grief and wrath, an unfaithful stenographer who had taken advantage of facts learned in his official capacity to make a deal in the company’s stocks. The employee learned these facts by transcribing orders which showed that the president was taking advantage of his inside knowledge of the company’s affairs to make a deal in its stock. Two clerks in one bank were discovered in embezzling Tke higher officers of the bank were distressed. They had set up an elaborate system for safeguarding their clerks —forbidding them to enter a saloon, to go to a horse-race, to play cards for money, and so on. Three months later the bank failed. Then it was discovered that the higher officers had been systematically looting it for three years, and requiring various clerks to mak: false entries in the books The air that the clerk breathes inside the office is quite as important as that outside

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HE British railways have always Dix marine DHusine been subject to government By ALBER | HALS . EAD th Fre is. and others have regulation It was the logical workir creement th oes Eu result of the requirement of parlia- mentary charters. No written con- stitution and no State lines interfere with Parliament whose acts are the supreme law of the United Kingdom National conservatism, respect for vested interests, the doctrine of an adequate return on capital, an table struggle between the shipper and the carrier hav affected this development There is an increasing tend- ency in Great Britain toward a modified State social ism. Municipalities and other local authorities engage in all kinds of business that are left to private enter prise in the United States. They own and run street lines, for one thing. A natural sequence would be gover ment ownership of the railways, but that is not seriously suggested. That possibility was, however, contemplated more than fifty years ago when Parliament authorized their acquisition by the Government upon the payment of ten per cent. interest on their cost This authority, never exercised, will probably remain always inoperative for reasons of ¢ xpediency, and because of the undue « X pense The total capital actually invested in railwa $6,450,000,000, which at ten per cent. would be an annual charge on the Government of $645,000,000 Is about Governmental action never wholly satisties, a diffic uity necessarily greater in so delicate a commercial mechanism as transportation After making due allowance for British extreme attitude of criticism tow: all publie affairs, and an investigation of existing conditions, it he appears that British railway regulation has 1 unqualified success; but it teaches valuable lessons to the United States that should aid in solvin problems. It has, perhaps, increased the hostile attitude t been an r our railroad of shipper and carrier each toward the other. Both com- plain of traffic conditions. The companies would rejoice if government regulation were abolished. They say it interferes with their business, without benefit to the ship- pers, and really to their injury, as it prevents freight-rate reductions through the ordinary laws of trade lhe ship- pers insist that more practical legislation, less red tape, and more common-sense and efficiency in administration are needed Hard Lines for the Farmer A STATEMENT of existing British conditions is neces- sary because of their marked differencesfrom our own Forty million people occupy a very small area. Ownershi of land by the ordinary farmer or agricultural laborer is impossible. Land is too valuable for country seats and shooting preserves for the rich. Even with all that is avail- able for agriculture under cultivation, more than half the nation’s food supplies would still have to be imported. A population of which at least seventy per cent. is urban must depend on an outside food supply Foreign food products are obtainable at prices that leave the smallest margin of profit to the British farmer, even under most favorable conditions. He is necessarily sacrificed to the requirement of cheap food; but all foreign products are admitted without restriction. Cheap supplies of all kinds w doctrine, though vigorously attacked by is the prev: the protectionis who would have Great Britain adopt the practice of all other industrial nations. Therefore, not even the railways can be permitted, even if so disposed to grant preferential rates to all English products; but they would not be so disposed, because their returns from the transportation of foreign imports are too profitabk European railroads, most of which are governmen owned, grant more favorable rates to exports than to and artificial imports. Europe has also splendid natur waterways Her farmers coOperate to ¢ xport their prod ucts and facilitate the shipment of all classes of foreign goods to the United Kingdom This condition hand ips the British ll manufacturer equally w th the British farmer THE SATURDAY EVENING POST JOHN BULL'S RAILWAYS The Lesson in Governmental Regulation of Many of the great citi notably London, Livery r all addition thority cor ted with their busine: Manche ter and Uilasgow i icce t DY Waller Sid t! ink n ri » Par rt hi nvolves hea of time, therefore, especiall th perishable 1 ‘ } for bribx the chief Incentive to the 1 the railw ‘ I I ‘ ‘ r , mports and eps down t aditic ol roa Most of the great manufact ‘ r i nt BS ! nm i legislation, and are inland and thout w co! i roy Improvements id T ipt } ol é » ind not out of t! The construction of Br h railwa ‘ enor? ‘ It averaged $262,267 per mile, against $ ’ ri ) R levelo tif led to compar ‘ of the world. British constr on seems ¢ " ted and passe act of IS54, rea the first practi here are no single tracks ; roadbeds are } » last fore rail ! h the Glad heap train a 1 rails are heavier than usual elsewhere, as well a r S42 had ir third-class | r sel tt secu tied t he roadbed There are rade cr t I l} id been the act authorizing th- ng lo the cost of avoiding such crossit neither th ( ernment to t over 1 railw on certain cond Government nor the local authorities contributed Phe Lior The |] of 1 required every company to provid British Board of Trade supervised eve mile, enforei all reasonable { es for traffi It proh ed undue « went and often excessive requirement inreasonable pre ence for or against any person, or ec par r nd of thi There the British ‘Government Passing the Hat to the Roads foresaw the danger of preferential treatment and prevented the upbuilding of the strong against the weal lhe result JIRITISH railways have always been commercial enter of our negiect t re e this danger needs no commen prises here were no grants of land, no lance f An act eight t re required every railway t« bonds by local authorities, no government assistance and charge the same for f } ed the same distance under no remission of taxes to aid them. Government and loca the e condition » two kinds of traffic Were und it ‘ b rt icted rather than helps her ‘ ! ! ‘ o th t is pra They shirk ne iX¢ but p neir tu nare ert T ne } I tue relerence toll | Local taxes cost them $22,000,000 a year r} ite f not efu ntended. be use enforceable | expense increases $1,200,000 a vear. They have no voice ordinary law cou h « ted to decidiny lest n local r hen for ‘ tructior ! | | l ura nplaint rhis unsat compet rt nave i juate ( i r cor i rail ind can ot prote il 3 me! lt i ! ! | ] Itw my ed of tw national income tax, carry iidiers at great reduced laymen and ‘ er lo it were a ned the enfor rates, and the mails on terms fixed by the G ernment, a ment of the ndue preferenc « interpretation of wel] as the parcel post other railw A It fail ! t expectations, because Transportation is one of short hauls and st | nsigr the mpat objecting to |} ny cases brought before ment The average haul is about twenty-five mil t} hat is in effect a lower ! ppealed to the ordinars average con nment ( h il one hundred } rome ! | i of 1873 also re Pe riaps Nt enty nve per cent ol fre rnt ( I t T ? ; re i ti | ! tal rT ol t t T R lé books had te consignments epers dor I } I I ‘ ever t ! lf {not contain a cert sale Their ce: 100! ! ” T he] rate i \ a rm or ol untair acti for they give is costly for them and ir creases railv pense ner eS UNKI A Puzzle and a Parliament the United St land cha 1 fine ern Vv s. They collect and deliver all freight except the most inge ? e betwee t} r \ ind the shippers bulky and heavy for very nd I T ed I ally « narge erminal service are included in their rates, and make those for short |} madi overing, invoicing and the like —which ofter very high. Strange items these! Maz sritish cars have brought the freight rat particularly for short hauls no roofs and resemble our « i wooden coal car t! iy? t e the Maxima 1 ? 1 } Y ment in the char much smaller Freight too bulky for box r wl ure tering act These t re numerous, and their always small, with low roofs and narrow door i ided classifications and the 1 hargeable so lacked uniforn on ope n trucks It has © covered sn par t! niy T ha t difficult mn under dispatched by passenger rt orrespo! 1 T ther nd ascer l t legal lit of charge express business. Eight cents will carry a two-pound par Parhament again took up the question and passed thi cel two hundred miles, compared to twenty-five cents u act of ISS It reorganized ther ay and canal commi the United States At two hundred miles and twent hive Oo! hich con ts of two member one of whom is a pounds, the average American and British parcel rates are rail expert, appointed on recommendation of the Board fiftv eent but thereafter for er packages of Trade for the. wh Kingdon ind three x-officio er distances the British rate much higher licial member one for England and Wales, one for h « pany run laughter-house, and other ttland and one for Ireland The commission may sit potato and fruit markets to encourage home agriculture i here in the kingdon No member may own railwa Every railway has nmense arehouses at important har Three 1 t tin a case Provision centres for the storage f fre nt storage and handling t t I le? I t h commuissionc: are free for short periods ar ifterward a very moderate ts § Ta A rit les, but the rist charge made Millions are invested in these ire} r ne t ipon the legalit and pava ve mall returr Thev are of benefit because f ar rat rder reasonable f ties for traffic, order the bring traff There are special fish ! | tr through rate py ition of any railway or shipper trains for British producer 1 special meat tra for the ter I t ble | id tt importers Many steamships runnir he Continer nr er ’ whic p} are owned un operated 1 the rail " ] ry ’ eable ] 1 \ rs , } iistance of each other the British Roads new mile of road, and

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Its decisions may be appealed to the High Court of Appeals and thence to the House of Lords, but not on questions of fact or of the standing of the complainant. Very few appeals are made because ot the great cost ot one has been taken to the House of Lords Before a suit is brought before the railw: Ly commission complaint must first be mad to the Board of Trade. The idea is to pro ide for conciliation, if possible. An as- sistant secretary in charge of the railway department, Colonel Sir Herbert Jekyll, on complaint from a shipper brings him and 2 railway representative together. The ditf- culty is discussed and the assistant secre- tary renders a decision. He cannot enforce it, but seeks to bring about an amicabk arrangement. In minor cases he generally succecds. Where an important question is involved, that may affect rates generally, the railway makes little defense before the Board of Trade, fearing to disclose its case that may later come before the railway commission. Reports of all conciliation cases are made regularly to Parliament More Restraint and Less Rein Under the act of 1888 provision was made that the railways should revise their freight classifications and maximum rates and sub- mit them to the Board of Trade That de partment held long hearings and revised the companies’ work. Bills based on this re- vision were then introduced in Parliament A committee heard both the railways and shippers, and drafted new bills. Nine laws dealing with the nine | ading railways and their subsidiary lines, and = twenty-six others covering the minor railways, were then enacted This legislation was to sim ify classifications and make rates uniform ry Tepe aling those authorized in the acts chartering the companies These new freight rates became operative with the new year 1803. Endless labor was involved in making new rate-books, for which task the companics had an average of less than six month Claiming that they were unablk to complete the rate-books on time, they raised all rates to the new parliamentary maxima with the new year. This caused a decided advance in freight charges and incensed the shippers. Parliament then, in 1894, passed an act providing that, de- spite authority previously granted to charge within certain maxima on the sev- eral classes of freight, the companies must prove before the commission that any increase cf rate is reasonable. This im- proved th. situation considerably Notwithstanding Parliament's efforts at simplitication, railway rates are still com- plex and contain many anomalies. Classi fications, under the cight classes to which all freight is assigned by Parliament, are often astonishing. Several thousand arti- cles are classified. For these there are from twenty to forty million rates—how many, no one knows. The maximum rates are in force, generally, only for local traffie and where there is mo competition. Other rates are much lower, because of competition and the belicf that traffic will usually not bear the maxima. Decided reductions are made on goods carried at owner's risk, in distine- tion to that for which the companies are legally liable. Every railway must make a rate on every classified article from every station to every other station on its line, and to stations on its connecting lines Parliament also authorizes, in vecitied cases, charges for greater mileage an ac- tuz ally exists for costly tunnels, viaducts, grades and the like Rates are based mileage traffic The charge is made both by manufac- turers and agriculturists that the railways show grave and decided favors to foreign imports to the great injury of British pro ducers. This favoritism is manifested, it i argued, not only in the lower rates but in the better facilities afforded. Docks and steamship lines and more rapid service for foreign imports are quoted as indications of preference for the foreigner against the British subject The owner's risk rate is a peculiar insti- tution. Under it shippers can bill their goods at much lower rates than when the company assumes the risk. Despite this difference, railways were accustomed to pay reasonable damage claims on freight shipped at owner's risk. Each claim was taken up and decided on its merits. Three years ago they concluded this was too ex- pensive and that ‘‘owner’s risk" should thereafter mean what it said. Payment would be made for damages only where willful neglect by railway employees was shown. Of course, that is well-nigh impos- sible of proof. Railways admit liability for pilfered freight if inspected on delivery, but try to prevent inspection before the receipt is signed—even where goods damaged by wet, manifestly through em- ployees’ neglect. Railways a. under owner's risk on freight sent by passenger train, shippers save thirty-nine per cent., and on that by freight train twenty-five an average of thirty-two per cent.; that, therefore, though owner’s risk had come to mean company’s risk, there is no justifi- eation for damage claims. The shippers ire collecting proof that goods sent at owner's risk, which rates keenness of com- petition forces them to use, are more care- lessly handled than before the companies’ change of policy. Legally the railway posi- tion may be unassailable, but this new wlicy has changed the whole shipping usiness, so the shippers say At the same time, railways are enlarging the classes of goods th: it they will take only atowner'srisk. Shippers are embarrassing — railways in every Way, in retaliation, by delaying payments up to the point of risking suits, sticking to technicalities and thus increasing railway expenses in the hope of wearing them out. Chambers of commerce are taking up the question. To further harass the © »mpanies it is contem- plated that shippeis shall bring all their laims into court in separate suits, a most costly proceeding for the railways, and thus teach the power of shippers’ codpera- tion. The question will ultimately come before Parliament and may result in reme- dial legislation. But relief from Parlia- ment must always be difficult because of the number of railway stockholders and directors in that body. Certainly there the railways have adequate representation. In the House of Commons it is said from two to three hundred of the 670 members are railway shareholders, and in the House of Lords at least fifty per cent. represent railway shares and other vested interests What America May Learn The lessons taught the United States by British experience are plain. The cost of sdenniuns tile any Federal tribunal that may be established to determine questions of rates, and others affecting the relations of shippers and carriers, must be cheap The minimum expense to the plaintiff in Great Britain is estimated to be $2500, and some cases have cost six or eight times as nuch. This precludes the small shipper from fighting an unfair rate. Provision must be made for expediting the trial and decision of all cases. Although safeguard- ing the interests and rights of both sides, appeals from the decision of the American tribunal must be limited. They must, also, have early hearing to prevent that inter- minable delay that characterizes all our court processes and wears out and im- poverishes our litigants. When final judg- ment is given in a case, the rate tribunal should have full authority to enforce it in others of similar character. Damages should be assessable against railroads guilty of unfair rates and of violations of the law to the disadvantage of individual shippers Even after a new rate has been put in ae by the tribunal, either party at a lator date should have the right to renew the fight, after a specified time, on proof that con- ditions have so changed as to justify a revision. Care should be taken, of course, that this provision is not used to harass the shipper and to punish him for fighting the railroad While judicial learning is imperative on such a tribunal, the importance of knowl- edge’of tran sportation and geographic con- ditions must not be overlooked. Perhaps if provision were made for some jurists and some menof practical affairs on the tribunal, this point would be met. 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18 THE SATURDAY PLAYER FOLA Why Mrs. Fiske Objected M® FISKE has her own ideas about 4 Wa Cor npany should be rehearsed. Being herself of an extremely nervous tem- perament, and more than likely to be at her worst on a first night —so she declares — she has reason to know how fatal it is for actors to overwork, and especially to worry, in the course of preparation. Many a dismal failure, she says, might have been avoided if managers would remember that their om le are pumen bein Her idea js t gin with a ne A pemed semper in advance, 80 us to be able | to give her com npany a long respite before the tin ul te t lay not know it, but all sensible sthlet ic po Bom s lave come to a precisely similar conclusic One day, after a performance of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, a friend of hers brought a arty he had taken to the theatre to see her Pehind the scenes I have heard exclaimed a young woman with a burst of enthusiasm, ‘‘that you are perfectly wonderful at rehearsals !"’ Mrs. Fiske bit her lip, somewhat in pique, perhaps, but with a keenly humorous twit ikle in her eye, and retorted ‘Do you know, there are things I had rather have said about my acting!” Maude Adams’ Narrow Escape _ IS not time yet to revive anecdotes of the youth of Maude Adams and Ethel Barrymore; but the fact that they are both starring in Barrie plays this year has re- called an incident of the days when they were on the lower rungs of the ladder When Miss Adams was John Drew's first leading lady, in Rosemary, Miss Barrymore had the part of the maid-servant. They roomed together in a side street near the theatre A friend of Miss Adams called toward the end of the performance to take her home As they were coming out at the stage-door a messenger delivered a note from Mi sarrymore, who, having finished what she had to do, had left the theatre some time before It was written in a scrawl that betokened both haste and extreme anxiety Come this minute,” it read, ‘‘or it will be too late!’’ Miss Adams caught her breath in alarm and fairly flew round the corner. Miss Barr more welcome d hr with open arms anda deep sigh of relief It us the day the ghost walks, and having got her pay (twenty dollar , an 1 twent five on ‘the road) she had blown in the margin of pocket- money on two quarts of ice cream, which was melting by the minut« Back to the Paradox for Bernard 7. fate of Bernard Shaw's latest and | John Bull's Other Island, suggests that paradex is a self- limited disease, even in the case of the most brill One by one the irrepressible Irish wit has turned inside out all natural instincts and human emotio He burst upon the Lor don public with the declaration that he Was an atheist, an anarchist and — horrid climax! a vevetarian e wrote a novel attacking marriage as ‘‘ the irrational kn Then he wrote a play, Mrs. Warren's Profe sion, tochampionagreatevil. In Candida he made his cules an exponent of some thing very like a dangerous morality In other pieces he attacked the English people self-deluded hypocrit } got married, and then he wrote a pl y, Man and Superman, to prove th ! the man is a victim most ambitious play fulfilling her destiny as a mo thing he wrote was absolut 4 in its paradoxical way, stimulating But the British public would have none of Shaw Then he announced that not only he himself, but Ibsen, too, was better than Shakespeare Even this’ did not win a he salen from the Brito: In New York »wwever. he found a publi« capal ble of tolera his perversity for the stimulating joy of his w Then he wrot a farce, making out that the American pub lic was so stupid as to admire hit Mu in and Superman, given only a few times in Eng land, has here been filling a vast theatr nightly ; but when a single librarian put his ban on the book, Shaw rose and called us all provincial, the victims of ery.” and boasted that in the England that denies him he is comparatively fre« Comstock The end came lately. In John Bull Other Island he has for once treated a grave question seriously. Except for one thing the play would have been a maste rpiece of intellectual comedy--and that was that Shaw attempted in it the portrayal of real men and normal emotions. ‘The re- sult would have been revolting— if it had been anything at all. The public that had o long and so patiently laughed with Shaw were bored until they found a sorry respite in laughing at him. So it’s back to the paradox for Shaw, and the category of second-rate things Making London Howl NE of the most original and finished of our playwrights, Mr. Gillette is also one of the slowest in composition His Clarice, which he has just produced in London, comes after an interval of almost five years. Its reception at the hands of the English critics was not warm; and the audi- ence punctuz ey the pe ‘formance with re- “Louder!” His greeting there in Sherloc *k Holmes, however, was even more hostile, the gallery booing him roundly; and, in spite of it, the play and performance proved an almost sensational success. J. M. Barrie cabled Mr. Charles Frohman that, in his judgment, the play would su ceed if Mr. Gillette would make the per- formance move a little more quickly. It is not unlikely that, under the stress of the first night, he overdid his very effective methods of repression and deliberation per ited cries No Second Rip M' IST modern play-goers, if they search A their memories, will find that their earliest vivid impression of the theatre is a simple-minded village loafer, who has been driven from his home on a storm, night, and who, high up on a mountain, en- counters a stooping aa bearded spook with a barrel on his shoulder. The rest of Rip Van Winkle has perhaps faded from that early recollection ntil Joseph Jefferson died it seemed likely that when we had sunk into second childhood, and all else had ceased to interest, we might still find de- light in those mute conversations with Hendrik Hudson's ghostly crew. That hope has lately been revived, but only to be dashed The late actor's son, Thomas Jefferson, vho was said to resemble his father, and who, during his later years, had on special occasions spelled him in the part, presented his setlediannes at Wallack'’s Theatre for general approval. It was his intention, if he succeeded, to appear in leading thea tres in all the big cities of the country. But he did not succeed. The audience, which had, quite unreasonably, of course, ex- pected to find the son a young man, found hir , instead, a wrinkled man of fifty He resembled his father chiefly in the fact that he was past all semblance of the youthful Rip. The quaintness and arch distinction of the greatest of American comedians was lacking; the sparkle of his eye, the mellow unlight of his face and the melting ten- derness of his voice, all were clouded and subdued. It was a melancholy, almost pain- ful, occasion. When Ripexclaimed: *' And are we then so soon forgot?” every heart must have cried No! But though dear to memory, the elder actor was lost.to sight and to hearing. The audience left the theatre with the heavy conviction that the eal Rip, the dear Rip, was forever dead Gone Before Going jy STROLLERS, which occupies the old house of the New York Yacht Club on Madison Avenue, near the Square, is rapidly rising inte prominence, but is still s, struggling with the question of After one of their recent strolls’? the clu b auctioned off to their as it seen leDit and credit uests certain the very remarkable col- lection of poukers hat adorns their walls. Among the rest w as a port rait of Miss Irwir ho had 1 oblyed with a coon song When the bidding. began Miss Irwin got up uncomfortably, and made her way out Near the door she was stopped by a party of friends at one of the tables, who urged her to remair Miss Irwin shook her head and remarked as she passed on 1 must be ing before I am gone.” EVENING POST November 11, 1905 MARSHALL DIAMONDS Sell THEMSELVES cent. in advance of the pur hase price. $94 for ring A, payabl nseand down and $9.40 pe $60 for ring B, payable $12. lown and $6 per 1 ten $37 for ring C, pavable at $7.40 down and $3.70 | GEO. E. 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SIR WILLIAM OF THE ‘HOT HEART {ED SAUNDERS IS KNIGHTED AND GOES A- VENTURING. @ Red Saunders is more interesting in short stories than in anovel. There is something fulminative, sudden-and-soon-over about the gentleman's habit of life that suited the more compact form better Sir William of the Hot Heart'’ his mother dubbed him, and throughout his life the name stuck It doesn't matter,”’ he says, ‘‘whether a thing is wise or notin fact you never can tell whether a thing is wise or not — but if it has size to it, it suits me.”’ here were sev- eral sizable moments in Mr. Saunders’ life and he is at his bést in recounting them singly. Told sequentially they have too much the effect of beads on a string, and the original philosophy and direct personal observation that give them value individ- ually are broken and scattered in the effort for continuity The story be littles the inci- dent and the incidents clog the story. Saunders, as we have known him here- tofore, is a grown man In Plain Mary Smith (by Henry Wallace Phillips: The Cen- t , Company he tells the story of his green boyhood and raw youth. Beginning in New England, and ending in Central Amer- ica, the action is spattered with coloring of ation and sudden lights You know the New Eng- quaint character of apt comment land spinster of pronounced views? Such a one was Mary Ann McCracken. Mr Saunders from the distance of maturity pays her a reflective tribute ‘She's the only human being I ever met that did just exactly what he, she, or it sweetly d d ple ased to do In that way she’s restful to remember.” One more I learned the reason why the Spanish American incor- porated the revolution in his constitution It’s because of the searcity of theatres. If there for every ten inhabi- tants, and plays written where everybody was a theatre was a king, peace would settle on Spanish America like a green scum on a frog-pond.” That, gentle reader, might almost be called tatecraft The book is too good to qu irrel with, and merely to say that the short stories were bette risonly to express a pre ference Such as it is, it had to be, and its very merits are the causes of its defects SIX STORIES oF SQuaLip HOMES AND SPLENDID MANSIONS WHICH *‘ARE FOR You ARE YOU FOR THEM? @The difficulty with John Luther Long appears to be a lack of the critical fac- ulty as applied to his own work. He has a delicate sentiment, but ,it frequently spills over into sentimentality on the most trivial provocation. He has humor, but it does not save him from extravagance. He has tact in the manipulation of words, and moments of singularly affecting, direct and mple utterance, but not the quality of personal dist inction, the fa tidious elf- restraint, that sets the best work above the contagion of the commonplace. In the story called The Loaded Gun (one in the collection now brought out by The Mae- n Cor ny under the title Heimweh) this is the sentiment put into the mouth of the wounded drunkard, dimly becoming conscious, in the quiet of the hos — under the gentle ministerings of his nurse, of the disorder of his life What was it mother used to say?” Finally he bered it Always be gentle to all women For some of them are mothers, and all of them are daughters of mothers remem This is teue; but asa practicable work- ing theme it has a value precisely ec i- lent to the opinions of Tees ard Shaw’ - enemy, The Queen's Reader of Plays, whose ideas, S4aVS Mr. St aw, had in the course of nature, become quite obsoléte Heimweh, the leading number of the six, and the one from which the book takes its name, is the story of the mother of those tive sons who died gloriousiy on the field of battle.” She had no pride, ‘‘solemn”’ or otherwise, in laying ‘‘so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.” “She cared nothing for the ‘cause,’ or for ‘freedom They were dead.”” Now nobody can deny the noble worth of that theme. But does it not jar a little on one's inbred rey erence for the truth, that the mother of Mr. Long’s story should be Pennsylvania THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BOOK LEAVES German, whereas we all know perfectly well that the mother of Abraham Lincoln’s letter was from New England ? Nevertheless, Heimweh is a story of more than ordinary merit, and _ Liebereich, another Pennsylvania German story, is second to it only. In writing as simple, as tender and as sincere as this, it is not diffi- cult to forgive eccentricities of history or idiosyncrasies of punctuation. Mr. Long’s pages remind one of Murray’s comment on Byron's manuscript, that the poet had never progressed beyond the schoolboy dash and comma. Besides these two there are four others, kindred in varying degree, as the author, perhaps a little fulsomely, indicates in his dedication: Whether you be sick with longing for these squalid homes on earth where love is never sure, or for those splen- did mansions in our Father's House where it waits always--these are for you @‘*‘OncE WHEN I WAS TALKING with Doctor Holmes,” has written President Eliot, ‘‘about: the best pleasures in life, he mentioned, as one of the most precious, fre quent contact with quic k and well-stored minds in large numbers.”’ And just as one enjoys talking with one’s friends, so one enjoys talking about them. Good books become friends, and it is the pleasure of discovery, of comparison, of understanding, ‘of frequent contact with quick and well- stored minds” that gives to literary criti- cism its value. Good criticism helps a man to a knowledge of the history and a share in the activities of the human family Such a volume as Makers of English History, by W. J. Dawson (Fleming HU Revell ¢ , will fill ecompanionably the leisure of any reader who has a speak- ing acquaintance with English literature. The short essays which compose it cover Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Jane Austen, Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Steven- son and lesser names between. They build no body of constructive criticism, they dis- cover no delicately-flavored hours of subtle appreciation; there are none of those flashes of personal intuition, and little of the ‘packed phrase,” the ‘brief poignant word,” or of that wider correlation with the slow round of age-long thought that make ym pany of the great essays beacons, guides and counselors; but they are well informed, open minded, mellow and kindly: time pent on them will not be wasted @ ONE OF THE BEST EXPRESSIONS of the healthy movement toward an outdoor life which the past five years have witnessed has been the opening of school-gardens in many cities where children are taught, at first hand, a practical sort of botany. It is this, perhaps, that has moved Alfred Bige- te Paine to the writing of A Little Garden Calendar (//er i Altemus C om pany Mr Paine gives the children a full year among the flowers, and his knowledge is so thor- ough and his language so clear that the littl volume should prove quite as valu- able to its juvenile audience as did A Hardy Garden and that ilk to elder ears @TALES OF THE FisH PATROL, by Jack London (The Macmillan Company), do not hold the level the author's recent work has given his public the right to expect of him The seven connected short stories of which the book is made up well told, adven- turous and active-—fail to be notable in style or memorable in matter. They have the air of very high-class juvenile special articles written to order at the suggestion of some sublimated Sunday editor @For ALL CLASSES AND CONDITIONS of farmers those who have been, those who are, those who are about to be and those who would like to be — The Fat of the Land, by John Williams Streeter, is one of the most entertaining and informing booksever written. Weare glad to see that it is now republished in paper covers at a more rea- sonable cost by Th Vacmillan Con pany Q THERE Is Not Mucu to besaidof The Yel- low War ( Me¢ P) w & Co.) except that its battle scenes ona it is nothing but battle scenes—are vivid — with the realism of the newspapers’ office-made “report front.” from the Baird- North: Stoc kk Pins eaf - 8 Sterling 8 ver Brooches I $ Our Catalog T fy oe BAIRD-NORTH co., lid Gold Brooches arl crest $ Price $0.5] Scarf Pins WRITE NOW GOLD AND SILVERSMITHS, 262 Essex St., November 11, 1905 ’ f eautif talog Salem, Mass. 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Vance Thompson Who Sees Diplomatic Mysteries Through a Gle se —Clearly Vance Thompson's Monocle P HE monocle is the eyeglass of dipk macy —unless the diplomacy be of the shirt-sleeve variety which wins epoch- making victories such as that of Ports- mouth — but it is net because he has writte1 Diplomatic Mystei that Vance Thomp- son wears a monocle. Not at all le has always worn it vreatly to the delight of the American public and much to the despair of his photogray hers, iin that the edge of it ‘shows up” like a bruise or a growth under the subject's eve As lone ago as the Molineux trial in New York, Thompson was wearing that monock He was reporting the trial for paper, but always crowded court-room som ] ‘ who comp!) an eve n come into the pause hin would

while the attenda cleared a way for hi and then make what dramatic crities eal] ‘‘an impressive entrance Arrived at the reporter's table, he would remove his fur- trimmed overcoat, screw his monocle into his eye, survey the multitude, sit down with his back to judge and witness finally, to all and appearances, proceed to drop into a gentle slumber. And, the court had adjourned for the y, Mr Thompson’s stories of the trial would be the most spirited and most exact published alter

How He Happened to Burn It iY ANY interesting neighbors drop in and 1 chat with Mark Twain when he is at “‘Quarry Farm,” his Elmira. A small boy turned up not long ago with his hand wrapped in a bandage Mr. Clemens expressed concern and asked the cause ‘Laid it on a red-hot stov take it off,”’ was the terse rephs summer home near and forgot to Mr. Le Gallienne’s Hair JICHARD LE GALLIENNE’S hair has \ been the subject of much speculation among his acquaintances. It is long, and there be those who say it is also ambrosial Naturally, now that Mr. Le Gallienne is, to all intents and purposes, an American, he has frequently been asked why he wears it to such an extent. As arule, the author of Prose Fancies has replied by adopting the Shakespe arian attitude but recently he offered to one curious friend this explanation: “It began when I was a poor clerk in a Liverpool shipping-oftic« I did not for the work and was paid accordingly Besides, my mind was largely employed in the writing of newspaper-verse book-reviewing which had come mv Way I was--if I remember rightly — in love, and altogether I managed completely to for- get many details of personal appearance shoes and hat and one thing and another care and some too,

“This went on for some time Then, one day, a fellow-clerk came to my desk and told me that the board of directors was in session and wanted to see me 1 willingly gave them that rare opportunity “There sat the row of mummies al] around a big tabk I said cheeril] **Good-morning, gentlemer “They nodded—some of them there was a pause, broken at last by the saddest and gravest of them all— the chair- man, I presume “*Mr. Le Gallienne,’ said he, ‘we have been watching you carefully of lat “*Thank you,’ said ] “*And we have decided,’ continued the chairman, ‘that, if you have not a shilling to procure a hair-cut, we'll vote you th amount out of the earnings of the compan, “That hurt my pride. I then and ther walked out of that shipping-house forever and I’ve not had n V nair cut since

From the War to the Jungle — critics Were disappointed la 1 season when Upton Sinelair’s Mar $ was only a moderate ect 1} although lackir gy in the construction book, i and cnaracterization hic! to the making of a novel reckoned about the best which, in this particular fe are so necessary

celved Manassas wa but the first ot three the whol period of our great inte rnal con- ] that the author h: at least, abandoned that plan, The Jungle, a so¢ tic narrative picturing the fe in the Chicayvo stockvards as exen p tied in the life of a lowly Lithuania Mr sinclair espoused Soc ialism some ye since—at about the indeed that Jack London did and The Jungle ha been r inning serially in a Socialistic David Graham Phillip ghly of the tal novels which were to cover Hiet, Dut it now appear for the

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ar Same Time maga recent! poke hi s Personal Critic Paul Dunbar’ RENCE DUNBAR — the p I, LAT only negro, according to Mr. Howe noha een and expres <i} ( i het Davton. Ohio My plans for my winter's work are ‘ the core of the little, poor bootbla apple: ‘They ain't goin’ to be no wor Instead, I am going down to South Carolir to try to get in shape to work some tir the vague, misty future. And, in the mear time, | have been contemplating for a long while the institution of a pension committer for ancient and decayed rhis idea came to me some years ago in Lexington, Kentucky. I had been giving a reading there and, on the morning follow- ing my public appearance, was lying in a dentist's chair taking a quiet survey of the colored peo ye who came into the place, he dentist being my friend. Finally, one old gentleman, thinking that I was asleep looked at me long and fixedly, and then turned away with a grunt of disgust “*Is dat dat Lau’ence Dunba’ ?’ he said and, being answered in the affirmative, he stumped out with the remark: ‘Uhm, I certainly did think he was some big, nice- looking man!’”’

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20 The Bolton Girl’s (¢ dukes and lords and kings in the land had I iid suit to her hand, and she could find ~~ who came up to her highest ideal, so she s« th ema task—and oh, alot more about what they — I haven't thought that out—but ~ way she married the red duke Wolfang, who purne d her task and took her by night \ th retainers from the tower, saving her love was his holy grail and to get her was the object of his pilgrimage. Oh, it’s just grand.” o, we didn't use serials, and when we did we bought them in stereotyped plates hy the pound. Which made Miss Bolton with another di appoints d ‘Oh.’ his away droop, The grain of the wor so coarse When ne looks at it closel) We did not see Miss Bolton at the office for a long time after the duke abducted the idy in the moated grange, but we got a poem signed M. B. ‘*To Dan Cupid,” and another on ‘My He art of Fire.” Also we got an anonymous communication in a fat vertical handwriting to the effect that ‘some pe ople in this town think that if a young lady has a gentleman nd call on her m than twice a week it bu assume a courtship trange ly familiar irk ore to is their iness They should know that there are souls on this earth whose tendrils reach into the in- finite beyond the gross materiality of this mundane sphe re to a destiny beyond the gtars At the bottom of the page were the words: Please publish and oblige a ib- seriber,”’ And the next we heard of Mi Bolton was that she was running pink and blue } fh yb m thr iwh her white things, and “ linen shower from the T. T ‘i hower from the Giddy \ a handkerchief shower f Nous girls, and a kitchen A Troublesome Errand “ae ee aid Mrs. Bassett, as they sat ey at breakfast in their pretty suburban home, ‘we 1 have anew hoe. Shall I n Mor maker ma or ’ p tn ” to-da nd get one i H t r ad A hoe i ra r nt imple nt, and shou be | 1 \t n, therefore, Mr. I tt went up- t n to Mor r’s depa er r i inquired of the ffat hloor-walker v re hi ri 1 hoe Strect floor, third aisle to the left,” wa the reply, and Jol Bassett mar d on, think!r bow much ! re meth call a man st hana man But hen he reached the counter he iW nothin it stockir 1 | pard he said to the pompa doured sal d I was mistake di- rt 1 ] wish to ho Richt her i the p } red Twer e cents a p Oh,” said Mr. B t,a I r ! him I dor I in that} lott t il t «¢ , din T f I ire the ch ha i I er pau I I mean hoes; I don’t want a pair l or int or ’ | r | Wer , it 1 } , . ij in h ’ \ he ! and ei P j : | I ld ment , 13 ‘ 1 le } he rid te . Y ! r fir ? { a } ‘ t In ( na t al I Cort Be VY, find Ww n the base nt he foot of thes Dowr il B ! } { ar y y t +t} di mant } found hin it a fir ment of large re rho ‘Where can I } a i azing at the « I exaspe Right here, Will i lacl rubber, brown rubber, or ¢ tric he ‘Not that } In f ‘ r dener, you know =e r. Ti our best garden ho wneluded fro THE SATURDAY EVENING POST **Position’ m Pade ) shower from the Imperial Club. Miss Lar- 4 ae, the socie ty editor, be gan to hate fiss Bolton with the white-hot hate which I society editors turn on all brides. Miss Larrabee was authority for the statement that Maybelle had used five hundred yards of baby-ribbon—pink and blue and white and yellow—in her trousseau, and that she was bestowing the same passionate fervor on her hemstitching and tucking that she wasted on literature, and that she was help- ing papa and mamma by shouldering the biggest wedding on them since the Tomlin- sons went into bankruptcy after their fire- work ceremonial. Miss Larrabee said that Papa Bolton's livery-stable was burning up so fast she wanted to call out the fire- department, and that Mamma Bolton made her think of the patent-medicine testi- monials we printed from “poor tired women The day of the wedding the blow came. A very starched-up little boy with straw- berry juice frescoed around his mouth brought in a note from Maybelle, and a tightly-rolled manuscript tied with blue baby-ribbon. In the note she said that she thought it would be so romantic to ‘‘ write up her own wedding—recalling the dear, dead days when she was a neophyte in let- ' We handed the manuscript to Miss Larrabee, from whom, as she read, came ‘Drawing-room!’ Huh! ‘Music room.’ Heavens to Betsy! ‘ Peculiarstyle of beauty!’ Oh, joy! ‘ Looked like a wood- nymph in the morn.’ Wouldn't that satu- ters snort rate you! ‘The Apollo-like beauty of the groom.’”’ Miss Larrabee groaned as_ she rose, and putting her rain-coat on the floor by her chair om exclaimed ‘Do you peo- ple know whi: I am going to do? I have got to lie right down here and have a fit!’ rk decide d I after all I’m John Bassett 5 d at the ek “N ind, aid; 1" to a as hoes gou arake,.”’ Carolyn Well The Followers get over these things. I know one does Promise you'll be patient; promise not to do anything till you've seen me again.” I'll promis anything ou like. Go and get dry,” he said The went up the | arde n side by side a know on gets over the se thins s.’’ she said, ‘‘ because I don’t care a bit now about } nota scrap.” He stopped short. ‘‘ Then why onearth,” he said, ‘‘did you try to drown yourself? ‘It was the only way I could think of to save you,” she said; ‘‘and I did save you You'll never—I wish,” she added in a very mall ce, “I wish I hadn’t said ‘No’ when you asked me to he Ip vou to forget.” “And you thought oh, you dear, pre , lit duke A ve seen that 1 forgot her long ago! Don't t you know ou helped me to forget?” , ‘Oh,’ she said, ‘‘I’m so glad!” Their vet faces met in the chill night It’s all very well,” |} aid in the xt mornir warm sunshine ash ondub oth extra antiy ae sat on the hened roc ind looked out on the gor- ou rart t that autumn had laid upon he f t \ as on a perfectly new j a ery well and you're a roir d J lore you from the top of our rir head to the sol of your ( fee t 1 l hadn't beet W yu’d have gone to find some on ho Ar ] ) lha topped dk wl we i't going to do What ou ¢ r on the bridge at I there every nigh I } pl t t ir winds he asked, “did you up ‘ was a light in the hot * he afraid uu re awake and u ps it hin ] ited to see wl I ght in ur window But oh, my dear, brave, romantic, beloved on ippose I hadn't been able to s\ es She laughed. ‘‘I can swim like a of And he laughed, too They both t ttl Decause » them both the "= rest a New Lift T mpl of The Best Value Watches 1 Workmen, There November 11, 1905 ! ” vaiue h made —a perfect watch, guaranteed to keep accurate here are cheaper watches, there are more expensive are no other watches made that } Ht are as good as New England Watches. 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Vaingloriously he spoke of his triumphs in the political field, of his hard-won graft, and his successful pool- room operations ‘Wouldn't you sooner do something decent ?”’ Buck started ‘Decent?”’ he repeated “Do you think all that is decent?” she asked, looking at him seriously “Sure,” he replied doggedly, fell before hers ‘“Come,”’ she said after a short silence, rising and putting on her hat. ‘‘It’s get- ting late and I must go. Mother will be wondering.” ‘Sit down a minute,’ fully almost harshly The girl looked at him coolly and then turned and began to walk away. He jumped up, and, overtaking her, began to 1ugh, but she did not even smile and his face darkened They walked along in silence until they came to the car-line, where the usual Sunday evening crowd was waiting; then Buck’s firm grasp closed upon he x _ ‘Here’s a car comin’,”’ he said ‘ll have to step lively.” He an st through the clustering groups with an anxious eye on a vacant seat as the heavily-laden car slowed down, but, as he helped Selma on, a man made a rush for the footboard and edged in front of her. Buck jerked him down with some violence and the girl slipped into the vacant seat just as the man, with an oath, made another rush for it This time Buck's disengaged hand shot out and grasped him by the collar and dexterously swung him around; at the same time his foot propelled the too in- istent individual headlong into the street The car started, and, before the ejected one could rise to his hands and knees, half a block away. Buck’s face wreathed in an exultant grin as he looked back *Dat’s de original Buttinski,”’ he rved to the conductor. He turned to Selma, but there thing but approval in her countenance. ‘You ain't mad wid me for dat?” whispered, bending toward her. “Say, I'm just agoin’ to queeze de rubber Fx 4 Look ple: isant, girlie. Watch out ferde little bird what’ to fly out of de box." The p ik ading drollery of his manner was hard to resist, but Selma hardened her heart and was silent Bet you can't wh pere d Buck but his eyes said Buck master- Was obs agoin’ look me in de face,” She raised her eyes and looked at him, teadily and contemptuously, and slowly the contident smile left his face and he turned rather pale Here's where I get off at, den,"’ he said, grimly The girl turned and looked at the adver- tiseme! that decorated the other side of the car, and without another word Murphy dropped lightly from the footboard Miss Bert of weeping the accused Selma morning; she b: evidence of red store stein at the the on ise d and next the charge wollen eyelids and a certain puffiness of the nose Selma explained that these ap- pearances were merely symptomatic of a cold, but if that was the case the cold seemed in a fair way of becoming chronic Just as the features alluded to were regaining their normal size and color, a fresh attack within lay or two brought their redness and pu ! ba She became low-spirited, too { ttentive to her duties that Mr. Tabin sy e sharply to her more than once Id 4 ; the matter with you, Mi I o! iid What wer } when you gave that She asked for ! i ( rh ‘ red to the nape of her pretty - : prang to her e\ I p and nd ess 1 u dor it ‘ r iid the floor- Walker ere is he ir? d away If onl he were a man, Selma thought indignantly a trong, broad-shot ildered, read ort of man to take that dap} er, conceited wretch b the neck and hake him into a limp bundle! She knew ict 1 mar had known him, f Buck Murphy no longer lingered in the November 11, 1905 Custom is abou longer standing mistake Possi CHIC t the same Tailor.” Good House of Kuppe I ik re ’ Our To be guided solely by e that explains the Judgment is th bly nheimer. AGO The House of Kuppenheimer AMERICA’S FOREMOST CLOTHES MAKERS as Habit excepting e guide that leads to ck B. KUPPENHEIMER & COMPANY NEW YORK . that in most cases it is of er one of them is largely a the term * Cust by the derivation of Mm - thes made BOSTON Was any- | he Te x O’SULLIVAN RUBBER COMPANY Lowell, Mass. Cold Feet DeFreest and Stover’s Slumber Slipper Two Pai irs for 25¢ Send size of shoe Postpaid DeFreest and Stover, 15 Second Street, Waterford, N. Y. IT PAYS Lantern. § MFG OPTICIAN eet, New ¥ McALLISTER aon, SHORTHAND IN 3O DAYS f SCHOOLS ? CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE 928-71 ¢ u ) H B ——eaeeeeeereer serene —_ eae es “CONC REE”: oo Detroit LRPPLPA PPP I —~ K,C Concrete Publishing Co., 20 Congress Street, Mich

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If he ever bought notions, he bought them at some other estal I When the six o'clock rivulets of chatter wugh i hop- rirls poured forth to swell tl mighty home-g “ tate Stree there Was no aut aiting wit! twinkling eves and i nen mn lift his hat to her and tag along St fter caladl teat en wan eeeat then Well, Selma didn’t care if he wasn’t \ the weeks went on, Selma didn’t car more —and still more often Yet she have had some curiosity about the man, for she asked Inez McCarty if she went to “them Luxembourg Hall dan« “Sure,” answered Ine Don't want to come next Choosd , Not me,” replied Selma. ‘I suppose that Mr.— Mr. Murphy still goes ther Ain't seen him since that night vou wa there,’’ said Inez Somebody said he'd quit his gang.’ , 1) Phat was about all the girl with the red dre still attended | t Knew excep the dances and was “‘goin’ with Al. Bur meister. It was a disappointment not hear more, vet It Was also omething KNOW that whe re ver he i ind yh ‘ he was doing, that pert, black-eved er in the red dress at least Was not conso him As if he needed consolation! pel laughed bitterly It wa ist a momenta fan had taken to her SI is me doubt f gotten long before th I'm no doll-chaser; never think it When I see the real thing I ain’t passir up ‘s And again, ‘‘ Look } leasant rik She choked on her recollections with a sob. What a mean, snippety thing she had been— picking at him the whole time! No wonde r him he quit; and she didn’t blame But it was not long before she learned something that thrilled her with a jx ) intense, a hope so strong, that she could f herself Ihe was the bushy-headed behalf she had intervened fateful night of the dance He wa with pensive longing at a_ suit ‘d down from twenty-five to fifteen medium of load hardly contain her information youth in whose on the gazing marke dollars in a shop-window when Selma saw him. Ordinarily she would have passed him by. As it was, she touched him on the arm and smiled at him enchanting ' when he turned around Sure, he was going her way All points of the compass were alike to that highly- flattered young man under such charming circumstances. It is possible that he was naturally a little conceited, vet if he imag- ined that he had made a decided impression on the pretty pink-cheeked girl he might ( vt ily be excused The little smiling side- glance Selma gave him, her quick and thor- Little heeewine ough appreciation of his mild sallies of wit, her whole attitude of admiring attention to all that he said, might have fooled a more experienced man. And duplicity was foreign to Selma's nature, too. It was astonishing how well she did it The drift of the conversation was inevi- table Presently the young man found himself talking of Buck Murphy ‘Just a bluffer, he was,”’ he said If my foot hadn't slipped an’ it hadn’t been that I didn't want to scrap Ina place like that, I'd shown him a thing or two right then. He wouldn't have stood up though, not ina fight. Tubby Kehoe tried to coax a fight out of him a month ago an’ he backed right down an’ walked away with Tubby callin’ him all the names he could lay his tongue te He resigned from the ward club. I guess if he hadn't the boys would “ ive fired him. They say he lost his nerve, but I don’t yee ve he ever had none He's lost his soft lap in the assessor’s office, to Mm) Hi eu ver a a “1 pay hie Pave ~ t I thi ink I see hi pene ane v-five a mot hors« food stor | isi! Ave nue ‘Is that what he’s doing?"’ asked Selma ‘Sure. Down on W nsin Avenue l seen him hustlin’ baled hay into a wagon there this mornin’ Sav, can't 1 make a date with you for to-night Ever been to Sans Souci : Here he paused for a rep] It was a long pause, too Presently Selma _ said ‘““What number is it?’ ‘Number?’ He looked at her blankly Oh, never mind,” said S« om 1a hurriedly “Tl was thinking of something I'm going in here 4 vod-by.”’ ll sav ¢ ll Say THE SATURDAY EVENING We make no mattress that does not bear this trade-mark POST rg y y / rc lwo Ways Call On One of the 2,000 Ostermoor Dealers Sizes and Prices i" A Mattress of Proven Worth is the Only Safe One to Buy to Buy the Ostermoor OSTERMOOR & COMPANY, Where We Have No Agent We Sell by Mail 130-Pave Book PREE bs $8.35 eet 6 inches wide, 35 lbs, $1 EXPRESS t 4 feet e 4 t feet a wide, 4 $ PAID 101 Elizabeth Street, NEW YORI, Are Your Legs WT Merrill & Baker’sFailure >. 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and supported her to the rear platform There, with a strong effort, she raised her drooping head and in a moment stood up I'll be all right now,” she said with white lips. ‘can stand now.” It’s the air,”’ said the man sympathetic- all ‘| don’t see what the y're running closed cars for this time of the year.” The continued to support her, but she was rdly conscious of it. She im- perfectly realized that he got off when she did and led her home, but she knew nothing until she flung herself on her er’s bosom in a storm of convulsive ot Then again came that curious blanknes here was a man around from the hos- tal pital with a message,”’ she heard her mother say presently, ‘He wants to see you.” She was out of the house again, and her her in a She mother was with her, soothing voice talking to as she hurried along

Was in a street car and people were looking at her curiously he wondered why, for was calm, very calm There was no reason why her mother should kee p repeat- ing there wasno danger. How should thers be danger? There could not be She was going to see him—going to see him! Another blank, and then they were walk- ing along glistening white corridors, coming in time to an elevator-shaft the gates of whic h opened to emit a long rubber-tired wheeled thing, sheet-covered, showing the outlines of a shape, at the sight of which t shuddered and drew closer to the sup- porting arm that trembled in her clutch As the thing rolled away she heard a voice

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DON’T SHOUT! ‘The Morley’ \ phone for the Ear There are bot few cases of deainess that cannot be benefited The Morley 34 South toth Company, Dept. T, Street, VPhitadeiphia I! PAGE'S PHOTO PASTE. IN JARS AND TUBES PAGE'S MUCILAGE I PAGE'S GLUE RUSSIA CEMENT { CO. 131 EBasex Avenue, Gloucester, Mass. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST He hastened to explain. ‘Certainly not, sir! I would not insult the honorable fami- lies whom I had the pleasure to meet there, and to whom my name was known because they had retained their good position since the days when my great-uncle had a house and drove four horses there himse If. I noticed three kinds of Newport, sir.” “Three?” “Yes. Because I took letters; and some of the letters were to people who—who once had been, you know; it was sad to see the thing, sir, so plain against the glaring proximity of the other thing. And so you .can divide Newport into those who have to sell their old family pictures, those who have to buy their old family pictures, and the lucky few who need neither buy nor sell, who are neither going down nor bob- bing up, but who have kept their heads above the American tidal wave from the beginning and continue to do so. And | don’t believe that there are any nicer people in the world than those.” “Ah,” I put in, “if only pace!” ‘If only!” he assented. ‘But it’s the others who get into the papers, who dine the drunken dukes, and make poor cham- bermaids envious a thousand ot inland!” ‘There should be a high tariff on drunken they set the dukes,”’ I said ‘You'll never get it!’’ he declared. ‘It’s the Republican party whose daughters marry - 4 I rocked with enjoyment where I sat; he was so refreshing. And I agreed with him so well. ‘‘ You're every bit as good as Miss Beaufain,”’ I cried “Oh, no; oh,no! But I often think if we could only deport the negroes and Newport together to one of our distant islands, how happily our two chief problems would be solved!" I still rocked. ‘‘ Newport would, inde ed, enjoy your plan for it. Do go on!” I entreated him. But he had, for the mo- ment, ceased; and I rose to stretch my legs and saunter among the old headstones and the wafted fragrance. His aunt (or his cousin, or whichever of them it had been) was certainly right as to his inheriting a pleasant and pointed gift of speech; anda eaeere audience helps us all Such an audience I certainly was for young John Mayrant, yet beneath the ani- mation that our talk had a d his eyes with lay (I seemed to see or feel) that other mood all the time, the mood which had caused the girl behind the counter to say to me that he was ‘anxious about something.” The un- happy youth, I was gradually to learn, was much more than that —he was ina tangle of anxieties. He talked to me as a sick man turns in bed from pain; the pain goes on, but the pillow for a while is cool Here there broke upon us a little inter- ruption, so diverting, so utterly like the whole quaint tininess of Kings Port, that I should tell it to you, even if it did not bear directly upon the matter which was begin- ning so actively to concern me—the love difficulties of John Mayrant. It was the letter-carrier We had come, from our secluded seats, round a corner, and so by the vestry door and down the walk beside the church, and as I read to myself the initials upon the stones wherewith the walk was paved, I drew near the half-open gateway upon Worship Street. The postman was de- scending the steps of the post-office oppo- site He saw me ~Aeeeall 9 the gate and paused He knew me, too! My face, easily marked out amid the resident faces he was familiar with, had at once caught his attention; very likely he, too, had by now learned that : was interested in the battle of Cowpens; but I did not ask him this He crossed over and handed me a letter ‘No use,”’ he said most politely, ‘takin’ it away down to Mistress Trevise’s when you're right here, Northern mail eight hours late to-day,"’ he added, and bowing, Was gone upon his route My home letter, from a man, an intimate running mate of mine, soon had my full at- tention, for on the second page it said “Tl have ing her to Baltimore as Washington with her on the train gave her a dinner yesterday at the Hare by way of farewell. I imagine native girls will rejoice at her departure. However, nobody's engaged to her, at least nobody here selves so elsewhere IS Horte nse Rie ppe sir One of us went as far We March [ can't say. 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